So this weekend was my birthday... and what did I do? nothing more than homework... and well I wrote this, but I should have been doing homework instead... sorry I didn't post it sooner, oh and sorry it isn't longer, the next chapter will be. For this chapter, I worked off the bottom part of the last page in chapter four and the opening picture of chapter five.

I do NOT own Vampire Knight... ha! now you can't sue me!


Sweet Blood: a plan


Class yesterday had been somewhat of a pain, luckily the other vampires had listened to Kaname when he told them not to ask questions, but hopefully today would be better. Kaname got out of bed and walked over to his desk to glance at some of his work for the day. He avoided looking out the window situated behind his desk and at the sun which hadn't quite set, at least he wouldn't have to spend much time around the sun, that was a good start. Kaname grabbed his uniform and went to his bathroom and turned on the shower, time to wake up...


Kaname, relived that the light was no longer glaring at him and had instead been replaced by a fading twilight, sat at the beautiful old oak desk in his room, the ends of his moist hair brushing the open collar of his black shirt, which he wore without the jacket or tie because they were slightly uncomfortable, and he preferred to not use them all the time. He had just gotten his mail from downstairs and had taken out a beautiful letter opener that he had inherited from his father.

As usual he had an annoyingly formal letter from the council, apparently there was an e-class vampire roaming the streets of the town which Cross academy was situated outside of... The light outside was starting to fade, and Kaname, not particularly enjoying working in the dimming light, lit the two candles sitting in the asymmetrical and almost sinister candelabra on his desk, giving him just enough light to read.

Kaname picked up another envelope, probably another idiotic letter from a fellow vampires who felt obliged to send him, a pure blood, out of respect. Wait... "Yuki Cross" Yuki had sent him something? maybe she was beginning to confide in him again...

Kaname flipped over the envelope and gripped the letter opener by the handle. After he had completed opening the letter, he realized that there was, in fact, a slight sting on his finger, evidently he had been gripping the letter opener a little bit too firmly. He looked at his thumb, blood... he was bleeding. What a pain, at least it wouldn't be hard for him to heal, but still, this was not something that he had intended to happen. Because of the distraction he stopped paying attention as to how he was holding the envelopes, the still closed envelopes slipped out of his hands and fell down to his desk, and something slipped out of the envelope from Yuki and fluttered onto his desk.

He looked down at his desk in order to see what had fallen out, a picture of Yuki looking like her sweet self... with Zero standing in front of her. Within seconds, all of the previous night's events flashed through his mind, finding Yuki there, wanting to kill Zero... They were almost teasing him, saying 'you didn't protect her.' How could she even stand by him and smile? Zero had made her bleed, he had drunk her blood. You... there was a sudden thud and the letter opener was imbedded into the desk, straight through Zero's throat, in the precise location that woman had used. The place Headmaster Cross had Zero get a tattoo that was supposed to suppress his vampire instincts. The location where Kaname had wanted to slit the night before. The location where he could die from. When Kaname had imbedded the letter opener into his desk he had stopped caring about his thumb, and, ironically, there was a drop of Kaname's blood sitting next to the picture. Zero was not going get away with having done this.

Kaname turned around in his chair and leaned his shoulder and the back of his hand against the window. He looked out into what was left of the blood red sunset, blood... the thought of it followed him everywhere, and what had happened to Yuki... He absentmindedly began licking at the blood on his thumb, causing him to become somewhat calmer. Zero might actually be good to keep around, he could serve Yuki, protect her, he could be allowed to live as long as he did as Kaname wished.


Well if any of you want to give me a birthday present, how about you just review? it doesn't take too much time or work, and I will really appreciate it. (sorry, I feel like I'm begging)

Nightfall2525: yeah, for the story I'm going by the Shojo Beat... I'm going to read ahead in order to allow for it to work, but the fanfic will be based off of that... and when I run out of material because of the way the magazine is released...

cjewellm: I think I will make that the paring, I have read ahead and the manga and the way I want my story to go, probably wouldn't allow me to have a Zero x Yuki paring, and well I've already begun telling the story with Kaname as the main character so it would sort of suck for him if I were to put Zero and Yuki together in the end... as you can tell, I really have no idea which way I'm going to have the fanfic go...

sesshoumarusmoonbeam: I'm not exactly sure how I'm going to weave the necklace in, but I will definitely do so... and I am definitely looking foreword to seeing what happens next because I don't know beyond the next chapter, and I don't even know the whole chapter.

Archangel Rhapsody: umm... thanks for the review... I don't really have much to respond to it, but thanks.

Protected by an Angel: Yay! a Kaname x Yuki fan! most people are Zero x Yuki... all my friends are haha... sorry I didn't review, there was a day when the server wasn't working properly and so I couldn't leave one.

Starsong (): Thank you so much, I'm glad it's having the desired effect.

Thanks also to everyone that added this story to their alert list or their favorites list.

Good news! I began writing the next chapter during one of my classes, so I have a head start on the next chapter; best case scenario: I'll have it up by the end of this weekend, worst case senario: I'll never get it up... I'll probably get it up before next weekend, I hope. Thank you to everyone who is reading, the fact that you are means a lot to me, and I'd really appreciate a review.