Sorry I haven't updated anything in a while, I've been a little busy with other stuff, so... yeah... -.-' y'all know how it is. ANYWAYS!!!!! Here's the second chapter!! Feast your eyes (sarcasm sarcasm)!!

Part One, Chapter 2
Korimen

"Shutaki-kun. Wake up."

"Ugh... Eh?" I lifted my head groggily off of the desk to see who was talking to me. They must be serious, if they were using my last name.

"Shutaki-kun, wake up. This is important." I looked up to see Headmaster Cross standing in front of me.

I looked around, and saw that I was in the Night Class classroom, at my desk. It was a little after midnight. Everyone else was packing up their things to go back to the dorm. "What's going on?"

"Kaname-sama has woken up, and would like to see you." He left after that.

I shook myself awake, then followed the headmaster. "Has he said anything else? Other than wanting to see me?"

"Only once. He wants to see Yuuki, too. Zero is fetching her," he said bluntly. He was unusually serious, but I knew it was with good reason.

We finally reached Kaname's room at the same time as Yuuki and Zero. Kaname was asleep, and was still impossibly beautiful. His blood probably tasted... Agh! No!! I chastised myself silently for lusting after a pureblood's blood. I was not here to think things like that.

The headmaster and Zero left, leaving me, Yuuki, and Kaname alone. We decided to stay here, in case he woke up. He stirred once, but then remained still.

"Kori-san. Do you think he'll be all right?" Yuuki turned in her chair to face me.

"Hmm... huh?" I snapped back to reality from my minor daydream. I couldn't even remember what I was thinking about.

"Do you think you'll find a cure for Kaname? Will he be alright?"

I immediately looked at the floor out of shame. "I... I don't know... I'm doing all I can, I just hope it's enough."

"If there's anything I can do to help, you must let me know. That's a Disciplinary Committee order, got that?"

"Will do...! Look, he's waking up!" I realized.

"Mmm... What happened? Where am I? More importantly, who am I?" Kaname asked groggily.

"EH?!" Yuuki and I both exclaimed in shock.

"This is a nice room. I wonder whose it is?" Kaname mused aloud.

"Wait, wait, wait... You seriously can't remember anything?" I asked.

"Umm... I know that I'm a pureblood vampire, but I can't remember anything else. Not even my own name," Kaname finished, sitting up.

"Well, where should we start, Yuuki?"

"Yuuki? Hmm... I wonder why that name sounds familiar... Oh, wait... Wait, wait! I think I'm starting to remember... You're Yuuki Kuran, adopted daughter of Kaien Cross, originally born to Juri and Haruka Kuran. If I know that, then... I must be... Kaname Kuran. I think. I'm still kind of sleepy," he finished, stifling a yawn.

Yuuki looked worried, as if hearing this would confuse me, but I remained cool as ever. I knew that already. I don't know how, but it just came up just now. I didn't even know that I knew it... If that makes sense.

"I'm sorry you had to find out this way, Korimen. It's just-"

I stopped her with my hand held up. "Say no more. I knew of this already. I don't know how, but I do."

"Let's see... Can I remember anything else? Hmm..." Then, he was silent, lost in thought, until a few minutes later. "AAAAGH!!" he yelled, clutching his heart. "Why does it burn? Make it stop!" he cried in agony.

"How?" Yuuki asked.

"I don't know, why don't we- huh?" I looked down to see... me. My body. It was still standing, so I hadn't passed out. I was outside my own body. Like a ghost. "Yuuki, can you hear me?" She said nothing in response. Apparently not. "How did I do that?" I wondered. "Maybe I can go inside Kaname's body, and fix whatever's wrong!" I realized, and swept down into Kaname's body.

"Korimen!?!? Wake up!! Don't just stand there, wake up!! Do something!" Yuuki was panicking, as she was the only conscious being in the room now.

Kaname-Korimen

It's dark in here. Kaname's body is complicated, especially his mind. I can't quite interpret his thoughts, but that's not what I'm here for.

I quickly analyzed my own thoughts (that didn't sound as weird as I pictured it being), and realized the problem. The pain was caused by the poison, indirectly. The actual cause was trying to remember the event involving the poison. Remembering that brought on some kind of reaction, causing pain in the heart.

I thought quickly, and decided to seal Kaname's memories of the poisoning event. That should do the trick, I thought.

Escape. Now.

Korimen

I flew out of Kaname's body, and back into my own. I dashed over to the bedside, and performed the memory-sealing technique that I learned while I was traveling across the world, when I was in Ireland. Kaname's head lolled forward, and he looked peaceful once more, no longer in pain. I was relieved, and so was Yuuki. We both breathed a huge sigh of relief.

"What's going on in here?!" The headmaster and Zero both yelled at the same time.

"Uh, wait! I can explain!" I said hurriedly.

"Kori-kun, you better start explaining. Now," Zero threatened.

I paled. Zero was really scary when he wanted to be. "Okay, umm... Kaname woke up, and had amnesia, so Yuuki and I tried to get him to remember. He didn't even know his own name. He started talking about Yuuki's family, and when he tried to remember more, he was in terrible pain, hence the distressed wail. I figured out what was wrong, and fixed it... I guess..."

"How?" Zero challenged.

"Okay, well, I kind of used a new power of mine to go inside Kaname's body and read his thoughts. The pain was linked to memories of the poisoning event: when he tried to remember, his body created a burning sensation in his heart to discourage it."

"So, what was the poisoning event?" the headmaster asked.

Crap. I hadn't looked that far!! "Umm... I don't know...? Hehe... heh..." I answered slowly.

"Well, go back and look!" Yuuki shouted.

"I can't! I sealed the memories, so now no one can see them. At least, not until we get the poison taken care of," I resolved.

"Well, did you get anything else on the poison?" the headmaster asked.

"Yes, I did. It seems to be some variation of vampire venom. It's been modified to harm vampires as well. One might call it vampire hunter venom," I mused aloud.

"Then, it's a good thing I came to visit." Everyone in the room whirled to see renowned vampire hunter Yagari Toga standing in the doorway. "I come to see my great niece, and everything's in turmoil. What's going on, Cross?" He asked.

"Kaname Kuran has been poisoned, and we can't seem to find a cure," the headmaster admitted with a sigh.

"Luckily for you, and your pureblood friend, I came bearing an order from the Vampire Hunters Association. Somehow, someone knew about the situation here, and I got the assignment. Step aside, boy," he said to me, approaching Kaname's bedside.

I paled again. I was face to face with the top vampire hunter in the world. 'Please don't kill me, please don't kill me,' I thought. What I said out loud was, "Uh... Umm..." while looking extremely indecisive.

*thwack* I got hit in the head with a rolled-up piece of paper, most likely the hunter's orders. "Move." I did so willingly this time.

"Sensei, you said you came to visit someone earlier. Who?" Zero asked.

"My great niece. I didn't even know I had one, until I found her name in the Association's records," Yagari revealed, kneeling by Kaname's head, to get a good look at what was going on.

"Who is she?" I asked, timidly, not wanting to get another rolled-up paper to the head.

"Higuru Ogire. She's about your height, with black hair, brown eyes. Know her?" he asked me, coolly, like he didn't really care one way or the other.

"You could say that..." I said, uncertainly.

"Well, now two members of the Disciplinary Committee have ties to Yagari Toga! Everyone but my daughter..." the headmaster realized.

"She's what?!" Yagari exclaimed in surprise, dropping his tool. It was similar to a stethoscope in structure, but like a compact x-ray in use. 'I have got to get me one of those!' I noted mentally.

"You didn't seem so surprised that Zero was part of it, yet you're getting worked up over Higuru. Why?" I asked, meekly, still terrified.

"I'm not sure, it just came as a little bit of a shock. Everything's okay now," he said, returning to his work.

I processed the information in my head. The end result was shocking. I felt sick. "Excuse me, please," I whispered, rushing out of the room, shouldering past Yuuki.

I ran outside to the courtyard, and made my way around the corner of the building, so nobody had to see the following ugliness. I spent the next few minutes vomiting from terror. When I finally calmed down sufficiently, I made my way back up to the room, and gathered my things. Higuru was there, looking scared that her great uncle had come to visit her. She obviously didn't want this to get out. The great hunter noticed me as I walked in, and commented, "So you're back, hm? Done throwing up?" and went back to work. Higuru looked at me with wide eyes, and I decided to wait... just a little.

"Higuru. Come with me. Now," I ordered. I walked out, and Higuru followed. She kept trying to explain to me about it, but I stopped her. Eventually we got back to our house, and she sat down on the couch. I kept standing, pacing the floor, trying to figure out how to say what I needed to. Finally, I got it together. "Why didn't you tell me your great uncle was Yagari Toga?!?! I mean, the Yagari Toga?! Since I found out, I've been terrified that my best friend would kill me!! I mean, seriously!! She's got all the knowledge, the prowess, everything!!" I raged.

"I'm s-sorry, really. I didn't want you to find out, because-"

"You didn't want me to find out?! Why?! So you could kill me without me knowing?! Yeah, thanks a bunch!!" I continued my rave.

"No, that's not why I didn't tell you. I wanted to be friends with you, forever," she finished quietly.

"Friends?! Friends tell each other this kind of stuff!! They don't hide it from you until one day, when it's, 'oh, by the way, I'm related to the top person to kill you'!! I don't think we could ever be friends again!! There's nothing left to draw upon, Higuru!! I feel like I don't know you anymore!" I yelled, turning my back on her.

Now, she started crying. "I'm r-really s-sorry, Korimen, really, I am. I d-don't want to k-kill you, really I d-don't. I'm so s-sorry," she said quietly, tears streaming down her face.

Then, I decided to do the cruelest thing I could have done at the moment. "I don't care," I stated coldly. I picked up my things, and walked out the door. I headed for the gates, and I didn't look back.

I was halfway there, when I was ambushed by Zero and Yuuki. "You hurt my friend," Yuuki said angrily.

"..." I remained silent, thinking of a way to get by them, without hurting them. "I have no quarrel with either of you. Get out of my way, and let me leave this wretched place."

"You have deeply wounded our partner. Did you think we wouldn't take it personally?" Zero said, menacingly, ignoring my command.

I stood my ground, staring at them. They stared back. Finally, I put my bag on the ground, and said, "It would seem that you have no intention of letting me leave without a fight. So be it." I drew a dagger out of my sleeve, holding it in a reverse grip, and launched myself at them. Yuuki took out her Artemis Rod, and blocked my strike. Zero took out the Bloody Rose and aimed it at me. I smirked. "Careful, you wouldn't want your friend getting hurt, would you?" I twisted my dagger, disarming Yuuki, and putting her in front of me.

"No!" Zero yelled.

"If you really care for her, you'll put that gun down, and get out of my way," I said. "Maybe I will drink her blood once I get out," I added, to make sure the message got through.

"You wouldn't!" Yuuki cried.

"You don't believe me?" I asked, and began inching my mouth towards her neck.

"No. No! Stop! I'll move," Zero finally gave in, and put his gun down.

"Good. Now, we're going to walk towards the gate, and you aren't going to try anything, are you?" I asked Yuuki threateningly.

"...No. I'm not going to try anything," she said resignedly.

"Good, now I- *gasp*" I didn't finish, because a blow from behind knocked me out. I fell to the ground, releasing Yuuki.

Third Person

"Put him in isolation. Don't let him out of your sight, if he wakes up," Headmaster Cross addressed Kain and Aido, after knocking Korimen out. "I expect Kaname and Zero will have some harsh words for him when he wakes up."

"Yes, Headmaster," Kain replied. Each one took one of the offending vampire's arms, and dragged him away.

"Good. Yuuki, are you alright?" the headmaster asked.

"Yes, I'm fine. I never thought that Korimen would be so ruthless," she said sadly.

"We'll finish up with things here. Why don't you go to bed? It's been a long night," the headmaster suggested.

"...Okay," Yuuki agreed reluctantly.

Meanwhile...

"And you just let him walk away?" Yagari asked.

"I told you before, I don't want to kill him," Higuru answered.

"You see? This sort of thing is why you will never make a good hunter!" Yagari said, intensely.

"Maybe I don't want to be a hunter!" Higuru yelled with tears in her eyes. "Maybe I just want both sides to just get along!"

"Cross seems to have made a bigger impression on you than I thought. All the more reason for you to come with me."

"Wait, what?!"

"You're supposed to be a hunter. You are nothing like one. You let your emotions rule your thoughts. A hunter must always be in control. That's why you're going to travel with me. Pack up your things. We're leaving in the morning," he finished, and started to walk out the door.

"No. I don't want to go."

"You want to stay here, with the person, no, the vampire who hurt you so deeply?"

"There was something wrong with him, so I'm staying to help him. I know we can be friends again."

"You're going to leave with me, and that's an order!" Yagari said, raising his voice.

There was an awkward silence, followed by the crash of a tidal wave. Yagari was blasted through the window, due to the sheer force of the water. "I don't take orders from anyone, got that?! Not even you!!" Higuru screamed, readying another blast of water.

"How dare you?! I am-"

*crash* "I don't care who you are!! Nobody tells me what to do, got it?!"

"Hmm..." Yagari thought, as he got up. "Fine. I'll leave you alone, for now. But, sooner or later, you'll see that I'm right." He left.

"Thank goodness. I thought he'd never leave."

Higuru stiffened. "Who said that?!" she shouted, whirling around to try to find out.

"Calm down, it's only me." Takuma Ichijo stepped out of the trees, and walked towards the girl. However, there was something... wrong about him.

"Who... Who are you?" Higuru questioned.

"It's just me. Takuma Ichijo," the blond said, stepping closer.

"No, you're not. You're definitely not Ichijo. I don't know who you are, but you're certainly not who you say you are." The vampire's eyes were bloodred.

"You're pretty good. You're right. I'm not who I say I am," Fake-Ichijo said, then collapsed. A transparent figure drifted out of Ichijo's body, then solidified.

'Impossible,' Higuru thought. 'I saw them take him away just now!!'

Korimen Shutaki was standing in front of her. The same person was also in an isolation cell.

"You said you wanted to be friends. Let's play," he said, then took Ichijo's sword, unsheathing it.

'Umm... What?!?! What's going on here?!' That's what you must be thinking right now, huh? I'll make everything clear soon, don't worry. Please R&R! kthxbai