Chapter 1

6 months after the vision:

As I was laying on my bed looking up at the ceiling, I heard a knock on my door. "Yes, you may enter." I sat up on my queen size bed as a silvered haired, tall, man walked in. "Are you ok?" He sees that I'm not in my party gown. "Why aren't you-"

"I don't want to go. I'm just going to be ignored by everyone and…" I walk over to the window, place a hand on the window and look up at the moon shining in the sky. "Yura…" I look over at him, he cracks a smile. "Is that why?" My eyes shine red as he walks over to me.

I looked up at him, as I was going to say something when he hugged me. "Zero why?" I start to get tears in my eyes. "Because, you don't love me just to replace your brother." Zero's hand tilted my chin up to his mouth and without hesitation, he was kissing me.

I feel myself wrap my arms around his neck, and start to kiss him back. Zero's arms wrap around my waist, he lifts me up and spins me around. We pull apart and as we do I start to laugh. "See you wont be ignored my dear. " he sets me down on my feet.

I move the hair out of my face, and smile. "Your right, Zero." I slowly walk over to the door. I place my hand on the knob. "May you please leave, so I can get ready?" I open my door, Zero smiles a small smile. "I will be waiting downstairs." He walks out of my room and starts for the ball room.

I close my door, stand against it and slide down to the floor, to a fetal position. "That asshole." I hug myself for what feels like hours, when it has only been five minutes. I got to my feet, walked over to my lavender, floor length, satin dress lying in one of the arm chairs.

I slipped it over the underdress that I was already wearing. I looked in the full size mirror by the fireplace at myself. I smiled and started to do my hair up into a long braid. I hate having the same long hair as my twin sister.

As I finish with my hair, I walk over to my dresser, "A little makeup won't hurt." I put on just a little blush, eyeshadow and lipstick. I walk over to the door, I place my hand on the knob. I take a deep breath and open the door.

I walk down the hall to the party, when I start to feel like someone is watching me. I look behind me, no one. I continued walking in the direction that I was headed when I felt a hand on my shoulder.

I let out a scream and turn to see the same shadowy figure from all those months ago. "Find me my dear. I'm here." I ran away from the figure, leaving it in the middle of the hallway. As I ran down the hallway, I didn't realize that I ran all the way right into the ballroom.

Everyone was silent and my brother and sister didn't look too happy with me. My sister walked over to me, " Why are you late?" I lowered my head. "Why are you running?" She is standing right in front of me. I breathe in, "I didn't want to…" She forces my chin up, so I could be looking at her in the face. "Be late? Too late for that." She lets go of my face.

I am just looking at the floor as I can start hearing the whispers of the other vampires in the room. "Im…" My sister lets out a laugh. "You're going to say I'm sorry aren't you?" I nod my head, she scoffs and before I knew it, I was getting slapped in the face.

I fell to the ground in a heap. "Yura?!" Zero comes to my side. "Yuki, why did you do that?" He looks up at my twin. As the argument starts between them, I get up and run out of the ballroom crying. I ran all the way to the courtyard.

I fall to my knees, crying when I get outside. I bring my hands up to my face, that's when I feel something other than tears on my face. I look at my hand, as I remove it from my face, I see that it is covered in blood.

When Yuki slapped me, her nails must have cut my face. I just hold myself as I cry on the mosaic pattern of the courtyard. Blood drips onto the stones. Without me noticing, the blood seeps into the cracks.

I sat there crying for what seemed like hours, even though it was only a few minutes. I started to feel like someone was outside with me. I remove my hands from cupping my face, to see two legs standing next to me.

I look up at the person standing next to me. I saw that it was a man, with long black hair and in a nice black suit. The man's head moves to look at me and I see that his eyes are green. I just sit there staring at him for what seems like hours.

The man reaches out a hand to me, "Are you ok, my dear?" When I hear his voice, it seems to make the sadness in the atmosphere disappear. I take his hand as if I was a robot, under his control. As I get to my feet, he places a hand on my bloody check.

I gasp, before I could saything, the cut on my face disappeared. "You…"I look at him as we start to walk back inside. "Healed me." He has a small smile forms on his lips. "Why?" He just looks forward and says, "Because, a beautiful young vampire like you…" We walked into the ballroom, "Shouldn't bleed."

I hear some gasps and whispers as I walk in with this stranger. "Would you care to dance?" I look at his hand. "Yes you may." I take his hand and let him take the lead. I see my brother and sister walking over to us. "Enough!" My brother says loudly.

I stop instantly, but the man looks disappointed when he does. "Who is this?" My brother grabs me by the arm and pulls me away from the kind stranger. "And why are you dancing with him?"

A faint glow started to show from Zero's waistband and from Yuki's hip. "What's going on?" Yuki askes as Zero looks at the stranger. He notices that the stranger's eyes are glowing the same color as the hunter's weapons, green.

"Let go of her!" The strange man says as Zero's gun and Yuki's staff start to act like they have a mind of their own. The weapons are floating on either side of him, aimed at my brother.