(Chapter 9 finally! PLEASE REVIEW! I'd love to hear your thoughts and or suggestions! And I promise to work as fast as I can on these since I don't have internet yet I'll try to post them faster! Oh and this chapter starts right where 8 ended!)

I marched back up the stairs wondering what on earth her problem was. I mean the glare she had giving me was frightening. I waited at the top of the stairs for Yuki to come back up; after all I was supposed to protecting her from danger.

About an hour later she came back up the stairs and went to her room to shower and change. I sat in my room and listened to her every move. I heard her start a fire in the giant fire place across the room and listened as she sat down in the chair by the fire and read. After a few hours Ichijo, Shiki and Aido came to her room to play cards and I listened to them play crazy eights until the wee hours of the morning. But soon the sun would be rising so the three boys headed back to their room and I listen to Yuki as she got ready for bed; a few hours after that I finally started drifting off but was woken back up when a loud crash came from the window in her room. I ran in to find three vampires but no Yuki.

"Where is she?" screamed the first vampire "Find her!"

The rest of the vampires fanned out and searched the room while I tried to fight them off; a big one grabbed me from behind and began chocking me he had one arm around my neck and was holding my arm towards the ground so that I couldn't shoot him, he chocked me until I nearly passed out but just before my eyes closed he turned into dust and I fell to the floor.

After I had finished gasping for air I looked up to see Yuki standing and glaring at the vampires with an anti-vampire gun in her hand. She was barefoot and wearing a very see through purple nighty. I could see her bra and underwear through it.

"Damn she looks hot!" I thought to myself and immediately hated to admit it even to myself.

As my eyes looked her over I could slowly make out a faint scar on her arm that looked like it had been covered with makeup and it was wearing off and I soon wondered if the girl in front of me was Ayame and not Yuki. She smirked at me before shooting another vampire.

"Definitely Ayame!" I thought after seeing the smirk on her face. Only Ayame had that look and no one else could reproduce it no matter what. The rest of the vampires charged and I tried to jump to my feet but something hit me hard in the back of the head and I was out like a light.

When I came to I heard voices; I opened my eyes a crack to see that I was laying in my bed and Yuki was standing by the door to my room; she was dressed in a normal purple nightgown and was holding the Chairman's arm while saying "Is he going to be okay?"

"Yes Yuki calm down he'll be fine." said a voice near me. I looked around to find Toga sitting in the chair next to me.

"Sensei?" I said weakly

"Ah Zero good you're awake." he replied

"See he's fine now you can go back to sleep Yuki." said the Chairman

"But the window in my room is smashed." Yuki replied

"Where's Ayame?" I asked still sounding weak.

"Ayame?" they all replied together

"Yah I saw her in Yuki's room when the vampires attacked." I replied "She shot some of them."

"You must have been hit in the head a lot harder than I thought." said Toga

"Ayame was never here Zero." said Yuki

"Yah I just finished helping her patrol the campus a few hours ago she's should be just waking up by now." said the Chairman

"But I saw her shoot the vampire chocking me." I said

"No I hit the vampire with Artemis and he dropped you." said Yuki

"But I…." I was about to argue some more, but I began to think that maybe I had imagined the whole thing after all I was deprived of oxygen. I lay back down in my bed and stared at the ceiling.

"Yuki why don't you stay with Zero, you both could use some more sleep! You can Sleep on his couch, I'll have the window repaired this afternoon." said the Chairman

"Um okay." said Yuki before she went into her room, a few seconds later she came back with a pillow and a few blankets. She lay down on my couch and said "Goodnight Zero, chairman, Toga." she then curled up and fell asleep.

"Take care stupid apprentice." said Toga as he left the room.

"Good night or morning." said the chairman before he left; closing the door behind him.

That's when it hit me; my thirst. It was so bad that my throat felt like it was on fire. I sat up quickly while gasping for air; I franticly looked around for some blood tablets but I didn't see any in sight. So I ran into my small bathroom and dug through the cupboards only to find then empty. I slunk down to the floor still gasping for air and crawled from the bathroom. As I passed the couch the scent from Yuki hit me like a ton of bricks. The monster inside me took over and the next thing I knew I was kneeling in front of the couch with Yuki in my arms and I was drinking her blood.

I didn't really care that it was Yuki and I didn't feel bad either, in fact I saw it as payback for the time she forced me to let her drink my blood by using her pureblood powers to stop me from moving. She was kicking and screaming; her nails dug into my scalp as she tried to rip me off of her. She finally pushed me off of her and screamed "Zero, get a hold of yourself!"

As she got up to walk away from me I grabbed her and pinned her to the floor before digging my fangs deeper into her neck and she gasp in pain. Eventually she gained some strength and kicked me to the other side of the room. I sat up and leaned against the wall with the biggest smirk on my face. Yuki was huddled in the corner of the room with her knees pulled up to her chest holding her neck; a pure look of shock and fear swept across her face and tears began to fall from her eyes and that's when I began to actually feel sorry for what I had done. The look of pain on her face made me feel awful.

Aido and Ichijo burst through the door seconds later; I just sat there as they screamed at me. Aido rushed to Yuki's side and keep asking her if she was all right. She just sat there and stared at me in fear and wouldn't speak so Aido scooped her up into his arms bridal style and screamed "Do you have any idea what you just did?"

I just shrugged and stood up. I was about to storm off into my bathroom when something on Yuki's arm caught my eye. I looked back just as Aido turned to leave and grabbed her arm. She yanked it from my grip before I could get a good look at it. Aido then shouted "Don't touch her!" and left the room with Ichijo close behind him.

I sat down on my bed and thought "I know what I saw! That was a scar right? It was the same scar as Ayame's I know it! But that would mean….No….. it couldn't have been! Could it?"

I walked to my bathroom and cleaned the blood off of my face before ran to my window.

I couldn't even tell the difference between Yuki and Ayame's blood; was that even possible? I guess I was too thirsty to even taste it. I began to think back to when I was drinking her blood and sure enough I couldn't remember what it tasted like; I just remember that it was delicious and warm and it soothed my burning throat.

I threw open the window and jumped to the ground. As I raced across the campus I kept thinking that I was seeing things that the girl I had just attacked was Yuki and not Ayame. How could it have been Ayame; she would be just getting out of bed right now so it couldn't have been her. I decided to visit Ayame's room to put all worries out of my mind. After all there was no way the two got mixed up and I had actually attacked Ayame thinking she was Yuki; Right?

I climbed the tree outside her room and looked through the window only to see that she had clothes thrown everywhere and the blankets on the bed were all messed up but Ayame was nowhere to be seen, I decided to look around campus but just as I passed the chairman's dining room I heard voices. I climbed the tree closest to the window and looked in to see Ayame sitting at the table. She was wearing dark blue plaid pyjama pants, a dark blue top and a matching plaid scarf. Her hair was tied up into a tight pony tail and she was staring at the table with a sad look on her face. I watched as she twirled the end of the scarf around one of her fingers absentmindedly.

After a few minutes the Chairman came in from the kitchen with some cups of what I guessed was either hot chocolate or coffee. He set it one down in front of Ayame and set the other one down in the chair across from her and took a seat.

"Are you cold?" he asked but she didn't seem to hear him. "Ayame?"

She looked up and said "Hmm?"

"Are you cold?" he asked again

She shook her head no and took a sip of the drink in front of her. Someone knocked on the door a few seconds later and the chairman opened it to find Shiki standing behind it.

"Shiki what brings you here?" said the Chairman

"I was talking to Ichijo and decided to come see Ayame." he replied

Ayame stood up the second she saw him and the two hugged.

"Are you okay Ay?" Shiki asked while still hugging her

"I'm fine Ri Ri." she replied

"Oh great! I go away for a week and they have nick names for each other all ready!" I thought to myself

"Ay? Ri Ri?" said Chairman Cross with a confused look on his face

"Oh." Ayame giggled "Shiki and me use to play together when we were kids and we could pronounce each other's names, so I called him Ri Ri instead of Senri and he called me Ay instead of Ayame."

"Yeah, turned out that my mother's mansion was next to a park and on the other side of the park was Ayame's grandparents' house." Said Shiki "We played together for weeks but her grandparents found out I was a vampire they forced Ayame to stop going to the park and when they found out that she was sneaking off to come play with me they moved away; that was the last time I saw her up until the day…"

"I showed up here." Ayame interrupted him

"Ah right." said Shiki

"Aw how sad and happy at the same time." said the Chairman

I sat and watched as the three of them talked and ate; I noticed Ayame looked tired or drained and her face was slightly pale. Shiki must have noticed too cause he reached across the table touched her arm and said "Are you sure you're okay Ichijo said that you lost quite a bit of blood."

"That's it!" I though "I have my answer! It was her!"

"Yeah I'm fine I only got a small cut when I fell from the tree." she replied

"Fell from a tree? Maybe I as wrong!" I thought

"But I thought….."

"I guess Ichijo didn't tell you the whole story; I fell from a tree and cut my neck just as he and Aido passed by and if Ichijo didn't move fast enough I would have fallen all the way to the ground." Ayame replied

I let out a sigh of relief "Good it wasn't her!" I thought

"Ah that's not what I….."

"Chairman Cross can you close the window please I'm a little chilly." Ayame said interrupting Shiki again.

"Sure." he said while walking over and closing it; leaving me with no way of hearing them anymore. I sat there trying to make out their lip movements but after a few minutes I realized that I couldn't read lips. I jumped down from the tree "Well she's safe! I didn't attack her! I can stop worrying now!" I thought as I walked aimlessly around the campus.