(A/N) yaay so heres the surprise, the story is now in Zero's POV *GASP. tell me you love me *is shot* read on lovelies

Chapter 6- When the Sun Goes Down

1 Year Later

Zero's POV

'You gonna tell me where she is?'

'You don't wanna know.'

BANG.

'AAAAHHHHH.'

'Ready to talk now?'

'SHUT UP, I AINT GONNA TELL YOU'

BANG. BANG. BANG.

Quiet.

I enter the chairmans office, ready to give my report on what happened on my mission. He sits behind his desk, an open file laid out infront of him. His shoulders slumped and a deep frown adorning his once obnoxiously cheery face.

'Your back.' he states.

I nod. I knew it was a rhetorical question on his part. He looks up.

'What happened?'

'I found the missing girl after I killed the Level E. I followed it from it's hideout to an abandoned alleyway in town and shot it three times, one on each leg and once in the heart. I returned to its hideout and found the 8-year old under the floorboards with minor scratches and a broken finger. I brought her to the expert at the headquarters and they'll have her returned to her family within the hour.'

The chairman nods at me, his eyes glazed and cloaking any and all emotion. 'Thank you Zero.'

I nod to him and turn to leave. I had moved out of the academy a little while ago and was now living in an apartment in town so there was no reason for me to be here.

'I'm sorry for making you do this even after…'

My hands which now rested on the doorknob clenched, turning my knuckles white. The knob bent inwardly.

'I'm actually glad I do it,' I turn to the chairman, he watches me with a cautious eye. 'It helps relieve even less then an ounce of the anger stored inside me.'

We're both quiet. Finally, the chairman sighs, his demeanour breaking slightly as he looks away. 'It's already been a year, huh?'

I look away from the him, down to my hands on the door knob. My heart clenches slightly but I try to focus my attention on something else. Anything else.

'I'll never forgive myself,' his voice cracks and he brings his hand to his face, messaging the bridge of his nose. 'We'll find her Zero. I swear it.'

I stand there for a second, to let him know that I heard what he said, then slowly I close the door. It makes an aching sound.

I'm walking through a forest, the air is pure, the sky is blue and the world is happy. I don't see it but I feel it. The world feels happy. Suddenly a howl from a wolf pierces the air, the day turns to night, the air turns heavy and suffocating, the trees are covered in streaks of blood. I look down and I see blood covering my body.

'Zero.'

I jerk my face up, looking around frantically, the forest has transformed to one of the corridors in the academy. I run towards the sound. She's here. She's calling me. I run through the corridor, turn every which way until I reach a door. I hear her call my name again and without hesitating I open it. The room is dark, I can't see a thing. I enter it and the door closes behind me. I call her. I call her name like I've had so many times before.

'Zero.'

I turn and find her standing there with her back to me. Using what's left of my strength I run to her, grasping her shoulder and turn her around. She has no face. Where her beautiful eyes, nose, and mouth are supposed to be, I see clear skin. A strangled scream rises in my throat and I let it out. Suddenly I wake up.

I take gulps of air. One after the other. I had woken up screaming again. I run my hands through my hair. Sweat runs down my bare back and chest. Its dawn and orange hues fill my room. I throw the covers off and almost fall out the bed, I can't breath, my lungs are being compressed. I need to see her. I open my side-drawer and take out the wrinkly picture of us at the beginning of high school. The edges were crumpled and the pictures was wrinkled because I was always looking at it. It helped me get through another day in this hell. I stare at her beautiful face, my heart clenches painfully, but I can't stop looking. Images of her flood my memory and I close my eyes to the pain as well as the happiness they bring me. My heart constricts again, so painful that I feel I can't breath. I remember the day I had come back to the academy. It was dawn and I had gone straight to her room, but I didn't find her there. The room was in some disarray so I had gone to the chairman who was passed out on his bed. It took a while to wake him up from the drug circulating his body. The whole time I couldn't sit still, I wanted to rip my hair out because I didn't know what was going on. When he did wake up, he had told me that Usui Takemura had come for dinner and had left when he had purposefully drugged the chairman. For the next three months I skipped school and had gone in search for her. But it was no use, I couldn't find her and it was even harder considering I had no leads and no idea where to start looking. I would ask people in every town if they had ever seen or heard of Usui Takemura, but every where I went, there were shaking heads and sympathetic looks my way. Finally the chairman had called me back, saying that it would be better if we searched in a more inconspicuous way so they wouldn't know what was coming to them. I don't remember ever crying in my life, except for that night when Shizuka had killed my family. But that night, as I lay on my bed, gone through three months keeping my feelings of the loss of her hidden, they became so powerful that it had overflowed, and I had let the tears run. A crushing loneliness consumed me, the ability to strive to live had left me, but thoughts of her kept me going even one more day. I blamed myself for her disappearance; if only I had been with her when she was in trouble. If I was still a vampire, I might have been able to find her. I tried not to think about what that vampire was doing to her, I didn't know the extent of my control. Kaname had helped in searching for her but even then, we were unsuccessful. We didn't talk to each other, maybe we both knew if we did talk how hopeless the situation would look. I sigh and get up, dragging myself to the shower. I haven't gotten a decent sleep since last year and I had become used to it. I take a cold shower to wake my senses and change into my uniform. I didn't really want to go to school but I knew it's what I had to do. Better to keep my mind off things. Even though it's early I make my way through town towards the academy. I don't go inside the building, instead make my way to the stables. Though my heart clenches when I see the stables when a distant and my most treasured memory comes to mind. It was where she had told me she loved me. It was at that moment that I had believed in eternity. I walk inside to find White lily, awake while the other horses are still stirring. I stroke her mane and give her breakfast. I take off my jacket and clean White Lily's cub. I let the memory of her wash over me. An unbearable agony pushes down on my chest until it becomes hard to breath. White Lily turn her head to me and nudges my shoulders, trying to console me. I smile and pet her before gathering my things and leaving the stables. I walk to class, the sun rising with the promise of another day without her.