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Summary:I just recently transferred to Cross Academy. I've never been to a boarding school before and I still haven't adjusted properly. I don't like following rules and could care less of what other people have to say. Listening just was never one of my strong points. Now that I'm at this academy, I can leave my past behind and start a new...sadly old habits die hard. I tried, but my curiosity got the best of me. Cross Academy was hiding something...that I knew for sure. I didn't know what, and I've tried to ignore my gut feeling, but it's not working. No one will answer me properly, so now it's up to me to get my own answers. There was one person who would be able to link everything, that stoic, unsociable, scary, emotionally dysfunctional person was going to be the key to unlocking the secrets of this academy. How would I get him to spill? By befriending him of course. I just never thought I'd end up caring about our relationship until the point of where he became special to me.

Chapter 5

Watashi Wa Subete Ni Tandoku De Kono Samu Sa No Sekai Ni Iru Ga , Watashi Wa Ki Ni Shi Nai

(I'm all alone in this cold world, but I don't care)

Zero

Once again Cross Academy had fallen prey to nightfall. The sun had long gone and set underneath the horizon while the moon was just rising. The day class girls had reluctantly returned to the Sun Dorm, but not before declaring their undying love to the Night Class. Zero wondered whether or not the Day Class would continue to worship the Night Class if they knew what the Night Class really were...probably not. He had been rather annoyed when he had to restrain some of the day class girls from jumping the ex-sun guardian. There had been major protest when the Day Class had learned of Yuuki's sudden transfer to the Night Class which the Chairman had left Zero to deal with. To make matters worse, the Chairman had assigned Naoto Kira as the new sun guardian- temporarily Zero hoped.

Currently Zero stood outside of a classroom with his back to the wall and arms folded, a grim expression etched on his pale face. Zero preferred the night because there weren't girls constantly going 'kya...kya...kya', it was silent and he was alone. Sadly his golden silence was broken.

"Hello Kiryuu."

Zero opened one eye to see members of the Black Knights Artemis and Kira. He dipped his head in acknowledgment of the two and closed his eye. A few minutes later, when it appeared that neither of the two newcomers were going to leave, Zero snapped his eyes open and asked in an annoyed tone "Is there something else you need?"

"Ooh look Arty." Kira said in mock excitement "The baby's getting fussy."

Zero ignored the comment.

Artemis chuckled "Don't worry Kiryuu, our orders are strictly to capture and detain the rouge vampires. We're not here to kill you."

"But your time will come." Kira couldn't resist adding, sending Zero a grin "And I hope when it does...I'll be there to see it."

Zero clenched his fists together and gave Kira a defiant glare, but he made no move to give Kira a well deserved punch to the face- no, Zero had much more self control and he knew it wise not to pick a fight. Kira opened his mouth to make anther snide comment, but was silenced as the sound of heavy footsteps could be heard. Eventually Yagari came trudging along but stopped when he came across the trio.

"What's going on?" he asked, right away noticing the tension.

"Nothing Kiryuu can't handle." Artemis said smoothly only to receive a glare from both Zero and his former mentor.

"I believe I wasn't asking you." Yagari growled, he disliked the woman and her giant ego. Yagari looked down at Zero with an expectant look and felt greatly irritated when he was ignored. Turning to Artemis he said "Don't you have a class to be teaching?"

"Hai...hai" she said, waving off the older man with her carefree attitude. She opened the door and walked inside masking her hatred with a big smile "Ohayo minna. Sorry to keep you all waiting."

Yagari turned to Kira and said in a gruff voice "Don't you have better things to do than standing around here and being useless?"

"But of course." Kira replied, turned on his heel and walked away.

Before Yagari could question his former apprentice, Zero had already pushed himself off the wall and was heading towards the outside. He could already feel the vein on his forehead about to burst due to annoyance. There he had been, minding his own business (well not really since he was keeping an eye on the Night Class) enjoying the golden silence and then people had to come and disturb him.

As Zero made his way outside he felt his whole body tremble and quickly raised his hand to his mouth. Using a nearby tree for support, he doubled over and retched. This was not good, he noted, wiping his mouth with his sleeve. He shouldn't have stopped taking his tablets. It was getting harder for him to breathe and his vision was becoming hazy, he slumped down onto the grass wheezing. His body was craving genuine blood (much to his disgust) and he was well aware that the blood tablets weren't going to able to satisfy him. But still the tablets were better than noting at all. He reached into the inside of his jacket and to his horror he couldn't find them.

'Damn' Zero thought, resting his back against the trunk. He closed his eyes and slowed his breathing down to sluggish pace, trying his best to ignore the pain that was surging throughout his entire body. He really needed those blood tablets- they didn't do much, but they did ease the pain...somewhat. It was too painful, mentally, for Zero to even try and think about the possibilities of where his tablets could have disappeared to. He was much to careful to have accidently misplaced them- any other speculations were interrupted by the arrival of the Moon guardian.

"Zero!" Yuuki called out, disregarding the fact that Zero hated her with a fiery passion and rushed to his aid. She had been out patrolling when she had smelt Zero nearby. She knew what was happening and knew exactly how to stop it, but she also knew Zero would never willingly except her help.

"Yuuki-sama!" an out of breath Aido appeared by her side seconds later. At the sight of Zero, Aido straightened himself out and couldn't help but send a smirk towards him. Zero managed to send a weak glare before his body gave in to the pain.

"Zero!" Yuuki said again, reaching out and delicately placing her hands on his chest. Zero immediately slapped her hands away. He'd rather stay in pain than receive help from a vampire.

"Go away" Zero rasped, glaring at Yuuki. The girl was only making things worse for him. Not only was he in pain from lack of blood, but now he was having a mental battle with himself whether or not to give into the temptation of Yuuki's sweet blood. His body had been craving it for a while, but he would not let his vampire side get the better of him.

"Aido-senpai." he heard Yuuki say "Please return back to class. Now!"

Aido bowed and quickly retreated back towards the main building.

"I don't need your help." Zero spat out, but with every labored breath he took, Zero knew that he was slowly losing the battle with his other self.

"It's okay." he heard Yuuki murmur although he wasn't sure if she was talking to him or to herself. She untied her ribbon and pulled down the collar of her shirt and then closed her eyes.

With every second that passed, Zero could feel his human essence fading while his other self was just awakening. He watched himself lean in closer to her next, his fangs already exposed and ready to sink into her soft flesh. The smell of her blood was overwhelming. There was no turning back now.

"I think this has gone on long enough, ne Kiryuu-san?" a soft but firm voice called out from above. There was no warning for what happened next. As soon as the voice had spoken, a silver arrow came soaring down, striking Zero.

"Zero!" Yuuki exclaimed as she watched Zero's body shake uncontrollably on the ground as if he were having a short seizure. She stood up and whipped around to face Zero's assailant with Artemis in hand. She looked up towards the roof of the academy and watched as two figures jumped down.

"Yuuki-sama." Zero's assailant said, politely bowing.

The vampire princess immediately recognized the two people as the newcomers from this morning. She narrowed her eyes, suspicious of them both. In the most threatening tone she could muster she asked "Why did you do that?"

The male let out a laugh "Forgive me junketsu hime-sama, but that tone really does not suit someone such as yourself."

"Kira, shut up." the other person said. She bowed to Yuuki and then gave her an apologetic smile "I'm sorry if what I did seemed unethical, but it was for the best."

The Moon guardian opened her mouth, but the other girl cut her off by saying "Do not fret junketsu hime-sama. I just merely rendered Kiryuu-san unconscious. But now I think it's best if you leave him to us."

Yuuki continued to stare at the girl with suspicion.

"Don't worry." Cherry smiled "He's in good hands...I promise."

Kira wanted badly to comment, but Cherry elbowed him hard in the ribs causing him pain. Yuuki regarded the two for a while longer before nodding her head. She did not trust them, but there was nothing she could do for Zero.

"Thank you." Yuuki voiced her gratitude in a whisper and then took off back to patrolling the academy.

Cherry exchanged a glance with her teammate.

"You interfered so you have to deal with him. He could go die for all I care." Kira said, grinning at the unconscious prefect before returning back to his post on top of the academy. Cherry sighed and then headed over to Zero, gently picking him up and throwing one of his arms over her shoulder.

"Gomene Kiryuu-san." she muttered "But it truly was for your own good."

-X-

"I know your awake so stop pretending to be asleep." Artemis said, calmly walking into the infirmary and flicking on the lights. She grabbed a chair, spun it around and stated casually "That was a pretty stupid thing to stop taking your blood tablets. Your lucky that Cherry went to me and not to Yagari-sensei or Kurosu-senpai, otherwise they might have locked you up again."

Zero sat up slowly, refusing to look at her, instead his gaze was cast down to the floor. He felt disgusted with himself and ashamed that he had almost lost control.

"Here, Cherry told me to give this to you." Artemis slipped her hand into her pocket and pulled out a small black box and tossed it onto Zero's bed. Artemis then put a finger her to chin and tapped it thoughtfully "She said for you not to lose this one."

Zero picked up the object, noting that it was a brand new box of blood tablets.

"You better thank Cherry, boy." Artemis said before standing up and leaving Zero to his own thoughts.

He watched her disappear behind the door and then let out a sigh, pressing his back up against his bed post. He glanced at the clock, it was only two in the morning- he had been out for about an hour or so. Zero closed his eyes and let his mind replay the event. His fists tightened as he remembered almost biting her- it made him sick. His mind wandered back to the fact that his original box of tablets were missing and he had a sinking feeling- a feeling that he knew exactly where they were. He bolted out of the infirmary and ran off towards the Sun Dorm.

'Please let me be wrong' he prayed before charging up the stairs that led to the female section of the dorm.

Authoress' Corner.

I know this chapter is horrible. It's lacking in action.

Okay well the first time I posted this chapter, I guess it was really terrible since no one reviewed. And I'm sorry that if you've already read this yesterday and are clicking on it again because you received a story alert or noticed it was updated. I accidently removed the chapter as I was trying to edit something.

So I just turned this chapter into a Zero chapter because he needs the spotlight. Okay the people that have already read this part, the next part is going to be entirely different. I realized that the whole Willow part that I wrote was really bad writing. Sorry for the rest of you who haven't read this chapter yet and think this is a cliffhanger.

I know I said that Willow was going to ask Zero to the dance last chapter, and she did in the pervious chapter 5, but I think it was just too much for one chapter. You guys get to read about Zero and his suffering.

I also know that there wasn't much detail either, but hopefully you guys liked it. I tried my best to keep Zero in character, sorry if he seems ooc.

Don't be mad. I'll update asap and the writing won't be horrible :)

Thanks:

rainy-lullaby- Thanks, glad you found that sentence funny. I'm not that god at humor so I'm glad the humor worked

Fireflower19- Okay well I really hope you're liking the story so far. Yeah Kaname and Yuki aren't my favorite pairing either...lol

Sayonara Yasashii Akumu- Well they have to get serious at some point. eS was horrified to hear that Kira was on a hit list, but I found it really funny. Yeah Kira isn't the nicest person around lol

Jezebellix- Thank you, I feel really happy that you really like my story. I'm glad you like what's happening so far. It's going to be a challenge to get Will and Zero together cause their personalities totally clash, but hopefully you'll like how things turn out.

Trickster707 - Glad your liking the story. Thanks for the review.

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ZTL