*Final Note To Readers* NO! I can't believe it's over (T.T) But it's all good (^.^) Because I worked really hard on this. I know it took me a Super Long time but I'm happy with the ending. It has almost the same concept as the previous story I wrote yet it's still unique. I backspaced and corrected the mess out of this chapter so it could be more enjoyable for you and I hope you like it as much as I do.

Please Review! I would really appreciate it. And if you like it and you want to see more Favorite this and Follow me. Also I want to Thank You guys for sticking with me for 11 chaps :)

Oh and I'll be writing more FanFics soon. I am thinking up another VK one and I also might do K-On and Full Metal Alchemist so if your interested in these be on the lookout.

That's all I got to say so,

Hasta Luego Amigos!

I promised myself that I wouldn't cause pain or harm anyone. It was never spoken aloud but it's something that doesn't need to be. I'm not a sadist. I'm not a murderer. I don't like to see people hurting.

BUT, I love Zero and I wasn't going to let him die. He means way too much to me to have him die, not from losing control, but from being drained by the person who changed him into a vampire.

I fought against that invisible shield that held me back, picked up Bloody Rose and took a luck shot.

Tears were falling from my face though. Not because I regretted what I did but because I was seconds too late. Her teeth had already sunk deep into his flesh.

My graze slowly lifts off the ground. Zero is staring at me with surprise in his eyes. I am staring at a dazed pureblood fall away from the silver haired boy and double over in pain. But she is smiling and I start to worry. She will die at any given moment and she's smiling? It doesn't make sense. I watch as the ribbon around her kimono soaks with blood. This makes me cry even more because I know that when she dies something bad might happen.

She mumbles something I can't make out before collapsing to the ground and exploding in to a pile of grayish ash.

And on top of that pile of ash a single roses falls, the same as the one seen on the Ferris Wheel. But I was too sidetracked to pay attention.

I run over to Zero. He is on his knees, holding his neck, and groaning in pain. I'm sure the bite of a pureblood is far more painful than a regular vampire like himself. He must be going through unbearable suffering right now.

"Zero," I put my hand on his arm and try to help him up.

"Stay away," he snaps.

I jump back instantly and gaze at him at a distance. His eyes turn red and his fangs come out. He looks as if he's ready to drink blood except for he has this evil aura; as if he's possessed or something.

He walks towards me in a reluctant struggle and I back away. This person isn't Zero. This person isn't even a person. It's more like a dummy; a dummy that is being controlled.

"Shoot me," he demands in a raspy voice. "Yuuki…this isn't me…shoot…shoot me."

I couldn't. I couldn't shoot him; even if it wasn't him. I couldn't handle two gunshots. One was already too much for me and two…well, two is out of the question.

"I can't Zero! I can't shoot you!" I am yelling at the top of my lungs and I could feel tears rolling down my chin.

His body started to jerk back and forth as if having a battle with himself. His eyes get redder and his teeth get sharper. My heart is beating is out of my chest and I can barely breath.

"If you love me, Yuuki…pull the trigger," he forces out before charging towards me.

Still I don't shoot…

POP~

I knew the sound by heart now and it was a shame. The gun I was holding went off all on its own. I swear on my life I didn't pull the trigger.

I drop the gun instantaneously, wanting to get the cursed thing out of my hands. I see Zero drop to the ground and turn back into his normal un-possessed self. Blood filled the sleeve of his shirt. The bullet had perfectly placed its self in the shoulder left blade.

"You didn't shoot him, I did."

I turned around and there he was, right in front of the doorway; Kaname Kuran.

I was frozen in shock.

I forgot how to talk. I forgot how to walk. I forgot where I was and what I was fight for.

Since my body was paralyzed, all I could do was wonder. I wondered and tried to figure out what exactly is going right now.

I feel a hand wrap around my arm and pull me, waking me out of my trance. It's abrupt so I think its Zero, but when I open my eyes again I see a thick head of dark brown hair. I follow him blindly down this large storage-like room toward an elevator until my mind fully connects the pieces.

My feet stops moving and Kaname turns around.

"I can't leave him," I say in a weak voice. "I can't leave Zero."

And before I know it, I'm pulling Kaname back to the little dungeon room. I run over to Zero who is leaning against the wall bleeding all over the place. I rip off his red-soaked sleeve to reveal a bloody gash on his shoulder. I use my sweater as a bandage and wrap it around the wound.

It's still bleeding though and his skin gets paler than it usually is. I look up at Kaname, who it standing as still as a ton of bricks, and dare to ask him for help. He hesitates for a moment then kneels next to me. He flashes me a quick face that I can't read before hovering a hand over Zero's shoulder. He closes his eyes and a small bubble of purple light forms. A few seconds later Zero's body jerks to life and his eyes slowly open.

I feel a sense of relief wash over me but it is closely followed by guilt. I'm glad Zero is okay but…I had to ask Kaname (his worst enemy) to save him.

As Zero becomes more and more aware I feel my heart beat quicken. I can't ignore it anymore; the choice I have to make. I have to great guys standing here in front of me who love me and will do anything for me. How can I choose knowing I will hurt one of them in the end?

They both look at me and I glance back and forth at them.

After a few overwhelmingly long seconds, Zero stood up on him own and stuffed his gun back in his pocket. Then he walks forward, opening the heavy metal door with ease and walking through the storage room without turning back to look at us. He stops at the elevator and waits for it to make its way down. The ding on the elevator seemed louder than it seems it would be. Zero steps in first. Kaname steps in last. The tenseness in the air is almost suffocating.

Kaname leads the way out of the school and into the night sky. It seems like forever since I had a breath of fresh air.

All of a sudden, Zero lungs at me and we both fall to the ground. I glance up at him for an explanation, but Zero's eyes are somewhere else. I hear Kaname's voice, hisseriousvoice. "Get your filthy hands off my roses?" I look in the direction Zero is looking and see Kaname standing yards away from a man who seems to be a Level E.

"They smell so divine," the Level E says. "What kind are they?"

Kaname's fists clinched and the rose he holds in his hand materializes into thin air.

"Wow," he scoffed. "Someone has a bad temper. Too bad you can't blow me up like all the other ones."

I watch as Kaname's eyes start to glow crimson as if he's about to unleash his supernatural pureblood powers; but nothing happens. We all freeze in bewilderment. Why isn't anything happening? Why does this Level E still have a head? Why is he still standing here as alive as can be?

Zero is the first to snap out of it, pulling out his gun and shooting a bullet right at his head. For a quick moment I thought he was a goner, but the Level E repealed it somehow. I was even more bewildered. A gun specifically designed for killing vampires didn't even work? If that can't kill him what can?

"Who the hell are you?" Zero asked, fingers twitching with anger. "Why haven't you died yet?"

"You can't kill me. No one can."

"You're just a mere Level E. I'm quite certain you can be killed."

He exploded into laughter and Kaname's eyes got redder. "I'm protected. I'm protected by these precious roses of yours." He picked another rose up in his hands. "And the best thing about it is that I'm not the only one either. All the Level Es left after the death of my master is protected just like me."

"What the hell are you talking about?" Rage was evident in Kaname's voice.

"If you must know," he began, taking his sweet old time. "Before Master Shizuka plan was even set in motion she used your precious rose garden to generate a seal for us in case she died in the process."

It doesn't make sense. We've all killed Level Es before. "How is that even possible?" It slipped out before I could bit my tongue.

"How is it possible?" he repeated. "Well that's simple. The seal was created using the energy given off by the roses combined with the blood of my master and since they were Kaname's roses the energy was exceptionally strong. But in case you're wondering the seal didn't take place until after she died."

I have to admit. This is one, well thought out plan. She out smarted us all; even Kaname.

But Kaname and Zero were didn't give up though. They kept using their powers to stall the Level E as much as they could, anyway that could. And I…well, I was paralyzed once again, leaning against a tree afraid I would collapse to my knees.

"There has to be a way?" I thought, "Any way. There has to be something, someone that can help us?"

Then it came to me.

Headmaster.

I dash towards the pathway to the house. That is the last place I remember seeing him. I don't tell anyone though, but I bet Kaname probably already knows my plan. I keep running. In fact, I ran faster than I ever ran before. I scurry into the house and up the stairs to his room in record time. I opened the door and there he was, lying on the floor right in front of the glass-less window.

I make my way over to him and shake his body a few times. When I get no response I check his pulse. He's still alive so I keep shaking; and shaking; and shaking. After the 10th shake and a couple of pumps to the chest my heart drops. My first thought was that he's dead.

Tears were beginning to puddle up in my eyes when I felt his body jerk. I wipe my face so I could see clearer. Headmaster wasn't dead. His eyes were open and he was making his best effort to sit up.

"Y-Yuuki," he called out. His voice was frail and croaky.

Now I was crying tears of joy.

"Headmaster," I answered in a voice almost as weak as his. "A-Are you o-okay?"

"I'm fine, please don't cry," he says as I help him sit up.

I take a couple deep breaths and gathered my thoughts.

"Headmaster…" I say again.

He hums in response and I continue on. "I need your help." I explain in the simplest way possible what is going on right now and even in his dazed-out state he understands most of what I'm telling him with half expectance.

He repeats everything back to me for clarification and I nod my head. Then he closes his eyes and falls into a deep meditation.
I dare not to disturb him and take this time to run down to the kitchen and pour two glasses of water. I drink one down and take the other one back up stairs. As I bring the glass over to him, his eyes shoot open in realization. I hand him the glass and he gulps it down quickly.

"Yuuki, do you still have the roses you picked while you were sleepwalking?" he asks.

"No," I replied. "Why? Do you need roses? I can go back to the garden and pick some."

He grabs my hand to stop me from taking off. "What did you do with them?"

"I burned them in the fireplace."

"Have you swept the ashes out since then?"

"No I haven't."

"I need you to go down to the fireplace and sweep up all the ashes from the fireplace and bring them back to me."

I don't ask any questions and do exactly what he says, running back down stairs, grabbing a random cup from the kitchen and thoroughlysweeping up all the available ash. I rush back upstairs and see Headmaster has his face in a book. When he notices me he tells me to dump the ash on the floor.

I hesitate a little bit, not completely sure if I heard him correctly, but he repeats the order again so I tip the cup and the dust splatters making me cough. He nods and picks up the book again. I read the front cover. It's some kind of vampire hunting guide.

He sets the book down and pulls out a knife and a small glass bottle of what looks like blood from his pocket. The glass bottle is handed to me.

"Whose blood is this?" I ask tilting the red liquid back and forth in its container.

"Kaname's."

I bite my tongue and decided that wasn't going to ask any more questions. That is, until he takes the knife and slits his palm with it. My eyes widen. "What is this? Why did you just cut your hand?"

"I'm making a spell. This will break Shizuka's seal."

I watch as the blood puddles up in his palm. He kneels down near the pile of ashes and dipped a finger into his blood then he draws a shape around it that looks identical to the tattoo on Zero's neck.

"Now open the bottle and pour the blood on the ashes."

I oblige (without second guessing) and pour out the blood creating a wet brownish mixture. I thought it was over. I thought he would just say some magic words and all our troubles would disappear.

I was dead wrong.

"Yuuki, I need you to do something for me, okay?" His voice is suddenly light and patronizing and I feel fear creep up on me as if he's going to ask something preposterous.

"What is it?" I ask, keeping my mind open to anything and everything.

"I need you to take this knife and cut your hand with it?"

I take a long and hard look at the knife. It was a sharp-as-a-Samurai-sword super knife that looks like it hurts like the devil if it just poked you. And in order for my blood to puddle up like his did I would have to make a pretty deep and painful incision.

With shaky hands I grab the knife. I stop for a second giving my mind a little time to process what is about to happen. "I am going to make a quick wipe and get it over with. It has to hurt less than a vampire bite," I convince myself.

I draw in a deep breath, close my eyes, and press the blade to my skin.

I feel the stinging before anything else, the blood comes later. I endure the pain only letting out one or two groans. I dropped the knife as fast as my fingers would let me. I stand there unsteadily, watching the red liquid pour heart-achingly slow out of my burning palm. The only thought keeping me from crying out was that being bitten by a vampire was much, much worst.

"Now slowly pour your blood on top."

Slowly? You've got to be kidding me.

I do as he tells me slowly pouring my blood on top of the bloody, dusty concoction. When I am done he hands me a towel and I wrap my hand up tightly then step back to collect myself again.

I study the pile of glump (I don't think that's a word but oh well) on the floor expecting something to happen, though when nothing happens I can't help but feel skeptical and start asking questions again. "What do you need my blood for?"

"We need human blood to act as a neutralizer. With a situation like this we are working with two extremely powerful purebloods and in order to balance this power we need a human's blood with no supernatural abilities. I am using yours because you were the one who burned the roses but I am using mine to contain the spell since I am the one doing it."

Everything made sense to me now and just as I was about to unwind and relax the pile of glump smarted to sizzle. I blink my eyes thinking I'm seeing things but it wasn't.

The sizzling erupts into a full blown fire, lighting up the room with bright yellow-orange flames. I watch as Headmaster walks over to his closet and pulls out a gun, some bullets, and two swords. He walks over to the flames and throws them in.

"Please throw Artemis into the fire," he insists. I unlatch it from my leg and throw it in the flames. The fire suddenly grows five times bigger and I step back a few feet. Then it gradually calms down until it's just sizzling again. The ashes are gone, the blood disappeared, and the only thing remaining is the weapons that were thrown in. They didn't look scorched at all, not even steaming. In fact they looked the same as before except they had the shape Headmaster drew in blood on it in black bold print.

Is this how they make vampire hunting weapons?

He bends over and picks up the weapons off the floor. I grab Artemis and extend the length.

I guess it's time to kick some Level E butt.

I follow Headmaster out him room, down the stairs, and out the front door. We walk down the path to the school. As we get closer, I hear Zero cursing and Kaname shouting insults. Then I hear that Level E's overly arrogant voice. It irritates me; but it amuses me too, because there might be a change that he won't live for that long.

We arrive at the sight. Both Zero and Kaname's clothes are ripped and torn revealing a fair amount of skin. The Level E, on the other hand, remains untouched.

As soon as we approach them, Kaname turns around first and then Zero. I'm sure they already knew our plan. They could probably see the flames all the way from here. Plus, being vampires and all, they probably sensed it too.

Headmaster tosses the gun and bullets to Zero and the sword to Kaname. The two of them didn't waste time; locked, loaded, and ready to fight in only a few seconds.

The Level Es start to come out of hiding and surround us. Every single one of them has a smug look on their face as if they can finally destroy us in the blink of an eye. I almost laugh out loud at their ignorance.

Kaname wants to challenge them and tell them that they aren't as invincible as they think, but Zero gets right to the point and fires into the crowd. None of them move out the way since they are "protected". They don't manic either; until one of them starts bleeding from the arm. But instead of being on defense they are in shock and stand there stupidly, some in fear and some in utter confusion.

We all take this time to take as many down as we can. There are about twenty or thirty explosions in all yet the crowd doesn't seem to decrease. And more are coming. I bet Shizuka ordered them to report to Cross Academy before she died.

After a few more are taken out they start to comprehend the situation. That's when their claws came out and their eyes glow as red as fire.

This is where the real game begins.

I close my eyes and take a deep breath, gathering all the energy I have left. I open my eyes and raise my hands with surprisingly steady hands.

I guess I'm not as scared as I thought I would be.

Three of them come at me all at once and their heads are shocked and bashed before they could touch me. But most of them aren't that easy to kill. You have to distract and battle them until you have a clear shot. Then you hit them right in their weak point.

We kill a lot of them and little by little they dwindle. The air is filled with grayish Level E ash and it makes it hard for me to see. This is bad. Very bad. I don't have supernatural super vision. If I can't see I'll definitely be a goner.

I blindly swing Artemis around, searching in the dust for danger. I hit someone in what seems like the stomach and blood splatters on my clothes.

I shriek.

"Are you okay?" the voice of Kaname whispers at me.

"I can't see," I hiss.

I hear Zero's voice now. It is closer than Kaname's. "Keep Artemis up at all times and listen carefully."

Right after he said that there is a rustle in the dust and slash Artemis down, killing two.

His techniques worked but I'm still not confident. If I carry on like this I won't last long. I need to find a way out. I need to find a way out so I can see straight and keep fighting.

I walk in slow and cautious strides in one direction. It takes me some time, but I finally make it out of the grayish ash cloud. I cough up some dust, whip my eyes, and refocus again.

I start attacking from the outside in and they hardly expect it. I slay a lot of them this way. But there still is a good amount left.

"I'm running out of bullets Headmaster," I hear Zero yell out.

"This is the last batch so use them wisely."

This isn't good. This isn't good at all. If Zero can't shoot we are down one person. And I probably won't last long either so that will make it two. Can Kaname and Headmaster do this alone? All their power lies in the swords they are using and they won't hold up forever. What happens when they give out?

I fight on, until my strength is no longer adequate. I am tired, sweaty, and my clothes are covered in Level E blood. I can barely stand up straight, but I don't drop my guard even a bit. The dust cloud is slowly clearing away and I could see Zero and Headmaster. They looked almost as bad as me.

"We can't keep this up for much longer," Headmaster huffed. "My sword is wearing away."

"Mine is as well," Kaname adds.

A few gun shots Zero chimes in. "I'm out of bullets."

At that moment it seems like the word stopped. The Level Es stop attacking and we stop fighting. The battle freezes and we find ourselves staring these grotesque monsters in the face. I know I've said this a hundred times but this is where I will die. Once again in the face of danger and with a million regrets on my mind.

We involuntarily close in standing back to back, our preparatory stances deteriorating along with the dust cloud. Unless something miraculous happens there is no winning this. We are all out of supplies. We are all out of strength and no one can help us.

"Any last words?" one of them stepped forward and said.

I guess we made an unspoken agreement not to speak because none of us said a word.

"Silence uh? No arrogant comments?"

"…"

"Okay, I see how it is."

The Level E raises his hand slowly and then brings it down quickly. As if on cue they all charge at us. Dozens of them; furiously baring everything.

"Have fun in Hell." That was the last thing I heard before all I could focus on were sharp teeth and hungry faces running towards me…

BOOM! BOOM!

A bomb-like sound enters my ears and before I could distinguish it fully I am being sent flying backwards by a strong force. It was like in those action movies where you go airborne in slow motion after something blows up. But that feeling didn't last for very long because in the blink of an eye I crash down on the solid concrete. And it hurt like the devil. I tried to scream out in pain, but my voice was clogged by a thick purplish smoke, and all I could do was let out a chain of lung-splitting coughs.

"Yuuki," I hear my name being called but I can't tell who it was. They call my name again and I realize that it was Zero.

I conjure up the little strength I have left and limp my way out of the smoke cloud. The first thing I see is Dr. Yaguri, my therapist. I stand there wide-eyed as I study him. He has transformed into a fighter, a hunter, ditching the doctor-like lap coat and replacing it with a brown ranger hat that complimented his eye patch perfectly. I can't believe I thought that all he did was devote his life to listening to people talk about their sorrowful lives. He is probably the one responsible for saving my life. My voice is still stuck on my throat so all I manage to do is bow. He will never know who much I owe him.

Then I turn around and my heart suddenly stops beating.

"Zero!" I holler hysterically.

He is one the ground, face up. I run over to him and shake his body frantically. He was probably closer to the explosion than me so he must be hurt pretty badly. I shake his body a few more times and then start pumping his chest. Fortunately, he wasn't unconscious for long because his eyes opened before I could shed even shed a tear.

"Zero."

"Yuuki."

Despite the fact that he's just as alive as I am, I cry anyway. This whole situation has been way too overwhelming for a confused, sleepwalking, and accident prone teenage girl like me. And Zero could feel all the pain I felt.

"It's over…It's really over." It was so unbelievable that I had to say it out loud.

He sits up and runs his scarred hand through my hair. I expect him to say something back. But he doesn't. Instead he pulls me into the most passionate kiss we ever shared and just like magic my tears disappear.

I guess I've made my decision without even knowing it. Zero Kiryu is the one I want. He's the one I want to hold and kiss and cuddle with. He's the one that makes my stomach do flips and my heart burn with affection. Zero Kiryu is the rose to my soul; he gives me life.

Ok so I'm trying something new. To save you from reading a whole bunch of useless jibber jabber and to save my poor fingers from type overload I will summarize all that happened after this. Almost like those messages that are at the end of a movie. Hope you like it.

Dr. Toga Yaguri was the one responsible for the explosion. He used almost the same hunting spell Headmaster used combining, his own blood with Level E dust and to make a smoke bomb that was designed to kill all Level Es caught in it. Everyone made it out okay. Both Yuuki and Zero had mild concussions and a few minor injuries, but they healed quickly and without complications. Dr. Yaguri went back to becoming a full-time therapist and Headmaster decided to keep Cross Academy open after erasing the tragedy out of all the students' minds.

And for Yuuki and Kaname…well, things didn't work out too good for them. Even though Yuuki has a special bond with him she listened to her heart and her heart told her that Zero was her one and only. But she did let him down as easy as she could telling him that she was not angry at him for leaving her alone and that she understood why he did it. Kaname didn't agree with her choice yet he still respected it. They still talk to each other but it's not as comfortable as it used to be.

Aside from that, Zeki is going strong. You could say that they are living a happily ever after kind of life now. There is no more sleepwalking, no more Level Es and no more conflicted feelings. They both love each other with open and considerate hearts and they plan to stay that way for a long, long while.

THE END

ZEKI 4 LIFE! :D