Under the mercy of Yuki's razor fangs, I shifted my weakened body in hope of escaping her blood-consuming thorns. They wouldn't stop cutting into me as the Pureblood had her tongue lavishing my throat, growling hungrily with seeping anticipation.

I shut my eyes and held back a scream as her teeth bit fiercely into me. She did not drink from me the way an average vampire would; this bite was like poison, one filled with a bitter anger and a desire for vengeance. I could feel my blood being drained from my own body...but what was worse was the fact that I could hear it; it was the most revolting experience, but I could not run, hide, or defend. I was paralysed at my enemies alter.

A sudden electric shock began to push it's way through my veins; another kind of power was about to be unleashed. Yuki was struck fiercely like a lightning bolt, her fangs lifting and her howls of pain making me quiver.

"Oh, you are good, sister." She chimed playfully with her butt on the ground, not for a split second sounding worried, as if she knew for certain that she could win this fight. Her bubbly split personality began to make me feel incredibly pissed off. The vines unlatched from my wounds enough that I could stand steadily, and when I did, I reached for my side pocket.

I had a switch blade. She didn't know I was armed with a weapon; this was my chance. It was a hunter weapon I obtained from Zero at one stage. I love him for that.

"Yuki, you may be my sister, but you'll never be treated like one. I honestly think you should just get a life..." I found it fun to tease her. I guess that's the only thing we'll ever have that's even considered close to the ways of sisterhood.

"Val, Val, Val." She repeated, skipping towards me now, her hand still swaying the rod around like it was some harmless toy.

"Do you not understand my reasons? I was ignored for 10 years. Do you ever think that for a moment, you might empathise?" Her words cut, but not deep enough for me to give in.

She was wrong. The past was the past, and although she did go through a lot of isolation and distress during the time of my presence, it still gives her no right in hell to initiate revenge.

"Revenge solves nothing!" I replied, something burning one of my eyes. Was it a tear, or just a spot of dirt?

"It does. You just deliberately fail to feel the pain I'm feeling. Imagine if your entire family loved you one day, then hated you the next. Why, why can't you hear me out? You're just as bad as mum and dad were..." I could swear I saw her eyes becoming glassy, filling up with droplets of tears. Her voice was webbed with cold pain.

"No. Wrong. I'm sorry but...You're...Wrong..." I tiptoed over to her with caution, surprised that she was holding back an attack. With her head and her guard down, I dashed around her anti-clockwise, one of my hands wrapping around her neck and the other pinpointing the sharp steel against the opposite side of her throat.

Honestly, I hated the idea of this. Killing my own sister seemed just as sinful as her own actions, but I had no choice. I knew guilt would take me, but I needed to do this. She was a danger, a menace that had to be put to an end. Cross Academy could be in great danger with a vampire such as her. Blood crazy, she would do whatever it took to drink from me completely.

So I have to play this game safe.

"Maybe it's best if you live with the demons in hell." I whispered, my lips against her ear. I could feel her heart drum faster, her skin turning icier then it had been originally, her eyelids closing and her mind preparing for what was to come.

"Stop!" I heard a voice I would know anywhere; a voice as rough as cobblestone but as soft as velvet, a sweet husky voice that I would walk through fire for.

Zero.

"What..." I breathed in astonishment.

"Don't hurt her." He commanded. What the hell? What connection could he have with my sister? Then I remembered. The girl in the photograph Zero had kept in his dorm, that girl he never spoke about, even to me. It was her.

Sliding the knife back in my pocket, I looked at Zero in disbelief. But his eyes did not lock with mine. His eyes were almost forcefully on Yuki's, like I didn't exist for that moment, like she was the only girl he wanted.

"Yuki. I thought you were dead." His voice sounded the exact same way it did when he had kissed me that night. She smiled, but I could see the sinister thoughts behind it.

"No, Zero. That Kaien Cross Hunter didn't lay a hand on me. That was just a substitute." She was inches away from his face now, cupping his face with her hands, his purple eyes still wide with shock.

"I...I can't believe it." He spoke with muffled words, but he still did not run to me to see if I was fine. Instead, he embraced her, his arms wrapped around her so tightly I thought she was going to burst. A feeling of rage and sadness wrapped itself around my own body, but except it was anything but a hug. It was choking me.

"Zero, hey Zero, what's going on?" My words didn't affect him very much, but finally his face met mine.

"Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Just like you gave me." Now this voice cut ruthlessly deep, deeper than the sea, than anything I had ever felt.

"What!?" I yelled, confusion and every other feeling imaginable making me drown. This had to be a mistake. Yuki has to be mind controlling him or something, right? This cannot be happening, not now, not ever.

Zero's hands gripped my wrists so hard I felt like they would break, his glare chilling me to the core, the fire in his eyes creating a pool of waves in mine.

"She's back. I thought she was gone, that's why I used you to replace the growing abyss of peril that was eating me from the inside out...You made me forget my pain, and I thank you for that..."

I felt like tearing my own heart out right now. What the hell?!

"I loved you, but not as strongly as I did with Yuki. And now that she's back, my mind has become clear. I'm sorry, Val. But you're not good enough for me, and likewise, I'm not good enough for you."

Yuki didn't say a word, she just continued to smirk with that face that I would now gladly smash against a brick wall. I don't think she felt equally the same, I think she was just the seal of the hole in her heart too. Why did this have to be? Can feelings really vanish into thin air, like they were worth nothing from the very beginning, or is there a spark of hope left?

"So...we're like...breaking up?" Tears flooded my face now, real tears. Tears that explained the feelings that were pouring so loudly out of my heart.

"It's called a temporary standby until you're needed again." Yuki began to cackle now, and I suddenly did not have any emotion left to put up with her prissy face and her perfect body and snobby attitude. This was it.

Bolting towards her with my mind set, I slashed her collarbone as quickly as I could before Zero could stop me. After that first attack with Yuki's screams overflowing inside my head, I had had enough. I was on the ground, and Zero had his Bloody Rose gun out from hiding. This was not anything I had seen before.

Green rose thorns wrapped around his entire body while being attached to the pistol, his body standing protectively in front of Yuki. What made him go to such limits to keep her from harm?

What happened to me being the only one?

"Val. Leave!" His voice was harsh, and had a cutting edge.

"What about everything you've said to me?" I was crying badly now, Yuki's face buried in Zero's arms now, his face wild with fury.

"I love Yuki, Valeria."