Bonjour! Ok, sorry I had to put what little French I know to use and say hello in French to you guys! I wish I could be writing it in French but C'est la vie. (If I got that right it means "That's life." Please tell me I'm right! Haha!) Anyway, ON TO THE STORY!

Disclaimer: I do not own the OC Sarah Shitou, she belongs to. I also, sadly, do not own Vampire Knight, for it belongs to.

Claimer: The plotline and the laptop that helped me spawn this fanfic.

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Previously

"Maybe," He said. "Although I'd still much rather you were trapped in a tower with me so that I could protect you while never having to leave your side." I blushed darker.

"I wouldn't stay in a tower," I warned.

"Thus the reason why I never tried," He responded. Despite his light smile I couldn't help but think that he was dead serious. I wasn't quite sure what to say, and luckily I didn't have a chance. The minute I looked up at him the car pulled up. He helped me inside and I couldn't help but wonder if he truly was serious, or if he was just joking as he often is.

I fingered Last Day's hilt, forcing my heart to be slow. Takuma was sitting right next to me with his usual, cheery smile while double checking the blade of his own for sharpness. I had never hunted with anyone before really, I was nervous. That it was Takuma who was my partner made it easier though. He'd seen me hunt before around the school and I ran into him hunting on Creepy Kaname's orders when I was in town a few times. We sparred a few times too as a joke and to help keep each other's reflexes sharp. We knew each other's attacks and defenses well enough to cover each other. He would be a good first hunting partner. I was pulled from my thoughts as the car pulled up outside an emptier district of town.

"Here's our stop," Takuma said brightly and pulled me gently from the car. We began in the direction of the house that we guessed was being used by our target based off the ranging of attacks. Even senile, Level Es have patterns and a hunting area conveniently located close to their nests. They were humans once; they like to be close to their homes.

Takuma and I glanced at each other before walking inside. We were immediately hit with the stench of death and blood. It was definitely where we were looking for. I slid Last Day from its sheath at the same time as Takuma with his. Neither of us spoke as we followed the ghastly smell. Takuma took the lead when we went down a narrow hallway. There were three doors at the end of it. I felt bad for him when he sniffed each door silently. He pointed to the right one with a grimace and we readied ourselves as we slowly opened the door. I nearly gagged at the air in the room. It was so overloaded with the smell of the coppery substance and decay that I nearly choked on it. I stepped in and stood beside Takuma with my nose wrinkled.

"Gross," I mouthed to him. He nodded almost solemnly and jerked his head a little. There were three in the room, a child and two adults, a male and female. Like a child and his parents. The smell was weakest from the child. He looked so innocent that I cringed at the thought of killing him; unfortunately he was also the one who woke up first.

"HUNTERS!" He shrieked at the top of his voice. Last Day made a sickening sound as it sliced through the spinal cord in his neck and I once again fought the urge to vomit. Even if he was a Level E, I had still just killed a child. It wasn't until I heard Takuma yell my name that I came to my senses and spun around, stabbing the man through the chest. He pushed me to the ground and I heard the woman shriek in anger as he turned to dust.

She came after me like a demon out of hell… so exactly like what she was.

I was still too shocked to do anything; I had just killed a child and was now lying in his ashes with another vampire's on top of me. I vaguely heard Takuma yell my name again and I began to move on autopilot but my reactions were too slow from the shock. I saw her come at me, teeth bared; aiming for my throat and I closed my eyes. The pain never came like I expected it. I heard a liquid drip on the floor.

I opened them to see Takuma in front of me, the Level E attached to his shoulder. It angered me to see her latch onto him like that. Without thinking I moved, quickly moving Last Day around Takuma and forced it through her side. I was aware that I had just shoved it through several ribs, through her heart and spinal cord and broke more ribs as the blade went out her other side. She stared at us in shock before she crumbled below us. Takuma turned and smiled at me.

"Good job Sarah-hime," He said. I just looked in horror at his arm. There was a chunk the size of my fist torn away from his shoulder. I reached out and let my hand hover above it worriedly.

"Takuma…" I whispered.

"Don't worry about it, Sarah." He said. "I'm fine." He lied.

"No you're not." I told him with a small glare. In a split second I made up my mind. I knew he would do the same for me if the roles were reversed. I moved my hair out of the way and noted how his eyes lingered on my neck in thirst. "It's ok, Takuma."

"No," He said firmly. I just took Last Day and sliced open a non-fatal vein on the side of my neck. His eyes turned a dark, bloody red and he struggled to control himself. "Sarah…"

"Takuma," I said, putting my thumb to my wound then pressed it to his lips. His tongue lashed out to lick it. "Drink." He didn't resist any longer.

I was calm as Takuma pulled me to him and licked away the blood drizzling down to my collarbone and on up to the cut itself. I felt his gentle tugs as he drank and I stroked his hair lightly. I had always wondered what it would be like if he drank from me… I never thought it would happen though. Usually it's just something between mates. Within minutes he stopped, I had lost little more than I would have in a blood donation. I gently grabbed his shoulder and pulled aside his now ruined shirtsleeve to see the new, pale pink skin. I smiled in relief just before I was pulled into a hard hug.

"Don't scare me like that," He said quietly. "I thought…"

"I know," I whispered back as I hugged him back soothingly. "I'm sorry." He put his cheek on top of my head and squeezed me a little tighter.

"I know," He replied. "I know."

I am SO sorry this got updated so late! I had a bad case of writers block and then the term ended so I was scrambling to make sure my grades were good, not my normal procrastination I swear! I promise I'll try harder but it's even more difficult now that I have a power point that I need to work on for my Global Studies class for a presentation on the state of New York and it's worth over half of our grade. I feel sort of like a deadbeat partner to be working on my fanfiction right now but in my defense, it's midnight, I can't sleep, and I don't have internet access right now so I can't double check any of my information. So now's a good time to finish this chapter and I can always post it later.

Besides, I have tons of time to work on the project now that I'm out of track for the rest of the season :'( I'd explain but all I know is that it's in my knee, probably involves my meniscus, and according to a physical therapist, might require surgery. Fun… -.- hopefully I'll find out later this week for sure.

I'm not going to lie, I'm probably going to be kind of slow on updating and be a little bit neglectful towards my 2 ongoing fanfics so I'm going to apologize in advance. I'm so sorry! I'll write more whenever I get the chance and update the minute I'm able to without one of my teachers breathing down my neck. I might be able to post this early today depending on what time it is when I get out of PT. I hope I didn't disappoint you guys and I tried to make it sort of like an ending so you have a little closure until I can update again. Tell me what you think! I'm not going to bother with the review thing again because, as I said earlier, I have no promises besides working on it when I can and updating whenever I miraculously finish one and can post it.

Alliana2312 – Well it wasn't a herd of them but I still did my best with it. I'm glad I was captured his personality so well and I'm so sorry if I wasn't able to in this chapter. It'll be a lot easier in the future ones when I get the chance to write them though.

Ruka-is-a-bitch6 – By the way, have I told you how awesome your screen name is? I friggin love it :) I hate Ruka so much… Sorry I know you didn't review for the last chapter but I had to add that in ^.^

Pollucine – I'm glad you're enjoying it so far ^.^ I can hold no promises, I'm sort of going where the story takes me right now but I might make an epilogue like I will with Impossible later on.

Kaname's-lover – Je sais ce quetu veux dire,quandAllianam'en a parlé, j'ai dû regarder vers le hautet totalementtombé en amouravec elle!J'ai vu touteslesremorquesRWBYà l'exception dejaunede :'( honnêtement, je ne suis pasgrossur la façon dontje devais faireKanamepour cetteraisonque je suiseffectivementun peuattaché à luimais je travailleautour de luiIl n'abesoin. un peuplus de tempsTakuma-Sarah, mais je pensais que c'était justele bon moment pourarrêtertout de suiteje suppose ...est-ce logique?

Mia-tano – Yes, sadly it's an addiction... I have no life… well ok I do but I like fanfiction and it makes me happy to write stuff that people want to read. I'm just starting to get out there are start posting stuff because I've always been so private and self-conscious about my work. I'm happy with all of the positive reviews and followers and stuff. It's made it a lot easier to want to write more chapters. I'm not quite sure what I'll end up doing with it but he's definitely not in love with her. Not sure what I'll do with the Kyaa Monsters yet exactly either. I'm sorta going with whatever XD

Takuma-girl-685 – Unfortunately, I can't take credit for Sarah's character, just the fanfic. Alliana2312 was the genius behind Sarah.

Rise-of-Vampires – I'm glad you enjoyed it :) Actually I tend to do a lot of different kinds of stories but this particular one was centered around a Hunter because that's what the request was for. I'm glad you like her still though.

DragonRaiderBlood – Thanks that means a lot :) I promise I'm not done with this it's just until I can get things pulled together and stuff.

WARNING! ANOTHER QUICK STORY PROMOTION!:I have 2 other Vampire Knight fanfics; Impossible (completed with an epilogue coming as soon as I finish the VK requests I currently have) and Nekos Like Blood Too (incomplete). And for anyone who also likes Naruto and don't mind and/or ship SasuSaku, I have It Started At A Rave (complete with a possible epilogue, that's undecided as of this time but no promises. At all.) and Love And Revenge (Incomplete, currently in hiatus because I'm totally stuck on it with no idea how to get to the point I want so I'm taking a break for a while to see if it helps, once again, no promises. It might stay in hiatus until someone either comes up with an idea to get me going again after I do my requests or I figure it out myself.)

Anyway, I'll post as soon as I can but I'm only human, despite being a red haired person and my desperate longing for awesome superpowers. I'll probably only write on nights like this when my insomnia kicks in and I'm totally screwed over sleep-wise. Normally that would mean about a chapter every 2-3 nights but I've been exhausted between my knee trying to heal and my own busyness that I'm starting to hate with a passion. Anyway, ja ne! – Akemi

(And also, for anyone who doesn't know, red hair is a genetic mutation. My hair is also a mutated form of red because of how it's tinted and how much blond and brown are mixed in so technically I'm a mutant among mutants… Somehow I'm ok with that…)