A New Student
Zero lays on his bed. Tonight was one of the most tiring night he ever had but he didn't expect to come back this early. He still wants to be out there hunting the level E because in the night, his thirst becomes uncontrollable.
"Damn..." he murmured while he see the roof. His body feels so hot and...thirsty.
Soon, he takes some blood tablet and swallows it all. It makes him feel better.
He takes a breath for several times and closes his eyes. He remembers that girl's scared face. That girl was also scared of him.
He looks at the roof and thinks, 'No matter how many people I've helped, no matter how kind things I've done, me is me. Beast in human form.'.
He can sense someone else's' presence. In a second, Zero shoots the wall many times and creates a hole in the wall. The hole makes the intruder's face become visible. A man who stand with two hands up in the air and looks surprised and scared at the same time.
He glares at that man and stands up from his bed, "Don't sneaking around in my room!"
'He is in bad mood,' the man thinks to himself.
"I-I got it," The man said in a scared tone.
Zero sighs, "What's wrong, Mr. President?"
The man becomes serious, "Kiryuu-kun, you remember the murder of Ouri-sama in the banquet a few weeks ago, don't you?"
"Yeah. Is there any problems?" Zero asked.
"Hanadagi-sama was murdered too, together with Aidou-dono in his own mansion," The man answered. "Kaname-kun was thought as the culprit."
He keeps quiet. It's not big news for him.
"Then..." the man continued. "There is someone who came to me this afternoon. She asked for my permission to hold back Night Class to protect all the pure bloods left, together with all vampires."
Zero understood, "Let me guess. It's that girl, isn't it?"
"You used to call her Yuuki," the man says.
Zero becomes angry when he mentiones that old name. For Zero, the Yuuki he knows is dead.
"So, what do you want, Chairman Kaien?" he asks angrily.
"As you already know, if Night Class come back, we need guardians once more," the man, Cross Kaien, explains.
Guardian is the title for the two prefects of Cross Academy. One year ago, those prefect had two jobs at two different times in one school. They become prefects in the daytime and become the guardians who keep the secret of Cross Academy in the night-time. Cross Academy has two classes, Day Class and Night Class. All the students of the Night Class was a vampire, that's the secret of Cross Academy, and it's the duty of the guardians to keep the secret a secret. The idea to make vampire and humans live coexisting in one school was from Cross Kaien's pacifism. 'The most idiotic pacifism,' Zero thinks.
With the return of the Night Class, he will be the only one guardian.
"Don't be too worried," Kaien says to calm him down. "I already have a new guardian that would become your partner."
"A new guardian?" Zero looks like he wishes to object. "Kaito is here with me. Isn't it enough for you?"
"Kiryuu-kun, Kaito is a teacher here. He can't move as freely as you can. Please understand that," Kaien explains.
Takamiya Kaito was his childhood friend. Kaito and he was taught by the same teacher, Yagari Touga. Ichiru and Zero used to learn with him from Yagari Touga a long time ago. Zero knew Kaito as a cold blooded and annoying hunter. He killed his own brother who fell into level E without restrain. Now, Kaito became an Ethics teacher in school. That made Zero feel more annoyed than before. He can't get use to Kaito because he watches him like a spy.
'If there's a new guardian, is that guardian a vampire hunter too?' Zero thinks to himself. Finally, he sighs.
"Who's this guardian? A vampire hunter?"
"Yes," Kaien answered. Suddenly, the attitude of the old legendary vampire hunter becomes foolish and childish. "She is my best friend's pupil. She is so cu~te."
"She is a female?"
"Yes. Of course," he answers cheerily like a child. "She will arrive by the morning. Ja, O-yasumi, Kiryuu-kun."
Kaien walks away while dancing along the corridor He makes Zero feel sick. He lays on his bed once more. He wants to go to sleep sooner. It's a tiring day for him.
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5 P.M. When the fog still covers the land.
From the end of the road, a figure of a young girl appears in the fog. She walks ahead to the buildings which stand a hundred meters away from her. She brings a big suitcase along with her. Her footsteps break the silence of dawn.
She walks on the stairs and stops at the end of it. She stares at the gate and the building as well.
"Cross Academy..."
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Kiryuu Zero walks along the corridor with a bad feeling. He feels like his feet is chained by a couple of chains, it's such a burden to walk. From now on, he will—once more—be a guardian. But the worst part is, he will meet all those vampires again.
As he comes across the chairman's room, he looks at the opened door.
"Ah, Kiryuu-kun, good timing," Kaien welcomes from his table.
Zero stared at an unknown figure in the room. She sits on the sofa while reading a book. There is a suitcase in front of her. 'Who is this girl?'
Kaien coughs, "She is the new guardian I've told you about before. Her name is Iumeria Hikari. You may call her Hikari. Today, she will only be a prefect and we'll see whether you both can cooperate or not."
Zero looks at this girl from the top of her head till the bottom of her toes. He understands a few things. First of all, she is a human. Second, she looks normal in her coat. Third, she looks arrogant.
"Saa, Kiryuu-kun, please show Hikari her room," Kaien asks him.
"Which one?"
"Guest room."
"Guest room?"
Kaien stares at him with a serious face, "Please, Kiryuu-kun."
"Wakarimashita."
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"This is your room."
Zero stops at the end of the corridor. In front of them is the quietest room in the school, the chairman's guest room.
Zero looked at that room with a deep hatred. He used to be isolated in this room about a year ago.
'What are you doing in a quiet place like this?'
'Those memories...again,' Zero's mind tries hard to drive it out. 'That girl is dead.'
"Hey," Hikari's voice made him aware of his surroundings. "Is there another room?"
"Why?" Zero asked coolly.
Hikari didn't answer immediately and when she did, "Were you ever here before?"
Zero is surprised but he tries to hide it, "Yes," he answered. "A long time ago."
"Did a pure blood use to be here too?" Hikari asks again.
'Pure blood? What is this girl babbling about? The people who have been here were just the chairman, master, I and...'
Zero is surprised once more. Pure blood. There WAS a pure blood here. She used to be here a long time ago, when she was a human. She came here to help him.
"There are blood scents here. Kuran's blood scent," She says.
Now the whole of his body becomes tighter. How could this human smell something he can't smell? How could she knew about who Yuuki really is? Even he didn't know about it at that time.
"How could you—"
"What are you doing here, Hikari?" A man walks quickly along the corridor towards them. He looks mad.
Zero turns around looking amazed. That's Takamiya Kaito. It's rare to see him mad like this. The one who often gets mad is him, not Kaito.
Hikari turns and looks at kaito with an expressionless face, "O-hisahiburi desu ne, Kaito."
"I'm not saying hi. I ask—
"From now on I am a student here. This is my first day as a prefect," Hikari explains.
"What?! Zero, is that true?" Kaito is surprised when he hears the obituary news.
"You heard it yourself," Zero answers.
Hikari enters her room and closes the door without say a thing, even a 'thank you'.
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Zero and Kaito walk out of corridor together. Nobody says a thing among them. Then, Zero decides to speak first.
"Do you know that girl, Kaito?" Zero asked.
"Yeah. She has been the talk of the association recently," Kaito answers. "The chairman didn't tell you anything, did he?"
"No."
"I just know a few things about her," Kaito said. "She is worse than a Level E, for short. The scary one and she is merciless, especially when hunting."
"Just like you?"
"No," Kaito refutes. "She is worse than me."
'Is it that bad? Is she here to keep an eye on me just like Kaito himself?' Zero thinks to himself.