Her hand could not reach up as far she needed it to. The tree was far past her reach, and her small legs could not boost her any higher. The moon loomed over the tree, and it silently mocked her attempts to reach farther than a child ever could.

Then, a man appeared in front of her, and a smile sat on his eyeless face. Wordlessly, he came over to her, and put his hands on her waist. She felt multiple hands on her body and noticed it was the many other eyeless people that she didn't notice. They all smiled warmly as she lifted her up, all their hands feeling as cold and empty as a ghost. She felt no real grip to their touched but she was now high enough to reach the tomato.

Once she wrapped her little fingers around the ripe red fruit she immediately felt the ground under her feet. Taking her first bite out of it-the red juice running down her wrist-she turned around and saw the numerous people. The group was so large that they far surpassed the horizon in front of her, all their faces were eyeless and carried that identical smile.

Her eyes remained locked on all of them as she licked the juice from her sticky palm. They all began to murmur in uni sense, and it didn't take long for their murmuring to become words.

"So cute."

"So pretty."

"So pure."

"So perfect."

"So precious."

"So angelic."

They came up with more and more adjectives to point at her as she continued to just stare and eat. Then, their talking turned into shouting. They yelled out their words with a smile, that smile never vanishing from their faces.

"I LOVE YOU!"

That was the last thing they said before going back to silently smiling at her.

She paused her eating and stared at them all longer, a look of mild shock on her pale face.

Then, a sweet smile grew on her lips. She took the last bite out of her tomato. Once she did, all the people in front of her became headless. Blood seeped out of the necks as though to flee the moment the lid was taken off. All at once, the bodies dropped onto the floor with a loud thud.

She took a step forward and immediately jumped on top of the first corpse she reached. Laughing wildly, she began to jump on one body to the other, like a small frog jumping from one lily pad to the other.

As she had her fun, that sweet smile wouldn't leave her porcelain face. Her pale skin shone in the moonlight-that could no longer mock her-still stained by the bright red juice of the tomato.

. . .

The day always started with chattering in the classroom that a teacher has yet to take control over, but this day the other students seemed more excited than usual. Subaru didn't want to listen to any of it, as usual it was just annoying. He preferred to come into class late just to avoid hearing all this noise, but Reiji complained non stop to all of them that if they're failing their classes the least they can do is attend them on time.

Listening to another lecture was more annoying than the chattering before class, but that didn't make this moment any less annoying. He wasn't sure what they were even going on about, and he didn't want to bother listening. But, their voices were intrusive.

"I heard it's a girl!"

"Man, I hope she's cute."

"You guys are gross! You hear it's a girl and you already start drooling."

"Hey if it was a guy all you girls would be just as excited!"

"I hear she moved here from Spain!"

"Wow, seriously?"

"I wonder if she's tan then."

"Who's going to talk to her first?"

"You think she knows Spanish then?"

Then, finally, the door was opened and the teacher walked in. "Everyone settle down." With that, the classroom finally fell into some peace. Everyone looked ahead in anticipation as the teacher placed the files and folders on top of the podium. "Now, as I'm sure you're all aware, we have a new student joining us today." There was a small stirring that started from that, but it quickly dissipated as the teacher continued. "Everyone do their best to make her feel at home. You can come in now." He said to whoever was on the other side of the door.

Quietly, a girl walked in. She walked towards the board and wrote out her name. With that she turned to face the classroom with a smile. She was small looking, the teacher wasn't that tall but even he was a good head taller than her. She had heavy black curls that fell to the small of her back, and pitch black eyes. Her uniform was on as perfectly as can be-like how that girl wears it-but she had black stockings that disappeared under her skirt, and she had black gloves over the hands that carefully gripped her bag in front of her. "Hello everyone, my name is Shiki Miyuki, and I will be in all of your care." She gave a small bow forward and another smile towards the class.

At that the class began to quietly chatter, and he only stared at her boredly. "Alright, alright, everyone quiet down." The teacher looked back to the new girl. "Is there anything else you'd like to say about yourself?"

She smiled again to the class. "Well, since I travel around a lot, I enjoy getting to know new people. So, I hope we can get along."

When another chattering spree began-everyone looking very excited-the teacher didn't bother stopping it. "Take any empty seat you want."

"Thank you, Sensei." With that she began to walk into the crowd of students.

At this point, Subaru was losing more and more interest, and began to mindlessly look down at his desk-his textbook sitting up opened. But then, something caught his attention. It was a faint scent.

His eyes went back up to look at the girl as she calmly took a seat in the middle of the classroom. Her scent was very faint, almost undetectable, but it was clear. At the smell, he felt an anger grow in the pit of his stomach. He held himself from growling at the back of the small girl, but something in him-something feral and territorial-burned as he looked at her.

'Another vampire.'

. . .

The bell rang, and that marked the end of the first class. Almost as soon as it rang, people began to line up around Miyuki's desk excitedly.

"Are you really Japanese."

"Where were you living before?"

"Was it overseas?"

"Is it true that you lived in Spain before?"

To respond to their reaction, she lightly giggled at their enthusiasm. "I'm sorry, but I can't really answer all you questions if you ask them at once." She tried to make her voice sound as lighthearted as possible, and they all bought it.

They smiled at her sheepishly as they realized their mistake.

As they did, she noticed the strong presence from earlier disappear. She shot a quick glance to the black of the class, and saw the silver haired boy was gone. 'I figured there'd be others, but for there to be another pure blood in my class is certainly bad luck…'

She looked back to the small crowd and offered them a smile. "But, I'll try. I did move here from Spain, but we only stayed there for a few weeks, I'm originally from Japan so it's nice to be back."

"Wow Spain!"

"That's so cool!"

"So did you learn Spanish?"

She laughed lightly at the last question. "I learned enough to get by." 'I was there for nearly twenty years, so of course I'm fluent, but it'd be for the best if I didn't say that.'

As they complimented her on that, she looked over to the side and saw a girl shyly glancing over at her. More specifically, she was looking at her hair.

Miyuki carefully put on a perfect smile as she looked at the girl. "You have very nice hair, do you do anything special to it?" The girl's hair was brown and it was as plain as the rest of her.

The girl immediately blushed at the compliment and began to fidget with her hair-not able to look Miyuki in the eyes. "I-I don't really do anything special to it." That was a lie, and Miyuki knew it. The girl's hair reeked of multiple products. "I think you're the one with very pretty hair, Sh-Shiki-san."

The girl was clearly very insecure. She was aware of her plainness, and was trying desperately to change it. Despite the effort she puts in her appearance, she's still too scared to stand out too much as she was scared of rejection. She seemed to type to keep to herself, but she didn't lack friends. However, she looked like she longed for more exciting friends.

Miyuki inwardly smirked to herself, but continued to show the people around her a sweet smile. "Thank you. What's your name?"

The girl looked up at Miyuki in awe. "M-My name is Tanaka Hana." She tried to hide her eagerness, but it was clear as day in those brown eyes.

"It's nice to meet you, Tanaka-chan." 'You'll be the first to entertain me.'