Chapter Eleven: Memories of Snow, Blood, and Tenderness

Authors Note: Welcome to Chapter Eleven of Vampire Knight: Reversed Roles! Oh, god, I've fiannly got chapter eleven done after working on this all day. Please leave a review telling me what you think of this chapter or even the whole story. Just give your honest opinion. Okay, I will try to upload more than one chapter a day starting tomorrow so please be patient.

Disclaimer: I don't own Vampire Knight or the characters. All credit goes to Matsuri Hino.

Kaname P.O.V

-Ten Years Ago-

I sat on my knees in the snow and wiped something slimy off of my cheek with my mitten. I pulled my hand away and saw that it was smeared with something red. I brought my hand up and sniffed it when the girl in front of me put her hand over mine.

"Don't touch that." She said and looked down at me. "I said...why are you here alone in this sort of place?" The girl took my hand in hers. "Come here. I'm Yuki. What's your name?" She asked, looking at me.

I didn't say anything as I just looked at her, my hand trembling in hers. My memory began on that snowy day, ten years ago. The pure white snow and the red blood...together with the terror.

"Oh, it's okay..." The girl, Yuki, said. "You were afraid, right? It's alright now..." She hugged me as I started crying. That memory of being hugged warmly...

-Present Day-

I stood in the shooting range, using my fingers to plug my ears as I watched Zero fire off multiple shots from Bloody Rose. I watched in amazement as she hit the target with every shot and reloaded the clip.

"What are you looking at?" She asked, looking over her shoulder. "You hardly come to the shooting range, feeling curious?" Her face was blank.

"Can't...can't I? I'm just looking." I said bluntly. "...because...it'd be normal to worry...I was just wondering if you were truly alright...I can't not keep an eye on you..."

She turned back to the target and just looked at me from the corner of her eye. "Good luck at your job, guardian." She said and raised Bloody Rose. "Oh, I got distracted." She mumbled.

Zero has completely reverted back to her normal self.

I quickly plugged my ears again just as she started to pull the trigger. "Your skill..." What happened? This... "Is pretty good..." Feeling of a shostly aura closing in...

Zero watched me from the corner of her eye. "You should remove that neck bandage...it's very nitable."

I lightly touched the bandage that was wrapped around my neck. "But this is necessary...if I wear only a band aid, i have people like Aidou ripping it off." Though I'm not sure if I had already been seen through... "Until Zero's bite mark can't be seen..."

She didn't say anything right away. "But if you were bitten by someone else...it wouldn't be a problem, wouldn't it? You'd probably wish...to have your blood drn]ank by Yuki Kuran, right?"

I stared at her in disbelief. "Eh...?"

"I've always known that you like Yuki Kuran...your blood...it...had that taste..." She brought her hand up to her mouth.

My whole face turned red as I pulled the door open. "You pervert, what are you saying...I hate being spied on the most!" I said and dashed out of the room. I didn't know where I was running to. All I knew was that I had to get out of there. But you were close to Yuki in the past, right? Takuma's words echoed in the back of my mind. This sort of thing, I don't want anyone's comments. What exactly is Yuki to me...I am the one who isn't sure what is exactly clear about it...

-Ten Years Ago-

"I understand that you want him to taken care of, Yuki-chan. You're the daughter left behind by the person I am indebted to..." The headmistress said. I sat on the couch, jiggling the bowl that had some kind of food on it and sniffed it. "This child doesn't seem to know that pudding can be eaten..."

"Yeah...his memories seem to have disappeared completely," Yuki said, sitting next to me while I poked the pudding. She scooped the pudding onto the spoon and held it front of me. "You should use a spoon to eat it...say 'ahh'..." I shuddered when I looked at her. "What's wrong? Open up..."

My eyes widened and I reached out to her, my finger touching the tip of her fangs. The image of the woman from the field came rushing back. "KYAAAAAAA!" I screamed in horror and moved to the other side of the couch.

Yuki just looked at me with a sad expression on her face and stood up. "Headmistress Cross, I think I should get out of his sight. I'm going back."

"Back...to that place? It wasn't easy for you to leave..." Cross said, her tone serious. "Ever since your parents disappeared and since everyone believes they are dead, that place has become like an oni's den that tries to make use of you..."

Yuki looked as if she agreed. "Still...I should go back..." She looked at me before turning away. "...Goodbye."

I watched her as she left. Headmistress cross knelt down in front of me. "That person once told me, 'all boys are born with golden eyes', so, from now on you're my golden eyed son...so, I'll change your name to Kaname, that means 'golden eye', is that okay?" She patted my head.

Before that day, I had no clue about my origins...

-Same Year, One Week Later-

I sat in the middle of my room, holding up what the headmistress had called a sock.

"Kaname...! That is for wrapping your foot!" She said. I turned around to see her standing in the doorway. She smiled. "It's been a week and you still haven't said a word..."

Katrina P.O.V

I looked over to the door when it slammed open and I saw Yuki standing there, trying to catch her breath. "Good evening, Yuki-chan. Why did you suddenly come here?"

She looked confused."Eh...? Didn't you send a message saying that vampires were attacking him here?" Her expression changed. "Though I was skeptical...I ran away from my guards and hurried, running all the way here...but I take it you lied?" She clawed the wall, leaving scratches. "I won't ever believe you again."

"Yuki-chan! Yuki-chan!" I yelled in a panic. "Something happened!"

She rushed over. "WHAT HAPPENED?" Her eyes widened.

"Kaname put on his clothes by himself!" I said, crying happily. Kaname saw us watching him and quickly covered himself with a towel. Out of the clear blue, Yuki slumped to the ground, her back to me. "EH, EH?! Yuki...chan?" I asked, a little leery.

"Ha...Aha ha ha ha ha..." She started hitting her hand against the wall, cracking up laughing. "Uh...Ha haha haha haha!"

I became flustered. "What...what do I do? Yuki has gone berserk! Is it really that funny?! I can't understand the way that girl thinks..."

-One Year Later-

Kaname P.O.V

"No...this is not the time to laugh...aha...ha ha..." She looked over and saw me watching her. "Aha ha...ha ha..." She smiled at me. "I'm sorry if I scared you." She stood up and turned towards the door. "I'll leave now..."

I sat there for a minute, watching her and finally I got up, grabbing the back of her coat. "Yuki..." I smiled at her when she looked back at me. "Yu...ki...?"

The smooth and gentle time before the storm...

I stood outside in the middle of the snow flurry, watching my breath form in the cold air.

"Kaname...!" The headmistress called from the doorway. "It's cold out there, come wait inside."

I heard footsteps in the snow and saw her standing there. I smiled and ran over, putting my arms around her. "Lady Yuki!"

She seemed nervous. "'Lady'...Yuki?"

"Today is Kaname's birthday! It's been a year since the day Lady Yuki saved me!"

Yuki turned to the headmistress. "...hearing that Kaname had been kidnapped, I rushed over...haven't you had enough? Can't you call me by normal methods?" Yuki asked bluntly, causing the headmistress to flinch. "Don't you think so, headmistress Cross?"

"So today...congratulations, Lady Yuki!" I said, excited. Yuki looked stunned and confused. "Right?..."

"No, it's wrong, Kaname." She smiled sweetly at me. "Today, it's congratulations to Kaname. But," She leaned down and kissed my forehead. "Thank you..."

I gradually began to undertsand a lot of things...

-Five Years Later-

I stood in front of the window, watching the snow fall. "Lady Yuki...is a vampire, right?"

"Yes. The existance of vampires has not been approved of by the government. So, kaname, you must keep it a secret." My adoptive mother said.

"Secret...even though it is a secret, Lady Yuki still let me touch...her vampire fangs..." I said and thought back to that night. "Lady Yuki is not like those other bad vampires, right? She's completely different, right?"

"Has Yuki-chan ever done anything to you that you don't like...?" She held up two mugs of home made hot chocolate. "Actually, there are vampires that live peacefully with humans."

"Yeah..." I smiled.

Every year on my birthday, every special day of the season it was allowed meetings limited to these days. Being able to meet with her was more fun than anything...

I ran into town slowing to a walk when I reached the main road. "She should be passing by this place on the way to the house..." I turned around to watch in front of me. Lady Yuki... I thought. Why do I feel unease when walking down the street on my own...I'm 11 years old today, I got to be brave...They all told me that it's not impossible to encounter a vampire attack on this street. My heart was still racing. Lady Yuki...didn't come? it's getting dark...

"However, Kaname..." Katrina's words echoed in my mind. "There are some vampires mingled with the humans in the street." My heart was beating even louder as the woman in front of me lowered her sun glasses and her eyes were glowing red. She stopped in front of me when she saw someone standing behind me. She pushed her glasses back up and bowed. I turned around and saw her standing there.

"Kaname." Yuki smiled.

"Lady Yuki...!" I said and hugged her.

"Aren't you afraid, walking alone on the streets?" She asked.

I smiled a little. "As long as Lady Yuki is here, I won't be scared."

Her smile faded and she smoothed my hair down. She smiled again. "...me, too."

I blushed and held onto her. "Lady Yuki..." I gripped the front of her jacket. She wrapped her arms around me and held me close.

All these...after that, that time came when I was still ignorant...

The door burst open and I saw headmistress cross come in. "Kaname! Sorry, I'm late!" She apologized and came in with a young girl that had silver hair. "This is Zero Kiryu, her family was killed by a bad vampire."

I started being drawn in by the blood drenched sight. Gradually...gradually being drawn in.