Chapter Twelve: We Were Powerless Back Then

A/N: I am so sorry for the late update. I've been busy with alot of things and playing w101 (yes, I admit I am a nerd when it comes to that game.) so it's taken me a week to write out this chapter especially since I'm reading it online which is not easy to do right now. However, here it is and I hope you enjoy and please leave a review saying what you think of the story so far!

Disclaimer: I do not own VK or the characters. All credit goes to Matsuri Hino.

Kaname P.O.V

I stood outside the headmistress' bathroom in a t-shirt and shorts with my my clothes in hand and saw a towel hanging over the door knob.

The headmistress came out of her room, and it was clear she just woke up. "Kiryu is using the bathroom. Why don't you use the one for the guests?" She suggested.

I looked over at her. "I'll wait for her to come out. I have something to talk to her about anyway." I sat on the lounge and listened to the shower running. I clsoed my eyes as Zero's words from our previous converstaion echoed in my head. "Your blood." I fell onto my side on the lounge. "I know...what it tastes like." I opened my eyes.

Zero...there is no way...that I want Yuki to drink my blood. No way...absolutely no way...my eyes closed again as I drifted off to sleep. What are vampires...? Can they tell ones feelings by the blood? You are wrong...Zero...since then I've been...

-Four Years Ago-

I stood in the doorway, making sure no one was coming and turned back to her. "What are you doing...? Zero..." I could see blood on her face.

She looked over at me. "It feels disgusting...I can still feel that man..."

I just stood there, watching in horror as she clawed at her neck. "It's painful...stop it...sto..." I ran over and grabbed her arm, pressing my free hand against her neck to stop the bleeding. "Zero...you mean the vampire who did a cruel thing to your family by 'that man', right? Zero...you were hurt, too...probably...something very terrible..." I tightened my grip on her arm. "You are okay, now...you are okay...because I'll be holding you like this from now on...you are okay..."

It was around that time time that the three of us moved into the Cross school building...

Zero P.O.V

The three of us sat at the table, almost done with dinner when the Headmistress spoke up. "Kiryu. We actually have a guest..."

"So late at night...? I asked just as the doorbell rang. Kaname stood up abruptly, his fork rattling on the plate.

"Yes, Kaname. You go and open the door.: Headmistress Cross said and Kaname ran out of the room. "Kiryu, you should see with your own eyes. You'll probably be able to tell..."

I kept my eyes on the doorway. "What is it?"

Kaname backed up into view. "Lady Yuki." He said, smiling. A hand touched the top of his head and slid down to his cheek. He grabbed the hand and pulled the person into view. "Lady Yuki. Um..."

I watched as a young woman, probably in her mid-to-late teens came into view. She turned her gaze to me and the headmistress and that was when I caught her scent and felt her power. My heart started thumping in my chest as I reached for the butter knife. "Zero..." Kaname said but I barely heard him. I closed my fingers around it and rushed at the girl that was standing in front of me.

"No, Zero...!" Kaname shouted, stepping in front of the girl but she pushed him behind her just as I stabbed her in the wrist.

"Vampire!" I screamed, my anger rising.

"Lady Yuki!" Kaname yelled.

"Slashing at me so suddenly...that was not so nice of you." The young woman said, her eyes focused on me.

I looked up at her, glaring. "SHUT UP, VAMPIRE!" I screamed at her. "YOU SMELL JUST LIKE THAT MAN!"

"That man...? So, you are Zero Kiryu...? I heard about you." The woman said. She grabbed the knife and pulled it free before dropping it on the ground. "I'm sorry about your family. But I have no intention of letting you kill me." The knife clattered to the ground and I just stared at it until the headmistress came up behind me.

"You are mistaking the one to get revenge, Kiryu..." She said, putting her hand on my shoulder.

"Lady Yuki, blood..." Kaname said.

"It's nothing. It'll heal soon. I am a vampire, remember? And..." I heard her as the headmistress led me out of the room. "It's not me who is feeling 'pain'..."

I sat on the bed in my room when I heard Kaname open the door. "Zero...Lady Yuki has gone home." He said and he walked in. "I'm sorry...I should have told you sooner..." The bed creaked and he reached his hand out. "Are you okay? Zero..."

I slapped his hand away. "Don't you dare me! With the hand the hand that touched her!"

"Lady Yuki is a kind vampire...she saved me from a terrible vampire."

"There must be something wrong with you." I said, my eyes on the ground. "Both headmistress Cross...and you..."

Yuki P.O.V

The car pulled up and Takuma opened the door when I approached. "Welcome back, Yuki. You're early. Is your business done?" She asked.

I climbed in and slammed the door bhind me. "No...I've decided to take care of it next time."

"But I didn't think...you'd come back wounded." She pointed and I looked at my wrist to see the blood from where the girl had stabbed me. "Blood. It's still on your wrist." She pulled out a box. "Here, a moist towelette."

I ignored her and licked the blood off my wrist. "I met the girl who survived that incident a little while ago. As I thought, headmistress Cross took her...well, I guess it's natural..."

Takuma smiled knowingly. "What...? Are you jealous of her because she can stay by Kaname's side all the time?"

I put my chin in my hand. "I don't have time for that. I'll be busy soon..."

Kaname P.O.V

Then, after a while...the headmistress made a strange proposal. "As you both know, I'm the academy's headmistress. I've decided to create the Night class at my school...starting next year!" She said, excited.

I stood there, holding a plate and a cup in my hands, staring at her. "Night class...you mean night school for advanced people...?"

"No, no! Night class is night class!"

I was trying to figue out what was wrong with her.

"We'll probably use the building of night school for advanced people, but it's not for advanced people or university students." She said.

I set the dishes down on the table. WHat do they do there...at night...?" I asked.

"Of course, studying through the night. We'll be making them do really advanved things, so, there won't be any age limit. Because..." She hesitated when Zero looked up from her book. "They who are nocturnal, live much longer than us. It's impossible to measure their time..." Zero stood up, her book hitting the table. "In terms of our imiting time. because all the members of the Night class are...vampires..."

Zero looked as if she was gonna be sick. "What are you planning on doing, letting in those kind of creatures into this school..."

I just stood there. "Headmistress...?" I turned around when I heard a familiar voice.

"it is for the purpose of 'peaceful coexistence of vampires and humans', and educating young vampires to be...'moderate'..." Yuki said as she entered the room.

"Yuki-chan, you've come." The headmistress smiled.

"Lady Yuki...?!" I said, surprised to see her.

Yuki smiled. "I just came in...good evening, Kaname."

"Yuki...Kuran..." Zero muttered. She stormed over to the headmistress and grabbed the front of her shirt. "This is ridiculous! It's impossible that the vampires are really going to want to live together with humans! How many times has the bloody history been covered up..."

The headmistress was serious. "I want an end to it. Because I lost someone, too...just like you did, Kiryu."

"NO! Just because of that, you have the right to let the beasts into a flock of sheep?!"

I spoke up. "There's Zero's issue...headmistress, you've already decided?"

The headmistress turned her attention to me. "You have nothing to worry about, both of you. She...Yuki will be in the Night class. So, the other vampires will be obedient...and thanks to her, many have decided to come."

Zero had a dark tone to her voice. But...if she betrays us, that's the end." She glared at Yuki and the headmistress and left.

"Zero..." I said and ran after her. "I'll go see her..."

Yuki P.O.V

I picked up the book Zero had been reading and started flipping through the pages when Katrina spoke.

"Yuki-chan, I'm really happy that you've agreed to my pacifism." She said.

"Yes...I really do wish it'd come true, and I'm under restiction and unfree, so, I want someone who could be my free body..." I said, a old memory resurfacing for an instant. "There's one thing...that's concerned about...but..." I leaned back against the arm on couch. "There's no need to worry. I'll be acting as the queen bee for sure..."

-One Year Later-

Kaname P.O.V

Then, by next year, the headmistress put her plan into effect.

I stood outside of the old teachers lodging house with Zero on our way back home from classes when I saw lights on in the old building. "That old lodging house for teachers...I thought they weren't using it anymore..."

Zero stood behind me. "I heard that they are either taking an entrance exam or making some kind of oath...it's just a temporary dormitory...for vampires. Don't go near their lair." She turned around and started walking home.

That means...Lady Yuki is there right now...

I waited until the headmistress and Zero were asleep and snuck out of the house, making my way over to the old building. I walked as quietely as I culd and the door creaked open.

"Oh, it's Kaname-kun. You've come to see Yuki?" A girl with long, blonde hair and green eyes carrying packets of paper in her arms asked, appearing out of nowhere.

"Kyaa!" I shrieked, completely taken by surprise.

"I'm sorry. Yuki's out right now. She's not staying out late, hanging around...just in case you wanted to know." She smiled.

"Oh? Uh...?" I looked at her in confusion. "You...know me...?"

"Uh-hum. I lived with Yuki...so, I often drove her to your house. I was always spying from the car when you were clinging to Yuki. From far away, though."

"Spying?" I repeated. She's really friendly, but this person is a vampire, too...

"Okay, Kaname-kun. You go back and go to bed for sure!" She said, closing the door. "Even inside the school, you can't walk around at night!"

You tell me to go home, but...

I waited a few minutes then slowly pushed the door open and slipped inside. "It's cold." I'm so close to seeing her...just a little is fine. "I'll wait for Lady Yuki inside..." I had just sat down on the stairs when I heard voices coming from above.

"What the heck is this? A 1,000 question survey?! Headmistress Cross must be really evil, telling us we hae to turn this in tonight!" A group of people came out and a blonde girl was the one talking.

Another girl, this one a bit taller than her, spoke. "You're taking it too seriously. I'm just taking it easy."

I watched them from the corner of my eye and chuckled. So weird...

They must have heard me because their gazes turned to me. I gulped and quickly stood up, bowing.

"He's looking this way...is he one of my fans...?" The blonde haired girl asked, a slight blush on her cheeks.

Her companion spoke up, his voice calm. "He laughed at you. Why is a human child here...? Het, don't cause any trouble before we even entered the school, okay?" He said and they started walking again. "I don't want you ruining my school life with Lady Yuki."

The girl replied, "I'm not that stupid. How rude of you."

They are all good looking people...I thought. "Lady Yuki," he said...he must like Lady Yuki, too...

I sat on the second to last step, the grandfather ticking every second that passed, my eyes closed. What should I do...will the headmistress realie that I've gone out of bed...? Lady Yuki...if a;; vampires were like those I just saw, 'coexistence" would really be...

Yuki P.O.V

I entered the dorm and saw him lying on the stairs, fast asleep. One of the soon-to-be students approached him, her hand outstretched. "I guess you don't know the rules of the Night class yet..." I said.

She turned around when I spoke. I'm sorry. I just remembered." She said, standing up and going up the stairs. "I have a survey to do...I'll go back to the room."

I stood in front of Kaname while he slept and slipped my jacket off. "You are being too defenseless..." I placed my jacket over him and just watched him. I pushed his hair away from his neck and leaned down, my fangs ready to pierce his skin. Instead, I slipped my arms under him and carried him up the stairs.

Kaname P.O.V

I had a feeling that I was being carried, and it almost seemed like a dream. In my dream..."What a cruel thing you do to me..." I thought I heard someone whisper those words to me.

I opened my eyes and sat up. "Uh..." I rubbed my eyes and looked around the unfamiliar room. "Where...am I...?" I looked down and saw the jacket that was laid over me and lifted it to my face. This...is Lady Yuki's coat...Something caught my attention. I saw a door cracked open a little bit and voices were coming from inside. Lady Yuki...? I slipped off the bed and slowly pushed the door open.

I wasn't prepared for what I was about to see.

"Ruko..." I saw two shapes in the shadows and heard Lady Yuki's voice, but she sounded different. My eyes widened at the scene in front of me.

Yuki P.O.V

My fangs pierced Ruko's skin and I could taste his blood. I drank greedily, trying to satisfy my thirst.

"Ah..." he said, his voice strained. "Lady...Yu...ki...no more..."

I didn't have to look up to know he was awake and standing there, watching. I removed my fangs and Ruko slumped forward, my arm the only thing keeping him upright as I looked over to the door, blood dripping down my face. The door creaked as he ran away. "That's right...you should run away..." I smoothed Ruko's hair down. "Kaname...you make me cruel..."

Kaname P.O.V

My heart was racing as I ran out of the building. Lady Yuki..."AH!" I tripped over the steps and landed on the ground, hard. I was panting as I pushed myself onto my hands and knees. "Lady Yuki...why..." My body shuddered when I saw Zero standing there while I gripped ym injured hand. "Zero..."

Her face was pale. "The headmistress...told me to look for you...was something done to you by...Yuki Kuran...?" She almost sounded worried.

I just looked at her for a second and shook my head.

"I can smell blood from everywhere..." I heard some say from the second floor window.

"Is this some kind of harassment to us...?" another had asked.

"Vampires..." Zero said and both of us looked up at them.

"Ah..." I said.

Zero grabbed my uninjured hand and pulled me away from there. "Let's go home fast. You better explain what happened to the headmistress and be sure to disinfect that wound."

I kept hold of Zero's hand and my heart started thumping in my chest. Vampires...images of the vampire that attacked me and Yuki's glowing red eyes flashed in my mind. Creatures in need of blood who drinks it. And sometimes...

"They don't hesitate taking lives of others.' Zero said, momentarily distracting me. "They are just beasts in human forms...Yuki Kuran is just the same." She looked over her shoulder at me. "You've known it, too." Her face softened when she saw my expression.

"But...Lady Yuki saved my life..." From that time there's something that changed in me.

"The night class is moving to the moon dorm today...?" I asked sometime after that incident had passed. "Can I go with you, headmistress?"

Headmistress Cross and I stood outside the gates of the moon dorm with the Night class. "Dorm president Kuran..." Kain said.

Yuki looked away from me. "Yes..." she said, avoiding looking at me. "Let's go..."

Lady Yuki and I are different. I watched her for a minute then bowed. "Thank you for carrying me a while ago...Lady Yuki..."

"It's because of Lady Yuki that I am living right this second,right here..." I said.

"Then..." Zero said, feeling my hand trembling in hers. "Stop shaking, ou're pathetic."

Her words struck home and I knew she was right.

It was the night I was aware of what fear was once again...but there was something that didn't change, too. I still liked Lady Yuki...

-Present Day-

Zero P.O.V

I came out of the bathroom, a towel around my shoulders as I dried my hair. "He's asleep..." I said to myself, seeing him passed out on the couch and went over to him. "You'll catch a cold..." He was sound asleep because he didn't seem to hear me. I reached out to him. "Hey...wake..."

"Uh..." he mumbled in his sleep. "Lady Yuki..."

I stared at him, my hand hovering where it was when I heard his heart beat. I grabbed my arm and squeezed it, slumping to the floor in front of the couch, running a hand through my hair as I pressed my hand against my throat. Her presence caught me off guard and my head snapped in her direction.

Yuki Kuran was leaning against the doorframe, her arms crossed. "You don't have to be taken aback...I have business with te headmkistress. I used to come uninvited all the time, remember?" She had a smile on her face but I could tell it was forced. "By the way...I've never told you before...why I acquiesce to your existence...have I?" She paused for a minute. "I know there's a risk for seeing peace in Cross Academy...that's why I did a lot of thinking. Who could become a shield to Kaname in this place...you could never betray him...because ypu are under obligation...you are being allowed to live because of that...Zero By me..."

I watched in silence as she disappeared into thin air.