I drop the knife and step away from him. Toga turns around and smiles.

"Toga, she isn't-that isn't-!" Cross tries to say.

"I'm not Shizuka!" I scream.

Toga appears shocked. "But how is she…" He doesn't finish. He looks over to Kaname and puts his gun down. "But how?"

"She was attacked by her Toga, but she is not Shizuka. I have known Yume for a long time," Kaname says.

I look over to him. I'm surprised he used my fake name. Toga looks at me.

"Yume? No, can't be right. She had kids, I know that. You don't look like her, but your presence-"

"Toga, that is enough. I didn't ask you to come here to kill someone. I need you to be a teacher," Kaien says.

"Like before?" he asks.

"Yes."

"Why?"

Kaien looks at me and then back to him. "I need you to watch her."

"Wait, you don't trust me?" I ask.

"No, I trust you. I don't trust other people. I'm afraid more people know that you are here than I thought. If that is so, they will try to kill you."

"Why? What have I done wrong?" I ask.

"Who knows, but if Toga wanted to kill you, then I am glad that I asked him to come here. I don't need you dead. I've grown attached to you," he says with his usual manner of talking.

Really? I sigh and I look to Toga. "Listen, if ya wanted to kill me, you should have been here yesterday. I wouldn't have stopped you."

"Why? Did you do something?" Toga asks me suspiciously.

"No, but my… Never mind," I say as I walk towards the door. "Just don't think you can kill me so easily. One person has already tried and failed." I open the door and am fixing to walk out when someone grabs onto my arm. I look back and see that it is Kaname. "What do you want?"

"Let me come with you," Kaname says. "I want to-"

"Stalk me? Watch me? Make sure I don't kill someone?" I say aggravated.

"No. I, along with the headmaster, don't want you dead. I want to make sure you don't die." For once, his eyes aren't trying to stare a whole in to me. They are…happy, maybe.

I sigh. "Fine, fine, fine." We leave and walk to the girls bathroom. He stands in front of the door while I change my clothes. I look at myself in the mirror and I decide to put my hair in something other than pigtails. I will actually let my hair down today. I take the hair bands out of my hair and brush it. I walk out of the bathroom and throw my clothes at Kaname.

"So, do I just go to class now or what?" I ask.

"Come with me," he says as we leave.

We walk back to headmaster Cross's office and he throws my clothes at him. Cross doesn't say anything about it though. In fact, he kind of looks at the clothes in a weird way, like they are cute or something. Kaname leaves, and Cross and I are left.

"So, do I get to go to class now?" I ask impatiently.

"Yes," Cross says.

"Yay!" I scream. I jump up and down like a mad man.

"Calm down Yume," he says. "You need to understand something. You will be doing everything that the others are doing, so you need to pay attention."

"OK, will do."

"Now, lets get going," he says.

We walk down the hallway to a class. We enter and everyone is staring at me. Does my hair look bad? Or is it my uniform?

"All right class," the teacher says, which happens to be a guy, and I notice it isn't Toga. "We have a new student. Please introduce yourself," he says to me.

I look at everyone and freeze. I'm not used to this at all. Cross leans over to me and says, "Say your name, sweetie. Don't be scared."

I take a deep breath, trying hard not to slap him, and stand up straight. "Um, my name is Yume Ioh. Pleased to meet you," I say and bow. I blush like mad and I try not to look at anyone in particular.

Kaien leaves, and I feel all alone. The teacher looks at me and I'm sure he can tell that I am nervous, 'cuz I really am.

"Listen," he says as he whispers in my ear, "everyone here is really nice. And to prove it, I'll let everyone take a break from class and let them talk to you. Would that help any?" I nod my head slightly and he starts to talk to the rest of the class. "OK, today instead of class, we will try to make miss Yume feel at home."

All of a sudden, everyone starts to get out of their seats and they run towards me. They start telling me their names, where they live, everything about them. I notice that Yuki and Zero are sitting down watching me. Yuki waves and so does Zero, and I sort of push my way through the people, saying "Excuse me" or "Please let me though" to get to them. I walk up to them and sit down.

"See, it isn't so bad," Yuki says.

"I've never been to school before. And I've never been around this many people," I say.

"Ya, well I think it is going to get harder," Zero says.

"What do you mean?" I ask.

Zero points to the others, and they look completely shocked. I smile at them and continue to talk to Yuki and Zero. Then the others start to walk up and ask me questions and everything, and I try to answer them. I look over to Zero and smile, and he smiles back. Maybe it won't be too hard, after everyone stops crowding me…

"Well, that was fun," Yori says as we leave class.

"Heh, if you say so," I say. "I feel like I just got done exercising."

"Well, you are popular now," Yuki adds.

"But, what does that have to do with anything?" I ask.

"It just means you aren't going to have to be alone anymore," Zero says.

"But Zero-kun, I've got you silly," I say childishly. I watch as he starts to get angry. I just remembered that he hates to be called Zero-kun. Oh well, it doesn't matter.

"Wait, what do you mean by that, Yume?" Yori asks.

"Oh, oops, I forgot to tell you we were dating. Sorry," I say.

"Have you known each other a long time?" Yori asks.

I look at him, then I say, "Sort of. We know a lot about each other if that helps explain anything."

She laughs. "I may have just met you, but I completely understand you Yume."

All four of us begin to laugh. "I think I may actually like going to this school, and maybe I won't run away," I say.

"Run away? Why would you want to run away?" Yuki asks.

"It's just how I escape my problems," I say.

"Well, if you have problems," Yuki says as she grabs Yori and Zero and puts her arms around their necks, "tell us and we will take care of it. I promise."

"Yeah, no one is going to hurt you," Yori says.

Zero pushes Yuki's arm off of him and walks over to me. "And if they can't stop you, I will." He wraps his arms around me and hugs me.

"Zero…" I look at Yuki and Yori and they are both smiling, but I see a slight hint of surprise in their faces. I guess it's a good thing. I don't know. To be honest, I am really scared.

Zero lets me go and he looks me in the eyes. "You're blushing Yume," he says. I turn my head and walk off. They follow me, but I stay in the lead. We go outside and sit on one of the benches that is under a tree.

"I know that it isn't three yet, so what are we doing?" I ask.

"Eating lunch," Yuki says. She leans over and whispers, "I can tell the headmaster didn't mention it so you can have some of mine if you want."

I shake my head no. "I'm fine. I don't get hungry during the day."

"What, are you like a vampire and only eat at night?" Yori asks.

"No, but I do like to eat steak," I say. No all the thoughts in my head are turned to thinking about steak.

"What does that have to do with being a vampire?" Yuki asks as she eats her lunch.

"I don't know. Just something people used to tell me." I clear my head so I don't get hungry and have to sneak away to find steak.

As everyone gets done eating, we start to head back to class when a man unexpectedly walks up to us. He is wearing a suit and has a hat on.

"Excuse me, but are you Rose Ioh?" the man asks me.

"No, I am Yume Ioh," I say.

The man looks at me. "Well, either way, I need you to come with me."

Zero pushes Yuki, Yori, and me behind him. "She isn't going anywhere with you. For one thing, we don't know who you are."

"Well, then let me introduce myself. I am Edmond Van Ioh, and I need to talk to her."

Everyone looks at me. Yuki grabs onto my shoulder. "Is he kin to you?"

"No, I don't know him," I say. I hear Yori whisper something to Yuki, but I can't make out what it is. Zero still has us behind him and I am sure he won't let him get us.

"Well, if you don't trust me, then look at this." He pulls a wallet out of his jacket and shows us a badge. Before he puts it up, I see that it has something about vampires on it and I start to freak out. Zero starts to push us back and I get the feeling that we should run.

I stand on my toes so I can reach Zero's ear. "Zero, is he from the senate?"

Zero nods his head slowly and looks at me. "Yume, I need you three to run."

"I'm not leaving you," I say.

"Well, the four of you aren't leaving, really," Edmond says.

"You have no right to be here," Yuki says as she steps from behind Zero. "If you don't leave, I will report you to the headmaster."

"Well, I can see this isn't going as planned," Edmond says. He pulls his hat off and looks at me. "Rose, you will come back and you will perish for what you have done."

I look at him. "But I haven't done anything!" I scream. He doesn't listen. He starts to transform into something. I'm not sure what, I just know we are in troubled.

"Yume, take Yori and run!" Yuki shouts.

"But-"

"But nothing. Get out of here now," Zero orders.

I look at him. I see he isn't messing around. I know that Yori doesn't know about vampires, but now how am I going to explain why we are leaving? I look to Yori and pull on her arm. We run away from them, and I try to navigate my way to headmaster Cross's office.

"Yume, what are we running from?" Yori asks me.

"All I know is that he wants to kill me," I say.

"Why?" she asks.

I stop running to catch my breath. "I don't know. I think it would be best to talk to headmaster Cross, don't you think?"

"No," Yori says. She takes deep breaths where I am trying so hard just to breath. "Yuki always goes to Kaname Kuran in the night class. I think we should go there."

I look at her. "Yori, I can't go there."

"Well, we don't have to listen to rules since they are trying to kill you. Come on," she says as she pulls me in the direction of the moon dorms. I look behind us and see Edmond running towards us.

"Yori, we have to run faster," I say. She looks back and runs toward our destination, but we are no match for him. He appears in front of us and we stop.

"Now I have you," Edmond says.

I look at Yori and she looks back to me. "Yori, get out of here," I say.

She shakes her head. "I'm not leaving you."

"Then I'll just kill you both," Edmond says.

"I don't think so," someone says behind him.

I know exactly who it is and I do my best to block Yori's view as well as my own. I hear this sound that's just sick. I can't even explain it. I turn my head slightly and see that Edmond is nothing but dust and Kaname is standing there with blood on his hand. I move out of Yori's view because I hope she will pass out so we can wipe her memories of this. She shrieks and falls to the ground like I had hoped.

I go to pick her up when Kaname says, "Who was he?"

I stop and look at him. "He was from the senate. His name was Edmond Van Ioh. Other than the fact he wanted to kill me, I know nothing about him," I say.

"Where are Yuki and Zero?" he asks as he pushes me out of the way and picks Yori up.

"I don't know. They told us to run and we never looked back," I say.

"Go find them and I'll take her to headmaster Cross," he says.

Kaname walks off and I run back to the last place I saw them. I run like I never have. When I get there, there is no one around. I look all over the school grounds to find them, but they just aren't here. I then decide to go to Kaien to see if they are there. Won't this be fun, trying to explain all of this to him.

OK, how was it? I've added some new people trying to kill Rose/Yume. I can't just have plan ol' Hanabusa, Kaname, and Shizuka after her, now can I? Oh, and Toga. Can't forget him. I am glad that so many people like my story. Really, I am. Because my other story doesn't have nearly as many readers as this one. But, then again, who doesn't love vampires? Thanks for reading, and for waiting, and for reviews. Readers are AWESOME!