Sacrifice {Vampire Knight ~ A Kaname Kuran FanFiction}

Part One

Sacrifice

Part One

Bucket List:

1) Reunite with my family

2) Find all the orphans a well-deserved home

3) Tell Kaname Kuran how I feel

5) Live in peace with vampires

6) Skydive with Zero and Ichiru

7) Save Zero

8) Become a professional mechanic

10) Win a horse show

11) Tell the truth of my survival

12) Wear jewellery

I woke up panting, my hand glued to my heaving chest as I tried to collect myself after that dream. Looking at the ashen walls of the Moon dorm and the royal blue canopy bed I was currently sitting on, I couldn't help but wonder what lengths I would go to in order to stop Zero's fall to Level E. My laughter was breathless, my breath yet to be caught as the sound filled the room. I didn't even need to ask myself. The answer was simple. I would do anything.

Taking off my right glove to reveal my metal hand, I stared blankly at what made me so different than everyone else, vampires and humans. I knew that I was beyond lucky to survive the tragedy that broke apart the Kiryu vampire hunter family, despite my parents and Ichiru's unluckiness. I wished Zero didn't have his vampirism haunting him. We all lost something that day. I lost my left eye and two body parts, Zero lost his humanity, Ichiru managed to come out physically unharmed but lost his sanity in the process, and our parents lost their lives.

If I could do anything to increase Zero's luck, I would. His fall to Level E had been slowed thanks to Kaname Kuran, but even Kaname's blood couldn't sustain him forever. Zero would eventually fall to Level E if I didn't do something. It was already so painful for him to resist...

Snapping myself out of that train of thought, I focused on the matter at hand. It was time to test out my newest annex to my cyborg limbs. The newly-added armour was state of the art and impenetrable. It was light and made no sound, with even a sound-proofing option for sneaking and jumping. It was one of my greatest inventions yet if I did say so myself.

That dream, though... I wasn't sure if I could even call it a dream. It was more like a vision, and it reminded me of that bucket list I scribbled mindlessly a while ago. I remembered skipping the numbers four and nine because of the sorrow that they brought with them. Didn't need any more of that, thank you very much.

I padded over to my birch wood dresser where the list sat in one of the drawers. Opening the drawer in which it was contained, I stared at the list scrawled in my messy handwriting for a moment. How vital was it?

Crunch! The list whooshed into the metal wastebasket, crumpled into a ball. I didn't need a stupid bucket list to tell me my goals in life. Like, wear jewellery? I never could before at the orphanage, so what made any difference now?

It was time to get to it. That dream, or vision, whatever it was, was telling me something. Something that could help Zero.

I didn't even bother to cover my right hand and forearm. They, along with my left eye, would be my greatest asset in this quest. Pressing the button that activated the armour, I perched on the windowsill. It was daytime, so I wasn't expected in any classes and all the vampires would be resting inside.

Swinging myself off, I landed cleanly on the ground, although I fell onto my hands. Luckily, nothing was broken or bruised, thanks to the armour.

Brushing myself off, I was about to move, but then I froze when I heard a voice call, "Bang!" I jumped. Aido stood there, one hand pointing a finger gun at me, the other in his pocket.

"What the fluffernutter, Aido?" I whispered, not wanting other vampires to find me. Relaxing, I deactivated the annexour and tucked my right behind my back, hiding the metal on my fore and hand. Aido was the most playful, so he wasn't really a threat. Unless he told Kaname.

"Fluffernutter, really?" he questioned. I just raised an eyebrow. "Well, wherever you're going, be on your way then, since I know it's somewhere you're not supposed to be. My gun of love doesn't seem to affect you," Aido sighed, making a shooing motion with his hands.

Briefly nodding once at Aido as a thank you, I took the hint and high-tailed it out of there.

Didn't he notice my metal or armour disappearing?

"Wow, I got lucky," I whispered-thought. "Alright, time to get focused. I need to do this."

Shaking my head to clear my mind, I re-pressed the button, closing my eyes as the armour grew from my forearm and covered the rest of my body. Then I walked away from Cross Academy, potentially to my death. I didn't care, though. As long as Zero was safe and happy, free from his turmoil, I was fine with sacrificing myself.

After some time of roaming, I arrived at a stone circle as black as night with a blood-red rose blooming in the centre. It was as weird as the dream and that rose was in the dream.

Sucking in a deep breath, I clenched my fists in determination and stepped onto the circle. After nothing happened, I cautiously stepped farther, leaning down to pick the rose like in the dream.

I felt like I was drowning. No, I was drowning. Drowning in blood. Zero's blood? Ichiru's? I couldn't tell. All I knew was that I would die, and there was nothing I could do about it.