Vampire Kitty ^v-v^

Vampire Knight & Fruits Basket

Cross Over

By Raekitty13

Disclaimer: It's been far too long…

Author's Notes:My deepest apologies for the tardiness of this chapter. I have to thank you all deeply for reading this far and then requesting, after so much time had passed since my last update, for the story to continue. I can't promise that it'll be as good as the first four chapters, but for the truly amazing beyond belief fans that never gave up on this story when even I have, this chapter is dedicated to you.

Dedications:Crossing Dreamer Silverdramon, Mr. Alice, V, Crystal the Night Bender, TrueBlue Ce-ce, Mamita, ShadowFox100, Shin no yoru, Kitsune Dango and Birdofdarkness.

Chapter Five: Let the Games Begin

Still scowling Kyo simply stalk out of the room, slamming the door behind him with enough vigor to wake the dead.

Never in his life had he ever felt so violated.

'If he touches me again,' Kyo reassured himself mentally, 'I'll sick one nasty bisexual cow on him!' The thought seemed to sooth him as he stomped toward—where was it he was going again?

Kyo stopped, surprised that nobody from Cross's office had stopped him or so much as stormed after him. He pictured them all simply staring at the vacated space his naked body had previously occupied; Cross with misty eyes and a slightly lustful expression plastered on his face. Yuuki was probably blushing profusely, finally understanding so many dirty jokes while Zero would obviously be so furious and self conscious that he wouldn't know what to do—stomp Kyo or pretend like he was obviously bigger and therefore seeing such a smaller counterpart naked was no big deal—and thus he was probably just glaring, teeth grinding in frustration.

Kyo simply smirked. 'Totally should've flashed him when I had the robe on earlier…' Kyo chided himself. 'I could've avoided that whole fiasco!'

While he was shaking his head, lost in his own thoughts someone managed to sneak up on him, a rare feat that nearly had Kyo jumping like a rabbit at the sound of another human voice.

"Um, excuse me, have you seen a little orange kitten?"

'You wouldn't be calling me little if you had just been in Cross's office with me…' Kyo thought warily when he recognized the stranger's voice as Youko.

"He's very…" She paused and Kyo felt her gaze lingering just above his eyes—on his bright orange hair. "His fur matches the color of your hair perfectly!" she muttered quietly, unaware of her dreadful pun, in awe of such a unique coincidence.

Kyo simply shook his head, "Nope," it was about all he could manage. Youko was looking at him like he was either a divine being or a phantom of mystical sorts. Would she put the pieces together right away?

It took him a minute to realize it was his guilt making him think such irrational paranoid thoughts. After all, how many people have hread the story of the Sohma family curse? And of those fw that have, how many of them actually believe it?

"That's some coincidence, thought" kyo finally smiled, deciding that the best way to pay Youko back would be to act nice. Girls seemed to like nice guys. Girls like Tohru. That thought shocked him slightly. "T-this color's not all that common in nature."

The girl nodded with a pensive look on her face. "It's such a shame," she whispered, "It's so amazing. But I suppose its rarity only contributes to its beauty."

Kyo watched her muse over nature's strange methods and felt drawn to her. She reminded him so much of Tohru. Not in the physique but in personality. She was so bubbly and positive, always seeing something beautiful in spite of the obvious blemishes. Simultaneously he felt elevated and wary. His heart longed for Tohru and yet it cried out in utter anguish. She no longer loved him. She no longer saw something beautiful in him, but the blemishes-the dark, deadly negative blemishes—her positivity and happiness, tarnished by the filth of his existence. There was a decent part of him that didn't want to destroy the nativity of another innocent and caring girl, but there was a deeper, stronger part of him that didn't' want to put his trust and hope in another such girl that could crush his heart, torch his life with one simple, instinctual cry.

And yet there was that pull. Like she could banish the black hole of a heart residing in his chest, "I'm Youko. If you see my kitty, will you send him my way? I'm worried that he might get hurt out here on his own."

"Sure," Kyo assured her. "But I'll bet he can handle himself more than you give him credit for."

She smiled, "Hopefully. Thanks, Kyo." She turned to walk away, spinning back around. "You're new." She added. A statement, not a question, but not necessarily an accusation either.

Kyo nodded. "Transfer," he replied, still torn between just walking away and being nice. Life was so much easier before he met Tohru. It was less complicated simply being a hermit. And now that she's gone—well it didn't help him much at all.

She mimicked his nod, grinning bashfully. "I'd know that hair color anywhere."

She made him blush too. 'Great,' he thought. 'She'll snuggle with me at night in my cat form and have a mega crush on me during the day in my human form.' It took all of his self control not to face palm.

"Um, I'm going to go now," she said pointing in a direction away from Kyo, over his shoulder.

Kyo nodded again, "Me too," pointing in the direction opposite of Youko.

"Oh, is that so, Kyo?" Zero sneered as he clamped his hands on Kyo's shoulders roughly. "Youko," he added, voice suddenly too pleasant.

"Zero," Youko frowned and flinched from the tall white haired boy. "That's really unnecessary."

"What is?" Zero demanded, fists tightening on Kyo's shirt.

'Bet he wishes he had claws right about now,' Kyo thought with a bit of dark humor. 'Poor bloke, it's totally not worth it.'

"Treating every guy I talk to like some sort of threat. You dumped me," she said angrily, an emotion Kyo felt didn't suit her. She grabbed Kyo's forearm and drew him toward herself, despite Zero's super human—vampire—strength. "Remember?"

"Holy shit," Kyo couldn't stop the shocked expression from slipping though his lips. There was no way in hell he could ever be Zero's friend. Not that he ever really stood a chance, or wanted to, but he had broken so many of the Bro-Code that he was deemed to live his next life as a piece of coal eternally burning in Zero's personal perpetual fire. Why? Because A. he had hugged Zero's "not-girlfriend" and he had been caught sneeking out of his ex-girlfriend's bedroom. At night. Naked. And now Zero's ex-girlfriend was defending him.

"Holy shit is right, asshole," Zero snarled. "Who are you going to attempt to sleep with next? My mother?"

"Not if she's nearly as ugly as you," Where the insult came from, or why it came for that matter, was beyond Kyo. It was simply his nature.

"You sick son of a bitch," Zero's threat was so dark as he got directly into Kyo's face, that Kyo believed every word of it. "I'd kill you here and now if Youko wasn't watching you so closely at the moment."

"Aw, I'm pretty sure Yuuki wouldn't like you much for killing me though either. She seems to have taken a liking to me too," Kyo whispered back to him, tone low and harsh. "If you know what I mean. Piss me off and she'll be the next one on my list of blood sucking, got it, Trigger Finger?"

"Come on, Kyo. I'll show you around campus. There are better friends to make. I promise," Youko tugged on his sleeve slightly, fighting for his attention, probably hoping to prevent a fist fight.

"Sure," Kyo replied, turning back toward Youko.

Her relieved expression sent a flood of acceptance closely followed by panic through him. Why was she so concerned about his wellbeing? He was the bad guy here, she just didn't know it. Great. More guilt he'd have to deal with later.

She slipped her tiny hand inot his smoothly, like it wasn't awkward to hold hands with a complete stranger. 'Or awkward to hold hands with a guy who got caught sneaking out on you supposedly after sex by your ex-boyfriend…' he thought, holding her hand more to piss off Zero than for his own comfort (because he refused to believe that he could so easily find another girl's hand to hold so easily after Torhu).

"Zero's not really that bad of a guy," Youko told him, still holding his hand, guiding him slowly away from Zero. It was as if she wanted him to get a really good mental picture of the two of them walking away from him, hand in hand. "But once you're on his bad side, you don't stand a chance."

"There you go again," Kyo complained, suddenly playful—trying to play off the fact that he was slightly insulted that she didn't think he could take Zero. "Not giving me enough credit."

"Again?" she asked him, perplextion written clearly on her face. How had she managed to key in on that one specific slip up? Kyo was going to have to be more careful. "Was I picking on you earlier too?"

"Uh…"Kyo stopped walking and looked up at her. How had she managed to key in on that one specific slip up? Kyo was going to have to be more careful. He scrambled for an easy, believable fix. And then it hit him. Her hand holding was her way of trying to make Zero angry too…"I was just referring to the fact that you didn't think I could make Zero jealous without a hint or two."

He raised their joined hands for emphasis and her shocked facial expression told him that she hadn't noticed that she had grabbed his hand at all.

"Ohmygoodness," She breathed, blushing deeply and genuinely. She tore her hand from his quickly and continued, "You must think I'm horribly rude, or promiscuous at the very least!"

'If only she knew how promiscuous she looked in Zero's eyes for her behavior! She had no idea what kind of jealousy trip she had just sent him on.' He couldn't keep the chuckle to himself. "Not hardly, bitter over a breakup maybe."

She narrowed her eyes at him suspiciously. "You're one of those boys who constantly has girls hanging all over him, aren't you? Probably transferred from your last school because all your groupies were interfering with your school work?"

Kyo laughed again. Him, a lady's man? Hardly.

"You won't have a problem with them here!"She continued, now struggling to keep a strict face. "The Night Class has all the girls emotionally tied up. Morning, noon and night!"

"All of them?" Kyo asked skeptically. If the Night Class students were as pushy and mouthy as Zero, surely a few of the girls would remain level headed.

"All of them," Youko replied with a deep sigh. "Although I really can't seem to figure it out."

Kyo gave her a funny look. "You were dating one…"

"Well, he's a recent transfer. He's got all the guys wondering how he did it, too…" Youko explained with a pained expression on her face. "It's utterly ridiculous. Mostly because you'r enot technically allowed to date if you're from different classes."

"Is that why he dumped you?" Kyo demanded, suddenly angry with Zero. 'Or was it because he thought he finally had a chance with Yuuki now that he was in the Night Class?' "Because he got a social upgrade? What a fu—"

"No!" Youko protested, waving her hands dismissively in his face. "At least that's not what he said to my face when he broke up with me. He said something about it being for my safety. Whatever that means."

"Yuukin and I watch over the Day students, such as Youko, here at Cross Academy to make sure freaks like you from the Night Class don't try to eat them for dinner."

Zero's words settled squarely on Kyo's shoulders. Students from the Night Class are dangerous. He was at a school full of vampires, of monsters, monsters exactly like him. He stopped walking and Youko noticed after a few paces.

"He was really just too afraid of commitment," she told him, trying to puzzle out the look on his face. "Commitment to the wrong girl, anyway. Everybody knows he's got a thing for Yuuki."

Kyo was watching her now, trying to figure out her facial expression. When he couldn't he just remained quiet, hoping she would explain further.

"I knew too," She smiled sadly up at him. "I just thought I could convince him otherwise, you know? We were both kind of lonely souls with nobody to turn to. I'm not Yuuki though, and whatever pull she has over him is far stronger than any pull I could have over a boy."

"Are you sure about that?" Kyo asked, looking at her sad expression, willing it to return to its happy demeanor.

She didn't answer, just looked at him. He didn't know what to say so they stayed that way for a while, just looking at each other.

Finally she sighed. "I really should get back to finding my kitty."

Kyo smiled. "If I find him, what should I do with him?"

And then he saw it again, her heartwarming smile. 'Zero is an idiot.'

"Bring him by my place. I'm behind the Day girl's dormitory. Just knock three times so I know it's you, okay?"

He nodded, "I can do that."

"Thanks, Kyo!" She flashed him one last smile before walking away from him. He couldn't help but watch her go. So much for not making friends… at least Hell was a little less terrible with a girl like her on his side.

"Stalking your next meal, Sohma-San?"

"HOLY FUCKING HELL! WHAT IS IT WITH YOU PEOPLE AND SNEAKING UP ON EACH OTHER! MAKE SOME NOISE WOULD YOU! WAKE THE GOD DAMNED DEAD IF YOU HAVE TO!" Kyo ranted, spinning on his heel.

"Probably not the best of ideas," the leader of the group standing behind him responded. He was tall with jet black hair and mysteriously dark eyes. He stood proudly, as if he were a Prince of some sort and the rest of the students stood behind him respectfully, watching Kyo reproachfully.

There were both girls and guys in the group, but there was something unnatural about them. It wasn't just that they could sneak up on people silently, or their musky scent but their overall beauty. Every single one of them could have been a supermodel and it creeped Kyo out.

"But already too late," one of the girls told him shortly.

"We'll have to show you the ropes properly," a shorter blonde haired boy told him flatly. "Zero is quite the inadequate tour guide. You should have been delivered to us directly."

"This rule breaking simply will not do," another agreed from within the mob.

"Who the hell are all of you?"

"We," Prince Boy announced royally. "Are the Night Class, and I am Kaname Kuran. Welcome to Cross Academy, Kyo."