Next Night

Disclaimer: Enough said.

Rated T just to be safe.

Summary: Kagome returned from the past to face her future. A future that involved her attending Cross Academy, meeting the Moon Dorm President, and helping fix the vampire world. Kaname/Kagome Vampire Knight/Inuyasha

Spoilers? Yes, for Vampire Knight, but you should have already watched all of the episodes (as that is what I am going by) so it shouldn't matter. And besides it is kind of hard to write a fanfiction without having spoilers, unless it is an Alternate Universe.

As always I try to make my stories different, but like I've said before, it is hard to do so when there are so many out there! So if you see something that you have read before, just know that it was either I didn't mean to, or I really could think of nothing else to use.

And sorry in advance for any and all grammar mistakes I make in this story and any in the future. I try to catch everything, but sometimes I miss them. Just let me know if you find any and I will fix it!

Thanks and God Bless!

Chapter One
Introduction

Warning: I warn you the first chapter is a bit weird in my opinion, but I wanted to start out with an introduction of Kagome's past. The tenses may seem a bit weird as well, but it starts with her introducing herself and then goes to her telling about her past. I just wanted to say that I did that on purpose.

Kagome's P.O.V.

Hello, my name is Kagome Higurashi. Why I am telling you this, I don't really know. I suppose it is because I am here to tell you my story. Yes? Okay, well first you need to know more about myself.

First off my hair is black, bet you didn't know that right? It reflects with a bluish tint to it. At least, that is what my friends have told me. They say it reminds them of a raven's wings. I am still not sure if being compared to a bird is a compliment or not, but whatever. I am average height, and have always been. My eyes are my favorite part of my face. I got them from my father. Often times people that knew my father say that I look just like him. Anyway, my eyes are a deep blue color, but around the pupil is a silver ring, and around the iris the blue turns into a dark midnight blue. It's really fun to watch in the dark as the silver glows and expands to the rest of my iris when I want to see in the dark.

Oh! That's right I forgot to tell you. I am a half-vampire. Well... I am technically a half-vampire, but because of my mother's blood, I am a full pure-blooded vampire. My father was a pure-blooded vampire as well, very rare. About twenty three-years ago he ran away from his home, because his grandfather was trying to make his decisions for him. In the end, his grandfather and the rest of the vampire community thought he was dead, how that happened I still don't know. The search for him ended when they found no trace of him for over a year. He fell in love with my mother, and they married and had me. My mother comes from a long line of spiritual descendants, monks and mikos and the like. Sadly, our family had not produced a child with powers for over a few hundred years.

I was born with the Shikon Jewel inside of my body. Sounds pretty cool right? It wasn't. On my fifteenth birthday I was unceremoniously dragged down our family's well by some weird looking demon. That was where my adventures in the past began. For almost a year I helped Inuyasha and my friends find pieces of the Jewel and put it together. But I knew that the time was coming that the seal my father had put on my powers would break.

Yes, my father had sealed my vampire nature. I was four years old when it happened. Though I was young, I remember everything that happened with my father. It was when mother had gone to some weekend away vacation with a few of her girlfriends, leaving father and myself at home together. Normally, this would be no big deal, as we would often hangout together. But that was the night of the blood-red full moon. As soon as the moon was high in the sky, my powers reacted to it, sending a wave of energy throughout the city. Any and all vampires within range that night had felt it.

My father, fearing for my safety, made a bracelet with a seal on it to bind my powers until my sixteenth birthday, when I would be able to control them. Unfortunately, it was too late. Another pure-blood had felt the power surge and been nearby. He came that night, looking for me, wanting to drink my blood to gain power. But my father felt him before he arrived and hid me with one of mother's special sutras. I was hidden from all of the senses. I was invisible to the other vampire. I had watched from my hiding spot, as he came into the room and demanded the source of power he had felt. My father refused, and it got him killed. They fought, but my father was not using his full powers. He could not in such a small space without getting me hurt. He knew that he had to get the evil vampire away from me, so he sacrificed himself and let the vampire kill him so he would leave. I watched as the evil vampire drank the blood of my father until he had practically nothing left. I wanted to run to my father, but I knew that if I did, I would be killed as well. Father's death would have been in vain. And I could not leave my mother to mourn alone.

The evil vampire left, but not without one last glance around the room. The eyes I saw that night; I would never forget. They were some of the most evil eyes I had ever seen. The left one was a blood-red, while the right one was a deep blue, similar to my own, and yet so different. His gaze was as cold as ice, and with no regard to the person he had just killed. I had never hated a person more than I hated that man. Even the hatred towards Naraku couldn't compare to what I felt for that vampire. He had taken away my father, and in so doing, gained more power for himself. It was in that moment, that I decided that I would have nothing to do with the vampire world. Father had wanted to introduce me to a couple of his good friends. But since he was gone, I had no reason to meet them. Besides I was "human" now, so the other vampires would never know of my existence.

Mother returned the next morning and we mourned our loss together. It would be another month before mother would find out that she was pregnant with father's second child. A boy, we named him Souta. For whatever reason, he was born a full human, with benefits. Souta would live longer, but would not have the powers. He was also stronger and faster then the average human. I still thought I had my powers because of the Shikon, but whatever. It probably helped that my father had been with my mother the whole time she was pregnant with me, and constantly fed her his powers and energy.

After that, we moved in with my mother's father, and changed our last name to his. We did not need any of the vampires looking around for father again. After all, it was rather hard not to miss the passing of a pure-blood. Even if they did think that he was already dead. How they had thought that before, I didn't know. Maybe they were just stupid?

Back in the past, I knew that my time there was ending. It was almost my sixteenth birthday, and time for me to learn more about my heritage. I informed my friends that as soon as the Jewel was complete; I had to leave. They protested of course, but it couldn't be helped. I also told them about my father and the powers that would be unlocked on my birthday. Needless to say, I spent my birthday in the feudal era. The people of that time didn't care as much if there were large bursts of energy. Besides, the number of vampires around was far less then they were in the future. The day my birthday came, and my powers came forth, another wave, similar to the first, was sent out. As soon as that happened, I hid my presence and made myself appear human again, only I had control of when I was "human" and when I was vampire.

Almost two and a half months after my birthday, the jewel was complete. It was almost March, and I had to get back to study and take finals. I told Shippo, my son, that he couldn't come with me, but that we would meet again in the future. After saying our goodbyes, I left. Never to see the past again.

It was a few days after exams, when I saw Shippo again. He was already grown up, and was taller than myself. It was sad to see him looking older than I. I was his mother for Pete's sake! But then again, he was a demon, and lived more than five-hundred years ago. And I was a vampire born sixteen years ago. Where's the logic in that?

We went out to lunch, and he caught me up on his life up until now. For more than four-hundred-years he had been living with Sesshomaru and had been under his care. As strange as that sounded to me, Shippo highly respected him. And I had to admit, that Sesshomaru had gained my respect as well.

We had plans to meet with him later to talk about the vampires. As Sesshomaru still held power in the supernatural world, and knew what was happening and what not. We met up, and though he still set me on edge, I had grown used to his presence. If only because he took care of my son when I could not. Other than my friends from the past, Sesshomaru was the only other being to know what I was. After all, it would have been rather difficult to hide that burst of power from such a powerful being as himself. Any other demons or vampires that felt my powers and came around, were told nothing. But we could not lie to him, he was our ally and he knew that the power had come from our group. He just didn't know who it came from.

Through him I learned all of the current happenings of the vampire community. As well as those currently in power and not. He also found me a new school to attend. Cross Academy, a school that was trying to get vampires and humans to live and work together. Separated by two classes, the Night Class, who were vampires, and the Day Class, who were humans. I would be attending as a Day Class student. Because I really was more human than vampire. I could change my appearance from human to vampire in a heartbeat, and I did not thirst for blood as often. The sun also was no problem for me, and I could live as either a vampire or a human. But I preferred a human, as I had been one most of my life.

But because I was vampire, I needed some form of blood compensation. Each month on the night of the full moon, I would take one of my special pills that I had created specifically. Similar to the tablets that the Night Class students had made, but different. More satisfying.

Sesshomaru informed me that while I was at school, I would kill any and all level E vampires that I could. Level E vampires were the vampires that had pretty much lost their human side, and become the monsters read about in horror stories. To prepare me for this, both Shippo and Sesshomaru took it upon themselves to teach me the art of fighting.

It took me a few months, as I had already had some lessons in the feudal era, and by the time I was ready; the school term had already begun. In fact it was almost to the end of second term, and the New Year. But none the less, I started school at the beginning of the third semester. Fortunately, I had a tutor "home-schooling" me, so it was considered a "transfer" from one school to another. That way, when I started school the next day, I would not be too far behind the rest of the students. But no matter how I had envisioned the intermingling of the vampires and the humans, it was not like this. Even after all of that preparation too.

I'll also show you a sweet dream...
...next night...