White snow… The young girl alone in the snow thought to herself as she looked at the flakes falling on her mitten. What is white? What is snow? Something that is not red… Something that is red, is what?

At the end of her thought she looked up at an older man with large fangs and piercing red eyes. "Hello little girl, may I drink your blood?"

At the end of his sentence a bullet went flying through his skull. He instantly turned to dust. The little girl stared in slight horror as a figure strutted through the snow with a sniper rifle resting on her shoulder.

"Hey, kid, the what hell are you doing in a place like this?" She bent down and wiped a bit of blood that splattered on to her face. The girl shuttered back slightly. With a sigh woman pushed up a pair of goggles onto her forehead almost under her fur-lined hood, revealing clear green eyes, and strapped the gun to her back.

The girl blinked innocently.

"Come on, let's get out of here." She bent down and offered her back for the girl to climb up onto. "Be careful of the gun dear…"

"Yuuki!" someone yelled hurriedly, rapping on the door. "You're going to be late for your entrance exam if you don't get up and get ready!"

The sixteen year old girl with no parents or past shot out of bed and rushed into her adjoined bathroom, putting her long brown hair back in a ponytail as she brushed her teeth. After she finished with that she jumped into her old middle school uniform that barely fit from the slight growth spurt she had gone through over the summer.

"Why didn't you wake me up sooner, Kyon?" She asked as she rushed out of her bedroom and down the grand staircase.

"I tried Yuuki. I really did." Her adopted older brother replied, twirling his key ring on his finger. His brown hair was slicked back until it dried, then it would become mess of straight length. A leather jacket concealed his muscular body and the gun hanging from his hip. He was the oldest son of her adopted father; he was the product of the man's first marriage. "Waking you up is like trying to raise the dead."

Yuuki stopped and frowned as her stomach grumbled. "Nii-chan, I'm hungry…"

He sighed and pushed her along, toward the overwhelmingly huge front door. "I'll buy you lunch after the exam. If you don't get in to this school Dad's going to blow a gasket."

With a sigh, the girl pushed open the door and headed toward the small foreign sports car Kyon drove. He was twenty and was the first person in the family to merit a driver's license.

"I know; 'first person in the family to not go to Cross Academy in over a hundred years.'"

"But I think you can get in. It's not like the headmaster is going to turn down a member of the Kimura clan, especially now."

Yuuki sighed and sat farther back in the seat. The image of the man that tried to attack her ten years ago flashed through her minds. "Are the vampires a problem?"

"Nah. The bastards keep to themselves. The human girls are the problem." The male joked. Kyon had been working as a security guard at the school since he graduated. "And don't even think about getting attached to any of the night class."

"Why would I even think about vampires? One tried to kill me once, remember?" Yuuki sighed.

With that the two drove in silence to Cross Academy. Upon arriving Kyon escorted Yuuki to the exam room, wished her luck, and bailed.

Yuuki sighed and walked up and down the isles, looking for the seat with her name on it. After a few minutes of fussing she found it: "Kimura Yuuki" a peice of paper announced. As she sat down she looked at the boy she ended up next to. He was unusually tall, even sitting down. He was pale with silver hair and lavender eyes. There was blod tattoo on his neck and several peircings on either ear. First word that came to Yuuki's mind was Yankii. She looked at the name infront of him. Kiryuu Zero.

He made a point to ignore her, glaring into the distance, even as Yuuki attempted to make conversation with him.

The tests were eventually handed out. Yuuki looked at hers and groaned. There wasn't a question on the first page she understood, which wasn't a good thing if every one of the hundred fifty pages were going to be that way. As she finished, the best of her ability, the first question she heard Kiryuu turning his page. Two and a half hours later Zero was the first one finished; he threw his test on the teacher's desk and left.

Yuuki groaned, she had two and a half more hours and she was only on page twenty. As the minutes rolled by more and more students handed in their tests. By the time the teacher called time she was only on page hundred. If there hadn't been a long streak of easier questions she'd probably only be on page fifty.

There were a few only girls who sounded as if they weren't quite finished. They all gathered outside the room. Yuuki listened to their conversation slightly.

"So, I'm here for the Night Class. I've heard from a friend that's a second year, that they're amazing. They can take that test in like three hours!" the one girl said excitedly.

"Really? Did you see that yankii that finished in like two and a half? Think they'll put him in the Night Class?" Another said.

"No way. The night is super rich. His family probably couldn't even afford to get in the Day Class. Yankii's are always from poor families!" A third commented.

Shaking her head, Yuuki looked at the teacher that exited the room after her, he had the tests in a box in his arms. "Excuse me, where is the headmaster's office?"

She followed his directions and knocked on the labeled door and entered.

Kyon smiled at her as did the man behind a desk. The man she guessed was the headmaster. According to her father he was once a hunter but had given it up for more pacifist ideals. "You must be Yuuki."

"Yes. Nice to meet you." She bowed and walked closer to the desk, into the single light in the room.

"Your father was a bit reluctant you enroll you into this school, because of something in your past?" Cross commented, after recovering from a wave of nestalgia caused by a familiarity of her.

"Really? He seemed really pushy about the fact that if I didn't get in he'd keep me from eating for a month or something."

"Your father is a complicated man which I completely empathize with. I'll let you get home, I'm sure you're exhusted after that test." The headmaster said with a smile dismissing the two.