Author's note: Hello all, this is the first fan fic I have written in a long time, but this just seemed like an interesting idea that have been given no voice by the fanfiction community yet so I decided to undertake the task. I do apologize for the darkness of it, but that was how the idea came to me. Thank you for taking the time to read my note and I hope you enjoy my story.

Disclaimer: I do not own Vampire Knight or any of the characters.

Warning: This fic is for mature audiences. The reasons for this rating are rape, torture, and nudity and incest and later consensual sex.

As they got to the roof of the building, they finally laid eyes on the person that was attempting to destroy the place they had grown to associate with freedom and home. Rido Kuran was sitting on a pile of bodies, whether vampire or human was anyone's guess at this point with the amount of both types of blood that was saturating the air and overwhelming their senses. He turned his head languidly towards them, a bored expression on his face, then his mismatched eyes lit with life as he saw her. Yuuki Kuran, his niece and a recently re-awakened pureblood vampire. But it was not Yuuki he saw: rather it was her mother, and the woman he had loved, his sister Juuri. And it was by this name he called her as he reached for her.

The six other vampires that had come with Yuuki to help her with the fight against Rido stepped between the two purebloods at his sign of aggression towards Yuuki.

"What is this?" Rido asked with a laugh. "Are you sending in the pawns to fight your battles for you Yuuki? Even though you look and smell so much like my Juuri she would never have done that, she valued the lives of others above herself. Foolish girl," he finished thinking of Juuri.

"Yuuki did not 'send' us. Kaname-sama told us to protect her," Aidou said glaring defiantly at Rido. "And as long as we live, you will not touch her."

"And what do you lot think that you will do against me?" Rido laughed. "Your powers will be useless. I can't believe that Kaname would leave such a weak defense around his precious 'sister.' Though it doesn't surprise me that he would sacrifice your lives to protect hers. If you stand aside now, you may live."

"Never!" said Ruka, surprising everyone. They all knew that she hated Yuuki, the idea that she would be willing to sacrifice her life to protect her was absurd. "Kaname-sama trusted us to keep his sister safe, and I would rather die than disappoint him."

"Stupid girl," Rido sneered, "If you want death, I can give it to you."

Yuuki felt a pang of guilt at those words. She knew that if she didn't do something soon Rido would kill all of Kaname-sempai's loyal friends. The only alternative was for her to face Rido herself. Somehow she had known when they began this challenge that in the end it would be him against her.

"Please," she said quietly, "I would appreciate it if you will all step back, there is no need for you to die in a struggle between purebloods." The nobles all turned their heads to glance at her to see if she had lost her mind.

"I know you think that I am crazy," she continued, "but much as Ruka-senpai said before that it would hurt Kaname-sempai to lose me, as people he cares about, I believe that it would hurt him to lose any of you and I would hate to be the cause of that hurt. So please, step aside and let me deal with Rido."

Rido laughed at her words, "So childish Yuuki. The way that a pureblood tells lesser vampires to do things is not by reasoning with them and asking them to do what you want. You command them to do it. Are you sure that you don't want me to just kill them before I deal with you?"

"That is not how Kaname-sempai gets respect from them," she replied with a glare. "They respect him as a person, not just a pureblood who demands respect."

"You have much to learn Yuuki," Rido said with a sardonic grin. "Let me show you how a true pureblood handles things. Move aside and stay out of the way," he said in a demanding tone. Though it was apparent on their faces that the movement was not of their own volition, the other vampires moved to the edges of the roof leaving the center clear for the battle that was to take place.

"That is only a hint of the power a pureblood possesses," he said,"But you have no idea what we are capable of, do you Juuri?"

She didn't reply. She was watching closely for any sign that he was about to attack, her whole body tensed and ready to respond. She would not make the first move. Even though she hated him, she wanted the act of having to kill him to be self-defense. When he finally did move, it was blindingly fast. One second he was on the far side of the roof and then he was behind her with a strand of her hair to his nose. She didn't even have time to respond to his closeness before he had her arms behind her back and had pulled her against him.

"You look and smell so much like my Juuri, all I want is to feed from you like I did her," Rido purred in Yuuki's ear. "Is it too much to ask for an uncle to want blood from his niece after more than ten years starved of the blood of a loved one? I wonder if your blood tastes like hers."

Ten years without blood that satisfied thirst, just like Kaname-senpai, Yuuki thought, and then corrected herself, no Kaname-onisama. How lonely that must have been for him, and how much pain it must have caused him to see me every day and know that he couldn't have what he craved more than anything else. But Rido is not Kaname-onisama, he is the man who destroyed my family and deserves the pain!

He licked up the side of her neck, and she felt herself shudder in disgust at the feel of his tongue on her skin. She squirmed against him and managed to free an arm well enough to hit him in the face with an elbow. He released her and stumbled backwards, his hand over his face and blood streaming between his fingers.

"So," he said, "you have some of Haruka in you too. Or maybe that is because you have been so close to Kaname all these years. Juuri was not violent like that to me. She just cried and begged me to stop." He paused and tilted his head sideways, surveying her with his strange eyes. "Actually . . . that is what I want from you. I want you to beg me for mercy, just like your mother."

"I will never do that," Yuuki replied, reaching for Artemis hidden under her skirt. The time had come for her to kill him. He had done what she wanted and made the first sign of aggression. Now his life was going to end and no one could fault her for it.

"Never say never Yuuki," Rido said, watching her hand carefully. Just before her hand touched the metal under her skirt a stream of the blood flowing from Rido's nose shot out and struck her on the back of the hand.

She held in her cry of pain as she felt her skin split, if only to seem stronger than she was, but there was no way for her to keep her muscles from twitching in response to the pain. As the wound healed smoothly, Rido's expression revealed a hit of frustration.

"So," he taunted, "your body has remembered the full range of its vampire abilities even if your mind has not, huh? Well that can be fixed easily enough." Then he sent another stream of blood out from his blood and used it to tie her arms and legs apart away from her body. Then he disappeared behind her.

As she fought against her bonds, Yuuki fought back a sob and wondered what he meant by "fixing" her vampire abilities. She was about to ask him what he was going to do when she realized that was exactly what he wanted and swallowed her words just as she had swallowed her cry of pain earlier. There was no way that she was going to give her uncle the satisfaction of getting what he wanted from her. She heard him moving something briefly behind her. She instinctively closed her eyes and tensed as Rido's fingers brushed against her shoulder. That simple touch made her feel as if something toxic was seeping into her skin and invading her very being. The layers of clothing between them was nowhere near enough distance. He ran a fingernail up the skin on her neck, then without warning grabbed her shoulder and stabbed her with a sword.

She screamed as she felt the sword pass through the bone and muscle of her shoulder. The pain of the wound was intensified by the electricity crackling from the blade of the hunter's sword. She knew that she had been intending to deny him the satisfaction of knowing that he caused her pain, since he seemed to have a sadistic streak a mile wide, but the sword in her flesh was not just pain: it was agony! She heard the others call out her name, but there was no way that they could help her, not with Rido's command to not interfere still in place. Not that she wanted them to get hurt either, but she needed help. She now knew that she had been a fool, she was no match for Rido without help. She had been sheltered too long under Kaname's wing to be able to stand on her on and she hated the feeling of helplessness.

"Why do you make me hurt you like this?" Rido asked in an almost pained voice. "Why can't you just be a good girl and submit to your elders like you're supposed to?"

"Because you don't deserve anything from me," she gasped out. "You have never caused me anything but pain, why would you do anything any different now?"

He was suddenly in front of her and grabbed her chin in his hand and forced her face up to look at his. "Now Yuuki," he asked, "do you honestly think that you can speak to me that way without getting punished?" Though she knew that he was just coming up with excuses, he wanted to hurt her. She glared at him in response knowing as she did that it was probably not the most intelligent thing to do.

"So beautiful," he said, stroking her face. Her whole body twitched with the desire to get his hand away from her, but there was still nothing she could do. She lowered her eyes and tried to look anywhere else. Without warning the hand that had been stroking her face struck her. "But you need to learn your place in this family. I can see that Kaname has been lax in your education, allowing you to be raised by a hunter in the presence of a level D," he sighed. "It's no wonder you need to be re-educated." Helplessly she watched as he reached down and began unbuttoning the coat of her uniform. He opened the coat and she hoped for a second that he might untie one of her arms to take it off which might give her a chance.

Instead he studied his fingernails for a second, and then used them to cut through the material from the shoulders of the coat all the way down the arms allowing it to fall from her body along with her shirt. He stared at the flesh that this revealed like an artist admiring his masterpiece. She could feel his eyes on her like a physical touch and felt corrupted by it. She shivered both in responses to the air and to this new, unclean feeling. Unbidden tears began streaming down her face. Her tears turned into silent sobs when he took a finger and ran it over the upper swell of her breast. As he touched the clasp of her bra nestled between her breasts she mentally cursed herself for giving into the desire to wear bras that were easy to fasten. The shoulder straps of her bra had been cut when Rido has sliced through the other layers of her clothes, so once the clasp was undone, it fluttered uselessly to the ground at her feet. She closed her eyes and turned her head away as her bra fell away from her breasts. She knew what was going to happen, just as she knew that begging would not help. So instead she mentally prepared herself for his touch on her breasts.

Instead of touching her, Rido stood there admiring her skin, the pale flesh exposed and that intoxicating red liquid flowing from the shallow cuts along the tops of her arms and the sword wound in her shoulder. Surprisingly the desire that she stirred in him wasn't blood lust, it was just plain lust. He had originally decided to take her clothing as a way to embarrass her, but now. . . he had other plans.

Well there you are, Chapter 1 up and running. Tell me what you think, I welcome all comments. (Including flames) Thank you for taking the time to read the first chapter of my story!

~Stickdonkeys