Authors note: Simply a little drabble that takes place during chapter 74.

Disclaimer: I do not own Vampire Knight.

Zero remembers it like it was yesterday.

He remembers pointing his Bloody Rose at her and blustering:

"Coming here to talk? You don't really think that would make a difference, do you? Discussing things like turning humans into vampires. But of course you transformed from a vampire into a human. On the other side of this door, I sense an arrogant Pureblood who does nothing but torment people."

She looks up and smirks. "Yes, Zero. I'm glad you understand. The Yuuki you once knew is gone because… the vampire in Yuuki completely devoured her."

He had believed her. Yuuki Cross truly was dead, with no hope of revival...actually, scratch that, it was all a illusion. Her existence had been nothing but a pure lie.

She'd never been innocent. She had never been human, but rather a born vampire; Yuuki Kuran, sister of Kaname Kuran. It felt like not only her existence as a human was a lie, but whatever he'd felt-those wretched feelings he always tried to hide-were all for nothing. Because his Yuuki, the bubbly, sweet Yuuki Cross was never real.

All those years were for nothing. Those times Yuuki would be there to soothe him as he screamed from his nightmares from that ill-fated night, when that Pureblood Shizuka Hio tainted him with her bite and Ichiru left with her-

They didn't mean anything now. Not a single thing, he thought, Absolutely nothing at all.

Even as Yuuki is drinking his blood, prying into his heart and seeing everything-Yuuki herself and Ichiru, whom died on the same night as her, he isn't affected by it. However he's infuriated with her sick intrusion of his head, so he snaps at her.

"Don't pry into my heart, Yuuki."

For a moment, a flash of remorse hits him when she pulls away and he sees the hurt in her crimson orbs.

I made her sad…

He sees Yuuki stand up, licking the blood off her fingers.

"It's okay...Unlike a certain someone who enjoyed looking into peoples' minds, I didn't see much." She grumbles.

"Huh..?"

Was she talking about that one time she called me a pervert for prying into her own mind? Zero pondered. Ironic, when she just did the same.. I suppose I seem different now, don't I? Now that she's seen my darkness for herself..

"Ahh, it's not like that!" Yuuki suddenly squeaks. "I didn't mean to say those kinds of things! Zero is still...Zero."

"Sorry," she continues, "I wasn't able to control myself. Thank you."

Part of Zero feels revolted to see blood-his own blood-dripping from her porcelain fangs.

It's a reminder of her vampire nature.

And yet, on the other hand, he's relieved. Relieved to see Yuuki's thirst quenched, relieved to see her no longer suffering-

But I can't love her. She's betrothed to Kaname Kuran. She is a Pureblood; I'm a Hunter. I'm meant to kill beings like herself.

It's time for him to face the ugly truth:

You can never be with her.