MissScarlettJ and I are having a competition, she and I are each going to put a character in this fandom while pairing him with one of the characters. Thus the reason we have similar fics. She and I both disagree with the Manga ending so prepare for change.

I own nothing.

There is a big possibility that this will end up slash, BEWARE. *Wiggles fingers mysteriously*

"There's no such thing as a painless lesson. They just don't exist. Sacrifices are necessary. You can't gain anything without losing something first although if you can endure that pain and walk away from it, you'll find that you now have a heart strong enough to overcome any obstacle. Yeah, a heart made fullmetal." -Edward Elric (Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood)

"When I look in your eyes, and you're looking back in mine, everything feels not quite normal. Because I feel stronger and weaker at the same time, I feel excited and at the same time terrified. The truth is I don't know what I feel, except I know what kind of man I want to be."

I stared down at the man kneeling down in front of me with wide eyes. He held my hand gently in his own, as if it was the most precious thing in the universe.

"Lucy Williams, will you marry me?"

My mouth opened and closed for a moment before finally I settled for a crooked smile. "Did you just quote spiderman to me in your proposal?"

I could see his nervousness in his eyes as he glanced away. "Maybe."

It was hard to explain the warmth that enveloped me, Leo liked reading Shakespeare and watching documentaries. I knew he didn't watch things like Spiderman, in fact I was pretty sure he hadn't even watched Lord of The Rings before I introduced it to him.

I crouched down so I was eye level with him and smiled playfully. "Of course I'll marry you, but only if we get to have an anime themed wedding."

My friends laughed in the background as he picked me up and spun me around.

"It can be anything you want it to be."

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Red, it was everywhere.

My body shook as I stared down at my hands, silently I watched as the crimson liquid trailed down my arms eagerly staining my pale skin with red.

"Lucy…r-run."

My breath hitched as the body leaning against mine spoke, his voice ragged and panting as if he was having a hard time making words come out.

I imagined I could hear his heart-beat fighting to survive, thrumming wildly in his chest before finally giving up and allowing his body to be rid of the pain.

Then he was silent.

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Fingers intertwined with my own, sending a warmth that I wouldn't admit through my body. Compared to mine his were large and rough from plucking the strings at his guitar, I found myself relaxing unintentionally as he gave my hand a small squeeze.

"Maybe afterwards we can watch that show that you like so much," his voice was a soft as he spoke, a smooth tenor that had always made my sisters swoon when they heard it.

I snuck a glance his direction and smiled at him. "I thought you wanted to come here."

"I'll be honest, I had thought he'd be better," he glanced over at the stage in the middle of the auditorium where a man and his band played. "I think I'd rather watch your Cartoons then listen to him though."

I rolled my eyes knowing he was making that mistake on purpose. "I'll have you know I Anime and Cartoons are very different."

He chuckled. "Sure, sure."

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A clicking of metal made the blood freeze in my veins, and slowly I turned my head up to look at the looming figure standing in-front of me. The moon outlined her form, making her wide eyes and crooked smile shaded ominously.

"It's all your fault!" She screeched her voice raising and lowering it's volume randomly as she spoke. "If you hadn't taken him away from me…then this wouldn't have happened!"

I stared at her uncomprehendingly as the body against mine started to grow colder and colder.

Leo he had just died, and all he had cared about was me getting away. Tears slipped down my face, and a distinct feeling of loss overwhelmed me.

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"Do you think I could pick you up?"

I looked up at him and sent him an amused smile. "I'm pretty sure I'm too heavy."

His chest vibrated under my head as he laughed. "Is that so?"

Suddenly he was sitting up making me have to do the same unless I wanted to fall on his lap. I barely had any time to say a word against his plan before I found myself scooped up like a princess as he stood up from the couch.

An uncharacteristic squeal of shock slipped from my lips and I blushed deeply pressing my lips into a tight line, it had been a very long time since anyone had been able to pick me up.

"You were right, you feel like you're two hundred pounds."

Forgetting about my embarrassment I looked up at him and forced the smile the threatened to bloom into a scowl. "You're not supposed to agree with me Leo."

His dark blue eyes shone in mirth. "I'm just telling the truth."

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"If it wasn't for you he and I would be married happily!" The girl wailed hysterically. "Why did you have to come and take him away?! Why did he have to leave when we were so happy?"

I stared at her soundlessly, watching the gun shake in her hand. I could remember Leo saying something about an old girl-friend in a conversation, from what he had said they had been fighting the whole time before he finally broke it off. He never mentioned she was like this.

Suddenly she was calm, and a serious look over took her features. "Death is what he deserved for hurting me," The gun steadied and was raised to point at my head. "And it's what you deserve for taking him away."

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Remember those walls I build? Well baby they're tumbling down, and they didn't put up a fight, they didn't even make a sound.

I halted and turned toward the voice, spotting a man playing a guitar sitting on the bench a few feet to my left.

I found a way to let you in, but I never really had a doubt. Standing in the light of your halo, I got my angel now.

It was unquestionable that he had the most amazing voice I had heard, it was smooth tenor that made my heart thud wildly and goosebumps raise on my arms. His looks weren't all that bad either, he had slightly curled brown hair that rested on his cheeks while a light dusting of beard decorated his face.

It's like I've been awakened, every rule I had you breaking, is the risk that I'm taking. I'm never going to shut you out.

The moment was so utterly cliche that I felt like I was in a romance movie, but I couldn't find myself to hate it. Later on I would make fun of myself for acting so girly, but for now I would just appreciate his voice.

Everywhere I'm looking now, I'm surrounded by your embrace. Baby I can see your halo, you know you're my saving grace. You're everything I need and more, it's written all over your face, baby I can feel your halo. Pray it won't fade away.

"I'm assuming you like my music?"

I opened my eyes, not realizing I had closed them, and looked into his deep blue gaze. They stared directly into my eyes without hesitation and I found myself turning my head to stare at the ground, an uncharacteristic blush burning my cheeks.

"Yes."

He chuckled. "I'm glad someone does, everyone else begs to differ."

I shrugged. "You kind of sound like Shunichi Miyamoto."

"Who?"

Ah right, he probably didn't know the guy who sung True Light from DN Angel. Sometimes I forgot that not everyone had a billion manga's and posters decorating their apartments. "Never-mind."

Well I had messed this up, not that I was surprised. My social skills were much to be desired.

"I can sing another song if you like." I jerked my head to look at him, seeing him smiling at me as if I hadn't just made the situation so terribly awkward. "Anything for a pretty lady."

My blush doubled when he winked at me. "A-ah…" Did he just call me pretty? I knew I was far from that, my hair was too plan and my body too chubby for a guy like him to call me pretty.

He started to strum his guitar idly, and hummed a few notes. "My names Leo, what's yours?"

"Lucy."

Leo nodded and then suddenly the strings were making a vaguely familiar sound.

Picture yourself in a boat on the river, with tangerine trees and marmalade skies. Someone calls you, you answer quite slowly. A girl with kaleidoscope eyes.

For the second time my head snapped up to look at him, I huffed in amusement when I recognized the song. Figures he'd know how to play Lucy in the sky with Diamonds.

Cellophane flowers of yellow and green towering over your head. Looking for the girl with the sun in her eyes, and she's gone.

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The gunshot echoing in my ears was the last thing I heard before everything went black.

The feeling of ice-cold water being thrown on me and large pair of hands grabbing my body woke me from the peaceful darkness, murmured voices surrounded me, a male and a female talked back and forth in another language.

"Sore wa otokonokodesu," The male spoke in a smooth tenor in what I distinctly recognized as Japanese. "Kare wa anata ni sokkuridesu."

Confusion, fear and loss fell on me like a tidal wave. Leo, where was Leo? What was happening? The man carried me effortlessly across the room and soon a rough cloth was wiping my body down.

I wriggled in an attempt to get away, my panic rising when my limbs refused to move. My eyesight was blurred like I was looking through water making the man…no giant look like a blurred blob of brown.

"Kare wa daijōbudesuka? Watashi wa kare ga naite kiku koto ga dekimasen." A feminine voice said from somewhere across the room.

"Watashi ga miru koto ga dekiru, akiraka ni machigatte iru mono wa nani mo arimasen," Was her reply. "Kare wa shokku o ukete miemasu."

Memories of Leo, of his smiles and soft voice bombarded my mind. The weight of his body slumped against mine as he took his last breath and the emptiness I felt as he finally gave up overwhelming me. I couldn't help myself, I started to cry. And it wasn't the quiet sobbing, it was a blown out wail of loss and confusion that came from my mouth.

"O sanshō shite kudasai? Kare wa chōdo yoidesu."

I didn't know what was going on, but I could still hear the crack of the gun-shot before it impacted with my head. I had died, I knew that. Now though, now I was alive that much was obvious.

The man wrapped me in a softer blanket when he finished touching my hands and toes, he picked me up and carried me for a few moments before he stopped and started lowering me down.

"Tsugi no ga kuru made, shibarakunoaida ni narudarou." The man murmured. "Ima, anata wa kare o hoji suru koto ga dekiru tame ni sonoyōni."

Softer, smaller hands grabbed a hold of me and arms wrapped around my body. Through my tears I could make out a woman with long brown hair, the smell of lilac and oddly rust wafting into my nose.

"Kon'nichiwa Takeshi bu." I only recognized what sounded like 'Takeshi' coming out of the woman's mouth as she cooed down at me. "Sore wa saishūtekini anata ni aete ureshīdesu."

I hiccuped up at her as I tried to contain my sobbing, my brain pushing Leo and I's death aside for the moment so I could try to understand my situation. A Japanese man and woman, my body feeling smaller and heavier, the way I was carried around so effortlessly.

There was no doubt, I was somehow put inside an infants body.

I had been reborn.

The realization was as crazy as it was impossible. Rebirth was a cycle, you didn't just get born into a human right after you died, you started over as a bug and went through the cycle all over again. Even if I was special for some reason why did I still retain my memories? That would give me an advantage and make the whole 'starting life over again' thing redundant.

Suddenly the woman moaned in pain and I was taken from her hands within seconds.

The woman giggled a moment later despite the obvious pain she was in. "Sore wa watashitachi no tsugi no ko mo dōyō ni Haruka o, watashitachi o mitasu tame ni kōfun shite iru yōdesu.."

There was another name again, Haruka, which I assumed was the man's since there was no other person in the room. I felt him walk across the room in smooth gentle strides before gently placing me down in what felt like the softest cushion I had ever laid down on. A moment later he was gone, his footsteps receding as he most likely went to help the woman. In my peripheral vision I could see dark bars rising up on either side of me, like a mini cadge with no roof or in other words a crib.

When the woman started moaning and panting heavily I realized she was having another child, my twin. That or something was going wrong, but Haruka didn't seem too worried so I assumed it was the former.

It was around ten or so minutes later that I could hear the woman give her final push before a loud wail filled the room, I felt for her in a way even though I had no idea who she was. Childbirth looked painful, I couldn't imagine having two children in the same sitting.

The oddest part of the whole thing though was that I couldn't hear any other voices besides Haruka's and the woman's. Meaning there were no doctors or even a mid-wife, I wan't too sure what to think about that since I wasn't a doctor, but I was pretty sure they were rather important. They must have had a reason why it was only the two of them, perhaps they were criminals in hiding or didn't want anyone to know about the woman giving birth.

"Kore wa, kenkōna akachan no on'nanoko Juridesu." Haruka said, finally giving me the name of the woman who had given birth to me. He chuckled softly from across the room. "Kanojo wa, watashitachi ga kurō hanarete sorera o tsutaeru no hitsuyō ga aru to shite iru dake de, kanojo no otōto no yō ni miemasu."

It was frustrating not knowing what they were talking about, even if I had watched hundreds of Anime shows I wasn't able to understand everything. I could only catch the common words I recognized or names.

"Watashi wa kanojo o mite mimashou." Juri replied and I could hear Haruka's footsteps move a few feet before stopping.

I had a sibling, a twin. Before I died I had a younger sister so the thought that I would be an older sister again made me slightly more comfortable with the situation. Though that didn't say very much since I these people were strangers and my husband had just died in my arms.

I still wasn't sure if this was all just a hallucination, or a dream. But at this moment everything seemed very real, like this was actually happening and I wasn't going to wake up eventually with Leo sleeping next to me. Whatever it was though, I would just wait it out and see what happened.

Though for some reason my birth parents had the same names as the two Purebloods in Vampire Knight, but that had to be a coincidence. Being reborn was one thing, being reborn and put into a Manga full of Vampires was another thing entirely.

Sorry for all the angst, it was necessary that Lucy to go through that for what I have planned for her. Also I used google translate, so those of you who know Japanese I apologize for anything ridiculously wrong.

"Sore wa otokonokodesu, Kare wa anata ni sokkuridesu."- It's a boy he looks just like you.

"Kare wa daijōbudesuka? Watashi wa kare ga naite kiku koto ga dekimasen."- Is he okay? I don't hear him crying.

"Watashi ga miru koto ga dekiru, akiraka ni machigatte iru mono wa nani mo arimasen, kare wa shokku o ukete miemasu."-There's nothing wrong that I can see, he just looks shocked.

"O sanshō shite kudasai? Kare wa chōdo yoidesu."- See? He's fine.

"Tsugi no ga kuru made, shibarakunoaida ni narudarou. Ima, anata wa kare o hoji suru koto ga dekiru tame ni sonoyōni." -It's going to be awhile until the next one comes. So for now you can hold him.

"Kon'nichiwa Takeshi bu. Sore wa saishūtekini anata ni aete ureshīdesu." - Hello little Takeshi. It's nice to finally meet you.

"Sore wa watashitachi no tsugi no ko mo dōyō ni Haruka o, watashitachi o mitasu tame ni kōfun shite iru yōdesu."- It seems our next child is excited to meet us as well Haruka.

"Kore wa, kenkōna akachan no on'nanoko Juridesu. Kanojo wa, watashitachi ga kurō hanarete sorera o tsutaeru no hitsuyō ga aru to shite iru dake de, kanojo no otōto no yō ni miemasu."- It's a healthy baby girl Juri. She looks just like him, we're going to have a hard time telling them apart.

"Watashi wa kanojo o mite mimashou."- Let me hold her.

I do have a few questions.

Does anyone know how Vampires age? How fast, when they stop etc.

What did you think of the way the Manga ended? What didn't you agree with?

You should go check out MissScarlettJ's fanfiction called Eternal Knight, it's really good!