Hello everyone, I am Lady of the Fates and this is the first story I will be publishing. I am very new to this so please don't hate on me if I mess up. It takes a lot of courage for an author to actually publish what they have written and it sure took me a lot of courage to do it. In this story I will try to follow original canon as best as I can but I will change the details. Some characters will be OOC so be prepared for that and I have changed Yuki's personality a bit because I find that while she is cute she is too much of an airhead. In my story she will be cooler and a bit more mature but still cute. I will be testing the waters with this story so I don't know if I will actually finish it but I know where I want it to go so I believe I will finish it. Thank you for taking the time to read my long authors note and enjoy the story.

Disclaimer: I do not own Vampire Knight or the characters

Chapter 1: First Meeting

It's so cold.

Pure white.

Snow.

Why is snow white?

What is snow?

What is pure white?

It is something that is not red.

What is red?

That is something that is….

"Are you lost little girl?" The creature before me asked. I tried to say something but my voice did not come out. "May I suck your blood?" Without warning the creature lunged for me and I braced myself for the pain as I struggled in his grasp, but it never came.

I opened my eyes that I had unconsciously closed and saw in front of me was a boy. The boy had ripped out through the chest of the creature and it was now a pile of ash.

"You are a disgrace to all vampires." The boy said in a murderous tone.

Vampire. Was that what the creature had been? The boy also had the same red eyes so was he also a vampire? The boy brought his blood stained hand to his mouth and licked a little bit of the blood on it.

He turned to and his eyes turned into a dark brown color and held out his hand to me, "Everything's okay now he won't hurt you. I'm Kaname, what is your name?"

Name? My name? What was my name again? I racked my head for an answer but I only found one word, "Yuki." I said unsure of my answer.

"Yuki? What a pretty name. Well then Yuki let's get you somewhere warm." He said as he scooped me up in his arms. It felt, what was it called again? Warm in his arms and at some point I let exhaustion over take my body and I fell asleep.

I woke up to the sounds of voices, "So you say you found her out in the forest?" An unfamiliar voice asked.

"Yes, she was being chased by an E when I found her. I killed the E but what do you think she was doing there in the first place?" My savior, Kaname, told the voice.

That thing was an E? What's an E?

"In any case Kaname-kun I will gladly take this child in if she has nowhere else to go." The voice said, by now I had opened my eyes completely and I saw who the other voice was.

He was an old man who had his Sandy blonde hair in a ponytail. At first glance he looked like a woman.

"Oh, Kaname-kun she is awake." The old man exclaimed. "Hello dear, I am Kaien Cross. Do you understand me?" I nodded. "Good, poor thing you must be hungry. Would you like some pudding?" He passed me a round object with a jiggly thing inside.

What is it? I began poking the strange thing, making holes in it. On my finger small pieces of the jiggly thing were stuck on it.

"Oh dear, it seems she does not understand that pudding is edible." Kaien stated.

Kaname made me face him and he picked up the metal thingy that was inside the round object and took a bunch of the jiggly thing onto the metal thingy, "Here you eat it like this. Say ahh~" He opened his mouth to try and explain to me what I had to do. In doing so I noticed his teeth looked like the creature's.

Curiosity got the better of me and I moved closer to him so I could inspect them. I reached out and realizing what I wanted to do he opened his mouth wider to give me easier access. I grazed my finger over his teeth and I was instantly reminded of the creature, fear took over my body and I pulled back instantly. I looked into his eyes and saw that they were, what was the word? Sad? No, upset? No, lonely? Yes that was the word lonely but there was something else, he was also...hurt? Was it because I rejected him? Maybe.

He got up to leave , "I think I should leave and stay out of this girl's sight, it seems I have frightened her." He said with much pain in his tone.

"Leave back to that den of monsters? They have been trying to use and exploit you ever since your parents death." Kaien stated.

"I know but I must return." He turned to me for one last glance, "bye-bye."

My body moved on instinct and grabbed his coat, "No!" He turned to me a little surprised by my outburst, "Yuki … sorry, Yuki not … want Kaname … be lonely. Yuki not want Kaname be hurt, Yuki sorry, Yuki not … scared… Yuki remember bad man so..." I did not know how to express what I wanted to say so my words came out sounding wrong.

What was the word? Astonishment? Yeah, that one, was all over his face, my little outburst must have completely surprised him.

He smiled at me and crouched down to my height, "It's okay Yuki your reaction to one of my kind was normal and considering the fact that you were just attacked by one of us I would not blame you if you were afraid." He put a hand on my head and began stroking my hair, "so I forgive you." He kissed my forehead and got up once more to leave, this time I did not stop him.

When he was gone Kaien went over to me, "So you really don't remember anything?" I nodded, "you only remember your name right? I am afraid even with my connections I will not be able to find your family with just your first name." He sighed.

"Yuki … okay, stay here ... good." I once again stumbled on my words.

"Then I will go get the paperwork to adopt you ready." He said in a much more, cheery tone.

"What … adopt?" I asked wondering what he wanted to do.

"When a person adopts a child that means the child and that person become family, so when I finish the paperwork you and I will let be family."

"What … family?"

"A family is a group of people who love and care for each other. To make you and I family I must fill out the correct paperwork."

"What … paperwork?" I asked the question that had been go nagging me ever since he said it. What kind of mystical thing was paperwork that it was able to make families?

"Paperwork is …. papers that legally state that you are my child." He explained.

"Legally?"

"Oh boy, this might take a while." He mumbled to himself as he sat down on the couch with me next to him.

From then on after Kaien had finished his paperwork I officially became Yuki Cross. He was very happy about this and was adamant on having me call him daddy, but, unfortunately for him, I did not, no matter how much he insisted and cried about it. It had been about a month since Kaname rescued me and I had not seen him since. Of course he would not come to see me he belongs to the world of the night and I am just a human. Why would he take time off from his busy schedule just to see a measly human girl he had rescued on a whim?

I sighed and decided to take a bath, over the time I was here I had learned many things, one being how to take a bath. I had never taken one on my own but I wanted to show Kaien that he did not have to make Momoyama-san help me every time. With determination in mind I headed with a change of clothes to the bathroom.

The bath part was easy but I failed to realize that it was always Momoyama-san that helped me put on my clothes so now I had my socks on my hands, my shorts were on my head and I was wearing my shirt on my legs. I began to dread this idea when I heard voices coming towards the door.

"I came as fast as I could because you said that Yuki had been kidnapped but when I got here I felt her presence in the house. You lied to me didn't you? I will no longer trust you!" The first voice proclaimed.

"Well just come and see her." A voice that sounded like Kaien's suggested, and to my horror they opened the bathroom door. With one look at me Kaien yelled, "Kaname-kun, Kaname-kun, come quick," Kaname came to the door, "Yuki got dressed all by herself!" He said while pointing at me, "although she did it wrong." He mumbled the last part.

Embarrassment took over me and I covered myself with a towel to hide myself. Kaname did the thing I least expected, he started laughing. I looked up from under my towel and saw that my ears weren't deceiving me and he really was laughing.

He noticed me staring and calmed down, "I'm sorry but I have to go now," he turned to me, "bye-bye." He said and turned to leave.

Just like last time I grabbed his coat, "Stay … Yuki not want … Kaname leave. Yuki … miss Kaname … not scared. Kaname stay." I babbled trying to convey my feelings as tears fell from my eyes.

He crouched down to my height once more and kissed away my tears, "I understand but I need to leave I promise to come again as soon as I can okay?"

"Okay." I said and gave him a hug. He let go of me and left.

From then on Kaname's visits while occurring at erratic times were some of the happiest days of my life. When Kaien would inform me that he would be visiting I would always wait outside for him.

Kaien had informed me that Kaname was coming tonight so I waited outside, despite the protests of the old man, for Kaname. I saw the usual black car begin pulling up in front of the house. Out of the car came Kaname, "Kaname-sama!" I exclaimed and I ran to him and hugged him.

"Kaname-sama?" He repeated unsure if I had really called him that.

"Kaname-sama today is Yuki's birthday, it marks the day you rescued me a year ago, so congratulations Kaname-sama." Over the past year I had learned to speak properly and I was now able to convey what I wanted to say.

"That's not right Yuki. Today is the day we celebrate you, but thank you." He hugged me back and I snuggled closer to him.

At the time my ignorant self did not know that those days of happiness and bliss would soon come to an end.