So I'm back. I will be keeping the old version of this story posted on here. I'm more than likely messing with the timeline here but I couldn't find some definite times for some things. Like when the Kiryus killed Shizuka's lover. Also from what I could find it sounds like Zero was a year older than Yuki at the beginning of the series. So he's sixteen at the beginning and 12 when the attack on his family happened. They never specify the name of Shizuka lover so I'm just going to give him a random name. Same with the parents of Zero and Ichiru. Of course Filler characters have made up names and the HA president that I'm using right now is not the one who conspired with Ichijo Asato. I'm unsure if I even want to use him in this fic but if I do he will be the successor of the president I'm using.

Description: When Shizuka decided to take revenge on the Kiryus it went differently than planned. Years later, her death sets many changes into motion. It throws off the plans of many and causes much trouble and confusion. How does Zero deal with the conflict it causes? How will Kaname make up for these unexplained events making kinks in his plans? Female Zero Kaname/Zero Read more in A Daughter's Life.

DISCLAIMER: I don't own Vampire Knight. That belongs to Hino Matsuri.

Chapter 1

A Change of Plans

Hio Shizuka, The Mad Blooming Princess, looked upon the house holding her target. The Kiryus had taken her lover from her and it was only fair she paid them back by taking someone they loved from them.

Shizuka and her lover, Sora Asahi, had only been able to spend a few months together after their escape before the Kiryus had ruined it all. Kiryu Touma and Kiryu Ichika formerly Chibana Ichika, his wife, had destroyed her happiness. She had spent over a year in grief before she heard those damn hunters that had killed her beloved Asahi had had children. It started the wheels in her head to form a plan for revenge. She would kill the children and make the Kiryus feel the overwhelming grief of losing a loved one.

She had briefly thought of killing one of the older Kiryus but she thought that wouldn't be enough. They needed to live in grief as she had. To feel the pain of forever being unable to hold a loved one held so dear.

The Kiryus and Chibanas were the hunter's verision of purebloods. The Kiryus were Hunter royalty and the Chibanas closely following. The only hunter possibly more powerful than them was Cross Kaien and that was iffy at that.

Shizuka wanted to be able to complete her plan without complications so she found an ally in a hunter friend of the couple. The man was actually a cousin through a minor line distantly related to the main Kiryu line. He truthfully resented Touma for his strength believing that his cousin was only strong due to his birth into the main line. She purposed her plan to the hunter promising that she would give him her blood to improve his strength if he helped her.

He was hesitant at first, worried about the repercussions of killing children that were essentially heirs to hunter royalty. When Shizuka pointed out that the Kiryus could always have more children later on, the hunter easily agreed.

The hunter contacted her when the plan was able to be implemented. The twins were six months old when Touma and Ichika were being sent on a mission. The hunter offered to watch the children as their godfather, Yagari Toga, was also on a mission. Around an hour after the couple had and he was sure they were far enough away, he contacted Shizuka letting her know it was safe to come.

Shizuka arrived at the house in a flurry of cherry blossom petals. She walked into the house when the hunter opened the door to let her in.

"Welcome Hio-sama." He said once she was completely inside.

"Thank you my dear. Now; how do I get to the nursery?" She asked getting straight to business.

"You'll find it up those stairs and about halfway down the hallway. It has the Kiryu emblem on the door." He explained, "How do you intend to make it look like it I had no part in this plan Hio-sama? You never did explain that part to me. And when do you intend to repay me for my help?"

"Oh my, did I really forget to mention that part to you?" She asked with a smirk. "I'll give you your payment now." She thrust her hand through his chest.

He fell to the floor holding his chest, "Wha… Wh-y?" he asked as blood poured from his mouth.

"You really think I'd risk leaving a witness? Do you think me incompetent?" she said with a small laugh. "You were very stupid to believe I would give you, a lowly hunter, my blood. That right was reserved for my dear Asahi."

Shizuka grinned as she watched the light leave his eyes. She left him in the open doorway in a pool of his own blood as she headed up the stairs to her target.

She found the nursery easily. The emblem for the Kiryu clan, a beautiful stylized peony motif, stood out in a bright amethyst purple. The same purple as the eyes held by the Kiryu clan members. Under there was a baby blue sign on the door with the names Zero and Ichiru in silver lettering.

Zero? What and interesting name for a child. She thought as she turned the door handle and entered the room. She took a look around the room. It was light by a soft lamp in a corner of the room. The walls were the same color as the Kiryu emblem. There were white peonies painted in a line along the top of the walls as a border around the entire room. She noticed the furniture was a white colored pine. It looked look antique. More than likely this room was the traditional nursery and had not been changed in generations besides maybe the rearranging for furniture.

She spotted an ornate crib on the wall to the right of the door. She smiled and walked up to it. Shizuka leaned over the crib and looked upon the twins. They were dressed in light blue outfits each adorned with their first initial in black. She studied the one wearing the outfit with an I first concluding this one must be Ichiru. The baby was sleeping soundly. She then turned her head to the other twin. She first noticed the Z adorning the child's outfit before moving her eyes up to his face.

Shizuka's eyes widened slightly when she noticed the baby, Zero, she corrected herself, looking at her with what appeared to be an intelligent gaze. His bright amethyst eyes drew her in. Zero then smiled at her. He let a small giggle, happiness shining in his gaze. Her heart melted.

Shizuka instinctively reached into the crib and picked him up. Zero smiled up at her as his little hand reached for her face. A smile spread across her face as she gazed upon the child in her arms. Her plan changed in that instant. She would take this child and raise him as her own. It would be a win-win situation. The Kiryus would lose their precious child and she would gain someone to love again.

Her head turned to the crib when Ichiru let out a whimper. She smiled at him and gently touched his forehead and used some of her power to put him to sleep. She noticed that the babe's life force seemed weak and frowned. She turned to the precious one in her arms and smiled at him as she used her power to put him into a peaceful sleep as well.

A last minute decision popped into her head. She gently cut her wrist and woke Ichiru briefly to feed him some of her blood to strengthen the poor babe. After deciding the child had gotten a decent amount she wiped his face with her kimono sleeve and put him back to sleep.

She turned to her new child in her arms. She smiled upon seeing his peaceful face, "Let's get you home my dear one."

She disappeared in a swirl of cherry blossoms leave the Kiryu home behind.

A few hours later the Kiryus arrived home after their successful mission. They were looking forward to see their children. Ichika let out a small shriek when she spotted their dead friend in the doorway. Touma stared in slight shock.

"Touma! The children!" She scream as she run up the stairs to the nursery, Touma hot on her heels after recovering from his shock.

Burst into the room through the still open door. Ichika immediately went to the crib. She sighed in relief before screaming when she noticed Zero wasn't next to his brother.

Ichika gathered up Ichiru in her arms when he started crying, unhappy at being woken up by the loud noise, and turned to Touma as he burst into the room. "Zero's gone! Our baby boy is gone Touma! Someone took our child!"

The grief filled mother fell to the floor crying as she held her remaining son close. Touma walked up to the crib hoping that his wife was only seeing things and that his son was still in his bed. He let out a sob when the crib was shown to be completely empty. He stumbled to his wife and fell to his knees, gathering his wife and other son into his arms.

"What are we going to do Touma? Someone has our son!" She let out a gasp and looked down at Ichiru who was now letting out small exhausted sobs, having exhausted himself. "What about Ichiru? Zero and him panic when not near each other!"

"We'll find Zero, Ichika. I promise you we'll find our son! We'll get Ichiru his brother back!" He held his wife and child tighter in his arms.

After they had calmed down some they moved to Touma's study. Ichika sat in one of the armchairs refusing to let go of Ichiru who had fallen into and exhausted sleep. She was too afraid to let go of her child afraid he would disappear like his twin had.

Touma went to the phone on his desk and immediately call the Hunter Association's President's office. The phone rang twice before the president's secretary picked up, "You've reached the office of Fujimura Danuja-sama. This is Hagino-san speaking how may I help you?" She said quickly.

"This is Kiryu Touma! I need immediate assistance! My son Zero was kidnapped and the hunter watching my children was murdered." He yelled into the phone.

Hagino gasped and quickly responded, "I'll get a team of hunters sent your way Kiryu-sama!" She heard the phone click after a quick thank you from the other side.

The secretary ran into the president's office not caring if she interrupted his current meeting. "Fujimura-sama! The Kiryu heir was kidnapped and their watcher murdered!" She yelled.

"What?!" yelled the two hunters in the room.

Yagari Toga has been giving his debriefing to the president when the woman had barged in. He rushed to the woman and grabbed her arms, "Repeat that again! I had to have heard you wrong!"

"It's true Yagari-san! Kiryu Touma-sama just called to inform me!"

Yagari stumbled back in slight disbelief. There was no way. The Kiryu home and land, especially the nursery, were loaded to the teeth with protective spells, sigils, and traps. Even more so now that the children there where the heirs to the two most powerful hunter families. Yagari immediately realized that it was Zero that was kidnapped being as he was the Kiryu heir as he was the oldest and Ichiru was the Chibana heir as he was the second born. There was no way someone could have broken through all of the protections without help. Yagari was abruptly pulled from his thoughts when he heard President Fujimura speak.

"This is President Fujimura! I need any available hunters that are not injured or assigned to guard duty to assemble in the main hall immediately! A hunter was murdered and one of the Kiryu heir kidnapped!" the president yelled through the microphone on his desk.

A situation like this was unheard of. Sure hunters were often attacked but no one was dumb enough to attack hunter royalty on their own land, let alone kidnap an heir to the family. This could cause a war depending on who took the child.

"Yagari follow me! Hagino call Cross and inform him! The Kiryus are his friends and I have a feeling we'll need all the help we can get." The president ordered as he rushed from the room, Yagari immediately on his heels.

Hunters were running through the hallways, rushing to gather in the main hall. Yagari followed the president to the balcony above the hall that was used for big announcements. When they stopped Yagari immediately took a stand position behind the president on his left.

"Hunters! A situation like this is unheard of in our history! We need to act immediately!" He paused as Hagino ran up to him and whispered in his ear. He nodded to her and continued, "I need you all to form teams of four or five. Aoitsuki, Fujioka, and Matsuda will be teaming up with Yagari and heading to the Kiryu home where you'll meet up with the Kiryus. Cross will be joining you there. A team of four will be inspecting the scene at the house where the dead hunter's body is. The rest of the teams will be inspecting the land surrounding the house for clues on who the culprit was and how they got in. Disperse!"

The gathered hunters quickly and efficiently rushed to fulfill their assigned roles. The three mentioned hunters gather at the bottom of the stairs where the president and Yagari met them. "You four are some of our best hunters. I can't stress enough how serious this is. Act quickly. Now go!"

Yagari and the other three hunters took off immediately.

Shizuka arrived at the tightly secured and secret safe house belonging to the Hio family that she had been staying at. She was immediately greeted by Fumiko, the head maid

"Welcome back Shizuka-sama," She said as she bowed. As she raised herself back up she noticed the child in her mistress's arms, "Who is this child mistress?"

Shizuka looked down at the baby in her arms, "This is my new child," She smiled, "He's currently a hunter family's child but I'm going to use one of the ancient family rituals to make this child completely my own. The one used to create a pureblood."

Fumiko gasped. That ritual hadn't been used in over a thousand years. It had fallen out of use when purebloods started declining in population and the Hios weren't able to use it without revealing the secret. When the Hio family was at the height of their power they had been a family of many and had been able to expand by using the ritual to transform others into purebloods of the Hio line, adopting the transformed into the family. The ritual could only be used by a Hio member as it took their unique blood and made them the parent of the transformed being.

After the decline in purebloods due to infighting and many choosing suicide after being tired for so long, the spell fell out of use. The Hios hid the ritual away as they did not want to risk any harm falling to their family by people wanting to use the ritual for their own gain.

"Do not let anyone disturb us until I'm done Fumiko." She ordered the maid as she headed for her room. She paused briefly and over her shoulder said, "Set up a nursery in the room next to mine immediately and set up a crib in my room. I don't want my child to be far away from me for a while."

Fumiko bowed as her mistress exited the room, "Yes Shizuka-sama."

Shizuka entered an unused bedroom. It was thankfully clean as the house staff made sure to upkeep the house. She set Zero on the bed and woke him up gently. The babe opened his eyes and upon seeing Shizuka smiled. A small smile graced her face as she gazed upon the sweet child.

Shizuka took off Zero's outfit, leaving him in his diaper, as she needed to write symbols on the baby's body for the ritual. She tickled his stomach which made him laugh. She smiled before cutting her wrist and using the blood to draw the necessary symbols on him. She then fed Zero some of her blood and after being sure he swallowed it started to recite the required words. After finishing she picked the child up to hold him while the ritual took effect as it would cause him pain.

Shizuka held her new child for 7 hours while the changes took effect, comforting him when he cried and whimpered from the pain. After those long 7 hours his body glowed as the final changes took place. When the light coming from the baby died down and he fell into an exhausted sleep, she carried him to her room to give him a bath to wash the blood off his body.

She held the baby while waiting for the bath to finish running. After finishing she took off the diaper only to discover the ritual had done more than just make him a pureblood and her child. The baby had turned into a girl.

Shizuka grinned and held up her new daughter. "I have a daughter. A precious, beautiful, wonderful daughter," She exclaimed and after a thought continued, "The name Zero isn't fit for a girl. Your name shall be Zoe. Hio Zoe."

Shizuka then bathed her new daughter before dressing her in a new diaper and outfit that the house staff had gotten while the ritual took place. She then took her new daughter to her bed with her and laid Zoe down on the blanket.

Shizuka didn't sleep that night. She just watched over her new daughter in marvel while slept.

So how's this for a first new chapter? I believe this is the longest chapter I have written in my entire fanfic writing career. I probably won't go into too much detail about the investigation with the Kiryus being as this story is mainly going to be focused on Zoe/Zero. Thanks again guys for being so patient with me. Love you all for the support you still gave me despite my super long hiatus. Please feel free to leave constructive reviews!

~CapricornKitty

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