Yay!! I'm very very very very sorry about the looonng wait guys!! Well, here's the fifteenth chapter!! I'm really sorry about the long wait, but I had to re-think most of my timeline, because of some confusion caused by the anime . And I'm sorry if this chapter is too short, but I really had to re-think alot!! I'm sorry!! .

Rin felt horrible the next morning. She felt nauseous and her heart was clenched in a constant fist, all a result of the blood tablet that Kain had forced down her throat the night before. Her left arm was a bloodied mass of messy scratches and cuts, from when Kain had tried to stop her from biting her own wrist. He had partly succeeded, but that didn't keep Rin from grazing her arm with her fangs.

Rin turned to her side from where she was lying on the floor, giving a soft sigh of pain as she shifted so that her left arm was cradled above the right. The light of the morning sun streamed into her room, blinding her slightly as it met her face. As she closed her eyes with pain and exhaustion, she slowly began to cry. She didn't cry softly, like she would around Kain. She cried loud, her harsh screams and sobs dying as they climbed the walls away from her. She cried long and hard, her crystal tears soaking the carpet. She cried out in urgent, heartbreaking tones, wishing that her cries would call Kain back, as the memories of last night hit her in full force. She remembered the bitter taste of the blood tablet and her anger, remembered the stinging words she used to drive Kain away. And what hurt her most of all: the quiet disappointment and sadness in Kain's face, the resigned and obliging way he left her when she told him to leave and never come back.

Rin cried for a long time, until her wails died in and around her, the sun rising to leave only a patch of raw light glowing beneath the window. Rin sobbed quietly, full of self-pity and misery.

Oh, mother, she thought, Why didn't you tell me the fire in your spell was love?

Rin sobbed some more, drowning in her sadness and regret for ending her relationship with Kain. Oh God, she thought, What have I done?

She had fallen in love. Kain had thought of their love as a fire, and actually, Kain was fire, as that was his power among the nobles. The fire had formed her heart's seal. Then, out of confusion and anger, she had blamed the start of her hunger pangs on Kain and ruined everything between them. And now her degeneration into an E-class would finally begin

Kain walked quietly out of his room while Aidou was talking to the scholars who came to ask for his help. He wasn't feeling particularly well, in fact he was feeling horrible. There had been a disturbance in class, when a strong smell of blood drifted in, leaving them all agitated and nervous. Then there had been Rin. On top of everything, what happened with Rin hurt him the most.

Kain wandered the corridors, looking for something to ease his restless soul. He came to rest near the top of the staircase when he heard some noises from below. Aidou's in trouble again. He thought. He's more like "Idiot-sempai, than "Idol-sempai." A frown furrowed his brow as he heard Kaname speak to Yuuki.

"Why do you ask? Because my most important girl has been bitten… by another."

Kain sighed as he heard the main door of the Moon Dorms close, and felt Yuuki's presence leave. As he watched Kaname walk up the stairs towards him, he wondered if Kaname knew about his love for Rin. And he wondered if the reason for Kaname's tolerance was because Kaname himself felt an unexpected love for Yuuki.

The next nights were blurred and dreary for Rin, who still refused to where the Night Class uniforms. She drifted through her life like a ghost, reality blurred beneath a haze of pain. She'd act fine in company, and she'd be her usual cold-hearted self, but once dawn came, she'd be seen stalking about the Moon Gardens, trying to weary herself enough to sleep peacefully. Because if she didn't weary herself enough, the tears would come, and each chest hitching sob would push her a few more notches towards feeling the hunger pangs again. In the early morning she'd sometimes go to the stables, and try to ease her soul with Black Heart's presence, but as soon as she heard someone arriving, she'd either hide in the hayloft (if it were Day Class students) or leave (if it were Zero).

So once more, Rin was nothing but the cold shadow at the back of the Night Class, shunned and alone in the darkness once more.

So is this my fate? To always be a ghost, to drift in my own sorrow, forever? Am I fated to be this way for the rest of my life, with only love as a short lull that I'll regret in the end? Is this how a Cold Shadow lives? After all, that's who I am. Cold Shadow. Rin Kage.

Waaaah!! This chapter brings tears to my eyes!! Waaaaah!! This is the last chapter, guys, I'm sorry!! I am going to write the rest of Rin Kage's story as a separate sequel, so if you want to know the rest of her story please put me on your author alert list so that you get notified when I upload the sequel (Don't worry, the sequel will be the only story I'll be writing anytime soon.)!! I LOVE VAMPIRE KNIGHT!! I LOVE RIN!! Waaah! i can't believe I'm doing these evil things to her!! hehe.. that's my angst, peoples, please excuse it XD

Special thanks to all those who've helped me keep writing!! (YenGirl, immortalxdreams, Green.Stuffed.Panda, Lavender Spice, DeviRR, etc.)

For Lavender Spice: I love horses too!! I go horse-riding at least once a week!! Haha, that's why my PenName is Palomino Viper, actually. Because My horse is a palomino and his name is viper! haha! Thanks!!