Yuki Cross

Yuuki Cross/Yuuki Kuran (黒主 優姫/Kurosu Yūki, 玖蘭 優姫/Kuran Yūki) is the female protagonist of Vampire Knight. She is also the adopted daughter of the headmaster of Cross Academy, Yuki is 15 years old (later 16)and is a first year student and a member of the school's disciplinary committee, which means secretly acting as a Guardian for Cross Academy by monitoring and protecting the Day Class from the Night Class. She is generally a cheerful and comedic character, but has a fear of vampires that means she rarely leaves the Cross Academy grounds on her own. She's very naive and can be dense too sometimes. She wields the Artemis Rod, the anti-vampire weapon which later transforms into a scythe once she regains her past memories.

As a small child without memories, Yuuki was saved by Kaname from a vampire and she has had deep feelings for him ever since. Yuuki is adopted by Kaien Cross, but has troubling recurring nightmares until Zero joins their household and she forms a strong attachment to him. Yuuki discovers that Zero has awakened as a vampire and is struggling with his blood lust, so she allows him to secretly feed on her blood. Yuuki promises to be his ally and that she will kill him if he becomes a level E vampire. When Shizuka Hio offers to save Zero at the price of Yuuki's humanity, Yuuki agrees, though is stopped by Zero.

When Yuuki's memories begin to resurface, Kaname bites Yuuki to reawaken her true nature and then gives her his blood to restore her complete memory. Before she was bitten by Kaname and turned into a vampire she had blood halutionations. It is revealed that Yuuki is actually a pureblood vampire and the last child of Juri and Haruka Kuran. Following Rido Kuran's attack on the Kuran's, killing Haruka, Juri had sacrificed herself to seal Yuuki's vampiric side and erase her daughter's memory. Upon returning to her vampire self, she begins to sense Rido's dangerous revival. Though Kaname attempts to remove her from danger, she refuses to leave Cross Academy. Resolving to fight Rido, Yuuki's Artemis Rod then transforms into a scythe.

Yuuki and Zero become allies despite his hatred of the Purebloods and together they defeat Rido. However, when Kaname returns, Zero attacks, intending to kill him, but Yuuki comes between them before he has the chance. After a short conversation, Zero drinks Yuuki's blood and they kiss. However, after the kiss he states that one day he would surely kill her. Yuuki states that she will wait for him. Despite being in love with both Zero and Kaname, Yuuki decides to spend all of eternity with her older brother. In most recent chapters released in LaLa magazine, Artemis has been returned to Yuuki and she vows to take any pureblood out of their misery if they wish, this being a way for the sacrifice of her loved ones to be abolished. Voiced by: Yui Horie (Japanese), Mela Lee (English)