Rido & Shizuka

This page is for the relationship between Rido Kuran and Shizuka Hio.

Background
Shizuka was engaged to Rido Kuran, but she refused to submit to him and she was given human sacrifices daily as food.

In the Anime
Shizuka returns to her room, where Kaname is standing next to the window. She asks him why he attends the academy and he replies, because he also wants someone. Kaname appears behind Shizuka and shoves his hand through her heart. She tells him that she wanted to kill him, too, using Yuki. He drinks her blood, and Shizuka says that it’s similar to the first time they met: they’re both after the same thing. He then pulls his hand out of her and lays Shizuka on the ground, vowing to destroy their mutual enemy.

Hanabusa thinks about Kaname being the murderer and about both Kaname’s and Shizuka’s motives. After departing, he relates to Akatsuki that in the past, Shizuka fell in love with a human whom she turned into a vampire and escaped the prison she was being kept in. Even though the ex-human was not a Level E yet, the Vampire Hunter Association put him on their extermination list and the Kiryus killed him. Ever since her revenge, the Senior Council has hunted her and labeled her as "mad" because she went against their policy of peace with humans. Hanabusa then wonders why Shizuka risked coming to Cross Academy. He thinks about how both she and Kaname sought each other's blood for power to defeat an unknown foe.

When Rido visits Kaname he spoke of Shizuka's death, he mentioned that it was a relief, and that when alive, she had refused to "submit to" him.

Trivia

 * Despite being engaged, Rido and Shizuka hated each other.