A/N: Please read and review. No flames unless you are going to make s'mores. Criticism is always welcome. This is at least a two shot, if not three. It's not meant to be a long story. Sorry fans. Anyway, the idea for this story came to all of a sudden. I hope you enjoy it, but to be honest, I'm not to sure about this story line. Please review and be honest in your opinions please.

Warning: This story is OOC'ness. If you're not into yaoi or male/male ?sexual? relationships, please don't read any further. This story may or may not contain lemons later. The rating for this story will change from 'T' to 'M' if that happens.

Disclaimer: I don't own VK, or the characters. My plot bunnies own this story but they love borrowing Kaname and Zero for their own stories. I own nothing but my plot bunnies. All honor for the original story and characters goes to Hino-Sama, bless her wonderful and creative heart.

Summery: Zero and Kaname were invited to the Chairman's house for dinner, but tragedy strikes before the end of the night.

Flames – Chapter 1

Zero was sleeping on the couch, blissfully unaware that the evening was continuing on without him. Cross was being his usual self, and annoyingly so. Yuki was talking to Kaname, and babbling on about only God knows what. Kaname was sitting there listening to Yuki, but his attention was on his lover, who was sleeping on the couch.

Cross had invited them all over for dinner that he was fixing. Before arriving at Cross's house, Zero had told Kaname that he swore that the Chairman was trying to kill them all. The man just didn't know how to cook. Kaname, of course, just snickered but said nothing.

Now dinner was over, and they were just sitting around, visiting. Around 11 that evening, Takuma came over, looking for Kaname. "Is Kaname-Sama here?" Takuma asked when Cross answered the door. "He is. Why don't you come on in?" Cross suggested. "Thank you Chairman, but I must speak with Kaname-Sama alone." Takuma responded.

Cross only nodded, left the door open, and alerted Kaname to the need at the front door. "Thank you Chairman." Kaname said just before he walked out. A few minutes pass before he walks back in. "I apologize Chairman. I am being summoned for an important meeting and need to leave. Please give Zero my apologies as well. Take care and thank you for a wonderful evening and meal." Kaname said. Cross beamed at the compliment. Maybe he should cook for them more often? Maybe every night?

Cross looked over at Zero, and was feeling pretty tired himself. "Yuki, Zero, I'm really tired, so I think I'll be going to bed. You two are welcome to stay here tonight if you like. Good night my babies." the Chairman gushed. One look at Zero from the comment of being called 'his baby' was enough to send him into a murderous rage. Cross ran for his room, hoping a praying that Zero wouldn't chase him. He slammed the door shut and locked the door.

Down stairs, Zero and Yuki looked at each other, and laughed at the Chairman's response to the non-verbal promised threat from Zero. They said goodnight respectively to each other, and headed off to their own bedrooms. Zero was still tired so he made quick work of his, before sliding into bed. He was out cold before his head hit the pillow.

Two hours later, Zero was woken up by the smell of smoke. Wide awake, he jumped out of bed, and yanked on his sweat pants as he stumbled out into the hall. The closer he got to the stair well, the more the smoke was billowing up the stairs. It was black and thick.

He ran into Yuki's bedroom, and yanked her out of bed. "Zero… what the hell?" Yuki yelled at him. Zero looking sheepish, and somehow unapologetic at her said, "Sorry Yuki, but there smoke billowing up the steeps. We have to get out of here now. Here your cell. As soon as I get you outside, call 911." He said, just as he was opening the window, picked her up in his arms, and jumped out the window. "I'll get the Chairman and meet you at out prearranged spot." Zero said. Yuki nodded.

The Chairman's room was down on the 2nd floor, so he ran around to Cross's bedroom window, jumped up in through the window, there by breaking it. He started to choke on the smoke that had filled the air. Despite the smoke stinging his eyes, he looked over to the bed, and noticed that his adoptive father was still lying in the bed. "Cross…Cross…wake up. There's a fire." Zero yelled, but the man in the bed didn't move. Shit, he was going to have to pick him and haul him out of here.

The smoke was getting thicker and Zero was coughing more. He couldn't breath. He ran over to pick up the unconscious man from the bed. Once he had him on his shoulders, he ran to the window only to find his way blocked completely by the flames. He ran to the door and just as he was reaching out to grab hold of the door handle, the door started to catch up in flames. Damn, he had no choice. He had to jump out the window.

He turned towards the window, to find the flames by the window had grown. Shit! This was bad. This was really bad. Damn, he was going to have to make a run for it and hope he didn't get them killed. His vision started to blur. He started to make his run for it towards the window. Just as he made it through the window, his clothes caught on fire, a shard from the broken window stabbed his in his ribs, to damn close to his heart for comfort, and he was loosing consciousness, mid-fall. He hadn't even hit the ground yet when he heard Yuki yell his name. It was the last thing he remembered.

TBC:

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