A/N: Please read and review. No flames unless you are going to make s'mores. Criticism is always welcome. I will also welcome ideas for this story and I will do my best to add the ideas into this story if I like them. Please review if you read this story. This story is not beta-edited.

Warning: This story is OOC'ness. If you're not into yaoi or male/male sexual relationships, please don't read any further. As of right now, this story is rated T, however, I reserve the right to change it an M rated story later if my plot bunnies demand it, we will see.

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: Kaname and Zero are lovers in secret for their relationship is taboo by vampire society. What happens when the Vampire Senate finds out the truth of their relationship?

Zero's Pain/ Kaname's torture

Chapter 1:

Zero was just finishing his latest assignment. He's packing his bags after calling the front desk of his hotel room, asking the person on the other end of the line to call for a cab to come and pick him later that afternoon, around 4. Zero really wanted to get home.

He missed Kaname and all he really wanted to do was to go home and hold his lover. This last mission was dangerous and nearly killed him. He had been distracted when that 'E' jumped out at him. He barely reacted in time, but he did. Heh, he's not going to tell Kaname what had happened, just like he's going to admit that he's been getting distracted more and more. He doesn't know what his problem is, but telling Kaname would only make it worse.

His lover would only tell him that he doesn't need to work anymore. That he understands how being at hunter was an important part of his life, but it's not worth loosing what they had. They had that argument before, once. Zero knew Kaname was scared that one of these missions would get him killed, but Zero could also see that Kaname realized he had said too much and not in the best of ways.

"Kaname, I know you love me, as I love you. I also know you're scared that a mission's going to kill me one of these days. But, I want to make one thing clear. I won't stop hunting, unless I want to. When we begin to have a family, we can revisit this discussion again, but until that time, I won't talk about this again." With that, Zero turned around and walk away. Kaname knew he had said one of the very few things that he shouldn't have. When Zero got this way, bad things tend to go to Hell in a hand basket. Zero knew that Kaname won't bring up this subject again, until he did first.

He had plenty of time to get a gift for his lover. His flight wasn't due to leave till tonight and it was still three in the afternoon. but Zero didn't know what to get him. What do you get for someone who has enough money to get anything and everything? Kaname was always happy and excited whenever Zero was thoughtful enough to buy him a gift. Zero also knew that Kaname would be happy with whatever he bought. But still, the normal 'I thought of you while I was gone, and bought you a simple trinket' was not something Zero wanted to give his lover.

He deserved something special. He always did, so every time Zero goes away on a mission, he looks everywhere for that one thing that would tell Kaname that Zero thought of him, loves him, misses him, and can't wait to just simply hold him. Zero roams all over, going from store to store, looking for that ever elusive special something. He stops at Starbucks, orders an iced Caramel Macchiato... with extra caramel.

He finds a seat and sits down and begins enjoying his when a woman walks up to him, and asks if she could sit. He was about ready to refuse him, when she tells him that he looks lost in his thoughts and offered to help him if she can. Not knowing what to say to her, he just sat there like an idiot, starring at her. She was just about to walk away, figuring that he would accept her help, but then he smiled at her and extended his hand to her. After a half an hour later. He's walking down the sidewalk at a brisk pace to a store the woman had suggested to him.

Twenty minutes later, he walked out with what seemed to be the perfect gift, thanks to the kind woman to came to his table. He went back to the hotel, stopped by the desk and asked them to go ahead and call for that cab. Zero headed up to his room, placed Kaname's gift in his suit case, locked it, then added a charm to keep prying eyes and fingers out of his stuff. He was the top of his class when it came to learning charms and coming up with new ones for the hunters association. "Kaname won't be able to get his hands on this until I release the charm." He chuckled to himself.

He's will be so surprise when he see's this, but I hope he likes it. Zero is worried about how Kaname will received this gift. It's so different from any of the others, that he hopes that Kaname will be, for the first time, speechless for a few minutes. When he reaches the lobby and waits for his cabbie to arrive, his thoughts begin to wander back to Kaname again. It's been two weeks and he really missed him. After his phone call last night with Kaname, he was really getting worried. He sounded down, and Zero coming home the next day wasn't enough to cheer him up. He couldn't get his mind off of last night phone call. He needed to hurry up and get home.

At the airport two hours later, Zero is in a hurry to get to his flight. Thanks to traffic, an accident on the freeway, and all of the stupid security the airport currently has, he was afraid he was going to be late and miss his flight. He's running, but thankfully, this area of the airport is empty. 'Weird' he thought, but he's thankful. He just might have a chance to catch his flight after all.

As he's running and feels a sharp sting in his shoulder and he goes to brush his shoulder not understand what it was. His fingers brush up again something. He stops running and pulls a shot dart out. "What the hell?" he mumbles to himself. He scans the area around him but sees nothing. He turns to continue running, but he quickly discovers that his eye sight is getting blurry, and his legs are weak and about to give out on him. That's when he realized that he had been drugged. Before he blacked out, his last thought were of Kaname and his worry for him. Kaname, I am so sorry.

He just doesn't understand what is going on. Zero was here, right in front of him. They were kissing and holding each other tight. They had missed each other. It had been two very hard weeks without his lover. Zero broke the kiss, and there was a sad look in his eyes. Slowly, oh so slowly, Zero started to disappear right in front of him. Kaname tried to reach for him but his hand went right through him. He started to panic. "Zero? Zero!", he screamed and finally Zero vanished right before his eyes. Frantic to find Zero, he begins to run through out the whole house yelling his name, knowing he should be heard.

"Zero!", Kaname yells as he flings himself into a sitting position, only to realize he had been sleeping. " It was only a bad dream, thank god." He looks to see what time it was. It was almost time for him to get up and he didn't think he could get anymore sleep anyway, so he decided to get up and get ready to go pick up Zero at the airport. He rushed to the shower, dried, and ate a few blood tablets. Zero still couldn't handle blood tablets, so needed to feed from Kaname. He was due for his next feeding. He was really looking forward to it. The hunters first night home and he had some very special plans.

At the airport, Zero's flight has finally arrived. It was two hours late, and Kaname couldn't wait to hold Zero. The passengers begin to flood the luggage area and Zero's luggage comes his was on the conveyor belt. His servant gets the bags and waits with his master for Zero. Kaname looks for Zero. Ten minutes later, the passengers disperse and head to their destinations, and still no sign of Zero. He tries to call Zero on his cell, but there is no answer. He calls the

hotel Zero stayed at for those two weeks to find he had checked out early, in a cab headed for the airport. Kaname begins to think back on the dream he had last night. Now that he thinks about it, something felt really strange during the dream. His bond with Zero telling him that Zero was really in deep trouble.

Zero slowly begins to wake up, consciousness slowly coming to him. The first thing he notices is a massive headache. The next thing he notices is that he's tied up and vertical. When he tried to open his eyes, that's when he realized he was still blind folded. This didn't make a whole lot of sense to him, but he needed to get answers. Zero lifts his head and moans uncontrollably because moving his head cause the migraine in his head to feel worse. Zero heard a voice asking him if he was awake. Zero didn't answer.

"Come now, I know your awake, and I just want to talk to you. Here I'll help you start. Your name is Zero Kiryuu, you're a hunter and ex-human vampire. I find that fascinating by the way. And the most important piece of information that we are going to talk about is Kaname Kuran… Your mate." Zero was struggling to breath 'Oh crap. This asshole took him because he was mated to Kaname? How did he find out? Who is this guy?' He struggle to keep his body language passive, and he hoped it was working.

" Come now, don't you want to talk about your lover. Most people who love the person they were with, would want to talk about them….Nothing to say? Hmmm, I can be very persuasive when I need to be. Ok boys… I'll let you have your fun for now, but remember. I still need to talk to he truly doesn't understand why he's here, he will soon enough." From somewhere off to his left, he heard "Yes boss. Bob, Joe, come one lets go have us some fun."

Zero heard three sets of feet heading his way. He's trying to keep his panic from taking over. He knew whatever these three men were going to do, it was going to hurt like hell. They took his blind fold off his head, as well as the rest of his cloths. In seconds, he was as naked as the day he was born. Over the next several hours, Zero endured abuse, pain, and, so much humiliation until he passed out.

The next thing that Zero was aware of, he was lying on a comfortable bed, with silk sheets and a pillow under his head that smelled like Kaname. He's confused. The last thing he remembered was running to catch his flight, but he doesn't remember being on the air plane or coming home. "Where am I?" Zero whispered through a dry and painful throat. "Zero! Oh thank God your awake." Zero hadn't opened even opened his eyes yet, so he didn't see that Kaname had been sitting in a chair next to the bed, hoping that Zero would wake up soon.

TBC:

I hope you all are enjoying this story. My plot bunnies have been toying with this idea in my head, but they couldn't come up with a definite plot line, that is until last night. I know you people don't like cliff hangers, but I like to keep everyone guessing what is going to happen next.