Sleepless Beauty.
Outside the Kuran mansion the sunshine brightly and gently shone upon everything.
The forest had already begun dying.
The leaves had turned fragile and breakable.
Fall had arrived and now there wasn't long 'till winter.
The fresh air of Spring had turned into a warm and soft Summer breeze.
The warmth had faded … and become an illusion.
In the Fall everything would start dying away slowly before the eyes of everyone.
The sun would still appear yet not caress ones skin with warmth and gentle strokes.
It would merely shine as a chilly wind would blow right through you.
And then as three months would surely pass within a mere blink of an eyes, Winter would come and bury everything below a cold white carpet of shiny snow.
Yuki sat, lost in thoughts of the very first memory she had had while surrounded by snow.
All alone.
Memoryless.
Scared.
Cold …
She even still today felt like a shiver went through her body just by the thought of being alone in out there in the dark snowy night.
Still, the sight of blood from the vampire who had tried feeding from her lingered somewhere in her mind.
She folded her arms around herself.
Even if she could not forget, she had already let it pass as sand slipping between the fingers even if held firmly.
Somehow she had been able to let go of her affections towards Zero too …
she still loved him, yet it wasn't romantic feelings that filled her heart.
Ever since living with the Chairman and having encountered Zero she had come to care for him as a brother only.
Even Kaname had come to accept that fact.
She finally, after such a long time, knew who held her heart.
"Momma ..." a tiny low voice said sleepy.
Yuki turned her head downwards.
A small beautiful boy stood beside her.
His hair straight and kinda long, just as Yuki's hair although not as long as hers.
His eyes were sleepy-looking and dreamy, blood red.
As the perfect frame, his long dark eyelashes curled delicately, making his blood red pearl eyes too irrisistable to not gazing into.
"Yuume. Is something the matter?" Yuki asked her fire-year-old son.
He looked up at her, hugging tight a book filled with fairytales.
A book given to him by 'grandfather' aka the Chairman.
Yuki smiled gently down at him.
Yuume seemed to treasure that book the most.
He was so beautiful that she kinda forgot he actually didn't need her to adore him as any other would have, but that she actually had to care for him as his mother.
She sat down on the floor before him, gently placing her hands on his tiny shoulders.
"You want me to read to you?" she asked with motherly concern and adoring eyes fixed upon him carefully.
It took some time before Yuume replied, he was rather slow.
Yuki suspected he was suffering from low blood sugar …kinda like Shiki.
"Uh un." Yuume answered shaking is head very slowly from one side to the other.
"Yoko cried so now I can't remember my dream." Yuume answered a little sad.
Yuki widened her eyes.
How adorable … he's wanted to remember his dream!
Yuki came back to the present almost immediately.
"Eh, Yoko was crying? Why is that?" Yuki asked.
Yuume merely stared at her.
"Are you still a little sleepy Yuume?" Yuki asked smiling at him as she hugged him tightly.
He was still holding the book close in his small arms.
"I want daddy to read momma." Yuume said quietly into her long dark hair.
Yuki smiled at him as she tugged him into herself.
She stroke his hair and answered; "I see."
The door to the large living room in which Yuki and Yuume was staying in was carefully opened.
This very room in the cellar which Yuki had practically lived in before her vampire self had been put into slumber was the place she enjoyed to stay in the most.
Yuki smiled happily as the door was closed safely again and told Yuume to turn around.
Approaching them elegantly, Kaname walking majestic and slowly with a chuckling, pale beautiful female toddler in his tender arms.
Yoko was going to be two years old when the second month of winter would arrive.
Her hair, dark and curly and already reaching her waist.
Her eyes blood red pearls as Yuume's, framed also with long curly eyeslashes although she had already outrun her brother in how to use them properly.
Kaname sat in the sofa in the spot where Yuki had been sitting before joining Yuume on the floor.
"Daddy ..." Yuume said, obviously with longing in his voice.
Apparently their children were just as taken with Kaname's beauty and elegance as Yuki was.
Kaname smiled gently at Yuume and Yuki, both of them blushing.
Kaname padded the free spot on the sofa next to him, meant for Yuki.
She rose from the floor, holding onto Yuume tightly, and placed herself beside Kaname, smoothly sliding Yuume down between them.
Kaname gently padded his son's tiny head and planted a soft kiss on Yuki's forehead, stroking her hair tenderly with his slender hand.
The chuckling beautiful girl in Kaname's arms reached out her hands for Yuki.
Kaname gazed sweetly at Yuki, smiling teasingly.
He quite loved to see her as a tender loving mother of his small children.
He somewhat felt more majestic than ever before.
A proud powerful yet tender king with his beautiful adoring queen.
And together they were granted with a tiny dreamy prince and and a tiny princess with sunshiny smiles.
The only remaining members of the pure blood Kuran clan.
Although Kaname knew only too well about the life of a pure blood, he couldn't come to regret having two beautiful children with his most beloved girl.
Yuki reached for Yoko and Kaname obeyed Yuki's craving for her delicate daughter.
"Daddy." Yume said with a careful voice and sleepy eyes.
Kaname looked at his son.
Nothing.
"Ah ha ha, Yuume, tell daddy what you told momma." Yuki said stroking Yuume's dark straight hair as she gazed lovingly at Kaname.
Yuume gazed downwards, mumbling as he stared at the book in his arms; "Momma wants daddy to read to Yoko and Yuume ..."
Yuki leaned closer towards Kaname, whispering with a soft chuckle; "He wanted you to read aloud to him so that he may remember the dream he had before Yoko started crying and woke him up."
Yuume didn't notice the whispering just above his head.
He gazed at the book with timid eyes and blushing cheeks.
Although he kinda wanted to hear his daddy read to him lots of fairytales with lots of happy endings … he kinda wanted the most to let Yoko hear them too.
Together with him.
He wanted to be a good and kind older brother to her.
Kaname touched Yuume's hand very lightly asking, without the use of words, for the book in his son's arms.
"Which one do you want me to read?" Kaname asked quietly.
Yuume leaned his head up against Kaname.
"The princess who woke up ..." Yuume said with a dreamy gleam in his eyes as he gazed at his mother.
Kaname lay one arm around Yuume, tugging the dreamy boy into his chest as he started to read aloud.
"Once upon a time there was a Queen who had a beautiful baby daughter.
She asked all the fairies in the kingdom to the christening, but unfortunately forgot to invite one of them, who was a bit of a witch as well.
She came anyway, but as she passed the baby's cradle, she said: "When you are sixteen, you will injure yourself with a spindle and die!"
Yuki leaned up against Kaname's broad shoulder with Yoko still awake in her arms.
She seemed to be listening too.
Kaname bend his head and kissed Yuki tenderly where after he bend his head further and kissed Yoko's forehead.
Yoko gave out a bird-like laughter.
Yuki cradled her lovingly in her arms.
Yuume said kinda demandingly yet innocent; "Yoko wants to hear about the princess."
Kaname and Yuki smiled at each other.
Kaname proceeded;
"Oh, no!" screamed the Queen in horror.
A good fairy quickly chanted a magic spell to change the curse.
When she hurt herself, the girl would fall into a very deep sleep instead of dying.
The years went by, the little Princess grew and became the most beautiful girl in the whole kingdom.
Her mother was always very careful to keep her away from spindles, but the Princess, on her sixteenth birthday, as she wandered through the castle, came into a room where an old servant was spinning.
Yoko yawned loudly her eyes getting heavier.
Yuume tugged at his fathers sleeve saying in a rush; "Daddy, daddy I want to hear just the ending!"
Both Yuki and Kaname chuckled softly at the obvious intention of their son.
Kaname found the ending immidiatly and read;
Just then, the spell was broken.
The Princess rose to her feet, holding out her hand to the Prince.
And the whole castle woke up too.
Everybody rose to their feet and they all stared round in amazement, wondering what had happened.
When they finally realised, they rushed to the Princess, more beautiful and happier then ever.
A few days later, the castle that only a short time before had lain in silence, now rang with the sound of singing, music and happy laughter at the great party given in honour of the Prince and Princess, who were getting married.
They lived happily ever after, as they always do in fairy tales, not quite so often, however, in real life.
Kaname closed the book silently.
The quiet snoring of his toddler daughter in Yuki's arms filled the room with a calming sound.
Yuki sat, gazing with adoring eyes down at her beautiful daughter in her arms.
Kaname leaned his head against Yuki's as her head was still placed upon his shoulder.
Yuume was sound asleep in Kaname's embrace in between Yuki and Kaname.
Yuki looked at their son, as did Kaname both with a smile on their face.
She chuckled.
"It seems he remembered."
I'm REALLY proud of myself for writing this story ^^
I actually like it very much. I'm not selfish I'm just glad it turned out quite well :)
I wanted to have them be "a loving family" like Haruhka and Yuri ... just in there own way. ^^
And the children's personality fits their names: Yoko (sunhine or sun child) I can't remember and Yuume (a dream and then also because I'm a YUME fan ^^ I just wanted his name to be spelled with two "uu's")
And why I chose for Kaname to read aloud Sleeping Beauty is because I find that (Kaname and Yuki's relationship)
and (Sleeping Beauty and then Prince's relationship) alike ^^
Both girls is put to sleep, they awake with a kiss
(Yuki actually gets bitten but when she awakes as her "real" vampire self it is while Kaname feeds her with his blood through a kiss)
and then they are to live happily ever after ^^
