The One Who Is Devoured

Pairing: AkatsukiXZero

Genre: Angst/Drama

Disclaimer: I do not and will not own Vampire Knight.

Summary: We first met in a party, and ever since then, it's been a game of who is the one getting devoured by whom. KainXZero.

We first met in a party, sponsored by the company I work in. It's the celebration of the tenth anniversary of the company, as well as our ruling in the business and industry world, an event in which I cannot avoid but to attend, no matter how tedious it may seem to be.

The night is crowded, many people filling the huge space of the ballroom we've booked especially for this event. We've invited a few important guests from other companies as well, as I seemed to notice many unrecognizable faces in the crowd, even when none struck me as someone particularly decent to begin with.

But only until I laid my eyes on him.

He's a stranger, obviously one of the guests as I've never seen him before, and first appeared to me as one of those loners, the ones which never find parties as much as an enjoyment as many others did. We're alike in that matter, and that's what first caught my interest in him.

I moved away from my position in the far off corner and walked towards him, wine glass still in hand. He had one in his hand too, but unlike mine, which is filled with the glorious color of deep crimson, his was only a simple white, water, plain water, I presumed.

My second opinion on him was, he simply can't find ways to at least try to entertain himself, can he?

I smiled to myself and continue walking towards him. He didn't seem to notice me, and he didn't seem to mind as I lean myself against the wall right beside him.

"Not in the mood for party?" I said to him, I didn't need to lower my voice as the room was already buzzing with so many noises, they had to go quiet altogether or were standing right next to me to hear what I said.

"Not really." He answered, his voice was not as low as I first imagined it to be. It was pleasant to be heard. "I'm never in the mood for parties in the first place."

"Then why do you come?" I asked again, curiosity and boredom forced me to.

He stayed silent for a minute and just when I thought he wanted to be left alone, he turned his head towards me and I immediately found myself staring right into a pair of amethyst colored eyes. "Why do you ask?"

Those eyes, they're mesmerizing. "Because it seems like a good reason to."

"A good reason?" He scoffed and folded his hands in front of his chest, his posture laid back and challenging. "Are you saying that to me, or to yourself?"

"What do you mean?"

"Is it a good reason to get to know me, or to entertain yourself?"

I smirked at his question. "Whichever it is will get you to answer."

He smirked back, I notice that he has a tattoo on his neck, a rose shaped tattoo. It's kinda sexy. "Alright. I'll humor you."

"Please do."

He chuckled softly, the sound of it ringing in my ears like bells. I had decided that night, that I intended to examine this intriguing creature I just found until the last strand of his fine silver hair. He may be the only thing entertaining in this boring, uneventful night.

"So…" I snapped back from my thoughts as I heard his voice. "Are you not into this party yourself?"

I shook my head, I'll disappoint my party planner of a friend if he saw me, but he didn't. So, I guess I can be honest. "Not really."

"Then why come?" He copied my earlier question, before taking a sip of his glass of water.

"Responsibility." I shrugged, taking a sip of my own glass as well.

"I guess you're some kind of a big shot in your company, then."

I thought about his remark for a while. Head of planning and development? Pretty much, no? "I guess I am."

"You're quite straight forward, aren't you?" He quirked an eyebrow at me, smiling as he did so.

"I just say what I gotta say." I returned his smile and shifted slightly closer to him, he smelled of lilacs. "And you?"

"I'm not someone important."

"I doubt that."

"What do you believe, then?"

I took another sip from my glass of wine and moved away from the wall. He looked surprised at my action, he thought I'll just leave him like that? No. He's way too interesting to be left alone. So instead of doing what he thought I would do, I stood in front of him and leaned towards him, my hand right beside his head, my body blocking his sight of the crowded room. No one was watching us anyway.

"I believe that you're a very important guess…" I murmured into his ear, wanting pretty badly to play with the ear cuffs he had put on. "… Who has never tried to drink wine before."

He looked at his glass of water, then to my glass of wine and then back to my face, his eyes glinting mischievously. "I have never really understood what is it about them that made them cost a good amount of fortune."

"It is their taste, of course. They're intoxicating. Want to try it?"

"Are you trying to get me drunk and then seduce me into sleeping with you?"

I blinked at his question, mulling it over in my head and then I laughed so hard that a few people turned to look at our direction. This would probably the hardest I had laughed in years.

"Well…" I wiped my eyes, finally being able to stop laughing. "If it's working, then yes. I am."

His eyebrows furrowed at my words. "Do I amuse you?"

"Yes, immensely so."

"Do you want to go to a private room with me?"

"Yes." I chuckled, before leaning into his face. "I want to devour you."

He didn't say anything at first, only keeping his eye contact with me silently. But I know he's not afraid. He's not the type who gets afraid. This person is… Different. I know it, I can feel it. Then it's proven that my theory was indeed correct as he drank his glass empty and smirked at me. "That was fast."

"You knew it all along?" I grinned, checking out his mouth watering features. "Or do you want it all along?"

He chuckled. "I rather say that I suspect it all along."

I laughed again, he's indeed different from all of those other people that I've met before. "Oh. Then, shall we?"

"We shall." He pushed at my shoulder and I let him out of my prison. I watched as he put down his glass on one of the tables before turning towards me again and then whispered words into my ear. "But let's just make one thing clear, regarding this so called mutual agreement, we shall see who's the one that's getting devoured by whom."

I smirked at his obvious challenge and followed him through the crowd swiftly, right after disposing of the glass I've had and the expensive wine in it. I didn't need it to entertain me anymore, I've had this stunning creature right in my grasp.

"Do you have a room in this hotel?" He asked me as we tried to cross this football field size ballroom.

"Yes, a suite. Don't worry about anything, I've got everything covered."

"I know."

We made it to the end of the room, but just as we're about to open the doors, a voice stopped me.

"Hey, Akatsuki! Where the hell are you going?"

I glanced behind my back to see that it's my cousin, slash co worker, Aidou Hanabusa. "I am… Uh…" I gave him a code and then he immediately got what I mean.

"Oops. Sorry."

I ignore his apologize and his words as he said 'he has to leave, my friend's getting laid' to someone. Instead I went straight to the elevator, where my current interest was already waiting.

"Sorry." I murmured and punched the button on the elevator to go up, he didn't say anything back.

We waited in silence until finally the elevator made a small electrical noise and we went into it together. My suite is on the twentieth floor and somehow the long journey there was kinda getting me impatient, I can't seem to keep my hands to myself.

"Hey." I called to him, he's been silent the whole way. I wonder what's he thinking of? "I'm sorry, but… Can I try to kiss you?"

He looked at me for a while, eyes empty, before nodding his head slightly. "That's fine."

I walked slowly to him, and then lifted his chin up with my right hand. He's tall, but slightly shorter than me, his body was lean, but still very well built, his skin was pale white, but not as pale as a sick person, his hair was silver, but not the color of an old person, his face was beautiful, but not in the same way as a woman's and his lips… Was very tempting indeed. Only then do I had the chance to examine all of his features carefully and dare I say that I, I'm not disappointed.

Then, without waiting any longer, I kissed him, slowly at first, with tentative touches all over his back. He tasted of mint, apparently it's quite addictive. I tried to deepen our kiss, slipping my tongue into his willing mouth and explore the moist cavern inside. He didn't resist at all, it's like he's asking to be dominated, what's that about who's going to get devoured by whom?

"Hey." I pulled away from his mouth, kissing his neck as my left hand went inside his shirt. "Are you surrendering yourself to me?"

"Hell no." He glared as my hand in his shirt traveled downwards. "Don't you think people can see us from the security camera?"

I smiled against the junction between his neck and shoulder, I wanted to bite and mark him. "Don't worry. Didn't I tell you that I got everything covered? This hotel belong to the company I work in. I know the guy in charge of this place, I can always get the tape and blackmail you with it."

"I thought you said don't worry." He whimpered as I palmed the front of his pants, they're already semi hard.

"I'm only saying that because I want you to use your mouth for a better purpose than talking."

"Idiot."

I can feel his arms wrapped themselves around my neck and pulled me closer for another kiss, which I gladly obliged to. He's finally taking some action this time, caressing my tongue with his almost sensually and even though I want to battle for dominance and coax him to surrender to me, I got lost in the moment and just followed the way his tongue was moving against mine.

"Told you..." He panted after we parted for air, there's a string of saliva between us. "… That I'll be the one who devour you."

"That's not devouring." I encircled my hand around his small waist and the other pushed the open button on the elevator repeatedly as we had reached my floor. "It's called seducing."

"Oh really?"

"Yes. I'll show you…" We got out from the elevator, still in each other arms, with him kissing my neck and me groping his lower back, and bumped into the first door on the right, which was my suite. I immediately reached my pants pocket for the key card. "I'll show you what devouring truly is."

"You do? Well, that's a coincidence." He kissed me on the lips and I ceased all of my movements. "Because I was just about to show you as well."

I smirked, kissing him back and letting ourselves into the room. After that, everything else is a blur, an array of movements, kissing, licking, biting and driving each other over the edge. I remember throwing him on the king size bed, slipping him off his pants and his annoying suit before letting him pull me on top of him, getting off my own suit in the process. I remember being quite harsh with him, I don't know, I just can't control myself when I'm with him, which was why when we're kissing feverishly, I unconsciously let my mouth wander down to his neck, where his pulse can be heard the loudest and, bit him.

He gasped as I did so, trying to push me off of him almost desperately, but I just can't stop. His blood is delicious, like none other I've tasted before. Oh, did I forget to mention that I'm a vampire? Well, I am, as well as most of the employees in the company and I know that he's too, even though he's in a lower rank than me.

I gained back my senses a minute later, when my desire for blood has been satisfied and then I look at his face. He looked shocked, but not afraid, never afraid, and I licked the bite wounds I've caused apologetically, it healed right away.

"Sorry." I whispered, but he didn't answer. Instead he pulled my face back and kissed me again.

I remember pushing into him, gently at first, I didn't want to hurt him, as I didn't bring any lube with me that night and had used his saliva as its replacement. I know he's not a virgin, he told me as I was thrusting steadily into him. That's when I suddenly felt mad, angry, jealous, though it's usually not in my nature, and began to increase my pace almost mercilessly, his cries of pain and pleasure echoed in the room that night.

We came together after the first round, and we had countless more afterward. We were just too into each other that we had forgotten about our limits as well as we were about to go crazy. His face is all sweaty and teary after we're done, he looked spent, but highly satisfied. So do I, but seeing his face like that, made me want to ravish him again, and again. I spread out the blanket a moment later though, after I came down from my high, slipping into it and wrapping my arms around him, with both our bodies still very naked. I remember him suddenly licked my collarbone and bit down, hard, but not hard enough to draw blood. He said that it's a mark to remind me of this night and a payback for what I did to him earlier. I nodded at what he said, still apologetic, and let him snuggled closer into me as I kissed him goodnight on the cheek softly. I had a nice dream that night, and the most decent sleep I have had in months.

But in the morning… I remember waking up in the morning to an empty bed, cold, with no warmth beside me. He has left, just like that. All of his clothes are taken and mine are folded neatly on the bedside table. He left, without any word, without leaving any trace of him but that faint lilac scent on the pillow and the sheet where he has just slept a few hours ago. He didn't even leave his name. Now he's gone.

I touched the bite mark he has given me the night before.

I understand now the meaning behind the words he has said to me in that party.

I may have devoured his body, but he has devoured my feelings for him.

-Fin-

Right, so this fic is made for a challenge I made with my friend, March Rosenqueen, as well as a compensation for the devastating tardiness of the update of my other fic, That Vampire of The Manor. I don't want to make excuses here, but please forgive me. Pretty Please?

Oh well. By the way, this fic is actually made to be longer than this, much, much longer, it should have about, two, or three parts more after Zero left Kain after the one night stand, but I decided to cut it, because if I continued it until the end in just one fic, it'll be absolutely long and your eyes will hurt like hell after you read it. Although, if you want the continuation, I can provide it by making this story a series, but if not, if this story is already good as it is, then there will be no continuation.

So, sequel, anyone?