Always Watching

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"Him that I love, I wish to be free -- even from me." -Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The sun was beginning to rise over the town in the distance. Golden rays that now hurt his eyes because of what he had become. The dark was swallowed by the brightening dawn, so unlike himself. He turned to look at her, changed and yet the same. Her long hair was swept by a light wind. He missed her short hair... "It's bright," she stated as she walked over beside him.

He did not turn to look at her. "Yes, it was," he admitted. He heard her sound of mingled confusion and surprise. "I was always watching here."

"Zero..."

He still did not look at her as he continued, "When I was looking at Kuran Kanama, it was you that I see." He paused. "Through him, through everyone." It was impossible for him to look at her while he admitted this. He did not want to see her face..."You always smile. Then, even when I did the most unforgivable thing, it didn't change." Memories of her, from before, flashed like a movie before his eyes. So many memories... "The meaning of my whole life was to save you...that's what I thought." Then the most recent...Ichiru....He had lost everyone dear to him, anyone he could have loved. "All of my...life."

He closed his eyes. "You're going to leave me now, right?" He asked with his voice changing back to its normal placid tone.

A heavy silence hung in the air as he breathed. She was only a short distance away, yet... "Zero, when you became a vampire," she said, "You asked me to kill you."

"Yes."

"I became a vampire." No....

"I still don't believe your a vampire." He heard her gasp. "I just can't accept it."

"But, Zero, that's..."

He finally turned and looked at her. "If you really are a vampire, prove it and drink my blood." He demanded. Part of him...still hoped....

He saw the tears form in her eyes, those eyes...as he took her into his arms. "If you are my detestable vampire..." he whispered into her ear. It was a sick irony, he thought, as she bent down to his neck, that he had always wanted to hold her his arms, but not like this...

Then she bit him. The blood was tugged from his veins, with each pound of his heart, with a painful melody. She is a vampire, he told himself, but all of those memories...and he realized she could taste it, feel it as he did...Yuki...Yuki...Yuki! With each pound of his self-hating heart. She pulled away from his first. "You are a vampire," he said, "You and I live in different worlds." ...No...

She wiped away the blood from her face with those eyes. Always those eyes...She knew...she knew now... "But someday, I'll...I'll come to kill you." Realization, pain, and understanding combined on her face as she nodded.

"I'll wait," she replied simply.

She left him standing there in the brightening sunrise, but the world was dark to him. She knew...she knew...and he knew with total clarity that she had become a vampire....not entirely... He shook his head and felt the bloody rose in his pocket. The cold metal comforted him, whispering to him that it would be alright. He would kill all the purebloods for what they had done to him and would do to others. And...he would kill her, because he loved her.

The Yuki he had known was not there, could not be there, and even if she was, he would be setting her free from that miserable existence. Zero would kill her because in the end, he would be saving her. From herself.

Because even now, he still loved her.

A/N:This is my 2nd piece for VK! I took this from the anime version, not the manga. Thanks for reading and reviews are loved!