Vampire Myth
- Lust -

Hello, and welcome to my crazy obsession with Vampire Knight & The Seven Deadly Sins

This first chapter I wrote so long ago. I didn't even know what I was writing at the time. Like most of my musings, I just felt the need to write, and this is what came out.
It wasn't until months later, while bored and waiting for a video to load (I had exceeded my download limit, you see. Yes, tragic, I know) I started going through old stories. This is something I tend to do often, go through old stories. And seeing how I had labelled it 'Lust' at the time gave me the Seven Deadly Sins idea.

Each chapter will be dedicated to a Deadly Sin (I don't know if that's actually a proper noun there. Better safe than sorry, though), and Zero will feel each sin for which the chapter is named.
Obviously there will be seven chapters.

This story is for Zero.
I'm not sure how it will end up, whether he gets Yuki in the end, or loses her.
As much as I love writing angst, I also seem to have a tendency for romance.
Who knows which love of mine will win out in the end. I certainly don't. Hopefully I will by the time it's finished, though..

Disclaimer: I do not own Vampire Knight, or any of the characters in the following story. Which is probably for the best, seeing as I can't make up my mind for how things should go.
Warnings: Angst (how very Zero), nakedness, 'mature' discussion.

The pain gripped him around the chest, squeezing his lungs so that it was almost impossible to draw a breath. And the steam from the warm shower was definitely not helping.

The silver-haired teen grasped, clawed, at his chest, as the shower pummelled water down his back and the bloodlust threatened to overtake all his senses. His large hands moved to his throat as the pain spread and intensified, his knees weakening and wanting to give way. Now was not the time for an attack, not when it was just he and Yuki all alone on the school grounds.

Finally succumbing to his trembling legs, Zero sank to the slippery tiled floor of the shower, his hands still about his throat as if he could stop the pain from spreading. His fangs had already come down in his mouth, and he could just imagine his eyes taking on the red hue of one in the throes of bloodlust.

Hunched against the wall, the teen squeezed his eyes shut, trying to fight the urge to find sustenance. He knew that down the hall was a sweet girl, a caring girl, a girl who would bare her neck without barely a moment's hesitation should Zero approach her. But with the Chairman away for the evening, and the school completely empty due to the winter holidays, there was the chance that if he took too much from her she could fall very ill.

He knew his breaths were uneven and ragged, knew that his body was covered in sweat despite the water constantly washing it away. And most of all, he knew he could not fight it.

Violently, Zero pushed himself from the ground and barely had time to open the glass shower door before he stumbled through it. Reaching the sink against the opposite wall, the boy pushed against the mirror, causing it to swing open – much too slowly for his own liking – and reveal a hidden in-built medicine cabinet. Hand flying blindly in, it quickly found the small black and red pill box, and returned the object to its owner.

Barely aware of what he was doing, Zero extracted two blood tablets from within the box and shoved them roughly into his mouth. Unable to swallow them dry, he twisted the tap on the sink and placed his mouth under the jet of cool water spilling from there to help down the tablets.

Once the small chalky objects had been swallowed, Zero perched himself on the edge of the bathtub, forgetting all about the shower spewing warm water straight down the drain. He held his face in his hands, willing the tablets to stay down. If they would only stay down, maybe he could stop stealing from Yuki, like some terrible monster.

After a few minutes the tablets appeared to cooperate with his body for once, and the ex-human straightened his back and folded his hands in his lap, cautiously checking his body mentally for any signs that he was going to expel the tablets from his stomach. No, it seemed okay.

Getting shakily to his feet, Zero reached into the shower and twisted the taps, ceasing the flow of the water. But, as he leaned back out of the shower and reached for his towel hanging about the rack on the wall next to it, he felt his stomach clench and push upwards, and with it the strange sensation of liquid coming back up.

Shooting to the toilet, the silver-haired teen only just had enough time to grasp the edges of the porcelain bowl as the blood tablets, and his dinner, spewed forth from his mouth. Coughing and spluttering, Zero crouched down beside the toilet, hoping it to be over, but knowing from past experiences that it was far from over.

After a few more violent outbursts from his stomach, Zero sat weakly on the floor, the powerful pull back in his throat again, his elongated fangs throbbing painfully in his mouth. This was no way to live, he thought numbly.

"Zero?" came a sweet voice through the door as it followed a gentle knock, and the boy on the floor groaned. Oh god, Yuki. Anyone but Yuki.

"Are you okay? You've been in there for a while. And I... I thought I heard you being sick?" The concern was plain in her voice, but Zero could not bring himself to answer, less his voice betray him and show her how much he was thirsting for blood.

"Zero?" she called again, and worry was now overriding the concern. Zero could hear her try the door knob, and silently cursed himself for not thinking to lock it. Not wanting to look at her, he stared at the tiles on the ground, though he could hear her push the door open slowly, and he could hear her gasp as she saw him sitting on the floor naked.

"Oh... I'm sorry!" she quickly said, averting her gaze to a similar tile on the floor that Zero was currently gazing at. "I didn't realise you were... not quite... decent..." she trailed off.

"Go away, Yuki," Zero mumbled tiredly. He was fighting hard the urge to propel from the ground and latch onto the girl's neck standing in the door, and didn't have much energy left to sound angry.

The auburn-haired girl was shocked at the weakness in her friend's voice. "Zero?" she repeated, and instinctively went to her friend, crouching down beside him with a reassuring hand on his shoulder. She was very aware of his nakedness, but tried to ignore it for his sake.

"Yuki, I'm not safe to be around right now," he managed, his voice husky, his red eyes pleading with her to leave. But Yuki only smiled; how many times had he said that he was not safe? And how many times had it proved to not be true? She was relieved to see that his hands were now folded in his lap and offering brief protection to his nudity, though.

"Zero, do you need blood?" she asked softly, and got a groan in reply as Zero dipped his head to look away from her tantalising neck. "Zero!" she cried more urgently. "You don't need to hesitate, you know that!"

"Yes, I do need to hesitate, Yuki. I really should hesitate." He looked up at her through the curtain his hair was forming across his vision. "But I don't, because I'm a monster."

The small girl surprised both occupants of the bathroom when she slapped the bigger boy. "How many times do I have to keep telling you that you are not a monster?" she demanded.

A hand automatically cupping his lightly stinging cheek, Zero looked at Yuki with wide eyes. "Yuki?"

The girl lowered herself off her haunches onto her knees in front of her friend, releasing his shoulder to pull her t-shirt collar aside. "I want to you drink from me, Zero. And you're not a monster, because it's in your nature. Just like it's in a human's nature to kill animals for food, it's in your nature to drink blood from humans."

"Yuki?" Zero repeated.

"Do it, Zero. I don't mind, so neither should you," Yuki whispered.

Leaning forward, the hunter cupped his hands around the small girls head and shoulder, still gazing intently into her eyes. "Are you sure?" he questioned uncertainly.

Yuki sighed. "I am. I have always been certain, and I always will be."

A grateful sobbed escaped Zero's mouth as he buried his face at Yuki's neck. He hated himself for this, hated that he found it so enticing and wonderful when he did it. But he continued. His tongue licked the familiar bite area, prepping it for his fangs' penetration, slightly numbing the area so his 'victim' would feel little pain. And Yuki shivered in his arms at his tongue's actions, and wrapped her arms around him also, pulling him closer.

Zero could feel his chest pressed against Yuki's, could feel her breathing and ever so slightly, her increased heartbeat. She shifted closer to him in between his legs to make it more comfortable for the both of them, and had Zero been less concerned by his bloodlust her perhaps would have noticed Yuki's soft breasts pressed tenderly on his chest and her knee shockingly close to his exposed length.

All that flooded his mind was blood, and as he bit down, blood then flooded his mouth. Instantly it quelled his agonising thirst, and he moaned into Yuki's neck as he pulled the sweet tasting liquid from there. He couldn't imagine anything ever tasting this good, this satisfying.

Yuki was used to the strange sensation of having your blood pulled from your neck like this, but it still caused her to tense up and instinctively pull Zero closer to her, even though she also felt like pushing him away. But she never could push him away, always holding him tight as he held her back equally as tight, as though they were both drowning, the other being their only saviour.

After Zero had taken just enough to quench his thirst, he tenderly licked Yuki's neck clean, his tongue swiping at the new twin wounds on her neck and urging them to cease bleeding. Now that his bloodlust had been taken care of, he was beginning to become aware of another type of lust. Yuki's small warm body held tightly against his own, very much naked one; her arms wrapped tightly around his waist as he held her back; her delicate body sitting innocently close to his groin.

A new hunger was unfolding, and he could feel the heat pooling in his groin. His licks at her neck turned into light kisses, and he murmured an apology, hoping that she would push him away, but also dreading it. A normal 17 year old boy would have found this exciting, let alone a vampire 17 year old boy who was already stimulated by the intake of blood.

"Anytime, Zero," was all that Yuki whispered back in response to his apology, still holding him against her. She wasn't sure what Zero was doing to her neck, never having kissed her after taking from her, but she did know that she rather enjoyed it. "Zero?" she began tentatively.

"Mmm?" he mumbled against her neck, his kisses moving higher to her jawline.

"Are you okay now?"

"Better than ever," he replied softly, his tongue daring to dart out every now and again. Yuki's skin tasted just as sweet as her blood did, and Zero could not imagine someone as perfect as the selfless girl in front of him.

Yuki shivered every time his tongue caressed the sensitive skin of her jaw, and she was increasingly aware of the direction his kisses were taking. She knew she should stop this, but she didn't want to. And the suspense of the kiss she knew was going to inevitably happen was unbearable. "Zero?"

"Mmm?"

"Would you... would you stop that, and... and kiss me?" she asked tentatively.

Zero pulled his head back, his eyes unreadable as he looked at her face. A million reasons ran through his head as to why he should say no; she was his sister, even if only an adopted one; Zero was currently stark naked, and his arse was starting to get cold on the tiles; Zero was currently naked, holding a girl he very much cared for in his arms, and that was dangerous territory for any boy; Zero was naked, and it was very inappropriate for him to be sitting in the same room with another girl as such; pretty much a lot of it stemmed from him currently being naked.

But, he did not voice these things, did not say no. Instead, he found himself saying, "Why?" He didn't say the above things because he found he very much wanted to grant her wish, and kiss Yuki.

Yuki gave a frustrated sigh. "Because it seems like what you were going to do anyway!" She loosened her grip around his waist and sat back a little. "Look, if you don't want to, you don't have to. I just thought it would be nice!" Yuki looked as if she was going to stand, so Zero tightened his grip around her shoulders to prevent her from moving.

"I never said I didn't want to," he said quietly, and Yuki flushed pink at his words. "I just... I guess I just want to make sure it's what you want."

She smiled warmly at him. "And, I guess that I do want you to."

"Then that's all I need," he spoke just as quietly as before, and lowered his head slowly so their lips almost met. His gaze never left her eyes, always judging her and looking for any hesitation. If he saw any hesitation, no matter how much he wanted to kiss her, he would immediately pull away. The last thing he wanted to do was to shock and hurt Yuki.

But all he saw in her wide brown eyes was anticipation, and his eyes closed shut as soon as his lips touched delicately upon hers. Her lips tasted even sweeter than her skin, and Zero found himself moving his hands to cup her cheeks as he leaned a little more into the kiss. But he wanted more.

Yuki closed her eyes the moment she saw Zero doing the same, and at the same time felt their lips meet, Zero's hands holding her head tenderly. She didn't want to breath, doubted that she even could take a breath if she wanted, and she pulled Zero tighter against her body, needing to feel him pressed warmly to her.

Zero needed more as she pulled him closer, his bare chest pressed tightly against her chest. Automatically tilting his head ever so slightly, he moved his tongue hesitantly and brushed it lightly against her full lower lip, asking for permission to enter, and relishing the soft feeling of the skin under it. At first, Yuki was a little shocked to feel his tongue against her lip, but she slowly parted her lips and felt his tongue now working inside and greeting hers.

The silver-haired teen moaned a little as he discovered that inside Yuki was even sweeter tasting than just her lips, and now her blood had a tough rival for the sweetest tasting thing about her. She was shy about the kiss deepening slightly like this though, and Zero could feel her hesitation. He tried to encourage her to be a little bolder, tried to show her there was nothing to be ashamed of with his tongue, and teased her with it, hoping she would use her tongue to taste him back.

She did. Just a little at first, her tongue meeting his closer to the edge of her mouth, then at the edge of his mouth, and then... another moan from the boy as her tongue finally entered the mouth opposite. Yuki knew she should pull back, stop this kiss, that it was wrong. So many reasons to pull away; Zero was her brother, even if only an adopted one; there was the Chairman to think about, he would not approve of this behaviour from his adopted children; there was Kaname to think about, he definitely would not approve of someone else kissing his Yuki, and definitely not like this; Zero was still naked from after his shower-

Crap! With a little gasp, Yuki pulled away sharply from Zero, her hands quickly dropping from around his bare waist and landing heavily into her lap. The boy in front of her was looking at her with hurt eyes though, and she found herself stammering an apology.

Yuki tried to look away from the stunned look she was getting from Zero as she spoke, but found herself starting at an even more awkward sight. "Zero?" she asked shyly, wanting desperately to look elsewhere, but finding she couldn't tear her eyes away.

Yuki was now even more aware of Zero's nakedness as she continued looking down, seeing that his length was sitting differently between his legs than it had been before when she first came in. It didn't look as hard as she would have suspected something like that to look if he had an erection, but it definitely didn't look... normal. And Yuki scolded herself, demanding to know how she knew what was normal for something like that.

Zero caught on quickly at what had caused Yuki to stop her apology, and also dropped his hands from around Yuki's shoulders, resting them on his thighs when he still saw her looking curiously at his semi-hard length. "I'm sorry," he said, slightly ashamed that he had let himself get so worked up over something as trivial as a kiss. "It's ah... because I drank your blood before, I guess," he finished lamely.

The auburn-haired girl blushed lightly as she realised she was still starting at it, and forced her eyes up to his. "Does that make a difference?" she asked innocently, to which Zero replied with a groan and ran his hand through his hair.

"Yeah, I guess so," he said, even though he knew so. The act of taking blood was a highly intimate one, especially when you already had strong feelings for the donor. And it was easy to get... carried away afterwards. For the vampire, at least.

"But... it looks strange," she said bluntly. "Like it's not sitting quite right."

"Uh... well... that's because... I guess you could say... that..." Zero stumbled for the right words. "You could say that... it's not... properly... up... right now."

Yuki merely frowned at him and his bad explanation, to which Zero sighed at. He wanted nothing more than to hide his face in his hands right now, but forced himself to hold Yuki's gaze. "Look, I can't really explain it, but I guess what this is... is... like a half... erection." He didn't want to say last word. If he was the type of person to blush, he would have been blushing all the way from his head down to his stupid 'half erection'. But Yuki blushed enough for the both of them.

"Oh," was all that she said.

"Yeah... oh," Zero replied stupidly.

"So... why?" Yuki continued to be slightly, even if embarrassingly, curious about this.

Now Zero placed his hands in his lap, trying to regain what little self-respect he had left. "Look, Yuki, I really, really, don't want to continue this conversation right now," he said sharply.

"Oh... okay." She remained where she was, still looking at Zero thoughtfully.

"Um... Yuki... do ya think you could leave now? So I can get dressed?"

"Oh! Right! Sorry, Zero!" Yuki hurriedly stood up, straightening out her pleated skirt as she stood up. "Well... just knock on my door when you're finished in here, because I've still got to have a shower."

Once Yuki was safely out of the room, with the door safely closed, Zero finally stood and splashed some cold water on his face from the sink, trying to calm down. In the mirror he looked sternly at the reflection, silently cursing himself for not being able to absorb the blood tablets, and for allowing himself to get so carried away with Yuki. Reaching again for his towel, he wrapped it around his slender waist, and finally pulled open the door, the cold air of the hallway hitting him and succeeding much more than the cold water at calming him down.

He doubted that he could look at Yuki again for the longest time, and suspected she would also have trouble meeting his eye as well.

Good for you. You read the whole way through. *gives gold star*

I'm still not sure what sin to use next. Feel free to send suggestions my way.
But be aware that I am thinking of using Greed and Gluttony at the end. And this is Lust. So you only really have four choices.

For the people who are normal and not like me, and need to look up the Seven Deadly Sins, the other four are:
Wrath.
Pride.
Envy.
Sloth.

That's to save you having to look it up.
'Cause I'm nice like that.