The Prince's Knight
***IMPORTANT!! PLEASE READ!! CHANGES HAVE BEEN MADE!!!***
A/N: I know I kind of... neglected... this story. But this was my first post and I didn't have an actual out-line for it... -slams face on keyboard- BAD RUKI! Soooo... I have decided to revise and tweak it a little bit in order for it to fit with the ideas I have been graciously given. I want to thank irmina for the wonderful ideas that jump-started my dormant plot bunnies out of the "WRITER'S BLOCK PIT OF DEATH". ^_^" For the readers and reviewers of this story, thank you for your support also! Since there have been some changes, I need all you previous readers to let me know how the improved version of this chappie turned out. Better? Worse? I am still not sure on how long this is going to be, but if you want a full out plot, I would appreciate the input. QUESTION: Should this story have an in-depth plot (more action, drama, twists and turns, emotional build up)? Or should I make it pretty simple (straight to the point, less plot to follow, short)? I would like to know what my readers would like to read. Please enjoy the new and improved intro!
Warning(s): nothing in this chapter. (For the entire story - violence, blood, attempted suicide and suicidal thoughts, language, abuse, sexual situations, BDSM, attempted non-con (rape), yaoi, and lots of drama) This fic is rated M. It contains hot guy on guy smex and adult themes. Don't like, then get the hell out.
Summary: Zero has doubts about going to Kaname for blood. Finally accepting that he "doesn't belong" and tired of feeling pain, Zero tries to end everything... even his life. However, Kaname will not allow this. Can he convey his feelings to help Zero?
Disclaimer: Vampire Knight belongs to the wonderful Matsuri Hino-sama. I only borrow the characters and manipulate them, giving my sex-crazed plot bunnies free range to do as they please. I only own my fucked up, perverted mind and the plot bunnies that inhabit it.
Background/Introduction
Kaname Kuran is not the heartless pureblood he makes himself out to be. In fact, our handsome pureblood has a secret. His calm exterior was just for show. Inside, he was aching for an emotional connection. For the past several months he has kept a protective watch over, none other than, Zero Kiryuu. The ex-human hunter has been showing signs of increased frustration and distress. Kaname has caught Zero eyeing the necks of several day class girls during class cross-over, but before Kaname could approach him, the hunter had already caught himself and averted his eyes. It could be said that Kaname is just looking out for the Day Class students, but that would not be the entire truth. It wasn't the humans he was so intently interested in. No, his attention is solely focused on the silver haired hunter.
Having watched Zero cope with the tragic loss of his family four years ago, there has always been a part of Kaname that was curious about the boy. Seeing him claw at the left side of his neck until it bled made Kaname's heart ache. He wanted to wrap the boy in his arms and make the pain go away. Ah, but that was years ago. Kaname knew Zero would have never let him get that close, he had never let him get close from the beginning. The brunet couldn't blame the younger teen. Not only is Kaname a vampire, but a pureblood. Just like the one that had brutally murdered the Kiryuu family and took Zero's twin brother, Ichiru.
As the years passed, things changed somewhere in between. The Zero he sees now is no longer the traumatized 13 year old, although the hunter may still try to hide the painful memories that haunt him. He has grown into a strong, defiant young man of age 17. Although Zero still finds it hard to accept that he is no longer human, the fact that he hasn't fully shunned vampires is surprising. Attending Cross Academy and escorting the Night Class might have been good therapy for Zero.
Kaname can no longer convince himself that he doesn't have feelings for the hunter, because in reality, he wants Zero to be his. Not as a possession, but as an equal who can stand by his side and share his feelings. So, what draws the pureblood to the rebellious hunter? Surely a pureblood would be looked down upon if he had an ex-human lover. But that's just it. Watching Zero from a distance had given Kaname enough time to battle the uncertainty and confirm that the one he wants… is Zero Kiryuu.
The silver-haired hunter never saw Kaname as a pureblood. The younger teen never even knew that Kaname was watching him slowly fall to Level E. That is, until Kaname was throwing him down on the ground and practically making him drink from the pureblood's offered neck. Once Zero had taken enough to bring him back from the End, Kaname had made Zero promise to come to him if his bloodlust began to flare up again. Not only would that prevent Zero's fall to Level E, but it would give Kaname the opportunity to get closer to the hunter.
Kaname was trying to close the gap between him and the hunter. His goal was to get Zero to see that he doesn't have to carry the weight of the world on his shoulders alone, bottling up all his emotions wasn't healthy. If he could get Zero to open up to him, maybe they would recognize that they had more in common than anyone might have thought. Kaname only hoped that Zero would accept his feelings. He had never really considered the silver haired hunter's feelings directed at him before. There is only one way for Kaname to find out: Next time Zero needs blood, if he seeks out Kaname, then he must not completely hate him. If Zero doesn't... well, let's hope that Zero doesn't choose death over accepting Kaname's blood.
// Edit: 12.21.09 //
A/N: Well this is the Prologue! (Pretty much the background info for The Prince's Knight). Again, thank you irmina for the wonderful ideas. I hope you will continue to review and let me know if this turns into something similar to your original ideas. As for everyone else, let me know how this turned out! When I post the next chapter, I will take down the notice.
Again I apologize to everyone for my unorganized laziness to overcome this obstacle.
While this tries to climb it's way up from the bottom of the "Priority Pile", please continue to check out my other stories (more will be on their way)!
Typing for her life,
~RukiRomance
