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Title: Envy
AN: This may turn into a series of oneshots/drabbles based on the seven deadly sins. We'll see how it goes. I ain't promising anything, 'cause I don't want anyone to get all huffy if I don't write more.
Disclaimer: All characters are property of Hino Matsuri and various corporations of which I am not an employee. Therefore I own no rights in any way, shape, or form. I just like making the poor characters angst at you for my own amusement.
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Despite the fact that he hated Zero Kiriyu to the depths of his being, Kaname Kuran also envied him. Or perhaps it was partially because of that envy that he loathed Kiriyu so violently. Kaname was unaccustomed to envying anyone, much less someone as despicable as he. Nevertheless, he did envy Kiriyu, so much so that sometimes he thought it would consume him.
He envied Kiriyu his constant presence at Yuki's side, his ability to be there when she needed protection from harm, to always be in a position to stand between her and the violence that followed her.
He envied Kiriyu's drinking with impunity from Yuki's snowy flesh—an act he himself could not perform without further reaching consequence. No one should taste Yuki's sweet essence but himself, yet Kiriyu fed from her regularly despite both of their attempts to hide it.
He envied Kiriyu Yuki's care for him, her instinctual leap to his defense when the loathsome creature was threatened, her refusal to allow Kiriyu's inevitable descent into madness. Her support of Kiriyu in the face of his own disapproval irked him almost beyond reason beneath the calm façade he showed to the world.
He envied Kiriyu as he envied no one else on this earth, for there was no other being that could inspire his envy. After all, Yuki was unique and no one else was as close to her as Kiriyu.
It galled him that he felt envy for such a lesser creature, a reviled vampire hunter now transformed into a lowly E class vampire. However, Kaname took satisfaction in the sure knowledge that one day he would see to Kiriyu's destruction. One day Kaname would be at Yuki's side, able to protect his dear girl, able to make her his forever.
