In Chains

The room was dark. Situated at the bottom of the school in the basement, the only light that entered the room was restricted through 2 small windows situated close to the lofty ceiling. It was night, but the moon was full so its pale light filtered through and came to rest upon a dark smudge on the stone floor. Apart from that small pool of light, the rest of the room was cast in shadow.

If it wasn't for the occasional jangle of chains and the sound of heavy breathing you would never have known that the room was occupied. The prisoner lay slumped against the wall staring at his knees, his head tilted forward so that his silver hair fell into his eyes. You could tell that he had once cared about his appearance, but now his once pristine white shirt was grubby and torn and his matted hair had lost its shine. His wrists were chaffed and bloody for he had been chained to the wall, his arms raised to head height. It was obvious that he had struggled against his restraints but had succumbed to failure, so now he stared furiously at his legs, frustration building up inside of him.

Thoughts raced through his mind: When I get out of here, I will kill every one of those blood sucking bastards... Why do I need to be stuck in here?...wait...it's safer for me to be in here, away from the day students...I am a threat, a danger...a danger to Yuuki...Yuuki... She must be so ashamed of me... Why did she help me, she just made me worse...Yuuki...I'm so sorry... A tear slid down his cheek. Why had he have to become this, an uncontrollable monster? Surely life had already given him enough shit to deal with, killing his family in front of his 8 year old eyes? Instead it had dished him up more pain and torture to deal with. He had been cursed to become a vampire. Just the word made his skin crawl. Fury erupted up inside of him, and he slammed his fists against the wall, screaming curses at life itself. The cuffs ripped into his already torn skin, opening up partially healed wounds. Blood dripped down his arms and soaked into his already dirty shirt. The pain felt good though; it was what he deserved, but it made him grow faint. "Kill me." He muttered at the empty room and passed out.

A door creaked open and candle light cast its soft glow into the room. Footfalls grew closer.

"Zero?" Someone muttered.

Zero opened his eyes to slits; after days in darkness the light hurt his eyes. "Yuuki?" he murmured hopefully.

"I'm afraid not, you are too much of a danger to allow her to see you at the moment."

Zero opened his eyes properly and glared up at the man he utterly despised. Kuran Kaname stood over him, pure human perfection. Skin unblemished, large brown eyes, high cheek bones and a chiselled body, Kaname could not be faulted. Of course Kaname was not human, but a Pureblood Vampire, or a King of the Blood Sucking Bastards if you asked Zero's opinion. Although it was not Kaname who caused his family's death, Zero still held him partially responsible, as he did with every vampire but the fact that Kaname was an obnoxious aloof fucker just stoked his hatred fire.

"What do you want?" Zero spat.

Kaname sighed, "Always this rudeness? You easily forget who your superiors are, don't you Zero? After all you are one of our kind, pathetic as you are, so you need to respect your elders." He reached forward and grasped Zero's chin, a smirk on his face, "Considering you're chained up, you're at a rather large disadvantage if I decide to punish you for rudeness. Not that I couldn't kick your ass in a fair fight." He let go of Zero's chin and Zero looked away in disgust. Kaname folded his arms and continued to smirk at him. "As it happens, as much as I would like to beat the shit out of you, I'm here on behalf of Yuuki. Despite my opinion that you are a worthless piece of shit that should be executed like the rest of the worthless Level Ds, Yuuki is unfortunately fond of you. So if you suddenly became headless," he grinned maliciously, "it would make her very unhappy, which would make me unhappy." He sighed and ran a hand through his hair. "So instead I have come here to help you. " Zero opened his mouth to counter this but Kaname cut through, "Ah, ah! I knew you wouldn't want my help but this makes Yuuki happy and that's all I care about. Believe me, if it were up to me, you be nothing but a pile of ashes right now." his eyes flashed as if this idea filled him with glee. Zero's rage increased to a hot white flame.

"Does it look like I want your fucking help?" he yelled, "Yuuki would be better off if I was dead, then I wouldn't cause her any more pain." Kaname raised his eyebrows.

"Isn't that just what I said you idiotic moron? I would happily drive a knife through your worthless heart without hesitating, but that is not what Yuuki wants. I will not go against her will.

"I'm going to purge you of some of your suffering and you will take this help willingly or unwillingly. This is not for your sake but for Yuuki's." He drew out a dagger. Zero shook his head angrily.

"I won't drink your disgusting blood. Leave me to starve, I refuse to be a savage monster." Kaname chuckled and placed the dagger across his palm.

"I wouldn't say that my blood is disgusting in front of the other vampires, you would cause quite an outrage. As for resisting you won't be able to." He grinned, exposing his fangs and swiftly ran the dagger over his palm, slicing it open. Blood streamed out of the wound and dripped down his arm. Zero looked at the blood in horror, realising what Kaname was about to do. Then the scent hit him like a baseball bat. It clouded all of his senses, and he was falling, overcome by the surging hunger, the need to feed. His body strained for it's life source, instinct taking over mind. Ignoring the pain in his wrists he pushed forward towards Kaname's bloody hand, desperate to sate the aching.

Kaname held his arm out his arm over Zero's face and allowed the blood to fall onto his face. Some landed on Zero's lips and dripped into his mouth. Zero lost control. His fangs extended, his tattoo and eyes glowed red and he slowly licked the blood off his lips. He looked up at Kaname, utterly despising him for revelling in his weakness.

"I knew it, you level D's can't control your hunger. Pathetic." Kaname sniggered, swiftly licking his hand, sealing his wound. Then he knelt down before Zero, tilting his head to one side, exposing his neck. "Take what you need."

Zero tried to resist, but the slow thump of Kaname's heart was too much. He focused only on the pulse upon Kaname's neck. Unable to hold back, he leant forward and sank his teeth into Kaname's cold flesh.

As soon as the blood hit Zero's tongue, everything changed. Zero had had only human blood before but this vampire blood was completely different. This was like the nectar of the Gods. Immortality danced across his taste buds making him feel dizzy with power. It was his antidote to the poison of his curse. He drank deeper. As he swallowed it was almost like it was caressing him, soothing his anguish and pain. It made him feel happier and lighter than he'd been in a long time. The ache still burned within him, but fainter so that he could push it to the back of his mind as an afterthought.

But atop his fuzzy cloud nine raced another force which wrapped around him, making him feel hot and heightening his senses. It stirred his feelings, ones which he had thought he had buried deep inside him. It was wrong but it felt so right and it made him want to...

Zero broke away feeling disgusted. Sweat dripped down his face as he panted hard, his heart pounding in his ears.. He refused to look at Kaname face on, but out of the corner of his eye he could see that Kaname was frowning. Did he know? Had he felt it too? Zero began to panic, but then Kaname spoke,

"Zero, how do you ever think you will get over your blood lust if you do not drink what you need? I can tell when you are sated through the bond of a victim and drinker, and you are not." He stood, fastening the top button of his shirt. "It is a great offence to me that you did not take more. My blood is royal and rare. Many vampires would give their lives just for a drop, and yet I give you mine willingly. No matter, if you will not take it, I will not force you, but as you have not fed until you are full your blood lust will creep back quicker and will be harder to control. But I will not have you waste my time." He walked towards the door, opening it, but turned back to look at Zero, "I'll leave you a week, then we will see how hungry you are. Maybe next time you will be a good little boy and take what you need." He laughed cruelly, slamming the door shut, leaving Zero in the darkness with his thoughts. Surely not... Surely during feeding, what he'd felt, surely it hadn't been lust...