Warnings: yaoi m/m relationship, m-preg – don't like, don't read – you have been warned

Disclaimer: Vampire Knight and its characters belong to Matsuri Hino – just this plot is my idea.

Warning: as I'm not an native English speaker, my English also looks that way – so overlook my spelling mistakes as I don't have a beta

Authors Note: I thank all those that decided to read my story – it's the best feeling for a writer when he knows that there are wonderful people out there that are willing to read what they have tried so hard to put together…

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- Chapter 2 -

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-KANAME-

Seeing Zero in that new way did something to me that I haven't expected – it made me realize that my obsession about him at school when I thought that I needed to look after him so that he wouldn't harm my precious girl had in reality completely different reason. Now that I have seen how vulnerable he can be, I just can't leave him alone – not after what happened, not when I look before me and see his slightly trembling form lying on the cold floor. I should not be able to feel this way about my former enemy – I have a wonderful fiancée to which sides I'm determined to return, but what happened can't be erased from my mind. I was so aroused seeing him like that, looking at his naked body, and even if all was over and he was unceremonaly tossed to the floor and left there, I couldn't shake the feeling of wanting more – more of that tight feeling, of that heat and the sensation of wanting to touch every part of him. Especially those lips – I tried hard not to look at those full lips that just looked like they were begging to be kissed.

"Kiryuu?" I try with a weak voice, not wanting to get the attention of those that are keeping a watch over us. "Zero?" I try once more, this time a little bit louder when I don't get any response the first time.

"What do you want, Kuran?" comes the weak reply and from the tone of his voice I hear that he tries hard to maintain his old self, to not be the broken man that he looks like from my perspective.

"I just…" what do I really want to say? I just wanted to make sure that he's alive, that he's not badly hurt? Does he even want it from me? It's not pity, I just found out right now that I care. "I will get us out of here," I say determined, but when I pull on my bind hands, the only thing that I do is cause more pain to me.

"Kuran – always the almighty pureblood. Have it even occurred to you, that maybe I don't want to be saved?" I stop immediately what I was doing and look at him – he has moved and now he's facing me, the nakedness doing nothing good for me, but I'm more pulled towards those eyes. He's serious, that much I can read behind all that hate that's mirroring in his eyes.

"What do you mean?" this whole ordeal can't be so bad that he lost the will to live, now can it?

"You don't understand a thing, Kuran, so just stay out of my business," as I want to say something back to him, the lock in the door moves and as I look to the way of the noise, it opens to reveal a tall man – one that I haven't seen before. Hes a vampire, that one I can tell, but one like Roy – who doesn't care to bow to the powers of a pureblood. He closes the door after him, looking straight at me with deep blue eyes.

"I heard that Roy has managed to capture a pureblood, but not even in my sweetest dreams would I imagine it to be you, Kana-sama," and he bows to me in a mocking way, the smirk on his face being the proof of that. "And what do we have here?"

"Don't you dare to touch him," I hiss thru my clenched teeth as his attention is drawn to the pale body of Kiryuu.

"Don't stick your noise in my business Kuran, I can take care of myself!"

"I don't think that that's possible in your condition, darling," he says as he moves where Zero lies, and I see as he tries in vain to move his body that just refuses to do as he wants it to. I pull at the bindings even if I know that it wont be of use. Shit, shit, shit. Why is it that I feel this possessively over the hunter? Just few hours ago, I wouldn't care less when someone would have pinned the hunter down under him, I wouldn't want to tear they limbs away when someone would slide their hands on his soft skin. But now… I feel a power building up in me as I watch the scene before me.

That vampire has Zero under him, holding his hands secured above his head with one of his, so that he can use the other hand to explore the trashing body. Zeros desperate shouts force my powers to return, and I feel that the bindings are slowly giving way to it. The last push was when Zero screamed out – half in pleasure, half in surprise. I didn't see what that monster did to him, as he was lying between Zeros legs that were bend, but his hand was between them… I don't really want to know what he just did, but it was the last push. I feel my raw power tearing the binds, freeing me finally.

"You better let go of him and run before you have the chance," he looks my way, definitely feeling the power slowly filling the small room. His eyes widen as he sees me standing where I was bound just a few seconds before. He slowly lets go of Zero, standing up – his eyes not leaving me even for a second. He gulps and I see the fear in his eyes, hear his heart beating faster from the fear.

"Times up," I want to see him suffering, want to hear him scream, and because of that, I don't kill him immediately. No, as that would be too good of a death for him. I let my power loose, not wanting to touch this filth with my bare hands, wrapping it around him. He reaches for his neck when I squeeze it, trying to scratch at the invisible power, but the only damage he does is to himself. First I tear his hands to pieces – those filthy hands that dared to touch Zero in places even I haven't and I imagine Roy instead of this vampire. Oh what joy it will bring me to torment that piece of filth.

"Kaname-sama!" I hear my name being called from somewhere near, but I pay it no attention, fully concentrating on the task on hand. The second time my names being called is when the door opens one more time. I stop what I'm doing, the familiar voice makes me look that way – I see Aido standing there, shocked expression on his face.

"I'm so glad you're alright, Kaname-sama," I sigh – I don't like to be interrupted when doing something fun. Now that the moment is broken, I make a quick process of the vampire hanging in the air – wrapping my powers around him more tightly, till nothing remains from his body.

"Why are you here, Aido?" I ask the blond noble with a calm voice.

"When I heard that you were captured by that freak, I was so worried - and Yuuki was out of her mind," Yuuki – I haven't thought about her in the whole time I was here, with Zero – I was practically unfaithful to her. How would I be able to look her in the eyes and tell her that nothing happened? Even if I was forced to, I responded.

"Zero," for a second there, I totally forgot about the silverette on the cold floor for a moment. Aido looked shocked as I passed him and kneel down on the floor by Zero, who tries his best to somehow cover his naked body before our eyes.

"What the…" is all the blond aristocrat got out of himself upon seeing the pale hunter. I'm glad that there are no more vampires rushing into the room, as I wouldn't want them to see the state Zero is in. I undress my long coat and cover him with it. He's shivering slightly, but he looks calm – too calm for a man that was nearly raped just a few moments ago. "Kaname-sama, what is Kyriuu doing here… and naked?"

"Can you stand up?" I ask Zero, grabbing him gently by his forearms and helping him stand on his own two feet, but when he's nearly standing straight, somehow his strength seems to leave him and he falls forwards onto my chest, grabbing a hold on my shirt for support. My heart stops for a second from the closeness and I gulp as I look down and see his naked body pressing to mine, the coat I gave him nearly sliding down from his shoulders. "It's a long story, Aido," I answer Aido's question before I somehow steady Zero on his feet enough to dress him in the slightly big coat to hide his body before taking a firm hold of him again, "and we don't have the time for that now, as we need to bring him to the hospital," I finish my sentence to Aido. At the mention of the hospital I sense Zero tensing up and then he looks up at me with wide eyes – is it fear I see in them?

"No!" as he screamed it, he tried really hard to pull away from me, but I know that he's not strong enough and the moment I let him go, he will fall back to the hard floor.

"Hey, calm down," I try with smoothing voice as not to startle him more – this reaction is nothing like the old Zero I knew from school.

"What's gotten into him?" asks Aido, the confusion can't be just heard from his voice, but it's also visible on his face.

"I don't know," I look down at the unconscious silverette – he doesn't look calm even in that state.

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-ZERO-

"Zero, darling, wake up," a smoothing and so familiar voice is telling me to come back from the darkness, but I just feel so tired that I don't want to. It's such a familiar voice, but I can't place it. And then, before I know it, little kisses join the voice, and big but gentle hands try to shake me awake. I groan as I'm forced to open my heavy lids, and I nearly get a heart attack as the first things I see are the big familiar chocolate eyes of no other than Kaname Kuran.

"What the…?" is all I get out of me, and I'm grateful that he moved back a little to give me space as the shock made me unable to react in any way – what in Kami's name is Kuran doing in my room, trying to wake me up with concern and… what is that I see now? Relief?

"You seemed like you had a nightmare, so I tried to wake you up. Are you alright Zero?" he adds as I'm not responding to what he's saying - I'm just staring at him with wide eyes, not able to respond in any way – what is he talking about? Nightmare?

"What happened?" I ask the only question that comes to my mind that could not cause me more confusion.

"Remember, the doctor said that you should avoid stressful situations, and have a lot of rest, so when I passed our room and heard you murmur something and saw you trash around, I tried to wake you up slowly so that you wouldn't harm you or her," when he says the last words with a small smile and lower voice, I follow his hand that he rests gently on my belly that is… oh my god – huge! Why is it like this? Did he really made me pregnant like I have feared? But why is it so visible? How long was I out? It must have been months, but… my thought are interrupted by a uncertain voice.

"Papa? Is daddy alright?" a small chocolate head with big lavender eyes peeps in the room, and when Kuran looks at him I can see much affection and love in that look.

"Yes, Kiyoshi, daddy is alright. Right, Zero?" he looks at me expecting a positive answer, but I just can't think straight with the new information I have – and I can't take my eyes off of the little being that's slowly nearing the big king sized bed I'm lying in. Is it really…

"Can I feel her, daddy?" he asks as he climbs into the bed beside me, and as I look deep into his eyes, I find myself unable to deny him anything. Those big eyes are definitely mine, but as he looks like the exact copy of a certain pureblood, there's no mistaking who the other father is. But this – it must be just an illusion, a dream my shocked mind is showing me. But it's a nice image – the little boy lying on his stomach, quietly whispering to his other sibling growing in Kuran and me… I look up at him and see with how much love he's looking at the scene of his family. I feel a pain in my chest as I know that this could never be turned into reality.

"Come now, Kiyoshi, daddy needs his rest," he outstretches his hand to the boy – Kiyoshi – after a quick kiss to my forehead that takes me by surprise. The little boy looks at it reluctantly at first, the disappointment is visible in his big eyes, but he doesn't say anything. Sliding down from the bed, he takes Kurans big hand with his little one.

"Rest well, daddy," he says before he turns away and lets Kuran lead him away. I slide down to rest on the comfortable bed, looking at the white ceiling and thinking about what just happened. Closing my eyes, I try to relax into the soft bed, nearly starting to fall asleep when a strange noise wakes me up.

What was that? I look around myself, relaxing slowly as I see the familiar surrounding of my room in Crosses house – pushing down the dark covers, and pulling up the shirt I have on, I look at my stomach that is… flat. I let a breath out in relief and lie back on the pillow, but why am I not happy about it? It was just a dream, it was just a dream – I need to repeat these words in my head over and over again as to feel better.

"Zero? Are you awake?" comes Crosses voice along with a knock on the door.

"Don't come in," I try in vain, as he opens it without even waiting for my answer. I sigh from frustration as he comes inside, stepping into my view.

"You need to get up – we have important guests," he marches to the window and without any warning pulls the hangings open, letting in the annoying light. "I don't care that you have a hangover, take some pills to make it go away, and be down in ten minutes."

"Wait – I have a what?" I stop him from leaving and sit up in bed abruptly as his words register in my mind, but the meaning of them is lost to me.

"Kaname Kuran brought you home last night, saying that he bumped into you in a club. Do you know how ashamed I felt seeing you in that state? Why did you do it Zero? Has by baby reached the rebellious state?" he just shakes his head and leaves without further explanation, not even waiting for me to say anything about it. He's insane – even after all this time, he hasn't changed one bit. But that Kuran – I'm grateful for the little lie of his, as I don't know if I would be able to live with the thought that Cross knows what really happened to me.

I somehow manage to get up from the bed and take a quick shower before dressing in something comfortable. I wonder who the important guests are – it must be really important as Cross came personally to drag me out of bed. I hope that it's not Kuran – I stop at the top of the stairs when the thought comes to my mind – as I don't think that I'm prepared to face him yet.

"There you are Zero," I'm greeted by the worst person – Marcus Cooper – when I enter the saloon from where I heard low voices. It looks like there's one more person with Cross and president, but as they are seated in the large chair which back is facing me, I can't tell who they are. I'm quiet as Marcus walks up to me than, never taking my eyes off of him – I fear the worst.

"Be nice and behave," he whispers to me, looking at me with eyes more serious than I would like to see now. Then he turns around to the fourth person in the room, who's getting up from the chair he sat in till now to face us. I thought that I'm fairly tall, but this man – he's not a giant, but he must be over two meters. His hair is dark, but in the right light it shines red. He looks about ten years older than me, and has the strangest and beautiful golden eyes I have ever seen. When he smiles at me he looks like a nice man, but the important question here is – who is he?

"Zero, I want you to meet Julyj Vladimir Trés, your fiancé," in that moment I can't do nothing more than stare at the stranger standing before me. I hate it. I hate it so much – this situation I've found myself in.

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-KANAME-

"Kaname, do you not feel well? You hardly touched anything," I look up at Yuuki, into her questioning big chocolate eyes that resemble mine so much, and can't really find the right words to say. I know that I'm not the greatest companion right now, as the events of the previous mission are still fresh on my mind – especially one selverette to be concrete. Why I didn't take him to a hospital as seemed the right thing to do, I don't know. Even Aido questioned my sanity when I took him to my apartment – if he just knew what happened after he left, he would definitely go insane. I got my own place after trying to live with Yuuki at first – I love her, but it all started to be just too much for me. I told him not to tell anyone about what happened, and especially about Zero, as I didn't wanted to worry anyone – especially Yuuki. Zero still hold a special place in her heart.

I knew that even if I wanted to, I couldn't keep Zero here, as Yuuki were to come and I just couldn't tell her not to as she would suspect that something is off. So the only opinion left for me was to take him back to Cross, which whom he's currently living with – I doubt that it was hich choice, more likely Cross, after Yuuki walked out of his life, didn't wanted to lose the other one of his precious children. But before I could hand him over to Cross, I needed to make him look present first. It seemed like a good idea that time, as I have already seen everything there is to see, so I bathed him and clothed him before I took him home and told Cross the little lie about him being drunk. Something must have happened between them, as he was not surprised at the state he was in – ergo, what he thought he was in. And now, even if I'm sitting right before the girl I thought means everything to me, the slim lean pale male body is all I think about. It's official – I became strange.

"No Yuuki, the food's great. It's just… I feel tired. Nothing else is wrong with me," I smile at her – or at least I try to – and by the look on her face she believes me. And why should she not? I never gave her a reason not to before.

"Then I think that I should go for today," I see the disappointment on her face, even if she tries to hide it, as we were supposed to spend more time together. It feels so long ago that we did it, just stayed home and made ourselves comfortable, as my work keeps me out or her reach most of the times. I was looking up to this day since we made plans, but after what happened with Zero, I'm not sure how will I react when I will see Yuuki's body. The silverette left something in me – a strange feeling of longing and the need to touch him once more.

"I'm sorry," I say to her when she stands up and I follow her to the door. Before she leaves she leans up and kisses me, and the only thing I can think about is those full lips in the dark of a certain hunter and how would it felt to kiss them again.

"I'll see you soon," and she's gone, not even waiting for my words. I need to get it together, and for that, I need to see Zero again. I need to determine if this - my newfound obsession with him - is just a onetime thing. But if not… I really don't know what I will do then.

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TBC…

- it came out a little shorter, but at least it's out…