Hi! I'm back. And i feel way more confident thanks to the awesome people who reviewed. Just want you guys to know that you made my week. Ok so Kaname is around 24 in this story and zero is 12 because if he were any older i would have to totally change a lot of the story. And this isn't yaoi. Just to let ya know. Just friendship. Also, I think in the anime/manga dead vampires turn into dust or something like that but team 17 had to have something to go on even though im not gonna give them much. Btw- i stopped going off little Kira's stories because my handwriting proved to be an enemy i was not yet ready to face. So anyway here is the next chapter. Hope you like it!
It wasn't supposed to happen. No one was supposed to die. Not that he really cared. It was a vampire, after all. He deserved to die. They all deserved to die. But no one was supposed to be working that late.
Zero hated Phoenix Corp. But he had hoped to hold off on his plans for at least another few years. He still needed more time to prepare, to gather information and to gain allies. He did only have two people on the inside, which he was forced to communicate with using colored sticky notes that he would place on the door of the Phoenix Corp's main building. He called them flags. Red for when he needed to be contacted as soon as possible, green for when he needed the schedules of the workers because his 'supplies' were running low and yellow for updates and news on a certain project Phoenix Corp. was working on. The people Zero had on the inside were great and all, but he still needed more for what he was trying to do. Zero knew the most powerful company in the world was not going to be easy to bring down.
All he could really blame all this on was the stupid vampire that decided getting a few more hours in at work was more important than living. Okay, so maybe the guy didn't know he was in danger but still, the idiot shouldn't have been there. And now because of the events of the previous day, he would have to push his plans forward almost three years. Could he do it? He didn't have much of a choice any more. Zero would not let them win. Not after what they did. Not after what they took away from him.
Zero slid down the wall of what he called his home, gun still clutched tightly in his small, pale hands. This place, a huge tower guarded by many tall trees on all sides, was his safe haven. He remembered seeing the very top of it as a young child and asking his parents about it. His parents had told him and his brother that it was the tower the holy hero, Sadanaam, who saved the worlds, used to get to the moon and keep his promise to watch over all humans and protect them from evil. They had never let Zero get near it, saying that he would get lost in the forest and taken by the creatures that dwell there. Maybe it was just to scare their slightly too adventurous little boy away from a potential danger but Zero believed them and stayed away from the small forest. He even went as far as to encourage his brother and friends to keep away from it as well.
He remembered running to this tower as fast as he could four years ago when he had escaped from that place. Through the trees and thorns and past all the furry animals that scurried to hide when they heard him coming. He had wished he was one of those little animals. That way they wouldn't get him. They wouldn't want him. He remembered the overload of fear he felt running here. Hoping that those creatures his parents talked about were real so they would take him instead of the monsters who were after him at that moment. And the panic attacks he suffered afterwards only fueled his hatred and desire to end the vampires. And Phoenix Corp. He eventually pulled it together enough to realize just how hungry he was, which forced him to leave his hiding place in search of food. A kind group of college girls saw the dirt and scratches all over him and thought he was a victim of bullying. They each gave him money for lunch and told him he should tell a teacher or his parents when he got home.
Zero shook his head to clear it of the not so fond memories and looked up from his spot on the floor to the stained glass window on his right. This was the first room he hid in. They hadn't followed all the way to the tower but just in case they had, he spent a few days shaking in the corner and praying to many gods all at the same time. The first light of day shining through the window caused squares and triangles of deep blue and light green to be cast on the grayish walls and floor of the small room. When a ray of light hit his gun, he brought his hand up to hid his eyes from the bright glare.
Zero sighed and pushed himself up. He had no doubt someone had found that vampire's body. He yawned and left the room. He needed sleep, though he knew he would only get three or four hours if he were lucky. He was still plagued by nightmares that seemed so real of those days, in that place. He already knew what would happen. He would scream and beg and fight and struggle and try to change things and they would laugh until they were bored and then hurt him more. He knew he wouldn't change anything, couldn't change anything, but he tried anyway. Time and time again, for those two people that pushed him forward and made him strong. The two people who needed him. But he had failed to protect them. In the end, his own screaming would awaken him and he would find himself alone, wondering why he deserved to live and why they had to die.
Zero pushed his gun inside his jacket and dragged himself up the spiral stairs a short ways to his "bedroom." He stopped inside the room and pressed his hand to the wall, the other gripping his throat when a familiar burn started and send bolts of pain shooting through his body. This was because of them to. His breath came in short, ragged gasps as he let go of the wall and reached into the pocket of his pants to pull out a packet of tablets. Blood tablets. They were what he had stolen last night. The tablets and syringes filled with some type of, well, something that worked, along with pain killers vampires used during child-birth and after surgery. Zero slipped one of the small, white tablets past his lips and swallowed.
He already knew he wouldn't be able to keep them down for very long so he never took more than one at a time. But even if it was only for a few hours, they took away that awful pain that made Zero's body feel like it was on fire. It was okay though. Zero had experimented and learned a few tricks. The stuff in the syringes helped to keep the blood tablets down for a while longer, but made him feel slow and out of energy. The pain killers, obviously, helped with the pain. Sometimes, Zero didn't feel like throwing up, so he just took a couple of those pills and they turned the mind numbing pain into just a dull burning within minutes, making it feel more like a sore throat. He had to wonder if it was just because it put him to sleep fairly quickly, but it didn't matter to him as long as the pain was gone. It was better than falling asleep on his own anyway. He didn't dream when the pills knocked him out.
He shrugged it off, feeling the blood tablet take effect, and collapsed on the old and torn, but thick and warm blanket he called his bed. He didn't bother pulling the smaller blanket over him before he closed his eyes. After his rest, he'd wait until Phoenix Corp. closed and give his inside information sources the red flag along with the green one. They would meet him at the usual place and give him the info he needed and he would tell them what was going on and what he would need them to do from now on. Warn them to be careful and play it safe.
Zero had his own personal experience with Phoenix Corp and it's workers. He knew that no matter how much he wanted to go on a killing spree and destroy every last one of them, he had to think. He had to plan things out and be patient. He knew his survival depended on the choices he made from now on. But really, he realized, it always did. But things really did just get a lot more complicated.
So what do you guys think? Comment please! Kaname and Zero will most likely have their first encounter in the next chapter. If not then it will definitely be in the chapter after that. For some reason it's easier for me to write in Zero's POV. But things will start picking up in the next chapter. thanks for reading!
Thank you for reviewing chapter 1 and those who favorited and followed!
KavanBurningWings- I'm glad you like it! Thank you for following and complimenting me on my writing. I was a huge confidence boost. I'll try to update at least once a week but high school is giving me hard time. I dont live at home during the school year so it's a bit harder to get everything that needs to be done, done.
Gravity's Child- Thank you so much! I'm glad you didn't think it was boring. I'll try not to disappoint you with future chapters!
hitomi65- Thanks! After this chapter things start picking up. I guess these were my explaining stuff chapters.
perfectly flawed woman- I'm glad your looking forward to it. Hopefully the next chapter will be up soon. Your really good at guessing, ya know that?
