Flashbacks/dreams
"Talking in the past"
'Thoughts'
Chapter 2
Zero POV
My head kept spinning the moment I awake. The stiffness of my muscle when being chained had annoyed me to no end. It's hard to regain your bearing if you are a newly awaken pureblood, but I managed to control all it. If not, all of them will be coming here. I easily break the chain now, considered the fact that I began to remember my past self. The fact I am an ancestor pureblood too instead of a Level E, an ex-human vampire hunter. But I still cannot remember my mother, her face. The chain infused with hunter charms shattered to pieces. I began walking towards the garden of Moon Dorm, exactly to Rido to kill him, as I kept my promise to him that I will protect his sister, as her knight. 'Where is he?' I thought. I cannot sense him around the area. I gritted my teeth when I remember the deed Rido had done to him…of course, I also ashamed of my action in raping him. I'm the worst.
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On the other hand, a group consists of Aido Hanabusa, Kain Akatsuki, Senri Shiki, Souen Ruka, Touya Rima and Yuuki were fighting against Kuran Rido. When Rido attempted to kill her, Zero swiftly intervenes and shooting at him. But the Bloody Rose then begins to become uncontrollable and Zero asking Yuuki cut it with her Artemis. Of course the battle continues on until Kaname joins into the fight.
"I'm not forgiving at what you did to him, but I am thankful for you to give him back to me." whispered Zero after he shot and impales him with his new power as when Rido took a chance to slice Kaname. Kaname and the other shocked as much as they do when they sensed Zero's power like a pureblood before it diminished entirely. They stood dumbfounded for a while before they dismiss it. Surely, it was their imaginations, right? Yuuki, being the new pureblood she is, puzzled at the moment. It seems like forever between them but in actuality it just a few minutes passed by. Kaname felt exhausted and nearly fainted, causing all of them having a panic attack. In a flash, Zero lift Kaname to his room and Zero make a small slice on his neck. Unconsciously, Kaname drink Zero's blood gently. The blood scent was dissipated quickly thanks to Zero's aura manipulation, giving a clean air and no one will suspect of it.
"Zero?" asked Yuuki from behind. It seems that she fast on catching them easily rather than Kaname's inner circle. Both of them are silent. They do not want Yuuki to know anything right now. "I can feel something happened between Kaname nii-sama and you." Yuuki tried not to be forceful but she can't let them think that she cannot handle anything just because she is too innocent for this. Zero sighed. This is not what he expected, but glad that Yuuki didn't catch on what he did to her brother just now. Of course Yuuki would think what he thought it is, but he respected Kuran's privacy. This is not his problem, but theirs.
"I can tell you nothing. But I will tell you when the time is right." Zero pleaded, giving Yuuki no room for argument.
"Okay Zero. You can tell me anything. I just hope that our friendship still goes on even though I am a pureblood now. I know you hated by being with us, but I just want you to understand that I will be there for you." Yuuki said just before Kaname's entire inner circle barging in.
"Kiryuu! What you did you do to Kaname-sama?!" Aidou growled. He tried to attack Zero but being held up by Kain. Aidou gave him a questioned look and Kain just give a shake indicating of a no. Before he could retort it, Yuuki back Zero up.
"Wait, Aidou-sempai. Zero didn't do anything to Kaname nii-sama." Yuuki quickly defended Zero. Zero just scowled and leaves the room. He did not want to face another problem when he supposed to be fixing on his own problem first.
Kaname POV
I dreamed of my old crush as she caressing her 6 weeks pregnant belly. She was a sweet woman, but unfortunately she was already mated to other vampire. I always wonder who and where her mate really was. He was a lucky man. Then a flash of memory of her talking to her unborn children come to me. I cannot hear her words clearly but I caught a glimpse of it and it froze me.
"…you fall in love with Kaname, hmm Zero?"
I remember of her placing her unborn children's soul into a human named Fuuka, but I do not remember her family name… wait, Kiryuu. Then, like a ton of brick, I was hit with realization as I felt his power earlier, almost same as her. 'I do not believe it, no!'
I woke up and saw him asleep on the table beside the bed. Judging from the thick scent of him, I assumed that I was in his room. I found him so peaceful in his sleep and he looks so cute. 'Oh no, what am I thinking about? I cannot believe he was her child…' as I thought. Then I took my time to go to my own dorm to pack my necessary things and then leave here, ignoring the fact that I'm supposed to leave with Yuuki. I felt a pang of sadness within our bond and it seems that he knows that I'm leaving and he just let me?
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As Kaname leave, a sadness expression formed on Zero soft look and of course he knows to give him some space. Few minutes after Kaname's inner circle leave, as a courtesy of Yuuki, Zero comes in back to his room. He sits on the chair beside his bed and saw how serene the brunet sleeps. Due to exhaustion of using his newly awakened power, he fell asleep on the table. And now, the whole night class is searching for Kaname and found nothing. Of course, Yuuki being Yuuki cried since his brother had said to her that they will be travelling together after this. Zero knows Kuran… no, Kaname need time and space to think about their relationship. Of course he should call him Kaname, now that both of them mated and he is an ancestor, not a Kuran. Both vampires feeling a need to distance each other, Kaname travelled not far from his hometown and Zero stays beside Yuuki in Cross Academy.
"Have you found anything, Seiren?" Zero asked the silverette beside him. Last few days ago, she was asked by Kaname to clean up the remaining mess the council leaves behind. Only to find out that Kaname disappear and Zero occupied in his room. When she arrived, she noticed a gloomy atmosphere in the Moon Dorm. The only aura she always follows was absent. She wanted to find Kaname only being halted by Kiryuu Zero. Zero asked her to follow him. He explained briefly to her about him and Kaname and she gasped when Zero revealed himself as a pureblood. Now, she helped Zero to accomplish a task given. She acknowledged Zero as Kaname's mate and relationship between mates cannot be revoked and the death of one of them can bring madness and equal to death to another.
"No Zero-sama." Seiren answered. Zero just sighed. He does not want anyone to call him that. He already asked Seiren not to call him that, but Seiren insist of it. She said it is their custom and she didn't intend to break it.
"Even in his journal?" he asked again to make sure she didn't miss anything. Seiren just nodded. He felt the seal containing of a dangerous soul is already in a weakened state few days ago, a day after Rido's own doom. It seems that someone or something or Rido himself trigger it to make the seal weakening. He remembers the event clear as day when his mother sealed the soul of someone. He knows who it was. If it awakens, then he will destroy the world. That was why he needed something to counter it from happen. It seems that Seiren didn't find anything from Kaname's library or in Kuran's old mansion. That was why he asked Seiren to help him since she experts in infiltration. He changes his mind. He needed somebody to protect Kaname.
"Can you track Kaname and assist him secretly? Make sure he didn't notice your presence. I want you to open it when both of you are in danger. And I need you to drink my blood." Zero said, giving no argument to her. She frowns, because Zero easily giving her his blood without any reason. Sucking pureblood's blood considers taboo.
"Yes Zero-sama" she reluctantly agreed. She lapped the blood on Zero's wrist and then disappears after Zero giving her a small silver box, leaving the silveret alone. He will do his best to prevent that from happening. Now his objective is going to HA restrictive archive library. The only places that he didn't check was in the old association headquarter.
"Now, let's say hello to Kaito, ne?" He chuckled lightly.
Zero calmly walk into the library and find himself at the corner of the left-wing section where all of the archives from the past being kept here. He mingles with the shadow and kept his hunter aura on. He did not want to draw any suspicions and did not want to being found by somebody in HA. Zero pushed the code onto the small monitor in front of the medium-sized metal door. He looked around just in case, but of course no one was there. Old headquarter was hidden in the mountains, quite some distance from any human settlements. The vault contains hunter-related information archives. He could see the remaining of some village down in the valley, but it was long abandoned. Sometimes a small gang of scavengers went there searching, if there was still something of worth but they were never stray away from the roads too far. The door opened and Zero stepped inside. Going down into an underground level, Zero entered the long metal corridor. At the end of the corridor, a golden book was seated on the altar. He then quickly grabs the book and stepped out from the vault, closing it.
Zero looked at the book he was carrying; an old looking golden book which it's inside contains on how exactly, precisely how to kill him. He had to get the book by himself. The book contains some part of his mother's journal that was kept by the founder of HA. He knew about his mother's journal when she talks to them. The infiltration was successful. On his hand also has a scroll. It was when stumbled upon several scroll when one of them caught his eyes. It was a highly advanced spell written by his mother. He saw a fraction of her name written on top and that was why he took it. He then went back to the dorm. He finally arrives in Kaname's dorm undetected. Feeling exhausted, he sleeps on Kaname's bed, inhaling his lingering smell of vanilla and rose.
Zero woke up to find that it was already dawn. He feels emptiness inside his heart. He remembered his conversation with his mother. Yes, a bond between a mother and a child; how he expressing his feelings to his mother about the brunette when he was still in a fetus. Yes, this is a unique ability to all vampire mother, the bond between a mother and the child, possess when pregnant. The thought of the memories made Zero cry softly, tears trickling down. Only to bring it back with full force.
"I am already fallen in love with him this whole time. I'm so stupid of thinking that pointless revenge. It made my heart shattered to see you cry that night and I am sorry for what I did." come as a whisper from Zero's mouth. Through the bond possess between the two, Kaname heard his words and he really not expecting to hear the words coming out from the silveret. The usual high and mighty brunet felt a roll of emotions that he keeps shoving deep inside. He strengthened his resolve to search for truth. The brunet remembers his promise to her and thus set his journey to the Dark Forest with a new scheme forming in his brilliant mind.
Somewhere in Japan, a pair of blood-red, cold eyes gathering his forces to put his scheme into motion. A group of Level B vampire gathering around him.
"Now that I'm awaken, I will find her descendant and end this for once!" a maniacal laugh was echoing somewhere in the forest.
