.I Caught Fire- A Vampire Knight FanFiction {Follow-Up}.
Disclaimer: I do not own anything legally affiliated with Matsuri Hino's Vampire Knight or any songs by The Used. I only own this profitless plotline. Any ideas regarding things not explained already in the manga/anime that I use that other authors have already used, credit goes to them.
Credit to Blackened Wing and YenGirl for feeding Kaname and Zero ice cream and fast food, respectively :3 Also, the latter again for making Kaname awkward with food he's not used to eating. (and for weeding out typos and such XD)
Rating: M
Author's Notes: Was kind of abandoned but YG mentioned (after removing a letter opener from my eye... XD) it so... here it is. Anyway, but if anyone absolutely CANNOT STAND any variation of an already used idea for Kaname and Zero to experience, no matter how slight, uhhh... Well, just don't flame or complain.
Thankies to YG once more for helping with the food choice since I didn't want to strictly do ice cream which was covered by BW in her amazingly amazing Take The Lead ficcy :3
Warnings? Suggestivenss, I suppose. (not so much a warning that I think is needed, but you never know XD)
Enjoy~! Read and REVIEW, please! No Flames...
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...Bonus...
Yuuki was back for only the single week that American schools had their Spring Break so they decided to make the most of their temporary reunion. Of course, the very moment she returned she'd wanted to go celebrate with ice cream, so naturally, her two best companions obliged.
But once at the ice cream shop...
"Kaname? What's wrong?" Zero paused in his approach to the counter, looking over his shoulder at an unusually hesitant-looking pureblood standing a few feet away from the other two.
The male brunette perked up at the sound of his name and the fact that now Yuuki, Zero and the cashier were looking at him expectantly. Ah... he noticed the fifteen or so other patrons already ogling at him in awe, but he also noticed Zero glaring at them every once in a while, effectively chasing their gazes away...
"Ah, sorry," Kaname murmured, coming up behind Zero.
The hunter cocked his head at his lover's strange behavior and constantly shifting eyes as if he needed all of his senses to be here. Zero lowered his voice and sounded truly concerned when he asked, "Are you all right? You look nervous..."
Kaname shook his head and smiled even though he knew Zero would be able to see right through it. Even so, it wouldn't do any good to flat out lie.
"I'm fine. It's just a bit strange in here."
Relief and then amusement crossed Zero's features and he grabbed the pureblood's wrist, uncaring that they got a few curious glances at that, and pulled him to the space beside him rather than behind him.
"You'll be fine. It probably smells weird and is very impersonal, right?"
Kaname gave a soft sigh. Yeah, it was definitely impersonal compared to how he dined- in or out. Smelled like harsh cleaning chemicals and chocolate, too. But he wouldn't vocally complain because he knew it would sound horribly superior and bratty. Although, he was positive the both of them knew how he was raised around butlers and people who made sure what they were making suited his palate not the public's.
"No, really, I'm all right. Please, order."
Before Zero could even nod, Yuuki spoke, overhearing their little conversation.
"I'm so sorry, Kaname! I didn't mean to take us somewhere you weren't used to..."
The pureblood fondly told her to calm down as she was only making them more noticable and ensured her that he would be perfectly at ease once they were seated and chatting with their ice cream...
Yuuki grinned and made it a mission to get their ice cream as quickly as possible, spinning around to the confused cashier girl and rambling off her order of, "One medium orange sherbert ice cream cone, please! Oh, and can I have the waffle cone?"
The worker nodded and rang up her order and then cast Kaname and Zero an inquiring glance. Zero looked at Kaname and made sure than when he stepped forward, the pureblood came with him. If the hunter thought about it, he should have thought of this sooner- of course this would be a chance for him to help Kaname out for once and get him to try new things.
Kaname came along easily, noticing that, yes, Yuuki and Zero paid acute attention to how he felt, which was so nice... It was pleasantly different than the nobles' attention, though...
Kaname thought about the many ice cream flavors Yuuki had forced him to try when they were smaller...
"Mint chocolate chip, please." That was one of the more tasty ones...
Zero smiled slightly at the mature choice and then told the girl behind the counter, "I'll have cookie dough..." It ran a little on the sweeter side, but Zero had kind of a soft spot for cookies and their uncooked state. As Yuuki ran off to find them a table and the cashier asked them if that was all, Zero hesitated. Well, they hadn't eaten lunch yet and this place had more than ice cream...
"Can we also get a large pepperoni pizza? And three iced teas with that." He glanced back at Kaname to make sure that sort of tea was fine, and Kaname just shrugged.
"Yes, sir," the girl cheerfully said, adding that to their total. "Will that be all?"
Zero nodded, listening to her read off the complete price as he reached into his back pocket. Kaname, half-wondering about 'pizza', reached out and stopped Zero's wallet-holding hand.
"I can get it."
The hunter shook his head and assured, "It's not that much." And it really wasn't too much for him to pay even if his budget was low most of the time. Even so, Kaname started, "Zero..." obviously wanting to treat his two favorite people on his own.
"Look, we'll each pay half," Zero compromised, sighing with a small smile. Who knew what would happen if he denied Kaname anything...
Still looking pouty in his own way about not being able to pay it all since it was hardly even a scratch on his funds, Kaname agreed, giving Zero half of the total. They paid and went off to find Yuuki while their order was made. The establishment wasn't very large at all and they had to weave between rowdy children and exiting people at times to get over to where Yuuki was waving from a table near a window.
"We got a pizza too, since its lunchtime," Zero explained, leaning back against the table. "So we'll have to eat one or the other quickly."
Yuuki grinned- she loved pizza...
"Thank you. Well, I'm going to eat my ice cream first!"
Kaname tilted his head and thought. If he ate his ice cream first, the pizza may get cold, but if he ate his pizza first, however he would go about doing that, he would have to deal with melted ice cream... He waited to see what Zero would eat first. Luckily, since Zero sought a slight banter with Yuuki he spoke up immediately.
"Of course you'd eat dessert before the actual food... But you're right, I think I'd rather eat my ice cream first since it would just get everywhere if I didn't."
Kaname would eat his ice cream first then, too... But since he stayed silent during the prefects' talking, Zero eventually noticed his lover's silence and touched his arm.
"Out of your element here, Kuran?" he teased.
Kaname smirked.
"You would love that, wouldn't you?"
The silver-haired vampire chuckled and even Yuuki smiled at their interaction. Zero hardly ever laughed and Kaname hardly ever smiled that way. They were so different since she'd left, and yet, the same Kaname and Zero she'd come to love as her brother figures.
"Well, I actually wish I could make you more comfortable, but I guess this is as good a place as any to get you used to this sort of thing, huh?"
Kaname nodded resignedly and said, "It is not as bad as I initially thought, now that we have been here a few minutes." Indeed, he was getting kind of used to the strong smells and noisy atmosphere and he found that talking with each other did lessen the stress. He had it under control... for now.
Their order was called out from the front, and Zero dragged Kaname back up there with him to help carry the ice cream. The pureblood handled his and Yuuki's ice cream while Zero had his own cone in one hand and with the other, balanced the tray along with their pizza and drinks above his head to avoid jabbing anyone in the head with the corners.
Yuuki thanked Kaname as he gave her her cone. He slid into his own chair carefully, minding his ice cream like it would explode if he weren't delicate about it. Zero put the tray in the middle of the table, closer to the window and sat down directly across from Kaname, already licking at the creamy dessert. It was a little hot outside since it was noon and Spring so ice cream wasn't a bad idea actually...
Even Kaname didn't really wait too long to start on his, his body naturally sensitive to the heat. The weather seemed to penetrate the building and the extra body heat around them made it even worse for him, so the cold treat worked its way through his body as fast as it could. Even so, he still was much more ginger with his licking than the two prefects. He hadn't had ice cream in forever and he certainly wasn't used to his food being so... messy.
Yuuki was heard sighing contentedly.
"Oh... this is so good in this weather..."
Zero hummed in agreement, too busy biting a blob of ice cream off into his mouth and enjoying it as it melted down his throat. He glanced up at her though, seeing her large waffle cone already being munched upon while bright orange cream got around her mouth. Moving his gaze to Kaname, the pureblood's ice cream wasn't as close to the cone as the hunter's own was. Zero made sure any runoff from his own cone was contained before he said, "Kaname, you need some help over there?"
The pureblood looked up, obviously thinking nothing of the question and merely defending himself with, "Not really. I just don't want to get it everywhere... " He glanced pointedly at Yuuki with a slight smirk and she giggled into her cone, not bothering to hide her messy face. She'd clean herself up when she was ready to eat that pizza.
Zero however, was totally going somewhere with this and he reached out to take Kaname's arm with the ice cream at the wrist. The pureblood started and watched as his lover leaned across the table while pulling Kaname's arm to meet him halfway. They both spared a quick glance at Yuuki, who was blushing already, but not looking like she minded. Kaname swallowed when Zero lowly said, "Try it like this..."
The male brunette was pretty sure the temperature rose a few degrees, or at least, his own body temperature anyway, when he observed Zero run his tongue slowly up the softened ice cream, his tongue flattened out on the pale green and chocolate-chip dotted surface. Once he reached the top, he didn't just curl his tongue to gather the ice cream he'd gotten like Kaname expected, but the hunter re-angled his head downwards and closed his mouth around the top a bit to suck, his hand bracing Kaname's weakening on to make sure he felt the motions of the drawing. Ice cream kind of made Zero... hyper.
Kaname felt his fingers trembling and his eyes were stinging from not blinking, but by the time Zero pulled back, his own cheeks a little pink while he swallowed the ice cream, the pureblood stammered, unable to stop the husky stutter, "Th- Thank you, Zero..." kind of automatically. His elbow stayed in the middle of the table as if his body was waiting for Zero to come back and do it again, but then Zero cleared his throat and Kaname retracted his arm quickly, his cheeks flushing as well. They shared silly, yet heated, looks for a moment until Yuuki awkwardly said, "Um... Well, I'm done, so time for pizza!"
Both vampires gave her an apologetic look and Zero mentally chastised himself for not being able to control himself, but she just waved their looks off, disconnecting a slice of perfectly cooled-down pizza. Zero finished his ice cream soon after and then happily continued to assist Kaname in his cone consumption, enjoying it when Kaname was forced to lick any spills from the corners of his lips since the hunter refused him any napkins.
Kaname was quite proud of himself for not making a huge mess with his ice cream, but now he saw Zero and Yuuki eating the pizza. It didn't look too hard, but when he endeavored to get his own slice, what looked like cheese stretched from the rest of the pizza to his own piece, making him pause. He hadn't even seen pizza in real life, let alone had any so... even though it seemed kind of obvious as to what he should do, he just stared at it.
Zero was heard snorting softly, once again holding his own half-eaten piece expertly with his thumb and other fingers positioned under it and said, "Kaname, just pull it- it'll fall away. I'm going to teach you how to eat all of this 'common-people' food one day..." His words alone seemed indifferent, but both Kaname and Yuuki could tell he was actually very taken with how naive and clueless the pureblood was in the face of this... normal meal. Zero would have fun taking Kaname around to different, mainstream eateries and that was one of the reasons the pureblood loved the hunter. He always seemed unaffected by Kaname's shortcomings...
So Kaname did indeed continue pulling the slice closer, right to his chest... but the cheese just stretched way over there. Wow... Kaname would never underestimate cheese again. It sagged in the middle, threatening to give way and land on the table and both Zero and Yuuki looked like they were about to snatch it up, but the pureblood, ever a quick thinker, leaned under the slice as he held it higher, mentally severed the cheese where it hung over the tray- so it wouldn't touch the table- and used his mouth to gather the rest before it even touched the table.
Zero and Yuuki blinked at Kaname as one end of the cheese string hung from his mouth and the other end still adamantly clung to the pizza.
This was a crazy afternoon- Kaname Kuran just pulled one of the most ungraceful moves either of the prefects had ever seen and they only noticed it because it was so awesome.
"That was a good save, Kaname," Zero commented, not even being sarcastic, smiling at the older brunette as he licked the end of the cheese into his mouth and then turned to bite the rest away from the pizza.
Yes, even Kaname thought that was a brilliant idea... He smiled at his accomplishment as well and replied, "Thank you. Is this always that hard to eat?"
Yuuki shook her head, trying not to laugh at how matter-of-fact Kaname seemed about that acrobatic feat he'd pulled and she answered, "Not usually. Sometimes, though. I didn't even think it was still that hot."
"It's probably just getting to the point where it won't happen anymore," the other prefect deducted.
Zero finished his second piece shortly after, and sat back, sipping his tea through the straw he'd unwrapped- there were six slices in the beginning so he was done. ...Kaname was so cute, sinking his teeth into the pizza in that unsure way while he held it with two hands. It was a wonder he hadn't asked about where the silverware was, but the hunter figured since Kaname could blend in like the best, the pureblood had probably observed Yuuki and Zero pick theirs up with their hands and eat it that way.
Eventually though, Kaname noticed Zero had finished and was watching him and the Kaname smiled, ready to try this again.
"Would you like some of mine, Zero, if you are still hungry?"
The hunter smirked, knowing that Kaname was looking for a repeat of the ice cream stunt, but he wanted to see how far the pureblood would go; how much he really wanted it.
"Ah, well... We were supposed to each eat two slices..."
He winked at Yuuki and she giggled quietly, extracting her second piece from the disappearing pizza pie. The gesture was meant to be noticed by Kaname and the challenge was properly known and taken up by said pureblood. Kaname knew how much Zero enjoyed being bitten and he was definitely going to exploit that, because he was well aware of how sensitive the hunter was to the mere sight of his fangs...
Acting nonchalant about it, Kaname swiftly finished his first slice's soft crust and reached over to get the last piece, noticing it was too cool to do the cheese thing like he would need it to do in a moment. He had a plan and physics wasn't going to ruin it... He subtly warmed it up, exciting the food's atoms with his powers before opening his mouth a little wider so Zero could see...
Immediately, Zero felt his stomach tighten when he saw twin, perfectly curved fangs glinting in the sunlight coming through the window. It didn't raise any alarm because no one was really near them and anyway as soon as Zero noticed them, they were gone, deeply embedded in the pizza. He swallowed and shifted in his seat, his eyes lowering to the table- Kaname knew how he was about the pureblood's fangs. The hunter smirked- Kaname was certainly not one to mess with when it came to this sort of thing.
When the pureblood chewed the warm mouthful of fragrant mozzarella and spiced pepperoni- after making sure he seperated the cheese from the pizza itself- traces of the sauce dotted his lips and the corners of his mouth looking suspiciously like...
"Ah... Kaname, I think I'll have some, if you don't mind..." Zero murmured, feeling his body tingle with the first hints of arousal. He was pretty sure as they spent more of their lives around each other, such small, vague things wouldn't get him worked up, but for now, Zero was totally thinking of all sorts of things. And how dare someone make pizza so desirable? Kaname should do commercials and pizza sales everywhere would go up...
Kaname snatched a napkin before Zero could make him lick the sauce away and as he wiped the red paste from his mouth, also hiding his sly smirk, he held out the slice for Zero, making sure he himself could also reach the piece... The hunter leaned forward, his hands in his lap and now Kaname sent a knowing look to Yuuki who was enjoying the show while she nibbled on her pizza crust. Zero's fangs looked a bit grown out, if Kaname didn't know better, when the male prefect bit down. However, as Zero tried to make sure the cheese wouldn't stretch, Kaname pulled the slice away and a thick strand of mozzarella hung between Zero's mouth and the pizza. Yuuki giggled in the background at her partner's startled moan of protest as he leaned forward instinctively.
"My, Kiryuu... And I thought you knew how to eat these types of things..." Kaname purred with a kind of dangerous innocence, liking that this was in his favor now. Knowing that no one was currently able to see them since a partition was seperating some booths in the line of sight from the queue area to their table and no one was near their table at the moment... Kaname once again lifted the pizza above his head, lifting the cheese strand as well. Widened lavender eyes watched in anticipation as Kaname tilted his head sideways and his pink tongue flicked out and took the strand into his own mouth with surprising ease.
Zero tried to groan something, but only wore a look of what was obviously a harmless type of frustration as Kaname began to take in more and more of the cheese that connected them, inching closer to Zero's mouth. Usually Zero was the more conservative of the two vampires but he was only minorly aware that they were in a public place, right next to a window where anyone could see in. Besides, there was only one thing he wanted right now...
Now that they were about two inches apart, both Kaname and Zero stood up from their seats a bit to meet above the middle of the table, the former almost felt cruel for cutting the string with his teeth and sitting back down. As he got rid of the knot of cheese in his mouth, Kaname was rather surprised to hear Zero softly express his displeasure at that after swallowing, with, "Kaname... Just wait until we get back" even as he was blushing. Kaname smiled and idly took a foreign-feeling drink from his tea with the straw and said, "Yes, we'll see what'll happen then. That was merely my debt being repaid for you helping me with my ice cream. I just helped with your cheese."
Zero glared in a non-offensive way at his lover before his eyes drifted over to Yuuki. Her cheeks were almost as red as his had been a moment ago and they only brightened when he looked at her. She must be so unused to them acting like this...
"Sorry, Yuuki... This is probably really weird for you," Zero apologized.
Kaname also frowned and paused in finishing his pizza so they could get ready to go, also saying that he was sorry. She just smiled at them, even if it looked a little awkward, and said, "I think it's nice you two aren't as uptight around each other as you are alone..." Both boys doubted she understood the wisdom in her hastily thought-up sentence. But if she thought about it, she would've surely noticed how true that was. Zero didn't make a show out of licking ice cream around anyone and Kaname definitely didn't twist around for mozzarella and play with his food often. Yes, they acted different around each other, but they knew it was because they could be themselves around each other. They both smiled at their girl. And with Yuuki, too, most of the time.
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Author's Notes: *eating ice cream*Whoops... I noticed in the first chappie, I forgot to put '-senpai' after Kaname's name when Yuuki first came back XD So I decided to keep it like that here, too Hope it doesn't ruin the illusion XD
^^ Ah, I love the things I can make them do with food. Eclairs (in More Than You Know) , ice cream, pizza...
Nya~ XD Pookie has a fang-fetish. (if you haven't read Assorted Sweets, then you might not get the Pookie ref. XD Pookie=Zero)
It ended kind of randomly but I didn't feel like ending it completely... so there. Fear my 'good' reason XD