Disclaimer: The characters of this fic belong to Matsuri Hino, I don't own any of vampire knight's characters.

..She's a Pureblood..

Chapter 2

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Aoi looked at the big mirror, satisfied by her choice of the dress. She was wearing a sky blue colored dress with a flared, short skirt. It had a tiny brown rose on the side of her waste while the top part was patterned. It was sleeveless, simple dress that would allow her to move freely in case she needed to fight.

She sat in front of the big mirror, trying her utmost best to apply her make up properly. Another reflection joined her reflection in the mirror. She couldn't help but fix her gaze on the new reflection.

The person in the reflection; Zero averted his eyes after his eyes met hers, and then he said:"Your eye liner… "

Aoi looked at him, oblivious of what he meant. She asked:"What?"

"It's out of track" Zero said simply.

Eye liner, lip gloss, eye shadow…etc, Zero became an expert in that due to how many times Yuuki attempted applying them and failed miserably.

Aoi got flustered, realizing that she drew a line that reached her temples; she was too attracted to Zero to notice what she was doing.

The silver haired guy was wearing a suit, not the one she chose for him, but it looked fascinating on him. The neck tie he was wearing could show the violet color of his eyes very well. He seemed as a knight that came out of a fiction story to her.

She turned her attention back to the mirror. Frowning, she tried wiping the eye liner in a random movement, more like rubbing it, resulting in it to spread all over. Zero sighed and walked to her side. He held her wrist in order to stop her. She looked at him in daze, transfixed.

"You don't do it that way. Now you have a panda eye" Zero stated while taking a handkerchief, wetting it from a water bottle that was on the table besides her. If she was Yuuki, he would laugh by now.

He gently started to remove her messy eyeliner, feeling that what he was doing was very nostalgic, as if it was a time machine that took him back to the past.

She blushed deeply throughout the process, and when he finished, she smiled at him in a grateful manner; Zero always surprised her by sides of his character she couldn't predict.

His eyes were not in any way the same eyes she saw when she was protecting Yuuki from him. There was tenderness in them… and if it wasn't her imagination, she caught a glimpse of pain in his look, which made her curiosity uncontrolled now. She wanted to know his story by any means.

'He's not a bad person after all' she thought.

Upon seeing her smile, Yuuki's image replaced Aoi's for a second. Zero got bewildered, jolted up and then walked away from Aoi's side. He left the room, and locked the door behind him.

He didn't move an inch after closing the door as thoughts waged a war against him; the way his heart beat when he saw Yuuki in Aoi only reminded him of the events earlier. He remembered how his hand was shivering when he tried to pull the trigger a while ago. Although he didn't want to believe it, he wasn't sure why he was shivering.

'Why?'

He asked himself. He hated Yuuki. He had sworn to kill her, hadn't he? His goal was set clear in front of his eyes for a long time, then why was his hand shivering? He never hesitated before killing any vampire before

It wasn't only his hand that was out of control, his heart was racing, it pulsed pain through his veins with each passing second. Whenever he tried to press harder on the trigger, an image of her laying dead forced him to back out, but wasn't her death what he wanted?

'It's rage. It's rage that made me shiver' He told himself, denying any other voice within his head.

`I don't want to lose anyone else`

His words to his twin echoed within his mind. 'Not wanting to lose anyone' must have been the reason he backed out, that's the resolve he settled at.

'Face it, you already lost her' He tried to persuade himself that this unbearable reality wasn't a mere nightmare.

'Zero… you… you have to achieve your goal'

Ichiro's voice echoed in his mind. His last words lingered there, forcing Zero to remember his goal

'I will use the rest of my life to protect Yuuki'

Didn't he 'eat' Ichiro just to fulfill Ichiro's last wishes? Shouldn't he be going after his original goal? Protecting Yuuki? How did things turn out like this?

Zero tilted his forehead on the wall he stood motionlessly in front of.

'No, that Yuuki is dead. There's nothing to protect anymore' he gritted his teeth, and then, a lifeless, cold look replaced the agonized look he had.

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Zero leant on a pillar on the corner of the ballroom. He seemed lost in his own thoughts; he didn't care about the fancy hall, he didn't care about the sight of that huge chandelier in the middle of it, he wasn't attracted to how dazzling and gleaming everything seemed.

Vampires seemed to be enjoying the food and drinks, and talking non-stop, but no matter how amazing the place would look to anyone, to Zero, it was just disgusting, reeking of vampires' smell. It was suffocating.

A pat on his shoulder pulled Zero back to reality. He looked at the owner of the hand and saw Aoi smiling cheerfully

"Let's dance!"

She suggested. Zero averted his eyes and stated:"You can't let your guard down"

"Standing here with that glumly scary look while everyone is dancing is surely suspicious. We must behave in a normal way" She stated in a scolding manner.

"This is normal"

Zero stated simply. "Boring!" she said, pouted, puffed, and stood besides him, observing the dancing couples.

"May I have this dance?" Aidou senpai appeared out of no where.

Aoi smiled at him. A hot stream went through her cheek as she allowed him to take her hand and got swept between his arms in a waltz position.

From behind the crowds, a glumly, confused gaze was fixed upon Zero. Standing where she was, across the hall, the chocolate haired girl couldn't help but stare at him.

They were only steps afar from each other, but the distance between them seemed infinite. It was almost impossible to believe that they used to live under the same roof.

How everything used to go smoothly, how he was always there to help her, how she used to shout at him normally when he slacks off, how he used to smile at her although those times were rare. All of that seemed very far from reality.

'Why did we end up this way?' Yuuki asked herself. Longing left no spot in her heart at ease. Even if her body was to wither, those feelings won't disappear, those tears that kept chasing her will never let her escape. Even if her eyes were dry, there were those invisible tears that only her heart could feel.

Only… only if this person she loves could be happy, then nothing else matters. Maybe it was really the time to end it all, for her heart had gotten weary.

"I need to get some fresh air, I'd rather be alone" Yuuki stated as she started making her way towards the balcony, leaving the vampire in her guard behind.

"But Kaname Sama said..." The vampire uttered, following her.

Yuuki stopped, didn't even look back, and ordered indignantly: "I'm your master too, leave me alone" and she resumed walking to her destination.

Zero observed as Yuuki walked towards the balcony. Again, they met, was he going to fulfill his promise this time? If he was going to do it, what was he waiting for? It was his right chance; she was isolating herself.

Zero followed her. After few steps, he paused, sensing the existence of a level E vampire, in the same direction where Yuuki was. He could sense the level E vampire being close, which made him wonder: why couldn't he sense it before. He always knew it when a level E was coming from a longer distance.

'The scent of vampires in the ballroom must have coated it' was the answer he found.

Upon reaching the balcony, Zero looked at Yuuki who was facing him. She gave him an apologetic look that shattered something within Zero, but he didn't know what it was. He didn't have the time to know what he felt; a hand was grasping Yuuki's petite waste, and then she was dragged over the ledge of the balcony and into the forest out there.

Zero vaulted over the ledge of balcony after recovering from the state of bewilderment he was at.

Aoi noticed Zero's movement, apologized to Aidou and ran after zero.

However, she lost the sight of Zero; a big group of level E vampires surrounded her, blocking her way. She cursed under her breath. She instantly drew a rifle that was hidden under her flared skirt and strapped to her thigh by leather straps.

'you'll regret blocking my way!' she hissed.

Zero kept chasing after the level E vampire that had Yuuki in his grasp. Something was strange, definitely strange. Yuuki must have sensed the existence of the level E, why did she walk to the balcony although she knew it was dangerous?

Even if she didn't stay afar from the balcony, she has her pureblood vampires' powers. For such a weak level E, she would've been able to kill him right on the spot, why wasn't she resisting?!

Did she want to resist?

'I don't deserve to live, but I won't allow you to live, carrying the sin of killing me…'

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