A/N: Thank you all for your wonderful reviews. I was completely overwhelmed with how many people liked my story. I don't know if I wasn't clear in the last chapter. This isn't the first time I've written on FF but this is the first time I'm doing a VK fiction and Yaoi. I love Vampire Knight and the KxZ pairing so I thought I'd try one for myself. Anyway here's chapter two!

Omega

Chapter Two

Beginning the Nightmare

Zero woke up to bright lights and a white tiled ceiling. He knew immediately he was no longer at Cross Academy. He didn't have a spotless white ceiling in his dorm room- it was a white but was patterned with plaster swirls. His room at the Chairman's house had a pale cream ceiling to match the walls. The only other place he'd been with a white ceiling was Kaito's apartment and his bedroom ceiling was distinguished by the large yellow water stain directly above his bed. No water stains here.

There were white sheets tucked up to his chin, covered with a warm pale yellow blanket. Out of the corner of his eyes, he could see white walls and a bit of a white floor. This much white meant only one thing. He was in hospital. Immediately he struggled up, trying to free himself from the grips of the blankets and sheets. He had to get out. Get away.

"Hey, hey. Zero, it's alright." A soft feminine hand stroked his silvery hair back from his forehead. Blinking up into the concerned face of Wakaba Sayori calmed him more than any drug could have. As he stopped struggling, she helped him to sit up and propped the over-cushiony pillows behind him. "Do you remember what happened?" She asked as she sorted the sheets back in order. Zero twitched his lips into a minuscule smile. Trust her to do the practical before fussing.

"We...we were walking from class..." Zero trailed off when he saw outside. The curtains weren't drawn as it was pitch black outside. The bright hospital lights turned the glass into a mirror. Zero could see he wore hospital pyjamas and his hair was sticking up in all different directions. Last he remembered the sun wasn't even close to setting. "How long..."

"Nearly nine hours. It's half-eleven now." Sayori informed him quickly. "Chairman Cross had to leave to take care of some important business back at school. He said he'd be back as soon as possible." Sayori sat back down in the hard plastic chairs the hospital provided. "Yagari-sensei was here for a short while but the Association called him back. Swearing all the way, I might add." She told him, knowing it'd make him smile.

"What happened?" Zero finally asked, his throat was so dry and his voice came out as a croak. Sayori didn't say anything but reached over and picked up the glass of water on his bedside table. Next to it were two very familiar white pills, which she ignored. She helped him sip the water carefully, and when he was done, she replaced the now empty glass.

"You collapsed. I don't know what happened. One minute you were fine then you just..."She trailed off, remembering that heart-stopping moment Zero had crumpled to the floor outside their history classroom. "I know you don't want to hear it, but we've been worried about you." She finished softly.

Zero blinked at her. He remembered walking out of history with Sayori just in front of him. Then getting very dizzy- but that wasn't unusual, for the past three weeks he always seemed to be getting dizzy. But then there was only darkness. Had he really fainted? In front of all the Day Class? Zero groaned as humiliation and shame licked hot trails along his insides. He took small consolation in the fact the Night Class hadn't been there.

He was about to ask Sayori when Cross and Yagari were returning- he knew that with him in the hospital they'd wouldn't leave him alone there. Even though he knew Cross would coddle him to death until he felt like bashing the headmaster into a coma, he knew he secretly liked how Cross treated him like a 'normal' person. Not like an Ex-human vampire. Level E. Monster. Sayori seemed to anticipate his question as she spoke before he could open his mouth.

"Yagari-sensei phoned me to tell me he won't be able to come until early morning. Something about the mission, it can't be postponed, top secret and all that." The small eye-twitch told Zero exactly what Sayori thought about the Association calling Yagari away when Zero was in the hospital. "Chairman Cross should be back any minute..."

Even as she spoke, the door flew open and Chairman Cross stood there, looking concerned and out of breath. When he saw Zero propped up on numerous pillows awake and scowling as usual, Kaien threw open his arms and with a smile -that should by all laws of physics split his face in two- wildly flung them around Zero's neck in a bone crushing hug. "My precious, darling son is finally awake." He cooed even as Zero tried to dislodge him.

Sayori wondered if she was the only one who saw exactly what the Chairman was doing. By acting his usual overly enthusiastic self, he was giving Zero that semblance of normalcy. By over-acting as he usually did, Chairman Cross was acting as if nothing had gone wrong. She carefully hid a smile when Zero finally fought free of his adoptive father and was gasping for breath. "I'm not your son!" Was the first thing Zero managed to wheeze out, when he'd shoved the Chairman back so Kaien lay sprawled on the pale grey linoleum.

"Oooh! Don't be like that, Zero-rin!" Cross mock-scolded, his smile still firmly in place and he wagged his finger playfully at Zero as if the bedbound boy was a naughty puppy that had been caught chewing a shoe. Zero growled low in his throat but he was still too weak to do much else. His fists bunched and Zero wondered how much energy he'd exert getting up and blooding his adoptive father's nose. Sayori seemed to be able to read his mind because she quickly refilled his water glass and handed it to him.

She gave him a knowing look followed by an eye roll. Zero couldn't help his lips twitch into a tiny smile. Sayori always knew how to make him smile, no matter how terrible he felt. "Einen Tag wird jemand ihn in eine Irrenanstalt zu nehmen..." Zero murmured sleepily. Sayori looked over at him sharply, while the chairman stopped acting like a fool, she knew he had heard it too. Zero had spoken a different language.

"Zero? What did you say?" Sayori fought to keep the panic out of her voice. Zero's eyes fluttered shut and he unconsciously snuggled deeper into the pillows. "Zero!" Sayori called sharply. "What did you just say?"

"Mmm? I didn't say anything." Zero slurred before he dropped back to sleep.

Sayori shared a scared look with the Chairman. "Chairman, do you know what language he was speaking?" She asked, unable to cover the hitch in her voice.

"German." The voice was the doorway, answered for her. Yagari stood there in his brown leather jacket and battered cowboy hat, his face is stony and covered in dust. Clearly he'd come straight to the hospital from his mission. Sayori just hoped he wasn't bleeding anywhere as most the doctors were vampires. And all the patients were Level D's bordering on E's.

"German?" Sayori repeated softly. "I didn't know Zero spoke German."

"He doesn't." Yagari strode into the room and tossed his rifle into one of the chairs but still well within arm's reach if it was needed. "He said that one day someone will take Kaien to an insane asylum." Yagari ignored, Kaien's indignant snort and leant over and looked his student over carefully. If there was even an eyebrow hair out of place, he was shooting the next vampire doctor he saw.

"That would suggest he knew what he was saying..." Kaien had gotten over the insult and now his face looked like it was carved from stone.

"It's not the first time." Sayori told them. When both adults suddenly turned to her, Sayori blinked. "He spoke fluent French to me once and his book..." She quickly cut herself off. The notebook was for Zero's private thoughts. It was one thing for her to secretly peek at it; it was completely different to practically invite others to read it.

"French? And what book?" Yagari demanded. Sayori knew a lot of her fellow Day Class students thought Yagari-sensei was scary. In that moment, Sayori knew that they'd never seen this man truly scary. But she held her ground, meeting Yagari-sensei's pale blue eye and staying stubbornly silent. "What book, Wakaba!" Yagari snapped, his cool composure coming apart at the seams at the mere notion Zero might be worst than he'd originally thought.

"It's a diary of sorts, Toga." Kaien finally told him. "Sayori-san brought Zero a notebook where he could write down his most intimate thoughts as he dislikes talking about them." The former Hunter explained, his face set into sad lines.

"And you've read it? Does he know?" Yagari looked at Sayori with his visible eye although his face was still turned to Zero; she shook her head to answer his second question as the first was redundant. She wouldn't have said she had read the book if she hadn't. She was not liar. Yagari's face shifted slightly, giving Sayori a clearer view of the Hunter. She saw a lot of things in that eye, what looked like annoyance but also trust and pride.

"Most of it was in different languages." Sayori told them. "I couldn't read them." Not a complete lie. She had started translating the Latin but so far it wasn't making much sense to her. The French translations were still burned into her head like they'd been branded there with hot iron. But she wouldn't betray Zero's trust by sharing what she had found with his father (adopted) or his teacher.

Kaien seemed to sense they wouldn't get any more out of the girl as he turned back to the silver haired boy on the bed and stroked back those tousled locks away from a pale face. Shadows still stood out starkly under his eyes but in sleep he'd lost that tightly drawn pained look he seemed to have been wearing for weeks. Yagari looked like he was about to press Sayori for more answers to Zero's sudden language skills when a vampire in a white lab coat and carrying a clipboard walked in.

On the Hunter's radar he noted the vampire was a Level C. As common as dust and easily taken care of, was Yagari's instinctive first thought. Still, he picked up his anti-vampire gun and slung it casually over his arm. The vampire gave the black haired Hunter a wary look but smiled at Sayori and Kaien politely enough. "Zero woke up just now, but he'd gone back to sleep. What news do you have, Dr. Mori?" Kaien asked.

Dr. Mori looked at the three awake occupants before landing on the sleeping boy on the bed. "I've gotten the results of the blood test we took. As far as we can tell there is nothing wrong with Kiriyuu Zero." Before he could be shouted at from three sides and that Hunter had a nasty looking rifle propped over one arm, Mori spoke again. "We'll need to keep him for observation for a couple of days at least. One doesn't fall unconscious for nine hours if there's nothing wrong with them." He explained.

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Kaname stared out of his bedroom window, his mind in turmoil. Seiren had informed him that Yagari had left an hour ago. Going towards St. Lucifer's. Going to Kiriyuu. What on earth happened? What had caused Kiriyuu to collapse? Kaname had known many Level Ds to fall to E's. It was inevitable if the ex-human hadn't drunk their creator's blood immediately after the first bite. Even those that drank the blood later in life were in danger of becoming an E.

And Kiriyuu hadn't had Hiou Shizuka's blood until four years after his turning. But none of those sorry souls he'd seen or heard of, ever collapsed during the transition. If anything the beasts got stronger. Their bloodlust and vampire instincts overriding their morals and any rational thought they might have had.

Kaname wasn't blind. He could see the signs of a body degrading every time he laid eyes on the acid-tongued Hunter. But the Level D's body was degrading like he was human, not a vampire. Whatever was happening to Kiriyuu, it was not good. Kaname didn't know why that bothered him so much. The sound of cracking glass made Kaname turn to the window. It now had a large fissure down one of the panes.

Kaname consciously reined in his temper that recently began to flow free when he thought about Kiriyuu's predictable fate. And with the boy in hospital...Kaname glanced suspiciously at his bedroom door. If he'd lost enough control to nearly shatter his bedroom window, then the lesser vampires downstairs must have felt it. Including Yuuki. Yuuki. Kaname sighed.

Hadn't he done everything in his power to make up for her lost time as a Pureblood? But the girl who stared out at him from Yuuki's face wasn't the girl he'd loved throughout her childhood. He didn't recognise her anymore. The first time she'd barged past Kiriyuu as if he was nothing more than scenery, had opened Kaname's eyes more than he wanted them opened. The look on the Hunter's face had told Kaname that Kiriyuu didn't recognise Yuuki anymore either.

Kaname waved his hand impatiently at the ruined window, instantly the glass stitched itself together. Although he still had a few hours before the sun began coming up, Kaname swiftly changed into his bedclothes. He had a headache and he couldn't think of one good reason to remain awake. As he crawled under the covers, he had a foolishly human thought: maybe when he woke, everything would make sense.

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Aidou knew the punishment for sneaking out, especially since Kaname-sama came back from the Headmaster's office he was in such a bad mood. But curiosity drove him to find out the two major things that had happened today. One was to find out what had put his Pureblood master in such a state. The other: find out where all the cute Day Class girls had been during class change-over. He knew that if they were caught, Kaname-sama would not be pleased. Good thing he brought Akatsuki along then.

Luck was on their side when they run into one of the Day Class teachers. They were much easier to fool then the Night Class teachers. She blinked at them as if she really wasn't sure they were there or not. "Aidou-san. Kain-san. Classes are over. Why are you out of your dorms?" She asked, her head tilting to the side.

Aidou had a plan just in case they were caught by a teacher. He solemnly held up his notes from his maths class. "I forgot my notes, Sensei. I asked Akatsuki to come with me to get them." He watched as the teacher's face cleared from slightly suspicious to understanding, her homey face breaking into a sweet smile.

"Ah, that's quite alright, Aidou-san. Some of the Day Class would have used that as an excuse for not doing their homework. It's nice to see that the Night Class are serious about their studies here." She told them, unknowingly giving Aidou the perfect opening to one of his queries.

"Speaking about the Day Class, we didn't see them at Change-over today. We missed them." Aidou murmured, keeping his voice low and hypnotic. Although it wasn't as powerful as Purebloods control, he did have a slight weave over people.

Evidence of this was in the teacher's drowsy face, her half lidded eyes and flushed cheeks made her look half-asleep. But she answered him clearly, "you mean you haven't heard?"

"Heard what?" Aidou pressed.

"Kiriyuu-san collapsed after his history class. They rushed him to hospital. The Headmaster cancelled the rest of the Day classes and told the students not to come out under the threat of expulsion. He and Wakaba-san went with Kiriyuu-san to the hospital."

"What was wrong with him?" Kain asked in alarm. He could see the wear on the ex-human prefect, especially over the past two weeks but he never thought it was serious enough to cause the boy to faint. He had just assumed the boy was falling to Level E. His voice wasn't as soothing or spellbinding as his cousin's and the teacher blinked sleepily as she tried to regain what had just happened.

"We don't know." She answered Kain, looking confused. "The headmaster came back shortly before eleven to fill out some forms but he left fifteen minutes later. Yagari-san was here to fill out as the headmaster while Cross-san was with Kiriyuu but he went to the hospital shortly after talking to Kuran-san."

"Yagari talked to Kaname-sama? What about?" Aidou demanded sharply.

The teacher's face cleared and she frowned at the two Night Class students. "I believe it was a private matter. You should really be getting back to your dorms, gentlemen." As they were obviously not going to get any more answers out of her, Aidou and Kain turned back to the Moon Dorms, the Day Class teacher watching them go.

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Takuma and Shiki watched Yumi play vigorously with the shoelaces of Takuma's school shoes. They could feel Kaname's temper from the common room, so they'd decided to hide out in their shared bedroom until their Pureblood leader had calmed down. They also used the time to talk about what had been weighing on both their minds for two months. Since Yuuki had awoken to her Pureblood heritage.

"She's a completely different person." Takuma murmured as he picked Yumi up and cuddled her in his lap. Usually animals were extremely frightened of vampires, their primal instincts informing them that these creatures were dangerous and not to be trusted. But some could grow accustomed to vampires- the only cases this had happened though were when the animal had been with the vampire since they were born. Yumi was now such an animal.

The tabby snuggled into her owner's silk shirt, knowing something was wrong but unsure of how she could make things better. "I preferred her as human." Shiki said his tone and face were both emotionless. But he did reach over and scratch the top of Yumi's orange head.

"Purebloods have a lot of power at their fingertips. Much more than humans could even dream of. Lower vampires scurry to please Purebloods every whim, even Nobles. It's ingrained into us to serve the top of the food chain. Yuuki-sama only remembers her life as a human; she is unaccustomed to so many itching to do her every command." Takuma was uncharacteristically sombre. "Perhaps when she has become more comfortable with her new status, she'll be as she was before."

"I doubt it. No one changes the amount she has just because they need to adapt." Shiki told him. Takuma let Yumi back on to the floor and reached over to kiss his boyfriend sweetly on the lips. His tongue skilfully entered Shiki's mouth, exploring the cavern again and again. One of them moaned. Shiki's arms reached up and wrapped tightly around the blonde vampire.

Takuma lifted his mouth from Shiki's. "No more depressing thoughts." He asked. Shiki's answer was to tighten his hold on Takuma and bring their mouths together again. Takuma slowly lowered Shiki to the bed and engrossed himself in studying every inch of the redheaded boy. And Takuma's request for no more depressing thoughts was accepted and replaced with thoughts of each other.

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Yuuki flicked firmly at one of the bubbles in her bath. Her long hair was floating around her in the water and the water was warm and soothing. But she'd found she was unable to relax. After their classes, Rima and Ruka had apologetically informed her they couldn't help her with her maths homework due to already made plans to go into town before the sun rose. Aidou and Kain had snuck out to find out what had happened to the Day Class girls at Change-over and Kaname had disappeared to talk urgently with the headmaster.

She couldn't see why she could have gone with him. After all, Cross Kaien was her adopted father. But Kaname had left immediately after they were let out their last class and he had told no one where he was going. Yuuki huffed out a breath. When Kaname had awoken her, she had been overwhelmed by her senses, the power she held and the amount of respect and admiration the Night Class had for her.

But she soon realised that she was entitled to it. After all didn't she spend ten years being a pathetic weak human while her brother got all the attention and respect? Kaname loved her, treated her like no one else did, and drowned her in affection and love and attention. But she deserved it. After all, he had to make up for leaving her human for as long as he did.

And as her thoughts often did when they were turned to her previous human life, they drifted to Kiriyuu Zero. Her face twisted with bitterness and hate. She didn't know it, but hate for Zero had infested her heart and turned it to ash. At first, when she first returned to being a Pureblood, she'd thought she could stay friends with the Level E Hunter. But she knew now, that was an impossibility. Kiriyuu was just too far below her on the pecking order.

Royalty did not fraternise with the sewer rats.

Yuuki got out the bath and towelled herself dry, her thoughts still as black and rotten as old fruit. She mentally shook herself from thinking about Kiriyuu- who cared about him anymore? Not she. Instead, her thoughts turned to Kaname. He'd be back from talking with the Headmaster by now. She dressed carefully in her bedclothes. The short nightgown made of red lace and silk that she'd brought especially for occasions like these. She took a long black satin dressing gown and slipped out her room.

She'd barely gotten three steps when she was stopped by Seiren. The lavender haired vampire was one of the few in Kaname's inner circle that hadn't bent over backwards to make Yuuki's life easier. Instead Kaname's bodyguard acted as she always had, barely taking note of Yuuki unless Kaname instructed her to. For that reason alone, Yuuki hated her.

"Yuuki-sama, you should not be up so late. The sun is already rising." Seiren informed her in her usual expressionless tone.

"I'm going to see my brother." Yuuki told her primly and made to barge pass Seiren. In an instant, the short haired vampire was in front of the Pureblood princess, effectively blocking her path.

"I'm afraid I cannot allow that, Yuuki-sama. Kaname-sama has ordered no one to come near him today. He wishes for solitude. That includes you Yuuki-sama." Seiren told her. Yuuki felt like hitting her, but if it got back to Kaname, that would do her no good. No man wanted a girl who could fend for herself- that was why Kaname and the Night Class did everything for her, so she could be the perfect princess.

"I see. Thank you Seiren." Yuuki smiled at the Noble vampire with sickening sweetness before she turned back to her room. Seiren ignored her. Instead she carefully pulled the heavy drape back from the window in the hall and peered carefully out. The real reason she was here was because this window had the perfect view of the entrance gate to the school and Kaname-sama wanted to know when the Level D returned from the hospital.

Seiren had never really liked the imprudent Ex-Human. He was disrespectful, rude and often a threat to Kaname-sama but then, one time she'd seen a different side to him. A side she swore she'd never expect to see on someone like him. It had during the two days he was absent from his Prefect duties. Kaname had sent her to see if she could find out a cause.

And she found the Hunter in the stables. She'd kept back, going so far to hide in a tree so she wouldn't spook the horses and alert the Prefect to her presence, but through the open door she saw him sleeping deeply next to one of the stalls. The stall housed White Lily. Even though the Night Class didn't do horseback riding due to the horses' fear of them, she knew about White Lily.

They'd heard the Day Class girls talk about her enough. The Untameable One. Too wild to let anyone go near her. Except, Kiriyuu Zero it would appear. The horse seemed completely content having the Level D vampire sleep next to her stall. Seiren wasn't easily surprised. But she admitted it to herself that she was surprised when she saw the horse reach over the short wooden wall and nuzzle the boy's hair, in a motherly fashion. She watched as Kiriyuu blinked up at the horse and a soft smile spread over his features.

Who knew Kiriyuu had a smile that beautiful? Seiren was convinced Kiriyuu didn't even know how to smile let alone he could.

Still, she watched as the boy got up, brushing stray strands of hay from his shoulders and back. He fished around his pocket and came out with a glossy green apple. He brought it up to his lips before he paused. Looking grey and in need of a full day's sleep the silver-haired boy offered the apple to the horse. "Here, Lily. You have it, I'm not hungry." Even though his voice was low and rasped, Seiren could easily hear him.

Seiren thought he looked like he needed the apple more than White Lily. In fact, Kiriyuu looked like he could do with several decent meals. His skin stretched tightly over his bones, his cheekbones- which were already sharp- were prominent in the boy's gaunt face. His eyes were sunken and his whole demeanour was frightfully fragile. As the horse happily crunched into the offered apple, he checked his watch and his eyes widened. "Two days! How could I have slept for two days?"

Seiren kept the opinion that he obviously needed to sleep for two more to herself.

Instead Kiriyuu picked up his school bag and pulled out a spare uniform shirt and trousers and began changing right there. Seiren's eyes widened when she saw how thin his chest and waist had gotten, she could count how many ribs he had and his collar bones looked ready to snap. When he began to undo his trousers, she respectfully closed her eyes until she heard him zip his clean pair up. He was already leaving while shrugging into his blazer. Seiren could still smell horses on him, but he clearly had some deodorant with him as it was faint enough that the Day Class wouldn't notice anything.

As he passed under her tree he suddenly looked up right at her. Seiren blinked back at him. She would not show any weakness in front of him. "As this is the first time I've caught you out here, I'll let you go. If I catch you again I'll send you back to your Kaname-sama." He told her before he turned to go. Seiren felt a strange level of respect for the hunter. He knew she'd seen him at his weakest but he would not attempt to bride her silence or threaten it. He continued to do his job as a guardian.

Seiren blinked herself out of the memory when she saw the sun was fully risen and four figures making their way through the entrance gate. Three of them surrounded a fourth that was obviously very weak. Seiren turned to Kaname-sama's room, to inform him that Kiriyuu Zero had returned to Cross Academy with Wakaba Sayori and Cross and Yagari.

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Zero groaned awake for the second time, to see Sayori fast asleep in one of the uncomfortable white plastic visitor's chairs the hospital provided. She was slumped over his bed, using her folded arms as a makeshift pillow. And she wasn't the only one. Cross was curled up in his seat like a cat, his head resting on his knees. Yagari still had his gun in his limp hands, his head hanging off the back of the chair. The pulse point on his neck was clearly visible.

Zero viciously turned his head away. It had been too long since he last had blood. His eyes fell on the water pitcher and two blood tablets. Even though he knew he couldn't keep them down. They'd help with the raw burning of his throat. Careful not to look at any of the three sleeping people in his room, Zero poured a glass of water and dropped both tablet in. He drank it down in three gulps.

"Zero?" Sayori asked sleepily. Shortly after the doctor had left, they'd waited for Zero to wake up, at least this time it was a deep natural sleep rather than a near coma. She saw the boy, the glass still stained red from the blood tablets in his hands, a dribble running down his chin. But his eyes were their usual lilac.

"What time is it?" Zero croaked out, his voice was rusty from disuse.

Sayori checked her watch. "Five in the morning." She told him. Their voice woke Kaien and Yagari from their sleep. Both adults yawned and rubbed their eyes free of sleep and looked extremely relived that Zero was awake again. Yagari stood up, cracking the bones in his back as he stretched. "I'll get the doctor." He told them, even as he was out the door.

"There is no need." Dr. Mori said as he slipped through the door, stopping Yagari. Behind him was a Level C nurse. She glanced warily at Zero and Yagari, as she wheeled a trolley with different needles and other hospital equipment carefully laid out on the sterilised surface, she pushed the trolley to the corner of Zero's bed, bowed respectfully at Mori and left without a word.

Mori picked up the empty syringe and approached Zero. "We need to take some more blood." Zero kept his face carefully blank as the doctor inserted the needle into his arm and drew out the blood. Zero was thankful for the scent-proof equipment the doctor used, knowing that the smell of his own blood would only increase his bloodlust.

The doctor next picked up a heavy form and gave it to Kaien. "We need parent and/or guardian to sign that for a CAT scan." The doctor explained. He took a thermometer and placed it under Zero's tongue.

Sayori blinked. "A CAT scan? Why?"

"If the problem is not to do with his blood, then it must be his brain. A CAT scan will allow us to see into his brain without harming him." The doctor explained.

"He is right here and doesn't want a CAT scan." Zero's words were slightly muffled with the thermometer but his expression told them all they needed to know. "I'm eighteen tomorrow. Legally that mean I'm an adult. I want to discharge myself."

"Your eighteen tomorrow, legally I have twenty-four hours before you can make your own decisions. Cross-san if you please sign those forms." Mori said.

"Don't even think about it!" Zero snapped.

"Zero, if it can help us find out what's making you sick, it's worth a shot. I know you don't like hospitals but what's really got you spooked, kid?" Yagari spoke firmly.

"I don't want to spend my birthday in here. I want to go home." Zero spoke very quietly to his hands, not looking up at any of them.

Mori ran a hand through his sandy hair. "I can understand that. You said tomorrow's your birthday? Well how about this. I discharge you but you have you give your word that you'll get plenty of bed rest and in three days- the day after your birthday, you come back to the hospital and get a CAT scan done. Do we have a deal?"

"Yes." Zero breathed, his face showed how much he was thankful to get out of the hospital.

Mori turned to Kaien and Yagari. "I expect you to take good care of him. He's to have three glasses of blood a day- fresh if you can get and feed his liquids only. You can get dressed, Kiriyuu-san, I'll get the discharge papers." Mori took the forms from Kaien and left.

Sayori left while Yagari and Kaien helped Zero get dressed. At the front desk they signed all the necessary forms and Yagari drove them home. "You'll stay in the main house, and Sayori you'll move there too, so you can help Zero-rin!" Cross told them as he unbuckled himself and went around the car to help Zero. He was pushed away by the silver haired teen.

"I'm fine." Zero growled, but when Sayori pressed close to him, offering silent support. He thankfully took it.

"Let's get you inside, Zero." She murmured as they slowly made their way back into the school, against a rising sun.

They were unaware of the eyes following them from the Moon Dorms.

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A/N: Chapter two done. Hope you enjoy.

Someone wrote to me to point out Sayori comes from a rich family so why would she pale at buying Zero a husky. I'd like to point out that Sayori is still only sixteen/seventeen and hardly in charge of her family's fortune. And huskies are very pricey depending on the type you get; they can range between £800-£2000 or $1270-$3176. Anyway please review and tell me what you think.