First off!~ This chapter is rated T for minor blood and very minor suggestive topics~

So, what am I to you, Zero?

Zero took in as much air as his lungs would allow, and silently exhaled. He grazed his fingertips across the perfect holes in Yuuki's neck, and latched onto the back of her shirt. "You're the only reason I'm alive. . . without your kindness, I would've become a level E long ago." Zero pushed his fingers lightly against her neck, watching as she winced beneath his intruding touch. "Just admit it, Yuuki. You're afraid of me, even after all that's happened between us. . ."

"You're wrong, Zero!" Yuuki verbally lashed her anger out on Zero, while unconscionably digging her nails into his chest. The silverette hid his face from Yuuki's angry one, letting her drill through him as punishment for his insolence. The brunette remained silent, screaming at him in her head, barely noticing his body tense up as deep red beads pooled under her nails. She watched as the thick beads burst and gracefully flowed slowly past the point of intrusion, lightly coating each of her thin fingertips in crimson. "Why don't you stop me, Zero! There's no way this isn't hurting you. . ."

"If it's what makes you happy, then I don't care what you do to me. You can toy with my emotions, make me suffer or even, kill me if you want. As long as you're the one delivering the attack, I don't care what happens to me. Where my life goes from now depends on you, Yuuki. . ." Yuuki's fingers shot up and wrapped loosely around his neck, threatening to take him up on his own words.

"Take it back, Zero! Take every word back!" Zero tilted his head back, inviting her in to do as she pleased. He gathered more of Yuuki's shirt in hand and closed his eyes, hoping she was happy with the decision she made. Yuuki closed her eyes as she angrily started to cut off his flow of air, trying to block out the sight of the body in front of her searching desperately for oxygen. Her loose grip quickly progressed in tightness, trapping Zero's breaths in the back of his throat. The silver haired hunter rose a hand up to her cheek, catching a tear that had managed to break free, and gave a small smile in her direction. Yuuki relinquished her hold and dropped herself to the cobblestone pathway below them. She took off running in a random direction, hoping to get away from that unruly scene. Seeing Zero desperately gasping for air, because of her, shattered her already fragile heart. Yuuki didn't know what compelled her to do that to Zero, maybe it was the fact that someone finally trusted her with some form of power. Many thoughts plagued her mind, causing her to quickly lose her sense of direction, as her legs finally gave up on their swift striding motion. She rested herself against a thick oak tree, slowly taking in breaths that burned dryly in her lungs. Why did I have to run away like some little kid caught in the cookie jar? Zero probably hates me now. . . There's no way he meant what he said to me. . . I'm so sorry, Zero- As Yuuki pressed her blood dried fingers against her temples, trying to shut out all of the of undesirable thoughts, she let out a high pitched noise as a brief flash of crimson had invaded her already blurry vision. She sharply fell back against the old tree, crossing her arms tightly over her head, until her exhausted body finally gave up and heavily collapsed onto the ground.

Zero had regained slight control of his breathing and lightly poked at the puffy skin wrapped just underneath his chin. Each small breath he tried to take in quivered as it forced itself around Yuuki's act of rage. He roughly ran his fingers across every inch of his neck, feeling where her fingers had once laid, gradually squeezing his life away. The silverette dragged the tip of a single digit away from the damage sealed around his neck, and across the few puncture wounds that hadn't already healed. The sickeningly sweet scent of blood rose up into the air as he carefully touched the remaining marks. Yuuki must have dug deeper than I thought she did. A scream echoed through the empty academy grounds, interrupting Zero's thoughts, causing him spring up from the fountain in attempt to follow the distraught sound. As the silverette aimlessly ran towards an unknown goal, another pained noise shot its way through the academy. This time a bit louder and easier to follow, but still not clear enough to hear the words attached to the cries.

"Ngh-Kaname, please stop, you're hurting me!" The pureblood prince kept her pinned against the lush tree, keeping a very straight face while demanding his answers. Yuuki squirmed under his powerful grasp trying to escape, but was only rewarded with tree bark scratching away at her delicate skin. Kaname roughly pushed his body into Yuuki's, anger radiating through his dark eyes, as he took notice of Yuuki's red stained digits.

"I can safely assume that, that's Kiryuu's blood, right? Tell me, Yuuki, just how did it get there?" Kaname pushed harder on her small wrists, drew his face closer to hers and narrowed his eyes. "Maybe you, attacked him?" Yuuki's face flushed red as the memories of their kiss flooded into her mind, only to be brought back into a bitter reality when the vampire prince twisted her left wrist into the unforgivably rough tree. "I asked you a question, Yuuki and I demand an answer."

"You're not acting like the Kaname I know! You're being unbelievably cruel to me right now. . ." She flashed a look of disapproval at him while she weakly pushed against his hands in attempt to break free.

"No, Yuuki. You're the one who is being cruel." Kaname spoke with a ice tone laced through every word as he reluctantly released his firm grip on Yuuki and lifted his body from the ground, not bothering to spare her another glance.

"How am I being cruel to you? I don't treat you like a child like you do towards me, I respect you and all the vampires!" Yuuki felt powerless in the battle to persuade him otherwise, and turned her gaze ahead in defeat, spotting Zero running towards her, and stopping as soon as his eyes were greeted with the sight of Kaname Kuran. Zero looked back to Yuuki, noticing her fear filled eyes calling for help the ground.

The pureblood prince quickly searched Zero, taking in all his soft features while making notes of all his injuries, before turning himself in the direction of the night dormitories, leaving Yuuki and a screaming Zero behind him. So it seems that Yuuki did indeed attack Zero, but why? Kaname's face turned blank as scenarios flashed themselves into his mind, only stopping when he found himself in front of the building that housed the night class. He slowly reached to grab the knob in front of him, before watching it shatter to pieces and ungracefully fall to the cement ground. Kaname bent down to pick up a golden piece, observing it glisten under the light of the full moon above him. A soft knock came from the other side of the door, startling the pureblood.

"May I open the door, Kaname?" The voice asked cautiously, yet remaining very polite.

"Of course you may, I don't see why you would bother to ask such a thing. The night doesn't belong to me, it belongs to all vampires." The knobless door opened with relative ease as the blonde elite pushed on it, greeting the pureblood with a very Takuma-like grin.

"It seems you've lost your temper. " Takuma bowed down out of respect towards Kaname, all while keeping his hardly genuine smile plastered to his face. "Please forgive me if I've interrupted anything, Lord Kaname."

"If you were interrupting anything, I would've told you to leave, Takuma." Kaname entered the dimly lit building as Takuma's body rose to close the door behind them. He watched as the pureblood started his way up the golden railed stairs, his pristine face stained with hints of anger.

"Kaname, stop." The blonde elite hesitantly commanded his friend in a stern tone, bracing himself for any sort of punishment that would be served out by Kaname's hand. Kaname obliged the unexpected request by planting his feet on the nearest stair while keeping his eyes set in front of him. "My job as your friend, and as vice president of this dorm, is to make sure that you're okay and it's easy to see that right now, you're not okay, Kaname. There's only person I know that could possibly get under your skin like this. . . Why do you let h-?" The blonde elite cut his sentence off noticing a scowl trying to make its presence known on the pureblood's face. He brushed it off and continued up the wooden stairs towards his room. "You cant keep sweeping the subject under the rug, Kaname! If you do, it will surely consume the both of you!" The vampire prince's anger was rising towards its pique, each candle extinguishing it's own dim light, leaving Takuma alone in the now darkened entryway. Each step he took rippled his darkness through the building, putting a handful of its residents in a state of panic while the rest were just straight up annoyed. Despite their own emotions, they could all sense the dark cloud creeping it's way through the dorm halls and into Kaname's bedroom.

You're cruel to the both of us, Yuuki. . .

~So I'm having major writers block between both of my current stories, I want to start making the chapters longer, but I'm still unsure of where I even want to lead this tale. I'm also getting pretty sick and that is definitely not helping my situation. Next time we witness something that we all secretly want to happen, even though no one verbally says it. (Fight, Fight, Fight!) Until next time, feed my creativity OmNom reviews and follows, and I'll see you all in the next segment~