Silver Night
By: A Really Big Idiot
Summary: Kaname brutally betrayed Zero to a fate worse than death. 100 years later Zero has reappeared in a guise he had never expected – the guise of the dark pleasure servant Silver Night. Pairings: KxZ, KxY, ZxY
100 Years Ago
Zero Kiryu stared at Yuki Kuran and wondered if he had heard her correctly. Maybe he should have cleared the wax out of his ears because she clearly couldn't have said what he thought she said.
He was recovering nicely from their last battle against Rido Kuran. Zero hadn't thought he would have survived it and thought it was his fate to die there. After all, he had no purpose left. His father and mother were long since dead, and his brother was within him. He had nothing. No future, no dreams, and no hopes. However, he did have one wish.
He wanted Yuki to be happy forever.
Zero remembered what had happened.
He protected her from Rido's final revengeful attack. Shielding her with his own body, the pain was excruciating. Blood had poured out of him at a rate that even he knew couldn't be replenished in time. As he laid on the ground and chocked on his own blood, he held her cheek with a red stained hand.
"If things had been different, I would have loved you forever." He had said as he laid dying. He tried to squeeze her cheek teasingly.
Tears burst from Yuki's eyes. "No, Zero." She couldn't speak.
"Please be happy, Yuki." Zero's whispers struggled. His eyes were so tired.
She found her voice. "No, Zero. You will not die! Don't you dare close your eyes! Damn you, don't you dare close them!" She grabbed his head and pulled him towards her neck. "Drink!" She cried. "Drink you foolish idiot!"
Zero shut his mouth. He refused to open it. He knew his vampire nature would overwhelm him, and he would drain her dry in his bloodlust. He would not rob her of her life and happiness. She would live, and she would be wed to Kuran. She would have lots of children, and she would be happy. He would not steal that bright future away from her.
"No, Yuki." He hissed between clenched teeth. He turned his head away from her.
"Don't die, Zero. Don't die, please. Please don't die." She repeated over and over again.
Zero closed his eyes. His heart was crying. If only things were different...he would have loved her forever. However, at least he knew she cared for him as well. Thus, he would leave her with happy words. He opened his eyes and looked at her face. "But always remember to smile: your smile is wondrous." He closed his eyes again and willed himself to die.
Silence surrounded him. The cold wind howled and white snow started to fall. The trees seemed to be weeping. For a moment, Zero believed that death had granted him his final wish.
Yuki kissed him.
Shock open his mouth, but desire kept it open. Like a dehydrated lost soul in search of an oasis, he returned her kiss. He opened his mouth and devoured her lips. Gripping her face and pulling her towards him in an act of desperation. Sadness and happiness, regret and thankfulness, loneliness and love – this final kiss would be their final goodbye. Greedily, Zero devoured this kiss. Kuran may have her forever, but at least he had her for this one glorious moment.
Zero redden at the memory. Yuki was cunning when she wanted to be. She bit her tongue and forced her blood into him by their kiss. Somehow, by a miracle, he had managed to survive because of it. Still, he wondered if he was dead or at least dreaming. He had never expected to survive that battle, and now he wondered what would become of the rest of his life.
Yuki did not leave his side the majority of his recovery. She had hovered over him like a hen with her chick. Zero would tried to get her to leave so she could take care of herself, but she refused most of the time.
However, yesterday, she did leave him. Zero had been a bit sad at that. He loved her presence more than he loved breathing. But, she had returned to him today. However, she stood before him and spoke not a word.
Zero hadn't known what to say, so he simply offered her a small smile. Clearly, she had something important she wanted to say, but he didn't know what she wanted from him. Regardless, he would do his best to fulfill her wishes, after all, one will always do the impossible for the one they loved.
Maybe she would rationalize their kiss away. After all, she was engaged to her brother. A pureblood to love a Level D Vampire? Such a thing was highly detestable. As much as he didn't regret it, he didn't want her to be in pain because of it. He knew how much she loved that wretched Kuran. So he would do whatever she wanted, if she were to be happy. He waited for her words.
However, when she said them, Zero wondered if perhaps he had died and gone off to heaven. That could only be the explanation of those five odd words.
"Damn it! Marry me, Zero!" Yuki snapped. Her eyes blazing with a strange fire.
"What?" He asked with a shocked chock. Yuki's eyes soften, and she realized what she had said.
"That wasn't how I practiced it." She muttered to herself. She blushed and looked down. Zero knew he had to be dreaming. But finally, Yuki whipped her hair back and sighed.
She looked up and smiled at him and he couldn't turn away.
Chapter One: Reflections
Present
His palace was empty. Kaname slammed his wine on his oak study desk. In a drunken frenzy, he depressingly knew he shouldn't have expected anything else. It was always silent in his home now. Yuki had taken their two children with her when she moved out of their palace a year ago.
She had discovered what he had done to the man she first loved - and she hated him.
Kaname wiped his face. He was a king. How could a king be reduced to such a pathetic set of circumstances? Kaname laid back on his chair and took another gulp of his highly matured wine.
One year ago, another rebellion had started and Yuki had been attacked. Critically wounded, Kaname shared his blood to keep her alive. However, due to the frantic state of affairs, he had forgotten to seal away his dark secret memories and when she had drunk his blood, she learned the one thing he had kept from her for over one hundred years.
Now she knew that he was the reason Zero was lost to her forever. Her knowledge chilled him.
When Yuki had woken up from her healing sleep, the always familiar look of grateful kindness in her eyes was replaced with the blackest of hate. The moment she opened her brown eyes she tried to rip out his throat with her own clawed hand.
Their battle was terrible. Even now, parts of the palace were nowhere near repaired. It was only the screams and crying of their children who had stopped them. Her days as a weak and loving human was far gone and nothing more than a distance memory. The years had hardened her into the formidable Vampire Queen she was today.
When they had been together, they were an unstoppable force. He had become the powerful Vampire King of the Far Eastern Midnight World, and she stood by his side as his equal. He ruled his court with an iron fist, and he commanded the respect of the other nine vampire kings.
But now, his court was divided. Yuki 's departure split their court into two opposing factions - the King's Men and the Queen's Men. Kaname did not like this change of events. Internal and external enemies were rejoicing. The Far Eastern Vampire Court was in a state of cold civil war. He couldn't keep the news of these events a secret for very long and his deadliest of enemies, the European Vampire King, would soon try to take advantage of such events.
Kuran nursed his wine with dark thoughts. He'd discovered who tried to kill his wife and launch these horrible events. With mad vengeance, he slaughtered that traitor's entire household from his servants to his family to even his pet creatures. When Kamane had sensed another living creature in that house, he advanced towards it. Whatever that person was, whether a partner in crime or an innocent bystander, Kaname didn't care. Everything connected to that foul traitor would be destroyed that very night.
But fate was cruel. The facts were inescapable.
That last creature was the true start of everything. The catalyst of all his power.
That catalyst creature had been Zero Kiryu and he was still alive.
And Zero Kiryu was Silver Night.
But Silver Night was a Doll.
Thus Zero Kiryu was his newest slave.
Kaname wanted to laugh. He wanted so desperately to laugh. Of all things that fate could have thrown at him, this was the least expected. The sheer surprised had robbed him of his blood drinking. He could only stare.
"I greet you, my new master. What does your heart desire?"
Kaname's mind had whirled. He had fallen to his knees and grabbed that boy's face. Peering in his eyes, Kaname could see not a hint of recognition in those mirror lavender orbs. Zero looked at him as if he had never seen him much less knew of him before.
"What does your heart desire, master?" His voice repeated with purr. Kaname whipped his hand away like lightning had struck him. He never answered the question.
In a dreamlike daze, his hand dragged Zero back to his lonely palace and ordered his loyal Butler, Rio, to see after him. Kaname locked himself in his study for two nights trying to understand and process this odd turn of events.
He still hadn't come to the solution of what to do.
To Be Continued