Chapter 3

Yuuki was stunned she could not believe what she was hearing. She begged Aido to take her to where Kaname was. She wanted to stop him she didn't know how but somehow she had to, that was the only thing in her mind. Aido didn't need to be told twice, he lead the way. They both run into the deep forest, the sun fades and as they were running…..there was a lake….glimmering in the twilight and she almost felt Kaname sitting under a tree there reading a book while she was dancing around with her mum and every time she looked at him he smiled as if he'd always been watching her... Kaname…he was all the only thing in her mind right now…she was thinking of what to say to Kaname she wondered how he'd be, how he would react when he saw her. She got reminded of how he always protected her and how he did a lot for her even thought it might taunt him and the times he hid his tears behind that sad but loving smile…as she remembered all this tears of her own started to flow. Kaname, she thought and as if she was whispering to him, and she said, please don't die. I love you.

The last beams of light passed through the stained glass, with the red rose surrounded by leaves and thorns, which made it seem like a stream of burning red light fall on Kaname who was standing in the attic of the old broken building, he knew that the hope he had to live after this, to see Yuuki happy at least from afar, were growing slimmer by the minute. Then the long life, the power, of his, which has been sought after by so many people would end. He never understood the people who wanted to live forever maybe it was because he was never one of them or maybe because he already had what they wanted but he had always told himself that, If you have to watch your loved ones die and fade away into nothing more than memories and all the while you cannot help them and only watch them suffer isn't it better to die. He smirked at the thought and also to the fact that now he has a time limit. A time limit he said to himself, something which never mattered before but now it was different, he felt the want to have a one more….one more chance to see her smile, one more chance to dance with her, one more chance to watch her sleep ... And when everything started to fade away, his vision was becoming blurry…and he even saw two silhouettes running towards him… until his thoughts became whispers which grew softer and softer and finally nothing but darkness was left. Yuuki saw Kaname lying on the floor, Aido really didn't want yuuki to see Kaname like this, he surprisingly felt sympathy for her...Yuuki sat next to Kaname, she brushed his hair with her fingers, stroking them, shivers ran through her body as she felt the coldness of his body...just then the first snowflake fell on her hand. And all the while her expression was stone cold, no tears, not a word, like she couldn't feel…