Bond Through Time
Chapter 3: Trust
"What Zero? Geez you really are something else. I called to you for a long time but you didn't answer me." said Yuuki with her hands on her hips, a pout on her face. She looked like she always did. Beautiful and alive. Alive.
"Maybe Kiryuu-kun has some kind of strange disease where he can only be awaken with a hit on the head." said a voice from behind Yuuki. She moved aside and revealed Kuran Kaname. "Nice to see your awake Kiryuu-kun. Have you heard anything from Aidou and Kain?"
Zero glanced at Kaname for a moment, trying to remember where he had heard that before. Trying to figure out where he was in the past. He looked around the room. The room was made of stones like the ones used for a castle. Torches lined the room, and a candle sat on a table a few feet away. Zero was sitting on a a short brown wooden bed with a gray blanket over him. This all seemed familiar, but he couldn't exactly pinpoint where he was in time. "What?"
Kaname sighed. "Don't you remember? Aidou and Kain went to secure the perimeter to make sure we would be safe here." he glanced at Yuuki as he said this. "They were going t o report back to you when they were sure the perimeter was secure."
Zero paused for a moment, thinking hard. Suddenly, a light went on inside his head. He knew exactly where he was; or more precisely when. It was about three years after they had defeated Rido Kuran. He had stopped chasing after Yuuki and and Kaname a mere 8 months ago, and decided to protect her. After all, the reason the whole chase for pure bloods happened was sort of his fault. Because he, Zero, was defiant to the pure bloods and was even hunting them, others had followed his example and a rebellion had began. It seems like it was so long ago; I almost forgot that it was I who had started it all. It was me who helped kill Yuuki. He bowed his head and sighed. He had never actually thought about it until now, but he really was the reason Yuuki would die in the future. No. he thought, That is the reason I am here; to stop that future from happening.
Now he had to handle the situation of the current time. He looked at a clock on the corner wall of the room. "Aidou and Kain haven't reported back to me yet. Shall I g o make sure they are alright?"
"No." said Kaname eyeing him, "You can stay here." He walked out of the room and called to Yuuki, "Come Yuuki."
Yuuki looked to Kaname, her eyes still filled only with him. "I'll be there in a minute Kaname-oniisama." He merely nodded at her and left the room. Zero listened until Kaname's footsteps disappeared down the hall, then sighed collapsing back on the bed.
"He still doesn't trust me yet." he muttered. Of course he wouldn't. he thought, A few months ago I was hunting them and now I am helping them. He won't trust me for a while, if he ever really did trust me.
"Kaname-oniisama just isn't sure what to make of you yet Zero. You've been after us for so long. . . ." she trailed off. Then her face brightened and she turned to him, "But I knew it. I knew you would come back. ever since that time you gave me that gun, I just knew you and I were going to stay together. You trust me and I trust you. Even if no one else does, I still do. I always have."
Zero turned away from her, feeling a slight blush on his cheeks. "You don't know that." he said, "You don't know what my thoughts have been filled with the past few years. Filled with thought of you and Kuran. Horrible scenes I pictured over and over again in my head. Thoughts so horrible and yet tempting, I could feel my throat ache just from the thought of your blood painted all over me. It was-"
Yuuki placed her hand on his arm and soothed it slightly. "Zero. Don't. Don't think about it anymore. Your here now and that's all that matters. No matter what you thought, I will still always trust and believe in you. You've always been the person I could confide in more then anyone."
Zero sat up and wrapped his arms around her. How tiny her body was. He felt he could break her in half with little effort. She's so small and fragile. he thought, I want to protect her. I won't let anyone hurt her. Never.
To be continued. . . .
