To Love A Hunter

Rating: M

Summary: "You're nothing but a hunter whore! Hiding behind the butterflies you draw on your wrist!"

Disclaimer: I do not own. Anything I use in here will of course be owned by the respective author except for the thoughts and actions of the characters alone.

A/N: Here's the third chapter! Hopefully there won't be too much angst, but you all know me, I put drama, hurt, angst, and mystery in my stories; so we can never be too sure what were going to get. ^^;


Chapter three: To love His Soft Side


Kaname opened his eyes, and immediately shut them again hissing in pain. He knew he shouldn't have gone to that blasted club! His eyes hurt, and he had a splitting head ache. Groaning again he opened them slowly, blinking a bit to get used to his vision going in and out of the fuzzy screen. Sitting up, he realized that it was eleven in the morning on Monday. Monday, how he hated even the sound of someone say Monday. It was when classes started but also, he had to wake up on a day when he could sleep all day and more. And to wake up before noon to boot? Monday was just a cursed day, Kaname realized. And he hissed again when he found he could not close his eyes and start dreaming again. Sitting up in his bed, Kaname ran a hand over his face, suddenly remembering what the female he had meet last night told him. Maybe you don't know him at all.

He could try to be nicer to the hunter, and get to know him. Kaname nodded. And he was curious to know what revolved in the prefects head. Nodding to himself, he set to get dressed before visiting the Sun dorms.


Kaname walked with purpose to Zero's dorm room, and when he knocked, he nearly died of shock when a half dressed sleepy Yori answered. "Um, where is Kiryuu?" he asked, trying to hold the curiosity as to why she was half naked in his room. "Mng?" she asked, clearly out of it. "Kiryuu. Where is he?" Kaname tried again. "Not in here" she answered, "Probably in his special spot" she said. Kaname looked at her. "Special spot?" he asked, and she nodded. "But you didn't hear it from me, if he asks it wasn't me" she said before motioning him closer.


Kaname was now walking down the muticoloured stone walkway in town as he followed Yori's instructions to the dot. As he turned a corner an abandoned building, he thought he had made a wrong turn somewhere before he caught the faintest hint of flowers. Now following his nose, he walked around another corner and froze at what he saw. Flowers, hundreds of them gathered in a clearing. And in the middle of it all, sat Zero Kiryuu. As he made his way to the hunter, Zero spoke up. "You had better be stepping in the path I made Kuran" Zero warned. "Indeed" he spoke up, as he sat besides the hunter. "What do you want Kuran?" Zero asked. "I…wanted to talk" he replied, and even to him that sounded weird. "Then talk" Zero said, still not facing the brunette. "I want to know what Yuuki said, the night after I changed her" Kaname murmured, and he saw Zero visibly tense. "Yuuki…" he said her name with such bitterness, "she said that now she had you, she no longer had need to keep me around. She humiliated me and mocked me" Zero said as he turned to face the brunette. "That's what happened. Are you satisfied now? Because I want you to leave me alone" he said.

"Yuuki is something I had never wished her to become" Kaname confessed.

"What is this place?" Kaname asked looking around. Truthfully he was curious, but he also wanted to get their minds off of the Yuuki topic. "It's my garden" Zero replied as the tips of his fingers gently touched a flower petal. "Garden?" Kaname asked bewildered. Zero's lips twitched. "This belonged to my mother. We use to call it her super secret stash spot (1)" Zero explained, and Kaname snorted. "Since she's been….away-"Zero couldn't bring himself to say dead. "-I've been caring for it" he continued. "That is very kind of you" Kaname murmured, as he stared at all of the flowers growing around them. "If…if you want, this can be your secret spot too" Zero said, and Kaname stared at him with a wide expression. "As long, as you don't harm the flowers, you are allowed here. Just don't tell anyone, it is un-owned land" Zero said. Kaname smiled at him. "I would enjoy that" he said. Zero stood up. "I should be getting back. Feel free to stay as long as you want" he added before he left the pureblood who thought, He isn't as bad as everybody says he is.

And unknowingly to him, Zero was thinking the same thing.


Both Yori and Zero sat in his room yet again taking pain killers for their still raging head ache. "Did you see me whoop Aidou's ass?" she asked and Zero nodded. "If was pretty funny" he said chuckling, "Ow" he said, holding his head. "No laughing got it". Yori giggled before she in turn clutched her head. "And what sucks it that we have to go to class changeover soon" she complained. "Were going to get busted for not going to class for three days too" Zero replied, and Yori made a face. "Well you just sleep during class, so it's not like it makes a difference" she said. Zero yawned. "We have a couple of hours to kill so let's sleep" he said, spreading out on the couch. Yori smirked. "Fine, but I'm taking the bed" she said, but Zero didn't hear her. He was stone cold sleeping. Again.


The Day class grew quieter every time they saw Yuuki with Kaname, and now there really was no need for the prefects. As they walked by, the pureblood princess sneered at him, her lips curling upwards. Zero and Yori scowled at her. Kaname stopped at the two and the Night class was as surprised as the Day class. "Yori, how are you doing? I know it must be hard taking over, but you are doing a wonderful job" he said and Yori smiled at him. "I am doing fine Kaname-senpai. Thank you for asking, that was very sweet of you" she said looking at him as he turned to the silver haired prefect. "And how are you doing Kiryuu-kun" he asked. No one missed the 'kun' added. Zero looked at him with steel hardened eyes, but for Kaname only they softened. "Fine" he said curtly. "Get to class, the Night class is getting restless" he ordered. Kaname smirked. "Of course, Mr. Disciplinary committee" he said before turning to continue on, Yuuki turning her head to stick her tongue out at them both. Zero scowled at the harlot pureblood, as the Night class left. Yori looked at the clam Day class. "Please return to your dorms, it is after curfew" she said and the students left without a fuss. The two prefects walked into the tree line, Zero straying behind a bit, as he looked around. It was the emptiest it had been so soon. He want used to it. Zero continued to scan, his eyes moving back and forth until they landed on a pair of familiar blood red eyes. Those bedroom eyes stared at him, and Zero felt his cheeks grow warm under the purebloods gaze.

"Zero!" Yori called, "Hurry up! I wanna sleep!" she yelled. "Alright, you brat" he called back, quickening his pace, but not before he looked back. He didn't catch another glimpse.


(1) Actually, that's what I call all of my stash spots. .

So…A short chapter because, I plan on having as many chapters as necessary. So the chapter length doesn't matter. ^^

Love and Hugs,

ShadowsOfPenAndPaper