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!SPOILERS!
This takes place after Rido is defeated and Zero makes his promise to Yuuki to eventually kill her, to which she replies "I'll be waiting"
Like the 'King and Queen' it explores the main characters inner feelings and is mainly Zero discovering, Why Yuuki said and did some of the things she did and said.
Hope you enjoy
~*~ Zero Kiryu ~*~
All I can do is look down below me, acting like a spectre of the past. Yuuki glides into Kaname's arms and the siblings embrace. She has got everything she had ever wanted, his blood and love. His plan worked, as they always seem to do. My shirt is torn, flapping in the breeze and drenched in the blood of my brother and vampires. My bare chest is cold, but I ignore it, training myself to become numb, that is the only way I can deal with this stab to my heart.
"I'll be waiting."
Her voice echoes in my memory. I will kill her one-day and she knows it. The other one does to. I turn my back on the scene below, as I feel bile rise up my throat. A tear streams down my cheek. I enter the bell towers interior and slide down the wall, placing my hand to my wet cheek and bring it to my clouding eyes. Before I can stop myself, I am weeping like a child.
Yuuki. She is all I can think of! The girl, who stuck with me, cleaning away my bruises and doubts, cleansing me of that hatred and self-loathing. If it were not for her small hands upon mine, leading me into the bathroom and caring for me that fateful night, I do not think I would have ever recovered. She was my light, entering my darkened heart and reviving it.
But, I never gave her credit. I enjoyed out relationship that way, sudden spasms of arguments. However, maybe I should have thanked her, just once for saving me. Maybe that is why, once again I am alone. Vampires have eaten everyone I have ever loved or valued or cherished up. Pureblood Vampires. They need to die for their sins, sins they all share. Even Yuuki; she said it herself, she is no longer the Yuuki I knew, but the Vampire Yuuki. A killing machine.
The old Yuuki could barely scratch a fly, without apologising to it. I remember her jumping down and meeting Aido with her Artemis Rod, determination on her face. She couldn't bring him down, so it was up to me. I am not saying I liked her been harmless! It was funny at times, but it could get annoying! That is why I brought her along to my shooting practices; I wanted to toughen her up. Life was hard in the real world. Cross Academy is not the real world. It is a place were fools like Kaiern can think we can coexist. We can't.
"I'll be waiting.'
Her voice replays once more, but it gives me strength to stand once more. I make my way out the tower and into a dust covered courtyard. I am a vampire. That means one day, I shall have to kill myself. Like my brother killed himself.
I am stabbed with a feeling of guilt and sadness. The least he deserves from me is a grave. Somewhere he liked. Maybe below the tree we used to climb as children, or nearby our old house. But somehow I think he would want to be near that Bitch, Hiou. Yet if that was his wish, I will carry it out. It was my fault, I made him weak and I drank his blood, like a beast.
I stare up into the waking sun, peeking out from the towers of the academy and a bird somewhere nearby tweets in glee that finally the fight is over and a butterfly whizzed past my nose. I cannot seem to appreciate the beauty anymore. She was the beauty in my life; yet it took losing her to make me see it? How stupid of me! I spot a man in a wide brimmed hat approach me.
"Hoy! Zero!" Yagari has concern etched on his face. "You ok?"
He stares down at my clothing and my ragged hair, worry deepening.
"I will be." I try and smile. I succeed and Yagari grins back.
"The Headmaster wants to see you."
"Hmm."
I had thought as much. He will try and stop me leaving school, try and prolong Yuuki's new life. I think I can allow him that.
"I'll be waiting."
I smile as I follow Yagari. She knows what I am like; even in saying that she has given me a chance to keep living, even if it results in her own death. As the sun came out, I realised. She was still the same Yuuki, she would always be the same Yuuki. I knew that because once again, she was saving me, saving me from my own self destruction. That is why I knew she had not changed, she still needed someone to protect her, but that is now Kaname. I'll end up killing them both and then taking my own life, but only after I have rid the world of other dangerous vampires. I think that is a good way to let her have a new life... don't you think?
Authors Notes:
Righty ho!
That was the impression I got of the ending scenes, anyway. May not be yours... but oh well ^^'
Please check out: Lullaby
Not sure who to do next... maybe Kaien. Yeah, Kaien.
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