Hello
I am superduperexteremely sorry for my lack of commitment into writing this fanfic, since recently I've been busy with a lot of work, along with forgetting about this story! I'm sorry! Anyways, I hope you like this chapter, I think this is the longest chapters I've ever written (to make up for my delayed update).
Disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN VAMPIRE KNIGHT! Gah, it would be awesome if I did though, but I don't have the money to buy the rights for it. And I don't think that I'd be able to make such an amazing plot as was Hino Matsuri-sensei has made! (Have you read the recent chapters? It's gone BRILLIANT!) ;P - OH! And I've used from quotes/text from the manga, from Volume 8, chapter 36-38 (?) and so if you see it, you know that I used it to make the story stay truer to the original plotline
Without further ado, onto the chapter!
~Katy
Chapter 3 : Sleeping Pureblood
"I can help you?" Yuuki asked, a confused smile playing on a face which tried to emit warmth and care to the somehow tortured being.
"Yes, you can really help me." The lady's eyes darted suspiciously around the room before resting upon the spinning wheel.
"I don't know if I can, I don't know how to work that thingy." Yuuki replied, as she childishly pointing towards the machine.
"Why don't you come over here and I'll tell you how to help me." The lady in white motioned to Yuuki and back towards the spinning wheel, trying to bring Yuuki closer.
Yuuki peered to the door behind her, fiddling with the hem of her shirtsleeve. The white lady in front of her seemed to pose no harm - at least that was what her rather helpful and caring instincts told her. Her rational 5 year old vampiric self was on high alert, an unknown being lay in front of her, a stranger was asking for help. The happiness of this depressed angel seemed to lie within the help of Yuuki and she could do something to help her achieve it. It was only so much that Yuuki's heart could take, and so she stepped forward into the darkness of no return.
The angel became nothing like an angel. Her eyes gleamed crimson. Long manicured nails that had once served as claws grabbed forward towards Yuuki's body. "Come closer. I won't bite." A jagged tooth smile appeared on her face.
The car mysteriously broke down 5 kilometers away from the Kuran property. It had been going at a law breaking speed of 240 kilometers per hour when somehow, the car gradually slowed down and fumes of smoke swiftly chased each other out of the hood of the Royce. While Haruka and Juuri were hyperventilating screaming to each other about the safety of their daughter and faulting one another for leaving her alone, Kaname calmly exited the vehicle and crossed his arms over his chest resting them there. The chauffeur exaggeratedly coughed and tried to fan the smoke away with his hat. An apologetic smile appeared on his face, and he produced an incomplete tool kit from the trunk of the car and began repairing any damages he could fix.
"I'm sorry Kaname-sama, I humbly beg of your forgiveness. Please, let me call another car to escort you home." The driver wiped his now greased hands over his gritty face. Before he even got an answer from his "master", he wiped his hands on a silk handkerchief, pulling out a phone from his pocket and walking away to make his call in private.
The car door slammed behind Kaname and he turned to look at Juuri's panting face. Her chest heaved up and down and her face was flushed red. A hand clutched her heart while the other held her husband's hand with white knuckles. Said husband had disheveled hair, a loosened jacket that lay haphazardly on his body and a face that held a murderous expression.
"It was to be expected." Kaname evenly spoke, "He would have planned out everything before executing his 'perfect plan'."
"He is not killing my daughter." Haruka growled, eyes flashing from burgundy to scarlet and then crimson.
"He won't. Not without an audience. Which is us. He's just playing with us."
"Kaname, we have to get there now." Juuri gasped out loud, the fear of her daughter's safety causing her to lose all conscious thoughts.
"We aren't far, you could just transform and reach there in seconds, or just run over –" Kaname stopped as he watched his 'mother' pull from her husband's grasp and change into a storm of bats and fly out into the sunrise.
Kaname looked at his father and back at the driver, who had wandered off talking on the phone. "That's a new driver, right?"
"From my assumptions, he's a Council dog who was ordered to delay us." Haruka smiled cruelly as he realized Kaname's intention.
"So then it would be fine for me to –" Kaname began, cutting himself off to wave at the driver and grab his attention, who then turned his attention to his current employer. Kaname pointed a finger at the chauffeur, and his neck was violently pulled off his body grotesquely, splattering blood along the road. His body swayed to side before plunging onto the hard cement, his head tumbling alongside it down the hill of the road, scaring any pedestrians that happened to pass by. "Oops, well then Haruka, I think it's time to follow my mother and meet my beloved uncle and give him a very warm welcome."
"A greeting very much like how you greeted the chauffeur?"
"I think he deserves a more special greeting than that. It should be one that he'll never forget." The evil grins appearing on both faces.
Haruka and Kaname morphed into a sea of bats and sped off into the distance towards their manor, where their sensitive ears heard a bloodcurdling scream coming from the western tower.
After one tentative step and another, Yuuki found herself at eye level with the now ravenous angel. Only about 50 centimeters away from each other, Yuuki felt her aura of greed seeping off her skin, and she shuddered. The lady held out her clawed hand towards the child, who delicately placed her hand trustingly, but cautiously, on hers. The lady's forced grin grew, until it seemed that her edges of her lips could stretch out farther than her ears, and she her eyes bore into the girl's irises.
"Are you sure you want to do this?" the apprehensive tone caused Yuuki to stiffen up, for it made her seem untrusting and immature – even if she was only five.
"Sure! I'm positive I can help you!" a pure smile placed on Yuuki's lips cause the lady's heart to break on the inside at what she was about to do to her. "Just tell me how!"
Looking back to the window sill into the shadows, the lady pulled out a jumbled mess of colored thread and positioned Yuuki's arms in front of her, parallel to each other at a 90 degree angle to the floor about shoulder width apart. She began to loop the thread around Yuuki's arms, back and forth, not tying her up, but rather making a spool of organized thread which would be used for other wicked purposes later when the time called for a child in binds. He had instructed her to gain Yuuki's trust first, by actually doing something with the thread that seemed legitimate to a five year old. Yuuki's eyes followed the lady's hands entranced as she continued to wind the string around her, forming an oval around her arms. When the angel had accomplished this act, she placed the spool of thread behind her and pulled out another disorganized jumble. Yuuki was ready this time, her slightly sore arms in position, but the lady shook her head.
"Yuuki-chan, do you have good eyesight?"
An enthusiastic nod came from the young one.
"I'm getting old and my eyesight is starting to fail me. Can you help me just one more time?"
An enthusiastic nod came from the young one once more, her eyes twinkling at the bright golden thread.
"See Yuuki-chan, do you see that needle over there?" the lady pointed at a thin object in the middle of the spinning wheel, gleaming from the sunlight that trickled from the window. "I need you to put this thread into the teeny little hole that's at the tip of the needle. It has to go through the needle and onto the other side. When you've done that, give me back the thread."
Yuuki moved closer to the contraption, leaning her head towards the needle. She squinted her eyes and there, she saw it, a hole at the tip of the needle, just like she said. She took the thread from the lady's cold hands and inspected it. It was thin and shiny, but it seemed too big for the needle. After mentally shrugging, she took a step forward and brought herself eye level with the needle, placing her hand much too quickly on the sharp object.
"Ouch!"
She looked at the finger to the smallest drop of blood at the tip. It glistened in sun rays, bringing back the feeling of uncontrollable hunger within the depths of her throat. After carefully licking off her finger, she noticed that she had stained the precious thread, and she frowned. Turning around to the lady she was helping, her eyes widened at the change in the angel.
Long gone was the angel she saw before. There was no more hiding to be found once Yuuki's blood had surfaced. While she hid her canines and controlled her eyes before, this time, it was all released. Shizuka had come to the Kuran manor for one purpose and one purpose alone; there was no point in drawing it out, wasting her precious time, even if she did live for eternity. She would get Yuuki, and all her suffering would be over. It was only one girl for her freedom. One measly little girl for a lifetime out in open fields and far from cages.
Rough hands clawed into Yuuki's fragile body and bit into her skin, causing her to whimper. Lilac morphed dangerously into blood colored. The room unexpectedly turned a shade darker, and then deeper shade, as if to block out any sunlight from catching the deed Shizuka was doing. Jagged teeth exposed, clearly showing Yuuki what trap she had fallen into, and traumatizing her first ever encounter with strangers. Shizuka stood up, dragging Yuuki along with her, towards the window. The plan was to drop Yuuki out of the window where she would be caught by him and have her parents watch as he tortured her, but even Shizuka was not that cruel throwing a child out of a window, she had better means of still allowing her freedom and not making Yuuki have a phobia of heights. She placed her hand over Yuuki's face, completely covering her eyesight and scent, blocking two of her senses, trying to knock out her unconscious for a short period.
When Yuuki's mind felt the slight probe of Shizuka's, Yuuki screamed. Her instincts cried out for anybody's help. The sound of it echoed in the bare room and flew out of the window.
And that's when Juuri came flying into the room, feet first, kicking Shizuka. Shizuka was thrown across the room, hitting the wall on the other side and causing dust to stir up quite heavily in the unkempt tower. Juuri rushed towards her precious daughter who was on the verge of tears, but trying to stay strong. She pulled Yuuki into her embrace, sending all waves of motherly warmth to calm her down, but before Yuuki was completely comforted, Shizuka was back up and ready to unleash her rage. Juuri turned around to face Shizuka, whose body stance was ready for a battle.
Shizuka's eyes flicked upwards, sending the spinning wheel hurling at a speed a human's eyes could not follow towards Juuri and Yuuki, but Juuri raised up her hand and the contraption landed softly on the floor. Noting her failure, Shizuka ran up to Juuri, deciding that fists and physical pain would end Juuri's resistance. In a blink of an eye, Juuri raised her right arm and blocked the blow, sweeping her left arm up to jab Shizuka in the stomach. Shizuka stumbled backwards, distracted, and Juuri seized the moment to thrust Shizuka into the wall, caging her neck with her palm and Shizuka's arms awkwardly above her head.
She hissed in Juuri's face, baring her fangs and squinting her eyes in anger.
"Why? Why did you break the promise?" Juuri howled, causing Shizuka to flinch.
"Why should I even tell you anything?" she retaliated.
"Because, I will kill you if you don't."
Juuri's eyes told no lies, and Shizuka sighed, "Your daughter is that special that you would commit the worst crime in vampire history? How special she is, to have such a loving family." Looking back at Yuuki, she noticed how frightened the girl was, shivering and resting against the wall, staring at the violence that was just displayed by her mother and aunt.
"I'll give you all the answers, just let me go and I swear on my life, I won't harm her." Shizuka admitted defeat.
Looking for any falsehood and trusting Shizuka one last time, Juuri released her hold on Shizuka to hold onto her daughter and judge Shizuka. "Go on, why did you break the promise?"
"Why didn't you just marry him, instead of having me marry him?" Shizuka cried, burying her face in her hands.
"Excuse me?"
"Do you know what peace would be in this world if you had just married him? What violence would have never been created? Do you know what monster you created because you chose Haruka?"
"I did not love Rido like that, he was just a brother to me; Haruka is the one I love."
"Why don't you forget about your stupid love for once you selfish, conceited lady!"
Taken back, Juuri gaped at her with wide eyes. She had never been insulted this way before. No one would ever insult a pureblood straight to their face, much less another pureblood.
"Do you know what torture I've had to put with, what madness I had to see with my two eyes, the anger and insanity of your brother I've seen? And I'm just engaged with him!" Shizuka threw her arms in the air in frustration, the chiming of her bells as uncontrollable as her emotions. She paced around the room emphasizing her words with her body. "And why was I engaged to him you ask? Well, who suggested that the Hiou and Kuran families finally combine? Oh yes, your precious Haruka, our "king". I've seen his plans for the future, seen what he wants to do with the world, and he's capable of doing so, the Council is on his side." She stopped and wrapped her arms around her body. "But he promised me a life without him, a lifetime of peace, a lifetime of freedom, as long as I brought your stupid daughter to him. He promised to break off this engagement to him, and do you know the cage he has been keeping me in? This is the first time in five years I have seen sky and sunlight." Shizuka reached her arms out to catch the sunlight and turned her arm to and fro to delight in the warmth she had sorely missed. "I need this, Juuri, I couldn't keep that insignificant little promise when it meant my freedom if I broke the promise. I just couldn't. So I gave him your new address, and he devised a plan, making sure that I was involved in it and once its over, he'll forget about me, and I can do whatever I want.
"I'm not sorry, you have to accept the fact that he will win."
Yuuki looked up to her mother in confusion, not understanding the why the angel turned demon was scared. Juuri gave a daughter one glance before responding to Shizuka. "You call me a selfish lady? How am I selfish for caring about my family, is it more selfish to ruin all the vampire lives allowing Rido to conquer, or to care about one's freedom. And how do you know we were not trying to stop him? My family have tried everything we can to stop Rido, but, he was untraceable, and someone very much like you did not come up to us and tell us his location. If you had sent a message to us, Haruka and Kaname would've ended his life years ago." She sighed, "I can see why you desire to get away from him; that is the exact reason I did not marry him in the first place. I knew what sort of life he would fall into, and I wanted no part in it. I did not want to raise my children around a father like him, and I did not want to love a monster. However hard he tried, I could not and would not love him."
Tears fell down the cheeks of Shizuka, glistening in the sunlit room. The women acknowledge the fact that they both felt the mistreatment of Rido and did not want others to feel it too.
Gazing into the sky towards two flying beings in the distance, Juuri whispered an apology before facing Shizuka head on. "Shizuka, I have a deal, but you better promise with your life that I have your word and you will carry out what the deal acquires. You cannot back out and you have to treat this promise as though it is your life on the line."
Surprised, Shizuka eyes met Juuri's determined ones and she nodded her head.
It was very easy spotting Rido.
There was no need of tracking his scent; he was languidly sprawled on the outside stairs blocking the entrance to the Kuran Manor. His wore his standard tattered clothes and his standard smirk. The first rays of sunlight reflected from the hunter's sword that he had managed to steal, although it lay by his side untouched and not harming him. While one hand held his cheek, the other tapped his claws on the steps illustrating his boredom and lack of patience. He looked up as Kaname and Haruka transformed back into their normal figures, both running forward until they had reached 10 meters of him.
"I've come to get your princess, who you've been so cleverly hiding from me." Rido's grin widened, standing up and dusting off his coat.
"You are not taking my children away from me again!" Haruka screamed, sending forth a ball of angered energy at Rido, who sidestepped and began cleaning his claws.
"You do know the outcome of all of this, don't you Haruka?" Rido taunted, with raised arms he snapped his fingers.
It was almost as if Kaname and Haruka had known all along, as the lower class vampires who had sworn their lives to the Council came out of hiding. Heads of vampires walked out of the Kuran Manor, while other came up from the forest in front of the Manor and circled Haruka and Kaname. Their eyes red with hate and bloodlust, while Level Es thrashed about behind them, held in place by collars that bit around their necks and chains held by Level C and D vampires. It seemed as though Rido had conjured about two hundred vampires for his bidding. A group of impatient vampires ran out of the circle at the two Purebloods, but Kaname turned around to face them. With only the slight change in his eye, the veins on the necks of ten vampires burst and their heads tore off their bodies.
Haruka faced a Level C vampire to the right of Rido. "You are all henchmen to the Council."
"Oh little brother, was it not you who advised the Council to incarcerate me? While you have kept your distance with the Council, I have remained very good friends with them, why, they didn't mind letting me free!" Sniggers erupted from the more intelligent vampires around them.
"I was protecting my family; Yuuki will never be in your hands."
"What a pity. For if I remember carefully, I had promised to take her while you were watching me kill her." A finger tapped lightly on his chin. "I do think I may have to break a part of my promise, I feel as though killing you now would be far more efficient and worthwhile, seeing as all my comrades present desire your death."
As Rido took a step down closer to his brother and nephew, shock went to his servants. Kaname went in front of Haruka and threw his hand forwards, causing Rido's head to rip off. It hung together with his body by several strings of vein and artery, but it dangled at the back of his neck. His body crashed in front on him, skidding down the steps leaving a trail of blood. But already Rido's vampiric healing powers set into motion with muscles beginning to regenerate and arteries joining back to the bloodstream.
"I shall go protect Yuuki. You will keep Rido and his servants busy until I get back." Kaname commanded, sprinting up the stairs slaughtering any vampire that got into his way.
Haruka stared at his "son" running off into the darkness of his manor. From behind him, he sensed several lower classed vampires edging closer, and Haruka sighed, raising his arms and tearing a insignificant head off its body.
"Are you sure this will work?"
"This is my life on the line too."
"You're willing to risk your life."
"Of course."
"But, is it worth it?"
"Yes, my daughter is worth it."
Yuuki's eyes darted back and forth the two pureblooded women as the air tensed with anxiety from their speech. Her brain couldn't really understand what exactly was at stake right now; she was busy playing with a spool of thread when she decided that the women's frightened but determined banter would be more exciting. The women faced each other, they were in touching distance if they so wished to reach out, but the auras emitted from the both of them demonstrated their
"And how will my wounds be real?" Shizuka asked, a hint of fear in her eyes from any future pain that may happen.
Juuri darted forwards, claws out, and ripped through flesh muscle, causing a forearm length wound to appear on Shizuka's stomach. Another flash of white and another wound lay zigzagged on her arm. While her body healed the gashes in mere seconds, the stains on her kimono and the slashes on her clothes would show that she had struggled to gain the upper hand. "They are real. That's how."
"Let me repeat this again, you will run away from this room, and I will run away from this room, and we'll both escape without Rido ever thinking that I helped you escape?"
"Yes, that is the plan."
"What will you do to Yuuki so that Rido can't find her?"
"Her vampire self will be put to sleep. No harm will be done to you, as long as you play your part." Juuri threatened.
"Oka-sama, can we go see oni-sama now?" Yuuki asked, tugging on the hem of her mother's dress. "I can feel him outside."
The pureblood women's eyes darted to the door and back at the frail pureblood princess. They both sensed the time was drawing near, and they couldn't stop this from not happening. Rido was to be killed and stopped, and today was the day his life should end. If anything, they both knew that there was nobody present that could kill Rido today, as desperately as Haruka and Kaname desired for his death, they would not be the destroyer of chaos-maker to the vampire world.
"Yes, let's go see your oni-sama. Yuuki, will you go stay outside and find him first?" With a jubilant grin on Yuuki's face, she was off finding Kaname. Juuri turned back to Shizuka and clicked her nails. "I'm sorry for this Shizuka-san, but you have to be really injured. Those petty cuts I gave you will not suffice to let you out of Rido's anger."
Shizuka nodded, standing up straight and proud, like the pureblood she was. Juuri darted forth, slamming her hand to Shizuka's face, sending both of the women crashing into the wall. Shizuka started chuckling, but stopped as she felt Juuri's hands pull at her hair and beat her head against the wall repeatedly. Black dots formed at the corner of her eyes, but she did not struggle to stop them. Almost losing consciousness, Shizuka screamed as a searing pain in her left leg shot up her body when Juuri twisted her leg into impossible ways, tearing the bone messily off its joint at the knee and tore her ligaments. Juuri winced at the satisfying crunch as her first collided with Shizuka's nose, sending blood splattering on her hand. Right before Shizuka's body began healing and her mind began losing consciousness, Juuri whispered an apology before standing up and locking the door to the room.
Outside, Kaname held Yuuki in his arms, slightly swaying back and forth. His hands covered Yuuki's sensitive ears, blocking out Shizuka's screams from inside the room. Yuuki struggled to get out of his grasp and gasped out as he let go of her. The noises from inside had stopped, and Kaname could hear Juuri's footsteps draw nearer. He could feel Juuri's plan oozing out of her skin and although it would mean Yuuki's sadness, he agreed to her plans. Once Juuri locked the door to the tower, Yuuki ran over to her mother in fear.
"Okaa- sama, why do I smell Otou-sama's blood? Okaa-sama! I feel something scary outside!" she clung onto her mother's clothes, tears forming the corner of her eyes.
"Kaname, please tell Haruka that I love him, and that I hope he agrees to the decision I've made." Juuri whispered. Letting go of Yuuki's embrace, she walked up to Kaname and hugged him, turning his face up to hers and placing a delicate kiss on his cheek. "Although you are not really my son, thank you for everything. Please keep taking care of Yuuki."
Juuri picked Yuuki up, carrying her baby as she had years before. Yuuki thrashed about, arms reaching out to Kaname, violent tears sprung from her eyes.
"Okaa-sama where are we going?" Yuuki's eyes watched Kaname walk back into the battlefield, while she was moving away from him step by step. "Onii-sama where are you going? Kaname-oni-sama? Kaname!"
Juuri walked them down the stairs of the tower, past all the antiques and formal furniture that lay with a coat of dust untouched. She paused by the main entranced to drop a note she had scribbled on in the tower and resumed her journey. Down the stairs that had first intrigued Yuuki. Past the bedrooms and halls that Yuuki could familiarize with. The clack of Juuri's heels was unheard through the echoes of anguish reverberating off the walls; all coming from Yuuki's confused and frightened young head. Juuri took them past halls and doors which Yuuki had never seen, even in her exploration which had been only a few hours before. Down they went, farther and farther down, the walls began losing their sense of familiarity and sense of home-ness, and they became barer as they passed. They walked through an underground tunnel lit by everlasting torches, where the scent of soil knocked their senses.
Finally, Juuri opened a door three times her height and about ten times wider than she. The room they had entered felt ancient but well kept, although it seemed as though nobody had entered in a millennium. By this point, Yuuki's wailing had died down due to curiosity, and Juuri placed her daughter back on her own feet. She held her hand and continued the last bit of their journey, and opened one last door.
Behind this last door was a fully furnished bedroom. It was lavish in its decoration, as all pureblood bedrooms, with a four poster bed that hung crimson curtains on its rails. The bed sheets and covers were made out of silk, and contrasted the curtains by being pure white. An elaborately carved wooden stool sat beside the king sized bed. From a mahogany wardrobe in front of the bed, Juuri produced a white lace sleeping gown much too big for Yuuki. It appeared to be the same size as Juuri's body, but Yuuki was forced into the oversized clothing, with her feet not appearing on the other end of the dress, and the dresses arms dangling onto the floor. Juuri picked Yuuki up and arranged her comfortably on the bed, under the covers. Juuri brought the stool closer to her daughter and sat on it.
"Okaa-sama?" Yuuki's uncertainty of the situation was expressed in her voice.
"Yuuki, I am going to make you go to sleep. When you wake up, don't be scared, I won't be there to help you. But remember that your okaa-sama loves you very much." Juuri spoke, kissing her daughter on her forehead one last time, as she held her daughter's hands. "Just lie down Yuuki, it won't hurt."
As Yuuki laid her head on the pillow, she watched blood begin to drip off her mother's head onto the white sheets. In alarm, she wanted to sit up, but sense of sleep and tiredness claimed her head. She slowly felt the warmth of her mother's hand slowly fade as she was trapped into sleep. Soon, Yuuki's eyes shut itself until it was destined to be open again, the scent of her mother wafted in the air as ashes sprinkled the white sheets and the stool, while Yuuki's small hands lay on her stomach still clasping an invisible object. The time when Yuuki's eyes would be opened again would occur when Rido's time was ending and her protector deemed it necessary to wake her up.
But there was another factor in the air which Juuri did not forget about. A strand of Yuuki's soul lifted into the air and sped out into the night sky, called out by her own blood.
But except for that, the rest of her body slept.
"Are you not giving up?" Haruka shouted, only a handful of vampires were left in his massacre.
A battle cry was heard from the lower vampires, answering his questions. They ran at him, claws at the ready, eyes full of hate, only to be killed mercilessly by a protective father. That was three that had charged at him. There were still about three left from the two hundred that Rido had brought. Haruka shook off the excess blood of his hands, eyes threatening any of those that came near to him. Rido was currently still regenerating from Haruka's previous attack on his head, but this time, he was drawing energy from the carcasses of Haruka's attacks, and harnessing it.
"Oh dear little brother, I think it's time we ended this, don't you think so?" Rido sneered as the lips on his face began to form. Sooner than expected, his neck attached back onto his body, and Rido stood up straight. He picked up the vampire hunter sword that lay by his side but Haruka had formed a monster made out of the ashes of Rido's supporters and made them charge at their master. The monster latched itself back onto Rido's head, completely shredding it into a million little pieces. The monster's mouth soon fastened itself to the rest of Rido's body, tearing bits and pieces of his limbs with its fangs.
That was when Kaname had run out of the manor, panting heavily. "Haruka!" he ran past Rido's deformed body to his father, who was wiping blood off his face. "Haruka! No!"
Right before Rido's head had been devoured by the monster Haruka had created, Rido had thrown the vampire hunter sword at Haruka, reaching its destination. The sword lay embedded in Haruka's chest, with precious pureblood soaking into his clothes and onto the already bloodstained ground. Haruka pulled it out of his chest, holding onto its hilt which sent shocks of electricity to his pureblooded vampiric body. Kaname stood in front of Rido, protecting his father.
"Stay back father, it is my duty to destroy Rido. Please don't dirty your hands with his blood; I am to the one to kill him." Kaname shouted, trying to defend his father.
"Kaname, please, stop it. Please don't destroy my pride as a parent my protecting me." Haruka whispered into Kaname's ears, bringing his arms to encase Kaname in a fatherly embrace.
"Haruka! The sword hit your heart?" Kaname cried, turning back to face his 'father'. "No, it wasn't supposed to!"
"It's alright Kaname, no matter what we've been through; you'll always be my child." The first signs of cracks appeared on Haruka's face as he tried to smile.
"Juuri says sorry. She loves you, and asks for your approval for her decision." Kaname spoke, an evenness unlike any child present in his voice. With a slight grin from Haruka and a nod, he shattered into a million little pieces of glistening ash.
With anger fueled in his eyes, Kaname reached out to the hunter's sword and picked it up. Glancing back at the spot that Haruka had died, Kaname took at step forwards, addressing the evil in front of him "Now that I have the hunter's sword Rido, I can completely stop your ability of healing and finally kill you. Even though I desire for you to have a torturous death, I will kill you now to save Yuuki."
He charged at Rido, placing two hands at the sword's hilt and bringing it up to pierce Rido's heart. But an inch before it pierced his skin, a force field-like barrier surrounded Rido's body, preventing any harm to his body.
Rido cackled like the animal he was with his misshapen mouth. "Even if you try to kill me, you will never be able to strike the killing blow, Kaname! And even if you gain your original strength, you still will be unable to kill me!" he slumped forward in vain attempts to grab Kaname. "I will come back and get my Yuuki, and you will be there watching me drain the thickest Kuran blood!"
Crimson eyes vivid with hatred and power, Kaname glared at the monstrosity that was his descendent. Striking the hunter's sword to the ground, Kaname dusted off his hands before pointing a single finger at Rido. "It was a miscalculation for my part for someone the likes of you to be born." There was a single shift in the air and Rido's blood splattered all corners of the snow, bits and pieces of his flesh arranged in a chaotic mess at the front entrance of the Kuran Manor. In his power, Kaname had heartlessly killed off the remaining untrustworthy vampires that had dared follow Rido. "Until the time comes, I will find a way to destroy you before you place a finger on Yuuki. But before that, you will lie low."
Kaname smelt the air for a sign a Yuuki, but there was none. Juuri had followed through with her plan, and there was now no way for anybody to find the Pureblood Princess even if they tried too. But, Juuri had not told him where he would be able to find Yuuki when she needed to be awaken, so he dashed back into the Kuran manor, jumping over Rido's muscle and bone, skipping steps, towards the entrance of the Manor where he had spotted a scrap of white paper that Juuri had dropped on her way in hiding Yuuki.
Cleaning off the blood on his hands to pick up the untarnished paper, he read the contents and sighed.
She can be found at the place that you truly belong Kaname. Cross has her human body. Protect her and wake her up when it's safe.
Kaien Cross sat on the floor of his porch, watching the sun rise behind the untamed forest that lay behind his backyard. In his hand was a vial of blood and in the other hand lay a crumpled piece of paper, the message coming from an old friend who he had loved and he now presumed had died in protecting her daughter. It was odd that a Pureblood like her had trusted him with something so big, as he was a vampire hunter, one of the best among his generation. He had been told of her plans of sacrifice and of protection years before, when the first signs of threat from Rido had occurred, but he never thought that she would see her plans of selflessness come true.
It was he who suggested protecting the Pureblood Princess. For he knew that someday he would have to play a role in eliminating Rido, and he thought of no better way of aiding those who wanted him dead, then by protecting someone and not actually killing.
He heard a shuffle in the snow and he head whipped towards the sound. Within the mounds of white lay a small tuff of dark chocolate hair, snow-white skin, and a small frail body. He could see it was a girl, whose uncanny features bore similarity to Juuri. He sighed, and sensed in the air that it was her daughter, but not exactly her daughter.
Juuri had explained to him that when she sacrificed herself so that her daughter would be put in a deep sleep, a part of her soul would form a human body with a human mind and would roam the Earth so that when the Pureblood body wanted to awaken, the human body and soul would go back into the Pureblood body and the vampire would reawaken without any confusion about the modern day and how to live in the century they had woken up in. The problem was, this human form had the strength of a human, and any outside force that harmed the human form would also harm the vampire form sleeping. That was the reason why many Purebloods decided in just sleeping, rather than having a human form walk the Earth. Along with that, Juuri had also put it upon herself to seal all of Yuuki's vampiric memories, so Yuuki now was a human without any knowledge of vampires.
Kaien Cross got up from where he sat and walked over to the girl, squatting down to her level in the snow and looking into her brown eyes. The child had a vacant expression, hinting at a bit of fear, but not really expressing any emotion. She wore clothes much too big for her for her body, and it lay behind her like a train of a wedding dress. Her dark chocolate locks fanned her face and reached until her waist, covering most of her front and backsides. She got on her knees and reached up, grabbing hold of the bottle of crimson liquid.
"My name is Kaien Cross, but you're going to call me Otou-san." Kaien smiled, completely changing his demeanor to suit the young child's innocence. "Where did you come from?"
The girl did not move, she looked straight into Kaien's eyes, almost reaching into his soul.
"Ahh, well then, let me bring you inside. It's really cold outside." He gently picked her up from the snow and walked into his house, placing her on a couch close to a fireplace. She did not struggle against him, she just kept the same vacant expression as he carried her into his home. "Lemme go find some clothes for you, that's all wet and big on you." He paused and looked at her thoughtfully. "I think I'll name you Yuuki, I'll protect you from now on!" he replied cheerfully before leaving the room to go find some child-sized clothes that Juuri had told him to buy.
But Yuuki just stared into the fire emotionless, wondering what in the world she seemed to be forgetting.
I hope you'd like it! :) Anyways, I do hope to update soon, but seeing as I am currently attending a MUN conference this weekend, it will take some time (though not as long as this last update). My spring break is starting soon, and I hope it get it up by then/during the spring break. I would be nice for you, as a reader, to give me a couple minutes a review! It does help my writing and ultimately your enjoyment, and I don't mind critiquing! :) Thanks for reading, I hope you enjoyed!
