What Am I to You?

Some peaceful days have passed but suddenly there was trouble at Cross Academy. A Day Class girl had been found bitten by a vampire. Now chairman Kurosu, Kaname, Zero and Yuuki were holding an emergency meeting at the chairman's office.

"Let's not forget that you're one of the suspects, too, Kiryuu-kun," Kaname said. "Couldn't it be that your instincts overpowered you?"

"Kaname-kun!" Kurosu protested.

"Not that I remember," Zero answered coldly.

"Can you tell?" Kaname insisted. "Maybe your blood thirst became so strong that it made you attack people unconsciously."

"I don't need to take this stick," Zero said and left the office.

At once Yuuki got angry at Kaname.

"I thought you would accept Zero although you didn't like him. Do you really think he attacked that girl?!" Kaname was silent. "Fine. Then I'll catch the real offender and proof Zero's innocence," she said and left the room, too, looking for Zero.


He was facing Hiou Shizuka now. She was standing right in front of him.

"You were crazy about killing me, weren't you?" she smiled. "Now that someone else became my murderer what will you be possessed by? Maybe the cruel vampire instinct will concentrate on her now..." Suddenly Yuuki was standing in front of him, covered in blood, and looked like she was dying.

"Zero..." she gasped before collapsing into his arms.

Blood... he thought. The suffocating, sweet scent of blood...

"Yuuki!"

Suddenly he woke up with a jolt, trembling and gasping.

"Zero?" Yuuki had found him and entered the room. "Finally I found..." Her voice trailed off when she saw him staring at her in fear. "What's wrong?"

Zero didn't answer. Instead he pulled her close to him into a tight embrace.

"Yuuki... You're... alive... I thought I'd killed you..."

Yuuki's eyes widened. "I can't breath... Zero...! Zero! ZERO!" She cubbed his face, forcing him to look straight at her. "Are you okay?!"

"Yes," Zero whispered.

Yuuki sighed. "Thank God," she said, giving him a bright smile.

Relief flashed through Zero's body when he received this smile and a sudden desire occupied his mind.

Ahh, I desire these tender hands... and this smile... He cubbed Yuuki's face and approached it slowly, intending to kiss her. Yuuki didn't back away. Although I know I'm not allowed to ask for this...

Just before their lips touched Zero lowered his face and apologized. Yuuki's heart was beating fast. What happened?

"I'm sorry," Zero said, still holding on to her shoulders and resting his head on them. "Never mind. I'm sorry. It's nothing."

"Um.. okay," Yuuki said. But right now... he tried... to kiss me... she thought.

"Really..." Zero continued and raised his head to look into her eyes. "There must be something wrong with me... Because I had a weird dream. I wasn't fully awake yet."

"O..k... So don't stare at me."

But if that's the case then what just happened...? Yuuki wondered.

Zero still didn't turned his gaze off her. Suddenly memories were flashing through his mind forming an important question.

"Yuuki..."

"Huh?"

"You said you'd care about me... What am I to you?" Zero asked her.

"Um...," Yuuki said, surprised about this direct question.

"It's okay. Just forget it," Zero said and let go of her.