Chapter 3 – Unexplained Disappearances And uncontrollable Thirst
"Yuuki-Chan? ... That's it, YUUKI – CROSS!" screamed a fuming mathematics teacher at Yuuki who was fast asleep with her head lying restless on the desk before her.
"Yuuki, come on, wake up" Youri said nudging her gently.
Yuuki yawned when she woke up due to the wake up calls from her teacher, who was now infuriated in the colour of red, and Youri who sat innocently next to her.
Yuuki looked puzzled at first when she looked around her surroundings till she realised she slept through her mathematics lesson. She gasped in shock. "Oh my, I am sorry!" she said apologetically to the teacher who stood in front of her.
"So you should be, and you will be making it up in detention after teaching times. This is the fifth time this week you have slept through my lessons!" the female teacher said whilst trying to keep as calm as possible whilst adjusting her square rimmed glasses. She then walked away from the desk Yuuki and Youri were sitting at to walk to the front of the class to carry on teaching the topic.
Yuuki had blushed dramatically hearing that it was the fifth time that, basically, everybody in her class witnessed her falling to sleep. Se rubbed her eyes this time, trying to avoid falling back to the inviting dreamland.
"Did you have another late night Yuuki?" Youri asked beside her.
Yuuki simply nodded and then looked at her. "When is there ever going to be a night when I can sleep at a reasonable time." Yuuki said frustrated.
"There will be a time Yuuki, although, I do recommend it soon; the maths exam is coming up in a month's time." Youri replied worried about Yuuki's reaction to this news.
Yuuki groaned and then laid her head back on the desk. "This cannot be happening" she mumbled to herself.
"And Yuuki, you were sleep talking as well." Youri said acting as though she was used to this.
"I was wha!" she said blushing again. "What was I saying? How was I saying it? Who heard!" Yuuki suddenly panicked.
"Don't worry Yuuki, it was only me that heard you" Youri reassured her. "You were saying 'Zero' and then something about being worried and sorrowful. You sounded concerned with a hint of upset as well. And as the subject of Zero has come up, do you know where he is today?" Youri said wonderingly.
Yuuki looked behind her to find an empty space in the corner desk which Zero usually sat at. "No Youri, I don't know where he is."
**This isn't right** Yuuki thought, and then remembered the incident that had happened between her and Zero that last night. Yuuki started to become a little worried, she was expecting to see him again the following day, but it seems that she wasn't going to and this made her feel un easy inside. At this point, it was time for next lesson, and everybody including Yuuki gathered their stuff. Yuuki was hoping that she may see him between lesson change over's but the school day went by in slow hours and there was no sign of Zero.
Yuuki constantly watched the classroom clock which hang on the wall in front of her. Every second seemed to go slowly, and every ticking noise seemed like a shooting pain in her ears. She wanted to see through the final hour so that she could rush up to chairman cross before getting ready to control the day class students so the swap with the night class would be much safer, well, it would be safer if Zero appeared, Yuuki thought and then shook her head to forget the thought of him.
**I shouldn't be worried about him... whatever the problem was last night must have been resolved now, but he always seemed to have this problem, this problem that prevented him being his normal and working self...* Yuuki thought and ran her fingers through her hair giving an impression of tiredness and distress.
It was normal for Yuuki to worry about such things like this, defiantly when it is people close to her heart. She wanted to help others that needed it the most.
It was now finally the time that Yuuki had been trying to patiently wait for. The teacher dismissed the class and many students within the classroom rushed towards the classroom door. Usually Yuuki would wait till everybody had exited the room with her best friend Youri so that she wouldn't be pushed in certain directions as she was rather weak, but this time, Yuuki was part of the group and was trying to tear her way through it trying not to hurt anyone who got in her way.
Once she escaped the madness of the raging crowd, she ran to the chairman's office as fast as she could. She ran to the separate dorm, which she, Zero and the chairman stay at, and up the concrete stairs trying not to fall over on the un even rocky surface. Once she had reached the top floor, she stopped to catch her breath back trying to relax and get into a normal breathing pattern so that she wouldn't look too panicky. She walked along the corridor to what presumably is the Chairman's office. She got to the dark wooden door and knocked twice so that she was heard. There was no answer or sound coming from the room. Yuuki opened the door and entered the deserted room. Her father was not present.
"Damn..." Yuuki said under her breath.
"Oh Yuuki!" a sudden cheerful voice occurred from behind her making her slightly jump. "Sorry, didn't mean to scare you." Said the Chairman appearing and seeing her reaction to his un knowledgeable presence.
"Father, where's Ze-" Yuuki stopped. "Sorry, I will be back in a bit" Yuuki ran out of the room leaving a confused headmaster in his office, she sprinted along the corridor and past the stairs and round a corner to go to another dark wooden door which she stopped directly in front of. Yet again, she knocked twice with confidence that someone was inside this time. But there was no sign of life with in the room, so Yuuki entered the room without any warnings.
"Zero?" she called looking around the room.
**He's not even in his own bed room** she thought annoyed.
She turned to face Zero's un touched bed to see that a big black travel bag was lying on top of it. She ran to it thinking it had a contents within it, but she was mistaken, there was no contents, but could thereof been? Or is it going to be used for something?
"Is there something wrong?" the chairman entered Zero's bedroom room concerned at this unusual behaviour that Yuuki was giving.
Yuuki sat down on Zero's bed beside the black travel bag. "To be honest, yes there is something wrong, but not with me, with Zero" she replied not looking at her father who was standing by the entrance of the dark dismal room.
"Oright" the chairman simply replied pushing his glasses closer to his eyes and looking down at the floor hoping not to reach Yuuki's eye sight if she looked up at him. "I have to agree, I have been concerned for him as well, he hasn't been his normal self, but things change –"
"Not that quick, they don't." Yuuki interrupted with no hesitations. "I thought the same to till now. Seeing Kaname again last night made me realise that things don't change really quick. I thought I wasn't going to see or speak to Kaname again, I thought he forgot me and moved on, but we met again after a long distance of time last night and I found out nothing between us has changed, we both want to know each other again and we never forgot our past." Yuuki sighed "and yes, I know that has nothing to do with Zero and his change, but it proves that one thing can change something temporally. Zero's disliking for vampires changed the relationship between me and Kaname, but it didn't change our feelings and characteristics and we still want to see each other? Zero's problem has seemed to keep him away from certain things, but I can still sense the normality of him when I look into his eyes and face...there's something holding him back not allowing his normal self to show" Yuuki looked up at the chairman who still was not looking at her. "Even though he doesn't say or give an impression of it, but he speaks warmly of you, I know it, he has said that you have been helping him with a lot of stuff at the moment, and this then tells me, that you know something about the secret behind Zero's abnormalities..."
The chairman sighed. "You know Zero more than I do, more than anyone does. He wouldn't tell me what was wrong or what his problems are Yuuki, he doesn't like showing his problems, like he doesn't want anyone to worry about him."
"But that's not true, I may have been the closest person to him since he came to live with us, but I don't know him more than you do, there are still things you promised to tell me when I was older, and I have never forgotten that since." Yuuki replied anxiously trying not to sound too tense.
As Yuuki could see, the chairman stood struggling for words and covered his face with one of his hands relying on it to make him think properly.
"Yuuki, you must understand, I cannot tell you till the time is right and has come, which is, unfortunately near." The chairman replied taking his hand away from his face and seeming in distress. He saw the look of confusion and concern spread across Yuuki's face dramatically.
Yuuki didn't know what to say back, there was nothing to say to this uneasy statement which made her alarmed in panic and fear.
**What could this mean? Is Zero in some kind of trouble? Or has Zero always been in this trouble? Was something really bad going to happen soon to him?** Yuuki thought trying to breath, but at that moment, she completely stopped breathing when she saw a new individual walking into the room and lingering beside the chairman who seemed still in distress and looking at Yuuki. It seemed the chairman didn't need to look beside him to see who it was, he seemed to already know.
"Thank you for coming Kaname." The chairman said not looking at the quiet, patient Kaname who was still beside the chairman wearing a black long jacket, which Yuuki had never seen him wear before.
Kaname simply nodded with a neutral impression. He looked from the distraught headmaster to Yuuki, who was still sitting on Zero's bed looking staggered at this strange sudden appearance. It wasn't even time for the night class to swap with the day class students yet, how did Kaname get past the day class students without being noticed? She still found it hard to breath, she wanted to look away but for some reason she couldn't, it was like her eyes were magically attached to Kaname's dark crimson eyes which slowly and gently pierced her.
"Are you okay Yuuki?" Kaname asked concerned like something really terrifying had happened.
No words came out of her dry mouth. **YUUKI! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING!** Yuuki thought.
"She still doesn't know yet Kaname." The chairman replied to Kaname "and if I could change these things, I would...for sure" the chairman looked away from Yuuki.
"I wish you luck for patrolling this afternoon, and I will probably see you tonight, but for now me and Kaname need to speak about important stuff and we also need to look for Zero." The chairman said honestly to Yuuki but had a grim impression to it.
"Find Zero... ?" Yuuki froze and started to shake; she tried to control herself from shaking dramatically by holding her arms down tightly and tensing all of her body. **Zero has ran away?** she immediately thought.
"He disappears temporally for a few hours during the day or night, mostly night. And it's got to a point where we need to find him before something happens." The chairman replied turning to exit the bedroom. "I know this is all very confusing for you Yuuki, but trust me, it will make sense, very soon." The chairman walked out of the room leaving only Kaname and the nervous Yuuki still looking at each other like they were communicating through eye contact. It was Kaname and his dark crimson eyes that broke the eye contact. He looked away from her completely when he turned around to face the place where the chairman left.
"Yuuki... keep safe will you please?" Kaname asked simply.
Yuuki didn't reply back to this. **why should I keep safe? Has this got to do with Zero? Zero wouldn't hurt me, unless it's someone else that has something to do with Zero?** Yuuki thought paralysed in fear.
"Keep safe during the night class swap over with the day class... That's if you need to be, things may change." Kaname said sighing and then walking out of the room, leaving her by herself deep in thought.
After a few seconds, Yuuki snapped out of her thoughts and realised what she was doing. She jumped up in a flash and ran to the door to see whether she can still see Kaname stroll down the corridor towards the chairman's office, which she presumed they were both going before any other plan was made or carried out.
"KAN-"She shouted out.
Yuuki saw a quick flash of Kaname swiftly closing the chairman's office door behind him blocking Yuuki out.
Yuuki felt lost and bewilded. **this sort of thing hasn't occurred since the night I first met Zero** she thought. She placed her hand on her chest, presumably where her heart was, feeling the strong, uncontrollable hammering inside her chest. **I hope your okay Zero...this is more serious than I could of imagined.** she tightened her fist and looked out of the glass window opposite her, seeing that the fiery glowing sun was setting beautifully in the distance, and that was when she suddenly remembered a certain job that she had to constantly carry out.
"Fuu!" Yuuki said angrily and panicky. She started to run yet again, down the stairs and out onto the outside grounds sprinting as fast as she could, so that she could get to the change over in time before chaos broke out.
**Its going to be manic down there! Oh damn it!** she thought sighing in the thought of how manic it would be.
She arrived to the area that was well known for noise and disruption, but to her surprise, not a student was in sight. She shook her head a few times thinking she was hallucinating due to all the worrying and frightening thoughts she previously and still was, thinking about.
She looked back up after shaking her head a number of times which started to make her feel dizzy and out of balance. She saw that the gates to the night class's dorm were closed and not a single person or group were lingering around it. It was, for once, a plain, brick footpath surrounded by trees and the green, luxurious grass which Yuuki had not seen for a very long time due to all the day class students gathering around on it.
"B-Bu-But... it is time for class swap over? Why is it so quiet?" Yuuki said to herself looking around puzzled. "I wasn't too late was I?... Oh god, I wonder if everything went okay?"
Yuuki decided finally after 15 minutes of thinking, that the changeover was already made, but she constantly thought of how it could have been done.
Instead of running, Yuuki strolled back to where she last came from. The light sunset colour around her started to fade, hinting that the sun had beautifully finished its days work and was going to disappear for 12 hours before sunrise and before it can cast its spell of bright light. This made Yuuki realise that she had to start her night time grounds patrol. She sighed irritatedly, till all a sudden something else caught her attention.
Yuuki stopped after hearing something snap, like a wooden twig, and knew at once that it was human made.
With quick, swift movement, Yuuki grabbed her anti-vampire weapon, Artemis, from underneath her skirt and from the leather strap around her leg which held it. She swinged the weapon beside her allowing it to grow longer in length making it into a strong, metal rod which had anti-vampire magic/powers.
She stood silently facing the place where she heard the noise come from, ready to strike at whatever was luring in the darkness of the trees. She stood wonderingly, was it just her imagining things again? Was it just an animal? Or was there someone there.
"Show yourself, before I accidently injure someone." She asked in annoyance as she wondered whether she was speaking to herself. There was no sound or movement.
After a minute, Yuuki presumed it was her imagination playing up or her mind playing tricks on her. So she lowered Artemis down a little, so that she didn't seem defensive and uptight and then let out a sigh of relief.
"Hello Yuuki" said a sudden voice from right behind her.
This made Yuuki jump, and she reacted to the person behind her by using Artemis to swing around to hit the person behind her, aiming for the side or arm. But before the weapon hit the male's, white uniform, he grabbed the weapon with a quick reaction and sparks flew from the weapon and the person's grip, causing the person to pull the weapon from Yuuki's clutches and threw it away from both of them.
Yuuki was startled at this and knew straight away that the person was a vampire, not only because of his white uniform, but also because of the weapons reaction to the hit and him.
"Ow!, Yuuki! You have got to watch where you aim that dreadful weapon!" cried Aidou Hanabusa from the night class clutching his hand, that presumably was hit by Artemis, to try and comfort it.
"I'm so sorry Aidou-Senpai!" Yuuki said in a worried apologetic voice. "But you can't blame me for that; you shouldn't be out of class and on the school grounds at this time of night, and worst of all, creeping up on me!"
"I wasn't creeping up on you." Replied Aidou annoyed.
"So tell me why you took at least two minutes to actually say something? But instead you lingered around in the darkness and then came up behind me and made me jump." Replied Yuuki, getting her point across to him.
"Okay, okay, okay. I just wanted to make you a little jump, but I didn't know you would react like that! Is there something bothering you? Or worrying you by any chance?" Aidou asked curiously.
"No, just stressed out, I have a lot on my mind at the moment." Yuuki replied looking away from Aidou's persuasive eye contact.
"Well, I guess that it's good that you didn't have to control the day class from becoming madly wild due to my entrance and appearance at class change over today." Aidou said with his arms folded in a proud manor.
"Wait, Wha..?" Yuuki was star struck to hear this. "Who was on patrol there then?"
"Oh, Sorry, I didn't explain rightly." Aidou inhaled the cold fresh night air. "There wasn't a changeover. We, the night class, were told to change secretly tonight so that it didn't cause a big event to the day class, and that's when I thought I should ask one of the prefects/ guardians about why this has happened." Aidou reached out for Yuuki's arm and pulled her closer to him so that she could hear him whisper "I know you know why this has happened, it's not every day you have to make a secret change over and have to sacrifice seeing our fans. So could you tell me what has happened? I promise I won't tell anyone."
"Who told you that you had to swap over later tonight?" Yuuki asked struggling a little to escape Aidou's tight grip.
"Kaname did, and we all, obviously have to take his order." Aidou replied not letting go of her arm which was trying to wither free.
She stopped struggling immediately. **Is that what Kaname meant by 'Keep safe during the night class swap over with the day class... That's if you need to be, things may change' he must of knew I was going to be late, so then he delayed the swap time** Yuuki thought and smiled slightly.
"He delayed it because he knew I was going to be late." Yuuki replied honestly but she then realised that Aidou would be asking why she was late, and Yuuki didn't want to explain the situation with Zero and her worry and fear for him, so she made a fake excuse. "I needed to catch up with school work as I have slept through most of my lessons, so I spoke to the chairman about it and he said it was okay if I skipped swap over patrol but only did night patrol for today."
Aidou seemed to have believed this and let go of her arm.
"Well as you said, I shouldn't be out on the grounds at this time of night and therefore will go to class, but thank you for answering my question." Said Aidou politely walking in front of Yuuki heading towards the academy building. "But, one more thing." Aidou stopped in his tracks and turned to face the distant Yuuki. "Where has Kiryu been?
Yuuki's mind went blank, what could she say? And struggled for words.
"Zero is behind on lessons and work as well, although he is majorly behind and has to do a few after school sessions a week." Yuuki replied confident that this would be believed as well.
Aidou sighed and looked away. "I will get the truth someday Yuuki – Chan, something isn't right here." Aidou said loud enough for Yuuki to hear and then started to walk away again heading towards the dark building.
As soon as Aidou was out of sight, Yuuki retrieved her thrown Artemis which laid lifeless and back to its original unexpanded form and she put it back in the firm hold of the leather strap underneath the skirt of her day class uniform.
Yuuki knew that she wouldn't be able to resist Aidou's warning of persuasion in the future, so she needed to stay out of his way as much as possible when she is on her own. **Although, he is right, something is defiantly not right** she thought to herself.
A rush of cold icy air flew all around her causing her to wrap her arms around herself, this made Yuuki think, *when Zero isn't around, or father, Youri and Kaname, I'm lonely and feel insecure... this is how Zero must feel at times when he is by himself out there...* Yuuki tightened her grip and then started walk around the dark gardens watching out for students, that may be breaking the rules, and un wanted visitors.
The surroundings seemed calm and quiet, this made Yuuki relax and reassure herself that she needn't have to work so hard, so she peacefully strolled around the certain parts of the Academy's outside grounds which she favoured and found beautiful. Her most favourable area of the outside grounds was an area that had a large, concreted, rectangular shaped pond which was surrounded by also, a concreted low wall. The pond consisted of beautiful white and pink water lilies bobbing on top of the pond's water surface, and the area around the pond consisted of beautiful coloured flowers and plants which were planted in brown terracotta plant pots.
She decided to go to this place where she always thought and relaxed at. The walk there wasn't far from where she was. She walked under an arch way which consisted of a red rose bush tangled and growing across on it making the wooden arch way look like a wild uncontrollable plant. Once she walked through, she realised she always went here with Zero most of the time when they needed a break. Her and Zero were common with each other when it came to things like this and feelings towards something.
*Zero must come here alone at times, like I do* Yuuki sighed, and whispered quietly under her breath. "Damn Zero, where are you? You haven't disappeared for this long."
She looked around the area in hope to see Zero within their favourite place, but it seemed he wasn't. All was there was a black, box like object which laid on the floor beside the ponds edge. Yuuki was alert by this and immediately went to see what it was.
*I don't know what the big panic is Yuuki, it may just be a bit of rubbish that has blown from the Academy* she thought as she made her way to the object. She knelt down on one knee and picked the black box up without any hesitations. She looked at it with hard concentration. She had never seen anything like it. It was for sure a small black box which may consist of something, but she couldn't get over the strange un-recognisable red symbol that was on the surface of the top of it.
*what is this? It looks very similar to Zero's tattoo? ... But it isn't quite the same.* She thought and then opened the box up from the side, and nothing was in there. With the box, she got up on both feet again treading on something that went crunch under one of her feet. She looked down at the floor and realised that she didn't need to move her foot to see what it was. She gasped. On the floor surrounding her feet, were tiny white tablets. She presumed that they were the contents from the black extraordinary box. She got back down to take one un damaged tablet to have a closer look at it.
"BLIXXXVO63 ...?" Yuuki gasped. "What is a blood tablet doing here?" she looked on the floor again and put her hand over her mouth in shock. "I should clear this up before a day class student sees."
Yuuki got on her hands and knees and tried to pick up every trace of the Vampire's blood tablets.
She sighed in relief that she got every bit back into the box they, were thought, originally came from and she slipped it into one of her pockets so that she could either show them to the chairman or dispose of them later on during the night or at the end of her shift.
She finally could now rest, so she went to sit on the small concrete wall inhaling the deep icy fresh night air.
"Argh!" she moaned angrily putting her head in her hands. She couldn't deal with it anymore, even when she tried not to think about it. She couldn't stop thinking about Zero and where he was at the moment and why he was acting so strangely, she also couldn't stop thinking of what the chairman and Kaname were planning for Zero.
"I shouldn't worry, everything is fine or will be fine." She said trying to comfort her self, but her idea of trying to comfort herself failed, she got up and raced back to the Academy building planning to confront her father and Kaname properly this time. She thought of this time as a good opportunity as well, as the grounds seemed peaceful with no sign of disruption and rule breaking.
Once she had battled her way out from the dark grounds and to the entrance door of the academy, she stopped to take a break. It was the fastest Yuuki had run that day.
Once she felt relaxed and confident again, she made her way in doors and up to the chairman's office, persuading herself that she wouldn't back down this time, and that she wouldn't allow Kaname distract her. She got to the floor where she, Zero and the chairman stayed on. She looked down the gloomy corridor to see that the chairman's office door was open; she walked up to it and peered inside. Nobody was there.
*Damn! They must of left a little while ago.* Yuuki thought to herself annoyed. And that's when she heard it. The sound of somebody in a room nearby, walking around or trying to by the sounds of all the loud creeks coming from the wooden floor boards. The sound seemed like it was coming from Yuuki's room, and Yuuki thought this as well, as her room was known for the creakiest floorboards.
Yuuki started to slowly make her way back up the corridor once more and past the stairs to go to her bedroom.
*Is the chairman or Kaname in my room? Or is it someone else..., no, for sure it would either be the Chairman or Kaname, I mean, no one else would want to come up to this restricted area and be in my room?* Yuuki thought panicking every step of the way.
She was in front of her door and she could feel her heartbeat increase every second, as it was pounding against her chest. She found that her door was open and not shut, which she had left it as. Her hand lifted in mid air, ready to push the door further open to see who or what was inside. It took her a few seconds to pull her courage up to see what the noisy figure was inside. She closed her eyes and pushed the door in front of her hard enough so that she wouldn't have to do it again. And once she sensed that the door was open, she opened her eyes and looked inside. Her curtains were open allowing the moon's silver light to light and shine in her room which allowed her to see a little clearer in the dark as there were no lights on, and she didn't need to look any further to realise who it was sitting curled up with one knee up on the floor below her window, with his head leaning against his knee not showing his face so that his silver hair was lying lifeless upon his knee.
"Zero...?" Yuuki said relieved still standing by her door. She smiled; smiled at the feeling of warmth arising inside of her again knowing Zero was back within the academy.
Zero didn't react as Yuuki thought he would. His body started to tremble, like it was out of control.
"Yuuki, go away, please!" Zero replied panicky but kindly.
"But Zero...You're in my room?" She replied confused and hurt. "Zero, I want to know what's wrong, I have been worried about you. Worried with fear since the last time I saw you!" Yuuki said, not believing Zero's attitude towards her presence.
"Don't be Yuuki, never be worried for me." Zero replied, seeming like he was trying to fight over something uncontrollable and unforgiving.
"I will always worry for you Zero!" Yuuki replied half shouting "I want to be the one you can rely on, not the one who seems not to care about you, because that would be a lie! Because I do care Zero! A lot!" Yuuki said taking a few steps towards Zero, who still was sat on the floor covering his face.
He seemed to have sensed her presence coming closer towards him.
"Yuuki! Stop! Don't come any further!" He said trying not to sound to offensive towards her.
"But Zero, I don't understand why your being like this? I'm only trying to help someone close to my heart... but I guess it has always been like that, sometimes I think whether I have done something to make you not speak to me at times and I'm so sorry if I have done anything, I will try to be a better person, for Zero." Yuuki stopped as she was told to do, and her eyes watered immediately hurt by the refusal of the acceptance of her worry for Zero.
Zero seemed to have stopped trembling and he moved his head very slightly to see Yuuki through his silver strands of hair to see her standing a few feet away drying the tears that were rolling down her cheeks.
"Yuuki!" Zero said apologetically, getting up very slightly straight after seeing the pained Yuuki and he quickly grabbed the bottom of her skirt making her fall to her knees on the floor with him, in this opportunity, Zero grabbed her and embraced her tightly, but still, Zero didn't show the full content of his face.
"I'm sorry Yuuki, so sorry, I didn't mean to be this cruel to you, I accept that you are worrying, but please, don't, this is my problem. I just don't want to hurt you –" Zero stopped and froze, like he remembered something terrible.
"Hurt me..? Zero, why would you hurt me?" Yuuki said confused.
Zero smelt it again, the captivating smell, **Oh, that sweet smell that my deep inner self cannot stop obsessing about** Zero thought, **that captivating smell of Yuuki's scent... that indicates her blood...**
he tightened the embrace even more crushing Yuuki, it was too late now, the inner self was an animal, that finally won the battle and took over him and his human instincts.
"Ah, Zero, you're hurting me!" Yuuki said struggling for air.
"Then why didn't you run...?" Zero said menacely and started to breath heavily down Yuuki's neck and back. This gave her Goosebumps.
**What is he doing? He's never ever been like this around me and why is he speaking differently?** Yuuki thought trying to struggle slightly, whilst getting a shiver due to the overspread of Goosebumps.
"Zero I-" Yuuki was suddenly stopped as her breath was completely taken away, when Zero made a movement so quick that Yuuki wasn't aware until a few seconds after.
Zero loosened the embrace so that he could quickly retrieve Yuuki's wrists, and he then pushed her fully on the ground with a certain amount of force so that she was lying on her back. Zero climbed on top of her still holding her wrists so that she couldn't move or struggle to escape, he placed her wrists above her head still holding them firmly, so that she was completely pinned to the ground with no chance of escaping.
Yuuki tried to squirm her way out from under Zero's body and from the tight firm grip around her wrists, but it was useless, the only free thing that she could move was her legs, but they couldn't help her.
"Zero! What the hell is going on!" she said trying to be as calm as possible. **what is he doing? And why would he be doing this?** she thought before she suddenly looked up into Zero's face which was looking down at hers.
Zero's eyes were no longer that beautiful ivory colour; they were a bright, burning crimson colour.
Yuuki gasped, she couldn't believe the sight she was seeing. **no way...he can't be** Yuuki thought closing her eyes and opening them again to still see his new appearance looking down at her, but there was something also new about his appearance, she looked down at Zero's mouth to see two sharp dagger like fangs appearing slightly between the small gap in of Zero's mouth. Yuuki gasped in fear and shock. **Zero is, a Vampire...**
No words came out of her mouth, it went dry in shock, and the beast with in Zero couldn't take it any longer.
Zero leaned his head in towards Yuuki's neck and inhaled her scent; Yuuki froze in fear knowing there was nothing she could do to stop him. He opened his mouth and with slow movement of his warm, damp tongue, lapped Yuuki's neck in the spot where he was persumly going to drink from.
Yuuki tightened her fists in Zero's firm grip and closed her eyes tightly, knowing what was coming next, and not knowing how it was going to feel like.
Zero finally opened his mouth wider, exposing the protruding fangs inside his mouth and then using them to bite into the soft, warm flesh of Yuuki's neck. The taste of Yuuki's sweet blood flowing into him made him bite harder into her flesh letting the beast within him drink after a long time of waiting and fighting to overcome Zero's human instincts.
Yuuki gasped, the pain was a sharp, hard, pinching feeling, giving out shouting pains around her neck and the feeding spot which Zero was greedily drinking from. All the tense muscles in her body relaxed as though they have gave up on the battle to escape. Yuuki didn't know what to think or do, all she concentrated on was the pain and how much blood Zero was consuming from her fragile body. It was like she was controlled by Zero.
"Ah" Yuuki struggled for words, the pain caused her breath to be slowly taken away making it even harder for her to speak loudly enough for anyone to hear including Zero.
"Zero...Please...Stop!" Yuuki cried closing her eyes, once again, tight shut.
Zero bite a little further more into her and Yuuki let out a weep cry of pain.
"ZERO!" she screamed.
Zero then seemed to have snapped back to his human instincts and realised what he was doing. He immediately removed his fangs from the sore neck and licked the two small stab wounds quick so that they were sealed and wouldn't allow anymore blood to escape. And he then jumped off of her with rapid movement hitting into the wall closest to them. Zero stood licking the excess blood around his lips, and his bright, crimson eyes started to turn back to the original ivory colour. Once his appearance changed back (although he had blood stains around his mouth and chin) he fully realised what he had done when he looked across the floor to see Yuuki struggling to move towards her bed so she could lean her back against it. Her neck and clothes were drenched in blood.
Zero stood shocked in disgust at what he had done...done to her.
He placed a hand over his face and slide down the wall to sit on the floor again.
With his face still covered, he said sorrowfully "I'm sorry Yuuki, I'm so sorry." Zero removed his hand away from his face to look at the girl that has always been there for him no matter what happened. The one that would stay by him through thick and thin, and he repaid her by doing this. Hurting her, causing her pain. He looked saddened into Yuuki's face, which stood still and frozen. There were no tears in her eyes but just the look of fear, pain and confusion. Her hand was clamped around her neck, flinching slightly due to the exposure of a little flesh and the left over shooting pain.
Zero made a move towards her, but she responded as moving away from him.
Zero's stomach plummeted. **No, Yuuki, please, trust me, I didn't mean to hurt you in such a disgusting manor**
"Yuuki..." He simply said in a tone of sadness. "I couldn't off told you about this, I was afraid of what you would think of me, I was worried whether you be just as disgusted as I am being this repulsive beast. But I knew you would find out some day, you would need to know, I couldn't stay tamed any longer by this" Zero explained repulsed pointing at the tattoo on the right side of his neck which was burning red..
Yuuki gasped, as she remembered when she first saw it and how Zero had tried to rip it out of his skin with his own bear hands when he was younger.
"As you probably remember, I tried ripping it out. Feeling the pain of it trying to tame the beast growing inside of me was unbearable, but, now the beast has become too strong for it, but there is another way of taming it, but I haven't been told what that way is yet. I have been taking the night class's blood tablets, but my body rejects them due to the type of vampire I am, and that, therefore, makes me into a more thirsty beast wanting to attack anything that comes near me." Zero said not wanting to look at Yuuki as he felt disgusted with himself.
"But" Yuuki replied a minute after shakily. "How did you become a vampire?" she asked with fear of the answer. She then gasped, "Did you... have a human past life?"
Zero looked at her and didn't reply. His face was pained but was full of anger at the same time. "That doesn't matter for now. But besides that, I haven't been myself recently because this is constantly on my mind, defiantly since the first night I started to have the symptoms of the vampire instincts, but also knowing I was becoming something I hated the most. I have also become sensitive to certain scents of blood, and this is normal for the beginning of all vampires, and most of the time, they only thirst for one particular person and their scent of their blood and have it as an obsession for the rest of their life, they can, however, also drink other peoples blood but wont enjoy it as much." Zero sighed in discomfort and hatred of himself. "Unfortunately, I have already found the one scent that only interests the beast within me." Zero covered his face again in anger and upset.
"Who's?" Yuuki asked anxiously still leaning beside her bed with her hand still clamping her neck.
Zero looked up into Yuuki's eyes. "Yours Yuuki, that's why I have been avoiding you sometimes and why I sometimes disappear, because every time I smell your scent, my beast instincts kick in wanting to attack you, kill you even!" Zero shouted using his fist to punch the floor in anger. "I don't want to kill you Yuuki, you don't deserve that, nothing like that at all... you have been to kind to me since the day I met you and then I do this to you. You probably fear me now; you probably don't want to ever come near me or know me again" zero placed his head in his hands in shame.
"No Zero-" Yuuki started to try and move towards him on her hands and knees, but her vision went blurry and she fell to her side with a thud and blacked out.
"Yuuki!" Zero cried out panicked; he quickly rushed over to her and cradled her in his arms to see that she had fainted. He looked over her whole body seeing blotches of blood stains from her neck to now her waist. He cradled Yuuki whilst shaking in shock at what he had done to her. **Oh my god...I haven't, I haven't...I haven't killed Yuuki, she has just fainted, that's all, she should be okay in a minute." Zero thought petrified at the outcome of this.
"Hm, finally, the inner beast within you has won over your human instincts, and greedily took a lot of Yuuki's blood." Said a new sickening voice to Zero.
Zero freezed still holding Yuuki, and he looked up to see someone he hated and distrusted, standing by the entrance of Yuuki's moonlight room, was Kaname Kuran.
Zero had no reply, but instead looked back and throw from Kaname to Yuuki who laid peacefully against Zeros arms and chest.
"Plus, you have finally become what you hate the most and want dead." Kaname giggled menacely walking over to Zero and lowered his face down so that it was in line with Zero's face. "And, the worst thing about it, is that you have such a high risk of becoming an uncontrollable level-e vampire, the worst of all types of vampires, either blood related or not."
Zero snarled thinking of how much he had wanted to kill Kaname at that very moment, but he knew that the girl in his arms would be hurt even more if that childhood friend all a sudden disappeared from her life forever.
"I would have thought that now you was officially a vampire that is falling into dangerous levels, would respect me and the rest of the purebloods, but it seems that you still loathe me and now, even worse, bear your fangs at me." Kaname sighed and bent down to pick up the fragile body of Yuuki, who was still in an unconscious sleep and then walked away with her stopping by the door way. The chairman appeared and horror spread across his face when he saw the blood drenched Yuuki in Kaname's arms. He looked from Yuuki to inside of her room to look at Zero.
"I told you she would be the first victim." Kaname said straight away to the horrified chairman. "And I think we should do something about him now, it seems that Yuuki's blood has grown into the traps of the beast's obsession." Kaname walked out with Yuuki, taking her to the infirmary where she could be treated.
The chairman sighed and started to walk into the room where Zero, still shocked in fear of what he had done, was sitting in.
"Now that Yuuki knows, we have another way of taming you and protecting the people around you if an incident like this happens again. But I will explain what it is when Yuuki is back to normal health at least. But we think you should keep trying the blood tablets." The chairman reached into his pocket of his long brown jacket, pulling out a small, black box, very similar to the one Yuuki had found and chucked it over towards Zero.
Zero didn't have any reaction to this proposition. "They will not work...you should know that by now as I have complained about them so many times to you. My body will not accept them!" zero replied half shouting at the chairman.
"Zero, I know, but we just want to be safe about your condition-" the chairman said guiltily and then was interrupted.
"How long will it take till I become that uncontrollable, mental, vicious, animal that will crave for blood every second of every bloody day?" Zero cursed.
"Not yet Zero, a while yet, but if you keep trying to take the blood tablets it may increase the time before you do turn into a level-e." The chairman replied truthfully.
Zero placed his head in his arms in distress.
"Look, Zero, you need to rest, you-"
"How can I rest? How! Cause if you knew a way after hurting someone, someone that-" Zero struggled for words. "Just hurting someone that you knew for so long" **more like someone so close to my heart and always has been since the day I first saw her.** zero thought.
"Take a bath or a shower and just decide what you would like to do then, because I know for sure you need to clean up." The chairman pointed out at Zero's bloody red face.
Hearing those words immediately reminded Zero of a past memory of when he first met the chairman and Yuuki, and how the chairman told Yuuki to wash him due to all the blood on Zero's body, but this time, he was going to wash off that girls blood by himself, washing the blood of the girl who was willing to help, the one willing to take care of Zero.
Zero moaned in anger and punched the floor again twice as hard, making a loud hammering noise. He got up afterwards and walked towards the door. The chairman didn't move a bit, hinting that he trusted and wasn't afraid of Zero.
"I'm sorry chairman Cross... I'm sorry for being a danger towards the day class students, I'm sorry for what I have become and mostly, I am sorry for hurting Yuuki..." Zero simply said to the quiet chairman beside him.
"It wasn't your fault that you have become this vampire, it's not your fault that you desire human blood...it's not your fault that you couldn't stop her from attacking your family." The chairman replied honestly and truthfully like he had always done.
Zero looked at the floor, he looked petrified when the chairman had mentioned 'Her', this must of made Zero remember a terrifying memory, although, Zero had always remembered it, every day, when he woke up and before he went to sleep knowing that it was she that caused his life to be torn apart and not worth living for.
Zero didn't reply, but simply walked to his room to do what he was told to do, which was to have a wash.
Once zero was out of view and disappeared in to his own room, the chairman said quietly under his breath, "Also, call me father Zero. Because right at this moment you need one, and I know your father would agree with me, like he always did". The chairman then walked away, going to see if Yuuki was okay in the infirmary knowing Zero was okay for that moment.
In the infirmary.
Kaname entered the infirmary with Yuuki in his arms and closed the door behind him by kicking it with one of his legs.
He walked over to the clean, undisturbed, white bed, and placed Yuuki on it, deciding whether or not to place some sheets over her or not. Kaname gave up deciding and left the decision for the chairman to make once he had got there.
Kaname grabbed the closest chair by him and pulled it up closely beside Yuuki's bed and sat upon it taking hold of Yuuki's hand looking at her sorrowfully.
"I'm so sorry Yuuki, I didn't mean for this to happen to you..." He said to her whilst she was still in her unconscious sleep. "I even broke my own promise...the promise of not letting you get hurt and protecting you from things that maybe a danger to you." Kaname sighed angrily. "and if it means that Zero is a danger to you, which, has proven to be true, then I won't hesitate to do whatever it takes to make him not be, even if it means murder."
Yuuki flinched at the last few words Kaname said. Kaname sat frozen in panic that Yuuki may have heard what he had said and he waited for a few minutes to make sure Yuuki wasn't waking up.
"I'm sorry Yuuki, but I don't want you to hate me if you actually heard that." Kaname placed his cold hand on Yuuki's forehead. "I don't want to lose you..."
Kaname used some of his royal pureblood power to make Yuuki forget what he had just said, but he didn't completely erase her memory only half a minute of it. He wanted to erase her memory from before she was bitten by Zero, but he knew it would raise suspicion and questioning, and he also considered that Yuuki needed to know as well so that she aware just in case the incident happened again.
He looked up and down her body, concentrating on the dark blotches dotted around the upper parts of her body. Kaname snarled in disgust and thought **maybe it would be good if I did murder him, it means he wouldn't turn into a disgusting level-e... that would do him a favour at least, or, I should let him fall to that stage and make sure he knows what creature he is that everyone disgusts and is terrified of.**
Kaname ran his free hand through his untidy brown hair in distress. **Yuuki's blood does smell rather good... but too valuable to attack, besides, we, purebloods, can control our thirst more than any other vampire**
Yuuki jolted her head and moved it into a different position, facing away from Kaname and revealing the two red, sore, bite wounds on her bloody red neck. Kaname cringed at the thought of him, Zero, taking her blood in such a hungry manor. Kaname was so protective of Yuuki, that he considered her blood to be his, and only his, if she was to accept him in the future as he was planning.
It was a little wrong for a pureblood to want to marry and be with a human, firstly, because the purebloods are a strong bred and are expected to choose strong pureblood partners, and secondly, once a pureblood was married or with a human, it was hard for them not to thirst for their partners blood, and this could cause their partner to become a level-e if their pureblood partner bite them and if the pureblood did not allow their partner to drink their blood or if they didn't give enough blood supply to them they would definitely turn slowly into a level-e. But if Kaname was going to change Yuuki, he would allow her to drink as much blood as she wanted...he would even allow her to kill him if she wanted to or if she thirsted for all of him.
With this thought, Kaname got up and leaned over Yuuki's body looking directly down at her neck. He stroked the two swollen wounds with his cold fingertips, which made Yuuki flinch due to the small shooting pains starting again, and he moved her hair out of the way, so he had a clear view of the wounds. After that, Kaname bent low down to her neck so that his nose was nearly touching her skin. He opened his mouth wide revealing his two sharp looking fangs and lowered them slowly.
Just when Kaname's fangs were a cm away from the flesh of Yuuki's neck, he stopped and closed his mouth completely, and instead, gave the two wounds on her neck a small comforting kiss and then sat back down and watched her peacefully.
The chairman then bursted into the room, like he was in some sort of rush.
"How is she?" the chairman asked rushing quickly to Yuuki's side.
Kaname got up from his seat, allowing the chairman to sit there.
"She hasn't really made any movement." Kaname replied. "But I think I should go, there is probably an up roar in the night class due to the scent of Yuuki's blood."
"Yes, fair enough then." The chairman sighed. "Thank you...do you want me to tell Yuuki you visited her?". The chairman placed his hand on Yuuki's pale hand and felt it was cold, so he got up and searched for a few sheets to put on top of her.
"No, it's okay headmaster. Not to sound horrid, but I'm sure she will be here tomorrow. We both know how weak Yuuki can be." Kaname giggled remembering back to past memories. "I will visit her then."
The chairman successfully found some sheets and blankets and placed them warmly on his daughter. "She maybe weak in strength, but her heart and caringness is strong. I think she is the strongest person I know and I am proudly her father." The chairman replied smiling.
Kaname simply nodded and then exited the room making his way to where his fellow night class students were madly worrying about the new scent of blood arising and left the chairman to see to Yuuki so that he could take care of Zero's damage.