After what seemed like a life time Toga jumped up and off of his defenseless student. He turned his attention to his still sleeping face, and then directed himself to the white horse that had doomed him to his shame. At least ten minutes of hateful starring later, he turned back to his student. Hay was mixed with his hair, and a single little string of saliva was plastered on his chin. God how odd it was to see Zero of all people not wake to something like that. . .

What if he did? He had trained his student rather well, but could he have trained him so well that he can fake his sleep to a point that even fooled the might Toga Yagari? No. This silly student couldn't be that good. If he was than he was going to have to quit this little fake job and move back in with his brother in New York. If he did that then his father would likely try to kill him before he got off the plane, and his brother would taunt him and prey until he knew everything. If he got there alive first. Again he looked to his pale student. He admires the way that Zero looked since he was born into the world. His silver hair melding so perfectly with his pale skin, his violet eyes being the darkest part of his visible body. Toga ran his finger over Kiryu's lashes; they had always been thick and black like a woman's. The amazing thing was how much he had always liked this little kid. He was so much younger than him, but at the same time he acted so mature and... "What the hell am I thinking?" He thought allowed and rubbed the back of his head. He rose to his feet and walked out, deciding to act like this had never happened. Lily stood there watching him from her stall as he walked away. Had she helped or made it worse?

Night was going to come soon as the turned awoke in the stable. He had napped now for at least hours without waking even once. That meant Yuki didn't have the time to wake him before duty. She was likely trying to push back rushing teenage girls as they attempted to bust threw the gate or climb the stone wall. He sighed, knowing that his time for sleep was now over. At least if he went and helped she likely wouldn't mess with him tomorrow if he napped again. He pulled an apple from his pocket and yanked away the stem. Now standing he fed the whole thing to Lily, his white horse. "Time to go...," He said to himself just before walking out and heading towards the night dorms. What a pain it was going to be to have to see Kuran twice in one day. To have to look at his brown eyes and know that they were filled with a blood lust that would never be tamed completely. To see his perfect hair and know that if he were human he wouldn't have it. To simply look at him. It was going to make him sick all over again.

He walked through the forest with little to think about other than his own disgust, until he reached the dorms. Just his luck to have the doors open as he walked up. Out came the class with the statue of Gods. That made him sick too. It was like he was doomed to forever look at this ass when he came to do his job. Yuki of course was lined up keeping the girls who stood idly back, and of course his side was too scared now seeing him to move. He was stuck having to come face to face with Kaname. He stopped in front of the turned, and observed him a moment. "Well now what a surprise it is to see you awake Kiryu-Kun. Finally decide to join the 'day' class for once?" His tone was sure to piss him off, and mixed with what he had just said Zero was sure to be angry. "Ch'," He replied in an annoyed tone. Not pissed? Even more surprising. It must have been since Yuki was watching. Zero had some convention of manners towards the pure when others watched. That didn't mean he liked him though. "By the way... Kiryu-Kun," Kaname stated before walking past him. Just as he was within ear shot beside him he spoke again. "You have some odd drool going down your chin," He walked off with the rest of his class. All his little slaves following him diligently as not to be left behind.

With that Zero stood there, shacked and almost confused. He wiped his chin with his hand and looked down at it in the light. The spit shined enough for him to see clearly, and after looking at it a second he wiped his hand on his pants frustrated and began to walk away more peeved than he had been this morning. Yuki tried to get after him, but as he turned the day girls went crazy yet again. As Yuki tried to contain the quarreling girls Zero walked off towards the town, only to be stopped by Cross at the gate. Of course he had to be there of all times. The one time he wants to simply leave he can't. "Ah~ Zero-Chan~! What are you doing out here silly~? You should be helping Yuki-Chan shouldn't you~?" His voice was just annoying at this point. The happy tone of his was making the little turned want to rip his throat out. "I was summoned to the Hunter's Guild, so I need to go," Zero started to brush past him, but Cross took hold of his forearm before he could quite escape. "Now-Now when have you ever listened to orders? I don't even remember giving you a summons or anything so where are you going?" His tone wasn't so demeaning as to give away his anger at the lie, but it was so happy to say he was stupid.

Zero sighed and snapped away from him in almost an instant. He walked on without taking heed of Cross's efforts to make him stay. He didn't know where he was going, but it was anywhere Kuran wasn't. He didn't want to deal with him anymore today. If he did he would surely try to shoot him without cause. That wouldn't exactly help anyone now would it? Cross stood at the gate with a frown as his little son walked off ignoring him. He sighed and turned his head to the shadows in the gate. "You know to follow him, though I wish I could let him be. You know to follow him," Yagari emerged from the shadows and simply gave a nod before walking after his student. Even he wondered where he was going, and though he had had a bit of a... thing... that happened earlier he wasn't going to let it get in the way right now. He simply had to forget it after all.

Zero walked through the town with the pace of a pissed drunk. Some starred at his uniform but then went about their own business. Some looked at his appearance and then looked away. Some that he knew were hunters only let him bee because the mark on his neck was flashing about. Some people were looking at that too. It was like he was simply estranged here just like he was estranged in the day class, a depressed pretty boy pretending to be what he isn't. He walked more and more until he decided to go inside. Shishou had gone to this place before and come to school the next day with a hangover, yelled to shut up and then slept on the desk. It wasn't odd to see hunters or students with masters, but he was a sight and feel the caught attention. He walked to the bar and took a seat on the stool. He was an outsider even here, but all the same he was a customer. If he didn't have that tattoo than they would all still be watching him sit there, luckily he was so unfortunate. Yagari came in and sat alone at a table. Of course on in the dark like a mercenary. No one would dare talk to him unless they were one of two things. Drunk or a friend. Either of those were fine to him so long as they caused no trouble. Though even the drunk were not so stupid to mess with Yagari Toga of all people.

The turned started with some milk, and ignored some taunts and insults from around him. He ignored a drunk that thought he was a woman, and simply waited for him to leave without even touching him or laying a finger on him. He wasn't stupid. If he touched even a drunk who had assaulted him there would be someone's gun to his head. He drank his glass and ordered a real drink. He figured that he needed it from what he could tell. He drank slowly and really just thought. It was like watching someone who had only seen a bar on the television. Though some at least knew Toga was there as well, and so they did not mess with him. Zero sat and had a few drinks. His master wanted to smack him for drinking, but he had only seen him drink two. That and he wasn't about to become a hypocrite. A small group of hunters walked up to Zero and started to talk to him. Toga could of course hear them. The first spewed out, "Well look what the fangs dragged in boys," The next said, "Right, and isn't it a bit odd for it to be here?" The ring leader of course added, "Nah, I think maybe he wants to have a nice time and forget what he is for once. Though a blood sucker could never forget what it really is on the inside and out now can they?"

Toga wanted to jump up and defend, but he knew he couldn't. He knew that if he did than the day that he wasn't there to defend him Zero wouldn't know what to do. He couldn't let his little boy become dependent on something like that. It would be wrong. At that moment he realized that if he wasn't going to let himself defend him now; that if he was going to stand back so that Zero could learn what to do in a situation like this, than he couldn't hold back that lesson any longer either. One day Yagari wouldn't be around to save him, and if he didn't teach him what to do then, he would be taken advantage of. Toga had to stand back, and he had to do what he had to for the long run. Zero brushed off their words like dust, and took another drink. "So what're ya drinking rat?" The second one said as he swiped the glass from him. "Probably some sick vampire thing added to that be careful," The first one said. Zero sighed and stood up. He went for the door. "What? Are you leaving already? We're only just getting started though~" Said the ring leader as he put his arm in the way of the door. "What do you ass holes want?" Zero said in a flustered yet calm voice. He was done with this all. Even Toga could tell that. Zero would rather look at Kuran again than deal with idiots of the association. The three gave him a glare and waved him along. Zero followed as not to cause every gun and knife in that pub to be aimed at him. Once he left the room everyone whispered but then went back to being depressed or making merry with one another.

Zero followed in the middle of the three. One leading him and two making sure he didn't go anywhere. It reminded him of a move he saw. This was the walking before the person following either got raped or beat nearly to death. That or just simply offed in the darkest possible alley way to be found later or buried still partially alive. He was actually curious as to what was going to happen. The thing he hated was the fact that he was excited at the thought of beating the three of them to death. Toga sat for another few moments and got up. He got a hold of a nice woman and simply drove her home. He didn't feel worthy of sleeping with her after having kissed a child the same day. He talked to himself on the way home. "A child huh...I kissed a kid," He thought a moment while in his own pity. "No. I kissed Zero. Not kid, Zero. All the same... He isn't a 'kid' anymore. He'll be fine. He has to learn to handle himself...," He pulled into the drive way and gave himself the last words before he turned in. "I have to teach him how to handle himself too... That lesson... God how I was hoping never to give him that lesson,"

Zero walked through the gates of Cross Academy around midnight, and the guard called the Chancellor right after he was out of ear shot. He walked to his room in the day class dorms and opened up the door. Wearily, he plopped onto the bed and closed his eyes. A few short breathes and a trickle of blood later someone knocked on his door. The chancellor walked in with a small medicine kit and sat beside Zero on the bed. The boy peered at the kit and simply sighed, accepting the fact that he was hurt to some extent. The boy rested his eyes calmly as his 'father' cleaned his cuts and put a bandage around both of his hands. "Could you take off your clothes Zero? I need to be sure your OK," He turned to the blonde and gave him a dirty look. "I didn't get raped or anything," He said pathetically. "I can tell that much and you can keep on your underwear. I just want you to take off those bloody clothes before they catch too much attention Zero. After I'm done you can put on some fresh underwear and your pajamas OK?" He spoke with sympathy and concern. Also with the knowledge that the wrong words got him punched in the eye at the least.

Zero stripped his jacket and discarded his shirt. He unbuttoned his pants and let them slide off of him. Cross nearly cried. He had been beaten at least, but also fought back. Not all of the blood was his, but all the bruises were caused by something like a pipe or a fist and a shoe. He sighed, and cleaned up the blood and treated the cuts and scrapes. No signs of rape at least; the chancellor thought. It was sad to see Zero so hurt, but at least he knew it wasn't enough for his little son to cry or anything. He checked the gun. Luckily it hadn't been fired at all. No residue or heat. "There you go Zero..." He said as the turned was already sliding on a pair of pajama pants. He plopped back into the bed with a bandage wrapped around his stomach; he had been stabbed. Bandages on his fists and palms, he had bloody knuckles. A few bandages on his legs and one on his left arm. He had hit the floor. A bandage on his face; also from hitting the floor once or twice. Then he had a bandage on his right forearm, he had gotten cut. Other than all that he simply had bruises and light scrapes. Cross left the room, and again sighed before returning to his office. The injured student lay on his bed in slight pain as the ceiling did nothing for him. Cross had left bandages on the night stand so that he could change them when they were dirty again.

What felt like an hour was just a good ten minutes. His head ached from getting smashed into a can, and his entire body wouldn't stop throbbing. He could smell his own little drops of blood on the bed. Three tablets went straight into his mouth, and he threw the empty container to the other side of the room. He tried to sit up though he knew it would be at least a bit painful, and luckily he wasn't hurt that bad. The stab in his gut was rather shallow considering it was three skilled hunters. If he hadn't have threatened them with telling everyone about how he beat just two of them than the little ring leader would have beat him for sure. In fact they must have been drunk, because the logical thing to do would have been to kill him right there; after all a dead man can't talk much.

Kuran sat in his room; class now over and simply looked up in thought. Something was catching his attention over and over; a scent so light that only he could smell it. Idol was getting a snack maybe? No, Kain had locked him in the room so that he wouldn't cause trouble; perhaps Ichijou? No, he was in his room as well. No one was moving about anywhere, but that scent was lingering in his nose for at least a minute. What was it? It was like the scent of plums and lavender, with the hint of...iron? Blood; that had to be it; the light scent of blood in the air; maybe someone had gotten hurt? Why was there still that scent than? "Refusal to go to the nurse...That must be it," He sat up a moment. Nearly every student had gotten a scratch and bled a bit this year due to P.E., but not whoever this was. Could it be Yuki? he thought. She was on the roof though, alone. That meant that Kiryu was slacking off again. With a sigh the pure blood arose from his luxury couch, and walked to the door. "Now, Now Zero, you must do your job so that Yuki doesn't have to work anymore. It's bad enough for her to be in danger of harm, but without you there the chances rise. I wonder what you could be doing...," He spoke to himself like a king before walking out his door and turning to bats. It may have been odd to see them at a school, but no one would. Kuran was all too good at keeping to the shadows after all. Finding a turned of all things was simple for him. Zero was the only turned at the entire school after all. No confusion there.

The injured turned rolled and tossed on his bed until again lying on his back. It hurt to lie on both arm and it hurt his legs too. The pain wasn't so bad, but with the fact that they were hunters... They had those kinds of blades to stab and cut him with. It stung him and seethed at his skin, and it made him sick that it did. The stinging sensation was finally starting to vanish when he found something. He did think that he would have rather dealt with the blood sucking pure breed than with those drunks. It seems now that he had jinxed himself into both. He sat up easily now that the sting had subsided, and leaned over to the nightstand. He took the Bloody Rose and aimed it at the door; already open and inviting in the heathen. A scowl of course came upon the lesser vampire's face and an odd look on Kaname's.

"How odd for you to be in bandages Zero-Kun," A smile came unto his face as he waltzed into his room. The other cocked the gun. He continued to walk into the room, closing the door behind him. "Now, Now, you know that you can't shoot me simply for being in your room. Though I can feel... 'Threatened'...and subdue you for my own protection what with that gun being cocked and pointed," Kuran walked to the nightstand, Zero's arm allowing the barrel to follow his head. He lifted the extra gauze on the night stand and held his arm up by the elbow. "Get the fuck out you heathen," The turned hissed at him, and acted as if about to pull the trigger; a warning of sorts. "How funny for a lesser heathen to call me a heathen," He shot back. "I said Get The Fuck Ou-" Cut off, the pure blood took him by his extended arm, and flipped him onto his stomach. Holding him by the hand and stretching his hurt forearm; it began to bleed again. "Gah!" Zero's eyes shut closed for a moment as the cut reopened, and his pain became audible with the slump onto his stomach. Kaname lifted his head back by a tiff of his hair, and pulled some of his body up with it. The stab wound in his torso opened up and started to bleed too. Kaname held the others arm with his elbow, and slipped the gun from his bandaged hand; making him drop it on the floor. He put his mouth close to his ear. He hissed his words and let every breathe flow into his left ear. "Do you really think I let you live because I always want to? You are supposed to be her shield, not an injured wreck. Honestly I should kill you for leaving and getting yourself so hurt. You even smell of liquor,"

He paused a moment only to hear an annoyed 'Ch.'' come from Zero's clenched mouth. He pulled his head up more. "Really now Zero, you are not supposed to break down and leave Yuki to fend for herself. After all she could get very hurt. We wouldn't want that now would we?" He looked a bit at the pale boys face. He looked like a woman. How cute it was that the mighty Zero Kiryu of Cross Academy looked like an injured girl... "Now look at that, you even got a scrape on your face now didn't you?" He kept Zeros other arm down with his knee, and ripped the bandage from his cheek; Kiryu flinched. Kaname began to hiss out his words again, but now in a slightly different tone. One that Zero wasn't used too, "I am going to have to show you that I am the one in charge here aren't I Zero? How sad for you...," He stood up, and of course the silver haired youth went for his gun. Kaname flicked it towards the corner. Zero jumped again. Now he really was going to get in a tough spot. Kaname pinned him in the corner from behind, and used his own body to keep him in place. Zero wiggled his way to face him as fast as he could. "What do you think you're fucking-" Cut off again, this time by something much worse than pain. Being pinned and trapped in a corner with no chance of escape, and their bodies pressing together. It was like hell. Kaname had gone in tongue first, and now Zero was being kissed in a French sense by the one person he hated most.

Actually you know what? I am going to make this much similar for all of us. From now on things that are/could become/include foreplay/- Basically all things pertaining to having sex in this story will end up being separate chapters. That means that this chapter is complete and finished. So THIS chapter is done. This will continue into the next chapter. Really how things like this will work is that at the start of the likely lemon, if it might be one, the chapter will end. The even will continue in the next chapter. So please be on the lookout for the next chapter; coming soon. The only thing is that it doesn't mean that the next chapter will end at the end of a lemon. I can't be too choppy. Oh well, you all get it. Please R&R and all that. I hope that your enjoying the story thus far. I will get the next chapter up as soon as I can. 3