Hello everyone! To those of you have been following Zer-Zer kun and Name-Name chan, welcome back! To you new people, why are you here!? Read the other parts first or you will be lost in a sea of confusion and I'm out of life vests! Anyways, thank you all for your reviews, and without farther ado on with the story!

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As the pureblood child slept, another nightmare plagued his mind.

Blood….It was everywhere. It covered the walls and the floor of the bedroom, the smell, that intoxicating sweet smell of Zero's blood…

Kaname looked down at his hands, they felt so hot and sticky.. What should have been pale white skin was a deep red. "Why…?" "

Zero!" Kaname yelled aloud, begging for a response. Quickly he closed his eyes. "Zero!" He screamed again this time in his head, pleading that his voice would reach through the bond.

Nothing.

Why wouldn't it work?! Then he heard it outside his head. A weak voice, calling his name. It was coming from the blood covered bed. Slowly Kaname reached for the small lump. "Zero?" He asked, seizing the blanket on the bed and pulling it towards him. Kaname gasped at what he saw. Laying in a pool of blood was Zero's severed head, and it was smiling at him. "Hi Name-Name chan why did you kill me?" The head asked casually.

"No! No!" Kaname scream aloud. Zero immediately bolted out of the chair from the desk where he had been doing homework and shook Kaname. "Kaname!" He yelled, "Kaname wake up!" Still lost in his dream Kaname began to wail in terror. "Zero!" He screamed over and over until Zero slapped him hard on his face leaving a light red hand print but the purebloods eyes flew open. "Zero?" He asked through deep gasps. Gently the small hands touched Zero's face, feeling to see if it was real. Kaname threw his arms around Zero holding him in a tight embrace. Tears poured out of his eyes. "Oh, god." He cried, "I dreamt I killed you again…" This wasn't the first time he had nightmares about him causing Zero's death, but it was the first time he'd reacted physically to the nightmares.

Zero held Kaname tightly trying to calm his lover, the same person he had turned into a four year old.

"I'm sorry I woke you up." Kaname said into Zero's neck. "It's okay." He said, "Let me go and I'll get you a glass of water." Zero tried to gently pull away from Kaname but he held tight. "No!" He begged tightening his grip almost hurting Zero. "Don't go…please Zer-Zer kun don't leave me alone." Even though his body had gone such a drastic change and the emotions matched his body his intelligence far surpassed it.

"Okay," Zero told him "I won't leave but you're really hurting me." Finally Kaname relaxed his grip but he didn't break away. "Sorry," He apologized again. "I shouldn't act this way, it's not right. I~" Zero gently laid Kaname back on the bed.. "Shh…" He said. "Go back to sleep now, and when you wake up I'll be here and we'll go out for your birthday. It's only eleven in the morning."

"Promise?" He asked.

" You know when I'm lying." Kaname smiled as he felt sleep start to take him. "Yeah, because you suck at it…. I love you." He said closing his eyes and slipping into darkness. The sound of deep breathing told Zero that he had fallen asleep.

Zero kept working on his homework and in about a half hour he had finished. Zero looked back at Kaname who had wiggled his way out of the warmth of the blanket.

Zero sighed, getting up. "You're going to catch a cold." He said recovering up Kaname and gently kissing his forehead. God he looked so cute when he was asleep anyways and his chibiness was almost too much.

Zero fluffed the pillow behind Kaname's head. For some reason Zero grabbed an unused pillow.

Such a pretty pillow. Kaname had given it to him. It was so soft…

Do it…

Gently he covered Kaname's face applying just a bit of pressure…He froze. What was he doing?

'Just a little harder…' the voice inside his head whispered. 'if you do it hard enough he won't feel it…for the most part'

Zero applied a bit more pressure, he felt the corners of his mouth move into a smile. Kaname shifted under the pillow, once more Zero stopped, he grabbed the pillow tightly and hurled it across the room. "Stop!" Zero gasped, clutching both his shoulders digging his nails into his skin.

'Kill him…'He heard the voice in his head command. There hadn't been any pain in his head, no warning. "Shut up." Zero whispered carefully not to awake Kaname.

"Don't tell me to shut up you stupid half human." The voice said viciously, "You don't get what has happened yet do you?"

Zero grasped his hair with clenched fists, he could feel his chest tightening, "I said shut up!" Zero screamed in his head to the disease in his body. "Just shut up!" Zero found himself in the darkness of his mind, the level E standing directly in front of him.

"That damn blood bond between you two is the only thing keeping me from taking over your body and killing anyone I see. But now with Kuran in such a weak form I won't have any trouble taking you."

Quicker then Zero could see he saw the vampire flash past him grabbing his arm and twisting it roughly behind his back. With his free hand Zero tried to grab the other. "Let go you bastard!"

"Hey, " He said. "Relax, it's going to be great bathing in the blood of humans, and since you've grown so accustomed to vampire blood who am I to deny you that?"

"Kaname, help me!" Zero cried aloud.

A cruel sinister laugh echoed throughout the world of darkness. "He can't hear you, the bond is too weak. Now…" With much more force then necessary he yanked Zero's head up by his chin. "Let's put you to sleep for awhile…"

The distinct feeling of prick of a vampire's fangs on the flesh of his neck and the sound of blood being sucked out from a puncture wound couldn't be mistaken for anything else. Zero felt his consciousness start to flicker out like a candle without oxygen. "Ka~" A hand covered his mouth as he tried to cry out. The pain was becoming more dull then sharp. Everything was fading into a peaceful darkness and no matter how much he fought it he knew a part of him wanted to go, because in the darkness there's safety. Safety from the demon inside of himself.

'Surrender' he thought to himself, 'just surrender to it and you won't have to worry about anything ever again…'

The whites of his eyes faded to black and his pupils turned solid red. A deep laugh escaped him waking up Kaname from his slumber.

"Zero?" He asked rubbing his eyes "what's wrong?" It was a lesser vampire's instinct to fear a pureblood but the one before this pureblood held no such fear. He only smiled baring his fangs at the trembling child. "Hello pureblood…" The vampire lunged.

Just as Zero had gripped Kaname's neck and squeezed several hands grabbed him at once and pulled him away from the gasping pureblood. Without mercy Zero was thrown against the wall and pinned by his wrists with Aido's ice. The blade of a knife placed against his throat by Akatsuki. Zero growled at the nobles who held him back from his prey. "Tell them to get off me Kuran…" The monster using Zero's voice growled.

"Stop!" Kaname screamed at his friends, "Don't kill him, something's wrong that's not Zero!" Shiki grabbed Kaname as he tried to push Akatsuki away. "I'm sorry Kaname sama." Aido said nodding at his cousin. "The Zero Kiryu you know is gone. To stop his suffering we will kill him now…"

"Don't do it he's still there I can feel it!" Kaname screamed as Akatsuki drew his sword back. "No, Zero!" For the first time Kaname did something he had promised himself he would never do to his allies. He imposed his will on them. "I, as the head of the Kuran family and as your superior am ordering you to stop!"

Instantly both froze, Akatsuki's sword slid from his hands falling to the floor. Aido couldn't keep Zero pinned the ice that was restraining his wrists turned to water and once again he lunged at Kaname knocking the nobles away effortlessly. Kaname pushed Shiki away, "Get back!" He ordered quickly.

Kaname held his hand up to Zero. "Stop." He said. The vampire blood that was controlling the body couldn't help but obey. With a great struggle he froze dropping to his knees. "You little bastard…" He hissed snapping at Kaname. Kaname knew he had to show the Level E who had more power if he wanted even a chance to save Zero. But first he had to make sure there even was a part worth saving. He stepped towards Zero, and just for a brief moment he paused. The way Zero looked at him there was no doubt that he wanted to devour him. Zero was a 'scary' vampire now…Kaname tried to control the light shaking of his body as he continued his path.

"Kaname sama!" Aido shouted trying to stop the dorm leader. Kaname ignored him and the others. Zero was still trying to get back up but being on the 'off the chart area of the vampire society pyramid' wasn't really helping him. Kaname put his hands on Zero's shoulders.

"Ah, how nice…" Zero laughed, "Dinner brought itself to me." Kaname ignored the remark, his small hands dug deep into Zero's shoulders as leaned in towards Zero, but was careful to keep a distance from the fangs that were determine to sink into his neck. Kaname concentrated his thoughts. Being in this chibi form really did weaken their blood bond making it extremely difficult to reach Zero, if he could reach the small part of Zero he knew was still in there.

'Zero?' he thought, praying his call would be answered…

'Zero?!' He said louder.

Nothing…

"The human side you're trying to reach is unavailable please leave a message and stay the fuck out of my head!" Zero shouted at Kaname, pushing him out of his head. Kaname looked at his friends who were waiting for his orders. He took a deep breath and closed his eyes. "If this does not work, I give you permission to execute."

"Zero," Kaname said as brought one hand away from Zero's shoulder and put it to his own neck. "I don't know if you can hear me but I need you to try to resist this."

"He can't hear you! Are you deaf, you stupid child?!"

"Kaname don't." Shiki and the others protested sensing the purebloods intentions.

Kaname pricked his neck with his finger nails and leaned in giving the vampire full access to his bleeding neck.

There really was safety in darkness. It was so cool here and everything was safe. No headaches, no school, no bloodlusts nothing…

'Zero,' Someone called to him with his voice. 'you need to wake up.'

Zero was lying on his back his eyes closed on the floor or maybe he was up in the air. It was so dark it was hard to tell. 'I don't want to wake up, I like it here.' He responded. 'It's nice and everything is fine.' He curled up in a tight ball.

'But Name-Name chan isn't here.'

Zero opened his eyes and looked at the person kneeling next to him. "Hello brain damaged, long time no hear.'

'Kaname is waiting for you to give some kind of sign of life.'

Zero closed his eyes, "I don't care anymore, if he kills me it's fine." The other grabbed Zero by his hair yanking him up. 'Get up and fight if you don't Kaname will be hurt!'

"Kaname?"

The vampire wrapped his arms around Kaname's small body, keeping the child from moving. Greedily he licked the blood from the wound. Kaname shivered from the sensation of Zero's tongue on his skin, the feeling he knew all to well. "Please…" Kaname begged as he felt the tip of Zero's fangs graze his neck and just as they were about to pierce and the nobles had raised their weapons Zero stopped.

"Kaname…." Zero said weakly into Kaname's neck, his fangs were leaving small dents in the surface of the skin and he was using every bit of himself to keep from biting down. Kaname looked up at Zero, the black eyes had returned to lilac with a great effort Zero let one of his arms that held Kaname fall. "Kaname go get it…" Zero's eyes flashed back to black with the red pupils. "Shut up!" The vampire gasped out in pain clutching his head "Go back to sleep…" The eyes turned again.

"Now!" Zero commanded Kaname nodded. "In the kitchen in the cabinet get the blue and red container." He ordered. Aido ran to get what Kaname asked for.

The vampire grabbed Zero by the collar of his shirt "You can't keep quiet for anything can you?" He asked sending a hard punch to Zero's stomach. Zero clutched his stomach doubling over.

"Stay there and shut up."

Zero's eyes flashed again, Kaname gasped as the vampire reset it's fangs two small drops of blood leaked out of the wound.

"No!" Zero grabbed the vampire roughly and sunk his fangs into his shoulder, locking his jaw the vampire tried to throw him off, howling in pain. Once more Zero's eyes turned lilac.

"Kaname hurry up!" Zero screamed. Feeling himself slipping again. Aido came running back in to the room holding the small container. He tossed it to Kaname. Kaname caught it and ripped the top off, empting the contents in his mouth. Kaname dropped the container, it rolled away and Shiki picked it up. "Garlic"? He said reading the label.

"What the hell are you two doing?" The vampire commanded trying to get Zero off. Zero smiled. "Putting us both to sleep for awhile…"

Kaname pulled Zero to his small mouth kissing him deeply letting the contents spill into Zero's mouth. He swallowed.

Instantly Zero's body relaxed. His arms fell and his eyes closed. He pitched forward slightly leaning on Kaname's shoulder.

"Is he dead?" Akatsuki asked, his sword still raised. Kaname shook his head. "He's fine…"

Zero opened his eyes and smiled at Kaname. "Hi Name-Name chan!" Zero said bouncing frantically in his excitement. "Where do you want to go for your birthday? We'll go anywhere you want except Chuck E. Cheese."

Kaname smiled, laughing to himself. "Hi Zer-Zer kun, welcome back, and we can't go there we got issued a court order saying we were not allowed within a one mile radius because you punched the guy in the mouse costume."

"Yeah well he deserved it, him and his evil flashy soul stealer thing!"

Well everyone that's it for chapter four I do hope you enjoyed it. We had a lot of internal conflict with Zero this chapter but now that Kaname's a chibi and Zero is back to his vampire catnip side effect self things are about to get interesting. Because a four year old and a hyper person should never be left together! Remember to R&R!