A/N: This part is shorter than the last time, but, I'm working on it. I'm so sorry for those who kept on waiting. Exam's a bitch and I've been focused on my studies since my grades are, well, degrading.
I want to thank those who commented and waited for the next update! Zero and I thank you for your support *pushes Zero's head down on force*!
By the way, I'm advertising my account in , and I was hoping that you guys would read my story there, since no one's been able to. I'm still using the same name, Caeli13, so, you guys won't have a hard time looking for me.
Zero: You done yet?
Me: Yeah, I'm happy.
Kaname: Haven't you done enough disclaimers to prove your point?
Me: But, it's the copyright thing.
Zero: Okay, that's that.
Chapter 07
Yukina cringed.
"Yukina, I am not going to repeat myself," Zero said with a note of warning within his venomous voice. There was no hint of kindness, and only anger was visible.
"Kazehiko Yoruki," she mumbled.
Zero's eyes widened.
Yukina continued further, "I didn't know how it happened, but we were in this feast and I was trying to avoid him when...when..." tears began to stream down her eyes as she tried to explain herself, knowing that Zero's morals and biased point of view would come first before anything else.
"I'm ashamed of you," Zero said harshly.
It turned out that she was right.
"Letting the bloodsuckers' drink your blood is like dying, Yukina," Zero tried to say softly, "how many times do I have to tell you that? Is it not vital for a hunter to remember that we are to hunt those beasts down, not befriend and sacrifice our own blood for their sakes?"
"Hey," Yukina blew up, "by insulting them, it's like the pot calling the kettle black. Are you not one of them, too?"
"I am a reformed, Yukina," he seethed.
"And I am a daughter of a pureblood family which you so hated and loved," Yukina glared at him as more tears streamed down her face at her implication of her mother and father.
Zero stiffened and fisted his hands together, holding in the anger as he tried to calm down, saying as softly as he could, "You're right. I have no right to keep you away from your true calling." He walked towards Yukina and plunge something hard on her neck, knocking her out of consciousness.
1.1.1.
With Yuuki's, Kaname's and Shizuka's blood in me, I have the power to return her to her former state as a true blooded vampire, something I had hoped to prevent.
Zero laid Yukina gently on the bed while Yagari Touga stood just outside the door, looking at Zero disapprovingly as his very own apprentice caressed the girl's soft cheeks while gently pulling away the strands of hair away from her face.
"You are pathetic, my stupid apprentice," Yagari said in his usual stern tone.
Zero side glanced at his teacher and said, "Sensei, if it isn't too much, I want to ask you to leave this room."
Yagari left with a disgruntled sound as Zero prepared himself. He traced Yukina's neck with his mouth and slowly pressed his nose against her skin, inhaling her sweet and intoxicating scent. He went down slowly to her arms, holding the hand as he licked a certain part of that skin until he reached back towards her neck, where the pulse ran. He could hear her heart beating like a drum.
His fangs slowly grew at the scent and taste of her soft skin until they pierced her neck.
Yukina jolted awake and was about to yell in pain when a rough hand covered her mouth. Her eyes directly darted towards the holder and her mind couldn't process the current event that was unfolding right in front of her very eyes.
Zero is drinking my blood...he wants to kill me...he wants to...
Her thoughts ceded as she limped once again in his arms. This time, Zero bit his own wrist, drinking his own blood and letting them stay in his mouth. The blood that rested in that cavern pressed itself against Yukina's lips, and she jolted once again at the sudden tinge of copper and salt cascading down her lips.
Zero's blood...? No, I don't want this! I don' want this at all!
She tried to free herself from the poisonous kiss, but Zero held her arms firmly. She was fast at losing the battle, and when her breathing slowly hitched, Yukina was forced to gulp down the blood and shock radiated her body.
Zero stared at the wide-eyed girl within his arms.
"Please, let this work," she could hear his voice which whispered like the wind.
Like the wind...
Yukina blinked twice and yelled in horror at the retching flames that burned her throat. The glasses on the windows shattered and Zero entangled Yukina in an embrace.
"Yuki, it's alright! It's going to be alright," Zero cooed.
Yukina struggled with accompanied whimpers that made Zero cringe in disgust with himself.
Oh, God. What have I done?
Yukina hugged her knees to her chest, rocking back and forth at the sudden pain she felt. Her throat burned with so much pain and screaming seemed to be the last thing she wanted to do while the agony continued to cascade and increase by the moment.
Zero stood up and said, "I'll be back."
Zero left the crying girl on the bed and was surprised to see Yagari talking to who seemed to be a member of the Night Class. His hair was as black as midnight and his eyes were of deep blue.
"Zero," Yagari nodded at him.
The Night Class student nodded at him and said, "I was looking for a human girl, but instead, I smell a vampire pureblood that had just awoken from her sleep."
Zero glared at him. "Who are you?"
Someone behind him appeared with blond hair and icy blue eyes.
"Yo-ho~!" the blond said. "I'm Aido Hanase. We're looking for Yuki-chan because we were worried why we didn't see her on campus when dad specifically told me to keep an eye on her, Hunter-kun."
Zero glared at the other one.
"Oh," Aido Hanase said, looking at the young man, "This is Yoruki-sama. He's the current dorm president."
"What does the vampire want from Yukina, aside from her blood?" Zero said quickly.
Yoruki's face turned into a quizzical look that didn't suit him.
"Yukina-o-hime-sama was supposed to be my destined fiancée, if you must know, and the fact that she fell in love with someone like you is very distressful.
"Somehow, I also wonder how you were able to restore her to her true calling with your blood, Kiryuu," Yoruki said with a hint of venom in his voice, "unless you had indeed drank from Kuran Kaname more than once, which seemed quite preposterous due to the fact that the Kuran king himself is untouchable."
"So, you believe," Zero glared even more.
An agonized yell rippled through the night and the Night Class students rushed up the stairs along with Zero and Yagari to find Yukina sprawled up within the arms of Yoruki.
"It's alright," Yoruki cooed her, stretching out his arm. He pulled the sleeves of his uniform up to his elbow and let Yukina's mouth press against the very pale skin. "Drink, hime-sama. It will make you feel better. Come on."
Yukina shook her head.
"Yuki, don't be hard-headed," Hanase said sternly.
Yoruki looked at the others and said coldly, "Maybe you should leave. She doesn't want anyone else to see her feed."
Zero glared at Yoruki. His arrogance reminded him a lot of Kuran Kaname, and the way he glared at everyone in the room and his facade of nonchalance made him even more suspicious, wondering whether Kuran Kaname planted Yoruki as a spy.
But Yukina's thirst could not be contained any longer. Nodding angrily, Zero left along with Yagari and Hanase, who said, "I'll be waiting outside, Yoruki-sama! Just call me when you need me~!"
The door closed gently and Yoruki resumed his attention towards the said girl.
Yukina cringed in her bed as she started seeing Yoruki's red veins. Her eyes couldn't focus on anything more but the soft beating of the heart and the smooth pumping if his blood that smelled like the rain.
"Yoruki-sempai," she said hoarsely as she climbed onto his lap. "I'm so sorry."
Yoruki hugged Yukina tightly, pressing her head against his neck while she proceeded to lick his jugular. And with her strength, she pushed him onto the bed and bit down his neck roughly, making him flinch involuntarily.
"That's it, princess," he said soothingly. "Drink to your heart's content."
By the time Yukina was finished, Yoruki was barely able to move at the loss of so much blood. Yukina's eyes turned to Yoruki's and she said slowly, "You're a Kuran...aren't you?"
Yoruki nodded.
Yukina slowly stepped on the land mine and said, "Why did you change your name? Who is your father, or your mother? What's your relationship with me? Why are you doing this?"
Yoruki closed his eyes and sat up. He said in a deep thought, "My mother was also Yuuki, but my father...my father is Kiryuu Zero," he looked at her in the eyes and saw her gasp, "and Yuuki hid me from the world to protect me and sent me to the Shiki clan. I was raised there until I heard of Cross Academy, where I changed my name."
"Does Z-kun know?" Yukina stared, her face distorted with disgust at herself.
Yoruki shook his head.
"This hair," Yoruki said, "is altered, though. I hated the dark brown color and decided to turn it to black and see how it looks. My eyes, though, were naturally blue. It seems that someone from the Kiryuu clan actually has this kind of eyes."
A knock broke through the reveal with Zero's voice.
"Yukina? You okay there?"
Yukina rushed towards the door and took Zero instantly in an embrace.
