[8 years later…]
[Yuuki's POV]
I sighed, as I shuffled around the house, the black pendent couldn't weigh down on my heart any longer.
How long does my dear ancestor want to wait before he shows up?
It's scary, and very frightening.
It was just another cold day, and I dully pressed my hands against the glass. Ever since my ancestor resurrected and went on a lookout for her, I had to stay at home.
The nobles at Cross Academy were refusing Sara Shirabuki as their dorm president when she tried to poison them by hallucinating them with her own blood tablets.
"What did she mean by that…?" I whispered my heart among the snow.
Suddenly, two strong arms wrapped themselves around my waist and gently brought me against a strong chest.
"Did 'who' mean by 'what', onee-sama?" a silken voice, calm and composed rung in my ears.
"I told you to quit calling me 'onee-sama'," I stiffened at the name.
"But it's a habit," he laughed into my hair.
"Oh, really?" she asked raising an eyebrow.
He nodded.
"Then…you would be perfectly fine if I called you 'little brother' rather than your name, now would you," I smirked at the cute nickname.
Now it was Kaname's turn to tense.
"I would be very happy with you calling me Kaname, thank you very much," he scoffed.
"But our ancestor has the same name. What if he gets the names mixed up?" I shrugged.
"Him again," his voice was laced with jealousy.
"Kaname, you know he's out there to take me back. I have to be aware," I turned around in his grip on me and brought her right hand to caress his left cheek.
He leaned into his touches comforted for a mere second. He then opened his wine eyes, almost exactly like him, and said, "I won't let him come near you, onee-chan, because I love you."
My eyes widened. Of course it is normal thing for purebloods to intermarry, so I brought my hand down, much to his disappointment and muttered, "Because we're purebloods, huh."
"No, because I fell in love with your heart. My whole life was through your eyes. You did everything from the time I was born. I don't ever want to lose you," his eyes were filled of determination.
Suddenly, a burning in my throat took over and I knew what it was. I doubled over in pain.
17 years worth of Thirst.
"Yuuki?! Are you okay?" he tried to ease me up from my crumpled form on the floor.
"Augh, it burns…" I painfully clutched her throat.
Kaname's eyes widened, "Yuuki, please don't tell me that the past 17 years you starved yourself of proper nourishment?"
I put a hand up and pushed myself out of Kaname's arm reach.
"I'm fine, I just need blood tablets," I doubled over as the throbbing in my throat took over.
"No you're not fine! Blood tablets can't keep you satisfied forever, especially 17 years! You need blood!" Kaname sat down in front of me, with determined eyes and un-buttoned the first two buttons of his white shirt. Smoothing the collar down, he angled his neck towards me, "please you need some. Take mine."
It is a sin to drink the blood of a pureblood…
Unless they are lovers…
It's allright, is it?
"Please, Kaname, please don't," I tried to scoot away but Kaname was faster. He slammed me against a wall, and I rasped out of the contact of being shoved against a wall.
"I'm not a little child anymore. I am not weak, helpless, and too naïve to understand anything. I took blood daily from you and you asked for nothing from me. This is going to hurt me, having to watch you become weaker and weaker from losing blood, becoming anemic. Please take it, I can't take it anymore," he pleaded, reasoning with me.
I didn't want to harm him. What if my thirst drained him of all of his blood?
But his words have a ring of truth behind it. At one point or another, I have to take in some blood.
Reluctantly, I lowered my fangs to his neck, but after licking his neck and feeling him shudder underneath my touch, I whispered, "Forgive me."
I gasped when Kaname wound his arms around my waist, urging me to go on. As reluctant as I was, I complied with my ever-growing Thirst, and sunk in my fangs.
It was sweet.
So sweet.
Like a sweet nectar from a flower. I never thought I would crave it this much.
Then pictures flashed into my mind. These weren't my thoughts.
These were his. They were shards of memories of all the things we did together, only the two of us. He thought of me and me only. Not even of father and mother.
I was so happy. When I fed from my ancestor, he was preoccupied with other thoughts. I could understand if he was thinking about the council more than just me (which would be very selfish). But he thought of the Hooded Lady so much, and I never was in his world. Not a picture of me would ever appear. And then the truth sunk in like needles in your skin. He didn't love me at all.
Kaname's hands dropped from my waist, as he was weakening and almost falling limp from the loss of blood. Worried, I stopped drinking, and slowly pulled my fangs out.
"Sorry," I muttered, wiping the blood off my lips.
Kaname was breathing too hard. In turn, I hugged him close to me and whispered, "You need some blood as well. You're anemic now."
Reluctantly, he hesitated, but eventually gave in. I hugged his head to the crook of my neck as I felt two sharp incisors pierce through my skin and draw blood.
Arms wrapped themselves around my waist, and hugged me so close. I couldn't care less.
I looked at the window, and gasped when cloaked figure came towards the window I was beside.
I gasped, "Is that our ancestor?"
Kaname's grip on me tightened. I pushed his head harder to my neck to tell him to not move.
A huge hand touched the window, and the hood fell off the face. I was right. It was him.
I shook Kaname, "Please leave, he's here for me, and he will kill anyone who gets in the way!"
He detached his fangs from my neck, and shouted, "I'm not leaving you here! I can help you!"
I took his face in my hands, and then let tears slip making his eyes widens. I smiled, "Go to mother and father. I will hold him off. I will promise you that I will be safe. Please. If you were to die fighting alongside with me, I would have no other reason in life to live. Please, for my sake, and the whole family go to mother and father and uncle and tell them to stay put."
He hugged me tightly, and then said, "As long as you stay alive." With that, he spun on his heels and went to the living room down the hall.
Then I diverted my gaze to the window. I put on an icy glare, and the window shattered along to his will. With that, he sped inside.
"Don't you dare get close to my family," my voice sounded strained.
"I came to take what belonged to me. And that is you, my Yuuki, my Queen," and with that, he flashed two chess pieces.
I viewed them with horror. They were from that chess set he had back at the academy. Instead of white ones, he had a black King and black Queen. He brought the Queen piece to his lips and he kissed it, making me shiver inside. This feels wrong.
"No, I won't come back to you," I gritted through my teeth.
"Don't make me make you," he stepped closer.
I brought out the Scythe out from underneath my dress and extended it to the full length of the scythe.
Squeezing the black stone, I created a force field to make sure that he doesn't get any way closer to me. I can't let him do this. And I won't let him do this. This is scary, as scary as Uncle Rido tried to claim mother back when I was little…
Scary…
I'm so scared…
A vampire's…
A vampire's gonna eat me…
Somebody…
Somebody help me…
Suddenly we weren't in the hallways but a wide, vast forest, the ground covered in a thick blanket of snow.
Bloodstained snow.
"I will never come back to you Kaname," I dreaded the name, even though my little brother's name was the same.
"You know, there will one day be a day when you will willingly jump in my arms…" he was suddenly in front of me, my chin in his right hand, being stroked at such a torturously slow pace.
"Even if you don't want to come back, I will make you. I will make you do it. One day…" he let go of my chin.
Then what he did caught me off guard. I was too late, because, cold fangs were piercing my skin.
My ancestor was feeding off of me.
"Yuuki!" my little brother was running towards me, alarmed and furious that our ancestor was drawing my blood without my consent.
"Let go of my older sister!" he yelled.
Our dear ancestor only squeezed my arms harder and started drawing huge mouthfuls of blood out of me, making me seep into the darker world faster.
I gasped, before darkness filled my vision.
I was in a sea of darkness.
[Kaname (Yuuki's little brother)'s POV]
I gasped as Yuuki fell limp. Our ancestor was drawing too much blood from her! She could die if all of her blood is sucked out.
Right before she got completely drained, having enough blood to stay alive, he released her, and I caught her in my arms, lifting her up.
"How could you do this?!" I looked at my sister's face. It was contorted in severe pain.
"I can do anything I wish with my descendents. And one of them happened to steal my heart. Don't worry, one way or another, she will come back to me…"
He then disintegrated into bats, and they flew apart, and flew off into the opposite direction.
The cold snow stung, but the outcome pain was how much I should not let him take my sister, my Yuuki away from me.
The way he held the chess pieces were sickening, and it kills me to ponder what he might do with the pieces…
I looked at the limp body in my arms. My sister, who was the one to first smile at me when I was born, held me when she went to school, hugged me, kissed me on the forehead, laughed, fed me, tickled me, teased me, and loved me. Now on the brink of life and death.
And it is scary to think she could almost be dead.
I spun on my heels. I do not want to see our ancestor anytime soon, ever. I never want to see him because every time he shows his pitiful face to us he seems to target all misery to Yuuki. And in the end, she has no voice to it. She just keeps her head down like a marionette whose master forced her to look at the ground by drawing her strings like so.
"Yuuki…" I don't want to see her suffer anymore, I can't take it.
I climb up the stairs, ignoring father and mother and uncle's frantic calls of if we were all right. That is so silly. We are not all right, and far from safe.
I opened the door to her room, and closed the door behind me.
Laying her down on the bed, I pulled the covers to her chin.
[Yuuki's POV]
I was in a world of darkness. Somehow no matter how hard I looked, dark is never black.
I struggle around in the depth of the dark waters.
They are closing around me, and I am so scared. I need a light…
Somebody, help me…
Then answering my pleas of help, I was pulled out of the dark waters, now aware of my real surroundings.
I clenched and unclenched my arms. I remembered being in a snowy area as my ancestor drank from me…
But it felt so soft and so warm underneath my hands. This isn't snow. It feels like a blanket and a soft bed…
A large hand stroked my head, and I immediately stiffened.
Opening my eyes, I saw Kaname stroking my hair out of my eyes. How ironic, I just had to give them the same names, didn't I? Who knew my dear ancestor had a malicious side to him?
And all those times he tried saying he isn't the person he seems to be…
"Yuuki, you're alive…" he hugged me tight and pain exploded throughout me.
"Ahh, it hurts…" the pain in my chest is too much. He drank too much.
"I won't say it again, but you are on the brink of living. So please for my sake, drink," he exposed his neck to me.
Drink…
Drink…all the blood…
Drink...drink…drink…
Everything…
I knew he was right, but it felt so wrong. I was on the brink of dying and I can't keep this up: making everyone worries over me too much. I had to live for them.
Reluctantly, I leaned in, licking the neck where the pulse was at its strongest. He shuddered, but made no escape. I then sunk my fangs in, deeply and slowly.
Soon, dark, sweet blood filled me.
It felt so good.
It felt like a sin.
It was like wine.
It was almost like poison.
It was an addiction…that I have no escape from anymore…
I'm sure this is the way he feels every time he drinks from me.
My pain in my chest faded immediately, the inside pain subsided as I drank tiny amounts at a time. When the pain was sure to be gone, and the dizziness was gone in my head, and when my legs and arms no longer felt numb and heavy (like dumbbells), I released my fangs from his neck.
I sighed. My body is as good as new, but I looked at my brother, worriedly, "Did I take too much, Kaname?"
"You didn't, don't worry," Kaname came and held my face in his hands, "but what matters is the situation at hand."
"He's after all of us…isn't he. Won't stop until he gets me," Yuuki murmured.
"But you are mine. Mine and mine only. I won't let anyone take you away from me, Yuuki, even if you wanted to go," Kaname hugged me against him tightly, possessively.
"Kaname…you could leave me whenever you want to, if I am becoming a burden…you can leave my life…" Yuuki dully said into his chest.
Yuuki's not afraid…
Of being locked in a room…
It is nothing different really…
So it is as good as being dead.
Being alone is as good as dead.
I am as good as dead. Let me die.
"I will never leave you, never. Promise to never leave me," he pressed me even tighter.
My wine eyes watered at this. He reminded me of myself. How many times have I begged…begged…for my ancestor to leave me? It was all useless…he would leave me in the end, for the council instead of my side, and then the hooded lady instead of me.
He represented me, me in my most utter desolation, whose fears could be cured by one word.
"Promise."
And I will keep it.
I wind my arms around his neck, drawing him closer to me. This is going to be a long battle, but I will endure it. Together.
[Hooded Lady's POV]
I searched for Kaname, the ancestor, and was horrified to find bloodstains on his chin. I sniffed from the distance. Oh no! That was Yuuki-chan's blood.
"Kaname, what did you do to the poor girl?" I wailed. This can't be.
"Is it not right for lover to drink his love's blood?" he turned a cold glance to me.
"What if you drained her blood all the way…?" I am panicking too much now.
"Don't worry, she's alive. She will be free…for now," he impassively stared at the ground.
"Wait! I am not going to let you get away with this!" I tried to run after him, but the moment I came there, he was disintegrating into bats.
"She will be mine, at one point in time…I am just finding the right time to seize my Black Queen," the words floated in the air, before he was gone, the bats trailing in a trail in a direction.
"Yuuki-chan…" I cried.
This isn't going to be good.
There will be a fight, and it will be long and gruelsome.
It will come, and I am scared, what are the outcomes.
All I can hope is Yuuki…stay safe, and keep your brother out of harm.
I can try but I can never prevent him.
Please stay safe…
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I will show you a better dream next time,
InfiniteSnow
