So half of me told me not to address this at all and the other half told me it would be rude not too. So I was just like why the hell not? If I can't be real with my readers then why am I writing? I mean cause really when you write, you are giving a piece of yourself out. I've had professors tell me that you can tell every detail about a person from their writing. We create our own little worlds here and we write because some of us find that if we don't we may start to lose a sense of self, or at least that is a huge chunk of my reason. And then there are others that write simple because it makes them happy. And you know I just want to talk about for a second of why that makes this site so Awesome to me. I mean I feel like I'm getting a piece of someone else without all the stuff that comes with a book. I mean I love to read! I don't know how you could be a writer and now read at least a little. But in book they are gone over and over and over again. And I at least feel like that maybe a bit of the person is lost in all the editors and publishers, and here you don't have that. You simply have people who want to write so they work hard to produce something, and that something is usually thought of by them, edited by them, fixed by them, everything is usually done by them. Unless you have a beta reader, which I think that those are awesome. Learning form others is just amazing, and especially when it is someone trying to help you out and ultimately become a better writer and when you become a better writer you become a better person. And really that is like the reason we all are here to learn a little bit about other people so that we can grow ourselves.
Now to what I didn't want to address, but like I said if I can't be real here, with you guys, when can I really be real? I don't know I guess in my opinion it shows a little of someone's character. I mean I love reading authors notes! It's just that little bit of real them! It's just so fun, because the twelve year olds you can almost tell instantly, because sometimes its random and has a bit of low self esteem, which is typical and normal for a twelve-year old. I was the same way. But you can also tell who has been at it longer than most and you can tell who is still trying to work out the kinks(I fall in this category). And we all have names we actually want here! You can't pick your name, but you can pick a pen name!
I'm getting off track though, what I really want to say is that thank you, for everyone who reviewed last week. I was not very happy when I wrote the chapter, but I do believe it did have to come out, because venting is what makes the world go round! but seriously if you reviewed than thank you, Everybody who even said anything last week you are all Reviewers of the Week and awesome! I did go back on Saturday morning and change it because I know you guys were so awesome and telling me stuff like you know I hope things get better and stuff, but it just made me realize that what little negativity I have I don't need to bother you with. You guys all have your own problems, and mine really aren't as big as I play them up to be.
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Sorry if you hate Authors Notes, but like I said venting makes the world go round!
Sunset
7. An Apple a Day keeps the Doctor Away
5/28/2010 4:22 PM
Zero sighed as he buttoned up the shirt in front of the window. Kaname had barely spoken to him since he had left the night before. After his bath he'd come back into the room to find Kaname asleep under the covers. He crawled next to him and let himself too fall asleep and they had stayed like that, not touching asleep for the rest of the day. He'd been woken by Kaname as the sun was setting. From there he'd ended up here. When Kaname had woken him he was fully clothed in another impeccable suit. His hair combed and his body scrubbed clean. He looked perfect as always.
Kaname came around Zero as he finished with the crisp button up shirt. Kaname held up a black suit coat.
"Here." Kaname commented as he held the coat out to Zero.
Zero looked over at it before shaking his head. "It doesn't look that cold out, I won't need it." Zero looked back to the mirror.
Kaname's eyes flashed to the smooth reflection of the replaced mirror. Then he looked back to Zero.
"Zero, it isn't for the cold." He said holding it out again.
Zero looked up and over at Kaname then to the coat in his hand. "Kaname, it's just a suit coat."
Kaname didn't smile as he leaned in speaking softly in Zero's ear. "It's not just a coat Zero. You're being seen with me and as long as you are, you are going to have to look a little more distinguished than I believe you are accustom too."
Zero snorted. "Still set on your pompous appearance."
Kaname didn't reply for a moment, He simple stepped closer to Zero shifting behind him. Zero could feel his warm breath on his neck raising the hair to stand on end. He shivered as a long fang scrapped over his neck. He jerked away, stepping closer to the mirror. His eyes on the floor Kaname swiftly presented the coat again.
"Just wear it, please." He said in his ever cold and stoic voice. Polite even when inadvertently making a threat.
Zero thought about turning on his heels and slamming his fist in to Kaname's perfect face. But that was just a thought as he took the coat from Kaname and listened to the formers footsteps out of the room. He looked up at his reflection. His frail form stared back at him. He pulled the coat over his shoulders and looked on. His suspicions were true as he looked at it. He looked more filled out. Not quite to normal but the coat made him look like he wasn't as sick as he really was. Kaname wasn't as concerned with making Zero look good as he was with making it look like he didn't have a decrepit and emaciated create living in his home with him.
Zero turned from the mirror and started out of the room himself.
An Hour later Zero sat no coat, no shirt, no pants. He rolled his eyes at the thought. Only in his boxers he'd been forced here in cloths he didn't want to wear and now all he was wearing are boxers he was allowed to pick on his own. He sat on the examination table as the doctor shook hands with Kaname and the two exchanged their regards. Upon Arriving Zero had been swiftly hurried in, stripped, poked and prodded. He shifted and the paper he was sitting on crackled. Three hundred years and you would think that they would have come up with a better way to stay sterol. He watched as a nurse approached him again. She had what looked like a gun with a needle for a barrel. He leaned away from her as she came closer.
"Alright, Mr. Kuran—"
"Kiryu." Zero quickly corrected glancing under his eyelashes at Kaname, still talking with the doctor.
"Oh, I'm sorry." The nurse said. Zero looked over at her. He abruptly noticed. She wasn't Human either.
"It's fine." He said. She smiled her long fangs brightly at him. Had vampires always had fangs that long? He shook his head. Of course they did. He was losing it lately. But that wasn't all. He skin looked thin and placid. Her eyes were red, but a brighter red than normal and the whites of her eyes had bright red veins strained and very visible. He may be losing it but she looked almost as sick as he did.
"Well the doctor asked me to take a Blood test." She said sweetly.
"alright." He said nodding. He looked over at Kaname as the nurse took his arm. He glanced over at what she was doing. It seemed whatever kind of gun she had in her hand was casting a blue light over his arm. His veins glowed a brighter blue and efficiently she shot the gun straight into his vein. He winced slightly but turned back to watch Kaname as the vial in the gun started to feel with his blood. Kaname and the Doctor was conversing quite friend like. Zero didn't like it. Not for the fact that they appeared to be friends but for the fact that he knew they must be talking about him, he just didn't know exactly what they were saying and that irked him the most. He hated people talking about him. He hated it in school, he hated it out of school and he really hated it now.
Abruptly Kaname's Head snapped up along with the Doctors. Zero's brow furrowed. They weren't looking at him they were looking at the nurse next to him.
He turned to look at her. He hadn't noticed but she had pulled the needle out and now was holding the vial in her hands. Her hands were shaking as she held it. A small drop of blood was trickling down his arm from the hole she had made in his vein. He watched her as she held the gun. Suddenly she let it drop. The vial broke the second it made contact with the tile floor. She stared down at it, her whole body starting to shake.
"Ma'm?" he asked, cautiously. Her head snapped up. Her fangs barred as she hissed up at Zero. He face wrinkled more as she hissed louder looking at Zero.
Zero stumbled back on the table, trying to get as far from her as possible. She crouched and Zero pushed himself off the table just as she leapt at him. Her eyes as red as rubies her demonic face leered over him as the two hit the floor. Zero tried pushing himself back as fast as he could, but she was faster. She was clearly more than a simple Vampire now. Her enormously long fangs hissed out at him. His eyes widened as he realized he wasn't getting away from her.
Suddenly she was ripped from over him hitting the base of the table blood spilling from her temples. Kaname had shot an impact at her. Zero gasped as it didn't seem to affect her at all as she leapt at Zero yet again. He threw his arm up and braced himself.
Then he heard a earsplitting scream. He opened his eyes lowering his arm to gasp again. Kaname was now over him his hand had been thrust straight through the woman's skull. And she was the one screaming. Less than a second later the screaming stopped and her gaunt open mouth was just left open echoing the scream. Zero's eyes slowly ran over the blood drenched scene to Kaname's face. Kaname's face was almost as demonic as the woman's. His fangs bared also his eyes blood red. He was caught in a snarl as he glared with pure hatred at the woman. Zero slightly shaking looked from his face back to the woman. She was now dead for sure, her eyes roll back and her body slack. Kaname pulled his arm out form her skull, his face calming as he did so. Zero simply watched as the body dropped between his legs to the floor. He quickly pushed himself farther from the body across the tile. Blood from the woman's now shattered skull was oozing out from her body.
"Here." Kaname said. Zero looked up. Kaname was standing over him his hand extended down to him. He took the hand, not noticing the blood Kaname smeared over his skin as he pulled him too his feet. Acting quickly Kaname pulled Zero along and before Zero knew it they were out of the room and down the hall. Zero looked up to see a man nurse was leading them. Opening a door Kaname pulled Zero in.
Kaname pulled Zero across the room to the padded examination table in the room. The man nurse quickly shut the door as he hurried out and back down the hall.
"Here sit on here." Kaname said stoic to Zero. Zero pulled himself up on the padded table. Kaname Quickly turned to the window shutting the blinds from the glare of the lamplight outside. Zero took the free moment to look around the room. It looked like an extra Examination table, but more than that it looked like a storage room partly, Two large refrigerators stood off to the side of the room, side by side, next to them was a set of tall cupboards.
Kaname returned to Zero standing between his legs he looked into his eyes. "Are you alright?" his voice was as stoic as ever though. Not an ounce of the emotion Zero had seen in his face moments before was left.
"I'm fine." Zero answered. Kaname didn't react only retrieved a rag from the cupboards and started to clean the blood from Zero's arm.
"Kaname." Zero said, trying to catch those magenta eyes again. Kaname wasn't paying attention though as he slid his own white coat off his shoulders. Zero caught a glimpse of the res stained fabric.
"Kaname, what was that?" Zero asked. Kaname didn't answer. He simply continued to clean the blood from himself and Zero. Zero wasn't sure what to do. He turned to try to get Kaname to look at him. "Kaname please answer me, this is the second time in two days that we have been attacked." He pulled his hand up to Kaname's cheek.
Kaname stopped at the contact. He didn't look up at Zero but he didn't move.
"Please, I don't understand." Zero said quiet.
Kaname looked over at Zeros arm, then finally up into his face. Zero stared back with his silver orbs into Kaname's deep true magenta ones. For one slight second he thought that he might for the first time he might get a straight answer out of Kaname, then the man leaned in to Zero. Kaname's hands went up to grasp at Zero's face pulling Zero into a kiss. Zero was startled and had to balance himself on the table, before he realized Kaname was really kissing him. He pulled an arm around Kaname's neck as he used the other arm to balance to two of them. The last thing he needed was for them to end up laying on the table. He knew if Kaname ended up on top of him it wouldn't just end there.
Kaname pushed back into Zero deepening the kiss and seeming to pour in to it. Zero let him and kissed back, but his mid was still wandering.
This time he was certain of it. Kaname was hiding something from him. Whatever that something was Zero wasn't sure how he was going to find out what it was but he was going to find out. This was all just getting too weird. First and foremost was the way Kaname was acting. Constantly watching him like a hawk and taking ever opportune moment to be intimate, this wasn't his usual behavior. He had tried to hide it in the cell at their first meeting but in less than two days Zero knew that Kaname really wanted him for something. He normally wouldn't have given a damn about Zero, live or die, but now it was like it was a whole different person, that interacted with him at least. That cold heartless Kaname was still there to everyone else, but Zero, and that was what perplexed him the most.
Kaname broke the kiss slowly before letting his hands drop to the table on either side of Zero. Zero watched Kaname as the man rested his head on Zeros shoulder. Kaname sighed, heavily.
"Can we just focus on getting you back to health right now?" Kaname said. But it wasn't a question. It was phrased like a question but it was a command and especially in Kaname's tone of voice. He was finalizing the conversation and telling Zero there would be no more questions.
Zero nodded and let the arm around Kaname's neck slide down to his back.
Abruptly the door opened to the room. Zero immediately took his arm away from Kaname, remembering what Kaname had said earlier. He was a reflection of Kaname's reputation, and he in no way wanted to make him made, especially after what he had just seen.
Kaname moved away at a much slower rate. The doctor a little awestruck at what he had seen just stood there for a moment as Kaname untangled himself, and what looked like not all too willingly. Zero wasn't sure why the man looked so surprised. You don't go to the doctor with just a friend exactly. Then of course get saved by that friend, and pulled away by that friend to a small out of the way examination room. It wasn't hard to read between the lines here. But Zero still couldn't' help but go a little red, as the doctor finally started into the room as Kaname gestured for him to come.
"Mr. Kuran, sir, we are so sorry that, that happened." The Doctor started immediately. "If we would have known that she was that sick we defiantly wouldn't have let her come to work."
Sick? This was the first Zero had heard of this. Vampires got sick? He'd never heard of such a thing. Then again if that's how a Vampire got sick he doubted that were many left to tell the tale.
Kaname nodded as eh stepped off to Zero's side, pulling completely away from Zero. Zero looked over at the man. He didn't look too satisfied with the Doctors apology. The doctor was trying hard though as he came closer to the two.
"Really, sir, I can promise you that will not be happening again." the doctor assured hastily as he reached the two.
"I dearly hope not." Kaname said, cold. The friendliness he had been speaking to the man with earlier was completely gone now.
"I can assure you that it won't." the doctor said once again.
"Sir?" a small voice from the door turned Zero's attention. A small nurse stood wihta clip board in her hands. All three of the men turned their attention ot her. "Uhm, Mr. Kuran the front desk said to inform you that you have a phone call."
Kaname didn't bat an eye as he didn't move. "take a message and tell them I'll call them back at a more convenient time."
The girl didn't leave though. "Well, uhm it's from a Mr. Ichijo Takuma, he said that the matter was urgent."
Kaname's interest perked at this as he stood no longer leaning against the table.
"Tell him I'll be there in just a moment."
"Yes sir." The Nurse said nodding and hurrying off.
Kaname turned to the Doctor.
"I'll finish up with the examination while you see to that." The doctor assured.
Kaname nodded before leaving the room quickly.
Zero watched him go. Ichijo. He'd been at Cross and even beyond that, after Kaname's reform of the council he had been a key player. What were the two up to now?
"I don't believe I got your name." the doctor commented as he stood before Zero.
Zero was a little startled but answered anyway. "Uhm, Zero."
"Nice to meet you Zero, I am Dr. Fujiyoshi." He said smiling at Zero. The man was tall and dark haired. Handsome but he was a Vampire, and Zero had never met an ugly Vampire to date. "please raise your arm for me." he said as he strapped on a band to check Zero's blood pressure.
Zero did so and after the dark blue band was on he looked over to see that the reader was a paper thing digital read out. but more like a hologram.
"So how did you and Mr. Kuran meet?" the man asked trying to be friendly still. Zero guessed he was also trying to be distracting.
"uhm, well." Zero wasn't sure how to answer him. Saying, well you see he stole my girlfriend in high school and even though they were siblings they eloped and…yeah wasn't exactly the best way to answer someone, ever. So Zero just settled for. "We met in school."
The doctor released the pressure on his arm walking over to the counter top next to the table, there he picked up a pad and quickly typed his fingers across the surface. He talked as he did so.
"Oh wow you must be almost as old as he is then."
Zero didn't see any harm in answering his question honestly. "Not really, he actually is quite a bit older than me."
The doctor quickly then found a small medical flashlight before going to Zero again. Lifting each eye lid he shined the light in each eye.
"Look left, right, up, down." He switched eyes. "Left, right, up down."
Zero did as he was told.
A second later thee Doctor took the light away clicking it off and wen tot the pad typing across the screen again.
The doctor smiled as he turned back to Zero this tiem with a stethospcope.
Zero sighed complying to his orders, as he raise the flat end of the scope to his chest.
Kaname hurried too the phone, picking up the receiver quite quickly. The small blonde haired nurse who had taken the call listened in. She wasn't stupid. Everyone knew who Kaname Kuran was and equally who Ichijo Takuma was too. They along with the rest of the council had practically built this world from scratch.
The small nurse leaned closer.
"Hello?" Kaname said in his strong emotionless voice.
The girl heard the small murmur of the voice from the phone. She pointed her head straight down to appear as if she were looking at the paperwork in front of her as she leaned ever so close.
"No, you're fine. I told you to call me where ever I was."
More of the murmur. The girl leaned farther over the papers and closer to the phone the desk digging in to her stomach, but it was no use, she couldn't here anything more than Kaname.
"I see, was it the latest trials?"
More murmuring.
"All of them? Not even ne of them this time survived?"
The girl couldn't almost stand it as she listened in.
"How long this time?"
There was a pause before the murmuring started again.
"What do you mean the time was cut in half?" His may have been blank of all emotion but the girl could tell this startled him.
The dark haired man leaned a bit against the counter, sighing. "Alright. Put it down as failed."
The murmuring was immediate now.
"Yes, go ahead and start the next trail, with this new data imputed."
Kaname looked across the hall at the closed door Zero and the doctor were in. the doctor was just barely stepping out, shutting the door behind him.
"How many Watchers do we have out now?"
Kaname become the doctor over.
"Double it." he said in the receiver at the same moment.
There was a long string of murmuring this time.
"I realize, but we have to have them alive." Kaname continued. "As always simply have raid tactics. Take the amount needed then leave."
Kaname looked back to the receiver as there were more murmuring.
"Alright, I'll call you when I reach home." Then he set the phone on the hook turning to the doctor.
"So?' Kaname said, all business as usual.
"Well," the doctor said. "He's lucky to be in the shape he's in. He's small enough to fit in to the drain pipe. It surprises me he's even up and walking."
Kaname nodded. "Do I need ot keep him on bed rest?"
The doctor shook his head. "No, but plenty fo sleep, and as much blood as he can drink. His body si nutrient starved."
The doctor motioned to the small nurse and she handed over a prescription pad. "I'm going to give you a prescription for a nutrition supliment and another for obsorbtion."
"So he'll be alright?" Kaname said taking the first form filled out.
"If his body absorbs well then yes." The doctor gave a glance up at Kaname. "You're lucky he lived past waking him up. How long was he in that coma?"
With out batting an eye Kaname answered. "I'm not sure."
The doctor shook his head as he finished with the second form. "It was a long time is all I can say. The boy should be dead. Coma's like that usually only happen for Purebloods not common Vapire like he is."
Kaname didn't even answer as he simply took the form from the doctor. He looked up a second later.
"Is it fine if we leave then?"
The doctor nodded. "He's getting dressed now so he should be right out." Kaname nodded but swiftly headed towards the door.
"alright, Here are your cloths and you are free to leave after this." The doctor said to Zero just before he stepped out of the room.
Zero nodded before he pushed off of the table and went to his cloths. He puled his dark wash jeans up and on before buttoning them. The doctor had been nice, at least, dealing with Kaname again was something he wasn't looking forward too though. He scowled down at the black jacket. Kaname and his arrogance. The whole damn world was not watching his every move like the world thought they were.
Zero stopped at the shirt though. He realized, what was so off about this room to the one he had been in before and suddenly a more significant connection. He realized that he knew the smell in this room. He knew it from somewhere he just couldn't think from where. He looked all around the room. It smelled like a hospital, yes but there was something more.
Suddenly it hit him as memory did as well. A memory of his first time trying synthetic blood. He remembered it clearly. He had been in his apartment, late at night. Yagari had given the blood to him at least a week before, but he didn't want to try it. He had poured the blood from the marked bottle out in to a cup before bringing the cup to his mouth. He remembered the taste vividly well, he had almost wanted to gag from it. he hadn't been able to finish the cup before setting the cup down and quickly opening the fridge pulling a coke out and drinking. Anything to get the taste out of his mouth.
But why was synthetic blood in a hospital? Especially blood produced to feed Vampires? Zero looked to the two massive fridges standing side by side. He looked at hem a for a moment, before taking a step closer. He had kept the blood in the refrigerator, it kept it from going bad.
"Zero?" Zero jumped and swiveled, facing the door. Kaname stood there looking at him perplexed. "What are you doing?" Kaname asked.
Zero still surprised tried ott hink fast, but in the end settled for. "I just sort of spaced out for a second."
Kaname, didn't seem to mind the lame excuse as he strode to Zero. "well come on, let's get home." Kaname lifted up the shirt and helped Zero pull it on a second later. Zero went to button up the shirt finidng Kanme was already doing it. he let his hands drop and looked to the fridge one last time. If only Kaname had been just a moment later.
And I think I'll stop right there. Hop you guys loves it. When it came to medical I didn't really know what to dos since technically medicine is changing all the time, and I have no Idea where medicine will even be in three hundred years so I pretty much just kept it the same, but yeah another chapter down.