This one we are taking a look at Kaname's POV.
Kaname sat at the end of the long dining table, completely alone. He was hunched over with his face in his hands. The house had become so quiet. So unbearably quiet after Yuki had run away.
"Yuki," he mumbled. "I didn't… It was for the best."
What went on that night? He wondered. Had he drank too much? Was he angry? What had brought him to do such a thing?
The line of purebloods must be preserved. The ability to have children in a pureblood is short lived.
"Which is completely illogical," he muttered into his hands. He ran a swift hand through his hair and sat back.
"Kaname-sama."
Ruka entered the room with grace, her long ash-blonde hair fell to her waist.
"Something is troubling you?" she said, approaching him. Kaname rose from his seat and went to greet her.
"How could there not be something?" he said coolly, closing his eyes. "Yuki is gone. She probably hates me now. Ruka, I know what I did. I just don't know why."
Ruka took Kaname's face in her hands and made him look at her.
"She was never ready," she said. "She was never ready to be a vampire, to be engaged—to bear your child." Kaname's eyes flew open. "So it is true?" she continued sadly. Kaname nodded and said, "It is, Ruka."
Ruka's peach colored eyes seemed to have lost a little bit of their color. Whenever Yuki was mentioned she seemed to lose that little spark that made her the sophisticated, sexy, young woman that she was. Ruka took her hands off of Kaname's face and let them hang limply at her sides. Kaname caught her right hand before it fell to her waist and brought it up to his lips.
"You keep a lot from me now a day's," he said, bearing his fangs. "Do I have to bite you to find out what you are thinking?"
Ruka began to shake and a hint of blush ran across her face. Kaname laughed and continued, "I suppose all I have to do is touch you to know what you are thinking."
Ruka looked away, allowing her silky hair to fall in the way of her face and Kaname's vision. Brushing it back behind Ruka's ears, Kaname made her look at him.
"What happened to us?" he asked. "You used to be the only one who talked to me with no fear in your heart or eyes."
Ruka held his hand to her face and dropped her gaze.
"You have made your choice," she said quietly. "I cannot change that. Especially not now. I do not qualify. I am below you, Kanam-sama. I always loved you, you know that, ever since that one night you drank from me. But just that one night." She laughed once. "You were a tease, Kaname-sama. You still are." She backed away. "You don't know how painful it was to see you with Yuki, to be asked to help her with her posture, her table manners. She was always so much better than me. No matter how much more I knew about nobility than her, she was always the better person. The better vampire. The pureblood." She practically spat the last word. "She always made me so angry, so jealous."
She began to back away more. Kaname stepped forward and said her name. She raised her hand to stop him.
"And you never cared," she continued. "You never showed any remorse in putting other people in pain as long as you got your way. You used everyone: Ichijo, Aido, Kain, even Shiki and Rima! You used Zero, and me. One way or another we were a part of your grand scheme to revive the Kuran bond."
"Then why don't you just leave then?" Kaname said harshly, but quietly. "Leave like everyone else has. Why, Ruka, why…"
"Because that's the one way I'm not like your precious Yuki," she snapped. "I have the stupidity and ignorance to not leave! I would leave, Kaname-sama, I would! But…"
Her voice trailed off and she composed herself.
"Goodnight, Kaname-sama," she said, turning to leave. Kaname reached out to stop her, but retracted his arm. Standing there, with his perfect posture, his composed expression, he was perfect. Then why did everyone leave? Why did everyone come to abhor him and abandon him? Even his precious girl.
"Yuki."
Author's Note: Someone said I made Kaname look bad (That's because he is but AnYwAy!) So I made this chapter to get a better look on his reasoning and get a little KanameXRuka action in there :-P *sigh* I'm having fun with this fanfiction... Please Please Please review and tell me what you think!
