Reunion

The kiss started out soft and chaste, but quickly grew more passionate, more needy. Nobody kept track of the time they spent exploring each other's lips –that would just be plain creepy- but the two vampires felt as if they had been embracing for an eternity and a minute at the same time, content in each another's arms.

However Kuran Kaname felt the body of his precious Yuuki go limp in his arms. The pace of her kisses slowed, just before she went still. Kaname checked her vitals, almost in a panic, to make sure his queen was safe. Only when he found a pulse and he saw her chest moving evenly did he visibly relax.

He just stared at the girl in his arms, peaceful, as if sleeping. The stress of the previous hours clearly being too much for her freshly awakened body, let alone her state of mind, and she had passed out.

He just stood there for a moment, probably to let everything that happened sink in, when one person found the courage to disturb the enveloping sense of peace.

"Lord Kaname…what…just happened?" Aidou asked, groggily standing up, gulping down his nervousness.

He spoke before thinking, which was usually the cause of most of his punishments. But this time he was not silenced by a stern look or almost suffocated by an ominous sense of doom surrounding his body. The Pureblood vampire simply looked up at his spectators, straightened his back and positioned his beloved safely and comfortably in his arms. He let one arm support her lower back while shifting one arm to the hollow of her knee, lifting her up in bridal style.

Never before had anyone present seen something that looked so right. So natural. As if all that happened mere minutes before, never happened.

His content smile remained in place as he addressed his onlookers.

"Yuuki, is my little sister. She is the secret child of my parents, Kuran Haruka and Kuran Juri, the pureblooded monarchs who were killed 10 years ago. She is my sister, my most precious girl and my fiancée" he spoke out to his followers.

From all over people could be heard murmuring.

"The daughter of Lord Haruka and Lady Juri", "I never heard of this", "His fiancée? He said sister, right?"

But not for one moment did he seem annoyed or agitated; he just stood there eying his audience. He gazed around until he met the questioning look of the first one that break the silence, the blond ice master.

"As I said before, she was hidden. My parents were killed for a reason and Yuuki was kept concealed from the vampire world to ensure her safety. And it is not unheard of for pureblood siblings to join in marriage to keep their bloodline pure. Yuuki was born to be my wife…and that is the way it will be…if she still wants it" he said, adding the last part as a barely audible whisper, even to the vampire sense of hearing.

"I cannot demand that you remain discreet about discovering a new Pureblood, especially given her heritage, but I will still request that you keep silent about it for now. She is not in any shape to make her debut before our society yet."

Leaving it at that, silently hoping that the spectators would heed his request, he walked towards the host of the party, Ichijou Takuma, who just stood gaping at the scene before him.

"I am sorry to have ruined your party. I hope you will understand."

With these last words said his body transformed into a small colony of bats, which dispersed into the night. For the moment, he just needed to get his princess somewhere safe.


Zero, having finally made good distance from the party, collapsed down to his knees and began roaming his hands over his body, trying to find the casing which held the solution for his cursed thirst.

Finally finding his black pill casing, he threw back two tablets to make sure the burning in his throat receded before he finally managed to calm down. He rested for a few moments, just to make sure the dire need wouldn't return if tried to stand up straight.

It was then that he noticed that he was near the pond, pool might have been more fitting thanks to its size, not even taking into account how deep the thing was. He crawled towards the deep waters and submerged his head, reveling in the cooling effect the water had on his skin as well as the calm it brought to his mental state.

'Yuuki is a vampire! She lied to me. She deceived me. Damn vampires playing with my mind' were the thoughts that rampaged through his head. 'But what did she mean, locked up? Does it even matter? Probably another mind game. Messing with my head.' He continued.

A barely noticeable rustle in the bushes a few feet away cast away his thoughts. A tall black-haired figure wearing a rancher hat, stepped out of the shadows

"It seems you have been able to resist. My teachings weren't as useless as I thought after all."

A shotgun could be seen in his right-hand with the barrel resting on his right shoulder.

"And here I loaded my special anti-vampire bullets hoping I would get a prey tonight" the advancing figure spoke up.

Almost instantly, the silver haired boy recognized the approaching figure. It was his teacher, the man that had sacrificed an important part of his body, especially for a hunter, just to rescue his student. Yagari Toga. The man who had taught Zero pretty much everything he knew about vampires.

"Master…" were the only words he could offer to his old mentor.

The elder man stalked towards the younger boy.

"Let's get you back to your room. A lot has happened, if the shift in the air is anything to go by." the man spoke without fully knowing what was really going on not even a mile away from him.

"I don't even know where to begin…" Zero started to say, before the world blacked out around him and he could only let his old teacher carry him away towards the unknown.


This chapter is exactly the same, only without the big chunky paragraphs. Thankfully sparing the readers cross-eyenessness