Disclaimer: Vampire Knight doesn't belong to me.
Changing Facts
By: Pri-Chan 1410
Summary: What if Zero was the weaker twin? What if he was the one that betrayed his family and went with Shizuka becoming a vampire while Ichiru went with Cross? What if Kaname and Zero were friends many years prior? How much would the story change then? KxZ/ZxK
Chapter 7: Who really knows me…
"So? What are you going to do Kaname?" Zero asked again when Kaname didn't answer. "Well then, when you have an answer come back to look for me." Zero said pulling his arm out of Kanamer's grasp before continuing walking.
Kaname sighed. He didn't know what to do anymore.
"You know Kaname, he has some valid points."A voice said.
"Takuma." Kaname said turning around. "I know he does but…"
"You don't know what to do." Takuam finished for him Kaname nodded. Suddently they started to hear a voice singing.
"That's Zero, isn't it?" Takuma asked Kaname nodded again paying attention to the lirycs Zero was singing.
Who's there knocking at my window?
The owl and the Dead Boy
This night whispers my name
All the dying children
Zero sang slowly, emotionally. He was trying to get it all out. Whether he admit or not, that conversation with Kaname had brought a lot of memories he didn't want to remember, and thoughts he didn't want to think on.
Virgin snow beneath my feet
Painting the world in white
I tread the way
Gonna lose myself into a tale
Come hell or high water
My search will go on
Play boy
Voyage without an end
Kaname heard Zero's soft voice and interpreted the emotions he was hearing…and he was feeling. He was confused by the hurt and sadness in Zero's voice. What makes him so sad right now? What had really happened to him? Was this the real zero? Many question made their way to Kaname's mind, but no answer accompanied them.
The nightingale in a golden cage
That's me locked inside reality's maze
Can't someone make my heavy heart light?
Come undone
Bring me back to life
A nightingale in a golden cage
That's me locked inside reality's maze
Can't someone make my heavy heart light?
It all starts with a lullaby
Zero turned to watch the moon as he kept singing the lyrics of that sad song. Different flashbacks were dancing of his memory. He saw himself trapped inside his old room in the Kiryuu house; he saw how nostalgically he kept glancing out of the window, looking at scenery he wished to be part of but was forbidden to, that his body forbids him to part of. He saw himself crying in the shadow of the Sakura Tree after some words Kaito and Ichiru had direct to him. He saw it…all of it, over again.
Journey homeward bound
The sound of a dolphin calling
Tearing off the mask of man
The tower
My soul guide
This is who I am
Escapist
Paradise Seeker
Farewell, time to fly
Out of sight
Out of time
Away from our lives
Kaname clenched his teeth in anger at been impotent to stop that hurtful sound that became Zero's voice. The unanswered questions in his head were making him dizzy and tears began to make their way to his eyes. Takuma next to him watched worried as his best friends hurt figure. He wanted to do something, but he knew it was very little what he could do for him.
The nightingale in a golden cage
The nightingale in a golden cage
That's me locked inside reality's maze
Can't someone make my heavy heart light?
Come undone
Bring me back to life
A nightingale in a golden cage
That's me locked inside reality's maze
Can't someone make my heavy heart light?
It all starts with a lullaby
Zero's voice started to become softer and softer until it disappeared when he stopped singing. He opened his eyes which had the traces of unshed tears in them. He slowly walked back to his room, ignoring the facts that his new duty wasn't over. He sat on his bed and let himself fall down looking at the sealing before closing his eyes.
Awhile later he felt the bed move and he could feel the weight of someone sitting next to him. He didn't open his eyes; he didn't need to, to be able to know who was there next to him, watching him. He let a small smile make its way to his lips before he opened his eyes to meet Maria's face looking at him with a relaxed expression.
"Shizuka-sama." He greeted her.
"I heard you sing that song again." Shizuka said, straight to the point.
"Yeah." Zero replied softly while looking away from her.
"You know how much I hate when you sing that song." She said and laid next to him part of her body hovering over his while looking at him in the face. "What did Kaname did to you?" She asked.
"Why do you assume it was Kaname?" Zero asked.
"Because I know you, I have raised you, even if it was only for 5 years, I did." Shizuka said. "I know he is the only one who can get you like this, not even Ichiru has that effect on you." She affirmed. Zero's eyes got wet with tears again and he turned to his side to hug her and hid his face on the crook of her neck silently crying while he told her their resent conversation and the event that led him to feel like singing that song again after so many years. Shizuka only hug him back and listened.
"I see so that's what he said…" Shizuka said once Zero finished telling the recent events. "You were always really attached to him…I don't like it, he will take you away from me…from us." She said referring to Maria too. Zero loosened his hold on her to be able to look at her face, a serious, almost angry expression on his face.
"No one will ever be able to get me away from you, Shizuka-sama, neither from Maria." He said. "You are my family, all I have…the only ones that I know...will always be there for me." Zero whispered looking down. Shizuka smiled slightly before hugging zero herself like they had been before.
"Yeah, that's true." She said. "Because you are not Kiryuu, Zero; you are Hio, Zero." She said.
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Ichiru sighed as he entered the stable and went in White Lily's direction. He caressed her neck and retrieved an apple to feed her with it. Lily took the apple eating happily oblivious to her master's inner turmoil.
Ichiru was distracted while giving the apple to the mare. He was thinking on all of the recent events that had happened around him: Zero's appearance in the school in the same day as the white haired girl, Yagari's arrival, etc.
"Geez call Kaito and there will be a party." He murmured. "I'm thinking to much in it."
"You are." Someone replied. Ichiru turned slightly around to look at the person without stopping his current action.
"Sensei."
"So…how are you?" He asked awkwardly, he wasn't used to take the parental role after all.
"Im fine sensei. Why do you ask?" Ichiru asked trying to sound indifferently.
"You know why."Yagari said. "Not even you can stay unaffected after all that has happened, even less when Zero's appearance could mean that woman's as well." Yagari said and saw how Ichiru clenched his teeth.
"So…?" Was Ichirus only answer. Yagari sighed.
"Ichiru, we know you aren't as strong as you seen to be, emotionally at least." Yagari said.
"What are ypu trying to imply?"Ichiru said frowning.
"I'm not trying to imply anything Ichiru. I'm just wondering if it would be better to call Kaito to come a give a hand in here." Yagari explained briefly.
"I don't need no one's help!" Ichiru snarled angrily.
"Fine." Yagari said closing his trying to relax. "But if things get more complicated I'm going to call him and you have no say in the matter."
"Fine, do whatever you want. Just don't include me." Ichiru replied returning his attention to the mare making Yagari sighed in mental exhaustion before turning around and leaving Ichiru alone in the stables.
"I don't need any help." Ichiru murmured. Wh Yagari had disspear frim his sight.
´Ichiru, I just hope that you are really prepared for what's about to come.' Yagari though, glancing back.
Here is the seventh chapter! Thanks to Lord Rockshadow for the suggestion of the song. It's a great song and it goes a lot with Zero. Thanks!
Also I'm sorry I took so long, last week I had and activity of school that got really stressed so I couldn't write and then on weekend…well I didn't had one and I was exhausted the first day of the last week, so I've writing slowly and everything. So sorry I took this much time, I'm sorry is still short but I think I have already been a long time without updating
Hope you enjoy it!
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