Chapter 9 Kaname's p.o.v

Yuki ran out the door and I could only stare after her. Her clothes had been left behind and all I could think was that her body was naked underneath my coat. I hold my head in my hands. What the hell was wrong with me? I kill her parents, kidnap her, abuse her in multiple ways and now what? I tried to rape her? Kill her?

"She's ours to do as we wish."

"Go away."

"We are the strong one, she will bend to us and she will flourish."

I shake away those thoughts. They would only drive Yuki further away. Yes, she deserved the heavy hand but losing control would only widen the chasm between us. I needed to mend it.

A knock sounds on the door. "Kaname-sama?" I recognize the voice behind the door. It was Takuma, the only vampire in the dorm that would have the guts to brave my bad mood.

I got up from the bed and started to put on a robe. "Go away Takuma, I'm not in the mood." I reply to him.

The door opened just as I tied the front of the robe. "Kaname-sama," he bowed, "may I ask what happened with Yuki last night?"

I turn around and glare at the intruder. "Did I stutter?"

The blonde man only started picking the clothes from the floor and folding them. "No. But as your friend I get the right to question you. So, did anything happen?"

"What do you think happened?" I snap.

He kept on smiling. "Kaname-sama if I knew I wouldn't be asking."

I mentally sigh. It was give in now or have him keep at it until something new came along. "I brought her back here and I drank her dry. I remember extreme lust as I laid next to her but no, we didn't sleep together." I look him in the eye. "I would never force myself on her."

"Aww that would explain the clothes all over your room! Though I commend you on not sleeping with her. Anyone else and they wouldn't hesitate."

Not so enjoyable if I didn't taste the fruit of my labor. "Hardly helpful if I drove her further away from me."

Takuma finally put all the clothes down. "Don't worry Kaname-sama she'll feel intimidated but more eager to please." He finishes.

"I want her to come to me from her own will not because she's too scared not to!" I roared. I wanted Yuki, I would have her but I needed to prove to myself I could catch my prey without use of force.

"I get what you're saying but maybe after you could get her to change her mind."

I shake my head. "Forcing her will just generate more hate and give Kiryu more ammunition against me."

"Kiryu?"

"You can't tell me you haven't seen the way her lusts after Yuki."

"What do you propose we do then Kaname?" I stare at him. The ball was in my park now, I just had to decide how to go on.

"We call then we wait."

Takuma made his way to the door. "I'll go do that now then. Do you want me to take her clothes back?"

I imagine how Cross would react to having his 'little' girl's clothes taken to him from a man's house. I inwardly shudder. "No. It'll give her more reason to come." I answer after pulling myself out of the too vivid image.

"Very well. I'll take my leave then." I watch as Takumi goes out my room. 'What will I say to her?'

Yuki's p.o.v

Breakfast was a quiet affair for us. Zero and I played on the fact that we were both out late and the Headmaster let us be. A knock sounded on the door and the headmaster gets up to take it.

"I'll get it." Headmaster Cross before either of us can react.

Zero and I watch him skip to the door without batting an eye. It was too early to deal with Cross' energy but it was doubtful that anything could stop him. Still I listen in to the conversation happening in the doorway.

"Oh Takumi! Good morning. To what do we owe this visit so early in the morning?" I choke on my food as soon as I hear who's at the door. Zero doesn't waste a second to glare at the man outside. 'Takumi? But it's too soon!'

"I'm here because Kaname-sama wants to have a word with Yuki-chan. Is she awake?"

Cursing my luck, I call out to Kaname's second-in-command. "I'll be right there Takumi."

Zero's eyes were heated on me. "You don't have to go." He says.

"I have to." I did. I finish eating the last of my breakfast not sure when the next time to eat solid food would come.

I flinch when he slams his fist on the table. "Stop acting as if he has any control over you!"

"I'm under his rule and we both know it. The illusion that I'm not is just that, an illusion. What happens if he decides he no longer wants me here? He'll put me in the Night class and I do not want that." Zero mutters several more curses under his breath. I inwardly sigh.

I get up, picking up my dishes on the way. "You can leave those there Yuki. We'll take care of the cleaning." I nod gratefully to Cross and walk out the door.

I open the umbrella that I had snatched before and step under its cool shade. Takuma fell into step with me and together we made our walk to the Night Dorms.

"Remember the promise you made to me?" Takuma doesn't even wait for an answer. "You said you'd be nicer to Kaname."

"I made you no promise. I clearly told you that I wanted nothing to do with that man." I reply calmly.

He pinned his green eyes on me. There was a hardness in his eyes that could only be his anger at my disregard to the one who held his loyalty. "Even so he is your superior and should be respected as such." I ignore him. "Kaname has done a great deal of things for you. The least he deserves is your respect and obedience."

"He beats me! You saw it, heard it even. And I'm supposed to what? Just take it?"

"If you didn't rebel, if you would just concede to him-!" His nose flared with agitation. "He wants to give you the world. If you would just obey him, you would never want for anything."

For the first time since we meet I let all my pain show in my eyes. "At what cost? My life, my body, my dignity?"

I don't say anything for the rest of the walk. Neither did he. We passed the gates to the dorm in silence without complaint from me. I said everything that had to be said had been said.

As I enter the main entrance I become aware of the eyes that watched me from the shadows. Stubbornly I kept my head up because Takuma had rekindled the fire in me and it would not be quenched by a pathetic excuse at intimidation.

The deeper I got into the room the more I could feel the vampires' will to kill me on the spot. Their mouth piece was already in position. I nod my head at her in respectful acknowledgement. "Good morning Ruka."

"How dare you show your face here!" I resist the urge to roll my eyes. Of all the people…

"If you think I'm here from my own free will…" Tamaki's warning glare makes me change gears, "Kaname-sama called for me Ruka."

Ruka's face distorted with anger. Her eyes turned into slits with fury and her face was tainted with uncontrolled fury and envy. "Why Kaname-sama chases after you is beyond me," Ruka stated with a sneer. "He has dozens of loyal followers. People that would follow him to their deaths and then you come and drag everything we've done to the ground. WHY!"

She moved so fast it was almost too much for my brain to process. One moment she had been at the top of the stairs and the other she had was trying to suffocate me. I turn my sight to Takuma but he was turning a blind eye to the entire situation. 'That fucking two-faced bastard.' I grab hold of Ruka's hair and slam her head into mine.

"Let go!"

The suddenness of my actions stun her enough and I break free from her hold. "You broke my nose bitch!"

The sight of Ruka holding he bloody nose would have sent me into a fainting spell but now it just emboldened me to keep fighting back when she tried to have another go at me.

"Ruka that's enough." I look up to see Kaname just standing there like he had seen the whole show.

I had nothing to say drawing blank from my mind. my mind has nothing to say. Oxygen lacked from my brain cells but still I bow to Kaname, more from fear than anything else. "Kaname-sama."

He nods in acknowledgment but his attention was on Ruka. "Are you okay Ruka?"

I gap at the display but the smile wirily. I didn't need to have it spelled down to me. I was being used for Kaname to save face. Here was Ruka who fought for her liege's honor while I was shamed for acting against him. If this is what he called me, I'll be severely disappointed…and very grateful.

"Yuki. My study. Now." I bow to him. The bastard.

"Yes, Kaname-sama."

'Just keep playing your part Yuki.' I told myself. 'Keep playing the part and you might just leave here in one piece.' Walking through the halls of the dorm, eyes were still fixed on me so I kept my face pleasantly blank for when they reported to Kaname.

I enter Kaname's study and take a seat in the chair before his desk. Even inside the room I kept the façade on and waited for the keeper of my chains. The door opened and I quickly observe Kaname's eyes before bowing again.

"Kaname-sama." I acknowledge.

"Sit and drop the act Yuki. I don't have the patience for your antics today."

I stare wide eyed at him as I fell to my seat. This was, this had to be a trap. He wanted me to speak freely? "Want do you want Kaname?"

Kaname's p.o.v

My eyes glaze as I think about all the things I wanted then and there. 'I want your body. I want your mind. I want to be the only man you ever lay eyes on again. I want you to be mine.'

Of course, I couldn't say any of that with breaking whatever tentative hold I had over her "Let's start with why you kissed Zero."

I watch her play with the end of her sleeves. The mauve turtleneck did look so good on her I thought as I trailed my eyes over her body. "I-I don't know." My eyes snapped back to her.

"You don't know?" I was mocking her now, using all my control to stay as the vampire lord and not ravish her.

"No. I was drunk but that is no excuse." No excuse? Did that mean that she regretted kissing the Level E?

"Only children and drunk people tell the truth." Her eyes meet mine with unprecedented fury in them. "I kissed him because I like Zero, Kaname. My subconscious knew that and acted that way."

I heard the truth in her words. There was possibly even more than a mere crush there. "Out of all the men in the world… Kiryu's a vampire hunter! You don't have any future with him. He'll sooner kill you than make love to you Yuki."

"I know."

I knelt beside her. "Don't push me away anymore. Let me show that my devotion is true." I meant every single word I said.

"Never." She said it with so much venom. "Especially after yesterday. You just wanted to stake your claim, didn't you? To show Zero that he couldn't have me."

"You know I didn't mean it like that Yuki."

"No, you just lost control. Just like all the other times where you left bruises on me. You broke my shoulder remember that? Crushed it the day I 'tried' to run away."

This was going all wrong. I meant-hell I didn't even know what I meant to do. "THAT IS ENOUGH!" I roared. "I have tried to be patient, to give you all the time in the world, but all you've done is thrown all my efforts back at my face. What else do you want from me?

"I won't deny it. I want you. You're the best thing that's happened to me and I don't want to lose you. Not to him or to anyone. One chance that's all in asking for, let me show you that we can make this work."

She starts sobbing. "I can't. I can't just put the past behind me Kaname."

I gently wipe the tears away from her face. "Then let me show you a different future. We can start all over." I stretch my hand out to her—

—but she just slapped it away. "You can't just erase what happened. I will not be your caged bird again!"

My eyes widen and my control snaps. Yuki was pinned to the floor before she knew what happened. "Do not forget who is in charge here. I could have killed you all those months ago, and I can still kill you now. You are nothing. My word is law. You will stay away from Kiryu because if you pull a stunt like yesterdays…his death will be in you conscious." Blood erupts from her neck beneath my claws. "And just like yesterday-" my tongue runs interference lapping up the blood that seeped from her skin. "-I'll drink you dry and keep you like that for the rest of your immortal life. Do we understand each other Kairobu-san? I will kill him."

Yuki's paleness had nothing to do with the added blood loss. Her fear permeated the room and it delighted my senses. Made me want to purr my satisfaction. "Yes, Kaname-sama." She responds from under me. I smile and kiss her.

Her taste was intoxicating, enough to drive a man to madness. I let my tongue roam her cavern letting her taste the blood I had tasted earlier. I forced myself to my feet and left her laying on the floor.

"You may leave now. And take your clothes with you. We wouldn't want Headmaster Cross to think we did anything inappropriate last night, would we?" I point to a pile on my desk.

"No Kaname-sama." She looks purposely at the floor.

"Leave Yuki."

"Yes Kaname-sama. Thank you Kaname-sama." She opens the door and slips out. At least I got my point out. I sigh. Why the hell did I feel so connected to the girl?