Edited on 2/7/17

Chapter 10

Yuki's p.o.v

I ran outside as fast as I could. The world was blurry around me as blood escaped me instead of reaching my head. I stumble down a step and barely manage to catch myself. The other vampires were out of the shadows now, openly mocking me and my weakness.

"What's wrong human-lover? Is a little blood loss getting to you?"

"You're lucky Kaname-sama interfered. Ruka was ready to rip you apart. I regret that we couldn't see the end of the show."

"Not much of a show that would have been. The human-lover would have fainted at the first sight of blood. And you call yourself a vampire. Pathetic."

I let my sleeve catch the blood and glare at the vampires in directly in front of me. It was two males and a female, all sneering and looking down on me. "More pathetic than you trying to get a rise out of a hurt girl? Please."

The male on the right swung at me but I dig my teeth into his hand before it could connect. He screamed when I purposely made the bite hurt. I get a few mouthfuls in before the girl's heel hit my temple. I glare at them and make a show of revealing my bloody fangs. "Thanks for the meal."

I pick myself up and walk away with the remains of my dignity. I had been kicked down but I damn well got up. The blood I'd just drunk gave me the strength to dodge every attempt at harming me. I bit other vampires making sure they felt my pain and drinking the precious life blood Kaname tried to deny me.

Something inside me had broken. It was at same thing that refused to submit to anyone especially Kaname but this time it was controlled. I took down anyone that tried to show me my 'place'. I vigorously enjoyed draining them of blood and slowly regained my strength while depleting theirs.

Kaname's words still resonated in me but I refused to bow my head to these lowlifes. The back of my hand meet one last face and I threw back one final glare before I slammed the door shut behind me. At first I walk down the road but as I get further and further away but façade breaks and I break into a run.

'Why? Why Zero? He's just an innocent bystander...' But I knew why, Kaname's possessiveness would kill me before he let me go to another man but him. The beast inside me wanted to tear Kaname but we both knew it would be pointless today. 'I hate you Kaname. I'll kill you. I swear that I'll kill you.'

I came to a stop near the Headmaster's tower and let my exhaustion take over. It would take more than a few mouthfuls to go back to my hundred percent. I slide down a tree and welcome the burning sunlight that reminded me that today was real but at least I was alive.

Hurried footsteps stop in front of me and my eyes open when someone's figure blocks out the sun. "Yuki, are you okay? Do you need anything? What did he do to you?"

A small smile leaves me. "I wouldn't say no to some blood pills and gauze."

Zero nodded down at me. "Don't go anywhere."

"Wasn't planning to." I say cheekily. Zero responded with a glare. He was back a couple of minutes with aforementioned items and a glass of water.

He bent down to my level and set the kit. "I brought the first aid kit and water to wash down the pills. There's also medicinal lotion for your bruises and pain killers." He explained while opening the white box.

I let the boy tend to my neck, the only touch I will allow him. "Thank you Zero."

"Why do you let him do this to you?"

I resist the urge to shake my head since he was wrapping the gauze. "You don't get it. Purebloods stay out of the way of vampire hunters so you couldn't begin to understand the power difference between the vampires you hunt and them," my hand clutches my chest when I think of the fear that Kaname instills in me, "the Kaname that you saw is nothing compared to the beast he can become. Instinctively I know that and obey to not face his anger."

"You resist."

"He lets me resist." I whisper. "If Kaname wanted me there is no one that could stop him."

Zero's p.o.v

Internally I curse the world for the power that Kaname has over Yuki. Last night's drinks weren't enough to make me forget the feel of her lips on my own. While Kaname breathed there was nothing either of us could do. We were like the ultimate Romeo and Juliet except an end wouldn't come for Yuki who'd get locked away by Kaname.

"There's nothing for us Zero." Her face turns away and I smell the tears that gather in her eyes.

I rest my head on her shoulder and breath in. "I know."

We allow ourselves a few precious seconds of just being together and then we let go. Yuki takes her meds and I pack everything away until the next time the kit would be needed. The world moved on without us, time waited for none. Vampire or not, Yuki was everything I stood against.

Cross' p.o.v

I watch the scene between Yuki and Zero play out without any intention of interfering. I retreat my hand from the window and go back to the kitchen as if nothing happened. "What did Kaname say?" Most people wouldn't notice the vampire in their kitchen but then again I was not like most people.

"Your senses are as good as ever Cross." Takuma walked in smiling. I hand him a cup of coffee which he accepts. "No wonder you're a legend to the other hunters."

I glare at the vampire. "Don't beat around the bush, tell me what Kaname wanted Takuma."

Takuma paused mid sip. "Nothing ever did get past you." He replied.

An eyebrow moves towards my hairline. "You didn't exactly make it hard when you took her right in front of me."

"True enough." He puts his cup on the counter all traces of his smile gone. "You probably know Kain that Kaname-sama claims Yuki as his."

I nod at that. It wasn't new information, except I didn't know how that factored in when he put her in my care. "Stay out of his way." Takuma finishes.

My cup stops mid air. "Excuse me?"

Takuma's eyes become fix mine in place. "Do not get in Kaname-sama's way or you will end up regretting it. I'm telling you this for your own good. Kaname will get what he wants no matter who gets in his way. Not a threat but a warning."

I slam my cup into the sink, breaking it. "Get out."

"Kain-"

"No," Takuma sighs but I ignore it, "I don't know what his obsession with the girl is nor will I pretend to understand it, but that does not mean that I will stand by as he tries to force her against her will. Yuki is becoming the daughter I never had."

Takuma throws his hands up in a placating manner. "And I don't disagree with you. I will try to make him get Yuki willingly but his chase for her won't just end."

"His chase should have ended long after he gave her up." My eyes harden. "It shouldn't have started in the first place."

Takuma looks unperturbed. "Our instinct cannot be control only curved."

"Convenient."

Just then Zero and Yuki walked in further apart then they had ever been. "Takuma you're back." Yuki said with a hint of resentment in her voice.

"Takuma-san was just leaving." I say before he could open his mouth.

He played along with me and nodded his head at all three of us. "Yes. Goodbye Headmaster. Yuki, Zero. Please keep my words in mind sir."

"I will." I answer with steel.

Not that many changes but changes none the less. A more calm headed Zero and Cross with more backbone. Not to mention a better look at the dynamics of the Night Class. That'll be important in later chapters.