Thanks folks for reviewing! Okay everyone this is the last part of the Shizuka arc okay guys...now we start on part 2! - I'm using a combination of Manga and Anime stories so you probably know about Riido coming into it eventually.

Thanks all for reading so far, I honestly didn't think I'd get this far this quickly!

I know that this chapter quotes from chapter 20 okay folks...me sad T_T I totally forgot what happened it was that long ago lol

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Corazón
Chapter 9 Bitter End

Mi corazón de cenicero...my ashtray heart

Every step we take that's synchronized
Every broken bone
Reminds me of the second time
That I followed you home

You shower me with lullabies
As you're walking away
Reminds me that its killing time
On this fateful day

See you at the bitter end...

Blood dripped from his fingers splattering on the carpet and soaked down the front of her kimono.

"You don't really seem surprised?" he said trapping her with his arm around her chest and her back pressed against his chest.

"No..." Shizuka replied even though his arm had gone straight through her small body "I've been thinking of killing you as well...I was planning of making Cross Yuuki an assassin of mine"

"I see...and what of Kiryuu Zero, what was his part in this?" Kaname asked his hand moving backwards a little back inside of her.

"Eh!" she winced "That...moron...he had no part..." she said in pain "He didn't matter as long as he didn't get in the way" her breath became fast and shallow "He was there for blood...Zero's tasty isn't he Kaname-kun?" his hand clenched around her beating heart.

Kaname's frown deepened trying not to rise to her barbs "Do you feel it?...me holding your heart" he whispered in her ear and his nose brushed against her long silver hair "Even though you're a pureblood as well... with those wounds I doubt you would survive".

"What a dirty trick..." she murmured as she tried to hold back her moans of pain "You presumed this would happen and were waiting for ...an opportunity? What a...vulture...going looking for me as soon as you smelt my blood"

"I just knew one them would turn on you eventually" Kaname answered running a nail over her aorta "It's foolish to outwit an unhurt pureblood...because if purebloods are equal then any battle would just end in a stalemate but I still needed that blood of yours..." he rested his chin on her shoulder.

"So you were using Yuuki? Am I right? The only value that girl has...is to be made into a 'piece'" Shizuka muttered a trickle of blood trailing down from the corner of her mouth "For now I can't resist you know if you let me live that girl will be my slave someday".

"Shizuka-san I will make sure that never happens...I will use all of my power to protect Yuuki" he said his voice full of venom and his fangs ripped into her neck.

"Now...strange, you've changed so much from when we first met...you're more of a vampire than him" she gasped feeling him lapping up what little blood she had left "AHH!" she let out a muffled cry.

"Don't worry I won't waste you life...the one who ruined the destiny of the purebloods...I will destroy it" he told her cradling her head to his chest as he held her dead heart in his palm, it still pumped slowly even though he had ripped it clean from her flesh.

'You moron...he just manipulated you into killing me for him...' the thought crossed her mind.

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'The smell of her blood just got stronger...' Zero thought his fangs unconsciously lengthening and poking into his bottom lip.

Ichiru froze "Shizuka-sama!" he said shocked and ran out of the room.

Slowly Zero felt his larger wounds painfully start to heal and the sting of his blood clotting over the exposed nerves and bone sealing over the hole in his arm. He was used to pain and just brushed it off and picked up the Bloody Rose off the ground and stripped off his white uniform jacket.

Zero stood up smirking, everything was turning out perfectly now all he had to do was wait for the right moment. He knew Kain and Ichijou would be arriving soon but he would be prepared.

When he arrived he saw Shizuka's body stretched out on the floor covered in crimson blood. Ichiru hugged her to his chest with his mouth to her neck.

"Ichiru...?" he asked noticing the red stain on the other boy's lips when Ichiru turned his head to look up at him.

"You killed her Zero" Ichiru whispered in shock as she burst into a plume of crystal and dust.

"No but I didn't but this was just as awesome anyway" Zero said to him smiling insanely.

Ichiru growled ready to tear Zero apart right there but heard people coming and jumped out the open bay windows that were surprisingly open in the middle of winter.

"Kiryuu...did you?" Kain asked softly, staring down at the gun in Zero's hand.

Zero's face looked pale and shocked, his eyes blazing brightly in blood lust and his black shirt and white vest were soaked in blood and sweat. He fell onto his knees his breathing quick and shallow as if he was almost hyperventilating in panic.

"Zero-kun?" Ichijou asked him gently putting his hand on Zero's shoulder as the silver haired boy collapsed into his arms.

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Yuuki was worried. She had heard what happened to Zero and had gone to see him but Kaname-sempai had stopped her.

Kaname had told her that he was too sick for visitors and that she should come back when he was feeling better. Yuuki hadn't liked his tone when he answered her...he had been condescending and he sounded evasive like he was trying to get her out of the room quickly.

"Yuuki-chan why such a sad face, I'm sure Kiryuu-kun is fine" Kaien said trying to get his daughter to eat his quote unquote 'fantastic cooking'.

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Zero rested his head back against the stone wall, he sighed he couldn't wait much longer until he went into actual blood lust. It had been hours since Zero had 'passed out' on Ichijou and been placed in one of the special rooms under the Moon Dorm for everyone else protection.

With Shizuka dead everyone would think he had dropped back to level D, as an ex-human his status was tied to his sire.

He knew Yuuki would pressure Kuran into doing something to help him...the girl was too nice for her own good and she'd called him her friend after knowing him for a week. Yuuki was desperate for any friendship she could get...he knew Kuran wouldn't want his precious girl to worry.

He'd whittled away the hours chained to the wall, her dear Kaname-sempai had fallen right into his trap. Zero spent his time listening to the person down the hall rattling their chains, it was fun...for a whole ten minutes.

Kaname stepped into his cage and Zero could tell he was trying to suppress his aura.

So...he was right...Zero had thought he'd drink her blood when given the opportunity. If he wasn't in so much pain he would have smiled that his plan had worked and was going so well so far. He may be insane but he wasn't stupid.

"Don't get any ideas... I'm doing this for Yuki's sake..." Kuran announced though it sounded like he was really saying that to himself rather than Zero.

Zero groaned covering his face with his shackled hands he was so tired "Yuu...Ki" he gasped rubbing his face.

"Yes...its surprising that you haven't loss yourself completely in blood lust yet" Kaname said slightly amused...as he was not aware of his own tie to Zero already otherwise he probably would have shot him himself before letting the silver haired boy within twenty metres of him again "I will only offer this once so take what you need and I will let you out of here".

Now Zero knew that was a lie, no pureblood voluntarily gave away their blood without some catch being involved but really as far as he thought of it the benefit outweighed the risks...after four years with Shizuka, Ichiru and Maria, Zero was sure he could take whatever the fuck Kuran could to disk out.

"Okay..." he choked out and moaned clutching his stomach, that damn bastard's aura was fucking suffocating.

Kaname knelt between Zero's open legs, he lent in so that their faces were only centimetres apart and his fingers teasing though Zero's silky hair, it was damp and sticking together in slightly curled locks. His other hand gripping the boy's narrow waist pulling them close together and smirked "You really are a girl" Kaname said and smirked a bit despite the situation the two of them were in.

"Shut up Kuran" he growled with sweat running down his forehead making his fringe stick to his skin "If knew you were just going to insult me I would have just gnawed my arm off and escaped by now".

"Really I would like to see that..." the brunette joked "now are you going to drink or not?"

"Honestly Kuran it's only our second date...I at least expect flowers before we fuck" Zero spat sarcastically as he lent in and licked Kaname's pale neck slowly.

"You're the easy one around here Zero-chan...ah..." he gasped in pain when Zero's fangs plunged hard into his skin without warning. It was obvious that Kaname wasn't yet over the effects of Shizuka's blood or he would have felt what he'd just done to them both by letting Kiryuu to drink his rich blood.

Zero's blazing eyes flashed garnet for a second unnoticed before returning to their natural light purple.

TBC