Matsuri Hino © Vampire Knight

Pairing: Kaname/Zero

Last Sunday Night

[ Chapter 9: A Foreboding Storm ]

A pair of mismatched eyes run through the sky as if waiting for something to come. Upon the arrival of a black pigeon that possesses a certain kind of aura which one may consider not normal, the look on the man's eyes instantly disappears and is quickly replaced with a look of satisfaction. The said look of satisfaction is upgraded to a look of victory after the pigeon had taken its rest on the man's finger– it almost seems as if the pigeon had just reported a bit of good news to the stunning lad.

... which is really the case.

After a few seconds of just resting there on the stud's finger, transferring to him the information it has gathered, the pigeon flies away to only his master knows where leaving the man with a menacing grin plastered on his face.

"K...Kuhahaha~ this is just perfect!" he begins to laugh hysterically, sounding quite scary and evil all in all.

Resting his back on the fence of his veranda, he leans a bit farther– back crossing over the fence –and tauntingly looks at the moon. In a victorious tone, he murmurs, "With the ancestor immobilized as he is now and tied to such weakling... it definitely is the perfect time to make my move and aim for checkmate~"

"Kuran's ancestor, I'll make sure you'll become one with me..."

Soon enough.

Soon enough...

Sweating all over and with his heart palpitating severely, Kaname's eyes flutter open in horror.

That dream again.

Putting his hand on top of his chest in hopes to calm his pounding chest down, the Pureblood decides to get out of bed and get some water. After reaching the kitchen, as he pours himself some water, he grunts.

This is bad.

As he puts down the pitcher and takes a sip of the water he had just served himself, Kaname contemplates on his dreams for the past few days. It's something he can't just ignore, since it's been quite a number of days since he started dreaming of that man after all. And basically, we all know that he possesses the power to visit people in their dreams or something to that effect.

"Rido..." he mutters, putting down the glass dramatically.

Though he was there when the other Pureblood was killed, he couldn't shrug the feeling off that he's still alive and is somewhere out there stalking him and Yuuki. After all, Rido is a Pureblood just like him– an evil and powerful one too, not to mention, so one can never really be too sure when it comes to him.

Ahh...

But if that is the case and he really is alive then...

Kaname flinches.

Damn.

He's really screwed– and so is Yuuki, Kiryu, even Aido, who is now Yuuki's husband, and so are the other vampires who will eventually be left with no choice but to be under him.

A scenario plays in his head.

This, however is stopped by footsteps– the sound of unfamiliar footsteps.

"Ahh, I'm amazed, you got it all figured out~" a voice cheers from behind him.

A shiver runs down Kaname's spine. Unreasonably, his body begins to tremble slightly and his eyes widen and shake in shock.

Unwillingly, he turns to see who it was.

Seeing what was behind him, a gasp escapes from him. With knees feeling weak, he stumbles aback.

It wasn't the person who just spoke that made him feel so, rather, it was who the person was holding– or rather, dragging –that stirred all those emotions.

In the hand of the mismatched eyed Pureblood, identified as Rido Kuran, is none other than Kiryu Zero. Fatally wounded and massively bleeding, just by looking at him, Kaname could already tell. He won't last long.

As Kaname stares at Zero, unable to move from shock, the antagonist decides to take this opportunity to talk.

"Love is painful, isn't it?" he starts off, "Makes you do stupid things such as accidentally giving someone a special mark... don't you think so too?"

He lets out a smirk and pulls the Bloody Rose out from Zero's grasp, "I know what happened, I know where you are, I know who you're with and I know what's happening. But more importantly..."

"I'm alive and is more than willing to kill anyone who may get in my way to you just like..."

His smirk widens. He points the gun at the silverette and places his finger on the trigger.

"...This."

Bang

"Kiryu!"

"Kiryu!"

Kaname's eyes flutter open. Instinctively, he clutches on the first thing his hand lays on. Clutching on that random object, suddenly, he feels a wild shake– a tremor –then an eerie screech. The tremor reaches its peak then all of a sudden, the world felt as if it stopped for a moment.

"What ha–"

"WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU THINK ARE YOU DOING, KURAN!? WE ALMOST GOT HIT BY A FUCKING TRUCK, YOU DUMBASS! I KNOW WE'RE GODDAMN VAMPIRES BUT YOU ARE NOT A VAMPIRE RIGHT NOW AND SO WAS THE TRUCK DRIVER! PLUS, DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH THE DAMAGES WOULD HAVE COST?!"

He glances to the direction where he heard the ear-wrecking sermon. Seeing who it is giving the sermon, the tightness in his chest instantly disappears and his grip on the object– which happened to be Zero's chest –loosens.

A sigh of relief exits his mouth, "Just a dream..." he mutters.

Hearing his murmurs, Zero's anger somewhat calmed.

Ah.

"Hey, did you just have one of those dreams again?" he asks, concern evident in his voice.

Kaname nods, "Yes. Apparently, my intuition is right after all. He's still alive... Rido."

Zero's brow arches, "But didn't I–"

Kaname shakes his head, "No. Apparently, he wasn't killed– either what you killed was an illusion or something else. I really have no idea. All I know is that... as of we speak right now, he is still alive– breathing and stalking somewhere out there." darkly, he informs.

Just by looking at Kaname and listening to him, Zero could already tell that the other had a really bad dream– or rather, was warned pretty brutally. Clearly, he could hear and feel the worry in the other's voice. And this was not worry only for himself but also for the person he loves dearly– which is obviously Yuuki.

Reading Kaname, he comes to a decision, "Geeez, don't make too much fuss out of it. Yuuki told me she gave that Aido the mark too so I'm pretty sure he's at least capable enough to protect her. As for you... well, that's pretty much why we're together– like why I'm living with you for the meanwhile, right?"

"I'll protect you, Kuran. And if that Aido fails to protect Yuuki, I'll protect her too. So take a chill pill or something, will you?"

Feeling that things are getting a little bit too serious, he arrogantly comments, comically, "I'll just have to kill him again– over and over again, if I have to just for yo– Yuuki, and for her, you too. So yeah, no need to worry much."

Saying so, Zero regains his momentum and begins driving again. Doing so, he finds himself griping on the steering wheel a little bit too tight.

Kill him again, he says.

Truth be told...

'So he's still alive huh... damn.'

He's pretty panicked too.

[ End of Chapter 9 ]

Author's Note: So, I decided to shorten the past author's notes just to see how much part of the story do they take up, and, LOL, from 12,115 words, after shortening the A/Ns, it became 9,873 words. Can you believe that? LOL. That's why I've decided to make the A/Ns as short and direct to the point as possible from now on. It's bad to get people's hopes up that the chapters are long when in fact around half of almost every chapter is just the A/N. LOL. I'll still try to answer everyone's question and reply to everyone's words though. Just not in that way anymore. I feel that it really gets people's hopes up that the chapter is long. (and for that I have to apologize) LOL.

I'm sorry.

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