A/N: I won't bore you with a long note at the top-I'll do it at the bottom and there's a little snippet for all of my wonderful reviewers! :P Thanks for reading!
Disclaimer: I do not own Vampire Knight, nor it's characters, it is solely the creation of the wonderfully talented Masturi Hino. I only lay claim to my original characters, plot bunnies and the idea of Bluebloods.
WARNING: This is an M-rated story and such themes follow in line
His head throbbed horribly.
Kaname buried his face in his hands, wishing they would all shut-up already. His over-sensitive vampire ears were not helping the headache any, though the pleasant aftertaste in his mouth had hinted he'd found something to soothe the thirsty ache from earlier. He hadn't yet determined what the wonderful taste had been, but it had worked to sate his thirst and that was enough for the moment. He'd figure it out later—when he needed a mental puzzle to drive him insane, he reasoned, trying to coax his mind to continue reasoning in normal circles.
His body rebelled at the attempt to distract himself. It wanted things to go back to the normal, sane way they'd been. It also wanted to be back to where he'd been before they'd been interrupted.
The blush began to restart itself and Kaname was minutely thankful for the spare shirt the Chairman had lent him. Apparently, Zero had shredded the upper portion of his Night Class uniform beyond recognition, his own shirt in tatters, but somewhat more respectable. Kaname had adamantly refused one of the hunter's spare shirts. He would not have accepted the Chairman's offer either, save for the shirt offered still bore a price tag—an anomaly explained when Kaname realized it was the wrong size for the shorter man—and probably a gift from Yuki, the only reason the man hadn't done anything else with it. He'd shrugged into the smooth, dark brown shirt and immediately crossed his arms over his chest.
From there on out, the arguing had only seemed to get worse.
From what he could understand, Zero was being royally reamed out for whatever had happened. Between the Chairman's wounded interjections and Yagari's sputtering lecture, Kaname found himself wishing he were somewhere else. He was still rather ticked off at said ex-hunter, it wasn't exactly in his current circle of thought to add to the boy's misery. At any other time, he might have found the ex-human's discomfort to be amusing, but he had a feeling the two angry men were going to turn on him next.
He swallowed. He didn't want that to happen at all. Kaname Kuran did not put himself in situations that were to his disadvantage—and this was one of those situations. He sighed, raking a hand through his now mussed hair. He was feeling the weight of weariness returning to him, the urge to sleep manifesting itself as he realized he hadn't really gotten much rest at all.
In the midst of the bumbling lecture-slash-argument, a few words caught his ear and Kaname perked up. "I'm sorry," He said, smoothly, cutting into the conversation. "What did you say about a blue-eyed boy?" That detail had been too good to miss.
Both men stiffened, then exchanged a glance.
It was odd enough that Kaname tucked that detail away for later thought.
"That perverted blueblooded freak!" Yagari ground out. "It's all his fault, only he would've done something so—so-!"
"Then where did he go, Toga?" The Chairman interrupted. "Viktor said he meant no harm, but what he did and how he's left is a bit of a-"
"Then how else do you explain this? I mean, that…" Yagari gestured towards the two young vampires. "I saw it, Kaien. I know you did too—that isn't even…that doesn't." He choked and muttered something beneath his breath that made Zero's hands clench into fists. "He's behind this, he has to be! You mean to tell me that those…I…argh!"
Kaname frowned. "Viktor? Is that his name?" He could feel his vampire nature stirring faintly within him, the earlier impression to sleep streaking away at the thought of this new puzzle. There was nothing he could call immediately to his mind upon hearing the name, but there was the faintest twinge inside of him as if he'd just been told a secret of sorts.
Zero scowled. "Who are you talking about?"
The Chairman sighed.
"You're going to tell them?" Yagari fumed. "Kaien!"
"They have a right to know…Kaname-kun if no one else." The bespectacled man drew out a chair from the dining room table and slowly sat down. The angry fire had faded some from his eyes and he was now looking somewhat older and more composed than either vampire could ever recall. "Please sit down, Kaname-kun." He cast a glance to the side at Yagari, an unspoken request in his eyes. "And Zero, it seems there is something I need to tell you both."
The elderly hunter growled out a muttered response, but yanked a chair away from the table and sat down just the same, his weary glance skittering around the room, his shoulders hunched upwards as if expecting something to simply rise up out of the floor.
The more he heard, the more he didn't like it, Kaname decided. The more he didn't like it, the more he really wanted to destroy something. Something preferably large, ancient and irreplaceable. He'd managed to coax quite a bit of information out of the Chairman and as his pureblood mind began to connect the dots that only he could see, he didn't like it at all. He was beginning to wish he'd sent Takuma to retrieve the requested books personally—if only so that he could read them sooner.
He'd heard of things like this, knew of them from some of the snippets of conversation he'd heard while living with Asato Ichijo. The man had been obsessed with supernatural creatures from centuries before and always spoke of them like reverent treasures to have in one's possession. Kaname had never put much purchase into the thought of another vampiric race in existence. There had never been any proof that he had seen to verify it and it seemed too good to be true. Far too good to be true.
The more he heard of this Viktor character, the more he was itching to expose the boy as the imposter he had to be. He had to. There was no way that such a thing could exist.
"Kaname? Kaname!" The Chairman's worried tone broke through the older vampire's musings.
"Hmm?"
"It's been almost two hours since we've last seen him, if there's anything-"
"For the love of all that is blessed in the land of the dragon, pray tell me, what have you against the notion of sleep?" The angry exclamation came from a short, black-haired boy with very white skin. He was dressed in a white silken shirt, neatly buttoned and smoothed, sturdy black jeans tucked into comfortable black boots. The detail of this particular outfit was the dark blue, metallic belt cinched at the waist—it accurately resembled a fat snake—swallowing its own tail. Bored blue eyes roved around the dining room, settling on each figure in turn and then the boy raised a hand to his mouth and yawned, the only indication that sleep still clung to him. "Ten minutes." He grumbled. "A simple ten minutes and I would have absolutely nothing to compl-"
"Viktor-!" The Chairman exclaimed as Yagari leapt from his chair and surged forward.
The interaction was virtually seamless.
Yagari was an experienced hunter and the blue-eyed boy made no attempt to dodge the painful tackle that floored him. He merely stared up at the ceiling, his expression turning to one of complete disgust.
"Wonderful." Viktor drawled.
A/N: Short chapter *sigh*, I know, I know. But what y'all don't know is that the semester has started up for me again. LOL. New semester = zero writing time at the moment. Updates will be a tad slow in coming, but shorter chapters = faster updates. So maybe there's a balance I can work with, until then~thanks for reading!
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