Inner Strength

Inner Strength

Part Ten

Rating; T – M , for later chapters

Warnings, blood, violence, bad speech, cussing, lots of that! OCC, OOC at some parts of the story but mostly I will try to hold them in character.

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Italics; /…/ thoughts

AAAA emphasis of something.

Edit!:

!! - A little information! I changed the Ratin to T! Later I will post the M rated chapters seperately in M to avoid troubles. Thank you. - !!

Answers to comments are on the bottom of the story!!

The aftermath of a turbulent day and a gentle person that can keep up with you.

Yori stifled a painful whimper. Where the hell was she? Her entire body hurt like hell and when she shortly opened one eye, her sight was meet with an unfamiliarly room without windows. The baldachin above her head was a priceless piece of art, she could tell. Closing her eye again, she tried to will the pain down that seemed to come from every part of her body!

Slowly her memory came back to her and told her what had occurred…the car accident…she had been inside that strange taxi…with Hanabusa kun! Her eyes snapped open instantly. Where was the hyper blond? To sit up instantly proofed to be an error she fast decided to never ever make again.

After some seconds Yori managed it to subdue the pain once more. A short check told her that someone had taken off her clothes and put her into a kind of a nightgown instead. Again, a very beautiful piece with hand stitched designs onto its front and she mused also its back. Standing was a challenge, walking to the door across the room a terrible experience. Had she been injured this badly?

Finally reaching the doorknob she turned it and slowly stepped out of the room. Only to be fast caught from a pair of warm arms once she put her foot out of the door. Her captor was a middle aged looking man in a black suit…man in black? Here? She shook her head, yup, her brain was mush!

Said man suddenly called for help. At once the door to her left tore open and soon Yori fully unfamiliar people filled the walkway out. These people all looked stunned…and they had old eyes. Too old eyes with too much knowledge inside, to fit with the mostly young features. Vampires, Yori concluded. They had the same eyes that Hanabusa had when he did not guard them. She wondered if hers would soon look the same and shuddered. She couldn't understand fully what they asked her, her ears worked not right. Again the pain became too much to bear and this time she did scream.

In a fraction of a second, one of these newcomers had hosted her up and brought her back to her bedding from before. For a second she thought the man was Hanabusa kun but his features looked slightly different, older somehow. When the blissful blackness fell over her again, she welcomed it this time with open arms and soon Yori knew no more.

Above the petite golden brown haired girl, Hanabusa's father looked troubled down to the girl in the bed sheets. If they lost her now because of the mental strain and all it would be a disaster! She was a strong one, that was certain! To still be capable to move with that inner injuries…you had to have a height pain endurance or mental power to make that possible.

What Yori didn't knew, they had given her some blood to drink when she was brought inside the building from Kaname san. The pure blood had made her swallow his own blood once they had found out how badly messed up she was inside. The crash and the following fall of the car had given her inner injuries that wouldn't heal without the help of fresh blood.

His son was just the same.

Hanabusa stood currently inside her doorway with only his own willpower holding him upright. He could see his heir watch her sleeping body with true fear in his eyes. The boy belonged back to bed!

"Will Yori san be alright?" Hanabusa sounded really frightened, his father heaved a sigh. To tell his heir a lye now would only make it worse. "We don't know yet. Perhaps yes, go back to bed, Hanabusa, you're also still much too injured yourself to move around. I promise to look after your new friend."

He saw his son bite his lip and then nod. A guard helped him back to his room. Even the Shiki family elder looked concerned down to the girl now. To loose one of them was simply not acceptable for the council and, as it looked for the Kuran Pure Blood too. Kuran sama looked as if he was about to kill something or better someone!

Aido san called a servant to constantly watch over the Wakaba girl from now on. Hopefully she would stay asleep now until her wounds had healed up. If she only did not begin to change back into a level D now then all would be alright! When the others left the room he did shortly bend down to the girl and stroke a few wayward locks out of her angelic face. "Sleep little one, you're safe now." He had seen the desperate look in Hanabusa's eyes when he woke from his unnatural sleep and heard that she was injured too.

He never saw his normally impulsive and aloof son react so worried over a person before ever! For his genius heir, only his family did count for, that and his very few friends. All else could go to hell in Hanabusa's eyes. He truly cared for the delicate young woman in the bed and that made the elder Aido nervous to know. It meant that his son finally found someone that he really cared for.

From what he had been told the last hour she was very smart and kind. And the contents of the secured note book were impressive! Yori could match his fickle sons brainpower and that could not even he, as Hanabusa's his father manage to do easily. He truly hoped she would make it. Her fever had gone down he noted, that was a good sign.

She would wake up hopefully fully healed again.

The tall vampire lord leaved her in the hands of the maid and went back to the meeting he had to attend.

Hanabusa called himself an idiot and bloody moron for the X-th time in the last two hours. His hands gripped hard in his short blond hair, once in a while clutching so hard that he was dangerously near to rip them out. What did he think he was doing when he came up with that brainless idea to take her to the council Library alone?!

He blamed himself for her current condition and all.

Sure, even Kaname san had tried to talk him out of it but Hanabusa who now worried himself sick, paid it no mind. It was his mistake end of story. He wanted to kill those guys! Wanted to rip their hearts out and their heads brought to him on a silver plate! Kaname, seeing him in this state of mind, had stopped after a while to try and silently left him to brooding.

His mother finally managed it to make him feed on one of their servants. He saw when Kaname gave her his blood to stop the beginning process back to a Level D vampire. The stress had been too much for Sayori. The driver who had seen it too had even cried and blamed himself for it. Now Hanabusa knew that it hadn't been his slipup.

Hanabusa was certain that the two hunters from the school had followed them to take the book from Yori. Masked or not, it had to be them. He knew of no one else who wanted to cause her any harm. The driver, his name was Hakatake, had told him and the elders all he had seen and heard. His master had proudly called him one of his best and Hanabusa had to give him that the driver was that surely. Any other would have lost the control earlier or never recognized them following them in time.

Currently the driver was resting too. The elders kept him here for further questions. Slowly his hands let go on his abused hair. Not caring what he had been told, Hanabusa stood again and wobbled over to the door. The guard gave him a desperate look when he reached him but did nothing to stop Hanabusa from entering her room.

The maid was a different matter, he knew her since he had been a child. To his surprise she just reprimanded him to sit down and to take it easy and then helped him over to Yori's bed. There, she placed him into a big chair with a blanked tucked around his body, Hanabusa finally surrendered to sleep. The maid watched him with a shake of her head. Trust it to the young heir of the Aido clan to be that stubborn!

She and the guard exchanged a look that clearly said, how typical! Then she tugged the blanked around Hanabusa more securely in and sat down into another chair to watch the two sleeping vampires in her care. She thought the two made a cute couple. Chuckling now she opened her book and begun to read.

Sayori's eyes fluttered open for a second time inside the same room. She felt much better as before! The sight, however, was a new one. Was that Hanabusa kun over there in that overstuffed chair? He looked really cute when he slept. She giggling took in that he did slightly drool when asleep and raised her hand to her mouth to keep her laugher from waking him accidentally up. Suddenly a kind looking woman appeared over her and asked her in a hushed voice how she was feeling. Yori thought about it a second then told her that she felt just fine. The maid helped her sitting up and pushed a cushion into her back to make her more comfortable.

The next Yori saw was a glass, filled with a red substance in her view. She took it, but made no move first to gulp it down. Her new much sharper sense of smell told her clearly what the glass contained.

"Its blood."

Her head snapped to the speaker of the dreaded words who now looked very alert and very awake over to her. Hanabusa saw the beginning terror in her gaze and fast entangled himself out of the blanked around him to fast reach over to Yori to take the glass out of her hand. He put it down on the nearby standing dresser to his left. Then he turned around to Yori again. The maid stopped dead in her tracks and then leaved the room silently.

Most likely to tell the elders and his father, he concluded.

Yori had shut her eyes tightly and breathed through her mouth to not have to smell the fragrance of the blood. Hanabusa watched her doing this to calm down with sorrow in his eyes. He had feared it would sooner or later come to this confrontation. It just was sooner then it was later.

Changing from his chair to the edge of her bed the Noble did his best not to spook her more. He just watched the shaking frame of her for seconds...until the first tears appeared. Then he snapped. Without to care now, he gently cradled her against him and held her there until the sobbing noises stopped.

For the first time in his live, Hanabusa didn't know what else he could do and it made him feel helpless. "Listen to me Yori, please you have to do it. You were damn near to relapse back into a D Level vampire when they found us! Do you understand? You will surely die in a short time if you don't do it. Rido will get what he wanted, if you don't do it." Hanabusa saw down in her blank face when he spoke. Abruptly it morphed into an expression of utter revulsion when the word, Rido left his lips.

This puzzled him a little but he fast used it to try to coax her to give in and swallow the blood in the glass.

"You have to drink, please!" Taking the glass from the small table he slowly brought it back to the still slightly shaking Yori. She clasped now the front of his sweater between her fingers, so hard, that her knuckles had turned white.

After a little while staring at it, he finally watched her let go on his shirt with one hand and take it out of his hand. Shuddering Yori finally brought it to her lips and closed her eyes. He did not let her stop until she had drained it all. Hanabusa even went so far to call for a second and made her drink it too. Only then, he finally relented and helped her back into the cushions. He knew she felt awfully bad now and that she most likely cursed him silently for this but still, the vampire felt only relive flood his mind when she finally finished the second goblet.

At least she has done it! That was all what mattered for Hanabusa. All else could wait a little longer. As long she would drink blood now from a glass once a day, he didn't care. It was a big glass, he mused and silently congratulated himself for it to have made her consume its filling two times.

/First step done!/ He gleefully thought. Hanabusa knew, from here it was only a matter of time and the right moment and then she would finally feed like everyone else. Most of his family servants begun in the same way.

Hanabusa knew that his family was more relent to their servants as the most. But it paid off. The truth was, the most other Noble families had troubles with their servants. The Aido clan had almost none! They held the record of the Noble clans who lost the smallest amount of their servants to level E or had the minimalist running off underlings in history. Next to the Akatsuki family.

His father took a certain pride into this fact. Now his son did it too he was suddenly very glad for his families way to handle their servants. It made it easier for Hanabusa now to handle Yori and her fears. But they still were Nobles and as such they mostly thought like the rest of the upper class vampires too.

The former humans did not really count for him. For the personal servants of his family he held a certain fondness but the rest did not truly matter for him. Hanabusa knew how superior he was compared to them, and the Pure Bloods to the Nobles in return. It was the way the live was working in his world.

Human kind held barely an interest for the vampire as being much more as his food source or to use them to gain a better status. Mostly they did not even count for him at all. The hunters, now that was a different kind of matter.

If he could respect a human then it was a hunter and their skills.

Well, mostly he could, in some cases he loathed them more as anything else. Yagari san was a good example for an excellent hunter that he could respect. The ones he suspected to have attacked him and Yori, he would gladly kill himself if he could ever get his claws on them!

His brain was constantly trying to put the facts together to make a full picture out of it. Even when he was holding Yori like he did it now. The girl finally calmed down and stopped to cling to him. much to his sadness.

As if she had read his mind her soft voice filled his ears with exact the same questions Hanabusa himself tried to make a sense out too. "Who do you think did attack us on the road? I somehow cannot stop to think it has to do with the ones that tried to follow us when we left the school." She trailed off. Yori tried to keep her embarrassment down in talking to Hanabusa.

She was inwardly mortified right now!

The taste of the blood was still on her tongue and Yori choked a little at the taste. Sayori simply could not help it, for her it was a miracle how he could love it so much to drink it! She felt…yes how did she feel actually?

Disgusted, hopeless, angry and hurt? Most likely a mix of all. More so because a sick part of herself had enjoyed it to consume it. What had stunned her the most on the entire situation. Not the taste itself but the sudden emotions that made her give in to Hanabusa's soft coaxing to take a second glass full with blood. She was utterly on a loss here. Yori made a note to herself to ask Zero later about this all and tried to not think to closely about it right now.

What was also humiliating was the way she had let him hold her all the time. She knew that she trusted him already more as she probably should. A part of her brain, the rational part put in that this weakness had brought her here in the first place. Also, Yori suspected it deeply, that he had taken full advantage of it to make her give into him and drink the blood in the end.

Somehow she couldn't bring herself to it to hate him for it. Not when he was so caring and gentle to her. She was conflicted now. He wasn't a human at all…for the very first time she begun to understand that fully. Hanabusa did not think like her or even feel the same as her. The differences between her and his world and beliefs finally sunk into the brain of the girl and what she concluded out of the given facts made her uneasy in his presence.

Between them two lay an entire universe of differences of that she never thought of before in her live. If you compared him to the boys she knew, he was not only different to them, Hanabusa played in an entirely other league!

He just wasn't an odd other human, he was a vampire and a born one at that. A Noble, aristocrats under the vampires themselves…and not just another human boy. As that, he acted different from them and thought different too. She found that she could no longer put up with that error of her to compare her human friends with him to fool herself just a little longer.

What Yori had done all the time to comfort herself. How did Zero kun always call them? Beasts in human disguise, yes, that was it. To finally admit it to yourself that you now are one of them too was an uncomfortable reality that sat not well with Yori at all. She understood Zero now better as before! His always irritated behavior made finally sense to her.

On the other hand, Hanabusa and his friends would never fully understand humans in their entire live either. To deep rooted the differences of the two species she concluded, for letting that happen in the future. She wasn't even sure if she would ever find a way to fully understand this miracle herself.

His voice brought her back out of her deeply musings.

"Yori? Did you hear me?" he had a cute, confused expression on his face. Never before had someone spaced out on him before! She blushed adorably a deep crimson before she answered him true fully with a sheepish grin. "No, I suppose not. Sorry but I was deeply caught in a sudden thought of my own, Hanabusa kun." Her eyes grew distant again meanwhile she talked.

It puzzled Hanabusa and made him curios about her thoughts at the same time. What did she think about so deeply that it made her react like that? "A imaginable kingdom for your thoughts?" he joked, not really trusting her to even listen when he saw her inward look appear again.

He didn't like it when she did get that look! It made Hanabusa feel left out. When she failed again to answer him, he began to poke her in the side with his pointy finger in his growing annoyance. Yup, she had tuned him out again! Somehow Hanabusa began to suspect that this was how he himself reacted all the time when he was thinking…no wonder Kain always screamed then at him to get his attention.

A particular hard poke got her attention back to him again. And she blushed again, hard when realization set in. What made him grin a little sardonic in response. "Hey! Don't zoom out on me all the time!" He told her. "What is more captivating here then me?" the second that words left Hanabusa mouth he wished he could take them back!

Now it was him who's face held a deep blush. Yori blinked a few times before she burst out laughing.

Meanwhile she did laugh so hard that she had tears gather in her eyes, she couldn't help but to watch the now fuming Hanabusa on her bedside. Maybe, Yori thought, maybe they aren't so much different from humans as I first thought. At least not this one vampire Noble extraordinaire! That thought made her giggle even harder. What in turn made Hanabusa glare harder at the petite girl next to him now. She would tell him what she had going through her head right now! He would make her tell him! And if that was the last thing in the world he would ever do, she would tell him!

Pouting he crossed his arms before his chest and glared at her. First Yori spaced out and then she did laugh like that…not fair! Why did that cursed slip had to leave his mouth? She had to believe now that he was a bigheaded moron! The urge to slap himself was hard to resist.

If he was honest with himself he found her laugh adorable. Her current emotional state was much better as the depressed one from before. Much better, Hanabusa decided even if it was only because he again made a complete fool out of himself what was making her laugh so hard now. He began again to prod her side with his finger to make her stop.

But Yori did not even hear or see him now, she currently was too busy with it to stop herself from laughing so hard and to avoid his finger jabs that made it even worse! When she finally managed it to stop laughing the door rescued her from Hanabusa's waiting wrath just in time. Inside stepped Kaname and Hanabusa's father.

Both newcomers watched with amusement a still grinning Yori trying to fend off the, her still persistently poking fingers of an equally clearly none amused Hanabusa. The scenery made his father groan and rub his face with one hand and made Kaname grin and shake his head at these antics of his childhood friend.

"Hanabusa!" his fathers booming voice made said vampire fast clear that lord Aido wasn't as amused about Hanabusa's teasing Yori as Hanabusa was it himself. What in return provoked a rare laugh out of the Pure Blood. It wasn't all day that you saw his friend in this uncomfortable predicament at all. Kaname Kuran could not help himself, the picture was just too funny to watch. Finally giving it up…for now…Hanabusa stopped it to tease her but refused to leave the spot on her bed.

His fathers eyebrow begun dangerously to twitch at that picture but he finally let it be to try to remove his son from there. Instead he walked up to the abandoned chair and sat down. Kaname soon followed his move and also sat down into another chair, next to the couple on the bed.

His eyes drifted over to the now empty glass on the table.

"I made her take two of them, Kaname san." His friend told him nonchalantly and he nodded relived at that. At least Yori would now take it although reluctantly, but that was fully acceptable for now. Her suddenly miserable face made him fast changes the topic. "Sayori san, I would like to ask you to stay here in the custody of the Aido family for a little while longer as planned."

Yori gave him a questioning glance. "And why is that? You know, I would rather like to go back the school to my friends, Kaname san. Nothing against Hanabusa kun's family, I am sure they would take a good care of me, but why do you want me to stay here for longer? Is there something wrong?" Hanabusa's father nodded to her. "No offence taken, Wakaba sama but you have to understand that since, you two were attacked a few hours ago, we would first like to get the culprits caught or killed before we will let you go back again. You have to know that they were after you and your studies and not after my son."

His answer made Sayori pause. Killed?! She gulped at that a little. But it made sense to her. These attackers had tried to kill her too, so… "Alright then, Aido san, I will stay. Thank you for letting me and taking care of me under your roof, sir." If Yori had stood, she would have bowed right now. Her parents always prided themselves for it to have educated their children correct manners. Somehow, it seemed fitting to address Hanabusa's father this way.

The girl saw the eyes of the lord brighten with pleasant surprise at her proper manners. He hadn't known that she was so polite if needed. Sure, Kaname had let the council investigate the background of each one of them as soon he knew who it was but hers was the most unusual side in their investigations book.

They knew about her that she was truly gifted and like his son, a kind of a genius herself. That she didn't like it to be addressed as such and that she was a hard worker if needed. That her family owned a shrine near Kyoto and was rather poor, since her fathers accident a few years back that ate the most of the spare money with the hospital bills. He was invalid since then and needed the constant help of a wheelchair.

Sayori was at the cross school via a stipendium, hard earned through constant working on her already excellent grades. That she also had worked next to school live to earn some money to help her family out. With writing essays for companies and such or taking jobs in the neighborhood.

This girl had already lived a hard life until here and wasn't stupid at all. Not even his lord Kuran san had known that she was only at the academy because of that. Wakaba Sayori was an enigma. She never told a soul about it nor did she flaunt it around that she was so intelligent. Yori as she was called, was a rather quiet person that loved it more to stay alone or to talk and help her a small number of friends as to make a party all day.

Just like his son she loved it more to stay alone most of the time. Not that she was a loner, she just liked it more to learn and study or to enjoy the nature as to talk big. The people mostly did not understand her and they had hurt her often in the past because of her study nature…just like they had hurt Hanabusa too. No wonder that the two felt drawn to each other, he contemplated silently.

Were his son often got carried away when his interest was drawn to something, she reacted more serious and calm then. Somehow the elder Aido thought that he should have known from that alone that Yori would have good manners too then. He chuckled darkly. Most of the time he and his wife had to hold Hanabusa in line. On soirées and such. His passionate nature drove them often up the walls and he could act unpredictable too.

Maybe she could see to that whilst she staid here.

That she was a very beautiful young girl helped the entire matter too, he had to give her that Yori looked rather cute with the big brown eyes and the short curly hair. The color reminded the head of the Aido clan at dark gold all the time.

Beside him Kaname was asking her questions about her view of the entire attack and told her in return what they knew. Sadly she knew no more as Hanabusa too but she quipped in what she knew of the time the hunters had held them locked up in the wine cellar. What no one had realized before, she had noticed.

Back then, Yori could not make sense of it all.

Of course she had noted the different behavior of the hunters to them but at that time she had not thought much about it. To caught up in her own misery and all. But now, a few days and events later, she finally put two and two together and out came not four this time! She told Kaname as such.

If Yori hadn't been so preoccupied before, she would have already mulled it over, she was sure! When Kaname and she talked about the hunters that tried to follow her and Hanabusa, she suddenly had one of her famous brainstorms and told him and them what she did remember.

It begun with the way the hunters had reacted to each other in the cellar.

That some of them had been almost friendly and some not. Now this could be explained with their different characters but the next, not really. First she had seen only the younger and mostly laughing hunter, that one, that had teased her and gave her the tablets. Then suddenly he had been replaced by that always scowling and Shinda harassing Hotland guy. What she had never thought more of before was the way how her female guard from that day she went to the shower, had reacted to him. As if the two could not like each other well or in the afterthought, came from two opposing fractions of the hunters.

And then there was the way Yagari san had suddenly appeared in their cell in that night the hunters killed the others. He had looked around him as if he feared someone could see him there. She just never gave that a second thought, because at that time Yori had believed that he was saving them from the vampires and nothing else. Now she questioned her first impression.

Her information's got Kaname thinking. And Hanabusa too. He asked her holes in the stomach about their reactions to each other but Yori seemed to not take any offense in him. She took his questions as they came and tried her best to answer them all.

What made them all curios was the way he had hidden them and later fast removed them out of the room again. Always, Yagari had worked alone. He brought them to the other room alone and brought them to the house alone later too. That wasn't normal Kaname told her. Normally he would have had backup or at least brought one other hunter with him to keep them under watch. But instead he did it alone. That he had held off the council from killing them was another detail that seemed not so really to fit into the entire puzzle.

"Its like he was acting out of his own motivation and not on any kind of order." She told them. Even Zero had told her so before. He had wondered about this all after they had settled down in their temporary rooms. Sure, she could be wrong but somehow she couldn't shake off the feeling that there was more going on behind the scenes as only the ordinary. "And then the way Hotland and Touga san reacted to each other the night in the living room when the hunters came in…" Yori shortly spaced out again this night. Suddenly she talked on "The way that Hotland addressed him, I found that strange. I mean, look at it a little more closely! Hotland acted almost violently towards Yagari san. He openly accused him to have taken side with the enemy and such. Do you remember, Hanabusa kun? When he marched over to them on the couch and suddenly yelled at Yagari san?"

"Yes, that he didn't tried to punch him was all." Hanabusa clearly remembered that scene from a few nights before too. Why hadn't he noticed that before?! She was right, something didn't fit here.

"It looked to me as if he tried to anger him on purpose and not to anger Kain Senpai at all. But what makes me now truly believe it that there are two fractions in the hunters, is the little fact that nobody but me have seemed to notice fully." Now all looked somewhat perplexed at Sayori. Hanabusa's agile mind tried to catch up with her, what did she mean with that comment? Suddenly it hit him hard. "Cross san! You mean Cross san right? He came in with them, yes but almost at once they took seats he walked away from them over to a secluded spot and sat down there, away from them. On the same side of the room where Yagari san sat on the couch!" His fist met his open hand with a loud noise when he hit it into the open palm. Only those two had taken seat away from the rest of the hunters and that, wasn't normal at all!

Hunters always took the position of hunters against vampires, never the opposite. And the place Yagari had sat in was not really on the vampires side that night. He sat just beside Kain on that couch in the left end of the room. Cross had taken a seat next to him on one of the lone chairs not so far away. Not to near but not on the side of the president either. But clearly on his part of the room. Kain had sat on the other side of the couch, more to the side where the vampires gathered together, with Shinda on his lap. The space between them had been nearly two seats long. And the night class members who had strolled over to Kain to help him if necessary had soon stood in front of Kain and Shinda, away from Yagari san.

"Exactly! I am sure now, that night, there weren't only two group in that room, there have been three and nobody noticed it until now!" Yori told them in a shocked voice. It made now sense to her. "The first was the Hunters with the female president and Hotland on the right side…" She elaborated.

Hanabusa nodded wildly at that and quipped in, "The next was ours on the left…"

Yori finished it. "and the third was represented through Yagari san and Kuroso san just in the middle of us!"

Both grinned now at each other in their glee. Their minds ticked much alike. Kaname and lord Aido exchanged an alarmed look at that, if that what these two just told them was true then certain events lately made suddenly an all too good sense! Put that together with the presidents connection to Rido and you got a dangerous mix out of the entire situation!

"How could we have missed that?" Kaname asked lord Aido, who in response shrugged his shoulders. "Maybe because we never thought of something like that coming?" He replied to him in an equally quizzical voice. "It could be and if so, then we have to be very careful around the hunters from now on. I suspect it has to do with the headquarters of the hunter organization world wide. They have distrusted the council here in Japan now for quite some time I was told a while ago from one of my informants." The lord fell silent again.

Kaname nodded, "Then Yagari san is clearly on their side. His last comment made that certain" Yori and Hanabusa agreed with him there. Anything other made just no sense. It also meant that the headmaster Cross was on their side too. And that the leaders of the hunters world wide backed him up in his tries to gain a constant peace with the vampires.

"From now on; " Kaname said while standing up again, " no one goes near to their fraction of hunters without letting me know! Tell that the elders too, I want to know everything that is going on around them. Everything! And please, try to make a secret meeting possible between Yagari san and me. Nobody has to know about it who isn't trustable!" The lord stood too and nodded to him. "I will make it certain that not even the council will know, my lord. I already know a good place for that too, Kuran sama." With that both left again.

Yori and Hanabusa exchanged worried looks with each other. This did not bode well at all!

End of this chapter.

A special thanks to my last reviewer on chapter 9. Thanks for motivating me to write more (is happy) I had to write it this way, sadly. I would have loved to center only on my main characters fully, namely; Yori and Hanabusa. But I also wanted to make certain that the plot works. All of it, until here has a purpose. Even it isn't to see completely until now. That comes later. From now on it will center mostly one the two, and the other pairings I introduced already. I hate plot less stories --! They often ruin the entire story then and that makes me sad. Because they make no sense. Thank you for the congratulations to reach the magical ten chapters mark, grins here, don't ask me where they all came from; I normally do not update this fast, trust me; some other of my stories are not updated for months now. (hides from her readers) lets say, life got in my way here. First my I got hunted from a group of flamers all over the net, then did my childhood friend, Anya die and lately my mother had nearly a heart attack that had us, her family worry for a while for her life. Add to it that I have a daughter with autistic syndrome, you can most likely imagine why I stopped my writing for a looong while fully.

How ever, I hope you all had fun reading until here…I still need a beta, sadly.

Your Suryallee