I feel kindda bad about giving you a long chap and then giving you this really short one... *Sigh* Oh, well.

Notes;

KainXKurai- Still one

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Oh, dearrr...Not again! This is so embarrassing! GOD! STUPID WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING! YOU'RE ALWAYS IN THE WAY! Anyway! Here's the right story...

At first I believed we were back in time. All the way back at the turn of the century. The time where I was new at giving up my blood. That I was way more human than I am now. That I am still left breathless after all of his kisses.

At first I love how he grabs my thigh and squeezes like he used too. Or how he still bites me and lets the blood drip a little and then licks it ever so sexily. Or how his hand slips up my now shortened dress to grab my ass.

At first I weave my hand into his dark curl locks tugging enough to hear that satisfying groan. I open my legs to let him slip his in between. I push against him melting into him. Forgetting.

Then all at once the fights come back. The other girls. Yori flash in my mind. Her smile. How so innocently she told me. How he brought me to this damn school. He ditched me. He picked them over me. Over me.

I slam my knee into his groin and he goes sputtering down, "How DARE you? You think that after everything I will just go back to loving you? To lusting after you? You picked the vampire over me! So what you knew them before! I slept with you! I shared my whole life with you! Did you do that with them? NO! Well, maybe Kana-asshole but, that's another discussion. You think that I'm some play thing don't you Hikari?"

He lets out a groan turning to be me. His bright yellow eyes stare at me with agony, "I didn't want to pick them! I never wanted to leave you, Kurai! You know I have to follow the rules given to me! This is the first time that I've actually ever defied authority! For you even! I still want to be with you!"

I roll my eyes at him, "This is one hellva way to show it! How can a heated kiss say I love you and I still want to be with you? All it really says is that I would really love to get into your pants because I know you're easy!"

"It's not like that Kurai!" He pushes himself off the ground still staring intently at me, "You know that if I had just tried to talk to you you would have just ignored me or something!"

I frown a bit wondering to myself if that would have been the case. With how he has been acting…I probably would have just looked at him and walked away, "That doesn't matter! You have a fiancé!"

"I never wanted her. I did it to please my parents. I was never going to go through with it! Kami, you have no idea how much your aloof uncaring attitude has rubbed off on me!" He wipes his face as if he's sweating from all the 'wrong' he's done.

I shake my head, "How am I supposed to know you're not lying? How do I know that you're not one Kana-chess geek's bishops or something? Ever since we came here you changed and lemme tell you it ain't for the good darling! Oh, no, no. You have turned into something monstrous! You've ignored me, acted like I was nothing, and when you got the chance you made my life hell. How is that showing your love?"

"My hands were tied! Kaname-sama-"

"You still give him that title. Even after what he supposedly made you do. Now, that's pathetic." I spat out tired of this. Tired of all the things I've gone through just to be near him. I'm tired of the games I have to play.

"Please. Kurai. You have no idea what you mean to me!" He stares deeply into my eyes pleading.

For a moment I can see the love he has but, is it enough? Do I really want his love? What about Peter Love? I can still feel his lips on mine even after Hikari's kiss. Can Hikari even come close to putting that much emotion into a single chaste kiss?

"You're right. I have no idea what I mean to you because you haven't shown it at all. Not a single thing." Emphasizing 'thing' I whip around and run into the forest as fast as I can, hoping to Kami that Hikari isn't fast enough anymore.

"KURAI!" Echoes through the night.

I feel tears stink my eyes. This is all so over whelming! Why is that it's me that has to make all the choices? That I have to break the hearts? That I have to be the one alone in the end because I made the stupid mistake.

Are you scared of what's in the forest?

It is a random simple question. One that fits what I happening to me now.

"What are you doing in the forest?" Yagari shoves the barrel of a shot gun in my face.

"Well, I am running from some guy that tried to rape me." I exaggerate sarcastically going cross eyed.

Yagari narrows his eyes, "I've heard your voice before."

"Maybe it was in class. You are one of the teachers, right?" I shrug still staring at the weapon. Man, I am so flippin' dead if he 'accidently' shoots.

When I thought his eyes couldn't narrow anymore they do, "You're that halfie that kept harassing humans."

I look at him as if he's crazy, "Halfie? What I do dare say are you talking about?"

He turns those squinty eyes into a full on hunter glare—Kami, how I hate them—and shoves the shot gun further into my nose, "Don't even start with that. You are scum of the earth! I should shoot you now!"

He cocks the shot gun and this is about the time where I wish I had not been so reckless when I was younger, "C'mon dude! You can't kill me! I'm related!" My eyes widen as I divulge information I probably shouldn't have.

He glare turns icy, "Oh, really? How are you going to prove that?"

"Um…" I stammer trying to remember what my dad (still sounds weird) said he was, "You're my…my… dad's cousin or uncle or nephew or something! Please, I don't want to die! I still haven't seen a polar bear!"

Yagari looks at me as if I've lost my mind. Which I have to say I probably have because a polar bear? Who wants to see one of those? I would much rather see a platypus! Or something… "Come with me to the headmaster's office."

"Thank Kami you're leading." I grumble under my breath. He turns back to give me a glare but, I act like I don't see it and take interest in the trees.

~ooOOoo~

"She is indeed related to you." Dad says in a very serious tone, very uncharacteristic of him.

Yagari looks at me with some disgust, him scrunching his nose as if he smelt something bad, and me looking at him with a mocking expression, "What? Aren't relatives supposed to annoy the shit out of you?"

He rolls his eyes, "Are you sure she's your daughter? She looks a bit different since I saw her."

"It's my eyes, old fart." I glare at him, "They change every time I save someone."

He glares right on back…with his one blue eye… "It's more just like giving in to lust. I heard you did a lot of your vampires."

My eyes narrow dangerously, "What was that again? I couldn't quite hear you old geezer."

"Old geezer?" He walks over to me and towers above me trying to stare me down, "Just because I may look a bit old does not mean I fight like it."

"Psh, I doubt that. I can take you right here, right now." I scoff tilting my head proudly.

Yagari raises his eyebrows at me reaching back for his shot gun, "Is that so? Let's see if you can take a-"

"Enough!" Dad growls at the both of us putting his hands up, "There will be no fighting!"

"Pacifist." We both murmuring then give each other glares.

Dad rolls his eyes, "Since the dance is just getting over, Yagari go and help Yuuki and Zero corral the students and Kurai." Dad pauses for a moment taking his eyes off Yagari and turning his full attention to me, "Go to your room. No wandering about."

I bring my hands out in front of me in good ol' classic teenage defiance, "What? C'mon! Yuuki and Zero get to be outside!"

Yagari snorts a laugh, "Sucks to be you kid."

"Yeah, keep saying that. You haven't seen what the Day Classer do have you?" I leave the room with an ominous air.

"Kaien? What is she talking about?" Yagari asks my father nervously making me laugh as I make my way down the halls.

~ooOOoo~

I remember my dad saying that the dance was just ending and as I wander the halls (no I am not lost are you crazy?) I find no one is out at all.

"Hm, wonder if they are giving Yuuki and Zero a lot of trouble." I muse aloud not feeling that stupid until I find Kain sitting randomly in the hall. His mask is lying on the other side of the hall as if it had been thrown, "Hey, Kain. What are you doing in this random hallway of the Day Class? Aren't you scared some of your fan girls will find you?"

He looks up from the floor and at me. When I see his face, I gasp. I race over to him, "What happened?" I whisper as I cannot comprehend the agony in his features. I cup his face in my hands staring intently into his eyes.

"I saw her…come on to Kaname… I don't know…how much more I can handle." His lip trembles and he closes his eyes shaking his head. He rubs his face probably trying not to cry.

Oddly enough, I begin to cry for him. I remember the first time I found Hikari with…Cindy.

Flashback

"Hikari? Where are you? I came back 'cause I forgot the list." I look around the apartment for him and the list.

"OH KAMI!"

I stop dead in my tracks. I blink a couple of times. That was a moan.

My earth started shattering because I am not one of those girls to deny everything until the end.

I gather my courage and pride and whatever the fuck I need to and swing open the bedroom door spotting the list on MY bedside table, "Very, sorry to interrupt but, I forgot the grocery list." I smile at the pair innocently as they both stare at me in shock. Hey, if I was them I would be pretty blown away by my boldness too.

I grab the list and walk out closing the door behind me. I breathe a sigh and bite my lip willing myself to not cry. To be strong like Cindy used to say, even if she is a sack of shit now.

"Kurai!"

I turn back to find the stunning as ever Hikari standing in his boxers in the middle of OUR apartment, "Do you want me to add something to the list?"

"It's not what you think."

At first I snort. Then it turns to a laugh. A dead humorless laugh but, a laugh none the less, "What do I look like to you? A little girl that doesn't know anything? I am fifteen for Kami's sake! I wasn't born yesterday!"

"Will you listen? I was just releasing tension…" He blushes a bit at the statement. I only raise my eyebrow.

"Where did you learn that excuse? The fucking dictionary? Do you use the ten percent of your brain like you're supposed to?" I shake my head waving my hand. "Kami, why do you even stick around?"

With that I left for the store not giving either another thought.

End Flashback

That was the day I learned to lie and hide anything that no one really needed to know.

Sadly, I forgave Hikari believing it was 'tension' he was releasing. Yet, that was a long time ago.

"Juliet? Why are you crying?" Kain pulls me into his laugh comforting me.

I sniffle, "I was just remem-bering when Hi…Hikari cheat-ed on me."

"He cheated on you?" The words sound like acid coming off his tongue. I grow wide-eyed.

"Geez, Kain. I haven't seen you so mad…ever."

He laughs, "Who would ever want to cheat on you?"

I shrug against his chest, "Hikari and a bunch of other guys. Personally, I don't care about it. It was so long ago I'm surprised I remember it."

"It doesn't matter how long ago it was! It still happened!" He growls pulling me tighter into him.

I lean my head back and laugh, "Since when are you so protective? Man, if this is another side of you, I hardly know you!"

He laughs and turns his head to look at me, "It just appalls me that someone would cheat on you, who is so very interesting."

"Thanks, Romeo." I smile up at him.

For a moment it looks like he's going to kiss me full on the lips. And for the first time in my life I didn't want a nice full on kiss. I wanted a forehead kiss or a nose kiss. I wanted to be the little sister.

And in another moment he leans down smiling into his top of the head kiss. I smile too as I close my eyes, "It was a nice dress."

I snort, "I'll just hem it and it'll be fine."

"You are one crazy woman." Kain laughs in my ear making me happy. Maybe, Karma ain't so bad all the time.

~ooOOoo~

I open my eyes to darkness. I growl at myself for waking up too early to a Saturday morning. Then I hear someone outside the door. I think they're talking to themselves. I grumble to myself pulling the covers off myself. Kain groans and rolls over making me wonder what he's dreaming about, "Horny Romeo shame on you!" I whisper waving a finger at him.

I pad over to the door. I open it. I blink wondering if the ice cream we found in my fridge (the one I'm not supposed to have) had some weed in it because it did taste a little funky.

"Kurai."

I didn't know my own name could send shivers down my spine, "Hey, Zero."

Kami, the things you do to me Zero…

Ugh, i hate to leave it as a cliff hanger i really do because i might no be able to update until the end of may... :/ i know you guys will kill me i am sorry! But the more reviews the more likely i will work hard and get some updates! You guys have to out review Not So Much A Flock and While You Were Sleeping so, try your hardest guys!

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