Under Our Noses- A Vampire Knight Fanfiction: Sequel.
Disclaimer- Don't Own VK. T-T But I do own Nezumi! :holds up Nezumi: :D
Nezumi: "Ack! What the--?!"
Author's Notes- Welcome to the final chappie of Under Our Noses and I pummel you all with little chibi Kanames, Zeros, Ichirus and Nezumis for sticking wiff me!
Enjoy the epilogue!
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Epilogue
-Ichiru-
The Autumn season finally ensued properly at Cross Academy and cooled the air nicely. The leaves even began falling, covering the dulling grass and making the groundskeepers' jobs harder as they tried to keep it clean and plant the Fall flowers. All of the color schemes around the school became warmer, yet bland. and brighter greens were out... except for a certain pureblood's eyes.
"Ichiru, are you all packed?" Nezumi came up beside me asking.
Yeah, we were leaving the school. Neither of us really came here because we wanted to attend the establishment. I had a place somewhere else where Nezumi could go to a hunter school. Headmaster Cross was upset that the only other pureblood was leaving because he could use the power behind his ideals of the two races co-existing. Nezumi understood and left a written endorsement with him, which was as good as his presence here.
Kaname and Zero didn't mind much if we were leaving, but it wasn't as cold as it sounded. They just knew how it was. Besides, Zero was all sad that his little twin brother was off again. I told him that we would come and visit.
I smiled and nodded, replying, "I barely had anything to begin with. A better question would be: are you?"
He gave a sheepish grin.
"Um..."
He had not, obviously. ;
"Good." I began, confusing him, "I wanted to take you somewhere before we left anyway."
His eyes lit up and he grinned, "Really? Where?"
I laughed and wondered if he was an oddball of a vampire like Takuma was- what could possibly excite a vampire? Apparently, the surprise promise of going somewhere in the small town that he's been in numerous times. I didn't answer him right away- besides, the place we were going before we departed Cross Academy was somewhere we had both gone before.
"Ichiruuuuu!" he mewled, pawing at my shirt, looking so very adorable.
I steeled myself against it saying, "Nope. You'll know soon enough."
And so began his pout... before an evil little smirk took its place and he did exactly what I thought he would- he read my mind. Or tried to anyway.
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"Hey! Why can't I...?" he growled.
"I used a spell."
"Hm! You jerk!" he pouted some more, crossing his arms over his chest.
I ruffled his hair, dodging his swatting hands, before putting a jacket on and moving to stand behind his I'm-not-going-anywhere-with-you form.
"That's right. But you love me that way," I reminded him, bending quickly and pressing my lips to the side of his neck from behind. I felt him shiver and let out a breathy sigh, but as he started to turn to me, I ran out the door, laughing.
"And don't cheat this time!" I called back, dashing down the hall.
Last time I tried to out run the pureblood vampire, I found myself go quickly from tearig through the grass to flat on my back in less than a second. And he was walking some distance away. Another time, I was a fair distance away, but he took a more practical approach and used his super speed to tackle me down. It really wasn't fair. Then again, I always got to be on top in the end, if you know what I mean.
I flung open the Moon Dorm's doors and took off down the stairs and across the darkening campus, headed for the gates. A few vampires were seated on the steps and looked at me like I was nuts. And their expressions changed to that of mixed fear and amusement when Nezumi bounded down the steps close behind. They probably thought he was on the hunt or something. I smirked at the thought- sometimes Nezumi and I liked to play "predator and prey" because it got him excited. No, I knew better; they could feel fear and I definitely was not scared. I was more anxious.
I glanced over my shoulder to see Nezumi focused on me and saw the look of intent on his features. He was running steadily and with the unparalleled grace of a vampire, not even breaking a sweat. I chuckled to myself. Who was I kidding, thinking I could last longer than him even if I was a hunter?
I chanced another look. He looked like a cheetah closing in on a poor impala in the African plains: his eyes level and locked on me and his body moving fautlessly to get the perfect speed.
As I turned back, I saw that I was closer to the gates. Maybe I would win! ; I hoped so, the look in Nezumi's eyes were making me worried if I lost. I made him race (somewhat) like a human and if he still caught me, I had to endure more than just losing. He would never let me live it down. Maybe something more... pleasurable, hopefully...
I wasn't sure if it was my off-track thoughts or what, but suddenly, I heard him grunt and before I could turn my head completely I was rolling over in the grass with presumably a vampire latched around me. The death roll ended with me on the bottom and Nezumi straddled on my waist, pinning my shoulders down, barely even panting. I was, though, and I looked over to see how close I was to winning.
"I... I guess I'm... just... no match for you... huh?" I conceded between pants.
He didn't say anything, but just held my gaze, the intensity from the chase still there. He was not smiling.
"Nezumi?" I tried.
His eyes fell to my neck and his tongue came out to lick his lips, and in the interval, I could see his extended fangs.
"N-Nezumi!" I called, a bit frantic. Tilting my head back, I could see the others way back on the steps standing now and looking our way.
I closed my eyes as he began leaning down. What was happening...?
"You really think I have no control, don't you?" he whispered into my ear and planted a chaste kiss on my bite-area.
My eyes flew open and I snarled, "Nezumi, you little prick! God, you scared the shit out of me!"
At that his eyebrows rose while he got off of me.
"You have quite the mouth. You must get that from your brother."
I stood, smirked good-naturedly and brushed the leaves and such off of me, replying, "Yeah? Well, you have quite the sadistic streak. You must get that from your brother."
"Touche... Either way... I win!" he giggled.
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"The mall?" Nezumi chirpped, looking up at me, questionably.
"What? Don't like my date ideas?" I answered with a questioned (which he hated when I did that anyway). "Well. Maybe you should ask me out sometime," I joked, taking my hand from his. He quickly snatched it back saying quickly, "No! It's fine! I was only wondering why here? We haven't been here since that one time. When our bond was established."
I looked down at him and his slight blush and said, "I know. I was kidding. I wanted to see something here, is all. This isn't the first stop."
He tilted his head on the way through the automatic sliding doors and I felt the soft mental tug of him trying to read my thoughts again, 'hmph'ing when he found the spell still there.
He sulked all the way over to the center of the first floor where there were several benches placed around one of those wishing fountains with all the coins in the pool. He glanced into it curiously before we sat on the bench where we spied Kaname and Zero that one time. Once we were both down, he looked around the huge building, ever-curious of the people and places here. I just watched him with a warm smile until he was focused once more on me.
"So..." he started awkwardly and tinting a bit at my stare.
"Talk to me," I told him. At once, he understood. I wanted to know last time when we were if I would be able to just sit and talk with my girlfriend... or boyfriend.
"Ok," he purred softly and nodded. And so he talked to me. He told me about his childhood, some tears from him and comforting on my part when he spoke of the hunter attack that seperated him and Kaname. He told me of his upbringing with a common vampire couple who taught him almost everything else he needed to live as what he was. The few encounters with my "asshole of a brother", Zero, which made me laugh.
I gave him my story, too, which he said was more interesting than his. He said that he had heard about the Hio/Kiryuu murders, and that he was interseted of how I fell in to be with the other pureblood. I eventually asked Nezumi, though, if he was Kaname's twin because they looked alot alike.
He laughed and shook his head, "No, we just both look a bit alike, I guess. Besides, his eyes are auburn and mine aren't."
I smiled and held his face in one of my hands, gently. Immediately, as he leaned into my touch, he blushed and brought his hand up to rest over mine. I leaned in and whispered, "That's right. Yours are green."
And I kissed him.
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"You said this was stop one. Can't we stay a while longer? I want to look around in there..." he whined, looking behind us at the closing doors of the mall forlornly.
"We can come back. The second place isn't too far away from here." and I pointed off into the now way overgrown, still a little green, grassy field next to the mall where Nezumi bit me for the first time. "It'll only be a second."
He blushed again and murmured, "I fell in love with a romantic..."
"You did," I confirmed and proceeded to pull him along by the hand, through the parking lot and towards the poorly-kempt area.
The sun was almost to the horizon when we got to the edge where the pavement met the grass with a silver meeting green effect and I doubted Nezumi thought of it as me and him, but like he said: I was a romantic.
"Ready? The grass is taller than you," I barbed.
He sneered at me and told me to just go before he kills me. I laughed and stepped in, the grass almost swallowing me myself. As I turned around, still stomping down the grass as much as I could so Nezumi made it through easier, I saw him glancing around at the vegetation in interest and tucking a few stray locks of deep cocoa hair back behind his ear. I smiled in adoration and turned back, giving his hand a light squeeze. He squoze back after a second of probably looking confused as to why I did that. The blood bond flickered a bit in our rising feelings and I never thought in a million years that I would come to love a vampire.
Finally, I stopped and looked up out of the grass into the sky.
"This is about where it happened. Do you think you could...?" I asked, motioning toward all this grass around us, letting go of his hand. He nodded, understanding what I wanted him to do. He closed his eyes and I felt gravity increase a bit, but the grass around us flattened swiftly in a large circle, making a clearing.
"You know," he said matter-of-factly while taking a seat on the soft grass, "I could've made a path to this area, as well"
I sat down, too, facing him. "Yeah, I know. But if you did that then I wouldn't feel so much like the dominant one. I'm the boyfriend."
"...I'm a boy, too," he said.
"Trust me, I know." I said, making him pout in embarassment. "But you are the girl in our relationship."
"Whatever," he muttered in defeat, dropping onto his back. I took the opprotunity to crawl over and loom over his body on all fours, making him watch me warily. But I only dropped my head to kiss his forehead before rolling over and laying next to him. He grunted, which made me smirk.
"What did you think I was going to do? Fuck you?"
His eyes widened as he rolled onto his side looking at me. "There you go again with that language. Kiryuu must have taught you all those words when you were little."
"No..." I insisted, but I forgot what I was talking about when he scooted closer and pressed his head to my chest, curling up there. I put my arms around him and closed myself around him as much as I could, too.
"You're so warm, Ichiru..." he whispered.
"You are, too..." I told him before I closed my eyes, almost getting sleepy listening to his soft breathing.
We laid there for about a mintue before Nezumi untucked his head and looked up at me with something resembling awe flashing through his eyes. I looked back at him with a questioning smile.
"Hey, Ichiru. Your heartbeat."
"What of it?"
"It matches mine."
"Hm. Do you know why?" I asked, sounding like an elementary school teacher.
"The blood bond...?" he tried.
"Yes. But a more romantic answer would be..."
"Because I love you and our hearts know when they have met their match."
"Hm. That was good," I complimented.
We still laid there, neither of us willing to fall alseep and miss a second of one of those "times" with each other. The stars were out, recording the moment within their infinite, gittering forms, by the time we stood back up and made our way back to the mall so Nezumi could get some shopping out of his system.
I gave a dirty smile to him when he came back with a pair of jeans that I would die to see him and his butt in and couldn't believe I didn't see it when I agreed to help him get our brothers apart. How stupid of me to go after Zero when my signifigant other was right here the whole time.
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As I witnessed what seemed like Nezumi's first shopping spree, I wondered if he would consider adopting a child somewhere along the line... because while I had no shame in loving another male, I would love having a family with him at my side.
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Author's Notes: That's right! That's the end, or is the beginning!? :D Before I post a little poll I'd like you to answer quickly... I'd like to thank the Academy... oops, wrong group. X3 I'm corny, I know. But really, thanks for reading the whole thing and reviewing even though it would be easier to just read and carry on. Please review for this one, too.
Anyways, poll!!
1) Should I do the next sequel? Which is obviously hinted at in the end.
2) If I did the sequel, would you mind if it was mostly told with mostly IchiruxNezumi?
Thanks once more and if those two questions get too many rejections, then sorry, no third installment! If you don't want that to happen, then please tell me if you want me to continue the little series I've got going!
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