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"King always bowed down to his queen," he murmured softly the quote which he read somewhere in literature book. But Yuki's sharp hearing sense heard clearly every word.
Yuki startled at the word Queen. Words of Ayami were echoed in her mind, but she simply pushed those thoughts. She didn't want to hurt herself again with false hope.
At the next moment, Zero realized what he said unintentionally. Both froze on their place. He saw something glistened in her eyes after listening his quote.
Both avoided eye contact for a moment.
After a pregnant pause, Yuki broke the silence.
"Yes, sure," she amiably gave her small hand in his big one.
He wanted to pull her towards him and hide her in his chest.
No. It wasn't right. He castigated himself for thinking like that.
Both silently went to their destination, where he arranged everything for her.
"I hope you didn't take dinner" he said monotonously. She shook her head.
He pulled a chair for her, she smiled to see him.
He opened the bottle of Wine.
"This is a special wine, made of black roses. So, it quenches the thirst same like blood does," he informed her. She astounded at the fact.
"How do you find things like that?" She asked in utter surprise.
Their surrounding was completely silent except the swishing of flying bats and rustles of leaves.
"My dad had great interest in black roses," he smiled to think about his father. "He wanted to find some nice replacement of blood. So, we can save humanity" he paused for a moment, Yuki was listening with interest. "So, he hired many scientists to research on it. He discovered black roses and decided to make substitution of blood" his tone held elation for his father.
Yuki also noted that. "So, it was his?" She left her sentence but he understood.
"Yes! He was also a scientist and he invented this" a glint of sadness could be sensed in his tone, otherwise it was elated for his father.
Yuki took a sip and her eyes bulged with its delicious tone.
It was sweet like cherry and pomegranate nectars, but at the same time, it had a very small part of bitterness of blood, but it wasn't destroying its taste but only enhancing it.
"It's so good. I wonder why didn't I taste it before?" She whined sulkily after tasting those delicious nectar like forbidden fruit.
Zero stared at her.
"You know those black roses fetched by blood" he started to answer her.
Yuki nodded while taking sips from her wine glass gracefully.
"We cropped them with our blood. After death of my parents. It was my blood which fetched them"
Yuki bewildered at the fact. Now she understood why did she feel satisfied to drink it. Of course, she wanted his blood. Not completely, but it held his blood.
"Secondly, it's very hard to make and because of rarity of black roses, this wine is also rare. So, after death of my parents, I boycotted every business with Kuran" this time his tone was serious, he didn't need to tell her why? because she already knew it.
She nodded and felt the heavy silence between them after touching sensitive topic.
They both felt heaviness between them.
They took their dinner silently. After dinner, Zero handed over her gift to her.
She received it with a smile.
She opened the black box and found a rode inside of it.
Before she could scrutinize his gift, his voice halted her action.
"Don't touch it. It's anti-vampire weapon"
She looked at him like he was crazy.
"You gifted me anti-vampire weapon Zero" she scoffed incredulously.
"This is special anti-vampire weapon. You can wield it, but you need to learn and train with it, if a vampire hunter train you." Zero answered calmly.
Then he stood from his place and stopped behind her.
He took back of her hand under his palm and made her hold rode.
He clicked the rode and it changed its size.
"Wow...! This is cool," she praised truthfully.
"I'll teach you how to wield it," he told her in her ear, but his voice was not above than whisper.
She turned her head to see him and she felt his eyes were darker than his usual violet color.
"Do you know to wield it?" She asked, but she felt her voice was hoarse with his proximity.
He nodded, then left her body, she felt a bit current in her hands but she neither flinch nor fling the weapon.
"I know you have a potential to wield it. So, I've decided to give you that. Basically I thought to give it to Saya. But she had more interest in shooting than sword fighting and a perfect sword fighter can wield Artemis rode. Moreover, Saya can't wield anti-vampire weapon" he explained about weapon.
She felt flatter on his words, he specially decided to give her that because he felt she was skilled. She smiled sadly at irony that before one year, she was dying to listen praise from him. Now, he was praising her, but she didn't feel elation because she now wanted more than his attention and praise.
"But I also can't wield anti-vampire weapon. So, how can I wield it?" She tried to clear her confusion regarding her gift.
Zero clicked at the bottom of rode, it turned into small size like before it was.
"Actually, it was my mother's"
Yuki startled at the revelation.
"She discovered the way of wielding it with the help of her hunter friend. It's like a wild beast. If you have courage and potential, you can tame it. And when I decided to give you this. I knew you'll tame it, moreover, I'll help you"
Zero was seeing the stars in the sky. Yuki felt overwhelmed with emotions that he had given her, his mother's weapon.
She abruptly hugged him.
"Thank you Zero" she murmured in his ear. Zero startled at her action, but he embraced her back. They shared close moment, but it was their first hug. And both felt heart beats of each others. For a moment, they forgot about everything and felt warmth of each others. But after the few minutes, they realized their posture and departed from each others.
They avoided eye contacts with each others embarrassedly.
But before leaving the park, Yuki's pinky finger interwoven with him. Both were avoiding eye contact but both could hear the heartbeat of each others. Heartbeat which mingled with each others monotonously.
After that incident, academy witnessed strange things between two Night Class' guardians.
Day class girls noted whenever they tried to peek Night class dorm in the day time, while skipping their class, They noticed how their Zero-senpai held the hand of female prefect of Night class. Their eyes were blazing with fire to see the view.
They saw how she put her head on his shoulder during their patrol and how his other hand started to squeezed her shoulder.
The boys of Day class saw how their dream girl looked at silver haired prefect. How she was always there, whenever he tired to practice his shooting practice on Sunday. She was always there, with the bottle of water.
How did she glowered at the girls who tried to get the attention of silverette.
Night class started to noticed how two purebloods started to spending time with each others more than their patrol duty and her math tuition time.
How both of their chairs were decreased the distance between them, during dinner time.
How they came in class exact same time and exit with each others.
How did Yuki try to make meal for Zero and how stoic prince started to tease her.
Their reactions were like.
Day class girls.
"I don't understand what he saw in her?"
"Maybe both would carry their relationship. Both are rich and gorgeous"
"How Yuki always stuck with him"
"I think we would witness their romance soon"
"And I think they already started their romance"
"But why our Zero-senpai was with that weirdo?"
Day class boys:
"Why our dream girl is with silver haired emo?"
"Our princess started to fall for him"
"He was always there for her"
Night class commoner:
"Don't you think they look cute with each others?"
"They both belonged to royal family. Maybe we would received their engagement card soon"
"Yuki-sama is engaged with her brother. Isn't she?"
"They both are purebloods and purebloods normally played with each others and after some time break up with each others like nothing happened"
"Yes! Purebloods have many lovers"
"I wish they both forget their vendetta and be with each others"
Nobles:
"It would be bad, if Kaname-sama would know about it"
"I hope it would only friendship between them"
"Yuki-sama is doing wrong. Zero-sama shouldn't play with her"
"It was Yuki-sama who took initial step. She shouldn't spread that mess"
"Oh God! If they are serious with each others. It would be destruction for both clans"
"If they're not enemies. It would be great benefits for both clan to fix their alliance"
Pureblood like Maria.
"Do you know Ichiru? Oni-san started to involve with Kuran princess"
After hearing all this gossip Zero acted like he didn't hear anything and Yuki... Well! Yuki didn't know it could be happened because Zero was taken already and there was no chance of her with him.