Plot Bunny – Light Inside – In Which Zero Leaves Before Kaname and Yuuki Did

Falling in love was the last thing Zero wanted to do. Not when he was falling for the wrong person. A wrong male person. A wrong male vampire person. A wrong….ok. Stop. Just stop. Zero harshly ordered his thoughts to a screeching halt.

This wasn't what he wanted. This was not now he envisioned his life to be.

But the chance to avoid the obvious and inventible train wreck was long gone.

And by God did he try. But somehow even when Zero had switch tracks – his train still end up head on for a collision.

Zero can pretty much feel his life slipping away.

He didn't need to confess to know that his hear would be ripped out and grinned into dust.

If the draw backs don't kill him, Zero's shattered heart would.

It was really quit cynical of him, but the truth of the reality was never nice.

"You have to be careful Ze-chan," Zero's mother once told him. "It can make you whole or destroy you."

Zero wonders if it destroyed Ichiru.

Falling in love with a creature that's already broken and empty. Even with all the love Ichiru is willing to give – there was nothing to be given back.

Zero laughed mirthlessly. They really are twins. Actions mirrored each other. Ichiru followed his parents' killer while Zero is practically giving himself to his own.

"So in the end," Zero snorted, "Death is all that waits for me – either by my own hand or his, huh?"

Zero cradles his stomach with a sense of joy and guilt.

He shouldn't have taken advantage of the pureblood. Not when Kaname was tired from the fight with Rido and affected by the hunter spell that Zero had cast in the area.

But Zero was selfish and in a way more than willing to go the extreme – especially when there was nothing left for him.

His brother is dead. His love one – love another while hating him.

Zero was tired of being alone. He wanted a family – something to live for.

As sad as it was – he had only himself.

Yagari-Sensei had abandoned him to Cross when he needed his sensei the most. When Zero needed to be assured that he wasn't any least of a hunter after he was turned.

Instead, his sensei left him.

With Cross.

Cross who threw him to the sharks ( or in this case – vampires). Cross-san had too much faith in those blood suckers – blinded by his past with the Kurans – Cross basically scarified Zero to Kaname and Yuuki – allowing them to use him and make him their knight.

Never once did Cross thought about Zero's feelings – always pushing him to the vampires – so soon after the attack and even sooner than Zero had time to recover.

But worst of all was Yuuki. Don't get Zero wrong – Zero loved the girl like his sister – but by god was she useless!

As a hunter – born and raised, Zero had strict mentality on those who can't and doesn't do anything to prove or fight for their own existence or survival. Ichiru – although weak had always tried his best to become stronger – smarter – useful. But not Yuuki.

If you don't try to improve in this cruel world – then you are better of dead.

Life is a battle – no one can protect you forever.

Yet after all these years – Yuuki still rely on others. She was so use to be protected (by Cross, By Kaname, and some times by him) that Yuuki never bother to better herself – to stand on her own two feet. Even when she tried – she knows in the back of her head that she have someone to fall back on – and therefore never truly tried.

Zero had tried to let her handle the fangirls by coming to the crossover later – but Yuki was just gets babied by Kuran or Aidou – and in the end, Zero had to step in so no one was hurt.

Yuuki never did anything – but get protected.

Zero thought bitterly, "She got the prince in the end. Used me as her knight to take all the risk and danger while she sat back and wait for her prince. And now that the dangerous had passed…"

"It doesn't matter anymore." Zero shook his head and clutches his midsection protective and carefully. "None of it matters anymore, because I have you my child."

The life – growing inside of him – through an act of desperate love and crime between Zero and the drugged out Kaname.

"He owes me this much," Zero tried to defend his action – Kaname who had abused Zero so much over the years – used him – abandoned him – forced him. Kaname who planed Zero's life for him – one that he never wished for.

Haven't Zero paid in sweat, blood, and tears?

The child pulsed life in respond to its mother's distress – comforting the exhuman.

Yes. Zero deserved the little happiness he can get – happiness that he had grabbed by his own two hands. "I'm sorry Kaname," Zero apologized to the wind. He wished that things could have been different. But it wasn't.

Zero may not get the prince – barely surviving knowing that his true mate loves another– but he will have the child – his child.

Zero felt his spirit and sanity shifts – as it anchors to the child.

He had cheated his death for the now. As long as his child needs him – he will live.

It was enough.

Zero moved fast with his possessions. He need to make sure his as far from the Academy as possible – away from the teacher who abandon him when he was no longer human – away from the headmaster who eagerly scarified him for his "innocent" vampires – away from the useless princes who only ever take but never give – but most of all – away from the vampire king who had cruelly stole his heart and crush it to dust.

Zero needs to leave – needs to be safe. Zero knows that he is at his most vulnerable right now. The child had taken a lot of his energy. Zero is supporting this little life alone.

Normally, the other parent – the mate will help support the growing life. The mate would help feed some of their own energy to the child and help protect both the mother and the unborn child from whatever danger out there.

But Zero doesn't have that. Doesn't have a mate.

So he needs to move fast. He need to find a save haven.

As Zero got further and further away from the Academy, planning to buy a ticket to get out of the continent all together – Zero looked a the damn cruse doll that Kaname had given to him )the first gift – even if it was an ill humor one) with a small degree of fondness.

"No regrets," Zero kissed it before letting the doll fall to the grounds.

He could not afford any attachments.

"Baby," Zero cooed to his unborn, "It might be tough – but mama will love you with all my heart to compensate for everything. We might not have daddy, but we will be alright."

Kaname woke up naked and alone. His inside cold and empty – knowing that he lost something very precious.

He looked frantically around for the sliver-haired hunter but found no trace of the exhuman anywhere.

The mess on the bed was the only indication that everything that had happened was not a dream or a fragment of his wishful thinking.

Kaname swallowed with difficulty as he allowed his aura blanked the whole school – trying in vain to find his little mate.

He knew he had acted too late.

So long he had taken the silver-haired boy for granted – safe with the knowledge that Zero was meant to be his. But it seems like Zero have had enough.

Kaname cursed – and his aura grows darker – sending chills and anger throughout the Academy.

Zero was gone.

The Vampire King had grown arrogant – had lost sight – and now he was left holding nothing but the fading scent of his mate.

Oh. The pureblood had always known who his true mate was. From the first time Kaname spotted Zero, Kaname knew. But Zero was too hurt to understand and lashed out. Wanting Zero's attention – good or bad – Kaname allowed their little charade to carry on.

There were too many things Kaname needed to take care of - Rido, the council, other greedy vampires that needed to be taken care of. Kaname was too young and not fully awaken to take care of the dangers yet. It was only the Kuran name that kept others away.

He thought he had more time.

He was wrong.

Zero has grown more and more distant and cold over the years. Too jaded from all that had happened to him.

Everyone was to blame. Everyone was too wrapped up in their own world to notice that Zero was slipping further and further away.

The Sensei who hid away because he couldn't look at Zero without guilt of his own failure to protect his student.

The headmaster who have inkling regarding Kaname and Zero's bond and tried to play cupid only forget to take the confused teenager's feelings into account.

The spoiled princess who for all her good intentions was too naïve and tactless to Zero's pain.

And finally – the arrogant Vampire King who was so busy scheming that he forgot that humans are not chess pieces.

Damn it!

God. How stupid was he?

When the battle with Rido was his win. When the council was killed and sealing his victory. When he had Zero in his arms.

Kaname thought he won.

Never did he think Zero didn't know. Never thinking that maybe he should have set Zero straight before taking his ultimate prize.

Instead Kaname was so drunk on victory and the fact that Zero had came to him.

The little hunter spell had did nothing to Kaname. And even with the battle with his uncle, Kaname knew what he was doing.

Knew when he took his mate into his arms and bed.

Knew when they made life.

Yet, even with everything going his way, Kaname had lost.

Kaname lost his mate to his own foolishness.

The pureblood grab his clothes and straighten his back. No. He won't let his mate run. He won't loose his child.

By the moon that shines high above – Kaname will get Zero back.

Three months. Three long but productive months.

Zero always wondered why the vampires are so traditional and narrow minded. They could have accomplished so much if they only looked at everything with open eyes.

Zero smiled softly as he took a smooth drink from a glass full of red. The blood liquid runs lovely down his throat as the taste of sweet and copper high grade blood flood his system.

There is no way he is risking blood tablets for his child.

Those synthetic and artificial trashes will never touch the life inside of him.

Neither was Zero willing to risk the health of his child with some random stranger's blood – who knows where they have been!

No. Instead, Zero was quiet pleased with his "deal" with the local hospital in the area.

It was quiet genius too, if Zero do say so himself.

People donate blood to hospitals – but not all the blood gets used. Every few weeks or so, the hospital need to get rid of all the blood that they have too much of.

That's where Zero comes in.

After moving to the remote town – Zero had the luck of getting in contact with a very old family friend.

The friend doesn't know about vampire or hunters. But he does have a good heart and works for the hospital.

The friend had offered Zero the job of transporting leftover blood to the disposable facility.

And if some blood makes its way into Zero's fridge and not the dump – well no one needs to know and no one would even care.

The best part of it was that all the blood was screened so Zero knows that he is getting good blood (plus he gets paid).

Seriously, it's a profession made for vampires and they don't even have to risk their necks to get in on the action!

Zero wonder if he was the only who saw the world though simpler lends.

Vampires can really make a living from these hospitals.

For instant, just a taste – no need to swallow – a lick would do – a vampire can tell the human's life story and medical history from a single taste of blood.

Any illness or even a general life span – the vampire would know.

Of course, only accomplished vampires who concentrate and not just drink in the blood have this ability – but given how long vampires can live – they surely can learn.

Plus, with hyper sense, vampire can hear the blood circulation and smell if a person is healthy or not. With some self control – vampires really could make wonderful doctors.

Zero drank the rest of the blood and let out a satisfied sigh.

He really was happier here – away from everything.

Cross talked about co-existing but all he really was doing was tempting starving beast with fresh meat.

And Kaname! How can the vampire be such schemer yet still so dumb at the same time?

Doesn't he know that blood tablets are just hallow pills? They are not really blood with no real nutrition. It's like drugs – just enough to keep you alive but not enough to keep you from starving. No wonder the Night Class was always so temperamental and ready to kill all the time.

Here, where Zero didn't bother to fight what he is – constantly told he was "level e" or tempted by things that he could not have – he was much more relaxed.

Maybe Zero would become a doctor after his little one is born? After all, didn't he last four years around humans in full control of himself?

Finishing the last bit of the wonderful young "O" type blood – male, healthy, early 20s, and virgin (smirk) – Zero cuddled into his warm blankets and went to sleep.

Kaname creep up upon the little cottage both in astonishment and amusement. His little mate has been busy.

From his discovery, Kaname amazed of the simplicity and ingenuity of his little hunter.

Take it for Zero to do almost the impossible.

His little lover had managed to get blood without exposing vampires and hunters. Not just manage to get blood – but was actually being paid to receive the blood.

Love, longing, and possessiveness engulf the Vampire King. He was so close. He will have his Queen.

Kaname felt slightly guilty of leaving his sister with Cross. Confused and bewildered, Yuuki had asked where he was going – when will he return. Kaname should have never indulged Yuuki so much – for she really had thought she would marry the pureblood.

But Kaname was too much in frantic to care.

For those who are older, lived longer – the vampires knew that their king had already chosen. Already mated.

His circled had helped as much as they could – searching far and wide.

It was luck that Zero didn't manage to go through with his promise of leaving the continent, but the silver-haired boy came close. Zero had settled on the far edge of the cusp.

Any further and Kaname would have never found him.

Moving silently, Kaname entered the cottage and lay protectively around his mate. A sense of calm finally returned to him after three long hellish months. He is with his mate – with his child. Kaname was home.

I'm ending it here. It's getting to long and too cheesy if I continue. No seriously. I'm not going there! XD

There were a few concepts that contributed to this plot.

1.) I want another mpreg story because I like Zero being a mama and I like family scenes.

2.) I always wondered why the F*** does no one ever take advantage of hospitals and blood drives. Seriously. You live for thousands of years and have no business sense?

3.) Cross is an idiot sometimes and doesn't seem to take things seriously – you have vampires in your school – you need stricter rules

4.) Where the hell is Yagari all these years? Zero is your student! What the hell have you been doing?

5.) Yuuki…you're not a very good help when it comes to Zero are you?

6.) Kaname you are an asshole – why you always so mean to Zero? And wow aren't you scheme-y!

So. With these thoughts, I constructed a plot with all the elements. But with more yaoi and slash implication that the manga/anime will ever have or allow.

In the end I still like happy endings. And Zero – I'm sorry, honey, but you can't rape anyone because everyone wants to rape you. You only think you are the one in charge – but it's because everyone thinks you're so adorable trying to be in charge that they just let you think you are. You aren't. Kaname was willing too. XD

I still might do a spinoff of the Doctor Vampire thing because I felt that I haven't explore the concept deep enough here. We will see.