Chapter 12: Zero's Dilema

Zero carried me usptairs to our bedroom and laid me down on the bed, so I could get some rest. He walked into our bathroom and turned on the shower, he began to take his clothes off. He stepped into the shower and leaned his head against the shower wall and let the water cascade down his head. He stood in there thinking and he wasn't sure what to do. He wanted to tell me who was talking to him in his head, but also didn't want me to worry, he knows I am already worry about so many things right now. Zero hears the shower door open and looks up and see's me coming into the shower. I lean against his back and wrap my arms around him. Zero places his hand overtop of mine. The warm water felt nice beating on my back and Zero's back was so warm. I asked, "Zero is something bother you?" Zero couldn't tell me, he replied, "Nothing is bothering my sweetheart?"

Zero turned around and looked at me, he put his hand under my head and lifted my chin up. He kissed me on the lips softly. I said, "Zero I love you." He said, "I love you to my sweet." He kissed me deeply. After our kiss I asked, "Zero just hold me please." Zero pulled me close to him and just held me in his arms. We stayed in the shower for a few mins before, we got out and got dried off. Zero put my nightgown over top of my head and it slid down my body. He put on a pair of boxers, I sat down on the bed. Zero walked over with a brush in his hand. Zero sat behind me and began to brush out my long blonde hair. I loved when he brushed out my hair.

I asked, "Zero?" He said, "Hmm?" "Do you think we will ever be at peace again,?" I asked. Zero replied, "I know we will hun, we just have someone to take care of and it will all be over." Zero put the brush down and braided my hair and put a hairtie at the end of the braid. I leaned back against his chest and Zero wrapped his arms around me. I reached up rub my fingers through a few strands of his hair.

Zero smiled as I was messing with his hair. He said, "You love playing with my hair don't you?" I smiled and said, "Yes I do, you play with my hair all the time as well." "Who wouldn't her hair is beautiful and I love to burry he face in it, after you have just washed it," Zero replied. I smiled again and I heard crying. I said, "That must be one of the twins." I got out of Zero's arms and left our bed to go into the twins bedroom. Yuri was up and was crying. I ran over to her crib and picked her up. I asked, "Sweety what's wrong?" Yuri said through tears and sniffles, "I saw the scary man momma." I yelled, "Zero!" He ran into the room and said, "What's wrong?"

I said, "Yuri said she saw the scary man." Zero whispered under his breathe, "Rido." He put his arm around me and said, "Don't worry Yuri the scary man isn't going to get you." Akuma woke up and Zero walked over to him and picked him up. He saw that his sister was upset. Zero walked over towards me and Akuma reached out for his sister, their hands met. Akuma said, "Sis don't be scared momm and daddy won't let anything happen to us." Yuri smiled and said, "I know, plus I know Aunt Yuki and Uncle Kaname won't let anything happen to us either." Akuma asked, "Momma was Uncle Kaname always so scary." I giggled and said, "Your uncle isn't scary."

He said, "But he always looks scary when he is yelling at Aido." Zero and I both laughed and Zero said, "That's cause Aido is always doing something he shouldn't be doing." I said, "Now it's time for you two to go back to bed." Yuri held onto me tighter and said, "Momma I want to sleep with you and daddy tonight." Zero said, "You and brother both can." Akuma and Yuri both smiled and we carried them to our bedroom.

I handed Yuri to Zero and I got into bed. Zero put Yuri down on the bed and she crawled over towards me and I held her in my arms. Zero laid down and he held Akuma, who was already fast asleep with his head on his father's chest. I looked down and Yuri was asleep with a smile on her face. Zero leaned over without waking up Akuma and kissed me on the lips. He pulled sheets and blanket over top of us, we both closed our eyes and drifted off to sleep.

As I slept through the night, I started having a dream. "I opened my eyes in my dream and saw that it was Rido beside holding Akuma and not Zero. He woke up and said, "I am the person who should be sleeping in your bed Tsubaki, not that wanna be pure-blood. Only I am strong enough to protect you." I said, "You are wrong I will defeat you Rido!" I tried to get out of bed but he grabbed my hand. Rido said, "You can't fight me forever Tsubaki, I will have you again one way or another." I said, "Your not real, you are dead." Rido said, "Oh no I very much alive, my body as been restored and I will be coming for you and the children and there is nothing Kaname, Yuki or anyone at Cross Academy can do to stop me."

I was tossing and turning in my sleep, so much it woke Yuri up. She said, "Momma...Momma...what's wrong." I hear Yuri's voice and I woke up. I feel sweet on my forehead and I look down at Yuri. She is staring up at me with those same eyes Zero look's at me with sometimes. I said, "Nothing is wrong, just a bad dream sweetie, go back to sleep. Momma is just going to get some fresh air."

Yuri lays her head down on the pillow and goes back to sleep. I kiss her forehead and then get out of bed. I put on my robe and walked out onto the balacony. I stand there for a while staring at the stars. I feel arms wrap around me and I lean back. I look up and see that it is Zero. He asked, "Everything alright?" I said, "Just getting some fresh air." Zero said, "Another bad dream sweetheart?" "How did you know?" I asked. "I know when you have a bad dream my love, you usually come out to the balacony for fresh air," Zero said. We stood outside for a while enjoying the fresh air. From a distance we were being watched, ever so closely.

The figure started to move foward, but he was stopped by someone. The figue asked, "Why did you stop me?" His companion said, "Now is not the right moment." "When will be the right moment. I am tired of waiting, I want my woman and my children now!" the figure said. "All in good time my friend, now lets go before someone senses your prescence," his companion said. They both left and I looked out into the woods thinking i saw someone, but didn't see anyone. I said, "Lets go back to bed, I am getting a little cold. Zero laughed and said, "I know a way to warm you up." I playfully smacked him and said, "The children are sleeping in the bed." He laughed again and we walked back into our bedroom. Zero closed the balacony doors and we got back into bed with the twins and went to sleep.