Love for my beauty
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Chapter 12
The next day after the 'incident' both Zero and Kaname both relaxed and decided to go on a date. They had a little picnic in the cherry blossom garden enjoying the last bloom of the cherry blossoms.
While the two purebloods enjoyed their picnic, Toru and Kikyo discussed something important in Kikyo's room.
"Kikyo-sama our time has nearly come." Toru said.
Kikyo who still looked at Zero in the garden through the window turned around to face her companion and answered, "I know." Kikyo walked towards her desk near the window and took out a silver box in which the book of sin inside lied inside. "That's why I want you to bring this to them."Kikyo said while giving the box to Toru.
"Are you sure Kikyo-sama? Is our duty important enough to pay the price?", Toru asked. There was sadness in his eyes as he looked at the woman in front of him "We could lose Zero-sama's trust if we continue doing this."
"I know," Kikyo said a little louder than necessary, "but we need to do this!" There were tears in her eyes "We need to do this if we want everything to end, which includes our curse. I do this to protect Zero, too." Kikyo wiped her eyes, "I really care about Zero and I love him as if he was my own son. That's why we need to do this to protect the last heir of mine and to fulfil our duty although I know that this will hurt his heart." Kikyo said in sad whisper.
Toru walked towards the woman in front of him and hugged her. "You know that I will be here for you forever, right Kikyo-sama? Share your pain with me. Don't put this burden on only your shoulders. Share it with me because that's my purpose for living right now."
Kikyo hugged him back, "Thank you, Toru."
After a while he put his arms down and stepped back, "I'm going to go now. Tomorrow is after all the time for our meeting with them."
"I will go too. I believe when Zero realizes that we took this book from his room, he wouldn't want to see us again. I don't want to see hatred in his eyes that is directed towards me."
"Let's go now while he is still busy."
With the wind blowing the two disappeared and left thousands of blood red rose petals behind.
Inan old manor near Mount Fuji
"Found anything out of place?" Sara asked Tsuruhito.
"This place is for more than fifty years abandoned and I didn't find anything suspicious in there." informed the light blue haired pureblood. "I already looked at everything and there is nothing left in there." he added.
Ryoga came up to them: "I'll be the one to meet these two then while the two of you prepare the last stage."
"The preparations are nearly done.", answered the only girl., "From a hundred people we only need twenty six more to have the right amount of blood."
"That's good to hear. Soon we can start with the final act. As soon as I lay my hand on that book." Said the grey haired pureblood.
"I'll accompany you, Ryo. Since the task of collecting those humans can be finished alone by Sara, I will come along with you. I know you're strong enough but I just want to make sure that everything is going to be alright."
The other purebloods just nodded in agreement to what Tsuruhito said.
Hio mansion
Back at the Hio mansion both Zero and Kaname were still cuddling beneath the cherry blossoms, enjoying each other company when Kaito, Kaien and Yagari came up to them.
"These are the reports of the missing people in the village near the mansion that you wanted." said the one eyed hunter in a rush, ignoring the position of his former student and the vampire prince.
The two purebloods were stunned for a second before the both of them nodded "Let's discuss this inside." the silver haired ex-hunter ordered while leading them inside.
"So how many people are already missing?" Kaname asked.
Kaito gave them a copy of the report: "Five in a village South-East from here, eleven in the North, seven one in the North-East and twelve in the East. Currently there are thirty five people missing. These people all had some similarities when they disappeared. They all disappeared at night and all of them were, according to the report, dragged by people with red eyes." The two purebloods nodded.
"According to the book of sin they need the blood from one hundred people. If they only have thirty five people then there's still time left.", before Zero was able to continue Yuki opened the door.
"All the nobles are coming, but…." there was hesitation in Yuki's voice and she looked worried.
Hearing the worry in her voice, Kaname approached his little sister: "Is something wrong with them?"
"They are all alright and back already but it seems that they have bad news." The others tensed, hearing her but didn't say anything.
"Yuki, could you bring them here?" Kaname asked.
The pureblood princess just nodded "Of course Onii-sama." With that Yuki left the study to bring the other vampires back. Soon Yuki came back with them and Takuma proceeded to give the reports of their jobs.
"Ten in the South-West, thirteen in the West and sixteen in the North-West.", Kaname was reading the report aloud. "With this they just need twenty six more. We need to prevent that from happening." Kaname said.
The others listened carefully and didn't say anything until the silverette ex-hunter looked at Yuki: "Yuki, could you perhaps call Kikyo and Toru, I need to inform them to do their job that I gave to them."
Yuki nodded and walked out. When she came back, she looked troubled. Toru and Kikyo weren't with her.
"What happened Yuki? Where are Toru and Kikyo?", Zero asked.
"I couldn't find them. I tried to look everywhere. I looked in the kitchen, the gardens and even in their rooms but they are nowhere to be found."
Zero eyes widened. "Where are they?" Zero asked in a whisper.
"But I found a lot of rose petals covering the floor of Kikyo's room." Yuki said while giving Zero one of the petals that she found.
Zero took it, stared at it and ran as fast as possible towards Kikyo's room. When he arrived he pushed open the doors and just like Yuki said the room was covered with blood red rose petals. Zero felt a bit dizzy after he looked at the petals and nearly fell to the ground if Kaname didn't catch him.
"Zero are you alright?" asked the pureblood prince.
Zero unfocused eyes still looked to the ceiling "It's the same." Zero said towards no one with a weak voice. He saw the same slide of background when he meet Rose. Everything was the same, the same blood red rose petals beneath him and he could feel the same aura lingering in the room. The only difference between the two places was the ceiling colour. In here the ceiling had a light brown colour while the other place was completely white. "Rose-san." That's the last thing the silverette said before he lost his consciousness.
Themeeting place
The moon was already high in the sky and gave a gentle gleam towards the earth beneath him, which was covered with the last bloom of cherry blossoms. In the clearing were already two figures. They were standing near the lake which became a perfect mirror for the sun of the night.
"Ah, so you decided to come." said the first figure to the person who appeared across him. "No need to worry, I came here to give you the thing that I promised to you."
"What do you want for it?" the first figure asked.
The second was startled with the question but regained his composure fast and smiled towards the other one. "I don't want you to give me anything. My master and I only want to see the awakening of the silver blood."
The first figure locked eyes with the other, "What is your and your Master's name?"
"You can call me Toru, Ryoga-sama, and my Master's name is Rose." From the abandoned temple came a beautiful woman with silver hair and red eyes wearing a crimson kimono. She was walking elegantly towards the three men. And stopped besides Toru.
"So are you agreeing to let us participate?", asked the silver haired woman. The pureblood in front of her nodded. Rose looked up and stated: "It's alright for your companion to show himself."
After hearing that, Tsuruhito showed himself and stood beside the dark grey haired pureblood.
Ryoga could feel that the woman in front of him was different then any other vampire he ever met. He was sure that she was a vampire but he couldn't tell what level she was. He could feel that she was stronger than him and although he would fight her with Tsuruhito there was no guarantee that they were going to win. "Ok then, I'll let you participate. Are you going to give me the book?"
Toru gave the silver box to the pureblood "The book is inside the box."
The two purebloods looked inside the box and took the book to read it. "This is the right book.", Ryoga stated. He then looked at the two vampires in front of him "The two of you can come along."
Zero's Room
"I'm sorry Zero if I hurt you."
After he heard the vague voice from a woman, Zero woke up. He opened his eyes and sat up in his bed. He looked beside him and found a sleeping Kaname who sat in the armchair. He closed his eyes once more to try to remember about what had happened. "Rose-san what is the meaning of all this?"
Kaname woke up after he heard the faint voice of Zero and went to bedside with a rush. "Zero are you alright?", Kaname asked worriedly.
Zero looked at his lover and nodded, "I'm alright."
The brunette then hugged his younger lover tightly "Thank goodness. I was really afraid when you passed out today."
The younger one hugged his lover back, "I'm alright. No need to worry." Kaname released Zero from his hug and sat down beside him. "Are Kikyo and Toru back?" Zero asked.
Kaname shook his head "No, they aren't back." The older pureblood looked at his now sad lover, "I know that you really trust and care about them, but I have to inform you that there's a possibility that they betrayed you."
"What do you mean Kaname?", Zero asked, "I know that they left without saying anything but that doesn't mean that they betrayed me."
Kaname gave a heavy sigh "After you passed out, we wanted to read the book of sin. When we looked for it the book was not in the place where you left it. I found the seal that used to lock the box in Kikyo's bed. And from what you told me before, the seal could be only opened by you or Kikyo."
"But, how… I mean why… everything shouldn't be like this." Zero said with a trembling voice.
"I don't know love. But you can't be sad like this forever. When three purebloods may already have the book we need to stop them as soon as possible." Kaname said.
"But, how?" Zero asked.
"Seiren is already back and has enough information about those three purebloods exact location. We will go and attack them tomorrow."
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