chapter 14

Present Day:

Yuki, Zero and Kaname all three of them were in the library since the doctors wanted to have a word with them privately. Finally Ren's test report have arrived. Just like Kaname Kuran the doctor too assume the symptoms to be of asthma. However the results on the test reports shocked him greatly which is why he called this private meeting only with the child's parents and uncle Kaname Kuran, who decided use the inhaler on him just on time.

"Ren will be okay... right?" Yuki asked the doctors who was seated on the couch opposite of her. Zero immediately took hold of his wife's hand and gave it a comforting squeeze.

"Actually there is a good news and a bad news." The doctor said diverting his eyes from the Kiryu couple to Kaname Kuran who was seated on the large single sitter on the other side with his legs crossed one on top of the other.

"What is it?" Zero asked concerned.

"Good news is according to the test reports Ren does not have asthma, however..."

Yuki and Zero were about to sigh in relief but the last word got them all alerted. Making them brace for the worst.

"The bad news is...there were traces of slow dosed poison in his stomach."

"WHAT?" Yuki and Zero asked in union not believing their ears.

The doctor focused his attention on Yuki "As a mother you must watch what he eats. He may have accidentally consumed certain things that he shouldn't not have. But not to worry for now he is good. I have already given the antidote so he is out of danger. But still Mrs. Kiryu I would advise you to keep an eye on his intake of food."

Zero and Yuki remained in the library while Kaname escorted the doctor out. Both remained seated there in shock. The news did not sit well with them. Especially Yuki. At this point she suspected all. Everyone was under her suspicion list. Though she remained calm on the outside, but inside she took an oath to get to the bottom of this.

"Take my hand," Yuki snapped out of her zone hearing that voice and saw Zero's hand placed before her. "Let's go to the park"

Yuki knew right away which Park he is talking about.

At the park:

"What is in your mind?" Zero asked running his fingers through Yuki's hair as she rested her head upon his head.

"A lot of things," she gulped nervously. "Ren, Ai, Aiyora's strange behaviour and Kaname's even stranger act."

"Kuran seems to have changed a lot since I last saw." Zero agreed then questioned. "What about Aiyora what did she do?"

"Well she apparently threatened her daughter not to play with Ai." Yuki said letting out a heavy breath. "It looks like she had quite a change. It's more like she has become quite selfish. Others don't matter to her. Heck! Why am I going so far? Her own kids doesn't matter to her."

Yuki let out another heavy sigh.

"Zero three nights back I woke up hearing a child's cry and then went to and saw Kaname pacing from on end to other of the living room with Marika in his arms. The poor child was burning with fever. She was crying, he couldn't feed her. The whole situation was a mess. And Aiyora was nowhere near. Also guess why the child had fever in the first place?"

"Why?"

"...because Aiyora fed her ice cream!" Zero massaged her head harder noticing how tensed and excited Yuki is getting. "She is a mother of four yet she doesn't know that you should feed your infant milk not ice cream."

"Zero these children have only one parental figure. Kaname! Just imagine if anything happens to him tomorrow what will these kids do? Now I'm actually worried about them. End of the day they are my nephews and nieces. They are my blood."

Suddenly Yuki quieted down but moments later spoke again.

"Aiyora was never liked this Zero, I don't recall her being like this. What happened to her? Few nights back she and kaname got into some fights and the almost the whole night she screamed and cursed him and by early morning I found them in the kitchen, laughing, joking feeding each other. Like none of those fiasco ever happened. But because of them all the kids went to bed hungry."

Finally Zero decided to ask "Yuki I understand what you mean but I have a feeling there is more to it than appears in the eye. Do you want me to observe her for a while."

"What do you mean?" Yuki asked sitting up.

"Yuki you do realize what you said none of these are normal." She raised an eyebrow in question. "It is either Kaname knows and is deliberately hiding or he is ignoring all the symptoms. But if matters are not taken into hand things can take a different turn. Most definitely for the worst."

"Zero...?" Yuki dreaded to ask. "...she is not going crazy? Is she?"

Zero did not answer, he could not answer. He simply pull his wife into his arms and held her tightly. At this point he himself doesn't know where the situation stands; but he will find out soon, very soon. After all every illness is curable if treated from the early stage.

...

Aiyora opened the door of her bedroom and walked into with her youngest one, the three month old Marika in her arms. She was cooing incoherent words into her ears while the infant continued to play with her long black locks not at all bothered to listen to what her mother was blabbering about.

"Look Mari-chan our bed sheets have been changed." The child let out a sound yanking her mother's hair a little bit. While Aiyora pointed towards the newly changed back and gold colour combined satin sheet that cover the massive king-size bed in her chamber.

"Shouldn't we go and thank the maids for doing such wonderful job Mari-chan?" her little baby girl was way too occupied with her hair and innocent games of her little world to care about her mother's teaching.

Aiyora cringed feeling another sharp pull in her hair. She looked at her baby only to melt at her toothless grin in her direction. The little one just invented a new game to play with her mother.

Aiyora sighed in defeat letting her baby go along with her new found toy, which in this case is sadly her hair. "You like to play with Mama's hair don't you?"

She was about place Marika onto her be but then suddenly backed away clutching the three month old baby into her chest tightly. She quickly and abruptly put little Marika into her crib. The child started to cry immediately when separated from her mother's warmth. Unfortunately her mother was completely lost in another zone to even hear her child's cry at that moment. Therefore ignoring her babies cry Aiyora once again started to take slow careful steps towards the bed. Once reached within the bed's reach Aiyora gulped nervously and kneeled down before the bed watching the sheets placed on it with intense eyes. As if her mind could recall something and it did. It remained her of that day…

"Mari …these are not new bed sheets," Aiyora told her daughter in an absent minded way like she was actually conversing with an adult. "…these bed sheets are bad, they are tainted," her voice broke down tears started to pour down her large green eyes which she did not even bother to wipe away. "…impure, impure, impure…" she whispered the word like it was some kind of prayer before the full sentence finally left her mouth as she broke down into bitter cry.

"…I was made impure here…"

And as she looked next she could see…

He stood before her drunk. Dangerously drunk! But it is only the middle of the evening? Besides no matter the time Aiyora has never seen her husband in this condition before. What happened?

"Kaname?" She carefully and cautiously approached him. Those dark furious eyes were burning wholes into her form and that scared her. She decided to ask again if he was alright.

"Kana-"

"Mine!"

He hissed grasping Aiyora by her arm. His grip was so hard that it ached. And the next thing that seven months pregnant Aiyora knew was being forcefully dragged into her husband's room and violently pushed into the bed. The sheets covering

"WHAT ARE DOING KANAME?" She screamed. Both confused and afraid by this new dark aura that has been emanating from him.

"I''M DOING WHAT I SHOULD HAVE FROM THE VERY BEGINNING!" he screamed back at first but then, "this madness must stop." He answered her calmly in a lower voice all of a sudden while taking off the leather belt off his pant. Her green eyes turned wide realizing what is coming for her. Tightly holding onto her swollen belly Aiyora managed to climb down the bed but alas all her efforts went down the drain since Kaname was before her at an electric speed and pushed her back onto the bed. This time his grasp was so harsh that it left print of his hand on her so fair skin where he grasped.

"KANAME!?" she was already in tears. "WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU? Why are you talking like this all of a sudden?"

He responded to her by loosening his tie, undoing the cuffs of his shirt and un-tugged it.

"You must understand Aiyora, a woman cannot be in love with another woman. It is not normal. It is a sin, grave sin and this sin shall no continue no more. Certainly not in this house." With that said he whipped onto her legs with that long leather belt that he just took off. Aiyora's cry came in a pitiful scream. Sadly it did not reach his ear, and definitely not his heart and that is why was able to whip her the second time this more hard than last time cutting through the skin of her leg.

"KANAME!" she cried out while her eyes begged for mercy. Nothing made sense. Why was he saying all these? Why was he hitting her during this delicate stage.

"Does it hurt?...it does, doesn't it? " he asked her in cold voice and chucked a sinister chuckle. "I felt the same way for all these month when I had to watch from the sidelines my wife and sister fuck each other."

He sat down on the bed and cupped her face. Slapping his hands away Aiyora was about to back away only for him to take hold of both her hands tied it up with that belt as tightly as possible.

At this point Aiyora is all sure where this is going, besides his angry eyes stood as clear evidence that he is more than willing to murder her and begged him with every excuse to spare her.

"Kaname please stop, please please please please. I will listen to you. I will do everything as you say. Please Kaname I beg you. Don't do this. You'll hurt me. You'll hurt the babies. Please don't…" she while begged for him to have mercy, he took off his tie rolled it and made a ball out of it. Then put that balled tie into her mouth by forcefully parting it and blocked further sounds from coming out.

With legs injured, hands tied and mouth blocked no options were left for her to defend herself or the two children inside her. All she could do was watch…She watched as he forced her down on her back, ripped all pieces of clothes covering her body.

"From now on you are mine only mine…" the look of his eyes frightened her. She feared if he was going to kill her. "I will removed all of Yuki's traces from you…" with those words he dived down to bite her savagely all over her chest, neck, collar-bone whatever places his mouth could find and at the same time his nails scratched down her sides, legs, not even her pregnant stomach was spared. Her eyes almost popped out of the socket. He made her bleed every where his nails and teeth assaulted.

Aiyora cried, screamed, begged but no sound came out. All that could be heard were her muffled cries calling out for help. Any sort of humanitarian help.

"You never bled the first time I took you…" he whispered into her ear in a sinister voice and her eyes widen. The kissed her forehead affectionately like he was making love to her. "…don't worry my love now you will." She saw some form of strange madness gleaming in his eyes but was not sure what kind of move he was going to make until he licked his whole palm wetting it as much as possible before sliding it down and down and down and then penetrated through her core. Aiyora shook her head in immense pain that devoured her body and made her feel like someone was cutting her down there, the insides of her womb with scissors.

Pain...pain...pain...

She wasn't sure how long he was there or what actually he did but with the sudden disappearance of the pain something close to relief passed through her body but even before she could experience that feeling, she rolled onto her stomach and he invaded her practically slamming his body from behind. His teeth violently bit into the crook of her neck like was some sort of a vampire as he continued to thrust into her. His teeth pierced through her flesh and Aiyora could no longer breathe. Her blood gushed into his mouth and he drank it up like it fine wine.

She was turned back on her stomach once more as he started his assault on her from the front. His thrust and pace was turing violent. Maybe he wasn't aware or maybe he didn't care but Aiyora felt it. He was hurting the baby. She tried everything in her power to bring her hands down to cover her swollen stomach. The skin of her wrist bruised and bled as she tried to struggle to break free from the knot but...nothing worked...

She could not even voice him to stop when he pounced down on her so hard upon his release with a victorious grunt and mostly likely crushed their babies, their twins under his heavy weight.It was that moment when her heart shattered to hundreds of pieces. She knew she failed, she failed, she failed to protect her unborn children.

Aiyora screamed, she cried, she wailed just one word, that one word, which alone stands for a sentence.

"STOP!" Aiyora screamed. "Stop! Stop! Stop!" crunching her lids down and covering her ears with hands Aiyora continued to scream. Hoping that memory would fade away but no somehow it was becoming more and more vivid.

She was not even sure what her condition was originally or what position she was in till she felt a pair of strong arms pulling her against a hard chest. The familiar warmth relaxed her initially. It gave her the courage to open her eyes but her grip on his form remained tight.

"Aiyora, my love, sweetheart it's okay…it's okay…I'm here…I'm right here…" however things changed as he opened his mouth. Recognizing the voice she tore herself out of his arms and back away.

"Aiyora?" Kaname stood there confused. Not being able to figure out what was troubling her frustrated him even more.

Aiyora watched him with open mouth horror for a while before suddenly turning her head towards the bed again and started at it so intensely like she was watching something taking place there. Kaname was not sure what she could see on the bed however the expression on her face told him she must having some sort of horrifying hallucination. He neared her and followed her gaze, but all he saw was the empty bed.

Aiyora on the other hand started to hyperventilate, because she could still see herself and Kaname on the bed. The image was somehow un-erasable. She could see Kaname ripping of every piece of the clothes, his teeth biting her, his nails digging into her flesh and scratching her, his hands hitting her. She is being for him to stop but he does. There was no mercy in his eyes only cruelty.

"Please don't hurt me Kaname…don't hurt me…don't hurt the baby…don't…" Aiyora muttered under her breath and that had the male turn his face towards her with eyes wide as plates. All these time he was confused about what she seeing but now that he knows…

All these time he thoughts they have left the dark past behind them. Its been ten years since this incident. It was a mistake that should have never been made. His actions cost the life of one of their child and its twin Kanezawa barely made it out alive being prematurely born in a critical condition only in seven months. Kaname knows what he has done is unforgivable yet he asked for her forgiveness many times. He tried to make up in many ways and is still doing and she herself told him that she has forgiven him. Since that day neither of them spoke about this day. Then how? He wonders. How is it even possible that suddenly she is seeing events from that day unfolding? Could it be possible in her heart she never really did forgive him?

"Aiyora?" he cupped her face and made her face him. She slapped her hands away and took few steps back till her knee hit the bedside table and she turned right away picked up the clock and threw it at his direction. It missed him by mere second. Kaname was fast enough to dodge the attack.

Their infant about whom they both forgot started to cry out loud. Very loud. Kaname moved his eyes towards the crib but didn't have the courage to go near it what if she hits again the baby might get hurt.

"Aiyora don't Marika is in the room, you might hurt her." his sounded like he surrendered. "Please do not throw stuff. Hit me if you desire but please do not throw stuff around."

"Well then," She finally revealed the long flower vase that she was hiding behind her lounged towards him in second and aiming straight towards his head.

If Kaanme recalls correctly he remembers hearing the sound of the vase breaking the when it collided with his skull at full force. He tried to shield his head using one hand but that did not save his from the injury. He felt fresh hot blood pouring out from somewhere on his head. But did not get the time to search for injuries Seiran's urgent call made him run towards balcony. There his heart stopped at the sight of Aiyora trying to jump down and Seiran holding her back with all her strength.

Juri Kuran was in the room watching her daily evening soap-operas. Sound of the infants cry reached her ear. At first she shook it all away curing the useless mother in her head. But the crying seemed to be only getting louder and louder. Panic started to flow through her system. She jumped down her bed and ran grabbing her gown the moment she heard Seiran's screaming out her son's name calling him to come to balcony. By then it is more than confirmed something bad is really happening.

"Kaname is everything alright?" she burst through his door to be faced with the sight of Kaname on the bed holding Aiyora into with all his strength as she was trying to break free at any cost and Seiran pushing the injection into her. And only a few seconds within that Aiyora's body gave away and taking her into deep slumber.

...

Kaname clenched his mouth and winced slightly when his mother rubbed the wound on his forehead with antiseptic.

"Is it burning?" she asked him and he nodded no.

"How did this happen?" His father who was seated on the couch on the opposite end with his oldest grandson beside him asked.

"It was an accident." Kaname simply lied.

"Not it was not…" Juri interjected. "You beloved wife tried to kill you." she declared while wrapping bandage around his head.

"Please do not discuss such things in front of him." Kaname warned her motioning at his son who was quietly sitting on one corner reading his book.

"Kanezawa is old enough to understand his mother is crazy." Juri added with no remorse and went on. "I think it's high time you do the right Kaname, which is divorce her. I see no need of her in your life or your children's. Just get rid off her and marry a woman who will take care of these children. Please for heaven's sake provide them with a mother. That girl is nothing but a pretty face."

Kaname looked at his mother warning her with his eyes to stop but she did to get the signal.

"How long have you been married to her? Eleven years? You have fed more than enough on that body."

"Juri we have a child in here." Haruka warned but it always fell into deaf ears since Juri never listened to her husband. In fact she never considered him a husband but a pet.

"Oh shut up Haruka!" Juri sneered. "He doesn't care about his mother. He is on our side. Right Kanezawa?"

The young boy just started at his grandmother. There was no emotion on his face.

"Look Kaname it appears your son has more brain than you do." Juri said with a teasing smile. "Tell me my handsome Kanezawa don't you want a new mommy? Who will look after you and love you and your siblings?"

"I'm sleepy." That was Kanezawa's response with a yawn.

"At times like this he reminds me of Senri. Here we are talking non-sense about his mother and he has no reaction. Kaname are you seeing my point now? Even your children want to get rid off her."

"May I go bed Papa?"

"Yes of course."

The young Kuran then bid and kissed his father and grand-parents goodnight and left. Once Kanezawa was out of his grandfather's office Kaname fully focused on his mother and hissed.

"Was that really necessary?" he charged his mother. "Here I am working hard to build their mother-son relationship and you are destroying it."

"But he does not care about his mother!" Juri protested.

"That is what he wants you-" Kaname got cut off with sudden urgent knock on the door.

"Haruka-sama? Haruka-sama?"

The said person gave the permission for the guard outside to enter.

"What is the matter?"

"Haruka-sama somebody just dropped flower-top from the rooftop and broke the glass of your car?"

"Which car?" He asked getting worried.

"The Rolce Royce passed onto you by your father which was passed onto him by his father."

"What?"

Haruka Kuran leapt up from his seat at once. That car is a piece of his heart. It was a custom made one of a kind. And at this day and age no matter how much you spend you will never get anything like that not even a close duplicate. Haruka left in a rush to have a look a the damage done to his car but before he could even step outside of the mansion he heard one of the maids scream.

"FIRE! FIRE! FIRE!"

He ran back into the mansion following the trails of hustle and that led him to his bedroom that he shared with his beloved wife Juri. His jaw dropped at the sight of his wife's million dollar closet burning on fire. Among the crowd both his children and Juri were also present among the crowd. Some of the maids have already started to throw water to put the fire off but the damage is already done. All the expensive clothes, shoes, bags are all done for.

"Mother!?" Yuki's panicked when her mother's form gave into the darkness and collapsed but lucking Kaname was nearby to so he scooped her up into his arms before she could hit the ground.

...

Next morning:

"Here is your rose tea Kaname- what happened?"

Aiyora gasped suddenly noticing the wrapped gauge around her husband's head. Quickly putting the tea cup down on the table in front she crouched down to examine his wounds. Kaname guided her to sit on his lap so that she was in complete comfort.

"What happened here?" Aiyora lightly traced her fingers over the specific area where the blood stain stood.

"Nothing serious." He replied with smile and took a sip of the tea offered.

"What do you mean by Nothing Serious!?" Aiyora snapped. "I can clearly see blood. You haven been hurt badly Kaname."

He only nuzzled into her touch.

"Who did this to you Kaname?" She asked again this time cupping his face and placed a feather light kiss over the wound.

A soft smile curved into his lips. The fact that she cares so much made his heart thump loud and fast. It made the pain that she caused last night go away in minutes.

"I hit the wall in the darkness." He lied. Why hurt her with the truth.

"Come let me clean your wound." Aiyora offered.

"No need." He pulled her back. "Seiran already did this morning."

"So what can I do to make you feel better?"

"Just stay with me a little longer."

"Kaname!?" Aiyora whined pulling him into a tight embrace.

"Kaname-sama?" the maid called him out awkwardly seeing the position he was in with his wife.

The brunette turned his head to the maid standing behind.

"Takuma –sama is here."

"Yes of course I am expecting him."

The maid went and returned with Takuma, Hanabusa, Akatsuki and Ruka. Kaname had the severe urge to face palm himself. He called only Takuma after all the guy is his lawyer. And he needed to talk to him about some legal matters especially about his will and the changes he wants to make. So what was Takuma thinking bringing the whole bunch?

Seeing all these people Aiyora became a little too excited. She ran forth and embraced each and every one personally but the one she held for longest Is Ruka. Her lesbian gens might still be there. After getting all her guests settled in Aiyora turned to Kaname with a wide grin and asked.

"Can I cook for everyone today?"

"For sure!" he agreed right away. After all she seemed to be really cheerful since morning. She woke up early and fresh. She bathed Marika fed her under Seiran's observation. She made breakfast for all three of her kids and even made his morning tea. So could not risk a sudden no and get those unexpected tantrums.

...

"What kind of demon has done this?"

Yuki huffed sitting with the pile of her mother's burnt everything going through to see if anything survived. But so far no good news yet; it appears nothing survived that fire. Here is the thing with designer items. You pay so such a big price yet they are so delicate that with one of moment of no care and it's done for. And that is why the strong hearted Juri Kuran could not bear the sight of watching her belongings get burned by the inferno.

"Do you know who it was orchestrated by?" Zero asked joining beside his wife to go through the mess.

"Who?"

"Kanezawa." Yuki's heart stopped.

"Are you sure."

"Yup." Zero assured. "I was actually at the rooftop when he threw the large flower top over your father's car."

"You saw him and you did not stop him?" Yuki demanded.

"I confronted him and he confessed that he lit his grandmother's closet on fire."

"Zero please tell me you scolded him? Or gave him two slaps across the face? Don't tell me you chicken out because he is Kaname's son."

The silverette ran a hand through his hair. "I demanded to know about his actions and then he told me…I could not help but set him free instead of taking him to his father and grandparents."

"Why?"

" 'My grandma insulted his Mama and grandfather said nothing.' Those were Kanazawa's exact words. In fact your mother called Aiyora mad, crazy and even suggested Kaname to 'get rid of her' all in front of that boy. She even asked that child 'your mother is crazy don't you agree?'… It is wrong Yuki very wrong to put a mother down before her child. Yuki I may sound strange but his actions last night made me proud of him. It made me realize that there is one soul who will stand as a shield for that poor girl. Mark my words Yuki this Kanezawa will be Aiyora's biggest strength."

"But-but didn't he hate his mother?" Yuki stammered in surprise. "I though he looks up to Kaname."

"He very much does. As a matter of fact he copies his father head to toe. But does not love his father as much as he does to his mother. Though he always scares the shit out of Aiyora but you need sharp eyes to see how differently he treats his mother behind her back. Last night he was with Aiyora, beside her, watching her and guarding her as she slept so vulnerably. Last night was not the only time I have seen him like that. He is always there to check up on her as she sleeps. He would fix her blanket, kiss her head deeply and rub his hand over her head. But with Kaname does not even turn once. If you look carefully you will notice that every time when Kaname is not there Kanezawa watches his mother like hawk. To Aiyora he may act like a troublesome son but actually he is like a loving father to her."

"Oh speak of father did you know headmaster is back with his wife?"

"Which wife?" Zero asked scratching the back of his head.

"Zero...! Headmaster Cross only has one wife, Aiyora's mother- the crazy slut!"

"Does Aiyora know?" Zero asked.

"Kaname does but I'm not sure if he told her because she will not be happy."

...

"Is this the good time to talk?" Kaname asked finding Zero on his own in the living room working on a laptop.

"If your plan is to open up then no, even the walls have ears." Zero advised shutting the lid of his laptop down putting it to sleep. "How about we have this conversation on roof."

Kaname walked past him whispering in low tone "follow me..." and marched straight forward already knowing that the silverette is following him.

a.n. Thank you all for reading i hope you guys enjoyed and handled all these drama in one chapter. Kaname almost getting killed, Haruks'a vintage car damage and poor Juri getting her closet brunt and poor Ren might have been Poisoned...But who could be heartless enough to poison Ren?

Thank you all for the love and support means a lot.