Kaname deposited gently Aeries on the bed after closing the door behind him. The room was in complete darkness and only the moonlight, which was passing through the window, highlighted the forms and the shapes of the furniture and the general deco around them. There under the dim light of the moon and the soft darkness that enveloped them they started ardently kissing, hugging and mutual caressing one another. He felt as trespassing a foreign area, taking something that did not belong to him, as he knew that he had not been sincere to her, that he was dragging her into a game of lies, deception, a piece of his heart prayed for forgiveness. He then felt it…fear. What if that dream he lived was suddenly dissolved like smoke in front of his eyes? What if these lips which he now so devotionally kissed and cherished where not there one day for him? What if the punishment for his hubris against her purity, her innocence, her kindness was far more severe than he could possibly imagine? The thought cooled his blood and he suddenly stopped kissing her lowering his head to the side.

-Kaname, are you all right? Did I do something wrong? Aeries asked unable to understand how he could be so happy, so passionate and certain of himself a moment ago and now unable to even look at her straight in the eyes.

-I am sorry Aeries, he said trying to pull himself together and to scatter all the thoughts away.

-I am sorry, you must be tired, Aeries stated and slightly caressed his hair.

-No, that's not it, it's just that I do not want to lose you Aeries. I've been so alone that now I do not want to lose you, he pulled her in his arms and Aeries signed.

-Stupid pureblood, you are the one risking your life everyday with these wars, not I, so if you want to worry about someone, then it is yourself you should worry about…
Kaname kissed the tip of her head and started caressing her long red hair. They felt like silky treads at the tips of his fingers. So beautiful they were… he started playing with the edges.

-You are such a good kid, he said, lowering his head so that he could reach her lips once more. She tasted so fresh, almost like the taste of the fresh-cut strawberries he had tasted in her kitchen few months ago, so sweet and arousing. He deepened the kiss with his tongue, exploring her mouth, their tongues united, brushing one another, fighting for dominance. Kaname retreated back, leaving Aeries being the one kissing him and controlling their love-making as he fell at the bed pulling Aeries down with him. Aeries left his lips and started kissing and sucking his pale white neck and then she started licking the area under his collar bone. He willingly surrendered himself to her fangs which penetrated deep into his flesh. He caressed her back to encourage her to take as much as she wanted and at the same time he felt his own arousal to rise even more.

Aeries stopped drinking him eventually and he pulled her upwards to see her face. He had a question to make.

-Is my blood satisfactory enough Aeries? He asked his eyes giving away his desire and love.

-Your blood speaks of your feelings Kaname, they are devastating and …I also love you, she said as he caressed her cheek.

He had never heard this phrase again "I love you" and something in his heart shattered in pieces from that small affectionate phrase. He flipped them over so that Aeries was now laid underneath him. His fangs naturally prolonged and Aeries gasped as he bite her a bit more forcefully than what she had expected. She relaxed back as Kaname tasted her feelings and stood still for him to finish. As her blood penetrated in his body her emotions spoke straight to his soul. She loved him as Aeries knew to love; devotionally. She was his and he was hers, creatures made to love one another, made to make love to one another. The more he tasted, the more he desired but he did not wish to exhaust her, therefore he stopped.

-You had enough? She asked.

-I can never possibly have enough of you; he replied with his eyes still red as the blood. He instantly lowered himself so that he could kiss her while he pushed her deeper into the mattress using his body weight and spread her legs putting his own between.

Aeries moaned as he kissed her deep, this time totally dominating the kiss. His hands moved lower to caress her breasts above the light fabric of her white dress.

She squirmed a bit as no other man besides Sawn had never touched her so intimate but Kaname's hands were gentle as Sawn's had been, he massaged her so softly and delicate afraid that he may pressure her. She was petite for him, and he needed to test her strength and endurance before anything else.

Kaname's lips travelled lowered and his tongue licked her neck, then slowly his mouth went further below reaching the height of breasts. His hands slowly lifted the upper part of her body to remove the dress. Aeries slightly blushed as now she stood naked in front of him with her breast all exposed to him.

-You are so beautiful, he said like reading her inner thoughts, after all I've seen you naked before, he said in a warm voice.

She blushed even worse at the thought that she had been caught taking a bath at the waterfall and Kaname could not help but chuckling with her lost expression.

He soon returned to her body, his hands placed her back at the bed, his lips made circles around her breast and then demandingly they licked the nipple. Aeries gasped and gasped again as he repeated the act for the second one. She caressed her hair provoking him to continue his travel downwards.

"Slowly now, slowly", he thought.

His fangs brushed against her skin as his tongue followed an invisible path from her breast to her abdominal.

Aeries realized that with kissing and licking Kaname had reached her underwear, the last barrier that remained between him and her most sensitive feminine part.

His hands slide to her sides and he pulled her silky panties away with a firm move. She gasped from the sudden waves of pleasure and pressure that Kaname's lips shoot straight to her most intimate area. He delved between her thighs, kissing and teasing with long and, almost torturing, slow strokes of his tongue her clitoris.

Kaname eyes shined "So small and yet so adoring"

She gasped even more when she felt him pushing his tongue into her inner folds, spreading them with pressure whereas his fingers massaged her clitoris. She became so aroused that she fisted the sheets that rested underneath her body. She wanted to scream, yet she resisted, biting her lips with ecstasy. After two minutes of his intensive care at the area, Aeries was in the verge of crying from the tense.

-Please let me try next, Aeries said with all the power she could gather and Kaname retreated, laying back at the mattress to receive her caresses.

She unbuttoned his shirt and kissed his torso and his nipples, admiring at the same time how soft his skin was in contrast with the physical strength that he had at his well-built muscles. She was feeling shy about it but she wanted to reward his cares and his services that had made her feel ecstatic in the last ten minutes so with small uncertain moves she unbuckled his belt. She would have felt better if Kaname did not watch her so carefully, but he did, like a cat does with a little mouse that runs all around. And not only did he watch but he also smiled in a small devious smile that was merely written on his face but it was there, either he cared to show it or not, a smile that told her how much he would enjoy this. Kaname with a sudden leap on the bed managed to remove his pants along with his boxer, grabbing and throwing it with his hand at the floor. His move was so fast that Aeries tried to understand what had just happened.

-Nevermind that little trick, go on…he said.

So she delved into action, making Kaname to throw his head back and to moan deeply. Finally he shut his eyes feeling extreme pleasure to run through his veins, gasping in every different move that Aeries did playing, licking, teasing even brushing her fangs along his length. He felt extreme pressure and the need to release himself. He had to make her stop…

-Aeries…his voice was far more deep than what Aeries had ever heard. That's enough he said.

-No, just let me..

Kaname sat up and hugged the upper part of her body, bringing her back to his arms. She had no time to respond as he forcefully kissed her. His hands guided her waist on top of him. For the time being he decided that he wanted Aeries to lead, allowing her, her own pace and rhythm to soothe any old memories and to make her feel more comfortable and active.

He panted as he felt Aeries caressing his member with her own female spots. She was teasing him enough, delaying their union, making him as hard as he could get. Looking her from below he adored the image his eyes were sending him; a young, beautiful girl with long red hair so young and fresh, so captivating and exotic, a mixture of innocence and lust. How could it possible that she was his? He did not deserve her.

Oh he knew how, he had deceived her, he had tricked her, he had sent her straight into a trap.. He felt like falling deeper and deeper into a pit full of darkness and sin…only that the pleasure that he received now, was too great to resists to her, to her moves, to her love… And she just did it perfect…Suddenly Aeries slide on him and Kaname opened his eyes again to enjoy the view as she received him. She descended with a slow move and she gasped in a mix of pain and pleasure that they both instantly shared. Kaname was on heaven feeling complete for the first time in his life…there was no other part in this world that he would prefer to be but inside her. Aeries on the other hand had more practical issues to deal with as she was not so used in this position with kaname and she made little cries trying to get used to him. She started rocking them back and forth in a very slow pace. After five minutes she almost felt too exhausted by the effort and she laid on him without detaching their bodies.

-I am sorry, It's been a long time since…

-It's okey, he said caressing her hair and giving her a deep kiss while flipping them. Aeries found herself underneath Kaname and he started rocking them. Her little screams of pleasure sounded so satisfying and adorable to Kaname's ear. He kissed her while making love to her and their palms united together.

He did not need to move much, neither push her nor go faster, they were both enjoying this slow rhythm pace that Aeries had introduced and Kaname had maintained for the first time together. Finally when Kaname was reaching his climax, he gave a lick to her neck and his eyes shined again in the darkness as he delved his fangs into her flesh. Aeries screamed out of the intensity of her own orgasm that Kaname's bite fueled even further inside her. Kaname grabbed the sheets with his hands, almost growling from pleasure as he released his passion inside her. He kissed her deep and forcefully. How much he loved her…

Aeries could hardly breathe from the tense when he collapsed on her shoving his head at her breasts.. She welcomed him in her arms with a smile and they closed their eyes sleeping like lovers for the first time.

During the week that they spend behind the shut windows of the White Clan's big bedroom cherishing their love, Aeries discovered many things about Kaname, things that she had never understood before or perhaps that her friendly relationship with him until now had not permitted her to learn so far.

First of all she found out that this reflexes were always in alert, even in moments of total rest and tranquility when he actually had no reason to be so aware of his environment. She concluded that either his pureblood abilities were far more sharpen than the usual or that he, after spending so much time and training in the army, had turned a learned behavior into a second nature.

She had no other means to explain how he always knew that she had awaken from her sleep even if she had not open her eyes yet. The result of that notion was that he flipped her around introducing a new round of love-making, even before Aeries had managed to make a connection with the reality around her.

All she knew and understood for a week was Kaname's kisses all over her body, his caresses, his hands...His hands that never seemed to leave her body either during love-making or sleeping. Aeries rested always inside his hug, like he wanted to capture her there to eternity. And her guess was right, he wanted to do that because from all the places in the world, there was no place that Kaname wanted to be more than beside her or even better, inside her. In every way, in every possible way;

His fangs penetrated in every inch of her body during love making, resting, playing, and chatting. He wanted to taste her and find reassurance in her emotions, her acceptance and her sweet, understanding female nature. Her blood and the feelings that it carried straight to his heart made him to feel complete and whole, for the first time in his life, Kaname Kuran had found happiness, and it rested there just a breath away from his reach.

A girl that was his girl; He asked for nothing more than her. He wanted to be there, just there at her bed and arms. From all the meanings and the causes, falling in love, be loved, was the only one that finally made sense to him in a world full of misery and vanity that fed on fleshes and hate.

Yes, Kaname Kuran was ready to step down from his throne and to walk away from his palace leaving the crowns and the wolves behind him to devour each other, as they deserved, as they wished. He had already fought his wars and he had delved into a sea of blood, of sin, of guilt, of death. Now he wanted to save even the last drops of innocence, of good, of "humanity" that perhaps rested inside him. For him, for her, for both of them. Nothing else mattered than this precious girl; a simple girl that delivered light, color, scent and taste in his dark, dull and bitter reality. She was his gate out. The only gate out from that cold and cruel palace into the starry sky he was dreaming all of these years and he could not stop looking at her, processing her, as she slept there quiet, he counted her breaths, learning how it changed, making a difference when she was asleep or awake, he had learned to distinguish even that. She would never guess.

"You could never know Aeries, the nights I've spend alone, living for a task or a dream, trying to understand this world, I never did, trying to protect humans, to make others to care, I never really achieved it. It is only power that they cared about. So I learned that this world needs a whip and not true emotions. I buried them for you to find, somewhere deep inside me, there was always a little burning hope that I will meet someone special that could love me and set me free from this burden.

You were so right in your innocence and in your naivety; you were the wiser of all, asking him to stay there, begging him to remain next to you, not to fight for other's people ideals. I admired your passion; I remember how your little hands had grasped his shirt. And he was a fool leaving you behind, from all meanings and ideas, love is the only that can worth fighting for and you were right. This travel to eternity, let's do it together for the right reasons this time, for us, no more for others, this world will not be saved no matter how much we give Aeries …In time you will understand that…as we bond, as we love and we grew old, you will see again your lost meaning."

All of these ideas and words were sweet and tender but Kaname knew that there were other obstacles to overcome as well. First he should be forgiven for all of his lies, tricks and deception but he had faith, now that Aeries rested on his chest while sleeping, he believed that in time she would be able to see beyond the pretenses his real intensions and love, his real self. And all of these needs, desires, dreams and wishes led him to wanting to achieve a greater bond with Aeries as soon as possible, as deep as possible.

For these reasons Aeries in this week was captured not only in his arms but also in his body. Aeries had never made so much love in her life in a week. Her body was in a constant arousal as Kaname refused to give her a moment of rest until she would collapse in his arms from exhaustion. Sometimes he was gentle and tender spreading his caresses to all parts of her body, gently biting, licking, tasting, taking her.

Other times he was far more passionate and desperate for her touch than words can describe and Aeries filled the bedroom with screams of ecstasy and pain as he evaded her as an untamed animal testing the limits of her body and her acceptance. To her surprise, depending on the moment and on the time, she liked both approaches the same. But what she liked more than this when he would rest his head on the pillow and Aeries had all the space and the air free to make her own explorations.

Of course Aeries did everything in a slower pace than Kaname but as she could understand from his expressions he loved it all the same, no matter how she would do it. He loved her image as she would rode him, reminding him of an amazon, with her long hair falling on his body, caressing him and softly stroking him with their tips as Aeries would introduce a slow erotic dance that travelled both of them to the heights and depths of pleasure. Kaname could then totally relax under Aeries' cares and get lost in the sensation, both of them wishing to last as much as possible.

During that week as lovers and as vampires they did everything, they tasted everything and they had bitten one another without mercy or restrictions. In this game of pleasure and pain that Kaname had introduced and Aeries had followed, they were both the prey and the predator.

Kaname concluded that Aeries liked a mix of gentleness and roughness. She got far more excited with that combination during sex than from what she admitted. So he just gave her that in dozes she was able to take and enjoy. She also –as a classic female- enjoyed caresses and kisses after sex. And just for the pleasure of teasing her for that, Kaname just for once pretended he was too tired her to show her his affection after they had made love and so he just closed his eyes, pretending he had fallen asleep. He heard the ruffling sound of an object cutting the air in two but he did not reacted, permitting to her to land her pillow on his face.

-You insensitive…pureblood.

Kaname came around exploding in laughter with Aerie's angry expression and he even arrogantly claimed that she had been addicted to his caresses. Aeries had changed many colors but nevertheless she gave in the moment he pulled her in his arms and offered to her his neck. Aeries found instant comfort and as she was tired she instantly fallen to sleep, with his familiar male scent to fill her nostrils. At the end of the week she was exhausted after so much love biting and love making.

Kaname decided that it was his time to go and she surely needed some rest to get her energy back so as he caressed her back while she rested on his chest, that Friday morning, he knew that this would be their last time together before he returned to his empty life. The only notion that comforted her was that after the weekend, he would return back to her bed and she would be there.

-Thank you for all these wonderful moments of love, Aeries he said while caressing the edges of her silky hair.

-M? Aeries lifted her head from his chest and looked at him. He seemed so content and full. It was fine, she also felt the same.

-I have to go today, I must return back to the camp. You have to promise me that you will not go around doing anything foolish when I am not around, he said.

-Oh I can promise nothing, she laughed in his arms.

Kaname gently grabbed her arms and raised her so she would seat next to him.

-Aeries this is not a game, there are many dangers out there and you are just a little girl.

She hardly liked what she heard.

-Don't look at me that way, it's true, you are good and kind and you have no idea how this world envies the light and the innocence that you represent. You are an easy target. So do not make my worry.

-If I say "No" you will go on talking for it forever, won't you?

-Yes.

-All right I promise, she said and she earned a kiss from Kaname. But, she continued, I must tell you that I am not used in others telling me what to do and how to do it. Sawn never did that, she protested.

It was the first time that Aeries brought up Sawn on their bed. And Kaname did not like the fact…His gaze changed and it became darker. She felt the change of his aura but she did not talk. He lifted her chin up so that he would look into her eyes and placed his finger on her lips, stopping her from saying anything more.

-I am not Sawn, Aeries, I will never be…

-I know that..

-I haven't finished speaking, all of your life you lived free and I respect that, you also loved deeply your brother and I admired your devotion, it's a good sign in a woman, but when we are together, we are together, don't tell me what Sawn did. That's not fair.

She had to confess that he had a point. What she did and how she lived with Sawn was unrelated to her and kaname.

-I am sorry; I did not want to make you jealous…that was not my point.

Kaname chuckled a bit, looking at the young girl's innocent look.

-You are so sexy with that look Aeries…he said, I cannot resist the feeling of taking you in my arms and capturing you there to eternity. When this war finishes I want you to marry me…

-A? Aeries looked at him intensively. She did consider herself too young for commitment.

-Think about it, he said, while I am gone. Food for your thoughts..

-Ah now that you mentioned food…I would really want..

-You should take my blood, he said offering his hand, I exhausted you, now for your own safety, you should stand strong…so..

Aeries did not resist. She leaned on his neck and start drawing blood while he caressed the back part of her head. His blood was more than addictive, it was like a medicine and it would make Aeries strong, stronger than what it was expected. He just had to make sure that she took it regularly. Aeries drew her fangs out of her skin.

-Why aren't you taking more? He demanded with caring eyes.

-Because you have a war to fight, she added.

He caressed her hair and kissed her fiercely…he could no longer escape from his desire to delve into her once more …he needed her that much…that badly. And then as he kissed her, he realized how much he was the one deceiving himself;

He thought he wanted to capture her but she had already captured him inside of her little private paradise, her body and her heart. Kaname knew that there was no escape from her. He was desperately in love. As he made love to her, thrusting into her in a fast and hard, he wondered how he would last two days without her. Aeries screamed and squirmed beneath him. He wanted to leave her with a quite live memory of himself so he gave no really notice to her protests. She dug her nails into his shoulders and bit him at the neck. He gasped in pure pleasure, and with his hands he put her legs upper on his waist so that he could go far deeper into her.

-Oh,..Kaname…Aeries called his name as the pureblood got lost in the tights and the depths of her body. There was no point, no point of return left and he knew it. If he would have to go in the deepest darkness to hold her, to protect her, to love her, he was already there, as he understood that she would cost him more than possibly he could ever afford. It was he and not she, the one who had been really captured in this love, bonded and chained to eternity.

-So remember to be good for the weekend? He asked, she nodded "yes" for the eighteenth as she said good bye to him at the porch. Kaname kissed her affectionately placing his hand behind her head and then he turned around and a fleet of bats flew and vanished to the sky.

Even though she loved him, Aeries found totally unappealing his bats. As she closed the door Peter came to her.

-All you all right, Miss Aeries? Peter asked.

-Yes, Aeries yawned wanting nothing more than her warm bed at this hour of the day. I am going to sleep Peter.

"Good choice", Peter thought, happy that Aeries had decided to give a rest at herself but also to him. Peter might be a small boy but he knew that his task was one of significant importance, perhaps, he though, one of the greatest roles that had ever assigned to a vampire; serve and take care of the future Queen of the vampire and human world.

He may not know much about life and love but as a vampire he knew very well about power. And all he knew was that a little girl resting in the woods held the world in her palm and she did not even know about it.

Meanwhile Aeries' and Eros' actions (I will skip Kaname here as he was the temporary victim of Aeries charms) had not passed unnoticed neither in the city neither in the palace.

The incident with the trunks had created great disturbance as military sources had been destroyed by unknown terrorists that as the news reports said wished to bring down the King and take over the Kingdom and the posters had created a mass of question and discussions among the citizens, not to mention debates as to if the power of the King and his causes could be questioned. All they knew was that the King was fighting for the survival of the human race but it seemed that others revealed other causes; exploitation of the human weakness in order to support an expanding war.

And as all of these discussions were taking place outside of the palace they could not of course miss from within the palace grounds.

At the meeting room many opinions were heard.

-Don't you see that we are against terrorists?

-We should put more guards around.

-There have been investigations but no witnesses…

-And two of our guards have gotten crazy saying that the King was putting the posters himself.

Here all the room laughed.

-Humans are so ungraceful, we should make some arrests, that would silence them

-Really, now along with the West, we cannot afford troubles in the city…

Kaname tilted his head.

-About the terrorists attack, they are probably a bunch of kids wanting to create noise. Let's just drop the issue for now, if the palace gives any notice to the incidents we are going to make a rather insignificant matter sound great. Now I want to hear about the West…Kaname replied.

-A yes, the news are so much better, it seems that we can open the borders now and start reconstructing cities and new areas.

-Dragen and his purebloods have vanished from the face of earth.

-Good, so let's offer more jobs to the citizens. Have we finished? He asked.

The purebloods in the room nodded their heads affirmatively and Kaname with a nod stood still and departed from the room. There was still a matter he had to attend to.

Stella was alone in her room, reading a book, when Kaname knocked the door. Sensing him made her leap from the sofa and open the door in haste.

She wore a green long dress that so well matched the color of her eye. She had missed him being around as he had vanished for a week and his sudden arrival to her apartments surprised her.

-Hello Stella, Kaname said entering the room.

Stella took a pride in herself, that was good.

-My King, I did not expect you. I have great news to share with you.

-I am anxious to hear, he pretended.

-I investigated the incident in the market and also the two recent incidents at the village and in the city, there seem to be some incoherent witnesses. Two guards of the palace report that they even saw you putting posters but besides those loony testimonies, there is a connection; a girl is present in all, a girl with the hood. I suspect that she may be the leader of their…

-Drop it Stella.

-But why? Wouldn't you like to know who is behind the incidents?

-I already know who is behind and believe me it is not important. Just a bunch of kids, so there is no need to go on with investigating, it's insignificant. I am not here for this.

Now Stella was getting really excited to hear why he was here. Had he finally reached his decision to marry her?

Kaname stepped closer to her.

-Now I know how much in debt I am to your family for the all the support that you show me in the past, I can do everything to satisfy you, everything but one thing; marry you.

Stella's disappointment and anger was written all over her face. "How dare he? Saying no to such a union?"

-Yes I know, Kaname added, I am inexcusable but you and I are incompatible.

-How can you say that? How can you say that disgracing my family? My ancestors were there for you whenever you called them to fight, I am their last descendant and you should respect that.

-I do respect that and this is one of the reasons that you may enjoy all of what you want…consider my palace as yours as well.

"How easily you think you can get away..."

Stella chocked on her anger, she could not show her true emotions here and expose herself or he may even threw out of the palace but she had no real intention to abandon her ambitions, not just yet.

-So how come you changed your mind, she asked in a bitter, irritated mood.

-I have not changed my mind, I decided to tell you what was in my mind all along…

-Why YOU…the mirror of her room cracked from side to side but Kaname felt no sympathy for her. "Should I pity you because you will lose a title? I am obliged to say thank you because your family lusted for nothing more than power. I gave them that, what else should I do?"

-Excuse me now, he said in a cold manner and he departed. Stella stood bitter in the middle of the room or as she felt in the middle of a certain world that now was crushing all around her. She needed to find a way to make him change his opinion; press him more, Kuran Kaname should have a vulnerable spot, a weakness.

His words had not convinced her, and what she had suspected some months ago started to rise like a certainty in her head. Was there another one? Where had he been one week now? She needed to find out…more about his activities, his whereabouts and his thoughts. Of course there were not so few sources to investigate but in her despair and in her need, she could start even with the craziest of all...After all now there was nothing to lose.

So later in the dungeon's of the palace a rather hard incident took place…

-So how do you wish to be punished? I could drink your blood until you suffer a cruel death or I could put the other guards, your friends, to lash you until they peel you off your skin..

-But we do not lie. Mich dared to say with his eyes at the floor. You can punish us for spreading it but we do not lie…

Stella shoot a wave of energy to Mich. He bended in two shouting from an excruciating pain, the blood that covered the floor and his shirt did not permit him to see his wound but it was there, at his stomach, perhaps too deep…

-Soon you will die. Do you insist? She said in a cool manner.

-I AM NOT LYING, he shouted in despair.

-Please, please, the other guard put his hands over Miche's shoulders. He is dying, please…

-Do you have any proof of what you say? She asked coldly.

-His name, we know the Kings name is Kaname.

-So? Are you playing with my intelligence? You could have heard it from the nobles.

-No, we did not, we heard it from the girl that was looking for him.

-The girl, that's right, Mich said holding his stomach. His blood had now become a river in which the two guards sat in the center.

-You will die, therefore you have better tell me what girl…

-We could not see her, the other guard said, she was wearing a hood, and she asked us if we had seen him around, she was searching for him. They were obviously together, they wore the same capes, only that the King had not his hood on but he did disappeared as soon as we approached. Therefore….

She looked at Mich and her feet flew of the ground.

"What a waste of life, you are", she said and grabbed him from the collar, lifting him to the air along with her. She would have her meal on the ledge of the tallest window as she did not wish to ruin her long velvet dress.

-Find me the girl and don't you dare return here without information, either wise you know the fate that expects you as a welcome, she said calmly to the other guard who made a bow and ran off the door of the dungeon before witnessing another bloody scene that would kept him awake at the night.

Meanwhile at the city Aeries was making her daily shopping when her eyes fall on a label. "Apply for a work at the West, Insurance-Salary-Roof provided". Ha? They were already taking candidates for the reconstruction of the West cities. That could only mean that the borders would open soon enough. Hm, an idea formed in her mind, a little naughty idea that made her laugh. It was so good actually that she could no longer resist to its execution. Eros would love it and Kaname, well Kaname, would just have to live with it.

With this thought in her mind she decisively stepped inside the office. There were plenty of humans standing in line to apply for a job and the regular employee who kept the records behind the counter.

Once, twice, she blinked her eyes trying to concentrate, nothing. She cursed herself for so many years of totally not using her pureblood powers. But she decided that she should not really put it down, not so easily. Finally after five minutes of standing there, it seemed that her powers had started to take effect on the employee. In a way she could now hear his thoughts and if that was so, then she could totally control his mind. She concentrated more on him. Finally her efforts seemed to work as she heard him saying to the young woman standing in front him;

-For what position are you interested?

-For a nurse.

-So level-e nurse that would be, write it down there please.
-No, no level-e…I am a human…

-But no one enters the palace or gets to live in the city if not changed…

-What, what on earth are you saying?

The people standing in line in front of the desk looked one another in shock and terror. The clerk looked at their reaction with confusion.

-Ah that's my fault, he said I forgot to put the new announcement that came from the palace, it will be on the news soon…Wait I will write it down and I will post the paper outside so you can see it. "ALL HUMANS WISHING A JOB SHOULD BE CHANGED TO LEVEL-E, KING'S ORDER."

-What?

-Has the King gone crazy?

-This is insane..

-They are turning us in an army…

Protests and shouts was the ideal reward for little Aeries who stood there at the corner, wearing her hood, feeling totally content with the outcome of her efforts. Panic would soon follow as the rumors would spread and probably that would be enough until a new bright idea would come to her head.

So after the terrorists that the King was unable to control, now he demanded his citizens to be turned to level-e if they wanted to have jobs in order to survive, what a nice plot, eventually more would turn against him from both sides. A King who cannot control his people and one the people cannot trust, is not a King anymore. Happy as she was she took the way for home, moving her basket…Eros would be so proud of her.

But Eros was not that proud neither as pleased as Aeries had thought.

-Aeries that was not in our plan…

-But it was a great chance.

-Doing things on your own may endanger you, we do things that we have agreed, don't act spontaneous…

-Well now you sound like my father…it was a hit and the posters and the village with the trunks. Eros we are in the news soon we will be famous.

-Perhaps you forgot that incident with the vampire, we should be careful Aeries, just because nothing happened.

-Oh about this.,,I forgot to tell you I was so happy about the success of our operations that I totally forgot.

-What? Did anyone appear?

-No, no it's fine, that was just a friend of mine.

-Friend? You have a vampire friend who attacks anyone trying to kiss you? This is wicked.

-M, well, yes, and no, I mean…remember that friend that I mentioned to you about helping me with my powers, the one you should have meet but you have not…

-Yes, yes…

-Yes, that was him.

-A nice! And did you tell him to buzz off your life?

-A no. I actually…I mean he and I, we are together.

-Oh I see…you had not told me that.

-It happened after the incident...

-Ah is that why you disappeared from the face of earth a week now, you have a new boyfriend. I was worried for you..

"Is that so Aeries, you are with another one now?"

-You know what you can come home and…

-No, no let's keep it that way, you never know. Now about the level-e thing, don't take risks on your own, okay?

-Okay then but it was so funny.

-I can imagine. Oh by the way you know today I was in the city, carrying cargos at the port and I overheard a conversation from two officers there. Tomorrow there is a ship coming in the afternoon with cargos for the west, 6.00 pm. I thought we can do a blow before it reaches the port. There is an opening in the forest that oversees the sea passage we can hit it from above. No one will see us.

-That sounds great Eros. So see you tomorrow.

-Yes take care…

Aeries waved goodbye taking the road for back home. So tomorrow they had worked to do and then she remembered "Kaname will be home tomorrow, hm, perhaps he would like to come along. Who knows?"

All that Kaname knew was that someone (and he could suspect to) had made wonders disturbing the tranquility of the citizens and their trust to the King. All Saturday morning and night citizens rested outside of the palace making protests against the King and his decision to change anyone in level-e, they refused to leave and they shouted signals against the monarchy. And then there were scuffles that broke out between the protesters and the guards when the last ones tried to remove them from the palace's grounds. Not to mention that many were deserting the city by sea to escape the cruel fate that the vampire race was preparing for them. Until the palace made a public report that all of these were nothing more than lies spread by a certain group of people that wanted to strike the power of the King.

On Sunday a whole council was called by the purebloods that demanded justice to be attributed to whoever was responsible. He should be imprisoned and publicly punished for acting as a traitor against his own country. Kaname got a headache even before the noon. The employee of the desk was taken to the police station to be interrogated but he could not provide them with any more information other than he felt a sudden daze and nothing more. That froze the police officers and the purebloods who later on read the police report as that "daze" he referred to could only be the act of another pureblood. And Stella believed that this was a new addition to her list of information; could the girl be a pureblood? Could that be possible? But who? She should start investigating now more in depth the situation. Oh and on Sunday evening the King had vanished again.

Aeries did not expect him to come on Sunday evening but he did arrive late at the house. And he was not in one of his best moods and more than this when she rushed to greet him, he accepted her kiss and her hug but he responded back by telling her to sit at the couch as there was an urgent thing to discuss. She could guess what it was all about and she was not wrong about it.

-Level-e? Level-e? Couldn't you think of anything worse than this Aeries? He still refused to believe it.

Aeries was seating at the couch avoiding looking at him. There was a rather angry aura there and she so much preferred to look at his shoes that were moving up and down the carpet.

-I do not hear an answer Aeries.

"He has taken this personally"

-Why are so upset Kaname? What do you care?

-I care because I've spend endless nights fighting to protect the human race from falling to that level and then one day a little brat as yourself comes and disgraces everything. Plus you are endangering your life…

-Really? What should I say about you joining the battle fields, in this we are even as for the ideals that you tell me if the King really cared about the humans and not offering more lands and wealth to these fools in the palace he would have given the power of the anti-vampire to the humans…

-What for?

-What do you mean what for?

-I mean what you heard me say "what for?" You really believe that it would change anything more than humans acting against vampires and vampires against humans.

-Humans would have no reason…

Kaname sat at the couch and hugged Aeries.

-There was an era in the beginning of the vampires' dawn when humans hated vampires, chasing them away, that led to a division between the races. There were the humans and the monsters. When the monsters used the power of the anti-vampire weapons to confront the beasts that wanted to use humans as military force, then the humanity finally accepted the "vampire race" as a necessity. Co-existing then became possible. We no longer hide. What you are suggesting would turn us all in an earlier stage and the dangers would just multiply both for humans and vampires. Is that what you are suggesting?

-No, that's not what I am suggesting. But the era has changed we could all live together as we do, the difference is that if they had the power they could defend themselves, there will be no wars. There would be greater control…

-Power is corrupting both for humans and vampires, Aeries.

-What I see is only a King refusing to share his power.

-No, that's not truth; he just refuses his power to fall in the wrong hands. That would be disgraceful for all the years that his fought protecting both humans and vampires from falling. And humans are not eternal Aeries, nothing would guarantee that in the passage of time as the hands change this power would not turn against the vampire race.

-Well…

-Think about it, in time you see that I am right. Now about our little issue…

-What issue?

-You..

-What about me?

-Didn't you promise that you will behave?

-That was just an impulsive moment.

-You should learn to control yourself then, and that I will be teaching you next…

-Control powers?

-Oh no…not powers. And then he leaned to Aeries ear and in a cunning look of love he whispered to her ear…

-Now? Aeries asked. I have not eaten dinner yet.

Kaname chuckled and leaned his head to kiss her. Aeries melted in his arms and she wrapped her hands around his neck enjoying his taste and his firmed touch.

-Now..he said breaking the kiss while their noses still touched one another.

Aeries almost blushed to the idea but she did not resisted and with a soft smile she ascended the stairs for their new bedroom while Kaname took off his long coat and deposited at the couch. Peter that had watched the latest part of the scene signed and decided to go for a walk in the city. Somehow this house was turning rather unsuitable for kids in the latter chapter.