Chapter 20: Jokes, Stars and Confessions

Max: Hey! Wat up?! I just started a new Fanfic! A Twilight Fanfic! So, I will try to update as much as I can on both! So, don't get impatient, please! I will do my absolute best on these! I also have my account on fictionpress, too, so…don't chew me out in the future. Oh! CS stands for cute scene! You'll see!!

"Okay, Mr Genius! How about this one? How do you drown a blonde?" Kira asked Ichiru.

"Easy! You glue a mirror to the bottom of a pool!" he said. Kira snapped her fingers.

"Darn it! Your turn! Throw one at me!" she insisted. Ichiru thought for a minute, then

"What do you call an onion-donkey cross?" he asked. Kira thought for a minute, then,

"Oh! You get a piece of ass that'll bring a tear to your eye! I've heard that one!" Kira said, sounding defensive.

"Hey! I didn't mean anything against you Kira!" Ichiru defended himself. Kira smiled at him.

"I know, Ichiru...So, are Yuki and Zero still over down by the spring, talking?" she asked. Ichiru nodded.

"Yes, they are." He looked over his shoulder from the fire that they sat around.

Zero and Yuki sat on the slope of the hill, watching the stars.

"So, when all of this is over, what do you plan to do?" Zero asked Yuki. She looked over at him, then she shrugged her shoulders, and looked back up at the starry sky.

"I don't know to be honest...I'll probably just have to resume my duties as a member of the Royal Family, and not a warrior..." she said, not taking her eyes off of the skies. Zero looked up at the skies...thinking about what he will do.

"So...how about you, Zero? What will you and Ichiru do when Shizuka is dead?" Yuki asked. Zero shrugged.

"To tell the truth...I never even thought about it...it's because I haven't had any leads for so long, I guess that I would be doing this hunter business forever. But, now that I know where I can find Shizuka, my mind has been going through a number of questions...considering the future..." Zero said. Yuki nodded, but still watched the starry sky. The full moon shown in the center of the sky above them. Yuki laid back on her back.

"You know, Kaname and I used to do this all of the time...when we were young...when our parents were still alive, we would look for constellations and comets, even. We would keep score on who could find the most." Yuki smiled at the memory. Zero looked down at her.

"How did that work?" he asked. Yuki sighed, the smile still on her face.

"Well, with every constellation, it was five points. A comet was ten points. A shooting star was twenty. Also, we even had a meteor on the list for fifty." Yuki giggled at the memory, "Kaname and I used to battle it out against our parents and he would sometimes claim that he saw a meteor the size of the world coming right at them, and he would claim one hundred thousand points." Yuki laughed. Zero frowned.

"But, our parents knew there was no meteor, so he made us lose all of the points we gained, just for his lie. And a debt."

"Why?" Zero asked, confused.

"Kaname said that his meteor was worth, only 100,000 points...and we only had fifty." she began to laugh again, Zero stifled a chuckle too.

"Oh! I miss those times...where we would play that game. We used to call it 'Starry Night'. It was our favorite pastime as a family. Then, after our parents died...well...we haven't played it in so long..." Yuki sighed.

"Hey! I think I see the big dipper! That would be five for me!" Zero said, pointing up at the sky. Yuki looked up, and sure enough, was the Big Dipper. Yuki laughed, and she sat up.

"Okay, you wanna challenge the champ? You're on!" she said. Then, they began to point out the constellations.

Yuki and Zero played 'Starry Night' for what seemed like hours. They had a tie of 70 points each. They were laughing very hard. Zero was lying on his back, and Yuki was next to him, lying on her side. They were both breathing deeply from their laughing fits.

"You know? I think I like this game." Zero said. Yuki looked up at him.

"Well, you sure know your stars! Where did you learn?" Yuki asked. Zero smiled.

"My training was intense, so Yagari recomended that I know the stars and constellations and where to find them, in case I got lost. And, after I got it down, I haven't gotten lost. Ever! The stars are the best compass." he said. Yuki nodded.

"Impressive." she said. Then, she laid down on her back, her arm close to Zero's.

They laid quietly on the cool grass of the slope, just looking at the stars, just as they had before. Then,

"Zero?"

"Hmm?"

"What would you do...if...Ichiru was taken from you?...I mean, like...Kaname?" Yuki asked quietly. Zero looked down at her. Her eyes showed misery and sorrow. Zero propped himself up on his elbows.

"Well...I would hunt down the people, or things that took him, get him out of their sick hideout, and make them wish they had never existed!" he said. Yuki closed her eyes and nodded to herself. Then, Zero saw a small tear in her eye.

"Yuki?" he asked concerned.

The tears began to go down her face, slowly. Yuki was so tired of crying, but she couldn't help it, now that Kaname was in the hands of their worst enemy.

"It's just...that...Kaname was always protecting me...he always worried about me...we both worried about each other...we never thought that...any one of us would be taken into Rido's crypt!" she said, the tears came down, and dripped down to her shirt. Zero looked at her eyes, and he placed one of his hands softly on her shoulder.

Yuki looked over at Zero, her eyes showed something...she was keeping something bottled up inside.

"There's something you're not telling me, Yuki. Something that you and Kaname planned since the beginning." Zero stated. Yuki's eyes shut tight. He was right. She nodded.

"You see...it was while he was still ill...it was the evening before you arrived in Tetsuna...we made an agreement...that if either one of us...would be turned into a vampire...then...the other would...have to....have to--!" she began to cry choked sobs. Zero kept his hand on her shaking shoulder.

"-Finish the job. Correct?" he asked softly. Yuki nodded, her face in her hands. Zero pulled her into his arms, just as he had when they were in the cathedral in the order. Yuki began to cry into his chest. (Okay! prepare yourselves for a CS!!!)

Yuki cried into Zero's chest, but her sobs didn't last as long as they did when they were at the order. As she began to calm down, she felt that she didn't want to move away from him. She wanted to stay in his arms, she felt comfortable, safe and warm. Yuki's heart thudded in her chest, and she could feel something moving under Zero's shirt. She placed her hand on his chest. It was his heart! It was probably beating as fast as a hummingbird's wings, just as hers was!

Zero felt Yuki's hand over his heart as he held her against him. He didn't want to let her go. He wanted to hold her forever in his arms.

"Zero...?" Yuki asked softly from his chest. Zero cleared his throat.

"Yes?" he answered in the same soft tone. He still held her, she didn't move away from him. (AWWWWW!!!!!!)

"...Do you think...that we will...live through this?" she asked. Zero froze. He had thought about that! But, he didn't dwell on it for long.

"Don't even think that! We will live!" he said surely. Yuki sniffled, but the tears didn't come.

"Because...I don't want anyone else to die...I can't even imagine it...I don't want you to die either." she said softly. (OH...MY...FREAKIN'....GOD!!!!!!!!!) Zero's heart moved even faster in his chest as the words escaped her lips, if it could go any faster. Then, he sighed.

"I don't want you to die either, Yuki." he said.

Yuki froze, just as Zero had at her words. Then, she tried to look up at his face. His deep purple eyes looked softly into her dark chocolate ones. Then,

Yuki placed one of her hands on the side of Zero's face (*grasps head in face, trying to rip it out*), her fingers also touched some strands of his silver hair (*squealing at top of lungs*). Zero placed his hand over hers, holding her hand on his face.

Then, Zero started to come down, his face getting closer and closer to hers, she didn't object, then he pressed his lips to hers. Yuki had her eyes closed, and she raised her hand and she tangled it into Zero's hair, and she felt one of Zero's hands go into her hair, and the other around her waist.

Zero held Yuki close, deepening the kiss, so it would last longer. He had one of his hands, tangled into her long hair, some of the soft strands in between his fingers. All he knew, was that he did not want this moment to end.

Yuki had her hand tangled in Zero's silver hair, and the other on his chest. His heart was going haywire as he kissed her. Just as hers was. Yuki felt that she didn't want this night to end...all she wanted was this time with him...as he wanted his time with her...they didn't want it to end...

Max: Okay, talk about the BEST FRIGGIN' SCENE IN THE WHOLE FRIGGIN' STORY!!! I cannot believe that I wrote that! I just can't!!!!! Let me know how YOU guys felt about this chapter! Cya soon! (runs from computer screaming and rushing to print the chapter.)