Zero reached for Kaname's hands in a heartbeat, the moment he started pulling his pants down. He was also tugging his underwear with it.
When their eyes met, he noticed the small curve on the side of the pureblood's lips. His beautiful sparkling eyes, where you could see specks of dark red hue reflecting his own image, were intensely trained on him like they were trying to draw him in whole and trap him there where he'd be more than willing to if it were even possible. They're just so captivating.
"Changed your mind, Zero?" Kaname tilted his head sideways, eyes traveling hungrily down and then up again and Zero just wanted to hide in shame. He felt so exposed, literally and figuratively.
"Don't look!" He said defensively and out of embarrassment covered the pureblood's eyes with his own hands himself. "Just don't look!"
And then it happened. For the first time, Zero has finally heard Kuran Kaname's loud hearty laughter that sounded like a bewitching melody in his ears. His laugh has that unique tone and beat that sounds like music to him. He felt his heart skip a beat for some reason. His eyes caught the redness that peppered the pureblood's forehead and out of curiosity, he pulled his hand back and was just blown away by how glorious Kaname looks right now.
His face is flushed red, the laugh lines around his mouth and his eyes made him look so young and unguarded and he's never looked more beautiful than right now, on top of him, with his beautiful air cascading like an aurora of soft shiny shades of brown.
Zero bit his lower lip and clenched his fists. He wants to reach out to him and kiss every inch of his face, every inch of him actually, but he doesn't want this to end yet.
"You real- hmph!" Kaname couldn't finish his words because Zero wasn't able to stop himself, eventually.
He pulled him down and claimed his lips to kiss the smile on them and then when he's satisfied, he kissed his nose, his eyelids, his forehead to his hairline, and down again to his cheekbones and his jaw to his chin.
He doesn't know why he's doing this except that it's the only way to satisfy that urge.
Kaname let out something like a growl before he wrapped his arms around Zero and allowed him to continue what he was doing to his face. "You're so unpredictable..." Kaname said against Zero's mouth when he captured the pureblood's lips again and left it just as fast to move up to trail kisses up his ears.
"Good." Zero responded, getting himself busy sucking on a nice bony spot under the brunet's chin.
"Good?" The pureblood repeated when he pulled away and then touched their foreheads, amusement not only laced his tone but also his face, from the sparkling of his eyes to the curve of his lips. This close, Kaname's breath warmed his face, even more, dizzying him in the pleasure of breathing him in. Zero remembered the times the pureblood breathed him in loudly and the many times he wondered if he'd gone crazy. But alas, he now understood because he now seems to crave the same thing.
"You can't have everything." Zero attempted a glare.
Yet another smile escaped the pureblood's lips. "I can live with that." He leaned on his side and ran his fingers from his face to his neck, stopping at his nipple that made Zero flinch in both surprise and pleasure. "As long as I can have you…" Kaname lowered and Zero gasped when he ran his tongue over and around the little pink bud. "And you already said, yes."
"Nnnh…" Zero saw the little bud disappear when the pureblood's mouth covered it and closed in around it, the wet tightness made Zero whimper. When Kaname started sucking on it, he couldn't help a loud cry while his hands automatically pressed on the pureblood's chest to push him away, to no avail.
Fire spread rapidly from the pit in his stomach to the rest of his body, burning him in very pleasant waves of heat with every suck and every flick of Kaname's tongue until the buds hardened and became too sensitive, making him want to cry. Thankfully Kaname's relentless mouth and tongue decided to leave it alone, only while Zero was taking a deep breath, it hitched and became shallow again when his other nipple became the next target.
"Kaname… aghh…" He doesn't even know what he wants. He wants him to stop because the stimulation is just too much, but at the same time, he wants him to keep going because it's just too good. His fingers tightened through the pureblood's glorious hair that feels as silky and soft as it looks.
When Zero couldn't take it anymore, he yanked the pureblood a little roughly up to meet with his hungry mouth and it was so good. The way their lips that have become puffy from kissing rub against each other, wetness against wetness, they sucked on each other's lips and tongues and kissed each other languidly until Zero felt that cold breeze on his dick and realized belatedly that Kaname has successfully distracted him enough to strip him down.
"But today…" Kaname kissed him some more, loud and wet while his big hand and long fingers wrapped around him, squeezing him deliciously and pumping him a little. "I just want to taste you…" His hand started moving faster and faster while Zero was heaving loudly and he couldn't do anything about it. "I just want to prepare you…"
"Kaname!" Zero cried out because he's really close, his body moving on his own to catch up to the pureblood's hand, chasing the release that he knew was coming. But Kaname seemed to have other plans when his pumping slowed as his mouth traveled lower and lower, past his chest, kissing and sucking trails down his stomach until his face was now just right in front of his pulsating and now leaking erection.
"Hold on to something," Kaname warned, and Zero saw him take him into his mouth in one fluid movement, his hot and wet mouth tightened around his length in several up and down paces before he pulled out with a pop.
Zero gasped and whimpered and mewled even… and in normal circumstances, he would have never allowed anyone to witness this, but he felt so helpless against this pleasure, this need for Kaname. He couldn't watch anymore, so he did what he was told, held on to each side of the pillow where he rested his head and closed his eyes.
That only made him even more sensitive. Without looking, he couldn't anticipate where and what would come and happen next. He just feels and reacts to them as it happens and it's even more intense.
He felt his tongue flicking the length of his member and tonguing the wet tiny slit, rolling the tip of his tongue over it and making Zero crazy, writhing on the bed so possessed with pleasure.
The hot liquid in the pit of his stomach has finally reached burning point, it seems. Because Zero knows he's very close to exploding.
Kaname's hot mouth slid all the way down to the base of his cock, his lips maintaining that tightness until Zero felt his dick hit what most likely is his throat as it closed in around him and his movement sped up. His hands were keeping his hips steady and his legs spread because Zero couldn't handle the build-up without trying to close his legs.
"Please… no… what- aghhh." He's now a jumble of words and feelings. "Kaname…"
His breath hitched one last time and Zero felt his heartbeat pump wildly before the stars fell apart before his closed eyes and the tiny gold dust fell over his whole body in a tingly sensation that sated him from head to toe.
He was so out of it that when he found himself again, his whole body hummed in pleasure and satisfaction he's never experienced before. He felt so soft and mushy and if Kaname were to touch him, he'd be able to shape him any way he wants and he'd be too high to feel anything.
When his breathing started slowing down, he made a mistake of looking down on Kaname who he found lapping, tonguing and kissing his dick like ice cream. He cleaned him up, and probably drank his cum when Zero remembered he didn't pull his dick out when he came. It's too late but despite the weakness in his voice Zero is too embarrassed looking at him.
"No. Kaname, that's gross." He closed his eyes and tried to move away but with the pureblood's strength, he could only just wait until he was done cleaning him up.
Zero doesn't know how long it took but Kaname's kisses have started running upwards again, settling on his stomach this time, his fingers have once again found his nipples, one in each, and started pulling and stroking them once more.
"I was right…" Kaname's voice against his skin felt so good either. "You taste so good… so sweet…"
"Shut up!" He doesn't want to hear it. It's too embarrassing. The memories were too fresh and he's starting to feel weird again.
With Kaname's mouth on his neck once more, Zero knew he would give in again. Because he wants it too.
Zero felt him move around on top of him, the telltale sound of the zipper opening and fabric rustling, he knows he's taking his remaining clothes off and he fucking felt excited.
What has he become? He just orgasmed from the pureblood's mouth and now he's excited again at the thought of a naked Kaname?
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Kaname hurried. The vision of Zero on his sheets, naked and so ruined by pleasure is the best scene he's ever seen in his life so far. His pinkish cock is starting to get hard again before his eyes turn him on, even more, it's probably not healthy anymore to be this turned on.
While Zero's image is rough and strong, his body, his skin softens in his touch, shapes up and follows his every stroke and presses, moves where and how he wants it to.
His voice, and the way he called out his name when he came… it's unadulterated perfection. He is so innocent and sexy, a walking contradiction.. and yet Kaname loves it, is obsessed with his unpredictability. Now that he's on it, he could remember being attracted to Zero's character from the beginning. From the first time, he laid eyes on him.
Maybe… maybe it was him. Maybe it was that .
Kaname paused. His heartbeat raced.
The strong pull.
"No! It is you! " Kaname moved and pushed the boy towards the wall, trapping him with his body and the hard concrete behind him. "You did this to me. I didn't choose this!" Confused lavender eyes met his glowing ruby ones.
It wasn't Zero's fault, he didn't fuel the bond.
The ringing in his ears is now overwhelming him.
It was him.
He was the reason all along.
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Zero bit his lips at the agonizing pace Kaname was taking to get back to him.
He could see his raging hard-on through the tent on his crotch. He was already hard and pulsing since they started. His mouth dried and his throat constricted just by looking at it.
It's calling him. He wants it. He really really wants it. In his mouth. In him.
He wants it so bad that his body is already responding just with his thoughts. Just with the thought of what it would feel like.
His body is so perfect. The muscles are in their right places. The edges are smooth and rough at the same time. Zero wants to run his hands all over him, trace him and feel him against his skin.
Even if all he's feeling right now is the effect of the bond, Zero knows that they're already both in this together… for as long as they live.
Kaname is proving to be not a very bad blood source and even if the bond asks for more than his blood, he realized it isn't wrong to give in to it.
They will live with the bond forever so it means they're gonna live with each other forever. If this is what it takes to satisfy the bond, he will do it. Zero will give Kaname what he needs because that is what he needs as well.
This is how they will and should live from now on. And he finds it not that bad. If the big bad is on his side, it's easier for him to do his hunting job because of his connections.
"Kaname…" Zero called, noticing that the pureblood had stopped undressing.
There was a frown on his face and he's fallen into deep thought.
Zero got up and reached for his hand, pulled him back to the bed where the pureblood sat on the edge, still out of it. His face now displays a shocked expression.
"What's wrong?" He asked.
He didn't respond.
Zero noticed his red ear and found it very endearing. He always thought and considered Kaname different. Inhuman. But these little things about him show his humanity. How he's not so different. That he also feels .
He wrapped his arms around him from the back and kissed his ear.
"Come on, it's your turn." Zero placed his hand on the side of his face and made him turn to him.
He was surprised at the pained look on his face. But when Kaname realized he was seen like that, his face changed suddenly. All traces of emotion have gone, hidden.
"You're all good, Zero." Kaname looked away. "I will call Takuma to walk you home."
He frowned. What the hell?
"But you're still hard." Zero reached for the tent on his underwear but before his fingers touched it, his hand was swatted away a little too painfully.
"Aw!"
Kaname quickly held his hand and massaged it, to ease the sting. "I'm s-sorry." He looked him in the eye with the kind of cold determination that he wasn't alien to because it reminds him of how he used to look at him before the bond. "I need to get ready now. We're leaving early tomorrow for Tokyo for the council meeting. I have to be there."
The sound of finality in Kaname's voice convinced Zero that the night is over and he's being kicked out.
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The food didn't taste right.
For someone who spends so much time in the kitchen, it didn't help improve the headmaster's dish for tonight.
He reached for the pitcher of water in front of him to refill his glass. Right after he finished it all, he found the headmaster intently staring at him.
"Are you okay?" Kaien asked and Zero wondered what for.
"Yes, it's just so humid today. It's making me thirsty." He uttered and understood the concerned look from the headmaster because that's probably his fifth glass since dinner started.
He's thirsty and Zero knows it's not because he's dehydrated or anything.
Kuran Kaname hasn't returned from wherever the hell he is right now and he is beyond thirsty. He is angry.
How can he not tell him anything? What about the bond?
"I'm gonna go feed Lily, and head for night patrol." He stood and brought his plate to the sink. "Don't wait for me, Yuuki. The notes are on my table." He told the girl who was still ingesting the headmaster's food as if there wasn't anything wrong with it.
Or maybe there really wasn't anything wrong with it.
He heard her say something but as usual, she's talking with food in her mouth again.
Zero took his time in the stable. Lily was busy nosing something in the hay when he came in, so he reached for whatever it was and found a piece of rotting carrot.
"No, you can't have this. I'll get you a new one."
He spent more than an hour cleaning the area, stacking the bundled hay while Lily kept trying to get his attention.
He was sweaty when he came out and left the stable. The cool breeze felt really refreshing, so he took his time walking around the campus and even checking the Sun dorm to make sure everyone's in their respective rooms since it's past curfew.
There are two hours left before the night class ends, so he decided to head to his usual spot at the rooftop of the main building where he can see the Sun and Moon dorm and the left-wing where the Night Class are having their class without their-
Shit.
He's not gonna think about that jerk who clearly doesn't even care about hi-
Fuck.
No.
Moon.
The moon looks so good.
Stars.
The stars look so tiny.
Zero bolted up from where he's lying down and started running.
The best distraction is running.
He headed to the forest with the intention of circling the academy when he saw a familiar car stopping just outside the gates of the campus which was already closed.
Zero's steps sped up when he finally recognized the car and the person in the driver's seat who immediately came out when he saw him.
The man opened his arms which he gladly took and hugged him tightly. It has been a long time.
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"You look terrible," Takuma commented.
Kaname didn't respond and instead continued to read the document in front of him.
"You can't stretch the bond this much. It's been almost three weeks!" The blond continued.
"You didn't die…" Kaname responded, referring to the almost 2 months Takuma was away to settle some family issues in the past.
Takuma paused, looking like he was recalling the memory and now pensively staring at nothing while his eyes were in his direction. "Didn't mean I didn't suffer."
He let the paper drop on the table and reached to press the nagging headache away. Vampires and especially purebloods have a very high tolerance for pain, which means that when they do, it's magically outfitted for them and it's the kind that humans can never handle. So he knows that all the pain and discomfort he's feeling now is because of the bond.
But he's not ready to face Zero yet.
He can't accept it.
Everything he's planned since time immemorial, the future he's worked so hard to build not just for Yuuki but for the entire vampire race… all of that will be at risk of not happening because his enemies will find out soon enough about his weak spot.
The weak spot that he created himself the moment he allowed his curiosity to get the best of him.
"I want you to look into how to break an unconsummated bond safely, for both parties."