Kuran Kaname looked at the mass of thick and smooth silver hair in between his fingers. He couldn't believe how good it feels to the touch. He never would've been able to touch it like this if it weren't for his outburst that suffocated the hunter-to-be with his aura. Now the elusive boy is unconscious in his arms.
He went out of control. He got angry. For something so petty. He couldn't believe himself. This is not like him at all. He only wanted to tease the boy before he leaves. To see the way he'd look at him like he's the most abominable thing he'd ever seen. How his purple eyes would darken to its darkest shade. It has been a while. He'd missed the amusement he felt that night of their first encounter.
The boy avoided him like the plague for two years. Everytime he visited, the boy would lock himself up in his room and/or leave just like tonight. It was because his usual concealing power was easily detected. That's why tonight, he took his concealment to a higher level. A level he only reaches when he doesn't want another pureblood to sense him.
Kiryuu Zero is indeed a prodigy. He's never met someone like him, considering the fact that he's been around for a long long time. A human with a hunter's lineage, who'll soon become what his people kill, who'll become like the one who killed his family. He who dares to show contempt and disrespect without reservation in front of him and even attempted to kill him- a smile worked its way across the pureblood's face. There'd been a lot of attempts to kill Kaname, but most of them if not all were done behind his back. A pureblood his age can't and won't be killed in a fair fight.
But this boy... He won't even step back. Won't look away.
Kaname knows no one who isn't scared of him. Even Yuuki is scared of him. He knows that. Inside of her, she still is.
But not Kiryuu Zero. The silver-haired boy whose scent stirred him up in the last two years.
With a hand behind the boy's head and the other on his back, he drew him closer to him until his nose touched his hair and he breathe him in. Pulled him closer again to bury his nose in his hair, nose touching and now gently rubbing his scalp. Hmmm. There it is. The scent that dries his throat every time he's in the same vicinity. But this close- it's much more potent. Not only his throat is dry now but his fangs ached. That familiar tingling feeling of wanting to sink them into warm tender skin. His tongue moved to calm his teeth down.
He shouldn't. The boy is as good as dead already. Any moment now, the transition will start and in no time he's going to have to die. He won't allow him to hurt Yuuki.
But Kaname can no longer deny the lure when his body started to tremble with the urge he hadn't felt in a while.
Just one bite. Nothing will happen. Surely his interest will end once he got a taste of him? He's just a nobody anyway. He's lucky he has a hunter's blood, enough to delay his transition but of course not enough to save him from falling. Even the nobles would feel proud to be bitten by a pureblood like him. So what does it matter?
Kaname pulled away enough to allow himself a view of the boy's pale neck that's now fully bared to him. His aching fangs elongated almost automatically. It's calling him. Both the look and feel of his tender skin and the honeyed scent his body is emitting are calling out to him.
It was at that instant that he lost it. He felt the urgency of the moment. Like as if the chance would go away with each second he spares.
One moment his head was dipping, then his hands are tightening and pulling the boy in, tongue quickly swiping the creamy skin before he buried his fangs in his neck. The first touch of the silver-head's blood on his lips got Kaname groaning in pleasure. So good. Ahh, so so good. He's so lost now. He's never tasted anything so ambrosial. He took big gulps, feeling the warm blood coursing down his throat. Not only does it taste good but it feels divine.
He couldn't count how many blood he's tasted but this one's just unlike anything he's ever had. He sighed as the dulcet flavor filled his mouth, the rich decadent flavor is just-
"Kaname-sama!" That surprised voice coming from in front of him felt like someone dumped buckets of ice cold water on his head. Even then he couldn't easily stop. He didn't realize he closed his eyes until he had to open it.
Then it hit him like a jackhammer breaking through a thick block of ice. The warm drop of blood that leaked on the side of his mouth made him finally pull away. There was blood all over one side of Kiryuu Zero's neck. Kaname was never messy, and this just shows how deeply he drowned and how lost he had been.
Zero was awakened by the ruckus outside his door.
"Open up!" It's Yuuki.
Feeling irritated, he tried to bury his face under the pillow. But Yuuki's voice and her persistent knocking are both growing louder every time Zero tries to go back to sleep and ignore her.
After finally deciding to give in, his door slammed open when Yuuki entered, next were the tapping sound of her shoes on the floor and keys jangling. He knew at that instant the girl borrowed the headmaster's keys. And that was it, Zero was quickly up and glaring at Yuuki.
"I still don't understand why troubling me is your favorite breakfast, Yuuki." He uttered, conscious that the reason why Yuuki's cheeks have turned red was because he is half naked. The girl immediately turned her back on him.
"T-that's not true! I wouldn't be here if you're responsible enough to remember our meeting today with the chairman." She answered, and even with her back on him, Zero knows she's fiddling her fingers. She continued on about how unreliable he is so he let her words fade into white noise and then paused- recalling the reason for their supposed 'meeting' with Kaien Cross today.
The memory of the twinkly-eyed headmaster when he told them one night over dinner that his life's purpose is finally about to be realized made him think of the worst. And he was right. The harebrained blond was just too eccentric for his own good. To think that a retired hunter like him would collaborate with a no-good pureblood to spearhead an experiment in a school filled with innocent and defenseless humans is just ridiculous. But there's no talking Kaien Cross our of it anymore. It seemed like the plan was already set even before Zero came to Cross Academy. The headmaster's ties with Kuran Kaname goes way back and deeper than his with his guardian.
It will never work. Zero couldn't imagine it. Kaien Cross calls himself a pacifist, well he calls him crazy. He's out of his mind. The soft touch but the hard weight of the pillow on his face brought Zero back to present time and Yuuki's red enraged face is in front of him.
"Fifteen minutes! Get up or the chairman will come to get you here." She threatened, stomping her feet and walked out, once again slamming the door. That indeed was an effective threat.
Zero couldn't take his eyes off the silver handgun in front of him. It looks so special and if it isn't weird to call a gun beautiful then that's probably the most beautiful gun he's ever seen. Looking at it closely, he noticed some writings etched on it.
Bloody Rose
The gun looked and felt alive. There's an aura coming from it. This is probably one of those special Anti-vampire weapons that possesses magical capabilities.
"Give me your gun." The headmaster's voice woke him from his state of trance.
Unconsciously, his hand felt his side and realized he doesn't have it with him. "It's in my room."
"Then give it to me later." Cross lifted the elegant looking gun and offered it to him. "Take it." He motioned for him to accept it and he did. "From now on, it's yours." The headmaster smiled, excitement on his face again.
"If you're so confident about the vampires attending your experiment, why does Yuuki and I have to carry Anti-vampire weapons?" He couldn't help but ask. Yuuki beside him was also given a weird looking rod.
The smile on the headmaster's face was immediately erased, he was now suddenly smothering Zero and hitting him lightly like a girl would whenever they're acting cute.
"Zero-kun... You're always against me, for once support your father will you?" The whining has started.
Zero moved away so fast that for a few good seconds, the blond headmaster didn't realize he was hitting air. "Not my father."
Now Cross was wrapped around Yuuki, asking her for backup.
But before she opened her mouth, he's already out the door.
'Being the only one who knows about who they are, I will give you the responsibility of being the school's prefects. You have to protect the secret of the night class from our day class students...'
Scoffing, Zero attached the shoulder holster that came with the gun in his body and wore his jacket again. He took the gun out to inspect it further. The other side of the barrel has another writing in it that says Crossing and at the top it also says Crossing Danger. He wondered what they meant.
Unlike the gun he was assigned to for practice and assessments, this one felt warm to the touch considering that it's made of metal. It's emitting something akin to an aura that is reaching out to him. Like it wanted to connect with him.
White Lily neighed and Zero knew he needed to giver her the attention she wants otherwise she'll never stop.
"Are you hungry?" He asked as he reached for her head and ran his hand up and down her mane. When she closed her eyes as she enjoys his touch, that was answer enough that she isn't hungry.
It was on Zero's second month at the academy when Kaien Cross brought home a one-month old little white foal. He said it was a donation from one of the benefactors of the academy. The headmaster also said that the foal's mother caught a disease and died a week after she gave birth. Maybe he felt a connection at that time with their shared experience at losing a family. He used to always feed the her milk until she grew tired of it on her second month when she started teething. Today, White Lily only responds to him alone while she had learned to tolerate the caretaker for whenever he's not around to feed her.
"We'll have new students starting this year." He uttered, While Lily opened her eyes as if listening to him. "You have to be careful." He warned and then felt silly. "Never trust a vampire." He whispered, more to himself.
Now that it has all come to this, and since he couldn't stop it from happening, as a future vampire hunter he'll have to perform the duties of a prefect; a school's guardian, to protect the day class. They don't know what they're getting into, but he'll gladly use his new Anti-vampire weapon to kill his first noble vampire or maybe his first pureblood.
The bad dreams stopped bugging him the moment he realized his new purpose. Level Es are just victims, and he'll have to kill them to keep them from killing more humans. Killing purebloods is now his goal. To stop the rising number of Es, the reason for their existence must be killed. The purebloods must die.
The sight of Yuuki and Kaien Cross waiting for their car to stop made Takuma glance at the Pureblood sitting on his right whose eyes started to wander away from the two figures that awaits their arrival. He saw the way the brunet scowled a little before his eyes met cold red-brown orbs. He was caught.
"Stop it." Kaname warned him.
Takuma knew the pureblood's threats aren't to be taken lightly but they're practically childhood friends and he just wanted to be sure he'll be okay.
"We're the only ones here. Please let me just ask... Are you-"
"I took my blood tablets, there's nothing to worry." Kaname cut him off, just as the car stopped.
"If you say so, Kaname-sama." Takuma obliged. He kept his thoughts to himself just as the pureblood wished and opened the door on his side so he could get out when he saw the chauffeur open the door for the brunet.
As soon as he got out, he felt it. That familiar aura, now much stronger than the weak one he and Seiren felt that night they found the owner unconscious in the arms of the pureblood.
He is somewhere near, probably watching them, oblivious of that night's experience. Memories altered.
Even if Kaname told him not to worry, he can't help it.
A/N: yaoi yaoi yaoi warning for next chapter hohoho