Chapter 2 already! Thank you to everyone who reviewed, it gave me the inspiration to write in my breaks from studying! Here is the next chapter.

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Chapter 2:

Rido tipped his head sideways as he eyed his bound niece. Admiring again how the moonlight accentuated her pale flesh and the depth of her red-brown eyes: eyes so much like his late sister's. But as he had noted before there was a fighting spirit in Yuuki that Juuri had never had, and something about that increased the challenge and made him want her even more. With that thought in mind he closed the distance between them and grabbed a handful of her hair to hold her head still and kissed her on the lips.

The only though that crossed though her mind at the assault was that it needed to end, so she did the one thing that she could with her limbs bound and bit him. She had to admit that she was more than satisfied with the effect that her new fangs had on his flesh when he pulled away, effectively ripping two jagged tears in his lip. She felt herself smirk in, not joy, but appreciation at the fact that she had won that small victory over her uncle.

He seemed confused as he reached up to touch the blood that was flowing from his lip. When he pulled his hand back and looked at it, the confusion turned to anger. "So," he snarled, "You have decided to bite like an animal? I was going to be tender with you, but it seems that you don't appreciate that kind of treatment. I can play rough too."

For the first time Yuuki felt true fear for her well being settle into her gut. Though she knew that he had killed her father and, in essence, her mother, she had never actually believed that he would kill her. She had expected that any moment Zero or Kaname would still come to the rescue, if she could just keep him occupied long enough. Now she had made a grave miscalculation and truly pissed him off. There was no amusement left in his eyes, no affection, (which had been creepy enough), just anger. Pure murderous anger.

As he approached her again, Yuuki began to desperately look for help. Aidou seeing her distress and fear decided that it was time to try and provide a distraction. He knew that there was nothing he could actually do, but like Yuuki he was hoping to try and buy time for Kaname to get there and save them all, and maybe taking Rido's attention for a moment would give them the edge they needed.

"Maybe she wouldn't have bit you if you would let her free so it's at least a fair fight," he said, sounding a lot braver than he felt. Yuuki shot him a look that was a mixture of gratitude and fear for his well being. He didn't fully understand her fear until Rido turned to face the group and demanded to know who had spoken. Aidou stood silently and felt his heart stop. Before, even thought there had been disgust there had at least been sanity in Rido's eyes, now even that was gone.

When there was no answer, Rido began approaching the group of noble vampires. His power was crackling in the air around him and he looked like he was about to lose control of it. It was then that they realized that despite his feral nature, Kaname was really a rather tame pureblood. Rido on the other hand was not just going to physically reprimand Aidou, he was going to kill him.

Yuuki realized this at the same time, and though it was the last thing she wanted to do she knew that she needed to regain Rido's attention. He wanted to hurt her, not kill her straight out, so she would stand a better chance of survival. "Uncle," she called, "are you so petty that you would waste your time with them for simply speaking? You didn't ban speaking in your command, and besides, the bravery it took to speak up shows that you are upsetting them and showing them why they need to respect purebloods. If you can hurt another pureblood imagine what you could do to a lesser vampire."

"I see you are starting to understand what I am trying to teach you," he said with praise in his voice, until he turned around and saw the disgust on her face at what she had just said and realized that she had been speaking sarcastically. "Besides, you and I have unfinished business, don't we Yuuki?" he asked with a grin she didn't like in the least. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw Aidou relax minutely and felt a bit of relief until she saw the way that Rido was eyeing her again.

As Rido studied her he was again struck by just how beautiful she was. Especially with the scent of her blood on the air and the look of determination in her eyes coupled with the fear in her eyes. He felt his emotions soften as he looked at her, going from murderous to playfully sadistic. He had no intention of killing her, yet anyway. In a flash he was in front of her, gently stroking her cheek where a purple bruise was beginning to bloom. "So beautiful," he breathed.

Even though it hadn't been such a smart thing to do the first time, Yuuki decided to try to bite his hand to keep him from touching her. Somehow sensing the idea though, Rido withdrew his hand and her teeth hit together in thin air. "But so wild," he finished. "Do you know how you tame a beast, Juuri?"

When it was clear he expected a response, she shook her head. That wasn't what he wanted from her though, because he struck her again, this time in the stomach. As she panted, trying to catch her breath, he shook his head and said, "When I ask you a question I expect a verbal answer. So do you know how one tames a beast?"

"No," she gasped out, "I don't." When he started to raise his hand again she added "Uncle."

"Hmmm," he said, leaning in to whisper in her ear, holding her head still. "You have to make it realize that it has no power and no hope except for your good will. Then and only then will it submit to you."

She felt her heart rate quicken with fear and, struggling to keep her voice steady asked, "And what does that have to do with anything?"

He said nothing in reply, but instead looked straight into her eyes with his mismatched set and grabbed her breast. His touch shocked her, because though the move had been sudden and aggressive, he touched her gently. There was nothing gentle in his eyes however; they were eyeing her like a lion observes the gazelle that it is going to eat for dinner.

She closed her eyes to avoid seeing him, but that only served to make what his hands were doing to her body have all the more impact. Without the stimulus from her eyes to focus on, her senses automatically looked to other sources, like the nerves on her skin and the sounds of skin on skin that her heightened hearing provided. His hands were now roaming all over her upper body and had begun to move to play with the top of her skirt.

Please, she mentally begged, don't be doing what I think you are going to do. Her whole body was quaking now with the realization that she had no power to do anything to stop what might happen. Now she understood what he had meant when he had said that lack of power was a great taming factor. She would have done almost anything to get him to stop what he was doing.

When his hand touched her right thigh and began moving upward, she started sobbing silently again. Then, without warning, he pulled back his hand with a yelp. She opened her eyes in surprise to see him cradling his hand, and it took her a moment to process that he had brushed against Artemis under the edge of her skirt.

Take that you bastard, she thought with a laugh.

Again her reaction was the wrong one, because it caused her uncle's capricious mood to shift once again. "Think it's funny when other people get hurt, do you?" He asked, madness once again in his eyes. "Let's see how you like it when you get hurt. " The next thing she knew, he was behind her and inside her. She felt a cry rise up her throat at the pain of it and tears begin streaming down her face as she realized that he was raping her. Suddenly, he grabbed a fist full of her hair and tipped her head to the side.

"See, not nice is it?" he breathed into her ear. Then he kissed the side of her neck and prepared to sink his teeth into her jugular. She was prepared for the pain of the bite, but instead there was a loud noise and a pain like she had never experienced before in her life.

As Zero stepped into the night air, the wind blew the scent of blood to him. He was impressed that he could even smell blood anymore with all of the red liquid covering him: both his and his twin brothers. What surprised him even more was that despite the fact that the scent was a little different, the blood was Yuuki's. He figured that Kaname would have gotten her to safety by now and not left her here in the middle of a war. Forgetting for a moment that Yuuki was now a cursed pureblood, he rushed off to help her because the thought of her getting hurt was too much for him.

He followed the scent of her blood on the wind to the moon dorms. At this point the scent was coming from above him and to keep from jumping into the middle of a group of enemies, he sprinted into the building and climbed the stairs to reach the roof. When he got there he saw something that made his heart stop. A vampire, and a pureblood at that, had Yuuki by the hair and was about to drink her blood.

Without thinking, he drew the Bloody Rose level and pulled the trigger. The bullet hit the vampire in the shoulder and stopped him from biting Yuuki. Zero felt a surge of triumph in his veins, then Yuuki screamed in pain and he instantly went cold at her cry.

Rido placed his hand over the front of the wound in his shoulder and turned around to face the hunter that had shot him. It had to be a hunter given the way the wound burned, only their weapons did that. He couldn't figure out why a hunter would have shot him given that he had been assured by the vampire council that they would be working on his side to take down Kaname. He was surprised when he turned around and saw who had shot him. He carried a hunter weapon, but he read like a vampire.

Zero too was surprised when Rido turned around. Not only by his mismatched eyes, but by the fact that the unclothed state of his lower body meant that not only had he been about to feed from Yuuki, he had been raping her. Zero felt his fangs elongate in anger and knew that his eyes were glowing as well. How dare that man do that to Yuuki! He would die for this.

"You beast!" he managed to spit out. "What kind of a sick fuck are you? How could you do that to her?"

"How could I do that to her?" Rido asked in reply. "I'm not the one who shot her."

"What are you talking about?" Zero shouted. "I didn't shoot her, I shot you! And I'll shoot you again and this time I'll fucking kill you!" Rido raised an eyebrow and stepped to the side, revealing Yuuki's bare back, which caused him to blush. Once he got over his initial embarrassment he saw the wound in her left shoulder which was weeping blood. A second later he noticed the sword sticking though her right shoulder and felt a new wave of furry towards Rido. He felt his eyebrows narrow in anger and began stalking towards Rido will the intention of shooting him right between his eyes at point blank range.

Rido just stood there with an amused smile on his face and waited for Zero to reach him the said, "Go ahead. Kill me if you can."

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