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Yuuki watched Kaname walk away wondering what on earth was going through his head. For all that she loved him, she wasn't really sure that she understood him. She trusted him, but how much did she really know about him. For ten years all she had known was that he was the vampire that had saved her life. She hadn't even known that he was a pureblood until recently. After that revelation it had seemed like her life had been nothing but a whirlwind of discoveries and changes and it was all happening so fast. She felt a sob rise up her throat at the feeling that things were spinning out of control.

"Yuuki," Zero called reaching for her at the same time that Seiren asked, "Are you ok, Yuuki-sama?" She knew that she needed to pull herself together. She was a pureblood and purebloods don't panic dammit! By sheer force of will she pushed the feeling of being overwhelmed down and smiled at Zero and Seiren replying, "I'm fine, thank you."

Seiren was convinced, but Zero could still see the panic that had almost drowned her present in her eyes. His expression let Yuuki know that he didn't believe that she was fine and she flaked under the pressure of his stare.

"Um," she began eloquently, "I . . . I need to . . . get ready for the meeting with the nobles." She finally said. "I will see you all later." When she finished speaking she fled to the security of her bedroom without waiting for a reply and sat on her bed trying to wrap her head around all that had happened in the last couple of months. With everything out in the open, she had no idea how she had ever not realized what was going on. Kaname miraculously being in the right place at the right time to save her, the chairman taking her in without question, Zero being a vampire (though that had been hidden better than the others), Kaname being a pureblood, her being a pureblood and related to Kaname. All these coincidences, or at least things that had seemed like coincidences, how had she never put it together.

For want of something to occupy her hands while her brain worked she decided to try to figure out something to do with her newly lengthened locks. She was so engrossed in her various tasks that she didn't hear Kaname come back from the restroom. "Am I that stupid?" she asked herself closing her eyes and meaning more the fact that two plus two never equaled four for her than that she couldn't do anything with her hair.

Kaname said nothing and walked silently over to her and wrapped his arms around her waist to attempt to comfort her. She instantly stiffened in his arms and her breathing and pulse accelerated. He released her and tried to back away so as not to startle her. She turned to face him, sheer panic in her eyes only to have them soften to sadness when she recognized him.

She felt horrible. She had freaked out again and all he had done was touch her. His scent had filled her nose moments before he had done it and she still freaked out. "I'm sorry," she whispered sadly.

"Yuuki," he sighed pity filling his eyes. He opened his arms and she stepped willingly into them. He hugged her to him and wished that he could take all of it away. Everything that troubled her, but he knew that he couldn't. He just hoped that someday she would be able to smile from her heart again. "I'm so sorry."

She sighed against him and then attempted to change the subject and brighten the mood. "I realized something today Kaname," she chirped.

"What is that Yuuki?" he asked his face showing surprise at her sudden mood change.

"I know absolutely nothing about you except that you are my brother and that you love me," she replied in that same happy tone, but there was a tinge of melancholy to her words.

"What do you mean?" he managed to say around his constricting throat. He hoped that she wasn't about to do what he thought she was and break up with him or refuse to rule with him or refuse to be around him.

"I mean like, what do you like to do in your free time? What's your favorite color? What's something that you hate doing? How old are you?" She clarified with a laugh. Then she saw his pained expression. "You thought I was going to tell you that we needed to slow down until I learned more about you didn't you?" she asked slowly.

He nodded mutely unable to come up with the words to answer her last question. She laughed and said, "Of course that's not going to happen. I already know the most important thing: that you love me. The rest is just curiosity." He felt his heart soar at that answer and hoped that his answers to her other question would not lead to her changing her mind.

"Come here," he said leading her over to the bed. "The answer to the first is chess. I love to play chess." He laughed as she wrinkled up her nose at that figuring (rightly so) that it meant that she either didn't know how to play or hated the game. He would find out which it was later. "My favorite color is actually white. That is why the night class uniforms are white."

"white isn't a color," Yuuki said laughing.

"It is too," Kaname said simply.

"Is not."

He rolled his eyes and chose to not get into this argument with her. "I hate doing paperwork," he continued answering her questions instead. "And what was the last question?" he asked hoping that she had forgotten.

"How old are you?" she replied without missing a beat.

"I don't really know," he answered wishing he could lie to her. "More than 10,000 years old but I'm not exactly sure."

She looked shocked for a moment and then smacked his arm as he had seen her do to Zero on numerous occasions and say, "I wanted an honest answer."

"That was the honest answer, Yuuki," he said slowly.

"Oh yeah?" she snapped. "Prove it."

"Come here," he said baring his neck to her. "Drink." She looked at him warily unsure if she wanted to know for sure if he was teasing her.

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Sorry it wound up being so short ya'll but I wanted to get something up for you like I promised that I would. There will most likely be no update next week since I have my final exam for my biochemistry class next Friday, but I may be able to get one written for you after class lets out and before I have to go to work. I hope you enjoyed this chapter. As always, thank you for reading and review if you feel so inclined, I still haven't decided if I am going to have Yuuki drink his blood and am willing to take ideas on this one.

Thank you,

Stickdonkeys.