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Once she was sure the others were gone, Seiren turned and pinned Zero against the wall. He looked at her like she was insane. "What are you doing?" he demanded.
"Getting answers," she replied. "How were you able to get through that barrier?"
He sighed and ran a hand through his hair. "You have tasted my blood," he finally said. "Did it taste like a Level D's blood should taste?"
Something about hearing him call himself a Level D made her angry, he was more than his social tier. "I don't know," she replied, trying to keep her voice neutral. "I have never tasted it before."
"Yes, you have," he replied with a sad smile. "You have had mine and are the only person to have done so, but you have also killed level E's. Their blood will smell the same as mine should taste . . . we are essentially the same thing." He couldn't meet her eyes as he said the last part.
She felt sadness at the truth in his words, but had to argue it. "You are not the same as them," she insisted. "You have self-control."
"For now," he added staring into her eyes. "Because of what I have done. Now answer the question. Did my blood taste like theirs smells?"
"No," she replied unable to meet his eyes now.
"Who did it taste like?" he demanded, he was going to make her come to the conclusion herself even though she had already accused him of it once.
"Kaname-sama and Yuuki-sama," she answered. "Your blood tasted like theirs smells. But why?"
"Because when Yuuki was still human, I took blood from her numerous times. I would hold off as long as I could," he tried to explain, "but in the end, the thirst was too much for me. The times between the thirst were getting shorter and shorter, I was falling to Level E. The night that Kaname's blood was spilt in the moon dorm . . . that was my fault too." He growled slightly as he had to tell her the next thing, he hated admitting that he owed anyone anything, especially Kuran.
"He and I fought," he continued without looking at her, "and in the end he made me take his blood to keep me from falling to Level E. He did it to save Yuuki from me, after that I was able to control my thirst better, but I still periodically took her blood. When she awoke as a pureblood, her blood that was in me awoke as well.
"That's probably why I was able to beat Kuran," he admitted grudgingly.
"So at the moment," Seiren said slowly, "your blood is approximately half pureblood."
He nodded mutely. "That's why I was able to move both ways through the barrier. Eventually it will fade, and I will begin to slip again."
"I don't think so," she said leaning in and kissing him gently, "I don't intend to let that happen. My blood can probably delay that for a long time."
He shook his head and looked into her eyes. "No matter what we do, nothing will stop it forever. Not since Shizuka's death."
She smiled sadly and pulled him to her. "That same blood flows in my veins," she whispered.
He pulled away from her and knocked her hands away from her. "Don't tease me!" he shouted.
She grabbed his hands and looked directly into his lavender eyes as she said slowly, "Her father was my maternal grandfather. She and I share blood, though my grandmother was only a noble. That is why I am allowed as close to Kaname-sama as I am, I am a quarter pureblood. A Level A noble."
He blinked at her, shook his head and turned to walk off. How did I not see it, he mentally growled. They have the same hair color. Besides Kuran would not have kept anyone but the best around him. And her reflexes, they are too good even for a vampire. Even though nothing had changed, somehow everything had changed. He knew they were not the same person, but he felt betrayed that the woman he was beginning to care for was related to the woman that had destroyed his family.
Seiren watched him walk away. She wanted to go after him, but also knew that she probably needed to give him some space. He had not even made it around the corner when she decided to go after him. "Zero, wait," she called softly, knowing that he would hear her.
Out of habit, he stopped walking and waited for her. "What?" he demanded glaring, at her. Once she reached him she had no idea what she was going to say to him. She opened her mouth and then reclosed it and extended her hand to stroke his face. He didn't step away from her and his eyes softened a bit.
"I'm sorry," she said, not entirely sure what she was apologizing for. He smiled slightly and leaned into her hand. Somehow those two little words made him feel better, though he didn't know what she was apologizing for either.
He pulled her against him because it seemed like the thing to do, "I'm sorry too," he whispered into her hair. Also feeling that it was the right thing to do, she leaned her head against his shoulder and felt the movement of the air as he blood pulsed through his veins. She felt thirst begin to build in her throat and leaned towards his neck. He felt her move and raised his head to give her better access. She opened her mouth and prepared to bite him, realizing that this was the first person she had ever bit outside of her immediate family. Just as she was about to sink her teeth into him, she heard a throaty cry from her left.
"That was Kaname-sama," she said turning her head in the direction of the sound and seeing a door with a washcloth over the handle. She started towards the door, intending to open it and check on her master. But she was stopped by Zero's arm around her chest.
"Trust me," he whispered in her ear. "You have no desire to open that door. It leads to the bathroom, and only Yuuki and I know that signal."
"But it wasn't Yuuki-sama's voice I heard," Seiren insisted. "It was Kaname-sama's. But what are they doing in there together?" He raised a silver eyebrow at her and she put two and two together. "Oh," she said, a blush coloring her pale cheeks.
He smiled at her and decided that he liked the color there. Grabbing her hand, he lead her to somewhere less noisy to allow her to take the sustenance she needed.
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Yuuki continued to look up at Kaname from her position knelling in front of him. She knew what she wanted to do, but was unsure how to go about it. Should she touch him first, or just go in for the kill. She had never done this, but she had heard enough of the other girls talking to know what she was supposed to do.
Kaname watched the smirk on her face fall slightly to be replaced by indecision. He thought he knew what she was planning but didn't want to ruin the mood by voicing anything, especially if he was wrong. Besides, there was no way she would do that. She had all but said as much earlier. On second thought, he had no idea what she was about to do.
Honestly, she didn't really know either. Well, she thought, I liked it when he was washing me, maybe he'll like it too. She turned slightly and picked the soap up from where Kaname had set it on the floor and concentrated on getting a nice lather worked up. She then replaced the soap and stood up to wash Kaname's chest and shoulders.
Whatever he had been expecting her to do, this wasn't it. While what she was doing was undeniably nice, he was infinitely glad that he had not given voice to what he had though she was going to do. He laughed slightly to himself at his slight disappointment when he realized that she was still doing something no one had done in a very long time. She was simply caring for him. With a smile, he decided that for now that was more than enough.
Yuuki saw the smile cross his face and felt herself return it, even though she realized that he couldn't see it with his eyes closed. She continued to wash him, almost absently, as the healing marks on his skin made her realize just how close she had come to losing him today. Suddenly, feeling much more brazen in light of recent events, she ran her nails slowly and gently down his stomach, watching as the muscles twitched in response. His small noise of appreciation was all she needed. She stroked him again and then reached out slowly and ran one finger down his member.
Kaname felt himself moan as she ran her fingers down his stomach. She has no idea what she is doing to me, he thought. But when she did it again, he felt himself begin to become aroused. I need to control myself, he thought fiercely. She is just helping me get clean she isn't thinking about sex. Then he felt her hand go somewhere that suggested she was thinking about sex, and very much so. He let out a gasp at her feather light touch in his most intimate place and opened his eyes. There was a lustful look in her eyes that reinforced what her touch had suggested. And he felt himself begin to harden simply from that look.
Keeping eye contact with him, she repeated her earlier caress, noting that the angle of her stroke had changed. Kaname breathed her name and she found that hearing her name spoken in such a way did interesting things to her. Suddenly she realized that she truly loved this man. She had thought it before, but now she understood what that meant. As he grasped her shoulders, she stepped back drawing him into the water and succeeding in getting the soap off of his body. With resolve this time, she knelt in front of him and ran her tongue down him along the same path her fingers had followed moments before. She felt his hands squeeze her shoulders in response and smiled as she repeated the motion.
When she had knelt again, Kaname has wondered if she was trying to get the bar of soap again and was about to tell her that he was clean, physically anyway since his thoughts were anything but. However, when she ran her tongue down him it was everything he could do to keep from putting enough force on her shoulders to bruise. And then she did it again. Suddenly his skin became hypersensitive, he could feel everything around him, the water, her tongue, her warm breath. He felt the aroused growl rise up his throat, only to be replaced by a gasp as she closed her mouth over him. He gave a light hiss of pain as her fangs grazed him, but even that sting felt wonderful since it had been from her.
When he hissed in pain, she pulled back and looked up at him with dismay. "I'm sorry," she gasped out. "I don't know what I'm doing. What did I do wrong?" He smiled and stroked her face.
"Nothing, dear one," he whispered, "you just forgot you have fangs." He watched as she glanced down and her eyes began to glow slightly. She leaned in slowly and lapped the blood from the twin marks. Seemingly without realizing what she was doing, she began sucking trying to get every last drop of blood from the healed cuts. In the process of doing so, she once again took him into her mouth and he knew that between the suction and her massaging him with her tongue, this was not going to last very long. And then she moaned. This was not going to last long at all.
Yuuki felt herself moan at the taste of his blood on her tongue as she accidently nicked him again. Maybe I was wrong, she thought. This is actually rather nice. And he makes such interesting noises. She continued her ministrations and listened to his breathing patterns and moans to know what he actually liked. Suddenly his hands tangled in her hair and she looked up at him confusion in her eyes. He groaned and gently guided her off of him.
When he was almost to the point of no return, Kaname decided that they needed to stop this stage so that she could be properly rewarded for her actions. When he went to stop her, she looked up at him so innocently that it almost drove him over the edge. Instead he used his hold on her hair to lead her off him and hand on her upper arm to guide her into a standing position. He leaned down and kissed her, cutting off her question and pressed her against the wall of the shower.
The cool shower tiles were a sharp contrast to the hot man pressed against her, but Yuuki found that she liked it. When he placed his hands under her rump, she wrapped her arms and legs around him on instinct. He chuckled and whispered, "Have you done this before, my dear."
She shook her head, troubled that he could think that, but then he entered her and all rational thought was erased for now, lost in the tide of passion and sensation. She squirmed, unable to truly move sandwiched between him and the wall and whimpered in frustration when the movement was not enough. He laughed again and then kissed her on the lips before he began to move. Once he moved, Yuuki knew that this was going to be a fast round. She didn't know why, but something about this position was very stimulating.
Kaname could tell from the way she was moving and breathing that she wasn't going to be able to resist the urge to finish for long, and he was glad because once she was done, he could be as well and it was beginning to become slightly painful to deny himself release. Suddenly she constricted around him and he lost the ability to restrain himself. He felt a cry tear up his throat as his end came crashing forward. He stayed leaning against her with his eyes closed for a moment, then he kissed her on the side of the neck and moved to pull away. He was restrained by her hand on the back of his head.
"Yuuki," he breathed, "there is no way I can go again now."
"But you can feed," she demanded, her voice hard.
"I'm f—"
"Don't you dare say you are 'fine'," she cut him off. "You are not fine. You are surviving, there is a difference. Now we have ten years, and probably more, to make up for so feed." Her tone permitted no argument, but Kaname was strong-willed.
"No," he replied. In that one word was all the stubbornness and strength of millennia.
"Yes," Yuuki commanded. He may be stubborn, but so am I, she thought. And I know one way to make him feed. She reached up and ran her fingernail down her neck spilling her own blood, wincing slightly at the pain. He tried to pull back, but she held him to her. She flet her skin knit back together and sighed in exasperation. Damn pureblood healing. "Now, are you going to feed," she asked, "or do I have to cut myself again. I don't want to because that kinda hurt but I swear I will." She knew that she wasn't playing fair, but at the moment she didn't care.
He realized that there was no way he was going to win against her this time. The only way he could get away from her would be to drop her and he wasn't going to do that. He watched as she raised her hand again, her face scrunched up from what she was planning to do. With a sigh he gave into instinct and licked the blood that was flowing down her collarbone to its source on her neck and then bit her once again.
She hated that she had to force him into anything, but he was still so afraid of hurting her that he was endangering his own health. The mark on his face had still not healed entirely, which meant that he needed more blood than he had willingly taken. She refused to let his fear kill him. Even if that meant she had to make him feed. She hoped that she would not have to do it too many times, she really hated manipulating him, and it almost made her physically ill. Again he pulled back too soon, but she let him go. She didn't have it in her to attempt to make him feed longer, besides the mark on his face was gone now so he had enough, for now.
She leaned her head on his shoulder, fighting tears at what she had just done, "I'm sorry," she whispered, "but you needed more blood."
"You're right," he replied suddenly feeling guilty that he had forced her into a position where she felt she had to do something that made her feel this sad. "We will have to sit down and establish a feeding schedule sometime tomorrow. But for now, let's go to bed."
"So much for 'saving water'," she replied with a sniff, unwrapping her legs from around his hips. He set her down gently and turned off the water. Realizing for the first time that neither of them had towels or clean clothes, Yuuki looked at Kaname, giggling at the sudden mental image of Kaname, the dignified head of the moon dorm, streaking though the headmaster's house and getting caught. "umm," she began fighting back the giggles, "How are we going to get to my room?"
He laughed and took her hand before teleporting them to her room.
"Oh," she laughed, "That is much better than what I was thinking, though not nearly as entertaining." He raised an eyebrow in question, but she just smiled and tossed him a towel before she dried herself with another and climbed into bed and gestured for him to follow.
"You're not going to tell me are you?" he asked sitting beside her. She rolled over and laid her head on his shoulder. He wrapped her arm around her shoulders and held her too him, thankful that he was still able to do it. Today had been much too close for comfort.
"Maybe tomorrow," she sighed as she closed her eyes and drifted off to sleep. He smiled and kissed the top of her head before he joined her.
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So what did you think? I decided that if they won't give me a backstory, I will created one.
Sy: yep yep :)
Mistressamy: I'm glad, I generally find him an underappreciated comic relief in most ff's and felt he deserved more of a role.
: Thank you, I'm glad you did! I'm also glad that you are enjoying the story, that is my goal. I didn't know you could do that, that is amazing! And it wasn't the end of the weekend, but I do have a new one for you!
Miss TurkeySub: Thank you, and I like that adjective so you don't have to if you don't want to. I'm glad you appreciated the scene, and when the idea hit I thought "oh snap!" as well. :) gotta love anticipation, right? And you are welcome, and eventually the urge to write will strike you, just go with it. I started out just reading as well.
XxMoonlitsynxX: I'm glad you enjoy it :)
Avenging Neko: first off, your penname is awesome! And thank you, I do consider it an honor to be the only story you have finished. As you can see, I enjoy torturing characters as well, only under duress do their true colors shine thorough. And I thought they're cute too!
As always, thank you for reading my newest chapter, leave me a review if you have time. Now I think I'm going to go take a cool shower.
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