Yuuki sighed as she watched the last of the nobles leave the clearing. All things figured, practice hadn't gone that bad. She hadn't even needed to explain to them why Kaname wasn't there. They had just known. True, they hadn't exactly known the whole truth, but they had deduced that he had needed to rest after his impressive show of magic. She had just smiled and nodded.
"Don't worry, Yuuki-sama," one of the nobles had said seeing the sadness in her smile, "in a few days, or less, Kaname-sama will be as good as new." She had just smiled and attempted to keep the tears from her eyes and voice as she told him that she hoped he was right.
After that, no one had said anything else about Kaname. Instead they had traded the knowledge they had with the others in an attempt to teach each other something so that the session would not be a total waste. Everyone learned something and after a couple of hours Yuuki had decided to call it a night. She could see the fatigue beginning to show on the faces of the others and they were running out of tricks to exchange.
Again she found herself hoping that Kaname would snap out of it soon. She was already out of her league and the nobles were out of tricks. They needed him. Forcing the thought, and the depression it caused, out of her head she began walking back to the house hoping that the others had had more productive lessons than she had.
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"Seiren, wait," Zero called. They had just left the gym after a few hours of practice and she had turned to go the moon dorms after refusing to look at him throughout practice. He watched as her shoulders rose as she took a deep breath before she turned and faced him. He flinched at the ice in her gaze and almost decided to let her leave. Almost.
"Can we talk?" he asked. "Please?" At his last word, her eyes softened slightly and she nodded curtly before she broke eye-contact with the violet-eyed vampire.
Zero thought about it quickly and decided that the best place for the m to talk that offered the lowest chance of disturbance would be his room. Without a word he turned and headed towards the headmaster's house hoping that since she had agreed to talk she would follow him. He wasn't disappointed. Even though he was worried about the conversation that was to come, he was pleased that she was willing to have it.
Seiren sighed as she followed Zero. She didn't want to discuss this yet. She had hoped that his naturally reserved nature would give her time to think through what she was feeling before he wanted her to talk about it. But, like all her hopes lately, it didn't come through. Even so, she couldn't' help but hope that they were at least going to walk a bit to give her time to think of something.
She was so busy thinking that she didn't notice where they were until she heard a latch click and a lock slide into place. She looked around her in shock and realized that they were in the room they had so recently shared. She glared at him as she took in another detail: he was leaning against the door—the only exit—with his arms crossed and a determined look on his face that told her that she wouldn't get to leave until they were one. His position angered her.
"Why'd you bring me here of all places?" she demanded, her anger reflected in her tone. "Was there nowhere else we could have gone?"
He hadn't intended to yell at her, but her anger awoke the same emotion in him. "It didn't seem to bother you this much last night," he snapped, his tone cruel. "And, no, this was the only place I knew we wouldn't be interrupted."
"Like we weren't interrupted yesterday?" she snarled back. Even though she had told him that it didn't matter, it did. She was a noble vampire. To be caught like that, even if she hadn't been doing what they had thought she was . . . well, it was embarrassing.
Zero at least had the courtesy to look ashamed before he replied. "No, not like yesterday," he said, his tone more subdued. "Is that why you've been like this today? Or did your conversation with your mother have something to do with it?"
"What do you mean "like this"," Seiren demanded, her tone dangerous as she took a half-step towards him. The comment about her mother hadn't even registered with her.
He felt the urge to back away from her, but since he was already against the door he allowed his anger to override his sense of self-preservation.
"Unreasonable," he snapped. "Ever since the earthquake you checked out! And when I try to ask you what's wrong, you start a fight with me! This isn't like you. What the hell is going on?" His anger had deflated again as he spoke and the last words were little more than a whisper.
It was this that broke her anger as well. The despair in his tone was too much. Without her anger as a fuel, she found herself backing towards the bed and sinking into a sitting position on its edge with her head in her hands. She sat like that in silence for a bit before she sighed deeply and looked up at him, her silver eyes showing her sorrow and exhaustion.
"I'm sorry," she finally said, her voice little more than a whisper. "I don't know what's going on. When I found out that the earthquake had been cause by them, I felt like I had failed and I hated myself or that failure. Now . . . now I'm just . . . "
"Scared?" Zero supplied. She nodded and bit her lip as the tears began to form.
"I'm terrified," she sobbed. "We're at war. And you might. . . and I might. . ." Even though she didn't finish her statement, she didn't need to. Zero knew exactly what she meant. He walked over to her and sat down beside her before pulling her into a hug. She laid her head on his chest and started to cry in earnest.
"Shh," he soothed, "it'll be ok. You heard Yuuki. She'll fix it." He stroked her silver hair while she wept.
"But what if she can't?" Seiren asked. She wanted to trust what Yuuki had said, but she was a realist. She had seen the emptiness in Kaname's eyes. "I don't want to die."
"You won't," he promised even though they both knew there was a chance she would. "I'll make sure of it." She pulled him more tightly against her. She knew that in a war the only way someone could even hope to keep such a promise was if they intended to sacrifice themselves if the need arose. She couldn't live with herself if he died to save her.
Silently she promised herself that if that happened, she would follow soon after. But there was one thing that she wanted to do before either of them died and this might be her only chance. She pulled back enough to look into the violet eyes of the vampire she loved before she tangled her fingers in his silver hair and claimed his lips in a kiss.
Zero was surprised when she kissed him but soon the surprise melted into awe at the passion and desire her kiss held. He felt a moan rise unbidden from his chest at the sheer force of emotion it held.
Taking his moan as a good sign, Seiren began to unbutton his shirt with the hand that was not tangled in his hair. She was almost done when one of Zero's hands closed over her own and stopped her before he broke the kiss and pulled back to look at her. Through the haze of desire in his eyes, she saw a hint of confusion and what almost looked like fear.
He had meant to ask her what she was doing, but one look at the determination and passion burning in her eyes told him exactly what she had planned. He was both excited and terrified at the same time. He didn't know if she had ever done this before, but he hadn't. He hoped that he could manage to do it well. It was his uncertainty that made him have to know.
"Are you sure?" he asked. He truly wanted to, but he didn't want to get excited if this wasn't going to go anywhere.
"I want to do this," she replied. "With you."
He nodded. "I just want you to know, I've never . . ." he trailed off unsure of which word to use.
"Don't worry," she whispered leaning in to nip his earlobe. "It'll be ok." He leaned away from her to give her better access to his neck and ear and allowed her to take control since she seemed to know what she was doing.
Soon, her nimble fingers had finished unbuttoning his shirt and she had removed it and gently placed it over the headboard. She was just beginning to explore the pale flesh she had uncovered with her hands when she felt him tentatively reach under her shirt. He had only touched her with the tips of his fingers. The caress a barely there sensation that had caused goosebumps to rise across her flesh. She wondered how that touch would feel in more intimate places than her back, but didn't want to rush things.
Knowing that he may not do it on his own, she took care of the buttons of her own shirt and removed it, neatly laying it next to his. She though a moment before she decided to leave her bra on. She figured that she would let him do the honors when he was ready. When she had moved to remove her blouse, Zero had retracted his hands. Now, blushing slightly at her forwardness, Seiren picked them up from where they laid and returned them to her back.
He smiled tentatively at her and she returned it before she bent and began kissing him again. Without the encumbrance of the shirt, his hands began to roam more freely. In their exploration, one of his hands brushed the side of her breast. At her little sound of pleasure, he felt a little bolder and gently stroked it through the cloth with his thumb. He was surprised as to how much he enjoyed her enjoyment of his touch.
Seiren was surprised at her body's reaction to his touch. She had been with a man before—not that anyone else knew that—and after they had finished she had wondered what all the fuss was about. It hadn't been traumatizing, or particularly painful, but it hadn't been all that wonderful either. Now she understood. Zero's hesitant exploration was doing more than the other man's "skills" had done in less than half the time. It wasn't just the act that was special; it was the person you were with that made it special. Now she understood.
When Zero's finger went under the band of her bra, she realized that he would never remove it if he wasn't encouraged to do so.
"You can take it off, if you want," she said, her voice a breathy whisper. He looked up at her with wide eyes. She smiled at his innocence, the innocence that she was about to take, before she nodded and watched as he reached behind her and fumbled with the clasp for a moment before getting it undone. She smiled as he began to explore her skin with his eyes in addition to his hands. While he was busy, she decided to do a little exploring of her own and gently undid the button on his pants.
The sound of a zipper shocked Zero and he looked at Seiren. Things were just happening so fast. He had known that eventually they would get to here, but he despite what he had said, he didn't know that it was going to be that night. Hearing his sharp intake of breath, Seiren looked at him.
"Trust me," she whispered. She waited for his panic to abate before she finished unzipping his pants, watching him carefully to make sure that this was what he wanted. "We can stop," she said gently. Even though she wanted to do this, if he didn't she would let him say no and wouldn't have held it against him.
He shook his head and raised his hips to enable her to remove his pants. She placed his shoes on the floor beside the bed and his pants with the rest of their clothes that had been removed and bent to kiss the side of his neck. He moaned and allowed his hands to return to their exploration. Of their own volition they made their way to the waist band of her skirt. She made a noise of consent and allowed him to slip her skirt down across her hips. Once it was down, she stood and allowed him to finish removing it before kicking off her shoes and rejoining him on the bed.
The ease with which she submitted herself to him cause his already engorged manhood to throb almost painfully. And he was a little embarrassed by it, he knew that from where she was sitting, she had to be able to feel it. He was embarrassed that he couldn't control himself better.
Little did he know that the fact that she could feel his arousal in a tangible way only served to increase Seiren's desire for the vampire. She knew with certainty that they were doing the right thing. And it was this certainty that caused her to decided that it was time for them to lose the last bits of fabric that were between them. Zero didn't protest as she grasped the waist band of his underwear and began to guide pull them off. Instead, he did the same to her, feeling braver as his desire for her rose and since she hadn't stopped him yet. Neither of them took the time to lay this clothing in a neat pile and instead tossed them aside rather dramatically.
Even though she knew it was wrong, Seiren wasn't sure how much more foreplay she could stand and decided that she would use her position to speed things along. Stroking his face gently with one hand, she reached between them and guided him towards her entrance with the other. She kept eye contact with him as she slowly lowered herself on to him. When he closed his eyes, she stopped worried she had gone too fast. He worry disappeared when he let out a throaty moan and grabbed her hips forcing her the rest of the way down
Zero had never felt anything like it. He closed his eyes at the pure exquisiteness of the feeling. He could think of no words to describe it, and soon he gave up, so lost was he in the wash of sensations. Then she began to move, a slow steady rhythm that was more wonderful than the static sensations of just being inside her had been. He felt mans begin to rise up his throat and made no attempt to quiet them.
If anyone would have asked Seiren how she felt at that moment—after she finished committing bloody murder—she would have told them that she could think of no words to describe it except for right. It felt right. She was just thinking that she wished it could last forever when Zero let out a particularly loud moan as he reached his finish line miles ahead of her.
She was shocked and a little disappointed. Even though she had heard that virgin males had no stamina, she had thought it was an old wives talk like the one about the first time always bleeding for a woman. Hers hadn't.
She sighed as she gently separated them and lay down beside him. She had also heard that stamina builds up rather quickly. And other than that little problem, this had been much better than her first time. Even with that bit of disappointment, she didn't regret her decision that night and she hoped that there would be more time to practice in the future and get it right.
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Hey all, hope you enjoyed that, a few of you asked for a Zero/Seiren scene so I figured that I would give you one. Besides it had been a while since one of those had popped up and I didn't really see a way to get Yuuki and Kaname into that position any time soon. . . but we'll see.
As always, I would love to hear what you thought about it, even if you hated it. And thank you to the people that added this story to their favorites or alerts.
A special thank you to:
Sapphire Kuran: That's part of the reason I did that, he seemed a little one dimensional. It was time for a little character growth and he doesn't seem like the type to take to growth kindly, especially at his age. Growth requires trauma. And Thank you :)
Elliot Rose: I would agree with you about the mysterious characters, though I do wish some of them got a little more screen time. Eventually he will realize that suicide is not the best course of action, but it may take something drastic to make that happen. And poor Kaname, no matter what he does, he is betraying something he loves/loved.
Kannabi888: thank you so much for deciding to review! As to the actual manga, I kinda liked the newest chapter that came out, I think I see how she is going to end it now, but the ones before it (since Kaname killed Aidou's father) I wasn't too sure about. And thank you, I was trying for a more self-assured Yuuki, as one of my other reviewers said a while ago, "she's a pureblood dammit!" the weak and docile Yuuki doesn't really work for me. And I'm glad that you like my take on Kaname :). I won't abandon it, I promise. I hope you continue to enjoy it.
Akira91: That's what I'm counting on :) and thank you for the compliment. I hope you enjoyed this one as well.