Chapter 7

Kaname grabbed one of the towels from the towel rack in his bathroom and began to rub the soft material against his wet hair. Drying it enough before he wrapped it around his bare waist. Kaname walked over the white tiled floor of his bathroom until he reached the coral colored porcelain sink where he grabbed a rag from the counter.

Kaname wiped away the steam that coated the glass of his mirror enough so that his own reflection was looking back at him. Drops of water were dripping down his face and trailing down his toned chest and abs before being wiped away half-heartedly by the rag in Kaname's hand.

Kaname gave a bored sigh.

Only an hour or two had passed since the limo driver had dropped him off at his penthouse suite. The place was furnished with top ranked products money could buy, all to fit Kaname's rock boy style. The place was big for a one bedroom penthouse, but that was how Kaname liked it. He liked his solitude. But there were days like these where being alone made him extremely bored.

Kaname sucked his teeth. 'Damn it, I knew I should've brought home with me one of those hostesses from Silver Moon. I'm sure that Ruka chick would have kept my boredom away for the night.'

Kaname thought before a sudden flash of a certain silver haired youth made its way across Kaname's memory, making a smirk appear on his lips.

"Zero Kiryu…" Kaname ran his hand through his still damp hair.

"What a feisty young lad I have met…you were so interesting that now that I think about it, that Ruka girl wouldn't have satisfied me as much as messing and breaking you would have on me. The idiot girl would have probably enjoyed it, where as you…" Kaname pondered but his mind just couldn't visual a hurt looking silver boy. "I simply don't know…but the more I think about it the more I want to know what kind of reaction you will make once you have your heart broken to pieces by the man you had fallen for? Oh, the fun that will be."

After a few seconds Kaname turned his head toward the closed bathroom door. His senses ringing on alert, informing him of another vampire's presence coming from down the hall.

"Seems I found myself some entertainment for the night."

Dropping the rag into the sink, Kaname made his way out the door. His legs and feet on auto-pilot as they made their way down the hallway and into the doorway that led to the living room.

Sitting in a single arm chair was a vampire. His left leg was crossed over his right as both hand were folded over his knee with a childlike smile was gracing his lips. Kaname looked from the vampire then to the open balcony doors. The reddish curtains were blowing wildly from the night air.

"You do know this apartment is at the very top of this building." Kaname said looking back at the vampire. The sitting vampire smiled even more as he nodded his head.

"I didn't jump up here, if that's what you're thinking…Kaname onii-sama. I just simply used that trick I taught you…you know, with the bats."

"Of course, Master Touma. You did teach your apprentice that crafty little trick of yours."

"Ah, so you still remember your old mentor."

"What makes you think I wouldn't? Sure your appearance had shrunken a little bit and your aura, including your powers has mostly been shield away. But, you are still you Touma. You are still the old bastard who use to train me day and night nonstop, molding me into the perfect heir who will succeed the throne my parents would have sure enough given me."

"Yes, but it appears that all my effort had gone to waste as it seems you have chosen a different path to that of what your parents had wanted you to go down."

Kaname shrugged his shoulders. "I got bored of being the spoiled rich kid that had to be forced into becoming a multi-million dollar corporate owner and the successor of the vampire society. I got tired of doing whatever my parents wanted me to do. So I decided to choose a different path from the one they were leading me into and now that I am a famous rock star, I have no regrets."

"I figured you would have rebelled sooner or later."

"So is that why you disappeared without anyone knowing?"

"That was over twenty years ago Kaname. You were still just a little eight year old boy at the time, yet you were the only one who seemed to notice or even cared for that matter."

"Why? You didn't want me too?"

Touma leaned his chin on the palm of his hand; his elbow was now resting on the arm of the chair. "There is something I always wanted to tell you, Kaname."

"Oh, really? May I ask what it is, perhaps?"

The cheerful like expression on Touma's face quickly darkened, his eyes narrowing into slits as his hazels eyes stared in the direction where Kaname was still standing.

"I always hated you. I found your attachment to me quite annoying to the point that I wanted to kill you."

Kaname flopped onto the couch; his arms were crossed over his chest, with his back leaning against the white leather cushion.

"Ouch, Touma that really stung you know." Kaname answered sarcastically. "But this little confession of yours does explain the meaning behind the brutal training you put me through."

"You were such a stupid little foul that you kept running back to me screaming onii-sama, onii-sama. So pathetic you were."

"This coming from a person who has been proclaimed as having gone 'mentally insane' by the vampire society."

"Really now? So that is how the vampire society depicts me as? And you Kaname…you have never been the one to believe in such things that comes from the mouths of greedy wolves and sneaky foxes."

"Don't get me wrong I didn't believe it at first, but things change you know. I mean the last time I heard your name after those long twenty years was about ten years ago where I heard you were living in Kyoto and had fallen for a human boy."

"So you know of this story too?"

"Only from what I heard from gossip and rumors, but I have the truth here. So would you care to explain it so that I can better understand?"

"All that there is to know was that I did fall for a human boy, a boy who showed me love in return. At least I thought it was love, yet he…"

"He ended up betraying you in the end? But, not before rendering you into that pathetic size and sealing away most of your vampire powers." Kaname said all this with a smile on his face as he stared at the emotionless face of Touma. "Is that just about right or am I wrong?"

Touma seemed to be in a moment's thought for a second before he spoke.

"For a rumor and a petty gossip that sure is more to the truth than anything."

"Actually this is just a theory; I just came up with randomly. This version is much more different than that of what the rumors had first implied…but, I must praise myself for the fact that my depiction was much more to the truth than the rumors were. I truly pity the boy who suffered in your hands. I really wonder what you did to make him betray you like that?"

"Don't get too caught up Kaname, because you are still missing the big picture. There are very important details you are missing. Just because your theory is slightly accurate to what really went on, does not necessarily mean it's all of it. But then, I doubt that anyone would know since they weren't there to know what happened. So before you start preaching me your theories on what had occurred ten years ago. I suggest you do a little more research on what really went down before you start taking sides, because only then will you understand who really is the one who should be called insane."

"Hmm…interesting." Kaname looked up at Touma. "You know, you don't look at all insane to me. Tell me Touma, is the one who should be considered insane, that boy?"

Touma remained silent, but all the while kept his eyes locked with Kaname's.

"It's alright; you don't have to tell me, but do tell me this Master Touma. Is the reason why you had resurfaced again after that incident, is because you found your lost kitten?"

"Yes…but it seems that my late appearance came at a bad time for I hear that someone had swept and stole my kitten away."

Kaname faked a shocked expression. "Such horrible news, that really must make you angry. So what are you planning on doing?"

"I did plan on maybe killing the bastard, but as I thought about it recently I decided otherwise. Because don't you think that it will be more enjoyable to watch if my little kitten was the one who killed that someone."

"I guess, but what if your kitten falls for this person?"

"I doubt that will happen because I know my kitten well enough to know that he won't just allow anyone to come near his heart without baring his fangs first." Touma smiled.

'Especially if it's a vampire.'

"You have quite the confidence in your kitten." Kaname said looking at a prideful Touma. "Well then suite yourself. Whatever Master wants is what Master gets…at least that was the saying you use to tell me as a child."

"And it hasn't changed since."

Kaname became serious. "I guess that is one thing that hadn't seemed to change about you. You know it makes me question really on who actually was this little boy that caused such a change to invoke in your heart as well as your ideals. Which by the way don't seem too friendly to begin with?"

Touma grinned. "You'll know soon enough Kaname-kun."

"What on earth is that suppose to mean."

"It means exactly as I said it." Touma got up from his seat and walked toward the balcony in which he came.

"Leaving already, Master Touma?" Kaname asked, he too getting up from his spot on the couch. "But I still have a lot of things I like to discuss with you."

"Forgive me, but our discussion will have to be made at another time. For I have some important things to take care of now."

Kaname crooked his head to the side. "There you go disappearing again, what is your plan this time?"

Touma turned around to face Kaname. Purposely ignoring the question asked of him, he instead asked another question of his own.

"You have a new human play thing don't you, Kaname-kun?"

Kaname raised an eyebrow before nodding. "Seems as though you heard the latest gossip?"

"Humph, indeed I have." Touma whispered before chuckling as a thought came across his mind.

"What's so funny Touma?"

"Oh, nothing. I was just laughing at the face you will make when the man you had fallen for drives a knife through your heart."

"And you find such an image funny…well; I wouldn't expect anything less since this is part of your dark and sick humor."

"Thank you, I'll take that as a compliment."

"I figured you would." Kaname whispered lowly to himself.

"Kaname-kun." Touma called still looking at the brunette from his place in the middle of the balcony porch.

Kaname looked up to see a childlike smile on his mentor's lips. A smile that was anything but innocent for it held an eerily darkness to it.

"As a friendly advice from me to you, I would watch out Kaname. Because you'll never know when that fame of yours will be swept from underneath your feet." Touma winked. "Oh, and please do be careful when you're dealing with him. He is very precious to me."

Kaname looked at Touma in confusion. "What are you talking about?"

"All in good time my darling, all in good time." Touma sang in an angel like voice before his body began to break apart into bats that soon flew away into the night.

Kaname watched for a moment as the black bats flew away before turning his head a little to the side.

"So have you done what I asked, Seiren?"

From within the shadows appeared Kaname's assistant Seiren. Seiren reached into her suit pocket and handed to Kaname a small white piece of paper.

"Here's the address of where Kiryu Zero-san and his brother live."

"Thank you, Seiren." Kaname said looking at the small piece of paper with a smile.

Seiren bowed. "Will there be anything else you want me to do?"

"Yes there is. I want you to find as much information as you can on who the little boy is that Touma had fallen for and find out if that boy is still living along with where I can find him now."

Seiren nodded before asking the question that has been floating about in her mind since she had arrived. "Was that Touma-sama that left?"

"Yes, but not the real one. Who I talked with and what you saw was just an alter version of him. A fake, to be more exact. An imposter made entirely out of living bats. It's a very hard skill to master, but he and I are the only two purebloods known to be able to do such a thing."

Seiren listened quietly for a moment before speaking again. "So if that wasn't the real Touma-sama but an alter version of him, then where is the real one?"

Kaname shrugged his shoulders. "I don't know, but if I was to take a wild guess then I assume he went to go have a face to face visit with a certain kitten of his. A kitten that has caught my interest very much because he was able to successfully capture the heart of Touma so easily without even trying and that alone is impressive. So much so that I am dying to meet him and see for myself what kind of person this boy really is."

TBC…

Next chapter is the first encounter with Zero and Touma after ten years. Then after that the next couple of chapters will take a turn to the funny side as the two main character's will begin their plan to make the other person fall first, before going back to being suspenseful as Touma plans are already in motion (more of Zero's past will also be revealed during this time).

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~DIA~