Chapter 11

Zero adjusted his attire with shaky fingers before turning his gaze over to his brother who was by the small sink at the mini bar. Ichiru felt his brother's gaze on him, making him turn around to face him. Zero's complexion looked far better now than it did before and his anxiety level went down an obvious notch. Now, all that was left was the shame and obvious regret showing in Zero's eyes.

Ichiru sighed before speaking, eyes never once leaving his brother's. "How are you feeling?"

Zero blushed and averted his eyes. "F-Fine…"

Ichiru looked over to the clock just above the sink. It was half past twelve. Ichiru's break was done over half an hour ago and he was also late to his next assigned table. Yet, that wasn't Ichiru's biggest concern at the moment.

Ichiru turned back to his brother. "Zero, why don't you change and together we'll leave."

Zero looked at his brother confused. "I thought that you still had another two more tables left?"

"I do, but I'll just give them to Aidou. I'm sure he'll enjoy the extra attention."

"But I'm not sure Toga will like that."

"Then, let him fire me." Ichiru stated as he made his way over to his brother and locked his arms around his slim waist. "I'm more concerned about you."

Zero went to push Ichiru away but his twin only drew him in closer, trapping Zero's hands between their chests.

"Ichiru…" Zero tried to struggle against his brother yet despite being older than his twin, Ichiru was unbelievably stronger. "Stop it…let me go."

Ichiru did not obey his brother's pleas and instead held him tighter before burying his face in the crook of Zero's neck where he nibbled and sucked at the skin between his neck and collarbone, which caused Zero to involuntarily arch further into his brother's grasp. Zero struggled harder, his pleas more desperate yet they were falling on ears that weren't listening to him.

"Ichiru…s-stop!"

Ichiru held his brother tighter and whispered in his ear. "Zero, don't forget who it is that helps you find release. When it comes to your illness there is only one thing that can help you relax and forget. Pain is your keeper and pleasure is your freedom. Don't ever forget that."

Ichiru released Zero from his grip and watched as Zero fell to his knee and hung his head in shame. The words Ichiru spoke to him were true, whenever Zero had a panic attack or was ever building up to much stress or anxiety, pleasure was the only thing that helped him cope. And if the release was good, it even helped him forget.

Zero had always been ashamed of this aspect of himself, so he had always kept it to himself until his brother found out and thus was started their sinful act. Zero became powerless to stop it, he was a prisoner to his own lust and shameful regret was always left burning his insides when he was done.

"Zero." Ichiru noticed as his brother flinched when he heard his name being called. "Go ahead and get changed. I'll met you back at the car."

Zero nodded and stood. Without saying anything more to his brother, Zero left the employee lounge and headed to the male staff locker room to change into his regular clothing.

As soon as Zero was far from ear sight, Ichiru was violently slammed against the wall by an unseen force. The figure behind Ichiru pressed the side of his face further into the wall at the same time he twitched Ichiru's left arm further up his back making the silver haired hunter hiss at the sharp pain that traveled up his arm. Yet, despite the pain the figure was causing him, Ichiru let a smirk form on his lips as he side glanced at the figure behind him.

"Touma-sama, what a lovely surprise."

"You continue to test my patience Ichiru!" Touma growled into Ichiru's left ear.

"Oh my, whatever do you mean?"

"You damn well know what I mean!"

Ichiru pondered for a moment before he spoke. "Oh, you must be referring to me and Zero's forbidden act of incest love? What, did seeing Zero get off by his own brother strike a nerve or something?"

Touma twisted Ichiru's arm further up his back. "Your insolence is quite annoying."

"And your refusal to obey is pissing me off!" Ichiru spat as he pushed himself off the wall with his right hand and twisted himself to the right and connected his elbow to the right of Touma's cheek.

The pureblood was caught completely off guard by the attack and even more so when Ichiru shouted out a command that had Touma on his knees.

Ichiru smirked widened when he saw the shock expression on Touma's face.

"How?" Touma inquired as he stared up at the other.

"Have you forgotten? Zero and I are twins; we have the same blood and DNA flowing through our veins. The bind that Zero placed on you is accessible to everyone who shares the same genes as him."

Touma growled deep in his throat.

Ichiru frowned. "Oh, what's the matter? Don't like having anyone other than onii-sama, controlling you and vise versa?" Ichiru's frown turned wicked as he brutally kicked his foot upward, striking Touma under his chin and sending him falling backwards on his back. "Well, what do you know…neither do I."

Touma coughed up a bit of blood before directing his glare back at Ichiru. "You are out of your mind."

Ichiru gave a dark almost sinister insane laughter before going completely silent as if his laugh before never happened. "Now that's very rude to say, Touma-sama. You actually almost hurt my feelings if I didn't think you were a hundred percent correct about the whole 'out of your mind' comment."

Ichiru pressed his foot on Touma's chest. "This can't be the real you, is it? I know this because you can't revert back to your normal size until Zero breaks the curse that binds you." Ichiru pushed down harder on the grown figure of Touma. "Where is your actual body?"

Touma smiled. "Like hell I'll tell you that."

Ichiru shrugged his shoulders. "No worries, I can still play with this makeshift dummy all I like."

Touma hissed when Ichiru grinded the heel of his shoe deeper onto Touma's chest, forming a bruise that soon disappeared after it was made.

"You know, Touma. We are a lot a like."

Touma grunted behind his teeth in pain before speaking. "How so?"

"We both love Zero."

That made Touma laugh hysterically. "I think you're a bit confused about our own definition of that word."

Ichiru raised an eyebrow.

"My love for Zero is pure in the very form of the word, while yours is a disgusting obsessive love. You are nothing but a yandere."

Ichiru immediately brought his hands down toward Touma's neck, in hopes of squeezing the life out of the dummy beneath him but before he was able to, Touma's body disintegrated into multiple bats that flew out beneath Ichiru and formed together again a few distance away from the former who was now on his hands and knees.

Ichiru smirked again. "So, that's what you're using to make that mannequin of yours?"

"I'm a pureblood, so of course I'm going to use the powers I was born with. Especially since it helps getting away from an obsessive brother-complex boy like you."

Ichiru sat down on his bum and drew his knees close to his chest before resting his chin on them. He looked up at Touma with a child-like smile that hid a deranged adult behind that innocent look.

"Is it wrong for me to want to love my brother and have him by my side to the point that I want to cut off his arms and legs and lock him in a cage where he will never ever escape me?"

Being the most fearsome creature in the world, Touma couldn't help but feel almost afraid and disgusted by Ichiru.

"Aren't you and I the same, Touma-sama?" Ichiru continued to lock eyes with the pureblood. "We don't want anyone, even each other, to touch Zero. We both see Zero as our possession, a jewel we can't afford to lose. Do you think we want other people to have what is ours? Like, for example, that lead singer from Bloody Rose."

Touma visibly twitched at the mention of his former student and that made the smile on Ichiru's lips grin wider.

"So you already heard of his and Zero's hook-up?"

Touma refused to say anything since he didn't want to say anything that might reveal the true nature of what Kaname was, so he remained silent yet he couldn't stop his brows from knitting together as he recalled the kiss he witnessed between the two.

"See, look at that." Ichiru pointed his finger at Touma with that smirk of his. "That look is just like mine. It's the look of a man who is willing to kill in order to maintain what is his. That is what makes you and I alike."

"Yet, that still doesn't justify the fact that our ways of expressing such emotions is different."

Ichiru merely shrugged his shoulders. "Similar or different, we are still men bound by the same chain and how we choose to find a way to the key, is of our own choosing."

"Even if the method is a dark and devious one?" Touma inquired.

"Even if…" Ichiru repeated. His smile was now stretching from ear to ear like the smile of a Cheshire cat.

"Humph, do you honestly believe Zero will remain by your side?"

"He has been for the last 22 years, hasn't he?"

"That's because he doesn't know the truth." Touma watched, amused, as the ear-to-ear smile vanished from Ichiru's face. "Zero doesn't know that you are the cause of his horrid past and that you continuously use his illness as a means to manipulate his emotions. You are the one who turned him against me. If it wasn't for you, Zero would be by my side and not yours."

Ichiru growled yet that only amused Touma even more. "You are nothing but a man hiding behind shady ways and ideals, all in order to get what you want-"

"You are no better than me!" Ichiru shouted. "Even after all these ten years, you've never said a word! You are keeping my dirty sins just as much as I am."

"Only difference is Zero will forgive me and not you."

"You bastard!" Ichiru spat and throw the nearest thing beside him, which was an ashtray that was sitting on the coffee table.

Touma chuckled and dodged it with ease. "It seems that my words have hit a nerve."

Ichiru was shaking with fury and just as he was about to utter the word that would have the pureblood bowing before him at his knees, Touma was before him in an instant. One hand covering his mouth while the other was wrapped around Ichiru's neck, one move away from snapping it.

"Let me give you a warning, Ichiru. The day me and Zero's bet is completed and he finds out the truth, I will see to it that I personally will be the one to assist in your demise."

Before Ichiru had time to hit Touma with another surprise attack, the former's body transformed back into bats and escaped through a vent in the ceiling, which led outside.

Ichiru narrowed his eyes and bit his thumb between his teeth until it bled. "Damn you Touma…damn you."

-0-

Zero was a bit surprised when his brother texted him and told him to head on home without him, especially since his brother was so keen on coming home with him, but Zero figured this was for the best and plus, Zero didn't think he had it in him to face his brother after what they did. He just couldn't, even if he loved his brother dearly. What they did is something that should never be forgiven.

Zero idly flipped through his keys before finding the one he was looking for and unlocking the front door of his house. The warm crisp air of his heated home greeted Zero; it warmed his freezing cold body. Zero knew he needed a shower to wash away all his sins but before that he needed to drop by his room to gather the essentials he will need for his shower.

The first thing Zero was met with when he opened the door to his room was the obvious darkness but then the sweet small of roses drifted through the air and into Zero's nose. Zero found that odd and as soon as he turned on his light, he found out why. Sitting in the middle of his completely empty room was a bouquet of red roses.

Zero stared in shock at his room, everything was gone except for the vase full of roses, which Zero just realized had a note attached to it. Zero swallowed as he prepared himself for a note written by Touma.

Good evening Zero,

By now you'd have probably come across my surprise for you and I'm sure you're so ecstatic that your eyebrows are knitting together so cutely. I'm also sure that you are probably wondering where your stuff is? Well, I figured that since we are now in an imitate relationship, we might as well move on to the next step, don't you agree? So, starting from today onward you will be living with me in my suite. Attached to this note is a key and the address to my place, so come when you're ready.

I'll be waiting for you.

Sincerely yours, Kaname Kuran

As Kaname had said in the letter, Zero's brows were indeed knitting together but it was out of pure rage and not him being quote on quote 'ecstatic'. Zero clenched said key in hand before turning on his heel and leaving his bedroom and out the front door.

No matter how late it was, Zero was going to give Kaname a piece of his mind and he was going to do it now even if he knew that he would be falling in line to Kaname's will and even falling into the lion's den where the beast will be thirsting for a little fun.

TBC…

D/N: For those who don't know what Yandere is, here is the detailed definition: Yandere-A fictional character who fits the archetype of being genuinely romantic, loving, kind, merciful, sparing, sweet and gentle, but at the same time is brutal, psychotic or deranged in behavior. The psychotic tendency can be both sudden and ever-present.

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~DIA~