The Mirror and the Mask

Chapter 3: Breathless

Zero could feel his face blush, his heart racing; struggling to beat through his ribs and out of his chest. All because of Kaname's smooth words. They alone sent a shudder down his spine, a delicate pleasure and a shameful pain.

"You say such words." Zero whispered. He said them so softly that he couldn't believe Kaname would hear them. It was as if they were carried up by the wind. That's how weightless of meaning they were, none to hold them down. Zero's head told him to shove Kaname away, pull out his Bloody Rose but he stood as he was with Kaname's arms wrapped around him. His hands were a faint but tantalizing weight upon his body.

Zero could feel the pure blood rest his hand on the prefect's hip while the other continued caressing his hand as the vampire held it. A breath of warm air blew across his neck; telling Zero how close the pure blood's lips were.

"Yet aren't they true, these words?" Kaname whispered. Zero couldn't believe himself. He allowed Kaname to pull his closer without any restraint. It was as if he were watching a movie, a spectator from far away in the distance. From that distance Zero could see, feel Kaname's supple lips brush against the tip of his ear; circling around his silver earring slowly. Zero's breathing was quickening as if he were running up a hill.

"Kaname?" Zero called, hoping that speaking would stop Kaname's advances but the pure blood was deaf to his voice. Kaname tilted his chin to the side and up; both now looking each other with eyes laced in lust and desire.

Zero saw those bedroom eyes, he saw that creamy white skin, he saw those supple lips and it was Kaname's lips which he moved towards. Slowly but gradually, Zero finally meshed his lips with Kaname's, moaning at the contact.

All shame, guilt, embarrassment and anger was thrown away within this one moment. Zero had never kissed anyone like this before but the way his tongue would slide against Kaname's or how their lips would shift gently between each other—all of it came natural to him. It was as if kissing Kaname came natural to Zero.

With Zero's violent impatience, the silver haired boy grew bolder within the kiss; escalating the passion between the heat. The kiss grew to be sloppy and full of quick but forceful pauses until Zero would pull Kaname back towards his lips. It continued on till Zero was stopped by Kaname's hands.

Kaname held Zero under his chin, staring him down while his lips were slightly flushed red from being nibbled by Zero. Zero looked at him with the same amount of frustrated lust; both panting to catch their breath. The silver haired boy knew what Kaname wanted as if he could read the pure blood's mind through his eyes.

He pulled back from Kaname, turning around full and flat against the brick wall. The pureblood walked closer, closing the distance between the two of them.

"Is this what you want?" He said to the pure blood. Zero's eyes were half open and his lips were slightly parted as he continued panting. Kaname pressed his leg between Zero's thighs.

"Yes." He whispered in a hush. Kaname reached under Zero's arms and slipped Zero's uniform jacket off his slender shoulders while caressing the muscle under them. They continued to kiss as Kaname pinned Zero to the wall, his hands venturing up his shirt and memorizing each curve and contour of the silver's torso. Zero had to hold up his arms over his head in order for Kaname to lift up his shirt.

I never thought a kiss would feel so good. It's even better than what I have dreamed when fantasying about Yuuki. Zero smiled slightly within their kiss as he thought about those young adolescent dreams. But than again…what am I doing?

"Because of me…your eye…I'm sorry teacher—''

"Do you want me to regret risking my life to save you?"

Teacher! I've never forgotten his words. What he said to me made me what I am until now. Now…

Zero opened his eyes, seeing Kaname's face moments away from his, kissing him and his eyes closed and unaware of Zero's thoughts. He began to shift nervously under the vampire's hands.

What am I doing? Teacher risked his life for me because of these monsters; one killed my entire family and now look at what I'm doing: I'm making out with one of them! What would teacher think if he saw me? What of Yuuki? Mr. Cross? My mother and father?!

No! I'm sorry Mother! Don't look at me Father! Please!

But no matter what, Zero couldn't help but fear those ghosts of his past walking into them right now; finding their son up against a wall with one of them.

Teacher! Please don't be mad at me! I can't do this! I won't. No! Don't look! No! No!

"No!" Just than Zero felt Kaname pull back.

"No?" Zero woke up from his thoughts and saw that Kaname was now looking at him worried. He looked at Kaname bewildered, than down at his exposed chest with the vampire's hands on him, last back at Kaname. "Get off of me."

Zero pulled down Kaname's hands and moved to the right of the vampire.

"Zero—''

"No! Get away!" Zero hissed while viciously trying to button up his jacket.

"Stop, Zero. Common—'' Kaname reached for Zero's hand but the young student pushed Kaname's hand away.

"Stop! Leave me alone!" He shouted before stumbling his way out of the little courtyard. "Don't you ever touch me!" With that last order he left Kaname alone in their little garden, allowing for the pure blood to stand there lost and dazed after what he'd just done.

Kaname continued looking towards the direction from where Zero left, maybe hoping that he'll come back and throw himself at him. But nothing of the sort happened. He knew that. Instead Kaname smiled, his long fingers touching the same lips in which Zero had so passionately kissed.

"Christ!" Adio shoved his Physics textbook into his satchel. "Whoever hired that man to teach Physics was on acid. I can't believe he owns a professors degree in science!" As Adio continued ranting about Professor Henry, Kain, his cousin snickered at his side.

"Isn't it funny that even though you call him 'the worst teacher ever', everyone else is still passing?"

"It's a conspiracy against me? Yes. You're right again, Kain." Adio continued walking along the dark pathway with his cousin. The pathway was even darker under the shade of the trees.

"Perhaps you should get a tutor?" Kain tugged his book bag tighter on his shoulder.

"Yah, maybe you're right." Adio's scarlet eyes instantly flashed at a beautiful young vampire of his age. "Oh, Ruka?" He sang.

"Oh God—'' Before Ruka could turn the other way, Adio's arm was already around her waist.

"So what to do it, Ruka? How about you and make have some chemistry together?" He leaned towards her closer, pursing his lips until Ruka pushed him away.

"It's physics Adio, not chemistry." Kain laughed at Adio's failed attempts. "You failed that last year."

"Oh, yah. Don't remind me of that year!"

"We better hurry up if we're to arrive in History on time. Kaname won't forgive our tardiness."

"Kaname. Kaname. Kaname." Adio teased. "Ruka, are you sure you're not fucking obsessed with him?" Ruka stopped shortly after Adio said that.

"Don't be an asshole." She glared him down, causing him to feel low. For a moment there was a heavy air of silence between the three until it was lifted abruptly when Ruka was shoved by a rushing body.

"Sorry—'' The passerby didn't look back at the one whom he ran into but the others did.

"Isn't that Kiriyuu?"

"Zero? What is that jerk doing here?" Adio sneered.

"Probably going off to masturbate with Yuuki on his mind." The two boys laughed at the crud joke except Ruka just crossed her arms.

"He was very warm." She mused out loud.

"Warm?" Adio questioned.

"Yes. Not the usual warmth either." She cocked her head as her eyes continued following Zero's body through the darkness.

"Where the hell did he come from anyway?" Kain looked up ahead where Zero seemed to have emerged from a thicket of bushes. The rest followed his eyes until another body gracefully emerged from behind the thicket.

"Kaname?" Adio gasped.

Kaname looked down at his feet with a somber stare. He paid no attention to his small audience. His mind only revolved with questions of the one whom ran away from him. No one studied Kaname's movements more than Ruka. She watched him intently, inferring all his movements like a book. His sad face, his lost and wondering eyes, his rumpled clothes, his dishelmed hair, those flushed lips, and the black Day Class jacket which she knew instantly whom it belonged to.

"Kiriyuu." She whispered under her breath.

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I really love all the comments coming in so don't stop! I hope readers are now a little pleased that I've got some hotter scenes in this chapter. And for future chapters they're only going to get hotter! I'm glad to have incorporated Ruka into the story.

Mainly all yoai VK stories are all about Zero/Kaname and Shiki/Inchijou Just know that I was the 1st who wrote the Shiki/Ichijou relationship! But I don't want this story to be just all about boy sex boy sex boy sex! You gotta give some powerful female characters credit.

Anyway Ruka and Kaname have a little history together. In the beginning, Ruka would regularly offer Kaname her blood to quench his thirst. But now Kaname doesn't do that with her and I guess Ruka misses him needing her like that.

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