Cross Mayhem

Rated: T

Genre: Romance

Warning: OC

Disclaimer: I do not and will not own Vampire Knight.


Act III: Bitter sweet taste of love

What is the taste of love? Some says it's sweet, the sweetest thing any being can taste in the world. Some says it's sour, tainted with a hint of jealousy. Other says it's weird, like none you have ever taste before. Well, I, for one, believed it's bitter. Bitter like liquor, bitter like chocolate, bitter like blood and love itself. The bitter sweet taste of love that ties our bond together in an eternal dance of desire and lunacy.

For love is just another form of madness laced with sugar icing on the end.

XXX

"Zero- kun!"

She hugs him tighter and feels a sudden need to sobbed and wailed on his uniforms rise.

'I've found him... I have finally found him...'

"It's been a long time, I miss you!"

'Zero- kun... My Zero- kun...'

She feels the body in her arms struggled slightly, seemingly surprised and confused.

"Na... Nana..."

'To hear the voice of him saying my name is like heaven itself...'

"How could you be here!"

Nana let go of her embrace and stare at him with shining eyes. "I have just entered this academy not so long ago. Why is it so hard to see you?"

The silverette boy didn't answer and instead continues to look wide eyed at her white Night Class uniform.

"Why are you wearing that uniform?"

'Silly Zero. Isn't it obvious?'

"It's because I'm a vampire."

Kiryuu Zero stares at the vampire in shock, disbelief is all over his face, not believing what he has just heard one bit.

His reaction set off Nana's awareness, she has just remember that she hasn't said that to him since like, forever. Not even on their days together. He always believed her to be a mortal, just like him.

"I'm sorry for not telling you, Zero- kun." She appears apologetic, almost sad.

"Why did you lie to me?"

Their first meeting in years begins with a lie.

"Because if I said the truth," she can feel tears starting to sprang out of her eyes. "You won't ever want to play with me, right?"

A lie so big and ugly that has remained undiscovered up to this time.

"..."

Zero didn't say anything and only turns around to walk away from the vampire girl.

"Zero- kun..."

His dissappearing back looks like the ones from those tragic heart wrenching dramas of a cold hearted rejection. And she almost screamed when...

"Um... I'm sorry but is Kiryuu- kun the one that you mentioned before, Nana?" Tsukiyomi Yumi asked innocently.

"Yes, Zero- kun is my childhood friend." Nana answered, her voice falters a bit.

"How could you be friends with him?"

"I met Zero-kun in the summer when I'm just a 5 year old little girl." The memories started to flood back into her mind. "That time I visited my nephew and I met him. During my stay in my nephew's resident I played with him and his brother."

"Ichiru- kun! Zero- kun!"

"Nana!"

She reminiscened about their short summer fairy tale for a while, the orange and purplish sky, the summer villa, the white dandelion field, the warm monsoon wind blowing soft whisper of nature to their ears and the comforting presence of two boys who held a very dear place in her heart.

"Nana, this is Kiryuu Zero and Kiryuu Ichiru. They're twins. Play with them nicely, okay?"

"Excuse me, Nana."

She was snapped back abruptly into reality with the voice of her mortal company.

"But I've to go for a while." And then Tsukiyomi Yumi dashed off, leaving Nana alone to run after something that seems white, fluffy and delicious.

Nana sighed. "Oh well..."

'Did I make the right decision to not go after him? Will I bother him if I do just that? Or maybe he need some time alone after the big shock I reveal?'

Questions started filling her head, and before she lost control over it, she decided to think it over later and return back to the dorm as her first priority.

XXX

Kaname- sama, I've met him.XDDDDD

When?

Just moments ago, when I'm exploring the school. I found him near the garden, I think he was managing our crazy fangirls when I met him. Your precious Yumi- chan was there too to witness it.

I see. So, how was it?

It was terrible! D8 At first it was sweet and beautiful like those romantic animes & doramas. Oh, and I manage 2 hug him! XP But then he realized that I am a vampire and he got mad at me 4 not telling him all this time!

What should I do now, Kaname- sama~~~~~~~?

Well, if you ask me, for now you should just wait until he manage to deal with his shock and the feeling of betrayal you inflicted upon him.

Betrayal?

Just put yourself in his shoes for a moment.

Why would I put myself in his shoes? _ It will be too big for me...

"It's just an expression, Nana. For the love of God, please..." Kaname stop texting and glare at Nana.

"Oooh... I'm sowwy, Kaname- sama... Never heard of that one before..." Nana rubbed the back of her head.

"Well that's a surprise..." Kaname grumbled. "Anyway, please stop texting me when you're standing directly beside me all the times!"

"But that way no one will hear our conversation! And I wanna use cute little faces that are made by the text symbols!"

"Okay, okay..." Kaname surrender without trying to fight. His mind is too distracted by what's obscuring their way.

The noisy crazy bubbly fangirls -Valentine Frenzy Version-

"Aidou- senpai! Please take my chocolate!"

"Rima- chan! Do you like white or black chocolate?"

"Kain- senpai! Please look this way!"

"Ruka-chan! We love you!"

"Takuma- senpai! Shiki- senpai! Please accept our feelings!"

"Ano... Kuran- senpai..."

"Ne, Kaname- sama, there's someone calling for you..." Nana tapped on Kaname's shoulder.

"Who is it?"

"I dunno, it's coming from that direction. " She pointed.

"Oh."

Kaname gazed at his name written in big letters on the small gate, feeling a little uncomfortable before looking at the queue of his own blushing fangirls... And probably some fanboys.

"Kuran- senpai, please accept this..."

"This one too, Kuran- senpai..."

"Kuran- senpai, mine too...!"

"Oh, I'm sorry." His face seems sincere. "Both of my hands are full, I could take no more..."

"T- that's alright."

"We are the one who should be apologizing...!"

Nana watched in awe from afar at the spectacle before her.

'Kaname- sama sure knows his way with the ladies...' She thought, not too much surprised by that fact.

"1, 2, 3... Only three of them, Kaname- sama? That's lame..."

"In case you haven't noticed, I'm not entirely interested in events such as this..."

"Bah. Excuses..."

"Well, at least I'm having a better luck than the one that haven't got anything..." Kaname smirked at her. "Not even one..."

"Well excuse me for being a new student! I haven't got my own gate yet!" Nana fumed, almost close to sulking, seeing as her pride has been hurt right on the spot. "If I've had it already I'm sure I'll beat you in a matter of seconds!"

Kaname chuckled. "I'm looking forward to it then..."

"You better!"

Nana stomped forward, leaving the amused pureblood behind, trying to make the fact that she's offended more obvious, before catching up with Rima and Shiki in the front row. Completely oblivious to the familiar scent in the air.

"Ri- chan, let's go!"

"Huh? What's the rush?" Rima asked, hands full of bouquets and gifts from her admirers.

"Kaname- sama's being a meanie!"

"I'm sure he's just trying to tease you..." Shiki consoled, hands in the equally same way as Rima's.

"Uhhh then tease Yuuki instead! I'm sure she'll be more than willing to get laughed at than me! It's already bad enough that Zero got mad at me!..."

"Speaking of which, isn't that him standing right the-"

"What are you wating here for? Come on."

Kaname appeared right in front of them, holding a wrapped small box in his right hand, smiling the faintest of smile as he did so.

"Kaname- sama?" She called. "Where are the other boxes? Surely you haven't just throw them away didn't you? The girls would have gone crazy if you did..."

"... I gave them to Seiren, you could have them if you want to."

"Nah. No thanks, I'll pass. Unlike you, I like white chocolates. I'm sure the girls gave you dark chocolattes just like your preferences."

"Suit yourself."

Nana eyed Kaname for a while as he walk pass her, noticing the soft almost longing look as he stares at the box in his hand.

'If you're so damn hungry, I will be more than pleased to give you my blood for twenty bucks per bites, Kaname- sama.' She thought as she decided to give him some privacy.

When she reached the classroom, she sees that Takuma was handing over some wrapped boxes to the other vampires in class.

"Ta- chan!" She called.

"Nana! I've got yours just here." Takuma held out a white wrapped box with a purple ribbon to Nana. "White chocolate, right? Here you go."

"Oh, thankies, Ta- chan!" Nana received the box happily.

"You're welcome."

"So how much do I owe you?"

"Oh, you don't owe me anything, Nana- chan." Takuma smiled. "Really, chocolates on valentines are given to the person you hold dear without any purpose sincerely."

"Mm, I see. So it's free then?"

"Of course. Since you're one of my most important friends"

"Oh." Nana ponders for a moment. "So friends count as someone you hold dear as well?"

"That's right. Well, it's really is up to you whom you want to give your valentine's chocolate to as long as it's the person close to your heart." Takuma steal a glance to someone standing behind Nana.

"That's cool. Um, then will the person that's been given be happy in exchange-" Nana's gaze fell down. "And forgive you for the mistakes you have... Accidentally... Done?"

"What? Oh, sure. Valentine's chocolates are meant to show your love and affection to others after all. So if you show it siincerely and with all your heart, that said person will be touched by it without no doubt." Takuma explained.

Nana's face lit up. "Really? Man you're such a love doctor, Ta- chan! Can you teach me how to make one?"

"Hm? A valentine's chocolate? Well if you want to make one now and give it today as well, I'm afraid you will not make it, Nana- chan." Takuma frowned. "But I suppose you could take one leftover from the freezer at the dorm's kitchen I've made just this morning..."

"From the kitchen's freezer? Okay, got it!" Nana dashed to the door, but stopped in her tracks when she noticed something forgotten.

"Ta- chan?" She called, waking slowly towards Takuma.

"Yes?"

"I was just wondering..."

She stands on her toes and whispers silently to him:

"Do you give one of those valentine's chocolate to Shi- chan as well?"

"Nana!"

XXX

Nana strode through the path next to the tall forest of the Cross Academy casually, humming the tone of 'My Bloody Valentine' by Tata Young cheerfully as she went. In her hand is a small black and red paper bag which inside is a black wrapped box tied with a frilly purple ribbon around it.

Sniffing the air as she turns a corner, she notices the scent of a certain someone not too far away. Inhaling a little deeper, she immediately acknowledge who's the owner of the intoxicating scent she has been searching for a good one hour.

"Zero- kun?"

There's no answer. Only the sound of the trees blowing in the early night sky.

"Zeeeeroooo- kuuun?"

Click

The sound of metal can be heard from a close distance and before she knows it, something cold and hard was positioned right next her left temple, something cold and hard and ready to shoot.

"Vampire..." A familiar voice said. "What are you doing here, far away from your pack?"

Nana tried to see her attacker from the corner of her eyes, too cautious to turn her head.

"Zero?"

The tall figure beside her flinched from the name address, but still he didn't lower his gun.

"Oh, it's you, Nana." Kiryuu Zero said. "What are you doing here? Shouldn't you be in class?"

"Uh, I will explain myself if you would put away your gun, please?" Nana answered. "I'm sweating bullets here."

"Why should I?"

"Huh? Well, because we have known each other for a long time and you can decide that I'm naughty or not, no?"

"Aren't you the same with all of those bloodsuckers?"

Nana sighed. "Aw, come on, Zero- kun! You should've known me better than that! Or are you still mad at me?"

"That's not it." Zero murmured. "Vampires are all the same as one and every other of their kind, and that is: a potential threat to human kind that needs to be disposed of."

The coldness of the words Zero just said brought chills down her her spine and she shuddered at the meaning hidden under it.

"You mean... You will kill me if you have to?"

"..." Zero was silent for a moment, but then came the answer: "Yes."

Nana is in shock. 'This is not the same Zero I've known all those times ago. What happen to the sweet and caring Zero I've always loved and cared for?'

"Even now." Hatred can be tasted on every syllable he let out. "I could kill you right now if you are planning to do anything funny, Nana."

"Oh, for goodness' sake!" Nana yelled out. "I'm just trying to give you this Valentine's chocolate, Zero! Give me a break, will ya?"

She turned around abruptly, making Zero almost blown a hole to her head.

"Valentine's chocolate?"

"Here!" Nana pushed the black and red paper bag to Zero's chest. "Enjoy it while you still can!"

Zero pushed the bag back to Nana. "I don't need it."

"What? After all the trouble I've been through that's all you have to say?"

"Mm- hmm."

"Ooh, no way, mister!" Nana pushed the bag back to Zero. "You're eating it wether you want to or not!"

"Why are you being so pushy all of a sudden?"

"Well you're the one acting so high and mighty!" Nana keeps a firm hold on the bag and pointed an index finger impolitely in front of Zero's face. "You think you're far too great to eat my chocolate? Well guess what? You're not! Eat it or I'll have to choke it down your throat!"

"That's not what I meant, Nana..."

"Who cares? Eat it."

"No, thank you."

"I won't stop until I hear a 'yes, thank you'!"

"Yes, thank you."

"Eat it!"

Zero sighed. "I've my job to do, Nana."

"It'll only take one minute!"

"Bye." Zero turned around and walked away from her.

"Stingy!" Nana followed just behind him.

"Whatever."

"Zero stingy! Grumpy! Naughty! Bitc-"

"What the hell?"

"EAT IT!"

"NO!"

"MEANIE!"

"Shut up!"

"You shut up!"

"No, you shut up!"

"You!"

"You!"

"You!"

"YOU!"

"Oh, for heaven's sake would you just please receive it, Zero?"

"Why should I?"

"Cause I want to apologize for this morning."

"Apologize?"

"Yeah, I'm really sorry for not telling you about me being a vampire."

"Really?"

"Mm- hmm... And Ta- chan said that Valentine's chocolate are given to the person you hold dear sincerely to make them happy, and, uh, accept your apology if you ever made an, um, accidental mistake to that said person."

"But in your case, it was intentional."

"No, nu- uh!" Nana shaked her head. "It's not my intention, it's just went on its own accord! Besides, you never asked!"

"Well, I couldn't even begin to think of what kind of logic escaped you when you're hiding your vampire identity from a group of children from a hunters' family you played with for a whole summer?"

"Don't ask me!"

Zero sighed. Before walking away further.

"Hey, wait up, Zero- kun!" Nana ran right after him. "You forgot your chocolate!"

XXX

Nana closed the door of the Moon Dorm slowly as she quietly sneaked in.

'Yup, the coast is clear, next destination is room 207 on the second floor!'

She made a few quick steps through the hallway and turned around a corner silently as she went.

'Okay, so I ditched class right after I gave Zero my chocolate, but it's not really my fault, Yagari- sensei's lecture is soooo boring it could kill me if I stay for another five minutes! I do pity Ta- chan who looked lonely without me and not to mention, have to deal with all the ruckus in class!'

"Oh, that's right..." Nana mumbled to herself.

'Everyone in class are getting rigid due to the fact of the delicious smell of blood belong to a certain mortal lingering in the air, poor Ta- chan have to calm them down since Kaname- sama wasn't around... Speaking of which, where did Kaname- sama has gone to, anyway?'

"Is he playing online games again?"

Nana climbed the flight of stairs toward the second floor before stopping dead in her tracks.

"What the-?"

A scent of fresh blood can be smelled from the other side of the dorm, making the vampire girl's fangs throbbed painfully.

"Isn't this..."

'Isn't this the scent we smelled when we're in class? Such a mouth watering smell... It seems familiar, but where did I-? Where is it come from? How come it's coming from the direction of-'

"Kaname- sama's room?"

Nana practicuraly jumped from the stairs and dashed to the direction of Kaname's dorm room.

'Oh my God... The scent is indeed getting stronger! Did Kaname- sama brought this delectable mortal here to be his personal meal or something? How dare he didn't share it with me?'

Finally descending upon the last door on the left that is Kaname's room, Nana can faintly hear the sound of two persons chatting quietly behind the craved mahogany wood.

At first, the idea of jumping in suddenly and startled the dorm master to death seems like a brilliant idea in the vampire girl's head, but afraid of getting reprimanded or punished the same way Aidou did, Nana decided to knock softly on the door.

"Come in." Kaname's voice was heard inside.

Nana opens the door and let herself in. "Ah! You have a guest in there!"

"Nana..." Tsukiyomi Yumi's face appears to greet her, as well as the overwhelming scent of blood emitting from the mortal's vulnerable state.

"Hi, Yumi- chan!" Nana tries to hide her thirst.

"Why are you here?" Kaname asked.

"I got bored in class." She tried to look innocent. "Besides the others got a little out of hand because of your blood, Yumi-chan."

"I'm sorry."

"Not your fault actually. It's really a sweet addictive scent. Anyway Kaname-sama, Ta-chan said that you don't have to worry cause he can handle it since you're busy."

"We're not... I'm..." Yumi stammered.

"Ha..ha.. No need to be embarrassed Yumi-chan, I know." Nana chuckled lightly. "Well you really need a rest, seems your wounds reopened again. You know your blood looks so delicious."

Her eyes started to glow red from hunger.

"Nana..." Kaname threatened.

"I'm just joking Yumi-chan. Kaname-sama, don't be like that. I'm not going to do anything with her." Her eyes turned into the usual amethyst color again. "Besides, I like to talk with Yumi-chan."

"Talk to me?" Yumi seems a bit surprised.

"Yes, do you mind?"

"No, it's okay. But you want it in private or...?"

"Well it's fine if Kaname-sama wants to hear it."

"I'll go to check Takuma." Kaname said.

He opened the door and closed it behind him. Just when Nana was sure that he has already go away, she looks to Yumi again.

"You must be confused about me and Zero-kun isn't it?"

"Hmm but I thought it's okay if you don't want to talk about it. Everyone sure to have some secret." she replied, smiling faintly.

'Hmm, if you say so, but I think I will have to tell her if I wanna be friends with her, since...'

Nana smirked.

'Her blood is really interesting for a mortal like her...'

"I know you really are that typical of a person. But I want to tell you because I want to become your friend, Yumi-chan. Do you mind?"

'No wonder she is Kaname- sama's favourite...'

"Become my friend? I don't mind at all but is that really okay? I'm just a mere human."

"Hmm it's okay Yumi-chan besides you're not that ordinary."

'Your blood is.'

"Huh?"

"Nah, it's nothing. You see, Zero and I are childhood friends. Both of us grew up together at least until that time. But even if we grown up together, Zero never know the fact that I'm a vampire."

"Why?"

"Because I hid it from him, he wouldn't be allowed to play with me if his family knew it." Nana pouted.

"But how could you hide it? How about the time when you're hungry for blood?"

"Well it's quite simple actually. Every time I got hungry, I'll go away from him to search my food. My nephew and my aunt always prepare the breakfast and lunch for me."

"I see, so you never want to bite Kiryuu-kun?"

'Of course I have!'

"Well I ever want to do that actually, but I just can't do that."

"Why?"

Nana stayed silent for a minute, unsure of what to say. She's trying to make friends with the interesting mortal, and now the interesting mortal has made her lost for words. Truly interesting indeed.

'Hmm... What would a human girl say to a question like this? Oh, I know!'

"I accidentally fell in love with him..." Nana answered cheerfully.

"You love Kiryuu-kun?" The surprise is clearly written all over Yumi's face.

"Yes I am..." 'Not' "I love him and that's why I can't bite him... I don't want to bite the one that I loved without him willing to give it to me."

'No, he's my friend. That's why I can't bite him, besides...'

"You really loved him..."

'If I bit him, he would leave me alone, wouldn't he?'

"Isn't it same for you too, Yumi-chan?"

"Huh?"

"You see, I can tell that you have feelings for Kaname-sama."

Yumi blushed as she heard this word.

'So cute.'

"I...I- I'm not..."

"Hmm maybe you don't aware about your feeling now, but I'm sure you have feelings for him whether it's love or not. You just haven't realized it yet."

"...Yuuki loves him."

"I know, I can see that." Nana rolled her eyes.

"And he loves her too..."

"Maybe, but we don't know in what way, right?"

"It's in that way..I can see it."

"You know Yumi-chan? Maybe you're right about their feelings to each other but even if it is like that you can't just give up like this. At least you can try first, after all both you and Yuuki are free to compete."

"I don't know if I can..."

"Yumi-chan, you shouldn't give up yet, look at me, I've just gave Zero-kun a valentine chocolate even I should force him to take it from me but I managed to do it, so you also shouldn't give up yet." Nana grinned proudly.

"How could you made him take it?"

"Well I've followed him all day until he got irritated by me and take it so I can leave him." Her grin grew wider from the memory. "He even ate it in front of me to make me believe him."

"I'm not sure I can do it like you, Nana."

"Then don't, just do it your way."

"...Thank you, Nana."

"Anytime, Yumi-chan."

After that, the door opened and Kaname walked inside.

"I guess I should go back now or Yagari-sensei will just bark to me again. Bye, Yumi-chan."

"Bye Nana. Night."

With that, Nana left, murmuring a low 'excuse me, Kaname- sama' as she went. Closing the door behind her, she decided to have a little snack of Takuma's chocolates from the dorm's kitchen before she goes to sleep. A silent tone of 'My Bloody Valentine' hanging on the air behind her as she skipped towards her destination.

XXX

"Zero."

"Hm, Yuuki?"

"What's that?"

Yuuki pointed the small paper bag Zero is holding closely in his arms.

"Is that... What I think it is?"

"Um, what exactly are you thinking?"

Yuuki's eyes shined. "A Valentine's chocolate?"

"What!"

Yuuki approached Zero curiously, trying to have a peek at what is Zero trying to hide desperately.

"Yuuki, go away!"

"Did someone gave you that chocolate? Was it a girl?"

"Duh!"

"Oh, sorry." Yuuki grinned. "I've never thought that you would be so popular! Way to go, Zero!"

"Oh, please." Zero groaned. "It's just one chocolate, it's no big deal."

"What are you talking about? A Valentine's chocolate is given by a girl to a boy which required a great amount of courage and faith! If you get one of those, even if it's just one, surely you must mean something to the girl who gave it to you! Something, perhaps, immensely precious to her!" Yuuki blushed a deep red. "Kaname- sama..."

Zero missed what his childhood friend murmured at the end, but the long explanation managed to make him think.

'Precious? Me? Am I precious to her? To Nana? ... Nah. If I WAS precious to her, then she wouldn't left me all those years ago, wouldn't she? And this so called Valentine's chocolate she gave me is probably just a formality for her or her way of making up what she did to me. Why does she needs to make up anything for me, anyway? Doesn't she know that everything wouldn't be the same as when we were just a little child? Everything has changed now, and it couldn't return to what it was once before. Not even when we want it so badly to the point of hating it.'

Zero sighed tiredly as the exhaustion his body has endured due his job as a prefect has formed as a massive headache that's begging for some sleep.

"Zero? What's wrong?"

"I think I'll go to sleep now, Yuuki." He gets up from his seat on the sofa and turned around. "See you tomorrow."

"See ya."

Zero climbed the stairs toward the second floor of the Cross residence and headed to his room. The headache is pounding against his head and his eyes is trying hard not to fall asleep yet. Slowly, he opened the door and move inside, almost stumbling as he went.

After he is inside, he locked the door behind him and decided to have a quick shower before he goes to bed. But then he noticed that he is still holding the 'precious' paper bag which has been discussed before, which looks like it's begging for some affection, and so, he will have to finish it first then have a warm bath, and then he will finally be able to go to sleep.

'Okay, let's get this over with.'

He opened the bag and grabbed the chocolate inside which has already unwrapped and half eaten. He stares at it for a little while, gazing at the messy, half erased icing that should read: 2 Zero, From Nana

'Precious, huh?'

Unintentionally memorizing the words and the winking skull symbol on the right side of the chocolate as he stares at it blanky.

'More like she's trying to kill me or something...'

Zero took a bite of the half shaped heart and absorbed the rich, powerful taste of the pure black chocolate solemnly. It's not like blood, certainly. Blood holds a more unique and overwhelming taste than chocolate, but still, it's close. While blood has the salty and iron like taste, pure black chocolate is sweet, yet bitter but still delicious indeed. Absolutely like love. Absolutely like how love should taste like.

"It's bittersweet." Zero murmured to himself. Completely unaware of how the red moon shines ever so beautifully behind his back.

End of Act III

To be continued on Act III: Resonating sound of laughter in D minor


Author's Note: YAWWWN... Okay, so I edited and posted this chapter at 12 a.m. and somehow, I'm not sure why, but my head is hurting like crazy and I got a little woozy all of a sudden. I really need to get more sleep. Um for those of you who are wondering, 'where's the scene where Yuuki gave Zero her chocolate?', well, I didn't put it in, since I read that part after I write this chapter and it didn't go quite well with what I originally planned, or maybe I was just too lazy to write it? Tee hee OR maybe because I was jealous of how Yuuki made Zero blushes sooo cutely by giving him her chocolate! Rawr! I wanna be the one who makes Zero blushes like that...!

Anyway, for those who read this story, I deeply apologize since I posted this chapter out so late, school is driving me crazy, I've got time on the holidays, but vacations got in the way and the my internet started acting up. I'm really sorry...

Please R & R and you will help a girl get over her stress!