Fay: I'm on a roll here aren't I? That probably is bad news in the long run. If you notice my pattern, you'll see that I start updating regularly and then I suddenly disappear off the face of the earth for a long time until I finally come back after the threats about Chuck Norris are made. I love Chuck Norris but he scares me!
Anyway, a quick announcement here. I must not have made it too clear in the previous chapter, but Yuuki doesn't know about Zero being turned into a pureblood. She left to get the Night Class back to their dorms and then went off to go to bed or something. Zero was too afraid of what Yuuki might think to let her know what was going on. Sorry if that wasn't clear. I got a few reviews wondering what Yuuki was going to say and I thought to myself, "Self, you are an idiot for not making that clear." So I decided to let you know. 'Cause I don't want you guys to be confused or nuthin.
Warnings: Boys Love. Yay.
Disclaimer: I do not own Vampire Knights in anyway shape or form.
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"I told you to tell him about it, not turn him into a pureblood!" The chairman scolded angrily as he glared at Kaname. Rarely did he ever get angry with the pureblood but he thought that this time called for anger. He had known Kaname for several years now, and over time, he realized how lonely Kaname was. Being a pureblood, he aged very slowly, and unless he were to find or make a pureblood companion, he was doomed to loneliness for a long time. The chairman had not missed it when Kaname fell in love with Zero. Of course at the time he had not realized that Kaname was so desperate for a companion that he would change Zero against his will.
"Wait a second," Zero snapped as he leaned across the desk to glare at the chairman. "You knew he had started this!" he accused loudly. The chairman should have been baffled, asked how in the world this had happened, but instead he started yelling at Kaname. Was everyone in the world against him?
The chairman shook his head. "He did everything of his own accord, Zero. He came to me shortly afterwards and I had no idea that he was planning on starting a Blood Tie. If I had known he was going to do this…" He glared at Kaname.
Kaname felt unusually hated at the moment. As he sank into a chair he closed his eyes and rubbed his temples, trying to get rid of the pounding headache Zero was currently giving him. Naturally Zero was using every bit of the Blood Tie he could to torture Kaname. He was throwing his emotions at the older boy and shouting random curses in his head so loud, Kaname thought his head was going to burst.
"It was an accident," he moaned pitifully as the pain in his head grew.
Zero glared at him furiously. "Accident? It was an accident you turned me into a common vampire and finished the job? It's an accident that we are now tied together in some freaky vampire curse?"
The chairman felt left out, as if he was missing something. "Please explain what happened, please."
Zero slammed himself into a chair and began speaking. "I went to the Moon Dorms because I was skipping class and Yuuki would find me anywhere else I went." He stopped a moment and looked at the chairman warily. Perhaps he thought that being turned into a pureblood was more than enough punishment for skipping class. "I was going to just sit down in the lounge but there was a book in the library that caught my attention-all gold and just thrown out there. I read about the Blood Tie in there. Naturally-"
"What do you mean, 'naturally'? You didn't ask me about it at all, you just attacked me!" Kaname was glaring now. He was fed up with the abuse of the Blood Tie. "It was his own fault!" He turned to the chairman now, begging for someone to take his side. "He attacked me and I instinctively pushed him back! I didn't know that he was going to start coughing up blood and I certainly didn't know he was going to cough it up in my mouth!"
The chairman sighed. He motioned for the two to be quiet for a moment while he thought.
Kaname had started the Blood Tie to save Zero. He had seen the pain he and Yuuki were going through because of Zero's impending demise and wanted to end the suffering each one of them was gong through. He sacrificed his privacy and risked eternal hatred from the person he had fallen in love with just to help a few people out. Zero had gone to the Moon Dorms because of his own mistake and ended up fighting Kaname. Nothing could have happened to prevent Zero from finding out about the Blood Tie at that point and a few mistakes later, Zero's blood wound up in Kaname mouth and the Blood Tie finished itself.
"So…it was an honest mistake," the chairman concluded. He looked up at Zero and saw a piercing glare covering disbelief and shock. The chairman immediately tried to calm the boy down. "Zero, please understand that Kaname started the Blood Tie for everyone's sake. Yuuki was hurting, I was hurting, he was hurting, and many people were in danger by your staying here. You can't blame Kaname for doing his job as a pureblood."
"But-" Zero stared down at his feet. He saw the reason in the chairman's statement but he didn't want to agree. If he agreed then he would have to accept his current state. Acceptance of being a pureblood vampire was not an option when you were originally part of a long line of vampire hunters.
"Now, there is no changing what happened, so let's not keep talking about what might have been." The chairman didn't want to dwell on how it happened for long. It would only upset Zero more. "What's done is done and there is no going back. Let's get down to business." The chairman thought for a moment, trying to sort everything out in his mind. "I think we should start by explaining pureblood vampires to Zero. Since Zero is going to be one from now on, I think he should understand what stance a pureblood holds in the vampire community. Kaname?" He figured it would be best that the actual pureblood vampire should be the one to explain.
Kaname cleared his throat and looked at Zero. The silver-haired teen was still staring at his feet but he knew he had the other boy's attention. "Pureblood Vampires have rule over all the other vampires in today's vampire community. There are very few these days since most clans have either merged with lower class vampire families or have been killed by vampire hunters…" Kaname decided to leave out the part where the Kiryuu family was the ones who did most of the killing. "The Kuran clan is the most powerful of these and when I was just a boy, my parents expressed how important it was that I mated and carried on the Kuran name." He reached over to Zero, taking the younger boy by surprise and lifted up the edge of his shirt.
"Hey!" Zero yelped and swatted Kaname's hand away, embarrassment and anger echoing over the Blood Tie. Kaname scowled, grabbed both of Zero's wrist and yanked up his shirt. A little tattoo of a crescent moon rested on his hip.
"This is the sign of the Kuran Clan. Besides the scent of your blood this is an indicator as to which clan you belong to. Of course, mine is slightly different." Kaname lifted the edge of his shirt and revealed the same crescent moon. The only difference was a star hanging off the edge. "This shows that I was born into the clan. If someone were to catch your scent they wouldn't know whether you were born into the clan or were united to another clan member by swapping blood until they saw the sign of the Kuran Clan.
"As you already know, there are different types of vampires. Aristocrats have a few human genes in their DNA that were never changed. Most cases are due to purebloods falling for humans or common vampires. Common vampires are vampires who have humanoid genes in their blood. They are typically born that way and sometimes have aristocrat parents who donated more of their humanoid genes than vampire genes. More often than not they are born into normal common vampires family. Ex-humans, as you already know, are humans who were bit by pureblood vampires. Lastly, there are Level E's, ex-humans whose humanoid genes were corrupted so much, their animal instincts are activated so they lose their minds." Zero shivered, thinking about what could have been his fate. "All of these are under pureblood rule. Since pureblood's are so rare and few these days, there isn't a dictatorship or fight over power anymore. Whenever a lower class vampire comes into contact with a pureblood however, they tend to want to follow whatever the pureblood commands. This is why the Night Class is under my control and does whatever I command."
Zero paled. "The Night Class…they can't find out about this…"
Kaname nodded. "I understand." It would be bad if the Night Class found out that Kaname had saved the person who repeatedly looked for reasons to kill them. It would be even worse if they knew they were under his command.
Zero sighed. "Yuuki would be devastated…happy that I'm not dying sure…but she's in love with Kaname…so she wouldn't like me to be closer to him than she is…and I don't want to hurt her with this…she can't find out either…" He sounded crazy, talking to himself with such a monotonous, depressed tone.
Kaname bit his lower lip as he examined the boy. Right now, he felt a block in head. It scared him because they weren't connected. Some instinct, born of the Blood Tie, made him panic each time his Blood Mate wasn't connected to him.
"My job as a perfect would suffer too if anyone else knew…the vampires would complain no doubt…" Zero was still talking to himself. He had worked himself into a strange sort of depression. "And then I'd have to move into the Moon Dorms along side of them…"
The chairman looked with sadness upon the boy. "We'll make sure your secret is safe, Zero. You can stay with the humans, or even in my office as long as the vampires don't know…okay?"
Zero didn't seem to hear him.
Kaname patted Zero's hand comfortingly. "We'll have to keep the secret. If it somehow leaks…then it's only a matter of time before the counsel finds out and then they'll sentence me to Mark you…"
Zero looked confused in his dazed depression. "Mark?" When Kaname had spoken the word it sent shivers down Zero's spine. Somewhere deep inside his mind, it registered that this word meant something for the both of them. He puzzled over it for a second, wondering why such a small word could mean something important.
Kaname explained hesitantly. "Marking is the process where two vampires mate. The Kuran Clan symbol would change on your body so people would know you were mated to me and other vampires would be able to smell our completed bond. It's the most sacred act a vampire can do."
Zero's head snapped up. "You mean we'd have to-to sleep together?" His voice cracked angrily.
"In short yes. But the whole process is more detailed. I'd have to take your blood during…the, uh, process and you'd have to take my blood at the same time. It's sort of like a vampire marriage ceremony…only without witnesses and a priest…"
Zero's face heated up. He had once heard of Marking but at that time, the word meant nothing. Now it meant a whole lot more. It was something so simple, yet it would change his life forever. "H-how do we keep this from the counsel?"
Kaname thought for a moment. "Many of the other students have ties to the Vampire Counsel. If the Night Class doesn't know, then the counsel will be less likely to find out. So we keep the secret away from them. The only other way that they could find out would be to catch the scent of your blood but if that happens then we could always pass it off as my blood."
Zero suddenly wanted to return to his little depressed corner inside his mind. Reality was much too harsh for him right now. He was pureblood vampire, tied to the one person he hated/loved, and had to keep a secret away from everyone lest he be sentence to screw with Kaname.
The chairman cleared his throat. Zero nearly jumped out of his skin at that moment-he had forgotten that the old man was still here.
"That leaves us with one problem," he stated. "The counsel visits every six months to check on the progress of the Night Class. We've already made blood tablets, gotten them to interact with the Day Class students a little and now they are contemplating on letting the Day Class know the secret of the Night Class. While I'm thrilled by this news, I am a little worried about you both. The counsel had gotten terribly nosey lately and during their last visit, they visited each of the classes of the Day Class students and Night class students. It was mostly to make sure none of the Night Class students had been doing anything they weren't supposed to be doing and to make sure I was keeping the humans safe from harm." He sighed and leaned back in his chair. "But they've got a pureblood on the counsel and if he even gets a whiff of Zero as he just walked by, I guarantee they'd be shutting the school down in an instant, no questions asked."
Kaname bit his lip again and thought. "Maybe we could send Zero away that day."
Zero shook his head. "Can we not talk about this anymore? I'm getting dizzy from all the information." He clutched his head and thought about happier things, forcing himself to forget about Marking, and being a pureblood for just one second.
Kaname stood up from his chair. "Well then. I must go back to the Moon Dorms and let the other students know that you are okay. They are probably wondering what happened after I forced them to leave." He walked to the door and sighed. "Goodnight, Zero. I hope you sleep well," he added and walked away.
Zero's eye twitched. "Damn him…thinking he can win me over just like that!" He balled his fists up and let out an annoyed groan. "I'm thirsty." He had not noticed it earlier but now his stomach was clenching and groaning, begging to be nourished. He mouth felt a little dry now too. He could feel his fangs poking into his lip as he spoke.
The chairman reached over his desk and poured a glass of water for Zero. As he pushed the glass towards the silver-haired teen, he dropped in a little tablet that made the water fizz and slowly turn a dark red color.
"Thanks…" Zero mumbled as he brought the glass to his lips.
No sooner had he tasted it, he spit it back out, right onto the white carpet beneath his feet. The chairman sighed, knowing the stain would be a bitch to get out.
"What the hell is this?" Zero asked as he screwed up his face in disgust. "It tastes horrible!"
The chairman's eyes grew and he gasped. "I'm sorry!" He grabbed the glass from Zero's hand. "I forgot. The only blood that you'll be able to drink from now on is Kaname's."
"What?" Zero's voice dropped down to a low growl as he fixed his eyes on the chairman.
"Because of the Blood Tie…and forgive me if I don't get everything right, I've never experienced one before…but something in the Blood Tie makes you dislike any other blood besides your…Blood Mate's. So the only way you will be able to drink blood is through Kaname. It will be the same for him too, so don't think you're getting the short end of the stick here." The chairman smiled, wanting Zero to feel better about his situation. Perhaps if he knew Kaname was suffering too he would feel better.
"I will never drink that son of bitch's blood!" Zero screeched as he stood from his chair, almost knocking it over in the process, and stomped over to one of the doors connecting to the office. "I'm taking the guest bedroom!" Zero snapped as he threw open the door and stepped inside. He slammed the door behind him.
"That went well…"
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Yuuki stared up at the ceiling of her dorm room. There was no way she could sleep now. Yori had been accepted as a perfect and tomorrow she would begin her new job with Yuuki. The excited girl smiled to herself as she imagined Yori and herself walking alongside the Night Class, protecting the humans from the vampires. It would be fun working with Yori. She would be all business and would never let the vampires get away with anything but when they were gone, she would laugh and giggle with Yuuki about boys, and other girl stuff.
The door to their room opened and Yori stepped in, trying to be quiet as she stepped over scattered clothes, notebooks and papers.
"I'm still awake, if you're trying to avoid waking me," Yuuki said with a small giggle.
Yori smiled in the dark at her friend. Even though Yuuki couldn't see it, she knew her friend was smiling.
"It went well, I suppose?" Yuuki asked, trying to be subtle about it. She wanted to know what Yori felt about it, but if she didn't want to talk about it because she was freaked out or too scared to, then she didn't want to upset her friend.
"It went well. It's a lot to carry, I'll admit, but…I'm glad you picked me, Yuuki. I know it must be hard on you, after all you've grown up with Zero, so it must be hard to know he's going to die soon. But it shows that you are coping and are preparing for what is to come by setting up my place as a perfect. I'm proud of you Yuuki."
"Thanks," Yuuki said slowly. She didn't think Yori would be so diligent about it. Perhaps the information hadn't set in yet. "Are you alright with all of this?" she asked cautiously.
"Of course I am. The Night Class hasn't hurt anyone yet and I'm chalking that up to what you and Zero have done so far. I want to help out as much as I can." She paused. "And if you are implying that I might be scared of the vampires, I'm not. They've been vampires for quite a while and we've existed beside them for just as long, so just because they aren't human, it doesn't change my opinion of them. To me, they are the same as they were yesterday when I didn't know their secret-the same stuck up creatures who love to bask in the limelight."
Yuuki laughed and shook her head. "Of course you would be so literal minded about all of this."
They sat in silence for a while, enjoying the light atmosphere around them until finally Yuuki spoke.
"I've been thinking…since you're going to be the newest perfect, why don't we take a tour of the Moon Dorms tomorrow? Before the Night Class goes to class, I think we could sneak in a tour and introduce you to them. They're all pretty nice and all so I think it would be a good experience."
Yori nodded. "Sounds great," she said whole-heartedly. She tucked herself in bed and closed her eyes, willing herself to go to sleep, trying to ignore the feeling of adrenaline pumping through her veins. She couldn't wait to meet the vampires.
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Fay: So there you have it. I thought I would have had it done sooner but I couldn't find the already written chapter 5 so I had to rewrite the thing entirely. Thankfully I have an outline written out so I was able to write almost the same thing.
Jayne: Aren't you going to tell them I'm back?
Fay: Oh yeah. Jayne is back. Anyway-
Jayne: Oh I see how it is. Ignore your sister like that. I've been away from fanfiction so long, and you don't even bother to give me a warm welcome. Fine! (Stomps off)
Fay: She'll be fine. PMS and all that. You all know what it's like. Anyway, as I was saying, I have a poll up currently that I would love for you guys to vote on. Keeper of Secrets is really getting up there. I thought for sure Secret Kisses was going to win but you guys are quite insistent. And I love you for that. So keep voting and reviewing because it makes me happy and want to write more.
Poison and I are writing Thanksgiving fics for each other and I'm writing a Jariaya/Naruto fic. (Shudders) It's so weird, but I'll do anything more my best friend. And then I'm going to write an AkuRoku and an Akamaru/Kiba story for our anniversary on December 7. For the fics that she is going to write me, I asked for normal couples but no, she has to go and ask for weird things that I have to practically research to write! If you read this Poison, I love you!
PEACE AND LOVE!!!