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Note: This chapter is the continuation from the last chapter! Hence please take note that again, this whole chapter is another flashback!
So without any delay, please dive your emotions into this chapter deeply! Close your eyes, and open your heart! (And open your eyes back to read this chapter ^^;;) Here you go!
Petal 3: Vanishment of You
Blood...
The blood was everywhere...
He didn't know when did the attack started...
He was working on the chocolate for his beloved at the kitchen, he can't felt their auras, they hid it very well. They were the hunters... a group of rouge-hunter and surprisingly combined with some noble vampires as well.
He didn't sense that an attack was coming. Before he knew it, he was overwhelmed by the disastrous power of the hunters and vampires.
He tried to fight them, and he did spilled a mass amount of blood from his enemies. That... until they denied him of his weapon, his Bloody Rose, and they finally unleashed their full combined power.
He was trapped, they planned the attack well, and he was the target in the first place, he and the small bundle of life he was carrying.
Soon... he found himself lying in a pool of his own blood. Rendered immobilized by the strong charms and spells evoked by the hunters...the veteran and experienced hunters. And he'd realized that those vampires were the old aristocrats, probably some of the lackey from the old farts that his husband was talking about.
He could do nothing... shackled in an invisible force of the powerful hunter's spell. But he would do anything, to protect his child...his precious child.
He had almost stopped his breathing after the unbearable onslaught from the enemies. But the flicker of life in his body kept him breathing, even if each air that he took burnt his lungs intolerably.
He can't believed how weak he was, shedding tears in front of his enemies, asking for mercy...mercy for the life that he was carrying.
But who was he kidding with? They absolutely have no intention to stop the torture, he'd seen one of them took his cell phone, replying to someone. Perhaps, his husband?
A small flicker of hope shined in his heart... But until then, he would keep fighting for his life... for the survival of his child.
Because he knew that his own survival would come to an end, the moment they cast the forbidden spell on him...
-KxZ-
Blood...
A heavy thick scent of blood... the familiar blood...
Zero's blood...
A millenarian of bats surrounded the Manor, trapping everything from the inside from escaping. The pureblood won't let any of the intruders escaped from his clutches. He'd felt some of them trying to run from every different direction.
And so the bats garnered back into his original forms, making several copies of the pureblood himself, with no less attribute whatsoever.
The genuine among the copies of the Pureblood entered the Manor without much hesitancy. His sharpened eyes caught a glance of an intruder trying to escape from the Manor.
Kuran Kaname had no mercy for the enemies, he stopped the movement of the parasite and made him turned to him. He recognized that face, one of the right-hand mans of the corrupted old aristocrats back at the meeting.
The brunette gritted his teeth together, having no time for simple pleasantries, and thus he slammed the figure into a concreted wall. As soon as the body was slammed to the wall, it started to bloat slowly before it burst violently into chunks of tiny flesh and turned to ashes.
Kaname made up his mind to catch the other intruders before he decided for further action regarding their punishment. He was not going to let them enjoy the fast painless death, the first vampire that he killed just now was lucky.
Wine-red eyes proceeded to scan the room, following the trails of blood as the scent got thickened as he approached his destination.
His brow knitted together when he saw the blood seeped through the opening of the second living room of his Manor, the one which was closest to the garden. Without a second thought, he rushed himself to the living room.
The sight that greeted him almost made his heart fell.
There in the center of the living room, Zero was lying on his side in a pool of his own blood. He noticed his lover's labored breathing, as well as the blood continued oozing through his lover's wounds...and back.
Kaname ran towards his lover, the feeling of wanting to embrace his beloved lover was overwhelming anything else surrounding him. That he only noticed the wall of barrier around his lover, the moment he made contact with the said barrier, and his hand burnt from the contact.
What the hell?
"...K-Ka-name... The b-barrier...call K-Kaito or anyone e-else...The h-hunter.." Zero whispered weakly to his lover, almost inaudible if not for Kaname's pureblood hearing.
The brunette tried to connect together those words with the situation at hand. His mind formed a conclusion that those rouge-hunter had cast a barrier around his lover, refraining any vampire from approaching Zero within a certain distance. And that was the same barrier that was preventing him from feeling his lover's distorted aura, and that was what made Zero's side of the bond became static.
Of course, even if his lover had the energy to disrupt the barrier, he wouldn't make it because the barrier was cast onto himself.
The pureblood fished out his cell phone with trembling hand, dialing a very unfamiliar number that he thought he would never have dialed. The other end of the phone was picked up rather instantaneously, and the brunette wasted no times to explain the situation to the hunter on the other end.
The call was short but informative enough as Kaname heard the sound of an engine being started, probably from the hunter's car before the call was ended.
For the first time in his life, he felt completely useless. His lover was struggling with his life...and their child. And yet, Kaname couldn't do anything except from just staring from a far.
"..K-Kana... Kana-me! I..I need to d-deliver this child n-now! C-Call the doctor.. P-lease! The time...run-ning thin.." My time is running thin... Zero clenched his eyes tightly at his own thought. He was aware that he was not going to make it. If it was not for the fact that he was carrying a child, a Pureblood-Vampire Hunter child, he would had shut down completely...hours ago.
"Please..Hold on, Zero. Y-You're gonna be...fine. Just don't talk too much, alright?" Kaname assured his lover, or rather assuring himself that his lover was going to be fine.
The wine-red eyed pureblood scrolled through his contact, and called Zero's personal doctor, Doctor Hatori. Who happened to be Hanabusa's current superior since the blond noble was training under the said doctor. Hence, they were expecting the both of them.
The moment Kaname ended his quick call, the entrance door of the Manor burst opened, and seconds later a disheveled ash-brown hunter was making his way to the living room.
"Kuran!... –" The hunter's word abruptly stopped when the thick scent of blood hit him as he switched his attention to a silver-haired ex-human lying weakly on the floor, fresh blood still oozing from a certain parts of his body.
"..Zero!" Kaito shouted at his partner as he made his way to the latter.
Kaname frowned when the other hunter easily passed through the barrier formed around his lover, and quickly knelt in front of him. So the barricade was made to keep vampires away, but not hunters. Damn! He felt so useless.
"Kaito... T-The barrier... Will you cast it d-down?" The younger hunter demanded albeit sluggishly. The older hunter nodded his head and made his way to figure out the type of barrier.
Kaname observed as the ash-blond hunter slid his wrist slightly and drew a trail line of fresh hunter blood, before the hunter let his blood trickled down around Zero, forming a circular shape, just like a barrier around him. And he listened silently as the hunter muttered something under his breath.
"Thou who guarded the impediment. By the oath of Takamiya royal bloodline, by my heart and soul... Sanctify my wish. Disenthrall the hindrance!"
Suddenly the trickles of Kaito's blood around Zero started to connect together before forming a thin ray of reddish wall and a wave formed as it blasted away the barrier around the hunter, with what sounded like the sounds of breaking a mirror, the barrier ruptured auspiciously.
Kaito slumped on his knees beside Zero, breathing heavily with beads of sweat forming on his forehead. It seemed like the action took more energy than he imagined, and usually it took at least two hunters to disintegrate such barrier.
Kaname stepped into the scene, finding the obstacle that was hindering him from approaching his beloved was no longer there. With vampire speed, he rushed to Zero's side and instantly crouched down by his lover.
The Pureblood seated himself there, ignoring the blood soaking his clothes. He settled Zero in front of him, slipping his arms around Zero's shoulder, scooping him from behind and gave the hunter some times to adjust himself.
The brunette took Zero's right hand in his, and knitted his brows, feeling how cold Zero's usually warmth hand.
"...You're going to be alright... right, Zero?" Kaname asked with trembling voice. He'd seen the hunter came back from his mission, sustaining such serious injuries for countless time. But Zero had healed in due time, courtesy of his healing ability and Kaname's pure blood.
Kaname didn't know why, but there was something that bothered him so much for that day, as if his blood would no longer had the ability to heal his lover.
But...it can't be, right?
"Zero...?" Kaname's word was only met with a meek whimper, something that sounded like a weeping kitten.
The Pureblood tried again as he caressed and nudge Zero's cheek affectionately, trying to get the latter's attention.
"Zero?... Hurry up and drink my blood, okay?" Kaname positioned Zero's face against his neck, guiding the hunter's mouth just closed to his arteries. However, the hunter made no move to initiate any biting.
Kaname thought that maybe Zero was too weak to draw the blood from him. The Pureblood made a new resolution as he proceed to graze his fangs against the inner side of his wrist before his motion was suddenly stopped by his lover.
"... I can't...Kaname.. I c-can't.." Zero could see the bewilderment on his brunette lover's face. He wanted so much to explain but he didn't have much energy left, and he had to suppress the pain from the silent contractions as he clutched his hand around his abdomen tightly.
Kaito scrutinized the scenes in front of him quietly. This was not the first time he'd watch the duos' biting session. Being a partner to Zero, his careless silver-haired partner had often get himself injured and the other pureblood will always came to give an immediate help. Hence, he'd gotten used to the situation.
But something was wrong today, he wondered why Zero refused to drink from the pureblood. The younger hunter's condition looked like he desperately needed it, and yet he refused. His stubborn partner wouldn't be stubborn without a reason.
Or maybe?
The ash-brown hunter quickly scanned his partner body, eying each parts warily. His gaze suddenly landed on the shivering left-arm of his partner, and he made his way to the said arm. Kaito glanced at the pureblood for a while, before shifting his attention to Zero. He lightly grabbed Zero's left hand, trying to his best not to shock the fragile hand.
Kaito brushed the long sleeve of Zero's Kimono upside and he turned to observe the inner side of the younger hunter's elbow. His suspicion had been confirmed when he saw a mark of charm, with the shaped of five swords crossing together and one of it has a longer length than the other four. His mind tried hard to remember, what kind of charms was that, it seems like an old charm, a very old ancient charm.
Oh crap!
Kaname noticed how the older hunter seemed to be deep in his own thought and suddenly the hunter's eyes widened slightly as if he had remembered something. The brunette saw as Kaito looked at Zero for a while, confirming something before Zero nodded his head weakly. The Pureblood was about to ask what was going on, when Kaito cut through his thought.
"The Vrizhactyst...The forbidden spell.."
Kaname raised his eyebrows at the mention of the unknown spell. He had learned about Hunter's Spell himself throughout his life, but he never heard about the one that Kaito just said.
"Forbidden spell...What do you mean?" As much as the pureblood dreading to hear the answer, he can't helped but asked.
"A spell which forbid a vampire from receiving the blood from the other donor, in any way possible. The stronger your blood, the deadlier the effect on him. And even the weakest blood will act like a poison to him." Kaito explained as he looked down at the mark on his partner's arm. His hand unconsciously grabbed Zero's hand tighter in his.
He was losing his friend, and he was sure about it...
"There must be a way to –"
"No. Absolutely none, Kuran...-san. It's a forbidden spell. A spell which is totally fatal to an injured vampire and there's no way to unseal the spell. Even the caster can't do anything about it." The hunter explained even though he hated to do this. He was never good at telling a bad news, even to a vampire who he had started to respect.
Through his hazy gazed, the silver-haired hunter could see the regretted looked on his partner face. Perhaps for not being able to do anything about the charm. But his friend wasn't the one to be blamed, and he hated to see those expression on Kaito's face.
"Hey...K-Kaito. It's okay... It's not y-your fault. T-Thanks Kaito... For everything." For always being there like a brother to me... Zero whispered to his partner, his friend as well as his older brother. Even though they're not blood-related, but he considered Kaito as his brother, perhaps because how his partner treated him.
Kaito's eyes met with Zero's amethyst one, and he felt a single drop of tears fell out of his eyes, followed by another.
Meanwhile, a certain Pureblood was rendered speechless by the vulnerability of Zero's situation.
"Zero... Tell me. There must be a way to reverse the spell, right? You're the best hunter Zero, descended from the Kiryuu clan. There must be–" Kaname's line was cut off by his lover.
"Ssshhh... Kaname.. Sometimes t-the luck won't a-always be by our s-side."
With that words, the atmosphere fell into a heavy silence. With Kaname trying to digest the fate that had befallen on him, and his lover...and their child. Kaname eyed Zero's hand that was situated onto his abdomen, he'd noticed the hunter will clenched his hand tightly once in a while. He'd heard about contraction during the labor, and perhaps Zero was undergoing it now.
Kaname's hand slowly traveled and landed on his lover's hand, trying to sooth the pain for his lover. They stayed in that position until the doctor together with Hanabusa arrived.
. . . . . . . . . . . . .
"Kuran-sama, we're sorry but we can't use the anesthetic." Doctor Hatori said as he inspected his patient.
Kaito leaned himself on the wall, as his throbbing head tried to process the information at hand. They were now in a medical room completed with all the necessary instruments like the one at the hospital, with the doctor and the blond noble preparing for the Cesarean section for the pregnant hunter.
They had activated the oxygen machine, and his partner breathing had turned gradually better courtesy of the oxygen tubes in his nose. An IV Drip was attached to Zero, preventing him from dehydration. They know better than to give him blood at this circumstance...
Well, trust a pureblood Kuran Kaname to provide such room in his Manor. No wonder they didn't have to rush to the hospital even though Zero was in that condition.
Kaname tried hard to suppress his growing anger. He knew he was not supposed to be angry out-of-place but the situation was slowly killing him. The doctor had said that they couldn't use the anesthetic on his lover, because of the fear that Zero might shut down, completely.
The Pureblood eyed his lover cautiously. He was currently helping Zero's lungs to function as effective as possible using his pureblood power because the hunter obviously needed the oxygen.
"Zero... Will you be okay, without the tranquilizer?" Kaname asked even though he thought that he might know the answer already. His confirmation proven when his lover nodded instantly at his question.
"I will be okay... If y-you're here with me." Zero whispered and squeezed Kaname's hand tightly, as his lover returned the same action. For a moment, they stared at each other quietly, falling into a mutual understanding.
Soon, the doctor started the task given to him after receiving the confirmations from the couple, with his blond assistant devotedly by his side.
"I'm going to cut now, alright? This is going to be real quick." Doctor Hatori gave Zero an assuring gaze as the latter nodded at his word.
The silver-haired hunter looked up to met Kaname's eyes, seeking comfort from his beloved husband, waiting for the dreaded moment to come.
Kaname watched as Zero's face suddenly contorted in an agonizing pain, as a painful scream erupted from his lover. The brunette hold Zero's hand tightly, his other hand slowly caressing Zero's hair. He kissed his lover forehead lightly trying to calm his restless lover down.
Zero tried to suppress another groan but failed miserably when the pain became too unbearable as he felt the instruments dived into him, to keep the cut opened. He was breathing heavily and he wanted so much for the process to end quickly. Kaname's soothing gesture helped him to calm down, at least a little bit as he leaned on his lover, as if his live depended on him.
"Shhhh... Zero...! Zero! Calm down please, love. This will end soon, I promise!" Kaname continued to kiss his lover's forehead passionately, knowing such gesture always made him relax, and maybe it will worked for Zero too. He brushed away the tears that fell from Zero's eyes, even though he was trying hard to contain his tears as well.
Eventually the silver-haired hunter calmed down, probably from being too exhausted to do anything anymore. Kaname kept on whispering sweet words to his lover, finding that it was easier to distract Zero by sugar-coating him.
"Oi...Kiryuu. It's better if you keep quiet like this. Our work will be faster, and that is for you own good." Hanabusa tried to actually make the ex-human calmed down. Even though it was most likely the round-about way, it usually worked for someone like Kiryuu. However Aidou cringed in fear when he received two glares at once, one from the ash-brown hunter and another one from his Kaname-sama.
The glaring stopped however when they heard Zero whispered something along the line of 'Shut up, Aidou...'. At least the blond noble's word managed to get Zero slightly in spirit back, which was a really essential factor right now.
Zero choked back a cry of pain when he felt something being pulled out of his cut. He closed his eyes in pain, trails of tears falling on his sickly pale cheeks and suddenly he heard the sound of the shrill cry...of a baby.
The silver-haired hunter's eyes abruptly fluttered open, when the sound of a crying child hit his hearing. The every aching in his body were forgotten as he made the effort to sit up using his elbows and Kaname supporting him.
Zero looked at Doctor Hatori and saw a bundle wrapped in a blanket in the man's arms, and the sound of a crying child continued to echo in his ears. Tears started brimming in his own eyes as he squeezed Kaname's hands tightly. Their child was finally born... their child, the seeds of their love.
"Congratulations both of you. Your child is a male, he's a premature child, but aside from that, he's a healthy baby." Doctor Hatori said as he waited a minute or two before cutting the umbilical cord connecting the child with his mom.
"Kaname-sama... and Kiryuu. This child is all yours for now, but we'll have to put him into an incubator later on, to ensure his normal growth rate." Hanabusa said as he cleaned the little baby in his arms before passing him to Zero, and everyone could see that the blond noble smiled to the hunter and the other replied the same gesture too, albeit weakly.
Zero reached out his hand to take the baby into his arms. He neatly cradled the child in his arms, the child's head rested in the crook of his elbow. The silver-haired hunter kissed the child's forehead warmly, before he proceeded to kiss the child's chubby cheeks equally.
Doctor Hatori watched the happy mother and child silently. He was aware of the hunter's circumstances, and even though Zero was currently haemorrhaging, he simply couldn't do anything with it. He knew the pureblood was keeping the hunter's lungs to function, but it won't last for long.
And so the doctor just proceed with the task at hand, and continue to stitch the wounds that he had cut opened earlier. Seeing that his patient was too occupied with the new-born child, that he was not aware of the stitching process.
The baby's eyes opened revealing a pair of shimmering lilac amethyst eyes, similar to his mother. Zero noticed that except from his eyes, the child inherited everything else from Kaname, the soft brown locks, the long eye-lashes and even his facial feature. He however couldn't figure it out if the child had a wavy or a straight hair, although it looked like the little spiky hair indicated that his son has a straight hair, just like his.
"K-Kaname... Our child, he's so cute and b-beautiful..." Zero turned to Kaname and offered the child to his husband. Kaname bent forward and kissed his son's head, but kept the baby in Zero's arms.
"I know...Zero. I know... He's beautiful just like you. T-Thanks, Zero, for giving me such a precious gift." Kaname said as he leaned forward to catch Zero's plump lips into his in a sweet and passionate kiss. Even as sickly as he was right now, his Zero still had that ability to blush upon receiving such comment from him.
Kaname's emotion was in a roller-coaster. He should be happy that he had just been blessed with a child, their long-awaited child. And yet he was slowly losing the silver-haired beauty in front of him.
Kaname took his time and scrutinized Zero's pale face for as long as he can. Seeing Zero's smile made him wanted to smile too, and so he smiled despite the circumstances.
"What should we call him, Zero?" Kaname was about to suggest a name, but suddenly he was stopped by his lover.
"...Mamoru... He's Kuran Mamoru.." The brunette can't helped but stare in awe as his lover kept on staring into the child's eyes, as if they were currently connected in an invisible bond of mother and child.
The moment Zero blinked his eyes, the child blinked his eyes too, mimicking the same gesture as his parent. Zero just had to chuckle when Mamoru gripped his long pinky finger in a small grasp.
Mamoru, huh? Kaname smiled at the name himself. Mamoru means 'to protect', and he was quiet sure that his lover had his own reason for choosing that name.
The brunette saw that Zero was unfastening something from the back of his neck. And then Kaname saw it, the silver-chained necklace of an amethyst colored spirit stone. He didn't noticed that Zero was wearing the pendant, up till now.
"He's a Kuran..." Zero said and he fastened the pendant around his child's neck, before he added, "As well as a Kiryuu." The spirit stone lightened up, indicating that it approved the new owner of itself.
The spirit stone, a necklace descended from the Kiryuu ancestors to the current generation of the Kiryuu clan. The pendant choose its owner, recognizing a genuine of the Kiryuu descendants. And it was almost the time for Zero to pass his pendant to his child.
"I'm afraid...Kiryuu-san. That we had to take the child into the safety of the incubator soon." The doctor voiced out his word, although he totally hated to separate the son from his.. dying mom.
"Just... for a while, please." Zero looked at the doctor with pleading eyes.
The silver-haired hunter caressed his son's soft hair, taking in his feature, remembering every curve of his feature. The child was currently calmed in his mother's arms, and he appeared to be so tranquilized in the safety hold of Zero's arms.
Zero can't held his tears back, as he leaned down and kissed the child's forehead for a long, one last time. His tears falling on the child's cheeks and he kissed it away, proceed to the child's temples and back to the forehead.
"I'm sorry... Mamoru. I'm afraid t-that I can't watch you to g-grow up. But you must know... That mother loves you so m-much." Zero whispered to his son. Ignoring the fact that he just called himself a mother. He caressed the child's cheeks for one last time, and handed him to the awaiting doctor arms.
His hand that was grasping his child's fingers eventually separated from Mamoru's small gripped.
The doctor, together with Aidou as well as a reluctant Kaito left the room. Giving the much-needed privacy to the couple. Kaito stopped in his track for a while when Zero called out to him.
"Kaito... tell Yagari-sensei t-that I'm sorry, Cross too. And thanks again for everything... T-Take care." Zero said with much regret in his voice, his head bowed down, refusing to meet his partner's eyes.
It's now or never...
Suddenly Zero was pulled into a hug, not by Kaname, but his hunting partner, Kaito. It was a quick brotherly hug, but somehow it was such a meaningful moment, for the two individual who grew up together for as long as they can remember.
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"K-Kaname..."
"Zero..."
The silver-haired hunter launched himself into Kaname's arms, despite his weakened state. He hid his face into the crook of Kaname's neck before he was pulled into a searing kiss.
Their kiss last for as long as Zero could take it, before he started gasping for the air and Kaname just had to let him go.
"Zero...Zero! Tell me... Tell me that this was just a dream, a nightmare...please." Kaname hugged Zero tightly, he rested his head onto Zero's silky silver hairs, hiding his face from being seen by his lover. He was crying... crying that he couldn't accept the reality, the cruel reality that he was going to lose the lovely person in his arms.
"I'm sorry, Kaname... S-sorry for being weak enough. If only.. If only I–"
"Ssshhh.. I'm sorry... For not being able to p-protect you from all that despicable creatures." Kaname said softly as he stroked the locks of silver hair in front of him. Zero was breathing his scent, in the crook of his neck, and he could felt how the hot breath of his lover became restless, and the short intake of breath became obvious.
"Zero... You promised... That the future is ours, and we will raise our child together, in this Manor. Please.. I can't survive without you... I can't.." Kaname choked back in his tears, his shaking arms hugging the shivering body tightly.
"Forgive me, Kaname. P-please.. Forgive...me. I can't keep our promises... O-our Valentines Day turned disaster, and I can't keep our promise. I'm sorry... S-sorry... R-Really sorry." Zero looked up to meet Kaname's eyes, he leaned himself on Kaname's left shoulder for support as he reached up his trembling hands and brushed away the tears that were staining his lover's cheeks, despite himself.
"If you're sorry.. Then p-please.. Don't leave me... You're everything to me, I know this is cliché.. But my heart beats for you... You and only you... Let me become selfish once again, and stay with me..Please!" The brunette's tears just won't stop falling.
As Zero reminisced back into the past, Kaname never shed his tears this much. The last time Zero saw him crying was the time when Zero woke up from a week of comatose state after a disastrous mission.
"Hush.. Kaname.. H-Hush... You're stronger than this. God has a d-different plan f-for us. So please stop crying like a c-child, because you're making me upset too." Zero whispered the soothing words to his lover, although he could sense that his time was running thin. He felt a lump in his throat and suddenly he lurched forward.
Only to found that he was hacking blood...
"Zero!" Kaname cried out as his lover won't stop coughing, and the moment he stopped, blood dribbled from the corner of Zero's mouth. Kaname managed to grasp on his control of Zero's lungs, seeing that his distorted emotions had affected the control of his pureblood power.
"Kana-me... It seems l-like I won't last for long... C-Can you... Can you do me a favor, K-Kaname?" Zero gazed at Kaname with pleading eyes, waiting for his lover's answer even though he could somehow guess it.
"A-Anything... Anything for you, Zero..." Kaname replied as he bumped his forehead together with Zero's, meeting the hunter's silver amethyst eyes that he had come to love ever since he looked into the deepest part of those eyes.
"Will you drink my b-blood...?" Zero watched as his lover's face fell into a stunned one.
"No!... I can't–"
"P-Please... I beg you, Kaname. If y-you can't do it for me, then do it for our child. After a week, M-Mamoru will be having his f-first taste of blood, I want to be able to give m-mine to him... through you..." Zero panted heavily at his long words, but he just had to make things right before it was too late.
However, the Pureblood refused and kept on shaking his head desperately. His lover was dying and there was no way that he would do that!
"T-Then.. h-how about those intruders? D-Don't you want to p-punish them, Kaname? Drink my blood and pry into my memories... A-And you'll know the p-punishments that suit with them." Zero tried again, although he felt guilty for using this way to put the sense into Kaname. He knows Kaname's way of punishing people, and he admitted that he never get accustomed to all those violent punishment.
But if this is the only way to make Kaname drink his blood, then he really doesn't care.
Kaname's face lifted up and Zero could see the flickers of anger in them. Zero smiled weakly at Kaname's next word.
"Then... I will, Zero. I will drink your blood and I will punish each of them thoroughly. But I'll stop when I get into those memory. I d-don't want to drain you, Zero..." Kaname said and Zero nodded weakly. He didn't have much blood left anyway.
The silver-haired hunter tilted his head to the left, revealing the untattooed side of his neck, guiding Kaname's lips to the usual bite spot.
Kaname took his sweet time, but not too long as he licked Zero's neck thoroughly, wetting it as much as possible, preventing from accidentally hurting Zero. He grazed his fangs lightly at first, his eyes turned crimson reacting to the aromatic scent of Zero's blood. He gave Zero a signal and eventually, he bite down gently into the soft supple of Zero's flesh.
Just as usual, he let out a certain amount of his pureblood saliva, acting as a tranquilizer for his mate. The thickness of Zero's blood flooded his sense but he managed to control himself, and took a slow seeps of the elixir.
Kaname closed his eyes as he traveled into Zero's memories hours ago.
He saw his lover at the kitchen, mixing something which looked like a chocolate, probably for him.
He saw it when Zero suddenly turned around, to be met with a knife lunged to his face, which he managed to avoid effortlessly even sending back the knife belonged to a hunter, grazing the other hunter's neck by an inch.
Kaname held Zero tighter in his arm upon the next flicker of memories.
The brunette saw Zero lunging his own attacks at the vampires using the Bloody Rose, at the same time throwing his razor sharped blades to the hunters. Kaname had no doubt, that Zero was a great fighter even in the state of pregnancy. However, Zero ran out of bullets, and he was distracting the enemies with his blades as he made his way upstairs, for his bullet magazines.
But suddenly a hunter blocked Zero's way to the second floor, a hunter that emerged from the upstairs. His lover was about to turn away when suddenly another hunter and a vampire blocked his way too.
His lover was trapped in the middle of the grand stairs and was about to attack the hunter that was blocking his way to the second floor, but suddenly the enemies took out their weapon, the sword and a gun, and the claws from the vampire. They pointed their deadly weapons to Zero, but not directly at him, but his abdomen... To their child.
His lover was rendered immobilized as they threatened to harm their children if the silver-haired hunter didn't follow their orders. Zero reluctantly put his hand down, and then a vampire snatched his Bloody Rose and throw it over the railing.
Kaname could see his lover's hurtful face when his favorite weapon was thrown that way. And that vampire, the same vampire that he had killed earlier!
His blood was boiling with anger when he saw the image of another vampire, who slapped his lover hard across the face, twice, making his lover's lips bleed. And then Kaname saw the image gradually blurred before it emerged again.
His lover was being half-pulled, half-dragged by the hair, to their second living room, the same spot that he had found Zero earlier. They had drawn a field of spell casting zone in the middle of the room. And then the barrier was cast and the rest of the image became hazy and blurred.
"..Nnnhh... -name... K-Kana-me!..."
The pureblood abruptly stopped his short journey into his lover's memories when he heard a soft whimper of someone calling out to him. Kaname withdrew his fangs from Zero's neck, licking all the traces of blood trailing down from the punctured wounds. With one last lick, sealed with a kiss, he lifted up his head to attend to his lover.
"I'm sorry... D-Did I hurt you, Zero?" Kaname worriedly inquired from his lover, holding him tight in the crook of his arms, preventing the said lover from falling.
No response..
"H-Hey... Zero!.. Zero!" Kaname's hands started to tremble uncontrollably, his hands came to hold on to his unresponsive lover's shoulders and shook him not so lightly.
He was so not going to forgive himself, if he had accidentally drained his lover...
Fortunately for him, the silver amethyst eyes belonged to his beloved opened albeit just half-lidded. Kaname stares into those beautiful silent eyes, the eyes that never failed to tell him the truth, the eyes that never failed to remind him of how much the person in his arms cherished him, the eyes that never failed to make him understood of how to forgive and how to love himself.
"Kaname...? I'm now.. entirely yours... And I don't think t-that I have much time..anymore.. So please-"
"Don't leave me, Zero.. I said don't leave me! I can't... I can't live without you! I just can't! Let me be with you... please! Let me... Let me follow you!" Kaname pulled Zero into his arms once again, unable to contain his sobs anymore as he let his tears fell freely from his wine-red eyes.
"No... Kaname. J-Just no! Use your f-fucking mind, Kana..me. Think about our c-child. He needs you! D-dammit!" Zero scold his lover halfheartedly, his own tears falling onto Kaname's chest.
He didn't want to leave his lover just as much as Kaname didn't want him to leave. He never wanted this to happen either... Never.
Kaname shook his head hard. Nudging his teary face into his lover's sweet-scented hairs.
"I don't want... If you're going to leave me... Then just let me-"
Kaname's words was again stopped when he was suddenly forced to look into his lover's eyes, Zero's shivering cold hands clasping on his teary cheeks, holding his face in place.
"Stop it... I beg you.. Just s-stop it! L-Look into my eyes...into my eyes.." Zero paused for a while, trying to catch his breath. He noticed that he seriously didn't have much time to be wasted.
"Listen, Kaname... L-Look into my eyes.. and listen to me! Y-years ago... we made a promise for a better life in the world of Human... H-Hunter and Vampire. What happened today is a proved that... t-that we haven't achieved our goal..." Zero stopped and wait for his husband to respond, but none come out from his mouth, and so he added with much effort.
"B-But also... Today, we see the b-birth of our child. A child of a Hunter and of a Pureblood vampire. Mamoru, o-our child is an evidence t-that it's never impossible to achieve our d-dream.." The silver-haired hunter paused yet again, finding that talking has taken much of his energy as he slammed his head into his lover's chest.
"S-So...Kaname...so..."
"So you want me to live on and fulfill my goal? Our goal, Zero?" Kaname asked as he looked down into his lover's eyes once again, finding the hope in those shimmering amethyst eyes. If this was what Zero wanted, if this was the only thing that he could do for Zero's happiness. Then I will do it, Zero...
"Y-yeah... and raise our c-child to be an apotheosis for b-both Hunter and Vampire races... as well as human."
"Fine... I will do this for you... and only you. But when the time comes, I won't hesitate to follow you, Zero... And no one is going to refrain me from being with you!" Kaname reluctantly bent over to his lover's wishes.
"Thank you... Ka-na-me..." Zero caught Kaname's lips into one last endearing kiss. Pouring all of their emotions for one another... their loves for each other... for one last time.
Kaname felt Zero's hands slackened down from his face, and the kiss was abruptly stopped when the hunter failed to respond to the other. Kaname caught Zero into his arms, grasping his lover atypically cold hands, his lips trembled with apprehension. Kaname could hear Zero's heartbeats fading away agitatedly.
"Zero? Zero! Don't go! Please... not now!" Kaname choked back in his tears before he added.
"I... I love you, Zero! I love you more than any words could ever convey... You're the most important person in my life! So...Why?... Why?" Kaname sobbed into the crook of Zero's neck, losing the control of his power over the hunter's lungs.
He felt lost, he couldn't hear Zero's heartbeats, he was losing the most precious person in his life, and he felt so helpless, unable to do anything to prevent the inevitable from happening.
But suddenly, the cold hand that he was grasping, squeezed his hand back and Kaname returned the same gesture as he lifted up his face once again, to meet with his lover's eyes.
"I know... Kaname... I-I know... A-And maybe y-you can never imagine... that how much your existence means to me. B-But... I.." Kaname gasped as the hand that was squeezing his fingers just a moment ago was slowly loosening itself.
"Zero–"
"B-but K-Kaname... I...I.. love y-...you."
Kaname stared silently as his lover's eyes slowly wavered and eventually closed, the hand in his grasp fell onto the mattress as Zero's head went slackened.
The thunder was crashing outside.
"Z-Zero...? Answer me! Zero!"
A soft smile was plastered on his lover's face, and slowly, Kaname could see a faint silvery light started to surround his lover's body, and a tiny dust-like substances floating into the thin air, coming from his lover's wavering form.
"Respond to me please! Give me a sign that you're still alive! Zero!"
He was slowly losing his grasp on the form in his arms, and as if on cue, his lover's angelic face was fading from his sight.
"Don't...go..Please... P-Please.."
At the last moment, the whole form in his arms burst into thousands of tiny ashes, slipping down from the palm of his hands.
"Zero..."
Kaname clutched the ashes tightly in his grasps, and those trembling hands end up falling into the pile of ashes. The brunette felt something solid brushed against his finger, he looked down at his right palm only to find... a small silver amethyst shard?
A normal vampire who died will turned to only a pile of ashes just like a sand falling in an hourglass. Unlike the Pureblood vampires, numerous glistening shards will be found in the ashes once a Pureblood's life ended.
Unless a normal vampire who had drink a pure vampire blood before, cast a spell onto himself to manipulate the last remaining of his body.
Kaname hold the last remaining of his lover closed toward his chest. Zero had used his power for one last time, to give him something highly significant as the last remembrance of himself. And Kaname won't ever let it go... Never.
"...W-Why Zero?...I'm lost...Completely lost! Don't leave me alone like this!.. Just why?"
The brunette let out a hysterical low chuckles as he let his tears fell freely as he closed his eyes tightly. Kaname screamed Zero's name out of his lungs, every glasses in the room creaked and broke, and the door burst open to revealed his three guest from earlier, Kaito, Hanabusa and Doctor Hatori.
The trio bowed down in sympathy. The ash-brown hunter tried as he might to hide his tears but failed miserably when the sobs from the lonely pureblood in the room became too much to handle.
The lightning sparked outside accompanied by the thunder as the rain suddenly splattered on the earth. It seemed like even the nature were grieving for the lost of the hunter.
Kaname couldn't do anything as he cried, and cried and cried over a pile of his lover's remaining, losing faith to control his overwhelming emotions.
Why...?
The air in the room fell into a complete lamentation.
Kaname's heart shattered into broken pieces, unable to accept the fate that Zero was gone from his life once and for all. And the pureblood finally realized something...
That he never got to say goodbye...
-To be continued-
Author's note: So... what do you think of this chapter? T.T Actually I'm not at all surprise if I failed to reach your emotion, since I know I'm losing my touch while writing this chapter. For some reason, I'm upset and angry right now... So yeah ^^;;
By the way, please take note that I'm still underage and I don't even have a younger siblings. Hence I never know how's the process of real pregnancy looked like, I just analyzed from the web-sites! So please forgive me for any unrealistic facts in my story! I know there are a lot of them! T.T
Thanks for those who had reviewed my last chapter! Love you guys so much! You're really a source of my inspiration, each of you!~ So please keep the review coming!~
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