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Petal 4: Remembrance of You
-KxZ-[Flashback]-
A gentle air blew towards his ears, but the figure lying on the bed chose to ignore the little interruption and snuggled closer into the comfort warmth of the comforter.
However, the continuous blow of air, made him felt that it was not the work of the nature. Hence, he perked up his senses, and finally felt the familiar presence near him.
So a certain someone had just came back from a mission... And enjoying puffing airs toward his ears..?
Kaname smirked inwardly, as the culprit continued to disturb his sleep and didn't even realized that he had woke up, despite the circumstance.
The pureblood made a surprising movement as he suddenly stirred in his sleep and with a vampire speed, slid his hand around the culprit's form and flipped their position, with him hovering above the other.
"Enjoying yourself, aren't you? Let us see whose ears are more sensitive..." Kaname announced as he immediately made a gesture of trapping the other in the cage of his arms, his head slowly leaned to his destination.
A silver-haired hunter yelped instantly when a certain brunette puffed an air towards his sensitive left ear, and he suddenly squirmed when the said ear was being nibbled not-so-gently.
"Well...Well... I think we have a winner now..." Kaname mocked as he continued to nibble on the sensitive flesh between his mouth. His eyes gave a suggestive look to his victim.
"...S-Shut up, you sick pervert! It's unfair that you attacked my weak spot!" The hunter retorted, a delicious spread of blush adorning both of his fluffy cheeks.
"I'll be more than glad, if you attack my weak spot too. Preferably down there, Zero." The pureblood purred into his lover's ears, as he made a motion of grinding his little friend against his lover's crotch.
"I hate you, Kaname you insatiable twit!"
"I know, I love you too, my sweet flushing lover."
Zero blushed upon Kaname's comment about him, but make no moves to protest back. They just insisted to stare into each others' eyes, taking in the face of one another after a week of being separated.
The silence went on for another 4 minutes and 7 seconds before both of them broke into a little chuckles upon their earlier childishness of teasing each other. The older of the two caught his lover's lips in one deep, passionate kiss, pouring their feelings of longing for one another.
"When did you get back, Zero?" Kaname inquired as he brushed his long nose against his lover's cutely rounded nose, a normal gesture of expressing the strong love between the two of them.
"Just about a couple of hours ago, you were deep in your sleep, so I decided not to disturb you." The hunter snorted to himself, finding that his word didn't match with his earlier action.
"Hmm... So when did you decided to finally disturbed with my sleep, Zero-rin?" The pureblood eyed his blushing lover, as he gave him that suggestive smirk.
"...Urm... When..."
"I can't hear you, Zero." The brunette provoked his lover by locking their eyes together, their breath mingled with one another.
"When I found that I'm missing you too much and being in denial is futile!" The hunter said in one breath, his eyes diverted from his lovers' twinkling ones, as he was flushing to the very tip of his ears.
"Such an honest statement, Zero. Just the way I like it, and there's nothing to be ashamed of." Kaname caressed his lover's cheeks lovingly, before he slightly poked his forefinger on Zero's flushing cheek, earning a protesting groan from his lover.
He couldn't help it when teasing the hunter had become one of his favorite hobbies ever since he realized that his lover's every reaction was such an interesting discovery.
"You took a bath without me, Zero?" The pureblood whined playfully as he buried his face in the crook of Zero's neck.
"...Because taking a bath with you will only lengthen the duration of us being in the bathroom by three times...or more." Zero said as his hand instinctively went to stroke Kaname's silky brown locks.
The pureblood just nodded suggestively upon his lover's words as he made another pervert comment about his lover's statement, earning a free light knock on his head.
Kaname chuckled as he snuggled closer to the silver-haired hunter. He took one deep inhalation of his lover's scent, loving the sweet-scented air which was uniquely Zero.
"..Refreshing.." Kaname took another inhalation of his lover's scent, somehow finding himself addicted to it.
The silver-haired hunter giggled lightly when Kaname made such comment about him. He guided the hovering pureblood back on the bed at his left side, welcoming his clingy lover into his arms as he continued to caress the brown locks.
"Go back to sleep, Kaname. I can see that you're exhausted." Zero suggested to his lover. He could sense that his disheveled lover was tired, especially after he took note of the stacks of paperwork on the pureblood's mahogany table, completed with his lover's signatures.
"But Zero... that should be my line." Kaname's words slurred a bit as he succumbed to his lover's relaxing gesture. If they had a child, he was really sure that Zero would be a good mother, putting their child into sleep effortlessly. Kaname chuckled at his own thought, knowing that if Zero found out about it, the hunter would surely be furious.
"I'll sleep when you sleep, Kaname. And what are you chuckling at?" Zero asked in bewilderment, sometimes if he didn't know better, he would have thought that his lover had a severe mental problem. But because he was officially Kuran Kaname's lover, he know better than anyone else.
"Nothing..." Kaname tried to act innocent as he snuggled closer into the comfort of his lover's arms. Distracting Zero was so much fun.
"... Fine. Now off to sleep, Kaname." Zero pulled at the thick comforter and settled it to cover the both of them. By now, his lover was being on the brink of unconsciousness.
"..I'll wait for you in our dreamland, Zero." The brunette said with a muffled voice against Zero's chest, trying as hard as possible not to tease the exposed nipples of his lover's through the loosened sleeping robe, as he wrapped his arms around Zero's thin waist.
"...Whatever, Kaname. As you wish." The hunter decided not to protest anymore, finding that there was no end to it if he fought with a sleepy pureblood. He wrapped his arms around his lover's shoulder as he buried his face into Kaname's hair, loving the disheveled but silky texture of the brunette's hair.
Eventually that night, both Kaname and Zero crossed their path in an eventful dreamland.
When two individuals connected in one powerful bond, their love and trust will formed a bridge of eternal connection as long as they keep on believing in one another.
-KxZ-[End of Flashback]-
Kaname awoke with a start, founding himself surrounded by a pale white surrounding.
He sat up from his lying position, as his hand impulsively touched his left ear, a tingling sensation lingering there, as if someone had purposely puffed the air toward his ears... just like years ago.
Kaname scanned through his surrounding, finding no traces of anyone being near him a moment before. However, ever since he woke up, he felt something was amiss. Every parchment of his surrounding was covered with a thick blanket of pure white snow.
But the pureblood felt surprisingly warm, not a feverish warm, but a comforting warm... like someone had just wrapped him into a warming hug. He noticed that his form wasn't covered with the blanket of snow at all, just a tiny little white bit on his trench coat.
It seemed like the warmth feeling was being emitted from his... chest?
Kaname fished out a vial pendant from under his clothes, a silver-chain necklace hanging from the back of his neck, holding the pendant in place.
A shard of amethyst was visible through the transparent vial glass, some silvery ashes amalgamated with the lonely shard inside the vial.
The pureblood's eyes widened slightly as the shard inside the vial suddenly radiating a light of amethyst color. Both of his hands came to grasp the pendant, as he scanned thoroughly around his surrounding. Hoping to find something... someone.
"Z-Zero?"
Kaname abruptly stood up and scrutinized his lover's relic, and then back to his surrounding. He cautiously encircled Zero's grave, looking through the nooks and curves around the chilling area.
The shard kept on glowing, Kaname's every logic and philosophy failed him tremendously as he continued searching for his lover... for his dead lover.
"...If you're here, then show yourself..." The pureblood voiced out thoughtlessly. His eyes landed on a big trunk of an old Cypress tree.
A wafted of cold air blasted toward him and Kaname's keen smell ability caught the redolence of a fresh sakura flower after the rain, even though ironically there was no sakura blossom nearby. The scent was mixed with a sweet smell of the red lychee... the usual refreshing sweet-scented smell of Zero.
"I know you're here... I can sense you!" Kaname incautiously said as he slowly approached the old Cypress tree. A strange force of energy wafted the strongest from behind the tree, and Kaname was highly determined to seek for the truth.
"...Show yourself!" Kaname blurted out as soon as he looked through behind the tree, only to find... nothing.
The amethyst shard that he had been holding on since before, finally stopped glowing, and Kaname abruptly fell onto his knees as all the familiar scent suddenly disappeared. The pureblood took the effort of moving back to his lover's memorial stone, kneeling right in front of it.
"You can't do this, dammit!" Kaname cried out hysterically, unaware that he had just shouted to his lover's grave. Tears started to accumulate at the tip of his eyelashes.
"You can't raised my hope like this, only to end up destroying it right after that!... You can't... can't..."
Kaname's harsh words eventually slurred as he unconsciously broke into sobs, his tears falling freely onto his lover's monument.
If you can't come back, then I'll go with you...
. . . . . . . . . . . .
The pureblood rested his forehead onto the monument for quite some times, until his sobs ceased and only the sound of light hiccups could be heard.
"Zero... It has been 10 years since t-that incident happened... And tonight, our son, Mamoru will turned to a true Pureblood-Vampire Hunter." Kaname whispered to no one but himself, or more likely, whispering to the remnants of his lover.
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 smiled at himself upon remembering his own words 10 years ago, and it seemed like the time was fast approaching. He brushed aside his thought as he made a move to leave, since he still had a promise to be kept.
"I'm sorry, Zero. But I have to go for now. There's something that I have to do.. tonight." Kaname kissed the relic in front of him as he stood up from his kneeling position, his blank eyes gazed to his surrounding.
The brunette turned to leave, but not before he said something.
"And soon Zero... I'll follow you... And no one should refrain myself from doing so..."
With that, the Pureblood disappeared through the thick fog of cold air.
-KxZ-
Kaname ascended the flight of stairs of his Manor, aiming for his destination with firm steps and moves. He had just finished with the preparation of Mamoru's birthday, and he still had a little bit of time left to himself before the brunette child returned home.
The wine-red eyed pureblood headed toward the direction of the main bedroom before he suddenly turned to the right-wing of the Manor, heading to his actual destination.
The brunette stopped in front of an ornamental oak door, as he proceeded to turn the door-knob open and entered the room.
The sense of nostalgia hit him in full wave, as soon as he entered the bedroom for only a single occupant... Zero's bedroom.
The decoration in the room was simple enough, with only a single-bed and a night-stand beside it, a bookshelves lean on the opposite site of the bed, as a study-desk was put on the opposite of the single window. There was only a small closet in Zero's room since Kaname insisted that the hunter kept most of his clothes into their shared bedroom completed with the walk-in closet.
Kaname walked slowly into the room as he made his way to sit on the edge of the bed. He scanned the whole room and the feeling of melancholic surged through him.
The furniture in the room hadn't been moved from its respective position at all, everything were kept in place as Kaname never want to change his lover's preferences. For those time that he had spent in Zero's bedroom, he realized that most of the color in the room consisted of three main colors, the lilac, silver and light-blue.
But his biological color made him matched with any color anyway... Kaname thought and smiled to himself.
The pureblood's eyes landed on the night-stand, three frames of photos decorating the night-stand besides the crafted bamboo-pattern lamp.
He took the first frame and looked at the picture. It was of Zero with his twin, Ichiru, both of them were wearing a fluffy ear-muff completed with their winter attires, hands clad in each others' grasps, and the snow scenery became the background. Kaname could see the flushed face of the twins, Zero had the greatest shade of red compared to his twin, because it seemed like his beautiful lover was a camera-shy.
The picture was taken when they were still in the sized of a toddlers, although his lover had vociferously claimed that he was almost 9-year-old during that time.
Well, he still remembered the first time he officially met Zero. A certain silver-haired hunter had tried to stab him with a butter knife. That aside, as far as he recalled, the hunter was at least two heads shorter than him, despite with only a year age gap between them. His lover had a slow growth rate indeed.
Kaname smile sadly as he remembered about one of his victories, that in the end, Zero still unable to surpass his height, albeit his lover undergo-ed a full-force of spur growth in a winter season during his teenager time.
The pureblood took another framed picture, this time it was of Zero, White Lily the Horse, and... Kaito, much to Kaname's jealousy years ago. It was taken before they get together, when his Zero was still lonely, and his childhood friend decided to cheer him up. He could see Zero's small smile in that picture, both of them were riding the White Lily.
Lily the horse died 2 years ago, probably because she was missing her Master too much. The horse's attachment towards his lover was obvious enough, at times Kaname was surprised how the two had get along very well, until an invisible bond formed between them. He did remember a day after that 'cursed night', he saw White Lily in her stable, her eyes were glistening with indescribable tears, feeling the lost of her only Master.
But a year before she died, Lily left a foal. A male foal which Mamoru had come to love ever since he get to feed the milk for the little foal. Both of them decided to name him, Lilium, because he was as white as his mother, and Zero had chosen the name, Lily because the late horse was pure white in color, as simple as that.
Kaname put the framed picture back in place, and took the third picture, his favorite out of the three. It was a photo of Zero and him, near a waterfall. It was just a normal day as usual, and they had decided to spend their weekends at a stranded place, near a river. Just indulging with one another, without being disturbed by anyone since their relationship was still private during that time.
However, that day, they didn't realize that a certain photo maniac had been following them, to confirm his suspicion about their relationship. The photo maniac was of course, Kaien Cross, who used his right as Zero's guardian and eventually stalked their date for the whole day. Kaname remembered that Kaien brought a partner in crime, namely Hanabusa Aidou who involved himself as soon as he heard that his Kaname-sama went on a date with Kiryuu Zero.
Zero was furious at first, refusing to talk to Kaien for almost a week despite Kaien's constant apologize. However, his lover's heart became softened as soon as he saw the developed photos of their date together.
And so the photo in the frame was produced. The picture of the two of them, sitting on one of the huge rock in the middle of the luminous river. Zero was sitting in front of him, seated between his legs and Kaname hugged his lover from behind, his arms slipped under Zero's shoulders.
A small and yet beautiful flower in lilac color decorated Zero's hair, near his right ear, courtesy of a naughty pureblood. The hunter's clothes was completely soaked at that time, because due to a certain circumstances, he fell into the river.
The brunette was nudging his head to Zero's right cheek, kissing the flushing hunter in his arms, and that was the time when Kaien had decided to snap one of their pictures. He swore that the older man could have been a good photographer if he applied for one.
But every single thing shattered when Zero is gone...
"...I miss you..."
Kaname traced his finger over his lover's feature in the picture. Missing how the silky silver hairs felt under his finger, missing how it felt when he kissed the cherry-lips of his lover, missing how those fluffy cheeks never fail to show Zero's flushing moments, missing how his lover's deep and yet tranquilizing voice sounded like a melody to his ears.
If he couldn't fight the fate that had befallen on them, then one of the thing that he wished to happen was for him to be able to experience those precious moment with his lover again and again. Even if he had to experience that night one more time, he never care as long as he get to hold Zero in his arms back, just like before.
Kaname kissed his lover's face in the picture before putting the frame back on its rightful place. He let his form fall onto the bed, curling himself in a ball as he inhaled the nostalgic scent surrounding him. He turned to a side, and his eyes fell onto a figure, a gray fluffy Koala Bear, his lover's sacred item.
The pureblood tentatively took the object into his hand and scrutinized it for a moment. He brought the bear into his arms as he hugged the Koala Bear tightly, curling into himself, with the bear in his grasp.
For the first time in his life, he never thought that hugging such bear could make him calmed down to a certain degree. And yet, he couldn't control the sobbing that erupted from himself, at the thought of how much he had lost just by losing a precious person in his life.
-To be continued-
Author's note: I know it's too damn short, because I cut it into two parts...again! The second part will hopefully be post tonight or the latest tomorrow! I have to rush now! I'll state my reasoning for the late update in the next chapter! T^T
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