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A/N at bottom.
Warning: BoyxBoy don't like don't read.
Chapter 2~
Papers flew across the room in a flurry as a certain garnet eyed pureblood knocked them off his desk. The tense form sat back in his chair with a loud sigh, a pale hand covering his face as if to hide his frustration. He had been at this for days, trying to work in an attempt to block out a certain silverette from his thoughts. However the menial work wasn't enough to occupy his full attention and it often drifted to Zero.
He had been avoiding him lately, or ignoring him at crossovers. It unsettled the pureblood. Zero wasn't the same, he seemed sullen, depressed, sorrowful, sad. You name it and he was probably feeling it. It wasn't like Zero to behave as such. Well, openly anyway. However this time Kaname was a little more than worried for the hunter. It was the first time he had looked at Kaname with such pain in his eyes. Pain that he had unknowingly caused. Pain that he glimpsed everything the ex-human would even spare a glance his way.
The lithe male grit his teeth and kicked his desk over with a growl, skewing any surviving papers and probably ripping others. Kaname let out an exasperated sigh as he ran a hand through his hair. He got up and began to pace around the room lapsing back into thought.
Why was he even worried about the hunter? His enemy, nemesis, the man he hated. Or well, thought he hated. Did he even hate Zero anymore?
The pureblood's movements all but froze at the thought. That question was the key to everything. It was the key to his confusion, and current feelings. The answer to that question was the key to his frustrations, his worries. And the answer to that question was the key to the solution to this troublesome situation.
With new set determination Kaname righted his desk before grabbing a light jacket as he headed out of his office. He sped down the steps, ignoring the Night Class completely, not even hearing their worried inquiries of where he was going. They didn't need to know where he was going.
The door slammed shut behind Kaname, the only sort of bid of good luck in his endeavor. It wasn't boding well for him, and he had a gnawing feeling in his gut that this wasn't going to turn out well. A feeling of danger. However he wasn't perturbed, he needed to find Zero and tell him the answer to that one important question.
No. He didn't hate Zero. In fact, he was beginning to realize, he might even care a little for the hunter. Care enough anyway that he felt guilty for hurting the hunter. So now he was going to his best to fix it.
He paused outside of Cross's home staring up into the building. Stretching some of his consciousness out he felt inside the home. A frown marred his graceful features as the silverette was nowhere inside the building. He took in a deep breath and walked up to the door, knocking on it to be let in.
They perhaps might at least know Zero's whereabouts to make searching for him quicker.
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Kaien would push his glasses up his nose, seeming unaffected by Kaname's death aura. The blonde folded his hands in front of him as he watched the pureblood pensively. He could clearly see past the calm mask and view the growing frustration in the male's garnet eyes.
"Kaname you know very well I can't tell you where he is. That information is confidential to those in the Hunter's association. All I can tell you is that he's on a mission." The chairman sighed as he calmly explained yet again to the angry brunette.
Kaname gritted his teeth as he forced out some of his anger in a rough sigh. He forced his breathing in calm intervals so he didn't flip his lid at the moment. It managed to calm some of his anger but it did nothing to calm his over anxious nerves. Something wasn't right and his gut pointed to something with Zero. But that could only be just his current emotions right? It's not like he was psychically connected to Zero or anything, they didn't have a bond.
Kaname's thoughts froze on that last one. Sure they didn't have a bond but Zero had been drinking quite a bit from him before he decided to avoid him like the plague. However with Zero having drank so much from him it might have created a small link between the two. Did that mean that the foreboding feeling in the back of his psyche wasn't for him, but for Zero?
Kaname forced himself to clear his throat, all of his thoughts and current of emotions having gone unnoticed by the chairman. His mask was too perfect.
"Is there anything you can tell me? I just… need to know," Kaname said, his words picked carefully as was his tone. The blonde man picked up on the change in tone and thankfully reacted the way Kaname wished him to. Such an easy man to manipulate sometimes it was sad.
"I can say that it is ill advised to visit the warehouse district of the small town a half hour to the west of here. You know the one I think. I heard that there was quite a nuisance with level-E's there. So naturally hunters went to go clear the area," Cross said pushing his glasses back up showing the slightly worried but trusting look. Kaname had to resist the comment that wanted to force its way between his lips.
'You really shouldn't trust me so easily' Kaname thought idly as he nodded in response to Cross's words. Though he had to thank the man as Cross did risk getting, perhaps scolded maybe at the worst, in trouble to let him know where Zero was. Kaien had interpreted his tone as worry, which wasn't too far off the mark considering.
"Thank you, I'll make sure to steer clear then Headmaster," he said with another nod before he turned to leave. Now he at least had somewhere to start looking.
"Make sure to bring my son home safely!" Cross called after him a little over dramatically. Kaname had to stifle a groan of annoyance. He just had to go and say something like that didn't he? 'Of course he did,' the pureblood answered mentally as he stepped out of the man's office and strode out of the house.
He walked with urgency, deciding to at least wait until he was off school grounds before breaking into a full on sprint to get to the hunter. The feeling was getting worse. He worried that he might not be able to get there in time. 'In time for what though?' Was the brief thought that went through the brunette's mind. Thought the thought that answered the question sent an icy chill down his spine. The fact that he might lose Zero if he didn't get there soon.
That thought alone scared Kaname more than anything.
'Please let Zero be okay' Kaname thought as he burst into a full on sprint at blinding speeds before he even made it off the school grounds, unbeknownst to him that he was being watched.
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Yuuki stood on her perch watching the pureblood as he dashed off school grounds before he was gone. A puzzled expression graced her round features as she skipped off back home. Patrol was over so she didn't need to be outside anymore.
"But what is Kaname-sama up to?" she thought out loud as she tapped her bottom lip with her finger. She continued to think on the puzzling actions she witnessed lately. Such as Zero avoiding Kaname and barely talking to him, or the fact that Kaname had hunted Zero down to just talk with him, and now Kaname was running off while Zero was on a mission? In the same direction too.
Yuuki stopped walking as a light bulb went off in her head as the pieces clicked together. A rueful smile donned her expression as she laughed heartily at the realization. It was bittersweet, her biggest crush and love was smitten with someone else. Though she doubted that the pureblood even knew that he was smitten with the hunter yet.
She dissolved into a fit of giggles, doubled over her knees at the thought that it was Zero that had been the one to catch the brunette's interest. And she could tell very well that the amethyst eyed male felt the same due to his recent behaviors. And such pained expressions looking at the pureblood as he passed by onto classes. She figured that they were the results of an assumption on Zero's affections being unrequited. She wore a sad smile at that realization.
"Men are so stupid sometimes," she said aloud as she righted her stance and rushed off to get home. She had to tell Headmaster her revelation. It was of utmost importance. She giggled gaily as she bounced past the classrooms. Things were going to be so interesting at the academy now. She just knew it.
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The pureblood slowed to a walk as he entered the warehouse district of the town he was in. He could clearly feel the hunter's presence in the area and he needed to be able to quote 'sniff him out' before he could take off in a run once more. He could also feel the presence of many smaller creatures but they were none of his concern. He followed the ex-human's aura, surprised to find it still before he began to inwardly panicked.
The brunette picked up his pace as he walked through the maze of buildings until the coppery sweet scent of blood filled his nostrils. He rushed following after the scent as his heart thundered quickly in his chest. Adrenaline pumped through his system that further fueled his panicked state as he came to a sudden halt in front of broken doors. Kaname paused long enough to take in the sight before him.
Dust covered virtually every surface in the warehouse, a disgruntled Zero included. The pureblood's sight settled upon the hunter himself in worry as he took a moment to take in the man's condition.
Zero's clothes were tattered and torn, blood dripped profusely from the male's chest. His own blood if Kaname's sense of smell was correct. The silverette's attention was on his own hand which was covered in a slightly darker shade of crimson that was much deeper than the bright scarlet of the ex-human's eyes. A pale pink tongue poked from in between rose petal lips, it reached for the blood covering his hand obvious that his blood lust had taken over. This also worried the pureblood as he didn't want the hunter to fall. Not like this. Not ever. Kaname needed him. In more ways than he thought he ever would.
The brunette reached a slender claw to his own neck and drew a thin line of red across one of his own major arteries. The sweet scent of his own blood filled the immediate area. In a matter of seconds the hunter's eyes snapped up to him with a brief amount of surprise evened out by blood lust as he watched the pureblood walk towards him. The brunette could feel a burning rage boil through him quickly as he spotted the source of the blood all over the silver haired male's front. Four large gashes were drawn across his chest and abdomen, probably from one of the level-E's claws. As much as Kaname wanted to tear the culprit of said wounds apart, he figured that the poor soul was already dead. Too bad. So the only thing the pureblood could do was crush his anger and tend to the male before him.
Kaname knelt before Zero and cupped the man's cheek in his hand before guiding the stunned males head to his neck. As soon as his heady nectar slipped past the hunter's lips he felt fangs pierce him greedily as Zero took long draughts from him. He couldn't help the initial wince as the pain from his neck being penetrated stemmed from the wound but groaned as an unusually intense pleasure took its place as he was pushed back onto the cement. The stranger thing was he allowed this to happen.
For a while the only sounds were quiet pants and grunts from the two men on the floor as Zero drank from him. He couldn't stop how his body responded to the male atop of him. He let out a soft whimper of disappointment as he felt the silverette's fangs withdraw from him before he opened his eyes to see crimson lust filled orbs stare down at him. When had he even closed his eyes in the first place?
However he never came up with an answer to that thought as Zero finished what he started the last time he had fed and crushed his and the pureblood's lips together in a suffocating, needy and passionate kiss. Kaname gasped at the force of the kiss and felt the hunter's tongue take the opportunity to push into his mouth and violate it thoroughly. The pureblood mewled submissively into the kiss as his wrists were pinned beside his head.
Another whimper of disappointment left the brunette's lips as Zero pulled away from him though still pinning his wrists. Kaname's breath hitched in his throat as he opened his eyes to gaze once more into the crimson, now slightly purple eyes filled with unbridled lust. He could tell that he was blushing but he could hardly care at the moment as he watched the silver head duck back down to capture his lips once more. Kaname's heart fluttered in anticipation as a single thought filled his mind.
This was how it was supposed to be.
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Thank you all for your lovely reviews. I appreciated them so much, as well as I appreciate all the follows and favorites. They mean so much. And to any future reviewers don't be shy to point out any possible errors in my work. Constructive criticism is always welcome. It helps me become a better writer.
Heryandi kurosaki: I agree with you that Kaname would make a deliciously adorable uke as well. But I was intending for them to be more of a swap couple in this fic. Perhaps a different fic Kaname will be exclusively uke.
PeachyQ73: Thank you, I'm glad you thought it was adorable. I will of course tell my little plot bunnies your wish. I think they'll only be too happy to comply.
Ben4kevin: Thank you for your review too~ I'm glad you thought it was great.
That was a grateful shout out to all that had reviewed to the first chapter so far. I'm hoping to get at least five reviews for the second chapter otherwise I may withhold the third. Come on keep up your coaxing to get the plot bunnies out to play. They need your support!