Disclaimer: I do not own vampire knight or its characters, i only own, Ayaka, Shuhei, Ragan and Daisuke.

Chapter 5

Ayaka swung her scythe around viciously, forcing Ragan to jump back, however he wasn't fast enough to avoid the blade tearing through the sleeve of his jacket. He lifted his arm and looked at the torn fabric, a slightly annoyed expression on his face.

"That was my favourite coat; that wasn't the kind of greeting that I was expecting after you came out here to see me."

"Let him go!" Ayaka shouted, ignoring Ragan's comment as another scream travelled through the trees.

"I'm not sure if I can" Ragan said as he scratched his head thoughtfully. "I never actually gave Daisuke a direct order to fight him, and Daisuke can be incredibly hard to stop if he gets carried away." More screams. "But I might feel more inclined to make him stop if you come with me," Ragan smiled as Shuhei's screams continued to reach them, he walked forwards and grabbed the staff of the scythe, he could feel Ayaka's hands shaking against the cool wood.

"Bastard, let him go!" Ayaka shouted.

"I need an answer from you first" Ragan replied.

"...Fine." Ayaka began to loosen her grip on her weapon when the screams stopped abruptly. "What happened?"

"Not sure" Ragan said as he stepped closer, he quickly glanced away towards the trees as the silence lengthened, "maybe he's dead... Damn it!" Ragan cried as he was forced back again, his time Ayaka had aimed for his stomach, leaving the front of his coat ripped to pieces. "I forgot how fast you are, I should really have thought twice before wearing this coat tonight" Ragan finished talking more to himself than to Ayaka as he looked down sadly at his ruined coat.

Ayaka clenched her teeth angrily as she glared at him hatefully, her hands began to glow green as Ragan returned his attention to her, not alarmed at all.

"You know, you and your brother are pretty unique, most aristocrats have an instinct that prevents them from harming purebloods, but that instinct seems to be completely absent in both of you."

"What's wrong? That scare you?" Ayaka replied.

"Actually" Ragan smiled, "it just makes me want you more." He ducked down as Ayaka swung at his head with her hand, the emeralds embedded into each of the green claws that donned her finger tips glittered in the light as they swiped through the place that Ragan's head had been moments before.

Ragan shouted angrily and reached for the hilt of the sword tied to his waist; seconds later sparks flew as the blades of the two weapons collided. Both vampires pulled back, stopping to see who would move first. Ayaka took the chance to look at the katana like weapon in Ragan's left hand, she had seen the blade too many times before, but its beauty still never failed to amaze her.

Kitsune's silver blade was thinner than an average sword, but the silver edge was supported by the thin golden vines winding around it. The hilt was a dark brown wood wrapped in white and the tsuba was a thin gold oval with three notches taken out of both sides. Underneath the tsuba was a silver ring and from that a golden ribbon threaded with silver beads trailed around Ragan's arm.

"Are you admiring Kitsune again?" Ragan asked as he looked down at the katana fondly, "she's been getting pretty impatient lately; Venom Moon Scythe and Venom Darter are the only weapons that she sees worthy of her work."

"Sorry to have kept her waiting," Ayaka snapped as she brought her scythe around in a wide arc, "if she's so impatient why don't we just get to work?" Her silver hair flew back as she sprang forwards, aiming the curved blade of her scythe at Ragan's head. Ragan caught the scythe with his blade, he twisted the sword so that it was over the top of the scythe and forced the weapon down, pinning it to the ground. Ayaka snarled and swung out with her claws; she cursed in frustration when all she ripped away was more fabric.

"You're a bit eager to get my clothes off aren't you?" Ragan smirked as he counter-attacked.

"Don't flatter yourself" Ayaka replied as she shifted her grip on the scythe to her left hand. Kitsune's silver blade was stained with blood as Ayaka caught the sword in her right hand. Ragan's eyes widened in surprise as she shoved the katana aside and quickly swiped in with her claws, opening a messy wound in his right shoulder.

"Damn!" Ragan shouted as he backed away, Kitsune clattered to the floor as he feel to his knees, clutching his shivering, bleeding arm.

"There's a lot of poison in that wound, it didn't go very deep but the longer I have my claws unsheathed the more poison there is concentrated in the tips," Ayaka informed him, "don't worry, that amount of venom won't kill a pureblood."

"I'm sitting here helpless you know" Ragan hissed as he continued to grasp his wounded shoulder, trying to stem the flow of blood running down his arm. "Why are you telling me not to worry when this is the perfect chance for you to kill me?" Ayaka's dark eyes narrowed as Ragan smiled, his pale eyes lighting up happily. "I know why" Ragan grunted and hunched over in pain, letting go of his arm he reached into his pocket and pulled out a syringe.

"What's that?" Ayaka asked, she gasped in surprise when she saw the purple fluid inside the syringe.

"Antidote" Ragan replied as he stuck the needle in just below the wound, clear liquid seeped out along with the blood as her twins poison left the barrel of the syringe and neutralised her poison already in Ragan's bloodstream. Ragan hissed through his teeth with relief as his wound slowly began to heal.

"How the hell did you get that?" Ayaka asked darkly as she gripped her scythe, aiming the blade at his chest.

"I might tell you later, if you're lucky" Ragan smiled.

The level E vampire appeared out of nowhere; it jumped over Ragan and smashed full speed into Ayaka. She screamed as it crushed her into a tree, she felt the ribs on the left side of her chest snap as the vampire used a strange series of metal rings to pin Ayaka's arm to the tree.

"How dare you!" The woman shrieked in her face, her glowing red eyes mad with anger, "I'll kill you!" The woman stopped and looked down at her chest, stunned. Ragan ripped his hand back through the wound that he had opened in her chest, his eyes blazing as he glared at her scornfully. "R-Ragan... sama..." The woman choked as blood welled up in her throat; she shivered as her body began to turn to dust.

"Who told you to interfere?" Ragan said darkly, the woman reached out and clasped the front of his coat before screaming and crumpling to dust. Ayaka looked down at the pile of dust, shocked by how close she had come to being killed. Ragan bent down and cleaned his hands off on the woman's clothes, Ayaka stiffened when he looked up at her and she realised, she was trapped.

She panicked and swiped out with her free, injured hand as he approached, but he just grasped her wrist and held her arm above her head against the tree, she bit her lip as the movement jolted her ribs and reminded her of her slashed hand, she was determined not to give him the satisfaction of her crying out.

"I told them all not to interfere" Ragan said as he came closer, "some of them just don't listen." His tongue flicked out as a drop of her blood from her hand dripped down onto his lips, he pulled her arm back down and held her hand to his mouth.

"Don't" Ayaka hissed despite herself as he licked the blood off of her hand.

"Do you want to know why you didn't kill me as soon as I was on my knees?" Ragan rested his forehead against hers, looking straight into her pitch black eyes. "It's because I love you, and the reason that you wouldn't kill me is because you want me just as much as I want you... Your lip's bleeding," Ragan added before she could reply. Ayaka pressed her lips tight shut as he licked the blood off of her chin and up to her lips.

Growing frustrated Ragan pressed his hand against her broken ribs, Ayaka gasped quietly, which was all that Ragan needed. Ayaka froze when he forced his tongue into her mouth, he crushed himself against her, pinning her arm beneath him so that she couldn't push him away.

"Bastard" Ayaka croaked when he broke off the kiss, "let me go."

"No" Ragan said as he moved his hands down to her waist and rested his mouth against her neck, "not again" he breathed in her ear. He lifted his hand to her trapped arm and broke off the rings pinning it to the tree, Ayaka tried to strike out but like her other arm, her left arm was still trapped against his body.

"GET... off..." Ayaka finished weakly as his fangs sank into her neck, seconds later he pushed away as if he had been stung. Ayaka sank to her knees, her legs no longer enough to support her.

"That Aido kid?" Ragan's white eyes were glowing with rage as he turned to walk back into the trees.

"Wai-"

"Ayaka?" Aido walked out of the trees cautiously, the colour drained from his face and his hands shook angrily as he looked from Ayaka to Ragan.

"Who are you?" Aido asked Ragan as he walked over to Ayaka, standing over her protectively.

"Get away from her" Ragan said coldly, the deathly threat in his voice and eyes making Ayaka cringe.

"Petal-kun!" Ayaka gasped, "run!"

"I won't leave you here" he replied.

"You can't fight Ragan! He's a pure blood! RUN!"

"A pureblood...?" Aido cried out as Ragan sent him crashing into a tree across the clearing. Ayaka shivered as Ragan put his cold hand on her back and licked traces of the blood from her neck.

"Just stay here a moment Ayaka, he can't fight me, aristocrats have instincts that stop them fighting purebloods, this won't take long."

"Bastard" Ayaka snarled at him as the power that he had gained over her from drinking her blood paralyzed her limbs. Ragan ducked down as shards of ice went shooting high over his head, Aido ran towards them, a blade of ice fused on his arm. He swung wildly at Ragan, aiming to drive him back rather than cause damage.

"Really?" Ragan said as he grabbed Aido's arm and pulled him closer and whispered in his ear; "she's mine, she doesn't love you. I'm going to teach you a lesson about what happens if you try and take what's mine."

"She's not yours," Aido replied, his voice shaking with anger, "or mine, or anyone's."

"Don't bullshit me!" Ragan snarled viciously, "I drank her blood! I saw what you wanted!" Aido gagged as Ragan drove his fist powerfully into the smaller vampire's stomach; Ragan lifted him up and threw him back against the tree, smiling sadistically as he heard a satisfying crunching sound and a scream of pain as the bones in Aido's arm shattered.

Ragan reached down and picked up Kitsune. He walked casually up to Aido, who was lying on his back and clutching his mangled arm.

"Pathetic" Ragan sneered, "you should be ashamed, thinking that she would have you if you can't even protect her."

"Shut... Up... Bast...ard..." Aido gasped in reply. Ragan growled and aimed Kitsune's blade over Aido's injured shoulder. He leered down at the terrified vampire as he struck. Aido shrieked in agony as the blade ripped through flesh and bone and impaled through the ground beneath him, and Ragan smashed his foot down on Aido's shattered arm.

"Let me make sure that this is straight in your head before I kill you. I want her and she wants me, she was only using you, you mean nothing to her," Aido's blue eyes looked up defiantly as he held the pureblood's white gaze.

"You're... insane that's... completely the... wrong way around..." Ragan twisted the blade savagely and ripped it out, tearing another scream from Aido's throat.

"DIE!!!"

"NO!!!" Kitsune's silver blade stopped millimetres from Ayaka's chest; tears were rolling down her cheeks in floods as she stared up at Ragan pleadingly. "Please, leave him alone please..."

"I told you to stay over there" Ragan said darkly as he lowered the katana away from her and aimed it over her shoulder at Aido's head.

"You didn't drink enough to make me completely obey you" Ayaka replied as she moved so that she was completely blocking Aido from harm.

"Ayaka..."

"It's ok Petal-kun" Ayaka reassured him as she reach back and grasped his hand, "I'm here."

"Don't call him that!!!" Ragan snarled as he waved the sword in her face, "come with me, now!" Ayaka's face twitched as she struggled against the weak hold that he had over her, Ragan snarled and knelt down beside her. Aido cried out as the pureblood smirked at him and leaned forwards to bite her again.

Ragan stopped with his fangs barely brushing Ayaka's neck, the blade pressed against his throat stopping him from advancing any further.

"This is none of your business Kuran" Ragan hissed viciously as her glared up at the dark haired pureblood standing over him.

"It wasn't," Kaname said as he turned the blade of the katana that he had borrowed off of Ichijo, who was standing behind him with Ruka, causing beads of blood to seep onto the blade. "Not until you attacked Aido at least."

"You're a typical example of our species Kuran" Ragan laughed, "you were perfectly happy for me to do what I liked with Ayaka, but the second I started threatening one of your pawns you got all high and mighty, typical!" Ragan pressed against Ayaka's broken ribs again, making her cry out before he pushed away and fled into the trees, Kaname, Ichijo and Ruka in close pursuit.

Ayaka stayed sitting where she was, shaking uncontrollably as she grasped Aido's hand tightly, not wanting to let go for anything.

"Ayaka... I'm... Sorry..."

"Hey," Ayaka said gently as she turned and pushed a stray lock of blonde hair out of his face, "don't worry, it's all forgotten." Aido smiled; Ayaka tried not to look at his mangled arm, not to mention the wounds to his stomach and chest.

"Hanabusa?" Ayaka's breath caught in her throat when she saw Kain come running out of the trees, she should have known that he would be there to. Aido tried to talk; suddenly his whole body seized up and he screamed, a lot of the pain from the fight had been blocked by adrenaline, now it all came crashing down on him. Tears ran down his face as he crushed Ayaka's hand in his grip, Ayaka didn't care.

Before she stopped to think about it she took her injured hand, which was still bleeding, and held it over Aido's mouth, letting the blood drip onto his lips. Moving faster than she had thought he could, Aido threw himself forwards and pinned her against the tree. His eyes blazed red as the new found strength left him as quickly as it had come and he slumped against her, whimpering from the pain of the sudden movement. Ayaka took his chin in her hand and moved his mouth up to her neck.

"Don't die" Ayaka told him as she felt him hesitate, his gasping breath warm against her neck, "take it all if you have to I don't care, just, don't die." Ayaka knew that she was shaking with terror but she put her hand on the back of Aido's head, preventing him from pulling back.

Ayaka hissed when he finally bit her neck, she relaxed into him as she felt the blood leaving her body and entering his, healing him. It didn't feel like when Ragan had drunk from her, she had wanted this, and it felt good knowing that. He was breathing more evenly when he stopped and tried to push himself off of her. His eyes were their normal blue colour again as they both looked at each other and smiled.

There was a flash of fire and a roar of frustration from behind them, looking up they saw Kain anxiously trying to calm a furious Shuhei.

"Out my way Akatsuki!" Shuhei's eyes were alive with red fire as he glared into the trees where Ragan had fled, "I'm gunna kill him!!!"

"Calm down" Kain said desperately, wisely keeping out of range of Shuhei's poisonous purple claws. "Listen Shuhei, there's no point in trying to go after him now, you'll never catch up, he's long gone!"

"I TOLD YOU TO GET OUT OF THE WA..." She wasn't sure how she did it, but some how Ayaka managed to crawl out away from Aido, stagger to her feet and reach her brother, throwing her arms around him as her legs lost strength again. Shuhei held her as he lowered her to the ground, her body shock with racking sobs as she clung to his jacket.

"I thought you were dead" She said as he wrapped his arms around her reassuringly.

"You think I'd die that easily?" He asked as she lost consciousness. He smiled and held her close; he didn't want to come so close to losing her again, he would make sure she stayed safe.

"Let's go back" Kain said as he picked up Aido, who had also lost consciousness, "the sooner we get them healed the better. You can hunt him for whatever your reasons are later." Shuhei nodded in agreement, casting one dark look back at the trees before turning and following Kain back to the safety and sanity of the house.

Yay starting to get into teh darker romancy aspect that i want for this story, pretty happy with this one, to tired to write anything else here lol

oh except "Kitsune" means fow, for any1 who didn't already no Note: Kitsune is going to be the only weapon in this story with a japanese name.

plz review!!!!