AN: I don't own anything except Nicodemus, and its almost three in the morning yay for a new idea!
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Yuki stared listlessly at the spots on her pale blue dress, her sorrow washing over her delicate soul like crashing waves. She waited until the whispering stopped and the other students went back to there own business.
"Come" came the pale voice, cool like ice on the branches outside. Yuki looked up the stain of dried tears streaked through her careful makeup, Aido gazed smugly down at her sullen, pale form.
"Nani?" she asked rubbing her eyes
"Don't you want to see Kaname-sama?" Aido queried a pale brow raised. Yuki felt a sudden knot in her stomach twist violently.
"Yes-yes I do." She muttered looking down at her hands, Aido tilted his head to one side.
"Does he really mean that much to you, the human, Zero?" Aido asked as they made their way across the amber lit ballroom, the redolent smells of roses and cloying lilies in the air.
Yuki met his eyes briefly trying to hide a sudden new set of tears that pricked at her already wet lashes. She bit her lip hard, not knowing how she was going to make a speech to everyone before the true new year began.
"He was my friend for many years now, Zero and I are very close."
Aido snorted and Yuki turned to him surprised "Kaname has told me a little of what happened to your friend Zero. Though he is a vampire… We could never accept a human turned vampire into our Dorm, so you see…" he trailed off for they had drawn close to a group of a faculty members and Yuki felt a fresh new emotion, one of sudden anger. Her fist clenched wanting nothing more then to physically harm the arrogant oaf that was Aido the "Idol" of Cross Academy.
"Yuki?" the soft and dulcet tone of Kaname's voice slipped into her whirlwind thoughts, Yuki's blurred vision focused to the tall, graceful form of Kaname Kuran, who looked like something out of a French Rococo painting.
"Kaname" her mouth was suddenly dry, she swallowed
"Kaname, Zero is truly human again… I-I don't know what to do now" she blurted into the noisy crowd of people. Kaname swiftly excused himself and pulled Yuki out onto the deserted balcony where the real stars shone in the night sky.
Kaname's serene face seemed undisturbed by her new declaration instead he turned; looking out over the balcony and gazing at the sliver of a moon. Admiring the way the light cast a perfect reflection in the stillness of the lake.
"Tsuki will expect payment soon, maybe even tonight" Kaname began after a few moments.
Yuki was silent and she joined him watching the soft wind ripple the surface of the lake, causing the image of the moon to scatter
"It was my choice, I wanted Zero's happiness…" she trailed off feeling suddenly hollow, and empty inside.
"Even above your own?" Kaname turned to her his red tinged eyes suddenly eerie in the weak moonlight
"I…"
Kaname reached out and touched her face
"I would have made you my Queen" he began easily as if they were speaking of something like the weather
"My human Queen, I wouldn't dare break the flesh of your neck as he did" Kaname said the last few words with disgust.
"I had to let him drink my blood, I didn't want him to fall to a Level E vampire not like…"
Kaname smiled wistfully "Your reasons were just, my dear girl. But you know he used you very badly I am sorry to say so, but I would never do something like that."
He suddenly closed the distance between them, and he kissed her. It was very soft, painfully brief but it made Yuki's body tremble with anticipation.
"Kaname do you love me?" Yuki asked, hearing Zero's words playing over and over in her mind. Tsuki was right, he had been right in almost everything he had told her
"Our love is a forbidden fruit…" he paused as if mentally caught in something "and anything that is forbidden is all the more sweeter…" he tenderly stroked her cheek.
There was a long pause "I received word over the Christmas break that my betrothed will be coming to Cross Academy to spend some time with me. My Mother and Father are beside themselves with madness. She had been asking them nearly for a month straight to come see me…"
Yuki felt something tighten in her chest
"Your betrothed?"
Kaname's eyes filled with sorrow then, his brows drawing together in sudden distress and frustration. He stepped away from her as if she had become a pillar of fire, unable to bear the look of hurt on her face.
"Our engagement has been promised since we were children. I have never loved her in a… romantic way. My affections have always strayed, to you…."
Yuki's acute feelings of dread melted away, leaving a surge of passionate adoration for Kaname Kuran
"Kaname…" she whispered, gazing at how he could barely look at her. Was he ashamed?
"Do you think me unfaithful Yuki?" he inquired almost shyly
"Unfaithful? To whom?" she replied drawing closer to him, now wanting nothing more then to be close to his cool body. She reached up and touched his cheek, fingertips brushing over his lips.
Kaname looked into her eyes once more "I would make you Queen above her, above my families wishes. Only one human has ever married into the Kuran line and he was killed before he could even consummate his new marriage…" he caught her hand in his own and fervently kissed it.
Kaname closed his eyes with a soft sigh, Yuki felt helpless things seemed to be moving too fast for her. She was caught in a whirlwind once more, three men vying for her hand…
But her love for Kaname was only growing….
The sudden sickening smell of roses hit Kaname; it was repugnant and revolting all at once. It filled his head like a poison, lingering on his lips. Yuki's frantic heartbeat now singing in his ears… That wretch of a god… What did he want Kaname to do, feed from his dear girl?
"Yuki…" he begged
Yuki's grip around him tightened, she looked up her brow furrowed in concern.
"Kaname?"
In those fleeting moments Kaname's eyes lingered too long on her neck, that soft white neck… So sensitive to his lightest touch, to his tender kisses.
Kaname felt his self-control ebbing away with the sudden knowledge that Yuki was pressed up against him, one arm around his thin waist. It was an innocent enough gesture a sign of her affection, after all… A surge of arousal and hunger swept him whiting out any other sensible thought in his head.
All was left now was…
"Don't you want to kiss me?" he asked huskily, he watched Yuki's face turned red and her heartbeat quickened, Kaname closed his eyes barely keeping himself from… She put her head down against his chest and didn't answer.
Catching her chin in his elegant fingers he tilted her head back up and kissed her lips it was different even from the passionate one they shared in his bedroom. This was all hunger, lust… Kaname felt her body weakening, as he tasted the inside of her pink mouth. Strawberries and roses….
He broke the kiss, his lips traveling down her neck, there was no collar, no school shirt to hinder him this time. Yuki had collapsed into him now, he supported her with one arm while the other tenderly slipped the sleeve of her dress to her shoulder. The scars of Zero's feedings illuminated unnaturally white in the feeble moonlight.
"Mhmmm" he ran his tongue over her hot flesh and found a part of her skin that had been untouched by that heathen, and teased his fangs into her neck… Kaname did this as slowly as possible to draw out her sudden raw pleasure.
"Kaname…please" she begged feeling that he had only barely broken the skin at her neck.
"KANAME KURAN!" Kaname stopped dead, and straightened still holding Yuki tightly, his one hand slowly sliding away from her waist.
"Yes, Headmaster Cross" Kaname began calmly the burgundy tinge around his eyes fading to a normal pale pink.
"What are you doing to my daughter?" he whispered a dangerous edge to his voice. By now a crowd of students and assorted teachers had gathered around the Headmaster's finely dressed form.
"Romancing her by the moonlight Headmaster" he bowed, Yuki had leaned heavily against the balcony the fabric of her dress crushed and wrinkled one sleeve of her dress was yanked past her shoulder exposing her neck.
Kaname's lacy cravat lay on the floor his silk shirt unbuttoned nearly to his navel, velvet jacket pulled down to his elbows. Shouldering it back on, Kaname began to button his shirt in the ensuing silence.
"Headmaster Cross I am sorry, we got a bit…. Carried away" Kaname added, behind him Yuki blushed fiercely.
"Come here Yuki" Headmaster Cross snapped Yuki ran over to her Father and turned to Kaname dazed. Desire lingered in her eyes; her lips were swollen red in the moonlight. Kaname felt himself slipping out of control again, the scent of roses lingering stubbornly around the balcony.
"Kaname Kuran you are hereby suspended from your position as President of Cross Academy until I and the faculty can find a more suitable punishment for you. You may go back to your room. Under no circumstances are you allowed to go anywhere near the Sun Dorm after classes and you Yuki…" The Headmaster snapped looking angrily down at his adopted daughter
"Will not patrol anywhere near the Moon Dorm. Zero will continue the rounds at Midnight, you are to go back to your room. Under no circumstances are you to leave your room after you return from rounds. Saiki the RA of the Sun Dorm will be watching you."
"Yes Sir" Yuki answered stiffly
Headmaster Cross then turned to the crowd of students and teachers "Happy New Years Everyone"
And in the distance over the still lake, brilliant fireworks lit up the night sky...