AN: Sorry about posting so late, I was away for a while and uh I got some writers block. But thank you to everyone for reviewing! This story is going to be over in two to three chapters so... I hope everyone will enjoy the end. Thanks again.
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The Headmaster gazed evenly over the folder of papers at the newly reinstated President, Kaname Kuran though there was no hate in either of their gazes. Though, Headmaster Cross seethed with a deep anger in him, anger at…
Well he wasn't sure yet but his adopted daughter was receiving a brunt of it.
"How is your fiancée; is she finding everything very pleasant here?" Headmaster Cross began solicitously. Kaname nodded
"She is very happy to be here, to see the school. I suppose she was nearly bursting when I had left for the school such a long time ago."
Headmaster Cross sat back "And have you seen much of my daughter?"
"Sir I have not even spoken to her. As per your orders, I do not wish to make the situation… Ah… Any more sticky then it already is…"
Kaname paused; his brow furrowed "But Sir there is something else that I wish to ask you concerning Yuki…"
Kaname looked up to the placid yet unreadable face of the Headmaster who nodded
"Go ahead, you know I shall try and answer everything to the best of my ability."
"Do you know that Yuki forged a pact with Nicodemus-san?"
Something flashed across the Headmaster's eyes for a brief moment that surprised Kaname…. What was going on, it almost seemed as if an oni had possessed the Headmaster in the last few weeks. He was changing….
"I know about the pact and to punish Yuki for entering into this pact would kill her. I know the only reason she did it was to see Zero smile again."
"But Sir, the pact claims your daughter's hand. Do you not feel anything for Yuki?" Kaname replied incredulous
The Headmaster seemed to be thinking about that... "No I don't"
Kaname tried to hide the shock that suddenly flared in him "Nani? Sir?!"
The Headmaster smiled "I believe that it is wise to say to never meddle in the affairs between a god and a human no…"
There was a soft knock on the door, which made Headmaster Cross look away from Kaname's stunned face
"Enter"
The oak door opened only halfway to reveal the thin and haggard form of Yuki Cross, it was nearly eight and she looked very tired.
"Headmaster, I'll come back later" she said quickly and turned away
"No, no come Yuki. Come and sit next to President Kuran." The Headmaster waved his daughter over with a kind smile Kaname was stunned… He almost seemed normal, not like the cold, unfeeling human that was just speaking to him moments before.
When she was seated Headmaster Cross began quite pleasantly "As you know two days ago I reinstated Kaname as President of the Night Class and now I am going to lift your punishment as well. Valentines is barely four days away I need you and Zero on high alert."
Kaname surreptitiously studied the way Yuki's face seemed to light up, the marks on her neck stood out horribly against her paling skin. She seemed like she was wasting away
"Have you been eating Yuki?" Kaname suddenly blurted the question before he realized it
Yuki turned slowly to him with one of her wonderful smiles that now seemed tinged with a little sadness
"Yes, but I'm just a bit stressed" she answered in her usual way. Kaname knew that her whole attitude was just an act. He was starting to worry about her and there was no way for him to see her now…
Wait….
Kaname smiled "It will all pass after Valentine's" he said easily
"Thank you" she inclined her head in slight respect and Kaname rose to go hoping that Takuma and the rest finally opened the door to Nicodemus's room….
After Kaname had left a tense silence descended on the both of them, Yuki squirmed in her chair
"Father? Are you still angry with me, you haven't talked to me in at least a week…" her voice trailed off…
"I'm sorry like you I too am stressed as well. The experiment with the blood tablets will be coming to an end soon and there are many ends that must be tied up. There is also a conference that I will be attending… I will be meeting with the noble vampiric families about their children here."
Yuki's eyes widened
"Oh don't worry, they are not going to be seen by any of the students here. Let us just say that I am smuggling them in. No Day student will even hear of them coming in just a few days. Kaname doesn't even know when his own parents are coming to this Academy."
The Headmaster let a thoroughly indulgent and self-satisfied smile cross his serene features. Yuki had a distinct feeling that he was almost patronizing her, and it only made her feel all the more empty inside…
"You aren't to breathe a word to anyone about this understood" he added sweetly.
"Yes Father"
Yuki knew that it was time to leave and with a soft sigh she got up and quietly exited her father's office.
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Yuki closed the door and turned the corner back to her dorm room when she slammed face first into a strong chest. A pair of vice like hands closing around her wrists, wildly she looked up and stopped dead.
It was Kaname…
"What are you doing?!" she hissed panic filling her already upset stomach
"I am intervening, you are not well Yuki" he stated simply as she struggled futility in his grasp.
"Let me go, the Headmaster is going to skin you and I alive!" she pulled against his grip tears pricking at her eyes.
"Listen to me" he said firmly it was not a request, it was more of an order. Yuki looked up at him again the tears nearly falling
"Something is wrong with Headmaster Cross. He has spoiled my plans for your happy ending by bringing that god here."
"Plans?!" she hissed again
"Yes my great design for your happiness."
Kaname looked down at her with his usual serene features, though his words were urgent it did not show on his face. He pulled her into the nearest room, which was a darkened broom closet and then let her go.
"Your Father is converging all the vampire families at this school do you know what that means?"
When Yuki did not answer he continued his voice rising in urgency.
"It means that judgment will be brought upon me for…meddling with your Destiny." Kaname's red tinged eyes were wide and then after a moment of silence added
"And you will also be judged, the vampire families will decide where your Destiny runs its course if it is at the mercy of that god or of the Senate." A small shiver passed through Kaname's body at that moment his eyes suddenly faraway, filled with something like a childlike fear.
"They know that I love you, even though I am meant for another."
Yuki pressed herself up against the wall, which wasn't far being this close to Kaname after he had said such a thing… It was unbearable….
"What does your fiancée have to say about that?" Yuki spat looking away from him, the sound of her pounding heart filling her ears. She was afraid, afraid of everything that was starting to spiral out of control.
"She knew long, long ago when I was once considered a child, that I would never love her the way I would come to love you."
Yuki bit her lip
"Your father told you nothing of the date did he?"
Yuki shook her head knowing full well that Kaname could see her in the darkness, the light that leaked from the seams of the door was so little she could barely make him out…
"In another three days the moon will be full. My family knows that is when vampires are strongest and will come then. Your father no matter how persuasive will not push them to do anything they do not want too. It was under great and difficult circumstances that I was able to come here…." He trailed off finding that he was babbling, but the Senate coming to Cross Academy was unthinkable…
"Kaname, please let me leave" she whispered not looking at him, the sound of her heartbeat was filling his ears, drowning out his panic.
She was crying again something that she was doing almost all the time now.
"Go then" he opened the door and she ran out leaving him alone in the smelly broom closet.
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Two days passed and on the night of the full moon Yuki gazed out of her dorm room window as Yori wished her a good night before turning out the light. In the darkness of the room the moon shone eerily onto everything casting it into a death pallor gloom. Yuki heart was as sickly as the moon's light.
There was a light knock on the door and Yuki went over and opened it, it was the head RA and she was holding a piece of wrapped parchment in her hand... It was tied with a beautiful crimson ribbon and addressed in flowing English script in her name.
"One of the teachers delivered it" she clarified staring at Yuki with sudden impatience. Yuki slowly took the rolled parchment and thanking her with a simple bow closed the door.
Going over to her bed she sat quietly down to see that Yori had already fallen asleep and unrolling it began to read. The letter, which was as beautiful as a Victorian letter, requested her in English to come to the Moon Dorm at 12:00, where the Vice President would escort her to the Council Room.
The Council Room huh? Yuki thought hard remembering that the Council Room was an ornate room that her Father built for only entertaining potential philanthropists and parents of influential students. She had only been there once when the school had first opened…
So this was where she would be judged… Numbly she looked at the clock on the wall and saw that it was twenty past ten.
She didn't have much time, but maybe… Yuki stood with a surge of fierce hope, hastily she grabbed her coat and scarf and left her dorm room.
It was nearly eleven by the time Yuki had made her way to the Moon Dorm, the lights were on in many of the rooms. She sighed with sudden relief it was Friday, and every Friday the Moon Students were allowed to leave class before 10:30. One of the many supercilious privileges they had.
Sighing with sudden disgust she swiftly ascended the steps and knocked on the door. Aido answered his blond hair as unruly as ever.
"Yuki-san?" his eyebrows disappeared into his hair for a moment before a sly smile settled on his mouth.
"Are you here for Kaname-sama?" he asked
"Yes I need to speak to him!" she cried
"I had orders from the Headmaster that you are not to enter into here."
"Damn your orders! I am still part of the Disciplinary Committee and my stepfather is clearly not following the rules he set down. So let me pass!"
In one surprising move of hidden strength Yuki pushed Aido aside and ran her way up to the stairs where she stopped her feet suddenly rooted to the spot. Her eyes moved widely around the landing and heard the voice from down the stairs.
"Yuki-san are you alright?" a hint of fear seemed to touch Aido's voice then, as a sudden surge of power swelled up from the splintered yet sealed empty room that Nicodemus once occupied. That great power opened the once iron clad door and began to suck Yuki inside
Aido felt his feet catching up to his brain and he frantically scrambled up the stairs and grabbed Yuki's rigid arm and pulled. But the power was too strong and the last thing he saw was her wide fear filled eyes before the door gave a final shut.
"Kaname-SAMA!" Aido went streaking down the landing, just as Kaname opened his room door, red tinged eyes wide.
"Nani, what is it?"
Aido nearly ran into the President "The door… It sucked Yuki inside…" Aido cried panic filling his eyes. The power that he had sensed leaking out of the door was unlike anything he had ever felt…..
Kaname instantly turned to Kotori who had come to the door, her beautiful eyes were wide but her face betrayed nothing.
"Did you know about this?" Kaname hissed his eyes narrowing
"Of course I did, but you are not to meddle" she replied softly
In that moment if Kaname could have choked the life from his finacee he would have done so.
"The Senate convenes in nearly forty minutes, what are we to do sit and wait?!"
Kotori smiled "Yes, it is up to her now"
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