Another's Nightmare.
Mismatched eyes, crimson and blue.
Long slender hands, eagerly in want, reaching out for him.
Always the same nightmare, yet never something coming from his own memories …
Dark streams of smelly and filthy blood runs down everything within his mind.
Never does the filthy person get to where he is, his baby sister clinging herself to him in fear of the blood drenched stranger, and suddenly turns still.
Yuume always tightens his grip although he knows that the dream always stops when the stranger suddenly holds still and looks down at the small children before him.
The dream never continues from there onwards.
It's scary!
Yuume woke screaming and sweaty, even crying.
Kaname sat stroking his dreamy, terrified son's face, shushing him with his soft voice.
Yuki appeared through the open door, the light from the hallway almost reaching Yuume's bed, yet far from illuminating him.
Yuki's pale pink nightgown swayed wildly yet elegantly around her slender body as she ran to Kaname and her sobbing son.
She knelt down beside the bed, gripping with one shaking hand Kaname's leg while the other one securely grasped Yuume's sweaty hand.
Yuume lay gasping for air, tears still flowing still down his pale cheeks.
Kaname tugged Yuki in to him, stroking her shoulder as they both knew what Yuume's nightmare was about.
Although Yuume had told them several times, always having the same nightmare whenever he was not merely dreaming as normal people did.
Mostly, Yuume somehow seemed to share Yoko's, his baby sister's, dreams.
Dreams of happy events, family gatherings in the grand rooms within the Kuran mansion.
And hours would pass as the loving siblings would share them, speak of them, in their wake hours too.
But some nights, not very often, Yuume suffered from nightmares he did not understand.
Someone he had never even once encountered with, a 'scary' vampire covered in blood, trying to reach himself and his sister?
And within the dream Yoko would cling to him and then fall unconscious.
And then Yuume would grow simply too terrified for his sister's life and himself and scream loudly at his parents while crying, desperate for a safe embrace to escape into.
"Momma! er's som'on' af'er' e'!" Yuume cried at his mother, his voice breaking apart for every word he spoke.
Yuki felt her heart break apart slowly and painfully as her son was crying, most likely aching within his heart as well.
Kaname's eyes was that of utmost concern.
He loosened his grip around his dear, trembling Yuki and seized the frightened vampire boy safely into his arms.
Kaname's grip around his son was greedy and angry yet his voice was softly telling his crying son; "Shh, shh … momma and daddy is here with you. It was just a bad dream. No one is going to hurt you."
Kaname knew that even if the 'stranger', as Yuume had described the man in his dream as, was not ever going to harm either his children or Yuki, Kaname could not promise his son that other loathsome vampires out in the surrounding world would hesitate if Yuume was suddenly out of Kaname's overprotective gaze.
Yuume's shaky voice broke once again as he uttered in a ghastly, choking whisper; "D-daddy, th-the man ha-has blo-bl-blood a-and i-i-it sme-ells a-and I'm sca-scared!"
Yuki tears fell silently from her eyes.
Her trembling dreamy son at only six, was shaking and crying and screaming.
Her heart was aching, she wanted to be able to comfort her son but apparently it seemed there was no escaping the bad dreams.
It seemed the small vampire's pure blood was boiling inside of him, making him burn with fear and pain as his powers were apparently growing wild, absorbing power and energy from surrounding people's dreams, nightmares and even past memories.
He wasn't able to control the speed in which he seemed ... about to turn mad.
Yuki feared that her sons life and sanity would suffer from his powerlessness towards the greedy thirst for power his blood seemed to long for.
Kaname cradled the crying vampire child who clung himself to his father as if clinging himself to the reason for him still being sane and alive.
"Kaname ..." Yuki stammered with tears covering her face.
She folded her hands, wishing he got what she was trying to tell him.
Kaname looked at his dear girl, begging him to cloud up their son's mind as he had done to Yuki once in the past, trying to make her forget having overheard Hio Shizuka, within Kurenai Maria's body, and Zero fighting in the grand hall at Cross Academy.
Kaname sighed, placing his pale elegant hand on his trembling son's forehead.
Yuume's breathing turned even, his sobbing silenced and the flow of tears seemed to have ended.
Kaname rose from the bed and held the tiny sleeping vampire boy sorrowfully in is arms.
Yuki rose from the floor and softly grasped Kaname's arm, gazing concerned at her calmed son.
They walked down the lit hallway, Kaname turning his concerned dazzling eyes from Yuki and Yuume within few minutes.
"What are we gonna do, Kaname … what if he-"
"He won't." Kaname interrupted harshly yet his eyes were that of eternal love towards his beautiful girl, standing trembling by his side, fearing for her son's sanity.
"Are you-" Yuki started but Kaname shut her up gently with a tender kiss.
The vampire child in his arms breathing deeply, inhaling the scent of his father.
"I am." Kaname breathed into Yuki's mouth as he kissed her softly, feeling Yuki grasp his arms shakily as he tightened his grip around his snoring son.
I wanted to make a story that was not all happy :( since being a pure blood seems more like a curse than a dream.
And since I came up with Yuume as a "dreamy and sleepy-looking and a little slow" vampire boy, I wanted to give you a reason for that: he suffers from his still growing powers.
He can sense other's memories, dreams and nighmares and once he knows what they mean it can turn into great weaknesses to his enemies ... or become fatal to his own health ... :(
Hope you like it ^^