I hate having relatives come into town, it kills me, and makes it hard to write... sorry, this is the wrong place to rant, I should be doing that on my LJ account. Well I'm posting this right at the same time as the prologue, and actually I wrote this before the prologue.
I do NOT own Vampire Knight ect.
Sweet Blood: the aftermath
Kaname walked away from Zero, carrying a very weak Yuki in his arms. He had never imagined that this kind of thing could happen at Cross Academy; it is supposed to be a place where vampires and humans can live in peace and not attack one another, but, as always, there was obviously an exception.
He had saved Yuki from death at the hands of a vampire once before, was her blood really that sweet, that delicious so as to make it intoxicating to all vampires? She had been He had then brought her to Cross Academy and Headmaster Cross adopted her. Ever since she began living with Headmaster Cross, Kaname had looked over her and tried to help her in whatever manner he could with out being too obvious. He had promised herself that he would protect Yuki at all costs, but he had failed her. "Yuki, I'm sorry I let this happen."
Yuki didn't say anything in return, she continued staring at the stars that were overhead as Kaname carried her across the lawn. Kaname kept walking in ashamed silence, never quite looking at Yuki while she remained in a state of shock that caused her to have an appearance of sadness and hollowness.
They finally reached the door of the Moon dormitory and Kaname opened it and brought Yuki inside.
As she sat on a stool in a room in the moon dormitory, Yuki was having a hard time keeping conscious, much less being able to come to the realization of what had just happened to her. She was still trying to process what had happened. She slowly thought it out: Zero, the guy who obsessively despised vampires more than anyone else she knew, was one? It was just so ridiculous she would never even begin to accept it if not for her current state: being so weak that she needed to be carried by Kaname.
After a few minutes, Kaname slowly took a step towards Yuki and she quickly said "Kaname, I'm all right now" as she tried to hide her embarrassment by waving her hands in front of her "I feel better after sitting a while" but to no avail, she was blushing.
"No" responded Kaname as he neared Yuki, in no way was he going to leave Yuki to deal with her problems alone. He came closer until they were only a breath away from each other; "Show me" he whispered and tilted Yuki's chin up while she became an even deeper shade of red, and took a look at Yuki's neck. "The blood stopped flowing, but the puncture wounds... he really pierced you deep" the words painfully came out of Kaname laden with sorrow and sheer self disgust at his inability to keep the most important promise that he had ever made.
A tear began rolling down Yuki's cheek, which sent a wave of sadness and pain through Kaname, causing more concern to well up inside of him. "Yuki..." he began, crouching down to her height and looking for the words to comfort her with. He searched and searched but could not find any because there was a single question playing over and over again in his head. He asked that question, even though he knew there were probably better words for him to use "...does it hurt?"
"Huh?" came the very confused question from Yuki " ...Oh" came the thought from Yuki, as the noticed the tear for the first time and came to the realization that she had been crying. It then became apparent to Kaname that she was not completely there mentally, and he couldn't blame her, the shock and blood loss would have the same effect on any human. Yet again, Kaname couldn't find the words of comfort he so wished to use because the first question had been replaced by one that would have a much larger impact on his life. A question who's answer would ultimately affect his relationship with Yuki so much that his life rested on it. "Yuki, are you afraid of vampires now?" to which Yuki promptly shook her head, and allowed another tear to escape down her cheek.
Kaname wanted to hug and comfort Yuki, to tell her that everything was going to be fine, but he knew that was not the truth and there was no reason or means by which to pretend it was going to. Yuki's entire world had been turned upside down.
"Yuki, I have something to give you." Yuki, who in most cases would have been, if not literally, at least mentally, jumping with joy at the idea of receiving something from Kaname, just sat on the stool, said nothing and looked at her hands laying in her lap. He pulled out a small, beautiful antique box made out of a dark wood and covered in intricate carvings on it. Kaname opened it, and on the black velvet lining, sat a vampire's fang set in silver, which was in turn connected to a slightly tarnished chain. He picked it up, un-hooked the clasp, and placed it around Yuki's recently bandaged neck. "Yuki, I should have given you this earlier, it could have prevented what happened today. It is the fang of one of my ancestors, it will help protect you from this happening again" a few more tears began trickling down Yuki's face and she covered them out of shame. "It's ok to cry, Yuki."
A knock was heard on the door; Headmaster Cross was standing there "Kaname, shouldn't you be in class?" he asked "The Night Class is starting to get noisy due to the smell of blood."
Kaname looked at the concerned expression on the Headmaster's face "All right..." he then turned to Yuki "I'll see you later Yuki." Kaname got up and forced himself to leave the room, not looking forward to confronting an especially rowdy group of vampires, and regretting that he would have to leave Yuki for the time being
Ok finally done, thank you to all that read it, please review. I think I have left reviews for all the Vampire Knight fan fiction that are currently posted, if I missed yours, I probably read it after I started feeling sick, tell me and I'll go review it as soon as possible.
