Twelfth chapter, peoples!! XD This chapter is somewhat short, but oh well.. Let me get a few days or weeks rest, please. I've somewhat run out of ideas due to the speed with which i wrote the past chapters... hehehehe.. oh, well.. hope you enjoy!!

Rin tilted her head backward, the world turning red behind her eyelids as she closed her eyes, more of her tears spilling from her lids. The sun warmed her, and she couldn't be cold anymore, she couldn't be ice, and stone, because this was what she had needed the most, but had missed entirely, always running from the past. She cried, and felt her heart break, because she wanted to be held more by this vampire, because she wanted him with all the freewill she had never had before.

She gasped and sobbed some more when she felt a hand slide down from her hair to cup her face and wipe her tears away. She turned her cheek to Kain's fingers, wishing and hoping that he wasn't doing this just because he wanted what she had done before.

Kain heard nothing but her sobbing above the thundering of his heart and hers. He was unsure of what to do, but his hands moved of their own accord, stroking her face, and wiping her tears away. His tongue and lips spoke for him, sh-ing her gently and offering words of comfort as one would a lover. She tilted her face to look at him piteously, her eyes brimming with more tears.

"Oh, thank you..." she said, her words whispering as quietly as spider's webs in the wind.

"It's alright," he said warmly, "You can tell me everything. It's fine."

And when she sobbed he was even more surprised and warmed when she cried with a smile. She closed her eyes again, and seemed to float in the sunlight and his arms, her hair drifting slightly over the gap between her lips. And then he couldn't help it anymore.

Rin swelled with happiness from inside, and she felt her heart break, and offer its fragments to him, the only one who had managed to claim them from the lost place where they once belonged.

She smiled, and closed her eyes. And then, when she felt his lips, so sweet and gentle over hers, her eyes jerked open, because she needed to see him, and she saw him; the sun stroked through his golden hair, lighting it to an almost pale cream, his eyes were closed, his fine nose stroked over hers, and she felt she would float forever in this bliss. She lifted her hand to his cheek, and twining her fingers through his hair, pulled him closer to deepen the kiss. She inhaled his smell, of a slight lavender, hidden behind the smells of the woods, and she tasted him too, in her mouth and in her heart. Their lips were gentle to each other, but passionate; they would taste each other, tentatively, because they were both only using instinct, and then pull back but only enough to allow the tips of their lips to part for a bare second, then kiss again.

A while later, Kain held Rin in his arms, letting her lean her head against his shoulder. They sat in the clearing, both of them not caring that the sun was now well above the tree line. He held her with his lips to her hair, breathing in her scent. She was relaxed in his arms, her robe and gown spreading out and barely covering the tips of her toes. She leaned into him some more, and they sat like that for a long time, both of them relaxed and happy in each other's arms.

Zero woke to neighing coming from outside the stables, accompanied by the slamming of hooves against the barn door. Getting up he opened the door, and leaped back just in time, as Black Heart charged into the barn, neighing and bucking wildly. With some difficulty, Zero managed to calm him and lead him back into his stall, but Black Heart's agitation had also affected White Lily, who was now also throwing a fit.

"Damn." Zero muttered under his breath, while trying to calm White Lily. Noticing that a shadow had covered the doorway, he looked up to see Yuuki standing outside.

Yuuki entered the barn, tugging at Zero's sleeve.

"There you are, I was looking all over for you. Hurry up! We're late for classes again!"

Zero clenched his jaws slightly, fighting the nausea rising inside him. He felt his heart squeeze tightly, his hearing clogging up until all he could hear was Yuuki's rushing blood, the words she was telling him lost beneath the pounding in his ears and the tightening in his chest.

Woohoo!! ahahahaha!! my first kiss scene ever written!! nyahahahahaha!!

As always, thanks for all your lovely reviews!! ;D

P. Viper