CLASH OF BLACK AND WHITE

(..a Vampire Knight AU fanfic..)

CHAPTER 3: Vampire, Kaname Kuran

"Zero..."

Zero was about to ascend the staircase to the roof top when someone called his name. Zero never felt any presence before him because this part of the building was devoid of anyone, but someone did sneaked behind him without his notice. He was not only petrified with how someone sneaked at him that easily but he was more alarmed at the voice of the person. His name was called in such a way that made him shiver. It was a cool and deep baritone with a hint of authority on the person's voice. And Zero thought he had heard that voice before.

Zero quickly turned his head to the intruder, with the Bloody Rose ready and pointed directly to the person's head even before Zero saw who he was.

Zero was shocked upon seeing the intruder while the said person managed to complete his sentence.

"…Kiryuu, is it?" Kaname was not only shocked to the sudden action of Zero but he also recognized the weapon pointed to his head. The Bloody Rose!

"What are you doing here?!" Zero was still pointing his gun on Kaname. What is a guest doing in the West Class?

Before Kaname could answer, a very angry Aidou arrived and almost caught Zero off guard but Zero somehow managed to dodge the punch of Aidou.

"How dare you point that stupid gun to Kaname-sama! Do you know how horrendous your action was?!" Aidou was about to throw a punch again but Kaname stopped him.

"Aidou.." Aidou froze his hand and looked at Kaname.

"But, Kaname-sama.." Aidou saw Kaname's look that made him fidget in fright and stepped back to where the other West Class vampires stood and everyone wore a hard glare at Zero's direction.

"I'm sorry to startle you Kiryuu.. I just started calling the name of the prefect as Chairman Crosse had said, when I saw the rare lock of hair. So, you are Zero Kiryuu?" Kaname stared at him, well at his silver hair. It made Kaname confused in some ways than ever, he never encountered nor heard of a person or anyone who possessed a silver strands of hair.

Zero stared at him wide-eyed. The hard glare of the West Class bothered him, as if he would really shoot the man with Bloody Rose. The gun was only used to something specific and it would never hurt any human. And the man was almost acting like a leader to this group when they made a defense stance in case Zero made a bad move. Well, the gun was still pointed at the man's head.

"Yes, I am. You should be in your classes or be out of the academy already if you have works. Why are you loitering around here? Or do you badly wanted detentions?" But the West Class didn't fret a bit even though some of them were afraid of Zero's detentions. They only harden their glare as if waiting for a signal to attack him.

"Stop it all of you!" Kaname ordered without looking at them.

"Kiryuu, I am the new president of West Class assigned by Chairman Kaien Crosse himself. I'm now a student here along with Shiki and Rima. We just finished the tour in the academy and barely completed it on the West Class. And I decided to call a meeting to the West Class though only few remained. We were supposed to have a meeting in the conference room before I saw you, Kiryuu."

"With Takuma Ichijo? He is not a West Class." Zero looked at Takuma's direction but Takuma divert his gaze.

"The Student Council President is needed for the meeting for he could discuss to me the rules and regulations in the academy." Kaname stared at the lilac eyes of Zero who was staring back at his russet one.

A moment later, Zero finally lowered his gun down and hid it in his blazer. Not really convinced but he still need to find Kaito.

"Fine. I'll give you enough time for your meeting. But you must be finished and left the academy exactly 7 p.m. If I caught anyone of you loitering around after classes hour will receive detention." With that, Zero left the building but managed to glance at the door of the roof top, it was closed so Kaito wasn't there

-KanZe_KanZe-

Silence was heard in the conference room as Kaname Kuran took his seat and looked at his underlings. No one dare say a single word.

Aidou, being naïve as he was managed to break the silence with a cough. Everyone turned at his direction, even Kaname. Aidou couldn't just take the long silence that was occurring. Time is running and he has so many questions to ask at Kaname but was not able to do so, due to the growing dark aura surrounding them.

"I'm very disappointed with your actions a while ago, Aidou." Kaname said then stared hard at him. Aidou stiffened at that.

"Haven't you noticed that Kiryuu Zero is a hunter? He can easily kill you with Bloody Rose!" Kaname stated before Aidou could utter a word.

Everyone was surprised upon hearing the name of the gun that was held by Zero all the time. They knew Zero as a hunter and that he exterminates Level E vampires, but no one knows he held a powerful weapon that could kill the likes of them.

A silver weapon could kill vampires in lower rank like Level E. And it could also kill Level C and D if shot repeatedly before the wounds healed. But only special weapons like the Bloody Rose could kill nobles in Level B with just one shot. And a pureblood or Level A vampires could be killed with the special weapons if the hunter perfected its usage and be able to control the strong impact of the weapon.

Zero always had the Bloody Rose hidden in his blazer, threatening them with it every time he got pissed at them. But they really thought it was just an ordinary silver gun.

"Kaname-sama, it was not the Bloody Rose. We saw it exploded since you disappeared. And we can't feel its usual powerful aura, even the design is different." Confusion was written on everyone's faces.

"No. I am certain that was the Bloody Rose, though it had changed in appearance."

Kaname was also confused. He did notice the changes in the Bloody Rose but he still got the feeling that it was really the legendary weapon, which was not supposed to exist anymore. Kaien Crosse didn't gave him the full details since the disappearance.

"Now that I'm back, are you willing to give your loyalty to me, once again?"

"Hai. Kaname-sama." Was the quick reply of the West Class vampires.

"I am glad to hear that. I can see that your loyalty still lies at me."

"We will be just as loyal to you as before, Kaname-sama. I am overwhelmed to finally see you again after all these years." Aidou stated happily.

"Enough, Aidou." Kaname stopped him before he can say more. "I held this meeting to gain your trust and loyalty again. And I want you to prepare yourselves for the upcoming war."

Before anyone could ask, a very dark aura surrounds the room that sent shiver throughout the West Class' body. Kaname's dark power creeped to their bones and paralyzed their nerves, making them groan in pain. A minute after, it disappeared like nothing had happened.

Everybody except Kaname wore a horrified expression as they witness for the first time the true power of Kaname Kuran.

"Kuran Rido is alive." Kaname stated with a cold tone on his voice.

The West Class was left petrefied at what they heard. No one expected that name to be said once again after all this peaceful years, especially not from their long lost leader.

After a long silence, Kaname Kuran stood from his seat. "The meeting is dismissed."

"But Kaname-sama, we still have que-"

"You don't want to receive detentions I believe." Kaname said indicating that he don't want anymore questions and left the room.

"Hai, Kaname-sama." The West Class still confused bowed down and followed after their leader who seemed to gain his lost power.

-KanZe_KanZe-

Zero was still waiting outside the gate of the academy. He already surveyed the entirety of the academy. Fortunately only the last West Class students who were having a meeting, were left.

Zero was in deep thought. He was trying to think where he had heard the voice of Kaname Kuran. He was so sure that he heard it before but can't figure out where and when. He never actually met the man before. Zero can feel that there's something strange with him, and he knew he wouldn't like it.

His deep thought was interrupted when he heard footsteps approaching but he didn't looked at them. He knew that it was Kaname Kuran and the other West Class students.

"You are quiet in deep thought, Kiryuu." Kaname stated and stared at Zero's silver hair once again. It still strange him.

"Apparently not, Kuran." Zero retorted back. "I suppose your meeting was finished, you may leave the academy already." Zero looked back at the West Class who were just silently standing behind Kaname, wearing an uneasy face.

"Such a rude behavior you had, Kiryuu. Well, I don't want to waste anymore of my time talking to you. Let's go." Kaname motioned to his companions and left with a horrid look from Zero. The West Class students quietly followed after their leader, not even uttering a single word or giving any reactions.

"What did you say, you jerk?!"

-KanZe_KanZe-

"That jerk! Who does he think he is?!" Zero inserted the key to his house but surprisingly..

"Zero-kun, you're home. We made you a very special soup."

…or not, it was already open. Chairman Crosse and Yuuki were busy preparing the food they made out of the open book recipe of Zero.

"What the hell do you think you're doing, you rascals?!"

He looked at the table where the unknown substances were arranged. Some of them had a very dark substance which can't be identified as food, while the other had a very nice appearance, but Zero knew better.

"I did told you to stay out of my kitchen!" Zero said with gritted teeth. He had enough of the damage that the two made every time they feel like cooking or perhaps ruining his kitchen.

The two were a disaster in making foods. Yuuki couldn't cook any food even the simplest and basic one like cooking rice. She would just make it into liquid-like-soup, and every time she tried to cut foods to cook, it would be with a special coating, her own blood because she would just cut her fingers. And she would finish her cooking until it turned into dark matter. While in Chairman Crosse' case, he would cook untidily, but finished a decent food.. Only by looks. Once tasted, Zero knew better.

"Get the hell out of my kitchen. You should wait for me to cook you something." With a deep scowl in his face, he ushered the two outside his kitchen.

"But Zero, you came home late. You're always late." Yuuki pouted while putting bandaid on her fingers with cuts.

"Uhn.. Why are you late anyway, Zero-kun? I don't think you had a mission today." The chairman asked.

"Because of that damn Kuran-jerk!"

"Kuran-jerk? You mean Kaname-sama?" Excitement was shown on Yuuki's face as she imagined Kaname's gentle smile.

"What, did the two of you went home together? Is he as handsome as ever? What about Kaname-sama, Zero?"

"What the hell Yuuki?! No! Are you seriously bewitched by him too?" Zero knew that Yuuki likes some idols, but to actually see her fangirling a man she just met is news to Zero.

"Hidoi, Zero. Kaname-sama never bewitched me." Pouted Yuuki.

"Zero-kun, what about Kaname-kun are you referring?" This time, Chairman Crosse asked with serious tone.

"He told me that he was appointed as new class president of West Class and he also held a meeting. Of course, I waited for them. You do know that I don't trust the West Class in staying in the academy, especially new students."

"Oh, I'm glad Kaname-kun handled his position early."

"What the hell Chairman?! Who really is Kaname Kuran? Have you seen the West Class? They followed every footsteps of that jerk. Even Aidou and Kain. They treated him like some.. Some special.."

"Zero, Kaname-sama is really a gentle person. He's treating me well and.. And I think, he.. knew my mother." Yuuki interrupted Zero and remembered how Kaname called her by her mother's name.

"Chairman, who is Kaname Kuran?" Both the prefects turned to Crosse only to see him preparing the foods and not listening to them at all.

"Come, Zero, Yuuki. Before the foods turned cold." Crosse offered with a smile, ignoring the increasing dark aura of the two prefects.

"Aho! I told you to stay out of my kitchen! I'll make new dish!" Zero stubbornly dragged Crosse out of his kitchen but he won't budge.

"But, Zero. I especially made your favorite, meso soup."

"No matter-" suddenly remembering his dream, when the dwarf Kaien Crosse made a delicious food for the first time, Zero motioned Yuuki to taste Crosse' meso soup.

"Eh? But Zero, we both know that's awful." Yuuki pouted.

"Maybe not Yuuki. Miracles do happen." In Zero's dream, the taste of chairman's food is heavenly. If miracle is real, his food might improved and tasted better.

"No way, I don't wanna."

"Then, I won't make your projects anymore."

"But Zero." Yuuki really can't do her projects without help from Zero. She stubbornly looked at Crosse' meso soup. It has very nice aroma and presentable appearance, anyone who saw it for the first time would probably eat it heartily.

She took a sip with it, expecting its awful taste.

And she's not wrong..

She hurriedly rushed to the sink and spit any of the soup she sipped.

"Zero, I told you so." Yuuki with tears in her eyes while Zero is laughing.

"There's nothing wrong with my soup." Kaien Crosse tearfully said too.

Their meal was finished after Zero revised the foods and added some more. Crosse and Yuuki went to their house already while Zero prepared to go to sleep. Kaien Crosse adopted Zero but they lived in different house. It was actually an adjacent house and both can freely en

ter each other's house because a doorway on the living room separated the two houses. But of course, Zero always liked his privacy.

Zero was ready to fall asleep when a very painful headache struck him again. His dreams surfaced again; even the previous dreams he had that had no meaning at all, just fragments. They surfaced vividly like he was watching them.

Zero finally recognized the voice of Kaname Kuran that he was sure he had heard before. It was the last voice he heard in his dream and the way that Kuran called Zero's name during their encounter in the West Class was in the same way the voice in his dream did.

But.. But there's no way that Kaname is the owner of that voice. His mind might just playing tricks at him. He didn't even know that Kaname existed when he dreamt, right? So it was not Kaname. Well, he didn't saw whom the voice belong to. But really, there's no way. Because if.. If he really owned that voice, does it mean..

Because he can finally remember his dream from the very beginning up to the end. Or did it really end? The clock clearly strikes to 12 because he took a glimpse of it.

So did the prince charming came? Did he arrive on time and lifted the poison?

Because if he really did, if the prince charming arrived on time and lifted the poison, does that mean...

Zero felt his cheeks flaring with heat.

'No. No. No. That is so not Kaname Kuran. He isn't the Prince Charming or whoever it was. But why did I woke up? '

His cheeks flared more with heat. That's just.. so embarrassing…

'Don't focus on that, Zero. Who actually is that hooded woman? Or maybe it's not a prince charming who lifted the poison but a princess?'

In all of Zero's dream that he can now remember, the hooded woman was always appearing. He can't clearly see the woman's face but her long hair that was flowing down her chest could trigger her as a woman. And to Zero's confusion, he can't figure out what his dreams mean at all.

~ChapEnds

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