Love? Had he -Zero Kuruizaki- just thought that?
No he couldn't love her...yet...or at all. She was a child, too innocent, too pure, too weak, and looked too much like a Kuran. He sighed. But alas I feel connected to her. He held his throat in realization that it wasn't burning in hunger anymore. Her blood...The purity of it seemed to clean him from his past. The deaths, his lovers, their blood, everything that had gone wrong or had happened in the past almost seemed to slip from his memory.
Zero pulled the bed sheet over the girl and turned to the now shut window that had slammed into the princess's forehead.
He couldn't stay here, he knew that. Dawn was coming and he would be weakened, if anything Kuruizaki's were weakened by sunlight. It burned their eyes and aroused tension in their bodies.
He had to leave, but he wouldn't leave her. In a strange, unspoken way he admitted to himself that he needed her.
Pulling his phone from his pocket he called for his driver to bring the car around.
Kuran
I wonder what Yuuki is doing? The elder Pureblood wondered as he turned the page in his novel. The sun was just coming up and the maids had already been to his rooms to pull the thick, burgundy curtains over the annoying increase of light.
Yuuki would probably be getting ready for bed by now. The Chairman would give her blood tablet mix to her, pet her head and let her ask him a few questions before she would dance up the stairwell and enter her bedroom for sleep...
Kaname's perfect vision was interrupted by the sound of a phone ringing from across the hall, Juuri's private phone that no one except her, the Chairman and -secretly- Kaname knew about.
"Hello Kaien," Juuri's wind-chime voice said smoothly. The affair between her and Kaien was well known in the Kuran family. Juuri didn't want either of her brother's and was promised to the malevolent Rido at the time. She ran away from home only to meet the fair haired hunter with dark eyes and full intention to kill her.
Their love for each other was forbidden and by the time they met again Juuri was pregnant with Kaname and married to Haruka, her younger brother who had won her over. But still they loved one another, he was their when Rido had kidnapped and sacrificed her baby, when Haruka had to leave for meetings and when a few members of the Hunter's Association found out about Yuuki -they had all been murdered.
"Juuri...I'm sorry, I am so sorry..." Kaname heard Kaien sob. Juuri's voice was worried now and asking her friend/ex-lover what was wrong. "A Kuruizaki Pureblood came to campus and...he attacked a Guardian and kidnapped Yuuki..."
Kaname felt his heart drop into his stomach.
That Pureblood...had his Yuuki, his fiancée?
Grabbing his coat as he walked out of the room, throwing open the door with more force than necessary the elder tore down the hall; random artifacts shattering as he did so. He heard Juuri's uncontrollable sobs and the bewildered tone of Haruka's voice.
Zero Kuruizaki prepare to die.
Kuruizaki
Maria smoothed her long hair once more and looked at her fiancé before reaching for the phone.
They had found Okaa-sama and although the conditions now were strange she wanted her older brother back, she wanted his advice, his ideas, his once constant comfort and love.
The phone ringed and she waited to her the rough sound of his voice, it would calm her like it always would.
"Hello, Maria." Her heartbeat picked up and Ichiru didn't let that escape his notice. Sighing he stood from his chair and left her room. Maria didn't pay attention to that; instead she smiled softly into the receiver.
"Onii-sama, we found Mother," she said happily. "You'll be returning home now, right?" She waited for his reassurance.
And waited.
"Zero?"
"Maria...I've decided to take a small vacation." His smooth voice declared and Maria stifled her gasp of shock.
"What?"
"I won't be coming home for awhile and I'll need you in Ichiru to-"
"Why!" Maria demanded, cutting him off. Her anger boiled. How dare he do this! How dare my favorite brother leave us in our time of need!
"I don't want to be there!" Maria grip on the phone loosened. "I don't want to be in that house."
"Heh...Just so you know...Mother is being forced into a marriage with Rido Kuran." Maria seethed.
"Well...you can deal with that." The line went dead then and Maria slammed the phone down with force.
She couldn't tell if she was angry or upset...No depressed. She had treated Zero so cruelly over the past few months, stripped him of his dignity, and kicked him when he was down.
"I'm a horrible person..."
Kuran
Sunlight beat down on Yuuki's angelic features and she felt cool fingers brush her long hair off her face. That simple gesture was done with great care and loving affection.
Onii-sama.
The teenager snuggled closer to the very male body sitting next to her.
How had he gotten here? She had said she wanted to go to the academy herself, but she was happy. Soon she would open her eyes and tell him the horrible dream about the Kuruizaki Pureblood who Changed her best friend and bitten her.
Crimson-brown eyes opened and were met with a dark fleece coat covering a well muscled arm. Her eyes climbed upward and to her horror she saw none other than Zero Kuruizaki sitting beside her. Silver hair messy, but looking somehow handsome and violent lilac eyes intensely watching her every move. His face was so close she could count his eyelashes.
Her face heated up and she was sure a full out blush was painted on her face.
"Gah!" She jumped backward, only to be met with a locked car door. Lilac eyes narrowed slightly and his head tilted to the side like a curious animal.
"You keep doing that you're going to put yourself into a concussion." His voice smothered her and she felt her heartbeat quicken. "Or you'll faint from hyperventilating."
Yuuki finally snapped out of her rapid thought that were piecing together everything that happened last night. "YOU!"
"You say that a lot." Zero adverted his gaze to the window and crossed his legs.
"Where am I?" She peeled herself off of the door and sat a good distance away from the Pureblood, who sat in the middle of the backseat.
"Currently...we're in Russia. Moscow to be more specific."
"Russia? How...how the heck did I get here?" Yuuki pulled her long overcoat tightly around her body, trying to hide her pale, yellow nightgown.
She heard a soft chuckle and he turned back to her with a slight smile on his face. "You can curse if you want, I won't chastise you."
Yuuki's face screwed up and her full mouth became a hard line. "What did you do?"
A pale, long fingered hand lifted from his lap and waved in the air. "I just took you away from the academy is all."
She grounded her teeth together. He was so...frustrating. How she could mistake him for Kaname she would never know. "Why?"
A smile curved on his flawless lips. "Because, Yuuki-chan, you interest me and I want to get to know you better."
Kuran
I will rip his head from his body, and then leave his head to rot on a spike right outside his family's-
"Kaname?" Takuma snapped his fingers and Kaname turned to his long time friend. "Someone wants to talk to you." Takuma opened the cracked door to reveal a short, fair haired, nimble bodied girl. Her hair was honey colored and fixed into short curls.
But for a moment he thought he was looking at Yuuki. The girls brown eyes were big and the same shape and if Kaname squinted he could lightly see a tint of red and they held so much emotion that it made you want to cry. But this girl wasn't Yuuki.
Kaname stayed in his chair surrounded by his Noble 'friends' as the Level D drew closer to him. The girl looked like she had been crying and her eyes looked like she hadn't gotten enough sleep for a few days.
Probably a minion of Zero's.
"Kaname-san," the girl's voice was nothing above a meek whisper, but he had heard perfectly well. "Have you... Have you found any leads on Yuuki?"
Kaname's brow raised and he softly bit into his lower lip as the others waited for him to answer. "No. No we haven't."
"Oh..." He saw a tear roll down her cheek. "Dammit, I just can't stop crying." She muttered as he whipped it away.
"And you are?"
"Sayori Wakaba, Yuuki's friend...She was saving me from Zero the night he kidnapped her." Kaname stood from his chair and towered over the girl; she cringed and bowed her head in shame.
It was this girl's fault that Yuuki had been taken. If she wasn't so foolish to get caught then Yuuki would be at the academy now and none of this would be happening. His eyes glowed red and his nails lengthened. This didn't escape the girl's notice.
"Kill me. Just kill me. It's all my fault..." Her eyes closed as she awaited the fatal blow. Kaname's hand raised and when he brought it down he met the shoulder of Hanabusa Aidou, rather than the girl's neck.
The blonde's face turned up in pain and he gridded his teeth. "Ka-Kaname-sa-sama..."
"Aidou-sempai!" A chorus of voices came with their delayed reaction. Through his peripheral vision Kaname saw Ruka grasp Kain's hand.
"Aidou," Kaname removed his claws from the blonde's shoulder causing him to wince. "Stand down, now."
"If you want to kill her, you'll kill me too." He grounded out from his gridded teeth. His head turned slightly to check on the girl behind him who was frozen with fear.
"Both of you get out of my sight." Kaname snapped. Aidou made a formal bow and apologized to him before turning and leading the girl out the door as quickly as he could.
Wakaba
"You idiot! You complete idiot! Why did you do that?" Yori was frantic as she yelled at the blond haired blue eyed aristocrat in front of her. He ignored her at first and laid a hand on his bleeding shoulder as purple energy surrounded it and slowly the wound healed. He ran his hands under the flowing water and turned to the girl who had respectfully turned away from him.
"You would have died." He said simply, searching for a rag in the washroom. Yori pulled clean hanky out of her pocket and presented it to him, still turned away. Her anger lessened now and she lowered her gaze to the floor.
"Sorry..."
"Thank you." He took it from her hand, having removed -and thrown away- his jacket and crisp white shirt he was standing topless in front of the girl waiting for a servant to bring him a new one. He smirked when he saw her blush. "I see our attraction is still there."
Yori spun around on her heel to face the half-naked man, her eyes narrowed. "Aidou!" He laughed.
"Once you love a vampire there is no going back." He smiled and Yori pulled her hand back to smack him. He grabbed her wrist in his hand and watched her struggle. "Still too weak..." He murmured. He noted the anger flaring in her eyes as they flashed crimson. "And you're a vampire now."
She stilled and looked into the clear sky blue eyes and as she called her caramel eyes returned. "Yes...I'm sorry."
"No, no. It's not your fault." His long arms wrapped around her, bringing her to his bare chest. Her arms wrapped around his torso too and she sobbed. Aidou cooed and calmed her, brushing her slightly longer curled with his fingers. She leaned away to study his face, her eyes red from a different reason now.
He hadn't changed much since she'd last seen him. He was still tall and blond and soft and caring and all around perfect.
"Sayori..." Aidou's gaze lowered to her lips and Yori didn't fight what came next: his kiss, his soft, wonderful, passionate kiss.
Reunited with her ex-lover again, she felt at peace.
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So basically what's happening now is that Zero's going to be shoving Yuuki all over Europe and Kaname is going to try and find her.
What's this Maria's feeling...*gasp*...Guilt! And Aidou and Yori are ex-lovers? Hmm, I have some ideas for this.
Muahahahahha!