All in Zero's defense she was drunk.
Way too much of Isabel's homemade fine wine.
"Yuuki…" he breathed. After leaving Aldo and Isabel's party, and promising to come over tomorrow for diner, Yuuki and Zero decided to walk home.
"Yes, Zero…?" She threw her slim arms around his broad shoulders and smiled up at him. Yuuki had pushed him up against an alley wall a block away from their hotel. It was sudden, it was crazy, and it was something she'd never do in any other situation.
It was the deader hours of the night, almost morning, no one was roaming the streets in fear of Aldo and Isabel's 'pets' that helped keep all unwanted vampire's out of their city.
The gas lamps created an orangey-yellow glow that caught the red tints in the Kuran princess's hair and eyes.
Still heartbreakingly beautiful –even if her Kuran features seemed to scream at him.
Dealing with his inner battle Zero placed his hands on either side of her heart-shaped face and knelt down to her. He caught the smell of the sweet wine she drank and her perfume.
Still sweet to the smell.
Yuuki got up on her tippy-toes and brushed her lips against his. He whispered her name and she smiled in hungry delight.
She could never make Kaname crack the way she could do to Zero. Over the past few hours her drunken mind had been going over way to compare the two.
Kaname was her brother, her fiancé, her everything, she was comfortable around him; she knew she could tell him anything and he would never shun her.
Zero was…amazing, a risk worth taking, something precious she'd never ever want to let go of, he made her blood pump; an adrenalin rush that pulsed through her every time he was near.
Kaname's kisses were sweet and full of love and affection.
Zero's kiss…she had yet to taste.
"Not now, not here." She heard him shallowly whisper. He was battling with himself, she mused. He wanted her, she could feel it radiating off his body.
They walked the rest of the way home in silence, nodding to the doorman, taking the elevator up to the seventh floor and retreating to their private sleeping rooms for the morning.
Kuran
The young child danced around the upper gallery of the ball room and peered down at the Kuruizaki Pureblood's bellow.
Where is she?
"Rido-san," a chilly voice called. The child turned and flashed a toothy smile at the tall, stealthy woman who towered over him. "I know what you are planning."
"Pleasure to see you too, Shizuka," He took her pale hand in his, but before he could bring it to his lips she withdrew.
"It's people like you who really get on my nerves." She hissed icily.
The Ice Queen has arisen. Rido mused, but kept his face impassive and guarded, all the time still smiling at her.
"Whatever do you mean?"
A sharp slap crossed his face and blood started to well in the marks her nails left behind on the child's face.
"Do not treat me like your ex-wife, I know what you are doing and it will never work." Rido's eyes narrowed and Shizuka smiled. "She'll never love you, neither of them will."
"Bitch…" Rido hissed, touching his scared cheek, his blue and red eye both turning bloody red with rage.
"Enjoy the party, Rido-san…Or is it 'Danna' now that we are to be married?" Shizuka giggled at Rido's furious face and walked back down to the party.
Wakaba
Hiro, Nara and Sota; Yori's once friends glared at her so chillingly that she felt like crawling under a rock and staying there for the next fifty years or so.
Aidou wrapped his arm possessively around her shoulder and showed the Hunter's what a real icy death glare was.
"Sayori-san," the Headmaster greeted her. "Has Kaname-kun found anything on Yuuki?"
"No, he tried to kill me when he found out it was my fault." Yori whispered and kept her head down, in shame.
"Well, that's a Pureblood for you." Yagari muttered. "At least you're safe Yori." Her eyes widened and looked up at her teacher who was smiling at her.
"S-sensei?" Hiro stuttered.
"What? I spent five years of my life training this girl; I'm not abandoning her -unlike some."
Souen
Ruka and Kain tapped away at their laptops trying to figure out where the kidnapped Kuran princess was.
"Ruka," Kain called. "I found something." Ruka closed her laptop and moved over to Kain's side of the train car and leaned into him so she could get a better view of his screen.
"They're in Romania." She growled in annoyance. They were heading to Greece –their last lead. "He certainly is trying to drive us crazy. First stop was Moscow by car, then Verona by plane, then Greece by a train-" Kain cut her off there.
"Nice rhyming Dr. Seuss." Ruka flicked his nose with her forefinger and returned her gaze back to the screen. "He's given us no specific pattern; they're just jumping from country to country."
"Now Romania…how'd they get there?" Kain tapped at the keys and scrolled down the screen.
"Horseback for the first few miles, then by car."
"Well," Ruka stood and flipped her hair back. "We're going to the land of our ancestors."
Kuran
Romeo and Juliet. Verona, Italy.
Briseis and Achilles. Troy, Greece.
Was there no end to the forbidden lovers?
No there wasn't.
Ever since her drunk night on the streets of Verona, Yuuki couldn't help but always be watching her kidnapper from the corner of her eye. He hadn't lived up to his womanizer reputation with her that night, he'd refused to kiss her in her most vulnerable state –he hadn't even made fun of her.
Now, for instance, Yuuki was curled up on a soft leather chair with an original copy of Count Dracula –the Count and Mina, sigh- in Romania. Amazingly most of the book was quite accurate: the fangs, the bloodlust, the disappearing into smoke and bats...
She took the chance to look at him once more. It was one of those rare nights when they just stayed in their hotel and relaxed. He wore a black shirt –halfway buttoned- and pants with a pair of leather Italian heeled boots Aldo had given him. His hair was a mess and his eyes were half closed as he was in an almost-asleep-but-not-quite stage.
He felt her gaze on him, but decided to let her look a little longer. She turned her head a little more and then he couldn't help but look up and smile at her.
She turned a light shade of pink on her cheeks but held her ground and waited for him to look away, but neither parties were submissing.
Finally she sighed and turned back to her book as coldly as she could and turned the brittle page with unneeded force. Zero frowned and returned back to his book as well.
Are you falling for me? He wondered, next time he would be the one caught starring at her.
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Sorry for the long wait, I've just been out of it lately. I ran into three walls today...NEW RECORD! ANyway I'm going to watch the moive Troy now and cry like a baby during Achilles's death scene. C ya!
Okay one reviewer -jaceni- asked who's with who. So here is the answer to that:
Zero and Yuuki- Kuruizaki and Kuran Purebloods, complicated.
Kaname and Yuuki- Kuran Purebloods, engaged.
Ichiru and Maria- Kuruizaki Purebloods, engaged.
Zero and Maria- Kuruizaki Purebloods, brother and sister
Aldo and Isabel- Verrazzeno Purebloods, engaged.
Juuri and Haruka- Kuran Purebloods, married.
Juuri and Kaien- Pureblood and human, ex-lovers.
Shizuka and Iruka- Kuruizaki Purebloods, married.
Rido and Shizuka- Kuran and Kuruizaki Purebloods, engaged.
Sara and Takuma- Shirabuki Pureblood and Ichijou Noble, dating.
Hanabusa and Yori- Aidou Noble and Level D, dating.
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