People around them froze as they watched them pass by.
The man was tall and muscular, but slender. His skin was pale and collided with his silver hair and violet eyes; the light colors made him look serene but people who knew well enough knew that wasn't true. He wore a tailored brown, leather jacket -that they knew costed more then everything in their suitcase combined- and a pair of faded yet dark, denim jeans.
At his side was a young woman. She was shorter than her partner, pettie almost. Her long red-brown hair fell down to her waist and wildly curled around her slim shoulders. Her eyes were large and colored brown with the bloody color of crimson undercoating them. She wore a white knee-length coat with black skirt.
"Everyone is starring." He muttered to himself.
"Humans do that, they're not going to hurt us so just relax." Yuuki urged, placing a hand on Zero's arm. Yuuki glanced around and sighed. "Why did you drag me to Germany?"
"Evertime Sara Shirabuki isn't here, I feel oblidjed to come. Also I like the food." She giggled a bit and Zero peered down at her.
"So, you don't like Sara?"
"Particularly not." Zero opened the door of their car and Yuuki hesitated.
"Because the Council wants you to marry her?"
"How did you hear about that?" Yuuki shrugged and slid inside. Zero joined her, slamming the door to signal for the driver to go. "I made sure that know one found out about it."
"Hey, when I use to be quiet and not back talk the way I do now I learned things. Careful next time you pick on me, I have enough material on you to complete destroy your reputation." Carelessly she flipped a lock of her long hair back and smiled at him. Then turned and propped her elbow on the window sill and put her head on her hand.
"I think I liked you better when you where quiet and scared all the time." Zero teased.
"No you didn't." She answered without turning.
"Yeah, your right." There was a long silence and the two starred out their windows.
"So...You like me now?" Zero almost jumped but quickly fixed his pokerface.
"Turning sixteen really gave you a million comebacks didn't it?" She smiled and fought back her laugh the entire way to the hotel.
~X~
Yuuki entered the hotel room and tore down the hallway. Not caring to hang up her coat or turn on the lights. But she did remember to shut the door -slamming it as Zero had done earlier. She was pretty sure she'd damaged the wood and cracked the plaster, though she honestly didn't care.
The golden room became a blur around her as she walked, to fast for a human to see. Tears that threatened to fall stung her eyes and a plump was rising in her throat. She found her room -that she'd called dibs over two days ago when they arrived in Germany- and slammed the door again and locked it.
Feeling all the more dramatic, Yuuki threw herself against the dark wood and force her frustrated breath out.
What just happened? She screamed inside her head. Zero walked her to the hotel room door and said he hand something to take care of -after Romania he'd trusted her to be alone for a short time- she'd nodded and reached for the door then...
Kaname's face flashed in her mind and her tears flowed harder.
...He'd placed his hand on her cheek. She looked up at him in question of the gesture, but before he could speak he leaned down and placed a kiss on her other cheek, near the corner of her lips. Then he turned and walked away. Yuuki had starred in that spot he had been standing in for a good few minutes before she'd been able to move again.
Now here she was on her bedroom floor crying; trying to figure out how'd she'd gotten from there to here.
First she hated him. She hated him with a burning firing passion. She wanted him to drop dead and rot in hell.
Then she was confused. She didn't know what she wanted with him. Firing passion came to mind, but she wasn't sure if it was for him to die or for her to love him.
Love him? How could she? How could she let it happen? Had cupid snuck up behind her and shot her with his arrow? How? Why? What reason did she have to love him -her kidnapper- of all people?
Thinking about it Yuuki summed up a few reasons.
It was in the way she'd find herself staring at the back of his -she'll admit- gorgeous head and when he'd catch her and smile softly back at her.
It was in the way he'd constantly be touching her: brushing hair from her face, tucking a loose strand of hair behind her ear, placing his hand on the small of her back as they walked through a crowd.
She drew in a shaky breath and leaded back against the cool door. One hand clutching her throat and the other tracing her lips.
It was in his intimacy with her: his smothering eyes roving over her, his fangs sinking into her skin and...
"Dear God help me." She whispered.
...his kiss.
Kuran
Juuri anxiously waited by the door.
No Haruka wasn't coming home and she knew know of her friends were coming to visit. In fact it was the complete opposite of friends, these people were killers, kidnappers and her families sworn enemy.
A quick rap at the door made her jump, but she quickly composed herself and answered the door before the maids could get it. On the threshold before her stood a C-ranked vampire holding a small, human infant and an umbrella over her master's heads.
"Good evening, Juuri-san." The silver haired female said. She smiled but Juuri could tell it was fake.
"Evening, Maria, Ichiru. Kaname and Haruka are in the living room." She side stepped and allowed them to enter her house. Beside her usual childish behavior, Maria was polite. Handing her coat off to the maids, instead of dropping it on the floor, and rubbing her shoes off on the mat before stepping inside, instead of on the expensive carpet. Ichiru smiled as usual and commented on the rain and asked if their servant could get something for Kyra -the human baby- to drink.
"Kaname-kun," Maria smiled at the Pueblood male who'd seemed to have aged a year with grief. "When you called us we couldn't believe it at first. Our maid, Chiyo, said the Kuran household phoned, but I thought her old age was catching up to her. So after my mother found use for her at dinner and you phoned again..." She trailed off letting her fingers dance over the piano keys, then turned back to him. "Well, I was in such a state of shock Ichiru had to take the phone from me."
"Interesting story," Kaname said. "Here's another one...We'd like to know where Zero is holding my sister."
Ichiru's eyes widened at the malice in his tone. "You haven't been able to figure it out?" Kaname glared at him. "Alright, alright so we know...But we have some conditions as well."
Maria's voice felling into her business tone. "If you hurt him we will have war, Kuran, and we will strike out at your sister first."
"Funny thing for you to say when you are, in fact, in the house of Kuran. Watch your tongue, young one." Juuri growled as she entered the room.
"You have a deal, now where are they?"
"Ichiru?" Maria turned to her fiance. Ichiru pulled a slip of paper from his jacket.
"It was quite difficult to locate them. Zero has credit cards and I do know how to track them, but he laid out two completely different trails, my brother is smart. So after some more spying, scoping and chatting with a few friends I found them in Germany, but now they are heading to Paris, France. There plane landed two hours ago."
Kaname starred at them in silence for a moment then nodded. "Thank you, I'll send my team over."
Kuruizaki
Zero laid in bed. Not sleeping, he couldn't sleep when he was so aware of her nearness.
She was in the next room, across from his, the walls were thick, but his heightened senses could hear everything.
The whisper of clothes when she changed for dinner that night, or into that nightgown. The tossing of her sheets. Her gentle breathing. Her heartbeat and the blood pumping in her veins.
It was easy to say that she was driving him insane -in fact she already drove him off that cliff, she was driving him somewhere else now- and now she wasn't even trying. It was just everything that made her Yuuki, every small gesture or habit she did he couldn't help but love. Even the bad things.
Like her current little idea to completely shun him -they haven't spoken since Germany.
"Argh..." Frustrated, Zero rolled out of bed and opened the door to his room and crossed the hallway to Yuuki's. Without skipping a beat he raised his fist and landed a sharp knock on the door. "Yuuki open up."
He waited and pounded on the wood once more, calling her name.
Around the fourth time the door opened in mid-knock. "What!" She snapped, her hand gripped the door and she snarled at him. Zero lowered his hand he used to knock with and glared down at her. Trying to ignore the fact that she was wearing her nightgown that he'd marked as his favorite.
"I want to know what your problem is." He said, his voice husky from his current thoughts.
"Your my problem."
Zero's mouth became a tight line. "I don't recall me doing anything wrong."
"YOU KISSED ME!" She yelled, her face ducking down as it, involuntarily, flashed crimson. He recalled the peck on the cheek -near her lips- he'd given her in Germany, but quickly shook it off.
"And?" Her hand rose and hit him, full force, across his face. Unlike when the times Ruka or when Maria smacked him his head snapped sideways. He hadn't been expecting...then again he couldn't expect anything with her. He couldn't read Yuuki the way he could with any other girl. What she did or said next would surprise him.
His hand reached up and took her wrist.
"You can't do that so casually! I'm engaged! Do you know what that means? That I should be in love with my fiance-" she stopped herself then and suddenly the waves of anger she'd been lashing out stopped.
"'Should be'?" Tears formed in her eyes and she tried to retreat back into the room, but Zero kept a firm hold on her.
"Never mind, go away."
"Yuuki-"
"I said go away!"
"I won't do that, Yuuki. Not until you tell me what you meant!"
"What does it matter to you?" She asked with a sigh, her eyes refusing to look up at him as she stared down at the ground.
His lilac eyes watched the way her hair blew in the slight breeze that entered the room via the open door in silence for a moment, trying to find the right words to explain. His usual cocky attitude was gone, his face unreadable in the darkness of the room and his feet moved of their own accord, pushing her further into the shadowed room as he kicked the door shut behind him.
Maybe she could explain with actions instead.
He continued to push, ignoring her feeble attempts to free herself from the hold he had on her, refusing to stop until she was pressed against the closest wall, her body trapped under his much larger one.
They were almost impossible to see, surrounded by darkness as they were, and his free hand rose up, his fingertips lightly brushing the soft skin at her cheek, wiping away the small drops of tears that marred her perfect face. His gentle actions were opposed by the violent threats that passed through Yuuki's lips, still trying to escape him.
"Let go of me, Kuruizaki! Leave me alone." She hissed, wincing as his grip tightened around her wrist, his other hand sliding down from her cheek to her waist, his fingers clamping down at the skin there and effectively stopping any movement from her.
"Yuuki.." He whispered, his head lowering until their faces were just centimeters apart, so close he could feel her ragged breathing brushing over his face and he basked in the scent it brought along, letting it wash over him and pollute his senses. His forehead was planted on hers before he registered closing the distance, his lips just lightly brushing over hers.
Zero could see the hazy look in her eyes, the out of focus gaze that was all the invitation the Pureblood needed.
His lips were forceful, pressing hungrily on hers and he inhaled her gasp of shock, eagerly taking full advantage of her open mouth to slip his tongue in, running it along the warm confines. His trademark smirk returned as he took in her immobile state, all fight in her gone. His hand loosened from around her wrist, the alabaster fingers trailing up her arm and towards her hair, stroking the silky strands lovingly. He pulled her closer into his body when he felt her almost unnoticeable movements that brought their lips closer, finally allowing him to show his feelings to the young brunette.
Their eyes slid close in unison, both of their breathing uneven as the kiss continued and Zero couldn't help but feel smug. Finally getting the Kuran princess to submit herself to him was better then he ever had imagined and his blood burned in excitement with each brush of their lips.
The grip at her waist went down. A long hand circled around her thigh, causing the female to gasp at the touch and he brought her leg up, drawing it around his waist and nudging her other leg with his elbow, encouraging her to let it do the same and both legs connected around his back. Her hands followed in an attempt to steady herself as he pulled them away from the wall, turning them around to walk back across the room. He stopped only when his knees hit the edge of the King sized bed, ignoring the dull ache the sharp contact brought and, without releasing her lips, Zero lay the female down on the bed.
He heard the mattress squeak at the couples combined weight as he hovered over her, looking straight into her eyes and his hand went to pull at the fabric of her night dress, eager fingertips brushing over the milky skin that slowly began to present itself.
Okay, Disaster wrote this and I must say I love her dearly for putting up with me.
Now contest time! If you would like to continue Zero and Yuuki's...night together right a fic and send a note to me and I'll tell you the winner in the next chapter. Your prize would be a few spoilers to future chapters and let me tell ya, they are gold.