Chapter 5

Yuki's Point of View

"Kaname," Kaien spoke, "Don't you believe that it's time to tell her." Unaware to both men, I stood just outside the door. I'd awoken shortly after Kaname and Kaien had left my room. "Or do you fear that she will hate you once she learns the truth?" My eyes widened. So far, Kaname had been silent. "Damn it, Kaname!" My mouth fell open in shock at hearing my adoptive father cuss. "She has a right to know about what happened!"

'He knows. Kaname knows what happened to me!' I realized, I blinked back tears and ran, uncaring about how loud I was being. 'All the clues were there. The fact that he was just there that night. He had no reason to save me, unless he were connected to me. It is abnormal for a vampire to make attachments with a human other than a meal, so why didn't he just fed off me like any normal vampire would have when he found me? Why save me?' I shouldered my thoughts as I jumped out of the window in the living room. Vaguely as I left the scene, I heard Kaname say:

"She overheard."

The pain in his voice almost made me stop, but the betrayal I felt in my heart made me continue. My lungs began to burn. All the while, my thoughts chanted:

'He knew all this time. He knew and never told me.'

I leaned against the stables, only to sink to the floor. I could hear White Lily voicing her dislike of me, but for the first time I wasn't afraid nor did I care. I let the tears free.

"Yuki?" My head snapped up at Zero's voice. I drying my face with the back of my hand and looked toward White Lily's stable. Zero stared at me from the arch way.

"Zero." The pain in my heart wouldn't ease. Zero walked toward me and sat down next to me.

"What happened?" He asked, turning his lavender eyes to me.

"Kaname knew." I whispered, my eyes filling up once more. "All along. He knew about my past and never told me."

"Yuki.." I heard Zero whisper, the tears spilled over. Without thinking, I laid my head on his shoulder and cried. I was dimly aware of his fingers running threw my hair. "I'm sorry."

"Why wouldn't he tell me?" I questioned aloud.

"Out of fear." Another voice spoke, I felt Zero tense beside me. The voice was familiar. I didn't lift my head from Zero's shoulder, only turned my eyes away from Zero's face to look at Kaname. "Yuki."

"No!" I yelled, I felt Zero wince beside me at the volume I used. Kaname took a step forward, I leaned even more into Zero. I could feel Zero's eyes on me.

"Yuki." His tone was commanding. I stood, my anger getting the better of me.

"NO!" I screamed, Zero once more winced at seeing him discomfort I lowered my voice. "I won't listen to anything you have to say!" I realized the irony of this situation.

'This is the second time I've rebelled against Kaname.' I thought, biting back a laugh.

"Yuki, please-" He stepped forward once more. I could see Zero tensing out of the corner of my eye.

"No!" I shook my head, a single tear escaped my eye, more waiting to come. "You had every chance to tell me! Every chance!" My voice broke. "I don't want to hear you're apologies, I don't want to hear anything from you right now!" I felt air rush toward me, I looked up. Kaname was in front of me.

"Listen to me." Kaname sounded defeated, but I was too hurt and angry to care. Before I could comprehend what I was doing, the sound of a slap rang through the stables. Kaname's head snapped to the side by the force. I could see Zero's shocked face out of the corner of my eye. Kaname's eyes were still closed. I glared at him one last time before shoving past him and storming out of the stables.

'Did he just expect me to cave to his voice like I used too or something? What the hell is wrong with him? He had every chance to tell me! He didn't! Even when we were alone! He had every chance in the world to tell me!' My anger was becoming worse with every thought.

Just as I was passing by the fountain a large hand closed over my wrist. I glared at the offending hand and then glared at the owner of it.

"What do you want, Kaname?" I snarled. I saw Kaname visibly wince.

"Please just listen." I pulled at my wrist in his grasp, uncaring that if I continued my wrist would bruise.

"Let go of me, Kaname."

"No." Kaname looked me in the eyes.

"Why?" I whimpered, my anger suddenly disappearing. I made one last attempt to get my wrist free. "Why wouldn't you tell me?" My voice cracked. "I've never had any memories of my past." A realization came to me. "It was you.." I whispered. "You knew all along. You tried to keep me from reading about that winter ten years ago." I could feel the anger coming back. "You're the one that set the page to catch on fire!"

'He. He. BURNED the only link I had to my past. The link to finding out who my parents are, what happened to them. He. He NEVER told me about my past! He claimed that he loved me…why keep something like that from me? IT'S my past!' My thought were in an angry rampage. 'HE knows how IMPORTANT it is to me that I find out!'

LET GO OF ME!" I screamed. Before I could stop it, I threw my fist at him. It connected hard with the side of his face. He stumbled by the fountain, he let me go in shock. As soon as he let me go, I started running.

Kaname's Point of View

I could feel the pain setting in, the reality of the situation. I wanted to run after her, every cell in my body screamed it. My eyes widened, as a sentence came to me.

"Good, because I'll always want you around." It was her voice. Determination set into my eyes and my entire being as more of her words circled in my head.

"I love you."

"Just hold me for a little while, Kaname."

"I would love to stay here with you, Kaname."

"I would love to spend forever in your arms."

"You actually think I'd be wasting my time with a little game?"

'Yuki has always meant what she said.'

"Forever." I had vowed to her. With those sentences in mind, I began running.