Kaname and I traveled for a couple of days before we reached the manor that housed our parents before their death. We had been silent since we left the house, both of us involved in our thoughts.

Kaname turned toward me; his wine eyes expressing his unease.

"Yuki…" He asked, "Are you happy?" My eyes widened in shock.

"Yes." I stepped closer toward him. As my hands placed with his shirt collar and my eyes fixed on my hands, I whispered in a low tone: "I'm just thinking about so much…So much has changed…" His large hands closed over my own; immediately I looked up at him. His wine colored eyes held pain, love, and hope.

"Hopefully not your feelings for me." His tone was even. I felt anger course through me at his statement.

"Of course not!" I exclaimed. "I'll always love you!" I dropped my tone and dropped my eyes. "That's never changed. You were all I knew from both beginnings." I closed my eyes, the memories of all I'd put him through replaying in my head. "Even after so many times of me hurting you again and again, you stayed beside me and kept on loving me…you deserve so much better than me." A tear slipped from the corner of my eye. Shame rushed through me. Before I could register just what I was doing, I ripped my hands out from under his, pushed myself away from him, and ran toward the manor.

I didn't get far from him. The gate slammed shut in front of me and a pair of arms were closing over my waist before I could get over the shock. An angry, hurt whisper that I knew to be my brother's voice was flowing into my hearing:

"Yes, you are a horrible fiancé but that doesn't stop me from loving you! Didn't you tell me when you were human that you wanted to be with me forever, or is that one of the things that has changed as well?" He hissed without mercy in my ear; his arms becoming painfully tight around my waist. "Are you going to leave me alone?"

"Kaname." I felt the anger building in me once more. "Would you rather me leave you?" I demanded. He spun me around and slammed me into the hard iron gate; his flashing wine eyes bore into mine and his grip on my wrists was tight. "Would you rather me walk away, because you talk of me leaving a lot. Would you rather me go to Zero?" At the vampire hunter's name, his grip tightened and eyes flashed with hatred.

"NO." He roared.

"Then act like you want me here!" I raised my tone. "Instead of acting like you're walking on egg shells! You haven't said one word to me until now! We left the Chairman's three days ago, Kaname! You didn't even as so much look at me through the whole trip! I'm not some fragile child anymore, fucking act like I'm your fiancé!" His eyes showed shock and anger at hearing me cuss him.

"You want me to act like you're my fiancé?" He hissed, his tone low. I stared at him.

"Did I just say that or do you have a hearing problem too?" I hissed. His eyes narrowed.

"You are new and naïve to this life." His grip became tighter. "So forgive me." Before I could figure out what he meant, he sunk his teeth into my neck-hard. I yelped; my eyes widened. Somewhere through my shock, my thoughts whispered an explanation for our unusual behavior:

'We haven't fed since he changed me.'

I could feel him pulling my blood roughly from the puncture wound in my neck.

'Of course he would be angry with me for speaking to him like that. This rough bite…is my punishment.' My stubborn side awoke. 'Still! He needed to hear it! I'm not going to say I'm sorry for anything I said! He needs to stop treating me like a child!'

Kaname's feeding became more gentle and he let loose my wrists then his hands took their place on my waist; I wrapped my arms around him. Finally, he pulled his fangs from my neck. His eyes never left my neck. He raised his hand and brushed the puncture wounds.

"Forgive me," He whispered, "for biting you so cruelly." His eyes connected with mine. I could feel my eyes turning crimson with thirst. I closed my eyes and placed my hand to my throat. My eyes snapped open at the sound of fabric sliding. Kaname stood before me with one hand pulling down his collar and the other still on my waist. I understood what he was doing.

"Thank you." I whispered, I bit him gently. He closed his eyes. His hand cradled my head as I fed. After many seconds, I pulled away and kissed the mark gently.

"Yuki," he spoke, "I do want you here, I will always want you here. Silly girl, I love you. I understand your anger toward me. Forgive me for treating you like a child from now own I will treat you as my future wife."

"I love you too, Kaname." I hugged him. "Thanks." I whispered. He wrapped his arms tight around me.

"Just don't leave me okay?"

I kissed his jaw gently and vowed:

"Never."

Kaname smiled and pulled away from me. The gates creaked open. I turned and looked toward the mansion.

"How exactly do you do that?" Kaname laughed at my question.

"Only a Kuran can open these gates. It's by will, a thought process."

"Like when you slammed the gate in front of me?" I questioned, turning my head with an amused smile.

"I didn't want to have to chase you through the manor." He shrugged.

"Ah, but I remember you telling me that the Kuran men had a habit of doing things un-Pureblood like when it came to their women." I smiled at him and crossed my arms underneath my chest. He nudged me.

"I said I didn't want to not that I wouldn't have done it." I laughed and wrapped an arm around his waist; his arm went around my shoulders. "Now, we have to clean the place up...seeing that dust probably covers everything."

I wrinkled my nose. Kaname laughed and tugged me into moving with his arm.

"Do vampires still have algeries?" I asked, looking up at him. He laughed once more.

"Nope. Sorry, baby, you aren't getting out of this." He kissed my temple. "This is a pretty big mansion." I sighed, but still smiled.

"Fun...we're going to be at this for days."

"Nah, we got forever." Kaname said, smiling at me. Squeezing me to him for a moment.

"And then some, huh?" I commented with a smile. He smiled at me. He opened the door with his other hand. "But this isn't something I'm looking forward too, we're going to be killing some really old dust bunnies."

"Consider it putting them out of their misery." Kaname commented with a smile and pushed me gently toward the door.