Seventh story in my series of short stories with various VK characters. Independent from the previous six. :D

#: 07
Title: "Sneaking up on you."
Characters: Kaname & Zero (Yaoi, KxZ and ZxK, established relationship.)

Disclaimer: I don't own Vampire Knight, this is a fanfic written for fun and for love of the series. I'm not making any money with it.
Warnings: None. Just fluff, whee! lol XD

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As a pureblood vampire, Kaname had the ability to move without doing the slightest noise, if he so chose.

It was as if he was able to suppress the sound of his footsteps completely, on top of being able to mask his presence. After all, a pureblood was the vampire at its purest, very much the ultimate form of predator, so stealth was a natural part of the mix.

Now that Zero and he were living together, it was hard to resist the temptation, especially considering how entertaining Zero's reactions were where Kaname would sneak up on him… when the hunter didn't have the Bloody Rose nearby, that is.

Kaname learned the hard way during one of the first times that it was best not to sneak up on Zero when the latter was readying his weapons for work.

But even without purposefully trying to be stealthy, Kaname's footsteps were extremely silent when he was barefoot on their carpet. It was as if he weighted nothing at all, contrasting sharply with the musical clacking of the hard soles of his school uniform blucher shoes when he would walk along the old wooden corridors of Cross Academy.

Their social obligations and personal preferences made that the two lovers still kept opposite schedules. Zero was a full-fledged hunter now, rising among the hierarchy of the new Hunter Society and combining harsh missions with the daily work at their headquarters, for which he left each morning around the time when Kaname would normally have just crashed down in their bed and be deep asleep, dead tired from a whole day filled with various obligations with the vampire world and the reorganization of the Council.

But inevitably, each morning when Zero woke up to get ready to leave, the pureblood would get up too, to spend some extra time with his lover, regardless of how tired he was, or that he had just fallen asleep no more than an hour or two before at most.
It was a hazy period of the day, made of a tired and sleepy pureblood and a just-awoken-and-still-groggy hunter, both stepping around each other drowsily and somewhat crankily.
They had little enough time that they could spend together, so each minute had to be enjoyed, even if both of them were nearly asleep while Zero chugged down his breakfast and Kaname sat next to him trying to focus on the newspaper to avoid dozing off.

Kaname would usually just pay him company and wait until he left before going back to sleep. Zero had all sorts of things to prepare before leaving, and the pureblood -not used to being idle- would start to get tempted while he watched the hunter moving about...

Kaname had learned that his silent footsteps along with Zero being used to his presence could be a deadly combination, and for safety purposes he had taken the habit to make some noise to indicate his presence before walking into a room where the hunter was, especially when Zero was sleepy and might not have noticed his approach. Until then, a great many times Kaname had to dodge really fast after walking up to Zero undetected and hugging him from behind. It was a good thing that even when dead sleepy, the pureblood's reflexes were still faster than Zero's.

Although Zero's reactions in those cases were far too amusing for Kaname to give up altogether sneaking up on him every so often. Usually when Zero was preparing some food before leaving in the morning, or at other such inconspicuous moments.

The pureblood would sneak up to him and suddenly wrap his arms around the hunter's waist, usually burying his face in Zero's hair to inhale his scent, or worse, burying his face in the crook of Zero's neck, delighting in the warmth and the gentle pulsating heartbeats he could feel in the veins beneath his lips.

Inevitably, he'd have to hold onto the hunter's arms until Zero's initial explosive reaction wore off and he realized it was just Kaname.

The pureblood did feel some measure of guilt when his lover complained earnestly about his habit, but surprising Zero was just too much fun to stop, and the delicious scent of his neck was just irresistible. Kaname loved sucking on the hunter's skin gently, nipping on it and leaving a trail of hickeys until Zero finally shoved him off and moved on with his daily preparations, a flush on his face impossible to miss, making the pureblood chuckle fondly.

No, there was no way Kaname could give up that guilty pleasure…

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Sagakure, August 28th 2008

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Some fluff instead of angst, for once! XD lol
And it's kinda of Kaname x Zero rather than just Zero x Kaname too! XD (Kaname seme can be sexy also, even if personally I happen to find him so much more irresistibly delicious as uke, which results in so many of my fics having him as uke. X3
I so wish more people wrote him as uke too... most often it's everybody writing him seme and Zero uke, while us fans of Zero seme x Kaname uke are left with so few fics. ;_; )