As some of you may notice and some of you may not have noticed I changed the name of the whole fic. Because well you see I was thinking about it and the title made perfect sense when it was a just a one shot, but as a story it wasn't really fitting with what I wanted it to conform to so I used my administrative rights as the author to change it. The end. Oh and all of you should feel really cool right now since I should be doing my Psychology 1010 homework, but no you see I find that boring and this just is so much more fun…and there wasn't many other choices. Any way read on Obi Wan!

3. Beauty and the Beast

Zero groggily started to blink awake as he realized the car had stopped moving. He growled out a displeasured moan as he stretched his sore muscles and tried opening his still tired eyes. He let out a vampire hiss immediately as sunlight struck his vision. Three hundred years of darkness had made him, in a word, allergic to the sunlight. His Vampiric blood running through him had taught him on instinct to dislike the sun and even try to avoid it, but now he quite simply loathed it. Still baring his teeth at the awful ball of fire in the sky Zero cracked his eyes open a second time. He raised his hand to block out its light when it hit him. Just like when it had hit him as he immerged from the cell. Only this time as he moved his hand pain hit too.

It was like a wrecking ball breaking through his consciousness. The sheer pain in his throat now extended to his depleted body. He had used muscles he hadn't moved in centuries. Hell, he'd had sex for starters! Then more than using his muscles he had ignored the fact he hadn't had much muscle left to use. In his self condemned coma his body had started eating away at itself to stay alive. Over time his heart started to slow weakening with each beat then his breathing started to lessen to the point barely able to keep his vital organs alive. Then when he'd awaken it all had to just start back up again. Needless to say the little bit of blood Kaname had given him was long gone now in his body's frantic race to reactivate itself.

Zero dragged in a breath as his throat started to throb. The breath itself tortured his airway. Venom laced saliva poured in to his mouth as the burn coming deep from the pit of his chest started to flare. His nails dug into the leather seat as he threw his head back ready to wail in pain. He felt the burn seeping through his limbs and lacing through his chest gripping him, a few more seconds and he'd be gone, like before he'd be back to that awful monster! He would be to the point he'd rip through anything and anyone to get blood.

'They get weaker just before they get stronger.' Echoed in his head. Yagari had told him that a very very long time ago. He now knew exactly what he meant. A few more minutes and Zero would be able to rip through the metal of the car. He growled baring his teeth as his long sharp nails ripped into the leather upholstery of the seats.

Suddenly his door opened setting him off balance, his eyed darted, and his Vampiric bared teeth still smiling broad. The lines created on his screwed up growl must have looked quite the demonic, Zero would have thought if he had the ability to think of anything besides red at that moment.

"Zero." The calm voice spoke. Zero's crimson eyes examined the creature standing at the open car door, completely unrecognizing. A pale hand outstretched towards him. He snarled baring his wicked fangs even more so, the process demonizing his face more. He slid away from the hand cautious his alert crimson eyes watching the creature before him.

The creature sighed, looking at him with dark sorrowful eyes. "It always amazes me how fast you can become so animalistic."

Zero was far beyond comprehending what he was saying. He hissed at the thing and lifted his sharp nails ready to defend himself. The thing reached for Zero again and he panicked. Not being able to slide back fast enough Zero lunged and bit in to the hand. Dark blood oozed from the defensively made wound. The thing just looked down at Zero unblinking unyielding. Zero snarled around the hand as that awful dark magenta gaze just stayed on him. Then the blood finally registered. Zero's eyes went wide as contemplation started to seep in to his thought process.

He immediately released Kaname's hand from his mouth, his own hand going to his mouth in amazement. What had he just done? Kaname was surely going to be angry with him. He'd practically attacked the man. The man who had saved him. His finger tips touched his pale lips in shock. You don't just drink from a pureblood; it has to be offered to you. His tongue instinctively licked at he drops of blood left on his lips. Kaname's blood.

Zero's head snapped up as Kaname's hand went to his shoulder.

"Come on Zero, let's get you inside and cleaned up."

Zero's was astonished, but not unwilling to simply obey Kaname this time. He nodded and Kaname gave him a slight smile back. Kaname's hand moved down to Zero's elbow as his other moved to Zero's other elbow. Zero shifted his feet on to the ground. Looking down he suddenly realized. He had no shoes. When had he lost his shoes even? He couldn't remember. He quickly looked up and at Kaname.

Zero held on tightly as he stood from the car. Kaname was right to help him he realized as he felt the burn in his limbs from the effort of simply standing. His eyes flashed over his skeletal hand grasped on to Kaname's sleeve tightly. He was nothing. He'd become absolutely nothing. Skin and bone that could barely walk on his own. And that infuriated him on the inside. He was stronger than this. He was so much stronger than this!

He looked back up at Kaname, those dark eyes were watching him closely. Zero still wasn't sure what those eyes saw. A lover? A comrade? An enemy? Why Kaname had saved him from that wretched place, Zero still was quite unsure of. And yet—he was almost, almost treating him like he had treated—no that was blasphemous. There was no replacing her. Zero was not a replacement and he wouldn't let himself become one. Kaname wasn't his owner—he just wasn't sure exactly what he was to him. A means to an end maybe, a lover probably, a threat…definitely.

Suddenly Zero's knees buckled.

Kaname hadn't expected it and had clearly been focused on something else along with Zero. Zero's knees hit the cement hard. What was left of his once denim jeans ripped, along with Zero's fragile and stretch thin skin. Blood smeared all over Zero's cloths and legs as the gashes were torn even more open. His skin was too unhealthy to sufficiently protect him. Zero looked down in terror and embarrassment at the awful red mess he had made. He quickly placed his hands on the blood soaked ground trying to push himself up to stand.

Kaname knelt graceful, as always, down to Zero.

Zero still panicky quickly realized he'd just blood soaked his hands and tore them from the ground looking at them. He was almost to the brink of crying. It had all been too much. The stress at least, it was baring down on him now. He'd messed up again. And now look at the little pitiful scene he'd created. His pathetic walking corpse soaked in his own blood and still bleeding on the ground next to the crouched elegant creature that was Kaname. The pureblood looked graceful and perfect in his white pressed suit and perfect composure. Zero the heap of bones and skin that was so weak he couldn't even stand. On his knees blood oozing out from his so easily inflicted wounds. He was to the brink of a meltdown while the pureblood looked perfectly composed.

Zero flinched as Kaname's hand softly went to his chin. Zero didn't look up from his hands as Kaname's long fingers traced along his jaw line.

"Zero." Kaname spoke. Zero still didn't look up. He was too ashamed. He was creating such a mess of things. Kaname surely wasn't doing this out of some sense of responsibility and here he was fucking it all up.

Abruptly Kaname twisted his fingers at Zeros chin just so, pointing Zero's pale face to look at his. Their eyes made perfect contact Zero's flawless bright silver eyes locked on to Kaname's deep darker eyes of such particular magenta. Zero slowly lowered his hands to stop their shaking. He wasn't sure what Kaname's next move was going to be. But Zero was sure of one thing, his life, was completely in Kaname's hands. He didn't have the strength stand on his own now.

"I wonder, do you ever realize how beautiful you are?" Kaname breathed in a soft whispered lull. Zero wasn't sure how to respond to him. He was still shaking as he tried to think. Was the question rhetorical or was he really suppose to answer? Oh god his brain felt so sluggish. Three hundred years without blood and he could hardly put together a sentence.

Kaname smiled, "Don't stress over it too much Zero, you look like you're about to burst." His words were laced with amusement.

Zero swallowed hard and nodded once feeling there was nothing else he really could do.

"Come on then." Kaname said taking Zero's elbow again. Zero panicked as he almost grabbed on to Kaname's sleeve. Even just grabbing on to Zero had smeared red stains on the white sleeves. Zero looked down. His decision making process worsening as he tried to think of what to do.

"It's alright Zero." Kaname spoke. "I'll just buy another suit anyway."

Zero nodded. Forming words in his condition just seemed like such a daunting task.

Kaname helped Zero slowly stand. Once Zero was on his feet Kaname switched positions, going behind Zero. One hand still at one of Zero's elbows the other wrapped around Zero, his hand resting on Zero's jutting hip bone.

Zero looked up. His mind was extremely hazy, but he registered at least a few things. They were at what Zero guessed was Kaname's estate. What looked like a butler and a few maids were waiting at the door of the mansion. Zero kept looking around himself as Kaname started to guide him up the marble steps. He was most certainly not in Kansas anymore.

Zero laid back against the back or the tub. The water was so warm against his skin. He had been placed here in the bathtub almost immediately after getting in to the large house. Kaname could say he didn't mind about the bloody mess Zero had been making all he wanted, but Zero knew the truth. Kaname liked things tidy and clean. Sorrow hit him at that thought. He'd learned that pointless little bit of information from Yuuki…and Yuuki was gone now.

Zero sighed and looked over at the port bottle on the small side table next to the massive deep tub. The port bottle was, of course, full of blood not actual alcohol. A glass of the stuff had even been poured out for Zero. To get him back up to par he was sure bottles like this would probably be following him around the house. He sighed again figuring he might as well start now. He lifted his arm up and out of the white bubble filled bath to take the glass.

He concentrated very hard on not looking at his arm as he did so. Looking at his own body disgusted him lately. He would keep his eyes from it as much as possible. It wasn't natural to look like a corpse. How Kaname had ever managed to bang him despite his appearance wasn't beyond him.

Zero took a healthy sip before stopping. It wasn't synthetic. Or at the least it was not the medically produced stuff he'd been living off of before his capture. Then again, he supposed that it wasn't out of possibility that they had improved the taste. The other stuff was so bland, and this, well this tasted real. He took another sip still enjoying the taste. He started to look around him again. He had been used to nothing and now he had all this around him. A whole room simply dedicated to the bath tickled him beyond comparison now. Now only that but every part of this room had been aesthetically pleasing to look at. Zero had grown accustomed to stone. Cold gray stone everywhere. Then again this was his first bath in three hundred years. He was glad there wasn't a mirror in the room though. He didn't want to see himself.

Of Course, under it all there was that nagging at the back of his head. What did Kaname really want in return for all of this?

"We spotted it just as you pulled in sir." The guard spoke in a deep voice as Kaname looked at the wretched creature dragging itself up his driveway.

Kaname's eyes narrowed in annoyance. Another one. He'd hoped the one they had run in to in the car would be enough for one day. But, of course, not that would just be too lucky.

"So why did you call me here?" Kaname asked cold. There was only one way to deal with these creatures, they didn't need his supervision to tell them that much.

"Oh," the guard looked a little flustered, like he didn't want to be the bearer of such bad news. Kaname didn't really care. The sooner he could see to Zero the better. Knowing the boys state he's drown in the bathtub without even the energy to yell for help.

"We didn't mean to disturb you being you have a guest and all—"

"He's not merely a guest I assure you he will be staying as a permanent residence." Kaname clarified strictly.

"Yes well you see the thing is that it's still alive."

"Yes, I can see that." Kaname said, his temper flaring a bit. "and I can also see it getting closer and closer to the house."

"Well, yes, but what I mean is its still curable. We were wondering if you wanted us to give it the antivenin or not--"

"Kill it." Kaname cut the old guard off. He had better things to do right now.

"But sir—"

"If it's still curable it should have enough sense to stay off my property, and besides that the antivenin may or may not work and I will not have a threat like that close to my house right now."

"Sir we've cured other before—"

"and most without my consent and besides before I didn't have something precious to me now I do."

"We could—"

"Kill it!" Kaname hissed. "Or I will feed you to it and then order someone else to kill it." Kaname said quiet violently. The older man nodded. Kaname straightened gaining back his composure before turning to the door. As he started out the sound of a gunshot was heard. There was a hellish pained screech, followed by two more rounds of fire. After was silence as Kaname walked back through the hall.

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