Chapter Six- New Methods And Unforgivable Sins
Infirmary – 9.00 AM
At last, Yuuki woke up from a comforting and lurringly addictive goodnights' sleep, relieved that she did not have another nightmare, but she considered Zero as being the cure for this, as he used her own method for making people sleep after terrifying nightmares (stroking head till the person sleeps comfortly and peacefully with no worry)
Yuuki rubbed her eyes gently, as her body was still achy, but, to her surprise, the pain seemed to have disappeared slightly over night. She expected to wake up to Zero, but it seems that she was wrong.
The last time Yuuki saw the room she was in (the infirmary), she remembered it as being mysteriously moonlight and dark, but now, bright, warm sun rays glared beautifully through the gaps of the closed cream curtains that were easily seen on the wall beside her bed.
Yuuki reached out her hand to the spot on her head where she last felt Zero stroking before she entered the dream world that she previously visited that night.
She was disappointed at the absence of one of her closest friends, Zero. And that was when she remembered the commitful sin she offered him. She then panicked, not knowing whether Zero had stopped worrying or stopped being disgusted at the offer and whether instead he calmed down and forgot it for now. Yuuki was not going to give up knowing that it was her blood that quenched his hungry, lustful, thirst.
She shot up in bed, feeling that she wasn't going to be in too much pain when she moved, but she was wrong. A sharp shooting pain shot up her back, and she fell back onto her back, yelping in a bit of pain.
"God damn it!" she said shocked at the sudden pain which she wasn't expecting. "Maybe I shouldn't have got up that quick." She said sighing in annoyance waiting for the pain to fully fade away.
"Yuuki, are you fully awake?..." Said a warm, bouncy voice entering the room silently.
"Oh, hey Father." Yuuki smiled warmly, suggesting that she didn't mind the chairman's presence.
The chairman smiled back contentedly. "How are you feeling? Before I mention anything else?"
"I feel much better actually, thank you." Yuuki replied honestly.
"Well that's good news. But I came here also to say that you have a visitor, but before I can allow her in, I have to check something." The chairman walked over to Yuuki and looked down at her neck, seeing that her wounds were still covered by the white, cotton bandage that was encircling around her neck. "Its okay now, it's just we don't want any hints giving away something now do we." The chairman said looking at Yuuki, knowing that she knew what he was talking about (the vampires). "But Youri is here to see you; she has been worrying for you. So good luck with that." The chairman said giggling after.
He walked to the infirmary door and opened it to show that Youri was standing outside of the door looking confused at what was going on. Youri gasped when she saw the sight of Yuuki lying in bed with a few bandages, in front of her.
Yuuki responded with a smile. "Youri."
Youri walked in and the chairman left closing the door behind him leaving Yuuki and Youri alone.
"Yuuki what happened?" Youri asked cautiously.
Yuuki didn't know what to reply back to Youri without it sounding obvious that it was a lie. **Well Zero bite me and took some my blood, as he has finally turned into a vampire that has thirsted for blood after such a long time** Yuuki thought in her head.
"I just accidently hurt myself during my night patrol; you know how clumsy I am." Yuuki replied giggling a little.
"True, very true Yuuki." Youri replied giggling but turned to confusion after a minute. "But Yuuki, how exactly did you hurt yourself? I mean, you look rather hurt, so hurt that I can believe that it is very painful." Youri replied pointing out the bandages around Yuuki's neck and the bruises around it.
Yuuki reached her hand up to the bandages, like she was expecting some sort of help from it.
"I feel down those awful, uneven concrete stairs by the chairman's office. I rush up and down the death trap all the time, and finally, I actually tripped up and somehow cut my neck." Yuuki replied trying to sound confused.
"Ah, defiantly sounds like you then." Youri replied smiling with humour and comfort. "But I hope you feel better soon."
"Yeah, I sure I will, I'm planning to get up today, I don't want to stay in this room for too long." Yuuki said looking around sighing.
"Yuuki, for once, stay here and repair yourself. Is there never a day when you just rest?" Youri snapped back politely.
"Well, that has just proved that I'm like my father after all." Yuuki replied laughing.
Youri joined in.
Youri broke the few minutes silence by asking a question which Yuuki always found hard to answer.
"So how has Zero been recently? I mean, I haven't seen him in classes for a long time now, I was wondering whether something happened?" Youri asked concerned for Zero's absences.
Yuuki knew that she didn't have to make an excuse like she did for Aidou, she could easily make a different excuse making it believable.
"He's just feeling a bit off recently, and also tired." Yuuki replied not looking at Youri just in case that she maybe suspected that she was lying. "Our job seems to be growing even longer every day." Yuuki sighed.
"Yeah, well try not to work too hard." Youri replied kindly. "But besides, I better go and leave you to rest and go to first lesson." Youri leaned over Yuuki and hugged her gently. "Don't work too hard, and don't start to get up, just rest, you need it." Youri stroked Yuuki's forehead and then walked over to the door.
"Thank you Youri. But I can't really promise it." Yuuki replied with a rebellious impression her face...
Youri simply smiled, knowing Yuuki would reply with something similar. She then left the room closing the door behind her, leaving Yuuki alone again.
She laid in silence, listening to the loud voices of students talking as they made their way to their lessons from outside or inside of the building.
After five, short minutes, Yuuki was surprised to hear the voices of the students of the Day classes to fade away so quickly, leaving Yuuki lay in pure, undisturbed silence, except from the natural echo of the trees rustling in the wind making the atmosphere peaceful and calm.
Even though Yuuki was enjoying the peace and quiet, she felt as though she needed to get up and make an effort to try and not be to restless and lethargic. However, before she made any movement, she considered that she should now and then rest remembering the sharp pain that rushed up her back.
Yuuki builded up her courage and braveness to try and get up again, but more slowly. And she did, swinging her legs down beside the bed to stand up straightly.
Yuuki sighed in relief that she had felt no pain and aches. She then walked carefully, making sure she didn't trigger any pain, to the sunlight curtains, to then open them wide to daze in the beauty of the warm sun, which glamorously lit the fresh, spring gardens of the academy.
She looked around expecting to see a day class student wondering about somewhere, but it seemed that she was wrong. It was peaceful, more peaceful then she had ever seen it like before. And this made her want to have the opportunity of taking advantage of this peacefulness.
Yuuki looked down at her body, wondering whether the clothes she was already wearing would be suitable to be seen in or to go out in. She was still wearing her blood red day class uniform. She didn't feel disgusted or surprised but knew that she couldn't be seen like that, so she walked away from the window and to the Infirmary's tall, brown wooden wardrobe knowing that there would be some sort of clothing so that she could replace the uniform she was wearing.
She hoped to find another spare day class uniform in the wardrobe, but to her disappointment, there wasn't. There were only white, medical looking, nightgowns. She took one from one of the three piles of them and held it from the shoulders so that it freely dangled from her arms showing its shape and design. She looked at its gustily plainness, but decided it was better and less suspicious than walking around in blood-stained clothes as she looked back down at her own clothes comparing them with the medical night gown.
She swiftly and quickly changed into the white, medical gown as though it was like she was going to miss an event, in this case, going to miss the beauty of the warm, welcoming sun and peacefulness of the schools gardens/grounds. And she then swooped down onto the floor to retrieve her black, short lengthened, leather boots and slipped them onto her feet tying the laces up by the sides making them tight enough so that they wouldn't come off her feet.
Before leaving the room with excitement, she realised that the sun may have fooled her about looking warm and being welcoming. She remembered that the spring season can be sneaky when it came to weather and was actually cold and have chilly winds.
She sighed in annoyance as she looked down at the white, ugly, thin material, short sleeved medical gown. She looked around the room to see whether there was a jumper or coat, but it seemed that there wasn't one present. She cursed under breath now knowing the next place she had to check again. The wardrobe.
She walked over to the wardrobe again giving the expression of annoyance in the way she quickly rushed to its wooden frame opening its dark wooden doors again with enough force to slightly cause the doors to slam there way open making a thudding noise. Apart from the shelf that she has previously looked at for clothes, she immediately looked at the shelf that was below the medical gowns and was surprised to only see two white fluffy dressing gowns. She took one without any hesitations at which one to pick and she unfolded it and put it on not wrapping it round her body as she was in a rush, like she was racing against time. Once she felt comfortable she had an urge to run, but she remembered her aching body and muscles and thought of it as a bad idea. She didn't want to be injured more and be caught off guard by someone such as the Chairman. She knew that she would be restricted from going outside and she didn't want this to happen, so she power walked her way to the entrance to door to exit the building and enter the beautiful, icy, sunny grounds of Cross Academy.
Once she reached the door that lead from the academy and onto the grounds, she stood leaning against the door's wooden frame inhaling and exhaling deeply taking in the icy fresh air that wakened her more, and she looked at the gardens from the position she was standing in taken in its beauty as they gleamed in the sun.
She smiled feeling no worry due to the beautiful sight. It soothed and calmed her down a lot, but she knew deep down inside that when she had to leave the heaven like gardens, her worries and memories will come back to haunt her again.
Yuuki then fluently and gently touched the side of her neck where Zero had bite her seeing and feeling whether the bandage was still on firmly, and it was, but she kept her hand there and put a small amount of pressure onto it feeling the dull, sharp pain entering through her neck again. She clenched her teeth for a few seconds to keep her mind off of the pain.
Taking her hand of her neck, she then peacefully walked down the concrete slab, stairs taking in the beauty that stood before her, and instead of walking alongside of the building, Yuuki walked straight forwards on a path that took her deep into the academy's gardens. She defiantly wanted to visit her favourite place before anything, the place where her and Zero had always relaxed during their breaks or simply went to cool down there after a stressful day and she didn't care if she was seen by someone, even if she looked like she had run away from a hospital.
At the thought of Zero, Yuuki remembered the pain and fear he was going through, the pain of becoming and being a vampire that would no doubt turn down to a level- e if not seen or fed to properly, she rested her hand upon her chest. Yuuki knew what a level – e vampire was, but she had never seen one, but she was told that it was a very dangerous, life-threatening, risk if she ever came across one. She clenched her fist at the thought of Zero being a danger to people around him. She tutted in disgust at her behaviour of her relaxing calmly outside trying not to worry, as her close friends were.
**Zero would never hurt anyone, not a soul, he cannot help his cravings for blood, but I know that he wouldn't want that or mean to hurt anyone, he is too soft hearted, and I know that even though he hides it so well with his pain and hatred of his past and present, but I, will do anything to control that beast within him, because I know he doesn't want to fall to that dreadful stage, and to be honest, I don't want him to either, I don't know what I would do without him, because I know for sure that if he does fall to that stage, I will no longer be able to see him and he will no longer be his-self, so that is why, I have agreed to give Zero as much blood as he needs, to keep his beast satisfied and at a safe level** Yuuki thought slowly relaxing her fist and lowering her arm so it was back within the walking rhythm of her other arm. **because, Zero needs this... Zero needs me, not for my help, but for my blood that he craves for and stratifies him the most, because, I need him... and I cannot afford to lose him, even if this wish of Zero taking my blood means the betrayal of the ones that are also close to my heart** Yuuki suddenly remembered the evil, blood thirsty Kaname in her dream... the one who had claimed to have owned her blood and the one that had betrayed her and her father. She looked down at her steady pacing feet and sighed in discomfort at the thought of betrayal. **if Zero doesn't fully accept my wish and offer, I will make him, it's not like me to persuade or beg, but when it comes to loosing someone such as him... I will do anything, even making them think rightly so they know for sure that they are making the right decision even if it is a sin... which in this case, it is**
Yuuki finally walked and arrived to her destination walking through the archway which consisted of a wild red rose bush, which gleamed its beautiful, contented red coloured petals and lively green leaves in the shimmering, icy, sun. She arrived yet again, at the place which she liked to think as secret as no one would usually be seen there only except from her and zero during their duty breaks. The place where she would relax and simply think about anything that was on her mind.
She looked around the pound at the wild and potted plants, seeing their colours show brightly and respectively as though it was the first time their beauty was seen and shown. Her eyes then slowly moved towards the pond to see water lilies with white buds growing amongst them and floating peacefully on top of the dark green pound water.
Yuuki sighed and walked over to the rectangular, concreted pound and sat on one of the cold, concrete will that surrounded the water. She didn't care what may have been on the wall she sat on, she didn't mind as she knew she was in ghastly clothes which wasn't hers.
She took the beautiful scene in around her slowly, taking in every small detail as possible for a few minutes not thinking about anything, till all a sudden she whispered something to herself, something that wasn't on her mind that very moment and something she wasn't even thinking about.
"What we are about to do... Me and Zero... is something that can't be forgiven very easily, it is seen sometimes as a taboo to vampires and humans, but to only some that believe that keeping a vampire from falling to a Level – E is wrong and unnatural... so this means that me and Zero are taking part in something unforgivable... but... Let us do something unforgivable..."
Yuuki sat stunned at the words she had just whispered to herself, not knowing of how they had entered her mind and escaped from her mouth. And this had puzzled her for the few hours she spent out in the gardens peacefully and freely as she wasn't caught.
Many hours later...
Yuuki was making her way back to the infirmary as she decided that she was getting too cold and that she also saw that the day was finally breaking into a beautiful dawn. She spent many hours outside not caring, but she was surprised that the day had gone past so quick; all she did was sit and took in the beautiful scenery around her thinking happily and calmly to herself. She finally got back onto the main path to walk to the entrance door again, and then saw that she was walking opposite the wooden door, gradually getting closer to it with every step she took, but she was still quite a distance from it, although a distance at which she could still see it clearly. She watched the upcoming door way, as though it was welcoming her in a trance till she was interrupted by something that got in the way of the clear view of door in front of her.
Her sight was interrupted by a tall male wearing a long, brown travel coat and western styled hat. Yuuki could only see a bit of his black hair which looked rather long. She could only see his back as he was walking towards the wooden door from a different direction, and it looked as though he had a long back thin-ish cube around him and hanging down from his back. It seemed that the new male didn't see Yuuki, and as this was the case, she was pleased, as she didn't want to be suspected as an intruder or someone that was not meant to be there but somewhere else. She looked down at her clothes and thought, **yeah, and the place that I look like I should be at is a hospital...maybe even a mental home!** she giggled a bit, but decided to concentrate on this new visitor.
Yuuki watched him swiftly enter the academy through the big wooden doors, and Yuuki wanted to run to catch up with him, but she knew it was a bad idea, but she wasn't going to give up that easily, so she jogged to the door after a few seconds of the man's disappearance and walked through the door silently and carefully as she didn't know whether she would make a loud noise or whether the man was still close by, but to her surprise, there was no sign of the man. He completely disappeared. Yuuki turned her head from side to side to examine the corridors and then she looked up the concrete stairs in front of her and not a trace of the stranger was noticed or spotted. She stood puzzled for a minute and then considered that she was imagining things again.
Yuuki shook her head in disbelief and thought that she should forget what she may have seen and walked straight forwards and up the concrete stairs back up to the infirmary.
Once she had entered the infirmary again, boredom overwhelmed her again and she felt like going out, but she knew for sure she would be caught if she spent any longer outside.
She looked glumly at her bed and went to sit on it. She realised that she wasn't in much pain anymore, and that she didn't ache as much, but there was one thing she wanted to check... her bite wound.
Yuuki looked around the room immediately in desperate need of a mirror, and she saw one easily above the white sink opposite her. Yuuki got up obediently without hesitant and walked forwards towards the sink and stopped leaning her stomach on it slightly. She looked up into the mirror to look at her bandage around her neck to find the beginning of it. Once found, she untied it and started to un-wrap her bandage of from around her neck slowly preparing herself for what appearance may show. She unravelled the bandage completely off her neck now and held her hair out of the way so she had a clear view and she gasped at her wound.
It was red and swollen, with two dark, deep blood coloured bite wounds which were in the middle of the swollen redness.
The wound was defiantly visible on her pale skin, and it wasn't hard to miss. And she could tell that it was starting to bruise on the outer area of the wound.
**Damn... I hope it won't be like this all the time...** Yuuki thought gently touching the wound with her fingers, sliding them across it and then flinching to the slight stinging erupting.
She sighed and then looked out of the window be-side her seeing that it was now turning dark.
**the day class should of swapped with the night class by now... I wonder if it was cancelled again... or if Zero did it on his own** Yuuki thought miserably and guiltily.
And at that moment, three firm knocks came from the closed infirmary door and this made Yuuki jump. Due to the shock of it she immediately walked over to the door and was about to open it, before the pain of remembering the wound wasn't covered and was in clear view. She struggled.
"Who is it?" Yuuki asked politely but actually panicked waiting for the answer which she wanted quickly.
A deep, but soft and calm, voice entered Yuuki's ears coming from outside the infirmary door. "Its Kaname Yuuki, can I come in? Or is it an inappropriate time?"
Yuuki gasped in shock, but didn't want to reflect on her nightmare and replied as quickly as possible trying not to sound worried and to try and keep her mind off the certain topic. "Oh, sorry Kaname-Senpai, course you can come in." Yuuki turned away facing back towards the window with her back facing the infirmary door which Kaname was now entering through as she heard the light click of the door closing.
A shiver ran up her spine as nothing else was heard, but just the silence of the trees singing tunefully in the howling wind. And before Yuuki knew it, Kaname's long, strong built arms arms were wrapped around her, embracing her gently but firmly and closely. She was automatically comforted, although she was confused,... wasn't she meant to be at least afraid of his first appearance since her nightmare? Was she meant to be weary around him and his kind? Especially after finding out more of Zero's past. Yuuki felt that she should be feeling that way, but she couldn't express it, she was under a sort of trance of Kaname which made her feel instead calm and neutral.
Yuuki looked down at Kaname's arms seeing that he was wearing his white coloured night class uniform.
Kaname then placed his head on Yuuki's, only putting a little bit of pressure on it so Yuuki was still comforted.
"Mmm... Yuuki." Kaname said whispering slightly and breathing down her neck. "You shouldn't really look at your wound... it may scare you... or even get infected and it still smells of blood."
Kaname let go of Yuuki and walked to the infirmary cupboard which Yuuki had got her clean gown from, and he pulled out another bandage and walked back unrolling it.
"I hope I don't hurt you" Kaname said with the bandage un-wrapped and ready to put around her neck again, but once he was about to wrap it around Yuuki's neck, he suddenly stops realising. "Sorry for my rudeness Yuuki. Do I have permission to put this on you?" Kaname politely asked holding up the bandage so that she could see it.
Yuuki nodded in agreement and Kaname simply smiled and carried on from where he was last time and was wrapping Yuuki's neck comfortably and securely.
**How can this vampire be evil?... this beautiful pureblood... the strongest breed of all vampires, the breed that is most feared upon for its cruel and strong powers that they can use any time they want and on anyone they want?... that's why and how this vampire can be evil...And why it should always be evil and why I should fear it** Yuuki thought closing her eyes due to the soothing feeling of her wound being covered by cotton.
"And there we go, all done" Kaname said cheerfully once he had knotted the bandage so that it didn't come undone unexpectedly. "Yuuki, are you okay? Or are you still traumatised from last night? And don't deny that you aren't upset... I can see it in your eyes, and I can also sense the uneasiness." He asked with a little tone of worry in his voice. **did she remember what I said last night... the statement of killing Zero for Yuuki's safety...** Kaname thought puzzled as he was defiantly sure that he had wiped that part of her memory away.
Yuuki shook her head. "I'm okay Kaname, thank you. And no, I am not, it is still a bit of a scare for me when I remember, but not completely because its Zero, I could never be afraid of him, but no, I am traumatised, but from a nightmare, and I don't really want to talk about it. No offense Kaname-Senpai" Yuuki replied politely not making eye contact with the soft, deep brown eyes of Kaname.
Kaname moved his hand up to Yuuki's soft, pale cheek and placed it there, holding her face, soothing her, and making her look into Kaname's welcoming eyes. Yuuki's face turned from being pale to bright pink. Kaname giggled at this and Yuuki blushed more, slightly embarrassed now.
"Oh Yuuki you make me giggle." Kaname said smirking.
Yuuki felt more blood bubbling to her skin surface on her face and took a step back from Kaname's reach and covered her face saying nothing so that she wouldn't look or say anything embarrassing and stupid.
It took a minute for Kaname to decide whether Yuuki was upset or embarrassed, but he didn't hear any signs of upset, so he decided she was embarrassed.
He, Kaname, took a few steps towards her again and grabbed hold of her wrists pulling them away from her bright red face.
**Ah, god... what do I do? I look like a right idiot... an idiot in front of Kaname!** Yuuki thought annoyed.
Yuuki never knew why she always felt different around Kaname, she always felt that she should always act more formal and politely towards and around him, she never felt herself, and never felt she would, even though she had always considered him as her brother. Maybe it's because of his vampire status?
"Did I do something to make you uncomfortable Yuuki? Or did I embarrass you?" Kaname asked giggling whilst holding her wrists firmly away from her face.
Yuuki didn't look up at him. "You didn't do anything to make me uncomfortable; I just embarrassed myself that's all... I'm sorry Kaname." Yuuki replied shyly.
"So...If I did this..." Kaname said pulling one of her hands towards his face to place it upon his own cheek, and watched her waiting for her reaction.
**Oh these warm hands of hers... how I have wanted them like this after such a long time** Kaname thought as he remembered the last time he had done this when Yuuki was a little girl.
Yuuki blushed and looked down to her feet. She was speechless. "K-Kaname..." she replied to the action shyly still looking down at her feet.
"I'm sorry, I just wanted to see your reaction... it was worth it in the end." Kaname said removing her hand from his cheek and giving Yuuki back her wrists.
Yuuki was still speechless and didn't know what to say.
"But anyway, I just wanted to see whether you were okay, I stayed with you for a bit last night and I felt guilty not staying for long. And I also wanted to ask about how your day was..." Kaname said moving in closer to her ear and then whispering "your day outside." Moving away again.
Yuuki looked up straight away looking confused. "B-but how? When did you see me? And how?" she asked as she knew Kaname didn't come out during the daytime due to the day class fan girls.
Kaname smiled warmly. "I do look out for my window Yuuki, and my window has a perfect view of the school grounds. But I'm glad you got out, I bet you feel so much better?"
"Oh, right." Yuuki replied. "And yes I do, I feel great to be honest. I'm hoping to get out of this place today."
"well, Yuuki, you would be surprised at how slow a vampires bite mark would normally take to heal, so you would be lucky if your wound healed quickly, but I have to admit, Kiryu's bite wasn't very gentle now was it..." Kaname said sneering slightly at the thought of him.
"Kaname, Zero didn't mean to, he has been hiding this secret for a long time now, and he has been hiding his craving for blood! He is very strong Kaname! And to be honest, I wouldn't care if he killed me, I would still be inspired by his courage, bravery and will power, but I would wish that he wouldn't look so pained... so fragile... like he is going to break any minute... I want Zero to smile and laugh, I want him to show his true feelings and feel new feelings such as love and care. I try, try so hard to show him what they feel like, but it seemed that he has been cursed in never feeling them again." Yuuki replied looking straight past Kaname and through the window now looking at the darkness of the Academy's grounds.
**Will that broken hearted boy ever be fixed again...?** Yuuki thought, trying to consider herself in Zero's shoes.
"Yuuki, you can't help that Kiryu had a bad past." Kaname said soothingly seeing the upset look in Yuuki's eyes. "There isn't anything you can do, you have tried your best and you worry for him obviously, but no matter what you do Yuuki, it will always be there... that memory... it will always be in the back of his mind reminding him and ripping his heart more ope-"
Yuuki covered her ears guessing the next few words that Kaname was going to say, guessing that they were going to be hurtful. So she turned around and walked out of the infirmary with her ears still covered and shut the door behind her, standing outside the infirmary in the dark corridor.
**Why would Kaname speak like that? He knows it would upset me... Damn, I wish I wasn't easy to upset.** Yuuki thought. She sighed burying her face in her hands.
"Ah, Yuuki!"
Yuuki looked up to see her father, the chairman, with his dark blonde hair in a ponytail, and wearing his usual cream, cotton fabricated coat and green scarf, walking down the corridor towards her.
"How come you're not in the infirmary?" The chairman asked confused looking from Yuuki to infirmary door.
"Oh, I just needed some air." She simply replied now making herself stand straightly.
"Oh okay, well I was just coming to get you and say you can come back and go to your classes tomorrow, although you still may want to wear that bandage just in case it still hasn't healed. And also, I came to get you to talk with you in my office" The Chairman said in front of Yuuki now.
Yuuki simply nodded, as she was still shocked at what Kaname was saying, and simply walked with her Father to his office which she last saw in her nightmare, as being blood stained.
They walked along the dark moonlight corridors, which were silent and mysteriously creepier than usual, till they got to the Chairman's office which was light brightly with the cream lamps that are dotted around his office, and they both entered the office and to Yuuki's surprise, Zero was there leaning against a wall, in this case, the wall Yuuki was pinned up against in her nightmare. She shivered at the thought.
"Ah, Kiryu-kun, just in time" the chairman said happily and closed the door behind Yuuki and himself.
"So, you said there was another way?" Zero asked straight away in his usual cold tone of voice with no smile spreading across his face at the presence of Yuuki and the Chairman.
"Yes, there is, and I'm about to explain it." The chairman replied walking to his wooden desk to sit down.
"And why does this include Yuuki?" Zero asked not looking at her but eyes focusing on the Chairman instead.
Yuuki looked over at Zero, and he still made no movement to look back. She had the impression that he didn't want to look at her, so she wanted to look away, but she couldn't for some strange reason.
"Yuuki plays an important part in this." The chairman explained, and this caught Yuuki and made her now look at the chairman. "And she is the only one you can rely on at the moment at she is your working partner that now knows the truth." The chairman looked over to Yuuki. "Yuuki, you must keep this as secret as possible? I know you would not tell anyone no matter what, but you now have an important role, and that role is to control Zero, and be around him as much as possible so he doesn't accidently do something due to his new Vampire instincts." The chairman opened one of his desk draws and pulled out something small, but long and silver with a pendant in the middle of it. It was a silver, metal chain, with a silver, diamond shape pendant in the middle, attached to it. "Yuuki this is for you." The chairman said handing it over to Yuuki, who didn't hesitate to take it. "But it isn't a normal bracelet. It has hidden powers, but for this hidden power to show, it must have a pair." The chairman looked over to Zero. "And the pair is Zero's tattoo on his neck. As your probably aware, the tattoo has been fighting against the vampire within you for so many years now, but the vampire growing within Zero has become too strong for it to handle and control now, therefore, we go to plan b. Zero, give me your hand and Yuuki come closer to Zero." Said the chairman holding something silver in his hand and getting up from his desk and walking over to zero and Yuuki so that he had good access to them instead of being blocked away from them between a desk.
Zero held out his hand with no sign of wonder at why he, the chairman, had asked of this. It might just be proof that Zero trusts the chairman and knows that he has the knowledge of what he was doing or was about to do. The chairman took of Zero's index finger and revealed the silver object in his hand. It was a pen knife and without warning, the chairman used it to piece the skin of Zero's finger tip allowing blood to pass through the piecing.
"Yuuki put the bracelet on" the chairman asked Yuuki politely keeping an eye on Zero and his finger. Yuuki put the bracelet on. "And now give me your hand Yuuki." The chairman asked holding out his hand waiting for Yuuki's hand to lay upon it. Yuuki worried after she saw what her father did with his pen knife but she gave her hand willingly to her father knowing it was for the best and to her surprise, her father did not repeat the action on Yuuki's hand but instead laid it out so that the diamond shaped silver pendent, with a symbol similar to Zero's tattoo (but not the same) was facing upwards. Her father then, still holding onto Zeros bleeding finger, he dragged it slightly over to Yuuki's bracelet and laid the bleeding finger of Zero upon the silver, cold pendent, and to sudden surprise and shock, blue sparks flew madly at the touch of zero's finger, but after a few seconds the sparks stopped. Zero and Yuuki both looked puzzled and confused at what just happened.
"You two now have a powerful bond, and Yuuki, you are the controller of it as you have the bracelet which is now in connection with Zero's tattoo. This means you have control of him and you can stop him if he is going to attack a student or yourself Yuuki. It would paralyse him and his instincts keeping them calm for a few hours. And here is how it works. Prepare your self's" the chairman said still holding onto Yuuki's palm now holding it firmly and holding it up and moving it towards zero's neck before the bracelet hit the skin of Zero's tattoo there was another sudden flash of white and blue electric like sparks that came from the bracelet, and this time, joint to the tattoo on Zero's neck. Before Yuuki or Zero could react to this, there was a sudden white flash and they were both blinded by it.
After a few seconds, Yuuki tried to adjust her eyesight and the first place she looked at was opposite her to see whether Zero was there, and to her shock, he wasn't. She turned immediately to her father gobsmacked at this but before she could say anything, she caught her father smiling at the floor, and Yuuki looked in the direction of hers fathers eyesight and then clasped a hand to her mouth confused at the sight she was seeing.
Zero was pinned to the ground with four, magic red, glowing knifes that were each attached to both of his arms and legs holding him in one position, and Zero's facial expression gave the hint of complete shock and unawareness of what just happened.
"Urmmm... Dad?" Yuuki asked still looking down at zero with confused eyes.
"Zero is now temporally paralysed... even immobilised!" the chairman said with no worry but with pure fascination of the process. "He should snap out of it in a bit, the magic wears off after ten minutes. How are you feeling Kiryu-kun?"
Zero didn't move his head to make eye contact with the fascinated chairman, but instead, tries to reply and sound normal. "H-how ...d-do you think I f-feel?" he replied with a tone of annoyance.
"Okay then, how do you feel about this method?" the chairman now asked with a little tone of seriousness.
Zero sighed closing his eyes and he kept them closed whilst he answered honestly. "It ... Will have to do I guess..." Zero opened his eyes again which looked pained and hurt in Yuuki's point of view, but she knew he didn't want to show these emotions, but Yuuki knew when there was something wrong with Zero.
"At least for now anyway." The chairman reached down to Zero offering his arm to help Zero up as the magic seemed to have started to fade away, but Zero ignored this kindness and got up on his self.
"Thank you chairman, but I think I need to go and have a rest." Zero walked away not looking at either Yuuki or the chairman.
"Zero?" Yuuki called out after him about to follow him but was stopped by an arm of her fathers.
"I would leave him for now, he has a lot to think about and you have a lot to plan and prepare for." Yuuki was confused once again and she looked up at her father who was pushing his glasses further up his pointed nose.
"Plan?" Yuuki asked.
"Yeah, I think it's a good idea that you should just get out of school for a day, and maybe go to the town? Or another place."
"Another place? Father, do you mean out of this area?" Yuuki had excitement building up within here at the ideas of going to new places which she has never been to before.
"Yes Yuuki, anywhere you want to go sweet, but not too far and you have to tell me where you are going firstly!" the chairman replied smiling.
"Oh yay! Thank you so much Father!" Yuuki immediately went to hug him with a force at which he nearly stumbled at, even with Yuuki's height which was short. "But wait" Yuuki said realising something whilst embracing her father's strong torso. "Will Zero be coming?"
"Ur, I don't know Yuuki, I might talk to him about it though, he needs some air, but I can't promise anything." The chairman replied trying not to get Yuuki's hopes up.
Yuuki took a moment to take in what the chairman had just said, but her mood didn't turn into excitement again. She stayed normal with a neutral attitude.
**I can't get my hopes up no... I know what the answer would be anyway...** Yuuki thought letting go of her Father trying not to look upset.
"Thank you father, I think I should go to sleep now, I can return to my room now can't I?" She asked remembering Kaname in the infirmary.
"Yes you may Yuuki, I will tell the nurse you're in your own room now so there is no sudden panic after you like usual" He father smiled hinting her clumsiness.
Yuuki blushed in embarrassment and turned to the door and walked to it. Before leaving she turned around to face her father. "Thank you Father. Goodnight and I love you." She wanted to also the mention the fact that she saw a man enter the academy, but she left it, she didn't want her father knowing that she was outside when she was injured and not meant to and she thought of it as not important, as there should of been a difference within the academy if there was something that caused it.
"I love you to Yuuki, sweet dreams." Her father said smiling warmly back her with his startled green eyes.
Yuuki walked out and shutted the door behind her, now alone outside in the darkness of the hall. Her mood changed to upset which she wanted to hide from her father. She sighed and thought it was best to try and forget about asking the offer of Zero coming and tried to concentrate on where she wanted to go.
She started to make her way down the hall to her bedroom to go to sleep in her own bed which she loved the thought of, but during that night, she didn't sleep as well as she thought and wanted to, she couldn't get the offer of Zero coming out of her mind, it was constantly there reminding her that Zero would either say no or go being bored and not happy... as usual that is.
**When will he ever smile... when will I ever make him smile** Yuuki thought in her bed with her eyes closed, trying to get a decent night's sleep.
"The Beach..." Yuuki said out loud quietly to herself. "I have never been before... from what I hear from people... it's the most beautiful and calming place someone would go... it's perfect for how I'm feeling at the moment..."
And that was the last words she, Yuuki, had said before silently and gently falling to sleep.