Chapter Seven – Final Answers And Agreements
"The Beach..?" the chairman asked sitting down behind his wooden desk, looking across it to look deeply into Yuuki's eyes who was sitting right before him on the other side of the desk.
"Yes Father, I really would like to go there, and you did say any place I would like to go, but I understand if it's un-doable." Yuuki replied politely and happily half smiling at her father, in an expression of secret persuasion.
The chairman reached for his glasses and pushed them further up his pointed nose, and then held both of his hands together and placed the knotted hands by his chin. "Sure Yuuki, you can go to the beach, but it might be a bit of a long journey, but it is worth it and I will talk to Zero about it as well, I can't let you go on your own, I have a lot of work to do here as you know, it is exam time and I need to prepare for them for the day class and do your job of patrolling the grounds at night so you can do your revision."
Yuuki smiled fully instantly and widely. "Oh Thank you father!" she got up from her seat and skipped around the desk to her farther where she embraced him tightly but warmly showing thanks.
Yuuki's father giggled and patted her on the shoulder during her embrace before she broke off. "Its fine Yuuki, you need a break like this anyway, and now I actually think that you should talk to Zero, he may not listen to me... you know what he is like around me and others, he only halfly opens up to you."
Yuuki looked down at the floor and started to walk to the door and turned back to look at her father before leaving the soothing, sunny atmosphere of the Chairman's office. "Zero never opens up to me either Father...wish he did." She didn't want any reply or attention at her feelings, so she walked out closing the door behind her before heading to the room where she knew Zero would most probably be in, and if not, he, Zero, would be out by the stables with the horses, which he was very good with.
Yuuki walked along the hall way to reach for Zero's bedroom to knock her usual two times on the dark wooden door, before she entered. Before she could knock, Yuuki had heard deep coughing coming from the room which started to sound like gags and chokes. Yuuki didn't hesitate to knock and rushed within Zero's room panicked by the noises.
"Zero!" she rushed into his room and looked around dramatically to see Zero crouched over his sink breathing heavily into the deep depths of the sink not looking upwards towards his new visitor.
Yuuki stopped seeing the state he was in. **It's now been a week since Zero has properly drank...** Yuuki thought getting the feeling that it would soon be the end of that week.
Zero didn't turn around to Yuuki but instead lifted his head in line with the mirror above his personal sink. His reflection was messy. His silver long hair was ruffled, his day class uniform was loosened as Zero has presumably loosened his tie grip and the first few buttons of his uniform was un done and he was also panting heavily like he had ran for a long time without stopping.
He looked straight to Yuuki in his mirror reflection and never turned around to actually make face to face contact with her. He didn't smile, which was always usual for him.
Yuuki looked away from this contact and down onto the sink, where she saw a black box of blood tablets on the side of it. And it was then she realised.
"Zero... is your body still rejecting the blood tablets?" Yuuki said then looking away from the blood tablets and up towards the mirror again to still see Zero looking at her.
He simply nodded and looked away back down at the plug of the sink not daring to look at Yuuki any longer as he started to feel the urge of thirst growing stronger at the weak scent of her, as she was still far away from him. "Just don't come any further will you?" he asked keeping calm and trying to control himself. **Please, do not come any closer Yuuki... I don't want to do it again** He thought to himself taking his hand and running it slowly through his soft, silver silky strands of hair.
"I haven't forgotten on what I offered you Zero... I promised myself and you that we would keep your condition under control and it's been rather a long time for your thirst and hunger... I don't want you falling to a Level-e, and you don't want that either, and I haven't actually seen the true nature of a Level-e vampire for real, and I'm not planning to..." Yuuki took a deep breath. "That's why I'm still very willing for you to have my blood on a regular basis on when you need it the most... this is unforgivable this offer yes, and an act of sin, but, let us do something unforgivable?... together, just you and me, no one will know." Yuuki said trying to sound comforting.
Zero cursed angrily and span around to face Yuuki properly now. "I don't want to use you for that Yuuki! I could get carried away if I held of your blood for a long period of time, and when I mean carried away; I mean I can kill you. I would also hurt and injure you very much, and make you weak alongside that, so it will easily be seen."
"I don't think it will Zero... I mean I felt much better this morning, I'm sure I will get used to it and yes it will hurt, but not very much, it will probably become more comforting more than anything." Yuuki replied honestly looking around the room.
"Comforting? How can you say that Yuuki? Why would it be comforting!" zero replied with his voice raising in stress and anger.
"Its comforting to know that you're helping someone for a good reason, and this is a good reason for why I should do this for you." Yuuki snapped back at Zero now looking directly at him. She could see that he was trying to control his wanting of her blood in Zero's eyes, still remembering that it was hers that he obsesses about the most.
Yuuki took a deep breath and started to walk nearer to the sink in which Zero stood at watching frightfully and panicked at the mirror watching her coming closer and her scent was becoming stronger with every step Yuuki took. This welcoming scent of Yuuki immediately set of Zero's vampire instincts and it was now getting harder for Zero to control the blood thirsty side of him which he tried to keep control of.
Zero lurched swiftly and quickly over the sink not looking in the mirror now but now clutching his neck and the place in which his tattoo was. It was yet again, burning red causing him pain at it trying to fight back the vampire instincts.
"Yuuki, Don't... come ... closer." Zero panted breathing heavily down the sink and holding his eyes tight shut trying to relief the pain. But it was no good. His other hand which was not clutched tightly around his neck, tightened on the edge of the sink. He was trembling and shaking dramatically scared and knowledgeable about what was coming next.
Zero didn't have an answer but instead, his hand that was clutched around tightly on the edge of the small sink was held, held by Yuuki's hand, which was now holding on tightly on his hand. Zero turned around to look at her, his eyes turning a burning, crimson, red at her appearance and smell, and with his hand clutched tightly around the side of his neck where his still burning red tattoo was.
Yuuki's eyes were sorrowful, and she pulled him away from the sink and towards the door still holding his hand tightly, leading him the way as he was still trembling and shaking violently.
"Yuuki, ... where are we... goi-" Zero struggled looking downwards at the floor trying not to breath and look at Yuuki knowing that he may attack her viciously again.
"We need to go to some place where there's a lock, your room door has no lock." Yuuki replied opening the bedroom door and checking the premises before letting Zero into the hall. All was still and quiet. She pulled him out quietly and gently and quickly took him to the farthest room in the corridor and to the farthest room with a lock. The bathroom. She turned corners and tried to hurry also being as quiet as she could. Zero was still being led the way, shaking.
"Ah, here we are." She said confidently as no one was in that part of the corridor, she opened the bathroom door and walked in taking Zero with her and then closing and locking the door afterwards. And with her body still facing away from Zero, she un-did her day class jacket and un did the first few buttons of her shirt. Yuuki could hear the gasping and panting of the blood thirsty Zero behind her. Once she had finished, she span around slowly to stand in front of Zero, whose eyes were staring at her with still a burning, crimson red colour and his tattoo was un-clutched by his hand and was left alone burning red freely and clearly. He stood there petrified and trembling trying to control the vampire instincts taking over him.
Yuuki sighed and looked down at her feet. "Don't hesitate... Just, take some." She said plead fully looking back up at him. He still didn't move. "Fine then.". Yuuki built up her courage and strength and walked over to Zero and took him by both of his arms, and with all her strength, she used it to push him against the wall behind Zero. He gasped in shocked and loss of air at her suddenly abnormal strength. Still with her hands holding holding tightly around Zero's arms, she used them to push them down, allowing them both to slide down the wall so they sat on the floor. It was then Zero realised how close Yuuki was to him. He covered his crimson eyes with arm.
"Don't make me do this to you... again." He said guiltily and sickly. His body started to tremble and shake again at the remembrance of the first time he had bite Yuuki and how her warm, rich blood flowed into his like a flowing, thick, red river.
**Mmm... that taste of her blood... oh how I long for it every day... and here, right now, she sits her before me, with her shirt half un done revealing her welcoming, warm beautiful neck so ready and healed for another taking of blood, and how willing she was to allow me... but, somehow, I still hesitate... I still try to restrain my thirst, what is Yuuki to me? She isn't just only the girl that took care for me throughout my pained, lonely life, she isn't just like a sister to me... she is something else, but I can't quite get to what it is...** Zero thought evilly and confused, mixed with all feelings, but the feeling of want over powered him more. But, is it the want of Yuuki's blood he wanted... or is it the want of Yuuki herself. He shook his head continuously trying to clear his mind from the beginning of his true feelings which he did not want to explore or think about yet.
Zero was suddenly stopped when Yuuki moved his arm out face.
"I'm sorry Zero, but I am going to have to do this.". Yuuki got up slightly and clamped Zero's legs together straightly and then sat back down on them, sitting on his lap, hoping that it might stop Zero moving away or escaping. Zero watched her carefully; he wanted to ask her so many questions on why she was doing this for him.
Yuuki moved her hair slightly to a side revealing the right side of her pale, neck and then placed one of her hands behind Zero's back and the other hand behind his neck pulling him gently but forcefully towards her neck.
Zero started to breath heavily again down her neck, his fangs protruding longer from his mouth. He, Zero had copied her actions. He placed on of his hands on her back and the over in her short, dark brown, soft hair, gripping tighter, gently pushing her head back to reveal more of her neck.
Yuuki's grip on Zero's back and his back of his neck tightened and she forced her eyes shut before she yet again felt Zero's warm damp, tongue swipe slowly and deeply over a large space on her neck.
"Yuuki... forgive me." Yuuki heard the whisper from Zero after he had dampened her neck and then, without Yuuki's reply, pierced her neck with his sharp, long fangs.
After a few seconds of the bite, Yuuki's muscles relaxed again, giving up on her tight grip on Zero and both of her arms fell to her sides and Zero tightened his grip on Yuuki, using the hand in her neck to pull her head further back, and her back was still supported by his strong arm.
Yuuki noticed a big difference. **Zero's bite isn't so... so hurtful now... it feels as though he is trying to be gentle and trying not to deepen his fangs further, but there is still that dull pain... cutting into me** Yuuki thought with her eyes still closed, feeling everything that was happening to her and hearing the spine chilling sound of Zero drinking her blood. **will I ever be forgiven for this sinful act? For this sinful commitment to try and keep a vampire with a past human life from falling to a Level-e? Well. I don't care what people may think... I'm not giving up straight away after this.**
Three minutes passed and Zero finally released Yuuki's neck, pulling his bloody fangs out of her neck and letting go of her, falling back to sit against the wall on the floor still.
Whilst his crimson eyes and burning tattoo, he reached for a towel and wiped his mouth with it. He was also breathing heavily, like he had been running for miles. Once he had cleared up and his eyes were back to their icy, ivory selves, he looked up to Yuuki, who was still sitting before him. He looked down to her neck, to yet again see the large trail, of warm blood running from the two fresh wounds on her neck. She didn't look pained... nor hurt, but she looked worried.
"Zero, are you okay?" she asked looking deeply into Zero's eyes.
He simply nodded and looked away from her. "I'm sorry if I hurt you."
"No Zero, you were really gentle, thank you." Yuuki smiled slightly.
He looked back up to her face, gazing upon it in utter amazement on why she was still smiling. "How can you possibly do that..." he asked looking down on her body now to her hands.
"Do what Zero?" she asked confused.
"Smile... how can you smile at me after I have done that to you?" he said sickened.
"I'm smiling because I'm helping you Zero, and like I have said, I'm planning to do that, and... I just want Zero to smile back." She said looking glumly at her hands as well.
Zero sighed and examined her hands closer and sudden shock and anger entered through his mind and body. "Yuuki! Where's that bracelet you're meant to keep wearing? Yuuki, you have to keep wearing it! You may have to use it on me! I mean, how else would you stop me if I was killing you? Killing someone else even!" Zero said in a raised voice. "It's your duty to use and be the owner of that bracelet!"
"I'm sorry, I forgot to put it on this morning, and besides... I trust you... I know you wouldn't kill anyone." Yuuki said sighing annoyed at her lack of memory.
"How do you know that?... you don't know any idea of what I can do with just the small taste of blood... I have to even fight against the wanting of more blood from you, it's hard to pull away, don't trust me Yuuki, don't trust me with nothing." Zero said getting up
Yuuki moaned in distress. "I will remember next tim-"
"No Yuuki, you go and do it in a minute, just put it on and keep it on." Zero snapped resting his against the wall behind him looking up on the ceiling stressed at this discovery.
Yuuki didn't reply. She didn't want this, she didn't like sudden changes in her life and everybody changing around her, but she would have to accept it, and accept the changes and the new responsibilities she had to take to keep the changes under control.
Minutes flew past, and every minute that past, Zero started to breathe more normally and started to get his human, controllable self. Yuuki took this moment as a good time to ask Zero what she had wanted to ask for a while now, also giving an excuse for him not to argue back.
"Zero... can I ask of a favour?" Yuuki asked sheepishly. "This one favour you can do for me as I'm doing all this for you, I'm only asking you for this one thing out of everything."
Zero nodded as an acceptance for the question and watched her in curiosity.
"Well... my father had asked me whether I wanted to go somewhere new out of this area and I accepted the offer and chose the place, and I thought of the beach." Yuuki explained getting to the main part of her question. "And, I was wondering whether you would like to come with me? I don't want to be on my own. And you also need the break.". Yuuki watched Zero carefully, taking in every detail of his reaction.
After two minutes, Zero sighed annoyed. "Ah, I guess I will have to, the chairman would want me to go anyway. So I will go with you" he replied.
"Oh thank you so much Zero!" Yuuki quickly crawled over to Zero and hugged him tightly not caring what state or he is in, all she cared about was that he said 'yes' to her question that she had been worrying about asking for a long time now. Although, there was still disappointment and worry at the answer Zero gave, and it wasn't because of what he is, a vampire, but Yuuki, hoped and wished upon, a smile from Zero alongside his answer. But she didn't mention anything to him, she didn't dare to. She then, after a minute of excitement and relief, let go of Zero who looked ashamed again and got up to walk out, but stopped before unlocking the door.
"You know" Zero began glumly. "What you are doing, which I really don't agree with because I should suffer for what I am and what I disgust, is something that Kaname kuran may dislike a lot..."
Yuuki looked down from Zero and down to the floor. "Yeah, I have took that to mind about how Kaname may react to this... he may never forgive me, that's how sinful this is-"
"It won't be sinful for long Yuuki, it stops now-"Zero was interrupted by an infuriated Yuuki.
"No Zero! It's not going to stop! I won't allow it! I won't allow you to be in this pain and trauma and also worry! I won't! God damn it, how many times do I have to explain this Zero, I don't want to lose you or I don't want you living a terrifying life!" screamed Yuuki.
"Yes but you can't do it forever Yuuki! It will constantly be there! The thirst for your blood, YOUR blood Yuuki! Do you understand that? Or is it something that flies quickly through your mind and out?" Zero argued back.
"Zero, that fact is always on my mind, I just don't tend to want to know about it. The only thing I want to remember from it is that it helps your thirst. And I don't care how much you take and cause me pain-"
"Well what happens if people do care about you falling ill or in pain due to all this blood loss that you will no doubt get?... people... like me?" Zero calmed and Yuuki looked up surprised at the last words he said. It was like he was speaking foreign again, that foreign side he never explained talked about or showed. Zero stood struggling for words looking down and only thought to himself hiding his true feelings from the world, **people like me? Who care so much about your well being and life... even if it means giving up your mouth watering taste of your blood. I will do anything for you not to be hurt, I can't bear doing it myself, and it makes me feel sick. But I don't want this from you Yuuki... I want you to be happy and not afraid of me... I think I know what to do on this occasion**. Zero sighed. "And people like your father, he defiantly wouldn't want this."
"Well I do, they aren't going to know Zero. It's just you and me." Yuuki stopped, her heart started to flutter wildly at her words. **Why am I feeling this? I feel butterflies in my stomach... and I suddenly feel shy** Yuuki thought and started to blush and therefore looked away from Zero not wanting him to see.
Yuuki heard the door of the bathroom unlock, and she looked up to see Zero about to leave. "Well you're making a big mistake, and I'm not allowing it." And before Yuuki could answer, zero had left and shutted the door behind him leaving Yuuki sitting on the floor confused and isolated on the decision on what to do.
Yuuki got up to her feet stumbling a little and then ran to the closed door, clasping the cold, icy door handle before realising that she felt something dry, and crack on her neck. She froze, remembering what her and zero just did.
**How can I forget?** Yuuki thought moving back into the bathroom and away from the door and moved towards the mirror which hanged on the wall. She turned to it and looked into it seeing a blood stained neck and two fresh wound holes.
**thank god it didn't get onto my top... that's one less thing to worry about** Yuuki thought and reached for a clean flannel which were stored in the cupboard within the bathroom which she also got the stuff she needed for the first time she met Zero.
She retrieved the clean flannel and dampened it not caring about the temperature but making it quickly usable so she can go to see to Zero.
She moved back in front of the mirror with the flannel and started to make it clean but gently wiping the blood off her neck and around the wounds.
**I never knew that 6 years later I would be doing the same thing I did for Zero in this same bathroom and seeing to the same wound... but now, I know what these wounds are and what they are caused by...** she thought wiping her neck clean as quickly and as gently as she could.
After she successfully cleaned her neck from her own blood, she cleaned the flannel and threw it into the wash bin in the bathroom and then reached back into the cupboard and pulled out some plasters and took the most suitable sized one and stuck it onto her neck on the wound, shutting it away from the world that didn't know Zero's secret and the secret of the vampires. It was still very important for no human to know of the vampires, generally and at the academy.
Yuuki looked once more into the mirror making sure there was still no obvious signs and then ran out of the bathroom trying not to stumble due to some weakness.
**Urgh, I hope this side effect will weaken more** Yuuki thought running along the corridors to Zero's bedroom.
She yet again, and constantly as it seemed, rushed into Zero's bedroom bursting the door open like a rampaging bear. Zero wasn't present. His room was empty. Yuuki was puzzled once again.
**Oh god where has he gone** she thought and then remembered what the chairman had told her about Zero and his disappearances ('He disappears temporally for a few hours') **He's off the school grounds! I might be able to catch up with him if he is** she ran quickly from the room and down the stairs and out of the big wooden doors and out into the pitch black darkness which was lit by the windows of the academy.
Yuuki turned a corner which led onto a path that leads to the exit of the academy and she ran as fast as she could and kept her eyes wide open scanning the premises for Zero.
Yuuki started to panic when she was getting more and more closer to the exit and seeing no sign of Zero, but after a few minutes of non-stop running she saw someone in the distance. The person was outlined as a male, wearing a long black coat which came down to his heels of his shows. And on the right side of his, a square bulky shaped object hang down from his shoulder indicating a bag.
Yuuki didn't stop running, but instead speeded up to get a closer view of this person and then saw the relieving sight of Zero's silver long-ish strands, flying to and throw in the wind.
It was then she realised he was carrying the black, travel bag that she had found in Zero's bedroom on the night of the attack.
**Zero... is leaving... leaving the academy... the chairman, his friends...he's leaving me!** she ran faster and Zero never noticed her, before she suddenly caught up with his deep, wide legged steps, and embraced him from behind. No words came out of her mouth, Yuuki held tightly around his arms and waist.
Zero sighed and looked down onto his body to look at Yuuki's hands which were clenched tightly on his jacket, like she was holding on for dear life.
"Let go Yuuki, I need to do some stuff." Zero said trying to be patient.
"Stuff...? What kind of stuff Zero?" Yuuki asked her voice a little annoyed sensing a lie.
"Does it matter? What if I can't you about it?" zero replied.
There was a few minutes silence and Yuuki never loosened her grip.
"You're leaving... aren't you Zero? Admit it..." Yuuki asked.
"No I'm no-"
"Admit it Zero!" Yuuki shouted angrily. "Tell me the truth... it won't hurt me... out of all people, it would hurt you more." Yuuki calmed, closing her eyes tight shut.
Zero didn't answer her demanding question. He raised a hand of his and placed it over his face in thought, and slid the other hand of his on top of Yuuki's to suddenly feel again, the radiating warmness form her body, and he yet again felt Yuuki flinch due to his cold temperature.
"I don't want to be this monster Yuuki, I have already had enough of it, and I want to kill myself Yuuki... that's how much I hate them and how much pain I'm going through. I even hate myself! I can't live on normally when it's there, that pain of her... that pain of tattoo, the pain of becoming something I hate the most and the pain of hurting someone... someone who is so willing to help, like always, that person that is always there for me no matter what, with so much care, help, thoughtfulness, tenderness and gentleness...with also a kind hearted heart... and I don't want to hurt other people Yuuki! I don't want to turn to a level –e ...I don't want my body to be taken over by something else and I cannot accept such sinful behaviour you are willing to commit constantly for something that will work only temporarily." Zero closed his eyes, trying to be calm about the situation and to try and talk sense. "Yuuki... why are you so willing to help me, i know i keep asking this, but what have i ever done for you in return? All I have done is cause you pain and restricted you away from certain stuff, and yet, you want to help me and not care about what the consequences maybe..."
Yuuki squeezed harder around Zero's waist. "I don't care about my past life Zero! As long as I have you, my father and, yes although may not like this, but also Kaname as well I don't care about anything else. Zero, your very close to my heart, like everyone else that is close to me, and I would do anything for them including you, I don't want to lose you, because loosing you means no more me, you are part of my life Zero, no matter what you do, so please, accept this and come back, don't leave us... or me." A tear fell down Yuuki's cheek trying hard to express her feelings of want.
Zero opened his eyes and sighed like he was in distress. He grabbed Yuuki's hands and unwrapped them quickly, letting his waist free from her tight grip. He then threw the black travel bag he had on his shoulder on the floor not caring whether the fall broke anything within it, and he twisted round to face Yuuki, and before Yuuki knew it, she was wrapped in the warm embrace in Zero's arms. Yuuki stood stunned but then comforted, she then too, after a minute, also wrapped her arms around Zero.
"Zero, forgive me if I have been hurting you, or hurting you now with what's happening at the moment." Not wanting Zero to see her actions, Yuuki laid her head against Zero's strong, hard chest listening to his pounding heartbeat. Zero seemed to have seen this as he tightened his grip around Yuuki slowly taking her breath away.
"You have never hurt me Yuuki, how many times do I have to say that? Your too kind and gentle to me, I don't deserve you. It's me hurting you, in the way of feelings and pain. This act is going to affect your health badly Yuuki." Zero replied whispering slightly.
"I will be fine Zero, it's not me that's entering a dangerous situation... its painful yes, but comforting at the same time... we will both go through the pain Zero... together. And don't day your hurting me with these feelings, your too soft hearted to hurt any being, you just want peace, it's you that's the kind one... I know you are scared Zero, I sense it, most people do anything to prevent what's happening if they are scared, but you... you still fight back and want to deal with it yourself without harming anyone, and that, is also why I want to help you Zero." Yuuki replied calmly with another tear falling down her cheek.
There was a minute silence.
"Yuuki... thank you, but I will be fine." Zero said guiltily to the girl within his tight armed grip.
"Zero, don't mention that again, we have both come to an agreement and I want you to accept that, I'm not giving up so, you have no choice." Yuuki said getting annoyed and then realised. "Zero, as a return for what I have done for you... i want you to accept this, do it for me, because i want you too"
Zero froze knowing he had no choice to go against her wishes. "Okay Yuuki, for you, but this isn't going to make me happy Yuuki, and you do know that you will no doubt become my victim right? I don't want that."
"No, I do, I want to become your victim, I rather be a victim then nothing at all." Yuuki said also whispering slightly now feeling calm against the sound of Zero's now calming heart rate.
Another few minutes passed by, Zero sighed in a sign of relief and tore Yuuki's tight grip from around him quickly retrieving his bag from the ground.
Yuuki stood thinking that Zero was going to leave again, but to her amazement, Zero had turned around to face her, with the bag over his right shoulder again, and his ivory eyes looking deeply into her deep brown emotional eyes. His face was emotionless, but his eyes told the inner story of his hidden feelings and emotions, but Zero, as Yuuki knew, dared not to show them, but Yuuki could tell how he was feeling by his eyes and how they gazed into her own eyes. His eyes pierced Yuuki in the sense of seriousness, then guilt and then last of all, hurt.
Zero pulled away from Yuuki's gaze and looked upon the floor and covered his face with his hand. "Come on, we should get in before it gets too cold." Zero said coldly but warmingly at the same time, and he walked straight past Yuuki with his face still covered, like he was trying to hide something. Yuuki had seen this.
"Zero! Are you thirsty again!" Yuuki shouted at him worried, catching up with Zero and pulling him on his arm to stop him from walking any further and so she could get a proper look at him. But it was not as she suspected. She expected Zero's eyes to be that terrifying bright, blood colour and his fangs showing like tiny growing knifes in his mouth. Zero was still his usual self, and yet again he looked into her unlocking gaze. He replied calmly to her, with his eyes fixed on her. "No Yuuki, I'm not... but there is something I have been thirsting for so long now..." Zero explained to her.
"Oh, Zero! Why didn't you say so! I will get it for you, anything! And I will do it!" Yuuki broke the eye contact when she smiled widely closing her eyes showing yet more willingness.
Zero closed his eyes in comfort, and reached for her shoulder. Yuuki opened her eyes and looked back up at Zero, seeing his eyes shut. "This thing... that I want..." Zero opened his eyes at her to see her looking back at his, lost in thought and wonder. Zero started to feel calm and gentle at her eye contact with him. **How how those eyes, never seize to amaze me...** he thought and looked away letting go of her shoulder and left her standing clueless looking after Zero who was walking away from her. "That thing... is something I can never have." Zero shouted back still concentrating on the path before him not daring to meet her contact again.
Yuuki felt guilt and then ran after Zero yet again to catch up with him, and she walked alongside of Zero, close to him, like she felt that she should be protecting him from breaking or falling apart, like she had done ten years ago. Yuuki was beside Zero... and all Yuuki knew, was that she would be always by his side, no matter what, supporting him every step of the way. Yuuki, always wanted to be close to him... it was her one goal in life, to never give up on him, no matter what he does.