Hey Readers, I am so incredibly sorry for the lateness and shortness of this chapter! College has started again, and I am finding it hard to make time to write more. I am also writing up two new fanfictions aswell as this one, which I will keep you posted on. Yet again I am truely sorry, and I hope you will forgive me and enjoy this chapter, even if it is short, at least its keeps you wondering whats going to happen ;3 Thank you xx

The Overpowering Smell Of Blood

Yuuki cried, crawling slowly to a corner of a room leaving a trail of blood behind her. Rido, was as usual; Careless. Selfish. And laughing as cruelly as ever from the other side of the room.

Yuuki shook. Her face dirty with blood. Her body, covered in bite marks from head to toe, and all were bleeding nonstop.

This is the end of me. I feel it. My heart... its slowly stopping. Yuuki thought. I never wanted this to happen. I thought I was strong enough... Z-zero... Yuuki shook more violently and let out a loud whimper at the memory of his silver silky hair, his lilac gentle eyes and those lips. Those lips... in which I will never touch... with my own. I thought I was strong enough, but I am just as weak as I was when I was human...

Yuuki stopped unable to move any further. She knew what she needed. Blood.
She clutched her throat in pain and eye eyes burned a crimson red, at the thought of the warm red, iron tasting drink as though it was mulled wine.

"Have you given up yet? You keep trying to fight on like this; I will end up killing you! And we both know that we don't want that to happen hey?" Rido walked across the room towards Yuuki's near lifeless body, kneeling down beside her.

Yuuki sobbed knowing that it was either life or death. But what was she going to choose? She knew that if she took Rido's blood, a blood bond would immediately be made.

Yuuki looked up to her torturer innocently, confused and distorted, seeing as her vision was nearly completely blurred. She used her last remaining energy to sit up and push Rido over so that he fell back leaning on his elbows. Rido smirked victoriously, as he watched Yuuki climb onto him slowly.

"See... wasn't hard to give in to me was it?" Rido stated putting an arm around her waist in support and encouragement. Yuuki flinched at the touch.

Yuuki looked long and hard at his neck, sensing and seeing the blood that ran through his arteries.

"Don't hesitate darling..." Rido whispered to her moving closer towards her face as she now straddled him.

"You really think that I am hesitating?" Yuuki said suddenly pulling Rido closer by his collar. "I'd rather die than drink your blood." Yuuki slapped Rido before using her knee to hit him hard in his crotch. Rido shouted in pain as Yuuki attacked further with the rest of her energy. Now to just satisfy herself that she didn't die without a fight.

Zero

As Zero struggled against Shizuka, as she tried to reach for his neck, it was then he heard the nearby shout of Rido coming from the night dormitory. Shizuka heard this too, and luckily this distracted her.

In the opportunity, Zero kicked Shizuka off and brought out his bloody rose pointing it to her head, aimed perfectly. She laughed, but why?

"You really think you can kill me? Your own master! Oh Zero my dear, you do make me laugh.." Shizuka loudly stated with a chuckle.

Zero shot her in the shoulder, immediately annoyed with her confidence.

She gasped in pain with a loud shriek before she looked over at Zero in rage. "You... you piece of filth! You dare harm me! You do know that you won't be able to survive without me!" She screamed, red eyed.

Zero stopped lowering his bloody rose. "What do you mean, I can't live without you?"

Shizuka smirked. "You don't know? You don't know that my blood is the only thing that will stop you from turning level-e?"

Zero froze, was this true? Shizuka was his only escape from becoming a level –e. Zero sighed and looked back up at Shizuka, as though in defeat.

He grabbed her by the neck and pushed her into a tree. "In this moment of time... I'd rather help Yuuki than save myself from becoming a monster!" Zero shouted pushing her to the floor making a run for the night dormitory.

Shizuka raged, and got up, but was only stopped by a firm hand grip on her arm. She smirked and chuckled not even to have to look at who this person was.

"What's making you want to stop me Kuran? You hate the boy don't you? Heh, don't deny it, I smell the hatred and jealousy, and this is all because of one girl"

"I am only stopping you because." Kaname sighed not letting Shizuka go. "I know how she feels about him, and from what Zero had just said, I know that he feels the same, even though he can't in such a monstrous state he is in. So you need to give up this poisonous dream and want, and just stop!"

But will Shizuka stop the want to rule? As zero approached the doors of the moon dormitory, why did he stop in pure fear at the overpowering smell of blood?... of Yuuki's blood.