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Chapter 42
I looked around and jumped off the coffin.
"Victoria/ Victoria-sama!" Kaoru and Mimi shouted at the same time. I took off my shoes running at full speed and going down the stairs to avoid Yuuki trying to call me.
"Victoria!" Yuuki screams but I keep ignoring her. I have the roses in one hand looking around for Kaname. I opened the doors to where I think he is and found Kaname. I was breathing heavily as I looked at him with relief. I felt my legs giving out as I bend down to the floor.
"I thought... you went somewhere else..." I said my voice shaky.
"I was wondering why your expression changed. All for such a thing." Kaname chuckles looking at me with a happy expression. I glared at him and stand up walking in front of him. I showed him the rose that was in my hand.
"It's not 'such a thing'! Put the rose back-' I shouted.
"I was fetching your clothes while I cam across a vase. I thought it might remove the 'bad taste.'" Kaname says looking at me. "After seeing such unclean events, one should gaze upon nature's beauty." I looked down at my clothes to see no blood at all. I felt my cheeks heat up as I walked to Kaname.
"Onii-sama!" I shouted banging on his chest. "Don't just suddenly do that when I'm sleeping! Pervert!" Kaname grabbed my wrist for me to stop punching him. "Pervert! Pervert!"
"It's not my first time..." Kaname whispers.
"So, it's still embarrassing." I said. He let go of my wrist and patted my head.
"...I didn't do anything else though." Kaname says facing me his back. I looked at Kaname calming down the heat from my cheeks.
"... I had a feeling that someday, I would want you to know the entire truth." Kaname says. "And when that Day came, the you that listened to me so obediently, wouldn't be able to endure it any longer. So I tricked you... without any regard for your circumstance even..." I dropped the rose on the floor as I hugged him from behind.
"I didn't care about how beautiful the rose was. When I opened my eyes... I wanted the first thing I saw to be my onii-sama's face, not Kaoru's or Mimi's." I said. 'Kaname-onii-sama, where are you? Kaname-onii-sama! Kaname-onii-sama! Why aren't you by my side?' I gripped on his shirt thinking of me being so worried about Kaname. Kaname turned around to look at me.
"Do you still think of me as your brother? It's okay if you still think that I stole your brother's life." Kaname says. I pouted looking at him. I let go of him to sigh.
"Baka. I told you that from the very beginning that I knew that you were actually the Kuran ancestor. Even though I still knew... Why did you think I kept calling you Onii-sama?" I looked at him with a smile to see his eyes widen.
"Victoria..."
"But if you don't mind. I would like to start and call you just Kaname." I said looking at him.
'I know the tragic past you had Kaname. I know that things weren't easy for you till now. I still want to thank you for giving at least giving my parents their first child even though they knew you were ancestor. I want to thank you, for letting me have a feeling of a big brother.' I thought. 'I will help you Kaname. Even though you are my ancestor you are still my brother.'
Kaname was now drinking tea with Aidou's father.
"Defeated... not only did my son get captured by the association, I never thought that I would receive such an apology..." Aidou's father said remembering Victoria apologizing to him.
"Why don't you sit, Lord Aido. This tea was specially brewed by Victoria. Don't let it go to waste." Kaname says getting Lord Aido's attention. "Hanabusa should be fine. He's earned the trust of everyone in the association after all"
"I guess... the association wouldn't be that harsh. Umm..." Aidou replies.
"...Yes?"
"Rumors have been spreading... If you leave Miss Sara to her own plans, every human woman would become one of her followers... it's just rumors said jokingly." Lord Aidou says.
"So you want me to check on her? No problem. I'll destroy the root of these rumors." Kaname says.
I blinked looking at Kaname and Lord Aido from the portal Kaoru made.
"Sara, huh?" I said standing up. "Man, I still feel bad about Aidou-senpai. I can't believe I left him there."
"Don't worry about it Victoria." Mimi says reassuring me.
"Oh, how is Yuuki? Did you show her Kaname's memories like I ask you to?" I asked Mimi. Mimi nodded her head.
"She's sleeping right now, but don't worry." Mimi says. I nodded and looked back at the portal.
"...Let Hanabusa be least of your worries, I'll make sure he's rescued. Lord Aido is indeed a good father." Kaname continues.
"...While usually telling his son to be useful, a father is quite pathetic in these situations... When that time comes, Kaname-sama, we seem so cruel and even hesitant to sacrifice even one for the greater good..." Lord Aido says. Kaname put his tea down on the table.
"If you're talking about the counsel, I've got nothing to say. The got what they deserved." Kaname says.
"No something earlier... something that happened before Shizuka went missing- You, witness the most sinful crime in the history... of purebloods." Lord Aidou said. I sighed leaning back against the wall.
"That's enough, Kaoru." I said. Kaoru closed the portal and turned to look at me. "He knows."
"It seems like it." Kaoru said. "Victoria... when you were in the memories did you talk to anyone besides Kaname." I blinked looking at Kaoru and had angelic smile.
"What are you talking about?" I said.
"Victoria, don't lie to us." Mimi cuts in. "We know you better then anyone. You are the one that wants to change this story right?" Victoria frowned and sighed in defeat.
"Okay, okay. I talked to the 'that woman'." Mimi's and Kaoru's eyes were wide looking at me.
"You talked to her. Are you that stupid?!" Kaoru shouted.
"I only said 'remember me.'"
"You idiot are nuts. She threw her heart..." Kaoru stopped talking realizing what I did.
"Victoria, don't do that again. You can ruin the story plot and everything will go wrong for your future." Mimi says.
"Alright." I said standing up. "I better apologize to Aidou-senpai's father again." I walked into the room to see Aidou's father, Yuuki, and Kaname. I looked at the ground feeling guilty. "Aidou-senpai's father, I'm really very sorry. Because of Aidou-senapi was kidnapped. I think, he's okay, but..." Lord Aido stand up very fast and crashed some of the tea sets.
"Please stop. Don't apologize so easily, it's disgraceful. Let me tell you one more time, I know my son doesn't do a good job, but it's his duty." I looked to see Lord Aidou smile gently about his son. "I'm very proud that Hanabusa's such a dependable person."
'Man, Aidou-senpai's father is such a nice guy.' I thought. 'I'm starting to feel bad for Aidou-senpai.' I gave him a closed eye smile.
"I'm proud of him too!" I said.
"Victoria, Yuuki. I have an appointment so I'll excuse myself." Kaname says standing up. I flinched a little looking at Kaname.
"Um..." Yuuki hesitates.
"Please show Aidou-san out." Kaname continues.
"Yes..." I replied. 'There's so much I want to discuss, with just the two of us.' I stand up and walked Lord Aido to the doors with Yuuki by my side.
"Well... please don't worry. Just remain calm and wait for good news." Lord Aidou says.
"It would be nice if I could just do that, but..." I replied back. "But this is just how I am, and I can't change. So..."
"...It's worrying, isn't it? You're the only person..." I looked at Lord Aido narrowing my eyes. "A person like you... could you really stand against Kaname-sama?" I had faint smile on my face for him not to see.
"I'm not so sure... what you said...?" I tilted my head.
"...Nothing. If you think something is wrong. Please plead with Kaname-sama not to do it... I really appreciate you, Yuuki-sama, and Kaname-sama trusting my unworthy son, but I don't want you to take the wrong path. I want you to maintain peace. ...Well, this is just the selfish with of a parent. Before, I was thinking that my daughter would make a good mistress for Kaname-sama. It was a really selfish thought to have." I frowned from the idea of his daughter being Kaname's mistress. Lord Aidou replies heading out the door. I nudge on Yuuki so she can speak for me.
"We're not sure how to say this, but... our brother really appreciates having a person like Aidou-san close to him..." Yuuki says.
"He appreciates him that much?" Lord Aido ask.
"Yes, that much." I replied.
"...Well, I'll go then." Lord Aidou said.
"Um, I'm also thinking about what Aidou said... I'm with 'him'... with Kaname. BUt nothing is going to happen until I can be his equal." I said making his attention back on me."And..." Lord Aidou turned to look at me. My voice and eyes were serious looking at him as my eyes turn crimson. "Be careful." He nodded his head and head out the door. The door closed in front of me as I put my hand on my eyes.
"Victoria, are you okay?" Yuuki ask. I nodded my head as I breathed in and out making my crimson eyes back to normal.
"I'm fine. I still need to control my powers." Yuuki nodded her head.
'Victoria, Akatsuki and Ruka are in the manor.' Mimi informed me in my head.
'Already...' I thought. I looked at Yuuki and smiled at her. "I'm going to see Kaname-onii-sama okay?" I was walking ahead but Yuuki stopped me by grabbing my arm.
"You knew that Kaname was actually our ancestor from the very beginning." I looked at Yuuki with sadness in my eyes. "Why didn't you tell me?!"
"Because I waited until he was ready to tell us." I said hugging her. "I'm sorry, Onee-sama." I looked at her and turned around to the direction where Kaname is.
'Never once did I ever think about being his equal until now. Just like Onee-sama I admire him from afar and I kept telling myself that was enough.' I though continue walking to Kaname. 'Everything I wanted truly wanted was mine right from the start with even knowing. And then, so many things happened...'
"What are you saying? You want what?" I looked to see the vampire me. "If you want, you can eat all of him Isn't that what you want? If you don't devour what you desire, you'll be driven insane." The vampire was gone as I looked down on the floor. I smiled as I put my hand to my head.
'I'm not so far with powers to be Kaname's equal. Though the vampire inside doesn't care at all. I haven't done anything. I'm sorry... The limit of my power is taking care of myself; that's all I can do...' I thought. 'He returned Hope. I was allowed to see his past, the past that Onee-sama saw. He's telling me that I can change. And...' I looked in front of me to see Ruka and Akatsuki. 'Now everything is changing about me.'
I walked to them as I passed Ruka, I glanced at her and whispered.
"I'm sorry you can't talk now." Ruka looked at me with wide eyes as I looked at her with a sad smile. I opened the door to see Kaname. 'I need to act a little longer.'
"Kaname-onii-sama!" I shouted mad. "What did you do to Ruka-san? She isn't normal!" Kaname looked at me with no expressions on his face and then replaced it with a happy smile.
"You're... so quick to accuse me like this..." Kaname replies.
"Eh?" 'Shoot.' "But... A long time ago, in the dormitory you did something to Ruka-san..."
"...Yes, I did very cruel things... to Ruka-san as a substitute for Victoria..."
'Eh? For me, so in the beginning it was me not Onee-sama.' I thought.
"Even though Ruka-san was very kind to me. She is a good-hearted person!" I shouted at Kaname.
"Victoria, it's too late. ...Now. I will only bring even worse feelings in the future. I don't think she will forgive me for a very long time." Kaname says.
'Idiot she's following you isn't she?' I thought.
"... What happened?" I asked. Kaname didn't replied to me and only smiled. "A secret...?" I looked down at the ground.
'Of course more secrets.' I looked to see Kaname's jacket on his arm. I felt my eyes begin to sadden.
"Onii-sama, are you going out..." I said covering my eyes with my bangs. "...leaving again?...Ka... Kaname..." I sort of feel a little jealous for that woman to give that name. Kaname put his hand on my cheek.
"It's alright... I understand." Kaname says making me look at him. "If it's too difficult then please. Give me a new name, Victoria." My eyes widen as I narrowed my eyes and looked down.
"No. This name was given from our mother!" I said quickly. Kaname put his hand down to his side.
" What... I thought you were jealous. But I guess not that jealous." I pouted, puffing my cheeks as I grabbed his hand and looked at his eyes.
"Obviously I'm jealous." Kaname's eyes were wide. "Jerk." Kaname smiled as he walked to the open doors.
"Come here, Victoria." Kaname says. I walked to where he wanted to show me to see a blond stain on the floor. "Before, I kept you locked up in the place where I slept, until you learned how to satisfy your hunger on your onw. It's okay. Victoria, your biting has become much better." I sighed rubbing the back of head.
"I guess, I must seem like a child to you." I said. I looked in front of me to see in Kaname's hand was a key. My eyes widen and my fist clenched.
'Already...' I thought.
"I want you to keep this important thing." Kaname says.
"A key...?" I ask. Kaname put the key on my hand.
"...Hey, Victoria, can I ask you something..." I looked up at Kaname to see his eyes were serious. Victoria, how do you see me?" My eyes widen. "I want to hear it from you, instead of only guessing for myself."
"I knew that you the Kuran's ancestors. I have to admit that I was surprised to know that I was blood-related to you. I was happy to know that I have my memories and that I have an older brother. You're the same as species as me, a beast in the form of a beautiful man." Kaname touched my cheeked. "You're an anima, but also fragile. And a liar. You hid so many secrets from me and Onee-sama that I keep wondering what is that you are hiding." I looked up at him. "To be honest, I thought it was Onee-sama to be your wife ever since the beginning, but when I remembered I was to be your wife. I still have doubts if you really like me very much." Kaname cupped my cheeks with his hands and put his forehead to mine.
"... Yes, I like you... but there's so many emotions... mixing together..." Kaname says whispering in my ear.
"...Kaname..." I said. "I... I want to start over, and examine you more closely." 'Even though I know that... yet why now? So soon too.' Kaname looked at me still cupping my cheeks. "From this point on, I want to start over. This is the only answer I ca give you right now..." I felt like the tears were welling up in my eyes and that Kaname was embracing me.
"Let's do it... Victoria." Kaname says. My eyes widen to what he says.
'Kaname... please don't contin-' I thought but he cut me off from my thoughts.
"...It's time. I have to go..." Kaname says.
'No...'
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