Chapter 10
Kaetsukikko heard Aido's voice through the door berating Kaname. She crossed the room and opened the door. Standing in the doorway, she witnessed Aido punch the man. She found no need to stop him from punching the man once, but when she saw Aido raise his fist once more at Kaname she held her breath, hoping he would not. The blow fell. Kaname clutched his bleeding lip. That was when she ran. She caught Aido's arm before he could land another blow on Kaname.
"Yamete!" tears were falling.
"He deserves it, the bastard. How dare he?!" cried Aido. He was still angry with him and Yuki for appearing in his mother's room, uninvited.
"Onegai," her voice broke. Seeing his mother so broken, he relented. He stormed back to his room, not before saying, "I dare you to hurt her because if you do, I can kill you," he said with a twisted smirk.
Kaname said nothing, but turned and walked in the other direction. "Matte (wait)! Here," said Kaetsukikko. She cut her wrist and the blood dropped into a heart shaped cup made of ice. "This will help you heal faster." She walked up to him.
Kaname turned and refused when saw the shape of the cup. "I have hurt you enough. To accept this then turn you down after would hurt you even more."
She gasped, then the cup shattered, into pieces just like the pieces of her broken heart. She froze, rooted the spot. A single tear rolled down her cheek. Outside, the weather changed. The sky began to darken and clouds formed instantaneously. Rain began to fall. Thunder and lightening shook the heavens.
Several nobles gathered in the hall because they had scented blood. The nobles began to feel tension in their bodies as their powers began to respond to the storm. They all knew the storm was unnatural.
"I smelled blood," said Ruka. "The sweetest I had ever scented. Kaname-sama did it come from you. You are hurt?"
"No," said Kaname answered. "There was no such smell. There is only this." He pointed to the cut on his lip.
The pieces of the shattered cup said otherwise. There was a telltale stain of red on it. The shocked pale face of the beautiful Queen said all. She had tried to give Kaname her blood to help him heal faster. The nobles knew of the Elixir of Immortality and its healing agent.
Kain swept up the pieces of the broken cup and helped his Lady back to her room. He decided to ask Aido to try and fix it. He laid his lady on the divan in her room so that she could rest. He then turned back to disperse the crowd, only to find them crowded around the door.
"Is there anything I can do for you?" he asked exasperated. "No? Good, now stop blocking the door. I need to talk to the prince, Kuran Yuki, Seiren, Souen Ruka, Ichijou Takuma, Senri Shiki and Touya Rima. Will you please follow me?" He led them to Aido Hanabusa's room.
"What happened?" demanded Aido. Worry replaced irritation in his eyes.
"Kaetsukikko-hime tried to give 'him' blood. This is what happened to the cup she used." He showed the pieces to Aido. "Can you mend it?"
"I can try," said Aido. He led them over to his desk. He used the power he had over water and ice to put the cup back together. They saw that it was in the shape of a heart. It immediately shattered once more when he put it on his desk, even though he had done so gently.
Seiren and Ruka gasped. Why did that woman give Kaname-sama her blood and in a heart shaped cup, no less? And it shattered when he refused, plus it will not mend.
Yuki just bit her lip. Both Hanabusa and Kain looked at her. They wanted permission from her before they proceeded to tell the Rima, Ruka, Seiren, Shiki and Takuma the truth. She nodded.
Kain asked a question, "Did you know that your precious Kaname-sama broke Code number 56?"
They gasped. It couldn't be possible.
Kain continued, "He had a blood bond prior to the one he had with Yuki-hime. This previous bond was accidental, but there is no denying that Kaetsukikko-hime loves him, though he does not deserve it." He had made the account brief to save Yuki from more grief.
The five nobles could not speak. They did not know what to say. Their minds were in turmoil. They could not believe that Kaname-sama broke the Code. Then, Ruka said "It was for good reason that he broke the Code, he never loved Kiryu anyway. He only loves Yuki-hime and he was pledged to her, so even if ever loved the boy, they could never be. Even now, Kaetsukikko-hime can not accept that. She is nothing but a selfish good for nothing whore who was born into a high place she does not deserve!"
"Silence Ruka!" It was Kaname. "Do not insult the woman I loved."
Doomedpassion: I am living up to my name sake. This chapter was inspired by My Destiny by DBSK, BoA's Everlasting and No. 1.