Title: Visitors from the Future

Genre: General/Romance/Friendship

Rating:T

Pairings: Zero/Kaname

Disclaimer: No, I do not own Vampire Knights. It belongs to Hino Matsuri - I only borrow the characters from the series and use it in my own fic. However, I do own the three original characters featured in this story.

Author's Notes: XD So, Akane ended up being Takuma's cousin ... twisted right? Cat's out of the bag ... it might not be so bad that Subaru had introduced himself to the irate hunter, but Akira have to come into the picture and introduced himself as Akira Kuran, instead of just his first name ... What do you think will happen next?

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Chapter 9 - The Aftermath!

For a while, nobody dared to breathe a word. The suspense in the air was stifling, as they tried to figure out what would be the irate hunter's next movement. The vampires of the night-class were eying the hunter warily, Aidou Hanabusa would have taken a step forward to attempt blocking his beloved leader away from the hunter's sighting range. However, the blond vampire was hold back by his cousin and the pureblood leader, himself.

Akane was having trouble believing the scene that had played itself out in front of her very eyes. Part of her wanted to compliment Subaru of his efforts in trying to placate the veteran hunter, and yet another part of her had wanted very much to strangle Akira whom just came out and practically announced to Yagari Touga whom hated all vampires in general that they were 'Purebloods'.

Subaru Kiryuu wished as though a hole would just opened up from nowhere in particular, and swallowed him whole. Someone really ought to try and teach his younger brother how to read moods, he knew his brother was attempting to lighten up the atmosphere by acting as a 'clown' to entertain the public. Still, his brother's actions would only add more fuel to the fire instead of putting them out, as it should have been under any other situations.

Zero Kiryuu could felt a migraine acting up now as he found himself having trouble deciding whether he should stand around and wait to see if his master would attempt to shoot the pureblood, or should he just make a grab for the twins and ducked for safety.

Kaname, meanwhile, was looking at Akira with an unreadable gaze. The pureblood was wondering why Akira was acting this way when he was certain that the boy was definitely smart enough to know that - now was not the time for jokes.

"What did you just call me? " Yagari Touga asked, looking down at Akira as he did so. The hunter was irritated, but he wanted to be certain that he had not be hallucinating earlier when he heard the term 'Grandpa Yagari' tumbling out from the said vampire child's lips.

"Grandpa Yagari? " Akira repeated, tilting his head to the side as he responded - staring into the eye of the hunter's with his lilac eyes.

"... Why are you calling me that? " Yagari asked, his tone gruff but bewildered.

"Because Daddy look up to you like a parental figure ... I think ... " Akira responded, sounding a little hesitant towards the end of his statement.

"You think?! Are you always this chummy with strangers whom you'd only just met? And what did you say your name was just now? " Yagari asked again, this time sounding incredulous.

"Well... It's not as though Daddy enjoy telling us all 'Grand-father' stories, as he called them ... I do not act chummy with all the strangers whom I get to meet in life. Besides, the people down here in this time weren't exactly strangers, since I knew them all in my own time as well ... As for my name ... I think you heard it right the first time around - I'm Akira ... Akira Kuran!" The boy replied easily, his body language relaxed unlike his elder twin.

"Kuran ... did you say? However, I wasn't aware that the Kuran family have any other living members with the sheer exception of Kaname Kuran - himself. Moreover, why is it that you are calling my disciple 'Daddy' when your family name happened to be a 'Kuran'. " Yagari responded, sounding skeptical now as he had no idea whether he should believe the vampire child's words.

Meanwhile, Zero was staring at his master in shock. This must be the first time ever, did he ever witnessed his master having an actual conversation with a vampire. Granted, it was a conversation between an adult veteran hunter and a vampire child. Still, it surprised him that his master would be willing to communicate with Akira.

Judging from the way they interacted with one another, for a while he almost thought that Akira had managed to 'charm' his master into forgoing the whole matter. Unfortunately, when he heard his master asking for Akira's name again - he knew, things are not going to end that easily. Then when his master questioned the reason behind Akira calling him 'Daddy' but was using the name 'Kuran' as his surname, Zero knew he was screwed. Either his master would try killing the pureblood, or the former would attempt to make his life a living hell for the upcoming days to come - if there had been no bloodshed by the end of tonight.

Akira fought the urge to roll his eyes at the hunter's reaction, was it so hard to believe that both Subaru and himself were related to one another? Was it really that hard to believe that they are the product of a same-gender relationship?

"Likewise, I wasn't aware that the Kiryuu family have any other living members aside from 'Daddy' - himself. Since, both the Kuran and the Kiryuu clan ... were left with only one living member, isn't it only right for us siblings to take up different family names? " Akira said in a sardonic manner, as he stared bravely into the eye of the hunter.

Yagari found himself inspecting the boy standing in front of him in details, following the end of the boy's words. He mentally noted the distinctive eye color of the 'Kiryuu' Clan, so the boy was related to his disciple - after all. However, aside from that little 'Kiryuu' trait that was visible to him, every other parts of the boy's features screamed the word 'Kuran' to him.

"Certainly, you are not trying to tell me that your other parent is that /Kuran/ standing down there? "

"Well ... wasn't that what I've been telling you since minutes ago? " This time around, Akira did rolled his eyes in exasperation at the hunter's words.

"Yeah right ... and pigs can fly! Do you think I would have believed something that ridiculous?! As though males would be able to have kids, and I'm affirmed that Kuran was not a girl and neither is my former disciple! " The hunter muttered aloud, refusing to believe what he had been told.

"Damn it ... What is it with you humans and your beliefs that KIDS can only be created between a man and a woman? I'll have you known, both Subaru and myself are the living proof that men are able to reproduce among themselves too ... " Akira Kuran exclaimed aloud.

"..." Yagari Touga was having trouble believing what he was hearing, but the boy seemed awfully serious about what was being said.

Subaru sighed, Akira's reaction was kind of within his expectations. His younger twin had always been self-conscious about other people thoughts and opinions about their parentage. Casting aside their uncles and aunts whom happened to know their parents on a personal basis, majority of the vampires out there in the society had trouble believing the fact that Akira and himself were related at all.

Partly, it was due to their use of different family name but there was also the fact they looked totally different from one another, despite being twins. With him looking more like his 'Daddy', most of his father's acquaintances in business would tend to overlook him and instead concentrated more on conversing with Akira. Likewise, with Akira looking more like their 'Father'; the younger boy would be overlooked by the hunters whom worked with their 'Daddy'.

Eventually, that ended up with Akira sticking to their 'Daddy' like a super-glue and him, tagging behind his 'Father' dutifully like a follower. He guessed that was how Akira's chumminess with strangers comes about, for in order for Akira to interact with the hunters' without any barriers between them. Akira would have to put down the airs of being a pureblood, and instead learn to communicate with them like a commoner.

In order for his younger brother to achieve that aim, the former would have to learn by 'acting' like that - in front of them too. Being family, they would of course, indulge the younger boy in his antics. However, not everyone would think that way; not even their family friends' with the exception of the Shikis' and the Ichijos' though; since they could be considered as family. Especially, when Shiki happened to be the cousin of their 'Father', and Ichijo being somehow related to Akane ... but their 'Daddy' and Akane refuses to let them know anything about that.

For the others whom had no idea of how his younger sibling was usually like, would have thought that his brother was being a clown. At least, that would be the majority of the vampires' nobles opinions upon Akira - for they thought his younger brother was lowering himself to the level of a mere mortal and was disgracing their pureblood's status by doing that. However, he begged to differ.

With him being silent by nature, and his parents' were both loners prior to their getting involved. Life in their household would have been too silent and 'dead', especially with Akane being away from home at most if not all of the time. Their parents' though very much in love with one another, would never act too lovey-dopey in front of the others; except on occasional situations. Therefore, its' entirely up to Akira alone to 'cheer' up the atmosphere during those times. Subaru's thoughts was brought to an abrupt end, when he heard the master of his 'Daddy' spoke up again.

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"Zero ... please tell me, that the boy had been /lying/ about what was being said earlier on ... " Yagari started, as he stared at his former disciple with intent.

"... " Zero said nothing, but glanced down at his feet. What could he say? After all, the twins were indeed the ultimate result between the pureblood and himself. Granted, it had not happened yet ... but it would, eventually.

To say that Yagari Touga had been disappointed by his once favorite student's lack of response, was an understatement. Taking a moment to re-compose himself, the hunter asked calmly and quietly.

"... How did it happen? "

"If you are referring to how did the twins come about ... certainly, it would involved the common knowledge of sexual intercourse between those two ... but if, you are asking how is it possible for the two of them to be able to have kids despite their genders ... That have something to do with a spell, ancient spell at that ... and its' only available to the vampires' families ... "

Akane had been the one answering the hunter's question, seeing as Zero would had no idea how to respond to his master's query and Kaname would never bothered to answer Yagari's question if the said pureblood, does not deemed it necessary for the hunter to know anything with regards to that issue.

The sheer thought of Zero and the pureblood Kuran being actively involved with one another sexually, was driving Yagari Touga crazy. Despite knowing that it had yet to happen, but looking at the twins whom happened to be the ultimate result of their joining had pretty much send him over his edge. Without warning, Yagari spun around and stalked towards his disciple; glaring at his student with heated eyes as he gritted out in rage.

"How - Dare - You?! How - Could - You?! Not only are you now fraternizing with the likes of them ... and to think that you actually have the audacity to sleep with one too! Your father would be rolling in his grave, if he were to know of your actions! To make things worst, it just have to be a PUREBLOOD! Need I reminded you again, how another /Pureblood/ had been the one behind the tragedy of your clan?! "

Zero winced at the ferocity in his master's voice, before opening his mouth to protest. "Master Touga! I wasn't fraternizing with them and I certainly wasn't sleeping around with /KURAN/. Well ... at least not yet ... " The last part of Zero's words of protest had came out sounding weak, even to himself and he fought the urge to groan aloud at how pathetic he had sounded towards the end of his words.

Yagari snorted, before pulling out his gun and loaded it with new magazines. "Yeah right ... the keyword here is the term 'not yet'. Since you seemed to be rather against the idea of sleeping with the pureblood ... Then, I'm sure that you would not have minded the fact if I choose to blast him into oblivion! Would you?!"

"What?! No, wait a minute! Master Touga ... You can't do that! " Zero started to protest, but it was too late. The veteran hunter was already on his way over, stalking towards the direction of the pureblood.

The sound of a gun-shot rang out, just as the sound of a tree nearby collapsing on the pathway did. The collapsed tree was now lying in the path of the irate hunter, successfully preventing the said hunter from reaching the pureblood whom was still standing by the side of Akane.

Silence as every members of the night-class turned their eyes upon their pureblood leader, wondering if the collapsing of the tree had been a result from the pureblood's uncontrolled powers that leak out from the former's silent fury. However, upon taking a good look at their pureblood leader, they realized that the former was not even feeling irritated by the slightest bit. In fact, the former seemed to be amuse by the situation at hand.

The nobles were puzzled, they had thought it was the work of their pureblood leader but apparently they had thought wrong. Since it was not their pureblood leader whom had caused the tree to collapse with the power that leaks while being angered, then whom is it? However, the answer came to them easily enough with the younger Kuran speaking up.

"That was me ... No one, I repeat ... /NO ONE/ could attempted to harm /MY/ family and still get to walk away unscathed. Not even you, /HUNTER/! I could have let you go, this time around ... but that's only because I do not wish to upset my Dad further. " Akira said, his tone firm and laced with authority.

One could easily sense the underlying torrent of rage and warning threat that lurks underneath the boy's rarely used tone of solemnity.

"Akira, that's enough ... " Zero finally spoke up, interventing before Akira's fury caused the boy to lash out completely. After all, Akira's inability to control the power of nature fully could have easily bring the whole school down and that was the very last thing which Zero wanted to see.

"Master Touga, that's enough ... There's no point dwelling upon something that had yet to happen ... and besides Chairman Cross would be upset if there has been any form of bloodshed within his school. " Zero started towards his master's direction, his tone emitting the hint of a slight plea while he signaled for his elder son - Subaru to hurry and get the Chairman over.

The elder twin need not be told twice, he was gone as soon as he caught on to his Dad's underlying message. Subaru had most probably make use of his full vampire's speed, for in merely a few minutes time - the boy was back with the Chairman still looking disoriented and dizzy from the fast moving speed.

"Enough, Touga! You are here as an envoy for the hunter's association, and that was to keep an eye on Zero ... You are only allowed to shoot 'LEVEL E'. Don't you dare to forget that! The association and the Vampire Council would never let you off the hook, if you attempted to shoot a pureblood. Besides, no one else but Zero can make the decision on how he should live his life in future. " Chairman Cross said, as soon as he managed to recover himself from his dizzy spell.

Yagari Touga glared, and if looks could kill - every vampires in sight would have been dead by now. Zero winced when he noticed the death glare being directed towards him by his master, and he knew the former would not have hesitate to shoot him now if he had been caught engage in any bloodsucking activity by the said hunter.

"Subaru ... please inform your father about teaching Akira the proper ways to use his powers. I do not wish to have the school crumbling under the pressure of his uncontrolled powers whenever he was enraged. " Zero added, before he departed from the Moon Dormitory following behind his furious master and the Chairman, dutifully.

"...Remind me never to risk the wrath of Akira, until he knew how to grasp the concept of self-control. " Aidou Hanabusa commented to his cousin, Akatsuki Kain whom rolled his eyes at the blond vampire's words.

"I think, you should learn to keep your mouth shut and not to say anything that might warrant you under the 'death-list' of the trio. " That was the response which Akatsuki supplied to his cousin, before turning on his heels and departing from the site.

Meanwhile, Kaname Kuran need not wait for Subaru to broach the subject as he had already realized the potential danger to the general public if Akira were to lose his temper, literally and on periodic basis.

"Come here, Akira ... I think its' time for us to spend some 'quality' time together ... " Kaname Kuran announced in a tone that meant business and leave no room for negotiation. Akira, on the other hand, merely let out a sigh before making a move to follow his younger 'Father' towards the direction of the training room.

"That went well ... I supposed, at least no one was killed and no blood was shed ... " Akane muttered to herself, before turning and made her way towards the building of the Moon Dormitory.

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Some time later; about eleven in the night, the Vice-President of the Moon Dormitory - Takuma Ichijo was lying with his stomach down on the bed with a volume of manga out. However, instead of reading the said booklet of manga like he should be doing; he found his thoughts drifting off towards the conversation he had with Akane earlier on in the day.

"... Wait a minute, Akane's my cousin ... while her mother's related to Kiryuu ... That makes Kiryuu her grand-uncle or sorts, and she's the future adopted daughter of Kaname and Kiryuu ... Does that makes Kiryuu a relative of mine, in some ways or another? After all, we are going to be related through Akane ... Well, I guess trying to get along with Kiryuu wouldn't hurt. Casting aside the issue of Akane, Kiryuu's still going to end up as the future life partner of Kaname - isn't he? Then what about Yuuki-chan? "

Takuma frowned upon the thought of the female guardian, Kaname had been making sure that no one would be able to harm Yuuki, thus far and had only tolerated Kiryuu's existence based on that sheer reason up until recently. However, now with the arrival of Akane and the twins; Takuma knew his friend's feelings towards the fellow male guardian had changed somewhat. In the past, his friend's attention during the class change-over had been focused solely on Yuuki. Now, the attention had been spilt between the two guardians evenly or maybe the pureblood's attention had been on the male guardian more often than the female.

"Okay ... so what if Kaname's attention was now centered more on Kiryuu instead of Yuuki?! That's his business to resolve, not mine - right? Anyway, all things considered ... I think I should make an effort to interact with Kiryuu more ... " Takuma told himself resolutely, as he shifted his attention back to the manga volume which he had on hand.

Meanwhile, Akane was in her room brooding over the recent happenings too. Part of her wondered what on earth possessed her to let Takuma knows about the doings of his grand-father, and how it eventually led down to her being related to his family. This was not in her plans at all, the green-eyed blond vampire should not be finding things out through her of all people. In fact, the former would not realized what his grand-father had done to the 'Aisakas' until a member of the 'Kanzaki' Clan stopped by to pay him a visit after the whole Rido Kuran episode.

Then again, another part of her was relieved. At least, now she could allowed herself to get more "chummy" with the fellow vampire and need not worry about any possible strange feelings of romance that might arises between them, during their interaction. Takuma in particularly, since she was not at all interested in having a so-called 'fling' with her cousin and the father to her best friend. The last thing which she needs right now was to have an irate best friend chewing on her ears upon her return to the future.

After all, whatever that they did down here in the past would affected the future, in one way or another. At least, she knew her adopted parents and their closer family friends would be dealing with the new memories that arises and overwriting their old ones that has to deal with this specific period of the past.

With a sigh, Akane snapped herself out from her thoughts. No point dwelling upon something which she knew was going to happen anyway, instead what she should be doing now was to concentrate on her homework. She had a pile of assignments dealing with advanced application of mathematics that she had accumulated over the past few days, intending to work on them only during the weekends. However, judging from the pile of assignments laying atop of her 'study desk', she knew if she did not start working on them soon enough she will never be able to finish them on time.

Halfway through her homework, her hunter's sense clued her in on the fact that she was no longer alone. There was another vampire whom was within her room and was standing directly behind her. However, she chose to ignore the intruder for her vampire's sense had told her exactly whom the 'visitor' was. The intruder was none other than Subaru Kiryuu, her adopted younger sibling and the elder of the twins.

"Yes, Subaru? Anything's the matter? Why are you here in my room?" Akane asked, without glancing back at the boy.

"... Father's pre-occupied with Akira's training ... "

"... Are you bored? I'm sure Aidou would proved to be a very good entertainer ... " Akane responded, offhandedly.

"I'm not bored, I could always watch the TV if I'm bored out of my mind. Otherwise, I could go pissing off Uncle Aidou like you say just now ... "

"If not bored ... then why are you in here? "

"... I'm worried ... "

"For whom ?" Akane asked, despite knowing very well that the boy must have been worrying about Zero's situation.

"I think you jolly well knows whom I'm referring to - Akane ... " Subaru's response came, sounding a little irritated.

"... " Akane sighed, as she finally turned her attention away from her homework. Turning towards the boy, Akane said. "Subaru, there's no need for you to worry yourself over nothing. I'm sure, Dad's fine ... rather ... he will be fine. No matter how disturbed Yagari Touga was about the whole situation ... HE would never kill your 'Daddy'. At least, not when things hadn't even happened yet ... Besides, the Chairman will never let him kill your 'Daddy'. The worst that could have happened would be sending out your 'Daddy' on more hunting missions that involves 'LEVEL E' ... and maybe HE will try to keep your parents away from one another, to prevent any possible sparks of romance to be ignite between them.

Still, it would not hindered your parents' relationship with one another. Whatever that's bound to happen, will happen eventually. It's just a matter of time, and moreover - Yagari Touga's a mortal. He would have to die in some point of his life, but your parents were both Vampires. Granted, Dad's a mere 'LEVEL D' and his lifespan remained questionable but I'm sure whatever happened, your 'Father' would 'take care' of it - easily enough."

"You mean, by bounding Dad to his own lifespan and his blood? Now, when exactly will that happen? I know you have been feeding Dad for some time now, I could practically smell him on you ... " Subaru commented, dryly.

"... Don't worry yourself over something like that! Trust me, will you?! When I said your 'Father' would take care of things, he will ... Again, it's only a matter of time ... and when that happened, my job as your 'Daddy' food source will be officially over! " Akane said firmly, and determinedly.

"Well, if you say so ... " Subaru shrugged, before dropping himself unceremoniously on the bed of Akane's and earning himself a sharp look from his elder adopted sister.

"Go to your father's room, if you want to sleep ... " Akane said, her tone mildly miffed.

"No ... I wanna sleep here, tonight ... " Subaru murmured as he snuggled himself deeper into the soft pillows of Akane's bed.

"... Then you'd best make sure to not wake me up in the middle of the night, when you decided that you need your lunch or whatever meals which you felt inclined to take ... " Akane warned, earning herself the sounds of a light snore emitting from the silver-haired boy whom was now sleeping on her bed.

With a sigh, the sandy-brown haired vampire shifted her attention back to her assignments and decided to ignore the sleeping boy for the rest of the night.

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"Did anyone of you happened to see Subaru around? " Kaname Kuran asked, as he entered the dining hall at two in the middle of the night. He had just ended his training session with Akira, and had send the boy off to rest and recuperate when he found the elder twin boy missing from his room.

"... No, we haven't seen him anywhere around ... Perhaps, he's with Kiryuu? " Akatsuki Kain suggested, for he too was wondering where the boy had sneaked off to - now that their pureblood leader had brought up the issue to their attention.

"No, that's impossible. Subaru's not Akira, he had too much sense in him to attempt something this reckless ... on his own." This coming from Shiki Senri, whom joined the group in the dining hall with Rima Touya in tow.

"Then what of Akane? Perhaps, Subaru's with her? " Takuma spoke up, drawing everyone's attention towards his direction. "Because, I thought I heard her talking to the boy a while ago when I passes by her room ... "

"Right, I think I'll check on them in a little while's time ... for now, let's eat. " Kaname Kuran started, steering his friends' attention away from the elder twin and Akane for the time-being.

Half an hour later, Kaname entered Akane's room not surprised at what he had found. Sleeping on the bed soundly and comfortably was the unmistakable figure of his 'missing' son; and Akane was lying heads down on the study desk atop of an open mathematics textbook.

The girl had probably dozed off in the midst of her studying, and knowing that the girl was going to wake feeling uncomfortable if she were to remain asleep in that awkward position for another few hours. Kaname made the decision to move the girl towards the bed instead, thus he moved forth and picked the sleeping girl up in a bridal style manner as he walked them both towards the direction of the bed.

Summoning forth a little of his power, he moved the blanket away from the emptied side of the bed before placing the girl down. After which, he pulled the blanket up to Akane's chin before moving over to Subaru's side and did the same to the boy as well. Pecking the boy gently on the forehead, while giving a gentle pat to Akane's head - the pureblood started to head towards the doorway leading to the outside of the room but not before, he switched off the lights in the room.

Stepping out into the hallways, Kaname was surprised to find his childhood friend and the Vice-President of the Dormitory loitering around the outside of the guest-room assigned for Akane's use.

"Takuma, is anything the matter? " He greeted, drawing his distracted friend's attention to him.

"Huh? Oh, no ... nothing's the matter ... I'm just wondering whether Akane's awake ... " His friend had responded, somewhat hesitantly.

"No, she's asleep ... Was there anything that makes you wanted to speak to her at this late of time? Certainly, you would know by now that she's far too accustomed to the daily lives of a normal human being than to keep up with the nocturnal hours of our lifestyles ... " Kaname questioned, arching an eyebrow elegantly as he speak to his friend with a look of skepticism in his eyes.

"Right ... I guess, I kind of forgotten about that little detail ... I'll speak to her, tomorrow then ..." Takuma Ichijo said, as he started to leave the area and headed for the privacy of his shared room with the cousin of the pureblood, Shiki Senri.

Kaname said nothing but eyed his friend strangely, somehow he had a feeling that something had happened between Akane and his friend - Takuma, which he had not been informed. Rather, the duo had no intention of letting him know. Not that he felt offended or anything, but he wanted to make sure that nothing strange was going on between the two. Especially, in the case of Takuma.

After all, Akane was from the future and should know better than harboring any form of feelings towards his friends whom were practically all considered to be her future uncles.

Takuma though, was another matter entirely. The sheer idea of the possibility of Takuma 'falling' for his future adopted daughter was worrying, after all his friend had been getting far too interested in Akane's affairs recently that it was enough to trigger the warning bell in his mind to start ringing.

Nonetheless, there was still no concrete proof that his friend was interested in Akane yet. Kaname decided that he should just leave things be for the moment, and remained silent while he observed the situation from the dark. With that thought in mind, he turned on his heels and departed for the direction of the study. He had some pressing matters that required his urgent attention, as for the issue of his friend's growing affections for Akane, he could always assigned Seiren to keep an eye on them and later report the findings to him.

~to be continued~

Date started: 10/05/09

Date completed: 12/05/09

Date edited: 12/05/09