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: Woot! Sixty reviews already, whom would have thought ... Anyway, in this chapter ... Takuma's plan to get closer to Zero continues on ... and add in a certain blue-eyed blond vampire who's up to stir up troubles ... Things are bound to get interesting ... Moreover, Kaname snapped and finally made a move upon Zero, what's going to happen?
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Chapter 13 - Getting Friendly, Part 2
"Excuse me, but I just want to double-check ... Did I just hear you telling me that I'll have to wash a week's worth of toilets for the Moon Dormitory as a form of punishment in response to my previous open insolence?! " Akane repeated, sounding incredulous as she stared into the face of Kaname Kuran.
The pureblood president of the Moon Dormitory nodded in response to the girl's words. Despite his lack of offence towards what Akane had said earlier, it remained the fact that the girl had openly insulted him, a pureblood in public. That alone, was considered an act of disrespect and he could not allowed to let Akane off without assigning her with some form of punishment duty.
His usual punishments of slapping would not be applicable under this circumstances, and neither does the act of humiliating the girl publicly by making her carry buckets of water while standing under the hot scorching sun applies. Therefore, he figured that since the girl had openly 'insulted' his integrity by claiming that he had a questionable hygiene practices. Then, the girl was more than welcome to clean up all the available bathrooms situated within the whole dormitory building without enlisting the help of the maids.
Meanwhile, Akane was floored. What is it about Kaname Kuran and his tendency to make her clean up the bathrooms as a form of punishment, every time she did something that displeased him?
"... Are you sure you are not the Kaname Kuran from /MY/ time?! " Akane asked, unable to hold back her stunned exclamation.
Upon her inquiry, Kaname Kuran arched an eyebrow up in response as he said. "I'm certain that my soul had not been switched with my future self ... Why? Is there a problem with the punishment that was being assigned to you? "
Akane shakes her head in disbelief, before responding. "No, there's no problem at all! No offenses to you, but I'm curious ... Am I the only one whom was subjected to this particular form of 'punishments' or had there being others before? "
"No, you're the first and probably the only one to get away from me after doing something that challenged my integrity without being slapped or publicly humiliated by me. "
"... Right, then I guess its' just a coincidence ... or that's simply a form of punishment which you reserved it for me ... " Akane muttered under her breath, still finding the whole situation a little hard to digest.
"Why? Has it ever happened before? "
"I'm certain that it happened every so frequently ... or rather, happened all the time and especially during the summer holidays! "
For a while, Takuma was puzzled until the realization that Akane and Kaname was probably talking about the future, dawns in on him.
"You mean, you've washed the toilets before? " Takuma frowned, a little disturbed by the idea.
"Well ... yeah, I did ... After all, Kaname-sama cannot slapped me without Zero jumping in between us ... Trying to humiliate me in public would not work as well, since that was equivalent to humiliating himself ... Seeing that, he's responsible for my behavior as he happened to be one of my adopted parent. " Akane explained for the benefits of her confused cousin.
"... Akane, that's a little too much information being revealed ... Don't you think? " Kaname Kuran reminded, not feeling too good about the way Akane was basically filling in his best friend on the prospect of his future self's private affairs.
"Okay ... okay ... I get it, there's no need for you to glare ... I'll be off now then, and speaking of which when do you intend for me to start serving my punishment period? "
"... As soon as possible ...but let me know beforehand ... so I can make arrangements to inform every members of the night-class." Kaname Kuran said, before Akane could disappeared from his sighting range.
"Yes, Sir! " Akane responded, giving the younger pureblood a mock-salute before skipping down the hall-way heading for her assigned room, cheerfully.
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Time really flies when one was being kept busy, and soon a week had flown by since the impromptu visit made by Ichijo Asato. Akane had went down to start on that particular punishment assignment as soon as she had slept enough, and today would be the last day of her 'cleaning service' and she hoped to finish cleaning the last few private bathrooms that belongs to the nobles of Kaname Kuran's inner socializing circle of friends.
She had been on her way to clean the bathroom that was shared between Ruka Souen and Rima Touya, when she noticed Zero Kiryuu heading towards the direction of the Moon Dormitory with a certain green-eyed blond vampire, following him in his wake.
"Zero? What are you doing here? The twins' was out with Shiki ... " Akane asked, as her eyes flickered between her cousin and her grand-uncle in bewilderment.
"I know ... I've heard ... you've been asked to clean each and every bathrooms in the dormitory building? " Zero asked, mentally noting down the pail and several brushes meant for cleaning use as he addressed Akane.
"Well ... yeah, but today's the last day ... so I'm actually eager to start and get things over with, this time around." Akane responded, with an easy shrug of her shoulders.
"... I see ... then perhaps, I should help too?"
"Huh? No ... its' fine, I can handle it myself ... "
"No, let me help ... I want to ... " Zero started, his tone firm despite Akane's words of protest.
"... I think only Ruka and Aidou's room were left ... Akane had finished cleaning the bathroom in my room, this morning ... " Takuma Ichijo started, before adding. "I know, Akane could clean the bathroom in Ruka's room and we could helped her with the bathroom in Aidou's room. I'm certain that Aidou and Akatsuki won't mind, seeing as they both knew you ... "
Akane's eyes widen at her over-enthusiastic cousin's suggestion, somehow she had a very bad feeling about getting Zero involved in her 'punishment' but before she could spoke up, Takuma had already collected another set of cleaning equipments from the shed and was now urging the silver-haired hunter towards the direction of the room that was shared between Akatsuki and Aidou.
"... Let's hope nothing dreadful will happen ... today ... " Akane murmured to herself, and made a move towards the room of Ruka Souen and Rima Touya, trying her hardest to ignore the strange nagging feeling that was constantly tugging at her subconsciousness and was doing a very good job at distracting her.
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"What's he doing here?! " Aidou Hanabusa jabbed a finger towards Zero's direction, upon the sight of the said guardian.
"Aidou ... It's rude to point fingers at someone, don't you know that?! As for his reason for being here ... we're here to help Akane out in her 'punishment'. So, in short ... we're going to be cleaning the bathroom in your room. " Takuma Ichijo, the Vice-President of the Moon Dormitory responded good-naturedly with a beam as he addressed the irate vampire.
Silence as Aidou Hanabusa stared at the Vice-President in shock before it changes to an expression of skepticism, and said. "Are you sure? I'm not so certain about Kiryuu's ability in cleaning a bathroom ... but I am affirmed that you've never clean one, before! Pardon me if this sounds a little rude, but honestly ... Do you even know how to clean a bathroom, properly?! "
Takuma Ichijo pouted at his friend's words, before responding. "Well ... although, I've never clean any bathrooms before ... I'm sure that with my intelligence, I certainly will be able to pick it up soon enough. "
Kiryuu Zero, meanwhile, eyed Takuma Ichijo strangely. Granted, the former had always been considered as an odd-ball within the night-class; but recently the said vampire's condition seemed to have taken a turn for the worse. How else would he be able to explain the sudden desire for the fellow vampire to approach him, and engage him in small talks every day without fail, for the past few days. Something must have gone wrong, isn't it? After all, his existence have been pretty much ignored by the said vampire except on occasional events whereby he was having another 'row' of argument with Kaname Kuran. So what causes the change and the sudden interest in the former's attitude towards him?
"It's okay, really ... Ichijo, you do not have to help me out in cleaning the toilets ... I'm pretty capable of handling it, myself. Since, I had more than enough experience of doing that over the past six years whereby I've been living with the Chairman. " Zero interjected, not exactly looking forward to work along-side with the Vice-President of the said dormitory.
"No, I want to help! Besides, its' nice to do something new, once in a while ... " Takuma Ichijo responded, his tone determined and firm.
Akatsuki Kain, whom had been listening in on the conversation between the trio broke in, just then. "Enough, Hanabusa ... Just let them in and do their job ... If you find their performance less than satisfactory, we could always lodge a complaint to Kaname-sama, later ... "
"Fine then! " Aidou Hanabusa huffed, as he stalked off towards the sofa couch of his room and slumped down on it.
Takuma, meanwhile, dragged the hesitant guardian into the room after himself as he started leading them towards the direction of the private bathroom which was shared between the two cousins.
The size of the bathroom, Zero had to admit it was generally bigger than what he had seen in the Chairman's living quarters. The bathroom was covered in pristine white tiles, and comes equipped with both the shower tap and a bathtub.
"This is nothing, every private bathroom in the dormitory was built exactly the same way as what you are witnessing now. Except for one, that is ... If you find what we have here extravagant, you should have seen Kaname's bathroom. That would be what we referred to as the term 'exquisite'. "
"... Figures Kuran would ended up having the best of everything ... " Zero muttered dryly under his breath, not bothering to lower his tone of voice. After all, he knew whatever words that came tumbling out from his mouth would have escaped the keen hearing senses of the three vampires surrounding the area.
Setting down the empty pail, Zero started to roll up his sleeves and his pants so that he would not ended up wetting them while executing the cleaning procedures. Filling up the empty pail with water, Zero unscrewed the cap to the detergent and poured a little of the solution into the water. Wetting a rag cloth with the soapy water, Zero set down to work by starting with the cleaning of the area around the basin.
"Erm ... Kiryuu, just what exactly should I do? " Takuma Ichijo asked, suddenly feeling out of place for he had no idea where to start cleaning.
"... You can start by cleaning the tub ... That should be easy enough ... All you need to do was to scrub it clean ... " Zero responded, wondering now if he had made the wrong decision to allow the fellow vampire to aid him in the cleaning task. Somehow, he had a feeling that instead of speeding up the whole cleaning process, the vampire would slowed him down in his work instead.
Seconds ticked by slowly, as the duo started to clean the bathroom. The task was being carried out in silence, with the exception of occasional instructions coming from the silver-haired guardian, and directed towards the Vice-President of the Moon Dormitory. Aidou Hanabusa, on the other hand, was restless as his eyes kept on flickering towards the direction of his shared bathroom which was now being cleaned by the ex-human and his friend.
He had no idea whether the rest of the night-class members knew of Kiryuu Zero's identity as an ex-human, but he did knew. He had quite incidentally chanced upon the scenario of the former's feeding session. He had seen how the silver-haired guardian sank his fangs quite brutally and clumsily into the neck of Akane, and had to hold back a gasp of surprise by the sight that enfolded in front of his very eyes.
So that solves the mystery behind how the twins happened to be the sons of his beloved pureblood leader, and Kiryuu. Initially, the trio's arrival had stunned him too much to try and figure out how it could have happened. After all, it would be quite impossible for a human to procreate with a vampire, since they aged differently from one another. Humans generally aged faster and had a shorter lifespan as compared to the vampires, so how on earth did Kiryuu Zero ended up having kids with his beloved Kaname-sama?!
That had been the constant question that nagged at him, since the trio's arrival. However, following his chancing upon the session of 'feeding' between Akane and the silver-haired guardian. He found the answer to his unasked question, Kiryuu was an ex-human, a 'Level D' and obviously must have been turned for quite some time already. While Kiryuu's identity as an ex-human vampire gave him the answers to how it was possible for the former to procreate with his pureblood leader, but the question remains that whom had been the one to change Kiryuu.
Certainly, it could not be Kaname-sama since if that had been the case, Kiryuu would not be feeding off from Akane. Besides, Kiryuu would never be willingly bitten by Kaname since those two had obviously loathed one another existence before the trio's arrival. So whom had been the pureblood that turns Kiryuu, and Why wasn't Kiryuu with his so-called master?
Without realizing that he was now approaching the closed bathroom door, Aidou only stopped in the midst of his steps when he heard his cousin calling for his attention.
"... Hanabusa, the duo are still inside cleaning ... if you need the bathroom urgently, I'm certain that you can use Takuma's next door ... After all, Shiki's out ..." Akatsuki's voice cuts in, pausing the blue-eyed blond vampire in his steps.
"Akatsuki, I do not need the bathroom ... "
"Then why are heading towards the direction of the bathroom?! "
"What else, but to eavesdrop ... Aren't you curious about what the two of them were doing inside and behind closed door? "
Akatsuki's eyebrows shot up at his cousin's words, before responding. "What else could they be doing in there, aside from cleaning? "
"True, but I do not think that they would be cleaning in silence ... After all, Takuma seemed very interested in Kiryuu's affairs recently, don't you think so? "
"True ... but ... "
"But aren't you curious what they could be conversing about?!" Aidou Hanabusa cuts in, interrupting his cousin before Akatsuki could finished his words.
Unable to withstand the lure of the curiosity, Akatsuki found himself rising to the bait of his cousin's words. Before he knew it, he had joined his cousin outside the bathroom door, leaning in closely to listen on the conversation that took place from within.
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Kaname Kuran, was looking for his friend, Takuma Ichijo to help him out with something. However, he found no traces of his friend's existence around the academy grounds. For a while, he wondered if his friend had went out but then, the idea was discarded when he remembered that it was Shiki's turn to shop for the dormitory, this week. So where exactly had his friend sneaked off to?
His first thought was to locate Akane, for he had a feeling that the girl would definitely knew where his friend was. Since Takuma seems to be on 'very' good terms with the girl, and while it was worrying that the two of them shared such a close relationship with one another, he knew nothing drastic had happened between them as well.
"Kaname-sama, what brings you over? " Ruka Souen, whom had opened up the door had gawked upon the sight of the pureblood prince standing outside her door.
"Ruka, I was wondering ... if Akane was around?" Kaname Kuran asked, smiling politely at Ruka.
Nodding dumbly, Ruka responded. "Yes, and would you like to come in? "
"No ... that's quite alright, could you perhaps get her for me ... if its' not too much of an inconvenience? "
"Sure! If you would just wait for a while ... " Ruka responded, her tone even as she headed towards the direction of the private bathroom in her room.
"Akane ... Kaname-sama's looking for you ... " Ruka started, keeping her tone free from any signs of displeasure - knowing for a fact that her beloved pureblood leader could hear everything that she said, clearly and audibly despite the distance.
" Erm ... yes, Kaname-sama?" Akane started, as she stepped out from the bathroom and headed over towards the pureblood's direction.
"Have you seen Takuma anywhere around? "
Akane froze, wondering if she should let the pureblood knew of her cousin's whereabouts. Well ... what's the worst that could have happened, anyway? So, she replied.
"I think he's in Aidou's room ... "
"What's he doing in there? "
"Helping Zero to clean the bathroom ... "
"... I thought, you are supposed to be the one cleaning the bathrooms ...?"
"... Zero wanted to help ... and was determined to do so ... Then Takuma came up with the brilliant idea to help Zero out ... "
"I see ..." Kaname responded, a little irked by his friend's recent desire to get 'friendly' with the silver-haired guardian.
Without another word, the pureblood turned on his heels and headed for the direction of Aidou Hanabusa's room with every intention to get his childhood friend away from a certain silver-haired hunter. The idea of his friend being alone in the silver-haired hunter's company bothered him, greatly.
Meanwhile, back in Aidou's private bathroom. Takuma decided that he was hindering rather than helping the silver-haired guardian with the cleaning task, and was about to step out of the bathroom when all hell break loose. He had been pulling the door open from his side, when Aidou and Akatsuki both stumbled forward and crashed into him. He would have been able to avoid being 'crushed' under their combined weight, when he accidentally slipped against the slippery flooring tiles of the bathroom and ended up landing literally atop of a certain silver-haired hunter, whom failed to realize his precarious situation until it was too late.
"Shit! " Takuma cursed aloud as he felt his two friends weight landed upon him. "Bloody Hell! What the hell are the two of you doing out there?! "
Akatsuki was the first to react by removing his weight from the heap of fallen bodies, as he muttered out the word 'eavesdropping' embarrassingly under his breath.
"Eavesdropping?! Are you sure, Akatsuki?! You didn't seemed to be the type of person that would felt the need to poke your nose around, in other people's businesses. " Takuma grumbled aloud, as he tried his best to maintain his position so that he would be able to avoid landing his weight entirely upon the younger man beneath him.
Akatsuki was about to respond when he froze abruptly, as his alert and sensitive vampire's senses informed him of the approaching pureblood. 'Shit!' was the only word on his mind, before he cursed aloud and started to grab his cousin pulling the former up to a standing position.
Aidou winced from the sheer force of his cousin's strength, as he grumbled aloud. "Damn it, Akatsuki ... Can't you be a little gentle ... "
"No time, Kaname-sama's coming! "
That send the blue-eyed blond into a frenzy mode as he tried to get himself up and untangled from the Vice-President of the Moon Dormitory, and during which process had accidentally pushed the former downwards that inevitably resulted in the brief touching of Takuma's lips against Zero's.
That was exactly what Kaname Kuran had found himself staring at, upon his entrance into Aidou Hanabusa and Akatsuki Kain's room. Somewhere within the room, the light-bulb of a lamp snapped and exploded into nothing. Eyes blazing as aura of sheer fury emitting from each and every inch of the pureblood's body, as Kaname Kuran stalked into the bathroom and forcefully separated his friend from the stunned guardian.
'Shit! I'm dead ... ' was the only thought in the mind of the green-eyed blond vampire, as he watched his pureblood friend dragged off the stunned and stupefied silver-haired guardian in a fury.
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Zero Kiryuu, still stunned from the event of the 'accidental kiss' with the green-eyed blond vampire failed to realize where exactly he had been dragged off by the furious pureblood. It was not until he found himself being pushed against the wall roughly, did he finally came back to his senses.
"What the hell ... " Zero found his words being cut off, when he felt the lips of the pureblood crashing against his in a rough-like manner.
"Um..mm..." Zero struggled to get his words out, but failed miserably each time. For every time he attempted to speak, the pureblood would silent him with another brutal kiss.
Initially, Zero struggled as he tried to free himself from the pureblood's grasp. However, as the seconds passes them by slowly his struggles became half-hearted. Eventually, he stopped struggling against the pureblood altogether and merely stood still while he allowed the pureblood to ravish him in silence. Tears of frustration pricked his eyes, but he refuses to let them fall.
Part of him knew he should be angry with what the pureblood was doing to him now, for it could very much be considered as a violation of his will. Yet, for some unknown reasons he was not enraged by the pureblood's actions; only confused by what was happening between them. He knew the pureblood was angry about something, that much he could sensed from the rough and brutal way that the former was kissing him.
What he failed to understand, was what had happened that sparked off the fury in the pureblood and why was the former kissing him so dominantly and possessively.
Kaname Kuran, on the other hand was furious beyond words. This was the second time around, he caught sight of someone else 'kissing' the silver-haired guardian and he was unhappy. No ... 'Unhappy' was too mild a word to describe his current feelings, 'Rage' would be a better word to describe what he was currently experiencing.
The first thing he did after separating Zero from Takuma was to drag the said hunter off to the privacy of his room, it was obvious that the former was still stunned from the previous event. The sheer thought of his friend's lips against the hunter send him over the edge completely, and before he knew it he was ravishing the mouth of the hunter against the former's will. He knew what could possibly be the consequences that follows his actions, but currently he ignored the fact. For he had only one notion in mind, and that was to claim ownership of the hunter's lips.
Zero stiffen when he felt the pureblood's hand on his waist, but relaxed visibly when he realized that the hand had not move anywhere else, and merely stationed where it was. A shudder ran through his body as he felt the kiss of the pureblood softening from its' initial rough-like manners, suppressing the urge to moan from pleasure he allowed a gasp to escape from his lips instead.
However, he felt himself tensing upon the sense of the pureblood's fangs near his neck. For a while, he almost thought that the former would bite and marked him against his will, like what Shizuka Hiou had done to him before. Which in actuality, Kaname Kuran had been contemplating on the same thought too. However, his surfacing logic kept him from marking the hunter just yet. For he wanted Zero to be willingly bitten and marked by him, so as to prevent further complications. It was bad enough of him to have kiss the hunter against his will, he would not allowed himself to do anything more than that.
Especially, now that he had finally come to terms with his desires and possessiveness for the hunter. And then, there was Yuuki to consider. For years he had waited for the day whereby he would awaken the girl to her pureblood heritage, so that they could finally be together. Now though, he was in denial.
Yuuki would have to be awaken in time, that much - he knew. Question now was what should be done when Yuuki's heritage and memory of being a pureblood was awaken. After all, Yuuki was supposed to be both his fiancee and his sister at the same time. So what should he do when Yuuki's memory was awaken? Certainly, he would be unable to build a family with Yuuki now that he was actually looking forward to his future with the silver-haired hunter.
"Oops! Sorry, didn't mean to interrupt ... Please do continue ... I didn't see anything ... " The sudden sound of Akira's voice startled both Kaname and Zero out from their daze-like manner, and they both snapped their eyes towards the intruder spontaneously.
"Akira! How long have you been standing out there watching us? " Kaname started, addressing his youngest son smoothly and calmly.
"... Long enough ... since the two of you start staring one another in the eyes ... " Akira responded, ignoring his elder twin's warning from behind.
Subaru Kiryuu, meanwhile, wanted very much to disappear right there and then. They had, after all, walked in on a very embarrassing moment between their parents'. Moreover, their father actually seemed a little peeved and probably their Daddy was not faring very good as well.
The twins' entry had managed to jolt Zero out from his stupor-like mode, and slapped Kaname hard on the cheeks by instincts before fleeing from the privacy of the pureblood's room in a flustered manner. The slap came as a shock to the pureblood, but surprisingly he felt nothing.
"... " The twins remained silent as their Daddy fled their Father's room, flushing crimson and not even daring to look at them in the face.
Turning back to their Father, whom still seemed shell-shocked from the slap received from their Daddy. Subaru sighed as he entered the room, closing the door behind him and locking it for some privacy before turning towards the elder pureblood.
"Father ... Don't take it too hard ... Dad's just embarrassed. "
"... I know ... " Kaname said, his voice tight and controlled as he responded to the elder twin's remarks.
"Father, please do not go 'picking' on Dad just because he slapped you in front of us ... Honestly, it's pointless. Besides, we aren't exactly considered as outsiders ... Your secret's safe with us! " Akira interjected, causing his elder twin to groan inwardly in response.
Kaname felt his eyebrow twitching involuntarily at Akira's words, and he sighed. "Akira ... don't worry, I won't be going around 'picking' trouble on your beloved Daddy ... I am, however, going to lecture some of your uncles for their notorious actions."
With that said, Kaname stepped out of his room leaving behind the twins to their own devices and for Seiren to keep an eye on them.
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Takuma blanched and turned pale when his pureblood friend came towards him and requested for him to meet the former in the front lounge.
"Kaname ... look ... I'm sorry for what happened, but I swear its' an accident. I didn't plan on it happening ... " Takuma started, only to fell silent when his pureblood friend threw him a glare.
"Why are you so persistent in your attempts to get friendly with Zero ... Kiryuu, anyway? " Kaname felt himself asking, as he stared at his friend.
"... I ... just want to relate to him better ... "
"And Why is that so? " Kaname prompted, his tone flat and laced with an edge.
"... Because Kiryuu's Akane relative ..." Takuma found himself responding as he cowered under his friend's gaze.
"What has Akane got to do with your getting friendly with Zero, anyway? while we're on the subject of Akane ... pray tell, what is your reason for kissing Zero when you are obviously interested in Akane?! " Kaname had all but exploded, for the sheer memory of Takuma's lips on Zero was too much for him to stomach.
"I wasn't interested in Akane in that sense! " Takuma protested, his face turning a sickly shade of green upon his friend's words.
"Yes, and I agreed with Takuma! The sheer thought of him being interested in me ... is downright, gross and impossible! " Akane spoke up, having just arrived at the lounge after listening to Akatsuki's explanation of why Takuma was in trouble with Kaname.
"Why is that so?!"
"... " Takuma was silent, not daring to reveal anything without Akane's permission to do so.
"Because, Takuma's my cousin! That's why and I thought I've told you on more than one occasions that I am not into /INCEST!/" Akane snapped, her tone laced with irritation as she responded to the pureblood's query.
Kaname frowned, before he said. "Since when? I wasn't aware that Ichiou was related to the 'Fujiwara' ... and he had no other heir, except for Takuma's father from what I've been told ... "
"... By that ... You are referring to his legitimate son on the official records!" Akane gritted out, trying her best to refrain from snapping at the pureblood again.
Thankfully, neither of the night-class members were present in the room else Akane would not be able to escape unharmed after her behavior in the pureblood's presence today.
"You mean your father's the illegitimate son of Ichiou? "
"Yes, he is! Got a problem with that?! While we are on the subject, my family's name is not Ichijo and would never be! I'll rather be dead than to admit that hypocrite going by the name of Ichijo Asato's my grand-father! My father's only an Ichijo by blood, so please for goodness sake - stop linking him together with Asato! As far as I am concern, Ichijo Asato does not knows of my father's existence and would never know - if neither of you spoke about it!"
By then, Akane was on the verge of suffering from a nervous breakdown and was starting to get a little hysterical. Part of her was angry at the pureblood for wanting to get down to the bottom of things, and yet another part of her felt like killing Aidou who's the ultimate culprit for complicating matters by causing that accidental 'kiss' between Zero and Takuma. Which inevitably resulted in this particular situation, whereby she would have to reveal her family relations to the Ichijos' despite her unwillingness.
"Kaname ... if you really must know, Akane's father a product of a ... rape ... so please, don't press on the issue anymore. Even I, myself still have trouble stomaching the information. You want the reason why I'm so interested in Akane's affairs, and Why I've been so concerned about Akane's well-being when my grand-father's here to visit, and ultimately my reasons for wanting to be on friendly terms with Kiryuu? There ... you have it now ... and Once again, I must say that I'm sorry for kissing Kiryuu. I really didn't mean for it to happen, it was an accident and only happened because Aidou pushes me while he tried to remove his weight from my body when we all fell and landed in a heap. "
With that said, Takuma headed towards the distressed cousin and led the girl away from the lounge heading for the privacy of the girl's room. Leaving behind his pureblood friend, to soak in all the information that had been revealed over the past few minutes of time.
Akane walked in a daze-like manner, not knowing where she was going and merely allowed her cousin to lead the way. She had no intention of snapping at her adopted father, like everyone else she respected Kaname a lot. Still, with the stress that had accumulated over the past few weeks and the constant worry of how their coming back to the past would affect the future had finally taken its toll on her. Thus, resulting in her nervous breakdown during the earlier confrontation. It was a lucky thing that she had the sense to keep her voice down despite her agitation, it would after all do no good for the others to find out about her relation with the Ichijos'.
If there was anyone whom she cared greatly for in this time period, aside from the twins - it was her father. She knew Zero and Takuma would be able to handle themselves even in the worst scenarios, but her father would be unable to since she knew the former was just as old as the twins now. The very last thing which she wanted to happen was for Ichijo Asato to find out about her father's existence, it was one thing about telling Takuma as she knew the former would eventually find things out through the 'Kanzaki' clan when one of them came to visit. She was planning on informing Zero sooner or later, since she figured the former would probably be pestering her for the reason behind Takuma's over-enthusiasm at befriending him.
As for Kaname, she had always assumed that Zero would be the one telling the former. At least, that was what happened back in her own time ... but now, she realized that she had changed the past a little too much. That realization itself, was enough to send her into a state of hysteria and causing her to nearly hyperventilate. If it was not for the comfort of Takuma being next to her, she would have literally broke down, right there and then.
Takuma, meanwhile, remained silent as he held the trembling girl close to his chest while the girl cried softly in his arms. Patting Akane's head gently as he soothe the girl with his comforting gestures, he waited patiently for the girl to recover from her emotional breakdown. He knew Akane was upset, and had been stressed out by the recent happenings and he felt bad about it. If he had not been so persistent in his decision to get friendly with Kiryuu, then perhaps things would not have escalated down to this point.
Akane had always appeared to be strong-willed, which he knew she was. Still, her words of arrogance at times was to mask up her own insecurities and her constant aloof behavior that she displayed in front of the night-class members was another act of self-defense. Which was understandable, considering the fact that Akane was now surrounded by people whom were both familiar and foreign to her at the same time.
Unlike the twins whom could probably goes around doing what they pleased without dwelling too much into the situation and nobody would dared to raise any objections, simply because of their pureblood status and their being the sons of Kaname had an easier time than Akane. For Akane's situation was different, and being older than the twins' her stress would be greater to endure.
The night-class members would be able to tolerate the twins' existence, and their disrespectful acts in front of Kaname because they knew Kaname doted upon them and it remained undeniable that the twins had the blood of their pureblood leader in them. Akane, though was different - she was a noble rank vampires like the rest of them, and was merely adopted by Kaname. To them, Akane was just another relative of Kiryuu Zero whom they still loathed with a passion but was coming to tolerate the former's presence due to the twins, and their leader's orders if nothing else.
When it comes down to Akane, the night-class members were always wary of her. In fact, Akane was probably just as wary of them as they were to her. The only person among the night-class whom Akane had really opened up to, was in fact - himself but that's probably only because of his initial persistence in getting to know her and recently, because their relationship of being cousins was out in the open, Akane had allowed herself to open up more in front of him.
"Don't worry, Akane ... I'll do anything to keep your father safe from my grand-father ... I promise ... Now sleep ... Everything would be fine when you wake up ..." Takuma vowed as he laid the distressed girl down on the bed to rest, and had stayed with Akane until the girl cried herself into a fitful sleep.
~to be continued~
Date started: 19/05/09
Date completed: 20/05/09
Date edited: 20/05/09