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: I apologize for the lack of twins actions in the last chapter, and I promise to make it up in this chapter ... so this chapter would have some 'sweet' family time involving both parents of the twins. :P Yes, before I forgot ... I noticed some reviews were saying that there's a lack of Zero's growing attraction towards Kaname in the previous few chapter ... Well, that's because ... I don't think Zero had the mood to be thinking about such feelings as of yet. In the manga, he had lived this long to seek revenge on Shizuka ... so I doubt he would have time to contemplate about 'love' at all. he might cared and worried, but his thoughts would never traveled to the idea of 'love'.
Therefore, until Shizuka's dead and buried ... I don't think Zero would have the time to fathom out his growing desire to Kaname. So far, I might have given out the signal that Zero seemed resign to the whole idea ... Which, I had to agree. However, one could look at it this way - there must have been some feelings in him in order to make him feel resigned to the idea of being together with Kaname. He just didn't want, nor have the time to fathom out his feelings towards the former now.
Also, if one had read the confrontation part (on the kiss) in the previous chapter ... One could easily see how upset Zero had seemed at one point of the time, when he blow up at Kaname for pressing on the reason why he was denying their kiss, altogether. If he didn't feel anything towards Kaname, then his reaction should not be this 'big' ... He could have just said that the kiss didn't mean anything to him, but he did not. Instead, he blew up at Kaname ... Well, then again ... To each of own. Perhaps, my hint of Zero did feel something for Kaname wasn't that clear to everyone but well ... *shrugs* On with the next chapter!
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Chapter 15 - Calm before the Storm!
Akane and Takuma was just returning from their trip to town when they found the twins huddled in one isolated corner of the Moon Dormitory talking softly among themselves. It was now twelve mid-night, and Takuma had spend the whole day entertaining her in town, not giving up on the notion until he was successful in getting a laugh out from her.
"... What the hell are the two of you doing here? " Akane asked, as she look at the twins with intent hoping that they had not been up to any mischief while she was away with Takuma.
"Erm ... nothing ... we're just talking ... " Akira said in response, trying to hide something behind his back.
Unfortunately, that little action failed to escape from the girl's keen sight and soon whatever Akira had been trying to hide from her had ended up in her outstretched palm. It was a cell-phone that currently sat on her palm, and she held it closer to herself for an inspection.
"I see." Akane said after a moment of inspection, the twins were obviously holding a discussion on the pictures that was kept in that particular phone's memory slot.
"Akane?" Takuma prompted, only to have the girl throwing the phone carelessly towards his direction.
Catching hold of the device with his fast reflex, Takuma had to refrain from blanching when he caught sight of a particular picture of him 'kissing' a certain silver-haired guardian. That was obvious a snapshot which had been taken during the whole bathroom incident, but he failed to understand just how on earth did anyone managed to get a shot at that particular scene. After all, the incident took place in the bathroom of Aidou and Akatsuki. Takuma was affirmed that neither of them had their cell-phones' camera mode activated during that point of time, so how is it that a shot had been taken without his knowing?
"Akira, where on earth did you get that from?" Akane asked, her voice tight and controlled.
It was bad enough that Kaname walked in upon that scene, and it would be 'hell' if the former had gotten hold of that device before she did.
"... I found it ... in Uncle Shiki's room, just now ... " Akira responded, honestly not daring to test his adopted sibling's patience as he knew the former had a nasty temper if provoked.
"What?! " Takuma was floored, as Akira's words hits home when he realized that the phone was no one else but his own.
"Takuma?" Akane shot him a questioning look, which he ignored pointedly as he went through the memory stick of his cell-phone hurriedly and deleting any other questionable pictures that involved a certain silver-haired guardian. If Akira had not mentioned that the phone was found in his shared room with Shiki, the memory of him 'testing' out the auto-recording function on this particular phone of his would have slipped from his mind, entirely.
"It's nothing, I've destroyed each and every pictures or videos on that particular scene now. I can't believed I didn't bother to check the phone memory over the past few days ... " Takuma muttered aloud, inwardly thankful that his friend had yet to chance upon those pictures and videos footage in his new phone.
Turning towards the twins, Takuma said. "Do me a favor - please, do not reveal anything about what the two of you had seen in that phone of mine, understand? I do not wish to have your father killing me, for something which had been nothing but a mere accident. "
The twins nodded in response, and Takuma heaved a sigh of relief at that. Still, he was on his guard and was now preparing himself mentally for what might still happened to him if either one of the twins, slipped up and tell.
"... Don't tell me that phone is yours? " Akane's voice sounded odd to him, that he looked up immediately to find his cousin staring at him with mock horror.
"Yes ... the phone's mine, and No. I do not have a death wish yet. I was just testing out a function on that phone, and merely forgotten all about it until now. Therefore, please rest assured that I am not interested in your grand-uncle in that manner! " Takuma stated, his tone stern and warning while he addressed Akane.
"Alright, I get the point." Akane responded, shrugging nonchalantly before shifting her attention back to the twins and said.
"So ... why are the two of you out here, and not with your father? " Akane questioned, a little bewildered by the fact that the twins were being left alone to their own devices and without anyone watching them.
The twins shared a secret smile between themselves, before smirking and said in unison. "Oh ... We wouldn't want to interrupt them again. "
"Huh? " Akane blinked, completely out of the loop and was utterly bewildered by the twins' response.
"Daddy's here ... " That was all Subaru was willing to reveal, anything more his mask of cool indifference would break and he would be blushing madly like a tomato for all to see.
"Yeah, Daddy's here and he's upstairs with Father now. " Akira elaborated on his twin behalf, before adding on. "So we were told to entertain ourselves in Uncle Shiki's presence ... but Uncle Shiki is too tired, so he dozed off. Since we've got nothing better to do, we started poking around the room and see if there's any interesting things for us to find ... "
"I see ... and the two of you ended up finding /that/ gadget. Am I right to say so?" Akane summed up, putting a stop to Akira's incessant chatters.
"Well ... yes ... " Akira's remaining statement was cut off again, this time around because their parents were coming down the stairs and heading towards their direction.
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Zero Kiryuu sighed aloud, as he felt the hands of Kaname Kuran groped him for the umpteen times that night, since he had allowed to let the pureblood 'talk' him into spending some quality time with their future kids.
"Enough Kuran! Isn't it about time for us to check on the twins already?! You dragged me back here with you when your class ended just now, claiming to say that we should spend some time together with the twins. However, once we arrived at the dormitory ... the first thing you did was to send them out to check something with your cousin. Then you suggest having some tea while waiting for them to return, that I had already obliged. Then now, with the twins being away for what seems to be an eternity ... all that you're interested in doing, was to grope me?! "
"... Am I making you uncomfortable? " The pureblood asked, frowning.
Zero fought the urge to roll his eyes heaven-wards, as he replied. "Of course, you are making me uncomfortable! In case your memory failed you, I should perhaps reminded you again ... Several hours ago, you've only just admitted to the fact that our previous 'kiss' did mean something to you. However, you did not elaborate on just what exactly does the 'kiss' between us meant ... All you wanted for me to do was to believe in your words, which I did /believe/ ... much to my own chagrin."
"Then you dropped the bombshell of Yuuki being your blood sister, and that the two of you are engaged to be married since young ... thus justifying your past actions around her, and simply expect me to suck it up with stride and without questions raised. Which I apparently did, much to my own confusion. You claimed that you would let me know the details in time, which again, I /believe/ in them. I had no reason to believe you, but I still did ... something which my master would deemed it stupid, and I pretty much agreed with that notion as well. "
"Now you ask me if your actions are making me uncomfortable? Of course, they are! You are practically molesting me, without my /consent/ again ... I might add. Why am I still putting up with those actions of yours, I had no idea. May I remind you again, that we still have a rather /questionable/ relationship here? "
"... True, but I thought ... that we've agreed on the idea that there had been some undeniable feelings between us? Wasn't that enough already? For now, I mean ... "
"Yes ... casting aside the usual feeling of dislike and loathing that we had always felt towards one another, I agreed that there's something else between us now. Still, that new feeling that arises between us ... What was it? Love? No ... not quite there yet ... Lust? Maybe ... seeing as how you have been trying to 'molest' me whenever your hands are free to roam ... Desire? Yes, I agreed ... otherwise, you would not be groping me everywhere now ... So what is it? " Zero pressed on, relentlessly.
"Zero! Honestly, I had no idea yet ... but if you really need an answer out from me, I guess you can classify it under the feeling of 'Lust' for the moment. I'll let you know if something better comes up ... And now, let's not delay any further ... and shall we proceed on to locate the twins then? " Kaname cut in, before the silver-haired hunter could start ranting again.
Thus, the duo abandoned the comforts of the pureblood's room and went in search for the twins that had went missing sometime ago. The first room which Kaname had check out was the room of the shared room of Takuma and his cousin, Shiki. When he failed to find the twins in there, he did the most natural thing that came popping into his mind. He allowed his keen vampire senses to lead them to the twins'.
"Come on, let's go ... they're downstairs in the front lounge. " Kaname said, as he reached for Zero and pulled the silver-haired teen after him.
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"Kaname-sama ... " Both Takuma and Akane greeted as the pureblood made his way down the stairs with the silver-haired hunter in tow.
"Akane ... Takuma ... " Kaname Kuran greeted, his voice devoid of emotions as usual. Zero, on the other hand, greeted Akane warmly before turning towards Takuma with a nod of acknowledgement.
Turning towards the twins, Kaname asked bringing up an idea which he had on his mind since early evening. "Boys! Would the two of you like to go ice-skating with Daddy and me? "
Upon Kaname's suggestion, Zero arched an eyebrow up in skepticism as he questioned. "Honestly? ... Ice-skating at such hours? It's awfully cold out there, you know? Speaking of which, where do you intend to skate? "
"There's a lake out there on the school grounds and I'm certain it had frozen by this period of the season, thus making it solid enough for us to skate on without fearing that it will crack under pressure. " Kaname responded, matter-of-factly deciding to keep the information that he had send Aidou out earlier to freeze it, instead of letting the nature does its job. "So ... Akira, Subaru ... what do you think? " Kaname asked, directing his attention back to the twins.
Subaru shrugged, while Akira cheered upon the prospect of going ice-skating with his parents. Meanwhile, Akane merely sighed inwardly before making a move to leave the area.
She was, however, stop in the midst of her steps when she heard Zero calling out for her attention. Turning towards the silver-haired teen, Akane asked. "Yes?"
"Akane, would you perhaps like to join us? Ichijo can join us too ... that is if he wanted to. " Zero added, when he realized that Akane seemed rather hesitant about joining them for the ice-skating session.
Initially, Kaname felt slightly irked by the idea of having his friend joining them for the trip. He had no problem with having Akane around, since he knew Zero would not have wanted to leave the girl behind alone while they head out to spend some quality time as a family. However, the idea that he could easily have Zero's attention to himself if his friend was around to keep the twins occupied with the help of Akane fleeted past his mind for a while and he felt his mood being lightened up significantly.
"Yeah, do join us ... Takuma, we could do with some help in getting the twins to behave. " Kaname interjected, trying to sound casual as he tighten his hold on the waist-line of the silver-haired hunter.
Zero Kiryuu, on the other hand, tried to ignore the pureblood's hand on his waist before he brought up another question in response to Kaname's suggestion of going ice-skating.
"So what are we supposed to do about the ice-skating gears? "
Kaname smirked, before he replied. "Worry not ... I have them ready in my room, all we have to do now is to retrieve them. Takuma have his own gears somewhere as well, and I'm sure that Akane could have Rima's old gear since the former had bought a new set recently for an advertisement shoot."
"... " Akane and Takuma shared a look among themselves, if they had any suspicions on the issue before. They were now absolutely certain that Kaname had planned for the ice-skating session in advance, otherwise how could the former have gotten everything that was necessary for the ice-skating session ready in such a short span of time.
With a shake of their heads, Akane and Takuma both headed off in search of their respective gears. Whereas, Kaname merely send Seiren to retrieve the gears from his room without the need to move himself.
Fifteen minutes later, Akane and Takuma returned to the front lounge with their ice-skating gears. Instead of Rima's old gears, Akane had ended up with Shiki's instead. Initially, Akane had refused but Takuma had managed to convince her into accepting Shiki's gears claiming to say that the gears are meant to be unisex, and it would not matters whether or not does it belongs to a male, prior to her use.
"Everyone's ready? Come on, let's go then ... " Kaname announced, as he started to do 'head-counts' to indulge the kids despite knowing that there was no need for a head-count since he knew there was no one missing from their party.
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Aidou Hanabusa sulked as he gazed at the sight of the twins skating around his beloved pureblood leader, longingly. It was just not fair for him to be ban from joining the group in their ice-skating session when he had been the one whom had spend hours during the early hours of the night, freezing the lake to the extend that it would be able to support the weight of a group of people skating upon the frozen surface of the lake.
"... Hanabusa, that's enough. Stop sulking ... You are not a three years old!" Akatsuki Kain told his cousin, trying his hardest to refrain from rolling his eyes at the blond.
" ... " In response to his cousin's comments, Aidou Hanabusa only threw a look of annoyance before his expression turns back into his previous sulking look.
"It's just not fair! Why is it that Takuma's allowed to join them, whereas I'm not?! " The blue-eyed blond vampire complained, taking on the look of an abandoned puppy.
"Like what Takuma had said before, he was there by invitation. Otherwise, he would be here with us now! Besides, I believe the ice-skating session would help both Kaname-sama and Takuma to get over their differences, and re-acquainted." Akatsuki said as he shifted his eyes away from the book that he was reading, and directed them towards his cousin again.
"I know ... the atmosphere between them need to be lighten up, it's been too heavy with tension recently. " Aidou agreed with his cousin's opinion, despite the fact that he was currently green with envy directed towards a certain green-eyed blond vampire.
Over at the frozen lake, the twins were happily skating on the ice with Takuma and Akane watching over them. On the other side of the lake, a certain pureblood was trying to molest Zero again by coming up with the brilliant suggestion to coach the former in the fields of skating.
"Kuran! Do me a favor, and stop holding me so tightly - would you?" Zero protested, when he realized that the pureblood had no intention of letting go of his waist despite the fact that he could now stand upright on the ice without stumbling.
"But if I let go, you might fall." Kaname responded, matter-of-factly as he looked at his companion innocently.
"Still, I must insist that you let go of me this instant and proceed on to check on the twins. If it helped to set your mind at peace, you need not worry about me because I would not be wandering off by myself. " Zero replied, sounding firm as he tried to persuade the former into letting go of him.
"I believe the twins are in capable hands, neither Takuma nor Akane would let them disappeared from their sight. " Kaname responded, affirmly.
Zero sighed inwardly, resigning himself to the idea that the pureblood was not going to leave him alone to his own device throughout the whole skating session. "Fine then, but do prevent yourself from groping me in places where you should not be touching in the first place. "
Kaname said nothing, only shrugged in return. Which literally translated to 'No promises though but I can always try to keep that in mind' in Zero's opinions.
Thank goodness that it was now in the middle of the night, and no one else could see Kaname leading Zero as the duo skated on the ice. If not, Zero would be so embarrassed that he might wish to die right there and then; especially when Kaname had obviously held him close throughout the whole skating session.
Unknowingly to them all, someone was indeed observing them in the dark. However, before either of the vampires could sensed their silent observer. That intruder had departed and blend into the dark surrounding.
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Ichiru Kiryuu was upset, but he refused to let his anger show. He was on a scouting mission for Shizuka Hiou, and his duty was to check the environment of the Cross Academy in details. Not wanting to risk detection to himself, he had wisely chosen to act on the mission in the middle of the night. Still, the academy grounds were not as abandoned as he had hoped initially.
He had been checking out the area near the school's lake, when he sensed a group of six approaching. Hiding himself behind in the shadows of the woods, he waited patiently for the newcomers to emerge from the shadows. Due to the fact that he was hiding some distances away from the group, he was unable to see each and everyone of their faces clearly. However, among the six newcomers; he could easily recognized one of them.
Zero Kiryuu, his mirror image and identical twin brother. That was the first person he recognized, then his eyes fell upon the sight of the two children surrounding his elder twin, and another person. He watched as his twin kneel down to the kids' level, before giving them a friendly pat on the head after conversing with them. After some time, the kids wandered off towards the other two figures standing near the lake but his mind paid them no attention. His attention was solely focused and centered upon his twin and that man standing next to Zero.
His fist tightened into a clench, when he witnessed how the man had pulled his twin in for an embrace. For a while, he had hoped that his twin would pulled away from the man but unfortunately, his wish went un-answered. All Zero did was to throw the former a look of annoyance, but did nothing else more than that. Ichiru was mad, he wanted so much to throttle that man for touching his twin in that manner. Still, he suppressed the rage which was threatening to break forth and turned away from the scene in a hurry.
He needed to get himself away fast, before he did something that might threaten to thwart the plans of Shizuka-sama. The thought of Shizuka Hiou calm his senses, and his hurried steps turned into purposeful strides. Thinking of Shizuka Hiou always seems to calm him down, why though? He had no idea, nor does he want to fathom out the reason behind his strange attraction to that pureblood whom wiped his family out in front of his eyes.
Meanwhile back at the lake, Takuma nearly stumbled and fell when he almost crashed into his cousin whom had suddenly stopped in the midst of her skating. Thankfully, his quick vampires' reflexes saved him from crashing into the girl. Still, he could not helped but asked.
"Akane? What's wrong? Why'd you stopped? "
The sandy-brown haired vampire shakes her head in response, and said. "Nothing ... I just thought, I sensed someone staring at us but when I looked up, there's nobody there. "
Takuma frowned, before responding. "Well, I didn't sensed anyone ... so you might be hallucinating. Perhaps, you are just tired. After all, you've never stayed up so late before. "
"Maybe, who knows?! " Akane responded, before dismissing the matter entirely as she turned her attention back to the twins. She was just in time to see Akira trying to do a somersault on the ice, and barked out a warning for Subaru to freeze the boy in mid-action.
"Damn it Akira! This is not a real skating rink, if you do that ... the ice on the surface of the lake might cracked then you will find yourself drowning! " Akane lectured the boy for his notorious actions, before informing the boy that if she should catch him doing the same thing again. Akira could jolly well says good-bye to all his candies collection that the boy had been hiding from her knowledge.
Akira gaped, as he asked. "How did you know?!"
"I know everything, I'm just not in the mood to care over the past week! " Akane responded, feeling the start of a headache as she answered Akira's question.
Deciding that she had been forgoing her sleep for far too long, Akane turned towards the direction of Kaname and Zero as she projected her voice across, such that she would not risk any wrath from Kaname for interrupting them.
"I apologized for interrupting ... but I need my sleep. Could we either call it a night, or the two of you could just take on some parental responsibilities and actually watched over the twins yourselves. Instead of dumping them to Takuma and myself, while the two of you spend some quality time getting to know one another back there! "
"See! I told you we should watched over Akira and Subaru ourselves!" Zero muttered aloud as he threw a glare towards the pureblood's direction, before responding to Akane's words.
"It's alright, Akane. I think we should probably call it a night, its' late. Besides, unlike Kuran and Ichijo ... I do need some time for rest, as well. Seeing as I have every intention to report for classes tomorrow morning. " Zero gritted out, as he shot a warning glare towards the pureblood whom was still holding him in a vice-like grip.
With an inward sigh, Kaname let go of the silver-haired hunter reluctantly allowing everyone to pack up and leave the area. The twins were told to follow Akane and Takuma's lead, while Kaname offered to send Zero back to the Sun Dormitory much to the silver-haired teen's aghast. Still, Zero's protest against the idea was in vain as the pureblood refuses to listen to him. The former even threaten to kiss him, if Zero attempted to protest against the idea again.
It was a good thing that Zero was living alone in the Sun Dormitory, otherwise he might find himself in trouble for entering his room through the window. Then again, what could he do? It was three in the middle of the night now, going through the front gate of the Sun Dormitory would be mission impossible as it would required waking the keeper of the dormitory. Moreover, he had with him the president of the Moon Dormitory and the rules of the dormitory had specifically specified that no members of the Moon Dormitory would be allowed in the territory of the Sun Dormitory.
Although, Kaname had offered the option of having Zero stayed at the Moon Dormitory for the night. Zero had refused, he would rather die than to spend a night in the company of the vampires'. His attitude towards the night-class may have cooled down recently due to the twins' and Akane, but that still does not change the fact that he still hated the vampires in general.
Spending time with the pureblood by his side without attempting to kill the former was already considered to be a miracle, but asking him to sleep while being surrounded by those vampires were pushing his limits. Especially, he knew for a fact that there was quite a number of night-class members whom would not hesitated to kill him in his sleep. The only reason they have been holding back was probably because of the twins' or it could be the orders of the pureblood currently standing beside him.
"Alright, Kuran ... I'm back, so can you please leave already?" Zero questioned, as he turned towards the dark-haired president of the Moon Dormitory.
The pureblood shrugged, before heading towards the direction of the window. Pausing slightly in his steps, he shifted his attention back to the silver-haired guardian and asked.
"Zero, can I see you again tomorrow?"
"Aren't you already seeing me on a daily basis? "
"I meant, some other time aside from the class change-over period. " Kaname responded, half in exasperation.
"We shall see ... " Zero muttered aloud before he ignored the pureblood altogether and dumped himself unceremoniously on his bed.
Silence before he sensed the absence of the pureblood's presence in his room, sighing aloud as he shifted his position such that he was looking up at the ceiling.
"Damn ... Master Touga would kill me if he knew what I've been doing over the past twenty hours or so ... Well, although I had to agree ... spending time in the companionship of Kuran might not be that bad after all. That is, if I overlooked the fact that he's supposed to be my arch nemesis."
'Yeah right ... an arch nemesis who seemed determined to get in your pants ...' His inner voice reminded, pointedly.
As soon as that thought crosses his mind, Zero felt like groaning aloud at the sheer complexity of the situation. He was supposed to hate all vampires in general, yet he found himself enjoying the company of some of them. He had envisioned himself to continue loathing the existence of all pureblood vampires in general but he was told that he would be sleeping and procreating with one in the near future.
He was supposed to be feeling angry about the kiss which Kaname Kuran had forced upon him last weekend, and yet he found himself feeling a slightest hint of pleasure despite the brutality of the kiss. He should be shoving the pureblood away for 'molesting' him, but somehow he had put up with the former's advances without his knowing why. For heaven's sake, he had believed what the pureblood was telling him during their earlier confrontation when his logic was telling him not to trust the words of a vampire. Still, he choose to believe in them. What on earth was going on with him? Was he going insane? Was this a sign that indicated his approaching fate of falling to the 'Level E'? If not, then pray tell why was he having such delusional actions?
'Damn ... this is getting nowhere! I must be going crazy, why else would I be enjoying the companionship of Kuran? Worst, I'm also debating with my inner self. After all, people always says talking to one-self is the first sign into insanity. ' Zero thought to himself, before he settled himself into a restless sleep.
~to be continued~
Date started: 23/05/09
Date completed: 24/05/09
Date edited: 24/05/09