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: Very tough chapter to write here, I literally wrote it thrice. This is the third attempt at it, and hopefully it came out well. In this chapter, the twins finally made reappearance…
Chapter 25 – The Dilemma of Choice
Wakaba Sayori stood with the Chairman at the front gate of the Academy, patiently awaiting the return of one Yuuki Cross. The hazel-brown haired girl could not helped but wonder – how much of those 'luck' Yuuki must be having to chance upon a vampire kid out there in public specifically seeking her out for help in locating a misplaced parent.
Another inaudible sigh found its way out from Sayori's lips as she thought back to the instant whereby she had received a call from a certain blue eyed blond aristocrat member of the night-class informing her of Yuuki's whereabouts. Shock could not even describe her emotions fully then, it had her believed herself to be hallucinating when the call first came through to her. Thankfully, she had had enough sense in her to snap back to reality in time – dazing out from just receiving a call out there in public must have made her look stupid enough.
Soon after Sayori recovered herself from the dumbstruck situation she found herself in, the hazel brown haired girl had all but made a swift escape from the ice-cream parlor she was visiting.
The sound of a car motor approaching snapped her back into reality, masking her emotions behind her usual facade of indifference – Wakaba Sayori looked up in time just to witness the sight of the female guardian running towards her upon the opening of the car door.
"Yori-chan, I'm sorry!" Yuuki was telling her.
"You should be … you'd me worried sick back there!" Sayori responded her voice tight and laced with steel while she looked Yuuki over to ensure that the girl's really fine and free from scratches.
"I'm so sorry, but why are your hands so cold?" The chocolate brown haired girl had asked, upon brushing her hands against her friend's.
"How long do you think I've been waiting out here for you?" That was the reply given to Yuuki by one irritated Wakaba Sayori, and it was enough to send the female guardian into yet another incessant session of mouthing off words of apology.
"Enough already, Yuuki – don't you have anything else to say aside from uttering words of apologies?" Wakaba Sayori prompted, successfully ceasing the rambling girl before turning towards the night-class members in general.
"I apologized for the inconvenience caused for the lots of you; I should have stopped her in following me out of the academy grounds." The hazel brown haired started, and while her words were being directed to the night-class members in general – her gaze had never left the face of one expressionless Kaname Kuran.
"Its fine, Yuuki can be very persistent at times and I don't blame you for caving in to her request." It was Zero whom had acknowledged Sayori's apology on behalf of a certain pureblood, and if Kaname was irked by the fact – he did not show.
With that, the night-class members began to file into the academy grounds under the scrutiny eyes of a certain silver-haired guardian and their resident pureblood prince without saying another word. The pureblood was the last to step through the threshold of the academy, and while doing so – requested for the chance to have a word with the silver-haired guardian.
"… Fine…" The ex-human agreed grudgingly when he realized the fact that a certain someone was not going to let him say 'no' to it.
The so-called 'chat' took place in the woods surrounding the Moon Dormitory; it was picked out by the pureblood himself. Reason provided for not wanting to have the so-called talk inside the Moon Dormitory building itself had something to do with the topic of discussion deemed unsuitable for the twins' ears.
"What is it that you want to say? Can you just come out with it already?" Zero found himself snapping with mild irritation, when ten minutes had already fleeted by and a certain pureblood still remained tight-lipped about whichever topic that was supposed to be discussed between them.
"Zero… I'm concern." Kaname eventually started, but the words that came tumbling out from his lips had a certain irate ex-human stunned.
"What the hell… does that means?!" Zero finished dumbly, of all the possible things that he would have thought to be hearing from Kaname Kuran – that was apparently the last thing he had thought possible.
"Yuuki…" The one-word response from the pureblood then did nothing to help with the irritation of Kiryuu Zero, it took the silver-haired teen all his patience to not just snap right there and then.
"Kuran... I'm in no mood for this, if you have something to say. You spelt it out now or you don't say anything at all – guessing games were never my forte and it never will be!" Zero gritted through his teeth, as he fought the urge to stalk upright to the man and strangled him.
A sigh was heard initially from the lips of one Kaname Kuran, before the said person continued his explanation of his previous statement. Turns out that a certain pureblood had the notion in mind about Yuuki fainting in front of the party venue of the night society was no coincidence at all, the past experience of Yuuki said things so.
"… If that's not a coincidence, then what is it?" Zero then asked.
"That is the thing, I had no idea either."
"Then why in the world are you so deeply troubled by it?"
"I'm not certain but I keep on having a nagging feeling tugging at me at the back of my mind, and it certainly doesn't help with Yuuki's sudden desire to tell me how she actually feel about her emptied memories of the past." The pureblood conceded after some moment of silence.
"… Are you going to let her remember the past then?" Zero felt it in him to ask. Honestly speaking, Zero had no idea what he would do if Kaname did decide to let Yuuki regain those lost memories of hers at this point of time.
It was one thing to be accepting the presence of Kaname Kuran, a pureblood vampire to be circling around him on a daily basis but totally another when it comes down to adapting to a sudden change of having Yuuki regaining her pureblood princess status. For Kaname case, all Zero needed to do was to get used to his being around.
Yuuki on the other hand had been under the guise of a mere mortal being all this while, and Zero, himself has already gotten used to the idea of seeing Yuuki as a human. If suddenly a change were to occur without any pre-warning in advance, there is no absolute way of telling how exactly he will react to it all.
"I was tempted to, but I managed to pull back at the last minute." Kaname's response draw the silver-haired hunter out from his thoughts and back to the plane of reality.
"Kuran… what are you doing?" The silver-haired teen let a low growl escape from him, upon sensing the advances of a certain pureblood from behind.
"Don't fret, just stay still for a moment … I won't do anything that you wouldn't want me to." The pureblood replied softly, while burying his face into the tensed shoulder blade of Zero Kiryuu.
The silver-haired hunter remained stony and still for a few minutes before gritting out in frustration. "Kaname Kuran! I'm warning you, let go of me now before I resort to other alternatives of making you unhand me! I am not your bolster, and if you are tired – kindly proceeded back to your room for that rest which you required. I am not going to be stand around and let you 'use' me as a pillow or sort."
Meanwhile, back in the Moon Dormitory building – a certain cousin of the resident pureblood too appeared to be pre-occupied.
"Shiki… is anything the matter?" Takuma Ichijo, room-mate to the said teen frown in concern after realizing that Shiki Senri was zoning out on him.
"I just thought … never mind, its' nothing." The teen in question shakes his head ruefully, as he responded.
"Well… if you are certain." The green eyed blond shrugged it off, but still keeping an eye out on his slightly 'off' room-mate.
"Yare…Yare… The storm is brewing…" Kiryuu Akane mumbled under her breath, as she took in the sight of the gloomy skies out there before turning her attention to the twins.
"Come on; let's head out there to retrieve those young and stubborn parents of ours – shall we?" Akane suggested to the twins, currently in the midst of a 'Pocky' fight.
"Okay!" With that, the two boys threw the box of half-finished Pocky box aside and went barreling out front in search for their young parents.
Kiryuu Zero had been pondering over the possibility of getting one Kaname Kuran to remove himself from his body when he heard the un-mistakenable sound of the twins yell for them. Counting mentally to five, he was immensely grateful when Kaname Kuran stopped leaning against him and took to the option of leaning with his back against the tree bark instead.
"Daddy, Father… where have you been?" Akira asked when he reached the sides of his young parents.
"We have been nowhere… just standing around out here all these time." Zero found himself responding to the boy's question, with a small smile of his own. Somehow, he could felt his irritation at the earlier situation leaving him upon the sight of the twins now standing in front of him.
"Father…are you okay?" Subaru ignored his younger twin, and centre his attention on the other parent instead.
If Kaname was surprised by the silver-haired boy's question, he did not show any outward reaction to it – merely nodded his response to the boy before voicing out. "I'm fine, just a little tired from all that socializing from before."
"Aa…" The elder twin make a knowing sound, before turning to observe his other parent's interaction with his twin.
"Well… at least Akira does seem to have some plus points around here." Subaru commented after witnessing just how easy his younger twin had managed to soothe the irritation out from Zero.
Kaname glances over to where Zero was busying himself with Akira, and fought a smile of his own. He supposed he could understand where exactly was Subaru coming from… Akira was indeed prone to create trouble for them all. Sometimes, it can really drive them insane and he did for a while ponder over the possibility to drill some discipline in the boy – but somehow he never did. Judging from what he had seen over these periods of time, it was not that Akira had no discipline in him.
In fact, it was quite the opposite – Akira knew just exactly when he could afford to be notorious and when to behave himself. Although, that did nothing to change the fact that Akira had a tendency to be both reckless and careless when handling fragile items. For instances, that bottle of blood he had dropped unintentionally after being startled and also the jar of honey that he had knocked off the dining table in his eagerness to head into town – several weeks ago.
Kiryuu Zero ruffled the hair of Akira fondly, while he wondered just how bizarre this whole situation had come down to. The twins together with Akane had just come out from nowhere claiming to be from the future about two months ago, and he had initially started off his interaction with the trio uneasily. Now though, it seems like he could easily slide in and out from his parenting role and the sight of Akira sticking around him somehow was getting easier for him to stomach. After all, the boy saved for the exception of those lilac eyes of his – was a complete replica of the pureblood.
"You know, as much as I would hate to interrupt this family bonding time of yours – its' getting late and the rain is coming. So perhaps if the lot of you could just go inside of the building to continue the bonding session or whatsoever, I'll be immensely grateful." The sudden sound of Akane speaking up jolted the two young adults back to reality.
Upon Akane's words, Zero glances up at the skies for a brief moment before making a move to stand – probably to head back to where he should be. Unfortunately, his hopes of making an early escape were dashed when Akira refused to remove himself from the guardian's pants.
"Akira…" Zero started to speak, only to have the boy staring up at him with pitiful puppy eyes.
"…" The onlookers fell silent; Akane was seen to be fighting a smile from breaking across her features whereas Subaru just made a roll of his eyes upon the sight of Akira pulling his favorite puppy eyes look towards the younger version of their 'Daddy'. Then the expected reaction from the said hunter came; a look of exasperation started to worm itself into those lilac eyes of his – before he reached down to the child's level and picked the boy up in his arms.
"Fine then… but I am and will not be staying the night." Zero emphasized.
A crooked smile of sort found itself onto Kaname's lips, before he nodded his response. "I'd gathered that much."
Aidou Hanabusa's facial expression took on a turn for the gloom when he witnessed the sight of a certain ex-human entering the privacy of his beloved pureblood's room – again, for the third time in the week. Beside him, his cousin – Akatsuki Kain took one look at his expression before patting him as a form of comforting gesture before dragging him off, back towards the privacy of their shared room.
"Hey! What did you do that for?" Hanabusa protested, when his cousin finally unleashed the grip on him.
"Hanabusa, I'm telling you now for the seventeenth times in this week – just get it straight into your mind that no matter how you glare and stare. You are not going to change the fact that Kiryuu Zero was going to enter Kaname-sama's room, no matter what!" Akatsuki Kain stated flatly as he eyed his unhappy cousin from the corner of his eyes.
"… Still, why did Kaname-sama have to allow him entry so easily?" Aidou Hanabusa whined, causing his cousin's eyes to roll yet again at his words.
"Hanabusa, just snap out of it already – would you? For your information, they are not alone in there – the twins are inside the room, too. Nothing could be done with the twins around to watch, either. So just get your mind out from the gutter already! While we are on the subject of Kaname-sama and Kiryuu, let me remind you again – you have no right to interfere in the decision made by Kaname-sama." Akatsuki commented dryly, before making a grab for his towel as he proceeded to the attached bathroom for his long and over-due shower.
"Nah… Akatsuki, do you think I should invite Kiryuu over for vacation?" The blue eyed blond suddenly spoke up after being done with his daily and routine sulking session in a corner of his room.
There was a sound of something dropping onto the floor with a 'clang' sound, followed by a string of curses let loose by the bathroom occupant. Then was followed by the answer from within, "Hanabusa, kindly refrain from bringing up such impromptu question in future… Although, there has hardly been any cases of a vampire dying from cardiac arrest – I certainly had no qualms about being the first. Now, may I inquire what the hell happened that caused you to bring forth such a scary notion?"
"Nothing… I just thought maybe Kaname-sama would prefer that Kiryuu came along with us for the vacation."
"Hanabusa, as much as I would like to praise you for your brilliant idea – you have to realize that this is hardly a sound suggestion. First off, Kiryuu is a vampire hunter… unless you have the inclination to be murder off by your own family members' I would seriously advise you to drop the idea completely. Secondly, while Kaname-sama may find the idea of being at your place was a torturing session with all that sisters of yours being around and all – he would never turn his displeasure on to you. Last but not least, please try not to forget our fellow time-travelers from the future – Kiryuu cannot leave the school grounds, he need to stay behind and watch over them." Akatsuki Kain responded in an analytical manner, while he took a short moment to pause in his task of showering in order to address his cousin's unusual question.
Date started: 2/1/2013
Date completed: 2/1/2013