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: In this chapter, Yuuki's memory seal continues to weaken and a certain pureblood had to make up his mind soon... Ichiru's impending transfer into the academy and Zero's thoughts pertaining to it... Also, you'll get to see Zero taking on a parenting stance with the twins – being firm and all…KanZe moments towards the end.
Chapter 31 – In which Akira was lectured…
Yuuki Cross stood in the middle of a corridor way waiting for Zero to emerge from the Chairman's office situated within the administration building of the school. She was gazing out into the scenic view outside through the window panes, when she saw blood or rather she thought she saw blood being splattered. Then she felt it … eyes of intensity boring into her back, and reacting by mere instincts – she unleashed her anti-vampire weapon, the 'Artemis' and struck.
"…" Kaname Kuran raised a hand up and blocks the attack effortlessly, while he stood silently awaiting for the light of recognition to dawn back into those unfocused irises of Yuuki.
"Kaname-Sempai…" Yuuki whispered in recognition, before she blanched a shade of pale white as the full impact of her actions sets in on her. Why has she attacked her favourite senior of all times? Failing to comprehend the reason behind her actions, she panicked as she apologized profusely to the pureblood for her actions taken.
"It's okay… there is no need for you to beat yourself up for it. It is good for you to be wary of your surroundings, and the fact that you'd attacked me proved to show that you are being alerted of another's presence around your vicinity." Kaname assured, before he pondered over the words that he had heard from Akane in prior – pertaining to the issue of the memory seal on Yuuki weakening.
"Still, that does not give me the right to attack you…" Yuuki argued, knowing that she would be in for it if her actions taken today were known to another.
"Calm down, Yuuki!" Kaname started in on the girl once he realized that Yuuki was slipping into a panic attack of sort.
Slowly, Yuuki managed to calm herself down as logic started to worm itself back into her original panicky mind. "Kaname-Sempai…"
"Yes, is anything the matter…Yuuki?" The pureblood prompted in a gentle manner.
"…No…nothing…" Yuuki eventually said, discarding the idea of questioning the said vampire whether the reason behind her emptied past was his doings.
"Kaname-sama, there's something that require your attention back in the dormitory." Seiren's voice rang out from behind, causing the pureblood to sigh as he turned his attention back to Yuuki with slight hesitation.
"Yuuki, would you be alright if I leave you here alone?" Kaname asked, he thought it might be better if he just waited around for Zero to emerge from the Chairman's office but it seems like the issue that request his attention cannot be hold off any further.
The girl nodded somewhat uneasily, and the pureblood left specific instructions behind for Seiren to guard Yuuki until the arrival of a silver-haired guardian while he headed back to the dormitory to resolve whatever issues that required his immediate attention.
"Ah… Oh my…" Kaien Cross started, when the sound of something breaking jarred him from his process of searching for some particular documents on his messy work desk.
"…That's why I always tell you to keep your table tidy!" The silver-haired teen muttered aloud as he took in the sight of a teapot smashing into pieces upon been knocked off the table by the Chairman in the haste of going through the pile of documents awaiting his attention on the man's working desk.
"What a waste… To think that Kaname-kun brought me this rose tea that I was thinking of trying out… and now it's all spill." The Chairman whined upon the sight that met his eyes.
"…I'm more than certain that he brought you a full can of it, so quit whining and get back down to work." The silver-haired guardian fought against the urge to slap the clipboard held in his hands on the man's head, in order to snap the said person out from another of his whiny show of emotions.
"Still… it's such a waste." The Chairman grumbled, as he knelt down on the floor and picked the smashed pieces up – preparing to dump it all into the bin. Only to let out a shrill cry of pain, causing his 'adopted' son to turn towards him and snapped – again.
"What the hell is it now?!" Zero had all but snapped at the ex-hunter.
"I accidentally cut my finger with one of the sharp piece…" The man said tearfully, holding up his bleeding index finger for his adopted 'son' to see.
Zero took a deep breath to prevent him-self from yelling at the man, as his eyebrow twitches upon the sight that met his eyes when he turn around to check on the so-called wound of the Chairman. "It's just a tiny little cut, don't you think you are overdoing your reaction?!"
"But…it's bleeding, and while we are on the subject – do you want to lick it dry so that the blood that is spill will not be going to waste?" The Chairman then lifted up his bleeding finger towards the direction of Zero, rendering the said hunter speechless.
"For heaven's sake, can you and Yuuki stop doing this to me?" Zero muttered aloud, thinking back to that one instance – sometime last week, the girl asked him the exact question after cutting herself in the midst of chopping up carrots. The sheer memory of that previous event combined with what had occurred now, caused the silver-haired guardian to face-palm himself.
"… Alright, it's okay if you don't want to lick it dry – I'll just get a band-aid for it then." The Chairman then responded, nonchalantly as he makes a grab for the first aid kit within his office cabinet.
"Gees… you should have done it in that manner right from the start. Anyway, I'm just here to report – all the night class members have returned with the exception of those two whom had called in earlier to notify us of their late return." Zero throw back at his adopted father, as he turned on his heels and prepared to exit the office.
"Eh…! Hold it, there's still something that I need to ask you." The Chairman hurried to speak, before his adopted son can waltz out from the office as he snatched the piece of paper he had been rummaging through his table for – up for the teen to see.
"…What the hell is that?" Zero questioned, eyeing the slip of paper with suspicion. Inwardly, he was wondering whether it was yet another order for him to execute some stupid mission issued by the hunter's association.
"There's someone whom wishes to transfer into the day-class, but I won't be able to allow him entry until you'd given your approval." The Chairman then said causing the silver-haired teen to frown in response before he marched over to take a closer look at the slip of paper held up by the Chairman for his inspection.
The slip of paper being held up for his inspection was an approval letter, to be signed by him – relating to his younger twin – Kiryuu Ichiru transfer into the academy.
"…Who submitted the application?" Zero felt it in him to ask, the issue of his twin transferring into the academy just seemed to pop out of the blue.
"You will be surprised… the application was put in by the hunter's association, but his referral letter and recommendation slip was from the Vampire Council." The Chairman responded an odd expression as he mulled over the situation.
"…" Zero felt the start of a migraine building, as he pinched the bridge of his nose wearily. Then he asked. "Can I have the bloody name of his guardian?"
"Fujiwara Haruto." The ex-hunter, current Chairman of the Cross Academy responded.
Upon the mention of Fujiwara Haruto, Zero felt his headache making a turn for the worst. Eventually, he merely grabbed a pen from the Chairman's stationery holder and sign on the damn piece of approval slip.
"Zero…do you think that this is wise?" Kaien Cross asked after the approval slip was signed and handed back to him for record purposes.
"Wise or not wise…I do not know for certain, but one thing is for sure. I need to have a good and long talk with him, and the only way I would be able to do so – was for him to transfer in. Only then would I be able to get a chance to really talk with him." Zero concluded his reason behind his giving the approval for Ichiru to transfer into the day-class.
"Yuuki… why on earth are you sitting down in the middle of the corridor and with your 'Artemis' fully activated two steps away?" Zero Kiryuu found himself asking, confused by the sight that met his eyes after he stepped out from the Chairman's office.
"Aa… Zero…" Yuuki started, before falling silent again.
"…" Zero then shifted questioning eyes towards the figure lurking in the back of the shadowy area, but he only took one look in that direction before turning back towards Yuuki.
Apparently, there was no use in trying to get an answer out from Seiren – that guard of Kaname Kuran would definitely not say anything prior to being given permission from that 'lord' of hers. Looks like a trip down to the Moon Dormitory is in order… Zero thought, as he hurried to pull the distracted girl up from the floor and into a standing position.
"Come on… let's get you back to the dormitory for some rest." Zero muttered aloud, as he herded the girl off and nodded in acknowledgement towards the female vampire whom had kindly stayed around to guard Yuuki until his arrival.
"Eh… but classes…" Yuuki started, blinking up at her silver-haired companion in confusion.
"The classes can wait… not that it would matter anyway, nothing much would be taught on the first day of a new term anyway." Zero interjected flatly.
Seiren disappeared from Zero's viewing range as soon as Yuuki was up and about, and while Zero herded the girl off for some rest – he fought the urge to grimace when the touch of Yuuki's anti-vampire weapon caused some electric shock or sort to travel up his hand.
'Strange…' Zero thought, while it had not been exactly comforting for him to use any form of the anti-vampire weapon saved for his 'Bloody Rose' before – they certainly doesn't caused him to burn up upon the touch of it either. Either way, never one to let any external source deterred him in his actions – he sucked it all up and grabs the rod off the floor with a mask of indifference in place.
"Zero…?"
"It's nothing… come on, let's go."
Meanwhile, a certain pureblood was busy trying to settle some conflicting issues pertaining to a few of the common class vampires residing in the dormitory. Apparently, someone thought it would be good to 'nick' some of the candies from the twins' private stash in order to get rid of the after taste from ingesting the blood tablets.
It would not be that bad if they do it behind the twins' back like Akane usually did, but no … they have to 'steal' those candies right under the watchful eyes of Subaru. The final end result was to have Akira kicking up a big fuss over it, irritating Akane in the process and ended up with the girl invoking several nasty anti-vampire charms and sets them upon those common class vampires in the dormitory.
Seeing as it was the twins' candies that were taken without permission and the invoking of the anti-vampires charms was done by Akane…with the Vice-President of the dormitory unavailable, it now lies upon the shoulder of their pureblood leader to resolve the matter.
"Akane, take those charms off them now. Do not make me repeat myself!" This was the first sentence out from the resident pureblood's lips upon his return to the dormitory building.
"But Father!" Akira attempted to protest, only to have Kaname silencing him with a stern 'look'. Usually he would have glared if this was anyone else, but unfortunately this was Akira – one of his future sons with Zero.
"Akira… That's enough already, I'm sure that after this particular episode… no one would be daring enough to steal any of your snacks – in future." Kaname told the younger boy in a no-nonsensical manner, successfully in getting the sullen boy to stop his childish behaviour.
Kiryuu Zero entered the Moon Dormitory upon that exact moment, only to find the younger twin looking visibly upset and Akane going around removing nasty charms off the common class vampires. Quirking an eyebrow up in question, he found himself voicing his doubts across to a certain pureblood that appeared to be rather weary of the whole situation in general.
"I didn't come at a wrong time, did I?"
"No… it is fine. The matter has been resolved as of current. To put it simply, Akira here throw a temper because his snacks mainly his candies have been rummaged through by the lot of them standing there. Akane, having had enough of Akira's incessant whiny episodes decided to 'teach' them a lesson by invoking several nasty charms – that's all." Kaname Kuran summarized the whole fiasco and shorten them to it's' essence while relaying the situation to the silver-haired man.
"Akira, you are six years old – aren't you?" Zero asked, and when he received a nod from the boy – he continued on.
"Then why are you kicking up a big fuss over the issue of having your candies being stolen?" Zero pressed on, and his only response was silence from the boy.
"Daddy, I seriously think you should not allow Akira to keep those candies around anymore." Subaru piped up, much to Akira's annoyance.
"Subaru…!" Akira started, as he glared at his twin for meddling in the issue.
"What…?! I'm saying the truth, aren't I? You need to change your diet, at this rate you are going – I honestly think one of these days you are going to be the first vampire to be diagnose with diabetes." Subaru stated flatly, he had been keeping the diet plan of his younger twin set into motion by his parents from the future time-frame for some time now.
It seems like his little brother was taking this chance of being away from their parents to take in as much sugar as possible, and his current behaviour of exploding over some insignificant amount of candies being taken by the others was obviously the last straw for him to take. Therefore, he decided to reinstate the diet plan of his younger twin in the current time-frame which they are currently stuck within.
"Diet plan?" Zero and Kaname shared a look among them-selves, before beckoning for the elder twin to continue. Akane helpfully supplied the eating habits of Akira during 'their' time and the 'current' time, it was obvious that Akira's eating habits had taken a turn for the worst in terms of sugar rate consumption. It was at an exceptionally high level, and quite a scary figure at that.
"That did it – Akira, you are going to stick to the diet which your parents of your own time had planned out for you from this very moment onwards." Zero decided, as soon as he ran his eyes across the menu provided by Akane for his references.
The wavy haired boy pout up at Zero in protest, but the silver-haired guardian was not going to cave this time around. Sensing that his 'Daddy' was not going to relent this time around, Akira tried his puppy eyes look on his other parent – only to find his pureblood 'Father' avoiding any form of eye-contact with him. Eventually, he settled for throwing a glare combined with a childish pout of his towards his twin – inwardly blaming the other boy for sabotaging him.
To which, Subaru pretended that he did not see his twin's glare and continued on his reading task. And then the nightmare came for him, when he heard the younger version of his 'Daddy' throwing him into the same diet plan as Akira.
"Huh…? Me too… but why am I also subjected to that diet plan?!" The silver-haired boy turned questioning eyes upon the silver-haired hunter.
"Simple, you are the elder – are you not? So you should be setting a good example to your little brother." Zero concluded, taking a page out from his own mother's way of handling twins' siblings. That was exactly how his mother changes Ichiru's bad eating habits from before…
Behind Subaru, the initially sullen Akira beamed in satisfaction. Now he is balanced in a sense, since whatever he eat – Subaru had to follow. Whatever he cannot eat, Subaru would not be able to eat too! This is what being fair is all about, isn't it?!
"…Okay…I supposed." Subaru merely stared for a second before sighing out in resignation and then only to turn his attention back to the book on hand.
"So… did Yuuki ask you anything before?" Zero asked some time later when the twins had been send off to Akane's room for rest, while they entered the pureblood's room to speak in private.
"No… she didn't." The pureblood responded, as he flipped the light switches on – brightening up his room in the process. Although, they both could see very well in the dark but he just thought it might be better to have the lights on during the discussion.
"…However, you knew what she was intending to ask – don't you?" Zero took it upon himself to take a seat on the sofa couch situated within the pureblood's room, without having the owner to 'invite' him. An obvious sign of his easiness around the dark-haired pureblood, quite a vast difference from the experience he had when he was first being invited into the privacy of the pureblood's chamber.
"I believed I had an idea about it…it has something to do with her emptied past – isn't it?" Kaname allowed a sigh to be let out as he took a seat by the hunter, massaging the top of his temples wearily.
"You seemed rather tired…" The silver-haired hunter commented from his position, as he took in the sight of a weary Kaname Kuran. This is the first time he had ever seen the pureblood looking weary…so he was quite intrigued by the sight of it.
"I am tired." Kaname agreed easily enough; as he pondered for a minute to weigh his next options available and then he did something that completely throw the silver-haired hunter off-guard. He rested his head down on Zero's lap, and used one of his hands to block out the light emitting from the ceiling top where the chandelier was.
"Kaname…get up." Zero said, as he inwardly wonders just how much guts does the pureblood had in him to be daring enough to lay down on a hunter's leg. Did he not ponder about the possibility of him being shot?
"Zero…just shut up and let me rest for a while, will you?!" Kaname asked, and the silver-haired hunter thought he had misheard but is there really an underlying tone of plea somewhere in that statement of Kaname's words?
"…What happen during the vacation?" Unknowingly, Zero had soften his tone when he voiced his question towards the pureblood whom was now lying down on the couch with his head down on Zero's lap.
"I've told you about why Yuuki's memories were being sealed before – right?" Kaname suddenly asked.
"I think you did mention some of it… why?" Zero asked, looking down at Kaname as he responded.
"Do you want to know the rest of it?" The pureblood asked.
"…You know, it's quite strange that you are willing to tell me but unwilling to let Yuuki knows about it all." Zero commented then.
"I just wanted to protect her…" Kaname reasoned.
"Protecting her by withholding information from her? You know as well as I do, what she would do if she had no idea what exactly is going on – right?" Zero pinched in, his tone dry.
"I know… that's why I'm getting a headache from this whole situation." Kaname conceded, with the memory seal on Yuuki weakening – it would indeed be better if he just woke her up but part of him wanted to keep their bloody family history of theirs a secret from the girl…
"Still… you must decide soon. If not, she will bring it up to your attention – forcing you to supply her with an answer to it all." Zero kindly reminded, before the topic of discussion was forcefully steered towards the tendency of his bloodlust acting up.
"When's the last time you'd fed?" Kaname asked, after he finally had it in him to remove his head from the silver-haired guardian's lap.
"Sometime during the second week of vacation, I think." Zero replied, inwardly thinking back to that instance whereby he just got back from the association only to have a cheeky Akane making full use of her powers on his ignorance – to read his thoughts.
"Then it's about time for you to feed again, isn't that so?" The pureblood prompted.
"Your point is?" Zero eyed Kaname warily from the corner of his eyes; somehow he had a very bad feeling of what was to come.
"Can I have a taste of your blood? Of course, you get to taste mine in return." Kaname said then, causing Zero's eyes to widen slightly in shock before it gave way to sheer annoyance.
"In short, you want to mark me." Zero gritted out from irritation.
"Well… it is true if you want to put it in that manner, I was after all trying to put it in a more eloquent way of speaking. Besides, it wasn't as though I was going to take advantage of you – I did offer you my blood in exchange to it, didn't I?" Kaname argued, he had been yearning to taste Zero's blood for some-time now but because he knew how it would have unsettled the teen – he had been patiently waiting all these while. How he wished he could have just behaved like Shizuka Hiou back then, biting down hard without giving any thought…
"…" Zero stared speechlessly for quite some time; he was trying to comprehend the reason behind this abrupt request that was brought up by the pureblood. Kaname though, seemed to be having other ideas pertaining to the situation.
When the first hint of blood hits the air, Zero had snapped his eyes towards the pureblood immediately. Seems like Kaname Kuran had decided to adopt Akane's method of handling things – he actually make use of his sharp fingernails to claw at the side of his neck with hard force ensuring to draw blood. Despite the fact that Zero had yet to reach the period of his bloodlust stage, the slightest hint of blood in the air was enough to drive him into one.
"Damn you Kaname!" Zero cursed aloud as he felt his lust for blood setting in, and before long he was crossing over to where the pureblood stood with his fangs lengthen.
Kaname winced slightly when the bite came; he supposed he deserved the harsh bite from Zero – since he did achieve his aim by using underhand methods. Kaname remained still and held on to the silver-haired hunter as the man fed from the side of his neck, and before long he was feeling the first hint of faint.
'…He's really taking a lot from me as a form of revenging acts eh…' Kaname thought, and then he allowed his survival instincts to take him over – completely. Before long, his eyes was blazing red with the lust for blood and his lengthen fangs eventually pierced itself through the flesh of Zero's neck.
Date started: 5/1/2013
Date completed: 7/1/2013