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 swear the chapters are getting harder and harder to write … I try desperately to make things interesting in here though… it's a little hard with the entire heavy atmosphere that hung around with the issue of Kuran Rido but I did try, didn't I? Not much KanZe in here, but I insert a little Zero-Subaru scene at the start. This Chapter is more about the arrangements made to 'protect' the kids and Yuuki from the returning Rido… Towards the very last part of this chapter, the twins shall make appearance again.
Chapter 34 – In which the night-class members appeared during the day…
Zero Kiryuu sighed for the umpteen times in a row, as he wondered just how on earth he managed to let the situation escalate down to this particular point of time. He was losing sleep and dawn is breaking soon, school for him would be starting in approximately 3 hours time and yet – he failed to catch any winks at all. The culprit behind his misfortunes was none other than Kaname Kuran, the resident pureblood vampire of the Cross Academy.
Somehow he had caved in to the request brought up by the former last night, asking for him to stay the night over at the Moon Dormitory in the pureblood's room – for the sake of the twins. Well, it was nice to be with the twins and all… but how could he have slept peacefully with a particular set of chocolate orbs eyeing him at all times?! Honestly, he knew Kaname would not be trying anything on him just yet with the twins being in the middle of the bed separating them. Still, the sheer notion of someone staring a hole through him while he attempted to sleep was anything but comfortable. The ultimate result was for him to not sleep at all for the whole night that passed.
"Daddy…?" Subaru Kiryuu blinked blearily, obviously disoriented by the sight of Zero when he had waked for the sake of relieving him-self in the bathroom.
"Yes…Subaru?" Zero asked, good-naturedly.
"…You stayed the night?" The boy then asked, after taking a minute to soak everything up. Unlike Akira, he was not going to be seen asking stupid question like whether or not he was having a hallucination or that he was just plain dreaming of having both his 'parents' with them for the whole night.
"Well… yes." Zero grudgingly admitted his expression a cross between annoyance and resignation.
"Aa…" Subaru made a knowing sound before nodding to him-self, and then remembering his main reason for waking – he started to make a move to get off the bed.
"Toilet breaks?" Zero asked, cocking his head slightly as he regarded the elder twin from his unmoving position.
"Yes." The boy nodded back in response, before padding towards the direction of the attached bathroom quietly – not wanting to risk waking the other two occupants in the room.
Kaname Kuran, the main culprit behind Zero's insomnia for the night before – was currently sleeping peacefully with Akira snuggling up to him for warmth upon the detection of his twin's disappearance act. Zero, meanwhile, took the time whereby Subaru was still in the toilet to observe the sleeping duos. The father and son had looked so peaceful while they slept that Zero could not help but smile at the mere sight of it.
A sigh escaped from his lips upon the thought of the impending return of Ichijo Takuma and Shiki Senri, rather the Shiki Senri who had the misfortune to be possessed by the soul of Kuran Rido. Apparently, that was what had happened during the vacation that ended up with Kaname moody temperament over the past week. The man had finally spit it all out to him last night during their discussion, and then had discussed the arrangements to be done in order to cope with the duos return to the academy with him.
That reminded Zero, he would need to have a talk with Wakaba Sayori soon and then a real 'chat' session with his twin, Ichiru would need to be done. Kaname had already analyzed Ichiru's words to him in prior with him, providing him with the valuable information that Kuran Rido used to be the ex-fiancé of Shizuka Hiou, that woman whom turned him into a vampire. That combined with the words of Maria Kurenai, he had come down to an idea – but he would need to verify it with his twin, whom had obviously knew more on the issue than he did.
"Daddy…?" The sound of Subaru's voice jarred Zero out from his thoughts, as he turned his eyes back upon the boy.
"…It's nothing, I'm just thinking about something. Come now, it's still too early for you to wake. Go back to bed; I'll be here until you fall back asleep." Zero told the boy softly.
Zero stayed for another half an hour or so, only making a move to leave the room once he was certain Subaru had fall back asleep. He took one last look at the three slumbering figures on the bed, before he closes the door to the pureblood's room behind him.
The Moon Dormitory was still bustling with life at this hour of time, but the noises was being kept to its' minimal level. Zero gathered it was mostly out from fear of what Akane might be doing to them, if they disrupted her 'beauty' sleep. After all, it was a common knowledge within these walls that Akane had a nasty temper to reckon with when awakens through other means than the natural way.
"You're leaving already?" Seiren asked, upon sighting Zero's exit from her pureblood leader's room.
"Aa…" Zero nodded back in response, as he headed for the direction of the stairways and let him-self out from the dormitory building.
The academic building of the Cross Academy was engulfed mostly in silence at 5:00 a.m. in the morning, it was too early for the day-class students to be in the building and slightly too late for the night-class students to be still lingering within. Still, there are a few odd ones out – in this case, Wakaba Sayori and Aidou Hanabusa – they are not only in the building itself, but in the same room as well.
"Seriously, you did not ring me up at 3 a.m. in the morning for me to come here and meet you at 5.a.m. just to watch you work on that article for the magazine column – right?" The hazel brown haired girl finally asked, directing her question towards the blue-eyed blond night-class member seated on a table scribbling away madly.
"Eh…? No… not exactly, but can you just hold for another minute – I desperately need to complete this by 6 this morning. The damn editor would be over to retrieve it then… Argh! Damn that boy for ruining my precious work from before." The blue eyed blond vampire proceeded on to rant and rave about Akira's actions while he scribbled madly on the new set of manuscript paper then.
"… I just thought to remind you, the day-class students will have their first class here in this particular class-room at 8 a.m. and I would need to be back in the dorm by 7.a.m. the latest, because that would be when Yuuki woke. I certainly do not require for her to be breathing down my neck for being out during curfew hours!" Wakaba Sayori throws at the blond vampire as she settled herself down on top of the teacher's table, as she eyed the vampire working on his article for a magazine.
"She had no idea, does she?" Aidou then asked.
"Hm…m? No… she has no need to know." Sayori blinked once, then twice before comprehending the blond aristocrat's statement. The blond was asking if Yuuki had known about her allegiance to Zero, and about her knowledge of the true identity of the night-class members.
"What of Kiryuu then?" Aidou prompted again.
"…He had inkling before, but he never thought to verify his ideas with me. Nonetheless, I think this situation would be in for a change soon." Wakaba Sayori responded, easily.
"I see… what about that twin of his then?" The blond aristocrat asked again.
"Ichiru … he knew enough. After all, I did had a talk with him in prior during his third day here in the academy." The girl responded then.
"So did he inform you of his motive for being here then?"
"Aidou-sempai was that a question that you thought to ask by your own means or was that a question that you are asking on behalf of that pureblood leader of yours?" Sayori started then, serious apparent on her features now.
"Was there a difference to it then?"
"A vast one…if the question is from you, sad to say I can't reveal anything to you. However, if the question was one from the Kuran heir, I could only say … double-crossing is the main point here. Keyword is cahoots – between both parties." That was all Wakaba Sayori was willing to reveal before taking her leave from the room, leaving behind the blond aristocrat to mull her words over.
"I see… well then, you may take your leave and join your cousin and Rima out front. Your duty from now onwards was to stick by Yuuki Cross at all times, and to protect her from harm." Kaname Kuran then dismissed the blue-eyed blond from his sight, and directed his gaze towards the figures of the slumbering twins in the middle of his canopy bed.
"Seiren…"
"Yes, my lord?" The female vampire seems to have appeared out from nowhere, but it does not matter in this case. Stealth is a trait of the Seiren, and that is why Kaname would always trust them to do spying job for him.
"Get Ruka Souen and … Risa Miyazaki in here for me." Kaname Kuran then requested.
Ruka Souen was in the midst of getting ready for bed when the guard of her beloved pureblood suddenly pop into view, startling her so much that she nearly gasped in shock.
"Seiren…is anything the matter?" Ruka asked with a frown of concern marring her features.
"Kaname-sama requested for your presence in his room now." That was all the silent vampire had said before vanishing out from sight again.
"…" Ruka stared at the now vacant spot, before pulling a robe of sort over herself as she made her way out to meet the pureblood. There was no way she would be meeting her pureblood leader in just her night-gown, that would be disrespecting the former and if her mother were to know about it. No doubt, she would be 'nagged' again.
Risa Miyazaki was not a noble class vampire by all standards, she was, merely a common class level vampire. However, she had the highest level of standing ground among all that Common Class Level Vampire – and that has something to do with her mother's lineage. Ironically, her mother was a member of the Fujiwara clan.
Originally a human but has the misfortunate of meeting her father by chance in a back alley somewhere out there on the streets when her father was struck with a bloodlust, or rather the scent of her blood lure him to her. A bite later, and viola – her mother was turned only to emit off an aura of the noble class vampire. She had no idea what happened later between both her parents, but she do know something – she was the ultimate outcome of it all.
Unlike the nobles, she was not here by the invitation of one Kaname Kuran. Neither was she here under the orders of the Vampire Council – like that Vice-president of theirs and that male model – Shiki Senri. If anything, she was here by her own free will – merely to get away from that hell-hole that she called a 'home'.
Her siblings off her paternal side was a sore and a pain in the ass for her to be dealing with, then again – she supposed it is only natural. Considering the fact that her mother was the 'third party' here, being a human prior to the waking of the vampire senses after being bitten by her father in a dark alley on the streets – by mere chance. Yes, her father was already attached by the time he met her mother – and so to put it simply, her mother took on the role of a mistress willingly and without questions raised. She was in all its' glory, an illegitimate child of the Miyazaki clan.
Her family members from the Miyazaki clan would probably be snorting in response to the so-called ideals of the 'co-existence' between humans and vampires alike, but she honestly believed that it could be done. Since her mother's family was one of such combination… and so when she first heard of the night-class being set up in the Cross Academy – she had all but packed up and departed from home soon after.
One would label her actions as the typical 'run away from home' but once again, with her mother dead now who would have given it too much a thought. She spend her vacation always within the halls of the Fujiwara vampire's branch of the family, so long they don't find it a hassle to be housing her on regular basis – she had no intention to move anytime soon.
"Risa Miyazaki, Kaname-sama had requested for your presence in his room."
The sentence jolted the female common class vampire to spring up in bed on auto-gear, and when she turned towards the side where she had heard the voice coming from – she found herself staring at the empty air.
"…" Risa ran a hand down her shoulder-length curl-like hair and sighed aloud in response. Glancing to the side of her, she found her room-mate to be sleeping soundly like the 'dead'. Either Seiren was too good in masking her presence, or her room-mate was just too dense to detect intruder in their room.
Swinging her feet onto the floor, Risa Miyazaki hurried to get herself presentable for the meeting with the pureblood leader of the academy as she wondered what could be the reason behind the meeting. Certainly, she had not done anything that go against the rules sets in place by the former – right?
A scream of 'No' tore out from Yuuki's throat as she sprang upright in bed heaving and panting for breath, the fully-dressed room-mate of hers' – Wakaba Sayori frowned down at her with concern.
"Yuuki…? Are you alright?"
"Yeah… I… just had a nightmare that's all…" The female guardian responded, sounding a little shaky for Sayori's liking.
"Really… Yori, I'm fine… just having a tremendous headache that is all." Yuuki said, sending a shaky smile towards the hazel-brown haired girl.
"Well… if you are sure." Sayori had dropped the issue then, it was obvious that whatever was plaguing the girl in the night-mare – the girl was adamant of not sharing any of it to her.
Yuuki followed behind her friend heading for the dormitory canteen to get breakfast in a distracted manner, and despite the breakfast serving being small – with just two slice of French toast combined with egg and bacon, she had failed to get any appetite and barely eaten any mouthful before pushing the whole dish aside and away from her sight.
"Yuuki… are you certain that you are fine? You don't even have an appetite, and this is unlike you." Wakaba Sayori prompted, reaching a hand out to feel the girl's forehead for any sign of temperature as she said so.
"Yori…I'm fine really, probably just the lack of sleep finally getting down to me." The girl hurried to assure, trying to get away from her friend's mothering actions.
"Well then… we shall observe the rest of the day to come, and let's see if your appetite returns in time for lunch. I'm certain that you do not wish to get Kiryuu-kun into one of his worrying mood for you, right?" Sayori directed her words to her friend with intent.
Yuuki nodded enthusiastically to Sayori's words, if there is anyone she would not like to have fussing over her condition – it would be Zero. Ever since the future trio comes around, that silver-haired friend of hers… she swears was getting worst at those nagging sessions. Sometimes, she would find herself wondering if this was how it feels for normal kids to be nagged by their mothers…
Stepping out from the girls' dormitory behind her friend, she found Zero standing outside waiting for them already.
"Aa… sorry, I'm late." Yuuki found herself repeating her usual greeting to the silver-haired teen only to get a roll of his eyes back in response.
"Quite the contrary, you are kind of on-time today – Yuuki." Zero had then responded.
"Eh…?" Yuuki turned her eyes onto her friend, whom only nodded to her from the corner of her eyes.
"Wow… look at that, isn't those members from the night-class?! How rare of them to be coming out during the day…" Some girls crowding about the corner suddenly stopped in the midst of their gossiping acts, and commented while staring at the group approaching the Sun Dormitory building in awe instead.
"…" Zero Kiryuu eyed the four vampires making their way over to join them, but said nothing. A rare thing for him, but seeing as this was exactly what was being agreed between Kaname and him during last night's discussion. He was not going to comment on any of it, today.
"Good morning to you, Yuuki-sama. We are hereby under the orders of Kaname-sama to guard and protect you for the rest of the day, to follow." Aidou Hanabusa took the lead to greet Yuuki, the vampire trio behind him follow his actions in bowing towards Yuuki with minimal level of respect.
"Eh…!" Yuuki's eyes widen in shock then, before she voiced her doubts across – with a simply utter of the word 'Why?'
"That we had no idea of – we acted merely on the words given by Kanama-sama. If he said that we were to protect and guarded you against dangers, then that is all we are going to do here." Aidou Hanabusa responded in solemnity, unlike the times that he would be seen fooling around in the presence of the day-class students.
"…" Yuuki was floored by the feeling of astonishment, and found her-self having trouble reacting to it all – together. Without intention to, she found her eyes sliding over to where Zero was standing – hoping to get some form of 'support' or help in dealing with such happenings. Unfortunately, Zero was not reacting in the manner she had hoped – and instead had even agreed with the night-class members actions by maintaining his silence on the issue.
"Yuuki, you go on ahead for class. There's something I need to speak with Wakaba about." Then Zero signaled for the lot of vampires to escort Yuuki to the classroom, whereas he beckoned for the hazel brown haired girl to join him for a 'detouring' journey to class.
Meanwhile, back in the Moon Dormitory building – Kaname had left specific instructions for Ruka Souen and Risa Miyazaki to be guarding the boys at all times. Although he had not specify the main reasons behind why the boys should be guarded, he placed extra emphasis on the sheer fact that neither of the boys were to be left alone with Shiki Senri and Takuma Ichijo upon their return from the prolonged period of vacation.
Even if the boys were to venture out from the Moon Dormitory in the board daylight in search for Zero, the two of them were to follow the twins – no matter how they detested the idea of heading out into the sunlight during the day.
His idea of picking Ruka Souen to guard the twins – especially Akira was quite understandable. First and foremost, the female vampire would never want to be guarding Yuuki and that was why he sends out Touya Rima, Aidou and Akatsuki together with another common class vampire for that task. Sending out four of his subordinate to guard Yuuki, was also to serve as a precaution measures – like Zero did mention, Yuuki had a knack of landing herself in trouble without knowing. For Zero, Kaname wasn't too worried – because Zero knew how to take care of him-self.
Moreover, Wakaba Sayori would be there to help when the need arises and while the presence of Ichiru Kiryuu remained a factor of uncertainty. That was the least of his concerns now, at least it was obvious with the subtle hints dropped by that younger twin of Zero – the opponent that the former had in mind to go up against was one Rido Kuran. Therefore, there was no need to worry about Ichiru in the long run – because they shared the same ultimate goal.
And that was exactly why he had been willing to leave the younger twin to the capable hands of his silver-haired lover.
Yes, lover is the term he was labeling the silver-haired hunter now and somehow he enjoyed the idea of it. Although, Zero had yet to really let the guards down around him but at least the hostility between them were gone. Topping it off, the silver-haired teen's effort of pushing him away seemed to have dropped to the minimal level these days too. Sure, Zero is still in denial and has yet to make any confession or sort towards him. Nonetheless, he knew the former was slowly coming around to the idea of it.
He had after all, bitten and marked Zero easily enough without any form of resistance from the teen. Then again, it could have been the fact that the teen was too engrossed in the task of sucking him dry back then to give much thought on the issue. Still, it remained a fact that he was not shot after the deed was being done.
In addition to it, Zero failed to make any attempt in stopping him from instigating any intimate acts – the only exception being the deed that would complete their bond to one another. That was the only thing Zero had refused his advance, going to the extent of threatening bodily harm with the idea of using the 'Bloody Rose' on him.
The sheer memory of how Zero had blushed like a ripe tomato back then brought a ghostly smile to his lips, something wonderful to distract him from his troubling mind for a split second before turning his attention back to the arrangement made in order to 'welcome' the return of Takuma and the now possessed Shiki Senri.
His picking of Risa Miyazaki to aid Ruka in the task of guarding the twins was no coincidence. Kaname had simply deemed it more suitable to pick Risa; the former ability is the strongest and highest among the Common Class Level. Moreover, Risa Miyazaki is the only common class vampires around that Akira was willing to get chummy around with. That alone, was claiming to say something – isn't it?
Akira's chumminess would never be subjected to anyone who he deemed as a stranger – saved that one time with Yagari Touga.
The twins ever since their arrival from the future had generally kept their distances with the common class vampires, the only exception had been the case with Risa Miyazaki. The twins practically adore her, why though – he had no idea. Akane seemed to know the reason behind it but was unwilling to reveal any of it…merely commenting that it would not be any more fun if too much information was being released to them pertaining to the future.
Ichiru Kiryuu entered the classroom under the scrutiny eyes of the four vampires guarding the classroom, if he was surprised – he certainly did not show any of it. For a while, he wondered if the guards being send was an order issue by the Kuran heir to guard his twin – but as soon as the idea planted itself in his mind, he discarded the notion soon after.
Regardless of how 'valuable' his twin had been to the Kuran heir, Zero would never allow that many vampires to be guarding him like some kind of bodyguard. However, his twin was awfully subdued under this particular situation and at this point of time – then it would mean that the guards were not entirely meant to guard him. In which case, the next logical thought would be for the sake of Yuuki Cross – the female guardian.
Ichiru distinctively recalled Shizuka Hiou commenting to him that the blood of the female guardian was quite alluring and tempting to her, that at times she would felt the itch to taste the blood of the girl. That had been why she brought up the condition of giving her blood willingly to Zero in exchange for a taste of Yuuki Cross, a bait and lure to get Zero out to meet her – but Ichiru believed Shizuka had the very intention in mind to taste Yuuki's blood for her-self when the suggestion was first made.
"Aa...what a troublesome girl to be dealing with..." Ichiru mumbled to him-self under his breath, before he took a seat at his designated area.
A glance to his right found him staring at a sandy-haired girl – Akane Kiryuu, which reminded him of his long-overdue 'confrontation' with his twin over the girl's existence. The girl looks too alike with his dead mother in all sense differing only in the hair color, and then the family name of 'Kiryuu'. Unless he had some long-lost sister hidden away somewhere which he was certain that did not exist prior to his parents' death, Zero has one hell of an explanation to do when he finally got it in him to have that so-called civil talk with that twin of his.
Zero Kiryuu strolled into the class with Wakaba Sayori, approximately 5 minutes before the scheduled arrival of their homeroom teacher. He settled himself down right next to Akane's position, and was greeted by a nod from the sandy-haired girl. Sayori, meanwhile, was subjected to a number of questions from the curious female guardian.
"Yuuki… I'll tell you later, not now. The teacher's coming." Wakaba Sayori throws back at her friend, as she started to get ready for the lesson to come.
"So… I gathered some form of agreement has been reached between the two of you?" Akane asked shuffling her gaze between Zero and the hazel-haired girl seated to their front with Yuuki.
"I told her to place her own safety as the utmost importance level, and then to guard the twins instead." Zero responded in a whispering manner, knowing for certain that with Akane's keen sense of hearing – she would have no problem catching wind of it all.
For Wakaba Sayori, she was immensely grateful to be hearing the voice of Aidou Hanabusa when lunch hour came by. The blond bringing a message from the pureblood leader of the night-class pertaining to his seeking the presence of both Yuuki and Zero with him immediately was a 'god-sent' for Sayori. She had after all been cracking her mind for possible reasons to feed the nosy girl about the reason why Zero Kiryuu had wanted to speak with her in private, and the words of Aidou Hanabusa was the exact distraction which she required at that moment of time.
Wakaba Sayori nearly sends a flying kiss towards the blond then, but luckily she had enough sense not to do it. Taking opportunity for the chance to flee, Wakaba Sayori hurried to hide her-self within the group of people coming out from the next class heading for lunch as she deserted Yuuki with no apparent guilt by leaving her to the care of the four night-class members as well as Kiryuu Zero.
Ichiru Kiryuu felt his eyebrow twitching in response when he witnessed the approaching figure of one Wakaba Sayori, and then he asked.
"Why are you here?"
"This is a public area, so you can't really stop me from coming here for lunch – can you?" Sayori shot back, her tone even.
"Are you uncle Ichiru?" The sudden sound of a kid calling out from behind him startled the duos and causing them to snap their eyes to the back, in an instant.
"…" Ichiru Kiryuu stared at the mini-Kaname who was lying down on the grass patch on the stomach, and looking up at him with sparkling lilac eyes – not knowing for certain how to react.
"Idiot…! Of course he is our uncle Ichiru, Daddy did says they are identical – didn't he?" Subaru's voice then sounded from the other side of the tree.
Wakaba Sayori felt like face-palming herself, why exactly are the twins here? Judging from the expression on Ichiru, he obviously had no idea of the twins' existence just yet. Ichiru Kiryuu, meanwhile, had really no idea what to make out of the situation at hand. The silver-haired boy he had seen before, briefly by chance during an encounter of Shizuka and his twin some-time ago. The mini-Kaname though… he had yet to get a glimpse of until now.
The Kuran-heir look-alike combined with his family's lilac eyes, and then the Silver-haired child with chocolate eyes … if he still had yet to fathom out the identity of that 'Daddy' that the two boys were yapping on about, he could jolly well shoot himself and be done with it.
As for the other prospective parent for the boys, one look behind them solved the problem – the distinctive white uniforms on the two females said it all. That, and also how that other boy had resembled a certain pureblood vampire by the name of Kaname Kuran – had also successfully clued him in on the identity of the other parent.
"…Wakaba, would you help me in passing a message over to that brother of mine?" Ichiru started then, massaging the top of his temples while he sends the girl initially seated beside him on an errand to seek his elder twin out.
Date started: 8/1/2013
Date completed: 9/1/2013