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 & the Fujiwara Clan featured in this story.
Author's notes: In this chapter, I bring you the party to introduce Yuuki officially into the night-society. Time jump ahead for 1 month period, and no Zero would not be introduce as the 'Queen' – you will see the reason why in here XD
Chapter 47 – Yuuki Kuran official debut into the Night-Society.
Yuuki's torturing sessions dubbed by the girl herself officially came to a close with the arrival of her birthday date. Dressed up in her pink 'Furisode' Kimono, courtesy of her best friend – Wakaba Sayori's help; since she still had no idea how the attire should be worn… Yuuki braced herself for the moment to arrive.
"Yuuki, you can do it – just relax and take a deep breath before going down." Sayori encouraged, they were now in the girl's shared room with Akane Kiryuu waiting for the moment of Yuuki's arrival to come.
"Yori-chan, sorry that I had to make you stayed behind with me…" Yuuki apologized, since tonight is a vampire event. Her brother, Kaname had given the permission for the twins and Akane to stay the night over at Zero's childhood home together with Ichiru and Matsushita Ayano. Apparently, it would not be wise for any outsiders to know of the future trio's presence – it was one thing to let the night-class students knows of it, but absolutely another to have the parents' of these students discovering the trio's existence.
Initially, Sayori would have to be over there too, but because of Yuuki's insecurities – she had pleaded for Sayori to stay behind for morale support.
"It would be fine; Zero would be staying behind for today too – so it would be alright." Sayori patted Yuuki comfortingly on the back, as the time comes for the girl to make her entrance into the night-society world.
Downstairs in the front hall area, Kaname and the night-class aristocrats were busy greeting guests for the event. Zero, on the other hand, stood by the corner and observed the scene – those whom recognized him blanched and faltered slightly in their step before recovering themselves. Among them, included parents of Aidou Hanabusa… the man's nearly had his eyes felling out upon the sight of Zero Kiryuu's presence.
"Hanabusa, care to explain why he's here?!" The father of the blue-eyed blond asked in a harsh whisper when he managed to grab hold of his precious son.
"Huh…?" Aidou blinked in bewilderment for a minute before catching on to his father's underlying meaning behind the words, and then he flicked his eyes over to the corner where Kiryuu Zero stood then back to his beloved pureblood leader before he shrugged and told his father to wait patiently and that all will be reveal in good time.
For Zero Kiryuu, he was really thankful that Akane's charm of masking one's vampire aura works brilliantly on him too. After all, most of the guests invited for this event knew him as the descendants of the hunter's lineage and that he was a fellow guardian for the Cross Academy. Some knew him as ex-human turned by Shizuka Hiou, the last thing he needs for these people to know was that his rank on the vampire's hierarchy had suddenly make a rise to the Level B standards.
This is a party for Yuuki to blend into the Night-Society, not for him and besides he had no intention to lay out his family history out in the open for all to know. It was bad enough to reveal them to the night-class members; he does not want it to be public knowledge. Imagine the horrors or shell-shock reactions of the vampire society once they discovered the reason behind how he – an ex-human suddenly rises to the second in rank on the vampires hierarchy chart.
Inwardly, Zero was absolutely grateful that the Kurenai are related to the Hiou Clan – at least, nobody was wondering what happen to the fortunes of the Hiou following Shizuka's death. Last thing he needs right now was for the aristocrats of the vampire society to discover that the Kiryuu had laid claim onto at least 35% of the Hiou's fortunes.
"A very warm welcome to the lot of you specially making time to come over for this event, may I have the pleasure to introduce to everyone – my beloved sister; the pureblood princess of the Kuran Clan. Yuuki Kuran…" Kaname started to address the guests at exactly 8.p.m. on the dot, in the evening hours.
Yuuki took a deep breath as she gathered up her wits and took the first step down the stairs, careful to take small steps – she had no intention to fall and make a bigger fool of herself in front of these guests.
"Relax; remember that I'm right behind you." Wakaba Sayori whispered to her jittery friend, she supposed she could understand why Yuuki was so jittery. Her friend was worrying about disappointing the pureblood prince of the Kuran Clan and the whispering between the guests did nothing to soothe her friend's haywire nerves.
Following Yuuki's entry into the party, the guests' reactions were spontaneous. Whispering, chattering among them-selves were one of the main reaction to Yuuki's appearance as the pureblood princess of the Kuran Clan, these are the mild ones. Zero Kiryuu allowed his eyes to scan the surrounding, and landed his eyes on one particular noble who actually dropped his glass of wine in shock.
Kishimoto Hideo – son and heir to the Kishimoto Incorporation; dealing with the manufacturing of microchips for computers and electronic devices. A major flirt and playboy well-known in the red-light district of Japan; but still highly sought after in the outside world. Said vampire was now gaping at Yuuki, and Zero could only guess the reason why.
Kaname Kuran kept his eyes on his silver-haired lover standing in one corner of the room from time to time; he was currently going around introducing Yuuki to the guests. A frown marred his features when he noticed his lover staring at another man amidst the crowd of guests. Following Zero's direction of gaze, he found himself staring into the face of Kishimoto Hideo and his face darkens a shade almost immediately.
"Kaname-niisan…?" Yuuki's soft uttering of his name jerked him back to the task at hand, which was socializing.
"Nothing… come on, let's move on." Kaname responded, as he led Yuuki away from the father of Ruka Souen and shifted towards the next guest in line to introduce Yuuki to.
"Hanabusa, was that the reason why that ex-human was here today?" Aidou Hanabusa was jolted back to reality, when he heard his father questioning him.
There was a moment of silence, before the blue-eyed blond caught on to the meaning behind his father's words. Distractedly, he nodded and said. "Well, yes… that's one of the reasons."
Inwardly, Aidou Hanabusa was thinking his father would be in for a big shock once the announcement of Zero Kiryuu being the bonded partner to their beloved pureblood leader – Kaname Kuran came out in the open. That and also the fact that Zero Kiryuu was no longer an ex-human, but a Level B just like them.
His eyes followed after the figure of one Wakaba Sayori silently, how he wished he could escort the girl towards where Zero Kiryuu was standing instead of being here watching. Still, he knew he could not risk detection from his own parents' – unless Kaname-sama gives him an open order to make a move in Wakaba Sayori's direction.
Wakaba Sayori sighed inwardly as she caught sight of a pair of unmoving gaze staring right in her direction, while she had promised Akatsuki Kain to speak with the blue eyed blond some days ago. She had yet to find time for it, the last few days was like a whirlwind to her. Aside from submitting written homework to the school through internet means, and attending classes via the E-learning portal she had other things on hand to deal with, too.
Among these other duties to attend, included keeping her friend – Yuuki Company and guiding said girl in the proper manner to present her-self in public when dressed up in the traditional Kimono. Unlike the western style way of doing curtsy move, the traditional Kimono restricted one's movement and hence the typical way of greeting guest would be bowing. Aside from guiding Yuuki along with the pureblood princess' etiquettes lessons, she would also need to help Zero in sorting out information pertaining to the business of the Fujiwara Clan. Between schoolwork, assisting Yuuki and aiding Zero – her free time was practically slim to none.
"Oh well… tonight probably won't be good for that kind of talk too – wouldn't want to risk detection from the Aidou family anyway…" Sayori mumbled to herself, as she ventured over to where Zero stood.
In the meantime, over at the old residence area of the Kiryuu family – Ichiru was gazing up at the Sakura Tree standing tall outside of their house in reminisce. This had been where he had first met Shizuka Hiou, and this was the same place he had gathered up his wits and approached her asking for the former to bring him along with her after she literally murdered off his parents.
Inside the house, Akane and the twins were busy exploring the house – the Zero from their own time-frame had refused to set foot in here and so they never did have a chance to see for them-selves how the place had looked like.
"Subaru, keep an eye on Akira – do not let him touch anything randomly. For all you know, it might be dangerous to vampires in general. After all, this was the house of a hunter." Akane reminded, as the twins took on to the idea of exploring.
"Of course, I would do that." Subaru throws over his shoulder, as he made a move to tail after his younger twin. Matsushita Ayano, meanwhile, was out front placing an order for their dinner through local delivery service.
The twins' explored room after room, trying to visualize their beloved 'Daddy' childhood days and fitting in images basing on what they'd learnt from their 'Daddy' and Uncle Ichiru from the tales they had related to them previously.
"Boys, what are you two doing by holing up in there?" Ichiru Kiryuu questioned, after taking it upon himself to go in search for the missing twins once the time for dinner comes round.
"We are looking at pictures." Akira responded bubbly and cheerfully.
"Pictures…?" Ichiru blinked, and then he followed the gaze of Subaru and landed his eyes on the photo-albums lying about the floor.
"Ah…I see, why don't the two of you come out for food first? Bring along the albums, I'll show you who's who later on after dinner." Ichiru addressed the two boys, his tone soft.
"Okay…" Both boys' nodded obediently, and Subaru hurried to gather up the albums in his hands as he made his way out from the room.
Ichiru waited for the two boys' to exit the room, before taking another look at the room in general before shutting the door close behind him. That was the room of his late parents, the thought of his parents caused a complicated look to flicker in his eyes before it soothe over to nothing. It was no secret that his parents' favour his elder twin more than him, because it is the truth that Zero had the flair for hunting and not him.
Despite how his mother had tried to treat them equally, but when the moment came for them to start their hunter training lessons – the differences between Zero and he was quite obvious. The training lessons with Yagari Touga was tough, and during these period – he would always collapse from fatigue and not to forget falling sick once in every two weeks. Eventually, it drives Yagari Touga to the extent of simply going up to his parents' and announced that he, Ichiru Kiryuu was no material for being hunter.
From then onwards, his hunter training comes to a stop completely and he stayed home all day with his parents. Since he was not involved in the training program, he ended up being the neglected twin as each time Zero came back from the lessons – their parents' would fret over Zero more so than before. The feeling of envy, the green eyed monster stepped into his life then –driving him to the extent of being cold and unfeeling to his parents' death by Shizuka Hiou's hand later on.
Coming back to this place filled him with complicated feelings; each and every corner of this house reminded him of something; the good and the bad. With a sigh, Ichiru shook himself out from his mood and approached the twins with a smile on his features. Dinner was taken in peace and silence, and then came the story-telling with pictures time. The album was mainly full of pictures with him and Zero in it, but occasionally pictures of their parents too.
"Now this is your grandmother Yukari and grandfather Kaoru…" Ichiru told the twins as he gestured to a picture of his parents in the album.
"Wow… she looks just like Akane!" Akira exclaimed in awe.
"Correction, she was born to the world first – so it should be Akane resembling her and not the other way round." Ichiru kindly corrected the boy.
The rest of the night was spend with Ichiru telling the twins stories of how their grandparents' off the Kiryuu side were like, and eventually the twins ended up dozing off on the sofa couch in the living room area.
"Sleep tight, my dear nephews." Ichiru whispered, as he reached for a quilt and put over them shielding them from the cold air seeping in from the open window ways. With that, he went back out front and contents himself with the task of staring at the Sakura Tree again.
During the party to introduce Yuuki into the night-society, Kaname was swamped by the vast numbers of proposals seeking for a union with the Kuran Clan – again. Only this time, he received not only a proposal for himself but also for Yuuki. Eventually, he throws out the excuses that he had just retrieved back his inheritances and would generally likes to have some time sorting them out before considering the possibility of settling down.
For Yuuki, he used the excuse of her needing time to adjust and adapted back to the life of a pureblood before contemplating on the issue. With that, Kaname basically fled the area remember to take Yuuki along with him and then he went back upstairs to the Study to sought refuge while leaving Ichijo Takuma behind to handle the rest of the situation.
Deciding to leave the crowd of guests to the capable hands of Ichijo Takuma, Zero Kiryuu also attempted to make a move to leave the area – heading for the stairs. However, before he could leave the place – he was met by the sight of Risa Miyazaki being harassed by an unknown guest. Judging from the look on the female's face, she was absolutely irritated by the conversation taking place but for some reasons choose not to stalk off from the site.
"Risa, is anything the matter there?" Zero spoke up, his tone sounding loud and clear catching many guests' attention as they all turned towards the direction of Risa Miyazaki.
"No… nothing's wrong, Zero-sama!" Risa responded, as she finally had enough of that 'guest' harassment and make a move to remove herself forcefully from said man.
"Risa! Was that the proper way to speak to your father?" The man loses his temper, as he snarled at the auburn haired vampire girl. Behind Risa, Zero's features cleared and give way to realization of the man's identity. 'So that was her father, and here I thought he seem a little familiar looking to me…' Zero thought.
Risa Miyazaki bristled in anger, that man had the audacity to pull rank on her? Who the hell does he thinks he is? He stood by and watched on in silence when his wife bullied her mother, and then treated her as though she was nothing. When she left house, nobody bothered to say anything in response and now he had the guts to waltz in here using her as an offering to the new lord of the Kuran Clan?!
Zero took one look at Risa's face and knew he had to do something fast, before the girl snapped completely and all hell breaks loose.
"Pardon my intrusion in this, but perhaps I should remind you something. Risa might be your daughter, but if my memory served me right – you had relinquished your rights and guardianship of her to another when she left home about 8 years ago?" Zero intervened, bringing a cease fire between the father and daughter.
"This is my family business; I don't see why I would have to explain my reasons to you." The man replied tightly as he kept his glare on Risa's face unwaveringly.
"Family business…? Since you put it in that manner, then it gives me all the rights to poke my nose into this issue. Risa Miyazaki is not only your daughter, but also the daughter of Fujiwara Ami and grand-daughter of Fujiwara Hayate. Whereas, I am the son of the late Fujiwara Yukari – that would makes me Risa's cousin twice removed off the family branch, I think. Regardless of it all, my point here was that – are you sure you want to go up against the members of the Fujiwara Clan?" Zero continues calmly, his tone void of emotions as he eyed the man coldly in the eyes.
"…" The man wavered slightly, but still did not budge just yet and Zero pressed on with his next words.
"Correct me if I'm wrong, I've heard the Miyazaki had the intention to set up a publishing firm or sort and was looking forward to the idea of partnering up with Chiba TV to do a collaboration of some magazines projects? Need I remind you again of the biggest shareholder in Chiba TV?" Zero left the sentence hanging, waiting for the man to pick up his subtle hints dropped along the way.
The man blanched and then turned a pale shade of white, before spluttering unintelligently and stalked off from the venue site in a huff.
"Sayori, walk him out and make sure that he did not try to attempt anything stupid. Kindly remind him what would be the consequences if such events were to repeat in future." Zero instructed, shifting his eyes to the hazel brown haired human girl amidst the crowd of vampires.
"Yes, Zero-sama…" Wakaba Sayori responded calmly, despite the number of eyes staring in her direction.
Once Sayori left the area tailing Risa's father, Zero told the auburn haired vampire female to head back upstairs and keep Yuuki Company. He knew the guests were whisperings among themselves, but he could hardly give a damn. Turning on his heels, he exited from the site – leaving the green eyed blond vampire to deal with the onslaught of questions that was to come in time.
"Hanabusa, why didn't you mention anything about that 'guardian' was related to the Fujiwara?!" The father of Aidou Hanabusa turned towards his silent son and demanded for an answer out of him.
"…I didn't know until recently." Aidou responded, inwardly wondering why his father was kicking up a big fuss about it.
Upstairs on the second storey, Seiren knocked on the Study door to seek entry. Once granted permission, she wasted no time in informing the pureblood heir of the Kuran Clan that there are a few aristocrat clan head seeking his presence in the lounge for a talk.
"I see, I shall be out in a while time. Speaking of which, have the guests left for the night already?" Kaname asked.
"More or less, Ichijo Takuma is currently seeing them to the gates personally as of current." Seiren responded, matter-of-factly.
"Well, Zero – I'll see you in a while. Are you sure you don't want to join me in the lounge?" Kaname Kuran throws at his silver-haired lover seated on the sofa couch in the Study.
"There's no reason for me to be there, isn't it? I bet the talk's gonna be something relating to the council, it would be best if I am not around. Top rule of the Fujiwara Clan, never involved in any activities of the council and association alike… and second thing, in case you've forgotten I'm also a hunter. I highly doubt they would welcome me in their presence, the party just now was an exception – they would be seeing it as a reassurance act towards Yuuki and probably as an observer for the event on behalf of the association." Zero Kiryuu pointed out objectively.
"Alright then, I'll be back in a while." Kaname eventually agreed to Zero's words and left the silver-haired teen alone in the Study to wait for his return.
Kaname arrived back at the Study approximately an hour later, to find his silver-haired lover still seated on the couch but the only difference was that the teen had something else on hand. Zero was halfway through the annual report of the 'Fujiwara Corporation' then, when he detected Kaname's presence in the room with him.
"Done with your second part of the socializing process already?" Zero commented, placing aside the report after marking down the page he was at with a pencil.
"Yes…you are still going through the report?" Kaname commented, upon the sight of the folder now resting on Zero's lap.
"Of course, I've to read through the past 5 years records for the corporation and I'm only done with the period from 2008 to 2010. I've yet to touch on the report for 2012." Zero responded in a deadpanned manner.
"How about giving it a rest tonight?" Kaname suggested, as he took a seat next to his silver-haired lover tracing his hands up and down the torso of Zero in a suggestive manner.
"No… Need I remind you that we have an agreement about that?" Zero said in a firm-like manner, this was one of his terms laid down on the verbal agreement between them when they patch things up a month ago.
Thrice in a week and no more than that – Kaname is an insatiable git, after the second time he passes out from their nightly activities in exhaustion. Zero had placed his foot down on coming up with an agreement of sort, if not one of these days he's going to collapse from the exhaustion due to regular sexual activities with the pureblood and he would rather not have that at all.
"… Zero…" Kaname started, with the intention in mind to persuade his lover into making an exception for tonight.
"Kaname, I said no and I meant it. Besides, we would be having a dinner with my uncle tomorrow. I would very much appreciate it if I could hold myself up in perfect condition then." Zero interjected, throwing a sharp look in the pureblood's direction.
"How about we do a switch tonight?" Kaname took a deep breath, and broach the subject again.
"What…?" Zero Kiryuu snapped his eyes up in shock; certainly Kaname was not that desperate for sex to be bringing it to this extent – right? To be even willing to bottom for the first time ever, and so Zero stared at the pureblood prince unmoving for a few minutes before he said.
"Are you sure about that? You are willing to be submissive for once?" Zero stared at Kaname for several minutes, trying to gauge if the man was serious or merely just pulling his legs for fun.
Date started: 22/1/2013
Date completed: 23/1/2013