Two years have passed since Zero vowed to kill off every pureblood, including Yuuki, but when the chance comes he can not make himself pull the trigger. He leaves her alive, unable to fulfill his pledge. However, now that Kaname is dead and Yuuki, who is now a mother is hunted, she turns to the only other man she's ever loved. Is Zero willing to forget the past to save the woman who stole his heart?
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Yuuki ran blindly away from the manor, cradling the newborn in her shaky hands as the rain beat down on them through the cover of trees. She wasn't sure where she was headed, the only thing that mattered was keeping her child safe.
She couldn't understand what had happened, there was no possible way that Kaname could die. She wouldn't believe it, she couldn't. "Kaname…" Tears flowed freely down her face, as she ducked under low branches and lightening flashed by.
The baby shrieked out in fear and Yuuki gritted her teeth in determination, holding the small creature tightly in her arms. She came at a dead end, stopping in front of a river that was now overflowing pass it's bank.
She looked around the forest worriedly as the voices of the Vampire hunters drew closer. Desperation began to take over, she could no longer head back towards the mansion and she had no way of crossing the river without putting her child's life in danger.
"Yuuki!" She spun around, only to pause in seeing Zero's drenched figure appearing from the shadows of the tree.
"Zero…" She didn't trust herself to hope, not yet. Blood stained his shirt, Maria's blood. His eyes were narrowed with the Bloody Rose grasped in his right hand.
She tucked the baby under her chin and moved into a fighting stance. Zero gazed back at her, unfazed by the anger and uncertainty in her eyes. So many feelings coursed through him, relief that she was alive, anger that it had been her lover that had just murdered his friend... Sadness, guilt, joy, pain... Was it possible to feel such apposing emotions towards one person?
There was no time to think them over. He had already decided what he woud do, despite both overwhelming urges to take her in his arms and aim the gun at her head, he ignored them all and focused on the danger they were now in.
"The Hunters will be here in a few minutes, we need to move." He held his hand out towards her and she froze. Was it a sign of trust? A trick? "Yuuki!" He demanded as the cries got louder.
She was afraid of going with him but she was even more fearful of what would happen if she didn't. She took his hand and he pulled her after him through the thick vegetation along the bank.
He didn't speak through the journey, his hand grasped her tightly as they ran along the rivers side. The baby cried through the night but it's voice was drowned out by the thunder. Yuuki didn't think about what was happening or the possibility of Zero betraying her. This had been her only chance of surviving and she had taken it, she couldn't regret it now.
They finally stopped after what seemed like hours near a cluster of bushes. Zero released her hand and kneeled down, brushing the bushes and vines aside to uncover a hidden cave just large enough for her to fit in if she sat down.
"Hide here. I'll lead the Hunters away. When the close is clear continue following the river until reach the village. Once there go to the hotel and the tell the clerk you're a friend of mine, he'll show you to my room. Wait for me there. Do you understand?"
"Zero, why-" He shook his head and stood before she could finish, not knowing how to answer the question she was about to ask. In truth, he didn't know why he was trying to help her, or what had possessed him to even think he could. He had no plan, no way to promise any type of protection after this, all he could say was that he had an urge to protect her like he had failed in protecting Maria.
He sprinted away from Yuuki, who looked after him in confusion, and back towards the Hunters voices.
"Zero, please be careful…" Yuuki whispered after him.
He sprinted back towards the group, stopping just in front of the mob of vengeful hunters. "Kiryu! Where is she, where's the female Kuran!?" Ian demanded as he pushed his way to the front and in front of Zero.
"I haven't found her." Zero replied curtly.
"How could you not, she was going this way!" One of the members yelled angrily.
"I haven't seen her!" He snapped back.
"You're lying! You loved her, that bloodsucking leech! Kuran killed Maria and now you're protecting his lover-" Zero grabbed the mans shirt, picking him up from the floor.
"Don't you dare! Don't you dare make it sound as if I betrayed Maria! I've known her longer than any of you, cared for her longer than any of you! Don't you dare say I would betray her!"
"That's enough, Kiryu, Izen, the both of you. Maria, did her job, she killed Kaname Kuran now we must follow her example, capture Yuuki Kuran and kill her child. We can not do this if we are fighting each other!" Zero looked at Ian and then released Izen, stepping back from the group.
"I don't know where Kuran is, but I will find her." Zero hissed, clenching his fists to lessen the anger that was growing inside him.
"We'll send a group with you-"
"I work alone." Zero said, interrupting Ian.
"Kiryu, we are all in this together, Izen was just upset.-"
"You don't understand, I'm not part of the Hunters Association, and I don't need any of you! You should not have come here, you should never have allowed Maria to come here! This not your fight! Kuran was my target, I told you, all of you what would happen if you did this! Was it worth Maria's life!? Was it!?" He pushed pass them to leave.
"Where do you think you're going?"
Zero gritted his teeth, his hands encasing the Bloody Rose with his eyes narrowed in disgust. The Hunters felt the change in the vampire, the menacing aura surrounding the young, silver-haired male. Izen took a step back.
"After today, you better pray that I never see you again because I promise, my next targets, are you." He growled. They stared back at him in surprise and disbelief.
"What!? Zero, you were one of us!" Ian explained.
"You're wrong. I don't belong with either one of you. Vampires, or Hunters." He took one last look at the group of Hunters, replaying everything that had happened between them. All the journeys they had taken together, all the times he had seen them when accompanying Maria to the meetings. The way Yagari had spoken so highly about them; And still he could not despise them more. They didn't kill because they had to, or even for revenge, they killed because they wanted to kill. He finally understood with the death of Maria, they would give up anything as long as it was to do their job.
Without looking back he walked pass the group. He had finally done it, he had made the whole world his enemy and he didn't care. He didn't have Yagari, he didn't have Ichiru, he didn't even have Maria. There was nothing left. He had not been able to kill Kaname and he was still unsure what to do about Yuuki. Everything he had planned, everything he had lived for now seemed so insignificant.
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