A/N: Hi everyone thanks for the reviews and the favourites! I'm so happy that this little fic has been doing well, almost 30 reviews! YAY! w sorry for the late update, I'm 2 weeks behind the original schedule of updating! Yikes! But I have reasons, writers block isn't one of them. I'm sorry for the late update and I'll make it up to you with 10 pages of chapter 7! 4000 words! That's a new record for me *laughs* I hope this was a nice read for you guys!

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Disclaimer: Vampire knight is not mine, if it was, Zero would be into cheese!

~Chapter 7: Why haven't you kissed me yet?~

"My wrist! What the heck?", Aidou scowled as he tore his hand away from my grasp, just comply idiot and my life would be a lot easier please.

I gave him my best glare just to throw him off his little explosion about how roughly I handled his self-proclaimed "beautiful baby skin". I needed Aidou to drive me to the association seeing as my feet can barely reach the gas pedal. I called him to come by and I dragged him all the way to the back, I didn't bother to explain anything because talking to Aidou was annoying, it was like talking to Yuuki when she was pregnant with Ichiru except Aidou isn't pregnant and his hair gel slowly kills my brain cells...that's why I'm never near the guy, he smells as bad as Yagari-sensei...honestly.

Aidou frowned as he gazed at my car, looking very much displeased with it, what's wrong with my car? It's fine right? It's expensive, shiny, works well on rough terrain too-

"it's so bland ,Iwish there was more blue or pink in it..", of course, your Aidou, there has to be a little pink, blue or baby ducks in everything. I have to ask Yuuki why she's friends with this lunatic.

Nevermind. I have to get to Yuuki, this kid-like mind of mine keeps throwing me in a loop attention span, ranging from Aidou's cryptic hairstyle to how fluffy my tail is...it's so fluffy...NO STOP! I need to get to Yuuki! My gut is telling me that something's wrong! Zero! Get a hold of yourself! She's in danger! My stupid attention span, sometimes being a kid is so frustrating and stressful.

"Get in the damn car and drive me to where I need to go, Hanabusa!", I hissed and practically threw him in, now he's probably going to comment on the scent of my car.

~.~.~.~.~

"this is so weird..", Saito commented as he hid behind me.

I giggled trying to keep the mood as light as possible even if there is a potential enemy out there in the darkness thirsting for my blood, "what's weird Saito-kun?".

"Me..hiding behind you...the weakest hunter in all history..oh, and you're a girl", owie, that kinda hurt but I'm old enough to let the younger generation insult me but I'm not just about to let them show me off with their fancy parkour and new techniques, good thing I accompanied Zero when he and Chairman cross* went training in the mountains and hopefully my skills are more polished than they were before.

(*Yuuki still calls Kein "Chairman Cross" even if he's retired already and the new chairman of cross academy is Takuma!~ my adorable blondie! But I'm not liking him in the recent chapters )

I'm getting us out of here now.

"you sure about that Kuran girl?", I serviced the room for the voice and realized how stupid that was when she was using telepathy on me, only I can hear her.

I'm scared, she knows I am but I have to be strong after all who's gonna do the dishes after I'm gone?

I smiled at that thought, I'm such a comedian, I wonder how the world of comedy will do without me when I'm gone? I'm a first class act after all.

"Focus on the fight please~ I want you to die trying to kill me at least~"

The vampire's eyes saw into my soul, I could feel her eyes set me on fire, a fire which made me feel as though all of my choices up until now were wrong, as if it all lead up to this moment and this woman was going to be the end of me, it wasn't a trick, it wasn't some kind of paranoia she implanted on me. She was a pureblood, who has walked this world at least fourth fold of my whole life. This is serious, I'm going to die, there's no way I could save Saito AND myself, there's no chance I'd make it out alive.

And an even slimmer chance Saito would get out "Alive" as well, he would end up like Zero and his revenge against Shizuka Hio. A soulless monster only having one goal-to end his master and then himself.

"Don't touch me!", Zero looked up to me, he was pinned down by one of sara's stray blades, his beautiful face covered in dirt and his clothes tattered, fresh from a defeated battle.

"Zero, get up! We have to get out of here, you can't defeat Sara!", I ripped out the blade as he winced in pain and I slung his good arm around my shoulder, furrowed brows, he coughed out a good amount of blood before looking at me with angry eyes.

"Yuuki! Drop me! I'm done for! You have to help Kaname, he's right there! Fighting Sara! Let go!"

I looked down on lost grey eyes, as if it was a ship who lost the light guiding it home, I knew he didn't want to say that but he was scared to be treated as the reason, a legitimate reason if Kaname died in battle, he was scared that I would blame his weakness as the reason I lost the man I loved, he was scared that I would hate him.

Kaname..

Kaname wanted to kill all of the purebloods, including me, his cherished one.

Sara was actually pulling all the strings, she was the player and Kaname thought he was too but in the end, he was only a pawn. Sara and her minions ambushed the Hunter Society from the inside, the place crumbled and turned into a final battleground on who would win. Who would survive in a world in which most would like to escape from. I was caught in the fray, being the leverage in case Sara was driven into a corner, she would trade me for her safety. I was fooled into thinking the battle was between Zero and Kaname but I was wrong, I stood on the wrong side of the chessboard, with the two most important men in my life on the other side and beside me was the biggest mistake the good lord could've made to create.

Why am I saving Zero anyway? Kaname is right there, I could help him and let Zero bleed to death.

My Kaname is over there but—

Zero has always been here, beside me, watching me, getting hurt by me, dying over and over again for me. Why Kaname? When I had the most beautiful man right here, thinking he has flawed so much when he was perfect.

My definition of perfect. Zero was my definition of perfect.

And in that second where I thought, the 1 quarter of my heart that belonged to him suddenly expanded and took over, he was now my air. He was now everything to me.

What is this?

"it's because I love you, Zero!", Words from me answered everything, all my locked doors opened and it seemed like I had answered all of the mysteries of the word. All the mysteries of me.

Love? Oh, so that's what it feels like, I only cherished Kaname, I never loved him like I did with Zero.

And Suddenly Zero wasn't so lost anymore, I had become his light, the only light he would ever need for the rest of his life. His eyes widened and his lips quivered, before he could say anymore, he coughed and wheezed.

"Let's get you out of here! Zero please!-"

A rain of swords , swords made of blood. They came at me—and Saito, out of the darkness above.

"Auntie Yuuki! Watch out", I grabbed saito and barely escaped the swords that darted into the ground where we once stood and disintegrated into bits of red dust the moment they did not hit their desired target.

The dust suddenly rised and formed into a swarm of crimson bees, huge bees with red stingers and killer intent.

"SAITO RUN!", the bees chased us around the the poorly lighted warehouse, we stepped into the darkness and emerged into the light as the small bulb swung around the room in a mad fenzy, as soon as I stepped into the black side, all I could hear was panting, the panting of two people, beating hearts, and quick steps. Telling me that Saito and I were still alive and well, not consumed by the bees- and soon the light stopped swinging and it aimed at us like spotlight for all the ones in the darkness to see, like a show on it's final act, me and Saito stood back to back, shaking our heads around to look at our black surroundings looking for any signs of hostile movement, my senses felt heightened from the adrenaline pumping through my veins and the realization that it was do or die time.

Wild laughter filled the room as my vision started blurring into that of a garden, like my head was glued to a tv that kept changing channels in a static blur, back and forth from reality to a garden of anemones and a sky of azure. Slurred and morphed words that I couldn't make out shot from my right ear to my left.

"Stop! Stop it! MAKE IT STOP!", my eyes felt like they were on fire, melting into my skull and seeping into the back of my head, it hurt, like I was leaking lava. It wasn't the enemy doing this, I knew, it was a familiar pain I experienced when I had training with Kaname in the year that we spent together, taming my blood to run my way, a pain that protected me in form of kuran blood, blood of the ancestors angry at such a weak girl that had spawned from their mighty brood, they would protect me for the sole purpose of continuing the blood line not because they cared for me, kuran's were jerks that way.

Time stopped.

I looked around me and saw Saito, hazel eyes wide from the red daggers coming out of the dark, the lamp above us twisting into a knot, about to burst into flames. I looked around me to see nothing but pitch black. I went to examine the daggers, they weren't perfect. I could see the drops of blood dripping from the daggers, they were made purely from blood but only the strongest could master solid blood transfiguration so if these daggers hit Saito, it would just turn into a splash of red on impact then a puddle on the floor. Someone was just trying to scare us, it fooled me.

That's why the person kept her distance because using all of this blood would've depleted her, making her weak and able to kill, this means she wasn't a pureblood, I was stupid to think she was just because she could use telepathy and spawn these monsters.

She was a vampire capable of illusion techniques like Ruka sempai.

That had to be it, so this means she's just a crone and she isn't the mastermind but being able to create illusions of a pureblood's powers means she either studied it for months in books or someone thought her, showed her the powers of a pureblood so this case would still branch into one of the seven pureblood families, with the exception of Hio and Kuran.

The last of the purebloods in the Hio clan perished when their mad princess, Shizuka, had died.

Kaname couldn't do this, hiring crones and low class chess pieces wasn't his style and knowing I would be the target, he would show himself.

I have to look for the girl behind this scary illusion.

I stepped into the darkness, scanning the area, the daggers branched out into thin blood lines that should lead me to the source but it was cut off as soon as it escaped the vision in the light, proving that I was right, it is an illusion.

I looked around and saw a bunch of boxes of sardines, it looked quite weird. I don't remember those being there but I'll think about it later. I might just be hungry.

I didn't see anyone inside of the warehouse, I opened the doors and stepped outside, me and saito must've been running for awhile because now the sun is setting, the location of the warehouse was by the sea, there in front of the doors stood a lot of men with guns and weapons waiting to get the drop on us while we were still busy with the not so terrible pureblood inside, well, let's see about that.

After tying them up and drawing on their faces, hehe, I'm so happy I'm not good drawing, they deserved badly drawn whiskers... I headed back inside to Saito, who was still wearing that funny look on his face, I swatted the daggers with my hand, as I guessed, they turned into red liquid and plopped onto the floor.

For some reason I looked back at the sardine box, darn, am I that hungry?

Then I noticed it.

Does a box of sardines have a mouse wearing red trousers on them and a seal balancing on a ball?

No I don't think so.

I walk up to it and attempted to push the box but instead I went through it and hit the ground face first.

"Ouch. I should've known", I rubbed my face and glared at the cloud that used to be a sardine box, behind it was a girl, a small girl, I didn't expect the voice I heard to come from such a small girl, she was at least 10 or 11 to me. Frozen with a sad look on her face, as if she wasn't doing it on purpose.

She had dark mahogany brown hair that lay just above her shoulders and big lavender eyes, she had small pricks on her porcelain fingers meaning that it was her who was summoning the daggers and bees, she was clothed in a tattered brown dress and she was barefoot.

"GYAH!", I spun my head around to see Saito raising his arms in defence to nothing, I looked at the guards who seemed dumbfounded on how they got black ink moustaches and were bundled up together in rope. Their guns bended into girl scout knots, hehe, I love those knots,surprise surprise! No I'm not a girl scout but chairman cross made me and Zero go through those things when we were little, Zero made the chairman into a punching bag when he attempted to make Zero wear the uniform.

"AHH! I-I'm sorry!", the girl behind me screamed in a voice that was too small to be the one I heard from before, she sounded Russian, a little Russian but I can't be too sure.

"YUUKI!" I heard from a familiar voice,I looked back at the men in the ropes at the entrance of the warehouse where Aidou and Zero emerged from the car, I don't want to know how that drive went.

~.~.~.~.~

There she was standing there beside a small girl at least my age, well, not my age but my current age.

Urgh, someone please get what I just said.

I ran up to Yuuki and looked up to see if she had any injures, the blood on her cheek was questionable.

"Why do you have blood on your cheek?", I glared at the spot.

Yuuki smiled, and pointed at her cheek, "oh this? This is nothing! I was just shot in the face, nothing to worry about!".

Oh I see, she was just shot in the face—WHAT?

Get me a lawyer, I'm going to sue so many people, starting with the association for letting her go on such a dangerous mission, then Yagari for not taking care of her and Aidou for his stupid driving and his baby ducks and my tail for being fluffy-

"Uhm, Zero? It's alright, don't overreact!", Yuuki failed her arms, "See? I all fixed!".

Barely convincing Yuuki.

I growled, "Get in the car, we're going to the hospital".

Yuuki pouted then her face lighted up as she picked up the little girl, "We're taking her home!".

"What?", I frowned.

"W-what?", the small girl repeated in Yuuki's arms, she was quite shaken.

A bunch of hunters passed by us to Saito who was in hysterics, the other hunters were calling an ambulance for Sensei, he wasn't hurt, just doing a lot of drama, the cancer sticks must've gotten to him already, bout time he died of old age.

"please Zero!", Yuuki pleaded with big maroon eyes which I couldn't resist, obviously.

I inwardly sighed and looked at the girl, she seemed pretty beat up and tired but it didn't seem like she was apart of the fight physically or something, I can't be too sure.

"Ok but who is she anyway?", Yuuki bit her lip and contemplated if she would tell me or not the she awkwardly giggled and broke into a nervous smile.

"Oh? H-her? HAHA, it's nothing, she's just..uhm..the girl who tried to kill us! Funny story, Zero! But it's all fake thou-"

"-she cannot stay"

~.~.~.~.~

"So why is this midget here? Are you running some kind of day care now, Kiriyu? I mean there's that dirty kid and there's the gibbon cosplaying as a cat-", Zero shoved one good shoulder into Aidou's defenceless abdomen, Ichiru chuckled as he looked at my family sitting on the couch.

Yuuki was with the mysterious Russian-ish girl who was at least the same age as Zero now and on the opposite side was Aidou and the silver head, well Aidou was on the floor now, nevermind about him, we'll worry about him some other day.

Yuuki giggled as the girl stared blankly at the pictures on the fireplace beside the couch, her brain trying to register how the pictures worked and the emotions on their faces as if she had never seen abstract feelings before, purple eyes fixating of the multiple smiles of the faces of the people on the pictures.

The small girl felt a nudge on her shoulder at she turned to see a warm smile up close, it was like a drop of sunshine fell from the heavens and warmed her face, the bright brunette named Yuuki smiled at her and asked, "What's your name?".

Name? Did she deserve that?

The small girl titled her lips, "I've been called brat or useless a lot of times!", she chirped as if she was happy to be called such awful words, she didn't have a name but she was happy to be called.

"Lilian", Ichiru mumbled as he looked at the girl.

The girl looked at the tall brunette on the verge of tears, "a-are you going to call me that?".

Yuuki's frown turned into another breathtaking smile as she nodded at Ichiru, "Lilian Kiriyu is a suitable name is it not?", the little girl's head spun as she felt the impact of Yuuki sentence of her, Lilian, Lilian was her name, she had a name! But why...why would this woman give her a name when she tried to scare them so badly? Rido-sama would always get angry when she did anything that he didn't like..

"She can stay upstairs in the spare room", the silver haired boy said, Lilian blushed as she looked at the beautiful boy, "must be Yuuki-sama's son..and the tall brunette must be her husband..the blonde must be her brother..", Lilian convinced herself, not wanting to get involved and misunderstand the labels of the family members, it was already obvious who was who.

After dinner and Aidou's much wanted departure, the kiriyu's and Lilian got ready for bed, Yuuki brought Lilian to her room where she slept like a log but not without saying that she would miss sleeping on the floor, Yuuki would have to interrogate her when she was settled and ready to talk about it.

The poor kid had multiple signs of malnourishment and lack of sleep when Yuuki got a good look at her in the bath, good thing Rima mistook Ichiru for a boy and bought a royalty of clothes for girls from year one to at least year 20, Yuuki ended up using some of the clothes, she was too ashamed to tell Rima though, she and Shiki had such nice taste.

Yuuki kissed Lilian of the forehead and closed the lights, she always wanted a baby girl but she knew Lilian couldn't stay, the association was very convinced that she was hostile and evil since Saito's behaviour was very questionable, he was shaken and angry about Yuuki's reaction towards letting the child stay at the kiriyu household, Kien was just as worried if Yuuki had fallen off of her rocker trying to keep the kid.

"Yuuki, I support your decision but just be careful and don't let her get away, always keep one eye open alright?" Kien said as he and the other Hunters contained the situation at the docks, Zero had apparently made a big ruckus on finding Yuuki because she was in grave danger , it caught the attention of the whole board and Kein was forced to come with the hysteric silver head before he imploded.

"Yes Chairman..I'll keep one eye open but kept your word when you say you'll support me.." Yuuki said as seriously as possible.

Kien teared up and glomped her through a waterfall of tears, "MY YUUKI IS SO GROWN UP AND UNFAMILIAR WITH ME! HUH HUH!"

Maybe we shouldn't have included that part of the flashback.

"Yuuki..", Yuuki closed the door to Lilian's room and faced the silver head leaning on the threshold of her room, Zero got up from his position and looked up at Yuuki, "Kneel down please..".

Yuuki kneeled and now looked up at her husband and smiled, he was so adorable pouting, obviously because she paid more attention to Lilian than him today, "What is it Zero?".

Zero blushed and furrowed his brows, he looked away briefly before facing Yuuki with a flushed face, "Does me being a kid change anything?" he said almost shouting.

Yuuki was taken aback by her husband's words, she rubbed his shoulders and sighed happily, "Never, what made you think that?".

Zero blushed, seeing as the red color covered more of his kiddy face more than his older self, "because you haven't kissed me yet", his bluntness never ceased to amaze Yuuki as she found her own cheeks flushing.

Kiss him? He's barely through puberty! That would make Yuuki a legit cougar I tell you! A COUGAR!

Then Yuuki remembered what Aoi's journal said, she had to keep treating Aidou as if he never changed and soon enough he was back to normal but what was Yuuki treating Zero like? She had been treating him like an adorable kid! (which he is) How would this affect his change? Was she the reason why Zero hadn't changed back yet? A whole month, was it already too late? Can she still change him back? Was it too late?

Yuuki leaned in and placed a peck on Zero's cute lips and leaned back to smile at him.

Nevermind, I still love him, cat ears and all.

He smiled back with the same radiance as if he was back to his normal self, his eyes glinted with the same wisdom and seriousness that she had fallen in love with, his strong arms wrapped around Yuuki and her eyes widened in shock and she was at a complete loss for words.

"Oh my god..Z-zero?"

~End~

A/N: it didn't take a rocket scientist to solve that right guys? XD BUT DON'T STOP READING JUST YET! The story is far from over! We still have to capture the mastermind and a twist in Zero's condition! X3

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I'm thinking of another extra story to do but there are a lot of stuff to cover in Yuuki and Zero's relationship so you guys can suggest! ^_^ I'll accept any wacky ideas but it has to be about Yuuki and Zero (ichiru can be included) make a fun summary! w