Hi Everyone, just a quick word. Thank you to everyone who has reviewed.

Now I would like to dedicate this chapter to Meagan28 who's a massive fan of Shiki.

Ok, so with out feather ado, let the story continue:

CHAPTER-20: FAMILY FOREVER

Shiki ran as fast as he could to the Kuran mansion. He had just been informed by the council about Kaname and Zero. He was in complete shock, he couldn't believe what he had been told. Was it even true? Well, he would soon find out.

Knocking several times on the large wooden door, Shiki waited impatiently for it to open. After what seemed like eternity, Juri appeared in the doorway.

"Hello, Shiki. Are you well?" She greeted cheerily.

"Good morning Juri. I wish to speak to Kaname, if I may?" Shiki replied politely.

"Oh, of cause. He's in the study with Haruka." The mother vampire informed him with a smile.

"Thank you." Shiki said, before slipping past her and up the stairs.

"Kaname, may I have a word?" Shiki exclaimed as he burst in to the Study.

"I'll leave you boys alone." Haruka stated before leaving the room and closing the door behind him.

"Is it true?" Shiki questioned.

"I'm going to need more specifics." Kaname said with a smirk.

"Is it true about Zero being a cross bread?" Shiki continued.

"Indeed it is." Kaname replied only half listening as he continued working through his paperwork.

"And about Rido being his father." Shiki inquired.

"Indeed." Kaname answered.

"So Zero's my brother?". The chestnut brunette asked.

"Indeed." Kaname said again, but this time looking up to see a confused and shocked Shiki. Standing up he walking round the desk to place a hand on his cousins shoulder.

"Yes, Zero's your brother. His mother was an established vampire hunter, and after she was captured, Rido raped her and she gave birth to Zero. Now that the council have found out, they want to have Zero executed, and to prevent this I have decided to make a blood bond with him." Kaname informed in full.

"So Zero's my brother." Shiki asked again still not quite believing what he was being told.

"Yes, Shiki. He's your brother." Kaname reassured him.

"Does he know about all this?" Shiki questioned.

"I told him last night, all about what happened between Rido and his mother and all about the council. He hasn't come out of his room since. He's obviously very upset and I don't know what to do." Kaname informed his cousin with a pained look.

"Maybe I could talk to him. I went through the same thing with my mother maybe he might relate to me a bit more?" Shiki sympathised with the pureblood.

"You can try. The council have only given me one week to form the blood bond, and I need to talk to Zero before then so that I can be sure he understands the situation. But now he wound even look at me, never mind talk to me about it." Kaname stated sadly.

"I'll go see what I can do." Shiki said while patting his dishearten cousin on the back before leaving the room.

Zero sat silently on the window seat in his room. Outside he saw robins landing in the snow covered garden looking for food. "I wish I had wings like those robins, when I could fly away from all of this and never look back." Zero thought to himself. A few seconds later there was a knock on his door.

Zero's expression hardened. He didn't want to talk to Kaname again. He was still angry. He wasn't angry with Kaname, he was just angry with the world. Why did this have to happen to him? Why did that Bastard Rido have to be his father? Zero felt absolutely disgusting, knowing that that monsters blood run through his veins. Zero mentally gagged at that thought, before he turned around ready to tell Kaname to leave him alone.

But Zero's expression soon turned from anger to confusion as the man who entered his room wasn't Kaname. Instead this man had paler brown hear and grey eyes. Realization suddenly hit Zero. "Shiki! What's he doing here?" Zero thought.

"Hi Zero. How are you doing." Shiki asked in his usual placid tone. Zero just continued to stare at him in silence.

"I just want to talk." Shiki explained. "I have a lot to tell you. You see Zero, Rido's my father too. Where brothers." He told the shocked in front of him.

"How?" Zero asked.

"My mother was raped by that beast too." Shiki informed the half bread.

Thinking about what had happened to his mother made Zero want to cry. His eyes involuntarily filled with tears, that no matter how hard he tried to fight, they still fell down his cheeks.

"Shhh! It's ok Zero. Don't cry. I'm sure everything will be alright." Shiki tried to reassure as he sat down next to the silverette and pulled the younger man into his chest.

"No it wo-wont." Zero cried quietly into Shiki's shirt. "Why does this always hap-happen to me? I'm a monster. I came from that monster and that makes me a monster as well. The council thinks I'm a monster, that's why they want to ki-kill me. And know Kaname has to give up so much to save me, and I'm not wor-worth it. You all should just them kill me. I'm a danger to be a-around. And I don't want to hurt anybody. I'm not worth saving." Zero continued to weep.

Listening to Zero's rant, pained Shiki more than he cared to admit. He felt so sorry for this boy. This boy who had done nothing wrong in his life, had suffered so much and now he was talking about handing himself over to the executioner because he didn't think he was worthy of life.

"Zero, don't talk like that. For years I felt the same way, thinking I was a monster just because my father was. But when Juri and Haruka took me in, I started to see that that wasn't true. I learned that I could be who ever I wanted to be and that Rido had no control over me. So I decided to join Kaname and fight back against that bastard. And you can too." Shiki explained sincerely.

"But I don't want to li-live if Kaname has to pay the price." The silverette cried.

"Believe me Zero. Kaname is not forcing himself to do this. He has agreed to make a blood bond with you. That's the most powerful connection a vampire can make with another vampire. He most certainly wouldn't have told the council he would do it if he didn't mean it. I may not know Kaname's full intentions but he does care for you deeply. You're an important part of his life now. Now all that's left is for you to decide weather you want to bond with Kaname. It's you decision. Your very special Zero, you jut need to start believing in yourself more." Shiki explained.

"Thank you." Zero whispered sincerely into the others chest.

Shiki sighed with relief that Zero was finally starting to take in his words, a he felt the boy's sobs soften. The noble tightened his hold on the younger reassuringly and a few minutes later Zero's breathing evened out. "He's asleep." Shiki thought to himself happily. "Good, he looked exhausted.". The noble decided to sit there for the rest of the day until Zero woke up. He was more than happy to told the sleeping boy as he looked out of the window and watching the world go by.

Ta-da.

A bit of a soppy chapter, but I don't care. But there will definatly be a lot more action in the next chapter.

Thanks for reading and please review.

PS: I haven't said this in a while so here you go. I DO NOT OWN VAMPIRE KNIGHT.