CHAPTER-30: DIE FOR YOU, LIVE FOR ME

Kaname didn't know where he was, but he knew that he couldn't stay there long. He was sitting under a large weeping willow tree in the middle of a meadow. The wind was blowing gently and brushing through his hair, making him feel calm and relaxed. Yet he knew he had to move, but he just couldn't find the strength, so he closed his eyes with a sigh.

"Kaname!" A voice he recognized, but couldn't quite place, called out to him through the wind. Opening his eyes and looking for the source of the voice, but their was nobody around. "Zero?" The pureblood prince wondered as the voice called him again, sounding more desperate with each try.

Suddenly remembering the scene he had left behind, with his mutated uncle fighting Zero out in the woods surrounding the castle. He knew he had to go back and help the boy before it was too late. Suddenly finding the strength to push himself up off the ground against the invisible force that was trying to keep him down. The sky suddenly darkened and the wind became stronger. Standing up straight, Kaname listened out for Zero's voice and when he heard it he began running in the direction it came from.

Zero was openly crying into Kaname's chest. He couldn't hear the man's heart beat or find a pulse. The pureblood prince had left him once more and it was Zero's fault. It was his fault that the brunette had come out here to rescue him. It was his fault that Kaname had even got involved in this in the first place. "I wish that you had never had the misfortune to meet me, Kaname. Then you would have been safe. You never would have been hurt if it wasn't for me. I'm sorry, Kaname." Zero silently wept to himself, when an idea come to him. Placing both his hands on Kaname's chest, he focused all his energy into what he was about to do, before looking down at the pureblood's calm face.

"Please come back to me, Kaname. I need you." Zero pleaded in a whisper before forcing all his healing ability out of his body and into Kaname.

Kaname saw a bright light begin to glow ahead of him and he stopped running. Holding his hands out as the warm light consumed him he heard Zero's voice once more and knew he was almost home.

"I need you." Zero's voice echoed.

When Kaname opened his eyes he was back, lying in the snow and the first thing he saw Zero's amethyst eyes looking down on him.

"Kaname, your ok!." Zero sighed in relief, before all his remaining strength left him and he collapsed into the pureblood's arms.

"Zero!" Kaname gasped as he caught the boy and tried to rouse him. But his attempt was disrupted by a sadistic laugh coming from behind him.

"Don't worry, dear nephew. That little brat going to get what's coming to him. But now you've awakened from your beauty sleep, I'm going to tear you apart first." Rido informed darkly. Kaname carefully lowered Zero to the ground, before standing and turning to his uncle. The hybrid vampire was covered in blood and looking total battered but from his stance he was defiantly still ready for a fight. Quickly locating one of his daggers, Kaname dive rolled and grabbed the blood splattered weapon.

"Let's do this." He stated coldly, before charging forwards and attempting to slice the elder man into pieces.

Kaname fought vagrancy and steadily he was beating down his opponent, that was until Rido managed to land another hard hit to his chest a he cried out in pain, stumbling backwards his back hit the castle wall and he was pinned between the stone and his uncle' claws. He had no where to go and Rido was defiantly going to finish him off this time and there was nothing he could do about it. Patiently he closed his eyes as waited for the pain that would be followed by death as the hybrid pureblood raised his talons for a strike.

Suddenly the sound of a gunshot echoed around the clearing and then the world went silent. Kaname opened his eyes, half expecting to see Rido's claws impaled in his chest. However what he was Rido leaning heavily on the wall behind him, a steady puddle of blood starting to pool beneath him. The pureblood prince was to shocked to move, but moments later when Rido spat up a mouthful of blood and collapsed to the snow covered ground. Kaname saw Zero standing behind the hybrid, a silver gun held tightly in his grasp, the end still smoking.

"Zero!" Kaname gasped. The boy had awaken due to an instinctive feeling that Kaname needed his help and he had jumped up and grabbed the gun and shot the evil Hybrid in the chest.

Zero's eyes where hard and cold as he limped over to where the hybrid was squirming around on the ground as his life blood spilled out of him.

"Zero!" Rido called out to the boy. "Please help me. You wouldn't let your daddy die, now would you? I love you son." The hybrid pureblood pleaded, sounding caring and compassionate, but Zero wasn't stupid, he could sense that darkness that still lingered in the dying purebloods eyes.

"See You In Hell!" Zero said coldly, punctuating every word with hatred. And with that, the silverette raised Bloody Rose again and fired a silver bullet into Rido's chest, piercing his heart and killing the man instantly.

Kaname and Zero both stood in silence, looking at Rido's deceased body lying in the snow. Everything was silent until, Zero stumbled slightly before his legs crumbled beneath him and he collapsed. Kaname ran forwards and caught the boy mid fall. looking Zero over, the brunette took in for the first time how badly injured the silverette was. He was covered in cuts and bruises, probably had broken bones. His body was shaking slightly from the cold and the fact that Zero was barley clothed didn't help, plus the lack of energy the boy now had from healing Kaname and bringing the older man back from the edge of death.

Knowing that being here wasn't helping Zero's condition, he holstered the boy up into arms and took off running into the woods. Stopping when he realized that he could run no more from worry and the amount of pained groans Zero was making. Kaname knelt down in a clearing deep inside the forest. Holding Zero firmly in his grasp he could feel the boy's heartbeat weakening. Knowing that there was only one way to save the silverette, Kaname shook Zero gently to rouse him and to his relief the boy opened his amethyst eyes.

"Kaname, I'm cold." Zero whispered and the weakness in his voice pained the brunette.

"I know Zero." Kaname confirmed tearfully. But the boy frowned at the drops of water falling down the elder man's face.

"Don't be sad, Kaname. You came to save me. Just like you promised. You didn't lie to me and for that I'd die for you and never regret it." The boy smiled up at the man.

"But I love you, Zero. I want you to stay with me. I don't want to live without you. I want you to live for me, because I couldn't survive without you." Kaname confessed. "Zero, I want to form a blood bond with you and bind our souls together for atternity, will you allow me?" the pureblood questioned.

Zero was almost to tired to carry on speaking but he didn't want to leave Kaname alone in this cruel world so he simply nodded his head and Kaname smiled in relief. The brunette grabbed Zero gently by the back of the neck and held the boys head near his own neck, his fingers embedded I the boy's soft silvery hair, while he nuzzled his own face into the side of the silverette's pale neck.

"Zero, do you remember that ancient words that my mother told us to say to perform the bond?" The pureblood asked gently and he felt Zero nod in response. Both party's stayed silent as they prepared themselves for what they where about to do. Kaname was about to give up his freedom and hand over a piece of his soul to the boy before him. Where as Zero was about to give up his humanity altogether and become a vampire for the rest of his life. Yet both party's where prepared for the consequences and where willing to give up whatever was necessary to save the one they loved.

"My honoured brethren" Kaname chanted and Zero echoed."My honoured brethren"

"We come together""We come together"

"To unite as one"

"To unite as one"

"Against those that are damned""Against those that are damned"

"We show no mercy""We show no mercy"

"For we have none""For we have none"

"Our enemy shall fall""Our enemy shall fall"

"As we apprise""As we apprise"

"To claim our fate""To claim our fate"

"We'll be together""We'll be together"

"In love and in hate""In love and in hate"

"Now and forever""Now and forever"

With the sacred words spoken, Kaname opened his mouth and let his fangs fun over Zero's pulse point softly before sinking his teeth into the soft flesh and taking his fill of the boy's rich blood. His eyes glowed red and where half lidded from pleasure, when he felt Zero's fingers gripping desperately at the back of his shirt.

Zero was in agony. He knew that the transformation into a vampire was not going to be painless, but he never knew it would be this bad. It felt liked the blood in his veins was boiling and burning hum from within. Tears welled at his eyes and cascaded down his cheeks as the pain intensified and his vision began to swim. The last thinks he was aware of before passing out, was the huge white moon shining high above them in the night sky, causing the whole area in a silver light and making the white snow glow brightly in the gloom. And the other was Kaname's voice whispering softly in his eye the words. "I love you." Before his world went black and he faded into the darkness.

Well there you have it. Rido is dead and Zero is finally becoming a vampire. All is right with the world….or is it? What happened to Dr Misaki and the Hybrid guard that escaped?(PS: I don't have a name for him, but I would really like to give him one, any suggestions?) What will happen next? Will the vampire council except Zero or will they have something to say about the situation? What happened to Haruka and the others? Or Juri and Yuki back home? Will everything work out know between Kaname and Zero¿? Or will Zero's lack of trust in vampire's jeopardize his relationship? Also what was the mysterious force that was leading Zero in the right direction and instructing him in using the weapons? Is this really the end of Shizuka and Rido? So many questions, but so little answers. Well stay tuned to find out. XD.

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-Princess Loveless

PS: Yes, I do know that the speech from the blood bond is from Devil May Cry 4. But I just love the song and the words seemed to fit in perfectly. So heres my disclaimer: I do not own Vampire Knight Or Devil May Cry.