Wow this is a long chapter. could have been turned into two chapters but oh well. Thank you guys again for the reviews i love them and to irmina for making me realize that Zero is quite comfortable being topless in front of Kaname. But then again he may just be addicted to being shirtless

Pairings: Kaname/Zero, Aido/Kain, Takuma/Shiki

Disclaimer: I don't own anyone. but Mr. John Brian Rosenberg a lousy human who you will want to kill.

Warnings: Nudity, Bad language, oocness, violence, gore

Chapter 5 The Hunted

Mr. John Brian Rosenberg. Was a short stocky man with short dark hair and even darker eyes he was a wealthy man with a sizeable hobbies. This hobby was collecting stuffed animals. But not just animals mythical creatures as well. His house was filled with them, Walls lined with insects on pins, hallways and rooms filled with bears, tigers and lions. He had at least one of every animal known to man each and every one he had hunted himself. Then he found the vampires he had two stuffed purebloods which had been injected with dead mans blood which basically turned them into wax. But not just vampires he had were wolves, fairies, he even had a mummy or two. Yes he had just about every one of Gods creations stuffed and placed around his house. But one he needed a dragon to complete his collection. But not just any dragon he needed the rarest of all dragons, a white dragon. And he knew just where to find one.

Zero had spent most of his night awake (much to his disliking). His senses were going haywire if he was still a hunter it would have been caused by a rogue vampire, but now that he is dragon he honestly doesn't know what cruse is. So instead of lying in bed he made use of this time by reading up on dragons. And holly crap there is a lot of law on them most of it was complete bull shit other stuff was real. And another surprising thing is how close dragon and vampire bi-o was. For example Zero read that silver could control and hinder and dragons powers. So Zero picked up one of his silver bullets used for hunting vampires and he screamed bloody murder not only had the silver brunt him it had poisoned him as well. Thick black goo had seeped into the burn mark on Zeros hand twisting and turning up his veins. It was so painful he was knocked out for a few hours. Bandaging up his hand Zero read some more on dragons. There was more than a hundred types of dragons each type had a special power that only they could use, an example of this is an earth dragon can heal itself through the use of plants and trees, a water dragon can cause rain and storms when angered and a fire dragon can swim in lava. Now Zero wasn't going to jump into any volcano any time soon and he was bloody sure he wasn't a fire dragon. Then he turned the page to a picture of a large white dragon. Now he's getting somewhere under the picture was a small signature of the artist, the date and the name and type of dragon. Modesty Kiriyu (Moonlight Flame) The Virgin Dragon 1274. Zero scuffed "well that sucks" Zero read more on modesty Kiriyu, the page was an article on the capturing of one of the oldest dragons. It said the hunters were testing things on her and questioning her on the ways of the dragon. Zero couldn't help the growl that came out even if he wanted to. The next page showed a family tree of Virgin dragons. The Kiriyu tree was written in large script. Modesty Kiriyu had two sisters and was one of the first generations, her sisters where Marry and Josephine Kiriyu but only Modesty had children. Zero followed the tree right down to the very last branch and Zero couldn't help but gasp. His parents were the last on the page but it couldn't be right it said the died in 1982, but really the died only eleven years ago. Something was wrong with this book. He closed the book and stretched looking at the clock it said it was 6.30 so he decided to get ready for school (he has to show up once in a while) besides he had all his favorite classes today. Zero took a quick shower (noticing that the cut on his shoulder had healed, but the burn on his hand was still throbbing like a bitch) got dressed and headed off to class.

His first class was history (which he only enjoyed because he could sleep through it). But as Zero neared the classroom he felt a tingling down his spine as if someone's eyes were steering at him. That someone happened to be the entire hallway. Every ones eyes were on him and not the fearful eyes that he was used to, no these eyes were the same ones they used on the Night Class and Zero didn't like it one bit. Through out the entire day he had both boys and girls looking at him as if he was one of the bloodsuckers. HES A DRAGON GET IT RIGHT. When P.E. came around Zero pushed himself to get distracted from the looks people were giving him. He quickly put on his P.E. gear which was a tight black t-shirt with a white Kuran Rose over one side, and not a small rose this one covered half the front and back. And black slacks, the girls P.E. gear was the same but they had short shorts on instead of slacks. Zero sighed this was going to be a long lesson. Zero was sent onto the ropes for the first half of the lesson which he practically flew up like some spider monkey. Then he was taken outside to a large course which consisted of rock climbing walls, nets that you had to crawl under, hurdles and last but not least a rope that you had to pull yourself along. Zero looked at it and smiled "peace of cake". A teacher called his name and he stepped up to the start line, the teacher counted down from five and blew the whistle. Zero shot off like a rocket, he leapt over the wall speed under the net leapt over the hurdles and swung across the rope like some monkey on speed. When Zero finished and looked at the teacher he could have laughed. The teachers jaw was somewhere on the ground, "Zero you have beaten the record". "And I didn't even break a sweet" Zero remarked. The teacher asked Zero something and he flipped the teacher off (only purely for kicks). Which of cause earned him a drop and give me forty which Zero did . . . one handed. The teacher (getting pissed off at Zero for taking everything as a joke) told him to take a lap around the field. Zero only smirked and took off, at least he was away for all those eyes.

The rest of the day was fazed out, the bell for the last class rang and Zero headed over to the gate which was crowded by Day Class Students. "All of you get in line or you'll be facing detention" Zero barked. The girls (and boys) lined up along the footpath. Zero watched them closely as the gates opened for the Night Class. Zero felt Kanames eyes on him which sent a spike down Zeros spine. Kaname spotted the bandage on Zeros hand and frowned, he walked over to Zero with a questioning glaze. "What happened to your hand?" Zero looked at his hand then back at Kaname "uh nothing its ok just a sprain" Zero lied. Kaname searched his eyes and accepted his lie. Kaname lent in whispering in Zeros ear "ill see you at the lake?" Zero nodded and watched as the Night Class continued towards their classes. Aido watched Zero quietly as he passed the dragon. Kain saw the way his cousin looked at Zero and questioned Aido who merely waved it off.

As promised Zero waited for Kaname by the lake, it seemed there meetings were becoming a habit. Kaname arrived around midnight to find Zero sitting under the same tree that he slept under the other night, Zero was looking at the sky his hand that was bandaged was being carefully rubbed. Zeros glaze was distant he was thinking to hard when Kaname sat down beside him. This caused the said person to jump. "what's wrong" Kaname asked. Zero turned to Kaname and sighed "I'm not really sure, I feel like something is not right" as if something is about to go terribly wrong. "listen Kaname something is not right with this picture" Kaname listened the lake was quiet, there was no crickets chirping, no owls where wooing, not even the lakes waves disturbed the shoreline. "its too quiet" Kaname looked at Zero the last time the lake was like this was when the school was attacked. Something flared in Zeros mind it was like a large echo on a sonar, This feeling was so strong it gave Zero a headache and not your typical my head hurts headache this was a fill scale war on his brain. Zero clutched his head in pain and hissed. "Zero!" Kaname yelled as Zero put his head between his knees. "what's wrong tell me" Kaname yelled he felt helpless. "my head ahhh" Zero hissed in pain as it got worse, Kanames hands reached over to the back of Zeros neck and massaged it with one hand and grabbed Zeros hands with the other forcing him to pinch the sensitive skin between his thump and finger. "Zero push down hard on your joint where you thump is dig into the skin on both hands" Zero did as he was told pushing down hard where his thump bone started and met with his finger bone on both hands. And just like that the headache went away. Zero slowly sat back and looked at Kaname "how did you know that would work?" Zero was amazed. Kaname still gently massaged Zeros neck while the other hand touched Zeros "my mother taught me that trick, while pinching the bridge of your nose may work sometimes this works better" He turned Zeros bandaged hand over and slowly unwrapped it. The burn that started on the tips of Zeros fingers had spread to the palm of his hand. "what did you do?" Zero shied away "silver" he mumbled. Kaname placed a soft kiss on the tips of each finger then in the middle of Zeros palm. "silver did this to you?" Kaname asked looking at Zero through his eyelashes "I uh read something in a book on dragons and wanted to test it and this is what happened" Zeros checks were dusked pink at Kanames ministrations. Kaname lent back "what did you do hold a silver knife till it burned you" Zero frowned "actually this was from just touching a silver bullet" Zero felt ashamed just touching it had burned his whole hand. "Just touching it, you touched a silver bullet that's probably not even the size of my finger and it burned you whole hand" Zero nodded ducking his head so his bangs hid his eyes. Kaname sighed and brushed Zeros silver locks out of his face "Zero you have to be more careful" Kanames hand curved down from behind Zeros ear to under his chin lifting Zeros head up and forcing him to look Kaname in the eye. "Just please be careful you may just be the last of your kind and I don't want to lose you" Zero sighed but nodded letting Kaname know that he would try and be more careful. Kaname bit his finger and let a few drops of blood drip onto zeros brunt hand. Surprisingly Zeros hand healed back to smooth skin. The boys sat there for a while just talking about nothing and everything when it started getting late. Zero got up and stretched letting a few bones click. Zero turned to Kaname saying good night and headed towards his Dorm. A loud whistle cracked the silence on the lake and a bullet went through Zeros shoulder. Just missing his shoulder blade. Zeros eyes flashed blue and in a furry of white scales Zero had shifted. The hole in Zeros shoulder bleed angrily running down white scales. Zeros head turned to his shoulder and a mist like breath gusted over the wound healing it instantly. His head turned back to looking across the lake searching for a heated spot that might be his attacker, once spotted he jumped over the lake and crashed onto a . . . automatic heat seeking machine gun? A roar of frustration ripped out of his throat rippling across the lake. Zeros claws slashed at the useless peace of junk holding it down while his jaws ripped the wiring out of the tin metal can.

Mr. John Brian Rosenberg really couldn't believe his eyes. There right in front of him not ten feet away was a perfect white dragon. It was young as it didn't have as many horns or frills as older dragons but it was white and beautiful. It hadn't seen him yet which gave him the chance to kill it. John lifted his gun and aimed between the dragon's wings. The bullet had hit Zero before he could react and he fell off the small ledge that was above the lake. He fell into the lake as the poison of the silver ran through his body. Because silver stopped a dragon from using its powers Zero didn't shift back his body was stuck in "dragon mode" until he got the use of his power back. Zero tried to lift his head to see where Kaname had gone, funny that he was dyeing and he was thinking of the safety of the pureblood. John jumped for joy it had taken him all of his life to find and hunt a white dragon and now he had one. The boy who had been with the dragon was nowhere in sight, he must have ran off for his own safety. But the truth was Kaname had not left Zero behind oh no he was hunting the thing that hunted his love. Kaname had circled around the human before rounding up behind him and thrusting his hand through the guys chest, Kaname sneered at the speck of dust that had harmed Zero and ripped his hand back through the hole in the guys chest. He watched as the guy's body dropped lifelessly to the ground. "That was for harming Zero he stepped over the body to the edge of the lake looking down at Zeros lifeless body. He could hear Zeros heart betting so he knew Zero was still ok (for now). The Night Class had shown up because of the gunshots and well as Yagari and Chairman Cross everyone held their breath at the sight of both Kaname and the white dragon. Yuuki screamed when she saw Zero in the water lifeless and bleeding she ran to his side (half swimming half tripping through the water). She kept calling out Zeros name over and over trying to get him to responded. Cross was the section person to run to Zero with Yagari close behind. "Zero!" Cross' yelling cut over Yuukis crying. Behind Kaname the bloodied body started healing flesh started to knit back together healing as fast as a vampire though the guy was not one. The fact was he had spent most of his life drinking immortal blood giving him faster healing ability's. Once recovered John jumped onto Kaname who threw him onto the ground. Kaname grabbed the guy by the neck and held him up so the Night Class could see "Let this be known, Zero Kiriyu is under my protection anyone who harms him will be met with the same fate as this monster of a human". Kaname held the guy by the neck and feet ripping the guy apart like bread then he ripped the head off him. Kaname dropped the peaces of flesh into the water and watched as the clean water slowly turned red, human blood mixing with Zeros. Kaname was painted red with blood, it discussed him that someone had tried to harm Zero. Kaname didn't not like human's hell he really wanted to live along side them but some of them (a very small number) just really pissed him off. The Night Class had never seen Kaname be so violent the entire time they had been with him he had never actually hurt them in anyway. Seeing him tear someone apart was shocking and freighting. Kaname jumped down beside Zero careful not to land on his wings, the last time Zero had "dragoned up" was when Zero had taken him flying over the school. Kaname placed a hand on Zeros shoulder just under the bullet wound. "what was he shot with" Cross asked looking up at Kaname. Zeros head lifted weakly into Yuukis hands mumbling something. Yuukis hands run under Zeros jaw she could feel where the bones ran along. "what was that Zero" she asked leaning down to hear what Zero was saying. "S. .ilver" the words came out breathlessly. "He said silver" Yuuki looked over to where Kaname and Cross where standing on both sides of Zero. "Silver?" Kaname panicked "you have got to get the bullet out its hurting him" Kaname urged. "we were talking before about it, his entire hand was brunt from just touching it with the tips of his fingers. Cross nodded and moved closer to get to the wound. The Chairman took a deep breath before sticking two fingers into the bloody mess. A strangled roar ripped out of Zeros throat sounding much like a wounded lion. Cross' fingers dig deep into the wound, digging around for the bullet. Cross sighed in relief and pulled out a long silver bullet. Once the silver was out Zero slowly turned back into a human. Yagari took off his long coat and draped it over Zeros shoulders and picked the boy up. Zero flopped like a doll over his master's arms as he was carried away to the infirmary. Cross looked over the mess of what was left of their attacker "I will have this guy checked out, and find out why he was here" Kaname nodded and decided he needed to burn his clothes and wash the drying blood off him before he goes crazy. Yuuki and Kaname headed over to the Night Class who were still reeling about finding out Zero was a dragon. Kaname told them never to mention anything about Zero to anyone, and that he was to be protected at all coasts. The Night Class were not too happy about this but agreed. Most of them couldn't believe Zero was shot half of them would never hurt Kiriyu even if he threatened to hurt/shot them. The Night Class returned to the dorms while Cross and Yagari went to the main building. None of them saw the Black figure watching from the deep shadows.

As i said it is a long chapter with lots of happenings going on. Please review.