Chapter 7: Rapunzel

-21st Century-Past-

Zero waited and waited for his prince, albeit sleeping inside a rose shaped ice. Due to constant earthquakes and landslides, the castle was slowly being buried. Some teenagers during that time would go to the castle, to find him. All because of the rumor, the rumor of a beauty inside the tallest tower. Since the stairs were already brittle, no one could use it anymore. They decided to climb the tower, enter through the only window, wanting to get a glimpse of the so called rapunzel of the castle.

A blond went to the village that's located next to the castle. He have caught wind of the castle's rapunzel. Don't mistake him for wanting to see the rapunzel. He was doing this for his soon to be reincarnated friend. "Ara, ara, are you one of those city boys that have heard of the castle's rapunzel?" An old lady asked. "Uh... Yeah." The blond said not really wanting to sell out his friend.

"What's your name?" The old lady asked. "It's Aidou Hanabusa, ma'am." The blond said with his signature smile. "It's a good thing that you trusted me enough to be able to tell your name." The old lady said. "Why? Is it bad?" Aidou asked. "Well, I make graves, and you'll need it when you can't return back here." The old lady said as this piqued Aidou's curiosity. "What do you mean ma'am?" Aidou politely asked.

"Some of the youngsters that went there were scarred for life, some even went missing."

Aidou was gaping, he knew why but, how? The seven that took care of Zero were all dead. Zero wouldn't be able to move, since he's sleeping. It's couldn't be Kaname, he felt his would defend Zero? He rubbed his chin. He took resolve and went towards the castle as the old lady left to work on making graves.

Aidou tried to use the stairs, but, it broke under his weight, and he isn't even that heavy! He decided to make a makeshift one, using his ice powers. He saw Zero sleeping in a rose shaped ice. He tried to melt the ice but was attacked by the aforementioned ice. "Hey, that's not fair! I didn't know you can move!" Aidou blamed the ice.

The supposedly stem parts of the rose-like ice moved very swiftly. It wanted to protect Zero, who's inside of it. Aidou glared at the stem parts before sighing. "Well, at least we finally found Zero's body..." Aidou mumbled as he sat down pulling out his phone. Dialing a number he knew since before, Aidou placed the phone next to his ear.

"Hello?" A voice said from the other side. "Hey, Takuma. I found Kaname-sama's beloved." Aidou said as he looked at Zero. "Really?!" Aidou can imagine the other's brightly smiling face, well maybe too annoyingly bright for Aidou's taste.

Aidou and Takuma did not die during the time Rido and Shizuka went to Kaname's mansion. In fact they were captured by Rido and Shizuka, but, then during when Kaname died, Rido and Shizuka were fighting too much that they were able to escape them. "Aidou, where are you?" Takuma asked as Aidou sat up. "At Kumo village. The one with the so called rapunzel." Aidou said as Takuma hung up on him.

"What?! He hung up!" Aidou said as he sighed. Well he just have to wait for his friend. Aidou looked at the ice rose. He just thought that the rose part is perfect for the other. Even if he just met and talked with Zero in just, three, no, four days. He knew that Zero is delicate, but, the thorns didn't really explain Zero.

He sighed knowing that Takuma would take his time going there. Then suddenly his thought went to a certain orange haired male. 'Kain... I wonder what happened to him during those times...' Aidou thought then remembered when he would stare at him from afar.

He really was love struck. He didn't know how or why but he like the feeling of liking someone. It rarely happens. Aidou sighed once again before falling asleep, with the thought of Kain.

-With Takuma-

Takuma did take his time going there. Don't mistake him, wanted to go there but knowing that he would piss Aidou if he were to arrive late. Like Aidou, his thoughts went towards a certain auburn haired male. 'Shiki... he's just too cute!' Takuma thought with pink dusting his cheeks. He have fallen for the human. He sighed knowing that it would be a long time before he could meet the person again.

He then packed his things, remembering how he interact with the other. He remembered the time when he gave Shiki a bread, the other smiled sweetly at him. Takuma felt that he was melting that time, the latter didn't really make much of expressions.

They both just have been together only for a few days but it was worth it, though sad, knowing them but them not knowing you for the future. Takuma sighed at the thought.

-30th Century-Present-

Takuma and Aidou walked beside their reincarnated friend. They were walking towards a meeting. "Kaname-sama if you would please. What is this meeting for?" Aidou asked as Takuma also wante dto ask the same thing. "Human and Vampire co-exsistence in one school." Kaname said as Takuma opened the door for Kaname to enter. Takuma and Aidou followed suite , but then soon froze.

"Takuma?"

"A-aidou?"

The voices that Takuma and Aidou longed to hear for a very long time froze them. Those voices were real, so then the two figures in front of them were real? "H-how?" Takuma was the one to voice his thoughts when suddenly, Shiki dragged him out of the room, while Kain did the same to Aidou. They were outside with silence hanging.

"So how did yo-" Aidou was speaking when Kain decided to kiss him. Shiki did the same to Takuma. The two froze. They simultaneously detached themselves from each other. "It was because of Shindo's forbidden memory magic." Shiki said as he hugged Takuma. "Y-you kissed me..." That was all Aidou could say as he blushed.. "Well, I somehow fell for you back then." Kain said then Aidou kissed him passionately. "I did too." Shiki looked at Takuma with a pout. Takuma chuckled then kissed Shiki also in a passionate way. Then a cough stopped them all. "AS much as I loved to see the harmony you vampires and humans have, I would also want to go to my meeting." Kaien appeared while pointing at the door behind the four.

The four scrambled out of the way towards somewhere god knows.

Kuro: Actually this is just a filler chapter, so that no one would ask what happened to the two as they suddenly disappeared, and as to why they knew what was happening.

Thank you for reading my fanfic up to this point of the story. *bows*. I am really grateful. I never did actually thought that my story would be liked by so many, so THANK YOU VERY MUCH! *bows again*