"WHY!?" Hanabusa screamed as he held onto the bar window of the car. "WHY IS IT THAT WE ENDED UP HERE!?"
Amaya laughed madly before banging repeatedly on the walls on the car. "LET US OUT DAMN IT! LET US OUT BEFORE I SICK YUUKI ON ALL YO ASSES!" Yup, she was back. Crazy personality and everything. Been a long time since she went serious. Honestly though, the thought of Zero dying after he found her and killed her caused her to go into quiet depression. She went serious again- but the thought of a friend's death still haunted her. Now that he saw her and she lives, she went back to normal. "I SAID LET US OUT!" Amaya let out an angry huff before crossing her arms and sitting down on the ground, glaring at Zero. "I blame you. This is entirely your fault." Zero smirked slightly.
"That's because I was the one who dragged you two here." Hanabusa finally stopped screaming and got into his thinking position. Legs spread apart, right hand in his jacket pocket, and his left thumb on his cheek, his index finger on his chin.
"Strange. All I said back then was just what came to my mind." He muttered. Amaya nodded in agreement. Hanabusa was still holding Amaya bridal-style then and wondered,
"Well then...Should we follow the two of them right away or should we leave them alone by not following them just yet?" Amaya blinked. After Hanabusa said that Zero came towards them. He was looking kinda livid and Amaya commented,
"I think you might want to change jackets, dude. I kinda stained that one." Amaya noticed how tense he looked. "I'm guessing your tense cause of the blood...right?" Zero then grinned creepily and said,
"Oh yeah, this will come in handy. I'll take you both with me and wring information out of you!"
Hanabusa began to scream again and try to break the bars on the window. "WE HAVEN'T DONE ANYTHING WRONG! WE'RE BEING FALSELY ACCUSED! ALL WE DID WAS GET ON HIS BAD SIDE! THIS IS ABUSE OF PUBLIC FORCE! HE'S MISUSING HIS PUBLIC AUTHORITY!" Zero's smirk fell and he crossed his arms sighing.
"If you struggle you'll get the electric shock again, Aidou-Sempai." Amaya flinched. She got the shock...it's not very fun. Hanabusa cast him a glance before letting out a huff and sitting down next to Amaya. Well, kinda. Hanabusa saw her position on the ground and frowned. He quickly stood up, causing Amaya to give him a confused look, and wrapped his arms around Amaya's waist and lifting her up. She screamed from surprise as he sat back down, her in his lap. He kept his arms around her, ignoring her protests. Zero's fist clenched slightly-oh, so slightly, that you could barely even notice. Course, how could you with his arms crossed like that? Amaya gave up and sighed, before leaning against her Fiance.
"Now, don't get me wrong Kiryuu, but I'm not going to be obedient because I'm scared of getting electric shocks or anything like that." Amaya smiled lightly. That was her Hanabusa. "Amaya and I have done nothing wrong to break the treaty between our races. I'm going to assume that we're going with you as guests then, no?"
"Actually we don't really need to suspect you both of anything to arrest you." Zero told them. Amaya frowned, pissed off.
"What? Are you joking!?"
"Hey! We won't tell you anything!" Zero tilted his head slightly.
"That's fine. I'll make you feel like talking." After a few moments, Hanabusa stared at Zero with his "I-want-to-say-something-but-won't" face. "Aidou-Sempai, If you're going to keep staring at me making that face like you want to say something, just go ahead and say it."
Hanabusa gained his "Whatever-I'll-talk" face and glared slightly at Zero. "If I was in your place, I'd face my adversary openly, no matter how many times it may take, and take what I want from them." Zero turned his head and stared Hanabusa in the eyes, debating.
'Debating what, though?' Amaya wondered confused as she watched the blue and purple sparks fly.
X.X
'Kaname...' Yuuki thought as she mentally stretched her hand out, as if trying to grab something, but not really being able to reach it. 'Are you really not my brother?' A broken glass piece with a picture of Kaname fell towards her and she stretched out her hand, clenching it after second thoughts. 'My ancestor... I'm falling into...the memories.' Her pink and green dress was replaced with her Day Class uniform as she free-fell. Her long brown hair shortened before it resided back into it's old shoulder-length style.
Yuuki sank her teeth deeper into Kaname's neck, his blood entering her mouth and down her throat, consuming it and viewing his memories- as he wanted her to know the truth.
Yuuki's fall started to go slower, so it almost seemed like she was floating rather than falling to her death.
"I have to love someone in particular." A voice said. "You think that if you do that you'll be able to manage to fool the 'demon' that the thirst is, and to escape from endangering anyone with your fangs?"
Yuuki's eyes closed as she listened to the female's voice.
"You're a fool. There's no way you can make yourself do that for all eternity. I came to understand, that you didn't speak even a single word of refusal against your vassals as you were turned away." The woman continued. An image flashed through Yuuki's head of a woman wearing a grey cloak, standing in front of Kaname, who was sitting silently on a bed. The woman leaned down slightly. "You wont't try and claim that it was because you were lazy or anything, hmm?" The woman didn't receive an answer. Yuuki watched and listened as the woman placed a pale, yet tan hand on the back of Kaname's head, making him lean down and lay his head on her chest as she hugged him. She ran her hand up and down the back of Kaname's head, ruffling his slightly and whispering quietly, "Good boy... Kaname." And placed her hand on his cheek.
"Yuuki..." Kaname said as he held her in his arms. Yuuki was passed out and had finished drinking from Kaname, but his memories were still flowing through her mind at this very moment. "I already know what decision you are about to make... and what you will do. You were born right beside me-" Kaname caressed her cheek lovingly and tucked some hair behind her ear. "-And your kind little hands held onto mine so strongly." He other hand moved down onto hers, intertwining their fingers.
Kaname hugged her, her head against his chest. "That must be enough. Yuuki had done so much for me already.
Yuuki awoke to the sound of feet pattering and clattering against ground. Yuuki turned her head, lying on the ground on her back- hair back to it's long length, and saw people walking all around her. She sat up, confused, but guessed she was still in Kaname's memories.
"What the-?" She wondered, confusion showing as Vampires passed by her. Level D Vampires, to be exact. "Humans who were turned into Vampires?" She wondered.
"Kaname!" A female voice called. Yuuki blinked in surprise and turned her head to see the woman from earlier riding up to her on a horse. "Leave these people for now!" Her voice had a command-like tune to it. It was deep, yet high- kinda like Yuuki's herself, yet similar to her mother's- and had the commanding ring to it. Yuuki knew immediately she didn't want to get on this girl's bad side. Yuuki stood up and watched as the woman held out a hand, her other gripping onto the horse reins. "Come Kaname, we have more pressing matters."
'This person...' Yuuki thought. 'This is the person who rescued Onii-Sama.' Yuuki realized that the woman had her confused with Kaname and pointed at ehrself.
"I'm not Kaname, I'm-" Yuuki let out a surprised gasp as the woman grabbed her arm and pulled her onto the horse so she was sitting behind her.
"What are you saying!? Come on!" Yuuki wrapped her arms around the woman's waist and held on tightly, not wanting to fall. "Please get a hold of yourself." The woman then turned her head so Yuuki could catch a glimpse of her face. "I'm counting on you."
'What is this feeling?" Yuuki wondered. 'Like this woman is of great importance to me...wait- are these Kaname's feelings!?' Yuuki tightened her grip at two things, one at the realization and two, at the face that the woman started the horse. Yuuki commented as they rode,
"There's more and more of them."
"Yes. It's a pity for this to be happening right when the humans were finally managing to repopulate after all their losses because of the climate change." The woman explained. "As of now, more than half our race as chosen the ideology of turning the entire human population of the world into members of our race, one by one." The woman paused, thinking. Yuuki half-wondered what about. "No, actually...it's not about turning them into equal members of our race. They're turning mankind into submissive slaves, that's what it is!"
"The castle their making their slaves build for them has gotten bigger, hasn't it?" Yuuki asked, only to blink in surprise. She didn't ask that- well, technically she did, but she didn't! Wait.. 'Maybe it's Kaname's memories. I am reliving them.' Yuuki noticed the woman's look and blinked confused. "What?" And nearly screamed as the woman pushed her off the horse.
"Don't "What?" me! You said you fight them at once, even if you had to fight them for that! SO go!" Yuuki stood up, not doing anything. She blinked and looked at the woman. The woman continued, "The only way to stop the multiplication of ex-humans is to cut them down at the root. And then we will simultaneously deal with the slaves who lost their leaders." The woman bent her head downwards, saddened slightly. "I didn't want to hurt our own people when we have only finally now met each other but...well," Yuuki watched her expression change to one of guilt. ",I realize I'm pushing such a nasty duty onto your shoulders. Sorry, Kaname..." Yuuki- not really feeling as though she was in control of her own body- raised her arm up and stood on her tip-toes, placing a hand on the woman's cheek.
"I'm fine." Yuuki told her, but she could also hear Kaname's voice speaking along with her. "What about you though? You're looking sort of pale today. Are you okay?"
'Someone I care about...' Yuuki thought. 'A feeling of wanting to care for that person...' The woman turned her head and Yuuki suppressed a gasp. The woman had the same face! Well, minus the older and more mature look, but they had the same face! The only difference was the black hair. Their eyes held the same look, was the same shape, and was the exact same wine red color.
"Don't worry. We're all working together and doing out best so..." The woman started.
'The emotions I'm feeling are definitely Kaname's.' Yuuki finished her thought strand. 'A painful separation that leaves you an eternity with nothing but self-reproach. But also this feeling of not being alone anymore. This woman I'm seeing right now was the woman who gave him those feelings.' Yuuki blinked when a transparent form of Kaname appeared in front of her, in the same position, but lifting his head up and kissing the woman. They pulled away and the woman whispered,
"You are a very good boy, Kaname...You work well, even when I'm not around you." Both Kaname and the woman vanished, leaving Yuuki standing there, arm up in the air.
'She's gone.' Yuuki thought.
"Where are you going!?" Yuuki turned her head to see and older woman with her hands on a young teen's shoulders. "Come, let's go home!" The Young teen didn't listen. "If your boyfriend's blood isn't enough, Mommy will give you hers too, okay!?" The older woman sounded desperate.
"I am under orders from my master. So I must go." The young teen girl told her mother. Yuuki watched, eyes widening.
"No! Come home with me!" Tears streaked down the Mother's face. "Wait! Wait right there!" The woman screamed before falling to her knees and crying.
X.X
Zero, Hanabusa and Amaya walked through the Hunter Association, a gun pressed against Hanabusa's back and a hand around Amaya's throat. Hanabusa sweatdropped.
"Hey, Kiryuu, can you stop that? I get it that I pissed you off but there are limits-Ow!" He cried out in pain when Zero twisted BLoody Rose into Hanabusa's back. Amaya glared at Zero from the corner of her eye.
"Can you not-hurt-" She choked slightly as he tightened the grip around her neck. "-Hana-Hanabusa!" She gasped. Zero ignored the burning in his hand from his hand touching her neck.
"Hey-Ow! Leave her alone!" Hanabusa growled. "It's not like we're going to be trying anything stupid right in the middle of the Hunter Association building, you know! Besides, it's not like she could hurt anyone in her current state anyway!" Amaya gasped and coughed when air filled her lungs when Zero let go. "The Vampire Hunter weapons are all resonating like they're growling around this area!" They stopped walking.
Amaya flinched. "Creepy." Hanabusa wrapped an arm around her shoulders and pulled her to him- Zero letting go of Amaya's neck. Hanabusa hugged Amaya tightly, her face buried in his chest as he nuzzled her neck crying out, "Wah! How scary!" Amaya's shoulders scrunched up and resisted the urge to close her eyes. Damn her sensitive neck...
"Aren't I supposed to be the one hugging you and crying out from fear?" She asked confused, looking up at her fiance. Hanabusa stopped and froze for a moment. Amaya's throat started to feel parched again and her eyes flashed red quickly. She could hear Hanabusa's blood flowing from his veins and his heart beating... Her hand traveled up from his chest and rested on his shoulder. Hanabusa blinked and looked at Amaya, blinking when he saw her eyes. Her green eyes contrasted against the red glow. He knew what she wanted and he wasn't surprised. Amaya stood up on her tip-toes and leaned up to his neck, licking the spot she wanted to bite and opened her mouth, fangs protruding. Hanabusa closed his eyes and placed a hand on the back of her head. Amaya made to bite down and just as her fangs were about to sink into Hanabusa's neck...
CLICK
She froze and Hanabusa opened his eyes, seeing that Zero was pointing Bloody Rose directly at Amaya's head. Amaya panted slightly and leaned down, stopping herself from drinking Hanabusa's blood. She's dying here! She's out of blood tablets, injured badly and bleeding, and she can't drink blood!? What the hell is wrong with this place!?
"Wait till you both get to the bathroom to drink each others blood you filthy blood-suckers!" He growled. Amaya sighed in defeat and leaned against Hanabusa, arms around his neck and head against his chest.
"Fine..." She coughed..
"And to answer your question, It's because we're above the deep underground furnace contianing "Mother-Metal" of our weapons."
Zero continued. "Long ago, there was once a woman who came to us in secret, and told us of a method by which we could gain the power to fight the Vampires. That woman was one of the ones at the beginning of the Blood suckers' race. One of the ones we came to call later 'Ancestors'." Hanabusa furrowed his brows and said, turning his head,
"I don't want to hear the rest of it." Amaya blinked at Hanabusa and Zero continued, ignoring Hanabusa's protest.
"Humans were powerless to do anything when face with teh Vampire army that had been raised, constituted of Ex-human Vampires. The ancestor woman gave some of her own blood to the humans, Blood, in such a large amount, that there was enough to poison and kill the ones drinking it." Amaya thought for a moment and my fuzzy memory of the manga appeared. Amaya quoted as much as she could remember.
"Yes, and the ones whose bodies managed to absorb that poison and managed to survive the ordeal became the first hunters, whom all you descend now, isn't it?" What else did Hanabusa reply with? It's on the tip of her tongue... Amaya completely missed the proud look Hanabusa gave her.
'She does know her history.' Hanabusa thought, proud of his lover. 'And here she said she failed at it.' Hanabusa then gave Zero a look and said,
"We know that already." Amaya's eyes lit up in realization. That was it! "And lastly, the woman that went and did that tore her own heart out and flung i into the vat of molten metal inside the surface. I already know this! And with this act, the metal inside there turned into something frightening! So what?" I frowned slightly, feeling sorry for the woman who had to sacrifice herself. Zero gained a hard look.
"So you people really are incapable to muster even a little heart to mourn that woman's death for the sacrifice she made? It was said her sister grieved for eternity, sadness and guilt consuming her till she had to end her own life. Her husband, lost to the bank of madness, killed himself to be with his wife, their children being the only survivors of that family." Amaya clenched her fists as tears pricked her eyes.
Hanabusa said nothing, only sadness forming on his handsome features. Amaya then thought of something...
'That part was never said in the manga- or, what I can remember of it anyways. What sister, husband, and children?'
X.X
"Me too. I don't hate humans either Kaname." The woman told him. "All of us were born from human parents after all. Even though we happened to be born as a slightly- no, very different form of creatures instead. But despite that, my parents have definitely loved me and my sister. Even my sister's children and husband they loved. Our parents were very strong people." The woman continued, sadness clouding over wine red eyes. Her black hair was in braids. "They were willing to fight and protect me and my sister's family at the cost of their own lives. Even though they were such remarkably frail beings compared to us. And that's why...Kaname..."
Yuuki watched from the distance. 'You know, the woman looks like me, but acts kinda similar to Amaya. Her sister even looks like her. Green eyes, but brown hair instead. And why am I even thinking this- but the man did look like Aidou-Sempai...Yuuki! Snap out of it and watch the damn memories!' She scolded herself. Yuuki soon found herself in another memory and watched from the sidelines. She saw a woman lying down on the back of a coffin, blood on her chest where her heart is, staining her clothes. Yuuki gasped in shock.
It was the woman from before! And... there was a woman with really short brown hair, curled, with green eyes balling her eyes out from beside the woman. A man with blonde hair and blue eyes besides her, trying to comfort her, tears streaking down his face too. There was children surrounding them. Three, to be exact.
One had curly brown hair like the mother and blue eyes- a boy- and was styled like the fathers. The second was a girl with blonde hair and green, lonf and braided at the side with bangs similar to the dead woman who was lying on a coffin. They were kneeling down and holding up some flowers to place on the woman, crying. Yuuki blinked when she saw Kaname appear and stood at the head of the coffin. A man with silver hair, a red bandanna rapped around his forehead, and lilac eyes commented sadly,
"That woman...She threw her own heart into the blast furnace. Even then she moved about without concern and continued handing her blood out to us." His eyes were watering slightly and glanced up at Kaname. "I don't know much about you guys but, weren't you supposed to be a monster that's incapable of dying, no matter what happened?" Kaname watched as the woman slowly turned into shattered crystals and vanished.
"I was supposed to do it myself." Yuuki heard in her mind. She knew it was Kaname. Kaname planned on tossing his heart into the blaze, not her. He was going to sacrifice himself, not her. "I had no intention of getting attached to anything at all, but the time spent with that woman... I regret losing you. I ignored the smell of a secret and the faint feeling I had. "Even if I'm not with you, you must work hard." That was that woman's message. And the moment a small attachment was born inside of me. That woman had magnificently accomplished her duty."
Kaname gently grabbed part of the woman's hair and watched as she turned to dust. Yuuki gasped, eyes watering and hands flying up to her mouth in horror. Yuuki heard shaking and turned her head to the blast furnace. She turned to Kaname and shouted,
"KANAME-ONII-SAMA!" She charged forward, thinking he was going to commit suicide, but passed right through him. Kaname smirked coldly.
"I know. "You" also want to hurry and fight right? You are the ones who took her flesh and blood in order to protect yourselves. You are the ones who survived. You're enemies are the fools who believe they can't have their lives taken away from you."
"The new people, who will bear the cries of death." Kaname's voice rang out. Kaname turned his head towards the people.
"I will give you wisdom. Make weapons from this furnace. To every last one of you, I give you a role. You cannot run from your obligations." He gave them a glare. "You will seek bloodshed, just as we have, from a hateful instinct.'
X.X
"Our ancestors, in exchange for that woman's life, obtained a weapon to slaughter Vampires." Zero held up Bloody Rose. "And the blood that runs through our body, whispers not to forgive Vampires for their inhumanity." Zero pointed his gun at the couple again. "Well, you're probably thinking that it isn't my place to say. You're probably wondering which is more inhuman." Hanabusa gave Zero a look before lifting his head up.
"Honestly! I'd sat the one pointing the gun at the innocent pair who doesn't turn away is much more so!"Amaya backed away from Hanabusa as he placed his hands behind his head. "Just 'cause I'm a Vampire-"
"Hey Zero!" Hanabusa was cut off by a red-head. No, not Amaya.
"Kaito!" Zero called. Kaito stormed over and demanded,
"Why are you working!? You were ordered to rest, weren't you!?" A dark aura formed and Amaya flinched.
'Lovely' she thought as Zero grabbed the back of our collars.
"I caught two of Kaname Kuran's lackeys." Zero explained, going into chibi-mode. Kaito looked at us, glaring.
"I see." Kaito grinned evilly, causing shivers to run down the couples spins.
'This guy..." Amaya and Hanabusa thought in unison, creeped out.
"Come this way." Kaito said as they lead us through the building. "Say, Aidou Hanabusa-kun, Chouko Amaya-Chan, I want to ask you both one thing. Is Kuran-Kun eventually planning to oppose us?"
"Where did that information come from?" Hanabusa deadpanned. His face literally read, "I will never tell you". Amaya's face was just blank and her eyes showed annoyance.
"No? Because it seemed that way from the radical behavior from a Pureblood during questioning."
"Sara Shirabuki was recruiting comrades at the an All Girls School." Zero explained. "Additionally, we're seeking similar trends and associations on the matter. Assuming from the tolerant appearance, no matter how harmless that behavior might seem, that person is still-"
X.X
Yuuki stepped forward out of instinct when saw Kaname have a hand on his forehead, seeming to be upset. She froze when her foot stepped on a pice of glass, breaking it. Kaname's head snapped up and shot over to where he heard the sound. He blinked and narrowed his wine-red eyes.
"Who are you?" He demanded, grip tightening around his weapon. Yuuki blinked. Once, twice, three times. She did a whole 360 trying to find who he was talking to before realizing something. She blinked and pointed dumbly at herself, looking at her "Older brother".
"Me?" Kaname nodded, but gaze remained cold- if not slightly amused. "W-Wait! Why!? You-You can see me!?" Kaname nodded again.
"I can." Yuuki was alarmed and then noticed the weapon he was holding.
"Artemis." She stated, surprised. Kaname's eyes widened slightly and gazed down at the scythe he was holding.
"The name of the Goddess of the Hunt, Chastity, and the Moon...It certainly is a worthy name for this thing." Yuuki tried not to laugh. Amaya would have a field day! She loved Greek Mythology! Kaname looked up at the sky. "I can hardly feel emotions anymore. These weapons are merely thinking of slaughtering Vampires..." He knelt down and lifted a gun, rose vines shooting out of it and lightning crackling against Kaname's touch. Bloody Rose.
"The weapon is, essentially that very person..." The woman who sacrificed herself...
"Weapons are weapons. They are not objects that will transform into her."
"Then...are you going to substitute her for someone else?" Yuuki asked, hands clasped in front of her.
"Quit saying such empty things Young Vampire Miss." Kaname told her before placing the gun to his forehead, saddened. "No one...No one can be a replacement for another person. That is why farewells..." He started to drift on in memory. "...are always difficult and the worst."
Yuuki blinked when she felt herself become...empty. She guessed she just went invisible again.
"Kaname-san. The other side has already converged." A male voice said. A group of people wearing robes that varied from white to light brown and dark brown. "It seems that it's going to be an even worse situation then last time."
"Was someone there just now?" A woman wearing a light brown robe asked, stepping up next to the man in white. "I thought I heard you talking."
"Ah no, A girl who put a name on my weapon was standing there just now." Kaname gestured towards the spot where Yuuki was standing. "It's a premonition I often have. Perhaps I just saw, a vision from the future.
Yuuki gasped as her eyes shot open and found herself lying down- out of Kaname's Memory Lane.