Blood Ties Chapter 12

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It was sunset, and as usual, a crowd of Day Class students surrounded the gates that led to the Moon Dorms, yelling the name of the Night students.

Maria stood behind the gates, a look of confusion plain on her features. She felt a hand on her shoulder and looked up to see Takuma smiling down at her.

"The Day Class are always like this." He stage whispered. "You'll get used to it, so don't worry. You'll do fine!" The blonde patted the girls shoulder comfortingly, before walking over to the band of vampires in the center of the group, the ones closest to the pureblood and began conversing with his friends.

The stone gates opened, and the screaming seemed to intensify as the Night Class all walked out with graceful steps. Maria's eyes searched the horde of Day students for a particular silver haired boy.

Gray eyes met Lilac ones, and Maria inwardly smiled as Zero's eyes widened. The Day Class took advantage of the prefects distracted state and inched closer to the Night Class, trying to grab the attention if their crush.

Aidou, as he normally did, attracted most of the attention with his flirtatious behaviour, though his eyes flickered towards the windows of the Sun Dorms every now and again, looking in vain for the girl who occupied his thoughts since Valentines Day.

"Yuki- Senpai, please accept this!"

The vampires, except for Maria, froze on instinct, turning to see a senior Day Class student bowing in front of the pureblood princess, a single thornless rose held in his out- stretched hand. The boy risked a glance upwards, his light green eyes sparkling as they met Yuki's, a hopeful expression on his face that was framed by short black hair that blew in the light breeze.

An inaudible sigh passed through Kaname's lips as Yuki reached for the rose, her hand curling around the green stem and her little finger brushed against the boys hand, causing goosebumps to erupt on the males skin at her touch. She took the rose, pulling her hand back, breaking their physical contact, but he stepped towards her, bringing himself closer, reaching a hand out as if to touch her, before his fingers could touch her, however, Kaname's arm encircled around the brunettes females waist, holding her possessively against him as he started walking, towing his sister along with him who smiled politely at the human boy.

"Thank you for the rose. It's beautiful." She said, leaning her head on her fiance's arm as they walked. The Nobles, too, continued to walk alongside their leaders whilst trying to avoid the Day Class that was after them.

Still holding the prefects gaze, Maria walked past him, taking in his wide eyes expression with a silent glee, her long silver hair swinging behind her like a cloak as she danced behind the rest of the Night Class, giggling as she saw the way the Day boys eyed her.

As soon as he broke away from her captivating eyes, Zero's awareness came flooding back to him and he shook his head in a attempt to clear it, his hair brushing against his face with the movement. The wails of the human students echoed through his mind, leaving a dull throbbing sensation behind and the thin scraps of his patience slipped away as he began moving, his voice repeating in the air.

"Get back to your Dorms now, Day Class! Curfew has already come so move!"

Most of the students scattered, unwilling to be caught up in the path of the prefects wrath, just leaving a few of the more braver students, who continued screaming after the vampires, staring after them with such admiration. It made Zero sick to think that people worshipped those things. The prefect hated everything about hated everything about the vampires, the beasts who play around with humans when they get bored, using them and then throw them away. He despised them, especially the purebloods. Instinctively, his hand went to his jacket, slipping underneath the fabric and clasping the cold metal of his gun as he glared at the backs of the two brown haired siblings.

"Kiryuu- Kun! Why are the Day Class still here? Curfew was half an hour ago." Kaien walked through the remaining crowd, having to dodge a few of the overly- excited humans and he giggled as he reached Zero. "My students are so energetic! But, Zero- Kun, why aren't they at their Dorms?"

"Don't blame me because the brats won't do as they're told! If it's so simple do it yourself!" The teenager snapped, turning on his heel and stomping away, his anger rolling off him in waves that caused the Day Class to give him a wide space to walk through.

"My dear son is so mean to me!" Kaien wailed, receiving a chorus of 'awww' from the Day Class girls.

"I'm sorry, My Darlings, but you have to go to your Dorms, I'm sure the Night Class appreciated your undying devotion, but they need peace to be able to work, if they don't then they'll get into trouble...You don't want that do you?"

"Of course not, Chairman!"

"Then you should go back to your Dorms so they can go to class." Cross smiled as the students ran away, shocked that Zero could get so annoyed at such cute students.

Takuma chuckled as he and his classmates walked into the school building, shaking his head in admiration. "The Chairman is very cunning, blackmailing the Day Class like that."

"Indeed." Yuki smiled, wondering why no-one thought of doing that before. She took a look up at her brother who's eyes still looked annoyed that she accepted the rose. The young brunette sighed silently and dropped the rose in one of the rubbish bins in the hallway, the blood red petals standing out against the white color of the scrap paper it landed on and her brother looked down at her questioningly. She gave him a small smile and stepped on her tip-toes to kiss his lips once and pulled away, the low heels of her boots clacking on the wooden floor. The Nobles all continued to walk, respectively leaving the two purebloods alone in their intimate moment as Yuki took Kaname's hand, stroking it with her thumb.

"I love you." She whispered.

He pressed his lips against hers again, holding her against him in the now silent hallways, his free hand rubbing the skin of her cheek, feeling it heat up at his touch. The couples noses brushed against each others as their lips moved more insistently around the others.

"If you've finished, class is about to start." A deep voice interrupted the siblings, and they parted to see Yagari leaning against the wall, his expression annoyed and his book tucked under his arm with one hand placed into the pocket of his straight cut pants.

Yuki looked to the ground, in a attempt to hide the blush that was growing on her cheeks as Kaname took her hand and began to walk forwards, effectively dragging his sister beside him.

The siblings took their usual seat at the back of the class room, the remains of Yuki's blush still apparent on her skin as Takuma turned in his seat, a teasing grin on his face as he looked at his best friends.

"Kissing in the hallways, Eh? Hot."

"I'll make arrangements with the Chairman." Kaname's low voice filled the room, and Yuki and Takuma turned to look at him.

The other occupant of the room bounced excitedly. "I'm so happy! Thank you." Her gray eyes sparkled as she departed, the click of the door closing passing through the now quiet room.

"Is it really okay, Kaname? Will the Chairman even allow her to move out of the Dorm?" Takuma questioned, his expression showing both confusion and worry as he looked at his leader and friend.

"Then you take care of her, Ichijou."

"Eh...?"

The doors swung open, the moonlight illuminating a path in the previously dark hall, partly concealed by two black shadows. The largest shadow moved as a tall figure walked forwards, allowing more light to enter the room, bouncing off the reflective surfaces and shining on two sets of silver hair, highlighting the faces and giving away their identities. Angry silver eyes flashed as Zero took his Bloody Rose from his jacket, aiming it at the small body he was walking towards, his mouth set in a permanent scowl as he readied his finger on the trigger.

Her face was turned upwards in a small humoured smile, as if she found the scene funny. She flipped her long hair over her shoulder, finding pleasure in the torment that was clear in his expression when the small movement exposed her alabaster neck.

Maria found herself pressed against him, his arm trapping her in a cage as she felt the metal of his gun pressed over her heart and her smile became sadistic.

"I called and you came. You're such a good boy, Zero. I'm glad I chose you."

The pressure of the gun loosened though the Hunters mind screamed at him to shoot. He tried to put his strength on his finger at the trigger, but his body betrayed his mind, his finger stayed inactive, just hovering over the trigger, it would take just one small movement for him to shoot the girl in front of him, yet he couldn't do it, his teeth clenched together, trying to force his body to do as it was told.

"Why..?" He spat, his beautiful eyes full of anger.

Petite fingers curled around the barrel of the gun, and Maria swiftly pushed the gun away, holding it to the side as she stepped closer to the boy, leaning up to whisper in his ear.

"Silly boy. You can't kill me...you already know who I am, don't you?" She giggled, her breath tickling against his skin.

She stepped away from him, her eyes running over the Hunter's body before meeting his glare.

"You've grown up so much since I last saw you, Zero, but you see, you can't kill me, I. The master who gave you life as a vampire. I'm so happy that we have a bond which is unbreakable!" The hand that was gripping the gun slid up his arm, brushing against his neck and finally his cheek, stroking the skin there with gentle movements.

The bang echoed around the room as the gunshot made the the silver haired girl stagger backwards, dropping her arm to press at her shoulder, and looked down to watch her hand get soaked by the blood that oozed from the injury.

"Don't touch me!"

She smiled softly as she winced in pain. "You're the first person to resist. Good boy. However, this is a borrowed body, so I would like for you to stop being violent."

The gun stayed aimed, a long finger twitching with the desire to pull the trigger as his eyes stared at the blood, tainting his sight with the color.

"Come here." She ordered and he took a involuntary step forward. "Let's play again when our wound are healed."

"What..?"

"Ichiru!" Her sweet voice called out, a object falling into her hand, the prefect stared up to where the item fell from, his gaze landing on the back of a silver hair covered head as the person walked away and into a doorway on the hallway on the first floor of the building, giving the girl a perfect opportunity to unsheath the sword in her hand and push the blade into the lower stomach of the distracted hunter.

"Ichiru..." He gasped as he fell to his knees. To an outsider, it would have appeared that the boy was bowing to the females, but the Bloody Rose stayed aimed at her small body.

A/N: I am SO sorry for not updating for 5 days! I really am. Cupcakes for all those who forgive me, I was working on my rated 'M' fic, which, I might add, is complete and posted! Perverts unite! Haha. I had a lot of fun writing that one ;) A big thank you to everyone who has supported me with all of my work; it is hugely appreciated, you are the best.

I hope that the 'M' fic and this chapter makes the wait up to you?

Wow.12th chapter already.. I hope that this story isn't getting boring?

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~Disaster