Chapter 2: Just Like You.

Akane's POV

As soon as class was over, Zero dashed out of the door. I decided to follow him because I was worried.

"Hey, Zero, what's wrong?" I asked, trying to catch up to him.

He turned his head slightly, "Go away." He grunted.

I stopped and watched him as he walked further away.

"Unwanted." Said the voice in my head.

I shook my head and tried to catch up to him again. Once I finally caught up, I grabbed his arm and turned him around, "What's wrong?!"

"It's nothing." He mumbled as he hid something behind his back. It almost looked as if it were a box of blood tablets...

I sighed silently as I ran my fingers through my hair. "If it was nothing, you wouldn't be making such a big deal out of it."

He looked away nervously and remained silent.

I let out yet another sigh as grabbed his wrist. "Follow me."

"What? Why?" He asked as I dragged him to the girls' dormitory.

When we finally got to mine and Yuuki's dorm, I pulled Zero into the bathroom and made him sit down.

"Why did you bring me here?" He asked, clearly irritated.

I narrowed my eyes at him. "You have blood tablets, don't you?"

His eyes widened at what I had said. "I don't know what you're talking about! What use would I have for blood tablets!?"

"You can't hide it from me. It doesn't really bother me anyways, I just wish you would have told me." I spoke as I offered him a sad smile.

He quickly looked away, obviously ashamed.

"You're torturing yourself, you know?" I spoke quietly. I moved all of my hair to one side and sat down beside him. "Don't make this harder than it has to be."

He looked at me questioningly, too afraid to actually do anything.

"It's fine." I said with a reassuring smile.

He slowly leaned in towards me and sunk his fangs into my neck. It hurt at first, but after a while, the pain had vanished almost entirely.

He quickly pulled away once he was finished and looked in the opposite direction. "Why did you let me do that?"

I put my hand over the bite mark as I shrugged. "You needed it. Besides, I know how nasty those blood tablets are." The moment I realized what I had said, my eyes widened and I pursed my lips together.

He snapped his head towards me and gave me questioning look. "You've used a blood tablet?"

I hung my head low and stared at my legs. "Y-Yes... But only once..."

He grabbed my shoulders, forcing me to look into his piercing violet eyes. "Why didn't you tell me?! Does Yuuki know about this?!"

Tears threatened to form in my eyes as I spoke. "Because, Zero, this isn't exactly something I'm proud of! And no, Yuuki doesn't know. The only people that do know are you and the headmaster..."

He eased his grip on my shoulders as he lowered his gaze. "You're just like me..."

I furrowed my brows as I stared at him. "What do you mean?"

"A pureblood attacked your family and bit you, right? The same thing happened to me." He said.

"Zero-" I started, but was interrupted by a knock on the door.

"Akane, are you in there?" Yuuki asked from the other side of the door.

"Y-Yeah!" I shouted.

"Do you know where Zero is? I haven't seen him anywhere." She said, sounding slightly worried.

I smirked as I gazed over towards the silver-haired boy beside me. "No, I haven't seen him. Maybe he went ahead and started patrolling."

"Ok, I'll go check!" She said, her footsteps fading away.

Zero sighed, "Thanks for that."

"No problem." I muttered.

He stood up and held his hand out to me. "We really should start patrolling now though."

I chuckled and took his hand. "Yeah, I know."