A second story which I do not own. But one I updated twice in a week. Miracles do happen.
Kaien Cross observed his adoptive daughter as she poured tea for the Vampire Hunter Association President, a woman with olive green eyes, pale purple-grey hair that is partly tied up, and a light complexion and Touga Yagari, his old friend who could not look more different from his leader. He had long, wavy, jet-black hair, blue eyes, an eye patch over his right eye, a wide brimmed cowboy style hat and a cigarette hanging from his mouth.
Yuuki looked serene, nodding her head politely when Touga scoffed and said he wouldn't drink anything a vampire gave him.
"That is your choice." She dropped a blood tablet into her teacup, stirring the water until it turned blood colored.
"Why have you asked us here?" The President said from behind her fan.
Yuuki gently set her teacup down on its matching saucer, sunlight glinting off her diamond ring. "We have something we'd like to discuss with you."
"We?"
"Kaname and myself. He apologizes for being unable to attend but he is personally seeing to the execution of several Level Es." His daughter said softly. "I know that my brother has previously asked you to disband your association. . ."
Touga leapt to his feet. "And like we told him, we will do no such thing. Your brother doesn't know what he's asking. We can't trust vampires to police themselves!"
"Please calm yourself, Yagari-sensei. Kaname acted hastily but he did so in the best interests of our nations. If you will allow me to explain."
"Kaname's actions only prove how dangerous vampires can be. Vampires are violent creatures. They take pleasure in killing. How could shutting down the hunters benefit us? If we don't kill the rogue and dangerous vampires, who will?"
Kaien expected his daughter to lean forward eagerly, eyes wide and shining, as she babbled how vampires weren't evil creatures. Yuuki did none of those things.
Instead the Pureblood picked up her cup once more, draining the liquid inside. "Allow me to explain." She repeated. "As you have no doubt heard, we recently lost all of our Senate members to an attack from Rido. Without a governing body, vampires were unsure how to act. There isn't a policy to follow when all of your leaders are dead.
"Kaname has stepped up. He recognizes and acknowledges the flaws in our society. In order to fix those flaws we are reinstating the Olde Ways."
The two vampire hunters stared at her. "I see you are unfamiliar with them. Vampire society was once a monarchy, and rather like human monarchies, such a system spurned jealousy and murder as Purebloods and Aristocrats fought over the crown. Over the last month Kaname has been reestablishing the Olde Ways."
Yagari put out his first cigarette on the coffee table, Kaien nearly admonished him for it and would have if not for Yuuki's stern look, and lit a second one. "And I suppose he's the new king."
Yuuki inclined her head, long dark brown hair swishing as she did so. "The Olde laws state that only pure blood can sit upon the throne. My brother is the last male Pureblood."
"While your history is fascinating," the female head of the vampire hunters interrupted, "I want to know what this means for us."
"It means that your services are no longer needed. Your powers were bestowed upon you by a Pureblood Ancestor in the hopes that humans and vampires could coexist. But you have abused your powers. Your hunters kill vampires for sport, no longer satisfied with hunting Level Es. From now on, vampires will monitor their own."
"Kaname cannot do that alone."
"My brother is not alone."
"And how do you intend to keep a leash on the rest of your kind?" Touga growled. "There are dozens of Level Es on the streets now."
Yuuki's normally brown eyes glowed crimson. "Pureblood is not just a title. Purebloods are power. Our abilities outweigh your own. The Magick involved will tie all vampires to their Queen. Her will shall be their will."
Kaien shivered at the ice in Yuuki's voice. She had asked him to be here to act as a mediator, having once been a hunter. But his daughter didn't seem to need his help. She knew just how to handle the two hunters.
"And I follow my father's beliefs. Humans and vampires can live side by side. There will be no Level Es."
Yuuki's tone brokered no arguments. It left the two vampire hunters gaping at her like a fish out of water. Kaien beamed proudly at her, unable to believe his sweet Yuuki was the same confident vampire.
"Now that you have been informed, I will only ask you once to recall your hunters and cancel your lists. You have one month to disband your association or I will do it for you."
Promise delivered, Yuuki's personality did a complete one-eighty to the human daughter Kaien had raised, cheerfully thanking the two hunters for visiting and wishing them a safe journey.
He pounced on his daughter, tears already streaming down his face. "Most impressive my daughter. Daddy is so proud of you!" He hugged her tight to his chest and spun her around in circles. "Advocating peace between the two races just like me."
"Of course we would. I know better than most that your dream is possible." Yuuki smiled softly. "Kaname-nii-sama plans to make it mandatory for vampire children to attend Cross Academy. You might have to make the Moon Dorms larger."
The intensity of Kaien Cross's tears increased to a rushing river. He had never imagined this day would come when Kaname begged him to take Yuuki in that winter night.
He shed more tears as he left that afternoon. The brilliant mind behind the happy go lucky personality whirring, piecing together the little oddities he had noticed; the numerous blood tablets his daughter had taken, how she folded her feet underneath her on the settee, something she only did when her feet ached, and the slower movements, like she was swimming in molasses.
The over two hundred year old man skipped to his car. He was going to be a grandfather!
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Yuuki was already asleep when Kaname returned to the Kuran Manor after a day of hunting Level Es. It was unsurprising. After all, Kaien's exuberance was enough to tire out a normal vampire. It was a wonder that Yuuki had managed to live with him for ten years and not turn into a mini female version of him.
So Kaname thought nothing of his Consort's early night.
Until Aidou presented him with an empty pill container. The one Yuuki used to hold the blood tablets she wasn't supposed to be consuming.
The blonde Aristocrat could offer him no explanation seeing as he had joined Kaname on the day's hunt. Yuuki had informed him of her desire to have her adoptive father over, so he had felt it safe to bring Aidou with him.
Clearly he was going to have to keep a closer eye on his sister. Perhaps he could assign Akatsuki to always be at her side too. He could say it was to sate her blood cravings.
Blood cravings.
Kaname felt so stupid. Guilt twisted his insides. Both he and Hanabusa had left, so Yuuki had had no blood sources and was forced to resort to blood tablets.
He wanted to bang his head against the wall for all the good it would do him. How could he have been so thoughtless? How could he have forgotten that she needed fresh vampire blood every few hours? Her hunger would be tremendous when she next woke.
Kaname decided to make Akatsuki a permanent fixture in the manor. Aside from the extra protection it would offer and the second pair of eyes to look out for her, Yuuki would never find herself short on blood.
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The Pureblood was surprised to receive a message from the head of the Hunter's Association midafternoon.
Dear Kuran-san,
Please note that we have already begun to do as you asked. There will be no need for any more of our own to die.
All vampire kill lists were voided and the hunters have been ordered to turn in their weapons, which will be melted down.
The Hunter's Association had been officially disbanded.
Pass along our congratulations to Kaname for your upcoming nuptials and our thanks for handling the ex-human situation.
Tamen Sei.
So the head of the Hunter's Association had a name. Then he realized the letter was not addressed to him but to Yuuki.
When had she contacted Tamen? How did she convince the woman to do what he could not? When Kaname had demanded her hunter's disband and cease hunting his vampires, the woman had laughed mockingly behind her fan and said as long as vampires walked the earth, so, too, would hunters.
He needed answers, so he shook Yuuki awake. Brown eyes looked blearily up at him. "Kaname?"
Yuuki's eyes focused on the open letter and empty pill bottle her brother held. She quickly read the short missive as her brother frowned at her. Guilt churned in her stomach, causing her throat to tighten. She hadn't thought the Association would comply so quickly. She thought they would drag it out to the last day, taking advantage of the month in which they could still kill vampires, and either force her to kill them because they refused to disband or sink into the shadows to continue their war on vampires.
She thought she would have time to soften Kaname to the idea of her meeting with the hunters.
"Why?" It was one word but it asked many questions. Why did you not tell me? Why did you go behind my back? Why did you get involved? Why did you drink all your blood tablets? Why were you not resting? Why did you lie to me?
"We're supposed to be partners, equals. But you wouldn't let me help."
"You're pregnant. I cannot let you fight Level Es and hunters in your condition."
Yuuki sighed. "So Aidou did tell you. It doesn't mean I'm made of glass. I supposed to be your Queen. What vampire is ever going to listen to a queen that doesn't involve herself? I just wanted to prove I have what it takes."
"What it takes?" He repeated. "Love, you will be an excellent queen. You don't have to prove that to anyone, let alone me."
"But I do," insisted Yuuki. "You haven't let me help at all lately. You've been handling Sara and the hunters on your own." Unbidden tears obscured her eyes. "I thought that maybe you didn't want me anymore."
Kaname knelt beside the bed, taking left hand into his own. "You are my life, Yuuki. I don't want to see you or the children hurt."
Yuuki cursed her hormones as she started crying uncontrollably. "I can take care of myself. And I have Aidou to protect me."
"But Hanabusa wasn't there yesterday."
"It was just a meeting with the hunters." Yuuki snapped. "My father was there."
It was Kaname's turn to sigh. Yuuki was always rather stubborn, but she was even more so when she perceived she was right, or if she was trying to help someone she cared for. Pacifist at heart, she just didn't see the danger hunters posed, especially in her condition.
"Well, whatever you said to them worked. The hunters won't bother us in the future. How did you do it?"
Yuuki blinked at her brother's switch in topics. "I just told them we could police our own and that there would be no more Level Es. I think they would have listened to you the first time if you explained the ancient Magick involved."
"And the blood tablets?" His wine colored eyes narrowed as her skin took on a faintly green tint.
"I couldn't drink real blood in front of them. They would think me a hypocrite, promising the protection of humans, if I sat there sipping their blood. So I forced myself to drink the tablets."
"You foolish girl." Kaname said tenderly. "From now on I won't exclude you and you promise to drink no more blood tablets. Deal?"
"Deal."