Something Deep within

It had been a year since Yuuki Kuran was reawakened as a Pureblood Vampire and take her place with in the Vampire world. As a human she was known as Yuuki Cross; adopted by Kaien Cross the Headmaster of the elite Cross Academy. This school housed and educated both Vampires and humans, divided into the Night Class and the Day class. Yuuki had been a happy-go-lucky human girl who spent her time working as Guardian and Disciplinary Committee Member with her longest friend Zero Kiryu. Zero, as a child lost his family of Vampire Hunters to a Pure Blood Vampire; a woman known as Shizuka Hiu. Yuuki aided in Zero’s horrific recovery when he too was taken in by the Headmaster. But unlike Yuuki, Zero was never adopted by Cross because he simply would not allow it. The very reason for that decision was Yuuki alone. Zero had loved her since the day he met her. He was at constant battle with Kaname Kuran for Yuuki’s love. It was a year ago that Zero found where he stood in Yuuki’s heart. Unfortunately fate was not going to allow them to two to be together. For one was a Pureblood Vampire and the other was a Hunter of the Vampires.

Yuuki had ultimately saved Zero’s life from becoming a mindless level E Vampire. She had also continuously allowed Zero to feed off of her blood as a human; something that was considered a sin among the species. Yuuki had not to the present day known, that she saved Zero’s fate. The now Vampire of the Elite Class, could tolerate the Blood tablets that once made him soill. Zero continued his duties at Cross Academy, but he was also now a full fledged Hunter and promised Yuuki he would seek her out to end her existence. And Yuuki promised her long time friend she would continue to wait and run to give him something to live for. In the end Yuuki had choose to leave with Kaname, believing that it was the life that she had to live and the life that was fair. But as time passed Yuuki felt herself slipping into the darkness of her soul. Becoming a Vampire had seemed to make her life worse. She was imprisoned in her own room and was only allowed to go out if accompanied by Hanabusa, Akatsuki or Sieren. She was to study, tutor and continue to learn about her role as a Pureblood and her linage. Yuuki’s habitual tendency to day dream and slack off remained unchanged. Hanabusa often questioned how Zero Kiryu had any patience with the young woman. Kaname remained loyal and loving to Yuuki; but still continued to treat Yuuki as she was child. Yuuki had been treated as woman one time in her human life and that was the night that she lost her innocence completely with Zero, a night she never forgot.

Yuuki knew that Zero had to have been heart broken when she departed from Cross Academy, though he hardly showed it. She pleaded with Zero, explaining to him that it was something she had to do, that she desperately owed it to Kaname. Perhaps she did; but that didn’t mean that she was not entitled to her own happiness and choices. Unknowing to Yuuki, Kaname had plans for her; plans that all of the other Vampires (including Zero) questioned. Yuuki was a good girl and good girls obeyed…for the most part. Yuuki missed her life at the Academy with her adopted father, Kaien Cross. But most of all, she missed Zero. He had been there to catch her when she fell, guarded her when she was ill and tutored her for classes. He had loved her as a woman and gave her the last bit of his own innocence, when he had already lost so much. He had lost his family, his humanity and now it seemed, the only woman he ever loved. Maybe Yuuki was the only person on the planet that Zero loved; and perhaps maybe that was something else Zero shared with Kaname, a Vampire that only cared for her. Yuuki could not count the many letters she wrote to Zero after she left, letters that were never sent. This was to keep her protection at highest priority. In these letters, she explained to Zero how much she had missed him and how much she lusted for his blood. She also told him how much she loved him. What she failed to tell him (though he would never know) was how sick she had became over the Blood lust she felt for him, a lust felt only by lovers; Kaname’s Blood was not enough for her, not satisfying and not able to quench the unbelievable thirst she constantly felt.
A short time after she had left Cross Academy, she briefly attended a Ball and was reunited with Zero, but not on the greatest of terms. Zero was distant and even flinched when she touched him, resulting in him barking at her to not touch him. This short interaction had deeply hurt Yuuki, but she could not allow that to affect her role with Kaname. However, this only seemed to fuel the fire that burned in Yuuki’s blood. She later was rescued by Zero in a Cemetery by a devious little Vampire acting in for another Pureblood, Sara. Yuuki was grateful for the rescue, but her Blood lust for Zero almost caused her to bite the young man and she was not going to let that happen as she promised to give her blood to Kaname and be bitten by only Kaname . This was another event that made her sickness and starvation so great she had bitten herself one night in attempts to sooth the ache she felt, the unbelievable thirst that stung her throat. This resulted in Yuuki sleeping for long periods of time the following days and refusing Kaname’s blood.

Yuuki felt so ill, she never wanted to get up again. There were periods where she awoke to her throat on fire and her stomach lurching. Kaname had let her feed many times and still it never sated the blood lust she felt constantly. It never quenched the hunger for a lover's blood...

Kaname had known for a long time of the act Yuuki committed as a human, and dismissed her actions with Zero because she was a human then. He forgave and he trusted her, but he never seemed to satisfy her.
Yuuki would wake from her slumbers, breathless, sweaty and so warm. Her whole body ached for him. He would haunt her dreams with his caresses and his kisses. Yuuki remembered every single human moment of that night with Zero. From the point in which he drank from her to when he became one with her. Yuuki's fangs came forth at such thought; she would bite her lip and squeeze her legs to vanquish the heat Zero ignited every single time she slept. Yuuki’s Vampire nature was becoming difficult for her to control and it was only a matter of time until she gave up. That time was fast approaching.


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The moon was low, orange and crescent. The skies were littered with stars of all kinds and the wind was quiet. It was winter and the chill could be felt all through out the mansion. Yuuki usually, curled up and warm with-in the sheets was sprawled across her bed. In her sleep, her chest heaved and she fisted her sheets. Her skin glistened against the moon light with perspiration and her breathing was fast and shallow. Her nipples were erect beneath her pale, blue night gown and the heat between her legs was fierce. She awoke suddenly, clutching her hands around her burning throat. Her fangs ascended and Yuuki bit her lip, hard enough for blood to drip down her chin and on her chest.

“Zero…” She whispered as tears fell down her cheeks. She wrapped her arms around herself, grasping the sides of her body, as pain racked her form, from her stomach to her head. How could being a Vampire hurt this much? Now she knew, and really knew how bad Zero had suffered. Yet, she hadn’t spent half the time suffering as he did and here, she could not even stand to tolerate even a year. Zero was so much stronger then her. This thought only made Yuuki cry harder. She rocked back and forth, holding her knees as her mind went to and fro. The ache intensified and Yuuki finally cried out.

“ZERO!” She bellowed into the darkness of her room. Her hands shakily moved to her face as her eyes gave way to endless sobs.

Her door abruptly opened to reveal a tousled looking Hanabusa. “Yuuki?” He questioned, annoyed. His narrowed eyes caught her form and his nose caught the scent of her blood. He flicked the switch of the light and made his way to her bed. “You went and bit yourself again. I told you not to do that…” He replied sarcastically, not earning a reply from the young woman.

Hanabusa looked again at the crumpled Vampire princess. Her wonderful, chestnut tresses were in tangles around her sweaty face. He saw the dried blood on the bust of her night gown and frowned. Hanabusa pulled a pack of Blood tablets from his shirt pocket. “Yuuki…take a few, they help. I don’t know how long Lord Kaname insists on letting you suffer like this while he’s away. It’s only getting worse. I fear that you might well, you eating start…eating the rest of us.” Hanabusa stated offering a small smile. Again he received no response from Yuuki, who looked away. Usually, when he attempted to make a joke, Yuuki would be distracted long enough for him to give her a few tablets. He moved, to hand the Blood tablets to her, but her hand suddenly shot up and smacked the package from his out stretched hand.

“THEY DON’T WORK, AIDOU!” She screamed, as her tears resurfacing. “Nothing works…” She sobbed, grabbing and clawing at her throat. “It hurts…so bad…I drink Kaname’s blood when he was here…and it doesn’t work…it hurts…it burns and it won’t…go away…”

Hanabusa wasn’t shocked to hear the news. He too, knew what Yuuki did before she was re-awakened; and he understood why she was so ill. It just seemed that Kaname didn’t understand-or perhaps choose not to understand.
“Kiryu really branded you…didn’t he? That’s why you suffer Yuuki, you know that. You two share a bond much more significant than just a blood bond. But all you can do is take the tablets. If not for me, than take them for Kiryu, didn’t you make a promise to him or something?” Hanabusa asked stuffing the blood tablets back into the pocket of his pajama top and rumpling a hand through his messy, blonde hair.

Yuuki didn’t reply, she simply sniffed and wiped her nose on the back of her sleeve. She got up from the bed and went to her dresser. Ripping the drawers open, she pulled out a black sweater, a green skirt and a pair of leggings. She ignored Hanabusa’s presence and quickly stripped of her night clothes, putting the other clothes on record fast. Now Hanabusa was alarmed.

“Yuuki, what are you doing? Where are you going?!” He asked, ignoring the blush on his cheeks. Yuuki didn’t answer as she bent over, retrieving her brown boats and putting them on.

“Yuuki, don’t be rash now…you can’t leave! Lord Kaname will kill me if something were to happen to you! You can’t leave!” Hanabusa panicked, taking a step to stop Yuuki. She turned suddenly, flashing red eyes and pointing an accusing finger at him.

“I don’t care.” She warned. “I have to go see him…or I might do something terrible…to myself…or someone else…I need the Beast tamed with in me…I think…that only Zero will be able to quench this thirst I feel…even if it is against Kaname. Go and get my coat for me, Hanabusa! And you are not to tell Kaname! I will tell him…you have no need to be afraid, if I tell him not to hurt you he won’t. I will not get hurt either, because in a sense Zero is my protector…and besides Kaname isn’t returning for another few days.”

Hanabusa back peddled. “Well, then let me accompany you, Yuu-“

“No! No, you are not coming with me! I have to go alone. I…just have to…” She quieted, taking a seat on her bed.

“But what if Kiryu shoots you? That’s what he has planned…I don’t trust him, Yuuki, he tried to shoot me! An’ stabbed that damn gun of his into my kidneys!” Hanabusa argued, earning a dirty look from Yuuki.

She narrowed her eyes and crossed her hands across her chest. “But he didn’t shoot you, Aidou. I have known him long enough, to know that if were going to shoot you he would have. He’s not going hurt me…I know it…he can’t because the promise that was made involved him finding me. Now, please Aidou, I am begging you…go get my coat.” Yuuki again wiped the tears that seemed to never stop falling. Hanabusa complied reluctantly and brought Yuuki her coat. She donned it and left the room with out another word. Hanabusa knew deep down Yuuki had to see Zero Kiryu and he wasn’t going to even attempt to try to stop her. For one thing, she was a Pureblood and he was of lower rank than her. And second, he was curious to find out the events that were going to occur. He simply switched the light off and returned to his room across the hall with out another thought, in hopes of finding his cousin, Akatsuki.

It wasn’t long before Yuuki reached Cross Academy grounds. She ordered a driver from the castle to take her; by awaking one who ranked much lower of the Vampire Class. She knew enough to know that a lower Vampire would not refuse a direct order from her, a Pureblood. She checked Zero’s old dorm to find it empty; as well as the stables he so frequently napped in. When she didn’t find him she went to the Headmasters office. Astonishingly the jubilant man was awake. His hazel eyes bulged when they found her standing in the doorway.

“YUUKI!” He screeched as he jumped up from his desk. “MY DEAR SWEET DAUGHTER HAS RETURNED!” He added, wrapping his arms around her and crushing her to him. Yuuki felt his tears drip into the collar of her coat and lightly hugged the man back.

“It’s good to see you…father.” She offered lightly into his chest, making him weep like a school girl. He backed away slightly and offered her a sad smile.

“I know you are here for Zero. I also know that you snuck away from the Castle, you naughty girl, you! I don’t know what happened all that time ago but it know it has effected you, Kaname and Zero. Well…mostly Zero. He grieved after you left over the death of his brother and…the death of you, as a human.” The Headmaster adjusted his glasses. “You will find him in the Moon Dorms now… no, don’t give me that look. He’s still a Guardian for the Day Class and he’s not part of the Night class; that would not smooth over well with him, you know how he is. He’s there to keep the peace, now that Kaname is no longer there as President. We had to go and bend the rules a little, after all Zero is a Vampire…whether he likes it or not. ” The headmaster offered as Yuuki was quick to get back to the door.

“Yuuki…” He offered as she turned back to look at the older blond man, donning tears in his yellow eyes.

“Be cautious around Zero…though he is much better towards Vampires and keeping the peace; I still fear his intentions towards you…you hurt him a great deal, and as you know he still has issues with the Purebloods…and probably a grudge against you. If I were to guess, Zero feels betrayed by you. I often think that he feels the same for me, because I support Kaname and his plans. However, deep down I think that Zero will be happy to see you, even if he glares at you.”

Yuuki smiled lightly. “Thank you, Headmaster.” She used his old title. “But I am still me! I can handle Zero…I did for four years.” Her smile broadened as she pointed to her self. A moment later she was gone.

“I still don’t know what I am going to do about those two.” Kaien Cross told no one in particular, and took a seat at his still cracked desk.

It took no time before Yuuki smelled Zero’s nostalgic scent. His dorm was found at the upper most level of the Moon Dorms and by far the largest of the Dorms. She stood outside his door trying to slow her fast beating heart and retain her unhealthy Blood lust. The door was unlocked (not surprising) and soon she found herself watching him from the side of his bed. He looked as he always did when he slept. His light brows were knitted as if he was caught with in the grips of a nightmare and a frown was set on his thin lips. Yuuki watched a moment more to look in his form. Not much had changed with the tall young man. His still slept flat on his back, with no blanket and still wore socks to bed. She had to smile at that, Zero always wore socks, even in the dead of summer. His silver hair appeared the same in length and Yuuki wondered if it was as soft as she remembered it. Impulsively she went to reach out to touch the silky strands and was met by the barrel of the Bloody Rose her forehead. He cocked the gun with his free hand. She watched as Zero’s narrowed lavender eyes widened.

“Yuu…ki…” He whispered, pronouncing both syllables of her name. He blinked a few times, but did not lower the weapon. “Why are you here?” He demanded moving to sit up. Yuuki did not move and took a breath in.

“I needed to see you…Zero.” She exhaled in one sentence, trying her best not to cry.

“For what reason? For Kaname? What do you want?!” He snapped.
Yuuki trembled, willing herself to be brave. But the tears came instead. “I came to see you Zero…on my…own, I had to see you!” She cried. Zero sighed, removing the gun from her head and tossing it on the bed. He moved away from Yuuki quickly and sat at the edge of the bed, putting a slender hand through his hair.

“I…had to come…Zero…I am…sick an-“ Zero interrupted her.

“I really don’t want to hear it Yuuki…you came to toy with me some more. After all you are a Vampire…a vile Pureblood at that. Now get out and leave me alone.” He spat causing Yuuki to flinch. Zero avoided her wet face and grabbed the pack of Blood tablets on his night table. He could already feel the lust stir with in his own blood. She had always had that effect on him, even now as he was an Elite Vampire. He still had a taste for her blood, amongst other things.

“No, Zero…you’re wrong…I mean, I am that…but it’s still me, it’s still me in here…” She sniffled, wiping her nose with her sleeve. “I know I told you that the Yuuki you knew was gone when I was turned…but I was wrong, Zero. My mind was not clear then. I still have my human memories the did not dissolve…I still remember our childhood…what we did together…that night…one of my last night’s as a human…” Yuuki offered moving to stand near the window. She watched out of the corner of her eye as Zero downed about twenty Blood tablets as if they were candy. She heard his teeth crunch the pills, but as usual he offered no comment. Zero looked away, clenching his fists on his thighs.

“You can take them now?” She asked; amazed at the amount he took. She didn’t expect him to answer, but he offered a snippish reply. “Yeah…I can, they are the only thing that keeps the animal in me tamed.”
Yuuki watched the trees sway outside of the window. The campus seemed the same, quiet, real and warm. “I do have rules to follow with the Hunters Association, you know…that’s the only reason I didn’t shoot you. Otherwise-” Zero spoke up, his voice stiff and cold.

Yuuki turned; her eyes did not find his, for they were cast down at the floorboards. “I don’t believe you, Zero….I know that somewhere in you’re heart you know it’s me here.”

Zero snapped his head up towards her, bearing his teeth at her, his fangs present. “You don’t know anything anymore, Yuuki.” He barked, causing Yuuki to flinch once. Yuuki clenched her fists, allowing her anger to flare.

“I do know things, Zero! Do you know how hard it is for me! I do nothing, everyday! I am not allowed to go out in the sun or for a ride! I have to sit for hours all day and I have to study Math and History, my two worst subjects in the world! I can’t write letters or make calls! I am a prisoner now! And I of all people know what you went through, I was there!” She bellowed, dropping to the floor in front of Zero’s legs. Her face was so pale. It became blotchy and tear ridden.

“I would do anything to have my life back here at the Academy and as a human! Like my mother wanted! I would do anything Zero! But now…now…” She was sobbing, her hands, covering her reddened face.

“Now…I am to spend forever….like this…a Beast in human form! I ache all the time….I am sick….I can’t feed Zero…and it hurts so bad…I understand now! I understand what happened to you! And I hate it! I HATE IT!!” Yuuki rose quickly, grabbing the Bloody Rose and shoving it into Zero’s hands. His pupils dilated as she curled his fingers around the trigger and pushed the gun against her forehead. He was surprised at her strength.

“Do it…Zero…pull the trigger as you promised…end it for me, You’re a Vampire Hunter, do your job…and end my misery…” She pleaded.

Zero trembled as he yanked his hands from under Yuuki’s small ones. He ripped the gun from her hands set it behind him. A moment later Yuuki was shocked to find the position she was in. She was between his thighs and held tightly against his chest. She could hear his heart beating wildly beneath his ribs.

“You stupid girl…” Zero replied at almost a whisper. “That’s not part of the deal…I have to find you…because you have to keep running... not the opposite. I told you before; don’t beat me at my own game. As of right now I have no true reason to kill you… Yuuki.” A moment of silence past and Yuuki could yet again, not help the tears that graced her eyes. She wasn’t expecting to meet Zero under such terms. She didn’t want him to be hostile towards her; though he was currently not, she still felt there was a notion of awkwardness between her and Zero and there was no doubt he was hurting as well. Suddenly the heat in her throat that nearly took her soul earlier returned with a force, that caused Yuuki to cringe and yank herself from Zero’s arms. She reeled back, nearly tripping over her own feet.

“Yuuki…” Zero offered his hand. Yuuki squeezed her eyes shut and blocked his hand with her own.

“No! Stay back!” She shrieked in between her panting breaths. Zero recognized her very position that brought back the memory of when he first bit her. He remembered how difficult it was to fight the nature o9f being a Vampire and wanting blood so badly, the human mind is eaten away.

He sighed, leaning his head into a hand on his knee. “Damn it all… Why would he choose such a fate for you? Your own mother didn’t want this…and now look at you, crouched over biting your own lip to attempt to stop the hunger that never ends…until you devour someone else’s blood. Kaname has damned you, Yuuki.” Zero snapped, but it was not directed at her personally. He stood and approached Yuuki with out any caution. Zero never had any respect for Vampire’s in general, surely his was not going to treat Yuuki, a girl who constantly and continued to fail Math class any different, just because she was a Pureblood.

He looked down at the petite girl. She clutched the front of her face obscuring her eyes. “Yuuki, do you remember what you told me all that time ago? Pretty much every damn day too…” He asked as gently as he could. Yuuki hadn’t moved. But Zero continued anyway. He placed a hand on her left shoulder and leaned down, putting his chin on the other.

“I believe you told me, do what you have to do.” He finished. He heard her gasp and felt her small body flinch. “I saw Hanabusa not so long ago when the Association captured him. For someone who is Kaname’s right hand man, he sure does not know when to shut up. I told me about you…after he saw that I was able to take the Blood tablets…He also told me that, that Bastard Kaname would not allow you to have Blood tablets! So you would be ravished and starving for his blood and only his blood! I was surprised to find out that Hanabusa had to the decency to give you them…especially considering that is disobeying Kaname’s direct order…”

Zero tilted his head so his breath was intentionally hitting Yuuki’s neck. “You know what I think…I think he’s punishing you because you crave someone else’s blood…” Zero’s eye’s flashed crimson as the true nature of his very being smelled Yuuki’s wonderful scent. Zero turned his head away giving Yuuki an open invitation to the portion of his neck not covered by his tattoo. Yuuki failed to retain herself from inhaling his scent and cringed as her control teetered on chaos. Her heart picked up pace once again and she felt dizzy with Blood lust. Her eyes, once brown like a doe’s, glowed the same shade as Zero’s and she turned quickly into the portion of his neck offered.

She inhaled him deeply, recalling that he still smelled of the same soap he had always used. But he also smelled of gun residue and trees. Yuuki exhaled as her tongue slipped from between her teeth to taste his skin. Her body quaked and she felt Zero’s hands lightly wind themselves around her thin back. Her fangs extended and her control was lost; she bit into him hard and deeply. Her eyes clouded as she began to drink- almost as if she was high off of the greatest drug. She moaned unexpectedly feeding the ache that she felt so often, diminish slowly. She clutched Zero’s white tee-shirt, pushing him back against the wall near the window. His back hit it with a soft thud. Zero began to feel light headed, his eyes slid shut and his strength weakened. He could have cared less if he died this way and by her, alone. Yuuki tasted that emotion within his blood; her eyes widened and returned to their original color. She licked the last of his blood and pulled away. Even in the light Zero’s skin was white as his sheets. She had hoped that she did not over do it; it had been so long and so needed! She felt so much better, the lust was still a little evident, but the pain and sheer need for his taste was gone.

“Zero…did I…” She questioned her voice unsteady. She was unsure of her actions, for she was not the greatest in using her fangs, nor controlling the Pureblood Vampire with in her.

Zero offered what he considered a smile; a simple curve of his lips. “I am fine, Yuuki…I am stronger now…I can handle it.” Yuuki did not think he was a convincing as he thought he was. He used the wall for support briefly before he moved back to the edge of his bed, where he sat back down and reached for the box of Blood tablets. He hadn’t noticed that Yuuki removed her coat and now stood near him. Her hand smacked his away from the black box. Zero shot her an annoyed look.

“No, Zero…” She told him softly. He saw that her eyes were again crimson and wondered how in control Yuuki really was in of herself.

Zero suddenly felt the warmth of her legs, encasing his lap and waist. Her knees pillowed the sides of his hips and he could feel her chest on his. “Yuuki?” He questioned, giving her a confused look- a look that asked her if she was herself or the Beast with in. Yuuki understood Zero more than anyone else. She huffed, then offered him an irritated look and smacked the side of his head.

“It’s me, stupid!” She barked as his head bobbed to the side from her hit. “I am trying to tell you that…I know I am a Vampire…but it’s still me under all of this! Now stop looking at me with those worried eyes and take a bite!” Zero felt as if it were de Ja vous, back during the times when Yuuki asked him to do that almost every second of day. “If I needed a bite like I did, then I know you do!” She all but ranted. “Well? Zero?!” Yuuki pulled her hair to the side and offered her neck, as she did so long ago when Zero was suffering. He stared for a moment, before his eyes flashed. He leaned in, crushing her body to his, marveling her scent, her warmth and form. Eagerly, he licked the side of her neck before he hastily bit into her skin. Yuuki no longer felt the sting of his bite as she did as a human; instead his bite was hot like liquid heat. To her, he didn’t feel as savage as he did when he was reaching level E. He was quick, but somehow smooth. This time Yuuki would make an attempt to tell him through her feelings, that flowed within her blood, how she felt about him. Because she was never really good at telling Zero anything because he is and was after all the hardest person to speak with. She relaxed, listening to him drink and sank into his lean body. She wrapped her hands around his neck, finally feeling the silky strands she so desired and let go of herself, completely.

For the longest time Zero had always remembered Yuuki being the warmest person he knew after his mother and father’s death. She was like a fire that never stopped burning to warm his heart. She was always there for him when he needed her; even if he refused her, she was still there. Zero had thought that the last night he was with her as a human was done solely on the act of intense hormones and Blood lust. But at the current moment he learned that was not the reason Yuuki gave herself to him. She gave herself to him because he filled her tiny heart to the brim. He could feel that as he drank her sweet blood. He could also feel the remorse she felt, along with the guilt because of her departure with Kaname. She loved him as well…but that of a sibling would. She felt indebted to Kaname for saving her life; but she also felt indebted to Zero for always being there for her and always remaining her friend. Zero felt for the first time Yuuki’s clear view of her feelings. He saw her memories flash before him, the times they fought, the times she was bitten by him, the times he nearly kissed her- and the memory that made him drink heavily was the one that he had became one with her. Yuuki, for the past year or so struggled with her solitude and her lingering thoughts that she, the Queen of the Purebloods was in love with the strongest Hunter alive. That seemed to be one of great dilemmas. Yuuki moaned again as Zero slowed up and cleaned her wound. She felt his hands squeezing the back of her shirt and his hips arch into her unexpectedly. This move ignited a heat in Yuuki.

“Yuuki…” Zero whispered out of breath. Yuuki opened her eyes when she felt his cool fingers caress her cheeks and jaw.

“You always do this to me…you make me weak. And I see now how you truly feel…but why the guilt, Yuuki? If anyone should be guilty, it should be me. I allowed this to happen to you…and still I commit one of the greatest taboos.”

Yuuki did not want to reply, at least not yet. Her attention focused on the pads of his fingers resting on her cheeks. She looked up to see that his lavender eyes were once again worried. Yuuki wanted desperately to wipe that familiar sad expression off of his face, and wrap him up into her warmth. Maybe it was the Vampire inside of her that made her so brave- for the only thing she could think to do was kiss him. Yuuki leaned in; she returned the favor of touching his cheeks. She ran her thumbs across his cheek bones and down his slender neck.

She closed the distance and kissed him tenderly. She wanted him to save her…from herself. She not only wanted his blood (still even after biting him) but she wanted him once again…not as a human, but as a being of the night, a Vampire. They were the same now and they were equal, there would be no excuse from Zero now, for Yuuki was not going to allow it. She wanted to prove to him that she loved him and that it was really and truly her as she had always been with him. Zero seemed resistant as she pressed, pushing her hands on the front of his chest lightly. She slipped her tongue out between her lips and traced his bottom.

“Stop resisting…” She sighed into lips, a statement that seemed way to familiars. Zero was always timid to take it a step further because of one person; Kaname, and the power and manipulation he held over Yuuki. It seemed like Zero could never get close enough to Yuuki and he could not just suddenly go against thought process now. Yuuki sensed this and spoke once again. “Zero…I will feel guilty, but…I need you to save me…as you always did … to stop this horrible pain I feel…please…”

Zero sighed, his hands slipped to her shoulders and he rested his forehead on top of Yuuki’s right shoulder. “And then what?” He asked his voice low and soft. “Then what will you do, Yuuki? You will have to go back…to Kaname.”

Yuuki leaned her head into Zero’s, wrapping her arms around his head, cradling him to her bosom. “Yes…I will. But I will cross that bridge when it’s in front of me. I feel better already and I have waited …until I could no longer wait…I dream about you when I sleep…and…it’s your name that is on my lips, the first breath I take when I wake…and because of the things that have happened over the course of time that I have been awakened…I sometimes wish it was you that did take my life…I would owe that to you…”

Zero’s head rose, his eyes narrowed and were full of hurt. “Don’t you dare talk like that. You choose to leave…but you are not going to sit here and tell me that you wished I ended your life, even if I am supposed to…I can’t do that, Yuuki. I can’t pull the trigger because I am not ready to let you go. I thought I was ready because of the hatred I felt for Vampires and how Kaname has pulled the strings for so long. And even now, my choice is not for him, it was never was. But even still I can’t take something away from you…I guess I still need you, whether you are here with me or not. After all I too, am a Vampire- a Beast, so it would be hypocritical for me to kill you because of that alone. At least I know you are alive…” He kissed her sweetly, savoring the taste of her lips.

Yuuki’s eyes watered and her body quaked. But she returned the kiss nonetheless. “You had sinned for my sake…so I am going to sin for yours…” He added opening his mouth to hers. She slipped her tongue back into the recesses of his mouth, tasting her blood on his lips. He leaned into her, causing her to arch her back and tilt her head back giving him access to her creamy neck. He did not bite her as she thought; instead he let his lips feather kisses down the column of her neck to the collar of her shirt. His hand slid from her shoulder to rest on top of one of her breasts. Yuuki encouraged his assault by moving her hips slightly. She whimpered when she felt his hand cup her aching mound, marveling how good it felt to have his slender thumbs brush across her nipple. Yuuki wanted more suddenly. She moved off of him, as she sat back on her knees and removed her shirt. Not but a fleeting moment later, Zero’s mouth moved against the quivering skin on the tops her breasts. She could have laughed out loud, thinking how ironic it was that she didn’t where a brassier. But Zero didn’t seem to care. He rolled his tongue down in between them, licking off the underside of her left breast, coming up to flick his tongue across her rosy, peaked nipple. Yuuki moaned as she felt his lips suckle around her areola and finally her nipple. His fangs could be felt by the gentlest of touches. Yuuki’s blood boiled as the heat she felt so often in her dreams ignited between her legs. He moved to the right breast, adding his hand back to the other and some how managed to ease Yuuki down on the mattress.

He was off to the side of her body, giving Yuuki a clear view of just how tall he really was compared to her. He towered over her form; letting his mouth move back to hers, while his hands were currently on the move down below he naval Yuuki briefly saw the color of his eyes, shocked to find they were normal color; making her wonder if her own eyes were normal. Unfortunately, she didn’t get to ask at the moment, because her tongue was currently battling his and she felt his hand rub against her folds through her leggings. Yuuki’s hips bucked immediately and she sucked in a breath, holding it when his hand repeated the motion once more. Zero seemed to sense Yuuki’s incredible need and moved his hand down her thigh, to her knee and then her ankle and back up to the waist band of her skirt. He pulled the items down, leaving her only in her white lacy panties. Yuuki shook from head to toe with want and desire. Zero was quiet while he worked but made a point to show her where his attentions were. He stripped from his own shirt now, resting back beside her and stifled a moan with his mouth as his fingers slipped inside her panties to the warm, slick depths of her womanhood.

Yuuki marveled Zero’s uncanny gentle nature and how good he was currently making her feel. She lifted her head to kiss his neck, avoiding any puncture at the moment. Though her fangs were quite evident; she refused to bite again, just yet. Yuuki hummed his name as she felt his fingers move against the bud of nerves that sent shivers down her spine. She felt the need to reciprocate and reached to run her hands down his chest, lean torso and to his hips. She could visually see his excitement, but she was in a strange position that did not allow her access to caress it, she would have to do that later. Yuuki flopped her head back against the mattress, squinting her eyes shut as she felt another ripple of pleasure coarse through her veins. She flung her arms back too, accidentally pushing the Bloody Rose off the bed, the two had long forgotten about. As the gun clunked against the floor, a shot rung out through the room, causing Yuuki and Zero to stop their actions.

“Damn…any moment some fool is going to be knocking on my door.” Zero sighed, slightly amused. Yuuki was still clutz. Not but a few moments later a knock sounded hard against Zero’s door.

“Dorm President, Kiryu, is everything alright?” A male voice called through the door.

“Yes, go back to your dorm.” Zero answered shortly. Yet the knocking continued, which forced a very reluctant Zero to get up from his position (on top of Yuuki). He yanked the door a quarter of the way open to reveal the Vice President of the Night class, a shorter version of Akatsuki, and much less beautiful.

“Didn’t I tell you to return to your dorm?” Zero glared. “I dropped my gun, a complete accident. Now leave before I report you to the Headmaster for disturbing the Disciplinary Committee.” The student stuttered an apology and hastily left. Zero shut the door, locking it securely.

He found Yuuki in his bed, under the sheets giggling like she did in the good old days, when she watched comedies on the television. “What’s so funny?” He then pointed his glare at her. This made Yuuki laugh even more.

Her petite face was red with mirth. “It’s just you are still so mean to everyone at the academy! I bet they miss me just on the basis I wasn’t so cruel…or scary! Geeze, Zero!” Yuuki stifled her chuckling as Zero neared the bed.

“Your scarier now…than me.” He muttered under his breath.

Yuuki scowled at the comment as she watched Zero sit on the edge of the bed. His bare back was facing her. She ignored Zero’s reference, easing herself from the warm sheets and pressing her completely nude form against his back. She wrapped her arms around his neck and nuzzled her nose into his hair at the left side of his neck.

“I might be…if you let me…” She purred into his ear, wondering where on Earth she had the will to say such a thing. Aidou flashed into her mind, but she shook the thought off quickly. She had then just realized that Zero had picked up the Bloody Rose and set it back onto his night table. He noticed not only, that she was completely naked, but her white lace panties where tossed on the floor with the rest of her clothes.

Zero turned his head into her warmth. “Really…” He asked tonelessly, though he could not help the smirk that graced his lips. Momentarily the passion in him returned and his kissed her. Yuuki slithered around the front of him and onto the floor between his knees. Her little fingers moved up his thighs to grab at the waist-line of pants. Zero’s minds eye easily said the words “screw it” and he raised his hips slightly to allow Yuuki to pull the rest of his clothes off. Once her task was completed she moved back up into his lap; but Zero moved to kiss her before she was able. She sighed into his mouth, as his velvety tongue slipped in between her lips. Yuuki moved along with him; but then angled her head so that he could kiss the side of her neck. She allowed him, but then made her move to kiss the side of his neck that barred the Hunters Crest with a gentle caress. Zero trembled slightly, probably thinking that Yuuki was going to bite him there; but Yuuki knew the story behind that mark, so that didn’t even cross her mind. She may have been a Vampire, but Yuuki was desperate to let Zero know that she was still there. However, the Blood lust was strong for her indeed, one more bite and taste of his Blood would surely do the trick. She recalled a time when Aidou made her blush terribly when he whispered perverted things in her ear about how Vampires are in “ecstasy” when being bitten by another Vampire. Yuuki had secretly hoped that when she bit Zero, maybe it would feel as good as it was described.

Yuuki moved down to Zero’s collar bone and then his lean chest. Her body slid back down his, her knees hit the floor with a soft slap. Her mouth followed her body. She kissed the top of Zero’s thigh, again making him tremble. For a moment she thought she saw the red luster hit his eyes, which in some way fueled the fire with in her more. Her eyes changed as she eyed up the blood pumping through Zero’s thighs- then her eyes drifted to a part, she didn’t recall spending too much attention on, looking at. Zero didn’t appear to, as far as appearance goes to be endowed well; because he was so tall and lanky. But looking at that piece of anatomy now, throbbing and coursing blood so amazingly, she recapped that he was indeed pretty well endowed and she dared him to comment on her tiny stature, not being able to be a real women; because as far as she was concerned, if she took all of that as a human, she was a real woman, darn it!

Yuuki caught herself before Zero could ask, and kissed his knee this time, dragging her lips back up his thigh. She felt her fangs ascend once again and shuttered as she felt the warmth in her throat return. She really hated the Pureblood part of her that secretly wanted to devour everything. A moment later Yuuki almost lost herself in ecstasy as she bit into his flesh, the portion of his leg that the femoral artery supplied. She felt him cringe, but not a second later, she thought she heard moan…audibly moan; something she thought she would never hear. She felt his hands suddenly in her hair.

“Yuuki…” He gasped. Yuuki stopped her assault and looked up the see the red in his eyes fade. But his fangs were still visible as any true Vampire. Suddenly he snapped up, pulled her by wrists and slammed her back on the mattress. His panting breath hit her lips with a force. He watched her face, her eyes return to the color that she was born with. He turned his head and nuzzled her neck.

“That’s my Yuuki…now…” He whispered, clutching her fingers to his, as if she would disappear. In one swift, yet somehow gentle moment he was inside of her. And he took great satisfaction when her eyes rolled in the back of her head along with his name on her tongue. Yuuki didn’t expect Zero to hold back this time. He was rough with her for the most part, and in the past, but somehow he was also gentle and never truly hurt her. As she felt the quick thrusting of his hips, as they effectively banged into hers, it still seemed that he was able to be so smooth it was impossible to hurt. Yuuki wanted to feel more of him, she wanted him to seep his very being into her soul. Her body trembled fiercely but she could not deny how wonderful it felt to make love to him. Zero raised to probably ask her of he was hurting her, but Yuuki answered before he could question.

“I am… fine, Zero…I am not a human…” She panted, leaning up to kiss him deeply and wrap her creamy thighs around his waist. This made him quicken his pace, adding more power which made the headboard of his bed bang against the wall. Yuuki felt the heat, but not in her throat as it had been, but now in her belly, slowly coiling to where there bodies where joined. She writhed and whimpered into his mouth as she felt the waves of an upcoming orgasm approach her. Zero could sense her raising arousal and took it a step further, slipping his arms between his hips and at back of her knees. He let the bends of his elbows encase the backs of her knees, opening her up further as he also leaned back against his own knees. His eyes never left hers, whether hers where open or not. Yuuki moaned again as her back arched off the mattress. He wondered how she became so tainted, so unlike her once pure self? In the back of his mind he felt that in some ways he was the cause of her lack of innocence, from a long time ago when he entered the Cross household. Maybe that was why his was now (and always) so chained to the young woman. He slowed his pace slightly and watched as her breasts bounced along with their movements and longed to touch the firm half globes. He had teased her so much in the past about them being small-and yes they still were, but he didn’t care anymore more. They were as beautiful as she. And he would not want her to change that for anyone, not even herself. Her big-wide eyes were tightly closed and her mouth was partially opened, at that point Zero wanted nothing more than to thrust her into the mattress. Maybe this was the Beast within him’s point of view- or maybe it was all the pent up passion he felt so dearly for her over the years that he never had the chance to express. And maybe this was the one time he was going to get to express how much he often wanted her, needed her and loved her.

“Zero…” Yuuki suddenly whimpered. His eyes once again found her lovely brown ones. He watched as her cheeks flushed all the way down to her breasts as she came. He felt the absolute need to kiss her again and feel all of her body against his as she clamped down on his cock as she came elegantly. She wasn’t loud to say the least; but he still stifled his name as she quaked with a mind blowing orgasm. She wasn’t going to come just once, oh no, she was going to get what she so undeniably begged for. Zero kissed her once more, lightly as she finished out the waves of her orgasm. He pulled out slowly and sat back on his knees. Yuuki give him a confused look.

“Get on you knees…Yuuki” He instructed softly. Her face questioned his command, causing him to smile. “Trust me…I think you might like…it.” He added, watching her eyes widen.

“What?” He then questioned dumbly. Yuuki’s eyes watered and a moment later she hugged him fiercely.

“It’s…just… I….I have never seen you smile…Zero…I mean a real smile…I make you smile?” She sobbed gently. Zero shook his head lightly, pushing back to look at her wet face. He smacked her cheek lightly with the back of his fingers and petted her pretty head.

“You always made me happy, Yuuki. Don’t be ridiculous.” He told her with a hint of his usual brashness. Yuuki chuckled before she kissed him sweetly on the lips and turned to position herself on her knees as he instructed.

“Move up near the pillows more…” Yuuki glared briefly before following in suit and got on her hands and knees facing the head board. “I am trusting you, Zero…” She added, sticking her tongue out at him.
She jumped when she felt his lips at her lower back and then on the round curve of her ass. “I want to taste you first…Yuuki…” Zero huskily replied. “I want to know if any other man has tasted you…” He added knowing well aware that Yuuki was on the same page, as to referring to Kaname Kuran.

Yuuki’s answer was cut to a stop when she felt his lips inside of her thigh. She looked down and between her legs to see Zero stretched along the bed, face up and his head between her open thighs. She felt the slight touch of his fangs briefly as he kissed his way to her folds. She felt his slim fingers part her gently and a moment later, the flick of his tongue on her clit. Her body arched when the electric heat hit her again. Zero’s licks where light and feathery, but still very much felt. He slid his tongue down her folds and lapped at her opening. Yuuki bit her own hand to stop herself from screaming. It was too good to be true- she was going to die right there and go to heaven at what his mouth was doing. He moved back to her clit and added a finger into the mix. Yuuki felt the muscles of her stomach pull and her petals swell. He then added a second finger and began another pursuit into shattering her soul. Yuuki could not stop the natural movement of her hips move against his jaw as he licked and fingered her. He fingers were not as rough as his cock once was, but on the same rhythm as his wonderful tongue. Her walls began to spasm once again as she came again, feeding Zero her deliciously sweet fluids. She wasn’t even done riding her orgasm when his cock was now positioned and slowly pushed into her opening once more. She was so unbelievably wet and so damn tight. Zero racked himself against the curve of her ass, folding his much longer body along hers as he eager fingers found her pert breasts.

“Zero!” Yuuki yelled as he rubbed his fingers over her breasts, squeezing them gently and bubbling another orgasm from the woman. Somehow his right hand snuck in between her thighs and circled her swollen bud. Yuuki arched again causing him to move faster as his need for a release was near. Zero pounded into her passionately as she whimpered his name along with audible moans. He kept his pace up and continued to rub at her clit in a pace much different then his thrusts. Yuuki’s body writhed as he pumped.

Yuuki panted another moan again as she felt another orgasm find her. Her walls this time clutched his member and this time Zero came too, folding into her and pressing his hips tightly and pushing himself as far as he could go. “Yuuki…” He muttered into her shoulder, letting his hips slow, as he needed to milk every last drop into her womb. His and her bodies heaved as they caught their breaths. Zero pulled out of her gently and flopped on the mattress next to Yuuki. He wasted no time and grabbing her still heaving form next to his and wrapping both arms around her tightly.

“Yuuki…I never want you to leave…but I know you have to…just stay like this with me for a little while. It’s a few hours before dawn…” Yuuki turned to face him quickly. She ran her hand through his damp hair and down his cheek.

“I am not going…just yet, I am going to be by your side, Zero.” She told him seriously. Zero closed his eyes and leaned into her gentle hands.

“It’s still you in there…I still hate what you have become…just as myself. But it is you. You don’t have to worry anymore Yuuki.” Zero told her sincerely. Her brows knitted in confusion at his incomplete statement.

“What do you mean?” She asked, resting her head down against to pillows, still facing her long time friend.

Zero sighed, comfortably. “I will never hurt you…I will never shoot you as I promised. I am breaking that promise now. I told you I could never hate you…even as a Vampire, I can’t. I don’t care if the Hunters Association gives you to me on a list. I can’t do it. I love you enough to accept your Fate, even if it is damned…But Kaname Kuran is not going to hurt you…I kill him with out a second thought. I can deal with him having you…because I love you that much, Yuuki.”

Yuuki couldn’t stop the tears, even if she wanted. “But…, you have loved me my whole life knowing you. I never realized it until I was gone…but still you love me and… suffer for me…you-you don’t need to suffer like that. I tamed you…just as you tamed me. Kaname has never been able to do that…never.” She wiped her tears, watching his beautiful eyes study her.

“Besides…I was on to you, mister! When…you said you wanted to t-taste me. I have never offered myself to Kaname! I hate it when you test me like that…” She raised her voice slightly. “Yet…yet…I didn’t stop you either. Maybe because I know you would have tasted it in my blood…so what did you taste, Zero…” Yuuki questioned, feeling her heart flutter with in her chest.

Zero pulled his hand over to run his fingers through her soft hair. “I tasted me…and only me…” He offered, leaving the sentence hang. He caressed her cheek gently with the backs if his cool fingers. “But I also tasted guilt…Yuuki, you have to return to Kaname. What will you say to him? To any of them? They will smell me on you the minute you return…they will smell our Blood…and what we did…our sin…”

Yuuki blinked a few tears. “Kaname…knew what I did with you, Zero. I told him a part of my heart loves you…well more than a part, but…he doesn’t care because I am there with him. But it bothers me that I want to be there…with him and be here with you…I can’t have it both ways. So I guess I am going to be given a choice in that matter, well, I will ask to have a choice. Aidou even agrees that it’s not fair for me to luster over you…it’s cruel, he says. He has been giving me those tablets all this time….because he knew how I felt about you. He thinks it’s unfair…of Kaname. Kaname is so secretive now…I feel like I don’t know him at all…”

Zero snorted. “Maybe you don’t.” He added more snippily than he wanted. “It’s a sin for us to be like this, Yuuki. A Hunter and a Pureblood…but I really don’t care. I just worry about you…and like you feel like you owe Kaname…I feel like I owe you, but that doesn’t change the fact I love you and always will love you. That’s all that really counts right?” He finished. He kissed her lips chastely and sat up.

Yuuki sniffled, wiping her endless tears. “But…Zero…how can you be okay with this…with me doing this? And then leaving?”

Zero fished his boxers and pants from the floor and slipped them back on. He looked to Yuuki as he stood. “Because it’s you, Yuuki and it will be alright.” He offered her a sad smile. “You will make things alright…least that’s what you always told me…and somehow, I believe you.”


Yuuki pulled the last of her clothes on, pulling her sweater on. She turned to see Zero laying out his uniform onto his unmade bed. She wanted to stay with him and at the Academy forever.

“So…back to duties, huh?” She asked, stupidly knowing the answer.

Zero clicked the barrel of the Bloody Rose ensuring that it was full of rounds. He picked up his holster and placed the gun into it gently setting it down with his uniform. “Tedious…But the Headmaster insists…” He snorted, scowling at his uniform. His face softened and he stepped closer to Yuuki.

“Stop with that look, alright?” He gripped, grabbing her body and smashing it against his. “I am not lying,
stupid. I am okay with this…stop procrastinating. I am sure you need rest…and a bath…” Yuuki hiccupped as she felt him ruffle her messy hair.

“If anyone should be worried it should be me. I’ll have that idiot of a father of yours pestering me about your visit…because I know he knew you were here, otherwise it would have taken you all night to find me. Plus all the Night Class pissing me off about the smell of intense Blood all over the Moon dorm. And then the Day classes swoon of girls, drooling and bickering over the Night Class.” Zero, pulled back, looking serious. Yuuki was a mess as always. He kissed her lips again and didn’t expect her to dive again into his mouth. She moved her lips almost savagely against his, stirring up another fire with in herself and him. But she also ended it quickly with a hug and stepped back to open the window.

“You’re right, Zero. It will be alright.” She offered him a huge, radiant smile- the smile she had gave him so much while they grew up.

“I have to get back to my lessons with Hanabusa. They won’t be until later so have time to sleep and get a bath. Kaname is returning in two days. But Hanabusa is there and Kain…so I won’t be lonely!” Her smile remained and she was gone.


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Zero stood at the Gates of the Moon Dorm patrolling all the crazed Day students. In a few short moments the Night class would exit, causing the on going uproar from the Day Class. He shoved his hands in his pockets and sighed. Yuuki was really useless when she was a Guardian. But she was still very much missed. His attention was brought back from his thoughts when a girl slipped from climbing the wall. He caught her of course and glared in the same fashion. But somehow he was too distracted to do much else.

“Thank you Kiryu…” The girl offered, clearly embarrassed. She dusted herself off, expecting him to tell her how much he was going to make her cry. Instead he casually walked away.

“Say, Kiryu…was kinda nice today…and less scary. Don’t you think?” Another girl piped in. The girl that had been caught agreed.

“You’re right, Zero was actually distracted today…weird huh?”

“Yeah…and when he’s not glaring and being mean, he’s very cute!” The other girl exclaimed watching as Zero strode along the gravel, letting the Night class pass.

Zero looked at the sun setting, and headed towards the stables, to another important being in his life, White Lilly.


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Yuuki sat hunched over her Math booklet as Aidou paced around the drawing room. Her thoughts centered on how good she currently felt and how the excruciating pain she once felt for Blood lust had vanished. She also thought of Zero and how wonderful it felt to be with him and how amazing he was in bed. She blushed at the thought, feeling perverted and giddy at the same time. Her trance was awakened by the snapping of Hanabusa’s stupid fingers in her face.

“Yuuki…could you just once pay attention and not day dream?” He shrieked, stabbing a finger at her booklet.

“Oh…sorry, Hanabusa. I didn’t get enough sleep today…sorry.” She blushed again and hid behind her hair.

“Well, that’s not an excuse! Lord Kaname has instructed me to tutor you, and if nothing is done, he’ll hit me, not you! Hey-“ Hanabusa glanced at Yuuki’s booklet. He snatched the book from under her hands and studied it briefly.

“Yuuki!” He yelled, making her jump. “You did five problems…and they are all correct! IT”S A MIRACLE!” Hanabusa shouted to the world as if it were truly a miracle.

Yuuki flashed an annoyed look. ”Gee, thanks Hanabusa. I am glad I am not a dimwit today…” She snorted, resting her face into her palm.

“That Kiryu must be some kind of tutor to make this happen!” Idol announced earning a flinch and a blush from Yuuki.

“I mean you make one visit and your grades are up…it’s it really him, scary-Disaplinary-Committee-man, Zero Kiryu?” Hanabusa slapped the booklet back onto Yuuki’s desk and pried himself near her neck and ear, invading her personal space.

“So….Yuuki, tell me is he really like that of an Elite Vampire now? And when his fangs pierced your neck, did you come at that moment…in pure ecstasy? Oh…I smelled him all over your room, your sheets, your clothes and…your body…” Hanabusa breath tickled her ear. Yuuki trembled at his closeness and moved away. But he shook her shoulders before she could.

“I know you had sex with Kiryu, Yuuki. I also know that he bit you…and you bit him…and…HE PROBABLY HUMPED YOUR BRAINS OUT!” Hanabusa shouted excitedly, releasing Yuuki and practically danced across the room. Yuuki was mortified more than frightened.

“I am sooooo Jealous Yuuki Cross. So how was it? Clearly Kiryu banged some sense into you. You look healthy again… and have energy. So was he rough, gentle, passionate…scary?” Idol ranted leaning over Yuuki’s desk with huge eyes and a jubilant smile. Yuuki sighed closing her book.

“It’s…it’s none of your business, Idol.” She used his nick name to emphasize her sarcasm. But darn her cheeks had to be red by now!

“Oh…but I want details, Yuuki. It’s so boring tutoring a dote like you. This is exciting stuff! The innocent
Yuuki is a sex Goddess! And to think with the meanest and most powerful Hunters! Oh I can’t contain myself!”

Yuuki sighed again. “Hanabusa shouldn’t you be telling me how wrong I was to go against Kaname or something? I mean, you respect him and all…and love him so…I-“

Hanabusa interrupted quickly. “Now listen Yuuki, that is true. But I can’t sit here and watch you suffer Blood lust for the one you love. I am not that cruel. I know that you love Kiryu…don’t know why, he’s so moody…but he does too, I know that from the Academy…and Kaname knows that. But you love Kaname too, maybe not like a lover, but you do. And even so I honestly think it is unfair to you. You’re a Pureblood. You should get to do what you want… who you want and if that’s doing it with a Hunter, then it’s your choice.” Hanabusa told her seriously. He ran a hand through his flaxen, messy locks.

Yuuki chewed her lip. “So…you won’t tell Kaname?” She asked in a mere whisper.

“Oh I won’t need to. Like I said I can smell Kiryu…Lord Kaname can too, if he already doesn’t know. What kind of soap does Kiryu use…I like it! It smells, musky…manly. I think the girls would love that!” Hanabusa changed the subject, and averted Yuuki’s attention to answer the moron she was currently with.