Hey, we meet again. This is my next story and it's a sequel to Together Forever. Hope you will like it and of course it's a continuation of our favorite characters, Kaname and Zero love story. And don't worry, I already have a beta to help me with this story. This is just the first chapter. I will update soon. Don't forget to give me your review later. Please enjoy the story.

Thank you so much to my beta, Imperitrici Vicssitudinis (I.V). I use the title you suggest me anyway. Thanks. :)

Chapter 1- Prologue

The Vampire Hunter race cannot have twins because it's a curse to have twins born into the family. However, Zero and Ichiru have been born as twins in the Vampire Hunter clan. They live happily until one day, their family dies in accident while they were in a mission. Zero and Ichiru who do not have anyone in this world have been sent to Vampire Hunter Organization. The Vampire Hunter's Association Leader just looked at them in one single glance.

"Hmm… a set of twins. It's been quite a while and rare. I can't take care both of you but I just need one of you to choose. Another one, I will send him to another Vampire Hunter family to be their foster child. One of you will stay with their foster family and the other one will stay with me. Maybe as my assistant or maybe… as a slave. It's up to me," say the Vampire Hunter Leader with a small laugh. He smirked.

Zero and Ichiru who just barely 9 years old boys just stood and listen silently. They looked at each other in understanding. Zero had a strong body while Ichiru have a very weak body not like his twin's at all. Zero just smiled a little. Maybe he can discuss this matter with the Vampire Hunter Leader so they won't be separated. But before he can say anything, Ichiru quickly opened his mouth,

"Don't choose me!" say Ichiru suddenly. "I want to be a foster child. I don't want to be your slave," he said again. He walked closer to Vampire Hunter Leader. "Give me to the other vampire hunter as a foster child."

Zero was very shocked when he hear what Ichiru had said to Vampire Hunter President. Ichiru chose to be a foster child to another family without thinking about him. Zero felt like he had been abandoned already. It's not to mean that he wanted Ichiru to be a slave, but he wanted to discuss the matter with him first so the leader could change his mind, that's all. Zero stared at Ichiru for a long time. He just stared at Ichiru and he didn't hear anything of what the Leader said after that. He just started from his daydreaming when he saw Ichiru being taking away from that room and the Vampire Hunter Leader leered at him with a creepy smile on his face.

"So, Zero… Ichiru has chosen to be a foster child. It's just you who left behind. I think, I'm lucky to have you because between both of you, you are the stronger and healthier twin. I'm lucky it's not Ichiru. It would be pain in the ass," said that man. He looked at Zero for a very long time. "So, from now… you will be my slave. Or in another word, you will be a specimen in my experiment," said the cruel man before he laughed out loud.

Zero just remained silent while has he imagined his future; he knew from now on he will be in the dark and lost. He bit his lip. How dare Ichiru do this to him? Ichiru just walked away from him without stopping to even glance back at him.

He didn't know how long he had been in there. In that dark basement. A month? Two months? Or maybe, it's been years. He doesn't know. Zero just sits and leans back on the wall in his dark room. He sat in the corner while he hugged his legs close up to his chest. He still remembered a few weeks after they brought him to this basement. They had locked him in and just given him a little food and water once a day. A few days later, the Vampire Hunter Organization President came to meet him. They brought him to a laboratory and gave him clothes to change into.

Zero sighed softly while he glanced at the clothes at his body now. That faint white clothes didn't have pants and just had a few strings to tie at the back. He sighed. He still remembered what they had done to him when they brought him to that god forsaken lab. They tied his hands and feet onto metal table and they had also gagged his mouth.

"Today, we will start our experiment on the subject Z00253 to research our new drug XX007-1. Let's get to it," say the Vampire Hunter Leader who wore a white lab coat. He grabbed the injection needle which contain a blue liquid. The new drug that they wanted to test on Zero for now.

Zero looked at the leader with pure fear in his expressive lavender eyes when he saw that man bring the needle close to his arm. He tried to fight but they had tied his hand and feet too tight. They did not wait, they injected Zero's arm with the drug. Zero is so shocked. Especially when he can feel his body became numb. He tries to fight once again.

"Wow, our subject this time is so strong and looks like he loves to fight. Add the next dose and give him an extra," the leader gave an order to his subordinates. They harshly inject his arm a few more times.

Zero can feel his body became weaker. He lost his energy suddenly likes it had been pulled out from his body forcibly. His body feels tired, his eyes can't be open and he starts to lose consciousness. Zero opened his eyes slowly. He didn't know how long he had been unconscious because when he opened his eyes, he already been in another room. His hand and his legs still had been tied on the metal table and a few IV drops and tubes had been put in his body. They no longer cover his mouth. He tries to scream but he realizes that he can't use his voice.

Since that day, they had always used his body as a guinea pig in the lab. Every time they had new drugs to try, they would give him variety pills to swallow and also they will inject him every time, everyday. If he tries to fight, they would beat him half dead and they would lock him in his room which he calls 'the hell' without food and drink. Zero rubbed his arm softly. He still can sense the sting and pain from the injections in his arm. There are red and dark purple bruises at his arm and bodies. It's been a few hours since they injected him with the drugs. Drugs which he didn't know what the names and functions of. His body is still sore from the beating yesterday and his clothes are covered with his own blood. Dried blood. When the last times he had changed his clothes?

And these past few months, they had done something terrible to him. Something that he had never imagined would happen to him. One day, suddenly, a group of researchers came and brought him to the lab. When they arrived there, they quickly give him an injection. After just a few minutes, suddenly his body became hot and they had told him that they just give him one of their new drugs. An aphrodisiac. He didn't know what it was. Without mercy, they raped him continuously for a few hours every day after that. His body felt so weak and hurt, his throat sore and swollen because he had screamed and cried for such a long time. He couldn't talk for a few weeks, much to their liking, and his body was also full of scars because of the torture and beating he had gotten. Kicked, punched, beaten with wood, metal and just say it, he had already gotten beat with it.

Until now, he still can feel the pain on his body. His hands, legs and ribs have been broken for a few times now. Before, he would cry every night because of his fate, but now… he never cries anymore. He realizes, cries and screams will never make anyone come and help him get out from this hell. Nobody will come for him because he had nobody. Even Ichiru had abandoned him before. He has been here almost 3 years now. And he knows, there is no place for him out there. He's too dirty and filthy to be out there. Zero just peeks to look outside from the small metal barrier in that cold room. That cold and dark room just had a metal door and small metal barrier as the window to allow air to come in. Zero looked outside the window past the metal barrier to look at the moon outside. He don't know why but, the moon looks so red tonight.

Zero sat close to the wall. The night is cold and his room is too cold so he can't sleep at all. He was already used to it. They just give him a thin blanket and old pillow. Every night, he would sleep in the cold metal bed without a mattress. This night is just too cold so that he can't sleep in the bed. He sighed a little. He already had fallen sick a few times because of this but they still used his body for the drugs. He doesn't know how much longer his body can take it. What he does know, is that when his body is useless, they will throw him away like a trash and nobody will care. If he's lucky, he will die before they throw him out.

Without knowing, he had already fallen asleep. He just wakes up from his sleep when he hears someone open the door to his room. He looked at the door and he saw a few researchers enter his room. Some of them smirked and looked at him with disgust. He tried to crawl away but they quickly catch his legs.

"You must be missing us so badly, don't you?" ask one of them with a smirked. "Don't worry. Today, we have another job and we have a special test for you. You will like it. We will bring someone here for you. You will like her."

"Le…Let me… go," say Zero stutter with a very husky voice. It's been a long times since last use his voice to talk other than screaming and crying when they do the test on him. He always used his voice for two things. First is when he will scream for mercy and help when they want to use the drugs on him and when they rape him without mercy in group rape. Second is he used his voice to scream and cry in pain every time he can't hold the pain in his body when they do the test on him. He really wanted to die and he always had hope that he will die in every experiment he get.

"Let you go? No way. But… don't worry. Today, we won't give you any drugs. Today, you will meet with someone special. We brought her just for you," say one of them again. He smirked while he write something in his journal book.

"Someone? Who?" ask Zero with a husky voice. He don't know why but he feel something fishy here. The force him to stand and pull his small and weak body out from that room. This time, they don't bring him into the lab as usual. When he realize, he had walk into the room where he never have been before. Slowly, they open the locked door and push Zero in that room before they quickly close the door. Zero is a little bit shocked when they locked the door back. Zero looked around the room. Looking for something suspicious. That room is too dark. Just like his cold room. He can't see anything clearly. Just a few second later, out of the blue, he saw a few candles light on their own and he smelled the fragrance of a cherry blossom tree. That's when he saw someone sitting not too far from the candles' light.

The light was not too bright so he couldn't see who it was. He just walked a little bit closer when he recognized the presence of that person. It was a woman with a very long silver-white hair and she wore a white colored kimono with a thin, pink ribbon around her waist with a bell attached to it. What the most important was, was that woman was a vampire! A pureblood vampire. He could sense it. Even if he don't get any training as the vampire hunter, the vampire hunter's blood in his body is strong enough to let him know who this woman was. He started to feel scared. He ran to the door and knocked on it loudly with all the energy he had.

"He… help! Help! Help me, please! There is a vampire in here. Please open the door!" pleaded Zero while he pounded on the door with all his might. Especially when he looked behind him and he saw that vampire had come closer to him. He started to cry because he was so scared. Was he going to die? He froze when he sensed someone standing behind him.

"Hey, little guy," greeted that woman vampire. Her voice is husky and sharp to his liking. Slowly Zero looked away. He was really scared. He didn't have anything to defend himself with.

"You… what do you want? Go away!" screamed Zero as he tried to run but the vampire already caught him and clutched his arm tightly.

"I am sorry but I can't do that. I have a deal with the other man outside," say that vampire slowly and strangely her voice sound so sad. This time, he could see the vampire's face clearly. The woman vampire is so beautiful but why does her face look so sad?

"Deal? What deal?" asked Zero curious. What type of deal would the Vampire Hunter Organization have with a pureblood vampire?

That vampire just smiled a little. "I have to bite you and drink your blood to turn you into something like me. A vampire," she told him slowly. She glanced at Zero. She felt pity for that boy who was maybe no more than 12 years old. But… what can she do? She can't do anything to help the boy because she also had been threatened and forced by the Vampire Hunter Organization. The vampire hunter had caught her lover, an ex-human, level D and they threatened to kill him if she don't give them her cooperation in this matter.

"What?!" Zero was so shocked when he heard that. He tried to run once again but failed when that vampire hugged his small body tightly. At the same time, without any warning, the vampire bit his neck rough and strong without mercy. Zero tried to scream but he has lost his voice and she had covered his mouth with her hand. His body started to feel weak when she drank too much of his blood. Even his ears can hear the sound of his blood being drained. He can't breathe and slowly he started to lose his consciousness.

Zero opened his eyes slowly. His body felt heavy and his head was hurting and dizzy. He looked around him and he only saw dark and gloomy from the moon light outside the small window. He don't know how long he had been unconscious. Suddenly he blinked his eyes a few times when he saw everything in the room clearly. Zero tried to get up and he realized that his hand and feet had been shackled with chains. He can't remember what had happened before. His last memories he could remember they brought him into the dark room and there was a vampire in there. And that said vampire had… Zero startled. Bite. That vampire had bitten and drank his blood. Zero quickly touched his neck and searched for the bite mark or scar but he found nothing!

"I have to bite and suck your blood to turn you like me. A vampire." He still remembered what the vampire said to him clearly. Zero bit his lips. Vampire… does that mean he had already have been turned into a vampire? Zero gripped his hand tightly and without wasting any time, he scratched his arm until it bled. He can smell the blood and after just a few minutes, his wound had already healed completely. He had changed into something disgusting. Blood sucker. Zero bit his lips again. He wanted to cry but his tears didn't want to come out. Just a moment later, he thinks of something. What's the difference if he's a human or a vampire? It still didn't change anything because he's already been abandoned by everyone. If nobody wants him as a human, maybe one day, there is someone who will need him as a vampire. One day.

Zero falls on the ground. He already has been abandoned. There's no hope anymore. He leaned on the wall because he couldn't move freely. Suddenly he heard footsteps from the outside. Just a few minutes later, his room door has been opened from the outside.

"Well, well, well… look what we have here? A little vampire."

Zero knows that voice very well. It was Vampire Hunter Organization President. He doesn't remember the last time he saw that man. Zero glared at that man for awhile before he looked away.

"I hate your attitude. Punishment!" yelled the man while he gave a signal to his men. A few men came to his room and pulled him out roughly. Zero almost tripped and fell. They brought him to the big pool and they pushed him in the water. Before he can take any breath, they grab and push his head back into the water. Zero tries to struggle but fails because his hand and legs are still attached to the shackles.

"Don't worry. You won't die so easily because now, you are a vampire," said the Leader with the creepy smile on his face. He had too much on the agenda and planned what he wanted to do with Zero's body. Even if Zero is already breaking, Zero's body still can be of use.

"He… help." Zero's voice sounded so weak calling for help even though he knows nobody will help him. "No! No! Hurt! Its hurts! It's freezing. Ple… please help me!" pleaded Zero even though his struggles started to weaken. They laughed loudly when they saw him start drowning. After he almost drowned, they stopped pushing his head into the water, but they didn't stop at just that. They pulled him out from the pool and they pushed him to the floor. His head bumped into the floor and bleeding but his wound healed quickly.

"Wow, look at that. Your new healing ability. It seems like we don't have to hold our self from beating you after this," say one of they before they kick his stomach harshly. Zero screamed when his stomach felt seriously hurt.

"We don't have to worry anymore because you are a vampire. So you wound will heal quickly." They beat Zero again. This time worse than before. There was blood flowing from his lips while his face is full with bruises. His hand, leg and a few of his ribs were broken when they kicked and stepped on his small body and they also beat him with the tough piece of wood.

Suddenly one of them sits next to him. "Drink this," one of them gives him a bottle with red liquid inside that looks like blood.

"Wha… what's this?" ask Zero stuttering. He doesn't take the bottle.

"Just drink it." They pushed the bottle to his mouth and forced him to swallow it. After he drinks it, suddenly his eyes were flashing bright red. Blood. They give him blood. "This is the blood of the vampire from before. We can't have you change into a Level E and going berserk."

"Here, let me take your pants off for you." One of them quickly took off Zero's pants while the other held his arms and legs to keep him from acting aggressively. "One more thing, we don't want you to fight us or bite us so…" One of them quickly injected him with drugs and they tied a gag ball onto his mouth. "We will take good care of your body tonight," without waiting, they tore his shirt off him and raped him countless times without mercy. When Zero tried to struggle or fight them, they would scratch his body. They also strangled him until he couldn't breathe. After that, when the drugs' effect became stronger, Zero lost his mind and didn't realize what had happened. Maybe he just wanted to shut his mind off. He laughed slowly.

He had hoped before that, one day, someone will come and save him but now, after five years in that hell, Zero know that he will never get out from here. He already lost both his soul and spirit. There is no life in his eyes after he shut his heart off from everything three years ago. So, he won't feel too much pain when they ravage his body with their drugs or constant fucking. His body was also too thin for a 14 year old boy because he always doesn't get to eat enough food except the drugs that they injected into his body every day.

'If God really exists, I beg you this time. Only this one time, please let me out of here once.'

That was his only prayer. Zero closed his eyes and let the darkness and sleep devour him. He doesn't know for how long he was asleep when suddenly his sharp ears heard someone open the door to his cell. He quickly wakes up and looks at the door. He feels so nervous so suddenly. When the door is open, he saw a man with his ash blonde hair in a ponytail and hazel eyes.

"Are you Zero?" asked the man.

Zero was just silent when he heard his name. It had been almost 5 years since he last heard someone call his name. Zero… yeah, his name is Zero. He almost forgot it. He looked at the man with interest. From his look, he knew that the man mean no harm to him.

"Wh… who?" Zero asked him with difficulty. His throat was too sore. It had been too long since he last used his voice to talk. Usually, he just screams because of the pain.

The ash-blonde man smiled gently and softly at him. "Do you want to get out of here? Follow me. I will take you far away from this place," say the man while he reached his hand out to Zero. He smiled softly at Zero.

Zero stared at that man for awhile. He didn't know who the man was but he knew that he can believe him. From that man's smile, he knew that the man can save him. He doesn't want to give in to any hope but… he wanted to try. Just this once, he wanted to. Without any smile nor any hope and soul in his lilac eyes, he reaches the man's hand. He wanted to try. Just this one time.

Once again, thank you so much. Read and review this story please. I will update soon.