Zero really hated winters. They were just so COLD. He shivered on his seat and glared down at the homework spread across his desk. Suddenly he felt warm arms snake around his neck and his face lit up with a smile.

"Kaname." He whispered, standing up to hug the pureblood back. Even if it was winter, he could still always find warmth in his lover's arms, lots of it even.

Kaname glanced at the clock on the mantelpiece and sighed. 10:47 pm.

"Zero, you should go to bed now. It's very late." He felt the prefect shake his head against his shoulder.

"Nah. I wanna cuddle." Zero was always so stubborn. But that was, quite honestly, one of his many charms.

"Then I'll go to bed with you. Is that okay?" The hunter's whole face lit up this time.

"Yeah! Thank you Kana..." Kaname chuckled lightly. Every time Zero addressed him, he seemed to use a different nickname. There was Kane, Kana, Kamane, Ka... The list was endless. Sometimes it was just Mine. He took Zero's hand and led him over to the bathroom.

Somehow Kaname always had the right thing to say to make him cheer up immediately. The hunter didn't know how he did it. He always felt like everything he said was somehow unhelpful or unencouraging. His grip tightened on the pureblood's slender hand and his smile widened. With Kaname going to classes at night he barely ever got to sleep with him during the week, and whenever he did he knew the pureblood would have to explain his absence from school the next night. So it meant at lot to Zero that Kaname was ditching classes to spend time with him.

The two vampires got ready for bed in companionable and comfortable silence, occasionally glancing at each other in the mirror and, in Zero's case, blushing.

The hunter buried himself under the duvet until all you could see of him were a few strands of silver hair spread out across the pillow, and shivered at the unpleasant feeling of getting into a cold bed. But Kaname's arms around him soon warmed him up again, and he shuffled around under the covers to face the pureblood.

"You know, Zero..." Kaname started, murmuring quietly into the hunter's ear.

"What?" He questioned, intrigued by the pureblood's vague and bashful expression.

"I love you, Zero. That's what. You know that, right?" Kaname's expression softened even more at the noticeable blush that dusted Zero's cheeks. The hunter snaked his arms around the older boy in a tight grip.

"Yeah. I love you too." He whispered, embarrassed, into Kaname's silk nightshirt. The pureblood tightened his arms around Zero's waist and entwined their legs under the covers, intent on warming them both up.

Zero had almost fallen asleep, but decided last minute that he needed a kiss from Kaname before he could rest. The pureblood was more than happy to oblige, and pressed his lips firmly over Zero's in a warm and passionate kiss.

The hunter fell asleep he second his head touched the pillow. The pureblood, however, took a little longer and lay awake watching the gentle rise and fall of Zero's chest as he slept peacefully, eventually drifting off himself.