Hi Everyone! Me here. Hee- first fic i wrote for Vampire knight- Hope its ok- I'm going to confess now- I haven't read the manga, I've seen snippets of the anime and I have friends who won't stop cosplaying as Vampire Knight characters- but I have been reading numerous fics on VK, and looked up on all the characters- so I'm not 100% correct, nor 100% wrong either. heh.

Zero is a little AU here, but thats only cause he lost a child- Yup yup, Zero has a child here, no its not mpreg- And Yuuki's dead. I never really liked her- and Zero's child's name, after much debating- is ayuni, cuz it sounds like Yuuki. it is also my name, Hehhehee.

Ok, on with the ficcy! ( if there is still anybody who is still reading. i'm sure my ramble there scared most fo you guys awayy)

Chapter 1

Midnight.

London.

Big address close to Hyde Park.

Approximately six hours since it has happened.

The tension in the formal drawing room was so fraught it picked at the flesh. People were standing about in small clusters, all talking in low voices, or standing

still, absolutely silent.

Waiting.

Zero was one of the latter group, sitting alone on one of the sofas. He appeared calm, outwardly composed now as he stared down at the carpet, seemingly

oblivious to everyone else.

But he was far from oblivious. Far from composed.

But he sat there like that, straight backed and very still, because he knew that if he did so much as move a muscle all his severely reined in self control would

gush screaming out of him.

They tried to force tranquilizers down his throat to put him out of his torment. Tried to render him oblivious to it all.

He refused. Of course he refused! How could any father take refuge in sleep when his only child was kidnapped infront of his own eyes?

So he sat there, carved in marble.

Waiting.

Like the rest of them.

Waiting for the man that he loathed.

He was on his way, they told him, as thought expecting that piece of information to make him feel better.

It didn't. Nothing would.

So he sat very still, ameythst eyes lowered, so no one could see what was happening in his head.

" Look Ayuni, Balloon animals- pick a colour"

" Dat. Dat, daddy dat."

" The silver one? Don't you want a more colourful one?"

" Nono. Pretty colour. Like Daddy's hair."

Zero felt his eyes water.

The sudden sound of crunching tyres on the gravel driveway outside the house had everyone jumping to attention. Except Zero.

There was the sound of voices in the hallway, one deep, sharp and authoriative, standing out from the rest.

The footsteps, light but precise, came towards the closed drawing-room door. Everyone inside the room turned towards it as it shot open, their eyes fixed on the

man standing there.

Tall, lean body. White shirt, , black suit that sat on him as expensive silk should.

Pale skin, glowing, almost. Long, thin nose, ruthlessly drawn, like his lips, set in a straight line.

The sharp eyes and claws of a hunter.

Those orbs, red, like a demon.

But Zero kept his gaze fixed on the red rose design on the carpet. It looked so much like the one on his gun. The gun that was also taken during Ayuni's

kidnapping.

Ayuni

Oh god.

Kaname stood poised like that in the doorway for some long, immeasurable seconds, emitting a leashed power into the room that had everyone else holding their breath.

His red eyes flicked from one anxious face to another, surveying the scene as a whole without so much as acknowledging a single person. Cold, dismissively, he moved on. – and on.

Until his eyes found Zero, sitting there in his isolated splendour, face lowered and seemingly unaware.

He began to move, brisk but graceful, to stop directly in front of him.

" Kiriyuu." He prompted quietly.

Zero did not move. His eyes did focus dimly, on the pair of expensive shoes covering the design he's concentrating at.

" Kiriyuu." There was more command threaded into the tone this time.

He did not look up.

"Zero" Kaname hissed quietly, his eyes flashing. Everyone in the room felt the hairs on their neck stand.

It had the required effect, making the hunter's dusky silver lashes quiver before his head lifted slowly upwards, meeting his powerful gaze.

What was it? He found himself thinking dully. Two years since he had last seen the vampire. Coming close to three? He hadn't changed at all.

Yet why would he have changed? He was Kaname Kuran. Powerful vampire. Born to power, raised to power, and used to power. When he frowned, people cowered.

The monster with everything. Why should three small years change that? Oh yes, Yuuki died three years ago. That shook the monster, albeit slighty.

Maybe its because, to him, Yuuki has died the minute she chose Zero over him.

Married the pure blood then had a child with the Level D vampire.

Died during childbirh, which is almost impossible for a vampire.

But Yuuki had always been weak.

Like this half human infront of him.

Kaname had enough of these stupid humans in the room, including the police officers that stood around looking important. Obviously, this wasn't a normal kidnapping. Was Zero that stupid to call the local authorities to handle this?

The message was loud and clear. The room gasped.

" Get out."

Kaname kept his gaze on Zero while waiting for his order to be carried out.

And they jolted into action, responding like mechanical toys, heads, bodies, limbs jerking with a complete lack of coordination that shifted them en masse towards the door.

Zero's insides had a mixture of awe and disgust. Awed that someone was able to command mute obedience from everyone he met. Disgust because the someone was Kaname Kuran.

The last one out drew the door shut behind them. Zero heard it close with a gentle click, and felt the new silence settle around him like a shroud.

" Drink." He commanded.

The distinctive smell of blood invading Zero's nostrils almost made him gag so he shook his head, his silver hair shimmering against his black clad shoulders.

He ignored the gesture. " Drink," he repeated. " You look like death," he added bluntly. " Drink or I shall make you."

No idle threat. That became clear when his hand came up and gripped Zero's chin so he could force the mouth open.

Kaname got on his knees and inched the younger one closer at his neck, where he had scratched himself deep, so it won't heal too fast

He drank- then gasped as the liquid slid like fire down his paper- dry throat, the air sucking into his lungs as if he didn't breathe since it happened.

" That's better." He murmured. " Drink some more."

Zero drank, barely registering the fact that here he was, drinking the blood of an enemy he swore he will never drink from again.

He had forgotten how rich, addictive and euphoric Kaname's blood is. Nothing like Arabella and Beckett, his faithful servants whom took care of his house, his vampiric need for blood, And his daughter.

His beautiful daughter.

Zero sucked harder.

Kaname bit back a groan. He made him take several more gulps before deciding he had enough. He let go of the silky silver strands he had unconciously played with. The half human now had some colour back in his cheeks, and some fire back into those dead eyes.

Kaname inwardly breathed a sigh of relief.

" Is this you doing?" the younger one demanded, the words a raspy whisper, as he hadn't said a word for the past 4 hours or so.

Kaname heard- and he understood. His eyes hardened, viewing him with stead scrunity.

He was denying it, using his eyes to demand how he dared to suspect him.

But he did suspect him. " I hate you."

Kaname gave Zero a bitter smile. Aah, Those words bring back memories.

The smile fueled Zero's anger. " I despise the very fucking ground you occupy. If anything happens to my baby then watch your back, Kuran, " he warned him. " Because I'll be drilling it with silver bullets strong enough pierce that black stone you may call a heart."

He didn't respond, didn't react, which came as a surprise because he never take kindly to threats.

Maybe he was too busy thinking was it the lighting or had Zero always looked… different. He didn't look human, sitting there in his pale silvery glow.

Must be the lighting.

" Tell me what happened," he instructed quietly instead.

The memory launched him with a bone-crunching jerk to his feet, turning him from a carved marble stone into a shivering, shaking, mass of anguish.

" You KNOW WHAT HAPPENED YOU BASTARD! SHE WAS YOUR ONE HUMILIATION, A PROOF THAT YUUKI WASN'T FAITHFUL TO YOU!!!" he seared at the vampire. Those beautifully coloured eyes sparked up at him with hatred, with fear, with a bitter, filthy contemp.

By contrast, the red eyes remained calm, unaffected. He sat down at the nearest black sofa and studied Zero's quivering form quite detachedly.

" I did not take your child. " he stated.

" Yes you did" Zero said it without a hint of uncertanty. " It bears all the hallmarks of one of your lot."

" You mean our lot, Zero. After all these years, and numerous bloodsucking, do you still not comprehend the fact that you are also a vampire?"

Zero either ignored or really hadn't heard him. " Why, Kaname?" Zero cried out, not caring about the lack of honorifics. " She's only three years old!! She was no threat to you!! Why did you take her away?"

He didn't see the vampire move, yet he was beside him in an instant, his fingers gripping the half human's arms harshly. " I won't repeat this again." He clipped. " I did not take your child."

" S-someone did," he choked, amethyst eyes luminous with bulging tears. " who else would hate me so much to do that?"

Kaname was thunderstruck - he had never seen Zero cry like this- he felt something wrenching his insides. He shook the feeling off and tugged Zero's arms.

" Calm down, Zero, and we will-"

" I don't want to calm down!" Zero angrily retorted. " And I don't want you touching me!" Violently, Zero wrenched free of his grasp.

" Who else, Kuran?" he repeated starkly. " Who else would want to take my baby away from me?"

" Not from you." Kaname said calmly. " They have taken her from me."

" You?" Zero stared at him in incredulity. " But why should they want to do that? Its not you child!"

" True" Kaname's gaze darkened.

" But the world does not know that."

Zero went cold as realisation slapped across his face.

" You mean-?"

" Unless you been parading around telling people you impregnated Yuuki, no one else knows that the child is not mine. They are under the impression that the child is mine and Yuuki's."

A lie Kaname was secretly amazed worked out, given that the child looked so much like Zero. If it wasn't for the dark brown hair like Yuuki and himself, it would have definitely been obvious.

" But- but it doesn't make s-sense"

" Yes it does. Think, Zero, think. Althought to the world, I have disowned my wife and supposedly 'my' child, the child is still my flesh and bones, and it still carries the Kuran blood line." Kaname spat, furious because it is true. Even if the child isn't his, it was Yuuki's, his sister. His blood still pumps in her wretched veins.

Zero realized that too. Tears cascaded his cheeks.

" No. No… Kaname. " Zero said thickly, a violent shiver wrecking through his body.

Kaname felt the funny feeling in his stomach again.

" Relax Zero." Kaname said, again in that calm voice. " If they want money, I will give it to them, no matter how ridiculous the amount."

Kaname couldn't believe he said that. Why would he? This wasn't his child. Yes, it was his niece, but it wasn't his child!!

Kaname decided it was because he could. Really, money was nothing.

" its- its not that." Zero said weakly, still shivering. Kanme moved closer to push Zero on the chair but Zero won't budge.

"then?"

" W- when they to-ok her, " Zero stammered. He hated himself, how weak he sounded.

" T-they sa-said t-that bl-ood wil be pai-d with blood- Zero's eyes focused on Kaname-Did you kill someone, you bastard? "

Kaname swore under his breath and gripped Zero's arms again.

" What did they look like? How many of them? Male or female?"

" T-two people. T-they wo-re ma-s-sks. It w-as a-t a c-arnival.."

" I knew that. Come on Zero, can't you recall anything more?"

Zero stared at him, his eyes so sad, pleading at him. Kaname instantly felt guilty for making Zero feel bad. Zero had been injected with a strong drug behind his neck, rendering him unconcious almost instantly. He woke up 10 minutes later, to people crowding him and his child missing.

" I- I'm s-sor-"

" Don't apologise. Male or female?"

" One m-male and fe-male." Zero shut his eyes tightly, groaning.

" Calm down, Ze-"

The Zero did something Kaname won't have expected in a million years.

He flung his arms on Kaname's neck, hugging him tight, his warm, shivering body against his own steady, cold one.

Kaname felt wet tears on his neck.

The feeling in his stomach increased ten fold.

" pl-lease K-Ka-na-me, " Zero whispered, trying to control his shaky voice. " D-do s-some-thing, p-pleas-"

" Ok. Ok, yes I will. Shh." Kaname's hands rubbed the shivering body, trying to still it. This went on for a while before Kaname realized whom exactly was he comforting.

But before he could push Zero away- Zero stopped shaking and his hands slid from kaname's neck.

He caught him just in time before the younger male crashed to the floor-

Zero had fainted.

Like it? hate it? R& R- Sorry if its slow, (they didn't even leave the Room) but my first chappie is always like that- it'll move faster, don't worry.

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