Ok, so this is my first story for VK after years of reading fanfic, and well, finally growing the furry round ones to write it. So, well, for explicatory measures:

A) Zero's a girl in this fic, not only that but is about 4 years younger than Ichiru and has a special 'condition' which made her need some more special 'medication'. Further explained in later chapters.

B) Shisuka did kill the Kiryu's and yes Ichiru did betray them

C) Ichiru was never sick, in fact, he was the prodigy son and hunter extraordinaire, and for this, he never hated Zero.

Well I guess that would be it for now, in case I forgot something I will explain in the next chapter.

Please enjoy XD

Chapter 1: Just warming up

The winter wind blew chilling currents across the barren hill top, sending miniature fairy like snowflakes over the dimly lit town beneath. Silence hummed into the dark night, the glimmering bright stars high above, shinning peacefully upon the two small figures cuddled tightly into each other.

The little girl gazed at the scene before her with feverish and lost amatist eyes, to transfixed into the marvelous sight to really worry about the cold currently gnawing into her bones. Shivers overtook her small frame as a long arm of her older companion built a worm fort around her lithe shoulders.

-"Ready to go home now, Zero?"- The soft voice of the young man causing Zero to jump slightly, as if it had suddenly burst the bubble of the dream land she'd found refuge for the past hours.

Amatist met amatist. The older boy smiled gently, grayish-purple orbs amused as he nuzzled his face into the child's silvery strands of silken hair, identical to his own.

-"Ne, Ichiru-ni , can we stay a little longer?"

The boy rested his silver head above Zero's, his eyes turning sad as he sighed into the unruly strands: -"Is the medicine making you sick again?"

Zero fell silent, not knowing what to answer that would not be considered a lie, she did not want to worry her ni-san, but… she didn't want to go back home and take another dose of that awful concoction that would only muffle her senses and make her so dizzy she would either have to force it back out or have it do it on its own scorching, tortuous way.

The lack of answer was enough for Ichiru. Things were getting worse, and soon, maybe even deadly.

Unless he acted quickly.

Another sigh was ripped from his paled, cold lips. That could wait a little longer, right now it was still just them, and it could continue being that way, he thought, as it should be. With a lingering, tender kiss at top of the younger silverette's head he whispered lovingly.

-"We'll stay here with you as long as you want Roro-chan, I won't ever leave you"

Round purple jewels were hidden under sleepy, snowy white eyelashes as a small contented smile adorned Zero's pinkish plum lips.

-"Thank you ni-sama…"

Sleep covered the tiny girl in its peaceful blanket of oblivion with a last dazzled glance of the quiet haven night sky.

10 years later…

The annoyingly acute sound of the alarm clock, combined with Yuuki's equally annoyingly acute voice drilling into her skull right though her ear woke Zero from her dreamless sleep. And just as she had concurred a fitfuless resting sleep, just her luck really.

-"Wakey-Wakey Zero, or we'll be latey-latey again"

Zero opened her dim lavender eyes to stare blankly at her adopted sister as she totted around the room seemingly gathering her uniform from ungodly places. Who looks for their uniform skirt under the bed and actually finds it there?

Yuuki apparently, as she suddenly straightened from her crawling position with and excited "Eureka!"

Zero shook her head and headed for the small bathroom attached to their dorm room, one of the only benefits of being the chairman's 'lovely daughters'. No common showers for them.

Just half way to the wonderfully scalding hot shower a fluffy towel hit the back of her head, making Zero halt half step to glare over her shoulder to a lightly blushing Yuuki.

-"Zero! can't you wear a nightgown like a normal person!"- Yuuki berated, feeling like it were the thousand time she'd done it, with just about the same response every single time, which ended in a huff and a grumpy-

-"It's too warm to wear more than this, besides, we're both girls"- Zero stretched lazily, dragging her panties and t-shirt clad self into the bathroom with a last annoyed:-"nothing new to see"

Yuuki sighed, déjà-vu… sometime she wondered why she even tried…

The dorm door opened suddenly with a loud smash, revealing a overly bright man like thing with glasses and a flowery pink apron, smiling like sunshine as he cooed:

-"Good morning, how are my beautiful daughters? I've brought you your breakfast so that you can grow into smart, gorgeous, successful-"

And so it dragged on, and on…

Oh yeah, thought Yuuki, THAT's why. She suddenly wished she were the one in the shower. Stupid Zero.

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