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Zero’s eyes glowed red in the fading light. His legs trembled, his will barely strong enough to propel him forwards through the haze of bloodlust. The beast inside wanted to run back to the dorms and feast on one of the TASTY human students, but he couldn’t allow that to happen. Escape to the forest was his only option. He needed air, and space, to wrestle back control.
He stumbled and went careening into a nearby tree. The scent of his own blood where the bark scraped his palms was maddening. He was starving, and there was only one person he could be trusted to drink from.
“I thought I could hear you flailing about out here.” Kaname’s voice pierced through the fog like a knife through butter. Zero whirled around to face the pure-blood vampire, his chest heaving.
“Fuck… off.”
“I see Yuki’s absence has been difficult for you,” Kaname smirked, his dark hair swaying in the cool night breeze.
Yuki was on a school trip which Zero, in his current vulnerable state, had been excused from. She would return in two days. He could survive for two days, he told himself, or was he really that pathetic?
Kaname approached Zero with an arrogance which made him clench his jaw. His muscles tensed as the pure-blood vampire wrapped his fingers around his wrist and pulled until Zero was half-standing, half-leaning against the tree.
“This simply won’t do.” Kaname tsked, his grip strong and confining. Zero tried to ignore the dull red glow in the vampires gaze as his eyes trailed the bloody graze on his palm. “If you drink from Yuki in this state, you run the risk of draining her.”
Zero ripped his hand free. In an instant, the cold metal of his vampire-killing gun sat firmly against Kaname's jaw.
“I would never hurt Yuki.” He hissed.
“You already have.”
Zero’s eyes flashed. His finger twitched on the trigger. The only thing which stopped him from squeezing was the knowledge that Yuki would never forgive him. It also didn’t help that the cocky pure-blood was right.
He growled low in his throat and dropped the gun, but didn’t remove his forearm from Kaname’s collarbone.
“Why are you here?” Zero asked. “To mock me?”
“To help.”
Zero arched an eyebrow at the vampire. “How?”
“You need blood.” Kaname’s voice sent a shiver up Zero’s spine. Was he… offering?
Zero’s fangs snapped out so suddenly that they pierced his lip. Blood pooled in his mouth and dribbled down his chin.
“No.” Zero’s words disagreed with his body, which leaned towards the vampire like a moth to a flame. “I don’t want…”
“I don’t have time for your denial,” Kaname said before raking his elongated fingernail down the side of his own neck. Red blood dribbled over his pale skin and pooled at his collarbone. Zero’s true nature took over.
His fangs pierced the delicate skin of Kaname’s neck. The heady taste burst on his tongue and trickled down his throat, filling his body with warmth. Zero shifted to get a better angle until they were flush. He hated that Kaname could feel his chest heaving and his heart racing with pleasure. It was a biological response which Zero had no control over. It was no comfort when Kaname placed a stabilising hand against the back of his neck to pull him closer.
Zero could feel himself coming back to life. He was almost able to wrestle back control when, suddenly, the hand at the back of his neck wasn’t Kaname’s, but Yuki’s.
Her delicate fingers caressed the back of his neck, then clenched as he swallowed another mouthful of sweet nectar. Her gasp was different. There was no pain, only pleasure. Her soft body wrapped around his, pulling him closer. Urging him to take more. The soft mewling sounds which passed her trembling lips sent shockwaves of lust through him. He dragged her closer, her warmth enticing him. He wanted more than this. He wanted to claim her as a man, not just as a vampire…
“Enough!” Kaname’s voice broke through the vision. His voice was loud and directly in his ear.
As Zero regained his composure, he realised he had pressed himself firmly against the length of Kaname’s torso. One leg was on either side of the pure-bloods thighs and his hips were pressed into the crease of his hip. Zero was half-hard and absolutely horrified.
“What the…?” Zero scrambled backwards and desperately willed his libido to calm down. The fresh high from Kaname’s blood wasn’t helping.
“I’m sorry you had to see that,” Kaname said, his voice deeper than usual. Otherwise, he appeared to be in complete control. The fang-marks at his neck were already healing, but the blood staining his white shirt remained.
“What…” Zero’s body vibrated with remembered sensation. What had he just witnessed? Yuki was human, so that wasn’t a memory. Kaname couldn’t have bitten her without turning her.
Zero felt vaguely ill when he realised that it was a fantasy which both Zero and Kaname shared.
“Go and clean yourself up.” Kaname sighed and turned to leave. He hesitated to glance over his shoulder at the shuddering, confused ex-human. “It would be in your best interest to forget what you just experienced.”
Zero’s eyes thinned dangerously as he glared at Kaname's retreating form.
“As if.”