Alone

Darkness Dawn

Disclaimer: I don’t own Vampire Knight. I do however own my plot.

Summary: Kaname Kuran loves taunting Zero Kiryuu, constantly reminding him that he lost everything, how he will become level-E… what would happen if one day Zero’s had enough of Kaname’s barbs? Not yaoi for once

A/N: Dedicated to the fact that Kaname-sama is a big meanie!!! :p. Kaname, I blame you! Much as I love you (a little more than Ichijou, but a bit less than Zero) I would like you a lot better if you’d be nice to Zero, who actually has a reason to hate you! AU if you count the fact that Zero doesn’t love Yuuki.

*Ahem* right… Just read the story. IF YOU LIKE IT AND YOU REVIEW I MAY CONTNUE IT AND MAKE A KANZE YAOI!!!

Zero slammed his forehead into the tree trunk. He hated that arrogant sonofabitch bastard pureblood! Who the hell did he think he was, walking around with a pole stuck up his ass, acting like he was so much better than everyone!? A pureblood, obviously.

As if it wasn’t bad enough that four years ago the pureblood Shizuka Hio had murdered his family, kidnapped his twin brother and turned him into a deranged psychopath! Then he had ensured that the remainder of his sorry existence was a living hell. How could Yuuki see anything good in that heartless monster!?

Heartless monster… He was one too wasn’t he? At least… he would be… But he hadn’t always been like this… before, when he still had a reason to live things had been different…

Zero felt his eyes begin to burn as they threatened to form tears like they always did when he remembered his family. One hand grasped his shirt in front of his heart, as if doing so could dull the terrible ache of pain and loneliness that resided there. He was always alone, he could be surrounded by people, and yet still be completely alone. When he was alone by himself, the mask of constant anger that he wore to ward others away faded, he was most vulnerable alone…

Checking to see if his gun was loaded, the ex-human continued on his patrol. Then he picked up the scent of two humans. Day Class girls. His glare automatically slid back into place. Another set of creatures that added to his hell experience, What a lovely way to spend the last days of your humanity, chasing after spoilt brats who don‘t have enough brains to fill a tea spoon!

The girls jumped as they heard some rustling and a branch snap behind them.

“Was that one of the prefects!?”

“Oh I hope it was Cross-chan! If it’s-”

“Get. The. Hell. Back. To. Your. Dorms!” snarled Zero, appearing behind them.

“Kiryuu!!!” shrieked the girls, turning and running back to their dorms as fast as their legs could carry them, shoving each other out of the way in order to get away from the male prefect as fast as humanly possible.

“My, my… so scary Mr. Disciplinary Committee…” Zero clenched his fists at his side. Oh he knew that voice. The same cool voice that held no emotion, yet cut through him better than any knife could. He could hear the bite directed at him, and he knew that so well, didn’t he?

“Kuran” growled Zero.

“Now Kiryuu-kun, is that any way for you to address me? Didn’t your parents raise you with manners?” asked Kaname, as if they were discussing the weather. Zero clenched his fists tighter, his nails starting to dig into his skin. The way Kuran mentioned his family so casually, when the vampire had no right to mention his parents, at all! Before he lost control and snapped the pureblood’s neck, he stormed off into the forest, walking as fast as possible without running, he wouldn’t give Kuran that pleasure.

“Apparently not” said Kaname, easily keeping pace with the prefect.

“Don’t you have someone else’s time to waste Kuran!?” snapped Zero.

“Shouldn’t you be speaking a little more politely? After all, it is in your instincts to obey your betters. Especially an ex-human to a pureblood”

His betters… Zero’s fists were now digging so hard into his skin they’d drawn blood, but he didn’t notice, anger had pumped too much adrenaline into his bloodstream, his heartbeat was pounding in his ears almost too loudly to hear anything else. He wasn’t sure when was the last time he’d felt so pissed off. Oh, yes. He knew exactly what ex-humans were to purebloods. Mercenaries, assassins, slaves, whores. He was nothing like that to Kaname Kuran or any other pureblood, and he never would be!

Without thinking he slammed the pureblood hard into a nearby tree, holding the older vampire up with one hand, his nails digging into Kaname’s neck.

“You have the damn guts to say that you’re better than me!?” he hissed, his voice dangerously low. He was literally shaking with rage, his fangs could be seen as he gritted his teeth. “And just what makes you think that Kuran!? Huh!? What gives you the right to look down your nose at me!? To treat me like dirt and expect me to bow down at your feet and follow your every fucking whim, just because you said so!?!

“You don’t know anything about me!!! You have no idea what it feels like! How it feels to know that every second of your life is one of your last because you’re slowly becoming a monster when you’ve done nothing to deserve it! To be unable to be close to the girl who’s like a sister to you, because you’re afraid you’ll loose control and rip her neck out! To see your parent’s throats ripped out right in front of you every single night when you go to sleep! Knowing that the person you loved the most was someone who hated you the most! To remember how you told your brother to run from the monster in the house, and then found out that it was him who let her in, in the first place!!!

“How would you know anything about loss and betrayal Kaname Kuran!? You’re never alone! All your adoring fan club leeches! That moron of a Chairman! Yuuki! They all surround you, treating you with kindness and care that you sure as hell don’t deserve! I may be a monster, and a dead man walking Kuran, but at least I‘m still human enough to have an emotional range greater than a dead man!”

Kaname stared slightly wide eyed into the hunter’s lavender eyes. Zero’s fingernails were cutting into his neck, and crushing his throat, but he didn’t notice as he stared at the younger vampire. Zero Kiryuu’s eyes were full of more emotion than he’d ever seen the boy display. Yes, there was the usual hatred and anger, but behind that were the true emotions: The heartbreaking agony and loneliness of a twelve year old boy who had had everything ripped away from him, locking himself away behind a mask of hatred so that the monsters couldn’t hurt him any more.

“You know nothing…” he whispered, those last, quiet words full of pain, before Zero let the pureblood slump to the floor. He turned and walked away, leaving Kaname to stare blankly after him.

Kaname raised one hand to his neck slowly. Perhaps he and the hunter weren’t so different, but it was true wasn’t it? He was a monster, even Yuuki couldn’t look him in the eye since he’d bitten Ruka to stop himself biting her. But some of the things Zero had said were not entirely true. They were both alone.

“You’re wrong… Zero…”

Well? How was it? I kinda like it! Very angsty! WOW! I can write angst! And yes, in case you were wondering, that is how I see Zero. But he is a little bit wrong about Kaname, they’re not so different after all!^^ now for yaoi… heh heh…