Vampire King [Sequal]

[Chapter 8]

The injured vampire girl laid sprawled out on top of the large mattress in the dark cold room, panting softly and catching her breath as some of her blood began to seep into the silk sheets beneath her. Yuki felt tired and extremely parched from the amount of blood she lost. Some time ago, she was attacked by another vampire. A Pureblood like her. 

But apart from the incident, her mind wandered aimlessly to the silver-haired hunter from earlier. She remembers how when their eyes met, she felt her heart stop.

Suddenly, her breath hitched when she felt a familiar cold hand softly touch her pale cheek. Her drowsy eyes slowly looked up to meet a pair of dark red eyes, calmly staring into her soul and causing her body tense at the sudden strong presence beside her.

"You refrained from drinking his blood, Yuki..." Kaname whispered. He wanted to be happy, but...

 Yuki felt tears slowly show as she averted her gaze from him. He was silent for a moment before he grabbed her weak arm and sunk his fangs into her wrist.

"Ten years have passed... But I came back to you, didn't I...? Yet you still have that lonely look in your eyes..." He didn't reply but his grip tightens slightly as he continued to drink from her.

"What are we-...." Yuki cut herself off while she stared at him, her tearful eyes pleading for him to speak. The sound of her heart beats like loud drums in her ears as her throat grew even drier.

"Do you want to know my dark secret, Emi?"

Finally, he stopped and met the young girl's gaze. He was quiet and deep in thought. After drinking so much of her blood, he still wasn't satisfied... and that terrified him.

Rido's words kept echoing in his mind. "Your whole life, you thought you wanted to watch your beloved flap her wings, yet there is another, isn't there?"

"I'm not your brother..."

"...Rido was the one who awakened me when I was nothing but a mummified corpse."

That's right.

How long has it been since that time?

He carried the young tired girl down to the underground mausoleum and laid her on top of the coffin where he spent countless millennia within, waiting to turn to dust. 

For the first time in his life, he felt confused and he didn't quite understand it. That night he decided to turn her, he felt the tiny conflict in his heart grow more and more dangerously. After a long time of giving it thought this past year, he wanted to reveal his true identity to Yuki. But how would she react is the question... Yuki watched his face... seeing how weary his eyes looked.

Yuki drank his blood, letting his memories flow into her and seeing who this man really was. His mind wandering to that night with her.

"You now know the truth about me... What will you do, Emi?"

He wiped the blood off of Yuki's lips as she laid unconscious in his arms, dreaming of his memories.

"It doesn't change who you are, Kaname." Her tender words invade to his thoughts once again. He chuckles to himself of the fact that his thoughts are full of her while he holds his lover close to him.

"Kaname...Please don't make this hard for me..."

"I'm sorry."

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