Golden Glow

A/N: Hey guys, nya. This is the first Zeki I've done in a long ass time. I decided to do some of those 100 prompt challenges thingys! This is #8: Innocence. The lullaby Yuki sings (which is linked above) is Brahms Lullaby by Jewel

Zero tosses in his sleep, dreams of the night his parents were murdered flashing through his head. One minute he was lying in bed next to his brother, and the next he was lying on the ground, the floor a sea of his parents' blood.

He jerks awake when he feels a warm hand place itself upon his sweating brow, his pulse thundering in his ears. He opens his eyes and frowns for there, stroking his hair as she sits in a chair at his bedside, is Yuki Cross. Her innocence is enviable, for his had been ripped away from him by a woman named Shizuka Hio, a pureblood. He hates pureblood.

Speaking of hadn't Yuki just defended one? The mere thought fills him with rage and he stops her hand from soothing him "Get the hell out!" He yells angrily at her, making her flinch and scurry off, but not before she gives him one last worrying glance.

He falls back asleep, but without Yuki to protect his unconscious mind, without her warm, golden glow, his dreams are far more detailed, as though their sole intent is purely to terrify him just for the hell of it. He wakes next, far more scared than before and finds himself waking to a certain someone's bedroom door. He is too scared to rethink things and enters, going straight for where she is bundled up under covers. She seems to get the message and welcomes him under the blankets next to her, cuddling with him and chasing away those horrid dreams with a lullaby.

"Lullaby,

and goodnight,

in the skies stars are bright.

May the moon's silvery beams

bring you sweet dreams.

Close your eyes now and rest.

May these hours be blessed.

'Til the sky's bright with dawn.

When you wake with a yawn

Something something about puppy dogs."

Yuki finishes, yawning, evidently making herself more sleepy than she had made Zero.

Her sleeping face was still so happy, she truly is a warm person, like a ray of sunshine. Zero drifted to sleep a few moment later, his faces relaxing and looking completely and totally unguarded, looking almost innocent again.