CROSSED. A VAMPIRE KNIGHT//TOKYO GHOUL FANFICTION.

[2] tired

Finally, I made it.

The open field and the singular standing barn, but before I could go in my knees buckled, all those emotions that I tried so hard to hold back came pouring out in heaping sob, tears streaming down my face as I clench my teeth and try to wipe away the tears that just kept brimming. I leaned forward and felt my forehead touch the grass, digging my head into the ground to try and make it stop.

I let all of it come out in loud wails, weeping in a way I didn't think I ever could. My parents were dead, my life ruined and I am the one thing I hate most in the world, the one thing that the love of my life hates so much.

'Vampire.'

I felt a cold barrel press against my head, immediately I knew it was Zero. A part of me longed for him to just pull the trigger right then and there so he would never have to know what I became.

I slowly raised my head and met his stare, my eyes puffy with tears still flowing out. 'Ze-ro,' his eyes widened when he realised who I was, a faint gasp escaping him. 'Zero stay away,' I pleaded, getting up on my knees, looking away.

I shuffled my body back, distancing myself from him. I didn't want him to see me like this. I came all this way yet I couldn't man up and face him. He followed me forward and kept the gun trained on my head.

'I'm a monster...'

'You're one of them?' It was a rhetoric question. He could sense it, he was a hunter. I am the one thing that he wants to eradicate from the world so badly, the one thing I wanted to eradicate too.

He pressed the barrel harder against my skull, I didn't stop him, the cold metal almost soothing the pain I felt inside my head.

His grip was faltering on the gun as he kept trying to force himself to keep it trained on me. I could almost feel the tears that were falling down his cheeks. His grip is softening on the gun, drooping down the barrel more towards the ground.

I reached for the barrel of the gun and grasped it firmly in my hand, but instead of pushing it away and letting him drop it, I pressed it firmly against my temple. I closed my eyes and let the tears left in my eyes fall down, dripping onto the cold grass, swaying in the warm breeze of the summer night, illuminated by a nearly full moon.

'Do it.'

'Aka—'

'DO IT ZERO! FOR FUCKS SAKE PUT THE BULLET IN MY HEAD! KILL ME ALREADY! I'M A MONSTER,'

the tears welled up again as I choked through my words, my grip on the gun wavering.

'Please. I have nothing to live for...' My grip on the gun slipped, my hand rolling off as my body went limp, all the energy drained from me. He hesitated for a second as the gun stays still. My eyes clamped shut.

bang.

The gun went off. I waited for a second, and then for one more before I opened my eyes to see Zero aiming the gun just above my head, going up into the trees instead of down and shooting me. He slumps down and collapses onto his knees, crying, his shoulders shuddering.

He threw the gun away and hugged me, pulling me into his embrace, nearly clawing at my skin. I hadn't actually realised I had different clothes on until now, that was a weird thought.

'I'm sorry Akara, I should have told you.'

What?

He pulls away and locks eyes with me, I look and see the same red glow from my eyes in his. My eyes glanced down and I saw the fangs.

He was a vampire too?

That's when I smelled him. The smell that was familiar and faint before was almost overpowering now, the smell of a level E, no D.