We're Not Meant to Be chp. 5

WARNING, THIS STORY CONTAINS SPOILERS FROM THE VAMPIRE KNIGHT FINALE!!!!!!!!!

We're Not Meant To Be

Chapter 5

... And Still So Far

“You were planning to take Yuuki away from me,” Kaname said simply, his voice as cold and dead as a vengeful ghost’s.  Yuuki gasped, not only at the pure fury in her brother’s quiet voice, but also at what he was implying.  Aidou just stood perfectly still, frozen with fear.  

Yuuki recovered first.  Stumbling around her desk, she ran in front of Aidou and spread her arms defensively, trying to keep her limbs from shaking too hard.  “Kaname-oniisan, please!  Please don’t hurt Aidou!”  Kaname turned his hard red eyes on her.  They seemed hollow.  He was seeking blood.  “Please, I beg you!”

“Yuuki, step aside please,” her brother requested calmly, as if he were asking her to open her window or wash her hands.  Yuuki’s teeth clenched hard together.

“No,” she said firmly.  Kaname’s eyes narrowed so minutely Yuuki wasn’t sure it had even happened.  “Why are you angry with Aidou?  What has he done?”

“I’ve already said it.  He wants to take you from me.”

“Someone will take me from you someday!”  Yuuki shouted back.  “Be it Aidou or someone else, they’ll come and offer me their future, and if I choose I will give them mine!  I will choose!”  Kaname’s hand flexed.  Yuuki closed her eyes.  It wounded her deeply to cross her brother this way.  She knew she was causing him great pain.  But this time she would not back down.  He could not own her.  She would not let him anymore.  “Kaname-”

“Please Yuuki, don’t talk back to me,” Kaname interrupted.  His eyes narrowed to bloody slits.  “It is true that someone MAY take you from me someday, but it will not be today, and it will not be YOU.”  He took a step forward, looking right at Aidou.  “You who are shallow and selfish, only concerned about your own desires.  You cannot give Yuuki what she wants or needs.  You are even worse than Kiryu Zero.”  He spat the name like he was talking about a vermin.

Yuuki’s anger boiled over.  She took a step towards her brother to protest, but Aidou grabbed her shoulder and halted her.  Shocked, Yuuki turned to look at him.  The blond vampire’s face was hard and cold, determination making his blue eyes shine.  Gently, he pulled Yuuki out from in front of him.  Kaname’s hand flexed again, and Yuuki’s window shattered into a million pieces.  Yuuki screamed as the shards of glass flew around the room in a deadly whirlwind, tearing at the curtains, burying into the walls, slicing skin.  Not her skin.

“What makes you think YOU can give Yuuki what she wants or needs?” Aidou demanded, hissing loudly.  His own sapphire eyes went bloody red with bold fury.  Cuts appeared all over his arms and face, his sides and legs and chest.  He remained standing, his anger fueling his determination.  Yuuki had never seen Aidou so furious – and so stupidly brave.  He was standing against a pureblood, one who could tear him apart in less than a second if he chose – and he was close to.  And all of it… for her?  Yuuki didn’t know whether to be horrified or flustered.

“All you’ve ever done is treat Yuuki like she’s stupid and take away her freedom!” Aidou went on, his voice shaking, but from anger or fear, Yuuki couldn’t be sure.  “If you think attempting to control someone forever is giving them what they need, and if you call oppression love, then I hope Yuuki lives the rest of her eternity entirely alone-”

Kaname lunged.  Yuuki screamed.  But it was already over.

Aidou dropped to the floor like a limp doll, his eyes distant, blood pooling under his chest.  Yuuki screamed again, scrabbling to get to his side.  A hand clamped down on her arm from behind, holding her back.  

“KANAME, NO!!”  Blind with tears, she whirled around, swinging her shaking fist.  She hit Kaname squarely in the chest, but he didn’t seem to notice.  Practically dragging her, he headed for the door.  “NO!!” Yuuki screeched again, reaching for Aidou’s body sprawled on the floor.  Her fingers brushed his hand, then she was yanked away.  “NO!!  AIDOU!!”

Suddenly, Kain rushed in from the hall.  “Kaname-sama, what’s going-”  He froze as soon as his eyes saw the body.  “H-Hanabusa…”  Kaname brushed past him, dragging the still screaming Yuuki behind him, but Kain did not notice.  He just stood in the doorway for a long time, staring, frozen with shock and grief.

Then he fell to his knees and wept.



“I HATE YOU, KANAME!!!  I HATE YOU!!!  FOREVER!!  FOREVER!!!”

Yuuki beat her now-bruised fist against the locked door, though her tears were coming so fast and so thick she could barely see it.  Her whole body shook with sobs, and her chest ached from screaming and gasping so hard.  She couldn’t feel her throat.  And still she screamed.  Wherever Kaname had gone after he’d locked her in the basement without a word, he would hear her, she was certain.  And he would hurt, she would MAKE certain.

With one last scream, Yuuki fell back from the door, hitting her head hard on the floor.  She couldn’t feel the pain.  It wouldn’t have mattered anyway if she did.  Choking on her tears, she curled into a shivering ball and cried bitterly.

“It’s my… f-f-fault…” she sobbed.  “All my… f-fault…  K-Kaname, you… mons-st-ster…”  Horrible images flashed through her mind, burning into her soul, making her scream again.  She covered her ears, trying to block out the hiss of glass whirling through the air, and Aidou’s last words.  She would spend her eternity alone at this rate, if all she ever did was hurt the people she loved.  Or get them killed…

Sobbing harder, Yuuki just lay in a ball on the dirty basement floor, drowning in her misery and loneliness.  She would spend her eternity there for all she cared now.



“Kaname-sama, I request a month’s leave from your services in order… so I can… give my cousin a proper funeral service.”

“You were never officially in my services.  Do whatever you like.  And don’t feel obliged to return.”

“Thank you, Kaname-sama.”

Kain kept his face smooth and emotionless as he left the pureblood’s office, but he knew his eyes were still clearly red, and not from hunger, giving away his grieving.  Kaname hadn’t so much as spared him a glance during they’re three-sentence conversation.  Kain’s stomach churned.

As soon as he’d entered his own room and the door was shut and locked, he began furiously packing.  Anything within his reach was snatched and thrown in his suitcase.  This consisted of a second shirt, a jacket, his scarf, and a large wad of cash he had hidden from Aidou between the matresses.  The suitcase was barely a quarter of the way full.  Good.

Slipping silently out of his bedroom, Kain stalked down the hallway to Aidou’s room, and, afterwards, raided the linen closet.  Next came the kitchen, which he used to fill the small remaining space in his suitcase.  In his rush out the door, Kain nearly ran headlong into Ruka.

“A-Akatsuki!”  Her eyes were red and swollen from crying, and her pale cheeks were still wet with tear-tracks.  She spotted his now-full suitcase.  “Where are you-”

“I’m taking my cousin’s body and informing our family of what has happened,” Kain answered, forming the words carefully, trying to keep the bitterness out of his voice.  “Then I’m going to a funeral.”

Ruka lowered her eyes, sniffing.  “You know I… I always thought Aidou was annoying…  But now that he’s…”  Tears began to fall again, and she hid her face in her hands.  “I don’t know what to do, Kain!  Kaname-sama did this, but it’s such a monstrous, heartless thing to do… I just don’t want to believe it!”

Kain hesitated, then wrapped his free arm around Ruka’s shoulders and hugged her awkwardly.  She rested her head against his chest and sobbed into his coat, all the while trying to gain some composure and failing.

“I’m going with you,” she said at last, not pulling away just yet.  “I can’t take it here anymore.  Let Kaname-sama and Yuuki deal with each other alone.  I’m tired of others being caught up in it.”

“You can’t,” Kain said quietly.  “I know it sounds harsh, but you need to look after Yuuki now.  She has it worse than all of us.  I need you to comfort her somehow.”

“Kain, I-” Ruka began to protest, but Kain cut her off.

“Aidou would have wanted it.”

Silenced, Ruka just nodded, gave him a final quick embrace, and hurried down the hall.  Kain watched her go, feeling a deep pang of guilt as he did.  She was suffering.  Yuuki was suffering even more.  And all for something they each partially (or wholly) blamed on themselves.  He hated leaving them in such a state while he was unphased, and not even knowing for how long he'd be gone.  He also hated leaving both girls in the house of his cousin’s attacker.

I don’t know what will happen next, he thought, as he made his way quickly down the hall, but I hope you two will be all right.  I’ll come back for you as soon as possible… and I’ll take you both away from this place forever.  And hopefully I'll be able to ease your suffering...  Please hang in there everyone.

To Be Continued...