"To change the path ahead is a very difficult task. The smallest word, the tiniest motion, that which lies in people's hearts. The future takes all these things as its cues to determine the path to come. Just like ripples on the water's surface." Tomoyo, Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles.

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Disclaimer: Twilight doesn't belong to me, the series belongs to Stephanie Meyer, but Tomoe and Kenshin are mine. Beta-ed by Bad Company.

CHAPTER 1: Meeting the Samurai's

~Bella's POV~

It's been three months since James attacked me and now it's my birthday.

It makes me feel old.

"Bella, time for school." Dad's voice cuts through my sleepy thoughts.

Sitting up in bed, I rub the sleep from my eyes, noticing the wrapped package in his hands.

"I thought I said no wrapped presents." I tell dad, running a hand through my hair.

Dad smiles, handing the presents to me and says, "The wrapped one's from your mother, we uh coordinated."

Taking the camera that dad got me, and the wrapped present and opening it.

The present was a scrapbook.

I look at dad with a raised eyebrow as he says, "For your senior moments."

I make a face and say, "I'm not that old."

Dad smirks, and picks up a piece of hair and says, "I think I see a grey hair."

My brows furrow in confusion as I jump off the bed and run to the mirror near my bed and look through my hair.

I hear dad chuckling in the background.

Very funny.

"That's not funny." I say, glaring at him playfully.

Dad still chuckling puts up his hands and walks out the room, closing the door behind him.

Blowing my hair out of my face, I get ready for the day.

~Thirty Minutes Later~

Looking myself over in the mirror I make sure that everything was in place.

Well, time for school.

Exiting the bathroom door, I smell what seems to be breakfast.

Or what's left of it.

Entering the kitchen I find something black smoking in a pan on the stove.

"Dad what have I told you about trying to cook?" I ask him from the doorway.

Dad sheepishly scratches the back of his head and throws what ever was in the pan away.

"Well anyway I got to get to school, dinner should be ready by the time you get home." I tell him as I start to walk out of the house.

"It's okay Bells, I'll have take out, you go hang out with your friends." Dad says closing the door behind us.

"Okay, if you say so." I say getting into my truck and starting it.

Dad nods and says getting into his cruiser, "You need to have fun."

Dad then leaves and I drive off as well.

~Thirty Minutes Later, Forks High School Parking Lot~

Parking the truck I see my friends leaning against Mike's black jeep.

I see Edward not too far away leaning against his Volvo.

Getting out I walk over to them, new camera in hand.

"Well, well look who it is it's the birthday girl." Mike says.

My friends tell me happy birthday, and then I lift up my camera and say, "My mom, uh, wanted me to make memories of my senior year."

"Sure," Jessica says as I hand the camera to Jacob as he walks up.

I stand beside Jessica, Angela, Ben, Eric, and Mike, then a flash from the camera comes, indicating that the picture had been taken.

As the others walk towards the school, I turn towards Jake and say, "Thanks, what are you doing here?"

Jake looks at Edward for a moment before taking something out of his pocket and handing it to me saying, "Your birthday present, it's a dream catcher I made."

I hold it up with a smile and says, "Thanks Jake, really."

Jake goes to say something but the bell rings and I tell him that I would talk to him later, he nods and leaves.

Edward watches as Jake leaves and then walks towards me and we walk to our class.

"How do you feel about turning another year older?" Edwards smoothly says.

I give him a look as say, "That's not funny, I'm gonna be older than you."

Edward just says, "There's nothing wrong with aging."

I sigh and say, "Says you."

"Bella!" Alice's voice comes from above.

Looking up, I see Alice and Jasper walking down the stairs, as they got to the last set of stairs, Alice jumps over the railing and lands in front of us as Jasper calmly walks down the stairs and stops besides Alice.

"Happy birthday Bella!" Alice says happily.

I give her a look and say, "Not so loud."

Jasper stands behind Alice with an expression on his face that said 'can't lose control.'

"Anyway I saw you opening the present and you loved it, and you can wear it tonight at our place." Alice says happily before stepping back towards Jasper.

Alice then stares off and we know she's getting a vision.

She then smiles wide and jumps up and down saying, "Tomoe and Kenshin are coming today."

Edward gives a small smile and Jasper looks happy.

I look confused as I ask, "Who are Tomoe and Kenshin?"

Edward turns to look at me and says, "Tomoe and Kenshin are the ones who found Carlisle and helped create our family."

Alice then says, "They'll be here for your birthday party at our house."

I must be nervous because all of a sudden I feel calm, curtesy of Jasper and Edward says, "Don't worry, Tomoe will like you and if Tomoe likes you then Kenshin will like you."

I raise an eyebrow as Edward continues, "Tomoe is Kenshin's maker and mate, and he would do anything to make her happy."

I nod and we separate from Alice and Jasper as we head towards English class to watch some movie on Romeo and Juliet.

During English class he tells me about the Volturi.

"The Volturi are a family, a very old, very powerful family of our kind. They are the closest thing our world has to a royal family, I suppose. Carlisle lived with them briefly in his early years, in Italy, before he settled in America- do you remember the story?"

I nod remembering seeing the picture at the Cullen's house in Carlisle's office.

"They enforce our laws."

"Like police?" I ask quietly so that the teacher doesn't hear us.

Edward nods, and class goes by fast.

After school Edward and I go to my house so that I could change and leave my truck at the house.

Walking into the bathroom with the present, I set it down on the sink counter and then close the door.

Opening the present I see a deep green halter dress and a black long sleeved sweater that doesn't close or zip closed.

Wow, it's pretty.

I quickly take a shower and put on the dress and some chucks before stepping out of the bathroom and walk down stairs to see Edward sitting on the couch.

"You look beautiful, Are you ready to go?" Edward asks as we start to exit the house and I lock up behind me.

I blush slightly as I make sure the door is locked and turn around and say, "Thanks, yes though i'm still nervous about meeting them."

Edward chuckles as he opens his car door and says; "Only you would be nervous about impressions when you're about to walk into a house full of vampires."

I give a small chuckle as he closes the door and goes to the drivers side and gets in, starting the car he drives to the Cullen's house where the party is.

In the Cullen's drive way there's Emmett's white jeep, Rosalie's red Mercedes convertible, Carlisle's black Mercedes.

Next to Rosalie's car is a black 2009 black Maserati Gran Turismo S.

Must be either Tomoe's car or Kenshin's.

"Whose car is that?"

"The black Maserati, that's Tomoe's though Kenshin sometimes drives it." Edward says as he parks next to the Maserati.

I was right.

Opening the door carefully I exit the car, then close the door and walk to the front of the car where Edward was waiting and escorts me inside.

"Bella!"

Alice.

The tiny pixy haired Cullen bounces in front of me and excitedly asks, "Do you like the dress? Let's take a picture!"

Alice put Edward and I together before taking a picture.

Alice then drags me over to where two Asian vampires were sitting, the male had short straight hair that went to his jaw and bangs that end just under his eyebrows and was messy yet tame.

The female was gorgeous, she has short mahogany red brown hair with two blue streaks and is parted with one side longer than the other (an: like Rihanna's shut up and drive).

They both had pale skin and topaz colored eyes, the female was watching us as we stop in front of them.

Alice introduces me, "Bella this is Tomoe [the woman] and Kenshin [the man], Tomoe, Kenshin, this is Bella."

Kenshin is silent, as Tomoe looks me over, the others in the background are watching.

Tomoe smiles and says, "Hello, I have heard a lot about you."

"All good I hope." I say to her.

Tomoe chuckles and nods.

Esme comes out of the kitchen with the birthday cake as Alice yanks me towards the present singing, "Present time~"

Someone's more excited about opening presents than I am.

Rosalie, Emmett, Esme, and Carlisle stand back near the stairs, Edward and Alice are by my side as Alice hands me a present.

Tomoe and Kenshin have moved from the couch to Edward's left, watching as I rotate the present around then start to open it.

"Ow! Paper cut." I say to myself as I cut my finger trying to open the present.

I then look at everyone and realize that they are looking between my finger and Jasper, who lept towards me but gets stopped by Emmett, Carlisle and Kenshin.

Rosalie, Esme and Alice were looking worriedly between me and Jasper, who breaks out of their hold and Edward pushes me back, but I end up flying through the air, landing against a wall then smashing a side table that has glass candle holders that cut my upper arm, making me bleed again.

Edward at the same time that he pushed me also hit Jasper, making him fly into and smashing a black grand piano.

Carlisle and Tomoe are at my side, Rosalie, Emmett, Esme, and Kenshin drag Jasper outside with Alice following as Edward looks in my direction.

Carlisle and Tomoe take me to Carlisle's office to stitch my arm.

So much for a good time.

Once Carlisle was finished stitching my arm, he went back downstairs as Tomoe and I follow after him.

Carlisle had gone outside, and Edward had disappeared somewhere as well.

Tomoe turns to me and says, "I'll take you home."

I nod and say, "Okay."

Walking outside I see Kenshin loading the present into the trunk of the Maserati.

Tomoe tells Kenshin something in another language.

I think she said something in Japanese.

Tomoe and Kenshin after putting the last present from the Cullen's into the trunk walks towards me.

"Your present are in the trunk, are you ready to go?" Tomoe asks me gently.

I nod and Kenshin opens the door and makes the seat go foreword. I then get in the backseat and buckle in as Kenshin puts the seat back in it's original position and then gets in himself.

Tomoe gets in the drivers seat and then they close the doors, after the car doors close, Tomoe starts the car and backs out of the drive way.

The whole way to my house was relatively quiet unless it was to give them directions to my house.

We eventually pull up to my house and Tomoe parks the car and we all get out.

Kenshin and Tomoe help me bring the presents into the house, then start to leave.

As Tomoe exists the house, she turns and says, "I wish that this night had turned out differently."

I nod in agreement, and I watch as they get in her car and leave before closing the door and walking to my room. I manage to change into pajamas before crashing onto the bed and falling asleep.

~Tomoe's POV, after they leave Bella's house~

"Bera wa kyūketsuki ni osowa reta nochi daijōbu to omowa reru (Bella seems to be okay after being attacked by a vampire)." I say to Kenshin.

"Hai, kore ga kyūketsuki ni osowa reru shite iru on'nanoko no tame ni hajimetede wanai yōda(Yes, it seems this isn't the first time for that girl to be attacked by a vampire)." Kenshin quietly says as he looks out the window.

"Fumu, watashi-tachi wa kārairu no ie ni tsuita toki ni sono koto nitsuite kiite kimasu (Hm, we will ask about that when we get to Carlisle's house)." I tell him as I do a hard left, making Kenshin fall against the passenger door window but he catches himself as to not break the window.

"Mochiron, Tomoe Ai (Of course, Tomoe my love)." Kenshin says agreeing with me.

"Namaikina otoko (Cheeky man)." I say smiling at Kenshin as we pull into Carlisle's driveway.

I park the car and we quickly get out and into the house, where it was still a mess from earlier.

Kenshin and I walk into the living room, we are facing the wall where Bella went smashing into earlier.

Seated to our immediate left is Carlisle and Esme, in the love seat to them is Rosalie and Emmett, then on another love seat is Alice and Jasper who looked upset, sitting on a foot rest next to them is Edward.

Kenshin and I stand between Carlisle and Edward as I say, "We're back."

"Thank you for taking Bella back to her house." Edward says.

"You're her boyfriend aren't you, that should have been your job." I say to him as he narrows his eyes.

Kenshin steps in between us and Edward backs off knowing that he won't win against a trained warrior.

"Carlisle, why did Bella seem fine when being attacked by a vampire?" I ask him.

"Last year she was attacked by a nomad vampire, and we killed him." He says and everyone still hasn't said a word.

"I sense a but coming on." I say looking at him.

"He has a mate who's still out there." Carlisle replies.

"Yeah and Edward wants to leave." Alice says glancing at said person.

"Why?" I ask him.

"Because I'm dangerous to her." He says like it's a final decision.

"With that vampire's mate still out there, probably looking for blood and you want to leave her alone! Tell me if that's not more dangerous than you still being here!" I yell at him, Kenshin has to restrain me from getting to him.

Everyone is silent, thinking over what I just said.

Carlisle sighs and says, "People are starting to notice that I'm not aging, it's time we move."

I sigh and say, "Fine, you guys leave, Kenshin and I will stay here, I don't feel comfortable leaving her all by herself with that vampires mate still around somewhere."

Everyone else starts packing getting ready to leave soon, I walk over to where Bella had fallen earlier and start picking up the glass, along with Kenshin.

I know they will regret their decision.

Playlist for Chapter:
B2st- Soom
Avenged Sevenfold- Nightmare
Bleeding Through- line in the sand

AN: Hope you liked this chapter, This is set at Bella's birthday and i'm sorry if the characters seem a bit OCC-ish, so rate and review please, thank you.