Silent Curses

Disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN KENSHIN! Okay, Rurouni Kenshin belongs to Nobuhiro Watsuki, so here you go

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Part 1: The Himura family curse

It was not like Kenshin wander the dark area of the house, he sat in the shadows and looked on, he could see a rabbit and soon it was in his arms. He looked sorrowfully at it feeling the impulses he felt many times before even living with Hiko.

It starts with one problem, it was the fact that Kenshin lost track of his age, simply because he looked as young as he did. At what age did I really stop aging? He had thought this when he set to looking in a mirror, his red hair hanging into his face, the first time he had to confront the truth.

I'm born this way, he thought feeling the horrible pulsing of the creature he held, he wanted to release it, he just wanted to die. He felt the same fangs growing in, he felt the same guilt he felt when he bit and fed on the animal. He buried the creature, though he felt that he had done something wrong.

Walking into Kaoru's room, he looked in on her, he stared down with the same sad gaze he gave her when she slept. How many words do I have to run through my head to just say what I truly think, he thought to himself touching the door. I can't tell her what I am, I hardly know at times.

Lying on his futon, gazing at the ceiling, his face turning to the side. He remembered what was told him when he was living with Hiko. Hiko saw him mature, saw the vampire in him. "Are you afraid of yourself?" Hiko asked the small boy.

"I don't understand, Master, why?" for the most part, Kenshin stared feeling his body doing what it did on impulse. The small fangs, the almost ghastly hunger that followed him. "I didn't mean to bite, master, honest."

"No, you didn't Kenshin, you didn't want to," his master told him stroking his head. "Just know that you have impulses that your side can't control."

I can't control myself, Kenshin thought this, he remembered the bandits that killed the slavers, he had no idea where he was going really. He was aware of one thing when he was walking along that dark road, he was going to have to say goodbye to innocence.

Being seven, being found, being able to sleep, he was aware of one thing that Master Hiko always said about him. "READ!" He had brought a manuscript in front of Kenshin and forced him to read it a loud to him.

"Nothing is worth more than living, the sword is a tool of which to live with," Kenshin remembered reciting back. Then he saw something else, something written just for him. "Though I am a vampire, I shall not harm a living soul."

It did not come to that during the Bakumatsu time, Kenshin remembered the first time he saw blood, the wild feeling rushing through his veins. He remembered that he had hid inside his room at the inn, he had to take a deep breath, he had to remember to pretend to be human. It was the fact Katsura knew what he was, knew it because of his eyes.

"Yellow like a cats, and blue like the sky," the man smiled. "I knew one clan that did that at one time, they were vampires, though their children were killed."

Katsura told him the story, the story of the Tribes of the Moon, a clan of vampires who spread and lived peacefully among humans. Kenshin wondered if his family was one such family, he did know that his mother and father died, but he did not know of what, he was told it was cholera. Maybe vampire hunters found them, he thought to himself about it.

The first time Kenshin did taste human blood was by accident, he had killed and then the blood splashed into his mouth, he brought his fingers up to his lips. He felt the warmth on his fingers, then the strange taste. He let out a gasp, his fifteen year old mind was running wild, he rushed to a wash basin and nearly put his head in the water to just clear it.

He let his mouth open and he coughed coming back for air..."Kenshin, you okay?" one of the spies asked him and smiled a little. "You really are good at..." he saw the look Kenshin gave him and rushed to his room shutting the door.

Sitting on the ledge gazing out, he was breathing hard, the worse part was something made him thirsty. He waited until most of the inn was asleep, it wasn't hard, the mid afternoon made everyone sleepy there, he crept out and was suddenly walking into the forest near a shrine. He looked around, the most part of this hunt was different, he had to find what he was looking for, a small rabbit. He held it in his arms feeling it try to fight him. "I'm sorry," he whispered biting into it drinking the blood and dropping the body at his feet. "I can't drink human blood."

Returning to the inn, he was back to his routines, though he was hiding the most part of what he was.

Now years later, he had to hide it, hide that he was touched by the moon, as some people considered vampires and werewolves myths. Kenshin remembered the first time he met a werewolf, he stared at Sanosuke who was smiling at him with the wolfish grin, he was a werewolf, he was a wild animal.

"You really are touched by the moon," Sanosuke referred to what happened, it was not like he had any control over some fights. Vampires were always considered more powerful than a werewolf, and considering that his pack was wiped out. "Where is your tribe?"

Kenshin blinked. "Oro?"

"Wait, you don't know?" Sanosuke blinked and had to explain this to Kenshin. "You really don't know anything about the Tribes of the Moon?"

"Not one bit," Kenshin smiled shaking his head. "I was raised by a human, I know nothing of my own clan or even what it means to be of..."

"Hold on..." Sanosuke gasped out. "Okay, I was raised in a werewolf clan since I was a cub and you're the only vampire I have seen who proudly admits to being raised human? Don't you know how shameful that is?"

"No, and Master Hiko was not a bad person, even if he was human," the vampire was staring at him almost with an innocent look on his face. "Why is it shameful?"

"It just is," Sanosuke stared in shock, his eyes wide. "You have no idea how...oh forget it."

It was like that for awhile, so Sanosuke did stick around now, he was pretty sure that Kenshin was going to need some education on vampires and werewolves. It was easy enough to get him to understand one thing, werewolves and vampires had a sort of short relationship. "I can't believe you're that easy going!" Sanosuke glared at him and shook his head. "Vampires don't act like that...though the ones I have met have some kind of problem with werewolves."

"Then you met some that aren't so pleasant," Kenshin blinked and wondered why he would have ever wanted to meet another vampire.

"Look, vampires have this idea that werewolves are servants, like we're freaking slaves or something," Sanosuke stared at Kenshin with some dislike, then shrugged. "I never met a vampire who treats me like I'm not some sort of lapdog."

"Oro? Oh, I would never do that," Kenshin walked off. "You're the first werewolf I ever met that didn't' try to rip my throat out. I met one, but..." He had to think hard, the first one he met was considered foul tempered. "I would rather not discuss that, no that I would not."

Kenshin seems like a nice vampire, Sanosuke thought sitting down, he had to keep track of this one, as long as the other vampires didn't get any ideas, he was hopeful. Lying on his back in ruffian row, he was looking at the ceiling of his house laughing a little. "Hey, Sano, open up!" he heard a voice, he turned his head and opened the door.

The werewolf looked up. "Look, we're in deep shit! Okay, you know how Doramaru was left in charge right?" he was looking over his shoulder. "It appears our pack got er..well..we have a new alpha and he's big!"

"Big? How big?" Sanosuke rolled onto his side.

"Look, he's one of the Kyoto werewolves, one of those Mibu ones, big black and mean all over," the werewolf's name was Maku. He nervously looked around the house and let out a gasp. "He found out you're the beta, you have to get the hell out of here, Sano! He nearly killed Maka!"

Sanosuke knew that he had left to go into Tokyo to investigate the area, he had been pretty sure that the vampire he had met was not going to cause much trouble. He walked into the alley and saw the large black form of a wolf. "So this is the beta," the eyes were narrowing on him, for a moment, a new form took its place. "You smell like crap."

"Speak for yourself, you know its against the rules to take over a pack that had a clear alpha, Mibu," Sanosuke knew the rules, he knew that taking over a pack like this guy did was not allowed.

"I never was one for rules," the wolf growled, that was when there were six other wolves, one was smaller, and slightly white and looked at him. "I didn't expect your pack to put up this much of a fight considering who was your last alpha?" He was pacing a little and Sanosuke glared.

"Though I never heard of a pack that takes in strays," whispered the Mibu wolf.

That was when Sanosuke glared. "It is easy to take in strays when their packs are ravaged by other stronger ones. If I'm the pack leader of this rag tag group, than that is me, I'm the new alpha then."

"I was hoping you would say something," The larger wolf was laughing.

The fight that started, "Maku, get Maka and your self to the Kamiya dojo!"

Kenshin was sleeping, at least taking a nap, he heard the rattling of voices and saw two children, he blinked looking at the two of them. "Oro?"

"Um...Sano sent us here," a boy with black hair looking nervous turned his had to a girl with similar features. "Are you his vampire friend?"

"Hai, I am," Kenshin nodded slowly and saw the boy's face. "Where is he?"

"He's facing another werewolf who is trying to take our home." the girl whispered and looked sad. "They're called Mibu."

Sitting quickly, he grabbed his sakobatou and rushed off. "Stay here!"