This is a vampire fanfiction that I'm writing with my friend. Well... let's
just say I'm doing ALL the writing and she comes up with all the ideas. I
add things here and there but pretty much we are doing it together. Summary
says a little bit... just read to find out.
***A few author's notes... some people will be OOC... especially Kaede... Inuyasha will not have dog ears cause I can't fit them in, and there will be no sit command. Other than that... nothing special. Pretty much all the characters will come into play one way or another. Some we haven't figured out... who knows... maybe some will never be used. It may be confusing in the beginning but more and more will be revealed as you go!
~*~*~*~*~ means that there is a scene change!
Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha or any of the characters involved with it. This idea belongs to me... sorry if someone has written something similar to this idea, but with all my readings, I've never come across something even close to this.
Chapter 1- No Need
"Kaede!"
"Hello child. How are you doing today?" Kaede asked the girl that was running towards her.
"I'm fine. I'm just glad school is out for the week."
"I'm glad you came here Kagome. The strawberries are ripe and ready for picking. Now I won't have to do it all by myself." Kaede told her with a smile.
Kaede was Kagome's old neighbor when she was really little. But when the city they were living in got to be too much for her, she moved. Kagome still loved the old woman and saw her as her own grandmother. Kagome's real grandmother died when she was still young and now her grandfather has been living with her family since. With Kaede's old age, Kagome always helped her out around the house.
They picked the strawberries that were ripe in Kaede's little garden. After they were done, Kagome walked into the small one story home Kaede lived in and started to prepare both of them dinner. Kagome hummed softly to herself and looked outside to the trees where the birds sang merrily.
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"Inuyasha! Get your ass over to my office now!"
In a large skyscraper in downtown Tokyo, a young man with long silver hair trudged annoyingly through its glass doors. By many, the building was just one of the many others that rose high into the sky, adorning the city. Its company name was 'Hunters of the Trade', but no one knew exactly what they did. Only the people that worked there ever knew what went on behind closed doors. It's motto... 'To make the world a safer place for future generations.'
The young man's hand trailed down to his black leather pants where he rest it on the hilt of a Japanese sword hanging around his waist. The black coat that he wore went down to the floor and covered his sword from wandering eyes. As he walked across the marble floor in the building, his coat flowed behind him, opening slightly in the front to reveal a dark red shirt that covered his well-built muscles.
A sleek clawed hand ran through his unnaturally silver hair as he sighed in annoyance. He was being yelled at again by the director of operations... but not only was he hearing this... but the whole building was. He was late... again... but that was to be expected from him.
The speaker system that ran through the entire building went off again. "Inuyasha, get up here... now!"
While the message was blaring throughout the building, Inuyasha purposely walked up to one of the security cameras and started to lazily crack his neck and stretch his arms. Without much effort, he strolled towards the elevator that would lead to the director of operations' office.
"I can see you, you lazy ass! So if you don't get here now, I'll detain you!"
"You're kidding right?" came Inuyasha's exasperated voice. "I'm only an hour late!"
He walked into the elevator and pressed the button for the floor where the man he was annoyed by the most was located. Watching the digital display of numbers above the door quickly go higher and higher, the pit of his stomach started to feel uneasy. He averted his gaze and stared at the door until the slight ding sounded throughout the space he was in, alerting him that his destination had been arrived at.
The doors opened slowly to reveal an expensive, yet simply decorated room. It wasn't elaborate, but just by looking, simple objects such as the desk against the back wall were made from overly expensive materials. Real dark wood paneling covered the walls and navy blue carpeting that was soft to the touch covered every inch of the floor. Beautifully done paintings hung every so often on the walls, and off to one side, two black leather couches faced each other with a hand carved mahogany table in-between them. Inuyasha walked over to the desk that lay against the far wall and sat in one of the giant leather office chairs resting across from the main chair's occupant. The person was facing the giant window that rested in the wall directly behind the desk. Heavy velvet curtains hung down partially closed. The chair next to Inuyasha was empty so he plopped his heavy black army boots onto it.
"So what do you want now." Inuyasha said sounding annoyed.
The man in the chair turned around to face Inuyasha. His face was stern and looked at him with disgust. This was the director of operations... Mr. Thomas Poi.
The man was getting old, but he still had a young look to him. His full head of hair showed few grays, but his face looked worn from much of the stress he had been through. He was of medium height and had no physical strength. An ordinary man nonetheless.
"Inuyasha..." He folded his hands in front of him and smirked.
Inuyasha looked at him warily, wondering why he was smiling. Mr. Poi was never excited to see Inuyasha and usually when he called him to his office, it was to yell at him or threaten him. Now he looked... happy. The silver haired boy's expression changed from one of confidence to one of pure suspicion.
"I've called you up to my office because an important issue needs to be addressed." Mr. Poi paused a moment to make sure he had Inuyasha's attention, then continued. "Where the hell have you been the last few days?!"
"I've been doing my job!" he retorted.
"You know you are supposed to check in every day! I'm surprised you even got my message on your cell phone! We have been trying to get a hold of you but no one could seem to locate you!"
In this corporation, every worker pretty much lived in the building. That was another reason for its pure height. Whenever someone went out of the building, they were expected to come back to check in and leave again if needed, or say when an extended leave was to be taken. It kept a good eye on everyone.
"And another thing..." Thomas continued his ranting, "The time we have given you to find a new partner is up!"
Inuyasha glared at him. "I thought I said that I never wanted another partner! I don't need one."
The director sighed. "Everyone has to have a partner Inuyasha. It's part of the code... and anyways, what happens if your hunger takes over? You will be doing the opposite of your job! You know as well as I do that you will not be able to control yourself once that side takes over! Once you loose control... we might be forced to kill you."
Yes... he did say 'the hunger'. It is unbeknownst to most of the population in the world, but walking among everyone are creatures of a different kind. They are the creatures of the night. Some call them the living dead, but to most, they are just fiction. These creatures that haunt the night... they are the ones known as Vampires. They supposedly only live in stories of the old and exist in dreams and fantasy, but in this world, they are real... but when the general population comes into hand, for Vampires to only exist in an imaginary world... well that is how most people would like to keep it.
But where there are Vampires, there are those that are vampire... but at the same time are human. These creatures are called half-breeds. How can that be you ask? They can become half-breeds on a few occasions but that will be explained later. And no... Inuyasha is not a Vampire. He is also a half-breed that works for Hunters of the Trade.
Inuyasha laughed at what Mr. Poi said but when he gave Inuyasha 'the look', he shut up.
"And what if you get seriously hurt during a fight? Who the hell do you think is going to save your sorry ass?"
Fighting? That IS what the people of Hunters of the Trade do. Everyone that fights is a half-breed... but whom exactly do they fight? The motto 'To make the world a safer place for future generations' says exactly what it means. There are Vampires out there... and to keep this world safe and to keep the Vampire population from getting to be too much, Hunters of the Trade kills or captures the Vampires.
"You don't need to worry about that because I won't get myself into that situation." He sounded very full of himself.
Mr. Poi spoke more calmly now. "Inuyasha... you can never say that will never happen to you. It's possible... and it's almost happened once! If your partner wasn't there... who knows what would have become of you. That is why you need to get a new partner!"
But once those words left his mouth, Inuyasha jumped up from where he was sitting and slammed his fists down on the desk.
"I don't need a damn person to follow me around everywhere I go!"
"Yes you do! It's in the regulations! We have given you the maximum number of days you can go on to look for a new partner and we know you haven't even been looking. So we searched out a few people, got photos of them, and we'll let you choose from there." Thomas took out five pictures, each of a different woman, and laid them out on his desk.
The half vampires that work for Hunters of the Trade have the ability to sense if a human has special abilities born in them or not. Because the half-breeds have this ability, they are usually expected to go and find their own partner, but in Inuyasha's case, others were sent out to search for the humans and get photographs of them.
Not many humans even know about this ability or how to use it until they are trained and learn to harness it. This ability is the gift to sense vampire auras, and whoever is found to have the gift will be taken in, they will be partnered with a half-breed, get training, and the rest of their life will be lived as a hunter and care taker of the half-vampire that is now their partner... their identities... erased... and their families, friends, and all who knew them... believe them to be dead. It's a sad thing to do to a human who could have never controlled whether or not they wished to receive this capability, but in this world, it is necessary and they learn to live their new lives of hunting.
"This is bull! I'm outta here..." Inuyasha swiftly turned around to leave but was quickly stopped when a voice sounded near Mr. Poi's desk.
"Thomas... let me handle this..." a low almost menacing voice came from the computer on Thomas's desk.
"Mr. Onigumo! Certainly..." Mr. Poi bowed his head slightly at the computer screen in respect and turned the monitor so it was facing Inuyasha. Inuyasha just arrived at the door to the elevator when Mr. Poi said the head of the corporation's name, Onigumo. Inuyasha whirled around from where he stood and bowed at the waist. Everyone knew better than to disobey Onigumo.
He was well respected in the company... especially since he owned it... but no one had ever met him in person or seen his face. He had always appeared on computer screens and talked through intercoms and phones. Even on the computer, his face could never be seen. Only the shadow of his features and the glare of his eyes could be made out, but mostly he was shrouded in darkness.
"Inuyasha..." Onigumo started to direct his talk to him, "the code says that you must have a partner. Pick one of these women from the pictures before you and bring her back here tonight. If you fail, you must come answer to me. I expect you to be back here with her by midnight." and the screen went black.
Inuyasha growled to himself. When Onigumo gave you an order, you had to follow it, and if he threatened you with anything, he was true to his word. He was to be never taken lightly.
Walking over to the pictures of the five girls laid out on Mr. Poi's desk, he looked them over. 'If I pick out a really stupid looking girl, then I could easily loose her and not have to worry about even having someone follow me around.' he thought secretly to himself.
As he looked the pictures over, his head slowly lifted and asked, "Where in the world did you get these?"
"We had some others track them down and snap a quick photo of each. So... just choose from who you see..." Mr. Poi answered him.
The first was of a young girl that was sitting in her room at her desk... studying. Her short red hair covered her face but the stack of books that was next to her could hide her entire form.
'Too much of a studier... probably would have her nose in a book all day... and probably too smart to be tricked by me.' Inuyasha told himself.
The second picture showed a girl who was involved in a fight... she was punching a boy that looked older than her right in the face.
'She looks too persistent... and street smart...'
The next was of a very young girl of about eight years old. She was playing with dolls.
'What the hell? I'm not going to deal with some little brat...'
The girl next to the young one looked at least 18 and was crying. One of her hands was wiping away her tears and the other held an ice-cream cone... the ice cream... that was on the sidewalk.
'What a crybaby! It's just ice cream... uhh... I don't think I could ever handle that...'
But the last photo is what caught his attention. A girl around 16 years of age with long black hair sat at a table eating a cup of instant noodles. Her expression had a very dumb look to it for she had burned her mouth.
'Perfect! I could loose her in an instant. She'll never know what hit her... she would probably just think it's part of the routine. I will be free to do whatever I want!' Inuyasha smiled at this thought.
"I'll get her." Inuyasha said as he put one finger down on the last picture that was in the line.
"Ok... here is the information on her. Her name... is Kagome Higurashi."
~*~*~*~*~*~
Please don't forget to R&R!
***A few author's notes... some people will be OOC... especially Kaede... Inuyasha will not have dog ears cause I can't fit them in, and there will be no sit command. Other than that... nothing special. Pretty much all the characters will come into play one way or another. Some we haven't figured out... who knows... maybe some will never be used. It may be confusing in the beginning but more and more will be revealed as you go!
~*~*~*~*~ means that there is a scene change!
Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha or any of the characters involved with it. This idea belongs to me... sorry if someone has written something similar to this idea, but with all my readings, I've never come across something even close to this.
Chapter 1- No Need
"Kaede!"
"Hello child. How are you doing today?" Kaede asked the girl that was running towards her.
"I'm fine. I'm just glad school is out for the week."
"I'm glad you came here Kagome. The strawberries are ripe and ready for picking. Now I won't have to do it all by myself." Kaede told her with a smile.
Kaede was Kagome's old neighbor when she was really little. But when the city they were living in got to be too much for her, she moved. Kagome still loved the old woman and saw her as her own grandmother. Kagome's real grandmother died when she was still young and now her grandfather has been living with her family since. With Kaede's old age, Kagome always helped her out around the house.
They picked the strawberries that were ripe in Kaede's little garden. After they were done, Kagome walked into the small one story home Kaede lived in and started to prepare both of them dinner. Kagome hummed softly to herself and looked outside to the trees where the birds sang merrily.
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"Inuyasha! Get your ass over to my office now!"
In a large skyscraper in downtown Tokyo, a young man with long silver hair trudged annoyingly through its glass doors. By many, the building was just one of the many others that rose high into the sky, adorning the city. Its company name was 'Hunters of the Trade', but no one knew exactly what they did. Only the people that worked there ever knew what went on behind closed doors. It's motto... 'To make the world a safer place for future generations.'
The young man's hand trailed down to his black leather pants where he rest it on the hilt of a Japanese sword hanging around his waist. The black coat that he wore went down to the floor and covered his sword from wandering eyes. As he walked across the marble floor in the building, his coat flowed behind him, opening slightly in the front to reveal a dark red shirt that covered his well-built muscles.
A sleek clawed hand ran through his unnaturally silver hair as he sighed in annoyance. He was being yelled at again by the director of operations... but not only was he hearing this... but the whole building was. He was late... again... but that was to be expected from him.
The speaker system that ran through the entire building went off again. "Inuyasha, get up here... now!"
While the message was blaring throughout the building, Inuyasha purposely walked up to one of the security cameras and started to lazily crack his neck and stretch his arms. Without much effort, he strolled towards the elevator that would lead to the director of operations' office.
"I can see you, you lazy ass! So if you don't get here now, I'll detain you!"
"You're kidding right?" came Inuyasha's exasperated voice. "I'm only an hour late!"
He walked into the elevator and pressed the button for the floor where the man he was annoyed by the most was located. Watching the digital display of numbers above the door quickly go higher and higher, the pit of his stomach started to feel uneasy. He averted his gaze and stared at the door until the slight ding sounded throughout the space he was in, alerting him that his destination had been arrived at.
The doors opened slowly to reveal an expensive, yet simply decorated room. It wasn't elaborate, but just by looking, simple objects such as the desk against the back wall were made from overly expensive materials. Real dark wood paneling covered the walls and navy blue carpeting that was soft to the touch covered every inch of the floor. Beautifully done paintings hung every so often on the walls, and off to one side, two black leather couches faced each other with a hand carved mahogany table in-between them. Inuyasha walked over to the desk that lay against the far wall and sat in one of the giant leather office chairs resting across from the main chair's occupant. The person was facing the giant window that rested in the wall directly behind the desk. Heavy velvet curtains hung down partially closed. The chair next to Inuyasha was empty so he plopped his heavy black army boots onto it.
"So what do you want now." Inuyasha said sounding annoyed.
The man in the chair turned around to face Inuyasha. His face was stern and looked at him with disgust. This was the director of operations... Mr. Thomas Poi.
The man was getting old, but he still had a young look to him. His full head of hair showed few grays, but his face looked worn from much of the stress he had been through. He was of medium height and had no physical strength. An ordinary man nonetheless.
"Inuyasha..." He folded his hands in front of him and smirked.
Inuyasha looked at him warily, wondering why he was smiling. Mr. Poi was never excited to see Inuyasha and usually when he called him to his office, it was to yell at him or threaten him. Now he looked... happy. The silver haired boy's expression changed from one of confidence to one of pure suspicion.
"I've called you up to my office because an important issue needs to be addressed." Mr. Poi paused a moment to make sure he had Inuyasha's attention, then continued. "Where the hell have you been the last few days?!"
"I've been doing my job!" he retorted.
"You know you are supposed to check in every day! I'm surprised you even got my message on your cell phone! We have been trying to get a hold of you but no one could seem to locate you!"
In this corporation, every worker pretty much lived in the building. That was another reason for its pure height. Whenever someone went out of the building, they were expected to come back to check in and leave again if needed, or say when an extended leave was to be taken. It kept a good eye on everyone.
"And another thing..." Thomas continued his ranting, "The time we have given you to find a new partner is up!"
Inuyasha glared at him. "I thought I said that I never wanted another partner! I don't need one."
The director sighed. "Everyone has to have a partner Inuyasha. It's part of the code... and anyways, what happens if your hunger takes over? You will be doing the opposite of your job! You know as well as I do that you will not be able to control yourself once that side takes over! Once you loose control... we might be forced to kill you."
Yes... he did say 'the hunger'. It is unbeknownst to most of the population in the world, but walking among everyone are creatures of a different kind. They are the creatures of the night. Some call them the living dead, but to most, they are just fiction. These creatures that haunt the night... they are the ones known as Vampires. They supposedly only live in stories of the old and exist in dreams and fantasy, but in this world, they are real... but when the general population comes into hand, for Vampires to only exist in an imaginary world... well that is how most people would like to keep it.
But where there are Vampires, there are those that are vampire... but at the same time are human. These creatures are called half-breeds. How can that be you ask? They can become half-breeds on a few occasions but that will be explained later. And no... Inuyasha is not a Vampire. He is also a half-breed that works for Hunters of the Trade.
Inuyasha laughed at what Mr. Poi said but when he gave Inuyasha 'the look', he shut up.
"And what if you get seriously hurt during a fight? Who the hell do you think is going to save your sorry ass?"
Fighting? That IS what the people of Hunters of the Trade do. Everyone that fights is a half-breed... but whom exactly do they fight? The motto 'To make the world a safer place for future generations' says exactly what it means. There are Vampires out there... and to keep this world safe and to keep the Vampire population from getting to be too much, Hunters of the Trade kills or captures the Vampires.
"You don't need to worry about that because I won't get myself into that situation." He sounded very full of himself.
Mr. Poi spoke more calmly now. "Inuyasha... you can never say that will never happen to you. It's possible... and it's almost happened once! If your partner wasn't there... who knows what would have become of you. That is why you need to get a new partner!"
But once those words left his mouth, Inuyasha jumped up from where he was sitting and slammed his fists down on the desk.
"I don't need a damn person to follow me around everywhere I go!"
"Yes you do! It's in the regulations! We have given you the maximum number of days you can go on to look for a new partner and we know you haven't even been looking. So we searched out a few people, got photos of them, and we'll let you choose from there." Thomas took out five pictures, each of a different woman, and laid them out on his desk.
The half vampires that work for Hunters of the Trade have the ability to sense if a human has special abilities born in them or not. Because the half-breeds have this ability, they are usually expected to go and find their own partner, but in Inuyasha's case, others were sent out to search for the humans and get photographs of them.
Not many humans even know about this ability or how to use it until they are trained and learn to harness it. This ability is the gift to sense vampire auras, and whoever is found to have the gift will be taken in, they will be partnered with a half-breed, get training, and the rest of their life will be lived as a hunter and care taker of the half-vampire that is now their partner... their identities... erased... and their families, friends, and all who knew them... believe them to be dead. It's a sad thing to do to a human who could have never controlled whether or not they wished to receive this capability, but in this world, it is necessary and they learn to live their new lives of hunting.
"This is bull! I'm outta here..." Inuyasha swiftly turned around to leave but was quickly stopped when a voice sounded near Mr. Poi's desk.
"Thomas... let me handle this..." a low almost menacing voice came from the computer on Thomas's desk.
"Mr. Onigumo! Certainly..." Mr. Poi bowed his head slightly at the computer screen in respect and turned the monitor so it was facing Inuyasha. Inuyasha just arrived at the door to the elevator when Mr. Poi said the head of the corporation's name, Onigumo. Inuyasha whirled around from where he stood and bowed at the waist. Everyone knew better than to disobey Onigumo.
He was well respected in the company... especially since he owned it... but no one had ever met him in person or seen his face. He had always appeared on computer screens and talked through intercoms and phones. Even on the computer, his face could never be seen. Only the shadow of his features and the glare of his eyes could be made out, but mostly he was shrouded in darkness.
"Inuyasha..." Onigumo started to direct his talk to him, "the code says that you must have a partner. Pick one of these women from the pictures before you and bring her back here tonight. If you fail, you must come answer to me. I expect you to be back here with her by midnight." and the screen went black.
Inuyasha growled to himself. When Onigumo gave you an order, you had to follow it, and if he threatened you with anything, he was true to his word. He was to be never taken lightly.
Walking over to the pictures of the five girls laid out on Mr. Poi's desk, he looked them over. 'If I pick out a really stupid looking girl, then I could easily loose her and not have to worry about even having someone follow me around.' he thought secretly to himself.
As he looked the pictures over, his head slowly lifted and asked, "Where in the world did you get these?"
"We had some others track them down and snap a quick photo of each. So... just choose from who you see..." Mr. Poi answered him.
The first was of a young girl that was sitting in her room at her desk... studying. Her short red hair covered her face but the stack of books that was next to her could hide her entire form.
'Too much of a studier... probably would have her nose in a book all day... and probably too smart to be tricked by me.' Inuyasha told himself.
The second picture showed a girl who was involved in a fight... she was punching a boy that looked older than her right in the face.
'She looks too persistent... and street smart...'
The next was of a very young girl of about eight years old. She was playing with dolls.
'What the hell? I'm not going to deal with some little brat...'
The girl next to the young one looked at least 18 and was crying. One of her hands was wiping away her tears and the other held an ice-cream cone... the ice cream... that was on the sidewalk.
'What a crybaby! It's just ice cream... uhh... I don't think I could ever handle that...'
But the last photo is what caught his attention. A girl around 16 years of age with long black hair sat at a table eating a cup of instant noodles. Her expression had a very dumb look to it for she had burned her mouth.
'Perfect! I could loose her in an instant. She'll never know what hit her... she would probably just think it's part of the routine. I will be free to do whatever I want!' Inuyasha smiled at this thought.
"I'll get her." Inuyasha said as he put one finger down on the last picture that was in the line.
"Ok... here is the information on her. Her name... is Kagome Higurashi."
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Please don't forget to R&R!