FANG: my very first slave fic!
HIEI: hn.
FANG: I hope I did well and you like it.
HIEI: read.
DISCLAIMER: I do not own YYH or INUYASHA.
A little girl of five walked into the building holding her mother's hand. She wore a light pink summer's dress with slippers. Her short dark blue hair was tied into tiny ponytails at the sides. Her black eyes looked around the busy room as her dress moved against her dark chocolate skin.
Her mother with her brown hair tied in the back and caramel skin held onto her hand tightly as they neared the front desk were a short stubbed little man was busy clearing away some papers. She cleared her throat and he looked up smiling.
"Hello Mrs. Cyto, how are you doing today?" he asked resting a paper on an already neat stack. The little girl watched as people came in and out behind a big door. Some even had a person tied to a leash with shabby clothing. She stared.
"Hello, I came here to get a slave for my daughter, for a birthday gift. She just turned five yesterday," Mrs. Cyto explained. The man nodded and hopped off his high stool. He walked around to the girl.
"Hello, what's your name?"
"Vamp," she replied looking at the short man in front of her. He was baldheaded and wore trousers.
He nodded again and looked at the mother. "Her first slave is it? Human or demon?"
"That's for her to decide," said the mother. "But I would like demon."
"All right then," he said leading them through the big doors were Vamp had watched others came through. She walked in front of her mother letting go of her hand.
"I would like to get a few for myself as well," the mother said speaking to the man.
"We have lots of demons," he explained, "Small, old, young, strong, smart…"
Vamp blocked out his dull voice and looked into the first glass case. She pressed her face against the window and peered inside. There, she saw a small fox boy sitting in the corner, he looked up and gasped when he saw her. Vamp smiled and looked down at his plate. All it said was that he was a fox demon.
"Ah, I see you have already found one," said her mother walking next to her and looking inside as well. The little girl nodded and pressed her hand against the window.
"Hi, I'm Vamp, don't be afraid, I won't hurt you," she said softly. The pup looked at her with wide eyes and slowly etched out of the corner. When he was close enough, he gradual pressed his hand against hers on the glass. She smiled broadly.
"I want him." Her mother nodded to the man and he jotted it down in a black book. She waved at the pup as they continued walking down.
After about half-hour of searching, the little girl grew tired and started to wander off. She suddenly stopped in front of a wooden door. She opened it and stepped inside. The room was damp and chilling, only light provided by the window showed anything. Rubbing her arms to keep warm, Vamp made her way.
A glass cage in the wall caught her attention. Curious, Vamp peered inside standing tiptoe to get a better look. For a while she saw nothing, until a pair of red eyes appeared through the darkness. Vamps eyes winded as they starred back at her. Somehow they reminder her of someone she knew, but these were so cold, full of hate and distance.
"I'm sorry, but this section is off limits," said the man hurriedly appearing behind her with the young girl's mother. He did not want to be in this place.
"Why?" asked Vamp not removing her gaze from the eyes. Something told her that if she moved, what she was looking for wouldn't be found.
"Well, this one is in here because he killed his last three masters. Apparently, he didn't do as he was told and when they tried to punish him…you get the idea."
"Oh, my," Mrs. Cyto said softly stepping besides her daughter. She didn't look in the cage but concentrated on Vamp. "This must be the obedient chamber then."
"I guess, he did it for a reason, maybe they were mean to him or he didn't want to do the things they wanted him to do. They could have wanted him to do something bad, very bad," Vamp suggested quietly. She saw a flash of something run through the eyes then disappear as quickly as it came. That was it!
A figure stepped into the light. Vamp saw a short man with gravity defying hair with a white starburst on front, red crimson eyes that pierced the soul, wore black clothes and wore a white bandana on his forehead. He didn't say anything, or make any other movements, like he was waiting for them to make the first move. Vamp didn't budge.
"He doesn't look evil," she said looking closer as he leaned on the wall and closed his eyes. Clearly he grew tired of this little game. "He looks like he's wearing those clothes for camouflage and stealth."
"Yes, well what ever the reason is, he is a blood killing murdered," the man said disgustingly. "We got him from other slave trades when they couldn't handle him. If you ask me they should hang him ands be done with it. He's been here for over two years now."
"Hn," was the reply from the figure making the man jump back in fear. Vamp eyed him thoughtfully.
"He reminds me of someone, she's a little bit taller then him and has ice powers." The man opened one of his eyes and looked at her closely.
"You're right dear, he does look like that ice apparition," her mother said agreeing with her as the man opened both of his eyes and came closer.
"What was her name? Y-Yukina!" cried the little girl as the man knelt down to her level close to the glass. The slave trader took a step back afraid that the killer might break lose.
Vamp smiled at him, not at all afraid. 'That's right, you remind me of Yukina. Are you her brother?' Vamp asked. 'She's been looking for you.'
His eyes widened and the girl saw sadness and loneliness. Vamp giggled and looked behind her at the other man while pointing at the glass. "I'll take him."
He staggered and looked at the mother questionably as the girl walked away humming. Mrs. Cyto nodded, not saying a word about her daughter's decision. She stole a glance at the short man behind the glass before following suit. The slave trader shakily wrote the number of the slave down in his black book, mumbling things under his breath. "These people are crazy."
Vamp hummed as she came upon the next window down the next corridor. It wasn't as dark as the other one. She stopped and looked into another glass case to her left. There she saw a man chained by the hands and legs sitting down with his head lowered.
Vamp wondered why he was chained and decided to ask him. She tapped on the glass. "Hellooo-o-oo."
He didn't raise his head. Vamp blinked and studied his features. He had long silver hair with two red marks on either side of his cheeks. His white clothes seemed torn and dirty. Vamp noticed the pointy ears he had and smiled warmly. This was going to be fun.
She whistled and he slowly looked up at her showing off his narrow golden eyes. She smiled waving at him.
"Ah, this one always causes us problems," said the trader to the mother as they caught up with the little girl. He looked into the glass with hate. "He acts like he's some mighty lord or something."
Mrs. Cyto didn't say anything but took notice of the marks on his face.
"Hi, my name is Vamp what's your's?" greeted Vamp. He didn't say anything, his face was emotionless.
"No point in talking to him, he doesn't speak," the man said shifting from foot to foot.
"Really? Cool!" Vamp opened her mouth and pointed to her canines. "See? My mom named name Vamp because my canines are rather sharp for a human. And because I bite people. They might even think I have rabies."
A small grin tugged at his lips. She giggled and said to the man. "I want him," and hurried off to leave him writing in his book in complete discomfort.
Again she stopped in front of a glass and looked inside, this time she had to tiptoe...again. There inside was another demon, but had a metal chain around his neck. He was trying to get it off. When he saw the girl he stopped and looked at her.
"Hi!" she hailed.
"Hey kid, why don't you get me out of here?" he said. Her eye widened. "Wow! Look at those dog ears!"
In fact, he had long silver hair, golden eyes and those cute adorable dog-ears. She whistled the same tune she used on the last one and his ears twitched. She laughed.
"This ones in on obedience," said the man a few steps away. Her mother looked inside and smiled kindly at the boy. "Hello."
"Feh," he said looking away from her. The man tug at a cord, which pulled the chain causing him too nearly coke. Vamps eyes widened in shock and anger.
"Speak properly to the lady, demon," he hissed as the boy tried to lose the chain. The girl kicked the man in the shins and pulled the chain causing it to loosen up. The demon gasped for air.
"I'll take him!" she said firmly marching off before looking inside again to see if he was okay. Her mother followed.
"Dear, you can't do that. You have to understand that he's a slave and has to obey certain rules, talking back to a master is one of them. He can't do that," explained her mother to the angry girl. But she wasn't listening, she was too upset with the man for doing that.
As she walked they came to another glass window. Vamp looked inside. Her mother looked as well and gasped slightly. There leaning on the wall was what looked like a human with red hair that went to his back and green orbs for eyes. He looked at them and smiled wearily.
"What about this one? He looks human," asked Mrs. Cyto to the man as he came running behind them.
"That one, something's funny with him. Says he's a fox demon, but hasn't shown it," he said jerking his head towards the glass. "But no ones wanting him."
Vamp cocked to her head to the side. She dug in her pockets and took out a shiny marble holding it up for the boy to see. He looked at it and she saw a flash of gold in his eyes and silver at his tips. Her mother noticed this slight change. Both the girls smiled and said, "We'll take him."
The man choked on a piece of air in his throat shocked. The boy in the cage looked equally shocked as the two continued onward. Vamp stopped at one a looked inside. Her face drained color as shivers went up her spine. There inside was a figure with long wavy hair and narrow red eyes. She gulped as he looked at her and licked his lips smirking.
"Let's go," she said to her mother pulling her along. She didn't want to stay with him long and she didn't want him! They soon came upon the last glass case and Vamp gazed inside and saw a wolf demon sitting down cross-legged. He had claws and fans like the others and wore some animal skin clothing. He had black hair tied in a high ponytail and brown eyes.
She looked at him, then at her mother. "What do you think?"
Her mother looked at him also. "I think….we'll take him."
"You're not going to ask anything about him! He started a fight with two other demons and nearly killed them," gasped the man. "He's nothing but a worthless mongrel."
"Really!" asked Vamp excited pressing her face against the glass. "I want him! He's so cool!"
The wolf demon looked at her and grinned. "Hello."
"And he speaks!"
"All right we'll take him and the others too please," giggled her mother. The man nodded and led them back into the gallery were their slaves waited. She ran up to the little fox pup and picked him up giving him a hug. "Mom! I want his one, and that along with that one," she pointed to Inuyasha and Hiei.
"All right, I'll have the others, but no biting people this time," Mrs. Cyto told her daughter as her daughter prodded around like a raptor with her teeth beard out and growling at people who came by. "What have I told you?"
Vamp stopped and placed her hands behind her looking innocent. "Teeth are for eating and not for biting. It's made for food and not for human flesh when they make you angry or frustrated…"
"And…" questioned her mother raising an eyebrow. Vamp sighed. "If God wanted people to have holes in there skin, he would have born them with it."
The short man came from behind the desk carrying a piece of paper. He looked at the group of boys. "Are you sure you won't reconsider?"
"No, I want them!" the girl said firmly pointing at the group. Her mother sighed. "Once her mind is made up, she won't change it. Trust me."
"Very well," the man said giving her the piece of paper. "Sign here."
Mrs. Cyto took the paper and a pen from her bag. Vamp turned around for her mother so she could press on her back as a table. She gave the paper to her daughter and she didn't sign it right away like other children, no, she plopped on the ground and starred at it long and hard.
"What is she doing?" asked the man.
"She's reading it," Mrs. Cyto replied. The man looked a little shocked to see a little girl reading a contract as complicated as that, that's why many people just sign and don't read it.
Vamp frowned. "It says her they're my slaves…. They are to work with me till I dispatch them…yap yak yap…. hmmm…no equal rights? And…uh, huh!"
She pressed the paper on the ground and wrote her name in print and handed it to the man. "Now I got friends!" She ran around her mother exciditly in circles. "Na nanana na na na, na na, can't touch this!"
Her mother sweat dropped as people pointed and starred. "Vamp dear…"
"Don't you want to hold the leash?" asked the man eyeing Inuyasha who just feh'd. He still had his leash on, so did Sesshomaru, except around the ankles and wrists. Vamp halted to a stop and looked at the man right up to his face, a serious look set. "Keys."
"What?" the man stuttered shocked. Vamp glared at him hard. "Give…me…the…keys," she growled.
He stumbled into his pockets and withdrew a chain with keys on them. She took them from him and walked over to Inuyasha. He looked down on her as she looked up at him. She smiled. "Bend down please."
He just blinked at her like she was crazy; didn't she want him to be on the leash, like a good doggy should be? Still pondering on this he squatted down to her height. Vamp reached out and found the keyhole, placing the key inside and turned it. The leash fell to the ground. Relieved to have it off, Inuyasha rubbed his neck.
Vamp went to Sesshomaru next. He looked down at the short girl with his emotionless expression. Her mother watched him closely; the short stubby man was beside himself in amazement. How come this girl wasn't keeping the leashes on? They were dangerous!
Vamp undid the locks on his ankles then his wrists. He rubbed them as she kicked the metal leashes aside. She glared at the slave trader again. "I don't do chains."
He staggered and shook his head. "But they might run away, escape!" the two dog demons glared at him.
She paid no attention to him and left it to her mother as she took the young fox pups hand gently.
"Why? Where would they run too?" asked the mother smiling at them. They either just looked at the ground or turned their heads. She laughed softly and took her daughters other free hand. "Come on, we have to shop to get their things."
"Shopping! Oh, yuck!" Vamp said sticking out her tongue. "It's evil I tell you, ev-il!"
They just looked at her like she was crazy. As they excited the building, Vamp got a tickle feeling up her spine, she looked around and saw no one. Shrugging, she went after her mother.
"Mother always told me wash my hands before I eat, and never bite people, before they take their seat," Vamp sang as they walked down the road. The pup held loosely to her hand and kept his head down while the others stayed five paces behind them. Vamp glanced at him. "Why so gloomy?"
"Well, dear, he's a slave and slaves aren't meant to hold their masters hands," explained her mother. "And not to be so close to them."
"Nonsense! I won't stand for it! Who taught them that!" she huffed. "He's not my slave he's like a brother. I always wanted a brother. Wouldn't you like that? You can be my big brother! And you guys stop walking so far behind, it's like your stalking us and its giving me the creeps."
The pup looked at her with wide eyes. Her mother slapped her hand to her head in defeat. "Oh boy."
"On to the mall!" Vamp cried pulling him along.
SHIPPO'S POINT OF VIEW
The girl pulled me along with her into the crowded mall. I still couldn't believe it. She called me her brother, big brother to be specific. I was still shocked. I thought slaves weren't anything more than servants meant to be quiet never talk back and do exactly what their supposed to do. Yet here this little girl, a cute one, was treating me nicely. She gave me nice smiles and even gave me a hug.
I still couldn't believe that Inuyasha and Sesshomaru and Koga and me got the same master. We knew each other pretty well in the past. The other two I never met before. I couldn't help but wonder why this little girl picked such people. Demons none the less and she didn't seem to mind. Her mother didn't' either.
I have to admit I was scared to have new master. Like all my past masters, they were cruel and mean. But Vamp seemed to always be kind to me, and she even gave me a loony pop with different colors of candy on a stick when we went to the candy store. She even went as far to ask the others! To say I was surprised would be an understatement.
'She treats me like a normal person,' I thought as she told me about her home and pointed out that her mother doesn't like eggs. 'She treats use all equally.'
Right away, I knew I would like her and we would get along fine.
END SHIPPO'S POV
Vamp stopped the group in front of the toy store. "Now the rules, my name is Vamp and always call me by it. Master and stuff gives me the freaks." She shivered, "What's your names?"
"The master gives them names dear," said her mother patting her head. Vamp frowned.
"Well that's stupid! If their mommy and daddies had trouble to make them, they should at least name them!"
"How do you know about that?" asked her mother wearily rubbing her temples as they all sweat dropped.
"Don't you have any mommies or daddies?" she asked the pup fox. He shook his head sadly. "I got lost from them." She looked at him in shock. "Why that'd terrible!" She then looked at the others. "What about you?"
They either feh'd or shook their heads.
"You don't have any mommies or daddies?" she asked sorrowfully as her eyes became watery. "That's so sad!" she cried as tears came pouring down her face. "No one shouldn't have any mommies or daddies. Its too wrong!"
They looked at her as she sniffled and rubbed her face on her arm. Was she crying for them? They felt a bit of warmth on their hearts, just teeny tiny, itsy, bitsy bit! This little girl confused them still though, they were slaves and yet she treated them like equals. How strange for an owner to act.
She looked at them firmly. "All right! I won't have it! From now on I'll be your new mommy!"
A few passing people whispered and hurried along as they heard the girl declared. Her mother sighed as she looked at the expressions on the boy's faces. They looked…
"My names Shippo," said the fox pup quietly. Vamp smiled at him. "Wow, that's a cute name! Shippo."
"…Hiei," said the fire demon.
"Ooh," she said.
"Inuyasha," said the dog-eared demon.
"Sesshomaru," said the other. Vamp looked between them. "Are you two brothers?"
"Half," they said with a bit of disgust. She sweat dropped. "Okay."
"My human form name is Kurama, what my other is I cannot tell you," said the red head.
"Oki-dokie, when you're ready."
"Kouga, from the wolf tribe," said the wolf demon.
"Shippo, Hiei, Inuyasha, Kurama, Sesshomaru, and Kouga," she listed on her fingers. "Okay, I got them. Now let's go get some toys!"
"First things first," her mother said giving them all fifty dollars. "Buy what you need and I will get your clothing. "
"Yeah! I want something first though. Ice-cream!" cried Vamp merrily. She took Hiei's hand. "Come on, I want you to meet a dear friend of mine." She pulled him along with the others behind.
Vamp pushed open the door to the ice cream polar and stepped inside. "Ice cream!"
"Vamp, is that you?" came a soft female's voice from behind the counter. Vamp felt Hiei tense up and she squeezed his hand and thought, 'its okay, don't be afraid. She'll accept.'
A girl about Hiei's height came from behind the counter holding a jug of ice cream. She wore a light blue Kimoto, pale green hair that was tied in a ponytail at the back and same eye color.
"Yukina!" cried Vamp hailing her. She smiled but stopped suddenly when she saw who was with her. The jug of ice cream dropped to the ground as her eyes widened in surprise.
"Hiei?" she asked softly. In a blink of an eye she was in front of he and had her arms wrapped around his waist crying. "I thought I lost you!"
"Yukina…" he said softly letting go of Vamp's hand and embracing his sister. "I'm here. Don't cry."
Vamp smiled at the reunion and silently snuck back outside, putting up the closed sign so they could have some privacy. Her mother greeted her as she came back. "Well?"
"Let's say, the ice cream's no longer cold," she said to her mother and took Shippo's hand. "We'll leave Hiei for a while, I' m sure he can find us later, lets go and get some clothes."
As they walked people with their slaves were scattered about. Vamp took a sample of tofu from one and said it was delicious, she even bought some and shared it with Shippo. They walked on, buying a few things here and there and gazing about the different types of stores. She even bought Kurama a shiny bracelet, which looked like he was going to steal anyway. But she ended up biting the owner when he said a pathetic slave like him shouldn't have things like that.
"He tasted like soap," she said disgustingly as they entered the cloth store for slaves. Kurama was still embarrassed about his master biting someone for his benefit. She looked at him. "I was able to land two good holes in his pants, maybe even his leg."
Her mother boxed her on the ears. "No biting!"
"Ow! But he called Kurama worthless and I would have kicked him to if it weren't for Sesshomaru holding me back!" she rubbed her ears and got someone who worked there to help them.
"How may I help you?" asked the girl with black hair and green eyes.
"I'm looking for some work clothes, you know," Mrs. Cyto said to her while Vamp wondered about with Shippo. She stopped and looked at the clothes. Green. They were all green. She sighed in frustration. "All they have is green. Its so dry."
"Well, yes, that's what slaves wear," said the woman, taking note that she was holding on to the foxes hand. "Is he your slave?"
"No, he's my brother and these are my friends," she said to her hotly. The lady looked taken back at first so did everyone else who heard. Vamp looked at the boys and smiled, she always had a smile for them and directed her attention back to the lady. "Do you have any more colors?"
"Not for slaves," she said. Vamp's cheeks puffed up like an owl. The woman gulped. "What are you looking for exactly?"
"Lets see, Shippo light blue, Inuyasha red, Kouga brown, Kurama clear silver, Sesshomaru silver, and Hiei's own will be black," she said to the lady looking up to her. She nodded and hastily went away to look for them.
"Um, why…?" began Shippo.
"Come on, even I have style," she said and stopped, turning to her left poking her head behind a rack off clothes. "I found you!"
"Hn," was all Hiei's reply as he stepped out from behind the clothes. She beamed at him and jumped up and down. "So!"
He was quiet and only took out an ice-cream cone for her. It was a rum raisin one. Perfectly sphere shaped. "She said to give this to you."
"Oh yummy!" she said taking it said started to lick off the melting ice cream. "Thanks Hiei."
'This girl is strange,' thought Youko.
'Yes and very sweet,' said Kurama.
'Hn. She has problems,' thought Hiei as he entered the conversation.
'Well, my old friend, it seems we found ourselves in the ownership of a little girl,' Youko mused.
'Hn,' Hiei replied and closed the link.
After getting the clothes, and anything else they needed her mother had to stop for something in a nearby store, so Vamp sat down waiting for her in the food court with everyone else. She placed a finger in the fountain and drew circles in the water.
"I cant wait to show you your new home, there's plenty of room and Miss. Kagura is the cook and-" she stopped short when she felt something bite her neck. She hit it and peered down to see an old flea squashed flat on her palm. "Myoga!"
Inuyasha leaned forward along with Shippo and saw the old flea straighten himself up. "Ah, Miss. Vamp, how good to see you again."
"It's Myoga!" cried Shippo shocked remembering his old friend. The flea glanced up at him surprised. "Why Shippo isn't this a pleasant reunion?"
"I see you found yourself a master," Inuyasha said gruffly. Myoga laughed. "Well, yes, Master Inuyasha it is nice to see you to."
"Myoga," Vamp said sweetly. "You left me by myself when those boys picked on me! And I got a bruise to show for it!" her sweetness was replaced by flames as she dropped the flea into the water. He sputtered as he tried to stay afloat.
"I was getting help! I did not mean to leave you! I swear!" he said splashing about.
"You left your master when she needed you most?" asked Inuyasha not the least bit surprised.
"How pathetic. He still hasn't changed. Always running away from a fight," Shippo said. Myoga started to float near the miniature whirlpool.
"Help! Fleas cant swim!" he cried trying to get away from the whirlpool. Vamp picked him up by the collar and held him to her face, eyes slightly lowered. "You promise you won't run away again?"
"I promise," he said then whispered, "Even though it was your fault we got caught up in that situation in the first place."
She dropped him back into the water. "Help me!" he gurgled.
Everyone: sweat drop.
Vamp picked him out of the water again and rested him on the marble. "You're such a chicken."
"I think you should have let him drown," Inuyasha growled. Myoga coughed. "I need to take swimming lessons."
"Well, would you look at what we have here," came a boy's voice from behind them. Vamp whipped her head around, a sour look came upon her face. "Kenny."
A boy the same age as her stepped out of the crowd. He had sort blonde hair with blue eyes and wore a blue school uniform. He grinned when he saw her standing there. "So, you finally got some slaves huh? I thought it was never to be."
Vamp puffed her cheeks already angry. "They're not slaves, they're my friends."
"Please," he scoffed. "Friends is so over rated for the likes of them. There only servants."
"Yeah, well I think other wise!" she said her voice rising.
"I already got mine as a gift from father, but you wouldn't know about those type of things would you?" he asked her sneering. She bit her lower lip to stop it from trembling. Myoga jumped onto her shoulder. "Don't let him intimidate you Miss. Vamp."
"Any ways," he continued loving how she was suffering, "My slaves can beat up yours any time. They look weak."
Inuyasha and Koga growled a little as a warning, but he didn't hear it as he continued to droll on.
"My friends aren't weak!" she barked back at him taking a few steps forwards. "You're just a big, selfish jerk!"
"Try and hide it all you might but mine are the strongest," the boy said equally back and snapped his fingers.
A figure with wavy hair and evil red eyes appeared behind the boy. Vamp gulped, it was the same man she met in the slave building. He starred at her with those eyes of his. She whimpered a little because she felt a strong evilness from him. Sesshomaru stepped in front of his master protecting her from the stranger's gaze and glared at him instead. They did that for a while.
"And this is my other one," he said snapping his fingers again.
A more ruthless man appeared behind him wearing pointy sunglasses. He was muscularly built and had an evil look to him as well. He gazed down at the girl and grinned. Hiei stepped up next to his master protectively as well, along with Koga and they both glared at the man.
"Of course, he's just human, but I hear he is quite strong. Getting the most powerful is all that matters."
"Strength isn't everything you know," Vamp stated roughly looking away from him. Shippo stepped up to him.
"Hi, I'm Shippo," he said extending his paw to the boy. He swatted it away.
"Insolent pup! Don't you dare touch me or even speak to me!" Shippo took a step back like he had been hit in the face.
Vamp puffed up like an owl. "Now see, here you! Don't you dare touch him! Or I'll bonk you so hard even the stars won't seem bright enough!"
He looked offended at first then quickly regained himself. "You stick up for your slave. How pathetic."
"Why you-" she growled pushing up an imaginary sleeve on her left arm and started to advance on him, but Kurama held her back.
He smirked at her futile attempts to pound him in the dirt. "I have to go, wasting my time on you has deprived me of my shopping rights."
"You-you-you-" she couldn't find the right words she wanted to say. He was such a jerk. Always comparing things with her and picking fights. And always getting on her nerves. She didn't believe in one person is better than the other, while he practically lived in that type of world.
Kenny turned his back on the fuming girl and started to walk away followed by his two new slaves. "Ta, ta. Till school then Vampire."
"Its VAMP!" she yelled after him. He always called her vampire, how she hated that name!
His two slaves glanced back at the girl before disappearing into the crowd.
"I don't like those two," growled Kouga. Inuyasha nodded in agreement.
"Oh, I cant stand that Kenny!" she snarled. "One of these days he'll go to far and when that happens…KA-POW! Right smack dab in the kisser baby!" She did an imitation by smashing her tiny fist in her palm.
"Isn't that a little violent?" asked Shippo. He didn't really like that Kenny character, and those servants of his sent shivers down his spine. She scoffed. "It's not violent, it's my rights to beat him to a pulp. He gets me so made. Slaves, honestly!"
"Who gets you mad?" asked her mother as she came with bags in her hands, which she gave to Kurama to carry. Vamp jumped into her mother's free arms. "Mom, that Kenny guy is a total snob!"
Her mother smiled. "Well, maybe that's his way of saying he likes you."
There came a few snorts from the others. The girl looked at her mother sternly. "I rather die a horrible death."
Her mother shrugged and took her hand. "Time to go, we have everything and if you don't get back to Zee soon he'll go mutiny on the house like he did last time."
Vamp took Shippo's hand and followed her mother. "It took us forever to replace those curtains."
Her mother sighed sadly. "I loved those curtains."
"Who's Zee?" asked Shippo.
"He's my pet snake, or anaconda to be exact," she said tapping a finger on her head.
"You have a pet anaconda!" Shippos eyes widened in surprise.
"My dad got him from Africa as a gift when he went on one of his travels," she explained. "Careful, she hates guys."
Mrs. Cyto smiled down at the two talking kids, until she felt something on her neck. She smacked it and looked into her palm. "Myoga."
"It's nice to see you again master," he squeaked. He got up and shook himself, only to meet a fire and angry eyes.
"You ungrateful little flea, you left my daughter all by herself with those boys," she said dangerously. Myoga went all hysterical, "Pleas, spare me!"
She clenched her hand into a tight fist, squishing the poor flea. The others didn't even bother to interfere. Vamp laughed nervously as her mother dropped the smashed flea to the floor. "Never get mama angry."
Inuyasha and Kouga snickered, Hiei and Sesshomaru had their emotionless mask on and Kurama only sweat dropped. Shippo nodded his head in agreement. "That's for sure."
They finished the shopping and walked for a while, catching a bus to an another part of town where her mother bought fish for dinner. A guy got into trouble when he picked up Vamp by the collar and shook her around. He was drunk. Kouga beat him up real good, but when the guy picked on Shippo, Vamp lunged at him and bit him in the leg. Her mother had to pry her off when the police came to take the guy away. Two deep holes could be seen in the man's pants and maybe even leg. That she hopped.
"Muchas gracious Kouga, but that guy tasted like cigarette's. BLEH!" she said to him as they walked out the store. Her mother gave her some tasteful gum to take away the nasty flavor. Vamp looked at Shippo. "No one messes with my friends and lives to tell without a little-"
"Vamp!" her mother said sternly cutting off her daughter. She looked up at her mother innocently. "What?"
Next, they took a train to another part of the country where there was a lot of forest and lakes, with brooks. Not much city development was here. The bus they had taken pulled up to a road. Everyone got off and proceeded to walk down the road. At the end was a mansion with huge brass gates. Vamp opened the gate and ran inside all the way to the front steps.
It was a beautiful place, with nicely cut shrubs on the side of the pavement that led to the house. The trees grew tall and mighty surrounding the house like a shield. Mrs. Cyto sighed, "Don't let the looks fool you, this place needs a lot of work. We just moved here a year ago and almost everything needs fixing. That is mostly half the reason why I got you. And because-"
"Hey ma! Kagura says to bring the dead fishes!" cried Vamp. She smiled at them as the group walked up. They really seemed dazed at the size of the place; at least Shippo who was turning his head around at different angles for a better view.
"And…!" Vamp said in a grand announcing way. "Welcome to your new home!"
FANG: ah, a little girl just like me.
VAMP: you bite people?
FANG: I bit my mom a few times, she tasted like lotion.
Silence
VAMP: you have problems.
FANG: I have problems? You haven't seen what I'm going to do to you!
VAMP: please review! Hey, that rhymed!
FANG: yeah…