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The Life and Tales of the Vampire Crusades

By: C3 (a.k.a I'm-painting-the-world-gray)

A tale of a family, defeating the odds and saving the rest of their kind. Threw hardships the only thing they have is each other. That is enough for them.

Chapter one: The discovery

"And so they saved all their people and lived happily ever after." Retold an old grandfather to his grandchildren. Three triplets with dark brown eyes and black hair, only one pair of eyes were open wide with excitement. The other too were rolling as if the story was completely fake.

"Vampires ain't real, Granddad. Their just myths." said one of the triplets, a young boy.

"So, if they aren't real, then they can't save anyone and can't live happily ever after." said the second one, a girl.

"I think they are real and cool! I wish they would save me, Grandpapa!" excitedly said the last one, a little girl with the longest black hair.

"Of course, Kagome would think that. She still believes in the tooth fairy." Said the boy and the little girl started to tear up.

"Miroku, that is enough, you and Rin go wash up for lunch." said the grandfather reaching down to pick up Kagome and carrying her. "How bout me and you go make lunch?" Kagome weakly shook her head and they were off. Then Kagome jolted awake to the sound of her brother cleaning up their camp and she peeled herself off of the damp floor she had been sleeping on. It has been a very long time since their grandfather told them any stories or since they even seen their grandparents. Everything is just a memory now, the sun, love and happiness. She watched as her brother and sister packed the last of their belongings into the three backpacks they have been using. They started walking threw the tunnel they were sleeping in which smelled of death and you could hear the patter of little rats feet. They reached where the tunnel split in to directions and to their left was a tiny ladder, that they were to climb up to reach the city. The manhole cover lifted up and they were back in the city of their youth…at night. "Miroku, we need to find night jobs so we can make the money. Let's rent a hotel with the last of our money so we have a place in which we can clean up. What do you say?" Kagome asked her eyes shining toward her brother, who was older then her by a few minute and thought he was wiser. Their other sister, Rin, was keeping an eye on the people walking by and licking her lips every few.

"Kagome, I don't know what if we get caught? Or they find too much blood on our clothes from eating and they think we're murders? Let's see what we have in the bank account grandfather left us." Miroku said turning around and heading down the street with Rin in tow.

"And what? Your just going to walk in there looking like you live in the sewer and you can't check the money if we still don't have the password!" Kagome screamed at him being over dramatic as she usually was. " We need to go somewhere safe, so we can learn who we are and try stop whoever is killing our family! Or do you not care anymore that everyone is dead, mom, dad, grandma, and grandpa? What now, Miroku?" Kagome turned and started in the opposite way them, though they both stopped and were thinking about what their sister had said. 'Kagome,' her grandfather voice lofted into her head, 'you know you shouldn't give your brother so much trouble.' 'He can't boss me around forever, I know what I have to do.' she countered back at the voice of her granddad. 'Think back to those stories I use to tell you, maybe the answer to all your problems lies in there.' and the voice faded away like it was never there to begin with. Kagome had stop in front of a place in which she hadn't been in year. The old family house, where her family was slaughtered at. Kagome heard footsteps behind her so she ducked under the caution tape and into the front door. She stood in the living room and flashbacks started running in her mind like a reel of movie tape. 'Miroku, Rin and Kagome entered in to the house after school let out and they stood inside their living room waiting for their mom to come and greet them, but when she did not they went in search of her. Just out of the living room was a flight of steps, which lead up to the bedrooms and a small hallway that took you too the kitchen. They decided to check the kitchen incase she was starting dinner early, but when they walked into the kitchen…they walked into a blood bath. Their mother and grandmother lie beheaded and bloody on the tiled floor, the heads lying not to far from the bodies. The shocked look on the heads, showed that they had no idea that this person…or thing was going to hurt them. The triplets started crying and violently shaking, it took all of their strength to leave the room and run up the stairs. Now they were in search of the rest of their family, they slowly peeked into their grandfather's room. They thought they saw him laying on the bed sleeping so they opened the door and his head rolled off the bed and to their feet. Rin fell on the ground to afraid to move or scream. Miroku trying to be the man walked over the bed to see what the body was doing. The hand of their beloved grandfather was clenching something. Miroku pulled it out and it was a note to them. The note read: Darling Grandchildren, My fate is coming to an end soon, I feel it. This note is so you know how to go on with life. I have a bank account set up for a day like today. It is at the Moon Light Bank, down town. The only thing you have to do and find out what the password is, that shouldn't be too hard for you three. Love always, Your Vampire father, granddad.: That is all the note said and at the time it seemed like enough to gather up the rest of their belongings and run. They took a bus down town to the police station and right outside they used the payphone. They called in the murder at their house and the police thought that the three children were killed and buried somewhere. They hide form that day forth.' Two people grabbed Kagome's arms and she was about to scream when one of them covered her mouth.

"It's us stupid." Rin said letting go of her mouth. "Why did you come here? Of all places, you couldn't go to a park?"

"I was drawn here, like we missed something grandfather said…Miroku, what did tell us before we left that morning?" Kagome asked turning quickly toward Miroku.

"I don't know, he was trying to make a point on what his favorite book was. Trying to make us…read it or something. Why?" he had his hand in his pockets and was walking a little trying to think.

"What was his favorite book again?" Kagome asked.

"It had to do with vampires." Rin said bored. "But then again, that was all his books."

"Wasn't it the one he used to read to us all the time when we were little?" Kagome asked thinking back to the happy times in her life. 'Do you guys want to hear a story, I'd ask' the voice in her head started again. 'and I'd always get a happy answer from you. I'd pull the book off the shelf, it was the only one I never moved it was…' "Third from the right!" Kagome ran up the stairs and into her grandfather's room. She turned towards the bookshelf, that wasn't touched during the investigation because there was no blood in this room. Just the body was found here, she went over three books and picked up the third book. The title read, The Life and Tales of the Vampire Crusades, it never had an author on it, but when your younger that never seems to matter. There was an old bloody hand print on the cover of it now though. She thought back to her grandfather and how this should have been buried with it, but she opened it up and leafed threw it and a piece of paper fell out of it. 'Good job, Kagome.' it begin, 'I knew you'd be able to find this in time for me to help you before you die. As you might have found out, we were a special breed of vampires. Ones that don't start craving blood until later on in life, we can also walk out in sun and not burn to death. That is why we were hunted down and killed, most likely. Anyway, it's important that you crack that password, if you already hadn't, because once you do you will be enrolled into one of the best vampire school anywhere. So, think like me and get that code. I love you guys a lot and I probably miss you like hell. Take this book with you and think of other clues about our family, take all the pictures off the walls and take them with you too. Money and note are in the frames, between the pictures and the backs. Granddad.' She heard her brother and sister run up the steps after her. They looked over her shoulder and read the letter.

"Do you think he planned on dying?" Rin asked sitting on the edge of his bed. Kagome sat down next to her and hugged her.

"I think he knew he was going to be murdered and he wanted to take care of the three things he loves the most. Us." Kagome said nodding her head toward to picture of the four of them rolling around on the floor. "Let's go grab all the pictures and crack that code. We have to."

"He wants us too." Miroku said grabbing the pictures in his grandpa's room and Rin went in search of another backpack or bag. Kagome cleared of his bookshelf and put them all in her bag before moving onto her parents room. While in their room she noticed that there was Christmas presents in the closet that was never opened. She called her siblings into the room and they stared at the three boxes. "Do you think we can open them?"

"Christmas did pass months ago…" Rin said and Kagome nodded her head. They opened the packages with care, afraid they might disappear and leave them too. Inside the packages were new clothes and bags. For Kagome a black outfit and black sneakers, plus a messenger bag. Rin got a black outfit and black sneakers with pink shoelaces, plus a black backpack. Miroku got a black outfit with black sneakers with blues shoelaces, plus a dark blue messenger bag. They stuffed the new clothes and the rest of the pictures in their new bags and some of their old black clothes too. Kagome had a feeling that live was going to get a lot harder from now on. They sneaked back out of their house and down town to the Moon Light Bank, right next to the bank was a motel, a perfect place for them to hide. They paid with the rest of the money they had from the day their family died. They showered off and changed their clothes, then they got to work on the task of pulling all the money out of the picture frames. There was only one note that was found and it read: Be true to thyself young V. This little note confused them to all lengths, no ones name started with a V. So, who could this young V person be? That is what they fell asleep thinking of, which caused Kagome to dream of her grandfather. 'He stood by his favorite tree in the backyard, he was touch where he had carved all their names into the tree and slipped a piece of paper into the hole of Miroku's O. He turned to Kagome with his pointer finger on his bottom lip, telling her to keep quiet.' Kagome woke up to the maid knocking on the door, Miroku went to answer the door. In the night he or late morning he must have gotten hot, because his shirt was off. The young maid, a little older then us, couldn't take her eyes off of Miroku's young beauty. "Can you come back later?" He asked flashing her a rare smiling, she nodded and he closed the door.

"It's not nice to dazzle her if you don't plan on dating her!" Kagome squealed at him.

"She's probably outside of our door clutching her heart and daydreaming about you in her pants!" Rin giggled out.

"I wasn't ready to get up yet, but seeing as you too are giddy now. I can't sleep longer anyway, so did anyone think of what the note meant?" He asked stretching and putting back on his shirt. The two girls shook their heads but then Kagome remembered her dream.

"I had a dream though." Kagome said whispering. " It was grandfather putting a thing in the hole of your O, Miroku."

"My O? What?" He was trying to think of what his sister was talking about. He didn't have an O that you could put something in. Just the O in his… "Are you talking about my name, that's carved into the Tree of Ages?"

"I am! We have to go there as soon as possible, it might be the letter that have the password on it." Kagome said.

"Grandfather, you have us running all over the place and all I am getting out of it is a headache." Rin complained rolling around on the bed. She pouted but none the less, she climbed off the bed and followed her siblings back threw the street to the old house. They walked into the backyard and stood in front of the tree. Kagome reached her hand out and felt around in the O, out fell a small piece of paper. Miroku picked it up and read it out loud.

"Vampire."

"Great, what the fuck is that suppose to mean?" Kagome screamed at the sky. "I put all my fucking fate in you, Granddad, and what? You had me look like a foul!" Kagome fell onto her knees and kept repeating why. Then she had a sort of vision thing of the triplets walking into the bank and handing them that piece of paper. The accountant nodded and gave them three credit cards, plus plane tickets. "How could we have been so blind…the clues…grandfather…"

"Your speaking nonsense, Kagome…" Rin said. "And that is usually me.."

"The password is vampire. What we are…what he was so proud of being…" knowledge seemed to flood inn Miroku and Rin's eyes. They hitched a ride on the bus downtown and ran into the bank. The handed the accountant, who was there every time they tried to guess the password. He nodded while smiling and handed them their three credit cards, passports, plane tickets and a map. Life was seeming to fall into place. At least this chapter anyway.

This Story is Dedicated to My Best Friend Megan Bolton:

You are like a sister to me, Megan, and if it wasn't for you I would have never founf out about fanfic. You make me a better person just by talking to me and being there for when I cry. I hope we stay Best Friends forever and Inuyasha may live in a hearts forever!

Love,

Your Hobo.