Chapter one

The moon was shining though the gaps in the trees. I was coming back from work at the local book store and decided to take the path through the woods instead of my normal route home. I had just move here from New York to a place called Liveville. My father got a job here and when we came my mother starting hearing rumors not to go out at night because people would go missing. What where the rumors you ask? Vampires. So why am I going through the wood at night? I wanted to do something different and I am not scared of Vampires.

I stopped and looked at the moon though the trees. I heard a rustle next to me, my gaze went from the moon to the bush. It rustled again and a man stepped out. He was tall, he had brown hair that was slicked back, his eyes where dark brown and where I was standing I could see a scar on his left cheek. He was wearing a long sleeve shirt that was black and blue jeans. I took a step back and he looked at me. His mouth moved a bit and I saw a fang. I gulped. So they are real. He looked me over again and then smirks.

"What are you doing out here, Miss?" He asks in a deep voice.

"I uh... Taking a shortcut home, Sir." I replied nervously looking at him.

"Sir?" He chuckled "At least someone has manners."

From what I can tell he was nice but that still didn't give me a reason to let my guard down. He smiled a little but kept ant other emotion in check. "It's not safe for you right now." He said "How about I take you home?"

"How isn't safe?" I asked starting to walk again and he walked next to me keeping his distance.

"It's our hunting day..." He trailed off not finishing his sentence. We walked in silence for a while."You're new to this town aren't you?"

"Yeah, I just moved here."

"I noticed. Most people would run away calling us monsters." He growled out. I looked over and noticed he got angry for a second and then started to calm down.

"Well I am not like most people." I said. He looked at me. "Sorry I didn't tell you my name. My name is Haley David."

"Kojuro Katakura." He replied. I stopped. Really this guy has the same name as a famous samurai from the Sengoku era. He stopped after going ahead of me.

"Lady Haley," He said not looking at me "There is something you should know about us. We are all from the Sengoku era. We have died from old age but we came back to the same age we are now."

"How did that happen?" I asked getting interested.

"We were cursed by a clan."

"By a clan?"

"The Hiko clan, you see one of their people was part of the Date army. She... was a friend to everybody and her freindship ended up cursing us all." He said with his back still turned to me. He sounded sad the person must have been really nice.

"Wha-" I didn't get to finish my sentence because Kojuro had grabbed my arm fast. There was a rustle of tree branches next to me and four men stepped out.

"Oh, Master Katakura, it's you." said one with glasses

"Who's that?" said the one with a chin guard, pointing at me.

"It's a woman. Isn't obvious." The one with weird haired replied.

"Does she have any regular food?" asked the chubby one.

"Boys..." Kojuro growled out, glaring at all four of them. While he still had a grip on my arm.

"Sorry." All four of them said. Kojuro sighed and then looked down at me. He noticed he still had a grip on my arm and let go.

"Hey, Miss. What is your name?" The man with the chin guard asked.

"Haley." I replied looking at all four of them again.

"Bunshichi," He replied "and this is Magobei (the chubby one), Yoshinao (the one with the weird hair), and Samenosuke (The one with glasses)." Pointing to each one.

"Nice to meet you all." After I said that my phone rang. It was playing Breath of life by Florence + the Machines. "Sorry." As Pulled out my phone "Hello?"

"WHERE ARE YOU YOUNG LADY!" a voice on the other end of the phone yelled. It was my mom and she sounded mad mixed with worry.

"On my way home." I deadpanned

"YES! TWENTY MINUTES AGO!" This time I pulled my phone away from my ear. I looked around Kojuro and the others were looking other places. I put the phone back to my ear. "I thought you were dead...I thought you were attacked by vampires." She ranted.

"Mom." She kept going. "Mom!" Still didn't hear me. "MOM!"

"WHAT!? Are you in trouble!?"

"No. I will be home as soon as I can."

"Okay, see you soon." she hung up. I stared at my phone like I was going to kill it. She worried too much.

"Haley?" Bunshichi asked. I looked up and smiled forgetting I was annoyed with my mom.

"Sorry that was my mom. I should go home." I replied.

"Oh...Okay. It was nice meeting you." He replied. The other three nodded their heads. I said my good-byes and started to walk again. Kojuro walked on the other side of the path, he was looking straight ahead.

"Hey Kojuro," I started, he looked out of the corner of his eyes at me "Is Masamune still around?"

"Yes," he replied looking ahead again "But he left three month ago, but I will wait for his return."

"That is loyal."

"How so?"

"Well you will wait for his return and he will have someone to come back to."

"You are very different Lady Haley."

"Thank you and please don't call me Lady."

"I will keep this in mind, Miss Haley." My eye twitched.

We walked in silence until we reached the end of the path and we were across from my house. My father was still at work but you could see my mom pacing behind the curtains. I looked over at Kojuro, he was staring at the moon.

"Well see you another time maybe." I said nervously. Why am I nervous? So far Kojuro didn't do anything to me. Kojuro gaze went from the moon to me, his dark brown eyes gave me the shivers. There was something about him that I couldn't put my finger on.

"It would be best that we meet two days from now, Miss Haley." He said

"Okay..." I started to walk and then I stopped. I turned around and stared at him. Kojuro stared at me back amusingly "It alright to call me Haley. It's the twenty-first century not the sixteenth."

"I'll keep that in mind Haley." He smiled and I saw a fang poke out. I smiled back and said good-bye. I walked into the house. I couldn't wait to see Kojuro again.