Moonlight

by Zaru-san

Rating: M

Summary: BuffyxTMNT crossover. The slayer's group becomes watchful over the New York City Hellmouth. But what happens when they encounter those who could be of help in the future?

Disclaimer: I don't own Buffy characters. They belong to Joss Whedon. TMNT characters belong to Peter Laird. I own Zaru, the villians and others.

A/N: This is practically AU for Buffy with no activated potentials. Zaru is a demon hunter/slayer with no relation to the original slayer line. A little bit is explained in the story as you will know later on.

A/n2: I revamped this story the best I could because Zaru was acting a little Mary-Sueish. So, please enjoy this new version of Moonlight (aka Doves).

Chapter 1:

"Giles, you've got to be kidding me!" Blonde, bouncy Buffy looked over at her Watcher with utter disgust at the words he had said to her.

"But, Buffy, it's necessary that we head to New York City immediately. There is no telling how bad that Hellmouth is."

Buffy shook her head. She could not believe what she was hearing. He actually wanted her and her group to head to another Hellmouth in New York City. What was he thinking? His brain must have been working too hard when they were trying to defeat the First. She pretended to knock on his head.

"Hello, Giles. Reality check here! Have you lost your mind? We finally get to relax and all you can think about is heading over to another Hellmouth? What's your damage now? Have you lost your braincells from thinking too hard over the years?" She folded her arms across her chest.

Giles pushed up his glasses and stared over at Buffy. "We have no other choice. The new Council that is quickly being established right away is rather persuasive. We need to get there. They believe something big is going to happen there. And if the slayer is not there to stop it, it could conquer the rest of the world."

Dawn, Buffy's younger sister looked back and forth between the Watcher and Slayer. They were arguing. At least, her sister was trying to argue with the watcher who didn't seemed fazed by Buffy's words. The former key looked around the hotel room they were holed up in until they could get back on the road again. They had been in different hotels for the past several weeks and it was getting rather frustrating not being able to stay in one place for long. Standing up, she headed over to the archway window that was overlooking the city streets of Chicago. Chicago. She had never been there before, but had heard much about it. She wondered what it was like to live in a city like Chicago? There was so much violence in the city she knew, but somehow just seeing how beautiful the city was, she never understood why somebody would say such a thing about the city.

She covered her ears still hearing her sister trying to make sure Giles was getting his mind set right about not going to the Hellmouth. That was it. Too much talking and yelling and yapping. Mostly from her sister.

"Buffy, just shut up and do as he says."

Buffy stopped talking and stared over at her sister, eyes narrowed. "What'd you say?"

"I said to shut up and do what he says. Buffy, we've been on the road, hotel after hotel for weeks now. Why can't we just settle into one place, Buffy? For once? Please? I just wanna be able to live my life again. Have a place to live. To sleep. To stay in for more than a week then having to leave again, even if I haven't made a single friend. Please? More than a week to stay in one place. And New York City doesn't sound all that bad. I heard the violence rate has gone down a lot."

Buffy looked over at Giles. "Why is my little sister looking at violence rates of places?"

"I mentioned New York City earlier to her and she wanted to look some stuff up about it. It's not my fault. She was curious and I rather like that for somebody to be curious about stuff they don't know about. And I wish it was you who would like to actually look something up that was a research tool for once." Giles said his dues and sat down in the chair, the only chair, that was sitting next to the small round table. He crossed his legs and folded his arms, but not before cleaning his glasses.

"I should have known you were a bad influence on my little sister." She sighed heavily. She would have to think about it. Overnight. Yeah. Overnight she would think it over.

Buffy lay awake in bed that night, staring over at her sister who was asleep in the next bed over. She was tucked in and sleeping like a rock. She wondered how she could ever do that with so much noise that used to go on in their house like their mother yelling at Buffy when she was late coming home or when Buffy always tried to order others around in the house.

Too much yelling. Too much arguing. She wondered still how her sister could even handle being in the same room as her sister. She loved her little sister more than anything and wanted her to have the best life that she could possibly lead. Maybe it would be best if they could just settle into one place and not have to move so much anymore.

It was true. They had been on the road ever since Sunnydale turned from a nice, sweet, overrun vampiric town into a huge hole in the ground. Who would've thought Spike could do that? He saved everybody's life by wearing that pendant she had given to him. A champion. A champion was the only one who could wear it. And Spike was it. I miss you so much, Spike. It's so hard not having you here with us right now. She wiped a couple tears from her eyes and stared out the window in the room.

It was a nice night out. They were on the highest floor in the hotel and they seem to be so high, she could see a clear night sky laid out right before her. What could her decision be? Should she become the guardian of another Hellmouth and risk her life once again to kill vampires and demons and other forces of darkness? Maybe she should, after all, it would be like old times. Living together and fighting together. That was her and her friends' way of life at the time being. Living and fighting. That was it. Her decision was made. If not for herself, then for her Dawn and her friends. They'll go to New York City and live there, with her guarding the Hellmouth. After all, something bad might NOT happen there. And that is what she hoped would be.

The next day, it was six in the morning when she heard a knock on her hotel room door. Buffy, sleepy, stood up out of the bed, stretching and yawning. She slowly walked over to the door, her eyes still droopy and hoping to get some shut eye after sending whoever was daring to knock on her door away. The poor girl's hair was mussed up like she had a furball on her head. She let out a huge yawn before opening the door.

"Yeah? Whaddaya want? I'm trying to sleep here in the A.M. and I wish you could have waited several more hours before deciding to knock on my door. Now what is it, Zaru?"

Zaru just stared over at the vampire slayer and nodded. "I know, Buffy, but I thought I would tell you now that I'm heading to New York City early this morning, that is, if you are going to come and live there."

The slayer nodded. "Yeah, yeah. We're going to stay there. Why the hell not? Not like I can do anything else but guard a Hellmouth."

Zaru sighed. "All right, then. I'm just gonna head back to my room and get packed to leave."

Buffy nodded and hugged the girl quickly. "Be safe. And we'll see you in a few days."

Zaru nodded and headed away from the room. Buffy closed the door and headed back to her bed. She looked over to see Dawn was still asleep. "Thank you, Zaru, for waking me up this early in the morning just to tell me that you were leaving. " She mumbled into her pillow, her eyes drooping once again ready to go back to sleep. But it seemed they did not want to. Great. She woke me up and now I can't fall back asleep. I sometimes really hate that girl. But Buffy knew it was not that serious that she hated her. In fact, she loved the girl. She loved her so much, Zaru was like one of her best friends. Possibly an extra sister as a matter of fact. She even remembered when Giles had first introduced her to Zaru. It was in the beginning after he brought the first few potentials with him from England...

-FLASHBACK-

Giles opened the door to the Summers home early in the morning noticing that everybody was probably still asleep.

"Buffy, are you awake?" He called out.

"In the kitchen awake as I should be." He heard her sweet voice call back.

He headed into the kitchen and smiled at her. She was sitting at the island, sitting on a stool reading a newspaper and sipping her morning coffee.

"Hey, Giles. What's up? Why are you here so early in the morning? I thought you were doing something." The night before he had mentioned he was doing some stuff and that he might not be there in the morning.

"Oh, well, apparently what I was having to do was already done, so here I am."

She set the newspaper back down on the island and turned in the stool. "What did you get? A secret weapon we can use against the First?"

"Something like that." He turned around and went back to the door and opened it. She heard it close and a couple voices talking, then coming into the kitchen.

Giles walked back into the kitchen, a young girl with dyed green hair in a high ponytail and blue eyes looking around. She looked to be at least in her 20s. Maybe just 20. She was wearing flare jeans and a red halter top with red sunglasses perched on top of her head.

"Who's this?" Buffy asked. The slayer was now curious about this girl. "A potential?"

Giles shook his head. "No. This is Sizaru Kiys. She is a demon slayer."

Buffy blinked. "A...demon slayer?"

Zaru nodded. "Yeah. I'm a demon slayer. Different from a vampire slayer and no I'm not in your slayer line."

The blonde slayer turned to her watcher. "Okay. Exactly how is Sizaru a slayer when I'm the slayer?"

"It's Zaru."

"Pardon?"

"My friends call me Zaru for short."

Buffy just nodded and smiled small. "Okay. Sorry, Zaru. But I still don't understand exactly how this all works out?"

Zaru set her stuff down against the wall in the kitchen. "Perhaps I might be able to explain, Buffy."

"Sure. Coffee?"

Zaru nodded and Buffy got out to make the girl a cup. "Four sugars please and whole milk if you got it."

Buffy nodded. "So, please, Zaru, enlighten me. How exactly are you a slayer? It just doesn't make any sense."

The green-haired girl nodded her head to the blonde girl before her. "I understand what you mean. Ya see, there are 2 separate slayer lines. Only my line was thought to be diminshed for several years until I emerged. " Buffy urged her to continue but Giles filled in.

"Buffy, the demon slayer line was running the same show as the vampire slayer line. Except a vampire slayer slayed vampires other forces of darkness, while the demon slayer focused on the demons."

"How can there be two different lines, Giles. I just don't get it."

"Uh, well, a couple thousand years ago, around the time of one of the vampire slayers, another young girl was brought to her attention to have some powers of her own. The girl was brought forth before the Council who were then put down by what is called the Society of Light."

Buffy raised an eyebrow. "The Society of Light? What's that?"

"Apparently, the Society of Light was established -"

"Whoa! There's another Council?" Buffy asked shocked.

Giles cleared his throat. "May I continue, please, Buffy?" He asked somewhat coldly.

The Slayer just rolled her eyes. "Fine. Talk. Continue." She gestured with her hand to him as she sipped her coffee.

"The Society of Light was established in the continent of Asia whose beliefs were sought together to bring good use of fighting evil. Power was emitted from powerful oni, or demons, and given to a human."

"Wait, so let me get this straight, it started with some Asian people? And you said human which means that it could either be a guy or girl, right?"

Zaru nodded. "Exactly, Buffy. The demon slayer before me was a man named Ty Von Sanderson. But when the power is handed down to a male, they are usually called demon hunters. Not slayers." The green-haired young lady sipped her coffee. "Such good coffee." She smiled at Buffy.

"Thank you."

"You're welcome." She bowed her head and continued speaking. "Does this information help you in any way, Buffy?"

Buffy nodded her head. "Well, it's better than nothing. Glad to have you as part of the team, Zaru." She lifted her cup and the demon slayer did the same. They clinked coffee mugs and sipped their coffee at the same time, silence in the room.

-END FLASHBACK-

Buffy just shook her head at the thought. It had been many months later that the girl had found her way into the heart of everybody in the group. Buffy herself, Dawn, Willow, Xander, the potentials and hell, even Faith. Zaru worked her way into the group and became a promising member with much to offer.

After the situation with the whole destroying the Hellmouth and First thing, Buffy and the others thought that the demon slayer would be heading back home to where she was from which was Japan even though she was born in the states. The girl just shrugged, smiled and said, "No. Wherever you go is my home now." And it was. She had never left them. Not to mention she had put up a lot of money and stuff for the group for hotels, food and clothing. But she was not complaining about it at all. She was happy to offer the help for the group.

The slayer was beginning to get a headache from thinking about so many things. She just wanted to fall back asleep. She looked next to her bed at the alarm clock that was sitting right there. It was almost 7:00 in the morning and she was still up. Her eyes were getting droopy once again though. And she had to sleep. She was going to make the group wait until noon before she got up because their check-out was not even until 2:00 in the afternoon. Yawning once more, she closed her eyes to help release the headache emerging and to try to fall asleep, at least if she could.

Not to long after closing her eyes once again, she thought about one thing before she fell into a long awaited sleep. New York City. Another place to play 'Guardian of the Hellmouth'. Maybe I could blow this one up, too and finally live in peace. But I just hope that it isn't as bad as Sunnydale, cause if it is...I really don't wanna even think about it. Perhaps it'll be peaceful without much of anything wrong. Nothing unusual. She fell asleep.

But the Slayer's small group had no idea what they were heading for in New York City. What awaited them was much more awkward than they thought anything could be.

TBC...

A/n3: So, what do you think? Let me know! :D

Sweet Turtle Dreams,

Zaru