Into the Night
Chapter 1- Enter the Strawberry
A girl with dark raven hair that went past her shoulders and icy violet eyes looked around the bottom of the dance floor. She was standing on the second floor of 'Nightshift' the local club that her brother owned, and this club was also a hit for both humans and vampires.
In this world now, vampires did in fact exist and were common amongst the humans. Humans knew about their existence, but they weren't necessarily afraid of them. It was a more trust type of issue. But maybe it was like that because there are good vampires and bad vampires.
There were 13 covens that were based all in Karakura. This was the center were they all lived and controlled certain parts their regions. All the 13 covens were good. As far as she knew, there weren't any problems in the covens. She could only hope it would stay that way. Yep, that's right. This beautiful young girl was a vampire, and she belonged to one of the covens. Not only that but her brother was a coven leader too.
"Rukia!" The said girl turned around and was met face to face with a girl taller than her, and her strawberry blonde hair flowing behind her. Rukia was very short for her vampire age. She was only 52 years old, and she was so short. There was an upside though. She could get away with a lot of stuff.
"What's up Orihime?"
"Did you hear about the new student coming to Karakura High?"
"No. I didn't. What do you know?"
"Well, rumor has it that it's a guy, and then there are 3 other family members."
Rukia looked away from Orihime and back out into the crowd letting the beat of the music dominate her senses. Orihime looked at her. "Well?"
"Well what? They must be brave. It's not that often that we get newcomers here. I mean come on everyone knows that Karakura is one of the major cities that houses vampires. Usually the people that are here, have already been here for a while. They really have no reason to want to be near us. Why would they? I mean some ways that vampires meet people are by starting fights. If that wouldn't scare them, I don't know what will. Despite us being good, they still do that for fun."
"Well they may not know that we are vampires, but in time they will. They will except us." Orihime said. "They've known us. They won't care what we are."
"She's right." A masculine voice said.
They both turned their heads. "Oh, of course she is. The vampire hunter turned vampire boyfriend would agree. Wouldn't you Uryuu?" Rukia said.
Uryuu moved closer. "Hey Rukia, I chose this life. I love Orihime and I want to be with her. When I found out she was a vampire, I had no clue what to do. I knew that I loved her. We were mortal enemies." Uryuu put his arm around Orihime. "My love for her won out. That was what mattered most. If betraying my father was the only way for me to be with her, I would do it all over again in a heartbeat."
Rukia and Orhime smiled. Rukia met Orihime's eyes. "You are so lucky. You got yourself a good one."
Orihime giggled. "Thanks. Now if you will excuse me, I have to go properly greet my boyfriend!"
As they were leaving, Uryuu turned around. "Hey, I'll call you later tonight."
Rukia nodded and watched them exit through the door. She sighed. She remembered that night that they all found out that Uryuu was a vampire hunter. It was horrible to say the least. Orihime, Rukia, and Renji were walking around when they heard noises. They checked it out only to find Uryuu fighting with a member of Coven 11. Renji intercepted the fight and that's when Orihime saw Uryuu. Orihime took off running and Rukia took off after her. Orihime didn't know what to do.
Orihime knew that she loved Uryuu, but she felt so betrayed. It seemed that all communication between them had stopped, only for Rukia to find out that that was not true. Rukia found out that Orihime turned Uryuu. Rukia was furious. He was meant to kill their kind. Why should they except him into their life? Rukia remembered Orihime's voice and eyeys when she said, "Because I love him." After that Rukia convinced the main coven leader, Yamamoto, to let him in. Promising that if he was ever to betray them, they could have her own life.
Needless to say her brother was not pleased, but there was nothing he could do about it. To this very day, Uryuu has not betrayed them. He's betrayed the hunters. He helps Rukia and them to find the hunters. He's very essential to their well-being, because the numbers of hunters has increased. He lives with Orihime, but when he has a chance he breaks into his father's house and steals information. They are all thankful for him. Now, Rukia and Uryuu have a sibling like relationship. He is very protective of her.
Rukia moved to sit down on one of the couches. She scanned her eyes across the people on the second floor. It was amazing how vampires and humans could be together in such an upbeat atmosphere. She could hear the erratic heartbeats in all the humans, but she was trained to ignore the calling for it.
Rukia's coven was the civilized kind of vampires. They never forcibly fed from a human. They either get their blood from a willing human or a shop run by Urahara. Urahara gets the blood from a person he has inside the hospital, and puts the blood in bottles. Smart man that Urahara, but he sure as hell was annoying.
The willing humans knew what they were getting into. Some covens had both human and vampires. Some were friends, like some of Rukia's friends, but they were also willing participants in the food game. Some intended to be turned, like Rukia's friend/lover, Toshiro Hitsugaya. Toshiro may be human now but he is also a coven leader who is going to be turned very soon.
Rukia leaned her head back and closed her eyes, remembering her past. At first, she was involved withi Kaien. Kaien was the first guy to ever make her feel welcome. When she was first adopted by the Coven 6th leader she felt so out of place.
It felt like Byakuya never cared about her. She always thought herself as an insignificant person who was thrown into this against her will. Kaien changed that. That was the only thing she was grateful for, Byakuya bringing her in.
Back then, Kaien was around her home because of business. Kaien felt more like family to her than Byakuya ever did. That familial feeling she had for Kaien soon left, and turned into romantic fellings for him. When she was turned at 16, that was a turning point for both of them. That's when their whole relationship started. As soon as their relationship took off, it was ended just as quickly. He was killed, by who they never figured out. Her first thought was vampire hunters, but when her and Uryuu became friends she asked him about it, but he said there was no documents about it. She didn't know what to believe.
After that, she was never the same. She became withdrawn from everybody putting on a mask for some. She couldn't fool her friends though. They knew she was hurting. Then two years ago, she met Toshiro. He was 16 at the time. He was being attacked by a group of rogue vampires because of his size. For a guy, he was a little on the short side. Even though he was, he could handle himself against 4 vampires. A human no less.
That's when Rukia and Ukitake (Coven Leader 13) came upon the scene. After that, the rest was history. Now at 18, Toshiro was going to be turned. The leaders thought he should wait just to see if he would grow a little more. Surprisingly he has. He was taller than her. Now, she really was the shortest one in the group. Well, except for Yachiru, but she was turned at a young age.
Toshiro and Rukia for some unknown reason went from friends to lovers. Maybe it was because he went through something similar in his life, loosing a loved one. They bonded and one thing led to another, so they were now lovers. No strings attached. They could see other people if they wanted.
She was brought out of her thoughts by a noise outside. She closed her eyes and focused. "Look at you all alone! Don't you know better? Coming into our territory? Why don't we have a little talk?" A male voice said. Rukia sighed. 'Thank you heightened senses.' she thought.
She ran down the stairs. She maneuvered her way through the people on the dance floor, and stopped at the door. 'Don't these motherfucker know how it works?' Rukia thought angrily.
She softly opened the door, and changed into her animal form. All vampires had animal forms and special gifts. The form Rukia took was a beautiful fully white wolf with icy violet eyes that could freeze you to the core. Orihime always said that's why she could hypnotized people so easily. It all had to do with the eyes.
She made her way into the back alley. She stopped to get a look at her surroundings. She noticed 5 vampires gaining up on some kid. 'Just great'
She let a small growl escape her lips. They stopped what they were doing, and looked up. They froze when their eyes met hers. In a flash, she was in her human form. She smirked. "What the hell are you doing Ikkaku?"
"Awww….You know I was just having some fun." The guy was trying to pick himself up, but Ikkaku put his foot on the guy's back to keep him down. "Hey! I didn't tell you to get up."
Rukia's eyes fell on the guy. She noticed his unusual colored hair, and from what she could see of his body, he had a damn good one.
Rukia snapped out of her reverie when somebody spoke up. "Ms. Kuchiki, what are you doing out here?" Rukia's eyes narrowed and she let out an angry sigh. "How is that any of your damn business Yumichika?"
Yumichika's eyes fell on her as he flipped his shoulder length hair. "I'm just stating a simple fact. We heard from Yachiru who heard from leader Zaraki that your brother has forbidden you to be out past 12 o'clock. It is now 1:45."
Ikkaku smiled. 'Got her there.'
Rukia smirked while Ikkaku's smiled faded. "Well yeah but see, I remember at a meeting that the coven leaders had, Yamamoto stated that no one is supposed to pick a fight with a human. The rules have now changed. You" Rukia pointed to the group, " did. I wonder what he would say? Especially your leader. He's the one who is always looking for a great fight. What would he say about you 5 adding shame to your coven?" She shrugged with an innocent look on her face.
Ikkaku stammered, "Well, y-y-you see. Well, le-le-lets forget this e-ever ha-happened…what do you say?"
"You read my mind." Rukia said as Ikkaku removed his foot of off the guy's back. "Lets go" Ikkaku said. In a second they were gone.
The guy on the ground groaned. Befor he could look at her Rukia had changed into her animal form. He sat up on his knees expecting to see the girl who had helped him, but his eyes only saw the icy violet eyes of the wolf.
The wolf went towards him. His eyes never left her. The wolf stopped in front of him, and he raise his hand cautiously to pet her.
"So were you the one who helped me?" he questioned. "No, you couldn't have…There was a girl here. I'm sure of it." His eyes finally left hers and went to his stomach where they had cut him. 'The hell' Rukia thought. The cut had healed.
"Well," He took his hand away from her. "If you see her again…Tell her I could've taken care of those bastards myself, but thanks…I guess." Rukia's eyes met his again. She was slowly pulling him in. 'Tell me your name…Then go' she demanded as she communicated to him telepathically.
"Ichigo…"he said suddenly as he stood up and left.
The form of a girl now replaced the wolf. "Well Ichigo, you are most welcome…" With that said she turned around and left.
A/N: Wow! I can't believe the first chapter of my story is up! I'm so happy. I hope you all like it. All thoughts welcomed, even flamers. Sorry if some spelling is off, and I'm not good with honorifics (-chan, -san, -kun) so those won't be in this. Sorry! This is an AU too. Just too let you know.
This first chapter was more of an explanation chapter, so I'm sorry if it's boring. It will get more interesting, and yes, Ichigo will be in more. I just wanted to get some background on Rukia.
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