Ruki44: Hey, thanks to the two reviewers, Frozen Twins and kyuubihikari (Sorry if i misspelled your names, i tend to that a lot XD) who encourged to me actual continue this!

Ruki: YOU FOOLS WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!

Tetra: YOU ENCOURGED HER, THAT'S THE WORSE POSSIBLE THING YOU COULD HAVE DONE!

Rukia: Arn't you guys over reacting?

Hinata: Ruki44 is the defintion of over reaction.

Ruki44: I'm going to take offense to that statement!

Ruki: It's true, you over react to everything. Like you freaked out when you found out there was a bubble wrap game for the i pod touch.

Ruki44: IT WAS BUBBLE WRAP, BUBBLE WRAP IS AWESOME!

Rukia: Bubble wrap....?

Tetra: OMG, SHE DOESN'T KNOW WHAT BUBBLE WRAP IS, WE MUST EDUMACATE HER! runs off and gets a bubble wrap sheet and returns and gives it to Rukia Here you go!

Rukia: ...What am i supposed to do with it?

Hinata: Pop them.

Rukia: What?!

Ruki: Yea, your supposed to pop them.

Rukia: That is retarded! How could this possibly be awesome?!

Ruki44: POP ONE!

Rukia: OK! pops one o.0 o..m..g pops some more

Ruki44: CONVERSION SUCCESSFUL! HAHAHAHAHA!

Tetra: Well then, Ruki44 doesn't own anything, enjoy!


Friends in Trouble! Rena's Plea and a Shocking Secret!

Landscape whizzed by me as I pressed my forehead against the window pane of the bus that was taking us back to western Shinjuku, the part of the city where I born and raised. I for the most part of my life lived on the outskirts of the city, but last year when mom got a speeding ticket and got her license revoked, we moved into the city so she could get to her modeling job easier, as well as my school.

"So is this where you went when you left school two years ago?" Rene asked me, snapping me out of my revive. I looked across at her, my face blank. Even though we lived on the outskirts, mom was determined to send me to the best school money could afford, which was Oxford Academy, a school for all girls, much to my mom's dismay. (She wanted me to have a boyfriend by the time I was a freshman, and she was being generous considering her personality and the flair for the romance. I should be in seventh grade now…two more years before mom starts setting me up…)

"Yes." I told her simply before turning to look out the window again. Takato mumbled something in his sleep and he fell over from his sleeping sitting position so that his head was on my lap. I blinked, unsure if I should push him off me or just let him stay there. I heard a quiet laughter and I looked up to see Rene giggling in her hand. A light frown graced my face. She noticed this and she stopped giggling and started to fidget nervously under my gaze.

"I'm sorry." She apologized, her speech stuttering. "It's just that together…you two are rather cute." Juri had told me the exact same thing. I sighed and decided that if I woke Takato up, I would have to deal with his annoying questions. There are only so many times a person can take 'Are we there yet?'

"So I've been told." I told her softly, leaning back on the seat, my eyes once again returning to the windows. A silence once again over took us.

"Makino-san, can I ask you something?" I turned and looked at Rene again who seemed very interested in everything else but me.

"You just did but sure I guess." I told her sighing. Please don't let it be awkward, please don't let it be awkward…

"It's just that…and this isn't just me…but…you were probably the brightest student there. You were in the top ten percent of our class and you were incredibly athletic, so much so it was a shame you never joined a sport team. And pardon me for saying this, but if you weren't so distant and cold you would easily have been the most popular girl there. You easily had a bright future…yet you left and threw it all away and I find you two years later by pure accident working for Youkai Inc, a rather well known and well respected company sure…but there are rumors Makino-san…rumors of youkai and demons surrounding it. I guess what I'm asking is…why did you leave?" Rene said slowly, choosing her words carefully as if she was afraid to offend me, which I'm sure she was.

Why did I leave huh? How could I explain without telling her I was a vampire and pretty much telling her that the "rumors" that haunted Youkai Inc were true? I sighed and closed my eyes and pinched my nose.

Flashback

It was a cold dark alley and rain water hit my face. I dumbly stood in shock at the crumpled bodies lying before me, not dead but seriously wounded. I clenched my shirt and took a step back and tripped on the slippery pavement and fell to the ground.

I had done this to them. They had come out of nowhere and I felt frightened…and…it was so fast…but I knew it. I did this to them, I almost killed them. And my body was roaring out to finish the job. I held my head in my hands.

"Oh my god…oh my god…" I chanted in a low undertone, my fingernails digging into my sculp.

"Well, well…you certainly did a number on them." My eyes widened and I turned around to see a boy with gray eyes and short blue hair standing over me. He was dressed in a raincoat and was holding an umbrella.

"Who are you?" I demanded as I shakily stood up. The boy smiled and held the umbrella over me, shielding me from the rain. Not that it mattered, I was soaked to the bone anyways.

"I'm Jenyra Lee, I work for Youkai Inc. I've been looking for you Ruki Makino. You see I…we…know all about you and what you are. We know you're not what you appear…a human, that you are only half of one. That your other half is a vampire and that you isolate yourself from people in order to prevent something that just happened now." He explained, the smile never leaving his face. I started to shake.

"If you know that, then what do you want from me?" I demanded, trying not to show my impending panic. If he knew what I was and wasn't running from me, he was no ordinary human, if he was human at all. Jenyra simply chuckled at my question.

"Simple. Monsters such as yourself cannot run around loose…that would cause a panic. I want you to come with me and work for Youkai Inc. You will be living among other youkai such and will be able to use your talents to bring back or take care of renegade monsters and help with other odd jobs." I nodded my head, I, like everybody else knew what Youkai Inc was kind of like an all jobs company. They specialized in finding kidnapped victims and murders. They could pretty do much anything that normal agencies failed to do, and now I understood why.

"Alright…but I have to tell my mom and grandma first…and we have to get these guys to a hospital…" I mumbled, knowing I really didn't have a choice even if I didn't want to go. Jenyra gave me a friendly smile.

"Ok." And then he reached into pocket and pulled out a black cell phone and flipped it open and punched in three numbers… 911. "Hello, there are three guys in the alley, pick them up and treat them immediately then follow the usual procedure, got it?" He said in the phone before shutting it. He then turned to me and grinned. "Don't worry, we have members of Youkai Inc in the police, hospitals, and firefighters. We have to make sure the monster stays a secret after all…"

End Flashback

"I just wanted a change." I told her finally. Damn that was lame, probably just raised her suspicions even more… Rene looked at me finally as if she was studying me.

"I see." She said slowly as I looked off to the side. Then after a brief moment of silence, "Thank you." I looked back at her, raising my eyebrow.

"For what?" I asked her, as she look down, suddenly finding the floor very interesting.

"It's just that…you're helping me and…I guess I never really got to know you, did I? You were so off that I never tried to approach you. I'm sorry." Rene rambled on. I chuckled, startling her.

"If you have an obligation to fill lost time, don't be." I told her straight out and gave her a grin, revealing my sharp canines making her flinch. "I'm not somebody you want to get close too, trust me on that."

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"Wow, that used to be Ruki's school? It's huge!" Takato commented in awe as he stood on his tippy toes, putting his hand to his forehead like a visor. Rene, Takato, and I were standing outside the old school's gates, ivy was climbing up the walls. Looks like they've been keeping this place in shape…

"Stop that Takato, your drawing attention. It's like you're a small child." I rebuked him with a sigh. Takato turned and looked at me, and after a moment's thought…stuck his tongue out and me and gave me a raspberry. I sweatdropped, he had just succeeded to prove my point.

"Everyone is staring at you, not me, so I don't want to hear it." He told me childishly. And it was true, at least five people had stopped and stared when they saw me standing at the front gates. One girl went home crying…I think her name was Allison.

"What was that about? I don't remember doing anything to her…" I asked Rene as we watched the girl run away with a sweatdrop.

"…There are things better left unsaid." Rene said after a moment pause. I shrugged my shoulders and turned my attention back towards Takato.

"Ok Takato, play practices at this school are notorious for being insanely long, boring, and tedious." I told him with a seriously and he nodded his vigorously, taking what I had to say in. "So that means if you want to go visit your family while we're here, go for it." I ended with a grin.

Takato gave me one of his lopsided smiles and an excited hug, making all the girls who were hanging around in the school yard gawk and I swear to god, a couple of excited cooing from girls like mom rang through the school yard. After his public display of affection, Takato ran off, giving me a wave as he disappeared from sight.

"Well if you weren't the latest talk of the school, you certainly are now." Rene laughed as she walked in the gates and I shoved my hands in my pockets and followed her.

"Joy." I grumbled. "Just what I like, being the center of attention…that's what I live for after all, attention. Just can't get enough of it." I grumbled sarcastically under my breath. That's when this girl that I never seen before approached me. She bright long blonde hair that was tied back into a low ponytail with equally bright blue eyes. Underneath her eyes she had this blue "w" shape.

"Hello, so you must be the infamous Ruki Makino I've been hearing about, it's nice to finally meet you. My name is Rena Nonaka, and I'm a kitsune." She told me solemnly, holding her hand out. Rene laughed nervously.

"Ah don't mind her Makino-san…she says weird stuff like that all time…" Rene shot odd looks at Rena. I smiled however and shook her outstretched hand.

"Hello, I thought I saw an unfamiliar face." I told her with a pleasant smile. If I was going to be stuck here for any amount of time, I shouldn't really have a relapse of when I still went here and have everyone afraid of me. It would make my job a hell lot of harder actually. "So I take it you're in the play?" I asked her, desperately trying to remember all of the lessons of "good manners" Grandma tried drilling into my thick skull.

"Stage Crew." Rena said curtly. She is just as talkative as I am…well at least she seems like somebody I can get along with…I nodded my head.

"I see. Well not to sound rude or anything Rena, but I'll talk to you later, ok?" I told her with the best friendly smile I could muster. Rena nodded and walked away.

"You two are like two peas in a pod." Rene grumbled. I turned to her, raising my eyebrow.

"How so?" I asked her, making her jump a bit. Oh…was I not supposed to hear that? Stupid extra sensory senses make it even harder to act normal…

"Ah…it's just that…you both are rather distant. But I guess you're both different too. Even though Rena is straightforward, people have a harder talking to her then they did to you…and you were more…well mysterious I guess is the best word." Rene says softly. I look up into the sky, watching the clouds drift by on the breeze.

"You don't say…" I mumbled.

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I was honestly glad I brought my I pod with me. These girls did need the practice…how they are going to bring anybody in if they continue with the 'performance' they are giving right now is beyond me. It's so horrible I don't even think the parents would come to watch their little bundles of joy. I turned up the volume on my I pod and began to sing along to the lyrics of the playing song in a soft undertone.

Asa mo ya ga Tadayaou machi no naka de

Himeta kimochi setsunakute Tachi tomatta

Sunao ni wa Doushite mo narenakute

Kansha shiteru Kokoro dake ga chuu ni mau yo

The morning haze, drifting in the streets

Keeping so much secretive feelings, that it stands still

I just can't be honest to myself

Only my thankful heart is dancing on air

Dare ka o maneshita houhou wa shitakunai

Hontou no watashi o shitte hoshii no

I don't want to imitate anyone in any method

I want you to know my true self

Negai ga hitotsu dake kanau nara

Tsubasa o kudasai

Sugu soba ni tonde tte Tsutaetai koto ga aru kara

Watashi no mama de

If my only wish can be fulfilled

Please give me wings

Soon by flying, I want to send things to you because

I'm still me

Tsuyogari no Oku ni kakushita omoi

Soppo muita furi o shite Mitsumete ita

Kotoba de wa Umaku arawasenakute

Dakedo itsumo Egao dake de irarenai yo

My thoughts hidden deeply behind bluffing

Purposely pretending to face the other way, and staring

I'm not an expert at expressing myself in words

But I can't always keep on smiling

Subete o wakatte hoshii to wa iwanai wa

Watashi no yarikata tsuranu kitai no

I won't say that I want you to know everything about me

My way will pierce through

Negai ga hitotsu dake kanau nara

Yuuki o kudasai

Ima sugu ni kaketette Todoketai mono ga aru kara

Watashi no mama de

If my only wish can be fulfilled

Please give me courage

Right now I'll run, and I want to deliver things to you because

I'm still me

Negai ga hitotsu dake kanau nara

Tsubasa o kudasai

Sugu soba ni tonde tte Tsutaetai koto ga aru kara

Watashi no mama de

If my only wish can be fulfilled

Please give me wings

Soon by flying, I want to send things to you because

I'm still me

"You should be up there and not down here." I jumped out of my seat and turned to see the girl I had just met earlier, Rena, staring at me with an amused expression. "You sing rather well." I looked to the side, my face heating up a bit at the compliment.

"I should say the same for you, aren't you in stage crew? You should be up there helping." I muttered, not a lot of people heard me sing before…Rena would make the third outside of my family. Juri heard me singing when she would sometimes bunk in my room when it was too loud down by on her end because I tend to sing at night, especially when I was in the shower.

Once I started to sing in the shower because I thought Juri was asleep and when I came out, to my horror I found her awake and grinning at me. She told me she loved the song I was singing (Never Had a Dream Come True) before wishing me good night, leaving me with my mouth hanging open and standing in my pajamas with my towel over my shoulder, my hair dripping wet in the middle of my room.

The other person was Takato. A parasite monster that we had been hunting had took control of me and I had flashbacks of my father (what little I remembered of him) and what I remembered most vividly about him was the songs my father and I used to sing together. That being said, the parasite made me attack Takato while I was singing my father and mine special song, Yuuhi no Yakusoku…the Promise of the Setting Sun. Takato was able to free me eventually, but that event brought up memories I had locked away in the recesses of my mind about my father…

"It's a long number, I won't be needed for awhile." Rena explained as if it's the most obvious thing in the world.

"Ah." I mumbled, watching the girls redo a dance move for the fifth time. "So you decided to come and visit me then?" I asked her, looking at the girl out of the corner of my eye.

"I want to talk to you." Rena told me solemnly, watching the play rehearsal the same way I was.

"You are now, aren't you?" I asked her, a bit of dry amusement laced in. Rena seemed to seriously think about this.

"I guess I am. But I was hoping to talk to you where wandering ears won't hear us." She told me, her voice getting softer. I didn't say anything, there was nothing wrong with the location we were at now and I had a job to do. "…I wish to work for Youkai Inc the same way you and that dog boy do." Renamon whispered, her voice wouldn't even been picked up by a human's ear. However I wasn't human. I looked at her startled, did she just call Takato dog boy?

"What?" I breathed at the same volume as Rena. Rena looked at me with a wry smile on her face.

"I do believe I told you I was a kitsune. Or are you surprised on my knowledge that your friend is a lunar child…though the same thing could be said for you…" Rena smirked a bit. I growled a bit, my danger senses immediately on high alert.

"I see. Who the hell are you and what do you want from me?" I demanded harshly. Rena sighed.

"I just told you that didn't I? I want to work for Youkai Inc." She explained again, slowly, as if I was a small child. I growled and tightened my fist in a ball.

"I heard you the first time! Why!" I snapped, having to remind myself to keep my rage under control and my voice low so nobody could hear me…besides Rena that is. Rena seemed to wrestle with her answer for a few minutes.

"I'm under the control of Hypnos. Surely you've heard of them right…" Rena admitted finally. I looked at her surprised. Hypnos? I thought that was disbanded by a raid led by Youkai Inc about ten years ago…

Hypnos was a small scientific sect who just happened to know about monsters. Where Youkai Inc is a company run by vampire hunters, exocerists, and other types of humans whose families and way of life revolved around the dealing of youkai, Hypnos was just a bunch of scientists who seriously needed to get a life.

Hypnos was closed down not because it knew about monsters, it was what they were doing to deal with the monsters, both the renegade and monsters like myself and Takato who were under bondage. They took human children and a monster they happened to catch and fuse the DNA together, so it was a chimera for lack of better terms. They weren't humans, but they weren't monsters either.

I guess I was the closest and farthest away from their predicament in where they stood in the world. Where I was neither human nor youkai, I stood at the cross roads of both worlds, I was in essence, part of both worlds. The chimera that Hypnos created didn't belong in either. They didn't belong in the monster because they were born human, but they didn't belong in the human because they were monsters.

It was a sad state to be in and instantly I emphasized with Rena.

"I didn't know they were still around." I told her slowly. Rena nodded her head.

"I'm not surprised…after all Hypnos has received an order from the government to stay down low…until the time is right. You see Hypnos went to the government shortly after Youkai Inc disbanded them. They told the politicians all about youkai, and brought others like me in as proof. They made a deal with the government. If they continued to make 'super powered humans'…that's what they call us by the way…the government will give them research funds and a base of operations.

What the government's plan is I think is to wait for a monster slip up and then turn the general public against the youkai, which should be fairly simple. Then that's when the government will take action, rounding up all the youkai and 'slaying the beasts', but in actuality keeping them alive as weapons." Rena told me.

I was shocked beyond belief. I had to tell Jen, I had to warn Youkai Inc. Youkai weren't any worse than humans, sure there was the bad seeds, but they were few and far in between. The general sentiment was to stay hidden…

"I need to tell them." I whispered, standing up only to have Rena pull me down.

"Yes, but there is more." She whispered in a harsh undertone. "I need your help…and it's a bit more personal for me. You and dog boy are the only youkai I've had the chance to contact…well that's not true…you're the only non renegade youkai." Rena told me hurriedly.

"What do you need my help with?" I asked her, wishing she'd get to the point.

"I have two friends, Gill and Terry. Their little boys, about the ages of six or so…the cutest little guys you ever laid your eyes on. Like me, they were implemented with monsters, Gill with a dragon type and Terry with a rabbit type…or was it a dog. Doesn't matter. Anyways, Hypnos is holding them for hostage to keep me under control. I can't leave until they are free as well.

See you and dog boy are real youkai, you'd have no trouble taking out the guards. I would do it myself but they would overpower and outnumber me, and they have Gill and Terry as hostages like I said. So after this job, can you help me free them?" Rena begged. I watched the dancers on the stage.

It was a horrible world Rena had to live in. The best time would to free them now while it seems that we are on a different job. Hypnos would get suspicious if a youkai stayed in an area too long…though we do have family here…but still…

"Tonight. I'll call Takato up and tell him to rest up and we'll go on the raid. You tell us where. In exchange, while we are out, you have to take over our job temporarily watching Rene and finding her assailants." Rena smiled, a relieved look gracing her face.

"No problem, how can I ever thank you?" She asked. I stood up to go use the pay phone to call Takato.

"By working your foxy tail off at Youkai Inc." I told her, my back facing to her before I walked out of the darkened theaters.

Things certainly got a lot more interesting.


Ruki44: Ok first things first, that song Ruki sung was...well...Ruki's song from the show. And I know it seems odd for Rena(mon) to just come out and say HI IM A YOUKAI, but then against was Renamon always straightfoward. Luckily everyone thinks she's insane xD. And the thing with Allison in the beginning...yea...in case you missed it...she's not straight.

Ruki: WHAT?!

Ruki44: Shut it Ruki! Anyways, by any means this ISNT going to be a yuri or yaoi fic, its just that every good anime or manga has the non straight character. In Bleach is Chizuru (and Soi Fon too I bet...) in Naruto its Orchimaru, Kabuto, and I wouldn't be surprised if Sasuke was gay either. Though that would put a damper on rebuilding his plan. But I figure hey, if a good anime/manga has it, why can't a fic that's trying to be good have it? Anyways, it's not going to play a major role, its more allusions then anything (like Soi Fong in Bleach...). Also, you may think "Holy crap, the plot just got jumped into" Wrong.

Tetra: What?! You more or less gave the plot away! To stop Hypnos right?! And save Gill and Terry...

Ruki44: Also where you are wrong! This is going to be like the "save Rukia arc" in Bleach, it seems like its the main story, but its really not!

Hinata: Speaking of which Rukia, what is the main story of Bleach?

Rukia: I...don't...know...

Ruki: ....

Tetra: I thought it's surrounding the hoykuku or whatever.

Ruki44: Probably, but things go deeper then Hypnos and government conspiries.

Ruki: Translation: This is the save Rukia arc, I haven't thought of the Save Orihime arc and the rest of the world arc yet.

Ruki44: SHUT UP! Please reivew =3 Makes me feel special!