Chapter 2: The Maple Inn
"Nyu!" The girl squealed again as she saw a bird on a telephone pole.
Yuka looked around nervously, making sure that no one was around before breathing a sigh of relief. "What's wrong with her?" Yuka muttered to herself so no one could hear.
"It's probably brain damage from the gunshot, it could be permanent, or she could wake up good as new one day." Kane said, startling Yuka as she had no idea how he heard that.
The group made it to their destination without incident, and Kane was quite impressed with his new living arrangements.
The Maple Inn, as it was called, was rather large for just Kane, Kouta and Nyu, but it was gorgeous, Kane thanked his mother, as he knew he couldn't appreciate it from his father's side of the family.
Yuka pointed Kane to his room and he excused himself, as he closed the door he could hear Nyu starting to fuss about something, but chose to ignore it in favor of contacting the Hellsing Organization as he was ordered to upon establishing a base of operations.
Kane pulled out his cellphone and dialed the number..."Hello?" The familiar voice of his mother, Seras Victoria, came through the speaker.
"Hello mother, I was calling to inform you that I have made it to Japan and found a place to stay." Kane said in a mannerism akin to Alucard.
"Already, my, that was fast, well I'll be sure to inform Sir Integra that you've arrived without inc-...it was without incident right?" Seras asked nervously.
"Not to worry mother, I've only hypnotized a couple of college kids into sparing me a room in exchange for household chores, however, I've come across something...peculiar." Kane reported.
"Hmm, peculiar how?" Seras asked him.
"It's a girl, a girl with horns on her head and blood that smells...new." Kane explained.
"WHAT!? What do you mean 'new'?" Seras all but demanded, shocked by this development.
"I mean she's not human, but not anything I've encountered before, and her blood smells very close to that of a human, almost in the way an ape's does, it's odd." Kane stated.
"Is she dangerous?" Seras asked.
"I don't know, when I found her she had survived a gunshot to the head and suffered amnesia as a result, but she smelled of blood that wasn't her own and I could smell a massacre not to far away, I can't tell if she survived it, or enacted it, but I hadn't established a base yet, so I put off investigations, I want you to run this by Sir Integra and tell her that I want permission to look into this girl." Kane explained.
"Of course, I'll inform her of your discovery as soon as I can." Seras stated.
"Until then, perhaps you should keep an eye on this little damsel, I would do it for you if I were there, though that might make your mother jealous." The voice of Kane's uncle, Pip Burnnadotte, came through the phone speaker.
"No worries on that front uncle, my new 'friends' couldn't bring themselves to leave the girl to fend for herself and brought her with us to the inn." Kane stated.
"Hah, what nice kids, be sure that they don't learn about what goes bump in the night." Pip said.
"I will keep this as far from them as possible and leave their lives as I entered them, innocent." Kane promised.
"Alright love, I'll let you get back to work, let us know if you need backup." Seras asked, not because she was concerned, but so he would know that he could rely on her, Kane smiled at this, grateful that she was his mother.
"I will, goodbye." With that, Kane hung up the phone and pocketed it.
Kane unzipped his jacket and looked at the holstered pistols that covered his chest, Casull and Jackal, his father's weapons.
He stripped them, cleaned them, put them back together and made sure they were loaded, counting his ammo revealed ten full clips for each pistol.
Confident that it would suffice for this mission, he put away his weapons and rezipped his jacket and stepped outside.
"NO WAI-" Kane heard Kouta's warning too late and stepped in a wet puddle, the scent struck his nose.
"...Do you have a dog that I don't know about?" Kane said, trying to lighten the mode and his own temper as Yuka had insisted that he leave his boots at the door and the urine was now soaking his socks and getting between his toes, it was rather uncomfortable for the son of Dacula.
"No, i-it's Nyu, that girl that we found, it appears that we have to potty train her." Kouta explained as he handed the Vampire a washcloth.
Kane removed his soiled sock and scrubbed his exposed foot with the washcloth before helping Kouta clean up the mess, he could hypnotize the cousins into believing that he did the promised housework, but he was raised better than that.
Packing extra socks was something that the Vampire didn't consider vital to the mission, but he was now grateful that his mother insisted.
Yuka returned from bathing Nyu, with the latter being dressed in some of Yuka's spare clothes, which she fiddled with, unknowingly exposing herself.
After a long day of unpacking, and adjusting to one (secretly two) unexpected guest, the four young adults settled down to eat.
Kane wasn't exactly excited about the rice balls, but he would feign interest and eat with his 'friends' and when they retired for the night, he would focus on the task at hand, holding off the investigation into Nyu until Integra gave the go-ahead.
Kane ate at the rice ball while watching Kouta try to teach Nyu how to eat it, but in the end he ended up having to hold it for her, Yuka hid her jealousy well, from mortals.
Kane finished eating and excused himself to his room, he would wait for the others to finish and retire, then he would begin his investigation.
Some time after, he was roused from his meditation by raised voices, Kane exited his room to investigate and found Kouta seething, anger and sadness emanated from the boy, and he held the two halves of a broken sea shell in his hand.
"What happened?" Kane asked, turning to Yuka, who stood at the side of the room, giving her cousin some space.
"Nyu broke something that Kouta's sister gave to him, and Kouta made her leave." Yuka explained, Kane didn't know anything about these cousins, so he didn't know the significance of Kouta's sister, but he could tell from Kouta's emotions that she was likely dead.
This posed a problem, if Integra gave him the go-ahead to investigate the girl, he would have to hunt her, while hunting for the rogue vampire, but as he pondered this, Yuka whispered to him. "Listen, Kouta just needs time, he won't hold a grudge against her, but you said it yourself, she's like an infant, and we can't leave her alone, could you please go out and find her, and make sure she's okay, I'll call you when Kouta calms down."
Kane smiled and nodded his head, after giving his number to Yuka, he moved to put on his boots and exit the inn, knowing that in her current state, Nyu would be a Vampire's perfect victim, regardless of whatever her normal state was.
Author's Note:
That's right readers, I'm alive and so is this story and we are back to weekly chapters, I hope you're all ready for this, because things are going to get bloody.
