Thanks for the reviews! Sorry for the bad formatting in the last chapter, I try betterment. I own a pen, but Vampire Diaries and InuYasha were claimed by other people.
Chapter 2: Vampire in the Shrine
Souta had a worse headache than ever before in his life. Rubbing the back of his head, he sat up and looked around. He was sitting on the floor of a ruin of house. There were cracks in the walls and holes in the roof. "What happen..."he groaned. Then he remembered. The transfer student... she... Flinching, he immediately felt for wounds.
"They're are healed." his sister called. He turned and saw her coming in the room, flipping her phone shut. She still wore her blue sundress and white blouse, but the latter had a tiny drop of blood on it. Somehow it demanded his attention.
She studied him carefully. "Are you alright?",she asked and sat down beside him. "Shikon told me that the blood would heal you. But I don't know anymore myself about ...this method. So tell me if you fell anything unusual, okay?" She tucked a stray hair behind his ear. "Even if it seems meaningless, tell me." Her hazel eyes bored into his earth-colored ones. "Souta?"
The boy shook his head lightly to clear his head. "My head is killing me.",he told her slowly. "What happened? Where are we?" His sister had saved him and ... he took a deep breath... gave him blood to drink -that was all he remembered. Everything after that was black. He groaned. The pain seemed to increase. Light fell through a broken window and got his last nerve. "Can we go somewhere dark?"
Kagome's eyes narrowed. "Sure." She help him up and carefully lead him in the dark floor. "We're in downtown Tokyo. The part where they don't look twice at blood bathed people. I had to hid you from the police. But I did call ojii-san and told him what happened, so don't worry." There was a part she left out, but he had the feeling, he didn't want to know. "The clothes I found on the way here, in case you were wondering."
He blinked and looked down. His clothes were gone. Instead he wore a white business shirt and a sightly to big jeans. How come that he hadn't noticed? Sitting down, he hold his head in his hands. It hurt so. "Nee-san...",he whimpered. She knelt beside him and hugged him. Suddenly the headache lessen and was replaced by something else. "Nee-san, I'm hungry..."he said, breathing in her scent. Her scent? That thought woke from his trance and moved a bit away.
A light chuckle escaped Kagome. "Hungry? Fine, there is a small restaurant across the street. Lot of shady people in there, but I've seen worse. Shall we see, what they're got." Her brother followed her kinda numbly thought the house and over the street. The miko never let him out of her sight, but was not surprised. He had been death. A fact she never would forgive herself, but explained his behavior and headache. Shikon had also mentioned that he would have to 'fed' after he wakes before he went back to I-won't-talk-to-you-no-matter-how-much-you-scream-at-me. So maybe there were no other side effects.
Everyone in the restaurant stared, when the siblings walked in. Most had tattoos and piercings all over their bodies, which was in Japan a proof of membership by the Yakuza. Souta looked around curiously, while staying close to Kagome, and tried to ignore his returning pain. A big, muscular man with a dirty apron blocked they way. "Got lost, kids?",he smiled friendly, but his scars made it look scary. The eleven year old had to hold back a smile, when his sister's eyes turned cold enough to make the man shiver. "Oh? So you can't eat here, wannabe?"
The man then was quick to lead them to a table on the wall and take their orders. Kagome raised an eyebrow when her brother ordered the whole card. "Hungry much, eh?",she smiled after the man left. It earned her a guilty smile. "Sorry." -"It's alright. Possible side effect." -"That's ... Your birthday..." He looked away. "Sorry for ruining it."
Blinking once, twice, she tried to process what he said. "You get... and you worry about..." She shook her head, then laughed loud. "You're impossible!" Calming down, she smiled at the surprised boy. "That was really the last of my worries. Don't worry, it sucked anyway. Just -don't get hurt again."
Nodding slowly, Souta scratched his hurting head. "Don't wanna see the low-life that tries to get past you.",he said, earning a annoyed glace from the neighbor table. "Oh, yeah?",the teenage boy there growled, apparently drunk. "Stop barking around, shrimp. You think that girly there could stop a yakuza? What for a fool are you?"
Massaging his temples to ease at least a part of the pain, that became increasingly louder. There were voices everywhere. It made his ears ring. "You're the fool.",he growled back at the red hair, not having the nerve for that jerk. "She is at least a hundert times stronger than you. So shut up and annoy someone else, baka."
"Souta, behave.",Kagome scrolled lightly. That he would use such words, he must be in a lot of pain. True, the guy was annoying and she would really like to smack him, but then she would have to deal with his buddies. She had no experience with bullets and didn't want to figure out while Souta was on risk. Ready to apologize, she turned to the red hair.
He had already stood up and was drawing his hand back to punch Souta. Without thinking the veteran grabbed his arm and throw him in the wall across the restaurant, where he laid unconscious. Silence followed as everyone present slowly realized what just happened. The next second everyone was on their feet and Kagome shoved Souta under the table.
Dodging a punch from the left, she brought a knee to the attacker's sensitive spot between his legs, before swinging around and breaking a woman's nose and knocking a third guy over a table at someone with a broken bottle. Kagome flinched when pain shot her left shoulder and rushed forward, pushed the aim of a old man with gun away from Souta's table. Around ten people where shot before the magazine was empty and she snapped his neck. The knifes from some table found themselves in the neck of two other gun-persons. Moving just in time she avoided a hit, the miko turned to her last three opponents. One went down with kick in the neck, the second with a glas shard in the chest and the last was easily knocked out.
Standing above them headily breathing, Kagome tried to suppress a smile. After all now she would have to await their clan's attack. But man, I missed fighting., she thought, then scowled. I spent to much time with youkai. "You can come out now." she turned to Souta, only to discover that he was no longer under the table. Hearing a sucking noise she looked to the left and her eyes went wide.
Souta had his nose buried deeply in the chest of one of the shotdown men. He seemed to -to suck the blood out of him. He drank the man's blood! The girl's heart raced as she realized what that meant. "Souta..." Hesitantly she moved beside him and hugged his back. "I'm sorry... so sorry..." Tears went down her face, as her brother greedily sucked the red liquid out of the dead. What had she done? Coming to a decision, Kagome came back to her feet and went in the kitchen. In order to protect Souta she could not allowed any witnesses. Her guilt has to remain second ranked.
-ooo-
They waited for the night, before Kagome light the restaurant on fire. Souta, who was completely shocked at what he had done, followed his sister numbly through the streets. Being partly aware of the guarded look on her face and the massive perfume-stink from her shoulder, he was glad that they didn't encounter a single person on their way home. First when coming to the top of the stairs, he woke out his trance. What a delicious smell...
Instinctive, Kagome grabbed his hand and raised her reiki a little. Souta flinched back and hissed in pain. But his eyes were back to normal. For a moment the white in them had mixed with red and the veins below them had turned black. Now they were normal again, but it still worried her.
Souta blinked at his shyly burned hand, then looked up at his sister confused. "Souta! Kagome!",a voice called and their mother came running around the corner. The smell hit him again and he stumbled back in shock. It was her! And he wanted to-! He stared at his sister helplessly.
"Stay away!" Kagome's harsh words stopped the woman in mid-step. Mrs. Higurashi stared at her daughter in shock. But the miko had already turned back to the boy and studied him. There must be some way through this.
-ooo-
To say the two adult were shocked, was an underestimation. They couldn't believe what happened to Souta. Kagome didn't blame them, she too didn't know how to deal with it, but being a experienced miko, knew better to deal with.
Using a scared rope from the sengoku jidai she tied Souta up as soon as they got home, to keep him from attacking anyone -something the boy was clearly afraid of. Next she mentally cursed the well for having sealed itself after her final return and thus disabled her from getting information from people who knew their stuff and had report Souta in detail about the other vampire. Apperantly the 'ten' year old girl had been a solar transfer from Rumania, that had already been a week in school before she had attacked him.
It had destroyed Kagome's sun-sensitive till sun rise. Shocked she had brought him in the basement, where his burns quickly healed. Souta complained about constant hunger and was ice cold. While cafee seemed to help his temperture, the food seemed to make no difference. It forced Kagome to pursued her mother to bring blood bags home from her work as nurse. It was better than the alternative.
Kagome stayed with Souta day and night, to comfort him and to keep him under control. Their grandfather make up sicknesses for school, but avoided the boy and mumbled about devils and evil non-stop. The only thing they saw from their mother was her pained look when she came to bring the blood before dissapearing in her room. Souta told his sister that all his feeling were more alive than ever before, so much that it was driven him insane at times. It was a reason she often would take the risk of hugging him.
After a week his control got good enough to not attack anyone in the shrine, so he was allowed up again. Around that time Kagome had also went through most legends of vampires. Normal food was not poison. Garlic was okay, but stinky. Holy water and other christian stuff was uninteressing. Reflection still existed. Souta had to be asked in house when he and Kagome had come home for the first time to pass some barrier, so that one was true. Inhuman strength and speed, true, but needed training if the door in the house wanted handles. Coffins were not going to happen in Souta's opinon. Fire they hadn't tried yet and would not. All kind lights were okay except direct sunlight.
Direct sunlight however left Kagome wondering. The girl that had attacked Souta had some kind of protection, else she wouldn't have been able to go school. So she researched it like wild in scrolls and Google, till she found a legend of a miko who used socalled 'Forbidden Techniques'. One of her bessings gave the light-sensitive mizutorayoukai the ablility to defy that weakness for the rest of their life and all coming generations. There was no telling if it worked for vampires, but her technique book, her tamachikara, was displayed in a museum in Tokyo, so...
Her thoughts that day were interrupted when two men came in the living room, where sat with Souta watching TV. It was already dark outside and a glace at the clock told Kagome that it was already eleven o'clock. She gave her mother, who had let them in, a curious look and put the scroll away to stand up and meet them. "Good evening." she said, studying them.
"Good evening, Misses Higurashi." nodded the first men at her. "I'm Inspector Kuromaki, this is my partner Inspector Shoiro. You and your family have refused several invitation to our place. One could nearly think you would not want anyone find the kidnapper of your brother." He stopped to give her a serious stare that should have been scary.
Kagome forced a little smile. "I'm sorry if we have seem rude. But I thought it more important to see after my brother.",she explained and offered them a seat on the table. "That day changed him. However, I understand you have questions. Please take a seat, inspectors." They talked for about two hours before Kuromaki exploded. "Stop speaking cool to me. I was there! I saw how you tracked signs our people wouldn't have notice else way! Do you really believe I would just buy this shit! That he turn up in the park with no memories what so ever? I did research, Missy! That day a girl out of his class was found dead and a fire killed twenty people, all Yakuza-members! You and your brother had weird sicknesses ever since! And you know what? You had those sicknesses before! Repeatingly for ten months! So Tell me the Truth! Who are you and what happened!?"
"Shut up!",Souta shouted and stormed towards the inspectors. Kagome jumped up and held him back, but it didn't stop him from staring both men death in the eye. "Don't you ever again insult nee-san! Get back to your work and leave us alone! She gave you enough answers! Be Happy with it!"
Mister Higurashi was about to scowl, when the inspectors stood up. "Well, thanks for your help.",Kuromaki smiled and put his hat on. "I think I can close this file with that information and be on my way." The two men left, leaving the Higurashi-family thunderstruck. "Did I do that?" ,Souta asked slowly.
Kagome nodded unsure. "Seems like it." A idea popped in her head. "Like to help me with something."
-ooo-
"Kagome." Kagome stopped to look at her grandfather. It was day, meaning Souta was in the basement sleeping. She herself was only up because nature had demanded her rights. Wearing her blue pajama, she wanted nothing more than going back in bed. The next night was important because Souta were going to leave the shrine for the first time since his transformation and she didn't know how much restraining he would need in a crowd.
Her grandfather wore his usual robes and looked seriously. Something was up, his eyes warned her. "Yes, ojii-san?",she asked, for some reason fearing the answer. He pointed at the living room. "We need to talk.",he said and lead the way. Kagome followed hesitantly and found her already waiting mother there. The older woman looked old and afraid.
It worried the miko. "What's wrong?",she asked immediately. Her mother sighed. "You know what is wrong..."
"If you mean Souta, he is slowly getting the hang of it. And-" -"It dosn't change what he is!",she whispered harsh, her whole body shook. Kagome took a step back, eyes wide.
"That is right.",her grandfather agreed. "I know you love Souta. But you have to realize that Souta is death! He was replaced by that thing. It drinks blood and manipulates people. For all we know it could kill us as soon as it wakes, child." His words was cold and cut Kagome deep.
"What do you want me to?" she asked numbly, hiding her eyes behind her bangs. "To kill him? Is it that?" The silence that followed was answer enough. "YOU WILL WRITE OVER THE CUSTODY FOR SOUTA AND ME TO MY NAME RIGHT NOW!",she shouted angry, tears in her eyes, shocking the two in front of her and waking Souta.
It's starting a bit slow, but I promise to get them to Mystic Falls next chapter. Anyways, hoped you liked it. Please review.
