Disclaimer: Me no own Inuyasha or Inuyasha's friends. Me is sad. :'( Oh well.
A/N: thank you for the one reviewer that I do have. Sorry I haven't updated soon enough, but I had to study for my permit, which I got!!! Woo-hoo!!!
Japanese words to know (remember them, I wont keep posting them):
Gomen Nasai-sorry
Demo-but
Hai-yes; okay, etc.
Arigatou- thank you
"Yea, apparently it's a jewel that formed in the body and soul of a very powerful priestess named Midoriko that was fighting many, many demons at the same time, and one pierced her body, and the jewel flew out, and all of the demons and Midoriko were frozen, but legend says that the battle still rages on inside the stone. When an evil person is in control of the jewel, then the demons are winning; but if a good person is in control, then Midoriko is winning. Only when the jewel is destroyed will the battle end, and depending on what the wish was on it decides on who wins the battle. A pure wish, and Midoriko wins; impure wish, a wish that will help no one but the person that wins or hurts people, then the demons win, and the jewel will not be destroyed but will become dormant for a little while, and will be tainted."
"All that from a few thoughts and memories?"
"I had to piece some of it together myself, so some of it might be wrong. No, probably is wrong, but I really think that I'm right." K said, getting excited.
"Well, that's not all. That necklace is something different, its not ordinary. That necklace is one of the Five Stones of Vampira."
"Max, are you sure that that necklace is what you think it is?"
"I'm positive. It's the vampire crystal. Cut years ago by vampire slayers with blood of a vampire on the tool that they cut it with. Clear makes it where she could read the mind of any vampire she wanted, if she concentrated enough. Purple shields her from having her mind read by a vampire, amber can make her invisible, red controls fire, because that's one of the few things that can destroy us; black puts up an electric barrier that can stun any vampire that touched it that she didn't want inside of it. She's going to be rather powerful if she gets the rest."
K stood up, slapping the table as she did. "Then we will just have to get them before she does. It's simple!"
Max shook his head. "No, K, it's not. A vampire can't touch them. It would kill someone without a pure heart, because only someone like that can handle the power of it."
"Oh."
"Well, now what do we do?" Max asked.
"We wait for her to figure out our secret, and explain the necklaces to her, and help her find the others." Kat said. "Until then, let's just protect her when she can't protect herself." Everyone nodded, and stood up. "Now, off to bed with you, K. Max, it's time for you to go home."
"Mom, are you forgetting that I'm in the stage of my vampire life where I don't sleep?"
"No, but we need to keep up appearances that we are human, for Kagome's sake. Just go in there and read a book, or listen to music or something, I don't know. Just rest, and be prepared for school tomorrow. Oh, I know! Why don't you do your homework, so you will get passing grades in your classes?"
K walked off, mumbling something about parents being stupid vampires that don't understand something that they themselves went through. Kat smirked at her daughter's anger.
"Kat, do you really think that we can protect her? I mean, you may be the ruler of the vampires, but we are no match compared to some of those teens, they are even stronger than us right now! They could take us easy should they think about it."
"We have to trust that we can, Max, that's all we can do. And if we can't, K can. She is better than the both of us put together. And apparently those Japanese kids are great at fighting; Kagome must be just as good." Kat looked at her hands.
"I love you, Kat, don't you do nothing to forget it."
"I care for you, too, Max." And he walked out of the living room, shaking his head. Kat stared at the door that he just left through, and telekinetically locked the door, all 6 locks.
With Kagome:
Kagome sat straight up in bed, disgruntled about not being able to sleep. "Ugh, I wish that I could have brought more books, I finished the others on the ride over here! Well, maybe I can look for that library, and read something in there." Kagome whispered to herself.
She stood up and put on her house coat and shoes. "Now, maybe it's in my own closet?" She opened her closet, and felt around for a door, a flap, something, anything, but found nothing. She slowly slid her door open and looked around for anyone in the hall, but remembered that this floor was entirely hers, and that no one was ever up here. She stepped out, cautiously, and looked around for a closet. She went to the closest one, and opened it.
She found an empty closet, but no doors, and a small mass of something on the floor. She went to the next one, on the other side of the room. Nothing. But she felt something furry, and turned on the light. There was a red cape, and a glittery strapless black dress that popped out at the middle, and draped down. Kagome heard a creaking noise from the back of the closet and moved the dress and cape around to see what it was. She found the door there, and a small flashlight to the left of it, so she shined it in. She crawled in the small space, and stood up, flashing the light around.
Cob webs on the wall, and there was a stair cast spiraling downwards, and it looked sturdy enough. Kagome looked down it and tried to see the end, but couldn't. She began to descend the stairs, and she held on to the banister just in case that there was any broken steps, or incase she stumbled, which she does a lot.
When she reached the bottom of the stairs, she felt around for a light switch. When she found one and flipped it on, the sight before her took her breath away. There were hundreds of different bookshelves, each made out of wood, and the book bindings each a different color. There was a fire place in the middle of the back wall, and four red chairs and a bench for three people surrounding a coffee table. In the corner, there were large phials if some thick red liquid, that looked kind of like blood. Kagome shuddered. There were 2 other entrances, probably from different parts of the house. She made a mental note to check them out to see where they went one day.
Kagome walked up to one of the book cases and looked for a good book. There were many different books some like: Mortals: how to not kill when feeding; Vampire Teeth: How to keep them clean, cut, and concealed; How to blend in with Mortals; The Little Vampire That Could; and How to Deal With Being Pregnant and a Vampire. Kagome went to the next one. Every book was about vampires, until she got to the last two book shelves. They were books from all throughout the U.S., and all fictional stories about vampires.
There was the Twilight saga, Blue Bloods saga, Demon in My View, and many others. She picked Twilight off of the shelf and began to read it. She finished it in an hour, and picked up New Moon. An hour later, she picked up Eclipse, and another hour she picked up Breaking Dawn. When she finished, she went to look for another, and read the Blue Bloods entire saga, when she heard someone yell her name, then stomps on the steps.
"Kagome? Are you down here? Kagome?" Kat said, worried.
"Yea, I'm here. You weren't kidding; this place was hidden, and hidden well." Kagome smiled, and Kat smiled back. Mission accomplished on getting Kat to smile today! Kagome thought.
"Were you down here all night?"
"Yes, I couldn't sleep."
"Umm, what all did you read?"
"Oh, just the Twilight saga, and the Blue Bloods saga. I was about to go after the Demon in my View book when you came down here. Where did you get those clothes that are in that closet? They're absolutely beautiful, and I was wondering if you could take me where you got them, so that I have something for prom. It's in a few weeks, right?" Kagome asked.
"Um, yea, it is. You plan on going?" Kat asked.
"Yea, I do, why??"
"Well, there will be many different young vampires there, and you still want to go?"
"What are you talking about, young vampires? Wait, is that why the books here are all about vampires? You're a vampire aren't you?" Kagome said, trying to stay calm.
"Yes, I am."
"Are you going to kill me, or eat me, or something?" Kagome asked, reaching into the back of her bra, thinking about the knife that she started hiding there after Naraku caught her and tied her up for a week because no one could get the knot undone after and they couldn't find Sango to use her knife.
"No, I'm not."
"Why?"
"I don't plan on hurting you. I don't want to hurt you, but the council brought you here, and assigned you to our family, and your friends to the family that they are in. We aren't sure why, maybe trying to test the teen's restraint from killing mortals because they can. They are weapons of mass destruction, if they were allowed outside the city. V.E. doesn't mean Vincent Edward, though he did start on V.E. V.E. stands for Vampire Empire, but V.E. was called Mcleansboro, until he started changing mortals into humans. Then we all became vampires. His full name was Vincent Edward Smith. I am his descendant and the leader of all the vampires in V.E." Kagome exhaled, and stood up, walked over to a bookshelf that was attached to a wall, and began punching it.
"WHY…CAN'T… I EVER… GO SOMEWHERE….AND FIND…IT... NORMAL?!?!?!?!?!?!" Kagome screamed, truly angry.
"Kagome, darling, calm down." She did, but she still wanted to punch the bookcase, yet she found that she couldn't raise her fist to hit it again. "Now, you know my story, sort of, and I know your story, so let me explain something really fast to you." Kagome nodded, and started to say something.
"You're not surprised by me angry that I can't go places and find them normal? And what do you mean by 'you know my story?'"
"I'm a vampire, sweetie, I can read you mind, but it wasn't I who read it, that was K. That's why I'm not surprised. She told us what she saw, and what she thought that it meant. And I agree with you, I'm glad that you turned down being Inuyasha's mistress." Kagome's mouth dropped open, and she gasped. "Yes, I'm also glad that you didn't completely give yourself to that Kouga character. That's something special, and you should most definitely wait." Kagome smiled, and blushed.
"So, what is it that you wanted to tell me?"
"It's about your necklace. It's no ordinary charm." And so she told her the same story that she heard last night. Kagome sat patiently waiting for her to finish.
"May I?" Kagome asked, gesturing with her thumb over her shoulder after she finished. Kat nodded. Kagome stood again, and took out her anger on the poor book case again. "Okay, so now what?"
"Now, you go get ready for school."
"Then I possibly battle for my life and my friend's lives. Yay me." They laughed.
***
An hour or so later:
K and Kagome walked down the hall to the Commons Area to eat breakfast and grab a bottle of water before heading to class. "Hey, Kagome, my mom told me that you figured out our secret. You gonna tell your friends?"
"No."
"No? Well, what are you going to do, then?"
"Protect them, until they figure out for themselves what it is that I'm protecting them from."
"Ah and how do you suppose you're going to do that?"
Kagome smiled, seizing her chance. "K, I tire of your questions. Be quiet." Kagome flashed a smile in the other girl's direction, and K inwardly smiled. Yup, she's going to fit in here just fine. She's a fast learner. K walked Kagome through all her classes, and then took her over by the library to hang out with her friends. As they approached the small hallway, Kagome seen the many vampires sitting together, laughing and carrying on, thought they almost looked human. If she hadn't known any better, she would have thought that they were.
"Oi, K, who you got there?" A tall boy asked.
"This is Kagome, from the foreign exchange program." Everyone immediately sobered up, not pretending to bite each other, or anything that would seem peculiar.
"Is she…I mean…you know?"
K nodded. "Yes, she's mortal." Everyone gasped that she would say it aloud.
"K, aren't we supposed-"
"I know full on well what it is that we are supposed to do, Nate, she knows, she found the library, and figured it out. The others, however, don't know, and Kagome and I have to protect them." K pointed her finger at each of them many, many times in swift motions. "You will not eat them. Got it?" Everyone nodded.
"K, you're not yet leader of our vampire clans, give it a rest. If I want to eat one, I will, I don't have to listen to you. You're just the leader's daughter; you have no authority over us." Kagome turned around, but ran into something like a wall, but when she looked up from the floor that she fell on she noticed it was a boy. No, not a boy, a man. He had short brown hair, deep blue eyes that looked as if they could stare into her very soul. He had a crooked smile on his face, and he looked so handsome. No, Kagome thought, he's not handsome, he's sexy!
"Shut up, Matt, I know you wouldn't go against the elders or my mother, because they too have said this, and their word is law." K stood defiantly in front of him, coming just to his shoulder. "And where is your student? You didn't leave him in the commons area by himself, did you?"
"My, Kaden, are you worried?"
"Only about our secret. If one doesn't come back, there'll be questions, and an investigation, and much more. Where is he?" K stared into his eyes, and Kagome couldn't help but feel like she was missing an entire conversation when the students behind her began laughing, and both Matt and K's face turned red. Kagome turned away, sensing something behind her.
The teens/vampires stared at her as if they'd never seen a human before. "Oi, what's going on with your necklace?" Someone asked, and Kagome heard K and Matt move to look behind her.
"What to you mean, James?" K asked, moving to look at Kagome's face. "Oh I see what you mean. Matt, come look at this." K pointed.
He did, but Kagome had this odd feeling at he wasn't looking at her necklace. Kagome laid the charm in the palm of her hand, watched as it changed black and then back to clear. It did this repeatedly, until it lifted itself off her hand, and led her forward, almost pulling her.
Everyone watched in amazement as Kagome's eyes went blank, and her hand was outstretched. She ended up in front of a wall, and spoke words no one understood, and a brick flew out from the wall carried on a cloud of pink energy. It tipped in her hand, and a crystal fell out. Kagome held it up to the other one, and they combined. The crystal returned to clear, but less than a centimeter of the bottom was black. Matt caught her as she fell.
"Kagome! Kagome, can you hear me? K, what happened? Did one of the students…?"
"No, Nurse Heather, no one touched her until she began to fall and Matt caught her. Nurse Heather, do you see that necklace she's wearing?" Kagome heard a sharp intake of breath, but couldn't yet open her eyes. "Well, it has something to do with this, so I'm going to use my cell phone to call my mother, kay? And I'm not getting it taken away. It's important, not just some social call."
Kagome slipped back into unconsciousness, dipping back in and out every now and then, catching a bit of each conversation, before she found she could open her eyes. When she did, she immediately wished that she hadn't. The lights were blinding to her sensitive eyes.
"Kagome, dear, are you alright?"
"Okaa-san?" They laughed.
"Not exactly, but close enough." Kagome opened her eyes a bit wider.
"Kat-sama! Gomen nasai, I was delirious, the light, it blinded me!"
"Kagome-chan, are you alright?" Kagome looked over to the corner that someone spoke from.
"Hai, Hojo-kun, I don't really know what happened."
"Too bad my mother doesn't have a store here as well! I'll bet that she'd have the perfect thing for your ailment!" Kagome smirked.
"I'm sure she would, Hojo-kun." Kagome looked around. "Demo, where are we?"
"The nurse's office. Heather's as good as a doctor gets around here. You'll find that vampires don't ail much." Kagome looked at the woman.
"Arigatou, Heather-sensei! Will I live?" The woman nodded, smiling. Kagome turned to Kat and the others. "What happened?" Kagome remembered Hojo in the corner. "Umm, tell me later when we get home, it's probably a long story anyway."
"I know about the vampire story that they tell me. I'm trying to get them to listen to reason, but they just wont listen. K-chan has threatened to eat me many, many times now."
K bared her vampire teeth at him, and he gawked at them. "Maybe I do believe." Hojo gaped until she closed her mouth, but then smiled. "Or I am dreaming? Maybe I too am delusional like Kagome-chan by the lights?"
Kagome glared over at him. "Hojo, come here for a moment." He did, and Kagome hit him hard upside the head. "Believe them, Hojo-kun, it's your only hope. I may have bragged about your fighting style to them, but you and I both know that you suck at close up attacks, and you're not going to stand a chance to a vampire! Hojo, you are the worst fighter I know! Listen to them!"
"Kagome! How could you possibly fall for their tricks? It is probably some initiation of the American kind. It is very odd, is it not? These American games of theirs!" Hojo received another whack on his head, which he began to rub.
"Baka! Baka, baka, baka, baka, baka, baka, baka, baka, baka! Stupid, just believe me and them, and then you might survive!"
"Kagome, perhaps its best that he doesn't know or understand. He doesn't seem to be the person to keep a secret very well." Kat nodded her agreement with K and Max. Kagome sat up.
"Fine, he won't understand until he gets back to Japan, he's rather slow. From there, no one will listen. Everyone knows that he doesn't really get what's going on most the time. No one listens to him, other than my friends at school. They hang on to his every word. Its ridiculous." Everyone laughed, except Hojo, who was passed out in the floor.
"Well, Kagome, we still have two blocks left in school, do you want to go, or are you too sick?" Kagome looked at K.
"I would like to go. I believe I have chorus last period, and chemistry right now. Both are classes that I love." K nodded, and grabbed her hand.
"It's not that I care whether or not you pass out, but I don't want to carry you back. Matt may have no problem, but I do." Kagome blushed at the thought of the brunette holding her close to carry her to the nurse. "Here, this is your chemistry class. AP Chemistry, damn, you must be smart."
Kagome smiled, walked into the room, and gave the teacher her note. She could feel eyes of everyone in the class on her back.