Resident Vampire

Chapter 2: The word gets out

In Sano's POV

What was so wrong with having a little fun? Nothing, right? It wasn't all I know was that now I wasn't so sure, with everything going on. Starting with the problem so many years ago at the time of which I was gone. Gone? Where, you ask? Anywhere but there, where I should've been... with all of them...

Now, now... everything was all fucked up with this new and improved way of living; it didn't defer much from the already fucked up life that he was living in the past. As a Vampire, one that belonged to the Tenshi Clan, like Kaoru, who never came home last night from her job. And that was what was getting on my nerves, she had gone out for a little bit of fun last night... with that other hunter, who, now that I notice it, was Himura Kenshin from the past... maybe I shouldn't worry about jou-chan, she was in capable hands.

I leaned back in my chair, an old wooden one, antique as Chester puts it, in this time, the year 2134 AD.

With all the technology shit that was created for the good of what? Man kind? Don't make me laugh. Man kind through my eyes, where-- and will be-- forever nothing. I'm not dissing them, not at all, they just need to work on their skills with the planet. Why aren't I dissing them? Because am one of them, a human, despite my vampire past and blood. I am-- and always-- will be one of the horrid beings that pollute this planet.

Lost in my thoughts, I was very surprised when the phone rang, and I fell over-- chair and all onto the floor. I sat there a moment, dazed as I listened to the ringing of the phone before picking it up from the place it sat on my desk, where I was as well.

"Saraga here, may I help you?" I said as I got back to my feet.

"Sano, can you come and pick me up?" asked the soft voice of none other then jou-chan. I found no trace of pain, hurt, or sadness in her voice, so I guessed her to be all right.

"Maybe, where are you?" I rubbed my eyes; sleep was one of the few things I wished people could catch up on.

"Downtown, at the Hino Apartments on the corner of Third Street and Fourth Street... Kenshin lives here." I was shocked at the address; it was near so too close to his own place, even if it was just a mile and a half.

"Why can't you take the bus, or a taxi?"

"Sano! I hurt and can barely walk five feet with out having to stop! I want to go home, be dressed in my pajamas, and bathe in my bathtub! I most importantly want my painkillers! You have no idea how much it takes out of a woman!" She was whining, and now I could hear the pain in her voice, but I was curious on what she was talking about.

"What takes out of a woman?" I just had to ask.

"A night of sex Sano! Get it through your head! You wouldn't know sense you are a male!" I just HAD to ask... I groaned what did I have to ask? Why? Why? Why?! I can be such a-- "Tori atama no baka!" Thank you jou-chan, calling me what I would have to call my self, a stupid chicken head. "Well...?"

"Yeah, I'll come, just give me a couple of minuets."

"Thank you, bye."

"Bye." I hung up the phone and picked the up the chair, putting it back into place. Grabbing the keys to my carola, the car that I owned and loved sense I bought it. Leaving my own apartment, which happened to be right next door to Kaoru's own, I locked my door and left. The place I lived in was not in good condition, but it also wasn't in that bad of condition, kinda in between the two.

Leaving the place, I got into my baby, the car, and headed on out, for the place I knew where jou-chan would be waiting for me... and she would be talking, if she wanted to or not.

I found her just exiting the building when I pulled up to the curb to pick her up. The Hino Apartments was one of the best places to live in all of Tokyo, and with the best prices as well, but it was all to classy for me, and jou-chan, unless some one she loved with all her heart lived inside the building. Some times I wondered how she had stayed in love with him over all these years, but then she asks me why I'm still searching for a certain fox-lady... and I know why.

She got into the car, and I look at her as she cringed when she sat down.

"You gonna be okay?" I ask, I am human after all, and humans DO feel, most any way.

"Hai, thank you Sano," she says, looking at her folded hands as they sat upon her lap.

"Is it really--"

"Hai, it's Kenshin," she said, as if guessing my thoughts. "And he is still as stubborn as always." She giggled, softly, and I had to smile. Her shifting emotions were with her still, even after more then a hundred years of pain, her emotions stayed the same, along with her ideals, like using a sword to protect, and the fact that she doesn't kill.

"That is good, for you..." I said, turning the corner as we went along the way, our home was down town, just in the more older sections of the city.

"I'm sure you will find your fox-lady, Sano, that I am sure of."

"Thank you for the support jou-chan, but, for the moment I'm just glad that... that... she is here in this world." Why did I have to open my big mouth? I knew that she was here, we went out a couple of times, and were somewhat of a couple. But... jou-chan didn't have a clue, and I prepared my self for a scolding.

"You mean that she is here? In this city? And you never told me? Some friend you are!" She turned away from me, looking out the side window. I would've laughed, but instead kept my mouth shut.

"I would've told you last night, but, you never did come back." I said, and it was true, me going to tell her and her never returning. "She doesn't know that I found you though, but she does know Yahiko, Tae, Tsubame, Miaso, Aoshi and them... Some where along the line Kenshin has got to show up, and if he tells, then every one has been found."

And if I know Kitsune like I do, once she sees how happy Kenshin probably looks from what I was told about last night, she'd get the scoop.

Soon we were there, to our homes, but I found myself heading straight instead of turning into the parking lot, all because of the white ford escort that was parked. The car belonged to Miaso, and if she was there, so were a bunch of the others.

"What are you doing? That was where--"

"Miaso's car was in the parking lot, so was Yahiko's, he's a senior in high school, along with Tsubame. I couldn't tell if Kitsune's car was there, and I don't want to know..." I had to pause, cause I did recognize one other car... "An then there was Tomoe's car, but she is married to Akira, and from what she told me is that she is just happy that wa--"

"Sano, Kenshin lives alone," Kaoru cut in, and I glanced at her before turning my eyes back to the road. "Go to the store, I'll just have to buy some pain killers instead."

"You have your wallet on you?" I was surprised, I never thought that she actually brought her wallet with her on missions.

"Yes you baka!" I smiled at the annoyed tone in her voice, she was happy again.

We got to the closet store, and went in. Kaoru knew where she was going and I went to the snack section, having brought my own money along, gambling was fun in the past, and still is, but now a days, I was more cautious with my money, like I matured over a hundred years or so. So, instead of having no money, I had plenty of money.

Picking out some cookies, I turned to find jou-chan looking at me with a smile. In her hands was a bottle of painkillers, a bottle of flavored water and a box of cookies.

"Same idea in the snack food department, ne?" she asked, smiling an innocent smile.

"Maybe, why?" I replied, picking out a box of thin mint cookies.

"And the same kind of cookies too." She showed me the box of cookies that she held, it was thin mint cookies as well.

"Oh well, what is the point in this any way?"

"To get on each others nerves?" I had to laugh, and I did. Kaoru had that effect on me.

We had bought our stuff, and Kaoru had taken the pills and we were soon on our way back to the place we lived, not knowing how to get inside with out someone sensing our ki. That's when we came up with something, something that meant we didn't care: we would just go in and see what happens.

When we were turning into the parking lot, I asked her what she did about the clothes she was wearing last night, sense what she was wearing was big on her slim figure, and she probably had to use a belt for the baggy jeans and, the clothes weren't hers in the first place. She just said, sub-space pocket, Sano, sub-space pocket. I just sighed, even for the relatively young vampire she was, she knew how to access most of the things vampires were entitled to when going into the sub-space and magic areas.

"Here it goes," she said as I parked the car and we got out. Walking up to the front door, we went in, not knowing-- and not much on the caring part of-- what would happen.

To Be Continued

Author's Notes: RK doesn't belong to be, but its original owner Watsuki Nobuhiro, Jump Comics and Sony Entertainment. But, I do own my own made up characters.

Hoped you liked the second chapter as much as the first, same warnings for this one and other chapters in first person point-of-view and people being out of character, I'm not really good at that (making them appear them selves, but heck, this is a AU fic, so any ting can happen, ne?). Please review, they are all welcome. ^.^ Umm, I don't know what else to say, but thank you for reading and reviewing! ^.^