Resident Vampire

RK doesn't belong to me.

Chapter 6: Me, or not me, that is the question

In Tomoe's POV

My little brother, he is him self and I love him for that, no matter what he thinks. Or what I think for that matter. It was strange though, seeing him hanging around that small coffee with Kenshin's girl, she had spent the last two nights over at his place, why shouldn't she be? -- Any way, I hope that it was for business... poor Kenshin's heart would've broke if it was for anything else. They all barely knew Kaoru know, after all these years sense the girl was taken away from them in the past, it was no wonder thought that they all had missed her... and with Yahiko's surprising hug, it was no wonder at all.

Sifting, I continued on my work, answering the questions on the lab I was working on, like everyone else in the class. I wanted to be a high school biology teacher, ever sense I was a child.

Trying to get the good grades, passing the exams, and getting into a good college that had a biology department that would work for me. I had exceeded.

But my brother, my dear little brother who I love, doesn't seem to understand why I am like I am... just trying to make the most of my life is what it appears to him, even though I am a hunter, a half demon like him, and have that not die from demon-- or human-- attack promise from the gods themselves... he wont just believe.

The bell rung, but most of us stayed in our seats to finish the lab if we hadn't already done so. Finishing in a few minuets, I got up and gathered my things putting them into my backpack. Taking my paper, I put it on the teacher's desk before leaving.

Walking out of the class, I headed towards the history department, where the college's VH meetings where held, in Hiko's room. We were supposed to meet those in the Tenshi hunters today...

I froze, my feet planting themselves firmly to the ground. Einshi and Kaoru were at the coffee shop... finishing up business for the Tenshi hunters... the envelope had to be her pay check from the other night...

"Hey, Tomoe-san?" said a voice from in front of me, and I found myself face-to-face with the girl in my thoughts. I found my self observing the girl, her long ebony hair pulled back into a pony tail, a pair of jeans and a shirt, both of which showed some of her curves. Her ocean blue eyes shone with light, despite the coldness and gloom of the day. "Um... could you help me find Hiko-san's room?" I couldn't help but smile and nod my head. The girl was a strange one, but she seemed like the perfect kind of strange girl to have as a friend.

"Ahh, I see that everyone is here, so... lets get down to business," said Hiko as he gazed about us, I was sure Kaoru was fidgeting, but I couldn't be so sure, she was sitting at the back of the room with Kenshin. Before I had actually pulled her into the room, she was being all shy and scared, like she didn't want to do this. "Enishi, why don't you explain to us what exactly this of group of yours does."

"It would be hard to explain, because, we do almost everything when it evolves demons," Enishi said, and I watched him closely. My little brother was calm, and not showing any sign of insecurity, unlike Kaoru was, who I know saw, shaking slightly. "If it goes from spying, capturing, stopping of suicide, killings, and all of that. The other night with Kaoru's and Tesng's mission at the ware house was a classic example of helping with technical difficulty and ditching your partner who then gets a lot of money just to do another mission. Earlier today at the dinner, I happened to have given Kaoru that check, and it just happens to be more then enough for a nice vacation in the Caribbean and have enough left over a manicure and a shopping spree."

"How did you find that out?" asked some one, I couldn't tell whom.

"People talk to each other, and all we had to do was ask around and found out. Sano was the one who told us about the Caribbean Islands and from Tesng who said that she broke a nail and would probably like to get it all taken care of and Nimi said that she needed a bigger supply of shoes... don't ask me about that one, I don't even want to know."

There was silence, I-- as did the rest, except maybe Sano-- didn't think that a Demon Hunter organization took care of their hunters so well. If the Tenshi Hunters were this well paid, why did they even bother with regular jobs? Kaoru had one, that much I know form when she talked the other night, working in a science laboratory, but every one was sent off for a week vacation because of something.

"How can they afford so much...?" asked Megumi, breaking the silence. Yes, how indeed.

"We spoil our hunters so they come back to us for other missions." This spoiled? Not just for the reason of coming back, there has to be more.

"We are all spoiled to some point, but it gets the jobs done so every one stays happy," said Sano. Oh, but, who stays happy about a bunch of demons being brought in to stay in their jail cells?

"I have to agree," said Kaoru, speaking quietly, the first words I heard her say sense we all got in here. "Spoiled rotten and full of life time benefits that ends us up in the hell whole of a life we live."

"Good way to put it Jou-chan," said Sano, as if congratulating her words would be a good thing, I at least don't think so. Her life, it looked good from the outside, but what was going on in the inside? I'd have to tell Kenshin to get deeper into that girl's mind to help her from the hole she herself seems to be digging herself into at the moment.

Wasn't her life good? Having a lover and they both love each other? At least the second part I thought was, wasn't it? Or was it the fact that she was a demon hunter? Did she dislike being one? Kaoru is a girl I don't think I will understand until I get to know her better, which I hope I do.

End Chapter 6

Author's Notes: Yukishiro Tomoe, the narrative a chapter that I hoped was good. I did Enishi, so I decided to do her as well, though, I wont be doing Akira, cause, I don't really understand him enough to do so (I've only the first two episodes of the first OVA series, and decided to stop when I found it too depressing to watch… and I haven't gotten the courage to go out and buy it to add to my collection of anime videos…).

Thank you to all my reviewers! I'm stopping at chapter 8, because, well, I don't know if I have chapter 9-10 on my dad's or mom's computers… but if it is, I'll be updating real soon.