Resident Vampire

Chapter 7: Impossible Problems

RK doesn't belong to me

P.O.V. Mikamichi Misao

I watched as the butterfly flies through the air as I sat on the grass out in the open and far way from humanity. It was a nice spot, at a national park in Japan, a place that I like visiting for a while now. A place where I could get away from everyone and really think which is probably what I need to do. The butterfly landed on my hand, I was surprised and somewhat jolted, but the beautiful insect stayed where it was.

How I have wished to be free like the insect was, flying through the air with out a single care in the world. Kaoru-chan would probably like to be like that as well, free from the-- and I quote-- "hell hole of a life that she lives." Her and me both. We are the same in some ways, being a hunter just because of the money, with a job and life on the side.

I laugh, silently, and watched the butterfly fly off. Kaoru had said something at the meeting that made me laugh then as well, the only insane people at the meeting was the people who thought she was working as a hunter on her 'medical vacation.' When some one asked why, the reply was simple, accident at work-- everyone got electrocuted. It was funny, yet dangerous at the same time, for three people getting the electric shock at the same time was all odd and hilarious at the same time. But even though Kaoru was smiling through it all, there was a pain in her, one that not even Kenshin could probably understand until she told him her self. Both of us need to say what is deep with in us to our loved ones, both of us...

No matter how long I've been with my Aoshi-sama, I haven't ever told him what happened to my family, why I am living alone, not in real contact with Okina and the Oniwabanshi... it is hard to explain, think, everything involving anything with it.

I remember the way it felt the blood, the hideous laughter, and the smell of death, the rotting smell of my parents as they lay dead on the carpet stained with their blood. And the eyes of the murderer, the glowing red in her eyes as she looked at me-- the five year old child with nothing left in the world but death awaiting for my at the end of the next turn. Her words, telling me that she would come back to me, to finish the job off, when I was more beautiful then I was, and the back of her hand as it caressed my cheek before she left. Leaving me, like everyone else that I loved.

And then I met Aoshi, at a book story, bumping into each other, and then locked into a hug, we hadn't seen each other sense I left the Oniwabanshi, leaving the one I loved and my family.

I felt a hand whip my face of tears that I never knew I had, and found Aoshi looking at me with soft eyes.

"Aoshi-sa--" I was cut off as he pressed a finger at my lips, silencing me from speaking. He sat down next to me, picking me up and sitting me across his lap and I rested my head against his chest. I was smaller then him, my Aoshi being a tall man sense I could remember, past life included.

"Misao-mine, I love you, and I want to help you... any way I can, if you will let me..."

I froze as the meaning of his simple words struck me. Tears came into my eyes. "She'll come for me one day. I don't want you to get hurt!" I babbled as my tears came down. "She'll kill anyone in her way just to get to me! Said that she'll come back, to finish the job! Killed my parents! Soon she is going to kill me!"

"Shh, Misao-mine, I will protect you don't worr--"

"No! I don't want you to get hurt!"

"I wont! As long as you are on the line, I will always have the strength to protect you."

"You mean it?" I whispered, looking up into his eyes, trying to find my answer.

"Yes Misao-mine, I mean it with all my heart and soul." I smiled, and wrapped my arms around his neck, giving him a kiss, he returned it.

I found myself a few days later sitting in front of Kaoru, whom I was calling Ryu-kun-- we were out in public-- at a small cafe. Talking about what I had sent in a couple days before to the Demon Hunter Organization, the request of a bodyguard. The feeling that she was near, it wouldn't go away, Aoshi agreed on it as well, as long the bodyguard wasn't male.

"I am going to make up an opposition that you can or can't refuse, for it is not an easy one to go with," she started, looking at me with serious eyes. "It is one-- in other words-- that you can break or make, and either way, I respect your answer. I have a body guard, an impossible to stop body guard, one that will protect, help and serve you until its need is over with-- and even after so, for they remain friends with you for life. I think I should explain, what them is, ne?"

I nodded on response.

"They are a type of shape shifters, a kind that came forth from the chaos of the universe, creating a god in nothing but the shape of a blob, evolving over the years to a new shape, but still the same. When you first except one to be your body guard, they don't just become your protector, but your friend, one you will have for the rest of your life-- this one and more." She stopped and took a sip of her tea, green tea, something she ordered when she got here, also saying that she would pay for it. I had wondered why, it was because of me that she had come to this place; the expenses should've been mine, right? "You will have a new friend who will be there for you through thick and thin. He will always be dependent on you, and you must-- in return-- be a friend to it, be with him until the end... I think I have stressed this point far enough, ne? Meet me at the fountain at Yoshita Park in an hour, I will give you your friend then, but only if you decide to go with it."

Kaoru put some cash on the table and left, I soon followed.

All I can say, is that I meet her there, and gained Miki, my own friend... for life.

End Chapter 7

Author's Notes: Thank you Omochi, for pointing out that I spelled Misao's name wrong… I never really knew that I did… Thank you again. And, again, more about these "friends" they are kinda like a friend that was there for you, though you would never know unless you were able to get them through some kind of loop hole, like Kaoru is doing. They vary in animal, human, mythical and all other sorts of forms. Enny (he won't appear until the 10 chapter) has a glob named Glob.

Also, if any one out there can help me correct my spelling, cause I can't correct something I don't know how to spell.