Author's Note: Well, another review.
FireFairie: Well this isn't my first story. My others were original and moved to fiction press at . Be warned, two are unfinished and won't be finished because I wasn't getting anything for them and had writers block.
Some Secrets Are Better Left Buried
Tohru screams. "Great, I thought Japan was free of you guys." The vampires looked at Dawn. "Hmm, so you know we're vampires. Intriguing. We'll have to ask you nicely after oomph…" The speaker is down after Kyo kicks him in the stomach. "Shut up and fight." The other vampire goes to help his downed friend but is stopped by Yuki and a roundhouse kick to his face.
"Ooh, you'll pay for that boy." He uppercuts Yuki in the mouth, sending him staggering back, but still standing, a trickle of blood falls down his lips." "You two keep the vamps busy, Tohru, come here and help me with this post." Dawn yells, try to break off a piece of wooded fence. Not understanding what Dawn needs with it, she goes and helps her break apiece off.
Meanwhile, the vampires are getting the brunt of it. "This is impossible, your taking us down like…" A last kick to the mouth and he's out. "Yeah, down like what. Ha, pathetic. I thought vampires were supposed to be stronger…" Suddenly the other vampire goes down at Yuki's hands.
"That's great guys, you knocked them out." She threw Yuki and Kyo each a stake. "Finish them." They each looked at the stakes. "How?" Yuki asked. "Great, do I have to do everything." She walks over to the first downed one and puts a stake through his chest. He suddenly bursts into dust as Tohru gasps. She then dusts the second one.
"Were those re..real vampires?" She asks, shaken. "Yeah, just your normal average vamp. You boys did real good there but if there would have been any more, you probably would have been…"
"Outclassed?" A voice from behind bellows. The four turned to see three vampires behind them. "Those two were new and didn't know any better. You won't have it so easy with us. Heh, they didn't even follow the plan, they were going to kill all of you."
Suddenly, the two vampires next to the talker turned straight into dust. The talker turns around to see Buffy with a crossbow. "Plan huh? So the first has been up to something around here. "She runs and gives a jumping kick to the vampire slamming him up against the tree. She then pins him down. "Now we can do this the easy way or...no there is only the hard way."
In pain the vampire resounds. "The girls…he wants both those girls…he nee…" He is stopped by Buffy who slams the stake into his chest. "Damn, not again."
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The others were waiting in Buffy's front room as Shigure entered. "Whats the problem?" He asked, worried. "I think it's time that you know some things about it since you're now involved." Shigure shakes his head. "I don't understand." "That's ok. A little while ago, these four were attacked by vampires. They wanted to take Tohru and Dawn…alive."
Shigure sits down, completely confused. "I still don't get it." Xander put up his hands. "Lets make this easy. All boogiemen are real. Witches, vampires, werewolves, demons, you name it. Buffy here fights and kills these things so says her wonderful destiny as the slayer the one who is chosen to blah, blah, blah, and blah."
"I…that doesn't make anything better." Shigure, still shaking his head. "Ok, nice and simple. The way I kicked your butts earlier is because I am imbued with demon like energies that enhance everything about me. In other words, I bump off whatever goes bump in the night. And tonight, those bumps were after my sister…again and this time, you're Tohru. Now I know why they want my sister, the question about Tohru is still open." She looks at Tohru.
Sitting in the chair in the back, Kyo leans back. "So what, we can take whatever comes around. So what do we do about these vamps?" "As of this point, nothing. You go straight home at night Tohru and don't, I repeat don't invite any one in. Vampires aren't able to enter houses uninvited."
They look at her strangely. "What, I didn't invent these laws. They were created long ago by, very old probably dead guys." Kyo raises an eyebrow. "Probably dead…" "Trust me, you don't want to know how many people I've seen that were supposed to have been dead, buried, and gone." She seems to turn a little harder after saying that.
"So, now what do we do?" Shigure asks. "I'll walk you home. After that, I don't know. We had a mission here and it seems your being pulled in for some reason and I'd hate to see one of you die." Buffy goes and gets her coat. "Oh and by the way Buffy, tomorrow Akito, the head of our family would like to meet you." She shrugs. "Fine, whatever."
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"Ok lets go over this one more time to get it straight…there are real vampires? And they want Tohru?" The white haired Hatsuharu, otherwise known as Haru, asked. "Yes, that's what Buffy said". Sitting in the back, still mad that he was out-classed by a girl, let alone still being weaker than Yuki. "Heh, they weren't that tough."
"Well, I guess that means we'll have to stay up, for Tohru's sake." The childlike Momiji sputtered. "Yes, I think we all agree, and she gave me these on the way." He took out six crosses on necklaces and three vials of water. "Crosses and holy water, wasn't that just in the movies?" "According to her it works the same, and a stake through the heat will do as well.
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"Uber-creepy." Buffy sighed entering the almost empty Sohma estate. "This place is humongous but there's no one…" Suddenly she feels a hand on her shoulder and on instinct grabs it and flips the owner over. Hatori's body is seen thrown across the yard. "Ieeee!!!' he yells.
Buffy puts a hand over her mouth as she runs over. "I'm like, so sorry. I didn't know you were there and when somebody sneaks up on me in creepy places, instinct." "He gets up, rubbing his tailbone. "That's quite all right. Nothing broken except my pride, again. Akito will be seeing you in his room. I'll be taking you to see him."
She nods following him into the main house. As she gets to the door, she gets a strange feeling, like she's been here before. Something was familiar…a creepy sort of familiar.
As she enters the darkened, room, she is surprised to see the same guy from her dream, with the same bird, in the same position. She keeps his surprise, however, to herself. The guy was still as creepy in real life as he had been in her dream.
The guy looked at her. "Aww, you must be Buffy. I have heard quite a lot about you." "And you must be Akito, the arms of the family…" He scrawls. "Head of the family."
"I'm sorry, I'm a little nervous now. What would you like to ask me?" Now he began to smile a bit. "Ah, a girl who's assertive. I like that. All I would like to know is how you managed not to fall under Hatori's spell. You were supposed to forget this, were you not?"
"Well there's many theories. One being the slayer, two I died twice…" Akito began to laugh harshly. "No man, let alone a woman can cheat death, once, let alone twice." "Sorry, I've been dead twice, I should know, I mean, I was like, legally dead."
His face turns harsh once more. "Don't play with me girl. That is an impossibility. If it were true, I would be able to escape death." "I don't see why you would want to, I mean the place is pretty shabby. It's all white and cozy."
AT that moment, Akito snapped. Standing by the long silver haired Ayame and Hatori burst in, hoping to restrain him before he got to her. It was to late though and with a potted flower in hand ready to smash into her face, he lunges at Buffy. "Akito stop!!!" The two yelled to deaf ears.
Suddenly he felt a hand around his neck and another around his arm. "I'm sorry Mr. Legs of the family, I don't play games."
For the first time in his life, Akito was at the mercy of someone else. For the first time, he was utterly terrified.
