Authors Note: School's out so I finally have the time to start up on this story again. Sorry about such a long time between updates, plus I know a whole lot more about the series now since I finished the whole thing. Lets get the ball rolling again shall we?

Pain That Just Won't End

            Seeing Akito utterly terrified of her, she drops him. As he falls to the floor he crawls into the corner and falls into a fetal position. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry…" He repeats over and over again from the corner. Buffy raises an eyebrow. "And I thought you were supposed to be the adult here, the body of the…" "Head…" Hatori says, still stunned at the action that just took place.

            She walks up to Akito. "I don't know what your prob is but I'm not the kind of person to be hit for no apparent reason." Still in the position, the terrified Akito begins to talk constantly. "he said if I had her I would be cured. I wouldn't die and be free of the curse. Her blood could save me. The key's blood…" Suddenly Buffy frowns and gets up. She utters just two words. "The First…" She spins around to Aya and Hatori. "Be lucky I'm not one to kill humans, he'd be dead right now for putting my sister in danger."

            Buffy stomps out of the room.

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            In Hatori's car, she sat uncomfortably, looking out the window. "I'm sorry for Akito. I apologize for what he's done but you must understand one thing. At birth he was chosen to hold the core of the curse, and in doing so, sentenced him to death because no one can hold that curse and survive."

            Silence is held for awhile. "Did you really die twice?" Buffy turns around to face Hatori. "Yeppers, twice and proud of it. First time I drowned and was resuscitated and the second I through myself into a dimensional portal to save my sister." "Amazing. So exactly, what are you and what the first." She stares at him for a second, deciding something. "I'm the slayer. One girl in all the world destined to right all wrongs and bla bla bal. There's a whole speech but I won't get into that. In other words, anything that harm's a human being and is not human, I kill him, or her…or sometime it I'm not sure half the time whether there are girls or guys of that particular…" He stares at her as they stop at a light. "Fine, I'm rambling on but yeah, if it's evil, I kill it. The first is the original evil.. Bad mojo and what not. Wants to take over or destroy the world or something, we're not exactly sure yet. All I know, is that I have to stop him."

            The car is silent for a few minutes. "I know what Akito's going through. The slayer herself has the gift of death. We were meant to die at a young age. 16 to 17 at the most. I'm possibly the oldest slayer ever, except for one other but we won't even to start with her." Hatori nods.

            "So what do we do now?" Buffy looks at him. "We stop the connection to the first here then go back home. The first also seems to want something here as well so we stop whatever it throws at us. You guys need to be ready." Hatori nods. "What can we do?"

            Buffy smiles. "You'll see…"

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            "So Mr. Harris…" "Call me Xander, Tohru. Mr. Is for guy's who have a job which requires a suit and loads of headaches." She smiles. "So why are you with me and Dawn. Dawn, seemingly agitated, spits out, "Because he's baby sitting us because Buffy feels we can't take care of ourselves." "Yeah, that and to see all the girls in those mini skirts they so often sport…" Dawn just looks at him and Tohru doesn't even realize what he means.

            "Sissy!!!" A voice from the street corner calls as a little 12-year-old girl runs up to Tohru. "Kisa, what are you doing here?" "Grandpa Shigure told me you were out with a new…" Looking up at Xander, Kisa, slowly moves behind Tohru. She then slowly come out behind…blushing at Xander…

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            "We're going to what!!!" Kyo exclaims. "You must be one crazy woman to think I just going to stand here while…" "Shut up orangie. I didn't ask, I'm telling you. I'm in no mood for anyone else to get hurt. Your staying here…with Willow Xander and Giles while me and Spike do some checking up around here." "Like hell, I'm…" "Kyo, shut up." Yuki says, quieting the mad cat.

            "Good, now that that's settled…will you please pass that good little pastry, yeah that's it. Oh Tohru, you cook the best dishes. I'm still sorry that little outfit I got for you was…" Shigure stops as he's slapped over the back of the head by Hatori. "You're a childish pervert." He sips some of his tea.

            Giles in the meantime cleans his glasses. "Uh well that's all settled, why don't you…will you stop looking at me like that." He spits at Ayame. "I'm sorry but those clothes. You look so up tight. You need to let loose, go wild. " "Like you? I'm sorry to say but the G-man likes to look male even if he is stuffy. At least he pays for that fancy British straight jacket. I mean…" Xander starts again but Giles raises a hand to stop him. "That's enough Xander. My pride's as being the "up Tight Britt" has been held up. Thank you very much."

            Ayame though isn't quite ready to let it go. "Are you saying I look like a woman? This is fashion you nitwit. I don't expect the hailer of the Hawaiian shirt look to understand true fashion.  The quite possibly best looking person here would know what I go though…" The long white haired Ayame puts his arm around Spikes shoulder. "Well, thanks for the compliment but…hey, get that arm off me before I tear it off and use it to beat you with you bloody Jap." "Ohh, is that a threat…?" "Will someone keep this bloody crazy away from me before I eat him or something."

            "Go ahead, I wouldn't mind." Yuki spits out. "Oh Yuki, I'm hurt. You wouldn't really want to see…did you say eaten?" Spike doesn't answer. He takes out a pack of cigarettes he lifted from Shigure and starts smoking.

            "So Mr. Giles, you just got here from what Buffy says. What exactly is your relationship to her." Hatori asks. "Well, there's a perfectly good…" "He's my old school librarian." Buffy interrupts quickly. "So when things get hard, you call your…librarian?" Yuki asks, perplexed. 

                        "Well he has very…uh well diverse interests…" Willow cuts in. Still perplexed the others nod. "Now, where's the closest grave yard."

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            "So, you're still keeping the cursed ones away from the whole story. Why don't you just tell them about it." Spike says as both he and Buffy trudge through the uncut grass of the cemetery. "We're going to leave as soon as possible once we…"

            There's suddenly a crack of stick and the two whip around. Out from the darkness comes one who's almost killed the slayer. The ubber-vamp as it's dubbed. "oh, isn't this just lovely."