This is just my short Babbling before I get to the real chapter. ^^' This is my third chapter of this story; I'm still struggling with a Title so you will have to live with the one I have right now. If you want to first two chapter's feel free to e-mail me at green_eyed_devil6@yahoo.com and remember this is a DARK FIC so please no flames saying you wasn't warned, if I get any flames I will stop this fic, and then Princess will stop, and you don't want that now do you. Plus this is my first Dark Fic so if I do bad tell me how and I will try to fix it. By the way this chapter is a little softer than the two before it….The next chapter will be a little more violent…Battousai violent LOL ~_^.
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~Disturbed Demon Gurl~
12-4-03- As of this date this chapter has been modified nothing big just the format (layout) with the fonts and things. So enjoy!
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Story Index of Font Styles:
Italics- thoughts and important things in the story.
Bold Italics- dream and/or visions
_______(across the page)- change of scene.
"Wisdom can heal the body,
but love heals the heart."
-Shandi Gene Faries
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Darkness Unnamed Chapter Three:
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Simple smiles in the dark, little things so new to me…
Darkness all around even if I open my eyes…
Golden glow in front of me, sent of sandalwood invades my mind…
Hardness beneath me, I twist and turn inside myself…
Gasping now for my breath, whispers just beyond my reach…
I lay here now, eyes wide closed, unknown to me the whispers…
Darkness Unnamed.
She could feel her heart beating loudly against her chest and wouldn't be surprised if the person standing in the doorway could to; shaking her head trying to clear the haziness the scent of blood was causing Kaoru focused her attention on the dark figure before her door.
Her voice sounded a little raspy from the dream and being scared upon waking, "Who…Who is there?" she squinted to try and get a better look at the tall person just inside her room, "Is that you Sanosuke-kun?" her voice sounded hopeful, but quivered slightly from fear.
He could tell that she was starting to get uneasy, 'She must have had another dream.', he took a few more steps into the kendo teachers room, the moonlight shining off the small cooking knife in his hand, he had used it to get the blood soaked kimono off the young human in the room a few doors down.
Stopping in front of the nervous human on the low futon Sanosuke knelled down, "Hai Jou-chan it's me Sanosuke." He paused as a look of relief passed over her pale face, "But I need your help…you see…me…I kind of…" his voice trailed off as she pulled herself from the cotton blankets.
She could hear the worry in her friends voice, it wasn't like Sanosuke to worry about something other than what he was going to eat next, she would have smiled at her own thoughts but right now something was bothering her fanged friend and she didn't think it was what they had to eat in the kitchen.
Wrapping one of the many thin cotton blankets around her shoulders Kaoru faced Sanosuke worry, shining in her deep sapphire eyes. "What's wrong Sanosuke-kun?" he started at the softness in her voice wishing he didn't have to tell her what he did, but he had too or else the woman would die.
Again the same thought made its way into his head, 'Why do I even care? I don't even know this human, there is no need for me to worry' he stood up still facing Kaoru's bundled form, his eyes softening a little at the sight, 'Because of Jou-chan that is why, some how I think that Human…' he shook his head, 'No that isn't right, THAT woman reminds me of Jou-chan, and for that I can't let her die.'
Kaoru stood watching as Sanosuke went over something in his mind, the expressions on his face changing with each thought, finally he spoke, "Jou-chan I need your help to save a young human." A pause, "she is about your age and bleeding to death." He didn't bother to spare her with lies it was better to tell the truth, she would see it anyway.
She couldn't help her eyes as they trailed down Sanosuke's long arm to rest on the bloodied knife, her brow scrunching together in confusion, 'he wouldn't would he?', her head shout up the confusion on her face clearly seen, "What did you do to her Sanosuke-kun?" her hand shot up to cover the gasp, "You didn't…didn't attack her did you?"
Shaking his head Sanosuke turned towards the open door, if he and Jou-chan didn't get back soon the woman would die, "No Jou-chan I was hunting, and the knife I needed it to remove her clothing…I lost my patients…Onegai hurry I don't know how much longer she can hold on." The last words echoed throughout the room before Kaoru walked out the door, it silently sliding closed behind her.
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Sanosuke walked into the small room his eyes settling on the young woman lying naked under the thin brown cotton blanket. He sighed and sat down just as Kaoru walked in, hearing her soft gasp he turned to watch her sit next to the deathly pale woman, Her hands immediately finding their way to the two slashes across the woman's neck.
Kaoru watched in fascination as the skin on the woman's neck separated with each touch she made to the damaged flesh, she wasn't a sick person, didn't enjoy seeing, making others feel pain, but something about this woman just maded her want to know what it was like to feel pain, to be abused, to be hurt.
Shaking her head Kaoru snatched her hand away, it wasn't right to be thinking such things her whole family had died in order to keep her from being hurt in just the way she wanted to happen…she just didn't think it was right.
Looking at Sanosuke Kaoru ordered, "Sanosuke-kun I need you to go and get me some bandages and boiled water." She paused as Sanosuke stood up, "And Sanosuke-kun will you bring the medication Doctor Gensai brought to us and maybe some cold water?" She gave a small smile when he nodded and turned to leave.
Turning back to the woman Kaoru pulled back the covers down to the woman's collarbone the creamy skin alarmingly cool to the touch; if she didn't hurry she would die.
Death…
It was nothing Kaoru was found of, sure she had seen many deaths in her short life, had even caused a few with her own hands, but this, this wasn't right the woman had no reason to die.
Saving…
Picking up a corner of the rough wool blanket Kaoru set about cleaning dried and sticky blood from the woman's neck, the wounds producing more liquid with every press to the ivory skin, she wouldn't let this woman die, hell be damn if another would die at her hand, true Kaoru hadn't been the one to do this, but it was her friend, and he was out because of her, because she was hiding, didn't want him around that night, to many horrid dreams.
Fighting…
She wasn't a nurse didn't have the medical knowledge to become one, but she knew how to save a person's life if the damage wasn't to severe, but this woman, the woman lying on her spare futon, the woman dieing in her dojo, the woman dieing because she was scared, scared of the truth, scared of help, she didn't know if she could save her. Sanosuke had brought her the things that she had asked for, and then Kaoru had made him wait outside the room, wait until she was sure the woman would live.
Healing of a body…
She finished wiping away the last dried caked on blood from the two wounds, putting the rag down and picking up the medical salve Kaoru spread it over the wounds, a hiss of pain came from the woman's chapped lips, that was a good sign it meant that the woman was still alive, that she hadn't failed…yet. Spreading the last bit of salve over the mutilated flesh surrounding the cut Kaoru picked up a medium sized stripe of thin bandage material.
White…
Watching her own hands as if in a dream as they wound the cloth about the young woman's delicate throat Kaoru mused, 'I never really did like the color white, its to easy to stain too destroy the fragile color it reminds me of winter, I hate winter too cold, too damn white.' Her thoughts trailed off as the last bit of cloth was wound around the woman's neck, blood partially seeping through to the top layer, just enough to be seen, but not worried about.
Wounds of a Soul…
Wiping the sweat from her brow Kaoru sat back on her hunches, the blanket under her depressed by the weight, she was done, had done all that she could, the rest of it was in the hands of the woman, and she prayed that would save the woman's body, the woman's soul.
Standing she made her way to the shoji intending to let Sanosuke know that he could come back inside. Sliding the thin rice paper door aside Kaoru stepped into the drab hallway, barely lit by a few candles at the far end on a alter to the Kami's.
Looking down Kaoru met the gaze of the young vampire seated in front of her on the hard wood floor; the soft candle light making his face seem younger and if she didn't feel like a sister to the fanged one, she might of found him attractive, but she was stained, guilty, too dark for even him.
Bowing her head at the shame she felt Kaoru spoke, "I've done all I can and I do believe she will live Sanosuke…" she hesitated, did she even deserve to call him her friend? She shook her head, no she didn't, but also she didn't want to worry him she would act as if everything was alright, "You can go in and see her now Sanosuke-kun, just be careful she is sleeping and needs rest; I will be in the bath house if you need me."
Not even looking back she headed for the furo, it was always a good place for her to think the warm water helped to relax her tense muscles helped to ease her troubled mind.
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He sat outside the room his back to the rice paper wall just inside the narrow hallway, he could hear the small hisses and groans of pain the woman made, that was good it meant that he hadn't taken an innocents life, he didn't know what got into him when he had attacked her, something about it seemed strangely right and all at once completely wrong.
Sanosuke shook his head, his chocolate colored hair swishing around his face, it didn't matter now it never really did matter about the woman the whole thing was because of Jou-chan, and he spoke in a soft whisper, "My Jou-chan, only mine."
No he didn't like her in that way sure she was beautiful but he just didn't feel that way about her. He was the possessive type and had promised her father that nothing would happen to her that he Sanosuke Sagura would protect 'His Jou-chan' as her father would say to him. The old man had always wanted the two together, even if she a mortal and he a fanged demon.
Sighing again he leaned back a little more his eyes closing in thought, 'I know that Jou-chan has nightmares and something about them just bugs me I've heard to many stories about mortals unknowingly bounding with fanged demon's, with vampires and all the stories end one of two ways.' He paused his thoughts when a slight shuffling of fabric was heard, 'Jou-chan must be bandaging the woman up' he closed his eyes again going back to the troubled thoughts.
'The first way the stories end is the mortal becomes overwhelmed by visions, the terrible images eventually breaking their minds they will often become in-crazed and kill themselves in order to break free, other times they become violet towards others going on massive killing sprees just to taste the blood but the result is always the same….they always die in the end….always'.
He could feel fear start to build in him, could Jou-chan HIS Jou-chan be bounded mentally if not physically to another vampire? No she couldn't he wouldn't let it happen, but in the back of his mind he knew that she was and that if he didn't find someway to get rid of the bind that his Jou-chan would be lost and he would of failed her father.
Sanosuke closed his eyes again and listened to the fabric in the other room as Kaoru wound it around the woman's neck, it was a good thing Kaoru had learned to dress wounds from the many fights her brother Yahiko and Father got into. They never fought each other they fought enemies, it was a time of war and nobody came out unharmed. His thoughts shifted back to Kaoru, "No one"
Opening his eyes he thought back to the stories he had heard about the mental bound of a human and vampire, 'Well the first choice of happenings isn't something I will let happen not ever but I don't know if I will just let the second one happen either.'
He pause as the sound of Kaoru standing up reached his sensitive ears, 'No I don't think that will be happening either just the thought of it makes my skin crawl my fangs grow longer in rage…she doesn't deserve that and no one deserves her.'
His thoughts ended abruptly as Kaoru walked out the shoji door into the hallway. He could tell that something was wrong with her, she looked upset almost angry. "I've done all I can, and I do believe she will live Sanosuke…" he watched her as she spoke saw the hesitation in her eyes in her face before it was gone and she spoke again. "You can go in and see her now Sanosuke-kun, just be careful she is sleeping and needs rest, I will be in the bath house if you need me."
He didn't even get to ask what was wrong before she turned and strolled down the hallway and out the shoji at the end it clicking shut behind her. Turning from the hallway Sanosuke opened the rice paper door to the room and stepped in the sight of the human lying on the futon only covered by the thin blanket and a white bandage around her throat setting him on edge. Something about her made him feel different, made him feel like there was two Jou-chan's in the world.
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Her head hurt, the pain throbbing in the back of her mind. Soft whispers echoing loudly off of her thoughts it hurt. She didn't know what but it hurt; she shifted a little a searing pain shooting up her neck and down her back. Her voice groaned at the pain her body not being able to do much more. Then there was soft pressure on her back and she felt herself being lifted from what felt to be a low futon.
She could hear the voice clearer now. "Is…is that…" her voice was raspy from lack of use and loss of blood, she tried again, "Is that you…my…Yakido-anata?" she noted that her voice sounded better this time the pain almost unbearable. But the raw need to know if her fiancée was still alive made the pain it caused seem less intense.
Blood…
She could smell the coppery liquid; it was close and gave her the strange urge to taste it, drink it, devour the body that contained it. She knew it was wrong what kind of person craved blood? Normal humans didn't; only the dark, wicked, evil parts of the human race did, those and vampires yes vampires craved blood.
Her eyes shot open, "No no no no…" she whispered over and over staring into the cinnamon eyes of a young man, his dark brown hair ruffled about his face. She could feel her heart beat quicken he looked so familiar to her, his face, hair, eyes, and even the young man's smile seemed all to real; to much like her Yakido. Everything was the same except for the fangs; those simply deadly fangs that glinted in the candle light.
Sanosuke watched as her eyes widened the dark pupils shrinking in size as the candle light hit them the rest of the eye was a dark green color outlined in dark green-blue, her eyes he noticed were beautiful. Very different from the normal brown eyes of the other women in town. A ferial grin spread on his lips perhaps it is a good thing this woman did not die; he might make her his mate.
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Kaoru sunk into the heated water of the furo steam raising to waft over the wooden floor and drift up to the ceiling, it hanging in the room like mist on a chilly spring morning. The rice paper walls where starting to dew from the steam; the floor and ceiling already decorated with tiny beads of water some drops falling too land back in the water; others forming small puddles on the already slick floor.
She sighed as her eyes drifting shut; tonight had been a long night. First she had another nightmare and that didn't do too well for her already stressed nervous and then Sanosuke had showed up with the wounded woman and that had caused Kaoru even more stress. But luckily Sanosuke had gotten the woman here quickly and she was able to save the young humans life.
Turning her head to the side and resting it on the edge of the furo Kaoru opened her eyes to stare at the watery floor. "I hope that the woman will be alright and that Sanosuke is careful with her." She watched as a small droplet of water dripped to the floor making a hollow splash as it hit. "I will have to ask what her name is I can't very well go around calling her 'The Woman' or even 'Woman' I hate it when people in town call me that and I'm sure she is the same way." Kaoru gave a huff and turned her head to look at the door a shiver running down her spine.
Something was there she could feel it always could when something was about to happen and tonight something was going to change; something big was about to happen and Kaoru had a sinking feeling in her stomach that she was going to be the cause of it. A sound came from outside the door it almost sounding like the sliding of steel against a sheath.
She strained her ears to listen for it again. Nothing. She could hear nothing but the sounds of the night; some crickets and a hoot from a nearby owl. Still listening Kaoru rose out of the hot bath; her skin reddened a little from the heat. Small tracks of water running over the swell of her breasts and down the flat of her stomach falling off to drip in the furo and some on the slippery floor.
Reaching for a towel Kaoru wrapped it around herself, clasping the ends of it together; the small fist in front of her holding the towel closed. She shivered again at the chill caused by the cold air in the bath house; her rapidly cooling skin prickling with goose bumps. Kaoru heard another noise this one closer the sound of a shoji being slid open. Someone was here; just inside the washing room of the bathhouse and she prayed that it was Sanosuke or even the young woman.
Kaoru stepped over one of the numerous puddles on the floor as she made her way to the back of the room just inside the safety of the shadows. She stopped and faced the door again; Kaoru was still almost in the middle of the room she didn't want to be trapped against the wall if she did have to fight to get out of the room. She wasn't stupid enough to trap herself… if she only knew she already had.
TBC
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Hai that is it for this chapter, don't you all just hate me now? I know I would hate me if I was you guys, isn't that an evil place to leave the chapter? I know what you're all thinking "she is just joking with us there is more of the chapter" Hah! There isn't so you will just have to review and tell me how much you want the next chapter or you are not getting it…ku ku ku ku they don't call me Demon-chan or Disturbed Demon Gurl for nothing, and remember no flames, but on this chapter you can call me an evil bitch all you want, that makes me happy, just please don't say that I'm a bad writer because I already know I am.
~Disturbed Demon Gurl~
P.S. Thank you Z.Z.-chan, Btousai-kun, and Princess Destiny I couldn't of done this chapter without all of you guys Thank for the help. ~_^ ( I love you ^^z & ^^b )
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Chapter published on Tuesday November 25, 2003 @ 10:18 p.m.
Chapter modified on Thursday December 4, 2003 @ 9:59 p.m.
