Author's Note: I wrote this one as quick as I could so here. This should tell you that this fic and my other ones will be updated every Saturday from now on.
NOTE: Kaoru and the others are all human, they're not the daughters or sons of vampires. It's 3003, and the true only vampire blood line is down to the Battousai's group of vampires. I just wanted to clear that up, and if Kaoru were to mate with Kenshin then he would turn her into a vampire from the biting. I'll get into that later
Disclaimer: Me no own RK.
Haunted
Long lost words whisper slowly to me
Still can't find what keeps me here
When all this time I've been so hollow inside
I know you're still there
Watching me wanting me
I can feel you pull me down
Fearing you loving you
I won't let you pull me down
Hunting you I can smell you - alive
Your heart pounding in my head
Watching me wanting me
I can feel you pull me down
Saving me raping me
Watching me
By Evanescence
THX RAVYN for emailing it to me!
Chapter Three: Immortality Crisis
Misao was having a blast as she went to the Cafe with Lord Aoshi. She couldn't help it, but something about him drew her to him. He was quiet and the total definition of tall, dark, and completely handsome.
She made sure to pinch herself to make sure that this wasn't a dream.
They sat in a private place in the back as they drank.
Robots zoomed back and forth getting orders and refilling drinks.
Misao's eyes let up as deserts of all types were laid out for her. She was beginning to really love this type of service.
"How are you doing?" Asked Aoshi suddenly.
Misao blushed; he was asking her like he knew her. It was a good thing to her anyways.
"Well I'm doing fine," said Misao as she watched his eyes. They seemed to have warmed up a bit as they walked together here. It was because of that walk that she got to know this man a lot better. He seemed like the perfect person to sweep her off her feet but she knew better.
Aoshi wasn't really liking her thoughts; she was happy which made him happy. But her fighting spirit seemed to have been dragged to the back in this time. The Misao that he knew before would do anything to get him; it disappointed him.
"How was Y2K? I heard that the conveniences were..." began Misao, she wasn't sure.
"Slow, boring, unattractive?" Helped Aoshi.
Misao laughed her laugh that brought back so many memories; he smiled a bit.
"So... Why did you ask me, out of all of those other girls?" Asked Misao curiously as she played with her drink.
"You seemed different," said Aoshi. {You were always different.} Thought Aoshi.
Misao blushed at that as she stared at the hover table.
She bit her lower lip as she asked, "have you ever had a mate?" She cursed herself mentally for asking such an idiotic question. Of course he has, he is one of the best fighters on Earth.
Aoshi smiled as he read her thoughts, and at how she would react when he gave her his answer.
"Actually, no I haven't," said Aoshi.
Misao looked up at him with a bright smile on her face; he had to suppress a smile of his own.
That was when Misao opened up and began her usual ranting of things. Aoshi only looked at her as she continued. How he missed her.
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Anatra and Hiko were in a large mansion up on the mountains that they had not allowed to be destroyed for the sight of cities.
Katsura was seated behind them in an old throne like chair as Selena leaned against a solar powered fireplace. The four had lived here for the last 1000 years in peace, but they knew that the peace would soon end.
"Shishio and Yumi are back. Do you think they'll go after Misao again?" asked Selena as she watched Anatra sit behind a large desk and Hiko lean against it.
"They'll be after the rare twins," said Anatra as she closed her eyes and intertwined her fingers.
Katsura and Selena gave the other two quizzical looks.
"Two powerful vampires had twins, and because they are of high bred and have the rare blood flowing through them. They are very powerful, but they are only 8-years-old and don't know how to control it. If these girls are devoured or sucked dry by any species then the person who did it will become immortal.
"We need to find them before Shishio and Enishi do. Or this world might just end like they planned it to 1000 years ago," said Hiko.
"So you want to kill the twins?" asked Katsura.
"No. If we can purify them before the Red Moon, when their powers will grow and all will be able to track them down then they'll be safe," said Anatra as sadness touched her voice.
"How do we purify them?" asked Selena as she sat beside Katsura.
"Make them human," said Hiko.
Selena and Katsura cocked an eyebrow.
"The waters here are so pure for they have never been touched, that it can make vampires turn back into humans. Though it'll take a few weeks, since the twins are of high bred and so they have no human blood relatives in them. They are as pure vampire as you can get. But the water here will be able to do that," said Hiko.
"Where are they then?" asked Selena.
"Some where out there," said Anatra as she stood up and looked at the small lights of Crystal Tokyo as she seemed to call out to the twins.
Hiko placed a hand on her shoulder and whispered to her, "It'll all work out. We'll find them again and bring them back."
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Battousai ravished Kaoru's mouth as he moved his body on top of hers.
Kaoru was letting the pleasure flow through her and fueling her ki as it grew within her as they stayed connected.
As Battousai's hands moved to undress her, realization washed over her. Here was a vampire she barely met trying to take advantage of her.
She tried to push him away to no prevail.
Kaoru screamed and tried to wiggle out from under him but he was just too strong. She was panting as she closed her eyes and opened them to red ones.
Get off me! Screamed Kirei to Kenshin's head.
He stopped and looked down into her burning red depths. Berating himself for just going at her like that, he reluctantly got off of her.
Kirei glared at him before sitting up and fixing her outfit.
"I didn't know that you knew telepathy," said Kenshin as he fixed himself up.
Kirei cocked an eyebrow at him.
"So you didn't know that you screamed into my head for me to get off you? You're going to have to learn to control your powers, and I'll be glad to help," said Kenshin as his eyes turned back into amber and he extended a hand to her.
She just glared at him in the eyes but something in them told her to trust him. So throwing all dignity out of the window she accepted his offer.
He pulled her to her feet so that their faces were only a few millimeters away.
Kirei looked away before stepping back as Kenshin grinned.
"You do know that I'll need something in return for helping you right?" asked Kenshin grinning.
"You said that you wanted me to be happy," said Kirei angrily as she stared into his eyes.
"Yes, but I need to be happy too," said Kenshin grinning as his eyes turned back to red and stared at her with a primal lust that had been sealed in the darkness for so long.
Kirei stared into his red eyes and found out that her ruby ones couldn't move away.
She couldn't move, his eyes seemed to lock her into place. Her heart skipped a beat as he walked closer to her suddenly frozen form.
"You don't know how long I've waited to do this again," said Battousai as he walked over to his frozen blue bird.
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Sano watched from afar as Tsubame and Yahiko walked home happily holding hands. Even after 1000 years he still didn't like the boy. He had taken his sister away from him before, and now he was doing it again.
He was about to stalk in when a hand held onto his shoulder tightly and warm arms encircled his waist and he felt something lean toward his back. As he turned around he was met by loving eyes of concern as his own changed back to brown.
"Let them be. You remember that before he killed himself for his love for her. If you love her, then you'll let her be happy," said Megumi as she touched his cheek with a hand.
"I can't help it, she's the only family I have left," said Sano as he rubbed her hands against his face and closed his eyes.
"I'm your family too," said Megumi as she kissed him lightly on the lips.
Sano smiled and nodded.
Suddenly his cell pocket rang and he picked up the hand-sized phone. (A/N: Basically a cell pocket as you can guess is a futuristic cell phone.)
Sano's face became serious and pale when he finished.
"What is it?" asked Megumi in concern.
"We're going back up the mountains," said Sanosuke as he took her hand.
"Shishio knows that the others are alive. If we bring them with us then they'll be safe, for they have us and the purified barrier to protect and hide them," said Megumi as she stopped.
"You're right. We can't let them go a second time," said Sano as he walked toward the apartment that the two teenagers entered.
"How do we get them to come?" asked Megumi as she jogged to catch up.
"By any means necessary," said Sano as he bared in the building.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~
"Thank you Lord Aoshi, I had a blast," said Misao as they walked out of the Cafe.
"You're welcome. Though can you drop the Lord thing? I think that we're closer than that," said Aoshi as he practically grinned at her flushed face.
"Sure lord... I mean Aoshi," said Misao with a bright smile.
They walked back to her apartment but were shocked at the scene that they saw.
Sano was dragging Yahiko by the ear as Tsubame raced after him terrified, with Megumi walking after them shaking her head.
The vampire had just busted in their apartment as they were having a make out session, it was horrifying and shocking at the same time. He came in and dragged Yahiko out with his scary amber eyes that scared her to no end.
"Let me go you rooster head," said Yahiko angrily trying to break free but the vampire pulled harder on his ear making him scream.
Aoshi and Misao rushed over and stopped Sano before he tore Yahiko's ear off.
"What are you doing to him?" asked Aoshi angrily as his eyes turned amber and ki rose as well.
"What does it look like I'm doing? I found him taking advantage of Tsubame," roared Sano as his ki matched Aoshi's, now everyone there was whispering.
Misao and Megumi were trying to calm the two men down before they made a scene.
"We were only kissing," said Yahiko trying to get out of his powerful hold.
Aoshi glared at Sano who was glaring at Yahiko with the deepest loathing.
"Aoshi, we have to go back to Hiko's place. If we don't take them then you know that Enishi will be after them when they're vulnerable," explained Megumi before Aoshi ripped Sano apart.
Tsubame, Yahiko, and Misao looked utterly confused.
Aoshi sighed and nodded but kept his trained eyes on Sano who seemed to have calmed down and let Yahiko go.
Tsubame rushed over to him and helped take care of his now beet red ear.
"I'll call the others," said Megumi taking out her cell pocket.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Battousai was about to go for Kirei when he sensed his friends' ki rise. He stopped and went toward a window letting sighing Kirei fall back onto her bed.
Looking outside with his trained eyes he saw Aoshi and Sano yelling at each other.
He sighed and walked over to Kirei and helped her stand and kissed the back of her hand before she could do any thing to him.
"We're going to go some where together. You can come back here later on," said Battousai as he held her hand in his and walked over to the automatic doorway.
Kirei stopped suddenly and he turned and looked at her quizzically.
"Don't I need clothes?" asked the now sapphire eyed Kaoru.
"I can buy you some," said Kenshin trying to drag her out.
"But I want my own," pouted Kaoru.
"Fine. Get a clothes capsule," said Kenshin letting her hand go as she got her clothes capsule and rushed back to him as she put them in her purse.
(A/N: Clothes capsules, think of the ones in DBZ. I couldn't think of anything else. It stores like a whole closet in one of those things. Then again, in DBZ it stored houses.)
"Ready?"
Kaoru smiled and followed him out.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Sano took out a small black cube and left in the road and pressed a red button on it, and suddenly a nice black jet car came out. (A/N: It's a futuristic Porsche.)
Aoshi threw a dark green one out.
"Megumi and Tsubame comes with me," said Sanosuke as he got in.
"Misao and Yahiko with me," said Aoshi also getting in after helping the other two.
"So all of my court is going?" asked Kenshin as he suddenly appeared with Kaoru beside him.
"Saitoh, Tokio, and Anji aren't going to be there, they're going on another mission for the elder vampires. Soujiro, Shura, Cho, Kittra, Tae, and Katsu are going there as we speak," said Sano as he got in and the car automatically buckled him in and the other two.
"Are you coming?" asked Megumi as the window rolled down by itself.
"Yeah. Just go first," said Kenshin.
The vampires nodded and decended to the sky.
"So what type of car does the great Battousai have?" asked Kaoru teasingly.
Kenshin grinned as he took out a red cube and threw into the streets and out came a red Jet9000, one of the rarest and latest cars out. (A/N: It's a futuristic Ferrari and Porsche in one.)
Kaoru gaped at him as he opened the passenger seat for her before going into the driver's seat.
The car had tan leather interior and could drive itself all it needed was the name of the place you wanted to go to. It only used one gallon every 500 miles.
He launched it up and it rode smoothly and was easy to steer. His car passed the others easily and made its way toward the mountains. Not a single Ki Squadrian could stop him unless they wanted to die. (A/N: Ki Squad is like the police as well and a Ki Squadrian is a single person of the Ki Squad also known as the KS.)
"This must have at least cost 5 bilcons," said Kaoru as she felt how comfortable the seats were.
"It was 1 trilcon really. The others are cheaper and don't ride as smooth and the engines on the old ones are loud. This one is as silent as you can get," said Kenshin grinning at her.
Kaoru gaped at him, he really did know how to live it up.
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(A/N: Some future made up money information.
1 Dicon= 1000000 Tricons= 1000000 trillion U.S. dollars in 2003.
1 Trilcon= 1 trillion U.S. dollars now a days in 2003.
1 Bilcon= 1 billion U.S. dollars.
1 Milcon= 1 Million U.S.
1 Thoucon= 1 Thousand U.S.
1 Huncon= 1 Hundred U.S.
They don't make any below that anymore since nothing is less than $100 in my future. Yes they are all bills like the ones in the U.S., do remember that this is my made up future.)
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Anatra was reading a book as Selena walked over and hugged her from behind.
"Please don't cry, we'll find them soon. Just you wait. I'll go find them myself so that you'll be happy cousin," said Selena as she turned the older vampire around.
Anatra smiled and hugged her. She was the last of her family since Kaoru died. Takeda had betrayed them and Takasugi had died too. She was the last person she could hold onto.
"When Kaoru comes, you can hold onto her too. It'll be like a family reunion once the twins are back here. You can't cry, you're my cousin and a great vampire. Those twins will come back to you alive and well," said Selena with a smile.
Biting back a sniffle Anatra closed her eyes and nodded.
Ever since her niece had died she had become emotional, it was thanks to her old friends that she was able to go on and stay strong. They were all that she had left and she was going to hold on them until the end.
Selena took out a handkerchief and wiped away the tears on her cousin's face that had found its way out. She gave her cousin the cloth before bowing and leaving to find the twins.
Anatra stared out into the windows found herself crying.
Suddenly a pair of warm and powerful arms wrapped themselves around her lithe form.
"We'll see our twins soon. You have to be strong for them koishii," said the strong male voice from above behind her.
"I know anata, but I don't know if they're all right. We should have never let them go," said Anatra as she turned toward the figure in all black.
"We did it, so that they would be safe. We didn't know that they would be safer here with us than with that old priest. No one will suspect a pair of orphans in a shrine. Enishi won't be able to get past the pureness of that place as well as our home here," said the figure as he came down and kissed his mate on the lips.
Anatra nodded and leaned against his powerful chest.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Soujiro and Shura walked in with a single suit case each filled with capsules and cubes, which were close to capsules but held larger items.(A/N: Capsules hold foldable items like clothes or small items like make-up and hair dryers. The cubes hold the huge things like cars and beds.)
"It's been at least 6 centuries since we've been here," said Shura as she walked up the long pathway to the mansion as Soujiro put away the car cube. (A/N: Cubes are like the size of a dice.)
"Well dear you do know that you didn't have to bring so much. We could have just brought one suit case filled to the top with cubes and capsules," said Soujiro as he caught up to her.
"I know, but we might be staying here for a while. You never know when things will come in handy," said Shura with a smile to her husband.
"Well you didn't have to bring all of those weapons. It's not like this place could get raided or anything. Who'd be dumb enough to do that in the first place?" asked Soujiro.
"Let's see; Enishi, Shishio, Takeda, and..." began Shura as she stop to count on her fingers.
"Okay, okay I get the point. Though they can't find the place remember. Your heart has to be pure to be able to see or even step foot on this place," said Soujiro as he took her suitcase and walked up ahead.
Shura smiled at him and they walked in the mansion that opened when it scanned their eyes.
Upon walking in the place looked a lot like the Blood Hotel but filled and replaced by the latest improvements. It had five flights of stairs and looked more enchanting than Kenshin's office.
Pictures, vases, antique swords, golden chandeliers, and red carpet laced the house giving it the antique yet modern look like how Kenshin liked his places.
They were greeted by robots four feet tall and looked like small humans. They wore the butler and maid look. Apart from the bolts and how they talked, they almost resembled humans.
"Your room is room one Mr. and Mrs. Seta on the third floor. This is the main floor and there are five floors as you go up. Meals will be served on the main floor in the kitchen," said the butler.
"Robots need to stop telling us the obvious," said Soujiro when he handed them the suitcases and walked up the stairs.
"You think by now they would get teleporters," said Shura as she climbed the stairs.
"Want me to carry you like on our human wedding night?" asked Soujiro with a grin.
"That's okay," said Shura as she raced up but Soujiro caught her and lifted her up into his arms and ran quickly into their room that had a number one on it. The door automatically opened in a cross like manner when it scanned their eyes and then closed shut.
Soujiro dropped her on the king bed provided, it wasn't the softest material but it would do.
Shura was too busy laughing to realize that he had pinned her onto the bed with his body.
"Shall we relive our past wedding or make a new one?" asked Soujiro with a grin.
Shura whispered something into his ear that caused his eyes to blaze into a golden color.
"I like that idea better," said Soujiro as he pulled the sheets over them.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Katsu and Tae walked into the house a few minutes after the other two and handed the robots their luggage as well as they walked up to their room on the third floor second room.
"Well isn't it nice to be back. I always knew that fresh air would do us good," said Tae as she hung onto his arm as they walked up.
They heard a scream, but it wasn't of pain, from the room across from theirs.
(A/N: M.R.U. as most of you know, only happens when vampires do the Mating Ritual, not when they do it the human way. So therefore Soujiro and Shura's activities doesn't effect anyone, since it's not the Ritual. Okay?)
"You think that the sound barrier would be enough for those two," said Tae as she walked into their room and laid on their bed.
"You now them," said Katsu as the door closed shut behind him.
Tae threw a pillow at him. He caught it and grinned at her.
"Don't give me that look," said Tae angrily.
"What look?" asked Katsu innocently as he walked over to her.
Tae held a few pillows in defense, but he landed on top of her anyway. She tried to get away half-heartedly as he showered her with kisses.
"Want to make our own screams?" asked Katsu grinning above her.
Tae blushed crimson at the thought.
"Such nasty thoughts koishii," said Katsu shaking his head.
Tae scrunched up her nose and whacked him with a pillow, but he threw it aside.
Katsu grabbed her waist before she could get off the bed and began to tickle her.
"You're going to have to be punished for thinking like that koishii," said Katsu as he began to tickle her mercilessly.
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Megumi, Tsubame, and Sano arrived next but didn't have any luggage to give to the robots, they had been too busy getting the two teenagers.
"Mr. and Mrs. Sagara, your room is room one on floor one. You young lady is room two on floor two," said the robot that was there at the moment.
"Well at least it's only one flight of stairs that we have to go up," said Megumi.
"I'll go with Tsubame," said Sanosuke as he walked up the second flight of stairs with his sister.
Once she was inside Sano walked back down to his own room, but not before seeing Cho and Kittra get their rooms.
Kittra had blonde hair that reached her elbows and a narrow face like Cho's. She looked sweet but Sano knew that she could be just as deadly as Cho. The vampire had on leather clothing that stuck to her curves and showed enough to make many men drool.
He groaned inwardly when he saw that Cho had the second room on floor one.
"So the rooster head is here," said Cho with a grin as Kittra clung to his left arm.
"Look what the cat dragged in. Wipe enough floors broom head?" shot back Sano calmly.
"Wake up enough people?" snapped back Cho with a grin.
Sano was about to pop him silly when Megumi walked out and smiled at Kittra who let go of Cho's arm to walk over to her friend and talk.
Before they could continue to argue, Aoshi, Misao, and Yahiko walked.
"Mr. Shinomori, your room is the first room on the fourth floor. My lady your room is the second room on the fourth floor. The young man's room is the first room on the second floor," said the robot with a bow.
"His room is across from my sister's?" asked Sanosuke angrily.
Aoshi just walked passed him with Yahiko and made sure that he went to his right room before going up to the fourth floor with Misao.
"That means Kaoru and Kenshin get the fifth floor. So Anatra, Hiko, and Selena get the main floor this time," said Megumi with a smile.
"No. I heard that Katsura has a room on the fifth floor, but he's hardly here. He has his companies to take care of as well," said Cho as he watched Megumi and Kittra give him quizzical looks.
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A few minutes later Kaoru and Kenshin walked in calmly as the robot bowed to them before telling them where their room was.
"Mr. and Mrs. Himura your room is room one on the fifth floor," said the robot still bowing.
Kaoru blinked at the thing; it was obviously malfunctioned. She looked at Kenshin who only looked at her innocently.
Before she could blow a fuse Anatra came in with Hiko, Katsura, and Selena right behind.
"Kaoru," said Anatra as she walked over to her and hugged her tightly.
Kaoru looked shocked as Anatra pulled away and looked at her better.
Selena walked over and hugged her as well before going out of the house for her assignment and Katsura followed her out.
Kenshin nodded to his uncle who nodded in return.
"How am I Mrs. Himura?" asked Kaoru in shock.
"Well you are from 1000 years ago," said Anatra as she looked at her niece again.
Kaoru was even more confused than she was a few minutes again. She wasn't even alive 1000 years ago, how could she have gotten married to Battousai?
"You were alive 1000 years ago and you did marry Battousai in the vampire way," said Anatra upon reading her thoughts.
Kaoru stared at her in shock.
"We can do it again," said Kenshin with a grin as Kaoru glared at him.
"Shut up baka deshi. We are here for business," said Hiko seriously.
"Let's not talk about that now Hiko. You two go into your room and we'll have a robot go call you for dinner later," said Anatra with a smile that held love and concern.
Kaoru couldn't say anything so she smiled and followed Kenshin, who she still didn't understand how they got married, to their room. The thought of that sent shivers down her spine.
Megumi looked at her old friend as she passed them and could only smile. They were dragged into trouble again and they didn't even know half of it yet.
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A/N: Well that's it. I hope you all liked it. To make this one longer there are going to be major twists and a lot of crazy things that's going to happen. So beware now. Though I would really appreciate suggestions.
Do read Plane P11 by me if you get the chance. It's, in my opinion, very intensifying.
