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Disclaimer: I WILL SAY IT ONLY ONCE, AND NEVER AGAIN FOR THE REST OF THE FIC. THIS IS FOR THE REST OF MY STORY. I DO NOT OWN RK OR ANY OF IT'S CHARACTERS.











Notes:

1- The humans in the U.S. will not kill Kenshin when he goes to America to finalize their neutral agreement from the rest of the world. As mentioned before, if Kenshin were to die, then the world would go unbalanced since he's the strongest. Dueling for the strongest again will only cause more trouble upon the rest of the world, and the U.S. isn't that heartless toward the other species.

2- Kaoru has all of her vampire powers, it's just that she's still gaining them and needs to learn to control them, that's where Kenshin comes in. She will not become a full pure blooded vampire of the past, but a vampire if Kenshin mates and transforms her. Yes, I might not get them together. It's all Samurai X's fault, it had such a sad ending. Made me cry. So I think I might stick to sad endings. Depends on you people.

3- The twins, I promise to explain more about them in the future. I told you all that I can already.






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BattousaisGrrl is one of my best buds, and she's an author here too. You should really go check out her fic DARKNESS, it's really neat.
















Chapter Six: PPLL?
















Darkness

Creeping in shadows

Lonely for companionship

Darkness covers all

Tightly embracing my soul

Alone, why won't they listen?



In the Dark

I am the undead

I dwell in the dark night sky

Molding us into one

The darkness is my ally

Cloaking me from the sun's light



Brethren

My brethren is night

He is a loving brother

Sister is shadow

Both silently growing big

Lovingly sweeps me away



All three are by ll_hyped_gal! Thanks!





















Misao rolled in her bed, her jade cotsilk pajamas made her slide on her blankets, she couldn't help but feel... Something was wrong, and the knot in her stomach made her want to puke.

Maybe I shouldn't have eaten that Banrito. ((It's basically a burrito.))

She sat up, and pulled the covers off of her. I need a sleeping pill. Thought Misao, it was either that or don't get enough sleep. She needed her rest for tomorrow's pile of evil homework.

I wonder where they stash them? Thought Misao, as she walked to her door after putting on her matching green slippers that suddenly appeared from the floor after she raised her ki a bit.

She walked down the stairs as quietly as she could. Her footsteps were as silent as you could get, or so she thought.

Misao suddenly froze when she heard a cold voice from the living room. Shoot, I hope they don't see me going to the kitchen. The kitchen was on the other side of the stairs, and the couches in the living room were placed so you could see people coming down the stairs and going into the kitchen.

Two voices lifted to her ears, as she crouched down on the last step to the first level of stairs, meaning she was between the first floor and second.

"Where did you go?" floated a familiar feminine voice, to Misao.

"I went out," came the cold reply, that Misao immediately knew that it was Aoshi.

"The scent of blood is on you. Who became deceased tonight?" asked the same feminine voice.

"There's no point in asking the ice block. If you do not wish to answer, then you don't have to," said a masculine voice.

"If you don't mind, I wish to go to sleep. We have the Red Moon coming in two months and three weeks, the Violet Moon a week later, and the Blue and Full moon a week after that. I need to prepare for that," said Aoshi calmly.

Misao heard a flapping of clothing, and new that Aoshi was going to go upstairs. She began to panic, and was sure that she wasn't going to be able to sleep after this.

Her whole life, she was never able to sleep when she snuck out in the middle of the night and heard a conversation that she wasn't meant to hear. It would plague her until she got answers, and what she wanted to know was who Aoshi killed tonight. (A/N: I think you all already know who he killed, but then again you must watch out for my twists.)

"Stop," came a command from the female vampire most likely, downstairs.

Misao heard silence, and knew that Aoshi must have followed the order.

"I revise you that you shouldn't get so PPLL over her," said the female a bit angry.

"Selena. How do you know that it's not M.R.U.?" suggested the male vampire.

(A/N: For those who don't know what M.R.U is, or have forgotten, then go back to my story Eternity of Darkness, chapter eight. The symptoms for it is located at the bottom with my author notes and in the chapter.)

"Katsura, do you really think that it's M.R.U.? It's close, but I would call it more of human jealousy. Back then, Kenshin claimed Kaoru, and all vampires knew; all vampires will soon know again. What have you done Aoshi? You do know that she had a life before you came and dragged her into this. So what if she liked another, or had past lovers? You can't expect someone to drop their love so easily. She had a life before this, and you must understand that," said Selena.

Aoshi didn't say anything.

What the hell is PPLL? Thought Misao; she was very confused. They were taught about M.R.U., but they were never taught anything about PPLL.

"Just understand Aoshi, that when the Red Moon comes and her ki has been risen from the Violet Moon; others will be after her. That's why I understand that Battousai is already making his move. You only have about three months," warned Katsura.

Still no reply or response from Aoshi.

"She is full for the taking until she is claimed. So stop being a god damn brick and show some emotion to the poor girl. She's liked you for how long back when? I'm sure that she still has feelings for you," said Selena, her tone had become softer.

"What about Kirei? She has yet to accept Battousai, and I don't think that she will pursued so easily. Kirei was a powerful vampire, and her old power still flows through her," said Aoshi.

The others fell silent for a bit.

Misao listened intently, maybe she could find out who 'she' was. She hoped to god that she was the one.

Then again, she would like to find out more about this to tell Kaoru.

"Reincarnations tend to be a bit different from the original thing," stated Katsura.

Misao's eyes went wide. That's why they brought us all here. We must be the reincarnations of the important people of these vampires' past. That would mean that we use to be vampires, but died and became human. Why would they need us? Unless we have a role to play here; then what's that role?

"As I recall, Kirei didn't fall so easily to Battousai in the past either," stated Aoshi.

"You let Battousai worry about that," said Selena.

"Then you leave me alone to deal with my problem," snapped back Aoshi coldly.

Misao could swear that she felt Selena's glare to Aoshi.

"Fine. We only wish that you not fall into this process. Battousai just might, his past with Kaoru is more connected than yours and your woman. So we're going to need you to be in full control when Enishi and Shishio make their move," said Katsura.

Aoshi didn't reply, but Misao heard a rustle of clothing, so she guessed that he nodded.

"PPLL will be your weakness and strength. Just don't let it blind you. You should make your claim on her, and soon. The new moon is coming in two weeks. If you don't want her to feel all the pain from the transformation, then I revise you gain her trust and heart by then. Though I don't think she'll be so willingly in the beginning, when she finds out what you did," said Selena a bit harshly and coldly.

"If you know what I did, then why did you bother to ask?" asked Aoshi darkly.

"To warn you. Anatra is in a gloomy mood about the twins, and the two of us and Hiko are trying to keep her from going out into public and finding them. You know that if she steps out of this barrier, Enishi and Shishio will sense her power and come here. The same is for Hiko as well, so they can't help you and the others," said Katsura.

"Then what about you two?" asked Aoshi.

"We're gathering reinforcements and trying to find the twins before Enishi does," said Selena.

"I thought you knew where they were," said Aoshi.

"They're gone. The old shrine that they were at was burned to the ground. It was an accident, Shishio and Enishi couldn't have gotten past the barrier. That's why Anatra refuses to eat, sleep, or do anything but worry. That priest is with them, and we're sure that he has purified them so that no one can sense their vampire blood; otherwise we would have found them.

"We're trying to find the three. Do you know how hard it is to find fraternal twins and an old man? They don't look alike, so it's harder. There are plenty of people like that, we're not even sure that they're even in Japan," said Selena; her voice was beginning to break.

A light rustle of clothing told Misao that Aoshi nodded.

*Swoosh*

Misao looked behind her, and noticed that Kaoru and Kenshin's door had opened. She ran toward Tsubame's room and began to knock lightly.

Please be awake. Begged Misao.

*Swoosh*

The door opened, and Misao rushed in. She quickly closed the door and pushed Tsubame in with her.

"What are you doing awake so late?" asked Tsubame confused.

She was wearing a yellow cotsilk two piece like Misao's.

Misao walked in, and looked a bit worried. She couldn't tell Tsubame, they'd hear her.

Wait, the rooms have sound barriers! Duh! Thought Misao, as she remembered what Megumi told her earlier.

Misao finally looked at the room, it was just like hers, just that instead of a green comforter for their tri-queen beds, Tsubame had yellow ones. (A/N: Tri-queens= Beds that are like three queen sizes put together.)

Her eyes fell on the bed, and noticed that Tsubame was still doing her work. She was always the one that would do her work to get it over with first.

"Just stay here," said Misao as she walked toward the door.

Tsubame gave her a confused look, as the door opened and Misao snuck back out.

Once the door closed, Tsubame shook her head. Misao was up to something, and she knew it too. But she needed to get her work done, worrying could come later. She was sure that Misao knew what she was doing.

~*~*~*~*~

"What are you doing down her Battousai?" came Katsura's voice.

"You people talk too loud. Even the sound barrier couldn't keep your voices out of my peaceful head," said Kenshin a bit annoyed; it sounded pretty cold and dark to Misao though.

She was sure that something was pissing him off.

"Peaceful?" questioned Selena.

"I see. So you managed to get on Kaoru's good side," said Katsura; Misao was certain that the elder vampire was grinning.

"Yes, but Kirei is going to be hard to crack. She really doesn't like me," said Kenshin; Misao knew that he was hurt but understood that Battousai would never admit that.

As Misao thought about, she didn't quite understand why Kirei didn't like Battousai. They had so much in common; power, strength, skill, a hard head, and once they made up their head they wouldn't change it.

"Did you allow Aoshi to kill tonight?" asked Selena bitterly.

Kenshin didn't speak; Misao knew that he was giving her a questioning look. She had done this so many times, she basically knew everyone's reaction to certain questions or responses.

"I say that you did. You have more of a problem with PPLL than him, and it's stronger for you too," said Selena.

"There is no crime in PPLL. Though I think that I have that and M.R.U., and it's driving me crazy," admitted Kenshin.

"Then leave Kaoru for a while," said Selena calmly.

There was a long silence, and Misao shivered as she felt a cold, dark, and powerful force go through her.

It could only mean that Battousai wasn't all too happy at what Selena told him to do.

"Calm down Battousai. You'll wake the others," warned Katsura.

"I. Am. Not. Going. To. Leave. Her," said Battousai as he pronounced each word. His voice made Misao gulped.

"I understand that you can't lose her again. Just don't get sucked into M.R.U. and begin to slaughter every single guy that she smiles at or talks to. She had a life before you dragged her into all of this, and tell her that she belongs to you. I understand why Kirei is being so arrogant, because she has the right. She didn't even get a say in any of this as you turned her world upside down," said Selena, as she defended her apprentice.

Battousai remained silent.

Misao slowly crept back to her room as the vampires began to speak again. If she heard anymore, she was sure that they would find out she listened from her ki, which was shivering like a cornered rabbit. She had heard too much, and she knew it too. The thought of what Battousai would do to her if he found out, made her quiver.

She was going to tell Kaoru in the morning, and she knew that Kaoru would help her find out what in the world PPLL was.

~*~*~*~*~

Kaoru rolled around easily in her bed because of her night clothes. She felt a chill that crawled up her spine, as she felt her warmth leave her, and become replaced by a dark and cold feeling.

She sat up, and rubbed the sleep out of her eyes.

"Kenshin?" asked Kaoru, as she noticed that he was gone. She looked around the room, and noticed that he wasn't on the bed or in the room at all.

She looked on the floor, thinking that he might have fallen off. Kaoru shook her head, Kenshin wouldn't fall off the bed; it was too big.

Kaoru kicked the covers off of her, as she walked to the door. She raised her ki when she realized that the carpet was cold; her ki made the room turn on the heaters for her. Then a pair of black, fluffy, slippers with glow in the dark stars on them, appeared before her. She placed them on and made her way toward the door again.

Where are you going? Asked the cold voice in her head again.

What does it look like I'm doing? I'm going to find Kenshin. Responded Kaoru coldly. She had had enough of her other half not approving of him. He was just lost, and needed attention.

Battousai needed her, and she wasn't going to leave him again. She knew how much pain he had on him; she saw it in his eyes.

He could be in that wall over there. Suggested Kirei.

No he isn't, otherwise I would have felt his ki.

Kaoru shivered when she felt a cold, dark, and powerful ki go through her body. She felt it, and knew that it was coming from Battousai. Why would Battousai be out? Thought Kaoru.

Battousai being at the surface, and Kenshin not, meant that something was making him angry, or something was really wrong.

Kaoru was leaning toward the second option.

The barrier around the room isn't allowed to let ki go through the rooms. That would mean that you grew an attachment to the guy. I told you not to, now you're going to go after him and get in the way. If anything happens to us, it's all your fault for not listening to me. Retorted Kirei.

Shut up! Said Kaoru angrily. I've had enough of you Kirei. Kenshin is not a bad person.

Duh! I was talking about Battousai. I'm cool with Kenshin and all, but I don't like Battousai. There's something about the dark guy; that I don't like. Responded Kirei.

Like what? Asked Kaoru confused at her other half's theory.

I don't know. The fact that he's too protective, and it's annoying how he always looks at me like he wants to devour me alive or something. I don't like that. Plus, he makes us look weak by making it seem we need him to protect ourselves. You know how I am; I don't like being called weak and I refuse to be. Then there's the way that he says that we're his. I refuse to be called a man's property. Said Kirei angrily.

Kaoru fell silent.

I just don't like the guy. Said Kirei. She had no clue, really, to why she hated him. It was more like excuses from her ego, to stay away from him. She didn't want to feel weak, and he was making her weak.

His red eyes, masculine body, and fangs. No matter how much she denied it, she loved the way his body felt next to hers when they were in each others embrace earlier.

He made her brain shatter, just by talking; his grins and smiles making her want to melt. She's never felt that way, so you really couldn't blame her for wanting to push him away. These feelings were wonderful and made her go to the edge, but she didn't want to fall. She couldn't fall, and she wouldn't.

*Swoosh*

The noise made Kaoru look up, and she gasped as she stared into dark blood red eyes, that made knees weak. But at the same time it made her want to go into a corner; those eyes were like looking into death itself. There was no emotion in them.

They slowly softened as they saw her.

Battousai walked in as the door closed behind him.

Before Kaoru could speak, he was gone. She looked all around and suddenly saw his torso right in front of her face; her eyes slowly lifted to meet his own. For some reason, she found that she couldn't leave his gaze. Those eyes of his seemed to have frozen her, like they did at her apartment.

A shiver went down her spine, as she felt his right nail of his forefinger, trace a line from her temple to her jaw line. His lips followed the same trail as his hands moved to wrap around her waist.

Kaoru instinctively tilted her head back as Battousai kissed her throat area; his fangs lightly touching her flesh. It made Kaoru moan from the pleasure that they surfaced through her body.

What the hell does he think that he's doing? Came Kirei's voice, but it was drowned out of Kaoru's mind through Battousai's ministrations.

Battousai slid his hands down her body as he slowly kissed the corners of her mouth.

His lips felt warm and so god damn good on her own lips, as she parted her lips for him to enter. Nothing else came to her mind when his hands cupped her breasts and circled themselves around her erected nipples, only their clothes separated them from each other. She was so busy going into her own paradise to bother to realized that he was on top of her; on the bed.

Kirei wasn't really taken this easy; when Kaoru became lost in her own dream world, Kirei broke through the surface.

Amber eyes glared at the man on top of her.

"Do you mind getting..." began Kirei, but she couldn't help that her body was screaming for connection, as she gritted out a moan. Battousai's fingers had found their ways through her clothing and into her. Literally. ^_~

"What did you say koishii?" asked Battousai, in his deep, dark, rich voice of his that made Kirei want to melt.

His fingers were inside her, as he slowly pushed his middle finger in with his forefinger of his right hand.

Battousai's left hand supported Kirei to him.

Trying to ignore her body's cry for more connection as her knees bucked up to his hand; wanting more.

Kirei bit her lower lip as she just complied and allowed the pleasure to soar through her body.

Gods how can this feel so good, when it's so wrong? Questioned Kirei, as she closed her eyes and focused her every being on the man above her.

Battousai stared at her confused for a bit, he had read her thoughts.

He slowly slid his fingers out, as he brought her sweet honey to his lips.

Kirei's eyes flew open when he stopped his ministration. Her amber eyes met his red ones, when he placed her delicious honey nectar into his mouth to taste her. She licked her suddenly dry lips as he suckled on her fluid.

She pulled his fingers out of his mouth and placed them in hers, and moved her tongue along his fingers to take the rest of the nectar.

Battousai's eyes flared to a lustful sensation, as he watched his Kirei slowly open up to him. She was just as sweet and delicious as before. Gods how he missed her. If only it was a new moon tonight, he could make her one of his kind. But that didn't mean that he couldn't claim her now. ~_^

Kirei slowly released his captured fingers, and looked up into his eyes. Just looking at his eyes heightened her senses around him. Her mind, body, and soul were signaling one thing: Battousai.

She felt his ki wrap around her, and she happily accepted it.

I thought that you wouldn't fall for him. Came Kaoru's annoyed voice. That was suppose to be her, but she found that she would have liked it better if it were Kenshin.

You can't deny the gods. Replied Kirei as Battousai's devoured her lips and her hands moved around his neck.

Kaoru rolled her eyes, and vanished into her own darkness until the two were done with their own affairs.

Kirei tilted her head to allow Battousai to envelope her mouth and join her tongue in a passionate death.

As they got closer, their kis began to rise and rise; some leaking out of the barrier of the room.

(A/N: You all must remember that M.R.U. is very contagious, and if one couple diagnosed with it does the Mating Ritual, then male vampires within a five mile range will catch it. Though not if it's just the human way. But Kirei and Battousai did it once, and now that they're closer together their ki is rising and radiating a type of M.R.U. known as PPLL. It's very rare, and when two creatures with high kis, and theirs are growing from their closeness as I have explained in previous chapters, do anything like the Mating Ritual; the PPLL gets out. Though it can only affect male creatures, except humans, within a mile. Just keep that in mind. I'll explain more about PPLL later.)

Their room had a dim glow to it, as candles with a strange scent were lit. Then suddenly a golden colored curtains closed around the tri-king bed. The room was only reacting to its owner's kis.

Battousai moved his hands through her silky, ebony hair that teased him since he met her again.

Her hair tie was discarded on the floor, as he kissed from her temple to her throat. He could almost taste her sweet, warm, delicious, inviting blood.

~*~*~*~*~*~*

A/N: Just wait, I need to explain PPLL first and you guys get lemon.

I only stopped here, because I need lots of time to make the lemon. Though it might not be in the next chapter, but the chapter after that. The next one will explain PPLL and the one after that will be the lemon, or so I hope. I need a while to write the two chapters.