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Chapter 2: History of the Vampires

Kagome had just finished helping Kaede with the dishes from dinner, and was now walking home. The sun was just setting beyond the horizon causing the sky and clouds around it to become tinted with orange and pink.

As she walked along the sidewalk of the quiet neighborhood, Kagome swore she sensed something. A tingle in the back of her mind told her something was following her……… at least she thought someone was around her. But every time she turned, nothing was there. She pushed the thought aside and continued to walk home. What she didn't know was that the tingle she felt was her ability to sense vampire auras.

Up in the treetops, a figure jumped towards an unsuspecting Kagome. His coat trailed behind him as did his hair that reflected the sun's fading rays. He looked around him to see if anyone was watching. It looked clear and he could sense no one near, so he jumped from the tree he was in and landed right behind Kagome. She heard something land near her, but Kagome never had time to see what. Inuyasha with quick and precise movements hit the back of her neck. She lost consciousness immediately and Inuyasha quickly caught her with one arm before she fell to the concrete. With Kagome in his arms, he ran off with amazing speed back to headquarters.

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Kagome slowly started to feel herself coming back to an awakened state. The back of her neck felt sore but her mind felt fuzzy as it searched for any reason or cause of the pain. She sat up slowly from where she was laying and found that she was in a bed. Her heart raced thinking she had been abducted and maybe raped but she looked down at herself to find she was still fully clothed. She looked around the dark room for any hint of where she was but didn't get very far with her eyes until they rested on a figure with silver hair. He sat in an armchair on the other side of the room, but his eyes were closed. He looked like he was sleeping until he spoke very suddenly, causing her to jump.

"I thought you'd never wake up. Now that you are, I'm sure you have questions. Don't even speak to me girl……… just follow me and everything will be answered."

He got up from his position on the chair and walked out the door near the end of the bed. Kagome had no choice but to follow him. She pushed the covers back and slid her feet to the ground. She found her shoes next to the bed and slipped them back on before running out the door towards the strange man who was just talking to her.

Silently walking behind Inuyasha, Kagome watched as they walked through the building. As other people walked by, they seemed to stare at her and give Inuyasha strange looks. They jumped into the elevator and when Kagome looked at the key pad, surprise had crossed her features.

'We must be in a skyscraper………' she thought.

The numbers of each floor sped by quickly but as they slowed down, Kagome couldn't help but feel nervous. She had no idea what she was doing there or what they were going to do to her. Inuyasha kept glancing at her from his leaning position in the corner of the elevator, all which went unnoticed by Kagome. They reached their destination once the 'ding' of the elevator went off, signaling their arrival. The doors slid open to reveal the same office Inuyasha had been in just hours before.

Kagome looked around warily as if suspecting someone to jump from the shadows or some sort of gun to be pulled on her at any second she left the elevator's doorway.

The man sitting at the desk looked like a middle-aged man who had a few gray hairs in his thin black hair. He appeared to be a normal businessman, but Kagome reminded herself that appearances are never what they seem.

He smiled gently at her and motioned his hand at the couches in the corner of the room. He himself got out of his chair behind the desk and walked towards them. Inuyasha threw himself into one of the leather couches, looking very bored.

"Thank you for coming in here like an actual civilized person Inuyasha……… unlike last night………"

~*Flashback*~

Inuyasha jumped from the tops of building so as not to be spotted with Kagome in his arms. He didn't have much time, he knew that, so he ran as fast as he could towards the main building. Jumping off the ledge of the last building, he landed softly on the street below and ran through the glass doors of the building. He glanced quickly at the giant clock sitting on one of the walls on the first floor and swore to himself.

'SHIT! It's 11:55! I only have five minutes!'

Inuyasha in a big rush of movements sprinted for the elevators with Kagome thrown over his shoulder. Everyone looked at him curiously and some glared at him with anger as they were literally thrown aside when Inuyasha rushed forward.

He ran up to the doors pressed the button that summoned an elevator down frantically.

"Come on you stupid elevator! Get down here already!" he yelled at the doors.

The doors opened and a few people walked out. Shoving people aside, Inuyasha pushed his way inside and once clear, pressed the close button. Looking for the floor number on the control panel, he swore he looked it over about five times before he actually found it.

"Damnit there are too many floors in this stupid building!" he shouted to himself.

When he finally did find the floor number, he pressed it with the tip of nail on his pointer finger, but found that that was a mistake. His nail slipped and instead of hitting the floor he wanted, he hit a few floors below it.

"Son of a bitch! These stupid claws!!!! AHH!!" With that he pounded his fist into a large section of numbers but luckily only hit the one he wanted……… and in the process he indented the whole metal panel……… the button to Mr. Poi's office……… right in the center of it. With the floor chosen, the elevator made its journey up into the building.

The numbers were going by on the screen, and for the first time, Inuyasha noticed that music was actually playing in the compartment.

'Do do dooooo do do do do doooooooo do' The music would not stop and it got very annoying. 'Do odo dooooooooo do da da daaaaaa'

A growl erupted from the back of his throat as he tapped his foot impatiently.

'The music is just making things worse!!! Will this go any faster?!'

Just when the numbers were starting to get past fifty, the elevator slowed down.

Inuyasha was getting frustrated. "What? We aren't even close yet! You can't slow down! Why are you slowing down! This isn't the floor I want!"

It came to a stop and the doors started to open. A man was about to walk in the elevator and started to say, "Floor seventy-fi………" but was suddenly cut off when Inuyasha grabbed him by his collar and threw him out of the elevator.

He was pressing the button once again and the doors closed in front of that very stunned man. Rising once again, the music continued on. This time, the elevator stopped at the floor Inuyasha accidentally pushed. The button to close the doors was once again being pressed multiple times, but under the pressure and strength of Inuyasha's finger, the weak plastic cracked.

After a few more floors and few more comments from Inuyasha, the elevator gave a final ding. Once the doors opened, Inuyasha ran out of the elevator and into Mr. Poi's office. He didn't stop running once he left the elevator, but ran all the way to his desk and skidded to a stop.

Mr. Poi looked up from his work laid out on his desk to Inuyasha, and then to the person thrown over his shoulder. He sighed in frustration and shook his head.

"Have you ever heard of bringing in conscious people, Inuyasha?" Mr. Poi asked him.

"Hey! I'm here on time aren't I?" he retorted.

"I am surprised you even made it……… with five seconds to spare………"

"She wasn't home!" Inuyasha tried to explain. "I had to go out searching for her! She lives pretty far from here! Plus I had to make my way back without anyone seeing me carrying an unconscious girl over my shoulder! Jumping from building to building isn't all that easy when you are in a very populated city! Who the hell decided to build this place right in the center of Tokyo!?"

"Ok you can calm down now! The good thing is that you got her and hopefully she is unharmed. Just take her to your room until she wakes up. When she does, bring her to me. She will have questions……… I don't want you to answer them." Thomas ordered him.

Inuyasha scowled at him and turned to leave. He walked back to the elevator and hit the floor where his room was located. Inuyasha took a few deep breaths to calm himself and when the floor arrived, he stepped out into a hallway lined with a few doors. His room was at the very end and he made his journey towards it. Once he opened the door, he took Kagome from his shoulder and laid her on his bed.

'She won't wake up for a while………' he thought.

Knowing he had a few hours, he took off his coat and sword, hanging his coat on a hook on the door and as he sat himself down in an armchair, he held his sword with one arm around it, setting the end of it on the cushion of the chair. He closed his eyes and soon drifted off to sleep.

~*Back to Mr. Poi's Office*~

"You have no reason to be scared Kagome", the man who was sitting behind the desk said.

She looked shocked. "How do you know my name?" she asked him.

"All your questions will be answered in time, I assure you, but right now we have more important matters. From this day forward, your life will be changed in all aspects. I am Thomas Poi. I came from the island of Hawaii and that is all you need to know about me."

Kagome looked like she was starting to trust him a little more, so she walked to where both men were sitting and took a seat across from Thomas. She gave a sideways glance at Inuyasha whom she still felt a little uneasy about.

"Oh………" Thomas continued. "That person sitting next to you is Inuyasha. He is your partner from this day forward."

Kagome was confused as ever and her face showed every bit of it.

Inuyasha spoke for the first time since they entered the office. "Will you just get on with it? I don't have all day to wait for you to explain everything to her!"

Mr. Poi looked at Inuyasha warningly but turned his line of vision back to Kagome to explain himself.

"You are here because you were born with special abilities that you yourself may have never known about. You may feel it, but you pass it off as if you're just imagining things……… am I right?"

Kagome thought for a second and nodded her head in reply. 'I guess he is talking about that tingling feeling I get a lot………'

"That ability you have is the sense to feel vampire auras. If it's a half vampire, or a full-blooded vampire, you have the capability to pinpoint their locations if we train you how to control it. Right now it's only a feeling of when one is near, but later……… it will be something much more. But because there are very few people in the world with your ability, we need you to help us."

"But what am I helping you do? Vampires? They aren't real! I've never seen one!" Kagome yelled.

Inuyasha interjected, "Well of course you've never seen one. They only come out during the night. Sunlight kills them slowly and painfully. Only the strong can go out in sunlight. The only time any vampire never goes outside, strong and weak alike, is at high noon."

"Thank you Inuyasha……… but let me do the talking." Thomas told him.

He gave Thomas a side-glance but looked away, knowing he would tell him off.

Thomas continued to talk to Kagome. "As Inuyasha said……… full blooded vampires do not come out during daylight hours. On Earth, there are four great vampires. They each have their own 'domains' they rule over. You have never heard of them because it has been kept a big secret for centuries. These vampires have powers that surpass all others."

Kagome interrupted him, "But how is it that only four vampires became the most powerful?"

"This is a long story (AN: Ready for a long history lesson!?). Long ago, about five hundred years to be precise, the world was dived into four kingdoms. These kingdoms were ruled by four great human kings in which each craved for more power and land. Because of their hunger, a great war started. Each of the kingdoms were equal in strength and the war stood at a stalemate. Years past and the war started to look meaningless. But something changed all that. The kings were told of a jewel……… a jewel that could strengthen a man or even its entire people ten fold. The kings searched their lands for any trace of the jewel, but it was never found. This ancient jewel was called the Shikon no Tama.

"Months passed by and the search for the jewel seemed futile. The war still lingered on, but one day, fate decided to turn everything around. All four kings had a dream, which revealed the location of the jewel, but the weird thing was that in each dream, the jewel was located in different areas for each king. Taking it as a sign, the kings each set out on their own to find the sacred jewel.

"Each arrived at a very desolate place in different areas of the world, but what they found there stunned and awed them. The jewel they found looked as if it had been broken. Only a fragment it was, a fourth of a sphere, but despite its size, it glowed brilliantly and floated magically in front of their very eyes. The power they felt overwhelmed them as they drew closer to the pieces of the stone. Reaching out towards the jewel fragment, the kings could feel the power coursing through their veins. Ambition took over thinking as their hands clasped around the jewel. Power like none other burst forth from their clenched hands and the jewel itself disappeared from site. All its power flowed into each king and used their desire for power as a tool to change them. For their greed they were punished. For their desire, they received. Not only was their physical appearance changed, but their senses and abilities were changed as well. Each king was given different strengths to balance the new power they were given, but what was later to be found out was that they were more alike than anyone could imagine.

(AN: Each kings name starts with the letter of what domain they rule over……… like for the northern kingdom……… the dudes name starts with N and so on. I did that to make it easier. I have no clue what their real names are……… so don't take them as fact.)

"The king of the north, Lord Nagahiko, had great resistance to cold harsh temperatures and gained excellent hearing.

"The king of the south, Lord Saionji, would not get effected by extremely warm and humid climate and his strength was raised.

"The king of the east, Lord Ennosuke, obtained a better sense of sight, and gained logic.

"And lastly the king of the west, Lord Watarou received a strengthened sense of smell and was now swift and quick on his feet.

"But even with all these newly found strengths, there came a weakness……… a weakness which each of them shared. No longer did they need human food or water to survive, but they needed the fluid of life……… blood……… thus they became what we know today as……… vampires.

"Each king thought that with this new power that they could now take over the other lands and rule over all……… but how wrong they all were. They couldn't figure out how to make their people stronger and the war continued to be insignificant. They confronted each other, all four of them, but when they did, they found the powers that they were given were balanced out. Each had an advantage over the other, but then all had their strengths against it.

"They came to an agreement that fighting was useless and that fate would never let one of them be more powerful than the other. So they decided to call an agreement of peace. All four kingdoms agreed to it and are still ruling under it. There have been battles every so often between them, but they always end up pointless. For about 200 years now……… there has been peace."

Kagome just sat there listening intently with her head in her hand as she absorbed all this new information. Inuyasha……… well……… lets just say he was sitting, or rather slouching in the couch, also with his head resting on one of his hands……… but instead of listening to Mr. Poi's history lesson, he was asleep just like a bored student during class. Thomas didn't care though……… Inuyasha already knew everything that he was speaking of.

Kagome, seeing that Mr. Poi was taking some time to collect his thoughts again, asked a few questions that were on her mind. "So……… aren't there more than just four vampires in the world? And what about all that stuff today……… like that they are weak against garlic and the crucifix?"

"To answer your first question……… yes……… there are a lot more than just four vampires in the world. How they started to multiply is very simple." Thomas continued on. "The great lords at first did not know what was wrong with them after they had found the jewel. Of course when they each touched the fragment of it, they felt the power, but it disappeared. What they didn't know was that their bodies absorbed it. They returned home only to find that they could not eat any food or drink anything. Nothing had taste and it always seemed that they could hear their own pulse. But they were wrong.

"One day, not to long after they had found the jewel pieces, the wife of the eastern king had laid her head on her husband's chest during the night for comfort. As she lay there, she listened with her ear near his heart for a steady beat……… but she found none. She of course thought he was dead and panicked. Shaking him awake, she did not expect him to jump to a sitting position. When he saw her crying, of course he comforted her. She told him that he had no heartbeat but then he seemed to jump back to life. She put her hand on his chest to feel a beat but when she found none, she became hysterical once again. He ordered a nurse to take her to another room to calm down and the doctor was ordered to see him. Even the doctor was perplexed by what he found.

"About two days went by and the king was getting horribly weak. Food was sent away and he seemed to turn unnaturally pale. One day that all changed when his wife was sitting by his bedside. He noticed that her heartbeat was beating very loudly in his head. He could feel the heat radiating off her body and could nearly smell the sweet blood that ran through her veins. He sat up in his bed with what little strength he had. His dear wife hugged him around the waist and his head rested on her shoulder. The closeness to her large vein right in the side of her neck made controlling his actions harder than he expected.

"Instinct seemed to kick in as fangs grew in his mouth, and her pulse grew louder in his mind. He nuzzled the crook of her neck and soon enough, he found that he had sunk newly grown fangs into his wife's tender flesh. Her blood was draining out of her body and was flowing into his mouth. It gave him strength like none other and the hunger vanished. He let go of his wife's body, but when he regained control, one look at his wife and realization hit him. Her face looked blank, and her body pale. As he held her body close, he wept. Soon he lost track of time and as he sat there, he really started to wonder what he had become. He fell asleep but when he woke up, he found himself lying down, his wife lying next to him. He shifted a little to look at her and what he found both scared and surprised him. His wife was alive but smiling weakly at him. She stayed in a weak state for about a week and slowly started to go through painful stages. She said it felt as if the inside of her body was trying to burst through the skin and she started to hear things. She became cold to the touch and no matter how big the fire, or how many blankets were put on her, her body refused to warm up.

"Lord Ennosuke became worried at her state until one day, she got out of her bed and started to walk around like nothing was ever wrong with her. He just drank the blood from a deer roaming the forest when he walked into his castle again. He went into his room to check on his wife but was shocked to see her standing by her window looking at the stars of the night sky. She noticed him come in and ran towards him. Blood from the deer ran down his chin a little and it still stained his retracted fangs. He looked confused when she licked the blood off his face but when her own fangs grew, realization hit him. Somehow, she had become the same thing he was.

"As soon as he figured out what happened to him and his wife, he contacted the other three lords. Their responses were all the same. One way or another, each had found out their own way that now blood was needed to survive. But what the other kings didn't know was that whomever they bit and fully drained would also become one of them.

"Their kind grew in numbers and soon village people started to fear them and call them vampires. It wasn't till later that the four great kings soon realized something they had never thought about before. If everyone was turned to be a vampire……… how would the vampire race get the much need blood to live? Animals once drained would die, but humans would change and keep changing others. Order needed to be restored once again throughout the land, so the lords came together and set laws for the vampires. They were strict and if not followed, the punishment was torture or death.

"The laws they put down are still in order today. The first major law was to never fully drain a human. Draining the human will cause some of your own powers to be released into the victim, and in around a week, if not killed, they will turn into a vampire. The second law was that if you ever did need blood, you were to either take it first from an animal, or if necessary, drink from human. The exception with that is that you could only take a small amount of the human's blood……… not enough to kill them but just enough to keep them from turning into a vampire. Now a day, you have blood donating……… you think that blood is going towards people who need it from injury?"

Kagome nodded her head. "Then your wrong……… that's what they make you think. That is where most vampires go to get their blood. It's better than killing and turning more into vampires, but if there is a shortage, then they must hunt.

"Now……… their weaknesses. Yes……… they do have some but many of those in stories of old such as garlic, crucifixes, holy water, and wooden stakes to the heart are all just superstitions. The only things that can harm a vampire is silver and sunlight. If pierced, sliced, stabbed, or even if silver is pressed against their skin, it will burn. The pure state of silver is what harms them. Though they will not shrivel to ashes when touched with it, silver will hurt them or impede them temporarily. It just will not kill them. To kill a vampire, the head or any area of the spinal cord must be severed."

"What about sunlight?" Kagome asked.

"Oh yes……… sunlight……… nearly forgot about that."

'Forget? How could he forget when there are only two weaknesses to begin with?!' she thought to herself.

"The powerful vampires……… which are pretty much just the four lords and their offspring, are the only full vampires who can be in sunlight. The weak ones will burn and if they are held longest in the sun, their body will turn to ashes. Any full vampire will be harmed at high noon……… the most direct and most harmful time of the day for any vampire."

"What do you mean when you say 'full vampire'?" Kagome questioned him again.

"There are full blooded vampires and there are vampires called 'half-breeds'. They are half human, half vampire and how they become one can happen multiple ways. One way is if a pregnant woman is bitten by a vampire and it fully drains her. She and her baby will change, but since the child was growing and developing as a human, it will be half human. But once the mother changes to a full vampire, the baby will develop the rest of the way as a vampire, thus making it a half-breed. The second way, which is very rare, is when a vampire falls in love with a human and she will willingly give birth to his child. This is very rare……… but it has happened in the past. The last way is by volunteering. She can either have intercourse with a vampire and try to gain pregnancy, or a woman is asked to hold a half vampire child in her womb till birth. One of her eggs is taking out surgically……… then we try fertilizing the egg with a vampire's seed."

"Wo……… wo……… wo……… wo……… wo……… WHAT?!" Kagome started to wave her hands around and shake her head……… did she hear right? "Your telling me you impregnate a woman with the 'seeds' of a vampire man?!"

"Yes……… we have been successful………"

"What?! You do it? This place……… corporation……… company……… ah! Whatever this is!" Kagome was starting to loose it.

One thought came to her mind. 'Did they bring me here to impregnate me with that vampires……… Inuyasha's baby?!?!'

With all of Kagome's screaming, Inuyasha woke up and looked annoyingly at her. But Kagome didn't notice his glare and continued to panic. The poor girl did the only thing someone could do at a time like this. She fainted. Mr. Poi and Inuyasha both looked at her with surprised expressions and then looked at each other.

"Umm……… you better take her back to your room Inuyasha……… she was a bit overwhelmed I think………"

For once Inuyasha didn't disagree or say anything back to Thomas, but he just bent over and picked up Kagome's limp body. Both looked weirdly at each other, but just shrugged it off and went their separate ways.

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The few people that reviewed, I thank you! And if you like, please spread the word about this fanfiction. It would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for reading and please don't forget to review! It really helps to know there are people that are enjoying it so far. And I know things are really slow now, but don't worry……… they will speed up! It will get far more exciting later with twists and mystery everywhere you look! I won't be updating for at least a few weeks because I am going to Cedar Point for a week! It's the best amusement park out there! Hope you enjoyed that comedy with Inuyasha and the elevator……… ^ ^ Thanks!