My Saviour, the Pirate

Chapter 9:

Touch of a Vampire

Disclaimer: I don't own InuYasha and its characters, nor do I own vampires.

"Get away from me!" Sango growled and tried to run away, but thanks to her chains, she couldn't move an inch. 'Damn it! I'm stuck!' she thought and tugged at the links. No use. They wouldn't budge. Kikyou was on Sango now; the girl chained to the wall could feel its breath now, and it was horrible. Kikyou smelled...dead. No, not Kikyou, she couldn't even call that...that thing her friend's name, even though it used her body. It opened its mouth; saliva oozed off its fangs, which were gleaming white and tipped with blood. The vampire leaned over...

"SANGO!"

Something or someone dove and shoved the vampire aside. The creature tumbled and rolled and hit its head on a chest, knocking it out temporarily. Whoever knocked it over, he stood up and hugged Sango. Miroku had come and saved her! He hugged her tighter and tears streamed down his cheeks, his face pale from fear.

"Oh God, Sango, I'm so glad you're alive! I was afraid it was going to kill you!" he sobbed into her chest. She wrapped her chained hands around his neck and stroked his hair to sooth him. "I'm gonna kill that goddamn vampire with my bare hands! If it tries to even bite you, I'll—"

"—It's Kikyou. She was turned into a—a...vampire." Sango interrupted him. "I don't know if we can save her. She looks dead and smells of it, too. She has no chance.

"Vampires can only be destroyed with a wooden stake. They don't like fire or crosses that much, but we don't have anything like that."

Miroku broke off the table leg and grinned at Sango.

"Now, we have a stake—" Miroku choked his last word as the vampire awakened and held a death grip on him. He raised his foot and brought it down forcefully on the creature, which hissed loudly in pain and he rushed over to Sango, who had snatched the stake from Miroku.

Meanwhile, Sesshoumaru's crew, with much cowardice, fled from the room as "Kikyou" attacked Sango. Sesshoumaru, not in fear, for nothing shall scare him, took no part with the vampire and left to his cabin, retiring for the night.

Outside the ship, InuYasha stayed with Kagome, since he was in his human form. It was also ideal for him to stay with Kagome, in case she should get into trouble. She was safer with him than with Sango and Miroku.

"The stake needs to be sharpened! How will we do that?" Sango asked quickly, eyeing the vampire closing in on them, very, very slowly. Miroku looked around and found a conveniently placed rock and grabbed it. He rubbed it against the tip of the stake quickly and embers flew outward and landed onto the creature's face. It shrieked and held its face in pain.

"There!" Miroku exclaimed, and held up the stake, which now had a dangerously sharp point. As he held it up triumphantly, a sharp blow fell upon him and he was thrown across the room. Sango cried out to Miroku, who had a large bruise on his forehead and temple. She fell on her knees, cursing to the vampire.

"Damn you! Damn you to hell, you monster! You're killing my friend (Kikyou) and you harm those whom I love! I will make you pay!" She then remembered her chains and froze. 'As soon as I get out of these chains! That devil's going to kill me! I'm easy prey for it! Oh damn this. Damn this all! If it wasn't for that stupid Sesshoumaru guy, we wouldn't even be here! Ugh. Damn him.' she thought worriedly.

The vampire crawled closer to Sango and was grinning, its fangs gleaming brightly still. The smell was getting worse and decayed more by the minute. Its eyes glazed hungrily, with a mysterious vicious appearance. The creature pounced and Sango braced herself, prepared for her fateful end. It was closer; Sango could feel it almost on top of her, almost sinking its teeth into her neck and drink her blood... She closed her eyes.

"Die, bitch!" She opened an eye and saw the vampire standing frozen still, a look of terror and pain mixed across its face. Miroku had come to in just enough time and impaled the vampire through the stomach with the wooden stake. The creature fell to the floor and struggled to pull the weapon out from its abdomen. The vampire spirit began to slowly die away and Kikyou returned. She looked from Sango to Miroku and back to Sango. Her eyes brimmed with tears and she let them fall. She began to sob.

"Oh, Sango!" she choked, for she was losing much blood, "I'm so sorry! I 've killed you! Oh, God... I love you so much, Sango! You're like a sister to me! And Kagome... Kagome! Where's my baby sister? I have to tell her I love her and that I'm..." her voice trailed away and her eyes stared up at Sango. Kikyou was dead.

Sango held her friend's limp body in her arms and buried her face in the girl's blouse. Her back heaved up and down as she took deep breaths. Sango would never see Kikyou ever again. Miroku touched her shoulder and Sango put Kikyou down carefully, and pulled the stake out of her stomach. 'There,' she thought to herself, 'now she shall truly be at peace.'

As Miroku walked Sango outside on deck, they were surprised to find that all the crew had vanished, seeing as they had no other boats and crouched in the bow of the boat was the body of...

"SESSHOUMARU?!" Sango gasped.

Sesshoumaru lay crouched over and two tiny teeth marks were embedded in his throat. They were fresh and dripped with blood. The vampire had not forgotten Sesshoumaru and decided to make him remember the creature with a little "token". Sango frowned and slowly walked away, holding hands with Miroku.

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Sango rocked Kagome back and forth as they stood on the Cliffside. She didn't want to, but she had to let the eleven year-old know of her sister's death. Kagome was taking it very badly. She should though. She's only eleven and lost her beloved sister. Gone forever...

InuYasha, surprisingly, wanted to take over for Sango and scooped Kagome up in his arms and turned his back on the group as he comforted her. He had turned back into his normal state. They never did find out the real reason why the moon had changed, but they felt it had something to do with the vampire.

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Kadiri Higurashi sobbed quietly into a flowery handkerchief as they sat in the chapel at Kikyou's funeral. The authorities retrieved her body and returned her to Mrs. Higurashi so she could have a proper burial.

After the funeral, Sango sat by herself at the café with Miroku, who was holding her hands in his own. Mrs. Higurashi sat in Kagome's bedroom and the two cried each other to sleep. InuYasha followed her home and did his fair share of comforting Kagome as well—Mrs. Higurashi did not try and dissuade him, surprisingly; she could see that her daughter was growing closer to him, as did Kikyou.

Miroku did his best to comfort Sango over the loss of her close friend and succeeded. In return of his kindness, he received a full kiss on the lips. Her kiss was like a brush of angels' wings. He sat with a silly grin as she giggled at him. She teased him and said if he wanted her, he had to catch her. He did, in the end, after chasing her block after block.

He caught her as they reached a part of town, a very small park, and leapt on her in the grass as they rolled down the hill and ended up touching noses as they halted to a stop. She stroked his cheek and gazed into his violet eyes and sighed. "I love you," she said to him and he responded back to her, "I love you, too," and she embraced him, burying her face in his hair and inhaled his earthy scent.

"Hey, Sango," he whispered in her ear.

"What?" she whispered back, grinning at him and poked him in the chest.

"No more vampires!" he exclaimed, still in a whisper.

"Yes...gone for good..." she smiled.

No more vampires.

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I had to! I had to have the deaths of Kikyou and Sesshoumaru in the story. It filled it better. It's been done. I was very sorry to know Kikyou, a favorite character of mine - besides Sango and Miroku - had to die. She was overtaken by the vampire anyways! She died with honor though! sigh Oh well. No, this is not the end of the story. I've still got to write the epilogue...