CHAPTER FOUR: Midnight Detectives
Kagome yawned as she slowly sat up, rubbing the sleep from her eyes before she glanced around the large scaled living room. She yawned again smiling up at the face hidden in the shadows.
"Morning," she giggled standing to her feet. The warm aurora air swept in and caressed her bare arms; the sun's rays pouring in all around her. That's when she noticed all the boards had been taken down from the windows. "Where have all the…" But Inuyasha cut her off.
"I thought a little sunshine might do me some good."
Kagome shined him a genuine smile, forcing Inuyasha's dead heart to leap into his throat. She was such a majestic creature, with her long raven hair, simply pale skin, soft peach lips, frosty pink cheeks, and her soulfully mesmerizing bright green eyes. It was true, Inuyasha had only known this girl for such a short time, and yet he had already given his heart to her. He blamed those eyes, those soul-stealing eyes.
"Sunshine?" she giggled. "You know…if you were soulless you'd be going up in flames right now?"
Inuyasha smirked. "It has almost an enticing affect doesn't it?"
Kagome rolled her eyes. He always did that to annoy her; he'd act as if he was actually attracted to her just to get her hopes up. She hated his mind games.
Inuyasha stared at her as she stretched out her arms high above her head. Inuyasha felt so drawn to her sometimes, he loved her, in a strange way. But deep down Inuyasha knew it could never be, he was a monster inside and out, and she was innocent; oh how innocent she was…and as a demon of the night he desired nothing more than to corrupt her. He had to distance himself as best as he could from Kagome, for Kagome's sake.
He didn't know why he loved her so much, possibly because of her, he felt alive again. Her presence was awakening, she brought back memories to him, not cold and lonely memorize or tortuous and painful memories, but dreams of his old life, happy memories, ones long forgotten until now.
Kagome groaned as she glanced down at her appearance. She was still in her black dress, which was now wrinkled from her tossing and turning throughout the night. She gazed up at a mirror across the hall to see her reflection in the mirror; her hair was no longer in perfect ringlets but now wavy and messy, framing her gentle face. Inuyasha thought she was beautiful; of course, he had come to learn that over time he was quite biased when it came to his opinion of her.
Kagome let out a deep sigh as she collapsed back onto the couch and laid back down, her gaze focused on her high heel pumps lying on the floor before her. She glanced up at the vampire sleepily; her sparkly eyes filled with a childish grace. "Can I go back to sleep now?" she groaned
"Nope," he sighed. "You're not going to sleep the day away…not on my couch. I guess I'll go fix you some breakfast…what would you like?"
Kagome closed her eyes and smiled, she looked quite angelic in this form. "Bacon," she giggled. "And pancakes and eggs…" she peeked through her unruly hair up at him. "And toast," she thought for a moment. "Make that French toast."
Inuyasha rolled his eyes and nodded before he bowed dramatically. "As you wish my lady," he impersonated a faulty French accent before he left, disappearing into the kitchen. Kagome stared after his retreating form until it was completely out of sight.
"What am I gonna wear?" she thought aloud, and Inuyasha with his sensitive hearing caught her words with ease.
"I'm sure I have something you could wear."
Kagome shot up; now her heart was leaping into her throat. "What?" she gasped. "Me? Wear something of yours?" she whispered to herself, she didn't know why but that thought embarrassed her to no end. The thought of wearing his cloths made her skin tingle.
Inuyasha just chuckled. "Don't worry, Missy. You'll get taken care of."
The raven-haired girl only nodded.
Inuyasha returned only a short while later, with her breakfast plate. He sat the food down on the rickety old coffee table; he had to place a book under one leg to keep it from rocking. Kagome sat down on the floor; her mouth watering at the scrumptious meal prepared especially for her.
She took a bite of her toast before she gave him a warm thank you. "Wow," she giggled; her mouth still full of food. "This is the best meal I've had since…since the last time you cooked." She smiled at him, as he sat down across from her with his own plate.
Kagome moaned as Inuyasha drug her up the steps. "You can't wear that all day," he sighed back at her.
She shook her head. She'd willingly wear this dress all day than wear something of his.
"Come on, I'm sure I have something that will fit you."
He pulled her up the steps and all the way to his bedroom. Inuyasha rummaged through the dressers and closet, until he produced an over sized T-shirt from a has-been band and a pair of worn paint covered jeans…woman's jeans?
"These were Kikyo's…I think they should fit." He gave her a slight smile before he walked back out of the room letting her change in peace. Kagome stared down at the clothes he was giving her. She didn't understand. She didn't know what she didn't understand but she was still confused. Maybe it was because Inuyasha was talking about Kikyo willing.
When Kagome had changed, she went back downstairs, still yawning all the while. She noticed Inuyasha standing in front of the TV, watching what sounded like the news, absorbed in the broad cast. He almost looked a little too interested in the TV for Kagome's comfort…he supposedly hated the thing.
"What's wrong? She asked smiling down at his shirtless back from the top of the stairs. Inuyasha turned around with a grave look on his face; Kagome stared back at him worriedly. "What's wrong?" she repeated.
"I think you need to see this." He stepped aside revealing the TV screen to her.
A middle-age man sat behind a desk chatting away, Kagome recognized him as the local newscaster, Monten Matsunaga. "We've just received breaking news." Monten exclaimed, readjusting his toupee. "Earlier this morning the authorities located the missing body of the young Nauru Tomoku. The teenager had been reported missing a month and a half ago by her parents. Nauru was found dead at six 'o' clock this morning on her parents' front door steps. So far, the authorities have yet to discover the cause of death for this runaway, the only marks found on the body were two rather odd parallel puncture wounds found on the crook of her neck. But these are not deep enough to have been fatale. Oddly enough, her blood seems to be drained dry. The wounds themselves are a mystery. The puncture wounds seem to be in the same size and width of each other, but one is deeper than the other. There are specialists looking in on the homicide/suicide weapon at this time. If you have any information concerning this case please call this number." A local fire department number appeared on the screen under Monten.
Kagome stared up at Inuyasha in horror, both knowing exactly what the other was thinking: vampire. The two of them stared off in silence, both to frightened to think. It wasn't that a vampire wasn't a rare commodity…that wasn't it at all. It was the fact that this girl was so young and Kagome had known her…Nauru had been in one of her classes.
It had been a long time since a true vampire killing, because of the way the humans were growing intellectually, the vampire race had been slowly dying out. And because of the fear that vampires had of the humans, their weapons, knowledge, and house alarms…most vampires would never kill a victim. They mostly would just take a little bite of some hippie who's always wanted to be bitten or pick out a homeless nobody on the streets, never actually sucking out enough blood to kill them, or they would eat animals like Inuyasha. At least that's what Kagome thought until now.
Kagome slowly stepped off the stairs; she got a weird feeling every time she stared over at the television, normally she would have been desensitized when she would have heard a news report like the one she just had. But Kagome had known the girl, sure she had never actually talked to Nauru Tomoku, but she had never seemed that mean either. And that wasn't the only thing that was making Kagome uneasy, it was the fact that a vampire was back in town, something about that just didn't sound right. Most vampires these days either flocked to the over populated big city…not small town Salem, or they would stay put, like Inuyasha, but would be more melancholy and hidden…not making their presence known, which is exactly what this vampire did.
"I think I'm going to be sick." Kagome covered her mouth with her hands as she ran to the front door and flung it open; trying to get some fresh air…but the second she saw what laid on the porch she wished she hadn't…
"Also reported missing today were two local high school students named Ms. Kagura Onigumo and Ms. Kanna Hito." Newscaster Monten continued. "This morning the parents of Ms. Onigumo discovered that their daughter and her daughter's friend were not in the house or in the neighborhood. Mrs. Onigumo went around at five 'o' clock, knocking on her neighbors' doors asking if anyone had seen Kagura or Kanna. According to their parents, it is unlike these two girls to just run off. The police are searching for them now;, if you have any information concerning their whereabouts please call either 911 or 555-8765."
Kagome fell to her knees and let out a blood-curling scream forcing Inuyasha covered his sensitive ears. Inuyasha watched as Kagome collapsed to the floor, passed out.
"What's gotten into her this time-" he stopped abruptly when the scent of blood leaked into the living room. He ran over to Kagome's side to see where the scent was coming from. He stared down at his moldy welcome mat and shuddered. Well there wasn't any use searching for Kagura and Kanna anymore.
"Also, a local drug dealer was arrested yesterday for the conviction of a drive by shooting that occurred last October…" Monten echoed in the background.
Inuyasha picked Kagome up and laid her down on the couch before he returned to the welcome mat where two teenager bodies laid. He got an uneasy feeling to the fact that he wasn't disturbed by two dead carcasses lying on his front porch.
He dragged Kagura and Kanna's bodies into the room, checking their necks for bite marks. Sure enough, they were there. Inuyasha leaned in and studied the wounds a little bit closer. His assumption was correct; one wound was deeper than the other. Kagura and Kanna had been killed by the same vampire that had killed the Nauru girl on TV. All three girls had two puncture wounds, and each girl had one wound that was shallower. A vampire with a chipped fang?
He stared at the two dead girls in horrified fixation. They were caked in dirt and blood; their clothes were tattered and torn. Their hair matted with leaves and twigs. The vampire must have dragged them into the woods and killed them there for privacy. Their skin was deathly pale, and their wide-open eyes were perpetually terrified.
Inuyasha stared at the bodies consumed in thought. The only time a vampire ever left the remains of a meal on someone else's territory; vampire, or human alike, it was as a threat…but no one knew Inuyasha lived up in the Osuwari Estate. No one…except Kagome, people knew him but none of them knew where he lived. Most people at the bars and clubs that he ever went to thought he lived in a hotel near the bank.
Inuyasha frowned as he glanced over at Kagome. No vampire had a reason to blatantly attack him, not that he knew of. In the vampiric world, he was considered a pacifist…but Kagome?
He glanced back down at the bodies. He wondered if someone had followed Kagome here…that must be it. He spoke his thoughts aloud. "No one knows I'm up here…and no one has a reason to attack me…I haven't offended or angered anyone," lately, "but Kagome…one of those kids at her school might have been changed." It made sense in his head. Everyone hated her there. They could have decided to take out their revenge on her with their newfound power. But there was only one way to be certain. He needed to speak to the rest of the vampires he knew in this area, they would know if anyone had been changed lately or if any new vampires had shown up in town.
Inuyasha went and hid the bodies in his cellar for preservation before he grabbed his jacket, draped it over Kagome, and picked her up, carrying her all the way to the bus stop on the next street corner. He wanted to leave her at home, but by the off chance that the vampire that had threatened her was still in the woods hiding; Inuyasha carried her with him. She was safer with him…even if he was about to take her into a vampire nest.
By the time Kagome woke up, they were already halfway to their destination. She sat there silently, succumbing to the rocky bus, letting it knock her around without complaint. She stared endlessly at the floor never once speaking a voluntary word.
"Are you alright?" Inuyasha sighed as he readjusted his jacket around her, since she was refusing to do it herself.
She just nodded. She had seen her first dead body and it had put her in a state of shock. Her mind was jumping around doing summersaults. What was she supposed to do? Was she supposed to tell anyone? Would she be blamed as the murderer? Would Inuyasha get blamed as the murderer? How would people react if they found out Kagura and Kanna were killed by a vampire? Would Inuyasha be killed because he was one? Were Kagura and Kanna killed by more than one vampire? Were they really dead? Could they have just be sleeping? What did Inuyasha do with Kagura and Kanna's bodies? Did this really happen? Was Kagome dreaming? When was this nightmare going to end?
Inuyasha stood the second the bus pulled to a halt. He helped Kagome to her feet, who of course stayed annoyingly silent.
He led her out onto the bus stop, and as Kagome looked around, she realized they were at the subway station. Kagome followed Inuyasha down the steps that led to the below ground railroad. He took hold of her hand and led her into a shadowy corner, where he waited for everyone to board onto the metro. The second it departed at a bullet's speed Inuyasha took Kagome and led her into an 'authorized personal only' area by pushing through a small swinging metal gate. They entered into a dimly lit hallway that was damp with mildew.
He whispered to Kagome to be as quiet as possible when he came up to a fork in the passage. He went left, winding through it until he came to a large rusty door that had 'sewer entrance' spray-painted on it. He opened it slowly, so as not to let it creak. He jumped down the steps, landing in yet another passageway; only this one had a rounded roof with pipes following all around the ceiling, weaving in and out of each other.
Kagome shuddered. It was cold in there, so cold that it brought her back to the living. "Where…where, are we going?"
Inuyasha smiled at her as he helped her down the slippery steps. "To ask a few friends some questions."
"Friends?" Kagome stared down at the floor, watching as a rat scurried by.
Inuyasha nodded.
"Friends who live in the sewer?"
Inuyasha sighed, he couldn't resist the inevitable. Might as well tell her now. "They're vampires."
"Vampires? As in plural?"
Inuyasha nodded.
Kagome went to run back up the steps, she'd had enough bloodsuckers for today, but Inuyasha grabbed her by the back of her shirt and tugged her along behind him. "Trust me…you're safe as long as I'm with you." He called back to her. "I'll protect you, I promise."
Kagome tried to elbow him in the ribs, but she just ended up hurting her funny bone and making Inuyasha laugh.
"Can't hurt me, Sweetheart." He mocked her, pulling his tough guy act on. She utterly hated that act.
Inuyasha dragged Kagome for a good hour down the passageway until he came to one last door, this one had a circular handle like a fault did in the bank, it was sealed watertight. He twisted the handle hard until it opened…revealing a small room beyond that. Inuyasha pulled Kagome into the room, locking the airtight door behind them.
He walked up to a small off-white wooden door, covered in warning signs. He knocked on it, and to Kagome's surprise a small window opened up in the upper center of the door, revealing a pair of animal amber eyes.
"Password?" the owner of the eyes growled gruffly.
Inuyasha's equally as amber (if-not-more) orbs rolled. "Just tell Kouga I'm here."
"I said what's the password punk."
Inuyasha snorted. He didn't know it. He glanced down at Kagome. "I'm warning you now, Kagome. There's going to be some things in here that you're not going to like. Some pretty scary, gross, and disturbing things. In here you're just a meal…so stay by my side at all times. If you don't you could end up as one of the girls you're probably going to see in here. So no matter what never leave my side. Promise me."
Kagome nodded shakily. "I promise." She didn't like the sound of this place.
Inuyasha turned back to the amber eyes in the door. "Tell Kouga 'Inuyasha's here'."
The eyes narrowed. "Inuyasha Osuwari?"
Inuyasha nodded, as surprisingly the door opened. Inuyasha took Kagome's hand and led her into the vampire nest.
Kagome scanned around the room in complete horror. The room was large, filled with old thrown out sofas and couches all of them were covered in dried blood…and other things. There were vampires everywhere. Some were eating on a meal they'd brought home, mostly girl victims. Kagome shuddered. Some of the vampires were making-out in a large heap, using their victim's blood to draw on each other. And some to Kagome's distaste were in the middle of an act that Kagome wasn't too interested in watching, but they didn't seem to care that everyone else was able to see them.
One vampire, a vampire with red eyes and long black hair that he had pulled back in a braid, stood up and walked up to Inuyasha with a smirk. "Well if it ain't the vampire with a soul," he tsk'ed. "Finally come to ditch that heart of yours and join us?"
Inuyasha glared at him.
"Ah come on, Yash. All you have to do is take the blood of an innocent and you could be one of us. You could be a member of our pack."
"Forget it, Hiten," Inuyasha snapped. "There is no way in hell I want to become one of Kouga's lackeys. Besides…why on earth would I give up being able to walk during the day?" He smirked. That was the one thing that Inuyasha liked about his soul the most. Most vampires couldn't walk in the sunlight…but he could.
Hiten ignored Inuyasha and turned his attention to Kagome. "You brought a human…she's alive I can smell her blood pumping from here. Oh she's nervous. She's a pretty thing…bet she tastes good." He went to touch Kagome put Inuyasha stopped him.
"Don't even think about touching her," Inuyasha hissed as he shielded Kagome with his own body.
Hiten chuckled. "So…is she an offering for Kouga…you know I have to give a poison test for all of his food?" He began to drool.
"No way I'm letting you or that asshole touch her."
The red eyed vampire snickered. "You're bold to call master such a name. You have balls, Inuyasha. So…is this lovely little morsel a concubine of yours or something?"
"Yes."
Kagome smacked him. "A concubine? No way in hell am I your whore," she hissed at him.
Inuyasha sighed before he whispered in her ear. "It's better they think you're a concubine than a meal…as long as they think you belong to me they won't bother you…but the second they find out you're free turf…you're a full course cuisine."
Kagome gulped and nodded.
Hiten chuckled as another girl vampire, scantily dressed, walked up and wrapped her arms around him. "Hiten," she whimpered. "I wanna play…will you come play a game with me." She asked seductively before she eyed Kagome. "What a pretty little girl." She licked Hiten's neck. "Can she play with us too?"
Hiten pushed her off of him. "Not now, Satoru."
"Ooh…" she whined. "You're no fun." She went off to find another male playmate.
Hiten finally getting down to business asked Inuyasha and Kagome to follow him. They obeyed.
He led them past the room filled with vampires, and into another one, and another. It was like a chain of five rooms, each filled to the brim with the undead. When they reached the last room, Hiten asked them to wait outside the door as he went and announced them to his sire.
But Inuyasha didn't wait for him to return; he kicked the door down and led Kagome into the final room.
Kagome's eyes widened. This room was surprisingly cleaner than all the others, and the furniture was infinitely nicer. The only thing that disturbed her was the dungeon like shackles and leg irons that were lined all along the wall, many of which held women captive, and some of the women were being taken advantage of by male vampires right in plain sight.
Kagome felt tears sting her cheeks. This is what Inuyasha had meant by Kagome becoming one of the women she would see in here.
Kagome's eyes fell on one couch that had a rather young looking vampire lounging in it. He looked to be Inuyasha's age. He was a handsome thing, with sky blue eyes and long black hair pulled back into a high ponytail. What's with it and male vampires keeping their hair long? Inuyasha, Hiten, and now this guy.
The vampire on the couch, who was being taken care of by five females, smiled up at Inuyasha. "Well, well, well; if it ain't the pussy with a soul. Long time no see, Osuwari."
Inuyasha collapsed onto one of the couches. Ewe gross. Kagome just stood by him. Who knows what kind of diseases were on those couches.
"Yeah, yeah; I'm not here for small talk, Kouga. I've got some questions for you."
Kouga, the vampire with blue orbs, suddenly became very serious. "Everyone out!" he ordered. All the vampires obeyed, until only the women chained to the walls, Inuyasha, Kagome, and Kouga remained. "So…what's so important that you have to break my damn door down?" he laughed.
"I need to know…has you or any of your lackeys sired any high school students lately?"
Kouga frowned. "Not that I know of…you know we vampires don't like to waste the blood on the young. They're too reckless. Like us." He chuckled.
Inuyasha persisted. "I'm serious, Kouga. We're not going to go back to the good 'ol' days when we were in high school. I need to know if anyone has been turned into a vampire lately...anyone who would have a connection with her." He gestured to Kagome, finally bringing her to Kouga's attention.
Kouga stared her up and down. "Why? She been threatened?"
Inuyasha snorted. "Two missing girls from her high school just walked onto our porch and stabbed themselves in the neck twice with a pencil…you know, the usual."
Kouga rolled his eyes. "You always were sarcastic. But I'd know if we'd added more members to this nest…we only feed not sire. And I would personally know if one of my tribe members had tried to threaten you or her."
Inuyasha sighed. He had traveled all this way for no answers. "You're positive no new members?"
Kouga nodded. "Just take a look at this place…we're running out of room. I can't afford any more mouths to feed…but…" he eyed Kagome's pretty face, "I'd make a consideration changing that for her."
Kagome shivered as her eyes wandered to the crying women chained against the walls. That's it, she couldn't take it anymore. She turned on him. Even if he was this big, powerful vampire Kagome wasn't afraid of Kouga…as long as Inuyasha was there of course. "How can you be so damn heartless you damn vampire?"
Kouga and Inuyasha looked at her in shock.
"Look at all these poor girls…how can you just let them lay there in pain? How can you be such a damn monster? What did they ever do to you? They're just helpless women." She clenched and unclenched her fists. "I outta stake you."
Inuyasha and Kouga stared at her as if she had two heads, obviously that was not the reaction either one was expecting.
"Well?" Kagome snapped.
Kouga sighed as he pulled a cigarette out of his pocket and lit it, sticking it between his lips. "You're little girlfriend's got quite the mouth," Kouga chuckled to Inuyasha. "I like her already. You feel sorry for the girls?" he sounded as shocked as he was.
Kagome nodded, her eyes still dangerously narrowed.
"You wanna help the girls?" He stared at her in bewilderment.
She nodded again.
"Fine, be my quest. I really don't care much for them; it's my men that like to have them around."
Kagome just ignored his words. "Where's your bathroom?" her voice sounded like she was talking to a puppy who'd just messed on the carpet, which is what she was thinking. This place looked so nasty she wouldn't doubt if they acted like dogs. And Kouga sensed this…being able to read minds came along with the undead package for a sire.
He smirked. If she was going to treat him like an animal he'd act like one. "You're standing on it. We just use the floor."
Kagome shrieked as she leapt clear ten feet into the air, sending Kouga into a laughing fit.
"I was just kidding, Missy. The bathroom is over there." He pointed to a door across from him. He watched as she stormed into it before he turned to Inuyasha. "If I didn't know any better, Osuwari…I'd say she was Kikyo."
Inuyasha growled as he returned to his original subject. "What about any new arrivals. You know about all the emigrants that pass through here…you let them use your sewers for travel during the daylight…surly to God you've noticed a new vampire."
Kouga thought for a moment and then shook his head. "I've had all kinds of demons; werewolves…hell I think I even meet the Lockness monster the other day, but no vampires; not for a good year or two at least. You know all these new bloods…they're all into the big exciting cities…they don't appreciate the quietness of a small town. Nobody comes around here anymore…not since the Salem Witch Trials anyway…too afraid of being burned at the stake." He chuckled. "And they don't even do that anymore."
Inuyasha nodded. He hadn't been alive then, but he knew all about the Witch Trials.
Kagome stormed back out of the bathroom, to Kouga's surprise, with a washcloth. He watched her as she began wiping the girls' faces clean. But Inuyasha didn't seem that shocked, he knew Kagome and her kindness well.
"You do realize those girls are vampires right?" Kouga called at her.
"No shit, Sherlock," Kagome snapped at him.
Kouga's jaw dropped. "You mean to tell me that even though they're vampires you want to help them? These girls wouldn't hesitate for a second to bite you."
Kagome just ignored him. "Do you have a key for these locks?" she barked.
Kouga's eye twitched in annoyance, he'd never had someone talk to him like that. He had a good mind to say something but he knew better. Inuyasha would kill him if he even tried. Kouga was strong, but not as strong as Inuyasha; but what Kouga lacked in strength he made up for with brains. "Why on earth do you want to let loose a bunch of starved monsters like them?"
Kagome hmphed, "They're not monsters. They were human once you know?"
Kouga stared at her dumbfoundedly. This girl couldn't be serious. "Really now?" he laughed. "So was the vampire that killed the people you found on your doorstep this morning. According to Yash here you knew the victims…what a shame." His laughing became louder.
Kagome's eyes glazed over as she froze, giving the wall a penetrating gaze. The bodies? Kagura and Kanna? They may have been mean to Kagome but they didn't deserve a fate like that. No one did.
Inuyasha jumped up and grabbed Kouga by the collar of his shirt. "Don't ever say that again." He hissed as he pulled a wooden railroad spike out of his pocket.
Kouga gulped. "Calm down, Inu."
"Don't tell me to be bloody calm…death's not funny, Kouga…not to me at least."
Kouga sighed, "Alright, alright. If I promise to keep a look out for new vampires will you not stake me?"
Inuyasha held the wood close to Kouga's heart, never once moving it away. "He has a chipped fang…the right one."
Kouga nodded. "Anything else? appearance maybe? What's this dude look like?"
Inuyasha retreated his weapon and sighed. "I don't know…hell I don't even know if it is a guy." Inuyasha turned to look over at Kagome, who was trying to talk to one of the vampire women.
"Why do you do this?" the vampire hissed as Kagome tried to wipe some of the dirt off the vampire's face.
Kagome shrugged her shoulders. "I don't know." She really didn't; inside her senses were screaming that these things were killers…but Kagome was so use to Inuyasha that she didn't believe that they could be that evil; then she remembered Kagura and Kanna.
"Do not feel sorry for me," the vampire hissed as she tried to kick Kagome away. "I don't want your sympathy."
Kagome ignored her. This vampire was the one she felt the most sorry for. She had no cloths on at all, but since she was so dirty, you couldn't tell. Kagome took her coat off and set it on the vampire's lap, covering as much of her skin as she could. Inuyasha didn't really need that coat anyway.
Kagome didn't understand why Inuyasha was just standing there and letting these women be treated like this. She didn't understand how he knew about it and did nothing. Could he be just as heartless as the monster Kouga?
Kagome turned to glare at Kouga. "Why are these vampires chained to walls while the others get to walk around?"
He sighed, messaging his temples as Inuyasha answered for him. "They're not vampires from this nest…they're basically prisoners from another vampire clan." Inuyasha frowned. "Remember when I told you most vampires hate each other?"
Kagome nodded.
"Well this is what happens when two clans get into a war. Prisoners are taken in as slaves…"
Kagome's eyes grew sad.
"Or we do this when a vampire goes against the rules and desecrates their sire." Kouga added.
"You mean because some of these women weren't bitten by you or did something you didn't like you turned them into slaves?"
Kouga nodded. "How else are we supposed to keep order? And don't even start on me because I know for a fact from when I fought in Vietnam with Inuyasha that humans do the exact same thing."
The man with the long white hair stood solemnly at the top of a hill that overlooked the Osuwari Estate, a smirk spread across his face. The sun had set into blackness that only he and the animals could see through. It was a windy and moonless night.
"Stupid fools." He chuckled to himself as he watched Inuyasha and Kagome returning to the manor.
A woman who was standing behind the silver haired man sighed as she manicured her long fingernails. She bit her lip by accident, her own fang sinking into her skin. "Shit!" she cursed. "I'm never going to get use to this."
The man turned around to glare at her. "You will soon enough my dear." He walked up and ran his fingers through her short silky black hair.
"I don't know master," she whimpered, but he cut her off with a deep kiss.
If you had seen this couple together in a normal surrounding you would have shaken your head in disdain. This man was obviously in the latest stages of his twenties while this woman…or should I say girl, looked to be maybe fifteen or sixteen.
"But my lord…" she whimpered against his kisses. She didn't much like him taking advantage of her, but now that she was a vampire and he her sire; she would soon learn to accept it.
"Hush," He scolded her as he began to lift her shirt up over her head. "I saved you…I could have just left you to die like your white haired friend but I gave you a drink of my own blood…you owe me this, Kagura."
She felt a slight tear trickle down her cheek as she nodded. "Yes."
"Yes, Master." He corrected her.
Kagura gulped. "Yes, Master."
He just smiled at her before he kissed her neck. "It's alright," he whispered into her ear. "I'm not going to hurt my own child…I'm your father now."
"Y-yes, Master."
"Don't worry girl…you're just use to having the load of a soul…you'll get use to the emptiness soon."
"Soul?" She shuddered as his hands wandered downward.
He nodded as he lost himself in the scent of her hair. "Trust me, Sweetheart. You don't have a soul anymore. Before I killed you, you begged for me to spare your life…so I did."
"Yes, Master."
Inuyasha smiled at Kagome as he watched her lay down on his couch. He could tell she didn't like being in this house anymore, not since she saw the bodies. Inuyasha thought for a moment, the bodies?
He went down to his basement to check on them, walking down his creaky steps, and flipping on one of the lights. The light wasn't very bright, since his generator was so old, but it gave him enough light to be able to see that…the bodies were gone?
Inuyasha panicked, literally running circles around the room. "Kagome!" he screamed for her; not really expecting an answer.
Oh God. He thought. The bodies were gone. There were so many answers he could think of to their absence, and all of them meant Kagome was in danger. But the two that feared him most was either the two girls had become vampires, waken up from their dead slumber, and just walked off. Or the killer came back to reclaim his victims, trying to provoke fear that he could come and go as he pleased. Little did Inuyasha know that both were correct.
"Kagome!" Inuyasha shrieked. "I'm taking you home…now."
Kagome stood at the foot of the steps. "W-wh-y?"
"Kagura and Kanna are missing. Get you're things. You're never coming back here again." he ordered.
Kagome stared at him in shock. Was he that scared that he didn't want to protect her again? wait…the bodies were missing?
Okay because of future gore, sexual insinuations, and violence the rating of this story is changing to R. I hope you liked this chapter, even if it was a bit dark. I'm pretty sure most of you have guessed who the bad guy is but hey…Inuyasha and Kagome don't…so even if it isn't a murder mystery it's still got murder and mystery in it…trust me this story's gonna have lots of carnage in it. I'm probably going to get so many flames for making this story so dark but…most of the other stories I've ever written are happy-go-lucky high school fics and I'm getting sick of it. I've wanted to actually write something that I personally enjoyed for some time now. Also, to those of you who are Kikyo haters, you might want to leave, she's not a bad guy here. No she's not coming back to life all of a sudden, I can promise you that…it's too cliché.
Oh and no, Kouga and the rest of the vampire nest aren't bad guys either. Kouga and Hiten are like two of my all time favorite anime characters. They're so evil. . They're almost like good guys…with no souls and tastes for blood. Heh. So they're not the typical heroes…give them a break. They're so cute. And did I mention they're evil?
Got any questions? comments? Suggestions? Just leave them in a review (not an email any more because I'm grounded and I'm having to either write most of this during school, and it's against the rules to check your email. Or try and sneak onto the computer at night while everyone is sleeping.) And I'll be more than happy to answer them. Have a happy-go-lucky day,