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Vampires
By: Twilight Kitsune
Chapter the Second:
A woman walked all alone through the cold, dark streets. Her eyes constantly darted around while she clutched her purse and the pepper spray inside it. She darted from street lamp to street lamp, her pace just short of running as her breath came in ragged breaths. Something was behind her, she could hear it. It kept to the shadows, and moved like no other creature possibly could. She was but a block from her house when the creature leapt in front of her. It was just out of the light of the streetlamp and all she could see was its silhouette. She turned and ran the other way, a chocked scream escaping her lips as new adrenaline pumped through her veins. The creature continued after her, keeping just behind her. Every now and again, it would leap in front of her and scare her into a different direction. Soon she found herself backed into a dark alley. The creature walked leisurely forward and pressed its hands to either side of the trembling woman's head. Turning her head to the side it bit into her neck. The sweet red liquid of the woman's life flowed into the creature's body as it drank and the feeble struggling of the woman slowed to a stop as she lost strength. When she was dead, the creature let her slide to the ground and wiped the excess blood from its mouth.
"Fear always makes them sweeter." It muttered before sliding a knife from its coat and slitting the woman's neck to hide the bite marks. Picking up the woman's purse, it riffled through and found the lady's money. Dropping the wallet and pocketing the money, the creature turned to its companion.
"You did well boy, well enough to earn a name. You shall be called Kyofu."
"Thank you Shishou." Kyofu answered as he followed his master out of the alley silently into the night.
Meanwhile, Kagura stood on a cliff looking out over the valley where Kyou had last run away to. It had been several months since his disappearance, but he had not yet been heard from. Every member of the juunishi plus Tohru, Tohru's friends, and Kyou's Shishou had been out searching, but to no avail. Everyday someone would come up to Kyou's favorite spot in the mountains, where Kagura was now, and look for Kyou, but so far no one had had any luck. In fact the only luck anyone seemed to be having was that no one had transformed in a while. Sighing in disappointment and admiring the sunset that could be seen so clearly from that spot on the cliff, Kagura turned and headed for home.
The air was so crisp and clean and it had been a beautiful day with plenty of sunshine. If she thought about it, Kagura could still see Kyou lying in the sun, relaxing in the beauty of the moment. She missed him horribly, even though she saw him only once a month because of school. She often thought of Tohru, who still set an extra plate for him out of habit. Tohru had been the closest to Kyou, though Kagura would never admit it, and she was taking it the hardest. Kagura had often cried on Tohru's shoulder, almost as often as Tohru had cried on Kagura's, and the two had become much closer on account of it. Kagura reached down and idly picked a wildflower that grew alongside the road and held it to herself. Thinking of her Kyou, the cursed boy who somewhere, deep inside, loved her, Kagura drifted down the now well-worn path back to Shigure's house.
Momiji leapt up through the door, quite excited to be at Shigure's house again. It beat having to stay with Hatori any day. Looking up at Yuki he asked,
"Is Tohru home?"
"She's in the kitchen," Yuki answered. Momiji went skipping into the kitchen, keeping an eye out for Tohru's friends. When he didn't see any, he leapt up behind Tohru and wrapped his arms around her with a yell of "Tohru!!!" Tohru looked down at the little blond boy clinging to her waist in confusion. He was still human…
"Momiji!" said a shell shocked Hatori who stood in the doorway.
"What's going on?" asked Shigure as he poked his head around the doorframe.
"Momiji," said Tohru as she carefully pried him off of her and looked him in the eye, "Why didn't you transform?"
Two dark figures fought in a secluded alleyway. The shorter figure with orange hair and crimson eyes threw himself into the taller figure's stomach, throwing him back. The taller figure, with greasy black hair and dark eyes, countered with a strong one-two-punch that knocked the redhead, named Kyofu, back several feet. Pulling himself back into a fighting stance Kyofu narrowly dodged several blows before lunging at his opponent again, this time landing a solid blow to the head. The other figure slammed into a nearby wall before launching a full-out attack on his opponent. For several more minutes, the two went at each other, before they both collapsed in exhaustion.
"You are getting better." said the tall one as he put his hand to his head to stop the bleeding of a small cut.
"Thanks." said Kyofu rising to his feet. He was a little shaky, but considering he had been fighting for the last several hours, he was doing fine. "I'm hungry." he said, looking out into the dimly lit street that passed the alley. A scent came to him, the scent of fear. He knew it well, and as he let himself drift after his dinner he heard his opponent, Miji, come up behind him. Kyofu soon found himself hunting amoung the darkly lit streets as Miji watched for a meal of his own. It was a woman again; she was out on her own, running in fear of something or other. That made it more fun. Kyofu hunted her for several blocks, letting himself be heard just enough to scare the living daylights out of her. After about an hour of chase, Kyofu had cornered the woman into an alleyway. As he advanced toward her, she pulled a gun on him and shot him twice through the heart. He fell backwards with the impact of the shot, and felt the woman leaning over him and examining the wound.
"I hate getting shot." Kyofu said as he sat up and pulled the bullets from his torso. The woman, obviously a police officer, was backing into the wall again; her hands shaking too hard for her to hold the gun steady. Kyofu leapt up and enjoyed his dinner with extra gusto. This woman was even more terrified than most, and she tasted all the better. Unfortunately, before he could completely finish her, a police siren started shrieking and Kyofu was forced to leave the woman alive as he ran off. She wouldn't last more than five minutes, he thought as he hid the bite marks, she would be nothing to worry about.
Replies to reviewers:
bethbeth64: My first reviewer!!!! Thanks ABO, and hope you enjoyed the chapter.
Misaki: Thanks! Well, you held of killing for 22 chapters then. That's still a big achievement.
chibichibi-neko: Thank you!!!
AN: Sadly enough, I only got three reviewers. Well, I'm getting kinda used to the rejection by now. I am on a writing spree due to the fact that I have nice dark music to listen to. Evanescence is great background music for writing. Anyone who was looking forward to this chapter should thank ABO, it's her CD. Anyway, I'll see y'all next chapter. Ja!
~ TK