Disclaimer: (checks a newspaper) Apparently I still don't own Inu Yasha. Sigh, there's always next Friday though.....

A/N: I don't respond well to threats. If anything they make me wanna stay away from the computer (and the website) longer. Oh, and my teachers are being locked out of the school on December 1... or not....stupid indecisive school board....(continues grumbling...)

Just some quick review responses:

amanda: Thanx, I'll try.

manny: I really don't appreciate the way you are reviewing my story. I know that I don't have the right to tell you to stop, but I would like to let you know that the more threats you send, the longer it will take me to update, and the longer it takes me to update, the more people will hate you. So, what you are doing is a very selfish thing.

NorCal Chick: Lol, Thanx, I love that line too.

feistykikyo: lol, thanx, please don't cry.

Blood Chapter 7 – Actions and Reactions

"Hojo? What the hell happened to you?" Inu Yasha asked, "is that...Yuka?"

"I have recently stumbled upon a new power, or rather, it stumbled upon me." He glanced down at Yuka, who was lying limply in his arms.

"What did you do to her?" Miroku asked.

"Nothing much," Hojo replied flippantly. "Just drained her of five hundred years worth of blood."

"What do you mean 'five hundred years worth of blood', she's only fifteen!" Miroku replied.

"She and her friends are not...arrggghhh!" Hojo screamed out in pain, collapsing

"They're not what?!" Inu Yasha demanded.

Inu Yasha sniffed the air. "You damn wolf!" He shouted towards Kouga who had stabbed Hojo through the back with a stake.

"What Inu Yasha means to say is, if you would have been listening to Hojo, he was going to tell us about Yuka and her friends." Miroku interjected calmly, before the battle of the canines started.

"I don't care what he was gonna say, he was a vampire, or something, and it is our job to hunt down vampires and alike creatures. I was just doing my job!" Kouga shouted as his defense.

"You're just a dumbass!" Inu Yasha shot back lamely.

"Intelligent as ever dog breath." Kouga replied.

-()-

"How goes the search, Ayame?" Sango asked as Ayame entered the kitchen.

"Very badly, there is nothing on the web or in the books about a condition like Kagome's, I'll keep looking after a quick breakfast..." Ayame replied.

"You're in luck, Eri and Nazuna went to the hospital and posed as nurses and brought back some of those packs of blood....oddly enough, they came up with that plan themselves...." Sango walked silently out of the room and left Ayame to 'eat' her breakfast, and wake up Kagome.

"We've gotta get going to school." Sango said as she knocked softly on Kagome's door.

"But mom, I don't wanna go to the ball, Kouga's gonna be there!" came the incoherent mumbled reply.

Sango sweat dropped then sighed and opened the door.

"C'mon Kagome, we gotta go!" Sango insisted grabbing her by the ankles and dragging her out of her coffin.

"Fine, fine...yawn!" Kagome yawned.

"Are you back to normal?" Sango glanced at Kagome's eyes. "Nope... your eyes are still grey...oh well, we'd better get going."

"Just let me get my dress on." Kagome sighed slipping a light blue spaghetti strapped dress over her head. "Is it just us going?"

"Hm? Oh yeah, Eri and Nazuna are still sleeping and-"

"I was sleeping too!" Kagome cried indignantly.

"As I was saying!" Sango continued, "And Ayame is still researching your condition-ish thingy."

"You sounded up till the point when you said 'condition-ish thingy'," Kagome muttered.

-()-

Inu Yasha awoke to the sound of sirens. In the back seat of his car...only one coherent thought was going through his head...How the hell did I get in the backseat of my car.

"Miroku, what the hell are the cops doing here?" Inu Yasha shouted at Miroku as he tumbled out of the car.

"Apparently, there has been an accident here. Oh my god, Inu Yasha, isn't that Hojo and Yuka?" Miroku acted shocked.

"What the hell are you....oh! Yeah, that is Hojo and Yuka, what d'ya think happened?" Inu Yasha asked, just loud enough for the cops to hear.

A young woman who looked about 17, with short black hair and warm brown eyes, wearing a policeperson's uniform, made her way over to them. "Excuse me gentlemen, I'm officer Koharu, do you two know the victims?" Officer Koharu asked.

"Victims?" Inu Yasha and Miroku asked at the same time.

"You are aware this was a murder, correct?" She asked raising an eyebrow at them.

"Murder? I thought it was just an accident..." Miroku said acting confused.

"The girl has two sets of puncture wounds on her neck, and the boy has been stabbed through the chest with a blunt instrument." Officer Koharu told them.

"We did know the victims, they were in our class actually, we've gotta go now buhbye." Inu Yasha said jerking Miroku away by his collar.

"What was that about?" Miroku asked, genuinely confused.

"The officer said Yuka had two sets of puncture wounds on her neck, right?" Inu Yasha asked him.

"Right..." Miroku replied. "Oh! Oh my god, that means she was bitten before Hojo finished her off. Oh, how will I tell my lovely Sango that one of her best friends was a vampire! Oh woe is me!"

"Stop being melodramatic, dumbass! I betcha that she already knew. I bet you that they all knew!" Inu Yasha replied.

-()-

"Ack. Lights too bright!" Kagome shouted as she and Sango made their way towards the high school.

"What's going on over there?" Sango asked, sniffing the air. "Is that Yuka's ... blood?"

"I don't know!" Kagome shouted in frustration. "I still have a freaking human nose. Wait did you say...Yuka?"

"Yeah... let's get over there!" Sango shouted.

They ran towards the lights. They saw a couple of police cars around the front of the school.

"Kagome?" a voice asked.

"Is that you Inu Yasha?" Kagome answered.

"Yeah, listen Yuka's been killed...by Hojo... the cops said she had two sets of puncture wounds on her neck..." Inu Yasha answered, looking at her expectantly.

Kagome looked shocked. "Y..y...Yuka's dead?" She looked close to tears.

"Do you know why she had two sets of puncture wounds on her neck?" Miroku asked, seeming to appear from out of nowhere.

Sango was the one that answered. "She was....uh...into that kind of stuff...you know...rough stuff..." Kagome just stared vacantly at the ground.

"Yuka? Into rough stuff... uh huh." Miroku answered, looking between the two shocked girls.

"Where is that bastard Hojo, I'll kill him!" Kagome shouted looking up from the ground.

"You're too late K- ow what'd you do that for?!?" Miroku asked after being elbowed by Inu Yasha.

"He was murdered too." Inu Yasha replied.

"School's been cancelled then?" Sango asked.

"Yep." Inu Yasha replied.

"Bye then." Sango said grabbing Kagome's arm and dragging her down the street.

-()-

"Kagura, why the hell did the cops show up? I thought weren't allowed to meddle in our affairs!" Inu Yasha shouted.

"I had no idea they were coming," Kagura answered calmly. "They just showed up."

"I have a headache!" Miroku pouted, and got ignored.

"What are we gonna do? The cops have a legends specialist or someone who knows about the paranormal." Inu Yasha said, banging his head against the wall.

"Yes, they do, but it's someone from our little operation. Kanna, get out here!" Kagura called.

"Coming sister." Kanna called and she stepped into view.

"This is my little sister Kanna, she is thirteen." Kagura informed them.

"She's thirteen? How did she get on the police force?" Inu Yasha asked looking the girl up and down. She was roughly 5' 6" (a/n: did I do that right?), extremely skinny (but not anorexic looking), had shoulder length white hair, and black eyes.

"She is very intelligent, and the police just needed a specialist on paranormal activity and such." Kagura put her hand on Kanna's shoulder and looked her in the eyes. "Kanna they're gonna ask you to come down to the scene and see if there is anything abnormal about the bodies. Just tell them it looks like they were into weird stuff or something, 'kay?"

"Kay." Kanna replied.

"So we're just gonna have some kid...I mean your sister sorry, lie to the cops? That's our defense?" Inu Yasha asked.

"Yes they trust Kanna." Kagura replied.

Suddenly the sound of 'Mary had a Little Lamb' flooded the area everyone glanced over at Kanna.

"What?" She asked looking at everyone that was looking at her, then, answering her cell phone and walking out of the room.

"She always was just a little odd." Kagura sighed shaking her head. "Now you two, do you have any leads?"

"Well Hojo said- OWWW that was my foot!" Miroku shouted as Inu Yasha stomped on his foot.

"'Hojo said oww that was my foot'?" Kagura asked raising an eyebrow at the two...men.

"Hojo didn't say anything." Inu Yasha told her casually. "We gotta go now buhbye."

"Uh, bye..." Kagura said as Inu Yasha dragged Miroku out of the building.

-()-

"Sango....he killed Yuka!" Kagome sobbed into her friends shoulder. "What if someone comes after us too? We're more like Yuka than we even realize...there's a chance that Inu Yasha and Miroku will get us..."

"Shh, shh, it'll be okay. They won't get us, we're to smart for them, besides we don't love them, so we could get out of here anytime we want....NO! Don't start crying again!" Sango said as Kagome started crying again.

"What do you want me to do? Laugh?" Kagome asked, glaring at Sango.

"N- I- well.... we'll figure something out, but first we better tell the gang that Yuka's gone."

-()-

"Ah ha! I got it! nevermind....I don't got it....." Ayame sighed. "I'll never figure out what's wrong with Kagome..."

The front door banged open.

"We're home," Sango called out, "everyone get in here!"

Various doors throughout the 'hideout' opened and soon everyone besides Yuka was seated in the living room.

"Everyone," Sango said gravely, "Yuka is dead, and Hojo killed her, but we can't get the bastard because someone got to him first."

Everyone was silent.

"You're kidding right?" Nazuna asked.

-()-

"Why didn't you want to tell Kagura what Hojo said?" Miroku asked, glancing at his swollen foot.

"Because, I think that somehow, Kagome, Sango and the rest of them are connected to the vampire sightings recently. I don't wanna involve Kagura till I know more about what's going on." Inu Yasha told him.

"Ahh, well that makes sense. Now, would you please stop beating me up?" Miroku asked. "I've burn marks on my legs from that stupid coffee you threw on me, my ribs are bruised and my foot is swollen."

"Nope." Inu Yasha replied simply, shutting the door to his room.

-()-

A/N: I thought that was longer... oh well. There you go chapter 7. Again, the title may not make much sense... but I really suck at coming up with names for stuff... At the risk of sounding pathetic, pweeze review. (Gets down on knees, and starts begging). Nothing too scary though okay?