Chapter 2

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Now it begins.

I entered the kitchen to find a table set for two people. I felt a lot better after I had cleaned myself up. The clothes in the closet were very much my style, though; it kind of freaked me out. In the closet was a couple of pairs of black pants all different styles, some red and black shirts, also all different styles, a pair of weird shoes, and a long black coat like thing (not a trench coat). I chose to wear a pair of baggy pants and a red long sleeved shirt, the sleeves being baggy while the body part was rather tight fitting. I then put the coat thing over my clothes. There were no sleeves, the bottom part of it was cut in for different places creating long slits up to my thighs, and I guess that it was for easier movement. Then the top part of the coat thing was also tight fitting. Along with the outfit, I put on the shoes. They made no sound when I walked and were amazingly comfortable. I let my mid-back length black hair hang down. I looked very slender but the tightness of the top of the coat didn't give much space for hiding myself. I guess that it was something I was going to have to live with for a while.

I leaned against one of the walls in the kitchen and waited. It wasn't long until the man who saved me from the demons appeared. He looked me over and nodded approvingly. I glared at him and he turned away but was still smiling.

"Do you know why I brought you here?" he asked me but when he didn't get an answer he took it as a no and continued. "You have great potential. You are very strong considering that you are…human." I let him go on even though it wasn't true. I wanted to know what this guy was all about. "I watched you fight, or should I say evade…and damn you are fast. With that kind of speed, you can take out an opponent real easily. I also saw that you are very limber and balanced. Those two attributes are also very good things to have to be a great fighter. I don't know how you got here, but I do know that you don't have any fighting ability and that you will be ripped apart by these demons if you are alone out there. And who knows what else they might do to you…considering your…features. Well then, you don't talk much but that is alright, it is better to listen before you speak. Know what things are all about. Well then, this is my plan. I will teach you how to fight, and all you have to do in return is get something for me from Koenma's vault. Does that sound like a deal?"

I looked at the youkai closely. He looked like a ningen but wasn't. His striking blue hair hung down his back, and his eyes were silver. That wasn't normal for a ningen and that is how I knew that he was another being or something or another.

"Sounds good," I said. "I have a couple of questions though. First, will you give me a place to stay? Second, how long will the training last and when will we do it? And third, what is it that you want from Koenma?"

He looked pleased at my directness. "To answer your first question, you can stay in that room where you found the clothes, which I might add, look very well on you. The answer to the next question is that it depends on how fast you learn. We will train every other day. That would give you one day of rest and one day of hard core training and then rest again and so on. The thing I want from Koenma is a jewel. It is the key that can open any portal."

I was intrigued. I liked the entire plan but it wasn't long until it dawned on me that I didn't know who Koenma was. I then asked the youkai. He told me that Koenma was the ruler of the Spirit World in the form of a baby. He is basically untouchable because of his Spirit Detectives, guards, and servants, such as ogres. I then asked the demon what his name was because I had also realized that I didn't know his name. He told me that it was Ketaro. He then showed me the main parts of the mansion and outside gardens. We talked a lot and it was from him that I learned everything I know about demons, like what kinds there are and their powers.

I spent twenty years with him and during that time I became an A class fighter. He had figured out that I was an immortal vampire, couldn't die with a stake through the heart or garlic and things like that. They didn't affect me. He started to provide me with demon blood and it was there that I got the taste for demon blood. It was during that time that I truly learned what kind of powers demons possessed, and I also learned how to use them. When I drank the demon blood, I acquired that demon's abilities. They stayed in full force for exactly six weeks. After that six week time period the powers disappeared, but I would get new blood and new abilities. Oh, and before I forget, Ketaro was a telepath and that is how he found out that I was what I was.

I was taught not only how to fight with demonic powers, but also with weapons such as the katana, daggers, bow and arrows, ninja stars, and about any random object a person could think of. He wanted me to have experience with everything. He also taught me how to put up a shield around my thoughts so that the opponent wouldn't know what I was thinking and be able to defeat me in that way.

Many things happened after I had stolen the jewel from Koenma. Apparently, many thieves had tried to get objects from the vault but didn't succeed. Word spread around the Reikai that I was an excellent thief and I was talked to by a couple of different thieving clans or groups who wanted me to join them. I declined all, knowing that I would only be used for purposes that weren't those of my own. I stayed with Ketaro to complete my learning. After my twenty years of learning, I decided to leave. I had to start my own life. I knew that it would be dangerous for me to travel around the Reikai, being a human but I knew that I could defend myself. I still had three weeks' worth of elemental demon blood in me, so I had those powers to aid me. I felt invincible, and I practically was.

I walked a couple of days to the nearest village, and there I looked for business. I had declared myself as a professional thief. It wasn't long until I had my first task, which was that I had to steal the Seed of Hate. Little did I know that I was going to have to get the bastard son of a youkai and a human woman. But I was given a description of the boy and off I went. My employers didn't care to tell me about why they wanted the boy but it was fine with me, it was still a job.

I was lead by a demon through a portal to the ningen world. My world. When I stepped though the portal, I was met by a feeling of change. My world was different, it had changed; it had grown. There, the demon left me to go with a ningen whose name was not revealed to me, the same went for the youkai. I was instructed to go with the ningen to the place where the boy resided and kidnap him, take him back to the Reikai, and then I would receive my money.

The ningen who led me to the house didn't say a word to me during our walk. I didn't mind, I was thinking too much about the life that I had missed in my own world. But I knew that it wasn't any use to reflect on the past when you had an eternal future ahead of you. The house we reached was built in the traditional Japanese style; very beautiful. I sneaked up to the house, making sure that no one would hear me if they were awake. There weren't any lights in the house so it would make it easier for me to get the hanyou. I entered through a sliding door, which to my advantage was unlocked. I searched through every room until I came to one that was occupied with the mother and father of the child.

Looks of serenity were on their faces as they slept. It brought back memories of my family. We truly were a happy family except that fate was against us. I wiped the thought from my mind, and continued. I looked into a couple more rooms but found no one. Then came the last room in the house. I went into the room and there he was, the boy. He was sleeping peacefully, his black hair making ringlets on his face. He looked so innocent. I couldn't think of why full-blooded youkai would want a young boy but I didn't let it phase me. I went over to the boy's bed and tried to pick him up. It was then that he woke up. He looked at me with utter fear in his eyes. I pressed one of his pressure points and made him pass out, and then I left with him in my arms.

Once outside the house, I went to the place where the ningen was hiding. This time, he had a sinister look on his face when he saw the boy. I knew that something was wrong. I walked with him back to the place where we would go back though the portal to the Reikai. The boy stirred and mumbled words that sounded like 'no please, father, I can't do it.' I carefully lay the boy down on the ground, and went over to the ningen who was waiting impatiently at the portal.

"What do they want with the boy?" I asked the man

He glared at me. "That is not for you to know," he answered me.

I shook my head at him. He should have better sense than that. Killing was no problem for me, and I wouldn't hesitate to kill someone like him. It was not like I killed for pleasure; I killed for blood, and men who were evil, who didn't deserve to be alive. I learned that when I was Ketaro's student. I bared my fangs at him and I could smell a faint trace of fear.

"That is not the answer what I was looking for, either you answer me, or you die. Pick one, or die anyways," I said.

"You can't hurt me, ikieke," he said, unsheathing his katana.

I shook my head at him. "Aho." I then, too, unsheathed the katana I had started to wear on me since my first lesson with Ketaro. Before the ningen could do anything, I lunged at him with inhuman speed and plunged my katana into his heart. The kisama died with an expression of shock on his face.

I turned back to the boy, and he was hugging his knees. A tear rolled down his cheek and there was fear in his eyes. He winced when I got close to him. I bent down and put my hand on his shoulder.

"That was one of my father's best men. You killed him," the boy said.

"What do you mean? Do you know that there are demons after you? I asked him.

"Yes. My father wants me to fight with him, to live with him in the Reikai but my mother knows how the youkai get. She doesn't want me to go there, and I don't want to go to my father."

I knew that the boy couldn't go back to his mother but I couldn't take care of him. I had a home in the Reikai…no. I knew that I didn't, that my life there had no meaning. But, I didn't want to take care of the boy, there had to be someone. Then it dawned on me. Ketaro. He was willing to take me in, and I knew that he had a soft spot for children. The portal was still open, so I took the boy through after I had explained to him why he couldn't stay with his mother. His father knew where he lived, and would go looking for him.

It was a three day walk for me to get to Ketaro's mansion, but with the little boy, it took us seven days. The boy told me all about his father even though, I didn't ask him. Apparently, his father was a very powerful demon who wanted to dominate the Reikai, overthrow Koenma, get rid of all the good guys, and start a world of chaos with his son at his side. Wonderful, but it wasn't going to happen.

When Ketaro first saw me with the boy, he didn't say a word. He just stared at me. After some time, I took the initiative and spoke. I told him that the boy needed a place to stay for a while. Ketaro then asked me if the boy was mine, and I started to laugh. Ketaro with a look of embarrassment on his face turned to the boy and smiled. I could tell that those two would get along fine. Later that night, after the boy had gone to sleep, I told Ketaro what was going on and he said that he would be glad to take care of the boy for a while, maybe even teach him some things.

The next morning I set off to do what I knew would be very helpful to the boy whose name was Naratu. I was going to find his father and kill him.

And that is what I did for seventy years of my life. I became a demon slayer, working for the good of those less fortunate. Now, seventy years later, I am back in the ningen world, taking a break from the hard life of an assassin. Or not…

Vocabulary:

Ikieke: bitch

AN: I am so sorry to all. I kind of cut this short but I want to get to the part where she actually meets the gang. I will give more detail in the future about looks of the characters and such. I hope that you liked this chapter and please review. I love to hear people's opinions. Oh, and I think that some of this is coming from a movie I watched this morning. Samurai X or at least I think that is what it was called.

AN: And don't worry. The Detectives will definitely appear in the next chapter.