Chapter 2: The Blood Red Hair

Edited by Lanie

"" – talking

Italics – what they are thinking

Opening her eyes in shock, Kaoru realized that if she had taken one more step she would have fallen into the waterfall's watery depths. But what stopped me? Something strong pushed her down, and Kaoru fell to the ground hard. Looking up, her azure eyes locked with a pair of amber ones. "What the hell so you think your doing?" he sounded rather annoyed. "I'm sorry," it shocked the man that she was being so polite. "I've been plagued with dreams, and every time I woke up I'm somewhere else. That is how those men found and chased me. I had woken up right in the middle of their village." A few moments of silence went by before he spoke, "What is your name?"

"Kaoru Kamiya."

"And what are you doing alone?"

"I'm the last of my pack."

Silence again.

"What is your name?" she asked.

"Battosai."

She gasped. "Hotokiri Battosai?"

"Yes."

"I've heard of you. People say that you can slay ten men with one swing.

"I can."

It bothered Kaoru that he said it with no remorse.

"Why are you here Battista?"

"The same as you."

"But you are not a werewolf?" When I had come into the cave all I smelt was blood not werewolf. He must be lying.

Battosai could tell she was confused, he could read all her emotions through her eyes. "You're lying," she said. Her beautiful azure eyes flashed a dark violet blue, she was mad.

"Battosai tried to explain, "One of the men pursuing you had gotten lost, and found me among the trees. I killed him before I came into the cave. His blood was all over me when you came in, that's why you couldn't sense that I'm werewolf. "Somehow Kaoru felt that she could trust him. He did after all let me stay in the cave.

Daylight would come in an hour, so Kaoru went out to hunt for breakfast.

The Battosai watched as the girl sped off to go hunting. Her bravery to talk back intrigued him. No one has ever talked back to him. There must be something different about her, and I'm going to find out what.

When Kaoru got back there was already a fire going. She dropped the old doe from her muzzle and morphed back into her human form. Growing her long claws she sliced the doe's flank into chunks of meat. Grabbing a large piece she sat down and began to greedily chew on it. The Battosai watched her, and Kaoru felt very uncomfortable. She glared back at him.

"What are you staring at?!"

"Be quiet!" he said harshly.

She opened her mouth to retort back, but before she could utter one word he had put his hand over her mouth. After a few minutes of silence Kaoru knew why he had acted so suddenly. A human was wandering close to their cave, he knew they were there. Kaoru turned to Battosai to see what he was going to do, but he was gone.

A small cry came from the human before he fell to the ground. A large gash was spread across his chest. Kaoru was shocked. He attacked so quickly, I didn't even see him! Battosai stood over the body his clothes were soaked with blood. Kaoru felt sick, she had never seen so much human blood before. It nauseated her, and she ran out of the cave into the woods.

Taking a big gulp of air she jumped into the river. Even though no blood was on her she still felt dirty. After cleaning herself thoroughly she emerged from the water, put her clothes on, and laid down on the grass for a nap.

Battosai dropped the corpse into the pit he dug and began to throw dirt back in. Why did Kaoru run out like that? She is a werewolf after all, blood shouldn't nauseate her. She is definitely different than a normal werewolf.

A loud crunch of twigs was made behind him, and Battosai sensed a large amount of humans surrounding him. "Come out! I know you're there human scum," he growled. All at once the humans appeared. A very tall man with grey spiky hair stepped forward. A big grin was plastered on his face, and he said with a smug voice, "We are here to exterminate you."

After taking a long nap, Kaoru felt a lot better. When she got up to stretch she smelt the scent of humans in the air, it was coming from the area where the cave was. There must be hundreds of them there. I've got to go help Battosai! With that she took off.

Battosai observed his surroundings; he knew he could beat them with ease. Except for the leader Enishi, he was much stronger than the others. He moved into his stance ready if any of them tried to attack, he kept a close eye on Enishi. Suddenly one of the humans was thrown high in the air. The rest parted and Kaoru came through. She ran to his side and got into a fighting stance.

"Well...Battosai has a mate. Lord Shishio will find this interesting.

Kaoru felt Battosai's ki get strong at the mention of Shishio. She never saw him but had heard horrible things about the Lord of the Humans. Shishio hated all supernatural beings, so he made a law that all vampires, werewolves, and people with unnatural powers be exterminated. He sent a strong group of fighters, called the Juppongatua, to take out packs. They were the ones who killed my family. I swear I'll take revenge for them, I'll kill Shishio!

Anger welled inside her and she lunged at Enishi, but he was too fast for her. He easily punched her in the gut so hard she was flung back. Battosai caught her and gently set her down.

As soon as he let go of her he vanished, and Kaoru quickly turned her head to see him clashing swords with Enishi. The crunch of metal upon metal echoed through the trees.

It seemed like hours had gone by as Kaoru watched them fight. Enishi showed signs of fatigue, his moves weren't as quick. Battosai however was as fast as always, his moves were so graceful and fluent it looked as if her were dancing. Suddenly Enishi made a mistake, his block wasn't fast enough. It was over, Battosai had won, and Enishi lay on the ground with a hole in his stomach.

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