Chapter five
"Damn I'm right hear...no need to yell Dawn." He said getting off me, and helping me up. "I'm not in the mood for your mouth okay Johnny Noname." I said brushing myself off. "Okay...Dawn."
"Tell me how did you find out?" I asked him confused he even knew. "Koenma called me." I nodded. Johnny suddenly gave me a hug, "I'm sorry Dawn...I know it must be hard." He hit my bad arm; the one Hiei cut. "Damn let go of me!" I said hissing in pain.
He did as I said, and looked down at my arm. "What happened to you sis?" I smirked, "Just a little rough fun. It'll scar but hey what doesn't anymore? I'll good as new in a few hours." Johnny smiled, "You always are...oh well. Goin' to let me in?" I nodded and turned to walk in but found Kurama standing there. "Who is he?" He asked calmly which shocked Johnny. "Is he always that calm?" I nodded, "From what I know of...Kurama, Johnny. Johnny, Kurama, now let us in!" I said looking up at Kurama. "That doesn't really tell me who he is." I nodded, "Koenma called for him; he's Killer's twin brother." Kurama nodded.
Killer and Johnny though they were twins they looked nothing like each other. Johnny had long silver hair always in a loosely tied up, and wore jeans that had holes in both knees. His shirts were usually tucked in in some places, and not in others. He had a tattoo on his right arm that was of a blood red cross with black outlining of course. On the other arm snakes wrapped around it. But what most people never saw was the tattoo on his back. He had this weird gargoyle tattoo on his back. It had red eyes, and had the words Fuck you on its arm. He was nothing like his brother, besides him being a nice guy. "Come on in." Kurama moved out of the way, and let us in. "Dawn can I talk to you in the kitchen?" I nodded, and followed Kurama. "I'm sorry it's just weird...I mean you talk about how the offer was tempting then a werewolf comes in." I nodded in understanding, "But I told you I turned the offer down; my word is the best thing to trust. When I say I didn't do it, I didn't do it. I never...Okay before you say anything about my past...I know that from what I can remember I never lied. Okay?" He nodded.
"Anyways if I were goin' to kill you...I would do it myself." I said smirking. "Okay...stop that it's creepy." I looked behind Kurama to see Kuwabara there. "Okay, cry baby I'll stop. I just won't smirk or smile again okay?" He cringed, "Never mind...that would be worse." I snickered at this as Kuwabara left us alone. "Anyway there's no need to worry about dying...at least not by my hand. Now the brethren are goin to be very pissed that I turned them down. You better have a weapon with you at all times, okay?" Kurama nodded. "Hey Dawn you goin' to show me what those bastrads did to my bro or what?" I rolled my eyes. "Your impatients will be your down fall one day." I said playfully, "Yeah well that day isn't to day!" I nodded walking past Kurama to Johnny. "So how's Maria; still a bitching or nicer now?" He glared at me, "Be nice she's not use to being around vampires." I laughed evilly, "But I'm not all vampire." He nodded.
We walked down the hallways to get there; as we did we talked. "Killer told me to move on, and find someone else. But how he thinks that's goin' to happen I have no idea." Johnny nodded, "You to were perfect together. Anyway so how has the runnin' been?" I shook my head, "I was finally caught by Koenma and his gang, but I hate it. Anyway I had got an offer to join the brethren but only if I killed the gang." Johnny looked down at me, "Did ya take it?" I shook my head. "You know I don't really like to kill people. Only when I need to." He nodded at my reasoning. "But the problem is, is that I might a guy named Trent that said he was my cousin on Mom's side, and the ring leader is a guy named Ryan. Do you know who Ryan is?" Johnny nodded. "Yeah...all too well! He's a back stabbing bastrad. Said if I helped him with something he wouldn't kill me or my brother. But look at what his goons did." I was shocked usually Johnny stayed way from vampires; well besides me. "What did you help him with?" I asked him worried.
Killer and his brother were like three hundred thirty years old. So it could have happened three days ago, or three hundred fifteen years ago. I wouldn't know unless he told me. "He had me take out the real ring leader of the vamps. Ryan was this guy's son so he was next in line. He took over and killed this one little girl's parents. I didn't know who she was till I met you...Dawn I'm so sorry." I looked at him.
"You helped this Ryan dude to the brethren thrown to let him kill my parents?" Johnny shook his head. "It's not like that! I didn't know what he wanted...and anyway I just wanted to live like you did. I was young and to stupid to even ask what he wanted the thrown for." I looked at Johnny, "Its okay...it was in the past. I've lived and moved on since then. We learn from our mistakes don't we?" Johnny smiled down at me. "Yeah we do...Thanks Dawn." I nodded, "You're welcome. And as long as we are saying sorrys about the past...I'm sorry about killing your dog...I know you didn't like me after it for a while. And I know I never said sorry about that, so I'm sorry okay." "Already forgiven." He said as we reached the hospital wing door.
I stopped at the door. "You comin'?" Johnny asked me. I shook my head, "No thanks, I saw it once before, and trust me once was one to many for me." He nodded. "It's hard to lose a mate, but you end up moving on anyways." I smiled at him. "Thank you can find your way back to the living room?" Johnny nodded. "Okay see ya there." I turned and ran back. The movie was already off, and everyone was quiet. "You okay Dawn?" Yusuke asked as I entered the room. "Yeah I guess." I saw plopping down on the couch. "What's the matter?" Kurama asked me. "Nothing...I'm just...okay fine I'll tell my new little secrete. Ryan is the ring leader of the vamps, and only reason he is is because Johnny back about three hundred ten years ago helped him on to the thrown by killing the dudes father. Ryan promised not to kill either one of the twins if Johnny did this. Johnny asked no questions about why Ryan wanted the thrown so bad. Goes to find out Ryan was the one who led the thing on killing my parents. Just another puzzle piece of my past put in place." Kurama seemed to look at me with pity in his eyes. "You do know I hate people that pity me, right?" I asked backing away from the three of the ones with hearts.
"Okay, sorry." I nodded, "Its cool." I said looking away from them. "Is there a garden around here?" I asked. I loved gardens, and they made me feel calm. The stupid ones looked at me like I just came off another planet. "Who the hell are you and what did you do to Dawn?" Yusuke asked me. I smiled kindly for a change. "I love flowers; you see I might be a bad ass girl but I too have a soft spot." Kuwabara started laughing, and with that the nice me went away. "What the hell you laughing at, I knocked you out," I held up one finger, "One kick was all it took...at least Yusuke put up a little bit of a fight." Johnny came into the room.
"So you decided to rough house with these guys and not wait for me? Damn and you know how much I love to rough house." I giggled at the way he was acting. "Yeah well you wouldn't have liked to get your ass kicked too. Try to understand Johnny Noname it was only away to understand their strengths and weaknesses." Kurama got wide eyed on the last part. I looked at him questioningly, "What?"
"So you did plan on killing us." I gave him a weird look, "Oh yeah a man in my room came in last night and told me to plan it...whatever! I wanted to know myself so I can help out where you need it most! If I have to be part of this thing then I want my side to win, not there's." Johnny looked at me, "What are they talking about? Don't they know you never really plan on killing humans?" I shook my head. "All they know is I killed some over the centuries and it's starting to piss me off." I said growling. "They really don't know..." I looked at Johnny, "No they don't, and they really don't want to! If you need me Johnny I'll be in my room; sniff me out." Johnny gave a weak smile as I passed him by, and ran to my room. Once in there I sat down on my bed and began to meditate.
(Johnny's pov)
Dawn had just ran off to her room pissed. "You guys really need to understand something. That girl is like a sister to me and in human terms would be my sister in law so listen good! She never really wanted to hurt humans. She actually wanted to be just like them instead, but it can't happen like that. She went a month with out feeding, and almost killed herself doin' that! When we finally forced her to feed since she was too weak to even walk she killed a human that we brought her. She cried holding the dead body for an hour...She didn't even know the guy, and she still cried. Tells you how much of a heart she has doesn't it?" Kurama looked down at his feet. "She wants to help destroy the half of her that's after her...not kill you; if she wanted to kill you she would have done it already! I don't appreciate the way you're treating her." No one looked me in the eyes.
"She doesn't remember a lot of things, but killing humans isn't a thing she enjoys...now vampires and some demons yeah, but it depends if they've done something bad or just trying to kill her. So try to back off!" I said happy with my little speech. I then turned and walked towards Dawn's room.
(My pov)
I heard someone coming down the hall, but waited with a dagger by my side. I held it in my hand. As soon as the door opened I threw it at the door. "Damn you almost got me." My eyes went open. "I'm so sorry Johnny. I thought it was someone else." He nodded.
"The thing is kid the suns up...you'll be okay for another couple of hours." I nodded, but then looked away. "I actually wanted to scare some of them. I hit the way they act around me. Like they never hurt or killed someone. Maybe not for blood but other things. I don't like being treated like a freak." Johnny nodded, and sat down beside me. "I know what you mean, but it'll all work out some way. And you know something...I think one of them like you. Not sure what one, but I got the feeling like one of them really liked you." I smiled.
"Yeah well I don't trust anyone with my heart right now. All I need for now are friends, and I don't even have that." I looked down at the floor over the bed. "Yeah you do...you at least have me." I giggled, "Yeah then where were you yesterday?" He looked at me confused then like he remembered something, "No...Really! I forgot all about your birthday!" I nodded, "Yeah I did to for a little bit. Koenma said Killer told me happy birthday." Johnny nodded, "Okay, we'll do something later. But I'm goin' to be here for a few days...so you're not goin' to be that lonely." I smiled. "Umm...You go do something while I go for a walk okay?" He nodded as I got up off the bed. I ran off, and out the back door. I ran around the palace till I found the garden.
I walked in there happy to be around flowers, and to see new plants to me. I was smelling a white rose when I heard someone behind me. "So what's your favorite flower?" I turned with a dagger in my hand. I looked at Kurama, and put my dagger away, "Don't do that! I hate when people sneak up behind me!" Kurama nodded, "You're on edge...why?" I shrugged, "Besides the fact we might have a bigger attack tonight I don't know. But there's some things going on I think...I'm not sure what, but some are." Kurama nodded again. "How would you figure...Nothing has happened yet?" I shrugged then I heard this little beeping noise. Kurama pulled out a compact powder case, and pushed a button. "Yes?" Kurama asked. "Koenma needs us in his office." He nodded pushed another button, and put it back in his pocket. "Shall we?" I just ran off to the office.
Once there we waited for Kurama to come in. Once he was in Koenma briefed us about the mission. A girl was a TV. "I need you to find this girl. Her spirit energy is drawing demons to her. I don't know exactly but she just kinda popped out of no where." I looked at the girl, but what didn't seem right is she looked so pure and innocent. "She's an angel...a fallen." I stated. "How would you know!" Yusuke asked me. I walked over to the TV. I pointed to her face. "I've known people to look innocent at times. Koenma got anymore shots of her?" He nodded, and gave me them. "She looks this way in every one... Now how strong is this spirit energy?" Koenma's eyes got wide, "Pretty strong...enough to kill all of you." I nodded. "No mere human with Spirit energy can do things like that. Demons never look innocent and pure. They may try to be but that doesn't happen to be in a photo every time." I stated looking back at the guys. I looked at one picture of her when she was in the woods. "And this picture just proved I was right." I said handing it to Kurama. "But how did you know?" I smirked, "I had my fun with one before. They may look helpless, but trust me that's just a mask. If she is powerful enough to kill she must have been a guardian. And I say if the demons are comin' after her they either want that power for themselves, or they want her to help them with something." They all looked at me weird.
"I had a job before as a detective...school just kept repeating the same thing over and over again." Yusuke smiled at that, "So there are people who think that." I raised an eyebrow at him, "I had went to school for a century. I think I learned enough." His eyes went wide. Kurama even looked shocked. "You liked school that much?" I shrugged, "You learn something new everyday but not always there, and no I didn't; it just gave me an excuse to get out of the house." Yusuke shook his head in disapproval. "Well you try havin' an over protective mate. I loved him to death, but a girl has to breathe. So it got me out of the house. And I really never could sneak off because Johnny always made sure I was doin' what I said I would be doin'. This was when the attacks on me were worse then they are now."
Kuwabara's eyes went wide, "You're tellin' me that the attacks on you now aren't the worse you've had." I shook my head. Johnny walked in after knocking on the door. "I thought I heard my name." I turned to him and looked at him coldly. "Damn girl don't look at me like that!" I glared at him then, "You know I don't take orders unless I want to, and I know you were bein' nosy!" I said. He got a sweat drop, "Okay...I know you don't like it, but I want to be in on this." My eyes got wide, but not in shook. But in anger, "No fucking way; Maria would have my ass if anything happened to you!"
He rolled his eyes as if annoyed. "Fine, you take all the fun out of hunting anyways!" I looked back at Koenma, "Do you have anyway to keep him here?" Johnny had a tendency for doin' things people told him not to do. "No...Anyway you guys need to go now!" I nodded as a portal appeared, and the others walked through. "Stay here!" I stressed out before I walked through.
