Snow: Well here we are at chapter two.

Rain: About time

Snow: Well I can say that I had this chapter written for a while it just didn't get typed out until just well I don't know when but I do know that I just got it in my email inbox the day I posted it so yeah.

Kaden: -reading ahead- Why is…

Snow: -stops her- Don't rune the chapter for everyone else, you old grumpy bat.

Kaden: -sends a death glare to Snow-

Rain: -drinking something that smells strong then looks on a clip board- Umm….who's turn is it to say the disclaimer?

Snow: I don't care who do it.

Duo: -raises hand in a school kid kind of way- I'LL DO IT! -clears throat- Snow and Kaden do not own a thing that is used in this story other than a few OC's and Snow owns the plot

Kaden: Good boy -pats his head like a dog-

Chapter 2

The First of Many

Kaden

I am lying here the last few minutes with him. It had been fun, but he is a mortal, due to die in a few decades and I can't help him. I've offered, but he refused. Said it would take away his power and magic. Doesn't make sense to me, but I'll let him stay with his decision. Besides, he says he has to find some sort of jewels for some rich guy.

His warmth beside me may be something I miss, but then again, he will be back; he always is.

I get up and get dressed. Finally, after placing my last little surprise in its proper position, I re-braid my hair and head out. I stop just as I'm about to walk out. Something is telling me to look back, get one last glimpse of him before I leave. But why?

Break!

That was a year ago. He's gone. I just know it. Not dead, no, definitely not dead. Just…gone. Probably back where he belongs.

Traveling sucked, but I needed to go to the cavern where my stone and only treasure was hidden. It was where I had met Orphen. Irony, huh?

I am almost there when:

"What the hell is going on here?" I ask aloud. It was dark out, but someone was authorizing the building of a castle? Over my cave!

I don't know what dumbass bastard has these people building this, but that someone has royally pissed me off. I could feel my fangs elongating as my temper rises.

I feel a powerful aura to my right and curse at my incompetence. I know that my anger has gotten the better of me once again.

"Who do you think you are? Why would you block such a natural beauty such as this?" And why would you block my cave? I added silently.

The man just looks at me, raising an eyebrow. His whole body just demanded Snow: You to touch every bit of him? Kaden: I was thinking more along the lines of respect, you lust-crazed neko. Snow: Oh, ok. You may go on, then. respect.

"These are my lands to do as I wish. I am the lord here, after all," he said, as if it was meant to make me regret snapping at him.

So this is the new lord of these lands. Young, most likely just a puppy whose just been given a bone after his daddy died.

"Is that so?" I asked, all the while trying to hold back my true insult. "Pup, if I told you that you have offended the entire vampire race by your actions, would you care to hear it?"

"I'm sure that you don't think very highly of me, woman, but I like liars even less than you like me. There are no vampires left in the world. They were wiped out centuries ago."

Okay, so he wasn't as smart as I first thought.

Duo

I wake up feeling weak and a sharp pain stabs me on the left side of my neck. In my mouth, the taste of blood lingers and won't go away.

Standing, I walk carefully to the front of the cave. I step outside in the daylight foot first, immediately draw it back into the shadowed cave, the tip smoking. As I watch the smoke rise from my foot, the first thought that comes to mind is:

"Kaden." I sigh. "At sundown, I begin to hunt a new prey."

Orphen

"Cleao, step off," Orphen said, pushing the girl away from him.

"But you have been missing for so long and I just wanted to welcome you home properly! What is the matter with you, Orphen? I just want to show how much I've missed you!"

"Well, I don't want your scent on me."

"Scent, master? What does her scent have to do with anything?" Majic asked in his usual, sweet, little way.

"Kaden would kill me…" Orphen trailed off, realizing that he probably shouldn't have said anything about Kaden.

"Kaden? Master, who is this Kaden?"

Snow: Sorry for this, Kaden. Cleao didn't even wait for his response. "Why would some guy care if you had my scent on you? Why would he get close enough to smell you…unless…Oh my God! You're not gay, are you, Orphen? How could you do this to me!"

Orphen raised his brow in a very Kaden-ish manner and debated telling her that she had made a serious mistake and that Kaden would kill her if she had happened to hear her.

"Listen, wanna-be. I am not gay because Kaden just happens to be a woman. And she would be able to smell you on me a mile away. I like my balls where they are, thank you very much."

Majic and Cleao looked shocked. They looked at each other, then at Orphen's retreating back. The same thought ran through their heads. Who could have Orphen in such a knot?

Duo

Watching Kaden for so long really helped me with this whole being change thing, even if she wasn't here right now. Cy wouldn't tell me where she was, but being part vampire, herself, she told me a bit about the new me.

I look up into the sky, my hands behind my head. "At least I can live to see my old time again. I wonder if I'll be able to see Deathscythe again. I really miss my old buddy."

I keep wondering about what the next few lifetimes will be like, but nothing immediately comes to my mind. Only time would tell.

Kaden

Again, I find myself at this damned temple. Without even looking at anyone, I soon enter Cybryss' personal study.

"Kaden-san, what can I do for you today?"

"Boredom has overcome me once again in the last year, old friend. How is the brat doing, by the way?" It was as I said this that I caught the scent.

"If by brat you mean me, the I'm great, Kaden-senpai." A voice said from behind.

Duo

I had planned on asking if I could stay at Cy's place when Kaden came in. I never really meant to be hidden from her, it just happened.

When she asked about me, I stepped out in a way most actors would if they were in a spy movie.

"What happened to you?" I heard her ask.

"Simple. I was bitten, then changed." My smile felt like it must have been something like the one I used to use on Heero.

Kaden

How could he be so…so…so damn hot? His scent is even making me want to be scooped off my feet and…no! I am not some young girl just reaching the age of marriage She means schoolgirl :D

I pull myself back together before I speak. "So, Duo, welcome to the night," I say to him. My feet must have moved on their own because I was closer to him now. No, I correct myself, he came to me. Bowing low, he spoke.

"Kaden-senpai, thank you."

Duo

I bowed and thanked her. Why do I feel like I need to drop to my knees and beg for something that I don't even know about.

During my travels after I had finished protecting the village, I met a couple. They claimed to be life mates, a.k.a., soul mates. They said that the pull was so strong that they couldn't stand being apart for very long.

Was that what this was? How can one have a soul mate without a soul?

Little did I know that I had asked my last question out loud.

Cy

I watch the old student and teacher face each other. I could have sliced the sexual tension between the two with one of Kaden's many blades.

"Vampires don't have what you would call 'soul mates,' but time tends to throw us life mates and strongly-bonded lovers."

He looked at me quizzically as I said the latter part. Obviously, my last statement hadn't made any sense to him. How should I explain it? And what else should I tell him?

"Well, after being mated, vampires are still able to take other lovers if they and their mates can come to an agreement and the mate and lover can share the vampire."

(Rain: Foreshadowing, much?

Snow: -Looks over shoulder- Umm, shut up?)

Kaden

Would Duo and Orphen be able to share? Wait, where the hell did that come from? Orphen was a fling and Duo still needs to wander the world as a creature of the night before he settles down by any means.

Sighing, I make sure that my uncaring mask is in its place.

"Cybryss, no need for the sex ed class. Some of us area bit busy."

"Then why did you come?" Good question. I guess I just felt the need to be here.

"I can go where I please." I say out loud, a bit harshly. I give a slight shrug of my right arm.

I turn to Duo, who took whatever I said to be hilarious and was even now laughing.

Duo

Laughing my ass off, I look Kaden in the eye.

"You know, I guess I still believe that six years would change someone. Proven wrong, yet again." I started to calm down, but at a very slow rate.

"Are you done making a fool of yourself?" Cy asked politely.

I turn to her to answer her question when there is a knock at the door. Cy dismisses herself and leaves Kaden and myself alone.

Kaden

Damn you, Cybryss. "So, how has your last few years been?" I ask, pouring myself a drink.

"You answer first…you know, I can still smell him on you." My eyes widen. "Don't get me wrong. I know I have no right to say that, but I am American."

"A-what?"

"Never mind. Ask me in a few centuries."

Duo

"Why do you care?" I hear her ask.

Why did I care? She wasn't my mate, but then what that woman had said kept repeating in my head.

(Snow: -Reads last chapter- Oops.)

"Good question. I guess you can say that I have the love of a student usually has for a teacher," I say, hoping she would believe my half-hearted answer.

Of course, I neglected to take into account that this was Kaden Cegali I was lying to.

"Don't lie to me."

Orphen

"Damn, fucking withdrawal." I growl to myself. Every time I try to do something, I would think of Kaden. Sometimes it was her standing on a hill looking at the stars in full combat gear, while other times it was her standing with her hair down and she was wearing a whole hell of a lot less.

"Orphen, you have been off lately. Are you okay?" I turn to the girl across the table from me. The one who hadn't stopped nagging me since I had come back.

"Cleao, maybe we should leave him alone with his thoughts," my apprentice said, taking Cleao by the arm and leading her away.

That's right, Majic. Take the loon away from me. Sighing, I close the text I was reading and place my head on the table.

"Kaden. Why is it that I can't forget her?"

"You're in love." My head shoots up at the female voice.

A not-so-tall reddish brown-headed woman sits across from me.

"Who the hell are you?" I ask, wondering if she is a friend or foe.

"Oh, silly me," she said, hitting her forehead with her hand. "My name is Alex. A friend sent me here to talk about Kaden to you, Orphen."

"How do you know my name?" I ask suspiciously.

"The same way I know you have a small scar on your shoulder blade. I just know."

"So, what do you want to talk about?"

"Could you share Kaden if it was the only way you could have her?"

"Share her?" I asked dumbly.

"With another vampire," Alex said, getting serious for the first time since she had spoken.

"Why would I have to do that? She and I are-"

"Not mated. You were lovers. Damn, but I don't want to talk about that." Sighing, she paused, and then spoke. "I know more than you could ever dream about knowing. Think over your answer and when it is time to answer, you will know." She smiled and stood. Walking back into the shadows, she was soon gone. A portal of sorts. Strange…why didn't I feel it before?

Kaden

"Don't lie to me." I pause. How did I know he was lying? I mentally shrug. Might as well push forward and see if I'm wrong or not. "Now tell me the real reason why you care."

He didn't answer with words, but a kiss. A heated kiss. A very heated kiss. The kind of kiss human girls gossip about and pray for all their lives.

I feel him asking for entrance by a long lick over my lower lip and a nip with his fangs. That was something I with that…what was his name?…who cares. I respond by opening my mouth just enough to let his tongue in.

Cy

I come back to my study to seen the two vampires making out in the middle of the room. Shocked, I retreat and order that no one is to go into the room.

"So many things I could have, should have said," I say aloud, laughing.

Duo

I leave her mouth to leave nips all down her neck. I felt Cy's aura come in, but was too busy to acknowledge it at the time.

"Kaden…" nip, nip, nip. "you're…"nip, nip. "so…" nip. "beautiful." Nip at the juncture between the shoulder and neck, drawing blood. Slowly, I clean the wound with my tongue. She tastes good.

(Rain: Oh, my eyes! They burn!)

Kaden

My eyes widen for the second time today. He didn't! I push him off and touch the mark. He's marked me and he has no clue that he did.

Without a word, I left. Let him think what he will. I had to find a way to fix this.

But did I want to fix it? That kiss was magical and felt right. Or was that just me missing Orphen? That's his name: Orphen. Tall, brown hair with a red bandana.

Dammit, but my undead life just got a hell of a lot more difficult.

End Chapter

Snow: Finally!

Kaden: I sound like a freaking sap!

Rain: Well, you know Snow did write it.

Snow: -Hits Rain on head- Shut it, kitsune.

Tsurai: -Hugs everyone but Kaden- Hey guys!

Kaden: Why are you in my story?

Tsurai: -puppy dog eyes- Can I stay?

Rain: Come one. Let him stay. -can never say no to those eyes-

Snow: Kaden doesn't have the final say on the AN and I say he stays.

Tsurai: -hugs Snow, then turns to reader- If you don't review, Kaden and Snow will be upset. I don't want to have to freeze you because you didn't review. Reviewers get to eat dinner at the bar.

Snow: What about writers?

Rain: You eat here anyway.

Kaden: So far, you guys aren't even born yet, so the bar is but a future event and a figment of your overactive imaginations.

-Snow and Rain stick their tongues out a at Kaden-

Snow: One more thing. The inu was Sesshomaru and Inuyasha's father. If it was Sesshomaru it wouldn't fit the time line.