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Chapter 10

The Present and The Changes

~Iroh's POV~

I found Asami in the Library at school. She was studying for finals which were coming up soon. I walked up to her table. She looked very frustrated; like she was worried she wouldn't be able to study well enough for her exams.

"Hey Asami, getting some studying in?" She looked up and her face lit up with a smile.

"Hi, Iroh! Yeah, but I can't help but worry about my history exam. I'm so terrible at remembering stuff in that class."

"I could help you study, what are you having trouble remembering?" I asked.

"Everything." She said putting her hand on her forehead. I sat down next to her and we talked through what we were studying in class, since I had the same class with her. I'm not too good with History myself, or studying, but we figured out a way to remember a few things together.

I suggested a way to remember things by doing what my father told me when I was in fifth grade, making a funny joke relating to it so I would remember easier. Asami seemed to love that idea and she laughed at some of my ideas. I found myself drawn to her, and her smile began to drive me crazy. It just made her so much more beautiful. We ended up looking in each other eyes and at one point and stopped talking. She quickly blushed and said she needed to head home, and thanks for helping her.

"No problem." I said. I suddenly had an idea. As she was putting her stuff in her bag I got over my nervous pit and put it out there.

"Hey, would you like to go to homecoming with me?" Homecoming was next Friday, after exams were all over. It was probably too early to ask her, but I thought better ask her now before someone else did. I caught her off guard because she suddenly blushed again and stuttered.

"Uh…y-yeah. That sounds nice." She said, with a small smile creeping across her lips.

"Great. I'll see you later, Asami." I said returning a smile, and watched her walk out of the library.

~Asami's POV~

Oh. My. God. Iroh had just asked me to Homecoming. I wasn't expecting that, but I was really happy he had asked me. I said yes, and he said he'd see me later. I turned around and grinned uncontrollably out of the library. I think I was still smiling when I got to my car. I took out my cell phone and found Korra's number, I called her.

"Hey 'Sami. What's up?" Korra answered. I could hardly contain my excitement, so I didn't try to.

"Guess what Iroh just asked me?"

"Hmm…did he ask you out on a date?" She asked.

"He asked me to Homecoming!"

"Oh wow, that's great! I'm happy for you. He seems like a really great guy, you two are perfect for each other." Korra said happily.

"You really think so?" I asked.

"I know so. You need someone like him. I think Mako's going to ask me to homecoming too, if he doesn't by the end of this week I'm going to ask him."

I laughed. She would ask him, it was like her. Korra isn't shy or afraid of nearly anything. "I think he'll ask you. He likes you a lot and you reaaaally like him." I said.

"Yep, I do. I'm totally not going to deny it. Wanna hang out? I rented a few movies I've wanted to see."

"Sure, my place or yours?"

"Mine, my living room is bigger. I'm gonna invite the guys as well." I smiled at that. I wanted to hang with Iroh some more, even though I had just seen him in the library. He was really funny, and a great person to be around.

"Alright." We said bye and I headed over to her house. I was feeling more happy than I had in a while, or since this whole vampire thing had over taken my life.

Somebody had left me a present on my door step last night. I found it when I got home from that creepy lair place. I felt my senses pick up what was in it before I brought it in my house and into my room. The box was kinda heavy. I closed my door, and opened it. Inside was a little mini fridge, a really really small one. I wondered where they got it. I opened the door to it and found blood bags inside. There was 10 of them.

I wondered who had left it. I thought about the possibility of Tahno leaving it then didn't think so anymore, he didn't seem to be the kind of person to do so. Unless he was told to like he was told to change me. I found that it wasn't him a few moments after thinking of that finding a small note tucked in between the bags. I opened it.

Thought you might need these. Here's a little present for your needs. –Ozai

It was written in black in old fancy writing like calligraphy. I sighed, not sure what to think of this "present." I set the mini fridge on the ground next to my bed and plugged the cord into the plug-in behind my night stand. I pushed the little fridge, which was small enough, under my bed so nobody would see it. I dropped a pillow in front of it to be sure.

I ended up feeling the need to "feed" this morning. I hated that feeling, but the thought of blood wasn't so disgusting to me anymore. I was starting to accept what had happened to me, and took one of the little blood bags out of my mini fridge and drank one. It didn't taste as good as Rachel's, but it was still filling enough to settle my "hunger." I shook my head the thought of Rachel out of my head and back to the thought of seeing Iroh at Korra's movie night party. I let the thought of his handsome self run over my mind.

~Korra's POV~

I called Mako after I hung up with Asami and told him to bring Iroh to my house for a movie night. Luckily neither of them was busy. He told me they'd be over soon. Asami arrived at my house first. She told me that she had met Iroh in the school library and that he helped her study for a while. She said it was really fun, and he was very funny. I smiled. It was good that she was enjoying herself today, and finally the vampire stuff wasn't driving her up the wall.

Asami also told me about the present she found on her doorstep last night. I thought it was kind of weird, but I suppose that at least she will be okay in the "blood" department for now. It kind of seemed to relax her that she didn't need to worry about fixing her "hunger."

I'm not gonna lie. The whole vampire thing creeps me out a little. I haven't told Asami that, but I figure she already knows. It doesn't change my friendship or sisterly love for Asami though. I know she needs me through this, and I don't want her to go through it alone. She's my sister and best friend, and I'm gonna stick with her no matter what.

The guys got to my house about 15 minutes after Asami, and I grabbed all the pillows I could find and threw them on the living room couch. I also brought my big beanbag out in case anyone wanted to use it. Mako sat down on it and told me it was pretty comfy. Iroh and Asami sat on the couch and I sat by Asami.

I had rented two movies, and instead of arguing over which to watch, we all decided to watch both. About a quarter into the first movie, Mako joined us on the couch, sitting on my other side. He put his arm around my shoulders after a while, and I leaned against him. I was pretty distracted laying against his chest for a little; it felt good to be close to him. Asami and Iroh cuddled up with each other too, and I noticed Iroh take her hand and hold it. I smiled in her direction, and she smiled back.

It was just a good evening.

~Asami's POV~

I really enjoyed the movie night with the guys. We all stayed around Korra's place for a while talking after the movies and by then it was almost nine. Korra's mom, Senna, told everyone it was time to go home. We all split off, the guys taking off first.

"That was a really nice time. Good idea." I told Korra after the guys left. She grinned and said we should do it again sometime. I agreed. I left myself after that and went home. I took a shower and crawled in my bed. I had nice dreams.

The rest of the week went along pretty well. I found that being a vampire wasn't as terrible as the days passed. I only needed one bag of blood a day, half in the morning, half at night, and I felt pretty good. My other senses also appeared to be getting magnified. My sight for one was a lot clearer, and I no longer needed to wear my contacts. I took that as a plus. Also, it seemed that I had a better sense of touch. I could feel things I couldn't before. Like my fingertips picked up things differently. I'm not too sure how to explain that one, but it just seemed like I was more connected to things.

My skin and hair seemed to be doing me a favor in looking nice as well. I hadn't had any break outs since the day Tahno forced me to change. My hair was growing faster and thicker as well. My eyes seemed even greener. I really liked the green they had changed to. It was dark but had some light spots in the middle. I was hardly ever tired as well, but I still needed sleep.

There were a few bad things I found that came along with the good though. Like when I drank the blood and I saw myself in the mirror. My eyes had turned a dark red as I tasted it, and I was lost to the taste. The first few times I drank from the bags, I hadn't been able to stop, but I found that I could control it after about two days. We'll at least I could stop, if I wanted. My eyes stayed red for a few minutes after each time I drank, but then they would go back to my normal pretty green.

My mood also seemed to spike. It seemed that whatever I felt was in overdrive, but I could also control myself if I went overboard. So far I had lashed out on my parents a few times, but then I had apologized feeling terribly bad about it. My parents seemed to notice I had changed a bit, but I think they just downed it to "teenage drama" and stuff like that. After all, I guess we teenagers are usually over moody anyway.

The news about Rachel had died down a little bit. The police didn't have any suspects, and that sort of made me nervous, but relieved as well. I at least knew nobody was going to come to my door and accuse me of murder, at least not yet. I let myself relax whenever anybody brought her name up, or discussed it at school. At first it had made the extreme guilt flood over me like a river, but I somehow let it go. I learned that I could control my emotions and found I could shut off the bad ones that tried to take over me.

Korra and I sat at our usual lunch table today and talked. Tahno came over and started to talk to us. I ignored him for a bit, but he was persistent. He finally got under my skin talking about how hot I looked today. He had also sat next to me and put his hand on my arm. I grabbed his arm and threw his hand away from me. I heard him grunt in what I could have sworn was pain.

"Ouch, that's quite a grip you got there." He muttered. I glanced over at him and smirked.

"Then don't touch me." I said in a low voice.

"You know you want me to. I overheard you're not doing so well in History, I could give you some private studying lessons if you like. "

I scoffed in disgust. Who did he think he was? I shoved him away from me, earning a second grunt from him. I realized I was hurting him, and glanced down at my hands and smiled to myself. Super strength? I thought. He hadn't been joking around when he said I had quite a grip. Was I stronger than him?

"Go away, Tahno. Asami's not interested." Korra said.

"You don't know that. She could just be being stubborn and hiding it." Tahno said. Korra glared at him.

"Why don't you come with me, Asami? Ditch your best friend and hang with me." Tahno said to me ignoring Korra's glare.

"She said she's not interested." I heard someone say behind me.

I looked over my shoulder and saw Iroh, as did Tahno and Korra. Tahno laughed and stood up. I looked at him, having a feeling a fight was going to start.

"What you gonna do if I don't?" Tahno challenged him.

"I might just need to make you." Iroh responded. I felt the tension between them. I looked to each of them, having a feeling a fight was going to start.

"How about we go outside and settle this, winner gets the girl." Tahno said.

"Like hell, Asami would never go with you." I heard Korra say behind me. Tahno seemed to ignore her and he pushed Iroh backwards, out the side door of the cafeteria, which was right next to our table. Iroh almost fell off his feet, but caught his footing at the last second. Tahno followed him out the door. Korra and I stood up from the table and ran out after them.

"Fine, if that's what you want, bring it." Iroh challenged Tahno back. I had a bad feeling, if Iroh and Tahno fought; I unfortunately knew how it would turn out. I had to do something.

"Come on, hit me. I'll give you the first shot." Tahno said to Iroh.

"How about you guys don't fight at all, it's not even worth it." I said.

"Oh, it's worth it, Asami. This freak isn't getting anywhere near you anymore." Iroh told me, eyeing Tahno. I had to at least appreciate his bravery in wanting to protect me, but I was worried about him. Tahno is a vampire, and Iroh was going to get severely hurt if I didn't stop them. I just knew it.

"Tahno, why don't you take this up with me?" I suggested. Tahno looked over his shoulder at me and laughed.

"Nah, it will be so much more fun to take this guy out myself." He said.

"What? Are you afraid to fight me?" It was my turn to challenge him. I knew it probably wasn't smart, but I couldn't let Iroh get hurt. Tahno ignored me and threw a punch at Iroh, it didn't connect though, because Iroh was fast to dodge, and I figured he didn't use his super speed either like he had after I changed. Iroh jammed Tahno in the gut. I even had to wince, it sounded like it hurt. And I really hoped it did.

Tahno grunted in pain and grabbed Iroh by the throat. He started to squeeze and brought his fist back ready to return Iroh's punch. It didn't happen, because I crossed the few feet between us and grabbed Tahno's arm and gripped it tightly. I felt Tahno wince and I hit his arm with my other hand and I heard a pop. Tahno let go of Iroh and I slammed him backwards to the ground with hardly any effort. I blinked in surprise at my own hands and saw Iroh looking at me in just as much surprise.

I looked down at Tahno and saw that I had broken his arm, since it was now bent the wrong direction. He glared back up at me and kicked at my legs knocking me off balance but I caught myself quickly and stomped on his leg, earning another popping noise. Tahno yelled out in pain a second time.

I smirked at Tahno. "Leave me alone, or I will do worse to you next time." I said, feeling like a badass.

I looked at Iroh, smiled and grabbed his hand. I walked us away from Tahno and Korra ran after us. Once we had walked inside. I stopped and looked at Asami.

"How did you just do that?" He asked me. My smile dropped, and I opened my mouth to say something but Korra answered before I could.

"Asami and I have been going to some self-defense classes. Asami's really good at it." Iroh looked at her skeptically, and then at me. I nodded.

"We've been in them since we were little." I said. It wasn't a lie. Mine and Korra's parents had both put us in defense classes since we were five or six. It was how we met each other. We've been best friends since. We weren't in them anymore though. Iroh seemed to take it as a good answer, because he relaxed a little after that.

"You broke his arm, and injured his leg I think." Iroh said after a few minutes.

"He shouldn't have been touching me." I said.

"When did he touch you?" Iroh said, annoyed.

"Right before you got to the table." Korra answered for me. "Nice blow to his gut by the way, sounded like it hurt."

"Yeah, it did. You really got him." I said. I had the feeling Iroh wasn't going to fully drop this, especially when the news of the fight hit the whole school. Iroh still looked pissed, but I could tell he felt some satisfaction in hitting Tahno.

There hadn't been anybody else around, but I had feeling somebody had to of seen me beat the crap out of Tahno. That person would tell somebody, and then a rumor would start. I was ready for that rumor, especially since it wouldn't really hurt me. I had been the badass in the fight.

~Tahno's POV~

That little bitch broke my arm. I was about to beat the shit out of Iroh. I couldn't help but wonder how Asami was so much stronger than me. I'd tried to push her away but she'd gotten the best of me. I would get her back for this; she'd better be watching her back.

My arm had started to heal already, but a break like this was going to take some more time than usual. Usually I heal in a matter of seconds, my leg did, but the angle she snapped my arm was more than unnatural. I'd had to re-break it then snap the bones back in place.

Newborn vampires are strong, but not strong like her. I can usually put up a fight against them, but I hadn't been able to push her away. I haven't been told the details of Ozai's plan, but I know he has one and Asami is an important part. That means he has plans for her, and he won't have a need for me anymore.

I need to figure out why.

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