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AN: concerning one reviewer who said that Kagome shouldn't strap her breasts down and would better that way, I know all this. As I had wrote in the previous chapter while describing her outfit, Kagome straps her breasts down out of habit. And we all know how habits are hard to break. Be patient and there will be changes compared to the former chapters. Plus, the outfit is unisex.
As for the questions of "when will they find out Kagome's a girl?", just be patient enough to find out. 'Cause no matter how much you ask, I'm not giving the answer out. Just continue reading and you'll find out for yourself.
Anyways, in other news, my faithful reader and friends DeathNoteMaker/Shi Kami the Murderous Prodigy made a FanArt of Kagome for this fic XD It was so awesome XD
deathnotemaker. deviantart. com / # / d3ojz2y
Just delete the spaces and add the "http : /" part without the spaces and the link should work. If not, search in her gallery for "Aijo no Kyuuketsuki, Kagome"
Anyways, hope you guys enjoy this chapter that brings a close to 5th Night.
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5th Night:
Dead Man's Remedy Part 2
About two days later, as everyone was about to head home for the day, Riho stood where Suzuhara Naomi had died. A bouquet of lilies rested on the ground, in respect for the girl who jumped to her tragic death.
As Riho continued to stare a the bouquet of lilies, Kagome-kun's words that 'he' said to that older long haired man continued to resound in her head, "I'd rather not take another fix." Then something she heard from another female student about Suzuhara Naomi followed, "They say she was on drugs…"
The young brunette felt so confused and lost that she didn't know what to do. But she was also hurt from the sight she saw when she caught Kagome-kun and the man 'he' was with in such an intimate embrace.
And if she hadn't known any better, Riho almost that that Kagome-kun really did look like a girl being embraced by a man she loved.
The feel of someone resting a hand on her head made Riho jump before she heard the familiar voice of the 'boy' she was thinking about, "Yo. How's it hanging?" Turning to the person behind her, Riho was surprised to see Kagome there at school during after-school hours.
After leading Kagome to the photo studio of the school, Riho asking Kagome to make 'himself' comfortable while she went to getting out snacks and a couple cans of soda. She sighed at seeing that all she had to offer were a couple bags of chips and a box of cookies. And the sodas were really just carbonated Strawberry-Kiwi juice.
With another sigh, Riho guessed it couldn't be helped and started to set the drinks on the table before opening one bag of chips and the box of cookies as Kagome took a seat.
Noticing how pale Kagome looked, Riho asked as she took a seat, "Kagome-kun… you look so pale. Are you eating or sleeping properly?"
Grabbing a potato chip, Kagome answered, "I pretty much sleep during the day unless there are errands I need to run. As for eating… not as much as I used to. I practically cut down to two to one meal a day." She then gave Riho a sheepish smile, "I can't even eat the five large bowls of oden I use to eat. Now I can only eat two large bowls."
Ignoring that last part about the oden, Riho grew worried and pointed out, "Eating one to two meals a day isn't healthy, Kagome-kun! Are you trying to become anorexic and die?"
"It's fine Yamazaki-san. I'm not going to be dying from something like that." Kagome replied before taking a bite into her chip.
At 'his' words, Riho began to think back on the night she saw Kagome-kun being embraced by that older man. The mental image made her heart sink and ache until she tried to ignore it and spoke, "W-what's going on, Kagome-kun? You hadn't shown up for school for so many days and then you show up suddenly during after-school hours."
From outside, Mikako and Shunichi were walking to the Photo shop they knew Riho would be at when they came to a stop at the door, hearing Kagome speak, "Well… the reason I came today… was because I just handed in my Notice of Withdrawal to the principle."
"Withdrawal?" Riho, Mikako, and Shunichi exclaimed in unison as Riho looked at Kagome in shock.
Kagome just smiled softly, "Yeah. I won't be coming to school anymore; I've dropped out." When she noticed that Riho was about to ask for a reason, the miko vampire cut her off, "It's all right… Riho…"
The young brunette blushed at hearing Kagome call her by her given name so familiarly before it was stomped down at the beautiful 'boy's' next words, "I have no regrets about this decision. It's really all for the best."
Although with hesitance, Riho asked, "Is this because… of that older guy you're seeing?"
"… 'The older guy I'm seeing'… you know about Shido?" Kagome blinked confusedly at first before she realized who the girl before her was talking about. She had a feeling the rumors had been going around about her 'male persona's sexuality' but didn't think that anyone really knew.
And as far as she knew, she was still basically single with Shido being her caring sire; her vampiric father despite that she could feel something for him that was more than that but she wasn't going to voice then to Shido just yet. Not until she was certain about those feelings.
Riho nodded with her head down before replying, "I… saw you with him the other day in Chinatown…"
"I see…" Kagome said as she awkwardly scratched the back of her head before Riho asked, "How did you meet a guy like him? And how do you know he's not going to take advantage of you because you're still in your teens?"
Kagome blinked at her again, only owlishly, wondering what brought these questions on.
"Think about it! You would still be going to school if it wasn't for him!" Riho knew that she was saying all this out of jealously towards the man Kagome-kun was seeing, but she really was worried about 'him'. She wanted Kagome-kun to continue going to school with her! "That guy's no good!"
Kagome couldn't help but frown at this, knowing that Riho and everyone else in school didn't know Shido like she did.
"As I said before, Riho, I'm not regretting this decision. It really is for the best."
Riho began to get frustrated and slammed her hands on the table, "Can't you see he's destroying your life with drugs?"
Now this completely caught Kagome off guard, having no idea what Riho meant about her using drugs but she spoke up anyways, getting a little angry that Riho was talking so poorly of the man who had done nothing but supported and helped her after he met her, "I have no idea what you're talking about Riho, but I will not sit back and listen to you speak so poorly of Shido when you don't know anything about him."
"I'm just worried about you, Kagome-kun!" Riho almost yelled, her voice also almost cracking from the frustrated tears she was trying to help back. As she lowered her head, her brunette bangs shadowing her eyes, she asked, "Why couldn't you have come to talk to me? Or even anyone else?"
A pause carried on between them before Kagome's expression softened while replying, "Because I doubt that you would believe me… even if I told you. All I can say is that… we're now of two different worlds and that time has stopped for me. I was granted 'eternity'. With this, I can't really stay in the world I grew up knowing anymore." As Riho lifted her gaze to look at her, Kagome stood from her seat and continued, "And since I now belong to a different world from you and everyone else, Riho… I can only fade in the stream of time and the world of the light, much like a photo that's been exposed to the sun and the elements for so long."
As Kagome made her way to the door, Riho stood to try and stop 'him'. Kagome then opened the door and was met by Shunichi and Mikako who most likely heard everything that she had said. And as she walked passed them, she spoke one last time for her final words to them before disappearing from their sights, "I'll be seeing you around, but you won't see me…"
Riho quickly ran to the door, calling out Kagome's name and searching for her as Shunichi and Mikako were shocked as what they not only saw but what had just been spoken and happened before their very eyes.
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During the wee morning hours, long before the sun was due to rise; Kagome had made it back to Shido's place and was greeted by her vampiric sire and her ever faithful feline friend, Luna. After Kagome took a seat next to Shido who held a wine glass filled with red blood and had his free arm resting on the back of the couch.
With a somewhat tired sigh, Kagome allowed herself to lean against Shido with Luna resting in her lap. Her head resting against the side of his chest, savoring Shido's calm presence as his scent somewhat tickled her now sharp nose.
After a comfortable silence passed between them, Shido offered the small wine glass of blood to Kagome and watched what her reaction may be.
Kagome, not wanting to be rude or allow the blood to go to waste, especially when it was most likely Yayoi who was kind enough to spare some of hers for them, took the wine glass. She somewhat ignored the tingle that was there when her fingers and Shido's brushed against each other as she took the glass into her hand and gave a tentative sip of its contents.
Feeling it's cold temperature on her fangs, Kagome gave a wince that looked like a grimace to Shido, making him look worriedly before resting his hand on hers that still held the glass and asked, "Are you starting to regret it?"
"About me being a vampire now?" Kagome asked, trying to make her fangs stop hurting from the cold blood before answering, "No, I'm not regretting it. I understood what sacrifices I would have to make when I asked you to turn me. Although… I don't think I was really able to give up much, like no longer being able to walk in daylight, never able to eat my favorite Oden ever again, and such but I still don't want to take a chance. It's the reason why I turned in my Notice of Withdrawal to the principle at my school… so that I could prevent from revealing what I am."
The miko vampire then gave a rueful laugh with a smirk as she combed her fingers through Luna's soft fur, "And since I now have all the time in the world, I can finish school any time I please while watching over Sota and even attend Night Classes if I wanted. And if I were to attend college throughout my vampiric years, studying various subjects like medicine and even Anthropology; occupations that would take years of college courses to learn of." Her voice then turned soft as she pointed out, "Besides… how can I regret this gift you've given me? With you being my sire, I'm basically your fledgling; your family. Just being that close to you and knowing that you care is all that happiness I could ask for."
"Then why…?" Shido left his question unfinished, still worried about Kagome having second thoughts about allowing him to turn her.
Kagome gave a sigh before answering, "In complete honesty, what I feel is more of empathy than regret. I told you about my travels to the past and about how Kikyo was brought back from the dead…" taking Shido's silence as a sign that he remembered, Kagome continued, "Well, after Kikyo was brought back from the dead, she was no different from a vampire. The only differences were that her body was made of clay, her remains, and soil from her grave and to sustain her, she had to absorb the souls of deceased women."
Shido nodded, remembering the night Kagome told him that since she was now under his care, he had the right to know everything able her. Including how she came to be in control of her powers and why she wasn't so shocked about Night Breeds, as well as how she came to her knowledge about certain demonic beings. Although her story about being able to travel back five hundred years and through a well, no less seemed a bit farfetched but it did explain a few things considering the knowledge she had of her powers, Japanese History, and the like was somewhat lost to modern times.
At Kagome's next words, Shido continued to listen, "After I've now turned into something that's neither dead nor alive, I can't help but understand how she must've felt while wandering among the living. As the world continues to change and move forward, the both of us are frozen in time. We stay unchanged until we fade from time and just become onlookers of history and becoming relics of the times that use to be ours. I guess that's where the wise saying of 'Eternity isn't about living forever, but what you do with the time you have' came from."
Offering some bit of comfort, Shido took the glass in her hand and wrapped his arm around her shoulders, gently speaking, "Get some sleep. Even though I know you can't be harmed by the sunlight, you've been up for most of the afternoon and evening and you need your rest."
Kagome gave a soft chuckle before lifting Luna close to her chest and moving herself to lie on her back with her head resting on Shido's lap. Once she felt Luna get comfortable again, Kagome relaxed some as she closed her eyes as she felt Shido lean over her to set the wine glass on the coffee table before sat back and began to comb him soft fingers through her bangs.
But her relaxed expression soon turned slightly troubled and Shido took notice before stating, "There's something else that's bothering you…" at her nod, he asked, "What is it?"
"I got a call from Souta on my cell… while I was MIA this past week…" Kagome started as she subconsciously rub Luna behind the ears.
Shido could see that something was really troubling her. Having a hunch on what it could be if it involved her younger brother, Shido gently urged, "And? What did he say?"
"… He said that… he'd like to spend his first month summer vacation with me. A few days after his school lets out, he'll be heading here to Yokohama." Opening her eyes to look up at Shido, Kagome confessed, "I don't know how I'll be able to tell him about me change. Or even my aunt and uncle in Kyoto for that matter."
The lavender haired vampire thought this would be what was bothering her. Shido knew that Kagome didn't want to keep her brother in the dark about her becoming a vampire since she was so close to him. The same went with Kagome and Souta's uncle and aunt after the death of their mother and grandfather. And he also knew that Kagome didn't want to isolate her self from them and just vanish from their lives. She had more respect for them than that.
Shido didn't know what to say to Kagome about her family's reaction to her being a vampire but could only offer, "… 'Let come what may', right? I'm not sure about your uncle and aunt but with what you told me of Souta's reaction when you told him what I was, I'm sure that it won't bother him so much."
And it was true.
When the boy confronted him to ask if he was really a vampire like his sister had said, Shido could do nothing but be honest with Sota and confirm what he really was. After a moment or two as Souta allowed this to sink in, the boy's reaction was quite the opposite of what Shido had been expecting.
Where Shido was expecting fear and hate, Souta's reaction was of awe, amazement, and curiosity before the boy came to look up to Shido as the ideal man he wanted to become.
'Kagome did warn me about gaining an admirer from her brother. And if he was all right with me being one, I don't doubt that he'll hate his own sister for accepting immortality so that he wouldn't lose her to an early death.'
Despite his reassurance, Kagome couldn't help still worry as Shido rested his hand on her forehead with reassurance, "Don't worry… just tell him when he comes to visit. But for now, just rest. I'll wake you when it's dusk."
Exhaling softly, Kagome allowed herself to relax again but with the help of Shido gentle fingers combing through her bangs and caressing her forehead, she able to doze off until she began to lose herself to the world of dreams.
As the miko vampire continued to sleep with Luna resting on her diaphragm, Shido smiled softly as she turned her head toward his waist in her sleep.
He was glad that Kagome wasn't regretting her decision of becoming a vampire, but was pained that she didn't come to him about what had been troubling her until now.
'Still…' Shido mentally start as he began to caress her right cheek, 'I believe in her enough to work out anything that's in her way.' His sights then lifted to where he had set the wineglass still filled with blood, 'I'm also glad that some of her humanity is still intact. With that, she didn't have to make too many sacrifices…'
With that in mind, he continued to watch his beautiful fledgling sleep with her feline before he allowed himself to doze as well, if only for a while to savor the moment of peace.
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The next day, sometime after the sun had already set, Riho was still at to school's Photo Shop looking through her photos of Kagome-kun that she took for this year's yearbook since 'he' became pretty popular among the students in his short amount of time attending.
As she was looking over another photo, this one Kagome-kun with the best archers in the archery club, the door opened to reveal Shunichi.
Riho took notice of him, watching him walk up to the opposite side of the table from her before he started to speak, "You know what I always found strange?"
At Riho's curious brown eyes, Shunichi continued, "How Higurashi looks far too beautiful to be a boy… especially when some of his mannerisms seemed similar to a girl who was a tomboy. But despite that, everybody liked him. The guys got along with him just fine; the girls adored him and trusted him enough to talk about their problems to him…" Shunichi's eyes then slid to the photos Riho took of said 'boy' he was talking about, "With your photos… I guess the model's image mirrors the photographer's worship. The Higurashi we came to know can never come back…"
"Shunichi-kun…"
After he popped something in his mouth, he set his vile of pills on the table in front of Riho, telling her she could have them. As he stood straight, he offered, "Sometimes there will be moments you can't cope with without a little help… even if that help is something you shouldn't take."
Even after he left, Riho sat staring at the vile of herbal pills before she came to a decision as she abruptly stood, swiping the pills from the table and bolting out the door, not bothering to lock up or even take her school bag.
Once she was able to get the Kagome-kun address to his apartment from her friend in archery, who was also Kagome-kun's fan through her cell phone, Riho continued to run to Kagome's apartment, passing all nightly pedestrians as she hoped, 'Wait for me, Kagome-kun! I'll bring you back for sure… in our world, back to the way we use to be!'
As Riho continued to run desperately to Kagome's apartment, Kagome was there sitting on the floor against the side of the slide door, trying to sort out ways to tell Souta and their uncle and aunt about her change.
On the more bustling side of town, Shunichi was looking exhausted – his thick hair almost sticking against his forehead due to sweat before he started to pass out, becoming an easy target for a Night Breed.
Once Riho was at the floor where Kagome's apartment was and came to 'his' door, the brunette abruptly opened the door catching Kagome by surprise as she was heaving from exertion.
"Riho…!" Kagome was really surprised to see the slightly smaller girl at her apartment, especially when she was sure the only ones who knew where she lived was her homeroom teacher and the captain of the Archery Club. 'So how in the world did she get a hold of my address?'
With a sigh of relief that she was able to find Kagome at 'his' apartment, Riho stepped inside, not bothering to take off her shoes and made her way to where Kagome-kun was sitting.
As Kagome watched Riho step closer to her, the miko vampire grew worried. Not wanting to lose control to her blood hunger, Kagome told Riho to stay away while pushing herself against the glass of the slide door.
But Riho ignored her warnings and continued to come closer, speaking as if trying to get through to Kagome, "Please, come back to us, Kagome-kun!" As she dropped to her knees in front of Kagome, Riho continued, "You don't have to be with that man anymore." She then grabbed a hold of one of Kagome's hands and set the bottle of pills in her palm.
Kagome looked at it confusedly before asking, "What's this?"
Wrapping the vile in Kagome's hand, Riho answered, "Shunichi-kun gave them to me. You don't need to be controlled by that man anymore! You can start anew again. You can go back to being your former self within my photos. Remember how you would always model for me after I gathered my courage to ask you personally for solo photos? Let's start all over again… please… Let's start making more photos."
Kagome continued to look at Riho, not sure what to say and wondering why she was so desperate to get her to come back to school and back to the way things use to be.
Before Kagome knew it, 'No…' she felt her hunger pulsed and her eyes flash a bright iridescent blue and lavender before her pupils became slit like Luna's and her tanzanite irises became lighter and sparkled.
Riho watched slightly confused as Kagome moved closer to her, 'his' lips inching closer to her throat making her blush momentarily before felt something sharp touch the sensitive skin. At feeling the sharp point, she pushed Kagome back confused and startled before she inched away with her hand covering where she the sharp point touch her.
"Kagome-kun…!" Her voice almost died as her eyes landed on Kagome, speechless at the sight of 'his' looking different than before; almost sparkling and glowing like tanzanite gems as they also looked slit like a cat's.
Before Riho could ask any question that had long died on her tongue, Kagome looked at her pained as she spoke, "Didn't I tell you before? We belong to different worlds now." Looking away from the brunette, Kagome stood before continuing, "And even if you look past me not being human anymore… and I understand you feelings for me now… it still wouldn't work."
When Riho was gonna ask what 'he' meant, she watched Kagome move to 'his' basket of clothes before picking up a piece of cloth. The brunette girl wondered what 'he' was going to do with it.
After putting the cloth, which was a strapless and wireless contour bra, to her mouth holding it between her lips, Kagome continued to keep her back to Riho as she started to unbutton her shirt and slide it off before working on the bandages that strapped her breasts down. Once they were off, she went to unclasping the hooks of the bra before putting it on.
From behind her, Riho watch almost disbelievingly as she saw the hourglass figure underneath the black top and even more disbelieving as she saw bandages wrapped around Kagome-kun's chest area before 'he' started to unwrap them. As Riho started to believe that she would see scars, she got the surprise of her life as she caught a glimpse of feminine breasts that were a cup size or two larger than her own before they were covered by the dark cloth that she now knew was a strapless bra!
Once Kagome was finished clasping the hooks of her bra behind her back, she turned to Riho who still sat on the floor but looked at her disbelievingly. Leaning down to pick her shirt up, Kagome spoke, "Yeah… I'm a girl. It wasn't my intention to lead everyone on into thinking I was a boy. But then again, I was never really hiding my gender and people just assumed since I wore the boys' uniform." After she slipped her shirt back on and buttoned it up, "For this, I hope you don't hate me, Riho… but…"
After a pause and walking passed the seated girl, Kagome requested for the brunette's sake, "I ask you… It's all for the best… that you please forget me."
Even as she long since left, shutting the door closed behind her, Riho started to feel her eyes sting from the tears that were almost starting to flood her eyes.
Despite that she felt as if she was played the fool, she couldn't find it in herself to hate Kagome. She loved him, even after finding out that 'he' was really in fact a 'she'. But what hurt her most was that she was wrong about the meaning behind Kagome's words when she had said that they were of different worlds… and also because of this change Kagome went through, she had to leave.
As she tried to hold back a sob and her tears, Shunichi's words from earlier that night echoed in her head, "Sometimes there will be moments you can't cope with without a little help… even if that help is something you shouldn't take."
In her frustration to stop the pain that was aching at her heart, Riho opened the vile, taking two pills from the container and popping them in her mouth with little trouble in swallowing them before her tears slid down her cheeks.
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Some miles away from Kagome's school, Yayoi was driving with Shido and Guni back to the office while keeping an eye out for the Breed they encountered before when said breed, taking on the body of Shunichi landed feet first onto Yayoi's windshield before jumping onto the road behind the vehicle as Yayoi slammed on the break.
"Looks like it went out of its way in looking for us to give a little payback. I'm touched." Yayoi said sarcastically as she pulled out her gun before Guni voiced her agreement and adding, "Guess we've got a vindictive one on our hands."
After unbuckling his seatbelt, Shido stepped out of the car without a word before facing off the Nightbreed that now, compared to its other victims, was now using a male host's body. The host's black hair was short but spiky, his face almost looking deathly skinny and demonic while the skin was a dark lavender color. And his eyes were gold while the irises were slit like a feline's.
When he had shut the vehicle door, the night breed gave a snarl before running at Shido head-on and the lavender haired vampire's teal eyes turned gold and slit before biting his finger and forming his Blood Sword before running at the breed himself, ready to strike.
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Meanwhile, at the school, Kagome was on the roof looking out at the darkened city unable to shake off this horrible feeling since she left Riho at her old apartment. Something was telling her that something bad was going to happen soon. But she didn't know what.
It was one of the many downsides of your gut feeling and instincts.
From the door leading to the stairwell down and into the school, Riho stood beside the open door. Her hands held against her chest, over heart as if trying to ease the pain and looking to Kagome's back longingly, despite the truth she was told about Kagome's true gender. Her complexion looking a little pale after she took those pills…
"Kagome-kun…"
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Back with Shido, Guni, and Yayoi, the breed they were facing nearly slashed at Shido with its claws before the vampire dodged them and Yayoi came aiming her gun at the breed.
Once Shido had told her that he was fine, he bit his finger and created a Blood Whip that he was able to wrap around the Night Breed's waist before pale blue flames engulfed it, driving the breed out of the human's boy's body.
After the flames died out, Guni came out of hiding, asking if they managed to the breed as Shunichi fell to his knees before falling to his side unconscious. As soon as Shunichi's body touched the ground, the breed started to ooze out from the boy in another attempt to escape.
Guni had tried to catch it with her tiny hands but was unable to stop its escape as it left behind a bit of it's self that instantly turned black in the pixie's hands.
Shido, in his worry for the boy who was recently the breed's host, asked Yayoi if he was okay.
"He's fine, just passed out." Yayoi answered before she noticed something in the boy's back pants pocket. After retrieving it, she found it to be a wallet that had a group photo of him, two girls, and the familiar face of Kagome while dressed in Hakama and Haori and holding a long bow.
When Yayoi showed Shido the photo, Shido grew even more worried. But now, it was for Kagome's safety.
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Back at the school, the breed managed to find another host. Not one that was quite ready for the taking but still an available host all the same.
Riho's breathing became erratic as her head started to hurt. When the breed started to take over her body, the young brunette gave a scream as she made her way out the door, startling Kagome from her gazing of the city. Once Riho was outside, trying to fight off whatever was trying to take a hold of her, she fell to her knees while struggling to gain control of her body again.
When Kagome called out her name in worry, Riho told the miko vampire to stay away in fear of hurting her as the top of her uniform shredded a bit as her body changed, her eyes growing wide and red and her skin turning blue while her hands became clawed.
Kagome couldn't help but watch Riho's change with wide eyes while also confused as to how Riho came to be a victim of a breed taking control of her.
"No way… she's turning into a breed?" From behind her, Kagome heard Shido's voice reply as her phased into existence beside her, "It's easy for a breed to take possession of a human while she's in a drug-induced coma."
Turning to him, Kagome asked, "Drugs? But Riho's never taken anything like that…"
As if Shido's appearance had set something off inside Riho, whether it was her jealousy toward him or the Breed's rage and desire for payback, making her dart at not only Shido but Kagome as well. But the vampiric pair stepped away from each other, allowing the possessed girl to pass between them before she almost crashed into the bars that Kagome held on to moments before.
Shido and Kagome continued to watch Riho struggle with her self as Shido again spoke, "A war is raging inside her… two souls – a breed and a human – vying with each other for the same body." As Kagome started to see a resemblance between Riho's current battle with the breed inside her and the Miko's own battle from when she was first possessed by a breed, Shido continued as his eyes changed from their teal color to gold, "To be consumed but the breed and become a NightWalker and endure the nightly hunt for human blood like me or not… She still has time and a choice to choose between the two alternatives."
As soon as Shido had said those words, Riho gave out a shrilled cry before her strength, influenced by the breed, warped the bar fence that surrounded the roof and gave way allowing the possessed brunette to fall with the section of the metal fence.
Reacting to what had happened, Kagome dashed toward where Riho fell from, calling out, "Riho!" Jumping from the ledge without a thought, Kagome instinctively ran down the side of the building before in a desperate attempt to catch Riho jumped from the exterior walls of the building, "RIHO!"
When Kagome managed to grab a hold of the brunette, the miko-vampire held her to herself before memories of Riho taking photos of her during their first outing together flashed through Kagome's mind. Before her eyes changed to their bright iridescent blue and lavender with slit pupils, Kagome gave a silent apology to the girl in her arms as she bit Riho's neck, draining the breed from the girl's system.
After the metal fence hit the ground with a loud 'bang' and 'clatter', Kagome landed softly before leaping to the side, away from the warped metal with Riho cradled in her arms. At the foul taste of the breed in her mouth, Kagome almost gagged before spitting the breed out of her mouth as Shido levitated to the ground, not too far from her and was able to dispose of the breed with his blood.
As soon as it was gone in a burst of blue flames, Riho started to come around, opening her eyes to the Kagome looking down at her. "Kagome… kun…"
While relieved that the girl was alright now, Kagome couldn't help but give a rueful smile before speaking, "It's kinda funny, huh? With me being a vampire. And before my change, all this time, you fell in love with a male version of me that I wasn't really encouraging…"
Struggling to sit up, Riho spoke, desperately trying to persuade Kagome to stay, "Vampire or not… girl or boy, it doesn't matter to me anymore! Let's continue to make beautiful photos of you! I… I want to immortalize everything you are… from your smile right down to the beauty your very soul!" Although, still trying to persuade Kagome to stay with her, Riho's voice softened, "And even though you're a girl, I'm still…"
Gently stopping Riho from finishing her love confession, Kagome spoke as she stood, "I'm sorry, Riho… although I'm still free to walk under the same sky as you, I don't want to risk endangering you, our friends, or even the existence of what Shido and I are. Like a well taken care of photo, my kind is eternal… but also exactly like a photo, I'm frozen in time… never changing, never truly dead. So with this, I can only ask that you allow me to fade from your world…"
And with one last goodbye, Kagome made her way to Shido, who had been listening to every word. Before he could lead Kagome away, the Vampiric Miko called back to Riho, "You know… just because you can't forget your first love, it doesn't mean you can't find a new one to spend your life with. You can still get another chance at love." Turning Riho, Kagome smiled softly, suggesting, "Why not try finding it with Shunichi-san? I think the main reason why he always seemed to hate me was because I seemed to always be in your thoughts. Why not give him a chance?"
With that last gentle advice, Kagome allowed Shido to lead her away from the school… and away from the heartbroken Brunette, who, although was hurt by her first love leaving, knew that said first love was telling the truth about her first love didn't have to be her only love.
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Once outside the school gate, Shido and Kagome found Yayoi parked just across the street waiting with Guni for them. As the pair made their way across the street and to the Pixie and NOS woman, Yayoi nodded to them before opening the door to the drivers side of her car and getting in as Shido opened the passenger door and allowing Kagome to slip in before he got in himself.
The drive back to Shido's place was a quiet one before Kagome leaned forward, resting a hand on Shido's shoulder, asking, "Shido…" when the lavender haired vampire glanced back at her, she continued, "Will… it be all right if I let Souta stay with us at the office during the summer?"
"Of course, it's fine Kagome. Why do you ask?"
Looking down, almost appearing to be hesitant to say, Kagome sighed before answering, "Since I plan on giving up my apartment… I just wanted to ask if it would be okay for Souta to come by during the times he visits. And… well, I… plan on telling him what's already happened… about me being a vampire and such…"
Shido's expression showed his surprise before it relaxed into a gentle smile. Lifting his hand, he rested it on Kagome's that still rested on his shoulder silently giving her his support as he assured, "When he comes… and you tell him everything, I'll be there to help."
With a thankful smile of her own, Kagome rested her head on their joined hands and allowed the comfortable silence to engulf then as Yayoi continued to drive, but with a knowing smile that Guni also had as she glanced at the vampiric pair next to her.
Part 2 of 5 th Night, now complete. And now, I think I deserve a well earned break. I'll try to work on 6th Night as soon as I can but I can't make promises. I do have a lot of other fics to update as well.
Anyways, I hope you guys enjoyed this and I'll try getting to work on 6th Night as well as some of my other older fics, along with some oneshots to add to "Lovers of a Miko".