A/N: Have i mentioned how much i dislike Sakura and Ino? well... you pretty much find out in this chapter. R&R!
Disclaimer: I sadly still don't own anyone but Kiara.
That afternoon, the shinobi are finally up and about. They head over to the other house and see the vampires doing various other things. Edward and Bella were sitting at the piano while Carlisle was reading with Esme sitting in his lap. Emmett and the others were playing a board game on the floor with Renesmee. Renesmee looks up then throws herself into Kiara's arms and starts playing with her wolf ears.
"Did you guys sleep well?" Carlisle says, not looking up from his book.
"Pretty good except that interruption from the baka…" Kiara grumbles. "How bout you?"
"We don't sleep." Emmett says with a snicker.
"Oh…" Kiara says. "Ok…s-sorry…"
"It's fine, you didn't know." Esme says, smiling up at Kiara.
"Play with us!" Renesmee says to Kiara.
"Uh… th-that's fine. You're in the middle of the game." Kiara says.
"You afraid to play with a little girl?" Emmett says teasingly.
Kiara's ears go back and she bares her fangs at Emmett with a snarl. Emmett lifts his hands up in surrender while the rest of his family sigh and shake their heads.
"You really enjoy ticking her off don't you?" Kaze sighs.
"It's amusing." Emmett says, ginning at Kiara who snarls at him once again.
Kiara puts Renesmee down on the ground then spins around. "I'm goin outside."
Kiara grumbles as she walks out. Sasuke chases after her soon followed by the other shinobi. The wolves also follow after Kiara and after much hesitation the Cullen's also go outside. Kiara turns to give Emmett another snarl and freezes. Kiara's mouth drops in shock and she stares at the Cullens.
"Kia? What's with you?" Sasuke asks before following her line of sight. His eyes widen in shock as he too starts to stare at the Cullens. "Oh."
The pairs reaction causes the other three shinobi to turn and look as well. Kaze blinks then rubs her eyes; Shino's glasses slide now his nose exposing his bright blue eyes while Sai just stares. All of the Cullens are shining, their skin sparkling like thousands of little diamonds. Renesmee is also sparkling but not as much as the others.
"Whoa…" Kaze and Shino say at the same time.
"Why aren't you sparkling?" Renesmee asks, cocking her head at Kaze.
"Cause I'm not like you." Kaze says, shrugging. "I've never sparkled." Shino stares at the Cullens for a moment before wrapping his arms around Kaze's waist and nuzzling her neck. "Uh… What are you doing?" Kaze asks, raising an eyebrow at him.
"I'm lonely!" Shino pouts.
"We're together all the time, how could you be lonely!" Kaze asks, laughing and trying to unwrap his arms from around her waist. "If you're not here, I'm at your house!"
"But we never cuddle anymore!" He argues, frowning as Kiara begins laughing. The Cullens and werewolves stare at the two in confusion.
"Are they going out?" Jacob finally asks.
"Seems so," Bella answers, covering Renesmee's eyes.
"I wanna see!" Renesmee complains, trying to pull her mother's hands away from her face.
"Shino," Kaze sighs, shaking her head. "We slept together on the couch last night, was that not 'cuddling?'" She asks, raising her eyebrow again.
"That doesn't count we were asleep!" Shino insists.
Kaze stared at him for a moment before shaking her head and looking back towards the visitor's. "Anyway, vampires like me don't-WHAT ARE YOU DOING!" Kaze yells, trying to pull away from Shino, who had just bit the side of her neck.
"Forcing you to pay attention to me," Shino answers, keeping her close with the use of his chakra. "You've been severely inattentive since these werewolves and vampires got here and I don't like it."
"D-don't act like a l-little kid, Shino!" Kaze stutters, trying to push him away to keep him from biting her neck again. "Th-this isn't good for my health!" Shino ignores her and continues biting her neck, causing her eyes to turn black and her fangs to push out of her mouth. "You know how this normally ends, Shino! QUIT!"
Shino snickers. "Yea, it normally ends with you biting me, sucking my blood, and no longer feeling ill for the rest of the day!" He retorts, kissing her cheek.
"Shino, when I'm trying to convince people that I don't drink blood, making me crave yours is a bad idea," Kaze states, finally pulling free from his arms.
Shino pouts while Kiara covers her mouth with her hand as she begins to snicker. Sasuke pales slightly and his face becomes shocked horror. The Cullens and the wolves' faces are also covered in shocked horror.
"WHAT?" Sasuke shouts.
"Haha, don't worry Sasuke-kun. Kaze-sama only drinks Shino-kun's blood and because of that, he's probably one of the healthiest people in the village. He's immune to all illnesses and poisons because of Kaze's healing ability. Unfortunately, the others she heals that way aren't immune since it has to be done mouth-to-mouth to work that way…" Kiara explains with a chuckle. Then Kiara's face becomes slyly seducing as she leans towards Sasuke her tail wagging and her ears perked forward. She rests a hand on his chest while the other goes to his back. Sasuke's cheeks immediately flush pink and he stares at Kiara with wide eyes. "Now, even if she does attack you, I'll protect you Sa-su-ke-kun3" she says enunciating each syllable in his name.
"E-Er… th-thank you…" Sasuke stutters. What has gotten into her!
"Hee3" Kiara giggles closing her eyes in a wide smile, making Sasuke blush even more before he looks away.
While Kiara is busy pulling out her seductive side, Kaze pushes Shino towards the house. "Go," she commands, glaring at him with her black eyes and protruding fangs. "Go inside." Shino pouts, not going inside like she said. "Don't make me throw you Shino," Kaze threatens, gently pushing him towards the house. "Go inside." He huffs, but finally goes inside the house as Kaze runs a frustrated hand through her hair.
"Why'd you call him by his first name only? I thought it was Japanese custom to use suffixes and it was considered insulting to refer to someone without one," Carlisle says walking up to them.
"Oh. Well, if you're close enough to someone it doesn't really matter. That and if they give you permission to drop the suffix." Kaze explains her eyes slowly turning green again.
"Huh. I see. So he either gave you permission to drop it or you're so close it doesn't matter." Carlisle muses.
"I've never called him with a suffix and he never fought it." Kaze says.
"Ah. Then what about those two?" Carlisle asks, nodding his head at Kiara and Sasuke. Kiara's still leaning on Sasuke, her tail wagging even more fiercely.
"Kia's not as… daring as I. She'd probably use a suffix on Sausy-chan's name even if he asked her not to." Kaze explains, grinning at her best friend. She shivers again as she remembers Shino's teeth on her neck and touches her fingers together to form a triangle with her hands, taking a deep breath and tilting her head back to stare at the sky as her fangs return to normal. "Um, what's that?" She asks, frowning at the black dot gradually growing bigger above her.
Everyone looks up in time to see something falling out of the sky. Kiara gasps then quickly uses her body weight to send her and Sasuke a few feet away. They both land on the ground with Sasuke on his back and Kiara resting on his chest. Just after Kiara and Sasuke land, figure falls where they used to be. Kaze watches it fall, her expression blank. The Cullens hiss while Kiara leaps to her feet and immediately gets into a defensive posture and snarls.
Lying on the ground is the corpse of a naked person, it's skin a sickly gray color and it body devoid of blood. The Cullens continue to stare at the body, they're posture defensive but Kiara straightens up then walks up to the corpse and squats down beside the body, her face grim. Kaze goes to stand beside Kiara as Shino runs out to them, his face panicked.
"Kiara… is that… what I think it is?" Kaze murmurs.
Kiara nods. "Hai… its one of the werewolves I fought the other night." Kiara says then she lifts up her hand and points to a bite mark engulfing a majority of the corpses neck. "See? Those are my fang marks. I smell the boys' blood on it, this is the one that attacked them."
"Did you clean up?" Kaze asks, her voice becoming slightly gruff as Shino's injured form flashes through her mind's eye.
"No. I didn't… I thought it would be ok." Kiara says, standing up her tail twitching nervously.
"There's no blood left in it's body… the only thing that can do this is a vampire but… it's midday and the only type of vampire that I know that can be out at this time is yours Kaze-san, and yet you said that you were the only one left." Carlisle says, looking up at Kaze.
A thoughtful silence passes over the group as they think of an explanation for this. Sasuke's trembling but his face is not showing the slight fear he's feeling. Kiara walks back over to Sasuke and rests a hand on his shoulder. Sasuke looks up at Kiara and she gives him a comforting smile that quickly changes to one of revelation. She stands up and walks over to Kaze, her eyes wide.
"Kia? What's up with you?" Kaze asks, eyeing her friend suspiciously. "You got somethin?"
Kiara slowly nods. "What about those?" she whispers.
Kaze's eyebrows crinkle in confusion then her eyes widen and she quickly shakes her head. "No! Impossible!"
"But Kaze-sama, they're the only ones that fit!" Kiara protests.
"Those are nothing but the fantasies of my crazed grandmother! There's no way that is possible!" Kaze retorts, her voice becoming angry.
"What are you guys talking about!" Rosalie asks, her voice angry.
Kiara spins and looks at them. "Another breed of vampire. A breed that her grandmother wrote about in her book."
"A breed that my grandmother insisted that were nothing but her imagination! She fought that till the day she died!" Kaze retorts.
"That maybe true, Kaze-sama, but what if she had something going?" Kiara says, turning back to Kaze.
Kaze glares at Kiara then shakes her head. "It's just not possible."
Kiara snorts, her eyes shifting yellow. "This is insane." Kiara growls, shaking her head. Her clawed hands become white fists at her side before she looks back up at Kaze. "It's the only explanation, Kaze-sama, I know you feel it to: what I'm saying is the truth!"
Kaze stares at Kiara then starts towards the house, saying that she was going to get her grandmother's book in order to show Carlisle to see what he thinks. Kaze returns minutes later with a withered old leather book in her hand. She runs up to Carlisle and places the book in his hands.
"Here. Read through this." Kaze grumbles. "You'll understand what we're talking about."
Carlisle looks at Kaze through his eyebrows before opening the book and starting to read. Inside in her grandmother's cursive, it describes a different type of vampire. The vampire described is similar to Kaze and her clan but there are also differences. The sunlight doesn't bother them except hurt their eyes, something similar to what happens when you walk out into a bright sunny day after being inside all day. So they could be out in the sun without many problems. They can become tan, unlike Kaze who cannot tan. This type likes garlic and they sleep, like Kaze. But unlike Kaze, they do not crave blood but still drink it, they do not have fangs, they also have normal eye colors that do not change. The biggest difference between these vamps and Kaze is the fact that they live forever. Like Kaze, they can't change others into vampires, they have to be born one and they may loose their sense of reason and kill without a second thought.
As Carlisle reads and Edward reads through his mind, their faces become covered in shock and concern. Once he's done, Carlisle hands it to the others in his coven who also read it and become concerned.
"I see what you mean, Kiara-san." Carlisle whispers. "But by impossible, do you mean impossible like a vampire and a werewolf being best friends or impossible like a unicorn."
"Oh well, we've seen one of those too." Kaze and Kiara say at once.
Everyone else, but emotionless Sai, blink at them dumbfounded by what they just said. Then Carlisle quickly shakes his hand and looks back at them.
"But what I mean is that it, is, not, possible. Like at all." Kaze says, waving her hands in front of her in a 'nada' signal.
"I'm tellin ya it's the only explanation! Cause you didn't do this, none of them did this and it was done recently!" Kiara says firmly as she crosses her arms, her eyes and nails back to normal but her fangs staying like usual when she has her ears and tail showing.
"How bout we jut wait it out." Sai pipes up. Every turns an looks at him, making him squirm uncomfortably. "Y-You know, just wait till we know for sure what exactly we're dealing with."
"But… something might happen to the villagers." Kiara whispers, her ears going back in concern.
"That's true and we don't want the innocent hurt." Carlisle says. He looks over his shoulder at Jasper. "What do you think we should do? You've got more experience with this than us."
"Hello, what does that make us, dirt?" Kaze growls, waving to Kiara. "We are the only ones defending our village against vampires and rogue wolves for a while now. We know what we're doin too."
"I didn't mean any offense!" Carlisle says, lifting his hands in surrender.
"I agree with that pale male." Jasper whispers, pointing to Sai. "I think it's a good idea to wait it out."
"The villagers-" Kiara starts but is stopped when Kaze swings out an arm in front of her. Kiara looks at Kaze her face confused. "Kaze-sama?"
"If something happens we can take care of it easily." Kaze murmurs. "Lets go back inside for now."
The group walks into the house and sits around in various places on the floor. Shino sits down on the love seat then quickly pulls Kaze into his lap and holds her captive. She eventually gives up and relaxes in his arms after a few minutes of squirming against his grip. The wolves and the Cullens sit on the floor chattering absently, mainly the Cullens asking Jacob and the others what exactly that corpse was earlier. Sai lies down on the floor and promptly falls back asleep. Kiara stands in front of the window, her arms wrapped around her self, her face obviously worried. Kaze spots her then nods towards her at Sasuke, wordlessly telling him to go to her. Sasuke nods then walks up behind her and wraps his arms around her and rests his chin on the top of her head. After a few seconds of standing like that Sasuke grabs onto one of Kiara's hands and moves his chin to her shoulder.
"Come walk with me, Kia." He whispers in her ear making her shiver. She turns around and looks up at him, resting her hands on his chest, her face still worried. Sasuke gives her a sad smile then nods towards the door. "C'mon."
Kiara returns his small smile then nods. Sasuke takes her hand once again and leads her out the door and into the village. The pair walk around the village, hand in hand, ignoring the odd looks from the villagers in reaction to Kiara's ears and tail. Kiara eventually grabs onto Sasuke's arm and leans into him. Sasuke smiles down at her but doesn't do anything to stop her.
Suddenly Kiara's head is jerked back as someone pulls on her hair from behind. Kiara cries out in pain and lets go of Sasuke in order to grab onto her head in pain. Then they look behind Kiara to see a very angry Ino and Sakura.
"Don't hang on Sasuke-kun like that brat." Ino growls her hands on her hips
"He's ours! Not yours!" Sakura chimes in.
Kiara steps forward to speak but Sasuke yanks her back with an arm around her shoulders.
"Kiara is the only one for me. Don't you hurt her." Sasuke growls, his face dark with anger. Kiara looks up at him, her face bright red then she looks down, a small smile on her red face as she places her hands on his arm around her.
"B-But Sasuke-kun… look at her… she's obviously not human… why choose her?" Sakura asks, her face sad.
"Because she's all around better than the two of you and anyone else put together. She has done a lot for me and for this village." Sasuke explains. "Now, if you'll excuse me, I'd like to get back to the date with my girlfriend." Sasuke says turning around with his arm around Kiara's small shoulders.
Sakura and Ino glare at Kiara's back through their angry tears.
"I don't understand why that freak gets him." Ino whimpers.
"I agree with you there." Sakura mumbles.
"Geez, hopefully they'll leave us alone now." Sasuke grumbles under his breath. He looks down at Kiara, his face apologetic. "I'm sorry about that, how's your head? Does it still hurt?"
Kiara shakes her head then looks up at him, her face shining with happiness. "No. Thank you for asking."
Sasuke smiles at her then squeezes her to him. "No problem."
"I always figured Sakura only hung out with me only to get to you." Kiara whispers, staring straight ahead. "I tried to ignore it but it was still painful. Heh, Kaze-sama and I never really cared for her. Sakura forced herself on me and you and she constantly made fun of Kaze."
"She's not really a kunoichi. Just an imitation." Sasuke agrees. "But Kiara, no matter how good she becomes, if ever, I want you to know that… that well… she could… never take your place." Sasuke says, turning red. He rubs the back of his head then looks at her. "I guess I'm trying to say I love you."
Kiara's face quickly flushes then she smiles at him. "I love you too, Sasuke-kun."
Sasuke pulls her to him then kisses her, right in the middle of the street. Soft chuckles along with mutters from the villagers don't bother them. Then the sound of a throat being cleared somewhere behind them, causes the two to break apart, blushing madly. They look at each other and snicker slightly before heading back to the house.
They go inside the house just long enough to change into their swimsuits and grab a towel then walk out. Kaze snickers knowingly and Edward smirks to himself then grabs onto Bella who gives him a confused look.