InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Loneliness of the Free wind ❯ 'Vampire Lady' and the mystery boy ( Chapter 2 )

Written by: Zelix

Story type: One-shot… or a five chapter one-shot to be precise.

Contains: Sex, romance, drama and slight angst.

Pairings: OC/Kagura

Time and Place: Modern timeline.

Disclaimer: I will never own Inuyasha so stop bugging me with these! Shit, no one is listening… *sigh*

"Talking"

`Thinking'

If this was an OAV or OVA whichever is the right term:

Opening theme: Steve Conte & Yoko Kanno - Stray

Ending theme: Angelic Layer - The Starry Sky

Loneliness of the Free Wind

Chapter 2: `Vampire Lady' and the mystery boy…

Kagura walked the streets of Tokyo, dressed in her everyday clothing for autumn, her brown leather jacket and sky blue jeans, her hair was still tied to a bundle like all those years ago and she wore sunglasses to hide her eyes since there were kids in the park and it was annoying when they referred to her eyes `vampire lady' for her eye colour… summer had ended about a month ago and the weathers were getting windy again… she liked that, the sound of the wind here at Tokyo was nice even if it was not like back at the feudal era, here it was more complex because all the buildings twisted it's sound while back at the feudal era the trees would make sound more simple…

The scents of the big city were at first… really disgusting, I mean, REALLY disgusting… but after a few days of it you can get used to it, it's rather funny how this city alone had so many different scents and odours, most of them were simply repulsive but sometimes you found a scent that was pure and quite enticing… much like the scents in the park, even though there was a lot of thrash and all the scents there were pure, that's where Kagura usually killed time or just relaxed… the time was 16:10 and the winds were calm today.

Kagura sat at a park bench right next to a water fountain and while leaning back to look at the sky she thought: `It's so quiet here… at least today… whenever I look at all the kids running around laughing and see some couples kissing on benches I can't help but feel a very huge feeling if longing and defeat… I never thought I would think like this but… being free and alone is not as good as I thought… it was fun while it lasted but… when looking at the bigger picture I will be alone forever, Naraku saw to that, even if I were to start an relationship with someone, what would I say? `Hello, I'm a wind Youkai from the feudal era and for the first years of my existence I have tortured and treated like a slave and my body is covered in more scars than you can count.' Yeah right… and even if by some miracle I could find a way around all that… I… I don't think I could go all the way… Damn you… damn you to hell Naraku!!'

She without realising while letting her anger rise had used her You-ki to increase the wind to a pretty high level, making people cover themselves from it, Kagura couldn't care less at that point… she was consumed with her hatred towards Naraku and in her mind she replayed all those miserable years under his service and also… `that' day… she wanted to torture and tentacle spewing freak, torture him until his voice would break so badly it would never recover… and as her hate grew so did the wind, making objects fly around and people were barely able to stop themselves from being lifted by the wind, yet no one knew where the wind came from…

Then all of a sudden, the wind just died down, just like that… it stopped suddenly just like it had started… people who had been at the park that time never found out what the cause had been. The silence that filled the park at that time was broken only at the fountain, where a lone female character had removed her sunglasses so she could cover them with her hands and cried silently… no one saw the tears coming from her red eyes or heard the silent sobs and cries she emitted… she was alone, lived alone, existed alone, suffered her pain alone and finally she even cried alone… her state of mind was so battered that her thoughts drifted to this level: `Damn it… this is not fair! If this is what freedom is all about, to be forever alone, I would… rather go back to being Narakus servant…at least… Kanna would be there, someone to share my fate and thoughts with, even if the answers would be cold and creepy…'

Kagura couldn't believe that she was thinking like this, to think that she would willingly go back to that mother fucker… but, what difference would it make? Free, alone and haunted by nightmares or being a servant, never free but at least not alone or surrounded by nightmares… she felt sick, she wanted desperately to kill or break something… then a thought she never thought she would ever come up with or even consider popped into her head: Why not… kill yourself? It's not like someone would cry over her grave or that someone would wait for her in the after world, she would be alone but at least this insufferable pain and loneliness would end… yes, that's what she would do, this would be the last day she would live… when midnight arrives… Kagura the wind lady will disappear from the face of the earth…

Then, those thoughts were broken when a light and tender voice asked from her right: "Umm… excuse me?" Kagura then remembered that she was sitting in a park and quickly covered her eyes with her sunglasses and turned to look at whoever was talking to her, she couldn't see properly because of the tears and for covering her eyes for so long they were not used to the sunlight… but she did make out a male figure, about her size… maybe a bit taller and he was holding out something to her… after a few seconds she noticed it was a tissue and at first she wanted to tell him to piss off, she hated when someone saw her during her weak moments and her pride… what was left of it, told her to always tell those people to piss off but now… now she couldn't careless about her pride so she slowly took and said with a weak voice: "Thank you…" and then proceeded to dry her eyes underneath her sunglasses.

The young man was looking at Kagura with confused eyes, after handing her the tissue he thought to himself: `The You-ki I felt came from around here but it's gone now… I wonder… this woman… she looks a little older than I am but… why is she covering her eyes like that? Could she be the source of that You-ki? No… that You-ki was evil, she doesn't emit any You-ki nor anything unusual… except the fact she's covering her eyes…oh well, to each his/her own… but, why was she crying?' After a watching her dry her eyes and sneezing into the tissue before discarding it into a trashcan he asked with an uncertain voice… he always sounded like this when talking to new people: "Umm… can I sit down?" that's when her head turned and a silence fell between them for a few seconds.

Kagura after throwing away the tissue heard him ask her: "Umm… can I sit down?" and she thought to herself after looking at this young man, who was dressed in a high school uniform (Imagine Hojo's clothing.): `Hmm… now that's a good looking boy,, heh, nice one Kagura, you see this guy for the first time and already decide he's handsome… well, he is, that's a fact so why deny it? Hmm… steel grey neck long hair, black eye brows, nicely tanned skin… his eyes, obsidian black… that's an unusual colour, at least to me it is… hmm… all in all he is very handsome but… his scent is disturbing, it's too… pure… it has a tint of forest and wild berries in it… it's too pure to be from this city… also, he smells human but something is telling me that… he is not… that makes no sense, he has no You-ki so he is not a Youkai and he has not purifying aura around him so he is not a Houshi either…odd… yet, I can't see anything about him that's a threat…' with those last thoughts she said with a not so weak voice anymore: "Yes…" and she scooted a bit so he was not sitting to the right of her, she noticed him put down a pack of books and then take a long breath breathed it out slowly… the movements of his chest were mesmerizing to her… Kagura briefly wondered if there were any muscles underneath that uniform…

She shook herself in her mind, where did that come from? Great… was she THIS desperate for company that she would drool over the very first good looking male she saw?! That settled it, as soon as she got back to her place she would end this miserable existence of hers… fast and efficiently, just like she has learned to do her work…

The young man looked at the woman through the side of his eyes, it's not like he hasn't seen women or girls before, since he was an high-school student… but this one, there was just something… `odd' about her, it was not the fact she was covering her eyes but looking at her gave him a tingling feeling at the core of his heart, it was not unpleasant or pleasant, just… oddly warm and intriguing… he tried to shake it off from his mind but noticed that despite his attempts something told him not to… so instead he tried to distract himself by trying to start a conversation: "Umm… do you come here often?" He asked with a soft, uncertain voice.

Kagura looked at the man next to her, his voice… it didn't quite fit him, he looked like a tough guy who wouldn't take shit from anyone but his voice was soft, uncertain and almost timid… like a small child in a young man's body… but, his voice was also soothing, Kagura swore that as soon as those words left his lips her suicidal thoughts were momentary forgotten… she was a bit uncertain should she answer or not but seeing his eyes averting her as if afraid of being called weirdo or something, she just had to respond… and she did, with a not as soft voice but it held no aggravation or malice in it: "Almost everyday, it's quiet here and I can think without by myself…" she finished with a sigh.

There was a short silence between them before the young man asked with that same uncertain voice: "Excuse me but… this may sound weird and rude but… how old are you?" Right after finishing that one he looked down in attempt to hide his blush but to his dismay Kagura noticed it, she couldn't help but smirk, this guy really was WAY too timid for his looks… yet, now she too was intrigued by this youngster so she answered much to his surprise with an amused and calm voice: "I'll soon turn 19, (That's a lie but It's on the ID card and she looks like a little over 18 so…) why do you ask boy?" she let the `Boy' remark out as a taunt, just to tease him.

He looked at her with a bit more sterner eyes and said with a bit more confident voice: "I'm not a `boy'! I'm over 17! (Then voice returns to timid.)… I was just curious that's all…" Kagura was having hard time suppressing her laughter, this guy really was something else! One second he sounds like a stern, commanding and confident male and the next he's back to this `timid, shy boy routine'… now she was even more interested about him, so she said with a calm, yet warm and amused voice: "Well, sorry if I offended you but you do sound like a little boy and that's quite odd seeing as you look like a tough guy…" After that she chuckled a bit and the `boy' glared at her, yet he too chuckled after a few seconds and said back with a bit more deeper voice: "I know… my dad says the same thing… my mom is more understanding but still my dad has more point than she does… well, my name is Arcerdo, friends call me Arc…" He finished with a smirk.

Kagura calmed her chuckling down and for some reason felt relieved, it had been a while since she could feel this up-lifted, even if only a little it was still amazing that how good it felt to not feel down all the time… she then answered while holding her chest to calm herself: "Arc huh? Cool name, (He smiled at that.) my name is Kagura, you may NOT call me by any nicknames got it, boy?" Arc nodded and another silence fell between them, they just stared at each other for a moment, as if sizing each other up but neither took notice to this, Arc was drowning into thoughts about what her eyes looked like while Kagura was drowning into those obsidian black eyes of his…

It seemed like forever until they noticed that they had been staring at each other and as soon as they noticed this they both turned their heads away embarrassed, yet Kagura kept thinking: `What's is wrong with me? I shouldn't be embarrassed! I don't know this guy and yet I feel like a little girl… which I never was so how in the hell do I know what it feels like to be a little girl? Anyway, just looking at this guy makes me feel like a little high school girl and I've seen how they react to handsome guys… although, it does feel kinda nice to feel like this… to feel like a… I can't put my finger on it but it just feels nice…' Arc too was deep in thought: `I feel like an idiot, here I am talking to woman I don't even know and already I have a crush on her, great… if my father ever knew about this he would never let me hear the end of it… but, this is not like back at school, there were plenty of pretty girls in there and yes, I do feel urges there but… that's just it, it's just a urge, a primal feeling… but, Kagura… she does make me feel that but in a very different sort of way… I should ask my mom about this, because knowing my dad, he would first embarrass me to no end and then just MAYBE tell me about what I want to know…' He finished that thought with a grin, his dad was a real bastard sometimes but he means well…

Kagura and Arc were silent again until she decided to start the conversation again, just to get rid of the embarrassment she felt: "So… you live around here?" She thought right after that one: `Damn it, I should get rid of him now…I shouldn't be even talking to him, especially since I'm going to kill myself later today… or am i? Damn, why am I getting second thoughts now?! Is it because of this… boy? No way… or maybe… AH shut up! Let's just keep focused on the present and see what happens at midnight… if I decide to kill myself I might as well talk to him now, since I may never again get another chance to talk to anyone again, at least in a civilized way…'

Arc turned his head to look at her again and Kagura did the same right at the same time and the instant they're eyes met they looked away again, he answered with a slight stutter: "Y-yeah… my-my home is not far f-from here…" He too thought right after: `Great, I'm stuttering, just like a fucking 15 year old on his first date… wait a minute, I've never been on a date now that I think about it… god, I'm more pathetic than I thought! I'm 17 and yet I haven't gone on a single date! Jeesus, no wonder why everyone is making jokes about me, they must think I'm gay by now… shit… but, it is not that I don't WANT to meet girls, it's just that… whenever I've thought about meeting girls something keeps nagging me at the back of my mind, calling me a traitor… but now, talking to Kagura, that feeling is not there… I really must talk to my mother about this…'

There was a very heavy, uncomfortable silence between them now, then, slowly as their gazes turned to face each other again…

*Bam*

A football had flown out of nowhere and had hit Kagura straight to the back of her head, making her forehead hit Arcs and making her sunglasses drop to the ground while he stumbled backwards on the bench and after a very confusing 6 seconds passed Arc found himself on the ground with Kagura landing on top of him and both groaned from the pain of hitting each other's heads.

Then another young mans voice came from behind them: "I think it flew somewhere around here…" While the voice was getting closer Kagura while keeping her eyes shut due to the pain had already managed to get off Arc and was on her knees on the ground, holding both the front and the back of her head while muttering curses under her breath. Arc was not getting up, he was holding his head with both of his palms and was also muttering about a bloody murder that was about to occur while keeping his eyes closed…

Then the voice came very close and was followed by two other voices, Kagura could smell three guys, no older than 12-13 year olds… boy was she gonna be pissed off, that ball had hurt but it had hurt more when Arcs forehead made a very hard contact with her own, it had felt like being hit with a plate made of solid steel… she only had known three people who had a hard head like that, Inuyasha, Kouga and Sesshoumaru… now a fourth had come forth, Arcerdo…

Arc too was in a similar state, at first glance Kagura did not look like much but now he wanted to take that one back, her head was just about as hard as being hit with a steel pipe… jeesus, how can someone have such a hard head!? The only one with a head like that was his dad… well his uncle also had a hard head like that… but his dad's was tougher.

When Arc managed to open his eyes again he saw Kagura on her knees to his right with her back against him and was rubbing her head and shaking it too… he slowly rose to a sitting position and asked while groaning: "Are you okay?" Kagura did not look at him but answered with a sarcastic voice: "Would you be after being hit with a head hard like a rock?!" He winced because his head was still hurting and said with an irritated voice: "Don't yell you bloody idiot! Being hit by your head is like being hit with a steel pipe! What is your head made out of?!" Before Kagura could retaliate another voice asked them: "Umm… excuse but have you seen our ball around here?"

Kagura praised all the gods in heaven and all the devils in seven hells for this interruption, she looked at the kids with her blood red eyes (She did not realise that her sunglasses were off.) and yelled: "Yeah I have!! It hit me in the back of my head you little shits!!" but she then saw the look of fear and wonder in all three kids eyes and wondered what the hell was wrong with them… then she wondered why was everything more brighter… then she realised her eyes were bare to see and thought only one word in her mind: `Holy shit…'

Arc was also pissed and was ready to yell too but then he saw the look in the kids eyes and also saw Kagura's body getting all tensed up… he did not have time to wonder because then he saw the sunglasses on the ground and before he managed to piece together the puzzle one of the three kids yelled: "It's the vampire lady!!" Arc was stunned and shocked, `Vampire Lady?' that was one of the biggest rumour and gossip of the school, a lady with blood red eyes who wonders in the park sometimes, there had been dozens of rumours on as to how her eyes were red, some said it was because she drank blood, other was it had been a birth defect… there were so many…

Kagura was shocked, this was not good… especially since some other people heard them and were slowly getting closer to try and see what the commotion was all about… this was just what she needed, the day was horrible enough but just when she thought she could have a conversation with someone who actually wanted to talk instead of trying to flirt with her these goddamn kids come and ruin everything! Kagura then heard Arcs voice coming from behind her: "Kagura? Are you really…?" She knew she shouldn't look back, she didn't want to see yet another one who would be scared of her and have his eyes reflect both disgust and terror… yet, she did look back and was ready to cry again when seeing his eyes widen his pupils becoming small due to the shock… so… Kagura did the only thing she could think off, she grabbed the glasses and ran, using her Youkai speed she ran without looking back… towards her home… feeling something she hadn't felt for a long time: Heart pain… heart pain because even if she had met the boy Arcerdo only a few minutes ago, she already had liked him and had without herself knowing hoped that just maybe he would be the one to understand her… she had been a fool, of course he wouldn't be the one… he was just another human after all…

Arcerdo just sat there, going over what he had just seen… then his mind registered the name the kids had used `Vampire Lady'… he remembered the school rumours and gossips… then Kaguras blood red eyes… it all clicked, he had been talking to the real deal… yet, not one of the rumours sounded right, they had said she looked like a ghost, or an old hag… also that she was really evil and mean and lured people so she could kill them later… that can't be right, she didn't have any evil aura around her and she didn't smell of evil either… and… from what he had seen, she was lonely… sad and lonely… a person like that can't be evil, right? His mother had also said that `Even if a person acts mean and does evil things, even if he/she looks evil or does not look normal, look in the eyes and they will reveal his/her true nature…' and even if it had been brief, he had seen her eyes, they looked evil but held no evil in them, only… sadness and grief… pain and regret… not a tint of happiness… only loneliness…

"Hey, mister? Are you okay?" asked one of the three boys, Arc shook his head and saw that people were staring at him, he quickly got on his feet and felt his cheeks heat up, as he dusted his uniform he answered with an embarrassed voice: "Y…yeah I'm okay…hehe…" then one of the boys asked: "You were talking to that Vampire lady right? Did she bite you?" That made him look at the kid like he was crazy, he then answered while feeling anger swell inside him: "What makes you ask that you little squirt?" He also thought: `Why am I feeling so angry? Why are my instincts telling me to defend her? Where is she by the by the way?' As he looked around in attempt to try and locate her the same kid asked with a bit confused voice: "Because that was the vampire lady…? I've heard she drinks people's blood…" Then one of the others added: "I've heard she hides her eyes because if she looks at the sun with them they would burn…" Then the third one: "You know, I've heard that she is over 500 years old and has survived by feeding on people's blood…" Then the first one dropped the final bomb: "Really? Why haven't people gotten rid of her then? If she is someone who attacks others why doesn't anyone do something about it?" that made something in me snap…

For the first time in my life, I did not feel like being timid or polite, I wanted… to rip that kid into pieces for insulting her like that… what was wrong with me? Then as the crowd began to whisper things that were quite similar to the one's the kids had been saying… then I suddenly yelled without thinking: "SHUT UP!!" It sounded more like a lion roaring than yelling but at least it had the wanted effect, they DID shut up… I then got caught in the moment and kept `roaring': "What the fuck is wrong with you people?! Assuming all those things like THAT?! Have any of you actually talked to her or even tried to talk to her?! (Silence, then finishes with a snarl.) You people make me sick…" Then he grabbed his books and pushed his way past the crowds with speed similar to Kagura's and kept thinking: `What was that all about? I felt like… an animal defending it's mate… wait, my father and mother did say that… no way, it can't be… but it must be… damn, I must find her, only then can I be sure of it… where are you, Kagura…?' (Sorry if that sounded lame or rushed but… this is a short story, not a novel…) As Arc got out of the park, he started sniffing the air to find her scent, then it hit him, it was faint but it was there, the smell of fresh wind and autumn leaves… without thinking he started to run again while ignoring the people staring at him with confusion…

To be continued…

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- Zelix, see ya again!