InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Shadows Fall ❯ Dark Blood ( Chapter 1 )

Title: Shadows Fall

Summary: Six years after their parents were murdered. Sesshomaru and InuYasha Tokijin are starting to learn that the creatures of legend, vampires are real and would soon change their lives forever. However, these changes maybe more then the two brothers can stand.

Chapter 1: Dark Blood

By Tainted InuShemeeko

Shadows danced on the walls, while the flames lapped at the wood in the fireplace. Silence befell the room as a young man of twenty-seven, with golden brown eyes and a long silver braid hung down his back, stared into the flames. A satin blue tie hung around his neck; it looked out of place against the black dress shirt he was wearing.

Suddenly a voice broke through the silence.

"Hey Sesshomaru, you don't believe those stories that reporter was talking about, do you? You know, the one about vampires being real?"

The man who had been watching the fire burn glanced away from it, just for a moment, as he glanced at the young man who sat across from him. The young man mirrored his own features. However, the younger man's hair flowed freely across his shoulders.

"No InuYasha, I do not. They are merely a myth; things created in order to keep children in bed at night."

Six years. Six years from when their father and InuYasha's mother had been murdered. Only making their way home from seeing a play, they were found bloodless. Pitchfork-like marks etched on their necks, and their pale complexions made it seem as if the life had been sucked out of them. There were rumors about the way they were killed to be unnatural. Sesshomaru, however, refused to listen to them; he denied even the thought. However their parents weren't the only one's to be killed in such a way. There had been others as well…some of them just seemed to vanish with out a trace.

InuYasha thought about what Sesshomaru had just said. "No, InuYasha I do not, they are merely a myth; things created in order to keep children in bed at night."

He couldn't help but disagree with his brother's reasoning. He had only been fourteen at the time, but he had been there as well when they had been asked to identify their bodies. He had seen the same marks on their necks, just as Sesshomaru had.

"The marks on our father and mother's neck, they were strange… don't you think?"

Sesshomaru turned his cold eyes back to the fireplace, refusing to answer his little brother's question.

"It is late. I believe you have classes in the morning, correct? You should get some rest."

"But Sesshomaru…"

Sesshomaru's voice turned slow, cold and hard as he spoke, he didn't even bother to look at his brother as he spoke.

"I never wish to hear you speak of this again, is that clear?" his tone trying to put an end to the conversation, "Good night, little brother."

Anger toward his older half brother flickered in his own honey golden brown eyes.

"Feh, whatever. Kagome is coming over for dinner tomorrow so you better be nice to her; I'd like to keep this one. Just cuz you want to live alone doesn't mean I gotta."

Sesshomaru response was a simple nod, as he watched InuYasha head toward the stairs. It was then that Sesshomaru noticed that InuYasha had stopped at the second step.

"Hey Sesshomaru did you hear that?"

Sesshomaru glanced up from the book he had just picked up.

"Hear what, InuYasha?"

Just then InuYasha hear it again.

"Meow…meow."

"It sounds like a cat."

Sesshomaru closed his book and listened once more.

"Meow."

He then closed his eyes and then smirked at his brother.

"Yes, that is what it appears to be."

InuYasha growled as he turned and walked back down the steps, and walked over to the patio doors and opened them. Once opened a beautiful black cat with gleaming golden eyes helped itself inside. It then walked over to InuYasha and rubbed against the leg of his black jeans.

"Hey there, where did you come from?"

The cat just looked up at InuYasha and meowed, he then lifted the cat into his arms to read the tag that hung from it crystal colored collar.

"Well hi there Bast, this is a weird ID tag your wearing."

He then fingered the unique shape of the tag…it was the shape of the full moon. As he held it in his fingers, the tag seemed to glow with the moon light. InuYasha then stroke the raven fur of the cat as she lay in his arms.

"How does a saucer of milk sound?"

"Meow, mew, meow."

InuYasha chuckled as the cat climbed out of his arms and onto his shoulders to rub against his neck.

"All right, all right I'm going."

Sesshomaru remained silent as he watched his brother and his newly found friend, sauntered to the kitchen. Losing interest, he looked back down at his book.

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A pair of pearl black eyes came to life as the image of a black cat with a glowing moon tag rippled across the mirror glass.

"Kisa, I wish to speak with you."

In a blink of an eye and by the cover of thin gray smoke, a woman with long brown hair and hazel eyes appeared.

"Yes Ammon, my lord what is it?"

Ammon walked around the mirror. He ran his index finger slowly across the mirror's frame as he slowly made it towards the woman know as Kisa. He then began to circle her as well; his eyes never leaving hers.

"Do you remember the mortal man with silvery colored hair and unique golden brown eyes that we killed years ago?"

A shiver ran up Kisa's spine as the warm feeling of the kill flooded her senses. She lulled her neck back as her lord slowly ran his fingers along her neck.

"Yes, my lord, his blood was unlike his woman's. Though very faint the human had traces of something ancient in his blood. That is why we have been watching his family, for his children have the same hair and eyes as he did."

His voice was seductive as he kissed her neck and then her lips before he asked,

"Do you know were Bast is my dear?"

Kisa winced as Ammon suddenly grabbed her by her neck, his nails digging into her pale skin.

"I will tell you where your familiar went; she is on forbidden ground, the Tokijin house to observe. Your feline has crossed the line."

A silky voice then spoke from the shadows.

"Couldn't we just go and retrieve her Ammon?"

A beautiful woman with black hair and blonde highlights walked into the living room. She was dress in a low cut black dress; the fingers on the black gloves she was wearing had been cut off, her slender fingers protruding through the black. But even though her beauty was dazzling, her red eyes were the most hypnotic thing about her.

Ammon looked at her thoughtfully as he licked the blood from Kisa's neck.

"No, we shall let her be for now. By the way Kirara, where is Lucius? Anyway, shall we go catch dinner? Perhaps he had the same idea."

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A young woman pressed her back against the wall as she and a man walked around the corner from a dinner theater. She moaned as her date, a young man of twenty-eight with steely blue eyes and wavy dark hair, kissed her passionately on the lips.

"Such, an intoxicating scent; I could just eat you up."

The woman giggled as he then nibbled playfully on her neck. However his play soon became rough, unfortunately by the time she realized what was happening, it was already too late.

{Lucius where are you,Ammon is looking for you!}

Lucius smiled as he heard the silky voice break though his thoughts.

`I shall be there in a minute Kirara dearest, just finishing up dinner.'

{Just don't take to long my precious.}

`I wouldn't dream of it.'

Lucius hissed as his fangs bit deeper into his prey's neck. Just before she was about to draw her late breath, Lucius released her and watched as she slumped to the ground.

"Well, it's been real fun doll. But I believe I have worn you out, so why don't you rest a bit my dear."

Licking the blood from his teeth and lips, Lucius smirked once more at the dead woman who lay on the alley floor. He then turned to leave when something impaled him in his shoulder. His steely blue eyes turned to see a cross shaped dagger in his shoulder.

Lucius hissed as he pulled the dagger out, his once steely blue eyes burned a bright yellow as anger filled them.

"If you were aiming for my heart little girl you missed."

"Nope you're wrong, I was right on target."

A young woman about twenty stepped into view; her long dark brown hair was pulled back in a ponytail. She wore skin tight leather pants and a black tube top. Her neck was decorated with a magenta choker; the charm hung a small stake with blood on it. The woman's brown eyes flared with determination.

The woman swung a scythe in the air toward Lucius. He managed to voice two words before the scythe ripped him apart.

"Half-breed."

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InuYasha chuckled as Bast ran up the stairs and ran right to his room. Once he had made it to his room, he noticed that Bast had made herself at home on the end of his bed.

"Well, I'm glad one of us can go to sleep so easily."

Just as InuYasha is about to slid into the covers there is a light knock at his bedroom door

"Come on in."

He then watched as Sesshomaru poked his head into the doorway.

"I wish to apologize for my tone of voice earlier. I took my anger over Kato's death out on you. Good night then."

InuYasha watched as Sesshomaru pulled his head back out and walked up the hallway. Kato had been one of his brother's buddies growing up. They had even been in love with the same girl, Rin Taku. In the end, Sesshomaru was the one who decided that his friend deserved to have her more then him. What did she have now? Nothing. She was a twenty-six year old widow, and an expecting mother.

"Sesshomaru, I can't believe I'm saying this, but I hope that now that Kato is gone. Maybe you and Rin can find happiness together."

TBC

(A/N: Ok, a HUGE Thank you goes out to Anuz2, for she is one of my many betas she's also the one who helped me with the title. Well we now have come to they end of this chapter. Please remember to tell me what you think good, bad whatever, but no flames guys please if you hate it that much just don't review.

Ja ne!

Tainted InuShemeeko)

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