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A/N: ok so this is my second story and first cross over, hope you guys like it and WARNING! my updates will be few and far between because of technicle difficulties. sorry. anyway on with the story.

Chapter 1 – Girl from the Past:

Zero's POV

"Zero, don't!" she called to me as I went running through the house and into the snowy forest, after the most vile of all creatures, the one that started all of this . . . Hiou Shizuka.

I had spent the last two years training and hunting her down with the help of my not so willing best friend, Kagome Higurashi. She didn't want me to go after Shizuka because she thought I'd get myself killed, I said I didn't care whether I lived or died, so she tagged along to make sure – how she put it – that I 'didn't do anything stupid.'

Kagome – who had been running after me – was now only about twenty meters behind me, she always was very fast, it didn't matter if she was running, fighting or thinking, she just had a way of being faster than any other human I've come across. Though I was positive she was completely human, her parents were hunters like mine were, and, just like mine, her parents were killed by a pure blood.

"Zero, observe your surroundings and stop to think for a moment, how do you plan on killing her once – if – you catch up to her? You don't have any weapons on you, except from that dagger I gave you! And that won't be able to kill a pure blood!" she was no more than eight meters away now.

"I'LL RIP HER HEAD OFF!" I yelled back in anger and continued my pursuit. I was almost within striking distance and tensed ready to jump when I heard Kagome shout.

"ZERO, LOOK OUT!" I was suddenly pushed very far out of the way and landed face first on the snowy ground far from my attacker, just as a silver sword was about to go through my back. I didn't feel any pain, but there was a warm, sticky, red substance on my back, and I thought I must have at least been cut.

I turned around to see my attacker, but when I looked up, I didn't expect to see what I did. I saw one of Shizuka's human servants standing in front of Kagome, who was standing in front of me with the sword, which would have pierced my back, protruding from hers.

"I told you . . . to stop . . . to not . . . rush into things and . . . wait til you were stronger." she gasped. It was just like her to be lecturing me with a sword going through her stomach.

"Yeah? And I told you not to get in the way!"

The sword was pulled out and she crumbled to the snow covered ground, face first. I could only stare in shock as all of the snow around her turned an ugly crimson colour.

"You bastard! I'LL KILL YOU!" I grabbed my dagger from its sheath at my waist and ran towards the man that had stabbed her.

He pointed his sword towards me and charged. When we met, he brought his sword down in an arc towards my head, I dodged it, thrust my dagger into his heart, and left it there as he fell to the ground dead. I looked down at him in disgust and anger.

I was about to go to Kagome to check to see if she was alive, but when I looked to where she had fallen . . . she was gone. She had left a slight trail of blood that circled around where I had fought the human, and stopped behind me.

When I heard a bell ring, I turned around quickly and what I saw made my blood run cold, Kagome was alive and had her eyes open, but she was bleeding heavily and was being held closely by . . . her. One of her hands was covering Kagome's mouth, while the other was around her waist.

"It's been quite a while since I last saw you, hasn't it, Kiryuu-kun?" Shizuka spoke in her smooth voice, with a small smile on her face.

"Don't touch her vampire!"

"My, my, we are very nasty tonight aren't we?" she said as her smile grew. "I was thinking of having a little fun with her first." At this her smile grew into an evil smirk.

I could see the fear forming in Kagome's eye's and knew I had to get her away from the pure blood, but . . . I couldn't. There was no way I could grab Kagome away from her without the use of a weapon, but if I attacked her with my dagger – though it wouldn't kill the pure blood – I just might be able to distract her long enough to get Kagome away from her. It was then that I realised why she was holding Kagome the way she was. It was because she was using Kagome as a shield.

I silently cursed to myself as I knew if I attacked Shizuka that I could, and most likely would, end up hurting Kagome in the process.

"Well then my little Kiryuu-kun, why don't we play a little game, huh?" Shizuka asked in a snide kind of way. "How about hide and seek, but a better more fun version? The girl and I shall hide and see if you can find us before I suck her dry. If you do, she lives and you can both go free, but if you don't . . . she dies and you live with your sorrow." By now the pure blood had a big, evil smirk on her face.

"NO!" I shouted angrily "Let Kagome go and I'll do anything! Please, just, let her go." I was now shaking in anger at having to beg to the thing that was holding my best friend hostage.

"But Kiryuu-kun, that wouldn't be nearly as fun. Now, let the game begin!" and with that last comment, Shizuka bit down into Kagome's neck, and disappeared in a fierce wind, snow going everywhere as it turned into a small snow storm. The only proof of them ever being there were the blood splatters on the white ground below, and the lingering, muffled scream of Kagome's pain.

I grew furious, and I didn't know what to do because if Shizuka didn't want me to find her before she had killed Kagome, then I wouldn't. I looked around for any clue as to which direction they had taken, and noticed that a little ways away from the blood splatters, there was a slight trail of blood. So I decided to follow it in hopes of reaching Kagome in time, and even if I did that, it would be too late to save her from becoming like me.

I ran as fast as I could, while still being able to follow the blood trail, which was getting thicker the farther I followed it, when I suddenly heard the eerie, echoing voice of the pure blood. "Hurry up, my Kiryuu-kun, she had already lost a lot of blood before I started taking it, there's not much left."

I pushed myself harder, not knowing that I could run that fast, but no matter how fast I ran, I still hadn't seen either Kagome or Shizuka, and the snow storm didn't help my vision either. Still, I pushed on.

Suddenly, I heard a bell ring over the sound of the whipping wind and knew I was getting close. I started to see a grey-ish figure on the ground not too far from me and headed towards it. As I got closer to it, it started to look clearer, and more familiar. When I was only a couple of metres away from it, I started to slow down. It didn't take long before I had reached the figure, but when I did, I fell to my knees, defeated.

Kagome lay there on the icy ground, unmoving, not even the rise and fall of her chest could be seen . . . because she wasn't breathing. She had her eyes closed and was completely covered in her own blood. I broke down and cried over the loss of my only, and greatest friend. I had never felt as weak or as useless before in my life, as I did at that moment. Not even when Shizuka killed my parents, turned me, and took my brother.

It was then, at that moment, that I knew what true hatred was. It was burning through my veins, consuming me in its unbearable heat. The only thing I could think of was how to get my revenge on the pure blood for taking basically everything that I had ever cared about, or that had ever cared about me.

I then again heard the echoing voice of that monster. "Poor Kiryuu-kun, you were too late to save the soul of that poor child. She had suffered so much that she must have been glad to be put at peace. But don't worry Kiryuu-kun, I will come for you one day, and shall take you as mine." And with that, she disappeared, leaving nothing but the jingling echo of a bell.

"Kagome, no! You can't be dead! You just can't!" I shouted, clenching my hands so tightly my knuckles turned white, and my nails dug into my palms until they bled, but still . . . I received no answer.

I brought her into my arms and pressed my forehead to hers. This was all my fault! If only I had listened to her and payed more attention to my surroundings. I should have thought all of this through, but I didn't, and Kagome payed with her life. It should have been me! I was supposed to be the one that got stabbed!

I stood up with her in my arms, carrying her bridal-style and walked back the way we came. After walking for about 10 minutes, I reached the previous fighting area, the area that she was taken away from me. I didn't linger and started heading back to where we had entered the forest.

When I had walked for about 2 more minutes but stopped when I neared the edge of the forest and started to hear voices shouting orders at each other.

"OK! YOU TWO HEAD IN THAT DIRECTION, YOU TWO, GO THAT WAY. YOU THREE STAY HERE INCASE THEY COME BACK, YAGARI, YOU'RE WITH ME AND WE'LL BE HEADING STRAIGHT AHEAD. NOW EVERYONE . . . MOVE OUT!"

"YES SIR!" After that was said, I heard lots of running. Most of the sound was heading away from Kagome and I, but two pairs of footsteps were coming right at us. I lowered my head and started to walk towards them, meeting up with the owners a few moments later. They stopped a few feet away from us and one started to speak.

I didn't dare look up, because I knew who would be with the one who was speaking, and couldn't look him in the face.

"There you are Zero-kun! We were worried about you. How is Kagome? It looks like she's hurt badly and has lost a lot of blood, so we should get her back as soon as possible." The first man, Kaien Cross, said.

I just lowered my head even more, more tears slipping from my eyes. I heard Cross-san's partner coming closer to me and shrunk away slightly. I risked looking up into the man's eyes, and all I saw was worry . . . and disappointment.

"Why didn't you listen to me Zero-kun?" he asked in a dangerous tone. "Why did you go running off when I told you not to? You knew you weren't ready for this, yet you pursued your stupid need for revenge, and look where it's gotten you! YOUR BEST FRIEND IS DEAD BECAUSE OF YOUR FOOLISHNESS!" He was yelling at me now, I just clung to Kagome tighter as his true words stung me with regret.

"Gomen, Yagari-sensei." I said with heavy sadness and grief in my voice. "I should've listened to you and Kagome. You both warned me about the consequences but the truth is, I didn't care if I lived or died, I just wanted revenge and would do almost anything to get it even if it meant giving up my life." I paused here and looked down again. "But in doing this I got one of the very few remaining people who cared I cared about, and who cared about me, taken away from me forever. I now want revenge more than ever, but I will not waste the life that Kagome gave to save me." I looked back up to look Yagari-sensei in the eyes, the determination burning brightly within. "I WILL AVENGE KAGOME AND MY FAMILY, AND I WILL KILL THAT PUREBLOOD-TEME IF IT'S THE LAST THING I DO!"

There was a stunned silence after my outburst and no one said or did anything as Yagari-sensei turned around and started to head back the way he came.

Yagari-sensei paused in his walking and turned his head to the side slightly and said "If that is what you truly wish, then you are never to go looking for Hiou Shizuka unless myself or Kaien say otherwise. Got that?" I hesitantly nodded once and he turned his head back around and continued walking, Cross-san motioned for me to follow him as he followed my sensei.

I walked next to Cross-san while sensei walked ahead of us. We walked in silence for a few seconds before Cross-san spoke up. "We should give her a proper memorial in the hunter's grave yard, next to her parents." I just nodded numbly and continued to walk with him back to our destination.

We reached the house moments later to find the three hunters that Cross-san told to stay behind, approaching us.

"Zero-kun, you're back!" The first male said.

"And so is Kagome, but she looks gravely injured!" The second male said.

"Let's get her in the truck take her to the infirmary immediately." Said the woman.

"No . . ." I said and the three hunters looked at me with confusion as Cross-san and Yagari-sensei looked away. "She doesn't need to go to the infirmary."

"WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?" The woman yelled in fury.

"YEA! SHE'S SERIOUSLY INJURED!" Stated the first man.

"IF SHE DOESN'T RECIEVE MEDICAL TREATMENT SOON SHE COULD DIE!" Shouted the second man.

I couldn't take it anymore and let my pent up anger out in my next words "SHE'S ALREADY DEAD YOU BAKA-TEME'S!"

They were all silent.

None of the three moved, or said anything. They just stood there taking in what had been said to them. When they all recovered slightly, the expressions on their faces were mixed between confusion, anger, dread, but the one emotion that stood out clearly on all their faces was . . . sorrow. It shined clearly on all three faces.

Kagome was a very special young girl. She had been granted the power of purification, which all weapons that the hunters used, only her purification powers were much, much more powerful. She was being trainer by one of the elders on how to use her power and, though she was still only beginning to learn about and control her power, she had great potential.

Kagome was loved by everyone she met – most of who were hunters – and absolutely no one could hate her, believe me, I tried. Now she was gone, and everyone would miss her and mourn her loss. Still, out of all those who would miss her, I would miss her most.

"Come, Zero-kun. Everyone has regrouped and it's time to go. We need to give Kagome a proper burial." Said Cross-san gently, almost as if I would break if the right words were not spoken. Though, that was probably true.

"Yea . . . ok." Was my strained reply.

"Zero-kun, why don't you live with Kaien and his adopted daughter, Yuuki?" Sensei said as we walked towards the truck.

"Yes Zero-kun. I don't see why not, after all I'm sure Yuuki would enjoy somebody to play with." Cross-san said with a small, soft smile.

"I guess I could. I mean, Kagome would want me to be looked after properly . . ."

"Then it's settled! The kowaii Zero-kun will move in with me and my kawaii daughter Yuuki-chan!" Cross-san exclaimed.

They were now all loaded into the truck with Kagome laying down on the back seat, her head resting on my lap as I looked at her. Her face had a pain look, and that in turn, pained me. I slowly and gently stroked her dirtied, bloodied hair as we were taken back to the hunters association where she would be put to rest, just as the countless others before her.

Japanese words:

Gomen: Sorry

Teme: Bastard or rude way of saying you (i used it as bastard)

Baka: Idoit, stupid

Kowaii: Scary

Kawaii: Cute

A/N: yay first chappie! ^_^ hope you guys liked it and pleeeeeeeeaaasssee review! i need encouragement to write more and if you have any comments, compliments, advise, or ideas for the story . . . PLEASE LET ME KNOW! I WOULD LOVE TO READ UR IDEAS AND ETC! but please tell me if I have a word wrong or have left out the meaning to any japanese words you don't understand but . . . NO FLAMERS! thanx ^_^