"Regretful Heart Ache"

Part 1

A being such as him, a being as tainted as him did not deserve to be in her company. He never truly despised himself as much as when he met her.

When he was ordered to Japan to deal with an extreme vampire infestation that might have been a threat to the Queen's country, he did not think much of it. He was just going to do his job. But when he saw her standing amidst the burning buildings wearing a bloody, white nightgown, he thought her to be another ghoul that he had to kill. He saw her pull an arrow out of the quiver on her back and pull back the bow string that she had in her hand and she aimed it at him. She was no ghoul. He was surprised that she could see so far, and see him for that matter. She spoke in Japanese yelling at him to come out. She warned him if he did not come out and talk to her she would shoot first and ask questions later. He chuckled to him self, and decided to humor the girl.

When he landed in front of her she still had the bow drawn, and blood was seeping out of wounds on her hands where they looked like they had been cut with a knife. She asked who he was. He gave her his name, and what organization he came from. She seemed confused by the name of the organization but did not waver where she stood. He also asked for her name, which she gave hesitantly.

"Why has my entire family turned into the living dead?" she asked her bow still strung. He smiled showing her his sharp and shining teeth.

"I do not know, you should have asked the vampire that drained them," he said raising his hands to his shoulders with his palms turned up and shrugging.

"Vampire," she looked confused again, and it made the place that he once held a heat, ache.

"Yes vampire. That is what turned your family in to what they were. You killed them. That must have been very difficult to do, Kagome," he said the grin on his face just seemed to grow even larger, he had to keep up his façade.

"Yes, I killed them. It was either me or them, since they had already passed on, it would seem that their wishes would have been for me to live on, and not be devoured by their soulless bodies," Kagome said. Her bow lowered somewhat. Alucard took notice and made a move; which put him right in front of her. She was fast he had to give her that. By the time he was in front of her she had already tightened her bow once more.

"What impressive speed you have for a human," Alucard said looking down at her his glasses dropping enough down his nose so she could see his red eyes more clearly. He moved behind her, but even there she had nearly took off his head having a small blade concealed in her quiver. She sliced opened his neck, blood sprayed across her face and already dirty nightgown marring both with stains of life-blood. She didn't flinch when some landed on her lips, but nor did she move to wipe it away when he landed on his back, unmoving.

"I do not like playing your games," Kagome said and backed away from his still, unmoving his form.

"I was just teasing a little," Alucard said and stood up, the wound on his neck healing.

Alucard took notice what she looked like. She was splattered with his blood; she looked so edible at that moment. When she licked the stray droplets that were on her lips, it felt like a spark ignited inside his chest.

"Did you like it?" He asked her after her lips were free of his blood.

"What do you mean?" she asked the naivety in her standing out.

"My blood, how good was it?" Alucard asked her again smiling showing his fangs. Kagome gasped at what he had asked. She backed away, finally realizing what was wet that she had licked from her lips, she tasted the tang of iron on her tongue. Kagome did a very unlady like gesture and spat, but alas she had already swallowed what she had licked off her lips. Alucard chuckled, getting over his small affections he had before, but then he saw a look in her eyes that, for once since the beginning of their encounter, he was not sure of.

"It was, pleasing," she said surprising him with her answer. She clearly caught the look. "What, has no one told you of such before? I have no reason to lie," Kagome continued speaking. But then she shook her head, and her once clouded eyes became cleared. Alucard noticed that look in her eyes were gone now. "I am sorry," Kagome said and blushed turning her head away form him embarrassed for seemingly no reason.

"What came over you just then?" Alucard asked and he faintly head the house fall behind him the rubble still burning. "Are you possessed?"

"No," Kagome said. Her body and mind had gone though some weird changes when the part of Kikyo's soul was put into her when Kikyo passed. It seemed that she did not want to be put off so easily and put her two cents in every now and then.

"Two haves of a soul in one body, how very strange," Alucard said reading her mind, but only to a point.

"How, how, do you know?" Kagome asked him. He would not answer her of course, and she figured out from his silence that he had seeped in to her mind and read her current thoughts. It frightened her that he had such power.

It happened to him again. He had that feeling in his gut and where his heart would be if he had one. She was looking at him with fear, and surprise, that mad him weak and regretful, he in his entire undead life had only one regret, and that was not being able to die, to age like humans. But now he was regretting having to do this. to this, to this. innocent girl. He came out of his thoughts when she pulled her bow taunt once again, and she aimed it at him. He just couldn't help that trade mark smirk that appeared on his face. She did not look as afraid now as she had a few minuets ago, no it seemed that she had over come her fear and now she had a determined look in her eyes. It made his blood sing and made him feel slight joy that she was no longer afraid of him. He did not want her to be afraid, for some odd reason. He took a step towards her, and she let lose her bow. He was going to let it hit him, to let her think that she had won, but when he saw an odd pink glow incasing her arrow, the hairs on the back of his neck stood up and he moved out of its path before it struck him. He turned and watched as the arrow landed in the ground behind him. It burned the ground making a small crater.

Alucard rushed up to Kagome and took her weapons away from her in one swift fluid movement that she could not follow, no matter how fast she was. He did not want to find out if those arrows could really hurt him. Just then a ghoul and his vampire master walked towards them. Kagome quickly stanched the bow and arrows out of his hands and shot at them. The pink glow was again around her arrows and when it hit the ghoul, then the vampire, they exploded in to white dust. Alucard's eyes lit up and he turned towards Kagome with that smirk of his covering his face because of how large it was.

"What exactly are you?" Alucard asked Kagome, taking her bow away from her once again, and he studied the plain piece of wood.

"I am a priestess," Kagome said proudly. She did not like the way he was looking at her with his red eyes after she said that.

"Ah a priestess, so you are untouched then," Alucard said making Kagome blush and sputter.

"I, I do not think that is any of your business," Kagome said regaining her composure and glaring at him.

"So you are then," Alucard said once again reading her mind. He took off his glasses then, and the large brimmed red hat that he was wearing.

Kagome looked away rubbing her neck with her bloody hands. Alucard's attention was diverted from her eyes to the blood now on her slender pale neck. "Alright, I am, but what any business is it of yours?" Kagome asked her arms now at her sides.

"You are quite beautiful, do you know that, Kagome," Alucard said. He quite enjoyed making her blush. He wondered briefly then, why she did not cry for her family and wondered what she would look like with a red face and glistening tears running down her pale cheeks.

"I thank you, but since the vampire problem that you came here to put under control, is now just that I think that you should take your leave," Kagome said motioning with her hands the in the direction of the long shrine stairs.

"I should thank you for that, but you did take my fun away from me, which I was hoping to enjoy once I came here," Alucard said taking a look around, he watched briefly as another building fell, one that looked like it could have been her home. "You have no one and nowhere else to go do you?" Alucard asked once again in front of her and looking into her eyes with his own red ones. The smile on his face no gone and his lips were turned into a frown.

"What does it matter to you, I am not part of your mission, and I am not your friend," Kagome said defensibly So what if she didn't have any one left, or a home on either side of the well. She would live, she would find a way, and she didn't need anyone's help.

"Would you like to come with me priestess?" Alucard said giving her own nickname like he had so many others before her.

"No, I will be fine by my self, though I thank you for the offer,' Kagome said and once again took her bow back from Alucard, but he would not let it go.

"Who ever said I was offering," Alucard said pulling her close to him making her gasp in surprise and drop her grip on her bow and it fell to the ground.

"Let, me, go," Kagome ground out though her clenched teeth. She struggled but her attempts were futile in his strong grip.

Something growled behind them. Alucard turned with Kagome still in his arms. Standing not four yards away was a creature. He had long white hair and ears of a dog on top of his head. He was wearing a horrid red outfit.

"Inuyasha," Kagome whispered in his arms.

The thing named Inuyasha came closer and in to more light. Kagome caught a glimpse of his hollow face and his eyes, his eyes and they were life-less. Kagome chocked on her nearing tears. He only friend had been turned into a ghoul. Alucard let go of Kagome and raced next to Inuyasha.

"No don't hurt him," Kagome screamed from her position on the ground where Alucard had dropped her.

"And why not little priestess? He is no longer what you remember. Now he is nothing but a ghoul."

"He is all that I have left," Kagome sobbed and Alucard got his wish, he saw her red face with her glistening tears shining in the firelight falling down her pale cheeks.

"I will make you a deal priestess. I won't kill him," Alucard started and Kagome's face lightened up. "I will let you have that pleasure. And in return I want you to come with me," Alucard said and watched as her face contorted to one of horror.

"Alright," Kagome agreed. Alucard let the beast free and he watched as it ran with a speed not meant for ghouls toward Kagome. Inuyasha quickly clawed at her right shoulder, Kagome was unable to block, hitting a main artery. He was about to strike again, but Kagome stabbed him in the heart with the blade she grabbed from her quiver. Alucard faintly heard her say that she was sorry and she pushed the blade deeper and his body turned to white dust, covering her from head to toe with his remains.

She was dieing. Alucard new this, but they still had a deal.

"Will you still come with me?" Alucard asked as he held her in his arms her sweet innocent blood dripping all over him.

"But how?" Kagome asked, she knew that he knew that she was dieing.

"Be with me, let me be your master. You don't want to die here do you? I can give you a new life, one where you can take your revenge for what happened," Alucard said promising her.

"Will it hurt?" Kagome asked genuine fear in her eyes. It pained him again. Oh merciful God what was she doing to him. Was he sure that he could let her live, forever beside him.

"Not a lot priestess," Alucard said honestly.

"Alright," Kagome said and nodded her head weakly.

Alucard watched her head nod and her eyes close. He tilted her head to one side and slowly lowered his lips to her neck. He swept his long tongue across the plane of her neck tasting her salty flesh. His fangs sunk into her soft neck and he drank her blood, not enough to turn her into a ghoul but enough to make her like him. He bit his tongue mixing his blood with her own blood in her wound. He pulled away and felt her fall in to a peaceful sleep. While he carried her in his arms back to the Hellsing estate he felt as her heart gave it's one last beat, as she breathed her last breath of air, that she would ever need or have. At that moment he regretted making into what she now was. She would hate him, for she would live forever, just like him.

Alucard knew one thing. He would never allow his priestess to drink his blood willingly, no matter how much he regretted it, he would not lose the connection that they now shared, and he would not be left alone again.

A/N: Well I don't think that I have made too many changes, but I did catch a few mistakes. Oh, ok a lot of mistakes! Tell me if there is anything that I did not catch. Thanks for reading and don't forget to review!!

Thanks, Gothcat

Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha or Hellsing.