Disclaimer: I do not own Sesshoumaru or ANYBODY from InuYasha. Though I wish I did. I'd want Fluffy from IY, and Hotohori from FY, and Ashram from ROLW and, oh, sorry, I got carried away. :-) Anyway, I don't own anybody (sniff sniff). Oh, but Ikari is my original character, I forgot! Anyway.....
The rating on this WILL change and drastically. At one point it will become NC - 17 but only for one chapter and nothing else will happen in that chapter so those that don't like that stuff won't miss anything!
Anyway, here we go!
Prologue
Kagome stared blankly into the flames of the dieing campfire, watching the embers glowing, fighting to stay aflame. Sango and Kirara slept soundly near the base of an old tree, the same tree that held InuYasha somewhere up in its branches. Miroku, after being clubbed several times with Hiraikotsu for his perverted tendencies, was sleeping quietly opposite of her and Shippo was curled up next to him. The forest had gotten quiet; the only sound was the quiet popping of the fire. But Kagome didn't notice. Her mind was somewhere else, reflecting back on the first time she had met Sesshoumaru, InuYasha's older half brother. Something had been bothering her since then and kept becoming stronger after each encounter with the older brother. The words he had spoken to InuYasha in their first fight, right before he tried to melt HER, were constantly repeating themselves over and over in her mind. He had called humans lowly and asked InuYasha: "Why protect them? Why miss them? Why love them?" What Kagome wanted to know was why Sesshoumaru thought so poorly of humans. She tried to dismiss it as him being stuck up and conceited but the feeling still wouldn't go way. Kagome sighed heavily and pulled her legs to her chest and rested her chin on her knees. She knew she should be getting some sleep but it just kept nagging at her.
InuYasha watched Kagome silently from his perch in the old tree. She was thinking really hard about something, but that's all he knew. He watched as she pulled her legs to her chest and set her chin on her knees. Her midnight black hair up in a ponytail to keep it from getting too messy while she slept. From time to time he could see her eyebrows draw together and her small, delicate lips purse together in concentration. InuYasha couldn't help but smile as he watched her. He would do that some times, watch her that is, when she was sleep. Sometimes he would kneel next to her sleeping form and just watch her. His smile suddenly faded. That fool girl should be sleeping; InuYasha thought to himself, she'll exhaust herself if she doesn't. They hadn't heard any rumors of a Shikon shard in at least a week, so they had decided to wander the area a bit to search for any clues. InuYasha huffed to himself and he silently stood up on the solid branch.
Kagome heard InuYasha the moment he moved. He may be half demon but it was impossible for him to keep every single leaf from moving. Even a full-blooded demon couldn't to that. She didn't even bother to lift her head when he jumped out of the tree to land gracefully on the hard ground. Nor did she acknowledge him when he stomped over to her side and placed his hands on his hips. They stayed like that for a few moments until InuYasha moved. Kagome almost jumped out of her skin when he sighed and plopped down on the ground next to her. She glanced at him out of the corner of her eye to try to figure out what he was doing. His face was calm and casual, his long white hair puddle on the ground, his eyes staring at the practically dead embers.
"What are you thinking about?" he asked her suddenly.
"Wh...what?" Kagome asked, startled by his sudden interest in her thoughts. He never cares what I think.
"You've been thinking about something all day Kagome. I asked you what it was." He didn't raise his voice, there even seemed to be a hint of chastisement in his tone.
"I, um,...." How should she answer him? How would he react to hearing that she had been thinking about Sesshoumaru? Would he be jealous? Well, she thought dejectedly, the truth is always the best. But Kagome couldn't help but laugh self-consciously as she visualized his reaction to her answer.
"I was thinking about Sesshoumaru." She stated as matter-of-factually as she could.
But the shock and outrage she had expected from him didn't come.
All InuYasha did was snort, look at her, and ask "Why?"
Kagome was stunned. Not only was InuYasha taking an interest in her thoughts, but also he wasn't even being his normal overly confident, overly annoying self. Him being in this rare state of mind, Kagome decided to ask him the question that had been hounding her for so long now. After all, he was Sesshoumaru's brother, maybe he knew why.
"Why does Sesshoumaru hate humans so much?" She asked him, purposely looking into his amber eyes.
InuYasha was stunned to say the least. He didn't know what had gotten into him. He had purposefully come over here to tell her to go the sleep or she'd slow them down tomorrow. But he suddenly found himself filled with the overwhelming desire to know what she thought about so late at night. But he would never had guessed that her own thoughts mirrored his own when it came to his brother. From the moment he could understand he knew that his brother hated him. All he knew was that it had something to do with him being half human. He had tried to be friends with his brother but Sesshoumaru would just ignore him and walk away from him. And when their father died and Sesshoumaru took over as Demon Lord of the Western Lands, he had ordered that InuYasha and his mother be thrown out. And that was all he knew. InuYasha sighed heavily as he gazed back into Kagome's blue-gray eyes.
"I honestly don't know." He said quietly.
"Oh."
He saw her deflate some and felt bad, but he really didn't know.
"I've thought about it a lot myself," he started uncertainly. He usually kept his thoughts like this to himself but he quickly started again as he saw the unhidden interest in her eyes and face.
"When I was younger I always thought that maybe it was because he felt that our father was betraying his mother by marrying again and just used the fact of our having human blood as an excuse. But after our first fight over the Tetsusaiga I got the feeling that he thought of all humans as being worthless and beneath him. So now I don't know."
An uncomfortable silence fell between them as Kagome digested what InuYasha had told her. Both of them stared at the ashen remains of the fire, each thinking their own thoughts. InuYasha stood suddenly, jarring Kagome from her thoughts. She looked up at him, expecting to see him tensing due to some incoming Yokai or the like. But to her shock he was relaxed and looking down at her. Her blue gray eyes widened as she saw a ghost of a smile touch his lips.
"You should get some sleep Kagome." And with that he turned and walked briskly toward his tree.
"Oh, so now you think you can tell me what to do huh?" She called to him playfully.
"Feh, whatever you fool girl. Fine don't sleep." He turned around to point at her. "But if you fall behind
I'm not going to wait for you." After finally saying what he meant to say all along, he turned on his heel and stalked back to the tree.
As Kagome watched his snowy hair sway back and forth as he walked, her exhaustion from the day slammed into with the force of a dump truck. Kagome yawned a bit and stretched, and crawled into her sleeping bag to lie on the hard, dry ground. As she switched positions trying to get comfortable, that little nagging doubt came back and was almost demanding an answer. Kagome clenched her fists in aggravation. 'I don't KNOW!' she screamed in her mind. 'I can't answer. Now shut up and let me sleep.' The question was still there but it had quieted immensely. Kagome angrily shoved it to the back of her mind so she could sleep. She turned over again, finally finding a some-what comfortable position in the bumps and curves of the earth. And just as Kagome's eyes started to drift shut,
"OOOWWW! *SMACK* What the hell....." InuYasha shouted, unknowingly waking his other companions.
'Dear GOD, will I ever get some sleep?!?!?!?' Kagome moaned and sat up, forever losing the comfortable position she had.
"InuYasha..." Shippo called to him groggily. "What's wrong?"
"Feh, it's just that damned Myoga-jiji again."
Everyone groaned and laid back down.
Except Kagome.
'Myouga...' Kagome gasped. 'He's old. He's served InuYasha's family a long time. He might know!'
Kagome jumped up suddenly, almost tripping in the folds of her sleeping bad in her haste. She ran quickly over to the dark tree and looked up. She stared up in the darkness for a while before her eyes adjusted. She could make out InuYasha's outline and the filter moonlight that reflected off his white hair. She could also make out the amber eyes that stared at her questioningly. Kagome shivered involuntarily, just seeing eyes like that staring at her out of the darkness gave her the creeps. Predicting that InuYasha had squished her informant she asked,
"Is he re-inflated yet?" Her voice quiet as to not reawaken her friends.
"Unfortunately." He sighed irritably.
"Myouga-jisan?" She called up.
"Hai, Lady Kagome. What do you need?" He asked cheerfully as if he hadn't been as flat as a pancake a
moment ago.
"I need to ask you a question." She stated as the flea demon hoped down the branches to land on her shoulder. He nodded his round head, telling her to go ahead. Kagome took a deep breath,
"Why does Sesshoumaru hate humans?" she asked in a rush.
Kagome saw the flea flinch and he looked nervous for a few moments, but said nothing. The moments stretched into minutes as sweatdrops accumulated on the flea's head.
"Feh." InuYasha grunted, turning his back to the pair. "He doesn't know."
"Ah...Your Lord father commanded me not to tell anyone...." Myouga said in a whisper, hoping no one would hear. But InuYasha's ears swiveled around to catch the quiet words and heard them perfectly. As did Kagome.
"You KNOW?!?!?" They both said in surprise as Kagome grabbed him and brought him to eye level and InuYasha jumped from his branch and leaned close.
"I, ah , well....yes."
"Well TELL US!" InuYasha almost shouted at his retainer.
"Sssshhhhuuuussshhhhh." Kagome hissed, glancing at their sleeping companions
"As I said Lord InuYasha, your Lord Father made me promise not to tell."
"Myouga-jisan," Kagome started, tears forming in her eyes, "I won't be able to sleep well again until I know this! PPPPPLLLLLLEEEEEAAAAASSSSSEEEEE?"
Myouga felt his resolve falter at the sight of her tears.
"I can't tell you." He said uncertainly and weakly.
Both Kagome and InuYasha's shoulders dropped in defeat. Then Kagome started to sniffle, her heaving breathes making her shoulders rise and fall sporadically. InuYasha glanced at her nervously, 'I hate it when she cries.' He looked through the hair that fell from her ponytail to see her face. Tears streaked their way down her pale face but a small smile played upon her lips. It was then that InuYasha realized what she was doing and decided to play along. He looked accusingly at Myouga, who had hopped onto a nearby branch, as if to say 'See what you've done...' InuYasha gently patted her shoulder and said,
"It's okay Kagome."
"It's not okay!" Kagome whispered vehemently. "This has been bothering me since I first met your brother and I haven't gotten a good night's sleep since! I guess, *sniffle sniffle*, I'll never sleep well again. All because," Here she lifted her head to stare at Myouga through red, teary eyes and said, "YOU feel that you have to keep some promise to someone who is dead. Did he ever think that there would be a situation like this? Did he ever think that Sesshoumaru would try to kill InuYasha and his friends repetitively? Please Myouga!" She jumped over to look him straight in the eyes, and that's hard to do considering how small they are.
Myouga looked into her tear filled eyes, and broke down. He fell to his small knees and all six of his hands.
"I am sooo sorry that I cannot tell you Lady Kagome!"
Kagome let the tears and sobs come freely as she buried her face in her hands.
"But I can show you."
"Show us?" Kagome and InuYasha repeated, looking at him questioningly.
Myouga nodded quickly, happy that Kagome had stopped crying.
"There is a place, I will take you there tomorrow. It can show you."
Kagome sniffed, "Promise?"
"I swear on my life Lady Kagome."
She nodded and straitened herself up to see InuYasha staring at her strangely.
"What?"
"Is that what you do to me? When you are upset with me you cry. Were all those times you cried and
made me feel horrible an act?!?!?" Kagome suddenly got nervous.
"Haha, uh, what? I don't know what you're talking about InuYasha, any way I'm..."
"Wait a minute!"
"going to bed.."
"Oh, no you don't!"
"Goodnight!"
"Get back here and answer me!" InuYasha yelled at her.
Kagome stood over her sleeping bag but instead of climbing in she turned around and glared at him
"Sit."
"BITCH!"
The sun shone brightly through the treetops, the birds sang, and a gentle breeze caressed the leaves. And our group of Shard hunters stood at the opening of a small, dark cave. If Myouga hadn't known of the cave's exact position, they would have over looked it. The mouth of the cave was covered in thick, slimy vines, they weaved themselves almost into a net over the opening and climbed up the side of the rocky outcropping.
"What is this place again?" InuYasha asked irritably eyeing the unwelcoming cave.
"This is the Cave of Records." Myouga stated proudly. "Many centuries ago, some of the most powerful yokai gathered together to discuss away to record all the important events in yokai history. So they pooled their magic's together and created this cave. It's like a self-maintaining library. It records all the events that happen in the lives of the yokai nobility."
"Why only the nobility?" Miroku asked curiously.
"Because only the nobility were thought to do anything important."
"But there is a barrier around it." Sango pointed at the barely-visible light blue shield around the opening.
"Yes, well, that is to keep everyone except yokai's of noble blood from entering."
"WHAT!!!!!!!!!!" Kagome shouted as she grabbed Myouga off InuYasha's shoulder and held his head in-between her forefinger and thumb.
"I thought you said that you would show ME!!! Bu only InuYasha can enter the cave!"
"If you all hold hands," the flea squeaked out, "then you can go in."
"Oh," Kagome loosened her grip, feeling bad about her angry outburst.
"Well, lets get this over with." InuYasha sighed heavily. Then he looked purposefully at Kagome.
"I want you next to me if anything goes wrong."
Kagome blushed hotly as she nodded and put Myouga back on InuYasha's shoulder
"I'll be next to Kagome." Sango said as she came up and Kagome took her hand. Shippo jumped on
Kagome's shoulder and Kirara was on Sango's.
"And I'll take her rear." Miroku said sweetly.
"What!?!?!"
"The rear, I meant the rear." Miroku quickly amended when Sango reached for Hiraikotsu.
"You touch anything other than my hand Houshi-sama, and I'll let go of yours and you can wait outside."
Miroku nodded enthusiastically and lightly took her offered hand.
"We're off then.." InuYasha grabbed Kagome's and they entered the cave, parting vines at they went.
Surprisingly enough they came to the main chamber very quickly. The group stood in a large cavern filled with clustered, floating, glowing orbs.
"Each cluster is the recorded records (duh) involving a certain yokai." Myouga stated looking around.
"So which one is Sesshoumaru's?" Shippo asked nervously, he didn't like this place, or Sesshoumaru.
"Let's see... Milord told me once. There!!!" Myouga shouted, pointing excitingly towards a group of
dark green orbs near the back.
The group weaved their way in-between and around orbs to Sesshoumaru's "Records"
"So which one is it?" InuYasha asked, trying to decide between the nine identical orbs.
"Just think about your question, all of you, and Lord InuYasha must stick one of his hands into an orb. Any of them is fine. The orbs will search and find the answer you seek and show you the events that made it so."
Everyone closed their eyes and thought of the question that Kagome and InuYasha wished to know.
"Everyone ready?" InuYasha asked quietly.
Everyone nodded.
InuYasha swallowed nervously and shoved his hand into the closest forest green orb.
I'm soooo sorry it's so long, and if you read all of it, I love you! The next chapters are the recordings from a third person's point of view. Please R&R!
Chapter 1: The Innocence of Childhood.
But only if people want me to continue.
Houshi-sama means Buddhist priest.
The rating on this WILL change and drastically. At one point it will become NC - 17 but only for one chapter and nothing else will happen in that chapter so those that don't like that stuff won't miss anything!
Anyway, here we go!
Prologue
Kagome stared blankly into the flames of the dieing campfire, watching the embers glowing, fighting to stay aflame. Sango and Kirara slept soundly near the base of an old tree, the same tree that held InuYasha somewhere up in its branches. Miroku, after being clubbed several times with Hiraikotsu for his perverted tendencies, was sleeping quietly opposite of her and Shippo was curled up next to him. The forest had gotten quiet; the only sound was the quiet popping of the fire. But Kagome didn't notice. Her mind was somewhere else, reflecting back on the first time she had met Sesshoumaru, InuYasha's older half brother. Something had been bothering her since then and kept becoming stronger after each encounter with the older brother. The words he had spoken to InuYasha in their first fight, right before he tried to melt HER, were constantly repeating themselves over and over in her mind. He had called humans lowly and asked InuYasha: "Why protect them? Why miss them? Why love them?" What Kagome wanted to know was why Sesshoumaru thought so poorly of humans. She tried to dismiss it as him being stuck up and conceited but the feeling still wouldn't go way. Kagome sighed heavily and pulled her legs to her chest and rested her chin on her knees. She knew she should be getting some sleep but it just kept nagging at her.
InuYasha watched Kagome silently from his perch in the old tree. She was thinking really hard about something, but that's all he knew. He watched as she pulled her legs to her chest and set her chin on her knees. Her midnight black hair up in a ponytail to keep it from getting too messy while she slept. From time to time he could see her eyebrows draw together and her small, delicate lips purse together in concentration. InuYasha couldn't help but smile as he watched her. He would do that some times, watch her that is, when she was sleep. Sometimes he would kneel next to her sleeping form and just watch her. His smile suddenly faded. That fool girl should be sleeping; InuYasha thought to himself, she'll exhaust herself if she doesn't. They hadn't heard any rumors of a Shikon shard in at least a week, so they had decided to wander the area a bit to search for any clues. InuYasha huffed to himself and he silently stood up on the solid branch.
Kagome heard InuYasha the moment he moved. He may be half demon but it was impossible for him to keep every single leaf from moving. Even a full-blooded demon couldn't to that. She didn't even bother to lift her head when he jumped out of the tree to land gracefully on the hard ground. Nor did she acknowledge him when he stomped over to her side and placed his hands on his hips. They stayed like that for a few moments until InuYasha moved. Kagome almost jumped out of her skin when he sighed and plopped down on the ground next to her. She glanced at him out of the corner of her eye to try to figure out what he was doing. His face was calm and casual, his long white hair puddle on the ground, his eyes staring at the practically dead embers.
"What are you thinking about?" he asked her suddenly.
"Wh...what?" Kagome asked, startled by his sudden interest in her thoughts. He never cares what I think.
"You've been thinking about something all day Kagome. I asked you what it was." He didn't raise his voice, there even seemed to be a hint of chastisement in his tone.
"I, um,...." How should she answer him? How would he react to hearing that she had been thinking about Sesshoumaru? Would he be jealous? Well, she thought dejectedly, the truth is always the best. But Kagome couldn't help but laugh self-consciously as she visualized his reaction to her answer.
"I was thinking about Sesshoumaru." She stated as matter-of-factually as she could.
But the shock and outrage she had expected from him didn't come.
All InuYasha did was snort, look at her, and ask "Why?"
Kagome was stunned. Not only was InuYasha taking an interest in her thoughts, but also he wasn't even being his normal overly confident, overly annoying self. Him being in this rare state of mind, Kagome decided to ask him the question that had been hounding her for so long now. After all, he was Sesshoumaru's brother, maybe he knew why.
"Why does Sesshoumaru hate humans so much?" She asked him, purposely looking into his amber eyes.
InuYasha was stunned to say the least. He didn't know what had gotten into him. He had purposefully come over here to tell her to go the sleep or she'd slow them down tomorrow. But he suddenly found himself filled with the overwhelming desire to know what she thought about so late at night. But he would never had guessed that her own thoughts mirrored his own when it came to his brother. From the moment he could understand he knew that his brother hated him. All he knew was that it had something to do with him being half human. He had tried to be friends with his brother but Sesshoumaru would just ignore him and walk away from him. And when their father died and Sesshoumaru took over as Demon Lord of the Western Lands, he had ordered that InuYasha and his mother be thrown out. And that was all he knew. InuYasha sighed heavily as he gazed back into Kagome's blue-gray eyes.
"I honestly don't know." He said quietly.
"Oh."
He saw her deflate some and felt bad, but he really didn't know.
"I've thought about it a lot myself," he started uncertainly. He usually kept his thoughts like this to himself but he quickly started again as he saw the unhidden interest in her eyes and face.
"When I was younger I always thought that maybe it was because he felt that our father was betraying his mother by marrying again and just used the fact of our having human blood as an excuse. But after our first fight over the Tetsusaiga I got the feeling that he thought of all humans as being worthless and beneath him. So now I don't know."
An uncomfortable silence fell between them as Kagome digested what InuYasha had told her. Both of them stared at the ashen remains of the fire, each thinking their own thoughts. InuYasha stood suddenly, jarring Kagome from her thoughts. She looked up at him, expecting to see him tensing due to some incoming Yokai or the like. But to her shock he was relaxed and looking down at her. Her blue gray eyes widened as she saw a ghost of a smile touch his lips.
"You should get some sleep Kagome." And with that he turned and walked briskly toward his tree.
"Oh, so now you think you can tell me what to do huh?" She called to him playfully.
"Feh, whatever you fool girl. Fine don't sleep." He turned around to point at her. "But if you fall behind
I'm not going to wait for you." After finally saying what he meant to say all along, he turned on his heel and stalked back to the tree.
As Kagome watched his snowy hair sway back and forth as he walked, her exhaustion from the day slammed into with the force of a dump truck. Kagome yawned a bit and stretched, and crawled into her sleeping bag to lie on the hard, dry ground. As she switched positions trying to get comfortable, that little nagging doubt came back and was almost demanding an answer. Kagome clenched her fists in aggravation. 'I don't KNOW!' she screamed in her mind. 'I can't answer. Now shut up and let me sleep.' The question was still there but it had quieted immensely. Kagome angrily shoved it to the back of her mind so she could sleep. She turned over again, finally finding a some-what comfortable position in the bumps and curves of the earth. And just as Kagome's eyes started to drift shut,
"OOOWWW! *SMACK* What the hell....." InuYasha shouted, unknowingly waking his other companions.
'Dear GOD, will I ever get some sleep?!?!?!?' Kagome moaned and sat up, forever losing the comfortable position she had.
"InuYasha..." Shippo called to him groggily. "What's wrong?"
"Feh, it's just that damned Myoga-jiji again."
Everyone groaned and laid back down.
Except Kagome.
'Myouga...' Kagome gasped. 'He's old. He's served InuYasha's family a long time. He might know!'
Kagome jumped up suddenly, almost tripping in the folds of her sleeping bad in her haste. She ran quickly over to the dark tree and looked up. She stared up in the darkness for a while before her eyes adjusted. She could make out InuYasha's outline and the filter moonlight that reflected off his white hair. She could also make out the amber eyes that stared at her questioningly. Kagome shivered involuntarily, just seeing eyes like that staring at her out of the darkness gave her the creeps. Predicting that InuYasha had squished her informant she asked,
"Is he re-inflated yet?" Her voice quiet as to not reawaken her friends.
"Unfortunately." He sighed irritably.
"Myouga-jisan?" She called up.
"Hai, Lady Kagome. What do you need?" He asked cheerfully as if he hadn't been as flat as a pancake a
moment ago.
"I need to ask you a question." She stated as the flea demon hoped down the branches to land on her shoulder. He nodded his round head, telling her to go ahead. Kagome took a deep breath,
"Why does Sesshoumaru hate humans?" she asked in a rush.
Kagome saw the flea flinch and he looked nervous for a few moments, but said nothing. The moments stretched into minutes as sweatdrops accumulated on the flea's head.
"Feh." InuYasha grunted, turning his back to the pair. "He doesn't know."
"Ah...Your Lord father commanded me not to tell anyone...." Myouga said in a whisper, hoping no one would hear. But InuYasha's ears swiveled around to catch the quiet words and heard them perfectly. As did Kagome.
"You KNOW?!?!?" They both said in surprise as Kagome grabbed him and brought him to eye level and InuYasha jumped from his branch and leaned close.
"I, ah , well....yes."
"Well TELL US!" InuYasha almost shouted at his retainer.
"Sssshhhhuuuussshhhhh." Kagome hissed, glancing at their sleeping companions
"As I said Lord InuYasha, your Lord Father made me promise not to tell."
"Myouga-jisan," Kagome started, tears forming in her eyes, "I won't be able to sleep well again until I know this! PPPPPLLLLLLEEEEEAAAAASSSSSEEEEE?"
Myouga felt his resolve falter at the sight of her tears.
"I can't tell you." He said uncertainly and weakly.
Both Kagome and InuYasha's shoulders dropped in defeat. Then Kagome started to sniffle, her heaving breathes making her shoulders rise and fall sporadically. InuYasha glanced at her nervously, 'I hate it when she cries.' He looked through the hair that fell from her ponytail to see her face. Tears streaked their way down her pale face but a small smile played upon her lips. It was then that InuYasha realized what she was doing and decided to play along. He looked accusingly at Myouga, who had hopped onto a nearby branch, as if to say 'See what you've done...' InuYasha gently patted her shoulder and said,
"It's okay Kagome."
"It's not okay!" Kagome whispered vehemently. "This has been bothering me since I first met your brother and I haven't gotten a good night's sleep since! I guess, *sniffle sniffle*, I'll never sleep well again. All because," Here she lifted her head to stare at Myouga through red, teary eyes and said, "YOU feel that you have to keep some promise to someone who is dead. Did he ever think that there would be a situation like this? Did he ever think that Sesshoumaru would try to kill InuYasha and his friends repetitively? Please Myouga!" She jumped over to look him straight in the eyes, and that's hard to do considering how small they are.
Myouga looked into her tear filled eyes, and broke down. He fell to his small knees and all six of his hands.
"I am sooo sorry that I cannot tell you Lady Kagome!"
Kagome let the tears and sobs come freely as she buried her face in her hands.
"But I can show you."
"Show us?" Kagome and InuYasha repeated, looking at him questioningly.
Myouga nodded quickly, happy that Kagome had stopped crying.
"There is a place, I will take you there tomorrow. It can show you."
Kagome sniffed, "Promise?"
"I swear on my life Lady Kagome."
She nodded and straitened herself up to see InuYasha staring at her strangely.
"What?"
"Is that what you do to me? When you are upset with me you cry. Were all those times you cried and
made me feel horrible an act?!?!?" Kagome suddenly got nervous.
"Haha, uh, what? I don't know what you're talking about InuYasha, any way I'm..."
"Wait a minute!"
"going to bed.."
"Oh, no you don't!"
"Goodnight!"
"Get back here and answer me!" InuYasha yelled at her.
Kagome stood over her sleeping bag but instead of climbing in she turned around and glared at him
"Sit."
"BITCH!"
The sun shone brightly through the treetops, the birds sang, and a gentle breeze caressed the leaves. And our group of Shard hunters stood at the opening of a small, dark cave. If Myouga hadn't known of the cave's exact position, they would have over looked it. The mouth of the cave was covered in thick, slimy vines, they weaved themselves almost into a net over the opening and climbed up the side of the rocky outcropping.
"What is this place again?" InuYasha asked irritably eyeing the unwelcoming cave.
"This is the Cave of Records." Myouga stated proudly. "Many centuries ago, some of the most powerful yokai gathered together to discuss away to record all the important events in yokai history. So they pooled their magic's together and created this cave. It's like a self-maintaining library. It records all the events that happen in the lives of the yokai nobility."
"Why only the nobility?" Miroku asked curiously.
"Because only the nobility were thought to do anything important."
"But there is a barrier around it." Sango pointed at the barely-visible light blue shield around the opening.
"Yes, well, that is to keep everyone except yokai's of noble blood from entering."
"WHAT!!!!!!!!!!" Kagome shouted as she grabbed Myouga off InuYasha's shoulder and held his head in-between her forefinger and thumb.
"I thought you said that you would show ME!!! Bu only InuYasha can enter the cave!"
"If you all hold hands," the flea squeaked out, "then you can go in."
"Oh," Kagome loosened her grip, feeling bad about her angry outburst.
"Well, lets get this over with." InuYasha sighed heavily. Then he looked purposefully at Kagome.
"I want you next to me if anything goes wrong."
Kagome blushed hotly as she nodded and put Myouga back on InuYasha's shoulder
"I'll be next to Kagome." Sango said as she came up and Kagome took her hand. Shippo jumped on
Kagome's shoulder and Kirara was on Sango's.
"And I'll take her rear." Miroku said sweetly.
"What!?!?!"
"The rear, I meant the rear." Miroku quickly amended when Sango reached for Hiraikotsu.
"You touch anything other than my hand Houshi-sama, and I'll let go of yours and you can wait outside."
Miroku nodded enthusiastically and lightly took her offered hand.
"We're off then.." InuYasha grabbed Kagome's and they entered the cave, parting vines at they went.
Surprisingly enough they came to the main chamber very quickly. The group stood in a large cavern filled with clustered, floating, glowing orbs.
"Each cluster is the recorded records (duh) involving a certain yokai." Myouga stated looking around.
"So which one is Sesshoumaru's?" Shippo asked nervously, he didn't like this place, or Sesshoumaru.
"Let's see... Milord told me once. There!!!" Myouga shouted, pointing excitingly towards a group of
dark green orbs near the back.
The group weaved their way in-between and around orbs to Sesshoumaru's "Records"
"So which one is it?" InuYasha asked, trying to decide between the nine identical orbs.
"Just think about your question, all of you, and Lord InuYasha must stick one of his hands into an orb. Any of them is fine. The orbs will search and find the answer you seek and show you the events that made it so."
Everyone closed their eyes and thought of the question that Kagome and InuYasha wished to know.
"Everyone ready?" InuYasha asked quietly.
Everyone nodded.
InuYasha swallowed nervously and shoved his hand into the closest forest green orb.
I'm soooo sorry it's so long, and if you read all of it, I love you! The next chapters are the recordings from a third person's point of view. Please R&R!
Chapter 1: The Innocence of Childhood.
But only if people want me to continue.
Houshi-sama means Buddhist priest.
