Tick tock, tick tock.
Kagome held her breath as she watched the clock that hung against the white wall in the large classroom. It was only a few seconds before she would be set free from the hellhole called a classroom. While her classmates were on the edge of their seats, she was as well. It was the last day of finals of their semester and it would soon be summer vacation. She had been watching the clock since the minute she entered the class and now it was a count down and she felt her body shake from excitement and partially anxiety.
Tick tock, tick tock.
'Three seconds left!' she thought happily to herself.
A bead of sweat slowly made its way around her forehead then down to her flushed cheeks. Her hands were clenched on the desk in front of her and knew that her knuckles were white. Why was it when you have something else to do or looking forward to something, time must go by slower than usual? She disliked that fact and really disliked it at that moment.
"There!" Kagome yelled as the bell rang loudly and echoed through the hallways and into the classroom.
Quickly, she got up from her seat and grabbed her belongings in record time and dashed out of the large lecture room. Students filed into the hallways and filled it with their chatter and excitement of their summer vacation and what they would be doing.
Unfortunately, Kagome was stuck doing major research on Japanese history and it took away most of the summer for her. On her first day of college, she was forced to join a club for remedial students, which was the result of her struggles throughout high school. Sadly, her memories refused to supply her with the reason why and it frustrated her to no end.
Kagome wove her way around a string of people that walked too slow for her; accidently she shoulder bumped a girl and heard her scream, "Hey watch it!" far behind her. She spotted a familiar face and feeling a little giddy, she frantically waved a hand in the air. "Sango!"
Sango looked up confused for a second and blinked as she spotted Kagome waving like a maniac to get her attention as she shoved her way through the crowd and practically skipped towards her. "You look happy for someone who has tons of work to do over the summer."
Kagome tucked her overgrown bangs behind her ears and smiled, "Guess what?" she said, ignoring her friend's comment.
"You finally asked out that guy in your biology class?"
"The one with the mole?" Kagome's voice raised just a fraction and her eyes widened.
Sango shook her head, "The one with the nice ass."
A blushed burned Kagome's cheeks and turned them into a nice shade of pink, "N-no. That's not it."
Sango began to walk away from her blushing friend, "Well then, we have nothing to discuss." She said in a prissy voice.
Kagome pouted at her retreating friend, "Can you… just listen?" she whined out.
Sango stopped and turned on her heels to look at her friend who was giving her the famous puppy dog eyes. Her big round eyes gleamed with the tears that threatened to overflow at any given minute and it made Sango melt on the inside and release a sigh in defeat, "What?"
Kagome smiled and wiped away the false tears, all pouting and whining forgotten. She pulled out a flyer from her bag and handed it to her friend excitedly. Sango took the paper harshly and inspected it with narrowed eyes. "What is it?" she asked in a low and very suspecting voice.
Kagome threw her hands in the air saying, "An all-expense paid trip to the Museum of Historic Artifacts!"
A frowned pulled down Sango's lips and creased her forehead, "I don't want to go." She dismissed quickly.
"What? Why not?" Kagome started the whining again and started to quiver her lower lip.
"Because… it's boring. It looks boring on paper and I'm sure it's boring in person." She droned on and crossed her arms across her chest.
"What kind of sad excuse is that?" Kagome squeaked out and flushed just a little with embarrassment.
"Why the hell would I want to go to the museum with the geeks in YOUR club?" Sango retorted.
Kagome fell silent. Sango glared at Kagome as she nervously chewed on her lower lip and stared right at Sango. She knew she was going to spill the beans and all she had to do was wait. "Okay, I wanted you to go because I don't have a partner for this project and I was hoping someone kind and selfless enough would help me out." Kagome's words spilled out of her and explained to her friend.
Sango walked up to Kagome and patted her on the shoulder, "Good luck finding that person." She said in a concerned voice.
Kagome surprised her friend by suddenly falling to her knees and pressing her forehead against the floor. She had tried to use her puppy dog eyes and pouting to get her friend to take some form of sympathy with her, and now she was at her last resort with begging her friend.
"Kagome?!" Sango looked nervously around and smiled nervously at the students that walked by giving them odd looks. "Okay! I'll go, I'll go!" she whispered frantically at the girl who begged and cried out pleas for her to go with her. "Just stand up!"
Excited and thankful, Kagome leaned up and wrapped her arms around Sango's legs as she cheered.
"Under one condition..."
God, Kagome knew there was going to be a 'but' at the end of her agreement to join. But because she didn't have to go alone, she would do whatever her friend wanted… it couldn't be so bad. She carefully peeked up from under the folds of her friend's pants.
"You have to wash my clothes for the summer." Sango grinned ruefully.
Kagome nodded, "Alright, it doesn't sound that bad."
"And…"
Kagome's shoulders dropped and her head went back into her friend's legs exaggeratingly. Of course it would be more than one thing. "And?" Kagome grumbled out. "There's more?"
"I have a blind date with this guy next week. I can't make it so I want you to take my place." Sango explained.
Kagome pulled away from her friend and jumped to her feet, "I'd rather jump off a cliff than do that." She said bluntly and pointed her finger accusingly at Sango.
Sango crossed her arms across her chest, she then turned on her heels and walked away once more, "I guess you'll have to find someone else then." She called out behind her.
Shocked, Kagome's eyes widened and she pounced on Sango's back, "Alright! I'll do it!" she said quickly hoping that her friend hadn't changed her mind for good.
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"Wow! Look at these statues!" Kagome stared with her mouth agape at the tall structures that stood within the main hall of the museum. They were huge and not only that, they were pretty cool. She had never seen anything great like that before. For a second, she was thankful that she had to join the club and see some pretty cool artifacts and learn new things about the past.
"Yeah, whatever." Sango grumbled from her spot on the nearby bench. She had her arms and legs crossed and huge frown on her face.
"You look bored." Kagome stated but had a tiny smile on her lips.
"Don't worry about me. I agreed to help you, right?" Sango grumbled and looked at her friend then looked away and glared at some of the artifacts that her eyes landed on.
"Hello everyone! If I could get your attention please." Everyone in the crowd turned to look at the short fat man who waddled into the center of the crowd. "I will be your tour guide for the day. So if you follow me we will begin." He huffed out and waddled in front of the crowd and led them away.
An hour into the tour Sango was already exhausted and burnt out with hearing the fat man talk on and on about things and nothing interesting. "This is getting boring." Sango sighed out to her friend. A couple of people by them turned to look at the girls but then looked back at the tour guide as he continued into her speech. No response from Kagome though. She turned and looked over at her friend who was furiously jotting notes down, some word for word what the tour guide said. "I said I'm bored." She growled out.
Kagome continued to write down notes and mumbled out a "Uh huh" and continued to scribble away on her notes.
Furious, Sango grabbed a hold of Kagome's wrist and pulled her away from the group into a closed off area of the museum that was close by where the group was.
"Sango! What the hell are you doing? We could get in trouble!" Kagome whined out and tried to pull away from her friend's strong grasp. If they found out about this, it'd be bye-bye diploma and hello misery. She looked away from her friend and examined the area they were in, "What is this place?" she asked intrigued, being in trouble long forgotten.
Relieved that Kagome calmed down and was easily distracted, she scanned a nearby article, "This is the demonic exhibit." She turned and looked at Kagome with a shrug.
"Demons?" she whispered and looked around, a large painting grabbed her undivided attention. She went over to take a closer look and saw that it was a picture of a beautiful creature sitting casually on a luxurious throne. He wore a white yukata with a gold obi. His silver tresses fanned out around his broad shoulders. A crescent moon was located on his forehead and purple stripes donned his cheeks. Although his face was stoic, his golden orbs stared into her soul. Kagome averted her eyes and they traveled to his full lips…and she licked her own. Something stirred at the apex of her thighs and made her shiver in delight and lust, she had to squeeze her thighs together to relieve the strange and new feeling.
Kagome's eyebrow furrowed together as she looked at the familiar woman in the picture. Her head was placed on the creature's lap comfortably, as if she belonged to be there. She had chocolate brown eyes that sparkled with happiness and something else-she could not put her finger on it. Long black raven hair tumbled over her shoulders in spews of waves that made Kagome's eyes travel down with the hair. She noticed how the creature had his clawed hand placed on her head as if he were being possessive.
She looked familiar…
"Cool. Look at this artifact!" Sango called out.
Kagome tore her eyes away from the painting and looked to where Sango was standing. It seemed that she was looking at a piece of rock with ancient hieroglyphics carved into it. Kagome turned her head back to the painting to give it one last look then walked over to the artifact where her friend was.
"What do you think it means?" Sango asked as Kagome stopped next to her.
Kagome placed her hand on the piece of rock.
"I don't think we're supposed to touch that." Sango warned nervously.
"I-I think I can read it." Kagome mumbled, ignoring Sango's warning.
Sango cocked her head to the side, "What?" she asked shocked.
"This was part of my research. I read books with these symbols in them. Now, let's see what it says?" Kagome traced her fingers over the carvings as she started to read out what they said, "Sem Yis Emo Xyas."
Sango crossed her arms and quirked an eyebrow at her friend, "Huh?"
"He will rise again and once more become great… I think that's what it means. Ow!" Something zapped Kagome's fingers which made her quickly pull her hand away and look down to see if there was damage.
Sango grabbed Kagome's shoulder and started to pull her back quickly, "Kagome, what did you do?" she squeaked out.
"What?"
She pointed at the artifact, "It's glowing!"
Kagome watched as the pink aura surrounded the artifact quickly. The ground beneath them started to suddenly shake and made them sway with the movements. Both girls fell and watched as the rock split into two.
"Let's get out of here!" Sango yelled out as she fought to stand up.
Kagome nodded frantically and followed closely behind her friend. When they reached outside, the tour group and everyone that worked in the museum were outside and the ground ceased shaking. Both girls panted heavily as they reached their group and tried to act normal. The fat tour guide waddled toward the two and asked if they were alright. "I know it's common for California to have earthquakes, but this one came without a warning." He rambled and walked away.
Kagome and Sango looked at each other nervously and shared the same thoughts of 'uh oh'. Neither of them knew the dangers that were yet to come.
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"Jack! We've finally found it. We found the legendary Western Lord's grave! Joseph, a highly acclaimed archeologist, jumped and whooped for joy. They were on-site deep within Japan's forest that seemed to have been barely touched by humans. Joseph traveled far and wide searching for the priceless tomb and now he was overjoyed to complete and somewhat sad that he completed his lifelong goal. "They told me that I was crazy, but now I can prove them wrong! Come, help me push this rock aside." He called out.
Jack scurried over and helped his teacher roll the rock away. A dark entrance was revealed to them and gave both of them an odd sort of feeling. Jack was known to be a cowardly man- he shook in fear.
"Come on, let's go in." Joseph said excitedly as he went in and disappeared into the darkness. Jack reluctantly followed.
Within the tomb, torches lip up automatically. "How strange." Jack mumbled as they walked down the long corridor of the tomb.
The narrow passageway opened to a large room filled with gold and riches. In the far corner were two large crystals and within each crystal was a being. Joseph quickly walked over to the riches as he saw swords, he picked up one of the largest but looked rusted. He was not deceived by the looks and state the sword was in. He had many things and researched about this sword and was ecstatic that he was holding the famous sword in his hand. "The Tessaiga!" he whispered astonished and honored.
Jack watched his teacher pick up the sword and whisper the name of the sword then he turned and looked at him with a grin.
"It's a sword that contains its own demonic power." He explained further to the disciple.
Jack nodded and slowly made his way to the two crystals; one contained a tall man with long silver hair and markings on his face. From his research he could easily guess that he was Lord Sesshomaru. In the other crystal was another man that had ears on top of his head and long shaggy silver hair. That one was supposed to be his half-brother. A shattering noise broke Jack out of his thoughts and he looked at the crystal in front of him and saw tiny webs of cracks splinter before his eyes.
"J-Joseph!" Jack wailed out and watched as it started to further splinter then started to crack.
"What?" Joseph called back as he played around with the sword he found.
"The crystals, they're breaking out!" he took a tiny step back as he continued to watch it spread further and a heavy feeling of doom filled him.
Joseph put down the sword and walked up to Lord Sesshomaru's crystal, "What? That's preposterous! Why would the crystals be breaking?" he asked astounded, not expecting his disciple to answer.
The crystal suddenly broke and a hand was instantly around Joseph's neck in a tight vice. Jack's eyes nearly popped out of his head at the site.
"You. Why are you here?" A deep growling voice rumbled throughout the large room and sent shivers down both men's spine.
Joseph scratched and clawed with his blunt nails at the demon lord's hand, only to have Sesshomaru squeeze harder until the archeologist's face turn blue from the lack of air. Joseph finally went limp in the tight grip then dropped as Sesshomaru released the body and glared at the shaking human.
"Where is my mate?" he rumbled to the cowering man.
Jack scrambled and bowed at his feet, "Lord Sesshomaru, I know not of what you speak of!" he rambled out nervously and tried to swallow the bubble of fear that was in his throat. All he wanted to do was scream and run out of there for his dear life.
More splintering and cracking could be heard then a burst as the other crystal broke and Inuyasha stumbled forward, "What the fuck?" he wailed. "What the hell happened?! When I get my hands on her I'll-" he stopped when he spotted Sesshomaru in the nude, a human and a dead body of a human. "Aw geez, Sesshomaru!"
"Where's my mate?" Sesshomaru growled out again, growing impatient with no one answering his question.
Inuyasha frowned, "She should still be alive. I mean, how else can we be here? She must have recited the ancient scriptures." Inuyasha stretched out his tight limbs and flinched when he felt the bones in his body pop. He's been stuck in that rock for quite some time and his body was achy because of that. He then rummaged through the treasures for anything that could cover his nudity, not for his sake because he doesn't care, but for others and prevent them screaming at him.
"Human." Jack jumped at Sesshomaru's rough voice.
He bowed before him once more, "Y-yes milord?"
"Go find a priestess. I need to find my beloved."
He looked up to find the Taiyoukai staring off into space, his golden orbs dull and distant, "And what shall I tell her?" he asked nervously.
Sesshomaru blinked then glowered at the human before him, "Tell her that this Sesshomaru has risen."