From the shadows
"Are you sure we should be doing this?"
"What? No one knows we're here"
giggle "Stop that! It tickles!"
"Heh heh! you know you love this!"
"Yeah, you're right"
It's about 3 AM on a Friday, and not far from a small village, two lovers have snuck away to have a late night rendezvous. The calm night air, normally silent and peaceful at this time of night, is broken by the whispers and giggles of our two lusty friends. But all this is about to change. Suddenly there is a loud ripping sound, and an odd circle of swirling darkness appears above the ground. The lovers pause in their lovemaking, perplexed by this sudden apparition. The circle slowly gets bigger as the villagers watch, growing to a 6 foot diameter hole in space. A figure, draped in a black cloak, steps out of the portal, which quickly shuts behind our new arrival. The Lovers, as if freed from hypnotic effect of the swirling gate, jump to their feet and dash back to the village, running naked from this shadowy form. He looks around, seemingly oblivious to the fleeing villagers. He then spots the village, smiles, and slowly, purposefully, advances towards the village...
The Mysterious Man in Black
The Mysterious new arrival sits at a table in a dark corner of a bar. He's drinking some rice wine, and thinking. Two villagers are at a table deep in a conversation.
"Didya see that girl that came thru here a few days ago?"
"Yeah, people say she can sense the Sacred Jewel Shards!"
' Sacred Jewel? sounds powerful!' our mysterious stranger thinks, actually paying attention to the Conversation now
"And that group she was with? what an odd bunch, eh?"
"yeah... her, a dog demon, a monk, and a demon hunter? Strange"
"I wonder why she would be helping a demon get the Jewel shards?"
"beats Me"
'Hm... Very interesting. This demon must have some control over this girl to make her seek the artifact...'
Meanwhile
"Sit, boy!" Kagome did not sound happy...
"Ack!" There was a distinct thud as Inuyasha hit the ground. "Whatdya do that for!"
Kagome sighed. "Why are you such a jerk? Can't you get along with Kouga for once?"
"He started it! Gah!"
As usual, Inuyasha and Kouga were fighting, and Kagome had gotten tired of it. You could tell that she was annoyed by the size of the dent Inu left in the ground when she sat him. Inu looked up at her. "Why you always sticking up for him anyway?"
Kouga sneered at Inu. "Maybe it's because she prefers a REAL man, Muttface."
"Shut up, Kouga , you Flea-bitten Wolf!" Inuyasha slowly began to get up...
"SIT!" Apparently Kagome was still ticked. "Be Nice!"
Kouga smiled at this... "Well, I gotta go Kagome. I'll be thinking of you"
Kagome sweatdropped, as the Wolf addressed Inuyasha. "Take care of Kagome for me, will ya?" And with that, Kouga sped off...
"Heh... Bout time he left... stupid wolves!" Inu got up and cracked his knuckles. "Oh Inu, will you ever learn..." Kagome sighed... "I wonder where the others are."
Inuyasha shrugged. "Dunno. Miroku and Sango said they were going to the next village to try and get us a place to sleep."
Off Somewhere else
"Hmph"
Jaken looked up at his master "What is it, Lord Sesshoumaru?"
"I'm not sure... I just felt something... odd. Watch over Rin for me. I'm going off to see about something."
"But Lord Sesshoumaru..." But it was no use: Sesshoumaru had already leapt off into the darkness
Rin wandered up to Jaken. "Where is He going?"
"I really don't know, Rin..."
Back with the man in Black
"So tell me..." the man in black was addressing the bartender "...about this... Sacred Jewel."
The bartender cleared his throat "Well, a while back, a Demon attacked our village. It had but one shard in its body, and yet it's power was terrifying. I shudder to think of what would happen if someone had the whole jewel"
The man in black nodded "Interesting... Thank you, kind sir" and without another word, the stranger walked out.
"Hmm... i dunno... something odd about that guy."
who is this Mysterious figure? what does he want with the jewel? and what is Sessy planning? Find out in Part 3!
