Chapter 2
"Waki, Waki sleeping beauty" Nectar shook the soda can.
"Go away I'm sleeping" Naraku said half asleep. The events of last night had not come back again.
Nectar decided to be a little bad so he pushed the soda can down the hill. It went rolling and he could here Naraku now fully awake screaming. He went twirling around like cloths in a drier. The can flipped and bounce off every rock it hit before it crashed into a tree.
A shaking fairy climbed out of it and stumbled to the ground. His head pounding furiously in his chest.
"I think I'm having a heart attack." He gasped. His hand went to his chest.
"No your not you big baby" He lifted Naraku up by his wings.
"Oww that hurt" Naraku was able to move his wing away. It was an unusual feeling to have and feel wings.
"Its good you can move them" he had a little leaf bag around his waist. Naraku admired the workmanship on it. He knew the fairy probably made it himself
"Why did you push me off the cliff?" Naraku growled.
"Payback for throwing me into the tree." He pulled out a bread crumb, which was the size of Naraku's head.
"Here I thought you might be hungry." He also pulled out a wooden container.
Naraku took a piece of the breed and nibbled on it. That little joy rid he took had his stomach turning. The wooden container was full of some gold liquid.
"This is nectar from a blue honey flower. Drink it"
Naraku did what he said. It tasted remarkably sweat. Like golden flows of creamy sunshine and salty brezze.
"What's it taste like." He asked.
"Sunshine and salt." He hummed.
"That's because this flower grows close to beaches."
"I came to warn you to stay away from humans. Demons may not be able to kill us but humans are the reason we are going existent."
With that he flew off.
"Wait, come back." Naraku called. But he didn't and once again Naraku was alone. So he continue to fallow the fairy's trail. He used a leaf and line to make a bag so he could carry the nectar and bread. It wasn't a nice well made bag like Nectars. It was just a leaf tied up with a vine and connected to a stick he held over his shoulder. Like the one's kids used to runway with.
After many hours of walking Naraku came to a field. A filed of corn crops. The corn grew high in the sky, much taller than him. Naraku had no choice but to go through it he made sure to walk in a straight line so he wouldn't go around in circles.
Naraku spent days wandering around in that corn started to believe that he would never get out of it and that he never get back to normal. He couldn't imagine living the rest of his life this small. What would happen to his lands, his armies, and the jewel shard? All those years of planning gone to waist.
And how was he suppose to live like this? He couldn't even fly. Sure he could move his wings back and forth now, but no matter how much he practice his feet would not leave the ground.
The food ran out and so did the nectar. A whole day past and he still had not eaten, all he could do was walk threw the stupid corn field. He had tried to reach for the corn but they were simply to high.
It was then Naraku saw something large heading straight towards him. It cut threw the grass with amazing speed. Before Naraku could get a good look at it he took off running. Better safe than sorry. But whatever it was chased after him. Naraku He ran as fast as his little fairy legs could take him. He could hear the rustling and growling coming from behind him. He ran into a clearing where. There was a yard and giant house. Not having time to explore Naraku ran to the house hoping to get inside. The problem was that the front steps were twice his high. He jumped to reach them but failed. Slowly Naraku turned around to see his pursuer.
He wasn't surprise to see it was a dog. A pup really, a baby golden retriever. He the feared and powerful Naraku was going to be killed by a puppy. That was truly the most distasteful ways to die.
The puppy barked at him repeatedly. The loud noise hurt Naraku's ears. Then he started sniffing and licking him.
"No go away" Naraku yelled. He tried to run but the puppy cut in front of him. It waged its tails and leaned forward on it front paws, crouching it back.
"I don't want to play" Naraku screamed. The puppy only barked at him before pushing him with his nose and knocking him on his back.
The fairy tried to run but the puppy jumped on his. His paws squishing him. Naraku screamed when his arm snapped. He thrashed under the puppy who looked at him confused but then barked and wagged his tale.
"Ahhh get off" Naraku screamed. His arm was bent in an odd position.
"Watch ya got there Sparky" a little girl with braids and wearing a plan dress asked. She shooed the puppy away.
"Oh my god a fairy." She roughly picked up Naraku and stuffed him in her pocket. Naraku tried to climb out but she flicked his head knocking him unconscious. She ran inside.
"Pa, Pa I found a fairy."
"Whats that Darling" A big man with a bearded and round belly asked,
"A fairy, look" she pulled out Naraku from her pocket.
"My god it's a real fairy. I never seen one before." He picked Naraku up by the tip of his wings.
"Where you'd find her?"
"Sparky was chasing her threw the fields. I think he hurt her though." the girl said. The farm touched Naraku's bent arm.
"Yep that's broken. Darling go get me a popsicle stick."
When Naraku awoke he was aware of the pain in his arm. He looked down to find it bandaged and straighten. half of a popsicle stick was tied to it with string.
Looking around he found himself in a dirty old bird cage. There were two bowls. One filled with water and the other with bread. He walked towards the water and dipped his face in it drinking at much as he could. Then he began to eat some of the bread crumbs
"Pa, she's awake." The girl yelled.
She was looking at Naraku with big round eyes. A big man came over to him. He was ugly and fat.
"She sure is pretty" he said. He leaned over Naraku. His bad breath hitting him straight in the face. It almost made Naraku throw up.
"I'm a man" Naraku yelled.
"Really? I thought all fairy's were girls." The man said.
"Well you thought wrong" Naraku shook the bars of the cage. But then the cage began to sway back and forth. He realized that he was suspended in the air
"Let me go" he yelled.
"He's a feisty thing." The farmer said.
"So what we gonna do with him pa?"
"Darling back you bags were going on the road. No more farm life for us. Were going to the city's. Its been fifth years since anyone has seen a fairy and people will pay big bucks to see one."
So Naraku's life on the road began. They had packed the next day and put Naraku in the trunk. He was stuck in a hot wagging for hours without water. He had demanded to be let go but the farmer ignored him. Once they reached the big cities Naraku was forced to stand in crows of people. They would look at him amazed, because they never seen a fairy in their lives. The humans would laugh and poke at him.
"Look at this amazing creature." The farmer shouted.
"He's a real fairy. Have you every seen a creature so tiny. Come watch him preform amazing tricks." He pushed Naraku to the front. To make sure Naraku wouldn't escape a chain was connected around his ankle.
The farmer held up a hoop. He set in fire and commanded Naraku to jump threw it.
"Couldn't he fly threw it." A man in the audience asked.
"No you see sir this fairy may have wings but he can't fly." He threw Naraku a foot into the air and let him hit the ground to prove it. The crowed laugh but Naraku quietly sobbed. He had landed on his injured arm hurting it more.
"Come on, up you go." He raised Naraku to his feet. Naraku climbed on the little trampoline clutching his arm. He jumped up and down several times then did a few flips, everything the farm made him practice. He jumped threw the air curling his body in a ball, he brought his wings as close to his body as he could so they wouldn't be burned. Naraku landed in a bucket of cold water. The farmer put it there just in case he ever did catch fire.
"Bravo,bravo" the people in the crowd yelled. They threw coins at the farm which his daughter quickly picked up.
The farmer traveled from town to town doing this. Soon everyone knew of Naraku the fairy.
Just as his fame grew the farmer grew richer. There cloths changed from simple farm cloths to rich and expensive one's made from silk. They ate steak and lobster every day. Even though Naraku was still fed bread and water. They left him in the same dirt cage as before. Not even giving him a piece of cloth for the cold nights. Sometimes Darling would wave a piece a meat in his face to torment him. She put it so close he could almost eat it but then she pulled it away and put it in her own mouth.
When the shows ended the farmer would make Naraku practice new tricks for hours. Each one becoming more difficult and dangerous than the last. He only stops when Naraku fell to his knees in exhaustion.
Every night when the farmer and his daughter went to sleep Naraku would practice using his wings. Every night he get a little bit better. Sometimes he could just make it off the ground.
One day the X-farmer had decided to take a break. He rented an expensive hotel and hung Naraku's cage by the window. He pulled Naraku out and placed him on the table.
"Please, I'm too tried to do any more tricks." Naraku fell to his knees from exhaustion. Ignoring him the man made him stand right back up. He held in his hand three berries. He dropped them at his feet. Naraku bent down determine to eat one went.
"NO" his loud cruel voice echoed threw his ears.
"You will juggle them."
"I cant juggle" He sank to the floor.
"You will learn." Again he made Naraku stand up. Slowly Naraku picked up the berries. Then he threw them up in the air trying to juggle them but they all fell to the ground. The man glared down at him. Narku tried again but quickly failed.
"I cant do it"
"Yes you can" he grabbed Naraku in a strong hold and started shaking him around violently.
"Now do it." He threw Naraku on the table. The fairy hit his head knocking him out.
When he woke up Naraku found himself in his cage again. It was night time and every one was asleep. He looked around, the farmer must have put him back in here. Getting up he drank some water. Thankfully they still remembered to feed him.
It was then he notice his door was unlock. Yea it was closed but the man had forgotten to put the lock on. Naraku ran over to it. Stretching his arms out he slid the lever over, the door swayed open.
Now Naraku had a choice, jump off and hope he can fly or land in the bucket of water feet away or stay in that cage till the farmer wakes up and locks it again.
Naraku decided to risk the jump. He had been practicing jumping for days now. He flapped his wings then spread them wide. Hopefully he be able to glide threw the air. Going to the back of his cage he ran as fast as he could. With all his strength he leaped into the air. His wings flapped repeatedly trying to lighten his fall. He glided threw the air. His wings working like an air plan, letting glide threw the air. He didn't make it to the water but luckily he landed on a furry rug.
He looked at the bed, the farmer didn't stir. Getting up he flapped his wings again. They felt strong. He flapped them again this time he was able to fly a foot off the ground.
Naraku walked around the hotel room for a way out. Sadly he found none. The only way out was threw the open window. Which Naraku couldn't reach.
Of course he knew the only way he was getting out of here was by flying so Naraku took a deep breath. He began to move his wings back and forth. He repeated this over and over. Soon he felt his feet leave the ground and slowly Naraku started to fly up. It took immense concentration to keep in the air. As he flew his body began to glow brightly. It was beautiful, you could see the golden out lines in his wings perfectly. He began to float up. He was almost there when a hand swatted him down hard. He hit it head and the world went black.
"I got him pa" Darling said. She picked up Naraku.
"Atta girl, we almost loss are meal ticket" he turned on the lights. Naraku was bleeding from his head. Seeing this the farmer cut a piece of bandaged and wrapped it around his head.
"It seems out little fairy learned how to fly. We'll have to be very careful so we don't let him escape."
Naraku didn't wake up for three days. When he did he discovered his wings tapped together. He couldn't separate them.
"Well it's about time you woke up. I was beginning to think you never wake. You did a very bad thing before, bad fairy." The man said. He pulled Naraku out of his cage.
"One good thing came about this, you can fly now. Were going to add that into the show. I'm thinking of air acrobatics."
He placed a long chain around Naraku's ankle then ripped the tape of. Naraku cried out when the tap was removed.
Naraku felt dizzy and he had the worst headache.
Over the course of three days Naraku was forced to fly and learn new tricks. The evil man even made him juggle. At time went on Naraku got weaker and weaker. He became paler and paler. The flowers on his head had started to wilt. Instead of giving him rest the farmer worked him harder. He was determined to get as much money out of him before he died.
"This is it little guy" He said to Naraku.
"Our biggest performance yet and it seems like your last. No matter, I'll get enough money from this one show to live a very wealthy life." He laughed.
"Were we going Pa" Darling asked.
"To The lord of the west. Were actually preforming for a demon lord."
Naraku eyes widen in shock. He would be doing those humiliating tricks in front of Sesshoumaru. That would be the worst thing of his life. To have his long time enemy watch as you danced around like an idiot. Would he kill him when he found out it was him or would he laugh.
Maybe he get lucky and Sesshoumaru wouldn't recognize him.
They arrived at the castle and were shown inside. Demon guards were seen at every door. Of course Naraku didn't see this. His cage was covered in a blanket.
Naraku cage was placed on a table then he herd the farmer speak.
"Ladies and gentlemen I present to you a creature that hasn't been seen in over fifty years. It was mere luck that I found him myself. He preforms amazing stunts and had extraordinary powers. And he's pretty easy on the eyes as well. I show you a fairy." He lifted up the cover.
The room was filled with full blooded dog demons dressed in noble cloths. There silver hair and golden eyes easily came there breed away.
They all looked at Naraku interested. Obviously none of them had ever seen a fairy before.
Naraku was taken out of the cage, the change still attached to his ankle. He looked around for the one he feared to see. He easily spotted him. He was the one sitting in the thrown golden eye locked on him. He wore his armor and had a servant fanning him with a giant leaf. There was also a women holding fruit on a platter for him. Naraku looked away, his body shaken as he stood before him.
"What is the fairy's name?" Sesshoumaru asked. He leaned forward to get a better look.
"Naraku, he said his name was Naraku once, my lord" the farmer said. Sesshoumaru eyes widen then narrowed. He let out a small growl but then sat back and sneered.
He knows, he knows! That was all Naraku could think about.
"Come fairy fly." He flicked his dedicate wing sending pain threw his back. Closing his eye's Naraku flew into the air. He might as well get this over with. He quickly did flips and twirls in the air. The farmer threw two hoops in the air and Naraku flew threw both of then three times before they hit the ground. The crowed clapped their hands"That's nothing folks, watch him juggled in flight." The farmer threw threw tiny balls in the air. Naraku grabbed them and started throwing them high in the air. He did multiple lips before catching the balls. He balanced on ball on his head and twirled the other two on his pointer fingers. Once he finished the routine he placed the ball on the table.
Naraku fell to the ground panting. He was so exhausted, every muscle in his body hurt. Even his wings and he didn't think they had muscles.
"He looks tired." One female demon said.
"He's fine folks, just needs a minute to rest." The man said cheerily. He leaned down next to Naraku.
"Get up" he growled.
Slowly Naraku got to his feet. His legs trembled and his breath was hard but he managed to stay standing.
"Now watch him fly threw a ring of fire two times while it is falling threw the air." The man lifted Naraku and the ring in the air. The ring was already on fire. He threw them both in the air. Quickly Naraku flew threw the ring, the edge of his wings getting burnt. Then he did a flip and went threw it a second time. One of his flowers caught on fire and Naraku screamed in agony. He threw himself on the floor and rolled on the ground, thankfully he put out the fire but the flower was complete burned along with patches of his hair. Tears poured down his cheek, it hurt so bad. He cried harder when he herd the demons laughing at him. Seeing him role around on the ground must have been really funny for them.
"Come fairy its time for the finally." Naraku flied towards the farmer. He handed him a red rose. This was the part where he would take the rose to Sesshoumaru and offer it to him then he do a dance and bow.
Slowly he headed towards the dog demon. The flower making it harder for him to fly. A few times he drop from the air and almost hit the ground but he somehow managed to stay in the air. Standing on the thrown arm rest he lifted the rose above his head presenting it to Sesshoumaru. He was so close to the demon now. Seshoumaru looked down at him grinning, gloating. He took the flower from him.
Naraku flew right in front of him, his arms at his side. He was supposed to start dancing but he was so exhausted he couldn't. His head started spinning. He could see Sesshoumaru looking down at him. Naraku didn't even realize he was now laying on his lap. Had he fallen there?
His heart felt like it was going to beat out of his chest. The world started to fade, darkness creapted in the corner of his eyes.
The last thing he saw was Sesshoumaru's face. He almost looked concern.
