The Lost Priest 2: Across Time and Space
Chapter 2
A False God Pt. 2
(A/N Well, this is chapter 2 as you can see. Let's see what happens now! I'm so happy!)
SOUNDS/sounds
Thoughts
Telepathy
(Abel Nightroad)
As you can see we weren't exactly on good terms with each other. Things were a little troublesome. Things only got worse from that point forward between us. Inuyasha just had it in his head that I meant the villagers ill will or something. And, yes, I really did take Kagome's textbook I just wanted to look at it. I wasn't too sure how she got to this time period after it was the Feudal Era of Japan for goodness sake.
I had only been in that time period for just a little over a month and in that village for only 3 weeks. I didn't know what this Shikon no Tama thing was. I wasn't lying when I said that I didn't know. Apparently I had stumble upon the shards by different ways.
One I found by accident. It was a brook. It gave off a bad aura so I decided to keep it just in case it was something of importance. Turns out it was but I didn't know just how important. The second shard I stumbled upon was payment if you'll believe that.
I found a little girl out in the woods she looked hurt, cold, scared, and hungry. I noticed her hiding the in some bushes. I tried to talk to her but she ducked back in the bushes where I could no longer see her. I didn't have my makeup on at that time and she must have thought I was a scary monster.
It took me a while to coax her out of the bushes. I mostly used food as an incentive. When she finally got close enough to me I let her have some of the fish I had caught. I also cleaned her wounds and gave her a warm blanket. I didn't know where she came from and wouldn't speak to me. Well, not at first.
But when she did start talking she just started talking about this and that and wouldn't shut up. It was then that I learned that she was traveling with 2 other people. There was a scuffle somewhere and she got swooped up by a youkai bird. She had managed to get free but it was miles from where her party was. She said that she had been looking for them and ended up lost and now at my little camp.
I decided to keep her with me until we found her companions. She stayed with me for about a day. That following night while she slept I noticed someone approaching the camp. I didn't like the feeling I was getting from them. This was my first encounter with youkai. I stood up from my spot on the ground and grew out my talons.
Come to find out these were the girl's traveling companions; a very aristocratic looking man with long white hair and markings on his face; the other was an ugly toad, uh, imp thing with a weird little staff. With carefully placed words the girl managed to keep us from starting a confrontation.
When the girl told him all that happened he seemed pleased that I would tend to her and look after her until he could retrieve her. It seemed he had fought off another youkai with the same weird little jewel. The taiyoukai handed me the shard as payment. He also made the snide remark about him not needing its power and that was strong enough without it. I took the shard anyway.
The third shard I obtained about a week after I became the "deity" for the small village. It was from a neighboring village that killed a demon and found the jewel shard in the remains. Their local miko feared its power too much that she and the villagers asked me to take it off their hands. I accepted the jewel shard and put it with the rest of them.
I kept them in small bamboo container with holy water. It was the best thing I could do. It took a lot of negativity out of the shards but the evil aura, though dulled, still remained in the shards. So, I always kept it hidden in my bag along with my traveling device. Everyone knew not to touch my belongings so I had no fear leaving them at the temple while I went out.
Well, now that you know how I got a hold of those jewel shards I guess it would be best to get back to what happens next with Inuyasha and the others.
(Village Temple)
Father slumped to the floor of his bed chambers, dropping the items in his hands. This was bad. This was very bad. Just what did he do to deserve this? No doubt they would be here shortly. He had to think. Something about jewel shards, right?
Father went through his belongings, throwing things about the room, looking for the bamboo container that they rested in, soaking in holy water. When he found it he knew that this group would cause a lot trouble just to get to these shards. He had to think of something and quick.
Perhaps this could work out for both of them. Father had been trying to leave the village but they always found someway to make him stay. He was not a deity and wasn't too keen on being declared one. It was just an act of saving a little boy that caused this mess. The boy had climbed up in a tall tree to avoid chores but when the branch snapped he had a good 40 foot drop. He was just at the right place at the right time and saved the boy.
He didn't catch the boy in his arms but slowed the boy's fall to a gentle glide back down to ground using telekinesis. To father it wasn't anything amazing but to the villagers they saw the tall, fair skinned, and silver haired man as a god. Father only took on the role to bring money into the poor village. People flocked to see him and they brought money as offerings, which he would give to the villagers. It also brought venders and people to the small inn.
However, having to sneak blood was getting hard. He had run out of Life Water a couple days prior. He didn't dare feed on the people so resorted to the animals around the village. He knew that brought fear of him and he hoped that would be enough reason for them to be gone with him but they still made him stay.
A plan formed in his mind as he dashed out the door. He quickly went around waking everyone up, telling them that company would be stopping by and to ready everything for them. The servants did as told. Father went to the main room of the temple as some mats were sat out before for his "guests." It was going to a "if you scratch my back I'll scratch yours" kind of a deal.
When Inuyasha and the others arrived at the temple they were both surprise and yet not surprised at the activity within the temple. They weren't surprise that everyone was up but they were surprised when they were welcomed inside warmly. They were escorted inside and brought to the main room of the temple.
They spotted Father sitting before them with a bamboo container in his hands and Kagome's belongings at his side. Kagome could see the jewel shards aura radiating from the container. She was surprised to see that the shards were barely polluted.
"All right, you, what's the big idea?" Inuyasha barked, gripping his sword's hilt, "Why are you inviting us in here like were some sort of guests? What are you planning?
"Please, won't you sit down," Father said calmly.
"I ain't buying it!" Inuyasha snapped.
"Oh, so you don't want to know about the deal I wish to make with these items," Father sighed and shook his head under his hood. "Oh, well, I guess I'll just keep these then."
"What sort of a deal?" Miroku asked and Father turned to look at him.
"I would like to explain but you see I feel a bit threatened by you all standing around with weapons," he said sweetly. "Once you all are seated we can talk like normal men and women. Also leave your weapons by the door."
"Now, hold on just a minute," Sango bit out.
"All right, I'll just take these with me," Father getting up.
"NO! Wait, we'll listen," Kagome said, setting down her bow and arrows by the door.
Her teammates hesitantly set down their weapons and sat before the deity on the mats set out from them. Everyone was wondering what he had in mind from this "deal." There was a long pause between them.
"WELL," Father said, clapping his hands together and the group jumped slightly. "I propose that if you lot do some things for me I'll give you what you desire and I'll even leave the village."
"You'll what…?" Inuyasha said looking dumbstruck.
"It's a 'I scratch your back if you scratch mine' deal," Father said proudly. "No catches. They're just tasks or challenges and if you complete them or beat me depending on what I want, you get these jewel thingies and you get back the other items as well."
"That seems fair enough," Sango nodded, looking at her other teammates. "Think we can do that?"
"I don't see why not," Shippou shrugged.
"So, what all do we have to do?" Inuyasha asked as Father puzzled for a moment. "I'm talking to you!"
"I heard you! I'm just thinking!" Father bit back before turned to look at Kagome. "You, miss!"
"Me?" Kagome blinked, pointing to herself.
"Hai. I want you to… Um… Oh, fix me something to eat," he said happily as the group did a face fault into the floor.
"S-something to eat?" Kagome sweat dropped. "Like what?"
"Well, something sweet would be really good. Yeah, something really sweet!" Father grinned happily.
"I don't know if I can do that," Kagome said, scratching the side of her face. "But I can fix you a good meal. I know a lot of things."
"Any western style dishes?" he asked, leaning forward.
"Yes, I know a few," she nodded. Why am I agreeing to this? I don't have the ingredients for any of these dishes. I should tell him that I don't have the things I need.
"You can make it simple of course," he said frankly. "Just please no more rice or fish. If I get any more rice or fish I'm going to hurl!"
"No more rice or fish. Okay, got that," Kagome laughed awkwardly. "Do you like eggs?"
"Sunny-side up makes me yak but scrabbled is good. OH! Omelets are even better," he smiled.
"That's great I make really good omelets," Kagome grinned, happily. This isn't so bad. Basically we're doing favors for him. This will be easy!
"You're kidding, right?" Inuyasha drawled. "You just want her fix you some stupid eggs?"
"And your problem is?" Father yawned.
"If all you're going to make us do is stupid stuff like this, why not just give us the damn shards?" Inuyasha growled, standing up in a huff.
"I have my reasons," Father said, standing up as well. "Here's your task. I want you to… Um, let's see…"
"You don't even know, do you?" Inuyasha snorted.
"Chop wood," he said dryly.
"Chop wood for what?" Inuyasha growled.
"My bath," Father smirked, trying not to laugh as Inuyasha's face turned the same color as his outfit. "I'm quite serious of course."
"As if I would chop wood just so you can have a hot soak," Inuyasha heading towards the door. "I'm outta here!"
"Not very agreeable, are you? Fine, then you can take my place tomorrow and listen to everybody complaining about this and that. And of course we're going to have do some work on you," Father said in a plain tone looking down at his nails. "My lips are naturally this color so we'll have to paint yours. Your hair is about the right color but your talons will have to be painted black as well. I'm very fair so we're going to have to powder your face and—"
"I'LL CHOP YOUR DAMN WOOD!" Inuyasha barked, storming out of the room.
"Threaten a man with makeup and they'll do just about anything," Miroku muttered.
"If I threatened you with makeup would that keep you from womanizing?" Sango murmured in his ear.
Miroku just twitched and his cheeks reddened, feeling Sango glaring at him. Figure she would hear that. He was starting to feel rather uncomfortable under her gaze.
"As for the rest of you I can't come up with anything else right now," Father said, plopping back down on his cushion. "So, do whatever you want until I can come up with something."
The group did another face fault.
"Of course you're guests here so I took the liberty of taking your stuff from the inn and bringing it here," Father said, waving at them. "I've eaten tonight so the omelet would be good for in the morning and if Inuyasha hadn't hurried off I would have told him to wait as well."
"Yes, well, thank you," Kagome said as some servants walked in. Maybe he really is up to something.
"Your rooms are ready," one of the servants said. "Please follow us."
The group stood and bowed to Father and he nodded his head at them. They group left leaving father alone. He stood up, taking the items with him, and went back to his own bed chambers. It had to be going on 1 in the morning.
He closed the door behind him and removed the cloak from his head along with all but one of his robes to sleep in. If they did just these little things for him and he would give them what the wanted and he would have an excuse to leave. He curled into the padded mat on the floor and covered himself up. Hopefully thing would work out as planned.
(Later that night)
Shippou cracked open one green eye and looked around the dark room he was sharing with Kagome, Sango, and Kirara. Perhaps, if he snuck into the deity's room he could get the container with the shards in it so they could just leave. He carefully squirmed out of Kagome's arms and snuck out of the door.
He didn't know which belonged to Father but he was going to check every room if he had too. He checked about 8 rooms before coming back to the main room of the temple. He did a quick glace and saw another door in the very back. He carefully approached it and slid it open. It was another fairly large room and on the floor sound asleep was Father with his head buried under the covers with only his long silver hair sticking out.
Shippou swallowed the knot in his throat as he walked in and carefully closed the door back. He froze when Father shifted position. When the deity no long moved Shippou went back to looking for the bamboo container. It had to be somewhere in here. He saw a large satchel and looked in it first, only finding some more odd items. Some were similar to things that Kagome had; like that toothbrush thing, that weird white stuff she put under her arms, a flashlight, matches, a deck of playing cards, and few other odd things.
Shippou gave this deity an odd look and found Kagome's belongings and the bamboo container lying right next to him on the of other side where he didn't see it when he came in. The young kitsune groaned as he carefully put everything back and made his way to the items. Hopefully he wouldn't mess up.
Just as Shippou put his tiny hands on the container he heard and saw Father shift position again. A second later Father had an arm wrapped around Shippou and the container both as he pulled them in next to them. Shippou's voice was locked in this throat. He realized he was now face to face with the sleeping god. His face paled and sweat poured off him.
This is bad this is very bad! Shippou thought as Father only pulled him in tighter like Kagome does to him when she's asleep. If he should wake and see me I'm a goner for sure!
Shippou started shaking and fidgeting in his arms, which wasn't such a good thing. Father started to mumble in some strange language to the young kitsune. He had to get out of this mess somehow. His arms were bound so transforming into something was not possible. His green eyes soon meet half opened pale blue ones, staring at him through silver locks of hair.
"Do I even want to know why you're in my room?" Father mumbled but with a growl like tone to it.
"Iie," Shippou squeaked out, going as pale as a ghost. I'm dead! I'm so going to die!
"You're stealing from me, aren't you?" Father growled, holding Shippou a bit tighter now so that it was little hard to breath. "Thought if you could just grab them and go so you'd be out of here, right?"
Shippou nodded slightly. This was the end. Shippou was sure of it. Father sat up with the kitsune still tightly in his arms. All Shippou could do was stare up at him, he couldn't move. His heart was racing up into his throat. Father gave the young lad a toothy grin, giving the fox a full view of his long fangs. Shippou swallowed hard.
"Gomen," Shippou gulped.
Sango, Kagome, and Kirara jumped awake with the sound of their door sliding open, hard. They sat up to a very tall man with slightly messy long silver hair, holding a pale, shaking Shippou. The girls took in the man for a moment; really tall, silver hair, black lips, very thin, and black talons. His western-style eyes were a pale icy blue incased in darkness, they looked dopy but angry as well as he stared at them.
"Tell your kitsune to stay out of personal space from now on and that stealing is bad," Father bit out, dropping Shippou to floor, which was a good 3 foot drop. "I do not appreciate people coming into my room while I'm asleep without knocking. He is not my responsibility to deal with. We'll talk more about this when the sunrises. Good night."
Father slammed the door shut along its track, leaving Shippou with hot glares from the girls. Since Father wasn't going to do the punishing he knew that the women were. He stayed by the doors as Kagome made a come gesture. Shippou swallowed and slowly started moving towards them.
"Just what were you thinking, Shippou?" Kagome bit out, putting her hands on her hips. "You have any idea what could have happened to you? You're lucky he didn't do anything to you!"
"I just thought if I could get the shards we could get out of here," Shippou said as tears started to roll down his cheeks. "I didn't mean to upset him."
"Shippou, it's nice enough he's just letting us do such minor things to earn the shards," Sango sighed. "I hope we didn't just make an enemy out him by you doing that."
"But I… I'm sorry," Shippou whined. "I just… Wanted to help."
"When it came time for you to do something he probably would have given you something very simple," Kagome added. "Who knows what he'll do now. Let's just get some sleep. The sun will be up in a couple of hours."
Shippou curled back up with Kagome. He was still crying as Kagome held onto him. He knew he did wrong but he just wanted to help. He really was lucky that Father didn't do anything to him. He started to close his eyes when he remembered something.
"Kagome?"
"Hm?"
"Father had a toothbrush."
"That's nice…"
"And some underarm stuff too."
"Uh-huh…" Kagome was almost asleep.
"He also had a flashlight."
"He had what?" Kagome deadpanned staring at him wide-eyed.
(A/N I'm finished with this chapter at last! Yay! I hope you enjoyed this chapter. See ya!)
Millie M. Banshee