Hello again! It's me and I'm comming here with a new chapter in tow! The Sould Binding Sword ch. 2!!
Geezus fleezus lemon sneezus! This chapter is even shorter than the lasst one! Why are all the chapters in this story so dand short! Normally my chapters are at least 5 to 6,000 words long! But this! Oh this is only 2,000! Does this mean that the chapters will get longer as I get more into the plot of the story? Or will the shorter chapters possibly make this fic much longer? Or perhaps the exact opposite will happen! Maybe this fic will be much shorter than how I intended it to be!
Meh. Enough of my ramblings. I'm a bit stir-crazy cuz I've been working on math homework for --THE QUADRATIC FORMULA CONSISTS OF -B PLUS OR MINUS THE SQAURE ROOT OF B-SQUARED MINUS 4AC ALL OVER 2A!!!!
*Ahem* Please excuse my random outburst. I don't even know why I recited the quadratic formula because I was working of factoring for the passed 6 hours. Well, now when your math teacher asks if anyone knows this formula you can sound smart and recite it. And when he asks you how you know it you can smirk and say that some crazy chick online told it to you. That way the government will be forced to let looneys out of those asylums because they're not crazy and they actually know what they're talking about they just have a funny way of expressing it. Dear God the world would be a funny place with all the looneys running around! Bet you ten bucks that one runs for president and they'll win and somehow they unite the entire world and we become one, gigantic, peace loving nation! AND THEN WE BECOME SUPER SMART AND DEVELOPE AWESOME TECHNOLOGY AND WE GO AND INVADE ANOTHER PLANET WITH LIFE FORMS WHILE PRETENDING TO BE THEIR FRIENDS JUST LIKE ON THE TV SHOW V!!!!!!!!!!!
*covers mouth* Y'know, I'm just going to shut up and let you read this dang chapter!
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Ch. 2
Inuyasha was just about to undress for bed when he caught the smell of blood; a lot of blood. There was another slightly familiar smell underneath all the blood, but he couldn't quite place what it was. He slid back the door to his balcony and sniffed the air. The smell was getting closer. Inuyasha didn't sense any danger so he just shrugged and slid the door closed.
'Whatever the hell it is, it'll die on its way up here.'
She was hurting so much; her arms, her legs, her hands, her feet, everything. All she really wanted to do was to lie down and sleep. But she knew she couldn't do that. If she did, she would for sure die of her injuries or by the hands of the villagers when they come across her. Besides, she had to warn Inu-Taishou-sama.
Some of Kagome's blood had pooled near her foot and slid beneath her. The slick surface threw her off balance and she fell, scraping her hands and bloodying them up more.
'So tired,' she thought. 'I'll only close my eyes for a second.' She let her drooping eye-lids shut and rested her head on the rocky path. Sleep weighed heavily against her, coaxing her to submit. 'No,' she told herself, "you've got to keep moving….warn….Inu-Taishou-sama," She forced herself to her feet and began moving again.
Inuyasha practically flew down the hallway to the castle's entrance. He had finally figured out what that scent was. When he laid down on his futon, the wench came to his mind just like every night. And along with her image, the memory of her scent came too. His eyes had flown open. 'The wench!' he had shouted in his head. That's when he began running.
Normally, he wouldn't go out and help any bloody and dying human trudging their way up to the castle, but since it was that miko that was trudging her way up to the castle, something bad must have happened. Now as to why he was choosing to help her, he didn't really understand.
When he got out of the castle, he saw Sesshomaru standing outside too, watching the path down the mountain.
"You smell her too?" Inuyasha asked although he didn't need to.
"Yes; the smell of blood his hard to miss, little brother." Sesshomaru replied curtly. Inuyasha pretended he didn't hear him. "Do you want to go get her? She's your miko."
Inuyasha bristled. "She ain't my miko! I don't even like the wench!"
Sesshomaru turned toward his brother with an amused smirk on his face. "Then tell this Sesshomaru why you are always rushing down to that village every morning and come home every night with her scent lingering in the air around you?"
Inuyasha just scoffed and turned away from his brother. He was in no mood to discuss his relationship with that girl. Ever since her, he had no interest in having any sort of relation—romantic or not—with a miko.
Inu-Taishou appeared next to him. "Will not one of you go and help her?" he asked his sons. "Haven't I taught you to treat women kindly?" He didn't wait to hear his sons' replies before heading down the path. Minutes later, he returned with a half-unconscious Kagome in his arms.
Inu-Taishou laid Kagome down on the ground and kneeled next to her. Inuyasha made a move to get closer, but seeing Sesshomaru just watch her with a blank expression from afar, he decided not to. He didn't want his brother to think any less of him than he already did because he showed interest in a human. Kagome moaned and he almost moved to her again. Almost.
"Are you awake?" Inu-Taishou asked the miko. At the sound of his voice, Kagome's eyes snapped open and she grasped the folds of his kimono.
"You have to get out of here!" she cried. "You have to leave right now! Please!"
Inu-Taishou unclasped her hands. "Slow down. Tell me what's going on."
Kagome pushed herself into a sitting position and took a deep breath. "The villagers are on their way up here with weapons. They mean to attack you. Please, you have to leave."
Inuyasha was at her side in a second, snarling and growling. "You broke the treaty?" he roared.
"No!" Kagome cried. "I didn't! I tried to stop them but they wouldn't listen! They're the ones who made me this way!" She gestured to her bloodied state. "They said that I was working with you to destroy the village and they began to beat me. If I hadn't gotten away they would've killed me." She took another deep breath and closed her eyes to keep away the tears that threatened to fall from her eyes. "That's why you have to leave."
"Keh!" Inuyasha scoffed. "Why do we have to leave? It's not like they can actually hurt us! I say that when they arrive we teach them just who it is they're dealing with! The treaty's as good as broken." He made a move to leave but was stopped by a tug on his sleeve. He looked down into Kagome's pleading and glassy eyes.
"Please don't." she whispered. "Those people took care of me when my parents died. They're the only family I have."
"Those people tried to kill you!"
"That doesn't change the fact that I've grown up with them and what about…" she trailed off.
"What, wench?"
'Ikuto-kun…I may never see him again…' Kagome shook her head. "Never mind. It's not important." She sighed. "Well, if you're going to kill them you may as well kill me too."
Inuyasha was taken aback by her response. 'Kill her too?' "What the hell, miko? Do you wish to die that badly?" He tried to make his voice sound as menacing as he could, but it wasn't easy. For some reason, the thought of her dead did not sit well with him.
"Of course not, you baka!" Kagome snapped, forgetting her formalities. "But if you massacre those villagers, you'll be cutting off the last of my family! I'll have no one!"
"'Massacre' she says!" Inuyasha mocked and turned away. "Massacre, hah! How can it be massacre when they're the ones who plan to attack us?"
"She's right."
Inuyasha turned to his father. "What?" he asked in disbelief. Was his father—the great Inu-Taishou who led the Youkai against the humans during the war—siding with the humans?
"If we stay and get involved in the attack, it would most likely start another war, and that is the last thing that we want to happen."
Inuyasha scoffed. "Maybe for you. Me? I don't give a damn if another war gets started. We'll just kill all the humans again."
Inu-Taishou glared at his youngest son. "Inuyasha, you are my son and you will either do as I say or you may leave."
Inuyasha froze, his eyes still locked with his fathers. His father knew where he had been for the past three years and he also knew what had caused him to come back. If his own father threw him out, then there really would be no place for him, just like all the other less fortunate hanyous in the world. "Feh," he said, crossing his arms, more or less giving in.
Inu-Taishou turned to Sesshomaru. "What about you, Sesshomaru?"
Sesshomaru sighed and closed his eyes. "This Sesshomaru does not wish to flee," he paused and opened his eyes. "But, this one does agree with you."
Kagome sighed with relief. They were going to leave. She had warned them, so she had done her job. Her eyes drifted shut; she could sleep now.
"Right," Inu-Taishou said, "Sesshomaru, go get Ah-Un." He turned back to Kagome. "Miko-sama, we don't have any time to dress your wounds. Will you be alright until we reach the next closest village?"
Kagome fixed him with a confused look. What did he mean 'dress her wounds'? He wasn't seriously thinking of taking care of her, was he? "Wh-what do you mean?"
Inu-Taishou smiled a bit. "You're coming with us. You'll ride with Inuyasha on Ah-Un."
"What?!" Kagome and Inuyasha said simultaneously.
"You're coming with us," Inu-Taishou repeated, oblivious to the two's obvious reluctance of each other. Or, at least, pretending to be.
"I'm sorry," Kagome said, standing up. Her legs failed and she collapsed back to the ground. "I meant, why am I coming with him?" Kagome pointed at Inuyasha. Inuyasha just glowered at her.
"It would be easier for you to ride then for either myself of Sesshomaru to carry you." Inu-Taishou answered, helping her up.
Sesshomaru returned with a giant demon in tow. The demon looked like a horse with dragon scales. It also had two heads. 'Guess I know why it's named Ah-Un,' Kagome thought as Inu-Taishou led her to the demon.
Inu-Taishou lifted Kagome up and placed her on the saddle resting on Ah-Un's back. She caught his sleeve as he pulled away. "Why are you doing this?" she asked him.
"I can't exactly abandon you when you have not only trudged your way up to my castle bloodied and bruised three years ago, asking for residence and to bottom of the mountain, but when you have also climbed the same path bloodied and bruised just now to warn us of upcoming trouble. You go to great lengths to keep your word." A thoughtful look washed over Inu-Taishou's face. "And I have a feeling that Izayoi, my late love, would be very upset with me if I abandoned you." Sesshomaru scoffed at the mention of the human woman's name, while Inuyasha looked away. The look disappeared and was replaced with determination. "We must leave now. The humans are on their way."
That being said, Inu-Taishou and Sesshomaru began levitating and started riding away on the winds and Inuyasha leaped up behind Kagome on Ah-Un and took off after them.
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Kagome slowly opened her eyes. Somewhere along the way she had fallen asleep against Inuyasha. Her face reddened, but she didn't do anything about it. If he hadn't pushed her away yet, then he most likely wouldn't. She yawned and leaned forward a bit only to be pulled back by Inuyasha.
"Don't move so much, wench. You'll fall right off and I'm not going to catch you." Inuyasha said gruffly.
Kagome rolled her eyes but mumbled thanks anyways. She figured that he was at least trying to be kind.
She looked back at Inuyasha. His eyes were focused straight ahead, one arm firmly locked around her middle while the other was guiding the reins of Ah-Un. "I…have a name, you know," she said. Inuyasha's eyes moved down to hers.
"And what of it, girl?"
Kagome chewed her lip, wondering if the topic of conversation was even worth his brash remarks. "My name. You're always either calling me wench or girl, and I just want you to know that I have a name and you're more than welcome to use it."
Inuyasha looked back ahead. "Feh. I know you have a name."
"Then what is it?" Kagome asked. Inuyasha didn't say anything and she rolled her eyes. "It's Kagome. Say it with me now, Ka-go-me."
Inuyasha growled. "Why are you so rude, all of a sudden? You're always so formal and proper when you're talking to people in the village or to my father."
Kagome looked back at him. "Well then, I guess you're lucky you're not either of them."
Inuyasha balked at the sudden change in the miko. It was a side of her that he'd never seen before. She was just as headstrong as he was, maybe even more so. "Heh. Finally showing your true colors, aren't you, wench?"
"Only to you, dog-boy."
Inuyasha growled at the informality. "That's Inuyasha-sama to you, girl."
Kagome turned back to him and smirked. "You don't use my name then I won't use yours." Inuyasha frowned. He was going to have to take time to get used to her new—real—attitude.
After that, they both fell into a silence, letting the wind they rode catch their hair and clothes, kiss at their faces, and lead them to a new destination.
And there you go! Chapter two!
I was a little annoyed with this chapter because there was a lot of talking in it. I didn't like that.
So, I would really love it if you would review. Please leave a review! I've been doing work for six hours! Throw the crazy chick a bone!
Okay, I'm going to stop right there or I might just bust out another random babbling.
Oy vey, I need a break.
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I also need to stop using Jewish termanology! Dang it, ever since I researched Jewish weddings for that Romeo and Juliet project (a project where groups addapted Romeo and Juliet to another time period. My group got late 1930s Germany so we decided to pit a Jewish Romeo against a Christian Juliet who comes from a Nazi family.) I 've been using that term! I wanna stop!
Okay, now I really need a break....*gets out of chair to go take a walk but falls over onto floor. Crawls back to desk and pulls laptop down to the floor*
Dear God I've been sitting in this chair for so long I forgot how to move my legs!
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Blessings!
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