Chapter 4 now! And MadeNew I would like to thank you SO much for your reviews! It makes MOTH and I so happy to have someone who likes the story so much! Love you!!!
Anyways, copyrights...ugh...I don't own Inuyasha or any characters related and such and such. MOTH owns Nicada and I owe Dosakusa and Aitou.
Nicada sat outside on the porch, Kanna and Kagura had retired to bed long ago, but she for one couldn't sleep. She leaned back against on the roof support beams and began singing the Song of Parting to herself. (the one song sung by the kids in IY movie 4) The twins bothered her, though the one called Aitou did not seem as bad as his sister, but still they were a threat to her Lord. She rolled over on her side and finally got to her feet before heading down the hall and too her own bedchamber.
Nicada pulled out two barrier sutra from her obi and placed them on both sides of the door, this had become a precaution ever since the night after she had moved in with Naraku. She changed from her kimono and underrobe into a white nightdress before retying the obi around her waist and getting settled in her futon. She grabbed her ragged yellow and still slightly pudgy stuffed animal bunny Popo from underneath her pillow and hugged him to her chest along with her Inazuma-Katana (her sword). She lay on the futon in the dark, not even drifting into sleep until dawn.
It was early in the morning when someone knocked on the twins' door. Aitou groaned but poked his head up from under his blanket, glaring at the door. It was Kagura, the wind sorceress. He could hear the tenor of her memories bustling around his head.
"What do you want, Kagura?" he grumbled. Dosakusa sighed in her sleep and rolled over.
"Naraku wants you two up now. He's got an errand for you."
"Yeah?" Aitou said, pulling the blanket over his head. "Too bad. I'm tired."
"Hey!" Kagura shouted. A sudden gust of wind caused the door to bang open. Both the twins shot up and glared at her. "I said get your little asses up! This isn't a joke! Naraku has a special errand for you two!"
"Fine, fine," Aitou sneered. Dosakusa was rubbing sleep from her eyes as she looked down at the floor. The sun was barely up! Why in the world did Naraku want them up at this hour?
When they were finally dressed and ready, they presented themselves to Naraku, who had all of his little incarnations and servants standing beside him. Nicada looked most annoyed to see them out of the four. Kanna, the white child merely looked on, her face apathetic.
"Ah, so nice to see you two," Naraku greeted them. "I have something for you two to do for me."
"What?" Dosakusa asked, looking at her fingernails.
He smiled. "I have found the location of another jewel shard. I would like you and Yamie to retrieve it."
The twins exchanged startled looks before glancing at Nicada. She was staring, puzzled, at Naraku. He merely smiled. "I know, none of you are happy, but I don't trust you two. Yamie will watch you for me, won't you?" He nodded at the three quarter dog demon. She smiled and nodded fervantly. He grinned back.
"Good. You will leave in ten minutes." He said this more for the twins' benefits rather than Nicada. She knew the system.
"You have the location?" Dosakusa questioned, looking at Nicada.
"Of course," Naraku replied. "Aitou knows, don't you?"
The boy made a face but told him that he did. He could see Naraku's memories and learned of the location through them. It didn't seem that much of a challenge. It was more of a test for he and his sister to see how loyal they would truly be. If they showed any signs of suspicision, Nicada was to kill them both.
When it was time to leave, they were standing outside of the castle, Aitou and Dosakusa waiting as Nicada bid Naraku farewell. They were talking quietly together, Naraku's face stern but yet Aitou noticed a different look in his eyes. It caught him by surprise.
"C'mon, dog!" Doskusa called out. "I haven't gotten all day for you!"
Nicada glared but then bowed to Naraku and waved before she followed after them, her long hair flowing behind her.
The three-quarter female dog-demon trailed after the twins, her mind currently rewinding the small conversation her and Naraku had had moments before her departure with them.
'You will be watching won't you, Naraku-sama?' she questioned, her golden-ember eyes looking into his crimson ones with pure endearment.
"From Kanna's mirror as always." he answered, caressing her cheek with his fingertips for a brief second.
She sighed inwardly before picking up her pace, her sword was at her waist and on her back was a pure black longbow-a gift from her Lord- and an old worn leather quiver which used to belong to her mother, brimming with freshly made arrows.
Nicada looked over at Aitou, "You were once human weren't you?"
Aitou looked over at Nicada. "Yeah, so what?" he asked.
She merely shrugged. "Just curious."
"My sister and I have not been human for quite some time," he finally replied after a long silence. The dog-demon looked over at him. "I don't remember what it's like..."
"Don't talk to her about that stuff, Aitou," Dosakusa called over her shoulder. "She doesn't need to hear about that."
Aitou shook his head and looked at Nicada. "I'm sorry about her. She's...she's something else. I don't think she was like this when we were human. But what do I know? I personally don't think you're that bad, I just don't know who you are."
They were silent again, leaving Nicada to contemplate what Aitou had just told her. It was weird how he could change personalities so quickly.
"I can read people's memories," Aitou began again. "I can see into their past and recreate it. That's my power. My name means 'regret' for what I inflict on others.
"But," he added, looking intently at her, "for some odd reason, I can't really see into your past. I can't even really get the conversation you just had with Naraku. Your memories come and go in blindly fast blurs."
"How does that feel?" she asked, wanting to hear more. "To hear such things?"
Aitou closed his eyes. "Like mini movies that flash through my head constantly. I can see Kagura's most clearly. They're interesting...but I'm most attuned to Dosakusa's memories."
Speaking of the tiny demon, she was walking much too far ahead of her brother and Nicada. She didn't care to hear what they were talking about.
"Why is that?" Aitou questioned her. "Why can't I read your memories?"
The three-quarter female dog-demon took a second to run the answer through her mind, she looked down at the crimson red obi around her waist, and straighted it. "You wouldn't want to see my past. If you really want to see it... I can just drop my defenses." she answered, but from what the young boy could tell she regretted saying it immediately, before turning around and looking up into the sky. Naraku's insects were following them.
They had been walking for hours now, and sun was already setting there was no way they were going to make it back to Naraku's Castle before nightfall. Nicada sighed inwardly just glad that tonight was not a full moon, but she hated being away from her Lord, she rarely left his side. She was also weary from lack of sleep but the sooner they brought the Jewel shard back to Naraku the better. Dosakusa and Aito did not seem tired in the least, a growl rose in Nicada's throat as her golden-ember eyes pierced through the shadowed path ahead. Before she could even draw her longbow they were surrounded by demons.
"Well," Nicada sighed, "At least we're closer to the shikon shard now."
Ooh, I left it at a little cliffy, didn't I? ;p
reveiw please, my loves
