Chapter 4
Inuyasha grabbed the Tetsusaiga and sheathed it. "What the hell is wrong with her?" he asked.
"I don't know, but she seemed really upset," Sango observed. Miroku looked into the darkness to where she went too.
"I think I'll be the one to talk to her and get the story," Miroku sighed. He went over and sat down right next to Chiyo. "What bothers you so much?" he asked her. She looked away from him.
"You care about each other way too much," she replied sourly. Miroku just looked at her confused. "Well, if you must know, in my opinion, it shouldn't matter if she or he lived or died. Everyone dies eventually, but sometimes life is prolonged, either being a demon or… like me."
"What are you exactly?" he asked her.
"I really don't know," she replied with a sigh. "I'm not really alive, but I'm not really dead. Some people say I'm the living dead, but to me, that doesn't sound good to me."
"If you are as old as you say you are, then why do you look like a child?"
"You ask a lot of questions, you know that?" she asked him annoyed. Miroku just stared at her. "Well, it's because I was turned into a horrid creature when I was 13," she replied.
"That must have been hard for you," Miroku said. Chiyo just looked at him.
"Why do you care?" she demanded. "Why would you want to even be near me? I'm just a creature that kills for no reason!"
"From what I here, you kill to live. That, to me, is reason enough," Miroku said, his words filled with compassion. This confused Chiyo more then anything he has said so far.
"I guess, but that doesn't change the fact that no one in their right mind would go near me, much less talk to me," Chiyo stated. "My own parents forced me out of the house when I was turned."
"I see. So where are you headed?" Miroku asked, trying to change the subject. He knew that if the conversation went on, some very disturbing memories might occur. Chiyo, of course, could read his mind, so she knew what he was doing. She just decided to roll with it.
"I'm in search of a demon named Naraku," she replied plainly. Miroku looked at her shocked and surprised. "So you know him?"
"Unfortunately. Why do you seek to see him?"
"Well, the way to get rid of this curse and go back to being human is if the one who gave it was destroyed. Long ago, I was in search of the one who did this to me. I only figured out where and who he was after he became apart of Naraku. Originally, I thought that if she was apart of Naraku, she would be no more, but I was wrong." She stopped to take a break, though she didn't need it. "I figure, if Naraku is destroyed, then the one who did this will be destroyed as well."
"Good thinking, I agree," Miroku said, deep in thought. "Though he is impossible to find and kill." Chiyo just shrugged.
"Oh well. I have eternity to find him. Plus, I can't die," she said. She perked her head up and then sighed. "We have company. When will that bastard leave me alone?"
"What bastard?" Miroku asked.
"Kemshi," she said, slouching.
"Who?"
"Another one of Naraku's little incarnations. He has a huge crush on me and a wicked temper." She stood up and dusted off her pants. "I suppose I should go and stop your little friends from attacking him. He doesn't like it when people tried to kill him." She walked over to see Inuyasha, Sango, Shippo, and Kirara all laying on the ground unconscious. "I guess I was too late."
"Chiyo!" a boy shouted. Suddenly, he latched onto Chiyo with lightning fast speed. When he backed up, Chiyo could see him clearly. His scruffy red hair unmade, but still looked like he spiked it, and his white shirt without sleeves to show off his muscles fit tightly on his chest, showing his abs. He also had white shorts that showed off all his leg muscles.
"Wow. Kemshi, you've been working out," Chiyo said, not believing that this was the same scrawny boy who chased her around and spied on her.
"Yeah. You said you wouldn't even talk to me unless I grew up. I couldn't speed up time, so I decided to grow my muscles and see if that helped," he said, with a large grin on his face.
"So what did you do to them?" Chiyo asked referring to all the people on the ground knocked out. Kagome was kneeling next to Inuyasha and Miroku was by Sango.
"Oh, they were easy. I pushed them against the wall," Kimshi said proudly. Chiyo looked at him with disapproving eyes. "What? They threatened me," he said in his defense. Chiyo just rolled her eyes, but stopped midway when she heard something outside and Kimshi heard it too. "Oh no. She found me."
"Who?" Chiyo demanded.
"Kagura."
A/n: Ok, here's another for you. I'm going to do one more chapter on this story and then go to my other stories to get them up to chapter 5. My goal is to get all of the stories I wrote by myself up to chapter 5 so I can just go down the line and do one chapter at a time. The next story I plan to update is Long Time No See, which I know everyone is dieing to know what happens. Well, I really don't know that, but that is my most popular one so that's what I figure.
Review Question Replies:
Kags: Well, your answer is in this chapter, but I'll sum it up just for you. The one who turned Chiyo was absorbed into Naraku's body, so to turn back into a normal girl she has to destroy Naraku to destroy the one who turned her. There you go.
VirginiasGirl: It's good that you have faith it me! I hope this counts as one of the chapters before Friday!
Kagome Killed Kikyo: I still don't understand what you said.
