Chapter 7: The Moon and a Cold
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Chapter 7: Only Two Can
In the morning when I woke my head felt fuzzy and hot. I yawned but kept my head down on the pillow. I couldn't breath or smell anything through my nose. I took a big breath through my mouth; the room had Sango's, Tenten, and Shippo's scent inside.
I crawled out from under the covers; I shook my body off, removing the sweat from my body. I yawned and stretched again then walked off and out of the room. I walked through the hut and saw that Inuyasha had still not arrived, Miroku slept in a corner against the wall and just a few inches away was Shiro-Disuke his left leg bouncing up and down like as if he was running.
I continued to walk out of the hut, the prickly grass cool against my hot feet. I felt like as if I was more dead than alive. Heat capped my entire body I sniffed my body. "When was the last time I took a bath?"
About three days ago now that I thought about it, I walked down to the river. Though the water was cold in the river it was also cleaner than just going to the closer and warmer marsh. I looked at the clear cold water, playing with the pebbles using only my toes.
I removed my clothes and as my hot body met with the cold water I shook. My arms covered my large breast till I got deep enough to kneel down and take my bath there. I sniffled at the cold water and let out a sneeze. Then I heard foot steps behind me "If you're dirty you shouldn't bath in cold water" it said.
I almost turned around till I remembered I wore nothing so I turned my head instead, it was Inuyasha. I sighed "I know but still having to walk all the way over to the spring just to wash myself off isn't really worth it"
"I'll be back at the hut you should be back before everyone is awake" he said walking off in the direction of the hut. It was now pretty crowded, I was surprised a demon like Tenten and Shiro-Disuke chose to stay inside.
I felt my forehead it was still hot but since my body was cold I would be just fine. I guessed. I swam back to the shore where my clothes sat, keeping myself low in the water as a cover. When I got up and out of the water I grabbed my clothes and put on my shirt as quickly as I could. I bandaged my chest underneath my shirt and then continued to dress myself. I put on my underwear, then my short pants, and last my soon-to-be-too-small-for-me pants.
I shook the water out of my fur like a dog and rolled in the grass for a few seconds. Then I walked back to the hut, still with a fever but I was cold enough to control it. The grass was now warm against my toes; I wished I could have found some kind of deer kill. I was hungry for once.
When I got into the hut Kagome was back, Inuyasha sat next to her, in his hands there was a ramen boll. "Hey I want some too!" I pouted and ran to Kagome's side.
She laughed and patted my damp hair "Ok, ok here" she passed me a full hot ramen cup. I licked my lips and started to chug it down.
Kagome shook her head, "Do all dogs like Ramen or is just a family thing?"
I didn't answer I was to busy eating the food from the future. Maybe living there wouldn't be that bad after all they have food like this I could imagine how good demons and half demons had it there. But for now living in the past was the only way for me. I don't think I would like to smell that stinky air every day. And not having a forest to run around in? Where's the fun in getting a meal?!
I shook my head and slurped up a group of ramen noodles.
(After everyone ate breakfast Kagome's POV)
It was a strangely quiet morning it was still early "So Disuke you gonna come with us and help us all find a few jewel shards?" Miroku asked the boy who sat next to him.
Inuyasha nodded, "Ya we could always use another demon in the group to help us out"
Shiro scratched his head with a bit of a blush "come on I'm not that strong I'm sure both of you could beat me"
"So we kept Shippo" Inuyasha said. Shippo kicked his arm "And What Is That Suppose to Mean!?"
"It means you're weak ya Runt!" Inuyasha said pushing him off, but not to roughly it was still too early for him to get sat.
"I guess I could come along I have no group or anyone to travel with. Ya I'll come along" he said with a smile.
I clapped my hands together "well that settles it Welcome to our group!" I said.
"We better get going then, we don't get any jewel shards if we sit around here and do nothing" Sango said standing up helping Tenten up.
Her Haraikotsu was lifted as she stood up. Yasha helped me up with one hand. Miroku stood up as well as Inuyasha, Disuke soon followed with Shippo on his shoulder. Tenten jumped up and down till Sango lifted him up. We all headed out of the small hut and walked in the west direction. North would have been better but since it was were we had just defeated Naraku we would have to go in this direction instead.
Shippo tugged my sleeve "How many jewel shards do we have left to get Kagome?"
I thought out loud "well if Kouga has two and we need about seven we've only got to get five more" I put my hand on his shoulder "It's ok Shippo I'm sure we'll find them all in a matter of weeks"
"Then where will you go Kagome?" I though. Was he really thinking about that? Where would I go after I collected all the jewel shards? And what would we wish for? Maybe we could bring Kohaku back… but that would be selfish. Would I stay here in the past or go back to my own time and live out the last of my high school days as a normal girl?
"I don't know Shippo, let's just hope for the best"
Yasha walked beside me and heard every word. She seemed to be thinking about it as well. I would leave her to her thoughts for now and not disturb her. But everyone was so silent.
Shippo spoke out of nowhere "What would everyone wish for if you had the complete jewel?"
"I'd wish to be the most powerful demon!" Inuyasha said happily.
"I'd wish for many airs for my life line" Miroku answered.
"I'd wish that Miroku would stop being a pervert" said Sango.
I thought quickly "I'd wish that I could keep coming to the past and the future forever"
Shippo jumped up and down excitedly "I'd wish we could always be together forever!"
Tenten spoke even "Mama!"
Shiro though then spoke as well "A pack"
"A family I guess" Yasha answered with a smile.
It seemed that everyone here had one thing in common we all wanted something that would keep us together. Though most of our wishes were stupid to others we were happy with them.
"I like Kagome-Chan's best" Miroku said.
"I like Kagome's wish too" Yasha followed, "But I also liked Shippo's"
"I'm in favor of my own" Inuyasha said.
"You'll never change" I said with a smile. I knew that Inuyasha wanted to be a demon but I could also tell he waved off that dream often when he was with us. Every time he turned demon now it just seemed that we loose more and more of him. When he's human he seems like a kinder softer person. And when he's a half demon… well I think he's perfect like that.
I couldn't see what was so bad about being half demon.
"I'd wish I was a half demon" I said wish a smile. Inuyasha looked back at me and Yasha looked up at me "Being a half demon ain't good Kagome. People make fun of you and everyone you go around with" Inuyasha said.
Yasha added her own reason's "People also hurt you, hate you, and want nothing to do with you. Also if you're a half demon you children will end up like me or Shiro-Disuke"
He nodded, "It's true" Tenten looked back but understood nothing of what we wee saying.
"So I've been different people use to make fun of my eye color and stupidity" I said sternly.
"You're world is to soft people don't just call you names Kagome they will literally want to kill you" Inuyasha said.
"That or they'll just hate you and be afraid of you with such intensity that it'll be like as if you have no worth. You'll be a Nothing" Yasha added.
Then the conversation stopped and we all walked in new positions. Miroku walked next to Sango, me next to Inuyasha and Yasha on his other side, and behind us Shiro, Shippo, and Tenten on his shoulders. Everyone spoke to the person next to them in our strange group orders.
We stopped one for a drink at around ten then we continued our walk, we stopped in front of road that cut in two "which way do we go?" Sango asked.
"I don't know I sense a jewel shard in each direction" I answered.
"Maybe we should split up into two groups" suggested Inuyasha.
"Ok every group gets two adults, one teen, and one child" I said.
Miroku walked closer to Sango "Me and Sango will go this way"
Sango picked up Shippo "Shippo will be our child after all he does have brown hair like me"
"True!" Shippo said tucking away his tail and removing his fox coat to look more human.
"I'll go along with them as well" Shiro said. Though he had blue hair, he was part fox. With a hand gesture and a leaf on his hair it quickly changed to black, his eyes into blue and brown, and his tail disappeared.
"It does make sense after all I have white hair and dog ears, Tenten had white hair and pointed human ears, and Inuyasha has white hair and dog ears" Yasha then pointed at me, "While Kagome has blue green eyes which match me and Tenten's all at the same time"
I also spoke adding something new to the table "I think we should all change outfits that way they won't be able to tell who we are"
"I have to agree with Kagome there" said Sango.
"Ok well then… me and Yasha switch, Shippo switch with Tenten, Inuyasha you with Miroku, and Sango with Kagome" Shiro said.
"We meet back here when we're done" Miroku said following Inuyasha. Yasha grabbed Shippo's hand and Tenten's as well, Disuke walked them to the near by forest. Sango and I headed to the other small forest.
"I can't believe we didn't think of the problem with us defeating Naraku. People will start to think we're mad with power" Sango said, now seeing what I had seen long ago.
"Even after we defeat Naraku we still have more to do. Why did life curse us?" I asked no one, since I expected no answer.
"Or blessing" Sango said looking at me, "if it wasn't for Naraku, none of us would have met. In fact maybe Miroku would have already settled down with someone, and Inuyasha would be stuck with a dead Kikyo or even dead himself. Me I don't know and you well you might have been passing those tests of yours"
"Life would have been really different if I hadn't fallen in the well to find Buyo… my life would have been a wreck" I though for a few seconds and a face of disgust came "I might have been dating Hojo!"
"Hojo? But he lives in the past"
"No, his great-great-great-great-great-or-something-like-that grandson" I explained.
"That's weird I would have expected a weak link like him in his family line to end up dead"
I nodded in agreement Hojo wasn't exactly what you would call Mr. Survival. Me and Sango spoke as we changed, but not completely. Sango mostly gave me her over clothes. Leaving her in a green kimono with a pink-ish white shirt and me in her pink and dark pink Kimono. I tied my hair up as she most often did and she pulled her hair down and over her shoulders.
We walked back. Inuyasha looked strange wearing Miroku's black and blue Monks outfit, changed so that the blue went around his waist like a Kimono. Miroku wore the red hakama pants and the white shirt. Yasha wore the strange blue shorts and green shirt that was oh-so-slightly see through and Shiro her red hakama pants and short sleeved white shirt.
Shippo smiled happily wearing Tenten's white Kimono Shirt tucked into his pants which were lowered. Tenten wore a leaf patterned Kimono being only a child he needed nothing more. We put all the spare clothes in a backpack/basket and Tenten sat in it as I carried it.
"Ok who ever wins gets to chose which way to go kay?" Inuyasha said starring Miroku in the eyes.
"Yep"
"Rock, Paper, Scissors, and Shoot!"
Inuyasha did paper and Miroku did rock, "I never we good at hand games" he snarled.
"Ok we go this way you go that way" Inuyasha pointed to the one on the right for his group and to the one on the left for Miroku's group.
"Ok and we stay in the village as travelers for three days then we meet back here" I said to all of us.
Everyone nodded and we walked our separate way I just hoped that we would all find what we needed and that the demon or human we fought for it with wouldn't be to tough.
(Shiro-Disuke's POV)
We walked into the village head first Sango held Shippo's hand and I walked behind Miroku. Miroku stopped and pulled both my face and Shippo's face close to his, "From now till we leave you both will address me as Father and Sango as Mother" Miroku said quietly to us both.
We nodded, "Yes daddy" Shippo said returning his hand to Sango's.
"Yes Father" I repeated. The word was strange coming from my lips. But I followed either way. Women looked our way as we walked by them every so often. It was like as if I was really human.
On the side there was a dumpling shop, it seemed quite old but many people sat around in the seats and children played as they waited for their parents. "Maybe we should find some info from these people here" Miroku said to Sango.
She gave him a nod and we walked to the dumpling shop. She lifted Shippo like as if he was a young child. Then we sat on one of the larger tables. A woman came to order our food and put the tea on out table, Miroku whispered to me an instruction.
I smirked and smiled up at the lady as she put down the tea pot and cups "Hey beautiful, I never expected to find someone as beautiful as you here"
She blushed and held the large holding plate up to her face to hide her smile. "I'm sorry sir, what would you like?" she asked.
"Could I have you?" I asked.
She held the plate up to her face again, "Oh no sir, you're much to kind. I'm sure I'm not worthy of that offer"
With in moments a group of female humans were surrounding me, the older ones pinching my cheeks the younger ones touching my hands and arms.
"I never though the kid had it in um'…" Miroku said, then he received a smack on his head by Sango.
"Miroku look at his face carefully"
And she was right all this suffocation was really making it hard for me to stay in this human form. "Lady's, lady's, don't worry. There's enough of him to go around. That is if he wasn't engaged"
"Engaged!?" they all said, even I did. What the hell was Miroku talking about?
"Yes, yes ladies we're only staying here to pass the day's till he can marry her"
"Marry!?" we all said in unison.
"Yes, right son Yasha. Aww and what a sight for sore eyes she is. You really have an eye as I did back in my younger days son" Miroku said putting his hand on my farther shoulder and holding me closely.
I blushed, "But he's old enough to marry why can't he marry her now?" asked one of the younger girls.
"Well you see poor Disuke has to wait till she's fifteen sadly she's only fourteen but will be turning fifteen at some point soon" Miroku held out his hands "and until then we will work him like the boy he was ment to be! Right son?"
I nodded with a smile to make it seem more real. I liked the idea of having Yasha as a promising mate but still we were only friends I would be sure she had other plans for a mate.
Sango spoke with women and Miroku with the men. Leaving me in Shippo with seven dango's to do as we wished outside. Shippo went to play with the younger boys, I watched for awhile but then got bored. I walked out of the shops range to go look around and see what I could find. There were few workers in a rice growing area. It seemed only a girl with strange silver hair and her mother with dark brown hair were working to put the rice bags up on the cart. I walked over to them and pushed it up for them.
"Oh thank you very much young man, you are quite kind"
I scratched my neck, "No problem do you need some help? I'm sure this is too much for you and your daughter to handle" I asked pointing at the rest of the rice bags.
She bowed "that would be very kind of you. But I'm sure you're busy" she said.
I shook my hands back and forth "No, no not at all actually I was just passing by with nothing to do" I lifted another rice bag and quickly put it on the wagon.
They worked along side me but I was the fastest, but since I needed to pretend to be human I would only lift one at a time. When I could have lifted fifteen maybe even twenty. They really weren't that heavy compared to other things I've carried, like weights and the training bags.
We quickly finished the job but they seemed worn out, "I'm sorry sir, we have noting to offer you"
I shook my hand again, "No I don't want anything but if you cold give me a little information please?"
She nodded, "please come in, I know it's not much but it's better than talking in the summer heat" she said walking me and her daughter to a small hut.
I kneeled in front of her as her daughter sat by her mother's side; she hid her pink eyes from me as if she had something to hide. "You see me and my family came here hearing some rumor about a jewel shard being located here in this village is this true?" I asked her very simply and plainly.
She gave me a nod, "But what do you wish to do with it?" she asked.
"A friend of mine is collecting them we've gone through a lot of trouble and we already have a marble-ish shape, all we need are about seven more" I answered, "why?"
She shook her head "No I'm just wondering, what's your friend's name?"
"Kagome" I spoke, "she's a priestess but she was busy with business at the capital. If you could please direct me towards where the jewel is rumored to be place that would be overly kind"
"Shiori go get him the jewel shard please"
Shiori stood and walked off to a cabinet; she took out a box and gave it to her mother. "I hope you are telling the truth, Inuyasha and Kagome inspired little Shiori so much" she said passing me the box.
"I found the jewel after Kagome-san left I felt bad that they didn't have it so I kept it hidden so that demons wouldn't take it away. But I can't touch it… I'm a half demon" she said, twiddling her feet on the ground.
I pat her head "So am I, if I may" I put the box on the floor and took a step back. I did three hand gestures and wiped my hand over my face. My hair became its normal silver-blue, along with my pointed wolf ears, red and blue eyes, and tail.
She stared up at me with awe "how did you do that?"
"I'm part kitsune demon I can transform into things very well, even change my form if I wish" I answered.
I gave them a smile, "I'm sorry I should go now. My comrades should be waiting for me. I don't want them to leave me behind and wonder where I went off to" I lifted the jewel out of the box carefully. It burned slightly but I though as purely as I could so that it wouldn't hurt as much.
"Ok" Shiori and her mother gave me a nod, I walked out and at the door way I gave them a bow as I transformed back into my fake human form; I left right back out and off to the dumpling shop.
I ran back hoping that they hadn't left me to some other place. Holding the jewel in my hand to make sure nobody stole it. And just as I had left them Miroku and Sango were now drinking tea for their last drink. I sat down next to Sango, "Mother"
She turned her head to face me "yes Disuke?"
"I found it"
"Found what?" she asked confused.
"Hold out your hand" she did as I asked and I passed it to her. She opened her hand to see the jewel shard in it.
"Miroku"
"Yes my dear?" he asked looking up from his dumpling.
"He found it" she showed him the jewel.
"Well then now we should head off to find an Inn" Miroku said pushing Sango's hand back to her side. He paid the dumpling man and we left off. Shippo went back to Sango's side and gave her a hug. She lifted him up again.
The streets were much more crowded now, it would be hard if we got separated so Sango held my hand I followed along. I was surprised no one had said anything about how strange my age was for her ago. Shippo was fine since he looked about five but I looked at least fifteen. And Sango was about Twenty while Miroku was Twenty one. I seemed only five years younger than them.
We walked into an empty Inn it seemed about as old as everything else in the village. "Hello welcome to the Kimaka Inn. What do you need sir and Madam?"
"We would like two rooms" Miroku said, "one room for our sons and one room for ourselves"
"Of course so two futons for the boys and one for the lovely couple" the old man said. Sango was about to speak but Miroku gave her side a pinch.
"Yes sir, we expect a nice meal at around sun down. Do you have any hot springs?"
He gave Miroku a nod "right out back I have three, just got to the one for your gender. Oh, that is unless you'll be bathing with your wife" the old man said.
Miroku laughed as Sango gave him a kick. The old man walked out of the counter, "Right this way sir" he led us down the hall to two different rooms.
As me and Shippo walked into our room the man looked at me strangely as if he could tell though my disguise. I looked around the large empty room, "well this is boring…"
"You telling me" Shippo kicked at the floor and sat down on his butt.
"Hey Shippo"
"Ya?"
"They don't expect us to be here till sun set right?"
He nodded "ya" then he shrugged "so what?"
"Come on let's go to the other village and see what Inuyasha, Kagome, Tenten, and Yasha have been doing. I don't like the look that man gave me" I said to Shippo. He gave me a nod, "But first we gotta get their scent off our trail" I said to him.
He put his hand to his chin as if he was in though "I've got's an idea" he said standing up grabbing two towels. He passed one to me.
"Come on" he grabbed my hand and we knocked on Sango and Miroku's room.
Sango opened the door, "Sango we're gonna head out to take a bath over at the springs" I said to her.
"Ok you two and make sure you flip the card for the bath you go to" she said.
We nodded and walked out to the baths. I put the towel down on the side and look at my strange gaudy red outfit, it was actually Yasha's but still it was quite strange to me. I lifted Shippo up and jumped over the wall. Nobody seemed to notice us as we left off to the next hut.
I jumped over the roofs holding Shippo in my arm using my free arm to jump off to the next hut.
(With Yasha POV)
I was walking around town with Tenten on my back. I held him with one arm for he was held against my back with a sash string. I was investigating a rumor that a demon was in a castle on the lake, just out of the village, and held a jewel shard.
Tenten wiggled and bounced on my back, "What Tenten?" I asked him. He goo'd and gaa'd pointing at a prize stand filled with toys. I looked at the game; it was to aim at the glass target's with either three kunai knifes or these new western guns filled with rocks.
The prizes were toys, foods, and the one that most interested me was the cotton candy. I smiled, "Ok I'll win you a toy and I'll win Shiro-Disuke a big batch of cotton candy" I said to Tenten giving him a bounce.
He giggled with joy. I walked over to the man caring for the stand, "Sir, how many targets do I need to hit to win both a toy and a big batch of cotton candy?" I asked him.
He gave me a wide fanged smile, "All ya need to do is hit seven of them glass bottles with three knifes or three shots. In fact if you pay me one silver coin in stead of a grigin I'll let ya use eight shots" he said.
"Naw, here" I paid him one grigin and took three kunai. The one thing they didn't know was that I could hit all the targets with one shot. All watched me, I tossed the first one and dropped the second; meaning I would only use one to get all eight. Everyone watched more intently now.
I lifted one leg and bent it out like a tiger stance. I curved my arms and waist, and hurled the kunai out at the bottles. It hit one and broke it, then the next and the next; soon they were falling over without my kunai even touching them just with the wind it caused.
I howled out laughing at the man's face. He gave me five toys, a huge watt of cotton candy in a clear jar, then as I was about to leave he called me back "actually ma'am… you're suppose to buy another western treat…" he said embarrassed.
I looked at the foods, there were white breads, strange drinks, and then there was a jar filled with colorful stars. I picked the stars, he passed me the jar and I took one out tasting it. It was sweet! I left it in my mouth and it melted I was surprised.
I looked back at Tenten who was hugging his new toy, "try this little brother" I said to him holding a small star in my hand. He opened his mouth and I tossed it in. He sucked on it then his eyes went wide and his face turned pink with a large smile on it as he sucked the last of the juices out of it.
I walked around the town holding the jar and cotton candy in my arms; we kept only two of the toys. One shaped to be a dog the other a fox. I had been the one to choose the dog; he had wanted the bear, and the rest we sold at a fair price. Not only getting the money I spent back but some extra cash as well.
I looked around then shook my head "aww man" I remembered I hadn't come to the village to play but to find the jewel shard. I ran back to the inn and put all the stuff down in the room. Then softly I put the dog in front of my prizes and ran back outside. It was almost the afternoon! And they wanted me back by sun down.
I ran quickly out of the village to the forest, I almost tripped over the lake and into the water but I stopped just in time. "I don't see any castle do you Tenten?" I asked him confused.
He shook his head with a bark. I walked around the edge of the water often looking to the water hoping to see a reflection or anything more than fish. I put my and down to dip the water up but instead when I touched the water I felt noting but air. My eyes went wide with surprise, "Yasha!"
I jumped at the sound of my name, "Shiro-Disuke!" I said looking at the boy in his normal demon blue hair tail out stretched, with Shippo in one arm. I smiled, but then frowned.
"What's the matter Yasha?" Shippo asked me wiggling out of Disuke's eyes.
"Nothing but… Disuke put your hand into the water" I said sternly. He bent down to my height and dipped his hand in, "what!"
He pulled his hand back, "Did you feel water?"
"No but I felt… air…" he turned his hand to see if anything had been done to his flesh.
"Ya right!" Shippo said. He dunked his hand as well but ripples formed in the water unlike our hands which passed right through it.
"I think only those with both human and demon attributes can feel the air…" Shiro-Disuke said, he took Tenten from my back, he let out a growl and Tenten doused his hand with water it came out as wet as Shippo's.
I took Tenten and tied him onto Shippo's back, "I want you to find Inuyasha and Kagome, tell them to find Sango and Miroku. We're going to investigate the water castle jewel" I said to Shippo. I pushed him in the direction of the village.
"But how will I find them!" he asked holding Tenten with both arms.
"Follow your nose; you said you can smell when I was on Kirara's back, so prove it!" I yelled at him. He yelped and ran sniffing the air.
"Don't you think that was a bit harsh?" Shiro-Disuke asked.
"Ya, like you growling at Tenten is any sweeter" I said knelling back down to the water, I dunked my head in eyes closed. The air that I took in smelled strange like as if it was filled with some kind of acid.
I opened my eyes to see a castle, we were just above it. And inside… I sensed the jewel. I pulled my head up, "Shiro-Disuke" I went behind him.
"Ya?"
"Jump!" I pushed him in and we fell straight down to the roof of the castle, I fell on top of him.
"What are you Crazy!? That could have Killed Us!" he yelled rubbing his head.
"I wouldn't have done it if I knew there was nothing to catch us" I answered, helping him stand up. The sky here was pitch black, darker than night.
The only thing here was a red moon to color the dark sky, but it looked an awful lot like a sunset.
"Come on you got us in the world now we gotta find that rumored jewel" he said grabbing my hand and pulling me along the roof. The roof tips were sharp against my feet but with master skill I felt only a simple pinch when I walked lightly against it.
"I don't know why but this place seems really familiar" he whispered, looking down at the guards. They all looked tough and were not to be fought if we could avoid it.
"Yasha, I got an Idea of how to get into the palace" Shiro-Disuke whispered in my ear his plan.
I gave him a nod and he pounced attacking the man guard bellow him. I saw the next guy coming and I pinched him so that he fainted. Then I removed his armor and put it over my clothes. Shiro-Disuke ripped his under shirt and made them a choker; we used a rope to tie them against the wall, tie them together, and then to tie their feet together. If one were to move his leg the other mans leg would be stretched and maybe even kill him if he was not careful with the choker. I smirked under the armor.
Shiro-Disuke passed me a weapon and we walked into the palace like normal guards. The air smelled like smoke and it burned my nose, so I stopped breathing through my nose and started breathing through my mouth. But this made it harder to define scents; I relied on Shiro-Disuke's smell.
"Come on, this way" he said motioning towards the left hall, "how do you know?" I asked him.
"I don't know this place just seems like a familiar place"
(Shiro-Disuke's POV)
When I said it seemed familiar I ment it looked exactly like my home. I was a palace prince; by the name Kanshin for all I was, was a burden of strong pain. But that was a different part of my life, I walked Yasha along. I knew where the priestess's room was she would be the only one who would have the jewel shard.
I pulled her along faster this was one of the most secure parts of the palace. But this wasn't my palace… it was dark, smelled disgusting, and seemed like more danger. I opened the corridor door to the temple hall. Instead of being its old fashion plain marble white it was black and smelled of soot.
Yasha started to cough, "you ok?"
"I think so," she said. I looked back at her and lifted her helmet and put a handkerchief on her nose and mouth.
"Thank you Shiro-Disuke" I blushed under my helmet once again glad she couldn't see my face.
"No problem, just try to breathe a little less"
"Are you going to be ok?" she asked me, I nodded and continued walking over to the temple. She followed, though my steps were slightly louder than hers she seemed to just leave a little tap that if I wasn't listening carefully I wouldn't even hear it.
I slowly turned the door open to see a line to walk just like the one back at home. But instead of being full of pure spirits in the water it was full of devils from hell. We walked in slowly careful of the fires.
"So they have come… at last" I heard a woman's voice say, I shoot my ground so that it would seem that we were both males and she wouldn't attack Yasha first.
"Who are you!?" I yelled.
A shadow stood like a phoenix bird within the flames, Yasha stepped forward but remained quiet.
"So shall we start this game or would you rather just lose?" she said. I couldn't see her face but I knew one this, we didn't want to fight her, human, demon, or half demon.
"Wench!" I yelled. Yasha seemed to be able to tell she was not to speak and I was glad for that. Then a group of swords and arrows were tossed at us from two side's both aiming at us both. She looked from side to side and grabbed me. A barrier appeared around us both and the arrows and swords were all blocked.
"Yasha whatever you are doing don't stop!" I said lifting her up bridal style. The armor was burning right through her abilities of priestess power. I hoped that she wouldn't burn my skin but I held her carefully and close either way.
I ran down the parade of weapons, not one piercing through the barrier she held up. As we got closer to the phoenix woman the fire became more intense; Yasha started to pant, I only hoped that the barrier would stay up long enough.
The woman moved her arm out wards next to her, then I saw her hand come out of her sleeve she pulled on the fire and a barrier of flames came up.
"I'm sorry Shiro-Disuke… I can't hold it up any longer…" she said falling limp in my arms, the barrier fluttered but quickly dissolved. I was glad now no more swords were heading our way, but now that both of our armors were burned off both from her aura. Strangely though I felt no burn to my skin at all, "That's It!"
I removed the haori and placed it around us both. Story's told of a red cloth that would never burn, the coat of the fire rat. I held Yasha back from the flames; the woman laughed and pulled another fire lever.
We fell down a hole in the floor -I cried out- holding Yasha above me. We landed in a dark cellar, my shoulder sprained and bleeding. Yasha had hit her head just enough that it would bleed. I looked around; all I saw were bones, rotten furs, and the musky sound of a rat trotting by. It was pitch black at least till my eyes adjusted.
I licked Yasha's wound, till the wound was red but healed. I looked over at my shoulder, in a few hours it would heal but it might be infected so I tried to lick out as much dirt as I could. With my claw I picked out the last of the dirt I could see and licked the wound to make the bleeding stop.
"Inuyasha you guy's better get here soon…" I said, then I though 'are demon's allowed to pray? Aww whatever if Yasha can be part priestess then I can pray'
I clapped my hands twice together and held them close to my chest, "Please make Inuyasha and his pack hurry along, I don't want Yasha to get any more hurt than she already is" I said out loud to Kami, God.
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