It's been a while hasn't it? Sorry about that! I really am, but I've been so busy! I don't think I'm gonna make the basketball team so I'll have more time on my hands... win - lose situation lol anyways here's the next chapter in 'I Lost You Once I Won't Lose You Again'
I Lost You Once I WONT Lose You Again
Last Time
"You misunderstand." The youkai smiled, almost warmly, but it was more evil than not. "We are not after the pitiful jewel. In fact, we are after you."
Now
Kagome stood frozen, a blank look on her face as she studied the youkai before her. "And what does your boss want with me?"
The youkai smirked evilly. "That will be revealed in time. For now, I suggest you do as I say and come with us."
Kagome narrowed her eyes, bringing her left hand up to her face. "Do you see this? This is a ball of miko purification. One touch of this and you'll be screaming in pain. Those youkai behind you, they most likely will die if this so much as grazes them." The four youkai behind the bat demon stepped back as she brought up her left hand. "This is a ball of demon energy. Although it does not always have the desired affect of turning youkai into ashes, it can leave a pretty bad scar and will hurt for at least a week. It could possibly wound you enough so that you cannot fight."
The bat youkai stepped closer, forcing Kagome into a defensive stance, her left arm hanging by her side, and her right blocking her face. "And what, pray tell, do these attacks of yours have to do with you following my orders?"
Kagome growled low in her throat. "They are the reason you will not be able to take me from my home." She thrust her right arm out, aiming behind the youkai and throwing a ball of demon energy into the kitsune beside her brother. Unprepared, the youkai flew back into the wall as it hit his chest.
Not stopping for a second, Kagome brought her left arm to the side of her face, eyes glowing pink, a beam of energy flew past the bat youkai's face, missing by mere inches ad hitting the inuyoukai. He howled loudly before turning to ash.
The bat youkai stood still, a small smug-like smile on his face before Kagome brought her hands in front of her in an outward motion as if warning off attackers. Yet no youkai made a move, waiting for their leader to tell them to attack. Unfortunately, the bat youkai had no intention of doing so.
"Mom, Grandpa, Souta! Duck DOWN!" Kagome screamed as her body began to glow a bright pink with white sparks. Her hands began to eliminate as small firefly sized white balls began to circle her palm, gaining speed as the seconds passed. She closed her eyes for a split second before opening them to reveal a blank expression in her now piercing white eyes. "Detonation Exploit!" The balls stopped suddenly for less than a second before zooming past the bast youkai and into the chest of the remaining three beside her family. Her family watched in horror and awe as the kitsune, fire, and ice youkai began to scream, pulling off their shirts as the balls began to eat away at their hearts.
The bat youkai turned his head slightly to watch the scene behind him, smirking as he say the orbs move around in the kitsune's chest. "I see you have been training. The boss will be pleased."
Kagome snarled as the three weaker youkai fell tot he ground, unmoving, un-breathing, and dead. "You still wish to take me from my home, bat? Have you learned nothing? I only used an eighth of my power doing that, and you still wish to remove me from my family? You are out of your mind." Kagome addressed coldly, eyes narrowed and lips curled in a snarl as her hair began to swirl frantically as she let loose her aura.
"Yet, you spared me? Why is that?" The silver haired bat youkai asked, right eyebrow raised. "Is it possible that you are interested in meeting this boss of ours? Or is it because there is other youkai and you wish to see if your past youkai family is still alive?"
Kagome's eye widened. Of course that had been her reason. She needed information. She needed to know how to find the other youkai out there. She needs to find her son. "How do you know of them?" Kagome growled, stepping back into her former fighting stance. "How long have you been watching me?"
The youkai laughed. "I have not watched you at all, my dear. In fact, this is the very first time I have laid my eyes on you."
Kagome stood straight. "You did not answer my first question. How do you know of my past family? Do not lie. I will be able to tell." She raised her still glowing, left purification hand.
The youkai smirked, but it fell into a happy smile instead of an evil one. His eyes softened and his straight posture loosened. "I my, my dear Kagome, Miko-Gone Demon, and savior of youkai, hanyou, and human alike, am Kouken. I am the son of the hanyou bat demon, Shirori. It is a pleasure to meet on of the few humans that were kind to my mother. She still speaks of you in such a high manner."
:: I'm gonna be evil and go To Sesshoumaru!:: lol
Sesshoumaru gave an inaudible sigh as the kitsune clutched to his neck as he flew on his shoulder to the human village. 'I did not expect to feel... concern... for this kit. What is This Sesshoumaru to do in this situation? Do I leave the kit with the hanyou? Or do I take him as a play mate for Rin? Kami knows Jaken's squawking is starting to ware on my already sensitive nerves.'
:Well, someone being grumpy, aren't they? Tell me, what has you hakamas all up in a bunch? Is the stick up your ass falling out or something?: His innerbeast laughed at his joke while Sesshoumaru somehow found it less than humorous.
'What are you doing here? I thought you had left.'
:You can't get rid of me that easily you know. In fact, you can't get rid of me at all. I'll always be here... I'm your own best friend!:
Sesshoumaru growled inwardly. 'Stop your insistent flapping of your mouth. It is raking on This Sesshoumaru's nerves!'
His inneryoukai huffed in annoyance. :I think you deserve it! I've been stuck here for three hundred years! I deserve to have some moments of fun!At least if I'm annoying you I can have fun on the inside, since you don't do anything remotely interesting! Could it kill you to laugh once in while?!:
Now, Sesshoumaru wasn't expecting that little outburst from... well, himself. not that it affected him, mind you, but it did give him pause in his thoughts, that lasted for what, three seconds? 'This Sesshoumaru has grown tired of hearing you speak. Reside back into your corner while I fetch my ward.' His youkai huffed and growled in annoyance, but he resided back into the corner of Sesshoumaru's mind with an 'I'll be back!' as his last message.
Sesshoumaru shook his head just barely, forgetting about the kitsune on his shoulder. In cause to Sesshoumaru's shaking his head, Shippou tightened his hold around the inuyoukai's neck, turning his head to look at Sesshoumaru with glassy, watery green eyes. "What is it, Lord Sesshoumaru?"
Sesshoumaru opened his mouth to say 'nothing' but not a word came out after he registered that Shippou had addressed him by his title. "What did you call This Sesshoumaru?"
Shippou cocked his head to the side. "Isn't that what you want me to call you?"
Sesshoumaru raised an eyebrow. "Did you address me as such before?" Shippou shook his head. "Then you will not do so now." Shippou just nodded his head in surprise and wonder. "We are here."
Sesshoumaru let his youkai cloud dissipate as he reached the earth, gracefully touching the ground with his boot clad feet. With a discreet wrinkle of his nose and small tilt of his head, he turned his body in the direction of the old miko's hut, intent on getting Rin and returning to his home. Shippou went to hop of Sesshoumaru's shoulder, uncertain if he wished for him to be there in case his ward and retainer would see him. However, Sesshoumaru stopped him with a stern glare. "Stay where you are, kit. I have not yet decided how I am to deal with you."
Shippou's heart began to race as his eye widened, unsure of what Sesshoumaru's statment meant. 'Does he mean to kill me? is he gonna eat me?'
Sesshoumaru sighed, this time caught by Shippou. "I have said before, and this will be the last I say it. I am not going to harm you in anyway. I have honor, and will not harm a defenseless pup." With that, he strode into the miko's hut, aware of the rest of the inu-tachi and his own pack being inside.
"What took ya so long?" Inuyasha barked, arms folded in his sleeves as he leaned against the wall of the hut, centering a glare at the tall youkai lord. "If you'd taken any longer, Sesshoumaru, I would have chased you down."'
Sesshoumaru let a small snarl grace his lips as he narrowed his eyes and furrowed his brow at the hanyou. "Do you think I would leave my ward and retainer in the care of a baka half-bread, Little brother? This Sesshoumaru would not stoop so low as to punish them in such a way." In his own little way, Sesshoumaru was insulting and telling his pack that he would be there for them, always. (I think...)
Inuyasha just 'feh'ed as usual and turned his head to the side, pouting slightly. "Lord Sesshoumaru," Sesshoumaru turned his gaze to his ward, looking at her with no emotion on his face, but his eyes softened a bit as he saw the question settled in her eyes. "Is it true that Miss. Kagome is gone?" Rin had heard the other adults telling the older miko of what had happened, and she understood why the older lady had let a few tears fall down her cheeks. But she still didn't believe that someone she had come to really love had left. 'What did they mean gone? Wouldn't she come back?' she had asked herself. After all, Kagome had gone for weeks at a time, but she always came back. They acted as if they would never see her again.
Sesshoumaru nodded his head, unsure of how his voice would react to Rin's still questioning gaze. "But won't she come back? Miss. Kagome always leaves and comes back. Sometimes, she even brings Rin sweet tasting food."
Sesshoumaru, for perhaps the first time in his life, didn't know what to do. Shippou had started to let loose silent tears at another mention of his mother, and Rin seemed to be catching on to what had happened, because her tears suddenly filled with the salty smelling water known as tears. "Rin, she will not return."
Rin's face became blotchy as she cried more and more, not letting out wails like a normal child, due to her experience with youkai hearing, but silent little tremors of her body. Jaken stood up from his sitting position on the ground, taking his Staff of Two Heads with him. He awkwardly patted Rin's shoulder, giving as much comfort as he knew how. "It is alright Rin, she was just a silly ningen."
A low growl from Inuyasha, a snarl from Shippou, a glare from Kikyo and Sango, and a whack to the head from Miroku answered that remark. "First off, my Mama was not silly." Shippou growled, hopping from Sesshoumaru's shoulder, who was busy trying to hold back his youkai. "She was a kind person who even cared for you so be quiet. If she were here right now, she would have smacked you upside the head with her backpack!"
Inuyasha followed Shippou's little speech with an angered huff. "She also isn't a human anymore, ya toad. Kagome was turned into an inuyoukai before she left. If Sesshoumaru wouldn't have interrupted us, we would have gotten to that part." Inuyasha growled, his eyes darting to the stoic lord and back to Jaken.
All of this, of course, did not help the fact that they had a crying girl who didn't understand why one of her best friends were gone. "But why is Miss. Kagome gone? She always comes back!"
Sesshoumaru sighed inwardly, knowing that his ward, and daughter at heart, would not accept any answer unless it was given by him. With an inaudible gulp of the saliva that was not even in his mouth, he bent to Rin's level, making his eyes connect with hers. "She went back to her home, Rin. She cannot come back. Not even if she wished to do so."
I think that's a good part to end off, I noticed something though, I like ending my chapters with either someone walking away, or someone talking. Lol anyway... I ended it here since I think I'm going to do most of the next chapter based on who has summoned Kagome. Or rather who had Kouken summon Kagome. lol I'm betting you all have a pretty good idea, but I've had this planned for a while now... :shrug: oh well, hope ya enjoyed this chappy! REVIEW!
