Quick note: This chapter is a combination of episode 96 and 99.
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CHAPTER 9
Somewhere within the forest
Surprisingly after the event, Sesshomaru didn't question me anything related to Kagome nor Inuyasha and acted as if nothing had happened. I wonder whether he just didn't bother about it or his suspicious of my motive/identity was silently increasing...
Traveling through the woods as usual with Sesshomaru's taking the lead. While Rin's riding Ah-Un's back and I walk next to her and Jaken from behind. Everything's all nice and quiet until Rin's stomach starts rumbling out loud.
Quickly, the little girl covers her stomach and blushes as I begin to search my backpack. "Let's see if I still have some snacks in my bag"
Unfortunately for her, there is nothing left since we somewhat have eaten the last of them yesterday and totally forgot to restock...
"Hmm...Guess we have no choice but to search for some food here" I tell her and look around the place.
"Sesshomaru-sama! I'm hungry, may I go and look for something to eat?" Rin calls Sesshomaru to ask for his permission
However Jaken responds in his lord's place. "Silent, Rin! A forest like this will contain nothing for human to eat, just bear with it!"
"But we won't know until we try, right?" I raise an eyebrow at him. Thinking that he nay have extravagated things.
As expected, he's instantly annoyed by my voice and yells back. "Shut up! No is no!"
"But…" Rin then tries to convince him but gets cut off mercilessly, "No but!"
Not to be obliged so easily, Rin jumps out of Ah-Un's back and grabs my hand to drag me away. "Come on, Onee-chan! We'll be back real quick!"
"H-Hey! Seriously! That girl" Before Jaken can stop her, the girls have already disappeared into the woods.
"Jaken, let them be," But then Sesshomaru's order causes Jaken's jaw to drop once again. "No way…I can't believe it!"
After a bit of searching, Rin has found some mushrooms under a tree as I stare at them "Hmm…I guess they look edible enough to eat"
"Should we boil or roast them?" She asks me in excitement and I tilt my head thinking "Well.. Either of them sounds fine to me. How about half-half? That will make it less boring to eat"
Then I suggest and Rin starts collecting them. However, an Orge's hand suddenly appears right at her spot and grabs the girl up onto the air "Kyaa!"
"Rin!" Taking out the Naginata and about to charge up to save her, yet I halt back for a moment to think for a better solution to approach. What if it hurt her once detecting danger? Should I wait for it to move?
Before I can finally make up my mind, Sesshomaru has dashed up from behind me in a blink of an eye and strike to release Rin from its grip. Instantly snap my sense back to the situation, I rush over to catch her from falling onto the ground in such height. "Got you!"
"You sure are amazing, Sesshomaru-sama!" Jaken approaches us and praise his lord's victory. Though it doesn't last long until the rest of the giant green arm on the ground turns into a group of giant bees. If look closely, they seem to be a lot similar to the bees that were with Naraku last time as Jaken yells. "Those are poisonous Saimyosho!"
Sesshomaru gestures his arm at us to stay back once the Saimyosho has combined into a green Orge's hand and leaps at him. "That Naraku, leaving his annoying insects behind. Jaken, There should be a hive nearby."
"Y-yes, Sesshomaru-sama! I will go look for it right away!" Jaken immediately obliges and starts his searching.
Knowing that staying behind will only slow down Sesshomaru. I decide to take Rin with me and follow Jaken to help. "We should go too, Rin"
Before leaving, I glance back to the battle and see that Sesshomaru's still in the advantage. Easily dodging the hand's attack by jumping up, spinning around in the air before slicing it in half. To be honest, never in my life I have seen someone fighting a youkai that elegantly...
"Jaken-sama! Look!" Rin suddenly shouts and points at something on the tree. "It's must be their hive."
I carefully approach and try to take it down with my Naginata. Yet a swarm of Saimyosho appears out of nowhere and flies straight to our spot to stop us. Afraid of their painful stung, I immediately squat down and cover my head. "Ekkk!"
"Rin! Get down! Nintoujou!" Jaken orders Rin to lie on the ground to hide and uses Nintoujou to kill them. However, Saimyosho just keep coming one after another out of their nests and even worse, their aim has now turned at me.
Not good! There are too many of them, I need to run! With that in mind, I stand on my feet and attempt to escape. Only after taking some steps, I hear Sesshomaru's call for my name and spin around. Seeing him standing not too far away and holding his sword, which appears to have blue aura surrounding it, in the air.
Instantly figuring out what he's implying, I lay down to avoid whatever is coming yet Jaken remains standing. Quickly, I yank him down with me. "Idiot! What are you standing there for?!"
"Shut up! I was about to duck too!" Jaken yells back.
At result, Sesshomaru's energy waves successfully eliminate every single one of Saimyosho there along with their nest, plus a whole tree. And Jaken waves his hand at Sesshomaru in joy once we all get back on our feet "You saved me, Sesshomaru-sama!"
Yet unbeknown to us, there are still some Saimyosho alive and one of them stings Jaken by his right arm before flying off "Yah!"
"Huh?" Is all I can say since everything has happened too fast to react.
"Are you okay?" Rin rushes over to Jaken's side when seeing him crying in pain. And Sesshomaru has dashed away to chase after the Saimyosho.
The little servant rips off his sleeve and urges Rin to take the stingers out. However before she can do it, they have already crawled into his skin and my eyes widened. Huh? Did they just sink into his arm? What exactly are these things?
"I'm sorry. Jaken-sama" Rin's head dropped, much to his terror.
"Oh no! The toxic poisons have entered my body!" Jaken starts screaming and running in circle. Hitting his head onto the tree nearby ober and over. "If I don't do something, I may die!"
Watching his painful reaction, Rin can only apologize while in a verge of crying "I'm sorry, Jaken-sama. It's all because of me…"
"Fool! I'm not going to die for you! I'm dying for Sesshomaru-sama!" He yells back in denial and tosses his sleeves onto the ground. Though soon after he gasps and collapses to the ground.
Quickly, we rush over to his side "Jaken-sama! do you know any way to remove the poison?"
"It's okay you two…I have been happy traveling the land together with Sesshomaru-sama" He shakes his head and mumbles under his breath.
Shocked, my eyes widened. What's he saying...Does it mean there's no cure? Still cannot believe this is the truth, I kneel down next to him and hold his little hand tightly "Jaken-san, please don't say that"
"Beside, if I die here then I will have no regrets...Tell Sesshomaru-sama that I always pray for his well-being from my grave…" Jaken cries his final words and faints.
Don't tell me he…Staring at the unconscious Jaken, I cover my mouth from sobbing and Rin cries out loud. "No! Jaken-sama! I don't want you to die. Please, I'll do anything just tell me!"
This tense and sorrowful moment doesn't last very long until the guy jolts up from his death. "R-really?!"
Causing me to completely lost for words. "Eh...?" I mean, wasn't he dying just now?
Seeing my indescribable expression, Jaken immediately falls back down and gives me his most pitiful face ever. "E-erm…Then maybe I'll ask…"
After that he explains about a herb farm from the east called Jinenji's garden. He pleads us to go there and harvest the berries of Sennensou for him, urging us to hurry as he has to swallow the thing before sunset or everything will be too late.
Now we are on Ah-Un's back and heading toward to the east. While Rin is definitely bearing a huge determination to get the berries, I on the other hand, somehow having a bad feeling about what is about to come. Well, he did tell us to harvest the berries yet providing us nothing about this farm... Will it be that easy for us just to go there to grab it then come back?
"Stay here, Ah-Un." I command the dragon as we jump down from its back. Begin to make our way toward to an herb garden we just have found. Soon, I spot a the small sitting next to it and decide get in there to ask for the cure instead of stealing. "There's a house over here. Let's see if we can find anyone we can ask for the berries"
"Hello?" I peek inside and find an old woman sitting on the floor, checking the herbs inside her basket. Hearing an unfamiliar voice, she shifts her head to my direction. "Who is it?"
"May I ask if Jinenji-san is home?" Both I and Rin approach in caution.
"Jinenji isn't seeing anyone today. So go home" The old woman replies and turns her attention back to the leaves on the floor.
Hearing so, we look at each other. Unsure what to do next. "Aww..."
Is this Jinenji person is the only owner of this place? I wonder if this old lady know anything about the herb? Will it okay to ask her for it instead? Many questions start to pop up inside my head. Then my eyes land on the big plump under the blue blanket in the middle of the house. What is that thing over there? Why is it so huge?
"You're here, aren't you, Jinenji-san? Please, hear me out! I need some Sennensou berries to save someone's life!" Rin approaches the plump fearlessly.
Surprised, I just freeze on my spot in shock. You're telling me that thing is Jinenji?! This guy is either super big boned or simply a youkai. And I'm definitely going for the second option. A youkai owning a herb garden, nothing too suspicious, right? Let's just hope that he won't be asking for any human sacrifice in turn for a single herb...
All my sense then immediately snaps back to reality once the figure begins to stir and speaks through a small hole of a lifted up blanket. "That's very regrettable...Because I no longer have them with me"
"What's wrong? Why won't you come out of the covers?" The little girl kneels next to him and the old woman sighs "You're just a little girl, so you won't understand. But Jinenji is a half-youkai"
My eyes widened in surprise "Half-youkai?"
Noticing my lack of knowledge, she explains. "Once a while, he takes on the human form. Such a coward, never once showing his human self to anyone"
I wonder why. Is it because his human form that horrifying?
"Then can you please tell me where to find the berries? We'll go get them on our own." Since the conversation has been wasting much time than we've expected it to be, I decide to skip the chit chat and ask for the berry's location.
And suddenly, her eyes shine brightly. "Sennensou berries are used as an antidote by youkai. Are you trying to save a youkai?"
"Y-yes." Rin answers and she leans closer, seem to be in a lot interested. "Say...Are you smitten with this youkai?!"
Confused by such strange word, the girl's head tilts. "Smitten? What's that?"
My face shows a great disgust and almost puke just by thinking about it. Smitten? With Jaken..? Are you for real?
"I see! It's understandable because you're too young. You know, I was like you once." For some unknown reasons (Not that I'm curious about it) The old woman's cheek turn pink.
I quickly evade the insane topic. "More importantly ma'am, will you let us know a bit about this berry whereabouts?"
"Please, we have to save Jaken-sama!" Rin pleads her and suddenly Jinenji speaks up. "Ma. That little girl resembles Kagome."
Kagome?! My eyes widen upon hearing the familiar name and I immediately asks him. "You know Kagome-chan?"
The man responds positively. "Yes. Kagome-chan is my friend."
How surprising, Kagome seems to well-known by a lot of people here. Just how long have she been staying in this place?
"Oh, that girl? I think you're right." The old woman turns to Rin then back to me. "Now that you've mentioned it. Your outfit looks similar to hers too. Do you and Kagome know each other by any chance?"
"Y-yes, she and I are also friends," I nod to confirm.
"The Sennensou grows in the ravine of the mountain out back. However, there are lots of youkai and beasts. It's impossible for human to go there." Jinenji explains and offers to help us, "When it's dark, I'll turn back to normal. So can you wait for me until then?"
However Rin refuses. "No! Then it'll be too late! I don't care how dangerous it is! I will definitely do it no matter what!"
And I too, try to convince him in a confident tone. "I'm not afraid of them, so please Jinenji-san. Tell us what kind of plant it is and we'll go get it."
After a while he finally accepts our request and hands us the drawing paper of the Sennensou berries, telling us to be careful before we depart.
At the mountain
"Great, just great..." I sigh in distress at the sight of a bunch of youkai and giant insects. Seeing that this area seems to be deserted, so there's nothing to be too surprising for it to become a nest for these kind of things. No wonder Jinenji told us to be careful back then...
Just by having one step forward, those monster have already detected our locations and immediately charges at us. "Oh no!"
Fortunately enough, a mysterious blue beam coming from behind me turns them into dust before they can reach to where we are. Then I spin around to check what it is and find Rin is patting the two-dead dragon. "Thank you, Ah-Un!"
How nice, that will make things so much easier! With the drawing in my hand, I turn to the little girl. "Rin, stay with Ah-Un. I'll go get it"
Obliges, Rin gets onto Ah-Un's back as the dragon helps clearing up the path. Soon after, I spot a familiar looking purple herb up on top of the mountain and check the drawing one more time to confirm. Yes! That must be it!
Since Rin needs to stay with Ah-Un... Guess I have no choice but to get up there by myself. Glancing at Rin then back to the cliff, I frown at its insane height. Damn, this is going to require a lot of work...
"Rin, I'm going to climb up from here!" I tell her then take a deep breath and begin my first few steps as Rin shouts out to me from below. "Okay, be careful, Onee-chan"
Once reaching half way, however, I finally realize something very, vert important...
Wouldn't it be faster if I just ride on Ah-Un's back and fly up here to grab it?
"Whooshh…" The cool wind gently blows at me as I pause on my feet, dying slowly inside (Apparently it's already too late for her to go back) Without any other choice, I continue my way up and finally after a huge waste of effort. I finally be able to get close to the Sennensou berries. Jeeze, what kind of plant growing by itself in such a high place?!
Using all the strength left, I try to reach out for the herb just above of my head. Alright, only…a little bit more...
And right after I've gotten my hand on it, the earth below me suddenly falls apart. Result in me losing my grip and doing a free falling. Shutting my eyes while holding the herb tightly into my chest, I let out a long sigh and think of the most positive outcome. Great…Oh well, at least i will go down faster this way.
Then out of nowhere, a shiny light orb flies toward to where I am and catches me from falling. Slowly, I open my eyes and find the silver haired lord is carrying me into his arm. Sesshomaru?! He came all the way here to check on us?!
"Thank you...for saving me, Sesshomaru-sama." I bow my head in appreciation but he just stands there and stares at me silently. Making me feel even more anxious and confused.
"Okay, okay I apologize for leaving and bringing Rin with me without permission...So you can stop the glaring now" I say, avoiding his gaze yet the guy still refuse to make any move. Jeeze, Why isn't he saying anything? He's mad, right? Shouldn't the scolding be starting now? But more importantly, when is he going to let me down? My body goes stiff as being stuck in such an awkward position.
And just as Sesshomaru about opens his lips, we hear Rin's call from afar. "Onee-chan! Sesshomaru-sama!" as she, together with Ah-Un flies toward to us. Within a single of heart beat, I jump out of his grip to avoid misunderstanding and approach to the girl, showing her the herb in my hand. "Rin, look! I got it!"
At first the little girl smiles brightly at the sight of Sennensou but then pouting at my reckless actions. "But you scared me to death, Onee-chan!"
Her cute pouting face cause me to giggle and I pat her head, hoping that she will let thing slide since I wouldn't want to listen to her nagging later on. As Jaken's and mom's have already been more than enough. "He he. Sorry... Alright, let's go back. Jaken must be waiting"
Back to Jaken
Around 20 minutes later
Jaken is now suffering from the poison, which is starting to spread all over his body "They didn't make it, after all" he sighs in depress and looks at the sunset, having no choice but to accept his ill fate "Oh…My vision is blurring"
Suddenly someone tall in white covers all of his sight and the guy instantly notices his lord's figure. Before he can say anything, Sesshomaru tosses the berries at his body. T-this is the Sennensou berries! Jaken quickly grabs it and instantly bursts in tears "S-sesshomaru-sama!" then gulps down the herb in joy. I'm saved!
Meanwhile, standing some feet behind them are Shiomi, Rin and Ah-Un. The little girl sighs in relief that Jaken's now all well and safe . She then turn to me, who is completely beaten up. "Onee-chan, how are you feeling?"
"Eh...So…tired." I mumble under my breath, lying flat on Ah-Un's back. Limbs have turned numb while back, hands and shoulders burning like hell. Then there are my eyelids which are getting heavier and heavier by second. I wish there would be a hot bath here, oh screw that, makes it a comfy bed instead…
In the evening
"Hey, wake up!" Jaken's annoying voice keeps ringing my ears and I toss to the other side to avoid it. "Uhm…Go away..."
Losing his patience, Jaken whacks my head with his staff and the sharp pain immediately awakes me. "Ouch!"
"What was that for?!" Sitting up and rubbing the bump on my head, I ask in a grumpy tone once my rare peaceful nap being destroyed. Yet he suddenly stays quiet and even avoid my eyes. What the heck? Is he trying to mess with me?
"So? What do you want?" This time being the one to lose patience, I spin the guy around by force.
"Well…" The green servant coughs into his fist and starts fidgeting, yet still refusing to speak a proper sentence.
Confused by his weird attitude, I turn to Rin for a better explanation and she giggles. "I told him what happened!"
"Oh... Now i get it. So, you woke me up just to thank me, huh?" I shift my head back to him, grinning.
Getting even more embarrassed, Jaken yells and waves his staff around that almost his my head again. "W-who says that I want to thank you?! I woke you up because you slept for too long that it would slow Sesshomaru-sama down!"
Once done speaking, he turns away and walks off. Not forgetting to throw a "Hmph!" at me.
"You're welcome!" I call out to him from behind and cause Jaken to flinch, almost tripping on his own feet.
After that day, Kagome was informed by Jinenji about a girl wearing a similar outfit to Kagome's and claimed to be her friend. As she came here together with a little girl to find Sennensou berries. Kagome then figured out that the two he mentioned would be Shiomi and Rin. Though she's curious why her senpai would need the herb, thinking if it's either for Sesshomaru or Jaken who actually got sick.
Some days later
"Onee-chan, come! There's a river here! We can catch fishes!" Rin says, dragging me throughout the forest. While Jaken is struggling to follow us from behind. "Hey you two, wait up!"
Once there, we're instantly greeted by a group of wolves and two human looking guys, who seem to be their owners and one of them speaks. "What? Humans?"
"Are you guys their owners? Can you keep them in check?" Terrified by the wolves growl and seeing them approaching, I push Rin behind me then hold out my Naginata in defense, also slowly back away.
Notices their subordinate's aggressiveness, they gestures their hands at the pack. "Hey! Calm down, you guys! Humans are no good!" and luckily, the wolves oblige.
Seeing that the creatures have stayed calm, I sigh in relief but Rin tugs my skirt tightly and still trembling heavily. Now that I think about it, she used to tell me that she was attacked by wolves before...
"Say, Hakkaku. Does her outfit remind you of someone?" The guy on the right asks the guy on his left and he tilts his head, staring at me from head to toes. "Hmmm…Yeah, I think she looks similar to Kagome-san"
Did they just say Kagome? They also know Kagome-chan? My eyes widened in shock but then starting to get a bit confused. How odd, is it me or all the people that I meet here have already known her?
Suddenly, Jaken jumps out of the bush and makes me flinch in surprise. "J-Jaken-san!"
Notice our uneasiness, he raises his eyebrow. "Huh? What's wrong?"
"Uhmm...Well," I dart my eyes back to the front and point my finger there. Toward to my finger's direction, Jaken finds a bunch of not too friendly wolves up ahead and immediately shoo them away. "You there, wolves! Leave this area immediately!"
Although the guy with more hair on his head protests. "Why?! Besides, who'd you think we are?!"
"Who?" I tilt my head cause of a bizarre questions.
The guy with less hair shouts out, "The young leader of the Youkai-Wolf tribe! Hakkaku the shrewd one!"
Then the guy with more hair follows. "And the dimpled Ginta! So there! Remember us now?"
What's with them? I deadpanned after watching their fabulous introduction and shake my head in response cause the lack of information. Or should I say, I've never met them ever since stepping my feet into this world. "Actually, no..."
And Jaken too, shakes his head. "Never heard of you"
"What?!" The guy, who is so called Ginta, is ticked off by our oblivious answers.
Suddenly Jaken's tone changes which I've never heard of before. "Cower in fear, you two! It has been several centuries since I began serving Sesshomaru-sama!"
"Crossed through three thousand worlds have I, his most loyal follower! I am known as the name of Jaken!" He ends his marvelous speech with a spin.
Meanwhile I turn completely speechless, my face darkened in disappointment. Jaken…Not you too?
"You braggart! Never heard of you or Sesshomaru!" They cringe their teeth in denial.
"How dare you insult Sesshomaru-sama!" Angered by their lack of knowledge, Jaken yells back and raise up his staff to the air. As they stand in their defense to counter. "We'll gladly to fight you!"
"G-guys, calm down. We're not here to fight" Not wanting a pointless fight to start, I try to ease them but failed as none them seems to listen to what I said.
And the tension just keeps raising until Sesshomaru makes his appearance. "Jaken, what are you doing?"
Sensing his over-powered aura, the wolves slowly back away and Rin rushes over to her lord for aid. "Sesshomaru-sama!"
Both Ginta and Hakkaku flutter, the two have also feel the great danger standing in front of them. "W-who are you?! Y-you wanna fight?"
Sesshomaru only frowns and they immediately panic. "We ain't running away! We ain't afraid!" Somehow their actions state the otherwise as I watch them all run off for their lives.
After the weirdos have complete gone out of sight, the lord speaks to the little girl standing next to him. "Rin"
And she looks up at him in response "Y-yes, Sesshomaru-sama?"
"Aren't you going to catch fishes?" He asks yet his gaze mysteriously shifts to me.
Confused, I raise an eyebrow in reponse. Why is he looking at me? Is he suspicious that I'm no longer trustworthy to keep her? (Preferring to *some* of their incidents from before)
"Yes! Come on, onee-chan! I will show you how to do it!" Incredibly, her bright side is fully recovered upon hearing fishes as she takes my hand and drags me straight down into the cold water up ahead.
Soon after Hakkaku and Ginta regroup with Kouga and meet Kagome's group. There, they learn that Sesshomaru is Inuyasha's brother and the girl with the weird outfit is her friend, named Sora. Kagome then tell them more about Sesshomaru and they're soon informed by the wolves that they used to attack Sesshomaru's little companion in the past.
In the evening
We're now traveling through the forest like usual with Jaken's leading Ah-Un and Rin on its back. I walk next to her and what's more, having Sesshomaru follows right beside me. And slowly I start to wonder if this is only a coincidence or this guy just does it on purpose.
Jeeze, Is it really THIS neccessary?! Is he suspecting that I will run away with his Rin or something?! I cringe my teeth while cursing inside. Seriously, it feels so odd and uncomfortable for me to stand too close to him. I can't talk nor doing whatever freely without having his watch right under my neck (FYI She's in the middle of between Rin and Sesshomaru)
Suddenly voices are heard up ahead and immediately draw our attentions. "This road is closed! Turn around!"
Staring at the two figures standing in front of us, I notice that they're the two from a while ago. "Huh? It's them"
"What shall we do, Sesshomaru-sama?" Jaken shifts his head back to his lord.
"We are the right and left hand men of Kouga, the great young boss of the Youkai-Wolf Tribe. Ginta from hell!" Ginta confidently announces together with Hakkaku in sync. "And Slayer Hakkaku!"
This time they even add status on their names. How interesting.
"Sound different from earlier on." Jaken comments, unamused.
They ignore him and continue blocking the way. "If you understand, turn around!"
Yet there's still no response from Sesshomaru. Somewhat feeling uneasy, they start to show us their power by kicking and hitting randomly. "Well?!"
Deep down inside we all know that none of these warnings are going to work against the guy. Still, they keep going two more times in hope to scare him away.
I wonder why are they trying to much for. What are they hiding up ahead?
"Make way." Sesshomaru frowns and they flinch in panic, just like before.
Surprisingly, they're remains standing tall and not having any sign of giving up, or almost. "Y-you go elsewhere! R-right now!"
Don't they value their lives? Jaken's jaw dropped.
I watch them, admiring their hopeless effort in silent. Well... Instead of warnings and threatening, why don't we talk this out? Maybe it will help the situation better. With that in mind, I walk up to them. "What do you mean this way is closed? Is there any specific reason for us not to keep going?"
"Hey! Y-you are! You are Kagome-san's friend!" And somehow upon seeing my face, they tear up in joy.
Yet before I can even ask what is going on, "How do you-" they have already jumped right in front of my spot and cut me off with the confusing begging. "Please! Friend of Kagome-san, you've gotta stop them going this route!"
"Wait I…" This time Sesshomaru is the one to interrupt me, "I said make way!"
Clearly is annoyed, he approaches them as Hakkaku and Ginta are even more panicked. "It's all over, Ginta" they turn to each other "Hakkaku! We'll have a better chance of making it alive if we drag Kouga away from here!"
"T-that's right! Let's get Kouga away from here!" Hakkaku agrees with the brilliant idea but then another voice interrupts them. "What about me?"
Behind Hakkaku and Ginta, we see another guy standing on top of the mountain's edge. He ties his hair up into a high ponytail and wearing the same clothes as them with a sword on his waist. This person jumps down next to his friends and stares at Sesshomaru "Who are you? Boy, it's starting to smell like that mutt."
"That mutt?" I turn to the wolves guys in confusion.
"He's Inuyasha's older brother! Don't goad him, Kouga!" Ginta and Hakkaku shout out before hiding behind the unfamiliar guy's back.
What? Inuyasha's older brother?! Are you for real?! Doesn't that make him also an Inu youkai?! Staring at Sesshomaru from head to toes, especially that white scarf, I finally figure out that the fluffy thing he's carrying is indeed dog fur. Just then Sesshomaru glances back at me and I immediately look away, seems like he knows what's running inside my head. Jeeze, why is he so sharp?!
"Inuyasha's older brother? So he's not a half-youkai?" Kouga raises his eyebrow as Sesshomaru's eyes return to him and he smirks "What? Struck a nerve?" much to his friend's terror "Kouga!"
Sesshomaru gestures his arm at me, "Stand back."
I immediately oblige. Even without him telling me, I would still find somewhere far to hide. There's no way I'm staying here and getting myself involved around these mad men with unexplained supernatural power. Since dealing with one right here is already stressful enough.
"Sesshomaru-sama!" Rin calls out to him as Jaken whispers to me while leading Ah-Un to back away "Such fools, they'll die"
"But Hakkaku and Ginta don't seem like bad people though." I whisper to them and watch the scene, hoping that things won't end up too serious.
Though different from our expectations, instead of fighting each other. Sesshomaru and Kouga actually join force to kill a giant purple Orge, which is running wild from the other direction.
Due to paying too much attention to the fight, a giant purple centipede has crawled right behind where me, Rin and Jaken are standing without us knowing. "Let me have the humans!"
"Ekk!" I yelp in disgust at the sight of giant bug and Jaken instantly jumps at it to protect us but only to get whacked to the side.
We have to get out of here! Quickly, I help Rin gets on Ah-Un's back and try to lead it fly away. However, the centipede has already shifted its attention back Rin and I and charge at us. "You are mine!"
In a blink of an eye, Kouga launches himself at the creature and lands a kick on it, destroying the centipede. Much to our surprises. "Don't you dare eat humans!"
"T-thank you, for saving us." I bow to him in appreciation and the guy stares at me for a bit before walking off to Sesshomaru. "It's nothing."
"Unnecessary interference." On the other hand, the lord doesn't seem to be grateful about his action and Kouga smirks, "Feeling's mutual"
With just simply having a small conversation, they cause everyone's jaw to drop. After that Kouga, together with Hakkaku and Ginta, leaves the scene.
"Is that alright, Sesshomaru-sama? Kouga wolves were the one that attacked Rin." Jaken expresses his worry.
Concerned about her feeling, I ask Rin. "Was you afraid of Kouga and his friends?"
And the little girl shakes her head in response. "Uhm…Not really"
"If he tried the same thing, I would kill him. But the one I'm after now is Naraku, I don't need unnecessary battles." Sesshomaru responds and continues forward to the route up ahead.
His answer makes me wonder if this guy is actually kind by heart or he only shows his soft side to Rin. Though I would probably lean onto the second option.
"Hurry, Jaken-sama or you'll be left behind." Rin urges him as he freezes on his spot due to the shock from his lord's words. Soon, Jaken snaps back to reality and runs after us. "W-Wait up!"
Later on that day, Kouga has also learnt from Hakkaku and Ginta that the short hair girl who's wearing weird clothes is Kagome's friend. Beside commenting that Sesshomaru's actually having a good taste, he's more curious about why a full fledge youkai like him would let humans tagging along like companions...
