CHAPTER TEN
FIRST OFF THANKS SO MUCH TO sangoscourage FOR ALL THE HELP ON THIS CHAPTER. SECONDLY THANK YOU ALL FOR ALL OF YOUR REVIEWS! I got all of my Egyptian translations from this website . I will write the Egyptian/ French word/s and the English translation at the end of this chapter as well. ENJOY!
I wasn't sure on what to do or say when Shesshomaru licked my neck a second time before he pulled back and stared into my eyes with an expression I couldn't decipher. "So how have you been these past 560 years? And how's Inu-no-Taisho? And your mother how is she?" I asked looking anywhere but into his eyes as I tried to get myself under control again. However Shesshomaru refused to let me look away and instead he gently grabbed a hold of my chin and turned my face towards him so I was looking him in the eyes again. There was a primal look in his eyes one I had seen between mates when I had stayed at Inu-no-Taisho's castle. I gulped and backed out of his arm, faintly registering the fact that he only had one arm as I moved away from him keeping my eyes on his own. "I hope this spell works!" I thought sending upward a quick prayer before muttering a spell I had read in an ancient text in Egypt.
One second I was staring into the glowing golden eyes of Shesshomaru and the next second I found myself standing on a perilously tiny branch at the top of a huge tree. "Sokkar!" I hollered as the branch snapped and I started to fall towards the ground. I bent my knees and twisted my body this way and that to keep from scraping against the branches that were increasing in numbers and size. Finally I was able to grab one of the branches and flip my body up and around so I was crouched on it. Not wanting to test out its strength even though it was thicker then the first branch, I quickly ran towards the tree trunk whispering another spell I had found in Egypt, "If the first one worked the rest should to." I thought.
This spell focused on pooling my chi, or energy, into my feet letting me run downwards on the tree trunk without worrying about splattering my brains and blood all over the grass and tree roots. After several intense moments I finally had my feet on the ground and let go of the spell. I could feel the effects almost instantly all of the energy that I had been feeling earlier was gone. I felt like I needed three large cups of coffee, which I had gotten hooked on by one of my American friends that I had made over in Egypt. I wasn't thinking of my surroundings until I almost got knocked to the ground by a blur of white and red, only my instincts kept me from being slammed into. For a second I was worried that the first spell hadn't worked as well as I had thought until I saw the face of the person who had just tried to tackle me. "Oh hey Inu-yasha." I said tiredly before I turned around and saw a very surprised and confused Kagome.
"Myst didn't Shesshomaru just take you away somewhere a few seconds ago?" I looked at Kagome in confusion. "What do you mean a few sec…" My voice trailed off as I realized with a start I hadn't just teleported I had traveled back in time as well! "Oh de sifflets de fees!" I whispered in French, a third language I had picked up while over in Egypt I had been the only Japanese person so I adjusted by learning. "Isami Mystequi Higurashi you better not of just said anything bad!" Kagome reprimanded me hands propped up on her hips looking like a miniature version of our mother. I shook myself out of my stupor and walked over to my little sister, "Come on Kagome we had better go home." I said pulling her along behind me as I quickened my steps towards the well, hoping that 'I' was still with Shesshomaru because I didn't know what he would do when I left.
Kagome raised an eyebrow at me and opened her mouth to further question me even as she reached down to pick up her bright yellow backpack from where it lay on the ground when a loud roar echoed across the forest. Kagome snapped her mouth shut and pulled her backpack over her shoulders and ran towards the well, now dragging me instead. "You guys might want to find a way to get rid of my scent that's probably lingering on you and you might want to stay away from this clearing for a while." I told the small group that was gathering around the well saying their goodbyes to Kagome. Kagome finished giving her last hug and ran towards the well hopping over the lip before grabbing my wrist again as she fell downward. Causing me to fall down into the well backwards, letting me see the faces of the small group she had been hugging for a brief second before they were gone.
The same un-familiar pink light surrounded us and the next thing I saw was the familiar roof of the well house. I cracked my neck and back as I stood up from the dirt floor where I had landed on my butt, thanks to my little sister who was now snickering at me. I raised an eyebrow at her and gave her a non-amused look as I brushed off the dirt from my butt before rolling my eyes. I gathered my slowly growing energy and I jumped up out of the well before slumping down beside it to wait for Kagome. She was using the ladder that mom and or Oji-chan must have been put in there just for her.
All the sudden I slapped myself in the forehead with the palm of my hand and groaned in despair. "What is it Myst?" Kagome asked curiously with a hint of worry her voice echoing around since she was still in the well. "I left my backpack in the Feudal Era and I never got to give Shesshomaru his gift! And there are some things in my backpack that I don't want to have to explain to a guy!" I said letting my head fall against the outside of the well with a soft thump. "Don't worry we can go back and get it later." Kagome said her head just peeking up over the lip of the well. "No we can't I left it 560 years before the Feudal Era that you are use to traveling to and I don't think I can go back that far anymore." I said with a sigh as I stood up and brushed the dirt off of my bum. Kagome opened her mouth but whatever she was going to say was cut off when a very familiar voice spoke from the well house door. "Kagome dear is that you? I thought I heard voic…." Mama's voice trailed off. I cringed and slowly turned around. "Hi mama. I'm back…surprise?." I said with a half smile.
I saw her face pale and rushed to her caching her just before she hit the ground in a dead faint. "Wow Myst you are in so much trouble when she comes around." Kagome said laughing. I scrunched my nose up and glared at her in fake annoyance before rolling my eyes and nodding sadly in agreement. "Open the doors will you?" I said as I picked our mother up princess style thankful that my energy was already starting to come back. As it was mama didn't wake up for the next three hours giving me time to bring in my luggage, shower, change, explain things to Kagome as well as write down to spells for her to practice and make supper as well as order some coffee online.
I refused to let Oji-chan, Kagome or Souta open their gifts until mother woke up so I would have a chance to keep her from exploding on me. To my surprise Oji-chan hadn't said too much about my tattoos or piercings, I think that was mostly due to the fact that he was now convinced that a demon had possessed my body. Anyway Souta had thought the tattoos were cool and he kept bugging me about touching them or my piercings. So I finally caved and let him touch the one on my right wrist it was the only tattoo that I had needed to get.
It was in order for me to get in and out of the tombs in Egypt it said, "Hail, daughter of Anubis, above the hatches of heaven, Comrade of Thoth, above the ladder's rails, Open Unas's path, let Unas pass!"The words were hieroglyphs written half in turquoise ink and the other half in a deep golden color with a black depiction of Anubis behind the words. My other tattoos included the eye of Horus (black) which I had tattooed on my left ankle, an anhk (black) on my left ring finger. A multi-blue and silver colored butterfly resting on top of black skull on my right shoulder, the words occiderit vel occidiwritten in black cursive on my left shoulder and I had a full back tattoo. It was a black sky with Canis Minor as the star's then a crescent moon shining down on several sakura trees that were colored light pink, lavender, and white around a river where a smaller version of Shesshomaru's canine form stood half in and half out of the water his head tilted towards the moon. I also had the yin/yang symbol with the kanji for spirit in the center of it in red and at the four points was the kanji for earth, fire, water and air located in the center of my chest and last but not least a snarling silver, white, black, red and cornflower blue dragon started on my right hip and coming up so its head rested just over my heart it's eyes were golden.
I snapped out of my thoughts when I heard mama groan in the few seconds before she woke up completely the room was emptied except for me who was left gazing longingly at the stairs."Isami Mystequi Higurashi! What on earth did you do to yourself!" Mama said as she slowly sat up on the couch her eyes locked onto mine. "Would you believe that I needed to get the tattoos?" I asked with a half smile. Mama raised an eyebrow at me and my shoulders dropped, I let out a sigh. "Well I did have to get one tattoo so I could get in and out of the tombs in Egypt." I said sulking a little bit at her intense stare of disbelief.
Sokkar = sugar (Egyptian)
de sifflets de fees = Fairy whistles (French)
occiderit vel occidi = kill or be killed (Latin)