You run through the dark forest dodging the out lines of trees. A few branches whip across your face but your to intent on getting away to notice. 'What about Rin' you wonder 'how will Rin react to my leaving, should I head back?' questions echo your mind but you body never ceases running. The night is all quiet except for your heavy breathing as you run through the forest in high speed to nowhere. Sesshomaru, you leave behind in silence to return to Jaken and Rin, and with out a word to Jaken he continues on his way.
A branch slashes across your face making it burn with pain. Though you keep on running. You can feel your warm blood running down from a cut on your cheek, but you don't stop and think what that could mean for you. The sounds of demons echo loudly through out the dark forest all heading toward you with high speeds. You can hear the demons approaching finally and with a burst of speed you desperately try to escape the horde of demons heading your way. You increase of pace leads you to a mountains ridge. Its steep, almost a ninety degree angle and when you run off it you try your best to keep your footing at the same time dodging the trees that still stood in your way. Your foot falls between a crevasse of two rocks and you can feel it twist. Your body cringes from the searing pain now radiating in your ankle and you ready yourself for the fall that now awaited you. The lids of your eyes automatically close as you fall to the ground, but before you hit rock you feel some one catch you suddenly. Strong arms wrap around your worn out body tightly, and you hear the demons chasing you near their calls becoming louder and more distinct. You open your eyes to the place the demon calls were sounding from. Suddenly some of the trees come tearing from their roots flying down the ledge, but all manage to keep away from you and your protector. Though something worse comes like cannons out from the top of the steep ledge. You let out a frightened scream as what seems like two hundred demons roar out of the trees. They all fly fast down at you screeching and blowing horn like demon calls.
Then in your fright you hold your arms out in front of you in a pity attempt to block out the demons. You feel your hands sudden chill and a feel of a large amount of energy passes through them. The tips of your fingers go numb with all the energy passing through them. The man holding you from behind loosens his grip as though in awe, and leans forward so that his head sits beside yours. You can feel his hot breath on your neck, but your mind doesn't notice it. The sounds of all the demons suddenly stop and all you can hear is your protector's breath. You open your eyes squinting at first but then what you see causes them to shoot wide open in surprise.
From your palms you see a barrier that has formed before you curling back and over your head to form a sphere like shield. Its transparent and a pale pink. It seems to glow like purity almost. You look through your barrier in quiet fright to see that all the hundreds of demons were shooting at your barrier, and when they hit they seem to almost dematerialize before you, turning into fine like dusts.
Once all the demons disappear like dust you with draw your hands. You stare off in to the distance in quiet surprise and awe. The pinkish barrier dematerializes before you leaving your protector and you sitting on the steep drop off in silence. His head still sits by yours on your shoulder as he kneels behind you, and he chuckles evilly breaking the odd silence. A shiver runs down your back as you suddenly realize whom this man is. You can smell his devil like sent surrounding you. His hands snake around your waist bringing you closer to him. By this time you have stopped breathing all together. Your heart is beating fast and without cease as Naraku brings his face closer to yours. You swallow as your heart feels like its running up your throat, and he chuckles again at your reaction.
"So it is true," Naraku whispers into your ear before he leans over to lick the blood off of your reddening cheek. "You can't be human!"
"Let go of me!" you say demanding it and you try to pull his arms from you like you had Sesshomaru but Naraku digs his claws in to your waist enjoying the fresh sent of your blood as it drips from your wounds at your sides."Gasp of pain you basterd!"
He chuckles evilly beside you licking up the last bit of blood on your cheek. Another shiver runs down your spin and you shack visibly only causing him to laugh at you again. The air around you mixes with then sent of your blood and the fresh fallen leaves of fall, and Naraku loosens his grasp. Though he doesn't give you the time to escape. Before you could pull yourself from his sickening grasp he flips you over so that you were facing him. Then he slams your back up against the rocky hillside, and you can see his vicious smile. You let out a groan in pain as your back slams up against the sharp and jagged rocks, which only draws another evil grin onto Naraku's undesirable lips.
"It may seem that you're sweet sent is fading, but I still find it delicious" He said before lowering himself down to kiss the nape of your neck.
He with draws and you lift your leg to kick him hard where the suns don't shine. He just shakes his head with another evil smile as he catches your leg in one of his hands. He squeezes your leg where he caught it, which was just around you knee and you wince in pain.
"Where is your Hero Sesshomaru it seem that he has left you for death hasn't he?" He said as his hand travels up your leg to an uncomfortable area "It smells as though he has just touched you am I right?"
"Shut up!" You spit into his face and with one of you hands you ball into a fist throwing it at him with all your strength.
He takes his right hand off of your leg catching your hand in his. You gasp in more pain as he bends your wrist forward forcefully to breaking point, and just as you are about to scream he lets go grabbing your upper arms with both of his hands bringing himself down on top of you. You struggle against him trying your best to get him off of you, but he is over powering you. It seems that now he has gained all control you realize as he smirks down at your pain filled body. He is on top of you using all his weight and power to hold you down. You look to the side so you wouldn't have to look at him, but he just brings up his right hand and cups your chin in his hand. He roughly turns your face to look at him.
"Kagura has almost found the information I need, and when that day comes you will be mine oona!" He whispers down at you with a sinister grin plastered to his face.
The way he smiled down at you that moment suddenly mad you feel low and stupid. As though you were nothing but something he was torturing because he was board. He looks down on you as a child, a weak child that has no power over him! That's what hit you the hardest not when he twisted your wrist or when he griped your leg it was just the way he looked at you.
"You-" You start just as something atrocious happens.
"In the name of Liana! Get off of that woman! You dirty bastard!" A Man yells from the bottom of the hill and you pause at what you are going to say.
Naraku growls loudly, and turns his head slowly to look behind him at the man. He whispers angrily to himself: "Dam" Since Naraku is on top of you at the moment the man is hidden from view, but the man is saving you so no matter what he may look like, bless him. There is a sound of many horses then slowing to a halt right around where your savior should be and you wonder who this man could be and why he had mentioned Liana? Naraku turns back to you after a short while of observing the opponents, and says huskily: "Well it seems that out meeting must come to an end, till the next we meet oona!" and at that he gets up off of you. He turns round to look back at the man and with a smirk he ads: "What is it you have to do with Liana, humans?!" he adds with an added note of humor.
"It is non of your business demon, I just thought it better you not touch that girl less you loose your head to Liana!" The man snaps again and you hear the sound of a sword being taken from its sheath in one quick movement.
"Fine Human, but I will be back!" Naraku hisses angrily as he takes off into the sky in one quick jump.
"Milady?" The man calls after a few short seconds of you looking off to the sky where Naraku had escaped.
You look over to the man seeing something you would never have suspected to see. The first time you had been out with Sesshomaru you had run away, and while you were lost in the forest you ran into some bandits. The bandits rapped you and left you in one of their tents over night, the whole time you were unconscious. You had never imagined you would ever see them again, but the man who stood before you and had saved you was the leader of those very same bandits. The men who stand behind him were all of his men even the fat hairy man you remember from the last. Except all of them seem to be in better shape and they all were equipped with beautiful weapons of all kinds. The leader bandit wears the wear of a samurai, and has his hair pulled back into a tight ponytail tied up with an expensive ribbon.
"Ohh My Gosh! Its you!" you gasp sitting up on the rocks with obvious surprise to see the bandits.
"Now hold on!" The head bandit tries to explain coming up closer to you.
"Ohh no get away from me!" You shriek backing your way up the side of the rocky cliff with the head bandit still approaching, and with every step he took you only met it with a half.
"Just stop and listen to me, please!" He pleads finally catching up to you, and he knells down in front of you as the rest of the bandit laugh at his attempt to get to you.
"And tell me why I should!" You say trying to distance yourself from the bandit as he keeps on closing in on you to the point he's almost leaning over you.
"Just because! Believe me!" He said leaning in close to you only a couple inches from your face.
You think back to how he had talked about Liana, maybe they are connected to her? Could they give you any information to help you figure out why it is that you have Liana's mark tattooed to your back? If you listen to them would you find out what you want?
"Fine then what?" you ask simply.
You sit right where you were not accepting the invitation to their camp so you could sit comfortably and talk. Personally all you wanted to do was get a way from everything. All this junk that has to do with Liana, Naraku, and Sesshomaru, but you just sit and wait for this bandits explanation hoping that he didn't have much to say. You and him are still in the same position with him basically leaning over you.
"Fine" you; say again scooting a little back because you were getting a little uncomfortable with the guy you know raped you leaning right over you.
"Ahh okay for some strange reason I knew you would remember us" just as he states his suspicion you roll your eyes "But we've change believe that! After you left we for the sheer fun of it hunted for you. We went from town to town killing most and stealing all that the survivors could live off. Though at one village something happened While we were searching the village-"
"You mean mutilating it!" you snapped rudely interrupting him.
"Yes I know, but while we were there a woman, a demon, came and threatened to kill us if we didn't stop and work for her. Well obviously we accepted, we weren't stupid, just cruel from then on we have worked for her and you know who I'm talking about, Liana. We rebuilt the village and helped the rest of the people who lived after our raid then we went from village to village helping all those who we hurt. All after that we did other errands for our lady Liana. Then just recently, Lady Liana asked us to find you. She said that it was the top most priority that we find you and bring you some where safe?"
The two of you sat in silence for a moment uninterrupted by your rude comments or by anything else for that matter.
Sesshomaru's POV
You suddenly felt Keishi's sent being cut off just as you came onto the path again. (Right after your incident with him) Almost as though she had disappeared with out any trace. You turn around with out warning to look into the trees where Keishi had once been yelling and pushing you. While you had been in the forest alone with her and you had pushed her up against that tree you had almost lost control. You had sat leaning up against her, her sent had over come you and it was becoming almost unbearable. Though this time you weren't fully sure it was her sent. Why was it that you could have controlled yourself then but not all the other times? You had noticed her sent fading recently, but it was still overwhelming you had to us the utmost self-control around her usually causing yourself to bleed. Those nights while you had slept beside her around the second time her sent had almost totally disappeared. Her sent still lingered yet it was just enough to control. After that first time you had slept with her every night being careful to leave before sun rise, and it made the day some how bearable knowing that during the night that her sent would fade and you could sleep beside her but no you denied it all it was to rid yourself of her sent. Though every night why would you hold her tight to you there must have been a dozen other things you could have done. 'I do not care for that Baka of a-" Jaken just stops next to you and asks suddenly with out respect cutting you off in mid thought: "Milord where is that onna Keishi!" And with out even thinking you found yourself kicking him ten feet down the path. ""
'Why did I react that way' flashes through your mind as you continue to stare in to the dark forest with an unblinking stare 'I couldn't have been defending that onna by instinct would that mean that no she has no power over me other than her sent I admit that only because it even brought Naraku to shame. Though what happens if Liana finds out of Keishi running would it be probable for Liana to try to kill me for not protecting he just as she said'
Keishi's POV
After hearing his explanation you decide to go with them to their camp. Though while they walk you stand far behind the group. All the men had gotten off of their horses to walk because you refused to sit behind the head bandit on his horse. So you pout childishly as the rest of the group sneak peaks back at you every now and then. There constant peaks are getting on your nerves and the next time that one of the bandits look back at you, you stick you tongue out at him rudely. The bandit grunts and you look to the side averting your eyes to the woods to your right all while the chubby bandit that you had stuck your tongue at quickens his pace to walk beside Mr. Leader bandit. His leans to the side whispering something in his ear, and the head bandit turns his head to take a look back at you realizing how far behind you were. The bandit says one last thing to his leader and slows his pace to walk with the others.
After hearing what he has to say, the lead bandit turns round. He walks along the side of the path past all of the other bandits to where you were walking. He led his horse to walk along side you. You had noticed his sent closing in on you but you did you best to ignore him all you could. You had no intention to talk to a man that had raped you while unconscious. Though when he quietly spoke something to you, you turned your head to look at him.
"Look you can sit on my horse if you'd like while we walk it would be a lot easier?" He almost whispered walking besides you with his horse on the other side of him.
"I just fine walking, thank you," you snapped snottily averting your gaze to the ground in front of you. Half of you would have really liked to hide on his horse instead of walking all the way to their camp.
"Look please I really don't want to be on your bad side I know what I did was horrible and utterly disgusting, but I'm different now is there any way I could get you to forgive me?" He said walking a little closer to you half whispering into you ear and when you didn't answer his apology he continued. "I know I must seem to be the lowest basterd to you now and I don't deserve to be forgiven, but I'm really sorry, I'm really really sorry. I'm different now, you've got to believe me, but I wouldn't blame you if you didn't forgive me"
You look back up at him trying your hardest not to cry. 'Why so I want to cry?!' you ask yourself as you look up into his eyes that show one of the deepest of apologies you've ever seen. 'should I forgive him I think everyone has the right to be forgiven even if they've done one of the worst in the world' He looks down at you, him being at least a foot taller than you, waiting for your answer to his wholehearted apology. Fall has arrived and a leaf falls between yours and his face flying swiftly to land softly on the ground. Leaves are falling all around you as you say: "I forgive you, and I think that everyone deserves to be forgiven if of course they're sorry."
He stares back at you for a second after your comment. You and him have stopped in the path letting the rest of the bandits continue on their way. A leaf drifts down from the trees above landing softly on your shoulder. The man gently brushes the leaf off of Sesshomaru's shirt that you were still wearing.
"I'm grateful, please let me tell you my name Keishi, my name is Akimoto, but the longer you stay with us you will notice that the men call me Aki. You may call me which ever you'd like." Akimoto smiles down to you and you can't help but smile back his smile is like nothing you can describe. "Now we should catch up with the others or they may think wrongly. You think?"
He ended on a joke and you giggled softly as you and him quicken your paces to catch up with the other bandits.
Kumiko's POV
(Before you meet Akimoto)
After leaving Keishi with Sesshomaru you run into the forest quickly jumping from tree to tree swiftly. You move just fast enough for and onlookers to see a single blear that you leave behind. Your making your way to see Liana's servant bandits, you have something to talk to them about. So in just a mere minute you break though the line of the forest that you had been in running with haste across the wide field before you. Just as you enter the next line of forest you start jumping tree from tree again making sure not to allow all of your weight on one branch for the fact it would break. Then in no time you land front of the bandits that were busy eating their dinner.
"Akimoto" You call out through the bandits to gain their leaders attention "Akimoto Keishi will be heading this way through the forest back to the lords castle, you must watch out she may need help if separated from her lord!"
The bandits part letting Akimoto through to talk to the young girl.
"What reason do you have to suppose that she would get separated?" Akimoto asks her showing complete respect and bows to her and the rest of the bandit's copy together in sync.
You are of higher appointment in Liana's social standards. Liana is gaining more of a following. One of the bandit's assignments was to spread word about Liana taking men in armies. No one knows for certain why Liana craves an army she has always thought best not to have one because she has never had enemies.
"I just ran into her earlier and she was just about to mutilate the half demon boy Inuyasha for commenting on her unusual sent, it seemed he was reacting to her sent and it seemed that she went over the edge." You comment explaining just why you had your suspicions.
"So you think that she may go over the edge because of her Lord being a demon and all." He says realizing what you were saying.
So you leave Akimoto to await Keishi and you head back to the moon to inform the Lady of the happenings.
Keishi's POV
When you reach the camp along with the bandits you see at least twenty to thirty tents aligned in three straight lines, the camp sits in a part in the forest where it is clear of any trees or brush. A campfire sits near all of the tents off to the right a little bit. All the bandits head off to their tents to set down their belongings. Akimoto walks over to the campfire and you follow close behind. All of the bandits set off to bed after Akimoto's demand just as he sits down by the fire. You sit down next to him a full three feet away from him still a little bit uncomfortable about the whole rape situation. You notice a pot sitting on the fire in it containing a stew that smells of fish and herbs. Akimoto grabs a bowl thats sitting next to the fire and with a ladle that is sitting in the pot pours you a bowl a delicious smelling stew.
"Here you go I believe you must be hungry aren't you?" Akimoto offers you the bowl and you take it with a smile.
"Thanks Aki" You thank him not realizing you had given him a nick name.
After taking the bowl and thanking him you kneel by the fire eating it gratefully. You don't notice Aki watching you till you finish your stew setting the bowl down with a satisfying yawn. Akimoto has his legs flared out and his hands resting broadly on his knees, but his eyes are staring intently at you. All the bandits have gone to bed and you can hear their faint snoring from beyond their tents. The sky is a pitch black with the stars and the moon illuminating it. You look back at Aki with question in your eyes and he looks away to the moon.
"You know I really am sorry..." Akimoto whispers so only you should hear if you strained your ears.
You take a look back over to him; he takes his eyes off of the sky and looks back at you. Even though you have already forgiven him it seams he still holds much guilt for what he did to you. You nod silently scooting a bit closer to him as a faint gust of wind blows through the camp. He looks away from you back to the sky smiling to himself because of your answer.
"You don't have to worry; I've forgiven you, okay?" you say trying to reassure him and he looks back over to you again. "Though you know I might not be as comfortable around you because well..."
"What I want you to be is comfortable, I'm going to be a sort of protector to you; I don't want you feeling any sort of uneasiness around me!" He said suddenly turning his whole body to face you; his hands find your shoulders as he tries suddenly to convert you. "I'll do anything, say anything, for you to some how forget the sinful things I've done!"
You sat in silence the awe that filled your face began to thin once he loosens his grip on you apologizing softly for him sudden reaction to your words. You blink your eyes twice quickly in silent wonder and another gust of wind blows past the two of you, and goose bumps rise coolly on your arms. Then he comment quietly again: "I'm serious Keishi is there absolutely anything... anything I could do?"
"Well, you could answer me this one question?" you ask looking up to him with question painting across your face.
"Yes! Absolutely anything!" he says happily with relief.
"...Umm well..." you whisper blushing slightly into the front of Sesshomaru's shirt.
"Yes what?"
"Were you? The only one who you know... raped me?" you ask looking back up at him once you finished your sentence with the blush still warming your cheeks.
There was silence again for a moment where you wondered what the answer was. Personally you had been wondering it yourself, and you hoped, greatly, hoped that it had been only him. Knowing if it had been a whole lot of them you might consider staying in this camp. So you just sit waiting for his answer every second of the silence doubling you tension.
"No, no it was only me I swear!" Akimoto says a little taken aback as he answers your question and you out breath your blush abating and relief taking its place.
He was still facing you kneeling down on the cold dirt of the camp sight. You sat lower than him at least a foot where your head only came up to his chest. You cling to your only clothing, Sesshomaru's shirt, bringing it closer around your skinny body just as another sudden burst of wind blows through the camp. Aki turns on his kneeling position to face the fire. He falls back to the position that he had been in before his out burst and stares into the fire. There was silence for a moment as you also turn to face the fire relief still plastered to your face. You look over at Akimoto observing his silence. 'He better be the only one' you think to yourself in the quiet. 'Because if he wasn't the only one I don't know what I'd do; if there had been others staying in this camp might prove unbearable.'
"Aki?" you ask and he turns his face to meet yours "You said something about being my protector; you are Liana's men so you must be protecting me on her orders? My question then is why, why does Liana want to protect me. A lowly human girl with some mysterious powers?"
"Keishi, All I know is that Liana wishes you to be safe. I know of your unusual sent and your other powers though I have no knowledge on why it is Liana wishes that we are to protect you. The only person who might know your connection to Liana is her closest hand, Lady Kumiko"
"Kyari is Liana's closest hand!" you repeat surprised "how long has it been this way, and also could I talk to her. I need to know what connection I share with your lady!"
"Whoa wait a second! First of all, why did you call Lady Kumiko, Kyari?" Akimoto reacts with a business filled surprise.
You sit in silence for another moment wondering if you should tell him knowing that there is a chance it is not the little girl that you met in the village a couple of months ago. He just stares down at you ignoring the fact that you were holding him up close to him by the scruff of his shirt after all the commotion. Aki waits for your answer as you consider your facts on it. You don't let him go or loosen your grip for that matter. The clothe of him shirt seems to tear at the parts your nails are digging into it, and you didn't even notice the feel of the expensive clothing under your fingernails.
"Its a long story, no need for repeating." You answer shortly finally letting Aki go and sitting back down next to the fire just as a loud snore echoes from one of the tents towards the end of the camp.
"Just saying that sparks my interest..." Akimoto half whispers as he sits down only two inches from you with his right leg bent at a ninety-degree angle sitting underneath his left that is up inches from his chest. (Well if you don't understand it I have not Idea how to explain it...)
You take a deep breath after a short pause, and you continue to tell Aki what relation ship you hold with Kumiko or the relationship you believed you had. It takes a few short minutes, but Aki just sits in silence listening to all you had to say on the matter. You explain that you had gotten hurt and Sesshomaru had to bring you to a village to get help, but you didn't tell him why. You tell him that at the village you sought a priestess and found a young girl, and she helped you recover. You didn't bother explaining to him how after wards Kyari helped you recover your 'memories', or how Sesshomaru took you away before you could even say good-bye. Though you do tell him how Kumiko looks just as Kyari looked just a little older and matured.
"So you believe that Kumiko is Kyari?" Aki asks after your thorough explanation.
"Well yea, she looks just like her. Its just that when I saw her earlier she said other wise." You explain your hands finding each other entwining.
"Well that's a problem isn't it..." Akimoto adds smiling over at you jokingly. "Ohh yea and,"
He gets up in the middle of his sentence and makes his way over to a tent you suppose is empty. He flips back the flap to enter the tent and steps inside. You turn your whole body to face the way that he had went, waiting for him to step out again. He stays in for another moment and you can hear the quiet sounds of a bunch of things moving around and then suddenly all the sound stops and Aki steps out from the dark inside of the tent where no light from the fire could have reached. He finds his way back to sit next to you and throws a bunch of cloth onto your lap. You look down at it then back to Aki, and you take the cloth in your hands observing it. It was a kimono; it was a midnight blue with a plain black obi to go with it.
"Liana said if any a time where we meet you we should give you this," He says gesturing to the kimono. "Now look at the obi, you can see the sign of liana stitched into it so that if you should put it on it will face forward with your body."
You look down at the obi curious to see what Liana's sign might look like. The sign that is stitched into the obi is the same that is tattooed to your back. Its the same sign that stands for Liana and all that are some how connected to her. You turn over the obi and you see it; its a simple crescent moon with a single star in the concave, and a sun is perched on top the con curved side of the moon.
"The moon obviously stands for Liana herself, and well the star stands for the children to do with the curse set upon her by Henru. Then that that leaves obviously the sun for Henru doesn't it?"
"Excuse me? What do you mean by curse?" you ask looking up from the obi to look up into the bandits face.
"Ohh the curse! You haven't heard of the fairy tale told to the children these days I expect then haven't you?" Aki asks and you shake your head no. "though if you want me to tell you the story I would suspect you'd like to change wouldn't you? The story might be a bit long, and I've been noticing you shivering."
You nod thankful to be able to get changed into something other than Sesshomaru's lone shirt. Aki gestures for you to change in the forest away from the camp so that you may have some privacy, and you go off into the forest with out question just a thank you. You guess that Aki's tent must have some things you are not authorized to see so you don't question it and you make your way through the trees. You walk clinging to the kimono till you know that you are far enough into the dark cover of the trees so that no unsuspected bandit could step out of his tent and see you naked. You pause behind an ordinary tree stripping off Sesshomaru's shirt feeling the sudden cold as the fall wind reaches your bare skin. There is still the faint smell of Sesshomaru lingering on the shirt that you hold in your hands and you cant help but hold it up to your nose and take a deep breath of his sent. 'His sent is intoxicating!' you admit to yourself and you remember back to when you had left him in the forest. 'Why does he have to look at me like that!' you think angrily as you set Sesshomaru's shirt down on a branch next to you. ' I really wish no one would look at me that way; it seemed that Sesshomaru was about to do something...' you remember thinking back to earlier that day again just as you drape the kimono across your shoulders not bothering to tie it down with the obi just yet. You lean up against the tree your body in plain view to the forest around you. (And well guess what...) Then with out warning you hear the rustle of bushes in front of you and you avert your eyes quickly to see who might be intruding.
You stare off into the trees for a few seconds waiting for the stranger to reveal himself. Once the man reveals himself it strikes you what's about to happen, and you close your kimono quickly. You turn with haste to your left to go around the tree back to camp and to Aki, but as soon as you do he grabs you around the waist pushing you up against the tree covering you mouth in the process. He breathes deeply allowing you're sent to over come him, and he turns his head to the side to your neck. You can feel his fangs just hovering above your skin and shivers run down your spine. He bits down on your lower neck and you can feel the blood from your wound rush from the incision, and you gasp out of pain into his hand that is still clamped across your mouth. The sent of your blood fills the area like smoke spreading quickly through the forest.
"Inuyasha!" You say angrily though it is muffled you know he hears you. "Control yourself! Please Inuyasha!"
Its to late your blood is drawing his demon side out and it seems that it has taken full control of his body. You can feel him lick up your blood like a savage as his hands rip your kimono open with lustful force. His claws scratch against your body drawing another muffled gasp to come from you, but just as he starts another man that is a stranger to you tackles him to the ground. Luckily though all that Inuyasha did you kimono was not ripped and you pull it on quickly noticing the other man as a demon. You look down to see the demon holding Inuyasha down using his hands to hold his arms down. You could also tell that the stranger was having a hard time controlling himself. He looked up over his shoulder more than once and twitches slightly.
"Go already!" He yelled from over his shoulder. "What are you waiting for?"
You look one last time at Inuyasha and round the tree back to camp. You could hear the sounds of demons rushing in on you again. A branch slashed against your face fortunately not drawing any of your blood out to encourage any demons that may be on your tail.
"Hiraikos!" You hear suddenly being yelled by a woman at least fifteen yards from you, but you keep running.
The sound of many demons being slaughtered next comes to your ears just as you reach camp. Akimoto is standing admiring the sight before him that is all mainly behind you. He looks to you then worried when he sees the bite on your shoulder and realizes what must have happened. You see the worried look on his face and you turn around to see what he must have seen.
There are at least a hundred or so demons rushing up forth from the forest obviously coming for you. Though you can see Sango's weapon and some sort of air vacuum from inside of the forest sucking all the demons into it riding you of the danger you have found yourself in. You can hear all the demons cries before they die from Sango's weapon or by the immense vacuum that is sucking up all in its path including all the trees surrounding it. Then with one sudden end of cries from the demons they all disappear through the vacuum in the trees. Though the sounds do not end all together; you can still here the demon struggling with Inuyasha, but after that there is total silence leaving you to think the best. You conclude that the demon man must have stopped Inuyasha and will keep him from loosing his control again.
"Keishi are you okay?" Akimoto asks you bringing you back to your senses after a moment of weird silence. "What happened out there?"
"Long story..." You almost whisper running a hand across the back of your neck assuring yourself that the bleeding had stopped. "I need a bandage..."
Akimoto nods and with out further question he turns round to go back to his tent. You wonder if you should call out to them, or go see what happened. Though all you do is stand there till Akimoto comes back with some fresh bandages to wrap around your neck so that no more of your weird blood would escape causing another one of these moments that you dread the most. You take the bandages quickly pulling back part of your kimono top to wrap your wound; luckily the bite mark was on the upper base of your neck other wise it would prove hard to wrap with the bandages. Then there is still silence for a moment while you hide your mark where Inuyasha bit you, and then something steps out from the dark of the forest into the camp. Now that you can see what he looks like you can tell what kind of demon he is; he's a wolf demon. (I'll give you three guesses...)
"Did that moron mutt hurt you?!" He asks keeping his distance away from you for one reason you know for certain.
"Yes but I'm getting used to these kinds of things happening; there's nothing to worry about." You answer back while closing the upper part of your kimono and giving the extra bandages to Akimoto and thanking him. "Is Inuyasha's whole group out there? What exactly happened anyway?"
"I don't know for sure I would have though you would have known!" He says loudly so that you could hear, but also you could tell he was trying to keep his instincts in check.
"KEISHI!" you heard Kagome call as she came out from the forest followed by Miroku and Sango, Miroku carrying Inuyasha on his back.
Kagome ran past the wolf demon and came up to you leaving Sango and Miroku standing near the demon man who saved you. Miroku once he gets out of the forest sets an unconscious Inuyasha in a sitting position up against a tree at the edge of the camp. Sango immediately starts to question the wolf guy about what had happened just as Kagome asks you: "Keishi, what happened? Inuyasha went off running through the forest and after we had caught up with him Koga had Inuyasha unconscious on the ground, and he was saying something about him attacking a woman? Keishi did Inuyasha attack you?"
'Inuyasha must have smelled my sent through the forest, and me being cloth less must have made the smell stronger. Also with the strong breeze we've been having must have spread my smell even farther than it already had...' you conclude to yourself before answering Kagome's question.
"Kagome Inuyasha lost his control, and Koga came and saved me; as a half demon it makes is harder for Inuyasha to control himself around me..." You answer her taking a look at her noticing how confused she looked.
"What do you mean he can't control himself around you? Is that why you went after Inuyasha earlier?" Kagome asks you and you realize suddenly that Kagome has no idea what you were talking about when it came to Inuyasha not being able to control himself because of your sent.
So yea, you tell her all about it even about some few choice moments with Sesshomaru. Akimoto puts away the bandages in his tent and waits over by the fire, and eventually everyone joins him by the fire except Koga because of your sent. Koga just sits calmly at the corner of the camp sitting up against a tree near where Inuyasha is almost the whole time staring at you. After you finish-telling Kagome about you sent and all about what has happened since you last meeting with her and Inuyasha Kagome goes over to the fire to tell the rest of the group. The sun has begun to rise and all the darkness is fading from the camp. You take a look over to Koga realizing that he's staring at you. 'I wish I could talk to him if only I could, but he seems so intent on keep his distance from me' you think to yourself 'Though I do understand; he might not be able to control himself if I would come any closer. So I have no choice. Unless he decides that he can control himself I can't talk to him, and if I can't do that I can't say thanks.' You walk over to the campfire seeing that all of them are in conversation.
"Who are you people" Akimoto asks in a serious tone then looks over his shoulder seeing you there he asks you: "Hey you want to sit down, Keishi?"
You shake your head no, but you look over at Kagome and you give her a look that you need to ask her some thing. She obviously realizes what you want because after looking at you she immediately takes a stand and walks away from the campfire. You take another look over at Koga and Inuyasha then look back to Kagome and you ask: "Kagome, would you mind telling me that, Koga, over there that I thank him for saving me?"
"Why can't you- oh yea sorry now I get it. No problem I'll go tell him now!" Kagome says happily and walks over to Koga to tell him what you said.
A few minutes later:
"I think Keishi should stay with you people for a while."
"WHAT!" You shout to Akimoto suddenly surprised as all of you sit in a circle around the fire sit short the two, Inuyasha and Koga. "no offence to you guys but, WHAT AKI?"
"It seems that you would get more protection being with them seeing that they have much better fighters-" Aki says but gets cut off be you.
"and a half-demon!" You argue with him not understanding why Akimoto would be saying this. "arent you thinking what that could mean?!"
"Yes, Keishi. I know what that could mean but if Naraku comes after you again I don't know if I could protect you! I don't want him to have you Keishi! I have some idea what he might want from you. I have my suspicions to why Liana wants to protect you, but you have to listen to me. I can not protect you from him, Keishi!"
There is silence for a moment before some one breaks it with a short and simple question: "What does that basterd Naraku want with Keishi?!" Though it surprises you to see who it was who said it.
Inuyasha stands behind Kagome who was nearest to where he lay sitting up against the tree. He avoids your gaze undoubtedly; his eyes find everyone else's but yours, and you don't mind. You look down hiding a hard face to keep your self from glaring at Inuyasha. 'I really wish that he could control himself!' you think moodily 'no, thats not it! I really wish that this stupid sent would just disappear all together!'
"I can't tell you now because all I have is suspicions, and if I were to tell you now and I were wrong things might turn out all wrong!" Akimoto answers Inuyasha as he runs a hand over the top part of him ponytail. "All I know is that she needs to be protected in the mean while. If she isn't the lady will be very displeased."
"Lady? What lady? Whom are you talking about?" Miroku questions as he looks over at Akimoto seriously "Is she your lord?"
"Liana the demoness to the moon, she was the one who wants Keishi to be protected, and because she has been separated from Sesshomaru we need some one else to take up that responsibility." Aki answers to the monk with a business sort of air.
"Why did Sesshomaru loose her!" Inuyasha barks adding the last part with sarcasm "How did this happen, I forgot to ask?!"
"I'm sick of you demons looking at me in that way! Inuyasha, I ran away on my own will! (Then changing her directing from Inuyasha to Akimoto) I don't want to go with Inuyasha, Aki! I if I do who knows what might happen to me! I if you want to protect me keep me away from I him /I !" You spit angrily with a sudden outburst surprising everyone.
Akimoto sighs and turns to you almost with console "Keishi, I can't protect you from Naraku the next he comes. I know how strong he is, and I think the only people who are strong enough to protect you are Inuyasha and his group. Other than Sesshomaru who you have already run away from." Aki ends with you looking up at him.
"Fine Aki, I'll go. If its okay with them that is?" You finally answer grudgingly.
All of them agree that it would be okay for you to come with them, except for Inuyasha who just grunts.
You start off with Inuyasha's group after saying a quick goodbye to Aki. By this time your pouting like a child who didnt get what she wanted for her birthday. You stalk off a ways behind the lot of them angry at Aki for making you go with them. You make a small glance up at Inuyasha who has been walking this whole time through the forest way up front. You guess its because he doesn't want the same thing to happen again like last time and thinks it best to keep his distance from you. Kagome, Miroku, and Sango walk in the middle of the two of you in deep conversation. Its obvious to you that you have been gaining demonic traits through the last month, but it still confuses you. You new found sense of hearing allows you to hear the group's whole conversation. From the beginning they've mostly been talking about you, how Naraku might want you, and how they are going to handle the whole Inuyasha/You ordeal. You can't help feeling some how put out that they are talking about you like you can't hear. At the moment you're just trying to keep you self from bursting out "I can hear you, you know!"
In a few more minutes the sun is almost at its full height and Kagome says one last thing to Miroku and Sango. She then turns around to you where you were still sulking in the back. She goes over to you signaling for you to stop walking; you do.
"What is it?" you ask slightly moody.
"I was just going to tell you we're going to be heading back to Keade's village so I could stop home and grab a few things." She says to you as she finally comes to a complete stop in front of you. "It will only take a half and hour if we ride on Kilala." (Ether way you spell it, you get it, right?)
"What ever" you answer and she nods.
She turns back around to run back to the others and begins to talk with them again. They start up the same conversation as last time still not knowing that you could hear them at all.
"She says 'whatever'" Kagome informs the other two.
"Okay, good, the sooner we get to the village the better. If we loose Keishi who knows what might happen. Did you notice how troubled Akimoto looked. The Lady Liana must be going through a lot of trouble to keep this girl safe." Sango says in a serious tone.
"I just wonder why the Lady herself didn't come if keeping Keishi safe was such high priority?" Miroku adds with a hint of confusion. "I mean if she is an almighty demoness shouldn't she be able to take care of this herself?"
"She must not be able to, unless the truth is that she just doesn't want to dirty her own hands?" Sango also adds as the three of them keep walking on through the forest.
"What do you mean by 'not be able to'?" Kagome asks, "If Liana is so strong what could stop her?"
"There are even more powerful things than a demoness of the moon. She is undoubtedly strong if she is the assigned goddess of the moon by some, but we can't be sure if there arent any other forces at control at the moment" Miroku says in answer to Kagome's question, "She may be stronger than both Naraku and Sesshomaru combine and if thats true she should be able to take care of Naraku herself, but she hasn't which undoubtedly means that something else must be keeping her from doing so."
"But, what could be doing that?" Sango asks in confusion.
"I don't know it seems that we're just going to have to wait and see" Miroku says with a sigh. "Right now all we have to worry about is getting Keishi back to the village."
"Right!" both Sango and Kagome say after Miroku's last word.
After hearing all of this you can't do anything much but sigh all interest leaving you. It wasn't as interesting as you had thought but it still made you wonder. Everything they were talking about made sense. If Liana wants to protect you why not do it herself? Knowing Liana is an almighty demoness just makes it even more confusing, and also there is the whole face that it is you that she is protecting. 'Couldn't she have picked anyone else!' you think to yourself thinking the only reason you have these strange demonic traits was because of your strange connection with Liana. Though what could that be you wonder. In the beginning you were just a normal low class human the only thing special about you had been that you remembered nothing of your past. Though now ever since that day you whistled that strange tune things have been changing. Also it seemed to worsen around the time you had seen Liana for the first time.
You had been walking in silence for a long period of time thinking to yourself when finally someone ahead of you exclaimed your arrival to the village. You look up realizing that you were on a hill now. Then taking a few steps forward you were able to oversee all or most of the village. At the front of the village was a longs stretch of rice that was growing in the water at the foot of the hill. Then at the end of the way of rice about over two hundred yards lay the village. It was reasonably large, but the only thing you could compare it too was Kyari's home village it being the only other village you've been in or have even seen.
"Come on Keishi just along the path then we'll bring you to see Kaede" Kagome informs you and you quietly nod to show her you've heard.
Up ahead Inuyasha has already entered the village.
You enter the village beside Miroku and Kagome instead of you being far off behind the group sulking silently. There still has been no sign of Inuyasha after him disappearing at the hill before the village, but you don't really care all you want is for him to back off and leave you alone for the rest of the time that you will be staying at this village.
Kagome quickens her pace as you near the back part of the village. She runs into a regular hut no different from the others, but as she enters it you notice that she is speaking to Inuyasha. She sounds angry and with out a doubt she is. She tells him that hes acting childish and he shouldnt have continued on with out you. Kagome repeats to him that hes supposed to be protecting you and he shouldnt be acting like a Baka.
Though you guess you were the only one who was able to eaves drop because no ones seemed to take any care or notice to the fact that you heard all of it. 'Im really beginning to like this demonic stuff even though there are some downs about it' you think to yourself as you enter the hut along with Sango and Miroku.
Inuyasha is sitting off in the corner parallel to an old woman in the other woman next to a fireplace in the ground. She seems s to be cooking some food over the fire in a large pot and shes stirring it with a long wooden spoon. Then Kagome is standing at the entrance with a moody look on her face, but then looks over to the others.
"Oh Keishi this is Keade, she's the priestess of this village." Kagome says to you mostly as your looking around the hut at Keade. "Were going to be staying here for a while."
You look over at Inuyasha who is currently very interested in the wall across from him. 'If hes angry at me he has no right to be, hes the one who lost control of himself!' you think to yourself angrily as the group takes their own seats inside of the hut randomly with you sitting between Kagome and Miroku but unluckily at the same corner as Inuyasha himself. 'I wonder if they even notice where Im sitting?' you think to yourself still not in the mood to be nice.
You sit silently as everyone talks as they eat. The constant feeling of Inuyasha staring a hole in your back agitating you even more than it should. They ask you why you arent eating and its true you havent eaten a bit of you food.
"Im just not hungry okay," you tell them but the truth was that you were actually famished.
'Why dont I just eat!' you ask your self as you just stare at the food bowl in front of you, but you have no real interest. You lean down and force some food into your mouth but you taste nothing; you swish the soup (yes soup) though your mouth trying to taste something but nothing comes of it. No one seems to notice you as you stare blankly off into your bowl as this strange moment occurs they just continue doing what they were doing as the talked about how you came to coming with them.
Or at least you think no one noticed your little thing. Inuyasha sitting behind you staring at you noticed quiet well. His eyes became confused like and he crossed his legs; he didn't want to worry about you basically because of the fact that you and him hated each other at the moment. He just finalizes it himself that it wasn't because he cared for you that he was worried it was because his demon blood liked her, but even though he told himself that he couldn't help but scoot sideways every few moments to get a better look at you.
"Inuyasha what the heck at you doing?!" Kagome asks the half demon as she notices him taking scoots to the side in a weird manner.
Everyone turns around to look at him except you of course who was trying to ignore him al you could. Inuyasha just looks up at Kagome with agitated eyes and just gives up finally and just tells her to everyone's surprise including you. "Its just that Keishi's acting funny alright!" Then everyone takes their eyes from him then to you as you are still staring head on into you food bowl. You swallow the food still in you mouth and look up at them all in a wondering way.
"What?" you ask them all in the nicest way you could at the moment.
"What's wrong Keishi?" Sango asks you in a worried tone that only slightly annoys you.
"Nothings wrong with me the only thing wrong here is that mutt behind me" You say in a casual tone and just to show them that you had no problem with you food you take another spoon full and put it into your mouth.
"Stop lying moron! I can tell something's wrong!" Inuyasha pelts at you angrily and you turn to him angrily. "Stop acting as though nothings going on even your sent has been changing!"
Next thing you know you try slapping him but his hand stops you. It grips you wrist loosely and delicately and he's looking at you with an expressionless face. You clench your fist as his hand grips your wrist and you look down biting you lower lip. Everyone in the hut stares at you in surprise at you sudden out bust of violence, and Keade sets her bowl down silently with just a slight sound and coughs slightly. It's not an attention-gaining cough, but she just starts to grab everyone's bowls.
You stare at the ground biting your lip desperately trying to keep some newfound tears in. Your shoulders hunch slightly and you find your fist unclench as you try to hold the tears back.
"Ohh please Keishi, don't cry" Inuyasha begs as he cant help but feel sad for you.
"I think I turning into a demon, Inuyasha," you confess as you continue to hold back your tears.