Dark: Okay… before I start the story I want to do this… drops to her knees FORGIVE ME! I am sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo sorry that you wouldn't believe! I would never, EVER give my beautiful baby up and I also can't believe I even said such stupid things. BUT, yes there is a but, I do have many alter egos – or in other words I have multiple personalities (usually mock/real anger lol) and the flame just brought out the sadness and fury in me…so I'll say this again – this is my beloved baby! I'll never, EVER give it up! Besides… if I stopped and you guys wanted to kill me, you would have to dig me up first because the characters would have tortured and dismembered then cast me in the dirt.
Characters: Got that right!
Dark: Scary how they can threaten you but be cheerful at the same time ne?
By the way: MERRY BELATED (does belated really mean late?) CHRISTMAS and CHRISTMAS EVE as well as HAPPY (late) NEW YEARS!
Anyways you guys waited long enough and deserve it after helping me get over that (little) flame so without further ado… on with the story! rolls film
This chapter is dedicated to everyone who supported me through the flame but most of all to TLC Kitsune for actually reading my Bio and wishing a happy birthday. Seriously… I love ya all.
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It's funny how everything turns against me - my first love, my new friends and now my darkness. For each and every one I fell for it naïvely, twisting myself further in their webs of deceit. Inuyasha by ignoring his blatant love for Kikyou, the fellowship by no trust and my beautiful darkness… It was like a mother to me protecting me from what I didn't want to face, shielding me from the horrors of reality, but I depended on it too much and it overwhelmed me.
I couldn't breathe and my lungs screamed for air, but I couldn't move my mouth. I was drowning in eternal blackness, and then… a miracle happened. Beautiful light entered my vision. Entranced I forced my arm to stretch out for it, my fingers trying to grasp the elusive blaze. I couldn't reach it! Determination filled my veins and I made a grab for the enticing light. Darkness wrapped itself around my neck, choking me, and black started to creep up my legs.
Suddenly I wasn't a demoness anymore, I wasn't the reincarnation of a powerful priestess instead I was merely a normal seventeen-year-old high school student panicking because I was ensnared. Oh God, please not now, not now! God, please, please… HELP ME! In response the small ball of glowing light flared, and with it my perseverance grew. Tugging on the rope of darkness forbidding me from breath with one of my hands, I reached out to the light just inches away from my pale fingers. Just a little more…
A flash of white that nearly blinded me, and just like that I was free. No more darkness, no more vines of the doomed, no more sanctuary. I was at a loss. I had nothing, owned nothing, and owed everything. I hunched my shoulders in defeat only to straighten them and raise my head up, eyes gleaming in renewed strength. I am Kagome Higurashi, and I refuse to give up. Glancing around and seeing nothing but blank white, I braced myself. I am Kagome Higurashi and I will survive! My face was impassive, and my lips pursed together in grim stubbornness.
"Higurashi Kagome?" Startled I twirled around. A short male with chocolate brown hair and masked blue eyes holding a scroll filled my vision. Deciding I didn't trust him, I didn't answer.
"Are you or are you not Higurashi Kagome?" Mocking his tone I replied
"I am Kagome, and who are you?"
He didn't tell me. Instead he stared down at the paper in his hands. "Come with me."
I watched as he moved forwards, his body turned back to me. He stopped for only a second, to throw me a glance. "Are you coming?" Not saying a word I followed him.
Suddenly the scene changed, and it was no longer just white that surround us but a beautiful garden.
"Wait a darned minute! Just who exactly are you? Where are we, and why are we here? I'm not moving another step until you tell me!" I dug my heels into the dirt to prove my point and the man sighed in both frustration and anger.
"I am Takashi (Dark: Just a name that came into mind) and if you would just try you will find that this place is quite familiar, it is neither heaven or hell. Nor is it earth. We are now caught between death and life, the place you saved the hanyou named Inuyasha from his pretense mother. Ring any bells?"
I refused to tell him but honestly it didn't. I had no clue what this mad man was talking about but I would be sending birthday invitations to Naraku before admitting he knew something I didn't. So I just nodded along, dumbly.
"No of course not… you were just a mortal anyways." He heaved another complaining sigh, "It was the first time you met the Demon Lord… Sesshomaru, I think his name was, he had used the No Faced woman (Dark: Is that right?) and she was to find where the sword – Tet something – lay."
As if a light bulb flashed on somewhere in my face, the memory flooded back to me. "O-Oh… oh yeah… So exactly why are we here?"
He groaned. "Haven't you figured it out yet?! You're dead! As in you are DEAD!"
"Oh okay…" then it sunk in. I placed my hand over my hips swiftly, and glared daggers at the person who stood in front of me. "Dead!? What do you mean DEAD!?"
"That's what I mean. You are dead." I stared at him for a few moments until finally I started laughing. "You're kidding right? I'm not really dead. Well haha very funny." But he didn't laugh with me and so I paused. "I'm not really dead... am I?" He just looked unblinkingly back at me, and I knew that I was truly dead. Still, wanting to be optimistic I laughed and spoke. "At least I don't have to find the jewel shards, kill another evil guy, take responsibility of two demons, the fellowship, and be compared to a dead lady anymore." I sighed happily and brought my hands behind my head and relaxed. Then I tensed.
"Sesshomaru! Youko! What happened to them? What happened to the fellowship? Where are they? Answer me!" the angel person cut me off swiftly.
"They are dead as well-" I tuned him out after that. Dead? My heart stopped (yes my heart kept moving though I wasn't alive) and I felt faint. Death took my only friends in this world? NO! I pounced on Takashi, ready to force him to release them from the grips of death, but he seemed to fade further into the growing darkness. The closer I got to him the further he went.
"THEY AREN'T DEAD! THEY AREN'T!" My voice faded to a whisper, "they wouldn't dare... would they?"
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I stared at my hands. It was covered in a red substance. So thick and cold, I wanted to shiver. What is this? Why is this happening to me? I wiped my digits on the plants next to me, but the crimson liquid stuck. No matter what I did… I couldn't get rid of it!
Murderer. It whispered. Murderer.
"No… no… I'm not." Yet a small voice at the back told me to relish it. That what I did was good and to be proud. Whimpering I clutched my head and curled up. "No, no, no. Go away. GO AWAY!"
I clawed at my scalp trying to ward away everything that was driving me insane.
MURDERER!
I wanted to get out of this personal underworld, run away and never look back.
I'm not a killer am I? I couldn't think straight, my mind spinning rapidly. Dizziness and nausea attacked me. I'm NOT! Blinded by warm tears, I was at a loss.
Murderer. It hissed venomously. Murderer. Killer. Destroyer.
My head pounded heavily causing a vile tasting substance to rise in my throat. I curled up.
Inuyasha… Legolas… Sango… Miroku… SOMEONE TAKE ME AWAY FROM HERE!
It hurt, too much to tell. The loud voices in my head grew ear splitting and insistent - each voice commanding me to do a different task. I was afraid I was going out of my mind.
It was so hard, so difficult to make out what the voices were saying; soon it became nothing but mere lingering sounds echoing in my mind – never fading.
"WHY!?" I screamed, "WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS TO ME? IS IT A PUNISHMENT? Tell me why…" I couldn't continue my throat clenching and eyes welling with unshed tears.
I stayed there; rocking my coiled, sob racked body. Alone.
Each moment, I could feel a bit of my sanity ebbing away. I'm going to die… alone… I am died; I have died alone... all alone. I giggled to myself as the last of my sanity slipped through my grips.
Fortunately for me, a jerk of my body snapped me back. "I'm going crazy." I muttered, my shoulders shaking.
"Kagome!" Not another voice! I groaned mentally… but this one seemed different. "You can't die!" The obvious desperation in the panicking voice startled me and before I knew it, I stretched my arm, reaching for the distressed echo. "DON'T DIE!"
SLAPMy eyes fluttered open as I gazed into surprised blue eyes. "Mmm." I sighed, stretching my arms as I yawned. Rubbing my eyes free of tears (Dark: I get tears in my eyes when I yawn… do you?) I took a deep breath and exhaled.
"Hello." I breathed, sleepiness evident in my eyes.
Gimli pointed to his cheek, which now sported a very red hand mark. I looked at him blankly before the meaning dawned on me. "Did I do that? Sorry, sorry." I said, waving my hand impatiently.
He scoffed and muttered under his breath – something along the words "Stupid, moronic, brat…" My ears twitched to pick up the rest, but he murmured very softly, careful about my demonic ears.
A smile spread slowly across my face only to turn to a frown as a wave of dizziness washed over me. "Urg." I groaned, placing a pale hand on my forehead.
"What happened? I feel like I've been hit by a bus." I was met by seven looks of confusion and two of mild curiosity.
"What is this… bus?"
A minute passed and I could feel a giant sweatdrop fall down the back of my neck. An image of me in a teacher's uniform pointing a long wooden stick to a blackboard with my students being chibi Legolas, Sesshomaru, Youko, Boromir, Gimli, Pippin and all the others (Dark: too lazy to type them all…)
"Ah…" I laughed weakly. "Never mind, but where did Takashi go?"
There was an uncomfortable silence passed between the different men. Then Pippin grew courageous and stepped forward. "Who is this Takashi, Kagome?"
"Wait a minute…" Suspicious, I poked Pippin in the ribs. He twitched at the touch. Amazed and delighted I launched myself into the hobbit's arm, jumping up and down – forcing him to hop with me. "YOU'RE ALIVE!"
And that's when I collapsed. "I thought angels didn't lie." Disoriented, I allowed Legolas to pick me up, my heart fluttering for some reason. He cast a worried glance to Aragon.
"She is delirious." Aragon responded.
"Am… not…" My eyes felt heavy, and I had no qualms in them drooping but a passing thought quickly snapped me from sleep. What about Sesshomaru and Youko? We can't possibly trust them.
"Sesshomaru!" I gasped; bolting upright from the 'bed' (the ground) Legolas laid me on. Grabbing the small dagger – that I had never noticed Frodo to have – from the small hobbit, I brandished it underneath the cold Taiyoukai's nose.
"Don't come another foot closer."
"Who, do you presume to be, commanding me such things?" As though trying to be annoying, he stepped forward.
Intimated, I stumbled backwards gripping the dagger in my white knuckles with desperation. "Go away!" Legolas moved in front of me, sensing my discomfort.
"Kagome asked you to leave."
The dog demon took another foot towards me, and I took one back. Don't run! Stay and fight! We are not cowards! I was confused and terrified. Why did the voice pound at me relentlessly? Run. My instincts and another person sounded.
Run.
Fight.
Run!
Fight!
I looked up, unable to listen to the harsh shouting in my mind any longer. A bad move on my part, I stared straight into the carefully guarded, golden orbs petrified.
RUN! Like a rabbit being hunted by a cunning fox, I turned tail and bolted. My hair whipped at my face as I picked up more speed.
WHAT ARE YOU DOING! It shrieked, disgust blaring loudly. TURN BACK AND FIGHT! WE ARE NOT COWARDS!
Why is this happening to me? (Dark: IMPORTANT! The italic is a voice the bold is another and the bold/italic together is Kagome's thoughts, now that that's clear…)
TURN BACK AND FIGHT!
I can't! I CAN'T!
I should have known from our battles together that unless he wished it… I would never be able to escape his grasp.
"Woman, you shall tell me everything you know."
"LEAVE ME ALONE!" I couldn't tell whether I was speaking to the voices that were slowly becoming faint or the great dog demon.
With my desperation, a weak blue wound itself around my hand. I hadn't noticed. I couldn't help but be drawn into the intense golden of his gaze frightened I scrambled backwards.
A gasp flew from my lips long before I could try and stop it as my back collided with something firm. My shoulders tensed and I stiffly craned my neck to see through the corner of my eye. "Youko…" I was trapped. Cornered like some sort of wild animal, and an animal I became lashing out at the two stoic demons.
A part of me hissed in satisfaction as my claw crashed with a sword. That's it. Fight! Slowly, I began to lose myself any the voice took over.
It was as though I was outside of my body, watching as I battled the two youkai. A malice filled grin on my face as one claw moved to strike Sesshomaru. A clash of nails meeting steel blared loudly. But as I was occupied with Sesshomaru, Youko pulled out a whip… of a enlarged rose? I shouted to get my body's attention but it was too late.
With a grunt I moved placing a delicate looking hand over a wound.
It was a struggle to take control over my body but I managed it.
"Trying to make me talk is like trying to force an infant to speak" I spat through gritted teeth "– I won't until I'm ready and willing."
Then I fell to my knees, huffing for breath as I added pressure on my injury. I was defenseless. They could have killed me in cold blood if they wanted. Instead I saw Sesshomaru narrow his eyes. "Then I shall accompany your group until you see fit to inform me of your knowledge."
Youko stayed silent, but his ears twitched, indicating he was listening. A small rustle of bushes made me look up in curiosity. An arrow notched in a bow emerged, followed by an arm, and then a leg and soon Legolas stepped forwards.
"Are you alright Kagome?" I nodded but seeing as how he was staring down the two powerful demons I spoke up.
"Yeah." I winced at how hoarse my voice sounded. As though I hadn't spoken in days.
A pointed look was sent in my direction and I sighed.
I'm not going do it. I told myself firmly, but I shifted uncomfortably as Sesshomaru continued to stare his message at me.
STARE…
STARE…
STARE…
STARE…
STARE…
STARE…
STARE…
I could feel beads of sweat dripping down my cheeks as my last resolves crumbled.
"Sesshomaru wants to join our group!" I slapped a hand over my mouth in horror. Legolas twirled to me, his brilliant blue eyes glazed over in concern.
"Have they hurt you Kagome?"
My traitorous eyes dropped to the wound in my side before glancing up again. Fast, but not fast enough. He turned to them again, his back (the only part I could see… besides his…) stiffened for some reason – I took a blind stab in the dark and guessed it was anger. It turned out that I hit the bull's eye.
"You have harmed Kagome, and so you will not be able to come with us."
"Fool. You don't know who you are dealing with."
I was exhausted, both mentally and physically. It took almost all my energy to crawl to Legolas, and tugging his worn out clothing sent a sharp pain shooting through my arm. But when he picked me up in his arms, managing somehow to still hold his bow and arrow in place, all the pain was forgotten. His arms felt so safe and comforting… my eyelids fell.
I moved closer to his fragrant smell, nuzzling his hardened chest instinctively. I could feel muscles relaxing at my dazed movements. "Don't… fight… mmm… okay?" I asked, half asleep.
"Kagome…" I heard him whisper quietly, placing his weapons back while making sure I wasn't disturbed.
"Thanks… love ya." He tensed, but I had already fallen asleep.
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Hours later I awoke, feeling both refreshed and aware. "Funny." I muttered. "No nightmares…"
Someone sat down beside me, and startled I fell on my bum. "Legolas! What are you doing here?"
He said nothing at first. Taking a good long look at me, he faced the lake, which was only a few feet away from me.
"Didn't I say that talking to one's self was a sign of insanity?"
I blinked. "Did you just make a joke?"
He didn't reply. Instead, he changed the subject. "Did you mean it?"
"What?"
"Did you mean it?"
"Did… I mean it…?" I echoed stupidly.
"Well?"
"Did I mean what?"
His stunning blue orbs met mine and when he found what he was looking for he looked away again. "Never mind."
I wanted to pursue the matter but then again maybe it was something I didn't want to know about, so I left it alone.
We sat together for a while, the thick silence weighing over our heads. "Thanks Legolas."
"For…" He trailed off, motioning for me to continue.
"For everything." He sat there apprehensive, and wanting to make him loosen up I rested my head on his shoulders. Legolas froze at the intimate gesture, but adjusted to it over a few minutes.
We settled on the ground, staring at the scenery together for a long time.
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"Kagome!"
Lazily I glanced up at Frodo.
"Yeah?"
"No-nothing." However I had already watched with a weary eye as he grasped and stroked the tainted ring under his shirt.
"Frodo, sit." I commanded, patting down on the grass of the peaceful meadow. His eyes flickered to where the others (including the two demons) were seated quite a ways from us, before planting himself where I told him.
"I know the overwhelming responsibly and irresistible temptations of carrying an objects that's so wanted, so powerful." I thought back to my friends in the feudal era and my sound became wistful.
"It's so easy to take it and use it, then you would be free." My light voice grew heavy and dark. "But there is always… always a consequence."
His surprised eyes widened.
"I know what you are going through, don't… don't give into it. If you ever need to talk…" I stopped, knowing he got the point.
"Thanks, Kagome."
My gaze fell to the small pink jewel that peeked out from my shirt. "Any time." I murmured, even though he couldn't hear me and tucked it well away from sight.
"Any time…"
(Dark: Now usually I would stop here, but seeing as you guys deserve it, I'll continue.)
Never having to take the time to look at my 'new' self carefully, I stared into the blurry water beneath me. Aqua eyes – quite similar to the bright blue I once had, the silver tips of my hair now flared at the bottom. I traced my 'tattoos' cautiously, licking my fangs while leaning further into the water.
A flash of red passed through the image. The picture changed. Red liquid dripped from my reflection's hands, and my reflection was looking guilty, lost, and afraid. That… that was me.
Angry, I smashed a fist through the lake, causing ripples of water to destroy the image. That is NOT me!
"Pathetic."
I snapped my head up in alarm, and my heart started pumping again as the sight of the Demon Lord met my gaze.
"I am aren't I?"
He flattered, not expecting my reply. I gave a bitter laugh.
"I've fought many demons, even you, and yet out of them all, I'm scared of my mere impression on the waters. I'm- I'm afraid of… my reflection."
He said nothing, listening to my ramblings in patience.
"I have looked at myself in mirrors long and hard, wondering why Inuyasha didn't like me. Was it my clothes, my body, my attitude? I couldn't figure it out. Then I thought 'Why not become demon? Then he might like me.' But… it wasn't me, it was Inuyasha himself - he was still in love with Kikyou, and he wouldn't… couldn't let go of her. By that time, it was already too late. I'd changed, and I couldn't change back."
I sighed mournfully, lost in my sad memories.
"Every time I passed by a mirror, or anything that reflected, I would wince, because I could see myself. The image that stared back at me… wasn't who I was supposed to be. I… changed. And Inuyasha never noticed. He only saw Kikyou."
It was stupid, pinning away in envy of a corpse. I knew that. He also knew it.
"It was pure idiocy of you to change for that halfbreed. You shall have someone love you for who you are."
My head snapped up in surprise for the second time that night, but by the time I looked up, he was gone.
A soft look crept into my eyes and for once, I smiled a true smile. "Thanks Sesshomaru." A few minutes of gazing at the stars after I stood up and walked to a tree. With a deep breath, I leaned against the trunk of the tree. And soon I fell asleep once more.
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When morning came, I aroused to see the fellowship packing up and the demons glaring down at me. "Ack!"
Frightened, I staggered back against the tree trunk.
"Don't do that!"
Huffing, I patted my chest willing silently for my heart to calm. I knew it wasn't safe… how could it be with two merciless (Dark: Let's just say she read about Youko in history/mythology class okay?) youkai standing over me? The only reason why I was still standing was because of their curiosity and need to know what happened – something I'm still trying to figure out.
"Do not talk so disrespectfully wench."
My eyes flashed with anger, and sadness. Inuyasha… No, I'm over him. I repeated the statement over and over in my head before speaking.
"I'm not a wench, so please don't call me that." It seemed to me that my voice was filled with depression, which was not like me at all. I shook my head free of the thoughts of Inuyasha that plagued my mind.
One raised eyebrow and the other narrowed his eyes. "Do not assume to speak so ill-mannered to this Sesshomaru."
A sudden burst of fury blazed in my blood. "You don't know anything about me! You don't know if I'm 'ill-mannered' or just disgusted at you, you don't know if I could kill you! You just assume that you're stronger than me, making you all 'powerful', well I hate to burst your bubble but you aren't! You don't know anything!"
I couldn't stay after that. So I stomped enraged deeper into the forest. He didn't follow me. But someone else did.
"Leave me alone." I sniffled. "Just go away." When the presence didn't leave, I glared up in annoyance, only to have something fill my vision.
"A… rose?"
Youko didn't say anything and in my mind I compared his silent answers to Legolas's and Sesshomaru's. They were so alike…
"I am intrigued by you. A puzzle that is near impossible to solve."
Disturbed I listened carefully, however he didn't continue.
"Well… um…" I moved, unused to the pregnant silence. "At least you admitted it…" I chuckled weakly. "You know what's funny?"
Silence.
"I talked one on one with Legolas, Frodo (Dark: No, I'm not going to pair her with Frodo… that's just disgusting, Frodo's just there because Kagome needs to help him… I CAN'T EXPLAIN! JUST READ ON!) Sesshomaru and now you. It feels like déjà vu."
"…Déjà vu?"
"Never mind" I twirled the dazzling flower between my fingers. "Thanks for the rose."
"It was my pleasure."
In my nervousness I swirled said flower faster, and of course I forgotten the thorns. "Ouch!" In a flash of light, Youko held my hands in his and brought it up to his gaze for inspection.
"I'm alright…" And it was true; within a few seconds the wound healed leaving only a thin, red, welt.
Satisfied with my healing, he leaned down at picked up the discarded flower, handing it back to me.
"Thanks."
He nodded. "You need not to be frightened of me. I shall not harm you."
"Oh." I didn't know what else to say.
"They will be looking for you, we must get back."
"Oh. Oh!" Suddenly I felt guilty. "I've been so selfish! I've slowed the fellowship down! I made them stray from their destination! Oh Kami…" (Kami means God)
"You are keeping them waiting even longer with your with your misplaced guilt."
I nibbled on my lower lip, failing to notice how that drew attention from the fox demon. "You're right. Let's go." Before he knew what was happening, I grabbed his sleeve and dragged him towards the smell of my group.
I dodged the branches easily and grinned as I walked through the bushes to my friends. They were all frantic trying to find me. When I cleared my throat as an action to say 'I'm over here!' they turned.
"Where were you?!" Gimli took one glance at my disheveled form then at Youko's who was right behind me. "Ah. You two…"
"No." Legolas cut in coldly. "Kagome would not do that while we were busy."
I watched fondly as everyone moved to help each other pack. A person would stare at me once in a while, stopping to ask. "Are you coming?"
I said nothing, only smiled. I'm not alone anymore.
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Dark: Did you know that it took me half a month to type and try to write the four pages then I wrote five more in a few hours last night, then a few hours today? Funny thing is I can write better when I'm really tired/sleepy.
Inuyasha: That's because you're plain weird.
Dark: HEY!
Kagome: Stop picking on Dark! SIT BOY! SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT!
Dark: beams
Dark: I can't believe it! I PASSED THE 300TH MARK! I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU GUYS LIKE THIS STORY SO MUCH! I LOVE YOU ALL!
Dark: PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! READ MY BIO/ NEW STORIES WHEN THEY COME OUT. THANK YOU!
Dark: Thanks again for everyone who helped me. I hoped you enjoyed the chapter. Although there was a lot of sitting and useless junk in it.
Dark: 4282 words and twelve pages… I hope you're statisfied.
Dark: By the way, don't be surprised if I don't update until February because I (since I just entered high school last year September) have the finals to study for and pray I pass with A's… I'll try and update as fast as I can though…
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Review responses for the author's note (after chapter nine I posted the author's note with the preview…)
Novida: Don't you dare say that, and don't you dare think it either! And no I'm not stopping but NEVER consider suicide. Fanfiction isn't the only good thing in life. Quote from myself: Humans take for granted the little things in life that not all can appreciate – which is why I refuse to be human. There are many things to love about life and it's an experience that you can go through only once in a lifetime. Don't give it up okay? If you EVER need someone to talk to, email me. That goes to the rest of you too. If you need someone to talk things with don't be afraid to email me. My email is Darkness carrier hotmail . com (original… I know, and it's without the spaces.)
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Inu'z Hanyou Gurl 38: Aw… you're just saying that! I'm not that good at writing! And I'll try and update soon.
angel-demoness7: That was a short review… sweatdrops and I'll try and update soon.
Tenchi-No-Kaji: hehe, you're just being modest! My writings not that good! Hehe, I'll try to update soon. Lol! If you want I'll let you borrow Legolas (I stole him from J.R.R… don't tell) hands Tenchi-No-Kaji a bound and gagged Lego Youko is kinda busy at the moment… camera focuses on an equally bound and gagged Youko Kurama as he is lowered into a pool of screaming fan girls That's what you get for calling me stupid! laughs at Youko
Lea and Moon: Aw… thanks for everything! Talking to me, complimenting me, flattering me, being good friends in a time of need, being understanding, and defending me. You guys are the bomb! And by the way, apparently Youko could be spelled either way… eheh… my mistake. sweatdrops Youko spits out gag Youko: I told you, you were stupid! his rope lowers another inch and he whimpers lol, well what do you think about this chapter?
What's In A Name?: I don't mind threat. I find them amusing. Lol. I'm glad you feel that I write well but you can't be so modest! If you're being told you're an excellent writer than obviously your writing is better than mine! Come on! I got a B in English this year… (mostly cuz of the reading assessment tests but still…) I have a fan? wide eyed wow… I am so flattered!
Moonie: glomps Moonie You're the best friend a girl can find on the internet/anywhere! And I won't stop writing. If you die, I'll die cuz you're too nice to die! Lol. I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought my writing improved! Thanks for defending me! I love ya! hugs Moonie again
Rougevixen: I tried updating as fast as I could… was it fast enough? Thanks, but this story isn't all that good especially because I'm the authoress… lol
Illuzen: was this fast enough?
The Fire Goddess: Aw… thanks for the flatter. I'm glad you think so. And I'm also glad you like this story. I hope I'm good enough to keep you interested.
PunkRocker1122: I am so happy I have friends like you to defend me cuz I'm really "emotional" or so Serhiy (a guy who picks on me… of course it's all fun and games but he still bugs me!) says. My emotions don't pop out of my face! Mou! pouts thanks for being there for me. And I'm not going to stop this story.
Sapphirefoxgirl: Thanks for being there for me. hugs Sapphirefoxgirl You're a good friend. Thanks for everything
tessa3: Thankies You're really nice
silverspun: You are such a great person you know that? You've stayed with me all this time, helped me through the flame, and encouraged me. I want to thank you but that wouldn't be enough… sighs I just hope you'll be with me forever… but that's not possible… unfortunately. I love you so much you know? embraces silverspun
kikyo must die: You are another person that I treasure so much. Yeah I know bastard is a person who is born out of marriage, but I figured that the person wanted to insult me and being born out of marriage isn't an insult. I'm glad you're proud of who you are. I wish I was like that… sighs and I have fans? wide eyes Of course I'll update!
FaNged-1: Aw… thankies! And I'm continuing!
Samatsua: Aw… thankies! I'm so happy you're still reading my story, and helping me! I'm also thankful to you for saying that I'm doing a good job. I have many people that I cherish and you're one of them. grins
Moon-n-Universe-Goddess: I'm really beaming about your review. Thank you for enjoying my story, I hope you enjoyed this chapter!
silver starlight kitsune: You might want to read the author's note above the PREVIEW. It was not a chapter. I was flamed and I said I didn't feel like updating anymore. Luckily for me a lot of people helped me through.
kat: Are you kidding? I have no talents. I bet you write better than me! Just try and post one up k? I'd be the first one to read and review your fic… (I said this above to Celestrial youkai (not logged in) too.)
warriorangel15: I updated and I hope you like this story.
Nightwoman: Sure… and I'm so glad you like my story. I hope you'll stay with me even for the sequel!
Lady of the dual swords: Aw… thankies! hugs Lady of the dual swords I like the seal. admires the seal Unfortunately, he/she didn't leave behind, their names, email, anything… so I can't do anything…
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Chapter Nine review responses:
Nightwoman: Thank you for the compliment, help, being a good friend and adding me to your favorites. glomps nightwoman You are such a nice person! Love ya!
silver starlight kitsune: He is winning… by a long shot…
Gothicgirl666: If you really want alternative endings I'll put it in for the votes k?
kitty kitsune: Hehe, I love cliffhangers… just not reading them… lol
none: Aw… thankies!
ysia1982: hehe, there are a lot now… I think… I'll try and 'keep up the good work.'
kikyo must die: Sure… but I'm not really sure how to portray Youko cuz I haven't really seen the show Yu Yu Hakusho… so don't be too disappointed when he seems out of character
kikyo must die: grins
kikyo must die: You don't have to do that you know… I already love ya for cheering me up and everything! You're a great friend.
Silverspun: Hehe, I know what you're talking about… lol. hugs silverspun
Moonie: Hehe… just don't forget to say happy birthday next year… well this year since it's 2005 right now…
kikyo must die: lol, I do that every time too. grins
kikyo must die: sure
kikyo must die: You don't hafta…
kikyo must die: Doesn't work for me either…
kikyo must die: I love being evil! grins
Moonie: I'm glad you love this fic, cuz I love ya!
storywriter10791: eheh? I'm sorry! I don't suppose three months is considered a short time? chuckles weakly
Lea & Moon: Yep, I'm a girl and proud of it. And apparently Youko could be spelt either way… hehe, my mistake, sorry…
Cutting Edge: beams evil is my middle name… actually I don't have a middle name… hehe
Emowyen: They didn't die see! points at the fellowship
Saphir Kitsune Youkai Girl: I am so glad I didn't disappoint you.
KitsuneMIKO: lol, you can vote for all of them if you want. You can also vote for alternative pairings…
Pinkjingling: aw… thankies!
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Poles:
Nothing's changed, Legolas got one more vote and Sesshomaru did too, Youko got two. Youko is ahead of Sesshomaru by four votes and Legolas is winning against the unknown winner by eighteen votes.
Please read and review! Love ya all! Till next update/post. Make sure you read and review my new fics (I'll post it soon)