DISCLAIMER
Don't own InuYasha. And for those who knows of my other works (especially the ones who cares and likes them), I think I will put most of my concentration on this, the three FF8 stories, the World Crosser, and MAYBE the Harry Potter and the Collisions of the Poke/Digi Worlds stories. For those who loves the X-Men, the Teen Titan story, and the FF9 story, I WILL work on them, but at a slower pace (though I know I haven't worked on them for MONTHS...)
Just a food for thought there, so now let's get to the story!
Chapter XIV: Own World and War
3rd Person P.O.V.
"I can't believe you did that to Lady Rose, mi'lord," Kasiya said with much disappointment. "She truly doesn't have the faintest idea of anything of what we know."
"You speak as though you know better than I do," Sesshomaru said without even looking up from his work at the desk.
"I'm sorry, but I must it point out. I know you have reasons, good ones, but you should have at least informed her about what that necklace can do FOR her, instead of telling her afterwards."
"Questioning my motives? If I had told her, then I would have to force it onto her neck. She wouldn't put it on then, if I had told her."
"But being deceitful like that - "
"Let it rest," he orders while finally glancing up at her. "My reasons will stand."
She doesn't say anything while she stands there, Sesshomaru scribbling some more on the papers with the brush.
'She is just not going to leave until she tells all that is on her mind,' Sesshomaru thought with a mental sigh. And because her mind is not that easy to read, he knows he will have to let her speak again. "Go ahead," he said as he finishes off the last paper and sits up fully.
"I know that no matter what I say, I cannot convince you to take the necklace off," Kasiya said with a apologetic bow for her words earlier. "But you should know of Rose's thoughts and feelings. She has told me she knows little, if none, of any of the rituals, courtships, and laws of the demons. Only the humans."
This begins to catch Sesshomaru's interest.
"She was raised by humans?"
"Yes, who were her true family by blood, if not by type of race," Kasiya said. "She said that they were her true family, and she thought she herself was human until she was nine. I imagine that something or someone killed her family and triggered her true self to come out of her. And can you really imagine how tough it must be to be without your loved ones, and with something new and perhaps frightening that happened to you?" she asks. "We were raised to use our powers and instincts to our advantage, she was not. And I don't know any more about what happened, but this much I could tell you on her reaction, most of it anyway."
"She is a demon, yet her entire, true family were of humans...?" Sesshomaru said. It just leads from one mystery to another with the woman, Rose. "Is she sure she wasn't adopted?"
"She is positive. I couldn't get much more out of her afterwards of admitting the current problem with herself, because she changed subjects."
"Hm..." Sesshomaru sits there with a bit of a thoughtful face that only a few gets to see. "...I think I will seek her out and explain in a much more calmer manner. About the current situation with her and the necklace."
"I think that is wise to do," Kasiya said with a small bow. "She should still be outside, because she hasn't moved from that spot on the towers since this morning."
At the moment for Rose though, she has already been moving about, though far off the grounds as she likes and wants. None of the guards try to get her, she isn't destroying the roof... They reached a silent contract order, and that's fine by her. She stays out of sight to the kids, being that she is still in a really bad mood and doesn't want to take it out on them in any way. She already did on her now very abused finger, which endured chewing. It still bleeds slightly, since she didn't bother about licking at it to heal the small fang bites.
'I just want to get away... For even a day, or two...' she thought as she sits down again, overlooking the walls and treetops. She rests her left arm on the left knee that is almost against her chest, the right arm and leg hanging down (of course, the foot and leg dangling off the edge, swinging back and forth). 'But with that threat... As well as he will just know when I leave the castle's grounds, outside the walls.' She lets out a loud sound that sounded like "Gah" and "Eeeek" at the same time. She hates Sesshomaru at the moment. She tried again and again to get the collar off of her neck, but apparently, his words were of the truth - there isn't anything she could do to get it off, including slashing at it with claws and trying to cut it off. She tried them as well as other ways, and they all failed. 'I seriously hate that man... At least with THIS damn situation...' She sighs while standing again. 'And I am really damn sure... that he was using Astor as an excuse. Using him for a threat to make me stay... Rin would hate him for I think for the rest of her life, and he loves that girl, no matter what he says. He does not want her to hate him, so he would not kill Astor, or harm him in any way.'
With that in mind, she leaps off the roof and continues as she watches out for guards and others she just doesn't want to bother with. But guess who watches as she bounces to the ground without her knowing at all? As she leaps for the last time to the ground, she doesn't realize that the necklace that holds the ring and bracelet has slipped over her head, because her eyes were most of the time closed while flying through the air. Landing softly on the ground and never noticing the shiny jewelry landing behind her, Rose takes off for the forest at a fast but cautious pace. Sesshomaru leaps over to where Rose was just at and bends down, picking the necklace up with a claw, then his entire hand while holding it in front of his face, looking at the bracelet and ring, as well as a white stone that he hasn't noticed before. It has a golden symbol on it in the middle, trimmed in silver metal that holds it on the chain.
'Interesting...' he thought while pocketing it before silently following Rose. He is going to find out exactly WHERE she goes before anything else, even the explanation about why he had done what he had earlier.
Once on top of the wall, Rose thought that she heard something behind her. She turns her head to look, and not finding anything. She then jumps off the wall and onto the ground with no sound, pretty sure that it was nothing.
'Besides... If it turned out there was someone there, who would follow me...?' she thought while walking into the forest. If only she has good senses to figure out that someone is.
(Heh he, I am just plain weird and cruel sometimes to me character, can't I? #laughs#)
Once far enough in the forest, Rose suddenly halts in a well-known clearing that she seems to disappear in the direction whenever she leaves the castle grounds. Sesshomaru halts as well on a branch, watching silently as she picks up a straight stick.
"It is never the same without the Holy Life rod..." she said to herself while sighing a bit. She is used to having her rod do the work on what she is preparing to do. She pulls up the left sleeve, though, as she puts the stick underneath her arm. Sesshomaru watches as she uses a claw to carve a symbol into the flesh of her arm above the wrist, places the hand onto it, then picks up the stick again with the bloody hand.
'What is with the symbols and the need to have the blood on them? Or else in her flesh?' he thought as she grips the end of the stick and make a slow, large circle in the air. Strangely enough, a line is left in the air as she continues to make the circle. Once the two ends meet is when the circle flashes purple and it fills with the color, before opening to a vortex tunnel. And Rose is panting.
"Strange... Why did the stone not help with this one...?" she said before jumping into the vortex. The vortex immediately starts to close up, making Sesshomaru think fast of his next decision. He jumps through as well. It is the most strangest feeling of falling while going sideways and down at the same time to him.
...And it only lasts for about two minutes. An opening is seen ahead and he flips in time to go through the 'door' feet first and land on the ground with grace. Though nearly on top of Rose, who still hasn't mastered the technique of coming out of the vortex without landing on her face...
"Dammit..." she said as Sesshomaru jumps away, since she still doesn't know he's there, as well. She sits up and stays there, resting. "I should not be tired... The stone always help with the portal..." she said as she reaches a hand to where the two jewelry is at. Except they weren't there now, being that they're now in Sesshomaru's pocket. "Wha...? Oh no, where are they?" she said in a panic when she couldn't find them. She looks around on the ground beside her, her face showing worry.
"So... this is where you disappear to?" Sesshomaru said before she looked behind her. She jumps at the voice and swerves around to face him, though her legs nearly buckles from exhaustion.
"How... the... HELL..."
"You should pay attention to your surroundings, though you will not ever be able to leave without being noticed by me," Sesshomaru said as he narrows his eyes. Rose flinches very slightly, but he notice it. It gives him the impression that she is scared of him hitting her again. "Now, where are we?"
"In a forest..." Rose said, sounding obvious about it yet said this quietly. "In Texas, United States, the year 2006!" she said when he looked like he was going to backhand her again like he did earlier the morning.
"Year... 2006?" Sesshomaru said in some confusion.
"About 500 year difference between MY time and YOUR time," Rose said as she looks in a direction. "Give or take a few years..."
"So I was right about you, not being from my time," Sesshomaru said as he doesn't look surprised at this information, though Rose sort of does. He sniffs the air, finding it not as clean as it is in his time. "What is with this air?"
"It is the future for you..." she said as she starts walking in a direction. Sesshomaru was about to grab her by the arm and stop her from continuing until he has more answers, but what's on her face stopped him from doing so. Even though she continues to infuriate him as he does to her, her face of some sort of pain is enough to have him wait on any punishment or anything he had in mind. "The air is filled with smog and other chemicals, so yes, it will smell different. The forests's air is more purer than the city's."
"The future is this...?"
"..." Rose sighs while she keeps walking, forcing Sesshomaru to follow to ask any more questions if he had any. "...Why did you follow in the first place...?"
"I have told you that the necklace will inform me when you move out of the castle grounds," he said with a growl. Rose replies with a growl of her own, Sesshomaru picking up her scent of anger - which is actually her usual scent of roses, lavenders, and sakkura blossoms with cinnamon mixed in with it.
Rose stays silent throughout the short walk. The trees starts thinning as they approach a clearing. Sesshomaru, who has come to Rose's side to not be 'inferior' by walking behind her, sees an strange-looking hut, or shrine. He couldn't tell, being that its structure is foreign to him. It has more than four walls of it, actually having eight. The back wall is the longest, as the sides breaks back in towards each other, then move forward once more before the ends meet each other. A large screened porch is at the white front, swinging-open door. As well as windows with glass for covering them. The entire building is dark blue, and the roof is like a pyramid, pointing up in the center and the sides slanting down to the sides.
'Very unusual... What kind of building is it?' he wonders as Rose passes by several standing slabs of stone. Sesshomaru pauses at one to look at it, to find writing carved into it.
Howard G. Yuli
1948-1997
"An uncle that was always
There..."
'Grave marks? This must be a shrine, at most,' Sesshomaru thought as he watches Rose pause as well, at two stones.
"...Home again, mother and father..." she said so softly that Sesshomaru almost didn't catch it. She touches both of the stones before moving on to the building. The Lord of the West goes up to the two graves, looking at the names.
'Ramy Ellie and Neda Gale L.M... These two must be her parents,' he thought while studying them. 'This can explain her lack of courtesy and so-forth. They have been dead since she was nine.' Understanding a bit more about Rose, he turns to see her nearing the porch. He quickly catches up as she opens the screen door and almost let it slam on Sesshomaru. He merely catches it and enters himself as she pulls out some metal keys, picking one out and putting it in the lock of the door.
"...I guess welcome to my home," she said while glancing at him, turning the knob as she pull the key back out and putting it into her pocket again.
"This is a housing? Your home?" he said in slight surprise. "This looks more like a shrine than a hut." Rose doesn't answer once more as she goes in, leaving the door open. The air of dust and human hits Sesshomaru's nose. 'It is also true about her family being human,' he thought while slowly walking in.
Quite a strange sight beholds before the lord. Furniture that he rarely sees (couches and cushioned armchairs, of course) lays about in one room, with a glassed box in a wooden box that holds shelves and slender containers on those. Framed pictures hangs about on the walls as he also spots another, smaller box with glass in it on top of a desk with a lot of small, squared cases. In the other room, he can tell that it is the dining room and kitchen together, with a table and a strange sink.
"Do not follow me," Rose said as she goes up the stairs at a slower pace, going up to some room. Sesshomaru doesn't intend to as he explores the lower level of the house, to rooms that hallways lead to. Two were of guestrooms (or bedrooms to the deceased people, he doesn't know which), and another looked like some game room... He could only stare at the two boxes with glass with strange contraptions that are hooked to them, as well as odd table with objects to them. He returns to the first room and looks at the box in the wooden box closely. There were buttons underneath the screen of glass. He pushes the biggest of them...
"STOP THAT THIEF!" the box suddenly screams as the glass lights up and sound emits from it, making Sesshomaru jump back in complete surprise. His claws glows as he glares at it, waiting for it to attack first. It just stands there as the screen continues showing horseless carts of some sort squeal out of a paved area, the sounds of BANG sounding as the men of the vehicles keeps pointing odd things at the flashing vehicles.
"I see you discovered television..." Rose said as she peers over the railing from the other floor. "Put your claws down, it will not attack... it is just an inanimated object. It cannot move and smack you in the head, I swear..."
"Tilly-vison? Toloviszion...?"
"...You are very close to sounding it out right..." Rose said as she comes back down, wearing different clothing. Instead of purple, her pants were blue and more thicker (jeans) and a simple, colorful shirt with short sleeves (think hippie shirt). She also wears shoes with laces on them (tennis shoes). The only problem is that there weren't slits in the shirt, so the wings were poking out from under the shirt (basically said, the back of the shirt isn't even over the wings, but resting on top of the base of the wings, but the front of the shirt hanging down and not showing anything). She also carries some sort of colorful bandana in her hand while reaching the bottom of the stairs.
"What is this thing?" he said as he continues looking at Rose's clothes, finding them strange and not very suitable.
"Te-le-vis-ion," Rose said, pronouncing the word out slowly for him. "It shows movies and shows that are used for entertainment. There are reality shows about people trying to winning money from some game show or doing something like handling dangerous animals. There are history channels, cartoons for kids, anime shows for the people who are interested in them... And more I do not really want to continue listing," she said as she sighs slightly. "I guess for the time that we are stuck here, you can find them out yourself..."
"What? We are returning once you achieve whatever you came here for," he said, not intending on letting her have the 'few days away,' like she thought of earlier.
"...I cannot make another vortex this soon, because of making one without the use of the stone on my necklace," she said as she sits down in a armchair, leaning her head back against it, looking weary. "Without the stone, I get very exhausted. Too exhausted in energy to make another portal, even with the stone... So... We ARE stuck here, whether you hate me for it or not..."
Sesshomaru searches her thoughts and finds that the words were of complete truth.
"Hmph..." He continues standing while turning back to the television when something catches his attention from it. "Why are there only humans showing in the box?" he said as he notes on how many humans are shown.
"...How to put this in words..." Rose said slowly while opening one eye. "Okay, I shall go with the blunt way... The world is ruled by humans, Sesshomaru, and there has not been a sight of a demon or ANY mythical creature for hundreds of years, and no 'true' records of them. To the world, they are but a myth now."
Wowies, what a way for Fluffy to discover about the future, eh? Lol! But anyways...
I must point this out to the reviewer that said it was stupid of Rose to stick something on her neck without knowing where it came from. Yeah, I agree, but remember the phrase, "Curiosity kills the cat,"? She's feline, so what makes you think she wasn't CURIOUS on how it looks on her, as well as has real no clue about the Feudal Era (doesn't know about cursed jewelry, and all that crap), and as the necklace might have been from one of the kids? But yeah, I am 100 agreeing with you that it was idiotic to do something like that. Because I wouldn't have done that myself