Chapter Seventeen

Well this one is really short, but it's more filler than anything. I'll be posting another chapter tonight on my facebook and after editing it, I'll post it on HERE.

Mostly because I'm on a roll at the moment, but there's a small bit of me that wants to apologize for how long it took me to start back up the way I had been.

Also, the next chapter is important to the story, it explains just who is who and why things are happening.

Anyway, I'll be seeing you all tonight!

Onward!

-I do NOT own Inuyasha or it's characters

-I DO own Sonya and the plot

~TL S0nya

~ * ~ REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW ~ * ~

With a content smile, she leaned back against a tree, eyes drawn skyward as she watched the clouds skitter by overhead, blown by the wind. The very winds that swirled around her at the moment. 'It's all connected one way or another.' She mused quietly, eyes drifting away from the sky above to the field spread out in front of her.

It had been months, and she had just now regained her memory. Everything that happened, everything that was said...

Everything she wanted.

And she wanted him. Despite who he chose, despite who had been there for her.

No she would have him and in order for that to happen...

"It's time to visit the witch again."

Hearing a few loud curses followed by crashing noises, Sonya shook her head and turned to find Sesshomaru and Inuyasha. It had been at least an hour now, a rather uncomfortable hour of awkward conversation explaining just what happened to her.

Toga had gained a few lumps in the head for that one after she finally came to the conclusion there was no need to be a wolf in order to get what she wanted. He could have just as easily gotten the information out of Sesshomaru and passed it on to her.

Though something in his eyes... It threw her off a bit. Just a small gleam really, but it unnerved Sonya more than she cared to admit to anyone. So under the guise of looking for Sessh and the pup, she left the camp and consequently, Toga's gaze.

Pushing a branch out of her way, Sonya ducked around a large tree and stopped at the amusing sight of Inuyasha planted face-down into the dirt and Sesshomaru standing off to the side with a cocky smirk pulling at his lips. 'Now that look could easily melt a girl right out of her clothes...' She mused silently then shook her head with a blush, both tails flicking behind her as she pushed her way past a low shrub and out into the small demon-made clearing.

"Enjoying yourselves?"

Looking up from the ground, Inuyasha scowled over at the wolf standing a few feet away, arms crossed over her chest as she looked down at him with obvious mirth dancing in her eyes.

"Shut up."

"Hmmm... I'd love to, but you know. I enjoy tormenting you too much." Tapping a finger against her lips, Sonya pretended to think over his irritated order then shook her head. Flashing him a grin, she walked over to Sesshomaru and looked up at him with a raised eyebrow. "Care to explain?"

Turning his gaze away from his brother, Sesshomaru looked down at Sonya and allowed his lips to curl upwards in a smile, completely missing the obviously shocked look from Inuyasha as he reached out and pulled a lock of her hair out, letting it slide between his fingers until it fell loose again.

"Merely teaching the pup how to respect a bond between mates." He explained offhandedly, ignoring the scoff from the hanyou at his words.

"And should I worry about how you taught him?" She asked with a small huff of hair, a hand planting itself on her hip as her tails swayed in the air behind her.

Leaning closer to her, he laughed inwardly at the bright-red flush rising in her cheeks and rested a hand on the mark he left in her skin, claws tracing it gently. "It was a lesson, nothing more."

"R-Right." She muttered, embarrassed at her body's sudden reaction and side-stepped out of his grip before turning around and heading back towards the camp. "Well you might want to finish it up, Kagome's starting to get worried and your father is really starting to creep me out."

Leaving that in the air, she vanished back into the trees, unable to see the shared look between brothers. "He did have a habit of mentioning her a lot." Inuyasha finally offered, brushing off the 'lesson' Sesshomaru taught him in favor of sharing the same foreboding sense they had about the old man.

"Indeed, he seemed to wish her to become his mate." Sesshomaru brushed a hand over his mokomoko in thought, gold eyes staring off into the distance while he spoke. "Our father seems to have an interest in the wolf."

"Better keep an eye on him. Even if you two are mated, I wouldn't put it past the old man to try and do something anyway." Inuyasha warned him, already heading in the same direction Sonya vanished in, thoughts turned towards Kagome and just where they were going next.

"Hm..." Letting his brother leave, Sesshomaru turned his gaze upwards and studied the clouds, trying to shake off the feeling that something wasn't right. Something was very wrong and would ruin the peace they had.

"You wish to become the image of another?"

"Yes. Can you do it?"

"Of course, but I will need something of theirs to draw from."

"I have it right here." Reaching into her pocket, the woman pulled a small pouch out and from it plucked a scrap of odd cloth to hand over.

"Hmm... Interesting. I have not seen cloth such as this."

"Don't worry about where it's from and worry about making this happen."

"Of course. A twin tailed wolf... Curious. I believed all of them to be dead."

"They were until she came around."

The witch narrowed her eyes at the woman standing across from her, millions of questions rising in her mind over just what this woman's plan was. But she offered to pay in rare silks and gems, something she needed dearly for other spells she cast, and they weren't so easy to come by.

"Very well. Return on the night of the new moon and I will have the spell finished. Their power is weak by then and unable to fight off the spell."

"You swear I will look just like her?"

"Child, you will not merely look like her. You will become her. Her body will be yours and consequently, yours will become hers."

"Good."

With that reassurance, the woman left, already going over the next part of her plan. Soon Sesshomaru would be hers, and even the power he held couldn't tell him she wasn't his dear Sonya. And Sonya...

She would be left alone, just as she was.

~ * ~ REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW ~ * ~