Chapter Twenty One

Alright, yeah I know, I could have just simply tagged this onto the end of the chapter twenty, but I'm lazy and really, I was half asleep while writing half of this. Some of it might be a bit off-the-wall, and I'm sorry about it. But I promised another chapter, so here it is. really, I am sorry it's short. Man I suck lately, right?

Anyway hopefully I'll be able to gt another one out tomorrow too, I'm hoping anyway, the plot is fairly simple at this point so I should be able to.

Fingers crossed I suppose.

Onward!

-I do NOT own Inuyasha or it's characters

-I DO own Sonya and the plot

~TL S0nya

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Short chapter is short.

Sonya stood gaping at the empty space in front of her and Touga, her eyes wide as she stared at the bare patch of earth.

"I swear this is where her hut was!" She growled in frustration, stomping forward after catching sight of Touga's questioning glance in her direction. Stopping right on the edge of the patch of dirt, she knelt down and placed her hand on the ground curiously, digging her fingers into the loose soil.

"It's like it was never even here. But I know this is where it was! I remember that creepy looking tree over there when I stepped outside." She waved over her shoulder at the petrified tree off to the side, it's branches sticking out at odd angles.

"Hmm..." Touga hummed to himself, making a small pang ache in Sonya's chest at the familiar sound. Sesshomaru would make the same noise when he was deep in thought...

Covering her sudden lapse into depression, Sonya stood up and brushed off the front of her kimono with a soft growl of frustration.

"You stated she was a witch?"

"Well yeah, how else would she have done all of this?" She snapped in irritation, waving a vague hand at her figure before planting it on her hip and watching as the older male walked across the bare ground, eyes locked onto the soil he stepped on curiously.

"Perhaps her home was merely an illusion created for the spell itself. Once the spell was complete, there was no need to keep the illusion any longer." Touga stated finally. standing in the center of the dirt and turning to look at Sonya with a serious expression on his face. "If this is true, then finding the witch will be harder than previously thought."

"No kidding..." With a sigh, Sonya plopped down to the ground and rubbed a hand over her head slightly, her eyes unfocused as she thought over the possible outcomes to what just happened.

The witch was no longer where she knew she was.

Kagura had the pack fooled, for how long she didn't know.

Touga was the only one to know she was actually Sonya.

She had no idea what kind of spell the old witch used.

"Are you sure there's more than one spell like this, Touga?" Sonya finally asked, looking up from the ground at the Inu as he walked towards her and crouched down in front of where she sat.

Nodding his head silently, he reached up and passed a hand through his loose bangs in thought. "Perhaps there is another who may know the answer."

Hearing this, Sonya perked up and flashed a small, hopeful smile at him. "What? Really? Who?"

"An old friend of mine. However the journey will take several days..."

"Fine! I don't care, just help me fix this, Touga! You're the only one to know and believe me..." Sonya trailed off again and heaved a small sigh, seeming to curl up in on herself a little bit, her expression quickly fading away from hope to utter depression.

"You suffer from being separated from your mate..."

Looking up, she frowned at Touga in confusion. "What?"

Closing his eyes, Touga let out a small breath, as if frustrated then settled down on the grass fully. "When newly mated, the couple must spend a majority of their time together at first. The bond will be strong and the need to touch and simply be near their other will drive them to a deep sadness if it is not fulfilled. While your body is not your own, your mind is, and it calls for my son's."

"Wait, so you're telling me we- we're like... Mentally linked too?" Sonya gaped at Touga in utter surprise. Sure, she knew there were vague flits of emotion that weren't hers, but she wrote that off as a psychic wolf thing, not a mating thing.

"Correct. If you do not feel his presence nearby, you will suffer immense sadness. Thus we must return you to your own body quickly or it will only get worse." Standing up swiftly, Touga offered a hand to Sonya with a small smile pulling at his lips, earning a weak smile from the wolf-turned-witch as she took his offer and stood up as well.

"If that's the case, then we better get going. I don't really want her around him as it is... I know for a fact that... They've..." She trailed off, a pained expression crossing her features before Touga placed his hand on her head.

"Your body died during the switch, he did not wish to do anything that could hurt you, wolfling. During the time you have been separated before coming back, he has simply let her cling to his arm." A grimace crossed his features at the memory before he cast a wry smile down at her.

"With Kagome worrying over her, I do not believe they will have time for bonding." With that said, he dropped his hand to her shoulder then slowly guided her away from the clearing, heading East towards the mountain. They had an old friend of his to visit, and if he knew the flea the way he thought he did, he would be with Totosai.

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