Kitsunehime: *yawn* Sleepy sleepy . . .
Sango: *looking annoyed* WAKE UP!
Kitsunehime: *snooze*
Inuyasha: *about to bash Kitsunehime over the head with a rock* Wake up, dammit!
Kitsunehime: *groggily* Go 'way . . .
Rin: Hey look, it's Kurama!
Kitsunehime: WHERE?!!!!!!!!!!
Rin: *grins* Nowhere. You need to start writing a new chapter.
Kitsunehime: No Kurama? *looks depressed* *slugs off to the computer* I don't own Inuyasha, I don't own the Black Jewels Trilogy, I just want Kurama. Ok?
Everybody: . . . *sweatdrops galore*
To Rule the Darkness
ch. 33: Discovery
Kanna hid in a little niche by the gates of Inutaishou's Hall, unseen, having no presence. Unable to get closer because of the strong shielding in the area, she saw what was happening within via her mirror.
What she saw was enough to twist her – nonexistent, since Naraku held it – heart with longing. If only she were as welcome, as loved . . . ! She dreaded having to report back to Naraku . . . Each and every time she went near him, she had to struggle to keep the bile from rising in her throat. Whether the bile was from fear or anger – or something else entirely – she never figured out.
"Hiya! What are you doing here?"
Kanna nearly fainted from fear when she heard that voice calling cheerfully, right behind her. She saw it was only a little kitsune.
He looked at her curiously. "My name's Shippou, how 'bout yours?"
"K . . . Kanna," she said softly, warming to him despite her fear.
"That's a pretty name!" Shippou exclaimed, making Kanna flush slightly. "You know, if I didn't see you, I would have never known you were here. That's odd, why don't you have any presence?" he asked curiously.
" . . . I . . . " Kanna didn't know what to tell him.
"Can you speak a little louder?"
"This is the way I am."
Shippou nodded in understanding. "Oh, like Inuyasha is mean and loud, and Kagome is nice. And Koryu and Sesshoumaru are poker-faces," he added. Kanna nodded cautiously in agreement, and also feeling the strangest urge to smile. "Can I take a look at your mirror? It looks pretty."
Here, she hesitated. What if Naraku could force a link through and see her talking like this? What if he killed Shippou? What if —
"Shippou, where are you?" A voice called out. Kanna jumped up, ready to bolt if neccessary. She definitely did not want to be caught.
"Over here, Kagome!" Shippou yelled back, then turned to Kanna, to tell her it was all right, she didn't have to run. But he only turned to find that she had already gone. "Huh?" He was now confused.
"Shippou! What are you doing over here?" Kagome admonished when she reached him. "Everyone's been looking all over!"
"I met this girl, her name is Kanna!" Shippou said happily, getting over his confusion. "She just left, but she's so quiet. And guess what?"
"What?" Kagome asked, feeling slightly bemused at Shippou's excitement.
"Kanna has no presence at all!"
Kagome frowned a bit and resolved to ask Inutaishou about it. Shoving away her feelings of apprehension, she said, "Come on, we're going to have a big family picnic. Wouldn't want to miss it now, ne?"
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Naraku sat in his high tower-room, thinking over his plans with malicious glee. That damned Dark Court and their bitch-Queen would never be able to avoid what he had in store for them. In fact, they wouldn't even know what hit them. He cackled evilly, long and loudly, scaring much of the local wildlife back to their warm, safe dens.
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Kagura sat huddled in a shadowed corner of the aviary, which was her one and only sanctuary. Naraku never went in there, so it was her own private territory.
With a somewhat heavy heart, she watched her birds wing their separate ways across the glassed-in walls. 'I envy them,' she thought. 'They have the freedom to fly where they want, albeit the fact that they are limited to the space within the aviary. Not only must I go where Naraku sends me, I do not have the freedom to do as I wish once there.'
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"So . . . Why are you still here?" Fahleing asked conversationally.
"Because I already sent a message down to the Fox Forest," Koryu answered, equally nonchalant.
"Then why haven't you returned to the Hall?"
"Because you're still here."
Fahleing sighed in mock exasperation. "I hate you."
"Sure you do."
Fahleing huffed in annoyance and stomped off. Koryu hid a small grin and finished drinking his tea. Then he got up to look around.
While digging around in one of the cabinets, he found a masterfully painted portrait of a family. Koryu took it out carefully, and bit back an exclamation when he saw the family name at the bottom. This was the ruling family of the Dog Forest.
Standing tall in the back, obviously the reigning Warlord Prince, was a tall inu-youkai with shoulder-length silver hair and molten coppery eyes. His hand was on a human woman's shoulder, a human woman with flowing black hair and gray eyes, wearing the formal robes of a Priestess. To Koryu's eyes, the woman had some resemblance to Inuyasha.
Standing beside the human was a female inu-youkai, obviously younger than the Warlord Prince, with the same silver hair, but had silver eyes. On the other side of the woman was a human girl, black-haired and brown-eyed. But the biggest shock of all was the person right in front of the human woman.
It was Fahleing there, definitely younger than she was now, but recognizable nonetheless.
A crash came from the doorway. The present-day Fahleing stood there with a mess of broken porcelain cup by her feet. "What do you think you're doing?" she demanded harshly.
Another short chapter. I just thought this was a good place to end it, and I kinda ran out of ideas. ^^;;
BTW, I just found the picture of Fahleing I drew, so I'm going to put it on my DeviantArt account, if anyone still wants to look at it. The link to it is on my website, and the link to my website is on my profile page.
Ja!