so no one said there couldn't be more than two types of beads and i'm sure there is an obedience bead thing somewhere but it was too complicated or something so that's why no one used it. i would think there would be...
Sesshomaru was getting impatient over his brother in the cave and crossed his arms over his chest. He grinned (since no one was looking) about the fact that he even could cross his arms. He missed his other arm so very much and although he hated the predicament he and his brother were in, he didn't mind the arm.
Finally, for what seemed like hours, InuYasha came back from the cave. Sesshomaru made a face at him.
"You look angry."
"That's because I am angry."
"What did the miko say?"
"She didn't really tell me much. Something about being stronger and getting me away from Kagome."
"Is that not what she does all the time?"
"Well, she's never done this before, so she must be upping the stakes."
Sesshomaru could tell that there was something else bothering him.
"You seem perturbed."
"It just makes no sense to do this to us. From what she was spouting, it was like she wanted me to become stronger so she turned me into a full yokai."
"Why would she want that?"
"She claims it's what I want."
"Is it not?"
"I don't know what I want anymore. I'm kind of just working out being myself."
"I see…"
"She also kept driveling on about how Kagome was going to betray me with these beads."
"If I were not in the same situation due to unfortunate circumstances, I would have taken your miko's offer of removing them."
"The last time was an accident."
"You are blinded by the way your miko works. I have seen her in action and she is quite brutal with the commands."
"What, are you taking Kikyo's side?"
"I am not saying anything of the sort. I am going off of past observances in my travels. Kagome tends to panic and when she is in a panic, she cannot control herself. What did Kikyo want to do with them?"
"Switch them out with beads that had no enchantment."
"I would have taken her up on her offer."
"I don't think you get Kikyo."
"I don't."
"Even though Kagome is a risk, I know that if she uses them (most of the time) it's to get me out of trouble and things like that. She's even helped me calm down from a burst of blood lust whenever I had turned into my full yokai form. I can't control myself, but she helped me by using the beads. Kagome is there to protect me, usually, or keep me from fighting senselessly. Kikyo, on the other hand, ever since she was resurrected, has been secretly trying to kill me or something. If I had taken those subjugation beads, I'm sure there really was an enchantment on there already."
Sesshomaru thought for a moment and nodded. "I will have to agree with the second part of your explanation."
"What's wrong with the first part?"
"You do not know your miko very well and you are a fool for keeping the beads on when she offered to remove them."
"I know her just fine. I don't need someone who got their beads put on by a little girl to tell me how to figure out my own life."
Sesshomaru frowned as he followed his brother down the hill back to the others.
Kagome spotted the two coming down the hill and crutched closer to them.
"What did she say?" she asked curiously.
"She said she wanted to make me stronger and tried to convince me that you would betray me."
"That's all? She could have just told me that. The stronger part, I mean. What do you mean about me betraying you?"
"She said that you would use the beads again and offered to replace yours with a set from her that supposedly wasn't activated by a command word, but knowing Kikyo, she wouldn't be that generous."
"That's true… This is all so strange…"
"So what do we do now?" Sango asked.
"We need to find a way to get our bodies back to normal." Sesshomaru grumbled. "I'm not very keen on this form and although I am happy about my arm, I do not like being a hanyou."
"Right. So I guess we should try to find a way to get you guys back to normal since Kikyo doesn't seem to be of help." Kagome said, sighing. "Where would we start?"
"What about Kaede?" InuYasha asked. "Do you think she would know?"
"She didn't seem to know about the jar in the first place and I don't think this is on Kaede's level." Kagome said as she adjusted her crutches. "I mean, she's smart about herbs and stuff like that, but this has to do with the Shikon Jewel and she's not very familiar with that."
"True, but she might know about the technique Kikyo used. I mean, she had to have learned it from someone."
"That's true… There might be a record of some kind of someone who may have done it in the past or something similar to it."
"Would you like for me and Miroku to keep tailing Kikyo and maybe we can figure something out that way?" Sango offered, although skeptical.
"That would be perfect if the world were perfect." InuYasha grumbled. "Kikyo would know you were there and do something to make you think that's what her intentions were and then be ready for when we came with her true intentions."
"InuYasha's right," Miroku said. "Kikyo is a very skilled priestess and she has been one step ahead of us multiple times before. Although it would be nice, her advanced powers would cause difficulty for us."
"So back we go to the village." Kagome sighed.
Kirara meowed and turned into her fire cat form, letting Kagome onto it as the band went back towards the village.
"InuYasha… InuYasha…" a voice whispered on the wind.
InuYasha opened an eye from his position sitting on the wall and looked around. He didn't see anything and he sniffed the air to make sure nothing was coming. They had spent most of the rest of the day traveling and settled down about an hour before everyone was asleep. Even Sesshomaru, whom InuYasha thought never closed his eyes, was sleeping peacefully next to the fire with a serene look on his face. Although InuYasha had had his eyes closed, he wasn't the least bit tired. He was just resting himself for anything else that could be done.
"InuYasha…" the voice whispered again.
InuYasha made a face and struggled to get up and walk towards the mouth of the cave that they had taken up residence in for the night. He went to the ledge and felt the cool breeze blow through his hair and he closed his eyes, taking in the serenity. He sniffed the wind and then opened his eyes abruptly when a smell he recognized all too well was detected. He looked over and saw Kikyo staring at him calmly on a small crag below the ledge he was on. He felt his lip raise in a snarl but walked down the narrow pathway to meet up with the priestess.
As he walked down the pathway, Kikyo watched without moving closer or running away. Once he was near her he crossed his arm over the hilt of Tessaiga (since he couldn't cross his arms) and stared at her.
"What do you want? I told you that I didn't want to be with you or take your stupid beads."
"I just don't understand, InuYasha. When I met you, all you had ever wanted was the be a yokai, until you met me of course. But then after that, even after Onigumo tricked us, you came and stole the Shikon Jewel and changed your mind. Even more so, when Kagome came from her world and released you from the tree, you still wanted to be full yokai. I'm giving you exactly what you want."
"I didn't want it like this, Kikyo. Look at me. I only have one arm and I'm trying to figure out my personality. It's like it got mixed with Sesshomaru's but didn't at the same time. I wanted to obtain what I wanted in the way that I wanted. I never asked for your help."
"And you did wise not to, for I wouldn't have been able to do anything. But now… now you can be what you always wanted to be." she said, walking to him and touching his cheek with her cold, lifeless hand.
Even though he hated her and despised what she did to him, the forbidden love they had been denied still yearned in him. With the touch of her lifeless hand, all it did was make him feel guilty even more for causing her death, for wanting someone like him. He closed his eyes and smiled softly, leaning into her touch.
"I so wish we could have been like this forever… well, at least for as long as we lived. We both could have had a wonderful family together." Kikyo said softly.
InuYasha made a face and wrenched back from her, looking down at himself. He hadn't realized while she was speaking, to him softly that she was taking advantage of the situation and slipped her own beads on him. He looked at the second pair of beads and narrowed his eyes at her.
"I knew you weren't just here for a chat."
"Yet you fell right into my hands."
"That seems to be something I am notorious for." he grumbled, looking at the second pair of beads. "These are different."
"Indeed because they aren't subjugation beads."
InuYasha made a face at her. "Then what are they?"
"They are beads of conformation." she said with a sly smile.
InuYasha's eyes widened as he tried to get grabbed a hold of them and tried to yank them off.
"They are also activated by a word and negates any other enchantments that are weaker than it. Once I connect the word to the beads you will belong to me."
"Kagome can still use the other beads. It will hurt, but I know that a good beatdown into the ground will wake me up from whatever trance you think you can put on me."
"Kagome's words will mean nothing once I assign a command. Well, they will but it won't work the way she plans…"
"I don't believe you. You're just trying to betray Kagome and make me doubt her. There's no such thing as beads of conformation. If there were, then every priest and priestess would have a bunch in their satchels when they traveled so they could conquer over yokai and stuff. You're making this up so that I'll go with you."
"You underestimate my power now. I have learned many new things in my travels." Kikyo said with a glare.
InuYasha laughed and turned around.
"Leave us alone, Kikyo, or tell us how to get me and Sesshomaru back to the way we were. If you ain't got anything else, then leave."
He started up the hill when he heard something softly on the wind. He turned a little as Kikyo watched him.
"What?"
"You heard me. When I call your name, you will do whatever I tell you to do."
InuYasha narrowed his eyes at her. "I don't think you want that much power in your hands. From what I hear, I'm a loose canon, whatever that means."
"Which is why I wanted this in the first place." InuYasha's eyes widened. "I wanted you, my lovely InuYasha, to be in the body of something worthwhile while I use you for my own gain."
InuYasha felt dizzy and leaned on the rock beside him.
"Yes, it's working."
"You're just making me think-"
"Come to me, InuYasha." InuYasha's mind was starting to blank out. "Come to me, InuYasha-"
"InuYasha, SIT BOY!" Kagome yelled from the higher part of the path.
InuYasha didn't go crashing to the ground like Kagome thought and InuYasha secretly hoped for. Instead, InuYasha spasmed like he was being tazed and let out a bloodcurdling scream. He fell to this knees, barely catching himself with his arm. Kagome hobbled towards him and knelt in front of him.
"I know I said I wouldn't do it again, but she's tricking you! You have to…"
InuYasha lifted his head up and Kagome saw that his eyes were red, his pupils a dangerous purple color.
"You. PROMISED!" he snarled, his fangs elongating.
"I heard you before and you said that if it kept you from going with her then you would be alright with it…"
"You promised you wouldn't do it again." he growled deeply, his hands digging into the soft ground. "I trusted you!"
"Well then, it seems like I was right and so was Sesshomaru." Kikyo said blandly.
Kagome looked up at her and pointed. "Get out of here! You've caused enough damage!"
Kikyo didn't seem too upset and walked away without saying another word.
With her gone, Kagome knelt down again to assess the damage that she had done when InuYasha grabbed a hold of her good leg, wrapping his hand around her ankle with a surprisingly hard grip.
"InuYasha, let go of me."
"You…"
"InuYasha."
"I trusted you…"
"Let go of me."
"No… you don't deserve it… You deserve to understand everything." He looked up at her and Kagome was frightened to death of her friend for the first time in her life. "You deserve to know exactly how it feels."
oh no! what will he do?
and let me remind everyone that inuyasha is the poster boy for telling people what to do and how to do it but not practicing what he preaches. just want to reiterate that fact