Hey, everyone!!! Sup? How ya been? Did you all have a good Christmas? I
hope you did! I know I did!! Thank you to all of my reviewers, few but I
loved them all, and to my good friend who e-mailed me! I'm not sure of
your FF.net name.... but you know who you are! ^_^ Well, this is going to
be a fun chapter! We, or more like 'you guys', finally get to see the big
thing between Kurama and Sesshomaru happen!! The thing that some of you
have been waiting for!!!! I hope you like it!! Guess what? I just found
out recently that one of the voices in my head, Ghaleon, is my older
brother!!! Yay!!
Ghaleon: T_T..... I say she isn't... but she insists on it anyways......
Me: Well, bro... You wanna say the disclaimer?
Ghaleon: *sigh* MG does not own Yu Yu Hakusho or Inuyasha. And I am NOT her older brother!!
Me: Whatever..... Well, this chapter is dedicated to my friend (of who's FF,net name I don't know), who's imagination and Demon side are very similar to my own!!!
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Crossing Paths Chapter 8 "I need to talk with him.... to settle things once and for all...."
"SHUT UP, MONK!" Kurama yelled as he shoved Miroku into the dirt with his foot.
Yusuke walked over to where everyone was, he looked like he had just woken up, same with Kuwabara. When the women, Keiko, Botan, Shizuru and Yukina, walked over to join the group they looked like they had been up for awhile. They all saw Kurama stomping Miroku into the dirt and just stood there watching him.
Everyone sweat dropped as they watched Kurama stomp Miroku into the dirt. It was rather interesting.....
"Hey!! What're you doing, Kurama?!" Inuyasha yelled as he walked out of the forest with Kagome. They had seen him shove Miroku into the dirt and continually stomp him, but they didn't know why. Miroku was now whispering 'thank you' to Inuyasha for stopping him. Kurama stopped and looked at Inuyasha in an almost apologetic way, but his face was still red in anger at Miroku.
"Well, I.... uh.. you see... Miroku.. um--" He didn't know what to say, but thank goodness he was cut of by Inuyasha.
"Why didn't you tell me we were beating up on Miroku? Let me in!" Inuyasha ran over to Miroku and lifted his foot up, ready to stomp on him too.
"Inuyasha! SIT!!" Inuyasha plummeted to the ground, face first, and left a nice, Inuyasha shaped, hole.
"Woah....... What kind of witch is she? To be able to use one word and make her enemy helpless?" Kurama wondered out loud.
"I'm not a witch, Kurama. I'm a Miko!" Kagome informed him.
"It almost sounds like Mika!" Mika stated enthusiastically. She still had bandages wrapped around her waist and looked a little pale from the blood loss from the previous day, but her mind seemed to be better. She was acting like herself. And Shippo was sitting on her lap like he usually did.
"Yeah, and Kagome isn't using her own magic to sit him. It's the prayer beads around his neck." Shippo explained. Kurama nodded, finally understanding
Once the spell wore off on Inuyasha, he took his face out of the ground and looked at Kagome. He was about to yell at her, but remembered his oath. 'Wait till Catsbrush.....' He screwed his face up as if he was trying very hard not to yell or get angry.
'Okay.... something is wrong with Inuyasha. He's not yelling at me like he usually would when I sit him.... What did I do?.... Or DIDN'T do...?' Kagome was starting to get worried over Inuyasha, but her mind was quickly taken off of the matter.
"Where's Sesshomaru?" Kurama asked seriously, he was sitting next to Miroku and was tying the finishing knot on his gag. While no one was looking, Kurama had tied Miroku to a tree and gagged him, preventing him from making any further "comments".
Kagome, Sango, and Inuyasha looked over at him strangely.
"Why do you want to know?" Inuyasha asked him from his hole in the ground.
"Mmmph mmph mmm mmmph mph Mmph!" Miroku mumbled from behind his gag, but by the look on his face it was one of his smart comments again. Kurama whapped him over the head for whatever it was that he just said.
"MMPH MMMMMMPH!!" Miroku yelled at him, still muffled by the gag. Kurama rolled his eyes at him and turned back to the group.
"I need to talk with him." Kurama said.
"Talk? About what?" Sango asked, curious about what Kurama could have to 'talk' to Sesshomaru about.
Kurama looked out into the forest and was silent for a long time.
Everyone looked at each other while Kurama stared into space, as if imagining what he was going to say, or do, to Sesshomaru when he finally saw him.
"Stuff.... Just stuff." Kurama finally replied, the suddenness of his reply almost made everyone jump.
"What kind of stuff, Kurama?" Inuyasha asked. He was going to be careful.... he had FINALLY captured his brother! He wanted to be sure that he wasn't going to help him out, or something like that......
"Stuff that you don't need to know right now." Kurama calmly replied. 'If they knew about my relationship with Sesshomaru (A/N: Don't worry.... not THAT kind of relationship!! I don't write Yaoi... that's disgusting!) they'd NEVER let me see him!' Kurama's eyes narrowed 'And I need to talk with him.... to settle things once and for all....'
Inuyasha wasn't going to get anywhere by asking him what he had to talk to Sesshomaru about.
"Fine! He's in the forest." He growled as he turned away. His eyes side- glanced at Kurama "But I'm coming."
Kurama's eyes narrowed at Inuyasha. "Is there a reason for that? You don't want me to talk to him alone? You don't....... trust me?"
"Of course I don't want you to talk to him alone! But that doesn't mean I don't trust you! It's just that Sesshomaru can be.... well.... persuasive in his weird little ways....." Inuyasha said.
Kurama's eyes softened and a small smile appeared on his face. "Well, then.... If you really don't think that I can handle him all by myself, lead on." Inuyasha smirked and jumped off into the forest. Kurama started to walk after him, closely followed by Zuro.
"I'm coming too!" She told him once they were in the forest. Kurama looked back and stared at her.
"No, Zuro. You can't come."
"But you said I could!" Zuro pouted. "You promised!" Kurama cocked his eyebrow at her, confused.
"When did I promise you that you could come into the forest?"
"Last night! You promised that you wouldn't leave me! And this would count as just that!"
"What? When did I-- oh....." He remembered telling her last night that he wouldn't leave her. She heard him say that? What else did she hear him say?
"Yeah.... I had this weird dream last night. You were there and you promised me that you'd never leave me!" Zuro seemed excited by remembering this dream. "I'm going to hold you to your word! Even if it was just in a dream! You're expected to do whatever you tell me you're going to do!" She grinned at him cutely. Kurama sighed. She wasn't awake.......
But he was still curious.
"What else did you dream about last night?" He asked her and stared into her eyes. The smile disappeared from Zuro's face and was replaced by a light blush.
"Um....."
"Hey! Are you coming or what?" Inuyasha yelled from up ahead.
"Let's go." Zuro said quickly and walked off into the forest. Leaving Kurama's question unanswered.
"Dang......" He said aloud and walked off after Zuro and Inuyasha
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A few minutes later Kurama, Zuro, and Inuyasha arrived at a clearing not too far from the village but far enough away that no one would stumble upon it. In the clearing there lay Sesshomaru, still bloodied up from the previous day's battle. His wounds were, of course, already healed, but the blood and the rips in his clothing still remained, there were still smudges and splotches of blood on his skin and in his hair as well, since they immediately subdued him after the battle and didn't give him a chance to clean himself up. He lay there, his hands and feet bound by ropes. (How they held him... I don't know.... maybe I'll say it's some special Miko rope.... or a kitsune rope...) and he seemed to be asleep, but alive.....
Kurama's heart constricted at the sight of him lying there. "Sesshomaru...." Kurama whispered. And, as if he had heard him, Sesshomaru opened his eyes and stared straight at Kurama. He slowly sat up, it looked painful for him to do... but he did it unflinchingly while he looked Kurama straight in the eye.
"Kurama..." Sesshomaru whispered right back at him. Kurama moved closer to him, closing most of the space between them. They stared at each other with straight faces, glaring at each other, for a long time, neither Zuro or Inuyasha dared to break the silence.
Finally, a stupid smile broke out on Kurama's face and he was now trying to keep in a large laugh. Same with Sesshomaru, he was now looking away from Kurama with his eyes closed tight, trying to hold in a laugh. Eventually, they both broke out into hysterical laughter as Kurama kneeled down on the ground to pull Sesshomaru into a friendly hug.
"You big idiot!! Getting yourself captured, tied up, and thrown into a forest for buzzard food?! That doesn't sound like you! I thought I raised you better than this!" Kurama pulled away to look at Sesshomaru.
"Well, you don't seem to be faring much better yourself, my friend! Look at yourself!! You've gone insane, Kurama.... And what do you mean by you raising me? We both know very well that I'M the one who took care of YOU every time you bugged the villagers!!"
"Yeah, sure, whatever, Sesshomaru...." Kurama helped Sesshomaru so that he could stand up on his bound feet. They both looked over at Inuyasha and Zuro to find that they were staring at them in complete and total shock.
"What're you doing traveling with my idiot half-brother anyway?!" Sesshomaru beckoned towards Inuyasha.
"What?! This is THAT Inuyasha? I never realized!!!" Kurama looked Inuyasha over very closely as if he was looking over every inch of his body and soul. It was making Inuyasha uncomfortable.
"It IS him!!! Oh my gosh!! I've only seen him twice before.... but it IS him!!" Kurama let go of Sesshomaru, letting him fall to the ground, and ran over to Inuyasha, pulling him into a hearty embrace.
"I haven't seen you in YEARS!! I should have known it was you by the red haori you wear and the fuzzy dog ears on your head!" Kurama rubbed Inuyasha's ears to emphasize his point. Inuyasha just glared at him.
"What are you talking about, Kurama?! I've never met you in my life!!!" Inuyasha yelled at Kurama and Kurama backed off. He looked back to Sesshomaru for an explanation of Inuyasha's behavior. Sesshomaru shrugged, just as confused as Kurama. Kurama shrugged as well and went back to sit next to Sesshomaru.
"Here, Sesshy, let me help you out of that. You'll be able to get up a lot easier." Kurama moved his hands to Sesshomaru's hands, that were tied up behind him, and started to undo the rope that made him helpless.
"HEY!! WHAT ARE YOU DOING, KURAMA?!?!" Inuyasha yelled, making Kurama stop for a second and look up at Inuyasha.
"I'm untying him..... what does it look like?" Kurama went back to undoing the ropes and Sesshomaru's hands were free. Sesshomaru started to rub his hands to get life back into them while Kurama went to untying his feet.
"Even if you don't remember me, Inuyasha, Sesshomaru and I made a deal a long time ago that if either of us were captured, we were supposed to rescue them...... No matter what the consequences." Kurama finished untying Sesshomaru's feet and they both stood up, they were about the same height and looked almost identical to each other. Except that Kurama had fox ears and a tail. You almost would've thought they were brothers! Inuyasha pulled out his Tetsaiga and Zuro summoned her fire whip, ready to attack him. Inuyasha wasn't going to let his brother get away now and Zuro wasn't going to let her attacker get anyone else.
"Hey, hey, hey!! Put those away!! Sesshomaru wouldn't hurt anyone!!" Kurama stepped in front of Sesshomaru as if to protect him as he said this.
"Yes he would Kurama!! You saw that for yourself yesterday!!" Inuyasha yelled at him.
"I'm sure he didn't mean it, Inuyasha!"
"Feh! Right..... Just like he didn't mean to stick his hand through my stomach and beat me up on a regular basis!"
"And just like he didn't mean to nearly kill me yesterday!!" Zuro yelled, now, obviously, on Inuyasha's side. Kurama just sighed, exasperated, and put his index finger and his thumb on the bridge of his nose.
"Look..... I'm sure Sesshomaru has an explanation for all of that...." Kurama turned to face Sesshomaru. And Sesshomaru just looked at him.
"Well, Wolf, what do you have to say for yourself?" Kurama asked him, waiting for him to give a perfectly reasonable excuse as to why he attacked Zuro and Inuyasha.
"I attack Inuyasha for the fun of it..... It's something I've just been doing to kill time while you were gone...."
"Did you ever try to KILL him?" Kurama asked and Sesshomaru put his finger to his chin as if he were thinking.
"Yes.... Yes I have... On a lot of occasions...." Kurama fell over, anime style.
"What about Mika and I? Why did you try to kill us? We haven't done anything!" Sesshomaru glared at Zuro.
"That's what you think, yoko........" Kurama sat up and looked at the anger passing forth from his best friend and Zuro.
"What did we do then?" Zuro growled, just waiting for him to say one wrong thing about her sister so that she could tear him to shreds.
"It was more of what your sister did." Sesshomaru glared at her more intensely as he said this and Zuro's blood started to boil.
"A couple of weeks ago she had found us wandering along a dirt road in the forest." 'Us?' Kurama wondered. "And, for some reason, she thought that attacking me and getting the advantage would be smart. So..... she attacked me from behind, leaving me badly injured. And....." He covered his emotion very well. But Kurama, being his best friend, saw that he was having a hard time telling this part of his story. "And she took her from me. She picked her up and jumped back into the trees......... I attacked your sister so that I could find out where she took her."
"LIAR!!" Mika jumped out of the tree she was hiding in and landed in front of Sesshomaru.
"MIKA!!" Sango, Kagome, Yusuke, and everyone else, excluding Miroku, ran into the clearing to stop Mika, but saw that she was getting into something with Sesshomaru and stayed out of it.
"I took her because she looked miserable! How dare you keep a human girl like that? You can't just take any little girl from her home and make her your SLAVE!!!" Mika yelled in his face.
"'Human' girl?" Kurama smirked at Sesshomaru. But he was now looking at Mika with a blank expression on his face.
"She is not my slave.... did she look like my slave? Were her clothes torn, wrinkled, and looked as if they've never been cleaned? Did she look like she was not cared for? Was she physically bound to me or anyone in my group? To Jaken? To Ah and Un (A/N: I think that's how you spell there names.......)?"
"No. But--"
"Because that's what I'd do to a slave if I had one."
"But she looked miserable and she WAS dirty!"
"That's because she likes to play in the dirt and mud when it get hot or when there's nothing to do. And she looked miserable because we had traveled a lot that day and she was getting tired. We would've rested, but she refused. She said she didn't want to slow me down....." Kurama felt emotion come from the last sentence that Sesshomaru said. 'Oh...... I get it now...' Kurama was catching on quickly.
"Which brings me to what I wanted to talk to you about, Sesshomaru." Kurama interrupted before the conversation could go on any further. They all looked at Kurama, ready to hear what the big thing was that Kurama wanted to settle with Sesshomaru.
"So you say that you're now traveling with a HUMAN girl....." Kurama smirked at him evilly. Sesshomaru turned more pale than he already was, he knew what was going on.
"Yes, Kurama...... yes I am....." Sesshomaru hung his head.
"YES!!! I WIN!!" Kurama yelled as he jumped up and down.
"Okay..... You owe me now, bud!" Kurama stuck his hand out as if ready to accept payment.
"Huh? What's going on?" Yusuke asked. Everyone else was just as confused as Yusuke.
"Well...." Kurama began. "15 years ago, Sesshomaru and I were wandering around in a human village in our 'disguises'. And we were looking at all the humans....."
~FLASHBACK~
15 years ago
Kurama and Sesshomaru were walking through the streets of the village that was formerly watched over by a priestess named Kikyo. They were here to visit the place where Sesshomaru's little brother was sealed to a tree by the now deceased priestess.
"Poor, Inu-pup..... I think he took a wrong turn somewhere on the road of life...." Kurama said as they approached the entrance to the forest.
"No, Kurama.... He just made a fool of himself by trusting humans.. like that priestess." Sesshomaru stated. And Kurama looked over at Sesshomaru, who was walking right beside him.
"I don't think that it was trusting humans that led him to this fate.."
"Yes, it was. Humans can't be trusted. They are filthy, weak, and pathetic!! The only thing they are good for is......." Sesshomaru thought to himself for a second. "Well.... nothing, Kurama! They're good for nothing!"
"Yes.. but humans aren't bad. I met a few humans once, when I robbed that one house where I got that beautiful jeweled rose, I was running from the guards and I needed somewhere to hide, so some humans allowed me to stay at their house. They weren't scared at all, they were actually very nice to me! I think they had a young boy named Miroku....... But even though they are inferior to us, they aren't all bad."
"Oh, yeah.... that's why they attack us every time we walk through town."
"You're just intimidating, Sesshomaru."
"True.... but I can tell you that I will never EVER allow myself to trust a human and receive the same fate my idiot half-brother did."
"Wanna bet?" Kurama smirked. Being the evil Yoko he was, he couldn't help but gamble to get stuff any chance he got. Sesshomaru cocked an eyebrow at him.
"What are you thinking, Fox?"
"Well... I 'm just saying.... that we'll make a bet on that! If, in the next 15 years, you don't make friends with a human, you win. But, if you do make friends with a human, meaning if they are your friend or is your companion in your travels, then I win!"
"WhAt?!?!?! 15 years?!" Sesshomaru yelled at him. Kurama smirked wider at him, showing his fangs.
"What's the matter, Sesshy? 15 years too long? I thought that you'd never let yourself make friends with a human? So 15 years should be a piece of cake!"
Sesshomaru growled at his friend.
"And!! If I win, you have to give me your new 'creation'!" Kurama smiled. Sesshomaru gulped at the image of Kurama dancing around sometime in the future with his 'creation' and hugging it to himself. But he was confident that he would never make friends with a human. So the picture would never be seen.
"Fine. You've got a deal, Fox." They shook hands on it and walked the last couple of feet to the clearing that held Inuyasha.
"Yep..... poor Inu-pup...."
~END FLASHBACK~
"And that's what happened!!" Kurama smiled as Sesshomaru dug around his robes for Kurama's prize.
"Okay, here it is, Fox." Sesshomaru pulled his hand out of his robe and held the object towards Kurama. Everyone gathered close to see what it was.
"Yay!!" Kurama was jumping around as he grabbed the object and held it close to his chest. "I finally have it!! Now I have all of them!!!"
"What? What do you have all of now?" Kuwabara asked, trying to see what Kurama was clutching close to his chest. Kurama looked at all of them with sparkles in his eye.
"I have all of the pictures!!"
"Pictures?", everyone asked.
"Yup! There are a whole bunch of drawings done by Sesshomaru, some that I blackmailed him into drawing. This is one of them!! Now I have all of the pictures that Sesshomaru drew!!"
"What is it?", everyone asked again. Kurama held it up for everyone to see.
"It's a picture of Sesshomaru kissing a human girl on the cheek!!" The picture was Sesshomaru kissing a girl on the cheek, a girl that strangely looked like Rin.
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Well? How was it? Did you all like it? Did it keep you occupied for awhile? I do believe this is the longest chapter I've written for anything so far........ Well.... I had someone tell me that Miroku should've been silenced long before he actually was..... well.. I agree with you on that. But it's so much fun seeing Miroku get stomped into the ground every once in a while! ^_^
Ghaleon: Well, of course....knowing YOU!
Tonraibo: Oh lay off Ghaleon... that's not very brotherly if you ask me!
Ghaleon: T_T....... Ton?
Tonraibo: Yes? ^_^
Ghaleon: Don't make me hurt you......
Well... I'm not sure when I'm going to be doing the Christmas thing..... I hope I remember about it though....... Well, have a happy New Year everybody!! Meaning stay up all night and eat candy and chips and drink soda!! (That's what it means for me!) Be careful, don't hurt yourselves.... and please be patient with me (that mostly means you, SMG T_T(JK, I love ya! ^_^)) while I write the next chappie. Oh, and please review!! Remember...
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Have fun y'all!!! ~Master Ghaleon~ AKA Master Ghaleon's little sister AKA Nia's twin sister AKA Ruinu's older sister AKA My imaginary cousin's cousin!
Ghaleon: T_T..... I say she isn't... but she insists on it anyways......
Me: Well, bro... You wanna say the disclaimer?
Ghaleon: *sigh* MG does not own Yu Yu Hakusho or Inuyasha. And I am NOT her older brother!!
Me: Whatever..... Well, this chapter is dedicated to my friend (of who's FF,net name I don't know), who's imagination and Demon side are very similar to my own!!!
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Crossing Paths Chapter 8 "I need to talk with him.... to settle things once and for all...."
"SHUT UP, MONK!" Kurama yelled as he shoved Miroku into the dirt with his foot.
Yusuke walked over to where everyone was, he looked like he had just woken up, same with Kuwabara. When the women, Keiko, Botan, Shizuru and Yukina, walked over to join the group they looked like they had been up for awhile. They all saw Kurama stomping Miroku into the dirt and just stood there watching him.
Everyone sweat dropped as they watched Kurama stomp Miroku into the dirt. It was rather interesting.....
"Hey!! What're you doing, Kurama?!" Inuyasha yelled as he walked out of the forest with Kagome. They had seen him shove Miroku into the dirt and continually stomp him, but they didn't know why. Miroku was now whispering 'thank you' to Inuyasha for stopping him. Kurama stopped and looked at Inuyasha in an almost apologetic way, but his face was still red in anger at Miroku.
"Well, I.... uh.. you see... Miroku.. um--" He didn't know what to say, but thank goodness he was cut of by Inuyasha.
"Why didn't you tell me we were beating up on Miroku? Let me in!" Inuyasha ran over to Miroku and lifted his foot up, ready to stomp on him too.
"Inuyasha! SIT!!" Inuyasha plummeted to the ground, face first, and left a nice, Inuyasha shaped, hole.
"Woah....... What kind of witch is she? To be able to use one word and make her enemy helpless?" Kurama wondered out loud.
"I'm not a witch, Kurama. I'm a Miko!" Kagome informed him.
"It almost sounds like Mika!" Mika stated enthusiastically. She still had bandages wrapped around her waist and looked a little pale from the blood loss from the previous day, but her mind seemed to be better. She was acting like herself. And Shippo was sitting on her lap like he usually did.
"Yeah, and Kagome isn't using her own magic to sit him. It's the prayer beads around his neck." Shippo explained. Kurama nodded, finally understanding
Once the spell wore off on Inuyasha, he took his face out of the ground and looked at Kagome. He was about to yell at her, but remembered his oath. 'Wait till Catsbrush.....' He screwed his face up as if he was trying very hard not to yell or get angry.
'Okay.... something is wrong with Inuyasha. He's not yelling at me like he usually would when I sit him.... What did I do?.... Or DIDN'T do...?' Kagome was starting to get worried over Inuyasha, but her mind was quickly taken off of the matter.
"Where's Sesshomaru?" Kurama asked seriously, he was sitting next to Miroku and was tying the finishing knot on his gag. While no one was looking, Kurama had tied Miroku to a tree and gagged him, preventing him from making any further "comments".
Kagome, Sango, and Inuyasha looked over at him strangely.
"Why do you want to know?" Inuyasha asked him from his hole in the ground.
"Mmmph mmph mmm mmmph mph Mmph!" Miroku mumbled from behind his gag, but by the look on his face it was one of his smart comments again. Kurama whapped him over the head for whatever it was that he just said.
"MMPH MMMMMMPH!!" Miroku yelled at him, still muffled by the gag. Kurama rolled his eyes at him and turned back to the group.
"I need to talk with him." Kurama said.
"Talk? About what?" Sango asked, curious about what Kurama could have to 'talk' to Sesshomaru about.
Kurama looked out into the forest and was silent for a long time.
Everyone looked at each other while Kurama stared into space, as if imagining what he was going to say, or do, to Sesshomaru when he finally saw him.
"Stuff.... Just stuff." Kurama finally replied, the suddenness of his reply almost made everyone jump.
"What kind of stuff, Kurama?" Inuyasha asked. He was going to be careful.... he had FINALLY captured his brother! He wanted to be sure that he wasn't going to help him out, or something like that......
"Stuff that you don't need to know right now." Kurama calmly replied. 'If they knew about my relationship with Sesshomaru (A/N: Don't worry.... not THAT kind of relationship!! I don't write Yaoi... that's disgusting!) they'd NEVER let me see him!' Kurama's eyes narrowed 'And I need to talk with him.... to settle things once and for all....'
Inuyasha wasn't going to get anywhere by asking him what he had to talk to Sesshomaru about.
"Fine! He's in the forest." He growled as he turned away. His eyes side- glanced at Kurama "But I'm coming."
Kurama's eyes narrowed at Inuyasha. "Is there a reason for that? You don't want me to talk to him alone? You don't....... trust me?"
"Of course I don't want you to talk to him alone! But that doesn't mean I don't trust you! It's just that Sesshomaru can be.... well.... persuasive in his weird little ways....." Inuyasha said.
Kurama's eyes softened and a small smile appeared on his face. "Well, then.... If you really don't think that I can handle him all by myself, lead on." Inuyasha smirked and jumped off into the forest. Kurama started to walk after him, closely followed by Zuro.
"I'm coming too!" She told him once they were in the forest. Kurama looked back and stared at her.
"No, Zuro. You can't come."
"But you said I could!" Zuro pouted. "You promised!" Kurama cocked his eyebrow at her, confused.
"When did I promise you that you could come into the forest?"
"Last night! You promised that you wouldn't leave me! And this would count as just that!"
"What? When did I-- oh....." He remembered telling her last night that he wouldn't leave her. She heard him say that? What else did she hear him say?
"Yeah.... I had this weird dream last night. You were there and you promised me that you'd never leave me!" Zuro seemed excited by remembering this dream. "I'm going to hold you to your word! Even if it was just in a dream! You're expected to do whatever you tell me you're going to do!" She grinned at him cutely. Kurama sighed. She wasn't awake.......
But he was still curious.
"What else did you dream about last night?" He asked her and stared into her eyes. The smile disappeared from Zuro's face and was replaced by a light blush.
"Um....."
"Hey! Are you coming or what?" Inuyasha yelled from up ahead.
"Let's go." Zuro said quickly and walked off into the forest. Leaving Kurama's question unanswered.
"Dang......" He said aloud and walked off after Zuro and Inuyasha
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A few minutes later Kurama, Zuro, and Inuyasha arrived at a clearing not too far from the village but far enough away that no one would stumble upon it. In the clearing there lay Sesshomaru, still bloodied up from the previous day's battle. His wounds were, of course, already healed, but the blood and the rips in his clothing still remained, there were still smudges and splotches of blood on his skin and in his hair as well, since they immediately subdued him after the battle and didn't give him a chance to clean himself up. He lay there, his hands and feet bound by ropes. (How they held him... I don't know.... maybe I'll say it's some special Miko rope.... or a kitsune rope...) and he seemed to be asleep, but alive.....
Kurama's heart constricted at the sight of him lying there. "Sesshomaru...." Kurama whispered. And, as if he had heard him, Sesshomaru opened his eyes and stared straight at Kurama. He slowly sat up, it looked painful for him to do... but he did it unflinchingly while he looked Kurama straight in the eye.
"Kurama..." Sesshomaru whispered right back at him. Kurama moved closer to him, closing most of the space between them. They stared at each other with straight faces, glaring at each other, for a long time, neither Zuro or Inuyasha dared to break the silence.
Finally, a stupid smile broke out on Kurama's face and he was now trying to keep in a large laugh. Same with Sesshomaru, he was now looking away from Kurama with his eyes closed tight, trying to hold in a laugh. Eventually, they both broke out into hysterical laughter as Kurama kneeled down on the ground to pull Sesshomaru into a friendly hug.
"You big idiot!! Getting yourself captured, tied up, and thrown into a forest for buzzard food?! That doesn't sound like you! I thought I raised you better than this!" Kurama pulled away to look at Sesshomaru.
"Well, you don't seem to be faring much better yourself, my friend! Look at yourself!! You've gone insane, Kurama.... And what do you mean by you raising me? We both know very well that I'M the one who took care of YOU every time you bugged the villagers!!"
"Yeah, sure, whatever, Sesshomaru...." Kurama helped Sesshomaru so that he could stand up on his bound feet. They both looked over at Inuyasha and Zuro to find that they were staring at them in complete and total shock.
"What're you doing traveling with my idiot half-brother anyway?!" Sesshomaru beckoned towards Inuyasha.
"What?! This is THAT Inuyasha? I never realized!!!" Kurama looked Inuyasha over very closely as if he was looking over every inch of his body and soul. It was making Inuyasha uncomfortable.
"It IS him!!! Oh my gosh!! I've only seen him twice before.... but it IS him!!" Kurama let go of Sesshomaru, letting him fall to the ground, and ran over to Inuyasha, pulling him into a hearty embrace.
"I haven't seen you in YEARS!! I should have known it was you by the red haori you wear and the fuzzy dog ears on your head!" Kurama rubbed Inuyasha's ears to emphasize his point. Inuyasha just glared at him.
"What are you talking about, Kurama?! I've never met you in my life!!!" Inuyasha yelled at Kurama and Kurama backed off. He looked back to Sesshomaru for an explanation of Inuyasha's behavior. Sesshomaru shrugged, just as confused as Kurama. Kurama shrugged as well and went back to sit next to Sesshomaru.
"Here, Sesshy, let me help you out of that. You'll be able to get up a lot easier." Kurama moved his hands to Sesshomaru's hands, that were tied up behind him, and started to undo the rope that made him helpless.
"HEY!! WHAT ARE YOU DOING, KURAMA?!?!" Inuyasha yelled, making Kurama stop for a second and look up at Inuyasha.
"I'm untying him..... what does it look like?" Kurama went back to undoing the ropes and Sesshomaru's hands were free. Sesshomaru started to rub his hands to get life back into them while Kurama went to untying his feet.
"Even if you don't remember me, Inuyasha, Sesshomaru and I made a deal a long time ago that if either of us were captured, we were supposed to rescue them...... No matter what the consequences." Kurama finished untying Sesshomaru's feet and they both stood up, they were about the same height and looked almost identical to each other. Except that Kurama had fox ears and a tail. You almost would've thought they were brothers! Inuyasha pulled out his Tetsaiga and Zuro summoned her fire whip, ready to attack him. Inuyasha wasn't going to let his brother get away now and Zuro wasn't going to let her attacker get anyone else.
"Hey, hey, hey!! Put those away!! Sesshomaru wouldn't hurt anyone!!" Kurama stepped in front of Sesshomaru as if to protect him as he said this.
"Yes he would Kurama!! You saw that for yourself yesterday!!" Inuyasha yelled at him.
"I'm sure he didn't mean it, Inuyasha!"
"Feh! Right..... Just like he didn't mean to stick his hand through my stomach and beat me up on a regular basis!"
"And just like he didn't mean to nearly kill me yesterday!!" Zuro yelled, now, obviously, on Inuyasha's side. Kurama just sighed, exasperated, and put his index finger and his thumb on the bridge of his nose.
"Look..... I'm sure Sesshomaru has an explanation for all of that...." Kurama turned to face Sesshomaru. And Sesshomaru just looked at him.
"Well, Wolf, what do you have to say for yourself?" Kurama asked him, waiting for him to give a perfectly reasonable excuse as to why he attacked Zuro and Inuyasha.
"I attack Inuyasha for the fun of it..... It's something I've just been doing to kill time while you were gone...."
"Did you ever try to KILL him?" Kurama asked and Sesshomaru put his finger to his chin as if he were thinking.
"Yes.... Yes I have... On a lot of occasions...." Kurama fell over, anime style.
"What about Mika and I? Why did you try to kill us? We haven't done anything!" Sesshomaru glared at Zuro.
"That's what you think, yoko........" Kurama sat up and looked at the anger passing forth from his best friend and Zuro.
"What did we do then?" Zuro growled, just waiting for him to say one wrong thing about her sister so that she could tear him to shreds.
"It was more of what your sister did." Sesshomaru glared at her more intensely as he said this and Zuro's blood started to boil.
"A couple of weeks ago she had found us wandering along a dirt road in the forest." 'Us?' Kurama wondered. "And, for some reason, she thought that attacking me and getting the advantage would be smart. So..... she attacked me from behind, leaving me badly injured. And....." He covered his emotion very well. But Kurama, being his best friend, saw that he was having a hard time telling this part of his story. "And she took her from me. She picked her up and jumped back into the trees......... I attacked your sister so that I could find out where she took her."
"LIAR!!" Mika jumped out of the tree she was hiding in and landed in front of Sesshomaru.
"MIKA!!" Sango, Kagome, Yusuke, and everyone else, excluding Miroku, ran into the clearing to stop Mika, but saw that she was getting into something with Sesshomaru and stayed out of it.
"I took her because she looked miserable! How dare you keep a human girl like that? You can't just take any little girl from her home and make her your SLAVE!!!" Mika yelled in his face.
"'Human' girl?" Kurama smirked at Sesshomaru. But he was now looking at Mika with a blank expression on his face.
"She is not my slave.... did she look like my slave? Were her clothes torn, wrinkled, and looked as if they've never been cleaned? Did she look like she was not cared for? Was she physically bound to me or anyone in my group? To Jaken? To Ah and Un (A/N: I think that's how you spell there names.......)?"
"No. But--"
"Because that's what I'd do to a slave if I had one."
"But she looked miserable and she WAS dirty!"
"That's because she likes to play in the dirt and mud when it get hot or when there's nothing to do. And she looked miserable because we had traveled a lot that day and she was getting tired. We would've rested, but she refused. She said she didn't want to slow me down....." Kurama felt emotion come from the last sentence that Sesshomaru said. 'Oh...... I get it now...' Kurama was catching on quickly.
"Which brings me to what I wanted to talk to you about, Sesshomaru." Kurama interrupted before the conversation could go on any further. They all looked at Kurama, ready to hear what the big thing was that Kurama wanted to settle with Sesshomaru.
"So you say that you're now traveling with a HUMAN girl....." Kurama smirked at him evilly. Sesshomaru turned more pale than he already was, he knew what was going on.
"Yes, Kurama...... yes I am....." Sesshomaru hung his head.
"YES!!! I WIN!!" Kurama yelled as he jumped up and down.
"Okay..... You owe me now, bud!" Kurama stuck his hand out as if ready to accept payment.
"Huh? What's going on?" Yusuke asked. Everyone else was just as confused as Yusuke.
"Well...." Kurama began. "15 years ago, Sesshomaru and I were wandering around in a human village in our 'disguises'. And we were looking at all the humans....."
~FLASHBACK~
15 years ago
Kurama and Sesshomaru were walking through the streets of the village that was formerly watched over by a priestess named Kikyo. They were here to visit the place where Sesshomaru's little brother was sealed to a tree by the now deceased priestess.
"Poor, Inu-pup..... I think he took a wrong turn somewhere on the road of life...." Kurama said as they approached the entrance to the forest.
"No, Kurama.... He just made a fool of himself by trusting humans.. like that priestess." Sesshomaru stated. And Kurama looked over at Sesshomaru, who was walking right beside him.
"I don't think that it was trusting humans that led him to this fate.."
"Yes, it was. Humans can't be trusted. They are filthy, weak, and pathetic!! The only thing they are good for is......." Sesshomaru thought to himself for a second. "Well.... nothing, Kurama! They're good for nothing!"
"Yes.. but humans aren't bad. I met a few humans once, when I robbed that one house where I got that beautiful jeweled rose, I was running from the guards and I needed somewhere to hide, so some humans allowed me to stay at their house. They weren't scared at all, they were actually very nice to me! I think they had a young boy named Miroku....... But even though they are inferior to us, they aren't all bad."
"Oh, yeah.... that's why they attack us every time we walk through town."
"You're just intimidating, Sesshomaru."
"True.... but I can tell you that I will never EVER allow myself to trust a human and receive the same fate my idiot half-brother did."
"Wanna bet?" Kurama smirked. Being the evil Yoko he was, he couldn't help but gamble to get stuff any chance he got. Sesshomaru cocked an eyebrow at him.
"What are you thinking, Fox?"
"Well... I 'm just saying.... that we'll make a bet on that! If, in the next 15 years, you don't make friends with a human, you win. But, if you do make friends with a human, meaning if they are your friend or is your companion in your travels, then I win!"
"WhAt?!?!?! 15 years?!" Sesshomaru yelled at him. Kurama smirked wider at him, showing his fangs.
"What's the matter, Sesshy? 15 years too long? I thought that you'd never let yourself make friends with a human? So 15 years should be a piece of cake!"
Sesshomaru growled at his friend.
"And!! If I win, you have to give me your new 'creation'!" Kurama smiled. Sesshomaru gulped at the image of Kurama dancing around sometime in the future with his 'creation' and hugging it to himself. But he was confident that he would never make friends with a human. So the picture would never be seen.
"Fine. You've got a deal, Fox." They shook hands on it and walked the last couple of feet to the clearing that held Inuyasha.
"Yep..... poor Inu-pup...."
~END FLASHBACK~
"And that's what happened!!" Kurama smiled as Sesshomaru dug around his robes for Kurama's prize.
"Okay, here it is, Fox." Sesshomaru pulled his hand out of his robe and held the object towards Kurama. Everyone gathered close to see what it was.
"Yay!!" Kurama was jumping around as he grabbed the object and held it close to his chest. "I finally have it!! Now I have all of them!!!"
"What? What do you have all of now?" Kuwabara asked, trying to see what Kurama was clutching close to his chest. Kurama looked at all of them with sparkles in his eye.
"I have all of the pictures!!"
"Pictures?", everyone asked.
"Yup! There are a whole bunch of drawings done by Sesshomaru, some that I blackmailed him into drawing. This is one of them!! Now I have all of the pictures that Sesshomaru drew!!"
"What is it?", everyone asked again. Kurama held it up for everyone to see.
"It's a picture of Sesshomaru kissing a human girl on the cheek!!" The picture was Sesshomaru kissing a girl on the cheek, a girl that strangely looked like Rin.
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Well? How was it? Did you all like it? Did it keep you occupied for awhile? I do believe this is the longest chapter I've written for anything so far........ Well.... I had someone tell me that Miroku should've been silenced long before he actually was..... well.. I agree with you on that. But it's so much fun seeing Miroku get stomped into the ground every once in a while! ^_^
Ghaleon: Well, of course....knowing YOU!
Tonraibo: Oh lay off Ghaleon... that's not very brotherly if you ask me!
Ghaleon: T_T....... Ton?
Tonraibo: Yes? ^_^
Ghaleon: Don't make me hurt you......
Well... I'm not sure when I'm going to be doing the Christmas thing..... I hope I remember about it though....... Well, have a happy New Year everybody!! Meaning stay up all night and eat candy and chips and drink soda!! (That's what it means for me!) Be careful, don't hurt yourselves.... and please be patient with me (that mostly means you, SMG T_T(JK, I love ya! ^_^)) while I write the next chappie. Oh, and please review!! Remember...
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