One World to Another

Author: ~Heartless Spirit~ (w/ Jess-chan!)

Disclaimer: I DUN OWN INU-YASHA! I DO OWN
KUROI ABUNAI AND TSURIDERAGON NO CHIONIKURESU!
AND JESS-CHAN OWNS SEITO PIKA.

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Ch.7-The Adventure Continues...But Which One?
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Seito stepped back in suprise as she saw Kuroi
and Inu-Yasha kissing. [Nani?!] She whispered to
herself. "Whoa..." She didn't think this would happen.
Well, not so soon anyway. Her suprised expression
turned into a warm and kind smile. [You know, they really
do look like a picture perfect couple.]

Inu-Yasha melted into the kiss, although his mind told him
to step back. As they continued to kiss, the half-youkai
noticed how soft her raven hair was as they tickled his
face, and how comforted he felt for her to be near him.
At this moment, Kuroi felt Inu-Yasha's strong arm encircle
her slim waist. She felt rather nervous. She had never
showed emotion, let alone kissed anyone. Kuroi reluctantly
pushed Inu-Yasha away from her. Inu-Yasha stared suprisingly.
Kuroi sighed and turned away. "Does that explain things enough
for you, Inu-Yasha?" She walked away, towards the god-tree.

Seito sadly put her hand to her cheek and walked to Inu-Yasha.
"I guess you know, don't you?" She shook her head, her feather-
light hair wallowing in the cool morning breeze. "You must
understand, Inu-Yasha. I don't think Kuroi-chan has ever kissed
someone before, or display emotion."

Inu-Yasha turned to Seito. "You were there the whole time?!" He
blushed.

"Yup." Seito began to walk back into Kaede's hut, but not before
saying, "And I have to say it looked pretty cute." She winked
and walked in. To Inu-Yasha's suprise, she ran back outside.
She seemed to be mumbling something about 'I should have realized
why she was going there'. Inu-Yasha stared. And after a few
minutes of blinking, he quietly jumped up into the trees and
followed the worried teenager.


Kuroi sat on a large brown overturned root of the god-tree. She
was contemplating her thoughts. [I never should have kissed him.
He and I are not meant to be.] She shook her head. [Never. We
were never meant to be. And even if we were together, I would
have to leave. And Dederi would not approve at all if I stayed here.
He would not understand such human emotions.]

"You are wrong, Dark Incarnate." A dark, mysterious evil voice
echoed through the trees.

The Reincarnation of Dederi stood up as the black mist in her hand
formed her double-edge. "D-Dederi-sama?"

"Yesss..." A massive glowing dragon appeared before Kuroi. It
reaked with the corrosive stench of death and evil. It's
body seemed like black and red-violet flames, the flames taking
form of an energy dragon. It's shining, flaming head looked
just like Kuroi's head armor. "Youu sseemm tto have forgotten myy
pressenceee, young onnnee.."

Kuroi put her hand on the deadly youma-energy created spirit. It
slightly burned her gloved hand, but otherwise was harmless. Any
other person other than Kuroi, or that of the magi or Kuroi's
two comrads, would be burned. A normal person, when she or he
touched Dederi's body, would be injected with corrosive demon energy,
and would die in a matter of minutes, otherwise burned internally.
The poison/burning sensation would travel through the bloodstream
and slowly destroying the nervous system, then filling the lungs
and destroying the rest of the organs. If a youkai or youma
touched him, they would feel a painful shock and seering heat,
but if strong enough can withstand the burn and poison. Kuroi
sighed. "I am sorry, Dederi-sama."

"Itt isss alright, young Kuroi. You arree one tthirrd human, if
youu have fforgotten." Dederi's deep, strong voice answered.

Kuroi smiled quietly. "So why have you come here, Dederi-sama?"

Dederi chuckled, the flames on the sides of his head flaring. He
suddenly lost the echo in his voice. "I have merely come to guide
you, Kuroi."

"Guide me with what, Dederi-sama?"

A slight rustling in the forest made Dederi growl. "All I can say
for now is, do what you have to do. I may have been a part of
Emperor Youma's battalion, but I do not wish for you to be hurt.
Now I must depart. Call upon me if you are in distress or in need
of wisdom. Farewell, Dark Incarnate."

Kuroi bowed. "Farewell, Dederi-sama." When she looked up, the
corrosive dragon had disappeared. She always felt comforted when
she was with her 'counterpart'. But her thoughts turned serious
once more as she heard another slight rustling of leaves. She
looked for the source of the sound, only to find Seito jumping
onto her and causing both of them to fall. Kuroi groaned in
extreme pain. It seemed that her wounds had not yet healed, for
her black-red blood oozed from her damp bandages.

"Oh thank kami-sama you're okay!" Seito sighed in relief.

Kuroi couldn't move. [Paralasis..ow..]

Seito, after a few minutes of bear hugging her friend, let go of
Kuroi. "Oh, hehe, sorry."

"It's..ow..okay, Seito-chan." Kuroi rubbed her sore back.

Miroku walked with Shippo, Kagome, and Kaede through the forest,
the bright morning rays shining through the matted holes of the
leaves. Miroku's staff jingled as he trodded onward. "I wonder
where the other three are."

Kagome yawned. "Inu-Yasha might be sleeping in a tree or something,
I don't know about those other two."

Inu-Yasha, at that moment, jumped down from the tree he was perched
on and motioned for the others to stay quiet. They looked over
a large bush to find Seito and Kuroi talking, oblivious to whatever
was around them.

"Hey, Ku-chan. Lemme ask you a question." Seito turned to her
bandaged friend who sat on a large overturned root of the old
god tree. Kuroi looked up after flexing her muscles.

"Yes, Seito-chan?"

Seito whispered something into Kuroi's ear. Kuroi kicked the dirt
below her feet in annoyance. She asked a question that had an
answer she didn't want to think about, let alone talk.
"Seito-chan, you know as well as I do what that answer will be."

Seito crossed her arms and growled. "I'm asking about what you're
thinking about it. Your opinion. Whatever. Just answer my question."

"You know he and I are not meant to be, Seito-chan." Kuroi looked
down as she talked in an aggravated tone, but full of wisdom and
strength at the same time. "As you and I are in this world. We
belong in our own world. I have duties that must be fulfilled.
Besides, he has someone he already cares about. Remember? He
would protect Kagome even if it would take his life in order
to do it. And you know how the manga ends. They end up together,
happy ending. The End."

Seito's eye twitched. [She talks like my grandfather!] "Just tell
me!"

"I have told you of what will happen if I do not help the Angelic
Incarnate and the Time Incarnate. And the Gauntlet of Chiosu. You
know what power it holds."

"But you only weild the Gauntlet of Chiosu when you're in your
true form, whatever that may be."

Kuroi put her hand to her forehead. "It's not the same, Seito.
If I die here-"

Seito interrupted. "If you die here, the Gauntlet will be destroyed
and Chaos will destroy all dimensions. Yeah, you told me that
already."

"That's not it."

Seito blinked. [What other reason? Well, besides never seeing her
friends again.] "What?"

Kuroi sighed. "For the time being, Seito-chan, I shall not tell. I
have told of many weaknesses already."

"Oh, great. C'mon! Tell me!"

Kuroi looked at her with sad eyes. Seito looked at her raven eyes
suprisingly. They looked like crow's eyes pleading mercifully
before being destroyed. Seito groaned and nodded defeatedly.
"Fine."

"Arigato gozaimasu, Sei-chan."

Seito waved her hand, as if motioning something to move away. "Doo
itashi mashite, Ku-chan."

Meanwhile, Inu-Yasha and the others blinked in confusion, backing
away from the bush.

[T-true form?]

[Something is amiss about that girl..]

[What is she talking about?!]

[I-I'm scared...]

[This child is not what she seems. I fear there is more to that
armor that child wore.]

At that moment, Kuroi looked over to a bush a few yards away.
She sighed. [Guess they heard the whole thing...] She then
yelled. "Come out, Inu-Yasha. No use hiding if I know you're
there."

Seito looked over and laughed. "You have a sharp eye, Ku-chan."

"Make that a sharp ear, Sei-chan."

Kaede walked up to the raven-haired female and looked at her
eyes. "Dear child, where are you from? You are not of Kagome's
world, so where didst thee REALLY come from? What is your
purpose?"

"You know, Kaede-baba," Kuroi's voice once again became heartless
and unfeeling, "One of these days asking too many questions can
kill you." And from her pocket, she pulled out a gun. A .45
handgun, to be precise.

"Kuroi-chan, don't kill Kaede. We don't want to mix up this
whole world, now do we?" Seito advised.

Kuroi sighed and put her handgun back into her leather pocket.
"Fine. But remember, we're out of here once we fulfill our
duties here, whatever they are."

"But what about-"

"Sesshomaru's on the Oni Mountain a two days walk from here.
We'll go there and meet up with him. Happy?"

"YAY!" Seito, once again, glomped Kuroi, causing her to fall
down.

"Ow, ow, ow, OW!, ow, ow, ow, ow. Kusottare, Seito wa baka."
Kuroi shoved her off, groaning in pain as she got back to her
feet.

"It's not safe to go to Sesshomaru willingly." Sango said,
re-fastening her boomerang bone onto her back with the sturdy
leather straps.

Kuroi sneered,"You, demon huntress, do not know the power Seito
and I hold. Seito-chan, come on. We should head back to the
village to get the rest of our belongings."

"Hai! Hai! Then we can see Sesshomaru!" Seito skipped back to
the village with Kuroi (AN: KUROI JOGGED, NOT SKIPPED!!!)

Kaede and the others watched them go, baffled by what they were
planning to do.

"Something's not right." The Buddhist monk contemplated.

"Oh, you're soooo smart." Inu-Yasha's sarcasm kicked in.

"No, I mean, they have no belongings left in the village."

"What?!" Kaede exclaimed.

Kagome put her hand to her head to think. "Weird. Then what would
they be going to the village for?"

"Maybe they're after the Tetsusiaga, or the shikon shards." Shippo
wondered, scratching his fur with his tiny paw.

"What do you mean, the tetsusiaga or the shards? We have them..with..
us.." Kagome answered, but then stopped and sweatdropped. "Oh, yeah..
I left the shikon shards in my pack.."

"Grr..." Inu-Yasha's face became red. "Idiot." He began to race
back to the village, with the humans in tow (well, four humans
and a fox-demon).

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AN: Was that good?

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AN2: Sorry I took sooo long to update!!! I was busy with other fics!

Can you guys/girls do me a favor?? For those of you who have watched
or read Sailor Moon and Gundam Wing, could you read my other fanfic
called 'Lunar Succession'? Please!?? If enough people read and review,
I'll put up more chapters on this fic and Lunar Succession! PLEASE!!!