Comments: Sorry guys about the late update, but I have viable reasons! 1) no reviews…NO ONE REVIEWED!!! IF NO ONE REVIEWS I'M DROPPING RIGHT NOW!!…but to all those who couldn't care less and thinks that this fic is crap then that's okay..don't review. 2) Writers block. I winged the last chapter and now the plot is nonexistent..i lost the plot and had to make a new one..but how do you like the name, Keino? And 3) it was my birthday and I got a inuyasha art book, inuyasha soundtrack, 4 inuyasha volumes in Japanese (I had to translate..so tedious..), inuyasha trading cards, and inuyasha poster..i love my friend..
Disclaimer: same ol' same ol'..u figure it out..I'm sure ure smart enough..plus spent all my $ on anime..o well..
O, and the story is gonna be a bit OOC to some and just plain OOC to others..sorry..still trying to fix that..
Chapter Seven: Crimson Stain
Keino had spent three months with Sesshoumaru and was bored out of her mind. Usually she had a fight at least very other day. But here she had a fight everyday. With dust mites. Not that there was many around. No, Sesshoumaru's servants made sure of it so now she had to look for a fight…with dust mites. She sighed. She wanted out. She wanted to see blood and missing limbs again. Oh, for god's sake she just wanted to see how Kagome was doing. She didn't usually have blood urges. She sighed again. She seemed to be doing that more and more often.
Unnoticed, Sesshoumaru listened to her sigh and sigh again in the doorway. He had come to tell her he was departing for awhile and would be back, but finding out why she was unhappy seemed more important.
She froze as she sensed his presence directly behind her. He still hadn't given her, her weapons back so she was still defenseless.
"What ails you?" Sesshoumaru asked with no apparent concern.
She cocked her head at a slight angle. "What ails me?" she repeated with growing incredulity. She laughed bitterly, not noticing the wince Sesshoumaru quickly hid. "I'm cooped up in here and I'm having fights with nonexistent dust bunnies. I'm bored out of my mind and no doubt my skills are growing rusty. I have no idea how Kagome is or anybody else for that matter. All I do day after day is stare out the window, cook, and stare some more at the world out there I use to belong to but am being kept away from! I am going crazy and if I don't smell freshly spilled blood I'll kill myself!!"
Sesshoumaru quietly listened to her tirade while inside he was shocked at it. For all the time she's been here, not once did she complain of boredom or bloodlust. Wait. Bloodlust? Freshly spilled blood? Kill herself? He quickly grabbed a hand resting on the window. He didn't quite know why but it was just a hunch. He turned it up so the inner side was facing him.
Freshly healed scars and recent wounds scored the inside of her wrist. He realized that she had begun to resort to tearing open her wrist to satisfy her bloodlust. Or perhaps trying to kill herself in the meantime? He grabbed the other wrist. There were the same markings of abuse and as he brought it closer he caught his breath. Teethmarks. She had recently started to know at her wrist in an effort to keep it to herself and to protect those around her.
He silently stood back up and let go of her hand. Her eyes watched her hand fall back. When she refused to meet his gaze he began to feel anger rising inside of him.
"Why?" She didn't answer. Only stared at her hands in her lap. "Why didn't you tell anyone? Why didn't you tell me?!" she slowly rubbed her left wrist with her right hand.
"Its as if you care." She said emotionlessly.
"Damn it to Hell! Of course I care! I don't know who or what you are but..but I do care…baka! I do care…"
She tore her gaze from her hands and slowly looked at him. They stared at each other for a couple of minutes as she was unprepared for such and outburst. Then slowly she turned her head once more to the window. "You don't know what it means to care, to…to..to.." her voice trailed out as she found it impossible to say the last word.
But he knew what she had wanted to say. He could see through the steel walls she erected to keep the world out. She knew what it meant to care, what it meant to…love, but it seems something had gone wrong. But she had done it again. She had managed to draw him out of the prison of his own making, his mind, and make him dance to her tune albeit unknowingly.
Sesshoumaru turned to leave, eager to escape her compelling presence to sort some thoughts out. As he walked toward the door he remembered why he had come in the first place. He turned back to her at the doorway. "I am going to go find my brother. You're going with me." And he left, not waiting for an answer.
As he neared the end of the hallway he remembered a particularly odd part of the conversation.
**Dust bunnies?**
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Kagome woke to find the sun shining in her eyes and a space empty next to her in the bed. She sat up and looked to see if Inuyasha was still in the room. Seeing that he was nowhere to be found she got up and padded down to the front yard to see if he was there.
"Inuyasha!?" she called.
"Over here."
She found him five minutes later practicing his claw attacks on some trees.
"What are you doing, Inuyasha?"
He glanced up from a crouch. "I dreamt about something weird. I just couldn't go back to sleep."
Curiosity demanded that Kagome look into this. "What did you dream about?"
"Dust bunnies."
"Dust bunnies?"
"Yeah…oh, and something else to…the last part really confused me."
"The dust bunnies?"
"No, not the dust bunnies…I was in a castle."
"A castle?"
"Yeah."
Kagome waited for Inuyasha to continue. "WELL?!"
"Huh? Oh…I was walking toward this room." He paused a moment to mutilate another tree (and to bait Kagome). When Kagome looked about to explode he continued. "When I went in I saw this woman's profile looking out a window but I couldn't see her face. The part that confused me though was…" his voice trailed off as he gave her a sideways glance.
Seeing Kagome glare at so fiercely made him hesitant to bait her again. "The part that confused me though was her kimono. It was dark blue with silver moons but when the moonlight shone on it, the color changed to blood red. Everything went weird after that. I saw a tear roll down her cheek with bloodstains on the edge of her mouth, fingers and kimono. Her wrists were gushing blood. She started to turn around but a great shadow enveloped her and then I woke up."
Kagome thought about this but couldn't decipher it any better that Inuyasha did. He glanced at her briefly. "Don't try to decipher it, you idiot. If I couldn't understand it, how could you?"
Kagome's face slowly turned red. "Are you saying I'm stupid?"
"N-no…"
"Oh, so you're saying that just because I'm a girl I can't think?!"
"Uhhhh…."
"So you just want me to sit there and look pretty, huh? Well guess what! I'm not gonna! And to top it all off you have the gall to say 'If I can't you can't' Hello?! Is there something wrong with your head?! And wipe that expression of your face! AAAGH!! That's it! SIT! SIT! SIT! SIT! SIT! SIT! SIT! SIT!!!!"
During that whole tirade, Inuyasha was confused at the turn of the conversation. That is until the barrage of sits attacked him. Then the only thing on his mind was the pain. **I have go to get Kagome to lift this curse…**
Suddenly Kagome's tirade was cut off as a course voice rang across the yard. "Well, well, well. Still letting girls beat you up, eh?" Contempt evident in Jaken's voice.
"S-shut up, toad boy!" Inuyasha growled form his position on the floor.
"From behind him Kagome screamed. "INUYASHA!!" The scream struck him to his very soul. "Kagome!" he tried to get up but to no avail.
Sesshoumaru held Kagome in his arms with three claws at her throat. He watched as Inuyasha tried to get up and felt satisfaction as he failed. Walking to get directly in form of Inuyasha, he held Kagome out.
"What's the matter, dear brother? Is she not important enough to you to protect?"
"D-damn you, Sesshoumaru!"
Kagome felt the claws tighten. Now she couldn't even remember why she blew up but she regretted it. Now Inuyasha could be killed without putting up a fight. Tears welled up in her eyes as she thought to herself **I killed him. I killed him. I KILLED INUYASHA!!** She screamed his name as she cried.
"I-I'm so sorry…Inuyasha…"
Inuyasha heard Kagome sob her apology out and began to feel rage build up inside of him. Sesshoumaru had made Kagome cry. And now he'll pay.
"Let Kagome go, Sesshoumaru." A female voice injected into the petty squabble. Had Inuyasha heard her before? Or is she just stranger getting in his way?
Is it Sango or Keino? What's going to happen? Tune in to the next episode of… "WHO ARE YOU?"
….J/K..its was late again..sorry..but I HATE typing..especially if no one REVIEWS!! ::hint, hint::