Hey!!! I just had the WORST Friday of MY LIFE!!! It was homecoming Friday... and we had a carnival the whole day before homecoming game. ARGH! My fundraising money for the club got stolen by some black freshman boy… ARRGHH!! FU*KEN BURN IN HELL YOU BASTARD! YOU'RE NOT A MAN!! YOU'RE LUCKY I DIDN'T KICK YOUR ASS WHEN I HAD THE CHANCE… I punched the wall… but I'm still mad… If I ever see him again, I will personally slit is throat… eh… somewhat like that… ok not really… I'll just punch him or something… he better give me back my money if he knows what good for him and his hardcore wannabes. No offense freshman... but some freshman just thinks they are so hardcore and shit... "Oh I stole money from a soph girl!! I' m so cool I'm so bad blah blah blah…" That's really not cool… if you stole it from a guy yeah... but A GIRL! Haven't your mom ever taught you anything... maybe you don't have a mom since you act like you do... god... dam... :X…
Disclaimer: ARRGHH!!! I Don't own Inuyasha… arrghh…
*muttering to self* ok calm down just peachy… I have a bad temper… ^^;;;
Chapter 16:
A slithery form rushed into the conference room, disturbing the conflict that arose between the demons.
"Master Naraku, I don't think this is going to work. King Hirgurashi could be easily killed but King Sesshoumaru; he is not an easy opponent." One of the demons said from his chair. He sat next to the master himself. That meant he was very important. The further away you were from the master in the seating choice, the less power you held.
"Nonsense." Naraku smirked. "How can you be so fatuous? Do you realize that that silly Lord is in a room with a human wretch? He's just like his father. The cause of his downfall will be because of his sympathy for humans."
"How do we know that he actually has feelings for this girl?" The wolf demon asked two seats away from Naraku.
"I told you. He's just like his father. He'll do anything for this girl." Naraku replied with a low growl of annoyance in his voice.
"Shall we kidnap the girl in ransom for his position as Lord of the Western Lands?" Another demon asked, just seats away from the wolf demon. The other six demons in the room kept quiet as they waited for an answer from Naraku. This plan was appealing to all six demons except for Naraku.
"No. I have a better idea." Naraku chuckled maliciously. He drummed his fingers on the table as he thought deeply, leaving the other demons puzzled. They dare not ask anymore, afraid that their leader would unleash an intensifying outburst if he was annoyed.
"MASTER!! MASTER!!!" A snake youkai burst into the room, disrupting Naraku's thoughts. The six advisors jumped at the small youkai. They fretted that their leaders would be mad at the foolish interruption.
"How dare you interrupt this meeting?" Naraku roared at the pathetic snake. It cowered back in fear.
"I'm so sorry master. I- I- I..." It stuttered, shaking violently. Naraku smirked at his power and authority. The sight of the snake trembling before him boosted up his ego even more than it had already been.
"Stop stuttering like a babbling idiot and tell me what is so important that you had to barge into my meeting." Naraku said disgustedly. He wrinkled his nose at the inferior youkai, snorting as the snake shifted positions and refrained himself from looking at Naraku's face. He knew that if he dared look at Naraku's face even take a glimpse at it now, he would be dead in less than a second.
"I have important news. Kikyou is King Hirgurashi's daughter." The snake spilled out.
"Oh really?" Naraku inquired. He smiled to himself for a new plan had just emerged in his brilliant and genius brain of his.
"Yes." The snake said affirmatively.
Naraku gestured the snake to go by a simple sweep of his hand. "Men, we have a new plan." Naraku announced, cackling evilly at his ingenious plan.
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"No, because you would be with whom you want to be with. So you would be happy if that had happened." Sesshoumaru replied.
"What if I said I am where I want to be with who I want to be with?" Kagome countered.
Sesshoumaru sat silently. Her remark was shocking yet it made Sesshoumaru happy to hear it. He shook himself mentally. If this girl got one more step closer to him, she would guarantee the downfall of himself and his land.
"I really don't care if you want to be here or there. You are here and you will stay here." Sesshoumaru said stiffly but soon regretted it.
"Why do you want me here? Is it because of your mother? What did happen to her majesty? I need to know if I am to help her." Kagome interrogated him. She looked at Sesshoumaru, searching for a change in emotion.
"If you really want to know, back in during the war, the northern lands and the western lands were fighting over territory. King Hirgurashi kidnapped my mother and raped her. He then somehow killed my father. That is why my mother is mentally disrupted. She cannot take anymore anxiety and stress. She keeps having visions of her rapier." Sesshoumaru said impassively. Kagome sat still, shocked from what he had just told her and at the fact that he still kept a dispassionate expression after telling her all the pain he held inside of him for all these years.
"This King Hirgurashi, is he still alive?" Kagome asked him. She looked at him with sympathy. She was amazed at all the royal scandals that were confined to the castle walls.
"Fortunately and unfortunately, yes, he is still alive." Sesshoumaru replied. He avoided eye contact with Kagome but he was fully aware of her, staring at his face thinking about all the intimate secrets of his.
"What do you mean? Fortunately and unfortunately?" Kagome asked. Sesshoumaru suddenly turned to look at her. He glared at her with much intensity that Kagome cowered back and ripped her eyes away from his face.
"I'm going to avenge my father and mother. King Hirgurashi is alive and I will kill him." Sesshoumaru said angrily. He furrowed his eye brows in anger.
"You should. I don't blame you. If someone killed my father I would want to kill him." Kagome said softly. Sesshoumaru looked at her surprisingly. Kagome's dark blue eyes soften as she smiled warmly at Sesshoumaru encouragingly. "Of course, my step father was killed by wolf youkais who were killed by my saviors and my I never knew my real father so I really can't put myself in your position."
Sesshoumaru stared at this girl with disbelief. This girl had so much life in her. She was beautiful, caring, compassionate, and yet she is restricted to live with a beast. He was the beast, the young and handsome beast with a stone heart and a pessimistic mind.
"You have a reason to do it so why don't you? How come you're waiting?" She questioned him. She looked at him with concern.
"I found out recently." Sesshoumaru replied. He was going to do something. He was just waiting for the right time. He still needed to plan something out.
"Oh." Kagome said softly. "I hope you succeed." She said assuredly. Sesshoumaru suddenly had the urge to kiss her. He shook his thoughts out. He rushed out of room, fleeing from his feelings.
This was getting ridiculous. He couldn't explain the sudden feelings he had for Kagome. He didn't want these feelings. It was a sign of weakness. He knew if he allowed himself to fall into Kagome's grasps, he would probably end up like his mother, emotionally thrown into a time warp that would make him constantly relive his fears. Kagome loved Inuyasha, didn't she? She had to or else she would have never pulled away from him like she did.
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Kikyou aimed her arrow. Steadily breathing, she concentrated on the window. When she finally felt it was a dead hit, she let go. The arrow went piercing through the air, hitting the target and placing the note where Kikyou wanted it to be.
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Kagome perked up from her bed. She thought she heard something by her window. She climbed out of bed, stumbling over a chair. She approached the window with caution. Peering out of the window, she found an arrow with a note attached to it. She plucked the arrow out of the stone wall and carefully removed the note, not wanting to rip it. She unraveled and smooth out the winkles it had. She read it. It said:
Dear Kagome,
Please come and meet me tonight by the creek just outside of the castle. I know you can come out when you receive this because Sesshoumaru has already left for his patrol. I need to speak with you urgently. It is a very important issue and I need to discuss it with you.
Love,
Kikyou
Kagome carefully folded the letter and placed it inside her kimono. She put on an outer layer for warmth and slipped out the door. She hoped Kikyou was right about Lord Sesshoumaru being on patrol at the moment.
Kagome sprinted through the garden and out the back gate. The garden was easy to enter and leave but no one dared to because of Sesshoumaru's presence. The castle was harder to enter since it had only two entrances. Those were the main door which was guarded and the kitchen door which had nasty maids bustling around it.
Kagome approached the creek, looking for Kikyou's presences. Kagome felt the darkness creep onto her. She became paranoid by the second. The eerie wind danced with her figure, taunting her as it left to play with the trees. Kagome shivered and pulled her top closer to her. Kagome heard faint voice not to far from where she was. She crouched low against a bush.
"There, Kagome will read it soon, Father." Kikyou said to King Hirgurashi.
Kagome studied the man whom Kikyou called father. He couldn't possibly be her father, could he?
"Good. Now to actually free Kagome from this youkai, we have to be in possession of the Shikon no tama. Your mother gave you the jewel right?" Her father looked at her hopefully.
"No, Kagome received the Shikon no tama. Mother felt that she had the power and will to protect it." Kikyou replied.
"Ok, well we have to get the jewel form her so we can kill that dog youkai and free Kagome. Maybe we could take over the Western Lands." He explained to Kikyou. Kikyou's heart leaped at his last sentence.
"Oh please father, if you do take over the Western Lands, let me have it." Kikyou pleaded. She looked at her father with plea.
"If you want it…" Her father looked confusingly at her. "Why?"
"For my reasons father." Kikyou simply said. If she received the throne to the Western Lands, she could give it to Inuyasha and he would finally be hers and only hers. He and she would finally be together at last.
"King Hirgurashi! We have to go!" A youkai barked from behind the man.
King Hirgurashi… Kagome eyes became wide as she saw the man leave. This man who was supposedly her father was King Hirgurashi who Sesshoumaru wanted to kill. She sat in shock. What was she to do? Should she give Kikyou the Shikon no tama to kill Sesshoumaru or let Sesshoumaru slaughter her father. Kagome trembled against the wind. She couldn't let Sesshoumaru die. She didn't know why but she had firmly locked it in her mind. She didn't want to kill Sesshoumaru but then she didn't want Sesshoumaru to kill her father. There was only one way to solve this.
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Ok... what do you think Kagome should do? Let her father kill Sesshoumaru or let Sesshoumaru kill her father? Hmm... well review! OMG THANK YOU FOR THE 216 REIVEWS!! I love all of you!!! Review more! I hope to get 300 when I end this story! Or maybe 400 .. eh.. I might be dreaming on that one…