Liger003 ~ sorry, I was out of town for a while, so I couldn't update, but
now I have two chapters for you all.
Disclaimer ~ I do not own Inu-Yasha and co. And don't sue me, I have no money.
Zero
Chapter Four ~ Worst Fears
"I am not like Kikyo." Kagome told her.
"Oh, really? You're her reincarnation, right?" The cat-demon's eyes glowed.
"Well, yeah, but. . ."
"So in other words, you are not like her, you are her."
"No I am not Kikyo!"
"Yea! Kagome is not a thing like Kikyo!" Shippo backed his friend up.
"I must agree." Miroku nodded his head; "Lady Kagome is nothing like Lady Kikyo, except in her looks. Looks can be deceiving."
"This is coming from you? The pervert that asks every pretty girl he meets to bear his child?" Sango shook her head, "Well, anyway, Kikyo is nothing like Kagome.
Kagome does not roam the earth living off hate of Inu-Yasha. . ." She mumbled under her breath. Zero's sensitive ears twitched and picked up what she had said.
"What? Kikyo's still alive?"
"Uh, could you call it living?" Shippo asked Kagome.
"Well, think what you mortals like. But you," She looked at Kagome. "Hurt him, and I will make you wish that you never even met him." With this last statement she hopped into a tree and over to her old friend.
Inu-Yasha sat in his tree and stared up at the stars, they always seemed to help him calm down. Tonight, though, even the stars seemed to have trouble taking his mind off of how much he had hurt his friend. It had been his entire fault. His entire fault. His fisted his hands and blood trickled down his arm from where his fisted claws had been drawing blood all night. She was probably mad that he came back. But then a voice inside his head told him that that was not true and he knew it.
There was a rustle of leaves to his right, "Who's there?" He asked and instinctively grabbed the hilt of the steal fang.
"It's just me, Inu-Yasha." Zero's head immerged from the leaves.
"Zero?" He asked and she nodded her head, "Are you mad?"
"What do you mean?" She came over and sat on the same branch as him. She wrapped her tail around her waist and her yellow eyes stared intently at him.
"All those years ago, are still mad that I attacked you?" He looked up at her with the eyes of a puppy that had been punished for chewing on the corner of a table. If he had a tail it would be between his legs.
"Am I mad? About the fight with the flute man?' Inu-Yasha nodded, "No, you couldn't have done anything, you were being controlled."
The dog demon once again fisted his hands and Zero watched as more blood followed the path that the other trickles had started. "Yeah, but if I had been stronger, I could have-"
"You still could have done nothing. And, stop that." She pointed to where he kept hurting himself, "There is absolutely no reason for you to hurt yourself over something that happened, what? Fifty-two years ago?" Inu- Yasha nodded. "So forget that, that's why you went after that jewel, didn't you?"
Inu-Yasha nodded, "I thought that I could use it to get stronger, become a full demon, and I would never be taken over again."
"The Jewel's broken now, though." Zero asked and he nodded, "You're still looking?" He nodded again, "Is that why you are with all of the humans?"
"Yeah, Kagome detects the shard, Miroku has a hellhole in his hand that can suck demons inside of it, and Sango can fight. The cowardly flea, Myoga, he has some good advice. I have absolutely no idea why that fox, Shippo, is with us."
"There was a flea? I didn't see him."
"He probably ran away when you showed up."
"Are you sure that that is the only reason, and they are not friends of yours?"
"Feh! Of course! I have always wanted weaklings for friends." He said sarcastically.
"I don't know if your 'shard detector' told you, but I have something that might just help you." She grabbed his hand with her paw and opened it. She then searched in a pouch on her belt for something. "Aha! I have them." She pulled something out. In his opened hand dropped three shards of the Shikon Jewel.
She giggled as her friend's eyes grew three times their normal size. "H-how did you get these?"
"A few of the demon's that attacked me had them" She could tell that he was speechless, "You know that you have always been strong enough for me. You don't need any shards to make me like you better."
He looked at her; "I don't know what to say."
She smiled, "Don't bother to say anything, look up." She pointed to the stars. "I know how much you like to look at them, so tell me you don't."
Neither knew how long they stared at the beautiful twinkling stars above them, and neither demon cared.
"She definitely doesn't like me." Kagome sighed.
"Can you blame her?" Miroku asked the sad looking Kagome that stared deep into the golden flames of the fire.
"She was just worried." Sango told her. "She thinks that you will hurt her friend like Kikyo did."
"That's all I am to her, another Kikyo," Kagome looked at the ground, "Maybe even to Inu-Yasha. . ."
"That's not true." Shippo told his friend.
"Yes, it is." Tears formed in Kagome's eyes. "I am just another Kikyo. I don't belong in this time with Inu-Yasha. He belongs with Zero, and I belong in my time."
"What? You think that Inu-Yasha belongs with Zero? Don't you think that you should let him decide that for himself? Or do you think that you have the right to decide for him?" Miroku raised an eyebrow, "That's kinda mean."
"She loves him, and he loves her." Kagome insisted.
"She may love him, but he may not love her back. You never know." Sango put her hand on her shoulder. "Especially with Inu-Yasha. You just never know."
Kagome had to smile at that. It was true. You never knew with that dog demon. "Thanks."
"No problem."
And with that they all sat around the fire and slowly let sleep sweep over them.
Zero heard the soft even breathing of her friend. She looked over to make sure, but she already knew that he was asleep. He was asleep all right, but the thing that caught her attention most was the smile on his lips. Maybe she did have a chance against Kikyo's reincarnation after all. Maybe he might just want to stay with her after all. Maybe.
She leaned against the tree trunk and looked at Inu-Yasha again. He was practically sitting up. One hand was on his sword, and the other on his knee. How in the world did he ever fall asleep like that? She smiled and shook her head. Zero looked up at the sky. The stars seemed so far away, and so carefree. She wished that she could be like that. Without a care in the wold, that would be the life. She yawned and stretched. She leaned against the tree and closed her eyes.
"I smell the Shikon Shards, I smell them, they are so close. . . There are so many." The shadow seemed to glide across the ground. It found a camp of people. There was a girl with raven hair in a pigtail. It engulfed her. Sliding completely over her sleeping body and then left as though it was never there, "No Shards."
It next went over to the monk, but slid off of him quickly. "No Shards." It slid itself over to a little fox demon. But left Quickly with the words "No Shards." It went over to the only person left. The girl in the strange clothes. It stopped suddenly and looked up, there were two demons in the tree above it. The dog-demon stirred. It had to hurry. It stopped again. It felt eyes boring into it. It looked up to find the dog- demon's eyes open and looking down. The eyes searched, but could not find anything. That was the best part about being a shadow demon. You are practically invisible at night.
Inu-Yasha nudged Zero. The cat-demon yawned and stretched. She stopped, though, as soon as she looked into Inu-Yasha's eyes. There was something not right.
"Something's down there." He whispered to her. Zero nodded, she felt it, too, now that she was awake. Zero's cat eyes skimmed everything on the ground for something out of place. Inu-Yasha looked over and noticed how scary her eyes looked at night when they were searching for something. They were just two little glowing lights in all of the darkness. The slits added a nice touch, too.
"There." She pointed to a shadow near Kagome.
"It's just a shadow." Inu-Yasha said skeptically.
"Sure, it's just a shadow, but what is it a shadow of?" Inu-Yasha looked around, she was right; there was absolutely nothing for it to be a shadow of. It must have noticed that they saw it, because it started moving, toward Kagome. Inu-Yasha jumped down from his tree and using his claws tried to slice the shadow. He felt the slippery slime of the shadow slide through his fingers like water. He didn't take the time to look up to see if he had finished it off, he just ran over to Kagome.
"Wake up!" He shook her harshly.
He looked over to see Zero at his side, her eyes searched ever inch of her territory for the shadow, but it seemed to have disappeared. The full moon gave off the only light that they had which because of the trees was barely enough to see a few feet in front of their noses.
Kagome rubbed her eyes, "Whass Wrong?"
"Something's here," Inu-Yasha told her, "Wake the others."
"Right." She nodded and ran over to Shippo and Sango.
Sango rubbed her eyes and noticed something in front of her. It looked like it wanted to stay out sight. All it seemed to be was a black blob, but it kept growing. It piled on top of itself and it was now reaching the size of a tree. She didn't know what it was, but it defiantly wasn't right.
"Boomerang Bone!" It whizzed past Kagome's ear and sliced the shadow in half. She caught the boomerang bone as it flew back to her. The shadow just pulled it's two parts back together.
"So that's where it went." Zero said and spun around to face it. Inu- Yasha did the same.
"So, you found me." The shadow took the shape of a human body. It had no face and no color, it was completely black. "But I am afraid that you will need more than that to defeat me. Can you overcome your worst fears?"
"I am afraid of nothing." Inu-Yasha drew the Tetsiaga.
"I like your new toy." Zero told Inu-Yasha, "but, I have one, too." She grabbed the pole off of her back and held it out in front of her. The pole grew taller then she was and then a long point came out of the end of the pole, forming a glaive (You know Sailor Saturn on Sailor Moon? Her weapon is a glaive, they used them in medieval times.) "What do you think?"
"I like it." Inu-Yasha told her.
"Everybody is scared of something. Let's see your fear." It waved it's black hand in front of Inu-Yasha and looked at it. It smiled, or so it looked like. "I see your fear." "I told you, I fear nothing." Inu-Yasha insisted.
"Oh, but you do fear, and what an amusing fear you have."
"It has a Shikon Shard!" Kagome cried out. Inu-Yasha gritted his teeth.
"You fear losing her," It pointed at Kagome, "Just like you did the other that looks like her. But you fear killing her by your own hands more than someone else's."
"Is that true, Inu-Yasha?" Kagome asked.
Inu-Yasha lifted the steal fang; "I fear nothing!"
Zero stared at him as he charged the shadow. He did care for the reincarnation more than he did her then. She looked at the ground, and water rushed to her eyes, but quickly stopped herself. This is no time for tears, she told herself, she had to help Inu-Yasha.
"Watch as your fear becomes reality."
The shadow raised it's hand and blackness engulfed him, he couldn't see, he couldn't hear, he couldn't breath. He dropped the Tetsiaga a fell to his knees trying to pull the black slime off of him.
"Inu-Yasha!" Zero and Kagome yelled at the same time. Zero ran to his side to try to help pull off the black goo, but Kagome stood where she was, what could she do?
End of Chapter four.
Liger003 ~ Sorry! It got a little sappy. More than I wanted it to, but it turned out okay I think, tell me what you think! Review please! You don't know how much faster a review can make me type!
Disclaimer ~ I do not own Inu-Yasha and co. And don't sue me, I have no money.
Zero
Chapter Four ~ Worst Fears
"I am not like Kikyo." Kagome told her.
"Oh, really? You're her reincarnation, right?" The cat-demon's eyes glowed.
"Well, yeah, but. . ."
"So in other words, you are not like her, you are her."
"No I am not Kikyo!"
"Yea! Kagome is not a thing like Kikyo!" Shippo backed his friend up.
"I must agree." Miroku nodded his head; "Lady Kagome is nothing like Lady Kikyo, except in her looks. Looks can be deceiving."
"This is coming from you? The pervert that asks every pretty girl he meets to bear his child?" Sango shook her head, "Well, anyway, Kikyo is nothing like Kagome.
Kagome does not roam the earth living off hate of Inu-Yasha. . ." She mumbled under her breath. Zero's sensitive ears twitched and picked up what she had said.
"What? Kikyo's still alive?"
"Uh, could you call it living?" Shippo asked Kagome.
"Well, think what you mortals like. But you," She looked at Kagome. "Hurt him, and I will make you wish that you never even met him." With this last statement she hopped into a tree and over to her old friend.
Inu-Yasha sat in his tree and stared up at the stars, they always seemed to help him calm down. Tonight, though, even the stars seemed to have trouble taking his mind off of how much he had hurt his friend. It had been his entire fault. His entire fault. His fisted his hands and blood trickled down his arm from where his fisted claws had been drawing blood all night. She was probably mad that he came back. But then a voice inside his head told him that that was not true and he knew it.
There was a rustle of leaves to his right, "Who's there?" He asked and instinctively grabbed the hilt of the steal fang.
"It's just me, Inu-Yasha." Zero's head immerged from the leaves.
"Zero?" He asked and she nodded her head, "Are you mad?"
"What do you mean?" She came over and sat on the same branch as him. She wrapped her tail around her waist and her yellow eyes stared intently at him.
"All those years ago, are still mad that I attacked you?" He looked up at her with the eyes of a puppy that had been punished for chewing on the corner of a table. If he had a tail it would be between his legs.
"Am I mad? About the fight with the flute man?' Inu-Yasha nodded, "No, you couldn't have done anything, you were being controlled."
The dog demon once again fisted his hands and Zero watched as more blood followed the path that the other trickles had started. "Yeah, but if I had been stronger, I could have-"
"You still could have done nothing. And, stop that." She pointed to where he kept hurting himself, "There is absolutely no reason for you to hurt yourself over something that happened, what? Fifty-two years ago?" Inu- Yasha nodded. "So forget that, that's why you went after that jewel, didn't you?"
Inu-Yasha nodded, "I thought that I could use it to get stronger, become a full demon, and I would never be taken over again."
"The Jewel's broken now, though." Zero asked and he nodded, "You're still looking?" He nodded again, "Is that why you are with all of the humans?"
"Yeah, Kagome detects the shard, Miroku has a hellhole in his hand that can suck demons inside of it, and Sango can fight. The cowardly flea, Myoga, he has some good advice. I have absolutely no idea why that fox, Shippo, is with us."
"There was a flea? I didn't see him."
"He probably ran away when you showed up."
"Are you sure that that is the only reason, and they are not friends of yours?"
"Feh! Of course! I have always wanted weaklings for friends." He said sarcastically.
"I don't know if your 'shard detector' told you, but I have something that might just help you." She grabbed his hand with her paw and opened it. She then searched in a pouch on her belt for something. "Aha! I have them." She pulled something out. In his opened hand dropped three shards of the Shikon Jewel.
She giggled as her friend's eyes grew three times their normal size. "H-how did you get these?"
"A few of the demon's that attacked me had them" She could tell that he was speechless, "You know that you have always been strong enough for me. You don't need any shards to make me like you better."
He looked at her; "I don't know what to say."
She smiled, "Don't bother to say anything, look up." She pointed to the stars. "I know how much you like to look at them, so tell me you don't."
Neither knew how long they stared at the beautiful twinkling stars above them, and neither demon cared.
"She definitely doesn't like me." Kagome sighed.
"Can you blame her?" Miroku asked the sad looking Kagome that stared deep into the golden flames of the fire.
"She was just worried." Sango told her. "She thinks that you will hurt her friend like Kikyo did."
"That's all I am to her, another Kikyo," Kagome looked at the ground, "Maybe even to Inu-Yasha. . ."
"That's not true." Shippo told his friend.
"Yes, it is." Tears formed in Kagome's eyes. "I am just another Kikyo. I don't belong in this time with Inu-Yasha. He belongs with Zero, and I belong in my time."
"What? You think that Inu-Yasha belongs with Zero? Don't you think that you should let him decide that for himself? Or do you think that you have the right to decide for him?" Miroku raised an eyebrow, "That's kinda mean."
"She loves him, and he loves her." Kagome insisted.
"She may love him, but he may not love her back. You never know." Sango put her hand on her shoulder. "Especially with Inu-Yasha. You just never know."
Kagome had to smile at that. It was true. You never knew with that dog demon. "Thanks."
"No problem."
And with that they all sat around the fire and slowly let sleep sweep over them.
Zero heard the soft even breathing of her friend. She looked over to make sure, but she already knew that he was asleep. He was asleep all right, but the thing that caught her attention most was the smile on his lips. Maybe she did have a chance against Kikyo's reincarnation after all. Maybe he might just want to stay with her after all. Maybe.
She leaned against the tree trunk and looked at Inu-Yasha again. He was practically sitting up. One hand was on his sword, and the other on his knee. How in the world did he ever fall asleep like that? She smiled and shook her head. Zero looked up at the sky. The stars seemed so far away, and so carefree. She wished that she could be like that. Without a care in the wold, that would be the life. She yawned and stretched. She leaned against the tree and closed her eyes.
"I smell the Shikon Shards, I smell them, they are so close. . . There are so many." The shadow seemed to glide across the ground. It found a camp of people. There was a girl with raven hair in a pigtail. It engulfed her. Sliding completely over her sleeping body and then left as though it was never there, "No Shards."
It next went over to the monk, but slid off of him quickly. "No Shards." It slid itself over to a little fox demon. But left Quickly with the words "No Shards." It went over to the only person left. The girl in the strange clothes. It stopped suddenly and looked up, there were two demons in the tree above it. The dog-demon stirred. It had to hurry. It stopped again. It felt eyes boring into it. It looked up to find the dog- demon's eyes open and looking down. The eyes searched, but could not find anything. That was the best part about being a shadow demon. You are practically invisible at night.
Inu-Yasha nudged Zero. The cat-demon yawned and stretched. She stopped, though, as soon as she looked into Inu-Yasha's eyes. There was something not right.
"Something's down there." He whispered to her. Zero nodded, she felt it, too, now that she was awake. Zero's cat eyes skimmed everything on the ground for something out of place. Inu-Yasha looked over and noticed how scary her eyes looked at night when they were searching for something. They were just two little glowing lights in all of the darkness. The slits added a nice touch, too.
"There." She pointed to a shadow near Kagome.
"It's just a shadow." Inu-Yasha said skeptically.
"Sure, it's just a shadow, but what is it a shadow of?" Inu-Yasha looked around, she was right; there was absolutely nothing for it to be a shadow of. It must have noticed that they saw it, because it started moving, toward Kagome. Inu-Yasha jumped down from his tree and using his claws tried to slice the shadow. He felt the slippery slime of the shadow slide through his fingers like water. He didn't take the time to look up to see if he had finished it off, he just ran over to Kagome.
"Wake up!" He shook her harshly.
He looked over to see Zero at his side, her eyes searched ever inch of her territory for the shadow, but it seemed to have disappeared. The full moon gave off the only light that they had which because of the trees was barely enough to see a few feet in front of their noses.
Kagome rubbed her eyes, "Whass Wrong?"
"Something's here," Inu-Yasha told her, "Wake the others."
"Right." She nodded and ran over to Shippo and Sango.
Sango rubbed her eyes and noticed something in front of her. It looked like it wanted to stay out sight. All it seemed to be was a black blob, but it kept growing. It piled on top of itself and it was now reaching the size of a tree. She didn't know what it was, but it defiantly wasn't right.
"Boomerang Bone!" It whizzed past Kagome's ear and sliced the shadow in half. She caught the boomerang bone as it flew back to her. The shadow just pulled it's two parts back together.
"So that's where it went." Zero said and spun around to face it. Inu- Yasha did the same.
"So, you found me." The shadow took the shape of a human body. It had no face and no color, it was completely black. "But I am afraid that you will need more than that to defeat me. Can you overcome your worst fears?"
"I am afraid of nothing." Inu-Yasha drew the Tetsiaga.
"I like your new toy." Zero told Inu-Yasha, "but, I have one, too." She grabbed the pole off of her back and held it out in front of her. The pole grew taller then she was and then a long point came out of the end of the pole, forming a glaive (You know Sailor Saturn on Sailor Moon? Her weapon is a glaive, they used them in medieval times.) "What do you think?"
"I like it." Inu-Yasha told her.
"Everybody is scared of something. Let's see your fear." It waved it's black hand in front of Inu-Yasha and looked at it. It smiled, or so it looked like. "I see your fear." "I told you, I fear nothing." Inu-Yasha insisted.
"Oh, but you do fear, and what an amusing fear you have."
"It has a Shikon Shard!" Kagome cried out. Inu-Yasha gritted his teeth.
"You fear losing her," It pointed at Kagome, "Just like you did the other that looks like her. But you fear killing her by your own hands more than someone else's."
"Is that true, Inu-Yasha?" Kagome asked.
Inu-Yasha lifted the steal fang; "I fear nothing!"
Zero stared at him as he charged the shadow. He did care for the reincarnation more than he did her then. She looked at the ground, and water rushed to her eyes, but quickly stopped herself. This is no time for tears, she told herself, she had to help Inu-Yasha.
"Watch as your fear becomes reality."
The shadow raised it's hand and blackness engulfed him, he couldn't see, he couldn't hear, he couldn't breath. He dropped the Tetsiaga a fell to his knees trying to pull the black slime off of him.
"Inu-Yasha!" Zero and Kagome yelled at the same time. Zero ran to his side to try to help pull off the black goo, but Kagome stood where she was, what could she do?
End of Chapter four.
Liger003 ~ Sorry! It got a little sappy. More than I wanted it to, but it turned out okay I think, tell me what you think! Review please! You don't know how much faster a review can make me type!