Okies this is set about 5 months after the end of FF7 and around episode 30-ish of Inu Yasha. So Rin hasn't come in yet, Kikyou took the shards from Kagome and tried to kill her (but as per the Manga Inu Yasha doesn't know about that). But Kagome has a shard now... don't know if that fits into the timeline quite right but she has one so there :P ... well technically two since she just got one in the prelude.
A World Away
A FF7/IY crossover Fanfic by Hika-chan
Chapter 1:Unexpected
"I swear, it gets easier every time!" Reno grinned, referring to how eaily he pissed off Yuffie. "I think it only took me two minutes."
Elena shook her head grinning, "Maybe next time we should time you."
"Hey that's not such a bad idea. Hey how long till happy hour?"
Rude looked at his watch, "Two hours."
"So," Elena began, "What do you want to do until then?" Reno opened his mouth to say something but Elena cut him off, "Other than torture Yuffie."
"Gee take away all my fun," Reno pouted.
***
Kagome opened her eyes, looking up through a different set of trees. "Eh?" Somehow this was not what she expected. Slowly she sat up and realized how she was dressed, she was still wearing her uniform, her bloody, slashed open in the front uniform. Am I dead or not? she wondered, pulling her shirt closed. "Hello? Anyone there?" She looked around, recognizing the river she was beside, then noticed she still had the shikon shards. "I must still be alive... but how? And how did I get over here?" She took the hankerchief off her uniform and wiped some of the blood away from her stomach. The wound was gone and in it's place was a thin scar, much smaller than what would have been there had the wound healed normally she was sure. "I should go back to the village." She looked down at herself, Wait, the blood might draw another youkai to the village... She knelt by the river and used her hankerchief to wash the blood off of her chest and leg.
That done she debated her next move. "I guess I should get my bag, and I definiely want to change my shirt before I go back! Who knows how Miroku and Inu Yasha would react!" She grinned to herself on her way back to the well, picturing a cute embarassed look on Inu Yasha's face. She reached the well a few moments later her large pack right where she had left it. She opened it and pulled out another long sleeved shirt. In case Inu Yasha were to come across her she decided to make use of the female talent of putting one shirt on over the other, then taking the under one off through her sleeve. She was greatful that somehow her bra remained intact. That done she picked up her heavy pack, ready to head back to the village. Still facing the well she froze as she felt someone behind her.
Slowly she turned...
***
"Of all the NERVE!" Yuffie growled, "I swear one of these days I'm gonna chop his head off or something!" Of course he couldn't have left it off when he started walking away, noOOOoo. He had to ambush her when she got to town just piss her off more. The ninja paused a moment to take a deep cleansing breath. Not working quite as well so she did it again. This was not working... She sighed, "I need to go somewhere quiet..." Without another word she headed up the path to the Da Chao.
***
Why he had moved her to the river was beyond him, maybe he just wanted to confuse her, see how she would react. Sesshoumaru had watched her actions closely since she awoke. Her actions were both intelligent and stupid. True the blood could draw other youkai, but likely only weak youkai that even his pathetic half brother could defeat. That done she didn't even go straight back to the feeble protection of the village, instead she went to the well. He watched as the began the odd ritual of changing her clothes the way she did. Oh well that just gave him a chance to confront this interesting specimin of a human right now. As she picked up her riduculously large pack he landed silently behind her.
He grinned inside as he noticed her body tense upon noticing his prescence. Slowly she turned around. As he expected her eyes were the blue the Tenseiga had shown him. He looked down at her, staring emotionlessly. Given how calmly she reacted before, the next second went by quite unexpectedly. She yelped in surprise and fear, that coupled with the weight of her bag made her lose her balance. While this was going on Sesshoumaru winced as her cry reached his ears. Then was distracted by Tenseiga beginning pulse at his side in tune with the shards around her neck.
During that moment in which he became distracted Kagome began to fall over the lip of the well, reflexively she reached for the nearest thing to try to balance herself. Unfortunately for Sesshoumaru she reflexively grabbed his tail. His wince turning into a grimace the youkai was too surprised to keep his own balance, much less hers, and fell into the well with her.
***
"'Hey let's go sight seeing' she says, 'Might be fun' she says," Reno grumbled wandering along the trail up the mountain. Elena had of coursed mentioned something so obvious that they had never done it and immediately suggested they check out the largest most stand-out thing in the whole of Wutai, the Da Chao. Somehow the blonde had managed to trip and twist her ankle not five minutes into the hike. Reno suggested that Rude take her back since he knew his friend (for reasons beyond him) had a crush on the blonde. Reno then took the female Turk's camera and promised to take some pictures for her, and as soon as he figured out how to work the timer she'd get one of the Da Chao statues and him flipping the bird.. or maybe mooning her he hadn't decided yet. "I hope you appreciate the boredom I'm putting myself through for you Rude."
He stopped infront of one of the statues, the large face that Yuffie and Elena had been tied to around six months ago. He grinned to himself and stepped onto the large stone hand inorder to get a good view of it through the lense. He scowled as he couldn't get the whole thing in the shot. He turned and nimbly made his way to the edge of the hand before taking the picture, before walking back onto the middle of the palm. He turned then and looked out over the land of Wutai.
Reno's breath caught in his throat, for a split second, from this point of veiw everything seemed different. Where the fuck did that come from? he thought, the last time he was up here he sure didn't get that feeling. Then again he was a little busy at the time.. Why here and now did he feel enlightened all of a sudden? He had seen views similar to this before, on missions, from choppers, what made this so different? He sighed, shaking his head. Turning he saw another path leading further up, never being one to quit halfway Reno decided to go at least as far as the trail would take him.
***
"Ite," Kagome muttered as she sat up. How long had she been out for? She looked around herself quickly and not noticing Sesshoumaru in her immediate vicinitey (i.e. in the well with her) she sighed with relief. "He must not have been able to come through with me." She looked up, about to climb out of the well before noticing something odd. "The sky? I can't still be in Sengoku Jidai, I would have had to have fallen in twice then." She looked around herself and felt something odd under her palm. Brushing some of the layer of dirt away Kagome picked up "A coin? What did someone wish for a fifteen year old school girl or something?"
She looked about and picked up a few other coins, she flipped it over in her hand confused. This doesn't look like any currency I've ever seen. What's this? She read the words on the coin. "Gil?" what's a gil? Ah well perhaps if she climbed out and jumped back in she'd end up home, or at least back with Inu Yasha and the others. Using vines that had grown into the well to climb out, Kagome could not help but think of the first time she climbed out of the bone eaters well and into Inu Yasha's life. It's been a little over two months since then. She thought as she climbed out of the well. She brushed herself off and put her bag down, it was later in the day now, it'd probably be night in an hour or so. She turned to take a look at her unfamilar surroundings, it was a forest again, but not one she was familiar with. She stopped when her eyes got to the other side of the well. She gasped and stepping back, tripped over her bag. Not fifteen feet from her, on the other side of the well was the body of a very large, very dead, very bloody monster.
I don't want to meet what killed that! I'm getting out of here! She stood quickly, but before she could grab her bag something grabbed her arm and swung her around, Kagome screamed. The thing let go of her arm but just as quickly grabbed hold of her face. Her eyes widened even further as they met with golden ones frammed with purple slashes, a blue cresant moon and white hair. "Tell me girl," he said as the sharp claw on his thumb squeezed just hard enough to draw blood from her cheek, "Where are we and how do we return?"
***
Reno trudged along, eyes mostly down cast as he kicked a rock, he would stop every once in a while to take a picture of some random statue or carving. He stopped as he noticed the trail getting rougher and less travelled. Turning his eyes up he scanned the area. All that remain before him was The top of the mountain about thirty feet up, a tree atop that, and then a little down, about fifty feet infront of him and to the left was a large hand, palm up with a figure sitting in the middle of it. He couldn't make out any details as the lowering sun was behind it and washed out the details. All he could tell for sure was that it was sitting in some medatative position. That's odd, it's a life size statue, all the other ones are huge. Why is this one so special? He pulled out the camera, thinking the siloutted figure looked cool enough from this angle. That done he decided to get a better look, it wasn't until he was half way to it that he realized it was a person, and then much to his chargin, realized it was none other than Yuffie.
He watched her in silence, stopping about ten feet away. I wonder how long she's been here. It looks like there's only the one path up this way and I've been here for... He looked at his watch, "An hour and a half!?" He muttered to himself in surprise, "How did I lose track of that much time?"
"This place has that effect."
He turned his eyes back to the sitting figure, she hadn't moved and he was quite surprised that they had heard each other over the wind that blew. For once not feeling the urge to be cocky he simply looked out over the landscape below them. "Yeah I guess it does."
"So what brings you up here Reno?" she asked, her voice neither blaming or suspicious.
The turk blinked, not only had she heard him, but she was able to recognize his voice. "We started sightseeing but Elena twisted her ankle. I told Rude to take her back an' said I'd take some pictures for her. Saw the path and since I don't like to leave things half finished I decided to go to the top." As he spoke he walked up, stopping right behind her, If he would have bent his legs to sit down they probably would have touched her back.
"You know you could just get her some postcards from a giftshop," she responded, he grinned hearing the humor in her voice.
"Yeah well I figured I'd give Rude some time alone with her, see if he'll finally make a move."
She turned and looked up at him a confused look on her face, "You mean-?"
"Yeah well, that and post cards don't have me giving her the finger."
Yuffie laughed, "Well I gotta say I'm glad to know I'm not the only one you torment."
"Well how can I resist teasing you?" Reno asked with a friendly grin on his face, "It's so easy to get a rise out of you. I just can't resist."
"Are you saying that you can't resist me?" she asked back in mock flirtation.
"Ahh Miss Kisaragi it wounds me that you could see through me so easily." Reno sighed dramatically, obiviously overdoing the whole thing.
She stood. "But I should have known all along," Yuffie replied with equal the dramatics, afterall she had seen enough soap operas to do this well enough, "All the while you were not trying to spurn me. You were only trying to guard your own heart."
"My lady you know me so well! How could I have ever been so foolish as to try and turn you away?"
"You were not, good sir, for I too was afriad of what could be. Your teasings only made it easier for me to pretend that I did not feel the love that I do."
"Then come to me my love! Jump into my arms!" Reno cried throwing his arms wide as if expecting a hug. It was at that point Yuffie could no longer take it and burst out laughing. "My love? Why do you laugh?"
She laughed and shook her head, "Come on you goof-ball, we need to head back, we don't want to be up here at night." She grabbed her conformer and started towards the trail
"Whatever you say my love! I shall follow you anywhere!"
She shook her head, realizing he would not let this game go anytime soon. "Please darling, do not speak so, or so loud, who knows who could be listening. And it would be outright scandalous if the news of our love should get out."
"But my heart's desire, I want to shout it out from the mountain tops!" He stopped, "And here we are on a mountain top!" He grinned widely.
Oh geeze, he better not seriously be considering this! "Please beloved, I beg of you, not yet. It is far too soon. We have only just admitted this to ourselves, we cannot so readily admit it to the world." But he would do it just to embarrass me.
He stepped closer to her. "If you wish for me to wait, but there is only one way for you to seal my lips for now."
She crossed her arms across her chest, no longer amused. "And how would I do that?"
He put one hand on her waist, she yelped as he pulled her body to his, "Why my love, with a kiss of course." He whispered deeply, looking deeply into her eyes. Her brown eyes wided as she stared at him, a slow blush crept up her cheeks, wow his eyes are... Suddenly she snapped out of that train of thought. "Well what is your answer beloved?"
"If that's how you want it, scream your head off," Yuffie said pushing herself away as she started walking back down the path, "If you want to stay up here and get attacked by monsters that's fine with me."
He grinned and trotted after her. "I am sorry my love, for I have offended thee. How ever shall I make it up to you?"
"Drop the act Reno."
"Of what act do you speak of? Never before have I been more true to myself or to you." Yuffie sighed and shook her head, the walk down was going to be longer than usual. "My Love? Please say something." She looked at him, Reno was grinning from ear to ear.
Much longer.
***
"So we can't go back?"
Why does he have to be so infernally calm about this!? "That's right genius, seeing as jumping back in didn't work I don't know what to do. Under normal circumstances only Inu Yasha and I can go through. And in order to get back to your time from mine I need a shikon shard, which I have, so this time it's obviously not the key."
"Then we need to find the key."
"Thank you Captian Obvious."
If she doesn't stop being so sarcastic I'm going to kill her even if it means I'll be stuck here. "Could we be in another time period? Earlier than mine or between ours?" He was still trying to get used to the idea that she was from the future, but it did explain her mannerisms and dress.
"I thought about that," she said digging into her pocket, once again speaking in a cool analytical tone. "But there was some money at the bottom of the well, I've never heard of this kind of currency." She tossed the coin to the youkai lord. He caught it easily and examined it. "There are alot of currencies out there, yen, dollars, pounds, rupees, francs, deuche marks, bhat... but I've never heard of gil." He tossed the coin back to her. "Any theories?"
Looking over at him she realized that she was looking at him as an ally, as though they had any other choice. "Only one, we are on a differnet plane of existence."
"Like another dimension!?"
"That is what I said."
"So.. you think we have to find another key, or do we have to do something. I mean is there a purpose we were sent here to fullfil?"
I hate to admit it but, "I know as much as you do." He finished aloud.
Slowly she brought her hand up to her cheek and the small cut made earlier by his claw. "So I suppose we have an agreement, I don't try to run away and you don't kill me until we find a way back?" She was quite surprised at how cooperative he was being... well cooperative for Sesshoumaru or any other stonefaced youkai she would imagine. The fact that she was still alive proved to her that he could be... "trusted" wasn't the word. She'd have to tred lightly as she didn't know what set him off and what didn't. She certainly didn't want to die in this unknown demension. But a part of her, the part that would not forget how Sesshoumaru had used the image of Inu Yasha's mother, or the horrible chest wound he gave him screamed for her to not trust him. But Kagome's mind knew she had little choice right now.
"I don't recall saying anything to that effect."
Kagome shrugged, "We still don't know if you can go through the well without me, I'd say that's reason enough to not kill me."
He simply glanced in her direction then turned away, Kuso that means I'll have to protect her as well since she is probably useless. He narrowed his eyes and began walking away from her. I should have just left her corpse to rot with all trouble she's causing me. He paused and turned his head slightly in her direction. "Coming?"
"Un!" Kagome quickly grabbed her bag and followed after him, hopefully that was his way of agreeing. "That thing you killed," she said after a few minutes of walking in silence, "I've never seen anything like it, what kind of youkai was-"
"It wasn't," he said cutting her off. "I have never seen a creature of that sort before. It had something similar to youki, but different." It was.. unnatural.
Kagome cast an uneasy glance at her bow, "I hope my powers work on the monsters here."
Sesshoumaru almost grinned at her statment. -Hmph- 'Monsters.' She probably puts me in the same category with that mindless ceature. Ironic, trusting one monster to protect you from others. 'The monster you know is not always as dangerous as the one you don't.'
Not long before sunset he stopped her. "We will rest here tonight." Was all he said before sitting down at the base of a tree, his tail uncurling from his arm to loop around behind him, acting like a cushion. Kagome dropped her bag and fished out her portable stove, a small kettle, and a thing of instant ramen. She offered him some but he refused.
Sesshoumaru watched her out of the corner of his eyes as she messed with her odd fire contraption and that odd food she had that cooked with hot water. It didn't smell all together awful but it didn't strike him as anything that would be that good either. When she was finished she looked around the small clearing, trying to decide how close to sleep to the deadly youkai with her. Deciding she'd rather not test his speed against the speed of anything that might be hungry out there Kagome lay down her sleeping bag about five feet from him. "Good night Sesshoumaru-san."
All she recieved for an answer was a glance in her direction.
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I gotta say I have NO clue where that scene with Reno and Yuffie came from! I was just thinking that given the time she spent calming down I didn't want her all pissy again already (there's plenty of time for that later :) Maybe it has something to do with it being 5 a.m. when I wrote that part...
And yeah I skipped the whole explination of the well and all that BS because well I dunno...
I got a pic OL of Sess holding Kag's face, it's an old one, but I decided to put that little scene in here (hee he just so I'd have a pic for it:) Though in this case Sess probably wouldn't be smiling... oh well. Like I said, old pic, maybe I'll redo it later... "http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se/fanq/l/e/lexa2/1kagsess.jpg.html"
A FF7/IY crossover Fanfic by Hika-chan
Chapter 1:Unexpected
"I swear, it gets easier every time!" Reno grinned, referring to how eaily he pissed off Yuffie. "I think it only took me two minutes."
Elena shook her head grinning, "Maybe next time we should time you."
"Hey that's not such a bad idea. Hey how long till happy hour?"
Rude looked at his watch, "Two hours."
"So," Elena began, "What do you want to do until then?" Reno opened his mouth to say something but Elena cut him off, "Other than torture Yuffie."
"Gee take away all my fun," Reno pouted.
Kagome opened her eyes, looking up through a different set of trees. "Eh?" Somehow this was not what she expected. Slowly she sat up and realized how she was dressed, she was still wearing her uniform, her bloody, slashed open in the front uniform. Am I dead or not? she wondered, pulling her shirt closed. "Hello? Anyone there?" She looked around, recognizing the river she was beside, then noticed she still had the shikon shards. "I must still be alive... but how? And how did I get over here?" She took the hankerchief off her uniform and wiped some of the blood away from her stomach. The wound was gone and in it's place was a thin scar, much smaller than what would have been there had the wound healed normally she was sure. "I should go back to the village." She looked down at herself, Wait, the blood might draw another youkai to the village... She knelt by the river and used her hankerchief to wash the blood off of her chest and leg.
That done she debated her next move. "I guess I should get my bag, and I definiely want to change my shirt before I go back! Who knows how Miroku and Inu Yasha would react!" She grinned to herself on her way back to the well, picturing a cute embarassed look on Inu Yasha's face. She reached the well a few moments later her large pack right where she had left it. She opened it and pulled out another long sleeved shirt. In case Inu Yasha were to come across her she decided to make use of the female talent of putting one shirt on over the other, then taking the under one off through her sleeve. She was greatful that somehow her bra remained intact. That done she picked up her heavy pack, ready to head back to the village. Still facing the well she froze as she felt someone behind her.
Slowly she turned...
"Of all the NERVE!" Yuffie growled, "I swear one of these days I'm gonna chop his head off or something!" Of course he couldn't have left it off when he started walking away, noOOOoo. He had to ambush her when she got to town just piss her off more. The ninja paused a moment to take a deep cleansing breath. Not working quite as well so she did it again. This was not working... She sighed, "I need to go somewhere quiet..." Without another word she headed up the path to the Da Chao.
Why he had moved her to the river was beyond him, maybe he just wanted to confuse her, see how she would react. Sesshoumaru had watched her actions closely since she awoke. Her actions were both intelligent and stupid. True the blood could draw other youkai, but likely only weak youkai that even his pathetic half brother could defeat. That done she didn't even go straight back to the feeble protection of the village, instead she went to the well. He watched as the began the odd ritual of changing her clothes the way she did. Oh well that just gave him a chance to confront this interesting specimin of a human right now. As she picked up her riduculously large pack he landed silently behind her.
He grinned inside as he noticed her body tense upon noticing his prescence. Slowly she turned around. As he expected her eyes were the blue the Tenseiga had shown him. He looked down at her, staring emotionlessly. Given how calmly she reacted before, the next second went by quite unexpectedly. She yelped in surprise and fear, that coupled with the weight of her bag made her lose her balance. While this was going on Sesshoumaru winced as her cry reached his ears. Then was distracted by Tenseiga beginning pulse at his side in tune with the shards around her neck.
During that moment in which he became distracted Kagome began to fall over the lip of the well, reflexively she reached for the nearest thing to try to balance herself. Unfortunately for Sesshoumaru she reflexively grabbed his tail. His wince turning into a grimace the youkai was too surprised to keep his own balance, much less hers, and fell into the well with her.
"'Hey let's go sight seeing' she says, 'Might be fun' she says," Reno grumbled wandering along the trail up the mountain. Elena had of coursed mentioned something so obvious that they had never done it and immediately suggested they check out the largest most stand-out thing in the whole of Wutai, the Da Chao. Somehow the blonde had managed to trip and twist her ankle not five minutes into the hike. Reno suggested that Rude take her back since he knew his friend (for reasons beyond him) had a crush on the blonde. Reno then took the female Turk's camera and promised to take some pictures for her, and as soon as he figured out how to work the timer she'd get one of the Da Chao statues and him flipping the bird.. or maybe mooning her he hadn't decided yet. "I hope you appreciate the boredom I'm putting myself through for you Rude."
He stopped infront of one of the statues, the large face that Yuffie and Elena had been tied to around six months ago. He grinned to himself and stepped onto the large stone hand inorder to get a good view of it through the lense. He scowled as he couldn't get the whole thing in the shot. He turned and nimbly made his way to the edge of the hand before taking the picture, before walking back onto the middle of the palm. He turned then and looked out over the land of Wutai.
Reno's breath caught in his throat, for a split second, from this point of veiw everything seemed different. Where the fuck did that come from? he thought, the last time he was up here he sure didn't get that feeling. Then again he was a little busy at the time.. Why here and now did he feel enlightened all of a sudden? He had seen views similar to this before, on missions, from choppers, what made this so different? He sighed, shaking his head. Turning he saw another path leading further up, never being one to quit halfway Reno decided to go at least as far as the trail would take him.
"Ite," Kagome muttered as she sat up. How long had she been out for? She looked around herself quickly and not noticing Sesshoumaru in her immediate vicinitey (i.e. in the well with her) she sighed with relief. "He must not have been able to come through with me." She looked up, about to climb out of the well before noticing something odd. "The sky? I can't still be in Sengoku Jidai, I would have had to have fallen in twice then." She looked around herself and felt something odd under her palm. Brushing some of the layer of dirt away Kagome picked up "A coin? What did someone wish for a fifteen year old school girl or something?"
She looked about and picked up a few other coins, she flipped it over in her hand confused. This doesn't look like any currency I've ever seen. What's this? She read the words on the coin. "Gil?" what's a gil? Ah well perhaps if she climbed out and jumped back in she'd end up home, or at least back with Inu Yasha and the others. Using vines that had grown into the well to climb out, Kagome could not help but think of the first time she climbed out of the bone eaters well and into Inu Yasha's life. It's been a little over two months since then. She thought as she climbed out of the well. She brushed herself off and put her bag down, it was later in the day now, it'd probably be night in an hour or so. She turned to take a look at her unfamilar surroundings, it was a forest again, but not one she was familiar with. She stopped when her eyes got to the other side of the well. She gasped and stepping back, tripped over her bag. Not fifteen feet from her, on the other side of the well was the body of a very large, very dead, very bloody monster.
I don't want to meet what killed that! I'm getting out of here! She stood quickly, but before she could grab her bag something grabbed her arm and swung her around, Kagome screamed. The thing let go of her arm but just as quickly grabbed hold of her face. Her eyes widened even further as they met with golden ones frammed with purple slashes, a blue cresant moon and white hair. "Tell me girl," he said as the sharp claw on his thumb squeezed just hard enough to draw blood from her cheek, "Where are we and how do we return?"
Reno trudged along, eyes mostly down cast as he kicked a rock, he would stop every once in a while to take a picture of some random statue or carving. He stopped as he noticed the trail getting rougher and less travelled. Turning his eyes up he scanned the area. All that remain before him was The top of the mountain about thirty feet up, a tree atop that, and then a little down, about fifty feet infront of him and to the left was a large hand, palm up with a figure sitting in the middle of it. He couldn't make out any details as the lowering sun was behind it and washed out the details. All he could tell for sure was that it was sitting in some medatative position. That's odd, it's a life size statue, all the other ones are huge. Why is this one so special? He pulled out the camera, thinking the siloutted figure looked cool enough from this angle. That done he decided to get a better look, it wasn't until he was half way to it that he realized it was a person, and then much to his chargin, realized it was none other than Yuffie.
He watched her in silence, stopping about ten feet away. I wonder how long she's been here. It looks like there's only the one path up this way and I've been here for... He looked at his watch, "An hour and a half!?" He muttered to himself in surprise, "How did I lose track of that much time?"
"This place has that effect."
He turned his eyes back to the sitting figure, she hadn't moved and he was quite surprised that they had heard each other over the wind that blew. For once not feeling the urge to be cocky he simply looked out over the landscape below them. "Yeah I guess it does."
"So what brings you up here Reno?" she asked, her voice neither blaming or suspicious.
The turk blinked, not only had she heard him, but she was able to recognize his voice. "We started sightseeing but Elena twisted her ankle. I told Rude to take her back an' said I'd take some pictures for her. Saw the path and since I don't like to leave things half finished I decided to go to the top." As he spoke he walked up, stopping right behind her, If he would have bent his legs to sit down they probably would have touched her back.
"You know you could just get her some postcards from a giftshop," she responded, he grinned hearing the humor in her voice.
"Yeah well I figured I'd give Rude some time alone with her, see if he'll finally make a move."
She turned and looked up at him a confused look on her face, "You mean-?"
"Yeah well, that and post cards don't have me giving her the finger."
Yuffie laughed, "Well I gotta say I'm glad to know I'm not the only one you torment."
"Well how can I resist teasing you?" Reno asked with a friendly grin on his face, "It's so easy to get a rise out of you. I just can't resist."
"Are you saying that you can't resist me?" she asked back in mock flirtation.
"Ahh Miss Kisaragi it wounds me that you could see through me so easily." Reno sighed dramatically, obiviously overdoing the whole thing.
She stood. "But I should have known all along," Yuffie replied with equal the dramatics, afterall she had seen enough soap operas to do this well enough, "All the while you were not trying to spurn me. You were only trying to guard your own heart."
"My lady you know me so well! How could I have ever been so foolish as to try and turn you away?"
"You were not, good sir, for I too was afriad of what could be. Your teasings only made it easier for me to pretend that I did not feel the love that I do."
"Then come to me my love! Jump into my arms!" Reno cried throwing his arms wide as if expecting a hug. It was at that point Yuffie could no longer take it and burst out laughing. "My love? Why do you laugh?"
She laughed and shook her head, "Come on you goof-ball, we need to head back, we don't want to be up here at night." She grabbed her conformer and started towards the trail
"Whatever you say my love! I shall follow you anywhere!"
She shook her head, realizing he would not let this game go anytime soon. "Please darling, do not speak so, or so loud, who knows who could be listening. And it would be outright scandalous if the news of our love should get out."
"But my heart's desire, I want to shout it out from the mountain tops!" He stopped, "And here we are on a mountain top!" He grinned widely.
Oh geeze, he better not seriously be considering this! "Please beloved, I beg of you, not yet. It is far too soon. We have only just admitted this to ourselves, we cannot so readily admit it to the world." But he would do it just to embarrass me.
He stepped closer to her. "If you wish for me to wait, but there is only one way for you to seal my lips for now."
She crossed her arms across her chest, no longer amused. "And how would I do that?"
He put one hand on her waist, she yelped as he pulled her body to his, "Why my love, with a kiss of course." He whispered deeply, looking deeply into her eyes. Her brown eyes wided as she stared at him, a slow blush crept up her cheeks, wow his eyes are... Suddenly she snapped out of that train of thought. "Well what is your answer beloved?"
"If that's how you want it, scream your head off," Yuffie said pushing herself away as she started walking back down the path, "If you want to stay up here and get attacked by monsters that's fine with me."
He grinned and trotted after her. "I am sorry my love, for I have offended thee. How ever shall I make it up to you?"
"Drop the act Reno."
"Of what act do you speak of? Never before have I been more true to myself or to you." Yuffie sighed and shook her head, the walk down was going to be longer than usual. "My Love? Please say something." She looked at him, Reno was grinning from ear to ear.
Much longer.
"So we can't go back?"
Why does he have to be so infernally calm about this!? "That's right genius, seeing as jumping back in didn't work I don't know what to do. Under normal circumstances only Inu Yasha and I can go through. And in order to get back to your time from mine I need a shikon shard, which I have, so this time it's obviously not the key."
"Then we need to find the key."
"Thank you Captian Obvious."
If she doesn't stop being so sarcastic I'm going to kill her even if it means I'll be stuck here. "Could we be in another time period? Earlier than mine or between ours?" He was still trying to get used to the idea that she was from the future, but it did explain her mannerisms and dress.
"I thought about that," she said digging into her pocket, once again speaking in a cool analytical tone. "But there was some money at the bottom of the well, I've never heard of this kind of currency." She tossed the coin to the youkai lord. He caught it easily and examined it. "There are alot of currencies out there, yen, dollars, pounds, rupees, francs, deuche marks, bhat... but I've never heard of gil." He tossed the coin back to her. "Any theories?"
Looking over at him she realized that she was looking at him as an ally, as though they had any other choice. "Only one, we are on a differnet plane of existence."
"Like another dimension!?"
"That is what I said."
"So.. you think we have to find another key, or do we have to do something. I mean is there a purpose we were sent here to fullfil?"
I hate to admit it but, "I know as much as you do." He finished aloud.
Slowly she brought her hand up to her cheek and the small cut made earlier by his claw. "So I suppose we have an agreement, I don't try to run away and you don't kill me until we find a way back?" She was quite surprised at how cooperative he was being... well cooperative for Sesshoumaru or any other stonefaced youkai she would imagine. The fact that she was still alive proved to her that he could be... "trusted" wasn't the word. She'd have to tred lightly as she didn't know what set him off and what didn't. She certainly didn't want to die in this unknown demension. But a part of her, the part that would not forget how Sesshoumaru had used the image of Inu Yasha's mother, or the horrible chest wound he gave him screamed for her to not trust him. But Kagome's mind knew she had little choice right now.
"I don't recall saying anything to that effect."
Kagome shrugged, "We still don't know if you can go through the well without me, I'd say that's reason enough to not kill me."
He simply glanced in her direction then turned away, Kuso that means I'll have to protect her as well since she is probably useless. He narrowed his eyes and began walking away from her. I should have just left her corpse to rot with all trouble she's causing me. He paused and turned his head slightly in her direction. "Coming?"
"Un!" Kagome quickly grabbed her bag and followed after him, hopefully that was his way of agreeing. "That thing you killed," she said after a few minutes of walking in silence, "I've never seen anything like it, what kind of youkai was-"
"It wasn't," he said cutting her off. "I have never seen a creature of that sort before. It had something similar to youki, but different." It was.. unnatural.
Kagome cast an uneasy glance at her bow, "I hope my powers work on the monsters here."
Sesshoumaru almost grinned at her statment. -Hmph- 'Monsters.' She probably puts me in the same category with that mindless ceature. Ironic, trusting one monster to protect you from others. 'The monster you know is not always as dangerous as the one you don't.'
Not long before sunset he stopped her. "We will rest here tonight." Was all he said before sitting down at the base of a tree, his tail uncurling from his arm to loop around behind him, acting like a cushion. Kagome dropped her bag and fished out her portable stove, a small kettle, and a thing of instant ramen. She offered him some but he refused.
Sesshoumaru watched her out of the corner of his eyes as she messed with her odd fire contraption and that odd food she had that cooked with hot water. It didn't smell all together awful but it didn't strike him as anything that would be that good either. When she was finished she looked around the small clearing, trying to decide how close to sleep to the deadly youkai with her. Deciding she'd rather not test his speed against the speed of anything that might be hungry out there Kagome lay down her sleeping bag about five feet from him. "Good night Sesshoumaru-san."
All she recieved for an answer was a glance in her direction.
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I gotta say I have NO clue where that scene with Reno and Yuffie came from! I was just thinking that given the time she spent calming down I didn't want her all pissy again already (there's plenty of time for that later :) Maybe it has something to do with it being 5 a.m. when I wrote that part...
And yeah I skipped the whole explination of the well and all that BS because well I dunno...
I got a pic OL of Sess holding Kag's face, it's an old one, but I decided to put that little scene in here (hee he just so I'd have a pic for it:) Though in this case Sess probably wouldn't be smiling... oh well. Like I said, old pic, maybe I'll redo it later... "http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se/fanq/l/e/lexa2/1kagsess.jpg.html"