I Don't own the guys
I don't own the gals
don't sue, money flies
and let's all be pals
A World Away
Chapter 4: What You Wouldn't Think
"Years have gone; I recognize the walking dead,
Now aware that I'm alive and way ahead.
Too Bad the things that make you mad
are my favorite things
And I'm so happy"
Favorite Things - Incubus
"Sesshoumaru! Where are you going?!"
He paused and turned to the miko-girl. "You need not know."
"Yeah I do, so that way I know if something happens whether or not I need to intervene."
"You really think I would beleive that you would not stick you nose in anything is something were to happen? Wheter or not I was involved."
She almost answered then shut her mouth. She smiled sheepishly, "I guess you're right."
"Besides you have no need to worry about me, I plan to spend some time alone." He narrowed his eyes dangerously at her, "Remember miko I have more control than my half brother, and I do not require a baby sitter like he."
Kagome took a step back, "I.. I didn't mean."
"I will return later," he said not even trying to listen to her attempted apology.
Yuffie came up beside Kagome who still looked somewhat frazzled, "So how is it Sesshoumaru hasn't killed you yet?"
Kagome was about to answer before she closed her mouth, realizing she had to think about that one. "I don't know... I guess because he's probably a sensible guy sometimes... I don't really know to be perfectly honest."
***
In actuality Sesshoumaru was not the bloodythirsty youkai most people made him out to be. True he'd killed quite a few humans recently, but that wasn't the point. The point was why. He was Lord of the Western lands and part of that entailed protecting those in his domain, even if that also included the humans who lived there. So how did killing humans protect them? Simple, it's a warring age, where soldiers and so called samurai would demand food, tribute and occasionally women from whatever villages they happened to stop by. Those that refused were often razed or plundered at the least. Besides petty human battles and territories did not concern him, it did not change what area was under his control and protection, the battles were only bad for his land.
It was easy to draw out those warriors he would protect his land from, once all he did was stand on the side of the road and he was attacked by a unit of soldiers, they were all dead in an instant. So what if he happened to have a new arm he was testing at the moment. It still remains that they attacked him first and would have killed him were he an ordinary man upon that same trail. Indeed it was ironic he thought, that he had such a horrible, fearsome reputation for doing what he was meant to do the entire time.
He liked that though, the fear and respect people and youkai held for him meant that he was often left alone. And there were many times that he enjoyed being alone, the silence and peace it offered him, though sometimes it was not so nice. Almost as often as the Youkai lord felt peace he also felt alone in the quiet. But today was one of those days he felt peace. Being stuck in the same house as the miko and ninja girl had been driving him up the wall, so here he was sitting on the giant palm of a statue overlooking this strange new land, reveling in the peace and quite before he would have to face the loud human girls and whatever adventure lay ahead of them.
***
The next day came and the two girls, the Turk and the youkai, sat in Yuffie's living room. "Oh Sesshoumaru-sama?"
He raised a brow at the ninja girl.
"I forgot to tell the others you look like Sephiroth so when they get here please try not to kill anyone."
Kagome laughed and Reno sputtered, "You didn't tell them!? I sure as hell hope you got insurance brat because this place is gonna turn into a warzone the second they get here!"
A smirk almost touched Sesshoumaru's lips. "It would't last that long," he said flatly.
"I don't know about that Sesshoumaru," Kagome said, "Some of these guys have guns, you've never had to deal with those before."
"Guns?" he asked, somewhat curious about the foriegn word.
"You'll see I'm sure, just hopefully not first hand."
"I'll show ya," Reno said pulling out a 9mm, "this is your average hand gun. Think of it as a really high tech bow" Sesshoumaru watched, somewhat curiously as he pulled a part of the 'hand gun' off and pulled a small metal object out of it. "Gun's shoot these, they're called bullets."
Sesshoumaru took the small object in hand and examined it, "It does not look very dangerous."
"Yeah well, not like that it isn't. But a gun shoots the bullet out at incredible speeds, much faster than an arrow."
Kagome and Yuffie watched, speechless as the to men talked of the weapon. Didn't they hate each other just yesterday? Kagome just sighed and looked to Yuffie, "Boys with toys I guess."
Suddenly Sesshoumaru lifted his head, "What is that sound?"
"What sound?" A moment later Yuffie heard it, "Oh that must be the Highwind. Come on let's go meet them out there!" She ran out the door with Kagome close on her heels. The youkai and the Turk just looked at each other before clamly following.
Cloud and Barret were the first off the ship, "Alright Yuffie who are these people you wanted us to help?"
Yuffie leapt up and hugged Barret before doing the same to Cloud. "Oh I missed you guys! Anyway this is Kagome and there's Se-"
"Sephiroth!?"
***
"Where is she!?" the hanyou growled, "she should have been here yesterday!"
"Come now Inu Yasha," Kaede sighed, "You know as well as I do that Kagome has responsibilities in her world as well. Why don't you give her some more time to work on those?"
"Because, Kaede-baba, I let you convince me into giving her yesterday!" his voice lowered some, "Besides she said she would be back by today at the latest. So I'm going to get her." And so the Hanyou rushed out of the hut towards the old bone eaters well. He stopped once he reached the clearing. He blinked at the sight before him, beside the well lying face down on the ground was a woman.
***
Before Yuffie could say anything else Barret had fired. Sesshoumaru and the Turk quickly dodged to either side. "Wait guys!" Before she knew what was going on Kagome was picked up off the ground with a yelp. She turned her head to look up at Sesshoumaru who seemed to be thinking, probably formulating a strategy of attack, while dodging more of the bullets. When he stopped Kagome nearly panicked before she realized the whoever had the gun was not firing at the moment.
"You guys, stop he's not-"
"Using the girl as a shield Sephiroth?" Cloud spat, "Somehow I thought you were above that."
"Will you listen to-"
"I am not using her as a shield, I was saving her from your friend's recklessness."
"He's not Seph-"
"I beat you once Sephiroth, I will do it again."
"I said-"
"You could never defeat me you worthless mortal."
"Hello! Is anyone listenitng to me?
"Oh so now you're immortal?"
"Oh fer, cryin' out loud."
"It would seem that way." Sesshoumaru almost grinned, this boy was a fun to bait as Inu Yasha. Kagome, still being held at his side like so much luggage just sighed and rested her head in her chin.
"Well that just means I'll have to try a little harder this tim-"
"I SAID HE'S NOT SEPHIROTH YOU BAKA!!" Yuffie yelled, almost in Cloud's ear. Cloud winced and almost immediately dropped his sword to cover his ears. Yuffie took a deep satisfying breath, and looked around at the others who had come down during the verbal battle between Cloud and the youkai. "Now like I was saying before Barret opened fire. this is Kagome and Sesshoumaru. They are the one's I told you guys about."
Kagome waved from her position under Sesshoumaru's arm. "Konnichiwa, nice to meet you guys." If it was something that he did, Sesshoumaru would have rolled his eyes. But since that was something he never did he simply dropped the miko on the ground. "Hey! That hurt!"
"You'll recover," he said flatly.
"Jerk," she muttered.
"Man I can't believe you guys! The way you guys operate I'm surprised you managed to even make it to Sephiroth! Much less beat him"
Tifa blinked, "Yuffie is that..."
"Hmm? Oh yeah, that's Reno."
"And why the fuck is he here?" Cid asked coldly.
Yuffie looked over at the Turk who was now, obviously baiting Cloud into a fight with a grin palstered across his face. "I think he's here on vacation."
***
Inu Yasha approached the unconcious form cautiously. She smelled human, but not quite. Oddly enough though it was not like anything he had ever smelled before, it didn't fill him with a negative feeling this smell. Unlike the scent of a youkai which when smelled would register immediately as dangerous. He turned the girl over carefully, she didn't seem to be injured, but there was a large sploch of blood on her stomach and the same spot on her back. While the blood was there though, there was no fresh wound he could smell, and her clothes had no holes in them. And of course there was the obvious fact that she was still alive, despite the fact that blood smelled like it was hers.
The Hanyou took a closer look at the woman. She had long brown hair that looked like it would go down past her waist. And then there was her clothes. She wore a pink, well he guessed it was a dress, it was longer than anything Kagome had ever worn, and a short red jacket. Big brown shoes covered her feet, there were metal bands on both her wrists with round colored beads in them and a ribbion tied around her neck.
He sniffed around a bit more, growling when he picked up traces of his brother's scent and Kagome's what the hell was going on? As much as he wanted to look into this further right now first thing was first, he had to get this girl back to the villiage, maybe she would know something.
***
She pulled at the discolored threads tainting his essence, casting them upon the winds. Tiredly she wiped the back of her hand against her forehead. This was taking longer than she had expected. Of course she shouldn't have expected it to be easy, he was infected, nearly every cell in his body was. It was taking intense concentration on her part to carefully pull the little bits of darkness out of him. At least gathering his spirit had not been too bad, heck that was the easy part. She was also happy that her daughter was not angry with her, in fact she had helped when she could.
The woman was very grateful for that, this fine tuned work made her eyes hurt... though technically she didn't have eyes anymore or a body to speak of. But being in this form was familiar and comfortable.
She sighed and went around to the front of the figure before her. He was a handsome man, the killer looked so innocent in the sleep like state he was suspended in. She frowned at her progress she had not really gotten that far. From about the waist down he was nothing but swirling strings of green-white light tainted with purple-blacks and ugly brownish green colors. She shook her head, trying to rid herself of this negative feeling, she was doing well. The highest concentration of his infection had been in his head after all. She looked at what there was of his form with pity in her eyes. "You poor boy... don't worry I'll help make you better." She whispered, brushing a stray silver strand from his face.
------------------------------------- Hika-chan: MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAhaHA!! AHAHAHA!! ha ahahHAHAHAHA! Reno: *twacks her upside the head* Hika-chan: HaHA- OW! WTF was that for? Reno: Chibi thing's like you shouldn't be laughing maniacally, it's just creepy. Hika-chan: *Grynz*
I don't own the gals
don't sue, money flies
and let's all be pals
A World Away
Chapter 4: What You Wouldn't Think
"Years have gone; I recognize the walking dead,
Now aware that I'm alive and way ahead.
Too Bad the things that make you mad
are my favorite things
And I'm so happy"
Favorite Things - Incubus
"Sesshoumaru! Where are you going?!"
He paused and turned to the miko-girl. "You need not know."
"Yeah I do, so that way I know if something happens whether or not I need to intervene."
"You really think I would beleive that you would not stick you nose in anything is something were to happen? Wheter or not I was involved."
She almost answered then shut her mouth. She smiled sheepishly, "I guess you're right."
"Besides you have no need to worry about me, I plan to spend some time alone." He narrowed his eyes dangerously at her, "Remember miko I have more control than my half brother, and I do not require a baby sitter like he."
Kagome took a step back, "I.. I didn't mean."
"I will return later," he said not even trying to listen to her attempted apology.
Yuffie came up beside Kagome who still looked somewhat frazzled, "So how is it Sesshoumaru hasn't killed you yet?"
Kagome was about to answer before she closed her mouth, realizing she had to think about that one. "I don't know... I guess because he's probably a sensible guy sometimes... I don't really know to be perfectly honest."
In actuality Sesshoumaru was not the bloodythirsty youkai most people made him out to be. True he'd killed quite a few humans recently, but that wasn't the point. The point was why. He was Lord of the Western lands and part of that entailed protecting those in his domain, even if that also included the humans who lived there. So how did killing humans protect them? Simple, it's a warring age, where soldiers and so called samurai would demand food, tribute and occasionally women from whatever villages they happened to stop by. Those that refused were often razed or plundered at the least. Besides petty human battles and territories did not concern him, it did not change what area was under his control and protection, the battles were only bad for his land.
It was easy to draw out those warriors he would protect his land from, once all he did was stand on the side of the road and he was attacked by a unit of soldiers, they were all dead in an instant. So what if he happened to have a new arm he was testing at the moment. It still remains that they attacked him first and would have killed him were he an ordinary man upon that same trail. Indeed it was ironic he thought, that he had such a horrible, fearsome reputation for doing what he was meant to do the entire time.
He liked that though, the fear and respect people and youkai held for him meant that he was often left alone. And there were many times that he enjoyed being alone, the silence and peace it offered him, though sometimes it was not so nice. Almost as often as the Youkai lord felt peace he also felt alone in the quiet. But today was one of those days he felt peace. Being stuck in the same house as the miko and ninja girl had been driving him up the wall, so here he was sitting on the giant palm of a statue overlooking this strange new land, reveling in the peace and quite before he would have to face the loud human girls and whatever adventure lay ahead of them.
The next day came and the two girls, the Turk and the youkai, sat in Yuffie's living room. "Oh Sesshoumaru-sama?"
He raised a brow at the ninja girl.
"I forgot to tell the others you look like Sephiroth so when they get here please try not to kill anyone."
Kagome laughed and Reno sputtered, "You didn't tell them!? I sure as hell hope you got insurance brat because this place is gonna turn into a warzone the second they get here!"
A smirk almost touched Sesshoumaru's lips. "It would't last that long," he said flatly.
"I don't know about that Sesshoumaru," Kagome said, "Some of these guys have guns, you've never had to deal with those before."
"Guns?" he asked, somewhat curious about the foriegn word.
"You'll see I'm sure, just hopefully not first hand."
"I'll show ya," Reno said pulling out a 9mm, "this is your average hand gun. Think of it as a really high tech bow" Sesshoumaru watched, somewhat curiously as he pulled a part of the 'hand gun' off and pulled a small metal object out of it. "Gun's shoot these, they're called bullets."
Sesshoumaru took the small object in hand and examined it, "It does not look very dangerous."
"Yeah well, not like that it isn't. But a gun shoots the bullet out at incredible speeds, much faster than an arrow."
Kagome and Yuffie watched, speechless as the to men talked of the weapon. Didn't they hate each other just yesterday? Kagome just sighed and looked to Yuffie, "Boys with toys I guess."
Suddenly Sesshoumaru lifted his head, "What is that sound?"
"What sound?" A moment later Yuffie heard it, "Oh that must be the Highwind. Come on let's go meet them out there!" She ran out the door with Kagome close on her heels. The youkai and the Turk just looked at each other before clamly following.
Cloud and Barret were the first off the ship, "Alright Yuffie who are these people you wanted us to help?"
Yuffie leapt up and hugged Barret before doing the same to Cloud. "Oh I missed you guys! Anyway this is Kagome and there's Se-"
"Sephiroth!?"
"Where is she!?" the hanyou growled, "she should have been here yesterday!"
"Come now Inu Yasha," Kaede sighed, "You know as well as I do that Kagome has responsibilities in her world as well. Why don't you give her some more time to work on those?"
"Because, Kaede-baba, I let you convince me into giving her yesterday!" his voice lowered some, "Besides she said she would be back by today at the latest. So I'm going to get her." And so the Hanyou rushed out of the hut towards the old bone eaters well. He stopped once he reached the clearing. He blinked at the sight before him, beside the well lying face down on the ground was a woman.
Before Yuffie could say anything else Barret had fired. Sesshoumaru and the Turk quickly dodged to either side. "Wait guys!" Before she knew what was going on Kagome was picked up off the ground with a yelp. She turned her head to look up at Sesshoumaru who seemed to be thinking, probably formulating a strategy of attack, while dodging more of the bullets. When he stopped Kagome nearly panicked before she realized the whoever had the gun was not firing at the moment.
"You guys, stop he's not-"
"Using the girl as a shield Sephiroth?" Cloud spat, "Somehow I thought you were above that."
"Will you listen to-"
"I am not using her as a shield, I was saving her from your friend's recklessness."
"He's not Seph-"
"I beat you once Sephiroth, I will do it again."
"I said-"
"You could never defeat me you worthless mortal."
"Hello! Is anyone listenitng to me?
"Oh so now you're immortal?"
"Oh fer, cryin' out loud."
"It would seem that way." Sesshoumaru almost grinned, this boy was a fun to bait as Inu Yasha. Kagome, still being held at his side like so much luggage just sighed and rested her head in her chin.
"Well that just means I'll have to try a little harder this tim-"
"I SAID HE'S NOT SEPHIROTH YOU BAKA!!" Yuffie yelled, almost in Cloud's ear. Cloud winced and almost immediately dropped his sword to cover his ears. Yuffie took a deep satisfying breath, and looked around at the others who had come down during the verbal battle between Cloud and the youkai. "Now like I was saying before Barret opened fire. this is Kagome and Sesshoumaru. They are the one's I told you guys about."
Kagome waved from her position under Sesshoumaru's arm. "Konnichiwa, nice to meet you guys." If it was something that he did, Sesshoumaru would have rolled his eyes. But since that was something he never did he simply dropped the miko on the ground. "Hey! That hurt!"
"You'll recover," he said flatly.
"Jerk," she muttered.
"Man I can't believe you guys! The way you guys operate I'm surprised you managed to even make it to Sephiroth! Much less beat him"
Tifa blinked, "Yuffie is that..."
"Hmm? Oh yeah, that's Reno."
"And why the fuck is he here?" Cid asked coldly.
Yuffie looked over at the Turk who was now, obviously baiting Cloud into a fight with a grin palstered across his face. "I think he's here on vacation."
Inu Yasha approached the unconcious form cautiously. She smelled human, but not quite. Oddly enough though it was not like anything he had ever smelled before, it didn't fill him with a negative feeling this smell. Unlike the scent of a youkai which when smelled would register immediately as dangerous. He turned the girl over carefully, she didn't seem to be injured, but there was a large sploch of blood on her stomach and the same spot on her back. While the blood was there though, there was no fresh wound he could smell, and her clothes had no holes in them. And of course there was the obvious fact that she was still alive, despite the fact that blood smelled like it was hers.
The Hanyou took a closer look at the woman. She had long brown hair that looked like it would go down past her waist. And then there was her clothes. She wore a pink, well he guessed it was a dress, it was longer than anything Kagome had ever worn, and a short red jacket. Big brown shoes covered her feet, there were metal bands on both her wrists with round colored beads in them and a ribbion tied around her neck.
He sniffed around a bit more, growling when he picked up traces of his brother's scent and Kagome's what the hell was going on? As much as he wanted to look into this further right now first thing was first, he had to get this girl back to the villiage, maybe she would know something.
She pulled at the discolored threads tainting his essence, casting them upon the winds. Tiredly she wiped the back of her hand against her forehead. This was taking longer than she had expected. Of course she shouldn't have expected it to be easy, he was infected, nearly every cell in his body was. It was taking intense concentration on her part to carefully pull the little bits of darkness out of him. At least gathering his spirit had not been too bad, heck that was the easy part. She was also happy that her daughter was not angry with her, in fact she had helped when she could.
The woman was very grateful for that, this fine tuned work made her eyes hurt... though technically she didn't have eyes anymore or a body to speak of. But being in this form was familiar and comfortable.
She sighed and went around to the front of the figure before her. He was a handsome man, the killer looked so innocent in the sleep like state he was suspended in. She frowned at her progress she had not really gotten that far. From about the waist down he was nothing but swirling strings of green-white light tainted with purple-blacks and ugly brownish green colors. She shook her head, trying to rid herself of this negative feeling, she was doing well. The highest concentration of his infection had been in his head after all. She looked at what there was of his form with pity in her eyes. "You poor boy... don't worry I'll help make you better." She whispered, brushing a stray silver strand from his face.
------------------------------------- Hika-chan: MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAhaHA!! AHAHAHA!! ha ahahHAHAHAHA! Reno: *twacks her upside the head* Hika-chan: HaHA- OW! WTF was that for? Reno: Chibi thing's like you shouldn't be laughing maniacally, it's just creepy. Hika-chan: *Grynz*