{___} that is Kati's comments, not part of the story
When its in two of these (( like this)) that means its Chels-dawg is talking, its not in the fanfic!!!
Underline is the beginning of a chapter
-~-~-~-~-~- Means around same time, different setting, same character(s)
_-_-_-_-_-_ Means Around same time, different people
*-*-*-*-*-* Means years apart baby!! Long time no see
Kati: The song by Sum41 does not belong to us, we only thought the title suited the chapter! By the way, Chels is being a lazy bum and is determined to make our fic suck more than the parallel universe one she's got going for it, so go visit what she's got and see which is better.
Chapter Six: Running Fast and Missing
"Wow! We're kinda high, aren't we?" Unmei glanced down at the clouds "When do we plan on landing?"
Kannokki grunted then he transformed back into his regular form and they went plunging to the ground.
"Errm!! NOT WHAT I HAD INTENDED!!!!!" She called.
"YAHHHHHH!!!!" Rinku hit a tree and Kannokki landed firmly on the ground. She stood up, balanced on the branch and looked around for Unmei .
"Over here" Unmei hung, looking rather undignified, by her kimono from a nearby tree.
"Heh ^-^" Rinku jumped over and sat on the branch Unmei was hanging from. "So what now??"
"Now, we find a place to hide..." Unmei rights herself. "The little flying thing will send Sesshomaru on a detour for a while, not long enough though."
Unmei looked around... then spotting the Tensaiga, she leapt to the ground and picked it up.
"Little flying thing??"
"Errm, you know."
Kannokki sat there like he was doing nothing and stared off into space.
"Well, we've gotta go find my father... his body at least."
"Okkies ^-^" Rinku jumped down from the tree.
"And to do that we've gotta go back to the village." Unmei flinched.
Rinku's ears perked "village..."
"Yup, the village."
She sat for a moment unsure of her experiences with VILLAGES!!, but then flicked her claws and grined. "ok lets go!! ^_^"
"Alright!" And they were off.
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"Hasn't changed much, has it?" Unmei Rinku and Kannokki sauntered through the village.
"Uh, um I guess" she shuddered
Her eyes widened as she saw a pile of wood that used to be a house/cabin thingy..... her mothers
"You really don't like this place, if you don't wanna come you can stay on the out skirts of town, I won't be long." Unmei glanced uncertainly at her companion
She snorted and growled avoiding it, Kannokki just... was.. um.... kannokki
"naw its ok ^-^"
((NAW!!))
((HAH))
"Fine."
she took one last glimpse of it and trotted after Unmei. ((do they run into inu!))
Unmei trotted up to one of the humans working in the field. "Hey! Can you tell me who is the vilage leader here?"
The man looked up. "The third hut on the right." he grunted, then ignored them
Kannokki sighed , he was at least as big as a villeger, cause he was a demon changeing sizes alot
"Well, err, thanks..." Unmei moved to the aforementioned house, thinking up a story to tell the leader. She knocked on the door frame.
"Yes? What do you want?" An old man came out, brushing aside the door screen.
"We're demon exterminators, we'd heard about a demon being buried here with the prophecy that he'd be back in two hundred years." Unmei lied.
Kannokki growled at the puny village person...
The old man's eyes went wide and he turned to go back inside.
Rinku bopped Kannokki on the head and he sat in the shade of a tree growling
"Hey Wait!! We're here to get rid of him!" Unmei shouted.
"He left three months ago."
"How could he? He was dead!!"
Rinku stood there confused with there conversation
"Not as dead as you think, he'd been around here for the last two hundred years, after my great great great {great great great….} Grandfather found him on the side of the road, we knew he was demon then, no one lives that long."
"Where was he headed?" Unmei could hardly contain her excitement.
She finally caught up. "So that demon Shesshomaru killed, Unmei's father. Is still alive, eh?"
"Who's Unmei??" The man crowed, confused.
"Where was he headed?" Unmei grabbed the village man by the collar of his fuku.
"Er, um "
Kannokki enjoyed watching Unmei beat up the puny human and wagged his tail.
"West!" The frightened geezer peeped then as Unmei let him go, he went scurrying away.
Kannokki jumped as if to eat the human but Rinku dargged him away
"Let's go..." Unmei could feel many sets of eyes on her back as the trio left.
"I want to beat up the next HUMAN!!" Rinku stated as they left the humans. "or a demon would be nice."
"Wait till we find Jaken and Sesshomaru... then you can have all the fun you want with him... "Unmei added as she caught Kannokki's mischievous gaze "JAKEN, not Sesshomaru."
Kannokki grunted. "But Jaken… well he's no competition, and Sesshomaru, is well... he's Sesshomaru and I don't really think I could beat him."
((Was that Kannokki???))
"Or maybe..." she went into one of her thinking sessions, then after a few min of thinking "ALRIGHTY THEN!!!"
"How very modest of you. We should fly, we'll cover more ground that way." Unmei glanced at the now cloudy sky
"But Kannokki well he's no good at landing"
Kannokki "GRRRRRR!!!!!!"
"Don't care, I can stand it if I have to."
Rinku flattened her ears and kneeled down to Kannokki's level and "grrrrrrred" in his face
"Hmm, are you two done yet??"
Unmei glanced ahead at the coming rain
"Yah!! ^-^" After a grrring fight Kannokki transformed into his giant wolf form and flew off with them on his back.
"So were are we going again?!"
"The west... again."
Kannokki flew towards the west
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They found an east-facing cave, where they could watch for pursuers and had a good supper, they were just lying down to rest.
Rinku sat there and wandered for a few sec. "Hey that WAS Inu's village, when we were little I mean"
"Yeah, too many bad memories... but there's good ones there too."
"No good memories in my half"
Kannokki snorted
"Yes there are!" Unmei continued "Like the time Inuyasha fell into the stream... we all had to fish him out with a pole even though the water only came up about six inches"
"Yeah ^-^ but Sesshomaru didn't like it to much ^_^"
"That's only because we knocked him in with the pole afterwards."
The fire crackled, letting off sparks.
She laughed "those were the days... now were all separate except for us, but Inu..."
"Do tell!"
"Hmpf"
"When i saw him last he was…with a girl, a HUMAN to be exact"
"Hmm, well, can't blame him for being lonely... maybe its just animal magnetism." {HAH!}
"Yeah but wasn't he just unsealed, I followed THEIR scent from the tree to where... they were"
"Hmm? Were they now?"
"Another tree, but she was… erm… on top of him, yelling to take his clothes off." She crossed her arms and snorted. "Not that I care, if he wants to be with a mangy human then so be it!"
"Maybe you misunderstood the situation." Unmei glanced at the dark horizon.
"…. He probably doesn't even remember me anyways so why does it matter"
"Hmm, your hurt, I can feel it. So don't act like you don't care, I know you do."
She gave a pissed off look at Unmei and curled up in a random corner next to Kannokki "I don't care..."
"Right. Whatever makes you happy. " Unmei laid down at the mouth of the cave, and soon sleep took her.
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The day was old; Unmei and Sesshomaru stood on a balcony together, watching the ocean. There was a boat with a white sail on it. The sun was setting, spilling crimson across the waters like blood. Neither of them said anything, they just stared out onto the sea. Then out of the sunset rode a cloud.
Sesshomaru said "I will leave you now, I go to seek Inuyasha, when I return I will be missing something."
Unmei nodded in acknowledgement still gazing at the cloud. Something stirred in her, her heart pounded and she refused to admit to herself what the feeling was, it was human, below her level. "I will wait for you."
Sesshomaru nodded and stepped off into the cloud, then he was taken away. And his right arm caught her eye; it was gone.
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Sesshomaru had been tracking the girls' scent to where it stopped then continued west instead of going to Inuyasha's village. He found them in the cave in the western mountains, both asleep, as the eastern rising sun filtered in the cave mouth.
Sesshomaru silently walked over to the sleeping Rinku and laying a hand on her shoulder woke her.
"Huh wha? Sesshomaru?? What are you doing here? Unmei's gonna kkkiiiiiiiilllllllllllll you! "
"Shut up." Sesshomaru's voice was a dangerous whisper
She shut up looking at Unmei to see if she was still asleep
She was.
Sesshomaru walked to the entrance of the cave, on the cliff in front of it.
Rinku stood and followed quietly.
"She stole my Tenseiga."
"Oh... oh yah I saw it earlier ^-^...why'd she do that??"
"I do not know."
"...."
"I was hoping you could tell me." He glanced in her direction
"Well I did hear that her fathers still around... but that doesn't really relate to the subject"
"He's alive?" Sesshomaru finally turned to face her.
"Yah why dose that bother you?" she then remembers that Sesshy had killed.. Or attempted to kill him years ago
"He died, I know it, it was under my claws." His eyes searched Rinku's face for any detail that might betray a lie.
"I know, I was there."
"So why do you say he is still living?"
"I heard it at Inu's" she paused as she used Inuyasha's name "...village"
"I see. So it is not confirmed." Sesshomaru faced the rising sun again."
"... Have you... heard from Inuyasha lately?"
"No, my brother has passed from all of my servant's vision."
"Oh." She sighed, remembering Inu, then she caught an image of that girl on top of him and growled to herself shaking away her thoughts
"Gods! Rinku, do you usually get up this early?" A bleary eyed Unmei trotted from the cave, rubbing sleep from her eyes.
"Er..." Rinku turned and pushed Sesshomaru off the cliff
Sesshomaru was caught off guard and he fell gracefully, catching onto an overhang.
"Yeah! I'm gonna go do some hunting! Gotta eat breakfast ya no!"
"Was there someone else out here?" Unmei finished rubbing and looked up.
She turned and walked off regretting her words, "no not at all!"
"Just a stupid bird or something"
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Sesshomaru heard her words, he would make Rinku pay. He was not, by any means a stupid bird. He started the short climb back up.
Her ears flinched as she heard Sesshomaru climbing up, and walked faster not wanting to be there when he comes back up
Unmei had her back to the cliff as Sesshomaru pulled himself up and over the edge silently. He dusted himself off. "You seem to attract trouble, or do you look for it, Unmei?"
Kannokki sat in the cave's mouth over looking the two, he growled slightly
Unmei spun around, her sleepy front gone instantly. "You should have stayed off the cliff, where Rinku put you." She flicked out her claws.
Sesshomaru started toward her, "You have something of mine."
"I don't need it, my fathers alive, no thanks to you." With that Unmei backed into the wall of the cave, grabbed the Tenseiga from behind her then hurled it off the cliff. Sesshomaru gave her less than a glance then went after it.