Chapter 6: Return To The Village, Betrayal
Kagome dragged her things up the deep sloping walkway that led back to the den. She was now clean and wearing her purple and blue kimono that covered her exterminator outfit, which she wore underneath the kimono. Her wet raven hair clang to her face and shoulders like a shawl. Once she made it to the entrance of the den hidden behind the waterfall, she pushed the door flap back and thrust her bag of goods into the den, she then kicked the bag into a corner to the left of the fire, where she would sleep. She could not help but wonder why and the heck the hanyou had kidnapped her and brought her to his home.
She slumped down and sat on her bag as she thought, she could find no logical reason for this course of action he had taken. Maybe he wanted to kill her? No, he wouldn't have retrieved her things if he was going to kill her and he would of already done that by now if it was his plan to. She sighed as more thoughts came and left her mind. She then looked up and to the right and saw the hanyou looking at her.
He was sitting indian style with his back against the wall, his arms were cross within the sleeves of his fire rat kimono. His eyes searched for answers as he studied her. She gazed at his dog-like ears, she just wanted to touch them, and they looked so soft. Inu-Yasha narrowed his eyes at the girl, when he noticed what she was looking at. "What!" he snapped at her and she look at him to look him in the eye, he looked away, he felt uncomfortable when they made eye contact. "Hey, you were staring at me first dog-boy and why the heck did you kidnap me in the middle of the night!?" she snapped right back at him and he growled.
"You answer me this first! How come you knew I was going to jump you when you came looking for me." He said in a growl and Kagome blinked a few times in surprise and then she found the floor the most interesting thing to look at. "Well?"
"Its non of your business!" she yelled at him and he stood up and quickly close the gap between them. "Like heck it is! You know something I don't! I want to know now!" he barked at her. "I-I don't know! I just can.."
"Can what?"
"I can feel a demons aura from a certain distance." She looked up at him, her brown eyes gazed into his golden eyes once more, this cause Yasha to shiver, and he did not like it when she looked at him like that. It made him feel like thousands of small pins perked his skin. He growled at her as she shot him a questions. "How long are you going to keep me here? You DO sleep!" she said as she crossed her arms, she could hear a small chuckle as he sat back down in his spot next to the wall. "Kill me, then you would not be able to make it out of this forest alive, your in my territory now, sure your arrows will do you get until you run out, then your knifes will come into play and you will run out. What then? You carry no sword like the other girl, nor do you have a retainer, youkai or even a yoso youkai to protect you from harm." He chuckled again and pointed to the dried goods upon the wall.
Sure you would steal my food, then you would run out and would be forced to eat anything you can find, you would starve, and fuyu is growing near once the last leaf falls. What then, wench? Furthermore, what of the kitsune, Shippo?"
Kagome pondered upon these questions before answering. "If my weapons where spent then I would take your sword which you hold now to protect myself, for food I would eat little and eat wisely. Wondering the woods by myself would be suicidal, but I could track my way back to the village, if I lived. When winter comes I would wear the fur of animals, if I can find prey. I would take the kitsune with me and raise him, he is only a child. I would le no harm come to him."
Inu-Yasha said nothing but looked at his sword then at the girl. "Feh!" was his only reply as he stood up and left the den, but not before calling the girl a wench and she fumed. "I am not a wench!! I have a name! Its Ka-go- me!! Kagome! Get it right or ill get you when you sleep!" she yelled at him as she ran after him only to trip over her own bag and met the ground close up and personal. Inu-Yasha hearing her fall snickered and yelled over his shoulder as he went down the narrow walkway. "Maybe you should learn to walk first, slayer."
"Anata ga koheina matsu!" she yelled out at him as he just laughed "Anata ga suru nemuril!" he stopped and turned completely around to see the slayer by the entrance to the den. "Nani?"
"Anata ga suru nemuril!"
Inu Yasha growled, "Your in no position to threaten me, shojo!"
"Maybe, but just you wait you hanyou!" she said as she walked up to him and once she was close enough to him, she stood upon her toes, since he was a full head taller then her. She then jabbed a finger at his dog-like nose. "I am not afraid of you! Or anything in your damn forest!" her brown eyes sparkled with anger and Inu-Yasha could not help but be fascinated by the beautiful brown orbs, they were so full of life and spirit. She looked cute when she was anger. Cute? By Kami did I just think cute! C-U-T-E! He mentally scolds himself.
"I want to know now! Why in the abyss did you kidnap me! A Demon Hunter, Slayer, killer, exterminator! What ever the heck you wanna call my way of life!" she continued to yell at him as he just stared into her eyes. There was something else about her he could not place and it bugged him. "Are you listening to me you, baka!" she shouted at him and received no answer. "Hello in there!" She said still with anger in her voice and she taped him on the forehead, he jus stood there. Then suddenly he snapped out of his trance like state when his nose picked up a scent, it smelled just like.
"Good evening, Inu." A voice said with a slight howl of distaste
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Sango sighed as she stood up from examining tracks upon a trail over with dry leaves. "Three days old, he hasn't been in this part of the woods lately, but." She looked at the smaller tracks beside them. "A wolf has been down this way just a day ago."
"It appears as if the trail ends here." Miroku said as he stood a few feet away from Sango, he stood by a tree next to a few bushes. "He must of taken to the tree tops, damn." Sango replied with distaste. Kirara, in here travel size hoped onto Sango's shoulder and meowed at her softly. "Yeah, I guess your right, Miroku we should head back to the village. We aren't having much luck and we have run out of clues." Sango turned around and walked back from the trail they have been traveling since sunrise. "Sango- sama."
"Hai?"
".Goshimpai naku." Miroku replied and Sango just shrugged.
The sound of Miroku's ringed staff rang out a melodically tune each time his staff touched the ground as he walked. It was the only sound that could be heard throughout the forest, but all three minds of the companions where to busy contemplating where the hanyou had disappeared. One thing for sure was, he was excellent at covering his tracks. The time they had reached the village the sun was on its way towards the ground, showing that its kin would capture the skies and corrupt the beautiful glow of day into darkness.
The three entered the town and the woman returning from a hard says work from the field stopped to stare at them. The woman spoke in whispers and then ran to their homes. Night was never the time to be out nor was it any good omen, other then the hour of rest. But it did not take long for the quarter sphere known as the moon to rare its dull head as Sango, Miroku and Kirara entered the hut of the village elder. "Muto-chan." Sango spoke softly as looked at the old man sitting by the fire in the center of his hut. "We had found no trace of the hanyou, other then old tracks." Miroku said as Sango stared at the old man, he did not move nor say anything, but stare into the flames, as in deep thought.
"How is my sister? Is she asleep? Surely she as heard my voice and come to greet me." She said in slight confusion. Muto spoke in a sorrowful voice. "Please forgive us."
"What do you mean? Where is my sister!" Sango yelled as she ran into the room behind a thin wall and then ran back out armed with her sword. "Where is my sister?! What have you done with her!" she yelled at him in pure rage and confusion. "Sango, please put down your weapon, spilling blood would be meaningless." Miroku said in his composed voice. Sango said nothing as Kirara ran past Miroku and out of the hut.
"Forgive us." the old man Muto said once again as the sound of Kirara's growl was heard and then followed by a howl that contained a strong volume of pain. "Kirara!" Sango called out in fear and ran towards the door, Miroku was already out side trying to talk reason into the villagers.
They held sword, bows, pitchforks, scythes and brooms. The demon cat Kirara lay upon the ground in her large form with a wound in her thigh caused from a pitchfork and upon her was a scroll with a subduing spell written on it. Kirara was unable to move all she was able to do was whimper and growl as her feet were bounded together with scrolls attached to them, for reinforcement. "What is the meaning of this!" Sango yelled at them her sword now sheath and her bone boomerang within her hands ready to defend herself.
"Release Kirara!" She warned her boomerang over her head and ready to throw at the first fool to attack her. "Sango, do not hurt them!" Miroku yelled at her with a hint of fear in his voice, then suddenly he felt a strong blow to his jaw, he fell to the ground in surprise, his staff fell to the ground only a foot away from him. "Norou! Go ahead and kill them!" he yelled and then punched his head for his comment. But in the process of this the villagers ganged up on him before he could even react and was bounded, his staff being held by a child.
"Miroku!" she called out to him as he struggled against his attackers.
"I am sorry slayer, priest and neko. But I must put you under our custody, it is for your own good, please, we do not wish to hurt you, lower your weapon." Muto said in a low tone as he walked out from his hut, standing behind the slayer with his hands behind his back. Sango jumped down to stand on the far side of the villagers and Muto. "We have done nothing, let them go! I also do not wish to harm any of you, but I will if I must!"
Muto sighed. "Your sister is in the care of the hanyou, Inu-Yasha he took her from our care last night, we had no choice in the matter, he threaten our children. He then came back at run raise and collected the girls items and left with the commanding order to keep you here until he returns."
"You gave my little sister to him! I trusted you with her! You betrayed my trust!" she growled and throws her weapon, but not at the villagers, but to a tree that stood above them, the weapon easily slashed through the tree, causing the upper half of the tree to collapse over a group of the people, they quickly moved out of the way. The boomerang came back to her and she then catches it, the force of the boomerang pushing her back at least two feet, the boomerang's opposite end touched the ground behind her. "Now." She said as she breathed in deep breaths.
"Hanasu karera o." She spoke in a claim and composed voice. Muto in return sighed and looked to the men that had snuck up behind the slayer. "Sango! Behind you!" The restricted monk yelled out in warning. Sango turned around swing her boomerang with two hands, smacking two of the men senseless and five feet away. She then swung the boomerang again this time to her left, but her boomerang stopped in mid swing, she blinked and looked at the end of her weapon to find to strong and rather age hands upon the other end of her weapon. She looked up to see a man of incredible size.
She didn't even have a chance to move when her bone boomerang was ripped out from her hands and then swatted with it upon the side sending her flying like the men that had fallen to her weapon only moments ago. Her body crashed into a near by hut, tearing a large whole into the side of the hut. The roof that was made out of reeds and balanced with stones collapsed upon her and as the dusty settled around the collapsed hut no one spoke as an eerie silence consumed the once clouded atmosphere.
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yoso youkai - Element Demon (elemental)
fuyu - winter
Anata ga koheina matsu! - You just wait!
Anata ga suru nemuril! - You do sleep!
Shojo - girl
Goshimpai naku - Never mind
Neko - cat
Hanasu karera o - Release them!
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[Author: *scratches head * hehe, once again I got carried away with my typing. * grins innocently * Don't you just LOVE cliff hangers? Review please! Or fear the wrath of the fluffy poodle! Umm..I mean Sessho- maru.*nervous laugh and runs from an angry sesshie *]
Kagome dragged her things up the deep sloping walkway that led back to the den. She was now clean and wearing her purple and blue kimono that covered her exterminator outfit, which she wore underneath the kimono. Her wet raven hair clang to her face and shoulders like a shawl. Once she made it to the entrance of the den hidden behind the waterfall, she pushed the door flap back and thrust her bag of goods into the den, she then kicked the bag into a corner to the left of the fire, where she would sleep. She could not help but wonder why and the heck the hanyou had kidnapped her and brought her to his home.
She slumped down and sat on her bag as she thought, she could find no logical reason for this course of action he had taken. Maybe he wanted to kill her? No, he wouldn't have retrieved her things if he was going to kill her and he would of already done that by now if it was his plan to. She sighed as more thoughts came and left her mind. She then looked up and to the right and saw the hanyou looking at her.
He was sitting indian style with his back against the wall, his arms were cross within the sleeves of his fire rat kimono. His eyes searched for answers as he studied her. She gazed at his dog-like ears, she just wanted to touch them, and they looked so soft. Inu-Yasha narrowed his eyes at the girl, when he noticed what she was looking at. "What!" he snapped at her and she look at him to look him in the eye, he looked away, he felt uncomfortable when they made eye contact. "Hey, you were staring at me first dog-boy and why the heck did you kidnap me in the middle of the night!?" she snapped right back at him and he growled.
"You answer me this first! How come you knew I was going to jump you when you came looking for me." He said in a growl and Kagome blinked a few times in surprise and then she found the floor the most interesting thing to look at. "Well?"
"Its non of your business!" she yelled at him and he stood up and quickly close the gap between them. "Like heck it is! You know something I don't! I want to know now!" he barked at her. "I-I don't know! I just can.."
"Can what?"
"I can feel a demons aura from a certain distance." She looked up at him, her brown eyes gazed into his golden eyes once more, this cause Yasha to shiver, and he did not like it when she looked at him like that. It made him feel like thousands of small pins perked his skin. He growled at her as she shot him a questions. "How long are you going to keep me here? You DO sleep!" she said as she crossed her arms, she could hear a small chuckle as he sat back down in his spot next to the wall. "Kill me, then you would not be able to make it out of this forest alive, your in my territory now, sure your arrows will do you get until you run out, then your knifes will come into play and you will run out. What then? You carry no sword like the other girl, nor do you have a retainer, youkai or even a yoso youkai to protect you from harm." He chuckled again and pointed to the dried goods upon the wall.
Sure you would steal my food, then you would run out and would be forced to eat anything you can find, you would starve, and fuyu is growing near once the last leaf falls. What then, wench? Furthermore, what of the kitsune, Shippo?"
Kagome pondered upon these questions before answering. "If my weapons where spent then I would take your sword which you hold now to protect myself, for food I would eat little and eat wisely. Wondering the woods by myself would be suicidal, but I could track my way back to the village, if I lived. When winter comes I would wear the fur of animals, if I can find prey. I would take the kitsune with me and raise him, he is only a child. I would le no harm come to him."
Inu-Yasha said nothing but looked at his sword then at the girl. "Feh!" was his only reply as he stood up and left the den, but not before calling the girl a wench and she fumed. "I am not a wench!! I have a name! Its Ka-go- me!! Kagome! Get it right or ill get you when you sleep!" she yelled at him as she ran after him only to trip over her own bag and met the ground close up and personal. Inu-Yasha hearing her fall snickered and yelled over his shoulder as he went down the narrow walkway. "Maybe you should learn to walk first, slayer."
"Anata ga koheina matsu!" she yelled out at him as he just laughed "Anata ga suru nemuril!" he stopped and turned completely around to see the slayer by the entrance to the den. "Nani?"
"Anata ga suru nemuril!"
Inu Yasha growled, "Your in no position to threaten me, shojo!"
"Maybe, but just you wait you hanyou!" she said as she walked up to him and once she was close enough to him, she stood upon her toes, since he was a full head taller then her. She then jabbed a finger at his dog-like nose. "I am not afraid of you! Or anything in your damn forest!" her brown eyes sparkled with anger and Inu-Yasha could not help but be fascinated by the beautiful brown orbs, they were so full of life and spirit. She looked cute when she was anger. Cute? By Kami did I just think cute! C-U-T-E! He mentally scolds himself.
"I want to know now! Why in the abyss did you kidnap me! A Demon Hunter, Slayer, killer, exterminator! What ever the heck you wanna call my way of life!" she continued to yell at him as he just stared into her eyes. There was something else about her he could not place and it bugged him. "Are you listening to me you, baka!" she shouted at him and received no answer. "Hello in there!" She said still with anger in her voice and she taped him on the forehead, he jus stood there. Then suddenly he snapped out of his trance like state when his nose picked up a scent, it smelled just like.
"Good evening, Inu." A voice said with a slight howl of distaste
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Sango sighed as she stood up from examining tracks upon a trail over with dry leaves. "Three days old, he hasn't been in this part of the woods lately, but." She looked at the smaller tracks beside them. "A wolf has been down this way just a day ago."
"It appears as if the trail ends here." Miroku said as he stood a few feet away from Sango, he stood by a tree next to a few bushes. "He must of taken to the tree tops, damn." Sango replied with distaste. Kirara, in here travel size hoped onto Sango's shoulder and meowed at her softly. "Yeah, I guess your right, Miroku we should head back to the village. We aren't having much luck and we have run out of clues." Sango turned around and walked back from the trail they have been traveling since sunrise. "Sango- sama."
"Hai?"
".Goshimpai naku." Miroku replied and Sango just shrugged.
The sound of Miroku's ringed staff rang out a melodically tune each time his staff touched the ground as he walked. It was the only sound that could be heard throughout the forest, but all three minds of the companions where to busy contemplating where the hanyou had disappeared. One thing for sure was, he was excellent at covering his tracks. The time they had reached the village the sun was on its way towards the ground, showing that its kin would capture the skies and corrupt the beautiful glow of day into darkness.
The three entered the town and the woman returning from a hard says work from the field stopped to stare at them. The woman spoke in whispers and then ran to their homes. Night was never the time to be out nor was it any good omen, other then the hour of rest. But it did not take long for the quarter sphere known as the moon to rare its dull head as Sango, Miroku and Kirara entered the hut of the village elder. "Muto-chan." Sango spoke softly as looked at the old man sitting by the fire in the center of his hut. "We had found no trace of the hanyou, other then old tracks." Miroku said as Sango stared at the old man, he did not move nor say anything, but stare into the flames, as in deep thought.
"How is my sister? Is she asleep? Surely she as heard my voice and come to greet me." She said in slight confusion. Muto spoke in a sorrowful voice. "Please forgive us."
"What do you mean? Where is my sister!" Sango yelled as she ran into the room behind a thin wall and then ran back out armed with her sword. "Where is my sister?! What have you done with her!" she yelled at him in pure rage and confusion. "Sango, please put down your weapon, spilling blood would be meaningless." Miroku said in his composed voice. Sango said nothing as Kirara ran past Miroku and out of the hut.
"Forgive us." the old man Muto said once again as the sound of Kirara's growl was heard and then followed by a howl that contained a strong volume of pain. "Kirara!" Sango called out in fear and ran towards the door, Miroku was already out side trying to talk reason into the villagers.
They held sword, bows, pitchforks, scythes and brooms. The demon cat Kirara lay upon the ground in her large form with a wound in her thigh caused from a pitchfork and upon her was a scroll with a subduing spell written on it. Kirara was unable to move all she was able to do was whimper and growl as her feet were bounded together with scrolls attached to them, for reinforcement. "What is the meaning of this!" Sango yelled at them her sword now sheath and her bone boomerang within her hands ready to defend herself.
"Release Kirara!" She warned her boomerang over her head and ready to throw at the first fool to attack her. "Sango, do not hurt them!" Miroku yelled at her with a hint of fear in his voice, then suddenly he felt a strong blow to his jaw, he fell to the ground in surprise, his staff fell to the ground only a foot away from him. "Norou! Go ahead and kill them!" he yelled and then punched his head for his comment. But in the process of this the villagers ganged up on him before he could even react and was bounded, his staff being held by a child.
"Miroku!" she called out to him as he struggled against his attackers.
"I am sorry slayer, priest and neko. But I must put you under our custody, it is for your own good, please, we do not wish to hurt you, lower your weapon." Muto said in a low tone as he walked out from his hut, standing behind the slayer with his hands behind his back. Sango jumped down to stand on the far side of the villagers and Muto. "We have done nothing, let them go! I also do not wish to harm any of you, but I will if I must!"
Muto sighed. "Your sister is in the care of the hanyou, Inu-Yasha he took her from our care last night, we had no choice in the matter, he threaten our children. He then came back at run raise and collected the girls items and left with the commanding order to keep you here until he returns."
"You gave my little sister to him! I trusted you with her! You betrayed my trust!" she growled and throws her weapon, but not at the villagers, but to a tree that stood above them, the weapon easily slashed through the tree, causing the upper half of the tree to collapse over a group of the people, they quickly moved out of the way. The boomerang came back to her and she then catches it, the force of the boomerang pushing her back at least two feet, the boomerang's opposite end touched the ground behind her. "Now." She said as she breathed in deep breaths.
"Hanasu karera o." She spoke in a claim and composed voice. Muto in return sighed and looked to the men that had snuck up behind the slayer. "Sango! Behind you!" The restricted monk yelled out in warning. Sango turned around swing her boomerang with two hands, smacking two of the men senseless and five feet away. She then swung the boomerang again this time to her left, but her boomerang stopped in mid swing, she blinked and looked at the end of her weapon to find to strong and rather age hands upon the other end of her weapon. She looked up to see a man of incredible size.
She didn't even have a chance to move when her bone boomerang was ripped out from her hands and then swatted with it upon the side sending her flying like the men that had fallen to her weapon only moments ago. Her body crashed into a near by hut, tearing a large whole into the side of the hut. The roof that was made out of reeds and balanced with stones collapsed upon her and as the dusty settled around the collapsed hut no one spoke as an eerie silence consumed the once clouded atmosphere.
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yoso youkai - Element Demon (elemental)
fuyu - winter
Anata ga koheina matsu! - You just wait!
Anata ga suru nemuril! - You do sleep!
Shojo - girl
Goshimpai naku - Never mind
Neko - cat
Hanasu karera o - Release them!
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[Author: *scratches head * hehe, once again I got carried away with my typing. * grins innocently * Don't you just LOVE cliff hangers? Review please! Or fear the wrath of the fluffy poodle! Umm..I mean Sessho- maru.*nervous laugh and runs from an angry sesshie *]