Guardian Angel chapter 10
Ok, listen up. I know I finished this fic, and I know that I shouldn't be writing extra chapters, but 1, I HATE sappy endings, and 2, I forgot to reveal some interesting info. I didn't want to add another author's note just telling you, so I'm adding another chapter. Enjoy!
They arrived in Tirah Nosti in the afternoon the next day. Inu went about finding a house, and Raven went to the Inn to get her mail. She wanted her independance, and so would live at the Inn with her friends while Inu lived near the forest in a house. Raven was surprised to find the window open in the room she shared with her friend Aldrea. Aldrea smiled guiltily and held out her fist. On it was a large black bird with a letter tied to it's foot. It hopped onto Korunue's shoulder, and she smiled, petting it, and took the letter.
My dearest Korunue (the letter began),
I suppose I've been expecting this for some time now. I pray this bird finds you well. I guess.... well, you have your father's spirit for adventure. Your mother's, as well, now that I thnk about it. I only wonder why you never ran away before.
Now, listen, and listen good. Sensai Sesshomaru is tracking you to bring you back. If you want to come home, come on your own. DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT come home with him.
Oh, Raven, I suppose I should have told you before. I should have told you when I first found out he was teaching you. Hell, I should have told you long ago. But this youkai, your father's half-brother, is a murderer. He killed Kagome.
There Raven stopped reading. She stared at the letter in dumb shock. What? Sensai, killed her mother? She had been taught by a murderer! She had been taught by her mother's killer! She dropped the letter, took her bow, and ran out of the Inn, down the back stairs so as not to be intercepted. She ran into the woods, reading the letter over again. It continued.
Please, don't be mad at me for lying. I had to. I didn't want you to get hurt, dearest. I knew that you might be hurt that he had betrayed you, and seek some petty revenge. Just be smart, Raven. Don't get yourself hurt. Above all else, I want you safe.
your stand-in mother,
Sango.
Raven sat there for a while, re-reading the letter from her mother, thinking. Her gaze fell on her well-polished yumi (bamboo bow), and she realized she still wore her quiver of bamboo arrows. She also realized that someone was coming. Some youkai. She didn't even need to sniff the air to tell who it was. She jumped up and whirled around, an arrow in her bow, another in her teeth. She stood, wind whipping about her, as Sesshomaru came out from hiding with his hands up. She nearly spat, but for the arrow in her mouth.
She stood there, eyes burning into his skull. He raised his hands. "Easy, easy there girl. It's me, your old Sensai. Remember me? Sesshomaru-sama? It's alright. I just want to talk to you." He took a step or two closer, and she spat out the arrow in her mouth. She spoke, her voice reeking of hatred.
"You killed my mother." she said. Her eyes were cold, her accusation fierce. He looked a little worried.
"Will you kill me?" he asked her, not taking his eyes off her bow. He hadn't been thinking, and had brought along only his fang-sword, which could only be used to save other people. So he was basiclly unarmed. Her arrow was pointed right at his heart, her hands steady. She held him there for the longest time, then lowered her bow. She looked down and to the side, and he wasted no time before running like mad. Forget the girl, he had to save his own skin!
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Inu was dreaming. He knew that. He saw his sweet Kagome. "Come on, let's go get those shards!" she called, from up ahead of him with her backpack. She smiled at him, then looked alarmed. He woke up, emitting a small groan.
She was still there. He could feel her presence. He could sort of see her, in his bedroom doorway. Kind of, halfway, enough to make him go to her. Her presense didn't so much fade as flee, and he stood in the doorway, sniffing the air. He could SMELL her. She was in the room. He followed the scent to another door. He heard footsteps, and followed her to his back door. He went out in the moonlight, thankful it was not the new moon. He saw a dim figure across the garden. No, two, and one of them held some long object. The smaller seemed to be bathed in a faint glow, making him mistake the kneeling figure for Kikyo, his one-time beloved. He walked forward, changing his mind when he grew nearer. It was not Kikyo, but his own daughter, and some young kitsune. The kitsune stood to her left, and she had paper in front of her. As he watched, she finished writing and moved it aside, taking a small dagger from a pile of papers. She made a cut in her own belly, left to right, with a turn up at the end. That was when he snapped out of his dreamlike state and began to run. One word escaped his lips: "seppuku!"
Raven winced at the pain in her belly. It HURT! she hadn't cut all the way through, she figured, and had not damaged her organs, but it still hurt. She took a few deep breaths to calm herself, releasing the tension in her neck. This was nessisary, or else her second would strike hard bone and have to lop off her head painfully in a few strokes. This way he would cut right through, leaving a small flap of skin at the end to make her head drop forward. She slipped her outer garmets between her butt and her shins, and leaned forward. She raised her hand to give the signal to Shippu. The signal was a small flick of the fingers. She took one last deep breath, letting it out slowly...
Inu reached them just in time, tackling the kitsune. He pinned him down growling fiercly in his face. The poor kid was terrified. "What the hell do you think you're DOING?! Nobody goes near my Korunue with a seppuku blade!" He tossed him aside in a rage, hearing the small yelp when he hit the brick wall of the garden. He went to his daughter and enveloped her in a hug, whispering softly in her ear.
Raven began to cry as her father assured her she was perfect, that she needed to live. "It's my fault, I should have been there for you all those years" he whispered. She leaned back into his hug.
"Dad... I... I know who killed Kagome." she told him.
He looked sad. "So you know about my no-good half brother, then." he said to her hair, hugging her tighter, careful of the cut in her belly.
She frowned. He didn't GET it! "I... I saw him today. He came looking for me. I... I could have avenged mom's death, and I... I couldn't, I didn't, I let him go. I LET him GO!" she was crying by now.
He held her, roocking slightly. "No..." he whispered tenderly. "She wouldn't want you to become a killer. She would have stopped you... perhaps that's why you couldn't shoot. Have faith in yourself, Raven. Have faith."
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He bundled her up and took her to a healer in town. He used the last of his money getting her healed, and a faint pink scar formed. Raven decided to live at the Inn, though Inu told her that if she ever tried to commit Seppuku again, he'd find her. He could smell her blood, he said, since his house wasn't that far from the Inn. Raven went back to her life, and Inu to his, but at least they had each other.
REVIEW. This chapter dedicated to Ronin. He knows who he is. The rest of the fic was dedicated to Yuki- she helped me with the logistical stuf. Feh shall rule the world!
BTW- Seppukku is a ritual suicide.
A Yumi is a bamboo bow, with a string of silk, and you fire bamboo arrows with feathers on them.
Ok, listen up. I know I finished this fic, and I know that I shouldn't be writing extra chapters, but 1, I HATE sappy endings, and 2, I forgot to reveal some interesting info. I didn't want to add another author's note just telling you, so I'm adding another chapter. Enjoy!
They arrived in Tirah Nosti in the afternoon the next day. Inu went about finding a house, and Raven went to the Inn to get her mail. She wanted her independance, and so would live at the Inn with her friends while Inu lived near the forest in a house. Raven was surprised to find the window open in the room she shared with her friend Aldrea. Aldrea smiled guiltily and held out her fist. On it was a large black bird with a letter tied to it's foot. It hopped onto Korunue's shoulder, and she smiled, petting it, and took the letter.
My dearest Korunue (the letter began),
I suppose I've been expecting this for some time now. I pray this bird finds you well. I guess.... well, you have your father's spirit for adventure. Your mother's, as well, now that I thnk about it. I only wonder why you never ran away before.
Now, listen, and listen good. Sensai Sesshomaru is tracking you to bring you back. If you want to come home, come on your own. DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT come home with him.
Oh, Raven, I suppose I should have told you before. I should have told you when I first found out he was teaching you. Hell, I should have told you long ago. But this youkai, your father's half-brother, is a murderer. He killed Kagome.
There Raven stopped reading. She stared at the letter in dumb shock. What? Sensai, killed her mother? She had been taught by a murderer! She had been taught by her mother's killer! She dropped the letter, took her bow, and ran out of the Inn, down the back stairs so as not to be intercepted. She ran into the woods, reading the letter over again. It continued.
Please, don't be mad at me for lying. I had to. I didn't want you to get hurt, dearest. I knew that you might be hurt that he had betrayed you, and seek some petty revenge. Just be smart, Raven. Don't get yourself hurt. Above all else, I want you safe.
your stand-in mother,
Sango.
Raven sat there for a while, re-reading the letter from her mother, thinking. Her gaze fell on her well-polished yumi (bamboo bow), and she realized she still wore her quiver of bamboo arrows. She also realized that someone was coming. Some youkai. She didn't even need to sniff the air to tell who it was. She jumped up and whirled around, an arrow in her bow, another in her teeth. She stood, wind whipping about her, as Sesshomaru came out from hiding with his hands up. She nearly spat, but for the arrow in her mouth.
She stood there, eyes burning into his skull. He raised his hands. "Easy, easy there girl. It's me, your old Sensai. Remember me? Sesshomaru-sama? It's alright. I just want to talk to you." He took a step or two closer, and she spat out the arrow in her mouth. She spoke, her voice reeking of hatred.
"You killed my mother." she said. Her eyes were cold, her accusation fierce. He looked a little worried.
"Will you kill me?" he asked her, not taking his eyes off her bow. He hadn't been thinking, and had brought along only his fang-sword, which could only be used to save other people. So he was basiclly unarmed. Her arrow was pointed right at his heart, her hands steady. She held him there for the longest time, then lowered her bow. She looked down and to the side, and he wasted no time before running like mad. Forget the girl, he had to save his own skin!
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Inu was dreaming. He knew that. He saw his sweet Kagome. "Come on, let's go get those shards!" she called, from up ahead of him with her backpack. She smiled at him, then looked alarmed. He woke up, emitting a small groan.
She was still there. He could feel her presence. He could sort of see her, in his bedroom doorway. Kind of, halfway, enough to make him go to her. Her presense didn't so much fade as flee, and he stood in the doorway, sniffing the air. He could SMELL her. She was in the room. He followed the scent to another door. He heard footsteps, and followed her to his back door. He went out in the moonlight, thankful it was not the new moon. He saw a dim figure across the garden. No, two, and one of them held some long object. The smaller seemed to be bathed in a faint glow, making him mistake the kneeling figure for Kikyo, his one-time beloved. He walked forward, changing his mind when he grew nearer. It was not Kikyo, but his own daughter, and some young kitsune. The kitsune stood to her left, and she had paper in front of her. As he watched, she finished writing and moved it aside, taking a small dagger from a pile of papers. She made a cut in her own belly, left to right, with a turn up at the end. That was when he snapped out of his dreamlike state and began to run. One word escaped his lips: "seppuku!"
Raven winced at the pain in her belly. It HURT! she hadn't cut all the way through, she figured, and had not damaged her organs, but it still hurt. She took a few deep breaths to calm herself, releasing the tension in her neck. This was nessisary, or else her second would strike hard bone and have to lop off her head painfully in a few strokes. This way he would cut right through, leaving a small flap of skin at the end to make her head drop forward. She slipped her outer garmets between her butt and her shins, and leaned forward. She raised her hand to give the signal to Shippu. The signal was a small flick of the fingers. She took one last deep breath, letting it out slowly...
Inu reached them just in time, tackling the kitsune. He pinned him down growling fiercly in his face. The poor kid was terrified. "What the hell do you think you're DOING?! Nobody goes near my Korunue with a seppuku blade!" He tossed him aside in a rage, hearing the small yelp when he hit the brick wall of the garden. He went to his daughter and enveloped her in a hug, whispering softly in her ear.
Raven began to cry as her father assured her she was perfect, that she needed to live. "It's my fault, I should have been there for you all those years" he whispered. She leaned back into his hug.
"Dad... I... I know who killed Kagome." she told him.
He looked sad. "So you know about my no-good half brother, then." he said to her hair, hugging her tighter, careful of the cut in her belly.
She frowned. He didn't GET it! "I... I saw him today. He came looking for me. I... I could have avenged mom's death, and I... I couldn't, I didn't, I let him go. I LET him GO!" she was crying by now.
He held her, roocking slightly. "No..." he whispered tenderly. "She wouldn't want you to become a killer. She would have stopped you... perhaps that's why you couldn't shoot. Have faith in yourself, Raven. Have faith."
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He bundled her up and took her to a healer in town. He used the last of his money getting her healed, and a faint pink scar formed. Raven decided to live at the Inn, though Inu told her that if she ever tried to commit Seppuku again, he'd find her. He could smell her blood, he said, since his house wasn't that far from the Inn. Raven went back to her life, and Inu to his, but at least they had each other.
REVIEW. This chapter dedicated to Ronin. He knows who he is. The rest of the fic was dedicated to Yuki- she helped me with the logistical stuf. Feh shall rule the world!
BTW- Seppukku is a ritual suicide.
A Yumi is a bamboo bow, with a string of silk, and you fire bamboo arrows with feathers on them.