Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha, YET, but in this their personalities are MINE!
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Forgotten Lives
By Golden Mooncat
Chapter Four: The Delirium
Gome, Inuyasha, Miroku, and Shippo had walked from where they jumped from the train to a bus-stop.
Setting down the bags that they had, Inuyasha's and Miroku's, Gome sat down on them to rest.
Inuyasha looked back at her and rolled his eyes.
"What are you doing?" he asked, looking at Miroku who was dancing around.
"I'm resting, but I think you should be asking what he's doing..." Gome said pointing her finger
at Miroku.
"I have no idea-Whoa!" Inuyasha cried out as Miroku grabbed him and started dancing around.
"Sango, oh my Sango. I am coming to see you!" Miroku said.
"Who's Sango?" Gome asked, cocking her head to the side.
"Sango is the world's most vuluptous woman! She is the apple of my eye! She is so sweet!" Miroku
said dipping Inuyasha right in front of Gome.
Gome leaned over Inuyasha's face and asked, "Is this a person or a food item?"
Inuyasha was just about to answer when he was jerked back up and danced around with once again.
Miroku carried on about how magnificant Sango was and had just started saying that she was a friend
of Kaede. Inuyasha tried to shut him up.
"Ixnae on the Angos dae!" he muttered but was ignored by Miroku.
"Sango is the granddaughter of Kaede's best friend! We get to go see her!" Miroku said and
started dancing on his own again.
"Why are we going to see the her? I thought we were going to see Kaede herself." Gome asked
standing up and looking Inuyasha dead in the eye.
"Well...Um..." Inuyasha said, not able to come up with a lie.
"Tell me Inuyasha. Now." Gome said, staring at his eyes to keep him from being able to lie to
her.
"We don't get to see Kaede unless we pass a test from Sango..." Inuyasha said, waiting for her
outburst of anger.
"What?! You didn't tell me I had to answer any questions to see Kaede! I don't know anything
about my past so how am I supposed to be able to answer these questions?! Show up, yes. Look
nice, maybe if I got a new kimono. But answer questions, NO!" Gome yelled poking Inuyasha in the
chest hard. "How am I supposed to prove I'm a Princess if I don't even look the part?!" she
screamed, her anger getting the best of her.
"Okay, so I forgot to mention a few minor details..." Inuyasha trailed off, not looking her in
the eyes.
"MINOR?!" Gome said and walked over to a bridge where she stared into the water staring at her
reflection.
Miroku shook his head and walked over to her annoyed at how weak Inuyasha sounded compaired to
that woman. When Miroku got to Gome he pulled a flower from a vine on the bridge and handed it
to her. Gome smiled slightly and took the flower smelling it.
"What do you see when you look into the reflection?" Miroku asked, getting her to sigh. "No really,
what do you see?"
"I see..." Gome thought for a few minutes before sighing and throwing her flower into her reflection.
"I see a skinny little girl with nothing to gain." she said.
"You want to know what I see? I see a beautiful young woman who has nothing to lose, but a whole
lot to gain. Now, why don't you let us help you?" Miroku asked pointing from himself to Inuyasha.
"Alright," Gome said, smiling.
"Okay, are you ready to become a Princess?" Inuyasha asked as he went back over with the bags.
"Ugh," she said walking away, rolling her eyes.
"What? What'd I do?" Inuyasha asked Miroku, whom just rolled his eyes as well.
Just at that moment the bus came to take them to the ship docks. Gome got on sitting with Shippo
in her lap, Inuyasha sat beside her and Miroku sat on a seat facing the other them. On the four
hour bus ride Inuyasha and Miroku told Gome all she would need to know to pass the test, along
with some other things. By the time they got to the boat docks Gome had her brain so full that
she felt her head would explode.
"Okay, I've got it all. Right now I want to go to sleep...Or at least not have to hear about the
Higurashi family anymore." Gome said, putting a hand to her temple as they boarded the boat.
"I'll be right back, Miroku take her to the room." Inuyasha said and ran off to a trading stand.
Gome rolled her eyes and followed Miroku to the room where she saw a small bunk bed. Going into
the room she set Shippo down on the bottom bunk which she claimed as her own. Gome then looked
around the room again noticing a mirror and sink.
"Huh, nicer than my room at the orphanage, which I had to share with 12 other kids." Gome said
smirking slightly.
At that moment Inuyasha came in carrying a green kimono with a cherryblossom embroidered in the
right shoulder, and a sleeping kimono which ended mid-thigh, it too was green. Inuyasha handed
the kimono with the flower in it to Gome. Gome took the kimono and stared at it, just when she
thought that she couldn't get anymore surprises he handed her a hair comb that had a cherryblossom
painted onto it.
"Its beautiful, but...?" Gome asked, her voice trailing.
"I figured you might like to wear it when we meet with Sango, and the obi is the same color pink
as the cherry blossom, just inside the kimono right now. Now, put that on while Miroku and I go
up on deck, we'll wait for you up there." Inuyasha said dragging Miroku out of the room with him.
As Gome got into the kimono she had a hard time tying the obi, she kept knotting it. Growling in
frustration she undid the obi for the sixth time and sighed. How was she to present herself as a
Princess if she couldn't even tie an obi? Getting frustrated she was close to throwing it across
the room when a knock on the door was sounded.
"Excuse, me. Is this Gome's room? Inuyasha asked me to come down here to see if you were done
getting dressed or not." came a voice from the woman who was knocking.
"Come in. My name is Gome, yours is?" Gome asked, as the woman came in, she wore a long necklace
that had a large pendant that seemed to hold something inside.
"My name is Kagura. Are you having a problem with the obi?" Kagura asked, her hair pulled back
off her hair, and her dark eyes seeming like endless voids.
"Yea, its my first time wearing such an elaborate kimono. Well, what I can remember anyways."
Gome said, again fidgetting with the obi's ties.
"Here, let me. Its hard when you first learn to do it, but then it gets easier." the other said,
taking the ties and tightening them. "Is this good?" she asked, the obi had to be tight to make
you seem skinny.
"Yea, I can barely breath." she said, putting her hand over the front of the obi.
"Okay, good. There you go." the other said, after finishing tying the obi in place.
"Thank you. I really appreciate this." Gome said, undoing her ponytail so that her hair fell down
her back.
"Your welcome. Oh no, I dropped the crystal glass vial my grandmother gave me on her death bed."
Kagura said, she had opened the vial holder and dropped the vial containing the delirium as she
was told to, it was only a bonus that Inuyasha had asked her to check on Gome.
"I'm sorry, here." Gome said bending down and handing her the shards of the crystal vial, while
also breathing in the invisible delirium gas.
"Its okay, thank you. Well I'm going to go and tell Inuyasha that you'll be up in a few minutes."
Kagura said and left leaving Gome to ponder over how to do her hair.
After thinking for a bit Gome used the comb to brush her hair. Making her hair silky soft Gome
pulled some of her hair back, the top of it, and pulled it to the back of her head where she used
the comb to hold it in place. Smiling Gome went out of the room and headed up to the deck where
Inuyasha and Miroku were waiting for her.
Inuyasha had his back turned to Gome and was talking to Miroku didn't notice her come up. Not
until Miroku stopped talking midsentence and was looking behind him, that is. Inuyasha turned
around and stared at the sight before him, he couldn't believe how perfectly the kimono fit her,
he had just taken a guess at the size, and she absolutly beautiful.
"How do I look?" she asked, a small smile playing on her lips.
"You look beautiful." Miroku said, Inuyasha couldn't say a thing, just nod his approval. "You'll
have to excuse Inuyasha here, he's not use to seeing such beauty." he said, causing both Gome and
Inuyasha to blush.
"Thanks Miroku, but you have a girlfriend, don't you?" Gome asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Please, don't get him started on Sango again." Inuyasha said, getting a glare from Miroku.
"Oh shut up. You're jealous. Anyways, in my letter from Sango, she said that the Lady Kaede has
been interested in dances from the west, something called the waltz. Has either of you heard of
it before?" Miroku asked, looking between Gome and Inuyasha.
"I don't think so..." Gome said, closing her eyes as a small flash of memory came jolting back to
her.
"I think I remember hearing of it, but I don't remember for sure, why is Kaede interested in the
waltz?" Inuyasha asked Miroku.
"Well, I'm just guessing here but, I think that the Higurashi family at every ball did the waltz
to honor the countries of the west." he said, glancing at Gome as she started humming. "What are
you humming?" he asked her.
"Its a song that just popped into my head, but I know its not from Japan. Its probably that 'waltz'
music. Maybe I just heard it before, I don't remember..." Gome said, biting on her bottom lip.
"Well, if it is the music, than maybe you can learn the dance by going with it." Miroku suggested.
"Okay, but why are you giving Inuyasha a look like that?" she asked, raising an eybrow at him.
"Because Inuyasha is going to be your dancing partner." he said.
"Fun, Inuyasha, if you step on my foot I'll hurt you." Gome said, giving him a glare.
"I was thinking the same thing." Inuyasha said, taking her right hand in his and put his left arm
around her waist while she put her left arm around his shoulders.
"And one, two, three. One, two, three. One, two- No Gome, he has to lead." Miroku said after
they started dancing to the humming Gome continued again.
With that said Gome stared into Inuyasha's eyes hoping he didn't trample her as they danced.
Inuyasha just simply moved with the rythm that Miroku couldn't out and they did the waltz perfectly.
Gome felt Inuyasha begin to slowly spin her outwards and she complied, when she came back her arm
went around his shoulders and he began to speak to her.
"You look very lovely in that kimono. You should wear it." Inuyasha said, lost in Gome's deep
blue-grey eyes.
"I am wearing it." she said, her eyes staring deeply into his amber ones.
"Right, of course." he said, a light blush forming on his cheeks.
As the two were dancing Miroku looked at Shippo and then back to the other two. Shaking his head
he realized that once they got Gome to Tokyo, Inuyasha would already be too attached to her to
let go. Sighing he just watched as they danced.
After a few more minutes of dancing Gome and Inuyasha stopped dancing and just stared at eachother.
"Maybe we should stop dancing." Inuyasha said, staring at nothing but Gome's eyes.
"We have stopped." Gome said staring deeper into his eyes.
"So we have." he said, beginning to close the space between their faces at the same time as she
was.
Just before they were about to kiss Inuyasha blinked his eyes open and pulled away. Gome waited
for a few seconds before she opened her eyes. As she opened her eyes Inuyasha spoke.
"G-good job." he said and went down to the room as the sun began to set.
Gome stood there for a few seconds before it started to rain. Blinking out of her trance as Miroku
took ahold of her forearm and led her down to the room, Gome looked around and saw Shippo following
beside her. As they entered the room they saw Inuyasha picking up his suitcase and rifling through
it, he finally pulled out what he had been looking for, a blanket. Inuyasha looked up as they
entered and put the blanket around the bottom bunk for a curtain like thing for her to dress in
private.
"That way you can change in private. I doubt you want an audience." he said causing her to smile.
"Thanks." was all Gome said before dissappearing behind the blanket into her bunk where she
fought the obi off, put the sleeping kimono on, and came back out removing the blanket than handed
it back to Inuyasha.
"Your welcome. Does it fit alright?" Inuyasha asked, forcing his eyes away from where the hem
ended.
"It fits fine, how did you know my size? Heck I don't even know my size..." Gome said blushing
slightly at how little she had.
"I just took a guess. Now if you don't mind I'm going to go to sleep." he said laying the blanket
down in the cornor of the room where he layed down, covered himself up, and was out in less then
five minutes.
"How does he do that?" Miroku muttered to himself.
"Do what?" Gome asked, she was running the comb through her hair to pull it into a loose ponytail.
"He can sleep anywhere, in less then five minutes he is out cold. I don't understand, he can
sleep through anything, and I mean anything..." he said.
"Well, lets just hope that the ship doesn't sink otherwise we'll have to carry him out of here."
she said smirking slightly.
Shippo who had been rifling through Inuyasha's open bag came out with a little box, the 'music'
box Inuyasha had been keeping to give back to someone. The dog took it over to his female companion
and set it down at her feet where she stared at it as visions of an old woman filled her mind.
Picking up the box Gome ran her fingers over it staring.
The box was golden and the top of it had a pink cherry blossom painted on it. Running her fingers
over the sides of it she felt an engraving of one word; secret. Gome paused when she saw a keyhole
about the size of her necklace pendant, she was about to try it when Miroku took the box from her
and tossed it back into Inuyasha's bag.
"Why did you do that?" Gome asked, she might have just found the thing that could give her all
her memories back.
"Because, Inuyasha would kill us both if someone but him touched that thing. He told me that when
we met I was to never touch that box. He told me that he made a promise with a single friend he
had that he would return the box back to them. I don't understand why its such a big deal, I
mean he doesn't remember the friend's name or what they look like. Besides its just a music box."
Miroku said, glancing at the bag everynow and then.
"Are you sure. It doesn't seem to me to be a music box. But thats just me, I mean I don't remember
my past from before I was eight. All I remember is my name, Gome, and a pair of sad amber eyes..."
Gome said, feeling silly about how she was talking. "But, thats silly. Isn't it?" she asked
Miroku who was climbing to the top bunk of the bed.
"No, all Inuyasha can remember from when he was nine was his name and the promise he made with
the friend to give the box to them." he said, as he got into the bed and fell asleep soon after.
"Come here Shippo." Gome said as she clapped her hands for the dog to jump into her arms. Once
the puppy did they fell into sleep cuddling.
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Meanwhile little did any of the people in the room know Kagura had been listening at the door for
them to fall asleep. Once they did she knew the delirium would take effect on the girl. Smirking
she took out her fans, got off of the ship into the air. Once she was she used her mystical fans
to turn the small rain storm into a vicious one. Again she smirked and took off back to the palace
in Northern Japan where she could await for the news of the death from her lord.
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Gome had fallen asleep for what seemed like only two minutes when the dream took hold of her. She
ended up seeing cherry blossoms blowing in a soft wind, following them she walked out of the room
up the stairs and onto the deck. As she left the room she had closed the door behind her so that
no one could follow her, just like a voice in her dream told her to.
Gome continued up the dock and followed the cherry blossoms when she saw a boy, about the age of
eight waving at her. Waving back Gome ran to where he was and watched as he jumped off of a ledge
into a river swimming with what looked to be a family, the same family she had seen in her flashes
of memory and the portraits in the palace. Looking down at them was hard for her to do unless
she climbed onto the same ledge.
'Get onto the ledge.' a voice in the back of her head said, Gome nodded and silently did as she
was told, little did she know that the ledge was the railing of the ship and was only holding onto
a cable.
As all of this was happening however, Naraku was using the delirium to control the young woman.
He had gotten into her mind and was whispering for her to do what she had been doing. Naraku
smiled as she looked down into what looked to be the face of her father.
"Hello up there, my daughter!" called out the voice causing Gome to stare, she was looking into
the face of a man who looked vaguely like her, her father.
"Daddy? Daddy is that you?" Gome called out, smiling at what she thought was her real father.
"Of course it is me! Now why don't you join us for a swim?" he asked as Gome thought this over.
Shippo had woken up when he suddenly felt the warmth of his companion leave the room. Staring at
her he noticed that she wasn't acting like herself, she seemed to be sleepwalking. Getting scared
for her he ran over to Inuyasha and started yipping in the young man's ear. When Inuyasha didn't
react he decided to do the one thing he knew would wake him up, he bit the man in the ankle that
was sticking out from the blanket. Inuyasha sat up straight and growled obscenities at the dog
until he realized that Gome was gone.
"Gome...Where is she?!" he growled out at the dog acting like he would somehow be able to tell him.
All Shippo could do was bark towards the door. Inuyasha's eyes got wide in fear when he heard a
crack of thunder come from above deck and he was out of the room in the blink of an eye. He ran
up the stair to the deck being thrown around a bit. When he saw Gome standing on the railing of
the ship his eyes got wider as he screamed her name over the thunder and waves.
Gome shook a bit when she suddenly heard someone scream her name. Turning her head to where she
heard the sound she saw a monster getting ready to attack her, for it was running at her. When
she looked back down the ledge what she saw made her scream in fright, her father had turned into
a monster, and the other family members had disappeared.
"Jump, JUMP! Fulfill the Higurashi plague!" he screamed at her as the other monster grabbed her
around the waist.
"Let me go! Let me go! Let me go!" Gome screamed kicking at the monster, who was actually Inuyasha,
she just hadn't waken up from her dream yet.
"Gome! Gome its me! Inuyasha! Wake up!" He shouted into her ears having turned her around and
pinned her arms to his body when he grabbed ahold of her squashing her against himself.
Gome started and opened her eyes before hearing a scream in her head as Naraku was disconnected
from her. She stared at Inuyasha for a second before bursting into tears and muttering things
that only she could hear. Inuyasha shook her to look at him and when she did he heard her mummblings.
"The Higurashi plague. The plague..." she muttered clinging to him.
"What? What are you talking about?" Inuyasha asked.
"So many voices...So many faces...Its all too much..." she said into his chest crying.
"Shh, you'll be okay. You'll be okay." he said running his hand through her hair before helping
her back to the room where he layed her onto her bunk and covered her with a ton of blankets to
keep her from getting sick.
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"Lord Naraku, what happened?" Kagura asked after he finally quit screaming.
"She got away. Give me your fans." he said glaring at her.
Kagura at first started to protest but pushed the fans through the barrier and watched as he used
them to get free of it. Naraku smiled maliciously before he broke the fans killing Kagura, for
those were the only things she had left keeping her tied to the living world, she had sold her
soul to him for eternal life. Naraku on the other hand had only one thing keeping him tied to
the living world now, his baboon skull which hung around his waist. He too had sold his soul.
"Now, to finish off the plague, to get rid of the last Higurashi." Naraku muttered to himself
before he took for the city of Tokyo.
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Thats it for this chapter.
~*~Mel~*~
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Forgotten Lives
By Golden Mooncat
Chapter Four: The Delirium
Gome, Inuyasha, Miroku, and Shippo had walked from where they jumped from the train to a bus-stop.
Setting down the bags that they had, Inuyasha's and Miroku's, Gome sat down on them to rest.
Inuyasha looked back at her and rolled his eyes.
"What are you doing?" he asked, looking at Miroku who was dancing around.
"I'm resting, but I think you should be asking what he's doing..." Gome said pointing her finger
at Miroku.
"I have no idea-Whoa!" Inuyasha cried out as Miroku grabbed him and started dancing around.
"Sango, oh my Sango. I am coming to see you!" Miroku said.
"Who's Sango?" Gome asked, cocking her head to the side.
"Sango is the world's most vuluptous woman! She is the apple of my eye! She is so sweet!" Miroku
said dipping Inuyasha right in front of Gome.
Gome leaned over Inuyasha's face and asked, "Is this a person or a food item?"
Inuyasha was just about to answer when he was jerked back up and danced around with once again.
Miroku carried on about how magnificant Sango was and had just started saying that she was a friend
of Kaede. Inuyasha tried to shut him up.
"Ixnae on the Angos dae!" he muttered but was ignored by Miroku.
"Sango is the granddaughter of Kaede's best friend! We get to go see her!" Miroku said and
started dancing on his own again.
"Why are we going to see the her? I thought we were going to see Kaede herself." Gome asked
standing up and looking Inuyasha dead in the eye.
"Well...Um..." Inuyasha said, not able to come up with a lie.
"Tell me Inuyasha. Now." Gome said, staring at his eyes to keep him from being able to lie to
her.
"We don't get to see Kaede unless we pass a test from Sango..." Inuyasha said, waiting for her
outburst of anger.
"What?! You didn't tell me I had to answer any questions to see Kaede! I don't know anything
about my past so how am I supposed to be able to answer these questions?! Show up, yes. Look
nice, maybe if I got a new kimono. But answer questions, NO!" Gome yelled poking Inuyasha in the
chest hard. "How am I supposed to prove I'm a Princess if I don't even look the part?!" she
screamed, her anger getting the best of her.
"Okay, so I forgot to mention a few minor details..." Inuyasha trailed off, not looking her in
the eyes.
"MINOR?!" Gome said and walked over to a bridge where she stared into the water staring at her
reflection.
Miroku shook his head and walked over to her annoyed at how weak Inuyasha sounded compaired to
that woman. When Miroku got to Gome he pulled a flower from a vine on the bridge and handed it
to her. Gome smiled slightly and took the flower smelling it.
"What do you see when you look into the reflection?" Miroku asked, getting her to sigh. "No really,
what do you see?"
"I see..." Gome thought for a few minutes before sighing and throwing her flower into her reflection.
"I see a skinny little girl with nothing to gain." she said.
"You want to know what I see? I see a beautiful young woman who has nothing to lose, but a whole
lot to gain. Now, why don't you let us help you?" Miroku asked pointing from himself to Inuyasha.
"Alright," Gome said, smiling.
"Okay, are you ready to become a Princess?" Inuyasha asked as he went back over with the bags.
"Ugh," she said walking away, rolling her eyes.
"What? What'd I do?" Inuyasha asked Miroku, whom just rolled his eyes as well.
Just at that moment the bus came to take them to the ship docks. Gome got on sitting with Shippo
in her lap, Inuyasha sat beside her and Miroku sat on a seat facing the other them. On the four
hour bus ride Inuyasha and Miroku told Gome all she would need to know to pass the test, along
with some other things. By the time they got to the boat docks Gome had her brain so full that
she felt her head would explode.
"Okay, I've got it all. Right now I want to go to sleep...Or at least not have to hear about the
Higurashi family anymore." Gome said, putting a hand to her temple as they boarded the boat.
"I'll be right back, Miroku take her to the room." Inuyasha said and ran off to a trading stand.
Gome rolled her eyes and followed Miroku to the room where she saw a small bunk bed. Going into
the room she set Shippo down on the bottom bunk which she claimed as her own. Gome then looked
around the room again noticing a mirror and sink.
"Huh, nicer than my room at the orphanage, which I had to share with 12 other kids." Gome said
smirking slightly.
At that moment Inuyasha came in carrying a green kimono with a cherryblossom embroidered in the
right shoulder, and a sleeping kimono which ended mid-thigh, it too was green. Inuyasha handed
the kimono with the flower in it to Gome. Gome took the kimono and stared at it, just when she
thought that she couldn't get anymore surprises he handed her a hair comb that had a cherryblossom
painted onto it.
"Its beautiful, but...?" Gome asked, her voice trailing.
"I figured you might like to wear it when we meet with Sango, and the obi is the same color pink
as the cherry blossom, just inside the kimono right now. Now, put that on while Miroku and I go
up on deck, we'll wait for you up there." Inuyasha said dragging Miroku out of the room with him.
As Gome got into the kimono she had a hard time tying the obi, she kept knotting it. Growling in
frustration she undid the obi for the sixth time and sighed. How was she to present herself as a
Princess if she couldn't even tie an obi? Getting frustrated she was close to throwing it across
the room when a knock on the door was sounded.
"Excuse, me. Is this Gome's room? Inuyasha asked me to come down here to see if you were done
getting dressed or not." came a voice from the woman who was knocking.
"Come in. My name is Gome, yours is?" Gome asked, as the woman came in, she wore a long necklace
that had a large pendant that seemed to hold something inside.
"My name is Kagura. Are you having a problem with the obi?" Kagura asked, her hair pulled back
off her hair, and her dark eyes seeming like endless voids.
"Yea, its my first time wearing such an elaborate kimono. Well, what I can remember anyways."
Gome said, again fidgetting with the obi's ties.
"Here, let me. Its hard when you first learn to do it, but then it gets easier." the other said,
taking the ties and tightening them. "Is this good?" she asked, the obi had to be tight to make
you seem skinny.
"Yea, I can barely breath." she said, putting her hand over the front of the obi.
"Okay, good. There you go." the other said, after finishing tying the obi in place.
"Thank you. I really appreciate this." Gome said, undoing her ponytail so that her hair fell down
her back.
"Your welcome. Oh no, I dropped the crystal glass vial my grandmother gave me on her death bed."
Kagura said, she had opened the vial holder and dropped the vial containing the delirium as she
was told to, it was only a bonus that Inuyasha had asked her to check on Gome.
"I'm sorry, here." Gome said bending down and handing her the shards of the crystal vial, while
also breathing in the invisible delirium gas.
"Its okay, thank you. Well I'm going to go and tell Inuyasha that you'll be up in a few minutes."
Kagura said and left leaving Gome to ponder over how to do her hair.
After thinking for a bit Gome used the comb to brush her hair. Making her hair silky soft Gome
pulled some of her hair back, the top of it, and pulled it to the back of her head where she used
the comb to hold it in place. Smiling Gome went out of the room and headed up to the deck where
Inuyasha and Miroku were waiting for her.
Inuyasha had his back turned to Gome and was talking to Miroku didn't notice her come up. Not
until Miroku stopped talking midsentence and was looking behind him, that is. Inuyasha turned
around and stared at the sight before him, he couldn't believe how perfectly the kimono fit her,
he had just taken a guess at the size, and she absolutly beautiful.
"How do I look?" she asked, a small smile playing on her lips.
"You look beautiful." Miroku said, Inuyasha couldn't say a thing, just nod his approval. "You'll
have to excuse Inuyasha here, he's not use to seeing such beauty." he said, causing both Gome and
Inuyasha to blush.
"Thanks Miroku, but you have a girlfriend, don't you?" Gome asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Please, don't get him started on Sango again." Inuyasha said, getting a glare from Miroku.
"Oh shut up. You're jealous. Anyways, in my letter from Sango, she said that the Lady Kaede has
been interested in dances from the west, something called the waltz. Has either of you heard of
it before?" Miroku asked, looking between Gome and Inuyasha.
"I don't think so..." Gome said, closing her eyes as a small flash of memory came jolting back to
her.
"I think I remember hearing of it, but I don't remember for sure, why is Kaede interested in the
waltz?" Inuyasha asked Miroku.
"Well, I'm just guessing here but, I think that the Higurashi family at every ball did the waltz
to honor the countries of the west." he said, glancing at Gome as she started humming. "What are
you humming?" he asked her.
"Its a song that just popped into my head, but I know its not from Japan. Its probably that 'waltz'
music. Maybe I just heard it before, I don't remember..." Gome said, biting on her bottom lip.
"Well, if it is the music, than maybe you can learn the dance by going with it." Miroku suggested.
"Okay, but why are you giving Inuyasha a look like that?" she asked, raising an eybrow at him.
"Because Inuyasha is going to be your dancing partner." he said.
"Fun, Inuyasha, if you step on my foot I'll hurt you." Gome said, giving him a glare.
"I was thinking the same thing." Inuyasha said, taking her right hand in his and put his left arm
around her waist while she put her left arm around his shoulders.
"And one, two, three. One, two, three. One, two- No Gome, he has to lead." Miroku said after
they started dancing to the humming Gome continued again.
With that said Gome stared into Inuyasha's eyes hoping he didn't trample her as they danced.
Inuyasha just simply moved with the rythm that Miroku couldn't out and they did the waltz perfectly.
Gome felt Inuyasha begin to slowly spin her outwards and she complied, when she came back her arm
went around his shoulders and he began to speak to her.
"You look very lovely in that kimono. You should wear it." Inuyasha said, lost in Gome's deep
blue-grey eyes.
"I am wearing it." she said, her eyes staring deeply into his amber ones.
"Right, of course." he said, a light blush forming on his cheeks.
As the two were dancing Miroku looked at Shippo and then back to the other two. Shaking his head
he realized that once they got Gome to Tokyo, Inuyasha would already be too attached to her to
let go. Sighing he just watched as they danced.
After a few more minutes of dancing Gome and Inuyasha stopped dancing and just stared at eachother.
"Maybe we should stop dancing." Inuyasha said, staring at nothing but Gome's eyes.
"We have stopped." Gome said staring deeper into his eyes.
"So we have." he said, beginning to close the space between their faces at the same time as she
was.
Just before they were about to kiss Inuyasha blinked his eyes open and pulled away. Gome waited
for a few seconds before she opened her eyes. As she opened her eyes Inuyasha spoke.
"G-good job." he said and went down to the room as the sun began to set.
Gome stood there for a few seconds before it started to rain. Blinking out of her trance as Miroku
took ahold of her forearm and led her down to the room, Gome looked around and saw Shippo following
beside her. As they entered the room they saw Inuyasha picking up his suitcase and rifling through
it, he finally pulled out what he had been looking for, a blanket. Inuyasha looked up as they
entered and put the blanket around the bottom bunk for a curtain like thing for her to dress in
private.
"That way you can change in private. I doubt you want an audience." he said causing her to smile.
"Thanks." was all Gome said before dissappearing behind the blanket into her bunk where she
fought the obi off, put the sleeping kimono on, and came back out removing the blanket than handed
it back to Inuyasha.
"Your welcome. Does it fit alright?" Inuyasha asked, forcing his eyes away from where the hem
ended.
"It fits fine, how did you know my size? Heck I don't even know my size..." Gome said blushing
slightly at how little she had.
"I just took a guess. Now if you don't mind I'm going to go to sleep." he said laying the blanket
down in the cornor of the room where he layed down, covered himself up, and was out in less then
five minutes.
"How does he do that?" Miroku muttered to himself.
"Do what?" Gome asked, she was running the comb through her hair to pull it into a loose ponytail.
"He can sleep anywhere, in less then five minutes he is out cold. I don't understand, he can
sleep through anything, and I mean anything..." he said.
"Well, lets just hope that the ship doesn't sink otherwise we'll have to carry him out of here."
she said smirking slightly.
Shippo who had been rifling through Inuyasha's open bag came out with a little box, the 'music'
box Inuyasha had been keeping to give back to someone. The dog took it over to his female companion
and set it down at her feet where she stared at it as visions of an old woman filled her mind.
Picking up the box Gome ran her fingers over it staring.
The box was golden and the top of it had a pink cherry blossom painted on it. Running her fingers
over the sides of it she felt an engraving of one word; secret. Gome paused when she saw a keyhole
about the size of her necklace pendant, she was about to try it when Miroku took the box from her
and tossed it back into Inuyasha's bag.
"Why did you do that?" Gome asked, she might have just found the thing that could give her all
her memories back.
"Because, Inuyasha would kill us both if someone but him touched that thing. He told me that when
we met I was to never touch that box. He told me that he made a promise with a single friend he
had that he would return the box back to them. I don't understand why its such a big deal, I
mean he doesn't remember the friend's name or what they look like. Besides its just a music box."
Miroku said, glancing at the bag everynow and then.
"Are you sure. It doesn't seem to me to be a music box. But thats just me, I mean I don't remember
my past from before I was eight. All I remember is my name, Gome, and a pair of sad amber eyes..."
Gome said, feeling silly about how she was talking. "But, thats silly. Isn't it?" she asked
Miroku who was climbing to the top bunk of the bed.
"No, all Inuyasha can remember from when he was nine was his name and the promise he made with
the friend to give the box to them." he said, as he got into the bed and fell asleep soon after.
"Come here Shippo." Gome said as she clapped her hands for the dog to jump into her arms. Once
the puppy did they fell into sleep cuddling.
~*~
Meanwhile little did any of the people in the room know Kagura had been listening at the door for
them to fall asleep. Once they did she knew the delirium would take effect on the girl. Smirking
she took out her fans, got off of the ship into the air. Once she was she used her mystical fans
to turn the small rain storm into a vicious one. Again she smirked and took off back to the palace
in Northern Japan where she could await for the news of the death from her lord.
~*~
Gome had fallen asleep for what seemed like only two minutes when the dream took hold of her. She
ended up seeing cherry blossoms blowing in a soft wind, following them she walked out of the room
up the stairs and onto the deck. As she left the room she had closed the door behind her so that
no one could follow her, just like a voice in her dream told her to.
Gome continued up the dock and followed the cherry blossoms when she saw a boy, about the age of
eight waving at her. Waving back Gome ran to where he was and watched as he jumped off of a ledge
into a river swimming with what looked to be a family, the same family she had seen in her flashes
of memory and the portraits in the palace. Looking down at them was hard for her to do unless
she climbed onto the same ledge.
'Get onto the ledge.' a voice in the back of her head said, Gome nodded and silently did as she
was told, little did she know that the ledge was the railing of the ship and was only holding onto
a cable.
As all of this was happening however, Naraku was using the delirium to control the young woman.
He had gotten into her mind and was whispering for her to do what she had been doing. Naraku
smiled as she looked down into what looked to be the face of her father.
"Hello up there, my daughter!" called out the voice causing Gome to stare, she was looking into
the face of a man who looked vaguely like her, her father.
"Daddy? Daddy is that you?" Gome called out, smiling at what she thought was her real father.
"Of course it is me! Now why don't you join us for a swim?" he asked as Gome thought this over.
Shippo had woken up when he suddenly felt the warmth of his companion leave the room. Staring at
her he noticed that she wasn't acting like herself, she seemed to be sleepwalking. Getting scared
for her he ran over to Inuyasha and started yipping in the young man's ear. When Inuyasha didn't
react he decided to do the one thing he knew would wake him up, he bit the man in the ankle that
was sticking out from the blanket. Inuyasha sat up straight and growled obscenities at the dog
until he realized that Gome was gone.
"Gome...Where is she?!" he growled out at the dog acting like he would somehow be able to tell him.
All Shippo could do was bark towards the door. Inuyasha's eyes got wide in fear when he heard a
crack of thunder come from above deck and he was out of the room in the blink of an eye. He ran
up the stair to the deck being thrown around a bit. When he saw Gome standing on the railing of
the ship his eyes got wider as he screamed her name over the thunder and waves.
Gome shook a bit when she suddenly heard someone scream her name. Turning her head to where she
heard the sound she saw a monster getting ready to attack her, for it was running at her. When
she looked back down the ledge what she saw made her scream in fright, her father had turned into
a monster, and the other family members had disappeared.
"Jump, JUMP! Fulfill the Higurashi plague!" he screamed at her as the other monster grabbed her
around the waist.
"Let me go! Let me go! Let me go!" Gome screamed kicking at the monster, who was actually Inuyasha,
she just hadn't waken up from her dream yet.
"Gome! Gome its me! Inuyasha! Wake up!" He shouted into her ears having turned her around and
pinned her arms to his body when he grabbed ahold of her squashing her against himself.
Gome started and opened her eyes before hearing a scream in her head as Naraku was disconnected
from her. She stared at Inuyasha for a second before bursting into tears and muttering things
that only she could hear. Inuyasha shook her to look at him and when she did he heard her mummblings.
"The Higurashi plague. The plague..." she muttered clinging to him.
"What? What are you talking about?" Inuyasha asked.
"So many voices...So many faces...Its all too much..." she said into his chest crying.
"Shh, you'll be okay. You'll be okay." he said running his hand through her hair before helping
her back to the room where he layed her onto her bunk and covered her with a ton of blankets to
keep her from getting sick.
~*~Meanwhile~*~
"Lord Naraku, what happened?" Kagura asked after he finally quit screaming.
"She got away. Give me your fans." he said glaring at her.
Kagura at first started to protest but pushed the fans through the barrier and watched as he used
them to get free of it. Naraku smiled maliciously before he broke the fans killing Kagura, for
those were the only things she had left keeping her tied to the living world, she had sold her
soul to him for eternal life. Naraku on the other hand had only one thing keeping him tied to
the living world now, his baboon skull which hung around his waist. He too had sold his soul.
"Now, to finish off the plague, to get rid of the last Higurashi." Naraku muttered to himself
before he took for the city of Tokyo.
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Thats it for this chapter.
~*~Mel~*~