Guide: (1). " " means talking out loud ( even if other characters don't hear ). (2). ' Italic ' means thinking. (3). " Italic " means emphasis. (4). * before paragraph means narration. (5). ____ means flashback. (6). " Bold " means yelled really loud. (7). a line of ~*~*~ means that there is an alteration between areas, or the end of the chapter.
Inu Yasha
A Past of Presents
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~ Chapter 2 ~
The Legend of the Glass Pond
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"You didn't have to sit me that many times you know," said Inu Yasha as the group settled down for lunch. "I stopped the first time."
"I know, that first one was to make you stop," said Kagome as she poured boiling water into some small instant soup cups and handed them out. "All the ones after that were for calling me a wench again."
"Why you little..." Inu Yasha growled under his breath.
"Ha! Ha!" chirped Shippou. "You just got told off again Inu Yasha! Whee! Ha, ha! Kagome 1, Inu Yasha 0!"
* Shippou started to dance around excitedly as the ticked off dog demon started to flex his claws.
"That's it," he said in a low growl. "Now you've gone and pissed me off royally!"
* Inu Yasha jumped up and started chasing Shippou around with fangs and claws bared. Shippou immediately ran screaming behind Kagome, and started to whimper pitifully.
"Inu Yasha!" Kagome yelled while desperately trying to avoid spilling soup on Shippou as he ducked under her arm. "Leave Shippou alone! What's wrong with you! Ahh..." she sighed, "Here, have some ramen."
"No way!" Inu Yasha cried. "That little whelps gone 'a get what's coming to him!"
Miroku tried to calm the enraged half breed down, "Inu Yasha, one should quit while their ahead. If you keep this up Kagome will only sit you again."
"Gerrr.. Fine." glared Inu Yasha as he snatched up the Ramen, and started to aggressively attack the nodes while he watched the kitsune closely over the rim of his cup. "Hay Myoga got any idea where we are?"
"Though I'm not quite sure," said the flea, "I do believe we're in the lower part of your late Lord Fathers realm. At least that's the only place that comes to mined. I remember your Lord father used to come here quite often in his later years, and travel to a large reflecting pool hidden deep in the forests."
"But this place is filled with lakes," said Kagome perplexed, "We must have passed by half a dozen already. What was so special abut that one."
"This particular lake is believed to be sacred by the people of this area, and has its own legend," Myoga said with the look of a sedge on his face. "The 'Glass Lake', as it is referred to, is said to be so still that it appears one might walk on its surface, and some say that one does. It is said that there is a maiden with a most strange, yet lovely appearance that is said to rise from the lake, and heal the injured and ailing. She is said to have skin the tint of the inside of a magnolia, hair the color of the palest sunlight, and eyes the hue of a clear winter sky."
* At this Shippou froze. The description running through his mined over and over again, along with the vision of a young woman from his past. All else was lost as the memories seemed to wash over him like a flood.
"There is also said," continued Myoga, "to be a white horse of queerest looks that roams around this lake, and..."
"That's impossible!" said Inu Yasha in a self assured tone. "That would mean her skin would look cream colored, her hair would be golden, and her eyes would have to be blue! There's know such thing Myoga! Sheesh... Kagome," he said as he looked to her for assurance, "tell him there's know such thing,"
"Uhh.. ha.. ha.. sure isn't," she reluctantly replied as Inu Yasha turned away. 'Man that was a bit to close for comfort. I don't want to lie, but I can't tell them about the future, besides it's going to be hundreds of years before anyone from Europe ever travels to Japan.'
"But... But your Lord Father use to travel to the lake, and talk to the maiden of whom I speak, and I myself have heard her voice though I have never actually seen her, " added Myoga in a final attempt to prove himself. "I know, that would be the perfect place to shelter ourselves from your demonic brother."
"I thought I made that clear! Who keeps saying we're running!!" Inu Yasha howled as he flicked the flea of his shoulder.
"I'd like to see this lake if it is close by. I mean, I'm sure that because of the lakes obvious religious impotents, there will be a town nearby where we can stay and get needed provisions for our journey," Miroku said.
"Are you sure that's not gust an excuse to look for women?" asked Kagome in a tone that showed her obvious disbelief in the validity of the monks said intentions.
"Of course not!" he quickly replied in a nervous tone as he hurriedly glanced to and away from Sango.
"You answered that one to quickly lecher!" Sango yelled as she beat the monk over the backside of the head. " You're such a pervert!"
"Well we'd better get moving," Inu Yasha said as he started to getup. "We'll stop at that place if we come across it. Not saying we will."
"Shippou, are you alright?" Kagome asked as she lightly put her hand on the kitsune's shoulder with concern, "You look like you just saw a ghost or something."
"Oh!" he replied with a start as he felt her touch. "Kagome, I was just thinking."
"Well there's something you don't hear everyday," commented Inu Yasha.
"About what?" asked Sango who was starting to feel ill at ease herself at his response.
"Umm, nothing important," Shippou answered nervously as the sudden bombardment of question, and attention caught him off guard.
"Don't worry," Inu Yasha interjected. "It's just I don't think any of us are use to the idea of you actually thinking."
"Inu Yasha!" Kagome yelled as she hurled a paper soup cup at the demon's head, and picked up the still pail fox kit.
"I think we had better get going," said Miroku as he stood rubbing his sore head.
* With that the group started off agene at a walk.
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* In the meantime Sesshomaru, Rin, and Jaken were also taking a brake about a mile away.
"Lord Sesshomaru?" Jaken asked hurriedly, "Do you think that Inu Yasha has figured anything out?"
"Of cores not," he replied half mindedly. "There's no way he could have figured out my entire plan yet, but by the time he dose it'll be far to late to do anything about it."
"Come on," he said as he mounted his demonic steed, "their on the move again."
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A/N: Bit of a cliff hanger hu? As I said before I LOVE ALL reviews. Thanks allot to my beta-ers: Tory, Nicole, and my ever helpful/non-helpful friends Ashie-chan and Ashly-chan. Thanks for reading this it is an honor to know that you have spent the time to read this even if you don't review.