Chapter 9: Protect Me, If You Can . . . ; Scroll I
[Warning: This chapter(s) contains; mental arguments and inner torment, strong violence, foul language and death, also brief nudity~ so I am prepared for any flames that may be started. Also bear with me for I haven't seen an episode with Kagura in it or manga, I only know from what I read about her. So I hope she isn't out of character too much. ]
Kagome sighed as she slipped into the hot spring only a mile away from the village in which they where staying at until the others heal. She dunked her head in and the sat back up and brushed the wet hair from her face and then leaned against a rock behind her and fingered the uncompleted Shikon no Tama around her neck.
Poor Miroku's was brunt badly and his poor face suffered a nasty gash from Kirara's claws, from his cheekbone down to his collarbone was stitched. He would have a scar from the ordeal that was for sure. The hand and arm would heal in time as Kirara would heal faster then the others. Then there was Inu-Yasha, the arrogate hanyou that she had come to love. But she had noticed the way he looks at Kirara now and the way he acts, is she was losing him? She sighed again.
"Life's never easy is it?" A voice said that was ice cold and had no emotions, "I know, it killed me." The voice said as a ghostly snake like create floated by Kagome, it's small legs brushed across her shoulder. But soon more and more came and surrounded her as the master of these creatures stepped forward.
"Kikyo." Kagome whispered as Kikyo only smiled slightly, "Funny, I loved Inu-Yasha and was betrayed, you love him and he will also betray your love. I guess we truly are one and the same." Kikyo said as she gestured to the floating soul stealers. "So let us become one once more."
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"Sango?"
"Hai, Bokushi?" Sango replied as she turned around to face Miroku. "Where has Kagome-sama gone to?"
"Where else the springs, now hold still, I need to re-bandage your hand and arm." She stated as she reached over to her side and brought forth a bowl with herbs floating in the murky hot water. Miroku personally did not like the looks of the liquid but he knew better then to argue with Sango. He smiled perverted though and removed the top half of his clothing to show his well-built yet lanky structure.
Sango ringed out the wet cloth and turned to clean his burns and blushed suddenly as she noticed his top was missing. ["Well DUH! What where you thinking Sango, you would treat the wounds through clothing?"] She heard her inner voice say and she shrugged the thoughts off that where in her mind. She then lightly dapped the rag over the burns as Miroku stiffened from the pain. "Gomen, bokushi." She whispered which made the monk smiled. "Sango-sama."
"H-Hai?" she stuttered as she slowly took in the way he had said her name and stopped cleaning his burns as he lifted her chin up to look at him with his cursed hand. "Anata no Utsukushii, Sango." He said with care and honesty and Sang blinked as a blush came to her face and she looked away and dropped the rag into the bowl and shook her head. "Watashi ni? Utsukushii? Iie. Iie." She said as she shook her head gently side to side as her black hair fell across her shoulders, her eyes covered by her bangs.
Miroku stared at her with a frown and then surprising her, he drew her close to him, holding her with both his arms, embracing her as he laid his chin upon her shoulder. "M-M-Miroku?" she asked as her eyed went wide as she felt his warm breath upon her neck as his hold grew tighter by the minute. "Miroku?" she asked again and received no answer.
Then it came . . .
But not the answer she wanted . . .
"Forgive me, ai."
"M-M-Mir-oku . . . w-why?" she stuttered as she felt the warmth of her own blood oozing down her chest, raising her slender hand she found a dagger pierced through her skin and into her heart She felt Miroku shake behind her and a drop of water hit her shoulder, a tear. But Miroku faded away and in front of her stood Naraku laughing as Miroku went with him.
His cruse . . .
Gone . . .
["No NO! This is a dream! This is a nightmare! This isn't happening!"]
"Miroku!!" she cried out with her last dieing breath . . .
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Miroku stood in complete and utter darkness, before him laid Sango, her hair spread out before her, her eyes sightless, her clothes, ripped, her face was splattered with blood as she laid in a pool of her won blood. Miroku looked at his hands hat where covered with her blood, his cruse gone.
What had he done!?
"S-Sango . . . This isn't real! I-I didn't kill her! No!!!"
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Kagura smiled as she tipped-toed through the sleeping Miroku and Sango. The sleep powered that a soul stealer had dropped over their heads was working perfectly. They where stuck in a world of nightmares. "How sweet." Kagura said as she then stepped over a whimpering Shippo. "I hate kitsune's." she muttered as she entered the hut in which they where staying in. "Well those three will be out of it for a while." She chuckled and looked around the hut.
"Where is that blasted neko?" she muttered as she looked at the empty one room hut only to find a outer kimono laying on the floor and a blanket pushed off to the side as if someone got out of bed and did not make it. Kagura soon found out as she felt a clawed hand about her neck and was slammed into the wall. "Kagura!" Kirara growled as Kagura smiled. "So the neko's out of the bag? Good for me, bad for you." She stated as she whipped out her fan and performed the Fuujin no Mai and Kirara crashed to the ground and held her stomach in pain.
"You should know better then to fight when your wounded." She smirked slightly as she walked up to the neko that lay on her side upon the huts floor. "And you should know better then to attack a wounded animal." Kirara spat as her tails swung around and made an attempt to trip the wind youkai. But instead Kagura grabbed her tails, "Hmm, I'm not worried." She stated as she then let go of her tails and then performed her wind attack once again and succeeded in knocking out the Neko. She then lifted the neko up over her shoulder and then stalked out of the hut and into the forest.
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Thirty minutes later Inu-Yasha returned to the hut after returning from the near by village to see if he could find the herbs Sango had asked for. Though instead of a warm welcome he received a horrid sight. Before him was Sango and Miroku on the ground, they where under some spell and crying out as Shippo was. He instantly was at the Miroku's side. "Miroku!" He growled and sniffed the air, "Dust? Iie . . . sleeping dust." He snapped and then sharply back handed Miroku across the face.
Miroku was instantly awaken and sat up with a scream, he was sweating and breathing deeply and staring at his hands like he had grown a sixth finger. That's when he noticed Inu-Yasha at his side. "I-Inu . . . Yasha?" he asked and received a nod in reply. "What happened?"
"I-I don't know, one minute I was speaking with Sango and then . . . Oh Kami Sango! Is she!?"
"Iie, she is alive, wake her and Shippo up, I'll check on Kagome and Kirara."
"But . . . Kagome left for the springs."
"When!!"
"At least five minutes ago but now. . ." he looked up at the sky, "About an hour."
"Damn!" Inu-Yasha snapped and then blinked and darted into the hut, ["What is this smell?"] he asked himself as he look about.
Kirara was gone . . .
"Kagura . . ." He growled and called out to Miroku, "Where is Kirara!"
"She was in the hut!"
"She isn't here, Kagura must of . . . huh?" he stopped as his nose picked up a new scent, one mixed with dirt and clay. "Kikyo." He said in a whisper and shot out of the hut like a bolt of lighting and ran into the woods, he barely caught Miroku's cry of where he was going and he yelled over his shoulder as his mind raced with fears. "Kikyo and Kagura! They must have Kirara and Kagome!"
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"So now that we have them now what do we do?" Kagura asked, not really liking this idea much at all. "We wait for the hanyou." Kikyo said as she loaded her bow with an arrow. The two looked at each other and then nodded as Kagome and Kirara slowly begin to awake. The two where tied to a "V" shaped tree, both on one trunk. Kagome was the first to wake and her head hurt badly as did her shoulder. Her black hair was still damp from the spring waters, she instantly realized she was still at the springs! But tied to a tree, she shivered, and blinked once. She was completely in the nude!
The ropes around her slender body covered little around the certain parts of her body, her damp hair at least covered her breast. She looked over to her right and saw why her shoulder was hurt so badly. A single arrow stood out like a sore thumb within her shoulder that screamed in pain. Dried blood pointed out how long the arrow had been there, at least an hour.
"So you are awake." Kikyo said as Kagome looked in her direction and struggled against the ropes as a soul stealer floated by her as another wrapped about her shoulders like a shawl, its small legs tickling her sensitive and pale skin. "Kikyo." Kagome stated as she tried to ignore the stealers that now floated around them. "What is going on! Let me go!" Kagome yelled as she then screamed in pain as her shoulder cried out in protest.
"Stop moving." A weak voice said that was full of no emotion and Kagome looked to her left to find Kirara also tied to the tree trunk by her, she wasn't in good shape. Her head was bowed as a dark shadow covered her eyes, her cream colored hair fell across her un moving shoulders, her kimono was torn and ripped and revealing one leg up to her thigh and her right shoulder. The Kimono was barely on her, her tails were tucked behind her like a whipped puppy. "K-Kirara? Are you alright?" she asked as the neko snickered, "If you only knew, your so innocent its scary sometimes." She said in amusement and looked up at Kikyo and Kagura.
"Naraku sent you didn't he?" she said in a knowing voice and when she received a small smile from Kikyo she then nodded her head, "I though so, the moon is only a little over a 1/3 gone. I still have plenty of time. He wants to toy with us, I'm honored."
"This truly will be entertaining. I will have my revenge but . . . in a different manner." Kikyo said in her composed voice and lifted her bow up and pointed it to Kagome. Kagome looked at Kikyo and then Kirara then back to Kikyo as the arrow struck beside Kagomes head. "Hmm . . . " Kikyo said and then walked up to Kagome and glared at her as she came up to Kirara and then backhanded her across the face. "What would the hanyou think of you now? Once he finds out your skeleton that cowers in the corner." She smiled her eerie and cold-hearted smile.
["Skeleton that cowers in the corner?"] Kagome repeated in her mind as she looked to Kiara who only glared at the undead miko. How little she knew, how little she knew indeed. Kagome barely heard the words that came from her fanged mouth as she sang in a low voice, barely a whisper:
"Exhausted, without the strength to search
people vanish into the infinite darkness If it's so small,
I wonder if I can see it even now?
As we live on, we lose a little bit more. Shrouded in falsehoods and lies, we stand frozen to the spot, unable to cry out . . .
for eternity..."
Kirara then chuckled to herself as tears gently followed from her eyes, how ironic was this very song, she herself . . .
. . . falsehoods and lies . . .
. . . unable to cry out . . .
. . . . for eternity . . .
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[A/n: I think I just wore out my Inu-Yasha/Blue Seed Cd's lol, *grabs a box of tissues and offers them to you* Here you may need them *sniff sniff * Until next time folks,
Ja Ne! Hope to see u all again!]
[Warning: This chapter(s) contains; mental arguments and inner torment, strong violence, foul language and death, also brief nudity~ so I am prepared for any flames that may be started. Also bear with me for I haven't seen an episode with Kagura in it or manga, I only know from what I read about her. So I hope she isn't out of character too much. ]
Kagome sighed as she slipped into the hot spring only a mile away from the village in which they where staying at until the others heal. She dunked her head in and the sat back up and brushed the wet hair from her face and then leaned against a rock behind her and fingered the uncompleted Shikon no Tama around her neck.
Poor Miroku's was brunt badly and his poor face suffered a nasty gash from Kirara's claws, from his cheekbone down to his collarbone was stitched. He would have a scar from the ordeal that was for sure. The hand and arm would heal in time as Kirara would heal faster then the others. Then there was Inu-Yasha, the arrogate hanyou that she had come to love. But she had noticed the way he looks at Kirara now and the way he acts, is she was losing him? She sighed again.
"Life's never easy is it?" A voice said that was ice cold and had no emotions, "I know, it killed me." The voice said as a ghostly snake like create floated by Kagome, it's small legs brushed across her shoulder. But soon more and more came and surrounded her as the master of these creatures stepped forward.
"Kikyo." Kagome whispered as Kikyo only smiled slightly, "Funny, I loved Inu-Yasha and was betrayed, you love him and he will also betray your love. I guess we truly are one and the same." Kikyo said as she gestured to the floating soul stealers. "So let us become one once more."
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"Sango?"
"Hai, Bokushi?" Sango replied as she turned around to face Miroku. "Where has Kagome-sama gone to?"
"Where else the springs, now hold still, I need to re-bandage your hand and arm." She stated as she reached over to her side and brought forth a bowl with herbs floating in the murky hot water. Miroku personally did not like the looks of the liquid but he knew better then to argue with Sango. He smiled perverted though and removed the top half of his clothing to show his well-built yet lanky structure.
Sango ringed out the wet cloth and turned to clean his burns and blushed suddenly as she noticed his top was missing. ["Well DUH! What where you thinking Sango, you would treat the wounds through clothing?"] She heard her inner voice say and she shrugged the thoughts off that where in her mind. She then lightly dapped the rag over the burns as Miroku stiffened from the pain. "Gomen, bokushi." She whispered which made the monk smiled. "Sango-sama."
"H-Hai?" she stuttered as she slowly took in the way he had said her name and stopped cleaning his burns as he lifted her chin up to look at him with his cursed hand. "Anata no Utsukushii, Sango." He said with care and honesty and Sang blinked as a blush came to her face and she looked away and dropped the rag into the bowl and shook her head. "Watashi ni? Utsukushii? Iie. Iie." She said as she shook her head gently side to side as her black hair fell across her shoulders, her eyes covered by her bangs.
Miroku stared at her with a frown and then surprising her, he drew her close to him, holding her with both his arms, embracing her as he laid his chin upon her shoulder. "M-M-Miroku?" she asked as her eyed went wide as she felt his warm breath upon her neck as his hold grew tighter by the minute. "Miroku?" she asked again and received no answer.
Then it came . . .
But not the answer she wanted . . .
"Forgive me, ai."
"M-M-Mir-oku . . . w-why?" she stuttered as she felt the warmth of her own blood oozing down her chest, raising her slender hand she found a dagger pierced through her skin and into her heart She felt Miroku shake behind her and a drop of water hit her shoulder, a tear. But Miroku faded away and in front of her stood Naraku laughing as Miroku went with him.
His cruse . . .
Gone . . .
["No NO! This is a dream! This is a nightmare! This isn't happening!"]
"Miroku!!" she cried out with her last dieing breath . . .
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Miroku stood in complete and utter darkness, before him laid Sango, her hair spread out before her, her eyes sightless, her clothes, ripped, her face was splattered with blood as she laid in a pool of her won blood. Miroku looked at his hands hat where covered with her blood, his cruse gone.
What had he done!?
"S-Sango . . . This isn't real! I-I didn't kill her! No!!!"
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Kagura smiled as she tipped-toed through the sleeping Miroku and Sango. The sleep powered that a soul stealer had dropped over their heads was working perfectly. They where stuck in a world of nightmares. "How sweet." Kagura said as she then stepped over a whimpering Shippo. "I hate kitsune's." she muttered as she entered the hut in which they where staying in. "Well those three will be out of it for a while." She chuckled and looked around the hut.
"Where is that blasted neko?" she muttered as she looked at the empty one room hut only to find a outer kimono laying on the floor and a blanket pushed off to the side as if someone got out of bed and did not make it. Kagura soon found out as she felt a clawed hand about her neck and was slammed into the wall. "Kagura!" Kirara growled as Kagura smiled. "So the neko's out of the bag? Good for me, bad for you." She stated as she whipped out her fan and performed the Fuujin no Mai and Kirara crashed to the ground and held her stomach in pain.
"You should know better then to fight when your wounded." She smirked slightly as she walked up to the neko that lay on her side upon the huts floor. "And you should know better then to attack a wounded animal." Kirara spat as her tails swung around and made an attempt to trip the wind youkai. But instead Kagura grabbed her tails, "Hmm, I'm not worried." She stated as she then let go of her tails and then performed her wind attack once again and succeeded in knocking out the Neko. She then lifted the neko up over her shoulder and then stalked out of the hut and into the forest.
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Thirty minutes later Inu-Yasha returned to the hut after returning from the near by village to see if he could find the herbs Sango had asked for. Though instead of a warm welcome he received a horrid sight. Before him was Sango and Miroku on the ground, they where under some spell and crying out as Shippo was. He instantly was at the Miroku's side. "Miroku!" He growled and sniffed the air, "Dust? Iie . . . sleeping dust." He snapped and then sharply back handed Miroku across the face.
Miroku was instantly awaken and sat up with a scream, he was sweating and breathing deeply and staring at his hands like he had grown a sixth finger. That's when he noticed Inu-Yasha at his side. "I-Inu . . . Yasha?" he asked and received a nod in reply. "What happened?"
"I-I don't know, one minute I was speaking with Sango and then . . . Oh Kami Sango! Is she!?"
"Iie, she is alive, wake her and Shippo up, I'll check on Kagome and Kirara."
"But . . . Kagome left for the springs."
"When!!"
"At least five minutes ago but now. . ." he looked up at the sky, "About an hour."
"Damn!" Inu-Yasha snapped and then blinked and darted into the hut, ["What is this smell?"] he asked himself as he look about.
Kirara was gone . . .
"Kagura . . ." He growled and called out to Miroku, "Where is Kirara!"
"She was in the hut!"
"She isn't here, Kagura must of . . . huh?" he stopped as his nose picked up a new scent, one mixed with dirt and clay. "Kikyo." He said in a whisper and shot out of the hut like a bolt of lighting and ran into the woods, he barely caught Miroku's cry of where he was going and he yelled over his shoulder as his mind raced with fears. "Kikyo and Kagura! They must have Kirara and Kagome!"
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"So now that we have them now what do we do?" Kagura asked, not really liking this idea much at all. "We wait for the hanyou." Kikyo said as she loaded her bow with an arrow. The two looked at each other and then nodded as Kagome and Kirara slowly begin to awake. The two where tied to a "V" shaped tree, both on one trunk. Kagome was the first to wake and her head hurt badly as did her shoulder. Her black hair was still damp from the spring waters, she instantly realized she was still at the springs! But tied to a tree, she shivered, and blinked once. She was completely in the nude!
The ropes around her slender body covered little around the certain parts of her body, her damp hair at least covered her breast. She looked over to her right and saw why her shoulder was hurt so badly. A single arrow stood out like a sore thumb within her shoulder that screamed in pain. Dried blood pointed out how long the arrow had been there, at least an hour.
"So you are awake." Kikyo said as Kagome looked in her direction and struggled against the ropes as a soul stealer floated by her as another wrapped about her shoulders like a shawl, its small legs tickling her sensitive and pale skin. "Kikyo." Kagome stated as she tried to ignore the stealers that now floated around them. "What is going on! Let me go!" Kagome yelled as she then screamed in pain as her shoulder cried out in protest.
"Stop moving." A weak voice said that was full of no emotion and Kagome looked to her left to find Kirara also tied to the tree trunk by her, she wasn't in good shape. Her head was bowed as a dark shadow covered her eyes, her cream colored hair fell across her un moving shoulders, her kimono was torn and ripped and revealing one leg up to her thigh and her right shoulder. The Kimono was barely on her, her tails were tucked behind her like a whipped puppy. "K-Kirara? Are you alright?" she asked as the neko snickered, "If you only knew, your so innocent its scary sometimes." She said in amusement and looked up at Kikyo and Kagura.
"Naraku sent you didn't he?" she said in a knowing voice and when she received a small smile from Kikyo she then nodded her head, "I though so, the moon is only a little over a 1/3 gone. I still have plenty of time. He wants to toy with us, I'm honored."
"This truly will be entertaining. I will have my revenge but . . . in a different manner." Kikyo said in her composed voice and lifted her bow up and pointed it to Kagome. Kagome looked at Kikyo and then Kirara then back to Kikyo as the arrow struck beside Kagomes head. "Hmm . . . " Kikyo said and then walked up to Kagome and glared at her as she came up to Kirara and then backhanded her across the face. "What would the hanyou think of you now? Once he finds out your skeleton that cowers in the corner." She smiled her eerie and cold-hearted smile.
["Skeleton that cowers in the corner?"] Kagome repeated in her mind as she looked to Kiara who only glared at the undead miko. How little she knew, how little she knew indeed. Kagome barely heard the words that came from her fanged mouth as she sang in a low voice, barely a whisper:
"Exhausted, without the strength to search
people vanish into the infinite darkness If it's so small,
I wonder if I can see it even now?
As we live on, we lose a little bit more. Shrouded in falsehoods and lies, we stand frozen to the spot, unable to cry out . . .
for eternity..."
Kirara then chuckled to herself as tears gently followed from her eyes, how ironic was this very song, she herself . . .
. . . falsehoods and lies . . .
. . . unable to cry out . . .
. . . . for eternity . . .
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[A/n: I think I just wore out my Inu-Yasha/Blue Seed Cd's lol, *grabs a box of tissues and offers them to you* Here you may need them *sniff sniff * Until next time folks,
Ja Ne! Hope to see u all again!]