~ A Feudal Fairytale ~
Okay, so once again it is my turn to write the little note thing. (Either that or Serenity is asleep and is helpless to stop me.......) Okay so.........we don't own InuYasha or Ranma (and yes that show's characters may again show up, but we haven't gotten that far quite yet, so the disclaimer is staying up there!) We do however own Patience Galloway and Serenity Ikari, so please don't steal.........oh, I almost forgot!! How stupid of me to forget this!! Duh! Serenity and I are extreme advocates for KAGOME AND INUYASHA AS A COUPLE!!!! There are no questions on that fact. We just needed a summer project and besides that we just wanted to see what would happen. So on with the show.......
Chapter Six: The Morning After
Patience sat in the backseat of her Da's 65' FORD Mustang. She and her parents were going on a picnic way out in the middle of nowhere.They had packed every food an American girl could ever ask for: fried chicken, cole slaw, potato salad, and of course, hamburgers. What more could anyone want?
Sondou was talking about their upcoming trip. They were flying to Tokyo next week to visit Sondou's sister who had just had a baby boy. Patience's cousin Serenity had sent her pictures of him in her last letter and he was such a cute baby! So pudgy and cuddly-looking.
She had so much to be excited about, she could barely keep herself from bouncing around in the car.
A moment later she was wrenced violently from her thoughts; suddenly the car hit a pothole, went barreling off the road, and into the field next it. Just before it stopped rolling the front end burst into flames. Patience scrambled out of the car, hitting her head and scraping her knee. She could hear her parents screaming. It was too hot to get anywhere near it with out getting burned to death herself. "DA!" Patience screamed "Sondou! Get up! Wake up!!" She noticed that they had been knocked unconscious in the rolling of the car. NO!!!! "Get out!!! PLEASE!!!" Patience's panic rose. This wasn't happening, not again. "DON'T LEAVE ME!!!!!"
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Patience felt something sharp being poked into her shoulder. At first she thought she was still dreaming, but then she realized she was awake with a start. Staring her straight in the face was a little toad looking creature. It was disgusting - even more so because of the sneer plastered across it's hideously wrinkled face.
"Get up human," it said with nothing less than malice in its grotesque voice.
"YOU!!! GOD DAMN YOU! HOW DARE YOU WAKE ME UP, YOU INSOLENT LITTLE CREEP!!!!" Patience screamed at it. She swatted at it and it went flying through the air until it finally hit a tree and was knocked out.
Rin, who had woken up long before Patience, clapped her hands and directed her radiant smile at Patience. She was obviously delighted that this creature had been smacked.
Patience turned her head and caught a quick glimpse of Sesshomaru giving Rin a tiny smile of amusement, but just as quickly as it had appeared, he hid it again, as if he were ashamed of it.
He has a nice smile, she thought, I hope I get to see it again. . . .and soon.
Though his face had once again turned to stone, his mind was racing with concern. What could have troubled her so that it would follow her into her dreams? Could it be something from her past? Or maybe nothing real at all? Why did he even care? She wasn't important, just another silly little human. But she was kind to Rin. His poor Rin had been woken up by Patience's thrashing and screaming last night. Sesshomaru was curious as to how such a gentle person could be so violent at night. But wait, he thought, many are gentle one minute and violent the next. She seems to be no different. At least she is only so in sleep.
Patience noticed Sesshomaru's eyes on her. They weren't roaming eyes. He seemed to have no interest in her that way, but in his eyes was a touch of . . . well . . . concern. But when he noticed her gaze on him he moved as if to turn away, but instead looked directly into her eyes. Patience felt as if her soul were being searched. As if memories were being pulled out as easily as files on a computer. She was the first to look away.
Sesshomaru saw a blush rise on Patience's cheeks. She was so lovely in the early morning light with her face painted a light shade of pink.
"Serenity . . . " Patience thought aloud. She looked again to Sesshomaru, not able to meet his gaze a second time "We have to go and find her. Now. If I let anything happen to her . . . " She trailed off not realizing that she had voiced her last thought.
Rin hugged Patience's legs in a comforting gesture as she stood up and shook all the planty things off of her. Patience swept the small child up into her arms and into a tight embrace.
Rin let Patience hug her, knowing that the older girl needed all the comfort she could get. And after last night, Rin was more than glad to have her nice, gentle new friend back.
Sesshomaru nodded and began to walk away from them.
Wow, Patience thought, I can see the God Tree from here. We must be really close. It sure didn't seem like it last night.
Fifteen minutes later they could see the base of the tree. She didn't see Serenity.
"God damn this shit!"Patience yelled when she saw nothing anywhere around the tree. No Serenity. No bags. Nothing. What the hell happened to her? Where in the hell did she go!?
"I told her that I was going to get help. Why in the hell did she move?" Patience began yelling out loud. "This is so stupid. Now I will never find that stupid idiot! What am I going to do now? Huh? Huh? What the freakin' hell am I going to do now?" she yelled at Sesshomaru.
Sesshomaru looked at Patience with a small shrug. He didn't care what she did now. His duty to help her was over, he had done as he said he would. He walked around the tree and found no trace of his half-brother except for a hole in the tree and that cursed arrow on the ground. His half-brother was free. Now he could finally get the Tetsusaiga from him. The unintelligent half-breed didn't deserve the sword, much less understand how to use it properly. Oh, well, that would all soon be only a distant memory.
"Inuyasha is gone," Sesshomaru said, quickly realizing by the confusion in Patience's face that he needed to elaborate. "My half-demon, half-brother. He has my father's sword. I want it back. He has been pinned to this tree for the past fifty years. He is no longer here."
"So, you are all demon?" Patience asked her frustration slightly dissipating.
"Yes. I am a pure blooded inu youkai," he answered. "My half-brother is half inu youkai, half human. We share a father. He was nothing more than a foolish human lover." He regretted the last sentence as soon as it left his lips.
Patience couldn't hide the sorrow she felt at hearing those words. He could never love her then.
"I need to bathe and wash these clothes, they're filthy," Patience said trying to feign cheerfulness and act like she hadn't heard his last comment, but failing miserably. "Come on Rin, you need a bath as well."
Rin ran after Patience. She was happy to spend time with her new friend.
As he watched them walk away, Sesshomaru realized that for the first time in his life he felt sorry for something he had said. That was most strange.
a/n: Serenity's back! Muwahahahaha! Patience only thought I was asleep - and she has paid the price! I repeat: Muwahahahaha!!! *looks at Patience through the bars of her new cage, smiling* Teehe. Ahem. Anyway. I will repeat, for the sixth time for the idiots out there, although if you have read this far I doubt you care one way or another if Inuyasha and Kagome are together in this fic, but still . . . SERENITY AND PATIENCE ARE DEVOTED TO THE COUPLE OF INUYASHA AND KAGOME. IT IS SOOOOOOOO SWEET, but it's summer and we needed something to occupy the empty months, and so here we are. NO FLAMES, OR I WILL SIC MY T-CHANS ON YOU! MUWAHAHAHA!!! And if you liked the story (*narrows eyes* And you know you do . . . Yes, that's right. OBEY ME! MUWAHAHAHAHA *cough, cough*) click on the nice little button-thingy below and tell us so. If it's nice, I'll give you a biiiiiiiiggggggggggg bag of candy . . . If Shippo doesn't eat it first . . . Down, Shippo!
