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Thoughts


".." - Speaking


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I sighed.


My "brother" and I were walking down the cobblestone street of Kaede's Village. The town was nice, clean, tidy, orderly... It had its own sense of perfect-ness.


This is exactly why I hate it.


I sighed an unhappy sigh again, and abruptly stopped as my "brother" paused to look through a glass window.


It was a hotel. A nice looking place, clean. A bit too clean. I chuckled bitterly at my thoughts. I was dirty as it was. The dirtiest thing in existence, according to some.


Sesshomaru turned to me. "You are to sleep around here. We'll be staying for about a week, so I'd find somewhere where you can stay. Like a tree, or something."


I snarled under my throat. It figures. He gets the comfy bed, while I get the branch. More like a twig...


As he entered the door and it shut with small bells tinkling after it, I jumped into the air, making several people drop whatever they were carrying in surprise. I went up high, breathing in the air that was hard to breathe. The clouds swirled around my form, making my red clothing damp with the mist they were made out of.


And then, just as soon as it started, I was sailing down again. I did a flip in the air as I fell, my head facing down. The hair whipped my silver locks, tossing them every-which-way. I closed my eyes, lost in the bliss of the moment.


And then I landed in the tree that was my house for a week.


The shock wave that I created knocked people off their feet for a mile. The ground made noticeable ripples from my landing.


I sighed.


My life sucks...


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It was still raining. It's never stopped since I killed...


After that thought, more warm tears came spilling out of my red, slightly puffy eyes. My "fur" resembling a moldy paper bag that the humans made out of trees. I was soaked, I was freezing, and I was alone.


But I didn't care.


Huddled under the only tree I could find, which was a sapling, a sneeze erupted from my nose. I brought up my ugly, deformed hand and wiped it.


What am I gonna do now?


Lightning flashed across the sky, shaking the tiny tree I sat under. A mini-shower came spilling out of the tree, giving me more water than I'd ever need.


I sighed and whimpered. This was getting me no-where...


A pair of yellow eyes peered at me from mt crouched position. I glanced around. The forms of wolves slinked around, making soft "squish" noises as their paws hit the ground.


I briefly wondered why the hell they were here. I mean, they've already torn up my shoulder and thigh... Not to mention the scratches...


Suddenly, a white blur slashed at my tree from behind, sending splinters and needles into my back. The creature's claws dug into the back of my neck, digging slowly towards my main artery.


I was quick to react. Snapping my head around, the claws moved with my movements. True, I had three deep gashes in my neck throat, but at least I was alive.


The blur was no longer. It was clearly in the shape of a white wolf. It smiled at me.


"Hello. Miss me?"


"Priestess," I snarled. Jumping away from her reach, I quietly started to summon a ball of magic.


"Looks like you did," Priestess jeered. "I came back to tell you the wonderful news. I'm the new pack leader!"


"Congratulations," I said softly. Sarcasm anyone?


The pack had formed a circle in the time that Priestess had shown herself. They drooled as they looked at me, hunger evident in their eyes.


"My poor, dearest pack here," Priestess looked around at her pack, "are very hungry. Not even a glimpse of meat in sight..."


I glanced down at my energy orb. It wasn't done yet...


"And your point is? Do you think I care how hungry your 'oh-so-lovable pack' is here? Do you?"


"Oh, no, no..." Priestess laughed. "I was merely taking them here to you. After all, humans are supposedly delacasies..."


"I'm not a human," I hissed at her. The ball was nearly complete; just a few more seconds...


"I'm sure you aren't," Priestess smirked, "but, getting to the point. You're meat. We're hungry. Getting the point?"


I was furious. "Think you can eat me, eh?"


Priestess nodded, and turned to her pack. "Go get her."


I screamed at her. "YOU FUCKIN' BITCH! TAKE THIS!!" I hurled the ball at her as hard as I could, and snarled at the pack that had stopped in surprise.


The ball crackled with energy as it sailed across the heads of all the wolves and straight towards Priestess. She was shocked, standing on three legs with one perched in the air, and frozen in fear. Paralyzed.


A randomized wolf roughly shoved her out of the way, and took the hit full force. The wolf's head swelled up, its eyeballs turning a dark blue...


Then it exploded.


The animal's guts joined the water and rained down upon everyone, showering them in watery blood, turning their coats in to a dark magaphony.


It was completely silent, save for the rain which continued to pelt everyone relentlessly, regardless of the times or occasion.


But the time was short-lived.


Priestess had gotten back up from her sprawled position. Her once shiny coat of snow was now stuck on her bony frame, soaked and a brown muddy color.


"You little whelp!"


She howled and catapulted herself from where she stood straight to me.


Exhausted as I was, I raised my paws, awaiting her arrival with a warm welcome from my claws. Slashing continuously at each other for three seconds, I was able to rip off enough flesh to scar right behind her ear. Priestess, however, slashed my face, making an "X," and once across my eye, making it immobile.


At this point, which was only after a few minutes of intense fighting, Priestess called the pack to her, and backed off.


The wolves circled around her protectively, growling at me when I got too close to their liking.


Lightning flashed overhead, lighting up my black-clothed body. The rain was getting colder, as it was well past midnight. My breath came out in hot steam, which swirled around my face. Priestess, along with her pack, was covered in mist, which made them harder than ever to see, considering that I only had one eye to peer with.


"Well," Priestess spoke, "it seems that the human has some skill. Too bad she's not a wolf."


I bit my tongue harshly to keep myself from lashing out. I might've been stupid, but I wasn't that stupid. Taking on a pack of well-fed and well-rested wolves was pure suicide.


"Oh? What's the matter, Kagome? Cat got your tongue?"


The whole pack started to laugh, but for once my mind was on something else.


"Who the hell is Kagome?" I hissed.


Priestess, who had her tongue out in a grin, smiled a very wolfish smile. "Don't you know? Kagome is you!"


Before I could even utter a word, the pack jumped into action, and started to push me away from the white wolf.


What surprised me was that they didn't hurt me. They didn't bite, claw, or whip me with their tails. They simply... prodded. Pushing me along with their muzzles.


Confused, I looked over to Priestess, who was watching me.


I blinked, realizing just how tired I was. It was suddenly too hard to hold myself up...


Before everything went black, I looked at Priestess. Her hard, cold eyes morphed, the fur around them disappearing into nothing, leaving pale skin in its departure. It looked... human.


Sick...


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Done! (^-^;;) I've actually had this written for three months... Just never got around to typing it. *Shrugs*


Please review! Oh, and sorry for the shortness. Especially Inuyasha's part... I'm tired.