Until the End of Time
Chapter 6
New Ally, New Plans
By: Devilspet
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Kagome smirked once again. "You help us defeat Naraku . . . " she declared to Sesshomaru, "AND . . . you have to wear a rosary necklace, you know . . . the one like Inuyasha does . . . if you agree, we won't fight you and I'll fix your leg." Sesshomaru looked up at Kagome and nodded rather weakly.
Kagome walked forward and pulled the arrow from his leg. Sesshomaru stood up slowly and painfully; he already felt the wound healing itself.
"There." Kagome told Sesshomaru, "Now, you will come with us willingly or you can count on another arrow, got me?" Sesshomaru nodded and turned to Rin. "Let's go, where's Jaken?" he asked.
Rin pointed to where the trembling toad demon was standing, at the palace entrance. "Jaken, come here . . ." Sesshomaru called to his loyal servant.
Jaken hurried forward and bowed slightly. "Yes, my lord, you called?" Jaken asked. "Jaken I need you to watch over the palace while Rin and I are out." Sesshomaru ordered. Jaken nodded. "As you wish, my lord." Jaken said, bowed again, and ran back to the palace.
As soon as Jaken left, he turned his attention to Rin. "Go collect your things." He told her. Rin nodded happily, it had been a long time since she left the palace. She ran after Jaken toward the palace.
Sesshomaru watched the little girl until she entered the palace, and then turned to the group of three demons, Inuyasha, Shippo, and Kirara. Adding to the demons, the three humans, Kagome, Miroku, and Sango. "I'll be taking Rin with me. I don't trust Jaken enough to leave her with him. As soon as she returns we will leave." Sesshomaru meant that to be a request but to the group it sounded more like an order. Kagome gave him a questioning look, like whether to trust him or not.
"And trust me . . . I keep promises . . . and I will help you defeat Naraku . . . I was actually looking forward to a good killing." Sesshomaru reassured. Inuyasha snorted. "Feh . . . it's not like we need your help . . . but I guess if Kagome says its okay then fine . . ." Inuyasha mumbled, not expecting anyone to hear. But Sesshomaru heard it; he almost smirked. 'Kagome and Inuyasha really have something. To trust each other so thoroughly . . . I can only dream of something like that.'
Rin came running back towards Sesshomaru, dragging a bag behind her. "My lord, I'm ready . . . to go" Rin panted when she reached Sesshomaru. She was tired but still smiling.
"Okay, we may leave now." Sesshomaru announced. Inuyasha nodded and Kagome climbed on his back.
"You gonna carry the girl?" Inuyasha asked his brother. Sesshomaru looked down at Rin then back to Inuyasha. "You mean Rin," he corrected, "and yes, I will be carrying her.
Sesshomaru picked up Rin. "Hold on tight and don't get scared, we'll be moving pretty fast." Sesshomaru suggested. Rin nodded nervously, she had never been carried like this, in the air, because they usually walked. Rin wrapped her arms around his torso. Kirara transformed and Miroku, Sango, and Shippo all climbed on.
Inuyasha, Kirara, and Sesshomaru leapt into the sky. Rin let out a small cry and Sesshomaru held her tighter. "Don't be scared; you won't fall, I promise." He reassured the panicking Rin. She held Sesshomaru tighter and once again nodded fearfully.
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The group landed in front of Kaede's hut. Inuyasha let Kagome off his back, Sesshomaru gently put Rin, who was still kind of scared, on the ground, and the others jumped off Kirara's and let her transform. Inuyasha and Kagome walked into the hut followed one-by-one bye the others, Rin, Sesshomaru, Miroku, Sango, and finally Shippo.
Once Rin and Sesshomaru entered, Kaede's stoop up suspiciously. "Hello Kaede, I need a favor." Kagome greeted. "Yes, what is it?" Kaede asked. "Kaede, I need another rosary necklace," Kagome pointed towards Sesshomaru as she spoke, "for him."
Kaede nodded wordlessly, sat down, and began working.
Five minutes later, Kaede stood up and held out a new rosary necklace. Kagome smiled. "Thank you, Kaede." Kagome said. She took the necklace and turned to face Sesshomaru. "Now, before I put this one, I'll warn you I have to use the word to activate it, so you better be prepared and I'll tell you I'm sorry 'cause you haven't done anything yet." She put the necklace around Sesshomaru's neck. "Down,"
There was a loud crash as Sesshomaru hit the floor. Inuyasha burst out laughing. "Sit!"
There was another crash and Inuyasha also hit the floor.
"KAGOME!!" Inuyasha yelled, a very hurt and surprised look on his face.
"Inuyasha . . ."
"Why'd ya do that?"
"Because . . ."
"That's not an answer . . ."
Kagome suppressed a laugh and said, "It's not polite to laugh at others when they're hurt . . ."
Inuyasha rolled his eyes.
"Bigger blow than I thought . . ." Sesshomaru groaned to himself. "Oh, I shoulda warned you . . ." Kagome said. "My lord!! Are you alright??" Rin asked worriedly. Sesshomaru nodded and sat cross-legged on the floor. Rin was still babbling with concern. "Rin, calm down, I'm perfectly fine." Sesshomaru reassured. Rin sighed in defeat and sat down beside him. Inuyasha was laughing again and Kagome didn't feel like telling him the s word again, she just buried her face in her hands. All the laughing was giving her a headache.
"Okay, first of all, we need a plan," then he looked over at his laughing brother, "if he could just stop laughing." Sesshomaru said in disgust. "Inuyasha . . . please . . . I've got a headache," Kagome groaned. At this, Inuyasha immediately stopped laughing. "Sorry, Kagome . . ." Inuyasha apologized. Kagome waved it off and let Sesshomaru continue.
"That's better, now when do you plan to attack?" Sesshomaru asked. Everyone blinked at him. "What strategists . . ." he mumbled, luckily Shippo and Inuyasha didn't hear, they were too busy blinking. Sesshomaru raised his voice,
"Okay, Let's say as soon as possible." Inuyasha, Miroku, Sango, and Shippo all nodded; Kagome decided it would be best if she didn't.
She also decided that Inuyasha would fill her in later so she went rummaging through her bag, not really listening to them and searching for some Ibuprofen, also known as 'the headache medicine' as her mom called it.
Kagome found some, popped a few pills into her mouth, pulled out a bottle of water, and took a sip of it. She went back over and sat beside Inuyasha once again. This medicine always made her tired and now wasn't a very good time to take it but she'd have to live; her headache was far too painful to stand without the medicine.
She leaned her head on Inuyasha's shoulder and listened to Sesshomaru talk.
"Okay, now, does anyone know where Naraku's fortress is?" Sesshomaru asked. Everyone looked to Kaede, except Rin; she had fallen asleep beside Sesshomaru. Kaede merely shrugged her shoulders.
"Okay, looks like he's going to have to come to us." Everyone nodded again.
"Okay, anyone have a good plan?" Sesshomaru asked. No one answered. "All right, I've got one then," Sesshomaru continued, "When he attacks, Inuyasha and I launch he first attack," there were several nods, "Demon hunter, monk, fox, you will be the back up," several more nods, "human girl," gesturing to Kagome, "You will shoot him with some of those arrows of yours, like the ones you did at me, if there are any shards you will shot them, too-"
Inuyasha stood up and protested, "Wait a minute, wouldn't that put Kagome in danger??" Sesshomaru didn't respond. Sango did instead, she said, "No, it won't, Kirara can protect her. Right Kirara?"
Kirara meowed. "Is that okay, Inuyasha?" Sesshomaru asked. Inuyasha reluctantly nodded. "Come on, Inuyasha, I'll be fine . . ." Kagome reassured. Inuyasha gave her an extremely worried look. "But . . . I don't want you to fight. I've got a bad felling about it . . ." he worried. "Hmph . . . you don't trust me, Inuyasha?" Kagome pouted.
Inuyasha immediately felt guilty. "No, that's not it . . . I trust you. I just don't want ya to get hurt. Listen, we'll talk about it later." He told Kagome. She nodded.
Sesshomaru explained the plan again, this time with more detail. This took a little more than twenty minutes.
"Okay, is this little conversation over?" Inuyasha asked impatiently. Sesshomaru glared at him for being rude but nodded. "Good." Inuyasha sighed.
Inuyasha got up and pulled Kagome up. He started to pull Kagome out the door. "See ya later!" She managed between struggles. "Be careful . . ." Sango said quickly.
Kagome nodded then yelped in fright as Inuyasha pulled her all the way through the door.
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Inuyasha jumped into a tree and pulled Kagome up after him. "Inuyasha, Why don't you want me to fight?" Kagome asked, quite annoyed about his behavior.
Inuyasha sighed. "I gotta bad feeling," he said simply. Kagome's face darkened. "You don't want me to fight because of a god damned BAD FEELING?!"
"In case you haven't noticed my bad feelings have been right lately!" he said in a dangerously low and harsh tone, "When you left for your time I had a bad feeling and on the night of the full moon I had a bad feeling but it wasn't too strong because it didn't happen to you." he reminded her.
Kagome winced at his harsh words even though she knew he was right. Inuyasha looked guilty again. "Look, I'm sorry, I- I just don't want you to get hurt . . ." he said. Kagome couldn't look at him, for pretty much the first time, she was almost scared of Inuyasha . . . he was being so harsh. But then she realized that of course he was going to be harsh, she was just kidnapped after all.
Inuyasha felt ever more guilty when she wouldn't look at him and bowed his head in defeat. "Do you really wanna fight, Kagome?" he asked quietly. Kagome turned her gaze from the ground back to Inuyasha. "I can just let you do everything for the jewel, so yes, I hafta do my part for the Shikon jewel, don't I?" she said. Inuyasha smiled at how determined Kagome was.
"Okay, you'll fight. I'm not gonna stop you, and I can't 'cause you'll use the s word. But I can still be worried, right?" Inuyasha asked. Kagome threw her arms around him and kissed him on the cheek. "Yeah, you can worry, just not too much, okay? I don't want you to go hurting yourself because you're too worried about me." Kagome told him.
Inuyasha smiled, he realized she was just as worried about him as she was about her but wasn't showing it. "I promise I won't," Inuyasha said. "Me too," Kagome promised. "I'll stay back with Kirara and won't move any closed unless it's absolutely necessary," Kagome stated.
Inuyasha sighed in relief and kissed Kagome on the forehead. He pulled away from her hug and jumped out of the tree. Kagome did the same and Inuyasha caught her. "Come on, let's go back now." Inuyasha told Kagome. She nodded and took his hand and they walked back to the hut hand-in-hand.
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"Well? Is she going to fight?" Sesshomaru asked his brother. "I dunno, ask Kagome, she's gonna be the one fightin' if she accepts not me . . ." Inuyasha said pointing to Kagome, who was half asleep beside him. Kagome looked up when she heard her name. "Well, are you going to fight, Kagome?" he asked. Kagome nodded, yawned, and leaned her head on Inuyasha's shoulder. Her headache had gone away but now the after affects of the medicine were making her tired. Inuyasha reasoned that by how Kagome was acting she was too tired to speak so he told Sesshomaru about what they had decided. He said, "We decided that Kagome will stay in the far back and have Kirara with her."
Sesshomaru looked at Inuyasha.
"That was what we decided in the first place,"
"Damn it . . . why didn't I hear that?"
"Because you're an idiot and only a lousy half demon . . ."
"Shut up!"
Sesshomaru shrugged his shoulders and walked away to sit with Rin once again. Inuyasha growled softly and looked back at Kagome. She had fallen asleep during their conversation. He smiled to himself and leaned his head on the wall behind him.
~*~To be continued~*~
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Chapter 6
New Ally, New Plans
By: Devilspet
~*~
Kagome smirked once again. "You help us defeat Naraku . . . " she declared to Sesshomaru, "AND . . . you have to wear a rosary necklace, you know . . . the one like Inuyasha does . . . if you agree, we won't fight you and I'll fix your leg." Sesshomaru looked up at Kagome and nodded rather weakly.
Kagome walked forward and pulled the arrow from his leg. Sesshomaru stood up slowly and painfully; he already felt the wound healing itself.
"There." Kagome told Sesshomaru, "Now, you will come with us willingly or you can count on another arrow, got me?" Sesshomaru nodded and turned to Rin. "Let's go, where's Jaken?" he asked.
Rin pointed to where the trembling toad demon was standing, at the palace entrance. "Jaken, come here . . ." Sesshomaru called to his loyal servant.
Jaken hurried forward and bowed slightly. "Yes, my lord, you called?" Jaken asked. "Jaken I need you to watch over the palace while Rin and I are out." Sesshomaru ordered. Jaken nodded. "As you wish, my lord." Jaken said, bowed again, and ran back to the palace.
As soon as Jaken left, he turned his attention to Rin. "Go collect your things." He told her. Rin nodded happily, it had been a long time since she left the palace. She ran after Jaken toward the palace.
Sesshomaru watched the little girl until she entered the palace, and then turned to the group of three demons, Inuyasha, Shippo, and Kirara. Adding to the demons, the three humans, Kagome, Miroku, and Sango. "I'll be taking Rin with me. I don't trust Jaken enough to leave her with him. As soon as she returns we will leave." Sesshomaru meant that to be a request but to the group it sounded more like an order. Kagome gave him a questioning look, like whether to trust him or not.
"And trust me . . . I keep promises . . . and I will help you defeat Naraku . . . I was actually looking forward to a good killing." Sesshomaru reassured. Inuyasha snorted. "Feh . . . it's not like we need your help . . . but I guess if Kagome says its okay then fine . . ." Inuyasha mumbled, not expecting anyone to hear. But Sesshomaru heard it; he almost smirked. 'Kagome and Inuyasha really have something. To trust each other so thoroughly . . . I can only dream of something like that.'
Rin came running back towards Sesshomaru, dragging a bag behind her. "My lord, I'm ready . . . to go" Rin panted when she reached Sesshomaru. She was tired but still smiling.
"Okay, we may leave now." Sesshomaru announced. Inuyasha nodded and Kagome climbed on his back.
"You gonna carry the girl?" Inuyasha asked his brother. Sesshomaru looked down at Rin then back to Inuyasha. "You mean Rin," he corrected, "and yes, I will be carrying her.
Sesshomaru picked up Rin. "Hold on tight and don't get scared, we'll be moving pretty fast." Sesshomaru suggested. Rin nodded nervously, she had never been carried like this, in the air, because they usually walked. Rin wrapped her arms around his torso. Kirara transformed and Miroku, Sango, and Shippo all climbed on.
Inuyasha, Kirara, and Sesshomaru leapt into the sky. Rin let out a small cry and Sesshomaru held her tighter. "Don't be scared; you won't fall, I promise." He reassured the panicking Rin. She held Sesshomaru tighter and once again nodded fearfully.
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The group landed in front of Kaede's hut. Inuyasha let Kagome off his back, Sesshomaru gently put Rin, who was still kind of scared, on the ground, and the others jumped off Kirara's and let her transform. Inuyasha and Kagome walked into the hut followed one-by-one bye the others, Rin, Sesshomaru, Miroku, Sango, and finally Shippo.
Once Rin and Sesshomaru entered, Kaede's stoop up suspiciously. "Hello Kaede, I need a favor." Kagome greeted. "Yes, what is it?" Kaede asked. "Kaede, I need another rosary necklace," Kagome pointed towards Sesshomaru as she spoke, "for him."
Kaede nodded wordlessly, sat down, and began working.
Five minutes later, Kaede stood up and held out a new rosary necklace. Kagome smiled. "Thank you, Kaede." Kagome said. She took the necklace and turned to face Sesshomaru. "Now, before I put this one, I'll warn you I have to use the word to activate it, so you better be prepared and I'll tell you I'm sorry 'cause you haven't done anything yet." She put the necklace around Sesshomaru's neck. "Down,"
There was a loud crash as Sesshomaru hit the floor. Inuyasha burst out laughing. "Sit!"
There was another crash and Inuyasha also hit the floor.
"KAGOME!!" Inuyasha yelled, a very hurt and surprised look on his face.
"Inuyasha . . ."
"Why'd ya do that?"
"Because . . ."
"That's not an answer . . ."
Kagome suppressed a laugh and said, "It's not polite to laugh at others when they're hurt . . ."
Inuyasha rolled his eyes.
"Bigger blow than I thought . . ." Sesshomaru groaned to himself. "Oh, I shoulda warned you . . ." Kagome said. "My lord!! Are you alright??" Rin asked worriedly. Sesshomaru nodded and sat cross-legged on the floor. Rin was still babbling with concern. "Rin, calm down, I'm perfectly fine." Sesshomaru reassured. Rin sighed in defeat and sat down beside him. Inuyasha was laughing again and Kagome didn't feel like telling him the s word again, she just buried her face in her hands. All the laughing was giving her a headache.
"Okay, first of all, we need a plan," then he looked over at his laughing brother, "if he could just stop laughing." Sesshomaru said in disgust. "Inuyasha . . . please . . . I've got a headache," Kagome groaned. At this, Inuyasha immediately stopped laughing. "Sorry, Kagome . . ." Inuyasha apologized. Kagome waved it off and let Sesshomaru continue.
"That's better, now when do you plan to attack?" Sesshomaru asked. Everyone blinked at him. "What strategists . . ." he mumbled, luckily Shippo and Inuyasha didn't hear, they were too busy blinking. Sesshomaru raised his voice,
"Okay, Let's say as soon as possible." Inuyasha, Miroku, Sango, and Shippo all nodded; Kagome decided it would be best if she didn't.
She also decided that Inuyasha would fill her in later so she went rummaging through her bag, not really listening to them and searching for some Ibuprofen, also known as 'the headache medicine' as her mom called it.
Kagome found some, popped a few pills into her mouth, pulled out a bottle of water, and took a sip of it. She went back over and sat beside Inuyasha once again. This medicine always made her tired and now wasn't a very good time to take it but she'd have to live; her headache was far too painful to stand without the medicine.
She leaned her head on Inuyasha's shoulder and listened to Sesshomaru talk.
"Okay, now, does anyone know where Naraku's fortress is?" Sesshomaru asked. Everyone looked to Kaede, except Rin; she had fallen asleep beside Sesshomaru. Kaede merely shrugged her shoulders.
"Okay, looks like he's going to have to come to us." Everyone nodded again.
"Okay, anyone have a good plan?" Sesshomaru asked. No one answered. "All right, I've got one then," Sesshomaru continued, "When he attacks, Inuyasha and I launch he first attack," there were several nods, "Demon hunter, monk, fox, you will be the back up," several more nods, "human girl," gesturing to Kagome, "You will shoot him with some of those arrows of yours, like the ones you did at me, if there are any shards you will shot them, too-"
Inuyasha stood up and protested, "Wait a minute, wouldn't that put Kagome in danger??" Sesshomaru didn't respond. Sango did instead, she said, "No, it won't, Kirara can protect her. Right Kirara?"
Kirara meowed. "Is that okay, Inuyasha?" Sesshomaru asked. Inuyasha reluctantly nodded. "Come on, Inuyasha, I'll be fine . . ." Kagome reassured. Inuyasha gave her an extremely worried look. "But . . . I don't want you to fight. I've got a bad felling about it . . ." he worried. "Hmph . . . you don't trust me, Inuyasha?" Kagome pouted.
Inuyasha immediately felt guilty. "No, that's not it . . . I trust you. I just don't want ya to get hurt. Listen, we'll talk about it later." He told Kagome. She nodded.
Sesshomaru explained the plan again, this time with more detail. This took a little more than twenty minutes.
"Okay, is this little conversation over?" Inuyasha asked impatiently. Sesshomaru glared at him for being rude but nodded. "Good." Inuyasha sighed.
Inuyasha got up and pulled Kagome up. He started to pull Kagome out the door. "See ya later!" She managed between struggles. "Be careful . . ." Sango said quickly.
Kagome nodded then yelped in fright as Inuyasha pulled her all the way through the door.
~*~
Inuyasha jumped into a tree and pulled Kagome up after him. "Inuyasha, Why don't you want me to fight?" Kagome asked, quite annoyed about his behavior.
Inuyasha sighed. "I gotta bad feeling," he said simply. Kagome's face darkened. "You don't want me to fight because of a god damned BAD FEELING?!"
"In case you haven't noticed my bad feelings have been right lately!" he said in a dangerously low and harsh tone, "When you left for your time I had a bad feeling and on the night of the full moon I had a bad feeling but it wasn't too strong because it didn't happen to you." he reminded her.
Kagome winced at his harsh words even though she knew he was right. Inuyasha looked guilty again. "Look, I'm sorry, I- I just don't want you to get hurt . . ." he said. Kagome couldn't look at him, for pretty much the first time, she was almost scared of Inuyasha . . . he was being so harsh. But then she realized that of course he was going to be harsh, she was just kidnapped after all.
Inuyasha felt ever more guilty when she wouldn't look at him and bowed his head in defeat. "Do you really wanna fight, Kagome?" he asked quietly. Kagome turned her gaze from the ground back to Inuyasha. "I can just let you do everything for the jewel, so yes, I hafta do my part for the Shikon jewel, don't I?" she said. Inuyasha smiled at how determined Kagome was.
"Okay, you'll fight. I'm not gonna stop you, and I can't 'cause you'll use the s word. But I can still be worried, right?" Inuyasha asked. Kagome threw her arms around him and kissed him on the cheek. "Yeah, you can worry, just not too much, okay? I don't want you to go hurting yourself because you're too worried about me." Kagome told him.
Inuyasha smiled, he realized she was just as worried about him as she was about her but wasn't showing it. "I promise I won't," Inuyasha said. "Me too," Kagome promised. "I'll stay back with Kirara and won't move any closed unless it's absolutely necessary," Kagome stated.
Inuyasha sighed in relief and kissed Kagome on the forehead. He pulled away from her hug and jumped out of the tree. Kagome did the same and Inuyasha caught her. "Come on, let's go back now." Inuyasha told Kagome. She nodded and took his hand and they walked back to the hut hand-in-hand.
~*~
"Well? Is she going to fight?" Sesshomaru asked his brother. "I dunno, ask Kagome, she's gonna be the one fightin' if she accepts not me . . ." Inuyasha said pointing to Kagome, who was half asleep beside him. Kagome looked up when she heard her name. "Well, are you going to fight, Kagome?" he asked. Kagome nodded, yawned, and leaned her head on Inuyasha's shoulder. Her headache had gone away but now the after affects of the medicine were making her tired. Inuyasha reasoned that by how Kagome was acting she was too tired to speak so he told Sesshomaru about what they had decided. He said, "We decided that Kagome will stay in the far back and have Kirara with her."
Sesshomaru looked at Inuyasha.
"That was what we decided in the first place,"
"Damn it . . . why didn't I hear that?"
"Because you're an idiot and only a lousy half demon . . ."
"Shut up!"
Sesshomaru shrugged his shoulders and walked away to sit with Rin once again. Inuyasha growled softly and looked back at Kagome. She had fallen asleep during their conversation. He smiled to himself and leaned his head on the wall behind him.
~*~To be continued~*~
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