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AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! KENTUCKY DERBY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND NEW MOVIE OF SEABISCUIT!!!!!!!!!! (I'm a horse freak, huh??) JULY 25!!!! AND IT'S FUNNY CIDE, THE FIRST GELDING SINCE THE TWENTIES!!!!!!!!!!!!
So, here, Inu-chan's a jerk, Kagome gets deadly, Sesshoumaru tells everything to Rin, and Kikyo flirts. If you want me to get back to Sango and Miroku, give me an idea.
And this is where I feel so.bad. I need help! I think I've figured it up to where Inu and Kagome confess (hey, it's a romance. Of course it would happen.). I know where I want this to go, but I'm not sure how to get there. So, I am humbly getting down to my knees to plea humbly for ideas. So, how can I get them together? (Inuyasha and Kagome.) How can I get the general to trust Inuyasha? HELP!!!!!
Okay, nothing more to say, I think, so here it goes.
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Inuyasha woke up behind bars with the worst headache he had ever experienced. Slowly, he became aware of his surroundings and sat up. Once he was up, he automatically wished he hadn't spent the energy to lift his tired, aching body to see that. There was nothing to see. He was lying on a simple bed with a thin, woolen blanket tucked around him. In his cell was a stone-hewn table, a wooden stool, and a pail. He could understand the meaning of the pail, thankfully.
"Hey, new kid, you're awake!" a high, nasal voice called. Inuyasha looked outside his cell, across the hallway, and his eyes met total darkness. But slowly, he got accustomed to the light and could pick out two eyes looking at him out of the darkness. "What did you do to get in here?" Inuyasha thought for a moment and could remember that he had been free, and then he entered into that girl's room and was suddenly here. He couldn't for the life of him understand what he had done wrong.
"I do not know," Inuyasha answered, as truthful as he had been lately.
"That kit was pretty angry when he dragged you in here!" the man continued. Inuyasha suddenly thought that the voice was rather annoying and only added to the pain that his heavily throbbing head gave him.
"Kit?" he murmured questioningly. The eyes moved as if the man was nodding.
"Yeah. That's the nickname for the Corporal Shippou. He's the guard to Lady Kagome," the man answered. Inuyasha thought for a second. The man who had attacked him in that one room, before he was thrown in here. The smell had reminded him of a fox. The nickname of a child fox fit him well. To answer the man without prompting conversation, he nodded dumbly. Luck was with him, though, because at that precise time, there was the sound of rusted hinges squeaking a good ways away.
"Listen up, you brutes!" a heavy, thick, gruff voice bellowed down the hallway. "Put a civil tongue in your mouths! A lady's coming in!"
There was a soft pattering only lady's feet can make before it was quickly drowned out by the sounds of whistling and cries for mercy. Inuyasha could even pick out a few calls of appreciation of beauty. The sounds were loud and even started to cause his head to throb harder.
"SHUT UP!" the gruff voice screamed. Once again, it was silent. By that time, the footsteps had gotten closer and were still coming, moving from side to side as if looking for something. Inuyasha could feel curiosity getting a stranglehold on him. Slowly, carefully, he crawled to the bars and pressed his face closer to see farther down the hallway.
And it was with his face pressed to the bars, mouth hanging open in wonder, eyes wide with curiosity's stranglehold, that he saw her again. She came into view and saw him. Unfortunately, he could not pull away from the embarrassing position fast enough. He scrambled back as she giggled lightly.
"Hello," she said, muffling her giggles. "I am Kagome." Inuyasha only glared in return. "Who are you?"
Inuyasha chose to not answer that. "Why am I in here?" he snarled instead. Kagome chuckled quietly and pulled out a ring of keys and slipped into his cell. Inuyasha could not help but compare her to her older sister as she did so. She had a childish grace and beauty, while her sister was more womanly. Much more womanly, as he thought of it. She could be just as attractive as the older sister, if she could grow up some.
"You are not in here by my doing," Kagome answered. "Shippou brought you here. I am sorry he is so rough, but he was.scared." Inuyasha brought his hand to his still-throbbing temple and forced himself to recall what had proceeded the fist to his head. What came to mind immediately raised a blush to his face.
"Wh-what were you doing before.behind the.cloth." he asked, hesitantly, curiously. Kagome saw also his embarrassment and laughed loudly.
"Shippou was certain you knew exactly what you were doing!" she cried. She chuckled a little while longer before attempting to explain what happened. "It seems he was mistaken. I was bathing myself." Kagome blushed softly as she recalled what had happened from her own point of view. "Why did you come back looking for me?"
Somewhat stung by her laughter, he snorted and lifted his nose away from her. "I don't feel like telling you."
"Oh, you don't?" she murmured, her voice challenging. "I have the power to lock you in this cell for the rest of your life, and I have the power to refuse you freedom until you tell me why you came back. Though I did not put you in here, I have the power to let you out or keep you in!" Inuyasha blinked and stared in surprise at her sudden show of aggression. "So, if you want out, I can speed your freedom if you simply tell me," Kagome finished, her voice as sweet as honey in the last sentence. She even smiled like honey might have smiled, if it could smile.
Inuyasha thought long and hard, though he stopped when he noticed her impatience. Though he was afraid of going back to the clan, he really wanted to get out of the prison. Besides, he had decided to warn her before he got thrown in here- again. "Fine. Someone I know is planningtokidnapyou," he muttered, jumbling the last four words together under his breath.
"What?" Kagome hissed as politely as possible. She thought she had heard something, but she wasn't quite sure if she was right. She hoped she was not right.
"Planning to.kid.nap.you." he finished his warning in a small voice, sounding like a little boy admitting he had done something wrong.
She had been right.
"Who?" she asked quietly, her voice fearful. Inuyasha didn't want to tell her, because then it would probably take longer to get out of here then. How suspicious would that sound, "yeah, my brother was planning to kidnap you. I didn't tell him not to, though." But he made the common mistake of looking into her fearful eyes.
Common mistake, but a big mistake nonetheless. "The Heir to the Wolf Clan, Kouga. He's.my brother." Inuyasha hung his head, imaging what she was thinking. Probably thought he had volunteered to help out, but he did not! She probably thought he did not care if she was kidnapped, but he did care.
"Why?" Kagome pleaded quietly.
"I don't know," he lied before adding with a snicker, "especially you of all people." He snickered louder when her face grew red.
"Why you!" she cried indignantly. "I've never seen such immaturity in a man! Now you will for certain have to wait before your freedom, Wild Man!" And with that, she was out of the door and storming down the hall.
Wild man. It stung him more than he expected it to, and that only angered him. Getting up, he tested the door she had so rapidly left. It was locked tightly. Locked in, held by a woman who insulted him, and angry. That was never a good mix for him.
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Are you all wondering what has happened to Sesshoumaru? I thought so. Well, wonder no longer. Here it comes. What you've all been waiting for, the question and answer session with Sesshoumaru and Rin.
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Rin closed her room door after finally herding out Jaken. He was too protective! Sesshoumaru would not harm her. He wouldn't even look at her if commanded not to.
"So, Sesshoumaru," she murmured, turning to the room she had left him in. "Eep!" He was not in that room. He was right behind her. "What are you doing up? The muscles in your legs were ripped asunder, and the doctor insisted-"
"Your doctor has never worked on exiles before," the silver-haired man said, his voice still hoarse. "If I was to stay in that bed, I would never be able to protect myself."
"Silly!" Rin giggled. "You're under my protection now!"
He raised an eyebrow curiously and amusedly. "You are rather small to be protecting me."
"I have power, Sesshoumaru. I am the general's daughter. If I command the troops and men to protect you, they will," Rin explained with a happy grin on her face, as if she was talking of a dance, not a subject of much death over the centuries. Sesshoumaru's eyes went to the window where one could see the training troops. He could understand that there was something about this power that could be dangerous, but for now, it offered comfort. A ghost of a smile flitted across his face.
"I see."
"Tell me about the jungle, Sesshoumaru," Rin pleaded, sitting beside him on the makeshift bed. His eyes suddenly darkened, as if he was looking into a dark past.
"It is a place no man should be forced to live alone in. It is deadly," he murmured. One glance at the girl told him that she was captivated. "It is beautiful, too, but it is sad to see it when one is alone," he continued before glancing at the girl beside him. She had the beginning beauty of a woman, but the thicker cheeks of childhood were still obvious. She was fair and her skin was smooth from a soft life. And her hands.
He stopped and looked at the hands clasped in her lap. One was wrapped in a bloodied linen cloth and he looked away in shame. He had been half out of his mind with pain, and he had wished for those blades to fall, to end his horrible existence and misery. But then, she had stopped them.
"Sesshoumaru," Rin asked, her voice cutting into his thoughts. But rather than be angry, he waited for her to speak, glad for the interruption. "How did your teeth get so sharp?" He ran his tongue over his canines instinctively and tried to recall the answer to her question.
"When I was younger, it was the clan tradition to file the teeth to points. It's been stopped now, but mine have stayed," he answered, glad to pull his mind to the practical information, not the incredible pain of the filing, the grinding tool scraping and breaking nerve endings. He still had no feeling in those teeth.
"You mentioned you were exiled," Rin started again. Sesshoumaru had to fight the rising grin from his face. Never had he met such an inquisitive child! "Why?" The smiled and feeling of happiness vanished like a vapor in the sun.
"You shouldn't know," he answered emotionlessly. The chief had been merciful to let him live, but he had stolen Sesshoumaru's father's sword in payment for what he had done. And now, it was held in Kouga's hands.
To his relief, Rin decided to not press the topic. Instead, she chose to chatter on about the outpost and other small things. Her voice filled his senses, which might explain how he could have been surprised by the sudden sound of a second voice and Rin's room's door opening.
"Rin, remember that new prisoner I told you a-" The young woman who had stepped into the room stopped and stared for a second before her jaw dropped. Sesshoumaru was moving; he knew what would come next.
His hand slapped over her mouth and he pinned her to the wall, effectively cutting off the scream before a sound could escape.
"Kagome!" Rin cried, touching his arm. "Please, don't scream. He'll let you down, but please, don't scream." Kagome nodded as best she could with a hand clasping her mouth closed and was released.
"Rin! That new prisoner I told you about. Guess what he did!" Kagome hissed once she was free, promptly forgetting Sesshoumaru. Rin winked at him and motioned for her to go on. "He came back and caught me in the shower!"
"In the shower?" Rin repeated in surprise.
"Yes! Shippou got him to the prison, though, and I decided to ask why he came back. He said he had come to warn me of something."
"What was it?"
Sesshoumaru was not listening to the girlish talk. He had not even understood his own people when the girls spoke together like this.
"That this Kouga person-"
"KOUGA?" Sesshoumaru screamed, his entire mind brought to their discussion suddenly. Both young women jumped back in surprise and, in Kagome's case, in fear. Noticing that, he spat out the quickest explanation he could manage. "He's the son of the one who exiled me!"
Kagome was wide-eyed in thought. He turned on her as he tried to place who would have warned the girl for Kouga. "What did he look like?"
Kagome thought for a moment before she looked at the silver-haired, yellow- eyed man before her. "Goodness! He looks a bit like you, actually!" Sesshoumaru knew only one person who looked like him.
Slowly, his knuckles popped as he pushed them together. "Inuyasha." he snarled. He did not notice that Kagome was suddenly interested.
"Is that his name?"
He did not answer her. He was caught up in a rage that no voice could ever pull him out from. Or, well, almost no voice.
"Sesshoumaru!" Rin snapped. Instantly, the rage disappeared from his eyes. "Can you leave us, please?" Sesshoumaru realized what he had been doing and obeyed her immediately. It did not matter that he could have heard her if he wanted to, but it hurt that she had to have shouted to get his attention.
Kagome watched the man leave the room and then turned on her sister slowly. "Rin." she started in a threatening way, "why is that here?"
Rin frowned at her choice of words and stood tall beside her sister. "He is here because I brought him, Kagome," Rin answered defiantly. Kagome pulled on her dangerous look that made even her older sister break. Slowly, Rin chewed on her lower lip.
"Does Mother know he's here?" she asked snappishly. Hesitantly, Rin shook her head. "Is he the reason you skipped dinner today?" She nodded hesitantly. "That's it. We have got to talk to Mother. Come on!"
Rin just barely got to bid Sesshoumaru farewell and explain where she was going and why before Kagome dragged her out the door.
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Curse that girl. If he could get out of here, she would need more than that fox guard to keep him from getting her. Who did she think she was, leaving him to rot in this cell?
Wait, scratch that. She knew who she was, and she used that position to the utmost.
Curse that girl.
Inuyasha paid no heed to the squeal of rusted hinges, or the sounds of the jailer's voice yelling the typical warning of civil tongues. What caught his attention, though, was the stark silence that came after the visitor entered the hallway. Not one inmate called out. Not in appreciation of looks or pleas for mercy, like they had done for Kagome. The silence startled him out of his thoughts and left him staring at the wall as he listened to the ever-approaching footsteps. Suddenly, they stopped.
Behind him.
He could practically feel those eyes glaring at him as he felt shudders race up his spine. It was her, the one woman that was more beautiful than any in the whole world.
"Well, Wild Man. You caught my sister unawares in her bedroom. Quite a way to repay her."
Inuyasha's rage had been seething before, but with this sudden statement, he was pushed over the edge. "Now, see here Wench!" he started in anger, but one look into her eyes and his rage dissipated. "I-I am sorry."
Kikyo smiled warmly outside his cell, but the smile came no where near her eyes. "That is quite all right. I am called Kikyo. What is your name?"
Inuyasha allowed his eyes to feast on her beauty as his tongue worked on its own. "Inuyasha," he stated, offering a small grin. The young woman looked confused as he grinned at her.
"Why did you smiled?" His face burned in embarrassment as he thought of the reason why. It was preposterous! He, a wild man, was in love with the General's daughter! (1) How stupid did that sound?
A rustle of silks and the click of a rusty lock, and Kikyo was in his cell. "Come now, don't be shy. Why did you smile, and why do you blush now?" Kikyo knew exactly why, but she needed him to say it. When she had seen his look of infatuation when she first saw him, she had plans for him. He had to say it, and judging by the incoherent muttering he was going, he was about to spit it out.
"I think I."
"Yes?" So so close.
"Love.you."
"Love me?" she cried out, knowing she had surprised him and made him feel shame. Perfect. He had said it! "Now, Inuyasha-chan, that is not fair! You can claim love, but you cannot prove it!" She turned away from him and folded her arms over her chest. This was too easy. What a fool.
She could hear his surprised sputtering before he finally spat out the words she had been hoping, praying that he would say. "How can I prove it? I'll do anything!"
Dangerous words to promise. "Anything?" she said thoughtfully, staying turned away from him. "What if you get me something?"
"Anything!" he shouted. Perfect. Too easy and complicated for a simple fool like him. She grinned knowingly and turned back to him.
"Fine. Get me the Shikon no Tama."
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(1): The Homeland thinking is rubbing off on him. Can you tell?
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AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! KENTUCKY DERBY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND NEW MOVIE OF SEABISCUIT!!!!!!!!!! (I'm a horse freak, huh??) JULY 25!!!! AND IT'S FUNNY CIDE, THE FIRST GELDING SINCE THE TWENTIES!!!!!!!!!!!!
So, here, Inu-chan's a jerk, Kagome gets deadly, Sesshoumaru tells everything to Rin, and Kikyo flirts. If you want me to get back to Sango and Miroku, give me an idea.
And this is where I feel so.bad. I need help! I think I've figured it up to where Inu and Kagome confess (hey, it's a romance. Of course it would happen.). I know where I want this to go, but I'm not sure how to get there. So, I am humbly getting down to my knees to plea humbly for ideas. So, how can I get them together? (Inuyasha and Kagome.) How can I get the general to trust Inuyasha? HELP!!!!!
Okay, nothing more to say, I think, so here it goes.
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Inuyasha woke up behind bars with the worst headache he had ever experienced. Slowly, he became aware of his surroundings and sat up. Once he was up, he automatically wished he hadn't spent the energy to lift his tired, aching body to see that. There was nothing to see. He was lying on a simple bed with a thin, woolen blanket tucked around him. In his cell was a stone-hewn table, a wooden stool, and a pail. He could understand the meaning of the pail, thankfully.
"Hey, new kid, you're awake!" a high, nasal voice called. Inuyasha looked outside his cell, across the hallway, and his eyes met total darkness. But slowly, he got accustomed to the light and could pick out two eyes looking at him out of the darkness. "What did you do to get in here?" Inuyasha thought for a moment and could remember that he had been free, and then he entered into that girl's room and was suddenly here. He couldn't for the life of him understand what he had done wrong.
"I do not know," Inuyasha answered, as truthful as he had been lately.
"That kit was pretty angry when he dragged you in here!" the man continued. Inuyasha suddenly thought that the voice was rather annoying and only added to the pain that his heavily throbbing head gave him.
"Kit?" he murmured questioningly. The eyes moved as if the man was nodding.
"Yeah. That's the nickname for the Corporal Shippou. He's the guard to Lady Kagome," the man answered. Inuyasha thought for a second. The man who had attacked him in that one room, before he was thrown in here. The smell had reminded him of a fox. The nickname of a child fox fit him well. To answer the man without prompting conversation, he nodded dumbly. Luck was with him, though, because at that precise time, there was the sound of rusted hinges squeaking a good ways away.
"Listen up, you brutes!" a heavy, thick, gruff voice bellowed down the hallway. "Put a civil tongue in your mouths! A lady's coming in!"
There was a soft pattering only lady's feet can make before it was quickly drowned out by the sounds of whistling and cries for mercy. Inuyasha could even pick out a few calls of appreciation of beauty. The sounds were loud and even started to cause his head to throb harder.
"SHUT UP!" the gruff voice screamed. Once again, it was silent. By that time, the footsteps had gotten closer and were still coming, moving from side to side as if looking for something. Inuyasha could feel curiosity getting a stranglehold on him. Slowly, carefully, he crawled to the bars and pressed his face closer to see farther down the hallway.
And it was with his face pressed to the bars, mouth hanging open in wonder, eyes wide with curiosity's stranglehold, that he saw her again. She came into view and saw him. Unfortunately, he could not pull away from the embarrassing position fast enough. He scrambled back as she giggled lightly.
"Hello," she said, muffling her giggles. "I am Kagome." Inuyasha only glared in return. "Who are you?"
Inuyasha chose to not answer that. "Why am I in here?" he snarled instead. Kagome chuckled quietly and pulled out a ring of keys and slipped into his cell. Inuyasha could not help but compare her to her older sister as she did so. She had a childish grace and beauty, while her sister was more womanly. Much more womanly, as he thought of it. She could be just as attractive as the older sister, if she could grow up some.
"You are not in here by my doing," Kagome answered. "Shippou brought you here. I am sorry he is so rough, but he was.scared." Inuyasha brought his hand to his still-throbbing temple and forced himself to recall what had proceeded the fist to his head. What came to mind immediately raised a blush to his face.
"Wh-what were you doing before.behind the.cloth." he asked, hesitantly, curiously. Kagome saw also his embarrassment and laughed loudly.
"Shippou was certain you knew exactly what you were doing!" she cried. She chuckled a little while longer before attempting to explain what happened. "It seems he was mistaken. I was bathing myself." Kagome blushed softly as she recalled what had happened from her own point of view. "Why did you come back looking for me?"
Somewhat stung by her laughter, he snorted and lifted his nose away from her. "I don't feel like telling you."
"Oh, you don't?" she murmured, her voice challenging. "I have the power to lock you in this cell for the rest of your life, and I have the power to refuse you freedom until you tell me why you came back. Though I did not put you in here, I have the power to let you out or keep you in!" Inuyasha blinked and stared in surprise at her sudden show of aggression. "So, if you want out, I can speed your freedom if you simply tell me," Kagome finished, her voice as sweet as honey in the last sentence. She even smiled like honey might have smiled, if it could smile.
Inuyasha thought long and hard, though he stopped when he noticed her impatience. Though he was afraid of going back to the clan, he really wanted to get out of the prison. Besides, he had decided to warn her before he got thrown in here- again. "Fine. Someone I know is planningtokidnapyou," he muttered, jumbling the last four words together under his breath.
"What?" Kagome hissed as politely as possible. She thought she had heard something, but she wasn't quite sure if she was right. She hoped she was not right.
"Planning to.kid.nap.you." he finished his warning in a small voice, sounding like a little boy admitting he had done something wrong.
She had been right.
"Who?" she asked quietly, her voice fearful. Inuyasha didn't want to tell her, because then it would probably take longer to get out of here then. How suspicious would that sound, "yeah, my brother was planning to kidnap you. I didn't tell him not to, though." But he made the common mistake of looking into her fearful eyes.
Common mistake, but a big mistake nonetheless. "The Heir to the Wolf Clan, Kouga. He's.my brother." Inuyasha hung his head, imaging what she was thinking. Probably thought he had volunteered to help out, but he did not! She probably thought he did not care if she was kidnapped, but he did care.
"Why?" Kagome pleaded quietly.
"I don't know," he lied before adding with a snicker, "especially you of all people." He snickered louder when her face grew red.
"Why you!" she cried indignantly. "I've never seen such immaturity in a man! Now you will for certain have to wait before your freedom, Wild Man!" And with that, she was out of the door and storming down the hall.
Wild man. It stung him more than he expected it to, and that only angered him. Getting up, he tested the door she had so rapidly left. It was locked tightly. Locked in, held by a woman who insulted him, and angry. That was never a good mix for him.
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Are you all wondering what has happened to Sesshoumaru? I thought so. Well, wonder no longer. Here it comes. What you've all been waiting for, the question and answer session with Sesshoumaru and Rin.
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Rin closed her room door after finally herding out Jaken. He was too protective! Sesshoumaru would not harm her. He wouldn't even look at her if commanded not to.
"So, Sesshoumaru," she murmured, turning to the room she had left him in. "Eep!" He was not in that room. He was right behind her. "What are you doing up? The muscles in your legs were ripped asunder, and the doctor insisted-"
"Your doctor has never worked on exiles before," the silver-haired man said, his voice still hoarse. "If I was to stay in that bed, I would never be able to protect myself."
"Silly!" Rin giggled. "You're under my protection now!"
He raised an eyebrow curiously and amusedly. "You are rather small to be protecting me."
"I have power, Sesshoumaru. I am the general's daughter. If I command the troops and men to protect you, they will," Rin explained with a happy grin on her face, as if she was talking of a dance, not a subject of much death over the centuries. Sesshoumaru's eyes went to the window where one could see the training troops. He could understand that there was something about this power that could be dangerous, but for now, it offered comfort. A ghost of a smile flitted across his face.
"I see."
"Tell me about the jungle, Sesshoumaru," Rin pleaded, sitting beside him on the makeshift bed. His eyes suddenly darkened, as if he was looking into a dark past.
"It is a place no man should be forced to live alone in. It is deadly," he murmured. One glance at the girl told him that she was captivated. "It is beautiful, too, but it is sad to see it when one is alone," he continued before glancing at the girl beside him. She had the beginning beauty of a woman, but the thicker cheeks of childhood were still obvious. She was fair and her skin was smooth from a soft life. And her hands.
He stopped and looked at the hands clasped in her lap. One was wrapped in a bloodied linen cloth and he looked away in shame. He had been half out of his mind with pain, and he had wished for those blades to fall, to end his horrible existence and misery. But then, she had stopped them.
"Sesshoumaru," Rin asked, her voice cutting into his thoughts. But rather than be angry, he waited for her to speak, glad for the interruption. "How did your teeth get so sharp?" He ran his tongue over his canines instinctively and tried to recall the answer to her question.
"When I was younger, it was the clan tradition to file the teeth to points. It's been stopped now, but mine have stayed," he answered, glad to pull his mind to the practical information, not the incredible pain of the filing, the grinding tool scraping and breaking nerve endings. He still had no feeling in those teeth.
"You mentioned you were exiled," Rin started again. Sesshoumaru had to fight the rising grin from his face. Never had he met such an inquisitive child! "Why?" The smiled and feeling of happiness vanished like a vapor in the sun.
"You shouldn't know," he answered emotionlessly. The chief had been merciful to let him live, but he had stolen Sesshoumaru's father's sword in payment for what he had done. And now, it was held in Kouga's hands.
To his relief, Rin decided to not press the topic. Instead, she chose to chatter on about the outpost and other small things. Her voice filled his senses, which might explain how he could have been surprised by the sudden sound of a second voice and Rin's room's door opening.
"Rin, remember that new prisoner I told you a-" The young woman who had stepped into the room stopped and stared for a second before her jaw dropped. Sesshoumaru was moving; he knew what would come next.
His hand slapped over her mouth and he pinned her to the wall, effectively cutting off the scream before a sound could escape.
"Kagome!" Rin cried, touching his arm. "Please, don't scream. He'll let you down, but please, don't scream." Kagome nodded as best she could with a hand clasping her mouth closed and was released.
"Rin! That new prisoner I told you about. Guess what he did!" Kagome hissed once she was free, promptly forgetting Sesshoumaru. Rin winked at him and motioned for her to go on. "He came back and caught me in the shower!"
"In the shower?" Rin repeated in surprise.
"Yes! Shippou got him to the prison, though, and I decided to ask why he came back. He said he had come to warn me of something."
"What was it?"
Sesshoumaru was not listening to the girlish talk. He had not even understood his own people when the girls spoke together like this.
"That this Kouga person-"
"KOUGA?" Sesshoumaru screamed, his entire mind brought to their discussion suddenly. Both young women jumped back in surprise and, in Kagome's case, in fear. Noticing that, he spat out the quickest explanation he could manage. "He's the son of the one who exiled me!"
Kagome was wide-eyed in thought. He turned on her as he tried to place who would have warned the girl for Kouga. "What did he look like?"
Kagome thought for a moment before she looked at the silver-haired, yellow- eyed man before her. "Goodness! He looks a bit like you, actually!" Sesshoumaru knew only one person who looked like him.
Slowly, his knuckles popped as he pushed them together. "Inuyasha." he snarled. He did not notice that Kagome was suddenly interested.
"Is that his name?"
He did not answer her. He was caught up in a rage that no voice could ever pull him out from. Or, well, almost no voice.
"Sesshoumaru!" Rin snapped. Instantly, the rage disappeared from his eyes. "Can you leave us, please?" Sesshoumaru realized what he had been doing and obeyed her immediately. It did not matter that he could have heard her if he wanted to, but it hurt that she had to have shouted to get his attention.
Kagome watched the man leave the room and then turned on her sister slowly. "Rin." she started in a threatening way, "why is that here?"
Rin frowned at her choice of words and stood tall beside her sister. "He is here because I brought him, Kagome," Rin answered defiantly. Kagome pulled on her dangerous look that made even her older sister break. Slowly, Rin chewed on her lower lip.
"Does Mother know he's here?" she asked snappishly. Hesitantly, Rin shook her head. "Is he the reason you skipped dinner today?" She nodded hesitantly. "That's it. We have got to talk to Mother. Come on!"
Rin just barely got to bid Sesshoumaru farewell and explain where she was going and why before Kagome dragged her out the door.
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Curse that girl. If he could get out of here, she would need more than that fox guard to keep him from getting her. Who did she think she was, leaving him to rot in this cell?
Wait, scratch that. She knew who she was, and she used that position to the utmost.
Curse that girl.
Inuyasha paid no heed to the squeal of rusted hinges, or the sounds of the jailer's voice yelling the typical warning of civil tongues. What caught his attention, though, was the stark silence that came after the visitor entered the hallway. Not one inmate called out. Not in appreciation of looks or pleas for mercy, like they had done for Kagome. The silence startled him out of his thoughts and left him staring at the wall as he listened to the ever-approaching footsteps. Suddenly, they stopped.
Behind him.
He could practically feel those eyes glaring at him as he felt shudders race up his spine. It was her, the one woman that was more beautiful than any in the whole world.
"Well, Wild Man. You caught my sister unawares in her bedroom. Quite a way to repay her."
Inuyasha's rage had been seething before, but with this sudden statement, he was pushed over the edge. "Now, see here Wench!" he started in anger, but one look into her eyes and his rage dissipated. "I-I am sorry."
Kikyo smiled warmly outside his cell, but the smile came no where near her eyes. "That is quite all right. I am called Kikyo. What is your name?"
Inuyasha allowed his eyes to feast on her beauty as his tongue worked on its own. "Inuyasha," he stated, offering a small grin. The young woman looked confused as he grinned at her.
"Why did you smiled?" His face burned in embarrassment as he thought of the reason why. It was preposterous! He, a wild man, was in love with the General's daughter! (1) How stupid did that sound?
A rustle of silks and the click of a rusty lock, and Kikyo was in his cell. "Come now, don't be shy. Why did you smile, and why do you blush now?" Kikyo knew exactly why, but she needed him to say it. When she had seen his look of infatuation when she first saw him, she had plans for him. He had to say it, and judging by the incoherent muttering he was going, he was about to spit it out.
"I think I."
"Yes?" So so close.
"Love.you."
"Love me?" she cried out, knowing she had surprised him and made him feel shame. Perfect. He had said it! "Now, Inuyasha-chan, that is not fair! You can claim love, but you cannot prove it!" She turned away from him and folded her arms over her chest. This was too easy. What a fool.
She could hear his surprised sputtering before he finally spat out the words she had been hoping, praying that he would say. "How can I prove it? I'll do anything!"
Dangerous words to promise. "Anything?" she said thoughtfully, staying turned away from him. "What if you get me something?"
"Anything!" he shouted. Perfect. Too easy and complicated for a simple fool like him. She grinned knowingly and turned back to him.
"Fine. Get me the Shikon no Tama."
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(1): The Homeland thinking is rubbing off on him. Can you tell?
YEAH!!! So sorry, my friends and followers, that it took so long. I am simply slow and my teachers are cracking down on me. Sophomore slide is fun. My parents are too, but I can escape them easier.
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I was looking at the stuff I typed up above and I realized that I was definitely hyper when I mentioned the horseracing. Yikes. I've been working on this for a whole month. -_-;;. Yucky.
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