Enchanted Circle
Chapter 2
(Quick note of reference, the monk, and Sango both went off to hunt down other jewels in this fic, so they will not be a part of the group here.)
As Inu- Yasha, Kagome, and Shippo all walked down the path just skirting a large hill and forest, they stumbled upon a large group of demons fighting over something in the brush. "No, it's mine! I saw it first!", one bellowed, just before Inu cut off it's head.
Then, with a quick turn, he killed the other five in the circle, before sheathing his sword. "I wonder what it was they had been fighting over?", Kagome wondered.
Inu pushed back the brush, and leaves, before his eyes widened. "It's a white haired, human child...", Inu answered, "Looks like he's been bleeding pretty badly too.",
"Is he still alive, Inu?", Shippo asked.
"Looks like it, but, just barely.", Inu muttered.
Just then, Inu heard someone coming down the hill slowly, he looked up, and saw that one little girl that always followed his half- brother around. She was stumbling with Sessho's sword in her small hands. When she got down to where Inu was, Rin, or so he thought her name was, handed it to him, and gestured to the boy. "All right, if you say so.", Inu answered her movements.
He swung the sword as though to hit the young child, only he stopped it just above, and soon, the wounds healed themselves back up. "Is that why you wanted me to do that?", Inu asked.
The girl nodded, smiling. Then, all turned to the boy as he moved.
.....
Sessho slowly woke, he felt swore all over, and really didn't want to move much. As he slowly opened his eyes, he saw Inu- Yasha staring down at him. "Hey, kid, ya all right?", Inu asked.
Kid? What was his bone headed little brother saying that for? Sessho went to say something mean towards Inu, only nothing came out! Sessho tried to say something else, but, still nothing. Sessho felt his throat, was there something wrong with it? He stood up, and then noticed Rin standing over to the side, watching him. He looked over at Inu, who had become taller for some reason. "Well, are you gonna answer me or not?", Inu snorted.
"I think the two of them are mute, Inu, they can't talk.", Kagome suggested.
San nodded, giggling. 'If she can make noise, I can, right?', Sessho thought to himself. He managed to make a small groan of frustration, and found he could at least do that much. "There's so much dry blood in your hair, we'll have to clip it about shoulder length to keep it untangled.", Kagome said, "Come on you two, Inu, and I will get you both cleaned up.",
"What do you mean we?", Inu asked.
"I'm going to clip his hair, and you can give him a bath, and we can find some clean clothing somewhere for him. I'll take care of Rin.", Kagome said.
"I know where there's a village that might lend us clothing for him.", Shippo offered.
"Then, you go get some, and be careful, okay?", Kagome told him.
After his hair was trimmed, Sessho was led to the lake, which was rather warm this time of the season. As he looked in the water, a human child stared back, Sessho looked to make sure it wasn't a trick, and it wasn't. However, he kept a straight face do to the fact that Inu was watching him. Soon, he found himself clean, and in new clothing on the bank of the pond sitting close to a warm fire. Rin sat next to him, and both were watching Inu cooking dinner. Sessho's stomach churned from hunger, just to remind him that mortals needed to eat more often. "You thirsty?", Kagome asked.
Sessho nodded, and so did Rin, Kagome took out a strange metal object, and snapped an opening in the top of it. "Here, it's Mountain Dew, a soda pop, from my time.", She told them, "Careful, it bubbles, and tickles your nose.",
Sessho took a drink, and found it tasted sweet, but not like he'd ever tasted before, really. "Hey, Kagome, I know what would go nice with this fish, that instant ramen you always bring from the future.", Inu suggested.
"I think it would too, here.", She handed each of them a cup of shrimp ramen.
Sessho bit into the fish, only to burn his tongue, which wouldn't of had happened as a demon to him. After that he took it slowly, carefully cooling every bite, until sure that all of it had cooled down itself. He took another drink of the pop, and watched as Inu stuffed the ramen in his face. 'Is this what it's like all the time?', Sessho wondered to himself.
Later, as they all lay down, Sessho with his back against a tree trunk, he found himself getting cold. Then, he felt someone put something over him gently. "Can't let the poor kid freeze to death, he's been through too much for one day.", he heard Inu whisper.
Sessho opened one eye to see Inu settle back down on a tree limb, and fall fast asleep. Sometime later that night, Sessho moved beside Rin to keep them both warmer and soon himself, drifted off, finding it hard not to.
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When he woke in the morning, Inu was the only one up already. Sessho wrapped the blanket around himself, before walking over and sitting next to Inu by the fire. "Good morning.", Inu greeted with a warm smile, "Sleep well?",
Sessho managed a nod, before his stomach growled rather loudly, and he blushed at it. "I thnk we could all use a nice, big breakfast.", Inu said, "Here, chew on some of this, it'll tie you over till everyone else is up, and breakfast is made.",
Sessho took the jerky from Inu carefully, because he was still slightly weary of his half brother. Right now, Inu could kill him without a second thought quite easily. However, this kindness didn't seem like a death threat to him. Sessho chewed on his meat grateful for having something to eat, instead of being hungry. "Well, kiddo, we have got to come up with a name for you, can't always be calling you kid, or boy now can we?", Inu said, simply, "You kinda remind me of my older brother, I think I'll just call you Sesshi, since you do look like him.",
Sessho just blinked now that he was being named after himself, it seemed sort of odd. "Anyway, that reminded me, that I still have his sword.", Inu remembered, "I should take it back to him seems I don't like unfair fights against him. I don't like fighting dirty, behind the back kinds of ways, it's disgracing to your opponent.",
Inu got up, "I have to go get some things for breakfast before everyone else wakes up, okay? You keep an eye on things, got it?", Inu asked.
Sessho nodded, and as Inu ran off, he didn't notice the dark shadow hanging in the brush to the side of the road....
End Chapter: Hmmmmm.... Another cliff- hanger, how will you all survive it?