It's still early and I honestly didn't mean to leave you all hanging last
chapter. By the way, Kalea isn't turning demon or anything cause I know
that's what Inuyasha's eyes do when he turns full youkai but she's a
goddess and if you notice, it only happens when she's mad. Disclaimer: I
don't own Inuyasha.
Predictable Chaos - Rivalry
Kikyo stood still as stone with another arrow pointing towards the heart of Sesshomaru.
"Where's Tetsu-"
"YOU BITCH!" Sesshomaru's question was put to an end as he was being pushed from his position in front of Kalea. His eyes widened at the figure pushing him back. What was Kalea doing?! Kikyo's eyes fixated on the the tall woman in front of her.
"What did you say?" Kalea stepped over Sesshomaru's lean body.
"You heard me : YOU BITCH! Do you know how long this will take to heal?! I have worked very LONG and very HARD on this face and I won't have a stuck up, green eyed, selfish, *ugly* miko like you screw it up!!! You mortals take a goddess's beauty for granted, you know that? We weren't born this way..we EARN it! I have saved many lives and healed many things to gain access to beauty. Ask Sesshomaru. I wasn't always this good looking."
"No she wasn't. She used to be lanky and ug-"
"Nobody ASKED you!" Sesshomaru sunk back to the ground. Kikyo pulled the string of her bow back and aimed at Kalea. Kalea acknowledged this and walked towards the priestess. Kikyo fired the arrow, only for it to stop in front of Kalea.
Kalea pulled her remaining power out from the depths of her soul to stop the arrow. Two fingers stopped the enchanted arrow from striking her heart. Kalea grinned.
"You missed. My turn!" Kikyo could barely blink before Kalea stood before her. The miko was pushed off her feet by the brute strength of the goddess. She landed hard on her tailbone, but didn't feel a thing. Kalea was pulling Kikyo up by her neck in less than a second. Kikyo winced as she felt the walls of the hut slam against her back. There was no pain but the force of the hit caused her to feel dizzy. Kalea tightened the grip around the miko's throat. Sesshomaru lept up from the ground and stood beside Kalea.
"What are you waiting for?!" Kalea squinted at the miko and Kikyo looked amused.
"I'm already dead...", she choked out. Kalea lowered her head but kept a tight restraint on the girl's throat.
"She's right.." Kikyo laughed in a muffled choke.
"There's nothing you can do to bring pain to me. Just kill me." Kalea frowned.
"That's what I COULD do but you'll win in the longrun. If you die, your soul won't wander anymore. If you live, you continue to live peacefully and happily among these villagers. You'll get happiness when others around you suffer. So how can I make YOU suffer?" Kikyo's eyes belittled the goddess, but Kalea returned the ridicule with her own smirk.
"I guess i'll just have to take away the things you need one by one starting with this.." Kalea raised her two powerful fingers once again and placed them in front of Kikyo's chest, slowly pulling out the souls that kept her alive. The miko's soul snatchers tried to come to her aid but Kalea sent a wave of power over them. The snake like creatures fell to the ground, as if paralyzed by the sudden surge of power. The miko screamed in agony.
"Do you know what's next if you don't tell us where Tetsusaiga is? Inuyasha."
"Let him die! I don't care!" Kalea drove out the souls even slower.
"You're a pitiful liar. Your 'hatred', as you call it, is what keeps you on this earth. I've seen alot of hatred in my day, and your's is nothing close to the real thing. Without him, a part of you dies. The part that makes you want to live. That little piece of your soul left in you still wants to live and see Inuyasha live - no matter what the rest of you tells yourself. For the sake of your happiness, at least, tell me where the Tetsusaiga is!" Kikyo glared at the woman before her, then pointed to the shrine across the village.
"It's in there. Behind the painting of the two dragons." Kalea pulled back from the priestess.
"Go get it."
"Why can't you?"
"I'm a goddess. You need a human to grab that thing and we're running out of options. Thus, you go get it." Kikyo wanted to debate this but was silenced by the expression Kalea was giving. The miko gave in and obeyed the orders to retrieve the sword.
Kagome jumped when the door of the hut burst open.
"Let's get started.."
"What is SHE doing here?" Kagome eyeballed the miko standing at Kalea's side holding Tetsusaiga.
"She's harmless to me. Let's do this." Kalea swatted at a ringlet that had fallen over her eyes. Sesshomaru mentally remarked to himself on Kalea's appearance. He hadn't noticed before how her tiny ringlets were now matted against her forhead and how tired she looked.
Kalea sat across from Kagome on the other side of Inuyasha. She nodded towards Kikyo and the miko stepped over to Kagome to hand her the sword. Kagome gave the goddess a look of question.
"You'll need it while you're in there. "
"ME?! I thought YOU were going in there!"
"I'm your gateway. Close your eyes and clear your mind. You'll feel a blast of heat run through your body and you'll awake in his mind. Do what you have to do and get out. I can't do this forever ya know. Yell my name and i'll pull you out. You have one hour. " Kagome nodded and closed her eyes.
There was darkness all around her and she could barely make out the hanyou sprawled out before her.
"Inuyasha!" His silver head struggled to move but fell back to the ground. Kagome ran to his side.
"Inuyasha! Speak to me! Please!" She turned him over and shook him. Maybe she could shake the life back into him. A small spotlight formed to the right of them and a figure hung in mid air; bloodied, bruised, and barely able to breathe. Kagome squinted her eyes and focused on the figure. A hint of red came into view and then silver. Silver?
"Inuyasha?!" She glanced down at the head in her lap. The eyelids fluttered open to a pair or red orbs. Kagome screamed and scurried next to the real hanyou. The youkai ran towards her, bearing claws and fangs.
"Get away!!!!!" She held Tetsusaiga up and the weapon instinctively protected her and Inuyasha. The youkai was thrown to the other side of the dark place and Kagome turned to see what kind of device was able to to hang Inuyasha in mid air. She struggled to find some kind of rope or chain but found nothing.
"Inuyasha! Help! I don't know....there's nothing....Inuyasha!" He slightly raised his head and twitched an ear, like he had done so many times when he got frustrated with the teenager. His lips spread into a weak smile before his body finally collapsed. Tears threatened Kagome's eyes and her heart stung with fear.
"No....No! You WON'T give up on me that easily! You hear me?!! Come on dog boy! I refuse to let you go out this way! I REFUSE! You hear me Inuyasha! Inuyasha!!" With that, Kagome unsheathed the Tetsusaiga and held it above his left wrist. She drew herself a mental picture of where chains would be holding him and struck the air. A light shined from the hit and she could now see by the power of Tetsusaiga where the spritual chains had been. The left wrist fell to Inuyasha's side and Kagome struck the other. He collapsed into her arms just before the youkai got over the earlier attack.
Sesshomaru paced around the room nervously while Kiyko sat and watched the entire scene. Kalea was extruding an unusal amount of light and she became paler than before. The color had left her cheeks half way into the procedure and now it looked as if she was barely hanging on. She sat the wide-eyed, staring into nothing with a look of fear and determination pasted on her face. Her hair was wet and her entire apparel looked as if she had taken a dip in the river. Kagome was laying peacefully , or what looked peacefully, on the floor gripping the Inuyasha's choice weapon. He prayed to the gods that the two women he had ever cared that deeply for (besides Rin) would return to the world of the living.
The youkai lunged forward at Kagome and she lept from a near hit. She held Tetsusaiga in front of her. In th spiritual realm it was so much easier to control it. The demon Inuyasha cavorted into the air and Kagome thrust the giant fang into the pit of the youkai's stomach. He screamed in pain and fell to the floor, disappearing from the hanyou's mind forever.
"...Kagome...Now....Let's go.."
"What about Inuyasha?!"
"All this is in his mind Kagome - you, the demon, and his battered soul." Kagome watched as the imbrued Inuyasha evanesced into the darkness. A hot hand reached out and grabbed Kagome's wrist.
Kagome awoke and moved to a corner of the room. She was exhausted from the experience she just had and was asleep again in no time. Sesshomaru began to panic as Kalea stayed in the trance. He was quickly by her side and dug his claws into her shoulder.
"Kalea!!"
~In Inuyasha's mind
"Inuyasha?"
"Yea?"
"You gonna make it?"
"Yea. Thanks bimbo."
"No prob half breed."
~End of that
Kalea fell into the arms of the demon lord and tried her best to speak.
"Is everyone ok?"
"Yes but are you?" Kalea smiled. He was showing concern for her in front of this group! She fainted from her lack of energy. The youkai prince picked her up from the floor and went to find a bed to lay her on for the night.
That night, Kalea dreamed that Sesshomaru had never left her side. That he had shown concern. That he showed tenderness towards her, but her mind told her not to dream such silly things.
Sesshomaru pressed a moist cloth on the woman's forhead.
"Protection and emotion are two different things,huh?" Kikyo made herself comfortable in the corner of the room that he brought Kalea to.
"I owe her for my arm." With that, he left the room and stopped in the shadows of the entryway to the room. He heard Kikyo talking to him, even though he had left the room. She had done this before when he mentioned the statement about the difference of emotion and protection.
"How long will you deny yourself happiness?" He heard some rustling and guessed she had situated herself to retrieve souls from her serpent like snatchers. He leaned his head on the rough walls of the hut.
"Forever, if necessary.."
Not too bad of a cliffhanger. When I come back from moving, i'll introduce one more character and questions about the jewel and what Kagome will do with it, Kalea and Sesshoamaru, and other things will be answered. Adios for a few days!
Predictable Chaos - Rivalry
Kikyo stood still as stone with another arrow pointing towards the heart of Sesshomaru.
"Where's Tetsu-"
"YOU BITCH!" Sesshomaru's question was put to an end as he was being pushed from his position in front of Kalea. His eyes widened at the figure pushing him back. What was Kalea doing?! Kikyo's eyes fixated on the the tall woman in front of her.
"What did you say?" Kalea stepped over Sesshomaru's lean body.
"You heard me : YOU BITCH! Do you know how long this will take to heal?! I have worked very LONG and very HARD on this face and I won't have a stuck up, green eyed, selfish, *ugly* miko like you screw it up!!! You mortals take a goddess's beauty for granted, you know that? We weren't born this way..we EARN it! I have saved many lives and healed many things to gain access to beauty. Ask Sesshomaru. I wasn't always this good looking."
"No she wasn't. She used to be lanky and ug-"
"Nobody ASKED you!" Sesshomaru sunk back to the ground. Kikyo pulled the string of her bow back and aimed at Kalea. Kalea acknowledged this and walked towards the priestess. Kikyo fired the arrow, only for it to stop in front of Kalea.
Kalea pulled her remaining power out from the depths of her soul to stop the arrow. Two fingers stopped the enchanted arrow from striking her heart. Kalea grinned.
"You missed. My turn!" Kikyo could barely blink before Kalea stood before her. The miko was pushed off her feet by the brute strength of the goddess. She landed hard on her tailbone, but didn't feel a thing. Kalea was pulling Kikyo up by her neck in less than a second. Kikyo winced as she felt the walls of the hut slam against her back. There was no pain but the force of the hit caused her to feel dizzy. Kalea tightened the grip around the miko's throat. Sesshomaru lept up from the ground and stood beside Kalea.
"What are you waiting for?!" Kalea squinted at the miko and Kikyo looked amused.
"I'm already dead...", she choked out. Kalea lowered her head but kept a tight restraint on the girl's throat.
"She's right.." Kikyo laughed in a muffled choke.
"There's nothing you can do to bring pain to me. Just kill me." Kalea frowned.
"That's what I COULD do but you'll win in the longrun. If you die, your soul won't wander anymore. If you live, you continue to live peacefully and happily among these villagers. You'll get happiness when others around you suffer. So how can I make YOU suffer?" Kikyo's eyes belittled the goddess, but Kalea returned the ridicule with her own smirk.
"I guess i'll just have to take away the things you need one by one starting with this.." Kalea raised her two powerful fingers once again and placed them in front of Kikyo's chest, slowly pulling out the souls that kept her alive. The miko's soul snatchers tried to come to her aid but Kalea sent a wave of power over them. The snake like creatures fell to the ground, as if paralyzed by the sudden surge of power. The miko screamed in agony.
"Do you know what's next if you don't tell us where Tetsusaiga is? Inuyasha."
"Let him die! I don't care!" Kalea drove out the souls even slower.
"You're a pitiful liar. Your 'hatred', as you call it, is what keeps you on this earth. I've seen alot of hatred in my day, and your's is nothing close to the real thing. Without him, a part of you dies. The part that makes you want to live. That little piece of your soul left in you still wants to live and see Inuyasha live - no matter what the rest of you tells yourself. For the sake of your happiness, at least, tell me where the Tetsusaiga is!" Kikyo glared at the woman before her, then pointed to the shrine across the village.
"It's in there. Behind the painting of the two dragons." Kalea pulled back from the priestess.
"Go get it."
"Why can't you?"
"I'm a goddess. You need a human to grab that thing and we're running out of options. Thus, you go get it." Kikyo wanted to debate this but was silenced by the expression Kalea was giving. The miko gave in and obeyed the orders to retrieve the sword.
Kagome jumped when the door of the hut burst open.
"Let's get started.."
"What is SHE doing here?" Kagome eyeballed the miko standing at Kalea's side holding Tetsusaiga.
"She's harmless to me. Let's do this." Kalea swatted at a ringlet that had fallen over her eyes. Sesshomaru mentally remarked to himself on Kalea's appearance. He hadn't noticed before how her tiny ringlets were now matted against her forhead and how tired she looked.
Kalea sat across from Kagome on the other side of Inuyasha. She nodded towards Kikyo and the miko stepped over to Kagome to hand her the sword. Kagome gave the goddess a look of question.
"You'll need it while you're in there. "
"ME?! I thought YOU were going in there!"
"I'm your gateway. Close your eyes and clear your mind. You'll feel a blast of heat run through your body and you'll awake in his mind. Do what you have to do and get out. I can't do this forever ya know. Yell my name and i'll pull you out. You have one hour. " Kagome nodded and closed her eyes.
There was darkness all around her and she could barely make out the hanyou sprawled out before her.
"Inuyasha!" His silver head struggled to move but fell back to the ground. Kagome ran to his side.
"Inuyasha! Speak to me! Please!" She turned him over and shook him. Maybe she could shake the life back into him. A small spotlight formed to the right of them and a figure hung in mid air; bloodied, bruised, and barely able to breathe. Kagome squinted her eyes and focused on the figure. A hint of red came into view and then silver. Silver?
"Inuyasha?!" She glanced down at the head in her lap. The eyelids fluttered open to a pair or red orbs. Kagome screamed and scurried next to the real hanyou. The youkai ran towards her, bearing claws and fangs.
"Get away!!!!!" She held Tetsusaiga up and the weapon instinctively protected her and Inuyasha. The youkai was thrown to the other side of the dark place and Kagome turned to see what kind of device was able to to hang Inuyasha in mid air. She struggled to find some kind of rope or chain but found nothing.
"Inuyasha! Help! I don't know....there's nothing....Inuyasha!" He slightly raised his head and twitched an ear, like he had done so many times when he got frustrated with the teenager. His lips spread into a weak smile before his body finally collapsed. Tears threatened Kagome's eyes and her heart stung with fear.
"No....No! You WON'T give up on me that easily! You hear me?!! Come on dog boy! I refuse to let you go out this way! I REFUSE! You hear me Inuyasha! Inuyasha!!" With that, Kagome unsheathed the Tetsusaiga and held it above his left wrist. She drew herself a mental picture of where chains would be holding him and struck the air. A light shined from the hit and she could now see by the power of Tetsusaiga where the spritual chains had been. The left wrist fell to Inuyasha's side and Kagome struck the other. He collapsed into her arms just before the youkai got over the earlier attack.
Sesshomaru paced around the room nervously while Kiyko sat and watched the entire scene. Kalea was extruding an unusal amount of light and she became paler than before. The color had left her cheeks half way into the procedure and now it looked as if she was barely hanging on. She sat the wide-eyed, staring into nothing with a look of fear and determination pasted on her face. Her hair was wet and her entire apparel looked as if she had taken a dip in the river. Kagome was laying peacefully , or what looked peacefully, on the floor gripping the Inuyasha's choice weapon. He prayed to the gods that the two women he had ever cared that deeply for (besides Rin) would return to the world of the living.
The youkai lunged forward at Kagome and she lept from a near hit. She held Tetsusaiga in front of her. In th spiritual realm it was so much easier to control it. The demon Inuyasha cavorted into the air and Kagome thrust the giant fang into the pit of the youkai's stomach. He screamed in pain and fell to the floor, disappearing from the hanyou's mind forever.
"...Kagome...Now....Let's go.."
"What about Inuyasha?!"
"All this is in his mind Kagome - you, the demon, and his battered soul." Kagome watched as the imbrued Inuyasha evanesced into the darkness. A hot hand reached out and grabbed Kagome's wrist.
Kagome awoke and moved to a corner of the room. She was exhausted from the experience she just had and was asleep again in no time. Sesshomaru began to panic as Kalea stayed in the trance. He was quickly by her side and dug his claws into her shoulder.
"Kalea!!"
~In Inuyasha's mind
"Inuyasha?"
"Yea?"
"You gonna make it?"
"Yea. Thanks bimbo."
"No prob half breed."
~End of that
Kalea fell into the arms of the demon lord and tried her best to speak.
"Is everyone ok?"
"Yes but are you?" Kalea smiled. He was showing concern for her in front of this group! She fainted from her lack of energy. The youkai prince picked her up from the floor and went to find a bed to lay her on for the night.
That night, Kalea dreamed that Sesshomaru had never left her side. That he had shown concern. That he showed tenderness towards her, but her mind told her not to dream such silly things.
Sesshomaru pressed a moist cloth on the woman's forhead.
"Protection and emotion are two different things,huh?" Kikyo made herself comfortable in the corner of the room that he brought Kalea to.
"I owe her for my arm." With that, he left the room and stopped in the shadows of the entryway to the room. He heard Kikyo talking to him, even though he had left the room. She had done this before when he mentioned the statement about the difference of emotion and protection.
"How long will you deny yourself happiness?" He heard some rustling and guessed she had situated herself to retrieve souls from her serpent like snatchers. He leaned his head on the rough walls of the hut.
"Forever, if necessary.."
Not too bad of a cliffhanger. When I come back from moving, i'll introduce one more character and questions about the jewel and what Kagome will do with it, Kalea and Sesshoamaru, and other things will be answered. Adios for a few days!