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Ellie couldn't sleep. She'd been having too many Scarlet Witch dreams. It frightened her too much to ever want to sleep. Scarlet Witch was coming. She knew that. There's no way it would just be a dream. She was definitely real. She was worried about the first dream she had. Her being Scarlet Witch. What if she was? What would happen?
Ellie turned to face the ceiling, arms behind her head. She saw the many faces of the shadow dance across it. 'I just may be insane…' She glanced over a Keroki. 'She wouldn't be. She has too many prospects.' Ellie listened to herself. Shocked. But she shook it off. Just a little jealousy. Her eyes wandered to the door, hearing the handle turn to the side. She shuffled into a sleeping position and closed her eyes, pretending.
A person set something below her feet, and then a hand touched her face. She tried not to scream, but moaned to get the hand to move. Reluctantly, it did and the person or people left.
She shot up, touching her face and looking at her feet. There laid many different boxes of different colors. She felt her heart drop as she plucked a book sized box up. 'A present…'
The blue of the sky shot across the window, drowning most of the room in blue. Ellie heard a waking moan and looked at Keroki. "Morning…"
"Morning? Whatever! It's still like… Its 6:30…AM!" Keroki sat up and looked over at Ellie. She had no blankets on her and was sitting cross-legged on her pillows, leaning against the headboard. "Didn't you get any sleep?" Kirasha then bounded onto the bed and rubbed against Ellie's hands. "Look at the foot of your bed…" Ellie answered, picking Kirasha up and setting her in her lap and grabbing one of her presents. "Oh my! Presents…" Keroki said, plucking one up as Ellie did when she saw them.
"They probably brought them in while we were sleeping." Ellie said, playing with a gold necklace with a very beautiful cross pendent. Keroki thumbed a small dagger. "They so like us…" She blushed at her phrase, thinking of Inu-Yasha. "When did you figure that out?" Ellie laughed at her. Keroki giggled, "I just thought… I never thought they, well…" Ellie nodded in understandment. Ellie smiled at the thought of Miroku, but she wasn't like Keroki, blush and giggle. She kept it to herself. Like she was, not liking to be known very well.
After getting dressed and putting some of their presents on, they stepped out of the room and went over to the guy's cabin. They heard shouts and whispers, lots of shuffling. "Miroku, Inu-Yasha? It's us. Ellie and Keroki," Ellie yelled through the door. The door opened a bit, then it opened all the way. Miroku was standing in the doorway. "Morning ladies…"
"Good morning! Can we come in? -"
"NO!" Miroku shouted, but settled down. "Sorry, but no. We're kinda busy…"
"Oh," Keroki said, sadly. "Okay… Uh, well bye!"
"Wait!" Inu-Yasha called, tumbling to the door. "Where are you going?"
"We're leaving… We have jobs you know!" Ellie said, almost quite angrily. Keroki nudged her a bit with her elbow. Ellie turned away, and started walking down the street. "I'm through here…"
"Lady Ellie!" She heard Miroku call her, but continued to walk, just a bit slower though. She heard footsteps running behind her, thinking it was Keroki, she stopped. Instead it was Miroku, and he grabbed her hands and pulled her to him. "No, get away!" She broke from his grip and started running. "Kirasha!"
Kirasha transformed and galloped beside her. Ellie jumped onto her and didn't look back at her group, not once.
Keroki watched her disappear into darkness. "Ellie…"
"I'm going after her!" Miroku said, beginning to run. "No, Miroku!" But he disappeared into the darkness as well. It left only Keroki and Inu-Yasha. Keroki turned to him. "All that just happened…" Inu-Yasha looked at her. "Something's wrong with Ellie… She's not only jealous of you, but something else. She seems… evil." Keroki threw herself at him and pounded on his chest. "You don't tell me my best friends evil! You don't know!" Inu-Yasha swallowed. 'Uh-oh… This is going to be hard.'
Keroki pushed away from him and collapsed to the ground. "She's not evil. She just keeps all her feelings inside so she won't wine or annoy other people." Inu-Yasha kneeled beside her. "I know evil when I see it…" Keroki felt her throat tighten. "No, not Ellie. Not my best friend Jessie."
Ellie stopped at a river, thinking no one had followed her. She watched Kirasha transform back into her cute self and prance over to the water, lapping it up. Ellie gazed at her reflection. She knelt down and splashed it away, not even seeing that part of her hair was red.
Miroku watched her from behind a tree. 'Is she bleeding? Why is her hair red'?
Ellie began to feel guilty that she ran away. Bu then again, she didn't. "Miroku and Inu-Yasha are probably supporting Keroki," She said, hatefully. Miroku's eyes widened. 'What did she just say?' Ellie looked at Kirasha. "I mean, they always do. She's their prize possession." Kirasha tilted her head at Ellie and came over to her, jumping into her lap and curling up into a ball. "I couldn't hold it in anymore, Kirasha. I just couldn't."
A scratchy, low, voice came echoing, "of course you couldn't. No one could." Miroku's attitude changed. Naraku. "I just wanted a little love and attention…"
"Everyone does." Naraku answered. "I can help you, Ellie."
"No he can't!" Miroku shouted, but his voice made no effect to Ellie. "Naraku…" She said, pulling Kirasha closer to herself. "Yes?" He answered, kneeling before her. She looked up at him. "I don't want to hurt Miroku…" Miroku smiled, but he heard no one else's names. "Fine… I won't let you hurt Miroku. Come…" Naraku stood and held out his hand. Ellie took a deep breath and held it, taking his hand, rising, not even paying any attention to Kirasha, who tumbled to the ground. "Ellie!" Miroku called, but no effect.
Kirasha pranced away to where Miroku was standing. He picked her up and cradled her.
"This may hurt Ellie, I'm sorry…" Miroku watched carefully. Naraku reached out and grasped Ellie's shoulder. There was and explosion and Ellie screamed. Miroku stood running back to the city. He couldn't take her bloody screams. But it echoed through his heart. 'I only wanted a little love and attention…' He sighed and burst through the forest and slid to a stop where Inu-Yasha and Keroki were standing. "We've got trouble."
Ellie felt as if she was being stabbed many times over and over again, all over her body. "A little longer Ellie, hold on." She then felt her body being slowly burned. She closed her eyes, feeling as if the fire engupling her would blind her. After a brutal 10 minutes, it all whizzed away, and she lightly fell to the ground, thinking she was dead. "You're not dead. Rise, Scarlet Witch." She felt herself, stand and gaze at a gigantic axe that laid before her. "Lord, tell me where Inu-Yasha stands. I will personally make sure he is lying in a grave." Naraku laughed, appearing before her, cupping her chin, forcing her to look at him. "He's not far from here. He's in the city that owns this forest. I'm sure you know where that is?" She nodded, picked up the huge axe and began to walk, where Miroku had ran. "Inu-Yasha… you'll pay for what you've done to me…"
Chapter 5:
Naraku's discovered;
Secret unveiled.