Hello. Shakes head wearily. I need a break. I've just looked over my
story and seen how short those first chapters were.@-@. I REALLY think I'm
getting sick or something. I can't move without feeling achy and tired. But
enough of me pouring my worries out here, time for me to get on with the
fic.
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Shippou had finally stopped crying and hit in his bush, hiccupping.
All he wanted was to get away from that man. The one that had killed his
parents. He looked desperately at the sky, as if begging the gods
themselves to pity him and take this man away. Just as he thought he might
finally be able to calm down and sort his thoughts, the man knocked him
unconcious and began on his way to the village.
"Sorry little one, but I cannot have you getting in the way of my
job. Forgive me, but it'll all make sense in the end."
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Those damned colors were there again. Swirling around him, they were tormenting every bit of his mind. It felt like he was being ripped in two different directions. In a way, that was what was happening. His body and soul had been separated. After what seemed like ages, he finally was standing on firm ground, but he felt odd. He looked down and gasped aloud, falling flat on his ass in shock. He was in Kagome's body! He looked around, assuming he was trapped in one of her fears, but all he saw were plain walls. Those plain walls mutated, and grew disgusting with rot. He was sitting there staring, his.HER lips curled in disgust. Cockroaches and scorpions began to crawl from the walls. He felt Kagome's fear. All the creepy crawly things imaginable began to crawl towards him. Kagome was herpetophobic! He'd never noticed how'd she'd check her sleeping bag four or five times before she'd get in.or how she'd beat the shit outta her shoes before she wore them.He quivered and resisted the urge to scream, but Kagome had other ideas. ~She'll kill herself before letting them get close! I have to do something but what? Damn you and your stupid creepy fear! ~ He frantically reached into her mind with her own, soothing her and trying to calm her. She only panicked, as the bugs had grown in size. They swarmed. Scorpions came towards her, tails raised high. Roaches came scuttling, their antennae frantically searching. He reached into her mind and whispered to her, tiny comforting things. She calmed a little on the outside, but the fear would literally eat her alive. "Kagome. You are in your own mind now. You cannot fear these things, they can't hurt you! You manifested them yourself." At these words, the critters seemed to shrink "That's right! And most of 'em are probably more scared of you anyways!" She took it the wrong way, assuming he'd called her scary, and growled at him. Only then did she realize that the bugs had gone. She'd conquered her fear. Just as Inuyasha was about to do something else, he heard the taunting voice. "That took you a whole hour!! I can't believe it took you so long; all they were was a few bugs! Ha! How do expect to get rid of the second fear? Pour water on it?" "Kagome's pyrophobic to?! You can't be serious!! Kagome? She's kidding right!" Kagome gnawed on one of her fingernails. The colors began to spin again, and they were suddenly in a barn.full of hay.and flammable objects. She looked around nervously, and instantaneously the entire thing burst into flames. Inuyasha had no words against this killer. He could only wrack his poor tired mind for something to say. The wood was charred and burning easily. The hay around Kagome was beginning to heat. Inuyasha had found himself lost when, finally, he realized he was back in his own body. Half an hour had passed while he and Kagome searched for a way out of the hellish fear. His hands were blackened from burns, and hers were sizzling hot as she reached for a door, only for it to burst into flames as soon as she touched it. She stood completely still, Inuyasha to her back, and chanted, "Fire not real. Fire not real. Fire not real." She opened her tightly shut eyes for a split second, one tiny fraction of a second, and she instantly dreaded it. She felt like Pyro the dragon himself. Little flames shot out of her mouth every time she drew and released a ragged breath. She couldn't take it. She screamed in a tormented fear, swiping at her own face, landing with a thump on the ground. She sucked in one last breath, and held it. Inuyasha looked on in horror before he knelt down. "Kagome! You have to listen to me! The fire can't hurt you! Think of.an ocean!! Think of a beautiful sandy beach." An idea flashed in his head "Kagome, whenever there is a fire, what else is there?! Something that is almost every building in the world?" She was starting to turn an odd shade of purple. "A fire extinguisher, Kagome! A FIRE EXTINGUISHER!!!" Her eyes began to swirl. Another hour had passed; he only had eight more hours.he could do it.right? ""Focus on the fire extinguisher!" She tried, but her mind was swimming. Finally, as if in one last attempt to make it, she let her breath out with a wince and focused with all her might. Nothing. Five minutes passed of thinking before she gave up and returned to holding her breath. The rest of the hour ticked away with Inuyasha pleading and her breathing once every ten or so minutes. Nine. He was brain-dead. He couldn't think of anything to make her concentrate. "Think! Concentrate for.me! You.How bout the kids you're supposed to have?! Come on! What about Souta? Buyo!" He was running out of ideas, and the only thing keeping them from roasting alive was the makeshift tent he'd made from his haori. She let out a breath, one last glimmer of hope. She closed her eyes. In her mind, the red and silver of the metal can formed as a picture. It slowly grew in detail and visibility. She begged and pleaded with it to turn real. Inuyasha knew she was having trouble. Sweat was pouring down both of their faces. The flames were about to set his haori into a burning heap of trash. She'd been sitting there for half an hour, the flames pouring from her mouth in frustration. Eight and a half. For a brief second, he saw it, the extinguisher flickered into view and then out. In a last desperate attempt to get her to think, he did the only thing he hadn't tried.He pressed his lips firmly against her, sending her into shock. It had been just what she'd needed. The object became solid and thunked right down on her ankle, causing her to yelp in pain.Inuyasha snatched it up instantly, and fought for another hour (A/n: *~-^* Work with me here! I got to get rid of this time!) fighting his way through the flames. He had Kagome, tired and fatigued, draped over his back. They emerged into the evening, tired and to happy to care about where they were. For half an hour they walked, till he found a stream. He spent the next hour dressing wounds, fishing, and feeding himself and Kagome. She'd sprained her ankle and was burned badly. He still sustained the wounds from the first fire.the real one. His entire left cheek was burnt. His hair was half the length it had been, even shorter after the second fire. His clothes were just a tattered pair of pants and his loins (Tough they weren't visible, cause he did have SOME of the pants.*^-^*). His entire back was burnt, and the wounds carried around to the right side of his chest. His legs were bleeding from being burnt so bad and a large gash went from his left shoulder down to his right hip, leaving a line straight down his back, bleeding into his already dark red pants. Kagome was sleeping, apparently, she'd not seen his wounds before. She herself sustained burns all over. Her shirt was burnt just below her breasts, and her skirt, though it amazingly still stayed on, had an entire side missing. She was red with fever and looked as if she'd just gone through hell. It took four hours for her wounds to heal, leaving about three for them to complete the last fear. (I don't care what I said before, there are three hours left and one fear.then Inuyasha dies! *x* Oops.Wasn't supposed to say that.) As the dawn broke on a new day, and a new fear, Inuyasha saw Kikyo waiting for him. He stood and walked over to her, growling and muttering about how he'd like to kill her. "Well.two down, one to go, and three hours left." She smirked knowingly "This last one will be tough. I know you'll just hate it. There's no way you'll make it. She's been getting weaker you know." "Get the fuck outta my face." He just turned, he short hair still managing to swat her in the face, and walked back over to Kagome. "Just wait, little halfling. Just wait" With that, she disappeared into the dawn. ~~
Shippou had long since woken up, though he had no clue as to why he'd been in the forest. He then sat by Kagome, nursing her burns and keeping a cool cloth on her head for the fever. On the other side of the room, Kaede sat nursing Inuyasha and praying. He'd been burned severely and barely been saved. Shippou winced as he heard the poor boy draw in another ragged breath. He turned and saw that that one gulp of air had shaken Inuyasha's entire frame. Shippou was traumatized. He had never expected, or wanted, to see the big, strong, brave, heroic Inuyasha that was always saving Kagome, sitting there, as frail as a newborn and being rattled by just one breath. "Methinks he shall not live. The fever refuses to come down and soars well above that which would kill a human. His wounds no longer bleed or burn, but they have allowed much blood to leave him, and he is fighting for both his and the young maidens life. It shall be a miracle indeed if either one of them live." The old woman was talking scarcely above a hoarse whisper. "Kaede-sama? It.can't be true.no.NO! Kagome is my mother! She can't die! And she hasn't even told Inuyasha yet! They love each other! People in love don't die!" "Naïve young one, in this situation, what you think and know no longer apply. We fight on the ground of the enemy. It is no longer in our hands what happens. It is left to the gods." ~~
Outside the tiny hut (A/n: BTW, they are staying in a neighboring village! SORRY! I forgot to mention it! *^-^*;(), wings beat silently to keep their blue-haired owner air-borne. He watched over the occupants for a few more moments before returning his gaze to the young man and woman outside of the village. The woman had caught his interest many times. He'd already spoken with her. He'd, in fact, befriended her after he'd escorted her family to the after life. She held no grudge against him and kept returning his gaze with nervous smiles. She was beautiful. He'd been unable to keep his eyes away from her since he'd entered the village (A/n: Is it obvious what's coming? Poor Houshi-sama!). He glided back down and over to her, sitting on a log beside her while the monk continued to meditate to himself. "Do you think he really will die?" She asked him, a nervous sad edge to her voice. She turned her head to look at him, and he met her gaze with his crystal eyes "I do not know. I only know that someone here must come back with me. I have a job and an obligation.though I like it not in the least." He stared at her with his own sad eyes Doubtless, she thought, they'd seen horror far worse than what she had seen, and he'd probably never spoken a word of it "What do you think of it? Your job? It seems like it'd traumatize the strongest of us and make the strongest stomach rebel. You must have seen a lot, escorting the dead. There must've been some pretty distressed souls." She said quietly after Miroku left to eat "Indeed. But I have no complaints. It was meant to be. I was meant for no other purpose than to help these souls. I want nothing more. I can have no family.because I dare not burden others with my job." Sango reached out and grabbed his hand in a gesture of care and comfort. He only gazed at her with those eyes. He'd never been cared for. Could the funny feeling in his chest be.love? Love at first sight? Well, in any case, unknown to him, the young girl felt the same feelings as she leaned her head on his shoulder. They spoke not another word the rest of the night, but the silence was a comfortable one. One they could stand. ~~
Alright! Another chapter up! I really hope you guys like this one. The next one is going to be the decider! DOES INU DIE OR NOT?!?!?!?!?!?! Well, anyway, there is some fluff coming up. On a scale from 1 to 10, I need you to vote on what it'll be.
1= Hugs and confessing love.some crying 2= Light kissing and misleading thoughts 3= More kissing and suggestive thoughts 4= Suggestive conversation 5= Lime leading thoughts, Passionate kissing 6= Heat.REALLY passionate kissing.groping, feeling etc. 7= Blowtorch hot.burning passion. 8= Thinking bad things.Very limy thoughts.maybe a hint of lemon 9= Lemon with little detail 10= Full out lemon in mind=blowing detail.
Now Vote, or the fic will end in the next two chapters! Please forgive me if these latest chapters have been evil, but I got to put my cruelty and evil into something!!!!! Luv you guys, good reviews make the world go round!!! AND they keep authors from torturing and slowly killing readers (O.o). Sabishii: Will you just stop tormenting them? I think they've read enough to know that you are a bit.dangerous. Kurai: In other words.SHUT THE FUCKING HELL UP!! Zip that great flapping hole in your face and get on with it! They'd much rather read your story than listen to your ranting. **Goes and strangles Kurai. Hangs Sabishii from the ceiling by her toes and leaves little demonic hell worshipers to torture her** MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!! O.o *^.~* Bai bai and Syonara!!!
Those damned colors were there again. Swirling around him, they were tormenting every bit of his mind. It felt like he was being ripped in two different directions. In a way, that was what was happening. His body and soul had been separated. After what seemed like ages, he finally was standing on firm ground, but he felt odd. He looked down and gasped aloud, falling flat on his ass in shock. He was in Kagome's body! He looked around, assuming he was trapped in one of her fears, but all he saw were plain walls. Those plain walls mutated, and grew disgusting with rot. He was sitting there staring, his.HER lips curled in disgust. Cockroaches and scorpions began to crawl from the walls. He felt Kagome's fear. All the creepy crawly things imaginable began to crawl towards him. Kagome was herpetophobic! He'd never noticed how'd she'd check her sleeping bag four or five times before she'd get in.or how she'd beat the shit outta her shoes before she wore them.He quivered and resisted the urge to scream, but Kagome had other ideas. ~She'll kill herself before letting them get close! I have to do something but what? Damn you and your stupid creepy fear! ~ He frantically reached into her mind with her own, soothing her and trying to calm her. She only panicked, as the bugs had grown in size. They swarmed. Scorpions came towards her, tails raised high. Roaches came scuttling, their antennae frantically searching. He reached into her mind and whispered to her, tiny comforting things. She calmed a little on the outside, but the fear would literally eat her alive. "Kagome. You are in your own mind now. You cannot fear these things, they can't hurt you! You manifested them yourself." At these words, the critters seemed to shrink "That's right! And most of 'em are probably more scared of you anyways!" She took it the wrong way, assuming he'd called her scary, and growled at him. Only then did she realize that the bugs had gone. She'd conquered her fear. Just as Inuyasha was about to do something else, he heard the taunting voice. "That took you a whole hour!! I can't believe it took you so long; all they were was a few bugs! Ha! How do expect to get rid of the second fear? Pour water on it?" "Kagome's pyrophobic to?! You can't be serious!! Kagome? She's kidding right!" Kagome gnawed on one of her fingernails. The colors began to spin again, and they were suddenly in a barn.full of hay.and flammable objects. She looked around nervously, and instantaneously the entire thing burst into flames. Inuyasha had no words against this killer. He could only wrack his poor tired mind for something to say. The wood was charred and burning easily. The hay around Kagome was beginning to heat. Inuyasha had found himself lost when, finally, he realized he was back in his own body. Half an hour had passed while he and Kagome searched for a way out of the hellish fear. His hands were blackened from burns, and hers were sizzling hot as she reached for a door, only for it to burst into flames as soon as she touched it. She stood completely still, Inuyasha to her back, and chanted, "Fire not real. Fire not real. Fire not real." She opened her tightly shut eyes for a split second, one tiny fraction of a second, and she instantly dreaded it. She felt like Pyro the dragon himself. Little flames shot out of her mouth every time she drew and released a ragged breath. She couldn't take it. She screamed in a tormented fear, swiping at her own face, landing with a thump on the ground. She sucked in one last breath, and held it. Inuyasha looked on in horror before he knelt down. "Kagome! You have to listen to me! The fire can't hurt you! Think of.an ocean!! Think of a beautiful sandy beach." An idea flashed in his head "Kagome, whenever there is a fire, what else is there?! Something that is almost every building in the world?" She was starting to turn an odd shade of purple. "A fire extinguisher, Kagome! A FIRE EXTINGUISHER!!!" Her eyes began to swirl. Another hour had passed; he only had eight more hours.he could do it.right? ""Focus on the fire extinguisher!" She tried, but her mind was swimming. Finally, as if in one last attempt to make it, she let her breath out with a wince and focused with all her might. Nothing. Five minutes passed of thinking before she gave up and returned to holding her breath. The rest of the hour ticked away with Inuyasha pleading and her breathing once every ten or so minutes. Nine. He was brain-dead. He couldn't think of anything to make her concentrate. "Think! Concentrate for.me! You.How bout the kids you're supposed to have?! Come on! What about Souta? Buyo!" He was running out of ideas, and the only thing keeping them from roasting alive was the makeshift tent he'd made from his haori. She let out a breath, one last glimmer of hope. She closed her eyes. In her mind, the red and silver of the metal can formed as a picture. It slowly grew in detail and visibility. She begged and pleaded with it to turn real. Inuyasha knew she was having trouble. Sweat was pouring down both of their faces. The flames were about to set his haori into a burning heap of trash. She'd been sitting there for half an hour, the flames pouring from her mouth in frustration. Eight and a half. For a brief second, he saw it, the extinguisher flickered into view and then out. In a last desperate attempt to get her to think, he did the only thing he hadn't tried.He pressed his lips firmly against her, sending her into shock. It had been just what she'd needed. The object became solid and thunked right down on her ankle, causing her to yelp in pain.Inuyasha snatched it up instantly, and fought for another hour (A/n: *~-^* Work with me here! I got to get rid of this time!) fighting his way through the flames. He had Kagome, tired and fatigued, draped over his back. They emerged into the evening, tired and to happy to care about where they were. For half an hour they walked, till he found a stream. He spent the next hour dressing wounds, fishing, and feeding himself and Kagome. She'd sprained her ankle and was burned badly. He still sustained the wounds from the first fire.the real one. His entire left cheek was burnt. His hair was half the length it had been, even shorter after the second fire. His clothes were just a tattered pair of pants and his loins (Tough they weren't visible, cause he did have SOME of the pants.*^-^*). His entire back was burnt, and the wounds carried around to the right side of his chest. His legs were bleeding from being burnt so bad and a large gash went from his left shoulder down to his right hip, leaving a line straight down his back, bleeding into his already dark red pants. Kagome was sleeping, apparently, she'd not seen his wounds before. She herself sustained burns all over. Her shirt was burnt just below her breasts, and her skirt, though it amazingly still stayed on, had an entire side missing. She was red with fever and looked as if she'd just gone through hell. It took four hours for her wounds to heal, leaving about three for them to complete the last fear. (I don't care what I said before, there are three hours left and one fear.then Inuyasha dies! *x* Oops.Wasn't supposed to say that.) As the dawn broke on a new day, and a new fear, Inuyasha saw Kikyo waiting for him. He stood and walked over to her, growling and muttering about how he'd like to kill her. "Well.two down, one to go, and three hours left." She smirked knowingly "This last one will be tough. I know you'll just hate it. There's no way you'll make it. She's been getting weaker you know." "Get the fuck outta my face." He just turned, he short hair still managing to swat her in the face, and walked back over to Kagome. "Just wait, little halfling. Just wait" With that, she disappeared into the dawn. ~~
Shippou had long since woken up, though he had no clue as to why he'd been in the forest. He then sat by Kagome, nursing her burns and keeping a cool cloth on her head for the fever. On the other side of the room, Kaede sat nursing Inuyasha and praying. He'd been burned severely and barely been saved. Shippou winced as he heard the poor boy draw in another ragged breath. He turned and saw that that one gulp of air had shaken Inuyasha's entire frame. Shippou was traumatized. He had never expected, or wanted, to see the big, strong, brave, heroic Inuyasha that was always saving Kagome, sitting there, as frail as a newborn and being rattled by just one breath. "Methinks he shall not live. The fever refuses to come down and soars well above that which would kill a human. His wounds no longer bleed or burn, but they have allowed much blood to leave him, and he is fighting for both his and the young maidens life. It shall be a miracle indeed if either one of them live." The old woman was talking scarcely above a hoarse whisper. "Kaede-sama? It.can't be true.no.NO! Kagome is my mother! She can't die! And she hasn't even told Inuyasha yet! They love each other! People in love don't die!" "Naïve young one, in this situation, what you think and know no longer apply. We fight on the ground of the enemy. It is no longer in our hands what happens. It is left to the gods." ~~
Outside the tiny hut (A/n: BTW, they are staying in a neighboring village! SORRY! I forgot to mention it! *^-^*;(), wings beat silently to keep their blue-haired owner air-borne. He watched over the occupants for a few more moments before returning his gaze to the young man and woman outside of the village. The woman had caught his interest many times. He'd already spoken with her. He'd, in fact, befriended her after he'd escorted her family to the after life. She held no grudge against him and kept returning his gaze with nervous smiles. She was beautiful. He'd been unable to keep his eyes away from her since he'd entered the village (A/n: Is it obvious what's coming? Poor Houshi-sama!). He glided back down and over to her, sitting on a log beside her while the monk continued to meditate to himself. "Do you think he really will die?" She asked him, a nervous sad edge to her voice. She turned her head to look at him, and he met her gaze with his crystal eyes "I do not know. I only know that someone here must come back with me. I have a job and an obligation.though I like it not in the least." He stared at her with his own sad eyes Doubtless, she thought, they'd seen horror far worse than what she had seen, and he'd probably never spoken a word of it "What do you think of it? Your job? It seems like it'd traumatize the strongest of us and make the strongest stomach rebel. You must have seen a lot, escorting the dead. There must've been some pretty distressed souls." She said quietly after Miroku left to eat "Indeed. But I have no complaints. It was meant to be. I was meant for no other purpose than to help these souls. I want nothing more. I can have no family.because I dare not burden others with my job." Sango reached out and grabbed his hand in a gesture of care and comfort. He only gazed at her with those eyes. He'd never been cared for. Could the funny feeling in his chest be.love? Love at first sight? Well, in any case, unknown to him, the young girl felt the same feelings as she leaned her head on his shoulder. They spoke not another word the rest of the night, but the silence was a comfortable one. One they could stand. ~~
Alright! Another chapter up! I really hope you guys like this one. The next one is going to be the decider! DOES INU DIE OR NOT?!?!?!?!?!?! Well, anyway, there is some fluff coming up. On a scale from 1 to 10, I need you to vote on what it'll be.
1= Hugs and confessing love.some crying 2= Light kissing and misleading thoughts 3= More kissing and suggestive thoughts 4= Suggestive conversation 5= Lime leading thoughts, Passionate kissing 6= Heat.REALLY passionate kissing.groping, feeling etc. 7= Blowtorch hot.burning passion. 8= Thinking bad things.Very limy thoughts.maybe a hint of lemon 9= Lemon with little detail 10= Full out lemon in mind=blowing detail.
Now Vote, or the fic will end in the next two chapters! Please forgive me if these latest chapters have been evil, but I got to put my cruelty and evil into something!!!!! Luv you guys, good reviews make the world go round!!! AND they keep authors from torturing and slowly killing readers (O.o). Sabishii: Will you just stop tormenting them? I think they've read enough to know that you are a bit.dangerous. Kurai: In other words.SHUT THE FUCKING HELL UP!! Zip that great flapping hole in your face and get on with it! They'd much rather read your story than listen to your ranting. **Goes and strangles Kurai. Hangs Sabishii from the ceiling by her toes and leaves little demonic hell worshipers to torture her** MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!! O.o *^.~* Bai bai and Syonara!!!