Sitting at computer at 3:43 am with Styrofoam cup of ramen noodles, typing at her NEW laptop.
I think I broke my toe. *pokes swollen purple toe* Ow.
Hello peoples. Thanks to four different naps yesterday, I can't sleep. X-X. So I am going to write. Methinks everything is going to start coming together in this chapter, and you'll all say 'Oh, so that's why' or 'Oh no! That's bad! Look out!' or 'Wow, Cheeto is such an awesome writer we are going to review right now!' :D
Oh, and also, I have been notified of all my wunnerful spelling mistakes (thankie and gomen Katzztar) but I do have something to say in my defense!!! It's Kirara in the original japanese version, but was changed to Kilala because the producers thought that the original name would be too hard to pronounce.*sweatdrops* so I'm kinda going with the dubbed version because . . .I donno I just am, but I thought it was spelt with an 'e'. So I'll fix my error in later chappies. Gomen!
And the futile thing was just my bad . . .*sweatdrops* I'M A BAD AUTHOR! *sobs* Oh, well, I know what you're saying:
'Cheeto stop making excuses and get on with the next chapter!' heh, alrighty.
Oh, I don't own it. Tear. If I did, I wouldn't be on Prozac.
So, brought to you by insomnia, here is the next chapter!
*~Chapter 7~*
Yusuke sat in a corner of the room, popping his knuckles mercilessly. *Dammit* He got up and went out the door, slamming it behind him.
"What's wrong with him?" Kuwabara asked Miroku, who shrugged uninterestedly and went back into deep thought.
Yusuke paced the deck, he didn't like staying in one place. He didn't like to strategize, he was more of an act now think later kind of person. And with Keiko in trouble . . .He was restless, and worried, though he would never admit it. Things get bad, put on a smiling face. Make jokes, take your mind off of it. That's what he had learned, especially with a drunkard for a mom . . .
It was annoying, all this waiting. That was all they ever did, was wait. Wait, wait, wait. Yusuke popped his knuckles again, going over to the small forest that nearly connected to the hotel area. He spotted a small tree and punched it, again and again, trying to keep his mind off things. When he was fighting, he was totally concentrated on defeating his foe, he didn't have time to worry about . . . .Keiko . . .
*Dammit, why wont this Ketsueki bastard come out and fight like a real man?! Kidnaping girls, what a wimp. . .*
"Urameshi, where'd ya go?"
"Over here, Kuwabara." Yusuke muttered, stepping away from the splintered stump that had once been a tree.
"You worried about her, Urameshi?" Yusuke grinned and scratched the back of his head, laughing embarrassedly.
"Nah, Kuwabara, why would you think that?"
"Oh, come on Urameshi, you aren't fooling anyone!" Kuwabara shook his head and sat down. Yusuke came over and sat next to him, sighing heavily.
"Yeah, I guess I am. What about you, you worried about Yukina?" Kuwabara blushed, grinning sheepishly.
"I donno, Urameshi. I mean, we haven't felt any disturbances in their energy, so she has to be okay, right?" Yusuke nodded. They had been able to sense the girls energy, though unable to sense where it came from, the signal was healthy, though a bit weaker than it should be.
"Yeah, I guess."
"I mean, we are moving much slower than I want, but worrying wont help Yukina, right?" Yusuke nodded again, he was right, after all.
"I mean, I'm still worried about her, but ya gotta just keep thinking that they're fine, and just waiting for us to come rescue them!" Yusuke looked over at Kuwabara, who had his love headband on with stars in his eyes, pointing off into the distance. Yusuke face-faulted.
"Kuwabara, just when I thought you were getting as IQ point you have to go and do that."
"Hey, what's that supposed to mean?!"
"Just like I said, but I'll simplify it: You're stupid."
"Come back here, Urameshi! I'll kick your ass!"
"Yeah, I'd like to see you try!"
Hiei snorted from his perch in the tree above. * How immature* But it was somewhat nice to know that the idiot was at least concerned about his sister. *Hn, numbskull.*
Yusuke grinned as he popped Kuwabara right in the face, sending the boy sprawling. "Just give up, Kuwabara, you're never going to win."
"That's what you think!" Yusuke smiled as he easily dodged a blow to the gut, countering it with another punch to the carrot-heads face. Kuwabara's pep talk had left him in lighter spirits, and pummeling the guy helped some too.
"What is that? A hundred and thirteen to zero?" Kuwabara stumbled to his feet, wiping his chin as he laughed.
"Ah, Urameshi, I let you win."
"Sure, sure." Yusuke looked at Kuwabara as they walked back to the hotel, smiling gratefully. "Thanks, Kuwabara."
"Letting you win wasn't that hard!" Yusuke shook his head. "Idiot."
"What'd you say Urameshi?!"
***
"I have been wondering about that bracelet, Kurama, did you ever figure out what spell was on it?" Miroku asked and Kurama nodded.
"Yes, but that is what is most puzzling about it." He pulled out the small chain, holding it up into the light.
"The enchantment is an energy draining, sometimes used by time apparitions like Ketsueki. It is given to a host and drains the host's spirit energy and transfers it to the demon. These enchantments are sometimes needed to sustain the time demons, since time travel is such an exhausting power.
"But as I understand, Ceaha was in this Naraku persons employment. So that means that . . ."
"You mean," Sango choked out, "That Naraku . . .and Ketsueki . .could be . . ."
"Yes, we could now have allies to deal with. But I don't understand how, if at all possible, this could come about."
"You would be surprised." Inuyasha muttered, "Naraku has a talent of making enemies into associates. Sesshomaru being one of them."
"Sesshomaru?"
***
*~Flashback to three days earlier~*
A dark figure walked through the meager forest, headed towards the tall mountain when he noticed a strange power and stopped.
"Who are you, what do you want?" The figure said calmly, turning to the bushes near him. A hunched figure clad in a baboon pelt emerged from the tree line, the beast's head masking the strangers face.
"Excuse my impertinence. I am Naraku, and I believe we can assist one another." Ketsueki glared at the demon, a crooked smile plastered on his pale face.
"How so?"
"We are after the same group of people. I, Inuyasha, and you, Yusuke Urameshi, whom I heard is traveling with the dog demon I am after."
"And this concerns me how?" Naraku laughed lightly, then produced a small pink jewel shark, holding it between two of his fingers as he displayed it for the time apparition.
"This is a shard of the sacred Shikon jewel. You have had a great power decrease recently, and this will help you regain at least three fourths of what you have lost, plus after you are recovered, make you twice as strong."
"I also have demons I can send after the group to delay them until you regain your complete power. Hopefully, but unlikely, this Yusuke may be killed by one of them. But as I said, it is unlikely."
Ketsueki's bright white eyes glared at Naraku suspiciously. "What is in it for you?"
"You must kill Inuyasha."
"Fair enough," Ketsueki smirked, "Now hand over that shard."
"Demanding one, aren't we?" The demon snickered and flicked his finger, sending the shard shooting between Ketsueki's eyes.
The demon screamed as the shard burrowed deep into his skin, the cry piercing the silent forest.
***
Kagome opened her eyes, groaning. She felt like crap. Her head was throbbing, her stomach doing flip-flops. The room was blurry and she closed her eyes, re-opening them in an attempt to make it clearer.
"Kurama?" she called out, surprised at how weak her voice sounded. His lovely pale face appeared, worry tinting his features.
"Kagome, how are you feeling?"
"Awful." she moaned. After a few more moments of questioning form both sides, a worried look crossed Kagome's face. "What about Inuyasha?" The fox smiled and stood.
"I'll go get him for you." Inuyasha walked in a few minutes later, sitting down cross-legged next to her. But instead of asking her how she was . . .
"What the hell were you thinking Kagome? Are you stupid or something?! You should have let me take that hit, you idiot! I would have been fine, but no . ."
"Inuyasha you jerk!" she yelled, rolling over on her side away from him, after a moment her shoulders began to shake.
*Oh, great, you've done it now!* he thought, *you just had to go and make her cry.*
"Kagome, what's wrong? Come on, don't cry . . " he said with all the gentleness he could muster, which was like saying Hiei was sweet.
She sat up and looked at him angrily, wiping her eyes. "I asked Kurama and he said that the poison was twice as deadly to demons as it is humans! You would have been dead if not for me!"
*So she really did save me . .* "Kagome . .I-I . . ."
She smiled brightly at him, "Apology accepted!"
"Hey, who said I was apologizing?!"
"Inuyasha, you . .you . ." her face flushed bright red with anger, "SIT!"
Everyone outside of the room snickered. "Sounds like Kagome is feeling better." Shippo commented after a large thud and cry of pain was heard, sending the group into a fit of laughter.
Yusuke stopped laughing after a moment, a puzzled expression covering his face. "Hey, Kuwabara, you aren't supposed to fight girls, right?'
"Yeah, why?"
"Well, Ceaha was a girl, right?" he nodded, still not catching on.
"And you killed her, right?"
"Yes, one for the record books, the horse-faced oaf actually killed something."
"I'll beat your face in, shrimp!"
"Kuwabara, just answer the stupid question." Kuwabara blinked for a moment, then cried out.
"OH NO!!" Manga tears streamed down his face as he groaned, "There goes my honor code . . ." Yusuke thought for a moment.
"But wait, we don't really know if she was a girl right?"
"Huh?"
"Well, she was an illusionist, right? So she could have been some freaky sick-o guy that wanted to make us think he was a chick." Kuwabara thought about it for a moment, then grinned.
"Yeah, you're right! Woo hoo! My honor code is still in business!" Kurama was about to mention that she would turn back into her original form in death, but then decided not to 'burst their bubble' as the humans put it.
"Yeah!" Yusuke grinned, "Her boobs were to small to be a real anyway."
*Bam*
"Botan, what the Hell was that for?!"
"Oh, if Keiko only knew what you were doing while she's gone! When she hears about this!"
"Oh, Botan, come on! It was just an innocent observation!"
"Innocent my foot!"
"They argue like a married couple." Miroku muttered, Sango nodding in amused agreement. Yusuke and Botan shot them both death glares.
"You take that back right this instant!"
"I was only telling the truth . . ."
"Shut-up!"
"WHY DON"T YOU ALL SHUT-UP?!" A tenant from another room yelled. They all looked at each other and broke into giggles, even Hiei cracking a smirk.
Alrighty, end of chapter! I personally like this chapter, it has a good mix of humor and seriousness. ^-^
It rained here, in the desert. So I left for about a half hour and went and splashed around in puddles. It was fun! *^-^* Now I'm soaked with probably acid rain that is probably eating through my flesh right this instant *sigh* o well!
Oh yeah:
FIFTY REVIEWS!! WOO-HOO! YEAH!! MY LIFE IS COMPLETE!! *happy dance*
ahem, sorry about that *blushes* thank you everyone who reviewed, I LOVE YOU ALL!!!
Err . . .as friends! *grins sheepishly*
Stay tuned for the next chapter! REVIEW! !
I think I broke my toe. *pokes swollen purple toe* Ow.
Hello peoples. Thanks to four different naps yesterday, I can't sleep. X-X. So I am going to write. Methinks everything is going to start coming together in this chapter, and you'll all say 'Oh, so that's why' or 'Oh no! That's bad! Look out!' or 'Wow, Cheeto is such an awesome writer we are going to review right now!' :D
Oh, and also, I have been notified of all my wunnerful spelling mistakes (thankie and gomen Katzztar) but I do have something to say in my defense!!! It's Kirara in the original japanese version, but was changed to Kilala because the producers thought that the original name would be too hard to pronounce.*sweatdrops* so I'm kinda going with the dubbed version because . . .I donno I just am, but I thought it was spelt with an 'e'. So I'll fix my error in later chappies. Gomen!
And the futile thing was just my bad . . .*sweatdrops* I'M A BAD AUTHOR! *sobs* Oh, well, I know what you're saying:
'Cheeto stop making excuses and get on with the next chapter!' heh, alrighty.
Oh, I don't own it. Tear. If I did, I wouldn't be on Prozac.
So, brought to you by insomnia, here is the next chapter!
*~Chapter 7~*
Yusuke sat in a corner of the room, popping his knuckles mercilessly. *Dammit* He got up and went out the door, slamming it behind him.
"What's wrong with him?" Kuwabara asked Miroku, who shrugged uninterestedly and went back into deep thought.
Yusuke paced the deck, he didn't like staying in one place. He didn't like to strategize, he was more of an act now think later kind of person. And with Keiko in trouble . . .He was restless, and worried, though he would never admit it. Things get bad, put on a smiling face. Make jokes, take your mind off of it. That's what he had learned, especially with a drunkard for a mom . . .
It was annoying, all this waiting. That was all they ever did, was wait. Wait, wait, wait. Yusuke popped his knuckles again, going over to the small forest that nearly connected to the hotel area. He spotted a small tree and punched it, again and again, trying to keep his mind off things. When he was fighting, he was totally concentrated on defeating his foe, he didn't have time to worry about . . . .Keiko . . .
*Dammit, why wont this Ketsueki bastard come out and fight like a real man?! Kidnaping girls, what a wimp. . .*
"Urameshi, where'd ya go?"
"Over here, Kuwabara." Yusuke muttered, stepping away from the splintered stump that had once been a tree.
"You worried about her, Urameshi?" Yusuke grinned and scratched the back of his head, laughing embarrassedly.
"Nah, Kuwabara, why would you think that?"
"Oh, come on Urameshi, you aren't fooling anyone!" Kuwabara shook his head and sat down. Yusuke came over and sat next to him, sighing heavily.
"Yeah, I guess I am. What about you, you worried about Yukina?" Kuwabara blushed, grinning sheepishly.
"I donno, Urameshi. I mean, we haven't felt any disturbances in their energy, so she has to be okay, right?" Yusuke nodded. They had been able to sense the girls energy, though unable to sense where it came from, the signal was healthy, though a bit weaker than it should be.
"Yeah, I guess."
"I mean, we are moving much slower than I want, but worrying wont help Yukina, right?" Yusuke nodded again, he was right, after all.
"I mean, I'm still worried about her, but ya gotta just keep thinking that they're fine, and just waiting for us to come rescue them!" Yusuke looked over at Kuwabara, who had his love headband on with stars in his eyes, pointing off into the distance. Yusuke face-faulted.
"Kuwabara, just when I thought you were getting as IQ point you have to go and do that."
"Hey, what's that supposed to mean?!"
"Just like I said, but I'll simplify it: You're stupid."
"Come back here, Urameshi! I'll kick your ass!"
"Yeah, I'd like to see you try!"
Hiei snorted from his perch in the tree above. * How immature* But it was somewhat nice to know that the idiot was at least concerned about his sister. *Hn, numbskull.*
Yusuke grinned as he popped Kuwabara right in the face, sending the boy sprawling. "Just give up, Kuwabara, you're never going to win."
"That's what you think!" Yusuke smiled as he easily dodged a blow to the gut, countering it with another punch to the carrot-heads face. Kuwabara's pep talk had left him in lighter spirits, and pummeling the guy helped some too.
"What is that? A hundred and thirteen to zero?" Kuwabara stumbled to his feet, wiping his chin as he laughed.
"Ah, Urameshi, I let you win."
"Sure, sure." Yusuke looked at Kuwabara as they walked back to the hotel, smiling gratefully. "Thanks, Kuwabara."
"Letting you win wasn't that hard!" Yusuke shook his head. "Idiot."
"What'd you say Urameshi?!"
***
"I have been wondering about that bracelet, Kurama, did you ever figure out what spell was on it?" Miroku asked and Kurama nodded.
"Yes, but that is what is most puzzling about it." He pulled out the small chain, holding it up into the light.
"The enchantment is an energy draining, sometimes used by time apparitions like Ketsueki. It is given to a host and drains the host's spirit energy and transfers it to the demon. These enchantments are sometimes needed to sustain the time demons, since time travel is such an exhausting power.
"But as I understand, Ceaha was in this Naraku persons employment. So that means that . . ."
"You mean," Sango choked out, "That Naraku . . .and Ketsueki . .could be . . ."
"Yes, we could now have allies to deal with. But I don't understand how, if at all possible, this could come about."
"You would be surprised." Inuyasha muttered, "Naraku has a talent of making enemies into associates. Sesshomaru being one of them."
"Sesshomaru?"
***
*~Flashback to three days earlier~*
A dark figure walked through the meager forest, headed towards the tall mountain when he noticed a strange power and stopped.
"Who are you, what do you want?" The figure said calmly, turning to the bushes near him. A hunched figure clad in a baboon pelt emerged from the tree line, the beast's head masking the strangers face.
"Excuse my impertinence. I am Naraku, and I believe we can assist one another." Ketsueki glared at the demon, a crooked smile plastered on his pale face.
"How so?"
"We are after the same group of people. I, Inuyasha, and you, Yusuke Urameshi, whom I heard is traveling with the dog demon I am after."
"And this concerns me how?" Naraku laughed lightly, then produced a small pink jewel shark, holding it between two of his fingers as he displayed it for the time apparition.
"This is a shard of the sacred Shikon jewel. You have had a great power decrease recently, and this will help you regain at least three fourths of what you have lost, plus after you are recovered, make you twice as strong."
"I also have demons I can send after the group to delay them until you regain your complete power. Hopefully, but unlikely, this Yusuke may be killed by one of them. But as I said, it is unlikely."
Ketsueki's bright white eyes glared at Naraku suspiciously. "What is in it for you?"
"You must kill Inuyasha."
"Fair enough," Ketsueki smirked, "Now hand over that shard."
"Demanding one, aren't we?" The demon snickered and flicked his finger, sending the shard shooting between Ketsueki's eyes.
The demon screamed as the shard burrowed deep into his skin, the cry piercing the silent forest.
***
Kagome opened her eyes, groaning. She felt like crap. Her head was throbbing, her stomach doing flip-flops. The room was blurry and she closed her eyes, re-opening them in an attempt to make it clearer.
"Kurama?" she called out, surprised at how weak her voice sounded. His lovely pale face appeared, worry tinting his features.
"Kagome, how are you feeling?"
"Awful." she moaned. After a few more moments of questioning form both sides, a worried look crossed Kagome's face. "What about Inuyasha?" The fox smiled and stood.
"I'll go get him for you." Inuyasha walked in a few minutes later, sitting down cross-legged next to her. But instead of asking her how she was . . .
"What the hell were you thinking Kagome? Are you stupid or something?! You should have let me take that hit, you idiot! I would have been fine, but no . ."
"Inuyasha you jerk!" she yelled, rolling over on her side away from him, after a moment her shoulders began to shake.
*Oh, great, you've done it now!* he thought, *you just had to go and make her cry.*
"Kagome, what's wrong? Come on, don't cry . . " he said with all the gentleness he could muster, which was like saying Hiei was sweet.
She sat up and looked at him angrily, wiping her eyes. "I asked Kurama and he said that the poison was twice as deadly to demons as it is humans! You would have been dead if not for me!"
*So she really did save me . .* "Kagome . .I-I . . ."
She smiled brightly at him, "Apology accepted!"
"Hey, who said I was apologizing?!"
"Inuyasha, you . .you . ." her face flushed bright red with anger, "SIT!"
Everyone outside of the room snickered. "Sounds like Kagome is feeling better." Shippo commented after a large thud and cry of pain was heard, sending the group into a fit of laughter.
Yusuke stopped laughing after a moment, a puzzled expression covering his face. "Hey, Kuwabara, you aren't supposed to fight girls, right?'
"Yeah, why?"
"Well, Ceaha was a girl, right?" he nodded, still not catching on.
"And you killed her, right?"
"Yes, one for the record books, the horse-faced oaf actually killed something."
"I'll beat your face in, shrimp!"
"Kuwabara, just answer the stupid question." Kuwabara blinked for a moment, then cried out.
"OH NO!!" Manga tears streamed down his face as he groaned, "There goes my honor code . . ." Yusuke thought for a moment.
"But wait, we don't really know if she was a girl right?"
"Huh?"
"Well, she was an illusionist, right? So she could have been some freaky sick-o guy that wanted to make us think he was a chick." Kuwabara thought about it for a moment, then grinned.
"Yeah, you're right! Woo hoo! My honor code is still in business!" Kurama was about to mention that she would turn back into her original form in death, but then decided not to 'burst their bubble' as the humans put it.
"Yeah!" Yusuke grinned, "Her boobs were to small to be a real anyway."
*Bam*
"Botan, what the Hell was that for?!"
"Oh, if Keiko only knew what you were doing while she's gone! When she hears about this!"
"Oh, Botan, come on! It was just an innocent observation!"
"Innocent my foot!"
"They argue like a married couple." Miroku muttered, Sango nodding in amused agreement. Yusuke and Botan shot them both death glares.
"You take that back right this instant!"
"I was only telling the truth . . ."
"Shut-up!"
"WHY DON"T YOU ALL SHUT-UP?!" A tenant from another room yelled. They all looked at each other and broke into giggles, even Hiei cracking a smirk.
Alrighty, end of chapter! I personally like this chapter, it has a good mix of humor and seriousness. ^-^
It rained here, in the desert. So I left for about a half hour and went and splashed around in puddles. It was fun! *^-^* Now I'm soaked with probably acid rain that is probably eating through my flesh right this instant *sigh* o well!
Oh yeah:
FIFTY REVIEWS!! WOO-HOO! YEAH!! MY LIFE IS COMPLETE!! *happy dance*
ahem, sorry about that *blushes* thank you everyone who reviewed, I LOVE YOU ALL!!!
Err . . .as friends! *grins sheepishly*
Stay tuned for the next chapter! REVIEW! !