Note: I give slight credit to Final Fantasy 10 for the dance thing. Once again I do not own Inuyasha... although my friends and I expressed the fact that it would be pretty awesome if we did! I don't own Viera, Area/Andrea, or Auron. Area/Andrea and Auron belong to a fellow writer, she's in my favorites. As is the writer that Viera belongs to.
Sickly Child
Chapter 4
By: Silver Wind Wolf
After Inuyasha and Auron had finished off the dragon Setsa was left to herself and the dragon. She looked at the dead thing and began to weep. If only she could have stopped Kisike, if only she could have killed her in the beginning, if only...if only. It pained her head to think this way at all so she picked up her wooden staff and began to dance. She began to sing as she dance and the song was so beautiful it attracted animals from all over.
The words reached Miroku's ears and he could not help but walk over to where Setsa was dancing to relieve the dragon's spirit from this world.
Deep in thee,
Deep in thee,
Deep in the forest,
I'm learning slowly,
As if things can't be helped,
I'm going back to the time,
Was looking in the clear pond,
At my own reflection,
Can you he--lp me?
I'm so confused now in my dark soul,
Help me,
I'm falling into the hole,
Teaching myself how,
To cry.
Listen to the wind,
As it blows in my face,
Trying to find a way,
Back through the dark,
Deep in the forest,
Where things are killing me,
I stare at it and then I return back to.
Holding on,
Holding on,
With all my-- might,
I'm still fading into the dark,
Trying to find my way through.
It's so hard,
Trying to,
Figure out this world,
But I'll make it through,
Through the darkened nights and the blowing winds,
So I can see my face,
Smiling,
Back at me through pond,
Thro--ugh my own reflection,
Sprea--d your wings,
And fly high through night,
See-- the light and go to it,
Deep in the forest,
Where things are killing you,
Teach yourself a new trick,
And then go on.
It's all right,
Don't you-- feel a thing?
Seeping into,
You--r thoughts,
Keep it all away,
Where I can find it there,
Then in your dismay,
Fly away again.
Learn it all again,
And then put it away,
Keep it all in that,
Little box you save,
Then to your dismay,
Walk through the forest,
Your lost and you can't find your way,
Your lost and you can't find your way,
I'm lost and I can't find my way.
When she'd finished the song she sat next to a tree and watched the dragon's soul float into the heavens above. It had turned night, the dance had worn her out and all she could do was cry solemnly to herself.
"Beautiful song." She heard a voice reach her from within the trees.
"Hmm?" She asked looking up. She flicked a few tears from her eyes in attempt to keep him from knowing she was crying. But it was futile, more tears appeared in their place.
"It was touching, really." He smiled and moved to her side. Miroku sat down next to her and looked at the floating spirit. "Is that the song you sing to guide your spirits home?" He asked.
"No, there are many more. Some of them I do not even know what they mean but the words are beautiful." She hears a silence and she smiles once again. "I could have saved him." She felt tears begin to ripple onto her cheeks stronger than the first ones. The smile faded and sniffles were heard through the forest night.
"You can not alter fate." He told her. "If it was his time to go, then that was that." His head turned to see that she was still crying. "This is no time for tears. As he has moved on, so must we." He picks up her chin and moves his head in kissing the crying necromancer. Her response isn't surprise but a return of the kiss.
~
Inuyasha growled and slammed his fists onto the ground back at camp. "What's wrong? It should have been over by now. We need her back here, we need to find out what's wrong with Kagome."
Auron gives him a rough smile and tackles him to the ground. "She's fine! Humans get sick you know this!" Auron tells him gleefully.
"Auron.. can you do me a favor?"
"Anything dearest brother!" She responds her voice still full of malicious satisfaction.
"GET THE HELL OFF OF ME!" He shouted from underneath her.
Auron shrank off of him and hid in the shadows. He sat back up and stared blankly into the dark spot which Auron had gone. He shrugged and looked at Kagome who'd fallen into a sleep. He wondered what she could be dreaming about, but nothing came to mind. He sat close by the fire, his eyes dotting from here to there as he heard sounds of rustling.
Soon two familiar people came out of the darkness. The female hand lay on Kagome's forehead. The face smiled and nodded to Miroku.
"She'll be fine. Her fever has broken." Her voice said, it was directed at the slumping Inuyasha.
"Really?" Another voice came from the shadows and Auron appeared again. Her eyes were hopeful and stared at Setsa.
Setsa nodded in response. "She is going to be fine there is no need in worrying. Trust me." Just as she said that another rustling came from the shadows and another person appeared.
"VIERA!" Auron shouted as she tackled the woman to the ground. She went down with a rather loud - THUMP. Auron was hugging her and yipping with joy.
"Wow, and I thought that Inuyasha acted like a lonely puppy sometimes.." Setsa commented.
Kagome's eyes shot open to the word 'Viera'. She sat up and stared at the woman. "Viera? Aren't you the one that was in love with Sesshomaru?" Kagome recalled from a previous conversation with Auron.
"Um...I suppose you could say that. To be honest, that is who've I've been looking for. Haven't seen head or tail of him lately." She said pushing the golden strands of hair behind her ear.
"Wait you mean someone actually loves him?" Setsa said sort of butting in of the conversation.
"He's really a nice guy once you get too.." she stopped and stared into the darkness. "DUCK!" She yelled
Auron blinked as the others crouched down. "Where!?" She asked turning to see a large ball-like object flying towards her face. It buried into her face and sent her flying into a tree knocking her out. Dazed eyes looked off into the distance as her body and dog ears proceeded to twitch several times.
"Oops!" A voice giggled as she looked in on the entire group. "Um, did I do that?" A young girl that looked to be about 10 stood in the fire light. She disappeared then reappeared beside Auron. She poked at the conglomerate of flesh, skin, and bone. It only groaned back in response.
"ANDREA!" Setsa's voice yelled.
"I told you the names Area!" The younger girl yelled back at her. The thing she'd used to hit Auron into the tree hung from some sort of string and she was flicking it down and up with her wrist. A bubble of some sort came out of her mouth and popped making everyone except Setsa rush back looking at the younger girl leerily. The girl wore a junior high school uniform and stood in a careless stance.
"Anyway mom says it's time to come home." Area said turning around Kagome's eyes widened.
"You go to the same school as my brother!" Kagome said in realization. "You should know him he's very well known for his brains, Higurashi Sota!" Kagome gave a giddy smile and looked at Area.
"Yep I know em!" Area replied. "He's only been my best friend since 3rd grade in elementary school." She held the same color hair as Setsa and Kisike, but her eyes were a mysterious silver color. Setsa's eyes were a green sort of color that could look into ones soul.
"So you mean to tell me you're not from this time Setsa?" Miroku asked looking her over curiously.
"No, but I am a necromancer." She replied with a slight sigh.
"If by necromancer you mean a cross between witch and priestess." Area commented.
"Witch?" Miroku's brow raised slightly.
"Yes my mother is a witch and my father is a priest." Setsa said. A sigh escaped her lips.
"How'd you get here?" Shippo asked, he'd just awoken from an afternoon nap. He sleepily rubbed his eyes and looked at the others.
"A kitsune!" Area shouted in happy glee. She picked up the little fox demon and held him in her arms like she would a cat. He didn't seem to struggle, in fact, he enjoyed the attention.
"I arrived here from the Yasaku Shrine in Tokyo." She replied to them. "As with Kagome's shrine, we also have a well respected dry well. My dog, Unya, went in there and when I went to retrieve him I got sucked into this world. That's when I met you," she pointed at Miroku. "After I got out I hadn't been back in 6 years." She sighed. "When I came back here I was in my school uniform but luckily I found these and changed so I would fit in and look more like a wise wizard." She looked at the others, they blinked curiously.
"Ah," Miroku commented lightly. He seemed to be turning over the facts slowly in his mind. They all eventually did play out and were beginning to make sense. "So that would explain as to why you cried over a dead demon."
"I suppose." She said a smile appeared on her lips.
"Anyway, I'm gonna go on home." Area said popping another bubble of the mysterious chewy substance in her mouth. "You coming?"
"Nah," Setsa looked to Miroku. "I have something I need to take care of." She told her younger sister. Area shrugged and set down the Kitsune while patting him on the head.
Viera gave a look of interest to this young girl. "May I guide you back to your well child? It is very dangerous out tonight."
"Nah I got it, but I could use the company." Area replied.
~
Miroku and Setsa had left the camp and were wandering in the woods. The two had stopped by an old tree and looked it over. She felt his arms clamp around her waist and she smiled.
"Do you feel it?" He asked her; his breathe against her neck.
"What?" She asks with a bit of curiosity, but it seems she already knows the answer.
"My love for you.." he replies to her. A smile crawled up his lips as he kissed the top of her head.
"So no more lies?" It was more of a question than a statement.
"No," he replied to her. "How old are you really?"
"Really? 18," it doesn't seem to surprise him that she's fairly young. Instead he continued to smile and stand there, holding her close to him. She turned abruptly and huged him back facing forward. "I don't want to go back." She told him.
"But you have to don't you?"
"Yes."
"Well then, what's the problem?"
"I don't want to leave you." Her answer wasn't vague and holds so much to it. A tear fell down Miroku's cheek and onto the top of Setsa's head.
"Don't you think you're being childish?"
"No." She replied. "Selfish maybe," there was a laugh as she stood on her own. Her knees shook and she was smiling again.
"But your parents will miss you and I'm pro-" before the statement was said he was silenced by a pair of lips. Miroku's surprise comes as none to Setsa. She pulled away and the two stood there looking into each other's souls unable to move, unable to speak.
"Don't say that."
~
"You're not human are you?" Viera asks Area on their walk.
"Hmm? What gives you that idea?" She asks, her eyes smiling.
"The way you moved to get to Area." Viera replied sneakily.
"Oh that. Dammit guess the cats outta the bag, neh?" She looks at Viera with a wide smile spread across her face.
"So are you demon?"
"Cat demon."
"Ah, and your sister?"
"Not really my sister."
"Adopted?"
"She is."
"Oh," Viera stops and looks into the woods. Her eyes peering uneasily into the dark. "How are you able to suppress your demon form?" She asks picking back up the pace.
"I can suppress it until the full moon. My entire family is able to." She tells her.
"I didn't know demons owned Shrines in the future."
"They usually don't. But most of my family is only half demon."
"How are you full?"
"My father didn't marry and have my other siblings until I was 3. The woman that conceived me was full demon from the past that got through the gate. My father is half demon but he's not my real dad. He's just the one that's raised me since I was a child." She told the half demon Viera.
"Be happy, you have him. Besides, if he raised you isn't that a father?" Viera again challenges the wit of the young demon. "How did your father come to own the shrine?"
"It's been in our family since I can remember."
"Oh?"
"Yep," the two were silent for a while until they reached the well where she looked down it. "I need to go back, but,"
"You don't want to?" Viera's eyes looked from the well to the young demon.
"Yeah, I like it better here." She replies.
"Well learn to live remember you can always come back."
"I enjoyed your company Viera." Area waves as she jumps down into the well and a light appeared then Area disappeared.
Viera cracks a smile, not her usual cold one but one that is warm. "As did I little one..as did I."
Sickly Child
Chapter 4
By: Silver Wind Wolf
After Inuyasha and Auron had finished off the dragon Setsa was left to herself and the dragon. She looked at the dead thing and began to weep. If only she could have stopped Kisike, if only she could have killed her in the beginning, if only...if only. It pained her head to think this way at all so she picked up her wooden staff and began to dance. She began to sing as she dance and the song was so beautiful it attracted animals from all over.
The words reached Miroku's ears and he could not help but walk over to where Setsa was dancing to relieve the dragon's spirit from this world.
Deep in thee,
Deep in thee,
Deep in the forest,
I'm learning slowly,
As if things can't be helped,
I'm going back to the time,
Was looking in the clear pond,
At my own reflection,
Can you he--lp me?
I'm so confused now in my dark soul,
Help me,
I'm falling into the hole,
Teaching myself how,
To cry.
Listen to the wind,
As it blows in my face,
Trying to find a way,
Back through the dark,
Deep in the forest,
Where things are killing me,
I stare at it and then I return back to.
Holding on,
Holding on,
With all my-- might,
I'm still fading into the dark,
Trying to find my way through.
It's so hard,
Trying to,
Figure out this world,
But I'll make it through,
Through the darkened nights and the blowing winds,
So I can see my face,
Smiling,
Back at me through pond,
Thro--ugh my own reflection,
Sprea--d your wings,
And fly high through night,
See-- the light and go to it,
Deep in the forest,
Where things are killing you,
Teach yourself a new trick,
And then go on.
It's all right,
Don't you-- feel a thing?
Seeping into,
You--r thoughts,
Keep it all away,
Where I can find it there,
Then in your dismay,
Fly away again.
Learn it all again,
And then put it away,
Keep it all in that,
Little box you save,
Then to your dismay,
Walk through the forest,
Your lost and you can't find your way,
Your lost and you can't find your way,
I'm lost and I can't find my way.
When she'd finished the song she sat next to a tree and watched the dragon's soul float into the heavens above. It had turned night, the dance had worn her out and all she could do was cry solemnly to herself.
"Beautiful song." She heard a voice reach her from within the trees.
"Hmm?" She asked looking up. She flicked a few tears from her eyes in attempt to keep him from knowing she was crying. But it was futile, more tears appeared in their place.
"It was touching, really." He smiled and moved to her side. Miroku sat down next to her and looked at the floating spirit. "Is that the song you sing to guide your spirits home?" He asked.
"No, there are many more. Some of them I do not even know what they mean but the words are beautiful." She hears a silence and she smiles once again. "I could have saved him." She felt tears begin to ripple onto her cheeks stronger than the first ones. The smile faded and sniffles were heard through the forest night.
"You can not alter fate." He told her. "If it was his time to go, then that was that." His head turned to see that she was still crying. "This is no time for tears. As he has moved on, so must we." He picks up her chin and moves his head in kissing the crying necromancer. Her response isn't surprise but a return of the kiss.
~
Inuyasha growled and slammed his fists onto the ground back at camp. "What's wrong? It should have been over by now. We need her back here, we need to find out what's wrong with Kagome."
Auron gives him a rough smile and tackles him to the ground. "She's fine! Humans get sick you know this!" Auron tells him gleefully.
"Auron.. can you do me a favor?"
"Anything dearest brother!" She responds her voice still full of malicious satisfaction.
"GET THE HELL OFF OF ME!" He shouted from underneath her.
Auron shrank off of him and hid in the shadows. He sat back up and stared blankly into the dark spot which Auron had gone. He shrugged and looked at Kagome who'd fallen into a sleep. He wondered what she could be dreaming about, but nothing came to mind. He sat close by the fire, his eyes dotting from here to there as he heard sounds of rustling.
Soon two familiar people came out of the darkness. The female hand lay on Kagome's forehead. The face smiled and nodded to Miroku.
"She'll be fine. Her fever has broken." Her voice said, it was directed at the slumping Inuyasha.
"Really?" Another voice came from the shadows and Auron appeared again. Her eyes were hopeful and stared at Setsa.
Setsa nodded in response. "She is going to be fine there is no need in worrying. Trust me." Just as she said that another rustling came from the shadows and another person appeared.
"VIERA!" Auron shouted as she tackled the woman to the ground. She went down with a rather loud - THUMP. Auron was hugging her and yipping with joy.
"Wow, and I thought that Inuyasha acted like a lonely puppy sometimes.." Setsa commented.
Kagome's eyes shot open to the word 'Viera'. She sat up and stared at the woman. "Viera? Aren't you the one that was in love with Sesshomaru?" Kagome recalled from a previous conversation with Auron.
"Um...I suppose you could say that. To be honest, that is who've I've been looking for. Haven't seen head or tail of him lately." She said pushing the golden strands of hair behind her ear.
"Wait you mean someone actually loves him?" Setsa said sort of butting in of the conversation.
"He's really a nice guy once you get too.." she stopped and stared into the darkness. "DUCK!" She yelled
Auron blinked as the others crouched down. "Where!?" She asked turning to see a large ball-like object flying towards her face. It buried into her face and sent her flying into a tree knocking her out. Dazed eyes looked off into the distance as her body and dog ears proceeded to twitch several times.
"Oops!" A voice giggled as she looked in on the entire group. "Um, did I do that?" A young girl that looked to be about 10 stood in the fire light. She disappeared then reappeared beside Auron. She poked at the conglomerate of flesh, skin, and bone. It only groaned back in response.
"ANDREA!" Setsa's voice yelled.
"I told you the names Area!" The younger girl yelled back at her. The thing she'd used to hit Auron into the tree hung from some sort of string and she was flicking it down and up with her wrist. A bubble of some sort came out of her mouth and popped making everyone except Setsa rush back looking at the younger girl leerily. The girl wore a junior high school uniform and stood in a careless stance.
"Anyway mom says it's time to come home." Area said turning around Kagome's eyes widened.
"You go to the same school as my brother!" Kagome said in realization. "You should know him he's very well known for his brains, Higurashi Sota!" Kagome gave a giddy smile and looked at Area.
"Yep I know em!" Area replied. "He's only been my best friend since 3rd grade in elementary school." She held the same color hair as Setsa and Kisike, but her eyes were a mysterious silver color. Setsa's eyes were a green sort of color that could look into ones soul.
"So you mean to tell me you're not from this time Setsa?" Miroku asked looking her over curiously.
"No, but I am a necromancer." She replied with a slight sigh.
"If by necromancer you mean a cross between witch and priestess." Area commented.
"Witch?" Miroku's brow raised slightly.
"Yes my mother is a witch and my father is a priest." Setsa said. A sigh escaped her lips.
"How'd you get here?" Shippo asked, he'd just awoken from an afternoon nap. He sleepily rubbed his eyes and looked at the others.
"A kitsune!" Area shouted in happy glee. She picked up the little fox demon and held him in her arms like she would a cat. He didn't seem to struggle, in fact, he enjoyed the attention.
"I arrived here from the Yasaku Shrine in Tokyo." She replied to them. "As with Kagome's shrine, we also have a well respected dry well. My dog, Unya, went in there and when I went to retrieve him I got sucked into this world. That's when I met you," she pointed at Miroku. "After I got out I hadn't been back in 6 years." She sighed. "When I came back here I was in my school uniform but luckily I found these and changed so I would fit in and look more like a wise wizard." She looked at the others, they blinked curiously.
"Ah," Miroku commented lightly. He seemed to be turning over the facts slowly in his mind. They all eventually did play out and were beginning to make sense. "So that would explain as to why you cried over a dead demon."
"I suppose." She said a smile appeared on her lips.
"Anyway, I'm gonna go on home." Area said popping another bubble of the mysterious chewy substance in her mouth. "You coming?"
"Nah," Setsa looked to Miroku. "I have something I need to take care of." She told her younger sister. Area shrugged and set down the Kitsune while patting him on the head.
Viera gave a look of interest to this young girl. "May I guide you back to your well child? It is very dangerous out tonight."
"Nah I got it, but I could use the company." Area replied.
~
Miroku and Setsa had left the camp and were wandering in the woods. The two had stopped by an old tree and looked it over. She felt his arms clamp around her waist and she smiled.
"Do you feel it?" He asked her; his breathe against her neck.
"What?" She asks with a bit of curiosity, but it seems she already knows the answer.
"My love for you.." he replies to her. A smile crawled up his lips as he kissed the top of her head.
"So no more lies?" It was more of a question than a statement.
"No," he replied to her. "How old are you really?"
"Really? 18," it doesn't seem to surprise him that she's fairly young. Instead he continued to smile and stand there, holding her close to him. She turned abruptly and huged him back facing forward. "I don't want to go back." She told him.
"But you have to don't you?"
"Yes."
"Well then, what's the problem?"
"I don't want to leave you." Her answer wasn't vague and holds so much to it. A tear fell down Miroku's cheek and onto the top of Setsa's head.
"Don't you think you're being childish?"
"No." She replied. "Selfish maybe," there was a laugh as she stood on her own. Her knees shook and she was smiling again.
"But your parents will miss you and I'm pro-" before the statement was said he was silenced by a pair of lips. Miroku's surprise comes as none to Setsa. She pulled away and the two stood there looking into each other's souls unable to move, unable to speak.
"Don't say that."
~
"You're not human are you?" Viera asks Area on their walk.
"Hmm? What gives you that idea?" She asks, her eyes smiling.
"The way you moved to get to Area." Viera replied sneakily.
"Oh that. Dammit guess the cats outta the bag, neh?" She looks at Viera with a wide smile spread across her face.
"So are you demon?"
"Cat demon."
"Ah, and your sister?"
"Not really my sister."
"Adopted?"
"She is."
"Oh," Viera stops and looks into the woods. Her eyes peering uneasily into the dark. "How are you able to suppress your demon form?" She asks picking back up the pace.
"I can suppress it until the full moon. My entire family is able to." She tells her.
"I didn't know demons owned Shrines in the future."
"They usually don't. But most of my family is only half demon."
"How are you full?"
"My father didn't marry and have my other siblings until I was 3. The woman that conceived me was full demon from the past that got through the gate. My father is half demon but he's not my real dad. He's just the one that's raised me since I was a child." She told the half demon Viera.
"Be happy, you have him. Besides, if he raised you isn't that a father?" Viera again challenges the wit of the young demon. "How did your father come to own the shrine?"
"It's been in our family since I can remember."
"Oh?"
"Yep," the two were silent for a while until they reached the well where she looked down it. "I need to go back, but,"
"You don't want to?" Viera's eyes looked from the well to the young demon.
"Yeah, I like it better here." She replies.
"Well learn to live remember you can always come back."
"I enjoyed your company Viera." Area waves as she jumps down into the well and a light appeared then Area disappeared.
Viera cracks a smile, not her usual cold one but one that is warm. "As did I little one..as did I."