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InuYasha Beyond the Skin Chapter Seven "What she wouldn't remember"
Miroku looked at the fine carving on the sheath. "How did you come by this sword may I ask?" "It came to me actually. I was in dire despair as I was going to be killed and I wished I had a weapon, the sword just appeared in my hand." "That's quite strange." "I thought so, but it lends me its strength when I ask it to." "So it's possible the strength you had, came from your sword and not you? It sounds much like the tetsusaiga." Kunio returned with the bandages and handed them to Marina looking at her longingly. She smiled back at him. Shippou plucked the bandages from her hand agitated at the young hunter. "I'll do that!" Sango saw the dreamy look her sons had in their eyes for the strange girl. "Why don't you four go outside?" Their eyes popped back to reality. "Yes, mother" The four shuffled out the door Kunio looked back at her one last time and left.
Koyasha stood back up and leaned over in the corner. Shippou sat bandaging Marina's feet. Her eyes would squint in pain every so often when he went over a tender spot. ("Why doesn't she just heal her wounds? Is it possible she can not?") Miroku eyes her. Marina looked at the floor there were blood puddles and her fait footprints. "I'm sorry about the mess, if you lone me a bucket of water and a rag I can clean it up." Sango laughed. "No that's Shinjaru's chore. It won't be the first time he's had to clean up blood." "You must lead dangerous lives." "Demon hunters always do." "Oh, I didn't know." Marina felt stupid, it had never occurred to her to ask about the village they were traveling to. "All done!" Shippou tied the bandages in place. "Thank you" her eyes wandered to the door. Koyasha watched her with some fascination. She crawled to the open door and sat down staring at the setting sun. ("That's the fourth time in a row, and she wasn't even remotely facing the west.") "Lady Marina what are you looking at?" Miroku stood up and walked over to the door and looked out. He saw nothing of great interest. Marina stared out at the horizon taking in every glimpse of pink, peach, yellow, and purple. "She's looking at the sunset dimwit." The three looked over at Koyasha who still stood in a dark corner, "She's always watching the sun set." Koyasha stood up strait and walked out past Marina brushing her hair in her face as he walked by. The hair swished down onto her shoulder. Sango and Shippou stood up and walked over to look at the sunset. "It is beautiful." Sango smiled leaning against Miroku. He smiled feeling her warmth against him. Shippou looked down at Marina, the sun framed all her beauty reminding him of the first time he saw her. He knelt beside her and swept the hair back off of her shoulder. "Thank you Shippou." He smiled, but noticed her eyes never moved from the setting sun. The last rays finally disappeared. Marina's eyes blinked and she seemed to return to earth. Where she seemed to leave to during the sunset puzzled Shippo.
Sango finally spoke, "I noticed you have a strange accent. What part of Japan do you come from?" "I don't come from Japan at all, I'm from America." Sango and Miroku looked confused. "She's from Kagome's time." "That explains it", Miroku closed his eyes doing the math on the situation. ("Is that always going to be the explanation for me, 'She's from Kagome's time?' I am my own person.") She was sad. Somehow it felt like people that she met that knew Kagome always compared her to her.
Koyasha walked around the village making the residence nervous. ("I dare you to try something.") His eyes shifted from one wary villager to the next. "They've all obviously heard about what I did. It's so nice to be where people still fear demons." He grinned remembering what he had done in the past. "Don't look so pleased with yourself Koyasha." Koyasha's eyes narrowed, "Wearing another's clothes to mask your own sent clever, Mushiro. What is it did they send you to fetch your disobedient little brother, like a good pet." A man emerged slightly older looking than Koyasha. His hair was blue black; he had yellow eyes and claws resembling Koyasha's. His human ears were slightly pointed and he wore a hunter's armor. "Really Mushiro have you no shame fro your demon blood." Koyasha eyed him with disgust. "Come now brother, it's been almost two years since we last chatted with one another, no need for a fight right away." "Two years, try closer to two hundred, and the conversation I remember ended with me stabbing my hand through your chest and killing you!" Children who had been playing in the area hid behind houses and peeked around the corner to watch the immanent fight in the faded light. "Yes our Uncle Sesshoumaru was kind enough to use his sword to return my life. Not that you could understand kindness." Mushiro's eyes narrowed and he clenched his fist. "You know dieing really hurts!"
Marina's heart began pounding and her eyes grew scared. She stood strait up knocking Shippo to the side and took off out the door at a dead run. "Come back you shouldn't be on your feet." She didn't hear Shippo, who ran behind her trying to flag her down. Something was wrong, it wasn't just a silly premonition, and there was a feel of hatred that wasn't there before. Where was Koyasha, what was he doing she had to know! ("Koyasha this fight is wrong, I can sense it! Your heart is beating abnormally at the pays it takes when you fight!") She slid to a stop listened a moment, Shippo skidded to a stop grounding himself to keep from hitting her, and then she bolted off in another direction. Shippo looked down at her feet blood was already soaking through the bandages. ("Doesn't she ever take care of herself?") A tickle formed in her throat she started coughing but she couldn't stop running, no this was far more important. She couldn't give in to her pain.
"You don't know anything about pain big brother. Try living your life pinned to a tree while the world forgets you even existed!!" Koyasha charged at Mushiro who stood ready for his onslaught. Marina's eyes blurred from her coughing she held her hand to her mouth hoping to muffle it out, but with no prevail. She smacked hard into someone and knocked them over. She landed on top of the stranger, "What on Earth, Where did you come from?" ("That's not Koyasha's voice.") Something sailed over her head sweeping her hair to the side; it slammed down a few feet away. She gasped for breath but couldn't catch it. She rolled off of the man she landed on, onto her hands and knees continuing coughing. "Damn it stop interfering girl!!" Koyasha lunged at the helpless girl. Mushiro pulled her to the side against himself out of Koyasha's path of destruction. "Get away from here, he'll kill you! Don't interfere!" The man let go of her and stood up ready to battle his brother. ("No! I know this battle is wrong!") Mushiro backed up giving a good distance between him and his brother. Several hunters came running in surrounding the three. ("I can feel their energy, such hatred. I have to stop this!") She staggered between them, still in the midst of the uncontrollable fit. ("How can I stop this I can barely even stand up?") Her eyes ere still blurred she could faintly recognize Koyasha's battle stance. "Are you deaf girl run?!"
Her mind spun what would stop Koyasha from attacking, was there anything she could do? She finally caught control of her cough, a small stream of blood dripped from her lips. She wheezed while trying to control her breathing, and fell to her knees. ("What should I do, what can I do?") Koyasha ignored her keeping his eyes on his real opponent. She pulled her short sword and held it at her stomach; Koyasha's gaze shifted a second. "What are you trying to pull? You think your life means that much to me!?" ("His attention wavered this could work.") Sango and Miroku reached the seen unaware of what was going on. Their faces turned grave when they surveyed the scene. Marina pulled loose her obi and let her decorative outer kimono fall to her side. ("What does she think stripping will make me change my mind?") She pressed the sword lightly against her stomach; her blood began staining the white inner Kimono. "Stop! This is no way to solve this dispute!" Miroku yelled. Koyasha's eye twitched he longed for the thrill of fighting with his brother, but this girl was serious. She would shed her own blood to stop the fight. Should he test her and see if she'd really do it? Her eyes never wavered from his although she couldn't entirely see strait yet. He'd never seen her back down before; he rolled his wrist and cracked his knuckles. She pierced into her stomach deeper, increasing the bleeding. A stream of blood soaked down the front of her legs. Her eyes winced in pain. Mushiro backed down smelling her fresh blood. ("Is she risking her life for my sake?") "If you fight him I'll destroy your only chance of finding the jewel." She said under her breath so as only Koyasha, Mushiro, and Shippou could hear. Shippo grew very scared that Koyasha wouldn't back down. Was she crazy enough to commit suicide to stop a brother's quarrel? Did she even know they were brothers? "Miss you don't have to defend me like this I don't need your help!" "Lady Marina please stop this, its madness!" Shippou said with much despair. Koyasha had to but say the word and she'd stop, would he? Did he care about her enough or did he only care about the jewel?
("Who am I putting my life on the line for Koyasha or this strange man? My god! Am I testing him to see if he really cares about me?") She lowered her gaze to the sword she held in her stomach searching her heart for an answer. Her blood was warm although her body felt cold; she closed her eyes a moment. She opened them to a gentle hand touching hers and she dropped her guard from holding the sword. But it was no longer lodged in her stomach, that and her ears buzzed like they had heard a loud noise. "Quickly bring her to the temple!" She felt someone pick her up and start running, carry her in their arms. She opened her eyes more aware of her situation this time. ("Did I pass out, what happened?") A man with long black hair carried her, his eyes yellow like Koyasha's but they had a gentleness to them. His face was more elegant and not so rough around the edges like Koyasha. Other than the slight differences Koyasha and he looked almost exactly alike. ("Just hold on Miss and we'll get you taken care of.") Marina closed her eyes trying to remember what happened. His eyes wandered down to look at her ("So you're the scent I smelled with those two. I imagined a lovely girl but not a creature as elegant as you. I can see why my brother is somewhat confused on how to deal with you.") Marina opened her eyes to the man following Sango who was busy shouting for various plant and things to be brought to her. Marina hadn't noticed but she held the sword tight in her hand she looked down at her body, the entire front of her Kimono was soaked her blood. Mushiro set her down, by this time she was wide awake. Sango rushed the men out of the room including Mushiro and Shippo. Sango ran to Marina's side and opened Marina's Kimono. Several older women entered carrying various plant and many bandages. Marina looked down at her stomach small streams of blood rolled off each side. Sango pressed her hands down on her stomach, shouting various things for the women to do. Marina could see the commotion and the shouting, but it fell on deaf ears, it was as though she had lost all hearing.
She tried to remember what happened while her hearing slowly returned. It was fuzzy in her mind at first. She remembered Koyasha cracking his knuckles and her shoving the sword in deeper, but was there something else? She laid her head down closed her eyes and focused on her memories instead of the commotion she could faintly make out.
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She heard footsteps walking towards her. She opened her eyes and gripped the hilt tighter preparing to shove the sword in. Someone grabbed her hand and pulled the sword out smacking the hand holding the sword aside. He grabbed her and leaped onto the neighboring building away from the circle of hunters. Mushiro followed behind him. It was Koyasha who held her. ("That's right Koyasha grabbed me I remember now.") He sprinted away from Mushiro and the crowd that followed in the streets below. "How dare you interfere! Don't you dare do that again girl!" Marina closed her eyes she didn't want to look at him. "Promise me you won't do that again!" She still refused to meet his eyes as he ran through the village dodging various weapon shooting at him from the street below. Koyasha stepped wrong and they fell through one of the roofs. Koyasha stood her up forcing her to face him. "Promise me!" She finally met his gaze, his eyes seemed a little scared besides just his usual angry. Marina stared up at him a little amazed. ("Was he really worried about me?") Her heart reacted without thinking about what it was saying. "I promise Koyasha" ("There is still something missing here I can't remember.") "I expect you o stay by this, since promises seem so sacred to you." A deafening wind collapsed the building around them. Koyasha shielded Marina from the rubble. "Stay here until I return!" he shot out of the rubble flinging debris over at Mushiro shot came down for and attack. Koyasha leaped off over eh wall that surrounded the village. Mushiro went to follow but noticed the girl staggering in the debris of the fallen building. "This isn't over Koyasha!" She held her weapon and stared down at the tip which was stained in her blood. She could feel the blade pulsating under her grip. Her knuckles where white in the faded light of the moon rising. A gentle hand touched hers and she dropped her guard.
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("That wasn't all it feels like there was something else, but why can't I remember?") There was no use fretting about it now it was over and done with. It was almost like hr mind didn't want her to remember. She felt her mind fall slightly at ease, remembering the incident. She went to sleep and woke the next morning. She opened her eyes in the faint light of the room. Sango sighed in relief, "I was afraid you wouldn't make it through the night." "She's awake!!" Shippo bolted in with tears in his eyes, followed by Miroku and Mushiro. "How are you feeling? We were so worried!" marina smiled faintly Shippo's over Dramatizing everything was so cute sometimes. "I'll be ok in a few days" "Days, try weeks that stunt you pulled won't heal in a hurry." Miroku had his eyes closed with his eyebrow raised in his usual superior intelligence pose. Marina was confused why was the strange man still there? Perhaps he lived in the village after all he did dress like them. Shippo noticed her eyeing the stranger. "Oh, sorry I didn't introduce you two! Lady Marina this is Mushiro Koyasha's older brother." "It's a pleasure to meet you Marina." ("Koyasha has an older brother? Should it really surprise me, they look almost exactly alike. It's almost like seeing Koyasha as a human during the day.") She blushed remembering the night before. She tried to sit up but Sango pushed her back down. She failed miserably and lay back down. "It is nice to know you're name. Thank you for before." "Mmm" he nodded. ("I must be faint hearted if I seemed to fall for every cut boy I meet.") It wasn't till then she noticed she had still been holding on to her sword. She pulled her hand away from it and stared down at her exposed palm. The handles carving was embedded in her hand, red and well defined. Her eyes fell heavy and she closed them and went back to sleep clutching the memories of the day in her mind. ("I'm safe to rest here; Koyasha trusts them enough to leave me here. They will protect me until he returns for me.")
"Will she be ok Sango?!" "I think so waiting is the hardest part I know, but you have to calm down." Sango patted Shippo on the head. "There is a rather strange aura about her. What is her heritage?" Mushiro looked at the three. And Sango and Miroku looked over at Shippo in return. "Don't look at me I haven't the foggiest." Surely you know something about where she comes from. I find it hard to believe she comes from the Tokyo of Kagome's time." "She appears to have some demon lineage, but I could be mistaken." Mushiro studied her face while Shippo watched. "I think it best if we send for my other, perhaps she could shed some light about this girl." "I'll send my fastest rider this morning." Miroku shrugged "There is no sense in dwelling on it till she gets here. For now let's get something to eat." Mushiro, Sango and Miroku stood to leave. "If it's all the same to you I'd rather stay here." Mushiro's eyes slanted ("finally a chance alone with him.") "I think I may stay myself. If Koyasha returns you'll be no match for him alone." "I will bring something back for you two, Ok?" Sango smiled leaving with Miroku.
"Shippou's acting strange don't you think?" Miroku nodded "His feelings for the girl are obvious; it's no mistaken, she's really quite lovely." "Still I can't see her feelings for Shippo or Koyasha. Her eyes are clouded with indecision. I have the feeling she doesn't even know what she wants." The oldest boy cam running up to them, "Mother, Father the scouts say they've spotted Koyasha a few miles from the village." "That's not like him to sneak around." Miroku and Sango looked over at each other with the same baffled worry. What could Koyasha be up to? "Tell them I want the watch doubled! Koyasha won't get back in here without a fight!"
Mushiro turned to Shippo sitting down next to marina. "My brother finds interest in her, doesn't he? Her actions indeed confuse me as well." "Just why did you stay here Mushiro?" Shippo didn't in anyway believe Mushiro's supposed reason for staying. Mushiro's eyes widened and he chucked. "And here I thought I sounded convincing. I suppose when a woman is involved one can never be too cautions around other men." Shippou's eyes widened in shock. Mushiro had barely seen him with Marina and he could already see his feelings for her. "Just what do you want with her?" "She's a little younger than I was looking for but still beautiful." "Back off Mushiro!" Shippo clenched his fist. "I've been following her sent for a few days know. It especially fascinated me that it was accompanied by my brother and your sent." "State your purpose for wanting near her NOW!!"
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Marina had many fascinating things to dream about but the fight with Koyasha's brother kept replaying in her head. She started to here the song in her head then the whole thing became clear. ("I promise Koyasha" He pulled her into his arms. "Don't you dare hurt yourself again! I could never live with myself if you died because of me!" Her face blushed; his embrace was forceful but had a tenderness behind it. Her heart tore; she couldn't love them not like this! She promised herself she wouldn't hurt them! That's why she didn't want to remember. Her heart ached knowing that she had grown even closer to Koyasha. "It's awful of me to have let him embrace me again!"
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Mushiro and Shippou stared down at her amazed she was crying in her sleep. Was it her memories that caused it or the wound? They would never know that was her secret.
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Ok ended! There is chapter seven!!
Hope I annoyed some readers...I annoyed myself with this chapter
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InuYasha Beyond the Skin Chapter Seven "What she wouldn't remember"
Miroku looked at the fine carving on the sheath. "How did you come by this sword may I ask?" "It came to me actually. I was in dire despair as I was going to be killed and I wished I had a weapon, the sword just appeared in my hand." "That's quite strange." "I thought so, but it lends me its strength when I ask it to." "So it's possible the strength you had, came from your sword and not you? It sounds much like the tetsusaiga." Kunio returned with the bandages and handed them to Marina looking at her longingly. She smiled back at him. Shippou plucked the bandages from her hand agitated at the young hunter. "I'll do that!" Sango saw the dreamy look her sons had in their eyes for the strange girl. "Why don't you four go outside?" Their eyes popped back to reality. "Yes, mother" The four shuffled out the door Kunio looked back at her one last time and left.
Koyasha stood back up and leaned over in the corner. Shippou sat bandaging Marina's feet. Her eyes would squint in pain every so often when he went over a tender spot. ("Why doesn't she just heal her wounds? Is it possible she can not?") Miroku eyes her. Marina looked at the floor there were blood puddles and her fait footprints. "I'm sorry about the mess, if you lone me a bucket of water and a rag I can clean it up." Sango laughed. "No that's Shinjaru's chore. It won't be the first time he's had to clean up blood." "You must lead dangerous lives." "Demon hunters always do." "Oh, I didn't know." Marina felt stupid, it had never occurred to her to ask about the village they were traveling to. "All done!" Shippou tied the bandages in place. "Thank you" her eyes wandered to the door. Koyasha watched her with some fascination. She crawled to the open door and sat down staring at the setting sun. ("That's the fourth time in a row, and she wasn't even remotely facing the west.") "Lady Marina what are you looking at?" Miroku stood up and walked over to the door and looked out. He saw nothing of great interest. Marina stared out at the horizon taking in every glimpse of pink, peach, yellow, and purple. "She's looking at the sunset dimwit." The three looked over at Koyasha who still stood in a dark corner, "She's always watching the sun set." Koyasha stood up strait and walked out past Marina brushing her hair in her face as he walked by. The hair swished down onto her shoulder. Sango and Shippou stood up and walked over to look at the sunset. "It is beautiful." Sango smiled leaning against Miroku. He smiled feeling her warmth against him. Shippou looked down at Marina, the sun framed all her beauty reminding him of the first time he saw her. He knelt beside her and swept the hair back off of her shoulder. "Thank you Shippou." He smiled, but noticed her eyes never moved from the setting sun. The last rays finally disappeared. Marina's eyes blinked and she seemed to return to earth. Where she seemed to leave to during the sunset puzzled Shippo.
Sango finally spoke, "I noticed you have a strange accent. What part of Japan do you come from?" "I don't come from Japan at all, I'm from America." Sango and Miroku looked confused. "She's from Kagome's time." "That explains it", Miroku closed his eyes doing the math on the situation. ("Is that always going to be the explanation for me, 'She's from Kagome's time?' I am my own person.") She was sad. Somehow it felt like people that she met that knew Kagome always compared her to her.
Koyasha walked around the village making the residence nervous. ("I dare you to try something.") His eyes shifted from one wary villager to the next. "They've all obviously heard about what I did. It's so nice to be where people still fear demons." He grinned remembering what he had done in the past. "Don't look so pleased with yourself Koyasha." Koyasha's eyes narrowed, "Wearing another's clothes to mask your own sent clever, Mushiro. What is it did they send you to fetch your disobedient little brother, like a good pet." A man emerged slightly older looking than Koyasha. His hair was blue black; he had yellow eyes and claws resembling Koyasha's. His human ears were slightly pointed and he wore a hunter's armor. "Really Mushiro have you no shame fro your demon blood." Koyasha eyed him with disgust. "Come now brother, it's been almost two years since we last chatted with one another, no need for a fight right away." "Two years, try closer to two hundred, and the conversation I remember ended with me stabbing my hand through your chest and killing you!" Children who had been playing in the area hid behind houses and peeked around the corner to watch the immanent fight in the faded light. "Yes our Uncle Sesshoumaru was kind enough to use his sword to return my life. Not that you could understand kindness." Mushiro's eyes narrowed and he clenched his fist. "You know dieing really hurts!"
Marina's heart began pounding and her eyes grew scared. She stood strait up knocking Shippo to the side and took off out the door at a dead run. "Come back you shouldn't be on your feet." She didn't hear Shippo, who ran behind her trying to flag her down. Something was wrong, it wasn't just a silly premonition, and there was a feel of hatred that wasn't there before. Where was Koyasha, what was he doing she had to know! ("Koyasha this fight is wrong, I can sense it! Your heart is beating abnormally at the pays it takes when you fight!") She slid to a stop listened a moment, Shippo skidded to a stop grounding himself to keep from hitting her, and then she bolted off in another direction. Shippo looked down at her feet blood was already soaking through the bandages. ("Doesn't she ever take care of herself?") A tickle formed in her throat she started coughing but she couldn't stop running, no this was far more important. She couldn't give in to her pain.
"You don't know anything about pain big brother. Try living your life pinned to a tree while the world forgets you even existed!!" Koyasha charged at Mushiro who stood ready for his onslaught. Marina's eyes blurred from her coughing she held her hand to her mouth hoping to muffle it out, but with no prevail. She smacked hard into someone and knocked them over. She landed on top of the stranger, "What on Earth, Where did you come from?" ("That's not Koyasha's voice.") Something sailed over her head sweeping her hair to the side; it slammed down a few feet away. She gasped for breath but couldn't catch it. She rolled off of the man she landed on, onto her hands and knees continuing coughing. "Damn it stop interfering girl!!" Koyasha lunged at the helpless girl. Mushiro pulled her to the side against himself out of Koyasha's path of destruction. "Get away from here, he'll kill you! Don't interfere!" The man let go of her and stood up ready to battle his brother. ("No! I know this battle is wrong!") Mushiro backed up giving a good distance between him and his brother. Several hunters came running in surrounding the three. ("I can feel their energy, such hatred. I have to stop this!") She staggered between them, still in the midst of the uncontrollable fit. ("How can I stop this I can barely even stand up?") Her eyes ere still blurred she could faintly recognize Koyasha's battle stance. "Are you deaf girl run?!"
Her mind spun what would stop Koyasha from attacking, was there anything she could do? She finally caught control of her cough, a small stream of blood dripped from her lips. She wheezed while trying to control her breathing, and fell to her knees. ("What should I do, what can I do?") Koyasha ignored her keeping his eyes on his real opponent. She pulled her short sword and held it at her stomach; Koyasha's gaze shifted a second. "What are you trying to pull? You think your life means that much to me!?" ("His attention wavered this could work.") Sango and Miroku reached the seen unaware of what was going on. Their faces turned grave when they surveyed the scene. Marina pulled loose her obi and let her decorative outer kimono fall to her side. ("What does she think stripping will make me change my mind?") She pressed the sword lightly against her stomach; her blood began staining the white inner Kimono. "Stop! This is no way to solve this dispute!" Miroku yelled. Koyasha's eye twitched he longed for the thrill of fighting with his brother, but this girl was serious. She would shed her own blood to stop the fight. Should he test her and see if she'd really do it? Her eyes never wavered from his although she couldn't entirely see strait yet. He'd never seen her back down before; he rolled his wrist and cracked his knuckles. She pierced into her stomach deeper, increasing the bleeding. A stream of blood soaked down the front of her legs. Her eyes winced in pain. Mushiro backed down smelling her fresh blood. ("Is she risking her life for my sake?") "If you fight him I'll destroy your only chance of finding the jewel." She said under her breath so as only Koyasha, Mushiro, and Shippou could hear. Shippo grew very scared that Koyasha wouldn't back down. Was she crazy enough to commit suicide to stop a brother's quarrel? Did she even know they were brothers? "Miss you don't have to defend me like this I don't need your help!" "Lady Marina please stop this, its madness!" Shippou said with much despair. Koyasha had to but say the word and she'd stop, would he? Did he care about her enough or did he only care about the jewel?
("Who am I putting my life on the line for Koyasha or this strange man? My god! Am I testing him to see if he really cares about me?") She lowered her gaze to the sword she held in her stomach searching her heart for an answer. Her blood was warm although her body felt cold; she closed her eyes a moment. She opened them to a gentle hand touching hers and she dropped her guard from holding the sword. But it was no longer lodged in her stomach, that and her ears buzzed like they had heard a loud noise. "Quickly bring her to the temple!" She felt someone pick her up and start running, carry her in their arms. She opened her eyes more aware of her situation this time. ("Did I pass out, what happened?") A man with long black hair carried her, his eyes yellow like Koyasha's but they had a gentleness to them. His face was more elegant and not so rough around the edges like Koyasha. Other than the slight differences Koyasha and he looked almost exactly alike. ("Just hold on Miss and we'll get you taken care of.") Marina closed her eyes trying to remember what happened. His eyes wandered down to look at her ("So you're the scent I smelled with those two. I imagined a lovely girl but not a creature as elegant as you. I can see why my brother is somewhat confused on how to deal with you.") Marina opened her eyes to the man following Sango who was busy shouting for various plant and things to be brought to her. Marina hadn't noticed but she held the sword tight in her hand she looked down at her body, the entire front of her Kimono was soaked her blood. Mushiro set her down, by this time she was wide awake. Sango rushed the men out of the room including Mushiro and Shippo. Sango ran to Marina's side and opened Marina's Kimono. Several older women entered carrying various plant and many bandages. Marina looked down at her stomach small streams of blood rolled off each side. Sango pressed her hands down on her stomach, shouting various things for the women to do. Marina could see the commotion and the shouting, but it fell on deaf ears, it was as though she had lost all hearing.
She tried to remember what happened while her hearing slowly returned. It was fuzzy in her mind at first. She remembered Koyasha cracking his knuckles and her shoving the sword in deeper, but was there something else? She laid her head down closed her eyes and focused on her memories instead of the commotion she could faintly make out.
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She heard footsteps walking towards her. She opened her eyes and gripped the hilt tighter preparing to shove the sword in. Someone grabbed her hand and pulled the sword out smacking the hand holding the sword aside. He grabbed her and leaped onto the neighboring building away from the circle of hunters. Mushiro followed behind him. It was Koyasha who held her. ("That's right Koyasha grabbed me I remember now.") He sprinted away from Mushiro and the crowd that followed in the streets below. "How dare you interfere! Don't you dare do that again girl!" Marina closed her eyes she didn't want to look at him. "Promise me you won't do that again!" She still refused to meet his eyes as he ran through the village dodging various weapon shooting at him from the street below. Koyasha stepped wrong and they fell through one of the roofs. Koyasha stood her up forcing her to face him. "Promise me!" She finally met his gaze, his eyes seemed a little scared besides just his usual angry. Marina stared up at him a little amazed. ("Was he really worried about me?") Her heart reacted without thinking about what it was saying. "I promise Koyasha" ("There is still something missing here I can't remember.") "I expect you o stay by this, since promises seem so sacred to you." A deafening wind collapsed the building around them. Koyasha shielded Marina from the rubble. "Stay here until I return!" he shot out of the rubble flinging debris over at Mushiro shot came down for and attack. Koyasha leaped off over eh wall that surrounded the village. Mushiro went to follow but noticed the girl staggering in the debris of the fallen building. "This isn't over Koyasha!" She held her weapon and stared down at the tip which was stained in her blood. She could feel the blade pulsating under her grip. Her knuckles where white in the faded light of the moon rising. A gentle hand touched hers and she dropped her guard.
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("That wasn't all it feels like there was something else, but why can't I remember?") There was no use fretting about it now it was over and done with. It was almost like hr mind didn't want her to remember. She felt her mind fall slightly at ease, remembering the incident. She went to sleep and woke the next morning. She opened her eyes in the faint light of the room. Sango sighed in relief, "I was afraid you wouldn't make it through the night." "She's awake!!" Shippo bolted in with tears in his eyes, followed by Miroku and Mushiro. "How are you feeling? We were so worried!" marina smiled faintly Shippo's over Dramatizing everything was so cute sometimes. "I'll be ok in a few days" "Days, try weeks that stunt you pulled won't heal in a hurry." Miroku had his eyes closed with his eyebrow raised in his usual superior intelligence pose. Marina was confused why was the strange man still there? Perhaps he lived in the village after all he did dress like them. Shippo noticed her eyeing the stranger. "Oh, sorry I didn't introduce you two! Lady Marina this is Mushiro Koyasha's older brother." "It's a pleasure to meet you Marina." ("Koyasha has an older brother? Should it really surprise me, they look almost exactly alike. It's almost like seeing Koyasha as a human during the day.") She blushed remembering the night before. She tried to sit up but Sango pushed her back down. She failed miserably and lay back down. "It is nice to know you're name. Thank you for before." "Mmm" he nodded. ("I must be faint hearted if I seemed to fall for every cut boy I meet.") It wasn't till then she noticed she had still been holding on to her sword. She pulled her hand away from it and stared down at her exposed palm. The handles carving was embedded in her hand, red and well defined. Her eyes fell heavy and she closed them and went back to sleep clutching the memories of the day in her mind. ("I'm safe to rest here; Koyasha trusts them enough to leave me here. They will protect me until he returns for me.")
"Will she be ok Sango?!" "I think so waiting is the hardest part I know, but you have to calm down." Sango patted Shippo on the head. "There is a rather strange aura about her. What is her heritage?" Mushiro looked at the three. And Sango and Miroku looked over at Shippo in return. "Don't look at me I haven't the foggiest." Surely you know something about where she comes from. I find it hard to believe she comes from the Tokyo of Kagome's time." "She appears to have some demon lineage, but I could be mistaken." Mushiro studied her face while Shippo watched. "I think it best if we send for my other, perhaps she could shed some light about this girl." "I'll send my fastest rider this morning." Miroku shrugged "There is no sense in dwelling on it till she gets here. For now let's get something to eat." Mushiro, Sango and Miroku stood to leave. "If it's all the same to you I'd rather stay here." Mushiro's eyes slanted ("finally a chance alone with him.") "I think I may stay myself. If Koyasha returns you'll be no match for him alone." "I will bring something back for you two, Ok?" Sango smiled leaving with Miroku.
"Shippou's acting strange don't you think?" Miroku nodded "His feelings for the girl are obvious; it's no mistaken, she's really quite lovely." "Still I can't see her feelings for Shippo or Koyasha. Her eyes are clouded with indecision. I have the feeling she doesn't even know what she wants." The oldest boy cam running up to them, "Mother, Father the scouts say they've spotted Koyasha a few miles from the village." "That's not like him to sneak around." Miroku and Sango looked over at each other with the same baffled worry. What could Koyasha be up to? "Tell them I want the watch doubled! Koyasha won't get back in here without a fight!"
Mushiro turned to Shippo sitting down next to marina. "My brother finds interest in her, doesn't he? Her actions indeed confuse me as well." "Just why did you stay here Mushiro?" Shippo didn't in anyway believe Mushiro's supposed reason for staying. Mushiro's eyes widened and he chucked. "And here I thought I sounded convincing. I suppose when a woman is involved one can never be too cautions around other men." Shippou's eyes widened in shock. Mushiro had barely seen him with Marina and he could already see his feelings for her. "Just what do you want with her?" "She's a little younger than I was looking for but still beautiful." "Back off Mushiro!" Shippo clenched his fist. "I've been following her sent for a few days know. It especially fascinated me that it was accompanied by my brother and your sent." "State your purpose for wanting near her NOW!!"
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Marina had many fascinating things to dream about but the fight with Koyasha's brother kept replaying in her head. She started to here the song in her head then the whole thing became clear. ("I promise Koyasha" He pulled her into his arms. "Don't you dare hurt yourself again! I could never live with myself if you died because of me!" Her face blushed; his embrace was forceful but had a tenderness behind it. Her heart tore; she couldn't love them not like this! She promised herself she wouldn't hurt them! That's why she didn't want to remember. Her heart ached knowing that she had grown even closer to Koyasha. "It's awful of me to have let him embrace me again!"
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Mushiro and Shippou stared down at her amazed she was crying in her sleep. Was it her memories that caused it or the wound? They would never know that was her secret.
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Ok ended! There is chapter seven!!
Hope I annoyed some readers...I annoyed myself with this chapter
Anyway got'ta go for now
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