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Chapter 6: Story Of Chizu
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crystal-chan - That is a good question. What will become of Kwok and the others? Only I know! BwahahahaHAHAHA-::gag:: .
Hikaru Shido - I shall keep writing and/or typing.
Lunatic Pandora1 - Nooo!! Hmm.. well actually a chibi Sesshoumaru would be quite cute! ::huggles chibi Sesshoumaru::
Sessy: ::flex claws:: away from me you pathetic wench!
Crayons: awww! How cute! ::huggles harder::
Sessy: @.@
emeralddarkness - Wow! You never miss a thing! I was hoping no one would notice until I put this chapter up. Good observation!
Spiffeh Sesshomaru - Thanks for your positive remark! I won't make Sesshoumaru too mean. Personally, I think Sesshoumaru is a softy inside.. ^.^
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Zanen desune? - Unfortunate isn't it?
Tondemonai - No way
Haha - Mother
Yamate - Stop!
Tofu - Basically a block of bean paste, it's kind of like Japan's jello.
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Well I hope that I will start reviewing more often. School is killing me! T.T I still have much more to live for! Such as Inuyasha, arcade and other anime! ^.^
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Through the main doors, pass the hall, on the left was Sesshoumaru's room.
"Let's see those weapons slave," commanded Sesshoumaru holding his hand out. Hikari rolled her eyes and started to pull out all seven of her daggers and knives from different parts of her body. One was hidden in her hair, two were hidden deep in her sleeves, another was inside her coat. The fifth and sixth were placed inside her leggings, while the last was visible in her belt.
"Satisfied? Sesshoumaru-SAMA?" snobbed Hikari.
"No, not at all," he stated, "I want those." Hikari followed his stare to her hands which were equipped with her neko-te. Hikari just started back at him. Sesshoumaru eyed her and gave his cold expression crossed with annoyance. A silent argument was happening. Each one defying the other but without words, as if they were reading each others mind. Hikari huffed and took off her neko-te slowly to piss Sesshoumaru off and tossed the gloves at him. Sesshoumaru caught them and kept them in one hand. Yet he still glared at Hikari.
"What?!" Hikari said irritably.
"Isn't it painfully obvious?" hinted Sesshoumaru.
Hikari looked to her side where her whip lay coiled up against her hip and shook her head, "No way!"
"Hand it over!" he ordered more sternly.
"Listen here yo-" Hikari hissed, but stopped and took it a different way and bowed, "Sesshoumaru-sama, please allow me to hold my possession, it would mean a lot to me."
"Tondemonai," Sesshoumaru said simply.
"Why not?!?!" Hikari said gritting her teeth.
"It's for your own protection!" Sesshoumaru argued, eyes flickering red.
"Protection?! I need this for protection against you!!" Hikari snapped back. Sesshoumaru grabbed her by the color and lift her up with one hand choking her.
"Don't try my patience slave! Just give it to me!" Sesshoumaru growled, eyes now crimson red. His fangs were long and sharp. He no longer had his calm and serene face, but it changed to anger. Even his stripes on his face seemed more jagged than smooth.
Hikari shook her head, gasping for air.
"You dare to defy me again?!" he yelled loosening his hand to let her speak.
Tears softly rolled down her face onto Sesshoumaru's claws. When the liquid dripped onto his hand he loosened more, dropping to the ground slowly. His face went back to being calm. As Hikari dropped to the ground, she fell to her hands and knees. Once he saw she was weak enough, he took the whip from her. She tried to grab at it but thought it wise not to piss Sesshoumaru off again. Sesshoumaru examined the whip, it was nothing special, it was black leather, made from a cow. The strange weapon looked beaten in and had her name engraved into the handle with the kanji of a dragon on the other side.
"Hm, you know, in Chinese astrology, they say dogs and dragons don't get along," mocked Sesshoumaru, "Chinese astrology must be all fairy-tales though." Sesshoumaru was both humiliating her and raising her tolerance level. Sesshoumaru got to her eye-level and brought her face to meet hers. He saw all the anger and hate she had in her eyes.
"Want to know why?" he taunted, "they say the dog would suffer, shows how much they know." Sesshoumaru turned around and took Hikari's weapons.
"I'll give these to my father, see what he wants done with them, no slave of mine will have a weapon." With that he headed out the door. Hikari then found her strength and hit the floor with her hand. A few seconds of collecting what had happened, a heavy flow of angry tears ran down her cheeks.
'My honor and dignity! All I worked so hard for! That whip was what I took pride in!! I have really shamed my family line,' thought Hikari hanging her head down in shame. She couldn't stay in his room any longer, she ran outside. In the process, she got herself horribly lost. 'Damn this castle! It HAS to be a gate to hell..' she thought punching a wall, 'and everyone in here is a detachment of Satan!'
"Hey now that's not going to get you anywhere," came a voice. Hikari whipped her head to see a soldier with a staff, wearing a ponytail with a few earrings in both ears.
"Miroku!" came a feminine voice. She had black soot on her face, her hair was also tied into a pony-tail and was well built for a woman.
"Miroku! How many times have I told you not to hit on the other slaves?!" she yelled pushing him aside.
Miroku opened his mouth from shock, "I was not! I was just wondering what's a slave doing out all by herself!"
"Sure sure," she said flipping her hand, then turned her attention toward Hikari, "Hi there! My name is Sango, I'm the blacksmith of this castle, and this here lech is-"
"Miroku, at your service!" he said bowing grabbing Hikari's hand about to kiss it. Until Sango hit Miroku on the top of his head with her fist making him stop.
Hikari giggled and smiled. "Hey," she said.
"You must be the new slave for Sesshoumaru huh?" Sango asked with interest.
"Zanen desune?" smirked Hikari. The others laughed. 'Hm, maybe not everyone here is Satan..' Hikari thought laughing to herself.
"Why not come with us? We are headed to Inuyasha's wing of the castle, I'm sure you'll find it more pleasant," invited Miroku.
Hikari walked closer to the two, "Is Inuyasha anything like Sesshoumaru?"
"The complete opposite," laughed Sango. Hikari and Miroku joined in on the laughter.
"Sure, anywhere is better than here.." added Hikari.
They went to the opposite way of Sesshoumaru's wing to Inuyasha's wing. The halls were decorated almost alike except that there were paintings of Inuyasha's mother hung on the walls along with pictures of the rest of his family. She glanced at a few more pictures, but one caught her gaze. On one small picture was a family picture of the whole Inutaisho family. It consisted of a proud Lord Inutaisho, a smiling Aiko, another woman that had an angry expression and looked like a dog youkai, a baby Inuyasha being held by a smiling Sesshoumaru. 'Aww that's way cute,' smiled Hikari, 'a smiling Sesshoumaru.. A SMILING SESSHOUMARU?!?!' It was hard to believe, but it was there as plain as day. 'What ever happened to that..' wondered Hikari.
"Oi, slave, what are you doing here?" barked Inuyasha interrupting her thoughts. Hikari didn't feel like getting yelled at, so she treated him as if she would with Sesshoumaru.
"Forgive me Prince Inuyasha," begged Hikari bowing very low.
"Ya ya, I don't like to be praised and all that, just call me Inuyasha," remarked Inuyasha.
"Alright then.. Inuyasha," Hikari said nodding her head. Inuyasha noticed what Hikari had been looking at and tore her away from the picture.
"Come, Sango and Miroku were wondering where you were," insisted Inuyasha grabbing her by the wrist and bringing her into his living room. When she entered, she could see why Sango and Miroku had laughed about how opposite Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru were. Unlike Sesshoumaru's room which was clean and glamorous, Inuyasha's room, to put in simpler terms, looked slapped together. Hikari smiled at the room, it reminded her of her home back in China. In the living room was Sango, Miroku and a girl that she had seen on the night of the festival.
"Eh, we were looking for you! Where were you?" Sango asked with concern.
"Oh, gomen, I was looking at the pictures on the wall and I was distracted," explained Hikari.
"Ah, It's alright!," assured Miroku, "This here is Kagome and I see you've met Inuyasha."
"Feh," huffed Inuyasha. Inuyasha wore a red kimono made from a fire-rat. Around his neck was a rosary.
"Oh Inuyasha! Can you stop being so mean?!" scolded Kagome, "Hi, I'm Kagome."
"Hello," responded Hikari with a smile.
"Hey you don't seem as mad and mean as you used to back at the festival," noticed Miroku.
"Miroku, don't be so rude!" barked Sango.
"It's not like it was a bad thing, it was pretty refreshing seeing Sesshoumaru getting spit in the face," joked Miroku. They rest laughed.
"Ya I enjoyed that," admitted Inuyasha, "I was about to laugh, but father elbowed me." The gang laughed again. Hikari felt like she belonged there.
"No way, that was really scary," exclaimed Sango, "I thought you were gonna die!"
Hikari smiled, "I don't die quite so easily."
"Don't worry Kagome felt the same way, I felt she shaking," laughed Inuyasha.
"Osuwari!" yelled Kagome. Inuyasha fell face first into the ground.
"WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT FOR!?" screamed Inuyasha.
"FOR EMBARRASSING ME!" Kagome yelled back.
"Woah, is that rosary just like mine?" asked Hikari with interest twirling it between her fingers.
"No, his is different," smiled Sango, "A few years ago, Inuyasha and Kagome were out in the town and some guy tried to pick a fight with Inuyasha. A priestess named Kaede put that rosary on him to keep him out of trouble. At the same time the rosary was put onto him, Kaede had given her a magic word to make him stop whenever he was making trouble. Ever since then Kaede and her sister Kikyo have been this castle's priestesses."
"Ya and ever since that Kikyo has been gazing upon Inuyasha as if he was a piece of meat!" snapped Kagome.
"Oh, are you two going out?" questioned Hikari. The two blushed.
"Her (Him)? No WAY!" Inuyasha and Kagome spoke in unison, turning their heads away from each other. Miroku, Sango and Hikari laughed. Hikari hadn't truly smiled in a couple days, it was good for her to have her spirits lifted.
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"Now where did that girl go.." growled Sesshoumaru with annoyance. He followed the scent of her out of his wing. The prince sniffed the scent that followed into Inuyasha's wing. His usual tranquil face turned into anger as the scent of fire and metal also filled his nose.
"Sango," he mumbled, "That soldier must he there too, that Miroku." Sesshoumaru quickened his pace following Hikari's scent. The scent stopped at the door of Inuyasha's living room. He pressed his elf-like ears to the door and listened for Hikari's voice. Laughter and yelling was sounded into his sensitive ears. He burst into the door as a way of announcing himself.
"Holy shit Sesshoumaru!" yelled Inuyasha clutching his heart, "what the hell is your problem?!"
"My problem is, dear brother, that you have MY slave without MY permission!" he growled.
"Relax Sesshoumaru, we were just trying to make Hikari welcome," explained Miroku.
"Soldier! Do you know who you are talking to? Show your future master some respect!" he barked. Miroku got down on one knee and bowed to him.
Inuyasha cut in, "Miroku get up you don't need to do that."
"Inuyasha, do not order him like that, he is greater than you, don't you understand? You're nothing but a pitiful half-breed!" Sesshoumaru said pushing Inuyasha to the ground, "A hanyou should act like a hanyou.. and lick the ground!" Sesshoumaru emitted a whip-like force from his two forefingers and slashed at Inuyasha.
"Teme," grunted Inuyasha trying to stand up. Kagome ran to his side and tried to help him. Sesshoumaru went in for another attack, but Hikari stopped him by grabbing his hand. Then she dropped to her knees and bowed low so that her face was away from his presence.
"Iie Sesshoumaru, this is my fault, please do not punish them for my mistake," pleaded Hikari. Sesshoumaru picked her up by the arm and brought her face to his. Hikari stared into his eyes, 'what kind of guy is this? So full of hate that he would attack his own brother..' Sesshoumaru looked into her eyes and saw that she pitied him. He remained calm but he was burning with anger inside. 'Pity, I hate that look, it's all anyone ever gave me when-' Sesshoumaru stopped thinking and shook his head.
"I don't understand why you give me that look, Hikari, but I don't need your pity," he said softly and dropped her to the ground without hurting her. Hikari looked at him in awe, 'He.. he said my name,' thought Hikari in amazement. She looked once more into his eyes and saw even for just a split second, that there was sadness tainted in his beautiful amber-colored eyes.
Hikari hung her head, "Forgive me my Lord." Sesshoumaru just took her by the wrist and pulled her out of the room. She passed by the same portraits and stopped walking at the picture she had been hypnotized with before.
"Let's go," ordered Sesshoumaru.
"Sesshoumaru-sama, whose that?" questioned Hikari. Annoyed Sesshoumaru looked at the picture. As fast as grief came to his face, it disappeared.
"That, was my mother, Chizu," Sesshoumaru said monotonously.
"Where is she?" asked Hikari tilting her head to look at Sesshoumaru's face.
"She ran away some time ago," whispered Sesshoumaru, "Let's go, I don't want to hear more of your consistent questioning."
'Wow, I never knew that Sesshoumaru's one weakness would be his mother..' thought Hikari. Sesshoumaru brought Hikari into his chambers.
"It's getting late slave, get ready for bed, tomorrow, according to my father, The Lord Of The West, will be a busy day," spoke Sesshoumaru with his usually calm, monotonous voice.
Both Hikari and Sesshoumaru took a shower in their separate rooms and then came together in Sesshoumaru's bed. Hikari was dressed in her normal white jacket and pants decorated with Sesshoumaru's name and family seal on it. Sesshoumaru got into a white silk yukata and laid in bed.
"You may lay down Hikari," spoke Sesshoumaru, knowing she was waiting for permission. Hikari complied and laid in bed in the usually position, backs against each other.
"Sesshoumaru?" called Hikari.
"Un?" grunted Sesshoumaru.
"Thanks for calling me by my name, instead of 'slave,'" thanked Hikari. Sesshoumaru just grunted in response and closed his eyes.
"Sesshoumaru.. I know how you feel, My mother and father are gone now too," she said yawning. Sesshoumaru opened his eyes and stared at the walls of his room. Once he noticed that Hikari was asleep he got up and walked to his drawer and opened it. There underneath all this papers and documents was a picture of his mother, Chizu.
::Flashback::
Yelling and screaming was heard from Lord Inutaisho's quarters. A chibi-like Sesshoumaru ran to the fighting and saw his mother and his father fighting while Aiko tried to stop Inuyasha from crying.
"Sugimi! How can you do this to me and Sesshoumaru! Next thing you know, you'll be giving away Sesshoumaru's birthright to that.. THAT HALFLING!" screamed Chizu.
"There is nothing we can do about what has been done, Chizu, let go of your hatred of humans!" begged Sugimisama.
"Never! Look what they have done to me and Sesshoumaru!" she yelled throwing a vase toward Aiko and Inuyasha.
"Haha! Yamate!" yelled Sesshoumaru running to Inuyasha help Aiko stop Inuyasha from crying.
Chizu grabbed Sesshoumaru's hair and pulled him toward her, "Sesshoumaru! You listen to me! Don't touch that inferior!"
"But haha, I love Inuyasha," whimpered Sesshoumaru while trying to get her hand out of his hair.
"You see how much you have brainwashed him!?! I will not stay here and take this!" She said storming out of the room.
"Haha, don't go! I love you too!" cried Sesshoumaru grabbing onto her kimono.
Chizu turned to pick up Sesshoumaru, "Sesshoumaru, I can't stay here anymore."
"No, haha! Stay here with me! Don't you love me?" he cried even harder.
"You stop that Sesshoumaru! Youkai do not cry! Do you understand?!" Chizu scolded. Sesshoumaru nodded his to show he would obey.
"Good, now I must go, good-bye my son.." Chizu said solemnly and kissed her son on the forehead and ran out of the castle. Sesshoumaru tried to run after her, but his father stopped him.
"Sesshoumaru, you must stay here, you are an heir to a great name, you must also help turn Inuyasha into a great prince," he consoled.
"NO!" screamed Sesshoumaru wiggling out of Lord Inutaisho's arms, "It's his fault my haha left!! That.. that filthy half-breed!!!!"
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A tear threatened to escape from Sesshoumaru's eye, but he quickly wiped it away.
"Youkai do not cry," he told himself. He put the picture back into his drawer and got back into bed, and laid on his back and felt another tear threatening to spill. This time he let it go, allowing a silent single tear fall from his eye down his cheek and turned his head the other way. He felt Hikari shift and felt her arm rest across his chest and intertwined her fingers into his. Sesshoumaru sighed and brought her hand to his chest.
"I suppose you'll tell everyone that you saw the great Sesshoumaru cry, huh?" accused Sesshoumaru.
"No, but I'll tell you something though, to realize what you are," commented Hikari.
"And what is that? A weakling I suppose," covering his emotion with his monotonous tone.
"No, there is a saying in China about people like you," she said softly, "A mouth as sharp as a dagger but a heart as soft as tofu."
There was just silence.
"A soft heart, isn't always bad Sesshoumaru, I see nothing wrong with crying, well.. good night," she said laying her head against his shoulder drifting asleep. Sesshoumaru stared at the ceiling for a while, thinking about what Hikari had said. He too began to drift into slumber and laid his head away from Hikari's.
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Hey I hope that was a good chapter for all of you! Sorry that my updates are soo far apart, but next chapter I will try my best to get it out in four days or less! This chapter was long, ne?
*Hey well this is a new update on 11/26/03. I changed Lord Inutaisho's name from Akira to Sugimisama, because I watched the first Inuyasha movie for like the 5,000 time and only now I realized Myoga reveals Sess and Inu's father's name. Sorry for the inconvience.
-Crayons And Root Beer
Chapter 6: Story Of Chizu
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crystal-chan - That is a good question. What will become of Kwok and the others? Only I know! BwahahahaHAHAHA-::gag:: .
Hikaru Shido - I shall keep writing and/or typing.
Lunatic Pandora1 - Nooo!! Hmm.. well actually a chibi Sesshoumaru would be quite cute! ::huggles chibi Sesshoumaru::
Sessy: ::flex claws:: away from me you pathetic wench!
Crayons: awww! How cute! ::huggles harder::
Sessy: @.@
emeralddarkness - Wow! You never miss a thing! I was hoping no one would notice until I put this chapter up. Good observation!
Spiffeh Sesshomaru - Thanks for your positive remark! I won't make Sesshoumaru too mean. Personally, I think Sesshoumaru is a softy inside.. ^.^
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Zanen desune? - Unfortunate isn't it?
Tondemonai - No way
Haha - Mother
Yamate - Stop!
Tofu - Basically a block of bean paste, it's kind of like Japan's jello.
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Well I hope that I will start reviewing more often. School is killing me! T.T I still have much more to live for! Such as Inuyasha, arcade and other anime! ^.^
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Through the main doors, pass the hall, on the left was Sesshoumaru's room.
"Let's see those weapons slave," commanded Sesshoumaru holding his hand out. Hikari rolled her eyes and started to pull out all seven of her daggers and knives from different parts of her body. One was hidden in her hair, two were hidden deep in her sleeves, another was inside her coat. The fifth and sixth were placed inside her leggings, while the last was visible in her belt.
"Satisfied? Sesshoumaru-SAMA?" snobbed Hikari.
"No, not at all," he stated, "I want those." Hikari followed his stare to her hands which were equipped with her neko-te. Hikari just started back at him. Sesshoumaru eyed her and gave his cold expression crossed with annoyance. A silent argument was happening. Each one defying the other but without words, as if they were reading each others mind. Hikari huffed and took off her neko-te slowly to piss Sesshoumaru off and tossed the gloves at him. Sesshoumaru caught them and kept them in one hand. Yet he still glared at Hikari.
"What?!" Hikari said irritably.
"Isn't it painfully obvious?" hinted Sesshoumaru.
Hikari looked to her side where her whip lay coiled up against her hip and shook her head, "No way!"
"Hand it over!" he ordered more sternly.
"Listen here yo-" Hikari hissed, but stopped and took it a different way and bowed, "Sesshoumaru-sama, please allow me to hold my possession, it would mean a lot to me."
"Tondemonai," Sesshoumaru said simply.
"Why not?!?!" Hikari said gritting her teeth.
"It's for your own protection!" Sesshoumaru argued, eyes flickering red.
"Protection?! I need this for protection against you!!" Hikari snapped back. Sesshoumaru grabbed her by the color and lift her up with one hand choking her.
"Don't try my patience slave! Just give it to me!" Sesshoumaru growled, eyes now crimson red. His fangs were long and sharp. He no longer had his calm and serene face, but it changed to anger. Even his stripes on his face seemed more jagged than smooth.
Hikari shook her head, gasping for air.
"You dare to defy me again?!" he yelled loosening his hand to let her speak.
Tears softly rolled down her face onto Sesshoumaru's claws. When the liquid dripped onto his hand he loosened more, dropping to the ground slowly. His face went back to being calm. As Hikari dropped to the ground, she fell to her hands and knees. Once he saw she was weak enough, he took the whip from her. She tried to grab at it but thought it wise not to piss Sesshoumaru off again. Sesshoumaru examined the whip, it was nothing special, it was black leather, made from a cow. The strange weapon looked beaten in and had her name engraved into the handle with the kanji of a dragon on the other side.
"Hm, you know, in Chinese astrology, they say dogs and dragons don't get along," mocked Sesshoumaru, "Chinese astrology must be all fairy-tales though." Sesshoumaru was both humiliating her and raising her tolerance level. Sesshoumaru got to her eye-level and brought her face to meet hers. He saw all the anger and hate she had in her eyes.
"Want to know why?" he taunted, "they say the dog would suffer, shows how much they know." Sesshoumaru turned around and took Hikari's weapons.
"I'll give these to my father, see what he wants done with them, no slave of mine will have a weapon." With that he headed out the door. Hikari then found her strength and hit the floor with her hand. A few seconds of collecting what had happened, a heavy flow of angry tears ran down her cheeks.
'My honor and dignity! All I worked so hard for! That whip was what I took pride in!! I have really shamed my family line,' thought Hikari hanging her head down in shame. She couldn't stay in his room any longer, she ran outside. In the process, she got herself horribly lost. 'Damn this castle! It HAS to be a gate to hell..' she thought punching a wall, 'and everyone in here is a detachment of Satan!'
"Hey now that's not going to get you anywhere," came a voice. Hikari whipped her head to see a soldier with a staff, wearing a ponytail with a few earrings in both ears.
"Miroku!" came a feminine voice. She had black soot on her face, her hair was also tied into a pony-tail and was well built for a woman.
"Miroku! How many times have I told you not to hit on the other slaves?!" she yelled pushing him aside.
Miroku opened his mouth from shock, "I was not! I was just wondering what's a slave doing out all by herself!"
"Sure sure," she said flipping her hand, then turned her attention toward Hikari, "Hi there! My name is Sango, I'm the blacksmith of this castle, and this here lech is-"
"Miroku, at your service!" he said bowing grabbing Hikari's hand about to kiss it. Until Sango hit Miroku on the top of his head with her fist making him stop.
Hikari giggled and smiled. "Hey," she said.
"You must be the new slave for Sesshoumaru huh?" Sango asked with interest.
"Zanen desune?" smirked Hikari. The others laughed. 'Hm, maybe not everyone here is Satan..' Hikari thought laughing to herself.
"Why not come with us? We are headed to Inuyasha's wing of the castle, I'm sure you'll find it more pleasant," invited Miroku.
Hikari walked closer to the two, "Is Inuyasha anything like Sesshoumaru?"
"The complete opposite," laughed Sango. Hikari and Miroku joined in on the laughter.
"Sure, anywhere is better than here.." added Hikari.
They went to the opposite way of Sesshoumaru's wing to Inuyasha's wing. The halls were decorated almost alike except that there were paintings of Inuyasha's mother hung on the walls along with pictures of the rest of his family. She glanced at a few more pictures, but one caught her gaze. On one small picture was a family picture of the whole Inutaisho family. It consisted of a proud Lord Inutaisho, a smiling Aiko, another woman that had an angry expression and looked like a dog youkai, a baby Inuyasha being held by a smiling Sesshoumaru. 'Aww that's way cute,' smiled Hikari, 'a smiling Sesshoumaru.. A SMILING SESSHOUMARU?!?!' It was hard to believe, but it was there as plain as day. 'What ever happened to that..' wondered Hikari.
"Oi, slave, what are you doing here?" barked Inuyasha interrupting her thoughts. Hikari didn't feel like getting yelled at, so she treated him as if she would with Sesshoumaru.
"Forgive me Prince Inuyasha," begged Hikari bowing very low.
"Ya ya, I don't like to be praised and all that, just call me Inuyasha," remarked Inuyasha.
"Alright then.. Inuyasha," Hikari said nodding her head. Inuyasha noticed what Hikari had been looking at and tore her away from the picture.
"Come, Sango and Miroku were wondering where you were," insisted Inuyasha grabbing her by the wrist and bringing her into his living room. When she entered, she could see why Sango and Miroku had laughed about how opposite Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru were. Unlike Sesshoumaru's room which was clean and glamorous, Inuyasha's room, to put in simpler terms, looked slapped together. Hikari smiled at the room, it reminded her of her home back in China. In the living room was Sango, Miroku and a girl that she had seen on the night of the festival.
"Eh, we were looking for you! Where were you?" Sango asked with concern.
"Oh, gomen, I was looking at the pictures on the wall and I was distracted," explained Hikari.
"Ah, It's alright!," assured Miroku, "This here is Kagome and I see you've met Inuyasha."
"Feh," huffed Inuyasha. Inuyasha wore a red kimono made from a fire-rat. Around his neck was a rosary.
"Oh Inuyasha! Can you stop being so mean?!" scolded Kagome, "Hi, I'm Kagome."
"Hello," responded Hikari with a smile.
"Hey you don't seem as mad and mean as you used to back at the festival," noticed Miroku.
"Miroku, don't be so rude!" barked Sango.
"It's not like it was a bad thing, it was pretty refreshing seeing Sesshoumaru getting spit in the face," joked Miroku. They rest laughed.
"Ya I enjoyed that," admitted Inuyasha, "I was about to laugh, but father elbowed me." The gang laughed again. Hikari felt like she belonged there.
"No way, that was really scary," exclaimed Sango, "I thought you were gonna die!"
Hikari smiled, "I don't die quite so easily."
"Don't worry Kagome felt the same way, I felt she shaking," laughed Inuyasha.
"Osuwari!" yelled Kagome. Inuyasha fell face first into the ground.
"WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT FOR!?" screamed Inuyasha.
"FOR EMBARRASSING ME!" Kagome yelled back.
"Woah, is that rosary just like mine?" asked Hikari with interest twirling it between her fingers.
"No, his is different," smiled Sango, "A few years ago, Inuyasha and Kagome were out in the town and some guy tried to pick a fight with Inuyasha. A priestess named Kaede put that rosary on him to keep him out of trouble. At the same time the rosary was put onto him, Kaede had given her a magic word to make him stop whenever he was making trouble. Ever since then Kaede and her sister Kikyo have been this castle's priestesses."
"Ya and ever since that Kikyo has been gazing upon Inuyasha as if he was a piece of meat!" snapped Kagome.
"Oh, are you two going out?" questioned Hikari. The two blushed.
"Her (Him)? No WAY!" Inuyasha and Kagome spoke in unison, turning their heads away from each other. Miroku, Sango and Hikari laughed. Hikari hadn't truly smiled in a couple days, it was good for her to have her spirits lifted.
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"Now where did that girl go.." growled Sesshoumaru with annoyance. He followed the scent of her out of his wing. The prince sniffed the scent that followed into Inuyasha's wing. His usual tranquil face turned into anger as the scent of fire and metal also filled his nose.
"Sango," he mumbled, "That soldier must he there too, that Miroku." Sesshoumaru quickened his pace following Hikari's scent. The scent stopped at the door of Inuyasha's living room. He pressed his elf-like ears to the door and listened for Hikari's voice. Laughter and yelling was sounded into his sensitive ears. He burst into the door as a way of announcing himself.
"Holy shit Sesshoumaru!" yelled Inuyasha clutching his heart, "what the hell is your problem?!"
"My problem is, dear brother, that you have MY slave without MY permission!" he growled.
"Relax Sesshoumaru, we were just trying to make Hikari welcome," explained Miroku.
"Soldier! Do you know who you are talking to? Show your future master some respect!" he barked. Miroku got down on one knee and bowed to him.
Inuyasha cut in, "Miroku get up you don't need to do that."
"Inuyasha, do not order him like that, he is greater than you, don't you understand? You're nothing but a pitiful half-breed!" Sesshoumaru said pushing Inuyasha to the ground, "A hanyou should act like a hanyou.. and lick the ground!" Sesshoumaru emitted a whip-like force from his two forefingers and slashed at Inuyasha.
"Teme," grunted Inuyasha trying to stand up. Kagome ran to his side and tried to help him. Sesshoumaru went in for another attack, but Hikari stopped him by grabbing his hand. Then she dropped to her knees and bowed low so that her face was away from his presence.
"Iie Sesshoumaru, this is my fault, please do not punish them for my mistake," pleaded Hikari. Sesshoumaru picked her up by the arm and brought her face to his. Hikari stared into his eyes, 'what kind of guy is this? So full of hate that he would attack his own brother..' Sesshoumaru looked into her eyes and saw that she pitied him. He remained calm but he was burning with anger inside. 'Pity, I hate that look, it's all anyone ever gave me when-' Sesshoumaru stopped thinking and shook his head.
"I don't understand why you give me that look, Hikari, but I don't need your pity," he said softly and dropped her to the ground without hurting her. Hikari looked at him in awe, 'He.. he said my name,' thought Hikari in amazement. She looked once more into his eyes and saw even for just a split second, that there was sadness tainted in his beautiful amber-colored eyes.
Hikari hung her head, "Forgive me my Lord." Sesshoumaru just took her by the wrist and pulled her out of the room. She passed by the same portraits and stopped walking at the picture she had been hypnotized with before.
"Let's go," ordered Sesshoumaru.
"Sesshoumaru-sama, whose that?" questioned Hikari. Annoyed Sesshoumaru looked at the picture. As fast as grief came to his face, it disappeared.
"That, was my mother, Chizu," Sesshoumaru said monotonously.
"Where is she?" asked Hikari tilting her head to look at Sesshoumaru's face.
"She ran away some time ago," whispered Sesshoumaru, "Let's go, I don't want to hear more of your consistent questioning."
'Wow, I never knew that Sesshoumaru's one weakness would be his mother..' thought Hikari. Sesshoumaru brought Hikari into his chambers.
"It's getting late slave, get ready for bed, tomorrow, according to my father, The Lord Of The West, will be a busy day," spoke Sesshoumaru with his usually calm, monotonous voice.
Both Hikari and Sesshoumaru took a shower in their separate rooms and then came together in Sesshoumaru's bed. Hikari was dressed in her normal white jacket and pants decorated with Sesshoumaru's name and family seal on it. Sesshoumaru got into a white silk yukata and laid in bed.
"You may lay down Hikari," spoke Sesshoumaru, knowing she was waiting for permission. Hikari complied and laid in bed in the usually position, backs against each other.
"Sesshoumaru?" called Hikari.
"Un?" grunted Sesshoumaru.
"Thanks for calling me by my name, instead of 'slave,'" thanked Hikari. Sesshoumaru just grunted in response and closed his eyes.
"Sesshoumaru.. I know how you feel, My mother and father are gone now too," she said yawning. Sesshoumaru opened his eyes and stared at the walls of his room. Once he noticed that Hikari was asleep he got up and walked to his drawer and opened it. There underneath all this papers and documents was a picture of his mother, Chizu.
::Flashback::
Yelling and screaming was heard from Lord Inutaisho's quarters. A chibi-like Sesshoumaru ran to the fighting and saw his mother and his father fighting while Aiko tried to stop Inuyasha from crying.
"Sugimi! How can you do this to me and Sesshoumaru! Next thing you know, you'll be giving away Sesshoumaru's birthright to that.. THAT HALFLING!" screamed Chizu.
"There is nothing we can do about what has been done, Chizu, let go of your hatred of humans!" begged Sugimisama.
"Never! Look what they have done to me and Sesshoumaru!" she yelled throwing a vase toward Aiko and Inuyasha.
"Haha! Yamate!" yelled Sesshoumaru running to Inuyasha help Aiko stop Inuyasha from crying.
Chizu grabbed Sesshoumaru's hair and pulled him toward her, "Sesshoumaru! You listen to me! Don't touch that inferior!"
"But haha, I love Inuyasha," whimpered Sesshoumaru while trying to get her hand out of his hair.
"You see how much you have brainwashed him!?! I will not stay here and take this!" She said storming out of the room.
"Haha, don't go! I love you too!" cried Sesshoumaru grabbing onto her kimono.
Chizu turned to pick up Sesshoumaru, "Sesshoumaru, I can't stay here anymore."
"No, haha! Stay here with me! Don't you love me?" he cried even harder.
"You stop that Sesshoumaru! Youkai do not cry! Do you understand?!" Chizu scolded. Sesshoumaru nodded his to show he would obey.
"Good, now I must go, good-bye my son.." Chizu said solemnly and kissed her son on the forehead and ran out of the castle. Sesshoumaru tried to run after her, but his father stopped him.
"Sesshoumaru, you must stay here, you are an heir to a great name, you must also help turn Inuyasha into a great prince," he consoled.
"NO!" screamed Sesshoumaru wiggling out of Lord Inutaisho's arms, "It's his fault my haha left!! That.. that filthy half-breed!!!!"
::End Flashback::
A tear threatened to escape from Sesshoumaru's eye, but he quickly wiped it away.
"Youkai do not cry," he told himself. He put the picture back into his drawer and got back into bed, and laid on his back and felt another tear threatening to spill. This time he let it go, allowing a silent single tear fall from his eye down his cheek and turned his head the other way. He felt Hikari shift and felt her arm rest across his chest and intertwined her fingers into his. Sesshoumaru sighed and brought her hand to his chest.
"I suppose you'll tell everyone that you saw the great Sesshoumaru cry, huh?" accused Sesshoumaru.
"No, but I'll tell you something though, to realize what you are," commented Hikari.
"And what is that? A weakling I suppose," covering his emotion with his monotonous tone.
"No, there is a saying in China about people like you," she said softly, "A mouth as sharp as a dagger but a heart as soft as tofu."
There was just silence.
"A soft heart, isn't always bad Sesshoumaru, I see nothing wrong with crying, well.. good night," she said laying her head against his shoulder drifting asleep. Sesshoumaru stared at the ceiling for a while, thinking about what Hikari had said. He too began to drift into slumber and laid his head away from Hikari's.
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Hey I hope that was a good chapter for all of you! Sorry that my updates are soo far apart, but next chapter I will try my best to get it out in four days or less! This chapter was long, ne?
*Hey well this is a new update on 11/26/03. I changed Lord Inutaisho's name from Akira to Sugimisama, because I watched the first Inuyasha movie for like the 5,000 time and only now I realized Myoga reveals Sess and Inu's father's name. Sorry for the inconvience.
-Crayons And Root Beer