Okay, I haven't updated in a while because of my projects for school. They are a pain in the ass to do, but my mom and dad are really pushing it that I'd better get good grades cause my older two siblings were smart but seem to be failing now for some strange reason. Anyways, I've sorta figured out how to work the layout of the story and all. Many thanks to those of you who've given me advice. (^_^)
Well, anyway, this is going to be a little different. I'm going to be writing 1st person and 3rd person but don't get this wrong okay, Kagome does not know what's happening when I write 3rd person nor does anyone else know about it either, unless they do know about it. I'll probably not write too much on 3rd person, or whatever, but if I do, I'll tell you who's in it and what. Okay, let's get on with the story shall we? (^_~)
This story belongs to me, but Inuyasha and all other characters of it belong to Rumiko Takahashi, Viz and others who lay claims to it. Damn... the things you gotta do so you don't get sued...
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Chapter Four
Some guy...
A dark figure sat upon his throne, staring at nothing in particular, but almost as if he was in a trance. His servant gave him a side-glance and wondered what interested his master so that he would look at nothing. Fearful of what his master might do should he drop out of that trance, he decided to leave instead of taking on his master's vengeful wrath. He darted for the open door, which immediately closed the moment he was within two steps of it.
"And just where do you think you're going?" a seductive, cool voice rang out.
The servant froze, "M-master! I-"
Before he could turn around or even answer, he was consumed in fire. He couldn't even let out a scream, as he became ash in a matter of seconds. He was dead and gone.
The dark figure, formerly the master of the servant-now-a-heap-of-dust, closed his eyes and rubbed his temples. It didn't turn out the way he planned... but things would work out. They always did, besides, that was just part of the plan. Wait till they saw the rest...
Knock! Knock!
His eyes slid open and a short silence followed.
"Yes?..."
"Sire! There is a visitor here to see you!" the voice behind the door answered.
"And whom, may I ask, is that person?" he asked as if he didn't care.
"My lord, it is your cousin who has just come from his domain in the mountain," the voice answered with a shiver of fear.
Is it now?.. What does he want this time?...
"Does he travel with anyone?"
There was a short silence, "No my lord. He has traveled here... alone... And on foot might I add."
'Alone? On foot? How odd...'
"Do you want me to send him away, my lord?" the voice behind the door asked.
"No," sighed the dark lord, "send him in. His abruptness... interests me."
"If you say so my lord."
He heard the footsteps fade away into nothingness before he closed his eyes and thought back to the moment... Ah yes... He felt the girl's pain and it was pure ecstasy...
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Kagome...
By the time I awoke, I was in a small dark room with a little light from a candle beside me. I realized suddenly where I was and tried to stand, but a rush of nausea and pain struck me down to my laying position. I tried to remember the events of the evening. How did I get wounded like this?.. How long has it been?...
It was quiet... at least for a little while anyway.
"Stupid! I told you not to sling her over your shoulder like that!" a voice shouted from the outside.
"...Your point?" a cool, collective voice asked as if he was just asked the dumbest question in the world.
"She's wounded!"
By this time, I figured out who they were. The Princes Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru.
'Hey, I guess they found the way here after all...'
"Humans are weak...Just like your mother and you..." the calm, now angered voice, which probably belonged to Sesshoumaru, spoke.
"Shut up!" an enraged Inuyasha snapped.
"It's only fitting for another human to care for another weaker human, but in the end, humans are weak, even hanyou such as you, dear brother," I heard Sesshoumaru say with a scoff.
Next thing I knew, I heard trees falling, leaves rustling and fighting noises. Were they fighting? Gee, brotherly love...
I could barely get up.
'I've got to stop them before the enemy, whoever they are, finds us...'
As soon as I moved just the tiniest bit, pain washed over me like a waterfall falling down the edge. I tried to speak up, but a sound between a whimper and a scratch came out instead, which would barely catch their attention.
The fighting stopped. Actually, it did...
"Did you hear that?" Sesshoumaru asked alertly.
"I can't if you have me pinned to a tree and have me choking for breath!" Inuyasha sputtered.
"No... Something... Inuyasha, where are the horses?"
I heard something heavy drop and someone gasping deeply for air, "Like I'd know!?"
"You mean, you let them get away!?"
I could tell that Sesshoumaru was getting pissed off.
"Why? What's wrong with that?" coughed Inuyasha.
"There was something strange about those horses. Father says that they were given to us a couple of days before, but..."
"But what?"
'Horses?... Wait... Uncle said that the real assassin was... If those assassins weren't the real assassins and only the distracters then... Can demons take the form of...?'
"Very smart your highnesses..." a cackling, but melodious voice called out.
"But unfortunately for you, it's too late!" a darker, thunderous voice boomed.
Here we were, deep in the forest and with no one else around but us...
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Harharhar! Okay, not much happening, but yes... KAGOME IS ALIVE!!! REJOICE! Thar be angels! (*o*) Okay, anyway, review please? (^_^)
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Man, some night ago, I stayed up till 3:30 (AM!!!!!) doing my nonfiction book report for my AmX class and guess what? There was no book report assignment!!!!!! GAH!!!! I stayed up for nothing!!!!!
Anyways, sorries for the long delay. I know that some of you want to hit me with a sledgehammer so I really apologize!!!!! I had soooooooo much homework to do and a homework that wasn't even assigned!!!! I will make it up to you readers!!!! (Somehow....)
Oh btw, some of you asked about that one secret place in the woods. Well, I forgot to mention that they're there at that place. Yes, it's secret, but Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru know of the place. I will explain about it in the story later. Thanks for pointing this out to me! I will add it in for the previous chapter at some point...
Okay, Inuyasha and all others belong to Takahashi-san and Viz and... and... the other guys involved in it.
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Chapter Five
Have you ever jammed your thumb in the door? Or prick your fingers on the thorns of a rosebush? Or even had a splinter that was such a bothersome to take out, but hurt so much you wanted to just dig it out with a knife? Well, you're in luck cause that was just small fry compared to the pain I was feeling, when I tried to get up, just made me want to pull myself to shreds. Ew. Nasty picture, forget about that. Anyway, I had to get up because I could hear my princes in trouble and pain or not, I had to go deal with the demons.
Demons are not what I'm best at. They're actually more in Sango's category...
I slowly got up against the wall behind me and quickly dragged myself while grasping onto my wound towards the open door.
Ching!
"Really Prince Sesshoumaru, is that all that you, the son of a great, but foolish demon lord, can do? Hah! The humans have softened you too much!" I heard a voice cackle.
Then I heard a yell as I made it out the door and looked into the dark night. It was dark, but the torches around the shrine were the only things illuminating the place. I fiddled around the small pouch that was tied to the sash that came with the outfit I wore. I took out several pieces of paaj-ua-zoo (pronounced pahng ouwa zhong- it's Hmong but see if you can pronounce it! (~_^)) that Sango's people had given to me before the parade. I stuffed it into my mouth, chewed it as quick as I could and swallowed, hoping my body would go numb before I got into combat.
With one deep breath, I ran around the corner and slammed right into something that felt like feathers-wait, correction, that felt like fur. The furry thing went down just as I had wanted it to do as I tumbled down too. I couldn't even feel the furry thing that was now beneath me, just that he was white.
'Good,' I thought to myself, 'the paaj-ua-zoo's working!'
Something quickly whipped past my hair, barely missing me, but the something (which was one of the other demons) was very unlucky. I grabbed my sword around my waist and turned, slashing something that squirted blood on me like a waterfall. The thing came down lifeless on top of me, blanketing me with its own blood. I shoved it off.
"Woman! Get off me!" I heard the furry thing beneath me demand before I could get my thoughts organized.
Clink!
My own sword stopped a sword above me.
"I'm...sorry...my lord," I struggled to say to the one below me, "but I'm...in sorta...pickle here!"
The remaining demon was pushing down with all his might as I was pushing up with all of my might. I couldn't even feel my own blood flowing out of my open wound.
"Wench! You will suffer immeasurable pain the moment I am through with you!" the demon above me snarled.
I could feel the pressure pushing down on me and I was losing, that much I knew, but I didn't know if my body was tired or in pain. That was the miracle of paaj-ua-zoo. It's a plant that's able to nullify your body of any pain or feeling and gives you more power, but if too much is taken, you might as well get your coffin ready cause it'll kill you. It's only temporary, about a few hours before its effects are gone, then you're gonna wish that you never took it. You'll get this horrible hangover like you drunk too much the night before and you'll feel like shit, only it'll hurt, a lot, like somebody just stabbed you everywhere at once. I only use it for the most desperate times, like right now because of the pain I had.
"I'm sorry...but I'm not...too sure...that you could hurt me...that much!" I grunted.
With all that I had (I think), I pushed up and the demon went sprawling backwards to his back. I stood up and the person beneath me got up and growled. I thought it was me he was angry at, well, he was still angry at me, but he directed his anger at the demon who was struggling to get up.
Sesshoumaru lunged forward and grabbed the demon's throat with an angry snarl.
"Fool! Who are you to interfere with me!?" he demanded.
I thought he meant me so I answered, "WELL, I'm sorry I hurt your pride, YOUR HIGHNESS, but I did it only to save your life as well as his highness Lord Inuyasha who appears missing at the moment."
'Yeah, where was he?'
He gave me an angry and annoyed glare that said you-loser-I-wasn't-talking-to-you. I shrugged and he returned his anger to the demon he held in his claws.
'Looks like somebody woke up on the wrong side of the king size bed this morning...'
"Why are you attacking us?" Sesshoumaru's now mellowed out, but still angry voice demanded.
"Hehehe... That's for us to know and for you to die, Lord Sesshoumaru!" the demon choked, but mocked him evilly.
Sesshoumaru's eyes narrowed and he snapped the poor demon's neck. He was dead in less than a second. The dead body fell back to the ground as Sesshoumaru cleaned his bloodied hand as if it was some sort of holy relic.
"Lord Sesshoumaru, where is your brother?" I asked him.
Sesshoumaru turned his back to me and went to retrieve his sword, which was stuck in a tree.
'Did he just cold-shoulder me?'
"Nobles..." I scoffed quietly.
'Here's one brother, where's the other?...'
"Sesshoumaru! You jackass! Get me down! You had no right to hang me up here like wet laundry!" I heard Inuyasha shout.
'Well, at least I know where the other one is at now...'
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Okay, I was kind of in a hurry to finish this chapter so it's bad. Is it long? It looks kinda long to me. Oh yeah, I had mentioned this thing up there that Kagome had eaten called paaj-ua-zoo. It translates into "flower that makes you better" in Hmong. Okay, not very good translation (but it's close enough), but it was made up by me and exists in this world I created so it might come up a lot. Anyways, R & R.
Well, anyway, this is going to be a little different. I'm going to be writing 1st person and 3rd person but don't get this wrong okay, Kagome does not know what's happening when I write 3rd person nor does anyone else know about it either, unless they do know about it. I'll probably not write too much on 3rd person, or whatever, but if I do, I'll tell you who's in it and what. Okay, let's get on with the story shall we? (^_~)
This story belongs to me, but Inuyasha and all other characters of it belong to Rumiko Takahashi, Viz and others who lay claims to it. Damn... the things you gotta do so you don't get sued...
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Chapter Four
Some guy...
A dark figure sat upon his throne, staring at nothing in particular, but almost as if he was in a trance. His servant gave him a side-glance and wondered what interested his master so that he would look at nothing. Fearful of what his master might do should he drop out of that trance, he decided to leave instead of taking on his master's vengeful wrath. He darted for the open door, which immediately closed the moment he was within two steps of it.
"And just where do you think you're going?" a seductive, cool voice rang out.
The servant froze, "M-master! I-"
Before he could turn around or even answer, he was consumed in fire. He couldn't even let out a scream, as he became ash in a matter of seconds. He was dead and gone.
The dark figure, formerly the master of the servant-now-a-heap-of-dust, closed his eyes and rubbed his temples. It didn't turn out the way he planned... but things would work out. They always did, besides, that was just part of the plan. Wait till they saw the rest...
Knock! Knock!
His eyes slid open and a short silence followed.
"Yes?..."
"Sire! There is a visitor here to see you!" the voice behind the door answered.
"And whom, may I ask, is that person?" he asked as if he didn't care.
"My lord, it is your cousin who has just come from his domain in the mountain," the voice answered with a shiver of fear.
Is it now?.. What does he want this time?...
"Does he travel with anyone?"
There was a short silence, "No my lord. He has traveled here... alone... And on foot might I add."
'Alone? On foot? How odd...'
"Do you want me to send him away, my lord?" the voice behind the door asked.
"No," sighed the dark lord, "send him in. His abruptness... interests me."
"If you say so my lord."
He heard the footsteps fade away into nothingness before he closed his eyes and thought back to the moment... Ah yes... He felt the girl's pain and it was pure ecstasy...
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Kagome...
By the time I awoke, I was in a small dark room with a little light from a candle beside me. I realized suddenly where I was and tried to stand, but a rush of nausea and pain struck me down to my laying position. I tried to remember the events of the evening. How did I get wounded like this?.. How long has it been?...
It was quiet... at least for a little while anyway.
"Stupid! I told you not to sling her over your shoulder like that!" a voice shouted from the outside.
"...Your point?" a cool, collective voice asked as if he was just asked the dumbest question in the world.
"She's wounded!"
By this time, I figured out who they were. The Princes Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru.
'Hey, I guess they found the way here after all...'
"Humans are weak...Just like your mother and you..." the calm, now angered voice, which probably belonged to Sesshoumaru, spoke.
"Shut up!" an enraged Inuyasha snapped.
"It's only fitting for another human to care for another weaker human, but in the end, humans are weak, even hanyou such as you, dear brother," I heard Sesshoumaru say with a scoff.
Next thing I knew, I heard trees falling, leaves rustling and fighting noises. Were they fighting? Gee, brotherly love...
I could barely get up.
'I've got to stop them before the enemy, whoever they are, finds us...'
As soon as I moved just the tiniest bit, pain washed over me like a waterfall falling down the edge. I tried to speak up, but a sound between a whimper and a scratch came out instead, which would barely catch their attention.
The fighting stopped. Actually, it did...
"Did you hear that?" Sesshoumaru asked alertly.
"I can't if you have me pinned to a tree and have me choking for breath!" Inuyasha sputtered.
"No... Something... Inuyasha, where are the horses?"
I heard something heavy drop and someone gasping deeply for air, "Like I'd know!?"
"You mean, you let them get away!?"
I could tell that Sesshoumaru was getting pissed off.
"Why? What's wrong with that?" coughed Inuyasha.
"There was something strange about those horses. Father says that they were given to us a couple of days before, but..."
"But what?"
'Horses?... Wait... Uncle said that the real assassin was... If those assassins weren't the real assassins and only the distracters then... Can demons take the form of...?'
"Very smart your highnesses..." a cackling, but melodious voice called out.
"But unfortunately for you, it's too late!" a darker, thunderous voice boomed.
Here we were, deep in the forest and with no one else around but us...
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Harharhar! Okay, not much happening, but yes... KAGOME IS ALIVE!!! REJOICE! Thar be angels! (*o*) Okay, anyway, review please? (^_^)
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Man, some night ago, I stayed up till 3:30 (AM!!!!!) doing my nonfiction book report for my AmX class and guess what? There was no book report assignment!!!!!! GAH!!!! I stayed up for nothing!!!!!
Anyways, sorries for the long delay. I know that some of you want to hit me with a sledgehammer so I really apologize!!!!! I had soooooooo much homework to do and a homework that wasn't even assigned!!!! I will make it up to you readers!!!! (Somehow....)
Oh btw, some of you asked about that one secret place in the woods. Well, I forgot to mention that they're there at that place. Yes, it's secret, but Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru know of the place. I will explain about it in the story later. Thanks for pointing this out to me! I will add it in for the previous chapter at some point...
Okay, Inuyasha and all others belong to Takahashi-san and Viz and... and... the other guys involved in it.
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Chapter Five
Have you ever jammed your thumb in the door? Or prick your fingers on the thorns of a rosebush? Or even had a splinter that was such a bothersome to take out, but hurt so much you wanted to just dig it out with a knife? Well, you're in luck cause that was just small fry compared to the pain I was feeling, when I tried to get up, just made me want to pull myself to shreds. Ew. Nasty picture, forget about that. Anyway, I had to get up because I could hear my princes in trouble and pain or not, I had to go deal with the demons.
Demons are not what I'm best at. They're actually more in Sango's category...
I slowly got up against the wall behind me and quickly dragged myself while grasping onto my wound towards the open door.
Ching!
"Really Prince Sesshoumaru, is that all that you, the son of a great, but foolish demon lord, can do? Hah! The humans have softened you too much!" I heard a voice cackle.
Then I heard a yell as I made it out the door and looked into the dark night. It was dark, but the torches around the shrine were the only things illuminating the place. I fiddled around the small pouch that was tied to the sash that came with the outfit I wore. I took out several pieces of paaj-ua-zoo (pronounced pahng ouwa zhong- it's Hmong but see if you can pronounce it! (~_^)) that Sango's people had given to me before the parade. I stuffed it into my mouth, chewed it as quick as I could and swallowed, hoping my body would go numb before I got into combat.
With one deep breath, I ran around the corner and slammed right into something that felt like feathers-wait, correction, that felt like fur. The furry thing went down just as I had wanted it to do as I tumbled down too. I couldn't even feel the furry thing that was now beneath me, just that he was white.
'Good,' I thought to myself, 'the paaj-ua-zoo's working!'
Something quickly whipped past my hair, barely missing me, but the something (which was one of the other demons) was very unlucky. I grabbed my sword around my waist and turned, slashing something that squirted blood on me like a waterfall. The thing came down lifeless on top of me, blanketing me with its own blood. I shoved it off.
"Woman! Get off me!" I heard the furry thing beneath me demand before I could get my thoughts organized.
Clink!
My own sword stopped a sword above me.
"I'm...sorry...my lord," I struggled to say to the one below me, "but I'm...in sorta...pickle here!"
The remaining demon was pushing down with all his might as I was pushing up with all of my might. I couldn't even feel my own blood flowing out of my open wound.
"Wench! You will suffer immeasurable pain the moment I am through with you!" the demon above me snarled.
I could feel the pressure pushing down on me and I was losing, that much I knew, but I didn't know if my body was tired or in pain. That was the miracle of paaj-ua-zoo. It's a plant that's able to nullify your body of any pain or feeling and gives you more power, but if too much is taken, you might as well get your coffin ready cause it'll kill you. It's only temporary, about a few hours before its effects are gone, then you're gonna wish that you never took it. You'll get this horrible hangover like you drunk too much the night before and you'll feel like shit, only it'll hurt, a lot, like somebody just stabbed you everywhere at once. I only use it for the most desperate times, like right now because of the pain I had.
"I'm sorry...but I'm not...too sure...that you could hurt me...that much!" I grunted.
With all that I had (I think), I pushed up and the demon went sprawling backwards to his back. I stood up and the person beneath me got up and growled. I thought it was me he was angry at, well, he was still angry at me, but he directed his anger at the demon who was struggling to get up.
Sesshoumaru lunged forward and grabbed the demon's throat with an angry snarl.
"Fool! Who are you to interfere with me!?" he demanded.
I thought he meant me so I answered, "WELL, I'm sorry I hurt your pride, YOUR HIGHNESS, but I did it only to save your life as well as his highness Lord Inuyasha who appears missing at the moment."
'Yeah, where was he?'
He gave me an angry and annoyed glare that said you-loser-I-wasn't-talking-to-you. I shrugged and he returned his anger to the demon he held in his claws.
'Looks like somebody woke up on the wrong side of the king size bed this morning...'
"Why are you attacking us?" Sesshoumaru's now mellowed out, but still angry voice demanded.
"Hehehe... That's for us to know and for you to die, Lord Sesshoumaru!" the demon choked, but mocked him evilly.
Sesshoumaru's eyes narrowed and he snapped the poor demon's neck. He was dead in less than a second. The dead body fell back to the ground as Sesshoumaru cleaned his bloodied hand as if it was some sort of holy relic.
"Lord Sesshoumaru, where is your brother?" I asked him.
Sesshoumaru turned his back to me and went to retrieve his sword, which was stuck in a tree.
'Did he just cold-shoulder me?'
"Nobles..." I scoffed quietly.
'Here's one brother, where's the other?...'
"Sesshoumaru! You jackass! Get me down! You had no right to hang me up here like wet laundry!" I heard Inuyasha shout.
'Well, at least I know where the other one is at now...'
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Okay, I was kind of in a hurry to finish this chapter so it's bad. Is it long? It looks kinda long to me. Oh yeah, I had mentioned this thing up there that Kagome had eaten called paaj-ua-zoo. It translates into "flower that makes you better" in Hmong. Okay, not very good translation (but it's close enough), but it was made up by me and exists in this world I created so it might come up a lot. Anyways, R & R.