Geez, it takes me forever just to update. Sorries for taking so long!!!!
This chappie takes place about one week after she saves Sesshie and Inu's butts. Oh yeah, btw, maybe I didn't make this clear or explain it well, when she was saving the bro's butts, her face was covered so they didn't know who she was ok? Good. Now on to the story!
Disclaimer: You know the drill. Not mine...
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Chapter Six
I was in a dark forest coming from a recent job. Well, it was night, way too late for someone younger than me to stay up. With one final stroke of my blood stained hanky, my sword was as good as new. I tucked the bloody handkerchief in my pouch to be cleaned later. The dead leaves and twigs snapped beneath my foot as I walked across the forest floor.
'Damn, these late night excursions are wearing me out... I wonder if uncle would allow me to get a night off?...'
Then a small noise made me turn around, drawing my sword out in attack position.
"Who's there!?" I demanded.
'Great. I don't have time to deal with the boogieman. I got another assassination to do in the morning and I have got to get my bath and beauty sleep somewhere! I mean it, two hours of sleep everyday is bound to make you go crazy and I don't want to smell like horse dung before I go to work....'
A figure emerged form the dark slowly, and then I dropped from attack position with a sigh.
"Kagome," the person said.
"Geez Sango! You could have told me! I'm tired and I want to go home!" I almost screamed at her.
"Well sorry for interrupting your time to yourself Mrs. Grouch, but your uncle told me to get you just in case you ran into some kind of trouble cause you are about... oh-ten minutes late," she pointed out as a matter of fact.
"Gee thanks for being a friend."
"No prob! That's what friends are for!"
We walked for a bit in silence. It was cold. Cold like, well, cold. I never noticed how cold it was until recently.
"Hey Kag," Sango finally spoke up.
"Yeah?"
"How come it took you so long to kill the guy?"
I sighed, "It's pretty strange cause I didn't think it take that long too because as you've heard, the guy's got a thing for women, he loves 'em right? Well, I thought, piece of cake! But the guy just takes a while..."
You see, what happened was that I took the assignment to assassinate this one big top-notch diplomat guy who's really admired and loved by these two kingdoms right? Well, the two kingdoms hate each other and have always fought the other just because they hate each other. That's stupid; it's like two five-year olds fighting over a piece of candy.
Anyways, he's supposed to go to this one place for a secret meeting with the two leaders of the two kingdoms and supposedly, he's supposed to have a solution for the two, but he only knows what it is. Well, tomorrow night, he was supposed to go over there, but tonight, he was spending the night at an inn. Well, I just so happened to be a kitchen wench (one of my oh-so-famous disguises that fools even the highest politician), who lost her previous job and begged the innkeeper for a job.
Of course, the innkeeper knew that the diplomat guy would be coming for whatever the reason, he didn't care cause business was business. So he hired me on the spot. I was his best waitress in a matter of minutes and the inn keeper immediately liked me and put me to the task of "entertaining" the diplomat cause the guy just loved girls (especially virgins, but that's another story). So when he arrived with quite a lot, but not so suspicious lot of soldiers, I immediately flung myself at him and he "liked" me right away. I flirted and played with him all evening.
My plan was to get him so drunk that he couldn't lift a finger against me and take him to his room for "private entertainment." Which did happen, but it took a while. His soldiers laughed at his antics to take me upstairs by himself, but I took him up and told the inn keeper and the soldiers not to expect us until the morning, which they laughed at and continued drinking, understanding the meaning behind my words, but not truly knowing what my true intentions were or who I was.
I brought him to his room and told him to turn around so I could "get ready." He was drunk, but not too drunk and there was a bit of struggling before I could make my move. He pinned me to the bed ready to take me, but at that instant, I was afraid. Strange, a great assassin who is feared by many and has no fear in killing, fears that a man with no fighting skill is about to take her. I was afraid and began to struggle, then realization hit me and I grabbed my well-hidden knife.
Before he could even comprehend what had happened, I stabbed him through, but I missed the damn bastard's heart. We made too much noise and I thanked the gods that the soldiers didn't come up because they thought we were having "fun." It took awhile, but I accomplished my task. With a quick prayer to the dead, I made my exit...
"So you fumbled, so what? You got the task done," said Sango.
"No, that's not it. I would rather have my targets killed in one hit or possible two. I want to take as few strikes as possible so my targets wouldn't suffer in their last moments, but I messed up. It took me so many tries and I know that he was in immense pain for his last minutes. He was resilient and very resistant. He was very strong despite the fact that he couldn't fight. Sango, I think... this treaty, the solution he was going to present to the two leaders, I think it meant a lot to him..."
"Are you having second thoughts?" Sango asked me with concern in her voice.
Second thoughts?.. I was confused. How much longer did we have to be assassins? For the rest of our lives? I had been one since I was a child. Now that I was older, I was tired of seeing so many die by my hands... Would Souta have been one too if he hadn't died?...
"Maybe..." I whispered.
Sango sighed, "Well, they're going to have a long war on their hands and we helped cause it."
Suddenly, I felt something around me and I whipped my head to the side and my hand suddenly went to my sword. Sure enough, a figure stood alone in the darkness beneath the tall trees.
"Who are you!? Show yourself!" Sango yelled with her big boomerang in her hand.
"Miss, I am in desperate need of your help..." the voice called out, not to Sango, but to me.
I gasped, that voice!..
From the darkness, came a white haired, yellow-eyed hanyou prince whose name was Inuyasha.
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Okay, this is a long chappie. I know, I know. It's boring! But you must sacrifice a few chappies to get some info across...right? Well, don't worry, I PROMISE to make the next chappies better!!!
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Agh. My stories are getting boring. I should hurry up and get to the good parts huh.
Okies, Inu-chan and his pals belong to Rumiko Takahashi and Viz. This story will forever and ever and ever belong to me!
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Chapter Seven
"Lord Inuyasha! What an honor it is to see one such as yourself among Shatura's Lost Children!" announced my uncle who bowed so low that I thought he would fall.
The thought of him falling made me giggle. Sango looked at me questionably and I coughed, pretending that it was nothing. We had just arrived in town and there were so many people around us.
Inuyasha had presented himself to Sango and me just earlier. He had a favor to ask of us, of Shatura's Lost Children. I didn't know what to do and I wasn't leader so I had to take him to my uncle. Sango and I had to blindfold him and then I sent Sango ahead to tell my uncle of the prince. When we arrived, the place was clean and people were waiting for us, especially my uncle.
"Kagome," my uncle suddenly interrupted my thoughts.
I jumped, "Yes uncle?"
"You look tired. Go take a bath and go to sleep. Remember, you have another task to be done in the morning," he reminded me with a get-out-of-here-look.
"Okay," I smiled and bowed to both him and the prince.
Uncle led Lord Inuyasha to his house at the end of town. When I saw them out of sight, everyone started to surround me.
"Kagome! How come you brought the prince here?"
"How was the assignment?"
"We heard that you were coming with the prince from Sango so we rushed out to see!"
"Did you have to fight the guy's soldiers?"
"How long have you known him?"
"Did the guy fight back?"
"Are you two secretly dating?"
Before I could respond to their questions, I kicked the person with the last comment in the stomach, which was followed by one of Sango's usual slaps across the head.
"Miroku, just cause you're a guest here by my uncle doesn't entitle you to ask those questions," I snarled at him as all eyes trailed over to the lecherous monk.
Sango managed to dismiss all the onlookers from our little scene before she returned to us.
"I was just wondering Mistress Kagome..." he replied innocently.
"Uh huh... And that would explain why your hand is wondering why it's heading towards my behind?"
Sango jump kicked him in the face and he went flying over some bushes.
"Make sure he's alive will you? I gotta go take a bath," I told her.
"Sure, if not, I'll just knock him unconscious," she replied with a devilish grin.
"Yeah, but don't kill him. Well, good night Sango-chan."
"Good night Kagome."
I went off to my house to grab my things for the bath and continue on from there. A small breeze swept past me as I took off my clothes before I got in the hot spring. I shivered.
'Tonight's a little colder than usual...'
I slipped into the warm waters and breathed a sigh of relaxation. My head rested up against the dry bank. Just then a thought ran into my head.
'What did Lord Inuyasha want? It must be important if he wants to ask us for a favor...'
My mind suddenly trailed off that to the incident that happened a week ago, when the two demons tried to kill the two brothers.
'Who would want to kill the royal family of Shatura? I hope we get some more info from uncle's spies...'
There was a slight pain in my chest. My hand suddenly grasped it as I took in a huge breath. After I had found Inuyasha, I fainted from the effects of the paaj-ua-zoo that had caught up with me quicker than I thought and the lost of blood I had. When I woke up, I found myself in the shrine again in the morning with my wound bandaged well and a splitting headache that was ready to tear me in half.
I couldn't remember much of what had happened later that night, but I remember waking up several times that someone with white hair and yellow eyes was dressing my wound. I remembered that I was warm from something furry that was vaguely familiar but I couldn't remember what it was. I felt at peace from his clawed hands. Who was that?..
My heart seemed to skip a beat and I blushed.
'What? Why am I blushing? Just cause some guy touches me like that doesn't mean...'
I blushed even more before anger overtook me.
'But he touched me! Nobody touches Crimson Dream! The assassin of a thousand faces dos not fall easily to the hands of a man who touches her in the wrong places without her permission!... Even if he... even if he makes you feel warm and...'
The "L" word almost slipped in and I shrugged it off and I dipped my head into the water to wash my face. Gosh, how long had I been in the water?
"Kagome!" Sango's voice tore through the silence.
I sighed out of frustration of having my peace and quiet broken, "What is it!?"
"Your uncle wants you to go to his house right now! He says that it's urgent!" he replied.
I sighed again, "Okay! Just give me a few minutes!"
'I need some peace and quiet. One normal day without the screaming and yelling and work wouldn't be too bad now would it?'
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It seems boring. Man, I'd better spice it up a bit soon huh? (^_^) R and R please!
This chappie takes place about one week after she saves Sesshie and Inu's butts. Oh yeah, btw, maybe I didn't make this clear or explain it well, when she was saving the bro's butts, her face was covered so they didn't know who she was ok? Good. Now on to the story!
Disclaimer: You know the drill. Not mine...
******************************************************************
Chapter Six
I was in a dark forest coming from a recent job. Well, it was night, way too late for someone younger than me to stay up. With one final stroke of my blood stained hanky, my sword was as good as new. I tucked the bloody handkerchief in my pouch to be cleaned later. The dead leaves and twigs snapped beneath my foot as I walked across the forest floor.
'Damn, these late night excursions are wearing me out... I wonder if uncle would allow me to get a night off?...'
Then a small noise made me turn around, drawing my sword out in attack position.
"Who's there!?" I demanded.
'Great. I don't have time to deal with the boogieman. I got another assassination to do in the morning and I have got to get my bath and beauty sleep somewhere! I mean it, two hours of sleep everyday is bound to make you go crazy and I don't want to smell like horse dung before I go to work....'
A figure emerged form the dark slowly, and then I dropped from attack position with a sigh.
"Kagome," the person said.
"Geez Sango! You could have told me! I'm tired and I want to go home!" I almost screamed at her.
"Well sorry for interrupting your time to yourself Mrs. Grouch, but your uncle told me to get you just in case you ran into some kind of trouble cause you are about... oh-ten minutes late," she pointed out as a matter of fact.
"Gee thanks for being a friend."
"No prob! That's what friends are for!"
We walked for a bit in silence. It was cold. Cold like, well, cold. I never noticed how cold it was until recently.
"Hey Kag," Sango finally spoke up.
"Yeah?"
"How come it took you so long to kill the guy?"
I sighed, "It's pretty strange cause I didn't think it take that long too because as you've heard, the guy's got a thing for women, he loves 'em right? Well, I thought, piece of cake! But the guy just takes a while..."
You see, what happened was that I took the assignment to assassinate this one big top-notch diplomat guy who's really admired and loved by these two kingdoms right? Well, the two kingdoms hate each other and have always fought the other just because they hate each other. That's stupid; it's like two five-year olds fighting over a piece of candy.
Anyways, he's supposed to go to this one place for a secret meeting with the two leaders of the two kingdoms and supposedly, he's supposed to have a solution for the two, but he only knows what it is. Well, tomorrow night, he was supposed to go over there, but tonight, he was spending the night at an inn. Well, I just so happened to be a kitchen wench (one of my oh-so-famous disguises that fools even the highest politician), who lost her previous job and begged the innkeeper for a job.
Of course, the innkeeper knew that the diplomat guy would be coming for whatever the reason, he didn't care cause business was business. So he hired me on the spot. I was his best waitress in a matter of minutes and the inn keeper immediately liked me and put me to the task of "entertaining" the diplomat cause the guy just loved girls (especially virgins, but that's another story). So when he arrived with quite a lot, but not so suspicious lot of soldiers, I immediately flung myself at him and he "liked" me right away. I flirted and played with him all evening.
My plan was to get him so drunk that he couldn't lift a finger against me and take him to his room for "private entertainment." Which did happen, but it took a while. His soldiers laughed at his antics to take me upstairs by himself, but I took him up and told the inn keeper and the soldiers not to expect us until the morning, which they laughed at and continued drinking, understanding the meaning behind my words, but not truly knowing what my true intentions were or who I was.
I brought him to his room and told him to turn around so I could "get ready." He was drunk, but not too drunk and there was a bit of struggling before I could make my move. He pinned me to the bed ready to take me, but at that instant, I was afraid. Strange, a great assassin who is feared by many and has no fear in killing, fears that a man with no fighting skill is about to take her. I was afraid and began to struggle, then realization hit me and I grabbed my well-hidden knife.
Before he could even comprehend what had happened, I stabbed him through, but I missed the damn bastard's heart. We made too much noise and I thanked the gods that the soldiers didn't come up because they thought we were having "fun." It took awhile, but I accomplished my task. With a quick prayer to the dead, I made my exit...
"So you fumbled, so what? You got the task done," said Sango.
"No, that's not it. I would rather have my targets killed in one hit or possible two. I want to take as few strikes as possible so my targets wouldn't suffer in their last moments, but I messed up. It took me so many tries and I know that he was in immense pain for his last minutes. He was resilient and very resistant. He was very strong despite the fact that he couldn't fight. Sango, I think... this treaty, the solution he was going to present to the two leaders, I think it meant a lot to him..."
"Are you having second thoughts?" Sango asked me with concern in her voice.
Second thoughts?.. I was confused. How much longer did we have to be assassins? For the rest of our lives? I had been one since I was a child. Now that I was older, I was tired of seeing so many die by my hands... Would Souta have been one too if he hadn't died?...
"Maybe..." I whispered.
Sango sighed, "Well, they're going to have a long war on their hands and we helped cause it."
Suddenly, I felt something around me and I whipped my head to the side and my hand suddenly went to my sword. Sure enough, a figure stood alone in the darkness beneath the tall trees.
"Who are you!? Show yourself!" Sango yelled with her big boomerang in her hand.
"Miss, I am in desperate need of your help..." the voice called out, not to Sango, but to me.
I gasped, that voice!..
From the darkness, came a white haired, yellow-eyed hanyou prince whose name was Inuyasha.
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Okay, this is a long chappie. I know, I know. It's boring! But you must sacrifice a few chappies to get some info across...right? Well, don't worry, I PROMISE to make the next chappies better!!!
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
Agh. My stories are getting boring. I should hurry up and get to the good parts huh.
Okies, Inu-chan and his pals belong to Rumiko Takahashi and Viz. This story will forever and ever and ever belong to me!
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Chapter Seven
"Lord Inuyasha! What an honor it is to see one such as yourself among Shatura's Lost Children!" announced my uncle who bowed so low that I thought he would fall.
The thought of him falling made me giggle. Sango looked at me questionably and I coughed, pretending that it was nothing. We had just arrived in town and there were so many people around us.
Inuyasha had presented himself to Sango and me just earlier. He had a favor to ask of us, of Shatura's Lost Children. I didn't know what to do and I wasn't leader so I had to take him to my uncle. Sango and I had to blindfold him and then I sent Sango ahead to tell my uncle of the prince. When we arrived, the place was clean and people were waiting for us, especially my uncle.
"Kagome," my uncle suddenly interrupted my thoughts.
I jumped, "Yes uncle?"
"You look tired. Go take a bath and go to sleep. Remember, you have another task to be done in the morning," he reminded me with a get-out-of-here-look.
"Okay," I smiled and bowed to both him and the prince.
Uncle led Lord Inuyasha to his house at the end of town. When I saw them out of sight, everyone started to surround me.
"Kagome! How come you brought the prince here?"
"How was the assignment?"
"We heard that you were coming with the prince from Sango so we rushed out to see!"
"Did you have to fight the guy's soldiers?"
"How long have you known him?"
"Did the guy fight back?"
"Are you two secretly dating?"
Before I could respond to their questions, I kicked the person with the last comment in the stomach, which was followed by one of Sango's usual slaps across the head.
"Miroku, just cause you're a guest here by my uncle doesn't entitle you to ask those questions," I snarled at him as all eyes trailed over to the lecherous monk.
Sango managed to dismiss all the onlookers from our little scene before she returned to us.
"I was just wondering Mistress Kagome..." he replied innocently.
"Uh huh... And that would explain why your hand is wondering why it's heading towards my behind?"
Sango jump kicked him in the face and he went flying over some bushes.
"Make sure he's alive will you? I gotta go take a bath," I told her.
"Sure, if not, I'll just knock him unconscious," she replied with a devilish grin.
"Yeah, but don't kill him. Well, good night Sango-chan."
"Good night Kagome."
I went off to my house to grab my things for the bath and continue on from there. A small breeze swept past me as I took off my clothes before I got in the hot spring. I shivered.
'Tonight's a little colder than usual...'
I slipped into the warm waters and breathed a sigh of relaxation. My head rested up against the dry bank. Just then a thought ran into my head.
'What did Lord Inuyasha want? It must be important if he wants to ask us for a favor...'
My mind suddenly trailed off that to the incident that happened a week ago, when the two demons tried to kill the two brothers.
'Who would want to kill the royal family of Shatura? I hope we get some more info from uncle's spies...'
There was a slight pain in my chest. My hand suddenly grasped it as I took in a huge breath. After I had found Inuyasha, I fainted from the effects of the paaj-ua-zoo that had caught up with me quicker than I thought and the lost of blood I had. When I woke up, I found myself in the shrine again in the morning with my wound bandaged well and a splitting headache that was ready to tear me in half.
I couldn't remember much of what had happened later that night, but I remember waking up several times that someone with white hair and yellow eyes was dressing my wound. I remembered that I was warm from something furry that was vaguely familiar but I couldn't remember what it was. I felt at peace from his clawed hands. Who was that?..
My heart seemed to skip a beat and I blushed.
'What? Why am I blushing? Just cause some guy touches me like that doesn't mean...'
I blushed even more before anger overtook me.
'But he touched me! Nobody touches Crimson Dream! The assassin of a thousand faces dos not fall easily to the hands of a man who touches her in the wrong places without her permission!... Even if he... even if he makes you feel warm and...'
The "L" word almost slipped in and I shrugged it off and I dipped my head into the water to wash my face. Gosh, how long had I been in the water?
"Kagome!" Sango's voice tore through the silence.
I sighed out of frustration of having my peace and quiet broken, "What is it!?"
"Your uncle wants you to go to his house right now! He says that it's urgent!" he replied.
I sighed again, "Okay! Just give me a few minutes!"
'I need some peace and quiet. One normal day without the screaming and yelling and work wouldn't be too bad now would it?'
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It seems boring. Man, I'd better spice it up a bit soon huh? (^_^) R and R please!