Unperfect Fairytale by DemonMiko
~*~Chapter 10~*~
The sun was sinking quickly as the group neared their destination. By that time, the sun had lessened its intensity and a cool breeze swept over the tired and exhausted group. A little while back, they began their second part of their journey on foot when they put their horses into one of the many Royal Stables. At the stable one of the stable hands informed them that their friend had passed by about and hour or two before and told them that she would set up camp for them.
Now as they emerged from the dark, cool forest, they came upon an already set up camp next to a small stream.
"Wow! Mei really out-did herself." Sango commented.
Kouga nodded, "Wonder where she is though."
"I, too, have been wondering about that." Miroku stated. He had been unusually quiet the whole journey and everyone turned to look at him. "What!?"
"Sorry Miroku, you've been so quiet and non-lecherous the whole time I completely forgot about you." Sango apologized with a giggle.
"My dear Sango, I feel so hurt."
"Would you two quit with the dramatics already?" Inuyasha barked.
"Yeah, we need to fix up our sleeping areas." Kagome replied cheerily. Then she noticed that someone was missing. No, not Mei but Kikyo. "Umm, where'd Kikyo go?"
For the first time that journey, the group panicked. They had no idea where the Princess went. And so Inuyasha took charge.
"Listen up: Kouga you scout around the area for her scent. Miroku search on foot and back-track. Kagome, Sango you two stay here incase she comes back. I'll search the area." The group replied to him with nods.
"Hey! What about me?" Shippo inquired.
Inuyasha looked at him carefully. "You stay here."
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Mei panted heavily as she came upon a cool cave. She scanned the area for any forms of life following her. Finding nothing, she stepped into the damp cave and shivered. The evil in the area was covering her in a veil, weakening her senses greatly.
She breathed in a calming breath and walked further into the cave. As she neared a small opening on the other side, she heard voices on the other side. As quietly as she could, she tip-toed to the entrance of the small chamber and heard that one of the voices was male and the other female.
The male voice sounded irritated. "I gave you specific orders and you evaded them. Do you dare do such a thing to me?"
"I'm sorry Naraku, but I had another way of handling the situation." The female voice replied.
Mei thought for a moment. 'Wait a minute,' her eyes widened in realization, 'that's Yura's voice. What would she be doing all the way out here?'
"That amuses me Yura. Continue. How do you plan to handle the situation?" The first voice, Naraku, asked coldly.
"What I wished to do was to control the Princesses Kikyo and Kagome. All I need is a jewel shard or two to complete the job. "
'How does she not know that Kagome is not a princess? Did Kikyo not bother to tell her or did she only think that 'Miko' was a nickname for Kagome? If that's the case, then she's even more stupid than I imagined. Oh, and what shards are she talking about?' Mei thought to herself.
"Listen, in an ancient scroll I discovered, I found a spell for mind and body control of a person. Any person I wished that is. And. . . ."
"You wanted to 'possess' Kikyo and Kagome to take over their reigning Dynasty." Naraku finished for her.
"How did you know? Of course, even Kikyo doesn't know about that. All she knows that I need some strands of hair and a shard or two." Yura questioned.
"I have my sources." He chuckled. "Why are you standing around for? Get moving!"
"Oh, but I already have. Kikyo won't know what hit her." Yura snickered.
Mei unconsciously took a step backwards causing a pebble to roll. She stopped dead in her tracks.
"What was that?" Naraku demanded.
"I don't know."
"Don't just stand there! Find out who or what it is and bring it to me." He ordered.
Mei heard footsteps heading in her direction. Her breathing faltered for a split second and she saw a shadow being cast in Yura's shape and form. . .
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"Kikyo!"
The dark forest echoed with the calling of Kikyo's name. They had been searching for close to an hour now and there was still no sign of Kikyo.
At the campsite, Sango and Kagome walked around impatiently for the group to return. Hopefully, with Kikyo.
"Kagome: stop panicking like that. Don't worry, they'll find her." Sango comforted her friend.
"I was in charge of where she went and what she did around here. I was ordered by the Queen to protect and watch her daughter and now I've failed. What will I do? If I go back there without Kikyo people will think that something's wrong and if I don't go back there people will know that something is wrong." Kagome broke out into soft sobs in the middle of her sentences.
Shippo sat on Kagome's knees and looked up at her. "Come on Kagome. You can't cry. You're strong. Please don't cry!" Shippo pleaded to his friend. When she didn't stop crying, Shippo began to have tears falling down his face. "Kagome, it's not your fault that Kikyo isn't here right now. So please, don't cry anymore."
Sango patted her friend on the back until her salty tears subsided. 'What a lousy birthday week this has been for Kagome.'
"I guess we'll have to see what happens later." Kagome finally decided. She wiped away one last tear.
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Kikyo hastily placed the small glass bottle containing the hair and resumed picking up miscellaneous herbs when she heard some twigs snapping just a few feet away from where she stood. She heard her name being called for the past half hour and ignored it. To her it didn't matter if people worried about where she was as long as she got to do what she wanted to do.
The first thing that Inuyasha saw as he neared a clearing was Kikyo sprinkling something strange into a bottle that contained something that was too small for him to see. A squirrel jumped from a branch to the ground and snapped some twigs.
'Damn squirrel! He blew my cover.' Inuyasha resisted strangling the innocent squirrel. Instead he started walking towards Kikyo.
"There you are! Do you know how damn worried we all are?" Inuyasha barked.
"I was merely collecting some herbs that Yura requested." Kikyo answered simply.
"I don't care what you were doing. You have to get to camp now!" Inuyasha yelled.
"Alright. . . I'll go to camp now." She replied to Inuyasha coldly.
They walked back to camp in silence. Kikyo ahead so she wouldn't escape again. Inuyasha grumbling to himself mentally about a damn squirrel blowing his cover the whole way.
As soon as Kikyo stepped into camp, Kagome ran and hugged her.
"Where in the world did you go? You know that the Queen or rather, Mother wanted me to be with you at all times." Kagome scolded her 'sister'. When she noticed that she was hugging Kikyo, the 'evil' Kikyo, like a worried sister, Kagome let go and jumped back.
Kikyo's eyes narrowed as Kagome said the word 'sister' but didn't do anything about it. "I'll make sure to inform you where I'll be next time."
Kouga entered the camp only a few seconds later. He almost said that he couldn't find Kikyo but stopped at the sight of her surrounded by Kagome and the others.
"Looks like everyone's back." Miroku told Sango quietly. By now everyone was finishing off their dinners. Sango and Miroku were sent off to collect firewood on a suggestion of Kagome's.
Sango nodded to what Miroku said and stopped abruptly. "Not everyone. Mei's still not back yet and she said that she would be back soon. Unless something bad happened . . . to her. . ." Sango broke off.
Her eyes narrowed in pure malice. "I knew that you couldn't drop your lechery for a day!"
Miroku innocently snatched his hand away from where it was only seconds before. "Whatever do you mean?" One look at Sango showed him that he should start running away as fast as he could but he just stood there stupidly. He smiled in Sango's direction, turned, and ran back to the camp.
"Oh, Miroku! Just where do you think you're going?" Sango ground out.
When he heard this, he just kept running. 'Oh shit! What did I get myself into?'
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Oh I know what you're thinking now!
"Will Sango kill Miroku? What happened to Mei? Why did you take so long to update?"
I really have no idea what you're thinking right now. Oh well. . .
Have a happy Thanksgiving weekend (for all of you that go to school) ^_^ I know I will. And I'll try to get another chappie in before the break is over. . . Keyword is 'TRY'.
( I'm happy. You know why? No, not the weekend but I finally got a screen name! It's DemonFoxL so AIM me sometime. *hint, hint*
~*~Chapter 10~*~
The sun was sinking quickly as the group neared their destination. By that time, the sun had lessened its intensity and a cool breeze swept over the tired and exhausted group. A little while back, they began their second part of their journey on foot when they put their horses into one of the many Royal Stables. At the stable one of the stable hands informed them that their friend had passed by about and hour or two before and told them that she would set up camp for them.
Now as they emerged from the dark, cool forest, they came upon an already set up camp next to a small stream.
"Wow! Mei really out-did herself." Sango commented.
Kouga nodded, "Wonder where she is though."
"I, too, have been wondering about that." Miroku stated. He had been unusually quiet the whole journey and everyone turned to look at him. "What!?"
"Sorry Miroku, you've been so quiet and non-lecherous the whole time I completely forgot about you." Sango apologized with a giggle.
"My dear Sango, I feel so hurt."
"Would you two quit with the dramatics already?" Inuyasha barked.
"Yeah, we need to fix up our sleeping areas." Kagome replied cheerily. Then she noticed that someone was missing. No, not Mei but Kikyo. "Umm, where'd Kikyo go?"
For the first time that journey, the group panicked. They had no idea where the Princess went. And so Inuyasha took charge.
"Listen up: Kouga you scout around the area for her scent. Miroku search on foot and back-track. Kagome, Sango you two stay here incase she comes back. I'll search the area." The group replied to him with nods.
"Hey! What about me?" Shippo inquired.
Inuyasha looked at him carefully. "You stay here."
_ - _ - _ - _ - _ - _ - _
Mei panted heavily as she came upon a cool cave. She scanned the area for any forms of life following her. Finding nothing, she stepped into the damp cave and shivered. The evil in the area was covering her in a veil, weakening her senses greatly.
She breathed in a calming breath and walked further into the cave. As she neared a small opening on the other side, she heard voices on the other side. As quietly as she could, she tip-toed to the entrance of the small chamber and heard that one of the voices was male and the other female.
The male voice sounded irritated. "I gave you specific orders and you evaded them. Do you dare do such a thing to me?"
"I'm sorry Naraku, but I had another way of handling the situation." The female voice replied.
Mei thought for a moment. 'Wait a minute,' her eyes widened in realization, 'that's Yura's voice. What would she be doing all the way out here?'
"That amuses me Yura. Continue. How do you plan to handle the situation?" The first voice, Naraku, asked coldly.
"What I wished to do was to control the Princesses Kikyo and Kagome. All I need is a jewel shard or two to complete the job. "
'How does she not know that Kagome is not a princess? Did Kikyo not bother to tell her or did she only think that 'Miko' was a nickname for Kagome? If that's the case, then she's even more stupid than I imagined. Oh, and what shards are she talking about?' Mei thought to herself.
"Listen, in an ancient scroll I discovered, I found a spell for mind and body control of a person. Any person I wished that is. And. . . ."
"You wanted to 'possess' Kikyo and Kagome to take over their reigning Dynasty." Naraku finished for her.
"How did you know? Of course, even Kikyo doesn't know about that. All she knows that I need some strands of hair and a shard or two." Yura questioned.
"I have my sources." He chuckled. "Why are you standing around for? Get moving!"
"Oh, but I already have. Kikyo won't know what hit her." Yura snickered.
Mei unconsciously took a step backwards causing a pebble to roll. She stopped dead in her tracks.
"What was that?" Naraku demanded.
"I don't know."
"Don't just stand there! Find out who or what it is and bring it to me." He ordered.
Mei heard footsteps heading in her direction. Her breathing faltered for a split second and she saw a shadow being cast in Yura's shape and form. . .
_ - _ - _ - _ - _ - _ - _
"Kikyo!"
The dark forest echoed with the calling of Kikyo's name. They had been searching for close to an hour now and there was still no sign of Kikyo.
At the campsite, Sango and Kagome walked around impatiently for the group to return. Hopefully, with Kikyo.
"Kagome: stop panicking like that. Don't worry, they'll find her." Sango comforted her friend.
"I was in charge of where she went and what she did around here. I was ordered by the Queen to protect and watch her daughter and now I've failed. What will I do? If I go back there without Kikyo people will think that something's wrong and if I don't go back there people will know that something is wrong." Kagome broke out into soft sobs in the middle of her sentences.
Shippo sat on Kagome's knees and looked up at her. "Come on Kagome. You can't cry. You're strong. Please don't cry!" Shippo pleaded to his friend. When she didn't stop crying, Shippo began to have tears falling down his face. "Kagome, it's not your fault that Kikyo isn't here right now. So please, don't cry anymore."
Sango patted her friend on the back until her salty tears subsided. 'What a lousy birthday week this has been for Kagome.'
"I guess we'll have to see what happens later." Kagome finally decided. She wiped away one last tear.
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Kikyo hastily placed the small glass bottle containing the hair and resumed picking up miscellaneous herbs when she heard some twigs snapping just a few feet away from where she stood. She heard her name being called for the past half hour and ignored it. To her it didn't matter if people worried about where she was as long as she got to do what she wanted to do.
The first thing that Inuyasha saw as he neared a clearing was Kikyo sprinkling something strange into a bottle that contained something that was too small for him to see. A squirrel jumped from a branch to the ground and snapped some twigs.
'Damn squirrel! He blew my cover.' Inuyasha resisted strangling the innocent squirrel. Instead he started walking towards Kikyo.
"There you are! Do you know how damn worried we all are?" Inuyasha barked.
"I was merely collecting some herbs that Yura requested." Kikyo answered simply.
"I don't care what you were doing. You have to get to camp now!" Inuyasha yelled.
"Alright. . . I'll go to camp now." She replied to Inuyasha coldly.
They walked back to camp in silence. Kikyo ahead so she wouldn't escape again. Inuyasha grumbling to himself mentally about a damn squirrel blowing his cover the whole way.
As soon as Kikyo stepped into camp, Kagome ran and hugged her.
"Where in the world did you go? You know that the Queen or rather, Mother wanted me to be with you at all times." Kagome scolded her 'sister'. When she noticed that she was hugging Kikyo, the 'evil' Kikyo, like a worried sister, Kagome let go and jumped back.
Kikyo's eyes narrowed as Kagome said the word 'sister' but didn't do anything about it. "I'll make sure to inform you where I'll be next time."
Kouga entered the camp only a few seconds later. He almost said that he couldn't find Kikyo but stopped at the sight of her surrounded by Kagome and the others.
"Looks like everyone's back." Miroku told Sango quietly. By now everyone was finishing off their dinners. Sango and Miroku were sent off to collect firewood on a suggestion of Kagome's.
Sango nodded to what Miroku said and stopped abruptly. "Not everyone. Mei's still not back yet and she said that she would be back soon. Unless something bad happened . . . to her. . ." Sango broke off.
Her eyes narrowed in pure malice. "I knew that you couldn't drop your lechery for a day!"
Miroku innocently snatched his hand away from where it was only seconds before. "Whatever do you mean?" One look at Sango showed him that he should start running away as fast as he could but he just stood there stupidly. He smiled in Sango's direction, turned, and ran back to the camp.
"Oh, Miroku! Just where do you think you're going?" Sango ground out.
When he heard this, he just kept running. 'Oh shit! What did I get myself into?'
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Oh I know what you're thinking now!
"Will Sango kill Miroku? What happened to Mei? Why did you take so long to update?"
I really have no idea what you're thinking right now. Oh well. . .
Have a happy Thanksgiving weekend (for all of you that go to school) ^_^ I know I will. And I'll try to get another chappie in before the break is over. . . Keyword is 'TRY'.
( I'm happy. You know why? No, not the weekend but I finally got a screen name! It's DemonFoxL so AIM me sometime. *hint, hint*