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Chapter Seven: A Girl of Six
"Uhhh..." Kagome moaned and turned over. "What's that powerful aura?" She asked.
Gesshoku sat up, shaking her head.
"Rin... Rin healed Kirara or something..." It took Gesshoku a while for it to finally process in her head. Rin HEALED the cat demon.
"RIN CHAN! RIN? RIN!" Gesshoku started yelling. She looked everywhere but couldn't see the child.
"Shut up wench. She is sleeping." Sesshoumaru sat in a tree above them, holding the sleeping child, you, in turn, was holding onto Kirara.
"Why are you holding her?" Gesshoku asked. Sesshoumaru glared.
"Were you not affected by the blast?" Kagome asked. Sesshoumaru gazed down at Kagome.
"It has after effects, if that's what you mean." He answered simply.
"Your man over there, for example, his hearing is shot for the time being."
"My MAN?" Kagome screeched. Gesshoku swore she thought a small smile played across Sesshoumaru's lips. But even more to their amusement, Kagome turned around.
"Inuyasha?" She asked a lump of red, which was twirling his fingers. "Inuyasha."
"Inuyasha!"
"INUYASHA!"
"INUYASHA!" But Inuyasha didn't move.
"How long will this go on?" Kagome asked Sesshoumaru.
"Mine has mostly healed already, but since he's the Halfling that he is, I suspect it will take twice as long."
"You...don't call him a Halfling! He's beaten you every time you guys were in a fight!"
"I never called him weak, wench." Sesshoumaru said coldly. Kagome looked taken a back and went over to sit next to Inuyasha, embarrassed by her own stupidity.
"Your hearing? So you mean even you couldn't hear for a while?" Gesshoku asked.
"I do not need to repeat myself."
"Bastard." Gesshoku whispered. Sesshoumaru didn't pick it up, but he saw her lips move.
"What did you just say wench?"
"Bastard." Gesshoku whispered again. Sesshoumaru looked intently at her lips, daring them to move again- he would pick up what she said by how they moved.
"Again." Gesshoku, however, had caught on to what he was trying to do and closed her lips shut.
"Make me." Gesshoku said, turning to go and wake Shippo.
Sesshoumaru sprang down from the tree and jumped in front of Gesshoku. He grabbed her jawbone.
"Wat u doin?" She said through the fish lips he was producing on her face.
"Woooooo hooooooooo!" Inuyasha called, having been turned around by Kagome. Sesshoumaru realized how that probably looked and pushed Gesshoku down and away from him and walked towards Inuyasha.
He barred his fist, but did not say a word, knowing that Inuyasha couldn't hear him anyway. She landed on her butt.
"Uhhh." She muttered. She shook her head before standing up. She straightened herself up before walking over to where Sesshoumaru had placed Rin before jumping in front of her.
"Rin." She called, waking the child.
"Mommy!" The child called. "I wanted Kirara to be okay so much! I don't know what happened, but she's okay now!"
"Do you want to go get some new clothing? Mine is not proper to wear." Gesshoku looked down at her raggedy kimono. It had been ripped in several places, but none of them..."revealing".
"Oh! I want to come!" Kagome cried. They started running to the village, Gesshoku piggy backing Rin. Inuyasha, who had not heard the conversation, stood up waving his arms.
"WHERE ARE YOU GOING?" He yelled really loud, barley able to hear him.
"WHERE ARE YOU-" Sesshoumaru knocked him out. His brother was very irrupting.
"Where's mommy, Kagome?"
"She went to buy some new attire." Kagome examined the beautiful new bow and bunch of arrows she had just bought.
"Kagome, Rin." They looked up at Gesshoku. Their jaws dropped. Gesshoku was in her new attire. It was very beautiful.
"Wow, Gesshoku Chan! You looked just like a model!"
"Model? What's that?"
"Never mind." Kagome said, waving her hands. Gesshoku was in a Chinese looking green dress, lined with yellow. The green matched her eyes perfectly. A sash wrapped around her waist set off the butterfly clips that held the top together off. She was wearing black boots with white around them, just like Sesshoumaru's, except they were boots. Two slits came up the dress on either side, showing off her strong looking legs. A golden band covered her upper right thigh. A thin, thread-looking bracelet wrapped around her right wrist.
(A/n: I'll put up a pick of Gesshoku on my website so go we should get going, we've been gone a while, haven't we?" Kagome nodded. Rin stretched her arms out to her mother. Gesshoku smiled and picked her up, carrying her piggyback style once again.
"You took long enough!" Inuyasha cried, jumping out in front of them.
"KYAAAAAAAA!" They both screamed in shock.
"Inuyasha! SIT!" Both girls walked around him back to where they camped.
"Why?" Inuyasha asked the ground.
They entered the campground. Rin jumped off Gesshoku's back and looked around for a few seconds before spying her lord in a tree, snoozing. She turned around to them and put her finger to her lips. Unfortunally, at that moment, Inuyasha showed up and spied his brother. He sneakily jumped up to his elder brother's branch with out waking him. He lowered his lips to Sesshoumaru's ear and said
WAKE UP
Sesshoumaru jumped up and fell of his branch ungracefully to the ground, but managed to stay on his feet. He looked up at his brother and glared at him. Inuyasha, in the mean time, was rolling with laughter. He ended up rolling off the branch himself, but kept laughing, even after he hit the ground
Kagome was also laughing, as well as Shippo. Kirara showed her own amusement by purring.
"Sesshoumaru Sama is really funny." Rin said, smiling happily. Sesshoumaru felt embarrassed but kept glaring. He could kill all these people easily. He was about to raise his arm to strike his brother down when Gesshoku walked passed him. Even though he only saw her backside, he saw her beautifully curved figure. He watched what she was doing intently.
She had her eyes almost closed and a somewhat angry look on her face.
"Inuyasha, how rude." Inuyasha, however, was gazing at her intently.
Gesshoku? Is that really you?
She reached out a glowing hand and placed it upon his necklace. It turned its usual bright pink color when Kagome sit him and enveloped Gesshoku as well. The light died away and she turned around, facing Kagome and Sesshoumaru.
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"sit sit sit sit sit sit sit sit." She smirked and turned to where Inuyasha used to be standing.
"Don't be rude ever again." She started walking forward when she heard Inuyasha say "bitch."
*anime little x things pop out all over her face*
"SIT YOU GOD DAMNED DOG!" Nothing more was said between Inuyasha and anyone else that mid day.
"Are you guys hungry?" Gesshoku asked the other conscious people. Rin and Shippo nodded happily.
"How did you?" Kagome asked.
"It's a copying thing- it can only work for a matter of minutes though, so most mikos prefer not to even use it."
"Oh." Kagome said and got out her pans and gas cooker.
"What's that?"
"What I plan to cook lunch with." Kagome answered.
"Oh...you're going to make lunch?" Kagome nodded.
"Well...is there anything I could...do to help?"
"No- I'll do it." Kagome said, smiling. Gesshoku nodded.
"Shippo, why don't you go pick flowers with Rin?" Gesshoku asked.
"Yeah!" Rin exclaimed.
"Okay!" Shippo cried. Gesshoku smiled and laughed as the two youngsters rolled around in the grass, leaping down the small hill they were on and landing on the soft, flower looking moss.
"They're so cute." She said. Sesshoumaru studied Gesshoku. The outfit she was wearing made her look good. Or was it she had always looked good, but he had never seen her with a different outfit on before?
"Is it okay?" He asked.
"Huh?" Gesshoku said, turning around to face them. "Is what okay?"
"To let them go in that direction? It's down wind and I have lost their smell already."
"We can see them, so I think it'll be okay." Sesshoumaru still looked a little unsure, but sat down. He closed his eyes, but a wonderful smell kept hitting his nose. He opened one eye and peeked at Kagome, wondering what she was cooking.
"That smells good, Kagome Chan." Gesshoku said.
"Kirara, will you be ever so kind to get Shippo and Rin? Lunch is almost ready." Kagome said. The cute cat nodded and ran off; in the direction the kids had gone.
"Where did they go? They were on the ridge line a moment ago." Gesshoku asked. She was starting to worry. Some ominous weather was head their way. A light drizzle started and Kagome moaned.
"Sesshoumaru, could you move this under the tree? It really hot, and it'll burn me; be careful, cause I don't know if it would burn you." Sesshoumaru picked it up, not caring if it burned him. He set it under the tree and turned to see Gesshoku running off in the direction of the kids.
"Rin? Shippo! Kirara!" She called before; she too, could be scene no more.
"It's like she just...disappeared." Kagome said, staring. Sesshoumaru stepped forward a bit.
"Uhhh..." Inuyasha said, getting up. There were dirt pieces all in his hair. Sesshoumaru eyed his brother.
"Watch your woman. If I'm not back in a few minutes, come." Then he ran away so fast they could hardly see him.
"Wo-woman?" Inuyasha cried, turning scarlet. Kagome smiled.
"Just sit down, Inuyasha."
BAM
"Oh! I'm so sorry Inuyasha! I didn't mean it!" Inuyasha moaned. Kagome scooted over to where he was sitting and started rubbing his ears. He started purring.
Sesshoumaru couldn't find any of them. It was like his senses were totally gone. He wondered around in the mist fog; rain pouring around him but never hitting him.
"Sesshoumaru!" A woman cried. He turned, but could neither see nor smell the speaking person. Soon, everything was pitch black. He was in a field. There was something running to him, approaching him.
"Run Sesshoumaru! Run!" The woman called. Long silverfish hair filled his view and piercing yellow gold eyes, overflowing with tears shown brightly through the mist.
"Mo-mother?" Sesshoumaru asked.
"Run!" Arrows suddenly pierced her back.
"Mother!" No. It was back then, to the day when he hated humans. Why? He had never always hated humans, although others tended to think so.
"Run, my Sesshoumaru! Run and live! Live for me!" Hundreds of those filthy humans swarmed over the horizon, approaching at a fast rate, drawing their swords, axes, and spears.
"Die demon!" They cried and struck her over and over again. Her cries filled his ears until she was suddenly silent.
"NO!" Sesshoumaru yelled and then someone hit him.
Sesshoumaru's eyes snapped open.
"I'm sorry, Sesshoumaru-kun, but you wouldn't wake up." It was Kagome. "Naraku's played this trick before. When these roots catch you, they make you relive something unpleasant, or something happens that's unpleasant. In either way, you end up being killed by them."
"You are not affected because of your miko abilities?" Kagome nodded.
Why was he crying out for his mother?
Sesshoumaru slashed the rest of the roots away and shakily stood up.
"Where is Inuyasha?"
"He went ahead, saying that you could take care of yourself. I think he smelled Gesshoku." Kagome looked forlorn.
He's been looking at her a lot these days
"KAGOME!" Kagome's head jerked up.
"Inuyasha?" She asked. Without thinking, Sesshoumaru grabbed Kagome around the middle and sped off in his brother's direction by smell. They arrived on scene.
"Sesshoumaru-Sama!" It was Rin. She was in the air, being held by Naraku.
"Let go of her." Sesshoumaru growled.
"I wouldn't let this pretty little girl go. She's going to be my mate weather you like it or not."
"Ma-mate? She's just a child you pedophile!" Kagome screeched.
"Maybe, witch, but she is too powerful to let go by my way. When I first had Kagura kidnap her, I had no intention of letting her live. A powerful miko, growing in the Lord of the Western Land's possession? I couldn't allow it."
Naraku smiled evilly.
"But now, I will make myself more powerful. She will become one with me and I will kill you all!" Naraku erupted into his burst of miasma.
"NARAKU!" Sesshoumaru cried, his eyes glowing red.
"Now, Sesshoumaru Sama, the fate of this Rin, you wouldn't want it to be the same as your mother, would it? Speaking of which, I have this other one captive. This other miko. She may provide for...my other needs." Then his voice was gone.
"Other needs? Inuyasha, he isn't going to rape Gesshoku, is he?" Kagome asked worriedly.
"He will not! I won't allow that to happen! Not after what she did for me!" Inuyasha growled.
"Sesshoumaru, Rin...she's...a miko?" Kagome asked. Sesshoumaru looked at her. His eye knowingly told them all that he didn't know.
"But she's-she's only... a girl of six." Kagome said.
Chapter Seven: A Girl of Six
"Uhhh..." Kagome moaned and turned over. "What's that powerful aura?" She asked.
Gesshoku sat up, shaking her head.
"Rin... Rin healed Kirara or something..." It took Gesshoku a while for it to finally process in her head. Rin HEALED the cat demon.
"RIN CHAN! RIN? RIN!" Gesshoku started yelling. She looked everywhere but couldn't see the child.
"Shut up wench. She is sleeping." Sesshoumaru sat in a tree above them, holding the sleeping child, you, in turn, was holding onto Kirara.
"Why are you holding her?" Gesshoku asked. Sesshoumaru glared.
"Were you not affected by the blast?" Kagome asked. Sesshoumaru gazed down at Kagome.
"It has after effects, if that's what you mean." He answered simply.
"Your man over there, for example, his hearing is shot for the time being."
"My MAN?" Kagome screeched. Gesshoku swore she thought a small smile played across Sesshoumaru's lips. But even more to their amusement, Kagome turned around.
"Inuyasha?" She asked a lump of red, which was twirling his fingers. "Inuyasha."
"Inuyasha!"
"INUYASHA!"
"INUYASHA!" But Inuyasha didn't move.
"How long will this go on?" Kagome asked Sesshoumaru.
"Mine has mostly healed already, but since he's the Halfling that he is, I suspect it will take twice as long."
"You...don't call him a Halfling! He's beaten you every time you guys were in a fight!"
"I never called him weak, wench." Sesshoumaru said coldly. Kagome looked taken a back and went over to sit next to Inuyasha, embarrassed by her own stupidity.
"Your hearing? So you mean even you couldn't hear for a while?" Gesshoku asked.
"I do not need to repeat myself."
"Bastard." Gesshoku whispered. Sesshoumaru didn't pick it up, but he saw her lips move.
"What did you just say wench?"
"Bastard." Gesshoku whispered again. Sesshoumaru looked intently at her lips, daring them to move again- he would pick up what she said by how they moved.
"Again." Gesshoku, however, had caught on to what he was trying to do and closed her lips shut.
"Make me." Gesshoku said, turning to go and wake Shippo.
Sesshoumaru sprang down from the tree and jumped in front of Gesshoku. He grabbed her jawbone.
"Wat u doin?" She said through the fish lips he was producing on her face.
"Woooooo hooooooooo!" Inuyasha called, having been turned around by Kagome. Sesshoumaru realized how that probably looked and pushed Gesshoku down and away from him and walked towards Inuyasha.
He barred his fist, but did not say a word, knowing that Inuyasha couldn't hear him anyway. She landed on her butt.
"Uhhh." She muttered. She shook her head before standing up. She straightened herself up before walking over to where Sesshoumaru had placed Rin before jumping in front of her.
"Rin." She called, waking the child.
"Mommy!" The child called. "I wanted Kirara to be okay so much! I don't know what happened, but she's okay now!"
"Do you want to go get some new clothing? Mine is not proper to wear." Gesshoku looked down at her raggedy kimono. It had been ripped in several places, but none of them..."revealing".
"Oh! I want to come!" Kagome cried. They started running to the village, Gesshoku piggy backing Rin. Inuyasha, who had not heard the conversation, stood up waving his arms.
"WHERE ARE YOU GOING?" He yelled really loud, barley able to hear him.
"WHERE ARE YOU-" Sesshoumaru knocked him out. His brother was very irrupting.
"Where's mommy, Kagome?"
"She went to buy some new attire." Kagome examined the beautiful new bow and bunch of arrows she had just bought.
"Kagome, Rin." They looked up at Gesshoku. Their jaws dropped. Gesshoku was in her new attire. It was very beautiful.
"Wow, Gesshoku Chan! You looked just like a model!"
"Model? What's that?"
"Never mind." Kagome said, waving her hands. Gesshoku was in a Chinese looking green dress, lined with yellow. The green matched her eyes perfectly. A sash wrapped around her waist set off the butterfly clips that held the top together off. She was wearing black boots with white around them, just like Sesshoumaru's, except they were boots. Two slits came up the dress on either side, showing off her strong looking legs. A golden band covered her upper right thigh. A thin, thread-looking bracelet wrapped around her right wrist.
(A/n: I'll put up a pick of Gesshoku on my website so go we should get going, we've been gone a while, haven't we?" Kagome nodded. Rin stretched her arms out to her mother. Gesshoku smiled and picked her up, carrying her piggyback style once again.
"You took long enough!" Inuyasha cried, jumping out in front of them.
"KYAAAAAAAA!" They both screamed in shock.
"Inuyasha! SIT!" Both girls walked around him back to where they camped.
"Why?" Inuyasha asked the ground.
They entered the campground. Rin jumped off Gesshoku's back and looked around for a few seconds before spying her lord in a tree, snoozing. She turned around to them and put her finger to her lips. Unfortunally, at that moment, Inuyasha showed up and spied his brother. He sneakily jumped up to his elder brother's branch with out waking him. He lowered his lips to Sesshoumaru's ear and said
WAKE UP
Sesshoumaru jumped up and fell of his branch ungracefully to the ground, but managed to stay on his feet. He looked up at his brother and glared at him. Inuyasha, in the mean time, was rolling with laughter. He ended up rolling off the branch himself, but kept laughing, even after he hit the ground
Kagome was also laughing, as well as Shippo. Kirara showed her own amusement by purring.
"Sesshoumaru Sama is really funny." Rin said, smiling happily. Sesshoumaru felt embarrassed but kept glaring. He could kill all these people easily. He was about to raise his arm to strike his brother down when Gesshoku walked passed him. Even though he only saw her backside, he saw her beautifully curved figure. He watched what she was doing intently.
She had her eyes almost closed and a somewhat angry look on her face.
"Inuyasha, how rude." Inuyasha, however, was gazing at her intently.
Gesshoku? Is that really you?
She reached out a glowing hand and placed it upon his necklace. It turned its usual bright pink color when Kagome sit him and enveloped Gesshoku as well. The light died away and she turned around, facing Kagome and Sesshoumaru.
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"sit sit sit sit sit sit sit sit." She smirked and turned to where Inuyasha used to be standing.
"Don't be rude ever again." She started walking forward when she heard Inuyasha say "bitch."
*anime little x things pop out all over her face*
"SIT YOU GOD DAMNED DOG!" Nothing more was said between Inuyasha and anyone else that mid day.
"Are you guys hungry?" Gesshoku asked the other conscious people. Rin and Shippo nodded happily.
"How did you?" Kagome asked.
"It's a copying thing- it can only work for a matter of minutes though, so most mikos prefer not to even use it."
"Oh." Kagome said and got out her pans and gas cooker.
"What's that?"
"What I plan to cook lunch with." Kagome answered.
"Oh...you're going to make lunch?" Kagome nodded.
"Well...is there anything I could...do to help?"
"No- I'll do it." Kagome said, smiling. Gesshoku nodded.
"Shippo, why don't you go pick flowers with Rin?" Gesshoku asked.
"Yeah!" Rin exclaimed.
"Okay!" Shippo cried. Gesshoku smiled and laughed as the two youngsters rolled around in the grass, leaping down the small hill they were on and landing on the soft, flower looking moss.
"They're so cute." She said. Sesshoumaru studied Gesshoku. The outfit she was wearing made her look good. Or was it she had always looked good, but he had never seen her with a different outfit on before?
"Is it okay?" He asked.
"Huh?" Gesshoku said, turning around to face them. "Is what okay?"
"To let them go in that direction? It's down wind and I have lost their smell already."
"We can see them, so I think it'll be okay." Sesshoumaru still looked a little unsure, but sat down. He closed his eyes, but a wonderful smell kept hitting his nose. He opened one eye and peeked at Kagome, wondering what she was cooking.
"That smells good, Kagome Chan." Gesshoku said.
"Kirara, will you be ever so kind to get Shippo and Rin? Lunch is almost ready." Kagome said. The cute cat nodded and ran off; in the direction the kids had gone.
"Where did they go? They were on the ridge line a moment ago." Gesshoku asked. She was starting to worry. Some ominous weather was head their way. A light drizzle started and Kagome moaned.
"Sesshoumaru, could you move this under the tree? It really hot, and it'll burn me; be careful, cause I don't know if it would burn you." Sesshoumaru picked it up, not caring if it burned him. He set it under the tree and turned to see Gesshoku running off in the direction of the kids.
"Rin? Shippo! Kirara!" She called before; she too, could be scene no more.
"It's like she just...disappeared." Kagome said, staring. Sesshoumaru stepped forward a bit.
"Uhhh..." Inuyasha said, getting up. There were dirt pieces all in his hair. Sesshoumaru eyed his brother.
"Watch your woman. If I'm not back in a few minutes, come." Then he ran away so fast they could hardly see him.
"Wo-woman?" Inuyasha cried, turning scarlet. Kagome smiled.
"Just sit down, Inuyasha."
BAM
"Oh! I'm so sorry Inuyasha! I didn't mean it!" Inuyasha moaned. Kagome scooted over to where he was sitting and started rubbing his ears. He started purring.
Sesshoumaru couldn't find any of them. It was like his senses were totally gone. He wondered around in the mist fog; rain pouring around him but never hitting him.
"Sesshoumaru!" A woman cried. He turned, but could neither see nor smell the speaking person. Soon, everything was pitch black. He was in a field. There was something running to him, approaching him.
"Run Sesshoumaru! Run!" The woman called. Long silverfish hair filled his view and piercing yellow gold eyes, overflowing with tears shown brightly through the mist.
"Mo-mother?" Sesshoumaru asked.
"Run!" Arrows suddenly pierced her back.
"Mother!" No. It was back then, to the day when he hated humans. Why? He had never always hated humans, although others tended to think so.
"Run, my Sesshoumaru! Run and live! Live for me!" Hundreds of those filthy humans swarmed over the horizon, approaching at a fast rate, drawing their swords, axes, and spears.
"Die demon!" They cried and struck her over and over again. Her cries filled his ears until she was suddenly silent.
"NO!" Sesshoumaru yelled and then someone hit him.
Sesshoumaru's eyes snapped open.
"I'm sorry, Sesshoumaru-kun, but you wouldn't wake up." It was Kagome. "Naraku's played this trick before. When these roots catch you, they make you relive something unpleasant, or something happens that's unpleasant. In either way, you end up being killed by them."
"You are not affected because of your miko abilities?" Kagome nodded.
Why was he crying out for his mother?
Sesshoumaru slashed the rest of the roots away and shakily stood up.
"Where is Inuyasha?"
"He went ahead, saying that you could take care of yourself. I think he smelled Gesshoku." Kagome looked forlorn.
He's been looking at her a lot these days
"KAGOME!" Kagome's head jerked up.
"Inuyasha?" She asked. Without thinking, Sesshoumaru grabbed Kagome around the middle and sped off in his brother's direction by smell. They arrived on scene.
"Sesshoumaru-Sama!" It was Rin. She was in the air, being held by Naraku.
"Let go of her." Sesshoumaru growled.
"I wouldn't let this pretty little girl go. She's going to be my mate weather you like it or not."
"Ma-mate? She's just a child you pedophile!" Kagome screeched.
"Maybe, witch, but she is too powerful to let go by my way. When I first had Kagura kidnap her, I had no intention of letting her live. A powerful miko, growing in the Lord of the Western Land's possession? I couldn't allow it."
Naraku smiled evilly.
"But now, I will make myself more powerful. She will become one with me and I will kill you all!" Naraku erupted into his burst of miasma.
"NARAKU!" Sesshoumaru cried, his eyes glowing red.
"Now, Sesshoumaru Sama, the fate of this Rin, you wouldn't want it to be the same as your mother, would it? Speaking of which, I have this other one captive. This other miko. She may provide for...my other needs." Then his voice was gone.
"Other needs? Inuyasha, he isn't going to rape Gesshoku, is he?" Kagome asked worriedly.
"He will not! I won't allow that to happen! Not after what she did for me!" Inuyasha growled.
"Sesshoumaru, Rin...she's...a miko?" Kagome asked. Sesshoumaru looked at her. His eye knowingly told them all that he didn't know.
"But she's-she's only... a girl of six." Kagome said.
