Dannee: Look! I'm back again! Sorry it's been awhile, but this week has
been nuts...between finals, school, school and more school, it's hard to
find time to actually get a life. T.T I miss summer.
Cat: ::Bounces up and down gleefully:: Cat loves summer, it is a time for love to blossom and a time for Cat to swim and eat Popsicles!
Dannee: Well, hopefully after this I'm going to start getting regular updates on this story, though my muse seems to be broken. I'm finding less and less inspiration flowing from her each and every day.
Cat: ::Shrugs:: Cat has been stuck with Dannee's cooking for the past two weeks, and Dannee's cooking alters Cat's inspiration flow. How can inspiration flow when nothing else can? Besides, Dannee has been playing FFXI, excessively, causing even her cooking to worsen. Cat didn't think it was possible.
Dannee: ::Jumps around:: FFXI Yeah! If anyone sees me in the wonderful world of Vana'Diel party with me! Woo hoo! Level 21 Red Mage! We'll kill some giraffes together! ^.^
Cat: ::Looks at Dannee blankly:: Dannee just doesn't make sense anymore when she talks about FFXI. At first it was incoherent mumblings, then some gurgling, now it's gibberish.
Sleeper Awoken
Kagome watched as Inu Yasha's ears twitched, rotated, and twirled about atop of his snowy white head. She wanted, oh so badly, to fondle those adorable little radar systems until they turned black and pruned and maybe even smelled a little. Then, once they were not of use to her anymore, she would shave him bald and perhaps crochet a blanket and a couple of socks out of his hair...white! Now that was something she didn't understand. If he was from a time period that existed 500 years ago, how in the world were they able to bleach his hair to such a pure white tone?
While Kagome was contemplative over how she could steal Inu Yasha's hair and what to make out of it, Inu Yasha gazed down her dark staircase circumspectly.
He needed to get this fool of a girl to some real weapons so she could annihilate the demon in her bathroom as swiftly as possible...before it absorbed the Shikon no Tama into itself.
Of course the only outlets that led to these potential weapons were pitch black...and Inu Yasha knew better than to venture into the dark.
This demon had been around 500 years ago.
It had haunted Kikyo in the dark, because it knew she had the Sacred Jewel, and it wanted it for itself.
She had called it a Tooth Fairy.
This kind of demon normally attacked little kids after they had just lost a tooth...it came to them when it was dark, stole the newly lost tooth, then assaulted the child either until death came, or lights came. It was afraid of light.
It haunted the kids after they had just lost their teeth...because it wanted the teeth...
It wanted the teeth because...well, Inu Yasha had forgotten, because he had almost certainly not been paying attention to Kikyo when she was telling him the demon's motive to collect fresh teeth, and...500 years is a long time to remember something!
"Wench." Inu Yasha snapped.
Kagome's head almost snapped off in fury.
"KAGOME!" She all but exploded at him.
He gave her an aggravated glance out of the corner of his eye before continuing.
"We need to get to this place your mother keeps the weapons with as much light as possible. Do you have a portable sun-making device?"
"You mean a flashlight?"
"Don't get smart with me, woman, we need hurry up and go! I have no time for your smart-ass comments!"
Kagome glowered at the rear of his head.
If he kept it up, the back of his skull was going to have two holes in it from the looks Kagome kept throwing him.
Of course, Kagome, being a smart girl and all (apart from math related subjects) caught onto things promptly.
"Alright, I'll hurry and get the flashlight from my mother's room. Since I doubt you're going to go anywhere while I'm gone why don't you SIT down and wait for me?"
As expected, Inu Yasha's head flew for the ground and was pressed against it by some supernatural force that Kagome was confident she would befriend by the end of the night.
He let a series of muffled curses and bubbling sounds soar from the ground and to Kagome's ears as she tottered down the hall and over to her mom's room.
It was dark.
She stared into the room guardedly.
It was in there, and she could sense it.
She had turned on the lights in the hallway and the hallway seemed safe, so working strictly upon the theory that her brain had just given birth to, Kagome quickly thrust her hand into the darkness, flipped on the light switch, then jerked her hand away as fast as she could.
She watched the room fill with light labouredly.
It was almost as if the demon was trying to fight the light.
With a scream of defeat, the darkness disappeared into the light and Kagome sighed in relief.
Quickly, she ventured over to her mother's night stand, took out the biggest flash light in the drawer, then staggered back over to where Inu Yasha was sitting on the floor.
"So you did sit down and wait for me." She affirmed while cracking a charming half-smile at him.
He flew into the ground once more and Kagome yelped.
"No! I didn't mean it that time!"
"Just don't talk and I'll be happy, your voice is annoying anyways." Inu Yasha snarled while attempting to pry his face off the floor with his hands.
Kagome's face faltered for a moment.
Didn't he know that women were fragile and could break easy?
Did he not realize how hurtful his words could be?
So careless...
So insensitive...
Such a...
"Jerk! You jerk! Is that all you can do, insult me!? Do you think that if you poke and prod at me a little bit I'll run away crying for my mommy!? I'll have you know I was attacked in my own pantry by some...THING, practically ripped in half, been chased around by dog boys, listened to my mother cry on the phone about my brother, lost my history and math homework, served detention for absolutely no reason at all, and you still have the nerve to insult me like I'm some little child when I'm trying my hardest to do something right! You're so thoughtless!" Kagome erupted.
Inu Yasha was going to give this girl a piece of his mind, but bit his lip when he saw the commencement of tears in Kagome's eyes.
Ever since he was little and his mother had cried for him...
He just couldn't stand watching women cry, mainly when it was his fault.
He sat up gradually and looked down the flight of steps, biting his bottom lip the entire time.
"Shine that thing down there and let's go." He mumbled sympathetically.
Kagome obeyed, and with a resounding click, the device in her hand produced instant luminosity.
Inu Yasha took the light-stick from her and then put his arm around her waist.
"What!?" Kagome objected, startled by his sudden move.
"It's so you'll move faster so don't look into it, alright?" Inu Yasha growled beside her.
As they progressively went down the stairs, Kagome began to wonder if the flashlight was really working.
Sure, it shot out a beam of light, but that didn't mean that there wasn't darkness behind them.
Of course, Kagome was a smart one, and she thought right.
"Where do we-" Inu Yasha began.
Rip.
It was a sickening rip that reverberated from behind the two.
A rip that indicated there was trouble behind them...
A rip that sounded not only of clothes shredding, but flesh tearing with it.
A rip that made Kagome begin to scream for another time that night, and made Inu Yasha gasp and fall into the wall beside him.
The flashlight and Kagome both tumbled down the stairs together when Inu Yasha let go of them.
Kagome, having reached the bottom of the steps already, lay still in a tactic that opossums are famous for in defending themselves against predators.
The flashlight on the other hand, rolled away and into the blackness of the living room, leaving one frightened teenager in it's wake and one angry, pissed off, injured half demon still leaning against the wall beside the stairs.
He pushed himself away from the wall in a hurry, to see if Kagome was all right, but...
Intercepted!
Extended claws cut into his right cheek as the demon in front of him swatted him away like a cat would to a butterfly.
He hit the wall a second time, except this time he rebounded off of it and jumped towards the demon with the adrenaline of finally being able to kill a demon once again pumping through his veins, driving him to go fourth and fight.
He had missed that.
A flick of his wrist and the demon before him shrieked out before vanishing into the darkness again. His eyes and ears scanned the area for any traces of the dark fairy, knowing that it was bound to pop out at any given time.
Did he hit it? He couldn't quite tell...it had just disintegrated into the darkness all around him. Dammit, he had wanted to fight!
His eyes could pick up images delineated by the moonlight spilling in from outside probably a little bit better than Kagome's could since he was half- demon. It was a trait he always loved to boast to others about, especially when playing games of hide-n'-go-seek in the middle of the night even though it wasn't called hide-n'-go-seek when he used to play it.
...But now was not the time for reminiscing about childish games!
That good-for-nothing girl could be in trouble!
Inu Yasha's worries were confirmed when a girly squeal resounded in his skull.
"YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"
The only action that could adequately demonstrate Inu Yasha's next movement would have to be soar. He flew into the room that Kagome was playing dead in so fast that it would've made an eagle dive-bombing in on it's prey wonder what just flew by.
It appeared as if an instant after Kagome had began to inhale to scream Inu Yasha was at her side. Even in the dark she could tell that he was inspecting her for injuries, threats, etc.
"What's wrong with you, girl!?" Inu Yasha barked down at her.
"Something...furry against...my leg!" She panted up at him, trying hard not to squirm against the 'something furry' pressing against her thigh.
Inu Yasha got down on all fours and started feeling around for the flashlight he had dropped and would soon blame Kagome for losing. Claws made contact with cool black metal while he was feeling blindly around under the couch and he rose onto his legs once again, flashlight in hand.
"How do you turn this damned thing on?" He queried, fiddling with the light's apex.
Kagome's teeth ground together noisily as the 'something furry' continued rubbing against her bare leg affectionately. Was it really that hard to turn on a stupid flashlight!?
Inu Yasha's face, once hidden in the darkness was illuminated in light within a moment as he finally figured out how to turn on the flashlight in his hand. His pupils instantly contracted to keep out the offending brightness shining directly into his eyes. They looked like short pieces of black thread in a puddle of gold.
After letting out a sequence of unhealthy words that would later require Kagome to shower in order to clean herself, the beam of radiance shone down to Kagome. She pointed downwards and the light followed to where she pointed.
"Myeeeeeeeeeeeiow~" Kagome's cat virtually sang in annoyance.
"Buyo!" Kagome screeched, causing the normally lethargic cat to jump backwards and arch it's back defensively. "Stupid cat, you scared me!"
Inu Yasha watched the feline and it's valueless owner reunite, resembling lost lovers who had been separated for 5 years. He folded his arms across his chest rigidly, a twinge of envy shooting through his heart.
She was here in her time with the people (and animals) that she loved...where as he...well, he wasn't quite sure where or when he was, and he undoubtedly didn't want to stay. He wanted-needed-to find Kikyo once more. He missed her fanatically, ever since he had woken up. After he had chased Kagome the imposter out of his room, he had laid on his bed in deep thought, trying to straighten things out in his mind.
What had happened to everyone?
Was he stuck here in this time for the rest of his life?
Could he get back to the people that needed him?
But sometimes even 6 hours of nonstop thinking will still render you without the answers you want. Maybe he was just dense...
Kagome watched the half demon in front of her with great inquisitiveness and interest. He had shown her nothing but anger since she had been inopportune enough to meet him, and here he was now, staring off into space, a list of emotions consecutively running across his face. His ears wilted ever so slightly, and his thick eyebrows were pushed together in a look of torment. His eyes shone even in the dark with bottled up sensations, probably from his past life with his past love and past family. Now he had nobody. Kagome would hate to be in his position, considering the circumstances of losing everyone she loved, but then again she wasn't particularly all too fond of her position either as of late. She would've sympathized for him, but...
"Will you STOP shining that light in my eyes!?" She commanded the startled boy.
His features hardened instantly. How could he have ever mistaken this piece of rubbish for his beloved Kikyo? He probably was dense.
"If you would stop smothering that pathetic excuse for an animal, we could get going so I can get out of here." Inu Yasha rumbled back at her.
Kagome bit her tongue and stood up, letting Buyo drop to the floor once again with a plop. Boys will be boys...whatever that meant.
Kagome all but ran to catch up with Inu Yasha as he moodily began heading for the door to the outside world. She collided with his back when he stopped abruptly and grabbed onto the thick red material that was now torn in the back.
'He's hurt!' Kagome mentally noted as her hands slid over his wounds.
What a smart girl she was.
"Inu Yasha!" Kagome began.
"Shh! It's near..." Inu Yasha hissed while shining the flashlight next to the staircase.
Kagome sighed, aggravated, and pounded her fist into the wall beside the door. The small entrance area by the front door was bathed in light instantaneously and Kagome turned to Inu Yasha who had almost jumped through a nearby window when the lights had magically turned on. These supernatural devices would certainly take some getting used to.
He stared angrily down at the girl standing before him, but once she looked up at him he was almost taken aback.
Her face held such concern for him. Why? Go away!
"Inu Yasha..." She murmured softly, taking a step towards him.
His instinct was, of course...RUN AWAY! That would be a bad idea though, since the dark was the only other option to run away into.
Her warm hand made contact with his cheek and swatted it away.
"Don't touch me, woman." He barked.
"But you're bleeding, you need some bandages and-" She started uneasily.
"I don't need your medicinal crap, wench! Getting the Shikon No Tama back right now is what's important! If we don't hurry and get it quickly, then that demon is going to absorb it's powers, and then no one will be able to stop it! Now will you stop delaying what needs to be done!?"
She nodded mutely. This had to be done, then she'd be rid of him, and then she wouldn't have to worry about him. Good deal, jerk.
Kagome grabbed the door's handle in her warm hand, turned it and flung the door open. The darkness from outside seemed to be trying to come inside, nearly pressing itself into the light forcefully. Inu Yasha shone the flashlight into the shadows and they receded a tiny bit.
"Follow me." He demanded.
With that he dove into the blackness, shining the flashlight in front of him. Kagome hounded after him in hot pursuit, shouting protests in his general direction such as "But you don't know where the shrine is!", "You're going the wrong way!", "No! Turn left!", "I can't see you!", and "You stupid idiot!".
The minuscule hairs on the back of Kagome's neck bristled as something soft grazed the back of her arms. She looked around frantically, trying not to run into any obstacles while doing so, and screamed when she saw what was above her.
It was blacker than the midnight sky, which was more of a royal blue color anyways...It was blacker than anything she had ever seen before in her life, blacker than the pantry had been when she had installed herself within it, blacker than the old well in the shrine at night, and blacker than the zombies in Sota's video games. It was like a hole that drained everything around it from light and was currently descending upon Kagome's head.
Of course the only thing she knew of that would help her at the moment was in Inu Yasha's hands probably a few hundred yards ahead of her...so she took the only other option she knew how to use that would most likely assist her. She let out a blood-curdling scream. It worked on her little brother and sometimes even grandpa, so she could only hope...
It...wasn't...working!!
And this thing kept approaching her...she obviously couldn't outrun it, and it was going to be anywhere there was darkness...what could she do now?
She closed her eyes tightly, relieving her eyes of the awful darkness they were being sucked into. She knew the demon was going to come down to her and consume her. She would be absorbed like the sacred jewel she had failed to protect.
'Maybe being absorbed won't hurt...' She hoped.
She didn't even discern when her feet left the earth...
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Dannee: ::Wipes some sweat from her forehead:: That took awhile...Eh? But was it worth the wait? ^^;; I hope so. Next chappie will hopefully be out soon. Thanks to everyone who has reviewed my story for the last chapter:
Iden's Garden, Just Me17, Dragonleaf, Josie, Shiari1, kmf, dragon_game, and...Cat...
In it for the chocolate again I assume?
Cat: Cat saw that 10 pound chocolate bar Dannee has hidden in her cupboard from Christmas time, she can't fool Cat!
Dannee: 10...pounds...Of chocolate? Really?
Cat: No. Cat ate it already.
Dannee: ...
Next chapter may come out quicker than this chapter did, so please review for me and it may come out even quicker if I find that people actually are
interested in this Fic!
Cat: ::Bounces up and down gleefully:: Cat loves summer, it is a time for love to blossom and a time for Cat to swim and eat Popsicles!
Dannee: Well, hopefully after this I'm going to start getting regular updates on this story, though my muse seems to be broken. I'm finding less and less inspiration flowing from her each and every day.
Cat: ::Shrugs:: Cat has been stuck with Dannee's cooking for the past two weeks, and Dannee's cooking alters Cat's inspiration flow. How can inspiration flow when nothing else can? Besides, Dannee has been playing FFXI, excessively, causing even her cooking to worsen. Cat didn't think it was possible.
Dannee: ::Jumps around:: FFXI Yeah! If anyone sees me in the wonderful world of Vana'Diel party with me! Woo hoo! Level 21 Red Mage! We'll kill some giraffes together! ^.^
Cat: ::Looks at Dannee blankly:: Dannee just doesn't make sense anymore when she talks about FFXI. At first it was incoherent mumblings, then some gurgling, now it's gibberish.
Sleeper Awoken
Kagome watched as Inu Yasha's ears twitched, rotated, and twirled about atop of his snowy white head. She wanted, oh so badly, to fondle those adorable little radar systems until they turned black and pruned and maybe even smelled a little. Then, once they were not of use to her anymore, she would shave him bald and perhaps crochet a blanket and a couple of socks out of his hair...white! Now that was something she didn't understand. If he was from a time period that existed 500 years ago, how in the world were they able to bleach his hair to such a pure white tone?
While Kagome was contemplative over how she could steal Inu Yasha's hair and what to make out of it, Inu Yasha gazed down her dark staircase circumspectly.
He needed to get this fool of a girl to some real weapons so she could annihilate the demon in her bathroom as swiftly as possible...before it absorbed the Shikon no Tama into itself.
Of course the only outlets that led to these potential weapons were pitch black...and Inu Yasha knew better than to venture into the dark.
This demon had been around 500 years ago.
It had haunted Kikyo in the dark, because it knew she had the Sacred Jewel, and it wanted it for itself.
She had called it a Tooth Fairy.
This kind of demon normally attacked little kids after they had just lost a tooth...it came to them when it was dark, stole the newly lost tooth, then assaulted the child either until death came, or lights came. It was afraid of light.
It haunted the kids after they had just lost their teeth...because it wanted the teeth...
It wanted the teeth because...well, Inu Yasha had forgotten, because he had almost certainly not been paying attention to Kikyo when she was telling him the demon's motive to collect fresh teeth, and...500 years is a long time to remember something!
"Wench." Inu Yasha snapped.
Kagome's head almost snapped off in fury.
"KAGOME!" She all but exploded at him.
He gave her an aggravated glance out of the corner of his eye before continuing.
"We need to get to this place your mother keeps the weapons with as much light as possible. Do you have a portable sun-making device?"
"You mean a flashlight?"
"Don't get smart with me, woman, we need hurry up and go! I have no time for your smart-ass comments!"
Kagome glowered at the rear of his head.
If he kept it up, the back of his skull was going to have two holes in it from the looks Kagome kept throwing him.
Of course, Kagome, being a smart girl and all (apart from math related subjects) caught onto things promptly.
"Alright, I'll hurry and get the flashlight from my mother's room. Since I doubt you're going to go anywhere while I'm gone why don't you SIT down and wait for me?"
As expected, Inu Yasha's head flew for the ground and was pressed against it by some supernatural force that Kagome was confident she would befriend by the end of the night.
He let a series of muffled curses and bubbling sounds soar from the ground and to Kagome's ears as she tottered down the hall and over to her mom's room.
It was dark.
She stared into the room guardedly.
It was in there, and she could sense it.
She had turned on the lights in the hallway and the hallway seemed safe, so working strictly upon the theory that her brain had just given birth to, Kagome quickly thrust her hand into the darkness, flipped on the light switch, then jerked her hand away as fast as she could.
She watched the room fill with light labouredly.
It was almost as if the demon was trying to fight the light.
With a scream of defeat, the darkness disappeared into the light and Kagome sighed in relief.
Quickly, she ventured over to her mother's night stand, took out the biggest flash light in the drawer, then staggered back over to where Inu Yasha was sitting on the floor.
"So you did sit down and wait for me." She affirmed while cracking a charming half-smile at him.
He flew into the ground once more and Kagome yelped.
"No! I didn't mean it that time!"
"Just don't talk and I'll be happy, your voice is annoying anyways." Inu Yasha snarled while attempting to pry his face off the floor with his hands.
Kagome's face faltered for a moment.
Didn't he know that women were fragile and could break easy?
Did he not realize how hurtful his words could be?
So careless...
So insensitive...
Such a...
"Jerk! You jerk! Is that all you can do, insult me!? Do you think that if you poke and prod at me a little bit I'll run away crying for my mommy!? I'll have you know I was attacked in my own pantry by some...THING, practically ripped in half, been chased around by dog boys, listened to my mother cry on the phone about my brother, lost my history and math homework, served detention for absolutely no reason at all, and you still have the nerve to insult me like I'm some little child when I'm trying my hardest to do something right! You're so thoughtless!" Kagome erupted.
Inu Yasha was going to give this girl a piece of his mind, but bit his lip when he saw the commencement of tears in Kagome's eyes.
Ever since he was little and his mother had cried for him...
He just couldn't stand watching women cry, mainly when it was his fault.
He sat up gradually and looked down the flight of steps, biting his bottom lip the entire time.
"Shine that thing down there and let's go." He mumbled sympathetically.
Kagome obeyed, and with a resounding click, the device in her hand produced instant luminosity.
Inu Yasha took the light-stick from her and then put his arm around her waist.
"What!?" Kagome objected, startled by his sudden move.
"It's so you'll move faster so don't look into it, alright?" Inu Yasha growled beside her.
As they progressively went down the stairs, Kagome began to wonder if the flashlight was really working.
Sure, it shot out a beam of light, but that didn't mean that there wasn't darkness behind them.
Of course, Kagome was a smart one, and she thought right.
"Where do we-" Inu Yasha began.
Rip.
It was a sickening rip that reverberated from behind the two.
A rip that indicated there was trouble behind them...
A rip that sounded not only of clothes shredding, but flesh tearing with it.
A rip that made Kagome begin to scream for another time that night, and made Inu Yasha gasp and fall into the wall beside him.
The flashlight and Kagome both tumbled down the stairs together when Inu Yasha let go of them.
Kagome, having reached the bottom of the steps already, lay still in a tactic that opossums are famous for in defending themselves against predators.
The flashlight on the other hand, rolled away and into the blackness of the living room, leaving one frightened teenager in it's wake and one angry, pissed off, injured half demon still leaning against the wall beside the stairs.
He pushed himself away from the wall in a hurry, to see if Kagome was all right, but...
Intercepted!
Extended claws cut into his right cheek as the demon in front of him swatted him away like a cat would to a butterfly.
He hit the wall a second time, except this time he rebounded off of it and jumped towards the demon with the adrenaline of finally being able to kill a demon once again pumping through his veins, driving him to go fourth and fight.
He had missed that.
A flick of his wrist and the demon before him shrieked out before vanishing into the darkness again. His eyes and ears scanned the area for any traces of the dark fairy, knowing that it was bound to pop out at any given time.
Did he hit it? He couldn't quite tell...it had just disintegrated into the darkness all around him. Dammit, he had wanted to fight!
His eyes could pick up images delineated by the moonlight spilling in from outside probably a little bit better than Kagome's could since he was half- demon. It was a trait he always loved to boast to others about, especially when playing games of hide-n'-go-seek in the middle of the night even though it wasn't called hide-n'-go-seek when he used to play it.
...But now was not the time for reminiscing about childish games!
That good-for-nothing girl could be in trouble!
Inu Yasha's worries were confirmed when a girly squeal resounded in his skull.
"YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"
The only action that could adequately demonstrate Inu Yasha's next movement would have to be soar. He flew into the room that Kagome was playing dead in so fast that it would've made an eagle dive-bombing in on it's prey wonder what just flew by.
It appeared as if an instant after Kagome had began to inhale to scream Inu Yasha was at her side. Even in the dark she could tell that he was inspecting her for injuries, threats, etc.
"What's wrong with you, girl!?" Inu Yasha barked down at her.
"Something...furry against...my leg!" She panted up at him, trying hard not to squirm against the 'something furry' pressing against her thigh.
Inu Yasha got down on all fours and started feeling around for the flashlight he had dropped and would soon blame Kagome for losing. Claws made contact with cool black metal while he was feeling blindly around under the couch and he rose onto his legs once again, flashlight in hand.
"How do you turn this damned thing on?" He queried, fiddling with the light's apex.
Kagome's teeth ground together noisily as the 'something furry' continued rubbing against her bare leg affectionately. Was it really that hard to turn on a stupid flashlight!?
Inu Yasha's face, once hidden in the darkness was illuminated in light within a moment as he finally figured out how to turn on the flashlight in his hand. His pupils instantly contracted to keep out the offending brightness shining directly into his eyes. They looked like short pieces of black thread in a puddle of gold.
After letting out a sequence of unhealthy words that would later require Kagome to shower in order to clean herself, the beam of radiance shone down to Kagome. She pointed downwards and the light followed to where she pointed.
"Myeeeeeeeeeeeiow~" Kagome's cat virtually sang in annoyance.
"Buyo!" Kagome screeched, causing the normally lethargic cat to jump backwards and arch it's back defensively. "Stupid cat, you scared me!"
Inu Yasha watched the feline and it's valueless owner reunite, resembling lost lovers who had been separated for 5 years. He folded his arms across his chest rigidly, a twinge of envy shooting through his heart.
She was here in her time with the people (and animals) that she loved...where as he...well, he wasn't quite sure where or when he was, and he undoubtedly didn't want to stay. He wanted-needed-to find Kikyo once more. He missed her fanatically, ever since he had woken up. After he had chased Kagome the imposter out of his room, he had laid on his bed in deep thought, trying to straighten things out in his mind.
What had happened to everyone?
Was he stuck here in this time for the rest of his life?
Could he get back to the people that needed him?
But sometimes even 6 hours of nonstop thinking will still render you without the answers you want. Maybe he was just dense...
Kagome watched the half demon in front of her with great inquisitiveness and interest. He had shown her nothing but anger since she had been inopportune enough to meet him, and here he was now, staring off into space, a list of emotions consecutively running across his face. His ears wilted ever so slightly, and his thick eyebrows were pushed together in a look of torment. His eyes shone even in the dark with bottled up sensations, probably from his past life with his past love and past family. Now he had nobody. Kagome would hate to be in his position, considering the circumstances of losing everyone she loved, but then again she wasn't particularly all too fond of her position either as of late. She would've sympathized for him, but...
"Will you STOP shining that light in my eyes!?" She commanded the startled boy.
His features hardened instantly. How could he have ever mistaken this piece of rubbish for his beloved Kikyo? He probably was dense.
"If you would stop smothering that pathetic excuse for an animal, we could get going so I can get out of here." Inu Yasha rumbled back at her.
Kagome bit her tongue and stood up, letting Buyo drop to the floor once again with a plop. Boys will be boys...whatever that meant.
Kagome all but ran to catch up with Inu Yasha as he moodily began heading for the door to the outside world. She collided with his back when he stopped abruptly and grabbed onto the thick red material that was now torn in the back.
'He's hurt!' Kagome mentally noted as her hands slid over his wounds.
What a smart girl she was.
"Inu Yasha!" Kagome began.
"Shh! It's near..." Inu Yasha hissed while shining the flashlight next to the staircase.
Kagome sighed, aggravated, and pounded her fist into the wall beside the door. The small entrance area by the front door was bathed in light instantaneously and Kagome turned to Inu Yasha who had almost jumped through a nearby window when the lights had magically turned on. These supernatural devices would certainly take some getting used to.
He stared angrily down at the girl standing before him, but once she looked up at him he was almost taken aback.
Her face held such concern for him. Why? Go away!
"Inu Yasha..." She murmured softly, taking a step towards him.
His instinct was, of course...RUN AWAY! That would be a bad idea though, since the dark was the only other option to run away into.
Her warm hand made contact with his cheek and swatted it away.
"Don't touch me, woman." He barked.
"But you're bleeding, you need some bandages and-" She started uneasily.
"I don't need your medicinal crap, wench! Getting the Shikon No Tama back right now is what's important! If we don't hurry and get it quickly, then that demon is going to absorb it's powers, and then no one will be able to stop it! Now will you stop delaying what needs to be done!?"
She nodded mutely. This had to be done, then she'd be rid of him, and then she wouldn't have to worry about him. Good deal, jerk.
Kagome grabbed the door's handle in her warm hand, turned it and flung the door open. The darkness from outside seemed to be trying to come inside, nearly pressing itself into the light forcefully. Inu Yasha shone the flashlight into the shadows and they receded a tiny bit.
"Follow me." He demanded.
With that he dove into the blackness, shining the flashlight in front of him. Kagome hounded after him in hot pursuit, shouting protests in his general direction such as "But you don't know where the shrine is!", "You're going the wrong way!", "No! Turn left!", "I can't see you!", and "You stupid idiot!".
The minuscule hairs on the back of Kagome's neck bristled as something soft grazed the back of her arms. She looked around frantically, trying not to run into any obstacles while doing so, and screamed when she saw what was above her.
It was blacker than the midnight sky, which was more of a royal blue color anyways...It was blacker than anything she had ever seen before in her life, blacker than the pantry had been when she had installed herself within it, blacker than the old well in the shrine at night, and blacker than the zombies in Sota's video games. It was like a hole that drained everything around it from light and was currently descending upon Kagome's head.
Of course the only thing she knew of that would help her at the moment was in Inu Yasha's hands probably a few hundred yards ahead of her...so she took the only other option she knew how to use that would most likely assist her. She let out a blood-curdling scream. It worked on her little brother and sometimes even grandpa, so she could only hope...
It...wasn't...working!!
And this thing kept approaching her...she obviously couldn't outrun it, and it was going to be anywhere there was darkness...what could she do now?
She closed her eyes tightly, relieving her eyes of the awful darkness they were being sucked into. She knew the demon was going to come down to her and consume her. She would be absorbed like the sacred jewel she had failed to protect.
'Maybe being absorbed won't hurt...' She hoped.
She didn't even discern when her feet left the earth...
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Dannee: ::Wipes some sweat from her forehead:: That took awhile...Eh? But was it worth the wait? ^^;; I hope so. Next chappie will hopefully be out soon. Thanks to everyone who has reviewed my story for the last chapter:
Iden's Garden, Just Me17, Dragonleaf, Josie, Shiari1, kmf, dragon_game, and...Cat...
In it for the chocolate again I assume?
Cat: Cat saw that 10 pound chocolate bar Dannee has hidden in her cupboard from Christmas time, she can't fool Cat!
Dannee: 10...pounds...Of chocolate? Really?
Cat: No. Cat ate it already.
Dannee: ...
Next chapter may come out quicker than this chapter did, so please review for me and it may come out even quicker if I find that people actually are
interested in this Fic!