Hey! Have patience with me on this fic, please. This is my first one and so
I am not really that good yet. As this story is written in multiple pov,
~.~.~.~.~. says that the pov is changing. To save confusion, the name of
the person who we are currently in is written right after the little change
thing. Please review me, as this is the only way that I can actually know
if someone has been reading, and I will probably need ideas in the future.
I do have the next coulpla chapters planed though. If you have any Qs, ask
me and I will try to answer them. ;o
Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha, but I do own this shiny penny! Ooo a nickel!
Chapter 1: Of Monsters, Mirrors, and Missing Persons
~.~.~.~.~.Sesshoumaru
I was livid. I was so mad that I was actually shaking with rage. Now, when you get me showing any emotion at all, you can know without a doubt that I am feeling pretty strongly, but if you EVER get me this furious, that you had best start running. Run far, far away because you will suffer at least one slow and painful death. It is not exactly the best thing that you can do for your health to get me angry at all, but this mad....
The reason that my calm mask had been ripped away was quite understandable, if not at first obvious.
2 days ago Rin had disappeared. I had left her with Jaken and gone to find some low level youkai who had somehow forgotten that they needed to follow my rules and were slaughtering villages of humans for kicks and giggles. Normally I would not have minded, but said villages were part of the western lands, and thus my property. And disrespect to my things was disrespect to me. This meant only one thing. The demons had to be made examples of.
I had found them quickly but decided that rather than go for the direct kill I would rather amuse myself. For almost half a day I had played with them, like a cat plays with a mouse, before finally giving them the slow and painful deaths that they deserved.
I had been feeling fairly good after that, having released the stress that being a taiyoukai brings, before I arrived at the clearing that I had left my companions in and found a unconscious Jaken, a meadow that stank of youki and a missing Rin.
Amusement had disintegrated into panic and I had quickly "helped" my retainer to wake. I questioned him as to what had happened and he had told me that he had sensed youki approaching at enormous speeds. He had been preparing the staff of heads when a great wind had arisen, knocking loose a tree branch that had fallen on his head. The toad had wilted under the gaze that I had given him and begun jabbering on about forgiving him and how he had at least learned that the demon had been coming from the east, and about how it had been a wind demon. I began to feel a headache coming on, and commanding him to be silent I cast about for a sent.
Unfortunately she was a smart one. She had never touched the ground, and so there was only a faint smell of breezes and clouds, with a touch of demonic energy mixed in. I had begun tracking, vowing to kill the being that had been so insolent, but not unduly worried about the safety of the child, assuming that she had been taken as a hostage to manipulate me. If this had been the case, than she would have been valuable and would not have been harmed.
It had been the message delivered by the lizard youkai that morning that had thrown me into a demonic rage.
At the moment, I was only capable of forming one thought. Naraku will die for this.
The note had been simple enough, saying only, "I have her. Find her and I may consider giving her back, at a price, of course." The letter had been signed Naraku. While this alone was enough to get me plenty mad, it had been what had accompanied it that had flung me into all the fury of a demon. It was a small hand, about the size of a 5-year-olds that had smelled of daisies and peach blossoms. Rin's sent.
What I had done to the lizard had brought whole new meaning to the phrase "kill the messenger," although I did not just kill him. No, what I did was tear him limb from limb, bring him back to life, crush his skull, healed him again, melt him sssslllloooowwwlllyyyy with my poison, and rip out his spine. I would have done more, but I needed to find Rin, and quickly. She would NOT be hurt again.
As I said earlier, it is not at all beneficial to your health to get me mad.
It had not exactly been hard to follow the trail of the lizard, which was a good thing, seeing as how I couldn't think clearly enough to track unless it WAS obvious. I raced on, top speed, going so fast that human eyes would detect nothing but a blur while imagining the various punishments that I would inflict upon Naraku when I got my hands on him.
Vengeance would be sweet.
I slowed as I reached a cave, and stepped quietly to the entrance. As I smelled the air my eyes burned red again. Rin was here all right. Her sent was here, although faint, and almost covered by a stench of blood that was so strong that a human would be able to smell it. I curled my lip in disgust and stepped into the cavern, following the thin trail that was Rin.
~.~.~.~.~.Kagome
I turned, strung an arrow and loosed it all in one fluid movement.
"Inuyasha! Shikon shard coming!"
The battle raged around me as I fitted yet another arrow to my string and shot at the things circling above us. It hit.
"Yes." I hissed under my breath as I watched the female dissolve into the piercing white light with one final shriek. They were true monsters, with bodies like giant crows made of burnished steel and human chests and heads. Razor sharp teeth flashed as they shrieked and cawed, and all of them had blood caked to teeth and talons, with liberal amounts smeared on the human portions of their anatomy. Human blood, as Inuyasha had told us grimly when we approached.
"Everybody back!" roared Miroku as he ripped the rosary beads off his arm. "I've had enough of this!"
Everyone else did the sensible thing and got behind him as quickly as they knew how, it not being the best of ideas to stay in front of him when he did this. But who ever accused me of being sensible?
I swung around and grabbed his hand. "Miroku, No! You'll cut your palm again!"
He blinked and than grinned. "Why Kagome, I didn't know you cared."
I stared at the hand that was latched onto his for a few seconds and than ripped it away faster than I would have had his hand suddenly turned into a huge hairy tarantula, suddenly blushing furiously, while Miroku continued to leer at me and in the background Inuyasha's eyes got narrower and narrower while he started to bear his teeth.
The shrieking caw shattered the sudden hush and brought us suddenly back to the present and reminded everyone why all of this had started.
"Not to worry, I know what to do this time!" he yelled as he swung me behind him and opened his right hand to the sky. A rush of wind like a hurricane screamed into the sky and pulled all of the creatures into the hole. "Sometimes," he commented wryly as he swung the beads back over his arm, "an air rip can be a useful thing to have."
"YOU IDIOT!!!!!" exploded Inuyasha.
I rolled my eyes. Here we go again.
"KAGOME SENSED A SHIKON SHARD AROUND HERE!!!!! YOU MAY HAVE JUST LOST IT PERMANANTLY!!!! I COULD HAVE TAKEN...."
I half listened as he ranted on and my annoyance at the baka-hanyou grew. I let it slide until it started looking as though the dog was about to beat up the monk, and that was when I lost my temper.
"Inuyasha no baka? SIT!!!" I yelled furiously as I swung around, thinking of what a jerk he had been the past 4 days. "Did you EVER consider that I sensed that shard a long time AFTER we met those things?!?!?!?!?!?! Just because Miroku touched me...."
It went on like that for a while, me a miniature volcano vocally beating up the hanyou who was sitting very still with a what-did-I-do expression on his face. It may have been funny if I weren't so mad.
I finally let out some undistinguishable noise halfway between a roar and a snarl, swung around, and began marching off in the direction of the bone eater well.
~.~.~.~.~.Sesshoumaru
I stepped into a passage near the back of the cave and walked the length of it, finally coming to a small wooden door fit into the stone. I smelled the air carefully before approaching, and there was no one but Rin behind it.
I tried opening the gate, but found it locked. Hmm. A problem. I proceeded to rip the door off its hinges. Problem solved. Walking in I saw a small black haired figure crumpled in a heap against the wall and another girl, this one white everywhere, standing in front of her. I stiffened in shock as I felt a curious tug at my soul. My limbs lost their energy and I crumpled to the floor, but all that I could think was how? How? But h....
~.~.~.~.~.Kagome
I fumed as I stormed toward home thinking murderous thoughts about the stupid, infuriating, dog-breathed jerk. I calmed down slightly as I walked, and after 15 minutes, I as almost feeling like myself again. I was feeling sane enough, at least, to remember that there was a Shikon shard on the loose hereabouts. Casting out my senses, I was in for a shock. It was right behind me? I looked incredulously toward my back and swung around only to see little Kanna standing there holding her mirror at me. I raised my eyes to heaven. Why me? Why don't they EVER learn that the whole ha-ha-ha-now- your-soul-is-trapped-in-my-mirror tricks don't work on me?
Looking down I stared uninterestedly at the mirror, waiting for it to soak up all of my soul that it could and stop. But, for some reason, it didn't. One thing about getting your soul extracted, you remember quite well when it stops because it is quite a strange feeling, to say the least. And yet it didn't stop where it should. It was then that I saw the extra mirror that the girl was toting and began to feel that I was in over my head. As my limbs weakened, that rushing sensation filled my senses until all I could hear was rushing and all I could see was rushing and all I could feel was rushing and as I fell to the ground the rushing continued and continued and continued even as I blacked out.
******
REVIEW!!!!!!!!! PLEASE!!!!!!
Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha, but I do own this shiny penny! Ooo a nickel!
Chapter 1: Of Monsters, Mirrors, and Missing Persons
~.~.~.~.~.Sesshoumaru
I was livid. I was so mad that I was actually shaking with rage. Now, when you get me showing any emotion at all, you can know without a doubt that I am feeling pretty strongly, but if you EVER get me this furious, that you had best start running. Run far, far away because you will suffer at least one slow and painful death. It is not exactly the best thing that you can do for your health to get me angry at all, but this mad....
The reason that my calm mask had been ripped away was quite understandable, if not at first obvious.
2 days ago Rin had disappeared. I had left her with Jaken and gone to find some low level youkai who had somehow forgotten that they needed to follow my rules and were slaughtering villages of humans for kicks and giggles. Normally I would not have minded, but said villages were part of the western lands, and thus my property. And disrespect to my things was disrespect to me. This meant only one thing. The demons had to be made examples of.
I had found them quickly but decided that rather than go for the direct kill I would rather amuse myself. For almost half a day I had played with them, like a cat plays with a mouse, before finally giving them the slow and painful deaths that they deserved.
I had been feeling fairly good after that, having released the stress that being a taiyoukai brings, before I arrived at the clearing that I had left my companions in and found a unconscious Jaken, a meadow that stank of youki and a missing Rin.
Amusement had disintegrated into panic and I had quickly "helped" my retainer to wake. I questioned him as to what had happened and he had told me that he had sensed youki approaching at enormous speeds. He had been preparing the staff of heads when a great wind had arisen, knocking loose a tree branch that had fallen on his head. The toad had wilted under the gaze that I had given him and begun jabbering on about forgiving him and how he had at least learned that the demon had been coming from the east, and about how it had been a wind demon. I began to feel a headache coming on, and commanding him to be silent I cast about for a sent.
Unfortunately she was a smart one. She had never touched the ground, and so there was only a faint smell of breezes and clouds, with a touch of demonic energy mixed in. I had begun tracking, vowing to kill the being that had been so insolent, but not unduly worried about the safety of the child, assuming that she had been taken as a hostage to manipulate me. If this had been the case, than she would have been valuable and would not have been harmed.
It had been the message delivered by the lizard youkai that morning that had thrown me into a demonic rage.
At the moment, I was only capable of forming one thought. Naraku will die for this.
The note had been simple enough, saying only, "I have her. Find her and I may consider giving her back, at a price, of course." The letter had been signed Naraku. While this alone was enough to get me plenty mad, it had been what had accompanied it that had flung me into all the fury of a demon. It was a small hand, about the size of a 5-year-olds that had smelled of daisies and peach blossoms. Rin's sent.
What I had done to the lizard had brought whole new meaning to the phrase "kill the messenger," although I did not just kill him. No, what I did was tear him limb from limb, bring him back to life, crush his skull, healed him again, melt him sssslllloooowwwlllyyyy with my poison, and rip out his spine. I would have done more, but I needed to find Rin, and quickly. She would NOT be hurt again.
As I said earlier, it is not at all beneficial to your health to get me mad.
It had not exactly been hard to follow the trail of the lizard, which was a good thing, seeing as how I couldn't think clearly enough to track unless it WAS obvious. I raced on, top speed, going so fast that human eyes would detect nothing but a blur while imagining the various punishments that I would inflict upon Naraku when I got my hands on him.
Vengeance would be sweet.
I slowed as I reached a cave, and stepped quietly to the entrance. As I smelled the air my eyes burned red again. Rin was here all right. Her sent was here, although faint, and almost covered by a stench of blood that was so strong that a human would be able to smell it. I curled my lip in disgust and stepped into the cavern, following the thin trail that was Rin.
~.~.~.~.~.Kagome
I turned, strung an arrow and loosed it all in one fluid movement.
"Inuyasha! Shikon shard coming!"
The battle raged around me as I fitted yet another arrow to my string and shot at the things circling above us. It hit.
"Yes." I hissed under my breath as I watched the female dissolve into the piercing white light with one final shriek. They were true monsters, with bodies like giant crows made of burnished steel and human chests and heads. Razor sharp teeth flashed as they shrieked and cawed, and all of them had blood caked to teeth and talons, with liberal amounts smeared on the human portions of their anatomy. Human blood, as Inuyasha had told us grimly when we approached.
"Everybody back!" roared Miroku as he ripped the rosary beads off his arm. "I've had enough of this!"
Everyone else did the sensible thing and got behind him as quickly as they knew how, it not being the best of ideas to stay in front of him when he did this. But who ever accused me of being sensible?
I swung around and grabbed his hand. "Miroku, No! You'll cut your palm again!"
He blinked and than grinned. "Why Kagome, I didn't know you cared."
I stared at the hand that was latched onto his for a few seconds and than ripped it away faster than I would have had his hand suddenly turned into a huge hairy tarantula, suddenly blushing furiously, while Miroku continued to leer at me and in the background Inuyasha's eyes got narrower and narrower while he started to bear his teeth.
The shrieking caw shattered the sudden hush and brought us suddenly back to the present and reminded everyone why all of this had started.
"Not to worry, I know what to do this time!" he yelled as he swung me behind him and opened his right hand to the sky. A rush of wind like a hurricane screamed into the sky and pulled all of the creatures into the hole. "Sometimes," he commented wryly as he swung the beads back over his arm, "an air rip can be a useful thing to have."
"YOU IDIOT!!!!!" exploded Inuyasha.
I rolled my eyes. Here we go again.
"KAGOME SENSED A SHIKON SHARD AROUND HERE!!!!! YOU MAY HAVE JUST LOST IT PERMANANTLY!!!! I COULD HAVE TAKEN...."
I half listened as he ranted on and my annoyance at the baka-hanyou grew. I let it slide until it started looking as though the dog was about to beat up the monk, and that was when I lost my temper.
"Inuyasha no baka? SIT!!!" I yelled furiously as I swung around, thinking of what a jerk he had been the past 4 days. "Did you EVER consider that I sensed that shard a long time AFTER we met those things?!?!?!?!?!?! Just because Miroku touched me...."
It went on like that for a while, me a miniature volcano vocally beating up the hanyou who was sitting very still with a what-did-I-do expression on his face. It may have been funny if I weren't so mad.
I finally let out some undistinguishable noise halfway between a roar and a snarl, swung around, and began marching off in the direction of the bone eater well.
~.~.~.~.~.Sesshoumaru
I stepped into a passage near the back of the cave and walked the length of it, finally coming to a small wooden door fit into the stone. I smelled the air carefully before approaching, and there was no one but Rin behind it.
I tried opening the gate, but found it locked. Hmm. A problem. I proceeded to rip the door off its hinges. Problem solved. Walking in I saw a small black haired figure crumpled in a heap against the wall and another girl, this one white everywhere, standing in front of her. I stiffened in shock as I felt a curious tug at my soul. My limbs lost their energy and I crumpled to the floor, but all that I could think was how? How? But h....
~.~.~.~.~.Kagome
I fumed as I stormed toward home thinking murderous thoughts about the stupid, infuriating, dog-breathed jerk. I calmed down slightly as I walked, and after 15 minutes, I as almost feeling like myself again. I was feeling sane enough, at least, to remember that there was a Shikon shard on the loose hereabouts. Casting out my senses, I was in for a shock. It was right behind me? I looked incredulously toward my back and swung around only to see little Kanna standing there holding her mirror at me. I raised my eyes to heaven. Why me? Why don't they EVER learn that the whole ha-ha-ha-now- your-soul-is-trapped-in-my-mirror tricks don't work on me?
Looking down I stared uninterestedly at the mirror, waiting for it to soak up all of my soul that it could and stop. But, for some reason, it didn't. One thing about getting your soul extracted, you remember quite well when it stops because it is quite a strange feeling, to say the least. And yet it didn't stop where it should. It was then that I saw the extra mirror that the girl was toting and began to feel that I was in over my head. As my limbs weakened, that rushing sensation filled my senses until all I could hear was rushing and all I could see was rushing and all I could feel was rushing and as I fell to the ground the rushing continued and continued and continued even as I blacked out.
******
REVIEW!!!!!!!!! PLEASE!!!!!!