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Chapter 9: A Minor Mirror Malfunction
~.~.~.~.~.Kanna
I sat looking curiously at my mirror. It had never done this before. White strips were flashing across, not reflection-white, but dull-white, like the shell of an egg. It was strange. I finally rationalized that it must be the souls in my mirror. My mirror may have never done this before, but then I had never had both a miko and a taiyoukai in it at the same time.
Kagura was still pouting against the tree, but my mirror was more interesting.
The flashes sped up and I brought it closer to my face. What was going on? The glass went white.
With a crash, the glass of the mirror exploded outward, and I screamed in rage and pain. Blood dripped from my fingers as I hurtled the empty frame away from me. Red stains splattered onto my pristine white kimono as Kagura turned and smirked.
Two gray, mist-like forms whispered out of the frame from where it lay, leaning against a tree trunk, the golden tassels crumpled on the ground, and seeped into the cave.
Naraku would not be pleased by this.
The souls had escaped.
~.~.~.~.~.Inuyasha
I came awake in a red haze. I could faintly make out Miroku leaning over me. What was he doing?
I scowled at him. To my surprise, a smile of relief spread over his face. Still scowling, I attempted to sit up, but couldn't.
WHAT WAS GOING ON?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
I could faintly see Sango off by a small fire, feverously mashing something is a pestle and every once in a while stirring a small pot over the flames. Miroku called something about me to her, but I couldn't hear all of it.
She looked like she might have smiled, but before I could see I drifted out of conciseness again.
~.~.~.~.~.Sesshoumaru
Pain.
Blinding pain enveloped me.
I almost screamed.
Almost.
I wondered what had happened to me. I remembered my strange mirrored prison, and it exploding outward; huge chunks of the glass-like substance tearing through me, but I had been fine, other then looking a bit like smoke.
Seconds after, I had exploded outward, but had felt strangely free; like I was a whisp of cloud floating on a breeze.
Then the pain had arrived.
It dulled the senses, blocking out everything.
I wouldn't be able to control it.
Just as I was about to lose control and do something, anything to end the pain, I thought of my father, of what he had taught me.
Pain was a weakness, an emotion.
Emotions would get you killed, sent to your death needlessly by those 'loyal' to you.
I put on my taiyoukai face, replacing the tightened, tense, contorted expression with a calm mask.
(A/N: I just want to say that Inutaisho did not teach him this directly. You will learn more later)
The scent of blood filled my sensitive nose.
I gagged.
It was overpowering, like I was lying in a pool of the stuff. Some had the distinct, metallic tinge that was singular to demons, and some smelled like Rin's sugar-sweet blood. And... good heavens. There was another girl's farther away, but not more then 100 yards.
Where was I, Vampire Bay?
I opened my eyes, and what did I see but that I was lying in a pool of my own blood. Not a big pool, certainly, but still. Low-level demons were surrounding me, tearing into my flesh, creating more wounds for the blood to drip from. How dare they? I was Sesshoumaru, taiyoukai of Western Lands! It was an outrage. I came up rather sluggishly, moving at a speed that was almost halved. It was still to fast for the fools around me to respond.
Pieces of the youkai splashed into my blood as I tore them to bits.
Rin was lying only a few feet away from me, in a huge pool of the sticky liquid, which was now old enough that the edges and what was on her had begun to dry. She was white as a lily, and not moving. Suddenly my rage returned and my claws flew out, poison filling them as adrenaline began to pump through my veins. I tore up almost all of the demons which had been in the cave, but some fled before I could get to them. It did not matter. I could hunt them down later. I stepped through the gore and blood towards Rin, doing my best not to smell. My poor, now red kimono would never be the same.
Rin seemed dead, which was a mercy as the youkai had already begun to tear chunks from her flesh, as they had from mine. I was pushed beyond fury by this latest sight. Tenderly scooping her body up with my tail I unleashed my fury on the demons that had begun to creep back in, hoping for an easy meal. I was the flames of vengeance. I was the winds of death.
~.~.~.~.~.Miroku
Inuyasha was getting faster at healing, that was for sure. When he had been fighting Naraku once he had gotten worse injuries and recovered more slowly. He had been drifting in and out of conciseness for the past half an hour. I stood and looked around at our sadly depleted little group.
Inuyasha, lying out of commission on ground stained red from his blood.
Sango kneeling near her small fire making willow-bark tea and some potion to restore Inuyasha's strength while Kirrara hopped back and forth to get ingredients from her saddlebags.
Kagome, missing, kidnapped by Naraku for some foul purpose.
And Shippo...
I glanced around for the little fox kit.
What? He was gone too? Where would he go?
And, more to the point, how would we find him again without Inuyasha's nose?
~.~.~.~.~.Shippo
(A/N: this is why Shippo disappeared and hasn't been heard of. Ehe. Sorry about that...)
I smelt the queer blood of a demon and hopped closer. Kanna stood, her face a mask of rage and indignation, glaring at the empty mirror frame leaning against a tree across from her.
Red blood that had an odd silver tinge to it dripped off her lily-white fingers and onto her kimono and the ground.
Kagura smirked at her from the other side of the tree, and I felt a growl begin deep in my throat. She had kidnapped Kagome.
"Pity for you that the souls escaped Kanna," she said with a sadistic laugh in her tone. "Naraku won't be pleased that the demon and the miko have been unleashed on his army. He will loose at least thousands before they are killed."
I drew in a breath sharply, and Kagura perked her ears.
"What was that?"
I sat as quietly as I could until the sisters started fighting again.
Silently, I turned and began to creep back to the group, leaving a trail of mushroom spores that would soon burst into... unique mushrooms behind me.
I had to get back and tell everyone where Kagome was.
~.~.~.~.~.Kagome
Drip, drip, drip.
Blood pooled around my faintly glowing body.
I could never remember being so tired. One part of me just wanted to go to sleep, but I forced my leaded eyes to stay open.
When I had awoken a few minutes earlier, a wave of blinding pain had drowned out everything else. I might have screamed. I'm not really sure what I did through that red haze.
Immediately, almost instinctively, I shot all of the power that I had through my system. That alone shocked me. The fact that I had so much control of my energy amazed me. I hadn't ever before been able to control my energy like that, other then my strange, realm-of-dreams-with- Sesshoumaru experience.
Hundreds of high-pitched keenings echoed and reverberated around me when I had done that, and I almost thought that my ears, along with everything else, were bleeding.
When I opened my eyes, I found that the unearthly shrieks were made by the demons surrounding me, who were slowing fading from existence, having gotten a mouthful of purified flesh. Well, it was one way to get rid of them, although I wouldn't do it again for anything. Needless to say, it really, really hurt.
Oh, great. That noise just started again. But... no pain this time. At least, no physical pain. My poor ears, I am sure will never be the same. I looked up and saw a white blur. It stopped momentarily, and I saw that it was Sesshoumaru.
That shook me, let me tell you. Sesshoumaru, protecting me. Under normal circumstances, I would have laughed myself sick! There was no way that he would protect a human. Only... he was. Unless I was only imagining it.
Except for the fact that in order to imagine it, I would have to want it, right? So now it is simply a question of which is more likely, him protecting me, or me wanting him to protect me.
Neither is very likely.
Then Sesshoumaru set down the little girl that he had had in his tail, drew one of his swords, and swept it over the child. To my utter amazement, her wounds healed, her hand (which had been lying beside her) reattached, and her face lost its deathly white color. Ok, it had just become official. I was a mental case. Somebody lock me up before I hurt myself or others.
The girl stirred and rubbed her eyes, at last opening them to reveal liquid brown pools. She looked around for a moment, as though confused, and then saw Sesshoumaru and smiled. It is so very clear that I am not the only one with insanity in my family.
A demon slipped through Sesshoumaru's slashing claws and came for her, mouth gaping and teeth shining wetly.
I yelled and moved all I could, apparently distracting it. Noticing me, it began to come for me.
My energy was almost spent. I was already partially dipping into my life force, my magic that kept me running, yet still I was growing weaker and weaker. In order to purify the demon, I might have to kill myself, which I was so not willing to do.
The red snake's tongue waved like a banner as the giant centipede came closer and closer and closer...
******
Not that good a end, I know, but go easy on me. Sorry about taking approximately a million years to update, but you didn't get the chapter due to some floppy disc/internet troubles that I have been having. Not a good excuse, I know, but whatever. Gomen!!
Review Responces:
D-Chan3- *grin* good guess. I'm not sure what his reaction will be yet though...
DumbAssPunk- Good, I'm glad that you liked the fight scene. I have wanted to write that for the longest time... As to when will chapter 10 will be up, AS SOON AS 2 PEOPLE REVIEW THIS ONE!!!!!!!
Sukera- ^__^; *sniff, sniff* I'm so happy you liked it!
A Typical Dude- just how much Inuyasha fanfiction have you read anyway? None? There are way, way, way too many Inu/Kag povs out there. Try reading 10, and see if you get even one creative plot. I bet ya that if you do, it will have been used again and again and again and again... Either that or it is one of those really freaky ones, like this one where Naraku kidnaps Kagome and rapes her, and then she gets pregnant....
Kat- ...interesting. That was... um... interesting. How this turns into a Sess/Kag is rather weird, and involves forcing them to be allies and more kidnapping. Sorry, but they will not actually "get together" in this story, it will be in the next one, or maybe the third. Yes, this is going to at least be a duo. Sorry about that.
Chapter 9: A Minor Mirror Malfunction
~.~.~.~.~.Kanna
I sat looking curiously at my mirror. It had never done this before. White strips were flashing across, not reflection-white, but dull-white, like the shell of an egg. It was strange. I finally rationalized that it must be the souls in my mirror. My mirror may have never done this before, but then I had never had both a miko and a taiyoukai in it at the same time.
Kagura was still pouting against the tree, but my mirror was more interesting.
The flashes sped up and I brought it closer to my face. What was going on? The glass went white.
With a crash, the glass of the mirror exploded outward, and I screamed in rage and pain. Blood dripped from my fingers as I hurtled the empty frame away from me. Red stains splattered onto my pristine white kimono as Kagura turned and smirked.
Two gray, mist-like forms whispered out of the frame from where it lay, leaning against a tree trunk, the golden tassels crumpled on the ground, and seeped into the cave.
Naraku would not be pleased by this.
The souls had escaped.
~.~.~.~.~.Inuyasha
I came awake in a red haze. I could faintly make out Miroku leaning over me. What was he doing?
I scowled at him. To my surprise, a smile of relief spread over his face. Still scowling, I attempted to sit up, but couldn't.
WHAT WAS GOING ON?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
I could faintly see Sango off by a small fire, feverously mashing something is a pestle and every once in a while stirring a small pot over the flames. Miroku called something about me to her, but I couldn't hear all of it.
She looked like she might have smiled, but before I could see I drifted out of conciseness again.
~.~.~.~.~.Sesshoumaru
Pain.
Blinding pain enveloped me.
I almost screamed.
Almost.
I wondered what had happened to me. I remembered my strange mirrored prison, and it exploding outward; huge chunks of the glass-like substance tearing through me, but I had been fine, other then looking a bit like smoke.
Seconds after, I had exploded outward, but had felt strangely free; like I was a whisp of cloud floating on a breeze.
Then the pain had arrived.
It dulled the senses, blocking out everything.
I wouldn't be able to control it.
Just as I was about to lose control and do something, anything to end the pain, I thought of my father, of what he had taught me.
Pain was a weakness, an emotion.
Emotions would get you killed, sent to your death needlessly by those 'loyal' to you.
I put on my taiyoukai face, replacing the tightened, tense, contorted expression with a calm mask.
(A/N: I just want to say that Inutaisho did not teach him this directly. You will learn more later)
The scent of blood filled my sensitive nose.
I gagged.
It was overpowering, like I was lying in a pool of the stuff. Some had the distinct, metallic tinge that was singular to demons, and some smelled like Rin's sugar-sweet blood. And... good heavens. There was another girl's farther away, but not more then 100 yards.
Where was I, Vampire Bay?
I opened my eyes, and what did I see but that I was lying in a pool of my own blood. Not a big pool, certainly, but still. Low-level demons were surrounding me, tearing into my flesh, creating more wounds for the blood to drip from. How dare they? I was Sesshoumaru, taiyoukai of Western Lands! It was an outrage. I came up rather sluggishly, moving at a speed that was almost halved. It was still to fast for the fools around me to respond.
Pieces of the youkai splashed into my blood as I tore them to bits.
Rin was lying only a few feet away from me, in a huge pool of the sticky liquid, which was now old enough that the edges and what was on her had begun to dry. She was white as a lily, and not moving. Suddenly my rage returned and my claws flew out, poison filling them as adrenaline began to pump through my veins. I tore up almost all of the demons which had been in the cave, but some fled before I could get to them. It did not matter. I could hunt them down later. I stepped through the gore and blood towards Rin, doing my best not to smell. My poor, now red kimono would never be the same.
Rin seemed dead, which was a mercy as the youkai had already begun to tear chunks from her flesh, as they had from mine. I was pushed beyond fury by this latest sight. Tenderly scooping her body up with my tail I unleashed my fury on the demons that had begun to creep back in, hoping for an easy meal. I was the flames of vengeance. I was the winds of death.
~.~.~.~.~.Miroku
Inuyasha was getting faster at healing, that was for sure. When he had been fighting Naraku once he had gotten worse injuries and recovered more slowly. He had been drifting in and out of conciseness for the past half an hour. I stood and looked around at our sadly depleted little group.
Inuyasha, lying out of commission on ground stained red from his blood.
Sango kneeling near her small fire making willow-bark tea and some potion to restore Inuyasha's strength while Kirrara hopped back and forth to get ingredients from her saddlebags.
Kagome, missing, kidnapped by Naraku for some foul purpose.
And Shippo...
I glanced around for the little fox kit.
What? He was gone too? Where would he go?
And, more to the point, how would we find him again without Inuyasha's nose?
~.~.~.~.~.Shippo
(A/N: this is why Shippo disappeared and hasn't been heard of. Ehe. Sorry about that...)
I smelt the queer blood of a demon and hopped closer. Kanna stood, her face a mask of rage and indignation, glaring at the empty mirror frame leaning against a tree across from her.
Red blood that had an odd silver tinge to it dripped off her lily-white fingers and onto her kimono and the ground.
Kagura smirked at her from the other side of the tree, and I felt a growl begin deep in my throat. She had kidnapped Kagome.
"Pity for you that the souls escaped Kanna," she said with a sadistic laugh in her tone. "Naraku won't be pleased that the demon and the miko have been unleashed on his army. He will loose at least thousands before they are killed."
I drew in a breath sharply, and Kagura perked her ears.
"What was that?"
I sat as quietly as I could until the sisters started fighting again.
Silently, I turned and began to creep back to the group, leaving a trail of mushroom spores that would soon burst into... unique mushrooms behind me.
I had to get back and tell everyone where Kagome was.
~.~.~.~.~.Kagome
Drip, drip, drip.
Blood pooled around my faintly glowing body.
I could never remember being so tired. One part of me just wanted to go to sleep, but I forced my leaded eyes to stay open.
When I had awoken a few minutes earlier, a wave of blinding pain had drowned out everything else. I might have screamed. I'm not really sure what I did through that red haze.
Immediately, almost instinctively, I shot all of the power that I had through my system. That alone shocked me. The fact that I had so much control of my energy amazed me. I hadn't ever before been able to control my energy like that, other then my strange, realm-of-dreams-with- Sesshoumaru experience.
Hundreds of high-pitched keenings echoed and reverberated around me when I had done that, and I almost thought that my ears, along with everything else, were bleeding.
When I opened my eyes, I found that the unearthly shrieks were made by the demons surrounding me, who were slowing fading from existence, having gotten a mouthful of purified flesh. Well, it was one way to get rid of them, although I wouldn't do it again for anything. Needless to say, it really, really hurt.
Oh, great. That noise just started again. But... no pain this time. At least, no physical pain. My poor ears, I am sure will never be the same. I looked up and saw a white blur. It stopped momentarily, and I saw that it was Sesshoumaru.
That shook me, let me tell you. Sesshoumaru, protecting me. Under normal circumstances, I would have laughed myself sick! There was no way that he would protect a human. Only... he was. Unless I was only imagining it.
Except for the fact that in order to imagine it, I would have to want it, right? So now it is simply a question of which is more likely, him protecting me, or me wanting him to protect me.
Neither is very likely.
Then Sesshoumaru set down the little girl that he had had in his tail, drew one of his swords, and swept it over the child. To my utter amazement, her wounds healed, her hand (which had been lying beside her) reattached, and her face lost its deathly white color. Ok, it had just become official. I was a mental case. Somebody lock me up before I hurt myself or others.
The girl stirred and rubbed her eyes, at last opening them to reveal liquid brown pools. She looked around for a moment, as though confused, and then saw Sesshoumaru and smiled. It is so very clear that I am not the only one with insanity in my family.
A demon slipped through Sesshoumaru's slashing claws and came for her, mouth gaping and teeth shining wetly.
I yelled and moved all I could, apparently distracting it. Noticing me, it began to come for me.
My energy was almost spent. I was already partially dipping into my life force, my magic that kept me running, yet still I was growing weaker and weaker. In order to purify the demon, I might have to kill myself, which I was so not willing to do.
The red snake's tongue waved like a banner as the giant centipede came closer and closer and closer...
******
Not that good a end, I know, but go easy on me. Sorry about taking approximately a million years to update, but you didn't get the chapter due to some floppy disc/internet troubles that I have been having. Not a good excuse, I know, but whatever. Gomen!!
Review Responces:
D-Chan3- *grin* good guess. I'm not sure what his reaction will be yet though...
DumbAssPunk- Good, I'm glad that you liked the fight scene. I have wanted to write that for the longest time... As to when will chapter 10 will be up, AS SOON AS 2 PEOPLE REVIEW THIS ONE!!!!!!!
Sukera- ^__^; *sniff, sniff* I'm so happy you liked it!
A Typical Dude- just how much Inuyasha fanfiction have you read anyway? None? There are way, way, way too many Inu/Kag povs out there. Try reading 10, and see if you get even one creative plot. I bet ya that if you do, it will have been used again and again and again and again... Either that or it is one of those really freaky ones, like this one where Naraku kidnaps Kagome and rapes her, and then she gets pregnant....
Kat- ...interesting. That was... um... interesting. How this turns into a Sess/Kag is rather weird, and involves forcing them to be allies and more kidnapping. Sorry, but they will not actually "get together" in this story, it will be in the next one, or maybe the third. Yes, this is going to at least be a duo. Sorry about that.