If I owned Inuyasha, the story would center on Sesshoumaru, and as it
doesn't, that must mean I don't own it.
Chapter 12: A Demon's Dreams
~.~.~.~.~.Inuyasha
I could not stand it much more. Thank the gods that the sun was going down, and then I would be able to start tracking Kagome.
Not that it would be all that hard.
Kagome was easy to track, and so was Naraku. Put them together and it was bordering on a magnet. That just made it more difficult, waiting. I knew that I could find her quickly and well, and not being able to do it was driving me mad.
I swear that the sun had stopped, just to taunt me.
I willed it to move faster and tried to hurry it along with my claws.
My wounds had not yet completely healed, but I had had worse and still fought. I didn't see why the case was different this time.
I growled in frustration and made a fist-sized dent in a nearby tree.
Why didn't the @*#$ sun set already?
~.~.~.~.~.Sesshoumaru
She had healed me.
That alone had shocked me.
Also, the fact that she had somehow managed to use her power to heal me was an eye opener. I had vaguely wondered why it had been purple, but was too tired to really care. Then the pain had gone away, but my tiredness had not. I had managed to drag myself half-out of the pool that I was kneeling in, and then I collapsed and just slept after telling Rin that I was all right. I had not needed to do that for a long time.
In my dream there had been a black background, some sakura blossoms floating serenely on the breeze and a woman, sitting with her back to me, her blue-black hair spilling down like a waterfall. Some force of the dream world compelled me to walk to her, and when I got there I put a hand on her shoulder. Smiling, she turned around.
"Don't worry," she said in a lightly melodious voice, surprising me. I wasn't worried about anything. "Rin will be safe."
I looked at her in mild amazement that she knew the one thing that had been even mildly bothering me. I could always have brought Rin back to life again if she were killed, but she had already been dead twice, and I did not think that she needed to be again.
She laughed at my expression, her voice ringing out like the chime of silver bells. I grew unemotional once again, putting back up the barriers that the dream had temperately made me drop. She shook her head as if laughing at me again and gave me a hug.
"You need to wake up now," she whispered in my ear, "you are needed." I felt myself torn from the dreamscape, being forced into the world of the living.
~.~.~.~.~.Kagome
Oh, I was dead on my feet. Even my power was more then half-gone, a most impressive feat seeing as how I had gotten it all back when Sesshoumaru had healed me.
But then I guess that using your power for about 14 HOURS STRAIGHT will do that to a person.
Honestly, I was amazed that Sesshoumaru had slept for that long. He must have been really, really, really tired. Really, I don't blame him. I know what he went through, and he did enough to justify anyone sleeping for so long, demon lord or no.
Still, I wish he would wake up already, as I am now probably as tired as he had been.
I caught a very familiar aura as Sesshoumaru started stirring, and, leaving the power-bubble in place, I told Rin to wait, setting off to see it I was simply imagining things.
When I finally tracked my way through the horde of demons to the mouth of the cave I found out that my mind was not playing tricks on me, due to my lack of sleep.
No, Inuyasha and the gang really were there outside the cave.
I was so surprised that some of my purifying energy got away from me and washed out across everything.
~.~.~.~.~.Miroku
Demons were everywhere. Behind me, I could vaguely hear Sango shout "Hirokotsu!" as she swung her giant boomerang. Kirrara seemed everywhere at once, tearing and worrying the demons that surrounded her. Inuyasha was slashing wildly with his claws and blades of blood.
We must have slain at least a hundred demons already, but it had still barely made a dent in their numbers. There were untold thousands surrounding us, and still more were pouring from the tear in the sky.
Where had Naraku gotten such numbers?
Behind me, Shippo did what he could, burning like a small star that had fallen to earth and lighting everything within reach with foxfire, and once in a while scoring a few hits with his teeth or claws.
I cursed our loss of Kagome, with her arrows we could have punched a hole through this horde, and slain who knows how many more.
Then again, if we still had Kagome, we would have no need to be in this death trap.
Suddenly, all of the demons surrounding us for about 50 feet started glowing, and shrieking in pain.
Turning white, they disappeared in a flash. By my side, Inuyasha fell to his knees, his hair turning black while he lost his claws and Kirrara and Shippo just plain fell, collapsing in a heap and Kirrara turned back into her kitten form. They would be all right, but it would take some time for them to recover.
Turning to see what had caused this, I looked at the cave and saw a person who was dripping blood.
I looked closer, wondering who it could be.
It looked like... but it couldn't be.
I looked closer, and then all but felt my jaw hit the ground.
It was her.
~.~.~.~.~.Kagome
I looked around a bit nervously at all of the stunned expressions and staring that were coming my way, courtesy of my companions-from-before-I- was-kidnapped. I looked down at myself, wondering what they were looking at.
Oh.
That.
When I had looked down I had realized that I closely resembled the main character of a Stephen King novel. I began blushing furiously and trying to stammer explanations, but all that came out was an odd, undistinguishable sound that was rather confused. All that I can say for sure was that there was a lot of umming in there.
I somehow managed to get part of the story out when Inuyasha's hair turned white again (I guess I must have purified him along with everything else, oops) and his nose started working again, so he started growling and threatening Sesshoumaru (even though he couldn't hear him) if "the basted" had done anything to me. After I managed to calm him down and explain the rest of it everyone kind of sagged, as with disbelief before the demons hit them again. After that everyone, myself included, was extremely busy. I hurried to get as close as I could to Sesshoumaru again, so that I could take off the shield. Unfortunately before I could make it all the way there, the horde caught up with me.
Why?
Why always me?
So, here I was, maintaining the shield until I could get within controlling range and zapping demons at the same time when my energy was already dangerously low and I was really tired.
Can't you just see the disaster waiting to happen? Well, it did. I tried to purify one last demon that was behind me and about to EAT me but didn't use enough energy. This had slightly better results then flat out trying to use more power then I've got, which would kill me. With this, I only got blasted back about 20 feet and hit my own barrier, which, by the way, is about the equivalent of a stone wall—for hardness anyway.
The world was turning black and all fuzzy and I could hear this voice that was all nice sounding yelling, "Wake up. Woman? Wake up. Kagome, wake up! KAGOME!!" I am not sure if I imagined that though, just like maybe I imagined that big, purple rope that had a mouth and legs and was coming toward me. I mean, do ropes have legs?
I felt some blood trickle down through my hair and giggled weakly. More blood. There was already so much blood in here.
Things were getting darker and fuzzier and I could still see the rope—or whatever it was—and hear the voice that was yelling my name. Or, was it whispering? It was so soft, but it sounded as if it were yelling...
******
Ok, 5 reviews.
And for those of you who were wondering why on earth Kagome didn't just go through the barrier, there are two reasons.
1. She needs to be concentrating on going through her barrier if she wants to and,
2. I just get a sadistic kind of pleasure out of making her life as hard as possible in this story. I am, however, in no way biased. I enjoy doing this to all of the characters, because the more of this that you do, the more you can change their personalities by twisting them around your fingers. Hehehehehehehehehehehehehahahahahahahah!
Reviewer Responses:
Sayori-chan- I am so glad that you like my story! I hope you didn't get in too much trouble!
Ami- Tell me, has your friend actually read any Kag/Sess pairings?
butterflygirl013- ^__^; ehe. Caught me. Ok, why Sesshoumaru liked his brother way back last chapter (long time ago, huh?) was NOT because I have forgotten/decided to alter the plot. No, for a change, there is actually a method to my madness. Sess still does love his brother, but because emotion=weakness, weakness=death, he hides this pretty well. Why he is always fighting him is because he: 1) as I mentioned, really does want him to survive and was fighting him to make him stronger and 2) he is his brother. Siblings fight. I think that for demons, that would be taken up a notch, doncha think?
Inuyasha101.net- wow, eleven reviews. Not that bad. Luved you comments, but do you think that you could not swear quite so much? It kinda makes me uncomfrotable.
blue fox demon- Well, you must be pretty good at teaching tricks. How did ya like this one?
faerie demoness- It is sad, isn't it?
Sukera- Well, review again and I will put up chapter 13 (as soon as I have it done...)
Chapter 12: A Demon's Dreams
~.~.~.~.~.Inuyasha
I could not stand it much more. Thank the gods that the sun was going down, and then I would be able to start tracking Kagome.
Not that it would be all that hard.
Kagome was easy to track, and so was Naraku. Put them together and it was bordering on a magnet. That just made it more difficult, waiting. I knew that I could find her quickly and well, and not being able to do it was driving me mad.
I swear that the sun had stopped, just to taunt me.
I willed it to move faster and tried to hurry it along with my claws.
My wounds had not yet completely healed, but I had had worse and still fought. I didn't see why the case was different this time.
I growled in frustration and made a fist-sized dent in a nearby tree.
Why didn't the @*#$ sun set already?
~.~.~.~.~.Sesshoumaru
She had healed me.
That alone had shocked me.
Also, the fact that she had somehow managed to use her power to heal me was an eye opener. I had vaguely wondered why it had been purple, but was too tired to really care. Then the pain had gone away, but my tiredness had not. I had managed to drag myself half-out of the pool that I was kneeling in, and then I collapsed and just slept after telling Rin that I was all right. I had not needed to do that for a long time.
In my dream there had been a black background, some sakura blossoms floating serenely on the breeze and a woman, sitting with her back to me, her blue-black hair spilling down like a waterfall. Some force of the dream world compelled me to walk to her, and when I got there I put a hand on her shoulder. Smiling, she turned around.
"Don't worry," she said in a lightly melodious voice, surprising me. I wasn't worried about anything. "Rin will be safe."
I looked at her in mild amazement that she knew the one thing that had been even mildly bothering me. I could always have brought Rin back to life again if she were killed, but she had already been dead twice, and I did not think that she needed to be again.
She laughed at my expression, her voice ringing out like the chime of silver bells. I grew unemotional once again, putting back up the barriers that the dream had temperately made me drop. She shook her head as if laughing at me again and gave me a hug.
"You need to wake up now," she whispered in my ear, "you are needed." I felt myself torn from the dreamscape, being forced into the world of the living.
~.~.~.~.~.Kagome
Oh, I was dead on my feet. Even my power was more then half-gone, a most impressive feat seeing as how I had gotten it all back when Sesshoumaru had healed me.
But then I guess that using your power for about 14 HOURS STRAIGHT will do that to a person.
Honestly, I was amazed that Sesshoumaru had slept for that long. He must have been really, really, really tired. Really, I don't blame him. I know what he went through, and he did enough to justify anyone sleeping for so long, demon lord or no.
Still, I wish he would wake up already, as I am now probably as tired as he had been.
I caught a very familiar aura as Sesshoumaru started stirring, and, leaving the power-bubble in place, I told Rin to wait, setting off to see it I was simply imagining things.
When I finally tracked my way through the horde of demons to the mouth of the cave I found out that my mind was not playing tricks on me, due to my lack of sleep.
No, Inuyasha and the gang really were there outside the cave.
I was so surprised that some of my purifying energy got away from me and washed out across everything.
~.~.~.~.~.Miroku
Demons were everywhere. Behind me, I could vaguely hear Sango shout "Hirokotsu!" as she swung her giant boomerang. Kirrara seemed everywhere at once, tearing and worrying the demons that surrounded her. Inuyasha was slashing wildly with his claws and blades of blood.
We must have slain at least a hundred demons already, but it had still barely made a dent in their numbers. There were untold thousands surrounding us, and still more were pouring from the tear in the sky.
Where had Naraku gotten such numbers?
Behind me, Shippo did what he could, burning like a small star that had fallen to earth and lighting everything within reach with foxfire, and once in a while scoring a few hits with his teeth or claws.
I cursed our loss of Kagome, with her arrows we could have punched a hole through this horde, and slain who knows how many more.
Then again, if we still had Kagome, we would have no need to be in this death trap.
Suddenly, all of the demons surrounding us for about 50 feet started glowing, and shrieking in pain.
Turning white, they disappeared in a flash. By my side, Inuyasha fell to his knees, his hair turning black while he lost his claws and Kirrara and Shippo just plain fell, collapsing in a heap and Kirrara turned back into her kitten form. They would be all right, but it would take some time for them to recover.
Turning to see what had caused this, I looked at the cave and saw a person who was dripping blood.
I looked closer, wondering who it could be.
It looked like... but it couldn't be.
I looked closer, and then all but felt my jaw hit the ground.
It was her.
~.~.~.~.~.Kagome
I looked around a bit nervously at all of the stunned expressions and staring that were coming my way, courtesy of my companions-from-before-I- was-kidnapped. I looked down at myself, wondering what they were looking at.
Oh.
That.
When I had looked down I had realized that I closely resembled the main character of a Stephen King novel. I began blushing furiously and trying to stammer explanations, but all that came out was an odd, undistinguishable sound that was rather confused. All that I can say for sure was that there was a lot of umming in there.
I somehow managed to get part of the story out when Inuyasha's hair turned white again (I guess I must have purified him along with everything else, oops) and his nose started working again, so he started growling and threatening Sesshoumaru (even though he couldn't hear him) if "the basted" had done anything to me. After I managed to calm him down and explain the rest of it everyone kind of sagged, as with disbelief before the demons hit them again. After that everyone, myself included, was extremely busy. I hurried to get as close as I could to Sesshoumaru again, so that I could take off the shield. Unfortunately before I could make it all the way there, the horde caught up with me.
Why?
Why always me?
So, here I was, maintaining the shield until I could get within controlling range and zapping demons at the same time when my energy was already dangerously low and I was really tired.
Can't you just see the disaster waiting to happen? Well, it did. I tried to purify one last demon that was behind me and about to EAT me but didn't use enough energy. This had slightly better results then flat out trying to use more power then I've got, which would kill me. With this, I only got blasted back about 20 feet and hit my own barrier, which, by the way, is about the equivalent of a stone wall—for hardness anyway.
The world was turning black and all fuzzy and I could hear this voice that was all nice sounding yelling, "Wake up. Woman? Wake up. Kagome, wake up! KAGOME!!" I am not sure if I imagined that though, just like maybe I imagined that big, purple rope that had a mouth and legs and was coming toward me. I mean, do ropes have legs?
I felt some blood trickle down through my hair and giggled weakly. More blood. There was already so much blood in here.
Things were getting darker and fuzzier and I could still see the rope—or whatever it was—and hear the voice that was yelling my name. Or, was it whispering? It was so soft, but it sounded as if it were yelling...
******
Ok, 5 reviews.
And for those of you who were wondering why on earth Kagome didn't just go through the barrier, there are two reasons.
1. She needs to be concentrating on going through her barrier if she wants to and,
2. I just get a sadistic kind of pleasure out of making her life as hard as possible in this story. I am, however, in no way biased. I enjoy doing this to all of the characters, because the more of this that you do, the more you can change their personalities by twisting them around your fingers. Hehehehehehehehehehehehehahahahahahahah!
Reviewer Responses:
Sayori-chan- I am so glad that you like my story! I hope you didn't get in too much trouble!
Ami- Tell me, has your friend actually read any Kag/Sess pairings?
butterflygirl013- ^__^; ehe. Caught me. Ok, why Sesshoumaru liked his brother way back last chapter (long time ago, huh?) was NOT because I have forgotten/decided to alter the plot. No, for a change, there is actually a method to my madness. Sess still does love his brother, but because emotion=weakness, weakness=death, he hides this pretty well. Why he is always fighting him is because he: 1) as I mentioned, really does want him to survive and was fighting him to make him stronger and 2) he is his brother. Siblings fight. I think that for demons, that would be taken up a notch, doncha think?
Inuyasha101.net- wow, eleven reviews. Not that bad. Luved you comments, but do you think that you could not swear quite so much? It kinda makes me uncomfrotable.
blue fox demon- Well, you must be pretty good at teaching tricks. How did ya like this one?
faerie demoness- It is sad, isn't it?
Sukera- Well, review again and I will put up chapter 13 (as soon as I have it done...)