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Chapter 14: While you were Sleeping
~.~.~.~.~.Naraku
I smiled as I bent and let my hands enter the cool, clear stream, watching as red ribbons curled lazily from them to wind their way down around rocks and other obstacles.
In my mind's eye the storeowner was still screaming, his blood spraying out in intoxicating patterns. He had indeed paid well for his trick, and the ironic thing was that his death would only make me all the more respected and revered. You see, he will have been killed by a rouge demon and I would avenge him. The people would trust me all the more, and it's so easy to manipulate trusting people.
I laughed quietly as I thought about it. Soon I would be invincible, and not from the Shikon no Tama but from the people who were willing to die to protect me from the "evil demons." Then I could obtain the fabled jewel and let it drink in more and more hateful blood, watching as its dark powers grew with each passing day. It would not only be beneficial, but amusing to defile something normally so pure and clean. There was nothing that she, the cursed woman who would not die, could do to stop me. And when I had the jewel, then I would be immortal. None would be able to oppose me once I absorbed the wonderful, hateful thing.
Not even Kikyo.
~.~.~.~.~.Rin
IT WASN'T FAIR! Sesshoumaru-sama never let me ride in his tail like that! I wined once again that I wanted to ride in his tail too (forgetting that Sesshoumaru-sama had told me to be quiet because I wanted to tell him that I could ride on his tail) and then he scared me, a little.
He turned around and looked at me like he was mad at me and then growled a little and told me that he had told me to be quiet and his eyes were kinda red. My eyes got really big and I remembered him telling me to be quiet then. I had better stay quiet like he asked me too. Sesshoumaru-sama never tells me to do anything unless there is a good reason for it. Besides, he was looking at me like he was mad at me, and he had never done that before. I sat down on a little rock and waited until Sesshoumaru-sama said that I could talk again.
~.~.~.~.~.Inuyasha
The air was so full of my curses that you could have cut it with a knife. Sunset was coming fast now and we would need to go within the next few minutes if we wanted to get away fast enough for my secret to remain a secret, and yet we still had not completed our aim. To be more specific, Kagome was still trapped in that cave with the demons and my half-brother (who I didn't trust farther then I could through him—and me getting close enough to even try throwing him was about as likely as Sango not giving Miroku Hirokotsu over the head anymore) and who knows what else. So, seeing nothing else that I could do, I used every colorful word in every language that I knew. Sango and Miroku stood looking at me as though in awe and after about half a minute Miroku remembered that he had better cover Shippo's ears, which he did, much to the fox kit's protests.
When I started repeating myself Sango, at least, came out of her daze and said that we had better get moving. As much as I hated to, I had to agree with her. The humans mounted Kirrara and Shippo climbed onto my shoulder before we took off from the bloodstained battleground and traveled west.
Before we left, I paused and looked back at the entrance to the cave, my eyes softening as I did so. 'Kagome,' I thought sadly as I looked at the mouth of the cave, 'will I ever see you alive again?'
For a second, I wondered why I cared so much. Not even Kikyo...
I suppose it was that she was the nearest thing to family that I could remember other then my mother. Sesshoumaru—well, I don't count him as family. Would you count your murderous half-brother as part of you family? But my mother had died when I was so young, and I had almost always been alone after that.
And then, Kagome. She had amazed me with her strength, her versatility, the way that she could easily adapt to fit almost any situation. She stayed with me, and for once in my life I knew what it felt like to have someone hold me as an equal to themself. And now I had failed her. Naraku had captured her and all that I could do was pray that she would be all right until I could come back.
And when I did, Naraku would pay for every drop of blood of hers that had been spilt.
Why did I care so much?
~.~.~.~.~.~.Kagome
I groaned softly. I did not want to wake up. Really. I so did not want to wake up. I tried to fall back asleep, but in vain. I didn't want to go to school today. After all, I think that I earned a break, what with fighting off all those demons with Sesshoumaru....
My eyes flew open and I found myself in something soft and fluffy and white. WHY WAS I IN SESSHOUMARU'S TAIL?!?!?!?!?!?! WILL SOMEONE PLEASE EXPLAIN THIS TO ME!!!!!!!
I sat halfway up and looked around, finding that we were in a different place then when I had passed out. Maybe that's why I was in the tail, because Sesshoumaru had to move me and couldn't spare his only arm. That made sense, kind of, but I cannot help but wonder why, if that was indeed the case, he went to all that trouble. I mean, recent evidence removed, he had always led all of us to believe that he was a cold, heartless, cruel, unfeeling demon who cared for humans less then hanyous, if such a thing were possible. So... why didn't he just leave me to die?
Could it be that all of us, including his own brother, were wrong all this time?
"Ah," he said and then dumped me on the ground, "you're awake."
Ignore what I just said.
~.~.~.~.~.~.Sesshoumaru
I felt bad about scaring Rin, but that was one of the only times when she was truly getting on my nerves. I mean, I get one of them to be quiet and then the other starts.
Humans.
Females.
At least she was silent afterward.
Why, oh why had she chosen this of all times to start questioning my orders? Any other time it would not have mattered as much, had circumstances been normal. At least the girl was awake now and Rin would not have my holding her in my tail to whine about.
Needless to say, as soon as I saw that she was awake I dumped her out. Well, what would you have done?
The girl gave me a scathing glare as she climbed to her feet, saying, "Thanks a lot," in (as near as I could figure) the most sarcastic way she knew.
Still, I replied calmly. Very few things fazed me, and these little barbs would not pierce my armor. "For what, saving your life?" I asked coolly.
She gave me a look that I am sure was designed to burn, and while it might work with her little friends, I was different. I ignored her which seemed to make her spitting mad as she snapped at everything that I said as I explained the conclusion that I had come to while she was sleeping.
"The great Sesshoumaru, working with a human?" she jeered, still trying to get a rise out of me. "Has the world ended without my notice?"
"Do not trifle with this Sesshoumaru," I said in a voice like ice. This girl could not take a hint! "You know as well as I that neither of us can punch through this horde alone."
She rolled her eyes, turning and walking away from me. "Yea, well, I can try, and I think that maybe I would rather do that," she said as she stalked away from me, openly scorning and spurning me. My demon pride could only take so much. The blood of a taiyoukai surged in my veins, demanding that I teach her proper respect and so I came after her, adrenaline pumping through me and activating the glands in my palms that controlled my poison. Without turning around she sent up a wall of power right in front of me and, unthinkingly, I stepped into it. I pulled back immediately, but not soon enough not to hit it. Still, there was no burning pain and when I looked down, I was once again glowing with a golden hue. Curiously, I pressed my hand up against the wall of white power. There was still no burning. I looked at my golden form.
Why would this golden aura affect my own demonic aura enough that a miko whose powers rivaled the Midoriko herself's would not burn like acid against my skin?
Slowly I pressed my hands against the sheet of white fire and waited for the pain that would not come. I stared, still in awe, at my glowing hands as I felt the power pulse under my fingers. She was so strong!
Suddenly my aura turned its normal deep green again and the power, which had felt warm and almost comforting, felt as though it was eating through my skin. Immediately, instinctively, I pulled my hands back and looked at my now-dull claws as they sharpened.
What had just happened?
******
GOMEN NE!!!!!!!!!!! I AM SOOOOOOOOO SORRY THAT I DID NOT UPDATE IN SO LONG!!!!!!!!!! Now, I know that you all want to murder me, but first hear me out and if you still are out for blood, remember that dead people do not update!
My computer (which at times can be sooooo stupid) would not turn on. That is the long and short of it. The chapter was on the computer, and the computer would not go on when I pushed the button. Again, I am sorry. I will get chapter 15 up ASAP to make up for it. (aka, as soon as it is written and I have 5 more reviews)
Naraku is a sicko, is he not? I did not actually imagine him being this... wrong when I started out writing, but hey, whatever. As they say on fictionpress, let the words flow.
Congrads Kagome. You can officially get under Sesshou's skin! This is another of those things that I did not plan, but look at how it turned out! Yet another obstacle to a romance! *sigh*
For those of you wondering, Sesshoumaru's claws are dull because he just came in contact with a miko's powers, and they almost began to purify his own.
Speaking of which...
Last chance for the brownies! You have officially lost the Sesshoumaru doll (maybe it's just as well... NO, DON'T YOU DARE USE YOUR TOXIC FLOWER CLAWS AGAI... SESSHOUMARU!!!!!!! Ehe. Sorry about that) but you can still get the brownies. If all goes as planned, you will get the answer next chappie if you do not guess, but then you will not get any virtual brownies, so go on people! Guess! (Cum on, the answer is sitting in front of you if you would care to look...)
o__o Well well well. This will make things more complicated. The whole Inuyasha's pov this chappie, I mean. *sigh* Why do I always do this to myself? WHY?! Sometimes I feel like I'm digging my own grave and I keep on digging deeper and deeper and deeper... this is not an easy plot to write. Don't believe me? YOU try.
Ok, sorry about that, just needed someone to complain to. I'm sure that I'll eventually find a way out...
Five reviews
Reviewer Responses:
HarrySlytherin*son- I'm glad that you like the story! (PS, it is spelled Kagome. Did you just typo?)
Missyeru- I lov Kag/Sess pairings too! Hey, if you like them so much, then go to A Single Spark, , which is an Sesshou/Kagome website!
Sukera- Well, then I'm glad you love it, because now that you have another chappie everyone will be happy...
Waizu Yoru Ame Otome- Is there anyone who does not like long chapters?
Crimson colored clocked figure- I'm not? *looks at self* Hey, I'm not!
butterflygirl013- Did you like what you saw?
Sayori-chan- well, you should be seeing plenty more of that dream guy *giggle*
Chapter 14: While you were Sleeping
~.~.~.~.~.Naraku
I smiled as I bent and let my hands enter the cool, clear stream, watching as red ribbons curled lazily from them to wind their way down around rocks and other obstacles.
In my mind's eye the storeowner was still screaming, his blood spraying out in intoxicating patterns. He had indeed paid well for his trick, and the ironic thing was that his death would only make me all the more respected and revered. You see, he will have been killed by a rouge demon and I would avenge him. The people would trust me all the more, and it's so easy to manipulate trusting people.
I laughed quietly as I thought about it. Soon I would be invincible, and not from the Shikon no Tama but from the people who were willing to die to protect me from the "evil demons." Then I could obtain the fabled jewel and let it drink in more and more hateful blood, watching as its dark powers grew with each passing day. It would not only be beneficial, but amusing to defile something normally so pure and clean. There was nothing that she, the cursed woman who would not die, could do to stop me. And when I had the jewel, then I would be immortal. None would be able to oppose me once I absorbed the wonderful, hateful thing.
Not even Kikyo.
~.~.~.~.~.Rin
IT WASN'T FAIR! Sesshoumaru-sama never let me ride in his tail like that! I wined once again that I wanted to ride in his tail too (forgetting that Sesshoumaru-sama had told me to be quiet because I wanted to tell him that I could ride on his tail) and then he scared me, a little.
He turned around and looked at me like he was mad at me and then growled a little and told me that he had told me to be quiet and his eyes were kinda red. My eyes got really big and I remembered him telling me to be quiet then. I had better stay quiet like he asked me too. Sesshoumaru-sama never tells me to do anything unless there is a good reason for it. Besides, he was looking at me like he was mad at me, and he had never done that before. I sat down on a little rock and waited until Sesshoumaru-sama said that I could talk again.
~.~.~.~.~.Inuyasha
The air was so full of my curses that you could have cut it with a knife. Sunset was coming fast now and we would need to go within the next few minutes if we wanted to get away fast enough for my secret to remain a secret, and yet we still had not completed our aim. To be more specific, Kagome was still trapped in that cave with the demons and my half-brother (who I didn't trust farther then I could through him—and me getting close enough to even try throwing him was about as likely as Sango not giving Miroku Hirokotsu over the head anymore) and who knows what else. So, seeing nothing else that I could do, I used every colorful word in every language that I knew. Sango and Miroku stood looking at me as though in awe and after about half a minute Miroku remembered that he had better cover Shippo's ears, which he did, much to the fox kit's protests.
When I started repeating myself Sango, at least, came out of her daze and said that we had better get moving. As much as I hated to, I had to agree with her. The humans mounted Kirrara and Shippo climbed onto my shoulder before we took off from the bloodstained battleground and traveled west.
Before we left, I paused and looked back at the entrance to the cave, my eyes softening as I did so. 'Kagome,' I thought sadly as I looked at the mouth of the cave, 'will I ever see you alive again?'
For a second, I wondered why I cared so much. Not even Kikyo...
I suppose it was that she was the nearest thing to family that I could remember other then my mother. Sesshoumaru—well, I don't count him as family. Would you count your murderous half-brother as part of you family? But my mother had died when I was so young, and I had almost always been alone after that.
And then, Kagome. She had amazed me with her strength, her versatility, the way that she could easily adapt to fit almost any situation. She stayed with me, and for once in my life I knew what it felt like to have someone hold me as an equal to themself. And now I had failed her. Naraku had captured her and all that I could do was pray that she would be all right until I could come back.
And when I did, Naraku would pay for every drop of blood of hers that had been spilt.
Why did I care so much?
~.~.~.~.~.~.Kagome
I groaned softly. I did not want to wake up. Really. I so did not want to wake up. I tried to fall back asleep, but in vain. I didn't want to go to school today. After all, I think that I earned a break, what with fighting off all those demons with Sesshoumaru....
My eyes flew open and I found myself in something soft and fluffy and white. WHY WAS I IN SESSHOUMARU'S TAIL?!?!?!?!?!?! WILL SOMEONE PLEASE EXPLAIN THIS TO ME!!!!!!!
I sat halfway up and looked around, finding that we were in a different place then when I had passed out. Maybe that's why I was in the tail, because Sesshoumaru had to move me and couldn't spare his only arm. That made sense, kind of, but I cannot help but wonder why, if that was indeed the case, he went to all that trouble. I mean, recent evidence removed, he had always led all of us to believe that he was a cold, heartless, cruel, unfeeling demon who cared for humans less then hanyous, if such a thing were possible. So... why didn't he just leave me to die?
Could it be that all of us, including his own brother, were wrong all this time?
"Ah," he said and then dumped me on the ground, "you're awake."
Ignore what I just said.
~.~.~.~.~.~.Sesshoumaru
I felt bad about scaring Rin, but that was one of the only times when she was truly getting on my nerves. I mean, I get one of them to be quiet and then the other starts.
Humans.
Females.
At least she was silent afterward.
Why, oh why had she chosen this of all times to start questioning my orders? Any other time it would not have mattered as much, had circumstances been normal. At least the girl was awake now and Rin would not have my holding her in my tail to whine about.
Needless to say, as soon as I saw that she was awake I dumped her out. Well, what would you have done?
The girl gave me a scathing glare as she climbed to her feet, saying, "Thanks a lot," in (as near as I could figure) the most sarcastic way she knew.
Still, I replied calmly. Very few things fazed me, and these little barbs would not pierce my armor. "For what, saving your life?" I asked coolly.
She gave me a look that I am sure was designed to burn, and while it might work with her little friends, I was different. I ignored her which seemed to make her spitting mad as she snapped at everything that I said as I explained the conclusion that I had come to while she was sleeping.
"The great Sesshoumaru, working with a human?" she jeered, still trying to get a rise out of me. "Has the world ended without my notice?"
"Do not trifle with this Sesshoumaru," I said in a voice like ice. This girl could not take a hint! "You know as well as I that neither of us can punch through this horde alone."
She rolled her eyes, turning and walking away from me. "Yea, well, I can try, and I think that maybe I would rather do that," she said as she stalked away from me, openly scorning and spurning me. My demon pride could only take so much. The blood of a taiyoukai surged in my veins, demanding that I teach her proper respect and so I came after her, adrenaline pumping through me and activating the glands in my palms that controlled my poison. Without turning around she sent up a wall of power right in front of me and, unthinkingly, I stepped into it. I pulled back immediately, but not soon enough not to hit it. Still, there was no burning pain and when I looked down, I was once again glowing with a golden hue. Curiously, I pressed my hand up against the wall of white power. There was still no burning. I looked at my golden form.
Why would this golden aura affect my own demonic aura enough that a miko whose powers rivaled the Midoriko herself's would not burn like acid against my skin?
Slowly I pressed my hands against the sheet of white fire and waited for the pain that would not come. I stared, still in awe, at my glowing hands as I felt the power pulse under my fingers. She was so strong!
Suddenly my aura turned its normal deep green again and the power, which had felt warm and almost comforting, felt as though it was eating through my skin. Immediately, instinctively, I pulled my hands back and looked at my now-dull claws as they sharpened.
What had just happened?
******
GOMEN NE!!!!!!!!!!! I AM SOOOOOOOOO SORRY THAT I DID NOT UPDATE IN SO LONG!!!!!!!!!! Now, I know that you all want to murder me, but first hear me out and if you still are out for blood, remember that dead people do not update!
My computer (which at times can be sooooo stupid) would not turn on. That is the long and short of it. The chapter was on the computer, and the computer would not go on when I pushed the button. Again, I am sorry. I will get chapter 15 up ASAP to make up for it. (aka, as soon as it is written and I have 5 more reviews)
Naraku is a sicko, is he not? I did not actually imagine him being this... wrong when I started out writing, but hey, whatever. As they say on fictionpress, let the words flow.
Congrads Kagome. You can officially get under Sesshou's skin! This is another of those things that I did not plan, but look at how it turned out! Yet another obstacle to a romance! *sigh*
For those of you wondering, Sesshoumaru's claws are dull because he just came in contact with a miko's powers, and they almost began to purify his own.
Speaking of which...
Last chance for the brownies! You have officially lost the Sesshoumaru doll (maybe it's just as well... NO, DON'T YOU DARE USE YOUR TOXIC FLOWER CLAWS AGAI... SESSHOUMARU!!!!!!! Ehe. Sorry about that) but you can still get the brownies. If all goes as planned, you will get the answer next chappie if you do not guess, but then you will not get any virtual brownies, so go on people! Guess! (Cum on, the answer is sitting in front of you if you would care to look...)
o__o Well well well. This will make things more complicated. The whole Inuyasha's pov this chappie, I mean. *sigh* Why do I always do this to myself? WHY?! Sometimes I feel like I'm digging my own grave and I keep on digging deeper and deeper and deeper... this is not an easy plot to write. Don't believe me? YOU try.
Ok, sorry about that, just needed someone to complain to. I'm sure that I'll eventually find a way out...
Five reviews
Reviewer Responses:
HarrySlytherin*son- I'm glad that you like the story! (PS, it is spelled Kagome. Did you just typo?)
Missyeru- I lov Kag/Sess pairings too! Hey, if you like them so much, then go to A Single Spark, , which is an Sesshou/Kagome website!
Sukera- Well, then I'm glad you love it, because now that you have another chappie everyone will be happy...
Waizu Yoru Ame Otome- Is there anyone who does not like long chapters?
Crimson colored clocked figure- I'm not? *looks at self* Hey, I'm not!
butterflygirl013- Did you like what you saw?
Sayori-chan- well, you should be seeing plenty more of that dream guy *giggle*