You know, so don't sue me or *shakes fist in a threatening manner*
Chapter 17: Sorry to Burst you Bubble (not really)
~.~.~.~.~.Sango
I watched the sky glow gold and orange and hot pink and fresh green as the sun came up. It was dawn, and (surprisingly enough) Miroku had kept his hands to himself all night, just sitting next to me with his arm around my shoulders once I pulled away from his hug. It had been nice, not only sitting next to him because he was so warm, but also him not groping me for once when I was within reaching distance. It made me wonder a bit, but I figured that he was too worried for anything like that.
Maybe Kagome should get kidnapped more often.
Ha ha.
Inuyasha came striding over then, his hair still looking like it was having white paint poured all over it while his claws, teeth, and ears sharpened as his eyes returned to their normal golden hue.
"Well?" he asked loudly as soon as he got close, "Why are we waiting?"
Sounded like he was feeling better.
"You," I said as I stood up, knowing that it would annoy him. Everyone was getting less tense now that we were going back. It would be all right now.
Shippo jumped on his shoulder, as he had coming here while I walked over to Kirrara along with Miroku and Inuyasha yelled how was not waiting for us in an annoyed tone before taking off.
Sighing, I climbed on Kirrara, warned Miroku to continue keeping his hands to himself, and then took off after him. Yes, we were back in our normal little group.
Almost.
Now, we needed to go and reclaim Kagome to finish it.
~.~.~.~.~.Sesshoumaru
Finally, after all night, we were at the entrance. We were both tired almost to the point of exhaustion from battling all that time and we had both obtained new wounds that were healing as we stood there—draining both of our power supplies further. It was not the best of situations, but the demons had stopped coming.
Vaguely I wondered if that was all of them, or if the casualty list had simply grown so high that Naraku had cut off the supply.
After all, I knew how one in a position of power needed his armies to stay there. As Kagome and myself had just proved, even the most powerful need support; even against the lowliest of demons, if there were enough.
Kagome walked up to the entrance with all the energy that she could be expected to have and then suddenly stopped, looking as though she had run into something, and rings of faint light—all different colors—radiated out from where she had stopped.
She made a face. "Barrier," she said, unnecessarily, and then began pounding on it with her fists.
"Come-on-you-stupid-thing..." she said as she tried to beat her way out of the cave.
Finally she stopped, backed up a few paces and, placing her hands on her hips, gave the thing a glare which looked very like my own as she tapped her foot in an impatient way.
She was walking back to it again—to do what, I'm not quite sure—when she suddenly stiffened; every muscle in her body going ridged.
This behavior puzzled me, and I looked at her closely. I was only more baffled when I saw her giving the outside world a questioning glare that looked half amazed.
"What?..."she breathed as she looked out...
~.~.~.~.~.Inuyasha
I tell ya, if Sango weren't one of my friends....
Oh well.
I was coming up on the small cave fast, and then I would know. I felt sick inside, hollow and empty, at not knowing. Was she still all right?
'Kagome.'
What would I do if she weren't? Oh, I didn't want to let that thought touch me, but it always seemed to.
'Kagome.'
The word echoed through my thoughts, taking my mind with her image, her scent, her laughing eyes, her soft, sweet voice as it had all night.
That had been torture.
Soon, the small river that meandered its winding way around the cave came into sight, and I ran faster, listening to Kirrara—who was behind me—struggle to keep up. After another half hour, I could no longer hear her, but still I sped on, demanding that I go faster, faster, faster. If she was still all right, my having done that might help keep her that way.
'Kagome.'
Finally I touched down in the small meadow—which was not really a meadow anymore, but a small lake of blood—and ran up to the entrance, trying to see Kagome. Vaguely I noticed that Shippo wasn't on my shoulder anymore, but didn't really care.
I didn't care because she was standing right next to the mouth of the cave, apparently no worse for the wear except for the fact that she was dripping with blood, even more so the when I had last seen her. Briefly I wondered why she didn't just step outside instead of standing there. There seemed to be nothing but air between her and escape.
Slightly farther back in the cavern and to the side I could see my half- brother standing regally, looking as he always did—cool and unruffled, despite having been dyed red by blood. I could not really see any white on him; outfit, tail and hair, even his skin was darker then normal. Still, he was calm and collected, although there did seem to be a trace of weariness in his eyes.
Ah.
He was really tired then.
"What are you doing here?" Kagome hissed, bringing my attention back to her. She stared at me with her huge blue-gray eyes and a look that made me doubt my own intelligence, so full were they with a kind of wondered and yet berating disbelief. "Are you crazy? You're still too weak to be decking it out with a thousand demons. Never mind that they aren't here. Go! Go now!"
'Why,' my mind screamed as I fell back like I had been hit by a thunderbolt (which I had been, in a way) 'is she telling me to go? Doesn't she care that I'm here?'
~.~.~.~.~.Kagome
Was he crazy?
What was he doing here?
He was still too weak to be doing as much fighting as he had been, not only from his injuries from—ehem—me, but also last night had been the new moon.
I had been battling my way through a particularly thick clump of demons when the thought had struck me.
It was d-night.
It was the new moon.
And here I was, kidnapped, and doubtless Inuyasha would be trying to rescue me and fighting off hordes of demons AND HE WAS WEAKER THEN NORMAL!!!!! I could not focus all night, thinking of how if he got killed, it would totally be my fault.
Nice feeling, huh?
And here I find that he (while, at least, intelligent enough to get out of it all for the night) had come rushing back as soon as he could WHEN HE WAS STILL WEAKER!!!!!!
Ok, it was sweet, and it did show that he cares about me, but still!!!!
"Go?" Inuyasha asked, his tone almost trembling with confusion, hurt, betrayal, loss, pain, shock and sorrow. "Without you?" He was acting like I had just torn his heart from his chest and thrown it across the road where I had ground it into the dirt. Actually, I probably had.
My heart filled with pain of my own then, for putting him though this, but I tried to fill my eyes with anger and then said as harshly as I could manage, "Yes, go! Go now!"
His eyes were dark and dull and the life was gone from them and I felt like my heart was bleeding then. I wish that I didn't have to do this to Inuyasha, my oldest friend from this place. I tried to keep the tears from my eyes as I said, "Inuyasha, I wish I could come but I can't, and you can't stay here, you're not strong enough."
"What do you mean, you can't leave?" he demanded harshly, his voice filling the air with the sound of hurt and betrayal. "All you do is step through there." He waved his hand into the cave and back again to illustrate his point.
I stared.
"Do that again," I said slowly, an idea slowly forming.
"What?" he asked in a soft, rough voice that just screamed 'I no longer care about anything.' "This?"
His hand went into and back out the barrier for the second time.
My breath came fast then and I stared at him excitedly.
"Waitasec!" I yelled and then turned around and ran to Rin, letting the small barrier fall away before scooping her up into my arms and carried her back to where I had stood before, right in front of the barrier.
"Rin," I said softly, "would you do something for me? Reach out right in front of you and see if anything happens."
Happy to please, Rin stretched out a tiny hand and touched the surface of the up-till-then invisible barrier. Rainbow rings that looked like the surface of a bubble rippled out from her. Rin squealed in delight and then reached out with her other hand, touching the slightly warm, slippery barrier. She watched in delight as more rings grew from the place that she had touched, rippling outward like the disturbed surface of a pond.
"Inuyasha," I said, "will you please reach back in here and take Rin's hand?"
He gave me a, still sad, funny look, (oh yea, I think that I've broken the world record on the most of those in a 24 hour period) and then did what I asked.
"Rin," I said to her, "Go to Inuyasha, ok?"
"Hai," the little girl giggled and then skipped out of the cave—guided by Inuyasha's hand—and wrapped her arms around his legs, still giggling. I felt like doing it myself.
"Yes," I laughed. "Here, take my hand," I said, and then waited until Inuyasha stuck his hand back in. Grabbing it, I ran outside, almost giddy to be out of that cave. I gave the hanyou a quick hug, noticing that life seemed to be seeping back into his eyes, and then turned around.
"Sesshoumaru," I said, fighting to keep from laughing more, "here." I stuck my own hand in the barrier—which felt as though it were only air from that side—and grabbed his, dragging him out. It had been kind of funny though, because my hand had gone all tingly when I grabbed his.
The feeling went away as soon as I dropped his hand though, and right after that I had walked back up to the cave, taken a deep breath and thrust both my hands back inside, and then focused all of my power until it kind of resembled a giant needle. I shoved that needle into the barrier.
POP.
That is what it felt like. Like a bubble was popping, or something. It was a bit strange, and then instantly the air didn't have this humming, that I hadn't even noticed, in it anymore.
Turning around I saw Sesshoumaru kneeling by Rin, holding her, while all of the members of my gang but Inuyasha stared at him with a mix of wariness and disbelief in all of their identical expressions.
But Inuyasha was looking at me.
He was looking at me with a soft expression that was brimming with life and had joy etched deeply into it.
"Kagome," he said in a soft, slightly husky voice as he stepped closer, reducing the odd foot-and-a-half that had been between us to about six inches, and then reaching out and cupping my face in his hand, looking into my eyes.
"Oh, Kagome Kagome Kagome. You don't know how scared I've been that I might lose you."
He was whispering, and his golden eyes were the softest that I had ever seen them and I was gazing back dreamily and he was leaning in even closer. I smiled up at him like he was smiling at me and he leaned in closer and closer....
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MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!!!! REVIEW!!!!!!!! Don't worry, things do get sorted out (eventually). NO, THIS WILL NOT TURN INTO AN INU/KAG!!!!!! What it will turn into is a complicated sort of love triangle..., er, shape.
WHY DID I PICK THIS PLOT FOR MY FIRST STORY?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? WHY?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!
Ok, really PLEASE REVIEW!!!!! THIS IS A TIME OF GREAT STRESS FOR ME IN THIS STORY (because, as is obvious, I cannot write romance of any kind) AND IF YOU WANT ME TO HAVE ANY CHANCE OF FINISHING IT SOON, I WILL NEED SUPPORT!!!
Reviewer Responses:
Sayori-chan- Yea, I have too. Heh heh.
As to bringing them closer together, I cannot make any promises, but some other things will. *evil laugh*
Sukera- I am sorry for not updating in so long, but I could not get this chapter done in a loooooooooooooong time
Missyeru- sniff, sniff, I'm so proud. ;___;
... I don't know. I guess that I never thought of it. Smart, huh? I guess that she knows, but a lot of the time it is just more convenint to use raw power.
antisocial mint- Once again, I came up with that idea a looooooooooooong time ago. As I believe I have mentioned, I think in weird ways.
Chapter 17: Sorry to Burst you Bubble (not really)
~.~.~.~.~.Sango
I watched the sky glow gold and orange and hot pink and fresh green as the sun came up. It was dawn, and (surprisingly enough) Miroku had kept his hands to himself all night, just sitting next to me with his arm around my shoulders once I pulled away from his hug. It had been nice, not only sitting next to him because he was so warm, but also him not groping me for once when I was within reaching distance. It made me wonder a bit, but I figured that he was too worried for anything like that.
Maybe Kagome should get kidnapped more often.
Ha ha.
Inuyasha came striding over then, his hair still looking like it was having white paint poured all over it while his claws, teeth, and ears sharpened as his eyes returned to their normal golden hue.
"Well?" he asked loudly as soon as he got close, "Why are we waiting?"
Sounded like he was feeling better.
"You," I said as I stood up, knowing that it would annoy him. Everyone was getting less tense now that we were going back. It would be all right now.
Shippo jumped on his shoulder, as he had coming here while I walked over to Kirrara along with Miroku and Inuyasha yelled how was not waiting for us in an annoyed tone before taking off.
Sighing, I climbed on Kirrara, warned Miroku to continue keeping his hands to himself, and then took off after him. Yes, we were back in our normal little group.
Almost.
Now, we needed to go and reclaim Kagome to finish it.
~.~.~.~.~.Sesshoumaru
Finally, after all night, we were at the entrance. We were both tired almost to the point of exhaustion from battling all that time and we had both obtained new wounds that were healing as we stood there—draining both of our power supplies further. It was not the best of situations, but the demons had stopped coming.
Vaguely I wondered if that was all of them, or if the casualty list had simply grown so high that Naraku had cut off the supply.
After all, I knew how one in a position of power needed his armies to stay there. As Kagome and myself had just proved, even the most powerful need support; even against the lowliest of demons, if there were enough.
Kagome walked up to the entrance with all the energy that she could be expected to have and then suddenly stopped, looking as though she had run into something, and rings of faint light—all different colors—radiated out from where she had stopped.
She made a face. "Barrier," she said, unnecessarily, and then began pounding on it with her fists.
"Come-on-you-stupid-thing..." she said as she tried to beat her way out of the cave.
Finally she stopped, backed up a few paces and, placing her hands on her hips, gave the thing a glare which looked very like my own as she tapped her foot in an impatient way.
She was walking back to it again—to do what, I'm not quite sure—when she suddenly stiffened; every muscle in her body going ridged.
This behavior puzzled me, and I looked at her closely. I was only more baffled when I saw her giving the outside world a questioning glare that looked half amazed.
"What?..."she breathed as she looked out...
~.~.~.~.~.Inuyasha
I tell ya, if Sango weren't one of my friends....
Oh well.
I was coming up on the small cave fast, and then I would know. I felt sick inside, hollow and empty, at not knowing. Was she still all right?
'Kagome.'
What would I do if she weren't? Oh, I didn't want to let that thought touch me, but it always seemed to.
'Kagome.'
The word echoed through my thoughts, taking my mind with her image, her scent, her laughing eyes, her soft, sweet voice as it had all night.
That had been torture.
Soon, the small river that meandered its winding way around the cave came into sight, and I ran faster, listening to Kirrara—who was behind me—struggle to keep up. After another half hour, I could no longer hear her, but still I sped on, demanding that I go faster, faster, faster. If she was still all right, my having done that might help keep her that way.
'Kagome.'
Finally I touched down in the small meadow—which was not really a meadow anymore, but a small lake of blood—and ran up to the entrance, trying to see Kagome. Vaguely I noticed that Shippo wasn't on my shoulder anymore, but didn't really care.
I didn't care because she was standing right next to the mouth of the cave, apparently no worse for the wear except for the fact that she was dripping with blood, even more so the when I had last seen her. Briefly I wondered why she didn't just step outside instead of standing there. There seemed to be nothing but air between her and escape.
Slightly farther back in the cavern and to the side I could see my half- brother standing regally, looking as he always did—cool and unruffled, despite having been dyed red by blood. I could not really see any white on him; outfit, tail and hair, even his skin was darker then normal. Still, he was calm and collected, although there did seem to be a trace of weariness in his eyes.
Ah.
He was really tired then.
"What are you doing here?" Kagome hissed, bringing my attention back to her. She stared at me with her huge blue-gray eyes and a look that made me doubt my own intelligence, so full were they with a kind of wondered and yet berating disbelief. "Are you crazy? You're still too weak to be decking it out with a thousand demons. Never mind that they aren't here. Go! Go now!"
'Why,' my mind screamed as I fell back like I had been hit by a thunderbolt (which I had been, in a way) 'is she telling me to go? Doesn't she care that I'm here?'
~.~.~.~.~.Kagome
Was he crazy?
What was he doing here?
He was still too weak to be doing as much fighting as he had been, not only from his injuries from—ehem—me, but also last night had been the new moon.
I had been battling my way through a particularly thick clump of demons when the thought had struck me.
It was d-night.
It was the new moon.
And here I was, kidnapped, and doubtless Inuyasha would be trying to rescue me and fighting off hordes of demons AND HE WAS WEAKER THEN NORMAL!!!!! I could not focus all night, thinking of how if he got killed, it would totally be my fault.
Nice feeling, huh?
And here I find that he (while, at least, intelligent enough to get out of it all for the night) had come rushing back as soon as he could WHEN HE WAS STILL WEAKER!!!!!!
Ok, it was sweet, and it did show that he cares about me, but still!!!!
"Go?" Inuyasha asked, his tone almost trembling with confusion, hurt, betrayal, loss, pain, shock and sorrow. "Without you?" He was acting like I had just torn his heart from his chest and thrown it across the road where I had ground it into the dirt. Actually, I probably had.
My heart filled with pain of my own then, for putting him though this, but I tried to fill my eyes with anger and then said as harshly as I could manage, "Yes, go! Go now!"
His eyes were dark and dull and the life was gone from them and I felt like my heart was bleeding then. I wish that I didn't have to do this to Inuyasha, my oldest friend from this place. I tried to keep the tears from my eyes as I said, "Inuyasha, I wish I could come but I can't, and you can't stay here, you're not strong enough."
"What do you mean, you can't leave?" he demanded harshly, his voice filling the air with the sound of hurt and betrayal. "All you do is step through there." He waved his hand into the cave and back again to illustrate his point.
I stared.
"Do that again," I said slowly, an idea slowly forming.
"What?" he asked in a soft, rough voice that just screamed 'I no longer care about anything.' "This?"
His hand went into and back out the barrier for the second time.
My breath came fast then and I stared at him excitedly.
"Waitasec!" I yelled and then turned around and ran to Rin, letting the small barrier fall away before scooping her up into my arms and carried her back to where I had stood before, right in front of the barrier.
"Rin," I said softly, "would you do something for me? Reach out right in front of you and see if anything happens."
Happy to please, Rin stretched out a tiny hand and touched the surface of the up-till-then invisible barrier. Rainbow rings that looked like the surface of a bubble rippled out from her. Rin squealed in delight and then reached out with her other hand, touching the slightly warm, slippery barrier. She watched in delight as more rings grew from the place that she had touched, rippling outward like the disturbed surface of a pond.
"Inuyasha," I said, "will you please reach back in here and take Rin's hand?"
He gave me a, still sad, funny look, (oh yea, I think that I've broken the world record on the most of those in a 24 hour period) and then did what I asked.
"Rin," I said to her, "Go to Inuyasha, ok?"
"Hai," the little girl giggled and then skipped out of the cave—guided by Inuyasha's hand—and wrapped her arms around his legs, still giggling. I felt like doing it myself.
"Yes," I laughed. "Here, take my hand," I said, and then waited until Inuyasha stuck his hand back in. Grabbing it, I ran outside, almost giddy to be out of that cave. I gave the hanyou a quick hug, noticing that life seemed to be seeping back into his eyes, and then turned around.
"Sesshoumaru," I said, fighting to keep from laughing more, "here." I stuck my own hand in the barrier—which felt as though it were only air from that side—and grabbed his, dragging him out. It had been kind of funny though, because my hand had gone all tingly when I grabbed his.
The feeling went away as soon as I dropped his hand though, and right after that I had walked back up to the cave, taken a deep breath and thrust both my hands back inside, and then focused all of my power until it kind of resembled a giant needle. I shoved that needle into the barrier.
POP.
That is what it felt like. Like a bubble was popping, or something. It was a bit strange, and then instantly the air didn't have this humming, that I hadn't even noticed, in it anymore.
Turning around I saw Sesshoumaru kneeling by Rin, holding her, while all of the members of my gang but Inuyasha stared at him with a mix of wariness and disbelief in all of their identical expressions.
But Inuyasha was looking at me.
He was looking at me with a soft expression that was brimming with life and had joy etched deeply into it.
"Kagome," he said in a soft, slightly husky voice as he stepped closer, reducing the odd foot-and-a-half that had been between us to about six inches, and then reaching out and cupping my face in his hand, looking into my eyes.
"Oh, Kagome Kagome Kagome. You don't know how scared I've been that I might lose you."
He was whispering, and his golden eyes were the softest that I had ever seen them and I was gazing back dreamily and he was leaning in even closer. I smiled up at him like he was smiling at me and he leaned in closer and closer....
******
MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!!!! REVIEW!!!!!!!! Don't worry, things do get sorted out (eventually). NO, THIS WILL NOT TURN INTO AN INU/KAG!!!!!! What it will turn into is a complicated sort of love triangle..., er, shape.
WHY DID I PICK THIS PLOT FOR MY FIRST STORY?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? WHY?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!
Ok, really PLEASE REVIEW!!!!! THIS IS A TIME OF GREAT STRESS FOR ME IN THIS STORY (because, as is obvious, I cannot write romance of any kind) AND IF YOU WANT ME TO HAVE ANY CHANCE OF FINISHING IT SOON, I WILL NEED SUPPORT!!!
Reviewer Responses:
Sayori-chan- Yea, I have too. Heh heh.
As to bringing them closer together, I cannot make any promises, but some other things will. *evil laugh*
Sukera- I am sorry for not updating in so long, but I could not get this chapter done in a loooooooooooooong time
Missyeru- sniff, sniff, I'm so proud. ;___;
... I don't know. I guess that I never thought of it. Smart, huh? I guess that she knows, but a lot of the time it is just more convenint to use raw power.
antisocial mint- Once again, I came up with that idea a looooooooooooong time ago. As I believe I have mentioned, I think in weird ways.