Disclaimer: I won't ever have the pleasure of owning InuYasha, as much as I
would kill to be able to. If Rumiko Takahashi wants to sue me for writing
this fic, the only things she's getting are 4 boxes of Beanie Babies, a
PS2, and my Japanese dictionary, for I own practically nothing else.
This chapie is dedicated to:
Jupiter's Light ~~ Your reviews are an amazing inspiration to sessho, de gozaru! I can't tell you how much they mean to me! *cries rivers of happiness*
Skara Brae ~~ Hey sweetie! I love talking to you all the time! You have become one of my best friends! Never stop being the wonderful, RANDOM, shining person you are!! All hail the Jello! ^.~
Dark Jedi Princess ~~ Hey hun, the fact that you still talk to me after I haven't posted a new chapie in so long and managed to not sic Malik on me is amazing. . .I stand in awe. ^.^
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Family Secrets
By: A dehydrated potassium sulfate in a gaseous state kept at steady, exact, and specific temperatures in an air tight holding facility somewhere off the coast of Vancouver, Canada. Hear me roar.
Chapter 8: Mysteries
A/N: SORREH! For the delay! Writers block hit me midway through the chapie! *kills writer's block with kitchen sink* And then my great friend, Steven, got me hooked on Rurouni Kenshin (another WONDERFUL anime!) and THEN finals week came up!! So here I grovel, begging for forgiveness! *grovels at reader's feet* And I'm sorreh 4 doing the 'until I get 15 reviews thing'! I promise never to do that again! I shall not succumb to the dark side of the force!
Kiry stood, watching the dust trail Kouga left in his wake, the others still gaping at her back. It was kinda freaky, her going all Buffy on Kouga- -who they previously hadn't thought to be scared of much--be cowed by a 5'5" brunette chick with a primitive air conditioner. . .which, granted, was a very dangerously SHARP primitive air conditioner, but still. . .
Kagome was having a small wig session from behind Sango. She felt like she kept trying to press Ctrl, Alt, Delete to no avail. 'Kiry's s'posed to be from my time! Now where do you learn to fight like that in California?!?! That sounds like something you'd learn here. . .but she can't of!'
Miroku, Sango, and Shippo were in the camp of 'Cool!', Sango on the side of 'Yeah, Chick Power!'. . .well, she didn't think of it as 'Chick Power' per say. . .but sommat the like. Kirara blinked from her perch on Sango's shoulder.
InuYasha. . .glared. He glared at her leather clad back in pure puppy instinct and fury. 'Mine, she took MY fight! What made her think she had the right?!?!'
Kiry's back muscles tensed under her jacket, relaxed, then she turned around to look at the each member of group, the expression on her face only able to be described as 'mildly amused with a dash of irritation'. She jerked her thumb back over her shoulder.
"Are we going to be seeing him often, cuz I might have a spaz factor and whomp on him for real next time."
0.0 Sango blinked. "Was that Japanese?"
"Kiry, what was that? You-" Kagome started in on her spiel.
"You took my fight." InuYasha growled. Kiry spun to the right and blinked at him in confusion.
"Took. . .WHO'S fight?" She asked, confused.
"Mine!" He shot forward and hauled Kiry up by the front of her jacket to his eye level. The now dangling girl bore up under such oddness well.
Kagome, now officially weirded out, stomped around Sango and over to InuYasha. "InuYasha, Si-!"
Kiry fixed her with a look "Don't! If you do, he'll fall on me and no thanks, I'M (special emphasis on "I'm") not the one for that. And I can take care of myself if it's all the same to you." Before Kagome could go into the death-glares and the screamings of "WHAT?!?!", Kiry latched her hands around InuYasha's wrists, yanked her body up and slammed her knee into InuYasha's chin. Light exploded. (A/N: Not literally. . .yano, like he saw light cuz she hit 'im. Get it? Good.)
Once the stars cleared from InuYasha's vision, he realized that Kiry was out of his grip. The others gave her a wide berth as she walked back to the tree and yanked the other shukusen out of the trunk and snapped it shut.
Kiryki turned around and gave them all a very bland look. "I'll give explanations, but ONLY if the extremely growly one will refrain from attacking me again. Okay?" Everyone nodded. . .okay, everyone but InuYasha nodded. He "Feh-ed". And looked like he would jump for Kiry's throat any minute. But he refrained. Kagome was giving him one of those 'If-you-don't- comply-I'll-sit-you-'til-doomsday-if-need-be' looks.
Kiry sat down and leaned back against the tree, for all the world looking like she was at a tea party. She set the fans in her lap and crossed her arms behind her head. "You ask, I tell. Ask away."
Being the only semi-sensible thing to do, they plunked down on the ground also.
"Where did you learn that? That was amazing! I've never seen them used in that manner before." Sango, ever willing to find another girl-fighter, immediately asked.
Kiry grinned lazily. "I live in Santa Monica. It's not a nice city in some parts. If you run around some of the beach areas I have to sometimes, ya gotta learn to defend yourself from lil boys running around thinkin' they thugs (A/N: Quick, what movie is she quoting?). I started taking classes when I was really little, the youngest age allowed to take the classes. Then I read this lesson in my history book about the noble ladies of Ancient Japan that used shukusens as defense weapons, and I thought 'Whoa, how cool would it be to learn how to use those as a primary weapon'. So, I made my own practice shukusens and developed my own way of fighting using them as projectiles and as a type of knife, or I guess, sword."
She held out a fan and spread it open. It was a lovely thing, as much as it was deadly. The ribbings were made of metal, probably steal, and the fabric covering them was a bright red. Across the top, linked between the segments, were thin, strong blades that looked like they knew how to do their intended duty well.
"Oyaji had these made for me a couple of years ago. He found a pyrotechnic that specialized in making odd weapons, usually for display, and he gave him a design that ended up as these in a pretty box for my birthday." She brought the fan down and smiled happily at them all.
Shippo was pretty impressed. "How did you get that fan to come out of your sleeve like that?"
Kiry took off her jacket and turned it partially inside out. There, on the insides of the sleeves and along the midriff were cleverly sewn sheathes that held twelve fans, one in each sleeve and five on each side of the stomach. "See, they hold them snug in these but can be slipped out."
"Can I see?" Sango requested and was handed the jacket to peruse. While she examined it, the others went on.
"Now why did you go and attack Koga like that? You really scared him!" Kagome said grumpily.
Kiry turned and gave her cousin an exasperated look. "He insulted me, he insulted InuYasha, and he insulted you. Rather stupidly too, and I cannot stand idiots."
Kagome started to open her mouth to admonish the girl. Kiry, seeing that, cut her off. "He is and he did. Why? Do you want him back here? Did you want to go with him? Do you love him like he claimed?"
InuYasha tensed. Finally, someone had asked the question he always wanted to. What would Kagome say? He waited, watching the expressions on her face flicker and flash across it.
Kagome blinked. The conversation had taken a disturbing turn to her. "Of course I didn't want to go with him, now or ever." She stated firmly. "I don't love him. (insert InuYasha going from slinky to limp noodle in the background) I just don't think that you should have been so rude to him. . ."
'She doesn't. . .she doesn't. . .oh thank gods!' relief poured into the poor dog-boy. Today sure had been on hell of a humdinger. He surreptitiously glared at Kiry from underneath his bangs. 'And here's one of the reasons right now.'
The so-called-reason slowly turned her head and looked into his golden eyes with steady lavender orbs. Suddenly InuYasha got a chill down his spine. He couldn't say what yet but this was no ordinary girl. She most definitely wasn't a demon, but his instincts told him that neither was she a normal human.
Kiry snapped her eyes away from him as Sango handed her her jacket back. InuYasha glanced at Sango and noticed that she had a troubled look in her eyes, and her scent was giving off small waves of confusion. He'd have to ask her about that later, when Miss Oddity herself wasn't around.
Miroku had been oddly silent during the explanations and finally decided to point out a small fact. "You guys, it's getting dark. Maybe we should make camp here and continue on in the morning."
"Sounds like a good idea, Miroku. Whada ya say InuYasha, we stop for the night?" Kagome could practically already hear the 'NO!' she was sure to get, and so she was shocked when the hanyou absently said that that sounded fine.
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'I wonder what's up with InuYasha. He's never that considerate when we say we wanna stop for the night. . .I hope nothing's wrong. . .' Kagome thought as she started unrolling her sleeping bag to sit on as she prepared the hot water for the instant ramen.
Next to her, Kiry unrolled her own sleeping bag to sit on. She had gone up into Kagome's attic at the last minute and snatched it out of a corner, causing more complaining from InuYasha.
After InuYasha had said yes to making camp, the girls had gone off to a nearby hot springs, leaving the boys to start a fire and with very loud and fervent commands to STAY AWAY! from the bathing girls. While splashing about in the warm water, Sango had asked how exactly Kiry was related to Kagome.
"Well, her dad is my dad's brother. My mother and them had all grown up together and she was so close to Kiry's otousan that she just calls him her brother and completely skips calling him her brother-in-law." Kagome explained. Kiry grinned and nodded in agreement.
"So your last name would be. . .?" Sango asked.
"Higurashi, like Kagome's." Kiry had flashed her cousin a look of familial pride then.
Now back at camp, Kiry sat down cross-legged on the green bag and watched Kagome's deft handlings of the camp stove. "I hope I haven't caused any major rifts because of my actions, cousin?"
Kagome shot her a small look. "Of course not, Kir-chan." She leaned forward conspiratorially. "In fact, I'm kinda glad you ran Koga off. It does get annoying when he interrupts my life with his crazy insistence that I come and be his wife." She giggled. "I haven't the faintest idea were he came up with the idea that I actually loved him! He's a friend, of sorts, and always will be just that."
Kiry and Kagome continued to giggle. Meanwhile, a certain white-haired oddball was eavesdropping from a convenient tree. He was so happy that Kagome had said that she had no feeling for Kouga. Of course that didn't mean HE had feelings for her, or that he had been jealous or anything, it just meant that they wouldn't have to deal with Kouga interrupting there jewel shard hunt as often now. (A/N: You just keep telling yourself that, deareh. . .)
"InuYasha? Can we speak with you for a minute?" Sango and Miroku had found his perch and came up under the tree.
InuYasha rolled out of the tree in a perfectly controlled drop and landed silently. 'Gotta appreciate the stealth,' he thought to himself. "What's up?" Sango had that confused look in her eyes again and Miroku had his grave face on (A/N: CUTE!).
Miroku started first. "It's about Kiry. There have been several. . .inconsistencies. . .and odd occurrences about her."
"What do you mean? Are you saying she's lying to us and is dangerous?!" InuYasha snapped his head to where the cousins were sitting by the camp stove, now talking about something or another.
"No, not at all. It's quite obvious that she is Kagome's cousin; their looks alone say that, and you can tell Kiry cares for her. I'm just saying that there is something very strange about her that bears further scrutiny. Sango, please tell InuYasha what you've seen."
Sango gave her thoughts a small frown. "When she introduced herself, she called herself Furukuri Kiry. Kagome said that they are related through her father by Kiry's father and when I asked her later, she said her last name was Higurashi." InuYasha took his famous pose of standing straight and still with his hands in his sleeves, looking darkly thoughtful.
Sango continued when InuYasha didn't say anything. "Also, her jacket. Those fans were stuck in there pretty firmly. I had to give them a real good tug to get them to budge. There's just no way she could have just thrown down her arm and poof! there's a fan."
"At the same time she did that, InuYasha, I felt a tingle of an aura come from her. It was gone so fast I thought I imagined it. . .but now hearing Sango's suspicions, I feel that maybe I didn't. Plus, there's that whole thing with the you and Shippo not being able to discern a scent off of her." Miroku said, leaning on his staff. "What do you think we should do?"
InuYasha stood and brooded (A/N: I just LOVE the look on his face when Inu- chan gets lost in thought. . .maybe it's unfamiliar territory and needs extra concentration, ne?). Finally he raised his head and looked at his friends. "We'll wait to say anything. If we mention this without proof, Kagome will just get mad and we'll lose our chance of finding out more about Kiry. There's no way she can hurt Kagome with us around; we won't let her if that be her intention."
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InuYasha sat on a tree branch directly above the sleeping figures below. He had kept a surreptitious watch on Kiry the whole time she was awake and now he checked on her from time to time as she slept. Most of the time he watched Kagome, as usual. He just loved to see her face, so peaceful and sweet, with all the stress and the worry of the day gone.
A slight breeze drifted through the air, making the campfire Miroku had built flicker and dance. It also brought with it the smell of salt water. . .wait, salt? Tears?
InuYasha looked down and searched the faces of his companions. His eyes came to rest on Kiry's face. Sure enough, in her sleep, tears were streaming down her face in sparkling rivers. The girl turned on her side and nuzzled her head into her pillow, as if to seek comfort in it.
InuYasha wondered what 'demons' haunted her sleep. 'What is this girl? And what is her sorrow that it haunts her sleep?'
As the inu-youkai pondered these thoughts, his long and confusing day caught up with him, and he drifted off into sleep.
A/N: There! See, I promised those of you who were about to kill me that I would have this chapie out by my birthday, which is on the 24th! *does a Happy Birthday HamsterDance* I'll try to be more prompt about the next couple of chapies. I didn't have this one all planned out in my head like I have the next couple of ones so it took me a lil while. Again with the groveling. Okay, I have a problem that I need help with. Should I keep this fic at PG-13, or should I change it to R, b/c there's gonna be "violence, strong language, adult content" (Quoting from BtVS, btw.). There will NOT be any lemon in this storeh; I can read 'em, but I won't write 'em. Just violence. So tell me what u think I should do, pleaze.
Emerald ~~ *laughs ass off* Glad I got u hooked! XO! *wavies!*
Violet ~~ Okay, here ya go! ^.~
Holly Morris ~~ Hey gurly! Finally decided to read it again huh? Thanx 4 ur support every day. Couldn't do w/o it!
Sageheart86 ~~ Glad u liked the title! Took me a good part of 5 minutes to come up with that one! Hehehe!
Tana ~~ I have a meeting with her an Sesshomaru all planned out for later in the storeh! Just u wait, it's realleh gonna be something! *chuckles evilly to self*
Silver Trumpet, aka Black Wolf ~~ I blame u! Even as I'm typing this note to u, the lil IM signal is flashing at me! And again! Hehehe! Love ya sis!
Ja ne! ^.~ Aelii-chan
This chapie is dedicated to:
Jupiter's Light ~~ Your reviews are an amazing inspiration to sessho, de gozaru! I can't tell you how much they mean to me! *cries rivers of happiness*
Skara Brae ~~ Hey sweetie! I love talking to you all the time! You have become one of my best friends! Never stop being the wonderful, RANDOM, shining person you are!! All hail the Jello! ^.~
Dark Jedi Princess ~~ Hey hun, the fact that you still talk to me after I haven't posted a new chapie in so long and managed to not sic Malik on me is amazing. . .I stand in awe. ^.^
BeckyGurl ~~ Please call off the fans and the demon hordes!! They've chased me for 10 blocks and they still won't give up! *pant, pant* ACK! Here they come again! *Runs away as rabid fan people and hell hordes come after me again*
Family Secrets
By: A dehydrated potassium sulfate in a gaseous state kept at steady, exact, and specific temperatures in an air tight holding facility somewhere off the coast of Vancouver, Canada. Hear me roar.
Chapter 8: Mysteries
A/N: SORREH! For the delay! Writers block hit me midway through the chapie! *kills writer's block with kitchen sink* And then my great friend, Steven, got me hooked on Rurouni Kenshin (another WONDERFUL anime!) and THEN finals week came up!! So here I grovel, begging for forgiveness! *grovels at reader's feet* And I'm sorreh 4 doing the 'until I get 15 reviews thing'! I promise never to do that again! I shall not succumb to the dark side of the force!
Kiry stood, watching the dust trail Kouga left in his wake, the others still gaping at her back. It was kinda freaky, her going all Buffy on Kouga- -who they previously hadn't thought to be scared of much--be cowed by a 5'5" brunette chick with a primitive air conditioner. . .which, granted, was a very dangerously SHARP primitive air conditioner, but still. . .
Kagome was having a small wig session from behind Sango. She felt like she kept trying to press Ctrl, Alt, Delete to no avail. 'Kiry's s'posed to be from my time! Now where do you learn to fight like that in California?!?! That sounds like something you'd learn here. . .but she can't of!'
Miroku, Sango, and Shippo were in the camp of 'Cool!', Sango on the side of 'Yeah, Chick Power!'. . .well, she didn't think of it as 'Chick Power' per say. . .but sommat the like. Kirara blinked from her perch on Sango's shoulder.
InuYasha. . .glared. He glared at her leather clad back in pure puppy instinct and fury. 'Mine, she took MY fight! What made her think she had the right?!?!'
Kiry's back muscles tensed under her jacket, relaxed, then she turned around to look at the each member of group, the expression on her face only able to be described as 'mildly amused with a dash of irritation'. She jerked her thumb back over her shoulder.
"Are we going to be seeing him often, cuz I might have a spaz factor and whomp on him for real next time."
0.0 Sango blinked. "Was that Japanese?"
"Kiry, what was that? You-" Kagome started in on her spiel.
"You took my fight." InuYasha growled. Kiry spun to the right and blinked at him in confusion.
"Took. . .WHO'S fight?" She asked, confused.
"Mine!" He shot forward and hauled Kiry up by the front of her jacket to his eye level. The now dangling girl bore up under such oddness well.
Kagome, now officially weirded out, stomped around Sango and over to InuYasha. "InuYasha, Si-!"
Kiry fixed her with a look "Don't! If you do, he'll fall on me and no thanks, I'M (special emphasis on "I'm") not the one for that. And I can take care of myself if it's all the same to you." Before Kagome could go into the death-glares and the screamings of "WHAT?!?!", Kiry latched her hands around InuYasha's wrists, yanked her body up and slammed her knee into InuYasha's chin. Light exploded. (A/N: Not literally. . .yano, like he saw light cuz she hit 'im. Get it? Good.)
Once the stars cleared from InuYasha's vision, he realized that Kiry was out of his grip. The others gave her a wide berth as she walked back to the tree and yanked the other shukusen out of the trunk and snapped it shut.
Kiryki turned around and gave them all a very bland look. "I'll give explanations, but ONLY if the extremely growly one will refrain from attacking me again. Okay?" Everyone nodded. . .okay, everyone but InuYasha nodded. He "Feh-ed". And looked like he would jump for Kiry's throat any minute. But he refrained. Kagome was giving him one of those 'If-you-don't- comply-I'll-sit-you-'til-doomsday-if-need-be' looks.
Kiry sat down and leaned back against the tree, for all the world looking like she was at a tea party. She set the fans in her lap and crossed her arms behind her head. "You ask, I tell. Ask away."
Being the only semi-sensible thing to do, they plunked down on the ground also.
"Where did you learn that? That was amazing! I've never seen them used in that manner before." Sango, ever willing to find another girl-fighter, immediately asked.
Kiry grinned lazily. "I live in Santa Monica. It's not a nice city in some parts. If you run around some of the beach areas I have to sometimes, ya gotta learn to defend yourself from lil boys running around thinkin' they thugs (A/N: Quick, what movie is she quoting?). I started taking classes when I was really little, the youngest age allowed to take the classes. Then I read this lesson in my history book about the noble ladies of Ancient Japan that used shukusens as defense weapons, and I thought 'Whoa, how cool would it be to learn how to use those as a primary weapon'. So, I made my own practice shukusens and developed my own way of fighting using them as projectiles and as a type of knife, or I guess, sword."
She held out a fan and spread it open. It was a lovely thing, as much as it was deadly. The ribbings were made of metal, probably steal, and the fabric covering them was a bright red. Across the top, linked between the segments, were thin, strong blades that looked like they knew how to do their intended duty well.
"Oyaji had these made for me a couple of years ago. He found a pyrotechnic that specialized in making odd weapons, usually for display, and he gave him a design that ended up as these in a pretty box for my birthday." She brought the fan down and smiled happily at them all.
Shippo was pretty impressed. "How did you get that fan to come out of your sleeve like that?"
Kiry took off her jacket and turned it partially inside out. There, on the insides of the sleeves and along the midriff were cleverly sewn sheathes that held twelve fans, one in each sleeve and five on each side of the stomach. "See, they hold them snug in these but can be slipped out."
"Can I see?" Sango requested and was handed the jacket to peruse. While she examined it, the others went on.
"Now why did you go and attack Koga like that? You really scared him!" Kagome said grumpily.
Kiry turned and gave her cousin an exasperated look. "He insulted me, he insulted InuYasha, and he insulted you. Rather stupidly too, and I cannot stand idiots."
Kagome started to open her mouth to admonish the girl. Kiry, seeing that, cut her off. "He is and he did. Why? Do you want him back here? Did you want to go with him? Do you love him like he claimed?"
InuYasha tensed. Finally, someone had asked the question he always wanted to. What would Kagome say? He waited, watching the expressions on her face flicker and flash across it.
Kagome blinked. The conversation had taken a disturbing turn to her. "Of course I didn't want to go with him, now or ever." She stated firmly. "I don't love him. (insert InuYasha going from slinky to limp noodle in the background) I just don't think that you should have been so rude to him. . ."
'She doesn't. . .she doesn't. . .oh thank gods!' relief poured into the poor dog-boy. Today sure had been on hell of a humdinger. He surreptitiously glared at Kiry from underneath his bangs. 'And here's one of the reasons right now.'
The so-called-reason slowly turned her head and looked into his golden eyes with steady lavender orbs. Suddenly InuYasha got a chill down his spine. He couldn't say what yet but this was no ordinary girl. She most definitely wasn't a demon, but his instincts told him that neither was she a normal human.
Kiry snapped her eyes away from him as Sango handed her her jacket back. InuYasha glanced at Sango and noticed that she had a troubled look in her eyes, and her scent was giving off small waves of confusion. He'd have to ask her about that later, when Miss Oddity herself wasn't around.
Miroku had been oddly silent during the explanations and finally decided to point out a small fact. "You guys, it's getting dark. Maybe we should make camp here and continue on in the morning."
"Sounds like a good idea, Miroku. Whada ya say InuYasha, we stop for the night?" Kagome could practically already hear the 'NO!' she was sure to get, and so she was shocked when the hanyou absently said that that sounded fine.
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'I wonder what's up with InuYasha. He's never that considerate when we say we wanna stop for the night. . .I hope nothing's wrong. . .' Kagome thought as she started unrolling her sleeping bag to sit on as she prepared the hot water for the instant ramen.
Next to her, Kiry unrolled her own sleeping bag to sit on. She had gone up into Kagome's attic at the last minute and snatched it out of a corner, causing more complaining from InuYasha.
After InuYasha had said yes to making camp, the girls had gone off to a nearby hot springs, leaving the boys to start a fire and with very loud and fervent commands to STAY AWAY! from the bathing girls. While splashing about in the warm water, Sango had asked how exactly Kiry was related to Kagome.
"Well, her dad is my dad's brother. My mother and them had all grown up together and she was so close to Kiry's otousan that she just calls him her brother and completely skips calling him her brother-in-law." Kagome explained. Kiry grinned and nodded in agreement.
"So your last name would be. . .?" Sango asked.
"Higurashi, like Kagome's." Kiry had flashed her cousin a look of familial pride then.
Now back at camp, Kiry sat down cross-legged on the green bag and watched Kagome's deft handlings of the camp stove. "I hope I haven't caused any major rifts because of my actions, cousin?"
Kagome shot her a small look. "Of course not, Kir-chan." She leaned forward conspiratorially. "In fact, I'm kinda glad you ran Koga off. It does get annoying when he interrupts my life with his crazy insistence that I come and be his wife." She giggled. "I haven't the faintest idea were he came up with the idea that I actually loved him! He's a friend, of sorts, and always will be just that."
Kiry and Kagome continued to giggle. Meanwhile, a certain white-haired oddball was eavesdropping from a convenient tree. He was so happy that Kagome had said that she had no feeling for Kouga. Of course that didn't mean HE had feelings for her, or that he had been jealous or anything, it just meant that they wouldn't have to deal with Kouga interrupting there jewel shard hunt as often now. (A/N: You just keep telling yourself that, deareh. . .)
"InuYasha? Can we speak with you for a minute?" Sango and Miroku had found his perch and came up under the tree.
InuYasha rolled out of the tree in a perfectly controlled drop and landed silently. 'Gotta appreciate the stealth,' he thought to himself. "What's up?" Sango had that confused look in her eyes again and Miroku had his grave face on (A/N: CUTE!).
Miroku started first. "It's about Kiry. There have been several. . .inconsistencies. . .and odd occurrences about her."
"What do you mean? Are you saying she's lying to us and is dangerous?!" InuYasha snapped his head to where the cousins were sitting by the camp stove, now talking about something or another.
"No, not at all. It's quite obvious that she is Kagome's cousin; their looks alone say that, and you can tell Kiry cares for her. I'm just saying that there is something very strange about her that bears further scrutiny. Sango, please tell InuYasha what you've seen."
Sango gave her thoughts a small frown. "When she introduced herself, she called herself Furukuri Kiry. Kagome said that they are related through her father by Kiry's father and when I asked her later, she said her last name was Higurashi." InuYasha took his famous pose of standing straight and still with his hands in his sleeves, looking darkly thoughtful.
Sango continued when InuYasha didn't say anything. "Also, her jacket. Those fans were stuck in there pretty firmly. I had to give them a real good tug to get them to budge. There's just no way she could have just thrown down her arm and poof! there's a fan."
"At the same time she did that, InuYasha, I felt a tingle of an aura come from her. It was gone so fast I thought I imagined it. . .but now hearing Sango's suspicions, I feel that maybe I didn't. Plus, there's that whole thing with the you and Shippo not being able to discern a scent off of her." Miroku said, leaning on his staff. "What do you think we should do?"
InuYasha stood and brooded (A/N: I just LOVE the look on his face when Inu- chan gets lost in thought. . .maybe it's unfamiliar territory and needs extra concentration, ne?). Finally he raised his head and looked at his friends. "We'll wait to say anything. If we mention this without proof, Kagome will just get mad and we'll lose our chance of finding out more about Kiry. There's no way she can hurt Kagome with us around; we won't let her if that be her intention."
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InuYasha sat on a tree branch directly above the sleeping figures below. He had kept a surreptitious watch on Kiry the whole time she was awake and now he checked on her from time to time as she slept. Most of the time he watched Kagome, as usual. He just loved to see her face, so peaceful and sweet, with all the stress and the worry of the day gone.
A slight breeze drifted through the air, making the campfire Miroku had built flicker and dance. It also brought with it the smell of salt water. . .wait, salt? Tears?
InuYasha looked down and searched the faces of his companions. His eyes came to rest on Kiry's face. Sure enough, in her sleep, tears were streaming down her face in sparkling rivers. The girl turned on her side and nuzzled her head into her pillow, as if to seek comfort in it.
InuYasha wondered what 'demons' haunted her sleep. 'What is this girl? And what is her sorrow that it haunts her sleep?'
As the inu-youkai pondered these thoughts, his long and confusing day caught up with him, and he drifted off into sleep.
A/N: There! See, I promised those of you who were about to kill me that I would have this chapie out by my birthday, which is on the 24th! *does a Happy Birthday HamsterDance* I'll try to be more prompt about the next couple of chapies. I didn't have this one all planned out in my head like I have the next couple of ones so it took me a lil while. Again with the groveling. Okay, I have a problem that I need help with. Should I keep this fic at PG-13, or should I change it to R, b/c there's gonna be "violence, strong language, adult content" (Quoting from BtVS, btw.). There will NOT be any lemon in this storeh; I can read 'em, but I won't write 'em. Just violence. So tell me what u think I should do, pleaze.
Emerald ~~ *laughs ass off* Glad I got u hooked! XO! *wavies!*
Violet ~~ Okay, here ya go! ^.~
Holly Morris ~~ Hey gurly! Finally decided to read it again huh? Thanx 4 ur support every day. Couldn't do w/o it!
Sageheart86 ~~ Glad u liked the title! Took me a good part of 5 minutes to come up with that one! Hehehe!
Tana ~~ I have a meeting with her an Sesshomaru all planned out for later in the storeh! Just u wait, it's realleh gonna be something! *chuckles evilly to self*
Silver Trumpet, aka Black Wolf ~~ I blame u! Even as I'm typing this note to u, the lil IM signal is flashing at me! And again! Hehehe! Love ya sis!
Ja ne! ^.~ Aelii-chan