Nobara: Ladies & gents, Chapter 6!
Inuyasha: Aren't we supose to say something catty here?
Nobara: Can't, I'm late for school!
Inuyasha: Ya wanna lift?
Nobara: *stares at him* Who are you & what did you do to Inuyasha?
Inuyasha: Just trying to be nice....
Nobara: I'm not breaking your contract!
Inuyasha: Well it was worth a shot. Still want that lift?
Nobara: You can't drive remember?
Inuyasha: I'm faster than any of those cars you humans like so much.
Nobara: Can we stop & get a cappicheno?
Inuyasha: I reckon. *picks her up* Whatever that is....
Nobara: Wee!! Bye, here's Chapter 6; Narakuin Appears ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Inuyasha rushed into the blinding snow up the mountain following the barely there scent of Crystal. All that he could see was the blizzard around him, and the occasional tree that crossed his path. Near the top he heard mewing. Taking that as a clue to find her he followed the mewing until he found the shivering ball of fur that was cowered beneath a fallen tree. Quickly he gathered the frozen bundle into his haori. The snow became thicker and made him stop his leaping to trudge through the mountains of cold white fluff. Close to the top he began to wonder if she had evcen came this way when his foot struck something solid in the snow causing him to trip and fall on top of Kiara who sprang from his red robes hissing. Turning to see what the problem was he saw a strand of firey red whipping in the irratated winds.
Immediately he crawled over to the place where the hair danced and began to dig through the snow. Deeper and deeper he dug until a face peered back at him. She appeared like an ice demon nearly, purple lips, pastely skin that was beginning to aquire the faintest shade of blue. Flakes of snow clung to her eyelashes as though they would fall to their death should they release her. She didn't breathe or move the slightest when he picked her up. Her skin was colder than the ice that clung to her clothes, pressing his ear to her chest he could only detect a small heart beat whose pauses were widely spread.
He frantically looked around him, praying that there would be a monastery or a hermit's shack, anything! Inuyasha pulled her closer to him and into the fire rat fur coat to try and warm her. Quickly he began his quest for shelter, once again taking to the trees. Losing his direction, Inuyasha began to grow closer to the peak of the mountain instead of heading back towards the base. "Kami-sama, if you bless me once in my intire life, please let it be now," he thought to himself. Kiara hung from Inuyasha pant leg, clinging with her claws to remain near her master. He looked down at the cat and it stared up at him as if to say, "Have faith." Turning his attention away from his path cost him his balance. Down he fell to the ground , clutching Crystal close to try and absorb the shock of impact from doing her any worse harm. Plowing into the snow made Kiara turn loose of the hanyou and cause her to rocket off into the trees.
He stood up, still holding onto Crystal and began in the direction of Kiara's soft mewing. Puching the branches of a pine tree away he saw a tiny light in the distance that cut through the dark snow like a hot knife through butter. Picking up the now hyper demon cat he began to run in the general direction of the light. At his destintion Inuyasha found a tiny hut. No more than one room big, possibly a hermit's abode, with some luck maybe the hermit would take pity on the near dead girl and her- "And her what? What am I to her I wonder..." thought Inuyasha staring down into the face of Crystal. Shaking himself from his thoughts he walked up to the door and knocked on it. No answer. Again he knocked and again he found no response. Pushing open the door he found that there was no one there. Only a tiny lamp that burnt on a small wooden table in the corner. Around him there was a fireplace, the table and lamp, and a small pile of furs.
Gently he lay Crystal on the furs and selected the thickest to cover her with. Crossing the room to the fireplace he found it filled with straw and a few pieces of kindling. Using the small lamp, he coaxed a fire to burn bright and fill the small building with warmth. He heard stirring from the corner and saw that Crystal had opened her eyes. "Crystal?", he asked, she only stared at him. But then again she wasn't even staring at him, more like staring past him. Quietly he walked back over to her and sat beside the make shift bed. Taking a closer look at her he could tell she was still unconcious, but he checked for her heartbeat anyways. It was still there but barely. He didn't know what to do for her but then he remembered when Sango had become such as this.
::Flashback::
Kagome: Inuyasha, we've got to get her warm! She's caught hypothermia!
Inuyasha: Well what do you want me to do?!
Kagome: Take off her clothes!
Inuyasha: WHAT?!?!
Kagome: Take off her clothes, they're wet and she won't get any warmer with wet clothes!
Inuyasha: I'm not undressing her!!
Miroku: May I offer my assistance?
Kagome: I don't trust you Miroku, I'll do it then, she can't die. Inuyasha go start a fire.
Miroku: Are you sure you don't want my help here?
Kagome: I'M SURE NOW GO!!!
::Inuyasha and Miroku leave::
::End Flashback::
"Could she have what Sango did?", wondered Inuyasha. She looked just like Sango did that night. Feeling the edge of her shirt he felt the ice had bgun to melt and soak her clothes. With a sigh he uncertainly pulled up the bottom of her shirt to reveal her midriff. Then he paused," What will she do to me when she wakes up?..." Avision of Crystal "sitting him" repeatedly entered his mind. "She'll understand, I mean between me seeing her naked and her dying I'd bet she wouldn't mind...." he told himself. Once again he started his task of undressing her. The wet garments lay in a pile by the fire drying out, he gently and slowly rubbed her arms with one of the blankets, trying to coax her blood to circulate.
Nearly an hour had passed before she opened her eyes again and peered at him. "H-how did I get here?", she asked. "Bout time you woke up," growled Inuyasha as he prowled through a cabniet of food and drink. Selecting a few items he turned tback to take them to her. Crystal sat up and stretched her arms causing the only covering she had to slip away. Inuyasha stopped in mid step and dropped the provisions he carried. It took her a moment before the realization that something was wrong suddenly hit her. Feeling her shoulders she felt no shirt, not even her bra. She turned red, partly from anger and partly from embarassment and snatched the fur blanket from the floor. Covering her reddened body she yelled as loud as she could; "INUYASHA! OSUWARI! OSUWARI! OSUWARI! OSUWARI! OSUWARI! OSUWARI!"
The ground shook from the impact of Inuyasha's body came in contact with the floor. "WHAT WAS THAT FOR?!" came Inuyasha's muffled screams. "YOU PERV!!", she screetched and curled up in the corner. Inuyasha pried himself from the ground and sat up glaring at Crystal,"Don't flatter yourself," he said. Another "sit" came cold as the ice outside from her lips causing Inuyasha to once again crash to the ground. "Quit It! I only call them as I see them you stupid wench!", he yelled getting up and into Crystal's face. "Stop calling me a wench!!","Why? You do look like one after all!","I don't look like a wench!","You're right, more like a cheap geisha girl!","Osuwari!" And with that Inuyasha crashed to the floor yelling at Crystal who curled up even more in the corner and was crying. Inuyasha stopped his yelling and looked at her with a confused puppy look.
"What now?", she said in a cold, hard voice. "Why are you crying?","Why do you care?","I don't care!","Then why did you ask?","I don't know! Just leave me alone!" Crystal covered her herhead in the blanket. Nearly a hour past before Inuyasha mustered enough courage to cross the room and crouch beside Crystal. Pulling down the blanket to reveal her face, he wiped away a trail of tears that ran her cheek. "Y-you want to tell me what's wrong?", he asked almost tenderly. "Since when are you caring?", she asked jerking her face away and then turning to glare into his amber eyes. "I don't, it's just I don't need you getting any sicker and causing me more trouble," he replied. Crystal sighed and pulled the blanket closer around her.
"As you may have guessed, I'm not Japanese and my grandparents aren't really my grandparents. It started nearly six years ago back when I lived with my parents in America. My dad was a stoner-","Stoner?","Someone who does a lot of drugs. After so long my mother couldn't handle his womanizing and spending money on pot and liquor so they got a divorce. He was put in prison a few months later. Well about a year after they got the divorce my mother was in a bad car accident that led to a seven month coma and then her death. My grandparents had died, my mother's family were incapable of raising us and my father's family didn't want us because to them we were as good as half-breeds. My dad came from a very rich family and mom was from a dirt poor one. Neither families wanted the marriage to take place but it did. My grandparents loved me and my brother but they died from old age before the divorce.
"So the government put us into a foster home. But the people they put us with were horrible people. They wouldn't let me and Chad do anything we always had to do what they said and if we didn't, we were beat. When I turned fifteen I took my brother and ran away and didn't stop until we came to a small Tennessee town. There I got a job as a waitress and saved enough money to buy an apartment and put my brother back into school. This worked for about a year and a half but then I lost my job because I had gotten sick and couldn't afford the medicine. Without a job there was no money and without money we were thrown out of our apartment. So we were on the streets again, traveling to somewhere unknown. About another year I had lost five other jobs and Chad was desperately ill from living out in the cold wilderness. I took him to a doctor and pleaded with him to adopt Chad and take care of him. I had known that this doctor was a good man because I had known him my entire life, we had finally wandered back to my hometown.
"The doctor took him and offered to take me too but I was already eighteen and didn't wish to put the doctor through any more trouble. Off I went again, I haven't seen my brother since that day. Somehow I was lucky enough to make it to an airport. There I was, starving and ragged, a complete mess. I was desperate for some money to buy food so I was going to sell the last thing I had- myself. I had found a business man who was looking to 'release some stress' so I made a deal with him. The entire time I was doing this and dying inside, an older couple was watching me. I was about to leave with the man when the old couple walked up to me and placed a hand on my arm. 'Please do not do this to yourself. We will take you, feed you, shelter you, and you may stay for as long as you wish' she whispered to me. I was too weak to reply to anything so they helped me to a small indoor cafe and bought me a large lunch. The old man went and bought another passport.
"And so I found out that my new grandparents lived in Japan and had never had children of their own. And so my sob stroy ends with the kind couple who took in someone they had never saw and didn't know if she would kill them in their sleep or not and saved me from a long and painful death." Crystal looked up from the edge of the blanket and stared into Inuyasha's eyes. He sat down, shocked at her story, at the life she had led. Much like his own, being abandoned in her youth, losing the only people who had ever loved her, but she had found her happy ending hadn't she? "I-I'm sorry, why do you cry now though?", he asked. "Because I don't have a real place. Grandma and grandpa keep me because they are gold hearted people, but I don't belong there, I didn't belong in America, I don't belong anywhere, I don't have a place in this world," she said softly.
Inuyasha leaned forward and hugged her, much to his own surprise. "Yes you do, there is a place in this world that you belong in, you're just the only one in it," he told her. Crystal wrapped her arms around him and began to twirl a strand of his hair around her finger. The lock of hair that she held began to grow darker and darker until it was jet black. "Inuyasha, why did your hair just change color?", she asked moving to look him in the eye again. These too had changed from amber to violet. "Shit, it's a new moon," he said looking at his hair. He sneezed. "Bless you," said Crystal," turn around so I can get dressed, my clothes are dry." Inuyasha closed his eyes and turned to face the wall allowing Crystal to retrieve her clothes from in front of the fire and get dressed.
Inuyasha sneezed again. "Inuyasha, are you okay?", asked Crystal,"It's nothing," he replied. This continued for nearly two hours. "Inuyasha, I think you're catching cold," she said looking at the half there half demon. "I'm fine! I'm a demon I'll be fine," he replied," Didn't you say that in this form you're human? You're chilled to the bone I can tell by the way you're shivering. After travelling aroud in that snow so much I'm surprised you don't have hypothermia." Inuyasha looked up at Crystal, he saw in her eyes that she ws truely concerned. "Don't put on an act for me, cover up," she told him tossing a blanket over his head. Inuyasha pushed the fur away," I'm not cold, I'm sweating," he replied shortly folding his arms. Crystal glanced him over and shrugged, "Suit yourself but don't expect me to help you when pass out from being chilled.
Time went by and Inuyasha began to feel tired and numb. Before he knew it he had fallen forward face first to the floor. He made no effort to sit up so Crystal knelt beside him, hurridly pulling him off the floor. "Inuyasha, Inuyasha!", Crystal called his name and patted his cheek softly trying to rouse him. He moaned and began muttering under his breath where Crystal couldn't hear him. She felt the sleeve of his clothes, they were bone dry amazingly. Then she felt his skin, it was like ice. "I hate winter," she muttered as she dragged the limp figure of the hanyou to where she had lay only a short time before. Covering him with the thickest she went to stoke the fire embers until they blazed up again. She sneezed. Crystal's eyes were drooping from exhaustion. Her strength had returned long enough to put on a show for Inuyasha but now she was drained. Glancing over at the sleeping Inuyasha she saw he was still shivering.
Crystal stood up and walked over to him and lifted back the covers. She lay down on the edge of the furs and pulled the blanket up to her nose. Sleep had nearly found her when she felt something wrap around her waist. It was Inuyasha's arm, he had rolled over right next to her and wrapped his arm around her pulling her close to him. Turning over herself she rested her head on his chest much on instint and too tired to do otherwise. Once again she drifted dangerously close to slumber when she her Inuyasha talking again. "Kagome....," he held Crystal closer,"Ashiteru...." Crystal's eyes opened fully and saw the face that she hated so much but loved so much at the same time two inches from hers. "I love you too," she whispered as she closed the distance and kissed his cheek.
The next morning Inuyasha woke to find the human girl sleeping peacefully within his arms. His first thought was,"Oh hell what happened?!" Slowly he eased his arms from about her waist, careful so as not to wake her. He walked around the room trying to find anything that she might est when she awoke but the cupboards were now bare. 'I guess I'll just have to go catch a rabbit,' he thought to himself as he opened the door. The snow had stopped but there was still a good five inches left. With one last glance to Crystal he sprang into the trees to find food.
Crystal woke up nearly an hour later. Inuyasha was sitting by the fire with his arms and legs folded. "Good morning," he greeted happily," Morning," she replied still half there. "The snow has melted, we can get down off the mountain today," said Inuyasha. "That's good," she replied through a yawn. "Well c'mon," said Inuyasha smiling as he grabbed Crystal by the wrist and began dragging her outside. "What's the flippin' hurry Inuyasha?", asked Crystal trying her best to keep up with his fast pace. "You'll see," he replied, his grip getting tighter on her wrist. "Ow, Inuyasha, let me go, you're hurting me!", she cried trying to wretch her arm from him. "You don't know what hurt is....yet," said Inuyasha with a smirk. Crystal looked alarmed and her struggling began to grow worse. "Foolish human wench, quite trying to fight, it's no use," hissed Inuyasha. "Why are you doing this?", she asked, tears beginning to form in her eyes.
He stopped and began to laugh. "Do you know who you are?", he asked, turning to lock eyes with hers. "I'm Crystal," she said," No, you are far more than some human idiot, far more valuable than anything in this era, possibly even the Shikon no Tama," said Inuyasha. "Who are you? You're not Inuyasha!", she cried as she began to beat his hand. "You are right, I am not your pitiful half-breed," he said coming up close to her. Crystal let out a gasp, she hadn't even seen him move towards her. He now took on the form of another. This one was well built, and had peircing violet eyes. His hair was long and wavvy down to his waist. His smirk intensified at her apparent fear. "I am Narakuin, son of Naraku," he said pulling her next to him. Before she could protest they were in the air amidst a swarm of giant bees.
"Let me go! INUYASHA!!", she screamed. Narakuin laughed," Yell all you wish but he won't find you until I allow him to." And with that he flew higher into the clouds until Crystal passed out from lack of oxygen. Inuyasha had returned to the hut and found it empty. "CRYSTAL!", he yelled running through the trees. Before he had realized it he had made it back to the God Tree. "Hey dog boy, where's Crystal?", yelled Kouga. "I can't find her," said Inuyasha glaring at the wolf. "Now before you two begin your arguing, let's rethink of everywhere she could be," said Miroku stepping in between the two canines. Shippo sat on a root listening as the three argued watching them and pondering if he was to suffer the loss of brain function when he was their ages. Jaken paced back and forth in a patch of shade, Sesshomaru sat on a branch of the giant oak gazing at the sky trying to tune out his brother's senseless bickering with the monk and ookami youkai.
"Look! There's Kiara!", exclaimed Shippo and rushing to greet the tiny cat. Kiara sat down and dropped what she held in her jaws. She was daintily licking her paws when Shippo picked up the remains of her prey. "Um, Inuyasha, I think you should see this," said Shippo pulling on Inuyasha's pant leg. He gazed down at the kitsune and took in his hands what Shippo gave him. "What is that?", asked Kouga, "Poisonous insects, but there have been none around since Naraku," remarked Miroku. That got Sesshomaru's attention. He jerked his head from the sky and looked at his brother who was looking back asking silent questions. "You idiot, you let Narakuin run off with her didn't you?", sighed the older one as he gracefully jumped from his perch to beside his brother.
"Narakuin?", asked Miroku, Inuyasha, Kouga, and Shippo all at the same time. "The son of Naraku," Sesshomaru replied simply. "Let me tell it master. Ah-hum, Naraku had once taken in a demon priestess named Ada to be rid of Kagome. Apparently they had an affair of some sort which led to Narakuin. Ada was killed shortly after by Naraku, Narakuin would have too had his heart been unlike his father's. But the child had a soul as black as coal and a heart to match, if there was even one there. But Naraku took a liking to the boy and taught him everything he knew. When Naraku was vanquished, Narakuin vowed revenge on you, all of you. But he wanted power too. He learned the lengends of Fire Rose and began a plot to gain those powers. Only he realized that he needed the reincarnation first, That's where Lady Crystal comes in. Being Fire Rose she has powers that are next to unbelievable! If she felt the need, she could wipe this entire planet out! So now that he knows who she is and what she means to all of you, that makes her all the more valuable to him!", explained Jaken.
"Do you know what this means little brother?", asked Sesshomaru. "Yea, it means there will be war," growled Inuyasha as he crushed thr remains of the bugs in his hand to dust and let it fall to the ground.
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Nobara: YAY!! I have another Chapter up!! ^_^
Inuyasha: Um wench-
Nobara: How many times will I have to tell you this! DO NOT CALL ME A WENCH!!
Inuyasha: Fine, Nobara-
Nobara: Yes?
Inuyasha: Your kitchen's on fire!
Nobara: I know
Inuyasha: Then why aren't you upset?!
Nobara: I'm the one that started it! ^_^
Inuyasha: -_-+ ......
Nobara: *dancing around the kitchen door* It's burning! It's burning! It's burning burning burning!!
Inuyasha: o.o You're kinda creepy
Nobara: Thank you!
Narrator: Tune in next time when you hear Kilala say...
Kilala: Hey big man lemme hold dollar!
Inuyasha: Aren't we supose to say something catty here?
Nobara: Can't, I'm late for school!
Inuyasha: Ya wanna lift?
Nobara: *stares at him* Who are you & what did you do to Inuyasha?
Inuyasha: Just trying to be nice....
Nobara: I'm not breaking your contract!
Inuyasha: Well it was worth a shot. Still want that lift?
Nobara: You can't drive remember?
Inuyasha: I'm faster than any of those cars you humans like so much.
Nobara: Can we stop & get a cappicheno?
Inuyasha: I reckon. *picks her up* Whatever that is....
Nobara: Wee!! Bye, here's Chapter 6; Narakuin Appears ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Inuyasha rushed into the blinding snow up the mountain following the barely there scent of Crystal. All that he could see was the blizzard around him, and the occasional tree that crossed his path. Near the top he heard mewing. Taking that as a clue to find her he followed the mewing until he found the shivering ball of fur that was cowered beneath a fallen tree. Quickly he gathered the frozen bundle into his haori. The snow became thicker and made him stop his leaping to trudge through the mountains of cold white fluff. Close to the top he began to wonder if she had evcen came this way when his foot struck something solid in the snow causing him to trip and fall on top of Kiara who sprang from his red robes hissing. Turning to see what the problem was he saw a strand of firey red whipping in the irratated winds.
Immediately he crawled over to the place where the hair danced and began to dig through the snow. Deeper and deeper he dug until a face peered back at him. She appeared like an ice demon nearly, purple lips, pastely skin that was beginning to aquire the faintest shade of blue. Flakes of snow clung to her eyelashes as though they would fall to their death should they release her. She didn't breathe or move the slightest when he picked her up. Her skin was colder than the ice that clung to her clothes, pressing his ear to her chest he could only detect a small heart beat whose pauses were widely spread.
He frantically looked around him, praying that there would be a monastery or a hermit's shack, anything! Inuyasha pulled her closer to him and into the fire rat fur coat to try and warm her. Quickly he began his quest for shelter, once again taking to the trees. Losing his direction, Inuyasha began to grow closer to the peak of the mountain instead of heading back towards the base. "Kami-sama, if you bless me once in my intire life, please let it be now," he thought to himself. Kiara hung from Inuyasha pant leg, clinging with her claws to remain near her master. He looked down at the cat and it stared up at him as if to say, "Have faith." Turning his attention away from his path cost him his balance. Down he fell to the ground , clutching Crystal close to try and absorb the shock of impact from doing her any worse harm. Plowing into the snow made Kiara turn loose of the hanyou and cause her to rocket off into the trees.
He stood up, still holding onto Crystal and began in the direction of Kiara's soft mewing. Puching the branches of a pine tree away he saw a tiny light in the distance that cut through the dark snow like a hot knife through butter. Picking up the now hyper demon cat he began to run in the general direction of the light. At his destintion Inuyasha found a tiny hut. No more than one room big, possibly a hermit's abode, with some luck maybe the hermit would take pity on the near dead girl and her- "And her what? What am I to her I wonder..." thought Inuyasha staring down into the face of Crystal. Shaking himself from his thoughts he walked up to the door and knocked on it. No answer. Again he knocked and again he found no response. Pushing open the door he found that there was no one there. Only a tiny lamp that burnt on a small wooden table in the corner. Around him there was a fireplace, the table and lamp, and a small pile of furs.
Gently he lay Crystal on the furs and selected the thickest to cover her with. Crossing the room to the fireplace he found it filled with straw and a few pieces of kindling. Using the small lamp, he coaxed a fire to burn bright and fill the small building with warmth. He heard stirring from the corner and saw that Crystal had opened her eyes. "Crystal?", he asked, she only stared at him. But then again she wasn't even staring at him, more like staring past him. Quietly he walked back over to her and sat beside the make shift bed. Taking a closer look at her he could tell she was still unconcious, but he checked for her heartbeat anyways. It was still there but barely. He didn't know what to do for her but then he remembered when Sango had become such as this.
::Flashback::
Kagome: Inuyasha, we've got to get her warm! She's caught hypothermia!
Inuyasha: Well what do you want me to do?!
Kagome: Take off her clothes!
Inuyasha: WHAT?!?!
Kagome: Take off her clothes, they're wet and she won't get any warmer with wet clothes!
Inuyasha: I'm not undressing her!!
Miroku: May I offer my assistance?
Kagome: I don't trust you Miroku, I'll do it then, she can't die. Inuyasha go start a fire.
Miroku: Are you sure you don't want my help here?
Kagome: I'M SURE NOW GO!!!
::Inuyasha and Miroku leave::
::End Flashback::
"Could she have what Sango did?", wondered Inuyasha. She looked just like Sango did that night. Feeling the edge of her shirt he felt the ice had bgun to melt and soak her clothes. With a sigh he uncertainly pulled up the bottom of her shirt to reveal her midriff. Then he paused," What will she do to me when she wakes up?..." Avision of Crystal "sitting him" repeatedly entered his mind. "She'll understand, I mean between me seeing her naked and her dying I'd bet she wouldn't mind...." he told himself. Once again he started his task of undressing her. The wet garments lay in a pile by the fire drying out, he gently and slowly rubbed her arms with one of the blankets, trying to coax her blood to circulate.
Nearly an hour had passed before she opened her eyes again and peered at him. "H-how did I get here?", she asked. "Bout time you woke up," growled Inuyasha as he prowled through a cabniet of food and drink. Selecting a few items he turned tback to take them to her. Crystal sat up and stretched her arms causing the only covering she had to slip away. Inuyasha stopped in mid step and dropped the provisions he carried. It took her a moment before the realization that something was wrong suddenly hit her. Feeling her shoulders she felt no shirt, not even her bra. She turned red, partly from anger and partly from embarassment and snatched the fur blanket from the floor. Covering her reddened body she yelled as loud as she could; "INUYASHA! OSUWARI! OSUWARI! OSUWARI! OSUWARI! OSUWARI! OSUWARI!"
The ground shook from the impact of Inuyasha's body came in contact with the floor. "WHAT WAS THAT FOR?!" came Inuyasha's muffled screams. "YOU PERV!!", she screetched and curled up in the corner. Inuyasha pried himself from the ground and sat up glaring at Crystal,"Don't flatter yourself," he said. Another "sit" came cold as the ice outside from her lips causing Inuyasha to once again crash to the ground. "Quit It! I only call them as I see them you stupid wench!", he yelled getting up and into Crystal's face. "Stop calling me a wench!!","Why? You do look like one after all!","I don't look like a wench!","You're right, more like a cheap geisha girl!","Osuwari!" And with that Inuyasha crashed to the floor yelling at Crystal who curled up even more in the corner and was crying. Inuyasha stopped his yelling and looked at her with a confused puppy look.
"What now?", she said in a cold, hard voice. "Why are you crying?","Why do you care?","I don't care!","Then why did you ask?","I don't know! Just leave me alone!" Crystal covered her herhead in the blanket. Nearly a hour past before Inuyasha mustered enough courage to cross the room and crouch beside Crystal. Pulling down the blanket to reveal her face, he wiped away a trail of tears that ran her cheek. "Y-you want to tell me what's wrong?", he asked almost tenderly. "Since when are you caring?", she asked jerking her face away and then turning to glare into his amber eyes. "I don't, it's just I don't need you getting any sicker and causing me more trouble," he replied. Crystal sighed and pulled the blanket closer around her.
"As you may have guessed, I'm not Japanese and my grandparents aren't really my grandparents. It started nearly six years ago back when I lived with my parents in America. My dad was a stoner-","Stoner?","Someone who does a lot of drugs. After so long my mother couldn't handle his womanizing and spending money on pot and liquor so they got a divorce. He was put in prison a few months later. Well about a year after they got the divorce my mother was in a bad car accident that led to a seven month coma and then her death. My grandparents had died, my mother's family were incapable of raising us and my father's family didn't want us because to them we were as good as half-breeds. My dad came from a very rich family and mom was from a dirt poor one. Neither families wanted the marriage to take place but it did. My grandparents loved me and my brother but they died from old age before the divorce.
"So the government put us into a foster home. But the people they put us with were horrible people. They wouldn't let me and Chad do anything we always had to do what they said and if we didn't, we were beat. When I turned fifteen I took my brother and ran away and didn't stop until we came to a small Tennessee town. There I got a job as a waitress and saved enough money to buy an apartment and put my brother back into school. This worked for about a year and a half but then I lost my job because I had gotten sick and couldn't afford the medicine. Without a job there was no money and without money we were thrown out of our apartment. So we were on the streets again, traveling to somewhere unknown. About another year I had lost five other jobs and Chad was desperately ill from living out in the cold wilderness. I took him to a doctor and pleaded with him to adopt Chad and take care of him. I had known that this doctor was a good man because I had known him my entire life, we had finally wandered back to my hometown.
"The doctor took him and offered to take me too but I was already eighteen and didn't wish to put the doctor through any more trouble. Off I went again, I haven't seen my brother since that day. Somehow I was lucky enough to make it to an airport. There I was, starving and ragged, a complete mess. I was desperate for some money to buy food so I was going to sell the last thing I had- myself. I had found a business man who was looking to 'release some stress' so I made a deal with him. The entire time I was doing this and dying inside, an older couple was watching me. I was about to leave with the man when the old couple walked up to me and placed a hand on my arm. 'Please do not do this to yourself. We will take you, feed you, shelter you, and you may stay for as long as you wish' she whispered to me. I was too weak to reply to anything so they helped me to a small indoor cafe and bought me a large lunch. The old man went and bought another passport.
"And so I found out that my new grandparents lived in Japan and had never had children of their own. And so my sob stroy ends with the kind couple who took in someone they had never saw and didn't know if she would kill them in their sleep or not and saved me from a long and painful death." Crystal looked up from the edge of the blanket and stared into Inuyasha's eyes. He sat down, shocked at her story, at the life she had led. Much like his own, being abandoned in her youth, losing the only people who had ever loved her, but she had found her happy ending hadn't she? "I-I'm sorry, why do you cry now though?", he asked. "Because I don't have a real place. Grandma and grandpa keep me because they are gold hearted people, but I don't belong there, I didn't belong in America, I don't belong anywhere, I don't have a place in this world," she said softly.
Inuyasha leaned forward and hugged her, much to his own surprise. "Yes you do, there is a place in this world that you belong in, you're just the only one in it," he told her. Crystal wrapped her arms around him and began to twirl a strand of his hair around her finger. The lock of hair that she held began to grow darker and darker until it was jet black. "Inuyasha, why did your hair just change color?", she asked moving to look him in the eye again. These too had changed from amber to violet. "Shit, it's a new moon," he said looking at his hair. He sneezed. "Bless you," said Crystal," turn around so I can get dressed, my clothes are dry." Inuyasha closed his eyes and turned to face the wall allowing Crystal to retrieve her clothes from in front of the fire and get dressed.
Inuyasha sneezed again. "Inuyasha, are you okay?", asked Crystal,"It's nothing," he replied. This continued for nearly two hours. "Inuyasha, I think you're catching cold," she said looking at the half there half demon. "I'm fine! I'm a demon I'll be fine," he replied," Didn't you say that in this form you're human? You're chilled to the bone I can tell by the way you're shivering. After travelling aroud in that snow so much I'm surprised you don't have hypothermia." Inuyasha looked up at Crystal, he saw in her eyes that she ws truely concerned. "Don't put on an act for me, cover up," she told him tossing a blanket over his head. Inuyasha pushed the fur away," I'm not cold, I'm sweating," he replied shortly folding his arms. Crystal glanced him over and shrugged, "Suit yourself but don't expect me to help you when pass out from being chilled.
Time went by and Inuyasha began to feel tired and numb. Before he knew it he had fallen forward face first to the floor. He made no effort to sit up so Crystal knelt beside him, hurridly pulling him off the floor. "Inuyasha, Inuyasha!", Crystal called his name and patted his cheek softly trying to rouse him. He moaned and began muttering under his breath where Crystal couldn't hear him. She felt the sleeve of his clothes, they were bone dry amazingly. Then she felt his skin, it was like ice. "I hate winter," she muttered as she dragged the limp figure of the hanyou to where she had lay only a short time before. Covering him with the thickest she went to stoke the fire embers until they blazed up again. She sneezed. Crystal's eyes were drooping from exhaustion. Her strength had returned long enough to put on a show for Inuyasha but now she was drained. Glancing over at the sleeping Inuyasha she saw he was still shivering.
Crystal stood up and walked over to him and lifted back the covers. She lay down on the edge of the furs and pulled the blanket up to her nose. Sleep had nearly found her when she felt something wrap around her waist. It was Inuyasha's arm, he had rolled over right next to her and wrapped his arm around her pulling her close to him. Turning over herself she rested her head on his chest much on instint and too tired to do otherwise. Once again she drifted dangerously close to slumber when she her Inuyasha talking again. "Kagome....," he held Crystal closer,"Ashiteru...." Crystal's eyes opened fully and saw the face that she hated so much but loved so much at the same time two inches from hers. "I love you too," she whispered as she closed the distance and kissed his cheek.
The next morning Inuyasha woke to find the human girl sleeping peacefully within his arms. His first thought was,"Oh hell what happened?!" Slowly he eased his arms from about her waist, careful so as not to wake her. He walked around the room trying to find anything that she might est when she awoke but the cupboards were now bare. 'I guess I'll just have to go catch a rabbit,' he thought to himself as he opened the door. The snow had stopped but there was still a good five inches left. With one last glance to Crystal he sprang into the trees to find food.
Crystal woke up nearly an hour later. Inuyasha was sitting by the fire with his arms and legs folded. "Good morning," he greeted happily," Morning," she replied still half there. "The snow has melted, we can get down off the mountain today," said Inuyasha. "That's good," she replied through a yawn. "Well c'mon," said Inuyasha smiling as he grabbed Crystal by the wrist and began dragging her outside. "What's the flippin' hurry Inuyasha?", asked Crystal trying her best to keep up with his fast pace. "You'll see," he replied, his grip getting tighter on her wrist. "Ow, Inuyasha, let me go, you're hurting me!", she cried trying to wretch her arm from him. "You don't know what hurt is....yet," said Inuyasha with a smirk. Crystal looked alarmed and her struggling began to grow worse. "Foolish human wench, quite trying to fight, it's no use," hissed Inuyasha. "Why are you doing this?", she asked, tears beginning to form in her eyes.
He stopped and began to laugh. "Do you know who you are?", he asked, turning to lock eyes with hers. "I'm Crystal," she said," No, you are far more than some human idiot, far more valuable than anything in this era, possibly even the Shikon no Tama," said Inuyasha. "Who are you? You're not Inuyasha!", she cried as she began to beat his hand. "You are right, I am not your pitiful half-breed," he said coming up close to her. Crystal let out a gasp, she hadn't even seen him move towards her. He now took on the form of another. This one was well built, and had peircing violet eyes. His hair was long and wavvy down to his waist. His smirk intensified at her apparent fear. "I am Narakuin, son of Naraku," he said pulling her next to him. Before she could protest they were in the air amidst a swarm of giant bees.
"Let me go! INUYASHA!!", she screamed. Narakuin laughed," Yell all you wish but he won't find you until I allow him to." And with that he flew higher into the clouds until Crystal passed out from lack of oxygen. Inuyasha had returned to the hut and found it empty. "CRYSTAL!", he yelled running through the trees. Before he had realized it he had made it back to the God Tree. "Hey dog boy, where's Crystal?", yelled Kouga. "I can't find her," said Inuyasha glaring at the wolf. "Now before you two begin your arguing, let's rethink of everywhere she could be," said Miroku stepping in between the two canines. Shippo sat on a root listening as the three argued watching them and pondering if he was to suffer the loss of brain function when he was their ages. Jaken paced back and forth in a patch of shade, Sesshomaru sat on a branch of the giant oak gazing at the sky trying to tune out his brother's senseless bickering with the monk and ookami youkai.
"Look! There's Kiara!", exclaimed Shippo and rushing to greet the tiny cat. Kiara sat down and dropped what she held in her jaws. She was daintily licking her paws when Shippo picked up the remains of her prey. "Um, Inuyasha, I think you should see this," said Shippo pulling on Inuyasha's pant leg. He gazed down at the kitsune and took in his hands what Shippo gave him. "What is that?", asked Kouga, "Poisonous insects, but there have been none around since Naraku," remarked Miroku. That got Sesshomaru's attention. He jerked his head from the sky and looked at his brother who was looking back asking silent questions. "You idiot, you let Narakuin run off with her didn't you?", sighed the older one as he gracefully jumped from his perch to beside his brother.
"Narakuin?", asked Miroku, Inuyasha, Kouga, and Shippo all at the same time. "The son of Naraku," Sesshomaru replied simply. "Let me tell it master. Ah-hum, Naraku had once taken in a demon priestess named Ada to be rid of Kagome. Apparently they had an affair of some sort which led to Narakuin. Ada was killed shortly after by Naraku, Narakuin would have too had his heart been unlike his father's. But the child had a soul as black as coal and a heart to match, if there was even one there. But Naraku took a liking to the boy and taught him everything he knew. When Naraku was vanquished, Narakuin vowed revenge on you, all of you. But he wanted power too. He learned the lengends of Fire Rose and began a plot to gain those powers. Only he realized that he needed the reincarnation first, That's where Lady Crystal comes in. Being Fire Rose she has powers that are next to unbelievable! If she felt the need, she could wipe this entire planet out! So now that he knows who she is and what she means to all of you, that makes her all the more valuable to him!", explained Jaken.
"Do you know what this means little brother?", asked Sesshomaru. "Yea, it means there will be war," growled Inuyasha as he crushed thr remains of the bugs in his hand to dust and let it fall to the ground.
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Nobara: YAY!! I have another Chapter up!! ^_^
Inuyasha: Um wench-
Nobara: How many times will I have to tell you this! DO NOT CALL ME A WENCH!!
Inuyasha: Fine, Nobara-
Nobara: Yes?
Inuyasha: Your kitchen's on fire!
Nobara: I know
Inuyasha: Then why aren't you upset?!
Nobara: I'm the one that started it! ^_^
Inuyasha: -_-+ ......
Nobara: *dancing around the kitchen door* It's burning! It's burning! It's burning burning burning!!
Inuyasha: o.o You're kinda creepy
Nobara: Thank you!
Narrator: Tune in next time when you hear Kilala say...
Kilala: Hey big man lemme hold dollar!