[Disclaimer: Inuyasha is indeed divine, but alas it is not mine.]
"Do not fail me, tanuki. You will die anyway, of course, but if you complete the job this time, you will die quickly and relatively painlessly." The raccoon backed nervously out of the room, transformed into a certain demon lord, and took off for a remote place in some Japanese forest.
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"So Kagome, how did things go with your mother?" asked Sango the next day as they were on their way again. Kagome smiled and gave the full account of the talk with her mother.
"I'm glad things worked out, Kagome," said Miroku from ahead with Inuyasha. He would have continued smiling had he not been bowled over from behind by a white blur. Kagome shrieked as she was whisked away in the arms of a Sesshoumaru impersonator.
"Sesshoumaru, bring her back here you bastard!" Inuyasha leapt into the air after who he believed to be his brother. He was kicked to the ground by the imposter, who quickly fled, taking Kagome with him.
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"Sesshoumaru!" yelled Kagome. "You PROMISED! You promised us you wouldn't take me away again! You promised you would leave us all alone! You PROMISED!" Hot tears began to pour from her eyes as she cried out her grievances.
"Inuyasha's going to be really mad at you! He'll kill you! He'll kill you and I won't care!" she found herself saying this, even though she knew it wasn't true. She knew she would care if Sesshoumaru died.
She'd care one hell of a lot.
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"Ah...Kagome...how nice to see you," said Naraku when the imposter and Kagome reached his castle. Kagome's eyes widened in shock and realization.
"You set the whole thing up, didn't you?" Naraku smiled an evil smile. "You...you..." she stepped a little towards him. "You scumbag!" she slapped the evil man across his face. He did nothing for a moment, face frozen. Then his eyes narrowed and his evil smile faded. He grabbed Kagome's arm roughly and threw her back at the imposter Sesshoumaru.
"Take her away. Now!" They backed out of the room, into the hall. The tanuki, still disguised as Sesshoumaru, took Kagome down the hall, into another part of the castle (hopefully out of earshot of Naraku).
"Higurashi Kagome, I am not Sesshoumaru," he said when they reached a room far at the other end of the castle. Kagome was, very plainly, CONFUSED. [Let me spell it for you...] "I am a tanuki hired by Naraku to impersonate the demon lord. I also was the one who disguised himself as Inuyasha and attacked Sesshoumaru while you were staying with him. I had no choice but to do these things, and so help me I'm determined to assist you now," he said. Kagome smiled.
"I know a way out, but you must continue carrying on like you were a moment ago," he said. Kagome nodded. "This is my plan..."
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"Hurry, Inuyasha!" called Sango. The hanyou didn't hear her as he leapt above the trees to chase after who he believed to be his brother. None of them had seen which way the tanuki carried Kagome, so instinctively Inuyasha headed west, where the castle was.
He flew like the wind and thought of nothing but various gruesome ways in which he could kill Sesshoumaru. It took all he had to keep himself under control and not rip apart everything he saw before him.
BAM. He rolled to a stop on the ground and punched the stuffings out of a tree. He was furious with himself. How could this have happened?! That bastard Sesshoumaru had almost fooled Inuyasha into thinking that he would keep his promise to stay away from Kagome. Still breathing hard, Inuyasha leapt off again in search of Sesshoumaru.
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"Sesshoumaru-sama, what is that noise?" asked Rin. Sesshoumaru looked up from what he was doing to listen to the noise of an approaching figure.
FLASHBACK
"Sayonara, Naraku, you bastard!!" yells the tanuki as he and Kagome escape Naraku's castle. The tanuki, still disguised as Sesshoumaru, is carrying an unconscious Kagome, presumably knocked out in the struggle to get out of the castle. He leaps from the ground as Kagura sends out her wind blades. She curses as they miss. Taking aim again, the wind sorceress unleashes another batch of the invisible blades. One strikes the tanuki on the shoulder.
He falters, but goes on.
ENDFLASHBACK
Sesshoumaru looked on in amazement as Kagome was carried onto his property by a dark-furred tanuki. [A/N: For the slower readers out there, apparently Sesshoumaru's and Naraku's castles are apparently fairly close to each other as opposed to Kaede's village; hence Inuyasha does not arrive first, even though he has been traveling longer. And yes, Sango and Miroku are following him. On with the story.]
"Kagome..." Sesshoumaru trailed off as the tanuki set down the unconscious girl and collapsed to his knees, holding his profusely bleeding shoulder. "Lord Sesshoumaru...I did not know where else to bring her...but I knew you would take care of her until...she can find...proper...help..." At least the raccoon died helping someone, ne?
Sesshoumaru was fairly unsure of what to do. He had promised that he would leave Kagome and Inuyasha alone for the rest of his life, but he had been entrusted with her care, at least for a short while. He had to see to her wounds, didn't he? Ah...the brilliance of loopholes.
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Kagome woke up a few hours later inside Sesshoumaru's castle. She was in the room she had lived in before, but her clothes had not been changed. There was a kimono neatly folded on a chair across the dimly-lit room in case she needed it, but her clothes had not been previously changed.
As she raised her hand to move some hair out of her eyes, Kagome noticed how carefully the wounds she had received from Kagura were bandaged. There were several large gashes on her left arm, one on her right shoulder, and a few in various places on both of her legs. But they were all cleaned up and bandaged. That was good.
The door opened and Rin entered. "Sesshoumaru-sama sent Rin to ask how you're doing," she said. Kagome smiled faintly.
"I'm better now."
"Good. Sesshoumaru-sama wants to speak to you. He sent Rin to ask if he could do that, also."
"Sure."
"OK!" she left the room and returned less than five minutes later with the demon lord in tow. She left the room, sliding the shoji shut behind her and going off in search of Jaken so they could play.
"Kagome..."
"Sesshoumaru, I...um...thank you for letting me stay here for the night."
"The night?" Sesshoumaru's face showed the slightest sings of disappointment.
"Well, I'm sure Inuyasha will come to get me," said Kagome quietly, staring at the floor. Sesshoumaru sat down next to her on the bed. Kagome continued speaking, quiet as ever. "And I'm sure that once I explain the situation to him, he won't kill you."
"...He will kill me someday, for whatever reason or other. It may be over you. It may not. I have no preference." Kagome looked at the inuyoukai. "But I do somehow hope that I die fighting over the one I love." He leaned forward a bit. "You are the one I love, Higurashi Kagome." A tear slid down Kagome's cheek as she came to grips with reality.
"Sesshoumaru, I...I love you too!" She burst into tears and leaned into his chest. Startled for a moment, Sesshoumaru put his one remaining arm around the sobbing girl.
[Oooooooooooh....In the immortal words of Kelso, "Burn!!!!!" How will Inuyasha react to all of this? Will he still rip Sesshoumaru's head off and piss down his throat? Will he still hang him in effigy and then hang him for real? Will he...enough of that. I'm going to get a butt-TON of work done on this today alone, and I have the next chapter planned. Get ready for this. It will be the BEST END TO THE BEST STORY I HAVE EVER WRITTEN EVER. It's a double chapter, the same chapter two ways (songfic and not, because I don't like it when they don't give you a choice about whether or not you want to be reading the song while you read the chapter). Plus, there's going to be an epilogue chapter after that, telling about the baby and other various tidbits that I can't say without giving away the end of the story too soon. Ja ne, I suppose. Look me up on LiveJournal.com: electrokinetic]
"Do not fail me, tanuki. You will die anyway, of course, but if you complete the job this time, you will die quickly and relatively painlessly." The raccoon backed nervously out of the room, transformed into a certain demon lord, and took off for a remote place in some Japanese forest.
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"So Kagome, how did things go with your mother?" asked Sango the next day as they were on their way again. Kagome smiled and gave the full account of the talk with her mother.
"I'm glad things worked out, Kagome," said Miroku from ahead with Inuyasha. He would have continued smiling had he not been bowled over from behind by a white blur. Kagome shrieked as she was whisked away in the arms of a Sesshoumaru impersonator.
"Sesshoumaru, bring her back here you bastard!" Inuyasha leapt into the air after who he believed to be his brother. He was kicked to the ground by the imposter, who quickly fled, taking Kagome with him.
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"Sesshoumaru!" yelled Kagome. "You PROMISED! You promised us you wouldn't take me away again! You promised you would leave us all alone! You PROMISED!" Hot tears began to pour from her eyes as she cried out her grievances.
"Inuyasha's going to be really mad at you! He'll kill you! He'll kill you and I won't care!" she found herself saying this, even though she knew it wasn't true. She knew she would care if Sesshoumaru died.
She'd care one hell of a lot.
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"Ah...Kagome...how nice to see you," said Naraku when the imposter and Kagome reached his castle. Kagome's eyes widened in shock and realization.
"You set the whole thing up, didn't you?" Naraku smiled an evil smile. "You...you..." she stepped a little towards him. "You scumbag!" she slapped the evil man across his face. He did nothing for a moment, face frozen. Then his eyes narrowed and his evil smile faded. He grabbed Kagome's arm roughly and threw her back at the imposter Sesshoumaru.
"Take her away. Now!" They backed out of the room, into the hall. The tanuki, still disguised as Sesshoumaru, took Kagome down the hall, into another part of the castle (hopefully out of earshot of Naraku).
"Higurashi Kagome, I am not Sesshoumaru," he said when they reached a room far at the other end of the castle. Kagome was, very plainly, CONFUSED. [Let me spell it for you...] "I am a tanuki hired by Naraku to impersonate the demon lord. I also was the one who disguised himself as Inuyasha and attacked Sesshoumaru while you were staying with him. I had no choice but to do these things, and so help me I'm determined to assist you now," he said. Kagome smiled.
"I know a way out, but you must continue carrying on like you were a moment ago," he said. Kagome nodded. "This is my plan..."
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"Hurry, Inuyasha!" called Sango. The hanyou didn't hear her as he leapt above the trees to chase after who he believed to be his brother. None of them had seen which way the tanuki carried Kagome, so instinctively Inuyasha headed west, where the castle was.
He flew like the wind and thought of nothing but various gruesome ways in which he could kill Sesshoumaru. It took all he had to keep himself under control and not rip apart everything he saw before him.
BAM. He rolled to a stop on the ground and punched the stuffings out of a tree. He was furious with himself. How could this have happened?! That bastard Sesshoumaru had almost fooled Inuyasha into thinking that he would keep his promise to stay away from Kagome. Still breathing hard, Inuyasha leapt off again in search of Sesshoumaru.
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"Sesshoumaru-sama, what is that noise?" asked Rin. Sesshoumaru looked up from what he was doing to listen to the noise of an approaching figure.
FLASHBACK
"Sayonara, Naraku, you bastard!!" yells the tanuki as he and Kagome escape Naraku's castle. The tanuki, still disguised as Sesshoumaru, is carrying an unconscious Kagome, presumably knocked out in the struggle to get out of the castle. He leaps from the ground as Kagura sends out her wind blades. She curses as they miss. Taking aim again, the wind sorceress unleashes another batch of the invisible blades. One strikes the tanuki on the shoulder.
He falters, but goes on.
ENDFLASHBACK
Sesshoumaru looked on in amazement as Kagome was carried onto his property by a dark-furred tanuki. [A/N: For the slower readers out there, apparently Sesshoumaru's and Naraku's castles are apparently fairly close to each other as opposed to Kaede's village; hence Inuyasha does not arrive first, even though he has been traveling longer. And yes, Sango and Miroku are following him. On with the story.]
"Kagome..." Sesshoumaru trailed off as the tanuki set down the unconscious girl and collapsed to his knees, holding his profusely bleeding shoulder. "Lord Sesshoumaru...I did not know where else to bring her...but I knew you would take care of her until...she can find...proper...help..." At least the raccoon died helping someone, ne?
Sesshoumaru was fairly unsure of what to do. He had promised that he would leave Kagome and Inuyasha alone for the rest of his life, but he had been entrusted with her care, at least for a short while. He had to see to her wounds, didn't he? Ah...the brilliance of loopholes.
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Kagome woke up a few hours later inside Sesshoumaru's castle. She was in the room she had lived in before, but her clothes had not been changed. There was a kimono neatly folded on a chair across the dimly-lit room in case she needed it, but her clothes had not been previously changed.
As she raised her hand to move some hair out of her eyes, Kagome noticed how carefully the wounds she had received from Kagura were bandaged. There were several large gashes on her left arm, one on her right shoulder, and a few in various places on both of her legs. But they were all cleaned up and bandaged. That was good.
The door opened and Rin entered. "Sesshoumaru-sama sent Rin to ask how you're doing," she said. Kagome smiled faintly.
"I'm better now."
"Good. Sesshoumaru-sama wants to speak to you. He sent Rin to ask if he could do that, also."
"Sure."
"OK!" she left the room and returned less than five minutes later with the demon lord in tow. She left the room, sliding the shoji shut behind her and going off in search of Jaken so they could play.
"Kagome..."
"Sesshoumaru, I...um...thank you for letting me stay here for the night."
"The night?" Sesshoumaru's face showed the slightest sings of disappointment.
"Well, I'm sure Inuyasha will come to get me," said Kagome quietly, staring at the floor. Sesshoumaru sat down next to her on the bed. Kagome continued speaking, quiet as ever. "And I'm sure that once I explain the situation to him, he won't kill you."
"...He will kill me someday, for whatever reason or other. It may be over you. It may not. I have no preference." Kagome looked at the inuyoukai. "But I do somehow hope that I die fighting over the one I love." He leaned forward a bit. "You are the one I love, Higurashi Kagome." A tear slid down Kagome's cheek as she came to grips with reality.
"Sesshoumaru, I...I love you too!" She burst into tears and leaned into his chest. Startled for a moment, Sesshoumaru put his one remaining arm around the sobbing girl.
[Oooooooooooh....In the immortal words of Kelso, "Burn!!!!!" How will Inuyasha react to all of this? Will he still rip Sesshoumaru's head off and piss down his throat? Will he still hang him in effigy and then hang him for real? Will he...enough of that. I'm going to get a butt-TON of work done on this today alone, and I have the next chapter planned. Get ready for this. It will be the BEST END TO THE BEST STORY I HAVE EVER WRITTEN EVER. It's a double chapter, the same chapter two ways (songfic and not, because I don't like it when they don't give you a choice about whether or not you want to be reading the song while you read the chapter). Plus, there's going to be an epilogue chapter after that, telling about the baby and other various tidbits that I can't say without giving away the end of the story too soon. Ja ne, I suppose. Look me up on LiveJournal.com: electrokinetic]