Hehehe, see, this chapter took a little out of me, um, my creativeness. Responses to reviews are on the bottom of this chapter. Sorry it took a while to respond, I kept forgetting… If I didn't respond to yours, um, wait till next chapter… yeah, just don't through anymore stuff at me, I'm running out of places to hide it, oh, and the tomato is starting to really stink.
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Chapter 7: A Bewildered Sesshoumaru
Kagome woke up to a pair of golden eyes. "GAHHH! HENT- SESSHOUMARU! YOU SHOULD KNOW BETTER THAN TO SCARE THE LIVING CRAP OUT OF A SLEEPING PERSON!"
Sesshoumaru blinked.
Kagome glared.
If not for the noises coming from a nearby room, they would have stayed in those positions 'till all hell broke loose.
Shippo. All thanks to Shippo.
Wanting to escape from her current predicament and position of staring at an amused Demon Lord, she made the racket into an excuse.
::Cough:: "Sesshoumaru, you will please, may I go check on the ::cough:: noise?"
Sesshoumaru smirked, "Check on what?"
"Noise."
"What?" he was clearly having fun at her expense.
"The noise."
"Speak up, wench"
"THE NOISE!"
He laughed. 'Such a big deal made out of nothing. What's so special about noise?' Sesshoumaru noticed her expression. 'The kit?'
"Hmmm, guess so."
::cough:: "Thank you"
'She doesn't remember? About the fuufuyakusoku? Nothing, maybe a visit to the library would jolt her memory, even by a bit. Strange though.'
~Shippo's Room~
There are about one thousand words to describe it, ONE THOUSAND WORDS. But, they all sum up to: A MESS.
"SHIPPO!!!!!" Kagome screamed at the top of her voice, making a nearby Sesshoumaru want to rip all the vocal cords out of her body. Instead of lowering himself to some sort of murderer, he calmly rubbed his long ears and watched as she lectured a pile of red hair, which was the kitsune, about keeping a clean room.
"Clean this up immediately!" she yelled. Kagome looked at the room, it looked strangely familiar, excluding the mess. There were several pictures hanging on the wall, at odd angles, several more lay on the floor. They were all of the castle's inhabitants, such as Sesshoumaru and Jaken, except a few that were of flowers. The bed looked like it hadn't been made (a/n I know, they had futons, but let's just say, Sesshoumaru invented them… hehehehe) for about six weeks and its sheets never changed. Various bits of clothing lay strewn all over the room and a girl's kimono hung from the back of a chair. Rin.
"Shippo? Did you steal Rin's stuff, that's not very nice you know!"
"I didn't watch, it's my greatest creation!" The little kit scrambled to the eastern wall and peeled off a piece of paper. Suddenly, the messy room vanished and a neat, boyishly green room took is place. "I don't know if the illusion will work for a very long time, but after that, she'll know what a boy is."
"She?" Kagome said with amusement tingeing her normal tone.
The kitsune coughed, "Ano, yes, ano, um, well, do you think it's good."
"The illusion works, but she?"
"Well, about that…"
"Shippo?" she said warning the kitsune.
"What do you care?"
Kagome shook her head 'I don't think I should worry about Rin, Shippo probably met her during her bad mood, and she doubtlessly did something… hmm, I wonder how it's going to turn out' she thought as she picked up her surrogate son, embracing him in a tight hug.
"Shippo", she whispered, "I don't approve of this, you know, but I think, if you wish to prank her, please do it after she's fully recovered, I don't want her loosing her voice while she's still at a rather critical stage in her cold, okay?" The kitsune nodded his acknowledgement and left his surrogate mother to deal with a smirking Demon Lord who obviously wanted her attention for some reason.
"Kagome, what do you know of yesterday?"
"Ne? Yesterday. Um. I remember…"
"Library?"
"Yes, um, library. RIGHT! I was reading some sort of book and then, after that nothing but a total blank."
"Hmm. Follow me."
"Um, okay." Sesshoumaru lead her to the library. He opened the door for her and then closed it. Her eyes widened. She would have fallen and fainted again if Sesshoumaru hadn't caught her, smirking once more as he heard her utter a word. "Fuufuyakusoku? EEP!" she literally shoved herself from his grasp by using her tail. "Fuufuyakusoku?"
He blinked once more, and then nodded. "It appears to be so." Then it was his eyes' turn to widen. He glared at her for a moment, walking toward her. "One second, I wonder." He traced the crescent moon on her forehead.
"What are you doing?" Kagome questioned him, silence by a burst of purple energy coming from her forehead. Sesshoumaru was swept off his feet and pushed into the nearest wall, which unfortunately, was the one with the doors. The doors cracked and produced a hole as the stubborn purple energy continued to push him into the hallway wall. He made a BIG dent in it.
Sesshoumaru shook his head and grimaced at the pain. He grinned at Kagome who was steadying herself which the close by desk. Giving up, she merely pushed the chair that was next to the desk and sat in it, with a dazed look on her face. "Why do I feel like I want to sleep?"
"It's not a wonder," Sesshoumaru said standing up, "You have hardly any more energy left, well, actually, you do, seeing as that was only one third of it. But, trust me, you're drained. Seems to me, you've gotten a lot stronger since last time, if I wasn't prepared, I'd probably have been a pile of smoldering ash, right about, there" he pointed. "Just like the ryuu-youkai"
"Dragon youkai? What dragon youkai"
Sesshoumaru just shook his head, "A distant memory (a/n is he a little ooc?) I just needed to make sure." He strode over to a more ancient bookshelf (the wood is ancient) and drew out a rather heavy book. "See, this proves it" He went to Kagome and placed the book on the desk. He pointed with a clawed finger, to a page.
The page was titled "Rulers of the Lands" he was pointing to a curious name. Tamishinoeien. Next to the name was written what the person owned. Kagome's eyes widened from their previous sleepy state. "Tamishinoeien owns… Issai no Rando? This person owns all of the land?"
"No, not this person, you"
"That is impossible! Even if I did, and I was this Tamishinoeien person, no one would believe me if I claim it."
"You don't seem to understand. Look at the name, Tamishinoeien. Does it not mean Life of Eternity? You are not here to rule life, you are its protector."
Kagome just yawned. "Whatever stunt you're pulling, stop yanking my chain."
"You are not bound by anything."
"No, stop the game right now, I'm not buying it."
His confusing expression told her to explain herself. "You don't need to buy anything, you own it already."
"AHHH! JUST STOP TRYING TO TRICK ME ALRIGHT?"
"Tamishinoeien, no one would dare trick you."
She waved her hand in front of his face. "Hello, any one in there? My name is Kagome, I am not this Tamishinoeien person, and I am certainly not betrothed to you!"
"You don't seem to understand your place. Being Tamishinoeien isn't a curse. You are indeed a gift. You are the greatest being in this world, and it is your duty to protect the whole concept of life. You are a kaminokudashitamoutamono (a/n such a long word, ne?). You are mine."
The last word stung worse than a surudoinaifu (a/n another Japanese word to enhance your vocabulary, I like these ^.^). It was the worst word in the world. Mine. It enraged her. Her previous blue eyes turned red, and then back to blue. She turned around to face the Taiyoukai, smiling a nikori (A/N if you want me to stop with these, better review and do so, hint hint).
"Let's say, for a moment, I AM here to protect life, does that mean that I am of equal station as you"
"Yes, if not higher. You are greatly respected by all demons, even though they do not know that the great Tamishinoeien has awoken." (VERI OOC? But, then again, he is very honorable, and wouldn't lie to someone apparently of a higher rank)
"Hmmm, then I can do this?" She slapped him VERY hard on the left cheek, leaving a big handprint to stand out and tarnish his formerly perfect face. "If I am of a high class, you will not address me as an object, I will say to whom I belong, after all, you didn't prove who I am yet and why I'm engaged to you! So just lay off!" the angry yasha left a dazed youkai in the library.
Once more he blinked, this time twice. His lip and left eye started twitching. 'That bitch, she's as stubborn as a usagiuma-youkai' He pressed his left hand to his cheek. "That really hurt, I wonder what I did to make her so angry. After all, according to my mother's diary, she's mine."
You didn't tell her you creep.
Who are you?
Your better side, go tell her, tomorrow
Why should I? I owe her nothing
Oh yes you do. You owe her an explanation.
So be it. Tomorrow.
~Kaede's Village~
"Inuyasha! There is no point in arguing, you gave Kagome your word!" a frustrated demon exterminator tried to explain to an even more so aggravated hanyou.
"But, what if she's in trouble?"
"Sesshoumaru's there! He'd protect her!"
"Can he protect her from himself? I know, something's wrong"
"Inuyasha, Sango, there is no point in your arguments. Both of you calm down, Kagome knows how to protect herself, and she'd be mad at you, Inuyasha for barging in on her vacation, she's only been gone three and a half days and would definitely not be in trouble at the moment. And, Sango, never rely on a sworn enemy, no matter his honor, he can't be trusted." The monk, Miroku said with, his wise words shocking both Sango and Inuyasha.
"When did you get so noble?" asked a confused Sango as she staring at the retreating Inuyasha's back.
"My dear, dear Sango, are you enlightened by my modest attempts to cease violence?"
"Modest my ketsunoana, you hentai- houshi!" a fidgety Sango said to a priest with a dazed look and a red handprint on his left cheek, similar to that of the Demon Lord, who was still wondering what was going on, back at his castle.
~That Night~
KAGOME'S DREAM
She was stuck. Well, not to anything, but she couldn't move. She blinked, immediately surrounded by some unearthly purple light. She was a human, once again. The color rapidly changed, from purple to white, to orange back to purple. She was a demon one again.
Eternity of Life. Eien no Tamishi. Tamishinoeien. Etern-Etern-Eterni-Eternit-Li-LifeEtern-O-Li-fEternity. The voice faded, replaced by two large golden spheres. Etern-Etern… the voice reappeared, this time in the background. The golden spheres changed into emerald eyes. The background of purple changed into black and she fell, as though a hole had appeared.
She stopped. The voice was back again. This time her surroundings were gray, with streaks of silver. The emerald eyes pierced her soul. They blinked, turning back into the golden spheres. Kagome moved toward them once she realized she could. She was right in front of the golden spheres. They grew in size becoming orange, then red, then golden once more. She peered in them.
Flames. There were flames inside the spheres. A mirror. A village was burning. Not one sign of life was left. Kagome toughed the spheres. She lost her balance and fell into them. Orange flames surrounding her. She was back to being a human. The golden spheres! They were there. She ran through the flames, toward her only escape. She never made it:
She took a deep breath. Glancing in her foe, the mirror, she saw something she was afraid to see. Her previously midnight eyes were glowing orange, like the spheres in her dream. She also noticed something else. Her hands were glowing orange too, not any kind of orange, but it felt as though she held flames.
Her bed sheets (a/n whatever you call them) were torn, no burned. From the corner of her glowing eyes, she saw something on the wall that almost made her faint. There, on the wall in front of her, was the name Tamishinoeien. It was written in the Taikotoba of the youkai. And she, herself had absentmindedly burned it into the wall. That really did mean something, other than the fact that Sesshoumaru would be furious.
LOTS OF MEANINGS, um, I'm not going to repeat the ones I already explained ^.^
Fuufuyakusoku- engagement, betrothed, marriage contract… etc.
Ryuu- Dragon
Rando- Land
Issai- Entire
No- Of
Kaminokudashitamoutamono- gift from the heavens, godly gift
Surudoinaifu- Very sharp knife
Nikori- sweet smile, sweet grin
Usagiuma- donkey, roba also means donkey
Ketsunoana- ass
Hentai- Pervert
Houshi- Buddhist Priest
ACK REVIEWS I'll try mai best:
Starting from Chapter One 0_=
Okay, I'll just do it by penname
Emme- I'm glad you like the story, Inuyasha's not acting like an ass YET, wait for the interesting parts to come up. And I know some people didn't like the Red Riding Hood Story, I just needed to show motherly love, and I've noticed that people just put in 'I'll read a bedtime story to you Rin', but I wanted to show it rather than say it. After all, Kagome just agreed to be her surrogate mother, there must be some sort of lovingness behind it all
Neko-Yasha- I've decided there is no way a lemon is going into my fic, I get disgusted by people that do write them, no offense to them, I never actually did want to write a real lemon, but what I am going to do, is focus more on romance then on… citrus.
Kai-19- I know, I've been warning people that it might start out as something they've seen before, but as I see it, the plot has to unfold, and the author (which is me *so proud*) has to find a way to make it w/o going into OOCNESS. And because, according to the original plot made by Rumiko Takahashi, they were never supposed to end up together, so there aren't many choices except the obvious, Rin and Kikyou.
Dragon Rae- I'm happy you like my story, nothing else to say, enjoy.
Doom-Muffin- As you can see, they aren't exactly friends, but, they will be eventually, after all, they're a couple of innocent children ::cough cough::
Suki- lol, you're enthusiastic, thx, I'm *glad* ya'like it, sry, I can't really say anything, I'm tired yawning and have no idea what to do with this tomato.
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Cleoclaudia- I like foreshadowing, makes the story a lot easier to read and when the mystery is uncovered, the reader enjoys the story a bit more.
Fawn-chan- Writing is easy, you just press some keys, knowing what to write when you are an uncreative shell, now that's when things get rough.
Dragonruler212- sorry Diana, I'm stealing your line but WOOT! No idea what I'm talking about? That makes two of us.
Ladyofthedragons- Yeah! Fluff is so much fun to write. Especially when it's a romance story ^.^ glad you like it ::has a vision of a fluffy tail, grabs it and doesn't let go. Fluffy-sama isn't too pleased about the death grip, shrinks away::
Aisha-Princess-of-Darknes- time no longer exists in this world, believe me I know, I have no time to write these chapters, what a gift summer vacation is, then again, I gotta clean that room, a find a freaken place for the tomato! I'm serious, it stinks, and my cat won't even go near it.
Lily1121- enjoy this far, enjoy thus far, it doesn't matter, enjoy, just as long as you don't fall asleep…::snores::
PasoLover- ack, Inuyasha, oh right, yeah, well, he gets pissed of, so maybe, you don't want to get caught I the middle of ::drumroll:: INUYASHA Vs. KAGOME take 23.
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SKYwalker-BLUE- The big question comes up : GRAMMAR I suck at it, you don't know HOW much. I mean, true story. I suck so bad at it, that my Social Studies teacher, Ms. Petersen, actually wrote on one of my reports that I really have to work on my grammar, she told me to buy some sort of grammar book and read it over the summer. (I still got a good grade on that report, she's a great teacher, if you know her… w/e, back to the review) I'm really sorry about my grammar, I come from a different country, and well, no matter how bad I am at it, (sigh, now I have to reveal something about myself, for some reason, I like to be mysterious) Russian IS my first language, and because of that, I will never have perfect English grammar, even though I speak English w/o a flaw, and Russian, well, it's not my fault, my grammar sucks there too… okay. ::takes deep breath, wow such a long review, and I'm not even done yet:: Okay. About Word… those green and red lines are so annoying, and they don't pick up the important stuff, so there is no way of knowing if I made a mistake, after all, I type and keep typing, whenever I have an idea, and b/c I have so many foreign words, the romanji Japanese is underlined either red or green, and it's really annoying. Just read the chapters, if you don't understand something email me, and I'll explain. EEP! I STILL HAVE MORE TO WRITE!!! Um, about the characters being stiff, its very hard to form a plot that was never supposed to happen, so I'm trying to make them as un-OOC as possible, which makes them too IN character, making them sound robotic, sorry, I'll try to proofread more often to work on these things.
Sailor Neko- I'm glad you understand my flimsy Japanese. I'm getting more acquainted with it, due to a romanji site. And, about Rin being and ahondara, she can't help being so weird with a high fever, she most likely thought she was imagining things when she saw a little red haired boy-girl coming out of nowhere. Oh, by the way, another word for 'airhead' is aapaa, but I don't want to use it because it also means 'dumb woman' while ahondara only means fool, oaf and airhead, I don't want to offend women, after all, I sort of am one right?