(A/N) Sorry people, I haven't been able to update too much recently. Huh. Well, now I've gotten a bit more time. I'm really sorry, Its just its been crazy. We had about 5 hours of homework on the second day of school. I'm even more sleep deprived than I was last year ( it takes me an hour to get to school…so I have to wake up at around 5) And all these teachers are getting annoying, so this time it's a pretty long chappie, I hope you enjoy it. I'll send it in to fanfic once I proof read and add chappie reviews. enjoy
Disclaimer: I'm too tired to bother. I don't own the story or characters but I do own this plot that winds around the characters and story. Just don't sue. If you do, ILL sue fanfiction.net… just kidding, don't u think I should have a sense of humor? AHHHHHHHHHHH GET AWAY!!
Chapter Eleven : Healings and Dealings
Before: There is a village that had just been burned down and I would like to see if you can heal all of the survivors, then I would like to see if you have the power to bring back the dead."
"And I'm supposed to do that how?" Kagome= -__-;
"You are the guardian of life. Seeing how you restored my left arm by touch, you will know what to do."
"I will, will I? Why don't you just use Tenseiga?"
"This isn't for the mortals, it is to test your powers"
"And
I want to test them?"
"Will you cease pointless
chatter, we leave by dawn."
"That was more than 30 minutes ago."
"Then we're late"
Kagome: sigh
Sesshoumaru created one of his famous clouds, big enough for the two of them. He motioned for Kagome to step onto the cloud and stepped on it himself.
"So, what is this village called anyway?"
"It is the village of Munakuso."
"If it is the Village of Disgust, then why are we trying to save it? Seems pointless, lets just go back-" Kagome was about to turn around when Sesshoumaru grabbed her hand and forced her to face him.
"It is not described by the name. The only reason it is called Disgust is because every few years or so, at least the majority of the village will die under Disgusting circumstances. In this case, it is to be burned alive, and watching all of your beloved ones writhing in the flames."
"So, why don't they just leave?"
"Because a certain demon cast a spell so that all of its inhabitants and future inhabitants would remain to feel the terrible curse of this village. It is like there is a barrier around the village and all those who have lived there all their lives are not allowed to cross it."
"Well, wouldn't they all just die then?"
"No, for each time the catastrophe, manages to wipe out a little more than half of the inhabitants. The rest cannot give up hope that one day the spell shall lift, so they live peacefully until the deaths come" Kagome remained silent for a while so Sesshoumaru looked at her. She was staring at the passing clouds with tears in her eyes. 'Why does she cry for something that has already happened and that will forever happen? It was the foolishness of the mortals who dared defy the demon that owned them.' "Why do you shed tears for those you do not know?"
"I may be a demon, but my heart I fear, is still rather human, I can't bear to see my kind, so-"
"It is their own fault." He tilted her downcast chin up to his own face. New tears glistened in her sky-blue depths. "If I had never told you of this village, would your tears still be there? If I hadn't told you of this village's past, would you have felt sorrow for their idiocy? No. So stop being so sentimental about those who don't give a damn about YOU."
"That is the difference between humans and demon. Humans care about themselves, yes. Humans care about only those who they like. Yes. But there are also humans who care about everyone else. Demons." She said with disgust. "Demons, they're all the same. Selfish beings that care for themselves, their mates and their dominion." She looked away from Sesshoumaru. "Demons don't know anything about caring for their KIND."
'What? There is so much that you don't know about us'
"Kagome."
"…"
Sesshoumaru sighed; this was going to be a long day. Suddenly Kagome stiffened. "Sesshoumaru. Is this near Inuyasha's forest?"
Sesshoumaru winced when she said his half brothers name. "Yes, the village of Disgust is about one kilometer away from Inuyasha's forest and your previous village." (A/N for those people that don't know how to convert metric to English, one kilo is like 2.2 miles stupid science class and its metric… OH Mr. Keenan brainwashed us!!)
"Sesshoumaru no baka! Why didn't you tell me I could see my friends today, I would have gladly agreed to come here and heal all these poor people, though I'm not sure if I can bring back the dead."
"…" 'That's all it would have taken?' "I, Sesshoumaru will not bribe Tamishinoeien. But, now that you have mentioned it, your friends will be near and they will also see the change in you."
"Hmm. You're right Sesshoumaru, but they'll have to know sooner or later. Ya know, stick to Kagome, Tamishinoeien is such a mouthful. If you want to use my birth name, say Eien or something"
"Fine, any more conditions?" he voiced his annoyance.
"Nope."
"Good, because I don't agree."
Kagome twitched. She slowly turned to face him with a look that usually meant to Inuyasha that she was going to use the 'S' word. "Sesshoumaru… IF I TELL YOU TO CALL ME BY A CERTAIN NAME THEN USE IT OTHERWISE SITSITSITSIT!"
Sesshoumaru stared at her. He sat down. "Sit?" he cocked an eyebrow. "As you wish, this is such a better position"
Kagome blushed. 'Did I just tell him to sit? Why did I do that, it doesn't work for him, he doesn't have a rosary.' She sat down next to him.
"Even thought his may be more comfortable, I'm afraid I won't be able to sit much longer, neither can you, we are here."
~Inuyasha's Village in the Sealed Hut~
Inuyasha woke up slowly as he had regained most of his energy from the night before. Little shocks of electricity still drained some of his remaining power because he was sitting next to the wall. 'So this is why I didn't recover all of my energy yet' His vision was still blurry as he opened his eyes. Groaning, he blinked. The fuzziness slowly melted away to reveal the small hut with enchantments stuck to everything. A small pile of fresh kimonos remained to his right from the day before.
He heard footsteps outside. ' A young man's and an old hag's that are Miroku and Kaede, stupid traitors, how could they lock me up when Kagome is in danger. Well, can be in danger.' The footsteps neared. Groaning and gathering all of his energy he managed to lift himself off the ground. He winced under the pain. Then he remembered. He had charged at the opposite wall in order to try and escape. The magic threw him back, draining his energy. He had searched for a way to escape as the shocks drained all of his remaining energy and blackness took him.
Struggling to remain upright he heard the foolish monk and old miko enter the hut talking amiably. He glared at them. They looked at him, not shutting the shoji door. 'How stupid, if I manage to knock them out, I can escape and save Kagome if she is in trouble.'
"Up and about already Inuyasha? Ye alright?" Said Kaede.
A wind blew in from the opened shoji door. A familiar fragrance danced in the room. It taunted his nose dancing with his senses. His foggy brain tried to place it somewhere. Then it hit him. But no, it couldn't be. The scent was demon. It couldn't be. "Ka- Kagome?" He whispered as he charged the two traitors and practically flew out of the cage he was in. The cage that had an exit, which led to his freedom. And there he was. Relying on his senses and the wind that said that someone that had both a demon scent and Kagome's unique fragrance was nearby.
~At the Village of Disgust~
Kagome and Sesshoumaru stood up from the cloud thingy at the same time. (A/N if anyone knows what the cloud thingy is called, tell me other wise, I shall call it… hmm… kuraudo ichibutsu, which is basically 'Cloud Thing' clever aren't I?) The kuraudo ichibutsu disappeared the moment it wasn't needed. Kagome stared at the place where the kuraudo ichibutsu was.
"Wow you got to tell me how to make tha-" She turned to face Sesshoumaru who was staring at, *gasp*.
"What is th-"
"Was, Eien, was. That was the village."
"How? Why?"
"Don't you see Eien? Demons kill humans. Humans kill demons. Do you still believe that we demons fell no remorse for our kind? There are human slaughterers and there are demon hunters. How many demons have you killed with your own arrows? How many people did those demons kill? See, this is the irony of the great Kami-sama. It is all in balance."
"But, this." She gestured to the horrible seen. She nodded. "I will do all I can to save the survivors and even try to harness my power to bring back the dead. She winced as she turned to face the horrible seen. The place reeked of death.
Burning skeletons of houses glared at her. Their windows stared at her, flames still living on the inside, eating the flesh of the house. Biting into its wooden frames. Gaping holes that were once doors screamed out in terror. Pieces of the house, near the windows fell to the scorched ground as if they were tears.
Kagome felt a tug at her kimono. Snapping back into reality she faced the soot-covered face of a little girl. She was saying something. 'What is she saying her mouth moves but there is no noise. The world has gone silent.' Suddenly she winced as all of the sound came rushing back
"Where is my mommy? Pretty lady, do you know where she went; she was at home two days ago. That is when that happened. Where is she now? Where is she? Did you see her pretty lady"?
'The girl does not cry. Her mommy is gone, probably burned to death, doesn't she realize that?' "Mommy?" Kagome voiced out. "This village I've been here before."
"Kagome it is impossible." Said a familiar male voice. 'Who said it?' She faced the owner of the voice.
"Sesshoumaru? Sesshoumaru! I've been here before"
"No, it is impossible, you haven't left the castle for the past couple days and this village burned down two days ago."
Flames. There were flames inside the spheres.
"No, don't you understand. I've been here I've seen it. It happened before, I'm telling you.
A village was burning. Not one sign of life was left.
"There was a village… and spheres and there were mirrors. I know, I've seen it all before."
"Kagome, you're making no sense, what spheres?"
Flames. There were flames inside the spheres. A mirror. A village was burning. Not one sign of life was left. Kagome touched 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:
Kagome remembered her dream. They wouldn't understand. She'd seen what had happened.
"Did you see my mommy pretty lady? Do you know where she went?"
"Your mommy is here, she is alright."
"Where is she? Pretty lady, tell me where she is!"
Kagome faced the screaming houses. "I know what to do now" She gathered all of her strength and called to the screaming houses.
~Inuyasha~
'I know I smell her she can't be too far. But wait, what is that. I smell death. This place reeks of blood. There's been a slaughter! Kagome, where are you? Please don't tell me that she has died.' "Kagome! I'm coming. Hold on!" Inuyasha gathered his strength (just like Kagome did) and sped up following the scent of Kagome and Death.
~Kagome in Sesshoumaru's pov~
"I know what to do now," she whispered to no one in particular. The annoying little brat was facing her with a look of hope, still wondering where her dead mother could be. 'Stupid child. If your mother is dead then she is dead, she has gone to the other realm. If Kagome really does know what she is doing then you will have your mother back but right now she is no where.'
Sesshoumaru watched Kagome suddenly sprout wings and levitate about twenty feet off the ground 'Wings? Where did those come from?' She began to spin, rotating at such a speed that made Sesshoumaru become dizzy. Everything was going out of focus; the turning of Kagome and the stench of death began to weaken him. Suddenly she stopped and Sesshoumaru regained his strength. It was as if she had sucked it from him and had returned it once she stopped spinning.
The whole world went quiet as she stopped spinning. Suddenly a slow buzzing came out of nowhere. It grew louder and louder until Sesshoumaru's ears couldn't stand it anymore. Something exploded and it wasn't his ears. He winced and stared at Kagome. Some sort of purple energy that had streaks of blue was engulfing her. The blue seemed to eat up the purple until there was more of the blue than the purple. Another explosion was heard as all of this energy stopped doing anything and rushed at the village, which was twenty feet below it.
As the energy touched the scorched ground, flowers slowly began to grow and stopped when the energy passed it. The energy sped up as it reached the houses. The once burned wood materialized and filled the gaps. The windows were repaired and rocks appeared on the newly built roofs. The burned crops in the fields produced fresh fruit, vegetables and roots. The sick people that were mourning the dead blinked as their tears evaporated and they were all cleansed of their sins, broken limbs and diseases.
The houses, which had burned down with their inhabitants, rose up from the ground and its dead populace left their homes with dazed looks on their faces. The energy spiraled around the village statues rebuilding them to clear perfection and the fountains started squirting fresh water as the village well filled up with the clearest stream water imaginable.
The scent of death and blood evaporated leaving no trace that it was once there. The village was rebuilt richer than it was before. The girl with the once soot-covered face and ripped kimono ran up to her mother with a clean face and new silken kimono. Even the forest around the village grew in new refinery as the trees that were once cut down to serve as firewood regained their lives and stood up proudly.
But all that was expected. The girl was to heal the village after all. What had amazed Sesshoumaru was that she rebuilt all the dead things as well as the once living. She had rebuilt the houses and cleansed all the bad things in this village like the ashen water and the unskillfully made statues. But even more than that, she had broken the curse around the village. The barrier that had once been visible to demon through its unique scent had disappeared.
Sesshoumaru stared at his betrothed. She was wonderful. But what had caught his eye was that she was no longer levitating above the ground. The wings that once allowed her to fly disappeared and she was left with nothing to support her. She dropped to the earth below.
Sesshoumaru leapt up to catch her before she fell to the ground. He held in his arms a very human Kagome. 'What was it that she had said before? Orange flames surrounding her. She was back to being a human. Had she had a vision rather than a dream? No, this was Eien. Maybe it was because she had lost all of her energy that she returned to her human form?' A breeze blew from the direction of the forest. "Inuyasha!"
~Inuyasha~
He had almost reached the village where he had smelled death and Kagome. Suddenly he heard a big explosion and another one. He lost consciousness for a moment. When Inuyasha woke up the moment after all traces of the smells of death and blood where gone. All he could smell was the human and wonderful scent of Kagome. 'So she is still safe' then another recognizable scent tingled in his nose. "Sesshoumaru!"
He quickened his pace. Suddenly the trees gave way to a terrible sight. A wonderfully built village was in the background. In front of it lay Kagome and holding her was Sesshoumaru. He saw him tense as a breeze sent his own scent to him. He said "Inuyasha!"
But Inuyasha wasn't worried about his brother right now. He was worried about Kagome.
"Ka- Kagome. What have you done with her Sesshoumaru!?!"
End of another chappie. It isn't terribly long, but I hope you'll find it longer than most of the previous ones. Okay, my creativity has leaked out, so now, I have no answer to all of your wonderful reviews... but, remember, PLEaSe R/R And b/c I'm really happy all of you took the time to review, I'm responding to each and everyone, even though the person sent more than one.
Sailor Neko- Yeah, I know Tamishinoeien is such a mouthful, that's why this chapter I made her tell Sesshy-chan to call her Eien. I mean, so you know how annoying it is to right that and still have the little red line under it indicating you spelled it wrong ( I 'added' it so that I know if I spelled it wrong or not.
Katzztar- Well if you looked at my previous translation, you'd see me naming the seven treasures and Jaken, well evil sight and evil point of view are basically the same thing, but I'm glad to know I'm not totally crazy and other people also look up these names ^.~
X-Girl4- You're not pathetic. At all. Fighting scenes are so hard to write, and compared to some of the stuff that I read they are simple describing a mouse and a pincushion. How that relates to anything, I don't know.
Dragon Rae- Thank you though if you look at previous answer, I don't know how nice the pincushion is.
nightkid- Well, you hoped and got it, I update the next few chappies
Suki1- I don't know how soon about two months is, but I updated.
Sailor Neko- Well, I went away for two months, not to Japan. But wherever I did go, I heard Japan is rather smelly and stuff right now, so I don't know how you'd like it there. ^.^ but I still want to go there some day.
Dianna - What is your definition of soon? I don't know, but its as soon as I could write it
skylab - Well, if you do put one of your own stories in, and especially if it is a Ses/Kag let me know and no doubt about it, I'll read it ASAP. (That goes for everyone)
Cursed Youkai - Thank you, though I'm afraid, I'm not exactly very talented::sigh::
dragonruler212- Nope, unfortunately, I never studied it. But I would really want to. I know a guy that is Chinese (not that it matters but it was easier for him because he already knew how to write some characters) that studied Chinese, Japanese and Korean, but I get most of the vocab from an online site I discovered.
SilverChild01- Hmm, I agree after all, it makes me go crazy. Wonderfully put. I suppose even gods need to go crazy sometimes as well… otherwise it wouldn't be fair for me to go crazy…. Okay, I'm getting confused.
Taiyoukai Lord Sesshoumaru- Well, hmm, if you are the Lord Sesshoumaru then why did you say 'he' shouldn't you say 'I'?
Taiyoukai Lord Sesshoumaru- Thx, oh, previous response, I'm not saying anything bad about ure penname, I think you might take it the wrong way, but, its just weird, ahhhhhhhhhhhhh, w/e ignore me right now.
Taiyoukai Lord Sesshoumaru- I don't know, what will he say, um…. Gotta think gotta think.
Taiyoukai Lord Sesshoumaru - ^.~ I just love little kids, they're so funny, okay, don't want to bother you, keep reading
Emm- Gotta remember to say desu, sorry, I learned that part from all of the stories I've been readings, thanks for telling me, don't apologize for helping, that's weird. Hmm… wait, now I'm being a hypocrite, I always say sry, for some stuff that I didn't do... oops.
Emm - Wow, you gotta fill me in on this stuff, I'm making a fool of myself in front of all that read it. Ahhh the shame, the embarrassment!
Kittymui- Thx for reading it, hope it isn't too bad I really like ures. It has a pretty good plot, ill r/r once I get my act together
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INUGIRL- I really hope you read it, because the earlier chappies are so OOC
Kittymui- Yeah, I am VERY busy with schoolwork, if you read the A/N on the top thx for reviewing like I said, I'll get to your story ASAP
Shinigami Clara- Are you laughing at me? Or at my poor writing skills or something, cuz, I know I suck. I know it is so OOC I reread the book so I can write more chappies (because I basically forgot most of the details during the summer) and I was surprised, so once I get a chance, Ill revise the whole thing. AND NO, he's, mine, cuz I'm writing the story not you and I say he's mine. *glares at lawyers* well, first he's Rumiko's then, if she doesn't want him, he'll be mine
AHHH, my fingers hurt, so much typing… okay
Ja ne