Disclaimer: I do not own Inu-yasha and company.
However I do own Esstel (and I won't ever borrow him, sorry but true).
Symbols are: "talking", 'thoughts', ***new place or time***
Chapter 3 On the way to Hell
Inu-yasha stared at Esstel long not knowing really what to think of this. He however remembered Kikyo. Kikyo who was now only a dead soul in a body made of earth and bone. Miroku now stood up hitting his head right after on the roof.
That gesture made Esstel stand up and he hit his head as well, but he was crouching a lot more than the two other. There was a long silence and during that time Kagome moved to Sango to make sure the body was still breathing.
Suddenly Miroku fell on his knees again almost defeated. He had been thinking about it. Was it really his place to say was it her time to die?
Inu-yasha looked at the monk and then returned this glare at the red haired man. Esstel looked at the monk. "why do you want to save her soul so much?" he asked with his dreamy voice.
Miroku looked up at the man who went back down on his knees. "'Cause" he fell silent for a moment. He glanced back at Sango. "'Cause I care about her. We all do!"
Esstel narrowed his eyes and then glanced at the hermit. The hermit didn't move or say anything. Then the man turned his green-and-red- eye toward Miroku again. "You are ready to go even to hell for her?" He looked at the others.
"We all are!" Kagome said strongly drawing the man's attention.
Miroku stared at the man and saw the black-clawed hand go tightly in a fist and the red-and-green colored eyes to close tightly. Was this red-haired man remembering something?
"Please" Shippo suddenly piped up running before Miroku and Inu-yasha to face the strange man. "If you are able, please help us!"
Esstel looked at the little kitsune with a lot softer eyes than before. It wasn't cause of Shippo, Miroku knew, but cause of something the man had just been thinking on.
"To bring her back I need a living soul with me" he said with a low dreamy voice. "Only that living soul can return her to life." He looked at the companions when they looked at each other.
Inu-yasha got down on his knees again and leaned closer when Kagome came nearer the others. "What does he mean by that?" she asked. "Get a soul with him down to hell?" The others were wondering as much as she was.
Miroku narrowed his eyes and turned for the man again. "Explain!"
Esstel straightened his back when hearing a little growl in the monk's voice. "I have the ability to help you" he said calmly. "What do you need to know?"
Kagome looked from between the two males with her. "You told us that you weren't allowed" she said. "Why you are suddenly willing to help?"
Esstel looked at Kagome. "I have broke rules many times before" he said still calmly even thought from his eyes you could see that he might blow up any minute now.
Kagome would have actually like to hear more, but Miroku stopped what ever she had to say. "I'll go to the hell" the monk said strongly. If it would have been Inu-yasha Kagome would have immediately said that she would go instead or was it anyone else, but she felt like it should be Miroku who should go. When Inu-yasha neither said anything she realised that he thought the same. Only Miroku should go after Sango.
"As you wish" Esstel said bowing his head slightly and putting his hand into his sleeves again. "You human soul is easier than a demons anyway."
Miroku glanced at Inu-yasha. Then he saw how the man stood up again being careful not to hit his head. Esstel walked toward the other companions reaching his hand out for Inu-yasha's hair. "What are you trying to do?" Inu-yasha demanded slapping the man's hand away.
"I need everyone's hair to keep contact with you" Esstel explained casually.
Kagome's eyes widened, but he whispered to Inu-yasha. "How could it d anything bad if you gave him some of your hair?"
"But." Inu-yasha piped looking at Kagome. Her look anyhow softened him. "Alright" he muttered and cut some of his hair. He handed it to Esstel who then reached for Kagome, but stopped.
The man looked back at the hanyo. "You are not a full demon?" he asked unbelievingly.
"Didn't you know?" Miroku asked on the other side of the man.
"Well. To me he looks just like a full demon, but. Oh well." Esstel reached for Kagome's black hair gently and cut some of the hair with his claw. He however didn't notice a jealous Inu-yasha on the side.
"I need also some of Sango's hair" he said and pointed on the body behind Inu-yasha and Kagome.
"What?" Miroku gasped.
"How do you know her name?" Kagome asked before Miroku had the chance. "We never told it!"
Esstel fell silent and his eyes narrowed again. "You sound just like her" he muttered trying to stand up but hitting his head instead. Yet again he cursed under his breath.
"Who?" Miroku asked demanding. "Don't tell me you know Sango!"
"I don't know her" Esstel said- "And the girl who I was talking about is not your business." Then he with out another word walked around Inu-yasha to get some hair from Sango. However Inu-yasha grabbed his wrist.
"How did you know her name?" the hanyo demanded growling.
Esstel stared at him with narrowed eyes until he answered "You told it trough your minds." Then he quickly pulled his hand free and cut some black hair from Sango's head. He did something to the hairs that the others didn't see. But when he opened his hand and turned it around they were hanging in the air with strand of his own hair that kept them separately. The red hair was between his fingers do the other hairs didn't fall on the ground.
Then Esstel reached for Miroku's hair. "Why do you need my hair?" the monk asked.
"Your soul comes with me, not your body" The man explained quickly cutting some of his hair. "And I need this to return you to your body."
Shippo who had been hiding all this time felt how his head was spinning. He understood nothing, but when he glanced at the others he realised that they didn't understand either.
"You can't stay here much longer" the hermit suddenly informed.
Esstel turned to look at the hermit and then at the fire. He had to hurry. "You must guard their bodies" he told Miroku's companions. "If nothing that can cause a death happens to the bodies they can't return."
Then he turned for Miroku and grabbed the monk's chin in his both hands. He leaned his face closer his but suddenly the monk jumped away. Esstel stared at him boringly seemingly used with the reaction.
"I might have let you kiss me if you would be a beautiful lady, but a man" Miroku exclaimed hitting his head on the roof more than often.
"You are just like him" Esstel muttered, but all could hear it. N one actually understood what he was talking about. "I wasn't going to kiss you. I'm straight, thank-you-very-much!"
Miroku calmed slightly down. "What were you trying to do then?"
Esstel sighed. "Hurry!" the hermit shout and the man glanced him quickly. Damn, he had little time to stay here anymore. He was here cause of the hermit's powers, not cause of his own.
"I tried to take your soul!" Esstel said now a bit angrily. "If you are willing to come with me then don't play around! I don't have much time!!"
Miroku calmed down and biting his lip he stepped closer again. Esstel grabbed his chin quickly leaning his head closer.
Kagome was almost sure that the man would kiss the monk anyway, but then suddenly Esstel didn't lean closer. The red-haired man had his mouth open. Miroku felt suddenly like some force would be opening his mouth and before he realised he felt like he was flying. Then it was dark.
Kagome and Inu-yasha looked with wide eyes when they saw something shining and round move from Miroku's mouth to Esstel's. then it was over and the monk's body fell limp in Esstel arms.
Kagome run to Miroku and Inu-yasha followed grabbing the body. They looked up at Esstel demanding for some answers and explanations but they saw something they could believe.
Esstel opened and closed his mouth and always when he opened it that shining round-shaped thing was still in his mouth.
Inu-yasha, Kagome and Shippo looked at Esstel their jaws open when the red- haired man stood on the fire place again and disappeared into red dust.
***outside after a moment***
Kirara was in his huge form laying down on the ground keeping both the bodies warm when Inu-yasha and Kagome saw on the side on a rock. The hermit was doing something in the cave and Shippo was staring in. The kitsune was staring at the fireplace.
They didn't know what they should do. They didn't understand even half of this. Could they simply move around and this Esstel would find them anyway or should they stare here? Was it Miroku's soul they saw in Esstel's mouth or what was it?
They were hopelessly sitting there wondering what was their part in this. Kagome leaned her head against Inu-yasha's shoulder. He was stunned and blushed furiously, but didn't move away. He let her lean on him.
What should they do?
A/N: On next chapter we mostly leave Inu-yasha and the others alone if I don't come up with something where I need them. We also get to the hell and Miroku will meet more of my characters.
Why wasn't Kikyo the one to take them to hell? Cause she is basically in the living world and she doesn't have the magic Esstel have.
To explain a little of Esstel (You'll find out more during the story as well), he's of a race called dreamers (or yesta that is a word I came up with). He has strange magical powers. He can read thoughts and eat souls, but don't fear. he didn't eat Miroku's soul. He can also carry them within him. More you'll find out of him later.
Also some of Esstel's friends will come into the picture in the next chapter.
I won't promise anything how quick the next chapter would come cause I might be stuck with the school again, but however long my absence might happen to be I won't forget these stories!
See ya!
Symbols are: "talking", 'thoughts', ***new place or time***
Chapter 3 On the way to Hell
Inu-yasha stared at Esstel long not knowing really what to think of this. He however remembered Kikyo. Kikyo who was now only a dead soul in a body made of earth and bone. Miroku now stood up hitting his head right after on the roof.
That gesture made Esstel stand up and he hit his head as well, but he was crouching a lot more than the two other. There was a long silence and during that time Kagome moved to Sango to make sure the body was still breathing.
Suddenly Miroku fell on his knees again almost defeated. He had been thinking about it. Was it really his place to say was it her time to die?
Inu-yasha looked at the monk and then returned this glare at the red haired man. Esstel looked at the monk. "why do you want to save her soul so much?" he asked with his dreamy voice.
Miroku looked up at the man who went back down on his knees. "'Cause" he fell silent for a moment. He glanced back at Sango. "'Cause I care about her. We all do!"
Esstel narrowed his eyes and then glanced at the hermit. The hermit didn't move or say anything. Then the man turned his green-and-red- eye toward Miroku again. "You are ready to go even to hell for her?" He looked at the others.
"We all are!" Kagome said strongly drawing the man's attention.
Miroku stared at the man and saw the black-clawed hand go tightly in a fist and the red-and-green colored eyes to close tightly. Was this red-haired man remembering something?
"Please" Shippo suddenly piped up running before Miroku and Inu-yasha to face the strange man. "If you are able, please help us!"
Esstel looked at the little kitsune with a lot softer eyes than before. It wasn't cause of Shippo, Miroku knew, but cause of something the man had just been thinking on.
"To bring her back I need a living soul with me" he said with a low dreamy voice. "Only that living soul can return her to life." He looked at the companions when they looked at each other.
Inu-yasha got down on his knees again and leaned closer when Kagome came nearer the others. "What does he mean by that?" she asked. "Get a soul with him down to hell?" The others were wondering as much as she was.
Miroku narrowed his eyes and turned for the man again. "Explain!"
Esstel straightened his back when hearing a little growl in the monk's voice. "I have the ability to help you" he said calmly. "What do you need to know?"
Kagome looked from between the two males with her. "You told us that you weren't allowed" she said. "Why you are suddenly willing to help?"
Esstel looked at Kagome. "I have broke rules many times before" he said still calmly even thought from his eyes you could see that he might blow up any minute now.
Kagome would have actually like to hear more, but Miroku stopped what ever she had to say. "I'll go to the hell" the monk said strongly. If it would have been Inu-yasha Kagome would have immediately said that she would go instead or was it anyone else, but she felt like it should be Miroku who should go. When Inu-yasha neither said anything she realised that he thought the same. Only Miroku should go after Sango.
"As you wish" Esstel said bowing his head slightly and putting his hand into his sleeves again. "You human soul is easier than a demons anyway."
Miroku glanced at Inu-yasha. Then he saw how the man stood up again being careful not to hit his head. Esstel walked toward the other companions reaching his hand out for Inu-yasha's hair. "What are you trying to do?" Inu-yasha demanded slapping the man's hand away.
"I need everyone's hair to keep contact with you" Esstel explained casually.
Kagome's eyes widened, but he whispered to Inu-yasha. "How could it d anything bad if you gave him some of your hair?"
"But." Inu-yasha piped looking at Kagome. Her look anyhow softened him. "Alright" he muttered and cut some of his hair. He handed it to Esstel who then reached for Kagome, but stopped.
The man looked back at the hanyo. "You are not a full demon?" he asked unbelievingly.
"Didn't you know?" Miroku asked on the other side of the man.
"Well. To me he looks just like a full demon, but. Oh well." Esstel reached for Kagome's black hair gently and cut some of the hair with his claw. He however didn't notice a jealous Inu-yasha on the side.
"I need also some of Sango's hair" he said and pointed on the body behind Inu-yasha and Kagome.
"What?" Miroku gasped.
"How do you know her name?" Kagome asked before Miroku had the chance. "We never told it!"
Esstel fell silent and his eyes narrowed again. "You sound just like her" he muttered trying to stand up but hitting his head instead. Yet again he cursed under his breath.
"Who?" Miroku asked demanding. "Don't tell me you know Sango!"
"I don't know her" Esstel said- "And the girl who I was talking about is not your business." Then he with out another word walked around Inu-yasha to get some hair from Sango. However Inu-yasha grabbed his wrist.
"How did you know her name?" the hanyo demanded growling.
Esstel stared at him with narrowed eyes until he answered "You told it trough your minds." Then he quickly pulled his hand free and cut some black hair from Sango's head. He did something to the hairs that the others didn't see. But when he opened his hand and turned it around they were hanging in the air with strand of his own hair that kept them separately. The red hair was between his fingers do the other hairs didn't fall on the ground.
Then Esstel reached for Miroku's hair. "Why do you need my hair?" the monk asked.
"Your soul comes with me, not your body" The man explained quickly cutting some of his hair. "And I need this to return you to your body."
Shippo who had been hiding all this time felt how his head was spinning. He understood nothing, but when he glanced at the others he realised that they didn't understand either.
"You can't stay here much longer" the hermit suddenly informed.
Esstel turned to look at the hermit and then at the fire. He had to hurry. "You must guard their bodies" he told Miroku's companions. "If nothing that can cause a death happens to the bodies they can't return."
Then he turned for Miroku and grabbed the monk's chin in his both hands. He leaned his face closer his but suddenly the monk jumped away. Esstel stared at him boringly seemingly used with the reaction.
"I might have let you kiss me if you would be a beautiful lady, but a man" Miroku exclaimed hitting his head on the roof more than often.
"You are just like him" Esstel muttered, but all could hear it. N one actually understood what he was talking about. "I wasn't going to kiss you. I'm straight, thank-you-very-much!"
Miroku calmed slightly down. "What were you trying to do then?"
Esstel sighed. "Hurry!" the hermit shout and the man glanced him quickly. Damn, he had little time to stay here anymore. He was here cause of the hermit's powers, not cause of his own.
"I tried to take your soul!" Esstel said now a bit angrily. "If you are willing to come with me then don't play around! I don't have much time!!"
Miroku calmed down and biting his lip he stepped closer again. Esstel grabbed his chin quickly leaning his head closer.
Kagome was almost sure that the man would kiss the monk anyway, but then suddenly Esstel didn't lean closer. The red-haired man had his mouth open. Miroku felt suddenly like some force would be opening his mouth and before he realised he felt like he was flying. Then it was dark.
Kagome and Inu-yasha looked with wide eyes when they saw something shining and round move from Miroku's mouth to Esstel's. then it was over and the monk's body fell limp in Esstel arms.
Kagome run to Miroku and Inu-yasha followed grabbing the body. They looked up at Esstel demanding for some answers and explanations but they saw something they could believe.
Esstel opened and closed his mouth and always when he opened it that shining round-shaped thing was still in his mouth.
Inu-yasha, Kagome and Shippo looked at Esstel their jaws open when the red- haired man stood on the fire place again and disappeared into red dust.
***outside after a moment***
Kirara was in his huge form laying down on the ground keeping both the bodies warm when Inu-yasha and Kagome saw on the side on a rock. The hermit was doing something in the cave and Shippo was staring in. The kitsune was staring at the fireplace.
They didn't know what they should do. They didn't understand even half of this. Could they simply move around and this Esstel would find them anyway or should they stare here? Was it Miroku's soul they saw in Esstel's mouth or what was it?
They were hopelessly sitting there wondering what was their part in this. Kagome leaned her head against Inu-yasha's shoulder. He was stunned and blushed furiously, but didn't move away. He let her lean on him.
What should they do?
A/N: On next chapter we mostly leave Inu-yasha and the others alone if I don't come up with something where I need them. We also get to the hell and Miroku will meet more of my characters.
Why wasn't Kikyo the one to take them to hell? Cause she is basically in the living world and she doesn't have the magic Esstel have.
To explain a little of Esstel (You'll find out more during the story as well), he's of a race called dreamers (or yesta that is a word I came up with). He has strange magical powers. He can read thoughts and eat souls, but don't fear. he didn't eat Miroku's soul. He can also carry them within him. More you'll find out of him later.
Also some of Esstel's friends will come into the picture in the next chapter.
I won't promise anything how quick the next chapter would come cause I might be stuck with the school again, but however long my absence might happen to be I won't forget these stories!
See ya!