Disclaimer: Well folks let's have a look shall we. *pulls out dusty wallet and opens it looking inside grimly* only a few cobwebs you see, no Inuyasha. *smiles sweetly as lawyers tend to believe her story* oh my god!!! *reopens wallet stares at nonexistent contents then at lawyers and back at emptiness* I had money in here. *wails loudly before turning back at the lawyers who sit twiddling their thumbs and staring at their feet* you, you fiends you took all my money *runs after them screaming before looking over her shoulder* it's all right the story'll still go on I'll be right back anyway unlike some other people I can think of...
A/N: [FIRST OFF I wanna say that I am so sorry for the long wait. I was grounded from the computer again-bad grades- and my bro and sis had to work on some science project so even when I had a chance to sneak on they wouldn't let me :( so sorry bout all that but since you were so patient with me I'll have the next chapter up by tomorrow night. And sorry this one is so short it just wouldn't come out so I'll finish all the loose ends from this one in the next one.] well hope you all enjoyed that looooong chappie I don't think I'll be gettin another one out like that in a while. Idk why but when I wrote that one it started out really hard to even get a few pages but it picked up nicely don't you think but anyway this chapter is a lil roundabout lots of scene switches but if you pay close enough attention you'll get where I'm going I hope I got lost a few times lol and about the big push on san/mir fluff I wasn't gonna put it but I went over the ending a few times cuz I've got 2 ways I can end this it just depends on what I feel like doing when I write it but their relationship is kinda vital (jus think about it they have been together for a few years already kay) but I'll try and get them back on track ne ways well I g2g finish a book for school one of those boring ones they always make you read as if they wanna test and see how far you can get before you die of boredom but then again that could be their master plan you never kno... ne ways I'm off track but get on with the story and see what happens I gotta get outta here
Twisted Love
Chapter Eleven
Left In The Dark
Love has hidden itself
within your tired soul
a mere shadow of its earlier wealth
a twisted image of the lives you stole
and you would let me lie here
crying for your touch
my arms empty and my heart full of fear
lusting for the warmth that's held in such
I can only wait for you to turn
to see my face as itself is hidden
trying desperately if only to discern
why it waits for your love to acknowledge what is bidden
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Sango stirred against his chest, she hadn't heard a word he'd said. She tilted her gaze upward to look at him a timid hand rubbing the sleep from her eyes. He smiled shiftily looking out over the lands while pushing her off him gently. With one last look at the troubled sky and the seemingly endless expanses that were so easily seen they scaled down the ladder.
They saddled their horses slowly. It was midday and the troubled sky was growing darker. Neither of them wanted to get caught in the likely storm the sky had earlier foretold. Smiling at Miroku Sango hefted herself onto her horse and got off to a brisk trot. He followed at an equal pace as the sky above them raged in a bout of thunder. Its anger ravaged through the dark clouds and what was left of the diminishing light and yet the rain did not fall.
"I hope we get back before it starts." Sango voiced the obvious in an effort to rid her mind of the sense of foreboding that had crept up on her. It had been nipping at the edge of her conscience from the moment she'd found that Sesshoumaru had once again sent her off with Miroku. The first time it had been unexpected but a second time, well a second time seemed planned. In a way she worried that he knew about them but she couldn't let herself believe it. He wouldn't just send them off for random things on a whim he was too composed too restrained. But then why had he sent them off like this?
Unless...
"Miroku."
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Keade stiffened in her chair. She was sitting out on her small patio scrunched up in an old rocker. The air was cool and damp, probably not very good for her considering but the freshness of it had called her out early and now she sat listening to the sounds of the waking world. She'd been doing that for sometime when she'd heard it, a sound that didn't fit in with the usual calm of midday. The birds had gone silent and the rustle of the forest was gone.
A stony breeze tugged at a few loose strands of her hair and a distant urge pulled at her heart. Her hand fled to the round object concealed in the folds of her cloak. It emanated a flood of cool searing heat akin to a freezing burn. Something sinister was lurking nearby. Her hand tightening on the jewel, she stood, rising from the pleasant cushions of her chair and padded softly towards the edge of her house. It wasn't Naraku, she was sure of it. He had a different sense about him, a different aura. This was nothing like that, if possible it was worse.
A foul stench of evil slathered in the smooth silkiness of lies and shadows permeated the sharp cool air, their fingers reaching to take hold of her throat. She shivered absently, her hand still clutching the small bead. Whoever it was wanted it. And by the way the air rippled roughly about her they were serious. Her lips tightened into a grim line and her eyes chilled as she gazed out into the limitless world searching. Searching for an answer.
Again she heard the sound, soft and pungent like a booted foot crunching over rocks, or even the crisp rustle of decaying bones. Her face lurched to the side trying desperately to locate the source of this mass of negative energy that seethed about her. There was only emptiness and the dangerous feeling that someone was watching her, laughing at her inept attempts to identify her stalker.
A cold shiver ran down her crooked back like the icy fingers of winter filled with a gaunt hatred and the hairs on her neck stood on end. The silence shattered evenly on the edge of sharp sniggering laughter. It sliced through the air with steely perfection effectively ending what was left of the sun's warmth. Keade all but buckled at the knees when she heard the tone of that crisp laughter, the chilling trill of the owner's cruel voice. A voice she unmistakably recognized as her older sister's.
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A drop of cold water fell across his brow, awakening him to the rest of the world. He raised his head groggily his hand rushing to it as he felt a sharp pain on the crown of his head. It hurt abominably.
His vision was blurry as his eyes attempted to register his location. "What in the seven hells?" He voiced his apparent confusion upon finding himself in the middle of a clearing, alone in the soft drizzle of raindrops. Last thing he remembered was sitting on his bed reading an old book. He had no recollection of leaving his home nor coming here, but a faint worry loomed in his conscious. In his heart he feared he'd done something wrong. It was a strange feeling and one that had no justifications but all the same he felt it smoldering at the back of his mind, a dark premonition lurking in the shadows.
Shaking the feeling away he rose on quavering legs. For a moment the trees swung crazily in a haze of dizziness but he overcame it and managed balance himself. After a moment of regaining his composure he finally noticed the scent of his own clothing. Strangely enough though it wasn't at all unpleasant, it was nothing he'd ever had near him before. Taking a deep whiff of it he recognized something. Yes, the overbearing scent of youki. It flooded through the veins of all youkai even his own but this, this was stronger, more full, like that which would belong to a full youkai. Taking another whiff he about tore off his own haori realizing the scent was predominantly that of a female youkai. It was a sharp dangerous scent that stood out clearly against the soft undertone of pine.
"What have I done?" He voiced his thoughts aloud as his fists clenched into tight little balls, his nails digging deep into his skin as he struggled to remember the last few hours.
"Hmph. Don't remember, do you?" The gruff question reached his ears and he spun around to see the youkai sitting in the higher branches of an oak tree. Judging by his choice of clothing and the short glistening tail he was of the wolf type, strange he hadn't seen an ookami youkai in years. They were petty, weak youkai, annoying in their so called "quest" for power. Everyone knew they lusted after the Jewel of Four Souls, whatever that was.
Inuyasha rubbed his head absently his fingers running over a rough bump, usually he didn't like ookami youkai and made an obvious effort to disassociate himself from them but if this guy could tell him what happened he was willing to risk it.
"Who are you?" He questioned eventually, looking back at him. Blue eyes shone brightly a twinkling of laughter swaying in their depths as the wolf leaped down from his perch to address Inuyasha. He leaned against a tree trunk his arms crossing over his chest impassively.
"Koga." He said in the same childishly cryptic tone. "And you are?"
"Inuyasha." He replied.
A long drawn out silence spread between them until Koga eventually ventured to voice his thoughts."If you want to know what happened just tell me who she is."
Inuyasha stared at him quizzically for a moment thoroughly confused. The first thought was of the female scent that had mysteriously attached itself to his clothing, to his skin, to him. Could it be, did this inferior demon know of what took place? He looked around expecting to see a girl standing behind him, but there was nothing, nothing but the stillness of the clearing and the soft patters of rain on the dry earth. After a few more glances about the clearing it was apparent that whoever it was he wanted to know about wasn't here. Feeling rather foolish at being at best a dimwit he returned his gaze to the thin smile that now lined the wolf's face and admitted defeat; he needed this demon if he wanted to know what had happened.
"Who?" He managed to inquire his head twisting to the side in an effort to understand what was going on.
Koga shook his head and rolled his eyes dramatically making a wide gesture with his hand to the opposite edge of the clearing. A dreamy look crept over his face and his eyes shone with a suggestion of adulation. "Her," He tried again to explain the girl he was looking for. "The one that was here yesterday."
When Inuyasha gave no response besides a slow flicker of his ears Koga continued determined to make the baka understand him. "Long black hair, full and balanced, might I add, gorgeous figure, blue-black eyes, and if I remember correctly she was crying. I wonder why?" He added the last part with a tint of sarcasm.
Shaking his head realization dawned on the Inuyasha. This girl, she must be Kagome. But why had she been crying? He eyed the wolf closely unwilling to bare his concern for the girl or to confirm that he knew her lest the beast were liable to go after her. Perhaps he was being overprotective he reasoned with himself, besides he needed to know what had happened and if anything went wrong he could best this weakling in an instant. Shifting on his tired feet he eyed the ookami thoughtfully, he didn't seem to be much of a threat. Throwing caution to the winds, he decided to seek the wolf's help. Something had upset his love and if he could he would do anything to comfort her.
"Her name's Kagome. Now can you tell me, why was she crying?" He waited patiently as the wolf's look melted into an amused smirk, he tightened his arms about his chest and laughed piteously under his breath. "You must know, you wretched dog. The poor thing was crying because of you."
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The fire crackled merrily in the hearth and the hours faded away, one melting into the other as the night deepened yet he was unwilling to succumb to his weariness. He sat on the warming floor his tail lulling across his folded legs. His eyes reflected the dancing flames infinitely as his thoughts wondered over her. She'd taken the potion he was sure of it, but she hadn't left her room since then and by now it was pushing towards an early dawn.
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Kagome shifted uncomfortably in her bed. It was warm and soft but the soft patter of raindrops hitting her window were disturbing. Flipping her legs over the edge she straitened her clothes absently before rising to her feet and padding across the floor to her window. Pulling back the old tattered drapes she eyed the darkness pensively. She'd slept for so long for it to be night already. A whole day had passed her by. The rain spattered the cool glass in sharp succession relentless in its onslaught. She shivered lightly, coming to notice the chill in her quarters. On nights like this, her rooms were always cold like the rest of the rooms in the east wing.
Tugging at the band still holding her hair back she let her raven locks fall about her shoulders as she turned away from the window and let the drapes swish back into place. Sesshoumaru's room was in the west wing and it would be warm there closer to the fireplaces than the slaves' quarters. She traipsed surely out of her room and down the hallway only stopping when she reached the larger corridor that led to the regular house. She paused, leaning against the wall heavily. All of a sudden these feelings had just erupted inside of her. A pulsing constant yearning had been pulling at her the moment she'd woke. It was awkward to feel anything but hatred towards him but now she was in so slight of her mind she imagined falling over herself to please him. A strange thought indeed and yet so natural at the moment.
She shifted nervously wondering where this new found emotion had emerged. Certainly it hadn't just blossomed overnight. It hadn't just come over her that she wanted Sesshoumaru's affection. She couldn't think of a time she'd wanted anything more than this. But then, reflecting back on herself, her memories were blurred and she felt drunk as she struggled to recall something, anything that would have brought on such feelings.
Eventually she gave up in mild failure unable to get anything out of her musings. She stood and continued down the corridor in search of Sesshoumaru and warmer rooms.
She found him in the den a fire blazing warmly in the hearth, his tail curled around him and his hair pooled out over the scarlet rug. It didn't seem that he'd moved neither to look at her nor to have notice her from where she stood in the doorway. He could smell her, standing there, her soft scent rippling through the air carrying the full fragrance of water lilies in her wake. He'd listened to her soft footsteps as she made her way through the house. It was strange of her to be the one approaching him when he usually caused her nothing but trouble. Perhaps Naraku had been true to his word and the potion was taking affect. He hoped so. For so long he'd wasted away with a need to touch her and a want for her returned affection. It bothered him most that he'd denied these feelings for years and now when he had the chance to take his cause for yearning and hold her in his arms he couldn't even bring himself to face her. He'd cheated his way into her heart.
A small hand lighting on his shoulder brought him back from his reminiscing and he looked up into her eyes. She smiled nervously at his glance her cheeks flooding crimson.
AN: well I guess that's it for now *evil laugh* yeah I kno bad cliffy in a way even I wanted to finish but I've been lazy lately and I wanted ya'lls to at least get this much so if you look at it that way I was bein nice right? Ok so maybe not but hope you like it so far :D next chapter ::calm before the storm:: I think I'm gonna put a lot of kikyo naraku stuff in this one but I'll of course fit the rest of this one in there. Well Ciao mates an don forget 2 review...
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