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Miyu: *sweatdrop* Ok, you can stop gloating now.......
Youko: Yeah, that would be a really good idea........
Kitsunehime: I'm not gloating, I'm CELEBRATING! *takes a BIG swig of sugar-filled cappuccino and jams butter toffees in mouth* ^________^
Jaenelle: ......Do I know you?
Daemon: Sadly, you do.
Kitsunehime: ^___^
Inuyasha: Hey, look at this! *points* Her weird smiley faces are getting smaller and smaller!
Kagome: Wow, you're right.........
Kitsunehime: ^_^
Lucivar: Look! It's now normal-sized!
Rin: This is getting really, really weird........
Sesshoumaru: Beyond weird.........
Kitsunehime: ^.^
Shippou: The smile-thingy disappeared..........!
Kitsunehime: -.-
Marian: Ok, stop it! One minute you're happy, now you're getting depressing! Make up your mind already!
Kitsunehime: I'm so sorry! *sniffle*
Inutaishou: *looks at her suspiciously* What for?
Kitsunehime: I won't be able to update for a while! I'm going to be in Washington, D.C. for a week, and unless I can get my hands on a laptop to bring along...........
Titian: Yay! We finally get a break!
Sango: Can I kill Miroku while you're gone?
Miroku: What did I ever do to you? *hand starts to wander*
*bam!*
Sango: That's what, you lecher! Can I please kill him?
Kitsunehime: No, but you can kill Jaken all you want. *shoves the ugly little toad forwards*
Mori no Kage: *walks in* ........Now I can't tell, who has more chaos in their disclaimers, me, or you?
Kitsunehime: Who cares? While you're in here, do the disclaimer for me, will you?
Mori no Kage: ..........Bite me.
*pounce*
"OW!"
Saetan: Uh, Kitsunehime? I don't think she meant literally.........
Mori no Kage: Get off me! Ow!
Kitsunehime: *spit* You taste awful. Yuck. Me no own, you no sue, got that?
To Rule the Darkness
ch. 18 Evil?
Kagura wearily trudged down the stairs to fetch Kanna for Naraku. 'I am so sick of this. . . Why can't Naraku just let me go free? And what the hell's wrong with Kanna? She obeys him without question! She doesn't even talk!' "Kanna, Naraku wants you," she said brusquely and walked off to her own private little sanctuary.
She entered the aviary and closed the door softly, so as to not scare the birds. When she whistled, her favorite bird, a red-eyed, tan and gray osprey came to perch on her arm.
"Kazehime, did you eat any of the other birds in here again?" Kagura asked her bird, stroking it's throat feathers. "Next time, don't kill a whole family of them, alright? You do know that your kind usually eats fish." She watched as Kazehime began to preen herself. "Aren't you lucky, so carefree. I'm trapped, I have to obey Naraku. I want to escape, even though he's my father. But he wears the Jewel that is one level darker than mine." Kagura smiled weakly as the osprey played with the Red Jewel hanging off a fine chain on her neck. "I don't know how Kanna can obey without question. We're sisters, true, but we're almost nothing alike."
She stayed as long as she dared, but in the end, she had to leave reluctantly.
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Kanna slowly climbed the steps to Naraku's room. Contrary to her sister's thinking, she did not blindly obey her father. She just kept every one of her thought inside her head, unvoiced.
'I want to be free . . . Kagura at least gets to go on missions where she is away from him for a little while . . . I am kept, invisibly chained, by his side. And he keeps a spell on me so I cannot speak . . . '
She entered Naraku's room with dread, but not showing it. When he commanded her to scry for the Dark Court in her mirror, she did so with reluctance. She dared not show it though.
"What the hell is this, girl?" Naraku furiously slapped her. Kanna, struggling to maintain a blank face, saw that her mirror was still blank. It seemed that the Dark Court had special shields around it. She was unable to see them in her mirror.
Dismissed, she was strangely pleased that Naraku had been thwarted, even in something so trivial and at the cost of her pain.
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Sitting in the dark and watching rain fall outside, Naraku paced back and forth trying to think of a plan. 'Damn . . . most of the Realm is under my rule already, but how does the Western Lands resist all of my influence?! Even that troublesome Territory years ago . . . what was it called again? Kamiya! Yes, even Kamiya submitted eventually!' Hitting upon a plan, he opened his window and let one of his Saimyosho out, ordering it to send a demon to assassinate those of the Dark Court.
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Youko Kurama and Miyu Shiori took shelter in a cave to avoid the rain. She growled softly as she wrung out her hair.
"I hate being caught out in the rain . . . "
"We're so close it doesn't matter if we delay or not. So, would you rather sleep until this ends, or . . . " Youko pulled her close and nuzzled her neck tenderly. "Or pass the time this way?"
Purring, she reached up to rub his ears. "This way."
Er, sorry if this chapter seems a little rushed (I don't think it does . . . it's just short, that's all), it's because I wanted to get something up before I went to Washington . . . since I won't be updating for at least a week anyways . . .
And about the little scene I left off on, should I continue that, or skip ahead and write about something/someone else? Or another suggestion entirely?
dragon9: Actually, I don't know about that yet. Probably all of them though.
The Golden Snitch. No, you don't sound like a broken record.
Final Spirit: Er . . . it's kinda like how two or more people can have the same skills or strengths . . . I can't explain it very well . . .
sagara Misato: One question: I know you have an ff.net account, why didn't you sign on to send a review? And no, I won't forget the butter toffee.
Ja!