Kitsunehime: I'm Ba~ack! With a warning to all peoples: DO NOT eat the popcorn at Flume Gorge. It's tasteless! Ick . . .

Lucivar: Then why'd you get the stuff in the first place?

Kitsunehime: Because it was all yellow and buttery-looking! In fact, I bet they probably use food coloring! Well, if you like tasteless food, you can have it all. Maple sugar candy's the best though!

Shippou: Candy?! Where?! Gimme some!

Kitsunehime: Nope. I ate it all . . . . ^.^;; And the saddest thing is, I was deprived of internet, computer, tv, and staring at my desktop image! Waah!

Kagome: . . . Internet, computer, and tv I can understand, but your desktop?!

Kitsunehime: *nods* And all the songs I have saved on my computer, my door, my curtains . . . .

Kagome: Your desktop?!

Inuyasha: Your door?!

Jaenelle: Your curtains?!

Fahleing: What the hell?!

Rin: I don't think you really want to know . . .

Daemon: You're right, we don't.

Kitsunehime: Well, anyways, Mori no Kage has finally posted. It's called "Lykouleon's Wedding," listed under Dragon Knights. She's in desperate need of reviews.

Mori no Kage: Only one so far! Waah! *sniffle*

Kitsunehime: Hey, I gave you a review! And, there were mixed reactions to the first-person POV thingy, so I guess I'll just switch around to whatever fits at the time, ok? Oh, and I have volumes 11, 12, and 13. Does that count as ownership? I don't know, you tell me! And, thank you VERY MUCH to those who reviewed! It was great to get back and open up the mailbox to find those there! Arigatou gozaimasu!






To Rule the Darkness

ch. 21 Siblings and Similarities



"The High Priestess of the Shikon no Tama!" Souta exclaimed.

"Then what are we waiting for, come on!" Sango was out the door, pulling Souta along, in a flash. She reached the proper door, and knocked.

'She's my sister, she's my sister . . . I can't believe it!' he thought. 'What if she's not really my sister? What if she doesn't care? What if . . . '

The door opened . . .


Should I be really evil and give you a super-short cliffhanger chapter? Nah.


. . . And a super-fat cat flopped over on their feet.

'What if she ends up hating me? Wha . . . What the?! What's with the fat cat? It's heavy . . . '

"Buyo! What are you doing?" The person to whom the voice belonged to came into view. Picking up the fat cat, Kagome said, "Oh, good morning. Do you need help with something?"

"Are you really my sister?" Souta blurted out. Kagome looked at him in a confused way, then looked at Sango.

"He's not related to Kohaku and me," Sango explained. "His mother stumbled onto our house years ago with Souta. Before she died, she said that his sister was the High Priestess of the Shikon no Tama."

Souta looked at her pleadingly. When she didn't say anything, just staring, his face fell. "Let's go, Sango. Maybe Mother was wrong." He sounded so disappointed.

At that, Kagome started. "No, it's just that . . . Well, I never knew I had a brother. You see, the former High Priestess took me in for training when I was very little and I took over from her when she died. I barely even remember my mother's face. But are you sure she didn't mean the old High Priestess?"

Holding Souta back from leaving, Sango shook her head. "I don't think so. She was rather young, and, from what you've said, wasn't the old High Priestess . . . well, old?"

"True . . . Souta, is it? I guess we're siblings after all. I . . . I'm sorry if I'm not like a sister to you now, since we just met . . . but we can work on that later, ne?"

Happily, if a little doubtfully, Souta nodded.

"Trust me, kid. Older siblings aren't all that great," Inuyasha drawled, leaning against the wall outside his door.

It was clear that Souta admired him like a role model. "Why wouldn't they be?" he asked curiously. "Do you have one?"

"Yeah. You saw that bastard, Sesshoumaru before, right? That's him. I'm his younger half-brother."

"But you don't look that much alike," Souta observed.

Inuyasha shrugged. "Different mothers."

"Really? Are you also related to Youko, Miyu, Koryu, and Fahleing?" Sango questioned.

"Only Fahleing. She's a cousin on my mother's side. Koryu's Sesshoumaru's cousin on his mother's side. Youko and Miyu are kitsunes, not inu-youkai like the rest of us."

Coming up the stairs at that time, Fahleing heard it all. "Lovely, isn't it? How us canines seem to rule this place."

"Speaking of siblings, what happened to your sisters?" Inuyasha asked.

All of a sudden, it seemed like a dark cloud passed over her face. "Dead," she said shortly, forestalling any other questions by locking herself in her room.

Koryu and Rin, who just came out of their rooms, joined them out in the hallway. He looked at Fahleing's door for a moment. "She had sisters?"

Inuyasha nodded. "Half-sisters, actually. One older, one younger."

"She's never mentioned them before . . . " Kagome mused.

Inuyasha shrugged. "I hadn't even seen them since I was a pup. So they're dead . . . And most likely by Naraku's hand. He's done something to everyone here."

"Everyone?" Souta asked.

Rin smiled sadly. "Yes, everyone. Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru were enslaved by him many years ago. The previous High Priestess of the Shikon no Tama was killed by him. And I was most likely orphaned by him also, like Shippou."

Miyu, Youko, Kohaku, and Shippou joined them.

"Naraku killed my former partner, Kuronue," Youko growled out.

"He twisted and killed all the members of the Black Widow Coven I once belonged to," Miyu said sorrowfully. "And, what about you and your group?" she asked Sango.

"He killed Kohaku's and mine mother, and most likely was the cause of Souta's mother's death. And Miroku . . . "

"He cursed my grandfather with an ever-expanding, unseal able hole in his hand that was passed down to my father, then me," Miroku stated grimly, finally having recovered from Sango's beating.

This time, Kagome spoke up. "Inutaishou's sons, Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru, were enslaved. Sakuya was killed brutally in her own home, her body left for her children to find."

Now wide awake, unlike last night, pieces of the puzzle clicked together in Sango's brain. 'Sakuya . . . murdered brutally . . . home . . . for children to find . . . slit throat . . . blood everywhere . . . Mother!' "She's demon dead?! Oh, Kohaku, she's our mother!"






Hey look, more of a plot! Wow! Sorry about the second cliffhanger in a row . . . the thing is, I'm starving. ^.^ So, ready, set, REVIEW!

Mori no Kage: So, you're becoming a regular reviewer, eh?

Final Spirit: Ok. I'll check it out later.

Ja!