I have an important announcement! I'm changing my pen name to Kitsunehime! Why, because the name 'Black Princess' kinda got confused with the skin color black, and well . . . I dunno. Besides, foxes are my favorite animals! Muahahahahaha, all bow down to the Fox Princess!
Everyone: . . . *sweatdrop*
Kitsunehime: ^_^ Oh, and about all the disclaimers in the other chapters, I'll get around to fixing them later. Wait, never mind, I'll do it now. *closes out this chapter*
~Half an hour later~
Kitsunehime: Done! Now all I need to do is to change all the other things I have under 'Burakkuhime' . . . .
Surreal: Which would include . . . ?
Kitsunehime: Two necklaces and an account somewhere that I don't think can be changed. Did I mention that one of the necklaces has a grain of rice in it? And 'Burakkuhime' is written on that grain of rice?
Shippou: Wow! Lemme see!
Kitsunehime: Neat, isn't it? I got it in Washington.
Inuyasha: Keh. What's so great about it?
Kagome: The fact that some guy was able to write that on something as small as a grain of rice, that's what! How many people are able to do that!?
Kitsunehime: I tried. But I only succeeded in getting six letters down . . .
Miyu: Don't worry, I just tried it and I only got down one more than you.
Inuyasha: *yelling from a corner with a huge stash of rice* I can't even get one on!
Sesshoumaru: That is because you are uncoordinated. Give me that. *tries. And only gets two letters on* . . .
Rin: *gets one letter* . . . Maybe a surgeon can do it . . .
Lucivar: Mother Night! This is next to impossible! *half a letter*
Kitsunehime: -_- I told you so.
~an hour later~
Miroku: Aarrgghh! *attempts to stab his rice with a pen* Why can't they make the stupid rice grains bigger!?
Kitsunehime: Give it up already. Neither Inuyasha or the Black Jewels Trilogy is mine to boast of owning. That's why this is fanfiction and not a published work.
To Rule the Darkness
ch. 22 Locks and Idiots Don't Mix
Kohaku stared at her, shocked beyond all belief. "But her throat was slit! And you never said you saw her body move then!"
"Mother's demon-dead now, she must have started to move after we left! Come on!" For the second time that morning, Sango pulled someone down the corridor. This time though, she was the nervous one.
'Does she still remember us? Or does she hate us for leaving her body? Oh, Mother . . . . Mother!' Wracked with nerves, she raised a shaking hand to knock. Until a voice from the open doorway across the hall stopped her.
"If you're looking for Sakuya, she tried to leave earlier this morning."
Sango's and Kohaku's faces fell. 'She doesn't want to see us after all . . . '
Watching their faces fall, Inutaishou couldn't help letting out a small chuckle. "I said she only tried to leave, not that she actually succeeded. Here she is." He went back into his room to drag a protesting Sakuya out from where she was attempting to stuff herself under his bed. "What the hell is wrong with you, woman!? Why won't you even say hello to your own children?!" Inutaishou roared, becoming very pissed.
"I don't want them to see me like this!" She howled. "I'm dead! All they're seeing is an animated corpse!"
"Don't you think they know that?! They want to see you anyways! Being demon-dead doesn't change who you are, stupid woman!"
Outside, everyone stared. Even Fahleing opened her door to see what was happening. No one had ever seen Inutaishou this mad before.
"Be glad you can see your children! How do you think I felt, back when Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru were pleasure slaves!? And now, I don't care if they see me, dead! And you're trying to spare them pain, you're failing miserably! The longer you stay in here, the more you hurt them! Now GET OUT!" With one last bellow, Inutaishou shoved Sakuya out the door and right in front of Sango and Kohaku. Then he glared at everyone else.
Kagome sensed that he was, in a way, telling them to scram so the three had privacy, so she grabbed Souta by the back of his collar and went into her room, shutting the door. Koryu, who was right next to Shippou, wisely backed into the nearest open door, which was Fahleing's, along with the fox kit. Fahleing then backed inside after them and locked the door again. Miyu and Youko, being closest to the stairs, dashed down them to the library. Rin looked around for a second, then sprinted after them. Miroku found himself locked out of his own room, so he tried climbing out the window at the end of the hall and fell, yelling, "Ow!"
The only person left was Inuyasha, who was staring back at his father, not taking the hint. Kagome opened her door, reached out a hand, and yanked him in by his hair.
Satisfied that no one else was in the hall, Inutaishou turned around and entered his own room, leaving Sango, Kohaku, and Sakuya alone.
For what seemed like a very long time, no one spoke. The silence was only broken twice when Kagome's fat cat Buyo meowed and rolled down the stairs, landing at the bottom with an audible 'plop!' The second time was Miroku running around outside on the lawn yelling to be let in.
"Mother, why didn't you come back to tell us that you . . . are demon-dead?" Kohaku finally asked. "Why?"
Hesitating, Sakuya appeared unable to find the right words. "I . . . I . . . because . . . because Sango seemed able to take care of you and all . . . and I thought . . . "
"You thought you would only get in our way," Sango interjected sorrowfully. "I didn't do as well as you thought! I had to take on some nasty killing jobs just to find money! And the townsfolk shunned me for it! And don't say it was all because you thought I could manage on my own better!"
"I'm so sorry . . . but I really didn't want you to see me like this . . . " lifting her head slowly, she revealed the deep gash that still crossed her throat. "Don't tell me this doesn't disgust you!"
"Then what am I supposed to say?! It doesn't, not at all!" Sango yelled, her anger finally winning out. "Right, Kohaku?"
He shook his head. "No, it's just a little unsettling. After you get used to it . . . you kinda forget it's there . . . "
"See!" Sango continued. "We . . . " She was interrupted by a particularly loud cry of 'help!' from outside. Stomping over to the window, she stuck her head out and yelled right back. "Shut up down there! You stupid lecher, if you actually used your brain, you wouldn't have locked yourself out!" She slammed the window shut and stalked back to her mother and brother. "And that goes for you too, Mother! If you actually thought about it, you would've realized that we could never hate you, not for anything! If you had been a bad mother, we might have, but you weren't!" Kohaku stared at his sister's outburst and didn't say anything.
Sakuya was also shocked speechless for a moment. "I . . . I'm really sorry . . . . you're right, I should have used my brain . . . I sorry . . . I know there's really no excuse for not thinking for years . . . but is there any way you both can forgive me?" She didn't elaborate any further, but both heard the sincerity and sorrow in her voice. And also in her eyes.
"Of course!" Kohaku said, hugging her. Sango nodded, suddenly choked by emotion, and also threw her arms around Sakuya.
Once again, they were interrupted by the baka hentai outside. "Help! Someone let me in! And protect me from the angry Sango!"
Sakuya chuckled. "Well, come on then., Sango. Let's help your poor, stupid lover."
"He is NOT my lover!"
Kohaku grinned and tugged on his mother's sleeve and whispered in her ear. "They're not together yet, but me and Souta have been trying to set them up."
Whispering back, she replied, "Well, now you have help."
"What are you whispering about?!" Sango yelled from a little farther down the hall.
"Nothing, let's go help the poor idiot."
From outside, Miroku yelled again. "I am NOT an idiot!"
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Meanwhile~
Inside her room, Fahleing's ears were almost laid back flat to her skull. "Do they realize they're loud enough to hear through closed doors?" she complained.
"I doubt it," Koryu said from the closet where he hid himself in an attempt to muffle the noise. "How can the runt sleep with this noise?" 'The runt,' meaning Shippou, was fast asleep on Fahleing's bed.
After a couple more minutes of shouting and a yell from Miroku, Fahleing couldn't stand it anymore. She tried to lock herself in the bathroom, but it was locked. Listening through the door, it seemed that Kagome had locked Inuyasha in there for teaching Souta profanity. And shoving her head under a pillow didn't seem to work either.
Koryu heard her muttering through the closet door and opened it a crack. "If you won't take up too much space, I'll let you in here to."
"Taking up too much space my foot! It's my closet anyways," Fahleing muttered as she climbed in and shut the door. What she didn't know was that she shut it a little too hard, and they were now locked in. "It's much quieter in here," she commented.
"True. How long do you suppose they'll be at it?" Koryu asked, jabbing a thumb towards the door. Both of them had keen sight, and could see perfectly well in the dark.
"Who knows. I'm taking a nap. Don't spit on any of my kimonos or anything." Fahleing curled up on in her end of the closet and promptly fell asleep.
He watched her sleep for a while, telling himself that he was only doing so out of sheer boredom. And, out of his 'sheer boredom,' his thoughts began to wander.
'I'll admit, I like her much better when she's asleep. That way, she can't be such a pain in the ass. But she does smell nice . . . not like your usual bitch. Spicy and sweet. I wonder how much that scent would intensify if she were aroused? No, bad dog, BAD DOG! Don't you DARE even think of it!' Koryu slapped his forehead several times to get rid of the thought.
"Having fun there?" Fahleing said sarcastically. "I was trying to sleep, you know."
'Her hair shines in the light from the crack between the doors . . . it looks so soft. How would it feel between my fingers? How would it look all spread out on a silk pillow . . . BAD DOG! Got to get out before this drives me crazy!' he abruptly reached out to shove open the closet door, only to find it locked. "Kuso . . . It's locked!"
"What!?" Fahleing also tried the door. "Mother Night, no! I'm locked in a closet with one of the most annoying youkai in the Realm! Someone open the door!"
' . . . I take all that back. She's not attractive at all.' "Who're you calling annoying?! Speak for yourself!"
"You're annoying! And it doesn't help that you're also one of the most . . . " Fahleing suddenly slapped her hand over her mouth.
"One of the most what?" Koryu asked, still absentmindedly banging his fist against the closet door.
"Nothing!" Fahleing turned around and abstractedly began to draw patterns with her fingertips on the back wall. "Someone let us out!" she yelled again.
"Hey, anyone listening?! Let us out!" Koryu shouted, banging the door harder. "Hey, Shippou, wake up!"
"How can that runt sleep through all this!" Fahleing fumed. "And the door to my room's locked too, so we're going to be stuck in here for a long time."
"Oh great . . . "
Heh heh heh . . . so they're now locked in a closet together . . . How long shall I leave them in there? ^_^
birmah: How many chapters? Uh . . . . maybe somewhere around five . . . MAYBE.
Final Spirit: Part demon? Where'd I put that?
Ja!