Hello, again! It's the lovable author Wandering-Destiny72! Well, I think
that Kasumi is a good actress, playing the good and bad guy at the same
time. But, we never heard about her mysterious past. All we know is that
she is the Fourth Child of Naraku. Well, this chapter answers some
questions that you may have about Kasumi and the plot that is bruing
between Kagura and Naraku. Let's start the chapter!
Chapter Eleven
The castle was dark and gloomy. Night seemed to follow around it like a dark cloud. Naraku walked along the corridors silently, that creepy evil smirk of his plastered on his face. His robes flowed and dragged on the floor, mot even damaging in the slightest. Then, Naraku stopped in the room at his side. He slid open the door and chucked.
"Kagura, is everything ready?" naraku assked. Kagura, who was positioned at the window with Kanna, nodded.
"Yes, everything is all ready. We must now lure the bait out," the demon slyly replied. She motioned for her elder sister to go ahead, and in minutes, a picture of Kasumi appeared in the mirror. Kasumi smiled happily at her master and sisters.
"Good morning Master Naraku, Sister Kanna, and Sister Kagura. I am pleased to inform you that I have fooled Inuyasha and his gang that Kouga is the villain here, and they are eating out of the palm of my hand. I will kill tham all immediatly as soon as you give me the signal. Oh, and of course, I will steal the Jewel Shards from their dead bodies and Inuyasha's precious sword, the Tetsusaiga, and give them to you as presents."
"Very good, Kasumi. You are a very good girl, with a very sharp mind and a quick toungue. You are almost as devious and cunning as I do," Naraku smiled. Kasumi's face lit up with joy.
"Really, Master Naraku? Hearing that from you fills my heart up with joy."
Kagura looked at Kasumi, and noticed the bandages and band-aids all over her body. "Sister Kasumi, what in the world happened to you? You look horrible."
Kasumi looked down and curled up her fist in anger. "That damn wolf, Kouga. He fought me and beat me up, but I was fortunate enough to injure him more severly. Right now, he lays asleep in his bed."
"Alright, Kasumi, here is what I want you to do. Bring Inuyasha and his budddies back to the Fedual era and lead them to my current castle. Kagura, Kanna, and I will be waiting for you to arrive. Once you are there, a band of demons will surround the fortress. When they are too tired to defend themselves, we will make our appearence and kill them once and for all. They will not live a day longer than tomorrow," Naraku explained.
Kasumi nodded seriously. "Alright, Master Naraku. I will arrive no later than midday. Goodbye!" And with that, Kasumi disappeared from the mirror. Kanna's mirror turned back to normal and she sat there, her blank eyes looking at the walls. Kagura ignored her elder sister and turned to Naraku.
"Naraku, what shall we do after Kasumi has the Jewel Shards?" she asked evilly.
"We shall use her one weakness and destroy her. Then, the entire Jewel will be ours!" And with that, they laughed cruelly into the night.
Kasumi stood on the balcony of the girls' room. The morning breeze sent her short blue hair flying into the wind. Her eyes glowed emerald as she stared out into the beach. She saw a couple walking hand-in-hand together along the sand. The man lifted the woman and kissed her passionatly on the lips. She smiled and happily returned the kiss. Kasumi sighed.
"Love. I wish that was something that I had growing up back home," she said to herself.
"You didn't have any love? That sounds awful," came a voice behind her. Kasumi jumped as she realized it was only Inuyasha.
"Inuyasha, it's you. You scared the hell out of me," Kasumi took a deep breath. "How did you get in here without waking Kagome or Sango?"
Inuyasha shrugged. "I leaped over them, of course. What are ya doin' out here by yourself?"
"Thinking."
"About?"
Kasumi giggled. "I saw a couple down there kissing, and it made me wonder if love exists for all people, good or bad."
"Of course. Love is a very powerful thing. I mean, take me for example. I was an orphen half-breed that everyone hated and I was consitered a monster to humans and an underling to demons. But then, I met Kagome and everything changed. She accepts me for who I am and she doesn't care that I'm only half human. She loves me no matter what." Inuyasha felt sort of embarrased telling this to Kasumi, but it felt good to tell someone how he felt about his loved one.
"Inuyasha, do you think I'll ever find love?" Kasumi asked, as she got off the railing that she was leaning on and she got closer to the hanyou. His face turned pink as her chest pressed against his, which made him almost faint at the softess of her breasts. Her eyes were staring into his, and his vision began to get blurry. Her hands rested at his shoulders, so he was eye-level with Kasumi. He could feel her breath against his hot face and he felt the urge to do something, she was just so damn cute! She got closer and closer until...
The balcony door opened to show Miroku, rubbing his eyes sleepily. He saw Kasumi and Inuyasha together so close, and he gasped. "My, my, Inuyasha. You couldn't resist the fair and lovely Kasumi, could you?"
Inuyasha immediatly broke apart the gaze they had and stered at the monk, Kasumi still pressed against him. "What the heck does that mean? I haven't done anything to Kasumi, you pervert. It should really be you up here with her gettin' caught, not me."
"Oh really?" Then the door slid open wider to reveal Sango and Kagome, who must have woken up with all the talking outside. Sango gasped in surprise and Kagome just stared, wide-eyed in disbelief.
"Kagome, before you say anything, this isn't what it looks like. I didn't lay a finger on Kasumi, did I Miroku? She was the one who launched onto me like this." Before he had a chance to say anymore, Kagome opened her mouth to speak, and the words were not good ones for Inuyasha.
"Inuyasha--- SIT, SIT, SIT!" In a flash of white and black, he slammed onto the ground, Kasumi falling as well because she was still on him when he got sat. They were in an even more akward position.
After that moment, they all decided to take a walk along the beach, couple with couple. Since Kouga was still unconcious, Kasumi played as a third wheel to Miroku and Sango. They walked hand in hand like the couple earlier and Sango rested her head on Miroku's shoulder. Kasumi looked on them, quite interested.
"Um, Kasumi? You said somewthing earlier about love in your past. What was the past like for you?" Inuyasha called. Kasumi stopped dead in her tracks and turned with a sad look on her face. She took a deep breath and began to tell her tale.
"I never knew my parents. I spent all of my time as a wanderer, traveling from city to city, helping people whenever I could. I grew up in the darkness, shunnsed by everyone not bacause I was a monster or anything, but because I was so different. Even though I'm a telekanetic, I'm something else more than that, because all that stuff about being a demon was a lie."
"Then, what are you?" Sango asked. Kasumi shook her head.
"If I told you, then you would be in even more danger than you could ever imagine. All I can tell you is that I'm neither demon nor human. I guess I'm simply... me, Kasumi Kinomoto." Kasumi looked out into the ocean again, and watched the waves crash onto the shore. Kagome, Inuyasha, Sango, and Miroku all looked at each other with the same question in their eyes: What is Kasumi then?
After the walk on the beach, Kasumi decided to go back to the hotel. "I want to go rest for a while. Besides, playing the third wheel just isn't my style." She walked back to the hotel and went upstairs to their floor. But instesd of going to the girls' room, Kasumi entered the boys' room. Kouga was the only one there, and Kasumi smiled in happiness. She took out the mirror from her shirt pocket. She put the mirror by Kouga's mouth, and a white soul came out. Kouga groaned and tried to keep his soul from getting sucked away, but the mirror was too strong. As the soul got into the mirror, Kouga laid back down and fell into unconciosness again.
"Too bad. But don't worry, Kouga. You will be put to good use, I promise," Kasumi said.
Kagome laughed as she ran into the water, soaking her clothes, but it didn't matter. Inuyasha growled lovingly and tackeled her into the waves. He attempted to kiss her on the lips, but only succeeded in getting a mouthful of sea water in his mouth. Kagome laughed again and hugged the hanyou, pulling him down on the sand on top of her. She took her finger and traced his face, stopping at his lips and then kissing them passionatly. Sango and Miroku were doing the same and were kissing each other too. The couples were so into it, that only Kagome noticed a slight tugging at her body, and it wasn't coming from Inuyasha.
"What? Why do I sense Jewel Shards at a time like this?" she whispered. Inuyasha heard her and stopped playing with her and looked around. Miroku and Sango had noticed too, because they had stopped making out on the waster, and stood up. Kagome and Inuyasha did too and they began to look around.
"Kagome, are you sure that you sensed a Jewel Shard nearby? I don't even smell a demon anywhere," Inuyasha said to his girlfriend. She nodded determinedly.
"I'm sure. It feels like my body keeps being tugged in a direction somewhere, but I don't know where the sensation is coming from." Sango was looking around when she noticed a dark alley. A closked figure stood there with doll-like eyes just staring at her. The figure took out a clawed hand and motiened for her to follow. She didn't notice it, but Sango was walking in the direction of the mysterious demon.
Miroku ean after her, along with Inuyasha and Kagome. Miroku grabbed ahold of Sango's hand, and she snapped out of the daze she was in.
"Sango, what was that? Why did you just walk off like that?" Kagome asked. Sango shook her head.
"I saw a mysterious figure in a dark cloak in the shadows. He was calling me, urging me to follow him to wherever he was going. But something told me that I shouldn't follow him, or it would lead to danger...,"
"I don't like the sound of this. It sounds really fishy to me. Do you think that it could be a trap set by Naraku?" Miroku said.
"I agree with Miroku. But how could Naraku get here? He needs the Jewel Shards to get her with the well, and he doesn't know how to do that," Kagome said.
"But, maybe someone topld him. There's a traitor in the mist and I bet you it's that creep, Kouga. I bet he made some sort of a pact with Naraku and he thinks we're stupid enough to fall right into his trap without giving it some sort of thought," Inuyasha sneered.
"But why would Kouga make a deal with Naraku? You know he hates him and Kagura for slaughtering his men before," Kagome pointed out. "Besides, why would he harm me? You know that he has a crush on me."
"But, Naraku has the rest of the Jewel; Shards that we and he doesn't have. If he joins with Naraku, that greedy basard will only have to . fight us to get the entire Jewel," Inuyasha said in anger. "We should go back to the Fedual era. This is our best chance to get the whole Jewel and stop Naraku once and for all!"
"I agree with Inuyasha. Let's kill Naraku once and for all!" Miroku agreed. Sango and Kagome nodded. They all ran to catch the train to the Higuratchi Shrine. There they got their stuff and changed back to their regular clothes. Then, they went back outside to the well. But when they got there, they got a surpprise: Kasumi was there waiting. She had changed out of her old clothes and into a navy kimono embraded with white crysanthamums.
"Kasumi, what are you doing here?" Kagome asked the telekanetic. Kasumi smiled.
"I got a call from back home. I need to show you all somthing from the Fedual era. We need to hurry up; it's really important," Kasumi said as she grabbed Kagome's hand and swung her legs over the edge of the well. Kagome grabbed Miroku's hand, and he grabbed Sango's, who grabbed Inuyasha's. Kasumi jumped in, and the rest of the line came in after her.
Afterwards, they all climbed out top see the mid-summer sun. Kasumi spent no time admiring the perfect July day as she lead them into the forest. Inuyasha noticed that the sunlight became less and less visable until it was total nighttime. Then, Kasumi stopped at a great castle in the middle of the forest. She whistled loudly and then smirked.
"Kasumi, what was so urgent? I don't see any danger," Sango said. Kasumi laughed evilly.
"No danger for me, yes. But for you all unfortunatly," she snapped her fingers. "You have no time to spare." As soon as she stopped talking, a giant band of demons appeared, staring hungrily at them and growling nosily. Inuyasha, Kagome, Miroku, and Sango all stood in a small circle, all huddled up together.
"Damn!" they all cursed together. Then, Kasumi waved her hand down, and the band of demons ignored her and dived straight for the group.
"Brace yourselves, guys. We're in for one hell of a fight," Inuyasha said. The demons came to them, and then.....
To Be Continued....
Well, what a problem they are in. Oh, I hope you all liked that chapter. Well, Summer Love has three or four more chapters to go, so enjoy it. See you in Chappter Twelve. Bye for now!
-Wandering-Destiny72
Chapter Eleven
The castle was dark and gloomy. Night seemed to follow around it like a dark cloud. Naraku walked along the corridors silently, that creepy evil smirk of his plastered on his face. His robes flowed and dragged on the floor, mot even damaging in the slightest. Then, Naraku stopped in the room at his side. He slid open the door and chucked.
"Kagura, is everything ready?" naraku assked. Kagura, who was positioned at the window with Kanna, nodded.
"Yes, everything is all ready. We must now lure the bait out," the demon slyly replied. She motioned for her elder sister to go ahead, and in minutes, a picture of Kasumi appeared in the mirror. Kasumi smiled happily at her master and sisters.
"Good morning Master Naraku, Sister Kanna, and Sister Kagura. I am pleased to inform you that I have fooled Inuyasha and his gang that Kouga is the villain here, and they are eating out of the palm of my hand. I will kill tham all immediatly as soon as you give me the signal. Oh, and of course, I will steal the Jewel Shards from their dead bodies and Inuyasha's precious sword, the Tetsusaiga, and give them to you as presents."
"Very good, Kasumi. You are a very good girl, with a very sharp mind and a quick toungue. You are almost as devious and cunning as I do," Naraku smiled. Kasumi's face lit up with joy.
"Really, Master Naraku? Hearing that from you fills my heart up with joy."
Kagura looked at Kasumi, and noticed the bandages and band-aids all over her body. "Sister Kasumi, what in the world happened to you? You look horrible."
Kasumi looked down and curled up her fist in anger. "That damn wolf, Kouga. He fought me and beat me up, but I was fortunate enough to injure him more severly. Right now, he lays asleep in his bed."
"Alright, Kasumi, here is what I want you to do. Bring Inuyasha and his budddies back to the Fedual era and lead them to my current castle. Kagura, Kanna, and I will be waiting for you to arrive. Once you are there, a band of demons will surround the fortress. When they are too tired to defend themselves, we will make our appearence and kill them once and for all. They will not live a day longer than tomorrow," Naraku explained.
Kasumi nodded seriously. "Alright, Master Naraku. I will arrive no later than midday. Goodbye!" And with that, Kasumi disappeared from the mirror. Kanna's mirror turned back to normal and she sat there, her blank eyes looking at the walls. Kagura ignored her elder sister and turned to Naraku.
"Naraku, what shall we do after Kasumi has the Jewel Shards?" she asked evilly.
"We shall use her one weakness and destroy her. Then, the entire Jewel will be ours!" And with that, they laughed cruelly into the night.
Kasumi stood on the balcony of the girls' room. The morning breeze sent her short blue hair flying into the wind. Her eyes glowed emerald as she stared out into the beach. She saw a couple walking hand-in-hand together along the sand. The man lifted the woman and kissed her passionatly on the lips. She smiled and happily returned the kiss. Kasumi sighed.
"Love. I wish that was something that I had growing up back home," she said to herself.
"You didn't have any love? That sounds awful," came a voice behind her. Kasumi jumped as she realized it was only Inuyasha.
"Inuyasha, it's you. You scared the hell out of me," Kasumi took a deep breath. "How did you get in here without waking Kagome or Sango?"
Inuyasha shrugged. "I leaped over them, of course. What are ya doin' out here by yourself?"
"Thinking."
"About?"
Kasumi giggled. "I saw a couple down there kissing, and it made me wonder if love exists for all people, good or bad."
"Of course. Love is a very powerful thing. I mean, take me for example. I was an orphen half-breed that everyone hated and I was consitered a monster to humans and an underling to demons. But then, I met Kagome and everything changed. She accepts me for who I am and she doesn't care that I'm only half human. She loves me no matter what." Inuyasha felt sort of embarrased telling this to Kasumi, but it felt good to tell someone how he felt about his loved one.
"Inuyasha, do you think I'll ever find love?" Kasumi asked, as she got off the railing that she was leaning on and she got closer to the hanyou. His face turned pink as her chest pressed against his, which made him almost faint at the softess of her breasts. Her eyes were staring into his, and his vision began to get blurry. Her hands rested at his shoulders, so he was eye-level with Kasumi. He could feel her breath against his hot face and he felt the urge to do something, she was just so damn cute! She got closer and closer until...
The balcony door opened to show Miroku, rubbing his eyes sleepily. He saw Kasumi and Inuyasha together so close, and he gasped. "My, my, Inuyasha. You couldn't resist the fair and lovely Kasumi, could you?"
Inuyasha immediatly broke apart the gaze they had and stered at the monk, Kasumi still pressed against him. "What the heck does that mean? I haven't done anything to Kasumi, you pervert. It should really be you up here with her gettin' caught, not me."
"Oh really?" Then the door slid open wider to reveal Sango and Kagome, who must have woken up with all the talking outside. Sango gasped in surprise and Kagome just stared, wide-eyed in disbelief.
"Kagome, before you say anything, this isn't what it looks like. I didn't lay a finger on Kasumi, did I Miroku? She was the one who launched onto me like this." Before he had a chance to say anymore, Kagome opened her mouth to speak, and the words were not good ones for Inuyasha.
"Inuyasha--- SIT, SIT, SIT!" In a flash of white and black, he slammed onto the ground, Kasumi falling as well because she was still on him when he got sat. They were in an even more akward position.
After that moment, they all decided to take a walk along the beach, couple with couple. Since Kouga was still unconcious, Kasumi played as a third wheel to Miroku and Sango. They walked hand in hand like the couple earlier and Sango rested her head on Miroku's shoulder. Kasumi looked on them, quite interested.
"Um, Kasumi? You said somewthing earlier about love in your past. What was the past like for you?" Inuyasha called. Kasumi stopped dead in her tracks and turned with a sad look on her face. She took a deep breath and began to tell her tale.
"I never knew my parents. I spent all of my time as a wanderer, traveling from city to city, helping people whenever I could. I grew up in the darkness, shunnsed by everyone not bacause I was a monster or anything, but because I was so different. Even though I'm a telekanetic, I'm something else more than that, because all that stuff about being a demon was a lie."
"Then, what are you?" Sango asked. Kasumi shook her head.
"If I told you, then you would be in even more danger than you could ever imagine. All I can tell you is that I'm neither demon nor human. I guess I'm simply... me, Kasumi Kinomoto." Kasumi looked out into the ocean again, and watched the waves crash onto the shore. Kagome, Inuyasha, Sango, and Miroku all looked at each other with the same question in their eyes: What is Kasumi then?
After the walk on the beach, Kasumi decided to go back to the hotel. "I want to go rest for a while. Besides, playing the third wheel just isn't my style." She walked back to the hotel and went upstairs to their floor. But instesd of going to the girls' room, Kasumi entered the boys' room. Kouga was the only one there, and Kasumi smiled in happiness. She took out the mirror from her shirt pocket. She put the mirror by Kouga's mouth, and a white soul came out. Kouga groaned and tried to keep his soul from getting sucked away, but the mirror was too strong. As the soul got into the mirror, Kouga laid back down and fell into unconciosness again.
"Too bad. But don't worry, Kouga. You will be put to good use, I promise," Kasumi said.
Kagome laughed as she ran into the water, soaking her clothes, but it didn't matter. Inuyasha growled lovingly and tackeled her into the waves. He attempted to kiss her on the lips, but only succeeded in getting a mouthful of sea water in his mouth. Kagome laughed again and hugged the hanyou, pulling him down on the sand on top of her. She took her finger and traced his face, stopping at his lips and then kissing them passionatly. Sango and Miroku were doing the same and were kissing each other too. The couples were so into it, that only Kagome noticed a slight tugging at her body, and it wasn't coming from Inuyasha.
"What? Why do I sense Jewel Shards at a time like this?" she whispered. Inuyasha heard her and stopped playing with her and looked around. Miroku and Sango had noticed too, because they had stopped making out on the waster, and stood up. Kagome and Inuyasha did too and they began to look around.
"Kagome, are you sure that you sensed a Jewel Shard nearby? I don't even smell a demon anywhere," Inuyasha said to his girlfriend. She nodded determinedly.
"I'm sure. It feels like my body keeps being tugged in a direction somewhere, but I don't know where the sensation is coming from." Sango was looking around when she noticed a dark alley. A closked figure stood there with doll-like eyes just staring at her. The figure took out a clawed hand and motiened for her to follow. She didn't notice it, but Sango was walking in the direction of the mysterious demon.
Miroku ean after her, along with Inuyasha and Kagome. Miroku grabbed ahold of Sango's hand, and she snapped out of the daze she was in.
"Sango, what was that? Why did you just walk off like that?" Kagome asked. Sango shook her head.
"I saw a mysterious figure in a dark cloak in the shadows. He was calling me, urging me to follow him to wherever he was going. But something told me that I shouldn't follow him, or it would lead to danger...,"
"I don't like the sound of this. It sounds really fishy to me. Do you think that it could be a trap set by Naraku?" Miroku said.
"I agree with Miroku. But how could Naraku get here? He needs the Jewel Shards to get her with the well, and he doesn't know how to do that," Kagome said.
"But, maybe someone topld him. There's a traitor in the mist and I bet you it's that creep, Kouga. I bet he made some sort of a pact with Naraku and he thinks we're stupid enough to fall right into his trap without giving it some sort of thought," Inuyasha sneered.
"But why would Kouga make a deal with Naraku? You know he hates him and Kagura for slaughtering his men before," Kagome pointed out. "Besides, why would he harm me? You know that he has a crush on me."
"But, Naraku has the rest of the Jewel; Shards that we and he doesn't have. If he joins with Naraku, that greedy basard will only have to . fight us to get the entire Jewel," Inuyasha said in anger. "We should go back to the Fedual era. This is our best chance to get the whole Jewel and stop Naraku once and for all!"
"I agree with Inuyasha. Let's kill Naraku once and for all!" Miroku agreed. Sango and Kagome nodded. They all ran to catch the train to the Higuratchi Shrine. There they got their stuff and changed back to their regular clothes. Then, they went back outside to the well. But when they got there, they got a surpprise: Kasumi was there waiting. She had changed out of her old clothes and into a navy kimono embraded with white crysanthamums.
"Kasumi, what are you doing here?" Kagome asked the telekanetic. Kasumi smiled.
"I got a call from back home. I need to show you all somthing from the Fedual era. We need to hurry up; it's really important," Kasumi said as she grabbed Kagome's hand and swung her legs over the edge of the well. Kagome grabbed Miroku's hand, and he grabbed Sango's, who grabbed Inuyasha's. Kasumi jumped in, and the rest of the line came in after her.
Afterwards, they all climbed out top see the mid-summer sun. Kasumi spent no time admiring the perfect July day as she lead them into the forest. Inuyasha noticed that the sunlight became less and less visable until it was total nighttime. Then, Kasumi stopped at a great castle in the middle of the forest. She whistled loudly and then smirked.
"Kasumi, what was so urgent? I don't see any danger," Sango said. Kasumi laughed evilly.
"No danger for me, yes. But for you all unfortunatly," she snapped her fingers. "You have no time to spare." As soon as she stopped talking, a giant band of demons appeared, staring hungrily at them and growling nosily. Inuyasha, Kagome, Miroku, and Sango all stood in a small circle, all huddled up together.
"Damn!" they all cursed together. Then, Kasumi waved her hand down, and the band of demons ignored her and dived straight for the group.
"Brace yourselves, guys. We're in for one hell of a fight," Inuyasha said. The demons came to them, and then.....
To Be Continued....
Well, what a problem they are in. Oh, I hope you all liked that chapter. Well, Summer Love has three or four more chapters to go, so enjoy it. See you in Chappter Twelve. Bye for now!
-Wandering-Destiny72