The water sloshed over the tub's sides as the group stood with gaping
mouths, staring at the place where Kagome should have been.
"She's... gone," Kuwabara broke the silence.
"Kagome!" Inuyasha stumbled to the edge of the tub, hoping to find that she was really in there, but it was hopeless. He gazed into the swishing water, seeing a distorted reflection of himself, his golden eyes vibrant with anxiety and sorrow.
"What could have happened?" Sango asked the question that was laying heavily on everyone's mind.
"I... I don't know," Botan replied.
"Perhaps it was a portal," Kurama suggested.
"A portal in my bathtub! Cool!" Exclaimed Souta.
"You know, Kurama, that may well be true," Koenma remarked. "Botan, your communicator, please." He stuck out his hand as Botan fished around in her pocket for the communication mirror.
Kuwabara and Yusuke were absolutely dumbstruck - they hadn't heard the scream, being very side-tracked with the computer, so therefore had walked in later than the rest.
Kurama, who was standing next to Miroku, wondered about Inuyasha, whose shoulders were heaving. He really did seem to like that girl a lot, he thought. The room was silent, except for the hanyou's heavy breathing, and the tones from the communicator.
"Hello? Shippo? We need help concerning your usual line of duty..."
Two twin tears ran down Inuyasha's cheeks, plopping down, almost deafeningly, into the luke-warm bath water.
"Kagome... I will find you."
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Shippo almost jumped as his communicator buzzed in his pocket.
He quickly reached for it and brought it out, perspiration heavy on his brow under the hard gaze of Sesshoumaru. Please, he thought, don't let it be Koenma. Don't let it be Koenma. I can't afford to give Sesshoumaru the information he needs to make me help him... Whatever it is he needs help with.
The kitsune flipped it open. His stomach sank when he found himself looking at the face of Koenma.
"Hello? Shippo? We need help concerning your usual line of duty..." The young ruler drawled.
Shippo tried not to look over at Sesshoumaru, who he knew was looking and listening with keen interest.
"Koenma, sir, now is not a good time," Shippo whispered.
"Nonsense! Don't tell me what to do! This is incredibly important, and we can only afford the best!" Koenma stated rather loudly.
"Sir," Shippo was extremely worried now,"Now is NOT a good time. I don't think it would be wise to continue-"
"I TOLD you Shippo! Do not tell me what to do! Listen to me!"
"But sir-"
Sesshoumaru looked on in amusement. The fox demon was obviously tring not to reveal anything about his job to him, but it was useless, as Sesshoumaru had already done a lot of research on his background. Something disturbing caught both of their attention, however, but for different reasons.
"Kagome has disappeared, and we believe it's because of a disturbed portal - perhaps the one that she and Inuyasha often went through was merely misplaced...."
"Kagome is gone?! What?! I thought we shut down all the portals!" Shippo was now biting his nails, his thoughts turning to all the bad what-ifs concerning his friend.
"Kagome," Sesshoumaru thought aloud. "Isn't that the girl that my half brother carried around? And Inuyasha.... Going through a portal?" It made sense now, the way his idiotic brother had seemed to disappear off the face of the earth, and how everything just seemed to stop during that time. And that girl...
And then it dawned on him. The reason she had worn such strange clothes and talked so differently, and the way she was so... Well, she wasn't THAT different. But she usually smelled a lot better than people of that time period. So that's where he needed to go. To wherever this 'Kagome' lives. He smiled to himself, thinking about what a sinch it would be to finally get what he wanted. That is, if the portal was still working. He retrieved his laptop and started to search.
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Water pushed into her lungs as she struggled towards the surface. They burned, and that slowsly spread to her heart, her throat, her eyes... She gasped in what she hoped would be air, only to suck in more burning water. She tumbled around her eyes only seeing white hot bubbles as she struggled to what seemed the surface, but she couldn't figure which way was up or down, and her arms and legs were flailing madly. The edges of her vision started to black out completely, and she almost welcomed unconcsiousness, when two strong arms wrapped aound her waist...
"Kagome..." She faintly heard, her sight so blurry she could not not make out who was calling her.
Hiei was trying to get Kagome to wake up. "Kagome..." He called, trying not to sound desperate.
When they had plunged into the hot spring he had struggled to shore as quickly as possible - although he did quite hate water, swimming was still no problem for him, but apparently it had quite an affect on the girl lying below him. She was hardly breathing.
Finally her vision seemed to focus on him,"...Hiei?"
He was relieved. She would be alright, and he wouldn't have to worry about carrying her around aimlessly, wondering about their position [not that he would have a problem with any of those things].
"Where are we?" She quietly forced out. The apparition's form was fuzzy, but she could definitely recognize him as Hiei.
The fire demon was at a loss for that question. He looked up and around, only to find that they were surrounded by trees on all sides, grass cushioning the earth below them, and a dirt path leading off to one side. The sky was even stranger, however, as it was either a few hours earlier or many hours later, for the sky was blue and the sun rising to it's peak in the sky.
"I don't know," Was all Hiei could say.
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Well... erg. Sorry I'm a wee bit behind and messed up. Sooo much school crap. And I'm watching Adventures in Babysitting or whatever it's called... Cheese mania. Speaking of food.... Anyways, Review, porfavor. What do ya wanna see more of? Suggestions? R&R. Btw, read my new fic. Don't worry, it's not supposed to make sense. One of these days I need towrite an emotional fic... honestly. Anyways. Oh yes, this wouldn't be a complete without an apology for spelling errors [ect.] - so yeah :} there ya go, cuz I rarely edit my chapters. It's not fun to edit your own writing :p Oh well. Review review review pretty please! Pease?! Yaaay! Thankees to peeps who have already reviewed and like my story! Thankees.
"She's... gone," Kuwabara broke the silence.
"Kagome!" Inuyasha stumbled to the edge of the tub, hoping to find that she was really in there, but it was hopeless. He gazed into the swishing water, seeing a distorted reflection of himself, his golden eyes vibrant with anxiety and sorrow.
"What could have happened?" Sango asked the question that was laying heavily on everyone's mind.
"I... I don't know," Botan replied.
"Perhaps it was a portal," Kurama suggested.
"A portal in my bathtub! Cool!" Exclaimed Souta.
"You know, Kurama, that may well be true," Koenma remarked. "Botan, your communicator, please." He stuck out his hand as Botan fished around in her pocket for the communication mirror.
Kuwabara and Yusuke were absolutely dumbstruck - they hadn't heard the scream, being very side-tracked with the computer, so therefore had walked in later than the rest.
Kurama, who was standing next to Miroku, wondered about Inuyasha, whose shoulders were heaving. He really did seem to like that girl a lot, he thought. The room was silent, except for the hanyou's heavy breathing, and the tones from the communicator.
"Hello? Shippo? We need help concerning your usual line of duty..."
Two twin tears ran down Inuyasha's cheeks, plopping down, almost deafeningly, into the luke-warm bath water.
"Kagome... I will find you."
*******************
Shippo almost jumped as his communicator buzzed in his pocket.
He quickly reached for it and brought it out, perspiration heavy on his brow under the hard gaze of Sesshoumaru. Please, he thought, don't let it be Koenma. Don't let it be Koenma. I can't afford to give Sesshoumaru the information he needs to make me help him... Whatever it is he needs help with.
The kitsune flipped it open. His stomach sank when he found himself looking at the face of Koenma.
"Hello? Shippo? We need help concerning your usual line of duty..." The young ruler drawled.
Shippo tried not to look over at Sesshoumaru, who he knew was looking and listening with keen interest.
"Koenma, sir, now is not a good time," Shippo whispered.
"Nonsense! Don't tell me what to do! This is incredibly important, and we can only afford the best!" Koenma stated rather loudly.
"Sir," Shippo was extremely worried now,"Now is NOT a good time. I don't think it would be wise to continue-"
"I TOLD you Shippo! Do not tell me what to do! Listen to me!"
"But sir-"
Sesshoumaru looked on in amusement. The fox demon was obviously tring not to reveal anything about his job to him, but it was useless, as Sesshoumaru had already done a lot of research on his background. Something disturbing caught both of their attention, however, but for different reasons.
"Kagome has disappeared, and we believe it's because of a disturbed portal - perhaps the one that she and Inuyasha often went through was merely misplaced...."
"Kagome is gone?! What?! I thought we shut down all the portals!" Shippo was now biting his nails, his thoughts turning to all the bad what-ifs concerning his friend.
"Kagome," Sesshoumaru thought aloud. "Isn't that the girl that my half brother carried around? And Inuyasha.... Going through a portal?" It made sense now, the way his idiotic brother had seemed to disappear off the face of the earth, and how everything just seemed to stop during that time. And that girl...
And then it dawned on him. The reason she had worn such strange clothes and talked so differently, and the way she was so... Well, she wasn't THAT different. But she usually smelled a lot better than people of that time period. So that's where he needed to go. To wherever this 'Kagome' lives. He smiled to himself, thinking about what a sinch it would be to finally get what he wanted. That is, if the portal was still working. He retrieved his laptop and started to search.
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Water pushed into her lungs as she struggled towards the surface. They burned, and that slowsly spread to her heart, her throat, her eyes... She gasped in what she hoped would be air, only to suck in more burning water. She tumbled around her eyes only seeing white hot bubbles as she struggled to what seemed the surface, but she couldn't figure which way was up or down, and her arms and legs were flailing madly. The edges of her vision started to black out completely, and she almost welcomed unconcsiousness, when two strong arms wrapped aound her waist...
"Kagome..." She faintly heard, her sight so blurry she could not not make out who was calling her.
Hiei was trying to get Kagome to wake up. "Kagome..." He called, trying not to sound desperate.
When they had plunged into the hot spring he had struggled to shore as quickly as possible - although he did quite hate water, swimming was still no problem for him, but apparently it had quite an affect on the girl lying below him. She was hardly breathing.
Finally her vision seemed to focus on him,"...Hiei?"
He was relieved. She would be alright, and he wouldn't have to worry about carrying her around aimlessly, wondering about their position [not that he would have a problem with any of those things].
"Where are we?" She quietly forced out. The apparition's form was fuzzy, but she could definitely recognize him as Hiei.
The fire demon was at a loss for that question. He looked up and around, only to find that they were surrounded by trees on all sides, grass cushioning the earth below them, and a dirt path leading off to one side. The sky was even stranger, however, as it was either a few hours earlier or many hours later, for the sky was blue and the sun rising to it's peak in the sky.
"I don't know," Was all Hiei could say.
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Well... erg. Sorry I'm a wee bit behind and messed up. Sooo much school crap. And I'm watching Adventures in Babysitting or whatever it's called... Cheese mania. Speaking of food.... Anyways, Review, porfavor. What do ya wanna see more of? Suggestions? R&R. Btw, read my new fic. Don't worry, it's not supposed to make sense. One of these days I need towrite an emotional fic... honestly. Anyways. Oh yes, this wouldn't be a complete without an apology for spelling errors [ect.] - so yeah :} there ya go, cuz I rarely edit my chapters. It's not fun to edit your own writing :p Oh well. Review review review pretty please! Pease?! Yaaay! Thankees to peeps who have already reviewed and like my story! Thankees.