Oblivious
Chapter Four: Cheshire and the Banshee
By: Eartha
--Inu's POV--
"Mamome?!" I mumbled with a mouth full of dirt. She had sat me AGAIN!
Why?
I just didn't want her to go home. Is that so much to ask?
Well, there was someone in that well, and considering there are only two people who can work it, me and Kagome, it must be Kagome coming back to apologize.
Heh.
She obviously realized her mistake and has come to grovel at my feet in forgiveness.
Yep, that's what happened. Why else would she come back?
But, just to be sure, I sniffed the air. You could tell a lot about a person's mood just by what they smelled like.
::sniff::
Hey, that doesn't smell right.
::sniff, sniff:: ::sniff::
Since when does Kagome smell like Lavender?
Totally confused, I peeked over the rim of the well. Yes, I peeked. Have you ever been near Kagome when she is mad? Well, if you haven't, consider yourself lucky.
She likes to throw things.
Heavy, hurty things.
Like rocks...
Sharp objects...
And worst of all ::shudder::
...her Book bag.
When my eyes adjusted to the darkness of the well, I knew there was something wrong. Instead of large blue-grey eyes staring up at me, I was met by dark brown. Very confused, scared, dark brown eyes.
My eyes slid down further, taking in the creature's appearance: short, curly hair, olive skin, female, and wearing some type of outfit that looked similar to those worn by people on Kagome's 'teevee.'
This girl was not Kagome.
I brought my eyes up to look at her face, thoroughly prepared to question how the hell she'd gone through the well.
Her eyes caught with mine. Apparently she had been studying me as I was studying her.
Just as I opened my mouth to 'talk' to her, she screamed.
Not some girly scream of surprise.
No, that high-pitched sound would have been welcomed compared to the sound SHE made.
It sounded like a cross between a banshee and a very, very upset Sango after Miroku has been peeking at her while bathing.
In other words...pure torture to my sensitive ears.
As I was writhing on the forest floor in agony, my head having felt like it would split open any second...
It stopped.
Getting slowly to my feet, I thanked whatever kami that had come to my rescue. Slowly, with my hands over my ears, I peered into the well again.
At first I thought something had killed her. She lay perfectly still at the bottom of the well. Maybe Kami had seen it fit to rain lightening upon her?
But, at second glance I saw the rise and fall of her chest.
I guess that was too much to hope for.
She had fainted, totally oblivious to my presence.
Realizing that there was nothing I could do to find out what happened till she woke up, I jumped down the well and heaved her over my shoulder.
As I headed towards Kaede's village, a thought nagged me. When I jumped down the well to pick up the girl, why hadn't it sent me to the future?
But, as I had my hands full with the strange girl, I didn't put much thought into it. The well probably didn't let you through if there was someone on the bottom.
It was a reasonable assumption, don't you think?
Too bad it turned out to be wrong...
--Jean's POV—
I watched in rising fear as the strange creature (I had named him "Cheshire") looked at me from above. He seemed surprised by my appearance, carefully looking up and down my body as if I were as strange as he.
That's when I started to study him in return. He looked like some genetic experiment from the Spiderman comics.
Cheshire looked to be half cat with those pointy ears...or maybe it was half west highland terrier? I mean, his hair was white...true white. Not like your grandparent's pepper grey.
And for him, it looked natural.
His eyes were a bright golden color, impossible to obtain even through contacts. But his face was that of a boy a few years younger than myself, most likely late teens.
Even though I was still scared and confused, I started to relax just a bit. He didn't seem intent on harming me...
That was until he looked back into my eyes.
He looked angry.
Really, really angry.
That's when I did what any other self-respecting girl would do in such a bizarre situation.
I screamed bloody murder.
Miraculously, that seemed to make him leave...so I continued to scream, just in case he decided to return.
Unfortunately, one can only scream for so long before being deprived of oxygen. I held out as long as I could...then my vision turned black and I fell down in exhaustion.
I was just about to start again, when I heard a noise.
Staying perfectly still I waited for it to pass. If he was close enough to physically stop me from screaming, I wouldn't chance angering him again.
I was just about sure he had left, when I felt myself being lifted from my slumped position.
He had picked me up!!!
Oh God...
Ohgodohgodohgodohgod...I was hyperventilating in my head.
I felt wind whip past me, so I opened my eyes just a little bit to see where he was taking me.
The first thing I saw was a very cute butt.
Man...this guy must work out...
But, that thought was quickly lost to sheer panic when I realized we were several feet from the ground...flying.
We were flying through the air.
::hard, panicky, inner breath::
You see, if there is one thing I cannot stand, it's heights.
I have intense acrophobia.
So, you can imagine just what I did when I realized he was jumping from the very tops of trees.
I fainted.
And yet again, I was oblivious to the world.
A/N Zade Kay has been really supportive of me and my writing. So, thank you Zade for making me want to write again!! I hope everyone likes this new chapter. It was kinda short, but I thought it was funny. I'm still setting up the situation, but I think you can see where everything is headed. Till Next Time.
R&R Please!
Eartha