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Anywho- chapter 3! Things are running right along ^_^ read and review and maybe I'll give you some ramen ;)
Note: if you're wondering about this story's rating (PG13) it's because of the language (vulgarities) and violence. Sorry if anyone out there wanted me to say this a little earlier ^^''
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Fate Gave Three
By Areine
Chapter 3: Not Your Knight in Shining Armor
Kaiya was staring dumbly. Her eyes were wide, one hand was clutched to her chest and the other was hanging by her side tightly as if looking for something to do. She was still staring down at the boy, her attention taken in alarmed rapture by that one golden eye staring so coldly at her. Seconds seemed like hours to her as she could hear her own heart beat in her head, her breathing quickly turning to fast and shallow as time ticked by.
It seemed as if nothing was going to ever happen between the two, and that they would forever remain locked together in that way, but the boy broke the aura around them when he opened his other eye (which was just as unnaturally colored as the first) and rose to his feet. Kaiya suddenly became aware that he was, in fact, not as young as she had first assumed. He was larger than her, taller, and that only frightened her even more as she took another step back.
'Do something… Do something… Do something… Do something…' Like a broken record player that thought was the one thing that kept passing through her head, but she was in too much of a state of shock to actually put that little plan into action. She couldn't help but notice, however, when the boy's mouth seemed to curl up as he bared a fang at her. 'Hold on… People don't have fangs! Get a grip!' In dismay her gaze traveled to the top of his head once more, where she saw that the two ears she had just tried to touched were pinned precisely in her direction. 'But people don't have ears like those either… At least they're not supposed to…' She felt like the baby sheep cowering in front of the big bad wolf, and even the fact that he was the one bound by the white 'string' didn't seem to comfort her at all.
"Who the hell are you, bitch?"
Normally Kaiya would have snapped at him for calling her 'bitch' (even Yukio didn't call her names… at least not to her face), but she was too distressed by the fact that this boy could actually form speech… He just didn't seem the type looking so, wild, and all…
"Oh my God… He can actually talk…" She murmured this quietly to herself, and was so even more surprised when the guy's ears seemed to narrow in on her very mouth and he scowled like she was the biggest idiot in the world.
"Of course baka! Now who the hell are you? Are you one of Naraku's little play things?"
"My name is Kaiya Yahweh… Anyway… uh… what… I mean-" She paused, trying to think of how to word her thoughts into tangible speech, "I'm wondering… Hey! Wait a second…" She felt her face heat up as she dropped both her arms stiffly to her side, hands clenched. "I am no one's play thing, jerk, and you don't have to be so rude to me! And- And I have no idea who this 'Naraku' guy is or even why you would think that! And… And… How dare you ask!"
The golden eyes that had been watching her closely seemed to drop to what she was wearing, and Kaiya felt herself looking down self consciously as well. "It's called a sundress and is completely acceptable-" When he gave her a look she added, "-where I'm from."
"You must be that bitch…"
"Ex-CUSE me?!" She pointed a finger at him accusingly, "Don't you get off calling me that… that word! And- And… Where did you get those ears?!"
Now it was the boy's turn to be self conscious as she watched the white ears flicker, then flatten themselves down to his skull. She wasn't really sure where that question had come from, she hadn't meant to say it, but since it was already asked she found herself wanting the answer quietly.
"I'm an inuyoukai wench! You should be used to us now, so keep talkin' like that and I'll rip you to pieces!" He was audibly growling now, which quite clearly exposed his fangs. To his pleasure he watched the girl shrink back from him further.
'W-What? Youkai aren't real… They're only in stories… but… Oh my God. I really am going insane… I… but… This is too real…' Her eyes were wide before she suddenly realized she was still being watched. She sneered at him, suddenly remembering, "Rip me to pieces? Well, I'm not the one all tied up in string… Now- who are you and what are you doing here? Well… where is 'here' anyway?"
"What the fuck, you can see the webbing?" He was staring at her as if she had just announced that she could fly.
"Of course, it's everywhere baka," She rolled her eyes and added jokingly, "What, you can't see it?"
He just stared at her longer, and under his scrutiny she felt her temper rising again.
"Well? You never told me who you were…"
"Inuronin, now, if you can honestly see this shit, do you think you could cut me out of it?" He said, throwing his name out as if knowing it would mean nothing to her.
"Hey hey hey, hold on, so your name is Inuronin?"
"Yes, bitch! Now can you-"
"Stop calling me that! I gave you my name, use it or I'll come up with something to call you!"
He sneered at her, "Well you are a bitch, now will you just cut this shit around me?"
Kaiya fumed, 'That… that… jerk!' …She sneered right back, "Okay, puppy, but how do I know you're not going to just attack me once I get you out?"
"Puppy? Bitch… Why the hell would I waste my time killing you anyway? You won't survive one day going on like you are anyway if you continue butting around in places you shouldn't be…" He trailed off, seeming to wait for her to respond.
Which, of course, as insulted as she was, she did.
"Excuse me! But I'm tough!" She blushed when 'Inuronin' raised an eyebrow at her and smirked. "And it's not like I wanted to 'butt in' here… I had dropped my ring down the well… And when I went to get it, I found this little jewel, and I was just looking at it when I had this feeling like… falling… And when I climbed back out I was here and…" The boy was quiet now, and he was watching her without making any sign of interruption. "Oh! My ring! I never got it!" She was turning around to go and find the well again, when…
"OI, BITCH! Can't you keep your attention focused for one minute!"
She blinked once or twice before turning around, "Oh… right… I have to let you go…" She said, making sure to sound disappointed.
"God you humans are pathetic… And don't touch any of that webbing you can see…"
Kaiya just nodded her head as if being told off by a parent before she went searching for something to cut that stuff. She used her feet to brush away leaves as she searched for maybe some sharp rock. As it seemed one wasn't going to make this easy for her and just show itself she decided to get some more answers out of him.
"So… How did you get all tied up anyway?"
"None of your damn business." Was the fast retort. The teen girl just scowled.
"Is that why you're in such a bad mood? How long have you been in here anyway?"
"Why would you care, bitch?"
"I'm just trying to start some decent conversation… And I said stop calling me that!"
Kaiya was huffing angrily as she crouched down, her back to him with her hands searching a new area of ground for something sharp. From behind her Inuronin grinned, choosing to egg her on.
"Call you what?"
"You know what I'm talking about! That word!"
"Actually, I don't. Would you enlighten me with what word that would be?"
"I'm not arguing with you!"
"You already are."
"AM NOT!" Kaiya barked at him, her head flung around angrily, and from where she was she could see quite clearly that he was laughing. Clenching her teeth she picked up a stick from the ground and hurled it at him, quite pleased with herself when it made contact with one of his ears.
"Hey! What the hell was that for!?" He snapped, his ear seeming to curl back and hide itself from her.
"I thought puppies liked to play with sticks?" She replied innocently before continuing her search, blocking out the current of curses and insults that were making their way to her ears. 'If he weren't such a jerk he would probably be cute.' She thought with amusement to herself, but before her thoughts could continue she suddenly felt a soft… pulsing?
"What was that…?" She whispered to herself, heading farther into the webbing than intended when she felt the pulse again.
"Hey, wench! Where do you think you're going!?"
She sighed, closing her eyes in irritation.
"I'm just going to check something out…" She called back, choosing to ignore his question of, 'When did I give you permission to do that?'
She wasn't very far when she felt her nose tingle and her stomach twist nauseatingly. 'What is that smell..?' She wondered to herself, bringing her hand up to try and defend herself from some of it. She stepped through more white vines (taking great care not to touch any as she remembered how sticky they were, and especially watching her long hair) when her eyes widened in fright.
There, in a little clearing, were skeletons and rotting bodies alike. But they did not look human.
She chose to ignore them. She determined she was hallucinating.
The pulsing was coming stronger and she looked up to see what appeared to be a rather clean boulder. 'Huh?' Bringing her gaze farther up she saw what looked like a handle. She raised an eyebrow. 'Who puts a handle on a rock…?' Walking forward, and taking great caution to not step on… anything… She inspected it closer to see that it was actually a sword or such embedded in the rock. 'And it has a pulse? What is it then?' She reached out her hand (still not using the one punctured by the jewel), and jerked back forcefully - expecting it to be very much stuck in the rock. But it came out quite easily, to her surprise.
She fell on her rump painfully, her free hand instinctively rubbing her tail bone as her other was holding a rusted sword. She smiled brightly to herself. 'Well, for once I'm having some good luck!'
The sword was obviously very old, as it was nicked and rusted all over. The handle seemed to actually be wrapped in some sort of cloth… 'The pulsing stopped.' She noted to herself, wondering where it had come from.
"BITCH! I DON'T HAVE ALL DAY!"
Kaiya stood, using the sword as a sword of staff as she stretched upwards.
"I'm coming back! Give me a minute!"
She decided to take her sweet, precious time.
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"What the HELL took you so long?" Inuronin snapped at her the second she was back.
Kaiya frowned, "Well, I felt this really weird… vibration? I guess you cou-"
"What the HELL is that?!"
Her frown deepened at being ignored. "It's the sword the-"
"Hold on… What did you say about a vibration?!"
"WOULD YOU SHUT UP FOR JUST ONE SECOND?!"
Golden eyes blinked at her before the boy just tossed his head, "Keh! Whatever."
She could see the way he kept looking at the sword though. He would stare at it long and hard, eyebrows furrowed together as he just watched it… glaring at it as if it had done something wrong… Inuronin failed to notice that Kaiya was watching him right back.
"Um… What are you staring at?"
His ears were the first thing to acknowledge her before his gaze was set on her face, now staring at her accusingly.
"Where did you get that?"
"I tried to tell you already that I had felt this like… vibration… or pulsing feeling coming from somewhere, that's why I went off. Then when I got there, there were all these really nasty dead bodies and I saw this sword like… slotted in the boulder so I went and pulled it out," she paused for a moment, "Funny thing though… When I pulled it out, all the weird vibrations and stuff stopped… Hey, what's with that look!? What did I do wrong now?"
Inuronin was glaring at her in disbelief. "KAIYA you BAKA! There were dead bodies around, a funny pulsing, and yet you still had to get the fuckin sword? What happens if it had been a trap? Did you ever wonder why there might be dead bodies everywhere? Do you have no sense of self preservation?!" He tossed his head dramatically, "Stupid girl!"
Kaiya fingered the blade guiltily, "Well, I couldn't find anything to cut you out of that stuff and… Wait…" She was suddenly smiling radiantly up at him.
Inuronin met her gaze, "What?"
"You used my name!" She chirped happily. 'Besides the fact that the rest of the babble coming from your mouth were complete and utter insults… But…'
"Keh! Like that means anything?"
Kaiya just smiled at him as if she had won some great victory. Inuronin mumbled something about crazy girls. Too much into the moment Kaiya walked forward and reached out, grabbing one of the white strings tied to him.
"Hey, what the hell are you doing?"
She blinked up at him, slightly confused. "I'm cutting you free…"
Inuronin just blinked and looked at her hands, where it looked to him as if she had just grabbed onto thin air.
Kaiya gasped.
"You- You can't see the string?"
The white haired boy just stared around him, before seeming to talk to himself, "It's webbing, and… No… I can't. You must really be whoever Naraku was talking about…"
Kaiya watched him for a few seconds, before searching for some more answers, hoping this time he would actually be helpful.
"Who is this Naraku? And what was he saying about me?" She asked as she brought the sword up to cut one of the vines.
Inuronin, however, was too caught up in watching her use the sword.
She sighed in exasperation. "I'm not going to hack your ear off or anything you know."
The only reply she got was that the boy flicked his ears back then flat, and let out a 'keh' while turning his head away from her.
Suddenly remembering she asked him softly, "Just wondering… when I threw that stick at you, I didn't really hurt you, did I?"
"Like some human could hurt me." He let out haughtily.
"Well excuse me for asking…" She mumbled, returning her attention back to cutting at the strings. It wasn't that difficult, but the 'webbing' as he kept calling it seemed to be made up of hundreds of different strings all put together.
"So… are you going to tell me who Naraku is or not?"
"You seriously don't even know who the hell he is?"
She was about to take this as another insult, but when she glanced at his face, and saw him watching her, she could see that he was being quite serious.
She nodded her head. "I - I don't know how I got here… But this place can't be where I'm from…" She glanced at his, 'youkai features', nervously. "Where I'm from youkai are only in stories."
He watched her for a few seconds more before nodding, then turning his head away slightly, "Naraku is a bastard tyrant seeking control over the whole fuckin' world- that's in a nutshell."
Kaiya paused for a moment, stunned, before moving on to the next string of web when one fell away, hoping he was going to continue.
"You might want to hurry up."
She sighed in frustration, "I'm going as fast as I can."
"Yeah, well, we should be getting a visitor soon if that ass wasn't lying."
"Okay, honestly, would you tell me what he said? Why are you tied up? And how could he have known about me? It has to be some other person… And what do you mean visitor?"
Inuronin's golden eyes were sweeping the area, and she actually thought she saw his nose twitching. 'How much like a dog is he..?' She wondered to herself.
"Naraku was the one who got me in this crap. He said that this webbing belongs to a great spider youkai, and that the simplest movement in any of the webbing would get its attention to take down prey… I've been bound pretty loosely, so I can move, but cutting it will have to get its attention… He said we would have an hour to get out before the youkai… Hey, didn't you just hear me?"
Kaiya had stopped cutting and was just staring off into space. 'Oh… Oh no… Oh no no no…'
"What the hell is it?"
"Inuronin… I… when I first came out of the well… I touched some of the webbing." She refused to meet his gaze.
"Fuck, bitch! How long ago was that?!"
Kaiya could feel his eyes boring into his, so she instantly went back to cutting away, her face heating up beneath his intense scrutiny.
"I don't really remember… It couldn't have been that long ago, right? I'm almost done anyway… Just three more…"
Inurino growled, "Just slash them you baka! Don't sit there and saw at em, cause of you we don't have time for this shit!"
The fourteen year old fumbled with the sword at his sudden command before standing to her feet. Grasping it with both hands she raised the sword, squeezing her eyes shut, and was about to drop it when-
"WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING?!"
"I - I was going to slash the rest, like you-"
"WITH YOUR FUCKIN EYES CLOSED?!"
Kaiya felt the blush rise in her cheeks once more, and she raised it again, ignoring the insults randomly spurting from the dog-eared boy. Dropping it down with all her weight she broke through two, with only one remaining. In truth, she was quite proud of her handiwork.
"Hey, that worked pretty well!"
"Just get the last one, wench."
Inuronin was already dusting himself off, only one more thread tied to his left ankle remaining. Kaiya broke through it quickly, dropping the sword as fast as possible. She didn't even want to know what a spider youkai was like… Was it just like Inuronin? But instead of dog parts it had spider parts? She shivered at the thought of a person with eight eyes and poisonous fangs staring at her. 'How would they spin a web anyway…?' She thought with embarrassment, before realizing Inuronin was staring at her again. 'I've been dazed out, haven't I?'
She stood to her full height, then suddenly remembered something. 'Hey… I used my right hand… but wasn't it injured earlier by that rock?' She glanced at it briefly, only to see that the skin had sealed over. In the center though, where the skin had been punctured, was a dark mark, and she figured that was just because of the new skin settling in. 'Did it fall out? And how did the skin heal so quickly…?'
Looking back to Inuronin, she was about to ask why he was still staring at her, only then to realize that he wasn't looking at her, but past her. Not bothering to ask she turned around, letting out a gasp at what she saw.
Standing on the other side of the small clearing was a spider. A big spider. 'Oh - Oh my GOD.' She felt her jaw drop down as she stared at it. It was presently settled in amongst its webbing, and two fangs set from its mouth were dripping a steaming liquid- obviously its poison. All nine of its eyes were blinking at different times, and somehow she could tell that they were looking at her. 'Wa- Wait a second! Spiders have eight eyes…' Its body wasn't covered in hair, but seemed to have thick lumps all over it, and she had to admit it did not look natural.
She didn't bother with what spiders were supposed to look like when the beast let out a suddenly ear-shattering cry and, controlling its eight legs with grace, bounded straight towards her.
And Kaiya was terrified.
She turned around quickly, only to see that Inuronin was gone. Completely. 'That - That JERK left me!'
Stepping back around to face the new youkai she clutched the sword tightly to her chest. 'It's either run and be caught, or fight and…' She didn't have much of a choice when the spider was suddenly in front of her, its long fore legs lifted in the air. It was then that she noticed each of its legs ended in one long, obsidian claw.
"KYAA!" She whelped out, jumping backwards (only to stumble and fall) when one of the legs was suddenly shot out, stabbing where she had been standing just moments earlier. She winced as she felt even more abuse to her tailbone, but looked up quickly, only to see the other leg ready to stab at her. She jerked herself to the side instantly, standing as fast as possible as she rushed forward.
Taking the sword she rushed to the closest leg she could find and swung it as hard as her body would allow. And, with a TWANG it bounced right off. 'No!' She thought in frustration, only to scream again when she saw the leg open its eyes at her.
It was then she realized that the spider's whole body was covered in eyes, and that they were all opening steadily to focus on her. She backed away dumbly (it's not like she was a born fighter) and just stood there, staring at it as it turned to face her.
"Puny human…" A disembodied voice slithered at her, more venom dripping from the spider's fangs. "How isss it that you have pulled sssuch a sssword… Sssuch a wassste… Can't even draw out itsss true power…"
At that moment another leg was shot out at her, and she did the only thing she could think of- she rushed forward to get underneath the spider. 'If it's legs are too hard to just stab, it has to have soft skin somewhere!'
But, before she could get there, the spider had backed away and swung another limb at her, but this time she couldn't move out of the way to avoid the attack. It connected with her side, hitting her already sore arms forcefully as she was knocked to the ground like a rag doll. 'What did it mean the this sword's 'true power'… None of this makes sense!'
She sat up slowly, her head pounding heavily as she realized she was bleeding more. Her landing had been rough, pushing her into rocks and sticks, scraping at her skin painfully. 'Stupid sundress!' She thought bitterly, her hair now falling around her face and dropping clumps of dirt.
She looked back up, only to see another clawed leg raised above her. This time she knew she wouldn't be able to move away quickly enough, so she did the only thing she could think of- she pushed her hands out in front of her and cowered, the sword forgotten at her side, as if they would protect her better.
She waited for death to come. For pain. But it didn't, and instead she heard hissings and could smell something foul. Opening her eyes she looked up to see her right hand dimly glowing with light, before it faded completely. Looking to the spider in surprise she saw it stumbling to get up, but one of its legs was gone, and its head was bleeding rapidly. Well, she wasn't sure if it was blood that was pouring from the monster. The liquid was yellow and white, like eggs, and was pouring with steam from cut openings in its body. All of its eyes were closed as it writhed in pain.
"How isss thisss possible? A miko? The miko blood… How isss it ssshe posssesss…" Its voice died off before it slumped forward, blood steaming around it as its eyelids flinched before falling still.
Kaiya was shaking on the ground, clutching her right wrist as she just stared at the spider. Her dark brown eyes were wide with fright before she glanced back down to her hand, which was warmer than usual. 'What just happened here? How - How did I do that? Did I?'
She stood trembling, before remembering the sword, which she hastily grabbed again. 'That jewel… when I found it, I had that falling feeling… and now where it tore my skin, it's suddenly glowing… And I just thought I was going to get an infection…' She looked at her hand again. 'I really, seriously am going crazy…'
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Eep- this chapter wasn't supposed to end there, but I thought that if I took it out to the point I wanted, then it might make it too long, plus, it should fit into chapter 4...
So- You've gotten another name! ::claps:: Ya know what this means? More name meanings! Lol
Inuronin
Inu mostly everyone should know by now that it means 'dog' in Japanese
Ronin (Japanese) means 'samurai without a master'. so… Inuronin would sort of mean like… a dog warrior without a master. I thought it would fit the character well =)
So… Chapter 4 is planned out as well… it should be done within the next day or so ^_^
Oh- and if you're thinking, 'Inuyasha would never run away like that!' then.. Yes, you're right. But, for one thing, when Kagome was the reincarnation of Kikyou, they weren't exactly the same personality-wise, so deal with it that they're not going to be exactly the same.. But, also, just wait for the next chapter- he's not actually such a chicken ^_~
(oh yeah, and sorry, I was meaning to release more information on things in this chapter, but it just didn't really work its way in… so hopefully chapter 4 will honestly clear some things up!)
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