A wish upon a star
Disclaimer: Me no own Inu-Yasha
Just telling: No possums were killed in the making of the (previous) sixth chapter.
Note: I was pretty disappointed with the sixth chapter, I thought my writing was sloppy, and I know I didn't put a lot of effort into it, and to everyone who thought so as well (thanks for not pointing it out) I hope this chapter makes up for the last chapter.
I've decided every chapter will have a clue to the family secret until it's finally revealed...*sighs* I'm too good.
Warning: This chapter has a huge clue to the secret...it may not seem obvious but its there...
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Chapter Seven
Unsolved Mysteries
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The sun shone brightly on the girl sitting in the field of flowers giving her slight sunburn. It was too hot to stay inside and the bright playful sun could not be ignored, so that was the reason Kagome was playing with the flowers in the sun – rather than sweat and try to cool off in the castle.
It was a quiet day, actually – it was rather noisy if you entered the castle due to the arrival of Kikyou the next day but everything was at rest outside, only the sound of birds could be heard, even the wind seemed to be trying to hush down.
The announcement that Kikyou was arriving tomorrow morning had given everyone except for Kagome something to do, even Inu-Yasha was preparing something for Kikyou. Kagome shut her eyes and laid down flat on her stomach, feeling the burning hot sun press down on her back. 'I wonder if they were as busy as this when I was coming'
She stretched her arms in front of her and smelt the grass underneath her nose. She scrunched up her nose as she inhaled nothing but dirt. Her depression seemed to get the better of her. Here she was, waiting in harmony for Kikyou to come and ruin her holiday. She punched the ground hoping it would open and swallow her. She didn't want to meet her sister again, well...not this soon.
As she solemnly lay there, memories flashed through her mind.
.:.:.: Flashback:.:.:.
Kagome and Kikyou ran through the castle corridors, they were playing a game of tag. Kagome was it.
"Kikyou, it's not fair! You're a faster runner than I am!"
Kikyou stopped running and turned around "Okay, little sister, what do you want to do then?"
Kagome's face brightened up "Can you tell me a story?"
"Sure, little sister, anything for you!"
.:.:.: Flashback
Finished:.:.:.
Kagome opened her eyes, and lifted her head off he ground; she flinched as she felt how hot her back had become. She sat down and stared at her legs. What had happened to her sister at the age of fourteen?
She had always been the role model anyone little sister could have...until that one day, she had left on her birthday, and came back all cruel and sinister. It was as if she had changed completely. She never talked to anyone anymore, bossed servants around, her skin grew paler every day and her eyes seemed almost bloodshot.
Though she still put on her little act in front of her parents, always tried to act cheerful even though her act never fooled Kagome.
Kagome laid down on her back this time, letting the sun warm up her front side of her body. She closed her eyes and sighed. She knew her sister was hiding something deep inside of her, something that was ruining her life day by day, every time she looked into Kikyou's eyes she saw nothing but emotionless air wafting through her pupils. But Kagome knew that Kikyou had cried all the emotion out, every night she would hear her sister weep and weep but she could do nothing about it. Her sister had told her to stay out of life, to leave her alone.
Kagome strained her forehead. Her life had changed when she was thirteen, all because of Kikyou. Every day, Kikyou would become paler, meaner, more solitary, and even though no body else could see it; Kagome knew sadness and guilt were taking over her.
Even though Kikyou yelled at her, beat her up, ignored her, accused her for things she didn't do Kagome still loved her sister deep down – really deep down – really, really, really, deep down. She still hated her, but she had to figure out what had made Kikyou that way, and that was the only reason Kagome hadn't murdered her while she slept.
Kagome sighed pleasantly as she felt warm air rush over her; at least there was a little breeze here to cool her off as she roasted in the burning sun. She wasn't wearing heavy clothes...nope...but she was still wearing long net sleeves, she silently cursed her mom for forbidding her to wear sleeveless.
'It's too un-ladylike' her mother would say.
At least she was still allowed to wear knee- high dresses. So, that's how her dress looked, it was yellow, knee-high, long net sleeved dress with a deep V neck. But even though her dress allowed enough air to go through, she was still feeling unimaginably hot. She wondered what everyone was doing in the castle. She doubted if Inu-Yasha was actually helping out, he was probably trying to ruin the plans so somehow Kikyou could be delayed further longer.
Starting to feel her stomach start to burn with the amount of sun pushing down on it she decided to find another spot where she could lie down and wait boringly for something to happen. As she got up another warm gust of air blew from the back, making her hair drift forward, making her feel to droop of to sleep.
Walking south-east from the castle she approached the forest, wondering what Inu-Yasha could find so ever amusing here that he could spend most of his time resting here she started to walk in the forest. As she stepped in the forest, the rocky, sandy path that she was following turned into pebbles giving her the impression of the sea.
"Hey, this place isn't so bad" She mused out loud, and truth be told – it actually wasn't. It seemed dark and lonely when she had looked out at it from her balcony but now, as she walked through it, it was the most beautiful place she had ever seen.
The trees stood tall, on either side of her but further apart from each other giving enough room for Kagome to wander through them, the branches of the tree grew far and wide, but not wide enough to stop the rays of sunlight that shone through them. She could hear the birds chirping, and the air was definitely cooler here. As she looked around, still not moving from her spot, another sound caught her attention.
Was that water?
She strained her ears to make sure her guess was correct. Moving left, further close to the sound a dash of water caught her eyes.
"A stream!"
Kagome ran through the trees, only stopping once to take off her sandals. (who would like to wear sandals when there's nature all around you?) As she reached the steam she squealed in delight.
The stream wasn't too wide, and was only separating the side of the forest she was standing on from the other side of the forest that was standing broad in front of her. But the stream wasn't the only thing making her excited.
"A stream!" She jumped up and down again, looking in the direction it was leading to "I wonder where it leads to!" Another thought popped in her mind "Of course! It must lead to the sea! The sea! Oh, how I would love to go to the sea in this weather! "
She stopped jumping and ran forward, just stopping a few times to run her hands through the water a few times. As she reached a small waterfall she stopped, disappointed.
"I can't wait till I swim!"
Stepping onto the wet stones right beside the waterfall, she jumped down gracefully to land on the next. As she reached the bottom of the waterfall she turned around and gasped.
The waterfall ended to show a clear view of the sea...Kagome could only think of two words to describe it all. Utterly Beautiful.
The sea, of course was bordered with a stretch of yellow shimmering sand, a few cliffs and rocks on the far left of the scenery, and a few trees for shade on the right. The water looked crystal clear, and it was calm, only a few waves ripping through the water.
Feeling a desperate urge to go down to the beautiful arena at once she looked to her left and hopped on the grassy path once again. She gracefully ran down the swirling hill, not looking once at where she was really going.
As she was making a right she looked to the sea, to make sure it hadn't disappeared (even though it wouldn't, but people tend to act like that when they really want something but have to go slow and steady to get it, don't they?) and had barely enough time to stop her self as she looked back and saw Inu-Yasha right in front of her.
"Ouch!"
She rubbed her bum sorely. She had fallen backwards on her bum and it seemed as if she had sat on a rock. She angrily turned her head back up.
"You could have moved out of the way!" She hadn't stopped rubbing her bum yet, oh god – she hoped she hadn't ripped her dress.
He looked down at her and shook his head "You could have moved out of the way!" he mimicked her pathetically, imitating a squeaky voice. She shot a fierce glare at him.
"I do not sound like that! Anyways, how could I have moved when I didn't even know you were standing there?" He rolled his eyes at her and turned away "You do so sound like that and how am I supposed how you're supposed to do that, you're just supposed to!"
"Help me up!" she offered her arm up, waiting for him to take it. He looked at her uneasily before turning around and pulling her up. Not even waiting for him to say something she started heading down the hill, pleasantly enjoying the never-ending warm breeze that blew through the air, making her hair flow gently behind her. As she walked down the hill, almost reaching her destination, a tinge of annoyance hit her when she heard the sound of feet running towards her.
"Oi! Wait up!"
She stopped, impatiently waiting for him to catch up with her. As he approached her she started walking again, obviously mad at him for not taking her to the sea earlier when she knew he could.
He walked beside her, glancing at her from time to time wondering why the sudden mood change when she met him, hadn't she been jumping up and down yelling 'The sea!' a little while earlier? Not being able to bear the silence any longer he nudged her in the stomach. The only reply he got was a furious glare which obviously sent of warnings 'If you do that again, I swear I'll chop you're head into little pieces and feed them to the rats in the sewers'
He crossed his arms over his chest and stopped abruptly, hoping his stubborn act would make her cave in and free himself from his boredom. Surprisingly, she acted as if nothing happened and continued walking down the hill. He watched her as she reached the end of the hill and run through the sand, stopping at the edge of the sea where the water ran over her feet. As she jumped joyfully in the water she did a little swirl making her seem like Cinderella dancing gracefully with her broom.
Chuckling slightly to himself at her behavior he leaped from the hill to land beside her, unfortunately he landed in the water, splashing her with water. She shrieked as the freezing cool water soaked her legs. She menacingly looked up at him and curved her hands into fists.
"You're lucky I was feeling hot or else I would have been tempted to do this!" She reached forward for him and smiled devilishly, and before he could react to what she was doing she had pushed hard against his chest and he went crashing down in the water below him.
He quickly retracted his head from the water, growling at the giggling girl who had ran out of the water and was running across the sand backwards so she could stick her tongue out at him.
"That's for not taking me to the sea when you could have!"
He opened his eyes wide and blinked, that's why she was mad at him? Because he had forgotten to take her to the sea?
"Hey, I forgot! I'm not lying!" He sat up from the water, sighing at his soaking clothes, if he had to catch that girl and give payback for soaking him this would not do. Untying his sash, he took of his red kimono and white haori (I think that's what you call that white shirt he wears underneath) Leaving his clothes out to dry on the sand he ran after the girl which had disappeared on the west side of the sea.
'If she's hiding behind the cliffs, she will easily be caught' He gracefully jumped on the first rock, though his still wet red pants (I have no idea what they are called) weighed him down a little. He looked around to see where she was hiding, her scent was definitely evident here – so she was hiding around one of these rocks...
He smirked at her when her head popped out from behind one of the rocks and stared at him opened eyes; she was obviously cursing herself for letting herself being caught so easily.
Though, that was not the reason Kagome was staring at him, opened eyes. She pulled back her head and searched for another hiding spot. Her head was still rummaging through the image she had just seen.
She had never thought Inu-Yasha had so much – muscles. His biceps looked strong and firm, and his chest had the perfect abs anyone could ever imagine. His body wasn't popping with veins like most usual people with muscles that firm and big would have, it was actually smooth and what really surprised Kagome was how he could hide all that beneath his clothes.
Starting to feel herself blush, she turned her face away even though Inu- Yasha couldn't see her and crept down to a rock beneath the one she had been hiding behind. She didn't need to be reminded that Inu-Yasha's nose would probably sniff her out, so she quickly descended down the rocks.
As she reached the bottom of the rocks, reaching a very shallow pool she found Inu-Yasha standing right in front of her. She sighed in defeat as he smirked at her.
"You suck"
She pouted, pulling up her dress so she could sit on her knees in the shallow pool "Well, how much of a chance would I have against a half-demon with a nose that can practically smell out what I had for breakfast?"
He chuckled and flopped down beside her, not caring in the least how wet he got his pants. Kagome looked at him amused. "You're getting your clothes wet"
"I'm not wearing much" She smiled, and let go of the dress she was holding up, letting the rim of the dress get slightly wet. "Mhm"
"What was that?" He looked at her, giving her a perfect view of his shimmering golden eyes, she noticed how the sun enlightened his eyes, giving them almost an angelic look. She shook her head.
"Nothing"
He nodded his head for no such reason and they both sat there in silence, enjoying the sun, and water. Feeling annoyed with her hair open, Kagome untied the ribbon from her wrist and slowly tied her hair. As she finished tying her hair, she put down her hands and started playing with the water.
Not soon after, her ribbon was pulled off. She quickly looked at Inu-Yasha and reached over, trying to get her ribbon back, he just stretched his arms above her head so she couldn't reach it.
"Hey, give it back!"
He shook his head and threw the ribbon over the rocks and into some other pool. Kagome gave him a furious glare, "Hey! Why did you do that?" He slowly leaned over to her and ruffled her hair, making it spread over her shoulders and back.
"You look better with your hair let down"
Kagome blushed immediately, retreating as soon as he went back to his normal sitting position. Not knowing what to say know she decided to just say something he wouldn't expect her to say after his sudden act.
"Well, I'll tie my hair everyday so you'll get annoyed and annoyed and annoyed!" She got up and smirked down at him who was grinning back. "Well, show me around!"
"There's nothing much to see"
"Show me around!" She stomped her foot in the shallow pool, drenching Inu- Yasha with water. "Oops, I didn't mean to do that!" She scratched her head absent mindedly as she stared down at the growling half-demon.
"I'm not going to let you go for that one!" He got up and immediately grabbed her from the waist and picked her up bridal style, ignoring the shrieks and wiggling Kagome was giving him.
"Let me go!" She punched him in the stomach, even though she knew it probably didn't even hurt.
"Sorry, no can do" He flattened his ears as she continued shrieking. He jumped over the rocks and landed gracefully on the rocks below. He eyed the pool. If she didn't know how to swim, she shouldn't drown in this – it wasn't that deep – he sighed, oh well – if she didn't know how to swim, he would jump in and save her.
"Don't you dare through me in that Inu-Yasha? I mean it!" He laughed at himself as he heard her threats "I'll pull your ears until they rip off" He raised at the eyebrow at the desperate, wiggling girl in his hands "I'll pull out you're eyes so you'll be blind for the rest of you're life"
He chuckled before lowering his hands so he could through her in the pool.
"Inu-Yasha!!!" She was screaming now "Don't you dare!"
The only thing he heard before she went splashing the pool in front of him was an 'Aaaah, I'll kill you!' He burst into laughter, as her head popped up from the water. He just continued laughing but stopped abruptly as her head bobbed back down in the water. Was she drowning? 'Oh shit – oh shit – oh shit – oh shit – oh shit' He quickly ran to the edge of the pool, ready to jump in. Looking frantically around the pool for Kagome he desperately sniffed the air, hoping that would give him some clue where to jump in.
"Gotcha!"
He looked down below him, she was grinning mischievously at him, and he sighed.
"Damnit, I'll get you for that!"
"Not before I get you for this!" She reached down and grabbed his ankle and pulled, and before he knew it, he had plunged in the pool right beside Kagome. He furiously swam to the top and splashed water on Kagome.
"Hey! What the hell did you do that for?"
"For throwing me into the pool after I told you I didn't want to be thrown in the pool, you dumb head! Now my clothes are soaking wet, how am I supposed to get back to the castle now?" She was yelling right at his face.
"Take your clothes off then!" He ducked before Kagome's hand could hit him on the head. He laughed mischievously before running away hopelessly from the fire breathing Kagome.
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Rin crouched down behind the big oak tree in the courtyard. That man with the silver hair had told her to meet her here this morning but no way – no how was she going to do that. But all of a sudden, another maiden comes and tells her 'you must clean the great halls for the upcoming ball!' and now she was trying to walk across the courtyard to the great halls without being seen by that man with silver hair.
Rin sighed at her nickname...well...she couldn't think of something else so 'that man with the silver hair' sounded perfect to her until she found out his real name. She peeked a sneak of the courtyard, hoping the way was clear. Luckily, no one seemed to be in sight.
She started tiptoeing across the courtyard, heading for the large stones she could hide behind next. As she was approaching them a noise reached her ears. Was that a cough? Rin shook her head, she had checked a while earlier and no one was there, no one could possibly run through the courtyard without making some noise.
She started to tiptoe again but stopped again, this time sure she had heard someone cough. She turned around only to open her eyes in terror as she stared at the man with the silver hair.
"How'd you run here so fast? I didn't see you!" She was still backing off, hoping she could make a run for it.
"Perhaps you don't know, but I'm a demon and you can stop walking backwards, I don't bite," He stopped for a moment and furrowed his eyebrows, as if lost in thought. He looked back at her before talking again "Well, at least I don't bite human girls," he stopped for a moment before continuing "Unless they provoke me," he tapped his chin and sighed before continuing "I've only bitten around fourteen girls, nine demons, five humans, but the humans were possessed..."
"You really don't have to tell me this"
He looked up at Rin; he had almost forgotten she was standing there "Oh sorry, I guess no one likes to hear me talk about how many women I've bitten"
Her posture straightened as she heard that "Oh, no, no...I don't mean it in that way, its very interesting, really..." She nodded her head fidgeted with her hands before talking again "But, its not very comfortable talking about that when I'm a human woman myself and well, I hope you get the point"
He nodded and cocked his head, as if examining the features of Rin. But Rin simply cocked her head and stared at 'The man with the silver hair' trying to figure out if what he was trying to do.
Remembering who she was with again, the uneasiness returned, this time accompanied with a tinge of fear for the demon. As she started to back away again he sighed and looked at her – annoyance obviously evident in his eyes.
"Don't run away please" His voice was more commanding than pleading.
"Huh?" Now she felt trapped.
"That's the only thing you've been doing since you've met me," He took a step closer "So don't run away this time"
"I've got duties to do"
"So do I"
She stomped her raised foot on the ground, losing her patience immediately "Fine! What do you want with me?!?"
Sesshomuru raised his eyes, surprised at her impatience and anger. Well, two can play at that game. "Maybe you know this and maybe you don't, I am Sesshomuru, son of the great lord demon of the west, if you continue to behave in this way towards me, I swear I'll have no choice but to kick you out"
She stuck her tongue out at him, "Go ahead, I have no real intention of staying here, after I get what I want, I'm just leaving!"
He raised an eyebrow "What is it that you want?" 'This was getting interesting...'
He saw he flinch as if she told him she wasn't suppose to say that "N- nothing" He snorted,
"You're not good at lying"
"Who said I was lying?" She narrowed her eyebrows at him before heaving a sigh and slumping her arms. "You're right, I'm not good at lying, you want to know why I'm here?"
She crossed her arms over her chest, after finding out who he was all her confidence had left her. There was no use in hiding her little secret now...he seemed to have some power of her, it seemed to her as if he could squeeze every little secret out of her measly body. Not caring of what he was going to do to her after telling him she took in a deep breath.
He nodded, waiting for an explanation. He stared at Rin who had suddenly started kicking the ground, not only after a few minutes did she start speaking.
"I'm a thief, my parents died when I was four, all my life I've been living off stolen goods. Somehow I got caught in the last town I robbed and if I leave the castle they'll hunt me down and kill me...I don't stand much of a chance against fifty town's men...anyways, I heard there was some strong demon here, I thought maybe some of them could help me fight the towns men so I can go on with my life" He stared at her as he processed all the information in, that explained everything...why she was in the dungeons...why she was a maid here...but one thought still remained unanswered in his mind.
"Why don't you just stay here?"
Rin, who had moved her gaze away from him to look at a few birds in the oak tree she had been hiding in snapped her head back in his direction...wasn't he going to yell at her? Slaughter her into a dozen pieces? Hand her into the dungeons?
It took her a while before finding her tongue... "Well, what will I do? Clean the castle floors every day? Serve food to you demons every day? Cook food for you demons every day? Wash you're clothes? If I must tell the truth, living a thief's life is better than living a servant's life"
He shook his head "No it isn't, and you know what you say is a lie, you can start over, you don't have to continue living the way you do"
She stared at him, this conversation had gone too far...from her trying to find his name to him telling her to change her lifestyle. She shook her head. "There's no way I can change now"
He sighed, he knew far worse people than this...they all tried to forget what happened in there past even though they decided to sulk on it for a while, this girl shouldn't be more different unless...
"How did you're parents die?"
This question seemed to touch all the electricity inside of her, in an instant she had her defensive wall on again. "That is none of your business!"
She turned around and walked to the entrance of the great halls, but Sesshomuru wasn't going to give up. "Demons killed them didn't they?"
She stopped but started walking as quickly as she had stopped, even though her voice was a whisper Sesshomuru could still hear her "Leave me alone"
Sesshomuru didn't follow her this time, he had gone too far. He didn't like it when things were kept hidden from him but this didn't concern him in the least. He sighed and turned around, instead of finding out more about the girl another desire struck inside of him...
He –would- change her, regardless of how much she wanted to turn away from a better life.
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"Inu-Yasha! Where are you?" She looked under a cliff, only to see more rocks. She sighed; finding Inu-Yasha was finding a needle in a haystack. If you actually saw him, it would be impossible to catch him. She looked up at the sky, it was getting dark and her stomach was grumbling.
"I give up! You win! Now come out before it gets dark!"
The tide was going to arrive soon and she didn't want to be caught in it. Giving up she ran down to the sand and sat down, a far length away from the rising waves. Sighing she looked up in the sky, there were only a few streaks of light from the sun left in the sky. Feeling tired she kneeled back, and lay down on her back, enjoying the feel of sand under her legs and feet and the smell of sea salt in her clothes and hair.
She didn't even notice as tiredness washed over her like a big wave. Not having the strength to open her eyes she just lay there in the sand and let sleep take over her.
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I'm sorry to have it end there!!! Oh...I wud have have luved to continue...but if I continued on everything I planned for the next chapter would have mixed in with this! The next chapter will be longer than this *promise*
Just telling: no body has guessed the family secret yet ^^
I wonder if you guys found the *big* clue I mentioned...I doubt a lot of you found it. Oh well.... Remember to Review.................!
*Smiles a big smile with all my teeth showing!*
To anyone who would like to know NONE of my stories will have angst in it...unless I become very depressed and would like the characters in my story to be depressed as well....but I don't think tat will happen....okay....I'm just blabbing on and on...so until the next chapter!
Disclaimer: Me no own Inu-Yasha
Just telling: No possums were killed in the making of the (previous) sixth chapter.
Note: I was pretty disappointed with the sixth chapter, I thought my writing was sloppy, and I know I didn't put a lot of effort into it, and to everyone who thought so as well (thanks for not pointing it out) I hope this chapter makes up for the last chapter.
I've decided every chapter will have a clue to the family secret until it's finally revealed...*sighs* I'm too good.
Warning: This chapter has a huge clue to the secret...it may not seem obvious but its there...
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Chapter Seven
Unsolved Mysteries
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The sun shone brightly on the girl sitting in the field of flowers giving her slight sunburn. It was too hot to stay inside and the bright playful sun could not be ignored, so that was the reason Kagome was playing with the flowers in the sun – rather than sweat and try to cool off in the castle.
It was a quiet day, actually – it was rather noisy if you entered the castle due to the arrival of Kikyou the next day but everything was at rest outside, only the sound of birds could be heard, even the wind seemed to be trying to hush down.
The announcement that Kikyou was arriving tomorrow morning had given everyone except for Kagome something to do, even Inu-Yasha was preparing something for Kikyou. Kagome shut her eyes and laid down flat on her stomach, feeling the burning hot sun press down on her back. 'I wonder if they were as busy as this when I was coming'
She stretched her arms in front of her and smelt the grass underneath her nose. She scrunched up her nose as she inhaled nothing but dirt. Her depression seemed to get the better of her. Here she was, waiting in harmony for Kikyou to come and ruin her holiday. She punched the ground hoping it would open and swallow her. She didn't want to meet her sister again, well...not this soon.
As she solemnly lay there, memories flashed through her mind.
.:.:.: Flashback:.:.:.
Kagome and Kikyou ran through the castle corridors, they were playing a game of tag. Kagome was it.
"Kikyou, it's not fair! You're a faster runner than I am!"
Kikyou stopped running and turned around "Okay, little sister, what do you want to do then?"
Kagome's face brightened up "Can you tell me a story?"
"Sure, little sister, anything for you!"
.:.:.: Flashback
Finished:.:.:.
Kagome opened her eyes, and lifted her head off he ground; she flinched as she felt how hot her back had become. She sat down and stared at her legs. What had happened to her sister at the age of fourteen?
She had always been the role model anyone little sister could have...until that one day, she had left on her birthday, and came back all cruel and sinister. It was as if she had changed completely. She never talked to anyone anymore, bossed servants around, her skin grew paler every day and her eyes seemed almost bloodshot.
Though she still put on her little act in front of her parents, always tried to act cheerful even though her act never fooled Kagome.
Kagome laid down on her back this time, letting the sun warm up her front side of her body. She closed her eyes and sighed. She knew her sister was hiding something deep inside of her, something that was ruining her life day by day, every time she looked into Kikyou's eyes she saw nothing but emotionless air wafting through her pupils. But Kagome knew that Kikyou had cried all the emotion out, every night she would hear her sister weep and weep but she could do nothing about it. Her sister had told her to stay out of life, to leave her alone.
Kagome strained her forehead. Her life had changed when she was thirteen, all because of Kikyou. Every day, Kikyou would become paler, meaner, more solitary, and even though no body else could see it; Kagome knew sadness and guilt were taking over her.
Even though Kikyou yelled at her, beat her up, ignored her, accused her for things she didn't do Kagome still loved her sister deep down – really deep down – really, really, really, deep down. She still hated her, but she had to figure out what had made Kikyou that way, and that was the only reason Kagome hadn't murdered her while she slept.
Kagome sighed pleasantly as she felt warm air rush over her; at least there was a little breeze here to cool her off as she roasted in the burning sun. She wasn't wearing heavy clothes...nope...but she was still wearing long net sleeves, she silently cursed her mom for forbidding her to wear sleeveless.
'It's too un-ladylike' her mother would say.
At least she was still allowed to wear knee- high dresses. So, that's how her dress looked, it was yellow, knee-high, long net sleeved dress with a deep V neck. But even though her dress allowed enough air to go through, she was still feeling unimaginably hot. She wondered what everyone was doing in the castle. She doubted if Inu-Yasha was actually helping out, he was probably trying to ruin the plans so somehow Kikyou could be delayed further longer.
Starting to feel her stomach start to burn with the amount of sun pushing down on it she decided to find another spot where she could lie down and wait boringly for something to happen. As she got up another warm gust of air blew from the back, making her hair drift forward, making her feel to droop of to sleep.
Walking south-east from the castle she approached the forest, wondering what Inu-Yasha could find so ever amusing here that he could spend most of his time resting here she started to walk in the forest. As she stepped in the forest, the rocky, sandy path that she was following turned into pebbles giving her the impression of the sea.
"Hey, this place isn't so bad" She mused out loud, and truth be told – it actually wasn't. It seemed dark and lonely when she had looked out at it from her balcony but now, as she walked through it, it was the most beautiful place she had ever seen.
The trees stood tall, on either side of her but further apart from each other giving enough room for Kagome to wander through them, the branches of the tree grew far and wide, but not wide enough to stop the rays of sunlight that shone through them. She could hear the birds chirping, and the air was definitely cooler here. As she looked around, still not moving from her spot, another sound caught her attention.
Was that water?
She strained her ears to make sure her guess was correct. Moving left, further close to the sound a dash of water caught her eyes.
"A stream!"
Kagome ran through the trees, only stopping once to take off her sandals. (who would like to wear sandals when there's nature all around you?) As she reached the steam she squealed in delight.
The stream wasn't too wide, and was only separating the side of the forest she was standing on from the other side of the forest that was standing broad in front of her. But the stream wasn't the only thing making her excited.
"A stream!" She jumped up and down again, looking in the direction it was leading to "I wonder where it leads to!" Another thought popped in her mind "Of course! It must lead to the sea! The sea! Oh, how I would love to go to the sea in this weather! "
She stopped jumping and ran forward, just stopping a few times to run her hands through the water a few times. As she reached a small waterfall she stopped, disappointed.
"I can't wait till I swim!"
Stepping onto the wet stones right beside the waterfall, she jumped down gracefully to land on the next. As she reached the bottom of the waterfall she turned around and gasped.
The waterfall ended to show a clear view of the sea...Kagome could only think of two words to describe it all. Utterly Beautiful.
The sea, of course was bordered with a stretch of yellow shimmering sand, a few cliffs and rocks on the far left of the scenery, and a few trees for shade on the right. The water looked crystal clear, and it was calm, only a few waves ripping through the water.
Feeling a desperate urge to go down to the beautiful arena at once she looked to her left and hopped on the grassy path once again. She gracefully ran down the swirling hill, not looking once at where she was really going.
As she was making a right she looked to the sea, to make sure it hadn't disappeared (even though it wouldn't, but people tend to act like that when they really want something but have to go slow and steady to get it, don't they?) and had barely enough time to stop her self as she looked back and saw Inu-Yasha right in front of her.
"Ouch!"
She rubbed her bum sorely. She had fallen backwards on her bum and it seemed as if she had sat on a rock. She angrily turned her head back up.
"You could have moved out of the way!" She hadn't stopped rubbing her bum yet, oh god – she hoped she hadn't ripped her dress.
He looked down at her and shook his head "You could have moved out of the way!" he mimicked her pathetically, imitating a squeaky voice. She shot a fierce glare at him.
"I do not sound like that! Anyways, how could I have moved when I didn't even know you were standing there?" He rolled his eyes at her and turned away "You do so sound like that and how am I supposed how you're supposed to do that, you're just supposed to!"
"Help me up!" she offered her arm up, waiting for him to take it. He looked at her uneasily before turning around and pulling her up. Not even waiting for him to say something she started heading down the hill, pleasantly enjoying the never-ending warm breeze that blew through the air, making her hair flow gently behind her. As she walked down the hill, almost reaching her destination, a tinge of annoyance hit her when she heard the sound of feet running towards her.
"Oi! Wait up!"
She stopped, impatiently waiting for him to catch up with her. As he approached her she started walking again, obviously mad at him for not taking her to the sea earlier when she knew he could.
He walked beside her, glancing at her from time to time wondering why the sudden mood change when she met him, hadn't she been jumping up and down yelling 'The sea!' a little while earlier? Not being able to bear the silence any longer he nudged her in the stomach. The only reply he got was a furious glare which obviously sent of warnings 'If you do that again, I swear I'll chop you're head into little pieces and feed them to the rats in the sewers'
He crossed his arms over his chest and stopped abruptly, hoping his stubborn act would make her cave in and free himself from his boredom. Surprisingly, she acted as if nothing happened and continued walking down the hill. He watched her as she reached the end of the hill and run through the sand, stopping at the edge of the sea where the water ran over her feet. As she jumped joyfully in the water she did a little swirl making her seem like Cinderella dancing gracefully with her broom.
Chuckling slightly to himself at her behavior he leaped from the hill to land beside her, unfortunately he landed in the water, splashing her with water. She shrieked as the freezing cool water soaked her legs. She menacingly looked up at him and curved her hands into fists.
"You're lucky I was feeling hot or else I would have been tempted to do this!" She reached forward for him and smiled devilishly, and before he could react to what she was doing she had pushed hard against his chest and he went crashing down in the water below him.
He quickly retracted his head from the water, growling at the giggling girl who had ran out of the water and was running across the sand backwards so she could stick her tongue out at him.
"That's for not taking me to the sea when you could have!"
He opened his eyes wide and blinked, that's why she was mad at him? Because he had forgotten to take her to the sea?
"Hey, I forgot! I'm not lying!" He sat up from the water, sighing at his soaking clothes, if he had to catch that girl and give payback for soaking him this would not do. Untying his sash, he took of his red kimono and white haori (I think that's what you call that white shirt he wears underneath) Leaving his clothes out to dry on the sand he ran after the girl which had disappeared on the west side of the sea.
'If she's hiding behind the cliffs, she will easily be caught' He gracefully jumped on the first rock, though his still wet red pants (I have no idea what they are called) weighed him down a little. He looked around to see where she was hiding, her scent was definitely evident here – so she was hiding around one of these rocks...
He smirked at her when her head popped out from behind one of the rocks and stared at him opened eyes; she was obviously cursing herself for letting herself being caught so easily.
Though, that was not the reason Kagome was staring at him, opened eyes. She pulled back her head and searched for another hiding spot. Her head was still rummaging through the image she had just seen.
She had never thought Inu-Yasha had so much – muscles. His biceps looked strong and firm, and his chest had the perfect abs anyone could ever imagine. His body wasn't popping with veins like most usual people with muscles that firm and big would have, it was actually smooth and what really surprised Kagome was how he could hide all that beneath his clothes.
Starting to feel herself blush, she turned her face away even though Inu- Yasha couldn't see her and crept down to a rock beneath the one she had been hiding behind. She didn't need to be reminded that Inu-Yasha's nose would probably sniff her out, so she quickly descended down the rocks.
As she reached the bottom of the rocks, reaching a very shallow pool she found Inu-Yasha standing right in front of her. She sighed in defeat as he smirked at her.
"You suck"
She pouted, pulling up her dress so she could sit on her knees in the shallow pool "Well, how much of a chance would I have against a half-demon with a nose that can practically smell out what I had for breakfast?"
He chuckled and flopped down beside her, not caring in the least how wet he got his pants. Kagome looked at him amused. "You're getting your clothes wet"
"I'm not wearing much" She smiled, and let go of the dress she was holding up, letting the rim of the dress get slightly wet. "Mhm"
"What was that?" He looked at her, giving her a perfect view of his shimmering golden eyes, she noticed how the sun enlightened his eyes, giving them almost an angelic look. She shook her head.
"Nothing"
He nodded his head for no such reason and they both sat there in silence, enjoying the sun, and water. Feeling annoyed with her hair open, Kagome untied the ribbon from her wrist and slowly tied her hair. As she finished tying her hair, she put down her hands and started playing with the water.
Not soon after, her ribbon was pulled off. She quickly looked at Inu-Yasha and reached over, trying to get her ribbon back, he just stretched his arms above her head so she couldn't reach it.
"Hey, give it back!"
He shook his head and threw the ribbon over the rocks and into some other pool. Kagome gave him a furious glare, "Hey! Why did you do that?" He slowly leaned over to her and ruffled her hair, making it spread over her shoulders and back.
"You look better with your hair let down"
Kagome blushed immediately, retreating as soon as he went back to his normal sitting position. Not knowing what to say know she decided to just say something he wouldn't expect her to say after his sudden act.
"Well, I'll tie my hair everyday so you'll get annoyed and annoyed and annoyed!" She got up and smirked down at him who was grinning back. "Well, show me around!"
"There's nothing much to see"
"Show me around!" She stomped her foot in the shallow pool, drenching Inu- Yasha with water. "Oops, I didn't mean to do that!" She scratched her head absent mindedly as she stared down at the growling half-demon.
"I'm not going to let you go for that one!" He got up and immediately grabbed her from the waist and picked her up bridal style, ignoring the shrieks and wiggling Kagome was giving him.
"Let me go!" She punched him in the stomach, even though she knew it probably didn't even hurt.
"Sorry, no can do" He flattened his ears as she continued shrieking. He jumped over the rocks and landed gracefully on the rocks below. He eyed the pool. If she didn't know how to swim, she shouldn't drown in this – it wasn't that deep – he sighed, oh well – if she didn't know how to swim, he would jump in and save her.
"Don't you dare through me in that Inu-Yasha? I mean it!" He laughed at himself as he heard her threats "I'll pull your ears until they rip off" He raised at the eyebrow at the desperate, wiggling girl in his hands "I'll pull out you're eyes so you'll be blind for the rest of you're life"
He chuckled before lowering his hands so he could through her in the pool.
"Inu-Yasha!!!" She was screaming now "Don't you dare!"
The only thing he heard before she went splashing the pool in front of him was an 'Aaaah, I'll kill you!' He burst into laughter, as her head popped up from the water. He just continued laughing but stopped abruptly as her head bobbed back down in the water. Was she drowning? 'Oh shit – oh shit – oh shit – oh shit – oh shit' He quickly ran to the edge of the pool, ready to jump in. Looking frantically around the pool for Kagome he desperately sniffed the air, hoping that would give him some clue where to jump in.
"Gotcha!"
He looked down below him, she was grinning mischievously at him, and he sighed.
"Damnit, I'll get you for that!"
"Not before I get you for this!" She reached down and grabbed his ankle and pulled, and before he knew it, he had plunged in the pool right beside Kagome. He furiously swam to the top and splashed water on Kagome.
"Hey! What the hell did you do that for?"
"For throwing me into the pool after I told you I didn't want to be thrown in the pool, you dumb head! Now my clothes are soaking wet, how am I supposed to get back to the castle now?" She was yelling right at his face.
"Take your clothes off then!" He ducked before Kagome's hand could hit him on the head. He laughed mischievously before running away hopelessly from the fire breathing Kagome.
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Rin crouched down behind the big oak tree in the courtyard. That man with the silver hair had told her to meet her here this morning but no way – no how was she going to do that. But all of a sudden, another maiden comes and tells her 'you must clean the great halls for the upcoming ball!' and now she was trying to walk across the courtyard to the great halls without being seen by that man with silver hair.
Rin sighed at her nickname...well...she couldn't think of something else so 'that man with the silver hair' sounded perfect to her until she found out his real name. She peeked a sneak of the courtyard, hoping the way was clear. Luckily, no one seemed to be in sight.
She started tiptoeing across the courtyard, heading for the large stones she could hide behind next. As she was approaching them a noise reached her ears. Was that a cough? Rin shook her head, she had checked a while earlier and no one was there, no one could possibly run through the courtyard without making some noise.
She started to tiptoe again but stopped again, this time sure she had heard someone cough. She turned around only to open her eyes in terror as she stared at the man with the silver hair.
"How'd you run here so fast? I didn't see you!" She was still backing off, hoping she could make a run for it.
"Perhaps you don't know, but I'm a demon and you can stop walking backwards, I don't bite," He stopped for a moment and furrowed his eyebrows, as if lost in thought. He looked back at her before talking again "Well, at least I don't bite human girls," he stopped for a moment before continuing "Unless they provoke me," he tapped his chin and sighed before continuing "I've only bitten around fourteen girls, nine demons, five humans, but the humans were possessed..."
"You really don't have to tell me this"
He looked up at Rin; he had almost forgotten she was standing there "Oh sorry, I guess no one likes to hear me talk about how many women I've bitten"
Her posture straightened as she heard that "Oh, no, no...I don't mean it in that way, its very interesting, really..." She nodded her head fidgeted with her hands before talking again "But, its not very comfortable talking about that when I'm a human woman myself and well, I hope you get the point"
He nodded and cocked his head, as if examining the features of Rin. But Rin simply cocked her head and stared at 'The man with the silver hair' trying to figure out if what he was trying to do.
Remembering who she was with again, the uneasiness returned, this time accompanied with a tinge of fear for the demon. As she started to back away again he sighed and looked at her – annoyance obviously evident in his eyes.
"Don't run away please" His voice was more commanding than pleading.
"Huh?" Now she felt trapped.
"That's the only thing you've been doing since you've met me," He took a step closer "So don't run away this time"
"I've got duties to do"
"So do I"
She stomped her raised foot on the ground, losing her patience immediately "Fine! What do you want with me?!?"
Sesshomuru raised his eyes, surprised at her impatience and anger. Well, two can play at that game. "Maybe you know this and maybe you don't, I am Sesshomuru, son of the great lord demon of the west, if you continue to behave in this way towards me, I swear I'll have no choice but to kick you out"
She stuck her tongue out at him, "Go ahead, I have no real intention of staying here, after I get what I want, I'm just leaving!"
He raised an eyebrow "What is it that you want?" 'This was getting interesting...'
He saw he flinch as if she told him she wasn't suppose to say that "N- nothing" He snorted,
"You're not good at lying"
"Who said I was lying?" She narrowed her eyebrows at him before heaving a sigh and slumping her arms. "You're right, I'm not good at lying, you want to know why I'm here?"
She crossed her arms over her chest, after finding out who he was all her confidence had left her. There was no use in hiding her little secret now...he seemed to have some power of her, it seemed to her as if he could squeeze every little secret out of her measly body. Not caring of what he was going to do to her after telling him she took in a deep breath.
He nodded, waiting for an explanation. He stared at Rin who had suddenly started kicking the ground, not only after a few minutes did she start speaking.
"I'm a thief, my parents died when I was four, all my life I've been living off stolen goods. Somehow I got caught in the last town I robbed and if I leave the castle they'll hunt me down and kill me...I don't stand much of a chance against fifty town's men...anyways, I heard there was some strong demon here, I thought maybe some of them could help me fight the towns men so I can go on with my life" He stared at her as he processed all the information in, that explained everything...why she was in the dungeons...why she was a maid here...but one thought still remained unanswered in his mind.
"Why don't you just stay here?"
Rin, who had moved her gaze away from him to look at a few birds in the oak tree she had been hiding in snapped her head back in his direction...wasn't he going to yell at her? Slaughter her into a dozen pieces? Hand her into the dungeons?
It took her a while before finding her tongue... "Well, what will I do? Clean the castle floors every day? Serve food to you demons every day? Cook food for you demons every day? Wash you're clothes? If I must tell the truth, living a thief's life is better than living a servant's life"
He shook his head "No it isn't, and you know what you say is a lie, you can start over, you don't have to continue living the way you do"
She stared at him, this conversation had gone too far...from her trying to find his name to him telling her to change her lifestyle. She shook her head. "There's no way I can change now"
He sighed, he knew far worse people than this...they all tried to forget what happened in there past even though they decided to sulk on it for a while, this girl shouldn't be more different unless...
"How did you're parents die?"
This question seemed to touch all the electricity inside of her, in an instant she had her defensive wall on again. "That is none of your business!"
She turned around and walked to the entrance of the great halls, but Sesshomuru wasn't going to give up. "Demons killed them didn't they?"
She stopped but started walking as quickly as she had stopped, even though her voice was a whisper Sesshomuru could still hear her "Leave me alone"
Sesshomuru didn't follow her this time, he had gone too far. He didn't like it when things were kept hidden from him but this didn't concern him in the least. He sighed and turned around, instead of finding out more about the girl another desire struck inside of him...
He –would- change her, regardless of how much she wanted to turn away from a better life.
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"Inu-Yasha! Where are you?" She looked under a cliff, only to see more rocks. She sighed; finding Inu-Yasha was finding a needle in a haystack. If you actually saw him, it would be impossible to catch him. She looked up at the sky, it was getting dark and her stomach was grumbling.
"I give up! You win! Now come out before it gets dark!"
The tide was going to arrive soon and she didn't want to be caught in it. Giving up she ran down to the sand and sat down, a far length away from the rising waves. Sighing she looked up in the sky, there were only a few streaks of light from the sun left in the sky. Feeling tired she kneeled back, and lay down on her back, enjoying the feel of sand under her legs and feet and the smell of sea salt in her clothes and hair.
She didn't even notice as tiredness washed over her like a big wave. Not having the strength to open her eyes she just lay there in the sand and let sleep take over her.
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I'm sorry to have it end there!!! Oh...I wud have have luved to continue...but if I continued on everything I planned for the next chapter would have mixed in with this! The next chapter will be longer than this *promise*
Just telling: no body has guessed the family secret yet ^^
I wonder if you guys found the *big* clue I mentioned...I doubt a lot of you found it. Oh well.... Remember to Review.................!
*Smiles a big smile with all my teeth showing!*
To anyone who would like to know NONE of my stories will have angst in it...unless I become very depressed and would like the characters in my story to be depressed as well....but I don't think tat will happen....okay....I'm just blabbing on and on...so until the next chapter!