A wish upon a star
The last chapter was just a pass time – I didn't want to rush anything on to you guys so I had to make that un-eventful chapter, sorry to all whom disliked it. And to all those cliffy haters – forgive me for this chapter ^.^
I had finished this chapter a long time ago, but Fanfiction.net was down so I couldn't post it up – oh well!
The chapter's title just says that something's going to happen, doesn't it?
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Chapter Seventeen
Havoc over Chaos
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Kagome woke up to a bright and sunny day, the sun was shining straight into her eyes and she could tell by the sense of sound that the waterfall had decided to start rushing down again. Remembering that she would have to go outside for breakfast soon she decided it would be the best time to sneak a glance at the parchment.
Getting up grouchily from her bed she made her way across her room and reached down to pick up the roll of parchment which had made its way across the room and under the table.
She picked it up lazily and made her way back to her bed and as soon as she had reached the edge of her small bed, she flumped down on it. Kagome fumbled with the string she had used to tie the parchment with and after a few yawns and rubbing her eyes she opened the parchment slowly.
She strained her eyes as she saw the parchment wasn't exactly all map, their seemed to be some advice or rather some clues written on to it. Ignoring the map, she went directly to reading what was written under the map underneath the word 'Tetsusaiga'
'Sword, though with its will, be may given to the despairing and forlorn one of them both, may it seal the demon locked within, may it tame the blood rushing through his veins, may it keep the anger locked within until a cherished caring one is nearby to help him release it without furry'
Kagome felt her heart skip a beat as she read this. Was the parchment talking about Inu-Yasha or Sesshomuru? She had no idea, and even though she didn't know who it was talking about she got a pang of worried thoughts snap into her mind. Something serious had happened to one of the brothers, and she – had – to find out which one. She brushed the thought away as she read what followed.
'Though it can only be released with a soul of pure heart and a
spirit which can match no other'
Kagome furrowed her eyebrows at this. She was still sleepy but the content on the parchment had washed most of the sleeping sand away. 'Who ever wrote this must have been pretty serious on hiding that sword Tetsusaiga...'
Kagome skimmed the parchment and stopped when she saw content written under the bold writing of 'Tensaiga'
'Sword, may it be given to the one afraid of releasing deep emotion, what passed has passed and may it never return again'
Kagome scrunched her eyebrows; this seemed to be the only thing written for the sword Tensaiga apart from the map. She was deciding to finally look at the maps when Sango burst through the door.
"Kagome, I can't believe someone did this!" Sango yelled as she rushed over to her bed and sat down miserably on it. Kagome quickly hid the parchment underneath her pillow and then immediately after doing so, questioned Sango.
"Who did what?" she asked her, Sango sighed while punching her lap and then crossed her arms over her chest.
"I don't know who! But someone cut the rope on the boat, so were stuck on this island, probably for more than one week, I just don't know who would do such a thing" Sango glanced at Kagome who was practically sitting on her pillow. "What are you hiding?"
Kagome's eyes widened "I'm hiding nothing!" She squeaked out hoping that it didn't sound too obvious.
Sango raised an eyebrow but then afterwards just shrugged. "But, I'm just worried about who would do such a thing, I mean, I know none of us like staying on this island very much and whoever cut the line on the boat obviously wants us to stay here longer"
Kagome felt the hair on the back of her neck rise. What Sango had said had just reminded her of the incident of when she and Inu-Yasha had been attacked; she possibly couldn't have been tracked down could she?
From all that had happened, all she had figured out was that Inu-Yasha had a step mother, his real mother had died three years ago, and before her death she had hidden two swords which were meant to be given to the two siblings and now Kagome had a parchment leading to where they were hidden to.
Kagome shrugged off the bad feeling and nodded in Sango's direction.
"I just hope that it was a mistake and that none of us are being targeted" Sango sighed.
Kagome felt her gut scream at her that she was the one being targeted but she just shook of the feeling and hoped Sango would stop talking about it.
"But -." Sango started but was cut off as Kagome stood up.
"That's great Sango, I'm just going to go eat breakfast now – I'll meet you later?" Kagome smiled at Sango as she nodded and left Sango in the room heading down to where they had decided to eat breakfast.
She was on her way when she remembered she hadn't bathed in three days. She looked back at the waterfall and decided to have a little swim. Looking down at her clothes she ran back into her room and changed into something more comfortable for a swim. When she exited, she was wearing a simple summer dress; it was white, and made with thin cloth, just like the other clothes were made of.
Running up to edge of the cliff which looked over the lake which the waterfall rushed into she decided on jumping into the lake from a lower ledge.
Climbing down the cliff slowly, she reached a cliff, much nearer to the end of the waterfall.
"On the count of three...one...two – three!" And with that she jumped straight into the lake, immediately feeling the rush of the waterfall and enjoying it very much. She giggled as she reached the surface and immediately regretted not tying her hair as she felt it plaster to her back.
Looking around, she noticed that this place seemed much more beautiful than the land above from it. The waterfall ended a good two dozen feet away from her and the water wasn't too deep, it reached her neck if she tried to stand in it.
As she looked around, she noticed that getting out of here would be pretty difficult, seeing that the rocky walls which were set far away from each other were pretty high up. But apart from that, Kagome liked this place very much.
There was grass growing on the edges so she could get out of the rushing stream as she now liked to call it and sit down over there and one thing she would want to try was get near the waterfall.
"Kagome! Where are you?" A voice called her name, sounding very distant. She looked up and made a cave from her hands and shouted in them.
"Down here!" She yelled out. Not soon after, she saw Sango's head peering down at her from the cliff.
"Are you crazy?" She yelled at her, observing what she was doing.
"I'm just having a little fun!" She yelled back and wafted her hands around the rushing water, enjoying the feel of water wafting over them.
"Well, if you need any help getting out of there, just call us!" Sango assured her, and with that she left Kagome back to her playing around in the stream.
Kagome paddled around in the water and dived in a couple of times, observing what was underneath the water, counting how many seconds she could stay underneath water as well.
As she came up for air, two hands pressed against her eyes, blocking out all view and immediately arousing all emergency and panic buttons inside of her. She immediately raised her hands to whoever had their hands over her eyes and tried prying their hands off her eyes.
She immediately felt the claws and sighed frustratingly.
"Inu-Yasha, let go!" Kagome yelled out while trying to punch his arms. As he let go, Kagome heard him snicker and then begin to laugh.
"You should..." he choked on his breath while he laughed and tried to talk at the same time "...have felt the panic inside of you!" he burst into laughter.
"Well, I don't have people coming up to me while I'm trying to enjoy and pressing their hands onto my eyes so I can't see very often you know!" She yelled at him while trying to send him a glare.
"That's too bad wench!" he snickered again and then splashed water on her.
"I'm already wet, so that makes no difference" Kagome snapped at him smartly while lowering herself deeper into the water, hoping the thin cloth didn't become see through in water.
"I'm just telling you to get out of here so I can have some privacy!" Inu- Yasha snapped back at her. Kagome narrowed her eyes.
"Who died and made you the boss of me?" Kagome clenched her fists underneath the rippling water. "Just get out of my way!" He made an attempt to push her but she dodged easily out of his arms.
"Stop being such a jerk and leave me alone" Kagome crossed her arms across her chest "I mean it"
"This stream isn't yours, understand?" Inu-Yasha yelled at her, starting to lose his patience.
"Then let's just share it!" Kagome took his 'feh' for a fine and turned around and muttered something that sounded like a 'to think he was actually nice' and a 'Poor Kikyou'
"I heard that" Inu-Yasha yelled at her from where he was standing beside the waterfall.
"You think I care?" Kagome replied back elegantly, taking the risk of going near the waterfall. As she reached where she could feel almost feel the pressure of the waterfall on the water, she stepped back and swam swiftly under the water.
She was walking on the bottom of the stream when she felt her arm collide with something sharp. She winced and looked immediately at what she had scraped her arm with – a floating stick, but the tip was sharp.
She frowned with frustration while looking at the blood start to leak. She heard a sigh from behind and as she turned around she came face to chest with Inu-Yasha. She looked up to see a pissed expression plastered onto his face.
"You can't even keep yourself from hurting yourself for one day can you?" He sighed, somehow annoyed.
Kagome raised an eyebrow "Well, you have no right to scold me for that Inu- Yasha!"
Inu-Yasha scoffed and grabbed her arm which had been scraped with the stick. Kagome just stared in confusion as he stared at it for a moment. After examining the wound he simply took his sleeve, brought it too his mouth and ripped a slice of cloth from it. After wards he wrapped the ripped piece of cloth around her wounded arm and then handed her arm back to her.
"Just so people don't start thinking I scraped you with my claws" He said nonchalantly, showing not a least bit of concern on his face, and then went walking back to whatever he was doing before. Kagome stood there, frozen for the moment and then smiled at her bandage.
Well...he – could – be nice sometimes; he just hid it inside himself really well - really, really well. She coughed. Really, really, really, really well.
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Sesshomuru sighed as leaned on the trunk of the tree. No matter how much he tried to entertain himself, nothing seemed to click. He had finally found something to entertain himself at the castle and now he had nothing to do because he had left that special something back at the castle.
"Sesshomuru, get off your lazy butt and get some exercise!" A familiar voice called out to him. He snapped his eyes open and sniffed the air to recognize the oh-so familiar voice.
"Rin? What are you doing here?" He blinked at the girl staring down at him.
"I wasn't going to be left back at the castle while everyone else had fun over here!" She glared down at him while he processed the information "Well, aren't you going to do what I told you?"
He sighed, so much of leaving that special something behind at the castle...
"Why should I get some exercise? I'm perfectly in shape"
"Because, I've been watching you since you've come here, and all you do is lean on a tree, sigh, think about something and fall asleep right there, you only have those muscles because you're a demon, I doubt you do anything different back at the castle!" She placed her hands on her hips, still not removing her threatening glare.
"Sorry?" He gave her an apologetic stare which made her roll her eyes.
"I don't want a sorry, I want you to get off of your lazy ass and do some walking, running, or something!" She reached down and made a hopeless attempt to pull him off ground. All she managed to do was pull his arm which seemed like only like a tug on his sleeve to Sesshomuru.
"No" he replied stubbornly and pulled his arm back onto his lap.
"Don't give me a no mister or else!" She replied to his statement, just with the same stubbornness.
Sesshomuru sighed at his bad misfortune. He knew he was stronger than her, and could attack her at any moment, but for some reason, he always found himself in her mercy. This had been going on for a while...
If he overslept, he would get a good lecture on how a man could get a heart attack from too much sleep. If he didn't take a shower, he would get a lecture on how he could get sick from all the filth. If he didn't eat healthy food, he would get a lecture on how the body works and how the heart needs good and healthy food to work. If he didn't exercise enough, he would get a lecture on how out of shape he would become.
"Okay Rin..." He sighed and this time let Rin pull him up.
"Now walk to the other end of the island" She tugged on his sleeve as he dragged his feet.
"That's so far away!" He complained but was shut up as Rin poked him on the shoulder.
"How do you expect to lose all that extra weight you've been gaining?" She questioned him, raising an eyebrow.
"I don't want to go anorexic" He yawned lazily as he walked slowly beside Rin who was pulling him, trying to go faster.
"I'm not telling you to go anorexic, just telling you to lose all that chubbiness in your cheeks, I swear you weren't like that before you came to the castle" She replied, starting to get annoyed by him.
"You mean you've been looking at me –that- closely?" He smirked as Rin punched him on the shoulder.
"No" She blushed and turned away. "By the way, you mind if I ask you something?"
"Nah, go ahead" He stopped abruptly as Rin stopped ahead of him. She turned around and faced him.
"What are these?" She raised her hand and brought her finger slowly to the red stripes on his face. She traced them slowly as he watched her intently, as if all his senses had gone to full volume and he was trying to stop himself from, at the most – purring.
He was about to lean into her hand but she pulled away before he got the chance. "So, what are they?"
He blinked as he processed her question. "Well, you could say they help my senses so they are at their fullest and well... they also show who I am, for example, if another demon came and saw my stripes they would immediately recognize me for the lord of the west and then the demon wouldn't dare attack"
Rin nodded and then raised her finger again and this time, traced his crescent moon on his forehead "What about this?"
"I don't really know, I guess it's like a dream catcher, I never got any bad dreams since it was drawn on my forehead"
Rin giggled "Lucky you"
He shrugged "Who cares? Anyway, let's just get this exercise over with..." he grumbled out as Rin turned full hyper again.
"Okay! Now let's hurry up!"
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Sango sighed as she piled the clean clothes on the side of the desk. No body told her that she would have to do all the maids work...they could have mentioned it at least.
"Having fun?" Miroku's voice interrupted her misfortunate thinking.
She turned around and glared at him "This was all your idea!"
He blinked at her innocently "No it wasn't, and if it was, I would get time to spend with you!"
Sango scoffed and turned back to cleaning the clothes "Stop with all the mushy talk"
He walked up to her and placed a hand on her shoulder which she brushed away quickly "Why so distant?"
Sango shrugged and continued piling the clothes...today – she was pissed, and nothing could cheer her up, absolutely nothing.
"You want to ditch this and go take a walk on the island?" Miroku questioned as he noticed her unpleasant mood. She cheered up instantly and nodded. "Okay then..."
"Hold on, let me just do this" She reached back and piled the last piece of laundry; she was turning around when she heard an unfamiliar sizzling sound. "What's that?"
Miroku who was already at the door furrowed his eyebrows as he heard the sound carry to his ears. "Sounds like it's coming from the basket"
They both walked up to the basket and peered in. Sango's eyes widened as she saw what was inside and as Miroku examined it, he gasped.
"A..." Sango started and Miroku finished her sentence off.
"A dynamite"
They both stared at it before realizing their situation; they had to get out of here, fast.
"Sango, we have to get out!" Miroku tugged on her sleeve. She immediately nodded and ran towards the door.
She was almost at the door but curse it when the movie like situations occur. Not noticing the stool in front of her, she misfortunately tripped over it.
"Hey Miroku, help me here!" Sango cried out as she noticed she had hurt her leg badly due to the accident.
He looked back and didn't hesitate to rush back and help her up. Just as he did the sizzling stopped. "Damnit, it's going to explode any second"
"We can't stay here to figure out!" Sango yelled out as she rushed for the door with Miroku right behind her.
If they had rushed out of the door one second later they would have been blown to bits.
Just as they escaped out of the door they heard the dynamite explode, Sango screamed as she felt burning pieces of wood touch her leg, but she regretted it as Miroku stood in front of her as if to guard her from the burning flames.
"This was a set up" He said as she clutched onto his robes, very afraid of what had just happened.
"What do you mean?" She asked feebly as he made no move to remove her from her clutches.
"Someone's here, trying to kill us – we have to warn the others" Miroku confirmed as he finally made a move. Sango nodded and let Miroku lead her to where the others were staying.
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Kagome perked up from her book as she heard the sound of an explosion not very far away. She shrugged as she confirmed herself it to be some of Inu- Yasha's pranks; she wouldn't fall for them...
She sighed as she went back to reading her book...finally; she had some piece and quiet.
Flipping the page over so she could read another book she didn't notice as someone opened her door.
She was humming a song to herself when she felt someone grab her hand and pull her up on the floor.
"What are you doing!?!" She yelled out, not looking up to figure out it was Inu-Yasha. "Something I would very much like to do" A voice drawled out to her.
She froze in her tracks. This was definitely NOT Inu-Yasha, and the painful grip he had on her hand just seemed to confirm that statement.
She looked up to see a face she hadn't ever seen before.
"Who are you?" She asked him, trying to get the thought of kidnapping out of her head – she couldn't show she was afraid, if she did, it was just going to please him.
"My name is Naraku; I see no one has introduced me to you before?"
She shook her head and tried to pull out of his grasp but she achieved no such goal "What do you want with me?"
He smiled at her question "...Oh, you're going to find out"
She whimpered as he dug his claws into her wrist, making three wounds for blood to pour out, feeling the incredibly painful pain as poison rushing through her body, though nothing could match the pain as he slammed her onto the wall.
"I never did anything to you!" She yelled again as he tied her one wrist to the steel hanger sticking out of the wall.
"...oh yes you did" He drawled at her as he tied her other wrist to the wall.
Kagome squirmed as she found herself in an unpleasant situation. She couldn't move her arms and right now, her legs were paralyzed, probably because of the poison she had felt rush through her body earlier.
"Please leave me alone" She asked, in her last desperate attempt.
"No can do" He laughed as he took something out of his pocket.
Kagome stared at it before realizing what it exactly was "What are you going to do with that?"
"Oh, this dynamite here? I'm going to place it right here – in front of you, and light it – so you can watch your own life tick away" He laughed as he watched her horrid expression.
"Why?" she asked him, feeling panic rise up in her body.
"Oh, well – it's too bad that you're going to die now that you won't figure out why isn't it?"
Kagome blinked her eyes as she felt panicky tears rush up to her eyes – she would not cry, not in front of someone like him.
"Such a beautiful face you have, too bad its going to be wasted" He looked at her face as Kagome widened her eyes as she processed what he was about to do. "Let me just have one pleasure before leaving"
"Don't you dare" Kagome shrieked as he leaned in closer. He held her face so she couldn't move away and then – kissed her.
Kagome felt that her body was about to burst, she could feel poison rushing through her mouth and burn her lips. Who ever he was – he was definitely evil. His lips were cold and burning hot at the same time and if he didn't pull back, Kagome knew she was going to die at the touch of him, let alone the dynamite.
He pulled back and smirked at her horrid reaction.
"You're disgusting!" she spat out to him.
He smirked and then laughed "Well, let me just light the dynamite"
He reached down and placed the dynamite right in front of Kagome's feet and lit it with fire.
And then, in a purple swift of smoke he vanished. "Have fun in your after life"
The last thing Kagome heard from him was an evil laugh.
Kagome panicked as she saw the dynamite in front of her. She squirmed so she could run away but the knots on her hand were dead tight and she knew she couldn't open them.
She closed her eyes, so she would have to see when the dynamite would explode.
"Oh god..." She whimpered out as she felt a tear fall down her face.
If someone didn't come to help her right now, she would surely die.
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There you go! – It was short, but I'll make up for it in the next chapter.
I'm evil, aren't I?
Well – you'll just have to wait to see what happens till the next chapter comes out...
Sayonara!
The last chapter was just a pass time – I didn't want to rush anything on to you guys so I had to make that un-eventful chapter, sorry to all whom disliked it. And to all those cliffy haters – forgive me for this chapter ^.^
I had finished this chapter a long time ago, but Fanfiction.net was down so I couldn't post it up – oh well!
The chapter's title just says that something's going to happen, doesn't it?
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Chapter Seventeen
Havoc over Chaos
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Kagome woke up to a bright and sunny day, the sun was shining straight into her eyes and she could tell by the sense of sound that the waterfall had decided to start rushing down again. Remembering that she would have to go outside for breakfast soon she decided it would be the best time to sneak a glance at the parchment.
Getting up grouchily from her bed she made her way across her room and reached down to pick up the roll of parchment which had made its way across the room and under the table.
She picked it up lazily and made her way back to her bed and as soon as she had reached the edge of her small bed, she flumped down on it. Kagome fumbled with the string she had used to tie the parchment with and after a few yawns and rubbing her eyes she opened the parchment slowly.
She strained her eyes as she saw the parchment wasn't exactly all map, their seemed to be some advice or rather some clues written on to it. Ignoring the map, she went directly to reading what was written under the map underneath the word 'Tetsusaiga'
'Sword, though with its will, be may given to the despairing and forlorn one of them both, may it seal the demon locked within, may it tame the blood rushing through his veins, may it keep the anger locked within until a cherished caring one is nearby to help him release it without furry'
Kagome felt her heart skip a beat as she read this. Was the parchment talking about Inu-Yasha or Sesshomuru? She had no idea, and even though she didn't know who it was talking about she got a pang of worried thoughts snap into her mind. Something serious had happened to one of the brothers, and she – had – to find out which one. She brushed the thought away as she read what followed.
'Though it can only be released with a soul of pure heart and a
spirit which can match no other'
Kagome furrowed her eyebrows at this. She was still sleepy but the content on the parchment had washed most of the sleeping sand away. 'Who ever wrote this must have been pretty serious on hiding that sword Tetsusaiga...'
Kagome skimmed the parchment and stopped when she saw content written under the bold writing of 'Tensaiga'
'Sword, may it be given to the one afraid of releasing deep emotion, what passed has passed and may it never return again'
Kagome scrunched her eyebrows; this seemed to be the only thing written for the sword Tensaiga apart from the map. She was deciding to finally look at the maps when Sango burst through the door.
"Kagome, I can't believe someone did this!" Sango yelled as she rushed over to her bed and sat down miserably on it. Kagome quickly hid the parchment underneath her pillow and then immediately after doing so, questioned Sango.
"Who did what?" she asked her, Sango sighed while punching her lap and then crossed her arms over her chest.
"I don't know who! But someone cut the rope on the boat, so were stuck on this island, probably for more than one week, I just don't know who would do such a thing" Sango glanced at Kagome who was practically sitting on her pillow. "What are you hiding?"
Kagome's eyes widened "I'm hiding nothing!" She squeaked out hoping that it didn't sound too obvious.
Sango raised an eyebrow but then afterwards just shrugged. "But, I'm just worried about who would do such a thing, I mean, I know none of us like staying on this island very much and whoever cut the line on the boat obviously wants us to stay here longer"
Kagome felt the hair on the back of her neck rise. What Sango had said had just reminded her of the incident of when she and Inu-Yasha had been attacked; she possibly couldn't have been tracked down could she?
From all that had happened, all she had figured out was that Inu-Yasha had a step mother, his real mother had died three years ago, and before her death she had hidden two swords which were meant to be given to the two siblings and now Kagome had a parchment leading to where they were hidden to.
Kagome shrugged off the bad feeling and nodded in Sango's direction.
"I just hope that it was a mistake and that none of us are being targeted" Sango sighed.
Kagome felt her gut scream at her that she was the one being targeted but she just shook of the feeling and hoped Sango would stop talking about it.
"But -." Sango started but was cut off as Kagome stood up.
"That's great Sango, I'm just going to go eat breakfast now – I'll meet you later?" Kagome smiled at Sango as she nodded and left Sango in the room heading down to where they had decided to eat breakfast.
She was on her way when she remembered she hadn't bathed in three days. She looked back at the waterfall and decided to have a little swim. Looking down at her clothes she ran back into her room and changed into something more comfortable for a swim. When she exited, she was wearing a simple summer dress; it was white, and made with thin cloth, just like the other clothes were made of.
Running up to edge of the cliff which looked over the lake which the waterfall rushed into she decided on jumping into the lake from a lower ledge.
Climbing down the cliff slowly, she reached a cliff, much nearer to the end of the waterfall.
"On the count of three...one...two – three!" And with that she jumped straight into the lake, immediately feeling the rush of the waterfall and enjoying it very much. She giggled as she reached the surface and immediately regretted not tying her hair as she felt it plaster to her back.
Looking around, she noticed that this place seemed much more beautiful than the land above from it. The waterfall ended a good two dozen feet away from her and the water wasn't too deep, it reached her neck if she tried to stand in it.
As she looked around, she noticed that getting out of here would be pretty difficult, seeing that the rocky walls which were set far away from each other were pretty high up. But apart from that, Kagome liked this place very much.
There was grass growing on the edges so she could get out of the rushing stream as she now liked to call it and sit down over there and one thing she would want to try was get near the waterfall.
"Kagome! Where are you?" A voice called her name, sounding very distant. She looked up and made a cave from her hands and shouted in them.
"Down here!" She yelled out. Not soon after, she saw Sango's head peering down at her from the cliff.
"Are you crazy?" She yelled at her, observing what she was doing.
"I'm just having a little fun!" She yelled back and wafted her hands around the rushing water, enjoying the feel of water wafting over them.
"Well, if you need any help getting out of there, just call us!" Sango assured her, and with that she left Kagome back to her playing around in the stream.
Kagome paddled around in the water and dived in a couple of times, observing what was underneath the water, counting how many seconds she could stay underneath water as well.
As she came up for air, two hands pressed against her eyes, blocking out all view and immediately arousing all emergency and panic buttons inside of her. She immediately raised her hands to whoever had their hands over her eyes and tried prying their hands off her eyes.
She immediately felt the claws and sighed frustratingly.
"Inu-Yasha, let go!" Kagome yelled out while trying to punch his arms. As he let go, Kagome heard him snicker and then begin to laugh.
"You should..." he choked on his breath while he laughed and tried to talk at the same time "...have felt the panic inside of you!" he burst into laughter.
"Well, I don't have people coming up to me while I'm trying to enjoy and pressing their hands onto my eyes so I can't see very often you know!" She yelled at him while trying to send him a glare.
"That's too bad wench!" he snickered again and then splashed water on her.
"I'm already wet, so that makes no difference" Kagome snapped at him smartly while lowering herself deeper into the water, hoping the thin cloth didn't become see through in water.
"I'm just telling you to get out of here so I can have some privacy!" Inu- Yasha snapped back at her. Kagome narrowed her eyes.
"Who died and made you the boss of me?" Kagome clenched her fists underneath the rippling water. "Just get out of my way!" He made an attempt to push her but she dodged easily out of his arms.
"Stop being such a jerk and leave me alone" Kagome crossed her arms across her chest "I mean it"
"This stream isn't yours, understand?" Inu-Yasha yelled at her, starting to lose his patience.
"Then let's just share it!" Kagome took his 'feh' for a fine and turned around and muttered something that sounded like a 'to think he was actually nice' and a 'Poor Kikyou'
"I heard that" Inu-Yasha yelled at her from where he was standing beside the waterfall.
"You think I care?" Kagome replied back elegantly, taking the risk of going near the waterfall. As she reached where she could feel almost feel the pressure of the waterfall on the water, she stepped back and swam swiftly under the water.
She was walking on the bottom of the stream when she felt her arm collide with something sharp. She winced and looked immediately at what she had scraped her arm with – a floating stick, but the tip was sharp.
She frowned with frustration while looking at the blood start to leak. She heard a sigh from behind and as she turned around she came face to chest with Inu-Yasha. She looked up to see a pissed expression plastered onto his face.
"You can't even keep yourself from hurting yourself for one day can you?" He sighed, somehow annoyed.
Kagome raised an eyebrow "Well, you have no right to scold me for that Inu- Yasha!"
Inu-Yasha scoffed and grabbed her arm which had been scraped with the stick. Kagome just stared in confusion as he stared at it for a moment. After examining the wound he simply took his sleeve, brought it too his mouth and ripped a slice of cloth from it. After wards he wrapped the ripped piece of cloth around her wounded arm and then handed her arm back to her.
"Just so people don't start thinking I scraped you with my claws" He said nonchalantly, showing not a least bit of concern on his face, and then went walking back to whatever he was doing before. Kagome stood there, frozen for the moment and then smiled at her bandage.
Well...he – could – be nice sometimes; he just hid it inside himself really well - really, really well. She coughed. Really, really, really, really well.
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Sesshomuru sighed as leaned on the trunk of the tree. No matter how much he tried to entertain himself, nothing seemed to click. He had finally found something to entertain himself at the castle and now he had nothing to do because he had left that special something back at the castle.
"Sesshomuru, get off your lazy butt and get some exercise!" A familiar voice called out to him. He snapped his eyes open and sniffed the air to recognize the oh-so familiar voice.
"Rin? What are you doing here?" He blinked at the girl staring down at him.
"I wasn't going to be left back at the castle while everyone else had fun over here!" She glared down at him while he processed the information "Well, aren't you going to do what I told you?"
He sighed, so much of leaving that special something behind at the castle...
"Why should I get some exercise? I'm perfectly in shape"
"Because, I've been watching you since you've come here, and all you do is lean on a tree, sigh, think about something and fall asleep right there, you only have those muscles because you're a demon, I doubt you do anything different back at the castle!" She placed her hands on her hips, still not removing her threatening glare.
"Sorry?" He gave her an apologetic stare which made her roll her eyes.
"I don't want a sorry, I want you to get off of your lazy ass and do some walking, running, or something!" She reached down and made a hopeless attempt to pull him off ground. All she managed to do was pull his arm which seemed like only like a tug on his sleeve to Sesshomuru.
"No" he replied stubbornly and pulled his arm back onto his lap.
"Don't give me a no mister or else!" She replied to his statement, just with the same stubbornness.
Sesshomuru sighed at his bad misfortune. He knew he was stronger than her, and could attack her at any moment, but for some reason, he always found himself in her mercy. This had been going on for a while...
If he overslept, he would get a good lecture on how a man could get a heart attack from too much sleep. If he didn't take a shower, he would get a lecture on how he could get sick from all the filth. If he didn't eat healthy food, he would get a lecture on how the body works and how the heart needs good and healthy food to work. If he didn't exercise enough, he would get a lecture on how out of shape he would become.
"Okay Rin..." He sighed and this time let Rin pull him up.
"Now walk to the other end of the island" She tugged on his sleeve as he dragged his feet.
"That's so far away!" He complained but was shut up as Rin poked him on the shoulder.
"How do you expect to lose all that extra weight you've been gaining?" She questioned him, raising an eyebrow.
"I don't want to go anorexic" He yawned lazily as he walked slowly beside Rin who was pulling him, trying to go faster.
"I'm not telling you to go anorexic, just telling you to lose all that chubbiness in your cheeks, I swear you weren't like that before you came to the castle" She replied, starting to get annoyed by him.
"You mean you've been looking at me –that- closely?" He smirked as Rin punched him on the shoulder.
"No" She blushed and turned away. "By the way, you mind if I ask you something?"
"Nah, go ahead" He stopped abruptly as Rin stopped ahead of him. She turned around and faced him.
"What are these?" She raised her hand and brought her finger slowly to the red stripes on his face. She traced them slowly as he watched her intently, as if all his senses had gone to full volume and he was trying to stop himself from, at the most – purring.
He was about to lean into her hand but she pulled away before he got the chance. "So, what are they?"
He blinked as he processed her question. "Well, you could say they help my senses so they are at their fullest and well... they also show who I am, for example, if another demon came and saw my stripes they would immediately recognize me for the lord of the west and then the demon wouldn't dare attack"
Rin nodded and then raised her finger again and this time, traced his crescent moon on his forehead "What about this?"
"I don't really know, I guess it's like a dream catcher, I never got any bad dreams since it was drawn on my forehead"
Rin giggled "Lucky you"
He shrugged "Who cares? Anyway, let's just get this exercise over with..." he grumbled out as Rin turned full hyper again.
"Okay! Now let's hurry up!"
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Sango sighed as she piled the clean clothes on the side of the desk. No body told her that she would have to do all the maids work...they could have mentioned it at least.
"Having fun?" Miroku's voice interrupted her misfortunate thinking.
She turned around and glared at him "This was all your idea!"
He blinked at her innocently "No it wasn't, and if it was, I would get time to spend with you!"
Sango scoffed and turned back to cleaning the clothes "Stop with all the mushy talk"
He walked up to her and placed a hand on her shoulder which she brushed away quickly "Why so distant?"
Sango shrugged and continued piling the clothes...today – she was pissed, and nothing could cheer her up, absolutely nothing.
"You want to ditch this and go take a walk on the island?" Miroku questioned as he noticed her unpleasant mood. She cheered up instantly and nodded. "Okay then..."
"Hold on, let me just do this" She reached back and piled the last piece of laundry; she was turning around when she heard an unfamiliar sizzling sound. "What's that?"
Miroku who was already at the door furrowed his eyebrows as he heard the sound carry to his ears. "Sounds like it's coming from the basket"
They both walked up to the basket and peered in. Sango's eyes widened as she saw what was inside and as Miroku examined it, he gasped.
"A..." Sango started and Miroku finished her sentence off.
"A dynamite"
They both stared at it before realizing their situation; they had to get out of here, fast.
"Sango, we have to get out!" Miroku tugged on her sleeve. She immediately nodded and ran towards the door.
She was almost at the door but curse it when the movie like situations occur. Not noticing the stool in front of her, she misfortunately tripped over it.
"Hey Miroku, help me here!" Sango cried out as she noticed she had hurt her leg badly due to the accident.
He looked back and didn't hesitate to rush back and help her up. Just as he did the sizzling stopped. "Damnit, it's going to explode any second"
"We can't stay here to figure out!" Sango yelled out as she rushed for the door with Miroku right behind her.
If they had rushed out of the door one second later they would have been blown to bits.
Just as they escaped out of the door they heard the dynamite explode, Sango screamed as she felt burning pieces of wood touch her leg, but she regretted it as Miroku stood in front of her as if to guard her from the burning flames.
"This was a set up" He said as she clutched onto his robes, very afraid of what had just happened.
"What do you mean?" She asked feebly as he made no move to remove her from her clutches.
"Someone's here, trying to kill us – we have to warn the others" Miroku confirmed as he finally made a move. Sango nodded and let Miroku lead her to where the others were staying.
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Kagome perked up from her book as she heard the sound of an explosion not very far away. She shrugged as she confirmed herself it to be some of Inu- Yasha's pranks; she wouldn't fall for them...
She sighed as she went back to reading her book...finally; she had some piece and quiet.
Flipping the page over so she could read another book she didn't notice as someone opened her door.
She was humming a song to herself when she felt someone grab her hand and pull her up on the floor.
"What are you doing!?!" She yelled out, not looking up to figure out it was Inu-Yasha. "Something I would very much like to do" A voice drawled out to her.
She froze in her tracks. This was definitely NOT Inu-Yasha, and the painful grip he had on her hand just seemed to confirm that statement.
She looked up to see a face she hadn't ever seen before.
"Who are you?" She asked him, trying to get the thought of kidnapping out of her head – she couldn't show she was afraid, if she did, it was just going to please him.
"My name is Naraku; I see no one has introduced me to you before?"
She shook her head and tried to pull out of his grasp but she achieved no such goal "What do you want with me?"
He smiled at her question "...Oh, you're going to find out"
She whimpered as he dug his claws into her wrist, making three wounds for blood to pour out, feeling the incredibly painful pain as poison rushing through her body, though nothing could match the pain as he slammed her onto the wall.
"I never did anything to you!" She yelled again as he tied her one wrist to the steel hanger sticking out of the wall.
"...oh yes you did" He drawled at her as he tied her other wrist to the wall.
Kagome squirmed as she found herself in an unpleasant situation. She couldn't move her arms and right now, her legs were paralyzed, probably because of the poison she had felt rush through her body earlier.
"Please leave me alone" She asked, in her last desperate attempt.
"No can do" He laughed as he took something out of his pocket.
Kagome stared at it before realizing what it exactly was "What are you going to do with that?"
"Oh, this dynamite here? I'm going to place it right here – in front of you, and light it – so you can watch your own life tick away" He laughed as he watched her horrid expression.
"Why?" she asked him, feeling panic rise up in her body.
"Oh, well – it's too bad that you're going to die now that you won't figure out why isn't it?"
Kagome blinked her eyes as she felt panicky tears rush up to her eyes – she would not cry, not in front of someone like him.
"Such a beautiful face you have, too bad its going to be wasted" He looked at her face as Kagome widened her eyes as she processed what he was about to do. "Let me just have one pleasure before leaving"
"Don't you dare" Kagome shrieked as he leaned in closer. He held her face so she couldn't move away and then – kissed her.
Kagome felt that her body was about to burst, she could feel poison rushing through her mouth and burn her lips. Who ever he was – he was definitely evil. His lips were cold and burning hot at the same time and if he didn't pull back, Kagome knew she was going to die at the touch of him, let alone the dynamite.
He pulled back and smirked at her horrid reaction.
"You're disgusting!" she spat out to him.
He smirked and then laughed "Well, let me just light the dynamite"
He reached down and placed the dynamite right in front of Kagome's feet and lit it with fire.
And then, in a purple swift of smoke he vanished. "Have fun in your after life"
The last thing Kagome heard from him was an evil laugh.
Kagome panicked as she saw the dynamite in front of her. She squirmed so she could run away but the knots on her hand were dead tight and she knew she couldn't open them.
She closed her eyes, so she would have to see when the dynamite would explode.
"Oh god..." She whimpered out as she felt a tear fall down her face.
If someone didn't come to help her right now, she would surely die.
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There you go! – It was short, but I'll make up for it in the next chapter.
I'm evil, aren't I?
Well – you'll just have to wait to see what happens till the next chapter comes out...
Sayonara!