A wish upon a star
*sobs* I am so ultra, mega sorry for the update! I had started writing this chapter on the first day of the three day limit I had up but then I came up with a serious writers block... I couldn't think of anything and I couldn't write, I had the ending thought up in my mind and the beginning but the middle was something I couldn't sort out, but after remembering something about Naraku in the anime, I came up with the perfect chapter.
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Chapter Twenty One
Persistence and Reveries
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Kagome blew on her tongue, feeling very giddy and in the mood of blowing raspberries. Having a dream about frolicking about in the snow she was swinging her arms around in reality.
Kagome sneezed in her dream, starting to feel cold in the slow and then out of nowhere, someone wrapped his arms around her fragile body, pulling her into a warm and deep embrace.
Kagome snuggled into whoever was embracing her, receiving warm vibes in return.
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Inu-Yasha looked down at the sleeping figure that was clutching his arm tightly. A feeling of reassurance and warmth spread over him.
"Stupid baka..." he said to her as she tried to snuggle closer to him but his other free hand which wasn't occupied by her clutching arms pushed her back down.
I'll be your dream, I'll be your wish, I'll be your fantasy
I'll be your hope, I'll be your love, be everything that you need
I'll love you more with every breath
Truly Madly Deeply Do
Kagome whispered out as she tossed and turned around in her bed, almost punching Inu-Yasha in his stomach with her hand which let go of his arm for a second. Inu-Yasha blinked, she was singing?
I will be strong, I will be faithful
Coz I'm counting on
A new beginning, a reason for living, a deeper meaning yeah
Kagome sang in a sing song silly voice out loud in her sleep.
Inu-Yasha rolled his eyes.
After walking in his mother's burial ground, he had seen Kagome lying motionless on the ground. He hadn't known or understood what he had felt, but in a second he had rushed up to her and was checking any signs of life.
She had been fortunately breathing but it seemed like her body was a lifeless shell.
Looking around, oblivious to the fact that she was in his mother's burial room, he spotted a girl, standing a few feet away, holding a mirror.
Inu-Yasha snapped out of his thoughts to look at the whining, sleeping girl. She was struggling to get rid of his resisting arms and cuddle into him, he sighed with frustration. Jeez – her soul gets sucked out of her body once and she acts all gooey around him?
I want to stand with you on a mountain
I want to bathe with you in the sea
I wanna lay like this forever
Until the sky falls down on me
Kagome started singing again, but this time in a high pitched voice making Inu-Yasha flatten his ears so he could avoid the chances of becoming deaf.
Inu-Yasha returned to his thoughts.
He had sensed an evil aura around the girl and had once attacked her with his claws. She had merely absorbed her attack and had reflected it back to him, which he had dodged easily.
After that, it was a blur to even Inu-Yasha who experienced it.
It seemed as if the girl had sucked Kagome's soul out and had kept the soul in the mirror. And then, out of no where the mirror had released a piercing bright light full which Inu-Yasha had sensed had Kagome's life.
The mirror had shattered, leaving the bewildered girl, standing paralyzed at the broken pieces at her feet.
"Her soul is too strong to be locked away, my master will not be happy about this"
Those were her only words before she disappeared in a puff of white smoke.
Inu-Yasha grumbled.
And now, he was stuck with a sleeping – hyper and off pitched singing Kagome. After realizing that her soul had been taken away from her and was now returned, Inu-Yasha had picked her up and he raced her to his secret room.
He grumbled again.
Big mistake. "I should have left her back there"
He looked down at the girl which had somehow successfully cuddled into him and had taken a big gasp, obviously preparing to sing again.
'And when the stars are shining brightly in the velvet sky
I'll make a wish send it to heaven, and make you want to cry
The tears of joy for all the pleasure in the certainty
That we're surrounded by the comfort and protection of
The highest powers, in lonely hours
The tears devour you'
She sang in a higher pitch than before. He blinked, where had she learned this song?
Remembering that she was now sitting on his lap and was leaning on his chest, cuddled into him deeply he made a hopeless attempt to pry her off before she got up and blamed -him- for the situation.
'I want to stand with you on a mountain
I want to bathe with you in the sea
I wanna lay like this forever
Until the sky falls down on me'
She sang in a lower pitched voice which actually seemed heavenly. Inu-Yasha blinked, freezing at once... she wasn't meaning what she was singing right?
He scoffed, of course she wasn't. She was just asleep... that was all, she was just asleep...
He looked down at her peaceful face something about her making the bottom of his skin tingle. He growled... 'Worthless stupid girl' he called her as he remembered how he had worried when he had thought she was dead for the second time.
Looking at her sleeping face, an unknown desire stormed inside of him making him wonder in confusion at what it was.
As he smelt her seducing scent, he leaned in to envelop it getting a shock when she spoke right below his ear.
'I'll be your dream, I'll be your wish, I'll be your fantasy
I'll be your hope, I'll be your love, be everything that you need
I'll love you more with every breath
Truly Madly Deeply Do'
He jumped back, dropping her all at once.
After realizing what he had done, he took a deep breath. 'Stupid girl got on my nerves' he shook his head. "She was just singing her stupid love song"
"Where am I?" Kagome squeaked out.
Inu-Yasha glanced at her, she was awake. He rolled his eyes and then sighed in satisfaction. "No more gooey songs"
She blinked confusedly at him as she got up "What are you talking about?"
He growled at her and then he softened when he saw her confused expression. "You don't remember anything?"
She closed her eyes in thought and then opened them "Uh... no, by the way, how did I get here, was I sleep walking or something?"
He rolled his eyes and shook his head, and then, filled her in on the happenings, after finishing Kagome widened her eyes at him.
"...and they are after me, why?"
He shrugged "Because they don't want an ugliness like you wandering our lands"
She scoffed "Shut up! I just got my soul back from that Kanna girl and you're already insulting me!"
He smirked "I couldn't resist"
She rolled her eyes "So, you said that Kanna said her master wasn't going to be pleased about...this, do you think she could possibly be working for Naraku?"
"Naraku?" He asked nervously, somehow the name pulling a cord inside of him.
"The guy who almost killed me back in the island" she refreshed his memory and then raised her eyebrows at the whole situation. "Wait a minute! First of all, Naraku tries to kill me, secondly a girl named Kanna who could possibly be working for Naraku steals my soul and then returns it to me... why are they after me in the first place?"
He looked around the room, wondering on the same question... why –were- they after her? Wasn't it only him Naraku wanted to murder?
"Inu-Yasha?" she asked when she heard no reply.
"Huh? Oh – yeah?" He snapped back to reality when he heard her voice, starting to feel a little dazed off.
"Do you know anything about this? I mean, I am starting to feel scared" She said nervously as she remembered the attack on the hill. All of it seeming too real to be a coincidence.
He looked at her and gave a reassuring smirk "Don't worry, nothing can happen to you here"
"Well, if it wasn't for you, I would have died on that hill when we both were attacked, I would've died under the weight of the wood on the island, and my soul would have been snatched away from me if you might've been somewhere else at that time" she said, stating each of the disasters.
He thought about it for a while "Just a few more weeks and your getting married, you'll move away from this palace so just keep safe till then and I guess you'll be fine after that"
The answer wasn't what Kagome would've have liked. Her hopes dampened and she rested her head back onto the pillow Inu-Yasha had given her while she had awoken. She looked up at the ceiling and sighed.
Inu-Yasha sensed her worried aura and softened a bit "By the way, I saved you all those other times, what makes you think I'm going to let someone harm you now?"
She blinked and looked at him from the corner of her eye "Thank you"
He shrugged "Don't let it go to your head, I would've done it for anyone"
She smiled "Of course"
They both sat in silence; Kagome was still looking up at the ceiling, pondering on some thoughts while Inu-Yasha was trying to get some shut eye. After a while, Kagome spoke up.
"How did your mother die?" she asked simply, releasing the question that had been tugging on her mind for a while.
He opened his eyes and stared at the floor "She died in an explosion"
She nodded "You were fourteen at that time, weren't you?"
He sighed "Yeah, I was"
"Do you remember her?" She asked, daring to ask further.
He didn't reply for a while and scooted closer to Kagome so he could study her features as she closed her eyes, trying to go to sleep.
"I miss her every day"
"It must be tough on you" she said between a yawn.
He didn't reply, not finding an answer to her comment. Of course it had been tough on him, he was the main cause of her death, and how could he live every day without regret or pain of his memories?
"Did Naraku kill her?"
He sighed, somehow wanting to release everything inside of him to her, all his memories, all of his problems... she seemed to understand him in a way but something held him back and he knew what it was. It was fear. She would run away after knowing what had happened to him, she would think he was a monster, something to be disgraced of being related to.
After a while of thinking, he answered her question "In a way, yes, he did"
"Who knows about this?" She asked, opening her eyes somehow not finding the need to sleep anymore but rather in the mood of talking with the half demon.
He struggled with his answer, "Only you and my big brother"
She smiled "Even though it seems you and your big brother don't even talk, it always looks like you have a special bond, and that's really special you know"
He blinked "Huh?"
"I wish I could relate to my sister like that, she's so cold and secretive
He chuckled "I noticed"
"Inu-Yasha, may I ask you one final question?" Kagome asked, starting to feel a little shy of what she was going to ask.
"Yeah?" He replied, sensing her sudden change of aura immediately.
"If you could go back in time and stop us meeting on your corridor the first day I met and then not meet me at all, would you?" she asked nervously though very eager to hear his reply.
He thought about her question and smirked "And miss all the superman rescuing I've done and not have you beat me up, go back to my peace and not have to fight with you every single day? I wouldn't think twice before going back and doing that!"
She gaped at him and then narrowed her eyes "Meanie"
"I'm just stating the truth!" He shot back in self defense.
"I have got to get going" She said and got up, heading for the small door.
"I'll see you around" he said before lying down on the pillows.
"Oh god, please no"
He rolled his eyes "Look who's calling me mean"
"Shut up"
"Make me"
"I will if you tempt me!"
"Kagome's fat, she looks like a rat, whenever she wants to do something, she eats like a pig and looks like a pumpkin!" He rhymed teasingly making her stop dead in her tracks.
She turned around and glared at him "What did you say?"
"Her ass if as fat as a tomato and her face reminds me of a potato, she smells like manure and her face needs a cure" he smirked at her and enjoyed her livid expression.
"You-"
"Her voice reminds me of a donkey who laughs like a monkey, she farts all night and she doesn't know how to fight"
"Oh, yes-"
"She needs to get paid, I saw her getting laid, oh god – it was so ghastly, and very, very nasty!" He chuckled at his rhyming and didn't hear Kagome storm up to him.
"How DARE you say that!" She picked up the pillow and smacked his head hard. "Stupid bastard..." and with that she ran out of the room.
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Kagome walked up the stairs from the library so she could check out where everyone was. Still feeling a little shaky on the thought that her soul had been sucked out she was minding her steps carefully and didn't turn a corner without checking if anyone she didn't know was there.
After turning on the corner to the corridor of her room she was surprised to see Kouga standing in front of her door. Feeling curious, she walked up to him and studied his face. "... Kouga?"
He blinked and snapped out of his thought and looked at Kagome "Oh... hi, Kagome"
She smiled and nodded, feeling quite suspicious on the thought he had been hanging around her door.
"Do you need to speak to me?" she asked when she saw Kouga look at her and then back over the balcony.
He nodded "Actually, yes, I do"
She raised an eyebrow "Okay, go ahead, I'm not going anywhere"
He hesitated and then grabbed her wrist. "Kagome, I don't know how to explain this – I've never felt like this about anyone before"
Her guts were screaming out to her, telling her something was wrong but she ignored the feeling "Are you talking about Sango?"
He shook his head "No, I'm not" He stopped and looked around "This isn't the place I can tell you, may we go to the sea?"
Kagome hesitated... something was telling her not to go but the other half was as curious as a cat. She nodded and then let him lead her down the steps.
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Kouga chewed on his apple and looked down at the poem he had written for Sango.
'You're so beautiful'
He blinked, that was all he had written down so far. As he thought about it, there was nothing else he could think about Sango he liked... sure she was beautiful, but so were Kagome and Kikyou.
He sighed... there he did it again, he had fallen into a silly crush on Sango and he had once again thought it was love. Feeling stupid and used he got up and threw the paper onto the floor of his room.
He stepped out and looked over the balcony to look at the garden.
He blinked when he saw Kagome being pulled by someone he looked quite like himself.
He focused his eyes. 'Hold on...' the man who was pulling Kagome looked –exactly- like him.
He blinked and walked back into his room... nah, he must have been hallucinating.
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Kagome tried to pull away from Kouga's tight grip on her wrist; they were already across the garden and were now taking the long route from the forest to the sea. She called out to Kouga who was racing along the forest like he had something to hide from.
"Kouga... you aren't acting like yourself" she whimpered out when she heard him growl as a twig scraped his face from a branch.
"You don't even know me so how can you judge me?" he snapped back, making Kagome quiet down.
Kagome regretted allowing him to lead her to the sea, her guts were now wailing out to her that she head back but now she had no choice as Kouga's grip tightened on her wrist making it impossible for her to break away.
After reaching the sea Kouga led her to a high cliff which led down to crashing waves. After settling down on the cliff he let go of her wrist and pushed her back.
Kagome's heart skipped a beat when she noticed how high up they were and if she fell down here, the waves would swallow her body and crash them to the rocks. She looked back at Kouga who had a hideous expression glowering from his face.
"Kouga, I don't feel safe up here" she whimpered out, feeling like a fragile piece of glass compared to him.
"Kouga...? Who said I was Kouga?" his voice changed dramatically and Kagome widened her eyes as she saw him change is appearance into her dreaded fear.
"Oh my god, it's you" she whispered and took a step back.
"Why so distant? Any who, looks like you survived Kagura's feather, Kanna's soul devouring mirror and my dynamite... so now, I'm deciding to just kidnap you and kill you silently in my quarters" He drawled out, enjoying the fear pouring out of her.
"I did nothing to you" She shot at him, taking a step back as he took a step forward.
"You interfered in my paths" He replied nonchalantly.
"How?" she asked, remembering nothing she did that could have interfered with his life what so ever.
He laughed "You still don't know? I pity you"
Feeling her heart speed up an incredible pace, she turned around to run but was stopped when a pair of rough hand grabbed her and pull her back to a sturdy chest.
Naraku trailed a finger around her neck "Such a fragile part of the body, I could crush it right now, but that wont be fun"
She choked as she smelt poison leak from his body. "You're pathetic"
He chuckled "Don't throw words out of your mouth which you don't mean"
She struggled against his firm grip "what are you going to do to me?" she asked, feeling nauseous all of a sudden.
"Well, I'm going to torture you and then I'm going to kill you" he replied dryly, still trailing his finger around her neck.
"Please, leave me" she asked in her last hopeless attempt.
"I'll act as if you didn't say that" he said and then covered her nose with his hand.
Kagome chocked on the poisonous scent he was leaking up her nose, and in a matter of seconds, she fainted.
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"Honey, brighten up – you can't look like this on your wedding day" Sesshomaru's step mother scolded him motherly as he looked the preparations with boredom.
"Why?" he asked back dryly, feeling no need to do such a thing.
"Because we don't want a groom looking like that state you're in now" She replied back and fixed the collar of the shirt he had tried on.
"Why?" He asked again.
She sighed "Because you don't look very charming"
Rin giggled from the piles of clothes she was folding. She had been chosen to help one of the grooms decide the wedding clothes and she had decided to help Sesshomaru... and so far, the experience had been –very- interesting.
"Why?" he sighed out, ignoring Rin laugh silently at his clothes.
"Because, no one looks charming when they are bored" She stated in a matter of fact way. "... Rin honey, can you help me hold his shirt together while I sew on the buttons?"
Rin nodded and walked over to Sesshomaru, she held onto his collar, and moved aside so his mom could sew on the collar buttons.
"Rin, don't you think he looks charming?" The queen asked.
Rin blushed before answering "Of course"
Sesshomaru smirked, well... this could have its advantages now and then.
The queen was about to say something when the door burst open "I'm sorry my lady, but the wedding dresses were accidentally blown away from the washing line and now they are torn, we need your assistance" A servant spoke hurriedly.
The queen sighed and smiled at Sesshomaru "Rin, do you know how to sow?"
She nodded, "I'm not an expert though"
She smiled "That's fine; I'll be back after a while, just sow the buttons on and fix the shirt if it needs to be fixed"
She nodded and picked up the needle and thread. The queen left with the servant leaving the pair together.
"So... tell me how 'charming' I look?" Sesshomaru asked teasingly as Rin sewed on the second button with a little difficulty.
She rolled her eyes and ignored his question.
"Rin, there you are!" A voice interrupted the interesting situation. Rin looked towards the door to see Hojo standing there smiling broadly towards her.
"Oh, hi there" She replied and silently scolded Sesshomaru when he tried to escape from her clutches. "Stay still wont you! I'll poke you with the needle if you keep moving"
"Are you busy Rin?" Hojo asked and stepped in the room to study what was going on.
"No, I'm just finishing off the grooms shirt for the wedding" She replied, in a very soft tone in which Sesshomaru had never heard her in before.
"So you won't mind if I hang around?" He asked and stepped closer, somehow minding the physical touch going on between the two.
"Oh, no, stay in here as long as you want" She smiled at him sweetly, surprising Sesshomaru very much.
"You never asked me if it's okay" He snapped at her, quiet enough to only let Rin hear.
She raised an eyebrow at his statement "Okay... is it okay if he stays here?"
"No" He stated simply, somehow the exchange between the two bothering him.
"Why ever not?" She asked, surprised at his arrogant behavior.
"I don't like him" He said in a matter of fact way.
"Excuse me, but can you both stop whispering to each other?" Hojo interrupted, seeing how close they had become while the exchange.
Rin jerked back immediately and continued sowing on the buttons.
The three stayed in silence and not soon after, Rin had finished with the buttons.
She stepped back to admire her work. "You don't look so bad"
He blinked and looked down at himself "You think?"
She nodded "Actually, it looks pretty good"
"Ahem," Hojo coughed interrupting their conversation "Rin, can we go now?"
Sesshomaru stepped in "She has to help with the clothes, I'm sorry but she can't leave"
"She can leave whenever she wants to, if I may correct you" Hojo spoke back defensively. "Isn't that correct Rin?"
Rin looked at both of them, feeling much like they were both fighting over her. After a matter of moments she spoke up "Actually... I have to work here, I'll see you later Hojo"
Hojo looked hurt but then he sighed "Fine, bye" and with that he left the room.
Rin turned back to Sesshomaru and glared at him "What was that about?!?"
"What was what about?" He asked, pretending to not know what she was talking about.
She rolled her eyes "Forget it"
She tugged on the bottom of his shirt to make it seem longer and was surprised when he talked.
"You won't go near him"
She looked up at him "Why would I ever do that?"
"I don't like him" He said simply.
She rolled her eyes "Well, you can't stop him from coming to me so forget about the idea"
He growled "I mean it"
She rolled her eyes "Yeah... right"
His eyes flashed red for a millisecond at her ignorance and then he leaned down to scrape his fangs on her neck.
She gasped at the slight pain and jerked back immediately "What the hell did you do that for?"
He struggled for his words and then after the shock wore off of what he had just done he answered her question "Don't worry, it's not like a bit you or anything" he replied dumbly, not even knowing himself why he had done something like that. The thought of another man laying his hands on her just seemed to pull a cord inside of him that he never knew existed.
She rubbed her neck "Ouch- that felt like a knife was run across my neck"
"Rin, have you finished with the buttons?" The queen's voice rang through the room. They looked to the door and saw the motherly queen walk in. "The wedding dresses are okay now, oh – sweetie, you look so handsome!"
Rin looked at Sesshomaru, still not relieving her neck from her hand.
"Rin, don't you think he looks like a perfect groom?" The queen asked, making Sesshomaru smirk again.
Rin sighed "Of course"
"Rin, could you help me with the pants now?"
Rin groaned mentally... oh god, please no.
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That's it for now!
Don't worry; the next chapter will reveal a lot of things! Stuff like... where the Tetsusaiga is... um... and uh... some other stuff. Though the secret isn't one of them.
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Sayonara!
*sobs* I am so ultra, mega sorry for the update! I had started writing this chapter on the first day of the three day limit I had up but then I came up with a serious writers block... I couldn't think of anything and I couldn't write, I had the ending thought up in my mind and the beginning but the middle was something I couldn't sort out, but after remembering something about Naraku in the anime, I came up with the perfect chapter.
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Chapter Twenty One
Persistence and Reveries
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Kagome blew on her tongue, feeling very giddy and in the mood of blowing raspberries. Having a dream about frolicking about in the snow she was swinging her arms around in reality.
Kagome sneezed in her dream, starting to feel cold in the slow and then out of nowhere, someone wrapped his arms around her fragile body, pulling her into a warm and deep embrace.
Kagome snuggled into whoever was embracing her, receiving warm vibes in return.
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Inu-Yasha looked down at the sleeping figure that was clutching his arm tightly. A feeling of reassurance and warmth spread over him.
"Stupid baka..." he said to her as she tried to snuggle closer to him but his other free hand which wasn't occupied by her clutching arms pushed her back down.
I'll be your dream, I'll be your wish, I'll be your fantasy
I'll be your hope, I'll be your love, be everything that you need
I'll love you more with every breath
Truly Madly Deeply Do
Kagome whispered out as she tossed and turned around in her bed, almost punching Inu-Yasha in his stomach with her hand which let go of his arm for a second. Inu-Yasha blinked, she was singing?
I will be strong, I will be faithful
Coz I'm counting on
A new beginning, a reason for living, a deeper meaning yeah
Kagome sang in a sing song silly voice out loud in her sleep.
Inu-Yasha rolled his eyes.
After walking in his mother's burial ground, he had seen Kagome lying motionless on the ground. He hadn't known or understood what he had felt, but in a second he had rushed up to her and was checking any signs of life.
She had been fortunately breathing but it seemed like her body was a lifeless shell.
Looking around, oblivious to the fact that she was in his mother's burial room, he spotted a girl, standing a few feet away, holding a mirror.
Inu-Yasha snapped out of his thoughts to look at the whining, sleeping girl. She was struggling to get rid of his resisting arms and cuddle into him, he sighed with frustration. Jeez – her soul gets sucked out of her body once and she acts all gooey around him?
I want to stand with you on a mountain
I want to bathe with you in the sea
I wanna lay like this forever
Until the sky falls down on me
Kagome started singing again, but this time in a high pitched voice making Inu-Yasha flatten his ears so he could avoid the chances of becoming deaf.
Inu-Yasha returned to his thoughts.
He had sensed an evil aura around the girl and had once attacked her with his claws. She had merely absorbed her attack and had reflected it back to him, which he had dodged easily.
After that, it was a blur to even Inu-Yasha who experienced it.
It seemed as if the girl had sucked Kagome's soul out and had kept the soul in the mirror. And then, out of no where the mirror had released a piercing bright light full which Inu-Yasha had sensed had Kagome's life.
The mirror had shattered, leaving the bewildered girl, standing paralyzed at the broken pieces at her feet.
"Her soul is too strong to be locked away, my master will not be happy about this"
Those were her only words before she disappeared in a puff of white smoke.
Inu-Yasha grumbled.
And now, he was stuck with a sleeping – hyper and off pitched singing Kagome. After realizing that her soul had been taken away from her and was now returned, Inu-Yasha had picked her up and he raced her to his secret room.
He grumbled again.
Big mistake. "I should have left her back there"
He looked down at the girl which had somehow successfully cuddled into him and had taken a big gasp, obviously preparing to sing again.
'And when the stars are shining brightly in the velvet sky
I'll make a wish send it to heaven, and make you want to cry
The tears of joy for all the pleasure in the certainty
That we're surrounded by the comfort and protection of
The highest powers, in lonely hours
The tears devour you'
She sang in a higher pitch than before. He blinked, where had she learned this song?
Remembering that she was now sitting on his lap and was leaning on his chest, cuddled into him deeply he made a hopeless attempt to pry her off before she got up and blamed -him- for the situation.
'I want to stand with you on a mountain
I want to bathe with you in the sea
I wanna lay like this forever
Until the sky falls down on me'
She sang in a lower pitched voice which actually seemed heavenly. Inu-Yasha blinked, freezing at once... she wasn't meaning what she was singing right?
He scoffed, of course she wasn't. She was just asleep... that was all, she was just asleep...
He looked down at her peaceful face something about her making the bottom of his skin tingle. He growled... 'Worthless stupid girl' he called her as he remembered how he had worried when he had thought she was dead for the second time.
Looking at her sleeping face, an unknown desire stormed inside of him making him wonder in confusion at what it was.
As he smelt her seducing scent, he leaned in to envelop it getting a shock when she spoke right below his ear.
'I'll be your dream, I'll be your wish, I'll be your fantasy
I'll be your hope, I'll be your love, be everything that you need
I'll love you more with every breath
Truly Madly Deeply Do'
He jumped back, dropping her all at once.
After realizing what he had done, he took a deep breath. 'Stupid girl got on my nerves' he shook his head. "She was just singing her stupid love song"
"Where am I?" Kagome squeaked out.
Inu-Yasha glanced at her, she was awake. He rolled his eyes and then sighed in satisfaction. "No more gooey songs"
She blinked confusedly at him as she got up "What are you talking about?"
He growled at her and then he softened when he saw her confused expression. "You don't remember anything?"
She closed her eyes in thought and then opened them "Uh... no, by the way, how did I get here, was I sleep walking or something?"
He rolled his eyes and shook his head, and then, filled her in on the happenings, after finishing Kagome widened her eyes at him.
"...and they are after me, why?"
He shrugged "Because they don't want an ugliness like you wandering our lands"
She scoffed "Shut up! I just got my soul back from that Kanna girl and you're already insulting me!"
He smirked "I couldn't resist"
She rolled her eyes "So, you said that Kanna said her master wasn't going to be pleased about...this, do you think she could possibly be working for Naraku?"
"Naraku?" He asked nervously, somehow the name pulling a cord inside of him.
"The guy who almost killed me back in the island" she refreshed his memory and then raised her eyebrows at the whole situation. "Wait a minute! First of all, Naraku tries to kill me, secondly a girl named Kanna who could possibly be working for Naraku steals my soul and then returns it to me... why are they after me in the first place?"
He looked around the room, wondering on the same question... why –were- they after her? Wasn't it only him Naraku wanted to murder?
"Inu-Yasha?" she asked when she heard no reply.
"Huh? Oh – yeah?" He snapped back to reality when he heard her voice, starting to feel a little dazed off.
"Do you know anything about this? I mean, I am starting to feel scared" She said nervously as she remembered the attack on the hill. All of it seeming too real to be a coincidence.
He looked at her and gave a reassuring smirk "Don't worry, nothing can happen to you here"
"Well, if it wasn't for you, I would have died on that hill when we both were attacked, I would've died under the weight of the wood on the island, and my soul would have been snatched away from me if you might've been somewhere else at that time" she said, stating each of the disasters.
He thought about it for a while "Just a few more weeks and your getting married, you'll move away from this palace so just keep safe till then and I guess you'll be fine after that"
The answer wasn't what Kagome would've have liked. Her hopes dampened and she rested her head back onto the pillow Inu-Yasha had given her while she had awoken. She looked up at the ceiling and sighed.
Inu-Yasha sensed her worried aura and softened a bit "By the way, I saved you all those other times, what makes you think I'm going to let someone harm you now?"
She blinked and looked at him from the corner of her eye "Thank you"
He shrugged "Don't let it go to your head, I would've done it for anyone"
She smiled "Of course"
They both sat in silence; Kagome was still looking up at the ceiling, pondering on some thoughts while Inu-Yasha was trying to get some shut eye. After a while, Kagome spoke up.
"How did your mother die?" she asked simply, releasing the question that had been tugging on her mind for a while.
He opened his eyes and stared at the floor "She died in an explosion"
She nodded "You were fourteen at that time, weren't you?"
He sighed "Yeah, I was"
"Do you remember her?" She asked, daring to ask further.
He didn't reply for a while and scooted closer to Kagome so he could study her features as she closed her eyes, trying to go to sleep.
"I miss her every day"
"It must be tough on you" she said between a yawn.
He didn't reply, not finding an answer to her comment. Of course it had been tough on him, he was the main cause of her death, and how could he live every day without regret or pain of his memories?
"Did Naraku kill her?"
He sighed, somehow wanting to release everything inside of him to her, all his memories, all of his problems... she seemed to understand him in a way but something held him back and he knew what it was. It was fear. She would run away after knowing what had happened to him, she would think he was a monster, something to be disgraced of being related to.
After a while of thinking, he answered her question "In a way, yes, he did"
"Who knows about this?" She asked, opening her eyes somehow not finding the need to sleep anymore but rather in the mood of talking with the half demon.
He struggled with his answer, "Only you and my big brother"
She smiled "Even though it seems you and your big brother don't even talk, it always looks like you have a special bond, and that's really special you know"
He blinked "Huh?"
"I wish I could relate to my sister like that, she's so cold and secretive
He chuckled "I noticed"
"Inu-Yasha, may I ask you one final question?" Kagome asked, starting to feel a little shy of what she was going to ask.
"Yeah?" He replied, sensing her sudden change of aura immediately.
"If you could go back in time and stop us meeting on your corridor the first day I met and then not meet me at all, would you?" she asked nervously though very eager to hear his reply.
He thought about her question and smirked "And miss all the superman rescuing I've done and not have you beat me up, go back to my peace and not have to fight with you every single day? I wouldn't think twice before going back and doing that!"
She gaped at him and then narrowed her eyes "Meanie"
"I'm just stating the truth!" He shot back in self defense.
"I have got to get going" She said and got up, heading for the small door.
"I'll see you around" he said before lying down on the pillows.
"Oh god, please no"
He rolled his eyes "Look who's calling me mean"
"Shut up"
"Make me"
"I will if you tempt me!"
"Kagome's fat, she looks like a rat, whenever she wants to do something, she eats like a pig and looks like a pumpkin!" He rhymed teasingly making her stop dead in her tracks.
She turned around and glared at him "What did you say?"
"Her ass if as fat as a tomato and her face reminds me of a potato, she smells like manure and her face needs a cure" he smirked at her and enjoyed her livid expression.
"You-"
"Her voice reminds me of a donkey who laughs like a monkey, she farts all night and she doesn't know how to fight"
"Oh, yes-"
"She needs to get paid, I saw her getting laid, oh god – it was so ghastly, and very, very nasty!" He chuckled at his rhyming and didn't hear Kagome storm up to him.
"How DARE you say that!" She picked up the pillow and smacked his head hard. "Stupid bastard..." and with that she ran out of the room.
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Kagome walked up the stairs from the library so she could check out where everyone was. Still feeling a little shaky on the thought that her soul had been sucked out she was minding her steps carefully and didn't turn a corner without checking if anyone she didn't know was there.
After turning on the corner to the corridor of her room she was surprised to see Kouga standing in front of her door. Feeling curious, she walked up to him and studied his face. "... Kouga?"
He blinked and snapped out of his thought and looked at Kagome "Oh... hi, Kagome"
She smiled and nodded, feeling quite suspicious on the thought he had been hanging around her door.
"Do you need to speak to me?" she asked when she saw Kouga look at her and then back over the balcony.
He nodded "Actually, yes, I do"
She raised an eyebrow "Okay, go ahead, I'm not going anywhere"
He hesitated and then grabbed her wrist. "Kagome, I don't know how to explain this – I've never felt like this about anyone before"
Her guts were screaming out to her, telling her something was wrong but she ignored the feeling "Are you talking about Sango?"
He shook his head "No, I'm not" He stopped and looked around "This isn't the place I can tell you, may we go to the sea?"
Kagome hesitated... something was telling her not to go but the other half was as curious as a cat. She nodded and then let him lead her down the steps.
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Kouga chewed on his apple and looked down at the poem he had written for Sango.
'You're so beautiful'
He blinked, that was all he had written down so far. As he thought about it, there was nothing else he could think about Sango he liked... sure she was beautiful, but so were Kagome and Kikyou.
He sighed... there he did it again, he had fallen into a silly crush on Sango and he had once again thought it was love. Feeling stupid and used he got up and threw the paper onto the floor of his room.
He stepped out and looked over the balcony to look at the garden.
He blinked when he saw Kagome being pulled by someone he looked quite like himself.
He focused his eyes. 'Hold on...' the man who was pulling Kagome looked –exactly- like him.
He blinked and walked back into his room... nah, he must have been hallucinating.
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Kagome tried to pull away from Kouga's tight grip on her wrist; they were already across the garden and were now taking the long route from the forest to the sea. She called out to Kouga who was racing along the forest like he had something to hide from.
"Kouga... you aren't acting like yourself" she whimpered out when she heard him growl as a twig scraped his face from a branch.
"You don't even know me so how can you judge me?" he snapped back, making Kagome quiet down.
Kagome regretted allowing him to lead her to the sea, her guts were now wailing out to her that she head back but now she had no choice as Kouga's grip tightened on her wrist making it impossible for her to break away.
After reaching the sea Kouga led her to a high cliff which led down to crashing waves. After settling down on the cliff he let go of her wrist and pushed her back.
Kagome's heart skipped a beat when she noticed how high up they were and if she fell down here, the waves would swallow her body and crash them to the rocks. She looked back at Kouga who had a hideous expression glowering from his face.
"Kouga, I don't feel safe up here" she whimpered out, feeling like a fragile piece of glass compared to him.
"Kouga...? Who said I was Kouga?" his voice changed dramatically and Kagome widened her eyes as she saw him change is appearance into her dreaded fear.
"Oh my god, it's you" she whispered and took a step back.
"Why so distant? Any who, looks like you survived Kagura's feather, Kanna's soul devouring mirror and my dynamite... so now, I'm deciding to just kidnap you and kill you silently in my quarters" He drawled out, enjoying the fear pouring out of her.
"I did nothing to you" She shot at him, taking a step back as he took a step forward.
"You interfered in my paths" He replied nonchalantly.
"How?" she asked, remembering nothing she did that could have interfered with his life what so ever.
He laughed "You still don't know? I pity you"
Feeling her heart speed up an incredible pace, she turned around to run but was stopped when a pair of rough hand grabbed her and pull her back to a sturdy chest.
Naraku trailed a finger around her neck "Such a fragile part of the body, I could crush it right now, but that wont be fun"
She choked as she smelt poison leak from his body. "You're pathetic"
He chuckled "Don't throw words out of your mouth which you don't mean"
She struggled against his firm grip "what are you going to do to me?" she asked, feeling nauseous all of a sudden.
"Well, I'm going to torture you and then I'm going to kill you" he replied dryly, still trailing his finger around her neck.
"Please, leave me" she asked in her last hopeless attempt.
"I'll act as if you didn't say that" he said and then covered her nose with his hand.
Kagome chocked on the poisonous scent he was leaking up her nose, and in a matter of seconds, she fainted.
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"Honey, brighten up – you can't look like this on your wedding day" Sesshomaru's step mother scolded him motherly as he looked the preparations with boredom.
"Why?" he asked back dryly, feeling no need to do such a thing.
"Because we don't want a groom looking like that state you're in now" She replied back and fixed the collar of the shirt he had tried on.
"Why?" He asked again.
She sighed "Because you don't look very charming"
Rin giggled from the piles of clothes she was folding. She had been chosen to help one of the grooms decide the wedding clothes and she had decided to help Sesshomaru... and so far, the experience had been –very- interesting.
"Why?" he sighed out, ignoring Rin laugh silently at his clothes.
"Because, no one looks charming when they are bored" She stated in a matter of fact way. "... Rin honey, can you help me hold his shirt together while I sew on the buttons?"
Rin nodded and walked over to Sesshomaru, she held onto his collar, and moved aside so his mom could sew on the collar buttons.
"Rin, don't you think he looks charming?" The queen asked.
Rin blushed before answering "Of course"
Sesshomaru smirked, well... this could have its advantages now and then.
The queen was about to say something when the door burst open "I'm sorry my lady, but the wedding dresses were accidentally blown away from the washing line and now they are torn, we need your assistance" A servant spoke hurriedly.
The queen sighed and smiled at Sesshomaru "Rin, do you know how to sow?"
She nodded, "I'm not an expert though"
She smiled "That's fine; I'll be back after a while, just sow the buttons on and fix the shirt if it needs to be fixed"
She nodded and picked up the needle and thread. The queen left with the servant leaving the pair together.
"So... tell me how 'charming' I look?" Sesshomaru asked teasingly as Rin sewed on the second button with a little difficulty.
She rolled her eyes and ignored his question.
"Rin, there you are!" A voice interrupted the interesting situation. Rin looked towards the door to see Hojo standing there smiling broadly towards her.
"Oh, hi there" She replied and silently scolded Sesshomaru when he tried to escape from her clutches. "Stay still wont you! I'll poke you with the needle if you keep moving"
"Are you busy Rin?" Hojo asked and stepped in the room to study what was going on.
"No, I'm just finishing off the grooms shirt for the wedding" She replied, in a very soft tone in which Sesshomaru had never heard her in before.
"So you won't mind if I hang around?" He asked and stepped closer, somehow minding the physical touch going on between the two.
"Oh, no, stay in here as long as you want" She smiled at him sweetly, surprising Sesshomaru very much.
"You never asked me if it's okay" He snapped at her, quiet enough to only let Rin hear.
She raised an eyebrow at his statement "Okay... is it okay if he stays here?"
"No" He stated simply, somehow the exchange between the two bothering him.
"Why ever not?" She asked, surprised at his arrogant behavior.
"I don't like him" He said in a matter of fact way.
"Excuse me, but can you both stop whispering to each other?" Hojo interrupted, seeing how close they had become while the exchange.
Rin jerked back immediately and continued sowing on the buttons.
The three stayed in silence and not soon after, Rin had finished with the buttons.
She stepped back to admire her work. "You don't look so bad"
He blinked and looked down at himself "You think?"
She nodded "Actually, it looks pretty good"
"Ahem," Hojo coughed interrupting their conversation "Rin, can we go now?"
Sesshomaru stepped in "She has to help with the clothes, I'm sorry but she can't leave"
"She can leave whenever she wants to, if I may correct you" Hojo spoke back defensively. "Isn't that correct Rin?"
Rin looked at both of them, feeling much like they were both fighting over her. After a matter of moments she spoke up "Actually... I have to work here, I'll see you later Hojo"
Hojo looked hurt but then he sighed "Fine, bye" and with that he left the room.
Rin turned back to Sesshomaru and glared at him "What was that about?!?"
"What was what about?" He asked, pretending to not know what she was talking about.
She rolled her eyes "Forget it"
She tugged on the bottom of his shirt to make it seem longer and was surprised when he talked.
"You won't go near him"
She looked up at him "Why would I ever do that?"
"I don't like him" He said simply.
She rolled her eyes "Well, you can't stop him from coming to me so forget about the idea"
He growled "I mean it"
She rolled her eyes "Yeah... right"
His eyes flashed red for a millisecond at her ignorance and then he leaned down to scrape his fangs on her neck.
She gasped at the slight pain and jerked back immediately "What the hell did you do that for?"
He struggled for his words and then after the shock wore off of what he had just done he answered her question "Don't worry, it's not like a bit you or anything" he replied dumbly, not even knowing himself why he had done something like that. The thought of another man laying his hands on her just seemed to pull a cord inside of him that he never knew existed.
She rubbed her neck "Ouch- that felt like a knife was run across my neck"
"Rin, have you finished with the buttons?" The queen's voice rang through the room. They looked to the door and saw the motherly queen walk in. "The wedding dresses are okay now, oh – sweetie, you look so handsome!"
Rin looked at Sesshomaru, still not relieving her neck from her hand.
"Rin, don't you think he looks like a perfect groom?" The queen asked, making Sesshomaru smirk again.
Rin sighed "Of course"
"Rin, could you help me with the pants now?"
Rin groaned mentally... oh god, please no.
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That's it for now!
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