Luna: Wow, unlucky chapter 13!
Veron: That's Kag-Chan's favorite number isn't it?
Luna: Kag-Chan is the nickname of our friend, who you might know as the authoress YunaFaerie. She's so cool And her story Truth is on my favorites list in case you are interested.
Veron: 105 reviews for her first fic. Speaking of fics, when are you going to type up the one I gave you during passing period last Friday?
Luna: Oh…you mean Memories?
Veron: Yesh.
Luna: Um well…sweatdrop I haven't really typed it up yet, since I got inspiration for my fic and all…
Veron: glare
Luna: I promise, I will begin to type it up as SOON as I finish this chapter. I swear on my dirty Invader Zim shoelaces.
Veron: Okay
Luna: Enjoy!
Disclaimer: I own nothing. Not Inuyasha-Gumi. But I do own the plotline and my beat up and dirty Invader Zim, Gir, and Jack Skelington shoelaces from Hot Topic, that are so beat up and grimy you can barely see the pictures ;
Chapter 13: Beware the leather seats
Sango and Miroku followed a slim young woman down the stark white halls of the asylum. Her hips swayed beneath the nurse's skirt with a seductive air and her posture was cool and confident as her white heels clicked against the sky blue tiles of the corridor.
Miroku's eyes glittered with a mischievous gleam as his gaze hungrily devoured the sight before him, not uttering a single word. Sango merely fumed silently beside her perverted co worker, her face tinted red with anger and her arms crossed over her chest huffily as she followed the two at a brisk pace, her magenta eyes keeping a strict eye on Miroku. She didn't dare hit the man in such surroundings, for fear of being proclaimed insane herself, and her brother was already certified as psychotic and she had no desire to bear the same fate.
The woman turned her large blue eyes soft and concerned as she stood by a doorway. Her blonde hair was tied in a neat bun at the crest of her head, her large full lips glossy and her eyelids painted with a soft blue tinge, her eyelashes lengthened with a dash of black mascara. Her white button down dress hugged the curves of her full breasts and a tiny nametag hovered above her heart. The white skirt slid around her hips and ended slightly above the knee, complimenting her long legs.
" My name is Sophitia, if you need any help with Fujima-san, just call me, I'll only be a few doors down, tending to another patient. Please, don't expect too much from the poor thing, she is in a rather poor mental state right now. But I do wish you the best in your task." With that, the gorgeous woman bowed slightly and departed down the hall, glowing purple eyes following her every move until she faded into the endless bland white of the hallway.
" Hentai…" Murmured Sango, smacking the uncontrollable man non too gently upside his head, before going inside the room.
Miroku sighed blissfully, nursing the growing goose egg on the back of his skull before following his co-worker inside.
' It was worth the pain.'
Kagome sighed as beads of sweat rolled down her neck as she rode beside Inuyasha in the jeep. They drove…and drove…and drove…. And drove…until finally…
" Are we there yet?" Kagome whined, trying to slide down deeper into her seat to hide from the searing sunlight, but was disgusted to find that the leather was surgically attached to her rear.
" No." Inuyasha replied, sweating just as much as she was, only he was swearing to top it all off because his ass was attached to the leather seating too.
His golden eyes flickered for a moment, before releasing a sigh of relief he hadn't realized he had been holding. There in the distance, was the cave. The faded yellow plastic of the caution tape merely fluttered forgotten in the wind around its entrance.
Both managed to writhe out of the death grip of the leather and hop out of the car. Kagome straightened her jeans and quickly shouldered her bow and quiver before looking over expectantly at her companion.
" Ready?"
" Yeah. C'mon wench."
Kagome flipped off his back silently before following after him. He stepped into the cave and looked around, his gold eyes glowing in the dim light of the rock around them. Delving deeper, the shadows seemed to surround them and there was barely any light to see with. So with a collective sigh, they quickly clicked on their flashlights, scouring the walls for any sign of which direction to turn.
" Youki…" Kagome whispered her eyes wide with shock as she slowly began to run up ahead of her hanyou comrade.
' I can feel it. This swirl of youki. But why does it feel so familiar? Why does it have human laced within it? What is this place?' She thought wildly as she ran straight into the end of the cave and she gasped.
Inuyasha ran up behind her, fully intending to tell the damn girl off when he stopped and stared at her utter horrific expression.
" Kagome?" He whispered, placing a hand on her shoulder, hoping it would snap her back to reality. But she continued to stare at the bones in front of her, her stormy eyes wide and her mouth opening and closing continuously.
A harsh, breathy whisper managed to be heard by his drooping dog-ears. His eyebrows furrowed and he stood in front of the girl, placing both of his hands firmly on her shoulders and shaking her gently.
" Who the hell is Onigumo?"
Sango sat beside the prone form of the ghostly pale girl, her tan hand closing over her pale one in a reassuring squeeze. The girl's eyes didn't even shift to acknowledge her presence. Or Miroku's as he leaned against the wall, his violet eyes boring holes into her flesh.
" Fujima-san, please we need your help." Miroku called out to the impassive child softly, his eyes glowing with sympathy as he shifted his weight to the opposite foot.
" Kanna…" Sango murmured soothingly, stroking the back of the girl's hand with her thumb. " We're trying to find your sister, Kagura, and your friend Naraku."
Kanna didn't move a muscle.
" You remember me don't you? It's me, Sango. You used to play with my brother Kohaku when you were younger."
A soft whisper escaped the woman's stark white lips.
" Kohaku-kun?"
" Hai. My brother. Please, I hate to bring up painful memories but…please, tell us as much as you can about what you saw when Kagura and Naraku disappeared."
Kanna merely sat, staring into the white wall in silence. She nearly blended into the very walls around her, if it wasn't for the emotionless raven depths of her eyes that were so noticeable against her pale skin and surroundings.
Miroku remained silent, but opted to gaze outside the window, in hopes that his ceasing of staring at her would make her less uneasy. Fat chance, but it was a small glimmer of hope none the less.
Sango bit her lip before lifting her other hand to run against the soft locks of the young child's hair, whispering a soft song to the girl.
It was merely a murmur that was too soft for Miroku to hear. He narrowed his eyes in frustration at the fact that he couldn't hear Sango sing. She has sung once before, of course she was a bit intoxicated with some sake on her 21st birthday, but the woman had sung beautifully regardless.
And to his surprise, Kanna's emotionless face seemed to relax and she slumped back into her pillows and her eyelids slowly drifted shut, her long lashed creating demure shadows on her cheekbones.
" Onegai Kanna-Chan, what happened to Kagura and Naraku?"
Kanna's mouth started to move her voice nearly inaudible, so much that Sango at her close proximity had to lean her ear nearer to the girl's lips.
Sango's magenta eyes widened in shock as Kanna ceased speaking and drifted off to sleep for the first time in weeks. The ex taijya slowly stood up and joined Miroku's side, her face now radiating confusion. The two stepped out and stalked over into the car, when they were both safely inside and buckled, Sango began to speak. A dawning light filtering into her eyes as she turned and spoke.
" Houshi-sama…" She murmured softly, oblivious to the fleeting soft look on Miroku's face as she said his long lost nickname. " All Kanna told me was…"
Miroku nodded silently at the girl to continue Sango turned and gazed out through the windshield, her mouth set in a grim line.
" The skull."
The boy's violet eyes widened in sudden understanding. That was it! He had poured relentlessly for days over that article but he had never taken into consideration that the missing bone would be a cause of their disappearance.
" The skull…" He repeated, as he pulled out of park and drove out of the parking lot.
Kagome fell to her knees and simply sat, her hands folded in her lap as Inuyasha departed from the mouth of the cave, a digital camera in hand. Before he crouched down in front of her, forcing her face to tilt toward his.
" Tell me Kagome, who is Onigumo?" He demanded his eyes ablaze with anger and was it jealousy? Kagome winced in remembrance of the scar on her back from Kikyo's vengeful arrow. That's right, he liked her now didn't he? And of course, he inherited Inu-kun's infamous streak of possessiveness.
" He was a thief…" She started, her stormy eyes falling to the side, watching the spring breeze caress the blades of mint green grass. " A thief who had been burned to near death by his comrades. I had taken him into the nearest cave when I had found him in the forest. I nursed him back then. He was heavily bandaged and even then you could see the horrid burns and charred scraps of skin that still clung to his body. His eyes were always cruel and blood shot. Unless they fell on me, then some sort of weird glow would come to them, and you could almost see a soft emotion in them. But I merely ignored it as appreciation, but now…" Kagome trailed off, her eyes set on the entrance of the cave again.
" And now?" Inuyasha prompted, sitting cross-legged across from her.
" You couldn't feel it? Hate, jealousy and lust were crawling like slime all over the walls especially surrounding the remains of where Onigumo had been lying. And it was directed…"
" At you…" Inuyasha finished, feeling a wave of hot anger at the pathetic fool. He wasn't grateful; he just lusted after Kagome, even when out of the goodness of her heart, she was helping a black hearted bandit. He growled deep and dark his golden eyes smoldering with hate. How dare he even think about his Kagome that way?
Inuyasha blinked.
His Kagome? Since when, he was engaged to- Oh yeah…not anymore. Inuyasha's gaze dropped to the ground for a moment before looking Kagome in the eye once more.
" So he was jealous of the other me?"
" Yes. But I don't understand what happened to him. Normally you feel something, like the presence of a spirit departing, and he never had any demon blood or power within him. I never felt a thing in all the times I had gone there to nurse him. But there, amongst his soiled emotions for me and human aura, there was the thick fog of youki everywhere. And it had his spiritual signature. But I don't get it…he was a simple human. Crude and black hearted perhaps but he was a crippled normal human being!" Kagome bit her lip in thought before feeling a hand at her back.
" We can report all this to Sesshomaru, no doubt he can think of something. After all, he's the one with the never-ending supply of cash. The bastard."
In spite of herself, Kagome giggled and Inuyasha smirked before they both returned to the heated car and its groping leather seats.
Luna: So after many chapters of delay, we finally reveal a tad more on the REAL plotline!
Veron: Instead of a subplot! The Kikyo thing, the Rin thing (which has yet to be fully revealed to all of you lovely people as of yet), etc.
Luna: its like Final Fantasy X2! The review X-play did anyway. " Hi do you know if this is the main quest?"
Veron: Um…you don't even HAVE a PS2
Luna: I know, but still.
Veron: sigh Review!
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