A Journey in a Different Time
-Chapter 8-
Losing a Life
"So Kikyo gave her shard to the new girl?" Asked Naraku. He was in his usual position sitting in the same place.
"Yes, but I don't think she sense me at all because Kikyo was around. She must have thought Kikyo was the danger she was sensing," explained Kagura. "If you don't believe me, Kanna probably saw it through her mirror."
"Is it?"
"Yes, Naraku," said Kanna.
"She now has two of them...but I want mine back."
"Why don't we attack them?" Asked Kagura.
"But that girl will be detect us."
"I know...I mean to kill Inuyasha and the others and THEN kill the girl. You'll be able to have both of the shards she has. And the girl will be able to fight all alone anyway. She's too afraid of that."
"I see what you mean. Maybe we'll try that next..."
*~*~
It's dark...this place is pitch black. Why? There in the middle, Michelle is laying there peacefully with her eyes closed. She wants to open them, but she couldn't. Why can't she open her eyes? She needs to see. What's the point anyway? It's pitch black so there's nothing to see here. The only thing she can do is listen for any movement or voice around.
Everything is so quite, she can't even move her body anywhere. Not only she can just lay there and listen, but she can breathe too. That's another thing....
What's that sound? Someone is coming to her? But who would it be?
She heard the voice spoken, the sound of a male voice.
"Who's there?" Asked Michelle.
"Someone you know and someone you don't know," answered the male voice.
"What do you mean?"
"You know me but you don't because you erased me from your memory." She heard the footsteps coming closer to her body. "But the question is, who are you?"
"Michelle....why do you ask?"
"I'm not asking for your name. Who are you exactly?"
"I don't know."
"Then why are you here?"
"I have no idea."
"Why don't you know?"
"I....guess it's because...I have no love."
"That's not true!"
"What do you mean?"
"Think about Kagome....Sango, Miroku, and Shippo. They're your friends and they love you..."
"No they don't."
"They do, you just don't see it really well."
"Who are you?"
"Someone from your past."
"That's not enough information."
"Then open your eyes."
"I can't!"
"You can because I told you to."
Michelle was afraid to open them because of what she might see. She open them slowly and saw a face looking at her. It was a guy with light blue eyes and short black hair, he was wearing a school uniform from her and Kagome's school. But she doesn't remember him...at all.
"Who are you?" She asked again.
"My name is....Koya."
That was only a dream. She was only taking a nap against a tree. Who knew she would get a quick dream from a little nap!
It was a nice beautiful afternoon, looking up at the blue sky wondering whats going to happen next. Her body was tired but she didn't want to get back to sleep after a nice good nap.
"You're finally awake!"
Michelle turned to her side and found Shippo walking to her and sat right next to her. "Hi Shippo." Said Michelle.
"Here! Kagome told me to give this to you!" Shippo handed her a little bag of chips. She took it out of Shippo's hands. "Kagome thought you would be hungry when you woke up."
"Thanks..." She open the bag slowly and took a chip out one at a time to take little bites of it so it can be saved later and so it can last longer. Her and Shippo continue to look up at the sky with silence. But not until Shippo spoke up again.
"The reason I got away was because of the couple being together."
"You mean for Kagome having Inuyasha and Sango having Miroku?"
"Yup! I needed to get away from them."
"They're lucky....they have someone to care about. I wish I had someone like that."
"Join the club! I feel the same way."
"Well...I'm not sure of that, I sometimes see you play with Kirara. You have someone and I don't."
"Oy, oy, oy! Don't feel bad! You'll have someone to care about. Or better yet, be friends with a nice good girl or boy!"
"I hope thats someday soon." Michelle took another chip and ate that one slowly too. Then she started to think about the first day she came here. She felt something warm against her before she woke up and felt a slight wind...probably jumping out of the well...but who was that? "Shippo? Who was the person who got me out of the well the first day I came here?"
"Inuyasha did...he set you on the ground gently when he got you out of the well. Why?"
"Just curious...that's all!"
"Oh! But it was kind of scary when you two were about to go into a fight earlier. I don't see how he can hate you so much!"
"I don't either! But who cares about him anyway!?" She closed the bag of chips and put it in her pocket skirt. She grabbed her bow and stood up about to walk away.
"Oy! Where are you going!?"
"Some where so I don't have to think about that hanyou!!"
Shippo saw her walked away from him slowly. Did he made her mad? "Was I not suppose to mention Inuyasha's name?"
*~*~
Michelle walked by herself in the middle of a forest having no idea where to go. She didn't care where she went, as long as she can get that baka hanyou out of her head. But why does she keep thinking about him? She hates him and he hates her! She knew she would hate him for the rest of her life! And so will that hanyou!
For the past 5 min. she still has the hanyou in her head! Now she's pissed off for having him in her head!!
"AAAH!!"
She stopped in her tracks when she heard that scream. That made Inuyasha get out of her head! She ran fast in the forest, getting the twigs out of the way so she can see. She had to beat the bush if she wants to know where that scream is coming from. When she finally came to the scene, she saw a girl....no, a teenage girl being chased by a youkai.
The teenage girl had brown hair, a light green kimono and....she couldn't tell the color of the girl's eyes from where she was, so she grab an arrow from behind her in that quiver and aimed it at the youkai that was chasing the teenage girl. She shot it and the arrow aimed straight to the youkai's belly, it went right through it.
The youkai ran away from the scene and the teenage girl fell to her knees, with her hands keeping her balance. Michelle quickly ran to her to make sure she was okay.
"Are you okay?" Asked Michelle.
The girl turned her head to look at Michelle. She finally got to see her eyes....blue. "Yes, arigato!" Answered the teenage girl. She stood up and bowed to Michelle. "My name is Sasue..." (_ That's pronounce Sa-su-eh! A 16 year-old!)
"My name is Michelle, nice to meet you!" She bowed to Sasue too. She stood straight after a few seconds have passed. "What was that kind of youkai anyway?"
"A spider-head. There are lots of spiders in this kind of forest, so it's best for us to get out of here." Sasue grabbed Michelle's wrist and pulled it so they both can run out of that forest. "Come on! I'll take you to my favorite place!"
"O....kay!"
*~*~
"This is your favorite spot?" Asked Michelle. There were on top of a hill, where it's nice and clear with nothing to get in the way to block any view.
"Yes!" Answered Sasue. They both sat down on top of it and hugged their knees and bring it close to their chest.
"It's okay! Because my favorite place is on the roof to look up at the stars!"
"I like it right here...it's for me to look up in the sky and it helps me to think about my parents. You see...they're dead....they died by a pack of youkais..."
"Which were...?"
"The one that Naraku sends...and I know which kind of demons they are because one of those youkais have a sign that says 'death' on it."
"Have you actually seen this Naraku person?"
"Only once...with my parents. My parents told me to run away so I won't get hurt...but all I did was to see their death."
"Maybe it's one of the reasons why one of the youkais have the sign 'death' on it."
"Maybe...But I want to find them so I can kill them myself!"
"Just you?"
"No...you too!"
"What!?"
"Don't worry...my father taught me how to use the sword really well."
"Then how come you didn't use it before?"
"I was caught off guard and didn't know what to do so I ran for my life."
"I see..." Everything became silent. But Michelle only knew one thing to cheer her up. Is to sing the song from her favorite show called "Fruits Basket." (_ That's my favorite show so don't say anything!) She started to sing it out loud. "I was so happy when you smiled. Your smile breaks through the clouds of grey..."
"What's that?"
"A song I learned! It's my favorite."
"I wanna hear the rest of it."
Michelle smiled. She likes to sing both the English and Japanese version of this song. But she would rather sing the English version of it...so she continue to sing it.
~Far from the sunny day that lie in sleep.
Waiting the patience for the Spring, when the flowers will bloom renewed again, knowing that there's more beyond the pain of today.
Although the scars of yesterday remain...
You can go on living as much as your heart believes.
You can't be born again although you can change.
Let's stay together, itsumo~ (Which means always.)
Sasue became silent after Michelle sang that song. She closed her eyes...probably singing the song in her head.
"I like it..." said Sasue.
"Me too..." said Michelle.
"I want to hear that song again...right before I die."
"You're not going to die now!"
"I know...soon...very soon I will."
"Huh?" Sasue didn't get to answer that question. The white clouds turned black and the area became dark all of a sudden. Both Michelle and Sasue looked up in the sky and were waiting for something to happen. Michelle got up and her eyes widen.
"What?" Asked Sasue.
"Danger is coming...youkais...a pack of them." Answered Michelle.
"You can sense danger!? Well, if you can sense it, then is it the pack that killed my parents?"
"I don't know. But, I think you should get ready for a battle you wanted to get in to."
Sasue stood up. "All right!" She took her sword out of her scabbard and waited for the demons to come out anywhere.
They both waited for the youkais to come out. And they did...the came flying down from the sky, Naraku's youkais came down to attack...some blue, some orange, and Michelle and Sasue were waiting impatiently for them to come.
But that didn't matter. "Ah!" Michelle felt some kind of pain on her shoulder. She felt sharp teeth digging into her uniform and went into her skin. The blood came out of her body and it rolled down her arm and over her breasts. It stained her uniform and her and the blood rolled down her hand and it dripped on the ground. She was about to fall forward until Sasue cut the youkai in half and it turned to ashes. "Thanks!"
"Anything to kill them! That pack of youkais from the sky are definatly the ones who killed my parents! I saw that sign on the youkai that attacked you. All we have to do is kill the rest of them."
"You must have more experience battleing then me!"
"I am!"
*~*~
Inuyasha opened his eyes from his nap...he smelled blood. He knew who's it was...the human girl he hates. He smelled her blood when that little spider gave her hole marks on her neck. He sat up from his position, laying on his side, his elbow on the ground, his chin resting in the palm of his hand.
Kagome saw his reactioin. "Something wrong?" Asked Kagome.
He looked at her. "Nothing...I only just smelled Michelle's blood," answered Inuyasha.
"What!?" Said Miroku. "Aren't you going to go after her to see if she's alright!?"
"Nah...she probably cut herself from the arrow...[No matter what they say I won't be her friend or help her at all!!]"
*~*~
While slicing the youkais and shooting the arrows through their stomachs and their throats, they had no problem of killing them...yet. Sasue kept swinging her sword around which killed twice as more youkais then Michelle was doing with the arrows.
"This is a lot! Too much for me!!" Complained Michelle. "At least it's for me to get ready for the real thing against Naraku!!"
"Too bad I won't be around to face him!!" Said Sasue, doing a triple twirl of killing the youkais heading towards her.
"What do you mean?"
"Maybe you'll be able to see once we're done with them."
*~*~
"Kagome, I'm hungry!" Said Shippo.
"Again!? What have you been eating!?" Asked Kagome.
"Nothing..."
"I thought I gave you chips to eat."
"You told me to give them to Michelle. She gave me a few chips before she left."
"Left? To where?"
"I don't know. She didn't tell me!"
"All right! Hold on a second!" Kagome went through her yellow backpack to search for the other bag of chips to give to Shippo. She found it at the bottom and took out to give it to Shippo. He smiled happily and grabbed the bag and opened it to get the...broken pieces of chips? "I guess they must've been smushed when they were at the bottom...Gomen!"
"It's okay! It'll last longer at least!" He took a bite of the small chip and continue to eat the other small ones.
Kagome smiled and looked back at Inuyasha with a sigh. He was taking a nap again. Why didn't he want to go see what's wrong with Michelle? Who cares if he doesn't like her or whatever! She's still traveling with them.
*~*~
There was hardly any youkais left. But they were no where in sight. Michelle could tell they're still alive because of the feeling inside of her body. It hasn't gone away yet...and it'll only go away unless they kill all the evil surrounding them. They were standing separatly apart waiting for the last youkai to make it's move.
Michelle was kind of getting scared right now because it was just too quite. She can't tell if the youkai will come from behind and try to kill her. She couldn't tell anything at this kind of moment...but she can hear.
"AAH!" Michelle heard the scream behind her and turned around and saw a sword has gone through Sasue's stomach. Michelle saw the owner of the sword but it was in disguise. Covered in white....who was that?
"SASUE!!" Screamed Michelle.
The owner of the sword took it out and stared at Michelle. She couldn't see the eyes very well, it was dark enough for her not to see. "I'm warning you human! Take care of my jewel shard!" Said the owner of the sword.
Michelle was about to ask who he was but Sasue turned around and sliced him in half, and he turned to dust. Sasue fell to the ground, Michelle saw a brown thing wrapped in some kind of string....no, not string, hair? She ignored that quickly and ran to Sasue who was laying on the ground one her back.
*~*~
"Hm?" Inuyasha smelled another splatter of blood joined Michelle's. Now he was worried. What is going on with her? Inuyasha stood up and spoke up loudly for everybody to hear. "I'm going to find the girl!"
"It's about time!" Said Sango.
"Yeah...what took you so long to decide to go and get her?" Asked Miroku.
"Another smell of blood has joined her's. And it's human blood...not coming from her but a different person!" Answered Inuyasha.
"Do you want us to go with you?" Asked Shippo.
"No...I'll go alone!"
"Fine! But you don't dare punch her!" Said Kagome.
"I won't!!" He turned his back on them and jumped on to the direction of where he smells the blood. He needed to know the other smell of blood....he didn't care about Michelle's wound.
*~*~
"Michelle...?" Questioned Sasue. Her head resting on Michelle's knees.
"Yes...?" They were both covered in stains of blood. Before when Michelle shot an arrow at a youkai that came very close to her...spilled it's blood over her right eye. But she closed it before the blood went into her eye, so now the blood is around her right eye, and the blood stains on her right shoulder from the start of the battle.
"I want you to do something for me..."
"What is it?"
Sasue sat up slowly and took something out of her kimono pocket. It was short....small...a dagger. She held the dagger out for Michelle to take it out of her hand. "Finish me...kill me!"
"What? Why!?"
"There's nothing left for me to do here anymore. I have got my revenge on the pack of youkais. So there's nothing left for me to do..."
"That's not true! There is something for you to do! You just need to find it!"
"I don't plan on having kids....I promised myself...that when I killed the pack of youkais that killed my parents, I would kill myself or find someone to do it for me."
"I don't care! I won't do it!"
"Please....? For me...?"
Michelle's eyes were heated and were filled with tears. She didn't want to lose a friend she just had and made for just a couple of hours. Sasue was the only friend who would listen to her outside of Kagome and the others. She didn't want to lose her.
Sasue forced the dagger into Michelle's hands and waited for her to stab her in the stomach or somewhere in the chest. But Michelle froze...she can't do it. She's not that kind of a peron.
"Just do it!" Commanded Sasue.
"I won't! Friends don't do that to one another! I can't just kill you just like that!! It's too painful!! And I don't understand why you say there's nothing left for you to do here. There is lots of things for you to do."
"Not for me....my life ends here." The wound she got from the person, was bleeding all over the ground...and some went on Michelle's legs. "So will you do it or not?"
"How many times have I told you! I won't do it!!"
Sasue sighed. "Fine....I'll do it then." She grabbed the dagger out of Michelle's hands and forced herself to stand up. It took awhile because of the wound in her stomach. But when she finally stood up, she pointed the sharp end to the middle of her chest between where her breasts is. "I'm glad you helped me Michelle...you helped me destroy my enemy...So I want to ask you a favor. Sing that song again once I have done it..."
"Please don't..."
"You can't stop me....goodbye Michelle..." And then she did it....she stabbed herself in the middle of the chest, blood splattered on Michelle's hair and some on her face and on her skirt...(_ You wouldn't believe how much blood she was covered in!) And that was it...Sasue fell to the ground with no sign of life in her eyes. Michelle's eyes widen and she froze when Sasue landed on the ground. She didn't know what to do...except to sing her that song.
~I was so happy when you smiled, your smile breaks through the clouds of grey~
Michelle sang the song with tears rolling down her cheeks. Her heart was hurt once again....losing a life of a friend. Now she knows why Kagome hates the one or two things about this world. There is lots of bloodshed and deaths after all.
As she sang the last few lines...she cried with all her might.
~You can't be born again although you can change....
Let's stay togehter, itsumo....~
That was it...it's over...Michelle couldn't bare the pain in her heart. It was too much....it pained her heart and that made her cry. When ever something has pained her heart or like attacked it...she gives out a bit pain as in other words....crying.
Michelle didn't notice that she wasn't alone. She heard footsteps coming from behind her and she looked behind her and looked at the face. She quickly turned her head back to Sasue and wiped away her tears.
"At least you experienced it...the loss of losing someone important to you. I felt that once..." said Inuyasha.
"Why are you being nice to me?" Asked Michelle.
"I'm not being nice! I'm being....no, I'm telling you this because you're going to be feeling the pain a lot in this hell hole of a world!"
"I don't care! You still don't have to come here! ....Wait! Have you been watching the whole thing?"
"Watching and listening...I only heard the part when she asked you to kill her when she handed you her dagger." He went to her side and bend on one knee to take out the dagger out of Sasue's chest and then looked at Michelle in the eyes. He forced her face to face him by grabbing her chin to look at him. "Who was she? I smell her blood on you...and a youkai blood on you too."
"Her name was Sasue...."
"What's with the youkai blood then?"
"I killed it and a it's blood landed on my eye but I closed it in time for it not to go into my eye." Michelle stood up, not looking at him. "We need to give her a respectful buriel. You dig the hole!"
"What!? Why me!?"
"Because you're the one with the claws dog-boy!"
After a while like 20 min. or so, Inuyasha digged a hole big enough to fit Sasue's body. Inuyasha carried her dead body and put it in the hole and put the dirt on her to cover her body. Michelle had to help because she was her friend after all.
After that, Michelle sat in front of the grave to see the bump in front of her, where Sasue's body was buried. Michelle sat in the Japanese stlye and put her hands together to pray for her soul and closed her eyes. Michelle has been training over a year to become a miko and this is part of it.
Then Michelle sat up and bowed to her grave and left with Inuyasha to go back to the others. Inuyasha noticed that Michelle was covered in blood...almost all over. In her hair, on her right shoulder and some on her arm, on her face and on her legs and her skirt. Inuyasha wanted to know what has she been through to get all of this. But didn't care about her being well, he only wanted to know how Michelle got that much blood in the first place. Well, most of it did came from Sasue after all...
*~*~
Kagome packed up the rest of her things to put in her backpack, and took the straps and put it over her shoulder. She was ready to go any time but waited for Inuyasha and Michelle to come. She looked at Miroku, Sango and Shippo because they were playing the game of cards she showed them.
So far...Miroku was winning the game!
"Hey guys! I need to pack up the cards too..." said Kagome.
"Aww! Do you have to? It was just getting started!" Complained Shippo.
"We understand, now give me the cards Shippo!" Commanded Miroku. "You too, Sango." They both gave him the rest of the cards. He stood up and walked over to Kagome to give it to her. Kagome put it in her smallest pocket on her backpack and set it on her back again. But her eyes widen when she saw two people heading towards them. Miroku noticed that look and turned around and saw them. "Inuyasha...? Michelle...?"
"Michelle....what happened?" Asked Sango. "You're covered in blood!"
"I know that! You don't have to tell me!" Said Michelle.
"Do you want to tell us what happened?" Asked Miroku.
"No! Let's just go on!" Her right hand was holding onto her left arm, and looked at the ground. Her bangs covered her eyes so no body can see them. She walked on ahead and didn't to think about Sasue. It's now in the past...there's no point on looking back now.
-Chapter 8-
Losing a Life
"So Kikyo gave her shard to the new girl?" Asked Naraku. He was in his usual position sitting in the same place.
"Yes, but I don't think she sense me at all because Kikyo was around. She must have thought Kikyo was the danger she was sensing," explained Kagura. "If you don't believe me, Kanna probably saw it through her mirror."
"Is it?"
"Yes, Naraku," said Kanna.
"She now has two of them...but I want mine back."
"Why don't we attack them?" Asked Kagura.
"But that girl will be detect us."
"I know...I mean to kill Inuyasha and the others and THEN kill the girl. You'll be able to have both of the shards she has. And the girl will be able to fight all alone anyway. She's too afraid of that."
"I see what you mean. Maybe we'll try that next..."
*~*~
It's dark...this place is pitch black. Why? There in the middle, Michelle is laying there peacefully with her eyes closed. She wants to open them, but she couldn't. Why can't she open her eyes? She needs to see. What's the point anyway? It's pitch black so there's nothing to see here. The only thing she can do is listen for any movement or voice around.
Everything is so quite, she can't even move her body anywhere. Not only she can just lay there and listen, but she can breathe too. That's another thing....
What's that sound? Someone is coming to her? But who would it be?
She heard the voice spoken, the sound of a male voice.
"Who's there?" Asked Michelle.
"Someone you know and someone you don't know," answered the male voice.
"What do you mean?"
"You know me but you don't because you erased me from your memory." She heard the footsteps coming closer to her body. "But the question is, who are you?"
"Michelle....why do you ask?"
"I'm not asking for your name. Who are you exactly?"
"I don't know."
"Then why are you here?"
"I have no idea."
"Why don't you know?"
"I....guess it's because...I have no love."
"That's not true!"
"What do you mean?"
"Think about Kagome....Sango, Miroku, and Shippo. They're your friends and they love you..."
"No they don't."
"They do, you just don't see it really well."
"Who are you?"
"Someone from your past."
"That's not enough information."
"Then open your eyes."
"I can't!"
"You can because I told you to."
Michelle was afraid to open them because of what she might see. She open them slowly and saw a face looking at her. It was a guy with light blue eyes and short black hair, he was wearing a school uniform from her and Kagome's school. But she doesn't remember him...at all.
"Who are you?" She asked again.
"My name is....Koya."
That was only a dream. She was only taking a nap against a tree. Who knew she would get a quick dream from a little nap!
It was a nice beautiful afternoon, looking up at the blue sky wondering whats going to happen next. Her body was tired but she didn't want to get back to sleep after a nice good nap.
"You're finally awake!"
Michelle turned to her side and found Shippo walking to her and sat right next to her. "Hi Shippo." Said Michelle.
"Here! Kagome told me to give this to you!" Shippo handed her a little bag of chips. She took it out of Shippo's hands. "Kagome thought you would be hungry when you woke up."
"Thanks..." She open the bag slowly and took a chip out one at a time to take little bites of it so it can be saved later and so it can last longer. Her and Shippo continue to look up at the sky with silence. But not until Shippo spoke up again.
"The reason I got away was because of the couple being together."
"You mean for Kagome having Inuyasha and Sango having Miroku?"
"Yup! I needed to get away from them."
"They're lucky....they have someone to care about. I wish I had someone like that."
"Join the club! I feel the same way."
"Well...I'm not sure of that, I sometimes see you play with Kirara. You have someone and I don't."
"Oy, oy, oy! Don't feel bad! You'll have someone to care about. Or better yet, be friends with a nice good girl or boy!"
"I hope thats someday soon." Michelle took another chip and ate that one slowly too. Then she started to think about the first day she came here. She felt something warm against her before she woke up and felt a slight wind...probably jumping out of the well...but who was that? "Shippo? Who was the person who got me out of the well the first day I came here?"
"Inuyasha did...he set you on the ground gently when he got you out of the well. Why?"
"Just curious...that's all!"
"Oh! But it was kind of scary when you two were about to go into a fight earlier. I don't see how he can hate you so much!"
"I don't either! But who cares about him anyway!?" She closed the bag of chips and put it in her pocket skirt. She grabbed her bow and stood up about to walk away.
"Oy! Where are you going!?"
"Some where so I don't have to think about that hanyou!!"
Shippo saw her walked away from him slowly. Did he made her mad? "Was I not suppose to mention Inuyasha's name?"
*~*~
Michelle walked by herself in the middle of a forest having no idea where to go. She didn't care where she went, as long as she can get that baka hanyou out of her head. But why does she keep thinking about him? She hates him and he hates her! She knew she would hate him for the rest of her life! And so will that hanyou!
For the past 5 min. she still has the hanyou in her head! Now she's pissed off for having him in her head!!
"AAAH!!"
She stopped in her tracks when she heard that scream. That made Inuyasha get out of her head! She ran fast in the forest, getting the twigs out of the way so she can see. She had to beat the bush if she wants to know where that scream is coming from. When she finally came to the scene, she saw a girl....no, a teenage girl being chased by a youkai.
The teenage girl had brown hair, a light green kimono and....she couldn't tell the color of the girl's eyes from where she was, so she grab an arrow from behind her in that quiver and aimed it at the youkai that was chasing the teenage girl. She shot it and the arrow aimed straight to the youkai's belly, it went right through it.
The youkai ran away from the scene and the teenage girl fell to her knees, with her hands keeping her balance. Michelle quickly ran to her to make sure she was okay.
"Are you okay?" Asked Michelle.
The girl turned her head to look at Michelle. She finally got to see her eyes....blue. "Yes, arigato!" Answered the teenage girl. She stood up and bowed to Michelle. "My name is Sasue..." (_ That's pronounce Sa-su-eh! A 16 year-old!)
"My name is Michelle, nice to meet you!" She bowed to Sasue too. She stood straight after a few seconds have passed. "What was that kind of youkai anyway?"
"A spider-head. There are lots of spiders in this kind of forest, so it's best for us to get out of here." Sasue grabbed Michelle's wrist and pulled it so they both can run out of that forest. "Come on! I'll take you to my favorite place!"
"O....kay!"
*~*~
"This is your favorite spot?" Asked Michelle. There were on top of a hill, where it's nice and clear with nothing to get in the way to block any view.
"Yes!" Answered Sasue. They both sat down on top of it and hugged their knees and bring it close to their chest.
"It's okay! Because my favorite place is on the roof to look up at the stars!"
"I like it right here...it's for me to look up in the sky and it helps me to think about my parents. You see...they're dead....they died by a pack of youkais..."
"Which were...?"
"The one that Naraku sends...and I know which kind of demons they are because one of those youkais have a sign that says 'death' on it."
"Have you actually seen this Naraku person?"
"Only once...with my parents. My parents told me to run away so I won't get hurt...but all I did was to see their death."
"Maybe it's one of the reasons why one of the youkais have the sign 'death' on it."
"Maybe...But I want to find them so I can kill them myself!"
"Just you?"
"No...you too!"
"What!?"
"Don't worry...my father taught me how to use the sword really well."
"Then how come you didn't use it before?"
"I was caught off guard and didn't know what to do so I ran for my life."
"I see..." Everything became silent. But Michelle only knew one thing to cheer her up. Is to sing the song from her favorite show called "Fruits Basket." (_ That's my favorite show so don't say anything!) She started to sing it out loud. "I was so happy when you smiled. Your smile breaks through the clouds of grey..."
"What's that?"
"A song I learned! It's my favorite."
"I wanna hear the rest of it."
Michelle smiled. She likes to sing both the English and Japanese version of this song. But she would rather sing the English version of it...so she continue to sing it.
~Far from the sunny day that lie in sleep.
Waiting the patience for the Spring, when the flowers will bloom renewed again, knowing that there's more beyond the pain of today.
Although the scars of yesterday remain...
You can go on living as much as your heart believes.
You can't be born again although you can change.
Let's stay together, itsumo~ (Which means always.)
Sasue became silent after Michelle sang that song. She closed her eyes...probably singing the song in her head.
"I like it..." said Sasue.
"Me too..." said Michelle.
"I want to hear that song again...right before I die."
"You're not going to die now!"
"I know...soon...very soon I will."
"Huh?" Sasue didn't get to answer that question. The white clouds turned black and the area became dark all of a sudden. Both Michelle and Sasue looked up in the sky and were waiting for something to happen. Michelle got up and her eyes widen.
"What?" Asked Sasue.
"Danger is coming...youkais...a pack of them." Answered Michelle.
"You can sense danger!? Well, if you can sense it, then is it the pack that killed my parents?"
"I don't know. But, I think you should get ready for a battle you wanted to get in to."
Sasue stood up. "All right!" She took her sword out of her scabbard and waited for the demons to come out anywhere.
They both waited for the youkais to come out. And they did...the came flying down from the sky, Naraku's youkais came down to attack...some blue, some orange, and Michelle and Sasue were waiting impatiently for them to come.
But that didn't matter. "Ah!" Michelle felt some kind of pain on her shoulder. She felt sharp teeth digging into her uniform and went into her skin. The blood came out of her body and it rolled down her arm and over her breasts. It stained her uniform and her and the blood rolled down her hand and it dripped on the ground. She was about to fall forward until Sasue cut the youkai in half and it turned to ashes. "Thanks!"
"Anything to kill them! That pack of youkais from the sky are definatly the ones who killed my parents! I saw that sign on the youkai that attacked you. All we have to do is kill the rest of them."
"You must have more experience battleing then me!"
"I am!"
*~*~
Inuyasha opened his eyes from his nap...he smelled blood. He knew who's it was...the human girl he hates. He smelled her blood when that little spider gave her hole marks on her neck. He sat up from his position, laying on his side, his elbow on the ground, his chin resting in the palm of his hand.
Kagome saw his reactioin. "Something wrong?" Asked Kagome.
He looked at her. "Nothing...I only just smelled Michelle's blood," answered Inuyasha.
"What!?" Said Miroku. "Aren't you going to go after her to see if she's alright!?"
"Nah...she probably cut herself from the arrow...[No matter what they say I won't be her friend or help her at all!!]"
*~*~
While slicing the youkais and shooting the arrows through their stomachs and their throats, they had no problem of killing them...yet. Sasue kept swinging her sword around which killed twice as more youkais then Michelle was doing with the arrows.
"This is a lot! Too much for me!!" Complained Michelle. "At least it's for me to get ready for the real thing against Naraku!!"
"Too bad I won't be around to face him!!" Said Sasue, doing a triple twirl of killing the youkais heading towards her.
"What do you mean?"
"Maybe you'll be able to see once we're done with them."
*~*~
"Kagome, I'm hungry!" Said Shippo.
"Again!? What have you been eating!?" Asked Kagome.
"Nothing..."
"I thought I gave you chips to eat."
"You told me to give them to Michelle. She gave me a few chips before she left."
"Left? To where?"
"I don't know. She didn't tell me!"
"All right! Hold on a second!" Kagome went through her yellow backpack to search for the other bag of chips to give to Shippo. She found it at the bottom and took out to give it to Shippo. He smiled happily and grabbed the bag and opened it to get the...broken pieces of chips? "I guess they must've been smushed when they were at the bottom...Gomen!"
"It's okay! It'll last longer at least!" He took a bite of the small chip and continue to eat the other small ones.
Kagome smiled and looked back at Inuyasha with a sigh. He was taking a nap again. Why didn't he want to go see what's wrong with Michelle? Who cares if he doesn't like her or whatever! She's still traveling with them.
*~*~
There was hardly any youkais left. But they were no where in sight. Michelle could tell they're still alive because of the feeling inside of her body. It hasn't gone away yet...and it'll only go away unless they kill all the evil surrounding them. They were standing separatly apart waiting for the last youkai to make it's move.
Michelle was kind of getting scared right now because it was just too quite. She can't tell if the youkai will come from behind and try to kill her. She couldn't tell anything at this kind of moment...but she can hear.
"AAH!" Michelle heard the scream behind her and turned around and saw a sword has gone through Sasue's stomach. Michelle saw the owner of the sword but it was in disguise. Covered in white....who was that?
"SASUE!!" Screamed Michelle.
The owner of the sword took it out and stared at Michelle. She couldn't see the eyes very well, it was dark enough for her not to see. "I'm warning you human! Take care of my jewel shard!" Said the owner of the sword.
Michelle was about to ask who he was but Sasue turned around and sliced him in half, and he turned to dust. Sasue fell to the ground, Michelle saw a brown thing wrapped in some kind of string....no, not string, hair? She ignored that quickly and ran to Sasue who was laying on the ground one her back.
*~*~
"Hm?" Inuyasha smelled another splatter of blood joined Michelle's. Now he was worried. What is going on with her? Inuyasha stood up and spoke up loudly for everybody to hear. "I'm going to find the girl!"
"It's about time!" Said Sango.
"Yeah...what took you so long to decide to go and get her?" Asked Miroku.
"Another smell of blood has joined her's. And it's human blood...not coming from her but a different person!" Answered Inuyasha.
"Do you want us to go with you?" Asked Shippo.
"No...I'll go alone!"
"Fine! But you don't dare punch her!" Said Kagome.
"I won't!!" He turned his back on them and jumped on to the direction of where he smells the blood. He needed to know the other smell of blood....he didn't care about Michelle's wound.
*~*~
"Michelle...?" Questioned Sasue. Her head resting on Michelle's knees.
"Yes...?" They were both covered in stains of blood. Before when Michelle shot an arrow at a youkai that came very close to her...spilled it's blood over her right eye. But she closed it before the blood went into her eye, so now the blood is around her right eye, and the blood stains on her right shoulder from the start of the battle.
"I want you to do something for me..."
"What is it?"
Sasue sat up slowly and took something out of her kimono pocket. It was short....small...a dagger. She held the dagger out for Michelle to take it out of her hand. "Finish me...kill me!"
"What? Why!?"
"There's nothing left for me to do here anymore. I have got my revenge on the pack of youkais. So there's nothing left for me to do..."
"That's not true! There is something for you to do! You just need to find it!"
"I don't plan on having kids....I promised myself...that when I killed the pack of youkais that killed my parents, I would kill myself or find someone to do it for me."
"I don't care! I won't do it!"
"Please....? For me...?"
Michelle's eyes were heated and were filled with tears. She didn't want to lose a friend she just had and made for just a couple of hours. Sasue was the only friend who would listen to her outside of Kagome and the others. She didn't want to lose her.
Sasue forced the dagger into Michelle's hands and waited for her to stab her in the stomach or somewhere in the chest. But Michelle froze...she can't do it. She's not that kind of a peron.
"Just do it!" Commanded Sasue.
"I won't! Friends don't do that to one another! I can't just kill you just like that!! It's too painful!! And I don't understand why you say there's nothing left for you to do here. There is lots of things for you to do."
"Not for me....my life ends here." The wound she got from the person, was bleeding all over the ground...and some went on Michelle's legs. "So will you do it or not?"
"How many times have I told you! I won't do it!!"
Sasue sighed. "Fine....I'll do it then." She grabbed the dagger out of Michelle's hands and forced herself to stand up. It took awhile because of the wound in her stomach. But when she finally stood up, she pointed the sharp end to the middle of her chest between where her breasts is. "I'm glad you helped me Michelle...you helped me destroy my enemy...So I want to ask you a favor. Sing that song again once I have done it..."
"Please don't..."
"You can't stop me....goodbye Michelle..." And then she did it....she stabbed herself in the middle of the chest, blood splattered on Michelle's hair and some on her face and on her skirt...(_ You wouldn't believe how much blood she was covered in!) And that was it...Sasue fell to the ground with no sign of life in her eyes. Michelle's eyes widen and she froze when Sasue landed on the ground. She didn't know what to do...except to sing her that song.
~I was so happy when you smiled, your smile breaks through the clouds of grey~
Michelle sang the song with tears rolling down her cheeks. Her heart was hurt once again....losing a life of a friend. Now she knows why Kagome hates the one or two things about this world. There is lots of bloodshed and deaths after all.
As she sang the last few lines...she cried with all her might.
~You can't be born again although you can change....
Let's stay togehter, itsumo....~
That was it...it's over...Michelle couldn't bare the pain in her heart. It was too much....it pained her heart and that made her cry. When ever something has pained her heart or like attacked it...she gives out a bit pain as in other words....crying.
Michelle didn't notice that she wasn't alone. She heard footsteps coming from behind her and she looked behind her and looked at the face. She quickly turned her head back to Sasue and wiped away her tears.
"At least you experienced it...the loss of losing someone important to you. I felt that once..." said Inuyasha.
"Why are you being nice to me?" Asked Michelle.
"I'm not being nice! I'm being....no, I'm telling you this because you're going to be feeling the pain a lot in this hell hole of a world!"
"I don't care! You still don't have to come here! ....Wait! Have you been watching the whole thing?"
"Watching and listening...I only heard the part when she asked you to kill her when she handed you her dagger." He went to her side and bend on one knee to take out the dagger out of Sasue's chest and then looked at Michelle in the eyes. He forced her face to face him by grabbing her chin to look at him. "Who was she? I smell her blood on you...and a youkai blood on you too."
"Her name was Sasue...."
"What's with the youkai blood then?"
"I killed it and a it's blood landed on my eye but I closed it in time for it not to go into my eye." Michelle stood up, not looking at him. "We need to give her a respectful buriel. You dig the hole!"
"What!? Why me!?"
"Because you're the one with the claws dog-boy!"
After a while like 20 min. or so, Inuyasha digged a hole big enough to fit Sasue's body. Inuyasha carried her dead body and put it in the hole and put the dirt on her to cover her body. Michelle had to help because she was her friend after all.
After that, Michelle sat in front of the grave to see the bump in front of her, where Sasue's body was buried. Michelle sat in the Japanese stlye and put her hands together to pray for her soul and closed her eyes. Michelle has been training over a year to become a miko and this is part of it.
Then Michelle sat up and bowed to her grave and left with Inuyasha to go back to the others. Inuyasha noticed that Michelle was covered in blood...almost all over. In her hair, on her right shoulder and some on her arm, on her face and on her legs and her skirt. Inuyasha wanted to know what has she been through to get all of this. But didn't care about her being well, he only wanted to know how Michelle got that much blood in the first place. Well, most of it did came from Sasue after all...
*~*~
Kagome packed up the rest of her things to put in her backpack, and took the straps and put it over her shoulder. She was ready to go any time but waited for Inuyasha and Michelle to come. She looked at Miroku, Sango and Shippo because they were playing the game of cards she showed them.
So far...Miroku was winning the game!
"Hey guys! I need to pack up the cards too..." said Kagome.
"Aww! Do you have to? It was just getting started!" Complained Shippo.
"We understand, now give me the cards Shippo!" Commanded Miroku. "You too, Sango." They both gave him the rest of the cards. He stood up and walked over to Kagome to give it to her. Kagome put it in her smallest pocket on her backpack and set it on her back again. But her eyes widen when she saw two people heading towards them. Miroku noticed that look and turned around and saw them. "Inuyasha...? Michelle...?"
"Michelle....what happened?" Asked Sango. "You're covered in blood!"
"I know that! You don't have to tell me!" Said Michelle.
"Do you want to tell us what happened?" Asked Miroku.
"No! Let's just go on!" Her right hand was holding onto her left arm, and looked at the ground. Her bangs covered her eyes so no body can see them. She walked on ahead and didn't to think about Sasue. It's now in the past...there's no point on looking back now.