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Yokosunchild: So how was life as a half-demon, Usagi?
Usagi: It's okay…I guess.
Yokosunchild: Are you hiding something?
Usagi: no
Yokosunchild: (sounding very mischievous) you better confess by the end of this fic or I'll force it out of you!
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Chapter 2: The Task
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"This fighter of yours better get here or Naraku will be furious," said the woman-like figure.
The chief shifted uneasily in his seat.
"Be patient, she'll be here any sec..," he said before Usagi rushed in the door.
"Sorry that I'm late chief," she said bowing to him.
"Finally, what kept you?" the woman-figure retorted.
"That doesn't concerns you," Usagi growled at her.
The chief coughed to silence them.
"Listen, Usagi," chief grumbled," this is Naraku's messenger, Kagura."
"I'm not his messenger," she glared.
"Hn," Usagi said.
"We need to go," Kagura snarled.
Usagi glared at her. The two of them went out of the hut and the chief soon followed after. Kagura stopped in the middle of the dirt path and pulled out on of her feathers from her bun. The feather grew rapidly as she placed it on the ground. Kagura jumped on it to but Usagi stared in aw.
"What are you waiting for?" Kagura snapped," Get on now!"
Usagi grunted and jumped on. A sudden jerk from the movement of the feather almost pulled her down on all fours. The village started to shrink and disappear into the clouds. The wind whipped at the women's faces as they traveled.
"I would like to put down some ground rules for you," said Kagura," when you come to Naraku you must bow at his feet. He will then tell when to rise and speak. When he asks you to something you must say 'yes, my master' or 'no, my master' you got it?"
"Yeah," Usagi muttered under her breathe," I hear you."
'God damn it, he acts like he is royalty. I wonder if mister 'high and mighty' is a whacked out man,' Usagi thought with malice.
Suddenly out of no-where a powerful purple mist came to the distance. Kagura covered her mouth. Usagi looked at her in curiosity.
"The mist is poisonous," she murmured through her hand.
Usagi shrugged and covered her mouth. As they went on through the mist it would sting Usagi's eyes. Tears ran down her cheeks from the stinging sensation of the mist. Kagura didn't seem to be effected by it. Usagi shut her eyes to try to make the pain stop but the mist pass them. The castle was now in site. It was enormous and very… empty. It looked like it was abandoned for a long time. The darkness had engulfed this place and there was a dark presence within its boundaries. As they landed, Kagura and Usagi jumped off. The feather had disappeared from the cold ground and was back in Kagura's bun.
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(Usagi's POV): Kagura was in front of me as we walked into the vacated palace. The darkness within the palace made the insides grimmer than the outside. I didn't follow her just yet. I looked around the palace grounds for even a sign of life. The trees had no life within its withered state. The bushes looked as bare as the skin on a human child. The look of the dead plants wasn't even joyful as the garden at my home.
"Come on, servant," growled an irritated Kagura from inside the siding door.
She violently grabbed my wrist and pulled me in. We traveled through a series of hallway, boundlessly passing by many doors.
'This palace is more like a maze than a place for a rich man to live in,' I thought.
She finally stopped dragging my heels to a very decorated door. I felt the same odd presence that I felt outside. She threw me into the dark room and slammed the door. My body was lying in front of a man in a purple kimono.
(a.n.: I found out a guy wears a kimono too but it is a man's kimono)
I looked at him from where I laid. His eyes stared into mine like they were seeing right in to my soul. The crimson eyes shown of evil surpassing the Devil himself; the wavy black hair laid lifeless at his shoulders.
"Rise, my servant," said the man.
I rose to my feet but didn't take another glance at him.
"Speak now," he commanded.
"What do you ask of service?" I grumbled.
He smirked at me.
"I wish you to take out a giant pain in my side," he said," I want you to kill 4 people."
"What do they look like, my master," I muttered.
"A half dog demon in a robe of the fire-rat, a monk with a sleeve wrapped with beads on his right arm, a demon slayer with a boomerang, and a human girl with unusual clothes on," he answered.
He walked towards me with his smirk. His hand cupped my chin and he turned my face and examined me from head to toe.
"Was the chief sure of his choice?" he asked.
"Yes, my master," I growled.
"Can you do as I ask?" he asked with more evilness in his icy tone.
"Yes, my master," I said with a sigh.
"Good," he smirked.
He walked over to the window and sat in front of it.
"I want you to come back when you are finished with the task," he ordered.
I nodded. Kagura came in to the door right after I nodded and took me out of the room. I was out in the front of the castle but I could continue. Kagura grunted and handed me a mask.
"Walk through the mist with this," she scalds.
I growled at her and nodded. I put the mask on and walked through the poisonous barrier and was completely gone from the misery that sprouted for the home of Naraku.
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(end of Usagi's POV): The mountains stretched for distances and the valleys were endless but she walked on for as long as she could before she would sleep. She had found places in trees for rest and small mammals for food. A few nights later she had came upon a village. The whole time she was walking through the village, the village people would stare at her. The staring made her uneasy. A ball had bounced and bumped Usagi's feet. She stopped and picked it up. The children that were playing with it stopped and looked frighten at her. She smiled at them and handed them the ball. One of the braver children slowly walked up to Usagi. She stood still for the child to touch her but the child was yanked away by the child's mother. She looked at her with a death glare and ran off with her child.
"I pose no threat to this village unless you are asking me to be," Usagi shouted .
The village people looked at her and started to smile at her. The fear was gone and their happiness was restored. Usagi continued her walk through the busy village. She sighed as she passed by the fields while men worked in them.
"This reminds me of home," she thought out loud," just a little too much."
She walked out of the village and sighed.
'Wish I could see Yasou, Ruri, and the rest of my friends,' she thought,' I miss every thing about my home.'
She took her gaze off the working farmers and onward to the dirt path that lied beneath her feet. She then moved forward. This journey of her task has now begun.
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That night she picked her usual spot in a tree. The fire she had built was fading as she went into slumber. Suddenly her ears pricked, detecting a demon near. She squinted in the dark for a shadow of a demon but didn't see anything. When she turned around she spotted a man with golden amber eyes and markings of a crescent moon on his forehead. A dog fur-like tail wrapped around his right arm moved in the gentle breeze. His platinum hair soon swayed with wind. She jumped to another branch and took a fighting stance.
'Just what I need,' she thought with a smirk playing across her face,' anger relief.'
With a quick movement she grabbed the handle and fire burst from the katana.
"Hell Fire!" she shouted as the katana was swung at the demon with fire blazing from it.
The demon simply dodged it without a single burn mark on him. She gasped.
"Who are you," she growled under her breath.
The demon snorted and leapt down from the branch to the ground. She jumped down to his level perfectly on her feet.
"I have no need to be talking to a nieko," he scoffed.
She scoffed back.
"Then I don't have to waste my time with a worthless dog demon," she spat.
He pounced on to her and held a blade to her throat. She didn't flinch at his actions.
"Go ahead," she muttered.
"What was that?" he growled soothingly.
"Kill me, if you desire," she said with her head bowed.
His eyes glanced on her and sheathed his blade.
"My name is Sesshomaru," he said.
He quickly got off of her and dashed through the trees, into the night's cloak of darkness. She smiled and laughed softly.
"They fall for it every time," she laughed.
Finally, tired from the little event, she jumped up on to her sleeping branch and dozed off into sleep.
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On the same night someone else was thinking of her. Yasou was at a window looking into the starry night sky. He let out a sigh.
"What will happen to her?" he said with sadness," I'm afraid of what will happen."
Ruri walked up to him and placed a hand on his shoulder.
"She'll come back," she said in comfort," I think."
He weakly smiled at her.
"Thanks for the words of confidence," he smiled.
She returned the smile.
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Yokosunchild: Yes!!!!!!! I finally got you to admit it!
Usagi: No you didn't.
Yokosunchild: Oh…. then tell me!!!!
Usagi: I don't think that would be necessary.
Yokosunchild: I think it is necessary for the readers.
Usagi: (sweat drop) really, I don't have to say anything.
Yokosunchild: Review!!!!! Or I will……um…..
(looks around room and thinks of something)
Yokosunchild: Or I will send Usagi out to get you!
Usagi: That wouldn't happen in your life.