Trancending Time
Chapter Two
Most Beautiful Creature
"Don't hurry, don't worry and don't forget to stop and smell the roses cause in the end everything tastes like chicken and chicken tastes good." Unknown
Suboshii hit the cold ground and a reflex groan escaped her lips. The cool afternoon breeze blew into the well as she stood up and rubbed her sore butt. Wait a sec... Wasn't I sweeping at night? Oh, great. Just what I need... "Well, time to get myself outta this hole," she said, rubbing her hands together.
Ten minutes later, she hoisted herself over the wall of the well, glanced at her surroundings and almost fell back in. I'm outside? What happened to the run down shack? Suboshii jumped off the wall and ran into the nearest tree, you know, just to make sure this whole nature thing wasn't a mirage. BAM! Nope, not a mirage, she thought, shaking her head as she tried to clear it. Well, as long as she was here, wherever 'here' might be, she might as well have a look around, right? Suboshii walked toward a huge tree with some vines wrapped around its trunk and climbed as high as she could. All she could see were trees. Trees. Trees. Trees. And look over there! More trees! Off in the distance, she heard a voice echoing"Osuwari" The voice sounded familiar. Very familiar, she thought. Kagome? She jumped down from the vines and took off running between the trees trying to find the source of the voice. After twenty minutes of zigzagging through the trees, Suboshii fell defeated to the forest floor. She closed her eyes, trying to catch her breath and accidentally ended up dozing off.
"Is she dead?" an irritatingly nasally voice asked. Something sharp jabbed Suboshii in the side and she backhanded the person poking her. "Ahhh" they cried.
"Let's continue then, Jakken," another voice said, this one nowhere near as nasally as the last one and waaaaay more masculine. Always up for scoping out the guys, Suboshii's eyes snapped open. The first thing she saw was a horrifying close-up of a green toad-like face staring at her.
"AAHHHH" she screamed. Then her gaze moved upward until she saw the most beautiful creature in the world. His silky white hair cascaded over broad shoulders, framing sharp yet gentle features, his amber eyes glowing in the light of the setting sun. Suboshii sat there dumbfounded and stared at him like a hobo staring at a sandwhich. The man begins to walk away and Suboshii's trance is broken. "W-Wait" she cried as she reached out for the fuzzy thing on the man's shoulder. He paused, turning to look back at her. "Uh...wha-what's your name" she managed, staring back into his intense gold eyes. He paused a few more seconds before he closed his hypnotic eyes and bowed his head slightly. Yes! Score one for me! Sesshoumaru continues on his way with Suboshii right by his side, grinning like an idiot.
"So, is this overgrown armpit hair or what?" Suboshii asked, poking at the cream-colored fuzz on his shoulder.
"That's a good question," Sesshoumaru said, not even looking at her.
"How can you not know what that thing on your shoulder is?" Suboshii sighed. "Whatever."
The next day dragged on slowly, but fear not, Suboshii kept herself entertained by jumping on Jakken and squashing him into the ground every chance she got. Sesshoumaru said nothing against it and every so often you saw the corner of his lips cure upward in a smirk. Plus, it was funny to hear Jakken make sounds like"Wargh!" and "Blurk!" when his face smashed into the dirt. Sometime after getting tired of pouncing on Jakken, they came across a small village. From atop the hill, Suboshii saw that there were people hurrying around dragging carts of this and that to wherever they were scurrying to. Sitting outside the door of a nearby building was a man wearing black and purple robes, his staff leaning against the wall. He was fiddling with some blue beads wrapped around his right wrist and hand when he suddenly stopped and turned to look at Suboshii and her traveling companions. He quickly got to his feet and called to someone inside. The first one to come out of the building is very interesting.
Dog ears... Suboshii wanted to touch them to see if they were real or not, but sensing the massive increase of tension, she decided to stay put and tried her best to ignore the twitchy feeling in her fingers. The second one emerge was the last person you expected to see here, Kagome.
"Kagome?" Suboshii cried incredulously, her jaw falling to the ground. Kagome just stared at Suboshii for a moment before calling out to her. She turned and said something to the boy with the awesome dog ears. He turned and looked at Suboshii, his gold eyes shining. "Do you know him" Suboshii asked Sesshoumaru curiously. He didn't respond but his eyes narrowed and a scowl appeared on his lips. Jakken was...somewhere... Scaredy cat...
The boy in the red kimono stepped out into the sun as Sesshoumaru took a few steps toward him. Suboshii reached out and grabbed onto one of his billowy sleeves, but snatched her hand back as he glared at her. "IRON REAVER, SOUL STEALER!" The boy in the kimono launched himself at Sesshoumaru. In one motion, Sesshoumaru is behind the boy and the boy missed him altogether. The boy landed right in front of Suboshii and she fell to the ground in surprise. The boy eyed her closely before leaping back into the air. Sesshoumaru also leapt into the air, raised his clawed hand which started to glow yellow as he prepared to bring it down.
"InuYasha!" Kagome yelled. Sesshoumaru swung his hand at InuYasha and manged to scratch his face causing Inuyasha to fall back to the ground and claw at his face. Sesshoumaru was standing next to you one second and the next he was holding InuYasha by his lapel, his arm pulled back and ready to strike.
"Sesshoumaru, stop it!" Suboshii yelled, clenching her hands into fists. Sesshoumaru turned to look at her with his expressionless face and reluctantly dropped InuYasha. He did his little "sudden appearance" thing and he was standing next to Suboshii again. InuYasha stared dumbfounded at Suboshii and Sesshoumaru and his eyes widen at the fact that his arrogant demon brother Sesshoumaru, hater of all humans, adhered to the cries of a mortal woman. The silence between everyone was deafening.
"C'mon, InuYasha! Get out Tetsusaiga!" Kagome shouted, disturbing the silence.
"Hey, shut up! I don't see you fighting out here!" InuYasha yelled back. Kagome crossed her arms and glared at him.
Hey, where did the guy in the robes go? Suboshii thought as she noticed his sudden disappearance.
"Sorry about this, Miss..." A strong arm grabbed her from behind and before she knew it, she was on her butt again in front of Kagome. Suboshii blinked a few times before she noticed Kagome kneeling in front of her.
"Hey, are you okay?" Kagome asked, quickly checking Suboshii over for injuries as she sat there completely paralyzed with stupidity. Suddenly, Kagome was pushed out of the way and the man in the robes appeared in her spot.
The man took Suboshii's hands in his and pulled them to his chest. "Will you...do me the honor of bearing my child?" (We all knew it was just a matter of time... TT) He looked deeply into her eyes and put on his most charming expression.
"Wha-I mean...um... Huh?" Suboshii stuttered nervously, her eyes widening as the man rubbed her butt.
"Miroku! Quit being a perv!" Kagome grabbed her backpack and prepared to come to Suboshii's rescue but stopped in her tracks when Suboshii's fist met Miroku's nose and sent him careening back. Suboshii stood up, her eyebrow twitching angrily. "Uh, don't pay any attention to him..." Kagome sweatdrops. "He's...always like that." Kagome tried to comfort Suboshii, but now that her anger was cast aside, Suboshii noticed Inuyasha was still staring at Sesshoumaru and Sesshoumaru's gaze was directed at her. Sesshoumaru leapt into the air and landed gracefully in front of Suboshii, his face inches from hers.
Do these people have no sense of personal space?
"Sesshoumaru..." Kagome hissed at him. InuYasha spun around to see his brother standing over Suboshii.
Sesshoumaru turned to face InuYasha and smirked. "Brother, it would be unfair for one so inexperienced to fight against one such as I."
Brother? Suboshii thought, surprised. Okay, so she was a little slow on the uptake.
"I will take what is mine" Sesshoumaru wrapped his arm around Suboshii's waist and pulled her close. "And return only when you have become a more formidable opponent."
"Drop her now, Sesshoumaru" InuYasha growled from behind Suboshii. Kagome tried to run to her aid as Suboshii stood there within Sesshoumaru's arms, bright red and completely confused. Miroku pulled Kagome back as Sesshoumaru leapt, yet again, into the air. Suboshii could hear Kagome calling her name, silence, then "OSUWARI!" as Sesshoumaru made another one of his ever-so-graceful exits into the trees, Jakken following along on the ground.