sakuraneoneo: Okay... so, maybe this is a waste of talent... I mean...
Sesshomaru: YES! It's a waste, stop WRITING!
sakuraneoneo: -shocks- Listen you
Sesshomaru: F... fine... -falls over-
sakuraneoneo: -sigh- Anyhoo... I am gonna continue this, but I don't believe it's gonna get much further... although I already have the sequel, the sequel to the sequel and half the prequel to this thing written out. Hmm. Well... just to say, I get pretty emotional in the sequel's sequel. So saadbut that's a spoiler I won't let slip.
Ejiki: Wooop!
sakuraneoneo: Yessss... -narrows eyes- she's a little insane. Ever since she's been on Team Super Sesshy. Oh well.
Sesshomaru: ...I hate you all...
sakuraneoneo: Anyway... on with the chapter... Not gonna say, whether you learn her name or not in this!
Sesshomaru: Flame and I slaughter you all!
sakuraneoneo: -pats his head- That's my Sesshy!
Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha, manga nor animé. Sometimes I wish I did, but I don't.
Chapter 2: Was It Really Such A Good Choice?
" I can't see why you're getting so ahead of yourself. I tell you now, that girl cannot be trusted."
Kagura snapped her fan shut in an anger pout.
" How can you say that she's more powerful than Kanna or I when she can't even handle someone sneaking up on her? I tell you Naraku, you're making a horrible mistake putting all your trust on her. I haven't even seen this full potential that you says she h"
" Kagura. Silence."
Kagura's mouth closed, leaving her to make a narrow glare toward Naraku.
" It's not that I'm making a mistake, Kagura. She's perfectly able to do what's she's been assigned to. You've just met her normal personality.
I know that she can't even harm anything within that state, but this isn't the state that she will be in out there. She has a more specific state... for fighting."
Her ears twitched as she lowered her head, slitting her amber eyes. That was all she was for and she knew that. To fight. To kill. To destroy.
Nothing more.
She was trained to be something that killed the people who stood against her. The way she lived was the way she'd die. If that point would ever come in her life. Without doubt, it never could. Never.
" I've already gotten it planned out what she can and will fufill. Just you watch Kagura. This isn't the normal half demon child you think resembles Inuyasha." Naraku let out a scoff. " Inuyasha. You really think that our girl resembles this Inuyasha?"
Kagura's expression changed to a more serious one. " Yes, even if it is just slight, she does somewhat resemble him in more ways than others. One being the way she uses that sword you gave her"
Naraku smirked at Kagura. " If you payed attention to the only way she can use that sword; it resembled not Inuyasha. The style that demon uses his sword is too reckless for his own good. The Tetsusaiga is a great opponent, yes, but once placed against the sword foraged for her: the once mighty sword will take a fall again, to my own hands."
She felt her body tense as she turned slightly to her Master and Kagura's direction. That name. She clenched her fists, letting a slight growl pass through her lips. All she'd been told since she was taken under his wing. Inuyasha was the enemy.
Nothing could surpass the hate that she'd grown for him.
Nothing. Except for the hate of the humans that treated her so badly when she was only a little youkai who could barely pick up for herself.
" Keh. Inuyasha. He really thinks he's so tough doesn't he?" she whispered to herself, leaning back against the wall.
She tightened her grip against her sheath with a small smirk, her eyes becoming over-run with Naraku's control. " This demon hasn't met his match until the moment I drop face to face with him. Right before I tear his heart out. It seems this.. Inuyasha... has become quite the problem for us. Maybe." She snickered once. " MaybeI might just spare him. Heh. Right. Me, spare a demon like that? What am I thinking? Once I'm out on my own... this Inuyasha, will begin to wish he'd cease to exist."
Out within the emerald forests of Feudal Japan, was born a restlessness. Trapped within a wide, seemingly endless, vast sea of emerald and chesnut, with the various mixing of a flower against the gentle waves of wind.
Not an unusual restlessness, just one that had been held against the group for quiet some time. On edge, you could say.
For what had been the search target, had disappeared without a trace or notice. The search target to this case: a scent trail.
Days and nights on end, following one trail, hopeful they'd get close this time. Hopeful to get close enough.
Alas, plans fail. They'd been led to another dead end. Another dead end in the maze that would lead them to success. Proven if they could escape this maze alive, then defeat the challenge at the end.
Among a group, every group for that matter, there is always one destined to become enraged by a dead end such as this. Always.
In this case, there had to be one. He was their " leader ", so to speak, followed beyond his own will by those who wished to accompany him along with his journey to seek his vengence.
To seek vengance, for the loved one he'd lost by "betrayl". Such painful "betrayl" that it caused an arrow to seal his fate: through his heart, sealing him against a tree, losing grasp of the one thing that would make him satisfied in life, the Shikon No Tama, his last sight: the one he loved, her bow raised, murderous intent in her eyes.
His own eyes, weakened amber, closed within the eternal slumber he was granted. Unaware to the fact, that she, too, would die shortly after.
But once freed from the prison under the arrow, and the jewel shattered, scattered, hundreds, thousands of shards maybe, all over the plains that were Feudal Japan. This is how this certain journey began.
This leader's voice, however, was the thing to break the silence of the silent morning. Fresh with the spite he'd lost the trail, again, of the one he'd seek out and destroy.
" WHAT! Dammit, don't tell me we're off track again!"
The hanyou's head was raised to the lightly blowing air, sniffing it hard, his amber eyes narrowed in sheer determination, willing to catch that one scent.
A raven haired girl let out a low sigh, wiping the sweat from her brow with a sleeve of her uniform, stepping up to the silver-haired inuyoukai.
" Inuyasha, just take a rest, okay? You know it's not that easy to get close to Na"
Inuyasha's left ear twitched with angst, as he turned to her, one hand raised, claws pointed outwards, white fang bared and eyes more than intense.
" Listen Kagome, I'll stop when I want to stop, okay! I'm gonna find his dirty playin'-ass and I'm gonna kill him! Don't tell me what to do!"
Kagome's dark eyes narrowed, unimpressed. So strong-headed and stubborn, this one. Nothing that a little incantation against his rosary wouldn't do.
She folded her arms loosely, feeling her warm arms touch. " Inuyasha. Sit boy."
Sit. The word that had control on his soul. As Kagome said it, so unemotionally, the rosary around his neck glowed. Inuyasha had less of a time to react to something that ever. With a cry, the power of the incantation forced him face first down into the ground of the pathway, an accomplished looking schoolgirl standing over him.
She knelt down to him, listening to his enraged growls emit deep in his voice. Ah, strong-headed, stubborn and hot-headed... that was her Inuyasha.
" It's much to warm out to be working so hard. You're only gonna tire yourself out. Take a break."
Inuyasha pushed himself up, harshly pushing the dirt from his cheek, giving the schoolgirl an evil glare. But deep within that glare was a look that Kagome could smile at. He said he loathed her, that she was annoying and just got in the way. Kagome knew, that hidden within that hated glare he gave her, he was somehow thanking her, as if he couldn't control himself, his urge to destroy Naraku far too great.
" Three, two, one!"
There was the pitter-patter of little feet against the rock near the lake, a kitsune child running towards the cool water. He jumped high within the air, a bright smile on his face, tiny fangs bared, arms in the air.
" CANNONBALL!"
As he hit the water, a wave of the transparent liquid flew, some reaching against Kagome's cheek. Such a shock to feel it against her cheek, she took a step back, tripping, flailing her arms to save herself from falling into the freezing lake. Inuyasha jumped up, grabbing ahold to her hand, but Kagome fell anyway, dragging a now wide-eyed hanyou in shock down with her.
Together; they created a much bigger splash than that of the kitsune.
The two surfaced, Kagome coughing up water. Inuyasha immediately jumped out, shaking himself off.
" Kagome, thanks a lot! You didn't hafta drag me down too!"
" It's not my fault! You tried to stop me from falling!"
" So what? YOU were the one who pulled me in!"
Their argues and quarrels echoed the empty forest, only sighs emitting from their friends, at how hopeless they were. Atleast.
At the time, the forest seemed empty. To them. They could've cared less.
But for Inuyasha, it was strange, though, not for him to sense a demon presence. Especiallyone of that he wished to destroy.
" Kagura, you can't be serious when you tell me these are the people I'm after."
Kagura leant back against a tree, fan clasped in her hand against her side, her crimson eyes staring off into the distance beyond.
" Then don't be serious when you listen. They are the ones you will seek out soon enough and kill, like it or not."
The hanyou girl folded her arms, pushing strands of her silver hair out of her way, revealing her bright amber eyes to the sun.
All her life, she'd been told Inuyasha was the enemy. Inuyasha was the one. Only now had she met him. She had hoped for the first impression between her and her soon-to-be target for assassination would be, in the least, something honourable. Something that would make the hanyou worth killing.
So far, she wasn't impressed. Inuyasha hadn't been making a good impression for himself. Already, his hot-headed, stubborn behaviour had surfaced, not in the wrong time for him, but for his hidden killer.
Somehow, she'd thought Inuyasha would create, if even just a little, a challenge or pose a threat towards her. It didn't look like it so far. All he was to her: a playful inuyoukai with a hot, explosive temper.
Was she even like that? Ha! Never. That demeanor of hers, the one used when under her Master's control, could never be broken. Quiet, calm, and almost never nervous. Obedient, at the most.
Naraku almost always had her under his control. Almost never, was she free of his hold.
" Alright then. If they're who Master Naraku wants me to target, I will. I have no regrets of accepting the duty."
Kagura stepped forward, putting the clasped fan towards her face. " Fine then. I'll leave you here to study them for now."
" Alone, Kagura?" She smirked. " Are you so sure you'll leave me alone so soon? Aren't you afraid that I might run off?"
" I could care less what happens to you. Whatever happens to you, Master Naraku will take care of you, not me. So I have no place in the matter."
She pulled a feather from within her hair and raised it up.
" He's expecting you back later," Kagura said to her, before flying off.
Inuyasha turned around, only now sensing a demon presence. " I sense I demon."
The kitsune child ran forward.
" In-Inuyasha! Isn't that Kagura!"
Kagome grabbed her bow and quiver. " You're right Shippo! Inuyasha, let's go!"
Inuyasha nodded lightly, running through the forest, Kagome and Shippo behind him, all three in close pursuit.
' They can't stand up to me. They're all too weak. So what happens...'
The trio arrived within the clearing Kagura had just left. Inuyasha drew his Tetsusaiga, holding it outward, growling lowly against his breath once again.
" Who are you and what were you doing with Kagura!"
She looked over her shoulder, her amber eyes and pale face shadowed by her bangs, hair pushed over her shoulder.
' if I sneak into friendship with them... and then slowly, kill them all?'
sakuraneoneo: YAAAAAAAAY! Chapter 2 done! ...why, I see no point to it... -sweatdrop-
Sesshomaru: -growls-
sakuraneoneo: Stop growling, Moon Forehead.
Sesshomaru: DON'T CALL ME THAT, GIRL!
sakuraneoneo: -pokes forehead- Moon Forehead.
Sesshomaru: DAMMIT I HATE YOU!
sakuraneoneo: -shocks- Anyway... might as well end this now. Read and Review, if you'd please... I know I would. Bai bai!
