Reaka, you scare me. Seriously. I mean, i know you like the song but you don't have to sing it to me.
On the other hand, thanks for yor devoted reviews. We've officially reached 150! Yayness! I'm soo happy! This is the most reviewed story i've ever written! I love you all!.
"Once in every five or so years a blood moon has arisen. Granting life and limb to demons around the earth. The moon looks like an orb of blood as it trails across the sky. Inu-youkai are particularly powerful during this time." Brom stopped, looking around at the gathered children around the campfire. His eyes caught on Kaouru, who was almost completely ignoring him. Sighing, he continued his story. "As the moon dies in the sky, the dog demons mourn for their lost friends and enemies. They release the pent up sorrows of the world so that demons do not come out of it. The first blood moon was said to have come out in the Sengoku-jidai. But that fact is still unknown. Even today, the dogs howl to the blood moon as the Inu-youkai cannot."
Kaouru drowned out the idiot as he stared intently at her. "Incompetent fool." The words flashed through her mind. The words of another.
She agreed with it, and went to sleep on the edge of the circle of light until her classmates' screams woke her.
Sango woke to the haunting howl. She waited for it to die in the forrest before walking silently outside.
Kaouru lay curled in Rei's protecting embrace. Inuyasha lay next to Sesshomaru, who's cheek bled profusely, staining the ground. Sango noted the fact that the youkai lord's arm was back.
She whistled low so as not to wake the inu. Calling the guards that had been ordered to hide in the surrounding forrest.
They came wordlessly, picked up the four inu and carried them inside. They would have almost no reccolection of the night before. only Sesshomaru and Inuyasha.
They had done it before, so needed no instruction on her part as they took each inu to it's room.
Sango grinned up at the dawning sun, having Inuyasha for an ally has certainly led to good things as well as bad.
Still smiling, she walked back into the inn to join Miroku, who waited ever so patiently in her bed.
He opened his arms to her when she crouched over their bed ad she slid into them, bracing her face against his soft warmth.
(so i get a little touchy-feely sometimes, it's not a crime!)
Kikyou stood in the center of the clearing, she had no reason to prolongue her stay here, but somehow she felt drawn here.
Then she realized what it was. The old, scarred tree stood firm, like a ground to life itself.
Tracing the scars from her own arrow, she remembered her previous battle against the hanyou. against herself.
She couldnt remember much, only that she had been brought back for a reason.
A howl broke the silence. Sending shimmers of power through her.
A body fell toward the ground from the sky over head. She caught the wolf's limp form easily. Though she didn't know how.
THen she saw her hands. They were clawed!
Staring down at them she set the wolf down. She knew it's name as well. Kouga. She walked toward the nearest stream, staring in horror at her own reflection. It was almost like she and Inuyasha had joined bodies.
She had silvery blue eyes, streaked with gold. Her hair was black with white streaks. Pink streaked here and there. She noted the hanyou ears. Three hoops peircing one ear, the other by a chain.
She ran a hand over one of the ears, felt it flick.
Suddenly, she was awake. Sitting up, she ran a hand through her hair, feeling for the tell-tale ears. Found only her own, human ones.
She stood and walked a few paces, calming herself, before a soul gatherer stopped her.
It told her of Naraku, his location.
She nodded to it and walked away, the mountain looming in the sky above.
I rose out of bed. Knowing why i was here, Remembering, dimly, the events of the night before. I checked on Kaouru before checking on Sesshomaru. His arm was back again.
His cheek was bandaged, but i was relived to see no other things were wrong.
When i walked by kaouru's room again, Rei was there, staring down at Kaouru with worry.
"She's only asleep." I told him.
"But she won't wake." he said, his voice choked.
"She can sleep through a hurricane. Trust me, i've seen her do it. She'll be fine. Now, what do you say we go hunt for breakfast?" I offered, needing to get both of our minds off of the current events.
"What if she wakes up? What will..."
"Sango will send someone after us. But she should be asleep till about two in the afternoon." I told him.
flashback
the house creaked and crumpled.
I grabbed Kagome and protected her, knowing Kaouru would be safe since it was the blood moon. Even though she was thirteen.
I forced our way out of the house to stare down at the rubble that had been the Higurashi shrine.
"Where is she!" Kagome shreiked, pulling up boards and furniture to try to find Kaouru, who hadn't emerged.
"Hold on, Kag. It's the blood moon. She's safe." I told her over the roar of rain and wind.
"We have to find her!" Kagome had shreiked. Trearing at me to get to the house.
"Look, If she can survive getting hit by a transfer truck, and dent the truck and not get anything but a bruise, she'll be fine." I screamed over the wail.
She collapsed against me, crying into my chest.
We found her that morning. Still asleep.
We had rushed her to the hospital, fearing the worst.
After they finished running tests, it was nearly noon and we had heard nothing.
Finally, Nobunaga came out to talk to us.
"We can't find a reason for her to be unconsious for soo long." He said, not looking at them. "She has a bruise on her left shoulder, and a cut down her right arm but there is no head injuries. I'm sorry." He bowed his head.
They let us sit with her, we cried together.
Around two o'clock, she groaned and turned over. "Quit making all of that racket, i wanna sleep." She grumped, her voice drowzy with sleep.
"Kaouru?" Kagome's voice asked.
"Mom?" Kaouru turned over, opening her eyes only slightly. Then she realized that they weren't in her room. And that we had been crying. "Where are we? What happened daddy?" she asked me, her eyes filling with worry.
I rose and went to her, hugging her feircely to me. "Thank Kami-sama you're alright." I whispered to her, nuzzling her.
"Dad."
"What baby?"
"You're hurting me."
I let go, startled. "Sorry."
"Why are we here?"
"You wouldn't wake up. The house collapsed. We found you around dawn, and you wouldn't wake up. We were so scared."
"I'm alright, mom. wait..Oh no! MY ROOM!"
Yes. I'm spoiling you with an extra long update. You know i love ya.
See ya round!
I'm going to rip out your intestines and feed them to you! -guess.
