A/N: YAY! Fixed Chapter! Isn't this great?. :clap, clap, clap: Thanks to Ranko-chan for helping me with the grammar in this chapter! Standard Disclaimer Applies.
Chapter #7:
I dreamed a WEIRD dream last night
The fairies put the slumbering Inu-Yasha against a tree, and Kagome beside him. Unconsciously, the girl hugged the hanyou by his waist, almost immediately, causing giggles between the fairies.
"They make such a cute couple." Said a fairy. "Are you going to use Cupid's Flower, milady?."
"Not with any of them. This flower has already caused too many problems. I'll use the antidote and the Flower of Truth." explained Titania, who was healed from Naraku's incense. Another bunch of fairies placed Sango near Miroku, but not to close.
"What do you mean by 'not with any of them', milady?" asked another fairy.
Titania smiled. Then she put her hands together as she stared at the sky, and released a glowing sphere from her hands. It exploded, spreading some kind of star dust upon the sleeping people, including Rin, Shippo, also, of course, Sesshomaru and Jaken.
"This is a midwinter's night. These mortals only had a strange dream, and they'll remember these events only as dreams. Their memories will be too blurred and incoherent to even give them a second thought, because this never happened, to them at least." said Titania, after casting her spell.
With this, Titania took the Flower of Truth and brushed it against the eyes of Kagome, Sango, Inu-Yasha, and Miroku.
"This will make these people more honest with their feelings. All of them. Maybe they'll confess them to each other, but that is one thing I can't assure."
"So, in the end, they'll be just like they were in the beginning." said another fairy, while putting Shippo in Kagome's lap. Titania nodded.
"Milady, What shall we do about this Taiyoukai?" asked someone in the back.
"Take him and his party out of here before he wakes up!" said a second fairy. "He's going to be GROUCHY, that's for sure!" Titania knelt by Sesshomaru.
"What an arrogant and selfish asshole! You said that you don't like humans, but you adopted a little human child!. You're alone, too alone and you know it! Fairies! We need to get him out of here!." said Titania standing up. "Then," she added, "we are going to stay in this country for another season, or until we get a girl for this fellow!"
Titania took to the air, followed by her fairies, some of them carrying Sesshomaru, another carrying Rin and a third carrying the disgusting Jaken with him.
Oberon stared at the sky and sighed. Dawn was approaching and the night has
ended in a fiasco, thanks to certain intruder, which name he didn't know well. Everytime
he use Cupid's flower this kind of thing was predestined to happen, no matter
what: he needed to stop using it, for the best. Puck returned and dropped
himself to the floor to catch some air.
"It's done, Lord Oberon… May I ask WHY Lady Titania brought here such terrible monster! She gave me a lot of problems to get her inside that awful, evil place!"
"Because, whoever messes with me or Titania, deserves that kind of torture!" Answered Oberon, still staring at the sky. He chuckled. "So, is it Titania now who is playing matchmaker?"
The sun was starting to appear in the east. Generally, he wakes up half an hour
before this, no matter what. But not today. He awoke with the sensation of not
having sleep trough the night, and he couldn't remember at which hour he fell
asleep, no matter how hard he tried. And for Kami's sake, he felt terribly
guilty about something he didn't remember exactly what is was. However, he
remembered having dreams. But the images were too blurry and confusing to even
consider. He grunted. He hated it when that happened to him.
He stretched, then he smelled blood. Suddenly, he noted a weight on his chest and shoulders. He looked down, only to face the sleeping Kagome, who was using him as a pillow. His face turned even redder than his kimono. He didn't remember falling asleep with Kagome!
Careful of not waking her up, he tried to get out of there before the girl decided to sit him several times. That was when he noted the ugly wound in her arm. Two things happened to him when he saw that:
a) He felt the wound was his own,
b) If he felt guilty about something before, THAT sight took the cake.
Kagome felt very comfortable in the position in which she was sleeping and she didn't have the slightest intention to return to the world of the living. But a girl like her never gets what she wants: she awoke as she felt a sudden pain in her arm. It looked like someone was attending her. So she opened her eyes.
To her big surprise, she discovered that she was using Inu-Yasha as a big pillow, and that the shy hanyou was sniffing at her wound, and inspecting it. She was clueless as to HOW she ended up sleeping by his side and ...oh! Hugged him the entire night! When they stared at each other, they jumped in fear, shaking the sleep from their eyes.
"I-It's not what you think!" They exclaimed at the same time, both with embarrassed looks. "I Can Explain it! I Know I Can!" Both of them said again, while looking at each other in the eyes.
"Would you laugh if I told you that that I think I dreamed about you last night?." Asked Kagome, breaking the silence a few minutes after, caressing her arm unconsciously.
"Not at all! I got the same feeling, but I can't remember my dream."
"Me neither." confessed Kagome, biting her lower lip. "I'm sorry, it wasn't my intention falling asleep on top of you."
"Don't worry. Feh, I'm the one who should apologize!"
Kagome stared at the ground, remembering all sudden, the previous afternoon, when, once again, she had walked onto Inu-Yasha and Kikyou, and had found them kissing each other.
"And, where is Kikyou?" she asked, full of doubts. The hanyou crossed his arms and looked away.
"Feh. I don't know and I don't DAMN care! Kikyou has caused me a lot of troubles lately..." Inu-Yasha stopped. "Eh... how... how did you know that Kikyou was here?" Kagome looked away too, with her face sad and pale.
"I think I got this ability to find her when I least expect it, and in the worst moment." She answered. "I got a terrible timing." Inu-Yasha knew immediately what she was implying.
"I can explain that."
"What for?" said Kagome, with one of her best smiles. "She's the woman you love, isn't she? It's very natural that you wanted to be with her."
Inu-Yasha, feeling a curious and strange courage, took Kagome's hands in his, and looked at her intensely, and, to Kagome's shock, he turned into the charming, romantic and sweet attitude.
"Kikyou isn't the woman that I truly love. She... you see, she holds an special piece of my life, because, you know, she was the first person, after my ofukuro, that made me felt loved, but that is the past... I... now... you... mmm..."
SLAP
"Get Away From Me, You PERV!" Yelled Sango, destroying the
moment. "How Dare You To Take Advantage Of Me In Such An Unhonorable
Way!"
"I'm very sorry! I swear that I didn't know you where there!" Said Miroku, while rubbing his cheek. "Besides, I could say the same about you." he added.
TWICHT
"What are you implying by THAT!" asked Sango, while giving him a good
death glare.
"Nothing, Sango-sama, Nothing!" Miroku rushed, waving his hands frantically in front of him.
As that discussion between them started to climb Mt. Everest, Inu-Yasha and Kagome stared at each other once again. The hanyou took a deep breath and resumed his speech.
"What I mean is...I..."
"Kagome!" Shippo had woken up, and hugged Kagome's neck in a very frightened manner.
"Shippo-chan! Are you scared?"
"I had an ugly dream! I dreamt that I got lost and... and... Hmpf. I can't remember my dream... but I didn't like it and I was scared!"
"...Grrrrrr!"
"What's wrong? I interrupted something?" asked Shippo innocently, with wide eyes to boost.
"You can bet that, Shippo-chan: maybe Inu-Yasha was confessing something to Kagome-sama" said Miroku, winking an eye. Kagome blushed and she stood up.
"You have nothing to do, Miroku-sama?" she asked seriously, walking by his side.
"Like stop groping my ass, maybe?" Added Sango in discomfort, following her friend.
"Feh, we better keep moving: we still need to reach Musashi's domain before nightfall." Grunted a not very pleased Inu-Yasha. He stopped by Miroku's side. "Why Sango didn't hit you this time for groping her? Did you say something to her?" He asked him.
"Maybe… maybe not."
The group continued to travel, with the feeling of being involved in something which didn't work out at all. But they all felt more refreshed and they didn't care about what happened the last night. They continued their travel, almost in silence, thinking about a lot of stuff, mostly Inu-Yasha, who was decided to talk alone with Kagome to finish their previous talk.
As they walked, they talked about the strangest dreams they had, but nothing made the thing clear. Their memories were so blurred, that they started to made fun of that and soon they forgot about it.
No, none of them remembered anything.
WAIT A MINUTE! What happened with Naraku and the creature described by Kagura?
Naraku reached his bedroom, but before he touched the door, he took a step back, due to the stench that was coming out from there. No doubt that Kagura was right when she had said that it was a smelly thing: it smelled like raw fish and sulphur. When he gathered all of his strength he noticed a folded paper in the door, with his name on it. Randomly, he picked it up and opened the door, unfolding it in the process, careless.
He stopped death froze at the sight in front of him. That thing WASN'T one of his pets.
Just there, in front of his very eyes, there was a slumbering creature, a big, smelly, and awful monster. Naraku paled: he was in no conditions of fighting anything, due to his effort in messing with Oberon's magic, and using the Shikon no Tama. For worst, this creature seems too much big and aggressive, even sleeping, to be dominated easily. At least, IT was sleeping, and that got to be and advantage. Suddenly, he remembered the message, and read it:
"Meet Scila! Just guess what we gave HER!".
Lord Oberon and Lady Titania.'
In that moment, the creature woke up, and almost immediately fixed her eyes on Naraku. He paled even more…
…Mostly when he saw an all too familiar hazy look on Scila's eyes.
Someplace at the forest.
"Yes, Scila is a very violent, wild, and mighty creature, that, without mentioning her BAD temper. Cupid's flower has never made much effect on her, and the spell is easily braking on her, often after she had satisfied her uncontrolled perverted lust." explained Oberon.
"Anyways, that Naraku guy deserves that for messing with our magic." said Puck. "I pity that guy."
"Me too. When Scila finishes with him, the effect of Cupid's flower will be already gone." Oberon sighed. "Then, she'll be back in her old cranky self and she'll be the same monster from which Ulysses (A/N: From Homer's Odyssey) ran away. Shit happens!"
At Naraku's Castle.
Kagura and Kanna were listening in shock at the end of the hall, which lead to Naraku's room. Both sisters were truly intimidated by the agonizing screams, the crying for help and the threats to whoever had done something to Naraku, among the animalistic noises from the creature known as Scila. They were too terrified to go after Naraku's help.
"Do you think that he's all right, Kanna?"
"No."
"Do you think we should help him?"
"Neither. I'm scared."
"Me too." said Kagura, backing off. A peculiar sound followed by another scream for help from Naraku, made them put on a face. "That sounds like it hurts!"
"True."
"I-I'll be in the forest, if I'm needed."
"I'm going with you"
And what happened with Sesshomaru?.
Soon after the fairies left him far away from Inu-Yasha's party, he woke up in a grouchy mood. And he would've kept that way if he didn't see Rin sleeping in his arms. The question was, how in seven hells Rin ended up sleeping in his arms?. Whatever, coming from this little human, he didn't care: Rin knew how to melt his cold heart.
Without waking Rin up (because it was to early), he stood up, and walked toward his retainer to kick him hard, because he was sleeping as well, and as he remembered, he wasn't allowed to sleep in front of his master.
"Jaken. We leaving." muttered Sesshomaru angrily.
The retainer woke up completely in a blink of an eye, and started to follow Sesshomaru's calm long shanks to who knows where.
Obviously, the whole scene was watched closely by Titania and her fairies. The lady looks at the cupid's flower in her hands and smiled as she burned the flower in her fingers. Titania stared at Sesshomaru once again and she started to follow him, not caring of being detected.
After all, if she was going to play matchmaker, and find a girl for this taiyoukai, that must be done with her abilities, without the help of Cupid's magic, or she'll change her name to ...Mud.
The End.
By
Misao-CG.
PS: As I said in 'Little Brother': ReviewsHappy Misao! I really hope that you enjoyed this fic. Please, review and tell me what you think about it!
