Comprehension
Kagome frowned as she picked up a pack of ramen. Debating whether to get it or not, she sighed and dropped it into the cart. Why she had the nerve to by him something when he made a complete fool of her, she would never be able to understand, but he didn't deserve to die, and she was pretty sure he didn't even realize that he was gone yet. Looking over her shoulder, she shuddered as an inu youkai eyed her lustfully as she turned the corner. Maybe this wasn't a good idea. She thought with a grimace as she caught another stare. Walking down the isle and picking up a pound of flour, and a bottle of soy sauce, she sighed again and tugged on the bottom of her skirt.
Whatever possessed her into wearing the thing, she felt like slapping it right now as she gave up and began walking again. She looked like a complete fool, and all these different scents around the store were giving her a headache. She decided she wanted to leave, and go shopping for her instead. She grinned. Yes, that would be much better. Walking over to the cash register, she looked off into the distance as the young clerk rang up her items. Idly toying with the charm hanging around her neck, she turned to the clerk who was calling for her.
"Excuse me? I said ten bucks Miss." Kagome blushed and forked over the money before she picked her bags up and walked out of the store. Theclerk had been extremely irritable, and rude. I wonder if she knew she was pregnant. Wrinkling her nose, she walked over to the car and popped the trunk before placing the bags in softly, and slamming the door. Walking over to the front seat, she went to unlock the door when a friendly gaze met her eye. Smiling, Kagome watched as the man came over and held out his hand in a friendly manner.
"Hello. How are you? It's been such a long time." Kagome stared the man in the face, before he gaze fell to his hands.
C-Claws? She could see right through his concealment charm. She grimaced and backed up a little bit as she shook her head and bared her fangs.
"Get away from me." She growled. The man frowned.
"Maybe you would remember me if I approached you like this. Hey Kagome, still with dog-breath?" Kagome's face broke into an amused, yet surprised open mouthed drool as she stared at the man in front of her.
"Kouga? Kouga!" Kouga smiled as he hugged Kagome. Kagome's smile was still plastered on her face as she dropped her keys into her pocket.
"It's great to see you. I caught a whiff of your scent about a mile away, you were angry so I was making sure you didn't do anything," Kouga's gaze fell to the hem of her skirt. He blushed and cleared his throat. "Drastic." Kagome wrinkled her nose.
"Don't even ask. And thanks. Say, would you like to go out for some coffee or something?" Kouga glanced at his watch.
"I'm sorry. I can't. I have to go and pick up my daughter. But maybe I can catch you another time?" Kagome looked disappointed but nodded. "Great. It was great to see you." Kagome watched as he walked away. Sighing as she reached into her pocket for her keys, Kagome opened her mouth to scream when a figure appeared in front of her, but she felt a sharp pain in her shoulder, and she blacked out.
Kagome awakened with a head splitting headache that was so severe she could hear the blood pulsing through her veins. Heightened by the need to scream, and the desire to run and find InuYasha, she wanted to fall unconscious once more as she pressed her ears on her head.
Looking around slowly as her eyes adjusted to the darkness of the area, she blinked as she sat up a little bit and looked around. She snorted. Well they must not be too smart. I'm not that far from the shrine. I can smell Buyo. She tried to stand up, only to stumble back down again. She winced. That wasn't a good idea. Looking around, she realized that there was a youkai nearby. She growled.
"Who's there?" The leaves in a nearby tree rustled, and shortly after a strong wind threatened to lift Kagome off of the floor and into a nearby tree. She tried sinking her claws in the ground, but that didn't help much. The trees moaned with agony, and the grass swayed with melancholy as she tried to catch her breath when the wind died down. "That was weird. Must be gusty tonight then." She mumbled as she tried to stand up again.
After a couple of uneventful tries, she was finally on her feet, and not surprised that her knees was shaking. She dusted off her skirt and looked around, realizing that it was way past sundown. She wondered: Why didn't InuYasha come for her? Where was he? Why wasn't he here with her? She shook those thoughts out of her head. She had been thinking. She didn't really need him in his era. She doesn't need him now either. She's a hanyou now, she can fend for herself. Kagome stubbornly poked her lip out immaturely. She'll be just fine.
Cautiously lifting her leg, she grinned when she didn't go plummeting to the ground and she took a step. Stumbling a bit, she took another and began walking slowly. What was going on? She was kidnapped, and then all of a sudden they leave her to just walk away form danger. She was really with some idiots. They don't know the first thing about a crime---thank Kami. Kagome walked a couple of yards before she was thrown back quite forcefully by some force that she didn't even see.
A dark purple circle began rippling, than stilled as it glowed in the moonlight. Kagome gasped. It was a dark energy barrier. She wouldn't be able to get out. Walking over, she placed her claw lightly on it, and quickly pulled it back with a hiss. Growling, she looked up and around, when the leaves started rustling again. "Who's there?"
"Foolish miko. You can not escape. This is the beginning of the end for you." Kagome snarled.
"Yeah whatever!" She spat out. "If I could give you a dollar every time I heard that you would be rich." The creature in the tree chuckled again.
"Such foolish babble. Silence!" She demanded. Kagome's anger welled up inside her.
"Who are you talking to? Do you know who I am?" The female left stepped out of the safety of the trees. Glaring at Kagome through her narrow piercing eyes, Kagome gasped and back up a little bit. "It was you." The youkai threw her head back and laughed. Looking at Kagome through her bright yellow eyes lit with amusement, she gave a fangy grin.
"Does it bother you that I am the culprit, or does it bother you that he no longer desires you?" Kagome's jaw tightened.
He. . . He doesn't desire me anymore? Kagome lowered her head in silence. Her heart wanted to stop beating, her whole body wanted to shrivel away and die, but her mind was the only thing that didn't believe her. Everything else did, but herself. Gritting her teeth together, she tried to fight the feeling of emptiness. Lifting her head, she glared the youkai in her face.
"Who are you? Why do you do this to Moon?" At the mention of her cousins name, the youkai twisted her face up in disgust.
"Moon has helped cause the death of a dear mate that was a favorite of the family." She growled. "The Akayama clan no longer wishes for her to walk around with her birthright scent, as well as the stench from her 'beloved'puppy." Kagome snorted.
"She didn't kill anyone! I knew cats were stupid ever since I got Buyo." The neko was outraged. Hopping out of the tree, she had her claws around Kagome's throat so quick she didn't have a chance to try to retaliate. Chuckling as Kagome wrapped her hands around her wrists and tried to pry her loose, she squeezed quite firmly once more before speaking.
"What did you say?" She demanded. Kagome grinned idiotically.
"Oh, did the little furball lose her ball of yarn?" The neko took a hand lose and was about to strike her, when another presence, three more, entered the barrier.
"Kyoko! Do you dare disobey me?" Immediately Kyoko released her hold on Kagome, and as Kagome fell to the ground, grabbing her throat and gasping for air, Kyoko turned to face the other three youkai.
"Aneko, Eriko, Leiko. What brings you here?" Aneko dismissed her sister's demands and looked at Kagome. Rolling her eyes, her gaze fell over to her younger sister.
"We were just checking up." Leiko cut in with a sneer. Her spring dress with sakura blossoms on it swayed in the wind. She had her red hair up in an elegant bun, and Kagome noticed that she had a notepad under her arm, and a pen behind her ear that she was frequently adjusting.
"Well I'm fine. Thank you." Kyoko snapped. Leiko looked as if she wanted to say something, but it was never able to come out.
"Look at you two. Already, not even fine minutes!" Eriko screeched as she adjusted her collar. "Kyoko, do something for once and get the mutt something to eat. Considering how you screwed up he may never come back for her." Kagome gasped. It went unnoticed.
"Your not busy." She spat. "I was in the middle of teaching little pup here a lesson."
"Well don't." Aneko said in a big voice full of authority, and all comments were not open for discussion. Looking over her sisters she shook her head before speaking. "The battle is almost underway. We have to help each other, and I have seen the Great Inu No Taisho in battle. Sun's strategy won't work. He figured out the trap far too quick. We must regroup, and restrategize." Her gaze fell to Kagome, who looked shocked, as well as heartbroken. "Kyoko, let's go." Kyoko shrugged.
"Alright whatever. Lead the way 'older sister'." Aneko ignored the comment as the four hopped out of the barrier.
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Sesshomaru tried to contain the growing desire to break something as his mate's crying escalated and his skull breaking headache intensified. Gripping the chair so hard that it started to splinter and crack, humans turned to stare and whisper in amazement at his show of great strength. Gritting his teeth together as the doctor walked over to him, his growl was low, daring, and the youkai was a bit shaken before he started speaking.
"She is going through a state of trauma. This is only the beginning. She will mourn for about two more days, before she goes into depression. I then advise for you to get her a counselor. She should be fine after a few 'sessions'." Sesshomaru winced as a blood curling wail rang through the halls of the youkai section of the hospital, and he knew only too well who it belonged to.
"There's nothing I can do to help her?" The doctor's eyes raked over him.
"I understand this is troubling you greatly? I wish I knew anything to help, but see, I am not mated. Only you will know how to help her."
Sesshomaru hid his frustration well. "So, can she go home now?" The doctor looked down the hallway as Tsukiko rang the halls with another agonizing wail before he cringed and turned back to Sesshomaru.
"Yes, but I was thinking maybe you would want to leave her hear on the count of her trauma. . ." Sesshomaru stood up abruptly.
"No, she is going home.. . .Now." The doctor looked as if he wanted to argue. But in the end, he sighed and turned on his heel.
"Very well. Follow me." Sesshomaru nodded as he followed the doctor to her room. Immediately, he was greeted by the shy and exhausted smile on a young girl that made his heart freeze. His youkai blood and senses were numbed for a moment as those dark eyes bore into his soul, created a wedge that made him want to melt into a puddle into her very presence.He simply shook his head and rid the thought that she had come back to him, and rushed over to his mate.
"Moon. . ."He said softly, pulling her red hair out of her sweaty face. "We're going to go home now. Your going to see Hanako, and Daichi, and we can start over. Let's go home." Sesshomaru watched as the young nurse walked out of the room, and returned with a wheelchair. Picking up Tsukiko, Sesshomaru gently placed her in the chair as she gave a piercing cry that made him want to knock the whole building down. Looking over at the doctor in a panic frenzy, the doctor quickly rushed to her side, and reached for her, only to be swatted away by Sesshomaru. The doctor nearly explained again that she was his mate, only he knew the rememdy for a broken heart.
Wheeling her out the room as she cried her yellow beautiful eyes out, he watched as she clawed at her skin, making them red and raw, even though he begged her to stop. She did for a little while, only to begin chewing on her arm. She went into fits of shivering, and Sesshomaru took her back to the hospital twice before the doctor assured him that nothing was going to happen to her. She began talking nonsense, muttering things he couldn't understand. Is this what it felt like to lose a child? He wanted to rant and rave like she was doing, his pup was killed as well. But he has to be strong. Showing such weakness would mean that youkai would rise to challenge him, and that is just not what he needs right now.
Taking her to the hotel room, and helping her out of the wheelchair into the bed, he watched as she crawled into a fetal postion, and began to rub her stomach as if something was there. Sesshomaru watched as she tightened her arms around herself, closed her eyes, and fell asleep.
How could someone as strong as her, be turned into something like this over a loss of a child? Sesshomaru knew. Mother's gave their life for their children. The fact that she couldn't help it must hurt her more than anything, and he couldn't stand to see her like this. A broken, torn shattered mess, it made his insides disintergrate, want to fall into a pile of nothing as the wind blew him away as a pile of ash.
Cringing as years of unshed tears made their way free, he curled up behind her and wrapped his arms around her waist, dug his face in her hair, and fell asleep with her.
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Usagi looked around cautiously before she walked out of her apartment. In nothing but a pair of low rise blue jeans and a tucked in white wife-beater, She ignored the gazes of men, and a couple of women as she walked around the corner into an alley. Checking her surroundings again, she hopped up onto the building, her red eyes always checking here and there, and sniffed the air.
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t had been at least 5 days since she had been in the hospital. She wanted to see her, but she couldn't. Running from Tokyo rooftop to rooftop, she landed above the nearby hospital. Walking over to the edge of the rooftop, she allowed her body to drift forward, and begin falling down, wincing as the concrete grew larger and larger. But suddenly, a hand reached out, and she hung from a nearby window to a young girl's room.
She never knew how many times she did this, but it was for the best, right? Climbing onto the ledge, she used to claw to open the window, and once it was opened, she stepped inside. Checking her surroundings, she sighed and closed the window behind her, shutting the shades, making the room dark and she peeled off all of her clothes. Walking over and standing next to Yutamiki, she dropped her concealment spell, sighing as her ears flopped onto her hips and her long white hair tickled her buttocks. Climbing onto the bed, she closed her eyes as she felt herself become smaller, white fur protruding from her body, her senses growing as she moved up slightly so that she was on the young girl's chest.
Yutamiki tiredly opened her eyes at the slight pressure on her chest. Smiling as realization dawned on her, she patted around till she touched a soft mass, and began running her fangers through the velvety soft fur. "Ryoko.. . ."She mumbled as she closed her eyes again. Usagi inwardly rolled her eyes, but shifted slightly to let Yutamiki know she was there. Suddenly, the doctor bustled into the room and closed and locked the door behind him, a panting fuss.
"Just what do you think your doing?" He growled. Usagi snorted.
What? I can't visit her?
"No, not really. There's human's here. Now what if you had exposed the secret?"
Usagi shrugged. It doesn't matter. I've waited five hundred years to see her again. I really don't care anymore.
The doctor sighed and walked over, picking up her clothes and setting them on a nearby chair.
"Well, there are humans visiting, but all youkai are on shift. Your off, for now. But still, be careful." Usagi promised she would, and watched as the doctor walked away.
Now my dear. . .Where were we? Usagi growled as her cell phone began ringing and she quickly transformed back. Going to pick it up, she really didn't need to hold it, but did anyway.
"Yes?" She said irritably.
Yoko growled. "There was a scheduled meeting for me and my cousins two minutes ago."
"And your telling me because---"
"Your supposed to be here. Where the hell are you?"
Usagi bit back a crude retort. "Visiting old friends." She replied simply.
"Well say goodbye and get here now."
"Why do I have to? There's eight of you." She said as she glanced back at the bed, to Yutamiki who was now looking at her through wide eyes. "Look what you did. You've awakened my company."
"Awakened?" Yoko asked incredulously. "Alright whatever just get here."
"How many times do I have to say it? I'm. Busy." Yutamiki reached for the button to call a nurse, but Usagi reached around and snatched it out of her reach, putting a claw to her mouth and shushing her from screaming or anything. Yutamiki, to frightened to move or do anything, just simply nodded. Usagi went back, and began tugging on her underwear.
"Just what are you doing that is more important than demolishing my sister?"
"My life. That's what."
Yoko growled again. "I'm not going to repeat myself. I want you to get here in five minutes."
Usagi chuckled. "You just did." She said as she buttoned her jeans and tugged her shirt over her head. Putting Yoko on speakerphone as she whined about how important the meeting was, Usagi put her hair into a sloppy ponytail, and put her concealment spell back up. Yutamiki was now sitting up, staring at the phone with wonder.
After an ongoing arguement for about ten minutes, Usagi eventually hung up on Yoko, and sat on the corner of the bed with Yutamiki. "Who are you?" Yutamiki asked.
Usagi sighed. "My name is Usagi. But you named me Ryoko." Yutamiki's eyes lit up.
"Ryoko---"
"Usagi." She corrected. Yutamiki giggled but pulled the rabbit into a hug.
"How are you?" Usagi shrugged as she stood up and paced the room.
"I've been better. I'm working for Moon's sister, but I'm tired of her bossing me around. It's been too long since I stood up to her, I'm tired of it." Usagi grinned sadly. "Enough about me, how are you?"
Yutamiki told her all about Shippou and her family. Usagi smiled.
"It seems you like this boy." Her response was reddening cheeks. "If he ever breaks your heart Yutamiki. . ." Usagi reached over and lifted her cheeks with a claw, and planted a sweet kiss on her forehead. "I'll skin him alive."
Yutamiki gasped as Usagi opened the window and hopped onto the ledge. "You won't!"
Usagi's laughter was the last thing she heard before she jumped up out of her sight.
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A/N
Well, I'm sorry this update took so long. But I've been extremely busy lately. However, I do plan to update more frequently when I have more time, and for those that are awaiting my other fanfiction, the continuation of this one, it may take longer than I planned. I decided this story is going to take an unexpected turn.
