Disclaimer: If I owned Inuyasha, why would I need to go to the school I hate so much? I don't own it. I seriously don't think we need disclaimers, for the website Url this story is hosted on its in fact, Either way, Inuyasha and company belong to Rumiko Takahashi. The used poem titles belong to Robert Frost.
Notes: School is over, and although it hasn't quite sunken into my brain yet, I'm glad. Expect more updates, I'm alive again. Wait...was I ever? Anyway, go find the song Shima Uta by The Boom and listen to it. Significance? My own nostalgia. Anyway, enjoy this chapter.
Sesshoumaru sat up suddenly.
'Kagura...' He thought, and stood up, rushing to Kagura's room. She was sweating profusly, her face ill stricken and frustrated. Ripping cloth from a sheet nearby, he sat down next to her futon and wiped her forehead gently.
"Kagura..." He whispered, and her face softened, as if her nightmare faded. Kagura's eyes opened.
"Sessh...Sesshoumaru..." She whispered weakly. She reached up for his hand. Taking it, she placed it on her cheek, and closed her eyes again, asleep.
'What is this feeling?' Sesshoumaru thought. A strange feeling in his upper left chest.
Sesshoumaru slept quite horribly. He didn't understand why. Perhaps his conscience was teasing him about the walk the few last evenings ago. Or perhaps his worry for Kagura. She was delusional, screaming in the night, fearful for her life. Sesshoumaru assumed it had been Naraku that affected her so badly.
Even so, Sesshoumaru woke up, and without pulling his top kimono on, he walked into a room at the end of the hall where his armoire was located. He lifted his Tenseiga, and held it up, swishing the air with it. He hadn't had combat practice in a while.
"Sesshoumaru!" A loud voice shouted into the halls, and the main door closed with a loud bang. "Hey female!" The voice shouted out again.
'Could that be Inuyasha?' Kagura thought, waking up to the noise, and she sat up without thinking and headed out to the wooden railing. Sesshoumaru had also run out at the same time she did, so they stood together at the same spot unintentionally.
"Cover your eyes Shippou!" A young man dressed in monk attire shouted at a small fox boy who was carrying a small cat like demon. Two girls nodded. Inuyasha sniggered.
"I'd never think you would be up to that sort of thing, Sesshoumaru. Perhaps you aren't such a female after all." A fifteen year old looking guy shouted. He was wearing a bright red yukata and had long white hair, similar to Sesshoumaru's, except that he had two dog ears one his head. Anyone could easily tell they were brothers.
It took a while for the both of them to realize what he was talking about. Suddenly Kagura looked at Sesshoumaru and back at herself. She suddenly realized that her yukata was in shreds on the floor by Inuyasha's feet and was just wearing her white under-yukata. Sesshoumaru was shirtless, for the reason that he was practicing sword fighting in the armoire room. "Damn!" She blushed and shouted somewhat girlishly, running into her room. Sesshoumaru took notice of this, but he didn't show it.
"Have you news of where Naraku may be headed?" Sesshoumaru asked Inuyasha without caring about his previous comment.
"We thought you would know. She thought, I mean!" Inuyasha replied, glancing at a young girl dressed in a modern day school uniform whom was Kagome. "He's looking for Kagura! He'll come this way, now that he knows you have her." Inuyasha added, referring to the fact that Naraku held and watched Kagura with her heart. "You better keep and eye on that wench of yours in there."
"Shut the hell up!" Someone in the room shouted back at the comment, obviously Kagura.
"Just keep an eye on your own wench." Sesshoumaru replied, referring to Kagome, the young girl next to him. Kagome blushed and shook her head, and Inuyasha turned bright red.
"What's that mean!" Inuyasha shouted back but Sesshoumaru had already turned around and headed back into his room by then.
"By the way…" Sesshoumaru said without turning around. "Don't make yourself at home. But the little toad demon Jaken will tend to you, if you wish so." Sesshoumaru added. By habit, he walked into his old room, which held Kagura at the moment.
Kagura was hiding her face in a pillow, lying on the futon. There were some pillows shredded and feathers and cloth were scattered everywhere. She looked up when he closed the door, his back to her.
"What the hell do you want?" Kagura shouted, and Sesshoumaru flipped around in surprise. He looked around the room, a little confused, but looked back at Kagura, whose face was slightly red.
"Why are you…" Sesshoumaru started out, but he remembered that it was her room now. "Clean this up." He told her.
"No one orders me around!" Kagura shouted, standing up and glaring at him, fist in air. "Get out now!" Kagura shouted. Sesshoumaru rose his arm to knock her out, but he knew it would have no use. He turned around and headed out, shutting the door behind him.
"Maybe it's a love affair." Kagome said, taking a bowl of misosoup from Jaken. She and the others were sitting around a dusty table. They were eating, with the exception of Inuyasha, who was still heated up by Sesshoumaru's last comment. He sat away from Kagome, crossing his arms and closing his eyes.
"What's that, Kagome?" Shippou asked, gobbling up his soup. Miroku and the other girl, Sango, looked up to hear her answer.
"Its like a secret romance…something like that. A secret love relationship." She explained slowly, taking a sip from her soup bowl. Kirara, the small cat demon mewed and rested upon Sango's lap.
"Sort of like the one Inuyasha and you have?" Shippou asked. Kagome almost dropped her bowl, and Inuyasha opened his eyes to object.
"No, like the one Sango and Miroku are having!" He shouted, referring to the young monk and the demon exterminator next to him. This time Sango almost dropped her bowl.
"Speaking of that…" Miroku smiled, reaching out to Sango. He had a smug smile on his face and his arm reached lower and lower behind her.
"Don't you try anything you pervert!" Sango shouted at him, raising her arm to slap him. Miroku tended to feel her butt, and even though it all resulted in a slap, but he didn't care anyway.
"So this mansion was your father's?" Kagome asked Inuyasha, ignoring both Sango and Miroku.
"Part of it. The rest burned down when I was born." Inuyasha replied. "One day I'm going to rule this place. And I will have a lovely bride too. Once I kick Sesshoumaru out." He added. Kagome looked slightly irritated at the "bride" comment.
"Do you really believe you can defeat me, foolish hanyou." Sesshoumaru said coldly behind him. This time he was fully dressed in his kimono.
"Hey! I will beat you!" Inuyasha shouted at him.
"Keh. Don't have foolish dreams." Sesshoumaru replied. He didn't even rise or drop his tone at all.
"Lets just focus on killing Naraku." Sango said out of nowhere. Everyone looked at her and the monk, who was rolling around, clutching and rubbing his face. "Lets just kill him. He will be here soon, in search for Kagura. And Sesshoumaru, if you don't do anything about it, she will be lost to you." She added. Sesshoumaru eyed her irritably.
"What makes you think-" He started to say, but lifted his nose in the air. "Naraku is near."
"That's only Kagura you smell." Inuyasha told him, but also sniffed the air.
"Don't contradict my nose, hanyou." Sesshoumaru said, and he walked out into the main hall. The others followed quickly behind him, and Inuyasha stepped up in front of him. "He's twenty meters away from the mansion."
"You're right! Come on, lets go!" Inuyasha shouted, pulling Kagome over his back. The cat demon morphed into a larger form, and Sango, Miroku, and Shippou hopped onto it. They raced out the door, and it shut with a large bam.
"No!" Kagura shouted, rushing down the stairs. She had been listening. "He can't be here. Not yet." Kagura murmured in fear. She cornered into the wall, and sat, her arms wrapped around her knees. Her eyes stared past the main door, and she started trembling with fear.
"Kagura." Sesshoumaru whispered. He knelt down to her side and touched her cheek. She shook startled at his touch, and looked away from the door, into his eyes. "I wish to die. Not be tortured." She told him, and closed her eyes. Small tears ran down her cheeks.
Torture… Sesshoumaru thought. She was mortified of torture. He wondered what awful things Naraku had done to her, and grew angry. He face stretched out, and his arms grew to the side of his legs, white fur sprouting in his skin. He clenched his teeth in pain and growled. At the sound Kagura opened her eyes, some what shocked to see Sesshoumaru replaced by a large white canine. Kagura… Sesshoumaru thought, and he licked her on the cheek. Watching Jaken strut to the door and open it, Sesshoumaru dashed out.
"Naraku!" Sango shouted out, still on Kirara's back. "I will avenge my brother!" She shouted throwing her large white boomerang at him. She yelled "Hiraikotsu" when she did so.
Kirara lept down into the forest in fear. "Kirara, what are you doing!" Sango shouted, and she hopped of her and started racing towards the clearing. "Kirara!" She shouted back at him, and ran into Miroku, who was also hiding in the forest, with Shippou and Kagome.
"Look." Kagome said and pointed towards a large white canine with stripes on his cheeks and a moon on his forehead. "Do you suppose that's…Sesshoumaru?" Kagome asked. Only he and Inuyasha were fighting Naraku. Inuyasha was hopping around, and sliced the air with his sword, the scar of the wind. "Kaze no Kizu!" He shouted.
"Hehe, Sesshoumaru, I'd never thought you would love Kagura." Naraku shouted. "Let me have your brother's possession of the shards, and Kagura's heart would be yours."
Inuyasha turned his head at Sesshoumaru, making an expression that said "no way".
"Lies." Sesshoumaru growled. "You will die now, Naraku!" He shouted, and dove toward him. A large white paw struck Naraku's face, and four claw marks remained. Blood splurted quickly, pouring down his face and neck.
"Beware, the heart I hold in my hand is not mine." Naraku suddenly shouted, and he pulled a beating heart from his ribs. "I held it here just for you, Sesshoumaru." He sneered. He took his hand, and with one long fingernail, he scratched at the heart, scraping it.
"Argh!" Kagura shouted inside the mansion. No normal ear would hear it, but Sesshoumaru and Inuyasha still did.
"Cease fighting!" Sesshoumaru growled at Inuyasha.
"Forget it. She dies." Naraku shouted, and he dropped his barrier and tilted his hand over and dropped the heart. It fell from his hands, and was about to land on some rocks, but Sesshoumaru dove and clamped it lightly in his fangs. Another scream was heard from the mansion.
"Shards, Sesshoumaru." Naraku ordered. He didn't, however, return his barrier. Kagome lifted her bow and pulled out a sacred arrow. She aimed at Naraku's heard. She released the arrow. The arrow dove through the air, and pierced Naraku's heart.
"Fools!" He shouted, but it was too late. Inuyasha had realized and raised his Tessaiga, shouting "Kaze no Kizu!" Sango had also thrown her boomerang at Naraku's head. It sliced off, and returned to her, and Inuyasha's wind scar attack sliced him into pieces.