When an Angel Lost Her Wings - Chapter 7
By: Sakura Katsana
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Sakura's Note: Hello! How are all of you? I apologize for not updating this story for so long, but seeing how it is my least popular story at the moment I tend to write the other stories' chapters first. ;;
But I do appreciate all of my reviewers for reading and reviewing this story. Like one of my favorite authoresses ever, dolphingirl0113, says, they mean the world to me.
Not much to say, other than there's only a month before I am promoted from middle school and get into the big leagues! whoops
Shout outs:
1) I will see if I can work in Going Under or Hello by Evanescence somewhere in this fic, but I'm already planning on using two other Evanescence songs in this fic. ;; I'm a fan. But, I might try my hand at another song fic/one shot with the song(s) or another story.
2) To Luna Moonstone and every other curious reviewer - Yes, there are many questions still waiting to be answered. Happily, I know the answer to all of these, sadly, you don't. . .YET. I'll try to add a few more hints here and there to help you out. I'd love it if some people were to guess, I won't go out and say who is right or not, but you can let me know if you're on the right track or not. I love when my readers are in suspense, and when they guess!
3) looks around Where DID my author's note go? eyes wide I typed up a nice one, too, but somehow it disappeared and I realized too late that it was gone. A couple of reviewers noticed, shows you're reading. A cookie for you! You didn't miss much, though, so don't worry.
Thanks to: InuShemeeko, Soul of Kagome, animemistress419, loveyaa, LostinaShadow, inuyashafreak337, Luna Moonstone, miko no tsuki, Sakura 2876482, Okibi Usagi, blue, Pocky4lyfe, KellyJones, Sarcasm Girl8, and Sakura-yuna.
Enjoy the next chapter!
Pity-
An honorable trait, a risky trait
One that can make you feel great
One that can make you regret it
What happens if you pity someone too much-
Someone who doesn't deserve it?
Chapter 7: Bird Cages and Angels Don't Mix
Kagome reached the house just as Inuyasha reached for the knob. She climbed in through her room's window, quickly closing it back and collapsing onto the lush bed from exhaustion. Of course now is when she thought of just transporting herself back.
Ah, the jumbled thoughts of the human mind.
But she wasn't human- not anymore.
The Angel heard his familiar footsteps enter the kitchen, then retreat into his room, the door closing with a soft 'click' after him.
She had so many questions that were going unanswered. . .
Would she ever know the answer to any of them?
"How can you do this, Inuyasha?"
"Kaede, I know what you're thinking but-"
"But nothing! How can you already have another woman in your house?" the young woman huffed heatedly, "What's the matter with you?"
"Nothing's going on between us, I'm tellin' ya!" Inuyasha pounded the table with one hand, the other expertly seizing a hot cookie off the cooling rack. "Ouch!" he dropped the cookie when Kagome's swift hand batted his not- so-stealthy one away. "Nothing, Kaede. Just got burnt, that's all."
"Kagura might not see anything wrong with it, but I do. I don't see how you could get over her death so fast-"
"Don't ever say that. I'm not nearly over Kikyo's death. I won't be for a long time." Kagome clutched the side of the counter with his words, quickly noticing her apprehension and hastily letting go as if it had burnt her. Her eyes darted back to Inuyasha's wandering hand, which was now very close to snatching up yet another of her baked goods.
A smile crossed her face. He reminded her so much of a child. The Angel batted his hand away for the third time, earning an annoyed look from the man.
A very stubborn, but cute child.
"I'm sorry, Inuyasha. It's just hard to hear how you have someone else already. . ."
"What did I just tell you?! Kagome and I are not together, I have told you and every other nagging family member I have the story! Gods woman. . . How are you sisters with her? She can actually understand when I speak Japanese!"
"Can I speak with her, Inuyasha?" the black-haired man did a double take, casting the azure-eyed woman a skeptical glance.
"You sure?"
"Sure about what?"
"Oh nothing Kaede!"
"Yeah, I think I can handle her." Kagome let out a chuckle, trying to make light of the situation. Her laugh seemed to calm him slightly.
"Kaede, she wants to talk to you." he smirked slightly at her response, handing the phone over to the Angel. When Kagome's back was turned he swiftly grabbed up a fresh cookie before standing up to check the ramen. Kagome noticed but didn't say anything.
"Kaede? Hi, this is Kagome."
Kagome laughed again, leaning back into her chair deeper as if talking to an old friend.
Inuyasha stared at her, then the phone, in disbelief. How did she do that? How could she, a stranger he'd found living on the streets- almost abused by a rapist- make everyone who met her a friend?
"Ok, I'll talk to you later then." Kagome smiled, "Here's Inuyasha." She handed him the phone, getting up without a word to go back to her homemade ramen.
"Yeah, Kaede, she is a wonderful person." Inuyasha smiled softly, "Now go tell that to the rest of our nosy ass family, will you? Thank you. Bye."
The stormy-eyed Angel smiled, stirring what was on the stove and looking out at the birds. Kaede was a nice girl. . .she'd have to ask Kiky-
How would she explain it though?
Kikyo didn't know she was Inuyasha's guardian. How would she react? Sure, she was an Angel, but so was Abi.
. . . Abi. What had happened to her? It'd been four days now, Inuyasha had barely talked for two, and then when he did it was to tell her about when he would be meeting Naraku. She had totally forgotten.
"How do you do it?"
She looked up, ignoring a stray strand of hair in her face. With those five soft words her heartbeat had begun to race. Gods, what was happening to her?
"Do what?" she turned, a blithe smile on her face. Funny, smiling never felt so forced before.
"Make everyone just fall for you." Inuyasha shook his head, "The opposite of me, I'm borderline rude. You just make everyone around you automatically think you're some kind of saint or somethin'. Like an Angel."
'Don't say that. . .' "Thank you."
Inuyasha made his way down the hallway, Kagome not too far behind. "Do you know where you're going?"
"Of course I know where I'm going!" Inuyasha burst out, a predetermined scowl on his face. "It's not like there are any forks in the hall!"
Kagome nodded, looking in both directions at the gray walls with a solemn look on her face. She could only feel pity for Naraku, something she resented deep down. She pitied him, what had happened to make him this way?
Before she knew it they were in a room, along with two police officers.
"Takeda Inuyasha?" the black-haired man nodded, curtly because of his tense muscles. "Yes, well the bastard will be out soon."
Inuyasha looked a bit surprised at the language he used, opening his mouth in question.
"He's the least popular inmate here. Tried to kill a few officers, and looks like- based on some evidence- he tried killing one man in his sleep. We had to put him in solitary."
Kagome stayed silent, taking in her surroundings slowly. The room was a little larger than the guestroom Inuyasha had let her stay in and the walls were made of cinderblock. There was a glass pane on one of them, and using her angelic sight she could easily see three men behind it, two staring at her intently and a third scribbling down notes frantically.
She raised an eyebrow, staring off in another direction. Why should she make them feel insecure? At the moment all her energy was focused on keeping Inuyasha calm, collected, and most of all not thrown in jail for beating the living daylights out of this man.
There was a knock from a door adjacent to the glass windowpane. The guard inside with them grunted, signaling for Inuyasha to move out of the way. The door opened carefully, a man around his age entering, a superior smirk on his face.
Kagome could sense Inuyasha's hate radiating off his body, and she didn't sense a single prayer coming from him.
"Inuyasha, this is Naraku Kumonosu." The man leaned back casually in his seat, muscles limp and eyes calculating.
Naraku's stature was the exact opposite of Inuyasha's.
"You damned son of a bitch. . ."
"That's exactly what your wife said, right before I got annoyed of her ass- her very, very wonderful, shapely ass."
"You-" Inuyasha almost leaped over the table, grabbing the man's collar with all his strength before punching him square in the face. Two guards rushed into the room, holding the enraged widower back from causing the man more injury.
Naraku swiveled his head back around, checking his lip for blood with calm eyes. "Go ahead. It doesn't hurt at all. . .neither did hers. . .say, does weakness run in your family?"
Inuyasha leapt forward again, cursing at the two guards endlessly.
"Don't bother, Inuyasha." everyone seemed surprised that the young woman was still in the room. "He's not worth your energy."
It seemed, also, that Naraku had not even noticed her in the first place. For when his two black eyes focused in on her they widened, almost to the point where she would have been surprised if they went back to normal. "You. . ."
She'd been willing to give him a chance, listen to his voice to see if he felt remorse. Anything in his past that could have led him down such a horrible, damned, path. But she couldn't find any. Her opinion was set, he was evil incarnate.
"I don't know you." Kagome spoke in a low, dead serious monotone. "You feel no remorse at all, do you?"
"What the hell is this? She's dead!" Naraku looked to the guards now, in a state of shock and confusion.
"She is." Kagome walked over, calmly sitting across the table from the man, "How can you commit such a crime and then crack jokes about it?"
Naraku seemed to recover his infinite ego, "You wouldn't know, a little bitchy look alike."
"Hey! Don't talk about her that way!" Inuyasha roared, jerking away from the guards while their guards were down. He grabbed him by the neck, slamming him into a wall. He was getting sick of this man's mouth. "Don't EVER speak to her like that again. I'll make sure your entrails are hanging from the ceiling of your cell if you speak of her or my wife again."
He released the man, allowing him to slide back down the wall into a standing position. "I'm done seeing this fool," Naraku sneered, "I'm ready to go back to my cell."
The guards nodded, escorting him from the room, not sparing an ounce of courtesy when pushing him through the door.
It'd been days since Inuyasha's temper had risen to its maximum potential. He was at work now, so Kagome had finally used her gathered up courage to return to Heaven to see Sango. She had to know what had happened to Abi. . .
She reached where she knew Sango would be, only to find she wasn't there.
In fact, she wasn't anywhere that Kagome could find.
She saw a small child, playing ball in the fields of flowers, seemingly carefree. The Angel rushed over to him, hoping for some answers. "Excuse me, but have you seen Sango? Miroku? Any of the Five? I don't know where they are-"
"You wouldn't know, a little bitchy look alike."
". . .what?" Kagome looked at the boy as he formed into a familiar face, with long black tendrils of hair cascading down his back. His beady onyx eyes bore into her and she felt something vaguely familiar on her hands. When she looked down she saw crimson running down from her elbows to her fingertips.
Naraku smirked, edging towards her as if he was about to pounce. She yelled out the only name that made her feel safe. "Inuyasha!"
"-ome? Kagome!"
"Inuyasha!" she looked around frantically for his face, only to be surrounded by darkness. She allowed another scream to escape her.
"KAGOME!"
She gasped for breath, reaching out and grabbing something silky. "INU-" the name died on her tongue, her eyes snapping open to meet with two lavender orbs.
"Kagome?" Inuyasha grabbed her shoulders, shifting on her bed. "Gods. . .you freaked me out! I thought someone was in here killing you!"
The Angel grew silent, noticing a little after Inuyasha that she still held to a lock of his hair. She formed a single 'o' on her lips.
She'd had a dream.
A very bad dream.
No, a nightmare.
How was that possible? Angels didn't have nightmares! They barely even ever had dreams!
Her mind swirled around and around, like water flushing in a toilet bowls. She couldn't process it all. Yes, she wasn't a normal Angel. Sango had told her that.
She was one that still carried negative feelings, one who still felt attached to earth.
But she wasn't one who had bad dreams!
"Kagome?" Inuyasha waved a hand in front of her face. "Kag, are you alright?"
Something in her mind sparked.
"Come on Kag! Hurry up, they're closing!" his eyes were so loving, they mirrored her love for him.
"I'm coming!" They ducked under the store's metal net, both collapsing to the ground with laughter.
"I love you, Kag."
"I love you too-"
"K-Kag?" Inuyasha blinked at her.
"Sorry, it just came out. If you don't like it-"
"No, it's ok." Kagome smiled, nodding in some kind of trance. "I like it."
They both stared at one another, a silence passing over them. But this time it was awkward, it was just silence. Comfortable silence.
"This isn't good." Sango murmured, staring down from the cloud. "This isn't good, Miroku!"
The Angel who had been banging his head on a bar looked up. "What isn't?"
Sango grabbed his shoulder, tugging him away from his self-inflicted pain. "You dunce! Kagome, you dolt! Kagome!"
"Sure you don't want to try again?"
The irritated member of the Five looked over at the ex-monk. "What do you mean?"
"Sure you can't add another insult in that sentence?"
"That was three sentences," Sango huffed, her anger dissipating. "Gods, Miroku. I'm sorry."
He laughed, "I know you didn't mean it."
"Kagome and Inuyasha. . .if she was human-"
"But she's not." Miroku grabbed onto two of the bars before being knocked away from them, hitting the bar he had been banging his head on minutes earlier.
"Miroku!" the magenta-eyed Angel rushed to his side, "Are you alright?"
He gave another dashing smile, "I've been better." Sango felt her heart flutter for a moment, catching her off guard.
She quickly released him, "T-that's good."
Miroku glared at the bars surrounding them. "I resent this. I'm an Angel, not a bird."
"She's gotten powerful. . .How, I don't know." Sango sighed, "Why is that bar the only one we can touch?"
"Because I wanted you to be able to bang your halo-adorned heads on them." Abi smirked, pushing the cloud-like key down in between her breasts.
"Abi, why are you keeping us here?"
"Hmm. . ." The woman pretended to ponder the question for a while, her hand petting a white bird-like creature absentmindedly. "Maybe because you ripped my wings from me!"
"You killed an Innocent, Abi."
"You can rot in here a while longer, I like to watch you from afar. It's entertaining to watch the prosecutors be prosecuted. Shows there's justice in the world. Thanks for leaving me the gift of flight, I just love these clouds."
With that she left the clouded area, the two Angels still crouched on the floor from Miroku's unfortunate accident.
"If I wasn't an Angel. . ." Sango muttered, helping Miroku up.
"Don't talk like that," Miroku peered down where his fellow council member had been looking. "It does seem they're getting close."
"Kagome-chan. . ."
"What if he-"
"Don't say it. I wouldn't be able to stand it if her Angelhood was taken from her."
"The court date is in five months. . .?" Inuyasha stared in disbelief at the phone, quickly putting it back to his ear when the voice began to respond. "But he murdered- yes I know there are hundreds of other cases. Well it's the people who're suing WcDonalds for being fat asses that are holding us up!"
Kagome let out a giggle, staring out the window at the red autumn leaves, a paper and pencil in hand. She studied the direction they flowed in the breeze, which was much colder than it looked. The pencil stroked the paper gently, forming new images as time passed.
"Well, I didn't know your boyfriend was one of the guys suing!" Inuyasha rebuked, "I wouldn't know, seeing how I eat it and can run twenty laps around a track. No, I don't want to go out with you. Because I just lost my wife, damn it!"
Kagome blinked, holding her pencil mid-stroke, her mind wandering off onto other subjects. One, for example, being Inuyasha running around the track, sweat glistening over his-
She stopped, hastily sketching again.
"So what day is the court date, anyway?" the irate man in the other room grabbed up a piece of paper from the fridge, a pen in his mouth as he made his way back to the living room. "Uh huh. February 19th, 2005. Bye."
The Angel's ears picked up a sigh from the couch, then the sound of relaxing springs as Inuyasha's weight lifted off of it. "Five months. . .Five whole months before we'll get a trial. Five months that that bastard Naraku can sit in prison trying to kill someone else."
"They'll go by fast," Kagome assured, laying her artwork back on the windowsill. "It might seem like a while, but time rushes by before we know it, even if it seems to drag on. When we finally get there it feels like it was only yesterday we were so impatient. . ."
Inuyasha looked over at the girl. She seemed to be somewhere else at the moment, like she was talking from more experience than he knew.
"Sounds like you've been through it before."
"Hasn't everyone?"
"Yeah, but they don't come out of it with such wise words, just relief that it's over."
Kagome gave a light laugh, "I guess I came out with both."
"Is it working?"
"No, I can't find them." Shippou's eyes snapped open, his two bottle green eyes shifting from cloud to cloud randomly. "Where are they?"
"Did they have a job on Earth?" Myouga bounded up next to Toutousai, the skinnier of the three elders. Shippou, remarkably being the oldest and wisest of the Five, had taken charge of the search.
"Miroku hasn't visited Earth since he got on the council, and Sango has only been a few times. Last time was to visit Kagome. But if they were on Earth I'd be able to reach them."
"So where are they?"
"When's the last time we heard from the two youngsters?" Toutousai looked over at Myouga, both shrugging their shoulders. "We'll ask around with the Guardian Angels, see if they've heard or seen anything."
"Wait a second," Shippou held up a small hand, his fur standing on end. "Last time I saw them they were going to help Kagome. Abi had attacked."
Woo! Another piece of the plot! Took me long enough, but I finally was able to stumble aimlessly over my writers block and make my way to a good chapter. I'll have an update next week too, now that homework is finally slowing down. Please R&R.
Ja ne
Sakura
Disclaimer: Does it look like I'm rich off ownership to you?
Sakura's Note: Hello! How are all of you? I apologize for not updating this story for so long, but seeing how it is my least popular story at the moment I tend to write the other stories' chapters first. ;;
But I do appreciate all of my reviewers for reading and reviewing this story. Like one of my favorite authoresses ever, dolphingirl0113, says, they mean the world to me.
Not much to say, other than there's only a month before I am promoted from middle school and get into the big leagues! whoops
Shout outs:
1) I will see if I can work in Going Under or Hello by Evanescence somewhere in this fic, but I'm already planning on using two other Evanescence songs in this fic. ;; I'm a fan. But, I might try my hand at another song fic/one shot with the song(s) or another story.
2) To Luna Moonstone and every other curious reviewer - Yes, there are many questions still waiting to be answered. Happily, I know the answer to all of these, sadly, you don't. . .YET. I'll try to add a few more hints here and there to help you out. I'd love it if some people were to guess, I won't go out and say who is right or not, but you can let me know if you're on the right track or not. I love when my readers are in suspense, and when they guess!
3) looks around Where DID my author's note go? eyes wide I typed up a nice one, too, but somehow it disappeared and I realized too late that it was gone. A couple of reviewers noticed, shows you're reading. A cookie for you! You didn't miss much, though, so don't worry.
Thanks to: InuShemeeko, Soul of Kagome, animemistress419, loveyaa, LostinaShadow, inuyashafreak337, Luna Moonstone, miko no tsuki, Sakura 2876482, Okibi Usagi, blue, Pocky4lyfe, KellyJones, Sarcasm Girl8, and Sakura-yuna.
Enjoy the next chapter!
Pity-
An honorable trait, a risky trait
One that can make you feel great
One that can make you regret it
What happens if you pity someone too much-
Someone who doesn't deserve it?
Chapter 7: Bird Cages and Angels Don't Mix
Kagome reached the house just as Inuyasha reached for the knob. She climbed in through her room's window, quickly closing it back and collapsing onto the lush bed from exhaustion. Of course now is when she thought of just transporting herself back.
Ah, the jumbled thoughts of the human mind.
But she wasn't human- not anymore.
The Angel heard his familiar footsteps enter the kitchen, then retreat into his room, the door closing with a soft 'click' after him.
She had so many questions that were going unanswered. . .
Would she ever know the answer to any of them?
"How can you do this, Inuyasha?"
"Kaede, I know what you're thinking but-"
"But nothing! How can you already have another woman in your house?" the young woman huffed heatedly, "What's the matter with you?"
"Nothing's going on between us, I'm tellin' ya!" Inuyasha pounded the table with one hand, the other expertly seizing a hot cookie off the cooling rack. "Ouch!" he dropped the cookie when Kagome's swift hand batted his not- so-stealthy one away. "Nothing, Kaede. Just got burnt, that's all."
"Kagura might not see anything wrong with it, but I do. I don't see how you could get over her death so fast-"
"Don't ever say that. I'm not nearly over Kikyo's death. I won't be for a long time." Kagome clutched the side of the counter with his words, quickly noticing her apprehension and hastily letting go as if it had burnt her. Her eyes darted back to Inuyasha's wandering hand, which was now very close to snatching up yet another of her baked goods.
A smile crossed her face. He reminded her so much of a child. The Angel batted his hand away for the third time, earning an annoyed look from the man.
A very stubborn, but cute child.
"I'm sorry, Inuyasha. It's just hard to hear how you have someone else already. . ."
"What did I just tell you?! Kagome and I are not together, I have told you and every other nagging family member I have the story! Gods woman. . . How are you sisters with her? She can actually understand when I speak Japanese!"
"Can I speak with her, Inuyasha?" the black-haired man did a double take, casting the azure-eyed woman a skeptical glance.
"You sure?"
"Sure about what?"
"Oh nothing Kaede!"
"Yeah, I think I can handle her." Kagome let out a chuckle, trying to make light of the situation. Her laugh seemed to calm him slightly.
"Kaede, she wants to talk to you." he smirked slightly at her response, handing the phone over to the Angel. When Kagome's back was turned he swiftly grabbed up a fresh cookie before standing up to check the ramen. Kagome noticed but didn't say anything.
"Kaede? Hi, this is Kagome."
Kagome laughed again, leaning back into her chair deeper as if talking to an old friend.
Inuyasha stared at her, then the phone, in disbelief. How did she do that? How could she, a stranger he'd found living on the streets- almost abused by a rapist- make everyone who met her a friend?
"Ok, I'll talk to you later then." Kagome smiled, "Here's Inuyasha." She handed him the phone, getting up without a word to go back to her homemade ramen.
"Yeah, Kaede, she is a wonderful person." Inuyasha smiled softly, "Now go tell that to the rest of our nosy ass family, will you? Thank you. Bye."
The stormy-eyed Angel smiled, stirring what was on the stove and looking out at the birds. Kaede was a nice girl. . .she'd have to ask Kiky-
How would she explain it though?
Kikyo didn't know she was Inuyasha's guardian. How would she react? Sure, she was an Angel, but so was Abi.
. . . Abi. What had happened to her? It'd been four days now, Inuyasha had barely talked for two, and then when he did it was to tell her about when he would be meeting Naraku. She had totally forgotten.
"How do you do it?"
She looked up, ignoring a stray strand of hair in her face. With those five soft words her heartbeat had begun to race. Gods, what was happening to her?
"Do what?" she turned, a blithe smile on her face. Funny, smiling never felt so forced before.
"Make everyone just fall for you." Inuyasha shook his head, "The opposite of me, I'm borderline rude. You just make everyone around you automatically think you're some kind of saint or somethin'. Like an Angel."
'Don't say that. . .' "Thank you."
Inuyasha made his way down the hallway, Kagome not too far behind. "Do you know where you're going?"
"Of course I know where I'm going!" Inuyasha burst out, a predetermined scowl on his face. "It's not like there are any forks in the hall!"
Kagome nodded, looking in both directions at the gray walls with a solemn look on her face. She could only feel pity for Naraku, something she resented deep down. She pitied him, what had happened to make him this way?
Before she knew it they were in a room, along with two police officers.
"Takeda Inuyasha?" the black-haired man nodded, curtly because of his tense muscles. "Yes, well the bastard will be out soon."
Inuyasha looked a bit surprised at the language he used, opening his mouth in question.
"He's the least popular inmate here. Tried to kill a few officers, and looks like- based on some evidence- he tried killing one man in his sleep. We had to put him in solitary."
Kagome stayed silent, taking in her surroundings slowly. The room was a little larger than the guestroom Inuyasha had let her stay in and the walls were made of cinderblock. There was a glass pane on one of them, and using her angelic sight she could easily see three men behind it, two staring at her intently and a third scribbling down notes frantically.
She raised an eyebrow, staring off in another direction. Why should she make them feel insecure? At the moment all her energy was focused on keeping Inuyasha calm, collected, and most of all not thrown in jail for beating the living daylights out of this man.
There was a knock from a door adjacent to the glass windowpane. The guard inside with them grunted, signaling for Inuyasha to move out of the way. The door opened carefully, a man around his age entering, a superior smirk on his face.
Kagome could sense Inuyasha's hate radiating off his body, and she didn't sense a single prayer coming from him.
"Inuyasha, this is Naraku Kumonosu." The man leaned back casually in his seat, muscles limp and eyes calculating.
Naraku's stature was the exact opposite of Inuyasha's.
"You damned son of a bitch. . ."
"That's exactly what your wife said, right before I got annoyed of her ass- her very, very wonderful, shapely ass."
"You-" Inuyasha almost leaped over the table, grabbing the man's collar with all his strength before punching him square in the face. Two guards rushed into the room, holding the enraged widower back from causing the man more injury.
Naraku swiveled his head back around, checking his lip for blood with calm eyes. "Go ahead. It doesn't hurt at all. . .neither did hers. . .say, does weakness run in your family?"
Inuyasha leapt forward again, cursing at the two guards endlessly.
"Don't bother, Inuyasha." everyone seemed surprised that the young woman was still in the room. "He's not worth your energy."
It seemed, also, that Naraku had not even noticed her in the first place. For when his two black eyes focused in on her they widened, almost to the point where she would have been surprised if they went back to normal. "You. . ."
She'd been willing to give him a chance, listen to his voice to see if he felt remorse. Anything in his past that could have led him down such a horrible, damned, path. But she couldn't find any. Her opinion was set, he was evil incarnate.
"I don't know you." Kagome spoke in a low, dead serious monotone. "You feel no remorse at all, do you?"
"What the hell is this? She's dead!" Naraku looked to the guards now, in a state of shock and confusion.
"She is." Kagome walked over, calmly sitting across the table from the man, "How can you commit such a crime and then crack jokes about it?"
Naraku seemed to recover his infinite ego, "You wouldn't know, a little bitchy look alike."
"Hey! Don't talk about her that way!" Inuyasha roared, jerking away from the guards while their guards were down. He grabbed him by the neck, slamming him into a wall. He was getting sick of this man's mouth. "Don't EVER speak to her like that again. I'll make sure your entrails are hanging from the ceiling of your cell if you speak of her or my wife again."
He released the man, allowing him to slide back down the wall into a standing position. "I'm done seeing this fool," Naraku sneered, "I'm ready to go back to my cell."
The guards nodded, escorting him from the room, not sparing an ounce of courtesy when pushing him through the door.
It'd been days since Inuyasha's temper had risen to its maximum potential. He was at work now, so Kagome had finally used her gathered up courage to return to Heaven to see Sango. She had to know what had happened to Abi. . .
She reached where she knew Sango would be, only to find she wasn't there.
In fact, she wasn't anywhere that Kagome could find.
She saw a small child, playing ball in the fields of flowers, seemingly carefree. The Angel rushed over to him, hoping for some answers. "Excuse me, but have you seen Sango? Miroku? Any of the Five? I don't know where they are-"
"You wouldn't know, a little bitchy look alike."
". . .what?" Kagome looked at the boy as he formed into a familiar face, with long black tendrils of hair cascading down his back. His beady onyx eyes bore into her and she felt something vaguely familiar on her hands. When she looked down she saw crimson running down from her elbows to her fingertips.
Naraku smirked, edging towards her as if he was about to pounce. She yelled out the only name that made her feel safe. "Inuyasha!"
"-ome? Kagome!"
"Inuyasha!" she looked around frantically for his face, only to be surrounded by darkness. She allowed another scream to escape her.
"KAGOME!"
She gasped for breath, reaching out and grabbing something silky. "INU-" the name died on her tongue, her eyes snapping open to meet with two lavender orbs.
"Kagome?" Inuyasha grabbed her shoulders, shifting on her bed. "Gods. . .you freaked me out! I thought someone was in here killing you!"
The Angel grew silent, noticing a little after Inuyasha that she still held to a lock of his hair. She formed a single 'o' on her lips.
She'd had a dream.
A very bad dream.
No, a nightmare.
How was that possible? Angels didn't have nightmares! They barely even ever had dreams!
Her mind swirled around and around, like water flushing in a toilet bowls. She couldn't process it all. Yes, she wasn't a normal Angel. Sango had told her that.
She was one that still carried negative feelings, one who still felt attached to earth.
But she wasn't one who had bad dreams!
"Kagome?" Inuyasha waved a hand in front of her face. "Kag, are you alright?"
Something in her mind sparked.
"Come on Kag! Hurry up, they're closing!" his eyes were so loving, they mirrored her love for him.
"I'm coming!" They ducked under the store's metal net, both collapsing to the ground with laughter.
"I love you, Kag."
"I love you too-"
"K-Kag?" Inuyasha blinked at her.
"Sorry, it just came out. If you don't like it-"
"No, it's ok." Kagome smiled, nodding in some kind of trance. "I like it."
They both stared at one another, a silence passing over them. But this time it was awkward, it was just silence. Comfortable silence.
"This isn't good." Sango murmured, staring down from the cloud. "This isn't good, Miroku!"
The Angel who had been banging his head on a bar looked up. "What isn't?"
Sango grabbed his shoulder, tugging him away from his self-inflicted pain. "You dunce! Kagome, you dolt! Kagome!"
"Sure you don't want to try again?"
The irritated member of the Five looked over at the ex-monk. "What do you mean?"
"Sure you can't add another insult in that sentence?"
"That was three sentences," Sango huffed, her anger dissipating. "Gods, Miroku. I'm sorry."
He laughed, "I know you didn't mean it."
"Kagome and Inuyasha. . .if she was human-"
"But she's not." Miroku grabbed onto two of the bars before being knocked away from them, hitting the bar he had been banging his head on minutes earlier.
"Miroku!" the magenta-eyed Angel rushed to his side, "Are you alright?"
He gave another dashing smile, "I've been better." Sango felt her heart flutter for a moment, catching her off guard.
She quickly released him, "T-that's good."
Miroku glared at the bars surrounding them. "I resent this. I'm an Angel, not a bird."
"She's gotten powerful. . .How, I don't know." Sango sighed, "Why is that bar the only one we can touch?"
"Because I wanted you to be able to bang your halo-adorned heads on them." Abi smirked, pushing the cloud-like key down in between her breasts.
"Abi, why are you keeping us here?"
"Hmm. . ." The woman pretended to ponder the question for a while, her hand petting a white bird-like creature absentmindedly. "Maybe because you ripped my wings from me!"
"You killed an Innocent, Abi."
"You can rot in here a while longer, I like to watch you from afar. It's entertaining to watch the prosecutors be prosecuted. Shows there's justice in the world. Thanks for leaving me the gift of flight, I just love these clouds."
With that she left the clouded area, the two Angels still crouched on the floor from Miroku's unfortunate accident.
"If I wasn't an Angel. . ." Sango muttered, helping Miroku up.
"Don't talk like that," Miroku peered down where his fellow council member had been looking. "It does seem they're getting close."
"Kagome-chan. . ."
"What if he-"
"Don't say it. I wouldn't be able to stand it if her Angelhood was taken from her."
"The court date is in five months. . .?" Inuyasha stared in disbelief at the phone, quickly putting it back to his ear when the voice began to respond. "But he murdered- yes I know there are hundreds of other cases. Well it's the people who're suing WcDonalds for being fat asses that are holding us up!"
Kagome let out a giggle, staring out the window at the red autumn leaves, a paper and pencil in hand. She studied the direction they flowed in the breeze, which was much colder than it looked. The pencil stroked the paper gently, forming new images as time passed.
"Well, I didn't know your boyfriend was one of the guys suing!" Inuyasha rebuked, "I wouldn't know, seeing how I eat it and can run twenty laps around a track. No, I don't want to go out with you. Because I just lost my wife, damn it!"
Kagome blinked, holding her pencil mid-stroke, her mind wandering off onto other subjects. One, for example, being Inuyasha running around the track, sweat glistening over his-
She stopped, hastily sketching again.
"So what day is the court date, anyway?" the irate man in the other room grabbed up a piece of paper from the fridge, a pen in his mouth as he made his way back to the living room. "Uh huh. February 19th, 2005. Bye."
The Angel's ears picked up a sigh from the couch, then the sound of relaxing springs as Inuyasha's weight lifted off of it. "Five months. . .Five whole months before we'll get a trial. Five months that that bastard Naraku can sit in prison trying to kill someone else."
"They'll go by fast," Kagome assured, laying her artwork back on the windowsill. "It might seem like a while, but time rushes by before we know it, even if it seems to drag on. When we finally get there it feels like it was only yesterday we were so impatient. . ."
Inuyasha looked over at the girl. She seemed to be somewhere else at the moment, like she was talking from more experience than he knew.
"Sounds like you've been through it before."
"Hasn't everyone?"
"Yeah, but they don't come out of it with such wise words, just relief that it's over."
Kagome gave a light laugh, "I guess I came out with both."
"Is it working?"
"No, I can't find them." Shippou's eyes snapped open, his two bottle green eyes shifting from cloud to cloud randomly. "Where are they?"
"Did they have a job on Earth?" Myouga bounded up next to Toutousai, the skinnier of the three elders. Shippou, remarkably being the oldest and wisest of the Five, had taken charge of the search.
"Miroku hasn't visited Earth since he got on the council, and Sango has only been a few times. Last time was to visit Kagome. But if they were on Earth I'd be able to reach them."
"So where are they?"
"When's the last time we heard from the two youngsters?" Toutousai looked over at Myouga, both shrugging their shoulders. "We'll ask around with the Guardian Angels, see if they've heard or seen anything."
"Wait a second," Shippou held up a small hand, his fur standing on end. "Last time I saw them they were going to help Kagome. Abi had attacked."
Woo! Another piece of the plot! Took me long enough, but I finally was able to stumble aimlessly over my writers block and make my way to a good chapter. I'll have an update next week too, now that homework is finally slowing down. Please R&R.
Ja ne
Sakura