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Chapter Rating: PG-13 (For language, violence and sexual implications!)
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Chapter 15
Tumbling Anxiety and More Trouble
As you hear low footsteps approaching you from behind, you enter a mental battle on whether to flee the office without looking back or turn bravely and receive your punishment. You… Aren't that brave, no matter how many vicious demons face, or how many eras you accidentally fall into… The footsteps suddenly stop and you feel his presence directly behind you. Maybe he hates you right now, since you… Accidentally- You pause and shudder, you don't even want to think about it anymore… Though, maybe Shin was right, he probably couldn't hate you since the mark, of course… Though, maybe-
You gulp as a cool hand settles upon your shoulder and you turn around to face the dog demon when the hand gently tugs on your shoulder. You glance up at his face nervously, before quickly looking down at his stomach or desk behind him quickly. His face is cool as ever, though not as cold as yesterday when he found you and Blade… Maybe he didn't know yet. Maybe you're just being anxious over nothing! If he didn't know and if you didn't tell him now… Who the hell knows what would happen then, so there's only one thing to do now…
You quickly move in and hug the dog demon tightly. "Hi Sesshoumaru, how was your day? Mine was horrible, though it couldn't have been too bad compared to a homeless person's!" You say in the regular happy and light mood.
Sesshoumaru in return, pries you off of him. "If you have something to inform me of, woman, speak it now or dread it later." He says narrowing his eyes down at you.
Yeah, he definitely knows… I guess now's not the time to ask him if he wants to meet that waitress.
"I-uh… Yeah, I'm sorry; I guess prolonging it won't help either…" You say sheepishly, tugging at the seams of the waitress jacket. "Um, yesterday I came to your office to visit you and after finally getting to the right floor, someone, who I had no clue was, suddenly pulls me into the staircase and-" You glance at him, hesitantly. "And, um, kisses me, and then after trying to get away from him he follows me and that's where you come…" You end quietly, still tugging at the seams of your jacket.
"It really didn't mean anything to me; if it helps I was thinking about you before the time I realized he was the one that was kissing me. I'm sorry…" You say quietly before quickly moving in and hugging him again.
His hand finds its way back to your shoulder again, but thankfully doesn't pry you away again. Maybe honesty is better then lying all the time? Feh, no way if you told the truth all the time you wouldn't have been able to bribe that waitress chick to let you up here, or else you'd really have to set her up on a date with Sesshoumaru… It'd be a scorching day in heaven, indeed…
"You're not mad at me are you? I didn't even know it was Blade until I saw him in the light… And I guess he knew it was me, though."
"…No." He answers and you inwardly cheer. "However, Blade has been taken care of." He says and you note the dark tone in his voice.
"Oh… Taken care of?" You repeat and realization hits you. "You already knew beforehand!" You exclaim pulling away in growing agitation.
He gives you a blank stare before turning around and starting to walk back to his desk. "Of course." He answers smoothly.
"If you already knew what happened, it could have saved me a lot of time!" You say following after him quickly. "I thought you were mad at me! Since you were acting so mean then!"
"How so?" He asks turning back towards you.
"Well… You just were!" You say and sniff. "I really thought you were mad at me…" You fold your arms and direct your gaze to the floor.
As he slowly approaches you once again you sigh slightly. It isn't all that clear now, well maybe not at all that clear… Which is probably for the better since you're not brooding in a corner right now because of Sesshoumaru's supposed rejection to you.
His hand tilts your chin upward, making you gaze into his soothing hoary orbs… He then brushes a fallen lock of hair back behind your ear…
"Don't be foolish…" He whispers and leans in and catches your lips before you can make a comment about the foolish bit.
You none but melt into the kiss, feeling yourself suddenly weakened… When you break part, you stare into his eyes dreamily. This kiss, it was the same way he-who-will-not-be-named kissed you, though… Ferociously much better… It was so soft and tender-like! And very rare… Maybe it's because he's in his more human form, or… Special occasion, maybe?
"…Sesshoumaru, can-can you turn back into your demon-human form… Please?" You ask dazedly, suddenly finding your voice. "…I just miss that side of you…"
You notice a faint smirk cross his face and with a slight nod you suddenly feel his aura thickening around him. You watch closely as his hair pales and grow, two maroon slashes appear on each side of his face, the dark crescent moon symbol appears on his forehead and his human pale silvery eyes flicker and become a hypnotizing gold…
"Sesshoumaru…" You whisper wrapping your arms around his neck and pulling him towards you into a heated kiss.
"…And then he gave me the shikon jewel…" You say pulling your shirt over your head and adjusting it.
You indifferently fold the waitress uniform, a bit messily and put it in your backpack of clothes. You give the contemplative dog demon a curious glance before flipping your hair over your shoulder and raking a comb through it a few times and packing up the comb, too.
At some point earlier, you both ended up heading to his bedroom… Later, you found out you had left your backpack of stuff here, which also held the stuffed rabbit gift, which was probably from Blade, so you would eventually shove the thing down a garbage compacter or give it to Tetsu as a new chew toy. Anyways, you just finished telling Sesshoumaru about what happened at Blade's.
You suddenly jump up from the large, untidy bed in guilt. "Oh crap! Naomi and Kaori have been waiting for like an hour! I'm such a hypocrite!"
You quickly leave the room, head toward the front room and look around confusedly seeing your two friends not there. You frown noticing a note on the coffee table and pick it up curiously.
(your name), you're taking too long and me and Kaori just received an urgent call from our job, so we had to leave sooner than I thought, sorry. We'll see you tomorrow at school, though for now, good luck, too bad and/or congratulations with Sesshoumaru!
Best of luck- Naomi and Kaori
'Congratulations? Too bad? Well, at least she wrote a note…' You pause and turn to Sesshoumaru who's just arrived in the entrance of the hall.
"Kaori and Naomi already left, so it looks like I'm the only visitor…" You say leaving the note back on the table and sitting on the couch.
Sesshoumaru soon follows and you both sit in a thoughtful silence… You take out the shikon jewel from your pocket and finger it. Somehow it made sense that Kurayami had the shikon jewel, but how it does you don't know. Maybe if you… Your thought is cut off by the door opening and Rin, dressed in her school uniform skips in, followed by an unknown little boy and a regular irked Mr. Jaken.
"Hi Rin, Mr. Jaken!" You greet and smile at Rin. "Who's your friend, Rin?"
"Hi (your name), hi Lord Sesshoumaru!" She greets smiling and turns to her friend. "Shuji, this is (your name) and Lord Sesshoumaru!" She turns back towards you. "Lord Sesshoumaru, (your name), this is Rin's new friend, Shuji, he just transferred to Rin's class!"
"Nice to meet you, Shuji." You greet the dark-purple haired little boy.
"Nice to meet both of you." He answers politely, bowing in greeting.
"Rin and Shuji will go finish their homework project now in Rin's room, bye now!" Rin says and tugs the little boy down the hall.
You wave goodbye at the two retreating children… 'If that's what it seems to be, Ryochi will be crushed...' You inwardly comment before turning your attention to Jaken.
"Milord, that boy child that Rin has brought home is trouble!" Jaken announces and you stare at him blankly.
"Jaken, if you didn't notice all children are trouble…" You reply perplexedly.
"That's not what I'm talking about, brat." He snaps frowning at you, and then back at Sesshoumaru. "That child had an odd aura around him during some point of the day."
"Understood, Jaken, you may go." Sesshoumaru says indifferently and Jaken nods. The toad demon bows and then leaves the room.
"Jaken must be paranoid, cute little kids don't walk around with weird auras." You say frowning.
"That may be so, but there aren't many human females in your position either." He replies wryly.
You frown and flip your hair over your shoulder, a bit smugly. "Yeah, but I'm different, I'm Midoriko's reincarnation…"
"I'll see you in hell, too, Mr. Jaken!" You say sweetly waving at a pissed toad demon. "Bye!" You shut the door, dropping your school bag to the floor and walk farther into your grandfather's home.
"(Your name)? That you? Come in the living room!" You hear your grandfather yell and you obediently go into the living room.
"Yes, grandfather?" You ask dryly and raise a surprised brow noticing the visitor in the room. 'Who the hell? No fucking way…'
"Look, tadpole we have a visitor! It's Ms. Youkai, you're therapist!"
5-6 Hours Earlier
On the top floor of Kouseki Kurimuson Corporation, the CEO sits at his desk typing on his laptop. The door of his office opens and in strolls a fox in human clothing. The CEO scowls at the fox before going back to his work.
"So… You've learned your lesson yet?" Asks a cool, slightly amused voice belonging to the fox, Kurayami.
"There was no damned lesson to learned, I never wanted that bloody woman in the first place!" A very irritable Blade says glaring at the fox.
"Truly, Mr. Blade? Are you sure? Based on past ties with that bloody woman… You just seem to be wanting that bloody woman time and time again. Old habits die hard, eh?" Kurayami says smirking at Blade's grimace.
"I will admit old habits die hard, but that woman is the reincarnation, I prefer originals, if you catch my drift… And that woman is nothing close to the original!" He announces.
"Well, ain't that the raccoon calling the cat furry! Mr. Blade, do keep in mind you're not much of an original, freshly bitten, bloodsucker either!" Kurayami scolds dramatically, before waving a hand dismissively at the irritable vampire.
"Ahem, so since you went pass the drawn lines with our dear… Clueless, prey, you will lead and come up with a plan for Step 3 and I expect it to be prefect-er-perfect!" Kurayami commands and glances at the wall, curiously.
Blade shrugs. "Fine with me, it was my task in the first place."
"Mr. Blade… If you don't mind me asking… What happened to your wall?" He asks referring to the large dent on the wall.
Blade frowns deeply pausing and glaring at the hole in the wall. "That bastard dog demon came here threatening me after ending our deal and that wasn't even all that he did!"
Kurayami shrugs and smirks. "Yeah, well, perhaps that'll teach you to keep your hands off our priestess!" Kurayami says and exits the room snickering.
Blade scowls and gives the door a curious stare. "OUR priestess?"
Present
"Tadpole, greet Ms. Youkai before she starts to feel unwelcome!" Your grandfather scowls from his sit on the couch beside your doctor.
"Um, h-hello" You greet walking farther into the room and looking the woman in the eye.
"Hello Ms. (your name), how are you doing today?" The blonde-haired woman asks sweetly and you notice her hazel eyes twinkle behind her silver rimmed spectacles.
"I'm fine… Adira" You scowl glowering at the smiling woman.
"Tadpole! How disrespectful! You will-"
"It's alright Mr. (Last name), it's alright, I've allowed Ms. (your name), to call me by my first name during our sessions, she must finally be getting use to it." Adira interrupts, standing up and straightening out her suit.
The old man nods and gives you a scolding look. "I'll leave you two to talk alone now, goodnight Ms. Youkai." Your grandfather says bowing and then walking out of the room.
"Goodnight, Mr. (Last name)!" She responds before turning to you. "So, (your name) is there anything you want to talk about? I hear from Mr. Shin that you have broken up with Mr. Blade. Do you want to talk about it?"
"Hell no, not with you! And why are you here anyway, Adira? Are you here to kill me again?" You ask irately backing away from the woman cautiously.
"Ms. (your name), don't be silly! Friends don't kill friends in cold-blood! Especially so carelessly! Your grandfather is in the next room!" She replies glancing the direction your grandfather went.
"You're not my friend! You probably once were, but now you're a schizophrenic!" You say pointing at the woman dramatically. 'Maybe we should talk this out in the kitchen with grandpa…'
"No, dear I'm not a schizophrenic, but I have the power to make you one and enroll you in a mental asylum, in the next hour." She says and looks down at her watch. "But, before we go, let's have a more private talk."
She grabs your arm and starts to drag you toward the door, which you quickly wrench away from her. You both step outside, shivering a bit from the cool night air and you notice the disappearance of the snow, which was there only a few days ago.
"What do you want?" You ask the fair-haired woman gruffly.
"Your life." She replies giving you a dark glare, before quickly shrugging it away. "But, that's not something I can take right now, but I can still ruin it." She sneers.
"I'm not surprised actually, you always seem to be the one making threats and throwing punches, but you never seem to actually carry anything out." You comment dryly.
The blonde glares at you seething before lifting a hand and roughly bringing it towards your cheek, which halts an inch away from your soft flesh.
"Next time you won't be so lucky, and I swear with every drop of blood in my body that I'll kill you with these hands." She hisses venomously.
"Is that so?" You ask coldly, and grimace inwardly. 'Holy shit, this woman is nuts!'
"Very much so." She answers and lowers her hand. "This visit is just a warning, so don't get too cocky, priestess, your days are numbered!" She sneers and walks away, away from your grandfather's property.
You glower at the retreating blonde's back, before quickly stepping back inside and slamming the door roughly.
"Such odd weather we're having…" You mutter, clutching the straps to your book bag as you tread through the snow.
You shiver and glance to your side, noticing your raven-haired friend, Kaori appear, but her twin, Naomi isn't in sight.
"Where's Naomi?" You ask.
"She's putting in extra hours at her job… In the hospital and she wants you to stop by after school to help her with something." Kaori says lightly and you take note of the bags underneath her eyes.
"The hospital? But, she's only 18, right? How did she get a job in the hospital?"
Kaori shrugs offhandedly. "She has friends there."
You frown at the girl's tired behavior, on normal days she'd be teasing and glaring at you with a burning hatred, and since Naomi isn't here, she should be teasing, glaring and harassing you with a burning animosity… This just isn't right, but really would you rather be harassed and fuming or ignored and calmed?
You both continue to walk to school in silence, ignoring the sounds and cold around you and drifting into thought. Why would Naomi need your help in the hospital? It's not like you can heal the sick anymore! Speaking of healing the sick couldn't Naomi do that on her own? And where the hell has your ki went!
Bump! You frown and step away from the hard body you bumped into, geez, you really need to pay more attention.
"Um, sorry." You say softly, to the person as he slowly turns around to face you.
"It's alri-oh, it's you." The teen says suddenly glowering down at you.
You raise a brow questionably up at him, before continuing to step away. 'He knows you?' You notice his familiar school uniform; he must go to your school, too… And from the looks of all that muscle he must be a jock…
"Hey guys, it's her!" He calls to his two friends behind him, who are both equally muscular.
"Yeah, well, hello!" You greet waving a hand nervously. "I must be going now, must not be late for school, ne Kaori?" You ask and glance over your shoulder and sweatdrop when you see the brooding girl shrug and grunt in reply.
"I don't think so, girly." The one you bumped into says.
"And why not? We're going to be late, ya' know!" You ask irritably. 'Not like I care, though…'
"Because little missy, we need to talk to you about something you did that we don't agree with!" One of his friends says.
"Yeah, well spit it out! I don't have all day!" You say briskly and the leader glowers at you.
"Several sports and other teams had scholarships, with a certain wealthy corporation and a few days ago, we heard that the president of that corporation just ended them all. " The leader says.
"And since we needed the scholarships in the first place, it's not going to be very easy for us to get into a good college to excel in our respective sports." One of the friends says.
"And we heard a certain girl, namely… You were dating that president for a couple of months now, but just a day ago, you were caught cheating on him and you two broke up!" The second friend says.
"Finally we have come to the point to believe if you weren't such a whore, we'd still have our scholarships! So, we've come to reason with you to go back to Lord Blade, and grovel for your relationship back or else!" The leader glaring down at you.
You stare up at the leader blankly, before rolling your eyes. "Look, sweethearts, I have nothing to with those scholarships and I'll be damned if I ever attempt to grovel at all to Blade, so piss off!"
You angrily shove through the three boys, dragging Kaori along with you. You halt when one of the jocks grabs your arm and holds on tightly.
"Let go of me!"
"Not until you talk to Blade!" The leader yells.
"I won't be able to talk to him unless you let me go!" You yell back wrenching your arm away.
"Leave Ms. (your name) alone!" You hear a familiar voice yell behind the three jocks and look around the leader to see the mop-head, Gyki running towards you five.
Gyki screams a battle-cry and punches the leader jock in the face, who backs up slightly at the impact and rubs his cheek.
"Why you little shit, I'll kill you!" The leader yells punching the panting mope-head back in the eye.
You wince as Gyki goes down and falls to the ground with a hard thud. Just as soon the leader jock kicks in the stomach.
"Hello! I thought you were harassing me? Leave him alone!" You yell picking up a ball of snow and pelting it at the muscular leader.
"You certainly can't do anything about that, girly!" The leader calls over his shoulder. "How do you like that whelp? You're slutty girlfriend can't save ya'!"
"…Can't do anything about it?" You hiss, suddenly becoming pissed off as the smirking faces of your former and present rivals rush through your mind. "The hell I can't do anything, you son of a bitch!"
You lunge at the unsuspecting leader, and swiftly kicking him in the side of the head with a loud crack and boom, when he's knocked to the snowy ground. You make a move to kick the jock in his side, but pause when you hear a whimper behind you. You turn around and pull the mop-head up quickly.
"Come on, Daken, I threw you out of my house from the second-floor window before, you can definitely survive a punch in the eye." You encourage the groaning teen pulling him forward. "Let's get going before their leader gets up!"
You the mop-head's hand and the brooding Kaori's arm and drag them both away.
"Hey, you punks come back here!" One of the jocks yells and you take off running, dragging your two, reluctant companions with you.
Sooner or later, you three run through the gates of the school, with the jocks, sadly, still following hot on your trail. As you catch your breathe, you glance around slowly becoming aware of the many stares of the people around you. Frowning, you shrug it off and turn to the panting mop-head.
"Daken, you should get someone to look at your eye… Since I bet it's already swelling."
"Yeah" He replies removing his hand from his swelling eye. "Ms. (your name), can you please take me to the nurse's office, I don't know where it is?" He asks sadly.
"Um, sure… Kaori, you wanna come?" You ask the girl beside you.
"No, I'm going to class… To get some sleep." She says quietly and starts to walk towards the entrance of the school.
"Alright, but you can get better rest in the library, it's quieter there!" You call after the girl and receive an odd stare from Gyki.
"What? Are you coming or what? It's not like I want to get detention for being too late or anything!" You say to the boy before noticing his hand still in yours… That must be the reason of the stares.
You quickly pull your hand away, and frown at the younger teen before heading off to the school. As you two walk farther through the school, you become well aware of the glares and sneers from several students loitering in the halls of the school.
"Hey Daken, do I have something on my face?" You ask the sophomore irritably.
The mop-head looks up at you and smiles, despite his swelling eye. "Nothing that's not beautiful, Ms. (your name)" He comments sweetly.
You give the boy a surprised glance before looking away blushing slightly. "I guess I don't have any jelly or something on my face left from breakfast."
Your walk to the nurse's office continues on in silence as you ignore the scowls and sneers of your fellow students. Frowning, you once again fall into thought. If Kurayami had the shikon jewel all this time and since it's dead-like now, he must have made one powerful wish… What would he have wished for? …I wonder what Sesshoumaru's doing right… Maybe he wished-
"Ms. (your name), I'm really, really sorry for what happened the other day!" Gyki exclaims, nervously and you pause and stare at the questioningly before coming to realization.
"Oh yeah, that! It's alright!" You say and Gyki sighs in relief. "But, you're not allowed in my bedroom or my grandfather's house anymore."
Gyki stares at you in horror. "Ms. (your name), please don't restrict me from your home! I'm really sorry!"
"No way, if you don't punish a thief for stealing, then they'll steal again!"
"But, Ms. (your name) I didn't steal anything from your room, I swear!"
"That's not what I meant…" You say irritably before pointing to the mop-head's destination. "There's the nurse's office, I probably won't see you later! Bye, mop-head!" You say waving and walking away and ignoring the brunet's pleas.
You sigh, turning your stare towards the hallway windows. Of course, Sesshoumaru would probably be at his office right now, he does or should have a lot of work to do…
An Hour Later…
Whiz! Whiz! Whiz! You run as fast as your feet can carry you towards the stairwell to the roof. These people are crazy! Whiz! You skillfully dodge another snowball that was thrown by another angry student that's chasing you. Obviously, there are more than a few sports teams that had scholarships with Crimson corp., which all had been cancelled prior to your "breakup" with Blade. When you stop to open the roof door, something mushy lands on your shoulder and you flick it off quickly, to notice that it's a moldy banana.
"Ew, you nasty bastards!" You scowl turning around to face the group of students, and gasp when you see the huge mob rushing towards you, with moldy fruit, balls, and snowballs.
You quickly run through the door, closing it tightly behind and running up the stairs and onto the roof. You quickly edge towards the ledge of the roof, when the door bursts open.
"Don't come any closer or I'll jump!" You threat, moving closer to the ledge.
One of the girl's in the cooking club rolls her eyes. "Like hell you will, and why would that matter to us since you murdered our futures!" Most of the mob agrees. "Get her!"
As the mob closes in on you, you swiftly dive over the ledge, falling head first to the school's snowy lawn. You hear startled gasps and yells above you from the roof. You squint trying to keep your eyes open, as you plummet to the Earth… Falling off the school building is kind of like falling off a cliff… Just when you're becomes less than a 12 feet fall to the ground, you quickly grab onto to a tree branch, tightly and wince when your arms scrape against the bark of the tree.
You squeak glancing at the end of the branch, its cracking! Before you can move to another branch, the branch groans and snaps and you fall to the ground, thankfully in a pile in an angry heap. You wince at the sudden frost and pain and quickly remove yourself from the heap. Scowling you brush the snow from yourself. Maybe it wasn't a good idea to fake suicide after all. When you hear more yells above you from the roof, you quickly make the decision to leave school… For good, you definitely don't need this type of trouble.
You sigh and watch as your breath floats in front of your face in a smoky wisp and slowly disappear. After leaving school, you started to wander around town, not wanting to go home yet, to avoid your grandfather's oncoming questions. It's hard enough waking up in the morning alone in bed, and with the obvious differences in personalities with you and your parallel self, the old man should be suspicious, but why add extra stress? If it was a truth that age promoted wisdom, the old man should already know there's something wrong, or else all he is, is an ignorant, perverted old geezer…
You shiver and pull your coat tighter around your shoulders. Somehow you ended up taking a stroll in the park, which you didn't even know was here. Maybe you shouldn't left the school so fast, you left your backpack in the library where you were taking a nap with Kaori and where you were jumped by a bunch an angry juniors… Hopefully, Kaori will pick it up and get it back to you later, or whenever she stops brooding. You blink coming out of thought when you sense someone following you from behind. You just as quickly shrug it off; it is a public park after all.
"(Your name)!" The person calls from behind you and you blanch at the creepily familiar voice.
Stopping in your tracks, you slowly turn and gasp, all too familiar with the person standing a few feet away from you… This person is supposed to be dead…
"F-f-fa-fa-" You stammer in horror at the person as they slowly approach you.
"Long time no see, (your name)."
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Author's note
Oh my god! Is that a cliff-hanger? Or did I just accidentally forget to put the identity in of that person? 'Shrugs' Well, at least it's not a filler chapter… Or is it? Kukukuku! And who knew half of your school would be so dependent on Blade?
Ciao!