Disclaimer: Have these characters EVER been mine? Rumiko Takahashi refuses to sell them! cries
Author's note: This is starting to be one of those stories…I'm sooo sorry I haven't updated in FOREVER! bows many, many times To make up for it, I hope you all enjoy this!
Author: Icewings
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She leaned down to hear him better, but he didn't say anymore. Their faces were so close; she could feel his breath against her lips. She found herself looking at his mouth. 'What a nice mouth he has.' She thought. 'So nicely shaped and soft-looking…I wonder what it'd be like…' she thought, eyes lidding as she leaned closer. The world melted away; there was just her and the unconscious man below her…she was just a centimeter away from his lips…
Chapter 7: Wheeling, Dealing, and Kirara
When a strong wind blew from out of nowhere.
"Well, I've heard of a kiss of life, but that's the first time I've seen it actually work. He should be dead by now."
Kagome snapped her head up to see a girl a couple years older than her standing a few steps away. "I didn't kiss him!" She was blushing furiously. "Who are you? Did you do this to him?" she bristled, taking in the girl's formal clothes, red eyes, and the elegant fan in her hand.
The young woman smirked. "I am Kagura, a wind youkai, and whether I did it should really be the least of your concerns. But just for the record, No. I did not do this to him. I should have, but someone else beat me to the punch line."
Kagome sighed. "You're not going to make me fight you, right?" She looked up hopefully. "Do you know how many people have tried to kill me lately?" she cried.
Kagura rolled her eyes. "If I wish it." she sneered. "I'm only supposed to do as my master commands, for now." Kagura whispered this last part, but Kagome heard her.
"And what does your master wish?" Kagome asked suspiciously.
"For you to die."
THE END! Nah, I'm just messing with you.
"But that is not what I wish." Kagura finished.
"What?" Kagome's tone was confused. "Then what do you want?"
"Only for mine and my sister's freedom, and revenge against the man who holds my heart along with my sister's voice."
"So you want revenge against the man you love, and he won't let your sister speak out?"
"No, I mean literally. He ripped the beating heart from my chest and stole my sister's voice box so I would work for him." Kagura said.
"Ooooo-kay" Kagome said slowly. "Umm…just out of curiosity, how do you keep going without a heart?"
The other girl smirked. "Heard of a sacred jewel called the Shikon? I have a shard of it."
Kagome now noticed the pink glow coming from her chest. 'Geez, Kaede, I thought you said these things were rare!' "I've gone and seen four in the last week." She muttered.
"What was that?"
"Ummm…what is it that you want from me?"
"I want you to defeat Naraku." Her tone was bland.
"Yeah, I do too, but it's gonna be kinda hard to get to where I need to train without flying." Kagome said tiredly.
Kagura simply reached up, pulled out two feathers from her hair clip, and tossed one at Kagome's feet. "Use that."
Kagome looked at it doubtfully. "What am I supposed to do with it? Make the East Land's smallest pillow?"
The older girl shook her head. "Watch." She swept the feather near her feet in an arch, and stopped about shoulder height. "Now, think of something that makes you feel free, like a leaf in the breeze or running in the rain. You could even envision the thrill of a kill, which is my preferred choice." Kagura instructed. She closed her eyes, and almost too quick for even youkai eyes to follow, jumped aboard the feather, (which had somehow grown to the size of a small boat) and soared away into the clouds.
Kagome watched her disappear, and that's how Sango found her a few minutes later. "Hey! Good news, Myouga talked to his friend, and she's agreed to take us to the Southern Castle!"
"That's good…" Kagome said faintly, still reeling from Kagura's visit.
Sango, oblivious to her friend's shock, continued. "Wait 'till you see her! She is the CUTEST THING! I mean, she scared me out of my wits a second ago, but she's absolutely aDORable!"
Kagome seemed to snap herself out of her daze, and raised an eyebrow at Sango's enthusiasm. "Wow Sango, I've never seen you so…energetic." she grinned.
"Oh, and you should see her in battle form, it just sends chills down my spine, and her fur…" Sango trailed off. Her mind finally registered the prone figure of Sesshoumaru lying on the ground. "Is that…Sesshou?"
"Shhhh!" Kagome hushed. "I just grew his arm back. I'm pretty sure he's too tired to catch up right now."
"Umm…Kagome, could you repeat that first part? I thought you just said you grew his arm back! Like it was missing!" Sango hissed.
"Come on, I'll make us something to eat." Kagome replied, pulling the protesting girl back to camp.
Sesshoumaru woke up slowly, and immediately pinched himself. 'Well, at least I'm not dreaming this time.' he thought. Carefully, he looked down his body, half-expecting to see a white cat there, but saw only his ripped gi, and a faint scar on his chest. Suddenly, the events of the night before came into focus.
'I should be dead now'. He thought calmly, remembering his sword Toukijin had somehow managed to cut him, causing the poisoned slash in his chest. He also recalled his half-brother cutting at his arm and seeing it lying on the ground, while he remained standing. His stomach rolled at the thought. 'My arm is still there though.' But the terrible pain and the horrifying sensation that one side of his body lighter than the other was still fresh in his mind.
Faintly, he remembered that he'd summoned a ki cloud, but didn't get very far before falling unconscious, and now he laid in a small clearing lying on a stretcher that smelled strongly of wolves. 'Strange.' He thought. The taste of ginseng essence was still in his mouth, and he looked down at his right hand to see it clutching something blue. "A chi flower?" He muttered on closer examination. 'Someone must've healed my arm back.' Sesshoumaru's eyes slightly widened. 'Someone of youkai healing power, for no mortal could ever hope to accelerate the speed of regeneration like this.' Then another thought struck him. 'Why?'
A twig snapped almost hundred yards away, and he jumped into the nearest tree. Kirara in kitten form was wandering about and came almost directly under him. 'A fire neko?' Sesshoumaru thought.
'Yes'
Sesshoumaru's eyes widened almost imperceptibly. 'She can read my mind?'
'Only what you wish to tell.' Kirara thought.
There was a pause as the young lord absorbed this information. 'Then answer me this. Who healed me?'
'I am not at liberty to tell you.' came the clipped reply.
'Then it was you.' Sesshoumaru thought decidedly. 'I don't sense any other power nearby that could heal with such strength, so the only conclusion is that you are my rescuer.'
'Your senses could be wrong.'
'I do not think so.' Sesshoumaru thought arrogantly.
'Why?'
'Because that is the only logical reason.'
'Some things might surprise you.'
'This Sesshoumaru is never wrong.'
'There's always a first time for everything.' Kirara thought calmly.
'Not in this case.'
Kirara mentally sighed. 'He's more stubborn than his father.' she muttered mentally. Then to Sesshoumaru she thought, 'If you must thank someone for healing you, thank your sword.'
'What do you mean?' He asked suspiciously.
'You'd be dead now if your sword hadn't diverted your brother's attack. Did you not notice the blue light?' She'd turned her back to him and was cleaning her face with a paw.
'How do you know this?'
'I was there.' The answer was simple, but brought up so many questions. He decided on the simplest one.
'Who are you?' Sesshoumaru demanded.
He was ignored, which annoyed the young lord to an extreme. 'You will pay for that.' He growled. 'I am not accustomed to being ignored.'
'You act like a child.' She purred.
Sesshoumaru was getting frustrated now. 'I could easily rip you to shreds, cat.'
The reply had some humor in it. 'I doubt it. You've just undergone serious healing, leaving you in no condition to take on Kirara.' She was walking away now, her two tails trailing behind prettily.
Sesshoumaru smirked. 'I know your name now.'
She continued to walk off, and Sesshoumaru watched her go. Shaking his head, he summoned a ki cloud and went to his castle in the West to look up the name Kirara. 'Kirara…Kirara, where have I heard that name before?'
Author's note: This is starting to be one of those stories…I'm sooo sorry I haven't updated in FOREVER! bows many, many times To make up for it, I hope you all enjoyed this! Icewings
