Disclaimer: If at first you don't succeed. Skydiving ISN'T for you.
Group snickers
Hiten: What is this, 'skydiving'?
Leiko snaps fingers so that everyone is in plane
Leiko: It involves planes.
Before Hiten can ask what a plane is... Kin shoves him out of the plane
Kin: That's skydiving.
Hiten flies next to the plane in his usual you're-a-waste-of-my-time-I- don't-even-need-to-use-my-arms-to-beat-you-pose
Kin: Damn...
Kashaku: It's okay Kin-chan, look Hiten's fine!
Kin: I forgot he could fly...
Inuyasha: Sucks doesn't it?
Kin: Yup.
Leiko snaps fingers and everyone is back at the house
Kin: WHAT NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'M BACK IN THE CLOSET!!!!!!!!!
Mizuna: Has Sesshoumaru come back with the key yet?
Hiten: Am I still trapped in this Kami forsaken closet?
Mizuna: I don't like to be mocked.
Hiten: Yeah? And whatcha gonna do 'bout it miss-I'm-so-perfect?
Mizuna: This.
Mizuna pulls out spare key, opens door, grabs Hiten's collar and proceeds to beat him into next year
Kin: YOU MEAN YOU HAD THAT KEY THE ENTIRE TIME!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
Mizuna: Of course.
Hiten: Ow...
Kin: WELL THEN WHY THE HELL DIDN'T YOU LET US OUT BEFORE NOW!?!?!?!?!?!?
Mizuna: You didn't ask.
Kin: I hate you all.
Mizuna came to a few hours later to the sound of battle. Opening her eyes she saw her friends engaged in a battle against shadows. When she became fully conscious her delicate nose picked up the smell of ink and blood.
Pushing herself up into a sitting position, the calculating demoness analyzed the battle. It appeared that they had caught up with the painter from hell. She saw Miroku protecting Kagome while Kashaku attacked the painter. 'Where is Inuyasha? I always knew he was a fool, but a coward? Not likely. He really is too headstrong... Like Kin...' Here her thoughts were manually cut off before she allowed herself to become too emotional.
Mizuna's head snapped to the side when she heard the sound of swords crashing together. Swearing under her breath she threw herself to the side just as Inuyasha slammed into the ground she had previously occupied.
"Watch where you're going." She bit out in a cold voice. She was still weak from using up all of her energy, and a tired Mizuna, is a grumpy Mizuna, which no one wants to see.
"Well you know I can't exactly plan where I'm going to CRASH!!!" Inuyasha shot back between pants.
"Inuyasha. You're battle is with me."
It was then that Mizuna's eyes trained onto his opponent. He was taller than Inuyasha, with silky silver hair, molten gold eyes like Kin's and a handsome white kimono. He resembled Inuyasha enough to be called kin, but not so similar that they could EVER be mistaken for one another.
Mizuna continued to watch their battle, noting the stranger's style was nothing like Inuyasha's reckless swinging. In fact it was the opposite, every move he made flowed into the next, blocking, attacking, it all seemed like an intricate dance.
A few minutes after she had begun watching, she felt a prickling sensation on the back of her neck. A frown set itself on her face when she couldn't identify where the danger was coming from. 'Nothing... nothing... boulder... CRAP!!!' Usually Mizuna found it beneath her to even curse in her mind, but this occasion warranted it.
A small girl had just run onto the battle scene, followed closely by an unidentifiable toad-thing. 'My Kami! How many Kami-damned toads are there!?!?!?!'
The little girl was wearing a cute little kimono, and had her dark brown down except for a small ponytail on the left side of her head.
Mizuna's eyes took in Inuyasha's attack, the stranger's dodge and how the waves of cutting energy were heading for the girl. One second the blue haired teen watched the attack from the sidelines, the next she was watching it come straight for her.
She crouched down in front of the little girl, facing the five blades of pure light flying at her. Mizuna's hand went to her side and pulled out a silver fan from nowhere, her eyes glowed blue as she snapped the fan open, revealing it's wickedly gleaming edge. Slicing through the attack, it turned into ten strips of deadly power and flew off to the sides of her. Replacing her fan into who-the-hell-knows-where, she turned and faced the little girl.
"WOW!!! YOU'RE REALLY POWERFUL!!! YOU'RE ALMOST AS STRONG AS RIN'S SESSHOUMARU-SAMA!!!" The little girl, Rin gushed happily.
Mizuna decided to ignore the "almost" and took her excitement as her answer. She was about to ask the little girl who "Sesshoumaru-sama" was, when she felt something connect with her head.
"Filthy human! I told you not to run away!!!"
Mizuna's head snapped to the side as she surveyed what had hit her. He apparently wasn't addressing the 'filthy human' comment to her, but the fact that some stupid little toad thing hit her on the head just pissed her off.
She brought up one had that was curled into a fist and slammed the little beast off into the forest somewhere.
"Sesshoumaru-sama does that too." Rin stated knowingly. "Except he likes to use his foot. Would you use your foot if you were standing? Rin thinks you would. Because Rin knows that if you used your hand while you were standing that you would have to bend over." Here the little girl paused to take a breath and judge the blue-eyed girl's reaction. Her eyes then grew wide. "You know what else? Your face is just like Sesshoumaru-sama's!!! ARE YOU SESSHOUMARU-SAMA'S SISTER!?!?! Because if you were you could be Rin's new mommy! OH!!! Or you could be Rin's new aunt!!!"
Rin didn't wait to see what Mizuna had to say; she began running around singing about having a new aunt. The brown haired girl suddenly realized something and ran off into the forest before Mizuna could stop her.
Shrugging it off, Mizuna faced the battles. Sesshoumaru, or at least who she thought was Sesshoumaru, was now holding the Tetsaiga in one... large, green... scaly hand. She saw that while Inuyasha was losing, he wasn't in need of her immediate help so she turned her attention to Kashaku and Miroku's fight.
Or rather what was left of it, Kashaku had taking away his demonic, Shikon empowered paint... and was now drawing flowers and large bunnies with it. Bunnies that were... attacking Miroku... and beating him over the head with flowers.
"Kashaku..." The redhead's eyes turned and faced the speaker before pouting.
"Awww!!! C'mon Mi-chan! There's just enough paint left to make a duck!!! PLEASE!!!"
Mizuna gave her friend a Kashaku-don't-even-ask-me-you-have-to-stop-now look before turning to the sound of footsteps.
Rin ran back to her new aunt and handed her a big bouquet of flowers that the little girl had just picked. "Here you go!!! Rin picked them just for you!"
Mizuna nodded and gave the girl a small smile before taking the proffered flowers. "Thank you Rin-chan. It was very sweet of you."
Rin grinned in response and began dancing around her singing about absolutely nothing. "I love flowers! My new auntie loves flowers! Sesshoumaru-sama likes to kick Jaken! Jaken is an evil pooh-pooh head!"
Mizuna was about to comment on Rin's song when a jet of flames suddenly came at her from the forest. She grabbed the ever-singing Rin and jumped to the side, nimbly avoiding the blast.
Jaken ran out of the forest and continued his onslaught of blasts. "AHAHAHAHA!!!"
"Rin thinks that Jaken has lost it. Rin always knew that he was not fun." Rin nodded happy at her discovery. "Besides! Now that Rin has a new aunt, Rin does not need to be watched by Jaken anymore!!!"
The water demoness finally got annoyed with the toad and pulled out her fan in a calm manner. "Mizu(water) Hansha(reflection)." As she said this, she moved her closed fan in a circle in front of her and Rin. As she moved the fan a glowing blue circle was formed. When she completed the circle, the entire thing glowed blue before disappearing.
"OOOOOHHH!!!! Rin wants to know what her new aunt just did!!! PLEASE TELL RIN!!!"
Mizuna smiled at the energetic child. "I formed a shield. Now the toad's blasts will not reach us. And by the way, my name is Mizuna."
Rin smiled and ran around Mizuna to where she thought the shield was. She then proceeded to pull one eye down and stick out her tongue at Jaken. "Rin doesn't like Jaken anymore! Jaken is a meanie-head and my new auntie doesn't like you either!!!" Here she paused and faced Mizuna again. "Do you Mizuna-obasan?"
"I can't say that I particularly enjoy anything that is as repulsive and stupid as this creature."
"He IS ugly isn't he Mi-chan?" Kashaku said popping up behind the toad and pulling on his cheeks in an effort to... well, actually we have no idea what she was trying to do. Then the staff in his hand caught her eye.
Snatching it up, it blasted fire at a nearby tree, causing her to jump. "COOL!!! I WANT IT!!!" Kashaku turned large pleading, yellow eyes towards Mizuna, who nodded ever so slightly. "YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Kashaku then skipped off happily playing with her new toy with Jaken following her and trying to take it back.
Mizuna silently deactivated her shield before turning back to Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru's battle, only to see it was finished. Well... at any rate the demon lord was walking away from Inuyasha.
"HEY SESSHOUMARU!!! YOU FINALLY REALIZED THAT YOU WERE NO MATCH FOR ME I SEE!!!!" Inuyasha yelled at his half-brother's backside.
Sesshoumaru turned his head back around to face Inuyasha. "What makes you think that you could possibly beat me Inuyasha?" His voice and face gave away nothing, though his eyes showed the slightest bit of mockery as he regarded the Hanyou.
"Have you forgotten who it was that took off your arm!?!"
Sesshoumaru didn't answer immediately, instead he pulled off the lizard demon's arm and tossed it to Kagome, who flinched and caught the arm, only to throw it away screaming "GROSS!!!".
A few of the hell insects went for the jewel shard imbedded in the arm, but Sesshoumaru waved his arm and melted them with his acid. He walked calmly over to the scaly appendage and in one quick motion, removed a shining pink shard from its depths. "You collect these do you not?"
When Kagome nodded dumbly, he strode over to her and stood directly in front of her, raising his hand slowly. Kagome freaked, as did Inuyasha and Miroku, but all he did was hand her his shard.
"But... why?"
Sesshoumaru focused his eyes on Kagome. "My reasons are not of your concern human." He then faced Inuyasha. "Inuyasha. You may keep the Tetsaiga. As unworthy as you are, I have no use for a sword I cannot use."
"Rin. Come here." His business with this group was finished and he was ready to return to his castle.
"Yes milord!!!" Rin saluted him and skipped up to the stoic lord. As Sesshoumaru turned to leave, Rin pulled lightly on the bottom of his kimono and whispered something in his ear.
The Taiyoukai's eyes flashed before turning cold once again. Picking Rin up he balanced her on his hip before he walked over to Mizuna. "Rin wishes for you to accompany us." He then faced away as if she would obey his indirect order.
"I'm afraid that there are more pressing matters to which I must attend." Mizuna said this in a coolly polite manner that was firm, but not disrespectful.
"I don't believe you have a choice in the matter." Before Mizuna could give him a verbal tongue lashing, Rin broke the tension.
"OH PLEASE COME MIZUNA-OBASAN!!!" Rin's eyes welled up tearfully and Mizuna's eyes softened.
The water demoness turned her attention back to Sesshoumaru. "I will come on two conditions."
The demon lord raised one perfectly arched eyebrow at her, partially amused that she defied him and partially annoyed that she would do this. He nodded slightly, silently telling her to continue.
"I request that me and my friends have free passage through your lands." She paused and waited for his reaction, he nodded. "Also, I have business atop Mt. Kaminari(lightning/thunder). I wish to go there before I accompany you."
Sesshoumaru processed her demands, and deeming them acceptable, he agreed. "Granted. Inuyasha, you and your group have permission to pass through my lands without fear of attack."
"Oh? And just how are you going to arrange that huh?" Inuyasha asked huffily(That's a fun word... huffily!)
Sesshoumaru tossed Kagome a small necklace. "That bears my crest. If you are attacked just proffer it and all demons in their right mind will halt their assault."
He then gave a signal to Mizuna that she was to follow him before a cloud formed about his feet and he launched into the air. Leaving Jaken behind because I don't like that stupid toad and Mizuna would kill him the second he talked to her.
Mizuna leapt into the dark night and before gravity pulled her down, water began swirling around her feet, lifting her higher and higher into the air. Soon the two demons became mere dots before they disappeared completely from the group's view.
Earlier that day
"YOU CALL ME THAT AGAIN AND I AM GOING TO RIP OUT YOUR TONGUE!!!"
"Why shouldn't I call you that, whore?" Manten pushed his luck a little bit too much and he realized this when Kin launched herself at him, ready to make good on her threat.
Kin was caught in midair by a pair of strong, tan arms. "You shouldn't be mad at my brother. Look at what you are wearing. And are you sure you're not a slut?"
He was rewarded for his words with a punch in the face. "Bastards. Are ALL men bastards!?! Or do I just attract them or something!?!?!" Her last comment was directed to the heavens.
Hiten rose from the ground and slammed her roughly into the nearest tree. "You will stop disrespecting me. At first I must admit that I found it to be rather amusing. But no more."
Kin glared at him defiantly, even as he began cutting off her wind supply. "Let go of me!"
The handsome teen pressed down on her windpipe sharply before releasing her. "This was my warning. You won't get another one."
Kin was scared. She didn't show, nor would she admit it, but she was very afraid. When Hiten looked at her with those eyes, eyes that were usually masked with control... they had glowed with an animalistic hunger that chilled her very soul. He had looked so... serious, so barbaric... so not in control. So not himself. Not only had it scared her, it had made her sad. She had wanted to help, so much that it hurt. And yet, the hunger. The hunger in his eyes scared her, rendering her powerless to help him. To help ease his suffering. She just... couldn't. And she hated herself for it.
It was from her frustration and fear that her next words came from. "You do not control me. I will treat you anyway I damn well please!!!" There. She had proved to herself that she wasn't afraid, or at least that she wouldn't act on that fear.
Hiten turned back to her and smirked evilly, showing that he knew of her fear. "Your instincts are telling you to be afraid. You should heed their warning. And mine." He faced forward again and continued walking down the forest path without looking back.
Eventually they came upon a rather large village. Or town. Whichever you prefer. They had accidentally ditched Manten with they're fast pace and so it was just the deadly elder brother and the golden angel.
Before they had entered the town, Kin had reverted to her human disguise so as not to attract attention. Hiten had raised an eyebrow at this, but had yet to comment.
Hiten strode through the town as if he owned it, and Kin had to admire his confidence... as annoying as it sometimes was. After a few minutes of wading through the bustling crowds, well... you really couldn't call it wading because everyone was giving the ethereal couple a nice wide birth, they reached a small clothing shop.
Kin faced Hiten to ask what they were doing there, only to find that he was busy flirting with a group of giggling airheads. "AHEM!!!" She cleared her throat loudly trying to attract his attention.
He glared at her half-heartedly and tossed her a bag full of gold coins. "Go buy yourself some decent clothes."
Kin glared dag-er-swords at him, her eyes promising him a thousand deaths. Not that she was jealous. She just thought he could do better, most likely another demon. Like herself. She then slammed her head into a bench she picked up, effectively silencing her thoughts as well as breaking someone else's property with her forehead.
Ignoring the looks she was receiving from her seemingly unprovoked assault on the piece of furniture, the golden-eyed demoness-disguised-human went into the shop to get clothes. Not because Hiten told her to, but because she was tired of being stared at for her "foreign" clothing.
Going into the small shop, Kin was immediately bombarded by an old lady and her young assistant.
After being measured, having her hair and eyes gushed over, her figure complimented and having her clothes criticized, Kin was DEFINATLEY ready to leave.
About an hour after she entered the shop, the lightning Kitsune left it with her arms full of kimonos, Hakamas, Yukitas, fighting Gis and many other random items of clothing.
Since she was tired of being stared at, she left the shop wearing one of her new outfits. Figuring that she wouldn't need to fight, she chose to wear a kimono. The Japanese style dress complimented her figure without revealing too much. It was emerald green with a gold obi and gold embroidered leaves.
Stepping out the door, her sharp eyes searched through the crowds for her companion and found him flirting with a different group of girls. Forgetting his previous warning(an hour of dealing with two overly energetic seamstresses will do that to you) she walked directly up to him grabbed his ear and dragged him away from the group of girls.
Amazingly enough, Hiten didn't kill her, attempt to kill her or even threaten to kill her. Instead he allowed her to drag him out of the town behind her, admiring the view the entire way.
Leiko: Okay, first things first. This is not a Mizuna/Sesshoumaru fic. Fluffy is flying solo in this fic 'cause Kin is taken by Hiten, and Sess- chan is her bishi.
Kin: Yup. I'll share some of my other bishi... But... SESSHOUMARU IS MINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mizuna: Well aren't we little-miss-possessive.
Kin: YOU BETTER BELIEVE IT!!!!!!!!
Kashaku: Aw... I wasn't in this one a lot...
Leiko: I know, just wait! When Kouga kidnaps you it's going to focus mainly on you.
Kashaku hadn't waited for the answer and completely missed that because she was busy dancing around
Hiten: Finally! I got a backbone!!! And a nice view of Kin's butt!
Kin: WHAT!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
Hiten: Read and Review. Or else.
Leiko: You'd better do what he says... he's a crazy psycho!!!
Kin: I'll vouch for that!!!!
Group snickers
Hiten: What is this, 'skydiving'?
Leiko snaps fingers so that everyone is in plane
Leiko: It involves planes.
Before Hiten can ask what a plane is... Kin shoves him out of the plane
Kin: That's skydiving.
Hiten flies next to the plane in his usual you're-a-waste-of-my-time-I- don't-even-need-to-use-my-arms-to-beat-you-pose
Kin: Damn...
Kashaku: It's okay Kin-chan, look Hiten's fine!
Kin: I forgot he could fly...
Inuyasha: Sucks doesn't it?
Kin: Yup.
Leiko snaps fingers and everyone is back at the house
Kin: WHAT NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'M BACK IN THE CLOSET!!!!!!!!!
Mizuna: Has Sesshoumaru come back with the key yet?
Hiten: Am I still trapped in this Kami forsaken closet?
Mizuna: I don't like to be mocked.
Hiten: Yeah? And whatcha gonna do 'bout it miss-I'm-so-perfect?
Mizuna: This.
Mizuna pulls out spare key, opens door, grabs Hiten's collar and proceeds to beat him into next year
Kin: YOU MEAN YOU HAD THAT KEY THE ENTIRE TIME!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
Mizuna: Of course.
Hiten: Ow...
Kin: WELL THEN WHY THE HELL DIDN'T YOU LET US OUT BEFORE NOW!?!?!?!?!?!?
Mizuna: You didn't ask.
Kin: I hate you all.
Mizuna came to a few hours later to the sound of battle. Opening her eyes she saw her friends engaged in a battle against shadows. When she became fully conscious her delicate nose picked up the smell of ink and blood.
Pushing herself up into a sitting position, the calculating demoness analyzed the battle. It appeared that they had caught up with the painter from hell. She saw Miroku protecting Kagome while Kashaku attacked the painter. 'Where is Inuyasha? I always knew he was a fool, but a coward? Not likely. He really is too headstrong... Like Kin...' Here her thoughts were manually cut off before she allowed herself to become too emotional.
Mizuna's head snapped to the side when she heard the sound of swords crashing together. Swearing under her breath she threw herself to the side just as Inuyasha slammed into the ground she had previously occupied.
"Watch where you're going." She bit out in a cold voice. She was still weak from using up all of her energy, and a tired Mizuna, is a grumpy Mizuna, which no one wants to see.
"Well you know I can't exactly plan where I'm going to CRASH!!!" Inuyasha shot back between pants.
"Inuyasha. You're battle is with me."
It was then that Mizuna's eyes trained onto his opponent. He was taller than Inuyasha, with silky silver hair, molten gold eyes like Kin's and a handsome white kimono. He resembled Inuyasha enough to be called kin, but not so similar that they could EVER be mistaken for one another.
Mizuna continued to watch their battle, noting the stranger's style was nothing like Inuyasha's reckless swinging. In fact it was the opposite, every move he made flowed into the next, blocking, attacking, it all seemed like an intricate dance.
A few minutes after she had begun watching, she felt a prickling sensation on the back of her neck. A frown set itself on her face when she couldn't identify where the danger was coming from. 'Nothing... nothing... boulder... CRAP!!!' Usually Mizuna found it beneath her to even curse in her mind, but this occasion warranted it.
A small girl had just run onto the battle scene, followed closely by an unidentifiable toad-thing. 'My Kami! How many Kami-damned toads are there!?!?!?!'
The little girl was wearing a cute little kimono, and had her dark brown down except for a small ponytail on the left side of her head.
Mizuna's eyes took in Inuyasha's attack, the stranger's dodge and how the waves of cutting energy were heading for the girl. One second the blue haired teen watched the attack from the sidelines, the next she was watching it come straight for her.
She crouched down in front of the little girl, facing the five blades of pure light flying at her. Mizuna's hand went to her side and pulled out a silver fan from nowhere, her eyes glowed blue as she snapped the fan open, revealing it's wickedly gleaming edge. Slicing through the attack, it turned into ten strips of deadly power and flew off to the sides of her. Replacing her fan into who-the-hell-knows-where, she turned and faced the little girl.
"WOW!!! YOU'RE REALLY POWERFUL!!! YOU'RE ALMOST AS STRONG AS RIN'S SESSHOUMARU-SAMA!!!" The little girl, Rin gushed happily.
Mizuna decided to ignore the "almost" and took her excitement as her answer. She was about to ask the little girl who "Sesshoumaru-sama" was, when she felt something connect with her head.
"Filthy human! I told you not to run away!!!"
Mizuna's head snapped to the side as she surveyed what had hit her. He apparently wasn't addressing the 'filthy human' comment to her, but the fact that some stupid little toad thing hit her on the head just pissed her off.
She brought up one had that was curled into a fist and slammed the little beast off into the forest somewhere.
"Sesshoumaru-sama does that too." Rin stated knowingly. "Except he likes to use his foot. Would you use your foot if you were standing? Rin thinks you would. Because Rin knows that if you used your hand while you were standing that you would have to bend over." Here the little girl paused to take a breath and judge the blue-eyed girl's reaction. Her eyes then grew wide. "You know what else? Your face is just like Sesshoumaru-sama's!!! ARE YOU SESSHOUMARU-SAMA'S SISTER!?!?! Because if you were you could be Rin's new mommy! OH!!! Or you could be Rin's new aunt!!!"
Rin didn't wait to see what Mizuna had to say; she began running around singing about having a new aunt. The brown haired girl suddenly realized something and ran off into the forest before Mizuna could stop her.
Shrugging it off, Mizuna faced the battles. Sesshoumaru, or at least who she thought was Sesshoumaru, was now holding the Tetsaiga in one... large, green... scaly hand. She saw that while Inuyasha was losing, he wasn't in need of her immediate help so she turned her attention to Kashaku and Miroku's fight.
Or rather what was left of it, Kashaku had taking away his demonic, Shikon empowered paint... and was now drawing flowers and large bunnies with it. Bunnies that were... attacking Miroku... and beating him over the head with flowers.
"Kashaku..." The redhead's eyes turned and faced the speaker before pouting.
"Awww!!! C'mon Mi-chan! There's just enough paint left to make a duck!!! PLEASE!!!"
Mizuna gave her friend a Kashaku-don't-even-ask-me-you-have-to-stop-now look before turning to the sound of footsteps.
Rin ran back to her new aunt and handed her a big bouquet of flowers that the little girl had just picked. "Here you go!!! Rin picked them just for you!"
Mizuna nodded and gave the girl a small smile before taking the proffered flowers. "Thank you Rin-chan. It was very sweet of you."
Rin grinned in response and began dancing around her singing about absolutely nothing. "I love flowers! My new auntie loves flowers! Sesshoumaru-sama likes to kick Jaken! Jaken is an evil pooh-pooh head!"
Mizuna was about to comment on Rin's song when a jet of flames suddenly came at her from the forest. She grabbed the ever-singing Rin and jumped to the side, nimbly avoiding the blast.
Jaken ran out of the forest and continued his onslaught of blasts. "AHAHAHAHA!!!"
"Rin thinks that Jaken has lost it. Rin always knew that he was not fun." Rin nodded happy at her discovery. "Besides! Now that Rin has a new aunt, Rin does not need to be watched by Jaken anymore!!!"
The water demoness finally got annoyed with the toad and pulled out her fan in a calm manner. "Mizu(water) Hansha(reflection)." As she said this, she moved her closed fan in a circle in front of her and Rin. As she moved the fan a glowing blue circle was formed. When she completed the circle, the entire thing glowed blue before disappearing.
"OOOOOHHH!!!! Rin wants to know what her new aunt just did!!! PLEASE TELL RIN!!!"
Mizuna smiled at the energetic child. "I formed a shield. Now the toad's blasts will not reach us. And by the way, my name is Mizuna."
Rin smiled and ran around Mizuna to where she thought the shield was. She then proceeded to pull one eye down and stick out her tongue at Jaken. "Rin doesn't like Jaken anymore! Jaken is a meanie-head and my new auntie doesn't like you either!!!" Here she paused and faced Mizuna again. "Do you Mizuna-obasan?"
"I can't say that I particularly enjoy anything that is as repulsive and stupid as this creature."
"He IS ugly isn't he Mi-chan?" Kashaku said popping up behind the toad and pulling on his cheeks in an effort to... well, actually we have no idea what she was trying to do. Then the staff in his hand caught her eye.
Snatching it up, it blasted fire at a nearby tree, causing her to jump. "COOL!!! I WANT IT!!!" Kashaku turned large pleading, yellow eyes towards Mizuna, who nodded ever so slightly. "YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Kashaku then skipped off happily playing with her new toy with Jaken following her and trying to take it back.
Mizuna silently deactivated her shield before turning back to Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru's battle, only to see it was finished. Well... at any rate the demon lord was walking away from Inuyasha.
"HEY SESSHOUMARU!!! YOU FINALLY REALIZED THAT YOU WERE NO MATCH FOR ME I SEE!!!!" Inuyasha yelled at his half-brother's backside.
Sesshoumaru turned his head back around to face Inuyasha. "What makes you think that you could possibly beat me Inuyasha?" His voice and face gave away nothing, though his eyes showed the slightest bit of mockery as he regarded the Hanyou.
"Have you forgotten who it was that took off your arm!?!"
Sesshoumaru didn't answer immediately, instead he pulled off the lizard demon's arm and tossed it to Kagome, who flinched and caught the arm, only to throw it away screaming "GROSS!!!".
A few of the hell insects went for the jewel shard imbedded in the arm, but Sesshoumaru waved his arm and melted them with his acid. He walked calmly over to the scaly appendage and in one quick motion, removed a shining pink shard from its depths. "You collect these do you not?"
When Kagome nodded dumbly, he strode over to her and stood directly in front of her, raising his hand slowly. Kagome freaked, as did Inuyasha and Miroku, but all he did was hand her his shard.
"But... why?"
Sesshoumaru focused his eyes on Kagome. "My reasons are not of your concern human." He then faced Inuyasha. "Inuyasha. You may keep the Tetsaiga. As unworthy as you are, I have no use for a sword I cannot use."
"Rin. Come here." His business with this group was finished and he was ready to return to his castle.
"Yes milord!!!" Rin saluted him and skipped up to the stoic lord. As Sesshoumaru turned to leave, Rin pulled lightly on the bottom of his kimono and whispered something in his ear.
The Taiyoukai's eyes flashed before turning cold once again. Picking Rin up he balanced her on his hip before he walked over to Mizuna. "Rin wishes for you to accompany us." He then faced away as if she would obey his indirect order.
"I'm afraid that there are more pressing matters to which I must attend." Mizuna said this in a coolly polite manner that was firm, but not disrespectful.
"I don't believe you have a choice in the matter." Before Mizuna could give him a verbal tongue lashing, Rin broke the tension.
"OH PLEASE COME MIZUNA-OBASAN!!!" Rin's eyes welled up tearfully and Mizuna's eyes softened.
The water demoness turned her attention back to Sesshoumaru. "I will come on two conditions."
The demon lord raised one perfectly arched eyebrow at her, partially amused that she defied him and partially annoyed that she would do this. He nodded slightly, silently telling her to continue.
"I request that me and my friends have free passage through your lands." She paused and waited for his reaction, he nodded. "Also, I have business atop Mt. Kaminari(lightning/thunder). I wish to go there before I accompany you."
Sesshoumaru processed her demands, and deeming them acceptable, he agreed. "Granted. Inuyasha, you and your group have permission to pass through my lands without fear of attack."
"Oh? And just how are you going to arrange that huh?" Inuyasha asked huffily(That's a fun word... huffily!)
Sesshoumaru tossed Kagome a small necklace. "That bears my crest. If you are attacked just proffer it and all demons in their right mind will halt their assault."
He then gave a signal to Mizuna that she was to follow him before a cloud formed about his feet and he launched into the air. Leaving Jaken behind because I don't like that stupid toad and Mizuna would kill him the second he talked to her.
Mizuna leapt into the dark night and before gravity pulled her down, water began swirling around her feet, lifting her higher and higher into the air. Soon the two demons became mere dots before they disappeared completely from the group's view.
Earlier that day
"YOU CALL ME THAT AGAIN AND I AM GOING TO RIP OUT YOUR TONGUE!!!"
"Why shouldn't I call you that, whore?" Manten pushed his luck a little bit too much and he realized this when Kin launched herself at him, ready to make good on her threat.
Kin was caught in midair by a pair of strong, tan arms. "You shouldn't be mad at my brother. Look at what you are wearing. And are you sure you're not a slut?"
He was rewarded for his words with a punch in the face. "Bastards. Are ALL men bastards!?! Or do I just attract them or something!?!?!" Her last comment was directed to the heavens.
Hiten rose from the ground and slammed her roughly into the nearest tree. "You will stop disrespecting me. At first I must admit that I found it to be rather amusing. But no more."
Kin glared at him defiantly, even as he began cutting off her wind supply. "Let go of me!"
The handsome teen pressed down on her windpipe sharply before releasing her. "This was my warning. You won't get another one."
Kin was scared. She didn't show, nor would she admit it, but she was very afraid. When Hiten looked at her with those eyes, eyes that were usually masked with control... they had glowed with an animalistic hunger that chilled her very soul. He had looked so... serious, so barbaric... so not in control. So not himself. Not only had it scared her, it had made her sad. She had wanted to help, so much that it hurt. And yet, the hunger. The hunger in his eyes scared her, rendering her powerless to help him. To help ease his suffering. She just... couldn't. And she hated herself for it.
It was from her frustration and fear that her next words came from. "You do not control me. I will treat you anyway I damn well please!!!" There. She had proved to herself that she wasn't afraid, or at least that she wouldn't act on that fear.
Hiten turned back to her and smirked evilly, showing that he knew of her fear. "Your instincts are telling you to be afraid. You should heed their warning. And mine." He faced forward again and continued walking down the forest path without looking back.
Eventually they came upon a rather large village. Or town. Whichever you prefer. They had accidentally ditched Manten with they're fast pace and so it was just the deadly elder brother and the golden angel.
Before they had entered the town, Kin had reverted to her human disguise so as not to attract attention. Hiten had raised an eyebrow at this, but had yet to comment.
Hiten strode through the town as if he owned it, and Kin had to admire his confidence... as annoying as it sometimes was. After a few minutes of wading through the bustling crowds, well... you really couldn't call it wading because everyone was giving the ethereal couple a nice wide birth, they reached a small clothing shop.
Kin faced Hiten to ask what they were doing there, only to find that he was busy flirting with a group of giggling airheads. "AHEM!!!" She cleared her throat loudly trying to attract his attention.
He glared at her half-heartedly and tossed her a bag full of gold coins. "Go buy yourself some decent clothes."
Kin glared dag-er-swords at him, her eyes promising him a thousand deaths. Not that she was jealous. She just thought he could do better, most likely another demon. Like herself. She then slammed her head into a bench she picked up, effectively silencing her thoughts as well as breaking someone else's property with her forehead.
Ignoring the looks she was receiving from her seemingly unprovoked assault on the piece of furniture, the golden-eyed demoness-disguised-human went into the shop to get clothes. Not because Hiten told her to, but because she was tired of being stared at for her "foreign" clothing.
Going into the small shop, Kin was immediately bombarded by an old lady and her young assistant.
After being measured, having her hair and eyes gushed over, her figure complimented and having her clothes criticized, Kin was DEFINATLEY ready to leave.
About an hour after she entered the shop, the lightning Kitsune left it with her arms full of kimonos, Hakamas, Yukitas, fighting Gis and many other random items of clothing.
Since she was tired of being stared at, she left the shop wearing one of her new outfits. Figuring that she wouldn't need to fight, she chose to wear a kimono. The Japanese style dress complimented her figure without revealing too much. It was emerald green with a gold obi and gold embroidered leaves.
Stepping out the door, her sharp eyes searched through the crowds for her companion and found him flirting with a different group of girls. Forgetting his previous warning(an hour of dealing with two overly energetic seamstresses will do that to you) she walked directly up to him grabbed his ear and dragged him away from the group of girls.
Amazingly enough, Hiten didn't kill her, attempt to kill her or even threaten to kill her. Instead he allowed her to drag him out of the town behind her, admiring the view the entire way.
Leiko: Okay, first things first. This is not a Mizuna/Sesshoumaru fic. Fluffy is flying solo in this fic 'cause Kin is taken by Hiten, and Sess- chan is her bishi.
Kin: Yup. I'll share some of my other bishi... But... SESSHOUMARU IS MINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mizuna: Well aren't we little-miss-possessive.
Kin: YOU BETTER BELIEVE IT!!!!!!!!
Kashaku: Aw... I wasn't in this one a lot...
Leiko: I know, just wait! When Kouga kidnaps you it's going to focus mainly on you.
Kashaku hadn't waited for the answer and completely missed that because she was busy dancing around
Hiten: Finally! I got a backbone!!! And a nice view of Kin's butt!
Kin: WHAT!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
Hiten: Read and Review. Or else.
Leiko: You'd better do what he says... he's a crazy psycho!!!
Kin: I'll vouch for that!!!!