Xaing had finished healing the eratating little twerp in 2 days. She did feel some pitty for the little thing though.
He'd been babbleling on and on about his lord coming for him and giving her what she disserved. Xaing just smiled when he started one of his rants. He'd been having less of them recently. She and the toad imp, Jocken, had been travilling. She wasn't sure why he didn't leave and try to find his lord but she decided not to question him.
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It was poring down rain. Xaing and her new traviling conpanion had not been able to find any shelter. Xaing was soked to the bone and Jocken was conplaining loudly, even though he was almost conpleatly dry. Xaing had lent him her straw (I don't know what they're actualy made of) hat so the only part of him that was actualy wet were his feet.
"Lady Xaing! Where are we going!" Jocken whaled.
"That cave." She pointed at a slab of rock.
"But that's a ROCK not a CAVE!"
Xaing didn't answer his cry. Instead, She went to a small bunch of bushes, waited for Jocken then moved the bushes, revealing a small entrance. Jocken scrambled through, getting stuck, once, on his way. Xaing slid in quckly and gracefully, making sure to conseal the entrance behind herself.
"Wow." Jocken looked around the cave in a little bit of aww. "How'd you know about this place!" Xaing didn't answer his question. Jocken noticed a chest in the back and a piel of wood agenst one of the walls of the cave. "Lady someone alredy lives here! We should get out befor they come back! What if they're a demon! Or bandets! or--" Xaing interuppted, she would have finished making the fire but Jocken looked like he was ether going to have a heart attack or passout from shear, self infricted, stress... maybe both.
"Do I look like a demon?" Xaing asked, ignoring the cold that was penitrating her to the cor and making her body quiver.
"Of cors not but--"
"This is my 1/2way point."
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Xaing sighed before she continued.
"It's my cave and a marker of how far we've gotten through the forest." She took 2 rocks from the cornner and started striking one agenst another.
"Lady Xaing, rocks can't start fires." Jocken said in a smug tone. However, as if on que a small spark started a small fire which quickly took and loominated the cave. Jocken made a strang noise and stepped back. "Magic rocks?"
"No, Flint." Xaing replied, going to a curtened off cornner of the cave. She took off her kimono and put on another kimono.
"Lady?"
"What?" She stepped out from behind the curtened off part and walked to the fire. Laying her wet kimono near the fire to dry. The kimono she now had on was the one one of the villager woman had made for her. It was a black kimono with white snakes cercilling the bottom and white fethers and pettles on the rest, they where thicker at the bottom, almost none at the top.
"umm... why do you travle alone? It is very dangerouse."
"I have business to attend to." Xaing said flatly.
"Lord Sesshomaru is always very busy!"
"He sounds very important." Xaing smiled at him, whenever Jocken started talking about his lord, he reminded her of a child talking about his hero.
Xaing cooked dinner and readdied their bed rolles. The fire was dieing down as Jocken finished talking about his great and powerfull Lord and the sword that he would take from his lord's incompitent little, ½ brother.
Xaing let out a yohn and settelled into her bed role. Jocken did the same. As the camp fire was dieing out. Xaing could tell that she would have a serious fever in the morning and was already worrying about tomorrow when she reallized she'd forgotten to tell Jocken that his demon lord was not far behind them. She opened her mouth to tell him but was interupted before she could utter a word.
"Where's your family." Jocken asked.
"hmm... haven't realy given it a thought." I can tell him in the morning.
With that, they bothe drifted off to sleep.
-Next Morning-
They packd up there stuff and headed out. Xaing was still cold, even under the warm sun of late spring. She felt like she was walking in a foot of snow.
Xaing started walking down the dert path, Jocken Started to fallow her but she turned to face him with a "what the hell are you doing" look on her face.
"What?" Jocken asked.
"Aren't you ganna wait here for your Lord?" Xaing asked, forgeting that she hadn't told him last night.
"huh?"
"He isn't far--" Xaing was cut off by a large demon that sprung from the bushes. She grabbed Jocken and jumped into the woods. It came at her from behind, ramming into her side, knocking Jocken from her grasp and knocking her right through a tree. She sprung to her feet almost instantly. Her head was spinning but she had to lead the stuppid creacher away from Jocken.
This is just GREAT! She thought sarcasticly. Not only do I have an ungodly feaver, I've got a nasty demon on my tail and have on idea where Jocken is!
She led the demon to another demon, just as ugly as the first, where she was soon forgotten. She worked her way back to where she lost Jocken.
She looked around for Jocken, using trees for support. She could find no trace of him. She turned around, ready to look ferther into the forest but was met with a set of golden eyes. Her eyes couldn't foces on him, so he looked like a fuzzed out white/silver shape.
Almost instantly she found herself pinned to a tree. Her knees felt like they would give out any second and her head was ringing. She began mentaly kicking herself for not sencing his pressence earlier.
"You know where my vassil is." the demon started in a cold monitone.
"Fuck off, I lost him." She said with anger very clear in her voice. She was beging to wish that she hadn't woken up this bright and sunny morning. His grip tightened around her neck.
"You will tell me where he is or pay the price." Sesshomaru could not smell fear from the girl but her body was weak and the heat coming from her body hert his hand a little.
"Sorry, I'm broke." It came out berly a whisper, but she wasn't dead... yet. She grabbed onto his rist, using it to houst her legs to his chest and kick him throught 2 trees all in one lightning fast movement. Her knees gave out and her body started trembeling, again. But she wouldn't exept this. There was no way in hell she was gonna let this demon beat her.
The demon stood, slowly walked to her and was about to deal the finnal blow when a fimilyer, scrichy voice rang out.
"Please, m'Lord! Stop!" Jocken hollered.
Xaing couldn't hear him, all she could hear was the ringing in her ears and head and all she could see was a blear of green that was getting darker. Xaing tried despritly to hold onto conchesness but was quickly ingalfed in a timeless darkness.
When she woke, she used her sences to feel out her seroundings before she would give any sign of being awake.
She could feel the heat from a fire, the hard ground, and a warm blanket. There where 3 people in what she supposed was a camp. 1 was a human, the other 2 where demons. She recignized one of the demon pressences as Jocken's. The human was deffinatly a girl about 5-7 she guessed. The last person was the only one she didn't like. It was a powerfull, male, dog demon. She could feel his eyes burning into her. She didn't like it. She "woke up" so the demon could tell she was and slowly got up. She could feel his eyes scanning her. She began folding the blanket that had lay on her.
"What are you doing, wench?" He asked quietly, his voice was very cold.
"If you're not carefull, you might bring a late frost with your voice." Xaing said quietly, her voice was smooth and Sesshomaru found in strangly soothing though he wouldn't admit it. Her comment was met with a low growil from Sesshomaru.
"You will show me respect, wench." He growiled.
"How long have I been out?" She was met with a deth stare from Sesshomaru. "Fine. You answer my questions, I answer yours." There was a long silence. Then Seshomaru nodded. "How log have I been out?"
"Through the day. What are you doing?"
"Putting away these things and asking you questions." Xaing said, noting his eratation. "Where are we?"
"My lands." Seshomaru replied, hoping to eratat her but with the oposite efect. "What are you?"
"A Human. Which direction's west?"
Sesshomaru nodded his head twords her. "Why do you need to know?"
"I have business to attend to."
"Rin and Jocken have both asked for you to stay..."
Xaing shruged, "Not my problem." She turned to leave but there was a 2 headed dragon standing infront of her, blocking her path. "Yo," Her eyes began to sink into doredum, "what's with the dragon?"
'I didn't order Ah/Uh to do that... strange...' Sesshomaru thought, eyeing the girl who had begun to pet both heads and coo word he could not quite hear.
"You will remain here." Sesshomaru said paying close attention to her movements.
"Sorry to dissapoint, but I got business to attend to." She replied, trying to get around the dragon.
"Not my problem." Sesshomaru groweled, trying to erratate her again. All he got was a soft chuckel. She turned to face him. She eyed him in a similier way to how he'd eyed her then sat.
"You're not to bad." She said sweetly, he could have killed her. His eyes almost flashed red, when a light breeze blowed a wiff of her delicate sent around him. It was a lovly sent but in dissappeared quickly, leaving him wanting much more but he had self restaint and pushed it away. He wasn't going to let a human girl get to him.