Tesse: yay! i'm back! wow i've been gone for about a month!
Hero: yep we've been gone since september 13 or 14! that's a long time for what few readers we have.
Tesse: yes that reminds me... IF YOU ARE READING THIS REVEIW WHEN YOU'RE DONE! NO EXCUSES!
Hero: and if you've read Tesse's other fic fragile flowers, than you might notice something very familiar about this chapter.
Tesse: yes but the Somaru from this story is very different as you'll soon find out. Somaru from fragile flowers is a complete sweet heart and has healing powers, the Somaru from this story is as far from sweet as you could possibly go- she takes pleasure in pushing other people's buttons and making her servant's life miserable, but she does have a few family members who she cares deeply for.
Hero: ALSO... we're writing this on microsoft works instead of word. and works doesn't have a very good spell check. so forgive us for any spelling errors.
Tesse: lastly- i DO NOT own inuyasha, but maybe some day...dreamy face
Inuyasha: Heritage
Chapter Nine: Somaru, the Aristocrat
"Jaken!"
"I'm coming me lady!" a/n: three guesses who Somaru is now!
A little green imp hurried as fast as he could, but it proved to be harder than it seemed with a staff three times his size, 'You'd have thought carrying this old staff around for years it would get a lighter, but noooo....' he thought.
"JAKEN! NOW!" his mistress yelled obviously losing her temper.
"Yes, me lady!" Jaken continued to stumble over his staff. 'She's too much like her father in more ways than one! Lord have mercy on me and grant me a quick death so I may end my suffering!' They climbed the hill, for his mistress, it was easy, she seemed to glide gracefully, her snowy white hair flowing gently in the wind her golden eyes staring emotionlessly into the wind. Even if she didn't look it, she was always on guard, and an extremely skilled warrior like her father, Lord of the Western Lands, Lord Sesshomaru. a/n: is that spelled write 'She been even more like him since Rin died. Of course my dear lord's disappearance has made things even worse for her.'
FLASH BACK...
"Me Lord...? Where are you?" Jaken yelled wandering through the halls of the grand castle that the Sesshomaru resided in.
It had been a year since Erin death and Sesshomaru had hardly shown his face to anyone except his daughter Somber, whom was extremely solemn and short tempered.
"Me Lord Sesshomaruuuu...?" Jaken tried again, and as he had expected there was no reply.
He then changed his mind and decided to seek out Lady Somaru. Once at her quarters he tapped on he door with his staff.
"What do you want, Jaken?" came the cool, harsh voice of Somaru.
Jaken winced, "I have come to see if you are well, me Lady," Jaken said with a slight quiver in his voice. The great doors opened unto the wing of the palace. Somaru stood before him a look of scorn on her face. Somaru was a hanyou much like her uncle Inuyasha. She was powerful and respected by all in the western lands, because of her skill with a sword and powerful demonic powers. In Jaken's eyes she was far stronger than Inuyasha. Even if she didn't notice it, she was also very beautiful.
"Yes Jaken, all is well, you have no reason to stay!" She was about to close the door when Jaken stopped her.
"Me Lady, do you know where your father is?" he asked bravely. She considered for a moment.
"No," she said plainly then to Jaken's surprise she nudged him aside a walked down the corridor. Jaken followed her wondering what she was doing.
'Perhaps she is also trying to find her father, perhaps she is worried.' he thought as he rushed to keep up with her long graceful strides.
She came to the front doors. She pushed them aside a stepped out on to the porch that wrapped around the the entire castle. Unaware that Jaken was indeed following her she the sliding door in his face. She then hurried down the steps where Ah and Un a/n: is that right? were kept. She peeked inside the stable, the two-headed dragon looked at her expectedly. By then Jaken was hot on her heels again. He hurried up to her in the stables.
"Yes Jaken?" she said without turning around and gently petting Ah and Un behind the ears.
"Me Lady, are you going for a ride?"
"Yes, I will return shortly," she said, her voice as icy as ever, as she saddled her dragon. Then mounting him.
"But what of your father's sudden disappearance? Are you going to look for him?"
Somaru froze, then turned to give Jaken the evil eye. "Yes Jaken that is exactly what I'm doing! Now go take care of the castle and as I said, I will return shortly!" she hissed, Jaken always ended up regretting questioning Sesshomaru and Somaru. With that she was off.
Jaken watched her disappear into the sky. He knew she would head of to the next demon village.
Somaru landed shortly after departing. She dismounted and walked into the village. To her shock the village had been completely torn apart.
'How can this be? Some of the demons here would have been able to ward off an attacker. Yet the village has been completely masquerade.' Then thought that her father might have been involved struck her, this time for the first time since her mother died she showed fear and shock in her eyes.
"Father!" she whispered. She quickly pillaged through the remains looking for any sign of life among the rubble. But to no avail. "That's not possible, if father was involved then this battle would never had been lost!" she hissed to her self as she searched. She kicked up a piece of housing. Beneath it was a the mark of a giant spider. Somaru stared at it for a short while.
'It's the mark of the demon who attacked this place, and some how they were able to restrain my father,' she thought, 'They must be a strong opponent, but they weren't able to kill my father, no could be that strong!'
"But I have to find him and make him pay!" she said clenching her fist, until her sharp claws drew blood. She walked back to Ah and Un, who were waiting patiently for her return.
END FLASH BACK...
"Jaken! Tell me more about this Naraku!" It wasn't a question, it was a command.
Jaken obeyed. "Naraku was responsible for many crimes, he was the one who turned your uncle and his first lover Kikyo against one another ending with the priestess Kikyo dead and Inuyasha sealed to a tree. Then Naraku gave Lord Sesshomaru a human arm with a Shikon no Tama shard embedded in it to replace the one which that pathetic uncle of yours had taken off! It was so Lord Sesshomaru could wield the Tetsuiaga against Inuyasha, it's a long story, but it ended with Naraku betraying your father. Then Naraku was suposedly destroyed when your father and uncle teamed up to take him down. But now I'm afraid that Naraku has returned," Jaken said rather quickly but Somaru caught his every word.
"So Naraku has returned to seek revenge?" Somaru said to no one in particular. Jaken know better than to answer her question. "And Inuyasha perhaps has suffered the same fate," she continued.
"Perhaps we can search for his descendants, I know he had a daughter at the very least," Jaken suggested but only to regret it.
"Jaken?" she said smoothly and gently, this of course scared Jaken.
"Yes?" he took a timid step toward her. And she turned to him a smile on her lips. Not a smile that Jaken would have hoped for.
"Come here," she said gently, yet with a hint of malice hidden beneath her soft tone of voice. He took a few more timid steps until he was at her side. In the blink of an eye Somaru had snatch his staff out of his grasp and pinned Jaken's head to the ground with it. "I WILL NOT SINK SO LOW AS TO GO BEGGING FOR HELP FROM SOME UNKNOWN RELATIVE! DON'T YOU EVER CONFUSE ME WITH A LOW LIFE LIKE YOURSELF AGAIN! UNDERSTOOD!!!!"
Jaken couldn't speak due to the fact that he was nearly a foot deep in the ground. "GOOD!!!" Somaru tossed the staff down beside him. And then walked away.
WITH KAYORI AND CO.
Taimiko had been with them for almost four days, she seemed a little happier with Kayori than she did with her brother Korou, who they had yet to meet again.
"Kayori-san, where are we headed now?" Taimiko asked.
"Well were heading off to find a hot spring where we clean that mud off your face and arms and maybe we can squeeze in a bath, while we're at it, how's that sound?" Kayori said.
"Okay!" Taimiko said happily and then hurried ahead.
It wasn't long until they reached they're destination. Taimiko jumped in clothes and all, creating a huge splash, getting Kayori wet. Kayori just laughed.
She got Taimiko settled, helping her to remove her shirt and skirt which were both made out of some kind of animal hide. Then pulling out a rag and scrubbed Taimiko's head and arms, then had her stick her bare feet out of the water a scrubbed those too. Then Kayori tried her best to comb through Taimiko's hair. She didn't have a comb so she had to use her fingers. After combing all the knots out she then braided her light brown hair to keep it from getting to tangled. Then let Taimiko play around in the water as she got to work on Taimiko's filthy clothes. Kayori dunked them into the water and rubbed them together to rub the dirt out. Then threw them up against a rock, and hung them up to dry. By the time she was finished with Taimiko's clothes Taimiko was ready to get out. Kayori gave a clean white gi a/n: I think that's what they're called, if you know please tell me. since her clothes were not dry yet. It was small, in fact Kayori couldn't even remember why she had it. Then sent Taimiko back to camp with the others, while Kayori got some much needed alone time.
"Thanks Kayori-san!" Taimiko said smiling then running of to camp with Shippo and Ryku.
Kayori sighed, then turned back to the hot spring. She removed her clothes and stepped into the hot water. Then grabbed her nose and dived in. She came back up for air and pushed her silver hair out of her eyes. The water made her feel a lot better. She took a rag and began to scrub her arms. The water came up to her waist and was clean and clear. She finished scrubbing her arms and was about to get started on washing her own clothes when she heard a twig snap somewhere in the bushes, the bushes were down wind of her so she catch they're scent and they had tried to be as silent as possible.
She took a rock a threw it into the shrub.
"OWWW!" the spy hissed. She immediately knew who it was.
"RYKU!!!! YOU FILTHY, PEEPING PERVERT!" Kayori yelled. Flames burning in her eyes. She pulled herself out of the water and wrapped a towel around her. She took up another rock- ready for revenge.
Ryku stumbled out of the bush. He had a large bump on his head from the first rock and walked like her was drunk. He tottered on his feet for a little bit then lost his balance.
'Gee, how hard did I throw that rock?' Kayori thought. Ryku lay on the ground currently see double.
"Are you okay, I'm sorry I didn't mean to hit you so hard, even if you did deserve it," Kayori said.
"That's okay, 'cause now I'm graced by the presence of three beautiful women in nothing but a towel," Ryku said his forehead starting to bleed a little from the where the rock had hit him.
Kayori rolled her eyes a got up and pulled on a white gi over her towel. Then turned back to Ryku. "You are a complete and total idiot! You know that!" she said helping Ryku to his feet.
"Yes, I know I'm an idiot, but at least I'm YOUR idiot," he said pervertedly, for that he received a hard smack and a "walk yourself back to camp!!!" from Kayori.
Tesse: well what do ya think?
Hero: ....
Tesse: four pages, that's not very much but it's more than what I usually write.
Hero: ...
Tesse: please, please, please REVIEW I need some tips- I'm completely stumped and if you don't help me I just might get writer's block and take forever to update again! and you don't want that to happen.
Hero: ...
Tesse: Hero are you there?
Hero: ...
Tesse: Oh my god! Hero's gone! great just what I need! to have my muse take off... AGAIN! anyway until the next exciting chapter (but if you don't review then there won't be another chapter ) I bid you a bitter sweet saryonara.