Hello hello!! Here you for your enjoyment for my lovely invisible readers and reviewers!
Yes I know that I may have some grammar or spelling mistakes, but please be patient with me. And just so you know I do use Microsoft word and all of its little extras.
And also I want to clear something up, this is an AU fic. I had the idea for this way before the third movie was even thought about(just an expression, so no corrections on that please). Anyways I came to a stand still when the movie did come out because it put a major block on my idea for this story. But I think I can make this work if you people aren't too hard to please, besides I have seen worse stories than mine get more reviews so I know if they can manage it so can I!
Disclaimer: they are mine I tell you!!!(ahem) sorry just a short mental breakdown. I'm fine now. I don't own inuyasha or kagome or miroku or sango or shippo or kirira or midoriko or inutaisho or izayoi or sesshomaru ect. Ect. Ect.
They say 'curiosity killed the cat,' but in this case the little modern saying took a major twist as in to say 'curiosity killed the dog'.(an. Yes I know , this pun is a little too modern and probably too American but bear with me here)
And that's what would've happened to sugimi , the great daiyoukia of the western lands, had the black haired miko standing at his side not stopped his rash action of running outside to see what all the commotion was about.
"What are you doing?" she said to him as she grabbed a hold of his garments. "You can't go out there"
He could tell that her voice was pleading him but it didn't quell the urge to obey her without good reason."What are you talking about? I am a demon, a powerful one at that , and they are just humans with some crappy pieces of paper, what are they going to do ? Burn my cloth when I'm not looking?" he said to her while emphasizing his dramatic death scene and scrunching his face up in his most confused way.
Midoriko only scowled at him in the darkness and prayed to the gods that her child be granted human intelligence. He took a step forward but again was pulled back by his clothes.
"Oi! Onna, will ya stop acting childish and let me go deal with these people or are you gonna let them get away with treating you any way they want after all that you do for them?" but she didn't even lessen her grip on him. His temper rising, he turned around to face her so she would have to let him go.
"Come on out with it! You're hiding something"
"Are you crazy? Your not supposed to be here" even though she knew the answer to that question she said it anyways. The taiyoukia only cocked his head to one side at her as a dog would, literally but didn't show any signs of retaliating." please just leave before they come in here and find you"
Midoriko waited but did not get an immediate response; in fact she did not get any kind of response ( at least one that would be worth mentioning) all she got from him was
"Huh?"
'Think of a happy place, think of a happy place'. Sighing she closed her eyes for a second and tried again, this time a little slower so he could fully understand her.
"You ….are ….not."
"I heard you the first time."
"Supposed."
"Wait!! I just want.."
"to ..be.."
"to know why"
"HERE"
"Your not making any sense, out lands have a truce , ive come to these parts many times and was never unwelcome, even here in this taiyja village, what has changed? It couldn't be because we have fallen inlove,that's not a good enough reason for me!"
Every word he said to her just now was true and it took a lot of courage for him to say something like that to her, but now that he had said it, he turned his face away and crossed his arms as if to say that it was now her turn to speak.
Midoriko was stunned, never, not even once had he mentioned his 'feelings' for her or anyone for that matter besides the ones concerning his son, Sesshomaru.(which is another story altogether)
She was speechless; the empty spot that occupied a space inside her heart seemed to fill up in a matter of seconds. In that moment, she did not care if everyone shunned her, she did not care if she lost all of her powers and everything else. All that mattered to her at that moment was the fact that this 'demon' had thought enough about her to be here at this spot ready to defend her honor when her own mother wasn't willing to.
She did not care anymore. Was it so wrong to want to be with someone even though they were different from you? She had made up her mind, she could deal with what the village priests could dish out against her but what about 'him'…..
'I should have told Sugimi the truth from the beginning and things wouldn't have gotten so bad now, if only I had trusted him more….maybe'
"Oi, the people outside are getting closer, you going to explain now or let me go to deal with them and explain later?" he said to her with little emotion to his voice as if he knew of the internal turmoil his words had put her in to.
Biting her lip and dropping her gaze, the miko silently decided against letting anything happening to him or her until 'he' was out of the picture and they could be together to raise their child. But what could she do? She couldn't lie to him and ordering him to leave obviously was not working.
"Oi onna.." the beating on the temple doors brought to light that she was now out of time for getting rid of the inuyokia that was standing between her and the problems outside.(which wasn't working by the way)
both of them turned their heads towards the doors as they started to crack under the pressure.
The taiyoukai took that moment of silence between them to steal a glance at the woman in front of him. She was staring at the doors , which normally would not have been a problem, however now was not the time for her to be staring at them.
And why was she staring at them to begin with?
Why wanst she doing anything? She wasn't breathing hard.
Shouldn't she be concerned with them defiling the holy temple? The way the doors were being beat on clearly said that the villagers meant to get in without any regard to how they did it.
And why was he just standing there? Weren't they just normal people?
Just then the doors busted however the board that held them shut was still there leaving them even less time thatn before to figure something out.
He was now getting seriously irritated with not only her and the people trying to get in but with himself, he had finally had enough of this. He was tired of being in the dark, she was hiding something the way she just stood there while thery pounded on the doors told him everything.
What was she to do? She didn't have the time to explain the story and she knew that the father if her child didn't have much of a chance against this new weapon that was now being wielded by someone she didn't trust..she knew that she should have told him sooner about what the villagers had come across, but she couldn't think of that now , it was too late to prepare for battle with such a weapon, she had to get him out and explain later, but how?
And irritated and vicious low growl followed by heavy footsteps jerked the priestess out of her daydream. He wasn't going to wait for her to stop him , he had decided that her time was up for her.
But , glancing back at him and then … behind him gave her the answer to her problems.
She was pregnant , yes.
She could really injure herself or the baby , but it was a chance she was willing to take in order for her child to at leas t see its fathers face.
Closing her eyes , taking a breath and opening them she prepared herself for her next actions. Now there were no turning back, she ran straight towards the demon in front of her as fast as she could go.
Öi, Midor…"his words were stopped by her hand grabbing his and jerking him around to follow her in the direction of the cliff which was behind him.he was too shocked to stop and think so he allowed her the benefit of the doubt and follwed herto the balcony, all the time still acutely aware of the cracking doors and screaming people behind him.
He was in human form , but was still a large person. And she was going to be using strenthg that she shouldn't be using in order to save him.
All time seemed to have stop for the both of them as she stopped in front of the doors that led to the balcony and cliff outsidebut did not attempt to open them, instead she pulled the demon from behind her to slam him into the doors .
Any normal human would've just slammed into them, but since he wasn't a normal human or even close to a normal human, he crashed right through the doors with his back , only catching his balance as he slammed int o the rail and stopped.
The rail he had been pushe against moaned and finally cracked under his weight, one stepand he would've fell down into the misty abysse below. With a surprised and angry face,the powerful inuyoukai jerked his head up only to see the blinding lights of the priest s bursting the temple doors open and the lone figure in the midst of the lights was the woman he had trusted , until now.
She was kneeling on the floor clutching her slightly swollen belly with a pained look on her face then in one swift movement she was literall y on her toesrunning towards himat what seemed to be youkai speed. Her breath was coming in short pants and the pain from using her abdomen muscles was showing clearly on her pale face.
Behind her, sugimi focused on the humans entering the temple with weapons that had been made of those of his kind. Were they really serious about using tkose on him? It will hurt to battle with them, but he was not about to die by human hands when he had done nothing wrong..
He was getting ready to pushi himself off the broken rails when he caught scent of something that gave him the feeling that it had come straight from Hell to destroy. It was an awful feeling. How did humans get their hands on something such as this? What was worse was that the scent was coming right for him, in the form of a sword.
What was going on? A human with the battle armor of a general had threw the sword straight for him, but it was going to hit the priestess that they so adored if she move….speaking of which.
She had run only a short distance but to her it seemed longer, but she was almost there.'he will think that I am betraying him, but …what other choice do I have? I want him to live'
Raising her hands out in front of her she placed them on hes chest and looked pleading ly into hes golden eyes begging for forgivness, but she didn't stop running even thought she now in physical contact with him/
He had been so focused on the action behind her that he didn't pay much heed to the fact that she was now pressed against him with hre hands on his chest. He thought that maybe she wanted to feel comforted, but now was not the time she about to get hit by that sword, he had to save her.
He raised his hands to touch her and looking her at the same time he saw something that he was not expecting, she was begging him silently to forgive her, why?
Then it hit him she wasn't just going to him for comfort , she was going to push him over the cliff. But it was too late to react now, he hadn't expected her to do this to him. Fea r gripped his heart when he lost his balance and began the descent backwards with nothing to hold on to to save him.
How could she take advantage of my trust in her in that way? The sword!! It was still going to hit her, but now he could do nothing to stop it.
As she watched him fall backwards, all life left her body and she collapsed on to the floor and watched as he fell, hoping that he was as strong as she thought him to be and survive the fall.. but he didn't seem too shocked , in fact before he was completely out of sight, she heard him scream up from below at her.
"kioshi!! Behind you!!"
"eh" what is he….?
She didn't even have time to trhow herself to the side of balcony to avoid it.
The last things that reached his sensitive ears was the humans screaming
Her gasp and then a distinct tearing of the flesh telling him that she couldn't avoid the weapon.
His heart tearing at betrayal loss and pain caused him to close his eyes and await the ground below to meet him.
I knkow , I know terrible cliffhanger, but guess what I was lucky to get that typed out. Hey even if you don't like the story at least take the time to tell my whats wrong with it. Except for grammar and spelling mistakes I do not want to hear about that stuff, I am well aware that my use of grammar is slightly outdated to what is used today, so just bear with me k?