Welcome to my second chapter.
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Whatever I Want Chapter 2
After the yelling had died down and the little girl, who had not said much yet, was put to bed, the group had sat down to talk.
"I think she's from my time, those pjs were odd, but modern" (the brooms were puzzling), "I think she's American,"
"American?"
"Yeah, you know, from a different country,"
"Oh. What's she doing here?"
"Can she understand us?"
"Well, from what I saw, yes she can understand us. She knew what I was saying when we put her to bed and calmed her down."
"The most important thing, I think is to see if she can go through the well," said Miroku.
"I second the perverted monk" said Sango, Miroku sighed.
"When she wakes up I can take her to the well and see if she goes through." said Kagome.
Kaede had been silent so far in this discussion, but she nodded at this.
"I say we wake her up now and try to get as much information as we can," there was a rustling from the other room. The little girl looked in at them.
"Come here child," said Kaede, beckoning to her to sit next to her. She obeyed, looking at Inuyasha all the while.
"What is your name?"
"Selene,"
"Where are you from?" asked Sango, coming to sit next to the girl.
Selene screwed up her face, concentrating, "I don't know."
"Who are your parents?"
"I…I don't know."
"What do you know?" asked an impatient Inuyasha. Kagome and Sango shot him murderous looks and even Miroku was appalled at the insensitivity.
Starting to sniffle the girl replied, "There was a mad man. And a light. And my dad. And I don't know!" her eyes were panicked.
"It's okay. Shh, everything will be alright," soothed Sango, patting her back and letting her natural maternal instincts take over.
"Um, let's go see if she will go through the well," said Miroku, looking at Sango with a strange glint in his eye.
"Yeah, I want to get this over with" said Inuyasha, also with a strange glint in his eye, while looking at Sango. (Oh oh)
"Fine," sniffing, Kagome took a hold of Selene's hand and stood her up, looking into her blue eyes she said, "Now we are going to ask you to do something for us, okay" Selene nodded, "Now it's going to be odd, but we want you to jump into a well, do you think you can do that?" Selene looked confused, "It's just a test to see if you can go through to present time, understand," Selene shook her head, "Well… we'll cover all that later. Now let's go," she took her hand and led her and the others to the well.
"Okay, Selene I want you to jump down in the well, okay? Can you do that?"
While Selene was totally lost, even she knew that jumping in an empty, dry well wasn't exactly normal. She conveyed this understanding in a look that said, 'well that's just nuts!' Kagome sweat-dropped and smiled nervously, "Just trust me Selene, okay? You'll be fine."
"No."
Dumbfounded, the group stared at the now defiant little girl.
"It is very important that you jump into the well, so do it," said Miroku, motioning with his hands toward the well. He never was really good with children.
"No! That's stupid!" now Selene was boldly glaring at them.
Sango tried to reason with her, "It's not a long way to the ground. It won't hurt that much at all,"
It didn't work.
"I refuse to jump into some smelly old well!" her voice was imperious.
Inuyasha huffed, "If I'm at the bottom of the well, will you jump?"
Kagome looked at him with gratitude.
After a pause Selene nodded. The group sighed collectively.
Inuyasha jumped into the well and waited on the bottom for her. Peering over the edge she looked down at him, "Promise that you'll catch me?"
Golden eyes widened. His heart flinched, with a short gasp he remembered a memory from long ago.
Flashback
"Sesshomaru! Wait! Brother wait!"
"What is it Inuyasha?"
A small five year old Inuyasha, clad in a red kimono ran up to his older half-brother. They were on the edge of a forest. His older brother, Sesshomaru 15 years old, was wearing his usual white kimono and a long suffering look.
"Where are you going?"
"It does not concern you."
"Can I come too?"
"If you must." This was the usual cold indifference that he was accustomed to from his frosty older brother. He preferred it to the open hostility he got from everyone but his mother. Eagerly he followed his brother into the forest.
They walked in silence for a while.
"We are going to this cave near the river," Sesshomaru said quite suddenly, "I wish to know more about it."
"Great! We're going exploring!" a faint smile graced Sesshomaru's lips for a moment. He had always liked Inuyasha's energy. The smile didn't stay for long though, it was unbecoming of a lord to show emotion. He had learned that from his mother long ago, before that human woman had taken her place… after a war with the Southern Lands had killed her. Sesshomaru frowned. Father was dead now. He was lord of the western lands.
They walked in relative silence for a while, Inuyasha hummed a tune. The silence was easy. While the brothers were not close, they did care for one another. Sesshomaru just didn't show his emotions much. Bonds of family are not easily broken.
Nearing the cave, Sesshomaru stopped suddenly.
"Whats wrong?" asked Inuyasha, also stopping.
"Blood. Human blood," he said, sniffing, "Near the cave," he paused, "It smells familiar." Sesshomaru took off running, "Stay close."
They ran through the forest. Nearing the cave they saw several people fighting, sniffing the air, Inuyasha started.
"Mama?"
About 7 scruffy men were gathered around a small family of five. The mother of two children lay on the ground, dead, the father was vainly fighting three men while the others leered and watched the grandfather wail and cry over his daughter's dead body.
"What do you think you're doing on my land human?" asked Sesshomaru.
Startled the men looked up to see the young demon lord. Relieved to see a young demon, the leader of the group grew cocky.
"It's none of your business, little one. Go play with your friends."
Wrong choice of words, even back then. Sesshomaru jumped at the men with his claws out. Quickly slashing the first man he drew his sword when he was in the middle of the group. Inuyasha watched on, in awe of his brothers brash actions. The fight escalated and in the fray the small family had managed to leave. Inuyasha stayed out of the way and occasionally called out warnings. Three of the seven men were dead, and the last four were getting increasingly desperate, their attacks were erratic and vicious. Soon Sesshomaru was sporting a large gash on his arm. Sensing his defeat Sesshomaru started to withdraw. But at the last minute, two man descended on him and managed to slice open his side and on one leg. In the distance Sesshomaru could hear more men coming to help these guys.
"Inuyasha follow me!" Sesshomaru started to run out of the clearing.
Running through the forest, the two brothers tried to get out of there. There were at least five men following them. Suddenly they came to a drop off, a small cliff. At the bottom was a cave that they could hide in. Jumping easily down, Sesshomaru looked up at his brother. Inuyasha was hesitant to jump.
"Jump Inuyasha,"
"I'm scared,"
"Don't be foolish"
"Will you catch me?"
"Yes"
"Promise that you'll catch me?"
"Yes now jump!" Sesshomaru was starting to loose his cool, he could hear the men getting closer.
Inuyasha jumped and Sesshomaru caught him. They made it into the cave. Inuyasha remembered the feeling of being close to his brother. In that cave, running from bandits, they were close. Just a few days after that, things went to hell.
End Flashback
"Well? Will you promise me?"
"YES! Now freaking jump!"
"Fine," Selene carefully got up on the ledge of the well and closed her eyes and jumped.
She landed safely in Inuyasha's arms.
"Well that answers our question," said Miroku.
"That's strange. I'm sure she's from my time,"
"While that may be, she can't get through the well,"
"What are we going to do with her?"
"What are we going to do with who?" asked Shippo coming up from playing with the village children.
Inuyasha jumped up from the well with Selene in his arms. The girl was giggling and trying to get his ears while Inuyasha tried to move his head out of her reach, smiling a little. He set her down on the ground and she pouted. She reached her arms out to be held by him again. Taken aback, Inuyasha looked down at her then at the rest of the group, what am I supposed to do? He asked with a pleading look. Sighing Sango came and picked her up and put her back in his arms. Selene giggled and wrapped her arms around his neck and gave him a hug. Smiling Sango patted her head and in doing so her hand accidentally brushed Inuyasha's cheek. They both felt a jolt from the contact and blushed slightly.
"Well, I don't know," said Kagome, "What do you guys think?"
"I say we find a family to look after her" replied Miroku, looked disturbed at Inuyasha.
"HELLO! I'm still here! Who are you talking about?" Shippo demanded.
"Oh Shippo! This is Selene. She…uh…came this morning. We think she's from my era,"
"Oh really! Great! Can she stay with us? Please! Please please please please! I need someone my age to back me up,"
"Um…"
"I think we should
keep her," said Inuyasha suddenly. Selene, still in his arms,
scowled.
"I am not a pet!" she sniffed, "and I want to stay
with you," she snuggled in his arms, earning a small smile from
Inuyasha.
"Well, I think it's too dangerous for us to be traveling with two little kids," said Sango.
"I promise I won't get in the way, please let me stay!" Selene turned her large, blue beseeching eyes on the group.
"Well, I suppose it would be ok," said Kagome.
"Shippo could use a friend," said Sango.
"If it's alright with you guys, it's alright with me," said Miroku.
"YAY!" Shippo tugged Selene from Inuyasha and they went to play.
"I think she likes you Inuyasha," teased Kagome.
"Feh, whatever," he looked over to where she was playing with Shippo.
"Aw, that's so cute!"
"I think it's sweet that he has a soft spot for her," said Sango.
Still looking at the kids, Inuyasha blushed a bit.
Well, what do you think? I'm not sure yet if it should be a Miroku/Sango or Inuyasha/Sango pairing. Please review and tell me what you think. - Ak girl
