Chapter Six: The Voice

It had been a long night for the friends. They had stayed very distant from each other, even though they were friends.

It was hard to awaken in the morning to so much emptiness. Just the nothingness was hard to handle.

Shippo stayed close to Hiei now. Never leaving his side.

The doors were back when they woke up but the windows were still gone. The gaping hole in the floor of the room reminded them of Shippo's near death experience.

Kagome shuddered when she looked at it. Things could have ended up much worse than they did.

Guests in the house had been very hungry after not eating in three days and listening to Kuwabara's complaints.

They would have to venture the house to find food. Should they stay together or not?

"We should stay together," Kurama announced.

"But then it will take us longer to find it!" Yusuke argued.

"I say we split up," He added.

"But what if one of us gets attacked?" Kagome said worriedly.

InuYasha shrugged. Eventually they decided to stay together.

They examined the library more and found nothing else interesting.

They left and continued down the hallway. Hiei and Sesshoumaru trailed behind them an agreeable silence between them.

Shippo stopped and examined the wall. He touched it slightly on a red stain and jumped back screaming as the wall crumbled in.

The group, hearing Shippo screaming, had stopped and turned to watch him. He reached his hand into the wall and pulled out a blue book.

The book was very unusual looking, it had red edges while the whole front cover was blue.

It had a sword on the right hand corner of it that had a red hilt and long sharp looking blade.

The sword looked as if it was cutting slightly into the edge of the cover and making the red stain.

The initials N.E.A were written on front in the same red color and dripping slightly.

As the group stared at the book in Shippo's hands, the sword seemed to glow a dark navy blue color.

Sesshoumaru stared intensely at the dark blue color until a sudden realization hit him.

He strode over to Shippo at a fast pace and grabbed the book out of his hands. The he threw it down the hall.

"What'd you do that for!" Inuyasha demanded.

At least 3 seconds later a loud BOOM shook the house. Everyone stared in the direction the book had been thrown and then at Sesshoumaru.

"That's why," He replied calmly.

But now Shippo was torn. Hiei or Sesshoumaru-sama. Ah, decisions, decisions.

Pieces of paper floated down around them, Kurama picked one up and read it out loud.

Dear Who-ever-reads-this,

He makes me sick! Just throwing her around like that, and she doesn't even notice that he does it! I know what happened last time and I'll do what I have to go to keep my psychotic brother away from her. I'll do anything. Anything…

-Nanashi

The entry ended on a hanging threat. There were pages scattered everywhere but most were too burnt to read. Apparently this guy didn't want anyone to read this.


The voice argued with him in his head. He pleaded and pleaded but they never went away. Not for good.

Maybe for a couple hours at most and then they were back. He knew he was slowly diving into his own self-destruction.

He was slowly giving up hope, with his brother on his case all the time now about Rena. Of course he loved the girl.

But he could never say it, let alone even think it to himself. The voices offered the get rid of him, to put his brother out of his misery.

But he didn't want them to hurt Nanashi. Nanashi was only doing this for Rena's sake not anyone else's.

His brother loved her with all his heart and soul and tried to please her but Rena only wanted him not Nanashi.

It was frustrating…

One day he would hurt Nanashi and Rena and that day would be near his last.


All eyes moved off Sesshoumaru.

There was a heavy breathing sound in their heads and they didn't let on for fear they were going insane.

"You have…..to answer….the leave," It said to them all.

Nobody moved and the only sound was their breathing.

"You have….five days….starting tomorrow," The voice said this time it sounded slightly excited.

What a sick little voice.

Everyone was thrown out of their trances.

"Okay," Miroku said hesitantly.

"Only one question, what is the question?" Kurama asked.

The End of Chapter Six

A/N: Yes well wasn't that interesting? I hope you R&R. The next chapter will be up on Friday. I've written up to Chapter Ten. See ya on Friday!