Second chapter in! I don't own any of the Inuyasha characters! Rumiko Takahashi does! I own Yume, the guardian of the subconscious realm. No bashing reviews! Got it? Constructive criticism is welcomed. Hardcore fans of the show! Correct me if I am wrong about the name of Sesshoumaru's mom and Inuyasha's mom. Cuz I mentioned them and will mention them a few more times in other chapters. Also inform me if I made mistakes with the Japanese words as well. Thanks and enjoy
Translations:
Sama- Lord, Master
Fukai Mori - Deep Forest
Omae - You!
Doko minna desu ka - Where is everyone?
Nani desu ka - What is it?
Damare ko musume - Shut up bitch!
Ningen - Human
Baka - Fool, idiot
Chapter 2
"Special dinner…" Jaken mumbled sarcastically under his breath. Suddenly Rin's innocent brown eyes met with Jaken's dark colored ones.
"Geezzz…Rin…don't look at me like that…!" Jaken said nervously as he endured the girl's overwhelming gaze.
"Sorry…I just thought you'd might like to know about the special dinner…"
"Hmph…!" Jaken mumbled. "I'd just like to know your reasons behind this 'special dinner'."
"You would?" She asked; eyes filled with excitement.
"It's quiet pointless really…if you think about it…"
"Tell me Jaken-sama…is Lord Sesshoumaru around?" Rin asked as she rolled up her sleeves.
"Master Sesshoumaru? Umm…well…" He stammered. "Master Sesshoumaru has warned me about revealing his whereabouts to the girl…" He thought; remembering the punishments he'd endure if he broke his master's vows to keep his own whereabouts a secret.
"Master Jaken?" Rin asks again, becoming impatient with the demon toad's hesitance.
"Stupid girl! Does he look like he's around!" Jaken yelled; slapping the girl upside her head with his two headed staff.
"I was just asking!" She whined; rubbing the bump on her head. "I was concerned for him…is that bad?"
"He doesn't need your concern! He has just gone into the Fukai Mori…he will return to us later this evening."
"The Deep Forest…?" She wondered. "Why would my Lord go there…?"
"Don't worry about him! Master Sesshoumaru can take care of himself!"
"Oh no…"
"Now what are you so sad about?"
"I…I know why he went there…"-"What?" A bit of curiosity leaking out of his voice as he asked.
"He's not after that sparkling round thing…is he?" Rin asked in a melancholy tone of voice.
"GAH!" Jaken coughed. "She knows!" He wondered nervously. "How can this be!"
"Or…that sword of immense power…or does he simply want that evil man destroyed…?"
"How could SHE know about the Shikon jewel? The Tetsuaiga? And Naraku? Did master Sesshoumaru tell her about them?" Jaken kept asking himself. Baffled by the small girl's knowledge of her master's quest for power, the destruction of Naraku and his desire to obtain the Tetsuaiga.
"Hmmm…" She muttered. "Master Sesshoumaru…can handle anything…" She thought as she submerged herself into the deeper part of the stream.
As the demon toad pondered these questions he had realized that the little girl had disappeared.
"Oh no…" He thought.
"RINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!" Jaken's voice echoing out into the mountains as he out called to the girl.
"I'm in trouble…" He whined. "AHHHH! Help! HELP! Something just bit me!"
"Ha ha!" Rin jeered as she popped out of the water with a fish in her hand.
"Omae?" Jaken asked in amazement. Upon his question he is slapped in the face by the fin of the lively fish Rin had caught. Jaken falls back into the shallow end of the stream instantly upon impact.
"Opps…sorry Master Jaken." She replied cheerfully as she threw her hands in the water and grabbed at the fleeing fish.
"Annoying little…OMPH!"
"Oh! Good job Master Jaken!"
"Why me…?" He wondered as the girl pulled the fish out of his mouth and dropped them into a basket.
"Your mouth acted as a net to catch the remaining fish!" Rin replied as she saw several of the blue fish lodged into Jaken's big mouth. "Lord Sesshoumaru will be so pleased!"
Jaken just jumped out of the water and dried himself off as he listened to the young girl talk.
"Now…off to the Fukai Mori!"
"What?" Jaken coughed.
"Master Sesshoumaru is there! He told me to keep Rin away from that place!" He remembered.
"C'mon Master Jaken!" Rin yelled as she grabbed the basket of fish and ran down the path towards the deep forest.
"Rin! Come back! Get back here you absent minded girl!" Jaken whined as he chased the girl down the path.
"Great…Master Sesshoumaru's gonna kill me!" He cried inside as he chased the mischievous girl down the path to the deep forest.
"Doko minna desu ka Kirara?" The young fox demon asked the cute cat demon as he searched around for his friends. Kilala only yawned and then curled up into a ball and went back to sleep.
"I'm bored…there's nothing to do around here!" He whined.
"What do you mean there is nothing for ye to do around here?" Kaede; Kikyo's younger sister and eldest priestess of the feudal era asked as she spied the young fox demon.
"Miroku and Sango have gone missing as well as Kagome and Inuyahsa! I want to play with them but I can't find them Lady Kaede."
"Do not worry young fox demon…your friends are around. They are only relaxing…you know as well as I that this quest for the Shikon Jewel fragments has been a long and difficult one…" Shippou only nodded as he listened to the wise old priestess. "They need they're rest. They're disappearance refers only to their desires to rest in peace and quiet." She added informatively.
"I guess so."
"If you are so bored then why don't ye come and assist me with the cooking?"
"Cooking? But I can't!"-"Go to the nearby stream of Eternal Dream and find me some fish…along with some berries will ye?"
"You mean…into the…Fu…Fukai…Fukai Mori?" Shippou asked nervously; his face paling with fear.
"Do not fear Shippou…no demon will attack you at this time of day…especially not in the Fukai Mori at this hour."
"Oh…okay Lady Kaede."
"It is too early for demons to surface…so do not worry about an attack. You shall be fine in the Fukai Mori by yourself."
"Okay." Shippou sighed as he took the basket Lady Kaede had given him and went off into the forest to find the food she had requested. "By myself…" Shippou thought anxiously as he went down the path towards the deep forest.
"Your too slow Jaken!" Rin replied cheerfully as she ran deeper into the dark forest of Fukai Mori.
"I'll die from exhaustion before Master Sesshoumaru gets a hold of me…" Jaken thought as he slowly made his way up the hill after Rin.
"These berries will be perfect for Lord Sesshoumaru's dinner!" She replied happily as she picked up one berry after another from their branches.
"HE DOESN'T EAT!" Jaken complained.
"Be quiet!" Rin yelled; slapping Jaken in the face with a fish.
"Damn you brat!" Jaken grumbled through the fish in his mouth as he watched the girl blatantly disobey his orders. "Get over here! We must leave now!"
As the little girl continued her search for plentiful, wholesome foods to use for her special dinner she stopped in her tracks as her eyes discovered her master battling with a fearsome beast.
"Damn you son of the Dog general!" The serpent demon hissed as he endured another one of Sesshoumaru's quick attacks.
"It's Lord Sesshoumaru…!" Rin gasped.
"She's here…" His golden orbs piercing focused on the little toad demon. "…Jaken…you'll pay for disobeying me…" Sesshoumaru thought to himself; his though of his human pup and his retainer disrupted by an attack from the serpent beast.
"What's the matter little demon? Tiered from trying to match your speed with mine?" The serpent taunted Sesshoumaru who was favoring his rib cage.
"…You bore me…" Sesshoumaru muttered as he gripped his sword tightly and readied an attack. "Time to put an end to your misery." He replied as he pointed the tip of the blade at the beast and emitted another shock wave.
"I agree…" Naraku muttered as he tossed the fragment of the Shikon jewel at the weakened serpent.
As the wave hit the serpent; Sesshoumaru watched on angered as the attack did no damage to the monster.
"Naraku…" Sesshoumaru muttered in his emotionless tone of voice as he noticed the White Baboon cloaked demon watching him and the beast in the shadows.
"Sesshoumaru…Inuyasha's older brother…" Naraku smiled. "We meet again."
"He's quite handsome master…" The demonic woman replied.
"Why are you here?" He questioned.
"But to obtain the rest of the Shikon Jewel…"-"Of course." Sesshoumaru replied uncaringly. "And who are you suppose to be?" Turning his attention to the beautiful demon standing by Naraku's side.
"His beau…" The feminine demon replied sarcastically; a dark red aura emanating off her flawless body.
"I'm not here to play games. Tell me what you and your wench are planning."
"Not to worry son of Inu-taiso…you will learn soon enough."
"Hmph." Sesshoumaru muttered. "I'll ask you again…who are you?"
"My name is Yume…Master of the Subconscious Realm."
"Subconscious…" Sesshoumaru muttered; slight confusion in his voice by her statement.
"Don't get it do you? You should know what I'm referring to. But then again…perhaps you really don't…you're still awake."
"What is that suppose to mean?" He growled; the serpent beast behind him growling impatiently with the desire to continue the fight with his opponent; as Sesshoumaru stared up at the two demons.
"…Toki…and Izayoi…such lovely women…" Yume replied arrogantly.
A low growl escapes Sesshoumaru's lips as Yume mentions the names of his dead mother along with Inuyasha's human mother. "As if I care about Izayoi…" Sesshoumaru muttered uncaringly upon hearing his stepmother's name.
"Of course, of course Lord Sesshoumaru. I wouldn't expect for your heart to consider the ningen woman…but…"
"Nani desu ka?" He interrupted.
"I must admit they were simply lovely…" She smiled; licking her lips.
"Lovely…" Sesshoumaru muttered; repeating Yume's word.
"Lovely creatures…with such alluring minds…" She replied in a seductive voice.
"Filthy wench…you have no right to speak of their names." Sesshoumaru muttered sternly.
"Oh? But I thought you didn't care."
"They're all dead." Sesshoumaru muttered in a cold hearted tone.
"Yes they are…but…" Yume smiled. "Their memories…of you, you're brother Inuyasha, and of course you're father; the dog general…"
"Wench…"
A grin reaching her lips as she spoke on. "They are alive."
"Now I remember…" He muttered. Stories told to him by his father and mother of a demon temptress who controlled the world of dreams and nightmares of every living thing and used them to her advantage when desiring to seek revenge upon another returned to his mind.
"Devious wench…haunting the minds of my family so long ago…" He growled again; not realizing his rising temper as he remembered the trouble she had caused his family and demonic brethren so long ago. "They're mine…for all eternity." Yume finished; the faint scent of Izayoi falling off her body as her demonic aura rose.
"Damare ko musume…" Sesshoumaru growled; his demonic blood coursing through his veins as he held back the desire to transform and tear the two demons apart. Trying to spare his pup the sight of his inner demon persona.
"What is wrong with Master Sesshoumaru? I've never seen him so angry..." Rin thought nervously as she watched him try hard to suppress his raw emotion.
"Oh…you look so irritated…as if you want to transform…why don't you Lord Sesshoumaru? Afraid someone might see?" Yume teased; already knowing of a human being within the area.
Sesshoumaru sighs angrily; a fiercely blue light surrounding Tokijin as he prepared to attack.
"You dare to challenge my great beast? Fine! Go on! Be killed by my pet. I have no problem with you suffering in the netherworld." Yume answered; unimpressed by is power.
"You will be the ones to suffer." Sesshoumaru challenged as he pointed the Tokijin at the demons; his attack easily repelled by the demonic barrier.
"Baka." Yume replied.
"My plans will be carried out." Naraku replied as he watched the Shikon fragment embed itself into the tail of the beast. "You will suffer…" Yume muttered in a malicious voice.
"Hmph…" Sesshoumaru muttered as he emitted a shock wave from the pointed tip of his sword into the serpent's face.
"You and your human…" Naraku growled in a low voice as his eyes spotted Rin.
"Wha! Naraku? It's Naraku!" Jaken cried; spotting the white baboon cloaked man.
"The evil man that betrayed my Lord…" Rin muttered in a frightened voice.
"He's starring at us!"
Scared out of her mind; she kept hidden and didn't move; afraid the evil half demon; Naraku might harm her or Sesshoumaru.
"Just…just keep quiet and stay hidden…m-maybe…he'll go away…" Jaken shivered.
Another shock wave is emitted from his blade but to no avail as the attack is suddenly reflected back at him. "What is he up to now?" Sesshoumaru wondered as he readied to defend and counterattack against the powerful beast.
As Sesshoumaru pondered Naraku's plans he felt the power of the Shikon shard as the beast preformed a new attack. A torrent of unrelenting fireballs blast from it's mouth forcing Sesshoumaru to dodge an defend as much as possible in order to continue the fight. After the first flurry of flames it is as Sesshoumaru tries to guard against the impact of flames that he is overwhelmed somewhat by the beast's power and is forced back into a tree.
"Sesshoumaru-sama…!" Rin muttered helplessly as she watched her guardian endure an attack. "This isn't like him!" She thought worried for her protector. Unconsciously she begins to move from out of her hiding spot only to be halted by Jaken.
"Jaken?" Rin protested as she struggled to free herself from his grip.
"Troublesome girl…! Jaken muttered in an aggravated tone. "Do you want to be killed!"
"My soon to be apprentice…" Yume smiled as she spotted the girl. "Ahhhh…!" Jaken screamed in a low voice. "It's Naraku! And he's got the better half of the Shikon Jewel!" Jaken replied in shock. "How! I though Inuyasha and his wench had it!"
"I will have you soon enough." Her sleek red eyes; spying the innocent girl and the demonic imp.
"Shikon…Jewel…" Rin thought to herself as she stopped struggling and remained silent. "Uhhh…Jaken…" She uttered in a scared voice; knowing the demonic woman above her was starring at her with her cold eyes.
Sesshoumaru scoffed as he dodged the next fireball attack. "The jewel fragment…it was just like when I had one in that human arm…I became even more powerful then before…and now this lowly snake demon has it."
"I know…" He muttered as he got in front of the girl. "Don't look at her…she desires to put you under a spell that will force you to endure a painless but hellish sleep." Rin closed her eyes tightly; refusing to give in to the demonic woman's gaze.
"Master Sesshoumaru…please get though this quickly…" Jaken thought nervously as he watched his master battle the super powered beast. "Stay hidden Rin! And keep quiet!"
"Are you going to go help him?" Rin asked in a hopeful voice.
"My job is to obey my Master at any cost…I must not fail Master Sesshoumaru…" He muttered in a dogmatic tone of voice. "Just stay hidden and quiet and we will be able to go home soon."
Rin didn't say a word, the only thing on her mind was Sesshoumaru.
"Take this…" Naraku muttered; handing what appeared to be a tainted Shikon Jewel to Yume. "Let this tainted crystal be the beginning of this "great" plan of yours." Naraku smiled as he disappeared and watched the battle between Sesshoumaru and the serpent demon commence at his palace.
"Of course…" She smiled as she gripped the crystal of four souls into her grasp.
