I don't own any of the characters from the Inuyasha anime series; Rumiko Takahashi does. I just own Yume. Constructive criticism welcomed bashers ignored! Got it? Good! Here's the fifth chapter.
Translations:
Chan - Little (Refers to children or someone younger than you)
Taisetsuna hito -My precious one
Nani - What?
Sama - Lord, Master
Doko - Where?
Onegai - Please
Aishiteru - I love you
Otou-chan - Daddy
Okaa-chan - Mommy
Shindachimu - Soul collecting snakes (Kikyo has tons of em around her)
Youkai - Demon
Youkai-sama - Demon Lord
Yamero - Stop it
Chapter 5
"It seems as though Rin is connected to Sesshoumaru in some way…" Yume answered informatively.
"Is that so?" Kagura questioned.
"The connection between him and Rin is too strong now…that is the only reason for why my curse has been temporarily broken…" She muttered; crossing her arms as she watched her curse loosing effect on the little girl.
"Pathetic…" Kagura muttered.
"Don't worry my Lord…I will get the jewel and the remaining shards…this plan of your will work."
"I know Yume I have faith in you." He smiled; placing a hand on her shoulders.
Kagura only gritted her teeth as she watched Naraku except Yume's failure.
"Rin! My Lord!" Jaken yelled as he ran towards Rin and his master; tripping on a rock as he tried.
"Sesshoumaru…" Kagome began, watching as Sesshoumaru placed his hand on Rin's forehead.
"She'll be fine." Kagome smiled softly. "She was under a spell…but I think you broke the spell when you called to her." She replied as she helped Sesshoumaru to his feet; with Rin placed safely in his arm.
"KA! KAGOME!" Inuyasha roared as he slowly walked over to her.
"What is it now Inuyasha!" Kagome growled.
"Stop helping Sesshoumaru! He's evil!"
"NO!"
"What!"
"Sit boy!" She yelled.
In seconds; Inuyasha's head was buried into the ground again.
"Damn you!" Inuyasha growled; his mouth full of dirt.
"That's what you get! You insensitive jerk!" Kagome replied crossly.
"Thank you Kagome." Sesshoumaru replied; summoning his demonic horses to the field.
"Uh…? For what?" She asked; a bit confused by Sesshoumaru's manner.
"You kept Rin out of danger…" He replied in a neutral tone as he handed the sacred jewel to Kagome.
"The jewel shard?" She asked in surprise as she placed the other fragment into her container.
"For that…I thank you." He replied as he took to the skies on Ah Un.
"Your welcome." Kagome answered whole heartedly as she watched Sesshoumaru disappear into the night sky.
"Wait! Master? You forgot me!" Jaken cried as he started after his airborne master.
"Well then…guess we oughta send you to him!" Miroku replied as he gripped the demon in his other hand.
"Ahhh! Let me go! Let me go!" Jaken begged as wiggled and struggled to free himself.
"Sango…will you do the honors?" He asked as he tossed the toad demon into the air.
"No problem!" She smiled as she got into a stance.
"Wha? What are you!" Jaken's eyes widening as he noticed Sango readying to attack.
"Ha!" She yelled as she leapt into the air and kicked Jaken all the way into the sky.
"Ha…that was easy." Sango replied.
"Yup! We defeated a big demon; got the nearly formed Shikon jewel back with extra shards to spear…" Shippou continued.
"…And no one got hurt." Miroku replied.
"No one got hurt!" Inuyasha began; dusting off his clothes.
"Sesshoumaru…isn't as bad…as we all thought…" Kagome smiled; looking up at the starry night sky as she remembered the way he held Rin in his arm.
"What about me! Inuyasha growled as he spat dirt out of his mouth and dusting the remaining dirt off his pants.
"Oh…Inuyasha…!" Miroku coughed; backing away from the angered hanyou.
"Gee…guess we forgot about you, huh?" Sango asked sheepishly.
"You forgot! Why you!" Inuyasha growled. "KAGOME?"
"Inuyasha sit…" Kagome muttered softly.
A loud THUD was heard as Inuyasha made his attempt to come closer to Kagome.
"Damn it woman! Stop that!" Inuyasha growled as he emerged from the dirt.
Kagome just ignored Inuyasha's whining and continued to watch the stars in the night sky.
"Kilala." Sango replied to her demon cat.
"Let's go everyone." Miroku replied as he leapt on top of Kilala's back.
"Hey? Don't just leave me here!" Inuyasha yelled, leaping up into the air after his friends.
"Sesshoumaru…" Kagome sighed; her head laying up against Inuyasha's back.
"Huh? Kagome…?" Inuyasha frowned to hear Kagome mutter his older brother's name.
"Don't start Inuyasha…" Sango warned.
"Start what?" He questioned arrogantly.
"She had a long night ya know." Shippou nagged.
"I know, I know! But…!"
"C'mon now…it's been a long night for ALL of us. Let us all just get back to Kaede's village and rest. Miroku replied.
"We can discuss the matter of Sesshoumaru in the morning." Sango replied.
"Fine, whatever..." Inuyasha muttered.
"He really isn't all that bad after all…" Kagome muttered softly as she closed her eyes and fell asleep.
Naraku remained silent with a bothered look on his face; consumed by his thoughts.
"What's the matter Naraku? You look upset. Found a flaw in Yume's plan?" Kagura answered in a sarcastic tone; smiling as the beautiful demon appeared from the shadows.
"No." He answered.
"Don't worry about the Shikon Jewel my Lord…we don't need to use the real one for my contamination spell to work." Yume replied in a devious tone of voice as her body started to glow with a dark red aura.
"Oh really…?" Kagura growled. "What? REAL one?"
"I just found a better way to make the plan work…" She smiled as she tainted the jewel with her dark blood.
"Wow…contaminating a barely there Shikon jewel…how scary." Kagura muttered sarcastically.
"Silence wretch!" Yume growled; electrocuting Kagura.
"AHHHHH!"
"Good work Yume." Naraku smiled as he watched his incarnation suffer in pain.
"It must be difficult for you to deal with some one so annoying every day of your life."
"You have NO idea…" Naraku smiled; staring down at the weakened wind demon.
"Damn you Yume…"
"Whatever wench…my plan will succeed, just wait and see."
"Hmph…" Kagura muttered; dusting off her kimono.
"And now…for the girl…"
"What are you trying to do?"
"Still don't get it do you Kagura?" Naraku questioned.
"Well…no one is telling me anything…" She replied sarcastically. "So how should I be able to get ANYTHING at all?" She growled.
"Just keep quiet and you'll start to understand what I am doing." Yume interrupted; prohibiting Kagura from asking any more questions.
"Show me what plagues your young mind most Rin-chan…" Lively green eyes falling into a daze as the demon witch; Yume fell into a dream like state; seeing into the mind of the one she desired to bond with.
Back at Sesshoumaru's Castle; Rin laid in her bed; comfortable with a pillow behind her head and a warm blanket covering her small body. Soon the seemingly calm room began to chill as the voice of evil made it's presence in Rin's mind.
"Taisetsuna hito…Rin-chan…"
"Nani…? Sesshoumaru-sama?" She stirred; confused and crying in her sleep, thinking she heard his voice.
"Damn him…the Lord of the Western Land…he is just one of things you must learn to do away with first…" She growled as she continued to delve deeper into her young mind for more.
Rin soon awakened. She was no longer in her soft bed in Lord Sesshoumaru's impregnable castle but some where else. Some place familiar.
"…Doko…?" She sighed as she sat up; her eyes slowly opening.
She was in a small, barely lit room. A small flame flickering from her candle.
"This is…m-my house…!" She uttered in surprise as her eyes surveyed the familiar area.
As she stood up and looked forward towards the room of where her mother and father would be sleeping she heard a noise.
Glass breaking.
"It can't be…" She muttered in fear; thinking that she is reliving the worse day of her life all over again.
Next she heard footsteps; along with the creaking of an opening door.
"Who?" Her innocent brown orbs squinting at the shadowed figures. She could hear nothing but the same words… "Taisetsuna hito…taisetsuna hito" those two sweet words being repeated over and over again.
"Onegai…onegai…" Rin begged in a weak voice as the tone of the voices she heard sounded desperate and weak the closer she neared.
"Where are you?" Rin cried; unconsciously taking off in the direction of the voices at a faster pace. "They sound like…!" She thought; running frantically towards the voices.
"…Aishiteru Rin-chan…" Replied the cluttered voices.
"M-mommy…D-daddy?" She called to her parents. Suddenly she heard something else break. She looked down to see what was her Mother's vase with a bouquet of white lilies that laid out on the floor.
"Mommy's favorite flowers…oh no…" She muttered as she bent down to pick them up. "Daddy…" She uttered in a whisper. Still no response. Rin gasped and her eyes went wide as she saw blood dripping from the spilt vase of white flowers.
"N-no…this…this can't be…" She cried. "I must be dreaming!" She uttered in fear; the blood from the vase still spilling out now into an ever growing bottomless sea that of which she hoped at the same time feared would swallow her up do away with her like the thieves that did away with her parents.
"M-mommy?" She began again; her cries hushed by two shadowed images. One of a woman then the other a man. As the crimson colored puddle quickly grew to a vast sea she saw as the shadowed figures reached for her; their shadowed hands now coming into clear view.
"To give new life is to take from another…" Yume muttered as she intensified the little girl's nightmare.
"Okaa-chan? Otou-chan?" She whined; her eyes widening with hope; as if this was all just some horrible dream and her parent were okay.
To her dismay as her hand met with the shadowed hand she yelped in fear.
Instantly retracting it when she saw what appeared to be Shindachimu; soul collectors from the netherworld coil themselves around the now visible figures of the man and woman who were once Rin's kin coming for her.
"No! Leave them alone! Please?" She begged as she saw the horrible snake youkai squeeze the life out of her parents and then take them away.
"No! Please don't!" She begged; only to realize the sea of blood pulling her in.
Rin tossed and turned; sweat dripping down her face along with unrelenting salty tears as she endured the wicked nightmare playing itself in her mind.
Her master; the Lord of the Western Lands himself placed his clawed hand on her head. His icy eyes observing her. The scent of fear and sadness reeking from her young body.
"Another nightmare…" He muttered in his usual tone of voice. His retainer behind him; mumbling something about how humans were so pathetic; dreaming of unnecessary things.
Upon hearing this an annoyed Sesshomaru kicks Jaken in his head; sending the irritable toad youkai a few paces away from him and into Rin's toy box. As if knowing he was in her presence; Rin sighs an almost relieved sigh as she feels his hand pressed lightly against her forehead; brushing her wet bangs out of her face.
"Hmph…damn dog demon…" Yume thought angrily; seeing the Youkai-sama in the girl's presence; feeling her bond with Rin's dream realm sever with every second Sesshoumaru' remained by her side.
"Another flaw?" Kagura teased; seeing the uneasiness in her glazed over green orbs arise.
"Am I going to have to strangle you with my powers once more wind wrench?" Yume asked angrily as she increased her strength.
"I've got more from where that came from." Kagura responded; a sarcastic smile crossing her lips as she taunted the already infuriated commander of dreams and nightmares.
Wiping the last tear that fell from her face and smelling the scent of calmness starting to overtake her young body he slowly went over to Rin's toy box and opened up the hatch. His golden eyes staring down at a dazed Jaken. Dressed in some of her 'dress-up clothes'.
"Mi-milord?" Jaken stuttered; awakening from the last hit.
"She is resting quietly now…let us leave her in peace."
"B-but milord? What was the point of barging in on her like that?" Jaken questioned; walking in front of Sesshoumaru as he questioned on. "She was only whining!"
As the two youkai exited Rin's room Jaken found himself being stepped on by his lord as he went down stairs to his library.
"Ohhh…why must you treat Jaken so badly?" Jaken muttered groggily as he got his feet and went down the path towards Sesshoumaru's study.
"Good…" Yume smiled. "He's gone…" Her demonic aura rising as she went back into Rin's dream world.
Suddenly Rin's nightmare world was surrounded in shadows. She found herself walking down a dark path aligned only by what looked to be shinny purple colored crystals.
"Where?" She wondered as she looked around the dark area. "Where am I?"
"Rin…" A voice called.
"…Sesshoumaru…sama…?" Rin whined softly. "Where are you? I'm scared…"
"My darling…"
"Darling…? Where are you?" Staring down at the crystal aligned path. "Who's calling to me?" She wondered as she stared around the shadowed realm.
"Rin…don't you remember me?"
"How can I…? Am I suppose to know you? Who are you!" She panicked as she searched around for the voice.
"A friend my darling."
"Stop calling me that…"-"It is time for your awakening…"
"Awake-kening?" She muttered; trying to pronounce the new word. "Please tell me who you are first…?" She muttered in slight confusion.
"I am the one; the only one destined to relieve you of your pain and suffering; to answer your ever prayer and to grant your every wish."
"You can't do that…no one has that much power…" She paused as she looked around for the voice. "Unless you are a demon…" The girl replied.
"You think that…because you do not know of the truth…the whole truth…"
"I don't understand…"
"Come to the field if you want an explanation."
"That voice…she sounded so beautiful…yet so…familiar." Rin muttered as she sat up in her bed. "I have to meet her."
"This girl is obsessed with Sesshoumaru isn't she?" Naraku questioned rhetorically.
"…Yes my Lord. You might even be bold enough to say that she might possibly be in love with him."
"Love, huh?" Kagura questioned; her red eyes glaring from behind her fan.
"Perhaps…but we can't be so sure of that now can we Yume?" Naraku asked.
"No, of course not. That is why I have already decided to journey to the Field of Ignorance in order to find out the truth."
"Oh, and how will this help Naraku's plan to become a success?"
"Once I find out Rin's intentions I will be able to use that to our advantage."
"Is that right?" Kagura asked; still doubting Yume's intelligence.
"Yes, it will." She answered back; unafraid of Kagura.
"Yamero. Go on to the field Yume. Find out what you need to know, and then come back here and tell me of what you plan to do."
"Thank you my Lord. I won't fail you." She replied as she melted into the darkness. With his vengeful gray eyes centered on the dissipating shadow he smiled to himself.
"I know you won't." A wicked smile gracing his evil visage.
