Kita and Saramaru
Author's Note: So... When was the last time I actually put up an author's note here? A long time. Well, I thought I'd reply to a few things people have pointed out in reviews and such.
1. This has nothing to do with reviews, but did anyone notice that I labeled chapter 5 'Kijustsu no Senyo'? Because I just realised this.
2. Fan always seems to mess up people'swebsite addresses, once again here is the address for the website where I post this story. Just get rid of the spaces. www. lioness .sprucehollow. com
3. I'm going to remind everyone that I'm not the only one writing this story. Half the credit goes toCirrus, The Pheonix of Life.
4. I'll tell everyone which characterI'm in charge of and who Cirrus is in chargeof.
Me:Inuyasha, Naraku, Kagome, Miroku, Sango, Shippo, Kita
Cirrus: Inuyasha, Saramaru, Niiro-ichi, Cirrus, Kagura
Yeah, it doesn't seem like a very fair split up... It just kinda ended up that way.
5. In one review someone mentioned that Saramaru's style keeps on changing. Because Saramaru isn't my character, I can't do anything about this, but that doesn't matter. Actually, I really like the way that Cirrus writes Saramaru. It makes her... unique!
Saramaru woke up. She looked around, feeling like something was missing. 'Kita!' She thought as she sprang up. "Oh Kami!" She exclaimed. The demoness ran around inside the barrier she had made the night before, waking everybody up. "Kita is gone!" She exclaimed, when she thought that at least one of them was awake enough to hear her.
Inuyasha was up before anyone, clutching his delicate ears, "God damnit!" he exclaimed, "You should know better than anyone not to scream in my ears!"
"Sit." Kagome said glaring at him, "Did you say Kita is gone! Can you smell her?"
"There's too much moisture in the air! I can't smell much outside of this barrier!" Saramaru was frantic with worry, and so she kept yelling and screaming.
"TONE IT DOWN!" Inuyasha screamed, getting up.
"SIT!" Kagome yelled again. He went back down to visit with his friend Dirt.
"Did you notice Kita get up during the night?" Miroku asked sleepily.
"No!" Saramaru was running around, Lifting up Niiro-ichi's wings, to make sure Kita wasn't there. "I can't SMELL her! I can't SEE her! I can't even find her mind!"
"Do you think she got kidnapped?" Shippo asked, his eyes widening.
"I don't know!" Saramaru was whining, in the midst of an emotional break down. She grabbed her head. She didn't want to think of what could be happening to Kita. Her eyes switched from red to white and gold as she growled.
Seeing this, Kagome hurried over to calm the poor demoness. "We'll go out and look for her right now!" she said, patting Saramaru on the shoulder.
Saramaru continued her silent growling, but moved farther off. She transformed. Her lip was curled up as she looked around. The silent snarl stopped abruptly, and she changed back into her human form. "I saw her energy, she's this way!" She yelled before taking off. The rest had to hurry to keep up. Even Inuyasha had a hard time staying next to Saramaru.
She finally stopped in a field with a few wild flowers growing in it. There was Kita, talking and picking flowers with another little girl a few years older than herself. Saramaru throat rumbled and the sound that came from it was menacing.
Kita turned her head and smiled. "Saramaru-sama!" she exclaimed, jumping up and running over with a handful of flowers, "I picked lots of pretty flowers for you with my new friend Rin-chan!"
Saramaru kneeled down and pulled the girl into an embrace. Her nose was still rendered useless, because the emotion had stuffed it, so she made no effort to smell the flowers. She looked up, and whispered, "I was so scared..."
"Why?" the girl asked, "I'm okay."
"I didn't know that!" Saramaru whispered in a raspy voice. She cleared her throat and said, "Now how do you know this Rin girl? I would like to meet her."
"Rin." A voice called through the trees, "We're going now. Come along. It makes this Sesshoumaru nervous when he cannot smell anything." Sesshoumaru walked out of the trees and into the field. He stiffened when he saw Saramaru and Kita.
The hair on Saramaru's neck rose up, and she grabbed Kita and pulled her up with her. Holding her protectively, she stood nervously, her face even more pale than usual.
"What are you doing here, cousin?" Sesshoumaru asked coldly, "And with your little human no less."
"I found Kita here. And from what I can see, you are not one to talk." Saramaru's voice was cold, and her eyes repeated the same hate.
Sesshoumaru looked down at Rin who was currently chasing Jaken around him. "And your point is?" he asked, "I merely keep Rin around so that I may use the Tetsusaiga when I take it from Inuyasha."
"From what your mind is saying, that's not why she follows you." Saramaru's eyes where narrowed to a menacing slit, and her free hand rested on her sword. Kita hurried behind Saramaru.
"Like that will ever happen." Inuyasha said running up besides the demoness.
"Inuyasha, where is Kagome?" Saramaru asked, him, softly, so Sesshoumaru could not hear.
Inuyasha poked his thumb behind him where the rest of the group was running up to them. Kagome was in the front, holding Shippo.
"Kita, go to Kagome, you'll be safe with her." Saramaru said, once again softly. Kita nodded and ran over to Kagome, who pickedthe girlup, after putting Shippo on her own shoulder.
"I do not wish to fight you here Sesshoumaru. I merely wish to leave." Saramaru growled out. She still was not strong enough to face him if push came to shove. Yes, Inuyasha would help greatly, but she would not take the chance.
"But I want to fight!" Inuyasha exclaimed, unsheathing Tetsusaiga.
"Of course you do." Sesshoumaru replied. His fingers touched Tokijin
"Put the sword away." Saramaru hissed to Inuyasha.
"Why?" Inuyasha demanded.
"Because, I am in no condition to fight, and BOTH of our weaknesses are present. She made sure that there was no way that Sesshoumaru could hear that, even though she guessed that he knew their weaknesses already.
"Feh." Inuyasha replied, "I can take the bastard on without your help."
"That is not what I said. You are not fast enough to get to Kagome before him if he decides to hurt her to get to you, and I would black out if I tried to fight longer than ten minutes." Saramaru said matter of factly, "And what would you do if he got Kagome?"
"Kagome can take care of herself with her arrows." The hanyou replied.
"But she doesn't have them with her." The demoness replied. Glaring at his cousin, Inuyasha sheathed Tetsusaiga.
"This is a first." Sesshoumaru commented, barely managing to keep the smirk off his face.
"Will you let us pass, Sesshoumaru?" Saramaru was trying to keep ahead of Sesshoumaru, but she was running out of things to say.
"Why should I cousin?" the taiyoukai asked. Believe it or not, he was enjoying the little 'family reunion'.
"I don't know. All I know is that I do not wish to fight you." Saramaru glared at him. She felt a pang of sadness, however much she tried to hide it, she still missed her cousin, and would give anything for the fighting to stop.
"Very well." Sesshoumaru said, " But this Sesshoumaru will only let you pass this once. Do not think I am going soft."
"Before I go. How did you find a human, never the less keep her with you in your travels." Saramaru asked.
"Experiments with the Tenseiga." he replied simply, "Come along Rin." With that, Sesshoumaru walked away, followed by Rin and Jaken.
"I don't believe you." Saramaru whispered. She missed her cousin greatly, and when she turned to look at Kita, there were tears in her eyes.
"He's telling the truth about Tenseiga." Inuyasha commented, "He brought the kid back to life after she was attacked by a wolf pack."
"They were Koga's wolves." Kagome commented walking up to the two. She handed Kita over to Saramaru. The kid automatically hung onto the demoness.
"But she is no longer an experiment. She is more like a daughter to him now. Can't you see it?" Saramaru said. She was so sad. All she could think about was the way Sesshoumaru was before the fighting. He was still cold and distant, but kind and caring.
"Don't be sad." Kita prompted, "It's sad!"
Saramaru smiled through her tears. "I know it is, child. But for you, I'll see what I can do." She wiped her tears away with the back of her hand, and smiled, as if nothing had happened.
"So you'll be happy now?" Kita asked.
"Happiness is never guaranteed, Kita." Saramaru answered, though she did nod.
"Well maybe we should continue on." Miroku suggested, "Sesshoumaru did let us go. We should take advantage of it."
"Yes, I agree." Saramaru said, climbing onto Niiro-ichi. "Want help up, Kita?" Kita nodded and walked up to the griffin. Saramaru leaned down, and grabbed Kita under the shoulders, bringing her to a sitting position in front of her on the griffin.
"Are we going to do anything while we're traveling?" Kita asked, "I don't want to sleep again."
"I can teach you how to talk with your mind." Saramaru suggested.
"How do you do that?" Kita asked, interested in what the demoness had to offer for entertainment.
"It's quite simple. You must concentrate on speaking, but do not open your mouth. Pick someone you want to talk to, something you want to say, then think about telling them. Just like talking, only a little harder, and without saying a word." Saramaru smiled.
"Like this?" Kita asked. 'Traveling with Saramaru-sama is fun!' she thought as hard as she could
Saramaru winced. "Yes, just not so loud. With your natural strength, you don't need to throw your whole concentration into it."
'It's lots of fun to travel with Saramaru-sama.' Kita thought again, this time not as hard.
"Perfect. Do you want to see if you can reach Inuyasha? It might be funny." Saramaru asked.
Kita grinned. 'I like your kitty ears.' she thought to him.
As the girl watched, Inuyasha jumped up and spun around, looking for someone.
"See? It's fun. You can think one more thing, to anyone, but that's it. We don't want you to exhausted your powers, some day you might need them." Saramaru said, giggling at the sight her young cousin made.
"But it's fun!" Kita insisted.
"Well then I'll let you say one more thing." She said, "Do you want to?"
"Yeah." Kita replied. 'I love you.' she thought to Saramaru.
'I love you too.' Saramaru thought to the girl. Kita nodded off to sleep, smiling.
"Did you hear someone call my ears 'kitty ears'? Inuyasha demanded, running up to Saramaru.
'Why would I hear anything, Inuyasha?' Saramaru thought to him smiling like a five year old.
"You know something." Inuyasha said scowling, "Tell me!"
'Ya. So what?' Saramaru was having immense fun.
'TELL ME!' Inuyasha screamed into her head.
'Ow ow ow ow... you didn't have to yell!' Saramaru grimaced and rubbed her head.
"Then tell me!" Inuyasha whined.
'Awww! You're such a cute little cousin when you whine. You should do it more often.' Saramaru thought, giggling.
Inuyasha glared at her. "Do NOT use the word CUTE to describe ME!" he yelled.
Saramaru growled. 'SHUT UP! YOU'LL WAKE KITA!' Saramaru thought with all her concentration.
As Inuyasha rubbed his head and glared at her, Kita opened her eyes sleepily.
'Look what you did.' Saramaru thought to him accusingly.
'Oh well.' he replied, 'It's pay back for yelling in my head.' With that, Inuyasha slowed down and started walking with Kagome and the others.
"Kita, you can go back to sleep." Saramaru whispered quietly.
"I don't want to." she replied simply.
"Alright. Than what do you want to do?" Saramaru asked.
"I don't know." Kita replied.
"Neither do I." Saramaru said sighing.
"Were you and Inuyasha-sama talking?" Kita asked.
"Yes. He wanted to know who had called his ears "Kitty ears" and I had fooled with his head." Saramaru said, smiling.
"That's funny." Kita said grinning.
On the way, Kita had fallen back asleep, and they had now arrived to Saramaru's destination. "This is where I lived, before I decided to travel." She said, looking up at the huge palace. It was a magical place, made of marble and polished granite, and inside the main gate, was a garden with a stream and a narrow stone walkway that seemed to go on forever. The small pond was colored with water lilies, and frogs hopped around on its pads.
"Wow..." Kagome trailed off, "It's beautiful! You must be very rich to live somewhere like this!"
"Being the Lady of the Eastern Lands does make you quite wealthy." Saramaru said, frowning slightly. "The reason I left was because I couldn't stand my father and mother's death."
"I didn't know you were the Lady of the Eastern Lands!" Miroku said.
"Same here." Sango agreed.
"Not many do. I tell my main servant what to do with the castle through my mind. They know to listen, because they know that I can see what they're doing if I wish to." Saramaru said, quietly. "You won't treat me different now, will you?" She looked afraid that they would treat her like the rest had when she told them.
"Of course not." Kagome said grinning, "You're still Inuyasha's cousin."
"Don't remind me." Inuyasha growled.
"Be nice." Kagome retorted, glaring at him.
"Thank you." Saramaru's eyes sparkled. "Want to pick your rooms?" She asked, walking towards the palace.
"Yeah!" Shippo said cheering.
Saramaru led them through the first floor. Niiro-ichi followed, carrying the still sleeping Kita on his back. She gave them a brief tour. "There aren't many room's on the first floor, they're just really big. And if you need help finding your way around, you ask the wall in the hall. My mother spent a full month working on that spell. A map will appear on the wall, telling you where you are. But anyways, this is the library."
She led them past a room that had rows and rows of books, and it looked like it was snowing in there. After showing them the whole first floor, including the dining room, kitchen, sitting room, and great hall, she lead them up the stairs. There were seven different sets of stairs. There were fifteen extra bedrooms, and Saramaru told them they had free pick.
Kagome opened the first door to a bedroom and walked in. "This room is so cool!" she exclaimed. The walls were pink and there were red roses growing up one wall. "Could I have this room?"
In a few minutes each person had picked out a room. Saramaru, Niiro-ichi, and a sleeping Kita were left in the hall.
"I imagine she'll want to be with me." Saramaru smiled, and pulled Kita into her arms. "Go tell the servants I am here. And to be extra attentive to the guests, please." She said to Niiro-ichi, as she headed for her room.
The room she entered was only a little larger than the other rooms. It had family paintings on the wall. One had a small Inuyasha being carried by a teenager Saramaru, followed by a scowling teenage Sesshoumaru. Saramaru flicked her wrist, and an extra bed appeared next to hers. It was small, but big enough for Kita. Saramaru placed Kita on this bed, and pulled the covers to her chin. Then she changed into her sleeping yukata, and went to sleep.