Mid Summer's Night Dream

Chapter Four

Naraku is lounging around on a big stump in a middle of a circle of trees. Naraku put down his baboon costume on the stump to cushion his bed. He laid down and closed his eyes.

"Come here faeries. Sing me a song to sleep and let me rest." Kanna, Kagura and Kohaku did a little dance together and they started to make music. Jaken came out from behind a tree. He used his staff of to heads to scare the faerie away. The music stopped and Jaken got worried that Naraku would wake up from the absence of faerie music. Naraku grumbled and turned over to his other side. Jaken gave a sigh of relief. He tiptoed over to Naraku and dropped the juices in his eyes. Jaken had heard a disturbance in the trees and jumped in the cloud of leaves. He saw Kikyo and ? holding hands.

"Let us stay here for tonight, my dear Kikyo. We will continue our runaway when the sun is up." He put his red kimono on the floor so that he and Kikyo had a place to sleep and won't get dirty. When they got comfortable ? yawned and put his arm around her. She started to feel nervous. Kikyo pushed his arm off her shoulder.

"Please, sweet , I'm not ready to give myself to you yet. Not until we are married. Please, for my sake, let's not sleep right next to each other. It doesn't feel right. Sleep somewhere over there." He gets off the kimono and lies in the dirt some twenty feet away. He turns back to look at his love. She is a sleep. God is she beautiful.

"I guess this is where I am going to sleep tonight. I hope she sleeps well and has wonderful dreams." He lies down in the dirt and falls asleep. Jaken comes jumping down from the trees.

"Through the forest I have looked but I still haven't found a man with a red kimono." Jaken almost trips over one of the bodies. He looks down to see a man a sleep. "Who do we have here? Is this the man I'm looking for? No, can't be. He's not wearing a red kimono, though he has the under shirt for one." Jaken hears a moan to his right. He looks and sees Kikyo sleeping. He sees her lying on a red kimono. "Ah, maybe this is the man lord Sesshoumaru was talking about." Jaken bends over and puts the juices in ? eyes.

Jaken heard another disturbance and ran away. Inuyasha and Kagome were running into the clearing of trees where Kikyo and ? were sleeping.

"Please, Inuyasha, stay with me."

"I'm getting frustrated with you, woman. I'm running away from you and stop following me."

"Oh, why do you leave me? Please, don't go!"

"Stay here forever for all I care, but leave me alone." Inuyasha jumps high into the sky and disappears. Tears were starting to fall from Kagome's eyes. She tried to run after him, but she tripped over somebody.

"Who is this?! Why is he on the ground? If you're alive, please, wake up!" He started to rub his eyes and looked up to see Kagome. He was shocked to see such a beautiful again standing over him. His heart was pounding faster than Sesshoumaru running.

"I will go through hell for you, my sweet Kagome."

"Don't say that?. What about Kikyo?"

"I don't love her anymore. I only love you."

"Why kind of joke are you trying to play on me? Why am I the woman Inuyasha hates while you love me?" She ran through the trees to get away from him. ? looked at Kikyo and gave her a discussing look.

"Stay there forever, Kikyo; and never come near me again." He ran off through the trees to go after Kagome. Kikyo was shifting around in her sleep like she was having a nightmare. She woke up and gasped for breathe, screaming.

"Help me!" She looked around and could not find her man. "Where are you? Talk to me! Why aren't you answering? You are either died or I'll be the one to kill you for leaving me." She gets up and takes the kimono with her. She heads in the opposite direction of Kagome and?.