Hello,people
I would really like to thank those who reviewed I am soooo sorry it took so long to update! I was on a vacation and no internet were I went,and school is so stressful that all my attention is on my homework!Well, here is chapter two,hope ya like!
Inu/Kag remember this is Inu/Kag!In this chapter Miroku might act weird,but he's all Sango!
Story based on Tithe
By Holly Black
Chapter 1
"Coercive as coma,frail as bloom
imnuendoes of your inverse dawn
suffuse the self;
our every corpusce become an elf."
-Mina Loy,"Moreover,the Moon,"
The Lost Lunar Baedeker
Kagome spun down the worn,gray planks of the boardwalk.The air was heavy and stank.Waves tossed themselves against the shore,dagging grit and sand between their nails as they were slowly pulled back to sea.The moon was high and pale in the sky,but the sun was just going down.It was so good to be able to breath again,just like when I was younger,Kagome thought.She spun again,dizzily,not caring that her black skirt was flying up over the tops of her black and white thigh-high stockings."Come on,"Sango called.Walking over the gutter parallel to the boardwalk,Getting her feet wet in her blue glittered flip-flops.Her glitter makeup sparkled under the street lamps."You're going to fall."
Kagome and Ellen had been staying at her grandmother's a week already,Ellen had kept saying they were going away soon,but even she knew they had nowhere to go.Kagome was glad.She loved that big house surrounding the forest.She liked the sea and the air not stinging her throat.Everywhere they passed hotels,pools and even arcades were all closed and boarded up.Place sure has changed.Sango searched in her funky cat purse and pulled out a wand of strawberry lipgloss.Kagome spun up to her,white fake fur coat flying open,a ring already in her stocking.Her knee high boots had sand stuck to them.
"Let's go swimming,"Kagome said.She was giddy with night air,burning like the white-hot moon.Everything smelled wet and feral like it did before a thunderstorm,and she wanted to run,swift and eager,beyond the edge of what she could see.
"The water's freezing,"Sango said sighing,"and were meeting up with the guys.Remember.?"Kagome had stopped and was now listening intently,watching Sangos moves with her crystal blue eyes."What should I be like?"
Sango looked up from her lipgloss,"What do you mean?"
"What should I be like?"
Sango eyed Kagome,"Don't you want a boyfriend?"
"Why bother with that?Lets find demons!"
"Demons?"
"Demons.And were much more likely to find them"---her voice dropped ---"While swimming naked in the Atlantic a week before Halloween than practically anywhere else I can think."
Sango rolled her eyes.
"I miss----,"Kagome stopped her sentence.
Sango looked over at her,"Your faerie friends?"Kagome glared at Sango."No..."
"What were they're names ?"Kagome had returned to spinning around in circles."Which one?Rin or Shippou?"
"You just made them up!"
"NO,I didn't."She suddenly stopped spinning to stare at Sango."Plus they're not faeries.Shippou's a fox demon."
"Oh,so what is Rin?"Kagome looked up at her after examining her stockings."Rin's a human that lives with the demons."
Kagome stopped walking.'Rin must be older now'
"Whatever Kagome,you always make things up."
Kagome stared at her,cocking her head to her side,fingers sliding into her coat pockets."I didn't say I didn't."
The old merry-go-round building had been semi-abandoned for years.The entire front was windowed,revealing the dirt floor,glass glittering against the refuse.Inside was a crude skateboard ramp.The only remains to use of an attempt to use the building commercially in the last decade.Kagome heard voices echoing in the still air all the way to the street.Sango and Kagome hoisted themselves up onto the outside ledge and swinging their legs over.The window had been long gone,but Kagomes leg scraped against the residue as she slid in,fraying her stocking further.Sango apparently was an expert in climbing the wall.'No worries in cutting herself 'Kagome thought dryly.
The ramp in the center of the room was tagged by local spraypaint artists and covered with band stickers.And there were the boys.
"Kagome Higurashi,you remember me,right?"Kouga chuckled.
"I think you tried to kiss me in the sixth grade."
He laughed again."Right,I almost forgot that.You're not still mad?"
"No,"she said,but her blithe mood was gone,leaving her drained and anxious.Sango had climbed the ramp,and was now dangling her legs on the side.With Miroku behind her,looking like a king in his jacket.Handsome,with dark hair and violet eyes."Hey,Kagome,"Hojo called,"Aren't you a priestess?"
Kagome looked over at him and just simply shrugged at him,while turning around and heading upstairs to the tower.Against the far wall was a black,weathered door.It opened jerkily as she pushed it.Moonlight from the windows in the main room revealed only an office with an old desk and a corkboard with yellowed menus still pinned to it.She stepped inside even though the light switch didn't work.Feeling in the room she found a door knob.This door led to stairwell with only a little light drifting down from the top.She felt her way up the stairs.Dust covered her hands and she soon found herself sneezing loudly,then sneezing again.She soon made it to the top were she found more dust and boxes.In the center she found a table holding up a small glowing ball.It held a light pink glow to it,as she slowly made a way over to the ball.She held out her hand as to touch it...
"Kagome?"A soft voice snapped her out of her dream like trance.Miroku was standing near the stairs,regarding her blankly.Her cheeks soon held a pinkish tint to them.Caught in the half-light,she could see him better then she had downstairs.Two heavy gold hoops shone in the lobes of his ears.'Handsome?'
He moved toward her,reaching his hand out and then looking at it oddly,as if he didn't remember deciding to do that.Instead he put his hand on the edge of the table.
"I saw you I saw what you did."
"Where is Sango."Kagome wasn't sure what he meant.She would have thought he was teasing her except for his serious face,his slow way of speaking.
"She was worried about you." His feet slowly made their way over to her."How did you make it do that?"
"Do what?"She was afraid now.He was watching her so intensley that he seemed drained of expression.
"I saw it glow.It has never done that,it was a plain marble."His voice was so low she could almost pretend that she didn't hear him right.His hand dropped to her thigh and slid upward to the cottin crotch of her panties.Even though she had seen the slow progression of his hand,the touch startled her.She was paralyzed for a second before she sprung back,leting the table fall over with the jewel.He grabbed for her before she fell back,his hand catching hold if the neck of her shirt,causing the shirt to rip open over her bra even as he let go of it.Shoes came running up the stairs.
"What the fffff."Kouga was at the top of the stairway with Hojo.Miroku shook his head while Kagome ran down the stairs.The boys moved out of the way while Sango just stared."What happened?"Sango asked looking at them in confusion,Kagome simply pushed past her.
"Kagome?"Sango called after her.Kagome ignored her,taking the stairs two at a time in the dark.There was nothing she could say that would explain what had happened.
She could hear Sango screaming from affar wanting to know what was happening.Kagome ran across the carousel hall and swung her leg over the sill.The glass that she had avoided carefully earlier slashed a thin line on the outside of her thigh as she dropped among the sandy soil and weeds.The cold wind felt good on her hot face.
The wind whipped tiny pebbles of rain across Kagome's face.The droplets making her shiver as they slid down her wet hair and under the collar of her wet coat.She walked, head down,kicking the scatterd trash .There were no houses on this side of the raod just a long stretch of wet woods leading up to a gas station.She was over half way home.
I saw you.I saw what you did.
Awefulness twisted in her gut,awefulness and anger.She wanted to smash something,hit someone.'How could he think that she out if all people could make a marble glow.'
Come to think of supernatural things 'I wonder where Shippou and Rin are at?'
She could still feel Mirokus hand on her thigh in contrast to her rain soaked skin.A gust of wind of rain stung her cheeks,this one bringing a shout with it from the direction of the woods.The noise was brief,but eloquent with pain.Kagome stopped ubruptly.There was no sound except the rain,hissing like radio static.Then,just as a truck sped past kicking up a cloud of drizzle,she haerd another sound.Softer this one,maybe a moan bitten of at the end.It was just inside the copse of trees Kagome moved down the slight slope,off the short grass and into the woods.She ducked under the dripping branches off an elm,stepping on the tufts of short ferns.The storm bright sky lit the woods with silver.She looked around,there was no one there.She half turned to the highway,'No one would be stupid enough to trot down into the woods on a stormynight.'Burrs started to collect on her stocking so she bent down to pick them off.
"Stay where you are."She jumped at the voice.The accent was rich and strange,though the words were pronounced precisely.
A/N:I am done!Well for this chapter.Who could be that mysterious man?HAHAHA,like you all don't know who that is!Unless I just gave that away?Oops!
Well done for now.
See ya
Luna