Woo! I just finished watching 2 ½ hours of Inuyasha! :) So as I have just refreshed my memory on how everyone acts, here comes a new chappy! It's really focused on the actual Inuyasha characters this time! Hope everyone likes though! See you at the end!
Disclaimer-I own diddly. The only thing I really own in this story is myself. That's it. End of story.
(There's supposed to be a line here but FF is being mean and won't let me add one!)
"Have you found them?" Naraku sat against a wall in a dimly lit room. The man he was addressing knelt a few feet away behind a wooden bowl of water.
"Yes, and although they killed the demon, Kakanna is following them." The man had black hair that fell to his shoulders, it was tied back loosely in a ponytail at the base of his neck for the time being, and blue eyes so dark that they seemed all black at first glance.
"Kakanna?" Naraku asked.
"She is a special…servant of mine." The man almost seemed reluctant to call the baby dragon his slave. "She has numerous spells on her that will to mask her sent and keep her from telling anyone who she answers to. Although, what I think you will be most pleased about is that you will be able to watch Inuyasha at a close range without him ever catching on."
"How will I be able to see him?" Naraku was interested now but his voice never hinted at it.
"By looking into this bowl." The man pushed the bowl of water forward, careful not to spill even a single drop. Naraku leaned forward enough to see over the rim of the wood and at the clear liquid that was being contained.
The man held the sides of the bowl and mumbled a spell under his breath. As it neared completion, a picture began to show on the water's surface. It showed a brown dirt path with a large group of people traveling down it to a town close by. The picture zoomed in on a tall figure in red.
"Inuyasha." Naraku hissed as the dog demon in the water tired to get a stubborn young fox demon off his shoulder. "You have done well, Osamu."
Naraku's voice fads and the camera jumps into the bowl and comes out above the tinny dragon Kakanna. She is flying just above Inuyasha and company. The baby dragon tilts her wings and glides down to one side allowing the camera to float down to a spot beside the group of travelers. It continues to follow them as before. (I feel like I'm directing a movie right now! ;) If you guys can picture that, doesn't it look cool? Sorry, I found chocolate!)
"Shippo, get off!" Inuyasha finally managed to pry the young demon off his shoulder and fling him off to one side.
"Aw, come on Inuyasha." The fox was not about to give up until he got his question answered.
"You were the last one I saw around Kagaome's bag. Didn't you see anything?"
"No I didn't! Now lay off."
"Can't you just answer the question?" Sango reasoned. "Why do you have to be so hard-headed? It's not even that hard a question anyway."
"Inuyasha…" Kagome's voice trailed off as she warned him.
"Fine! I was the one who ate your stupid lolly- pop! Happy now?" Inuyasha crossed his arms and pointedly looked away from the annoyance on his shoulder.
"You could have just come out and said it you know." Miroku said.
"Hey! A town!" That made Inuyasha look forward again. The girls had speed up at the sight of the end of the road.
"Wow, there is one." Sango put one hand up to shade her eyes from the high noon sun. "That didn't take us as long as I thought it would."
"Especially with so many people now." Miroku added.
"Hurry up." Inuyasha called from ahead. "I'm hungry and I know you have Ramen Kagome!"
"I guess those girls weren't the only ones eager to reach town." Miroku said as they all stared at Inuyasha's retreating back.
(I'll trade you my kingdom for your song.
I'll trade you my song for your color.)
"Hey Beck, what town is this?" The group had found a place just outside of town to eat and the girls were happily watching Inuyasha who was watching a pot of water. He would ask Kagome every minute or so if it was hot enough to add to his noodles and every time she said no. They had each bet on when she would snap and 'sit' him.
"Let me check." Becky turned and went hunting through her bag for her map. "Ah ha!" She happily pulled the roll of parchment from the depths of her bag when a very annoyed "Sit!" was heard nearby. They all turned to see Inuyasha face down beside the fire pit with Kagome to one side of him getting lunch for everyone else.
"That was number 11 wasn't it?" Claire said aloud.
"I think so." Kilana commented.
"So where are we?" Nicole said as she looked over Becky's shoulder at the ink lines on the map.
"Here I think." Becky pointed at a small dot on the map labeled Natsuko.
"Natsuko." Clara said trying the word on her tongue. "Wonder if any lights are around here."
"How will we find them if there are?" Kanji asked as she chewed a bit of apple.
"Yeah, do they really just look like lights?" Sarah questioned. "If they do we're going to be stuck here for way longer then just a year looking for all these things."
"Yeah." Erin took another bite of her own apple.
"Come back here!!"
"Hmm?" Inuyasha looked up from his fresh bowl of Ramen to see who was yelling. A woman was running toward the group chasing after a young boy.
"Get back here right this minute young man!" The woman gave a burst of speed but so did the boy. The got ever closer and as the boy looked over his shoulder to see how close the lady was, he tripped over one of Claire's outstretched legs which she pulled up, but just a second too late.
"Whoa!" The boy fell into the dirt and before Claire could say anything, he was up and trying to run again.
"Hold it." Inuyasha had grabbed the back of the boy's shirt and was holding him up off the ground. The boy looked in horror at the demon holding him a good 1 and a half off the ground as the woman came running up behind him.
"Thank you sir." She barely even looked at the demon. "Young man you have a lot of explaining to do." Inuyasha turned the boy around so that he could see the finger the woman was shaking at him. "You stole from that couple didn't you?"
"No! They told me I could have it!" The boy shook his head furiously.
"A nice bracelet like this?!" The woman held up a beautiful golden bracelet with small clear crystals that went in figure eight's around larger bright green gems. "This is not something anyone would just give away! You stole it boy! Tell the truth!" The bracelet was right in front of the boy's nose and the woman was breathing hard.
"I didn't steal it!" The boy's legs hung limp but his face was defiant and his hands came up to form fits on either side of his face. "The lady gave it to me! I swear!" He looked to be almost in tears.
"Hmm?" Inuyasha held the boy up even higher and looked him in the eyes. "You don't sound like you're lying."
"That's because I'm not!" The lady looked up at Inuaysha's face to tell him off for siding with the boy but then stopped when she saw his ears.
"Demon!" She cried.
"Yeah, so what?" The demon in question looked past the boy back at the lady.
"Put my son down this second you evil beast!" Her hand went out to smack him but Inuyasha managed to grab her wrist before it hit him.
"Your son? I think you should explain why you were chasing him." Miroku said. The woman looked scared for a moment but then calmed down a bit when she realized that Inuyasha didn't plan on eating her or her son.
"Today is my birthday and my son came home moments ago with this beautiful bracelet that he said was for me. We don't have much money so when I asked him where he had gotten it and he said from the new couple that have a farm on the west side of town, I knew he had stolen it."
"I did not!" The boy argued.
"Quiet." Inuyasha said and the woman waited a second before continuing.
"I tried to get him to tell me the truth willingly but when he wouldn't I chased him until we got outside and here to where you caught him sir."
"Why don't you go ask the couple that he says he got it from and if he did steal it just give it back?" Kagome reasoned from the sidelines.
"I never thought about that…" The woman said her voice trailing off as she did.
"Why don't we all go?" Sango suggested.
"Sure, it'll give us something to do." Miroku said as he finished off his lunch and stood up. "Inuyasha, I think you can put the boy down now." Inuyasha did and the group finished lunch and followed the mother and son around the town to where the couple's house was.
The woman kept her hand on the boy's shoulder throughout the entire walk and the time it took someone to answer the door after she had knocked.
"Hello. Can I help you?" The lady that had answered the door had long chestnut brow hair that was held back by a piece of blue cloth around her head and soft violet eyes that seemed to smile in the afternoon light.
"Hello, my son says you gave him this yesterday to give to me. Is that true?" The woman held up the bracelet as she spoke. The lady looked at the piece of jewelry for a moment before nodding.
"Yes I did." The mother looked shocked. "I meet him yesterday in the market place and when he said he was looking for something for his mother I said that if he helped my husband in our fields as payment later, I would give him something to give her." The mother looked in shock down at her son.
"You were telling the truth then?"
"Yes. Tomorrow I have to start working here."
"Oh honey." The woman fell down and hugged her son, tears of joy in her eyes. "I'm sorry I accused you of lying to me."
"It's ok mother." The son hugged her back.
"Ah, a happy ending." The lady still standing in her doorway looked onto the scene with a small smile on her face. "As much as I hate to break it though, I must. I have to finish cleaning my home so I'll have to leave you both here. I hope to see you tomorrow though young man."
"Yes madam." The mother and son broke apart and after thanking the lady again and saying good-bye they headed home hand-in-hand.
"That's so sweet." Kagome said.
"What is?" Inuyasha asked.
"Well the son wanted to do something nice for his mother so even when she didn't believe him and tired to hit him he still forgave her in the end."
"Yes, it's so nice to see them make up." The woman in the doorway said. "Now, is there anything I can help you with?"
"Yes." Claire came forward from the back of the group where she had been with the other girls. "I'm Claire."
"Claire?" The woman seemed to think for a moment then said. "Ah yes, I've been waiting for you. Please, all of you come in." The woman walked back into her house with Claire behind like a young child following her mother.
"What do you mean you've been waiting for us?" Inuyasha said as he followed right after Claire but still before Claire's friends.
"Exactly what I said, I've been waiting for you. Well, Claire anyway." She led the group outside again where they could all see a wide field full of green plants of all kinds. "My name is Alicia and my husband should be around here somewhere." She started to look around until she saw a man putting a hoe into a small wooden shed a few yards away. "Todd! They're here!"
"Who is?" The man called back as he shut the shed door. He had dark brown hair cut short and even from a distance his bright green eyes were noticeable.
"GK's children!" The man turned at that and quickly made his way over to the large group.
"Already?" Alicia nodded and gestured at the group behind her.
"Hello, I'm Todd." He gave the group a small bow. "I'm surprised you got here this fast." He looked at everyone. "I see we're going to be the first ones then?"
"What are you babbling about?" Inuyasha demanded.
"I'm sorry." Alicia said. "Todd and I are Lights. Claire and I are to be bonded just as Todd and one of you are."
"Lights have a hard time seeing where their persons are before they're bonded then the people do. My guess is that you're only here because Claire said her name."
"Yes, but what does that have to do with anything?" Miroku asked.
"Lights don't know the name of the people they're going to bond with until they hear it; we don't even know if the people are going to be male or female. When Claire said her name Alicia immediately knew that she was her person and if her person was here, my person must be here too." Todd looked hard at the group.
"Do you mind introducing yourselves?" Everyone went around and said there name with Todd nodding slightly at each one. When everyone was finished he looked at the group and said proudly, "Kilana."
"Me?" Kilana asked unsure.
"Yes, I am one of your Lights." Todd gave her a more formal bow then he had given the group.
"Why don't all of you spend the night here?" Alicia suggested.
"But there are so many of us!" Sango protested.
"It will only be for one night so you won't cause any problems." Todd said, waving her protest aside. "Now come on inside everyone and let us talk."
(I'll trade you my color for your story.
I'll trade you my story for your dance.)
"That was good!" Shippo exclaimed.
"Thank you." Alicia said as she set a pile of plates in water to soak.
"And now that we have eaten, we should turn in for the night." Todd said. All 12 of their guests plus Alicia and Todd themselves had just finished their outdoor dinner. Earlier the girls from the group had helped Alicia make up beds for everyone while the guys had helped Todd do some work around the house.
"Already?" Sarah asked.
"It's not even dark yet!" Erin argued.
"Tomorrow will be hard for some of you so it's best that you get as much sleep as you can." Alicia reasoned.
"Fine." Erin mumbled in a depressed voice, really she was tired but then she also wanted to stay up and watch the stars for a while.
"You girls get to bed; I'll show the guys where they can sleep." Alicia stood and led the boys around to the front of the house where beds had been set up for them in the front room.
"I'll finish cleaning up out here, go inside and sleep. You really will want as much as you can get." Todd started to pick up the rest of the dinner plates and add them to the ones already soaking. The girls all stood up and, talking quietly, went inside.
The girls were in rooms toward the back of the house. 4 beds had been set up in a dining room type area, 4 in a spare bed room, and 2 in an empty room that Alicia had said would bee a storage room once she found things to store in there. She had insisted that Claire and Kilana sleep in the storage room for reasons unsaid. The girls trooped to their beds and get settled in for the night.
(I'll trade you my dance for your daydream.
I'll trade you my daydream for your hand.
I'll trade you my hand for your hand.)
The door to Kilana and Claire's 'room' had been left cracked open a bit and that's how a face managed to check in on them without moving a thing.
"They're both asleep."
"Good." Alicia opened the door a bit wider and she and Todd moved soundlessly into the storage room. This was the reason Alicia had tried to keep the two girls separate from the others. The only way that they, the Lights, could bond with them, the girls, was by putting the girls into their worst nightmare, a Dream. If the girls found ways to overcome their fears, then they would be bonded, but if they didn't they would be stuck inside the Dream with their worst fear for all of eternity. During Dreams, some people had been known the thrash about and talk or even scream in their sleep, so Alicia had put them in a closed room where a door could be shut to hide movement, kept others from being hit in the night, and spells around the door that wouldn't allow sound out.
"I hope they can overcome their Dreams." Alicia said as she looked at Claire.
"We don't have any other choice." Todd said, as much to reassure himself as her. "If we don't do this we can't go with them and they can never get home."
"I know." Alicia said softly. "Let's just send them so they can have enough time to finish." Todd only nodded, which she didn't see with her back to him.
They both reached out to touch the sleeping girls. Alicia cupped one of Claire's cheeks and Todd placed his hand on Kilana's neck. Direct contact was the only way to start someone on a Dream. Todd and Alicia had been very careful never to touch the girls directly the whole day so that they could Dream at night when it would seem more normal, like an extensive nightmare.
"Good luck girls." Alicia said as she let her hand fall back to her side.
"All we can do is wait now." Todd said as he stood up. "Let's get some sleep ourselves."
Alicia took Todd's offered hand and stood up. They walked out together with Todd closing the door after himself, activating the sound proof spells.
(Again, no line. Evil FF!)
Bwahaha! 6 pages long on Word!! (I'm still hyper even though I started this like 3 or 4 hours ago!) Here's what the bad guys name means!
Osamu-law abiding (kinda funny don't cha think?)
So off I go now! It's late so I won't be able to post this until tomorrow! (Today for you all, but I did start this the day before!) I hope everyone liked my super long chappy and the poem! (The I'll trade my… stuff in the breaks.) I got it from Mud, Moon, and Me! It really is sweet and I guess that's why it's one of my favorites! Anyway, hope everyone enjoyed this! Later all!
(Oh! And Abby-Wrong Todd! The one in here isn't your dad!)