The Yin and the Yang Souls
Chapter 5: Yin Yang
Kagome stared at the bleak floor as she followed the vampire down the hall. Shippou sat upon her shoulder speechless.
'What was that all about?'
Kagome thought in silence as she recalled the events that happened a few minutes ago.
Begin Flashback
Sesshomaru caressed the side of Kagome's face gently as he scanned her face. It was unmarred, perfect peach skin, pink supple lips. Rubbing his finger just below her bottom lip, he moved in close to her ear.
"Follow me... if you want to get out," he whispered and walked away towards the direction he came from.
End Flashback
'That was weird... a little scary nonetheless...' Kagome thought subconsciously rubbing the Yin Yang slice around her neck.
'What is with this?'
After a few minutes of walking through the dark hallways, Sesshomaru led her into a small quaint room with pieces of furniture scattered around.
"Make yourself comfortable," he instructed walking into a joint room.
"Tch, as if I could..." Kagome retorted silently.
Kagome looked around her surroundings. She couldn't see much due to the dull light. Sitting down on a nearby recliner, she waited for Sesshomaru to return. He returned shortly carrying two glasses of liquid, one surprisingly for her. She looked at the offered glass for a moment before glancing back at him with a distrusting look.
"It's just water..." Sesshomaru informed her as he took a sip of his drink.
"What're you drinking?" Kagome asked taking a gulp of her drink, tasting fresh clean water.
"Wouldn't you like to know," he smirked and took a long swig.
Kagome shot a disgusted look towards Sesshomaru before letting Shippou get a drink. Shippou took a gulp before curling up in Kagome's lap.
"Can you help me get out of here?"
"Why do you need to go?"
"I need to go home! I've got homework!"
"You came even when you had work to do..."
"Yes, Kikiyo, Sango, and I."
"Well I don't know where your friends are... but I guess I'll help you out. Come..." Sesshomaru stood up and tapped on the nearby wall.
A doorknob appeared and Sesshomaru opened the door. Kagome stared at the wall mesmerized. But only briefly before noticing that the unsocial vampire had left her behind. Jumping up she ran after him with Shippou in her arms.
"How did..."
"Magic..."
"Magic my butt," Kagome snorted.
After walking through hallways and hidden doors, they finally arrived at the front door. As they reached the foyer a figure jumped down from the ceiling.
"Hey onii-sama! Whatcha doin?" the figure cooed as she stood up.
The figure turned out to be the same Zephyr from school. She was dressed in a tight, short silver top with one side having no sleeve and the other with having a long flaring sleeve. Her pants were baggy black pants with two pouches on the each leg and a chain going around one leg and hooking around the other. Her ears were twitching eagerly and her tail swayed gently back and forth.
"I thought you were annoying InuYasha..."
"I was but he's only so interesting... and so I don't have anything else to do!"
"Go find Kouga..."
"WHAT? NO! He's psycho and wants too much from me!"
Kagome watched the two siblings bicker over what to do.
'Kouga's that one dude from school right...'
Kagome pondered before shivering at Zephyr's words. Sesshomaru rolled his eyes, rubbed her head, and shoved her into the side door, locking it shut.
"HEY! DON'T IGNORE ME! I'LL GET YOU FOR THIS!" Kagome heard Zephyr screech as Sesshomaru led Kagome to the door.
"If you see the other girls, tell them I went home, okay?"
Sesshomaru nodded moving in close to her. Kagome sharply gasped as Sesshomaru leaned in close. They stared into each other's eyes for a good five minutes. Kagome's eyes traveled all over Sesshomaru's regal face as he himself got lost in her eyes. They were so intent within each other they didn't notice Sango and Kikiyo exit building and lean against the walls watching smugly.
Sesshomaru leaned over to her ear and whispered, "Watch out, there are those of the night that don't care... take care."
He whipped around and walked past Kikiyo and Sango into the building, aware of their eyes smiling upon him. As he closed the door, Sango and Kikiyo ran up to Kagome and bombarded her with questions.
"Where were you!"
"Why were you with Sesshomaru!"
"What happened!"
Kagome sighed and walked away towards her house ignoring the shouts from her friends. She looked down to her arms and checked up on Shippou, he was still asleep. When she arrived home, she immediately ran up to the stairs and into her room. Lying Shippou on her bed, she set her weapons on the floor by her bed and stripped her hunter's suit off. Walking to her dresser she got out a pair of pink pajama's and slipped them under her arm and walked into the bathroom. 'Now for a nice relaxing bath!' she happily thought as she fixed the temperature just right and remove the rest of her clothes. She slipped into the water and relaxed, all while recapping the events that occurred during the day. She had just been drinking in a vampire's living room. She might as well as just asked him to tea on Saturday! Kagome snatched her bottle of shampoo and squirted a bit into the palm of her hand and gently rubbed it into her black hair.
"What am I gonna do?" she moaned.
Sesshomaru's POV
"What am I doing! I could have killed her but I just invited her in, gave her a drink and helped her escape... I'm getting soft," Sesshomaru growled as he paced around the living room.
"I'll say, a few years ago you would have killed anyone on sight, even me. Now I think your heads all screwed, ever since you got that amulet," a voice rang out as Kouga stepped out of the shadows.
"What do you want?" Sesshomaru snapped as he collapsed on the loveseat rubbing his temples.
"Nothing, just came to annoy his royal pain-in-the-assness," Kouga sneered as he picked up a rock and threw it at Sesshomaru.
"Gee, that's a new one now isn't it? I guess you do have a brain..." Sesshomaru retorted catching the rock and flinging it back at Kouga's head. Kouga smirked as the rock whizzed right by his head.
"Your aim is getting worse as well..."
"Shut up wolf..."
"Really Kouga, how immature can you get?" Zephyr remarked as she walked by and towards the kitchen Kouga snatched her hand and pulled her back into his embrace.
"Ze-chan, are you jealous? Awww... there's plenty of me for you and Sesshomaru. You know where my room is so just call..." Kouga buried his face into her black and blue hair.
"Oh bite me," She snapped trying to pry herself from his grasp.
"That can be arranged my dear..." Kouga replied moving his lips to her neck.
"Yah and you can die where you try..." Zephyr slipped under his arms and jumped to the kitchen door. Sesshomaru smirked and trekked off towards his room. Lying down on his soft bed and covers, he drifted off into sleep, silently clutching the black Ying Yang piece.
Kagome's POV
Kagome skipped merrily into her room, clad in her pink pajamas.
"Nice and clean!" she cheered as she picked up Shippou and walked happily towards the kitchen.
"Kagome dear, would you get the mild out of the fridge for me?" Mrs Higarashi called as Kagome walked through the door.
"Sure Mom," Kagome walked over and grabbed the milk and handed it to her mother.
"Oh and who's this?" Mrs. Higarashi cooed as she spied Shippou in Kagome's arms, who was just waking up.
"Momma, this is Shippou, can he stay with us?"
"Sure dear, now can you set the table while I finish supper?" Kagome set Shippou on the table as she retrieved the dinnerware from around the kitchen. After dinner, Kagome ran up the stairs with Shippou on her shoulder and jumped on her bed.
"Night Shippou," she whispered as she pulled up the covers and fell into a happy slumber. Shippou curled up against her and shortly followed.
Kagome woke up to her alarm clock ringing annoyingly in her ear. Shutting it off rather violently, she sat up on her comfy bed and stretched in the sunlight flooding into her room. Looking around she spied a small brown fluffy tail poking out from under her blankets. She gently tugged on the tail to wake the body before retreating to her bathroom. Shippou sleepily crwled out from under her blankets and rubbed his eyes sleepily.
"Kagome... why are we getting up this early?" Shippou moaned as he got up and trekked after Kagome.
"I'm going to school and you're going with me," Kagome called from the bathroom.
Shippou shrugged and sprawled himself along Kagome's bed wondering how Kagome was going to take him to school with her. After a few minutes, Kagome came bounding out of her bathroom wearing her school uniform and was holding some small clothes in her hands.
"Here Shippou! These are for you to wear. Mom went and got them yesterday for you" She smiled and handed them to the little kit who was currently wearing an old nightshirt of Kagome's that was waaaaaaay too big for him.
While Shippou changed into his new clothes, Kagome quickly gathered her supplies from around her room. She shoved her books and supplies into her big yellow bag, then quickly tied her ying yang piece loosely around her neck. When Shippou finished dressing he plopped himself and watched Kagome run around her room. He was dressed in baggy blue pants and a light green shirt with green leaves decorating it. He also wore a brown furry vest and a blue ribbon pulling up his hair. When Kagome was finished, she held out her bag for the little kitsune to climb in.
"Kagomeeeeeeeeee... why do I have to stay in your bag?" Shippou whined as he looked into the bag crammed full with school materials.
"It's just temporarily. Only until I get to school. I'm not going to close it all the way." Kagome reassured the little kit.
"Okay..." Shippou crawled into the bag and pulled the top over him.
Kagome sighed and exited her house and started down the street towards her school. Shippou occasionally poked his head out of the bag to get fresh air and look at his surroundings, but then retreated back into the bag. Kagome was practically inside the school gates when she was violently shoved into a nearby wall.
Shippou's POV
I jumped as I was suddenly crushed against a wall. So I peered out of the bag and in front of Kagome was three older demons. Another kitsune, a dog, and a cat. Two guys and a girl. The kitsune had reddish orange hair and golden eyes. He was wearing black baggy pants and a black muscle shirt. The dog had black hair with gold tips and blue eyes. He was wearing a way- to-long-T-Shirt-that-was-barely-his-size and covered his way-too-big-and- falling-off-his-hips pants as well. The neko had silver hair that was put up in a tight ponytail and had silver eyes. She was wearing a spagehtti strap tank top and short shorts and had a tattoo of a rose wrapped around a sword on her right shoulder. I cringed as the kitsune walked up and looked Kagome over. Taking her chin in his hand he examined her face before spotting the ying yang piece.
"Well, what do we have here?" his baritone voice rang out.
He gently yanked the already loosely tied ying yang piece off and admired it in the sun. The dark black obsidian piece shone brightly in the sun.
"Well... now... this looks of some value. I think I'll hold on to this."
"N-no! G-give it back n-now!" Kagome stammered as she steadied herself against the wall.
"What do you need it for?" The kitsune sneered as he gently squeezed the piece in his hand.
"G-give it BACK!" Kagome demanded as she walked over to the youkai.
"Nah... I don't think so . My interest has been drawn to something else so I think I'll just shatter it..." The kitsune said and threw the piece down and stomped down on it with his foot before pulling Kagome in his embrace tightly.
"Let me go!" Kagome snarled and tried to free herself from the kitsune's grasp.
Sesshomaru's POV
I was walking with Zephyr, InuYasha, Kouga, and Miroku towards school. It was just a normal walk. Miroku was sort of new to our group. He'd been with us for about 2 months now, but we've gotten use to him and we've convinced Kouga not to kill him or use him a food. Zephyr and InuYasha were arguing , Kouga was chatting with Miroku, and I was watching them quietly. We were just walking through the gates when I spotted the girl from yesterday in a tight spot. The idiot youkai Mako, Haku, and Hellena were trying to start something obviously. Mako had something in his hand and when he squeezed it, it felt as if something was squeezing my heart and it was hard to breathe. But when he threw it on the ground and stomped on it, it felt like my entire air supply was being cut off. I could barely breathe. I started to stagger over to the four of them. Kagome was now in the embrace of Mako. I growled under my breath the best I could and tried to hurry but it was hard... but I had to try.
Kagome's POV
I watched in horror as Mako tried to crush the ying yang piece under his foot. And then to make things worse, he was now hugging/holding me in a tight grip. In the corner of my eye I could see a figure stuggling towards us. I recognized that figure as Sesshomaru and he seemed to be in pain. I tried to run to him but Mako just tightened his grip. I felt sorry for Shippou because he was getting most of the force. I didn't think it could get any worse when Mako tried to kiss me... that literally infuriatied me but before I could do something... Shippou came bounding out of my bag and straight into the air.
"What's the big idea! You trying to kill me?" Shippou snapped and charged at Mako. Mako stared at the kitsune as he came flying in and scratched up his face. Mako stared for a few more minutes before stepping off the ying yang and charged towards the younger kitsune. Shippou smiled and jumped back into the air.
"Kitsune bi!" He yelled and blue flames erupted from the palm of his hand.
Mako immediately stopped as he saw the blue flames charging towards him. He immediately turned tail and ran off right past Sesshomaru, who was currently catching his breath.
"And stay away from Kagome and me!" Shippou called after the retreating youkai.
I picked up the ying yang piece and replaced it around my neck before picking up Shippou and racing over to the fallen form of Sesshomaru.
Normal POV
"Sesshomaru! Are you alright?" Kagome asked as she gently helped him to his feet.
"Yes, I'm fine.." Sesshomaru replied as he leaned on Kagome's shoulder.
"Okay..." Kagome smiled but didn't notice as her ying yang piece fell out of her shirt and hung in plain view.
Sesshomaru turned his eyes to the swinging object around Kagome's neck and sharply gasped. 'How did she get that?' He reached out to touch it and slowly picked it up. He rubbed his thumb against the smooth obsidian surface as he stared in wonder.
"May I see this for a moment?" he asked quietly.
"Sure... but I want it back... Mako already tried to take it." Kagome removed the ying yang from around her neck and handed it to Sesshomaru.
Sesshomaru accepted the piece and examined it carefully before pulling out his half and looking of the design of each. Kagome was surprised when Sesshomaru asked to see her ying yang piece but was even more surprised when he pulled out an opposite piece of it and started examining them both. An idea stuck in her head and she immediately wanted to try it out.
"May I see both of them for a moment?" Kagome took the pieces and held them up in front of her face. Then she put the two pieces together and smiled. 'A perfect fit!' she happily thought and tried to separate them again but it was stuck together. The ying yang glowed for a few moments and then then a light enveloped both pieces. When the light died down the ying yang was now two separate necklaces. Both were complete ying yangs and both had red and black sides. But now they had their own chains and each necklace had a special design. On one the black side had red blood designs and on the other the red side had black blood designs. Kagome was mesmorized at the transformation and then handed them back to Sesshomaru. He knew the legend so he took the one with red blood designs before handing the other to Kagome. At that instance, the bell rang both stared at the school.
"Oops... I'm late..." Kagome said as she picked up Shippou from the ground and started to walk off towards the school.
But before Kagome could go any further, Sesshomaru grabbed her arm and pulled her into a small embrace and gently kissed her on the cheek and walked off leaving Kagome on the cement frozen in shock.
Zephyr Notes: Holy crap there are a lot of POV changes. I just noticed that. Gomen for that.You don't even want to know how long it took me to get this up. My computer kept messing up on me and that sucked big ass. Then I got the new Fullmetal Alchemist and the Broken Angel game, which totally rocks. Well... except for the fact that I haven't seen Envy yet. And Envy rocks... he's like Ed. Their both sexy. Short people unite... except Envy cause he's kinda tall. And I'm short. X3 Ja matte ne!