~Worse than poison…~
Kagome walked into the center of the clearing and looked around. Nothing felt out of place… It was strangely calming and relaxing… She looked up and saw the moon again. Wherever she was, it sure had nice view of the moon.
"Beautiful isn't it…"a strong, smooth voice whispered from behind of her.
She gasped and when regaining her voice swiftly turned around.
"Sesshomaru!"
In fact it was Sesshomaru. How could I have missed it? How could I have not picked him up? He stood a few feet ahead of her. She couldn't see his eyes because his bangs hid them and she swore she felt a sad vibe radiating off of him… NAA!
Kagome went to take a step back, but felt a sharp pain in travel trough her legs then up her spine. Then an unwanted feeling of cold overcame her. She immediately froze. "I-It's s-so c-cold" she merely mumbled but knew he had herd her.
The wind blew, making a howling sound that sent even more shivers up her spine. In a blink of an eye, her eye, he was adjacent to her, a mere foot separating the two.
People say eyes are the window to a persons soul… but she still couldn't see the windows to his soul. For one he was still looking up at the moon and two, who knows if he has a soul… Even if he did would I really be able to see into him? He seems so cold on the out side, but… but what if he is only doing this for his own good… AHH! Kagome, your getting ahead of yourself! Again!
"S-Sessho-maru?" she trembled from the cold not form fear. She never did show fear for him, except for the occasional get out of the way from attacks and hide behind Inuyasha, but never real fear. She really was one of a kind. Not many female, humans at that, would ever challenge the 'Great Lord of the Western Lands'. Then again she's not many… She is Kagome.
He didn't answer, but another whistling wind brushed her face which made her squint. She went to take a step back, but as she tried the sharp pain in her legs worsened. She flinched but not from the pain… Something-no someONE encircled her with THEIR hand around HER waist.
She didn't struggle-no the pain who only continue to get worse if she moved, but also… she felt warm. She was surprised that for someone with an ice-cold impression was so warm to be near with… Sesshomaru… All thoughts of fear, betrayal, anger, even sorrow, flew out her mind. All she cared about right now was the warmth that she was feeling. She pulled him tighter by rapping her hands around his waist. He didn't seem to mind or protest so she just snuggled closer into his chest.
Then everything came crashing down by a simple sentence: "What the hell are you doing wench?!" She jumped, instantly pulling her hands away and went to take a step away from him when she caught a glimpse of his eyes. They were now a dark, lifeless black and his haori were now black too and, no it couldn't be 'HIM'!
"Stupid wench…" he mouthed in an all too familiar voice that sounded like- No, what the-? Along with the changing of his height.
"S-Sesshomaru?"
~^~
Kagome swiftly shot up breathing heavily. It was just another dream… but that was- no! It-He wasn't Sesshomaru! She was in a room-no a hut. Kaede's hut?
She glanced around the room and saw Shippo, Sango, Miroku…, Miroku's wandering hand…, Miroku's wandering hand on its way to Sango's rear end…, Sango's Hiraikotsu contacting human skull… followed by the monk falling to the ground with a 'thump' and "look at the *@-@* pretty stars", Miroku pointing to inanimate objects around his head, and finally Inuyasha… Who was sitting on the futon and looked as tough she had been resting on his lap, for where he was positioned.
"KAGOME!" an all too familiar orange fur ball all but screech as it collided into her.
"Shippo!" Kagome just returned his excitement and hugged him closer.
~*~
"So what your saying is that Inuyasha found me unconscious and brought me here where I was out for about a whole day?!"
"Yes Kagome-chan" replied the taijiya as she continued the never ending questions of a special raven-haired miko.
"And I wasn't injured?"
"Hai."
"So why was I unconscious?"
"I don't know. Kaede-obaba was the one to treat you. She must have found out something. Asking her would benefit you, but she left to treat an injured child in the neighboring village. She said that the miko there has also fallen ill and cannot help her village so that is why she is going."
Kagome nodded "And why didn't Inuyasha come and get me if I was late?" She sighed.
"Inuyasha has gotten himself into more trouble than he already has…" Sango stated as she stared at Kagome who had just realized that she asked that out loud. "He has been fighting more demons while you have been away and is very strict about Miroku, Kirara, Shippo, or myself helping him. All the more surprising is that he has returned without a scratch every time."
"Oh…" was all Kagome could muster up over her embarrassment. She didn't mean to sound selfish, but it was just a question that popped up in her mind and was gnawing away at her for some time now.
Sango smiled a 'I know what you were thinking' smile and walked closer to her, mainly to get away from a still unconscious houshi. "Don't worry about it."
"Feh! I have always defeated demons without obtaining a wound or scratch!" The Inu mustered as he shifted to a more comfortable position on the futon.
Kagome smiled and asked, "How long does it take to travel to the village and back again?"
Sango took some time to think before answering, "About two moons. Maybe one."
"At least a week then…"
"Hai."
"Okay…" Kagome had a thoughtful feature plastid on her face as she petted Shippo, who it seems had fallen asleep in the mists of her questions.
"Sango-san, please forgive me, I was tempted with your radiant beauty and couldn't help myself. It is after all a hard act, for one to be around one as beautiful as you." Miroku chanted, yes chanted, in his lecherous voice as he finally regained consciousness. I guess he never herd flattery will get you nowhere, but then again, this is the Sengoku Era. Anything can happen… And when I say anything, I mean anything!
Sango's appearance changed somewhat, to a softer expression- that was before his hand 'somehow' made contact with her backside. Two attempts in about 3 minutes already, WOW a new record. When will he ever learn…?
"HENTAI!!!"
*Sigh* As we turn to the right to look at this nice piece of fabric, maybe silk, that Kagome was currently looking at. It was hung on the back wall of Kaede's hut and we hear a certain boomerang whizzing by. We see the nice floral pattern that goes in a slanted left to right pattern. The petals of the flowers are all a reddish, maybe a pink, no a rosy color with a nice rusted green texture for stems…
In the background we hear a loud 'SMACK' then a certain houshi falling to the ground. We see that the cloth has an amber- no a reddish brown? Where have I seen that before… Hmm… It looks like a circular stain in the upper right position.
Kagome glanced back to where she last saw Miroku, who was now currently acknowledging the earth and a fuming taijiya next to him. Kagome had to smile, she was… well she was home. You might say it's odd, but this had been her second family. The exterminator know as Sango, the kitsune known as Shippo, the lecherous monk as Miroku, and… and the hanyou who had stolen her hearth and probably didn't even know it… Inuyasha.
She was home. With the people she loved and had to protect. Her family back home in her time was… well… would always be her first family and she loved them with all her hearth plus two, but she had- she felt that this place would always be her home. It just calls to me…, but it could just be the Shikon- NO! I belong here. I love it here… I just hope that I can stay here after the Shikon is completed. I wish to be able to always visit here and be able to go back home too, but it might just be too much to ask for…
Kagome turned to face Inuyasha who had been peculiarly quiet. "Inuyasha?"
"Humph… What?!"
"How did you find me?"
"You passed out on the ground next to the well. Stupid ningens… I found you and brought you back."
"…" Wait didn't I fell unconscious when I entered this era? I thought my dream started when I was in the well…
"What were you dreaming?"
The question brought Kagome out of her thoughts, well… she almost fell out of her seat, but it brought her out of her thoughts no less. "Oh… it was… um… I guess… um… it was more of a nightmare, at least at the end…" she whispered the end of her sentence frustrated with herself that she had liked the way Sesshomaru felt, especially next to me… She quickly shook the thought away and scolded herself. "Why do you ask?"
"Feh! You were grabbing on to me and whispering something. It sounded like a name, but I didn't recognize it."
She almost face faulted. Again. God, he doesn't know. I know that he doesn't really like his half-brother and how am I suppose to tell him? Just walk up to him and say 'hey Inuyasha, well you see for the past few weeks I've been dreaming about Sesshomaru. Yep! And I like the way he hugs me in my dreams. Oh! I haven't told you, but he is completely hot and I think I might like him or at least be obsessed with him!' … … wait for it… wait for it… WHAT?! I did NOT just say what I thought I said! NO!
Obsessed might be correct! Insane is COMPLETELY right, but not- no, NOT liking him! He tried to kill me AND my friends so many times. I can't and I won't! WILL NOT, CANNOT even think about liking him!!!
"DON'T THINK SO!!!" She screamed unaware that she voiced it out loud.
"Iie! Wench! What was that for?! Why the hell did you scream?!" Inuyasha complained placing his hands on his ears. I guess she forgot that youkais and hanyous have VERY sensitive hearing.
"My name is Kagome! KA-GO-ME! And I would love for you to actually use it! Not wench, KAGOME! And Inuyasha…"
"What KA-GO-ME?!"
"OSUWARI!!!"
There was a loud 'CRASH' followed by a miko leaving the hut with a sleeping fox in her arms and a taijiya dragging a still unconscious houshi.
~*~
It was dark out, around 7:30. Since there were no lights, no electricity, it usually got almost pitch black around 7:00p.m.
"Wen-ah!…" Don't want to get 'sit'… "Ka-Go-Me do you sense a shard coming from any direction?"
"No not at this moment Inu-Ya-Sha." He used my name, he used my name… MAN! I wanted to 'sit' him too! Darn it!
The Fire Rat fur coated Inu sniffed around and gave a fierce warning growl. Which snapped the houshi back into the conscious world along with the rest of the makeshift group.
"What's wrong Inuyasha?" Kagome asked taking a step at a time towards him.
He turned around swiftly and pushed her back by the shoulders, causing her to fall back. She was… well surprised, to say the least, so much that she didn't get a chance to 'sit' him. Before getting a chance to fall down Kirara quickly transformed and blocked her fall letting Kagome brace against the cat.
When regaining her senses Kagome was practically steaming- no she probably could melt a high-teah. titanium super defensive wall by just looking at it the way she was glaring draggers at Inuyasha, to be specific: the back Inuyasha's head, to be exact: the center of the back of Inuyasha's head.
"INUYAS-" she was cut off by a loud explosion, followed by a huge cloud of dust and debris coming from where Inuyasha stood.
"Oh God… INUYASHA!"
Kagome went to make a break to where Inuyasha was, but a hand shot out and grabbed her.
"MIROKU please let me go! I have to help Inuyasha! Please let me go!" tears were already streaming down her face. "INUYASHA!!!"
"Kagome. I can't afford to let you get hurt too… That was not just a normal event. Concentrate and sense the opponent…" he spoke in a calm voice, but Kagome could tell that he was angry with himself for not being able to help without knowing what they were suppose to do.
Sango had her Hiraikotsu ready for an attack. Kagome could also see that she was angry too for the same reason as Miroku. They didn't know what they were up against and if they were to act without knowing they could badly injure Inuyasha, though they didn't mean to.
"O-okay"
Miroku released her hand and Kagome quickly dried her tears and looked to the direction where Inuyasha had been. She still couldn't see him, but this time there was a black void where he was. The void looked like an opening to a different world, a different realm. Closing her eyes a pinkish aura surrounded her. It continued to get brighter and brighter until no one could bare it.
"Naraku…"
The void expanded and consumed everything in sight. Kirara flew up and went to get Sango since the void seemed to be headed her way, but it was too late. She along with Miroku, Shippo, and Kagome were all sucked into the void. It soon turned to the fire-cat. Kirara tried very hard to get away, but sadly, was also consumed by the unwelcome darkness…
~*~
Where am I? My head fells like it weighs a ton… I can't even seem to open my eyes. Okay what happened? Inu- INUYASHA! Kagome's eyes shot open, but she still couldn't see anything.
An unwanted sensation washed over her that made her shudder. I hand reached out of know where and cupped her face causing her to look at the face of her captor.
"Naraku" was all she spat. It was worse than poison coming out of her mouth.
~End Chapter~
Kagome walked into the center of the clearing and looked around. Nothing felt out of place… It was strangely calming and relaxing… She looked up and saw the moon again. Wherever she was, it sure had nice view of the moon.
"Beautiful isn't it…"a strong, smooth voice whispered from behind of her.
She gasped and when regaining her voice swiftly turned around.
"Sesshomaru!"
In fact it was Sesshomaru. How could I have missed it? How could I have not picked him up? He stood a few feet ahead of her. She couldn't see his eyes because his bangs hid them and she swore she felt a sad vibe radiating off of him… NAA!
Kagome went to take a step back, but felt a sharp pain in travel trough her legs then up her spine. Then an unwanted feeling of cold overcame her. She immediately froze. "I-It's s-so c-cold" she merely mumbled but knew he had herd her.
The wind blew, making a howling sound that sent even more shivers up her spine. In a blink of an eye, her eye, he was adjacent to her, a mere foot separating the two.
People say eyes are the window to a persons soul… but she still couldn't see the windows to his soul. For one he was still looking up at the moon and two, who knows if he has a soul… Even if he did would I really be able to see into him? He seems so cold on the out side, but… but what if he is only doing this for his own good… AHH! Kagome, your getting ahead of yourself! Again!
"S-Sessho-maru?" she trembled from the cold not form fear. She never did show fear for him, except for the occasional get out of the way from attacks and hide behind Inuyasha, but never real fear. She really was one of a kind. Not many female, humans at that, would ever challenge the 'Great Lord of the Western Lands'. Then again she's not many… She is Kagome.
He didn't answer, but another whistling wind brushed her face which made her squint. She went to take a step back, but as she tried the sharp pain in her legs worsened. She flinched but not from the pain… Something-no someONE encircled her with THEIR hand around HER waist.
She didn't struggle-no the pain who only continue to get worse if she moved, but also… she felt warm. She was surprised that for someone with an ice-cold impression was so warm to be near with… Sesshomaru… All thoughts of fear, betrayal, anger, even sorrow, flew out her mind. All she cared about right now was the warmth that she was feeling. She pulled him tighter by rapping her hands around his waist. He didn't seem to mind or protest so she just snuggled closer into his chest.
Then everything came crashing down by a simple sentence: "What the hell are you doing wench?!" She jumped, instantly pulling her hands away and went to take a step away from him when she caught a glimpse of his eyes. They were now a dark, lifeless black and his haori were now black too and, no it couldn't be 'HIM'!
"Stupid wench…" he mouthed in an all too familiar voice that sounded like- No, what the-? Along with the changing of his height.
"S-Sesshomaru?"
~^~
Kagome swiftly shot up breathing heavily. It was just another dream… but that was- no! It-He wasn't Sesshomaru! She was in a room-no a hut. Kaede's hut?
She glanced around the room and saw Shippo, Sango, Miroku…, Miroku's wandering hand…, Miroku's wandering hand on its way to Sango's rear end…, Sango's Hiraikotsu contacting human skull… followed by the monk falling to the ground with a 'thump' and "look at the *@-@* pretty stars", Miroku pointing to inanimate objects around his head, and finally Inuyasha… Who was sitting on the futon and looked as tough she had been resting on his lap, for where he was positioned.
"KAGOME!" an all too familiar orange fur ball all but screech as it collided into her.
"Shippo!" Kagome just returned his excitement and hugged him closer.
~*~
"So what your saying is that Inuyasha found me unconscious and brought me here where I was out for about a whole day?!"
"Yes Kagome-chan" replied the taijiya as she continued the never ending questions of a special raven-haired miko.
"And I wasn't injured?"
"Hai."
"So why was I unconscious?"
"I don't know. Kaede-obaba was the one to treat you. She must have found out something. Asking her would benefit you, but she left to treat an injured child in the neighboring village. She said that the miko there has also fallen ill and cannot help her village so that is why she is going."
Kagome nodded "And why didn't Inuyasha come and get me if I was late?" She sighed.
"Inuyasha has gotten himself into more trouble than he already has…" Sango stated as she stared at Kagome who had just realized that she asked that out loud. "He has been fighting more demons while you have been away and is very strict about Miroku, Kirara, Shippo, or myself helping him. All the more surprising is that he has returned without a scratch every time."
"Oh…" was all Kagome could muster up over her embarrassment. She didn't mean to sound selfish, but it was just a question that popped up in her mind and was gnawing away at her for some time now.
Sango smiled a 'I know what you were thinking' smile and walked closer to her, mainly to get away from a still unconscious houshi. "Don't worry about it."
"Feh! I have always defeated demons without obtaining a wound or scratch!" The Inu mustered as he shifted to a more comfortable position on the futon.
Kagome smiled and asked, "How long does it take to travel to the village and back again?"
Sango took some time to think before answering, "About two moons. Maybe one."
"At least a week then…"
"Hai."
"Okay…" Kagome had a thoughtful feature plastid on her face as she petted Shippo, who it seems had fallen asleep in the mists of her questions.
"Sango-san, please forgive me, I was tempted with your radiant beauty and couldn't help myself. It is after all a hard act, for one to be around one as beautiful as you." Miroku chanted, yes chanted, in his lecherous voice as he finally regained consciousness. I guess he never herd flattery will get you nowhere, but then again, this is the Sengoku Era. Anything can happen… And when I say anything, I mean anything!
Sango's appearance changed somewhat, to a softer expression- that was before his hand 'somehow' made contact with her backside. Two attempts in about 3 minutes already, WOW a new record. When will he ever learn…?
"HENTAI!!!"
*Sigh* As we turn to the right to look at this nice piece of fabric, maybe silk, that Kagome was currently looking at. It was hung on the back wall of Kaede's hut and we hear a certain boomerang whizzing by. We see the nice floral pattern that goes in a slanted left to right pattern. The petals of the flowers are all a reddish, maybe a pink, no a rosy color with a nice rusted green texture for stems…
In the background we hear a loud 'SMACK' then a certain houshi falling to the ground. We see that the cloth has an amber- no a reddish brown? Where have I seen that before… Hmm… It looks like a circular stain in the upper right position.
Kagome glanced back to where she last saw Miroku, who was now currently acknowledging the earth and a fuming taijiya next to him. Kagome had to smile, she was… well she was home. You might say it's odd, but this had been her second family. The exterminator know as Sango, the kitsune known as Shippo, the lecherous monk as Miroku, and… and the hanyou who had stolen her hearth and probably didn't even know it… Inuyasha.
She was home. With the people she loved and had to protect. Her family back home in her time was… well… would always be her first family and she loved them with all her hearth plus two, but she had- she felt that this place would always be her home. It just calls to me…, but it could just be the Shikon- NO! I belong here. I love it here… I just hope that I can stay here after the Shikon is completed. I wish to be able to always visit here and be able to go back home too, but it might just be too much to ask for…
Kagome turned to face Inuyasha who had been peculiarly quiet. "Inuyasha?"
"Humph… What?!"
"How did you find me?"
"You passed out on the ground next to the well. Stupid ningens… I found you and brought you back."
"…" Wait didn't I fell unconscious when I entered this era? I thought my dream started when I was in the well…
"What were you dreaming?"
The question brought Kagome out of her thoughts, well… she almost fell out of her seat, but it brought her out of her thoughts no less. "Oh… it was… um… I guess… um… it was more of a nightmare, at least at the end…" she whispered the end of her sentence frustrated with herself that she had liked the way Sesshomaru felt, especially next to me… She quickly shook the thought away and scolded herself. "Why do you ask?"
"Feh! You were grabbing on to me and whispering something. It sounded like a name, but I didn't recognize it."
She almost face faulted. Again. God, he doesn't know. I know that he doesn't really like his half-brother and how am I suppose to tell him? Just walk up to him and say 'hey Inuyasha, well you see for the past few weeks I've been dreaming about Sesshomaru. Yep! And I like the way he hugs me in my dreams. Oh! I haven't told you, but he is completely hot and I think I might like him or at least be obsessed with him!' … … wait for it… wait for it… WHAT?! I did NOT just say what I thought I said! NO!
Obsessed might be correct! Insane is COMPLETELY right, but not- no, NOT liking him! He tried to kill me AND my friends so many times. I can't and I won't! WILL NOT, CANNOT even think about liking him!!!
"DON'T THINK SO!!!" She screamed unaware that she voiced it out loud.
"Iie! Wench! What was that for?! Why the hell did you scream?!" Inuyasha complained placing his hands on his ears. I guess she forgot that youkais and hanyous have VERY sensitive hearing.
"My name is Kagome! KA-GO-ME! And I would love for you to actually use it! Not wench, KAGOME! And Inuyasha…"
"What KA-GO-ME?!"
"OSUWARI!!!"
There was a loud 'CRASH' followed by a miko leaving the hut with a sleeping fox in her arms and a taijiya dragging a still unconscious houshi.
~*~
It was dark out, around 7:30. Since there were no lights, no electricity, it usually got almost pitch black around 7:00p.m.
"Wen-ah!…" Don't want to get 'sit'… "Ka-Go-Me do you sense a shard coming from any direction?"
"No not at this moment Inu-Ya-Sha." He used my name, he used my name… MAN! I wanted to 'sit' him too! Darn it!
The Fire Rat fur coated Inu sniffed around and gave a fierce warning growl. Which snapped the houshi back into the conscious world along with the rest of the makeshift group.
"What's wrong Inuyasha?" Kagome asked taking a step at a time towards him.
He turned around swiftly and pushed her back by the shoulders, causing her to fall back. She was… well surprised, to say the least, so much that she didn't get a chance to 'sit' him. Before getting a chance to fall down Kirara quickly transformed and blocked her fall letting Kagome brace against the cat.
When regaining her senses Kagome was practically steaming- no she probably could melt a high-teah. titanium super defensive wall by just looking at it the way she was glaring draggers at Inuyasha, to be specific: the back Inuyasha's head, to be exact: the center of the back of Inuyasha's head.
"INUYAS-" she was cut off by a loud explosion, followed by a huge cloud of dust and debris coming from where Inuyasha stood.
"Oh God… INUYASHA!"
Kagome went to make a break to where Inuyasha was, but a hand shot out and grabbed her.
"MIROKU please let me go! I have to help Inuyasha! Please let me go!" tears were already streaming down her face. "INUYASHA!!!"
"Kagome. I can't afford to let you get hurt too… That was not just a normal event. Concentrate and sense the opponent…" he spoke in a calm voice, but Kagome could tell that he was angry with himself for not being able to help without knowing what they were suppose to do.
Sango had her Hiraikotsu ready for an attack. Kagome could also see that she was angry too for the same reason as Miroku. They didn't know what they were up against and if they were to act without knowing they could badly injure Inuyasha, though they didn't mean to.
"O-okay"
Miroku released her hand and Kagome quickly dried her tears and looked to the direction where Inuyasha had been. She still couldn't see him, but this time there was a black void where he was. The void looked like an opening to a different world, a different realm. Closing her eyes a pinkish aura surrounded her. It continued to get brighter and brighter until no one could bare it.
"Naraku…"
The void expanded and consumed everything in sight. Kirara flew up and went to get Sango since the void seemed to be headed her way, but it was too late. She along with Miroku, Shippo, and Kagome were all sucked into the void. It soon turned to the fire-cat. Kirara tried very hard to get away, but sadly, was also consumed by the unwelcome darkness…
~*~
Where am I? My head fells like it weighs a ton… I can't even seem to open my eyes. Okay what happened? Inu- INUYASHA! Kagome's eyes shot open, but she still couldn't see anything.
An unwanted sensation washed over her that made her shudder. I hand reached out of know where and cupped her face causing her to look at the face of her captor.
"Naraku" was all she spat. It was worse than poison coming out of her mouth.
~End Chapter~