Last time: Kay was kidnapped and taken hostage by Naraku, though, the one who was probably tortured was Naraku. Kay escaped, and her friends just missed her. Now they are traveling, trying to find Kay.
Chapter 3: Kay, Saved by Sesshomaru
Dawn held her head in her hands, watching the chest intently. She couldn't think about anything else. The phone had rung a couple times, once it was one of Kay's friends, another time it was her sister, and the last time it was guy who thought he was calling 'Georgina' and he wanted to 'apologize for banging her sister.'
She sighed, sniffing and trying to keep her tears in. She had already cried enough, even though it had only been about seven minutes since Kay disappeared inside the chest, and five minutes since Michelle followed her. She couldn't call Charlie and pet him, so she was alone.
Dawn felt like she was going to betray her daughter if she left to do anything, but her bladder felt like it was going to burst. She waited for another minute and then went to relive herself, trying to think of a way she could get her daughter back. Jumping inside the chest wouldn't work, she had tried that about a minute after Michelle left.
- - -
Kay's eyes cracked open and she saw a familiar celling. She didn't know how it was familiar, she just knew she had seen it before. Kay groaned, looking to her right and realized where she was.
This was the exact same room she was put in last time she was in Sesshomaru's castle. Why the Lord of the Western Lands, Mr. Evil-Hates-Humans, would save her, a HUMAN, was beyond Kay's grasp, or anyone's for that matter.
Just as Kay was trying to figure out why Sesshomaru would save her, Rin walked into the room, like she did last time, carrying a tray of rice, tea, and various fruits. When Rin set the tray down she looked at Kay's face and grinned. Rin looked older, because Kay had been gone a year. She wore her hair up in a ponytail, much like Kay's, with the scrunchie that Kay had given her the last time they met.
"Kay-chan! Rin did not realize that it was you in here!" Rin said, running towards Kay and hugging her tightly. Kay embraced her back, holding Rin like a sister that she had not seen in a long while.
"Hello Rin... -chan," Kay said, trying to use the suffix '-chan' so Rin would feel more at home with her. Kay smiled as she ruffled her hair a little bit and looked around the room.
"Rin did not know that you were here. Rin has not worn anything other than the hair tie you gave me since I got it," Rin said, backing up a little bit.
Kay nodded. "I see that. I haven't used anything other than the hair tie that you gave me to hold up my hair either. I was just wondering, do you know why Sesshomaru brought me here?" Kay asked, taking the food from the table and using the chopsticks that she got with it fairly well. Better than last time at least.
"Sesshomaru told Rin to help the person in here get into some different clothes. There is some clothes over there," Rin said, pointing to a wardrobe next to a wall. Kay got up with little difficulty and walked over to the wardrobe. She opened it up and saw wonderful silk kimonos of every color, all of them looking like they would fit her perfectly. She grinned and picked a red one and held it up for Rin to see.
"What do you think?" Kay asked as she reached for a blue one. "The red? Or the blue?" Kay said, switching the two kimonos for Rin to see.
"Rin likes the blue," said the young girl as she picked it out. Kay nodded and smiled.
"Can you help me put it on? I don't know how..." Kay said as she blushed.
Rin nodded and helped Kay in and out of the two kimonos that she was wearing.
Kay looked into a mirror near the wardrobe and paid attention to the kimono that she wore. It seemed to curve with her body and had a blue and black pattern on the bottom and on the top a light blue and blue pattern. It was kind of shiny, compared to Sango's kimono, seeing as it was silk, and it was light and comfortable. The sleeves reached to her knuckles, and she also had some shoes that were quite comfortable that Sesshomaru had provided for her.
Kay fixed her hair a little bit, making it look a little bit better than normal and she turned towards Rin.
"How do I look?" Kay said, spinning around for Rin to see her outfit.
"Rin thinks Kay-chan looks pretty!" Rin said, making Kay smile even more.
"Thank you, Rin-chan!" Kay said, remembering to say '-chan.' "Do you think you can show me around? I'm quite bored and I want to do a couple things."
Rin nodded and led Kay out of the room and down the hall. Kay found it quite easy to walk wearing the kimono. Heck, she could even run well in it if she wanted to! It was roomy, and it wasn't anything like she expected. She expected it to be so tight that she wouldn't be able traverse at all, making her trip and fall every ten steps.
Rin walked through a maze of hallways, turning this way and that, making it so Kay wouldn't be able to find her way back if she wanted to. Rin walked to a pair of doors that lead outside to a beautiful garden with a pond and fish. Kay walked over to the pond and looked in the water, seeing the fish swim about in the crystal clear water. It seemed like even the fish had to be the best for Lord Sesshomaru.
She heard someone take a step on the wood, though few people would have been able to, and she turned around to see Sesshomaru in the flesh. Well, the anime-flesh. He looked at Kay carefully, eyeing her face, and she looked at his face, trying to find any emotions, though she knew it was futile.
"Hello, Lord Sesshomaru," Kay said, nodding her head a little bit to the demon lord. She had the sudden urge to use '-sama' for some odd reason.
"Is your name Kay?" Sesshomaru asked. Kay nodded, realizing that she had never introduced herself, but Rin had used her name in the presence of Sesshomaru. He must have a wonderful memory, or was listening to their conversation earlier.
"Thanks for the clothes!" Kay said, smiling. Just then an ugly imp jumped out from behind Lord Fluffy.
"Do not address Sesshomaru-sama in such a manner, human!" Jaken yelled, sounding more and more like an idiot with every word.
"Just shut up, Jaken," Kay said, brushing aside the toad's presence with her hand.
"How do you know my name, wench!" Jaken asked.
"I am not a wench! Don't you dare call me that, you stupid jackass! I will not tolerate such a rude way to talk to someone who is obviously smarter and much, much prettier than you! Hell, Naraku is prettier than you!" Kay said, holding out her hand and grasping the air tightly. The imp automatically rose up in the air, and with Kay's movements, was sent pummeling into the ground multiple times. After she had beaten him to a bloody pulp she let him go and crossed her arms, taking a shoe off and putting her left foot into the water to calm herself down.
"How did you do that?" Sesshomaru asked, a hint of amusement in his voice. It was almost impossible to hear it, but it was there.
Kay smirked. "I can move things with my mind. And just recently I've realized that I might have poison in my nails," said Kay.
"Might?" Sesshomaru asked.
"I'm not sure. I've only done it once to Naraku, and he didn't look like he could re-grow his limbs after they disintegrated..." Kay said, putting a finger to her chin. "Well, Sesshomaru, what did you come here for?"
"YOU WILL CALL HIM SESSHOMARU-SAMA!" yelled the beat up Jaken.
"Sesshomaru-sama, what did you come here for? Happy now, loser?" Kay asked as she threw her shoe at his head.
"Why does Kay-chan hurt Jaken?" Rin asked kindly.
"Because Jaken is a big dufus," Kay answered, ruffling Rin's hair affectionately.
"I have come to see how you are faring, wench," Sesshomaru said, not giving any hint of emotion, like usual.
Kay growled and said, "Do not call me wench, or else share the same fate as your servant."
Obviously scared of what the girl could do, but not showing any sign of fear, he 'Hm'-ed before turning around and walking into the castle, his servant getting up and following at his heel.
Kay shrugged and turned back to Rin. "Do you have any other place to go?"
She nodded and led Kay into the castle again, who now had both shoes on her feet, and they went through many hallways again, all of them looking the same.
Rin walked into a room with many books and scrolls, presumably the library. Kay gasped and walked over to a shelf and opened a book, upset to find that it was written in kanji. (AN: I know there are two more types of writing, but I don't want to look them up.) I should have expected it. I am in the feudal era. And Japan. Where would they get an English book? Well, I can search for one...
Kay searched the books, looking for one with an English title, and sighed.
"Kay-chan, what are you looking for?" Rin asked after a couple large piles of books had been made.
"I can't read any of these books because I can only read a certain language, and I was hoping that maybe there was one in here I can understand," Kay said, throwing aside a book with gold fire etched on the front and some characters that Kay couldn't read.
Rin looked at the books that were piled up on the floor. "I can't read at all. But I like to look at the pictures," Rin said, picking up the book with the gold fire etched on the front. The cover was black and seemed to be very old, and she opened the book the opposite way that Kay did, obviously knowing what way you were supposed to read things in Japan. Kay knew that you should read things right to left in Japan also, having read many mangas, but she opened them the other way anyway.
"Oh! What a pretty picture!" Rin exclaimed as she turned the picture around for Kay to see. Kay turned and saw the girl in the picture, and it looked surprisingly like herself and Michelle. There was even a big, black dog in the picture. Kay walked over to Rin and looked at the picture carefully, and then turned the page to see another picture of some keys.
"Can I see this book?" Kay asked as she grabbed the top of it with her left hand. Rin nodded and let go, letting Kay look at the book herself. She flipped to the next page and it was blank, as was the next and the next.
Kay ran out of the room, looking around every corner and into every room for Sesshomaru. She had to find him. She had to.
She found him in a room a lot like the library, but more like a study. It had many books, but also had a desk and was less cozy. Sesshomaru sat at the desk, looking at papers and Jaken stood at the side of his desk, waiting patiently for any requests Sesshomaru may have. Though the room was less cozy, it was just as elaborately carved as any other room in the castle. "Why have you just barged into this room, wench!" Jaken yelled as she walked over to the desk.
Ignoring the imp she placed the book on the desk and said, "Can you read this to me?" Sesshomaru looked up from the papers on the desk and into Kay's eyes, acting like she was mad.
"Sesshomaru has no time to tell fairy-tales to stupid humans!" Jaken yelled, crossing his arms.
"Can't you read?" Sesshomaru asked, ignoring Jaken like Kay.
"Not Japanese. I can read another language though," Kay said, defending her pride. She didn't want to be looked upon as some stupid girl.
"What language?" Sesshomaru asked, his voice flat.
Kay took a piece of blank paper and then saw one of those paint brushes for Japanese characters and started writing the alphabet and a simple sentence to show she was not lying. When finished she turned it around for Sesshomaru to see and said, "This one. This is the language that I can read."
Jaken jumped up onto a chair in front of the desk to see the parchment and then said, "That is just a bunch of scribbles! If that really is the language that you can read, what does that long scribble say?" Jaken pointed at the sentence that Kay had written and she smirked.
Turning the parchment around she read the sentence with her finger following each word. "It says: Jaken is uglier than an elephant's butt," Kay said, smirking. The sentence had in fact said that.
Jaken fumed and said a few choice curses under his breath before being hit in the head by Kay's fist.
"Anyway, back to my question. Can you read this book to me?" Kay asked, pushing the book closer to Sesshomaru.
"You read backwards!" Jaken said.
"That's how we read things in my country!" she said, hitting him again.
"I suppose I could read this to you," Sesshomaru said, opening the book. Jaken stood on the desk looking like he had just been hit in the head with a frying pan by a ghost.
Sesshomaru read a story of two human girls stopping a great darkness that plagued the land and was to destroy everyone. The girls had immense power, the ability to move things easily, flaming swords, demon-like claws, the ability to see into people's hearts and priestess powers. Kay was amazed by the story, surprised on how much she seemed to relate to it, but the story stopped right before the two girls were to fight the dark plague that was to destroy all.
"Sesshomaru, can I keep this book?" Kay asked once he finished.
"This book is incomplete," he said, putting the book down.
"I don't care, I want it anyway," Kay said, grabbing the book and holding it close to her.
"You may have it," he said, looking down at his papers again. Kay beamed and walked out of the room, holding her book close to her chest like a happy school girl.
- - -
Michelle rode on Charlie, waiting for InuYasha to catch Kay's scent. He hadn't said a word since they set out, so Michelle guessed that InuYasha couldn't smell Kay. It felt like finding Kay was useless, and that they should just give up, but Michelle had to find her friend. The world of InuYasha brought out the best in Michelle, seeing at home she was meaner and less caring.
Michelle's hands tightened around Charlie's collar and she looked around again, searching for any sign of Kay. Still none. They were going to have to stop soon, seeing as it was beginning to turn dark.
Just as Michelle thought about the sun going down, InuYasha slowed to a stop and looked around, going through the forest to find a very small clearing. "We should stop here. We won't make any progress in the dark," InuYasha said, sitting down next to a tree.
Michelle got off Charlie and she sat next to the fire that everyone else was making except for InuYasha. She growled at the wood and closed her eyes.
When the fire was blazing and everyone had eaten, InuYasha sat by the fire and warmed himself up. Suddenly he lifted his hand to his face and slapped it, making a flat flea fall down to the ground. "Myoga," InuYasha said, almost angry sounding. "Why are you here?"
"I heard that you were looking for a human girl," the flea said in his gruff voice. For a second the episode where Myoga's wife or something popped into Michelle's head, making her remember when InuYasha acted like a girl, scarring Shippo for life. And also scarring Michelle. Michelle giggled and then shook her head, trying to rid herself of such horrible thoughts. That was one of the scariest episodes Michelle had ever seen.
"Yeah, we're looking for a girl," InuYasha said, ignoring Michelle's sudden giggling. "Why, do you know where she is?"
"I do know where the girl was taken. I was following her, seeing as she knew you," Myoga said, closing his eyes and making it sound like he was going to go into one of his super long stories that were so boring that you almost never caught what he was trying to say.
"Where was she taken, Myoga?" Shippo asked, moving up next to InuYasha.
"She seemed to have been mistaken for a princess and taken to Naraku's castle. Why she couldn't escape was probably because a barrier around the vessel they carried her in. The girl soon escaped and started to run away, but collapsed in the forest from exhaustion," Myoga said, opening his eyes a little bit to look at InuYasha.
"Just tell us where Kay went, dammit!" InuYasha yelled, balling his hand into a fist.
"Be calm, InuYasha. If you kill Myoga then we'll never find her," Kagome said, kneeling next to the fire and watching Myoga.
"Kagome's right, InuYasha. Just be patient," Sango said, watching the flea behind InuYasha.
"Anyway, as I was saying before I was rudely interrupted... Kay collapsed. But she was saved, though I'd rather that she wasn't..." Myoga said, sighing.
"Who was she saved by!" InuYasha yelled.
"InuYasha, we must wait for Myoga to finish his story before speaking. Now, please continue," Miroku said, scolding InuYasha in the process.
Myoga coughed. "Well, the person she was saved by has a new castle. It'll be harder to find him, since he is at his castle at the moment..."
"WHO IS IT!" they all yelled, forgetting what each of them had said about patience.
"Kay was saved by none other than Sesshomaru," Myoga finished, opening his eyes all the way and looking up at InuYasha to see what his reaction was.
Michelle couldn't believe it. Kay was saved by the demon with ice for a heart.
Next time: Kay's mother is thinking about her daughter, but finds out the truth soon enough. Kay is stuck with Sesshomaru, but what will the demon lord do?
Michelle: O.O
Kay: Michelle? Michelle!
Michelle: What have you done?
Kay: What do you mean?
Michelle: The next chapter! That is the... scariest thing I have ever seen.
Kay: Just wait 'till you find out what happens in another chapter! -evil grin- Want to find out what Michelle is surprised by? Read the next chapter, Opposites Attract!