Last time: After escaping Naraku, Kay is saved by none other than Sesshoumaru. The heartless bastard who holds a special place in all of our hearts. Michelle is shocked, and they are going to have to go to Sesshoumaru's castle.
Chapter 4: Opposites Attract
Dawn ate a bowl of cereal as she watched the chest impatiently. It had been nine minutes now. Dawn checked her watch.
Is this how mothers feel when they realize that their little girls may never come home? When their daughters are kidnapped by some stranger? But their daughter's best friends don't go and try and find them to bring them home. They have police. But cops are useless. They can't go through this chest and help my daughter... Dawn thought as she looked towards the TV in the room. Then a thought struck her.
Her daughter had told her about going through the chest before, right? What if she had told the truth about what happened about a year ago?
Dawn walked over to the DVD case and picked out the DVD that Kay had bought with that stupid Inuwashiwishi show on it. There were a couple of DVDs of that show, seeing as she wanted a couple certain shows. She turned on the DVD player and put in the disk, amazed about what she was going to do...
Dawn sat down on the couch and turned on the TV and then started to play the first show on the InuYasha DVD.
It started up and in the beginning it did a recap of the last episode and then started a stupid beginning song that Dawn thought was horrible. She sped up to the beginning and it said in a female's voice: "Enter Kay and Michelle: Girls From America!"
Dawn's mouth fell open as she gazed at the screen, watching an anime version of her daughter and Michelle move on the screen, flying on top of their dog, who had magically turned into a big, giant thing, and searching for that Inuwashiwishiwooshi character.
- - -
Kay looked at the book over and over again, and kept it with her at all times. She slept with it on the table next to her bed and she brought it with her when she went to breakfast. It was just like if she had a good book at home, though at home she could read it.
She was annoyed, though, that there was no books that she could read and occupy herself with. She had tried to leave a couple times, but was stopped by Sesshomaru. Kay didn't know why he kept her here, but she didn't mind to much, though she did want to find InuYasha and the others.
It had been two days since she had woken up from her room, and she realized that this was an entirely different castle. How Sesshomaru had gotten that room exactly the same as last time was beyond her. Kay spent a lot of time in the library, looking at the books, and with Sesshomaru, who had decided to teach her how to read Kanji. She was so excited to learn a new language, or at least read a new language. She promised herself that she would learn to speak Japanese after learning to read it.
Kay was grateful for Sesshomaru's lessons, and was progressing quite well, having learned quite a few characters, and even learned how to write her name in Japanese. She could read simple sentences and write a little bit too. But she knew she had a ways to go.
On a particularly rainy day, Kay stood in her room, wearing the red kimono that she had suggested to wear the first day she was here. She had asked for some more blue kimonos, and had them in her wardrobe, but she wanted to wear red today.
Kay walked out of her room and went to the garden, having learned the way by now, and went outside, ignoring the rain. She walked through the garden and went over to a secluded area, enjoying the rain, the flowers and the trees that surrounded her. There was a small river nearby, one that ran into a nearby lake. It was night right now, so little fireflies buzzed around, making it the prettiest spot Kay could imagine, even with the rain. She sat on a rock and closed her eyes, taking in her surroundings, reaching to the thoughts of anything nearby. Her mind touched someone else's and she poked it with her mind, but found it was protected like a bank.
Kay opened her eyes and saw Sesshoumaru to her left, standing there in the rain. Water ran down his emotionless face and Kay blinked, wondering why he was here.
"Lord Sesshomaru... why--?" Kay asked, interrupted by his voice.
"Humans get sick if they are in the rain to long, is this not true?" Sesshomaru asked, making Kay very confused.
"Well, yes..." Kay said, not sure where he was going with this.
"Why are you out here then?" he asked.
Is he worried about my health? Kay asked herself. "I like the rain."
He looked at her with what she could swear was a puzzled look and then said, "Strange. Few creatures like the rain."
"Do you like the rain?"
"No."
"Then why did you come out here?" Kay asked, wondering why he was out here.
"I was searching for you."
"Any reason you were searching for me? Something to do with my lessons?"
Sesshomaru shook his head. "I was wondering where you were, and if you were all right."
"Oh..." Kay said. He walked over to Kay and sat on the rock that she sat on, making her wonder what he was up to. It was hard to tell when you couldn't see their thoughts.
"How do you spell my name in your language?" Sesshomaru asked.
Is that all he wanted to ask me? That jerk, Kay thought as she knelt down and got a stick next to her foot. She knelt on the ground and started to write his name, and then her own.
"This is your name," Kay said, underlining his name, "and this is mine." Kay underlined her own name and then sounded it out. "Ses-shou-ma-ru," Kay said, pointing at the word from left to right as she read it. Kay, remembering her lessons, wrote Sesshomaru's name next to his name and Kay next to the English version of her name in Japanese. She smiled and said, "I personally think that the Japanese version is prettier. What do you think?"
"... I don't think things are 'pretty.'" Sesshomaru knelt down next to Kay and looked at the foreign name in the dirt. He actually did like the strange one better, seeing as he wasn't accustom to it.
Kay looked a little hurt and then looked at Sesshomaru, water running down her face and onto her soaked kimono.
"Well, you're nice," Kay said, folding her arms and looking away.
Sesshomaru looked up at her face and wondered what she was talking about. "What are you talking about?"
"Some things have to be prettier than others! You can't think everything looks the same. To think that you'd have to be blind," Kay growled at Sesshomaru. She didn't like his attitude very well, and wondered why all those crazy fan girls loved him so much. They always picked the 'bad-boy' people, didn't they? And he's a character! They don't exist! Well, actually, they did exist according to this world...
Sesshomaru was quiet and Kay stood up. She looked at the Japanese words she wrote and sighed. "Do you have any friends?" Sesshomaru asked.
The question caught Kay off guard. She looked at him and then said, "Well, yeah. My friend Michelle, Kagome, Miroku, Sango, Shippo, Kirara, InuYasha--"
"InuYasha?" Sesshomaru said, anger in his voice but not his face. He stood up and turned towards Kay, making her shiver a tiny bit, though it went unnoticed. "How do you know my brother?"
"He's a friend. InuYasha helped Michelle and I once, so he's our friend... Now you interrupted me! Um... My friends. Some others would be Rin and you I guess, but those are the only ones that you have a chance at meeting or already know. I don't think that you would be able to see my other friends," Kay said. My other friends do live in the present time.
"Me?"
Kay nodded. "You're my friend... Why? Is that a bad thing?"
Sesshomaru shook his head and watched her as she turned towards the small river and walked over to it. "What are you doing?" he asked.
"I'm seeing if I can find a fish in the water," Kay said, lowering her hands into the water. She adjusted herself so she laid on her stomach and the top of her body was over the water, ready to grab a fish that swam past.
"Why would you want to do that?" Sesshomaru asked, puzzled by the girl's strange actions.
"It's fun."
"Why is it fun?"
"It is challenging to humans. I'm sure that you could easily catch a fish, even with your one arm," Kay said, looking around for fish.
Sesshomaru looked at the armless sleeve that was now soaked, dripping water off of it as the rain seemed to come down harder.
Kay grinned and her hands went around a fish. She lifted it up and sat up, looking back at Sesshomaru to see him gazing at her with a curious look in his eyes.
"He's so cute!" Kay said as she looked at the fish in the face. "It's time for you to go back home." Kay put her hands in the water and let the fish go, and then she rubbed her hands together to try and get any smell off of them.
"Why did you let him go?" Sesshomaru asked as Kay stood up and walked over to where he was standing.
"Well, I didn't want him to just die, did I?" Kay said like it was the most obvious thing in the world.
Sesshomaru said nothing. Then, "I would have killed him right away. Humans are so weak."
"Valuing life isn't weak," Kay said, looking him in the eyes.
"Then what is weak?"
"Ignoring the great things you have. Pushing aside feelings. Not being able to trust or forgive people." Kay thought she sounded like a bunch of those Manga books that she read.
"So, is killing a powerful demon weak?" Sesshomaru asked. He seemed very odd and out of character. Kay thought he was acting at least a bit normal though.
"No... But it's not strong either. It's just something that you can do that has almost no effect on lives except for protecting others."
"Do you think I'm weak?"
Kay thought for a moment, but decided to answer truthfully. "In a sense."
Sesshomaru looked a little bit angry and his eyes flashed red for a moment.
"Do you dare insult me?"
"I did not insult you; I answered your question truthfully. Would you rather that I lie and let you live in a false world?"
"Why am I weak?"
"Because you can't handle your feelings, or don't handle them. And you don't seem to value life," Kay said, looking into his amber eyes. His eyes seemed to lost some of it's hard edge, and he seemed to be taking in every word she said.
Though it continued raining, the full moon soon popped out from the clouds and shone down on them, making it almost seem like daylight. Sesshomaru started to walk down a path away from the castle and said, "Come."
- - -
InuYasha and the others had been traveling for two days, yet they had not come to Sesshomaru's castle.
"Where is it Myoga? You said it was this way!" InuYasha yelled at the flea as they sat around a fire inside a nice hut...
"I did, but I could not follow Sesshomaru all the way there, for he went to fast for me to catch up," Myoga said as he sat on Kagome's knee, away from InuYasha's fists.
Miroku looked up to InuYasha and said, "Maybe you should use your nose and see if you can catch either of their scents? That way we can easily find the castle."
"This damn rain is washing the scents away, so I can't find him. Maybe in the morning. Then I can find the scent," InuYasha said as he folded his arms.
"That's good, because if you don't find her I'll wring your neck," Michelle said, punching into her palm. The look in her eye scared many people away from her, including Charlie. Though the dog had not said a word since they got there, he showed his emotions perfectly well.
"We're going to have to wait until morning, though. We can't go during the night. It'll be too hard..." Sango said, sitting next to the fire to warm herself.
"InuYasha, why couldn't we have stayed in a better hut?" wined Shippo.
"Shippo's right, water is leaking through all over the place..." Kagome agreed. There was in fact many leaks in the roof of the hut, making water drip on Shippo every two seconds.
"If you're getting wet, just move away from the leak!" InuYasha growled at the fox demon. Shippo jumped and moved next to Kagome, hugging her tightly.
"InuYasha!" Kagome yelled, making the half-demon wince. "Don't be so mean to Shippo!"
"Keh."
- - -
Sesshomaru walked towards a lake, stopping in front of it. It rippled with every rain drop, but would have been still if it wasn't raining. The moon reflected off of it, looking strange and distorted. The water was strangely closed in by trees, and felt just like the path on the forest. It was shady and dark, and fireflies still flew around, blinking on and off. Kay was amazed by the sight, and amazed by the moon's light, even with the clouds that went over part of it every so often.
"It is so beautiful!" gasped Kay, taking it all in at once.
"Yes, it is," Sesshomaru agreed.
Kay turned and glared at Sesshomaru, and he turned to look at her with emotionless eyes. "I thought you said that you didn't things were pretty!" Kay exclaimed.
"True. But I didn't say things couldn't be beautiful," Sesshomaru said, giving a small smirk. Kay had seen him smile once, but that was when Jaken had said something after searching for Totosai or whatever his name was.
"It's the same thing!" Kay said, glaring at him and looking like a little kid for a moment.
"Actually, 'pretty' is more childlike, where beautiful is more mature and has meaning to it," Sesshomaru explained.
Kay stopped glaring, but she still looked angry.
Then something really strange happened. Sesshomaru put his remaining arm around Kay and pulled her close, making her blush a lot. She looked up to him and did the classic anime thing to do. "Sesshomaru...?" Kay said slowly, blushing madly.
The demon lord looked down to the girl and then planted a kiss on her lips, making her eyes widen to the size of dinner plates. She didn't resist though, because she was too shocked.
Holy crap, he's really out of character... Why couldn't it be one of those Sesshomaru fan girls that I hear about all the time! Michelle is going to tease me until I die! But it's not my fault! Kay thought as he deepened his kiss.
Though she was blushing so much, it wasn't that bad... What was she thinking! Kay was flustered by the time that he came out of his kiss, smirking. She was blushing, and gave him a tiny smile, which he took as a good thing.
Sesshomaru turned and walked back, as did Kay, following Sesshomaru as slow as she dared to. Her eyes stayed on the ground and she had her hand up to her lips. Fireflies darted around her and the rain continued to fall, landing in huge drops on Kay's head.
Next time: InuYasha catches Kay's scent, but for some reason, Michelle is gone! Who could have taken her?
Michelle: HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA! You are such a desperate fool!
Kay: oO; Actually, I just felt like I had to have some romance in there to attract the readers. Hey, at least I didn't make any sex scenes with InuYasha and Kagome.
Michelle: O.O
Kay: You wouldn't be surprised by how many people write 'lemons'.
Michelle: Sesshomaru seemed really out of character.
Kay: I had to make him out of character to get him to do what I wanted.
Michelle: But... YOU STILL KISSED SESSHOMARU! HA HA HA!
Kay: I wouldn't get to happy with that if I were you. -evil grin-
Michelle: Kay? Kay! KAY! What have you done!
Kay: Next chapter is Find One, Lose Another!
Michelle: ANSWER ME!
Note: If that seemed a bit rushed, forgive me. I wanted to get it in there. If I didn't, it would have kept floating around my head until I did put it in there. -sigh- Oh well.
Note: I don't want to update until I get at least 1-2 more reviews. I'm not getting many reviews, so I want to know if anyone's actually READING this.