Chapter 8: The Shikon Jewel
Last Time….
Trinity moved Kagome up against a nearby tree and by now the class had all stopped what they were doing to watch the strange event taking place. "What is the meaning of this!" demanded Tsubaki, her face flushed in anger. Trinity turned the pregnant girl on her left side brandishing the pained sighed she raised the dagger and…
Present…
…brought it down in a swift motion to slice open the cloth over her kimono so as to expose the skin of her side, Trinity gasped when she found a glowing area where power resonated. Trinity put the blade back in her robes and when Kagome screamed in pain again she began to work faster to get the jewel out of the pregnant girl.
Trinity touched her hands to the glowing spot and closed her eyes to concentrate. 'Come on you little bugger…get out of my niece…' Trinity thought in frustration trying to draw the power out of her body without breaking skin. Sweat began to bead on her forehead but she was unable to do anything…Trinity sighed in defeat just as Inuyasha was approaching. Trinity got the dagger out again and raised it again.
Inuyasha saw Trinity do this and growled in rage he ran at her and after jumping clear over Kagome her pinned a surprised Trinity to the ground and slashed at her face one time with his claws. Deep gashes of blood and flesh appeared on Trinity's left cheek where her tattoo resided. Trinity gasped in pain and trembled when she felt the tips of claws pressing to her neck.
"What the hell were you doing!" Inuyasha demanded looking pissed off.
Trinity gulped nervously and Inuyasha's expression darkened even more when Kagome whimpered in pain again. "I—was trying to get—whatever was causing the pain out!" Trinity yelled. Inuyasha didn't look like he believed her but Kagome's panting weak voice spoke up behind the hanyou.
"She's telling the truth…please! Let her help Inuyasha!" Kagome pleaded. Inuyasha's expression softened and he hesitantly got off of Trinity.
Trinity stood and paid no mind to her injury. "Inuyasha! Carry Kagome to your room as quickly as possible! I'm going to go there and get things ready!" Trinity disappeared in a whirling of robes.
Inuyasha wasn't sure what was going on but he did as she said, passing a confused class and a tired Miroku who was one his way back to the class. Inuyasha had left him without a word when he said Kagome needed him. Inuyasha now carried Kagome to the room and bypassed the stairs and simply jumped onto the second floor hallway.
Inuyasha found the door still open from when he had burst out a couple minutes ago and found Trinity using the washing basin and filling it with hot water from the taps. He watched her get out some clean rags as well and takes some strange bottles out of her robes.
Inuyasha set Kagome down on some blankets and stared at the pained girl in concern. Trinity suddenly pushed him aside and told him not to look. Trinity took out the dagger and Inuyasha winced waiting for Kagome's scream of pain. "I'm sorry dear, I have nothing to numb the pain that won't hurt the baby inside you…" Trinity said softly and raised the dagger and brought it swiftly down into Kagome's side. As predicted Kagome screamed and tears streak down her face.
Trinity moved the dagger a little, slitting the skin a little wider. She then pressed her free hand to the wound with the dagger still inside and closed her eyes. She was easily able to draw the orb out of her body through the widened slit she made in the wound. She pulled out the pink jewel covered in blood and looked at it closely.
Trinity pocketed the jewel and removed the dagger from Kagome and covered the wound to prevent blood loss and began to clean the wound and wrap it. Inuyasha looked over now and Trinity nearly fainted when she saw actual tears in the hanyou's eyes.
"Inuyasha…are you okay?" asked Trinity with concern.
Inuyasha grunted and turned his back to her. "Feh! Of course I'm okay! Why the hell wouldn't I be?" Inuyasha said defensively. Trinity smiled at his back and continued to tend to Kagome who had passed out from the pain.
Trinity tucked Kagome into the futon and looked at Inuyasha who was getting some more warm water for Kagome. "I will be leaving now, tomorrow I shall bring news of what I found out about this…" Trinity said patting the pocket where the jewel sat. Inuyasha watched Trinity disappear in thin air and then looked back at Kagome.
Inuyasha walked over and began to tend to the wound licking it and using the healing element of his saliva to make it heal quicker. When he was done he bandaged it, cleaned his face and hopped into the futon next to his beautiful mate.
Pitch darkness…everything was black and Trinity stood in seemingly space, nothing around her, there appeared to be no floor but her feet were flat as if there was one and the only way she was not consumed but the blackness was the lavender aura that surrounded her. Trinity looked around and frowned slightly. "I don't have time for your games! This is urgent!" Trinity said in irritation. Suddenly before her in a white light appeared a grand judge like desk, there were about twenty desks and each one had a person sitting in a chair with a velvet black robe with silver trim.
Trinity looked at the darkened faces of each member of the lo tech council. "What is it Trinity?" asked the center figure on the highest judge like desk. He looked down at her from his high seat his white eyes glowed beneath the hood. Trinity looked at him and went down on one knee like a knight in medieval times.
"Sir…a strange thing has just happened to my niece…" she waited for a response but when she got none she continued. "She was experiencing pain in her side and so I found a strange power emanating from her side. I cut the thing out and I found this…" Trinity reached into her pocket and pulled out the jewel covered in blood.
There was silence for a second as if they were absorbing the information then they all began to break out into murmurs and gasps. The council stood and Trinity's suspicions about the jewel were confirmed. "So it's the Shikon-no-Tama…" said a kind voice, Kagome's father from under one of the hoods. Trinity smiled and opened her mouth to say something but was halted by the voice of the head lo tech.
"Leave that with us and we shall decide what to do with it…" said the center lo tech. Trinity raised an eyebrow and smirked; she pocketed the jewel again and crossed her arms.
"With all due respect sir…I don't think so…" Trinity said defiantly. She aroused the anger of the head lo tech.
"You dare defy my orders? You, as a lo tech, are still subject to the laws we pass here and by law I can demand the seizure of such dangerous artifacts…" said the lo tech in a dangerously soft voice.
Trinity gave him a childish grin. "Actually sir…no you cant…this jewel didn't end up in my favorite niece by accident it was an act of God and besides…if you take it from her what do you think will happen? That you will be able to keep it safe? No offense to anyone present but a good half of the council is corrupt as it is without the Jewel's help…" Trinity turned around and called over her shoulder. "Oh! And by the way…I'll be taking some time off…you know…training my favorite niece to protect the Jewel, I should be back a little after her baby is born—." As Trinity was about to disappear a voice stopped her, the head lo tech again.
"Wait…the child…so you think it…" He cut off as if unsure how to say it. Trinity ducked her head so that her face was shadowed.
"Yes…I think it is the one…" said Trinity and with a swish of robes she was gone.
A/N: Not that bad of a cliffy this time! REVIEW! REVIEW! REVIEW! . Oh! Next Chapter: Trinity's Training