Hey! Welcome back for chapter 20! I hope that you liked the last chappie! In this chappie, I'm going to add a little twist, if I haven't already in earlier chappies! All that I'll say is that it has to do with a character who's name starts with an 'S'. Well, ON WITH THE CHAPPIE!
Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha, or any other characters related to Inuyasha, except for Kimi, Kia, Kararu, Sanya, Machika, and Kiala. (As you can probably see, I LOVE NAMES THAT START WITH A 'K'!)
Some Dreams Can Come True, Ya Know!
Chapter 20: I'll Be There
"What is your name?" Kagome asked her softly.
"Kiala." She said in a cracked, wavering voice.
"Mine is Kagome. How did you get here?" Kagome asked in the same tone.
"I was running…demons were chasing me…I tripped…they caught me and beat me up…I got away and ran…they caught me again and after beating me up again dumped me here." Kiala said in the same voice, except now it sounded parched and dried.
"Come with me." Kagome said softly as she stood up and held out her hand. Kiala looked at it before taking it and tried to stand up. When she did, her knees buckled, and she fell back down on the ground. Kagome sighed, then turned back to Kiala.
"I am going to transform into a demon so that I can pick you up. Please don't get scared. I'll bring you to a village nearby." Kagome said. Kiala nodded, and black flames engulfed Kagome. When they disappeared, Kararu was standing there, and she knelt down. She motioned for Kiala to get on her back. Kiala obeyed, not even fazed by Kagome transforming. Once she was safely on Kararu's back, then went to the village, just as Sango walked out.
"Kararu? Who is this?" Sango asked, making sure that it was Kagome's ancestor, then curious about who the other girl was.
"I'll tell you inside, but first, she needs you to heal her. Kiala, I'm Kararu, and this is Sango. She is going to heal you, okay?" Kararu said as she put Kiala down, holding her steady on her feel. Sango nodded and they went inside their home. They found an empty guestroom, and laid Kiala down on a pallet. Sango took her position and started to heal her.
When Sango finished, Kiala sat up, expecting pain, but received none. Black flames engulfed Kararu, and Kagome was left standing there. While Sango was healing Kiala, Sesshomaru had smelled a new smell around the house and was looking for the source. He found the girls in one of the guestrooms, and when his eyes fell on Kiala, his heart missed a beat.
"That girl, I don't know why, but she is so beautif-wait a second, what am I thinking? Well, she is beautiful! Usually I wouldn't think things like this, but…I don't know why!" Sesshomaru thought, getting confused with his own thoughts.
"Thank you." Kiala thanked Sango. Sango smiled at her.
"No problem. What is your name?" Sango asked her.
"Kiala. I'm a de-" Kiala said, but stopped herself before she said the word. Kagome looked at her in confusion.
"You're a what Kiala? You can tell us, we won't tell anyone." Kagome said softly, stroking her arm to calm her down. Kiala sighed before speaking again. For some reason, she actually trusted these people. She hadn't trusted anyone in her lifetime, which had been about a hundred years, but these people were…different.
"I'm a…demon." She said. The two girls smiled. So that's why she didn't want to tell them. She was afraid that they were going to kill her. Sesshomaru was pulled out of his thoughts by the word 'demon'. He was attracted to another one of his own kind! He hadn't ever felt like this before, for anyone, except his mother.
"It's all right. We won't kill you. You're safe here in this village." Kagome said. Kiala nodded. They all stood up, and headed for the doorway that Sesshomaru was hiding by. They walked through, and turned towards him.
"Hey Sesshomaru. This is Kiala. Kiala, this is Sesshomaru." Kagome said as she introduced everyone.
"Hello." Kiala said.
"It's a pleasure to meet you." Sesshomaru said, blushing profusely. Kagome and Sango muffled their giggles as his blush increased.
"Do you mind showing Kiala around and introducing her to other's? Sango and I have to go and patrol the outside of the village." Kagome proposed.
"Uh…uh, sure." He said as his blush, if possible, was increasing by the second. He led Kiala away from the girls. As soon as the two were out of earshot, they burst out laughing. They had never seen Sesshomaru blush before.
They left the house, and went on their village border patrol. Their trip was uneventful, and when they reached the village two hours later, Sesshomaru and Kiala were talking to Inuyasha and Midoriko, and Sesshomaru and Kiala were hand in hand, making Sesshomaru blush. And to make things worse for Sesshomaru, she leaned on his shoulder. Sesshomaru had also found her some clothes, they were a striking blue color that matched her eyes, along with black, like the one Kagome found her in, but different lengths on the arms and legs.
"Looks like they got closer over the last two hours." Sango muttered to Kagome. Kagome nodded and they walked up to the other three.
"Hey, what're you doing?" Kagome asked as they reached them.
"Talking." Kiala said, snuggling up against Sesshomaru (I want to snuggle with Lord Fluffykins! –snuggle, snuggle-). He didn't seem to mind, beside's his blush, and turned to Kagome.
"So, the only ones that I can't seem to find to introduce Kiala to are Shippo and Soten…" He said, but was interupted by a kitsune running up behind him, holding a young woman's hand.
"Did someone say my name?" Shippo asked.
"Well, yes. Shippo, Soten, this is Kiala. Kiala, this is Shippo and his fiance Soten." Sesshomaru said as he gave out the last introductions of the day.
"Hello. It's a pleasure to meet you both." Kiala said with a slight bow.
"No, the pleasure is ours." Shippo and Soten said at the same time with a small bow. They heard a bell sound in the house.
"Sesshy, what's that bell for?" Kiala asked him. Soten, Kagome, and Sango giggled at the nickname.
"It's the dinner bell. Since I gave you a tour of the house, last one there's a rotten egg!" Sesshomaru said as he ran off. Kiala giggled and started to run at demon speed. Surprisingly enough, here are the places who got there, and who the rotton egg was:
Kiala
Sesshomaru
Inuyasha
Midoriko
Soten
Sango
Kagome
Rotten Egg: Shippo (poor Shippo…)
They met up with Miroku and Kimi at the dinning room. They all ate their food in silence. When they had finished, they all went into their respective rooms, and went to sleep.
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XXThree Days LaterXXKiala was woken up by a ray of light hitting her face from the window on the other side of the room. She yawned and stretched, and walked outside. She walked over to the forest and walked under the trees in the early morning light. She jumped up in a tree, stretching out even more muscles. She watched as a buck walked underneath the tree she was in.
She grabbed a stick out of the tree and sharpened it quickly. She stood up on the thin branch, and waited for the buck to be directly underneath her. She dove, and was about to hit the ground, when beautiful blue and white wings sprouted out of her back and she flew at the buck, catching it by surprise.
She killed it in one dive, and then dragged it back to the edge of the forest. She went back into the forest to hunt some more. She walked around for a good twenty minutes, and was far away from the village. All that she could hear around her were the birds chirping and the wind rustling the leaves on the ground and in the trees. She turned around swiftly, and was face to face with a demon. He had black skin, evil, endless black eyes, and wore all black. He reached out and grabbed Kiala. Before he could cover her mouth, she was able to scream one word.
"SESSHY!"
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Sesshomaru shot straight up in bed as he heard a death scream from the forest that was calling for him. He recognised the voice, and shot out of bed, only in his pants and his Tensusaiga and Tokijin (just in case things got really nasty) at his side. He ran into the hall and speed down it a demon speed to the room that Kiala was staying in. He walked in to see that she wasn't there.
Cursing to himself, he turned and ran out of the room, only to be faced by his younger brother, sister, Midoriko, and Kagome.
"What the naraku is going on?" Inuyasha asked his older brother. Sesshomaru didn't have time to play silly word games, and only muttered one word before shooting past them in a burst of white light.
"Kiala."
The other four in the hall ran after Sesshomaru and found themselves running in the forest, Inuyasha and Kimi tracing his scent. They finnaly caught up to Sesshomaru in an area where the ground was covered by leaves. Sesshomaru was looking at the leaves in the ground with great concentration before looking at them.
"Someone kidnapped Kiala. The kusoyaro. You can tell by looking at the leaves on the ground. There seemed to have been a struggle." He said, before going off into his own thoughts. He thought of the one demon that he had ever befriended in his life besides Jaken, but he didn't really count. He thought of Kiala, and how much he would miss her if he couldn't find her. They walked around for about an hour, and finally, Sesshomaru gave up hope, because he couldn't find a scent anywhere.
"Oh, Kiala..." He thought.
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Kiala was being kept in a damp, dark cell underground, about thirty miles away from Kaede's Village. She had been beaten up for the third time in the past hour, and was being kept in here so that the lord of the underground system didn't have to look at the 'fairy-demon skum'. She sighed as she looked around her surroundings. She had tried every brick and metal in the cell, but couldn't find any way to get out. She finally got comfortable in the corner of the cell, and started to fall asleep, but was disturbed by two words intruding in on her mind.
"Oh, Kiala…"
"Sesshy?"
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"Sesshy?" Sesshomaru heard in his mind.
"Kiala? Is that you? Are you all right?" He asked her, glad that she was safe. A grin played on his lips and he thought to himself how he hadn't smiled in years.
"Yes, it's me Sesshy. I'm not really, as you put it, fine, but I'll live. I'm in an underground system about thirty miles away from that village that we were staying in. I'm in the forth cell on the right about twenty yards away from the entrance to the underground system. The entrance is under a tree that has it's branch's bent into the shape of a bow. You should be able to find it easily." Kiala explained.
"I'll be there. Don't you worry Kiala, I will be." Sesshomaru said.
"Uh, Earth to Sesshomaru, Earth to Sesshomaru, can you copy?" Kagome said as she waved a hand in front of Sesshomaru's face, taking him out of his stupor, and accidentially breaking his mental connection with Kiala.
"I was just talking to Kiala. She's in the underground system under Mirthala. We need to get there as soon as possible." Sesshomaru said, a little miffed that Kagome had broken the connection. They all nodded and headed towards the direction of Mirthala.
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"No! Leave me here!" Kiala pleaded as they dragged her out of her cell for the second time after she had talked to Sesshomaru. They beat her up right then and there to get her to be quiet, then dragged her into a room that she had grown to hate the second she stepped (well, dragged actually) foot in it. If anyone had been outside of the room, they could here Kiala scream at the top of her lungs, saying only one word:
"SESSHY!"
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"Well, here we are. Mirthala. There's the tree over there with the branches in the shape of a bow. Let's hurry." Kagome said as she pointed to the tree. It had been about an hour and a half after they had left the Forest of Inuyasha.
They all nodded and ran over to the tree, Sesshomaru getting there first. He found a rock right next to the tree, and picked it up and threw it aside, revealing a passageway. They all climbed in, Midoriko and Kagome turning invisible (they climbed in last). They arrived in the middle of a battle between guards and the three siblings. Kagome and Midoriko used their invisibility to their advantage, taking out about five guards each.
After the small, ten minute battle (they even killed the lord, somehow… 0.0), Sesshomaru ran over to the fourth cell on the right, and saw Kiala, laying over in the corner of the cell on her back, unconcious. Sesshomaru used his poison claws to open the cell door, and ran over to Kiala in the blink of an eye.
"Kiala, Sesshy's here, please wake up." He said as he put her in his arms bridal style. She opened her eyes after Sesshomaru asked her to wake up four or five times.
"Sesshy! I'm fine…" She said, and tried to smile, but it came out more like a gramace.
"No, your not, and don't hurt yourself trying to talk. I told you I'd be here. We've already killed all of the kusoyaro's that were here, even the puny excuse for a lord. You won't have to worry about them anymore. I promise." He promised her. He bent down and kissed her forehead, but then moved down and kissed her cheek. He then closed his eyes, and closed the gap between his and Kiala's lips. They broke apart after a minute, and Sesshomaru walked out of the cell with Kiala in his arms. He motioned for them to leave, and they all went over to the hole that led outside. Before Sesshomaru jupmed outside, he looked down at Kiala, and smiled. She had fallen asleep. He jumped out, and they started their way back to the village.
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XXThree Days LaterXXAll ten of the Inuyasha gang (including the three couples ((InuKag, SanMir, ShipSot)), Kiala, Sesshomaru, Midoriko, and Kimi) sat in the dinning room eating their evening meal. After everyone had finished eating, everyone was surprised when Sesshomaru went over to Kiala and got down on one knee.
"Kiala…" He said.
"Yes Sesshy?" Kiala said in a soft voice.
"Will you marry me?" He said as he held out his hand to Kiala, revealing a ring made of pure gold and sivler, with daimonds in certain places on it.
"Yes!" She squeled as she hugged and kissed him. Everyone in the room started applauding as they kissed, even Kaede, who had just walked in (she had heard the proposal to).
"This is turning out to be a very eventful two years…" Inuyasha sent to Kagome. She laughed before answering.
"I agree completely Inuyasha, I agree completely." Kagome sent back.
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Zodiakwizard: Well, glad that you liked the chapter, and I hope that you liked the new character. Do you like my new twist? Do you like that song that I made? Huh? Huh? LOL. Just kidding. See you tomorrow at school.
Inuyashaluver8844: Wow, for once, you can't predict anything! That's way cool! I surprised you! Hahahaha! Well, glad that you liked it. I gtg! Don't forget to review! Thanks for reviewing!
Well, that was chapter 20. I hope that you liked it! For once, I got nothing to say!
Join me next time for:
Chapter 21: It's a Very Eventful Time of the Year