Smile Like You Mean It
Chapter 18: How's Your Spleen
Sesshomaru reached the village and sighed.
"Almost."
He smirked slightly.
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Inuyasha frowned and switched walking sides.
Last he heard they were really close to Sesshomaru's place (Mwahahahaha).
So to save some energy they switched walking and resting hours.
They walk during the night, and rest during the day.
"DAMN!" Inuyasha growled.
"Calm down mutt! We'll be there soon!" Koga Yelled.
He stifled a scream and looked away.
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Kagome stared wide eyed as Dmitri walked back a bit and sat down looking into her eyes.
"I just want…I just want it all to stop." She mumbled bringing her shaky hands to her face.
"Ah don't be like that love."
"Shut up"
"Didn't we already have this conversation?"
" Leave me to my vomit"
" Oh darling, so sad, for you are vomit-less."
" Can you please leave?"
" What good would that do?"
" Leave every orifice of my body vomit free?"
"Tsk, tsk, tsk. Girlie, you can do better then that!"
"Leave me to my sanity then?"
"Pft! When did you have one of those!"
"Before you"
"Ow, that hurts"
"Shove it!" She started to stand and he followed.
" Shall we wake sleeping beauty then?" He smiled.
She frowned and looked toward the door.
" You do it, I can't watch."
He shrugged and walked down the hallway, hands in pocket.
She waited until he was a speck then ran full force out of the place like thing house (Err).
She stopped a few yards from the gate and heard a scream.
'Shit'
She looked back at the doorway to see Dmitri.
She turned and ran.
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Sesshomaru froze.
She was closer.
He looked around looking up at a cliff near a castle.
'Not good'
He took off running.
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She panted. She was stuck.
At the edge of a cliff.
Nothing there but unbroken water below her.
She looked down.
"What I'd do for a rock."
She looked back seeing Dmitri approaching fast.
She gulped then jumped.
She closed her eyes as she fell fifty plus feet into hard, possibly cold water.
She hit it hard. She felt a rush of freezing water engulf her.
A while Back…
A younger Kagome sat down at her house with her friend.
"You need to get out more" Aki told her.
"That's your answer for everything."
"Umm, You need Chinese Food! I know you cannot resist it's mighty Chinesey Lure! There's an all night place I wanna show you! It's good 'cause they're open!"
"Oh yeah right"
"Oh come on Kagome you haven't left this place in forever! I'm not kidding! You're starting to give off this spooky Howard Hughes Vibe"
"No"
"Come on"
"No"
"Lets Go"
"Okay…I'll leave the house but then I'll have to kill you"
"Yay!"
At the restaurant
Kagome looked at the sign, it read 'Eat or die'
"I like the name" She said.
"It used to be 'eat or don't' but they weren't making money. The options make the decision easier now I think."
They walked in.
"Welcome! Please sit down!" A speaker said.
" OR DIE!" It continued.
"That's kind of a theme here huh?" Kagome asked sitting down.
" Yup"
"Sooo…. how's your spleen?" Aki asked.
"It's doin' good"
Aki stared a little before continuing.
"Now that I've guided you into a more causal state of mind with my ninja like precision… You wanna tell me what's wrong?"
"I really doubt telling anyone will do much good, but…Okay I'll tell you"
"Good talk to me!"
" I'm losing my mind"
'Keep smiling, make it natural.' Was Aki's mantra.
"It's not because I'm writing so much either. Shit…I don't think I'm writing enough. Right before the writing thing I painted a picture. It's a doll. He's got this empty, burned out, soulless look, you know…like the ice cream man. I named him 'Dmitri'. But the writing stuff started and I never finished him. A Little while after that…it started talking to me…"
'Doin' good Aki, Keep it up.'
"Okay, no. I mean it's my own voice it's me talking to myself and I know that. It sounds like a really tired, whispering, male…me. It's pretty much like have your own internal conversations. That's nothing unusual. I don't think. But I couldn't get me to shut up. Like some involuntary mantra going off in my head. 'The screws are coming undone, Kagome.' What I so lovingly refer to as a 'mantra of doom!' 'You can't stop it' but I can. If I write."
"How very Sarah Winchester of you. Kagome you say it's not but I think it is because you're writing so much. Or you're taking crack. Is it crack?"
"Uhh, We're going to have this to go."
Present
Kagome coughed a sputtered. She was being carried. And wasn't as wet as she should have been.
She blinking until her vision became un-blurry.
Much to her dismay, Sesshomaru didn't come to her rescue but Oz did! Mwahahahaha! No actually it's Dmitri.
Dmitri looked at her, his purple and gold eyes staring into her terrified brown orbs.
"Your probably sad I had my Trechcoat huh?"
"Err, Why?"
"Because you would have seen me without my shirt, it's only fair! I had to administer CPR and strip to you your undies!"
She jumped off his shoulder and looked past the Trechcoat he let her use.
"Bastard" She tightly tied the lace.
He turned around and walked to her side guiding her down the path by the small of her back.
"Don't touch me" She didn't move.
" You rather have Sesshomaru find us like this or me carrying you over my shoulder like a baby?"
She looked at him.
"Are those my only choices?"
" There's one more. He can find us in a hot and heavy make out session!" He smiled proudly.
"This will do fine."
"Damn"
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Sango sighed and looked around.
Nothing.
For the past hour Koga and Inuyasha Have been up to their neck insults.
From all the stories Kagome told Inuyasha, He's been attacking with stench and yo' mama jokes.
Koga was confused.
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Rin sat on the edge of a stone step with Shippo and watched the scene ahead of them while kicking their feet.
"You think they forgot us, Shippo?"
"Kagome would never forget us." Shippo said plucking a flowers petal.
" Lord Sesshomaru has never left me before" She frowned a little.
"They'll be back! Didn't Lord Jaken say it would be in six days?"Said turning toward her.
"You're right! Okay! You're it! She tapped his shoulder and ran.
He jumped off and chased far into the dark garden.
They ran and ran until they were far from the house.
Rin tripped over a root and hit the ground.
"Shippo?"
"Coming!"
He ran up to her and looked down. "How'd you cut your knee?"
"I tripped! Help me back up."
He lifted her up and wobbled their way past the roses.
"Hey kids"
A rather large lizard stopped out from a big ass bush.
Shippo's lip started to tremble.
'Oh no'
The lizard approached razor sharp claws out in a gift getting manner.
Shippo stepped in front of Rin with hands raised.
"Fox Fire!" He screamed as loud as he could.
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Kirara's ears perked up and she meowed getting into her bigger form.
"What's wrong Kirara?" Sango said getting onto of the cat. Miroku following suit.
Koga stopped and looked west, and then Kirara took off in that direction, Koga right below and Inuyasha trailing behind. XD!
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Rin whimpered as she crawled behind a tree.
The lizard took a strike at Shippo.
He fell to the ground holding his side as the blood ran from the gash.
"Shippo!" She whispered.
He shakily got up with, now covered in blood, top in hand.
"Magic top!" He fell back to the ground and crawled to the tree Rin was at while the top dug the lizard into the ground. The illusion had so much emotion in it it was doing serious damage. By that I mean digging itself painfully into his left eye to the point of splitting the iris in two.
" Damnit!" He yelled covering his eye with a hand. He took the hand away to examine the yellowish eye goo with his one good eye.
"Damned bloody Kitsune!" He screamed.
That was the point and time a certain Hiracotsu flung itself through the treetops and swung back and low enough to decapitate the Youkai.
Sango landed from her free fall off Kirara and grabbed her boomerang.
"Shippo? Are you there?" She screamed into the air while the rest of the gang landed, stepped, and skidded into the rose garden.
Shippo and Rin stared teary eyed at the more then welcomed group.
"Sango?" He cried a little.
"Sweet angry Jesus what happened to you two!"
He was about to muster a sad excuse for a laugh, be fell unconscious first.
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Sesshomaru was now jumping off the cliff and landing on the soft white sand next to it.
Her scent disappeared for a while.
He look around then saw fading wet footsteps and decided it was better the following shadows. He ran this becoming more ergent.
After a moment two shadowed figures were walking one of a chick and the other dude (not he's actual thoughts mind you).
Almost instantly noticing the Chick as Kagome he ran slightly faster but headed toward the dude.
With a swift movement he punched the back of Dmitri's gead and skidded to a stop in front of them.
Dmitri rubbed the back of his head and looked up.
" What the FUCK was that for!"
Kagome frowned and helped her rather sexy male mental voice back up.
"Are you okay?"
"Not really! Your boyfriend over their smacked the shit out of my head and made my nose bleed."
Sesshomaru walked up to them and roughly grabbed Kagome by the wrist.
"Come On" He yanked.
"Dmitri?" She looked back at him.
He looked up at her and smiled a nose-bleedy smile.
Author's note: Oops! Sorry this is so effing late but I got side tracked. I ended up going camping for three days with my brother and dad. But every chance I got I would stop and handwrite it! Hope you like the semi-long chapter! XP by the way I was writing whis while Marilyn Manson. Repeated himself in my CD player (I got a skateboard! XD) (I'm not a slave to a god, who doesn't exist, and I'm not a slave to a world that doesn't give a damn!)
To reviewers:
Moonscout11 : Well thanks for the niceness of you!
Pyrochi: I LUBB DMITRI! He kicks major ass, I can see Kagome giving birth to Sesshomaru's Kid….
Isisoftheunderground :Hope you like the longness of it all.
Candy kisses1: Eh, it puts more volume to it!
Koganadkagomeforever: OMS! Err, I hope you don't hate me about Shippo, sorry man.
RIN14: Thank you! J
Hermonine: Thank you mucho!
AnimusPatronus: I'll have a site up sometime…
The Squabbit: :cries::hides::dies:
Anime-Death-Angel-315: Yes, Oz is a weirdo vampire…but he's hoot. Well Hope you get the family thing cleared out okies?
Love you till I hate you (Hmm)
Morbid.