A/n: whoot I done it, chappie ten all ready to go. Just enjoy.
Disclaimer: the story is based in the silver wolf written by Alice Borchardt and Inu yasha an co. don't belong to me either. No matter how much I want them too, this is just a unfair world.
The silver wolf
By panthera1984
Chapter 10
Sweet, sweet morning. Why did she ever like the morning anyways. The sunlight was happily blazing on her face and her new bed had done her no good. Groaning Kagome hurled her body to the right and went merrily down on the ground with a loud thump. O yeah morning indeed, and just after the worst night of her life too. It sucked.
Keeping the tears at bay Kagome pushed her self from the ground high enough to grab into the bed and get up in a somewhat more dignified way. Groaning again when her body protested and her soar muscled stung just a bit more Kagome gently settled down on her bed and looked around at the little cell that was her room now.
It wasn't much, only a bed and a very small wooden desk with an chair made from the same wood. Above her bed was a small wooden cross and except for the one blanket and one very flat pillow that was about everything she had for her interior. Not bad, if she said so herself, in more ways than she would ever express herself this was better than living with Naraku.
Thinking about her dreaded psychotic uncle brought her thoughts back to Inu yasha, and Kikyo, and too Kouga her intended. In mere days she would be meeting him and her stomach just made a double summersault in a bad way when she thought about that.
Why was life so complicated, why couldn't she have been born normal was just such a good question. And just how she could change her birth, so she could not change the course her life had taken. Rubbing her shoulder Kagome retrieved a small bundle of clothing that had probably been there since yesterday.
With a shrug Kagome proceeded to dress herself in a plain white cotton under dress with a light brown sleeveless dress that went over it. It was probably a novice gown but it was clean, nice and fresh the wolf in her yawned and wrinkled her nose at Kagome reasoning at clothing. To her clothing was something unnecessary and had much preference to walking around naked. The thoughts and images that came to Kagome, at that, was embarrassing to say at least.
All done and ready Kagome walked to the door her eyes looking at the ground making sure no weird white mist was suddenly raising up and coming after her again. She had been so freighted and if it weren't for that white light she would have been covered in it too. She could only guess what it would have done to her. Nothing good was the most likely option.
At the door Kagome stood still for a few moments, listening she found that the hall was clear of any kind of beings and she reach out for the doorknob. To her surprise the door was already unlocked and with great hesitation she found her self stepping into the empty hall.
Not quite sure which way to go, she hadn't exactly been paying attention last night. Not that she would need to really worry about it, all she had to do was put up her nose and sniff her way back to civilization. Lifting her head to take her first good sniff Kagome was completely taken of guard when a small boulder came hurling into her legs.
Not able to help herself Kagome found her self on the floor for the second time that morning and was unable to see anything courtesy of a mob of red hair hanging in her eyes. Lifting her hands up to brush the tendrils away she felt the small boulder that was Shippo move and turn around. Now she no longer had hair in her eyed but nose to nose with the energetic little boy. Suddenly Kagome felt a bit drained when she saw all his youthful energy pouring of him.
"Kagome, Kagome. Auntie Keade wants you to come to the kitchen. She's saying you should learn how to cook and such. You know for your new husband." Shippo was practically bumping up and down and if you think that its painful to get kicked in the privets try having a kit bumping on your breasts, no party favor.
With some wriggling and moving and with a last shove Kagome managed to gently lower Shippo on the ground and get her self in sitting position in one movement.
"Shippo, please, calm down a bit." Shippo was no longer sitting but standing before Kagome looking at her eagerly. "You said I need to be in the kitchen right, could you please point the way-
Before Kagome had time to finish that sentence Shippo was bouncing again. What the hell had that boy eating this morning, instant sugar?
"Course Kagome, you know what?"
"What-
"I know the whole way in here already, auntie let me out early, and I know it all by know. Did you know there is a hot spring in here, one of the nuns pointed it out to me." Shippo skipped down the corridor and took a right.
"She told me that it is only used on special occasions and that the other nuns only get to use it once a year. No wonder they smell so bad" Shippo muttered the last thing and Kagome barely caught it. All the while Shippo rattled on she followed him through a maze of corridors, there had to be a quicker way, but apparently she wouldn't be finding out this morning.
A whole lot of wrong turns and dead ends later Kagome finally managed to get into the kitchen. Warmth and food smells met her before even opening the door and Kagome could feel her stomach rumble.
With a guilty look on her face Kagome opened the door and peeked around, Shippo near her legs mumbling to himself for once. A rather homely looking woman could be seen standing beside the cooker stirring in a pot with a huge wooden spoon.
Gathering courage Kagome stepped inside only to jump from shock when the woman addressed her. Did she have eyes in the back of her head. Kagome rubbed her breast hoping to calm her racing heart down.
"So you're here child, well don't hesitate, there's a plate for you over there." The woman with her salt and pepper colored hair pointed to a massive wooden table in the middle of the room, which had a plate with bread and cheese standing on it. "when you're done you can start with collecting some herbs for me."
Nodding her head Kagome quickly made her way to the table and settled down, dragging the plate to her she dug in not caring what others might think of her lack of manners. Ripping a chuck of the bread and cutting a piece of cheese with her nails Kagome put the two together and chucked it inside her mouth. She took two or three other huge chunks before the mad feeling of painful hunger abided and she was able to eat with some more dignity.
All the while Shippo could be heard squealing outside every now and then he would run inside, do a lap around the table, and run out again. Kagome could only wonder at what kind of game he was playing. And all the while the nun spoke to her while steering in her pan.
"My name is sister Barbara, but you can just cal me Barbara." Barbara waved her spoon in the air and drops went flying. "Anyway I'm going to teach you the basics of cooking, no way to catch a man than through the stomach." Another round in the air with the spoon to empathize that and Barbara was back to stirring again.
"Today you will help me cook diner for all the inhabitants, you managed to escape lunch." Barbara gave a sturdy flick with her wrist and picked up a metal spoon with her one free hand. Using the spoon to scoop up some of the liquid in the pan she brought it too her mouth and took a careful nip. Barbara closed her eyes for a moment and a frown appeared above her eyes only to declare it done.
Just on that moment two other nuns entered the kitchen and lifted the pan from the fire and took it away. Barbara came to Kagome not paying attention to the two and was cleaning her hands on a towel.
"Well now that's out of the way why don't you tell me something about yourself, the lady Keade wouldn't say all that much." Barbara plopped opposite Kagome and flung the towel on the table. Waiting for Kagome to start talking. Was it just her or did this woman go from talking to complete silence all the time, at any rate it made Kagome feel uncomfortable and she put up her guard just in case. Couldn't be too careful what with all the things that had been happening lately.
While Kagome was contemplating to herself what to say,Barbara just meshed her hands together and twiddled her thumps, her eyes wondering from the now cold cooker to the beams that held the roof up. In all honesty it made Kagome feel even more uncomfortable, maybe just talking would help get rid of these ragging nerves. Outside a extra loud whoop and some cracking could be heard.
"Don't break anything Shippo." Kagome said automatically before going back to debating if she should talk and what she would say if she did.
"I won't." Shippo yelled while yet another loud cracking noise could be heard. Kagome sighed and decided that maybe talking would be good for her, it would keep her from thinking too much about what happened in her room last night, and to addition to that what had been that white light that saved her, probably one of the nuns.
"What did Keade tell you." Kagome said hesitatingly. "I mean, what would you like to know?" There, that sounded a bit better, and she could always choose what to answer and what not. A very safe path indeed.
"Well child you just take your time with it, because, I want to hear it all." Barbara pulled the now empty plate away from Kagome and shoved it to the other side. "It's not like we have many visitors here, and it can get a little dull, you know, living with the same people you get to know each other too good."
Kagome nodded and felt like thumping herself on the head after that, great she just agreed to tell everything. Why was she such a sucker. O well, come what may, as long as she didn't let anything to weird get to Barbara things would be fine. She hoped.
"Well go on girl, lets start with your birth and go on from there, diner is a while yet." Kagome mentally groaned at the awfully happy tune sister Barbara used with her at this moment. Sure great, why not start with her birth, safe as any other point of her exceedingly normal life.
Shifting uncomfortable Kagome decided to ignore Barbara's request of her starting with her being born. She really didn't feel like telling someone about her youth.
"Well, well, my name is Higurashi Kagome, I used to live with my uncle and his son." Kagome winched when she said that. "Just recently I met up with Kikyo sama, and she is helping me with learning things for my new life too." There that sounded safe and vague enough. Barbara nodded and waved a impatient hand to tell her to keep it going. Outside Shippo produced another loud thump and a crash.
Kagome's eyes widened when she heard Shippo, this was great, she could talk about Shippo, it was sure to be a safe thing to talk about. "Barbara, why don't I tell you about how I found Shippo, it sure is much more interesting than any other part of my life." Said Kagome, trying to suppress the urge to sound pleading and desperate. Barbara just nodded and Kagome had to suppress a sigh of relieve.
"Well. Let's see. O yes, I remember, I was on a market to buy some fabric and old clothing to make use of to make a new wardrobe. Of course I couldn't find anything good enough and I was arguing with a salesman when my nephew, his name is Onigumo by the way, did something stupid again." Kagome rolled her eyes and said. "he is always so dense, wouldn't now a young girl from a young boy, anyway, he ended up at this slave sale and got himself bitten, that was by Shippo by the way." A smile appeared on Kagome's face when she thought back where he had been bitten.
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A very detailed explanation on her cousins dumb before and several hours later Kagome found her self outside with a small scissor and a basket to collect herbs. At the current time Kagome found her self starring at a huge collection of goods together with Shippo muttering to her self. "She told me I could get anything I wanted, nothing in her is poisonness, great." Kagome shifted her weight to her other food and looked thoughtful, next to her right leg Shippo was rubbing his eyes and pretended not to yawn.
"Well, no use in standing here. Let me see, this looks pretty nice, smells good too." Kagome muttered again while bending down, and cutting a small branch from the small bush in front of her with her scissor. Placing the bridle branch in her basket Kagome stepped on a small path that spindled its why through the herb garden. A soft plop indicated Shippo falling on the ground after losing his support.
Deciding to follow her nose Kagome went from one side of the garden to another collecting this and that, placing it neatly in her small wooden basket. She was just deciding what to cut from two almost identical herbs when Barbara called out to her, telling her to get back in and get busy. Somewhere Shippo woke up with a start and sleepwalked his way back into the kitchen, plopping back on the ground as soon as he reached the chair Kagome had been sitting in earlier.
Kagome carefully placed the basket with herb on the wooden table and stood back while Barbara inspected the contents. "Its good, yes we can use these for the chicken I got this morning, and these, these are perfect to go into my desert. O and this…" Barbara chattered excitingly now and started to explain the herb to Kagome and there most common way to be used.
While Barbara made her way back to her pots and pans Kagome followed. "Here girl you cut these up nice and small, and then throw them in there." Barbara pointed at an already steaming pan. Kagome gulped when she was handed the knife she was to cut the herb with, that thing was big enough to skewer a small pig. Why would she need something this big for just herbs, hopefully everything would be alright, she hoped she wouldn't cut herself with this, the damage she might do. In the back of her mind the wolf snorted and rolled over on her back and went to sleep, this was of no interest to her, honestly who wanted to know which herb went with what, just raw meat was good enough for her. Humans ever so complicated.
Careful with cutting the herb Kagome made slow progress and was soon shoed away by an irritated Barbara, who went about business alone after that and made Kagome sit and watch while she was being lectured.
The next two, hours or so, ended up like one grueling cooking lesson, in which Kagome learned things she didn't even knew existed and she had no keen interest in ever knowing. There was, however, no stopping Barbara. The woman kept her lectures coming and coming and…
Just when Kagome thought Barbara's droning voice would put her at sleep, another nun came running in. "Sister Barbara, sister Barbara, we're one short in table duty, sister mary fell ill and is not able to do her task anymore." The new sister said, her voice heavily out of breath on top of her natural nasal tune.
"Calm yourself down." Barbara said her eyes still at the chicken in front of her. "There is no big problem, Kagome here will gladly set the table, you just check on Sister Mary. And ask her if she wants some of my special soup."
The calling of her name brought Kagome out of her stupor and she followed Sister Felicia dutiful when she found out her new task, at least she was able to do this, nothing complicated about setting a table up. At least once you knew were the plates and silver was kept.
While sister Felicia went of to visit sister Mary, Kagome set up the table. Bringing out plates for 25 nuns was no small fee as Kagome found out. She had to take it in small stacks at a time to get the table done. While working her way around the large soft brown table, Kagome found her mind wondering to Inu yasha. She wondered how he was doing at the moment, was his decease really completely gone, was he back to normal already or, maybe, was he still sick. She whished she could go out and ask, but Sesshoumaru had been quite clear. There was to be no going anywhere.
Slowly the nuns started to come into the dining room and Kagome had to work around them, since, it usually was done by two nuns she wasn't quite done yet with setting the table. However, her most shameful moment was when she found out that all the plates were occupied when a very old nun with a walking cane came in and looked around.
Silently scolding her self Kagome went back to the china cabinet and brought out another plate and cup for the nun. Making a place at the head of the table Kagome smiled to the old nun and asked her if she needed something else, behind her she could here Barbara entering with the last pan, filled with some kind of sauce she hadn't let Kagome finish.
Not seeing the weird looks she was receiving from all the other nuns and Shippo Kagome made a polite bow to the old nun who had sat down and was bestowing her with, what had to be, the most warmest kindest smile she ever received. Holding back tears of gratitude Kagome made another bow before going of to her own place at the table, this time the weird looks did go noticed.
Kagome's stepped faltered and then she stopped looking around with unsure eyes, taking in the people around her, one nun in particular took her notice, she was start white. Thinking it had to do with her forgetting setting a plate for the old nun Kagome hastened to apologize.
"I'm sorry, but I thought there would be only 25 people eating here toning, I'm really sorry I must have misheard." The stark white nun right eye started to twitch and Keade scrapped her throat.
"Kagome, there are only 25 people here now." Keade said after scrapping her throat. Kagome swallowed hard and looked back to the place the old nun had been sitting, and sure enough, now there was no one anymore, she had been dealing with another ghost again. But this one had been so real, so lively, so kind. Just then sister Angela threw a hysteric fit.
"There's a ghost, o- my- god. A ghost." Sister Angela screamed, making everyone in vicinity wince. Two sisters next to her tried there best to keep sister Angela from throwing her self over the table, while, a third sister took a napkin to wave some cool wind in sister Angela's direction. A hard task with her constant moving around.
Over the ruckus Keade approached Kagome. "Is it true dear, that you saw a ghost." Kagome nodded.
"Yes, she was quite old, walking with a rosewood cane. She was very nice to me, she looked so real too. Usually they don't look so real." Kagome said, this time she didn't try to keep the pleading from her voice, she really hadn't meant to cause all this uproar.
Keade smiled at her reassuringly. "Don't feel bad Kagome, in fact it is nice to know that the old abbess still checks on us. She was a very kind person in life, in I couldn't see her being any different in death." With a nod Keade went back to her place and told sister Angel to quite the act, she did so immediately.
After some shoveling and muttering all went quite and Keade proceeded to say thanks and prey. Kagome kept quite the whole time, until it was time to cut the chicken. At first she wondered what that tickling sensation in her nose was, then she wondered why the smell coming from the chicken was tickling her nose. That was when she took a real sniff.
Kagome's insides froze up when her brain told her what that smell meant. Shooting out of her chair Kagome shot forward knocking the knife from Barbara's hand and flinging the chicken to the ground in the same process. The knife had imbedded itself in the table close to Keade's left hand.
If people had been throwing her odd looks before, it was nothing compared to now. Now a bit unsure of herself Kagome blushed bright red to the roods and she pointed at the chicken. "There is poisons leaves inside it." Kagome said her voice feeble. Sister Angela went straight into a new fit of hysterics.
Barbara left her seat to inspect the chicken and nodded when Keade rose her brown in question. Keade scrapped her throat yet again and set of to calm the shocked nuns. All the while Kagome sat on her chair completely frozen, she didn't move until she felt something tucking at her robes. Looking down she saw the scared face of Shippo, and Kagome bend down and picked the small boy up and snuggled him in her lap. It wasn't until late in the night that everything was back to normal once more.
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Later that night in her room Kagome contemplated what had been going on. Her mind went in circles until she settled down on two names who could have been behind this attack. Naraku or Bassilius, the later being the more likely option, for Naraku still needed her alive to get his hands on her intendeds money.
After a very nice quite uneventful night sleep Kagome woke up to find Keade in her room.
"I'm sorry child, but you will be moving again." Keade's old face looked older and more worn than before. "I have talked with the pope, and he, as I see that you will not be save with us. Therefore you will be going back to Kikyo's." Keade's voice died out.
Kagome sat in her bed every fiber of her being alert, she hadn't been inspecting this, and so soon too. Apparently keeping her save was just asking to much of any person. "I'm sorry, I am so very sorry for causing all this trouble. I didn't mean too." Kagome finally uttered.
Keade's face split in wrinkles and she kneeled down before Kagome taking the distraught girl in her arms. Feeling sorry for the girl and her predicament. Life shouldn't bee so though on the good. But she was in no position to doubt the way's of the lord. She would have faith, and she would prey for this girl.
When Kagome was calmed enough Keade spoke again. "You can say goodbye to Shippo now, he is already awake. I believe he wanted to show you the hot spring inside this monastery. I gave my permission for the both of you to bath in it." At Kagome's odd look Keade continued her explanation.
Taking a seat next to Kagome on her bed the old abbess started to explain. "This monastery is build, on, what some believe a very sacred place. In fact we found writing in old tongue that the hot spring is supposed to have holy powers. Legend has it that at the very base of it the holy grail rests and so everything that touches the water gets cleansed by the powers of, in actuality, the holy grail. So once a year we nuns go down there and cleanse ourselves. Maybe taking a bath there will help you with your troubles. And if not, it is always nice to have a warm hot bath to wash the worries away, although it is only temporary of course." Kagome giggled at the joke Keade made, and she felt better already.
"Thank you, I would very much like to wash myself in the hot spring. It will be a memorial goodbye for Shippo and I. Thank you so much, for everything." Kagome said with passion, before fallowing Keade outside and to the hot spring.
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a/n: well yet another chapter all done. This one had no Kouga in it, or Kouga and Kagome but I'm making it up with next chapter. Not only will they meet each other as people in this chapter, the wedding itself is also in this chapter. Or maybe a small part of it, I might stretch it over two chapters.
!Explanation!
In this story I have pushed Bassilius to the background, in the original he has a much bigger part. But since I wanted to bring a Kouga Kagome story to the foreground I had to push other things back. But in short, at the time this story plays Rome is caught between two forces, Kagome's marriage to Kouga will give way to one of those forces (namely Karel) of course Bassilius does not want this and is trying to prevent Kagomes marriage from happening. I thought you would all want to know why that guy is always coming up, so now you know I hope you understand thing a little bit better.
!End Explanation!
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