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Meanings of flowers are not mine!
Chapter 3: Eschscholtzia
The sun was setting, emitting a luminous reddish-orange glow, the Inu-tachi were currently camping out in the border of the Eastern Lands. Having learnt their lesson on not to mess with the Taiyoukais of the East, lest suffer the consequences of their actions.
"Never! Never in my life will I go there again! Stupid pompous ass of a Kitsune acting as though he owns me, which he did not! And hopefully NEVER! Ohhh that jerk! If I ever get my hands on him! I'll grrr..." Kagome ranted on and on, here she was, sitting on a boulder with a bowl of steaming ramen on her lap, but instead of dining on it, she kept on muttering curses on a certain Kitsune, with a certain language that she acquired from a certain someone who's name would remain unknown.
The other member of the group paid no mind to her, all too engrossed in the food that they considered a 'delicacy' (didn't they get bored by eating the same thing?) Kagome finally sighed, why was she thinking of that creep anyway?
She might not admit it, but deep down she knew why, she was attracted to that sexy fox, 'OMIGOD SEXY?' she shook herself out of the gutter, but she could not deny it, no one had came that close to her being, she was...curious. HEY, she was a virgin for God's sake! Sixteen years of living without a single man, and her first kiss could not even be called a kiss!
She glanced at the hanyou who was gobbling up his ramen and sighed again, it was just a way to distract him and get him out of his youkai self, not a kiss... but then again, that was just PHYSICAL attraction, just lust, and she would not be played as a whore, or bitch, or slut, whatever youkais called them. She sighed as she recalled Yuka, Eri and Ayumi chattering among themselves of their sex life with their boyfriends, they would often watched her reaction at the corner of their eyes at every statement they made.
"Kagome-chan?" she blinked out of her dazed stupor, only to meet with chocolate orbs.
"Oh! Yes?"
"Kagome-chan, you've been spacing out lately..." Sango's face was brimmed with worry and concern, "ever since that... incident." she muttered quietly.
"OH YES! Kagome! Who was the guy who threw the blue flower?" Inuyasha folded his arms in his haori, leaping for a tree, "Some lords they are, running at seeing a flower." he grumbled before glaring at Kagome for answers.
Sango giggled when Kagome's face flushed red, "Kagome-chan got a secret admirer." she sang with a soft laugh as said women turned into a darker shade of crimson.
"NANI?" Inuyasha lost his balance fell from his tree with a loud THUMP. Quickly he got onto his feet and stomped to Kagome's front, "What the hell did she mean? YOU have a secret admirer?" he shouted as though it was the most absurd thing that could have happened. Kagome had an admirer? Why didn't she tell him? Why had HE not known?
Kagome glowered, putting the steaming bowl aside she rose onto her feet, "And pray tell Inuyasha, of WHY must YOU be so concerned? It wasn't YOUR business!" gripping her hands on her hips, she stared right into his eyes, daring him to speak a word.
"KEH! I wasn't con-"
That does it.
"OSUWARI!"
Ouch...
"KEH! I just want to know which idiot was courting you!" Inuyasha hoisted himself up to sitting position, dusting his haori of the dust and dirt. By now Kagome was fuming, a dark aura coating around her as her hairs started to defy the law of gravity, "Innnuuuyyaaasshhaaaa." she warned. Inuyasha scrambled a few feet back, watching at her with a mixture of fear and a slightest bit of regret. Sango, Miroku and Shippou sighed as they went to a perfect spot under an Acacia tree to watch as the familiar scene unfolded in front of them.
Torn between his pride and fear, Inuyasha, with his thick skull and no brain (no offence to Inuyasha fans, I don't REALLY hate him, just a little humor :P) once again chose the wrong path.
He chose pride.
"What? I'm not scared of yo-"
"OSUWARI!"
Ouch again.
"For ONE Inuyasha! HE! or SHE, isn't my secret admirer! OSUWARI OSUWARI!" Kagome screamed at the top of her lungs.
Ouch Ouch.
"For TWO, I have NO idea who is HE, or SHE! OSUWARI OSUWARI!" from Shippou's perspective, Kagome should not be born as a ningen, she should have been born as a youkai, the fiercest kind possible. Silently, Miroku and Sango agreed, trying their best not to flinch at her voice.
Ouch Ouch again.
"And for THREE!" she panted for a deep breath, "DON'T call HIM, or HER, an idiot! You NINCOMPOOP! OSUWARI OSUWARI and..." she took another deep breath, "OSUWARI!" she shrieked, so loud that every animal at a mile radius flee from their previous spot in fear of her wrath.
Ouch Ouch and...
OUCH!
That got to hurt...
"Nincompoop... hmmm, let's see..." Miroku took a two inches thick book from Kagome's bag pack and began flipping through the pages. He smiled in delight when he found it. Going over to Sango's side he showed her the particular sentence:
Nin-com-poop (noun) old fashioned for a stupid person
"Nice." Sango commented, nodding, this dic-tio-na-ry thing was very useful to understand words that came out of Kagome's mouth, ones that they had no idea what it meant. Shippou yawned, getting into Kagome's sleeping bag, he ignored all the fuss they were making and fell into deep slumber, his sensitive nose filled with Kagome's aromatic scent of cherry blossoms and jasmine.
Kagome stomped furiously out of their camping spot, the need to vent her anger consumed her, she needed to find a place, any place, as long as it was far away from HIM. Yes him! How dare he, he was not her mother! He did not have to be so angry over something so trivial, she did not even know the person, lest want to mate with him, or court with him or whatever it was! She wasn't even sure whether he was a he or a she!
Brushing past leaves and trees, Kagome came into a flower field. With thousands of blooming Eschscholtzia, a beautiful small yellow flowers with an orange patch in the middle. Fireflies flew around lazily, creating a dazzling radiance. This was one thing she loved most in Feudal Era, the wilderness... it was a sight that the present lack of.
Kneeling down, she gently touched the petals of the gorgeous flower, tiny they might be, but their beauty matched many other flowers, and their meaning...
Kagome blushed lightly, their meaning was rather... how should she placed it... hilarious? Yes... for such a delicate little thing, they have a rather funny meaning.
She sighed for the third time that day, she felt so empty. Did Inuyasha really harbor no feeling towards her? What of all the things they have done? All the things they have went through? The kiss...? Did it mean something to him? Or was it just what she had thought of? A mere distraction so that he could transform back to his hanyou form?
She felt confused...
She did not know anymore...
As though a light bulb popped up above her head, she felt the back of her throat tightened, the urge to voice out her thoughts was overwhelming her.
And so, she gave in.
Melodies Of Life Vocal: Emiko Shiratori
Alone
for a while I've been searching through the dark
For traces of the
love you left inside my lonely heart
To weave by picking up the
pieces that remain
Melodies of life--love's lost refrain
Our
paths they did cross, though I cannot say just why
We met, we
laughed, we held on fast, and then we said goodbye
And who'll hear
the echoes of stories never told?
Let them ring out loud till they
unfold
In my dearest memories, I see you reaching out to me
Though
you're gone, I still believe that you can call out my name
A
voice from the past, joining yours and mine
Adding up the layers
of harmony
And so it goes, on and on
Melodies of life,
To
the sky beyond the flying birds--forever and beyond
So
far and away, see the bird as it flies by
Gliding through the
shadows of the clouds up in the sky
I've laid my memories and
dreams upon those wings
Leave them now and see what tomorrow
brings
In
your dearest memories, do you remember loving me?
Was it fate that
brought us close and now leaves me behind?
A
voice from the past, joining yours and mine
Adding up the layers
of harmony
And so it goes, on and on
Melodies of life,
To
the sky beyond the flying birds--forever and beyond
If
I should leave this lonely world behind
Your voice will still
remember our melody
Now I know we'll carry on
Melodies of
life
Come circle round and grow deep in our hearts
As long as
we remember...
Suddenly, she felt arms around her waist, gasping in aghast, she turned her head back, only to see a pair of golden eyes...
Mischievous golden eyes. (Are you expecting somebody else?)
"It's dangerous you know...This late at night." his velvet seductive voice sent shiver up her spine, "you wouldn't know of who you might meet." a hint of amusement was clearly heard from his tone.
Kagome turned into a thousand shades of red in utter embarrassment, oh Goddess help her! She had sang a song, right in front of one whom she was thinking of just an hour ago! Give or take a few minutes. Oh... how could she face him! She was going to die of embarrassment, anything, oh any Kami that was listening to her, she would do anything to escape the insults that were to come. She should not have given in to the urge, she should not have! She knew that her voice was far from a siren, or even Sango! 'Oh Goddess, did I do anything wrong in my past life?'
"I thought I heard a siren, who knows that it's you?"
Huh?
Kagome's blush cleared as she slowly registers his words into her mind, comprehending it word by word.
HUH?
She glowed into a darker shade of crimson then before, was he saying what she thought he was saying?
Youko grinned, for safety precaution, he had wandered around the area and caught no sight of a specific youkai, so Kagome was all his! "I take it you don't get much compliment?" he raised his eyebrows at her blush, was this really the fiery women he just met two days ago? She appeared so feminine, if one hadn't known about her temper, one would have thought that she was a lady of court... if you exclude her garments of course.
He wondered where she was from, research told him only of her quest and her companion, but nothing about her village of origin, as though she emerged out of nowhere! He had investigated many ningen by the name of Kagome, but none of those Kagome's was on a quest to search for the sacred jewel, the Shikon No Tama.
"Get away you baka!" Kagome pushed him off her, hard. Never thought that she would relent after a compliment, for she would not, she was not so easy. Anyways, what was he doing here? Was he here to seduce her again? If he was, then he was wasting his precious time, for she would not give in.
"What are you doing here? Don't you have a land to tend to?" Kagome scooted away from him, fearing that if she let her guard down, who knew what he would do, he might use those aphrodisiac plants to aroused her or he might even raped her for all he care. (I know that Kagome should understand that a lord had more honor than that, but hey! It's a girl with a guy who had previously wanted to bed her!)
Youko only smirked, "And if my memory served me right, this is my land."(They are at the BORDER of Eastern lands remember?)
Again, our favourite Miko was blushing hot, mentally knocking her own head, of course this was his lands! How could she forget that! What was she expecting? That he would neglect his own lands just to search for her? Why was she thinking so highly of herself? Just because she had a mystery protector doesn't mean that a lord would come to her and prove his undying love for her!
Speaking of a mystery protector...
"Oh yes, Youko-kun?" Youko blinked in surprised, she had called his name! That was an improvement! At least she didn't call him baka Kitsune anymore. "Do you know Blue Rose-san?" she asked curiously, innocence flashing brightly in her sapphire-like eyes.
Inwardly, Youko was bursting out in laughter, but after resolving that it would not be wise to laugh out loud, he forced it down his throat. But really, Blue Rose-san? That was way too amusing, especially for an ice berg like him. "Of course I know him! We grew up together." He announced proudly before he began listing down the things he had done together with him.
"Our fathers and Kuronue's were very good friend, we were raised together." he smiled, not his usual smirk or grin, this was a genuine smile, one that he rarely display. Kagome smiled in return, she found that, Youko was not so bad to talk to, as long as he kept himself in leash, which he did, and perfectly well too.
Youko smirked, watching as innocence flared out of her, coating her as though it was a warm blanket, "We learn the art of seduction together." he bent forward and whispered softly to her ear. He observed as Kagome's eyes widen before shoving him away again, "Not another one..." he heard her muttered into the wind.
"Don't worry Kagome, he rarely used it, you see..." he licked his dry lips, "he's more of the quiet and secretive type, that's why he had never shown himself to talk to you." he chuckled, it was nice to talk to a girl like Kagome, the conversation was way entertaining.
Kagome tilted her head to the left in bewilderment, "Why would he want to talk to me?" she questioned, "and why did he protect me in the first place?" she asked the question that had always been in her mind, why would he protect her?
The Kitsune lord was amused, very amused, didn't she know the process of courting? He didn't blame her if she doesn't, not many ningens knew... and not many ningen recognized the meaning behind any particular flower, all they knew was their beauty.
Bursting out in laughter, Youko tried to conceal it behind a palm, "Don't you understand the hidden meaning of a flower? Every flower had their symbol you know." Youko hinted, inspecting as her pale cheeks flamed with a beautiful rosy hue. "OH!" that was all that came out of her luscious lips.
Those lips... Youko couldn't help but stared at them, he bit the bottom of his own, his mind was so foggy, and he could feel himself stepping to her front, lowering his face to her, no! He couldn't do this, she was not ready for this, that was what he repeated over and over his head, but he could not help it, her lips was as tempting as anything he had ever desired in his whole life.
'Wah, wah, wah! What was he?' Kagome's pupils went huge.
NO!
With force that she never knew she had, Kagome pushed him away, hurt stabbing her heart like knives, "You BAKA! I thought you were better than that!" turning her back to him, she scurried back to her camp, and here she assumed that he had understand that she would not resolve to a one night stand, or a kiss when she had just met him! What was wrong with him anyways! He was so sociable just moments ago!
Not bothering to wish her friends good night as they were already asleep, she lay on her sleeping bag, she did not zipped it up, she just covered herself, cursing about a baka Kitsune and their incapability to control themselves.
Youko berated himself, what was with her that made him lost control? From all he could remember, he had a tight rein on his control, never had he succumbed to his basic desire that way before. He always got what he wanted, it was women who fell over heels for him, not the other way round, but with Kagome, everything appeared so different.
No matter, he was never one who was rejected before, he would chase her down until she gave in, and after he took her, everything would be over, his life would return to normal again. Yes, he would take it slow with her, he would made her desire him, both body and soul, and then he would throw her away once he was done.
With the thought in mind, Youko plucked a few of the Eschscholtzia which had fully bloomed, smirking, 'This would be perfect.'
"You will give in, Kagome." With that, he went off to pursue the object of his mind
# The Next Day #
Hearing the faint chirps of the birds 'good morning' greetings, Kagome woke up. She stretched herself, popping a few joints.
She was about to rose up to her feet when she realized that her right hand was gripping onto something. Bowing her head, she shuddered. There in her hand, was a small bouquet of Eschscholtzia! No doubt from a certain Kitsune. She could again feel a small blush rising up her cheeks as she recalled him saying, "Don't you understand the hidden meaning of a flower? Every flower had their symbol you know."
Placing them above her ears, a book about flowers and their meanings popped up in her mind, flashing on a particular page.
Eschscholtzia,
Do not refuse me.
TBC...