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story.
When the Darkness Takes Over
ForestSprite
Chapter 16
"Who does he think he is telling me what to do?" Kagome seethed as she swung her
practice blade at the dummy before her hacking it to smaller pieces. "Telling me that I
can't leave yet. I'll leave when I damn well please and if I want to wander around I'll
wander around." she swung disconnecting the head from the body. "That was only one
attempt on my life. Whose to say there will be more? He wants me to fight him, he's not
going to kill me. That first time was just a bloody warning." she glared angrily at the
mutilated dummy throwing the sword to the other side of the room.
She then walked over to the punching bag as she began to pound at it. She did a right
kick then jumped up spinning kicked it real hard breaking it from the chain holding it up
from the ceiling. "That's just great." she muttered.
"It's not good to talk to yourself." someone said behind her.
"I'm not in the mood." she growled.
"Hn." she spun around to glare at the short fire demon which he returned.
"Why do I bother?" she asked as she picked up her stuff, straightening up the room. "It's
all yours sport." she said sarcastically as she strapped her two swords to her hip again.
He appeared right in front of her blocking her way. "Move it shorty."
"You happen to be much shorter then me." he replied unmoved.
"It's because of this spell my brother did." she growled.
"You were still an inch shorter then me."
"What do you want?" she asked warily crossing her arms before her boredly.
"You still owe me a battle."
"Is that all?" she gave a small laugh. "After I'm in a better mood." she said moving to
step around him only to be stopped by him again.
Her eyes twitched in her agitation. "Is this Piss off Kagome Day? Because if it is
everyone is succeeding so far." (Please let me know I'm not the only one who feels like
that sometimes. I swear to god my friends plot against me. It's a conspiracy.)
"What's got you in such a bad mood?" he asked boredly.
"You'd be pissed as well if you were told what to do and also told you can't leave the
house." she hissed angrily.
"Is that all?" he asked.
"Yes that is all now if you will excuse me I have to find people to beat up." she once
again moved to step around him only to have him in her face again.
"What's your deal?" she growled at him.
He just stared at her emotionlessly. "Either spill or chill." she growled at him as small
icicles began to form on him.
"I thought you were a fire demon?"
"That's the good thing about my brothers magic. If he transforms me into another demon
he can change my abilities to go with it unlike if I did my illusion I'd still have my fire
abilities."
"So you're a ice cat demon." he shrugged bored.
"You're beginning to piss me off more so then I am already." her violet eyes narrowed on
him. She made to brush past him once again only to have him in her way once again.
"That's it." she growled as she pulled out the sword tetsusaiga.
He cast a withering glare at the rusty piece of metal she held in her hands. "That's your
choice of weapon?" he asked as he pulled out his own sword.
She just smirked. "Real beauty isn't she?"
"More like a piece of junk." he said as he rushed at her
"Don't say that. You're hurting her feelings." she said as she blocked the attack.
"I doubt it has any." he jumped back circling her.
"I wouldn't necessarily say that." she looked for an opening.
He swung low at her which she easily jumped over bringing her sword down. "Ready to
give up yet?"
"We haven't even begun." she replied smiling. She held the sword before her and with a
small shake it grew into a giant gleaming fang. "Meet Tetsusaiga the demon sword of
destruction." she grinned.
"You can carry that?"
"Of course. Even as small as I am I still don't find it hard to wield her. After all she was
made specifically for me." She took a mighty swing at him which threw him backwards a
bit.
"Why for you?"
"It was made to protect humans and when I pulled it out it told me I was its wielder and I
could choose someone to carry it for me." she dodged as he swung at her getting a small
cut on her side.
"Did you choose someone?"
"Of course I did. I ended up choosing Inuyasha." she swung at him.
"Fool." he parried her blow unprepared for her swiftness with such a big blade as she
quickly moved it in again cutting his left arm a bit.
"I was one yes." they circled each other again.
"Yet you wield it again." he used his speed behind his attack catching her off guard
slightly nicking her cheek leaving a small cut on it.
"Of course I do." she said. "When Inuyasha tried to kill me it wouldn't work for him and
came back to me." she used the blunter side of the sword butting him away from her.
"What about this Naraku guy?" he swung at her which she dodged a bit easily.
"What about him?" she shouted as she ran at him.
"He's your enemy?" he ran to meet her.
"I have a lot of those." their blades locked together.
"You killed him."
"Evidently not good enough if he's still walking the lands." she pushed a bit at him
which he returned.
"So how are you going to kill him this time?"
"With everything I got." they disengaged their weapons jumping back eyes assessing the
opponent.
"So this is a suicide mission?"
"Not necessarily." they circled around each other again.
"How so?"
"I'm doing what I have to. It doesn't mean it's suicidal. It just means I'm trying to save
the future."
"You know something you're not telling all of us. What is it?"
"What do you mean?" they ran at each other again.
Swing. Parry. Pull back. Swing. Dodge. Duck. Lock.
"You know exactly what I mean." he growled at her. He used his strength to push her
back pushing her to the ground.
She pushed back just as hard trying not to lose her footing.
"Yet maybe I don't think it's important to share and you should know it's useless to get
into my mind. I was taught by some of the best to keep people out of my mind."
"Are you planning on dying?"
Her eyes flashed with some hidden emotion but she spoke in a haughty tone. "Of course I
don't plan on dying but if I do then I do it for a good cause."
"Why not take someone with you." he stated. "Are you scared?"
This time he was able to name the emotion he saw in her eyes. Anger. "I. AM. NOT.
SCARED." she said disengaging their swords and then swinging at him quickly before he
had a chance to go on the offensive forcing him to defense. She continued swinging at
him.
He was hardly able to parry the blows as her speed quickened. With a powerful swing she
knocked him off balance and quickly pounced on him knocking his sword away her own
pointing above his heart.
"I win." she hissed quietly looking into his wide crimson eyes. With that she changed her
large sword back to it's small rusty state, sheathing it she got up off of him and walked
away.
He watched as she walked away in slight surprise. She had defeated him. He knew that
she was good but how good she was came as a surprise. She continued walking away
from him her tail twitching angrily behind her as her ears switched back and forth
continuously picking up the slightest noise.
Glaring at her angrily he set off his own way.
Kurama was with Souta and they were talking about illusions and magic. Souta was in
the middle of explaining a difficult cover spell that hid your scent, energy and aura as
well. "Most people thought that hiding your scent and energy was enough but they don't
know their aura as well can be detected. It would leave a small trace wherever you are
and could lead one back to a person they were hunting for."
"It's not really all that difficult to do." Souta grinned looking at him. "Hi Rin. How are
you this fine evening?" he spoke not even bothering to look at the door where she was
standing by.
"You caught me." she said smiling as she entered the room. "Would you guys like
something to eat or drink? I was making some tea...."
"Sure, I'd love some tea." Souta said getting up and stretching. "How about I go with you
and get it. Kurama would you like something?"
"No thank you." Kurama replied smiling as he lay down on the couch.
Souta stuck his tongue out at him. "You took my spot. I better get it back when I return."
he said as he walked to the kitchen leaving Rin behind with Kurama.
"Morning Kurama." Rin smiled sitting on the edge of the couch. "I didn't get much
chance to talk to you due to that scare Kag-chan gave us all this morning and you've been
with Souta all morning."
Kurama just smiled. "It would seem she likes to do things her own way huh?"
"You have no idea." Rin replied shaking her head in amazement. "You should have seen
how mad she was at Sesshomaru."
"Why's that?"
"He told her she's not allowed to leave the house and other things that she was not too
happy about."
Kurama shook his head as well. He didn't know Kagome too well but the length that he
had known her he knew it wasn't good to order her to do anything or refuse her either.
"Rin how much do you know about Kagome?"
She looked at him carefully. "I guess I know her pretty well." she shrugged.
"That story about the Shikon no Tama was that really her?"
"Of course that was her and I was the young human girl that traveled with Sesshomaru."
she replied.
"You mean you're that girl?"
"Well yea. I didn't just say it for my health." she laughed.
"You're something else." he teased.
"You bet." she said proudly laughing as his arms wrapped around her bringing her closer
to him where he proceeded to tickle her.
Someone cleared their throat by the doorway. They stopped their fun and looked
carefully to see an amused Souta holding his cup of tea and a cookie with a not so
amused Sesshomaru.
"Did I miss anything?" Souta asked innocently.
"Rin, Kagura has been looking for you she wishes to speak with you." Sesshomaru said.
"Right." she blushed as she disentangled herself from Kurama and left the room. Looking
thoughtfully at Kurama, Sesshomaru too left.
"Love is in the air." Souta teased as he shoved Kurama to the side so he could get his seat
back. Kurama just shoved him back smiling.
Souta sipped on his tea then looked at him with a serious expression. "I advise you to talk
to Sesshomaru before you pursue his daughter anymore Kurama. It could cause problems.
Rin is a special girl who is the next in line to Sesshomaru's title if anything ever does
happen to him which I find hard to think of after all I've heard about him."
"You seem to know a lot about demon customs."
"When you have a sister who spent a good amount of her life with demons you get
curious and ask questions. She taught me a lot."
"You care about her a lot."
"How could I not? She is my sister."
"Where is she right now?"
"Last time I checked she was fighting Hiei in the dojo."
"You mean sparring?"
"No fighting. He was pushing her and she snapped so they are fighting." Souta explained
to him.
"Shouldn't you help them? One of them could get badly injured."
"While neither will admit it they both feel a grudging respect for the other. In Hiei's case
he likes her but she sees him as a friend so far."
"You seem to know a lot. I can't even tell that much from them. They are both so good at
hiding emotion."
"She is my sister. Even when she did return for the last time and changed drastically she
was still the same person. Just in hiding. She turned to fighting and kept herself busy to
keep back her pain. She's still doing that. She has never let go and one day it will come
forth and overpower her."
"You seem to have been thinking about all this for awhile now."
"Yes."
"Have you ever talked to her about it?"
"Yes." he smiled at the memory. "She patted me on the head and said I was reading to
much into all of this but I knew she was just saying that."
Kurama looked at him carefully. "Can you feel emotion?"
"I guess you could say that. It's another technique of mine."
"So that makes you an empath?"
"Yea, if that's what it's called yes."
"Do you have any training for it?"
"Of course. As I have told you before my sister took care of all my training. She was so
proud to find out I had some magic in me, the blood of a monk, that she asked if I wanted
training. At first I said yes because I wanted to be close by her to spend more time with
her but then it just became loads of fun."
"Your illusions are really good."
"Well to tell ya the truth those aren't really illusions. It's a higher level of magic
something most people can't handle. It turns you into what you are turned it even giving
you the abilities of them. Like right now Kagome is an ice cat demon so she can use ice
for her attacks."
"Impressive."
Souta just smiled which Kurama returned. He was beginning to like this younger boy.
"Souta?" they turned to the doorway to see Kagome her face giving off nothing to how
she felt at the moment. She was back to her normal form again.
"Yes oh great Kitty-san." he teased standing up.
"Don't worry I'll get even with you. It's time to work on your training again."
He pouted at her. "We did it this morning."
"That was your fighting this is your magic."
"Fine fine. See you later Kurama." he waved to the kitsune as he left to follow Kagome
who didn't even acknowledge him.
End Chappy
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story.
When the Darkness Takes Over
ForestSprite
Chapter 16
"Who does he think he is telling me what to do?" Kagome seethed as she swung her
practice blade at the dummy before her hacking it to smaller pieces. "Telling me that I
can't leave yet. I'll leave when I damn well please and if I want to wander around I'll
wander around." she swung disconnecting the head from the body. "That was only one
attempt on my life. Whose to say there will be more? He wants me to fight him, he's not
going to kill me. That first time was just a bloody warning." she glared angrily at the
mutilated dummy throwing the sword to the other side of the room.
She then walked over to the punching bag as she began to pound at it. She did a right
kick then jumped up spinning kicked it real hard breaking it from the chain holding it up
from the ceiling. "That's just great." she muttered.
"It's not good to talk to yourself." someone said behind her.
"I'm not in the mood." she growled.
"Hn." she spun around to glare at the short fire demon which he returned.
"Why do I bother?" she asked as she picked up her stuff, straightening up the room. "It's
all yours sport." she said sarcastically as she strapped her two swords to her hip again.
He appeared right in front of her blocking her way. "Move it shorty."
"You happen to be much shorter then me." he replied unmoved.
"It's because of this spell my brother did." she growled.
"You were still an inch shorter then me."
"What do you want?" she asked warily crossing her arms before her boredly.
"You still owe me a battle."
"Is that all?" she gave a small laugh. "After I'm in a better mood." she said moving to
step around him only to be stopped by him again.
Her eyes twitched in her agitation. "Is this Piss off Kagome Day? Because if it is
everyone is succeeding so far." (Please let me know I'm not the only one who feels like
that sometimes. I swear to god my friends plot against me. It's a conspiracy.)
"What's got you in such a bad mood?" he asked boredly.
"You'd be pissed as well if you were told what to do and also told you can't leave the
house." she hissed angrily.
"Is that all?" he asked.
"Yes that is all now if you will excuse me I have to find people to beat up." she once
again moved to step around him only to have him in her face again.
"What's your deal?" she growled at him.
He just stared at her emotionlessly. "Either spill or chill." she growled at him as small
icicles began to form on him.
"I thought you were a fire demon?"
"That's the good thing about my brothers magic. If he transforms me into another demon
he can change my abilities to go with it unlike if I did my illusion I'd still have my fire
abilities."
"So you're a ice cat demon." he shrugged bored.
"You're beginning to piss me off more so then I am already." her violet eyes narrowed on
him. She made to brush past him once again only to have him in her way once again.
"That's it." she growled as she pulled out the sword tetsusaiga.
He cast a withering glare at the rusty piece of metal she held in her hands. "That's your
choice of weapon?" he asked as he pulled out his own sword.
She just smirked. "Real beauty isn't she?"
"More like a piece of junk." he said as he rushed at her
"Don't say that. You're hurting her feelings." she said as she blocked the attack.
"I doubt it has any." he jumped back circling her.
"I wouldn't necessarily say that." she looked for an opening.
He swung low at her which she easily jumped over bringing her sword down. "Ready to
give up yet?"
"We haven't even begun." she replied smiling. She held the sword before her and with a
small shake it grew into a giant gleaming fang. "Meet Tetsusaiga the demon sword of
destruction." she grinned.
"You can carry that?"
"Of course. Even as small as I am I still don't find it hard to wield her. After all she was
made specifically for me." She took a mighty swing at him which threw him backwards a
bit.
"Why for you?"
"It was made to protect humans and when I pulled it out it told me I was its wielder and I
could choose someone to carry it for me." she dodged as he swung at her getting a small
cut on her side.
"Did you choose someone?"
"Of course I did. I ended up choosing Inuyasha." she swung at him.
"Fool." he parried her blow unprepared for her swiftness with such a big blade as she
quickly moved it in again cutting his left arm a bit.
"I was one yes." they circled each other again.
"Yet you wield it again." he used his speed behind his attack catching her off guard
slightly nicking her cheek leaving a small cut on it.
"Of course I do." she said. "When Inuyasha tried to kill me it wouldn't work for him and
came back to me." she used the blunter side of the sword butting him away from her.
"What about this Naraku guy?" he swung at her which she dodged a bit easily.
"What about him?" she shouted as she ran at him.
"He's your enemy?" he ran to meet her.
"I have a lot of those." their blades locked together.
"You killed him."
"Evidently not good enough if he's still walking the lands." she pushed a bit at him
which he returned.
"So how are you going to kill him this time?"
"With everything I got." they disengaged their weapons jumping back eyes assessing the
opponent.
"So this is a suicide mission?"
"Not necessarily." they circled around each other again.
"How so?"
"I'm doing what I have to. It doesn't mean it's suicidal. It just means I'm trying to save
the future."
"You know something you're not telling all of us. What is it?"
"What do you mean?" they ran at each other again.
Swing. Parry. Pull back. Swing. Dodge. Duck. Lock.
"You know exactly what I mean." he growled at her. He used his strength to push her
back pushing her to the ground.
She pushed back just as hard trying not to lose her footing.
"Yet maybe I don't think it's important to share and you should know it's useless to get
into my mind. I was taught by some of the best to keep people out of my mind."
"Are you planning on dying?"
Her eyes flashed with some hidden emotion but she spoke in a haughty tone. "Of course I
don't plan on dying but if I do then I do it for a good cause."
"Why not take someone with you." he stated. "Are you scared?"
This time he was able to name the emotion he saw in her eyes. Anger. "I. AM. NOT.
SCARED." she said disengaging their swords and then swinging at him quickly before he
had a chance to go on the offensive forcing him to defense. She continued swinging at
him.
He was hardly able to parry the blows as her speed quickened. With a powerful swing she
knocked him off balance and quickly pounced on him knocking his sword away her own
pointing above his heart.
"I win." she hissed quietly looking into his wide crimson eyes. With that she changed her
large sword back to it's small rusty state, sheathing it she got up off of him and walked
away.
He watched as she walked away in slight surprise. She had defeated him. He knew that
she was good but how good she was came as a surprise. She continued walking away
from him her tail twitching angrily behind her as her ears switched back and forth
continuously picking up the slightest noise.
Glaring at her angrily he set off his own way.
Kurama was with Souta and they were talking about illusions and magic. Souta was in
the middle of explaining a difficult cover spell that hid your scent, energy and aura as
well. "Most people thought that hiding your scent and energy was enough but they don't
know their aura as well can be detected. It would leave a small trace wherever you are
and could lead one back to a person they were hunting for."
"It's not really all that difficult to do." Souta grinned looking at him. "Hi Rin. How are
you this fine evening?" he spoke not even bothering to look at the door where she was
standing by.
"You caught me." she said smiling as she entered the room. "Would you guys like
something to eat or drink? I was making some tea...."
"Sure, I'd love some tea." Souta said getting up and stretching. "How about I go with you
and get it. Kurama would you like something?"
"No thank you." Kurama replied smiling as he lay down on the couch.
Souta stuck his tongue out at him. "You took my spot. I better get it back when I return."
he said as he walked to the kitchen leaving Rin behind with Kurama.
"Morning Kurama." Rin smiled sitting on the edge of the couch. "I didn't get much
chance to talk to you due to that scare Kag-chan gave us all this morning and you've been
with Souta all morning."
Kurama just smiled. "It would seem she likes to do things her own way huh?"
"You have no idea." Rin replied shaking her head in amazement. "You should have seen
how mad she was at Sesshomaru."
"Why's that?"
"He told her she's not allowed to leave the house and other things that she was not too
happy about."
Kurama shook his head as well. He didn't know Kagome too well but the length that he
had known her he knew it wasn't good to order her to do anything or refuse her either.
"Rin how much do you know about Kagome?"
She looked at him carefully. "I guess I know her pretty well." she shrugged.
"That story about the Shikon no Tama was that really her?"
"Of course that was her and I was the young human girl that traveled with Sesshomaru."
she replied.
"You mean you're that girl?"
"Well yea. I didn't just say it for my health." she laughed.
"You're something else." he teased.
"You bet." she said proudly laughing as his arms wrapped around her bringing her closer
to him where he proceeded to tickle her.
Someone cleared their throat by the doorway. They stopped their fun and looked
carefully to see an amused Souta holding his cup of tea and a cookie with a not so
amused Sesshomaru.
"Did I miss anything?" Souta asked innocently.
"Rin, Kagura has been looking for you she wishes to speak with you." Sesshomaru said.
"Right." she blushed as she disentangled herself from Kurama and left the room. Looking
thoughtfully at Kurama, Sesshomaru too left.
"Love is in the air." Souta teased as he shoved Kurama to the side so he could get his seat
back. Kurama just shoved him back smiling.
Souta sipped on his tea then looked at him with a serious expression. "I advise you to talk
to Sesshomaru before you pursue his daughter anymore Kurama. It could cause problems.
Rin is a special girl who is the next in line to Sesshomaru's title if anything ever does
happen to him which I find hard to think of after all I've heard about him."
"You seem to know a lot about demon customs."
"When you have a sister who spent a good amount of her life with demons you get
curious and ask questions. She taught me a lot."
"You care about her a lot."
"How could I not? She is my sister."
"Where is she right now?"
"Last time I checked she was fighting Hiei in the dojo."
"You mean sparring?"
"No fighting. He was pushing her and she snapped so they are fighting." Souta explained
to him.
"Shouldn't you help them? One of them could get badly injured."
"While neither will admit it they both feel a grudging respect for the other. In Hiei's case
he likes her but she sees him as a friend so far."
"You seem to know a lot. I can't even tell that much from them. They are both so good at
hiding emotion."
"She is my sister. Even when she did return for the last time and changed drastically she
was still the same person. Just in hiding. She turned to fighting and kept herself busy to
keep back her pain. She's still doing that. She has never let go and one day it will come
forth and overpower her."
"You seem to have been thinking about all this for awhile now."
"Yes."
"Have you ever talked to her about it?"
"Yes." he smiled at the memory. "She patted me on the head and said I was reading to
much into all of this but I knew she was just saying that."
Kurama looked at him carefully. "Can you feel emotion?"
"I guess you could say that. It's another technique of mine."
"So that makes you an empath?"
"Yea, if that's what it's called yes."
"Do you have any training for it?"
"Of course. As I have told you before my sister took care of all my training. She was so
proud to find out I had some magic in me, the blood of a monk, that she asked if I wanted
training. At first I said yes because I wanted to be close by her to spend more time with
her but then it just became loads of fun."
"Your illusions are really good."
"Well to tell ya the truth those aren't really illusions. It's a higher level of magic
something most people can't handle. It turns you into what you are turned it even giving
you the abilities of them. Like right now Kagome is an ice cat demon so she can use ice
for her attacks."
"Impressive."
Souta just smiled which Kurama returned. He was beginning to like this younger boy.
"Souta?" they turned to the doorway to see Kagome her face giving off nothing to how
she felt at the moment. She was back to her normal form again.
"Yes oh great Kitty-san." he teased standing up.
"Don't worry I'll get even with you. It's time to work on your training again."
He pouted at her. "We did it this morning."
"That was your fighting this is your magic."
"Fine fine. See you later Kurama." he waved to the kitsune as he left to follow Kagome
who didn't even acknowledge him.
End Chappy
Once again hope you liked. Remember to r&r if you want another update soon.
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Hmm she seems kinda angry doesn't she? She's been stressed lately and is working on
this really big project as a gift for someone close to her so she's been working harder
then usual on her drawings/comics, writings, poetry and what not. Be patient with her and
remember to r&r and she'll update real soon.
=.= SmilingKitsune