Sniff I'm so- I'm so HAPPY! I may have only got 4 reviews, BUT they make me all warm and fuzzy inside! Lol. I'll review twice on the weekends, but if I get reviews I update during the week too! Even though my agenda is already jam packed. So review and I'll update more!
Oh I thought I'd need one of these too. Disclaimer: If I owned InuYasha I think I'd have a better computer than this, thank you very much!
Well here's chappie 2...
Previously: The Inu gang was all really mad at Kagome. Kagome's heart is broken and now she cries in the forest. Will we figure out whats wrong with the gang?
Sesshomaru was doing his survey of the Western Lands. As Lord, his duties were to make sure there was no chaos with the demons and, yes, make sure the human villages were undisturbed. Worthless humans. He was flying over the outskirts of his Lands when a horridly beautiful sound reached his youkai ears. It was as if the very trees were crying out to the gods, so terribly sad, yet so pure. Sesshomaru directed his cloud to the clearing to find the source of the sound.
He landed next to his half-brother's wench, who didn't even sense his presence. It inwardly surprised him that she was creating the melody. But his temporary emotion was just that, temporary. As the youkai looked at the girl he saw she was in bad shape. She was shaking uncontrollably and moaning. It was pathetic in the eyes of the youkai Lord.
"Inu..Yasha.." the miko moaned.
"Wench," he addressed her coldly, "I am not InuYasha. Now stop that insufferable wailing at once."
At the sound of a voice Kagome looked up and saw none other than Sesshomaru. Her eyed widened in shock and fear momentarily spiked her scent. Kagome gulped and put her hand over her mouth. The tears were still streaming, but she didn't let one sob escape. Once she had mastered her sobbing, she took a breath and spoke.
"Sesshomaru," she breathed, "what are you doing here?"
He cave her a cold stare before answering, "These are my Lands and I may go where ever I please, wench."
At the second use of this name she teared up again. She did not want the Lord to see her tears. That was pretty pointless, seeing as he just saw her balling. Despite that she decided to turn her sadness into anger. It was an easy enough switch.
"Don't use that name!" she screamed. InuYasha would call her that, and the simple name was enough to send her down into the pits of depression. Nobody would ever save her. She was all alone, all alone...
"This Sesshomaru will call you what I wish to," he said emotionless. No one had ever yelled at the Lord before. This girl shocked him, but of coarse his Sesshomaru face showed nothing.
"Now you will tell me what you are doing on my Lands," he demanded.
Wow, Kagome had really run all the way to the Western Lands. I guess she thought she could run away from InuYasha's hatred. She dearly wanted to confide her troubles in someone, but to speak of them to Sesshomaru...It was just...wrong.
Kagome couldn't tell Sesshomaru, so she turned on the Lord and started slowly walking away. Once behind a tree she started sprinting, as if she could outrun the youkai Lord. Sesshomaru took two steps forward, but then his pride caught up with him.
'Why would I chase a mere human?' he thought.
He shook his head slightly, and then summoned his cloud. Sesshomaru didn't admit it to himself, but in the back of his mind he kept thinking of the miko. She seemed like a magnet for trouble. Sesshomaru didn't know how right he was.
"Miroku, have you seen InuYasha?"
Miroku looked up at Sango's voice. She had just spoken his thoughts. They hadn't seen InuYasha since he told them what Kagome did...
"Miroku?"
"Lady Sango," Miroku addressed her, "I haven't seen InuYasha since, well..." His eyes suddenly clouded with grief for InuYasha.
"Poor InuYasha," he whispered, "I fear his soul is shattered beyond repair."
"You and I both," Sango said gravely, "You and I both."
InuYasha was still running, the tears had left but the grief remained. All of his running had taken him to the God Tree, the very place he met Kagome. InuYasha jumped into one of the branches to think. He gave up on that, he kept thinking of Kagome. Sleep, he decided, would be best for him at the moment. Even though he'd tried his best to sleep, a single memory kept replaying in his mind. The very one that brought all this pain upon him.
Flashback
InuYasha was sitting at the well, waiting for Kagome. He hated not seeing her and she always had these "tests" to go to. It could be days before she returned. InuYasha had inwardly whimpered at the thought. He'd decided to go to the God Tree, where Kagome's beautiful scent lingered.
"Ahh," InuYasha sighed when he inhaled her scent. Jasmine and flower blossoms, such a wondrous scent. It had always calmed him.
"InuYasha," a voice whispered.
InuYasha's hand immediately moved to the hilt of his sword. He narrowed his eyes and searched out the forest for the voice. He couldn't detect a scent at the moment, and this made him a little wary.
"Show yourself," InuYasha demanded. He didn't feel like dealing with low life demons at the moment. Kagome's rich scent must have covered up that of the demon's, so he couldn't identify where the voice was coming from.
An unhealthily pale woman walked into the clearing. She had the darkest hair you could imagine, and her eyes were like onyx. The woman wore a black kimono, making her skin look even paler, and her lips were painted blood red. Her face wore a mock grief expression, that InuYasha couldn't see past. Though on the inside she was smiling triumphidly, for this hanyou would be easy to trick.
"Who the hell are you?" InuYasha blurted out rudely.
"Why me? I am Kurotama," the woman said smoothly, "And I'm afraid I have some very bad news."
Now if InuYasha was smart he would have said "Who sent you?"or something along those lines. But InuYasha was trapped in that false grief she had plastered on her face. InuYasha became drawn into the depths of those cold onyx eyes.
"What is it?" InuYasha asked, dazed. For some reason he suddenly felt like something was wrong. Like his life could crumble at any second.
Kurotama smiled. "Well," she drawled, "It's about your dear Kagome..."
Interrupt memory
Sesshomaru was flying over the forests again. He had kept steering his cloud over to where the miko was frequently. He told himself it was just by chance he kept ending up there, not by intention. However, this time as he flew over the spot, an aura and a horrid smell hit him. Sesshomaru wrinkled his nose at the smell.
"Naraku," he said under his breath. Though as he examined the scent more he found something new. This wasn't one of Naraku's puppets, it was a female Naraku.
As he was concentrating on this scent, another reached his nose. It was human blood, and lots of it. Or to be more specific, miko blood.
Sesshomaru immediately directed his cloud to the orgin of the two scents. He didn't know why he was doing this, so he forced all thoughts out of his head as he descended.
Meanwhile Kagome was searching for a stream. When she found one she took a great drink and sat to think. She didn't want to, but she knew she had to examine her memories. As soon as she began she started crying. Her eyes starting gettng hazy and the first tears clung to her eyelashes. Right when her first salty drops fell onto the ground, she heard a laugh. The laugh was as cold as ice and clearly didn't care of her problems. A pale woman with jet black hair stepped out. It seemed like whenever Kagome tried to cry out her pain, she was always interrupted. She needed a good cry, the numbness would make all the pain go away. For the moment at least.
"Who are you and what the hell do you want?" Kagome spat. She did not need people to keep halting her crying. Why wouldn't they just let her tears come, instead of making her seek after them?
"Well, well," she said mockingly, "My name is Kurotama."
'Dark Soul...that's a weird name,' Kagome thought. 'But who cares what her name is, she interrupted my pain again!'
"As for what I want," Kurotama continued, "It's nothing much."
Kurotama paused to smile before continuing.
"It's just your life!"
Kurotama drew out many scarlet blades from her kimono. They were each a bit bigger than a razor blade, and twice as sharp. It would only take one of those in the precise place to kill Kagome. Kurotama smirked as she put her wrists at ready, prepared to release one at any moment.
"Your beloved InuYasha shall join you soon!" she ranted as she flung her first blade. It grazed her cheek and the blood began spilling in large puddles.
Out of what Kurotama had just said, Kagome had only heard one thing. InuYasha. The pain his name caused was far worse than the blades. All she could hear ringing through her head was his name. InuYasha...
Kurotama released blade after blade upon her, and Kagome didn't bother to dodge any of them. By the time Kurotama only had one blade left, Kagome was drenched in blood with cuts everywhere.
"I saved this one to kill you with," Kurotama said as she pulled out her last blade. It was in the shape of a heart, with a large crack down the middle.
"Now you DIE!" Kurotama yelled as she flung the last blade directly at her heart. Her poor, shattered heart.
These next moments didn't happen in slow motion for Kagome. That only happens in the movies. No, to Kagome it was as if people kept handing her snapshots. First, she saw the shining blade coming towards her and Kurotama's gloating face. Then, in a flash of silver hair, she heard the blade being deflected by a sword. The same silver hair swam before her eyes as she felt herself being picked up. That's when she saw what her face was pressed against, a white hiaori.
B L: Man I'm mean!
InuYasha: Seriously, did you have to put two cliffies in there? Seems a little extreme...
B L: Shut it Inu!
Inu: Mumbles something along the lines of "wench"
B L: If I didn't have to reply to my reviewers that space down there would be filled with your pain.
Inu mysteriously disappears.
Ok I'd like to thank my reviewers, yes all four of them. If I didn't nag you enough about reviewing at the beginning I will in the next chappie. So please, if you read it review. I'd even like a "Nice story" from one of you people. Helpful criticism would be ok, but there is a difference between that and a flame k? That deal in chappie 1 is still on! Lol.
Well here is to my faithful reviewers...
bl's friend: Hi Jess! Glad you like it and I'll try my best to update often. As for the talk show endings, I'll do short ones and maybe a long one here or there. Lol. I'll see you at school!
Youkai99Angel: Your review was my favorite! Lol, and just for you I put TWO cliffies in this chappie! Lol. I hope my story could get as much reviews as yours, jeez I only got four for the first chappie, how many did you get on your first? I look up to your story, thanks again for your really cool review!
corral's lifeRKIN: Thanks for saying my story was awesome! Lol. Shifty eyes Was it Naraku? I don't know. It could be Kikyou, or the Easter Bunnie, or some cough other shifty character. Lol, you'll find out soon enough who did it.
Avelyn Lauren: If only it were that easy! You see there will be some...erm..complications that make happiness a bit out of reach. For certain people that is. Lol, I look forward to hearing from you again.
(Booming voice like the one on DBZ) See you next time on Tears Sought After!
InuYasha: B L SHUT UP!
(DBZ voice) How 'bout no!