Chapter 5: Arriving at Fairy Fountain
Kagome glared at Sesshoumaru as they started walking again. She had just taken a bath in a hot spring; Sesshoumaru had to sit on the other side of the rocks, back facing her. He hadn't peeped but Kagome felt very uncomfortable. And since the chain was only three feet long, she had to stay close to the rock wall. It was a miserable experience.
But Kagome felt better, to say the least.
"Stop your glaring, miko." Sesshoumaru advised. "I didn't plan this." He was walking in front of her and could feel her glare on his back. "And I didn't look at your filthy human body." He added sarcastically.
"Actually, youkai, my body isn't filthy seeing that I just had a bath. And I just know you were smirking the whole time." She snapped and narrowed her eyes. Crossing her arms, Kagome suddenly felt self conscious.
A demon jumped out from the shadows of the forest and Kagome groaned. "Not another one!" She sighed, exasperated and annoyed. "Let me guess," She glared at the smiling snake youkai that was in humanoid form. "You want 'the girl who can sense the jewel shards' right?"
"Clever one." The snake hissed. "I am Gaidoku. And who isss thissss? Ssssessshoumaru?" His ruby eyes met the gaze of Sesshoumaru, who was slightly standing in front of Kagome. His face was void of any emotion, his eyes were cold. He didn't answer the youkai, only stared at him with a degrading glare. "Anssssswer me!" The snake hissed and commanded.
"I do not converse with worthless beings like you!" Sesshoumaru growled. He grabbed the hilt of Tokijin when Kagome placed a hand on his arm.
"Wait." She said softly. Sesshoumaru did nothing, he didn't draw out Tokijin but he didn't let go of the hilt. Kagome stepped forward from behind Sesshoumaru and met gazes with Gaidoku. "Who sent you?" Kagome asked, her voice steady.
"Why sssssshould I tell you?" The snake crooned. "What do I get out of it?" He looked Kagome up and down and licked his lips
"Your life." Kagome said flatly, her sapphire eyes began to swirl with anger at his look of lust. "Tell us, who informed you that I could sense the jewel shards? And if you brought me to them, what was the promised price?"
Gaidoku looked from Kagome to Sesshoumaru. His ruby eyes warily looked Sesshoumaru up and down before they slid back to Kagome. "I don't know hisss name." His voice slithered and his words were like pouring acid. "He wore a baboon ssssskin."
"Naraku." Sesshoumaru growled.
Kagome glanced back at Sesshoumaru and then to Gaidoku. "What did he tell you?"
"He sssssaid that a maiden who sssssenssssed the sssssshikon sssshardsss would be here and that if I were to capture her and bring her to him, he would give me a ssshard and it would make me become more powerful." He hissed. "But I had to kill Sssssesssshoumaru."
Kagome whirled around and looked at Sesshoumaru. "Naraku wants to kidnap me? But...why?" Sesshoumaru didn't answer; he kept his eyes focused on the youkai. Turning around, Kagome met the youkai's ruby orbs with a steady gaze. "Be gone." She advised. "If you value your life, leave."
"Not a chacccccce." Gaidoku hissed and then charged at Kagome.
Reacting on instinct Kagome held up her arms and crossed them in front of her. Gaidoku hit a barrier and went hurling back into the trees. "Drop the barrier." Sesshoumaru commanded behind her.
Doing as he said, Kagome let her arms fall and instantly felt herself being pushed to the side, she fell to the ground with a thud and looked over to see Sesshoumaru swing Tokijin, a youkai beam blasting from the blade towards Gaidoku.
In an instance he was gone.
"Should have listened to you." Sesshoumaru smirked coldly and sheathed his sword.
"I'll say." Kagome scrambled to her feet and then stared at her arms. "I didn't know I could do that." Sesshoumaru now turned to stare at her and raised a delicate eyebrow. Kagome didn't return his gaze, but continued to stare at her arms in wonder.
"For a miko you sure do know nothing." Sesshoumaru grunted and then began walking.
"Newsflash, I'm not from this time! I didn't even know I had these powers until I came here." Kagome was jerked into following him. "Ok, Naraku wants to kidnap me?" Kagome asked her question that never had gotten an answer.
"Indeed." Sesshoumaru stated.
"But why?" She asked quietly.
"Why not? You can sense jewel shards, something that he is after, you have miko powers that can ultimately kill him, and you are from the future." Sesshoumaru listed. "That is why."
"I didn't think you could say that much in one sentence!" Kagome smirked causing Sesshoumaru to cast her a glare. "But why not Kikyou?"
"Please. That worthless wench is already working for him." Sesshoumaru snorted in disapproval. "But this isn't the time to worry about that." Sesshoumaru stopped walking and Kagome stopped beside him.
"Why not?" Kagome asked.
"Because we're here." Sesshoumaru replied.
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"Inuyasha you must be reasonable!" Miroku tried to calm the pacing hanyou. "She isn't betraying you! She is doing what is right. She just doesn't want anyone to get hurt."
"Inuyasha, she cares about you." Sango added.
But Inuyasha didn't hear any of it. She had pleaded him to leave, begged him to leave. After all he did for her, running to protect her; she had pushed him away and begged him to leave.
And the talk he had heard before he got there. The talk of Sesshoumaru falling in love with Kagome! What could that mean? It was absurd! Only he could love Kagome. Only he could protect her.
And that was another thing. She said Sesshoumaru PROTECTED her. That he WOULDN'T let her die. And she said it, with almost a laughing smile on her face. She trusted the bastard. After everything that he has done, she trusted him.
"Inuyasha." Miroku's voice ripped him away from his thoughts. "She'll be back, I promise."
"Shut up you two! Will ya! Just shut up!" With that he jumped onto a tree top and sped into the forest.
Miroku let out a long sigh. "Sometimes I wish we could 'sit' him."
"Hai, Houshi-sama." Sango gave a deep nod.
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Kagome let out a small gasped. They stood before a large stone mountain. It was covered with thick trees and lush grass. And directly in front of them was a large cave. It was dark and ominously seemed to growl at them.
"That's a pretty obvious hide away." Kagome leaned over and whispered to Sesshoumaru.
"Foolish girl, anyone can go in, yes, but will they reach Fairy Fountain is another story. They use magic to make people think it's an ordinary cave. But when you call on the spirit that guards it for entrance, you see that it's not a cave, but a door." Sesshoumaru informed her.
"A door?" Kagome breathed.
"Yes. Fairy Fountain is inside the mountain." Sesshoumaru said.
"Gah, how do you know this?" Kagome now gaped at Sesshoumaru instead of the cave.
From the corner of his eye he saw her expression and gave a smudged smirk. "This Sesshoumaru knows the land of Japan better than any other being alive." Kagome rolled her eyes at his statement and his haughtiness.
"This Kagome wants to know why we are still standing here. Summon the spirit already!" Kagome urged.
Sesshoumaru gave her a hard glare and then began to walk forward. In front of the cave, Kagome then noticed a large stone. A stone that Sesshoumaru was heading for. Kagome scurried after him and the two stopped in front of the it.
Sesshoumaru slowly unsheathed Tenseiga and with a forceful thrust, Sesshoumaru stuck it into the stone. Surprisingly the blade went in, surrounded by a glow of light. "I call to you, Haruka, let me in." Sesshoumaru said with a commanding voice. Kagome hid behind him and peered around his arm.
A laughing spirit floated out of the rock. She was transparent, and floated in the air. Although she was almost see-through, she had color. Brown hair flowed down her back and stopped at her waist. She had a light blue dress that flowed around her, seeming never to end. Her chestnut brown eyes held laughter, and her light cinnamon skin brought out her deep cherry red lips.
"Inutaisho-" She stopped talking and blinked, her smiled faded. "You are not Inutaisho!"
"No." Sesshoumaru withdrew the Tenseiga and sheathed it. "I am his son."
"You!" She shrieked. "You are that worthless youkai, Sesshoumaru! How dare you show yourself here! And with your father's sword, no less!" Sesshoumaru flinched at her description and Kagome could feel his aura begin to swirl with anger. Hesitantly she placed a hand on his arm, which surprisingly calmed him down a bit. "Where is your father?"
"He's dead." Sesshoumaru said flatly. "You should know that, Haruka."
Haruka suddenly blinked, it seemed as if tears were forming in her eyes. "Yes..." She spoke softly. "I remember." But then her gaze turned into a hard glare. "You knew that only Inutaisho called for me like that! So why did you do it! Why did you make me think it was him!"
"I wanted you to come." Sesshoumaru snapped. "We need entrance."
"We?" Haruka looked surprised. Then her eyes fell on Kagome, the glare softened and she smiled. "You can come out now." Blushing, Kagome stepped from behind Sesshoumaru. "What's a girl like you doing with a demon like him?"
Kagome giggled when she heard Sesshoumaru growl. "Because of this." She pointed to the chain and explained, "The Great Fairy Tsuki did this to us. She wanted to teach Sesshoumaru a lesson. We've come here to try and plea her to break the spell." Kagome's eyes looked large and sad. Sesshoumaru raised an eyebrow and then inwardly smirked.
'Clever girl...' He thought to himself. She knew how to work an audience.
Haruka put her hands on her hips and violently shook her head. "I swear sometimes that Tsuki should be a pixie with all the mischief she causes." Raising her hands a ball of light grew. Haruka brought it down to her chest and her eyelids fluttered close.
Her hair began to rise; her long flowing dress did also. Her lips were moving in a silent chant, but no words could be heard. With grace and elegance Kagome could only dream of possessing, she turned around like a ballerina and faced the cave, which was no long a cave but a large door.
The ball of light transformed into a large key. Soon a glowing keyhole appeared on the door. Slipping her key of light in, Haruka opened the large door, light flooded from the other side and Kagome had to shield her eyes.
But then the lightness faded somewhat and Kagome peered inside.
"Go." Haruka gestured, seemingly out of her trance. "You look just like Her." She sighed with a hint of sadness.
Kagome nodded, assuming she meant Kikyou. She and Sesshoumaru walked through the now opened door and onto the other side.
Kagome gasped at what she saw. The place was like no other. First, the trees were huge, large trees towered above them. Behind Kagome, she heard the door shut and whirled around to see, nothing there.
Shrugging, Kagome looked back at the large trees. Bridges interconnected them, laughter and chatter could be heard all around. And as Kagome took a closer look, it seemed as if these trees were a home to all of the fairies.
Indeed, as Sesshoumaru would say, they were! Tiny windows and doors could be seen throughout the trees. Fairies going back and forth, laughing and talking to one another. "Wow." Kagome breathed and then felt the yank of the chain.
"The Fountain is this way." Sesshoumaru growled.
"Did your father come here often?" Kagome asked, still looking around.
"Yes." Sesshoumaru replied and said nothing more.
Shrugging, Kagome looked at where they were heading. They seemed to be walking towards the base of the largest tree. When they reached it, Kagome notice an entrance and soon they were walking in it.
The entrance was dark, and Kagome could hear the echo of voices. The walls were narrow and Kagome walked closer to Sesshoumaru. But soon the walls widen, and they were in a large room.
The room was beautiful; its walls were decorated with tiny glowing candles that traveled up in a spiral formation to the ceiling that seemed to be
miles away. In the middle of the room was a large fountain.
The Fountain had a statue of a fairy in the middle. Water flowed out of her eyes like tears and she seemed to be crying. The water was caught in a large stone pool that had several fairies gathered around, peering inside.
"Where is Tsuki?" Sesshoumaru asked loudly and soon all the heads shot up and stared at him.
"When did he get here?"
"Who is the girl?" "How long have they been standing there?"
"Where is that, wench Tsuki?"
Questions suddenly filled the large room. What could have them totally preoccupied that they didn't even sense them come in?
Inching towards the fountain, Kagome peered inside. "Go summon, Tsuki." She heard someone say as she looked into the waters of the fountain.
Her mouth fell open. She didn't see her reflection, oh no, instead were the images of places all over Japan. "I wish I could see my friends..." Kagome whispered softly. And then as if the fountain heard her, the water rippled and then focused on an image of her friends packing up camp.
She didn't realize how much she missed them until now.
Suddenly she smelled lilacs.
"What is going on here?" Snapping her head up, Kagome met he all too familiar gaze of Tsuki, who was hovering over the crowd of fairies. Breaking away from her blue eyed piercing gaze, Kagome stared at the water which still held the image of her friends.
Her heart began to beat wildly. Maybe this was it. Maybe soon it would over and she could go back to them. Maybe...
End of Chapter
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Moonchild: still shaking It...was...almost... cries in Kagome's arms
Kagome: There, there MC. It's ok. It's safe. It's still there.
Moonchild: I know but...cries horribly It was gone! It was gone gone!
Inuyasha: What the hell happened to her?
Kagome: Yesterday her computer wouldn't start up. And she forgot to back up her files so she would have lost all of her writings and fanfics, including this one.
Moonchild: screams in anguish at the memory
Inuyasha: Good! This stupid piece of-
Sesshoumaru: hits Inuyasha on the head You're such a dumbass.
Moonchild: still crying I almost lost everything...
Kagome: It's ok, poor girl. Sesshou-kun can you close?
Sesshoumaru: For you, I will. MC wants to thank you for reading her fanfic, it means so much to her. And send her a review, but flames, shame on anyone who sends a flame to a mental case like MC.
Author's Note
Someof youare confused about me and this story and if you've read it before. So let me help you with a little bio about where I came from since my profile is being a bitch.
"Ahem" I was born...ha, no jk. I use to write for a site called Single Spark. It's a Sess/Kag fan site and many of you have probably been there. And if you have then you've might of stumbled across an author by the name of Moonchild and maybe read her works of 'First Enemies, Then Friends' and 'Chained to You.' Yes, that author is me.
Well the site is down now and no one can get on it, much less post anything. And I'm interenet buddies with a lot of my reviewers and they really wanted me to post my story here, so I did. I had the penname 'Tsuki Komodo' but I didn't like it and changed it to Moonchild0405.
So if you feel like you've read this story before-you have, on single spark. I did not copy it from another author, this story is my work, and my work alone. And the reason I am updating a chapter a day is because my readers from Single Spark really want me to get to chapter 17, so to be fair I'm updating a chapter a day until I catch up. (I left Ch 16 on a cliffy, I shouldn't make them wait any longer)
If you are still confused about ANYTHING at all. Please...PLEASE... leave an email address in your review and I WILL reply back. I love to reply to reviews, I have my online friends from SS and I would love to have some here as well.
Arigato-
MC