Chapter 7: A New Plan
Kagome and Sesshoumaru had made camp and were now sitting near a fire. Sesshoumaru was leaning against a tree while Kagome laid on her side. A now comfortable silence hung between them. Both were lost in their own thoughts as to how to break the spell.
The flames of the fire danced with passion, and Kagome felt herself drawn to it as she gazed at the fire. Her mind was mulling over possibilities that could break the spell but everything seemed to be coming out as a dead end.
There was only one way. And that way was impossible.
"What if..." Kagome looked at Sesshoumaru, a new spark in her eyes. "What if we continue the search for the last shard... beat Naraku and get the completed Shikon no Tama. I bet I could use the jewel to undo this!" Kagome smiled, she didn't know what kind of power the jewel held, but if it could turn Inuyasha into a full blooded youkai, surely it could break this spell.
Sesshoumaru sat silently and broke away from her gaze to look into the fire. He couldn't think of anything better. This was a first for the great Sesshoumaru. "Where is the last jewel shard?" Sesshoumaru finally asked.
"I have no clue." Kagome shrugged. "I think maybe we should find Inuyasha." She saw Sesshoumaru's eyes flicker with more that the fire's glow reflecting in them. "I know he gets on your nerves, mine too. But he should know what's going on."
"Why?" Sesshoumaru almost snapped. He hated the thought of having to be near his dumb half-wit brother.
Kagome just softly smiled and looked into fire. "I made a promise." With that she laid down and closed her eyes. "Goodnight Sesshoumaru, tomorrow we follow your nose and find Inuyasha." Giggling at her sentence, Kagome felt his glare of disapproval.
"Go to sleep." Sesshoumaru grunted. "It's the only way you keep your mouth shut."
"You know I don't know about you, but your romantic words are really just making me swoon. If the spell were for me to care for you then it would have already been broken." Kagome said sarcastically, her eyes still shut, her mouth still in a large smile.
Sesshoumaru turned his head and looked at the moon; Kami was he getting himself into?
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Naraku had been watching the couple since they had left fairy fountain. He couldn't tell if his plan was working or not but he would know soon enough. Until then he needed to find the last shard.
"Kagura." His deep voice called her name with authority.
"Hai?" Kagura appeared behind him, her ruby eyes staring daggers into her back, her fan covering her smirking lips.
"Get Kikyou for me." Naraku ordered and Kagura quietly slipped out of the room.
The image in Kanna's mirror slowly changed to the Inuyasha group. Inuyasha was yelling and pacing through the forest, the rest of the group who were sitting by the campfire looked worn and tired. Naraku's lips twisted in an evil smile.
This fairy spell was really working out for him. Now with Kagome out of the way, he could place Kikyou in the Inuyasha group and any shard they found, she would bring to him. Yes this was all working out perfectly for him.
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"Inuyasha please sit down." Miroku pleaded the angry hanyou.
"I'm not gonna sit down!" Inuyasha snapped at him. Miroku sighed. Every night when they stopped to make camp, Inuyasha would pace, back and forth. He would mutter words and growl every now and then. They weren't getting anywhere.
"Maybe we should just go back to Kaede's village and rest until Kagome comes." Sango offered, but Inuyasha just glared at her.
"I'm not goin' anywhere!" He yelled.
Suddenly a large youkai jumped from the forest. He was huge boar that stood on his back legs, instead of all four. His eyes were large and red. Drool slid from his mouth and teeth as his tongue hung loosely to the side.
"Quit yelling in my forest!" The boar shouted in command, his voice deep and scratchy.
"Feh! Your forest?" Inuyasha cracked his knuckles and then leaped to charge at the boar. But the boar only laughed and opened his large mouth. In an instant, several normal size boars sprung from his mouth and charged at Inuyasha.
They knocked him to the ground, and soon more boars came from his mouth and attacked Sango and Miroku.
"Get off!" Inuyasha yelled and tried to slash through the number of boars on top of him. Miroku and Sango were having their own trouble trying to keep the boars away from Shippou.
"Heh." The large boar laughed. "Now I'll finish you!" He opened his mouth and the squeals of hundreds of disgusting boars could be heard. He faced Inuyasha who was trying to beat away the already many boars around him. "Die."
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"Come on! We're almost there!" Kagome was running and Sesshoumaru was easily keeping up with her pace.
"Why am I helping Inuyasha?" Sesshoumaru asked indifferently.
"Because I sense Shikon Shards!" Kagome said again. "And don't think of it as you helping him, think of it as me helping him and you having to come because I said so." Kagome huffed and pumped her legs harder.
Sesshoumaru growled in reply.
Kagome could see the figures through the trees. Boars were everywhere. And it looked like Inuyasha was about to receive the death blow from the largest boar. Kagome grinned as they jumped from the trees.
The boars leaped out of the youkai's mouth but Kagome put up her barrier, causing them to vanish on the spot. Dropping her barrier, she felt Sesshoumaru's arm snake around her waist and heard the crack of his whip.
They soon began spinning. The whip hitting each boar, vanquishing them. "Where are the shards?" Sesshoumaru asked when they stopped spinning and he had set Kagome back on the ground.
"In the.. whoa..." Kagome's head was spinning. "mouth..." Kagome finished. "Grow fifteen feet!" Kagome commanded and Sesshoumaru leapt in the air. It didn't take long to get the shards, and after he did the boar shrank into a normal size boar and ran into the forest squealing.
"Return to three feet!" Kagome commanded and then Sesshoumaru appeared next to her. Her friends were in front of her, shock written all their faces. Kagome tried to walk over to Sango, but her head was spinning. Deciding it would be best to stand still, she smiled at her friends. "Well look who did the saving this time! That's right, the girl who usually needs saving, did the saving!" She said in triumph.
Kagome stumbled backwards and Sesshoumaru caught her before she fell. He placed her on the ground and tried to steady her. When she was standing straight, Sesshoumaru kept one arm tightly around her waist so she wouldn't fall again.
"Arigato, Sesshoumaru." Kagome smiled at him and then frowned. "Let's not do that spinning attack again. I'm really dizzy." She closed her eyes and placed her hand on her forehead. "Did you get the shards?"
"No, Naraku's bees got them before I could." Sesshoumaru answered while keeping a steady gaze on Inuyasha.
"Shards?" Miroku and Sango said at the same time. "We didn't even know there were any shards." Miroku said with defeat.
"It wasn't the last shard, so obviously Naraku sent the boar." Kagome said.
Sango began looking around. "We didn't even see any bees." Her eyes fell back on Kagome again and everyone fell silent. Opening one eye Kagome could see their eyes focused on the chain.
"I can see you didn't get that fix!" Inuyasha now glared at her, his voice accusing.
Kagome's eyes snapped opened as she returned his glare with a steady one of her own. "Inuyasha! I tried! But nothing I said could convince Tsuki that this was a bad idea! What do you want me to do about it? Cry? Well too bad! I'm going to find the last shard!"
"It sounds to me as if you want to be chained to him! You're not doing anything to try and break it!" Inuyasha's voice was dripping with acid as he made his way in front of Sango and Miroku and stood directly in front of Kagome.
"Inuyasha! What the hell are you saying?" Kagome screamed. "Do you think that going to fairy fountain and pleading with a bunch of crazy fairies isn't trying! What the hell do you think I've been doing this whole time?"
Inuyasha's gaze fell to Kagome's waist where Sesshoumaru still had his hold on her. She wasn't even fazed; it was like she didn't notice his firm grip around her. "Well Kagome I don't know." Inuyasha's amber eyes finally met hers. "It must be nice being chained to the most attractive youkai in Japan, eh!" Inuyasha spat with disgust.
"Unfortunately for you, it wasn't passed down." Sesshoumaru said coldly.
Inuyasha growled and unsheathed his sword. "You bastard! I'll kill you!"
"Sit." Kagome said flatly. Inuyasha's body was slammed it to ground. "Kami Inuyasha! I'm sick of this! We shouldn't fight every time we see each other! But you, for some reason, think that I WANT this to happen! You think both me and Sesshoumaru planned this! Well we didn't."
The spell wore off and Inuyasha hopped to his feet. "You're not doing anything to try and-"
"Sit!" Kagome yelled. "We went to Tsuki herself! We went to the damn fairy herself and you know what? It was like talking to you because she just didn't listen. So what do you want me to do about it Inuyasha?"
Inuyasha jumped to his feet again. "Let me kill the bastard! Let me protect you!"
"NO!" Kagome moved directly between Sesshoumaru and Inuyasha, Sesshoumaru's hold on her waist was broken as his arm fell to his side. "You are not killing Sesshoumaru."
"Why!" Inuyasha yelled.
"One, he would kill you first and I don't want that to happen. Two, if by some miracle from Kami you did kill him, I don't want to have to drag his dead body around Japan. Three, SESSHOUMARU ISN'T THE PROBLEM!" Kagome yelled so loud that Inuyasha had to cover his ears.
Miroku placed a firm hand on Inuyasha. "So what are you going to do, Kagome?" He asked.
Kagome's eyes soften when she looked at Miroku. She missed her friends, and she wanted to travel with them again. But she couldn't have the two brothers near each other. "Well Sesshoumaru and I are going to go search for the last shard. Maybe if we get the full shikon no tama, we can break this."
Miroku nodded his head deeply. "I see."
Kagome eyes fell onto the hanyou again. He wasn't looking at her, but at the ground next to him. His face unreadable, but his eyes blazing. "Goodbye everyone." Kagome said sadly.
"Goodbye." They all intoned expect for Inuyasha.
Turning to Sesshoumaru she shrugged. "Let's go." They both began walking in the forest. "You know that little comment you made, really didn't help you jerk." Kagome said as they slowly began to disappear into the thick trees.
"Indeed." Sesshoumaru replied indifferently.
"Don't 'indeed' me!" Kagome said before they were out of sight.
The group stood frozen, all eyes were on the spot where Sesshoumaru and Kagome had last stood. They had seen it, they had all seen it. The amazing teamwork they displayed when coming out of the forest, and the striking pair they made when they stood side by side.
It was the sight that fueled Inuyasha's jealousy. He and Kagome never looked like that together, never worked like that together, and never has he seen Sesshoumaru touch any human, what was really going on here?
"Inuyasha." Miroku squeezed his shoulder. "Let's go."
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Naraku smiled into the mirror. Even though the dumb boar had gone to the wrong brother, it still turned out perfectly. Now his plan would be set into motion. "Kikyou..." He felt the miko standing over his shoulder, watching the mirror has well. "Did you like the scene?"
"What have you done this time?" Her voice was cold.
"Ah, this was not done by Naraku's hand. But Naraku's hand will use this blessing to his advantage." He smirked and then stared at Inuyasha. "What do you say, Kikyou? Want to join in the game?"
"What's in it for me?" Kikyou's chocolate brown eyes moved from the mirror to the back of Naraku's head.
"You're soul." He crooned.
End of Chapter
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Moonchild: WHEW! --collapses in chair-- I am so unbelievable tired!
Kagome: --pats MC's back-- There there, poor MC, you must be exhausted!
Inuyasha: Feh, why should that bum be exhausted?
Kagome: Because MC works four jobs now!
Moonchild: Yeah and last week I was working all a different job a day --sigh-- it was so horrible!
Sesshoumaru: MC...work... that's an oxymoron
Moonchild: So cruel. But hey! Look what I got! --holds up license in triumph--
Kagome: Yay MC!
Inuyasha: Oh shit.
Sesshoumaru: Oh shit.
Moonchild: That's right, oh shit, you bastard brothers! I'm gonna run you over with my car. --still in chair-- As soon as my body... moves.
--collapses from utter exhaustion--
Kagome: Oh poor MC! I'll close. MC wants to thank you for reading her fic. And thanks for all the reviews you have sent, MC loves them. Please continue to send a review but no flames! They break MC's heart.
Moonchild: --awakens-- Wait! I have something else to say... that boar was for you, AkaiKurai-chan! --falls asleep--