The Mutt

Chapter 20

Kagomeheaded back to thespring for a good soak. She was a bit sore and needed to relax her mind anyhow.

She entered and took her bathing things to the spring.While soaking she began to take back all of the pain. Kagome wasn't exactly sure why, but she knew deep down that something was haunting her soul. She felt trapped. First she loses her mother, then she has to deal with the overgrown poodle, now Chintado has escaped once again and is after her.

Ugh, this is too much to take in at once. She needs a break for once. Why was she here again. Kagome never thought that she would see this castle once more. Not after what had happened last time around. She didn't want to be reminded of it. It was too painful. Kagome may not show it, but she does hurt inside.

She got out of the spring and wrapped a towel cloth around her slim, slender body. The place was filled with steam from her enjoyable soak. She was now relaxed enough to reattach herself from the water to the world.

Kagome walked in her room and closed the door behind her. It made no difference because once she turned around...

"Hi." Tengi was back in her room, lying on her chair.

"Tengi you startled me." Kagome said backed against the shoji door. "And get out of my room."

"Hey sorry. I thought you woulda be able to smell me at least." Tengi said.

"The fog of the bath was still in my lungs. I couldn't smell predators."

"Well that's what you get for taking two baths a day." he said stretching like a feline on the chair and scratching her furniture.

"Hey, don't scratchon my chair. You'll rip the fabric." Kagome tapped on his head and disappeared behind the shade.

"Could you pass me a kimono?" She asked.

"Sure"

Tengi opened the closet to find gorgious kimonos all in line. "Which one?"

"I don't care."

He picked out one with koi fish in reds and whites around it.

"This one looks good"

"Pass it." Tengi handed her the kimono and caught the one she through over.

Once dressed and ripped the skirt for pants,Kagome and Tengi agreed on visiting the children in the yard.

Somewhere in a dark area

"Master, we are ready." A grunged looking demon spoke. He was a wilderbeast demon with red eyes and two horns growing from his hairy head.

"Execlent. Everything is prepared?" asked a cunning voice

"Hai Master."

"Perfect." He grinned menicingly.

"We attack...Now!"

Back at the castle

"Can't catch me." Anna called to Rin who was slower than her.

"Oh yes I can." Rin called back. She was running with all her might but couldn't catch up.

"Hehe." Anna ran faster. What a she-devil.

Kagome and Tengi just arrived and sat down on a bench.

"You two brats had better slow down." Jaken yelled to the little ones.

"Jaken let them have their fun while they can." Kagome reasoned.

"Those two will be the death of me." he replied

"No, I will be the death of you if you don't stop bothering them." Kagome simply stated as though it wasn't a threat.

"Hmp." was all he could say after that.

"Common Rin." Anna urged. But when she looked behind her Rin was gone. A flash of orange and white passed her quickly and she felt someone hit her on the back. Anna blinked twice before seeing Rin infront of her.

"Haha.Passed you." Rin said still running ahead. Anna just stood there gapping.

Passed her indead, but how. Rin out ran a neko demon. A neko demon with extrodinary powers no less.

Kagome saw this and wondered 'Something is wrong with that child."

"Okay, now let's go chase Jaken sama." Rin suggested.

"Uh, ok." Anna was clearly shocked but went ahead and ran after Jaken. She kept her eye on Rin though.

"Akkkkkkkg, no, no go away." He ran for his life.

"Haha, look at him go.Hehe." Tengi laughed and pointed. He obvioulsy didn't notice what Rin did. Oh well.

"Kagome." Out of the shadows came Tontanu.

"Hai" she said standing to greet him

"Lord Sesshomaru requests that you and the children return to you quarters at once." He had a serious expression on his face. Bad sign.

"Why may I ask." she furrowed her eyes.

"Just hurry." he said and went about his business.

"Rin, Anna, come along." Kagome called and they stopped thier game at once.

Everyone was in thier chambers again. Tengi was once again companying Kagome. And Kagome was once again annoyed.

She slid open her doors to find Sesshomaru dressed with his armor on. Kagome closed the doors behind her.

"What the hell? Why did you send us back to our chambers? What is going on?" she asked too many questions.

"It is Chintado's spawn who is lose. You are to stay in the castle."

"Sumimasen? For what? Let me go with you. I can help." She asked

"Iie, it is to dangerous."

"Since when do you care on my account?" they started walking down the hall.

"I don't. I care on Rin's account. If you die she will no longer have someone to look up to. And she will blame me." They halted at the exit to the palace.

"You're not making sense. I can't die. Only by you and Chintado. But he's not as strong as me." she kept arguing. He was keeping her from destroying Chintado. And besides, if Sesshomaru kills Chintado it won't break the spell. Only she has to kill him to be freed of this curse.

"Then if you do value your life I highly suggest you stay here." Sesshomaru towered over her with a burning stare. It didn't intimidate her though, just angered Kagome.

She roughly turned her back and walked quickly to her chambers. Her hair flung about her.

Meanwhile...

"Hey, wherd everybody go?" Tengi was left in the room alone but not for long.

Kagome stormed in her room and slammed the door shut.

"Wow. That didn't go well." Tengi stated nearly falling of his seat. He could sense her anger. You could cut it with a butcher knife.

"You ok?" he asked taking caution.

"That arrogant, self centered, son of a bitch!" She screamed pacing around the room throwing and flinging her hands left to right.

"You do know he can hear you, ne?"

"I don't care. Let him hear me. Someone needs to tell him these things."

"Ok, you tell him. I'll be the smart one."

"How dare he keep me from my mission." Kagome and Tengi went to the balcony. She sat like a man with one leg up and the other dangling. Tengi leaned on the marble stone and they both looked out to the clear blue sky. Feeling the breeze calmed her down always and seeing the ocean made her comfortable. Tengi on the other hand hated water, but Anna didn't.

"Forget it. I'm going." she said suddenly. He wasn't expecting that.

"Wait, wait, wait. Nani?"

"I'm going." Kagome climbed down the edge and headed for the door.

"Hold on a second Kagome. Let's think for a minute here. What do you think Sesshomaru will do to you if you get caught or injured for that matter?"

"Nothing without a fight." She left the room.

"Look he's already gone."

"So." Tengi retorted

"So, all I have to do is sneek out the doors and follow his scent towards Chintado's little trouble maker."

"But,but.."

"Please Tengi don't say a word. I need all the chances I can get." she looked at him with pleading eyes.

"Uuuuuuuh, ok. But be back in one piece." he said talking to her as is he were her father. This time he wished her father were here instead of on the other side of the world with her mother so he could knock some sense into Kagome.

"As always." and she grabbed onto something aroung her chest and dematerialized out of the palace before his eyes.

Soon Kagome found herself on a cloud in the air.

"Anna? Where are you?"

"Gomenasai Kagome but I didn't want to stay there knowing you weren't gonna be there."

"Anna you shouldn't have come and used your powers also. How did you hear our conversation?" Kagome asked

"I snuck down." she answered guiltyly

"Snuck down! You left Rin?"

"I told her to go down to Tengi's room so he could find her. See I'm smart." She grinned triumpantly.

"So can I stay?"

"You're going to have to, but when I'm in battle..."

"Stay under cover. Gotcha." she put a thumbs up.

"sigh, Right." Kagome stroked her hair.

"You're getting to smart."

"Hehe" Anna smiled.

Then both pair of ears perked up at the sound of roaring.

"Stay down." Kagome and Anna came upon an enormous odd looking creature. Kagome wasn't sure if it was an illusion or not. Then they spotted the Demon lord.

Sesshomaru could faintly smell her scent while in batlle and pushed it aside. He was dodging every attack. This thing had eight arms and one leg. It looked as though it were growing from the ground. In fact it was like some sort of tree.

Sesshomaru used Tokijin's strongest attack.Dragon Strike.

It only faltered this thing a little bit. It was strong. There was no head visible and no eyes. How was it movng from the ground. Sesshomaru swipped at another branch arm tearing it to shreads when he saw a flash of yellow.

He jumped to a safer area to look up at Kagome. It appears that she was flying only because he didn't see Anna.

Kagome was using all her might to fight it off. Every whip she threw at it had no affect. Then she saw Sesshomaru looking up at her.

Uh-Oh. She was in trouble. Big trouble. She could tell by the pissed off look of his face.

"Well there is no way I am getting off this thing now."

Anna nodded.

ThenKagome saw a brown and white figure jumping from tree to tree away from the monster and across the valley. It stopped and looked back at her. She saw it had bronze hair andit pointed at something. It was a tree.

Kagome took notice to a brown glowing part ofthe tree. It was a sakura tree and only the middle of it was glowing.

'That must be the heart.' Kagome thought. So it was an illusion after all. That's why it was so hard for Sesshomaru to attack it.

Sesshomaru began to whip around and strike the odd demon.

'How come his whip has affect?' She thought again.

"Sesshomaru, the tree. Look at the sakura tree. It's glowing."

Sesshomaru looked at the tree for a second before dogdeing another attack.

This thing was going wild. It stopped at nothing to hit Sesshomaru. All it did was fling its tentacles at him and Kagome. One shot up and nearly struck Anna.

Kagome was attacking it when it grabbed her off the cloud, leaving Anna helpless.Sesshomaru went to the tree and stuck his sword into the glowing part while the demon was busy with Kagome.

Up on the cloud Anna heard a loud scream from the demon as it ended its life. She peeked over the side. Kagome dropped to the floor and landed on her feet.

Sesshomaru sped over to her and grabbed her arm. He grabbed it so far that his claw dug into her elbow.

"You dared to disobey me?" He growled at her.

"Ow, I helped kill it didn't I?" she replied.

He stared hard into her eyes, searching for some fear. It never came and he shoved her to a tree and let her go.

"Come." he ordered walking away creating his own cloud.

"I can't make a cloud like you. How am I suppose to get there? Walk?"

"You did it before."

"Iie, it was Anna." Sesshomaru peered up at the still floating cloud to seescarlet ears sticking from it.

Sesshomaru swooped down and picked Kagome up by the collar. He dropped her off on Anna's cloud and they began to travel back toward the castle. Anna felt the anger in him. She only hoped that it wouldn't be too bad.

Back in a dark area.

"Shimatta. So close." the shadowy figure had wanted Kagome to follow Sesshomaru right into his trap. But failed. He would have to be more careful next time.

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