My Shackles of Words Chapter Two: I know your secret!


"Aurgh!" Kagura instinctively recoiled from the being that had dropped from the dense forest trees and had landed next to her on the riverbed.

"Hello Kagura" The redheaded woman said to her, violet eyes ignoring the wind user's hand gripping her now extended fan defensively.

"Who are you to address me so personally, worthless human?" She growled, leaves swirling in the air currents she had created.

"Hmm. Not really human, actually. The name's Scarlett the Huntress, but you can call me Fyre. We have a lot in common, Kagura."

"A lot in common with a stupidly named human child who daydreams she's stronger than she really is?" Kagura abruptly attacked, sending a cutting air current towards the stranger. Said wind collided with a sword for a split second, before bouncing off and harmlessly reeling off into the atmosphere. There was no sign of the sword on the woman.

"I'm less defenseless than you think, Kagura. Let's just cut to the chase, free-as-the-wind83."

"…Na- Nani?"

"Author of 'Intertwined', the story of two powerful Youkai who find themselves pulled together by fate (Warning, Yaoi!), 'My love', which also sports a 'Warning Yaoi' warning, and countless others. I must say, you are an excellent writer. I reviewed a couple of your stories."

"…..How did you know it was me?"

"Come on, the name just perfectly suits all those monologues you make about how you should be free! It's not rocket science."

The demon ignored the woman's last sentence, which she didn't understand. "So, Madam Fyre, of which use is this knowledge to you? Do you plan to blackmail me?"

The not-exactly-human seemed insulted. "Me? Blackmail you? How low do you think I am? Besides, I already said we have some things in common. Common…. Interests. We should be friends."

"Pray tell, why should we be friends?"

The redheaded girl leaned in to the demon, and whispered in her ear a phrase which caused first surprise, and then excitement to cross her face.

"Y…you are serious?"

"Dead serious."

Kagura's face resembled a cat that has just had a cream maker let her into his storeroom.

"Yes, madam Fyre, I think we should be friends. Shall we?"

A smile spread across her face like butter.


Kanna shook her head at her mirror and turned to one on Naraku's insects. She, them, that demon slayer brat and the worthless slaves were the only ones left in the castle, with her master leaving and the prisoner she knew existed only though her mirror had escaped soon after. She had followed the nameless woman on her magic mirror, intrigued by the prisoner whose presence she had not been alerted of by Naraku. Now were some even more puzzling items…..

"I do wonder" She asked the mindless buzzing insect in tones dead tones, "Why Kagura would be interested in a fruit, and a lemon at that?"


"Are you sure it's going to happen here?" Kagura grumpily asked her newfound friend. The girl who had first ordered Kagura to blow away both their scents then secondly crouch uncomfortably on a tree branch absentmindedly nodded. Naraku's detachment scowled and glanced at the spot they had both trained their eyes to- or had tried to, so what if she had a short attention span?- for the past ten minutes. The river Kagura had met Fyre at detached a little on and spiraled off into a hot spring at the base of a mountain, hidden in a grove surrounded with a ring of thick foliage. The only way to spot the secluded area was by flying or jumping over top and seeing the splash of blue, but the steep cliff face would be easier to fly around and any Youkai trying to jump to the top of it would be in for a harsh climb indeed…

The rustle of bushes broke her out of her thoughts. Fyre gripped her shoulder gently, as if she, Kagura, would do anything without thinking it out first. Prevent her from jumping down, jumping down and scaring off their entertainment for the afternoon? The girl must be crazy! She wouldn't do that in a million years! The hand was very unnecessary.

Sessomaru glided out of the foliage and after briefly combing the area over with his eyes, started to undress in fluid movements and then sunk gracefully into the heated water in six or so seconds. He possessed the fluidity, gracefulness and a simple streamlined quality of moving, despite being a dog instead of a cat demon, a fact further reinforced as he arched in the water then stretched his joints, somehow making the act seem like an interpretive dance.

Unheard by him (and everyone else, thanks to the air currents she created) Kagura hissed into the Huntress's ear, "This free strip show is all very nice and well, but it is far from what you pro-"

"Five."

Three seconds past.

"Five what?"

"Seconds, but now it's NOW."

"Nani?"

Damnit, the woman made no sense sometimes!

"Look."

Fiiiiiine, I will.

Practically that instant, Naraku erupted from the bushes. He looked like he had spent a night in the forest, all the while his charmingly gorgeous self. He failed to notice the women in the tree, having eyes only for…

"Sessomaru" He uttered, wolfish grin adorning his porcelain face.

"Naraku?" Sessomaru growled in confusion before catching himself. I sound like he has caught me on the spot…. Well he has, but if I have my way he will not realize I, for a second, even slightly resembled that blundering brother of mine, stuck for words. What is the disgusting demon doing here? He readied himself for a strike... shit, I'm naked. What does something have to do for a bath that isn't interrupted around here? He recalled a moment in the past when Inuyasha's annoying wench girl had picked where he had been bathing, and he had been forced to leave the relaxing water before they had entered the clearing that hot pool had been in. He was so very thankful for his nose at the moment, though he had wondered over the fact his brother had not smelt him with his at that moment.

Snapping back to the present, Sessomaru focused on the current circumstances. Him, naked, armed with only what weapons he had been born with. Naraku, looking like he had taken a fall off the cliff, hitting many trees on the way down, to reach here.

Good thing the other demon broke the silence.

"I'm sooo very glad I found you, Sessomaru." The spider purred, confusing the dog Youkai. What was that tone of voice?

Maybe the silence would have been better.

"What do you want, Naraku?"

The addressed quickly walked forward, and lunged at the bathing demon. The surprise in Sessomaru's mind that Naraku had not delivered the slash with a concealed weapon he had been anticipating and instead lifted him out of the water with one powerful arm and pushed him against a rock was instantly shadowed by the INTENSE surprise that registered when the Youkai pressing his dressed, albeit in thin material, body against his wet and naked body whispered one word before wrapping his fingers into Sessomaru's hair and pressing their mouths together.

"You."


Cliffie? I am SUCH A BITCH. The sudden ending does not mean a lemon is there. Don't ask about the whole 'Kagura writes fics and likes Yaoi!' Idea, just accept that I am mental.

Gigantimoso cookies and Sessomaru plushies (With removable clothes!) go out to my reviewers EternalPheonixtears and Lou…. And I guess yourbueatifulnightmare can have one as well... even if I did have to scream "REVIEW!" in her ear before she would. I don't think she'd actually want the plushy, actually.

Talking about Sesshie, is his tail actually attached to his ass, or what? It's confusing. Whatever. Please R&R, reviews are my lifeblood.

Not literally, that sounds a little painful.