1CS: I don't own shaman king or inu-yasha. Ocs are mine though. Enjoy!
The door creaks open as Danielle walks in. She looks at her watch. 1:45 am. She fixes her clothes in the dark. Somebody flashes on the lights. "Look who finally came home," sneers Naraku.
"What's wrong?" she asks, naively.
"What's wrong?" Sesshomaru mimics, from behind her, grabbing her, "you left us with Ms. Happy-go-lucky-do-this-or-I'll- tell-Danielle-this-shit. And she made us- wait," he sniffs her. Do I smell the warmth of a human boy on you?"
"Dani-chan!" Jax squeaks, running into the living room. Sesshomaru lets go of Danielle just in time for Jax to come up to her and hug the daylights out of her "Are you okay? Why didn't you stay the night at Ren's? You could've called. Why didn't you? I was so worried about you! You shouldn't of left me with them! Miroku kept wanting to-" she smacks Miroku, "let go of my butt! Danielle why did I get stuck with the pervert?"
Danielle sighs as Sesshomaru and Naraku smirk at her. "Behind every good woman there is always a pervert."
"Oh, yeah? Well tell me, how many perverts do you have?"
Danielle glances at the boys behind her. They look at her, lust in their eyes. She blushes and turns to Jacquie. "I'll tell you when everyone is back asleep."
Later on, everyone is asleep but Jax and Danielle. "Now can you tell me?" Jax questions.
"After we go outside."
They are now outside. "Now?"
"Wait till I close the door."
"Now?"
"Wait." Danielle checks everywhere that is within a mile of the house. She comes back satisfied. "Okay."
"So, tell me, how many do you have?"
"Come here," Jacquie leans towards Danielle, her ears towards Danielle's lips. "TOO MANY!" she screams.
Jax rubs her ears in pain. "Owie."
Danielle scratches the back of her neck, "sorry."
"S'okay. Danielle?"
"Yeah?"
"Can you tell me what you did with Ren?"
"I can't tell you in fear of your big mouth, but I can show you a little bit of it." Jax's heart skips a beat as Danielle unbuttons the top two buttons of her dress.
'She's a bi?' Jax questions in her mind. Danielle slaps Jax's face.
"No, I'm not a bi!" she hisses.
"But how you know that I was-"
"Thinking?" she completes the question. The red head nods as the younger auburn headed girl lets out a small laugh. "Don't you remember? I'm a witch. I can read your mind."
"Oh. Spooky. Then what are you going to show me?"
"This." Danielle puts down the collar of her dress. Upon her neck was a circular reddish-pink mark that was healing fast.
"You both turned into vampires!" Jax squeals, covering her neck. Danielle smacks Jax again.
"No you, baka! It's a hickey!" Danielle turns to the door.
"Are you going to tell Naraku and Sesshomaru?"
Danielle stops and turns around. "No, I'm not."
"Why?"
Jacque walks toward Danielle whose eyes shimmered with water. "Danielle? Are you alright?" she places her arm on Danielle's shoulder.
"Leave me alone!" Danielle whips around hiding her tears. But due to her quick, fast paced movements and Jax's brief yet strong grip, the back of her dress rips. Jacquie gasps.
"Dani-chan," she whispers, "your back. It's…"
"marred. I know." Danielle turns to Jax. Jax swears that she sees a tear shimmer down her best friend's face.
"But…why?"
Danielle walks to the edge of the patio, looking up at the stars that her and Ren so dearly love. Jax winces, but forces herself to study the scars.
They range from ten years to newly fresh wounds. They are a nix between a whip, claw, and sword markings. Blood trickles from the freshest ones as the oldest ones are a dull pink, fading to almost nothing. She walks closer, yearning to touch the wounds, wanting to have the power to heal - just like her friend. "Jealousy."
Jacquie looks up, confused "What did you say, Dani-chan?"
Danielle tightens her fist in pain.
"What's wrong? Are you in pain?"
"Yes, but you know what would help?"
"What?"
"If," Danielle gasps in pain, "you take your hand off my back."
Jacquie looks at her hand. Surely enough, it was on her best friend's back. She had forgotten that she had put it there. When Danielle had spoken, she had forgotten everything. She takes it off.
"Sorry."
Danielle looks at her, and laughs. "I wish you had the power to heal as well, Jax." She turns back to the stars.
"What did you say, Dani-chan?"
"Jealousy."
"Why?"
Danielle sighs, "Isn't it obvious?"
"No."
"Naraku and Sesshomaru are dominant demons."
"Yeah."
"So they also become very jealous."
"Yeah, and?"
"So if I'm seen, smelt, or heard with another male, they get super jealous."
"Alright."
"You're not getting any of this are you?"
"I am."
"That's a shock."
"You know, I can't always act stupid."
Danielle thinks about it for awhile. "True."
"So shouldn't you stop sleeping with them?" Jacquie asks.
"I would……If I was the one wanting it."
"You mean…"
"Yes, they are the ones who want it… Not me."
"What about the others?"
"My friends out of the house?"
Jax nods.
"They stop when I ask. Except for Hao. I have to beg pretty hard with him."
Jax nods again, looking up at the stars with her friend. Silence fills the air briefly.
"Did you," Jax ponders aloud, breaking the silence, "tell Ren?"
"Yes," her friend mutters weakly. "I told him everything."
"And?"
"And what?"
"What did he say?"
"He ..he comforted me."
"Awwww. How sweet! How? Was this before the vampire bite?"
"It's a hickey. Yes, it was before the make out. He told me not to worry about and that he'll send some spirits over."
"He's a shaman, too?"
"Yeah, I already told you that. He soother me and told me to stop crying."
"You were crying? I never knew that you cried much."
"Yeah, well, don't make it into a big discussion. I rather hide my emotions then for me to be stomped on."
"Right. So how will the ghosts help you?"
"Spirits, not ghosts. I don't know. He told me that Anna, an itako, will bring someone that will really defend me."
"Anna?"
"My other shaman friend."
"Right." Silence fills the air again. Then Jacquie hears a song fill the air. It was coming from Danielle.
If blood will flow,
When flesh and steel are one,
Drying in the color of the evening sun.
Tomorrow's rain will wash the stains away,
But something in our minds will always stay,
Perhaps this final act was meant,
To clinch a lifetime's argument,
Nothing comes from violence,
And nothing ever could,
For all those born beneath an angry star,
Less we forget how fragile we are.
On and on the rain will fall,
Like tears from a star,
Like tears from a star.
On and on the rain will say,
How fragile we are,
How fragile we are.
On and on the rain will fall,
Like tears from a star,
Like tears from a star,
On and on the rain will say,
How fragile we are,
How fragile we are,
How fragile we are."
"Wow," Jax comments, "That was beautiful."
"Eh, it's no big deal. I'm just at singing and that's my favorite song by Sting."
"You should-"
"No Jax, I shouldn't. Come on, it's time for bed."
They walk to the door, but Jacquie stops Danielle.
"What about them?"
"Who?"
"Naraku and Sesshomaru. They're in your bedroom."
"So? I can stand another night of their foreplay."
Jacquie places her hand in the hiatus in between Danielle's arm and waist. "But they can smell Ren on you."
"So? I'll get thrashed around a bit. No big deal."
"But they'll start searching for Ren and they'll kill him."
"I'll say that I made the first move. I'll get hurt a bit more, but like I said before, no big deal." Danielle walks towards the door, face stoic but with liquidly eyes.
She is jerked back. She stares at Jacquie, shocked.
Jacquie had transformed into her kitsune form when Danielle had her back turned to her. Her face shows a raging battle between Jax. A battle of tears, anger, hatred, and of love.
"Jacquie, let go. I'll be fine."
Danielle tries to break free, but fails.
"I can't let you do this, Danielle."
"Why not!" Danielle cracks, anger beginning to show, along with a tinge of worry. She tries again to break free only to fail. "Damn. If only they didn't attack me earlier. And if I wasn't seeping blood from my back I could fight her of with no problems," she mutter under her breath.
"Danielle, can't you hear yourself! It's plain suicide to go in there!"
"Oh yeah! Prove it!"
"If you can't break free from me now." she tightens her grip on Danielle. She lets out a slight small whimper of pain. "Then you can't possibly face them!"
"Oh yeah! I like to see you go in there! I go in there to stop their sexual fantasies every night to protect you and every girl in Japan!"
Jacquie slaps Danielle hard against her cheek, "You can't always play hero Danielle! It could cost you your life one day! I can't allow you to do that!"
She looks at her younger friend.
Danielle is still on her knees where she had fallen when Jacquie had tighten her hold on to her. Her face is faced towards the direction where the slap had ended. She hadn't moved an inch since.
"Danielle?"
Silence fills the air as rain falls upon the patio.
"Danielle?"
Worry fills the face of the kitsune as her friend does not respond.
"Danielle speak to me!"
Jacquie gets on her knees. She puts her friends face in her hands to get a better look at the damage she had done.
Danielle's cheek is red with four long claw marks. Her lips bleed with blood. Her eyes are closed. Her breathing is scarce.
"Danielle? Are you alright?"
She doesn't make an effort to speak nor act. Jacquie shakes her friend.
"Danielle! I'm sorry! Please speak to me!" She embraces her silent friend, tears streaming down her face, mixing with the rain.
"It's okay, Jax." Danielle whispers. "You're right."
"What?" Jax looks at the shaman. She is smiling, despite the pain in her face and back.
"You're right, I can't always be the hero."
"Aren't you mad at me?"
"Sadly, no. you had to knock some sense into me. But I wish you hadn't done it so literally."
The girls laugh, helping one another off the wet patio floor.
"So where are you going to sleep, Dani-chan? You can sleep in my bedroom."
"Nah. I'll sleep on the couch. I need sometime to myself. Got it?"
Jacquie smiles.
"Kinda, but I'll get you some blankets and pillow from the closet."
She leaves the room shortly as Danielle sits on the couch in deep thought.
"Why," Jacquie begins, coming back into the room, "do you need time to yourself?"
"Because," Danielle responds, slipping into a nightgown Jacquie lends her, "I need to sort out my priorities, feelings, and my life. I just need to sort everything out." Jacquie sees the distant look in her friend's eyes. She smiles and slaps her friend's knee lightly.
"You do that. As soon as you go to sleep."
"Right."
"Love you like a sister!"
"Love ya like a sister."
"Good night!"
"Night."
They give one another a sisterly embrace. Jacquie gets up and leaves the room.
Danielle turns off the lights. Left alone with only herself and her own chaotic mind.
CS:Will Danielle have to confront Naraku and Sesshomaru later? Find out next time!
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