Chapter 7: Skeletal Fate
I woke up to the sound of scrapping metal; it was Sesshoumaru sharpening the Tenseiga. "I'm not dead!" I retorted. His gaze averted, meeting mine, I guess he hadn't noticed I was awake. "Who says you were?" He replied. "Where's the toad?" I yawned, stretching my arms as I sat up against the bed's pillows. "Jaken went to go find Inuyasha." Sesshoumaru snorted, putting the Tenseiga back in its sheath. "Inuyasha? I thought you hated him, and you wanted him dead!" I shouted, jumping out of bed. Sesshoumaru started to laugh. "What's so funny!" I snapped. "Do you plan to get a decent kimono on this morning? Or wear what you're wearing now?" He chuckled. I looked down at my night dress, it was very revealing. "You pervert!" I said slapping him, gently, across the cheek. Sesshoumaru grasped my wrist and pulled me forward, but I broke away when I was inches away from his face. "Sorry." I remarked, "Do you mind?" Sesshoumaru nodded, leaving me to dress. I pulled out a black kimono with a red dragon pattern on it. "What the hell was I thinking? Letting that bastard hold me like that? But something in the deepest part of my heart tells me, something's going on here…" I thought. I rarely thought of Sesshoumaru as a 'bastard', but today just wasn't one of those days. I walked out of the house, deep in mythoughts, and accidentally crashed myself right into Sesshoumaru's tail. I looked up, seeing nothing but white, and I thought I was dead. "I didn't know death was white and fluffy…" I laughed. I felt strong hands pull on my sides, pulling me out of the white, fluffy mass. I looked up and saw an angry Sesshoumaru. "Sorry?" I remarked, laughing a little.
"Stop fooling around, we've got to get moving!" He retorted. I straightened out my kimono and ran after him. We walked into a woodland area, and that's were I finally caught up to him. "I wasn't 'fooling' around, I accidentally fell into your—er—tail…" I stumbled through my words as if I were first learning to speak. "What's that?" I asked, pointing to something up ahead in the road. I ran towards it to find—a perfect skeleton of a male. Every bone to the skull to the femur were there. I licked my lips looking at the juicy bones that stood in front of me. Hey, a dragon's got to eat what they gotta eat. I went to sink my front fangs into its arm bone, but a voice bellowed out of no where. "Hey! Hands off the bone pal!" The skeleton began to move, and it stood to match my height. "What the hell are you?" I demanded, still a bit startled. "Haven't you ever seen a Bone Demon before?" He or maybe it was a she, snarled. "Bone demon?" I pondered. "Nope, sorry, never heard of that kind of demon before." The bones sighed, each shaking and passing the rhythm to the next. "Well, what are you doin out here, missy?" The bone demon snapped. Sesshoumaru stepped forward, infuriated by our 'guest'. "Don't you have 'manners'!" "No." The demon said flatly. "You shall address her as M'lady. Do we have an understanding?" Sesshoumaru snarled through his sharp fangs.
"L-L-Lord Sesshoumaru?" The demon quivered in fright, each bone, and well all 206 of them. "You know this thing?" I asked. Sesshoumaru nodded, "He was my first human that I ever killed." "Why is he—?" I started. "Ah yes, I put a spell on him to make sure he would live forever." Sesshoumaru chuckled. "Any you tricked my, you filthy bastard!" The bones wailed. "Heh, you should be thanking me. For letting you live so long, but—we must be leaving. Good bye, Sate." Sesshoumaru waved. "Don't you dare leave me!" Sate retorted. "I'll kill you!" Sesshoumaru didn't notice Sate ran up behind him to murder him, so naturally… "ARGH!" Sate wailed. Sesshoumaru spun around to see Sate bleeding yellowish blood, and with one of my dragon claws clutching what seemed to be a heart. I pulled it out, snapping all the veins attached to it. Suddenly, Sate's bones fell apart, tendons braking, and ligaments snapping as each bone fell into the dirt, and turning to dust. My eyes widened, but then I started to laugh, "So, once you pull out its heart, it'll turn to dust. You ain't that scary are ya?" I kicked the remaining bone, and in a heart beat, it too turned to dust. "Shall we be going?" Sesshoumaru asked. I nodded, running up next to him, and then began to walk. "Do you really think that mutt can help me find my brother?" I asked. Sesshoumaru turned his head towards me and looked me straight in the eye, "I think he can, even though it kills me to ask of that half-breed." Sesshoumaru snarled. I nodded, looking ahead at the setting sun, and thinking about tonight's new moon. To be continued…