Listen to the strange voices in your head. The fact is that everyone says that if you're in the hospital, and god says you will live twenty more years. DO NOT get face lifts etc., because when they release you, a car might run you over. And when you get to heaven, if you just happen to say, " I thought I had twenty more years, " he'll say, " I'm sorry, I didn't recognize you.
Well, my precious friends, who have taken their precious time to read this, I feel…appreciated. I will update and republish "Miko Temptest" Very soon. I promise. Love, Stoleninnocence-insa
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Chapter Three--Kuro Kumori Koushin ( Dark Shadows Rise)
Kagome blissfully sighed as she took off her shoes. No way she could dance in these high heels again. No one could see them, so what was the point? How could cute shoes be so evil? She glared at the shoes for all she was worth, and when she was done, she collapsed on the daybed in exhaustion.
" Hey, Kagome!" She heard Sango calling. Oh, great, now she was hallucinating! Next thing she knew, and angel was going be giving her a chocolate bar and a warm hug. Actually, that's what she craved. " Kagome!"
Kagome crashed the pillow over her face, whether in attempt to drown out the noise in her head, or to suffocate herself, she still didn't figure out. After the dance, just forty-five minutes ago, she was utterly embarrassed from their positions, and the fact the Koga obviously like their positions, which infuriated her. Not to mention the fact that she had to go back on stage with him in fifteen minutes in nothing less than a sheer black cloth like snake thing-a-ma-gig.
She sighed when that voice like Sango called her again. "Go away little voice in my head."
" If I go away, you no get chocolate."
She sat up quickly, looking around the room, until her eyes landed upon the source of the voice. " Chocolate?" She asked meekly. Chocolate was her weakness, other than Koga when he touched her. She narrowed her eyes, skeptical when Sango came closer to her.
" Hey, Kagome." She bent down and hugged her friend. " Here, you'll need this." She handed her the chocolate bar. Okay, something was up, she could tell when Sango was standing up--rigidly.
" What is it?" She narrowed her eyes. Kagome glanced down at the bar. 'Thank the sweet heavens above for a three-musketeers!'
" Well, tell me how the dance went first." Sango countered, sitting at the very edge of the bed, as far away from Kagome she could get. Or to get up faster than Kagome. 'Maybe giving Kagome that chocolate was a bad idea, that could give her energy to come after me.'
" Well," Kagome began, staring at the chocolate longingly. Finally , she tore the wrapper from the heavenly substance that lay beneath, then bit into it like a mad vampire. If Sango didn't know better she thought her eyes turned red. " It was alright, but I really turned to lax when we were in those positions. Now, in the next dance that's in little more than," she glanced at her watch, " eleven minutes, I have to wear your skimpy little tight as hell outfit that I can barely keep my breast in, Koga seems to really enjoy or positions. You know the once that you guys were suppose to be in."
Kagome inhaled, trying to keep her calm demeanor, as watched the stained smile on her friend's face. " Okay. What's up with you not being able to come and, you know, do your dance?"
Sango eyes flickered. " Oh, yeah, well, I was sick…yeah…you know throwing up and what not." Sango sighed, playing with her fingers in her lap.
" Sango…come with me." Kagome led her through the dressing room. She sat her down in the chair in front of the large make-up mirror, and went behind the dressing board. " Sango. I really have the feeling that you're holding something back from me." A held breath, and a tight wiggle, followed by a little grunting.
" Well…it started yesterday." She tried to look at the side of the board to see Kagome. " Do you need some help?"
A very deep breath. " Uh-uh." The sound of a glass breaking.
" Are you sure?"
" Uh-huh."
" Okay, well, I guess you could say in started yesterday, after the opening dance. When I went to my dressing room, the current Lord of the Western Lands, when he said he had a special job for me, and I had to chose between the dance and what he needs me for… and well, I was kind of scared, so I chose what he wanted. So he introduced me to a monk by the name of Miroku. And he lecherous, but he's kind of…well cute."
" Oh…" Grunting, and a thud. " Well, if you like him…go for it."
" What about you?"
"Oh, I'll be fine. I won't instantly melt under Koga's clever fingers. Besides, earlier today…I kissed him, it was just a little peck, but then…." Kagome chose this moment to come from behind the board to see her friend's shocked face. " Oh, Sango. I know, but well it's your fault that this thing is so tiny! I mean, I'm not fat, but well you just don't stick your fingers in the cookie jar as often as I do!"
" No, no, Kagome. It's not that. It's the fact that you kissed Koga, and then you even had an 'but then', which obviously mean something else happened. Oh my gosh! You didn't did you?"
It took about three seconds before she realized what she was saying.
Sango watched Kagome. Obviously she wasn't taking it very well. She didn't know exactly what gave her away, exactly. Maybe it was her being so red, or the fact that she was pacing bad and forth, ranting like a mad woman tripped over the little "robe" and crashed into the wall, shouting her indignities about what kind of girl she really was and had she lost her mind, or the fact that Koga and the two Taisho half-brothers had walked in and she still hadn't notice.
Finally, Kagome took a deep breath, ending with, " The only thing that happened was he kissed me back, said one of the funniest comebacks to an embarrassing situation, okay, okay so it was I who originally said it, and walked away. Nothing else." She smoothed out the robe. " Okay, now that we understand each other…," she walked toward Sango, picking up the chocolate bar that she abandoned and Sango stole a few pieces as she continued to rant, and took a large bite filled with pride. " Alright, so I dip in the cookie jar way more than you, doesn't mean that you know…things…I…of course I'm still a virgin. I mean from what hear you can get orgasms just from being in the same room as Koga. I think I could testify to that, after all, because of you when we did the dance earlier, I think I may have feared a lot more than falling off the stafe. But all of the concubines and other forms of ladies have all agreed that no one does anything greater than him or…the older brother Sesshomaru." She finished with a whisper.
" But unfortunately, they say, that Sesshomaru like an Ice prince. Maybe he just doesn't like to talk, or doesn't like the person. He could be one of those observant. But the young brother's suppose to be a brute. I don't believe what they say about him. He's a…I'm ashamed to say, a hanyou, and a kind one at that, but in this world. He's going to have a lot to prove. What I think is that they're both misunderstood."
Sango tried to speak, but couldn't get the words out. The only thing she did was peer behind Kagome at the shocked faces of the males, and back at Kagome. Kagome continued her one-sided talk.
" I wonder Sango…I will tell you the most embarrassing thing that happened to me the other day. I was walking around the castle, because the Mr. Taisho, said I could, but then I heard…well…these weird noises…and…."
" Kagome?" Sango asked quietly. Koga wanted to laugh, Sesshomaru stared at Kagome blankly, and Inuyasha was shocked, complete with the whole, eye-wide and bulging, mouth on the floor.
" Yes, Sango. I did explore to see the sounds, and I saw…well, something that I wished to never see again. I saw that awful retainer uh…what's his name, Jaken, smelling his toes and…naked. It was awful…" She looked at the bar, and then as if remembering the dance she glanced at her watch. " Oh, there is five minutes until the dance and I still didn't do everything I'm suppose to." She ran back to the board, attached her dark wings like an angel, and grabbed the sharp scythe. Then she hurried around the make-up mirror, applying white make-up to make her face seemed pale, and then the black eye-liner, shadow, and lipstick. " You have to tell me more about your secret assignment and that cute, lecherous monk you was gong on about and…. As a matter of fact, I should kill you for leaving me alone with Koga."
Sango cleared her throat desperately. " Kagome?"
" I know, I have to go."
" No, you'll want to die."
Kagome gave Sango her most confusing look. Sango merely pointed past Kagome. Kagome was almost afraid to look, but she did. Guess what? Three demons, standing there, knowing every single she had said, what she said, and how she said it.
She turned back to Sango clearly. " I'm not alone am I? Please just agree with me. I'm hallucinating, you're hallucinating, we're both tired, and running on the fuels of…a Three Musketeers."
Sango shook her head, stood up and ran out of the room. Kagome was left defenselessly staring at the subjects of her earlier conversation. Maybe they were in shock and she could creep past?
But fate obviously didn't like her, and decided for a little joke. " Girl, why do you talk about us?"
Kagome couldn't find a decent answer, so she instead, raising the Three Musketeer Bar to the three as a piece offering. " Three Musketeers, anyone?"
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Koga and Kagome walked through the corridor that lead to the stage. It was dark outside, and in the corridor and they weren't allowed to turn on any lights, but they captured fireflies, and lit candles to keep at their side. They were walked at the same pace on either side of each other, Kagome still to embarrassed to speak after she ran from the room, after the young hanyou brother had plucked the candy from her hand. She sighed.
" So…Kagome. Do you really think that about me. That you could get an orgasm from being in the same room as me?"
Kagome glanced at Koga from the corner of her eye. He was grinning from ear to ear, and she found nothing funny about it. She sped up, practically running when she yelled over her shoulder. " I don't want to talk about it." She heard his laughter echoing through the corridor.
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Sesshomaru watched as the smoke began, and the music began to pulse, signaling the beginning of the dance.
When the lights from the side lit up like candles, there was only one figure on stage. The male, chained, and beaten on a smooth alter like an offering. He grunted, pulling at his chains, producing sweat that made his tanned skin seem exotic, and his muscles rippled with every movement.
A darkness feel over the lit stage, and from the sky, fell a dark hooded figure. With large wings, and smooth pale hands that clung tight to the scythe it carried.
I
stand here silent there before you…. your tears, they mean nothing
to me….
It's wings flared out widely, sheltering the man from the moon.
It seems as though you fear me…taking your life…?
It was Kagome's voice, yet she wasn't talking.
Your life is so small and insignificant, it holds no meaning at all….
The moon's pal fingers were trying to reach the man, as if giving hope to him.
You soul is so corrupt, I want to cry at the beauty of it….
She stepped closer to him. She was making her usually soundless footsteps, heavy so that it echoed the rhythm of his heart.
You have fallen into the despair of anger, and you have murdered someone dear….
He kept his eyes downcast.
It sleeps dormant inside me, and as I wake it slows fades and rides away to become lost….
Slowly she raised her hand.
Like a lullaby sung long ago it repeats brokenly….
To her hood.
Just like me, it is hollow….
And slowly she began to lowering it.
I can't wait until this suffocating pulse can be released….
Until he slowly saw the pale chin that held the rosy lips.
And no one remembers your slowly fading memory….
And the small dainty nose that marked half of the face.
This heart beat imitates life….
Before she threw in back. Her black hair, wet so that he fell down stringy, and he looked into her dark eyes.
They seemed so dark and it held no gleam….
They were lifeless and deprived from hope, as she bent down, and curled her fingers around the chain.
And yet, I had watched you and felt the stinging of water behind my eyes….
And he yanked so he stood before her. She placed hood over her face once more.
I feel the need to cry….
So only he could see the rosy lips that was slowly descending upon his.
And when my lips touch yours slowly….
And when they made contact, they saw that below them, was the fires of hell, and they were floating.
I realize I want to save you….
And black wings kept them afloat as she slowly begin to rise with his, the smoke was obscuring them.
So I will slowly raise you up with me, into the cold arms, and warm fingers of my heart….
And they disappeared.
So leave you're last lullaby behind as you're good-bye, and watch as I cry….
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