Hey guys! This is chapter two! Yeah that's right TWO! Haha! I'm eating popcorn and I had three chocolate chip cookies heated up before that. Lol! Anyway, I hope you guys enjoy this chapter and the last so, yeah! I'll talk to ya after this chapter.
Confrontation
I looked around with the light all around me. 'What happened last night? I fell asleep outside, near the castle!' I thought before wincing at the brightness. Sesshoumaru was standing away from where everyone else was. 'Who are these people? I've never seen them before!' I thought while looking at the strange two headed dragon and the small toad imp. On the dragon's back was a small girl wearing a white and orange kimono, sleeping. 'Did humans find me? Or was it a demon who found me?' I wondered before yawning.
"Stupid half breed!" the toad imp grumbled in his sleep.
I froze, thinking that he was awake. 'Is he awake?' My body was sore from the beating Naraku had given the previous day. I got to my feet and crept over to the two headed dragon. The dragon's tail flicked while it slept. I looked over at the small imp and the two headed staff that he held. 'That's a weird staff! It has two heads, a man, and a woman!' I took the staff from the imp and held it in my hands.
"This thing is weird!" I whispered as I turned the staff around.
The head of the man opened its mouth and started laughing.
"Ah!" I cried as I dropped it on the ground.
The man continued to laugh as I fell backwards and crawled away from it. The two headed dragon and the imp woke up suddenly at the sound.
"What's going on?" the girl whispered as she rubbed her eyes.
My heart pounded as I started to panic. 'Why did I have to grab it? Why did I have to be so stupid and grab it?' Suddenly Sesshoumaru ran into the camp to see what was going on.
"What's wrong with this thing? Laughing for no reason while everyone is sleeping!" the imp said while reaching for the staff.
I backed up even farther without knowing that Sesshoumaru was right behind me.
I hit his two legs and looked up at him. 'Damn I'm in trouble!' Sesshoumaru stared at me with his golden eyes.
"You seem a lot livelier than last night!" he said before bending down to grab me by the shirt.
I didn't move. I was afraid that if I had moved or said anything I would be beaten. 'Is this Sesshoumaru? Is this the man Naraku was facing the other night?' I wondered as I felt him pick me up and put me back on my own feet.
"What's going on Jaken?" Sesshoumaru asked the small imp.
The man's head on the staff continued to laugh until Jaken placed a hand on it.
"I'm not sure my lord! It just started laughing and this girl yelled," Jaken explained.
"So it scared me! Big deal," I said wiping the dirt off of my sleeves.
'Oh crap! I spoke!' I thought when I noticed what I did. Sesshoumaru's gaze fell back onto me. His golden eyes looked cold and emotionless, like he had no feeling. 'He's staring at me like I did something wrong! Like he's gunna do something!' The memory of Naraku staring at me came to the top of my mind. 'No, he can't be the same as Naraku! He's not like him!' I thought with fear in my heart. Sesshoumaru sniffed the air and glared at me for a second.
"Jaken, watch over Rin! We'll be back soon!" Sesshoumaru said before turning to face me.
'He's gunna do something while we're out there!' I thought while Sesshoumaru walked by me and grabbed my wrist.
"You're coming with me!" he whispered.
"What's going on master Jaken?" Rin asked a little confused.
"I don't really know Rin!" he replied.
Sesshoumaru let go of my wrist and we continued to walk deeper into the forest.
"Don't even think about trying to run away! I could catch you with hardly any effort!" Sesshoumaru said while we walked.
'Why would I run? I would have no reason to, unless he tried to do something to me!'
"Don't you talk often?" he asked looking back at me.
I shook my head, "I'm not really used to talking much."
He was a little surprised that I had really answered him. Sesshoumaru stopped by a river with a small opening beside it. 'Why are we coming here?' I thought as I looked at the flowers on the trees.
"Why does the scent of Naraku cover you?" Sesshoumaru asked.
'Naraku!' I thought.
"I don't know!" I lied to him.
"Don't lie to me girl! Are you an incarnation of him?"
'Incarnation?' I shook my head. 'I don't really know what that is!'
"Then why do you wreak of his scent?" Sesshoumaru said a little agitated.
"He…" I stopped, not wanting to answer.
Sesshoumaru stared at me again. His eyes intently watching mine.
"He… forced himself onto me! Naraku did it so many times that I had to get away! I couldn't stand him staring at me with those blood red eyes all the time!" I blurted out as I remembered all the times I had felt this way.
Sesshoumaru's emotionless face had changed somehow. His cold eyes didn't seem so cold anymore. They were a little bit kinder. 'What's going on? Sesshoumaru is just staring at me. Either me or something behind me!' My heart pounded when he came closer to me.
"Get behind me!" he demanded.
'Huh? Why?' I turned around and Kagura stood in the trees.
"No!" I cried.
Kagura jumped out of the tree and landed on the ground. 'She's here already! Naraku knows that I'm gone!' I thought as I hid behind Sesshoumaru.
"Tsuto, Naraku wishes that you come back to the castle! He needs to have a word with you!" she said pulling out her fan.
"I'm not going back there Kagura! I'm not going back to him!" I growled.
"Lord Sesshoumaru, are you going to protect this mortal?" a man's voice said from the forest.
'Naraku!' I thought with hatred.
"If you want her than yes! I will protect this mortal!" Sesshoumaru replied as he drew the sword without a sheath.
'Kagura doesn't really want to do this, does she?' I wondered as I looked around for Naraku. A white baboon with a blue face appeared from the shadows.
"Kagura, fight Sesshoumaru and I will go after Tsuto!" Naraku said while jumping out of the trees.
"I don't think so!" Sesshoumaru growled ignoring Kagura.
He used his sword to throw Naraku off track. 'If I run, he'll hunt me down. If I stay here, Sesshoumaru will fight to keep Naraku away from me!' I thought, trying to think of something to do.
"Lord Sesshoumaru, why do you want to protect a mortal woman? They are after all the creatures that made your brother weak!" Naraku said while staring Sesshoumaru in the face.
"If you want her Naraku, then you'll have to go through me!" he replied before swinging the sword once again.
The sword sliced through the baboon's neck, causing the head to fall to the ground. The head and body vanished and a wooden human like figure remained with a hair tied around it. 'It was a doll! Nothing but a demon puppetry doll!'
"Kagura, I await your arrival with Tsuto in arms!" Naraku's voice said while fading away.
"That coward never sullies his own hands!" I whispered with an angry look on my face.
'Kagura will come after me. Especially since Naraku holds her heart! If he didn't hold her life in his hands, I would have done something to help her a long time ago!'
"Tsuto, do we really have to do this? Can't you just come with me without putting up a fuss?" Kagura asked holding her fan ready.
I shook my head, "I'm not going back Kagura. Naraku ruined my life and so I will do the same to his!"
Kagura smiled, "Very well then!"
She swung her fan and the wind picked up. Sesshoumaru held his sword with his one hand, ready to fight at any moment.
"Dance of Blades!" Kagura shouted while white blades came from the fan.
"Get down!" Sesshoumaru demanded before turning to me and pushing me to the ground.
I fell onto my hands and knees with Sesshoumaru on my back, holding me down. 'He's protecting me! But why? Why would a demon like him want to protect some mortal like me?' I wondered as the blades stopped. Sesshoumaru got off of me and stood up. His back was cut from the attack of white blades. Blood slowly started to cover the white of his hoari.
"Stupid wench!" Sesshoumaru growled and ran at Kagura.
He quickly put his sword back in his belt and used two fingers to make a green whip appear. 'What is that?' I wondered. Sesshoumaru used the whip to grab Kagura by the wrist and then he dragged her closer to him.
"Let me go!" Kagura demanded as she struggled to get away.
"Tell Naraku that if he wants his mortal mate back, then he can come back in person and take her from me!" Sesshoumaru said to her.
"Fine, I will tell Naraku what you want of him!" Kagura replied as the whip disappeared.
She then pulled out a feather from her hair and flew away on it.
"Oh and here's a gift for departure!" she cried before the wind picked up again.
'What is she doing? Is she planning to attack us with…? Oh no!' I thought looking at Sesshoumaru who was staring up at Kagura as she flew away.
"Dance of the Dragon!"
Kagura swung her fan and the wind created a tornado that was heading straight for Sesshoumaru.
"Damn it!" I said before jumping at Sesshoumaru to get him out of the way of the attack.
"What the hell are you doing?" Sesshoumaru asked when the tornado had hit where he just was.
"What does it look like I'm doing?" I asked as I looked at him.
Kagura flew away, laughing as she went back towards the castle.
'How dare she! Why would Kagura do such a thing to me? We both wanted the same thing, freedom!' I was a little confused as Sesshoumaru and I walked back to where Rin and Jaken were. Sesshoumaru's back was covered in blood from the wound.
"Are you alright? I mean, you're wound looks pretty bad," I asked, trying not to look at him in the eyes.
'He's so much taller than me!' I thought with a laugh in my mind.
"It's nothing! It only takes a night to heal!" he replied with an emotionless face.
'Doesn't he feel pain? Doesn't Sesshoumaru care that the wound is serious?' I wondered as we still walked on.
"So your name is Tsuto?" Sesshoumaru asked.
I looked away from him and blushed slightly, "Yes, that's my name."
"Did Naraku give you all those wounds?"
'He knows that I was beaten! Sesshoumaru knows by how much blood is on me!' I thought and then nodded my head. I couldn't help but tell him what had happened. It was someone to talk to besides the people that already knew what was going on in the castle.
"How long did he do things like that to you?" Sesshoumaru asked.
'Does Sesshoumaru care? Does he care about other people's pain and just not show it?' I thought while still avoiding his eyes that were staring down at me.
"I don't really know… I think ever since I was eleven, but it seems so long ago since it started that it's like a permanent memory now. It never seems to go away!"
I thought I felt like I was going to cry, but I held it back. I didn't want to show Sesshoumaru that I was weak. 'I will find my parents again! I will find them and ask them why they let Naraku take me away from them! Rain, I will see you again! Your face never left my mind and you will always be more important to me than anything else. You were the only one who stuck up for me when Naraku came. It looked like you were the only one who cared!' Sesshoumaru fell into his own thoughts, only by the looks of it.
"Lord Sesshoumaru, you've returned!" Rin cried as we entered the camp grounds.
"How did you fair Rin?" Sesshoumaru asked.
"Master Jaken and I went looking for food and he fell into the river trying to get a fish!" the young girl giggled as she told her story.
I smiled when I heard her laugh. When Sesshoumaru sat down, Rin saw the wound on his back. Jaken did as well.
"Lord Sesshoumaru, what happened?" Jaken asked with completely surprised.
"That Kagura woman came and I fought her, nothing more!" Sesshoumaru replied.
"Then why did this mortal girl escape completely unscathed?" Jaken asked a little angered.
Sesshoumaru was getting agitated at all the questions that Jaken was asking. The imp saw this and his eyes were filled with fear.
"I'm sorry lord Sesshoumaru! I didn't mean to! I mean it was out of the question to ask so many questions!" he said apologetically.
'How sad! Jaken is loyal to Sesshoumaru and yet still he fears him with his life!' I thought before sitting down on the grass.
"Should we treat it my lord?" Rin asked as she looked at his back.
"No it's fine Rin! We'll just have to stay here for the night!"
The day passed slowly. 'It's such a hot day today! Who would have thought that it could get this way at the end of spring!' I looked up at the sun as it was about to get ready to set soon. Sesshoumaru took off the long white fur and the top of his hoari just at that moment. 'Why does he have to take it off? Why can't he just leave it on?' I wondered, keeping my eyes away from him. He lay down on his stomach and closed his eyes. 'I won't deny the fact at how strong Sesshoumaru looks without his shirt on, but still! Does he really have to do it?' I watched Rin play with the two headed dragon for most of the day. She had called it Ah-Un when she petted its heads. 'She reminds me so much of Rain! She's so playful and likes to do silly things like hop on one foot and walk across dead logs. Rain used to do that stuff!' I enjoyed Rin's company even though she hadn't talked to me yet. 'I swear that I will find my sister again. I'll keep that oath until I die!' A cloud passed over head and it was a pink colour.
"It's beautiful!" I whispered.
"Wow! Look at that lord Sesshoumaru!" Rin pointed out.
Sesshoumaru opened his eyes and watched the clouds as well.
"Isn't it pretty?" she said.
I smiled and crossed my arms.
When the moon was over us, everyone was asleep, except for Sesshoumaru. He always sat there and watched the stars as they shone with their glory.
"Tomorrow will be a better day! Hopefully, a day without Naraku!" he whispered.
End of Chapter 2
Oh yeah! I'm so good: ) : ) I finished chapter two! Overjoyed I hope you all liked this chapter! I told you all in that last chapter that there weren't going to be anymore of Naraku and Tsuto scenes. When I say something like that I mean it! Well, unless I come up with an evil plan then there might…… No, must not think like that! ;) ;) Bleh Lol! Anyway please R&R and stay in touch for the next chapter!
y! Hopefully, a day without Naraku!" he whispered.