Sorry it's a bit late... I have a lot of tests to study for, and I had to help with the prom. Hope you enjoy this chapter.
Takkun was walking in the woods looking for some healing herbs, for the others. He senses someone watching him. Kagura was in the trees, out of sight, watching him. He might be of some use to me, she thought.
"Who's there?" He turns around, but sees no one. Kagura takes a feather out of her hair and flies off. He mustn't be any threat to any of us. I don't sense any power coming from him, Kuro-yama thought, as he followed his sister.
"Kagome, What's taking him so long?"
"Inuyasha, the herbs I need are hard to find around here." The tone in her voice had a sliver of annoyance.
"Well, what happened to the medicine you brought from your time?"
"I left it with Keade. There was a villager who was very ill, and he needed it more than I thought we did."
" Well, you should have thought we might have needed it in the future!"
"Osuwari! I was thinking of somebody else instead of thinking about myself, not like someone I know."
Inuyasha growled at her remark. He sits up and starts fidgeting. "What's taking that punk so long," he repeated. "It doesn't take me this long to find some measly healing herbs." Kagome glared at him, but said nothing.
Sakura leads Sesshomaru to a rundown castle; it starts to rain. "Come, Sesshomaru-san. We can wait for the storm to pass in here." She takes his hand and drags him towards the palace.
He rips his hand out of hers. "I'm fine walking in the rain." It starts raining in sheets, so thick you can't even see your hands in front of your face. Sakura grabs his hand again, and miraculously guides him into the, very large, great hall. The walls and floor were stained with blood. The ceiling was leaking; it looks as if nobody has lived here for years. "How did you…." Sakura gently puts a finger over his lips.
"Don't speak out loud here. The spirits of those who were massacred here, will attack," she whispered. She quietly motioned him to follow her.
Takkun entered the cave, and quietly handed Kagome the herbs. "Thank you." She beamed. She quickly put them on Sango and Miroku's wounds, and dresses their wounds.
"Thank you Kagome-chan," both, Sango and Miroku said before Kagome told them to be quiet. She made sure the two were comfortable then sat next to Inu Yasha.
"We wouldn't have had to wait so long if…."
" Shut up, Inu-san! I'll bring two first-aid kits, next time I go home."
"Kouga, why are we following Sakura's sent?"
"Because Hakkaku, I wish to see my cousin in one piece," Kouga spat at his comrade behind him. He sniffs the air, looking for her sent. "Damn; there's someone with her, and he smells like that mutt. Hakkaku, Ginta we have to find Sakura before anything happens." Kouga runs as fast as he could to where Sakura and Sesshomaru are, leaving his comrades behind.
Sakura leads Sesshomaru to a room, with the same inscription as her chichi's sword. The room was decorated for a child; a vase of dead flowers were next to a beautifully furnished chair. "This used to be my room. Kaze's was through that door." She pointed to a door on the other side of the room then she pointed to another door. "That was to the play room. I wish Kaze was here, so I could show him where we used to play." She tries not to cry, but a few tears escape her eyes. Sesshomaru wipes them off of her face.
"You'll get to show him." His apathetic tone somehow reassured her. She starts to head out of the room. "Where are you going?"
"To find the scabbard of this sword, and a change of clothes. Don't want me to be traveling in a torn kimono, do we?" She walks out the door, leaving Sesshomaru alone. He decides to explore the other two rooms.
"Damn you Naraku! You never told me where to find them. Does he just think that I always find Sesshomaru." Kagura was just given the order to find Sakura and Sesshomaru, and to retrieve Mitsuka-maru's sword. Kuro-yama just got off her tail, to get the weapon himself. She passes over a storm cloud, which is concealing the location of Sakura and Sesshomaru. "Damn it, where are they?"
Sakura's in the armory of the place, and now she's wearing a white kimono with cherry blossoms embroidered on it. She's looking at a blank wall that held her chichi's weapons, years earlier. "Otokooya, where did you put it?" She quietly wondered, taking care not to provoke the vengeful spirits. She takes a step closer to the wall, and touches the spot were her sword was.
A vision of her chichi putting the scabbard in a secrete compartment exactly behind her sword. He puts some cream colored cloth over it, and closed it. There was a flash of light and she starts to hear children laughing. The room was now filled with weapons, than what was earlier. A little girl runs into the room, her blood red hair bouncing in the sunlight. She ran behind Sakura. "Mommy, Yuki's not playing fair." Sakura turns around, and kneels down to look the child face to face. To her surprise, she knew that the child was her own and that Yuki was hers too.
"Kiyomi, what is she doing that isn't fair?" Kiyomi's golden eyes looked into Sakura's.
"Yuki's using her powers to really hurt…." Sakura began to get worried.
"Who is she hurting sweetie?" Kiyomi disappears into darkness. Sakura wakes up on the floor of the dreary armory. She quickly gets up and grabs the scabbard out of it's hiding place, tossing aside the cloth. She runs out of the room and bolts to her old room. When she got there, she found that Sesshomaru wasn't in there. She sheaths the sword into its rightful place. She notices that the door to the playroom was open. She quietly goes in, and she saw Sesshomaru looking at a picture Kaze drew ten years ago, when he was three.
"How can you protect and love such a weakling?"
"Kaze's my brother, the only family I have left, and how can you ask such a question; when you take care and protect the girl Rin?" He snaps his head towards her. His eyes turning red. "Look, I'm sorry for questioning you, but you don't seem like the kind of person to raise a human child as his own and try to kill his brother for being a hanyou." He takes a deep breath and gives a sigh, to calm down; his eyes return to their normal color.
"Why are these three rooms don't have any blood on the walls? What happened here so there could be malevolent spirits? Onna, tell me!"
"I'll tell you tomorrow, we need to rest; tomorrow afternoon the storm will die down." He pins her to the wall.
"Wench, what happened here?" She doesn't struggle, just glares at him. "Tell me wench!"
"There was a massacre here, ok. The villages around here attacked in the middle of the night. Only chichi, Kaze, and I survived. Every demon, and mortal alike, died protecting us. Kaze's mother died first then mine died outside this room. This all happened about ten years ago."
"That's all you remember?"
"That's all I saw. Now, will you please let me go." Sesshomaru lets her go. He vigilantly and slowly walks away from her. She slides down the wall onto the floor. "When I passed out earlier that was where I gained my true powers and realized
