Hello everyone. I know that the wait for this new chapter wasn't that long, but I figured I might as well get it up before the frigging school week started once again since it's the weekend. I hate school! Runs around in millions of circles in the living room Well anyway, thank you all for your wonderful reviews. They make me really happy, which I know that you all hear a lot. : ) : ) Well, on with the new chapter!
Real or Not?
'What the hell is he planning to do? I don't like the way he's looking at me!' Sesshoumaru release my arms and then jumped over me to above my head. I felt something slide off my head and then I too got to my feet. Looking at him, I saw that he had my sunglasses in his right hand. 'That bastard!'
"Drop them and hand them over!" I demanded, giving him a hateful glare.
"So these are important to you," Sesshoumaru said calmly, looking them over carefully.
"Give them back right now! Those were my dad's!"
'If he doesn't give my sunglasses back then I don't know what I'll do. Mom would be so mad at me if I lost them!' I was about to take a step towards Sesshoumaru when I raised my right hand, as if to grab them from him. I saw the blood running down my wrist towards my elbow. At that moment, everything started to get blurry. What's happening? There's so much blood and I don't feel too good.' My body started to fall backwards and the motion had caught Sesshoumaru's eye. He would have caught me but he had found the small matter amusing until he had seen my body go transparent. I waited to hit the ground, but the ground never came and then I felt like I was falling.
"Rika, Rika wake up! Rika!" a voice came from the darkness.
I opened my eyes with uncertainty and then saw my friend's face gazing down at me. 'What's going on? What happened?'
"What the hell happened to you? You've got blood everywhere!"
"K-Kai?" I said with confusion.
I sat up and looked up at him with confusion. Kai had dark brown hair and dark green eyes. He was wearing his black t-shirt and long dark blue shorts.
"That's my name, don't wear it out. The coach said that he knew you were here so he sent me out to find you. It was weird. When I got here, you weren't there and once I turned around for a second you came out of nowhere. So what happened?" he asked with worry, reaching down to give me a hand up.
'Was it all just a dream?' I wondered as I took his hand and he pulled me to my feet.
"I'm not sure," I said, deep in thought.
"Maybe you shouldn't play today. Looks like you got bit by a dog. Your wrists are completely torn apart."
"Don't worry about it. If I don't pass out on the field then I should be fine," I said with a small smile on my face.
Kai shook his head at me and then started to lead me along towards the baseball field. 'Was that real… or not? My wrists and my side kill. What happened to make me come back here? Sesshoumaru still has my sunglasses, and if mom catches me without them I'm so dead!'
"You worried me Rika. You're still worrying me. If this is still about your dad, just don't try killing yourself, alright?" Kai said with a worried tone, looking back at me.
"I wouldn't try to kill myself Kai, you if all people should know that. I don't know what happened so I'm sorry that I made you worry. He died a long time ago, so it's not me who it bothers."
'Technically if I think about it, Haku is only my half brother. Dad died and mom lived a few months trying to make the pain go away. Then that bastard came along and left my mom when he had gotten her pregnant. I never though about Haku as a half brother, but always as my brother.' When we got to the field, the coach ran over to us, as well as the entire baseball team.
"Rika, where were you?" he asked with worry.
Before I could answer, Kai answered for me.
"Found her down by the river. I think she got attacked by a dog or something like one."
"That's all I needed to hear. Rika you're sitting this practice out. There's no way I'm letting one of my players play while they're hurt!" the coach said with a proud voice.
'Great, now everyone's gunna ask what happened to me.' I thought with a small sigh.
"Go sit in the shade under that tree if you have to. I'll come out of practice to see if you're alright every now and then, okay?" Kai said with a happy smile.
"Sure," I replied, walking over by the tree.
Sitting down, I watched as everyone went back to throwing the balls around. They did drills out in the field and the coach hit the ball out to each basemen. When I was tired of watching, I fell onto my back and closed my eyes. Gently, I felt the five claw marks in my side. 'I'm still not sure whether I should believe if that happened or not. Lately I can't tell right from wrong, but I couldn't have done these things to myself… could I?' I winced slightly when I touched the wound farther on my back. 'Must have been his thumb.' Hearing footsteps, I saw Kai and his little sister Maya coming over to me. I sat up and watched as the two came over.
"Maya figured you could use some company and even asked if she could come over to see you!" Kai laughed.
I looked up at Maya with a smile. 'She's so cute!'
"Alright, I guess I could live with that."
"Rika, what happened?" the little girl asked with worry.
"I don't know. What I remember, if it's true, then the guy who did it would be here watching me now and he's not, so it can't be real… Can it?"
Kai looked at me with curious eyes. The words made sense to him, but Maya was really confused.
"So someone hurt you?" she asked with wonder.
Kai was about to say something but then the coach called him.
"Come on Kai, it's your turn!"
"Keep her company, alright Maya?"
"You got it big brother!"
Maya sat next to me and then leaned her head against my shoulder. 'Just like when Haku was younger. He used to lean on me when he was tired and when the older kids would always pick on him. Got a good black eye from that fight, but Haku is worth it.' My eyes wandered across the field towards a few people walking. There was a man that was standing against the fence with a smirk on his face. 'That bastard is here. Haku's father is standing right there watching me.' When he notices that I had seen him, he started to walk over.
"Maya, stay here for a minute. I don't want you to hear this," I said while getting to my feet.
'That bastard can rot in hell for all I care! If he ever comes here again then I'll just have to kick his ass!' I stopped a few meters away from him and watched as he walked the rest of the way over.
"What a coincidence Rika to see you here," he laughed with a smile.
"Shut up Chase! What the hell are you doing here?" I said with anger lacing every line of my voice.
"Such violence. Never expected that you'd grow up that way, since your mom is such a kind hearted person," Chase mocked.
'That prick, how dare he!'
"Leave my mom out of this! She never wants to see you again. The way I see it, you had no part in my family and that Haku was my dad's son!"
Chase's eyes fell onto my wrists and the dry blood there. He didn't look worried. He merely smirked again and then he looked me in the eye.
"Leave this field if you know what's good for you. I'm not afraid of you, so stay away from my mom and brother if you don't want your ass kicked!" I snapped with annoyance.
"Very well. You want me to leave then I'll leave. Don't let the dogs get you again while you're here. By the looks of it, you may need stitches!" Chase laughed as he turned to walk away.
'What the hell was the point of that?' I wondered with suspicious eyes as I watched Chase start to walk away.
"Oh and Rika, tell Haku that his father says hello!"
"Kiss my ass Chase! Why don't you just go home to the whore you probably get with every night! Then once she's pregnant, why don't you leave her too!"
I turned away from him and walked over to Maya, who was asleep on the grass. I sat down next to her and then flopped onto my back, closing my eyes in the process. 'The dogs didn't get me, Sesshoumaru did. The way I see it, he might as well be Chase.' With a sigh, I listened to the baseball bats hitting the balls. I wanted to play but it was obvious that the coach didn't plan on letting me.
"Rika, who was that guy? Why were you shouting at him?" Kai wondered as he came over and sat beside me.
"Just some guy, a guy I know," I replied, not really interested in the subject.
"Well it's obvious that you knew him, otherwise you wouldn't have known his name," he laughed with a smile.
Sighing, I opened my eyes and looked to the left to avoid his gaze. 'All that happens is real, so maybe what happened to me with Sesshoumaru was real too.'
"You know how I told you about Haku's dad and how he left my mom when she was pregnant?"
Kai thought about it for a minute and then nodded his head.
"Yeah I remember. That guy was him, wasn't it?"
"…"
"Come on Rika, don't worry about it! I'll make sure that he never comes around again. So come play with us. I'm sure that if you tell coach you're alright, I'm sure he'll let you."
"No, it's alright. I just need to think about things for a bit before I do anything."
A small laugh came from Kai. He didn't find anything funny. That was just how he was.
"That's just like you Rika. You would rather think about something important than practice at a sport you know you're good at. I better get back to playing then. Coach will think I'm slacking off again if I don't get with the program," he said as he got to his feet.
"Hey Kai, thanks for always looking out for me!"
Closing my eyes once again, I fell back to sleep on the grass with Maya beside me.
Sesshoumaru looked at the ground suspiciously.
"She vanished, as if she didn't exist," he said calmly, looking at the blood on his claws.
The scent of wolves and Jaken filled the area. Then three wolf demons, along with the imp, appeared from the trees.
"Jaken, I thought I told you to wait until I returned," he growled towards the vassal.
"Is slaying a human more important to you than showing for your arranged meeting, lord Sesshoumaru?" the wolf with a tail growled.
Sesshoumaru glared at the wolf demon. The wolf was rather young with long dark brown hair tied in a ponytail and blue eyes. He wore fur around his waist as if it were a short skirt, fur shin covers that went to his knees, a fur headband around his forehead under his ponytail, and black armor around his chest.
"I'm not in the mood for your arrogance, Koga. That human had just vanished as I did not kill her," Sesshoumaru said with a small growl lacing his voice.
"Uh, Koga, maybe you shouldn't make him mad," said another wolf demon with short hair that was two shades of grey.
"Yah, he looks pretty mad already!" said another warningly.
"Ginta, Hakkaku, shut up!" Koga growled.
"Take your tribe to the mountains. Jaken will inform you further!" Sesshoumaru stated, not really interested in the situation.
"There's a large cave behind a waterfall. Your tribe can stay there as long as there will be no trouble for my lord," the imp explained.
"Fine, we'll take it. I'm out of here!"
Koga turned and left in a small tornado, leaving Ginta and Hakkaku to follow behind him.
When I woke up, baseball practice was already over and Haku was calling my name. 'I guess I fell back to sleep. I didn't dream that time. Maybe everything that's been happening hasn't been real after all.'
"Come on Rika! Mom's waiting in the car!" Haku shouted again.
"I'm coming!" I cried as I got to my feet and was about to run to the car.
Before I could run, someone took hold of my wrist and stopped me.
"Rika, would you mind if I talked to your mom for a minute?"
"Sure, go ahead coach!" I said with a smile.
"Oh, and I believe this is yours. Kai found it in the forest and brought it back before he found you!" the coach said with a worried smile as he handed me the bat I had dropped before.
When the coach let go of my arm, I took my bat from him with a smile and then ran on ahead of him.
"Jeez Rika, what was taking you so long? I figured you'd hear me right a way!" Haku said with some annoyance.
"Fine, you fall asleep and then I'll make sure that you get up right a way!" I mocked him with a smile.
Haku stuck out his tongue and then we went to the car. Mom was sitting against the door of the car, waiting for us to come.
"Hi mom, coach wants to talk to you so don't go anywhere! I don't know what about so don't ask," I laughed as I got in the car.
'Great, now mom's gunna know that I got hurt and that I lost dad's sunglasses.'
I leaned my head against my door window and glanced at mom and my coach talking.
"They look happy together," Haku said quietly from the backseat.
I didn't know that he had gotten in the car too.
"Yeah, a real happy couple even though they're not together," I replied solemnly.
Haku was quiet for a minute and then he tapped my shoulder.
"Do you think mom will find another guy to go out with?"
"I don't think so Haku. After mom had you, I think she didn't want anything to do with men."
My little brother sighed and flopped onto his back in the seat.
"You know, I wouldn't mind having a dad or something like that. It would be really cool!"
"Well our dad died a while ago. If he was still alive, I'm sure he would've been what you're looking for."
Again everything fell silent until my mom came back into the car to bring us home. The coach waved goodbye as we slowly drove away. Mom gave me a worried glance and then she sighed.
"Your coach told me what happened to you. He said that you were attacked by a dog, but you didn't say otherwise. What really happened to you?"
'She wouldn't understand. What am I supposed to say? That a silver haired guy attacked me and he wasn't even from around here?' I sighed and closed my eyes.
"I don't know what happened mom. I'm fine though. If I disappear for a while, don't look for me. I promise I'll come back, so don't worry about me."
"What are you saying? How can you just disappear?"
"Just trust me mom, alright?"
The rest of the car ride was silent. No one spoke, not even Haku even though he was in his annoying mood. 'I can't believe all of this. Maybe this whole thing could all be just some stupid dream of mine, but then why does the pain feel so real?' Once the car stopped in out driveway, we all got out and my mom stopped me from going in by grabbing my arm.
"Let me see your arms," she said softly.
Obeying, I lifted my wrists to show her and she looked at them intently. Then I lifted my shirt slightly to show the damage inflicted there.
"Well, it does look like you were mauled by a dog. But these marks are too spread out to be teeth. They look more like someone's nails than anything else."
"Mom, can I tell you something if you promise not to laugh?" I wondered seriously.
She thought for a second and then smiled, nodding. Haku had already gone inside the house without saying a word.
"Sure thing, I wouldn't laugh at something my own daughter told me."
"Well, it's not really something to laugh about, but you might think I'm kind of nuts. Lately I've been having messed up dreams with demons and things like that. There's a silver haired demon named Sesshoumaru and he's kind of good looking. Anyway, today when I passed out, I ended up in the place of my dreams and Sesshoumaru was there. He did this to me and stole dad's sunglasses," I explained, waiting for her to get mad at me.
"Just like your father. He used to have dreams like that, but he never really ended up in his dream. He never woke up hurt either. All I'm trying to say is do what you have to. If you go back there, do what needs to be done!" my mom said with a smile.
'Mom, I didn't even know that you would understand. If dad used to have dreams like mine, then maybe it's natural.'
With a smile, I stopped leaning against the car and lost my balance suddenly. 'I guess it's time to go back already.'
"Hey mom, tell Haku I say goodbye, alright? I guess that place is calling me back already."
She nodded and watched as I fell backwards and suddenly disappeared through the ground.
"Good luck Rika. I'm proud of you, you and your father!" mom said quietly.
This time, I didn't feel as if I was falling. I just landed on something and was still awake. 'That's weird. I could have sworn that I'd fall again.'
"My lord, where did she come from? How did that mortal wench sneak up on us without our noticing?" an annoying voice shouted with some fear in it.
'What?' I opened my eyes and sat up, placing a hand on my forehead in the process.
"So you've returned," his cold voice said with some amusement.
"Not by choice, I assure you!" I said with somewhat blurry vision.
My sunglasses were still in his hand, folded carefully as they should have been. 'Now, to get those back!'
"Lord Sesshoumaru, is this the human that had fled before?" that same annoying voice wondered with some anger.
"Silence Jaken. This human is the reincarnation of that half breed from a few years ago. She will be accompanying us back to the castle," Sesshoumaru said with a small growl.
His words made me laugh slightly. 'He knows that I'd do pretty much anything for those glasses. I'd do anything for my dad at this moment.'
"I'm only going to come willingly if you swear on you word as a lord that you'll give my sunglasses back when you don't need my anymore! Otherwise I'll fight you every step of the way!" I said calmly, looking at Sesshoumaru in his golden eyes.
"Jaken, leave us! Go back to the castle. This human and I need to speak," he said all too calmly.
"Aye my lord! Hope that you get your punishment, human!" the imp said rather hatefully, leaving towards the west.
As soon as Sesshoumaru knew Jaken was gone, he looked at me thoughtfully. He took a step towards me, so I took a step back.
"Still afraid?" he mocked with a cocked eyebrow.
'I'm not afraid of this loser! I'd just rather not have him take something else of mine.' I kept backing away from him until a large tree trunk was to my back. Sesshoumaru had his usual emotionless expression on his face and I didn't like it.
"These were your father's at one time, were they not?" he wondered, holding the sunglasses out in an open hand.
'Does he expect me to grab it from him? Or is he trying to do something else?'
"What's it to you? You're not going to give them to me even if I ask for them!" I said with annoyance.
I reached to grab then as fast as I could, but Sesshoumaru had quickly put the sunglasses in his sash and grabbed my wrist so I couldn't get away from him. 'Damn it! I almost had them too!'
"I do not intend on giving you back these until I no longer need you. If you want them back, take them from me if you can," Sesshoumaru said as he moved his face a little closer to mine.
He took hold of my other wrist and held it firmly in his hand, not allowing me to get far from him.
"I don't plan on harming you further, if that's what you're thinking. Human or not, I have a use for you," Sesshoumaru whispered to me as if it was something that wasn't supposed to be said.
"Then what are you doing now?" I asked with a mocking smile on my face.
Sesshoumaru held my wrist loosely and a small amount of heat came from his hands. It didn't hurt, but it caused me to wince because I thought something was going to happen.
"Afraid of healing now too?"
'What? He's healing me?' The heat from his hand vanished and then he moved it to my wounded side.
"Damn it," I hissed, feeling the pain from just him touching it.
"A woman should not speak in such a manner. Though I should know where you get it from," Sesshoumaru said gently, moving his mouth near my ear.
His breath went down my neck slightly and I instinctively tried to push him away. Sesshoumaru's claws dug into my side slightly and I winced once again.
"You are foolish to run from me. Now the wound won't heal properly."
I felt Sesshoumaru's claws pull out of my flesh and I could feel my own blood come from the new wound. 'I guess that was kind of stupid. What was I supposed to do with him that close to me?' A few minutes passed and then his hand was removed from my side.
"You will accompany me at my castle. You have no choice in the matter. I will have to teach you the way to behave in a lord's presence," Sesshoumaru said as he looked at me with his golden amber eyes.
'What does he mean that he'll have to teach me the way to behave?' Before I could say anything in denial, Sesshoumaru knocked the wind out of me and I passed out. As I fell, he caught my unconscious body and smirked.
"I will not allow you to escape me once again."
End of Chapter 2
Hello again. I really hope that you all enjoyed that chapter. : ) : ) I tried to make it as long as I could and to not have too many spelling errors. I'm real sorry if there are any. At some point and time of my life, I'll have to get around to fixing them all. Lol. Anyway, I once again hoped that you liked that chapter. Please R&R and I'll try to update as soon as I can on everything! And I mean that!
