What the deaf mute heard
by: Lunagirl2001
chapter 10: who am I? (or it's proper title: Yet another late update)
Thanks everyone! If you guys hadn't written to me this chapter probably still wouldn't be made. I hope you like it!
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"It's three am. what is your kid doing? probably at home, sleeping. but not me! nooooooo. I'm still up because of my stooopid job is the graveyard shift so I have just gotten off work and I haven't had any sleep in...in... too long!" Inuyasha grumbled to himself as he trudged through the forest to his house. Needless to say, he was a little on the tired side...ok, a lot on the tired side.
After a lot of grumbling he finally got to his house, and as soon as he opened the door he fell face forward onto the inner doorway out cold. little did he know that the sound of him crashing onto the floor woke up the person who was sleeping in the next room, Who couldn't help but check on the snoozing person.
"Is that... Is that Mr. Inuyasha?"
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Kagome looked around and saw she was some kind of forest with a enormous tree right next to her.
"Where am I?" kagome asked looking up at the tree. "This place looks really familiar... but I just can't put my finger on it..."
"That is the 'god tree'. The very same one outside your home Kagome."
"Oh yeah! that's it-wait! who said that!" Kagome turned around quickly to see a woman wearing a red and white priestess outfit, with long black hair and a kind face.
"Where did you come from?" Kagome asked, "And who are you?"
The woman smiled. "You're dreaming remember?"
"Oh. Right."
"And to answer your second question," The woman pulled a bow and two arrows off her back. "I'm just a curious priestess. Would you mind shooting one of these for me?"
"Yeah right! I've never even held a bow let alone shot one-"
"C'mon, give it a try!" The woman pushed an arrow and the bow in her hands. "You can't hurt anything, it's only a dream, right?"
"Uh... right?"
"Great! just aim for one of those trees over there."
Kagome held up the set and shot the arrow... with her eyes closed.
"Great, but this time, try to hit something besides the ground in front of you." The woman picked up the arrow and gave it back to Kagome.
"Now, when you try this again, keep your eyes open, and focus on getting distance. And try to hit the tree, ok?"
Kagome smirked. "Alright, alright..." she picked up the bow and tried again.
'...hit it...'
As soon as she thought that, her arms suddenly felt stronger. When she shot the arrow, it glowed with a purple light and when it hit the tree the arrow completely destroyed it. Kagome stared with eyes the size of saucers.
"I knew it, you are her."
"Her? Her who? and what just happened!"
"well, believe it or not, you are a priestess. and a powerful one as well."
"Priestess?"
the woman smiled, picking up her bow. "Yes, inside you is a great spiritual power-of course you don't really need it yet, so it's gone on vacation, so to speak."
"Well what's the point of you coming here if I'm not even going to need 'spiritual powers'?"
"well, let's say, history is doomed to repeat itself."
"What?"
Suddenly, everything was enveloped in a white light and Kagome found herself back in her bed.
"That dream was weirder than that one Souta had with the monkey and the vanilla pudding!" Kagome yawned and started dozing off. "oh well..."
(yes another stolen line. I'll be lucky if I don't get sued.)
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(7:30 AM)
Sango was at her bedroom desk completely surrounded with schoolbooks, the result of an all night study session.
"SANGO-KUN!"
Sango looked up and saw her calculus book was talking to her.
"Sango-kun, I know you're up there, it's an emergency!"
"Oh shut up, You know that I'm not going to fall for that again Miroku... Miroku?"
Sango immediately sat up and looked at her desk of schoolbooks, which of course could not talk, especially not in the voice of her oldest friend. she then heard the sound of something hard hitting her window.
"SANGO-KUN! COME ON!"
By now, Sango was just plain annoyed. She ran downstairs to her front door. Sure enough, Miroku was standing there, with his eyes glued to her third floor window.
"Sango-kun!"
"I'm right here stupid. why didn't you just knock?"
"Are you nuts, your father is more overprotective than a mother tiger-anyway, Sango-kun, you have to help..." Miroku suddenly stopped talking.
"What?"
"Sango... you look ridiculous!" the monk in training said laughing.
Sango's hair was a mess, she had large round glasses on(reading, of course), and wearing a large T-shirt and shorts. Sango bashed his head.
"If your emergency was you needed to laugh at me, I'm going back to studying for midterms."
"No! I need you to tell me what Kagome's address is! I was there before, and I need to-"
Sango slammed the door shut.
"Sango-kun! I didn't mean it like that!"
"Lecher! Does your brain EVER talk to your hormones?"
"Sango! Please listen to me!" Miroku yelled at the door.
"I can't believe you would actually come to my house just to ask for something as stupid as that!"
"Lady Sango-"
"Putting that honorific on my name won't change a thing. I'm not unlocking the door."
"Lady Sango."
Sango stopped talking. Miroku's voice was not in any way joking around- a rare sight for Miroku.
"I am not going to try anything Sango, I need Kagome's address so that I can help her. Her life is in danger. You know neither of us would want to lose a friend so soon."
After a few seconds of silence, The door opened.
"Would it be alright, if I came too?"
A faint smile came to the boy's face. "Thank you Sango-kun."
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"Hello? excuse me..."
Inuyasha groaned and opened one eye. "What."
Sitting right in front of his face was a young girl with black hair and big brown eyes.
'so this is the human I've heard about.'
"Rin is sorry to wake you, but Rin let you sleep for an extra-long time and... and Rin thought you were hungry." The little girl pulled out a plate of cookies from behind her back.
A tiny smile spread across Inuyasha's face. he moved into a sitting position in the doorway and took a cookie. "Um.. thank you-" 'it's a rock! how's she gonna expect me to eat this?"
"Do you like it?"
Inuyasha swallowed the piece of brick masquerading as a cookie and put on a fake smile. "uh-oh yes! Tasty."
The little girl put on a huge smile, with one of her front teeth missing making her even cuter. "Thank you Mr. Inuyasha, Rin made more just in case!"
'Great...'
The Microwave from the kitchen started beeping.
"Great! more's done!" Rin exclaimed running to the kitchen.
"You're cooking them in the microwave!" Inuyasha shouted following her.
"Yep! you take them out of the bag in the cupboard and put them in the microwave for five minutes!"
"Each! I'm shocked that the Microwave isn't on fire by now!"
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"Hn."
Sesshoumaru felt a tiny amused smirk escape his stone face as he listened to the two argue.
'are all children so naive at that age?' He thought, 'caring about the littlest things. Worrying about nothing that would be of any loss to anyone else. How wonderful it must be to be so ignorant."
'Sesshoumaru-chan!'
Sesshoumaru smiled sweetly for a second before that familiar pain once again grew in his chest. he walked away trying to ignore the stabbing pain going through his chest. He kept walking until he was on the other side of the huge house, and he sat down on the porch.
Sesshoumaru looked into the forest that surrounded the house they lived in, beginning to get lost in his thoughts.
'I wonder, why am I able to be kind to this young human? when no matter how hard I try...'
His thoughts were interrupted by a memory from about six years ago, back when he was twelve.
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(For the record, this is my first pov, ever. so be kind ok?)
I could hear it easily with my advanced hearing even though he was obviously trying to stay quiet.
"...Mother...Father..." he said sniffling.
Inuyasha was crying again. just as I suspected, the six-year-old was sitting on his knees, crying so hard his eyes were bloodshot. What a weakling., we both had lost the last bit of our family-both our parents a few nights before, but someone who is strong wouldn't be able to break down and cry. what is he a woman?
I opened the door and walked up next to him, so that I was standing directly next to him.
"Inuyasha. Do you know how long you have been crying?"
Inuyasha looked up at me but just enough so that his bangs covered his eyes. He looked almost scared at the sound of my voice. Pathetic.
"What's wrong with you?"
"I...I had a bad dream." Inuyasha said quietly, "About...when they died."
"Quit whining."
He looked up at me with his gold eyes filled with pain. "Sess... Sesshoumaru-chan..."
"Sesshoumaru-chan? I am afraid you are mistaken."
I kicked him in the side so hard I heard a few ribs snap. He had a huge scrape on his face when he looked back up from when he slid on the rocky ground. But I didn't let him get up any farther. I had noticed a broom lying close behind me. In one motion I picked up the broom and hit Inuyasha in the stomach with the wooden part. The boy was hit so hard that blood was spilling out of his mouth.
"wh...what are...you doing?"
I felt a smirk come to my face.
"You are so pathetic." I said, "Though what can you expect from a half-breed?"
I kicked the trembling six-year-old on the same side that was broken so hard that he flew a yard backward. His face was covered with a mixture of blood and tears
"Toughen up." I said, "Otherwise you will not last a day in this world. It's a good thing that they died. Now you have no one to hide behind, you disgusting little whelp."
I wasn't sure why, but I felt joy come as I saw him, my half brother, in so much pain.
Inuyasha's eyes were leaking huge tears as I gave him one final blow. I threw my 'weapon' to the ground. "Never call me that again." I turned around and walked back inside, as though nothing had happened. Slowly, Inuyasha sat up. "What did she do to you?" I heard his tiny voice whisper.
"sleep well, dear little brother."
As I walked away, a child's voice appeared in my mind.
'what are you doing?' It said.
I still was smirking. 'what do you mean? I showed a half breed his place.'
'why?'
'He showed disrespect towards me. he deserved it. He even kept me awake with his pathetic crying.'
'He's dying inside. He just wanted help.'
'who are you?'
'who are YOU?'
'I am the demon Sesshoumaru. A demon who can kill anyone if I wanted, and an heir to a fortune.'
'No. that's not you. I am you. Sesshoumaru Owatari... The older brother of Inuyasha, and the only family he has left.'
'Shut up. Do not refer me as the brother of that foolish half-breed. I can hardly bear the title of 'caretaker' for those pathetic creatures.'
'despite how much you hate it, you're still his brother.'
'I said shut up.'
'you don't have to bear the pain of your past life... You'll tear yourself apart.'
Deciding that I was in desperate need of sleep, I ignored the voice and went to sleep.
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Sesshoumaru sighed. "Past life... what could that have meant?"
He stood up and walked back inside. 'oh well, it seems far too late to change anything now. I suppose I'm destined to be this way.' the pain inside his chest had stopped, so he quickly ignored his trip down memory lane andstarted working on his computer.
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Confusing? Yes. Depressing? Oh yeah. but it was meant to be that way. once again, THANK YOU for all your ideas! they were all so good I will use them all in later chapters! And I know you've heard this before, but I'll update as soon as I can! please don't lose faith in me! I will NOT end this story in the middle, so keep checking, ok?