Ch.12

Predictable Is Not The Right Word

WritingWoman: TSB, You are like, the most awesome reviewer ever! Thank you so much for all the compliments! (starts crying) You're SO awesome! (stops crying, too happy) Ack! The nanners! RUN AWAY! This is the most current chappie I'm working on, so sorry the thanks came so late! Thanks too to SapphireGlass, who already knows she's awesome! & OtherSide, you rock too!

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Rayanne thundered up the tavern steps, knocking drunks and other peoples (demons too) of all sorts out of her way. 'Third door to the left, third door to the left...' She had threatened the tavern owner into giving her the location of Sky's room, though he swore that the man with the white tail had not 'rented' a room. As the owner of the tavern watched the freaky woman go up the stairs, he shook his head. He was getting too old for this business. A 'waitress' passed by. 'Then again...' he thought, and started laughing in the middle of the main room. No one paid much attention.

Sky turned over in her sleep, attempted to sit up, and moaned in pain. A hangover was already coming on, and morning had only just started, the wide blue was only gray. She flung her hand onto the night stand beside her bed and felt around for her pouch. Opening it, she pulled out a small red pill, though it made her moan again in pain to think that hard. Before she moved another muscle... Rayanne burst through the door.

"Be quiet!" Sky whispered in a small voice. "Don't you have any respect for the dead!" Rayanne blinked.

"But... you're not dead... are you?"

"Unfortunately, no. But do you mind shutting up? I have a monster of a hangover coming on, and I need to take this pill to avoid it. So... shut up and hand me that damn glass of water." Rayanne did so, and Sky finally swallowed the pill. Sighing, she smiled, turned over, and attempted to sleep some more.

"WAKE UP!" Rayanne flipped the mattress over, sending Sky sprawling on the floor. "DAMN YOU, WAKE UP! I'M HERE TO EXACT MY REVENGE! THE LEAST YOU COULD DO IS WAKE UP!" Sky peeked over the edge of the mattress.

"Fine, fine, I'm awake. Jeez, the least you could have done was give me another five minutes... Do you mind turning around? I've gotta change. This dress is not for me. Then you can exact revenge or whatever."

"Uh, sure, I guess..." She turned around, and listened to Sky getting dressed, to make sure she wasn't actually attempting to break out. "Could you hurry up? I've got a busy schedule. You're not the only person I've got to take out my wrath on today."

"Yeah, sure, whatever." There was an awkward pause as neither woman had anything to say. "Alright, I'm done. You know, you're really not that good at this evil villain thing. This is, what, the third, second, time you've tried to do me harm, and here I stand, fit as a fiddle. You should get some lessons or something..."

"Look, you, I've had a BAD couple of days. Don't try this bullshit on me today, I'm not going to fall for your stalling tactics this time. I'm not going to wait until your cute body guard shows up. I'm going to get him later, on my own time. Just follow me downstairs, and not a peep."

"You look. It's not like I've had any better time. I don't know what you're talking about with the body guard, but if you'll wait a second, I want to write Rin, Mara Rose and Sesshomaru a letter telling them I've gone to meet my doom, and not to worry, k? And a bath would be nice too..."

"NO! ABSOLUTELY NOT! Well, I guess the letter is fine, but... wait, no! Never mind, we're just going! Now follow, and remember, not a word!"

"See? Now this is more evil like. All right, all right, I'm coming! You ain't gotta try to stab me! Can't even get a bath... do you know how long it's been since I've been through a rayer!" Sky was still complaining as she walked down the stairs with Rayanne, and entered the tavern again. It all fell quiet, even Sky, as she looked around the place, and everyone else stared at her. 'Well... I suppose Sessho was right... everyone's pants here are much more poofy then mine... and a lot darker in color... I kinda do stand out, huh?' Rayanne also noticed the silence, and cursed Sky's inability to blend in. Even Rayanne was wearing a standard kimono.

"Come on, walk faster!" She dragged Sky behind her, and they swiftly left the tavern, Sky disappearing from view with a final wave and smile. The people in the room all blinked in unison, then went back to their various activities.

"So," Sky said when they were out of sight of the run down establishment, "Where are we going, Miss Executioner?"

"Oh, you remember that NOW, do you? I wasn't going to kill you then, but now that you and your protector humiliated me, AND broke my katana, well, you see, you just have to die."

"Okay, now I'm confused. What protector? I just looked up, and instead of seeing you, I saw Sesshomaru." She laughed a little. "For a moment, I even thought he was you! Isn't that funny? You see, I had thought you had changed INTO–"

"NO, it's NOT funny, and I don't care what you say! You distracted me, then had the –Sesshomaru, is that his name? It is? Okay– then you had Sesshomaru ambush me, and break my katana!"

"Sesshomaru ambushed you! How rude! I keep telling him that he has to get manners, but does the fool ever listen? No! One day, I swear, he's just going–"

"Will you stop talking! You're distracting me, and I don't want to kill you now, I have everything set up already!"

"Okay, well, I wouldn't want to rob you of your revenge."

"I said shut up!" They ran on in silence for a while, when finally Sky couldn't take it anymore.

"Er... so, heard any good jokes lately?" Rayanne didn't answer the question, but sighed in relief as the site came into view. It was a cliff, very steep, smooth as glass all the way to the bottom.

"Come on, it's time." They disappeared from the ground.

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Rin slowly woke up, blinking the cloudiness from her eyes. Stumbling across the small room, she used the water in a basin to splash her face, then made her way over to Mara Rose's room.

"Mara Rose? What time is it?"

"Just a bit after dawn, Rin. Have you seen Sky anywhere? She's not in her room."

"Nope! Just woke up! Maybe she's down in the common room, eating breakfast or something. Do you know where my lord Sesshomaru is?"

"Rin... no, I don't know. Why don't we go and find Sky? Sesshomaru can take care of himself. At least if Sky's in the common room we'll get breakfast..." They walked out of Mara Rose's room, only to nearly collide with Sesshomaru. Mara Rose screamed and jumped away; Rin merely smiled.

"Good morning, my Lord! Have you slept well?"

"..."

"That's good! Have you seen Sky? Mara Rose thinks she might be getting breakfast."

"She's not here."

"Oh. Do you know where she is?"

"No. Go have breakfast." Rin smiled at her lord, sure everything was all right, and tugged Mara Rose down the steps into the room, where they had breakfast. Sesshomaru walked out, after reminding the tavern owner that the two females were with him, and not to be harassed. Stopping by the entrance of the barn, he spoke to the seemingly empty space,

"Jaken. We're leaving for a time. You are to accompany me."

"Yes, my lord!" Jaken dropped down out of the loft, and hurried to catch up with his master. When he did, he spoke. "My lord? Where are we going?" Sesshomaru said nothing, and Jaken didn't feel like dying that early in the morning, so he kept his mouth shut. Although Sesshomaru was in a bad mood, he didn't want to waste time while the scent was still fresh. Speeding along, they soon reached the place at the edge of the cliff where Sky and Rayanne had disappeared. He stopped, confused. The scent just... vanished. It was there, and then it wasn't. It didn't even reach the end of the cliff, so they couldn't of jumped... Where was Sky? And who was she traveling with? He sniffed deeper. It wasn't the man from the tavern the night before; no, it was someone else. But who?

These questions ran round and round his brain as Sky and Rayanne spoke elsewhere.

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"What the hell! Where are we!" Sky exclaimed. Rayanne smirked at the panic in the woman's voice.

"We're nowhere, but still right above the cliff. Much farther above. About a ten (I'm not good with math so sorry if that's like outer space or something) mile drop to the foot of the cliff."

"But that doesn't really give me an answer. I hate nowhere. My last family vacation there sucked, because we got lost every single step. If it wasn't for the Orchilum strips that bound us all together, we would never have found each other after we finally got out. 'Great family trip' my ass... So, where are we?" Rayanne's eye twitched.

"WE'RE HERE!" She screamed, and shoved Sky out of the nothing, and watched as the woman started plummeting toward the ground. 'Well, this is nice,' she thought. 'But why isn't she screaming? She's about to die.' Rayanne shrugged. Maybe Sky was scared out of her mind, like in nightmares, and COULDN'T make a sound. Happy with this logical answer, she continued to watch her enemy fall to her death, and started planning the end of Sesshomaru.

'WHEE!' Sky screamed in her head, the thin atmosphere sucking the words out of her mouth, keeping any noise from escaping her. 'THIS IS SSOO MUCH FUN! EVERYONE SHOULD TRY THIS!' The cliff was coming into view. 'Hey, I think I know that dot! I do know that dot! That's Sesshomaru!' Sesshomaru came clearly into focus, along with the little froggy thing. "HI SESSHOMARU!" The atmosphere was much better here, so she could scream quite effectively.

Sesshomaru watched as Sky dropped out of the heavens and plunged down the cliff in front of him.

"HI SESSHOMARU!" Jaken watched her fall a little more, then got tired of waiting for a splat, so instead he looked up to see what she could have fallen out of.

There was nothing above them.

"My lord?"

"Jaken."

"What did she fall out of?"

"..."

"What she we do?"

"..."

"Will she die?" He asked, careful to keep the gleeful note out of his voice.

"..."

"Are you going to save her?"

"No."

"Why?"

"I'm waiting to see what will happen." And sure enough, Sky passed by them again.

"DIDN'T THIS JUST HAPPEN! WOW, DEJA VU!" Was what she screamed as she passed this time. Then she started laughing like a madwoman, as she disappeared into the clouds.

"Lord Sesshomaru?"

"Jaken."

"Why didn't you save her?"

"Because it would have been too predictable for her to die."

"Yes, my lord."

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Sky screamed in pure joy as she fell towards the earth, after she passed Sesshomaru. Watching the earth get closer and closer was unnerving her, though, so she started searching through her pouch for something that would help. Sitting cross legged in the middle of the air, she ignored the whistling sound in her ears and looked for something with a bounce. 'Hm... Old World trampoline... no, too used... umbrella? Not enough bounce... that would hurt to land on. Ramen! How the hell would that help! Stupid bag... don't fritz on me now...' Sky thought a little bit more, then realized the answer. "AH HAH!" She pulled the object out from the bag and held on tight.

Rolling in the air, she maneuvered to that the object would strike the ground first, not her. The giant rubber penguin (It's like ten feet wide) bounced her high into the air again, so powerfully that she lost her grip on it, and it went careening off into the wide world, where it was dug up a couple hundred years later, brought back to life and made into a giant rock star.

But that's a different story.

Any who, Sky bounced back into the big blue, past Sesshomaru and Mr. Froggy, and right back where she had started from. Literally. She landed smack dab on Rayanne who had moved to where Sky had been so that she could see better, knocking Rayanne out.

Her head spinning, the woman from the future opened her eyes, screamed, and scrambled off of Rayanne. "Ew..." Noticing that the other woman was out cold, she calmed herself down, and looked about her.

They weren't actually in nowhere, they were sitting in the middle of a cloud. "Hm... Wonder how this is possible..." Ducking over the edge, she looked for boosters. And there they were! All innocent and cloudlike, not that clever, just common sense, a simple idea, really. She "hm..."ed again, and felt the platform she was sitting on. Just carpet covered metal. A really cheap rig, when you got right down to it. 'Like one of those really cheap space funeral's that are getting so popular now, one of the ships that they send out the dead bodies on.' Her brother swore that he wasn't going to have anything to do with that, because he knew it wouldn't last long. The Sp. Gov. wouldn't allow it to continue when they realized running into dead bodies were costly in window shield repairs (and crew members).

"Well," Sky said out loud to herself. "How do I get down from here?" A thought wiggled it's way into her head, and she scream/laughed at her own forgetfulness. "OF COURSE!" Digging once more into her pouch, she pulled out a small blue square, no bigger then her pinky nail. "Poof!" She said to it; the square became a small but stylish hover-bike, shaped just like a motorcycle, but it floated and moved at speeds resembling light if it was pushed. Nothing too expensive, just a nice little toy that her father brought home for her the last time he stopped by. Smiling widely, she hopped on, revved it up, and started back toward Sesshomaru.

Sesshomaru had never seen anything like what was heading towards him, and knew only that it was aiming toward him like an arrow. Pulling out his whip, he thrashed the thing to tiny pieces, like it was an extremely fragile pinata. But instead of candy falling out, the only prize he won was an irritated human woman who was a borderline psycho!

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W.W.- I just realized that Sky and I might have more in common then I thought at first...