Disclaimer: I do not own Sesshomaru, Kagome, Naraku, Inuyasha, Kikyo, Rin, Souta, Kohaku, Shippo, Kagura, Myouga, Jakken, or any other character you may find, they all belong to Rumiko Takahashi.
Last night, I had a dream that I owned Kagome's big yellow backpack. Whenever I climbed inside and zipped it up, it transformed into a flying glass elevator, like Willy Wonka's! It was so cool, but I had to wake up, sadly, and I'm back to owning nothing...Oh well!
Sorry I did not update sooner. Homework was eating away my time to write...But I'm back now!
Thanks for the reviews, everyone! I kinda want to hug you all right now, but I can't, so I'll just give you chapter 12 of Junsuina Ai. Here we go...
The door to the dungeon opened up and in came...can you guess? Naraku!
He was looking smug and satisfied as if he just had a bright idea. He slowly approached the two young people huddled over in the back.
"So you are the key to finding the Shikon no Tama" Naraku said, smirking. That sentence was directed to Kagome, but the princess only stared at him with wide frightened eyes, not really knowing what to say.
He approached some more steps until he was looming over the two, looking so very evil...Sesshomaru held Kagome even closer as if that one action could protect her from Naraku.
"You will give me the information or I will kill you...both!"
Kagome widened her eyes further, they flashed with rage, then narrowed dangerously in one of her best glares "What is your problem! I have no idea on where this 'Shikon no Tama' is! Why would I? What's wrong with you people?"
For a moment, Naraku's eyes sparked with confusion "You don't know where it is?"
"No I don't!" She huffed.
Naraku's eyes then slid over to Sesshomaru's "You...you know where the Shikon no Tama is...don't you? You have, after all, been with this girl for over two weeks"
Sesshomaru smirked "And if I do?" better that Naraku thought he knew were the Shikon was than Kagome.
"You will tell me where it is"
"And if I don't?"
Kagome stared at Sesshomaru 'What is he trying to do? He doesn't have the Shikon no Tama! If he did, why would he ask me if I had it? Why would they think I am the key for finding it?' even though she was confused about this, she said nothing, choosing to rather watch how this unfolded.
"I will kill you in the most painful way I can think of" Naraku threatened.
"You can't kill me" Sesshomaru countered "If you do, you'll never know where the Shikon no Tama is. And I can assure it is someplace where I know you will never find. Ever." it was an obvious lie, he didn't know where it was, but Naraku didn't know that.
'Does he really know where this jewel thing is?' Wondered Kagome. The way Sesshomaru had said that made her so convinced. Maybe he really did know where it was 'But then that doesn't make sense as to why he'd think I had it'
'What are you doing, you fool?' Myouga thought, anxiously wiping his forehead with a tiny handkerchief 'You're going to get yourself and the girl killed!'
Naraku seemed to pause as he thought about what to say next "The princess will die...unless you give me the information"
"I won't let you touch her"
Kagome stared again at Sesshomaru, an odd warmth rising in her chest when she heard those words 'Is he saying...that he'll protect me no matter what?'
'Not good, not good, not good' Myouga chanted over and over in his mind. Then, without a further glance, and unknown by everyone, he hopped off Sesshomaru's shoulder and floated over to one of the tiny air holes in the dungeon. The holes would have been to small for others, but not Myouga the pixie. Easily, Myouga simply slipped through the hole, still unnoticed.
"I don't think you can protect her with how you are now" Naraku shot back, lifting his clawed hand over them, then bringing it down swiftly. Sesshomaru had seen this coming and pushed Kagome to the left, then he quickly moved to the right, barely missing Naraku's claws.
However, before Sesshomaru could make it back to Kagome, Naraku had turned to her, an odd psycho happy look in his crimson eyes. Kagome looked really hurt physically, even though she wasn't injured, it was probably because she was a princess and not used to getting shoved around dungeons.
"No..." Sesshomaru whispered under his breath, watching as Naraku prepared to strike the girl. As quickly as possible, he got up to his feet and drew as much of the power he could from within himself and formed it into a sphere around Kagome.
Kagome shut her eyes just as Naraku's hand came down to strike her, her teeth clenched and her head bowed, preparing for the strike that never came. When she opened her eyes and cautiously looked up, she saw Naraku's hand coming down her, but it was frozen in mid-air, hitting something invisible instead.
She had seen something like this before. Yet, it felt different this time. She remembered Kikyo had made something like this before, but Kikyo's light was pink. This time, the light around her was blue. 'A barrier' she figured.
Naraku, looking extremely furious, turned to Sesshomaru, who looked slightly exhausted, yet satisfied, a small tired smile appeared on his lips.
"Come after me, Naraku" Sesshomaru said in a taunting voice "It is obvious that you will not be able to reach her now. There's no use wasting your time, now is there?"
With a growl, Naraku turned back to Sesshomaru, leaving Kagome forgotten. Sesshomaru smirked, pleased that he turned the northern lord's attention away from Kagome.
Naraku moved so quickly that Kagome hadn't even saw him, just a black blur. But apparently, Sesshomaru had seen him for at least a second and moved away as fast as possible in a white blur.
Kagome had sighed with relief when she saw that Sesshomaru had managed to get out of harms way for the moment, but she gasped when she saw the red of blood growing darker in color around the middle of his left arm. He noticed it too, but was ignoring it. His face displayed no emotion which made it just a little difficult for Naraku to predict his movement.
Though, as he was, Naraku did not give up, knowing he could win this easy battle, and struck out again towards Sesshomaru's stomach. But Naraku made the mistake of letting his emotions show up for just a second, and Sesshomaru immediantly knew where Naraku would strike by just looking in the direction where Naraku's eyes moved.
So, with the information of knowing where Naraku would strike, Sesshomaru easily back flipped over the attack. Though for the moment, it seemed that there was hope, Sesshomaru knew he could only stay on the defensive, he was too slow to attack at the moment, and Naraku was just too fast. But that was fine for now, until he either got lucky or Naraku's guard dropped.
Kagome nervously watched the battle on held breath 'Either Naraku is going easy on him...or something is happening outside' she figured 'or both' after all, Naraku could call upon help from whatever servant or warrior he had here, like that wind sorceress Kagura, but he didn't, it frightened her a little. What would happen if Naraku fought to his full strength. They were as good as dead, weren't they? 'I wonder where that Myouga fellow went, did he run away?' she looked at the door 'It's open. But should I leave...No! I can't leave Sesshomaru alone. Besides, what if there's something that I can't fight out there...? What if I cause more trouble for Sesshomaru?' That was one of her problems, it was hard for her to trust herself.
So she just remained inside the little blue barrier, watching how the fight went by. She felt useless and hated it, but still...what could she do? She did not have her bow and arrows with her...
When she finally pushed herself back to reality, she saw that Sesshomaru had suddenly moved his hand quickly through Naraku's neck and the head of the northern lord fell to the ground and rolled towards her. So it seemed Sesshomaru had gotten a lucky hit.
"You killed him" Kagome mumbled in surprise, staring with wide eyes that held both relief and disgust as she looked at the severed head.
"No" Sesshomaru replied, then motioned to the floor where Naraku's torso and legs were. A wooden doll was sliced in half diagonally "That wasn't Naraku, that was just a puppet"
"So it wasn't really Naraku who was here earlier?" Kagome asked softly.
"No, the person who had brought me here was Naraku. But this time, I suppose to check up on us, or to test how strong I am, he brought a mere puppet."
'So that's why no one else came in...' She realized.
"Come on, let's go now" Sesshomaru said quietly.
"We're free to go?" Kagome asked in surprise "But shouldn't there be more trouble outside?"
"I doubt it" He answered "Naraku was probably very cautious this time. This castle is most likely just a duplicate or an illusion."
"Still, if Naraku wanted this Shikon no Tama thing, why would he let us go so easily?"
Sesshomaru didn't reply. He didn't know either. Though it really did seem weird...where was Kagura? And where was Myouga?
"Sesshomaru-sama!"
Never mind...
"Did you run away again?" Sesshomaru asked as the old pixie settled on his shoulder.
With fake offense, Myouga's spoke "Me? Never! I was just scouting out the castle! And the coast is clear"
"Thank you, Myouga" Kagome said softly with true thanks and a gentle smile.
"Oh, it was nothing, princess" Myouga said bashfully.
"I need to get home" Kagome continued "Then we should find Father"
"Find your father?" Sesshomaru asked, sounding a little surprised.
"Well of course! That person was a puppet to, right? Or an illusion or duplicate, wasn't he? Not my real father, right? Naraku must have my father being held somewhere"
Before Sesshomaru could reply with the truth, Myouga piped up "Of course, Princess Kagome, we'll find your father"
"Good" Kagome smiled, living in the ignorance that her father was actually dead "If Naraku has harmed him too much, he'll pay!"
The three of them made there way out of the vacant castle, and the castle ended up actually being an illusion. They watched it fade away like a mirage, then disappear, before they just started walking.
Sesshomaru stared at Kagome as she glanced up at him and smiled again, he then focused his attention back to the snow path. How would she find out now? It was obvious the girl really loved her father...it would probably hurt her terribly if she discovered the truth...so he wouldn't break it to her yet. All she knew was that her father was being held prisoner by Naraku, and then when they found Naraku, they'd set him free, and everything would be nice and happy all over again.
Kagome pulled Sesshomaru's haori tighter around her body without thinking on it much.
"It's kinda hard to believe you're actually a celestial being" She spoke "So anyway, can you tell me more about the Shikon no Tama?"
"As you wish..." Sesshomaru said, then took a breath as he began to talk "The Shikon no Tama is the crystallized soul of a powerful warrior priestess known as Midoriko who had died in battle from many demons who were merged together. The jewel also contains the sealed souls of those demons. I don't understand it myself, how it can grant wishes, but it does...And also, the battle is still waging within the jewel..."
"Wow..." Kagome breathed "And I'm the key to finding something like that?" she paused "Wait a second, Sesshomaru, you told Naraku that you knew where the Shikon no Tama is."
"A simple lie. He fell for it easily"
"Oh..."
The way was silent. They hadn't walked very far from where the castle was before, but the hill where it had laid was getting further. The snow glistened blue in the moonlight, it was so early, probably one or two in the morning, Kagome yawned and stretched out her muscles.
"Well, are we going to camp or walk all the way there? Or...do we have some other way to travel? Rin, Souta, Kikyo...they're probably so worried about me"
"I suppose we can rest here,"
A freezing winter wind blew by and Kagome clutched the haori tighter around her and shivered.
Suddenly, all was silent...then, the silence was then broken by a shout.
"DANCE OF BLADES!"
Kagome was the first to see what was happening. She saw the wind sorceress...Kagura as she remembered...No sooner, she had realized what she had just done and where the attack was going.
"SESSHOMARU, LOOK OUT!"
Sorry for stopping at a cliffhanger, but I'm gonna read Sherlock Holmes, and I promise my friend I'd read it with her, and I need to go or else she'll get impatient.
When I'm ready, I'll update. I've caught up on most of my homework so I hope there won't be a wait that long for a longtime...
So yeah, I hope there wasn't a plothole, cause I have a feeling telling me that there is. But maybe I'll fix it if I find it later...Oh, and I suck at fight scenes...sorry!
Bye-Bye!
-Peter Pan-chan