You hide low in the water hiding your body from view. The trees stood tall above you sending thick walls of darkness above and around you. The wind started to blow around you causing the leaves on the near by trees and bushes to rustle violently. The voice that you had just heard was still sending chills down your spine as your eyes darted to all the possible places the voice could have come from. You hear a laugh sound from with in the trees to your right, and you turn quickly to see the mysterious figure that you just gave the name of, stalker.
It was a man, with long black snarled hair. He wears a purple haori and a purple kimono. His face is pale and frightening and it's curled up in a sinister grin.
"W-who are you," You ask trying to sound brave and defiant.
His smirk grows devilishly as his blood red eyes glow with hysteria. His mocking ways add to a small frustration you had bottled up inside. You bit hard down on the inside of your cheek trying to control your feelings once again tightening your hold on you own body you ask rudely: "What's so funny!"
His smirk fades a bit and he takes a step towards you causing you instinctively to take a step away from him. The smirk fades away from his face and he growls at you angrily. You maintain an emotionless face as he threateningly takes another step forward coming a dangerous three feet away from you.
"What do yo- Hey keep your filthy hands off of me!" You say suddenly having the man pull you up out of the water harshly with you trying desperately to cover yourself.
"Stay still bitch!" The demon snarled at you as you struggled greatly against his will.
You scream as he slaps your face sending you through the air to the ground five feet away. The side of your cheek flushes a bright red and you put your hand to it feeling a thick liquid escaping your skin. You bring your hand away from your cheek to see your deep crimson blood smeared on your fingers.
You look up and the man is bugging out. His eye is twitching madly and his hands are clenched and bleeding as his body shacks madly. You look at him in confusion and hurriedly covered your self all you could with your hands.
Suddenly you hear the sound of many demons sounding calls heading in your direction, and at that moment you realize that you must be really special. The man growls angrily and snatches you up. He jumps into the sky and you scream into his shirt totally forgetting that your butt naked at the moment. The cold air reaches your bare body as he escapes the cover of the trees and into the star lit sky.
'Why the heck do these things keep on happening to me!' you think to yourself biting down on your teeth in the cold air as the guy holding you lands softly then taking off again in to the cold air again. Every time I leave Sesshomaru's castle some thing bad has got to happen! My stinking life has got to be so chucked up doesn't it!
The man touches back down to the ground in the middle of a field a couple miles away from the camp. He throws you to the ground roughly then looks down at you. You suddenly realize that you're naked again and you cover yourself bringing you knees up to your chest.
"What the hell are you!" the man shouts angrily down at you coming closer to you.
'Oh shoot not this again!' rings through your mind and you try to scoot away from him, but he grabs a hold of your ankle pulling you to him. Your eyes widen all the way possible, and you try to push yourself away from him. He pulls you under him, climbing on top of you. A scream sounds from the back of your throat loudly and you try to pull back away desperately.
"Naraku!" A familiar voice yells from behind the man on top of you, Naraku.
Sesshomaru takes a hold of Naraku's neck a flings him into a nearby tree. The great dog youki's eyes flash red dangerously as he chases after Naraku's body. You sit up becoming dangerously dizzy and you grab your head moaning loudly. Sesshomaru finds Naraku emerging from the forest to the side of the field with a sword drawn at his side. The fall wind catches your body and you shiver violently your head still aching sickly. Both the cold and the increasing dizziness erupting from you head causing you to fall losing consciousness in the wide field.
The same dream from the night before came to you while you lay unconscious. Light overcame you again and when the blood came your were dedicated to see what happened next. You promised yourself that you wouldn't wake up; you would not wake up! The blood spun up your arm and you made sure not to scream or do any thing of the sort. Crimson blood covers your arms and legs and you bit down on your tongue. Since it was a dream you feel no pain radiate from were you bit down and you sit silently while the blood overtakes you. Still dreaming you wake in a pure white kimono in the middle of a beautiful flower filled field. Winds blow around you playing with your brunet hair happily. Suddenly you see time flash before your eyes; the sun sets quickly taking the light away with it and the moon rises shining in its foreign beauty.
You wake up slowly wondering what it was that woke you. Silk covers slide across your skin like water as you rise from the bed you found yourself in. The room is frighteningly dark. It must be still night you conclude in total darkness. You realize that you're no longer with out clothes; you're wearing silky Nagajugan. Not much but it still covers you figure pulling the covers up close to you begin to feel unsure of the darkness. There is total silence to the point you hear that annoying constant ringing in your ears. (At least I do) You lick your lips nervously and sit up fully in the bed bringing the covers up with you. Steps start to echo from outside of the room and your heart starts to beat faster and faster. With every step your heart starts to beat faster and when the footsteps stop right out side of your room you stop breathing all together.
'Am I still with that demon Naraku?' You ask yourself 'or did Sesshomaru save me?' You don't find out because the footsteps start up again walking away from your room. The silence takes over again once your heart stops beating so quickly. You close your eyes taking a deep breath pulling the covers up close to you and falling asleep in the eerie darkness with out intrusion of dream nor human or demon.
When you wake-up fuzzy light tries desperately to run though a sheet hanging from the top of a window in the corner of the room. You take a look around the room, which was still quiet dark since the sheet on the window wouldn't allow much light into the room. The room is a dark midnight blue with a decorative chair sitting right next to the bigger than king sized bed you are laying in. A small writing desk sits in the corner of the room empty of any papers or pens you would expect.
You wipe your eyes of the sleepiness from the night, and sitting up in the large bed you yawn widely. Totally ignoring the fact that you are in someone else's home you get up to look around the room. The floor of the room is cold and your feet are clumsy; you nearly trip when you get up to fast and you vision it bleared. Your head feels light, empty, and full of pain. You lose your footing and fall back onto the bed gripping the bed sheets as pain overcomes your mind. A groan in pain escapes your throat and you close your eyes tight. Whets happening to me! You wonder as the pain continues and you gasp for breath.
A laugh sounds above you, and trying desperately you manage to open your eyes just a little. Naraku stands above your body that's sprawled on the bed. His lips are curled up into a sinister and evil grin as he eyes you humorously. 'He isn't full demon' you think to yourself gripping your head as the pain starts to abate slowly. 'If he were full demon he would be reacting like Sesshomaru... he had only reacted after I drew blood.'
"What do you want from me half-breed!" You whisper to him rudely just as all the pain leaves your head allowing you to rise up from the bed with out pain.
'Yes, he must be a half-breed look at his face!' You think triumphantly, and just as you thought Naraku was looking down at you with fury burning deep with in his eyes. You sit up in the bed letting your legs hang over the side looking deep into his eyes humorously.
"What did you call me bitch!" Naraku says angrily to your face.
'Is bitch the only thing men can call me?' You think to yourself for a moment. 'Wait what's he doing?' Before you know it you are pushed down onto the bed. Naraku has one hand wrapped around your throat and the other is on your cheek lightly.
"You will learn to hold your tongue around me or I shall punish you, and I warn you I don't take punishments lightly!" Naraku demands patting the side of your face with his hand as though you were a dog. He sits up straddling you with his hand still grasping your throat tightly and his other hand hanging at his side.
"What reasons do I have for obeying you?" You spit at him in disobedience and you see his anger flare again from behind his eyes.
"You will or." He gives your throat a tug bringing your head up a bit then lowering his face down to meet yours. "Or I may nor be able to control this urge your demonic sent has made me feel along with all the demons in the area!"
Your eyes widen considerably and Naraku smirks at your reaction. He lowers himself closer to you and turns his face to your cheek where he had slapped you the night before licking it seductively. His tongue removes the dry blood that was still there and he kisses the healing wound lightly. You shiver horribly and he smirks again in triumph.
"Wh-what do you mean?" You ask stuttering as Naraku raises him face to yours his lips almost touching yours and he looks at you with confusion.
"You don't know?" he asks almost mockingly "The mere sent of you makes any male with little or full demon blood in them react horribly with lust"
He lowers himself to your cheek kissing it then continuing down the side of your face to your neck. When he reaches your neck you can't control yourself. Your incredibly ticklish and your neck it the worst area of them all. So when he reaches your neck you cant help but let out a deprived giggle. Naraku, confused, raises his face to yours.
I couldn't resist lol me'What are you doing bitch!' He asks you in a whisper; you can feel his breath is quick and forceful.
"Stop calling me that!" you say trying to reclaim some dignity.
He raises himself and slaps you hard across the cheek and you cry out in pain. You raise your hand to your cheek feeling no blood your relieved. Naraku sits up on top of you still, straddling you. Both your arms rise to protect yourself from any more pain he might send towards you, but there is none. You lower your arms to see Naraku still sitting staring down at you with lustful eyes. The sheets that had been covering the windows had blown off revealing the sun light sky and you turn your face to the side looking out the window.
"Sit up!" Naraku demand you suddenly.
Your confused but you do as your told; he gets up off you and you sit up. 'What's he planning on doing?' you ask your self as you sit up on the bed.
"Now turn around!" He demands you again and you do so with out question.
With your back facing him you think why in the heck was he making you do this. He seemed as though he was going to do something to you just a second ago and now he's telling you to sit up and he get off of you?
You stare at the wall ahead of you waiting what it was that Naraku was going to do. The hair behind your head you feel parts as Naraku weaves around your neck to your top. He undoes it letting it fall to your sides and you gasp as it does so. Naraku just growls angrily and you refrain from telling him off. You feel his hands on your back and you shiver as he pulls your hair away from your back to rest on your shoulders. His eyes wander your back till they find something pausing on the spot. Naraku reaches out to your back to the spot where his eyes were staring and touches it lightly.
"Did you know you have the sign of the demoness Liana on your back?" he asks you savoring the feel of your skin.
'What does he mean?' you wonder as you stare off out the second window in the room in silence. 'Does he actually mean I have a mark symbolizing I'm something to Liana?' you can feel Naraku withdraw taking a seat in the seat next to your bed. You ignore at the moment that your still shirtless and you think hard about the last time you had seen Liana. Was she checking up on me? You think confused.
You put your shirt back on almost forgetting it, and you turn to face Naraku. He just sits in the chair staring at the ceiling apparently deep in thought. You move over to a part on the bed closer to the chair so your almost sitting next to him. He doesn't even seem to notice that you've moved at all that last moment and continues to stare at the ceiling.
Kagura! Naraku yells suddenly almost making you jump, and just as your heartbeat slows back down to a regular pulsing the only door to the room swings open to reveal a woman. You turn your head to look her way to see whom it was that Naraku called so urgently.
Kagura, who is obviously a demoness, stands in the doorway awaiting orders. As she stands her eyes dart to you for a split second but then abates back to Naraku. Naraku lowers his head so that he wasn't looking at the ceiling anymore to look at Kagura with demanding eyes.
Kagura go retrieve information dealing with the mark of the goddess Liana and come back immediately! He orders her and she leaves the room closing the door quietly behind her.
After Kagura left the room in pursuit of information of Liana and her sign. Naraku continues to sit in silence staring up into the ceiling of the castle. You sit with your legs hanging off the side of the bed beside the dangerous half demon. The light from the outside pours inside with intensity through the two lone windows of the room. You avert your eyes away from Naraku to stare through one of the windows across from the bed. Wind blows strongly from the outside among the trees. The sound of rustling leaves even reach the room a hundred yards from the boundary line of the forest. You can tell it is midday by the way the light of the sun shines upon the crowns of the trees brightly.
To your side you hear Naraku getting up but you don't turn to look at him expecting him to leave the room. Though as you continue to look out the window across from you, you feel something climb behind you. Naraku holds you from behind suddenly, and all you react with is silence. Even if you don't say or do anything to Naraku because of his actions your body still react with goose bumps and a shiver running up your back. You can feel his hot breath on your neck and his lips closely hovering above your skin as they travel slowly up your neck to your ear.
"Even if I can not have you now... I will take you... soon..." Your eyes widen considerably as he whispers close to your ear.
"No you will not... I won't let you... half breed scum..." You say with venom, and you can tell he is angered by your comment though he doesn't say anything in continuance.
Naraku's hands wander around at your waist but you know if you struggle at all he will take you. If coarse that is unwanted by you so you sit obediently as his hover close to your ear. A lone shiver runs quickly up your back and you turn you head to the left away from Naraku. He continues to breath soundlessly and then lightly kisses your neck and you do your best to ignore him. Naraku hovering above your lower neck breathing softly takes a deep intake of breath welcoming your sent gladly. Then slowly he withdraws; he climbs out from behind you to stand on the floor beside you. Then he leaves closing the door tightly behind him.
What the. You think to yourself raising your hand to caress your neck in awe. The window farthest from you emits strong gusts of wind suddenly, and you hear the calls of many demon. The screeches and horn sounding calls echo through the fields outside and you get up to look out. You stand up from the bed slowly then going quickly over to the window. From the forest you can see birds retreating from the shelter of the trees and their crowns swaying dangerously. Suddenly almost all the trees of the forest are blown forward with one single blow, and as the dirt that was thrown into the air by force settles you see a lone man standing among the rubble.
This is what he looks like:
P.S. I drew this so no criticism .
He is only a hundred yards away from you and the castle, and you watch him with confusion for the moment being. You can see that he is smirking to him self sinisterly, and you stare at him dazed by him eyes. The lone demon starts to walk up to the castle the entrance being a couple yards to your right. You stare at him intently with unblinking eyes, but when his eyes catch yours you let out a quiet scream in terror. The second his eyes land on yours you duke down out of sight.
You can feel your heart pounding almost in sync with your breaths that were coming very fast. Who could that have been you wonder wiping a single strand of brunette hair behind your ear. You exhale slowly calming yourself, and you close your eyes allowing the room to dissolve before you. As your sight leaves you for the moment you are unknowing of a visitor creeping through your window. The man kneels down beside you knowing that you're not a demon. He silently shakes away the feeling that is over coming him and sits down besides you leaning his back up against the wall along side you. The same thing that all male demons that have interacted with you wonder crosses this demons mind to. Why is it that she has this demonic trait if she is a human? He wonders still sitting beside you in silence.
"Who are you...?" A whisper intrudes your silence suddenly and you are brought back to the room abruptly.
Your eyes shoot open wide and frightened. The demon man you had just seen walking up to castle has his lips hovering above your ear pulled up into a mysterious smile. You keep your eyes looking straightforward to the wall next to your bed. The demons breath explores the crevices of your ear tickling you.
"What do you want?" you ask your breath quickening by the second.
"Well I came here to kill Naraku, but I could kidnap you instead?" He asks whispering softly into your ear.
"Would you!" You ask happily turning to his with a face of joy just in time for him to pull away from your ear.
He stares at you confused for a moment his eyes searching your face for sarcasm, but he finds none. You repeat yourself happily hoping that what Naraku last said to you would never come true. His face returns to youki smooth and he sits up with his legs flared. He must have realized that you were a prisoner because all he does is nod, and suddenly with out warning you hug him happily.
You pull away from him after a second blushing from your suddenly output, and you apologize. He gives you another confused look, and stands up and you copy him. By now the light from outside is facing another direction as the sun prepares to set among the trees. He looks out side checking for anyone who would delay the departure, and he turns back to you staring into your eyes. His blood red eyes almost over come you and you react with silence as he takes his hand and curls his pointer finger half way and presses it to your fore head lightly. Suddenly you are overcome with a lukewarm feeling. Like you are bathing in a hot spring or something of the sort. You look at him with wonder but he says nothing to explain it.
"Climb onto my back; it'll make this a lot easier." He tells you and you do so.
After you climb onto the strangers back with your arms wrapping tightly around his neck securely. You don't mind the fact that your clinging to a stranger let alone the fact that he's a male demon; you just want to get out of Naraku's castle as fast as possible. The demons large hands secure themselves around the back of your knees, and you realize he's really warm. You let your whole body lean up against his remembering that your still in you undergarments and your cold. You blush secretly to yourself as the demon jumps through the window landing once then taking off again through the air.
You grip on him tightens afraid you might fall off. The cold air burns your bare skin and you close your eyes tight digging your face into the strangers back. You feel your body and his heading back for the ground and your stomach does a back flip. A small scream escapes your lips and you feel the grip on your legs tighten reassuring you that he will not drop you to your immediate death. You suddenly feel a cold wall sweep through you and you cringe slightly. Just after the sudden feeling you feel your carrier land softly on flat ground.
The sound of leaves blowing in the fresh wind amongst the smell of crisp fall overcomes your senses and you open your eyes. The stranger is still holding you, but now he's looking at you with his head turned sharply to his back. You realize how tight your holding him around his neck and you loosen your grip apologizing with embarrassment. He bends down releasing your legs in the process allowing you to jump off and step away. You do so and he turns to you after a moment.
"Who are you by the way, I think I deserve an explanation!" The demon asks and you continue to tell him of how you got to be at Naraku's castle.
He never once interrupted you and you blessed him for that. It made it a lot easier to tell the story especially when you got to the part about Naraku. Only when you finished the man reacts with a growl of displeasure and anger. You and him have both sit down among the grass of a field just like the field you were in when Sesshomaru and Naraku fought. He's sitting across from you with his elbows leaning on his knees and his legs flared again. The sun had already begun to set and you were getting cold, but you didn't dare ask him for anything he had already done so much for you.
"Ummm what's your name?" you ask shivering silently to yourself, him not even noticing.
He turns to you in sudden surprise realizing that he hadn't told you his name yet. His blood red eyes eye you with wonder for a moment before replying with a simple: "Taiki and you haven't told me yours?"
"My names Keishi, are you leaving?" You ask with almost fright as you see Taiki rise from the cold ground.
He doesn't answer for a moment stopping in mid turn delaying his leave. He stares off for a moment as though considering it. The wind picks up playing with your hair in its exoticness, and you move a hand to your bangs to keep them from blurring your vision. You truly wish that he wouldn't leave you here alone to await any caring savior with enough heart to save you.
"Looks like Naraku's going to have to live a little longer, but I will get him, soon" Taiki speaks still directing his whole self to the trees to the side of the field.
You get up stumbling for a moment in your awkwardness, but you retrieve your balance soon after taking stand next to the demon. You tilt your head to see what he might be looking at jokingly, but he just shakes his head hiding a laugh secretly behind his foreign eyes of blood. You smile at him and he looks away shortly after eye contact looking to the ground. You turn to sit down across from him and both of you sit down and after a short silence a conversation picks up.
"How is it that Naraku couldn't catch your sent when you came to the castle?" you ask wiping your hair behind your ears.
"Actually I have no scent, no demons can sense me either. I can also pass through barriers of all sorts, but what of you how is it that you smell the way you do?" Taiki asks you and you save yourself from the embarrassment of twitching when he talked about your problem.
"You smell it to, is it seriously unbearable," you ask directing your sight to your lap where your hand lay curled up with each other.
"To most it would, but not me. From the moment I became thirteen years old I was trained in self-control and martial arts. To most male demons I suppose they couldn't keep them selves off of you." He looks to you noticing your silence but trying to ignore it. "Did Naraku do something to you?"
You look up surprised at his concern. Your face shows obvious confusion that he would ask such a question to a total stranger such as you. Something must have happened that makes Taiki hate him so. There has to be a reason why he tries to kill him, by the way he came to the castle it seems to you he had tried it once before and failed, or maybe more than once
"No, but..." You were silent for a moment choosing your words carefully " Though he said he would, He had saw a mark on my back. It was a sign of Liana the demoness of the moon. He sent one of his servants to find research right before you came, but before Naraku left he said that he would... sometime soon, and I'm afraid he might come after me..."
There was silence for a moment where there was no sound but for the occasional pick up in the wind. You looked up from your lap to where Taiki was sitting; you could see that he was angry. His fists were balled and his face was contorted in rage. You open your mouth to say something to him but you find it better to wait it out. Taiki's eyes are tight closed and you wonder why someone who was trained in self-control was having such a hard time at it this time around. Your eyes are back to your lap when you hear him speak again suddenly.
"Naraku that basterd, he has no respect for anyone but himself..." Taiki speaks mostly to himself. "He thinks that no one is worth his time; to him their not even worth their own lives, treats everyone else like dogs..."
"Taiki, what makes you want to kill him so-," You say being cut off by a raging Taiki
"That basterd killed my sister! Without a dam second glance!" Taiki growls getting louder by every word that ran from his mouth. "He only acted like she was worth him time because she had power, and he wanted it! He absorbed her; she had trusted him, but now we know that it was just an act now don't we!"
You stare up at him in silence taking it all in bit by bit. Taiki takes a stand once again and turns his back to you trying obviously to control himself. 'So his sister was absorbed by Naraku...' You think to yourself taking a stand yourself. 'I horrible it must have been; someone you had thought you could have trusted...' You walk over to where Taiki stood in the darkness only the light of the moon shinning now shedding the only light of the night aided only by Lianas stars. The wind puts up again playing with your clothes and hair as you lift a hand to comfort Taiki.
"Oona!" You hear a familiar voice call from behind you, and you pull your hand back to look at the man behind you.
Sesshomaru is standing behind you with a look of anger and venom. For some reason the sight of you and another man must have upset him. You have no time to really think because before you know it Sesshomaru is holding Taiki up by the throat and you can do nothing to save him. Taiki gasps for air, and digs his claws into Sesshomaru's arms. You scream out for Sesshomaru to stop but he doesn't seem to hear you. Sesshomaru just tightens his grip on Taiki's neck.
"Sesshomaru!" You scream out tears filling your eyes and blearing your vision. "Stop it let. Him. Go!"
You scream from the sidelines trying fruitlessly to get to Sesshomaru, but Sesshomaru doesn't even notice you. You hear Taiki gasping for air trying with great difficulty to get the great western lord to release him. He digs his claws deeper into the lord's arm till finally Sesshomaru drops him hard to the ground. You sigh heavily and drop to your knees in relief; Sesshomaru turns his face to look at you on the ground in your undergarments.
"Baka oona, who is this man!" Sesshomaru demands his voice expressionless and smooth.
"My Lord this is Taiki, he saved me from Naraku." You reply eyeing Taiki as he rubs his neck sorely
Sesshomaru looks over to Taiki who is getting up off the ground to stand. He looks at him as though judging him with his eye. You cannot see that underneath Sesshomaru's expressionless look your lord is highly confused. He is confused about how this demon has no smell and how he could have infiltrated Narakus castle with out breaking his barrier.
"Who are you?" Sesshomaru barks his youki smooth face keeping up.
"What is it t-" You shoot him a glare to keep him from getting himself killed "Taiki, Taiki from the Utama clan."
Inside Sesshomarus head clicks as Taiki speaks Utama. Utama is a secret village only known to few. Some of the strongest of demon and human warriors sprout from this village. This clan is made up of both humans and demons that are descendants of a demon named Adorufu. He was a Wolf Demon with peculiar abilities; he had no sent nor aura. He could walk through any such barrier and subdue any demon to paralyze.
"Why is it that you were at Narakus Castle?" Sesshomaru asks Taiki calming his voice knowing that no one person from the Utama clan would join Naraku they would all rather die.
"To send him to hell that basterd deserves to die millions of deaths!" You cringe as Taiki replies not believing that anyone deserves such a penalty.
Sesshomaru need not continue the conversation as he turns to you quickly. You are holding yourself shivering in desperate need of clothing and the look on Sesshomarus face only deepens the need further. The wind blows silently in the field sending more shivers down your spine and without thinking you find yourself gripping Sesshomarus fluff. Both of the men in your company raise their eyebrows high at your action and you blush letting go of his tail. (Me: It is a tail!)
"Boy you would find it smart to return to your village" Sesshomaru states after a moment of silence
"Why is that?" Taiki asks only half rude.
Before answering his question Sesshomaru turns to the forest starting to walk. You look back at Taiki who stands in frustration; he repeats his question but receives nothing of an answer. You give a sympathetic look to Taiki and run off to follow your lord. Before you enter the darkness of the forest you take a look back at him but find that he had all ready took off into the sky again.Then you turn beck to follow Sesshomaru catching up to him in a mere twenty seconds.
You and Sesshomaru walk in silence for a long period of time not stopping to rest once. It must be really late you conclude to yourself holding yourself tight trying to keep what little warmth you have to yourself. You remember to keep your distance as usual and you slow down a bit to make it ten feet. After what seems like an hour Sesshomaru stops at a clearing in the trees the size for a small campsite were maybe a fire had broken loose years before destroying the few trees in the area.
"Start a fire" Sesshomaru commands you taking a seat against a near by tree.
You do as your told trying to ignore Sesshomaru watching you to whole time. You gather an armful of dead branches and find all the necessary equipment. A small area not far from Sesshomaru is clear of grass and you decide that as the best place to set up. You line all of the pieces of wood correctly one of the branches how ever are to large for that one area for the fire and you break it in half, but unluckily when you do you cut your hand letting out a small 'ouch' when doing so. You start to bleed and you let out a sigh of frustration.
Though suddenly you find yourself being tackled onto your back with out warning by Sesshomaru. He himself also realizes it and growls angrily to himself still on top of you. Your face shows as fear and your bleeding palm is lying at your side. His face smoothes at your expression and takes your hand with his. He brings it to his face and licks off the blood with you still shown in fear. He climbs off of you bringing his hand with him into kneeling position. You follow him as he pulls; he stands still leading you. He brings you over to where was sitting earlier and sits down bringing you down to sit with him with your face to his chest. You blush horribly looking up him as his body heat adds to yours and your chill leaves you. Sesshomaru draws an arm around you and pulls you closer. You open your mouth to say something but he shakes his head to keep you from doing so, and soon before you know it you fall asleep due to the mere warmth of him.
When you wake up Sesshomaru is gone. You sit up and you notice your wearing his shirt and there is a fire started. The sun isn't up and it's still the dead of the night; Sesshomaru is nowhere in sight. You bring Sesshomaru's shirt closer to you and you lean up against the tree again falling asleep in no time.
While you sleep you dream the same strange dream as when you had a dream in Naraku's castle. The light fills your sight and you can see the blood from afar. Blood slithers toward you and is soon sliding up your arm and covering you totally. You appear in the middle of a field again in the pure white kimono. Time speeds by to the night leaving you in darkness except for the stars and the moon. You stare up into the sky in wonder what would happen next; you had been wondering what the rest of this dream was since the first time you had the dream. You see a shadow in the moon casting a shade of darkness upon you singling you out in the middle of the field.
"The sun set and the moon rises just as the sun will set with in casting a long shadow upon you till as last the moon with rise on the final day and you will have to save yourself" says a cool voice from the horizon seemingly coming from the shadowy figure above you.
"Mommy!"
"Mommy, get up!"
"Please get up!"
Rin suddenly shakes you awake and you open your eyes. Bright light streams into your eyes and you lift your hand to block it; you are laying in the grass at the bottom of a grassy hill with Rin leaning over you with one hand on your should which you understand was the hand that shook you. You sit up in the tall grass seeing you are in the middle of a field obviously far away from Naraku's castle. Sesshomaru is nowhere in sight and Jaken is sitting to your far right leaning up against AhUn.
"Mommy you've been sleeping for ever; will you play with me?" Rin says jumping on your shoulder, with her hands on your shoulder and her jumping up and down supporting all of her weight on you.
"I'm sorry Rin but mommies tiered could you maybe play with Jaken anyways where is lord Sesshomaru?" You ask her scanning the area with you crimson eyes to find you lord.
"Lord Sesshomaru went off to do something and left us here; ohh I do hope he comes back soon!" Rin says in a kind of voice making it sound cuter than it usually would, said by an eight year old.
With that Rin runs off to play with Jaken leaving you to think by yourself. 'What happened last night with Sesshomaru; was I dreaming?' you ask yourself ' well it sure as hey didn't feel like a dream, and speaking of dreams what is this dream I keep on having its wierding me out a little bit. Why do I keep on have this same dream over and over maybe something really is different with me like that mark of Liana; how the hey am I connected to Liana!' you think you head starting to ach 'ohh its to early to think about this!' you think your head hurting even worse than before.
You lay your head down and close your eyes. The wind blows around you for a moment wiping your hair into your face and you reach up to wipe it away behind your ear. After wiping the loose strands away you take a deep intake of breath ready for a nap. Your eyes shoot open triggered by one simple thing. You jump up off the ground dashing up the hill behind you yelling behind you 'I'll be right back Rin!' after Rin yells after you in protest.
You run up the hill then down it taking off into the forest beyond it. Dodging the many trees that stand in your way you make your way through the forest to what you were looking for. You notice that you can run faster than you originally thought. Actually it's more like twice as fast as you originally thought? You keep running till you break into a clearing and you nearly run into someone, actually you do run into them, well more like attack them to the ground but yea
You shake your head to rid it of the sudden surprise that you had just experienced. Below you, you can feel some one struggling to get you to get off. You open your eyes to see that it is that girl, Kagome.
"Hey get off of- wait Narooma?" Kagome asks and you crawl off of her.
'I almost totally forgot that used to be my name'
"Why are you here?" Kagome asks getting up off of the ground and reaching out her hand to help you up.
You take her hand gratefully allowing her to pull you up off the ground. Kagome is standing right outside of the opening in the forest and you can see Miroku and Sango over to the left watching something not to far away. You look back over to Kagome to answer her question with: "I smelt Inuyasha, and Sesshomaru"
You knew right after you said it how stupid and irregular that must have sounded but it was true, you did smell the two brothers. The two were probably fighting you figure and you find your suspicions true when you turn to look at what Miroku and Sango were staring at. Yes there, a hundred of so yards away Sesshomaru and Inuyasha were going at it.
Sesshomaru easily dodges Inuyasha's tetsiega and lashes out with his energy whip wrapping around Inuyasha and throwing him to the ground. You take a spot standing next to Miroku who finally notices you and is surprised to see you.
"Narooma! Why are you here?" he asks but you correct him saying 'Keishi' and you have to end up telling them all your real name is Keishi and that its a really long story.
"So how did this mess get started?" You ask the trio still watching the fight with on looking eyes.
"Well basically we ran into Sesshomaru, a few words were exchanged between the two and well here we are the two of them trying to mutilate one an other" Miroku sighs stretching his arms. "And may I ask why you are wearing Sesshomaru's shirt?"
You look down remembering finally that you are in fact still wearing his shirt. You slightly blush looking down realizing how weird you must look to them. Meanwhile Sesshomaru is about to bring down his tokigin when He smells you close by. He turns his head to where you were standing next to Miroku and when his eyes land on you, you can't help but cringe. You can't help it even when you hide back behind Miroku with out realizing it. The sound of clashing metal brings you out from behind Miroku again and you see that Inuyasha had tried to attack Sesshomaru while his back was turned but finds it in vain when Sesshomaru successfully blocks. Sesshomaru throws His half brother back with his sword pushing it at the hilt causing Inuyasha to loose his footing tripping backwards, but saves himself from even further embarrassment by managing not to trip.
Sesshomaru jumps the short ways over to where you were standing and lands before you. He sends you one of his credited death glares and you cower behind Miroku. Miroku actually is feeling very uncomfortable being in the middle of this and steps to the side out of the way. Inuyasha finds his way over to the group landing to your left, but when he lands and sniffs the air you notice him twitch slightly from the reaction to you sweet sent. 'Ohh great him to better hope I don't get cut' you sigh when Inuyasha takes a step back away from you.
"What's wrong Inuyasha?" Kagome asks Inuyasha as he takes multiple steps back away from you.
"No, what's wrong with her!" Inuyasha states rudely and for some reason something snaps inside of you suddenly.
"What do you mean something's wrong with me!" You snap back at Inuyasha taking a step towards him "Is my sent to much for you Inuyasha!"
Miroku, Sango, and Kagome in pure surprise at your outburst withdraw from you slightly taking the slightest of steps back. Sesshomaru stares at you with his eyebrows some what raised, but he also had his fists clenched tightly to secure himself from taking you. The small kitsume you hadn't noticed clings to Kagome's leg in fright, as you get even closer to Inuyasha.
"You know I'm fed up! I don't know what's so stinking wrong with me! How is it that when ever any male demon gets near me they want to go so far!" you yell as Inuyasha venting all the anger that had built up for the past two months. "I mean I don't even know how old I am; how am I supposed to know why the funken my sent is so unbearable!"
"Just shut it oona!" Inuyasha says trying desperately for you to stop approaching him.
"Oona, oona, oona I have no idea why people think that's my name get it through your three inch skull Inuyasha My. Name. Is. Keishi!" you yell Inuyasha finally has nowhere to go has been backed up into a boulder and your still closing in. "Come on say it! K. E. I. S. -"
"Come on Keishi stop it!" Sango calls.
"No! You know I'm fed up! Fed up with it all!" you yell back at her and a wide-eyed group. "I just am so-so-"
Suddenly a piercing pain shoots through your stomach as someone punches you. You cough having lost all the air in your lungs and you double over holding your abdomen. The culprit was neither Inuyasha nor Sesshomaru it was someone you would never expect and someone you could barely recognize. She stands over you with a plain look with out emotion, and Inuyasha growls jumping down after you kneeling down on the floor next to you. Everyone at the forest border except for Sesshomaru come rushing forward to see what happened.
"Who the Hell are you!?" Inuyasha asks the girl who had just hit you with his hands reaching over you in a comforting way.
She just kneels down next to Inuyasha and you just as the rest of the group reaches the sight. You cough trying to get some air into your lungs till finally breath fills your lungs once again. You gasp for the much-needed breath with your hands reaching around your stomach in pain. After a moment of taking deep breaths and sharp intakes you get yourself to calm down. You look up to the girl, who looks maybe around thirteen fourteen but she looks so familiar?
"Kyari?" you ask really confused now.
Inuyasha helps you up staring over at Kyari in confusion then back at you periodically. Sango and Kagome are asking continuously if you were okay, but for some reason you really didn't think it hurt that much. You would have expected for it to hurt a whole lot more considering how hard she had hit you. Kyari just looks down at you with this blank stare. You wonder what's wrong with her this doesn't seem or look like the Kyari you had met just last month, or maybe it isn't her you wonder. You're almost totally sure it's her. She has the same eyes the same nose and lips, 'yes its her,' you conclude to yourself.
"Keishi are you okay?" Kagome asks for the third time you still not answering.
"Kyari where did you come from?" you ask her totally ignoring the rest of the group that are surrounding you with questions.
"Who is this Kyari that you are asking; I am no Kyari my name is Kumiko" Kumiko replies though you are not convinced you've made up your mind that it is Kyari even if she looks a lot older and says that she is not she.
Kumiko comes closer to you shortening the distance between the two to only a couple feet. She stares blankly at you as though with out any emotion what so ever. Her blank stare is getting to you and everyone else around you is noticing. They are looking at Kumiko as though she's crazy, but you cross your arms moodily. You say: "I don't believe you!"
"Believe me my name is, Kumiko" She said with out change crossing her arms also; she looks up at you because she's shorter by at least a couple feet. "I've come here for other reasons those of which are non of your concern."
"" What was that supposed to mean you think to yourself.
"Why is it that you smell of Liana?" The monotone of Sesshomaru speaks from the side of the crowd; everyone standing around you part so that Sesshomaru could come to stand by the two of you.
As he neared the center Inuyasha gives him an angry snarl and a glare. Sesshomaru ignores his snarl and continues his way over to Kumiko. He stares blankly down at her in his silence waiting for his answer. Kumiko just sends him an evil glare and turns walking over to the forest with out answering him.
After Kumiko started off the group sat in silence as she disappeared into the darkness of the forest. You look over to Sesshomaru who you could tell was displeased that Kumiko had not bothered to answer him. Though Sesshomaru kept his youki smooth expressionless face, but you wonder why Kumiko had not answered him. The big thing was that she smelled like Liana. How did Kumiko come in contact with her you wonder as you look away from Sesshomaru to look in to the trees like the other were? Did something happen to Kyari after Sesshomaru took you away from the village?
You took a deep breath and with out warning to the others you take off running to the borderline of the forest. Once again your speed surprises you as you try to catch up to Kumiko. It seems that something peculiar is happening to your body. You remember last month when you carried Rin back to the castle how light she had been. It was all most as though she were a feather? You hear Kagome yell after you but you do your best to ignore her you have your questions for Kumiko.
"Keishi STOP!" You hear suddenly just as you are about to enter the line of the forest.
You are tackled to the soft grass in a soft thud as Inuyasha tries in desperate attempt to stop you from running. A loud groan sounds from behind your clenched teeth, and with a sudden burst of strength you flip over and push Inuyasha over so that you are straddling him. Inuyasha's face is shown as both surprised and troubled by the feelings that his demonic instincts are sending him. Your clenching the front of his shirt with both of your hands tight enough to rip the cloth, and you suddenly realize what your doing when you through Inuyasha's head down to the soil. You back off of him steadying your breaths as Inuyasha brings his head leaning with the back of his elbows to the ground.
"What in the hell?!" Inuyasha curses as Sango, Kagome, and Miroku appear at his side all with faces of wonder.
"Keishi!" Kagome shrieks in awe as you sit in silence wondering exactly what had just happened.
"Get up oona" You hear Sesshomaru command with out emotion suddenly from your side and you look over at your lord.
Sesshomaru isn't even looking at you he's looking at Inuyasha, who is still on the ground trying to calm himself. Inuyasha half demon blood must have reacted to you, and since he is Sesshomaru's half brother his demon blood must be incredibly strong. You doubt that Inuyasha could control himself in any situation when his demon side takes over. What would Sesshomaru had done if that really happened you wonder to yourself as you obey you lords orders getting up off of the ground. Would Sesshomaru save you, you wonder, or would he just be too into his reputation to care?
"We will finish this pathetic excuse for a match later Inuyasha" Sesshomaru says with venom and Inuyasha for this one time reacts with silence instead of an angry reply, which he usually responds with.
Sesshomaru turns a once taking your arm in his clawed hand taking off into the sky with quick demonic speed. You doubt that Inuyasha and his friends even saw the two of you take off you took off so fast. You body is jerked off into the sky roughly and you find yourself clinging to your lord's arm in fright. You totally ignore Sesshomaru as he looks back at you in reaction to your clinging, and you close your eyes as the two of you enter the clouds for a split second before the gravity pulls you back to the ground. You feel him land softly on the ground and the sound of Rins happy greeting in complete disagreement to Jaken's scoff at your arrival.
You open your eyes just as Rin tackles you to the ground in a rib-crushing hug laughing her sweet laugh. Rin's giggles subside after a moment and she crawls off of you and goes to greet Sesshomaru. You smile as Rin hugs Sesshomaru around the legs giggling cutely, and you get up off of the ground. Jaken greets his lord as usual and also as usual he just gives you a look of immense loathing. After that little episode Sesshomaru continues leading the group through the field to the other side where you could see was another cluster of trees creating a forest of tall oaks. You sit on Ah and UN for the ride and after a couple of hours Rin falls asleep in your lap and the sky seems to dim. Then a question dawns on you suddenly:
"Lord Sesshomaru may I ask where we are headed?" You ask Sesshomaru politely as you hold Rins head in your lap.
There is silence for a moment as you are riding through the forest, and the suns light has started to dim at the horizon sending long dark shadows upon you. Sesshomaru is walking up a head with Jaken not far behind in silence, but when you ask your question the silence is broken by his annoying raspy voice saying: "Lord Sesshomaru has no need to answer your petty questions oona, shut y-" though before he could finish ordering you Sesshomaru responds to your question.
"We are heading back to the castle; it seems that when ever you are taken along, human something disastrous has to happen!" Sesshomaru says with out change of direction keeping his face forward.
You sign for Ah and UN to stop for a moment and you climb down off of them. Ah and Un starts walking again and you jog up to Sesshomaru slowing down to his pace. You look up at him with a glimmer of anger simmering behind your eyes.
"My lord, what was that supposed to be?!" Sesshomaru says with out change of direction keeping his face forward.
You sign for Ah and UN to stop for a moment and you climb down off of them. Ah and Un starts walking again and you jog up to Sesshomaru slowing down to his pace. You look up at him with a glimmer of anger simmering behind your eyes.
"My lord, what was that supposed to be?!" you ask trying your best not to be rude; you don't know why but what Sesshomaru just said got to you really bad.
Sesshomaru looks over at you from the corner of his eyes as if questioning you if you really wanted to do that. Well out of your stupidity you continue: "It's not my I 'insert favored word here' /I fault that you I 'insert another word' /I demon males are so I 'insert another word like the others' /I ---"
Sesshomaru without warning slams you into a near by tree almost causing it to topple over. He has one hand on your throat and the other grasping your wrist tightly. You intake of breath catches and you stare at him in freight. With all the commotion Jaken stops in his tracks not knowing what to say. Rin yawns quietly from up top Ah and Un sleeping silently unknown to her what exactly was going on before her limp form.
"I'd hold my tongue human or I shall cut it out my self!" Sesshomaru spits at you his whole body pressing up against you tighter.
You bring your free hand up to his at your throat pulling desperately at it to pry him off of you. To your amaze and of Sesshomaru's your strength over comes him. Your hand grips his wrist with out fail pulling him off. You pull and pull till his hand hovers half a foot from your neck far enough for comfort that being the only thing that moved. Sesshomaru's face still sits an inch from yours. Sesshomaru eyes you with surprise glistening in his eyes trying greatly to keep him face smooth still. You breathe in the much-desired air, and even now you can tell behind his surprised eyes that he lusts after you.
His undying lust just adds to your frustration; you growl loudly and you push him up off of you roughly. He stumbles back in awe of your newfound strength but you try you're hardest to ignore his constant stare, and you reply with: "Stop it, I said STOP IT! Why do you keep on looking at me like that! Everyone has to look at me like that! I SAID STOP IT!" You said more about the lust glazing over his amber eyes than the surprise that is more apparent. Your hands find his chest as you push him force fully away from the path that the group had been traveling on. He stumbles back by your forcefulness with anger boiling harshly behind his lust. Sesshomaru backs up a bit but you follow a little to angry to stop at the moment. By this time you are out of Jaken's line of sight, who had just stood there that whole time with nothing to say. Sesshomaru is getting fed up of your constant anger never abating. You push him again saying some choice words, but then Sesshomaru pushes you up against a tree again. He holds both of your hands at your sides so that you can't pull him away like last time. His face stands a short centimeter from your face that has had all its anger leave replacing it with a fresh coat of fright.
He breathes loudly against your face where yours is nonexistent. The two of you sit in silence for a moment where the sounds of a forest in sleep take over your senses. You stare back in to your lord's eyes with sudden freight, and for once you cannot read his. When he had pushed you up against the tree you had expected him to say something but bow you don't know what to think. He just sits there staring at you, you can feel his grip on you loosen for a moment, and with out a second thought you slip out from between him and a tree and take off into the forest. You run not back to the group but away from them, and not on accident. The darkness of the forest over comes your sight and you run blindly through the forest only seeing the thin outlines of the trees before you.