Symphony of Dreams
Yes...we're getting ready to move, so I may not be able to update as quickly anymore. Sorry 'bout that. Anyway, please read and enjoy!
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Chapter Thirteen
"I do not think that ye should be doing as such, Tsubaki." Said an old lady as she held Tsubaki's arm and prevented her from attacking Inuyasha once more. Tsubaki glared down coldly at the old woman, as Inuyasha stared shocked at her; one: because she just saved his ass, and two: why the Hell did he have to get saved by a hag...!
"Stay out of this, Kaede. It is none of your concern..." Tsubaki glowered as she ripped her arm away from the old woman's grasp. Kaede, however, simply looked to Inuyasha.
"Tell me, hanyou. Why did you come to my village?" She asked him in a serious tone. Inuyasha scoffed. Did this woman really think he would answer her? She held no power over him. And it was none of her business anyway!
"Unless ye would like to continue being toyed with by Tsubaki..."
Well...the old hag had a point.
"Look you old hag, I just wanted this damned thing off me. That's it, okay? Now get me the Hell out of here, damn it!" Inuyasha yelled at her. Kaede's old wisened eyes narrowed at Inuyasha's insult and outburst.
"Quiet child...ye must know when to speak, and what to plead..." She said roughly. Inuyasha blinked. What did she mean by that...?
"Hey! I'm the Prince of these lands, you ain't got no right to talk to me like that!" Inuyasha yelled at her. Kaede sighed and shook her head. She then looked to Tsubaki, her old bones cracking as she moved her body.
"Release him now, Tsubaki. This hanyou has done nothing to harm our village." Kaede declared. Tsubaki stood outraged.
"Have you finally gone batty, you old woman! Should I release this hanyou, he would destroy us!" Tsubaki yelled at her. Kaede blinked.
Why must everyone yell at me? I can hear them all perfectly fine...
Kaede thought. She sighed and looked to Inuyasha. Her old eyes stared into his molten golden ones. She nodded her head.
"Tsubaki, release the hanyou."
"Quit talking about me!"
Tsubaki growled, looked to Inuyasha, then to Kaede again. She sighed. She raised her hands, then brought them apart. Inuyasha watched in fascination as a flurry of sparkling pink and purple spheres slowly made their way apart and disappeard in thin air.
"Feh, about time, damn it!" Inuyasha yelled. He then leapt up into the air and glared at Tsubaki.
This isn't over, wretch...you're just lucky I owe that old lady, otherwise, you would be dead...
Inuyasha thought. He the took off away from the village. He would have to remember the location, should he decide to come back and kill her.
Miroku's eyebrow twitched as the new imprint of a hand stung on his cheek. He looked to the other woman, who he knew now as Sango. He sighed. How had he gotten himself into this position...?
Flashback
Miroku walked down the path until he came to the cart. The two young taijiya stopped walking, as did the small army and cart. The woman glared at him.
"Stand aside monk. We have business to attend to at that castle." She declared. Miroku closed his eyes as if thinking. Then he grinned.
"Sorry. No can do." He said in a jolly voice. The woman was obviously annoyed by his antics.
"Move now, or I'll make you." She said. Miroku then heard a rustle in the cart that they protected. His violet eyes narrowed as he watched an old man step out of it. He had a lon beard that went to his knees, which he tied in the middle. He was hunched back and had a golden colored clothing, with a ruby sash on it. He seemed bald and had a small black hat on his head. His eyes did not open, but Miroku knew he could still see.
"What is going on out here? Oh? A monk...? What is it you want? Oh Sango, don't be so rude to our guest..." The old man said with such cheeriness in his voice, that Miroku swore he was not going to let such a kindly old man go near that wretched palace. But...did he just say...?
"So, your name is Sango?" Miroku said, coming dangerously close to her. Sango narrowed her eyes at him and took a step back.
"Monk..." She growled out as warning. Apparently, Miroku was either ignoring it, or was too stupid to know. Sango thought it was the latter though.
"Oh come now...is there any harm in wanting to know such a beautiful young woman such as yourself?" Miroku asked, his hand twitching with desire. Kohaku looked at his sister, then to the monk. He glared. Sango always had people falling for her left and right, where as he had no one...
SMACK
Kohaku, the old man, and the small army winced. The monk should have known better...
"Ehh...maybe we all should take a short break, okay Sango?" The old man replied to break the tense silence. Sango simply continued to glare death at Miroku though, who now lay on the ground unconscious. Kohaku sighed. If he were to have someone fall in love with him, he just hoped none of them turned out like Miroku...
End Flashback
So then, that was what happened. He sighed. He should have known better than to go up to a pretty female...especially a taijiya...
"Did you have to hit so hard...?" Miroku asked her as she walked past him to the cart. She stopped and glared at him.
"Did you have to be born a pervert?"
"Then yes, I had to hit that hard." With that, she entered the cart to speak with the old man. Miroku sighed. Why was he always being abused?
Kagome sighed as she once again read through the scrolls of the Shikon no Tama. It didn't say anything about how to awaken the powers, or should they awaken, how to put it back into rest.
Why did it have to awaken now? Why not before this, or after? I have no idea what to do...and where is Rin? I haven't seen her all day. Surely Sesshomaru didn't lock her away again...but I don't even know where his room is, so I won't be able to track her down either...
Kagome thought, the Shikon no Tama vanishing from her mind. She stood up and walked to the entrance of the castle. This, she could remember.
She sighed and was about to turn to see the ocean, when suddenly, the Tama pulsed against her chest. She blinked and looked down at it. She pulled it out from under her kimono and looked at it. She watched as it pulsed some more, before suddenly dying down.
"What the...?" She whispered. She looked ahead of it and her eyes narrowed.
"The Forest..." She whispered. She looked to the Jewel, then tucked it back into her kimono. She then took a deep breath.
"This better work..." She whispered. She then ran down the hill, and into the Fukai Mori.
Rin groaned once more as she fundled a button upon the hoari that Shippo had given her. It was his servant outfit, but she had nothing! It was a good thing though that he had under clothing.
"Shippo! Help!" She yelled. Shippo sighed. Not another one...
He walked to where Rin stood and buttoned the rest of the outfit up. Rin grinned and giggled.
"Thank you, Shippo." Rin said, blushing slightly at the fact she needed help putting her clothing on. She smiled up at him, and looked deeply into his sea-green eyes.
"Rin?" Rin blinked, then blushed again and looked down to the Forest floor in embarrassment as she realized she had been staring. She felt a small heat in the pit of her stomach as Shippo wrapped his arm around her waist and leapt into the air. Rin's stomach made a full leap and flip, seeing as she was afraid of heights.
"Kyaaaaaa!" She screamed as they continued to leap hundreds of feet in the air, the wind blowing harshly against her ears as she squeezed her eyes shut to block out the fact that she was up, up in the air. Shippo winced as her shriek rang out in his sensitive ears.
"Rin! Stop screaming!" Shippo shouted as he began to slowly lose focus from such hightened sound. Rin looked down to see them wobbling slightly and panicked. She then shut her mouth and, instead of thrashing about, she simply held on tightly to his shoulders.
"S-Shippo...I-I'm af-fraid of h-heights..." Rin spoke. Shippo must admit that that shocked him. A little girl that was willing to go up to a youkai at the age of three was afraid of heights? Well now...
Shippo began to feel guilty as he noticed how high they were. If he had Sesshomaru's speed, he would have been there quickly without her becoming distressed, or even noticing they left the area. He then quickly made his way to the ground and set Rin down. A few more miles and they would be at the castle once more.
Rin wobbled slightly as she stood on ground once more. She shook her head and looked around, thanking Shippo for letting them travel the rest of the way upon foot. It wasn't that she didn't trust Shippo to catch her should she fall from the sky or whatnot, it was just that she feared heights ever since the incident with her Father...
Flashback
"Jump, damn it!" A man screamed at a young girl. She stood on a tall tree branch, tears falling from her eyes as she looked to her Father. She shook her head slightly, holding on to the tree trunk tighter than before. She did not want to come down...to come down meant meeting Father, which meant punishment...she didn't want to be punished...
"Mitsu, you little wretch! Jump down!" He screamed again. Rin knew he would climb up after her and throw her out of the tree. That or he would walk away and come back to see if she had climbed down yet. She didn't have a choice...
Mitsu began to slowly climb down the tree, but after a minute of climbing, she stopped. She was still far up into the tree, and it was difficult to climb down any further. To tell the truth, Mitsu wasn't sure how she even made it up there!
"Bitch! I said get down!" He screamed once more. Mitsu's eyes widened as he began to climb the tree up after her. She quickly turned around and began to climb up the tree in attempt to save herself.
Mitsu reached the top of the tree and panicked. She looked down, only to not see her Father. She squinted her eyes, thinking that he may have gotten off and gone home...
...but she was wrong...
"Fall!" He screamed behind, slamming his fist into her back and making her fall off the tree. Mitsu's eyes widened as she looked down to the quickly coming ground.
The man on the tree laughed as the young child hit the ground...
End Flashback
Rin felt pain flash through her body as she thought about that incident. Shivers traveled up her spine, but she managed to make it seem as if she were cold. Rin looked to Shippo and sighed. He did not know of the pain she had gone through with her family, and she did not plan on telling him about it either...
I wonder if Sesshomaru-sama knows...wait, why did I just say sama? He is...not my Lord...
Rin thought. She then felt ashamed for her actions. She had been used...he was not her husband. She really was a whore now...his own personal pleasure...
Rin scowled and shook her head. She glared at the ground as she continued to walk along the path, following after Shippo since he was the only one who knew where they were going. She then paused slightly as a cold air blew past her and into the Forest which was behind them. Rin's eyes traveled swiftly to look.
It seems like it's moving...but how can a forest move? Is there someone in there it does not want? This wind...it's just like when I nearly touched Souunga...
Rin thought. She shivered as she remembered Souunga. Sesshomaru had told her the sword was capable of taking control of her mind and killing her...she did not want to remember that accursed sword.
But I liked the Tenseiga. A reviving sword, that's a new one. Well then, I think I'll research more on it, since Sesshomaru seemed so closed up to speak of it.
Rin thought. It was then she heard a large explosion like sound emenating from the Forest. She screamed and turned around, Shippo wincing and quickly grabbing her.
"Shippo, what's going on!" Rin screamed. Shippo growled.
"It's Sesshomaru...he's fighting. We have to get out of here, now!" Shippo yelled before running from the Forest at top speed. Rin's eyes widened and she felt a heavy weight in the pit of her stomach at the thought of Sesshomaru losing a battle.
Sesshomaru...don't you dare die...
Shippo thought as he scented out Inuyasha. He was afraid that this battle was one that could possibly kill Sesshomaru...
Kagome winced as she hit another tree trunk. Really, she should be paying more attention to what was around her than some dark aura that continued to close in on her. She growled and glared at the tree, picturing Sesshomaru and Inuyasha.
Argh! Those dumb jerks...I'll give them a peice of my mind when I see them again...
Kagome thought. She then slowly made her way over a fallen log.
The Tama continued to pulse.
She scowled and took it out. It would not stop! It was driving her nuts!
"Stupid Jewel...why did I have to be the one to inherit it? Why not Rin, or some other family...?" Kagome muttered to herself. Once again, she did not look where she was going and tripped.
"Argh! Damn it!" She screamed into the Forest floor. She then got up, before noticing that she had fallen in a crimson like liquid. Kagome brought up her finger and her eyes widened.
"Blood..." She whispered. She then quickly got up and looked around, now noticing that there was no natural sounds of the Forest. No birds...no animals...or crickets...
She heard a rustle and turned as quickly as she could. She saw a flash of silver and looked down quickly. She felt her stomach flip and try to leap out of her throat.
"Se...Se..." She mumbled. All the blood in her face had completely run cold.
There under her lay Sesshomaru, his clothes shredded, blood covering over half his body. Three large gash wounds were stripped across his stomach, a large hole through his chest. His left arm also helda hole in it with purple ooze dripping out of it. It was also twisted at an awkward angle. His face was matted with blood and dirt, a large x shaped scar across the entire thing. His hair lay behind him as if it had gone througha typhoon. His knee was literally poking out of his skin. His right hand was as if it had been shredded. Kagome dared not think what would have happened to him.
"Sesshomaru...oh my kami..." She whispered. She fell to the ground, collapsing upon her knees. Her eyes continued to grow wider as the dark aura surrounded her once more.
"A human..." She heard something whisper. Kagome felt her mind go cold, then something shredding through her chest...
Inuyasha stared in horror as he watched Kagome fall to the floor dead. He looked to his claws which were covered in blood.
Kagome's blood...
He couldn't remember anything...he just walked into the Fukai Mori, then he saw a strange looking spiked youkai...then nothing. The only thing he did remember was watching Kagome fall to the floor dead...
"Kagome..." Inuyasha whispered. This wasn't happening...this couldn't be happening...he fell to his knees and gathered her broken body into his arms. He held her close.
"No..." He whispered, his voice breaking slightly.
"You pervert! Get out! Out, out, OUT!"
He smiled softly. That was quite the sight to see, really. He looked down to Kagome's face. It looked so innocent...
"I'll get you! You know I will!"
That's right...he said that...but now if this was the way he'd get her, he wanted nothing to do with it. He gently picked her up bridal style and held her. How could he have killed her? He looked over to his half-brother.
"Sesshomaru...I'll be back. I promise. Just hang in there a little longer..." Inuyasha said.
"You aren't going anywhere..." Inuyasha's eyes narrowed. He quickly set Kagome back to the ground, turned and unsheathed Tetsusaiga.
"Hiraikotsu!"
And that is all I'm doing. (grins) Anyway, try not to kill me, otherwise the story can't be finished. Bye-bye!
(NOTE- IF MELISSA KILLS ME...WELL...I'LL BE DEAD I GUESS, BUT DO NOT THINK I WON'T CONTINUE! I HAVE THE GHOST HOTLINE WITH ME! >. )
Symphony of Dreams signing off