Sorry for such a long wait, here's another chapter… :)
Kayase was awoke by a feeling weight on her stomach that she wasn't used to. As she slowly opened her eyes and lifted up her head she saw it was Rin sleeping on her stomach, she apparently had been waiting for her to get up but was overcome with sleep.
Kayase then sat up all the way but in a way that she wouldn't disturb Rin. And she moved her back to a small tree trunk that she could rest on.
As she began to close her eyes to fall to sleep, Sesshoumaru came from around the corner of a larger tree stump. She couldn't tell if he had been there the whole time or if he had taken another one of his 'walks.'
"So… do you feel all right?"
"Yes… why shouldn't I feel all right? I guess if you mean by sleeping on the ground, if I got sore from that or something… I suppose." She scratches the back of her head and smiles slightly.
He says, "No, from your fight…"
Kayase says immediately, "What fight! I had a fight with you! I had a fight with Rin!"
"Shut up before you wake her up."
He thinks, "I can't take anymore of her for the time being… she always asks the most annoying questions…"
He replies again, "You didn't have a fight with either of us…"
Kayase asks, "Then who'd I have a fight with then?"
"I don't know, I didn't know her."
"I had a fight with a stranger?"
She thinks, "This is getting too weird."
She says, "What were we arguing about?"
"Oh there was no arguing."
Kayase laughs, she says, " Then it wasn't a fight then…"
"Oh. It was. You two, well not two, well you were choking her by her throat."
She says genuinely, taken back by what he's saying, "That's not like me. I would never do anything like that to someone."
"She was posing a threat to Rin… and your powers activated."
"I thought you could only help me activate them?"
He looks away from her and slightly down to the little girl, "I thought so as well."
"Damn! Get over it! She already did it, stop being so damn jealous of a little kid! "
Sesshoumaru's mind shouts back at his demon, "I AM OVER IT!"
Kayase says, looking down, now twiddling with her finger, "I can barely remember it… but I remember you being there at he last minute, and me still holding the girl by her neck and then everything went black."
"Yeah, you're pretty reckless when your powers activate. You're a whole different person…."
She starts to have tears flow down her cheeks in fear of taking someone's life away. "Did I kill her?"
What the hell is she crying for?
"She feels bad about it."
"No, you didn't kill her, if I hadn't come back you probably would have."
"Thank you Lord Sesshoumaru." She says smiling wiping her tears away.
He says, still leaning his back onto the tree trunk. He looks up into the midnight sky, "Kayase I have told you this before…"
"In private, you can call me Sesshoumaru."
"Oh! I forgot!" She smiles instantly at him at as Sesshoumaru looks at her smiling face and rolls his eyes, as he looks back up into the sky.
Jakken, who was behind another tree stump, was awake and listening in on their conversation well, without being noticed by Lord Sesshoumaru.
Nothing really sparked his notice that he didn't already know until he last part of the conversation when he went to close his eyes.
He could hear Kayase smooth light voice say, "Thank you Lord Sesshoumaru."
While Lord Sesshoumaru's voice, smooth, deep, and yet powerful said beck to her, "Kayase I have told you this before…"
"In private, you can call me Sesshoumaru."
This surprised Jakken even more than the last few months of surprises; this was one thing he knew that Lord Sesshoumaru wouldn't allow her to do. But he did, and this made him believe even more, that his Lord Sesshoumaru was harboring strong feelings for Priestess Kayase.
A voice says booming, loud and angry, "WHERE'S THE TEENAGE GIRL!"
A girl replies, "She's not here Naraku… if I knew she was that strong maybe I could've prepared myself a little more."
"What are you talking about? She's strong too?"
"Oh, so what other piece of information are you holding out on me?"
"I don't have to tell you just because you figured out another piece of the puzzle, next time I feel her presence alone, you better be ready, and you better bring her back."
"Or what?" The girl says defiantly.
He goes to one of his shelves, and looks into one of his boxes, and shows the contents of it to her, which makes her nod, apologize for her rudeness, and speed out off the door.
"I can't wait to get my hands on that Priestess."
He smiles maniacally.
As the cold night turned into a nice spring morning Kikyo ended up standing right in front of them.
She looked at all their formations.
Rin was sleeping on Kayase's stomach.
(A/N: She sure hgas been sleeping for a long time!)
Kayase had her back on the tree trunk but her head had faleen to her right side, right next to Sesshoumaru's shoulder barely touching it.
Sesshoumaru also had his back on the tree trunk and Jakken was sleeping next to him on his right.
Kikyo shook her head disapprovingly that it seemed as if Sesshoumaru's heart had not yet softened towards Kayase a little, when she saw some thing happen and she immediately crouched down in the long green stalks of grass.
Kayase's head plopped down on Sesshoumaru's lap, as she just randomly starts to laugh loudly and it starts to slowly die down.
Sesshoumaru puts his hand over her mouth quickly to stifle the random outburst of laughs. As he positions her head in a more comfortable way for him on his lap.
He opened his eyes slowly and looked down at her, he was moving in closer to her, looking at her face intently. As he moved some of her away from her cheek.
Kikyo thinks, "He can't be trying to kiss her…! Or is he? Maybe he has changed?"
He touches her cheek lightly, as he looks at it and removes his hand… he looks at her small scar. He raises his head back up to rest on the trunk of the tree.
He thinks, "I wonder did she get that from the fight of from lying on the ground?"
That Priestess is here. I can smell her.
Sesshoumaru looks to the tall grass only feet away from them. "You might as well come out Kikyo… there's no good in you hiding if I can tell that you're already here."
"Hmm. Lord Sesshoumaru… you knew I was here all along? Is that why you didn't kiss Kayase on her cheek?"
Sesshoumaru, looks passive as always, not showing his disturbance by that remark.
"I wasn't even thinking of trying to kiss her. That's the furthest thing from my mind right now."
Kikyo looks at him strangely, she thinks, "So you think about it at other times? Don't you dare place those lips on my cousin."
So you think about it other times? Pervert…
He thinks, "I am not a pervert, I didn't even mean it in that way."
You'd better tell Kikyo that then. She wasn't very happy with what you said.
"And I could care less…"
After everyone's awake and refreshed, Kikyo tells them to sit down so she can explain more about Kayase's powers and where she got them from.
The only person not sitting is Sesshoumaru he's standing a distance away but still in earshot so he can hear what needs to be heard.
Kikyo says, "Well, as you know our family has been heir to many Priestesses in the past decades… and sadly you were the last one in our family to possess the powers of a Priestess."
"You should also know that you're mother was one as well… but your father…"
Kayase asks, "My father was a Priest?" She says smiling.
"No. Actually, the exact opposite. He was a sorcerer… and a Priestess and a Sorcerer's baby is the worst kind of combination a baby could come out as…"
Kayase starts to look worried.
"It was said that kind of baby would one day have the world under it's control. And that's why they put you through that well… to stop that from ever happening."
"But somehow, that well opened, and opened only to Sesshoumaru, for he was in power to either manipulate you into coming back with him and taking you under his wing and making you the worst, most powerful being that you could possibly be. Or let you make a choice, whether you wanted to come back right then or not… while telling you all which was peaceful and the people who awaited your arrival on the other side of the well…"
"Why would she bring that up? Now I'll have to hear about it…"
She continues, "Either way… you would still end up with this terrible power upon you. I know yesterday, was probably a shock for you Kayase."
Sesshoumaru says, "She can hardly remember anything Kikyo."
"Oh… well, then I'll just tell you then Sesshoumaru." She says using informal speech as he did with her.
"The reason why she wanted to kill whoever she was fighting was because her father was a murderer. He used his sorcery for evil, the worst powerful evil. He used to place curses on whoever got in his way,
was annoyed by, or just random people. And in less than ten minutes they would die. So killing's also in her blood."
She looks back over at Kayase, who looks like she's so sad that she's about to cry.
"He stopped this after you were born, but the spirits of the people that he killed told him that it was too late. From doing all of that his daughter was now in for rough times…"
Kayase asks, "How do you know all this stuff Kikyo?"
"Your mother told me, so I could tell you."
"Why did I have to the be the one granted with this power? Why not someone else?"
She says through her tears.
"This power was meant for you Kayase… they took that prophecy the wrong way… they thought you would bring evil to this world. But you, you're nothing but kindness… you can overcome that evil part of you and defeat it. And so, if you do, that means you'd bring the world into peace and tranquility. And out of the darkness that it is now in. If you do that, you'd be everyone's hero."
Kayase smiles brightly, "A hero."
She asks, "Like Wonder Woman?"
Kikyo, Sesshoumaru, Rin and Jakken look at each other questioningly.
They all ask at the same time, "Who's that?..."
"Never mind, never mind, just know that she's a hero."
She says laughing, doing a hero stance with both of her hands on her hips looking up into the sky proudly.
"I will overcome the evil inside of me if it's the last thing I do."
Yes, I made it a long chapter, I felt I should do that…
I wonder what's going to happen next?
Seriously I have no clue… lol.