Part 8 – Her Escape
The Lord raised an eyebrow at her statement, "You think so? What if I do?" The Lord seemed to be waiting for her reply, Ai thought to herself, 'Is he being amused by this? If that's the case then I should try to bore him.'
Ai put on a bored expression, and then she sat on the floor and pretended to act as if he didn't exist. The Lord watched her, he seemed to be confused. "Ai? What are you doing?" Ai ignored him, she continued to sit there and do nothing. Then the Lord started to speak again,
"Ai, we are going to finish this tomorrow, afterour wedding."
The Lord laid on his bed, Ai thought that he must have gotten tired. But what about her? She just had a nap a little while ago. There was no way she would be able to fall asleep at the moment. She also noticed something, was she going to sleep on the floor? He never said anything about her sleeping on the bed, which was a good and a bad thing in her opinion, even if she has to sleep on the cold wooden floor instead of a comfortable bed that looked like it was supposed to be for a god, she wouldn't have to worry about him trying anything scary when she's lying next to him in a bed.
It had been about 2 or 3 hours of Ai trying to get to sleep on the floor, the Lord was already deep in sleep, then she heard a little tapping noise coming from the window. Ai thought to herself, 'What is that?' She turned towards the window to see Mahkio fluttering in front of it. Ai's eyes widened and she quickly got up and ran over to window. When she reached it she opened it, the Lord didn't bother to lock it because his room was quite high up.
"Mahkio! I'm so glad to see you!" She looked relieved as she said that.
"I was wondering where you were, now hop on." Mahkio turned into his great moth form and waited for Ai to get on.
"You came just in time; I was going to get married tomorrow!" Ai climbed onto his back and Mahkio started flying off with her on his back.
After a short period of time they reached the forest, once Mahkio landed Ai climbed off of him. "Thank you so much Mahkio! I don't know what I would have done if you didn't rescue me. There was no way I would have been able to enjoy my life if he was in it!" Mahkio turned back into his small moth form.
"You're welcome, Ai. Now, I'm going to back to the Manor so I can give that Lord a good morning when he wakes up."
Ai looked confused but she didn't say anything, she just smiled and replied. "Do as you wish." And before she knew it she saw Mahkio flying off back to the direction he was flying from. Ai noticed that the sun would probably be coming back up soon. She decided to try and get a little bit of rest now so she wouldn't be too off schedule. It would be easier going to sleep now because she didn't have to be worrying about what would happen if she woke up the next morning.
Mahkio flew back through the open window; Ai didn't bother to shut it. He fluttered in front of the Lord and landed on his nose, he thought to himself. 'Wow, he looks ugly when he's sleeping. And he snores too!'
It had been 4 hours since then and Mahkio hadn't moved. The sun was coming up; an estimation of the time would be about 5:30 AM. Mahkio had just been sitting on his nose waiting for him to wake up, and trying to ignore his snoring and stinky breath.
The Lord slowly opened his eyes, and the first thing he saw was a close up of Mahkio's face. He quickly sat up and started slapping at his nose and yelling. But Mahkio quickly flew away from his nose before his hand touched him. The Lord seemed irritated; it was kind of a strange thing to see first thing in the morning. But that's when Mahkio started to say something.
"Hey, Lord,
What's with the snore?
It made me sore,
That's hardcore.
The Lord looked at the small moth fluttering in the air, "Who the hell are you?! Where did you come from? How are you talking? Where is Ai? Why is my window open?" Mahkio flew in front of him.
"No wonder Ai doesn't want to marry you, you're retarded. Why ask so many questions at once?"
"I'll kill you, you stupid moth."
"Oh really?" The Lord looked pissed; Mahkio was obviously getting on his nerves.
"Why are you here?"
"Another question? Well, I just wanted to say good morning and that you need leave Ai alone. And with that, I must leave, farewell."
Then Mahkio flew out through the open window and started to make his way back towards the forest. After a short amount of time he reached Ai, who was leaning against a tree sleeping. She looked so much better than the Lord did when he was sleeping. She was breathing deep, but not snoring. And her eyes weren't squinted shut but closed lightly and she wore a peaceful expression.
Mahkio landed on a flower that was near her, he decided it would be best if he were to be there when she was to awake.
Shortly after Mahkio had arrived, Ai's eyes fluttered open. "Mahkio? You're back already?"
"Yes, and I had a short conversation with the Lord, I don't' blame for not wanting to marry him."
"Well, I'm glad to see you're alright."
"What do you mean by that?"
"I thought that he might have hurt you or something."
"That idiot wouldn't be able to touch me; I'm much too fast for him."
"Well, that's good."
"Ai, I must get going now. I will come back to check on you later, don't you get caught again."
"Don't worry, I won't."
Mahkio started to fly away now; Ai noticed that the sun was sort of coming up. But it would take about an hour for it to fully rise. She also noticed that her basket was sitting near her; Mahkio must have retrieved it for her. Ai smiled at it, and then she picked it up.
Ai stood up and decided that she should try to find herself something to eat; she hadn't eaten anything except those berries she ate a long time ago, she was starving. She also needed to get farther into the forest; she was only just a little past the border of the forest. And the last thing she wanted to do was to get caught again.
Ai started walking; she examined her surroundings as she walked through the forest. She had to find something edible. Then she smelt the scent of fish nearby. She remembered the area she was in, that river must have been nearby. She was quite thirsty, and fish sounded like something decent she could eat. But sadly, she didn't know how to make a fire.
Before Ai found the river, she smelt the scent of cooking fish getting stronger. Then she saw a berry bush, it must have been the same berry bush she ate from last time. She started to pick the berries and place them in her basket when she heard voices from the other side of the bush. One of the voices was kind of irritating and hard to listen to, and the other sounded like a young girl.
Ai peeked over the bush to see who it was, she saw the two people that were talking, it was a young girl like she had expected. And from what she could tell an imp demon. She noticed that they were roasting fish over a small fire.
That's when Ai saw something that she didn't expect, it was that man that killed those two men, and she believed he was called Sesshomaru, if she remembered correctly. He was leaning against a tree, watching them. Ai thought to herself, 'Is that really him? I didn't expect to run into him again.'
