Truth Be Told
"So, what is she doing?" Rin asked the demon lord curiously. Sesshomaru was relaxing against a tree, his eyes closed as he thought about what to do. He opened his eyes and watched as Jessa began running at a tree and leaping in the air, barely missing the lowest branch. She backed away and tried it again, grasping onto the branch and hanging from it.
"Ah, much better," Jessa exhaled as she let go, landing on her feet and straightening her posture. Sesshomaru figured out that she was stretching her body and doing nothing interesting.
"Do you know of my father?" Sesshomaru asked Jessa abruptly. She looked at him blankly, caught off guard by his question. She placed her hands in her pockets and shrugged.
"I know of him, but I don't know that much about him." She replied simply. Sesshomaru looked away and nodded once before standing up, motioning for her to follow him.
"And what do you know of Kagura?" he asked once they were out of hearing distance of the other two followers. Jessa had to bite her tongue because the first phrase that came to mind was "dumb bitch."
"Uh, incarnation of Naraku, she hated him, liked you, made some poor choices, blah." Jessa listed off.
"Poor choices? Such as what?"
"Well, I would've held off on backstabbing Naraku for a little longer and I definitely wouldn't have tipped him off about hating him…especially since he literally had her life in his hands." Jessa explained, forgetting about the demon lord's touchiness about badmouthing Kagura.
"Because you are weak-minded and would damn near sleep with Naraku to keep your pathetic life." Sesshomaru growled back.
"You're damn straight, I would. Do what you need to do to survive."
"You know nothing of Kagura," he said icily.
"She was obviously disposable. Her own creator killed her…both Naraku and the woman in charge of creating everyone in this place." Jessa replied just as icily. Sesshomaru held his blade to her, glaring at Jessa heatedly. Jessa looked back at him with slight annoyance.
"Take it back." He demanded.
"No."
"Take it back…or I will leave you here alone."
"And what makes you think I care? You're holding a dead woman above me already. I might as well do the hula dance with a grass skirt on in front of Naraku's castle when I'm with you." Jessa replied tonelessly, her face saying it all…you don't scare me. Just as that sentence left her mouth, Sesshomaru had flown into the air, leaving her behind without another word being said.
"Maybe if I had bigger tits," Jessa commented as she began walking away, wondering if he somehow heard her.
Jessa found herself enjoying the lonely walk through the lighted forest. She was following a path, dodging trees and stepping over rocks and roots. Jessa stopped walking and turned around, thinking she heard someone step on a stick behind her. She waited for a moment before continuing her walk, looking around alertly. Jessa stopped walking again, but this time, she was positive that someone was following her. Actually, he was waiting for her. Standing in the shadows of trees, his body clocked by the furry baboon costume, was Naraku.
"Of course it's you. Why wouldn't it be you?" Jessa asked bitterly, her immediate negativity and calmness making Naraku chuckle with pleasure. Usually when people saw him, they would scream his name along with curses before trying to end his life, but Jessa grumbled comments and stood there, staring at him with slight annoyance.
"I see Sesshomaru is not here…again." Naraku commented, stepping out of the shadows and towards Jessa, who decided that running would have been useless. That and she just didn't feel like running.
"Yeah, I pissed him off because I told him Kagura was disposable and dumb." Jessa chirped with a shrug of her shoulders. She saw the smirk on his face appear, red eyes taking her in.
"Oh yes, that would do it…of course anything would just about anger him." Naraku retorted, now three steps away from Jessa, who had yet to move, but now she was thinking about it, seeing the closing gap between her and the spider.
"Are you wearing anything underneath that?" Jessa asked, pointing at his cloak. Naraku looked down at himself and then back up at Jessa, an eyebrow cocked.
"Now we're getting somewhere with this conversation,"
"Oh, no, no, no…it's just I want to prove someone wrong,"
"Heh, I am naked underneath this." Naraku answered smugly, seeing Jessa look away as she stamped the ground. Next she held her fist up to her mouth and closed her eyes.
"This is just one of those rare times I wish I was wrong!" she growled, almost as if in pain. Naraku stayed silent and watched as she grumbled a few more things before looking back at him, eyes showing slight worry.
"Sooo…why are you here?" Jessa asked him with a nervous smile, hoping he was just dropping in to say "Hi" and was planning on leaving without any harm made to her. Naraku took a huge step and closed the gap between him and the strange human girl, almost knocking into her with his broad chest.
"Oh my…oh my God," Jessa whispered under her breath, closing her eyes and relaxing, deciding that he could have a clean cut on her neck, but instead she felt something sharp being ran across her bottom lip sensually.
"I wish to test something out on you, take this," Naraku ordered calmly, grasping her hand and dropping a fragment of the darkened jewel in her hand. Jessa opened her eyes and stared down at it with confusion.
"I will now give you five seconds to run from me and let's see if you can even use that shard," Naraku said with a wicked smirk. Jessa shook the shard at him warningly.
"And I thought Sesshomaru was a dick, but you just redefined it…fuck my life!" Jessa barked with frustration as she ran away. She figured her five seconds were up and immediately remembered that jewel shards could enhance weapons.
"Bahahaha! I can't believe I'm doing this," Jessa laughed breathlessly as she pulled the remote from her back pocket, opening the back where the batteries were and shoving the jewel inside it, closing the back. She turned the remote over and stared at it and waited for something to happen.
"Oh my, thought of something already? I am impressed." Naraku's voice echoed through the forest, sending chills down Jessa's spine. She saw the remote's buttons glow an eerie purple. She stopped running and turned around, aiming the remote and deciding to press random numbers.
"Maybe if I press six, six, six…Satan will come save his helpless daughter! Come on, Sataaaaaaaan!" Jessa found herself laughing as she prayed for Satan while hitting the six button three times. A bright red light flashed and a tall girl stood in between Jessa and the dark man. The girl had on sunglasses, a cigarette hanging out of her mouth and black, spiky hair with crimson red tips.
"Hahaha! Very impressive!" Naraku laughed evilly as his tentacles shot out and hitting the tall girl, sending her flying into a tree. She hit the tree and landed on her feet, face noticeably furious, even with the sunglasses hiding her eyes.
"Now I KNOW you did not just start the push and shove shit with me!" The girl barked angrily, the cigarette falling to the ground as she flung a blue flame at Naraku, who deflected it with his barrier.
"Ahhh! You're Shana! I read a story with you in it!" Jessa screamed excitedly. Shana turned her head and pointed at Jessa dangerously.
"Your ass is grass after I'm done with Mr. Sneaky Man over here," Shana growled distastefully as she turned back to Naraku, who looked ready for a fight. He fired off tentacles, trying to hit Shana again, but the girl waved her hand and Jessa watched as all of his tentacles were melted like they were nothing.
"Hm, who are you?" Naraku asked with a frown.
"Your mama!" Shana spat, exhaling as she thrust both fists out, igniting the forest in front of her with the blue flames and sending Naraku flying backwards. The demon man disappeared in his miasma, finding Shana to be a bit difficult to take down at the moment.
"There is this author, on FanFiction, she goes by ActionBitch, she made you!" Jessa stated excitedly as Shana lit another cigarette before taking a long drag off it. She exhaled the smoke in Jessa's face and watched as the human girl coughed herself into another asthma attack.
"Oops." Shana stated uncaringly, continuing her cigarette break. Jessa regained her breathing control and looked at Shana, who was dressed in exactly what the human girl imagined her to be wearing…black jeans with a studded belt, a black shirt with a phrase in red that said, "I put the fun in funeral." She wore black combat boots and studded wristbands on both hands.
"So, you brought me here?" Shana asked the cigarette pursed between her lips. Jessa nodded enthusiastically before being shoved down by Shana, who stood over her, looking down and glaring from behind her sunglasses.
"Uncalled for." Jessa growled.
"Really? You want to know what's uncalled for? You calling me here to protect you from the naked baboon! Send me back!" Shana demanded angrily as Jessa stood up, staring at the remote as she scratched her head slightly.
"Right, well, um…I don't know how." Jessa said back with a giggle. Shana was not amused. She crossed her arms and stared at Jessa, cigarette pressed between her lips.
"I'm not playing." Shana growled.
"Me either! I don't know! I was trying to summon Satan, not you!"
"Bitch, I am Satan! And…hm?" Shana's head whipped in the opposite direction before she did a beautiful backflip, dodging a green whip and landing back on her feet, fists at the ready as Sesshomaru charged at her. The demon lord claws swiped at her body, but Shana's hand slapped his arm away as she jabbed him in the chest with her fingers. She spun around to dodge his other arm blasted him with a few more jabs to random places on his body, sending him down to the ground motionless.
"Dude, kick ass!" Jessa cheered.
"Dude, I'll kick your ass if you don't start sending me back!" Shana snapped at her.
"Can't you use your sword? Where is it?" Jessa asked Shana skeptically. Shana held her hand out and in a red flash, a katana sword appeared in her hand and Shana swiped at Jessa's head, missing on purpose.
"Not the point." Shana answered, turning around and turning Sesshomaru onto his back. He groaned as he woke back up, golden eyes locked on Jessa angrily.
"Who the hell is she?" Sesshomaru asked the human girl icily. He looked at Shana when she placed her boot on his armored chest.
"Hey, chick, I'm right here, why don't you ask me who the hell I am?" Shana asked Sesshomaru, flicking ashes on the demon man before taking another drag.
"Fine…who are you?" he asked with a growl.
"Haha, you don't know shit, do you?" Shana asked humorously as she backed away.
"Why can't he move?" Jessa asked, picking up a stick and poking Sesshomaru in the face. He glared at her angrily as she did so, but Jessa smiled back sweetly.
"Pressure points…when you hit enough of them, the body of humans and demons alike will break down…temporarily." Shana explained as Jessa nodded.
"Yeah, I remember now," Jessa replied, the memories of the stories now kicking in. Shana was a BAMF…bad ass mother fucker.
"Goddamn." Shana growled as she jumped away, leaving Jessa and the temporarily immobilized Sesshomaru alone.
"Was this your doing?" Sesshomaru asked Jessa with a glare. Jessa shrugged as she sat next to him.
"I did what I had to do to survive. I swear I wanted Satan, not Shana." Jessa insisted calmly. She heard Sesshomaru let out a slow, long breath of irritation. He slowly sat up, getting feeling back in his body.
"Did…Naraku harm you?" Sesshomaru asked Jessa, his gaze fixed on the sky. He could smell the bastard's scent around her.
"No, he just mentally disturbed me and then gave me this," Jessa said, holding the jewel shard up.
"I see. And you summoned the other woman with it."
"Yeah, but I wanted Satan!" Jessa insisted with a groan.
"Satan?"
"He's the polar opposite of God."
"And you wanted him to come save you?"
"Trust me, he is much nicer than Shana." Jessa stated with a smile of nervousness. Sesshomaru could only stare back at her blankly. Was she serious?
After Sesshomaru's body regained all feeling and movements, the demon lord decided to find Shana for another little rematch. Jessa grabbed his arm and tried to pull him back before he flew away.
"What?" he asked her.
"She'll kick your ass! And then she'll kill you! Then she'll revive you! And prison shank you!" Jessa cried frantically as the demon lord pulled her along with him. She kept an insanely strong grip on his arm when he flew in the air, trying to scare her away from him.
"Heh, I underestimated her because she is half-demon. I won't be making that mistake again." Sesshomaru replied, still flying with Jessa clinging to his arm.
"She has her sword! Dude you don't fucking understand! She can make asteroids fall to Earth with that thing!"
"How do you know so much about her?" Sesshomaru asked Jessa, pulling her closer to him and thinking she was somewhat useful.
"Because I read a bunch of stories someone wrote with her in them! Sesshomaru, all Shana did was kick your ass and blow things up because they were ugly! She's real now! All she'll do is kick your ass and then blow me up because I'm ugly!" Jessa claimed frantically.
"She may blow you up because you're ugly, but she won't be defeating me again." Sesshomaru retorted.
"I'd be laughing if it wasn't so true." Jessa exhaled, wrapping her arms around him when he sped up, flying higher into space. She saw his eyes narrow when he could smell Shana's scent.
"Here, get on my back and hang on," Sesshomaru said to Jessa, knowing that his information source would be the first to go if he set Jessa down. The girl moved onto his back and held onto him with all her might. She saw something flash and the next thing Jessa knew was Sesshomaru flipping backwards and narrowly dodging the lightning bolt that was fired at him.
"She can shoot lightning?" Sesshomaru asked Jessa.
"And fire. Blue fire. It's super hot." Jessa said.
"Lightning, blue fire…anything else or do you want me to be surprised?" Sesshomaru growled irritably as Jessa giggled.
"Yeah, her sword, Daiki, it can drain your energy, transport her wherever and whenever she wants and I already told you it can summon asteroids…big ones…ones that can wipe out this entire place." Jessa chirped knowingly. She saw Sesshomaru's face frowning with each addition of information she added onto that sentence.
"Anything else?" Sesshomaru asked, his face suddenly lighting to curiosity.
"Uh, I don't think so…wait! She can call forth her demon blood and repress it whenever she wants, so don't piss her off!" Jessa said warningly. Sesshomaru flew off again.
"Wait, and she can make clones of herself!" Jessa added.
"Right." Sesshomaru answered.
"And she knows where all the pressure points and chakra pools are in the body, so don't let her hit you!"
"Don't let her hit me…I never would've thought of that."
"Quit being a smart ass! I'm trying to help!"
"Anything else?"
"No."
"Are you sure?" Sesshomaru asked, turning his head and glancing at her over his shoulder.
"No." Jessa said back with a wide smile.
"Sounds like she relies on tricks and barely fights," Sesshomaru stated.
"Actually, close combat is her specialty…and trash talking."
"I see."
"And she's really fucking smart, if she can't physically beat you, she'll find another way!"
"I'm about to drop you, be silent!" Sesshomaru barked, tired of hearing about Shana, who popped out of nowhere and did an aerial summersault, kicking a fierce blue flame out with both feet. Sesshomaru dodged it and heard it hit the ground behind him explosively. He dove at Shana, who was falling to the ground helplessly.
"No! Don't go after her!" Jessa cried out, but she was too late as Shana jetted flames out of her feet, dodging Sesshomaru's claws. Now he was the one in the air and Shana had a great shot of both Jessa and Sesshomaru. She punched a flame, but Sesshomaru was also fast and moved out of the way.
"Irritating humans and half-breeds! I intend to wipe you all out after I kill Naraku first!" Sesshomaru spat.
"I intend to rip your face off and wipe my ass with it before that ever happens!" Shana spat back spitefully, sending out a rainstorm of flames.
"Does she have any weaknesses?" Sesshomaru asked quickly.
"She hates romance!" Jessa answered loudly.
"That is NOT helpful!" Sesshomaru barked back, finally losing his temper and composure…and hearing Jessa's laughter did not help either.
"Hahaha, bitch, you asked!" Jessa replied as Sesshomaru dove out of the way from another lightning bolt.
"Is she some sort of a secret god or something? Jessa, I need more information!" Sesshomaru growled, seeing Shana standing on the top of a tree, lighting a cigarette.
"No, she's just a bad ass!" Jessa answered as she held onto the demon lord even tighter when he sped up, deciding on attacking Shana head on. He saw her pull her sword out idly, whistling a tune as she flicked ashes from her cigarette.
"She…she pulled it out." Sesshomaru said to himself.
"Hahaha, that's what she said!" Jessa laughed.
"Wench, this is not the time for jokes! What all can she do with that sword?" Sesshomaru asked, blinking when Shana disappeared.
"This," Shana answered, instantly reappearing in front of Sesshomaru and throwing a flaming fist at him, but Sesshomaru caught her wrist, burned her skin with his poison before throwing her behind him with all of his might.
"Haaaaah, biiiiiiiiitch…uh oh," Jessa stopped celebrating when she saw Shana flip in the air, the aura around her sword glowing orange.
"What now?" Sesshomaru growled.
"Ahhhh! Get the fuck out of here! Sesshomaru, go, go, go, go stupid, go!" Jessa cried out hysterically, repetitively hitting his shoulder with her hand, thinking that would make him go.
"Do not call me names, wench!" Sesshomaru barked.
"You're such a fucking hypocrite! And look up!" Jessa howled back as she and Sesshomaru looked up, seeing the five gigantic space rocks descending upon them quickly.
"Right…I am not fighting with you around ever again." Sesshomaru stated as he transformed into his white orb and booking it out of there as the asteroids hit the Earth forcefully.
"Haha…ha…hahahahahahaha! So stupid." Shana laughed as she walked away from the destroyed and burning land, her sword's blade turning red. She disappeared in a red flash; never to be seen again…maybe…depended on her mood…she'd be back later.
Sesshomaru landed a few miles away and panted slightly as Jessa fell off his back and onto the ground. He caught his breath and looked down at the girl, who was still trying to catch hers.
"Why are all of my favorite characters psychos? Naraku, Shana…that one green thing…ah, the little white girl with the mirror?" Jessa asked.
"Kanna." Sesshomaru answered.
"That's the bitch. She's psycho, Naraku's psycho, Shana is…fuck me with something hard and sand-papery. Why can't my favorite characters be strong, cool, funny and stay alive?" Jessa groaned, still laying on the ground and waving her arms with every syllable.
"There is something I've been meaning to ask you," Sesshomaru announced.
"Yeah?" Jessa asked with slight depression.
"Why am I not one of your favorites?" He asked her curiously.
"Oh, hm, I can only wonder why ASSHOLE!" Jessa hollered at him as she jumped to her feet, taking a threatening step towards from. Sesshomaru held his ground, but he wondered where her random fury came from.
"Naraku is not one?" Sesshomaru asked with a cocked eyebrow.
"You are not one of my favorites because of personality confliction…obviously. I liked Naraku because he's like me…smart, has a sense of sick humor and blah, blah, blah. You are ice cold and I can't stand you…especially when you ditch me in the forest just because I told the truth about some dead bitch with big tits."
"You go too far,"
"You asked." Jessa retorted, only to be shoved to the ground forcefully. Jessa landed on her back and took a jerky breath, inhaling and not being able to exhale once more, but this time it was serious.
"Quit toying around with me." Sesshomaru growled at her, thinking she was doing it on purpose. He saw her face turning red and he instantly knew she wasn't playing around. He knelt down next to her writhing body and pulled her to her feet, holding her up with his arms.
"Your body is tense, you have to relax," he said to her sternly, feeling her body become dead weight as she lost consciousness.
The next thing Jessa knew was the cool breeze brushing over her body. She was so tired and her body felt like a ton of lead. All she knew was her breathing was working, barely, but it was working.
"Jessa?" a voice called out and Jessa's eyes snapped open, as she was scared into full consciousness.
"Jessa, calm down, it's me…Jessa, it's me." Sesshomaru said, pushing her back down onto the ground. Jessa let out a short breath as she lay back down on something…fluffy? She realized it was the demon lord's fluffy fashion statement, but she didn't care, her body gave up and she closed her eyes as she rubbed her temples.
"You…called me Jessa." She said.
"That is your name, no?"
"Technically, it's Jessica, but my point is you always called me something else."
"You complain too much." Sesshomaru growled, crossing his arms and looking into the moonless sky. Jessa opened her eyes and giggled.
"You pout too much." Jessa said to him, seeing his golden eyes look back down at her and narrow slightly.
"Go back to sleep, wench. I can tolerate you better when you're unconscious." He declared icily. Jessa smiled calmly as she closed her eyes.
"Sounds like a plan to me…night." She yawned in reply.