'All relative to your view of the world...'~Yoda

"Talking"

Thoughts

Ethereal Voices/Beasts/ Spirits

Apocalyptica:

Chapter 4

The Beginning of the Feud

AN/ Thank you for the awesome words of encouragement Lady Giselle and casedeputy, please keep them coming! Here's the next instalment in my story, please let me know if the way of me telling the story is too fragmented to understand... I have the next two chapters in the pipeline! :D yay

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~A~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Sliding to a stop in front of the club, Inuyasha made a bee line for the bouncers.

"Hey, hey... Yo ugly...yes you... Where did you throw that guy?" The one burly lump of muscle you could call a bouncer turned around at the question from Inuyasha.

" You talking to me half-breed?"

" Yes Ugly I'm talking to you. Where the fuck did you throw that asshole you kicked out of her? He kidnapped my friend... "

By now the other bouncer had turned around.

" Oh you mean Rengotsu?"

"Yeah, was that his name?"

" Oh yeah he comes here all the time, Lord Naraku makes us throw him out regularly when he gets too close to the ladies.." The one bouncer chuckled.

" Shhhh Kenji, Lord Naraku told us not to say anything remember?"

A look so sheer confusion took over the one bouncers face, and his chubby fingers came up to scratch his balled head.

'A vacation from his balls I'm sure...' thought Inuaysha.

" But, Kenjo, Lord Naraku told us not to say anything to the Lord of the West, not this half-breed."

" I know Kenji, but maybe we should just be quiet just in case the half-breed over here knows the Lord of the West."

Confusion clearly written all over both brothers faces, Inuyasha was getting testy with the two lumps of hired muscle.

" Oi, Fuckbag A and Fuckbag B, which way did Rengotsu go?"

Both brothers scratched their heads and pointed in opposite directions.

"I think he went that way, west?"

"No Kenjo, he went south, that way, why would he go west when we are not allowed to be in the West?"
" Maybe he was going to go and tell the Lord of the West."

" Kenji, who it the Lord of the West?"

" Lord Naraku Kenjo, of course?"

" Ugh, you two are useless..." Inuyasha left the brothers arguing over who the Lord of the West was. He got out his Blackberry and dialled the speed dial as he made his way back into the club to the rest of the group. The lump in his throat building as the seriousness of the situation was sinking in from what he discovered from the muscle twins.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~A~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

He was about to take a sip of the newly brewed cup of coffee, sitting at his desk he was about to finalise the last of the paperwork that would be needed to complete the business deal with the Singapore leg of the Four Aisan Tigers company that he had been working on for months, the deal of a life time that his father had entrusted to him as a 'Rite of Passage' to earning the place of CEO in his father's eyes. As he lifted the cup to his lips, his mobile rang the tune that it belted out grated on his nerves and he rolled his eyes, uncharacteristically, something that he would never do in the public eye.

The tune of Lady Gaga Judas belted out from his cell phone, alerting the young Taiyoukai Prince to the incoming call from his half brother. It rang once.

"What could the whelp have done now that he has to contact me in the middle of the night."

It rang twice.

The Young Inu sighed and put his coffee down.

He answered the phone.

" Half-breed..."

In the space of a minuet his facial expression changed from annoyance, to mild surprise then to anger and he listened to his half brother.

Inuyasha had relayed the past events to his brother, the harassing of the man named Rengotsu and the bouncer brothers, leaving out the part about Kagome being hideously intoxicated, and how he came to the conclusion that she was kidnapped, his emotions still a little to frazzled to obtain the verbal degradation from his half brother just yet about letting his hormones get the better of him.

"Why have you not contacted Father on this yet, Half-breed?"

"Because icicle-butt, Twiddle Dee and Twiddle Dum mentioned ' Lord Naraku' and how he orchestrated them not to mention the harassing of the girls by the guy Rengotsu, and something about not telling the "Lord of the West" even through the could not tell that they were brothers, they probably look at their refection in the mirror and think that they are talking to each other."

" Hnnn"

" Hhnnn does not help me Bastard, can you get your slimy green toad to find out where the fuck this guy is from and what we can do about it?

" And why, dear brother, should this Sesshoumaru use his resources to find your ningen onna ?"

" Because you daft prick, if Dad finds out that I let her get kidnapped, all hell will break loose between the Higurashi family and us, and you, dear brother, will lose your investor in that stupid business deal you have been working on so very hard. "

"The whelp does have a point, on the other hand, I could let him take the brunt of this from father, It would be quite amusing to see the look on his face when father disowns him, and realises the mark this hanyou blood has on our family... Yet there is something to the girl... I do owe her for defending our House against the Spider..."

" Very well brother. I shall be in touch, see if your insignificant nose can follow her scent until I get there."

With that the older Tashio put down.

" Follow her sent... why didn't I think of that... "

Inuyasha made his way back inside to the distraught group all concerned for Kagome's safety. He insisted on getting them all home and began to ring their relevant rides to lift the drunken couples back to their houses, promising that he will be in touch if anything comes up about Kagome's disappearance.

Inuyasha then tried to follow Kagome's sent, allowing his mind to drift to the moment when they were grinding up against the speaker, where he took in her sent last, he almost groaned at the memory.

Then a shudder ran through his spine as his jumbled emotions came to him in a wave of nauseating panic. What if something happened to Kagome? How could he forgive himself? Who would be there to put him back together...

Memories of his very first love Kikyo flashed before him in a montage to his broken heart, still tender when broaching the subject.

" No, hang on Kagome I'm coming for you... and I'm gonna kill whoever did this to you".

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~A~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Sango's determination took her and Miroku to the police station instead of back to their respective houses.

By the time that they had gotten to the front of the line, for they had to queue with all the other thugs and pop tarts that were found on the streets during the early hours of the morning and had been brought back to the station for processing and questioning. Finally, a now relatively sober Sango addressed the meathead behind the desk.

" Hi, umm... we're here to report a kidnapping?"

" Nnnn Hmmm, name of victim?"

" Umm Kagome, Kagome Higurashi."

" Hnnn and when was the last time you have seen the victim?"

"Umm about 4 hours ago, roughly."

The meathead looked up at her with a very board expression of his face; clearly he had been doing this all night.

" Ma'am, that would be classified as a missing persons case, you have to go down the hall and fill out form UB 42 A and then hand that into the box marked Missing Persons, the police will only respond to the request 24 hours of the person being missing before they are declared missing."

The bored tone seeping into his gestures as he showed Sango and Miroku where to find the paperwork as if it was the simplest thing on Earth and the two of them were the biggest retards for not knowing this.

The vein on Sango's forehead was throbbing; clearly she had had just enough of the meathead.

" Now listen here you pompous ass wipe, the heir to the Higurashi legacy has been kidnapped, hijacked, taken, swiped from thin air, you feeling me?" she paused, allowing air back into her lungs, " we have seen the kidnapping with our own eyes and you dare to sit there and tell me this is just some other missing person's case you ass? NOW I am here to report a KIDNAPPING OR DO I HAVE TO LODGE A COMPLAINT ABOUT THE LACK OF COMPETEMNCE ABOUT THE STAFF HERE ASWELL?"

Her voice rose in volume and anger as Miroku tried to calm her down by petting her shoulder to which she just shrugged off, leaning over the desk she finished her rant centimetres away from the cop's face, who by now had shrunk back in his chair, completely taken aback by the outburst from the petite women, still in her cocktail dress and messy hairdo.

Taking in a calming breath, Sango closed her eyes and gathered her composure again, looking back at the cop, she waited for a response.

"..."

Silence greeted her.

" Well, if you cannot help me I shall find someone who can..."

Snatching up her clutch off the steel benches she and Miroku had occupied for the last 3 hours, she made her way past the front desk.

" Ma'am, you cannot go there..."
The meathead behind the desk tried to stop her.

Miroku followed Sango with a roll of his eyes and a huff, offering the cop behind the desk a shrug and a mouthed, "Sorry".

Heels clicking on the linoleum floor, Sango made her way over to the first desk with a very beefy officer sitting behind on the phone, his uniform a few sizes too small for him, obviously done in an attempt to make his beefy arms look more buff.

" Excuse me..." She addressed 'Beefy'.

He held up his hand to her, still talking into the receiver of the telephone.

Sango on her last nerve, reached over the desk and pushed down on the call button, ending the phone call, she then addressed the cop again.

" Excuse me, Beefy... I have a kidnapping to report, who the hell can I talk to about that or are all of your staff so bloody incompetent that they cannot process a stupid report-"

" Umm Miss Taija, my name is Hiten, I am a detective here at the Bureau, perhaps we can talk in my office..."

Cut off in the middle of her rant, Sango turned to find a very handsome Youkai , taken aback by his words, Sango deflated in defeat and made her way towards his office, grabbing Miroku by the hand on the way.

Pulling the slated blinds down in his office Hiten addressed them.

" You are going to have to excuse my college, Deric was a transfer, wanted to become a stunt double, but didn't quite have to the brains." He gestured to 'Beefy' as he perched himself on the corner of his desk, Sango and Miroku sitting in the guest chairs facing him.

"Somehow, I would have never guessed that..." Miroku said, his voice lased with sarcasm.

" Now, did I hear you mentioning the Higurashi heir and kidnapping out there in one of your rants?"

"Yes you did, she was kidnapped this evening, right before our eyes", Sango confirmed with the detective.

"Hold on a sec", it was Miroku's time to interject. "How exactly do we know you are a detective and how did you know our names, before we tell you anything..."

"Very well... My name in Hiten Kastuma, I have been working with the Tokyo department for quite some time and helping them with their drug and narcotic crackdown, I and my younger brother, Manten Katsuma are originally from Kyoto, thus with the small amount of staff on this evening, I through I might offer you a hand." He stated while flashing the couple his badge and gesturing towards his qualifications lining the wall.

" Wow, you really one of the Kastuma lightening brothers? You guys brought down the War Lord Kageromaru, didn't you?"

" Yes you have a keen eye Ms Taija..." He confirmed with a small smile towards the young girl.

"That still doesn't answer my question about how you know our names..." Miroku interjected again.

"Well we have been tracking the narcotic trade and have a good lead on one of the four Lords of Japan, and naturally with the Higurashi connection to one of them, we have been keeping an eye on your movements..."

"Well you obviously weren't keeping a good enough 'eye' on us if you let Kagome get kidnapped..." Sango answered exasperated.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~A~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Kagome's mind was adrift in a sea of numbness, she felt like she was floating in water, weightless and drifting. Thoughts pooled around her being like ripples in a pond, gently illuminating her mind to the motion of her thoughts.

'Inuyasha feel the beat... it's like liquid sex...'

' Hold on my musume, Daddy will make all the bad things go away...'

'You will read it when you are ready to know its secrets... your destiny...'

'Destiny, it is something that connects people across time... if you wish it Koi, I will find you again...'

The last thought a little more prominent in her mind, she couldn't quite place the thought or memory, neither could she decide if it was a thought or memory... it felt like the latter but she was not too sure...

Then she was falling, the safety of the water she was floating in was gone, vanished, she landed on something hard...

'Must be the ground...' She through lazily.

She was surrounded by pitch black, an inky darkness that snuffed out all light, and just when she could feel the onslaught of anxiety and fear setting in, she saw a pair of golden, piercing eyes, they were staring at her from a distance. She knew these eyes; they shone in the dark of her mind, tunnelling her focus onto them. They glowed with knowing and reason, wisdom and insight. A warm hue that she could place but didn't want to, or didn't need to.

" Do I know you?" She spoke out into the echoing dark. They eyes blinked, a warmer glow shone from them, he was smiling, she gathered.

" I do know you, don't I?" Was she asking herself or the person there?

" Kagome of the Bow, it is time to wake up and rise above this mist of uncertainty, I wait in the shadow of dawn..." As the mysterious voice spoke, surrounding her, omnipresent and yet not there at all, the golden eyes rushed at her form, passing right through her and as the last word flittered on her mind, as her body rose into consciousness.

'dawn...'

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~A~~~~~~~~~~~

As she drifted in to waking, Kagome found her eyelids heavy, she willed them to open but found they were glued to her skull, so instead she opted to focus on her other senses. Her head hurt like hell had been knocking on her the base of her neck and left her head with a rather large dent in it.

'Damn this is one killer hangover...'

Somewhere in the recesses of her mind she could hear the small voice saying

'I told you so...' She felt ashamed but couldn't place why.

She groaned, the small noise escaping her throat, she became aware that she was parched; she was so thirsty that it felt and tasted like an Arabs dry sandal was let in her throat, scratchy and full of sand. Her lips were also swollen she realised, puffy to the point where they hurt as well. She tried to swallow and upon the mixture of her saliva and sand, there was the metallic twang of something...

'Blood? Why do I taste blood?' She wondered.

She couldn't shrug the goose bumps that wrought her skin; she had that feeling that someone was watching her.

She picked up on the sound of footsteps, creaking along wooden floorboards, a heavy shuffle that pierced her brain with the sound.

' Ouch, could you not be so damn loud...'

The shuffling stopped right by her head, the voices followed.

" It is working, Master will be pleased..." The heavy throng of the voice echoed inside her head, she did not recognise the voice.

'That was not one of our handmaidens...'

She could feel the heavy breath of the person, hovering above her face, she tried to wince away from the foul odour but found she couldn't move as she did pain wracked her form, sending another wave of hell through her mind.

" Kanna, keep an eye on her and inform me if the changes become more prominent... also make sure she has enough 'Jewel' to numb the pain..."

The voice spoke above her, panic began to set in as she could feel the touch of the rough hands on her skin, adjusting something in her arm, but no pain accompanied the touch, and with the heavy breathing of the person above her, she drifted into a numbing sleep.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~A~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Naraku Onigumo sat at his breakfast table with his father; their usual morning feast was laid out before them.

Nursing the cup of coffee he had in his hands, his father looked down through his reading glasses at the paper.

Naraku eyed the front page of the newspaper that was all he could see of his father as he sat on the other side of the room.

Another Break in the 'Jewel' crackdown, it read. Naraku swallowed the lump forming in his throat, how was he going to pull this off without any interference...

The silence was broken by his father's voice from behind the paper.

"Raku, you have not touched your food... did you not enjoy the festivities of last night at the Tashio estate?"

" Yes I did enjoy the festivities rather well Father, I just have a lot on my mind this morning..." He drifted off, eyeing his bacon and eggs again.

" Well then Son, would you be accompanying me to my 'business meeting' this morning? We have outstanding business with the Tiger that needs to be take care of before I have to make the appearance at the high court this morning."

" Yes Father, I shall, we need to discuss with him the last shipment of the drug before the legislation learns of our new location."

" Yes... we do." His father dropped the newspaper to look his son in the eye.

" What is troubling you my boy, you seem different today..." His father eyes him through his reading glasses as he took a sip of his own coffee.

" It is nothing I cannot handle, Father."

" Well then, you do not have anything to do with the Higurashi kidnapping do you son?" His father asked, a hit of humour in his voice.

" No of course not Father, not with the prophecy so close at hand..." He answered back with his own voice laced with humour, a sadistic smile turning up the corners of his lips. His father mimicking the smile. The two shared a secretive laugh together, offering the large dining hall the doom that followed the laughter of the Northern Lord and his son.

"Go find your sister and make sure our 'guest' is comfortable for transportation and meet me in the limo." His father ordered before he left the dining hall.

~~~~~~~~~~~~A~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Naraku closed the large door behind him, he reached in his jacket pocket for his iPhone, walking towards his quarters, he dialled the number.

" Yes, master?" was his greeting.

" Kagura, I trust you have accomplished what I asked of you?" his voice soft and threatening, carrying with it the promised doom had she of failed.

She hesitated in her answering of him.

"Yes, Master I have dispatched the witch to the underworld..."

" Very good my Pet, have you cleaned up the mess and burned the remnants of the spell we have used?"

Another paused hesitation.

" Kagura?"

" Yes sir I have disposed of Tsubaki's body, however, the florescent traces of the spell are still visible and the copy of the incantation to engage the transformation would not burn..." She trailed off.

"Very well my Pet, you did your best, I shall take care of the incantation..." Frustration laced his voice, with that he put down.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~A~~~~~~~~~~~~

Inuyasha had tried with all his canine might to track down the sent that accompanied his best friend. It was a mixture of body odour, metal and soil. He followed it to one of the allies that surrounded the club to where there was obviously a large van parked there as the skid marks from the tyres lead him to believe the opted for a quick getaway. Here he found another scent, a mixture of sex and dark leather. He recognised the scent but couldn't remember where from.

After a couple of hours of repeating the same path over and over again outside the club to make sure the hanyou had not missed anything, he now was sitting on the curb, his head in his hands and sorrow surrounding his aura. This was how his brother found him.

Climbing out of his silver Maserati convertible, the older Tashio adjusted his suit jacket as he made his was over to his brother.

" Whelp" He addressed him. " You stink..."

" Thank you captain obvious, forgive me for looking for mate in the early hours of the bloody morning, I have not had the time to bathe my lowly self before your arrival" The hanyou answered, irritation at the entire situation evident in his voice.

The older Tashio raised an eyebrow at the use of the word 'mate'.

'Since when has the half-breed referred to the Higurashi girl as 'mate'?'

"I was unaware that you were betrothed, brother, when did you decide this foolish act? Last night in your drunken stupor perhaps?"

Inuyasha blanched at his brother's question, the Freudian slip not even registering.

" What? Kagome and I are not betrothed? She is my best friend asshole, if I were to mate her I would seek out fathers permission first numb nuts, what have you been smoking this morning?"

"You addressed the girl as mate, I was merely curious... irrelevantly so."

The look of suspicion was echoed across the younger Tashio's face as he gazed up to his older brother.

'Did I really call Kagome my MATE? Wow, maybe I do want to take her as my mate? I don't know, I need to find her and fast so I can ask her what all this shit is about.'

Another look of irritation flittered across the Hanyou's face at his thoughts.

" I had Jaken dispatch Toran to look into the man you described this morning to me', the Western Prince began, " He works for Naraku's underground group called the Miasma, they deal in the production and distribution of the narcotic the 'Jewel'."

At the mention of the Northern Lord's son's name, the hanyou shot onto his feet.

" What the fuck do they want with Kagome?"

" From what Toran has been told by her spy, Yura of the Hair, she has gone undercover and joined Miasma ,she has found out that they are closing a deal of the sale of 2 billion American dollars of the pure narcotic to the Chinese Tiger, Bai Chung Li and have rumoured a consolation prise in the midst of the sale..."

" Kagome..."

" Indeed, they meet at Queen's Warf at noon."

A sadistic smile crept onto the hanyou's face.

" Let's go, we have a party to crash..." The hanyou stated, cracking his knuckles, the first bit of good news he has had all day.

"Not before you bathe..." Was his brother's response.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~A~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

" Toran, how can you keep something like that from me? You know that I am working the case as well?" Hiten Katsuma asked into his cell phone as he sipped his coffee and juggled the phone and the jelly doughnut in his other hand.

" You do not employ me, Lightening Youkai, the mere fact that I am gracing you with this knowledge is enough... have your squadron of muscle ready at the Queen's Warf at noon and wait for my call..." With that, the phone line went dead.

The Lightening Youkai took another bite of his doughnut.

'Damn I bet she is one sexy cat...'

Flipping his phone open again, he dialled his brother.

" Bro, got the location, have the squad ready to move out... its boogy time..."

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~A~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The Warf was abuzz with the sound of Mandarin, orders being barked at many a worker in the effort to get the giant oil rig ready to set sail to China.

One man in particular stood out among the rest, he was a panda Youkai, evident by his black and white hair that shot off in many different directions, his pupils a dark azure. He was build for labour, tall and lumpy, full of muscle, yet pigeon toed that was quite contradictory to his gigantic size. He barked a few more orders at his crew, and then turned when he was addressed in formal Japanese.

" Konichiwa Quin-san, it has been a long time..."

" Yes it has been Naraku..." the Panda trailed off.

" I see everything is in order for the exchange?" Questioned the spider hanyou.

" Indeed, Lord Chung is finalising the deal with your father as we speak..."

" The consolation is in the back of the van, ready for deportation whenever you are ready... I shall be in touch for the reclaiming of my prize later." The Spider hanyou gestured towards the van that had the knocked out Kagome in the back.

The Panda nodded his giant head in acknowledgement. While he was quite a large Youkai, he was more cunning that his boss, Lord Bai Ching Li, gave him credit for. He has personally seen to the shipment of the pure 'Jewel' back to China, and he had also agreed to help the Spider reclaim the Higurashi girl back right from under his bosses nose at the promise of land and the freedom from Chinese Tiger as a reward by the Northern Lords son, he had agreed almost immediately. He did not question as to the importance of the kidnapped girl, nor the Northern Lords son's interest in the girl either. At the promise of freedom from the Chinese war Lord, he agreed immediately.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~A~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The Tashio brothers made their way onto the Warf, Inuyasha cleaned and changed. The older Tashio had suppressed their auras so as not to be detected; they hid behind the containers that offered them a good view of the oil rig that was being packed.

" There they are, those plastic crates must be the 'Jewel' they are shipping" Inuyasha gestured to the giant crates that were being lifted onto the ship with the huge crane.

"I cannot smell Kagome, can you sense her?" He whispered to his brother behind him.

" Hnn" was his response.

" Ok shitbrick, how are we going to do this without getting caught?" He shot his brother, who was eyeing out the scene.

Inuyasha too looked back at the oil rig, trying to find out what his brother was looking at.

"Do not get my way..."he warned before he disappeared from behind his brother.

" Fucking stupid asshole, I'll do it myself!" With that the hanyou made his way over to the entrance of the rig, careful to keep behind the crates of narcotics as to not be seen. Suddenly there was an explosion; two of the crates went up in smoke offering the Chinese workers their own miniature fireworks display. Then another two of the crates went up in flames.

" Sesshoumaru..." They Hanyou stated from his hiding place, " Ok Kagome, where are you..."

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~A~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Cries of panic and alarm filled the air, Naraku and the Panda rushed over to the damaged drugs to see what had taken place, a few of the workers busying themselves with putting out the fires and assessing the damage to their cargo.

" What the Fuck happened?" raged Naraku at one of the workers, picking up the closest Youkai by the scruff off his neck.

" We don't know Sir?" He answered.

"RAaaaaah, Father will be furious at his cargo being damaged!" The Spider fumed as he flung the Youkai against the side of the ship's wall, effectively shattering his neck as he did so.

" Quin! Where the fuck are you?" he stormed off towards the other crate. He found the panda crouched over the burning crate. His nose inches above the green hole in the floor.

" Do you smell that?"

"Yes Naraku, donkasu..."

"Sesshoumaru... alert the others, Tashio is here..."

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~A~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

'They took the diversion, now for the whelp's girl...'

The Taiyoukai Prince used his Youkai speed to reach the crates on the other side of the ship, careful as to not let his aura seep out. He moved with practised grace as he reached the other side, then quickly, he let out some of his poison, it formed at the tips of his claws causing his hands to glow a deathly green, he then shoved his hand into the plastic crate, the narcotic encased within was in its pure state and was highly flammable as it was gunpowder based, this was his tool as the gunpowder caught alight and shot the crate into the sky with the explosion. He then did the same thing to a nearby crate, offering a diversion for the workers to worry about as he made his way towards the other side of the cargo bay.

He could feel the girl's energy signature, although it was faint, it was laced with something he could not quite put his finger on, there was a shifting of power within her, a fighting for dominance and this oozed into her aura. He singled out the van she was in, and made his way over, knocking out the guards with his acid whip, he flung the metal black doors open to find Kagome, still dressed in the ruins of her cocktail dress, her skin pale and clammy and seemed to glow with a bluish light. She was laid on top of a few old worker blankets, an IV drip connected to her arm with a florescent orange substance pumping into her blood system. With little time to study what they were drugging her with, he began manoeuvring her for an easy get away.

Just then, the younger Tashio crept into the back of the van.

" Thanks for waiting for me ice prick..."

His clothes covered in blood, he eyed Kagome's form.

" Holy Fuck, what's that they got pumping into her?" He gestured towards the IV " It smells horrid..."

"Silence whelp, we need to get her out of here before they return..."

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~A~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

On the other side of Tokyo, inside the Higurashi household, the bound book that was given to Kagome for her birthday glowed a deep purple, the sun clasp clicking into place as the book opened, it moved as if a pair on invisible hands were operating the mechanism.

The pages were blown open by an invisible wind, and then once it has landed on a particular page, writing began to appear on the top left page, an invisible hand inscribing the ancient Kanji. As the hand wrote, there was no one in the room to witness the miracle of the gifted book. It wrote...

'Not many people believe in love at first sight, and I must confess I have never contemplated the idea enough to render it stupid or totally believable, but now, on the brink of waking, I felt what I can only describe as a deep fluttering in my belly as my eyes peeled open and all I could make out as the blurriness of sleep left my mind and the fringes of my subconscious receded to the back of my psyche where the deep golden pools of utter mystery. These orbs of sunshine that peered down at me where the last thing I remember before everything faded to black.'

~~~~~~~~~~~A~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

END

Ningen~ Human

Onna~Female, Girl

Konichwa~Formal Hello

Donkasu~ Sesshoumaru's green poison attack