Hey, this is another loong chapter with a lot of curious thoughts and questions. I liked doing this chapter because it kinda popped in my head and me and my friend Shania were thinking of adding this for quite some time in the past ( since it was 2 years ago in 7th grade).
P.S.- just to remind ya'll again I wrote these chapters a year or two ago at the least so my writing skills weren't to...swell heh heh! So I've been editing them the best I can.
I DO NOT OWN INUYASHA! ONLY ME AND MY BFF OWN YURI!
Chapter 14: Ditched!
Yuri awakes with strokes of sweat pouring down her pink cheeks. It just occurs to her that she had just survived a nightmare in her slumber. Her tragic dream had been foggy and unclear of its surroundings but…why had she been in fight or flight mode? If she couldn't sketch it perfectly to know what was going on then why would she shed these water droplets from her pores?
An indescribable heart burn made her tighten her throat in painful moans. Wait. It isn't a heart burn, no, her heart feels like it could break any second. Explosions of emotions were to blame of this and these specific emotions were painful, heavy, and uncontrollable. She feels like she just lost something that was very valuable to her as her breaths are jagged and uneven.
The demon sits up on the spare mattress on the floor of the Kagome's room. Warmth hugs the skin on her back and neck as welcoming rays of light pierce through the glass window. Rubbing her eyes she yawns, "god I feel awful. Am I going to have to order those dream catchers in America or something?"
Stretching her muscles while the morning sun brightens her ginger hair she stands up and puts her pajama pants back on since last night was too warm for her interest. After rising up the water bill in taking a refreshing, hour long, cold bath - having to have her bandaged knee wrapped tightly in a plastic bag to prevent the water from entering the cast - she took a trip to the kitchen. She loads up a bowl of sugary flakes and whole milk.
She had on a white tank top, skinny jeans, and her unique necklace, in which she left the last time she came here, by just recently remembering about in last night. The jewelry has flat shapes dangling all around the piece of thread. The lowest and heaviest object on the center of her chest is a black circle made out of real stone. The other different shapes, a rectangle and a triangle, seem to be made out of a glassy substance similar to marble with each having its own design. One in a multi color of burnt orange and very dark brown swirls and the other in dark seaweed green. The jewelry had been past down from her mother. All Yuri knew was that this is one of the very few things that were a remembrance of her lost family.
Searching around in eating on the table she can tell that nobody is here to say "Good morning Yuri" or "How'd you sleep Yuri." She then flashbacks to last night as she encounters remembering that the conversation last night had ended up with the group going to the hotel by her permission. She wanted them to have a fantastic time since most of them probably won't ever come back to this time ever again. Her time of traveling to places in this time had died long ago and is now only interested in adventuring the Feudal Era for the centuries to come. All these events of hotels, spas, and pools remind her of too many grand memories of her family. She could bet that she had been to every city in this country of hers and another reason that she didn't want to go was of her cast. Trashing the thoughts out her mind she went on to a different subject.
Where's that old geezer any way? He said he would stay here and the others told him to watch over me while they were gone because of my injury.
Exploring every inch of the house in hopping on one foot because of her sickness of crunches she sniffs out a folded notebook paper on a small table and by the scent it's belongs to Jii-chan's. Supporting herself with her hand resting on the miniature table she opens the paper and Japanese handwriting appears in ink. Adjusting her sight she prepares for an answer for this man's disappearance. It says this:
Yuri,
Excuse me for my absence but I had to go somewhere and for a man my age this is urgent! And since you are practically a grown woman and a demon I think you can take care of yourself with your brute strength and sharp senses like Inuyasha. I had gotten a call from some old friends this morning and I have to attend something. My return won't be until a few days and there is plenty of food for you so you won't starve. May you have a nice time in having the house to yourself till the others come back.
P.S- Do an old man a favor and tell the others that my absence was responsible for a person's death.
Yuri, not pleased one bit, crumbles the now balled up paper and throws it behind her. The phone came to her reach and she calls Mayu's cell in typing her number.
Half past ten the train was three hours away from their destination as the rest of the pack speaks to one another on funny memories of the past.
"…and then we look around in the mist in dead silence and then all the sudden Kagome has a pink brush, puts it in front of her mouth, sticks one of her hands up in the air and shouts "hi I'm Kagome and I wanna sing for you". Then she starts to sing her name over and over again," Miroku laughs while saying it that the next room could hear.
"I don't remember doing that?" utters Kagome tilting her head in puzzlement, "but I do remember that mist part. We were on that mountain…I think it was called The Mountain of Mists and we went there to get Miroku's master some very rare sake."
"Yeah but when we got there the mist surrounded us and we thought it was the work of some demon, but the mist had something in it that if you breathed it in you would eventually act as if you were drunk," responds Miroku in a smirky face. Kagome blushes blinking her eyes rapidly with an I-can't-believe-I-did-that feature on her.
"They actually have that type of magic in your time," Mayu became amused with a giggling Souta leaning against her. And Sesshomaru glimpses at everyone like they were stupid, shakes his head, and takes him a nap. Souta had eventually begged the lord to come because he thought of the demon as someone cool like Inuyasha to hang out with. It made the lord remember of his little companion back home, Rin.
"Keh, heck yeah, but it's nothing compared to other stuff that happens in our time," yaps Inuyasha having his eyes shut as he was resting against a corner with his hands knotted together on the back of his white head.
"Anyway can we please go back to the story?" not wanting to be rude Miroku excitingly asks. The mother nods with Souta acting like Miroku in being impatient on what the story will lead to next. The monk clears his throat, "after that Shippo and one of my friends, Hachi, had been caught in the spell and they both shape swift into Kagome and sing with her-"
"Wait, what…I did that!" Shippo is now like Kagome but just not tainted with crimson. The monk nods.
"So now me and Inuyasha had no clue what was going on so I tell Inuyasha to not breath in the mist and Sango shows up and falls to the floor and I come to comfort her. And you know what she calls me?" the mother and child edge forward.
Miroku leads back against the wall crossing his arms, " a flirting cheat…"
Mayu and Souta laugh at his remark as Sango gives Miroku an amusing glare, "well you probably deserved that…what else did I do?"
"You then throw Hiraikotsu at me! You almost decapitated me!"
"Actually that one was on purpose…"
Even Inuyasha laughed on that one.
Miroku grants them a irritated gaze, "haha very funny, but that wasn't the only thing you did on purpose my dear Sango or should I say what you almost did on purpose."
That shuts up every one.
"After our little incident you them wobbled over to Inuyasha and-"
"Miroku…" Inuyasha stops him on purpose in gazing at him with stern eyes as one black eyebrow twitches under his thick bangs. The monk knew why he left him off his tracks as he sighs with a smile and says without giving him a pair of violet eyes to look at, "Why not? I think Kagome should have the right to know."
"No!" barks Inuyasha.
"I do too have the right to know!" the priestess presents.
"No you don't and it's none of your business," growling as Inu acts up in irritation and frustration. He vibrates low in his chest as a fang sticks out of his lips.
"It is too, I was part of it!" Kagome speaks with no trace of being scared of his threatening aura. Sango sighs from being tired of the pair fighting and like always Inuyasha begins it with the first loud mouth.
Why does Inuyasha always have to start something useless. There's never one day where they haven't argued at all. It'll have to take a miracle for that to happen though.
"How could you be part of it when you did even see it happen?" his ears hide in his hair from her voice getting stronger by the second. He could feel the surge of miko powers growing from her mood.
"IT DOESN'T MATTER IF I SAW IT OR NOT!"
"IT DOES TOO!"
Kagome sighs knowing that her yelling wasn't going to get things better when his temperature gets over its level, "all I know is that if Miroku thinks it's hilarious in bringing it up and it's something that he thinks I should know then it must be pretty perverted!"
"Hey," Miroku felt insulted in looking over at Kagome as Souta joins in, "guys stop fighting."
"Kagome," Mayu softly chants out in letting her daughter barely hear her as she circles her neck to her with everybody left to be involved in the debate, "Yeah mom?"
"It's for you," she hands the blue cell to her with a beam and her daughter captures it in bringing it up to her closest ear, "hello?"
A well known accent speaks up from the other line. An accent that she only heard just yesterday night.
"Hey how's it going Yuri?" she unfastens her lips to shape it like a upward crescent moon in high spirits.
"Not…so good," the girl sounds very wound up like a girl with a bad hair day.
"What's wrong do you wish that we would've stayed?" sadness caves around Kagome's tone.
"No, I don't regret it. Trust me my traveling days in this world are over. I called really to talk about the guy who was supposed to watch over me or in another way my adopted grandfather. I can't believe he is my grandfather…I mean how in the hell would a grandfather do that to his granddaughter," Yuri chats to herself at her last sentence in skepticism.
"What do you mean he was "supposed" watch you? What did he do?" murmurs the miko in glaring at the oak floor.
"Dude, he freckin ditched me!"
"W-what…!" the human hears the sentence play over and over again in her skull.
"Ditched, D-I-T-C-H-E-D, he ditched me! Do I have to say it again?" Yuri held a thin line of patience in her tone of voice as Kagome was focusing on her as if she was in a spelling bee.
"Calm down Yuri I can already tell that you're at the verge of a temper tantrum. Okay. Let's look over some facts, are you positive about this?" Kagome feels like a woman who answers a 911 phone call and is asking a victim for some essential data.
"Yes, one hundred percent I even have proof. He left me this note right by the phone that says he'll be gone in a few days and that's like a day or two after ya'll come back from the trip. I'm going to be alone the whole time ya'll are gone."
"Well… I don't know what to tell you um…." Kagome didn't know how to get her out of this mess but luckily a solution pops in her head, "wait…hey Yuri would you mind if Inuyasha watched over you!"
Inuyasha bursts his now bulging eyes open as his pupils shrivel in shock of what his beloved said. Both the two breeds for once read each others minds, "WHAT!"
"Hell no!" jesters Yuri with nothing in her way to bring her to a halt, "I wouldn't let that flea bag watch over me like some stalker until the pigs fly!"
"He wouldn't be stalking you," Kagome implies with a low aggravated tone in knowing how Yuri's childish imagination is.
"You don't know that…" Yuri tries to give her stressed out buddy second thoughts. It didn't work. The mutt mutters something under his breathe from hearing Yuri, "if it meant killing her, yes."
The teen on the phone pretends she didn't hear him but it didn't mean that he would get away with it, "alright Yuri, what about you just hold on for a second. We'll all "sit" down and discuss this till further notice okay, alright, I'll call you back, bye."
A body was now imprinted on the floor as Inuyasha raises his head up in making his muscles shake from using his energy and have his elbows poking out. His bruised mouth opens up, "why?"
What am I going to do with you?
Folding her arms as one she narrows her mocha eyes, "could you be at least be a little more sensitive?"
"Feh," he growls as his bones ache in stiffness, lacking for attention, and he wobbles to the bench across from her in giving them some space. Browsing outside the window into the wilderness it made the half-demon reflect back to the other side of the bone eaters well, to his time, to the Feudal Era. It began to make him homesick and that grabs his attention to the one person who said that she would never leave his side, Kagome.
What would happen if she lived with him? Even though they've both told their deepest secrets she still lives in this Modern age and she would probably feel homesick like he is now if she lived in his time. He would rather have himself feel this way than her and she has family while his were six feet under…we'll…most of them are. Also that the Sacred Jewel would one day have to be destroyed leaving the well sealed forever and Kagome would be stuck in his time. Would she though…would she actually live with him in the Feudal Era. Giving up everything in her time just to be with him.
"How does that sound Inuyasha?" he turns to a lovely young woman with a merrily smile in his path exposing her straight white teeth in emotions of happiness and anticipation. She had a shining gleam in her eyes that was full of life in knowing that she had a proud soul.
"Huh."
"We were thinking that it would be a good idea if Sesshomaru went to watch Yuri in taking grandpa's place. Weren't you even listening?" she then marks a smirk with her slender eyes adding some high altitude eyebrows that were being guarded by her bangs and her fists were now landing on her hips. Her appearance then shifts to questionable, concerned, and a dot of sadness mixed to it, "what's wrong, why are you looking at me like that?"
Inuyasha in a flash made Kagome just see the back of his head that beheld an ocean of silver waves as his ears look like the sails of boats off in the horizon. His sentimental/sad face that he had just claimed to her from his thoughts caught him in embarrassment, "N-Nothing I-I don't care what you guys decide."
The part dog demon now yearns to see her beauty again the second he avoids her. He wants to see her with that face again and he became determined to do anything to make her just as happy.
Yuri alone hears the phone buzz on the opposite side of the desolate hallway and scrams out of the dining room in following the jingle.
"That was quick," she exclaims in mumbling to herself while she rips the device off of its platform and talks to it, "well, what did you guys have in mind?"
"Um…who is this?" a lady like voice approaches.
"Uhh," Yuri shifts to blank mode.
"I think we have the wrong number," whispers a small tone in the background, "no we don't I've called this number like in forever and I know this is her number."
"Hello?" the mysterious voice chitchats again.
"Yeah," replies Yuri.
"Are you from the Higarashi Shrine?"
"Yeah."
"Can we please speak to a girl named Kagome Higarashi?" kindly says the stranger.
"Who is this?"
"We are Kagome's friends and we wanted to talk to her about something."
"So then you must be…Ayumi right," Yuri presumes from the now common accent.
"Yeah and how do you know that? Who are you again?"
"It's Yur…," she halts as her throat screams to say her name, "Y-Yuki."
"Oh hey girl! What are you doing over there?" Ayumi asks as the other two teens yell hi.
"Just watching over the shrine until Kagome and her family get back from a trip."
"Oh…well when will Kagome be back?"
"Tomorrow "
"Man, we were hoping to take her to the movies before she went to live at her aunts. We were wanting to spend more time with her. Were gonna miss her," she whines in carrying a displeased tone in her words.
"Gomenosai," apologizes the youkai.
"Well there's nothing else we can do but could you please tell her that we called and to send our regards to her in wishing her a good time on her trip."
"I will and it was nice talking to you guys again maybe we'll see each other sometime."
"Why, you're sounding like we'll never see you again," disquiets Edi in the background.
"Well me, Inuyasha, and the rest of our friends live where Kagome will attend school in her senior year and we came here to help her out in packing up her stuff."
"Oh are they Kagome's other friends that we met in WacDonalds?"
"Yeah," Yuri keep making up chains of sins and pauses to hear anything else they had to say.
"Well the only thing that we have to say is that you contact us if that Inuyasha boyfriend of hers is giving her a hard time," points out Yuka with the others agreeing.
"I will…"
"Well, hope we hear from you again."
"Me too…bye," Yuri quietly says her very last syllable and in hearing them say the same to her she hangs.
After suffering in going through what just happened a while ago Kagome finaly calls and tells Yuri their news.
"You're kidding."
"Yuri there's nothing else that we can think of but just leave you there alone and my mother does not agree with that one bit," she speeches in a serious way.
"Okay, I guess he can come over and watch over me," she finally settles in taking a deep breath, "how long to you think it'll take him to get here?"
"Probably no more than two hours? He can fly ya know."
"Alright," the demon wheezes some air out of the side of her chops making her hair sway lightly. When saying to the priestess about the news of Ayumi, Yuka, and Edi she says a farewell, "Bye then."
"Bye…oh, call me when he arrives. It's an order Mom says."
"No prob," and for the second time she hangs up. She gets her crutches this time and heads to the living room to watch some television with a bored and weary face, "well the next 24 hours is going to be interesting."
Waking up she was thankful that she didn't even feel like she did before in becoming conscious last time. She then cracks open an eye in seeing a female gossiping about recent events on the news channel, the channel she last switched to an hour ago. The whole length of her cast - from her mid thigh to her foot – began acting up in lacking for air by sweating from the heat that had been trapped inside for almost a week. Yuri forces her sight to stay on the news and awkwardly got wedged to a subject that the newscaster brings up, "What the!"
"Today recently there have been sightings on the outskirts of Tokyo saying that there's been something flying in the sky that many people say to be a human," Yuri leans further to the box in edging her rear end on the sofa while the woman continues.
"Here are many videos of the suspect that have been taken from many civilians but they aren't clear enough to see if the gender of this strange being is man or a woman."
"Oh…my…god," she speaks in disbelief from the videos and after the recent showings her blend of blue and green irises detect a girl talking to a broadcaster out in broad daylight. She looked no older than four from her simple small words and high childlike voice as the caster asks her something else, "since you saw this person flying while on the balcony of your apartment how clearly did you see this person? What did this being look like?"
"It looked like beautiful angel from her long white hair, but instead of a white drees she wore pants and a shirt," her petite hands where clamped together and smiling.
Yuri chirps out giggling as she quickly blankets her mouth with a palm from laughing any harder, "an angel? OMG, that girl is so off!"
He's definitely not a angel! Though I think he can be considerate when he wants to, especially to Rin. Though I know he'd rather kill himself then show it out in public to humans and any types of typical demons...I wonder...I'm I the only one who thinks this about Sesshomaru. Is it just because I care for him so much?
Sesshomaru came in and glimpses the demon of which his mission is to watch over her till the others were completed with their far off trip. His sight brings him to the television of seeing himself on screen from the videos being viewed over and over again and observes her watching it. He directly looks at her as he sees her staring without delay at the box but in gazing at her now peaceful, relaxed, loving facial expression. She seems as if she was thinking about something though. Her mouth opens a small gap and her eyes were narrow with the dye of her irises overpowering the whiteness that her eye detained. That unique and very rare dye of emerald green and a sea blue. Probably a mix of colors no demon nor human will ever detain but her. He notices that her face revels something powerful as the core of it began exposing it inside the deeps of teal.
A deep tone springs into the room as Yuri bounces back to the news and in unnatural speed, than of a average human, she blinks a few times with the color of the Shikon jewel marked on her cheeks, "hey."
"What are you thinking about?" he asks with a blank look on his features and Yuri pouts and glares the other way in exasperation, "why? It's none of your business."
Over the past hours on watch the breed got easily tired of the silence but lets it slip for the day as she decides to go to bed. She goes up the stairs and glares up as she was halfway to the top. Sighing in a disturbing way she goes for the next half of the stairs. She began to scent a familiar scent getting stronger…like it was coming towards her and she starts to turn her head to see what was behind her. Before she could fully accomplish that though something physically powerful and unyielding wraps around her waist and lifts her up in higher elevation. Gasping in surprise she already slightly hovers at the top of the stairs as whatever grabbed her leaped. Back on her feet, or on one foot, from not supporting her form on the cast she peaks over at the lord, "y-you know you didn't have to really do that. Not that I don't mind, but you only have to watch over me."
"Why did the elder come of no use?" he wonders bluntly.
She had been at the closed door to Kagome's room and had hold of the knob. Peering at her feet she rotates her cranium to her watch dog and she makes a sarcastic smile as her sight blackened with shut eyes, "he abandoned me here thinking that I was strong enough to survive here with this worthless cast. In which I am but still he left me here alone…that was pretty rude of him."
"Hey, do you think you could do a favor for me?" the dog youkai hears her as she had already crawled into the room with the door closed again because of her changing into her night clothes. The wooden door reopens with a creaking sound in indicating how old the door probably was and she shows herself with her leaning on it, "Well?"
He makes a faint nod like he did last time in the Feudal Era. "Do you think you can get this cast of off me?"
"You can do that yourself," he suggests as he walks away to the stairs.
"Wait…" she almost stretches her arm out and he stops.
"I-I, ugh crap, I can't really um…I'm afraid that I'll hurt myself. I know it sounds pretty pathetic since I'm a demon and since I'm also asking you for help, a lord, but I promise not to tell anyone about this."
"How can I trust you when you have already broken one to my brother?" he never gives her a glance, testing her.
"What do you mean? What promise?"
"You said you were alone," Sesshomaru repeats Inuyasha's words on the day that Yuri broke both her knee and ankle. The promise that she broke that caused her right leg to remain in this white cast and what is causing this incident right now. She softens up and her accent turns moist and flows like a feather in the wind, "I know…but I did it for a reason. Even though he admits to himself that he would one day tell Kagome his feelings I was afraid that he would be too late if he waited any longer. And if I hadn't done something he probably would've never told her because his fear of rejection and of losing her. Now do you get it?" she says with another blush in messing with her finger nails. He finally beams at her but with no answer.
Compared to an average demon it's real easy to detect her emotions when in this stage. In fighting though she blocks it all out…
"Even if this doesn't prove in you trusting me I just wanted to explain that. And also because you seem to be the type that trusts no one but yourself."
"True, but that doesn't mean that I am like him."
Man, he doesn't miss a beat! It's like he can read my mind! Well he isn't Lord of the Western Lands for nothin'.
The half dog half wolf demon gave a relieved manner that he at least answered, "I wasn't referring to you as Inuyasha but of how you are. I know you can't be easily swayed by what people say but I'm not the only one who breaks promises too."
Now it was his turn to know what she was meaning. He has broken promises himself and that made him have no purpose not to help her because of what she was saying was the truth. He use to trust people when he knew they had once broken their fair share of promises in the past, but once when he did trust someone it ended up almost killing him. Ever since then he trusted no one but himself from never wanting to get into someone's trap ever again.
"Sit down," he orders her as he then sees her listening in seating on a desk chair that the priestess used to do her homework. Therefore he walks to her and squats down to inspect the cast. He then hits the cast with the tips of his two fingers, the two that he would form his neon whip with, in one non-human motion so fast that you couldn't even see his entire arm for a split second and freezes in that position. A crack then appears and more trace around the peak of his razor-sharp nails until they surface through the whole perimeter of her cast like a glass slowly breaking. They multiplied and had spread to look like spider webs.
Dang, he's that powerful! I didn't even feel any pressure.
Yuri watches in amazement as the cast detaches from her leg leaving it as a large pile of crumbs on the floor. The dog demon then wipes of the leftover crumbs of the cast of her now naked, lean leg, "You don't know how to control your strength yet. For that is the purpose of my help is it not?"
"Uhhh…y-yeah gomenosai, I-I've only been a demon for a year now so..."
"Then you better start learning. For now…get some rest," he orders once again and exits the room without giving Yuri time to say thank you.
Soooooo whatcha think! For editing this I've tried not to make some of the stuff that...corny (because back then from writing this I was kind of a a lovy corny person *sweat drop*) and I'm not into that cheapy stuff much anymore. Though everyone has their perspective. You might've thought it wasn't corny or maybe so...anyway I just hoped you like it! ;)
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