Time
Summary:
Time, it connects all things. It is inescapable, inevitable and unrelenting. It is as incontestable as the very stars in the skies, sometimes time can be your greatest ally and others your gravest fears. Time brought together two unlikely people, but will it also tear them apart? An Inuyasha/Kagome fan fiction. Read and Review please xxxx
Disclaimer:
Mandie: Well it has definitely been a while –removes cobwebs from computer-
Kagome: It sure has, a good few months anyways.
Mandie: Yeah… SOWWAY GUYS AND GALS PWEESE FORGIVE ME :o)
Inuyasha: Enough already! Keh, just get on with it.
Mandie: Okay what torture do you want this chapter??
Inuyasha: She doesn't own any of the characters, lyrics or quotes in this. The disclaimer is done… ha!
Mandie: Oo Dunno what to say to that…
Last chapter
'It's funny Inuyasha' she thought agonizingly. 'I wished upon the stars each night for your happiness. I guess that I could never have known that ending my own existence would be the only way of achieving that.'
With this silent revelation she broke free of Inuyasha's loving hold, her eyes matched the ground and her heart had long been buried beneath it. Everything had changed; there was no going back now. After Naraku's defeat she would return to her normal existence. That was all she was after all, Kagome was just a silly girl, chasing a silly fairytale, a tale that should have ended that night Kikyou was resurrected. It was hard but I had to be done, if only for the sake of Inuyasha…
Chapter six: Alliances, armaments and the audacity of sought advice
Feudal Era: 00.45
The moon hung lazily in the misted hue of the twighlight. Its ambient rays of silver shone over the damp of the grass, causing it to glow in lunar iridescence. All was silent and as still as though sleep had shrouded nature itself. Only one thing had broken the seemingly perpetual calm, the calling of a little girl, desperately crying out for her guardian.
"Sesshomaru-sama!?" cried Rin as she ignored Jaken's bids to quieten her calls. "Sesshomaru-sama!?"
"Rin keep silent, master Sesshomaru will be most angry if he hears you yelling like this!" Jaken pleaded, though his efforts were fruitless.
"Where is Sesshomaru-sama? He should be back by now!" She groaned impatiently, she had grown rather attached to her impassive keeper.
"He will be back soon, just go to sleep Rin." Jaken snapped in frustration, why his master put up with such an infuriation was beyond his comprehensions.
"But Jaken-sama…" Rin moaned, a mutinous look glimmered in her big brown eyes.
"No arguments! Sesshomaru-sama will be furious when he arrives," Jaken replied, his eyes shifting nervously. "That is a side that I would rather stay clear of." He said more to himself than to the anxious youth.
Some time passed and all had finally fallen silent at the camp that contained the youth and odd frog like demon. A rustling in the bushes awoke the barely slumbering child and she pounced out from underneath her sleeping quilt. A smile played its way onto her cute face as a tall figure emerged from the bushes; the man seemed to be brilliant white as the moons rays gently bathed him in their silver glow. Rin's face lit up with glee as the man approached her.
"Sesshomaru-sama where have you been? Rin has been very worried." She cooed as Sesshomaru kicked Jaken mercilessly in order to awaken him.
Jaken let out a yelp of pain and shot to his feet, immediately buckling his short form into an obliging bow. Sesshomaru stared at him with cold indifference and sat cross-legged by the fire. He was immediately joined by Rin, who sat loyally by his side. With no acknowledgement of the child he turned his amber eyes to the insolent cackling of a dying fire. Getting the point immediately, Jaken added more wood to the cinders in an attempt to rouse his pitiful excuse for a well tended fire. It was then that Sesshomaru decided to speak.
"It is as I thought; Naraku has been forming an army. He plans to take over my fathers territory then all else." He said with darkness laced through his usually emotionless voice.
"You are sure my lord?" Jaken asked timidly as the fires embers cackled defiantly, refusing to be resurrected from their current dying state.
"Do I strike you as the type of demon who is likely to be unsure of himself?" Sesshomaru growled with irrefutable malice etched in his voice.
Jaken jumped with fright as his cold master uttered these words. He instantly bent in so low a bow that his ugly little face was near to touching the soil on the ground.
"I apologise my lord I meant no offence." Jaken squeaked, sensing that a beating was surely imminent. "I just meant to ask how my Lord has found out this disturbing news."
"I persuaded one of his minions to talk. The thing spilled all before I had finished with him." Responded Sesshomaru, adopting his usual apathetic tone one more.
Jaken shivered at the thought of the torture the beast would have been made to endure at the hands of his pitiless master. He quickly recomposed himself and met Sesshomaru's eyes once more; he found them bearing down on him like piercing golden daggers. Jaken started to tend to the fire again, anything to take the pressure of his lord's stare from him.
Rin looked up at the impassive demon she adored so much with concern in her vibrant eyes. Sesshomaru looked down and was caught off guard by the worry in the child's eyes.
"Why do you stare at me like that Rin?" he asked curiously. He was used to the child's odd behaviour but it was rare for her to give him a look of such unease.
"That bad man Naraku, Sesshomaru-sama said that he is trying to steal Sesshomaru-sama's dad's land. Rin is worried; I doesn't want Sesshomaru-sama to lose his papa's land." She said quietly.
"I can assure you that I will not lose to Naraku, foolish child." Sesshomaru smirked derisively, this masked the true nature of his feelings. In actual fact, he was slightly impressed that she had caught on so quickly. That was, fairly fast for being a foolish human child.
Rin smiled and started humming a playful tune to herself, apparently happy with the response she had been given. The dog demon considered her for a moment then did something that he had never done before,
"What do you propose that I do child? What plan of action would you have me take?" Asked the proud demon, thinking that a child's logic, however inferior to his own could possibly be of help against the cunning of Naraku who would no doubt anticipate any rational course of action.
"You want the girl's opinion?" Squeaked Jaken, who was utterly appalled by the very thought of the idea.
"How dare you be so insolent? When did you assume the right to question my decisions you idiotic toad?" Snarled Sesshomaru, who took Jaken's remark as an insult to his pride and judgement.
Rin stuck her tongue out at the cowering servant and beamed at her custodian.
"Rin thinks that Sesshomaru-sama should ask his brother. Inuyasha-sama is very strong; he could help Sesshomaru beat Naraku. Kagome-chan is strong too." Rin replied triumphantly.
"Bah!!! Imbecile child! Lord Sesshomaru would never ask for the help of his weakling half brother or that puny human girl. He may as well ask you to fight for him for all the use they will do." Jaken laughed derisively.
"Shut up baka! Rin would fight for Sesshomaru-sama; Rin would beat more baddies than you!" Rin snapped, her little form meeting Jaken's smaller one in defiance. Resolutely, Rin whacked Jaken over the head with one of the branches that he had previously been adding to the fire. "Take that and that and that!!!"
"Enough." Growled Sesshomaru, who had clearly seen enough immaturity. "The last thing that Naraku will expect is an alliance between my idiot brother and I. it could be enough to secure the advantage of surprise. That miko girl he protects so adamantly could also be of great use. I heard that she injured the hanyou Naraku, she could be the key to defeating him." Said the lord dog-demon with a dark ambition laced in his words.
Sesshomaru stood up and started walking away from the tiny pair that had begun quarrelling again. They immediately halted their fight and called after their demon master, who continued to walk away, silent, with his mind on one goal. How he would finish the power-hungry hanyou off once and for all. Then there would be no more questions of the mighty demons power, Naraku would die by his hands.
Authors notes:
I know that I have not updated in such a long time, I did have my reasons and I sincerely apologise but they couldn't be helped. I just wanted you all to know that it wasn't due to complete idleness and I have tried so many times to update. I guess a mixture of stress related writers block and severe problems within my closest sphere of friends has prevented me in doing so. Man it sucks being me right now… but anyways; I thought that I would give this fiction one last try. The last thing that I wanted was to disappoint you all and for this, I am truly sorry. I would love if you guys could help encourage me just now as you all once have done so.
Thank you for all your reviews to date. My inspiration is knowing that you enjoy my work and in believing that maybe I can help take you away from similar problems that I have recently have had hurdled before me.
Yours ever so truly and lovingly
Mandie
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