Chapter ninth: Thunder

Rin held the lord up and dodged to a tree among at the river edge and the pelting down rain. Hakudoshi and Kagura attacked them again and the thunder stroke on the demon lord and the girl.

"Rin! Sesshoumaru!"

The two bodies fell into the river and disappeared among the shocking group in the stormy night.

"Hn!"

Naraku smirked while saw the scene of the western lord and his ward were stroke by the thunderbolt and fell into the flood river. 'His ward might be alive but Sesshoumaru is dying.'

Naraku's incanations went back to the castle left the jewel group reached for the corpses of the demon lord and his ward in the flood during the rain storm in the night.

"Do they die?" The fox tried to sniff their scent but the smell was cover.

"I'm not sure for the human body."

"Rin"

"They might switch back but the human must die from the thunder." Mirouku guessed.

…

They headed back to Kaede village because of Sanko and Mirouku are ill. Inuyasha let the old miko and Kagome took care of them and she went out of the hut to see the dog boy sat on a plum branch at the farm edge.

"Inuyasha" The boy glanced at her. "We need to talk."

"Hn"

The boy followed her to a foot hill near Kaede hut and sat next to her.

"Kaede and I saw two bite marks on her shoulder and her thigh and Mirouku's bruises at his torso and his back."

"I hurt him to mate her."

"…"

"Because of the full moon night and I lost to the beast to take her. I'm sorry, Kagome."

"I…will go home for a while but I'll back in a few days." She got up and walked to the hut to get her bag. A dog boy accompanies her to the dry well in Inuyasha forest on the hill.

A school girl took a bus to her high school in the morning after came back from the feudal era. She tried to calm herself after her beloved boy said he took her friend, Sanko.

'What should I do?' She signed and walked into the class to start the normal school life without the demon or the jewel shards.

A heart broken girl sat quietly under a sacred tree in a shrine in the late afternoon when she came back from her shopping. She put some of packages ob a bench beside her form. The cool wind blows her raven hair to sway in the air while she closed her eyes to rethink about her boyfriend and his mate.

"Kagome"

"Mom"

The older did not say anything but leaned her daughter's head on her shoulder while they sat on a bench under the sacred tree.

"Have you ever been cheat, mother?"

"I ever been cheat for four times but they are not your father."

"Your ex-boyfriends?"

"Yes, when I was teen as you are. He was my first love but he is a two timer and she got pregnant."

"So they must reject from the school."

"No, there is only her. They married after he graduated but he didn't go to the college or university."

"And the other?"

"The second one is your father's friend when I went to the university in Kyoto. He is smart and cool. He is an heir of the jewelry company but he is charming so…"

"He is a two timer, too."

"Yes but I didn't care because I am a two timing girl, too."

"Wow and what was about the third cheat."

"Takahiro"

"Father?"

"I flirted with him after we were over. But I didn't know that he had his intend is a university cheering girl."

"How did he cheat on you?"

"The first time, he courted on me and her but she dumped him so he turned to me and we are a lover. The second was happen when I got a job in Kyoto. "

"Did he found a new one in the same company?"

"Yes, she is a secretary and he ran around her for a half year and when I knew that I dumped him and went back to Kushiro. But he tried to find and reconcile with me for a year."

"I see" the two females walked to a house and prepared the dinner and watched TV night show before got their bed.

Kagome climbed the green strong vine and saw the two heads dragon waited for her on the noon.

"What happened, Ah-Un?"

The dragon leaded her to a hut at the foot hill and sat at a maple root near the stream. The school girl saw a little human ate a yam with a cat in the hut.

"Sesshoumaru-sama"

"Kagome nee-chan"

"Rin!" she put her bag and hugged the girl tightly. "I thought you were died."

"Sesshoumaru-sama and Tensaiga saved my life."

"Mmm and where is he?"

"He said he will back here on tomorrow noon."

"Kagome"

"Sanko, are you alright?"

"Hn" Her eyes dropped a little.

"Rin, here is a box of crayon and a drawing book." She sent them to the little girl and leaded the slayer to the water side.

"Kagome"

"I know, Sanko and I won't blame you or him." She took off her shoes and sank her legs into the stream.

"But he is your…"

"He was ever been my boyfriend but he is my friend as you are." She smiles softly. "I guess that you want to know why I said that."

"Hn"

"I can't resist the truth that you are his mate even thought you want it or not."

"…"

"Or I'm the second girlfriend." Kagome sway her legs in the water and gave her a smile. "But he won't leave you to Kikyo or me. I hope that one day I restraint my mind and find another man who love me and accept me. And it's including my strange behavior, too."

The high school girl held her friend close and patted her shoulder gentry.

"Cheer up, Sanko. The more important thing is waiting for us in the future."

"Yes, cheer up."

The girls joined the two heads dragon played with a children on the soil street of the village before went back to their home.

The nude toad demon used a long stick to support him and walked along the grove to the creek near the human's village.

"Where are you, Sesshoumaru-sama?" He cried. "Did you abandon …eep!" The toad was angry when a stone hit his head and he looked around to see that creature.

"How dare you!" His eyes were wide. "Sesshoumaru-sama!"

But the demon lord walked away to the village where he left Rin with his half-brother and an old miko.

The demons reached to the hut in the next noon. The demon lord saw his ward played with the other children and the fox in the field.

"Ah! Sesshoumaru-sama" The little girl ran to him.

"Rin" The toad dashed to the girl but Sesshoumaru stepped on him and lead them to Kaede's hut.

"Good afternoon, Sesshoumaru-sama" The girl greeted him with a smile.

"Hn" The demon lord sniffed her scent. "She didn't hurt much."

"Kagome, we are going." The monk opened a mat door.

"Do you want to join us, Sesshoumaru-sama?" She waited for his answer but she recalled that he hate her. "Oh! I'm sorry. I forgot that you hate me."

The young woman held her bag up and followed her friends to the north because the boy told them that he heard the news from a demon that fought with another one that has a shard.

"Will we arrive at Mutsu?"

"Why"

"I want to know what is about that province in the feudal era."

But the group was stop at Kai because of the rain. The stayed a night in a deserted temple in the mountain. The villager had warned them about that temple but they must fine the shelter for the night.

"Welcome to our temple"

"Thank you very much, the nun."

"Kiyo"

"Why did the villager say there is no a monk or a nun live here?"

"They don't know that is a few of nuns live in the temple."

"So they thought the temple was deserted."

"Hn. By the way, please take your night here and we will let your borrow our futons."

"Thank you" The nun went out of the room let the travelers took their time.

"I smell the demons." Inuyasha grabbed his sword and sat against the wall.

The fox tried to stand on guard for the group while everybody slept in the night.

'I hope there is nothing happe…Demons!' He saw the nun's head appeared from the ceiling.

The nuns landed on the floor and tried to kill them but the group had woke for long time to hit them back and found out those nuns were cat demons. Kagome and Kirara ran to the nun name Kiyo but she was course in her room.

"Thanks, Kiyo"

"Hakudoshi"

"Miko, this is the time to pay back." The boy demon threw his halberd to cut her but Kirara pounced on him.

"Cat"

"Hiss"

"You, die"

Hakudoshi threw the halberd to the cat but Kirara dodged back and ran around to the left to claw on him again but the boy threw the halberd back hit her torso and cut her back.

"Kirara" The girl released an arrow hit the boy's torso.

"Miko" He turned back to cut her but the cat pounced on him to bang the door and they are rolled to the cliff edge.

"You're annoying cat."

"Hiss"

Kirara stepped on his chest and is going to cut his head.

"Dance of the wind-blades" the wind witch shot the injured cat fell to the abyss of the mountain among the rain falls.

"Kakura, get out of my way"

"Shut up. Naraku told me to take you back."

"Damn man"

The demon lord let his ward and the servant shelter them in a cave on the hill next to the thick wood. A cat and blood caught his attention and he sniffed it again to confirm his sense.

"Where are you going, Sesshoumaru-sama?"

"Don't leave her, Jaken."

The lord walked out of the cave and made his way to the river at the foot hill even if it rains.

'That cat is hurting.'

'Hn'

He stopped at the edge and looks for Kirara for a while. Finally he saw a creamy white large cat is floating in the turbid river then he jumped to a rock in the river to pick the cat demon up and headed back to the cave where he left the girl, the dragon and the toad.

"Kirara"

"That cat"

"Huzz"

Sesshoumaru put her limp body on the ground near the fire and shook her body gentry.

'Cat'

'Dog'

'Transform your body'

'Hn'

After she transformed to her kitty size, the western lord held her up and put her on his pelt.

"Jaken, the medicine"

"Yes, my lord"

Rin and Jaken saw their lord aided the cat and wrapped his fluffy around her body to comfort the cat and let his ward lay on his pelt next to the cat.

'So weird'

The toad tried to guess his lord but he had no idea so he lay on the ground but not close to the two heads because he still fears of them.

The demon lord saw Kirara woke up in the night. He took a cup of water to let her drink and held her body up to lap the wound.

'What are you doing?'

'Heal you'

'Why'

'You are hurting.' He licked her back again. 'Who hurt you, cat?'

'Why do you want to know?'

'Because you are my female and I won't let anyone harm my females.' The dog lord sniffed the old scent on her once. 'Naraku, you die'

The lord licked her body and her face before let the cat sleep in his pelt with his ward and wait for the sun comes.