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Inuyasha: -rolls eyes- Yeah, big deal. I'm the one being tortured here! If anyone should get pity here, it should be me!
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I do not own anyone except for my horrible -cough- I mean… amazing character, Medachitagariya!
The Spells
The hours that followed the fight only made the day grow worse and pissed Inuyasha off more. Even though everyone around him acted weird, they were still intelligent enough to know when the hanyou was not in the best of moods.
"Kagome-sama, have you noticed Inuyasha's constant glares at us lately?" Miroku asked in a whisper.
"Yeah…" Kagome trailed off. "I wonder why he looks so mad…"
Sango walked up to them, overhearing their conversation. "It seems like he's been angry ever since the battle ended. Maybe he's just jealous that Medachitagariya-chan has more power than him…" she added.
Inuyasha's eye twitched multiple times, clearly hearing every word they uttered. He stopped abruptly in his tracks and walked towards them with a scowl on his face.
"Uh…Inuyasha?" Kagome stuttered out nervously.
"Keh! You idiots must have forgotten that I can hear every word you're saying!" Inuyasha declared.
At this declaration, the group let out nervous laughs.
Medachitagariya was, of course, in her rightful place, in the clear front of the group. She turned around when she felt that no one was following her, only to find Inuyasha yelling at the rest of the them. She heaved a sigh and walked back over towards the rest of her companions.
"You wanna know why I'm so pissed?" Inuyasha shouted. "It's because of you all!"
"Us?" Miroku asked.
"Yes, you!" Inuyasha repeated, glaring at the monk. "For one thing, during that whole battle, you kept drooling over that bitch, Medachitagariya! You didn't do a damn thing to help!"
Miroku's eyes narrowed. "Don't you ever call Medachitagariya-sama a bitch! She hardly is one!" he said sternly.
"Keh! 'Hardly' is an understatement…" Inuyasha muttered. He then turned his glower onto Sango. "What the hell were you doing the whole time? You kept glaring at the wench and the monk like you wanted to kill them instead of the demon! Not to mention when you fought, you weren't even up to your normal speed!"
"'Normal speed'?" Sango echoed with narrowed eyes. "What is that supposed to mean?" she demanded not even bothering to remark to his outburst about her glaring at the monk.
"I'm not sure quite yet, but it was like something was missing…" Inuyasha left the sentence hanging.
Medachitagariya's eyes widened slightly. 'Damn! It seems like Inuyasha is beginning to get wind of my plans…' she thought to herself. A slow smirk then crossed her face. 'I think I know how to distract him…'
"Inuyasha…" the woman called out calmly.
The hanyou quickly turned his glare on her. "And why the hell were you not injured! Why would you just waste your time toying with the bastard demon!" he questioned, his tone full of rage.
Medachitagariya found herself at a loss of words. She soon began to think up a random lie. "Well, my powers increase when the people I care about are in danger."
"Right, they do…" Inuyasha replied in sarcasm, rolling his eyes. "I'm not that stupid!" he then added in a snarl.
Before Medachitagariya could reply, Kagome's voice interrupted them. "Inuyasha…" the miko warned in a stern tone. "Don't disrespect Medachitagariya-chan!"
"And you!" Inuyasha exclaimed, turning to glower at Kagome. "Don't even say my name until you're ready to make yourself useful and shoot some damn arrows in battle!"
Kagome's eye twitched. She had it! "Osuwari!" she shouted in anger. Inuyasha cursed as he watched the kotodama beads around his neck glow and felt them drag down his body into the dirt.
For some odd reason, the author felt that Kagome should straighten out the hanyou even more. So her resolution was "sit" the hanyou repeatedly.
"Osuwari! Osuwari! Osuwari! Osuwari! Osuwari! Osuwari! Osuwari! Osuwari! Osuwari Osuwari! Osuwari! Osuwari! Osuwari! Osuwari! Osuwari! Osuwari! Osuwari! Osuwari! Osuwari! Osuwari! Osuwari! Osuwari! Osuwari! Osuwari! Osuwari! Osuwari! Osuwari! Osuwari! Osuwari! Osuwari! Osuwari! Osuwari! Osuwari! Osuwari! Osuwari! Osuwari!" the miko screamed over and over.
Inuyasha was dragged further and further into the ground. The crater his body was beginning to form was at least thirty feet deep!
"Ka…GO…ME!" Inuyasha snarled out in between "sits." "St…OP! You…wench!"
Miroku and Sango failed to notice that Kagome was "sitting" Inuyasha more than normally. They only thought it was fit because he was insulting Medachitagariya.
Suddenly, the pair thought of something. For some reason, they expected a voice from behind them to mutter an insult of some kind towards Inuyasha.
'Someone is missing…' they thought at the same time.
Medachitagariya finally had enough of Kagome's punishment towards Inuyasha. It was either that or the over excessive amounts of "osuwaris" made by the author that were specifically designed so her original character would look better when stopping the miko.
"Kagome," the woman yelled, putting her hand in front of the miko. "That is quite enough!"
"Eh?" the miko paused, turning to Medachitagariya. "But he…" she stuttered out, looking like a complete idiot.
Was this the intent of the author? I think so.
By the time the woman stopped her however, Inuyasha's crater was about fifty feet deep.
"I know what he did, but there's no need to kill him over it," the woman scolded.
By then, Inuyasha was recovered and attempted to dig himself out of the crater. "Ka…Go…Me…" he panted with evident veins popping out of his forehead after he got out. His back was killing him!
Kagome gave him a stubborn glare, but mentally felt a tinge of guilt.
Inuyasha noticed her expression and turned away. What made him more upset was how concerned Medachitagariya looked.
"Keh! I'm going to think for awhile. Don't any of you dare follow me!" Inuyasha growled, before running off into the forest with an added limp. The hanyou found a suitable tree and took to reclining in the highest branch with subtle difficulty.
After he left, Kagome heaved a sigh. "Maybe, I should go after him…" she trailed off.
"No, I'll do it," Medachitagariya replied in a calm manner. "Maybe you could all set up camp though…" she then suggested.
"Right!" they all responded, listening to her command without question.
Inside of the Plot Hole
"There it is again…" Kikyou murmured to herself as they continued walking forward.
"What is it?" Shippou questioned.
"The evil aura," the miko stated.
Kirara and Shippou both looked confused at that statement. "But me and Kirara hasn't felt an evil presence since we got here…"
"It's possibly because it arrives and leaves so quickly and frequently. It's almost as if it's watching us. Or more so, trying to hide itself from us as much as possible…" she thought out loud. Her hand tightened around her bow as she sensed it again. She pulled an arrow from her quiver and knocked it into her bow, pulling the string back with narrowed eyes.
"Perhaps we shall finally see its true form!" Kikyou exclaimed, pointing her arrow towards the blackness above them. She pulled back on the string farther and released the arrow. The arrow became surrounded in pink purifying light as it sailed up to the darkness. There must have been no end to how high up the darkness protruded based on the fact that it never returned to the ground.
"Did it hit?" Shippou asked.
"We will hopefully find out soon," Kikyou only said.
With Author
The author was currently typing when suddenly, her word processor blacked out!
"Damn! I didn't even save half of that chapter!" she cursed. "I'll have to rewrite it!" Then her expression calmed some. "Oh well…I just hope that my adoring readers won't go nuts without my great writing skills for such a long time!"
She opened up the word document and began to retype her lost words. "Now for my character to have a pitying past!" she declared.
In the Sengoku Jidai
Medachitagariya quickly found where Inuyasha was perched, sighing as she looked up at him.
"Inuyasha…?" she queried.
"Keh! What the hell do you want? You've already done enough irritating for one day!" the hanyou growled, glaring down at the woman.
"Well, I have to explain some things about myself…" she began. "You see, I was only partially right when I said that I gain more power when I protect the ones that I care for."
"What is that supposed to mean?" Inuyasha demanded in a disgusted tone of voice. He definitely was not in the mood for this type of crap.
"My father was tragically slaughtered by passing...sea-gull demons... My mother killed herself mourning for him. I was almost killed by the abusive villagers, but I managed to escape...scorned for life," she explained in a sad tone.
It appeared as if the author made up this past sequence with little thought. Did it have to make sense? It was obvious that as long as the readers took little notice, she did not care.
Inuyasha raised his eyebrow. "'Sea-gull demons'?" he echoed in a dead-pan voice. "Are you kidding me?" If he was not as pissed at the moment, he would have laughed at how fake the story sounded. "If you're so damn strong; why couldn't you stop them?!" he retorted, glaring down at her.
"Well, back then…I wasn't as strong. I was but a weak child!" she protested. "After escaping, I began to train and build up my strength!"
"That still doesn't explain anything. I trained hard because I had to. Even after meeting the people in my group, I'm still not as powerful as you! I don't know what exactly you are, but it sure as hell ain't human! You don't even look that frightening so why the hell would you have to run from people?!" the hanyou all but barked back.
Medachitagariya narrowed her eyes from what she called an insult. How dare the hanyou insult that greatness that was herself! 'It looks like my spell isn't working as well on Inuyasha. Perhaps I should use a more powerful spell on him…' she thought to herself. She heaved a sigh and looked up at him with a sad expression on her face. By no means was she upset about his past. She was more sad at the fact that the lavish lie she made up for herself made her upset! No one was allowed to have a more pitying past than her! Why else would she have placed Kikyou in one of her Plot Holes?!
"You're not answering me!" Inuyasha shouted, breaking her from her thoughts.
"Oh, oh yes!" she reacted, caught off guard. Her expression softened. "I understand your pain, Inuyasha," she sighed, putting up a false front.
"Hey, only when you tell me what I want to know will I listen to your pitying shit!"
"I had to run since the villagers knew me to steal food from their houses in order to sustain my life…I was a great hunter, but there was only so much a girl could cook and capture at such a young age…"
"That's surprising, considering at how you're perfect at everything else!" he snorted.
'This hanyou is getting tiring…perhaps I should have picked Sesshoumaru instead…?' she mused to herself. "About me gaining more strength when those I care for are in danger…that happens because I was trained to reserve my strength unless it was truly needed."
To this, the hanyou rolled his eyes. "Riiiight…" he trailed off in sarcasm.
With Author
"Hmm…how to get Inu-kun to fall in love with my OC…?" the authoress wondered, deep in thought.
She stared at the computer screen until a few words came to her mind. Since she had no realistic plot to get the two together, she used her last available option.
"Ha! I'd like Inuyasha and Kagome fans try to top this!" she squealed, typing more once more.
In the Sengoku Jidai
"Oh, Inuyasha…" Medachitagariya called in a syrupy-sweet tone that made the hanyou mentally cringe. "Look at me please…" she requested. "I realize that we both have horrible pasts and that we should get more appreciation for what we do…"
In one effortless motion, the woman jumped up the tree and landed on the same branch as him, careful so as not to topple the both of them. Of course, it was never good to see the super strong woman be a klutz!
At this startling action, the hanyou was made to look at the woman sitting across from him. Once he stared, she mentally smirked.
'Got him!' she laughed in her subconscious. Her spell was able to begin.
One deep look into those beautiful sky-blue eyes of hers made any man fall head-over-heels for her. No one could resist!
And of course, Inuyasha, unfortunately, was no exception. He could not look away. Before he could stop himself, he found himself saying, "Medachitagariya, please forgive me for my earlier actions…I only said those things because I…I couldn't stand fighting alongside someone who was stronger than I was…"
"It's all right…" she smiled. "I forgive you."
"T-the truth is…I love you…" he stuttered out, grasping both of her hands within his, much like his wolf rival would do with Kagome. "Even if we've only known each other for two days, I swear it was love at first sight!"
"R-really?" she asked, placing on a shocked expression. "I-Inuyasha…I don't know what to say…"
"Then don't say anything at all…" he murmured in a near seductive tone, leaning closer towards her. His out of character voice was enough to make any fangirl either gag or swoon.
"INUYASHA!"
"MEDACHITAGARIYA-CHAN!"
The sudden shouts that came from the forest made the hanyou stop his movements.
"Damn it…" the woman cursed under her breath.
Inuyasha heaved a sigh. "Looks like dinner's ready…" he breathed out. "Well, shall we tell them all the news about us?"
"Nah…let's wait for a bit…" she trailed off in a small smirk, wanting to keep their "great" secret to themselves.
With that, both jumped from the branch of the tree and ran towards their camp.
Inside of the Plot Hole
After an hour of staring up at black nothingness, the group all heaved sighs (Kirara more mewed in a tone of disappointment).
"Perhaps there is no limit to how high this area is…?" Kikyou murmured out loud. "Much like the sky…"
Just then, the ground began to shake below their feet.
"What's going on?!" Shippou hollered.
"I have not the faintest clue!" Kikyou replied, trying her hardest to remain standing.
However, as soon as the shaking started, it stopped.
Kikyou gave a ghost of a smirk. "So my arrow did cause a reaction…" she whispered.
"…But what did it do besides make us all nearly fall over?" the kitsune questioned, not understanding the miko.
"It is simple. My arrow must have reached the outside somehow and affected the other side," she explained. "Now…we should continue on. Perhaps we can begin walking again?" she then suggested.
"Sure!" Shippou agreed before looking in Kirara's direction. "Are you up to it, Kirara?" he then asked.
Kirara nodded her head in agreement, transforming into her larger form and giving a small roar in response.
They did not get very far when they heard a sound from far off.
Within seconds, Kikyou pulled an arrow from her quiver and placed it onto her bowstring, pulling back on the string. "I sense youki not far from here," she stated, her eyes narrowing.
"I do, too…" Shippou nodded, pulling out his top.
Kirara growled.
However, as the demon began to get closer, Shippou began to relax, sensing that the aura was one he knew. "Uh…Kikyou, I don't think you need to worry much…" he sighed.
She gave a small nod to acknowledge that she heard the kitsune, but she was still skeptical.
They began to hear yelling.
"Riiiin!"
"Sessshoumaruuu-sammaa!"
Shippou rolled his eyes. "Of course. Jaken!" he replied in a tone of sarcasm upon hearing the names.
Within a few minutes, the youkai appeared before them, looking a bit shaken and pale from being alone in the darkness for so long.
Upon seeing the others, Jaken held out his Nintoujou staff, narrowing his eyes. "Get back! I'm the servant of the great Sesshoumaru-sama!"
The kitsune snorted. "Even from knowing that doesn't make me afraid of you!"
Kikyou stifled a laugh. It was so unlike her to laugh, but the sight of such a pathetic demon threatening to harm her was too much. "So you're that toad-demon that follows around Inuyasha's brother?" she retorted through her smile.
"I am, but don't underestimate me!" he replied, glaring at her for mocking him. "And as for you…" he trailed off, turning in the kitsune and nekomata's direction. "You don't scare me either! In fact, you make me laugh!"
Shippou narrowed his eyes in return. "Are you asking for a fight?" he demanded, gripping his top more tightly.
Kikyou heaved a noticeable sigh, getting the attention of everyone there. "'Jaken'…was it?" she questioned.
The toad-youkai nodded.
"Do you know how you ended up in this place?" she questioned with a cold stare that could have rivaled his master's.
"Uh…" he stammered, momentarily caught off guard by the woman's icy gaze. "Well, I remembered this wench appearing before me at night and cutting open a portal and pushing me into it!" At the mention of the woman, his large yellow eyes narrowed out of anger. "All she said was that I wasn't needed in the world…"
Kikyou nodded. "I experienced the same ordeal. The strange woman appeared before me, saying that she hated me. She did not explain why, but instead, sent me into this world of blackness."
"Well, for me and Kirara," Shippou broke in. "It was more like we were the only ones not falling for her tricks and she got angry about it and decided to get rid of us!"
Kirara gave a slight growl as if emphasizing on the kitsune's words.
"Tell me, Jaken. Did your lord appear to be acting out of his normal character? Or anyone else around you for that matter?" Kikyou then asked in a slightly less cold tone.
"Well…I hate to admit this, but Sesshoumaru-sama and Rin were acting a bit peculiar…" Jaken trailed off.
"Oh no…" Shippou gasped, his eyes widening. "I'm sort of scared of hearing this…"
"Trust me, I was a little frightened too…" Jaken muttered.
"Continue," Kikyou instructed.
"Sesshoumaru-sama acted…nice to Rin. As in without his usual coldness! And both of them enjoyed hitting me!" he exclaimed. 'Well, at least in Sesshoumaru-sama's case, more than usual…' he mentally added.
The kitsune was suddenly rolling on the ground in hysterics. "Haha! Sesshoum-maru being nice! That's…hilarious!" he snickered.
Jaken glared at the child again. "It's not funny! It's a serious matter!" he declared.
"I'm only…laughing…because…imagine what w-would happen…if I-Inuyasha heard…about this!" he continued in giggling fits.
Kikyou gave a small smile. For some odd reason, she could imagine Inuyasha taunting his brother about it in the near future. Before anyone could catch her semi-happy expression, she composed herself and turned in the direction of the black path once more. "Shall we get going?" she asked, snapping the kitsune out of his laughter.
The child sat up with a serious expression on his face.
Kirara walked over to Shippou and nudged his arm as if encouraging him to stand.
"Right! Let's go!" Shippou yelled, jumping to his feet.
"Wait!" Jaken called out.
Everyone turned in the toad-youkai's direction.
"C-could I join your group…?" he requested.
"I don't see why not…" Kikyou trailed off. "However, don't try anything foolish. If you do, I will be forced to purify you," she threatened.
"Of course!" he croaked in a nervous voice. 'For some reason…she reminds me of Sesshoumaru-sama…this may be bad…' he thought to himself, beginning to walk alongside them.
In the Sengoku Jidai
"So…" Miroku began, not knowing exactly what to say. "What did you two talk about…?" he questioned, looking at the two sitting across from him.
Inuyasha and Medachitagariya looked at each other before Inuyasha answered.
"Keh! None of your business, Monk!" he snorted, seeming as in character as he possibly could be.
"Inuyasha…" Kagome called out, causing Inuyasha to turn his attention in her direction.
For some odd reason, the miko saw something in his eyes that made her worried. His golden eyes seemed…"far away," in a sense. It was almost like he was under some sort of a spell. "Are you okay…?" she asked.
Medachitagariya mentally cursed, knowing that the miko was beginning to figure out that something was not right with him. 'Damn…perhaps I should also increase my spell over her as well…'
"He's fine, Kagome-chan," she smiled, patting the hanyou's arm in an affectionate style.
What caught everyone off guard was how Inuyasha did not say anything at all to react to it! It was like he did not care whatsoever!
Kagome's eyes narrowed slightly. She did not like the way that the girl appeared. She was sitting a bit too close to Inuyasha than Kagome would prefer. Also, the pat given to Inuyasha was a bit too much. "I wasn't asking you, Medachitagariya-chan," Kagome replied in a forced smile.
"Oh yes, sorry, Kagome-chan," the woman responded in an innocent manner, not noticing that the smile was forced.
"Yes, I'm sure that Inuyasha can answer for himself," Kagome added, keeping her smile in place.
Both women looked at the hanyou in question.
As if the hanyou was acting normal, he replied, "Keh! I'm fine, Wench!"
By this point, the authoress decided to completely throw off Kagome, deciding that she was no longer considered a real threat to Inuyasha and her "marvelous" original character.
'Since when does he call me that anymore?' Kagome questioned within her mind. Her eyes narrowed automatically in the hanyou's direction. She then rolled her eyes, mentally deciding that she should not let Medachitagariya know about her true feelings. Once she looked in the woman's direction, she nearly gasped.
Although it was there for only a second, there was a flicker of a dark aura surrounding her. It was similar to the one that surrounded Naraku.
Kagome glanced in the taijiya's direction and was shocked to see that the woman was buying everything that the woman was saying. 'Does no one else notice her evil energy?!'
"Kagome-chan?" the woman in question called out, snapping the miko out of her thoughts. "You look a bit pale…"
"No, no, I'm fine," Kagome replied, resisting the urge to glare at the woman. 'The witch must have everyone else under her spell, too!' she mentally declared. 'I can't believe that I fell for it!'
The miko knew that she had to keep the fact that she was not under Medachitgariya's spell a secret. Putting on another innocent look, she responded, "Why would I be pale? I'm healthy!" She then gave a small laugh that made everyone stare at her like she had grown two heads. 'Great going, Kagome! Make everyone else think you're the insane one!' she yelled at herself.
"Kagome-chan, would you want to join me for a bath in the hot springs?" Sango suddenly asked, quickly rising to her feet.
"Uh…sure!" the miko remarked, getting to her feet also. 'This is great! I can tell Sango-chan!' she mentally declared. She then turned in everyone else's direction and requested, "Could you all leave us alone?"
Medachitagariya raised her eyebrow at Kagome's sudden request, but nevertheless stayed put, knowing that the monk would think her to be suspicious also. The more stupid movements, the more people that would snap out of their spell and she knew it.
"Go on," she encouraged with a small grin. "We'll be fine here."
"I'm sure of it!" Kagome replied in turn. "With you and Inuyasha protecting the camp, nothing would get past!" She wanted to gag at the compliment she just gave the woman.
Before anything else could be said, both women sped off towards the location of the hot springs. The two were thinking the same thing.
Something was wrong with the rest of the group.
A/N: Uh oh, that's not good for the "great" Medachitagariya! Yeah, that was a cliffy. Anyways, I hope everyone liked this chapter as much or even more so than the first chapter!
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Ja ne!