Disclaimer: According to my wondering mind I now own Inuyasha but unfortunately my lawyers disagreed and now my parents are considered having me tested for wishful day-dreaming disorder.
Author's Note: I decided that I personally need a schedule for updating I now have written chapter nine and have only posted five of them, yes I know I'm disappointed in me too. I've also decided to start posting another story the AU I talked about on my profile, this project will still remain my primary focus though so to help me balance all this there will be an updating schedule posted on my profile giving the date for the next three chapters. This will all be done by Monday and I promise to stick to the posted date. Look out for clues and new characters this chapter, there's a bit of a time lapse this first part actually happens as the last chapter is occurring, so hopefully that clears things up. Okay so ending really long author's notes, here's chapter five.
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When Good Mikos Go Bad
Chapter 5 Suspicious Situation
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Blond hair caught sunlight and gleamed competing with the sun's radiance. Walking along the river bank the women hummed a tuneless song watching as the wind danced in the trees, bringing sakura blossoms to caress her tan skin. Peace surrounded the women, like a constant companion not even shattered by the yell of her name as another women of similar garb approached rapidly, calling out to her excitedly.
"Marianne, Lady Marianne!" the younger women called to the blond priestess, running towards her from the other end of the river's bank.
"What is wrong sister?" questioned the concerned miko as she appraised the girl, who by the purple hamaka she wore was but an apprentice, only dimly recalling seeing the girl around their temple. She may be head priestess but no one could keep all the names straight, she only personally knew those higher in rank as she herself had not taken a student where most of the others had three.
"There…is a…situation," the girl gasped trying to catch her breath from the sprint, "…at the…temple…Lady Donna…requests…your presence."
"What kind of situation young sister?" If Lady Donna was asking for her it could only mean one thing.
The young women had now regained her breath and a sparkle shown in the apprentice's eyes. "A young woman, the elder sisters brought her back, they say she was found bleeding and half-dead at the base of the cliff."
Bleeding,, well of course she must have fallen, but what cliff, the elder miko's musings were justified as their temple was surrounded by cliffs. "Which cliff?" a nagging suspicion urged the common question to have a more significant meaning.
The girl understood the importance of the older women's question, "Why, the cliff Lady Marianne."
"And she survived?!" the younger of the two nodded as the sister mikos headed back to their temple. "That is impossible no mortal could have survived such a fall." By now both were heading back to the temple at a swift pace.
"The thing is Lady Marianne," the apprentice seemed nervous to voice this next most crucial piece of information, "she has a great deal of spiritual power, the elders suspect that she protected herself from the impact just enough to preserve her life." The girl hung her head as she ran knowing what insult she might be implying.
"So this girl could be stronger than I." mused Marianne aloud, cutting straight to the heart of things. The girl merely nodded in response continuing to run beside her with no statement. "I see so the elders wish for me to use the stone, discover her strength." Again the questioned girl nodded unnecessarily. "Very well let us see the extent of this girl's powers."
"Inuyasha we can't just stay here," Sango chastised the brooding hanyou. The monk standing behind her stepped in when said hanyou didn't respond. "She is right, the best way to help Lady Kagome is to defeat Naraku and avenge her death, staying here is not helping." Sango and Inuyasha winced the former glancing backwards to make sure Shippou hadn't heard, talk of Kagome still reduced him to tears, thankfully he was asleep next to Kiara. Miroku continued ignoring the sudden increase in tension. "Most likely Naraku has taken Lady Kagome's body, (wince) when we defeat Naraku we can repossess the body (wince) and put her to rest." Inuyasha had to admit the damn monk sounded reasonable, and he would like nothing more than to rush in and beat the crap out of Naraku simply to relieve his frustration, but Inuyasha couldn't help but feel that wasn't the way to help Kagome. And helping Kagome came first, it had to. He couldn't just forget and go on a vengeance kick, not when that dream still plagued his mind no matter if he was asleep or not, nor while there was even the slightest chance she was still alive, this would be the first place she came if that was the case.
Three days had passed since Kagome had fallen and still the hanyou refused to leave the sight, camping up on the ledge nightly. Shippou hardly spoke utterly refusing to go near the cliff, and never left Kiara's side. Inuyasha was worse; his vocal abilities had been strictly limited to grunts, growls, and mutters to no one. Miroku hadn't once slipped in his cool level headed façade; the only indication that he was grieving was the pure lack of perverted comments. Sango had stepped into a motherly roll taking caring of all the others before herself, doing anything to distract her from the missing presence of Kagome, and lack of leads to her whereabouts. Inuyasha and Shippou had both been unable to pick up on any other scents near the so dubbed 'kidnap' scene except Kagome and the demons', nor was there a trail of any kind to hint at Kagome's departure.
Three days had passed and still Inuyasha felt that to give up his search now would be wrong, a betrayal, so despite protests from the rest of the gang the hanyou would proceed, everyday to the kidnap scene in a futile search for more clues. Kagome's yellow pack had become a sort of shrine, no one touched it, though they knew food and supplies lay inside, the only thing of its normal contents that was missing was the medical kit that Kagome had taken out prior to battle.
The wounds to Inuyasha's stomach and arms hardly pained him he had regained full use of one arm but the shattered one was currently in a make shift sling. Three days had passed and that nagging suspicion in his gut, was still telling him Kagome was alive, and she needed his help.
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Yes it was long….ish ok no but longer at least. The reason Marianne is blond is simple I have yet to see a blond on Inuyasha and I thought it would fit Marianne's personality so two new characters, both of whom will become regulars, and yes Kagome was able to survive the three days but as soon to be relieved in the next chapter is in pretty bad shape. Speaking of the next chapter….Chapter 6: Moving On…Or Not. See my profile for the time of next update, and check out my AU Inuyasha story soon to be posted.