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She watched her prey noticing his complete unawareness of her presence and that he is being hunted
She was really excited she was learning how to hunt she only just started two days ago and she was already good if the lack of knowledge of her presence from her prey was any indication.
She'd stalked him for hours on end but she knew it would pay off, waiting and waiting, watching, barely breathing, trying to be one with her surroundings, suppressing her aura, getting ready, basically trying to get as close to invisible as possible hoping to go unnoticed until it was too late.
She inched forward trying to go undetected by her target when he suddenly turned in her direction almost as if he knew she was there but he was looking at the ground rather than her perch in the tree she had to really try to subdue her giggles lest her victim discover her.
He turned and looked in the opposite direction she took that as her cue to pounce she readied her stance and then jumped straight at him
"LOARD SESSHOMARU!" she yelled as she flew towards him.
To Sesshomaru's displeasure and Chi's disappointment he had turned around and caught her before her attempted grab. Though the reasons were different.
"Awww, you just had to ruin it for me." She pouted
"Chi, did you honestly think you could hunt me efficiently?" Sesshomaru asked indignant
"no, but… I was kind of hoping you would play along."
Sesshomaru simply raised an eyebrow and said "I hope you are kidding, Chi, do you honestly think-" Chi cut him off.
"Well last time, when I hunted, Jaken, my ears began to bleed from all his squawking. And I thought you would want me to learn how to hunt so…"
"Point taken, but you have no chance of catching me. Or nearly anything else, your stalking was poorly executed." He said blandly in a tone that used to give Chi goose bumps but she grew used to it… somehow…
"What did I do wrong?" Chi wined as she scrambled out of his grip only to land on her rear.
"First: you do not hunt predators, namely me, mostly to avoid an unnecessary conflict
second: muttering to yourself about how clumsy you are after tripping over something alerts your prey to run."
Chi smiled sheepishly at that one knowing full and well that he was right and she was going to have to break that habit that she must have formed somewhere in her forgotten past.
"Third: if you hunt a demon, conceal your aura."
"I was!" Chi wined childishly
"Your aura was flaring to the point that it was almost visible." Sesshomaru replied with slight annoyance
Continuing before Chi could reply he finished off with
"fourth: it's not very smart to shout to your prey when you are trying to catch them
Chi pouted again disappointed with the outcome of her hunting practice and the current conversation
"I'm not going to lecture you and I'm not trying to discourage you, but now, is not the time." he said pulling chi to her feet
"oh are you busy? I'm sorry my lord for interrupting you." She said bowing vigorously
"no I am not busy." He said in a somwhat distracted tone.
"than what is it?"Chi asked with a tilt of her head.
he turned to look at her again "Chi do you remember what happened two days ago?"
Chi winced "yes… I'M SORRY LORD SESSHOMARU!" she wailed beginning to cry
"Chi." Sesshomaru commanded knowing he didn't need to tell her to be quiet
She looked up at her lord and became quiet and did her best to stop her tears"sorry I forgot you don't like loud noises." She practically whispered
What happened two days ago:
"Umm… I'm sorry but I don't know where Lord Sesshomaru is?" Rin said nervous judging by Chi's reaction she didn't know if she should be afraid of this strange man.
"Than just give us a guess.'
"I don't know…"
"Look kid I'm not against hitting girls especially girls who-" Inuyasha was cut off as he jumped back and found a large gash on his shoulder. He looked up to see what had attacked him and was surprised at what he saw.
There was that Chi girl, dual blades in hands but the aura surrounding her became warped and extremely dangerous, of course, Inuyasha, being the idiot he was, ignored it and continued making an ass of himself.
"WHAT THE... WHAT'S YOUR PROBLEM WENCH" Inuyasha screamed at Chi
"You are my problem hanyou." Her voice was hard and icy, dangerous.
Chi closed her eyes breathed deep opened them her scowl became mild and managed to get out "it would best if you left now rather than take the uglier, bloodier, messier, alternative."
'What am I doing?'Chi thought to herself and she felt as if she were caught up in a sun hot inferno.
"Oh, really?" Inuyasha said pulling out the Tessuiga and it transformed
Chi suddenly vanished and suddenly Inuyasha felt magma on his back and one side of his neck was being frozen and the other was burning and then he noticed that chi's blades and body were what caused it she was standing behind him arms over his shoulders and blades where crossed and against his throat and she had some hell of a fever or something because she was burning up.
"yes, really." she said quietly while putting more pressure on his neck with her blades just enough to draw a bit of blood enough to get her point across suddenly she flinched a little bit and froze and her blades were gone and she jumped into a tree that was in the middle of the clearing.
It took a second but Inuyasha finally realized what caused her to suddenly hide and he snarled.
"Sesshomaru..."
And every one readied themselves for battle. However when Sesshomaru entered the clearing he simply looked around and stared at Inuyasha.
"What happened to cause you such a wound on your shoulder." Sesshomaru said settling a glare on his face
Inuyasha glared back needless to say Sesshomaru wasn't impressed
Meanwhile Chi thought 'why am I hiding from lord Sesshomaru? And why can't I control my own body?'
Sesshomaru looked up to the tree which Chi disappeared into and used his pelt to grab her out. As she fought to get out of his grasp she felt wave of power wash over her and she passed out.
End of incident
"Then when I woke up you had taken me to… somewhere else and you looked so mad. And then you chewed me out about talking to the half-breed. Not to mention that trying to imitate you was really stupid and you were right." She continued pouting
"Yes, should you learn better hunting skills you would become harder to control and placate who knows what kind of chaos you would awaken considering your erratic behavior the situation may turn out to be a complete devastation to all of Nippon I do not wish to take chances." He said with the air of a leader.
"Okay…" Chi Said in a tone of resignation and then she looked up at Sesshomaru with a little idea "this wouldn't have anything to do with your silly ambition for national conquest I mean if I destroy all of Nippon there won't be much left to rule now will there?"
"exactly what do you find so silly about it?" Sesshomaru scoffed at the amnesiac girl in front of him now smirking while pacing teasingly.
Watching her lord out of the corner of her eye her smirk grew mischievous to match the gleam in her eye.
"Well… in a way you're sort of like a cat - I'm not insulting you it's just certain observations" she cut him off before he could object.
"like you never take orders while dogs can be trained to listen to orders
you don't go out of your way to please any one while dogs do half the things they do to please their master
you're not exactly a 'peoples person' like many cats and admittedly some dogs also aren't but most love other people
most dogs are hyper and loud the same couldn't be said for cats or you
most dogs hate baths but love swimming quite the opposite could be said for cats considering how much they love to groom themselves but avoid water same for you while you do take baths you sometimes seem a little reluctant to get in the water but it's obvious you like the feeling of cleanliness more than you detest water (well tigers like water but that's not the point)
Cats aren't playful the ways dogs are neither are you
When a dog does something wrong they know and you can tell by the way they act When it comes to cats however they will disregard any slip ups, mistakes, etc. and just move on without a hint of guilt for some reason it makes me think of your name."
Chi spun around pointing at Sesshomaru with a very intense look "you Lord Sesshomaru are very cat like except you have goals, ambitions etc. were cats usually just eat, sleep, nap in the sun, and scratch stuff with their claws. It just seems that like a cat you would just see most of the duty's as a waste of time, you'd have better things to do than care for all your lands and listen to the needs of others."
"with many of the things you are correct but do you honestly think I fear water?" Sesshomaru scoffed
"Ummm… Lord Sesshomaru…" the former priestess began "…I said 'avoid' water not 'fear' like you only go near rivers when me or Rin want to catch fish or we're thirsty… actually…come to think of it you never drink water near its source only out of the water bottle I fill up like if it wasn't helpful or necessary for survival you would avoid the stuff at all cost" realization flashed through her eyes
"My lord? You're completely honest all the time right?" she asked with a somewhat dumbstruck face
"Yes, lying is dishonorable and I'm a very honorable demon"
"Okay lord Sesshomaru could you stay in the same room as this… Naraku guy, whom you seem to hate with a passion, for ummm… five hours without hurting or killing him if you would get your arm back make note that that guy is just standing there doing nothing and its almost as if he doesn't notice you're there."
"I could bear it" Sesshomaru replied eyeing her suspiciously.
"Could you stay on a raft surrounded by water for five hours for the same reason?"Chi asked looking almost excited to hear his answer.
And was disappointed when he simply turned away and she got no response but than she began to giggle "lord S-Seshoma-ru y-you sound li-ke yo-u're hydr-rophobic" she gasped out as her giggles became full blown laughter.
Sesshomaru quickly turned to glare at her "I'm not… what does that word mean surly she must have made it up there is very little that I do not know."
Chi was cringing back a bit from his glare with her eyes pinched shut unsure of what he was going to do but knowing that even her amazingly aloof lord had to have a point where he got at least a little annoyed and knowing that he doesn't usually experience or at least show much emotion although for some reason she knew he at least showed anger in battle yet something else she forgot?
She suddenly noticed her lord had not moved at all except to look at her she opened her eyes and saw him staring at her with very well hidden confusion although it doesn't hurt to have a sense for emotions.
She decided that she should just jump in "well a phobia is a very strong fear, and hydro means water, for someone to have a phobia they would be called phobic: Hydrophobic" she realized that Sesshomaru might take that offensively "umm… it's okay to have a Phobia, I mean I have acrophobia which is a fear of heights!"she rushed out waving her hands around in a nervous gesture trying to keep Sesshomaru from being mad but when she looked up at him he was just deep in thought and looked like he was totally oblivious to the world but she knew better.
"She seemed sincere but I am to believe this ludicrous thought? Perhaps something she that thinks she remembers but it never actually happened."
"I fear nothing." Sesshomaru said in a voice that brooked no argument or at least should have.
"but then why do you hate water to such an extent as to hate even being near it?" Chi asked totally ignoring him pretending to ignore her.
He heard her, she knew and Sesshomaru knew that she knew. He was never good at pretending to ignore people because he never had to, he never had to act like it because he usually truly was ignoring them.
"She is annoying, usually I'm easily able to ignore the annoying to the point that I don't even think about It, but this girl…"
"I do not need a reason!" he said irritation "the audacity… to think I had a reason to ever fea-hate, hate water"
"Is it because" chi began "is it because you can't kill or destroy it?" chi finally got out in a very quiet voice.
Sesshomaru turned around to face her, yet again. The whole thing was getting sort of redundant.
"What would bring you to that ridiculous conclusion?" he said shocked. Sesshomaru, had never thought about why he disliked water just dismissed it there were many things he didn't like.
"Well…" Chi began a bit unsure "your name… you know what it means right?" Chi looked him straight in the eye, But not challengingly.
"most would die for questioning something like that." He said through his teeth
"I was just… you know…" she started and forgetting what she was going say for an excuse and she decided to just abandon it and move on. "yeah it means killing perfection well you certainly live up to your name don't you, while you're also good destroying things that aren't living usually with your acid but water isn't living so you can't kill it and acid can't melt it because it's already liquid. There aren't many things that can defy you in such ways which is why it bothers you you're used to just destroying anything that just somehow inconvenienced you right? You can't do that with water." Chi said pointing out the obvious but then said "it upsets you that there is something you cannot destroy and not to mention there being so much of it so you're…" Chi paused looking for a word that would get her meaning across without getting her killed "…wary of it."
"Hn" he excepted her explanation and deciding that trying to delve further into the conversation would just be a waste of his time.
"Inuyasha would you stop sulking already? I know Sesshomaru wasn't much help, but what did you expect?" Miroku at this point was ready to…god forbid; give up his groping of women just to have his old angry, brash, rude, loud and selfish friend and that says a lot if Kagome were here he would probably be able to put up with the quiet Inuyasha because usually she would brighten the mood and she would be the one to somehow change him back in a way that only she could and with Kagome they would at least be able to figure out what was wrong
"Usually he only gets this quiet when it has something to do with Kikyo" Miroku thought staring into the fire with Sango asleep and no Kagome he had a lot of time to think.
"Keh, shut up monk and I ain't pout'n so just leave me alone." Inuyasha said as he thought over Sesshomarus words again
Flash back
He watched as Sesshomaru somehow grabbed the struggling girl with his pelt and she simply passed out
"Inuyasha may I inquire what it is you want with me?"Sesshomaru asked switching his gaze from that… girl to him
"Yeah, I'm look'n for Kagome if you have some useful information and you'll tell me I might not have to kill you."
"I do not have time for you half breed I'm somewhat busy at the moment and even if I did have information what makes you think I would be so inclined to tell you than saving myself the trouble of cleaning your blood from my sword?" he said setting Chi on ah-un's saddle and sent ah-un off with Rin and Jaken as well.
before Inuyasha could answer, Sesshomaru cut him off "I mean wouldn't it be your fault she left? I had a feeling she wasn't as stupid as she acted following you around all the time I mean you should be able to figure it out unless you're as forgetful as you are stupid I have an Idea of what happened you said something idiotic as you're known to do and she finally realized you're more trouble than you're worth." Before Inuyasha could reply Sesshomaru was gone
End Flashback
'Is it really my fault, Kagome? Kagome please just be safe I'll find you don't worry.' Inuyasha thought finally drifting off to sleep
done finally. It seems summers on its way I'm really sweating!
Oh yeah almost forgot hope you enjoyed please R&R its what keeps me going.