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Chapter ten: The Entity Within Tokijin
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Helen leaned comfortably against the windowsill and amused herself by watching Inuyasha show-off his sword to Souta. A small smile formed on her lips when she saw her cousin walking towards Inuyasha and Souta.
"Put it away, Inuyasha!" Kagome was saying
Inuyasha said something that made Souta laugh as he placed the Tessaiga back within its sheath.
"Sit!" Kagome's scream was loud enough to echo throughout the entire shrine.
Helen smiled to herself and sat back down on her desk to study the periodic table of elements. She frowned as she suddenly thought of Sesshoumaru. She still hated him for having Kagura impersonate her and she silently thought that her decision never to return to the feudal era was quite right.
She sighed again. She thought of Toshimaru and a strange ache suddenly seemed to fill her. She thought of how kind he had been to her despite the fact that he barely knew her and she him.
Pushing away all thought of the feudal era to the back of her mind, she concentrated on memorizing all the characteristics of the elements.
Her eyes strayed momentarily to the small mirror on her desk. She blinked.
A red eye was staring back at her.
She blinked and instinctively grabbed the mirror. Her blue eyes were staring back at her. She shook her head. I'm imaging things, she thought as she gently placed the mirror back on the table.
Still, she couldn't help but stare back into the mirror's glassy depths.
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Helen was running again. She didn't know from what and she certainly didn't want to know what was pursuing her. All she knew was that the thing that was chasing her was evil.
An image of Sesshoumaru's Tokjin suddenly flashed into her mind. Distracted, she tripped and fell face first to the ground.
A low menacing growl suddenly filled her ears. Looking back, she saw the thing that was pursuing her…
She saw its red eyes staring at her from the dark…
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Helen's eyes snapped open. Her head was lying on her folded arms on her desk. She sat up in her chair and stared at the mirror. There was no red eye in it. She inhaled and let it out slowly.
You're imagining things, Helen, she thought wearily as she picked up the mirror and stared into its depths. Her own face stared back at her.
Nightmares. How many times had she had them? Some were too gruesome; some were too frightening, that sometimes, she would lie in bed the whole time, staying awake. Lack of sleep resulted in her being tired most of the time. Occasionally she would doze off but wake up back again. Those were the only kinds of sleep she was getting nowadays. Of course, she hadn't bothered telling Kagome about them since she didn't want the young miko to worry.
Sighing, she stood up and stared out the window. Dark, heavy clouds hung low in the sky, indicating the possibility of rain. She wanted to get out and clear her head. She shrugged into her long coat and walked out of her bedroom door.
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Sesshoumaru stared into the well's dark depths and considered what his mother would do to him if he did not apologize to the bothersome human at the other side.
His mother would most likely get mad at him.
But facing his raging mother was better than allowing his pride to be injured. He was not the type of person who would apologize to others…especially if 'others' meant a human.
His poor pride was damaged enough.
"Sesshoumaru!" a feminine voice called.
He looked up just in time to see Kagura jumping down from her feather. She landed neatly behind him and he turned to face her.
"Are you going back to see that horrid girl again?" there was disbelief in her voice.
Sesshoumaru looked directly into her ruby eyes. In truth, he was slightly fed up of her asking him about his actions in regards to Helen. If her eyes had been green, she could have easily been called a green-eyed monster.
"Do you trust me?" he suddenly asked her.
Kagura looked slightly puzzled as she answered. "Of course I trust you."
"Then stop nagging." He jumped into the well, leaving Kagura in stunned silence.
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"And to think that it was sunny this morning," Kagome said as she peered out the curtains of the living room to gaze at the darkening sky outside.
Inuyasha was still in a foul mood; the hanyou was sitting, legs crossed beneath him, on the sofa. He was scowling heavily at the wall behind Kagome but the miko knew that the scowl on his face was meant for her.
"Will please stop it?" Kagome said in exasperation as she glared at the hanyou. Inuyasha looked up at her, scowling.
"Why can't you go back with me yet? There are two shards left-two! What if Naraku gets to them first, eh?" the hanyou snapped.
Kagome narrowed her eyes at him. "Naraku won't find them first…" Though she wasn't quite sure as she hoped she sounded to be. The fact that there were only two shards left made her feel both uncomfortable and nervous. What if Naraku did get to the other shard first? They knew perfectly well where the other shard was-with Kohaku. But they had no inkling as to the location of the other shard and that frightened Kagome.
She also noted that Kikyou herself seemed frightened by the possibility of Naraku possessing all the shards. Before Helen came to Japan, Kikyou's soul collectors were sighted hovering over the treetops in Inuyasha's forest. They had a sneaking suspicion that Kikyou wanted to make sure that they collected all the shards before Naraku.
"Anyway," Kagome went on. "I have Helen to worry about; though she says that I shouldn't, that she doesn't want to pester me."
"Speaking of which," Inuyasha suddenly said. "Where is she anyway?"
"She went out for a walk." Souta entered the living room.
"But it's about to rain!" Kagome said her voice laced with disbelief.
Souta shrugged. "It wasn't about to rain when she left; anyway, Helen-neechan said that she wanted to clear her head."
"Of what?" Again, Souta shrugged and headed back into the kitchen to avoid his sister's interrogation.
Kagome sighed. "I hope she comes home before it starts raining."
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Helen strolled listlessly along the deserted seashore. The beach seemed to be a great place to clear her head. The only problem was that the ocean wasn't glittering like diamonds because of the sun's light; the water looked dark and murky and dark swells crashed repeatedly to the shore, almost touching Helen's sandaled feet.
She sighed and walked closer to the water, allowing the cold water to soak her feet. She felt the sand being pulled from beneath her sandals and wondered for a moment why the waves couldn't pull away her nightmares instead.
She sighed and stared into the water. The cold wind rushed past her and what she saw in the water made her gasp. Her reflection, distorted by the ripples and waves, stared back at her, with red, angry eyes.
Her eyes widened in shock as the reflection in the water reached out to her. She stumbled backward. She didn't reach out towards her reflection, her reflection reached out for her. Heart hammering, she backed away even further.
What's going on here? She thought.
Her head suddenly throbbed with pain. And from somewhere from within her mind, she heard an evil chuckle.
This body will soon be mine, a nasty voice said.
"Wha-" she said softly
Mad, demented chuckling was the last thing she heard before everything went black.
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The rain was pouring hard now and Kagome stared, once more, out the window, hoping for any sign of her cousin.
"Where is she?" the miko said worriedly. She suddenly felt two hands gently squeezing her shoulders in a comforting way. "She'll be back," Inuyasha whispered softly. Kagome bit her lip and faced the hanyou. She suddenly realized how close they were and she hastily returned to staring out the window.
She heard a slight rustle behind her as Inuyasha stared out the window with her. "There's someone outside…Sesshoumaru!"
"Again?" Kagome groaned. Soon enough, the door slid open and Sesshoumaru walked uninvited into the house.
"Whaddya want now, Sesshoumaru?" Inuyasha asked, not bothering to hide the annoyance in his voice.
"Who is it, Kagome?" her mom suddenly came into the living room. As soon as she saw Sesshoumaru, she gave the daiyoukai her usual greeting which consisted of a sunny smile and a "How are you?" Without bothering to hear an answer, she returned to the kitchen.
Kagome sweat dropped at her mother's manner. She turned her attention to the youkai lord standing before her and Inuyasha.
"Why are you here again, Sesshoumaru?" Kagome asked.
"Where is she?" he asked. Kagome raised an eyebrow at him.
"After what you and Kagura did to her, do you think I'll tell you?"
Sesshoumaru narrowed his eyes at her and Inuyasha instinctively allowed his hand to settle on the hilt of Tessaiga.
"I do not smell her scent here…Don't tell me that foolish girl decided to take a walk in the rain?" the daiyoukai said with relish.
"I wouldn't tell you now, would I?" Kagome was enraged at him for what he did to Helen and she didn't bother to hide her annoyance.
Without saying anything, the daiyoukai turned his back on them both and walked out the door and into the rain.
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Sesshoumaru was inwardly thankful that the streets were deserted and only the strange machines that humans loved riding passed him by. Really, humans gawking at him had been awkward and it took all his self control not to cut off their heads. The last time he had come here, he had heard a few humans call him a 'cosplayer'. He didn't know what that was, but for him it sounded like an insult.
He inwardly scowled as the rain soaked him through. That woman had better have a good excuse for walking in the rain.
He picked up her scent and headed to where she was, which happened to be the beach. Helen was sitting on the wet sand, her back to him, facing the water. He thought that she must have gone crazy. She was soaked through and her clothes were plastered to her body. She must be shivering.
He would have to apologize to her.
His poor pride wouldn't survive this, no it wouldn't.
"Wench," he called out.
She didn't respond.
"Have you lost your hearing?" He had never used her name once, he realized.
Still no response.
"Ningen." He made his voice a little higher just in case the howl of the blowing wind prevented her from hearing him. He narrowed his eyes at her back. There was a strange aura surrounding her. It was so familiar to him, had he not wielded that aura many times? The aura that belonged to the first thing that Kagura told him he could have…
"Goshinki," he said softly. As he said the words, Helen stood up and faced him. He raised both of his eyebrows. "Heheh, Sesshoumaru-sama," Goshinki's voice was mixed with Helen's. Helen's eyes were red and there was a menacing look in them.
"Why are you in that girl's body?" he asked, drawing out Tokijin.
Helen laughed at him. "This foolish girl? An interesting tale, Sesshoumaru-sama. I have always yearned of killing Inuyasha but since the day I became your sword, your aura has always suppressed me…But during your battle with Naraku, when this girl foolishly picked the sword up, I saw my chance. I escaped into her body but remained dormant so neither you nor Inuyasha could detect me."
"But this girl was too difficult to control, Sesshoumaru-sama, so I weakened her by giving her nightmares. You should hear her scream in her head! It makes you…want to kill."
Sesshoumaru charged at Helen, fully aware that he couldn't harm Goshinki, otherwise he'd harm the girl.
Helen laughed at him as she jumped out of the way. "This body is perfect, Sesshoumaru-sama. This girl's powers has been unused and that is to my advantage!"
Sesshoumaru jumped into the air, bringing Tokijin down on Helen, but she merely dodged.
"Don't hope to defeat me with that sword! Are you forgetting, Sesshoumaru-sama, that I am that sword?" She made a gesture, as if she were calling him to her. Sesshoumaru stared at the sword in his hand. It wriggled violently in his had and then suddenly it shot out of his grasp and flew towards Helen, who caught it by its hilt.
She laughed menacingly. "How now, Sesshoumaru-sama?"
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