Back sorry I am so horrible, but yes the plot has thickened somewhat and will continue. Can you guess who really wants the stones now? Is it the demon Neko? Or Kanna? Or is it Kagura?
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The wind blew with a stronger force against the demon with silver hair as he stumbled through the darkening night his clothes ruffling and swishing with the breeze. "Where have you gotten to my little girl," he whispered against the chill that had made his lips turn blue, the dropping temperature was thanks to the girl standing before him with her hair as white as milk.
"Neko...why have you returned? Did you finish the mission?" she asked in disbelief which in result didn't sound any different then she did when she was serious. He looked up from glaring at a piece of grass to watch her lifeless eyes.
"No, I have come to ask why my master wishes for this to go as planned? Can't the master send someone else? I have only awakened from death, I need rest," he replied but Kanna just let her eyebrows furrow down intensifying her glare.
"Do not question the master, now do as you're told or the master will take back the life that the master so generously gave to you when we found your body," Kanna threatened, Neko's eyes narrowed at the direct order but fell to one knee in a swift bow.
"I will no longer question, but I need something to defend myself by, as you saw earlier my own ability was no match to that of the Lord Sesshomaru," he stated as Kanna watched him before letting her mirror lower until he was sure he saw someone in there, a man trying to break the glass.
His golden eyes widened when he recognized the man and he stretched out to grab the figure but Kanna swiftly moved away from him. "Do as you're told and the man will not be harmed in any way, you wished this upon yourself Neko," Kanna replied cruelly letting the mirror fall to rest on the table a few mere feet away from Neko's angered form.
"As the master commands," Neko started through grinded teeth before standing and whirling on his heel to jump back the way he had come to hunt down Sesshomaru and his little woman.
Kanna stayed perched at the table and watched Neko's broad shoulders grow tense with the growing weight of having to kill and human along with one of the strongest demons. "Did he do as he was told?" a silky voice asked as Kanna turned to see her sister come from the shadows her fan resting in her soft fingers. "Yes, he has done so without a fight," Kanna informed as Kagura nodded and smirked.
"The man should know his place, or next time we won't be so forgiving," Kagura warned before making her way up to Kanna's side.
"You did well sister, but next time we should let his corpse decompose a little longer so it is more painful when he is raised," Kagura stated as Kanna merely nodded, "Sometimes I have no idea why we even brought him up in the first place, he isn't very strong," Kagura yawned while stretching her arms out.
"He is powerful, very powerful, he just doesn't know the power he wields, I will show him soon enough," Kanna whispered looking down into her mirror to see a young man still hitting the mirror his long black hair twirled around his broad shoulders but he had stopped screaming that was good.
"His throat must be parched from all the screams," Kanna observed stroking the design along the glass of her mirror. The man squirmed before a large gash appeared in his arm as he grasped it and fell to his knees his dark eyes closed from the pain.
"Neko, will be stronger, he will be stronger still when this one eventually dies," Kanna continued looking down at the man in the mirror with almost pity in her dark eyes,
Kagura looked over to her younger sister and almost winced, sometimes Kanna was crueler then most thought she could be, maybe even crueler then even she knew. "Kanna, come away from your mirror, leave the pesky human to rest," Kagura warned but Kanna merely shook her head.
"If I leave him he will eventually heal, I don't want that, I want Neko powerful, the more damage I do the stronger he'll get," she answered and Kagura wondered if that was true or this was the way Kanna showed her pity to the human who was tortured so.
"Stay here human, and nothing will hurt, this mirror will keep you alive until the end," Kanna whispered and the man inside stared at her as if a wounded animal and Kanna let something small fall into the mirror when her sister had left.
There in the darkness the small token had the man cooled and had made a soft smile appear on his chapped lips. In his hands was a small violet flower...
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"Rin...Rin we're here," Otaku's soft whisper brought Rin to bring her head up from it being buried in Sesshomaru's chest like a frightened child. "We're-we're safe now?" she asked looking up at Sesshomaru face, he merely nodded but his face was back to the impassive impression it had been since he had taken her back to the large oak.
She pulled back letting her hand press against Sesshomaru's chest to sit up right and looked around she did recognize this place. There was still the dark dense forest to the right of the oak and the village to the left as she looked to the town but there were no signs of life.
"Where is everyone?" she asked her voice slightly stronger now that she felt much safer and less like she was going to fall over in despair at the death she had seen just hours ago.
"Probably asleep, it is a day when no one works," Otaku chirped in as Rin smiled slightly, at least someone was in a good mood.
"We should get back to Mizu's," Rin stated and Otaku hovered close to her agreeing, "I miss her and the lord of Ayame," she replied as Otaku softly laughed, "I do miss the lovebirds," he agreed.
Rin plastered a big smile on her lips then thinking that it served no one good to see her frowning forever. "Coming Lord Sesshomaru?" she asked whirling her head to look back at the demon, he merely nodded but there was a slight frown tugging at his mouth.
"No time to waste! Off to Mizu's!" Rin called excitedly before hurrying with Otaku hovering quickly by her side as she spread her arms out wide as if Rain's wings and ran past the houses Sesshomaru following at a less childish pace.
Sesshomaru knew something was terribly wrong with this place; no one was up even though Otaku stated that everyone was asleep but Sesshomaru could sense that Otaku was uneasy as well.
"Hey! Girl get away from there!" a man's voice hollered from around the corner as Sesshomaru was pulled from his thoughts to turn and see Rin petting an overly large horse that was feasting on some grass as it lazily looked at her.
"Rin, what are you doing?" Sesshomaru asked as Rin looked up to see him before grinning, "This was the horse that I had tried to ride to get to you but it was too slow," she answered looking back at the gigantic dark brown body of the lazy horse.
"Girl! Will you leave my horse alone?" the man asked a pan raised as if to strike her but Rin merely shrugged him off and continued to pet the horse until it was looking at her and would now and then nip at the folds of her small kimono.
"But your horse is so handsome, but lazy," she replied innocence oozing off her like a perfume as Sesshomaru watched the two humans as if bored. The man was slightly overweight with a mustache beginning to grow on his lip and had a strange apron tied around his shoulders and waist.
"Human, where is everyone?" Sesshomaru butted in when the man had shown no sign of leaving, the man turned to Sesshomaru with a glare. "What of it? I don't have to answer you," he scowled but soon fidgeted and winced under Sesshomaru's glare at being defied the information that he deserved to know.
"Don't smart mouth me human, just tell me," Sesshomaru ordered but his voice did not change from the bored volume as the human nodded his head so fast Rin wondered if it was possible that it would fall off.
"I have no idea to tell you the truth, one day everyone was walking around happily the next no one has come out of their homes except a few people," the man informed as Sesshomaru nodded but a feeling of power, demon power, seemed to radiant from somewhere in this village.
Rin took in a surprised breath when a power hit her forcefully making the lungs in her chest stop beating for a moment. What was that? Rin thought but then when it hit her again she looked to the right to see something moving in the trees. Stepping back a look of horror in her eyes she gulped before speaking. "Lo-lord Sesshomaru...there is something in the forest," she squeaked before Sesshomaru looked over to see that there was a shadow moving swiftly away.
Was that maybe the power he had sensed? He wasn't sure but he wouldn't risk it, "Rin let's go back to Mizu's house," Sesshomaru ordered as Rin looked back at him her breathing back to normal as she nodded.
Leaving the human man back at his house gaping and his horse back to munching the trio walked up the familiar trail until a large hill came to view and over was Mizu's large house standing proud and tall as always. "Lady Mizu! Lady Mizu!" Rin called turning her head to and fro looking for the elderly woman. "I don't think she is here," she stated after stopping to wait for Sesshomaru to catch up.
"It seems so," Sesshomaru merely answered as he looked up at the house the memories fresh in his mind from so long ago. "Lord Sesshomaru?" Rin's soft voice brought him back to look at her as he studied her face wondering if she really did have everything that she had had all those years before.
Rin blinked twice when she noted her lord's expression go serious and his eyes searched her face far longer then she liked but she didn't ask or fidget under his gaze as most did.
She watched with a strange feeling when his eyes darkened slightly so they looked almost bronze as his eyes met with her dark orbs. Truthfully it sent shivers down her spine and unknown to her was that it was in pleasure that she was shivering rather then fear.
"Do you fear me?" the question was asked in a whisper and Sesshomaru's voice had changed to notch even lower in volume but his eyes never moved from hers. Rin was silent surprised at the question but she was used to his frequent questions on this subject as she merely smiled kindly. "Never would I fear you Milord," she answered.
Sesshomaru had not known why he had asked her then if she were afraid, he wasn't sure if it was because she had shivered just then. Or because he had asked the woman from five hundred years ago the same thing when she had shivered the exact same way when he had stared into her blue eyes.
And she had answered the same as Rin but hadn't smiled as warmly as Rin did, it was rare to see her smile then, she usually was kind when he was around but after a certain amount of years...She had let her true self come forth, the bossy control freak she was. Sesshomaru had found the trait greatly displeasing in a woman of her stasis but he was blinded by love for her past person that he hadn't said a thing.
He closed his eyes briefly picturing her in his mind as her straight hair was caught in his large hands the soft texture making a strange purr escape from his lips. Her blue eyes would smile devilishly at him as she would let her hands rest at his shoulders and would hang lazily in his arms.
But the picture of the past was broken when he noted that her hair seemed to grow livelier and gain fullness. Her usual frail hips curved out and her eyes darkened as if aroused but went so dark that it turned into familiar chocolate eyes.
"Sesshomaru," she purred and her voice wasn't that of the late priestess but of the woman with him now in his mind. Her eyelids lowered as she moved so her arms grazed his chest as she smiled up at him innocently.
Unknown to her, or so he thought, was that her voice had gone lower to that of a lover's voice as did her eyes, they had darkened that he thought they were almost black. But he enjoyed looking into those dark eyes as he rested his hands on her hips keeping her steady and before he could stop himself he heard himself growl.
"You won't escape this time," he had stated while, without his usual mind, bent forward in a quick motion intending to capture those enticing full lips but she put up her hand so his lips softly collided with her fingertips as she smiled at him.
"I think you need some rest, you look tired Milord," she stated while stepping back and before he could grab her again she was gone and his eyes had opened looking at Rin who was a few inches off from him.
"Ri-Rin?" he growled mentally for stuttering her name but he had been surprised to see her so close when he had just had a vision of wanting her. "Are you alright? I think you should lie down, you zoned out for a second," she stated cocking her head to the side to look up at him in a different perspective.
"I'm fine Rin, let's continue," he answered when his voice and mind were under control, she nodded but her mind was still jumbled, when his eyes had been closed his hands had grabbed her wrists and had let his fingers caress the flesh. Looking down she saw that her wrists looked normal enough but they still tingled from the shivers he had caused in whatever he had just had a moment before.
"Lady Mizu!" Rin called out again when they entered her mansion but no answer still, "Do you think she went out somewhere?" Otaku asked as Rin nodded in the sword's direction. "Oh! Rin and Lord Sesshomaru! A pleasure to see you all again!" The trio turned to see the Lord of Ayame standing there on the staircase his arms crossed against his chest a big grin on his face.
"Hi!" Rin chirped happily as the lord's eyes softened, "What are you doing here?" he asked looking over to Sesshomaru's form. "We're here to get our things," Sesshomaru replied as the lord nodded. "Go a head then, Mizu went out to get herbs for dinner and probably won't be back for a while," he stated as Rin nodded and hurried to the room where she had hung up her kimono that Sesshomaru had given her. She folded it and placed it in a black small bag that was resting against a small desk that decorated the room.
"I hope she won't miss this bag," Rin whispered before getting up to join Sesshomaru who had changed back into his armor and had placed his outfit in a bag as well the hat from a day ago tied to it which was tied up to poor Otaku.
"Hey! Why do I have to carry your stuff!" he yelled at the dog demon but Sesshomaru merely ignored him. "Rin, are you ready to go?" he asked Rin as she nodded and smiled.
"You are looking for the four stones correct?" the lord asked when the group had just made it to the door, Sesshomaru turned to look at the human, "Yes," he responded. "I have heard from recent passerby's that they have had a commotion by a nearby village, by a forest called the Inuyasha forest?" the lord asked seeing if it was of any use.
Sesshomaru's eyes narrowed slightly at this but nodded his gratitude, "Thank you, its helps very much," he replied while walking out with an angered Otaku and a waving Rin. "Bye! Say hi to Mizu for me!" Rin called as the lord nodded and grinned.
Once the trio had left the lord's smile grew into a snarl as his illusion faded away to show Neko standing there with silver hair and blinding golden eyes. "The first step is complete, now the real fun begins," he snarled before taking off into the air intent on telling his master what the master so longed to hear.
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Wow, so who is this master huh? I'm stumped too to tell you the truth, but you'll find out later on. Until then bye bye everyone!