A/N: HI!
Oh My Gods! 17
"Where is he...?"
Kagome glanced around the spacious ballroom, searching for her fiancé in the midst of the crowd. Unfortunately, his unmistakable snow white hair had vanished into long, jet black tresses that were not very distinct amongst the other students here; not to mention that his most distinguishing feature--his dog ears--were also gone. How was she supposed to find a specific human...in a group of humans?
If he wasn't at the buffet table...or their main table...then where could a hungry hanyou have run off to?
She sighed in dismay and looked down at her empty punch glass. Their table of six was vacant--she had yet to spot Rin or Sesshoumaru, Inuyasha had probably turned into one of the dust bunnies he had 'failed vanquishing', and there was no one to occupy her time with other than dinner utensils and her cup. With what sounded akin to a growl, she shoved her cup away and folded her arms on the table.
"Ok, if I was a hanyou-turned-human with four stomachs in a crowded place surrounded by more humans, where would I be?" It didn't take her long to find an answer, which she immediately crossed off as improbable in Inuyasha's case. "Hmph, I'd be finding my date."
"Excuse me, are these two seats taken?"
The raven-haired miko snapped her head up and blinked at the sight of a couple gazing at her expectantly. They seemed a bit older than her, most likely college first years, yet what surprised her most was the way the charming midnight blue-eyed guy addressing her seemed so familiar. Wait--he's the pervert from the punch table! Whoah, he has a girlfriend? She instantly felt bad for the pretty brunette accompanying him.
"No, go right ahead." Kagome smiled as the couple took a seat across from her.
However, she still felt that she had seen these two people from somewhere...she just couldn't remember them at the moment. It clung to the back of her mind, slipping from her grasp like elusive water each time she almost recalled their faces. She shook her head; Imei Academy was a very big place and she could've seen them any where...
Yet...I can't get rid of this feeling...like I should know them but I don't... "I'm sorry, but have we ever met before?" Stupid Kagome! That's not something you ask strangers!
Their reactions were interesting, either way...
The female of the pair swiftly answered, "Nope!" while her apparent boyfriend grinned and stated, "Why, as a matter of fact, yes!" Now she was glaring at him with blazing fire brimming in her chestnut eyes as he cowered in fear. Kagome could only cock her head in confusion.
"Miroku, it's not the right time or place! She's not supposed to know yet!" The brunette whispered furiously, believing that the miko across from her couldn't hear but was quite mistaken, actually. "Shut your big mouth and let me lead!"
"But, Sango, my dearest, we're already here speaking to her, and she obviously heard what you just said..." The handsome man sighed in relief when his date suddenly blanked and turned to Kagome, whose raised eyebrow and propped chin proved his words.
"Crap..."
"Yes, crap indeed..."
"Um...am I allowed to ask why you're talking about me now?" Kagome hardly knew what to make of her current situation, or why these people even knew her. And what wasn't she supposed to know yet?
Knowing my knack for getting into the strangest situations ever, I'm probably not only engaged to a hanyou god, but the long lost queen of a mystical kingdom like Sailor Moon. Hmm...I always wanted a Sailor Scout outfit...
"Since you think you're so full of wisdom, why don't you explain it to her, eh?" The woman named Sango glowered at her date, crossing her arms firmly against her chest. She also noticed how that perverted moron's eyes were now drawn to her breasts...but she resisted the urge to smack him if only to spare the miko from the sight.
Nah, she didn't care.
Smack!
After venting her pent up anger, Sango smiled in self-satisfaction. "You can talk now, Miroku."
A bright red handprint adorned his cheek...though, he liked telling himself that it was a mark of triumph. It helped to soothe his pain, at least... "Well, Lady--"
"-cough- Suck up... -cough-" He shot Sango a knowing look; just because he liked to refer to his superiors as such didn't mean he was sucking up...right?
"As I was saying before I was rudely interrupted," the brunette only rolled her eyes at his attempt at an angry glower--seriously, he was incapable of even swatting a fly, "Lady Kagome, we--"
"Say what?! Lady Kagome?" She couldn't help cutting him off, since she was not used to being addressed so highly.
When I first met Inuyasha in person, he called me Princess Kagome, but that was for a totally different reason...and yup, I can't believe I'm blushing right now. Curse that wretchedly handsome hanyou prince!
"Yes, Lady Kagome; it is your formal name besides Princess and Queen Kagome. Or at least, that is in the immortal realm."
"You mean 'was'," his date corrected. He merely nodded, mentally berating his past and present tense use. That could cost him points on his future term papers...
The miko felt like ripping out her hair and walking around barefooted because she was so confused. "You guys are doing a horrible job at explaining this...whatever this is!"
"It isn't something easy to explain in the first place. Sango and I were sent on a mission by a prince, whom I cannot dispose his name for certain reasons, from the immortal realm to act as your, Prince Sesshoumaru's, Lady Rin's, and Prince Inuyasha's guardians."
"...I think half of my brain blew up trying to understand that...just lay off the Prince and Lady crap from now on..."
Ok, basically, some prince in the immortal realm--she plausibly never even heard of him in her entire life, anyway--sent these two on a mission to act as her and everyone else's guardians? It did explain why they knew her name...but why did she need a guardian?
There were too many damn questions at once! Gods, why can't anything be handed to you on a silver platter in life?! And please let it be drugged with sanity...
Miroku shared a glance with his girlfriend, shrugging as if admitting 'I don't know what to do now'. She shook her head and unwillingly took the spot light. "Look, all that you have to know is that starting right at this moment, your little group increased from four to six. I can't really reveal much without upsetting my superior, and until further notice, I'm not supposed to be saying anything at all."
"So you expect me to believe that you two are mine and my friends' guardians and I should welcome you with open arms?" Kagome stared at them levelly. "I'm sorry, but until I get an okay from the rest of my so called 'group', I'm not--"
"Hold that thought--where exactly are Sesshoumaru, Rin, and Inuyasha?" Miroku suddenly asked, his lighthearted tone of voice becoming serious in a split second. The change surprised the spluttering miko--who in the world did he think he was to interrupt her when she was finally making sense of this?!
"Excuse me--"
"There's no time for any protests! We need to know where they are a.s.a.p.!" Sango definitely ignored what sweet and patient meant as she drilled Kagome for answers she truly had no clue of. Why was it so important to them of all people?! Besides, what could they accomplish that she hadn't been able to?
However, the miko relented with a sigh. I might as well trust them if only to get Sango back from drill sergeant mode. "I don't know--I was looking for them with no luck. It's as if they're not even here in the first place."
"Miroku...I'm going to skin you alive...I swear that you will never have any children..."
He immediately paled. She was extremely pissed off...damn! "B-But Sango! It's not my--"
"IT'S YOUR ENTIRE FAULT! PREPARE TO BE CASTRATED!" The loud bellow caught the attention of neighboring students sitting at nearby tables, all of whom stared and whispered at their direction.
It was pointless for Kagome to cover up her face now... Thank gods Yuka, Ayumi, and Eri decided not to come to the Halloween Dance or I'd never hear the end of it...
Miroku knew he had done wrong, but did his girlfriend have to threaten his manhood?! If he had no dignity, he would be physically shielding his groin from her wrath! Oh wait...he sacrificed his dignity to Sango a long time ago... "Ok, ok! It's my--"
"THE HELL IT IS! GRRRR!!!!" A pissed-off woman was a very frightening sight... Kagome unconsciously conceded that Rin had met her match: Sango. "I'll save your ass-kicking for later--redeem yourself by taking Kagome and searching for Inuyasha!"
"But wouldn't La--I mean, Kagome be able to sense if he's in danger or not through their bond?"
"GAH! You damn idiot! Of course she wouldn't because he's human tonight! The Bond of Mates--which is only established by an inuyoukai--can't work when the inu mate is human! Why else did you think he is vulnerable on his human night besides the obvious?! Hurry, go find him!"
"Crap! I completely forgot about that--knowing him he's already gotten himself into trouble!"
"What?! Inuyasha's in--" Kagome's sentence was abruptly cut off when Miroku bolted out of his seat and dragged her off of her comfy chair. "Hey, wait a second! I have to know--"
"Sorry, there's no time! Ask later!"
Sango watched the two bound off, or more like Miroku running for his life while Kagome stumbled behind him. She sighed and immediately headed in the opposite direction, hoping that the couple she was looking for was just spending quality time together instead of the...worse case scenario. No, it was wistful thinking; it was impossible that a seemingly peaceful night like this would be spent cuddling...or even making out.
The girls don't have the power to fight immortals...at least Rin doesn't. But...if Sesshoumaru decides to perform a Shurikan...then maybe...argh! This is all happening too soon! Kagome and Rin aren't even eighteen yet! She inwardly cursed the cause of all this mayhem--it was strange, though, because she hardly knew what or whom to blame.
"Hopefully Meimori and Kagura haven't gotten to Sesshoumaru and Rin...if so, things will get ugly..."
I'm never doing something so stupid again...I should know better than tagging along on Sesshoumaru's piss fights! Rin groaned and rubbed her throbbing head, which had inevitably impacted the ground during her fall a few moments ago. How did she fall? Well, she had been suspended in air after being transported to the middle of nowhere... Wait, where the heck am I?
She took a swift look around from her seat on the rocky ground--and dare she say that it looked like she was in a desert, only with bloody skies and peculiar black land. It was a mountainous area, however...the summits were so tall that the they even pierced crimson clouds...which was why she could see them so clearly above her head...
Hold on...I'm on a mountain...specifically, at the top of a mountain... Her face paled--how far above sea level was she?!
Shaking the thought from her head, she continued her observation. Geez, it's like Death World over here... Every single geographical feature reminded her of the emptiness of death; a void that mercilessly absorbed life. Now on her two feet, Rin let her curiosity control her movements and tentatively treaded towards the edge of a cliff, glancing down to see a rapid of burning red liquid thousands of feet below her...
"Oh my gods, it's a river of lava..." Color once again drained from her cheeks, and she quickly shifted her gaze, now settling on finding her fiancé...oh, right, and the other two. "Where could they be...?"
"Behind you."
"Eeek!" Rin shrieked and immediately twisted around to come face to face with her long lost fiancé... His handsome face was expressionless, though; she could tell by the way his golden honey eyes gleamed that he was royally pissed off...at her. "Stop trying to give me a heart attack! Sheesh!"
"Why are you here?" He wasted no time beating around the bush, and his eyes pierced into hers, demanding a solid answer without any crap involved. His frigid voice sent chills running through her spine--he wasn't pissed off, he was furious.
"I don't even know where 'here' is..."
"I'm not playing one of your childish games!" A gasp escaped her lips when he abruptly grabbed her wrist and hauled her towards him, forcing her to meet his icy gaze. "You were not supposed to follow me; do you realize the consequences of what you have just done?"
"No, I don't know what I've just done because you were too busy gawking over that whore to tell me anything!" Rin wrenched her wrist away from his tight grip, glaring at him steadily without succumbing to his penetrating gaze.
"My affairs are none of your business!"
"If you haven't already noticed, Prince High and Mighty, I'm your fiancée, and until we get divorced, there will be a) no secrets between us, b) no cheating on me, and c) no confusing me. Oh, and what do you know? I think all three are happening, especially part c!"
Sesshoumaru growled and was about to tell her a thing or two about over stepping her boundaries, but he suddenly stopped before he could say a word. Rin blinked in befuddlement, musing that perhaps his brain exploded due to frustration, though without notice, she was suddenly swept into his arms and magically suspended into air...again. No, hold on--her fiancé sprouted wings! He flew approximately twenty feet above the ground!
Her wide, cinnamon eyes raked over the long, sparkling appendages attached to his back, holding them both in place in air, and an awed smile crossed her face. Wow, they're so long I don't think they'd even fit in our dorm room! They weren't white wings like an angel's, either; they were magnificent silver that glittered as they enclosed around them, acting as a protective barrier. But a barrier against what?
BOOM!
What was that?! Rin could only hear an explosion from below them, and a flash of a dark blue light almost appearing to be black peeked through her wing-made alcove. After the debris cleared up, Sesshoumaru unfolded his wings and allowed her to view the remnants of the cliff...um...there was no cliff actually...
It blew up... Her eyes traced the origins of that blue explosion and instantly discovered two figures coming towards them, one of which had wings as long as Sesshoumaru's.
"Is that...?" She didn't need to finish her sentence; the two figures soon cleared to reveal a smirking Meimori and a disgruntled Kagura. The dark-haired dog demon was the one with the wings, but unlike her fiancé's, his were raven--a deep blue bordering on black. Wow...is it an immortal thing to have wings? Why doesn't Kagura show off hers?
"Meimori..." Sesshoumaru whispered the name as though he were spitting poison. He lowered himself and Rin until their feet touched the graveled ground. "Shall we begin?"
"I'm the one who has been waiting, cousin." His expression was lit with arrogance, still adorned by his trademark cocky smirk. "Come on, I'll let you have the first hit."
"Stop!" Rin shouted before the silver-haired dog demon could react, and planted herself in the middle of the two incase they carried out their cryptic mission. It was a risky move, but what did she care? "Why do you two hate each other so much?! You're cousins for goodness sake! You're flesh and blood whether you like it or not--and you two rather kill each other than act as a true family?! It's sickening!"
"And these words of wisdom are brought to you by the ever so sagacious preaching misfit." Kagura rolled her eyes in boredom. "Yawn. Humans are too emotional for me."
"Shut up already! You talk way too much for someone who spends her day on her back!"
"Rin, don't speak nonsense. Step aside." Sesshoumaru ignored his fiancée's strife with the wind sorceress, while his gaze didn't stray from Meimori, and vice versa.
"No!" She merely stomped the ground and angrily faced him. "Dammit, Sesshoumaru! You must be the most selfish person I've ever met!"
"Is that so?" He sounded as if he no care in the world, and that served to fuel Rin's anger.
"You have a family, Sesshoumaru, unlike me." The dark-haired teen shook her head, smiling bitterly. Anyone could tell that it was a painful subject for her, though were her listeners doing much of anything? No. Loathing consumed them and erected a barrier around their ears to prevent them from listening to reason.
Rin knew this; however, she continued. "You have a brother who obviously looked up to you, and I recently found out that you have a mother. You have two cousins and an uncle, and you had a father whom you remember and still respect greatly. I have nothing."
"There is no time for--"
Tears created a glassy effect on her eyes and she bit back a sob. "Shut up! I don't even remember what my parents looked like, or what my brothers looked like! And here you are with a family, dammit, and all you want to do is get rid of them, push them away like they don't exist! I bet that if you made an effort to appreciate them, you wouldn't be here wanting to kill Meimori! Hatred is not worth more than life--is it so hard to understand that?"
Rin wiped her eyes, but clapping soon interrupted the tense silence that had ensued after she addressed the two cousins, and she whipped her head around to glower at Kagura. Why does she have to be so obnoxious?! She restrained herself from running over to her and clawing her gritty ruby eyes out--maybe she could sell them on eBay...
"Bravo! That little speech moved me so much that I might just start bawling my eyes out! But do you see any tears coming? No! Why? Because I am a demon, just like Sesshoumaru and Meimori. Let's get one thing straight, little girl--unlike humans, we demons don't value petty emotions. Love for a family member is nonexistent here in the immortal realm, so save us the pity talk and crawl back to the hole you came from."
"I have had enough from you!" There was only so much a raging teen could take from a cynical demoness! "Are you incapable of saying nice things about people? I think you need to enroll into the nearest love and care facility!"
"Oh yeah?" Kagura's lips curved into a smirk and she walked towards Rin, who hadn't moved from her spot in between the suspicious dog demon cousins. She didn't halt her leisure 'stroll' until she was a hairsbreadth away from the obviously younger girl. "Why should I say anything nice about you when there's nothing to tell? You act as if you know everything about people's troubles when in reality you hold just as much resentment as everyone else. Don't stand here and preach if you hardly know what you're talking about, misfit."
"And who do you think you are, huh? Since you seem to know so much about me, then who do I hate?" Rin stood her ground, not in the least intimidated by the taller woman.
"That's an easy one--you, the wise little girl who tells others not to hate their relatives, absolutely detested your own family."
"That's a lie!" How can she hate people she didn't even remember?!
"You're probably telling yourself that it's impossible because you don't even recall what they looked like, but it's true. You hated them enough to loathe the way they talked to the way they walked. Your brothers always ridiculed you for being remotely different, and your parents were always ashamed of you, always trying to hide you from the world."
She has to be lying! She has to be! I...they...there's no way she can know that much about my life! "S-Shut up! Not only are you a whore, but a damn liar, too!"
The demoness shook her head, pitying the fact that her inferior was in denial. "Why would I waste my precious time lying? You can ask Meimori or Sesshoumaru--dog demons can decipher lies. Go ahead; ask them." Rin was reluctant to give in to doubt, but she turned to her fiancé, silently inquiring the validity of her words. She was met with an empty stare, yet his lack of response revealed his answer.
"I still don't believe you," the teen spat, refusing to accept Kagura's words as credible.
"Little girl, why do you think you can't remember them? It wasn't because you were young--your memories were blocked."
Blocked? The teen frowned. Is she...is she telling the truth?
"Kagura," Meimori at last interfered since he did not like the way their conversation was progressing. If she reveals too much, then father will have my head! "That's enough. Lay off Rin and keep to yourself for once!"
She cast him a side long glance and spared him no other acknowledgement. "You see, one day you just couldn't take it any more. Your hatred for them controlled all your other emotions and you inadvertently used a certain little gift from a certain special friend at the wrong time. In only a second, you--"
"Kagura! You fucking impudent whoring bitch! Just shut the fucking hell up!" He had to fight the urge to strangle her! ARGH! Her running mouth is going to ruin all of my plans!
Meanwhile, Sesshoumaru silently watched him going mentally insane with sudden fury, and put his attention on Kagura and Rin. He was curious as to why his dear cousin would want to keep such information from his fiancée... Besides, the demoness was touching upon a delicate subject among immortals--who had given Rin such a gift? A gift that only immortals can give... He sensed no apparent power in her of any kind, so what was Kagura babbling about?
And what was that about her memories being blocked?
The same could have happened to Inuyasha and me... The wheels were turning in his head, and his eyes slightly widened in enlightenment. No, it did happen to us, to the four of us! Myouga and Jaken were lying--our memories were suppressed; we never suffered amnesia!
"Misfit, in the span of a second, you killed your entire family. I'm not saying you went insane and killed them with a knife. No, they all died instantly...because your friend made the mistake of giving you his gift. Because he made the mistake of trusting a mortal with the power of the gods."
"What in the seven hells are you talking about?! There's no possible way that you can know this!"
"Oh right, how do I know this? I watched it unfold. I watched the perfect little girl whom everyone loved snap and destroy what she held dear. So you're truly not better than me or any one for the matter--you are a spoiled brat who takes advantage of other people's--"
SLAP!
"Don't say anything more. Or I'll do much worse than slap you." Rin's eyes were covered by her dark bangs as she gritted her teeth and fisted her hands. "I am not like you. You know why? Because I don't make up for my traumatic childhood by tormenting others and taking joy in their pain. Does that sound like any one you would know, Ka-whor-a?"
POW!
Rin fell to the ground with a loud thud, hissing as she placed a hand over her protesting jaw. She couldn't believe what just happened...she had forgotten how painful a punch was... I'm sure I've never been punched in the face before, too... It was ironic with all her past beatings at her old orphanage. Oh, and better yet, Sesshoumaru had yet to come and intervene between her and Kagura. He's a great future husband, that's for sure.
"Kagura, I'm going to kill you, dammit!" Meimori was literally freaking out over by his post, but he was not about to get involved with a pissed off wind sorceress just yet. Fuck! I can already hear Kizurei saying 'I told you so' over and over again... But besides that, she just hit my woman!
Yet, the wind sorceress ignored all else and glowered at the irritating human beneath her feet. She moved her black booted foot to harshly grind into her abdomen, flipping Rin onto her back, and her seething ruby eyes pierced her cinnamon ones. Kagura even went so far as to mercilessly crush the delicate yellow rose that had been in her hair like she would trample on a cigarette, smirking as it elicited a protesting gasp from Rin.
As it turned out...Sesshoumaru wasn't the only sadist in the immortal realm...
"Little girl, you're in for one helluva beating--starting now."
A/N: END! WOOT! There's gonna be another part to this sooo...ahem. I like how all three parts are titled Halloween Dance and everyone only spent like ten minutes there...LoL!
Next chappie even more action-packed because everyone's gonna fight and even more people show up! It's half way done so expect a chapter by Halloween! It's my favorite holiday and it'll be the two-year birthday of this story! HURRAY!
Anyway...who's showing up next chapter? What's this about new allies? Inu's a seer, and what's his connection to Kikyou? Did Rin really kill her family, and what the hell is a Shurikan? Who sent Sango and Miroku? What's Yuka going to do now that she witnessed Sessh using his immortal powers?
YOUR QUESTIONS WILL BE REVEALED THROUGH OUT THE STORY! JUST STAY TUNED!
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