Author's Note: I'm so happy! One person had reviewed my story but that's enough because I know that at least someone is enjoying my story! So at least I'm happy and that means I'm posting up early! Thank you for the nice review, it's what I needed! Day one of the week count down for Sara and the others to complete the Hōgyoku.
I DO NOT OWN BLEACH OR INUYASHA
CHAPTER 8
Tanya's P.O.V
I sat down patiently as I could managed as the silence dragged in, I had expected out burst considering what had happened when Sara told them something similar but here they where mouths closed.
"You can do what?" Rukia asked her question was directed to Ichigo.
"See the future," I said. "With this," I help up my golden badge same as Ichigo's and Sara's just the color gold.
"It serves like a telephone, the Council sends visions through this to us and then we see them, but I have the main telephone, the visions go from the Council to me to everyone else," Sara said she seemed to not notice the shocked expressions, but I knew here better the slight tone in her voice showed that she wasn't comfortable.
"As a matter a fact there are four of us, but one of us is still somewhere," Ichigo told them, well he sure had learned a lot in the past few days.
"But that is another matter that isn't really important at the moment," Sara said, she didn't want them to know what would happen if we didn't find that person. "What matters right now is that we have one week before Kisuke Urahara lets the gigai run lose."
"But don't we have school this week?" Renji asked.
"No, we have this week of because of the White Flower Festival," I told him, thinking about all the schools joining together one day after a week of rest.
"What's the White Flower Festival?" Rangiku asked.
"Oh, well that's after this week of not going to school the high schools, middle schools, and elementary schools chose one group of kids to perform, from each school, and then we see who gets the prize," Sara said.
"What's the week of vacation for?" Momo asked.
"Oh, that's because they don't want us to strain our voices the day before and they can't play favorites so they decided to give us the week off," Sara explained she shot up standing on her feet. "Son of a bitch,"
"What?" I asked she didn't usually say things like that.
"Who performs for my high school?" she asked me.
"Son of a bitch," I mumbled think about what the hell we where in right now.
"Uh, great just what I needed," she complained.
"What's the problem?" Rurichiyo asked.
"The problem is that Senna can't step in for me in the festival," she said.
"How come?" the pink freak asked trying to sneak up on me, but Albert gave me the heads up and I took a step out of the way.
"Well, because Senna can't really sing," she said.
"As a matter if you spoke the harsh truth you would say that she was the worst singer in the world," I offered.
"Not cool," Sara mumbled to me I just shrugged my shoulders.
"How much earlier?" Toshiro asked.
"Two days at least," she said.
"Can't you call in sick or something?" Renji asked.
"If you wanted to have your whole high school at your front door treating to stone you," Sara said I couldn't help it I started to laugh.
"Tanya, this is so not funny!" she hissed at me, she was really worried I would be too if her instructor was mine, that lady was crazy.
"I can't help I'm just remembering the guy from last year and how he went on stage in a wheel chair," I told her, she smiled probable remembering that poor soul who had the misfortune of having to stretch to reach the microphone.
"I still don't think that you can get all the shards of the jewel in a week let alone six days," Kagome said.
"I thought we went over this, we're Shinigami, world of difference from a human," Renji said.
"How exactly so?" Sango asked.
"Because normal Shinigami are the Souls of the dead," Sara said.
"You're dead?" Inuyasha asked.
"I said normal Shinigami, I'm not a normal Shinigami, well only me, Tanya, and Ichigo aren't normal Shinigami everyone else is," Sara said.
"Wait, wait, wait, if you're dead how come you have solid bodies?" Kagome asked.
"They aren't bodies like yours' or theirs', they're fake, like putting water in a bottle that's all," Rukia said.
"We still have our bodies we can just walk out of them and still go back," I said.
"I'm confused," Shippo said. "Too many different going out and fake this and that,"
"Well we can start from the beginning," Sara said.
"Go on," Miroku promoted he seemed deep in thought.
"Most people believe in some sort of an after life," Sara said. "It's a place called Soul Society."
"Almost all humans that have died go to Soul Society," Rukia added.
"Where do the others go?" Kagome asked.
"The Underworld," Ichigo said.
"Or they don't even pass on to the next life," I said.
"In that case they either stay as they where as ghost with a chain on their chest, or they become Hollows," Toshiro said.
"Hollows are when Souls can't sustain themselves and they turn into monsters that feast of other Souls or human," Momo added.
"It's the job of Soul Society to maintain a balance between humans and Souls, they take care of Hollows and help other Souls pass on to Soul Society," Renji said.
"That's why in Soul Society we have the Thirteen Court Guard Squads," Rangiku said. "For Souls that have enough Spirit Pressure to be able to hear the manifestation of their Souls,"
"Rangiku you're getting ahead of the conversation," Sara told her.
"The Thirteen Court Guard Squads where put into place to insure the balance between the World of the Living and Soul Society," Sara said. "The main goal is to make sure that human have no idea of the Spirit World until it comes their time to go."
"We kick the Hollows butts because we have Zanpaktō!" the pink freak shouted.
"Zanpaktō are the manifestation of your Soul, it allows you to fight against Hollows, but not every Soul can have a Zanpaktō" Toshiro said.
"In order to have a Zanpaktō you must become a Shinigami," Rangiku said. "And in order to become a Shinigami you must have a significant amount of Spirit Pressure."
"Enough to kick a Hollows butt," the pink freak added.
"So basically Soul Society is a safe place for Souls and the Thirteen Court Guard Squads take care of destroying Hollows to keep human safe," Inuyasha said.
"Yes, but if you didn't make it sound so useless we might actually be happy that you understood," Sara said.
"But not all Souls that are in Soul Society where humans first," Rurichiyo said. "We have the noble families like the one I'm from that where born in Soul Society from other Souls,"
"Noble Families, you guys discriminate each other?" Kagome asked.
"Old tradition nothing to do about it," Sara said.
"Its how things are," Rurichiyo said, she was a royal no wonder it bothered her.
"If you have Noble Families then you have a King?" Miroku asked.
"Yes, but he lets the Thirteen Court Guard Squads to the ruling, we just have to protect him," Rangiku said.
"We hardly see him, sometimes people begin to believe that the whole king thing is just a figure," Renji said.
"But it's not he exists but only the Captain Commander gets to meet the King, we just assume that he's real, or at least most of the time," Toshiro said.
"Which reminds me, Sara how come we're stuck in our bodies?" Ichigo asked.
"Oh, that's because of the explosion we should be able to get out of this form then and be able to leave this place, somehow Azien managed to lock us in here," Sara said.
"You're kidding me?" Kagome asked. "I could get you out if you want,"
"No, that way won't work either he closed it off, so you're also stuck here until we find all the pieces of the Hōgyoku," Sara said.
"WHAT?" Kagome yelled I found that I had to cover my ears.
"Could you give it a rest?" Inuyasha yelled back at her.
"No, I have to go check, now, Sango can I borrow Kirara?" Kagome asked.
"Sure," Sango said the cute little kitten morphed into a huge feline and Kagome jumped, on and she was gone; Sara sighed and got up again.
"Well we better get going if we want to get out of here," she said.
"And how exactly to plan to travel?" Inuyasha asked she smiled.
"Well Serena doesn't only work for telling the future," Sara said as a cobra appeared behind her only way bigger then a normal one, enough to carry a couple of people on the top of its head. Inuyasha and the other people of that time took out their weapons.
"Get away from that," Miroku said.
"Wait, no this is Serena, she's not a demon but my guardian or so to say," Sara said.
"Do I have to?" I asked her, she gave the 'no duh' look, I sighed I really didn't feel like having a bunch of Shinigami on Albert with me.
"Wait, you can't leave Kagome isn't back yet," Sango said.
"No, they can leave just give us the jewel shards," Inuyasha said.
"Yes we can leave, as I matter a fact we are, and we can't leave you the Hōgyoku it isn't safe," Sara said.
"It isn't safe if you take it either," Miroku said.
"It actually is because this was created by Kisuke himself," Ichigo said. "He's a Shinigami,"
"We have primary right," Yachiru said.
"And besides, you wouldn't last a second if Azien decide to come looking for it," Rangiku said.
"Guess we can't leave after all," Sara said sitting back down. "I don't think it really is my story to tell but I will have a part to play later on, this actually is their story," she pointed to the group behind her which was everyone but her and me.
"And what is this story?" Kohaku asked he was so quite I hadn't heard him, but I was sure that he would be around.
"It's about a man named Sosuke Aizen," Toshiro said his voice laced with hate but he was trying to hide, everyone else expressed that emotion without words, their faces twisted in scorn or hurt; it was not my story but it soon would be.
Inuyasha's P.O.V
"It's about a man named Sosuke Aizen," Toshiro said, his face twisted slightly but whatever he was feeling he hide it well, not the others their faces turned to hate, scorn, or hurt; who was this man to them?
"It started a long time ago before he was even a Captain," Renji said.
"He heard about the Hōgyoku, so he took advantage of the knowledge and deceived the Thirteen Court Guard Squads for so many years," Momo said her voice was small as if struggled.
"But he kept his disguise as a Captain until he knew the whereabouts of the Hōgyoku," Rukia said. "It was through me, I brought the Hōgyoku to Soul Society,"
"Urahara wanted to keep the Hōgyoku save, so he put it in Rukia but that was his mistake, he practically gave it to Aizen," Ichigo said.
"He hid himself in Soul Society by faking his own death, and then why the time was right he took out his interference one at a time," Momo said her voice hadn't changed, I had a feeling that she was one of those interferences.
"He wasn't alone in his plotting though, he had two other Captains helping him," Rangiku said. "But he was the ringleader they came later on; he planed everything out perfectly so that he could escape to his new empire."
"He left and went to the world of the Hollows, and now he had an army of Arrancar," Yachiru said, they only people that didn't seem to have part in the story where Sara, Tanya, and Rurichiyo.
"His main goal now is to find a way to take over Soul Society," Toshiro said. "Or at least that's what we believe,"
"So I guess that you guys aren't as united as you make each other sound," I said all their eyes flashed to me, and I swear that I saw then all twitch towards their swords.
"The way I see it you guys aren't either," Sara said her voice was cold and knowing I looked at the place where Kagome should have been. "As you see it is of great importance that we get the Hōgyoku, so even if you do mind we'll be leaving." This was so annoying we would have to delay them until Kagome got back, this was shit.
Kagome's P.O.V
I walked over to the well and looked down I took a step back; the bottom of the well was covered with some kind of dark energy. Taking a deep breath I jumped in, as I reached the bottom it felt like I was going to go through, but then the dark energy curled around me and it was like being spit back out; I tried so many times that I guess the dark energy got tired of me that instead on lying on the ground of the well I was shot all the way up and out. As luck would have it Kirara was near by and caught me before I hit the ground, but I got the message loud and clear; you're not getting out this way. We made our way back to the camp and we where almost there when I felt a pressing feeling against me, when I was able to see them I felt my eyes go wide. They where fighting and it looked like we where losing and what was most insane was that Kohaku was standing near Sara that anyone could assume he was protecting her.
"Really, you're freaking out numbered give it a rest, she's back any way!" Sara yelled at them as Sango tried to land a hit. That's when things got interesting because it wasn't only Kohaku who tried to block the hit it was practically every one of them, they all moved and arranged themselves to block any hit that came her way. She was like the heart in the body it had evolved to protect the heart, the center of the body.
"Stop, why the hell are you fighting?" I called to them as I jumped off of Kirara they slipped out of the battle and came to where I was.
"Distracting," Inuyasha whispered to me I frowned and watched as they gathered around again, Sara looked irritated.
"That was-" I started not sure what to add to it.
"It doesn't matter we'll be going know," Toshiro said, he seemed enraged and everyone else looked ready to leave.
"Just leave us the jewel shards and you can go," Inuyasha said.
"Don't you get it?" Sara's voice scared me it was filled with rage and twisted humor. "This isn't your battle no matter what may have happened here with the Hōgyoku it has nothing to do with what will happen, and I can assure you that you want nothing to do with it." We all fell silent she seemed so sure that she knew what we had gone through as if she had lived it first hand, with Kikyo, and Naraku.
"How do you know?" Miroku said.
"That doesn't matter this isn't your battle be glad that it isn't anymore, you don't want to be in the battle that is coming," Rukia said. "You won't last, you aren't Shinigami we are different and that is how things are, be happy that battle is behind you."
"It can't be we haven't fulfilled the mission we set out to do when we joined together," Sango said, it was true we still had a long way to go, to take our revenge out on Naraku.
"The first thing you need to learn is that sometimes you complete that mission when you give it up to someone else," Sara said.
"How do you know about Naraku?" I asked her, her eyes widened and she looked confused.
"Why are you asking me that?" she asked.
"Because you said it, I heard you," I told her the others where looking between us confused.
"Nothing that you need to worry about, two things that you need to know," Sara said.
"One, we are leaving wither you like it or not," Tanya said she looked ready to hit someone, great we where taken down by them, I looked over at the others they had small injuries: bruises and little limps here and there.
"Two, we aren't leaving with the Hōgyoku, you can try and fight but as you can see the results won't be pretty," Ichigo promised, I realized how fierce he looked, his posture was protective with Rukia and Sara; if it did turn into a fight I wouldn't want to have to fight him.
"And we have one thing to say to you," Inuyasha said he shrugged me back with his shoulder and I knew he wanted me to stay out of it, I knew that whatever he said we would follow. "You aren't leaving with the jewel shards." That's when all hell erupted. Inuyahsa, Sango, and Miroku lunged forward to where Sara was, but just like I knew would happen everyone of them stepped in front of her. It was all out, Inuyasha was using his sword without hesitating and so where Miroku and Sango. The Shinigami didn't seem to be holding back either, though not all of them where fighting they had just managed to trap them in the middle of them. This was bad they didn't have room to run, they would get hurt, I wanted to help but I didn't know how. I felt the cold sensation of steel against my neck I turned my head slightly and saw Sara standing there.
"You want to end this?" she asked me, I nodded my head. "Be the victim, catch up later with no intent of fighting but uniting," I understood she wanted me to act more helpless then I was, and then Inuyasha and the others would stop fighting, I could do that and she had a point we would never carry out what we wanted to do unless we worked together. Taking a deep breath I let out a scream, they all froze and turned to where we where.
"Let go of her," Inuyasha hissed at Sara taking a step closer, I felt the sword press closer he froze.
"Don't even think about it," she said her voice was cold, but I knew she wasn't going to hurt me, she kept whispering trust me.
"What do you want?" he asked he looked angry, understandable, and he looked helpless something that I've never seen Inuyasha look like.
"Drop the weapons and move away from them," she said, they complied. "Tanya, Ichigo," three giant cobras appeared one was white, another gold, and one was brown. The Shinigami got on and Sara got on the white one with me.
"Explain later and when you fall think happy thought," she whispered in my ear before she pushed me off I clenched my eyes shut and I fell lightly landing on my feet, I felt Inuyasha pick me up.
"Are you okay?" he demanded I nodded my head. I looked up as Sango and Miroku tried to follow them on Kirara but I couldn't even see the outline of the giant snakes.
"They will pay for this," Inuyasha promised I looked at him.
"No," I said he looked confused avoids that, that would happen; Sango and Miroku came back.
"What are you talking about?" Inuyasha demanded I looked over at them and waited until I had counted to 50 and Inuyasha started growling.
"Because it was an act," I said I saw the surprise form on their face, then the realization, and finally amusement.
Sara's P.O.V
I was waiting for them to start with the questioning but they stayed silent, and then I heard the best sound that I thought I would hear. They began to laugh, I looked up and smiled.
"When did you take acting lessons?" Rangiku asked, I laughed.
"Beats me," I said. "I guess I'm just that good,"
"You know at first I couldn't tell and then I got a closer look and saw that your Zanpaktō was upside down," Renji said, I laughed again that was my worst fear that one of them would notice but they didn't seem to know about our kind of swords because they couldn't tell.
"Hey I had a helper that apparently had taken acting lessons," I said.
"You know I figured that you wouldn't have been able to pull it off unless Kagome looked generally scared," Ichigo called from Sean; I ignored the comment that suggested I couldn't pull it off on my own. I looked over where Kohaku was little behind Toshiro, Renji, and Rangiku; I knew that they hadn't noticed him.
"So you decide to come," I told him their eyes flashed to where my voice headed, I sighed this was not good; all too soon they had their swords out and where ready to decapitate Kohaku. "Hey Shinigami, calm down, Kohaku isn't going to do anything." They looked at me for a while and then sat back down; Kohaku shot a grateful look at me.
"He can't really stay," Toshiro said.
"Sure he can, he's my responsibility," I said Kohaku looked uncomfortable at the subject.
"Sara, you know how things are you can't take care of him, not with what's going on," Rangiku said, I sighed I was getting annoyed.
"Kohaku, do you want to stay and help me?" I asked him they Shinigami where openly glaring at me know, so all Kohaku did was nod his head, I smiled at him. "Good then you can stay, unless you Shinigami fell like learning the physics of free falling." That was enough of a threat to keep them quite, I almost laughed as I looked over at Tanya who by the looks of it was yelling at Yachiru and having an argument with Rurichiyo. Ichigo had gotten stuck with the quite people, Rukia and Momo, but Rukia and him where yelling.
"Sara, take the pink freak please, please if you value my sanity take her!" Tanya yelled at me from where she was, but honestly I didn't want Yachiru with me right know, I had enough with the glares.
"Sorry, but I have more people then you, unless Ichigo takes Yachiru you have to keep her," I called to her.
"Nope, no way in hell I'm taking that little devil!" Ichigo protested from where he was I laughed as he flew Sean slightly farther from us.
"Ichigo, please, it won't be that bad you have quite people, a little noise won't be that bad," Tanya called to him trying to convince him.
"Meany, that's not nice, don't complain about me!" Yachiru yelled jumping on Tanya. I sighed as Albert began to sway in a safe matter.
"Ichigo make room, you're taking the three headaches," I told him, he glared at me.
"Not fair!" he yelled at me. "You have to take one of them or else I'll have more people then you."
"Fine I'll take Tanya then!" I shouted at him before he could leave me with Yachiru, I swear if looks could kill I would have died right then and their, not that I would really die, I would probable come out as a Shinigami. They made the transfer from a few protest from Rurichiyo from being left with Yachiru; and then few shut up's from Tanya, and a couple of warnings from me we ended up with, Tanya, Kohaku, Renji, Rangiku, and Toshiro with me and Momo, Rukia, Rurichiyo, and Yachiru with Ichigo.
"Where are we going?" Toshiro asked I looked over at him, I knew him enough to know that he didn't like not knowing what was going on.
We look over at that man, Naraku, he's demon but he is human. We're in front of an estate that we stayed in after the others caught up. He has the last of the Hōgyoku and he's strong but not enough to pose a threat; but he thinks just like Aizen enough so too make us wary, we get ready for him to make his attack but it never comes he flees, and the Hōgyoku burns bright and complete against my chest.
I look back at them again and this time my eyes catch Tanya's, and she nods knowing what will happen next.
"We're not going that much farther," I told them. "I'm not sure what it is I only know where we have to wait," I said.
"Wait for what?" Renji asked.
"You'll see,"
I smiled at the memory. It didn't take long for us to reach the part of the forest where the others will be coming; we land and spread out enough to have private conversations but close enough still to fell the heat of the fire Kohaku made. I was sitting with my knees pulled up to my chest when I felt Toshiro sit down next to me, I can fell him the heat that his body gives out, my eyes move to his and I look away as I stare at cold teal.
"What happened to your arm?" he asked I looked down instinctively at my left arm.
"Nothing," I told him.
"Other arm,"
"Oh," I looked down at my at my right arm remembering this morning, I wasn't sure how to explain without making him uncomfortable. "I healed,"
"That's was a very bad explanation, even if I didn't know you I could probable tell that you're not telling me something," he said, damn, that was the shity part that he could tell.
"You don't tell me stuff either," I said, his expression hardened, yeah, low blow but it was the only way to get him off my back.
"It's to keep you safe," he said, I didn't answer in some ways he was completely right but I knew that even if what he said made my heart twist and my cheeks burn I didn't want to explain until he was alright with it.
"You want to keep your friend safe," this time he was quite and as I looked up at him he turned away, yeah, what a way to ruin the moment of him coming to me.
"Sara, I-" I didn't let him finish I didn't want to hear that again.
"Forget about it I shouldn't have brought it up," I amended. He said nothing but by the way he looked I knew that he was grateful.
"Sara, do you remember that day?" he asked I looked over at him not sure what he was talking about.
"Which one?"
"When we first met," my mind went back to that day to that little boy, I smiled.
"I remember," his eyes met mine but they weren't that cold anymore.
"So do I,"
"Do you want to remember it again?"
"I'd love to,"
Author's Note: we'll be living in the past the next chapter and get to see into depth how Sara really became part of Soul Society and then we may even see a certain someone we met in this chapter. I'm so happy that I got a review so I hope that I get another one and I'm pretty sure I'll have another chapter up before the end of the weekend I'm inspired right now!=)