You're Kinda, Sorta, Basically, Pretty Much, Always On My Mind.

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I Do Not Own Inuyasha

"Talking"

37. The Sennin

A roaring crowd was lost in the darkness, but I could still hear there cries. Blinding white lights shone in my eyes, the intense heat accelerating yet uncomfortable. The floor beneath me shook from the force of the bass, and drums crashed behind me. A guitar ripped through the cheers and sent hundreds of screams through the darkness. I glanced behind me, my heart racing and smiled at the guys behind me. Green, blue and, silver shined back at me. I turned back to the darkness, as the fans cheered... and the bass, guitar and drums kicked into a melody I could sing to. The beats and music raced through my body, my heart drumming along to the beat. It touched every part of me, sending waves of a pleasure unknown and better then anything else I had ever ever experienced through my blood. I grasped the microphone with my hands and pulled it close to my lips. I took a breath...and..

"OI WAKE UP!"

My eyes snapped open and and met gold. "Ugh you bastard!" I shoved Inuyasha out of my face and sat up. "YOU RUINED MY DREAM!!"

"IT'S ALMOST NOON!" He argued. "HOW LONG WERE YOU PLANNING ON SLEEPING FOR!?"

I growled but said nothing. I didn't feel like arguing, but he seemed to take it as a victory. Inuyasha crossed his arms over his chest, watching me with a victorious smirk on his face. I huffed and grabbed my backpack. I pulled out my cordless stereo (why the hell was that in there??) and slammed it on the ground in front of him. I checked the cd player inside, and quickly turned the volume up high before turning it on. Anna Tsuchiya's Zero blasted through the speakers and I felt that same wave of unknown pleasure shoot through me, the song from my dream.

Inuyasha yelped and covered his ears. Yes, the volume was slightly painful but I loved it. He shouted something over the bass but I couldn't hear him. I gave him a dark smirk and he glowered back at me. I jumped over to the fire and grabbed something that was cooking from it, gulfed it down, then as the chores line exploded from the stereos speakers I jumped up on a rock and sang along. Ha, loud pay back for waking me up.

"I'm going my way. I believe in my way/ I'm better than you guys/ I'm living for my sake, not for their sake, yeah!/ I'm finding my way. I'm finding my love/ I'm not stupid like you/All that I need is, I only need is selfless love/All I don't need is, I only need is selfless love."

Again Inuyasha shouted something and I laughed and threw a rock at him. He caught it (jerk) And threw it back at me. Things went like that for the rest of the song, until the guitar solo. I threw my shoes at his face and played air guitar through the whole thing. But half way through, the music was suddenly off. I opened my eyes to see my stereo smashed underneath a boulder. Inuyasha's hands were still on that rock.

"WHAT THE HELL MAN! MY STEREO!!!" I shouted running over to him, then tackling him to the ground.

"IT WAS TOO LOUD, YOU STUPID BITCH! WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT ALL FOR ANYWAY!"

"IT WASN'T TOO LOUD, I JUST COULDN'T HEAR YOU OVER HOW AWESOME I AM!!"

"THAT'S BULL AND YOU KNOW IT!"

Our shouts and wrestling lasted until Miroku decided it was enough.

"If you both are done." He said, clearing his throat. By this time I was pinned to the ground, Inuyasha's hands grasped around my wrists as I struggled to get up. "I something in the water."

Ew again?

We got up and leaped over to the river. I scanned it with my eyes carefully searching for what it was that had interrupted us. I saw it, and stifled a gasp.

"These are.." Miroku trailed off as his dark eyes landed on them. "Heads?!"

He wadded into the river and held one of them with his hands. "I wonder if there was a battle up river.. We should hold a memo-"

"What is it!?" Inuyasha barked, shoving past me.

"I wonder if their even human.." Miroku explained. "There isn't even a trace of a mark from a cut"

"So they're fake?" Shippo asked timidly.

"No.. I don't think so."

I sniffed them just as Inuyasha had. "There's no mistaking it," He started.

"It defiantly has a human scent." I finished off, interrupting him. He growled and muttered, "bitch" under his breath. But I just turned my head away and smirked at the sky.

I noticed the kitsune and monk watching us strangely. Ugh, I wonder what they're thinking.. I sighed and got to my feet. "Let's go investigate. We might even get a shiky fragment out of it."

"Why do you sense one!?" Inuyasha asked, leaping to his feet and stalking after me.

"Mmm, I wonder.." I replied, much to his aggravation.

"BITCH ANSWER ME!"

"Sorry nobody by the name 'bitch' lives here."

"DAMMIT KAORI!"

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We walked along a foggy path way along the river, Miroku and Shippo further ahead. Inuyasha walked beside me, his arms crossed over his chest, and his eyes closed. His nose was pointed slightly downwards, and he seemed to be in a sour mood... as usual.

I rolled my eyes and sighed, looking onto the cliff face to my right. How come one day we'll be like, closer then fries stuck together and others we'd be biting each other's heads off. One day, true-heart-beating-blushie-dying-of-anticipation-and-joy confessions and the other is all, to hell with you. This is so stupid..

"By the way...Sorry about calling you a bitch."

I stopped, frozen in my own shock, and stared at him. He continued on walking like nothing happened. But then suddenly I was pointing and shouting. "YOU ACTUALLY SAID SORRY FOR ONCE!!"

He stopped and turned around, his face slightly annoyed. "Yeah I did, so what?"

I caught up with him and the pace continued. "That's... slightly freaky.."

He growled. "CAN'T I BE NICE AND NOT FREAK PEOPLE OUT!?"

I looked at him. He looked slightly embarrassed and irritated all at once. I shook my head. "With you... probably not. But what's wrong with doing both? Scaring people is fuuun."

He looked at me, with an expression I couldn't comprehend, and I smiled mischievously back. This caused a small smile of his own to break out on his face and we looked away from each other. It didn't matter what happened before there still was always gonna be this awkwardness between us I know it.

"Oi..."

I looked around, finally noticing something I probably could have noticed long before. Inuyasha did the same. There were voices in the wind.. weak and tired voices... My ears pointed forward toward the source of the noise and I turned my head in that direction. A tree was just up ahead, close to the river bank. As we got closer, I noticed heads growing from it's branches.

"I..It's got heads!" Shippo squeaked, leaping onto Inuyasha's shoulder.

"Ehh!? What is this!!?" I grabbed Inuyasha's arm and threw it around my shoulder. I felt a force pull me closer to him, which I knew was him, but when I looked up he was watching the tree as if the kitsune and I were invisible to him at the moment.

"I'll find out their story." Miroku decided, walking ahead closer to them. Was it just me or did I detect a slight trace of rejection coming from him...? He reached the Head Tree and looked up at the faces. "Hello..What on earth happened to you?"

"We were eaten.." An old face replied. "By the Sennin..."

"A Sennin...?"

"So it wasn't a youkai?" I wondered aloud, then sighed. "How disappointing."

"All of us, tired of this world." The old face continued. "..gave up on the village and came here. For this mountain, where the sennin lives, was said to be paradise. And so we were eaten.. by the Sennin called Toukajin."

"Keh!" Inuyasha scoffed. "You all are a bunch of idiots, to think we'd fall for such a lame story!"

"Inuyasha!" I hissed. "Don't be mean!"

In turn Miroku whacked him on the head with his staff as I untangled myself from his arm. "Is that anyway to talk to these unfortunate people!?" He lectured.

"Please never mind his rudeness." I said, wording it strangely. I noticed it right away and stared confused at my feet. What the hell?

"Not at all." The old face replied.

I shook my head and looked back up at him. "Is there anything we can do for you?"

"It's to late for us.." He sighed. I felt sorry for him. All he wanted was a better life and he was tricked and let down... In some weird way this reminded me of Kikyou, and the other fate she had shown me through a dream. "However...there should be more of us who have not been eaten...At least you can save them."

I heard a clattering above and searched above me. Bones fell from the cliffs above and landed by the roots of the tree. I wanted to leap up into it, but.. something about human heads caused that instinct out the door.

"It... It's human bones!?" Shippo said, a little shaky.

"They're still fresh." Miroku added.

I growled and let my hands fall to my stomach. "Okay, nauseate the girl with your details isn't fun anymore."

I noticed a new head grow onto a branch above me and I looked away. Really.. this was freaking gross man.

"That's the owner of the bones." The old one explained. "Our heads are called 'Ninmenka' or 'Human-Head Fruit'... We are the medicine of eternal youth for Toukajin."

"Keh!" Inuyasha scoffed, then abruptly leaped up the cliff. "Call him what you want, he's a nasty youkai, isn't he!?"

"Wait we'll come with you!"

"If I have to take you all the day will be over by then!" He then disappeared over the rocks above.

I growled and I felt my ears pin themselves back. "Does he not realize I'm perfectly capable of taking Shippo if he takes you, Miroku.. Erg again, mistaken for a human!"

"But don't you also want to finish this by night fall?" Shippo whispered in my ear. "Tonights the first of the month.."

My heart lurched... First of the month... He's gonna become human soon.. and he's up there alone. "THAT IDIOT!" I leaped up after him, Shippo falling off my shoulder in the sharpness of my movements. That stupid, stupid idiot ball of IDIOTNESS!

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Upon a cliff surrounded by a thick and damp mist, sat a large palace shrine. It was very grand and large, with many rooms, most of them unused. A large round body munched greedily upon a fruit in one of the rooms facing off the cliff, surrounded by small brown weasel-like creatures, dressed in brightly coloured kimonos.

The large mass of body fat was something inhuman. It's hair was a sea-weed green colour that was messy and fell down to his shoulders. He had large eyes with no real colour just large black pupils. There was no nose, us two snake like slits in the centre of his face for nostrils and large lips covered a set of razor sharp teeth.

"Hmph." Toukajin said to himself. "If I don't eat the fruit now and then, I get heartburn."

The sound of heavy footsteps, then the sound of breaking wood sounded through the room before a boy with silver hair, dressed in a bright red kimono, kicked down the thin door leading to the unclear outside world. A few of the weasel girls squealed in fear and ran for cover behind various large vases and bones.

"Hn? Looks like a stubborn and distasteful guy has appeared." Toukajin mumbled.

The boy cracked his knuckles, glaring at the inhuman mass. "So your that Sennin...? I'm here to exterminate you."

"Inuyasha!" A blue haired maiden came in after the boy, her eyes glistening with anger. "You idiot! WHO SAID YOU COULD GO ALONE!?" Her dark ears were pinned back against her brightly coloured head, but they soon were alert and moving to ever source of noise in the room. A dark grey almost black tail flicked in aggravation. Her eyes scanned the room and as they landed on the Sennin they narrowed and she braced herself, both hands on silver thin katanas at her hips.

Inuyasha turned back to the Sennin, having tried to ignore the loud girl the whole time, and pulled out a large sword that in no way could have fit into the small black scabbard it came from. "So this is why you're fat?" He asked, sniffing the air. "You pretend to be a Sennin then stuff yourself full of people."

Suddenly the girl was no longer at his side.

"You wont escape Toukajin!" The boy shouted, running forward thrusting his sword toward the man. The girl flashed in front of him then away, obviously much faster, and they were both upon the stone faced man, in a matter of seconds. But with a loud clang, they were forced back, the weapons having done nothing to the man.

"Ouch.." Toukajin whined, getting to his feet. The hanyou's faces flashed with panic as they took in the situation. Weapons did nothing to this guy.. they just bounded right off his flesh. "Stupids. I don't know what kind of youkai's you are, but did you really think you could defeat a Sennin?" He waved a wooden staff and in a panic Inuyasha shoved the girl out of the way and from the room. She growled, as she landed on her bottom in the bushes outside.

The thing Inuyasha had panicked over were only mere flowers. He scoffed. "Flowers!? Are you gonna use your pathetic flower power to kill me!?"

"Why don't you take a good look at those flowers." Toukajin growled. As he said it, suddenly to Inuyasha the flowers were 100 times bigger then they had been only seconds before. The girl outside watched wide eyed as the silver haired boy was now as small as her thumb, and was picked up then eaten by the youkai Sennin.

She growled, and braced to run, but as the man turned and glared to glare at her, she was gone.

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Kaori ran from roof top to roof top searching for something to help her. There had to be some kind of weakness right? She landed on what seemed like solid ground, but as her feet touched, she fell through the bushes and down numerous stone steps. She hissed and got up, rubbing her cheek where the stone had cut. "Stupid..Hidden.. Rooms."

She looked around, her tail flicking from side to side. It was dark, and musty in there, with more vases and pots then the last room, but what made this different was a large wooden box in the centre. She stepped towards it, sniffing the air as if expecting some kind of youkai to jump out of it at her. She peered inside. It was just a box garden, a pretty one at that...She noticed a person walking lazily along one of the paths. Then a few more under trees... near rivers... every where. People captured by Toukajin??

But as Kaori looked the garden quickly became bigger.. and bigger.. and bigger... until just as it was too late to look away, she found herself inside. The air was sweet and warm, filled with the delicious scents of wild flowers and berries. She placed her hand on her chest to calm a beating heart, but then realized something even worse. Her shikon shard was gone!

End Of Chapter 37

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