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Okay 1.) The song Kaori sang in the last chapter was... well heh I just remembered I already told you but it's Zero by Anna Tsuchiya and they way she feels about that song is how I feel about it ^-^ very strange right?

And 2.) That whole "CAN'T I BE NICE AND NOT FREAK PEOPLE OUT!" thing.. actually happened the night before I wrote the last chapter with me and my guy friend... Yeah. :] (like everything even the whole bitch thing too..grr)

Also sorry for the delay, but if sed child ^^^^ hadn't gotten me mad by saying since I'm bad at grammar I should just give up on writing stories, I would have finished sooner.

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I Do Not Own Inuyasha

"Talking"

38. Weakness of a Human

"Kaori!"

I looked around, my hand frozen upon my chest. Who could know me here? I saw many people, and the scenery of the box garden was more beautiful then I would have thought but I still couldn't see who could have called me. I looked the other way. There I noticed Miroku and Shippo running up towards me, and I got up to greet them.

"Why are you guys here?" I asked once they were close enough.

"Shippo has unknown but very useful powers." Miroku informed me, panting slightly. His raven hair was loose and messy full of branches and leaves. Had they found this place just as I had? "...but unfortunately, as they are unknown, they are rarely used and therefore unpractised. Half way through the flight Shippo lost the transformation and we fell down those steps."

Ahh, I was right.

"Where's Inuyasha?" Shippo asked, scrambling onto my shoulder.

I felt a wave of guilt rush through me, and I dropped my gaze to the ground below. "While we were fighting, nothing, not even our swords could wound him. Then he made this spell using flowers and made Inuyasha shrink to about the size of my finger.. then Toukajin swallowed him.. I didn't know what to do so I ran to find some sort of weakness the Sennin could be hiding.. like a weapon of some sort or some weird spell scroll, anything...I don't know... but then I ended up here."

I felt a gentle hand land on my shoulder. "It's okay Kaori. Inuyasha would probably have wanted you to do so." Miroku reassured.

"But-!"

"Anyways, now we must find a way to escape this box garden. We can't be of much use from in here."

I pressed my lips together and nodded. Miroku was right. I looked at the sleeping or lazing people around me. They were all going to be eaten if they don't escape... I leaped over to them, my legs feeling like large springs, and looked down upon them.

"Oi... We're going to escape, and unless you do the same you're going to be eaten by the Sennin."

I was ignored.

"It's no use, Kaori-sama. We have already tried reaching out to everyone." said Miroku. "But they all seem to be under some sort of spell, caused from consuming the fruit or water here."

I glanced towards the people who were picking fruit or bent over by the stream. Each set of eyes were unfocused and cloudy. They were like living zombies.

"So if we don't eat or drink we'll survive, right?!" Shippo asked slight hysteria to his voice. His small claws dug into my shoulder and the scent of panic leaked from him. Poor guy.

Miroku turned and started walking away. "If we don't eat or drink we'll die eventually anyway."

"Oh noooo!!" Shippo cried. I sighed and craddled the kitsune in my arms.

"It's alright. We've gotten out of tougher situations. We'll be fine." I cooed.

"Kaori! The sky!" Shippo yelped. My head snapped up. Dark clouds were forming in shape of a small twister, and from that twister came a large fatty arm reaching down toward us.

"Let's grab it!" I said, not realizing what I had said until after.

"Right! It's now or never." Miroku agreed.

We ran toward the hand scoping up the zombified men and grabbed onto the flesh. The hand pulled up and I felt like I was being sucked into a large vacuum. It took all my strength not to fall off. But then it stopped and I heard the deep voice of Toukajin gasp in delighted surprise.

"It's that girl!" He cried. I felt something large pinch my tail and I felt a pleasurable yet uncomfortable tingling shoot through me at that moment. Ugh, this is why we don't like having our tails toucchhedd!! I was lifted up into the air and I was suddenly very thankful for wearing jeans today, but being lifted up by your tail isn't exactly the most pain-free thing to do... I growled up at the large ugly face of the Sennin and he just smiled greedily down at me.

"Today is a good day." He said to himself. "First I get the rare meat of that hanyou brat, and now a young maiden." He moved his hand which made me swing back and forth slightly, and another finger tapped my head just about crushing my ears. "This girl looks like a hanyou as well.. Well obviously she would be, what else would be together with a hanyou besides another hanyou?"

I growled at him and struggled to scratch him with my claws. "I'll kill you! You stupid cannibal monster! Where is Inuyasha?!!"

Toukajin chuckled. "You're sure a feisty one. Eating you this small would be a waste."

His other hand grabbed me around the waist...squeezed.. and suddenly I was thrust into complete darkness..

When I woke up the strong scent of Sake hit me like a title wave and my eyes snapped open. I was what looked to be inside of a dark kitchen, full of the weasel and even a few baboon women, all cooking and bustling away... some were staring at me their black eyes watching reproachfully yet.. jealously? I looked down at myself and yelped, covering up anything that I could. I was.. naked.. in a shallow bath of sake that only reached my waist sitting down..... what was this? Marination process? I twisted my tail around my lower half and now I was glad I had one. It's perfect as a make-shift last minute skirt..but still kinda uncomfortablee...ugh. I couldn't see my clothes anywhere...

But I saw a door. Yes! I splashed towards it, but as I placed my hands on the stone edge of the bath, a baboon girl swung around, her hand grasping onto a sharp axe.. My ears pinned themselves back and I let my hands fall back into the water, moving away from her.

But as I did the door suddenly burst apart, throwing the baboon into the air. The scent of blood hit my sharp nose and as the dust cleared I saw Inuyasha...human form...panting in the doorway.

"Kaori!" He shouted, just before his eyes landed on me.

"I-Inuyasha!" Oh thank god.. he was okay.. well.. at least living..

For some reason he stood there, gaping at me his mouth hanging wide... for who knows how long. My tail twitched uncertainly and suddenly I remembered my bare state. I screamed and dropped down into the water until only chin and above were visible. My face burned, burned so hot and hard in embarrassment. Oh goddd...

I peaked over the stone. He was sitting on the ground.. well more like had just collapsed. His silver eyes were wide, just staring unfocused at the ground, his face as red as his kimono. I re-noticed the scent of blood and finally looked at him properly. He was sweaty and covered in blood. Injuries adorned almost every part of him.. and his kimono was torn or dissolved in a few places... I wasn't worried about that really.. it regenerated but...

I hopped out of the bath, carefully covering everything and stepped towards him. "Inuyasha.. Are you okay?"

He jumped in surprise and seemed to snap back to his old self. "Keh! It's just a scratch!" He took off the fire rat shirt and thrust it into my arms, careful not to look anywhere near me. "Put that on. Though it may feel strange, it being covered in blood and all.."

I didn't know what to say.. I wanted to say something but.. I threw it on and tied it around my waist tightly. Then as if by instinct I leaned over and kissed his cheek. "If it's your blood I don't care.." The words escaped my lips and sent another wave of blushes through him. I smiled. I sniffed the air and listened hard. There had to be a way out right?

"Can you walk?" I asked. His eyes were closed. He looked like he was sleeping. I pressed my lips together and brushed away a strand of raven hair from his face. Had it already been two months? Two months since I reentered this world? One month since those... confessions.. I shook my head, now wasn't the time to get lost in the past. I knew already I meant something to him, I should just leave it as that and not think about it to much... To prevent more drama.

"Kaori, I would think it would be better to not have Inuyasha move around to much."

I looked down. Standing on Inuyasha's arm was Miroku and Shippo, still in their miniature size...

"But Miroku, we can't exactly stay here! The Sennin could be anywhere! Even at the top of those steps!" I argued.

"When's sun rise..?" Inuyasha's voice was low and it startled me at first. He looked like he was in a lot of pain..

"I.. I don't know I haven't been able to look." I replied.

He growled lightly and raised one of his hands to come down on my head, then rest there. "Use your nose, stupid."

My eyes closed and I took in a deep breath. "Now what do you smell."

"Your blood."

He growled. "Other then that!"

I exhaled sharply then took another breath. "Cool crisp and fresh air... nicer then usual actually.." My ears twitched and I picked up a soft chirping sound. "...Crickets.. It's still night."

He sighed and looked away from me, letting his hand fall from the top of my head. I never really knew night actually had a scent..... I didn't even know that my scenes even though it was sharper then a human's could pick it up from this far... I looked at Inuyasha in a different way then before. Ugh where the hell would I be if I didn't have him to teach me these things?

"Okay here's what we're gonna do." He started.

An instinct told me he was gonna tell me to escape on my own. "No!"

He paused, then glared at me. "You don't even know what I'm going to say!"

"You're going to tell me to run off on my own, with the mini-mes here! I know it, so don't deny! One, at the moment, I am the strongest person in this group. And two, if you think you can take down that guy by yourself when he now most likely has found my jewel shards that I lost, yes I lost them, you're wrong and he will kill you!"

"Is someone there?"

A whisper echoed through the tunnel, and I was distracted from the argument. Who in the world could that be? It didn't sound like Toukajin.. In curiosity we struggled up the steps...Inuyasha being barely able to walk and supporting a unstable grown boy is not exactly the easiest thing to do.. even if you're a hanyou.

We followed the whispering calls to a small room, much like the others. The only difference was a small pot in the middle of the room. In it grew a white flower and in the middle of the petals was a old man's ancient face. The face was full of wrinkles and very pale. Long snowy locks covered his head, and a large white moustache and bear covered most of his face. I stiffed a gasp and Inuyasha leaned off of me, as his silver eyes locked onto the strange flower.

"How many years has it been..since I've head another's voice?" The plant sighed to itself.

I stepped cautiously over to him. "Were you eaten too?"

"It was my mistake.." He replied, gazing up at me with dark chocolate eyes. I felt a ache sympathy for this old guy in my heart. "..teaching a person like that my wizardry.."

"You're a Sennin as well?" I drew back. Had he been a cannibal too?!!?

"While it shames me to say." He confessed. "I was Toukajin's master."

Inuyasha's hands were around the plant's stem in an instant. "You bastard!"

"Inuyasha!"

"I'm amazed to hear you're a Sennin!" He spat. " Why did you teach that man-eating youkai your wizardry!?"

"That guy...Toukajin.." The old man whispered. "Is not a youkai. In fact, he was just an ordinary human...."

But before the plant sennin could continue the doors we'd come through only moments before burst open. Toukajin, grey as his body was now stone, stood in the door way. Inuyasha and I jumped to our feet, and I pulled out my katanas in a second.

"Hehehehe! You bastards!" Toukajin laughed. "You came to this damn place.."

I blinked. Ugh, why hadn't I noticed it before? The feeling of Jewel shards had always been near, and I'd seen them in him when we first fought him. He did have my jewel shards just as I had guessed, but I should really learn to notice these things sooner.

"Keh! This guy was once human!?" Inuyasha shouted. "Don't make me laugh!"

"I've heard that humans can transform into youkai." Miroku said, from Inuyasha's injured shoulder. "In his case, the evil of his mind was very strong."

Toukajin laughed. "Quit your blabbering." He raised that wooden staff once more. "I just wanted to be stronger!" He swung it, and a bright golden flash shot like lighting toward Inuyasha. My legs moved on it's own and I pushed him out of the way. Pain rippled through my back as we landed on the ground, and the scent of my own blood flooded my nose. Damnit..

"Kaori!" Inuyasha gasped, grabbing my arms and helping me to my knees.

"S'nothing I can't handle." I mumbled. Which was true. But, damn, it still hurt.

"Human's are just too pathetic." Toukajin explained as he watched us. I growled and tightened my grip on the katanas. "They're weak and cunning...They slave away in filth from morning to night, only to grow old and die. Both my mother and my father wasted away like that. I wasn't going to live in such a pathetic way... Which is why I became an apprentice to that stupid Sennin. After I had trained for a couple of years and mastered some of the spells... I studied the scrolls in secret while the master was away... I learned that the quickest way to become a Sennin was to understand the spells and eat the Sennin's meat..."

I cringed inside and rolled my eyes. Why did just about every guy we have to fight, wants to tell us his life story!? Like damn I don't really careee!! You would really think they would just want to kill us and never mind the narration.

"However, for the final spell, the medicine of eternal youth, seems that the only way to make it was in the old man's head, which is why I let his head continue on living like that."

A snarl vibrated from the back of my throat and I got to my feet. My hands twitched as they held my swords, wanting so desperately to destroy this pathetic being before me... "You're disgusting. Eating others just for your own personal gain..."

"What's wrong with the strong eating the weak? Just as a snake eats a frog." Toukajin retorted.

I laughed darkly. The sickness of this situation.. fuelled the darkness inside. I was pleased to know this guy was going to die. This feeling scared me... but I loved it so terribly. "But what's the point of telling you what you do is sickening?" I mused. "You'll never understand. You're too corrupted in your own mindset that what you do is right and okay. I'm a hanyou. But haven't been all my life. As a child I was suppressed into human form by some freak spell or incident. And I was sickened and disappointed in the body I held, so I can understand this thirst for strength."

I felt eyes burning a hold through my back. But ignored them. He can ask his questions about my sanity later.

"But..." Katanas started twirling around in my hands, faster until they blurred. "Guys like you make me sick.."

"Hmm? Are you trying to lecture me? A dirty, injured hanyou girl?"

I chuckled darkly. Fighting really wasn't healthy for me was it..? I grabbed a pot full of bones to my left, the pain in my back all but forgotten. "Oh.. I'll do more then just that."

End Of Chapter 38

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