Chapter 4: repost and slight revisions. Thanks!
Love, RinWolf08
Disclaimer: As much as I'd love to, I do not own Inuyahsa or any of the characters in it. Only the ones I've created.
Selene sighed in frustration as she told Kagome her story for what felt like the tenth time, "I don't know what else to tell you. One minute a youkai was in front of me the next thing I know it was gone like it never happened!"
Kagome gave her a skeptical look, "And what of Sesshomaru?"
"What about him?" Selene asked as she rummaged the bag of clothes her cousin had brought her, "Sweet you brought all my favorites; we know each other too well." She grabbed a fitted black long sleeve top and forest green utility vest to go along with her dark blue jeans. Selene was glad to have her clothes and under garments again.
"Don't change the subject Selene! Sesshomaru is not someone who just helps or cares about humans and he's showed up twice now. It's not like him at all." Kagome watched Selene change out of the priestess attire and into her future garb. "What did he say to you?"
Selene sighed again as she buttoned her jeans, "Kagome it's like I told you before, I asked him if he killed the youkai and he said no. That's all we said before he ran off." She was getting irritated; being treated like a child was not something she appreciated but the concern on her cousin's face made her stay calm. Selene was in an entirely different world that Kagome knew better than she did. She may have heard stories about her cousin's secret life in the Feudal Era but she didn't know the first thing about living in it and she needed to remember that. "I have no reason to lie to you, you know all that I know. Please don't look at me like that, you remind me of Auntie when she's worried. Leaving last night was very irresponsible and dangerous and I knew better but you forget I'm used to doing things on my own Kagome."
"I realize that but without knowing how to properly defend yourself in this world you will die instantly. Without Inuyasha I would have been dead in minutes after I first passed through the well, even now I still need him and the others. You got very lucky you had Kirara and, as much as I hate to say it, Sesshomaru around or else you would have been that ogre's dinner." Selene was going to remind her again about his part in the battle but Kagome cut her off, "And yes he says he had not part in it but both Kirara and you were unconscious so who else could it have been?"
"I have no idea," Selene said as she finished lacing up her brown combat boots, "Now I finally look like myself." It felt good to be out of the priestess kimono and into something that fit her small frame, she felt like she was drowning the heavy fabric.
Kagome couldn't help but smiled at her, "I figured you'd want comfortable sets of clothes for traveling. The rest of your things are at my house so if you want or need anything specific I can bring it straight to you." A silence fell between them, neither of them wanting to speak what they were both thinking.
"Is it safe to come in yet?" Inuyasha's voice came from the entrance of the hut.
"You can come in now." Inuyasha walked in as Selene shuffled through the rest of the things Kagome brought her.
"Did you tell her?" Inuyasha asked as he sat next to Kagome.
"Oh no I forgot!" Kagome went and took Selene's sword from against the hut wall and gave it to Inuyasha. Selene curiously looked up from her bag as he slowly drew the sword from it sheath. "Is it there Inuyasha?"
"Gramps was right," He pointed to the joint where the blade and the hilt met. He flipped the sword over, "they're both there." Kagome reached out to touch the sword when a red light shone bright outlining the blade. Selene cried out as her wrist and forehead began to burn like it had the night before.
"Selene!" Kagome rushed over to her, the burning sensation increasing as Kagome got closer and closer.
"STOP!" Selene yelled at Kagome just before she was about to touch her, "DON'T!"
Inuyasha swiftly scooped up Kagome and rushed outside taking her away from Selene, who was left shaking and sweating on the floor as the pain instantly left. Miroku and Sango rushed over hearing the scream from Kaede's hut, Shippo and Kirara not too far behind them.
"What happened Inuyasha?" Miroku asked him as Kagome shook in his arms.
"The sword that brought Selene here is called the Shimai no ken; it's somehow connected to the Shikon no Tama. Kagome went to touch it and it caused Selene pain." Inuyasha explained.
"Sword of the Sisters?" Sango questioned, "Why does that sound so familiar?"
Inuyasha put a struggling Kagome down who rushed back into the hut followed by Shippo and Kirara, "I don't know but it somehow affects Selene, when she was in pain her scent completely changed. It was like she was becoming a different person."
Sango looked at Miroku and Inuyasha with worry, "What are we going to do?"
"What we always do," Miroku put an arm around her, "Find a way to help her. If she is connected to the Shikon no Tama then she must be here to fight Naraku as well."
"How can you be so sure Miroku?" Sango asked, "What if she was brought here to help him?"
"One thing for sure is that Selene is important to Kagome," interjected Inuyasha, "And anyone important in Kagome's life is important to me as well."
Sango looked up at the smiling monk as he watched Inuyasha stare longingly at the huts entrance.
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Sesshomaru returned that morning to where his small pack had decided to rest for the night. Jaken greeted him with his usual unnecessary gusto and Rin giving him her welcoming smile, calling to him, "Lord Sesshomaru!"
"My Lord," Jaken spoke up, "You're covered with blood!"
"I bet my lord got into a mighty battle with a youkai and won like always!" Rin cheered excitedly as she ran up to him as quickly as her small legs allowed, her head craning to look up at him, "Did you have a pleasant trip my lord?"
He looked down at his young ward, "Hm."
Rin's smile grew wider, "I'm glad Lord Sesshomaru!" He never understood how such a small human could take his emotionless expressions and responses and turn them into something meaningful. He just humored the young child who seemed to devote herself to him by letting Rin do as she pleased and follow him.
"Yes," Jaken said knowingly, "cut them and whoever else down." Jaken's expression told Sesshomaru that his advisor was using his youkai senses to figure out the truth and it agitated him. Being a mighty dai youkai it was rare for blood, especially human blood, of his opponents to find its way onto his person no matter how great the battle.
"Watch Rin, Jaken." He walked over Jaken, causing the imp to cry out under his weight. Rin giggled as Sesshomaru walked off towards a nearby stream. A scream was heard from far away that caught his attention. He knew it was from the human and he felt the need to rush off back in the direction he had just come from. His body became stiff as he fought with himself.
'No….' he told himself, 'not this time…'
Something deep within him growled as if in protest. It angered him that his own inner youkai was going against his wishes. He loathed it in fact.
'No.' he spoke to the beast firmly as he continued to walk, moving away from where he felt most compelled to go.