InuYasha Fan Fiction / Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Breathless ❯ Spiritual ( Chapter 44 )

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Chapter Forty Three.

As they kept flying and flying away, Usagi couldn't help but think of Aku with a clenched heart. She hadn't meant to leave them; he, Tsumi and Niraya-sama, but she really had had no other option.

`And I couldn't ask Aku about Kanna…' she thought with regret. All she could ever hope was for the white haired detachment to be alright, wherever she was.

Thinking about the albino void child, on the other hand, had reminded her of something else… Usagi turned to look at her own hair.

Taking a few tresses between her fingers, she noted how they'd become thinner, longer. All in all her hair had become so long, thin and abundant that it gained natural slight waves at the ends, no longer as straight as she'd once had it.

Just like last time.

The color was still blonde, she noted with relief, but had turned such a lighter blonde, it was closer to white.

She gave a dejected sigh. “Almost silver…it's happening again” she quietly breathed out. The Taiyoukai glanced down at her questioningly from the corner of his eye; she must have thought he couldn't hear her, but he had.

No matter, he thought; he had plenty of time to interrogate her later, so he went to comment on another thing instead.

“Your friend is right, you're far too trusting”

“I know” it sounded almost as if she'd been expecting his words “though it is by choice”

The statement intrigued him. “How so?”

“I want to believe in everyone… that everyone has hope. Have faith in the inner goodness of people…that no matter where it may lay hidden, it is always possible to start over”

He snorted. “You are naïve”

“May be” she closed her eyes.

“You are also being hypocritical” he went on, looking on ahead as if indifferent, but not wanting to let the matter go “girl, was it not you who called this Sesshoumaru an `evil sick creature' a few moons ago?”

The reference made her gasp.

“I am sorry, Sesshoumaru” the lack of honorific made him glance down, and he watched that she suddenly looked sad. “I was so rude to you that time…My head was full of confusion and fear, I said such nasty things”

His eyes widened slightly, he hadn't been expecting that. But he composed himself fast, lifting his head back. “Don't be foolish”

“Huh?” this time she was the one to look up.

“It's in the past” he didn't know why he said this, or what he meant by it, but he did. He wasn't heartless.

Usagi's eyes shinned and she nodded, giving him a warm, rather affectionate smile.

“Hai”

They both kept silent for a while.

…Listening to Jaken's snoring on his pelt. The blonde stared back at him feeling envious. Rin and Kohaku were already in deep slumber on the two-headed dragon.

“You can sleep if you want”

“Huh?” she lifted her head again to look at Sesshoumaru. He didn't turn to look down at her though, his gaze still lost ahead.

“You were unconscious for almost two weeks; I could feel your body undergoing some sort of transition process. You must be tired”

He noticed. The girl blinked. “Will um, will it be alright with you?”

“I'm used to staying hours without sleep; unlike humans”

“Oh” she murmured, and then gave a little yawn “Well then, thank you. I think I will” she accommodated as best as she could in her awkward position under his arm, unconsciously snuggling closer to him, seeking warmth.

“Good night, Sesshoumaru” she began to doze off.

Minutes later, she was asleep. The Demon Lord again glanced at her from the corner of his eye. Strange girl…

…Strange girl indeed.

Wordlessly, he and Ah-Un continued to fly towards the setting sun in the horizon, three humans and a toad youkai resting trustingly on their hands.

“What news do you bring me, Byakuya?” in another place, a dark haired hanyou was asking.

“She was not with them, at least I didn't see her” the raven haired detachment answered “There's still a possibility that she's being retained by the Taiyoukai, Naraku-sama”

The Hanyou Lord's face darkened. “Tsumi…have you checked Kaede's village? She did not return?”

“No, the villagers seem very stricken with her disappearance” the lavender haired, purple and red eyed female answered. “We're positive she is not there”

Naraku scowled with utter displeasure.

“Very well, you may go, but keep in watch just in case” he observed as the two incarnations left the chamber.

His eyes flashed... He was angry.

“You better not have put your hands on her again, Sesshoumaru” he snarled “or that little girl that you love so much will undoubtedly pay the price”

`Just be patient Usagi…I WILLfind you…'

However, his eyes shinned brightly as he thought another plan.

“Ne, Inuyasha, you have really to work on your attitude” Kagome admonished in a motherly voice “You shouldn't have treated that poor man like that”

“Heh, he had it coming” the hanyou grunted “he shouldn't have said that I was an evil spirit sent from hell to cause another cataclysm”

“You're right, Inuyasha” Miroku agreed “but you have to admit it was funny when he thought you were a centipede demon”

“I don't know what you guys find so funny” the hanyou glared “I don't and will never have anything in common with those thousand legged pests! Peasants like him should really get their facts straight!”

“You really don't have anything in common with the centipedes, Inuyasha? I thought your face has met the ground just as many times as them!” Shippo exclaimed all serious. A vein popped on the half-breed's forehead.

“Shippo, you airhead, I thought I told you not to crack any joke on that!” he threw a punch on the distracted kistune's head.

“Inuyasha, SIT!” Kagome flared up in anger.

“Hehehe! See my point, Inuyasha?”

“Shippo! That was not nice” the girl from the future reprimanded, making the fox cub pout.

“I'm sorry, Kagome”

“I think she meant you should be apologizing to Inuyasha, Shippo-chan”

“Ugh. I … I… I… ImsorryInuyasha!” he babbled in a flash. Kagome couldn't help but grin.

“That's a good little boy” she patted him on the head, inadvertently in the same tender place where Inuyasha had pummeled him over.

“Kagome, that hurts!”

“Ah! Sorry!”

“Hey guys, we better hurry up if we want to get to Kaede's village before nighttime” Miroku announced as he pointed to the last sunshine of the sunset.

Minutes later, they were all comfortably seated in Kaede's hut.

“That is right, Kaede-sama” Miroku, the Buddhist monk said “We came here all this way to ask you if you happen to know the cause for the cataclysm”

“I understand “the withered old lady said “But I'm afraid that I don't Miroku-sama” she shook her head “ever since that day, we're not sure what could have caused it and the event's remained as nothing but a mystery”

“Please tell us, Kaede-baba” intervened Kagome “if you have any hypothesis, any ideas or if you noticed something odd before it happened; that cataclysm… that cataclysm does not figure on the books of history in the future that I consulted”

“Which is the reason we think it may have something to do with Naraku. Actually, at the moment of the cataclysm we were fighting one of his incarnations, a mirror youkai, and she disappeared completely after the debacle… We find all that to be very suspicious”

“As a matter of fact, something strange did happen… though I doubted it could have anything to do with this. She's…not that kind of monster”

“Huh?!” the five members of the group chorused, whereas Kirara mewled.

Kaede lowered her eyes.

“It's just… one of our people went missing; not truly one of our people, really, but someone we had come to love as our own”

“…Kaede-sama? Who is this `she'?” Kagome questioned. The old lady sighed.

“Her name was Usagi… she had come to the village days prior claiming to be the daughter of a priest and that she'd lost her memory… She requested training on the ways of the miko; she was such a sweet child…I couldn't deny her”

“Miko?” Sango repeated “what could Naraku possibly have to do with someone wanting to train as a miko?”

“If you brought it up, Kaede, there must be a reason” Inuyasha prompted “out with it already” his brashness made Kagome frown.

“Inuyasha…”

“He is right” the aged priestess interjected “there is a reason. Usagi is… was the most powerful person with spiritual powers I've met in my life”

…At this rather drastic statement, all heads turned to her gasping, wanting to know what she was talking about…

To Be Continued.

A/N: I'll be going on a vacation for a few days so obviously this story won't be updated for a while. This is why I've posted three chapters in a row, to keep you guys entertained and happy. (Pleasing smile) You can't say I am not considerate. (laughs)

Just remember to read the author's note at the end of the previous chapter, the one that discusses the possibility of posting the following chapters as a separate story labeled “Breathless (PART II)” (NOT “Breath (PART II)”, sorry, my bad) not as a sequel but as a separate part so this story doesn't end a hundred chapters long… I've already heard some of your opinions, but I wouldn't mind hearing some more! (winks)

Happy soon-to-be Easter! And till the next post.