InuYasha Fan Fiction / Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Journey through the past ❯ Distrust in the scouts ( Chapter 6 )

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A/n: yeah I'm sorry about taking so long but it took me forever to get my thoughts about this one cleared up and now I kind of have a clue as to where I want it go. So I hope I didn't lose too many reviewers and bye for now!

She watched in horror watching his every move waiting for that last blow. Her ankle was currently throbbing with pain and she was muddy from the bank of the body of water behind her. A glance to her right confirmed that the young girl was still hurting from her injury. She moved her hand back and felt for her weapon. She grabbed it and attempted to stand and attack but a searing pain traveled up her leg causing her to fall once more. She opened her eyes in time to see the sickle come at her and a piercing pain shot through her side and across to her middle…

'Kohaku…' She whispered gently feeling her body begin to drift away only to suddenly be yanked back. 'Let me go… no I don't want to come back. Let me die in peace for once…' She pleaded as memories of the many times her soul had been reborn played before her eyes. 'There's nothing good to live for anymore… Only Sango and Hotaru would miss me and that's depressing.'

"Only those two would miss you?" The cheerful voice of Lita Kino rang through her mind. "I doubt that…"

"…" She said nothing to reply.

"Oh come on you weren't reborn for once… someone wanted you back. He used the weapon he hated so much to bring you back."

"He?"

"You know who I'm talking about girl! The hunk with the hair!"

"Get up girl! They're waiting for you to open those pretty blue eyes of yours."

"Don't you hate me?"

"Should I hate you? You, I, and Hotaru are in the same boat… taken from the loves we once had in Feudal Japan. Stop wasting time with me AND WAKE UP!!!!" Lita yelled the last part startling her out of her slumber…

"You're finally awake…" A voice made her jump. She saw the young girl with her shoulder bandaged up

"It seems so."

"I was beginning to worry that you wouldn't."

"Don't worry so much… you'll get grey hair and you're too young for grey hair." She shifted the blanket so she could move. She winced a little as pain shot through her ankle. "Times like this I wish I were youkai." She muttered.

"It is such an inconvenience you mortals take forever to heal over such petty wounds." She turned her gaze to a small creature that resembled something like a toad. Without warning something came in contact with his head and both females laughed.

"You've got pretty good aiming…"

"Uhmm… my name is Rin." The girl realized she had trailed off hoping for a name.

"Serena's my name." Serena said smiled a little at the girl before forcing herself to stand.

She placed all her weight on her good ankle to stand properly, but something was off… Then she finally realized her clothes had been changed. Instead of her demon exterminator clothing she wore a robe. One that resembled the clothes he wore only it was in… silk? She rubbed the material and sighed admiring the softness of it.

"I'm Jakken." The small creature provided feeling mildly left out and was still ignored.

"Sesshoumaru-Sama had changed your clothing himself after washing the blood off of your body." Rin said not really thinking about how such a thing could be perceived as.

"He did what?!?!" She wanted to shout but her throat became a bit raspy quite possibly for being out of commission for sometime.

"Just as the girl said." The voice Sesshoumaru startled everyone. The look between Sesshoumaru and Serena was rather unreadable. Well, most of Sesshoumaru's looks were a bit unreadable, but hers was a bit odd, it was full of hurt, anger, confusion, hatred and quite possibly regret. She then turned away from the group hiding her face.

"Where are my clothes and weapon?" She asked icily.

"Your clothes were burned…" Jakken said as Sesshoumaru ignored her completely and started cooking the meat he had captured for Rin and her to feast on. "Your weapon was left behind."

"Just great…" She muttered looking at the robe hoping he had other clothes for her since she was not going to walk around in a silk robe all the time.

She then settled herself back onto the spot she had been resting upon and crossed her legs and lowered her head as if she were meditating… but then she noticed then her hair was no longer in it's odangoes… actually the style of her hair had been changed completely. She still had her bangs but her hair had been cut from its ankle length to about mid-thigh. "Now I really look like Mina…" She muttered. "Add a red bow and then we can't deny we're related." She sighed deciding it would be best if she examined herself; so no other surprises caught her off guard.

"Hmm…" She glanced at the rest of her and aside from the bandages nothing new was done to her.

"Here…" Rin gave Serena the plate of meat on it.

"Thank you…" Serena gazed at the food practically drooling over it. She was hungry.

"Sesshoumaru-Sama cooked it." Rin said sitting down with her own plate of food. "He doesn't eat much but he makes sure that I am well fed." She said making Serena smile a bit.

"Yes, when he does decide to care for someone other than himself he does more than his share." She tasted the food thinking about how he had cared for her when she had been injured before.

"He cut a great deal of your hair because it had been stained with blood and mud…" Rin said eating her food. Both females crinkled their noses thinking about how her blonde hair would look stained red and brown.

"I must've looked gorgeous then…" Serena said sarcastically making Rin giggle.

"Actually you look a lot prettier this way." Rin said.

"Kohaku, that is twice I have ordered you to kill a being and you disobeyed both times." Naraku looked at the boy whose gaze seems to go right through him with the eyes that show no emotion. "You must really want to embrace the pain your memories will bring you." Naraku said watching the eyes turn towards him almost in a silent plea to not.

"I had killed the Queen Serenity just as you asked…" Kohaku said in his own defense.

"It was that Sesshoumaru who had brought her back… I had seen it myself." Kagura said earning a hard gaze from the dark haired male. "I say if you really want to get the queen you should focus on that Demon lord of the western lands. Ridding him will make her source of forever coming back to life gone leaving her open… then you can work on getting rid of the hanyou and his group. Then finally, your precious Kikyo can go as well…"

"This looks horrible…" She looked at her reflection in the spring once more. "I miss the stupid meatballs." She muttered before standing while placing her weight on her good foot.

She then began limping away from the camp site. There was no way she was going to allow herself to stay in his care. It wouldn't be fair to her or him… It was her choice to not be with him that day and she was pretty sure he was acting out the pains of it all. He had never been so coldhearted… not even when she had first met him and now it seems all he could think about is becoming more and more powerful. He just wasn't the Sesshoumaru she had fallen for all those years ago. But then again nor was she the same whiney cry baby of an exterminator he had known her to be. She had grown up a great deal, she was no longer the young fourteen year old he had fallen for, she had lived for centuries and she was a grown woman with needs… ones she won't even go into at the moment.

"I guess this time a goody-bye isn't required for your leaving…" His words drawled out making her turn to him. He was sitting at the base of a tree with one leg extended out and the other bent while his hand laid lazily over one of his swords and the sleeve where his other arm should be just laid eerily by his side. His hair was swaying slightly in the night's breeze and his bangs seemed to dance just about his eyelashes. His golden eyes just seemed to stare right through her, only if she had not known him too well she would've swore they were too.

"I had hoped you be off doing whatever one armed wolf youkai would be doing."

"You'd be easy to find again…" He said as his eyes lay on her waist. She followed his gaze before looking at him again and she felt mildly guilty for ruining such beautiful material, but she'd never voice that.

"So I re-opened the wound… maybe this time I'd die for good."

"Rin is attached to you." He removed his gaze from her.

"Is that why you kept me alive? To give her a friend to have while you go out and hunt?" She snapped and he kept silent for sometime.

"The time for her to grow up is nearing quickly." He simply stated. "It would be simpler to leave her at a village to grow and learn to act however mortal females act, but she'd rather die then get caught up in another village without Jakken or myself nearby." He heard her slink to the ground slightly cursing her wounds.

"That had been your intention wasn't it? To abandon her to a group so she could learn to cope with whatever 'mortal females' go through?" He was silent as he found something in the far distance interesting. "But I happened to show up at precisely at the right time and it keeps you from having to part with this girl…" She watching as his head turned towards her. He stared at her before looking off in the distance again and it dawned on her. 'He treats her as if she were his own child…' Her eyes welled up in tears of realization, but then she felt a stab in her side.

"It's time for your bandages to be changed." He said suddenly standing.

"Just be quick about it… I have a low tolerance for pain." She said as he hoisted her with his one arm and took her back to the camp. She found herself tempted to ask what had happened to the missing arm, but she easily refrained from doing so and just let him lower the top of the robe long enough to change the bandages.

"Ohh…" Hotaru groaned sitting up when another rag had been placed on her head.

"Glad you're feeling better." The sweet voice of Kagome rang out.

"Besides a headache; sure I feel just wonderful." Hotaru said and looked at Kagome.

"We couldn't find Serena…" She said quietly. "All was left were her weapons."

"Okay…" Hotaru said looking at the group of people who were busy eating dinner.

"Can I have some food? I mean I have been out of the loop for a few days I suppose and…"

"Are you okay?" Shippo stopped eating and looked at his fiancée. "We had expected tears… sadness, something."

"Hime's fine…" Hotaru said taking the bowl of food gratefully. "After my fainting spell I felt her spirit get yanked back…"

"You mean to tell me as if she willed herself to be alive??" Miroku asked.

"More like someone brought her back against her will." Hotaru sighed. "This someone has the power to bring back the dead if they weren't dead very long, someone who could benefit from having her alive whether physically or emotionally."

"The only person who can bring back the dead like that is Kagura" Kagome reasoned.

"… but she manipulates already dead bodies…" Shippo said.

"Or My stinking brother…" Inuyasha said.

"You don't think he still… loves her?" Sango asked gently only to have a giggle reach their ears.

"That's for me to know, and everyone else to figure out!" The same little girl who tipped them off about the village stood there giggling bouncing her ball.

"Rini-Sama…" Hotaru frowned and the platinum pink haired child.

"Konbawa Hotaru!" the girl giggled. "I am very glad you are well now."

"Why are you here? You mother has separated from the group."

"Well you see… I'm only here to make sure things go as planned for the princess of lightening."

"And for your mother…"

"That too but still…" Rini said looking at the monk before laughing hysterically. "You're gonna get it Houshi…" She giggled making everyone frown.

"Alright, what the hell is going on here?!?!" Inuyasha angrily yelled.

"Patience, Hanyou!" The child said. "You see everything will be explained once the princess of lightening appears… It seems she will be the key you need to really defeat this enemy you had been following for years. Just make sure you go in that direction when the sun rises again."

"Why should we trust you…?"

"Because if you don't the fight with half demon Naraku will be lost and the future Kagome knows will fall out of existence… as will Kagome."

"Don't you think that should've happened with all the time traveling?" Hotaru asked earning a smirk from the girl that seemed vaguely familiar to Inuyasha and co.

"Bye now!" She threw her ball in the air and when it exploded into dust the child was gone. Everyone was silent.

"Hotaru, that child is from the future is she not?" Miroku asked going into one of his deep thoughts.

"Yes."

"Then she will be the offspring to Serena?"

"Yes."

"Would that make Sesshoumaru the father?"

"I don't know. Last time I met the girl she was the daughter of Serena and the man Serena was supposed to be with. But when the Shadow of Naraku had come to our time after fighting with you guys it changed everything…"

"A Shadow of his went you after fighting you guys?"

"Yes, The false Inuyasha… He had appeared with a jewel shard in the garden. When he was being cleaned up one of the servants mentioned something about an arrow head had been lodged in his chest and they took it out. Rei had inspected it and noted that it was a holy arrow or something to that manner. Apparently that began her suspicions of him in the first place." She said.

"Kagome remember when you hit that fake Naraku a long time ago…" Shippo said making Hotaru gasp.

"The whole thing was orchestrated!!!" She declared growing angry very fast. "The whole thing was orchestrated by the one scout I never would've sensed distrust in…Trista."

*~*~*~*~Crystal Tokyo*~*~*~

"You see that is why I really need you to go back there, Lita." Trista said.

"I see… Just one question… do you know of what happened to…"

"It's not my place to tell you. Just know that Onigumo isn't just a simple bandit anymore…" Trista sighed. 'Nor is he in love with you anymore either…' Trista added silently.

"I see… and of my brother?"

"He is alive… and well. Although I think you should just go and figure things out for yourself. I'm sure things will work out in the end." Trista waved her hand opening yet another portal for the girl to enter. "Live well."

"I will." Lita sighed before stepping into the portal.

'Hime… I'm sorry for doing this but even I have longed for a time to shine and things just happened to allow me the chance to do so…' She whispered feeling a sense of betrayal. 'But everyone will be happy this way… right?'