InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Beauty Meets Beast ❯ Insert Title Here ( Chapter 6 )

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Beauty Meets Beast

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Chapter 6: *Insert Title Here*

He continued to glare at her and Kagome was almost convinced he was going to say no. But then he sighed, “Very well,” and she had to restrain the urge to leap for joy. “We leave in the morning.”

She wanted to ask if they could leave tonight but she knew they couldn't. If they did, Sesshoumaru would turn into a human before they even got to Inuyasha forest. So instead of asking questions, she merely smiled and told him, “thank you.” The next morning Kagome woke to find Aerin sitting in a chair next to her bed, looking beyond worried. “What's wrong?”

“Why didn't you tell me it was that bad?”

“Huh?” Kagome mumbled, her sleep addled brain not comprehending the young demoness' question. “What are you talking about?”

“Lord Sesshoumaru is taking you to get special medicine.” She said, sighing at Kagome's `yeah, so?' look. “It must be bad if you need special medicine we don't have.”

Kagome laughed. So that's what the problem was. Aerin thought she needed something more powerful than what they had here. “No, you misunderstood him. I don't need special medicine, I just need my medicine.” Aerin continued to look confused, “You see, I can't have youkai medicine. It's too potent for me. So Sesshoumaru is taking me to my home so that I can get some.”

“Oh, I see. Why didn't you just tell me that in the first place?”

“I didn't want you to feel differently about me since I cannot handle youkai medicine.”

“Oh, I don't care about stuff like that. Personally, I hate the medicine we have. It's all really bitter and nasty.”

Kagome couldn't help but laugh at this too, “Same goes for my medicine.”

Aerin laughed as well, standing from the chair and helping Kagome up in the process. “Anyways, I'm supposed to help you get ready so that you and lord Sesshoumaru can leave as soon as possible.”

Kagome nodded and followed Aerin into the closet where they went through their daily ritual of trying out zillions of kimono before finally deciding on the first one that had been tried. In the process of fixing Kagome's hair, there was a knock on Kagome's door so Aerin excused herself and came back a moment later with none other than the lord of the West himself.

“We shall leave from your balcony.” He said as Aerin finished up the final touches on her hair and straightened her obi.

“Um, ok. Do you mind if I ask why?”

Sesshoumaru ignored Aerin's wince at her question. “This Sesshoumaru does not wish to alert the entire castle of his journey.”

“Oh ok.” Kagome said, mentally thinking to herself that he just didn't want Rin to know he was gone.

“Is she ready?”

“Yes,” Kagome said, cutting Aerin off, “I am.”

“Very well,” he said, his eyes narrowing in annoyance, “Aerin you are dismissed.”

Aerin nodded and excused herself once again. Once she was gone, they walked out onto the balcony and Sesshoumaru picked Kagome up before leaping into the air, summoning his cloud under them once they were high enough to avoid being seen.

“Where is your home?” he said, already flying in the direction of Kaede's village at speeds that made Kagome's head spin.

“Huh? OH! I forgot you don't know.”

“Know what?”

“Um, I'm not from here. Or well, I am but…oh never mind! It's easier if I just show you. Take me to the Bone Eaters Well. I'll explain everything when we get there.”

“Very well,”

On the way to the well, Kagome debated over the best way to explain this to him. There was no way he would believe her is she told him, which meant she'd have to show him. But would he even cooperate long enough for her to show him? And would the well let him through? Deciding that her only real option was to see if she could get him to jump through the well with her, she sighed when he landed and didn't move to get down from where he'd situated her in his arms. “Alright, now this is going to seem crazy, but I need you to jump into the well.”

Well, she couldn't say she was all that surprised with the `you're insane' look he was sending her way. “Please just trust me. At this he scoffed and Kagome was convinced he didn't believe her, when he finally resituated her in his arms and leapt into the well. All she could think as he leapt was, `please work. Please work.'

When she felt the familiar tug of the magics that pulled her across time, Kagome couldn't contain her sigh of relief. She closed her eyes and just relaxed as the magics did what they did best. This was without a doubt her favorite sensation…well except that. But that was beside the point. When his feet touched the ground she sighed in contentment, that is, until she saw his reaction.

Upon landing on the other side of the well, Sesshoumaru immediately dropped her and gripped Tokigen's hilt. “What sorcery is this?!” He growled, towering over her small, weaponless frame.

“Please let me explain!” Kagome said, as she frantically tried to think of a way to calm him down, did I mention she was weaponless?

“You have 1 minute.”

Kagome gulped and sighed, `At least he's giving me time to explain.' “Alright, I live 500 years into the future from where you reside. This well allows me to, in essence, cross time. For the past, oh I don't know 5 or 6 years, I have been traveling back and forth frequently through time during our travels.” He seemed to debate over this for a few minutes before he nodded so slightly that she wouldn't have seen it if she hadn't been looking.

She sighed in relief, climbing out of the well and walking out into the…rain…it was raining. Great. Just great! “Let's get in the house.” She said, pulling her outer kimono over her head and running like hell towards the shrine. When they were finally inside and out of the rain, Sesshoumaru abruptly stopped and growled, “He has been here.”

“Huh?”Kagome said, confused as to who he meant. After all, there were millions…if not billions of he's in the world. But after a second her brain caught up and reminded her that there could be only one person to whom he was referring. “Oh you mean Inuyasha. Yeah, he's been here a lot. He's the only person who can cross the time barrier besides you.” She mentally wondered if maybe Sesshoumaru could cross because he was related by blood to Inuyasha, who was tied to her via the beads.

“Kagome is that you?”

“Oh no…QUICK HIDE!” Kagome whispered, quickly pushing Sesshoumaru towards the stairs. “Yeah mom, it's me.”

“Come here,”

“In a minute mom, I got drenched in the rain so I'm gonna go change.”

“Alright dear.”

“Quick go! You don't want my family to see you. Trust me!” She whispered as she continued to push him towards the stairs.

“You dare..”

“Yes I dare,” she said, cutting him off as she finally got him to the stairs and began to push him up them. When she finally got him to her room, she collapsed on her bed and sighed. “Sorry, but trust me you don't want my family to know you're here. They wouldn't leave you alone for a minute.” He merely `hnnnn'd' in response as he walked around looking at the various things in her room. “Um, I guess first things first I should find us some dry clothes.” She debated for a moment on giving him the clothes Inuyasha always wore when he was here, but after recalling his reaction to merely smelling Inuyasha's scent, she decided that her dad's clothes were more his style. About 10 minutes later, after she had located some of her dad's clothes that he could wear and had changed out of her own wet clothes, Kagome excused herself to go talk to her mother after asking Sesshoumaru not to leave her room.

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“FINALLY!!!” Inuyasha shouted in frustration as they crested yet another rather steep hill.

“What?” Miroku mumbled as he struggled to keep up with the hanyou. They'd been combing the woods for days in search of both Sango and the castle, with no luck on either. The young monk wasn't sure how much longer he could keep this up.

“There it is!”

“There what is? Inuyasha you're not making any sense.”

“What do you mean?!?! It's right there!!!”

“What is right there? All I see is a valley full of trees and meadows.”

“Sesshoumaru's castle! It's right there!”

“Inuyasha, I think all this walking is getting to your head.” Miroku sighed as he leaned against a tree. He didn't know what Inuyasha's game was, but he didn't want to play. At the moment all he wanted to do was curl up and go to sleep, preferably beside Sango.

`He put a barrier around it so that only inuyoukai can see it,' Inuyasha realized as he continued to try to explain that there was a castle in front of them to Miroku, who wasn't looking convinced. “Look, come on. I'll prove it to you.” With that he proceeded to drag Miroku down the hill and stopped just short of the gate. “Now do you see it? Or can you at least feel the barrier??”

“No, Inuyasha trust me there is nothing...”He was surprised when Inuyasha proceeded to hoist him onto his back and jump over the gates to the castle, “…here…ok so I was wrong! Give me a break!”

“HA! And you thought I was crazy!”

“You there!” Said the inuyoukai who was fast approaching them. `

`Think fast Inuyasha. What do you do?' Inuyasha thought as he gripped Tessaiga and stood slightly in front of Miroku, in case the youkai decided to attack.

“What do you think you are doing waltzing into Sesshoumaru's castle like that? And you brought a human with…Tessaiga!”

Ok, now Inuyasha was confused. Just who was this dude? And how did he know Tessaiga…and could this dude get anymore random?

“But that means…you are…Inuyasha?” Inuyasha loosened his grip on Tessaiga's hilt a little. “Are you Inuyasha, half brother to Sesshoumaru, lord of the West?”

“Who wants to know?” Inuyasha couldn't restrain his shocked expression when the inuyoukai suddenly dropped into a very deep bow before him.

“Forgive me; I am Drake, lord Sesshoumaru's head of security. We've been expecting you Inuyasha.”

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“Where is that stupid thing?” Kagome said as she rummaged through the various drawers, cabinets, and shelves that occupied her bathroom. She'd been looking for her first aid kit since she finished the interesting conversation she'd had with her mother a half hour ago. `Why does mom suddenly think I need to slow down? And what was the deal with her comment on how good of a father Hojo would be?'

“Your mother wishes you would mate with the human Hojo.”

Kagome sighed; she'd forgotten that he'd followed her into the bathroom. “I don't know why she said that. She knows I can't settle down until finish restoring the sacred jewel.”

“But you do not mind her statement?”

Kagome stood up and looked at him. He was looking over the things in her bathroom, acting as if he was only talking because he had absolutely nothing better to do. “I didn't say that. I just…oh never mind…” Why was she telling him this anyway? She began her search anew, trying to ignore the stoic taiyoukai currently occupying her bathroom.

“Aha!” She cried out when at last she spotted it. She pulled the kit out and put it on the counter. “Now if I could just find the…YES!” She pulled out the antiseptic.

“What is that?”

“Huh? Oh, this? It…um…kills infection and it helps numb the pain.” Sesshoumaru nodded and watched as she applied the contents of the little tube liberally to her chest. Then she put the tube back in the kit and motioned for him to leave the bathroom. She dropped the kit on her bed before walking over to her closet. “Alright, I just want to get some stuff to take back with me. Is that…alright?”

“It is fine,”

“Thanks, so what am I going to put all my junk in?” She said as she dug through her closet. “My yellow book bag is with Inuyasha, and since I decidedly don't know where Inuyasha is, that leaves me with…THIS!”

A.N. Wow…what started out as a short little two page rough draft turned into a five page chapter!!! I am proud of myself. And there is still more that I had intended to write. But I think that this is a better stopping point than where I had originally intended to end the chapter, so the next scene will have to wait for chapter 7.

InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Beauty Meets Beast ❯ *Insert Title Here* ( Chapter 6 )

InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Beauty Meets Beast ❯ Insert Title Here ( Chapter 6 )