InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Between Sesshoumaru and Pinocchio ❯ The Lord Who Was Sealed ( Chapter 1 )

BETWEEN SESSHOUMARU AND PINOCCHIO

Author: pratz

CHAPTER 1: THE LORD WHO WAS SEALED

For Higurashi Kagome life was always beautiful. It didn't matter that she lived at an old temple. It didn't matter that she had no boyfriend to kiss or hug her---though a senior named Hojo was always flirting with her. Without a boyfriend, her sky was still blue and the flowers didn't wither. Clichéd, she knew, but it was true. It didn't even matter that she had no father to live with. Her mother, her little brother, and her grandfather were more than enough to enjoy her life.

For Kagome, life reallywas beautiful... until this morning.

When she opened her eyes, on the pillow in front of her face stood a man-or she should call him a little flea man---with four hands and he was talking to her. Really, really speaking to her.

"Do you hear me, Kagome-sama?"

Her head was spinning heavily. She just couldn't believe that a... flea, or dwarf, or bacteria, or whatever it called, was speaking and calling her name. What a great morning to start a day.

"Kagome-sama?"

"Hai, I hear you." she answered softly, feeling she had gone insane for she had answered the flea man. "Tell me it's not a dream."

"Iie. Yume dewa arimasen, Kagome-sama, and you're not dreaming."

Great, now my world isn't really beautiful anymore.

"It's the time, Kagome-sama. You must come."

"Huh?"

"Follow me to the Western Land of Sengoku Jidai, Kagome-sama, and you may know what have been waiting for you."

"Yeah, and surely I'll be a goddess there, right?"

"Kind of, Kagome-sama," The flea man nodded.

Kagome couldn't stand any longer. Her imagination was too much. She really had to wake up right now.

"What the hell are you talking about?!! I don't understand and I refuse to understand! Now just get off of my face and let me sleep! It's Sunday! GET THE HELL OFF!!!"

From the kitchen, her mother could hear that her beloved daughter was yelling furiously but she didn't know why. Kagome's brother, Souta, was already running to his sister's room.

Back to Kagome and the flea man who was now standing on top of Kagome's nose. Now he spoke once again with his four arms wide open. "Sumimasen, Kagome-sama. Because you had refused to cooperate, I have to take you with force."

The flea man released a bright shine from his hands, so bright Kagome thought she would be blinded by it. She closed her eye in order to protect them and felt like she was floating in spiral.

"Kagome, are you all right?" Kagome's door opened, Souta's face coming from the edge. What he saw was just an empty room, with a messy bed and no Kagome. He blinked once, and twice, when he saw a ray of light above a pillow where Kagome's head should be. The boy stepped inside, looking to his right and left, but he still didn't see his sister. "Kagome? Where are you? Don't try to scare me."

"Souta? Please wake Kagome up! Tell her breakfast is ready!" Their mother shouted from the kitchen downstairs. The boy's mouth gapped open in disbelief and ran out from Kagome's room, full of fear and panic.

"Mamaaaa!! Kagome was kidnapped!!!"

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"Kagome-sama? Kagome-sama, mezamere. Kagome-sama?"

She moaned weakly. Slowly, she forced her eyelids to open. The first thing that welcomed her was a bright sunshine. She raised her right hand to cover her eyes, sighing shortly when birds' chirping reached her ears. Her left hand fisted since she felt her back was a bit sore, grasping a few blades of grass from the land.

Her eyes snapped open immediately.

Birds' chirping?!Grass?! Land?!!

She jumped in pure surprise, utter shock, full panic, and confusion.

Looking around, she found that she wasn't in her bedroom anymore. She didn't see her bed, pillow, or anything else, and instead she saw woods, a field with green grass, and a river in the distance. No walls or door, just grass and more grass... everywhere.

Her mouth gaped like a goldfish but she couldn't say even a word.

"Kagome-sama?"

She turned to her left to see the flea man standing on the rock beside her.

"Where... am... I?"

The flea man sighed before shifting his gaze to the grass field around them.

"Kagome-sama," he said softly. "Welcome to the Sengoku Jidai."

Her jaw hit the ground as her eyes widened disbelievingly. But she knew the flea man wasn't lying. Everything he said was the truth. She wasn't in her room. Like it or not she was in a new and strange place now---not to mention a bit scary also.

"I... I..."

"Forgive me, Kagome-sama, but I didn't have any other way to bring you here."

She stared at him for a while. "I forget you name."

"Myouga desu," the flea man jumped onto her shoulder and bowed politely. "I am an aid to Lord Inutaisho of the Western Land."

"Lord... who?"

"Lord Inutaisho of the Western Land," Myouga repeated---Kagome noticed the pride in his voice. "The late great youkai lord and the only master to..."

"Whatever," she cut in sharply. "Just wake me up and take me home right now."

"I'm afraid I can't."

"What?!"

"First of all, this is not a dream, Kagome-sama, and second, my duty is only to get you here."

"Whaaat?!!"

"Kagome-sama, it's impolite for a miko to cry out like that."

"I'm a what?!!!"

"You, Kagome-sama, are a miko," Myouga smiled in amusement, finding the way Kagome said 'what' in more than one way with a different tone and expression. "A powerful miko Lord Inutaisho believed that you would save this world."

Seeing that Kagome seemed to lose her voice---and also that annoying 'what', Myouga spoke again. "I was commanded to bring you here. Before his death, Lord Inutaisho told me that a human girl from different time would save Sengoku Jidai from..." he hesitated for a while, and then, "the most evil creature known by human and youkai.

"Lord Inutaisho told me to bring you here and also said that his son would help you to find that evil. From now on, I will be your guide... if you let me."

"This is the stupidest joke I've ever heard, Myouga-san," Kagome smirked sarcastically. "Hell, I even don't even go to my own temple to pray and yet you say that I'm a miko."

"I just told you what Lord Inutaisho told me, Kagome-sama," She jerked suddenly and caught the flea man between her thumb and middle finger, ready to crush him. "Listen here. I don't care whether I'm dreaming or not but just take me back home or I'll..."

"You will kill me, won't you? You can't. I am a youkai. I'm immortal."

"And you'll live your immortal life in a very crushed body."

"Kagome-sama, I really don't know how to bring you home. Lord Inutaisho said th-..."

"Stop talking about that damn Lord Inu-whatever-his-name-is! I want to go home NOW!!"

"But Lord Inutaisho said that you'll be able to go home after you defeat the evil!"

Silence... then; "Who?"

"Who?"

"The guy that you called 'evil'."

"He's not a guy neither a youkai."

"So...?"

"A hanyou."

"Half demon?"

"You could say that," Myouga huffed as she released him from her fingers. "A man that turned into a demon will never could be called a youkai."

"Who is he?"

"As a human he was called Onigumo. As a hanyou..." the flea shivered slightly from fear, "Naraku."

"Naraku then," Kagome said, already surprising Myouga that she could say the name so casually. "May I ask you one more question? If I really am a miko, then why don't I have any power like in the stories? Why can't I fly or summon a ghost or shinigami? And why don't I feel any changes in me?"

"That makes three, Kagome-sama."

"Fine. Just answer me."

"First of all, the shinigami is beyond the power of a miko, Kagome-sama. You're a miko, yes, but shinigami is counted as god. You have power---I believe that because Lord Inutaisho said so, but I don't really know what kind of power you possess. I also don't know the answer for that flying thing, as well as the changing thing."

"Great. Thanks for the information."

"Anyway, Kagome-sama," Myouga continued carelessly, ignoring the sarcasm on Kagome's voice. "There's one thing you should do as a miko. This is what Lord Inutaisho said."

"What did that great lord of yours say?"

"You have to unseal his son from the seventeen years seal."

"Why must I?"

"Because he would be an aid---or I should say a help---to you."

"And he is..."

"Lord Sesshoumaru."

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"...and since he is the eldest son, Lord Sesshoumaru is an heir of the Western Land. He's as strong as Lord Inutaisho, even stronger maybe, but much colder. After the painful death of Lord Inutaisho, Lord Sesshoumaru soon became the master of the Western Land. But not long after the succession, Naraku came and..."

"Your so-called Lord Sesshoumaru was sealed," Kagome finished for him. "You've already told me that."

"Yes, Kagome-sama."

Kagome cursed in silence. She had walked through the forest and the grass field for about two hours to find the sealed lord and found nothing yet. Just how long did she have to walk before she'd meet that damn lord? Great. I'm in a strange world with a flea who can talk and now he's talking about a demon lord. I must be crazy---so crazy that I'm beginning to believe everything this flea man is saying.

"If he was that great, how was he being sealed?"

"It's..."

"What?" Kagome turned to face the flea man on her shoulder since he didn't finish his answer.

"We are arriving, Kagome-sama."

She raised her head to find a big tree in front of her. Never in her life had she saw a tree as big as the one in front of her now. The branches were bigger than two human bodies wide and its leaves created a canopy thick enough to shelter two houses. The tree looked powerful and sacred... and scary.

But that wasn't a problem to her compared to this thing.

A man, with white kimono and armor, which had horns on its surface, was pinned to the tree's trunk by a silver arrow in his chest. A bundle of fur was on his left shoulder, gently caressing his cheek---she noticed that his cheek had two stripes on each side---when the wind blew softly. His body was covered with wild plants and lichen she almost thought he was being one with the tree. Climbing plants had grown across his shoulder to his waist and there were two smaller branches tangled themselves on his left foot. If only he didn't have that glossy white hair, I'd think that he's Swampthing, Kagome thought. He looks like he's just sleeping.

"It... it..."

Kagome couldn't find any words, not a single word. It seemed like her words were stolen by the wind from the glory of the sight before her.

"Lord Sesshoumaru..."

From the flea man's choked whisper, she already knew that she had reached her first destination.

And all she had to do next was releasing him from the seal.

Releasing a youkai lord named Sesshoumaru.

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Notes:

Why was Sesshoumaru sealed? How could he? What was Kagome's relation with Naraku and Inutaisho? And how would Kagome control Sesshoumaru (it's not going to be the 'Osuwari' thing, OK)? But I guarantee one thing; our dearest Sesshoumaru isn't going to have a long wooden nose ^^. Nyaaah... just be patience, minna-san!

Many thanks to my beta, Napea/Meamiko.Nyaah... if you readers are going to say thank, say that to Napea/Meamiko! Once again, thank you and thank you to all of you. Hontou ni hontou no hontou arigato gozaimasu!!

In fact, I really don't know what the fur on Sesshoumaru's shoulder is, but in this fic I make it as his father's fur (like Shippou has his father's). I know that his tail when he's in youkai mode (that giant dog form) isn't like the fur---instead it looks like a painting brush, and if it's really a tail, then he supposed to have a hole on the back of his pants, right? Can't even imagine that thing coming from his rear!! ^^; And since I also don't know the name of Sesshoumaru's father, so I just take 'Inutaisho' from other fanfics I'd read.

Please be kind since it's my first Inu Yasha (which's the right one, Inuyasha or Inu Yasha?) fic and also don't forget to review so that I would have the will to carry on. I welcome every review, constructive critics, and also flames, so please review, minna-san!