InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Control ❯ This is getting ridiculous!! ( Chapter 4 )

Disclaimer: Bring it on! I'm taking Inuyasha for myself! *distant barking* … Do any of you hear something? *sees very big guard dogs* Eh heh…I'll just be over here… *dogs start running* Oh, God!!! I hate guard dogs, I hate guard dogs…

Just start the fic without me, 'kay? *bark* Yipe!!

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Chapter Four: This is getting ridiculous!

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Last Time:

Ejineko watched the Inu demons with growing amusement. 'Everything is going just as I'd hoped.'

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Naeomi pulled the rubber band back and aimed at Sesshoumaru's arm. 'Hold still, you stupid…' She released it. It snapped on his exposed bicep, making a satisfying smack and leaving a red welt. Naeomi didn't get to enjoy it, though, because at the same time, her arm began to sting, as if it had been snapped as well. She glared in the direction it came from, but there was no one there.

"What…?" She pulled up her sleeve. On it was a large red streak. 'There wouldn't be a welt…my sleeve was down!'

"Hey, bitch!" Sesshoumaru hissed. "What's the big idea?"

"Hmm?" Naeomi looked startled. "You say something?"

"Yeah. Why the hell did you just hit me with a rubber band?!"

Naeomi looked at his arm and gasped. The marks on their arms were identical! 'Tha-that's not possible!'

Sesshoumaru was confused at her sudden shock, not to mention angry at her sudden dismissal of him. 'How dare she! No woman-' He stopped that line of thought before it got out of hand.

Naeomi felt slightly annoyed for some reason. 'Why am I-there's no rational reason for me to be upset…' She took a deep breath and managed to settle down. 'Hmph…easy.'

"I do have a name, you know." She snapped.

Sesshoumaru was calm now too, deciding it wasn't worth his time getting upset over this stupid wench. "Just leave me alone, Naeomi." He said sarcastically.

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"This is getting ridiculous!!" Sesshoumaru snarled, once again feeling the sharp pain in his gut. Glaring across the library, he growled low in his throat when he spotted her. 'Naeomi…' But as much as he tried to, he couldn't become totally angry with her. It was like something was holding it back…

He watched Naeomi smile at something Kagome said. Then she looked up, and her eyes flashed as she noticed him. A strange feeling washed over him. It was happiness, mixed with something else. Nervousness…embarrassment.

'Why am I embarrassed?' He wondered. 'Because she's looking at me…because of her…?'

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Naeomi was still blushing slightly even after Sesshoumaru stopped looking at her. Cursing herself, she wondered why she reacted to him like that. 'I don't even like the guy… do I?'

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Sesshoumaru scanned the titles on the shelf.

'I can't believe I'm doing this… I looking for a book on mikos in a school library…'

Surprisingly enough, they had one or two. He flipped through the pages, scanning them.

"Figures. Nothing." He frowned. 'Wait… that teacher, Ejineko… he could know something.'

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Ejineko was surprised to see the taiyoukai walk into his office. "Hello, Sesshoumaru. What brings you here?"

"I… have a question," he choked. He didn't like asking this demon for help… something about the demon rubbed him wrong. He was hiding something.

"Yes?"

"Do you know anything about… demon mikos?" Ejineko's face darkened. The neko demon turned his back to Sesshoumaru. Watching him carefully, Sesshoumaru narrowed his eyes. 'He knows something, all right.'

"I may know of a few…" Ejineko admitted. "You are wondering if Naeomi is a miko as well as a demoness?" Sesshoumaru nodded. "Yes, she is. But she doesn't remember, isn't that also right?"

"This is also true… but what does this matter?"

Ejineko just smiled. "You will find out soon enough."

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Naeomi slammed her locker door shut. 'Finally, this nightmare of a school day is over.' She turned to walk down the hall to go home and ran straight into what felt like a brick wall.

She rubbed her forehead and looked angrily into a familiar set of gold eyes. Blushing again, she tried to look angry. "Oh. It's just you," she sneered feebly. When he didn't respond, she glanced at him again. Her violet eyes widened when she saw the suspicion and angry confusion in his eyes. Something else, too…it just wasn't identifiable.

"Wha-what do you want…?" she tried to steady her voice. He didn't answer, just stared at her. 'Why is he looking at me so strangely?'

"That idiot Ejineko was wrong. It's not possible for you to be a miko." He said simply, and turned to walk away. He stopped and turned to the now extremely confused inu demoness when she said, "Huh? What the hell are you talking about, baka?"

"You-" His anger flared, only to be stopped again by some invisible barrier. 'This is really starting to tick me off.' Instead, he grabbed her forearm and tried his best to look angrier than he was. "You will not speak to me like that, Na-stupid bitch!"

Naeomi tried to pull away, more startled and frightened now than anything, but Sesshoumaru just dug his nails into her flesh.

"Let me go!!" Naeomi brought up her other hand and slapped Sesshoumaru across the face for all she was worth. His grip loosened, and she yanked her arm free.

Naeomi brought her hand to her still-tingling cheek, as did Sesshoumaru.

Except Sesshoumaru's arm was bleeding.

"Your-your arm…" He looked down at it. A fresh set of claw marks still oozed blood, just like hers.

"Did you?…" they both asked in unison. Naeomi's eyes were full of tears being fought back from the combined pain in her face and arm, but Sesshoumaru was used to such pain, and hardly felt it.

"What's going on here, Sesshoumaru?!"

"I should be asking you the same question, miko."

"Stop calling me that! I don't even remember what that word means!! What's going on here that I don't know about?" she glared up at him.

"You're the one who should answer that." He gave her an accusing look, but mentally he knew she was telling the truth. 'If she isn't doing this, who is?'

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Ejineko only smiled when he saw Naeomi and Sesshoumaru's matching bandages. 'One of them tried to hurt the other. They must be suspecting something's off by now.'

Sesshoumaru noticed the cat's knowing smile and frowned. 'What the hell is so goddamn amusing to him?' He then turned to where Naeomi was standing a few feet away, talking to Kagome again. Suddenly, a bright red blur slammed into his chest. It was Inuyasha, who, even after five hundred years, refused to stop wearing red clothes. Naeomi made an irritated sound, a hand on her collarbone.

Sesshoumaru shoved Inuyasha to the ground. "Idiot!!" Then he paused. 'Am I angry that he hit me…or because it hurt Naeomi?' Sneering, he walked away from his younger brother.

Naeomi blinked. 'Talk about a delayed reaction! He didn't even acknowledge Inuyasha until he looked at me and realized it hurt me too…' She smiled a little. 'What a weird guy…I thought he couldn't care less about me.'

"What are you staring at, bitch?!"

'And then again…'

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"I can't stand this! She's screwing up everything I do!!" Sesshoumaru knocked all of the papers on the table to the ground. "That stupid miko…"

'No…there's something about this that doesn't make sense… to do a spell like this, she would have to be aware of her powers…and she isn't.' He thought about it awhile longer. 'Ejineko…he knows too much about this to not be involved in it in some way. I need to keep a closer eye on that demon.'

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A/N: Okay, people, listen up. I will not post one more chapter until I get at least FIVE reviews. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this chapter. It took me two days to do. I'll see ya later! Buh-bye!! ^.-