InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Destines and Memories ❯ chapter 3 ( Chapter 3 )

“What was that?” Someone near him asked.

 

“Nothing.” Shippou said, and finished setting a bone into place.

 

(A few hours later)

 

“Master Shippou, sir! Master Shippou!” Called a man, running down the corridor towards said kitsun.

 

“Ah, Marina do you have…what? What is it, what's happened?” Shippou took on a frantic look as he saw Marina's worried one.

 

“They're retreatin', sir, ery las one o' em.” She took a deep breath, and continued. “We're searchin' their camp right now, sir, but we ain't found nothin' yet to esplin why they just got up n left.”

 

“I wonder if…” Shippou started. “The lady…she must have done something.” He turned again to Marina ad said, “Where is their leader?”

 

“Dunno, sir, he ain't there neither, he gone and left to.” She looked around the hall, seeing if anyone else was around before she said, “That Lord Naraku, sir, there's a rumor goin' `round `bout him now.”

 

“Rumor?” Shippou asked. He really wasn't into gossiping lately, as mostly what he head were snips at Kagome, but now he asked, “What rumor?”

 

“The one `bout that Lord bein' one of them hanyou's, have demons like.” Marine seemed to be having great fun in telling Shippou this. “And wonderin' if the Lady was really as strong as was bein' said.”

 

At this Shippou almost blew his top, he was so angry that anyone would say that.

 

“And who,” he asked, trying not to grit his teeth or fangs. “Did you hear this form?”

 

“Oh, a fair few people.” Marine said, watching Shippou closely. “But it don't matter, they was all just being stupid.”

 

“Damn right…” Shippou muttered and started to walk away, Marine following. “What else was said?”

 

“Well, they was wonderin', them that started this rumor, what happened to him now.” Marine glanced at Shippou and went on, “They say there was an light and then someun scremin' then nothing, that Lord was gone or something'.” This was defiantly news to Shippou. “Do you think it could be that the Lady's gone and gotten rid o' the Lord?”

 

At this Shippou shook his head, turned a corner and said,”No, I don't think so. She's…gone into stasis, and is going to be for a while. But you might as well tell everyone that Naraku is gone…for now. We don't need to worry the people any more than is necessary.”

 

“Right you are, sir, I'll go straight to tell them.” She turned to go, but then stopped and said, “What about that army, sir? It's gone and retreated, but do you wanna have us on our toes or our butts, sir?”

 

“Toes,” Shippou said, heading into the mess hall, ready for a very late breakfast, or an early lunch, whatever was still edible. “Just in case those bastards decide to come back for a surprise attack. Dismissed.”

 

Marina slated Shippou and ran off, to deliver her messages. Shippou watched her run away before he entered into the mess hall. He smiled as he found other late arrivers and the cooks looking murderous at everyone for running their time off.

 

`I'll never get over the way she talks to everyone,' Shippou thought, and he went and got his food before sitting down and eating it. `I hope that this is the end of the war, no more lives need be lost…'

 

But if only he had been right. Little did Shippou know, this war would go down in history as the longest war ever to rage, spanning thousands and thousands of years, where small fights, called wars in them selves as no one knew that there was a greater war going on, would break out everywhere, causing mass chaos.

 

And all of this, soon, would be enough blood, enough deaths, to awaken the most feared demon of the planet earth, Naraku. This, as it was prophecies, would, in turn, awaken the Slayer, the Goddess, the Peace, the Miko Kagome Higurashi, back into the world, memory less, friend less, and in need of great help from the most unlikely of peoples…

 

A/N: Yes, short, but it has lots of information! Anyways, the next chapter will be up soon and it'll be where Inuyasha and Miroku find the castle, awaken Kagome and Sango, and where this journey really starts!