InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Destines and Memories ❯ chapter 4 ( Chapter 4 )

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…

 

 

 

“Come on, hurry up!” Said a voice in the distance, faint, but growing closer. “This place could go down any second man.”

 

“I know I know, you've said it a hundred times.” Said a second voice, sighing. “Why are we even here again?”

 

“I've told you man! There's suppose to be a buried princess and treasure here!” The first voice grew excited. “They say she's perfectly preserved and so beautiful he shines!”

 

The second voice scoffed and said, “Miroku, you need to get a life. All you ever think about is chicks and cash.”

 

Miroku's voice sounded hurt, but playful at the same time, “You know that's all you think about to Inuyasha. You just do that behind closed doors.” Then he laughed. “Wait, I forgot, you've never done that!”

 

“Shut it!” Said Inuyasha, and the sound of someone being hit was heard. “Let's just not find the thing you think is here and leave, this is boring.”

 

“Yeah yeah.” Miroku said. “But I tell ya, she's here! And so is that treasure!”

 

Both voices grew silent aside from the few curses as they stubbed their toes or bumped their heads in the darkness of the run down, buried castle.

 

“Hey.” Inuyasha said, stopping. “Hey hey hey! Do you hear that?”

 

“Hear what?” Miroku asked, stopping as well and listening hard. “There's nothing…”

 

“Shhh!” Inuyasha hissed, and they both fell silent. However, after a few moment and nothing was heard, they started on their way again.

 

“I could have sworn that I heard singing or something.” Inuyasha said, stretching his head. “Ow!” He had scraped his fingers across the sunken ceiling.

 

“Singing?' Miroku asked. “But we're the only ones here. Probably an echo of our voices or something.”

 

“Yeah man, you're voice does sound girly.” Inuyasha said, laughing quietly.

 

“Stupid.” Miroku said. Then he stopped suddenly, making Inuyasha run into him and they both almost fell forward.

 

“What the…why'd you stop?” Inuyasha asked.

 

“It was a girl's voice?” Miroku asked. “Then…it's that princess! See? I told you she was here.”

 

“You idiot, I was only making fun of you.” Inuyasha said, but Miroku knew that he was bluffing. Inuyasha did not often lie, and when he did, he was not very good at it.

 

“Come on, let's just keep…” However, Inuyasha never got to say `moving.' Right at that moment the ground started to shake and tilt, causing them to both stumble and crash into each other and onto the floor.

 

Then a great cracking split the air and the floor fell away, just as the roof did the same. Both of them fell and fell, before blacking out from the falling stones hitting their heads.

 

 

 

Everything was dark in the dungeons of the castle. Nothing moved and nothing stirred. Everything was still.

 

Until, that is, the earth decided to shake a bit and the ceiling caved in. But it was not just stone that fell, so did two bodies. It was a long drop, but even so, when they hit, it was only with a very soft thunk: the landing had been soft.

 

It was a few moment, but as the dust started to settle the bodies started to move. Slowly at first, as though drugged.

 

 

 

“You ok man?” Miroku's voice asked.

 

“Peachy.” Came Inuyasha's sarcastic voice. “Just perfect. You?”

 

“Dying.” Miroku said as he hobbled over to Inuyasha, favoring his right leg. “What the hell happened?”

 

“Cave in.” Inuyasha said, getting up and stretching his body. Nothing seemed broken, only sore. He looked up and whistled. “Damn! We fell a long way! It's a wonder we're not dead.”

 

“I hope we can get out of here though.” Miroku said. “I think we're probably in the…the…the…” he trailed off suddenly, as he looked over his shoulder.

 

“Dungeons?” Inuyasha supplied, thinking Miroku might have bumped his head harder then he thought. But when he got no answer, he looked at Miroku, who was not looking at him, but over his shoulder. “Miroku?” Inuyasha said, and he to looked.

 

It was the most magnificent sight he had ever seen. Gold. Gold everywhere. In addition, jewels, gems, and pottery were also strewn across the floor. Treasure, that's what it was, treasure. In the middle of it all, almost hidden from view, was a small casket, something like a coffin, bedecked in gold and precious and semi-precious jewels.

 

“Oh…my…God…” Inuyasha said, in awe.

 

“You said it.” Miroku said, also in a state of awe and shock. Then he suddenly smiled. “Say it.” He said, smirking at Inuyasha.

 

“Say what?' Inuyasha asked, still looking around at all the splendor, although not really noticing the half buried casket.”

 

“Say I was right.” Miroku said, still smirking.

 

“I was right.” Inuyasha said, starting to laugh.

 

“Whatever, man.” Miroku said, though he couldn't really be that mad with a shining wall of gold in front of him. “Wonder how much this is worth?”

 

“Dunno.” Inuyasha said. “A lot I'm guessing.”

 

“What's that?” Miroku asked, pointing to the coffin like object. “King? Queen?”

 

“I think that might be your princess.” Inuyasha said as they started forward towards it, stepping around everything on the floor.

 

“No way…” Miroku said, wonder in his eyes. “You think? Think she's still beautiful?”

 

“I bet anything's beautiful with all of this around.” Inuyasha said, reaching the casket first. “Ugh, there's dust everywhere.”

 

“Then let's wipe it off and see what's inside!” Miroku cried out, gathering up a fistful of his shirt and started to scrub away at the dust and grime and whatever else was on it.

 

“Opening it might be better.” Inuyasha said. This was before he noticed that it appeared to be made out of glass and see through. “Let me help you.” He said, also starting to wipe, although a little faster than Miroku. He also wanted to see what was in here, even if it was just a body.

 

“Whoa…” Inuyasha said, as the first clean patch emerged. “Man…look at this!”

 

“What?” Miroku asked, coming over and helping to make the clear patch wider. “Man!” He cried out, taking a step back. “That's…that's not a body! That's a girl!”

 

“Seems we've found your princess.” Inuyasha said. He took a closer look and gasped.

 

“What?” Miroku asked again.

 

Inuyasha face was dead white as he stepped back and looked up at Miroku.

 

“It seems she's also breathing…” he said.