InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Impossible Love ❯ Chapter 11
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Imposible Love
Chapter 11
YuriYaoiHet_ILoveEmAll!!
Ok, guys. Sorry it's been so long since the last update. Life is chaos!! But hopefully, things will stay on track and I'll be able to keep up a steady stream of updates from here on in. I don't have a computer so I'm riding on my freind's good graces to post this chap. I'll talk some more at the end. Here it is!
Disclamer: I don't own Inuyasha. I'm not that lucky.
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Kagome stepped out into the hot spring clearing, still holding Shippo tightly to her chest. She stopped short. As before with the wolves' den, she was awed.
The pool was enourmous, larger than any she'd ever seen. On closer inspection, she saw thin fingers of rock below the surface of the water, seperating it into smaller pools, each one large enough to seat ten comfortably just around their outer rim. The sandstone around it gave way smoothly to a rough circle of grass and flowers before giving way to the forest again. Mats of thick, soft-looking fur and several large, ornatley carved statues of wolves, surrounded it at regular intervals.
It was beautiful. She suddenly felt the grime and old sweat and blood covering her body, and a longing to be clean. To float in the warm water and let it soak away her aches and worries. She shook herself. There would be time to bathe later.
"What's wrong, ningen? Never seen a hot spring before?" Kimi's sharp voice cut through Kagome's thoughts.
"You know ningens don't bathe right, Kimi. Disgusting creatures!" Soura spat on the ground near Kagome's feet and laughed.
Kagome stiffened with anger, but controlled it. She needed her head clear. Suddenly, She realized she could use their anger against them. It shouldn't take much to piss them off and they wouldn't be in their right minds. Her previous injuries would slow her down, but it was her best option. She took a deep breath and said a silent prayer.
"Actually, I was wondering why the water isn't black, with filth like you bathing in it." She said loudly.
"What did you say?" Soura growled.
"Oh, nothing." Kagome said, smirking back at them. "Just the truth."
Soura growled again. Shippo squirmed in her arms. "Kagome!" He hissed. "What are you doing?"
"Asking for pain! That's what!" Kimi snapped.
Kagome glared at Shippo to silence him. "The only pain you two are capable of is being a pain in my ass!"
"Oh, I can't wait to see Lord Kouga beat you into submission, bitch!" Soura growled.
Kagome laughed scornfully. "As if that mongrel could make me submit!"
"You dare insult Lord Kouga!" Kimi howled, crouching as if about to spring at her.
Soura put a restraining hand on her shoulder, though he looked as if he'd rather spring at Kagome himself. "He wants her alive!" He snapped at her. Then he spun on Kagome. " Now. You can either bathe yourself or I can knock you out and have the kitsune do it! Your choice, bitch!"
Kagome snorted, as if to dare him to do just that, and knelt to put Shippo down. She looked the kitsune in the eyes. He looked terrified. "Remember your promise, Shippo." She whispered, squeezing the kit's hand.
He took a deep breath and nodded. She smiled and kissed his forehead, before standing. She grasped the end of her shirt and started to pull it off over her head. She stopped when she saw Soura staring at her.
"What? Are you going to stare at me the whole time?" She sanpped.
Kimi laughed mockingly. "Don't worry, ningen. He has no intrest in a pathetic little scrap like you. He has someone far more attractive toshare his bed." she moved to wrap an arm possesivley around his waist. "Right, love?"
Soura draped an arm over her shoulders, looking down at her. "More attractive than any, love." The kissed.
Kagome snorted. "Aw. They're perfect for each other, aren't they, Shippo? A whore and a bastard. What a lovely couple!"
There was a split-second of silence in the clearing, before the two youkia snarled. "Fuck the punishment! I'll kill you myself, you filthy ningen bitch!" Soura howled, and leapt at her.
"Go!" Kagome yelled at Shippo, dodging Soura's first furious strike. The kit shot into the bushes without a moment's hesitation.
"He won't get far! I'll hunt him down and snap his little neck after I've killed you!" Soura snarled, swiping at her again.
Kagome darted backwards to avoid him and backed into one of the statues. Soura grinned wickedly as he advanced on her, balling one of his hands into a fist. Kagome tensed and sprang aside as he punched. His fist made contact stone and she heard a sickening crack before the statue literally exploded, sending shards of rock flying in every direction. She heard Soura howl in pain, before something peirced her side. She cried out in pain and hit the ground hard.
She looked down at her side and saw a shard of rock protuding from her flesh. She grasped the part that was exposed and, with a grunt of pain, pulled it free. She looked at it and saw that it was long and sharp and roughly shaped like like a dagger. A weapon.
She pushed herself up and saw Soura holding his wrist. The hand that had puched the rock was broken, the knuckles on it split wide and gushing blood. Kimi made to go to her mate, but he snarled her away. He turned to Kagome, murder in his eyes.
"You'll pay for this, bitch!" He howled and leapt at her again.
This time, Kagome wasn't quite as fast in dodging his swipe. A long gash oped on her uper arm. Ignoring the flash of pain, she leapt on him, aiming for his weakened side. unbalanced from his swipe, he fell. Without thinking, Kagome plunged the rock shard into the exposed flesh of his neck and ripped it sideways, slitting the side of his neck wide open. He gurgled and jerked, hands grasping at his neck, but it was too late. Kagome stood, blood dripping from the rock dagger in her hand. As she watched him die, she noticed the blood-red of his eyes bled into brown. He died with a look of shock on his face.
"No!" Kimi howled, her face a mask of fury and greif. "You killed him!" She screamed and leaped at Kagome.
Instinctivley, Kagome tried to bring her hands up to protect herself. Kimi hit her hard, knocking them both to the ground. Kagome felt the demoness spasm above her. She looked up into Kimi's eyes and started to see brown, instead of red. The demoness looked astonished and opened her mouth as if to speak. A fountain of blood poured out of her mouth and she slumped weightlessly over the miko. Kagome rolled the dead youkia off of her and sat up, wiping blood out of her eyes. She saw what had happened. When Kimi had hit her, the rock dager in Kagome's hand had peirced her heart, killing her.
Kagome sat there, panting. Her head was swimming. She supposed she should feel good about herself, having just killed two murderous youkia, but she didn't. Her mind stuck on their eyes and the shocked looks on their faces as they died.
These red eyed youkia, were they being controlled? And, if so, by what? Who would gain by controling these wolves? More importantly, if they were being controlled and weren't responsible for their actions, then she had just murdered two innocent youkia. The thought horrified her.
She stood and pulled the dagger out of Kimi's chest. "If you really were innocent, gomen nasai." She bowed her head.
She heard a gasp from behind her and spun around. A young, female wolf youkia was standing at the edge of he trees, her arms laden with clothing and frozen in shock. When she saw Kagome looking at her, she dropped the clothes with a small yelp of fear.
"Please don't hurt this one!" She whimpered, dropping to her knees.
Now it was Kagome's turn to look shocked. After a moment, she realized how she must look, filthy and covered in blood, and standing over two dead youkia with a bloody rock in her hand. The young demoness was oviously terrified. And, in that same moment, Kagome realized that this wolf could be useful to her.
"Come here, wolf!" Kagome ordered. "Now!" She snapped when the demoness hesitated.
Kagome winced inwardly as the small girl crawled towards her, sobbing and trembling with fear. She hadn't meant to be so forceful, but she had to look into her eyes. if this youkia's eyes were red, then kagome would have to kill her. There was no other option if she planned to escape with her freinds.
The young demoness stopped about two feet from Kagome, Apparently unwilling to crawl into the circle of blood from her fallen pack mates. "Please . . . please. H-have mercy. don't kill this one!" She sobbed.
"Look at me!' Kagome ordered. The girl lifted her head. Kagome sighed in relief to see two large blue eyes looking up at her. "I'm not going to kill you." She said then. "What is your name?"
"H-Hinata, mistress." The demoness answered, still trembling.
Kagome frowned at the honorific. "Hinata." She repeated. " You have a nice name. Now, Hinata, can I trust you?"
Hinata looked shocked. "F-for what, mistress?"
"Can I trust you to let me go without running to tell your pack what I have done?"
She started trembling harder and bowed her head. "Hinata will be killed, mistress, if she does what the Lady asks. Hinata is a lowly wolf. They will not even stop to hear her beg. Please, do not ask this of her!"
Kagome felt a wave of pity. She couldn't leave the girl here to be killed any more than she herself could stay. An idea popped into her head.
"What if I take you with me?" Kagome asked her.
Hinata looked up in shock. "Leave the pack?"
Kagome nodded, distracted by her thoughts. If Hinata came with them, she could be very useful. Obviously, the girl wasnt a fighter and was very young, but if Kagome could persuade her to do it, she could give the Inu clan invaluble information about the wolves' strengths and weaknesses if they decided to retaliate. She would also give them an extra set of sensitive eyes and ears on the journey back to the Western Lands, which, Kagome was sure, was going to be a difficult journey. She was relativley sure that she could convice Lord Inutashio to give her sanctuary in light of the circumstances. She might aslo be able to shed some light on the mystery of the red-eyed wolves.
She looked down at Hinata, her mind set. "Well, what do you say? Stay here and be killed or come away with me? I won't lie to you Hinata. The journey back to my home will be feirce, but it's better then death. my home lies to the southwest. With the Inu youkia of the Western Lands."
Hinata gasped. "Then you must be the Lady Kagome!" She said in wonder. "The one Lord Kouga plans to mate!"
"I will NEVER mate that bastard!" She screamed, eyes flashing. "That flea-bitten excuse for flesh deserves to die for all that he has done!" Kagome continued to rant, screaming and cursing.
Hinata cowed under the force of Kagome's words. She has such passion!, the young demoness thought. This brave woman is strong and wise, like Lord Kouga used to be. Something about Kagome drew the young demoness to her, filling her with an urge to help her. Her life with the pack had been hard these past years, and here was a chance to ecsape and see the world and be protected by a someone strong. I want to help her, Hinata thought. She took a deep breath. Even if it means betraying my pack. This woman is worth serving.
"This Hinata will go with Lady Kagome." She said softly.
At first, it seemed Kagome hadn't heard her "- and if I have to, I swear I'll drag Lord Inutashio out here by his tail to deal with that bastardly . . . Wait." She looked down at Hinata. "What did you say?"
"This Hinata will go with Lady Kagome."
Kagome looked shocked for a moment and then she smiled. " Good. I could use your help."
"And this Hinata would be glad to give it, Lady Kagome." Hinata smiled.
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Ok. Sorry it's kinda short, but it accomplished quite a bit, wouldn't you say? I think I more than made up for Kagome's earlier wimpyness. And I know that Kimi and Soura may have seemed weaker than the average youkia, but that'll get explained later. Anyways, hope you liked it.
And even though its 'annoying' I'm going to ask for reveiws anyway. Let me know what you thought.
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Chapter 11
YuriYaoiHet_ILoveEmAll!!
Ok, guys. Sorry it's been so long since the last update. Life is chaos!! But hopefully, things will stay on track and I'll be able to keep up a steady stream of updates from here on in. I don't have a computer so I'm riding on my freind's good graces to post this chap. I'll talk some more at the end. Here it is!
Disclamer: I don't own Inuyasha. I'm not that lucky.
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Kagome stepped out into the hot spring clearing, still holding Shippo tightly to her chest. She stopped short. As before with the wolves' den, she was awed.
The pool was enourmous, larger than any she'd ever seen. On closer inspection, she saw thin fingers of rock below the surface of the water, seperating it into smaller pools, each one large enough to seat ten comfortably just around their outer rim. The sandstone around it gave way smoothly to a rough circle of grass and flowers before giving way to the forest again. Mats of thick, soft-looking fur and several large, ornatley carved statues of wolves, surrounded it at regular intervals.
It was beautiful. She suddenly felt the grime and old sweat and blood covering her body, and a longing to be clean. To float in the warm water and let it soak away her aches and worries. She shook herself. There would be time to bathe later.
"What's wrong, ningen? Never seen a hot spring before?" Kimi's sharp voice cut through Kagome's thoughts.
"You know ningens don't bathe right, Kimi. Disgusting creatures!" Soura spat on the ground near Kagome's feet and laughed.
Kagome stiffened with anger, but controlled it. She needed her head clear. Suddenly, She realized she could use their anger against them. It shouldn't take much to piss them off and they wouldn't be in their right minds. Her previous injuries would slow her down, but it was her best option. She took a deep breath and said a silent prayer.
"Actually, I was wondering why the water isn't black, with filth like you bathing in it." She said loudly.
"What did you say?" Soura growled.
"Oh, nothing." Kagome said, smirking back at them. "Just the truth."
Soura growled again. Shippo squirmed in her arms. "Kagome!" He hissed. "What are you doing?"
"Asking for pain! That's what!" Kimi snapped.
Kagome glared at Shippo to silence him. "The only pain you two are capable of is being a pain in my ass!"
"Oh, I can't wait to see Lord Kouga beat you into submission, bitch!" Soura growled.
Kagome laughed scornfully. "As if that mongrel could make me submit!"
"You dare insult Lord Kouga!" Kimi howled, crouching as if about to spring at her.
Soura put a restraining hand on her shoulder, though he looked as if he'd rather spring at Kagome himself. "He wants her alive!" He snapped at her. Then he spun on Kagome. " Now. You can either bathe yourself or I can knock you out and have the kitsune do it! Your choice, bitch!"
Kagome snorted, as if to dare him to do just that, and knelt to put Shippo down. She looked the kitsune in the eyes. He looked terrified. "Remember your promise, Shippo." She whispered, squeezing the kit's hand.
He took a deep breath and nodded. She smiled and kissed his forehead, before standing. She grasped the end of her shirt and started to pull it off over her head. She stopped when she saw Soura staring at her.
"What? Are you going to stare at me the whole time?" She sanpped.
Kimi laughed mockingly. "Don't worry, ningen. He has no intrest in a pathetic little scrap like you. He has someone far more attractive toshare his bed." she moved to wrap an arm possesivley around his waist. "Right, love?"
Soura draped an arm over her shoulders, looking down at her. "More attractive than any, love." The kissed.
Kagome snorted. "Aw. They're perfect for each other, aren't they, Shippo? A whore and a bastard. What a lovely couple!"
There was a split-second of silence in the clearing, before the two youkia snarled. "Fuck the punishment! I'll kill you myself, you filthy ningen bitch!" Soura howled, and leapt at her.
"Go!" Kagome yelled at Shippo, dodging Soura's first furious strike. The kit shot into the bushes without a moment's hesitation.
"He won't get far! I'll hunt him down and snap his little neck after I've killed you!" Soura snarled, swiping at her again.
Kagome darted backwards to avoid him and backed into one of the statues. Soura grinned wickedly as he advanced on her, balling one of his hands into a fist. Kagome tensed and sprang aside as he punched. His fist made contact stone and she heard a sickening crack before the statue literally exploded, sending shards of rock flying in every direction. She heard Soura howl in pain, before something peirced her side. She cried out in pain and hit the ground hard.
She looked down at her side and saw a shard of rock protuding from her flesh. She grasped the part that was exposed and, with a grunt of pain, pulled it free. She looked at it and saw that it was long and sharp and roughly shaped like like a dagger. A weapon.
She pushed herself up and saw Soura holding his wrist. The hand that had puched the rock was broken, the knuckles on it split wide and gushing blood. Kimi made to go to her mate, but he snarled her away. He turned to Kagome, murder in his eyes.
"You'll pay for this, bitch!" He howled and leapt at her again.
This time, Kagome wasn't quite as fast in dodging his swipe. A long gash oped on her uper arm. Ignoring the flash of pain, she leapt on him, aiming for his weakened side. unbalanced from his swipe, he fell. Without thinking, Kagome plunged the rock shard into the exposed flesh of his neck and ripped it sideways, slitting the side of his neck wide open. He gurgled and jerked, hands grasping at his neck, but it was too late. Kagome stood, blood dripping from the rock dagger in her hand. As she watched him die, she noticed the blood-red of his eyes bled into brown. He died with a look of shock on his face.
"No!" Kimi howled, her face a mask of fury and greif. "You killed him!" She screamed and leaped at Kagome.
Instinctivley, Kagome tried to bring her hands up to protect herself. Kimi hit her hard, knocking them both to the ground. Kagome felt the demoness spasm above her. She looked up into Kimi's eyes and started to see brown, instead of red. The demoness looked astonished and opened her mouth as if to speak. A fountain of blood poured out of her mouth and she slumped weightlessly over the miko. Kagome rolled the dead youkia off of her and sat up, wiping blood out of her eyes. She saw what had happened. When Kimi had hit her, the rock dager in Kagome's hand had peirced her heart, killing her.
Kagome sat there, panting. Her head was swimming. She supposed she should feel good about herself, having just killed two murderous youkia, but she didn't. Her mind stuck on their eyes and the shocked looks on their faces as they died.
These red eyed youkia, were they being controlled? And, if so, by what? Who would gain by controling these wolves? More importantly, if they were being controlled and weren't responsible for their actions, then she had just murdered two innocent youkia. The thought horrified her.
She stood and pulled the dagger out of Kimi's chest. "If you really were innocent, gomen nasai." She bowed her head.
She heard a gasp from behind her and spun around. A young, female wolf youkia was standing at the edge of he trees, her arms laden with clothing and frozen in shock. When she saw Kagome looking at her, she dropped the clothes with a small yelp of fear.
"Please don't hurt this one!" She whimpered, dropping to her knees.
Now it was Kagome's turn to look shocked. After a moment, she realized how she must look, filthy and covered in blood, and standing over two dead youkia with a bloody rock in her hand. The young demoness was oviously terrified. And, in that same moment, Kagome realized that this wolf could be useful to her.
"Come here, wolf!" Kagome ordered. "Now!" She snapped when the demoness hesitated.
Kagome winced inwardly as the small girl crawled towards her, sobbing and trembling with fear. She hadn't meant to be so forceful, but she had to look into her eyes. if this youkia's eyes were red, then kagome would have to kill her. There was no other option if she planned to escape with her freinds.
The young demoness stopped about two feet from Kagome, Apparently unwilling to crawl into the circle of blood from her fallen pack mates. "Please . . . please. H-have mercy. don't kill this one!" She sobbed.
"Look at me!' Kagome ordered. The girl lifted her head. Kagome sighed in relief to see two large blue eyes looking up at her. "I'm not going to kill you." She said then. "What is your name?"
"H-Hinata, mistress." The demoness answered, still trembling.
Kagome frowned at the honorific. "Hinata." She repeated. " You have a nice name. Now, Hinata, can I trust you?"
Hinata looked shocked. "F-for what, mistress?"
"Can I trust you to let me go without running to tell your pack what I have done?"
She started trembling harder and bowed her head. "Hinata will be killed, mistress, if she does what the Lady asks. Hinata is a lowly wolf. They will not even stop to hear her beg. Please, do not ask this of her!"
Kagome felt a wave of pity. She couldn't leave the girl here to be killed any more than she herself could stay. An idea popped into her head.
"What if I take you with me?" Kagome asked her.
Hinata looked up in shock. "Leave the pack?"
Kagome nodded, distracted by her thoughts. If Hinata came with them, she could be very useful. Obviously, the girl wasnt a fighter and was very young, but if Kagome could persuade her to do it, she could give the Inu clan invaluble information about the wolves' strengths and weaknesses if they decided to retaliate. She would also give them an extra set of sensitive eyes and ears on the journey back to the Western Lands, which, Kagome was sure, was going to be a difficult journey. She was relativley sure that she could convice Lord Inutashio to give her sanctuary in light of the circumstances. She might aslo be able to shed some light on the mystery of the red-eyed wolves.
She looked down at Hinata, her mind set. "Well, what do you say? Stay here and be killed or come away with me? I won't lie to you Hinata. The journey back to my home will be feirce, but it's better then death. my home lies to the southwest. With the Inu youkia of the Western Lands."
Hinata gasped. "Then you must be the Lady Kagome!" She said in wonder. "The one Lord Kouga plans to mate!"
"I will NEVER mate that bastard!" She screamed, eyes flashing. "That flea-bitten excuse for flesh deserves to die for all that he has done!" Kagome continued to rant, screaming and cursing.
Hinata cowed under the force of Kagome's words. She has such passion!, the young demoness thought. This brave woman is strong and wise, like Lord Kouga used to be. Something about Kagome drew the young demoness to her, filling her with an urge to help her. Her life with the pack had been hard these past years, and here was a chance to ecsape and see the world and be protected by a someone strong. I want to help her, Hinata thought. She took a deep breath. Even if it means betraying my pack. This woman is worth serving.
"This Hinata will go with Lady Kagome." She said softly.
At first, it seemed Kagome hadn't heard her "- and if I have to, I swear I'll drag Lord Inutashio out here by his tail to deal with that bastardly . . . Wait." She looked down at Hinata. "What did you say?"
"This Hinata will go with Lady Kagome."
Kagome looked shocked for a moment and then she smiled. " Good. I could use your help."
"And this Hinata would be glad to give it, Lady Kagome." Hinata smiled.
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Ok. Sorry it's kinda short, but it accomplished quite a bit, wouldn't you say? I think I more than made up for Kagome's earlier wimpyness. And I know that Kimi and Soura may have seemed weaker than the average youkia, but that'll get explained later. Anyways, hope you liked it.
And even though its 'annoying' I'm going to ask for reveiws anyway. Let me know what you thought.
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