InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ InuYasha: Legend of the Record Keeper ❯ Plans, Thoughts, and Feelings ( Chapter 6 )

A/N: I dun own InuYasha darn it! *pouts*

 

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Alex: And just so ya'll know I have a bad habbit of putting thoughts in `..' instead of italics which I use for flashbacks, dreams, and such. Anything that's telepathic will be in ~..~ or *…*. On with the show, and for those who want to see Sesshomaru and Kusabana interact I'm afraid you'll have to wait a little while yet, remember she's not allowed to contact him of her own free will. ~.^ Besides I like suspense

 

 

Chapter 5:

Plans, Thoughts, and Feelings

 

Rin skipped ahead of Sesshomaru and their companions by several feet stopping every so often to pick a different flower that she added to the bouquet in her tiny hand . Sesshomaru watched the child closely even as he appeared to not care what she did, she let out a sudden squeal and dropped the flowers in her hands to dart behind him. He lifted his eyes to look at the woman standing in front of him.

 

“Kagura.” His eyes narrowed at her as a slight breeze brought her scent to him, she smelled faintly of Naraku, wind, and.. “Fire flowers…” he barely spoke the words before he was in front of her his poisonous claws aimed for her throat, “Why do you smell of fire flowers?” he knew for a fact that fire flowers didn't grow in the region the were in at that moment.

 

`Fire flowers?' the words caught her as odd as she narrowed her eyes at him, `I must still have the scent of that strange girl on me…' The next words she spoke out loud, “So what of it? Do you have a connection with that strange girl?” she bit out the last question her hand gripping her fan, if he knew her he knew where to find her and then she could kill her and save her own skin.

 

“What girl?” he stared at her blankly as he always did but this time it unnerved her.

 

“The girl who showed up at Naraku's barrier last night, I have orders to kill her before she can tell anyone where it is.” She slid her fan open just slightly her eyes narrowing more as did his.

 

Sesshomaru stared at the incarnation in front of him, he could take her and make her tell him where that barrier was but his curiosity rose and he dropped his hand as she stepped away, “How did she find Naraku's barrier when not even I can find it?”

 

“I don't know, even Naraku doesn't know that's why he wants her dead….or partially dead. He thinks that he can gain more power if he absorbs her.” She smirked, “She shouldn't be all that hard to find with that red hair of hers, it makes her stand out.” Sesshomaru felt his stomach drop slightly. Another person, an enemy at that, was talking about a red haired woman.

 

“Red hair? That is an unusual color, even for a demon.” He started forward as if uninterested, Rin still clinging to his pant legs.

 

“But Lord Sesshomaru what abou….” He silenced her with a golden glance; she let out a squeak and ducked back behind his legs again. He continued on until he was less than a foot away from her.

 

“You're acting strangely Sesshomaru, do you know this girl? Too bad if you do I value my life after all, but if you want to try to save her she disappeared in that direction.” She nodded to the west with the slightest tip of her head before snagging a feather out of her hair, in a whirl of wind she took off on the enlarged object, “If you find her before I do tell her Naraku wishes her dead and that if I don't kill her he'll send someone worse than me.”

 

Sesshomaru watched her go a small frown marring his otherwise handsome face, “A red haired woman….”

 

“It has to be Lady Flower! She came and talked to me in my dreams again! She's really very nice Lord Sesshomaru, you're not going to let Kagura kill her are you. We have to find her first!” Rin had scampered around to stand in front of him, large innocent eyes staring up at him in pleading adore. The image of pleading violet eyes filled his mind and he gritted his teeth against the pain that seared through his chest, “Please Lord Sesshomaru, we have to find her before Naraku does.”

 

“Be silent silly child, this flower lady you dream of is merely a figment of your imagination! Stop pestering Lord Sesshomaru with such silly things.” The little imp hopped from one foot to the other, he could smell the pain and anger radiating from his lord master, he let out a startled squawk as his lord turned in one smooth movement heading into the forests, turning towards the west, “Milord?”

 

“This requires some looking into, this girl knows the location of Naraku's barrier, we'll find her and get the information from her.” His voice was as icy as ever but there was something else there, worry, pain? Jaken couldn't quite put his claw on it.

 

“Come on Ah-Un, or we'll be left behind. Master Jaken, are you not coming?” with a yelp the imp scurried to catch up walking next to his lord.

 

“I find this to be a strange turn in Lord Sesshomaru's character.” The little imp went on mumbling as he scurried about the odd changes in his lords' personality until a booted foot stepped upon his head and drove him face first into the dirt.

 

“Care to repeat that Jaken? I wish to hear not another word from you.” The little imp scrambled at the dirt until his lord walked on leaving a footprint on his servants head.

 

“You should had kept yourself quiet Master Jaken.” The child giggled and jogged after her lord the rains to Ah-Un clutched in a tiny hand.

 

`Oh even I, his vassal, cannot fathom the changes in milord Sesshomaru.' Jaken thought the words instead of speaking them as he crawled out of the small dent in the ground he had made and trudged after his companions.

 

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Kohaku had to force back the bored sigh that threatened to break free, his eyes slid to the still recuperating Naraku that floated with Hakudoshi in the center of the room. It was hard to keep his face blank and stare vacantly ahead as if he were still an obedient servant of the evil half demon.

 

“Kohaku.” The deep purring voice of Naraku caused him to turn his head slowly to look at the demon, it took everything he had not to sneer at him.

 

“Yes?” he made his voice dull and drone like, as it always had been before he had regained his memories.

 

“I want you to go help Kagura find that girl, the one with red hair; I want to meet the one who found this place so easily. She headed to the west, start there.” There was an evil glint in his red eyes to go with the cruel smirk that decorated his face. Kohaku nodded and stood picking up his weapon he headed out the door and stepped through the barrier before he started through the clearing. Only when he was far away from the barrier did he let his face crease into a frown, Naraku was overly worried about this demon woman, `Either he's worried that she knows where his heart is or she's powerful enough that he wants to add her to his body.' The thought was indecisive yet had a ring of truth to it because he knew that Naraku wanted the girl for one of the two reasons.

 

The image of his sister flashed in his mind, he would kill Naraku and set things right even at the cost of his own life. He leaped into the trees and continued on his way following the setting sun. He would find that girl, that demon and find out what was so pressing that Naraku meet her, if she was strong and he thought to devour her Kohaku would kill her.

 

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Songo sighed as she felt the cool water envelop her legs then her hips and waist; she needed this swim to help clear her mind. As of late her mind had been filled with thoughts of her brother, and of a certain perverted monk, what made her feel guilty was that she thought of the monk more than her own brother. She dunked herself under the water wetting her hair and shoulders, surfacing she shivered slightly then sighed again. The summer heat was getting to them all, even Kagome had forgone her normal uniform for shorts and a kind of stretchy top that she called a halter.

 

Songo shook her head; her friend sometimes struck her as odd with the things she brought back from the future but she did have to admit, the clothing looked far more cooler and comfortable than the slayers uniform and kimono she wore all the time. Taking a deep breath she started to swim a few strokes out into the river forcefully turning her thoughts away from her friend and to the tasks that lay ahead of her.

 

`I have to free Kohaku from Naraku and the jewel shard, but to do that would mean his death…' with a stab of pain in her chest she surfaced in the center of the river and lay back floating as she stared up at the slowly moving clouds that graced the sky, `But I'm sure death would be better for him than living under Naraku's hold. And after I kill Naraku and Kohaku I'll kill myself.' The monks face flashed in her mind, a kind warm caring look on his face. Her heart beat a little faster and a stab of loss crept its way through her chest and stomach, `But if I kill myself then I have to leave all of my friends behind, but it's unfair for Kohaku to die because of me, he's the last of my family.' She frowned, that wasn't true, Kagome and the others were her family. Perhaps not by blood but in the heart they were her family.

 

`Gods this is so confusing, my heart is so tangled that I can't do what I have to do and avoid hurting them all. A soft splash caught her attention and she sat up quickly, in time to see the retreating violet of a certain monk's robes, “Miroku you hentai!” she was out of the water and dressed in only a few seconds and had a knocked out monk to show that she had caught the culprit. She entered the encampment her face red and her body more tense than it had been when she had made her way to the river to relax.

 

“Monk did it again didn't he?” InuYasha's cocky words only drew him a flaming death glare from the slayer, he just smirked while Kagome giggled a little uncomfortably.

 

“Stupid idiot, he'll never learn.” Shippo muttered the words as he continued to draw ignoring the glare she turned on him. And such was a day in her life, she sat down huffily as Miroku drug his half conscious self back into the camp with hi staff a rather large lump on his head.

 

“Aww, Lady Songo why did you do that, it was just a harmless peek.” There was a loud crack and everyone was silent as the monk slid back to the ground a large boomerang still balanced on the dent now placed in his skull. Kirara tilted her head and let out one of her soft mews before curling up in her friends lap with a purr almost as if applauding the violence of the slayer whose lap she had commandeered for her bed.

 

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Rin kept her eyes tightly shut as she fought to summon up the flower field again, she needed to talk to Lady Flower again. She brought the image of the forest surrounding the field in a perfect circle, of the sunlight dappling through the trees, of the clouds casting long shadows over the colorful floor of flowers, and lastly she brought to mind the image of Lady flower in her flowing kimono and pretty red hair. Feeling worry well up in her heart she sent out a soft prayer, `Please be safe and there when I open my eyes Lady Flower.' Steeling herself to open her eyes and only see the field she took a deep breath and let her eyes open slowly. She let out a happy laugh of relief, there sitting in the center of the field was Lady Flower watching her with a steady violet gaze.

 

Rin ran forward laughing all the while until she landed on her knees in front of the older woman, “Lady Flower! I was so afraid that you wouldn't be here this time, bad people are after you and I was afraid that they had gotten you!” Rin lunged forward and wrapped her arms around the waist of the woman who let out a soft gasp of surprise before wrapping her sleeve covered arms around the girl. Rin took a deep breath to take in the soft gentle scent of the woman who held her, `She smells like that red flower that she had me give Sesshomaru when I was sick.” Rin nuzzled her nose against the woman's shoulder.

 

“What do you mean bad people are after me little Rin?” Lady Flower stroked her hair lightly with a slender hand.

 

“That evil demon Naraku sent Kagura the wind sorceress to kill you because you know where the barrier is!” Rin sat up straight, “Even Lord Sesshomaru is worried even if he doesn't admit it.” She blinked as she saw a flare of pain in Lady Flower's eyes, “What's wrong? I didn't say something wrong did I?” Rin sat back releasing the woman quickly. Lady Flower shook her head and touched her cheek lightly.

 

“No you didn't, Lord Sesshomaru thinks that I'm a figment of your imagination doesn't he?” the child nodded.

 

“He acts all funny when I talk about you, and Master Jaken just says that I need to stop pestering him.” She trailed off for a moment before she blurted out the question she had waited to ask for days, “Are you Kusabana?” she clapped both hands over her mouth as the woman's filled with tears. She nodded only once before speaking again.

 

“Yes, I was Kusabana a long time ago. I think it would be wise to listen to Master Jaken, don't speak of me anymore to Lord Sesshomaru if it causes him pain.” Rin nodded and reached up to brush away the lady's tears with her small hands.

 

“I won't talk about you anymore I promise, please don't cry anymore. Will I still be able to come see you?” the thought of not seeing the beautiful woman ever again made her sad and scared, Lady Flower nodded once again, “Oh good! Can we pick flowers, I made you a pretty bouquet but I lost it when Kagura scared me.” She stood and held a hand out to the woman. They spent the rest of her sleep picking flowers in the meadow, talking, and even playing a game of chase with the butterflies.

 

“Rin! Rin you silly child wake up or we'll leave you here.” Rin frowned as she was shaken awake by the imp, she frowned up at him.

 

“You woke me from a nice dream Master Jaken.” She pouted the entire time she got ready to leave with them, she even took to riding Ah-Un and ignoring the little imp only answering when she had to, she hadn't been ready to leave Lady Flower in the meadow when he had woken her. She wanted to learn more about the beautiful demoness and what had caused her to be so sad.

 

A/N: Sorry if this chapter was a bit choppy, it didn't come as easy as the last one, and I was trying to get into some of the characters instead of just Sesshomaru, Kusabana, InuYasha, and Kagome. As I have said reviews are greatly appreciated and please don't be afraid to send me a personal e-mail, 9times out of 10 I'll reply even if it's just some silly question or an idea you think I should think about placing in the story. Also my website should be up and running in a few days it'll have my profile and a page for each fic I'm going to be doing, even this one which will have the reference pic of Kusabana on it as well because…..well I love fan art! ^^ Well that's all for tonight, next update should be next Sunday as well as the web address for my sight which will also be on my profile page. Laters! ~A~