InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Lost Within ❯ chapter 15 ( Chapter 4 )

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Lost Within

Chapter 15: Well You See Hojo...

A surprised yelp-like howl ripped from his throat as an old man became suddenly attached to his back, slapping pieces of sticky paper all over him.

WAS THIS MAN INSANE!?!?!?!?!

"Grandpa! Sesshoumaru! Oh GODS MOM!!" Kagome cried as both taiyoukai and half-crazed grandfather wrestled furiously, battle of the species...

Mrs. Higurashi dashed into the room with a frying pan raised high, "Where's the fire?!?!?! Oh! Kagome! Grandpa! Sesshoumaru!"

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Big brown eyes stared at the taiyoukai in curious fascination, taking in every detail of the revered and much feared Lord of the Western Lands; the dangerous youkai known as Sesshoumaru...

"I still think he looks like a girl." Souta commented before running out of the house as if the devil were on his heals.

Sesshoumaru growled, digging his clawed hand into the soft recliner before shooting another glare at Kagome's grandfather that also sat in a similar recliner, muttering gibberish and clutching those sticky pieces of paper. He. Hated. This. Place.

"He didn't mean it Sesshoumaru-sama...really...he didn't..." Kagome pleaded, trying to placate the overly proud youkai.

That's it. He'd had it. The upstart child would die; standing from his seat he grabbed Kagome around the waist with his tail and was seconds away from the door when-

"AND WHERE DO YOU THINK *YOU* ARE GOING???" Mrs. Higurashi screamed from the kitchen, hands on hips; her once light, happy brown eyes dark with malice.

Sesshoumaru froze instantly, releasing the woman-child and turning to face the madwoman that was Kagome's mother. Now he remembered...he remembered why he hadn't killed the old man....*THAT* woman. Was. Insane. Maybe it was that inborn sense of motherhood that Mrs.Higurashi retained from raising two children on her own with an insane grandfather that gave her that edge that a female youkai mother needed to keep her pups in line...And gods this woman had an extra dose of it... *shivers*...

Turning back towards the chair he sat back down, grumbling under his breath.

Kagome sighed, another murder just barely avoided...her hand flew up to her mouth, covering the humorous smile at the brief scuffle between her grandfather and Sesshoumaru; the two had fought wildly until her mother had come in and gave the both of them a lump on the head with her frying pan...which now bore a huge dent...

She'd never before seen her mother that...scary..... 0.0 ...

~* ELSEWHERE*~

(Somewhere in Tokyo)

"Isn't Tokyo just a lovely place Nicca-san? You should come here more often! I'd just love to see you again!" Hojo remarked jovially, patting the youkai princess's arm that he held in his own.

0.0 -.- 0.0 Nicca could do nothing but walk around and nod dumbly. The buildings were so wretchedly tall! Made of glass, metal, stone, brick, anything and everything made of some sort of sturdy material! And the people! Humans! Everywhere they walked, rode, and controlled strange metal beasts that honked and lit up!

Most of the humans smelled disgustingly awful but being in 'Hojo's presance seemed to have a nuetralizing effect on them; blocking out all other smells save his own...sadly innocent and plain one. She almost pitied the poor boy's naivete` towards the world and female in general.

A delicately clawed hand came up to her face, releasing a pent up sigh. Her heat cycle had ended just moments ago...her chance with Sesshoumaru no more. Nicca growled, slashing at a young sapling, it fell to the ground in bits of tinder.

"My! You've got perfect aim! I'm surprised nails can do that!" Hojo praised in awe, grasping her hands in his and staring at her claws in admiration.

Nicca valiently battled off the urge to roll her eyes and smack the young pup upside the head for his sheer, deluded, and sorely placed idiocy. When would the whelp get a clue? 'It was still nice of him to compliment me, I am a princess after all.' Nicca remarked to herself.

"What is this place?" Nicca demanded, pulling her hands out of Hojo's.

"Why it's Tokyo, we're in one of the parks. This is one of my favorites though! It's called Sakura Park!" Hojo smiled, walking down one of the more secluded paths.

She debated whether or not to follow the human, but the coming stench of other anticlean humans won over as she quickly hop-skipped to the boy's side as he prattled on about the history of this 'Tok ee Yo'....

~*ELSEwhere*~

"Can you see now beloved?" Kikyo questioned, rising from Inuyasha's side.

"All I can see is a bunch of blurry stuff! This is worse than being human!" Inuyasha scoffed angrily, sulking at his inability to see anything other than blurs.

"Well it is the best I can do," Kikyo commented dully, striding towards the well that was no more than a few meters away, "I have other matters to attend to Inuyasha."

"What?" Inuyasha's surprised tone floated to her, he was on his feet in an instant and taking careful steps towards her.

"What do you mean? Are you going to collect more souls?" He questioned softly.

"No," Kikyo spoke softly, almost as if she'd rather have been doing that then what she had to do next, "Something more important than my constant existance," She paused, her soft brown eyes growing darker, and even softer if it were possible, "I go to the future to save this one." She finished cryptically before disappearing over the side of the well.

"Wha-? Kikyo? What did she mean? ...I have to find out!" Inuyasha spoke suddenly, lunging into the well after Kikyo.

'And to find out what the hell Kagome's been doing behind my back,' Inuyasha thought bitterly as fuzzy blue lights danced before his dim vision.

~*ElSeWhErE*~

"Yay! This is so much fun!!" A little girl chirped happily, practically dancing around a large sphere in pure joy.

"Oh pipe down ya little brat!" Another girl scoffed, her childish features scrunched up in agitation, "The ice-lady archer is going to do like we aske-Um I mean the ice-lady archer is doing something unexpected." the girl corrected herself quickly.

The quite little girl opposite of her arched an eyebrow in curiousity, "Oh really?" she intoned slowly.

She gulped and shook her head, "*ahem* *cough-cough* YeUh...some-thing..UNexpected..." she coughed out shakily before turning away...

~*elsewhere*~

"I still think it's a distant relative of Jaken..." Shippou said, poking the fat cat Buyo in the side.

"No, it couldn't be, this uh...'kitty' isn't anything like Jaken-sama. Rin knows this cuz Rin can tell...yup-yup." Rin nodded vigorously, poking Buyo in the side, delighted with the meow that came when you poked it.

"Maybe...because Jaken's too toady looking to be a 'Buyo'." Shippou agreed, patting the cat on the head before walking off, Rin quickly followed.

"So what are Shippou and Rin going to do now?" Rin asked, skipping after Shippou as they climbed onto Kagome's bed.

"Well we shouldn't go downstairs because kagome's grandpa is crazy and Sesshoumaru-sama isn't very happy with the crazy grandpa and Kagome said we shouldn't go downstairs..." Shippou said, scratching his head, "Well let's explore..."

"Rin says yes!" Rin cheered.

~*Elsewhere*~

"Kagome?" Mrs. Higurashi called from the kitchen, "Can you come here for a moment?"

"Sure mom! Be right there!" Kagome called, walking into the kitchen where her mother was busy cooking, "Yeah?" Kagome asked, glancing back to make sure she was within ten feet of Sesshoumaru.

Her heart skipped a beat.

'But how?...' Kagome thought, not hearing her mother's instructions for dinner.

She stared at the floor then to where Sesshoumaru sat, back facing her...clear across the other side of the living room.

Kagome knew her room was thirty feet in length from one side, all the way to the kitchen. And Sesshoumaru wasn't growling or grumbling at her feet, but sitting in the recliner, unharmed and unaffected by the bond.

Kagome was scared.

-What do you think? I tried not to center it so much on S/K this chapter. It sort of worked. r/r later-