InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Mermaids ❯ Something At First Sight... ( Chapter 4 )

"Another day goes without any change
The feeling we live with still remains
We're stuck in a hole and we're searching for anything to hold onto
There has to be somewhere that we can be safe from the lives we live each day
There has to be somewhere that we can be far away...

We have to escape and I will go anywhere if you just lead the way
Escape to a place where we'll be together, together everyday
We have to escape....

We could be living how we want to
Instead of doing things we're forced to do
With no one to tell us that we should be going through what they went through
There has to be some place that nobody knows of, somewhere only we can go
There has to be some place that we can be all alone...

We have to escape and I will go anywhere if you just lead the way

Escape to a place where we'll be together, together everyday

We have to escape and I will go anywhere if you just lead the way

Escape to a place where we'll be together, together everyday…

We have to escape…

We have to escape…

We have to escape and I will go anywhere if you just lead the way

Escape to a place where we'll be together, together everyday

We have to escape and I will go anywhere if you just lead the way

Escape to a place where we'll be together, together everyday

We have to escape…" - Hoobastank, "Escape"

Mermaids

Chapter Four

Something at First Sight…

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"I can't believe you set me up AGAIN!" Inuyasha yelled at Sesshoumaru.

"Believe it. You'll be going to the arranged meeting place at the arranged time."

Inuyasha smirked when he heard the orders his brother gave him. "Oh. So does that mean I can - "

"No," Sesshoumaru answered shortly.

Inuyasha growled. He wished that he could just do what he did last time, which was go to the arranged place five hours early for two seconds and then head off to the beach.

"You'll be going with Kagura."

Inuyasha didn't bother giving his control freak asshole of a brother a response as he stormed out of the room, and didn't even acknowledge that his brother had spoken.

"Why are you testing me?" Sesshoumaru grumbled to no one in particular as he got up from his chair and poured himself some brandy.

^.~

As they both swam towards the surface, Kagome couldn't help but glance around nervously. Sango noticed this and gave her a reassuring smile. Encouraged, Kagome swam on.

As they reached the surface, both girls brought out their potions. "Wait Kagome," Sango said after Kagome had pulled her stopper out of her bottle.

"What? You're not having second thoughts are you?" she said hurriedly.

Sango shook her head. "It's just that… it might be hard for you… after we transform… I think we should wait until nightfall."

"Good idea. Let's go enjoy the sea some more!" Both girls giggled and put the potions away, diving under the water for some more fun until they would have to leave the waters they grew up in… forever.

Never to return to the waters.

Never to be able to float through wave upon blissful wave that washed away pain and sorrow.

Never again.

As they swam, they dove through the coral, finding small fish and terrorizing them. Sango and Kagome laughed, chasing after them. It was good to be able to swim. It was good to be able to be free. For the time that they had left, anyway…

^.~

"Look! I don't understand why you want me to get married off so fast anyway to a broad I don't even KNOW but I am not doing this!" Inuyasha growled at Sesshoumaru, who looked bored.

"This is the fifth time you've stormed into my room and started something. This time, if you don't finish it, I'm scheduling the wedding for next week. I am giving you a choice, Inuyasha. The will Father left said that we both had to be married by the time we are both 21. I was already married, so Father left no worries behind about me. You, on the other hand, have yet to find a woman to bring home."

"I've brought home many women and you've turned down all of them!"

"Suitable women, Inuyasha. Suitable for our status."

"Screw it. Kikyou was a good enough choice! She was a freakin' miko for God's sake! How much higher of a status can you get?! I don't get you."

"She didn't tell you, did she…?" Sesshoumaru groaned. Damn that woman. She was one of those venomous snakes that struck those who were weak. Inuyasha had fallen for her, hook, line, and sinker. She was the worst of all the women that Inuyasha had presented to him. And that had been a lot.

"Tell me WHAT?!"

"That mikos are not allowed to wed. They have a vow of celibacy. No marriage. She wasn't a true miko." Inuyasha just gaped. "Do shut that jaw, Inuyasha. It's very unbecoming."

Inuyasha snapped it shut but remained silent. Sesshoumaru began to think that he had scared the boy into shock when he finally spoke. "Liar," he rasped, "you fuckin' liar," and stormed out of the room.

Sesshoumaru sighed and called for one of the servants. "Please inform Ms. Yura that we have thought over this wedding decision and decided that she deserves better than my brother, who apparently has a mental issue with himself." The servant bowed and hurried off to complete the task.

Maybe it was just his imagination or was that annoying brother of his actually softening him…? Never mind that, there was business to be taken care of. Besides, Kagura and Rin had already done too much to him…

^.~

Rin splashed into the water, giggling. "Come on, you guys! It's so nice in here!" Shippou and Koharu looked hesitantly at each other.

"I don't know Ms. Rin… my mommy says that there are monsters in the ocean!"

"And mermaids!" Shippou piped in.

"Oh Shippou!" Rin giggled. "Uncle Inu was just trying to scare you!"

Shippou shook his head. "Well, I don't care. I'm still not going in!"

"Pweeeeeeeeeeease?" Rin pouted. Shippou stared at her and shook his head but in a minute, he found himself in the water beside her. Koharu jumped in after Shippou.

"Yo! Aren't you afraid they will come and get ya?" someone shouted. Inuyasha grinned as he saw Shippou pale slightly. "Besides, even if you aren't, it's getting dark and if you guys don't get back soon, the waves will sweep you away! And I don't want to die just yet at the hands of Sesshoumaru because his daughter got taken by the sea!"

Rin giggled. "Okay! We'll be out in five minutes Uncle Yashie!" Inuyasha groaned and waved his hand, pointing to some boulders.

Inuyasha grinned and watched as they splashed water, all falling helplessly into the water whenever a wave hit them, causing laughter. But soon, the waves became rougher and higher. Inuyasha quickly got up. It was time to call them in. The waves were a bit too rough… it seemed a storm was rising. The longer they stayed, the more perilous it was.

"Rin! Shippou! Koharu! Get yer asses here now!" Inuyasha called. They couldn't hear him, too involved with their playing. Inuyasha tried again but the crashing of the waves covered his voice. "Shit!" He started out for the water, but a wave wet his hair and blocked his sight of the children. When he finally got his hair out of his face, there were only two. He quickly reached them and dragged them to shore. "What happened to Rin?!"

Shippou coughed and shook his head. "I thinks she got dragged under!"

Inuyasha swore, and ran back to the water. The waves were getting bigger and bigger, so Inuyasha paused momentarily and yelled for Shippou and Koharu to get to higher ground and to alert Sesshoumaru that Rin was… was… in the sea.

Shippou and Koharu darted off and when Inuyasha was positive some mutant sea gulls hadn't plucked them from the land, he went back up against the waters. He swam until he could no longer see the coast, or it could have been the fact that the beach was flooded. Damn them! Why the hell did they have to play where it would flood?!

Inuyasha swam on and on until he was sure he was going to die of exhaustion. He dove under several times, but there was no sign of Rin. The waves were crashing down harder and harder. Inuyasha just let them sweep him back to the coast, knowing that he would have to be prepared, since the water had risen so that it was almost in line with the top of the cliff. Those rocks on the side of it were rather sharp…

^.~

"This certainly rose up unexpectedly…" Sango mused as the storm raged above them. Kagome nodded in agreement.

"But we have to do it tonight, because Father will most likely put the guards up tonight."

"Mmm… wait - did you see that?!" Sango hissed, pointing a bit upwards. "It looks like a dead seal…"

"No…" Kagome began slowly. "I don't think it's a seal… oh my God!" Kagome breathed the last words.

"What?" Sango asked but Kagome had already darted towards the floating… something. "Wait for me!"

Kagome reached the body and swam upwards. She burst through the waves and managed to raise the child's head enough so that she could breathe. When the child didn't respond to the air, Kagome frantically looked for Sango. "Whack her back! She's swallowed too much water!"

Sango did so, and the child woke up, choking. "Who are you?" she asked lazily before falling backwards, unconscious.

"We better get her back to shore. Let's drink right afterwards and tell them that we were caught in the storm too. Perhaps they'll reward us. I'd hate to think we have to wander around with nothing to buy things with."

Kagome nodded.

When they neared the shore, they noticed that the water had risen considerably and the cliff that had hung so high over their heads before was now the shore. They hurried, keeping the child's head above the water until they noticed another man lying in a lump on top of the cliff. He had the most peculiar white hair…

Inuyasha awoke when he felt someone rousing him and groaned. "Damn it, Liana… give me five more minutes and I'll make it worth your while…" He hoped he got the name right. Last time he made a mistake and his cheek had stung for a whole week… not to mention the taunts that Kouga made…

But this only made the shaking continue, and in a rougher fashion. Inuyasha opened his eyes wearily and saw a girl hovering over him. He groaned. "Damn it woman… if you're that impatient, then fine…" and he reached an arm around her, pulling her to kiss her. But he was rudely awakened completely with a slap that smarted horribly.

It also made him jump up, colliding heads with the girl above him. "Oww…" he winced and shut his eyes. "Whatever… go away if you're going to be like that."

A punch to the stomach woke him up fully and he opened his eyes and sat up. "What the fuck?! Helloooooo…" he eyed the broad that sat before him, staring openly. She noticed his gaze and screeched, one arm going up to cover her chest and the other to slap him again. When he fell backwards, he didn't bother getting up. For some reason… his whole body ached. He must have gotten really drunk and really really laid last night or something.

Then he remembered the waves. But he moaned slightly and tilted his head to the side. As he did so, he heard the girl whom he had eye-groped hiss to someone else, "Oh shit, Sango! I forgot about clothes!"

What a strange thing to say. Nonetheless, he opened his eyes and there before him lay Rin, who looked slightly worn, but just fine in every other sense.

"Oh shit! Well, I think he's waking up fully now."

"He should. I hit him three times."

"WHAT? You WHAT?" the other girl hissed.

Inuyasha scowled. Their voices were irritating… he should go back to sleep… wait - why was he lying on the ground? More precisely, the dirt?

"Where the fuck am I?" he asked roughly as he sat up and rubbed his eyes. Then he looked at the girls in front of him. Except they weren't exactly girls per se. Well, they might be, with those hoote - wait. "IS THAT A FISH TAIL?!"

The girl he had molested twitched and said, "No… they're fake?"

"What the - " and Inuyasha was too startled to say anything else. He leapt up and grabbed Rin, cradling her in his arms. "Get the fuck away from us," he growled dangerously. He narrowed his eyes and stepped back.

"Wait! Please, let us explain!" the other girl cried. "Please!" She tapped the other girl on the shoulder and they both nodded, taking bottles out and uncapping them.

"W-what are you doing?" Inuyasha gasped as they downed the whole thing. Then they both proceeded to collapse on the dirt. Inuyasha's eyes widened, and he ran. He leapt over the wall and into his brother's home, where Sesshoumaru stood in front, apparently to search for them.

"Inuyasha," Sesshoumaru just uttered his name, but the hanyou suddenly felt very, very afraid. "What happened?"

"I woke up and - "

"What happened to Rin?" Sesshoumaru growled.

"They were playing and the storm came up too quickly and a wave swept her away. I don't know what happened, but I tried to find her and I passed out. I was on the cliff and these fucked up women on the cliff freaked me out. They had - "

"Did they save Rin?"

"I…guess so." Inuyasha shrugged and walked closer to Sesshoumaru still carrying Rin. "Anyway, why?"

"I'm going to go and see if they need help." Sesshoumaru looked at Inuyasha. "I expect you to take Rin inside and calm Kagura down. She's wrecking my library."

"But those women have… fish tails," Inuyasha faltered as Sesshoumaru, ignoring his younger brother, leapt over the wall in search of Rin's benefactors.

Inuyasha sighed and turned to take Rin back to Kagura, who was probably in the midst of a storm of flying papers, hopefully none that were too important…

^.~

Sesshoumaru sniffed the air, making sure he was headed in the right direction. With the winds blowing the way they were, he could just barely detect a hint of his brother's scent lingering on the dirt.

And it was there he found them. The two women shrieked and covered their chests. "Don't come any closer!" one of them shouted over to him.

Sesshoumaru arched an eyebrow, but closed his eyes in modesty. "Are you two the ones who saved my daughter?" he asked. Sango nodded, but remembered his eyes were close.

"The little girl? Yes!" She had to shout to be heard. "Can you help us?"

Sesshoumaru nodded. "I will assist you in whatever you need."

"Can you take my friend and carry her back to your house?" Sango shouted. Sesshoumaru nodded. Then he proceeded to untie the string that held his shirt together. Sango `eep'ed and blushed. "What are you - " and was promptly hit in the face by his shirt. He quickly shed his undershirt, which was like a button-up shirt, and tossed it at Kagome, who fumbled with it. He had rather good aim for someone who had his eyes closed…

"Put those on." After noises that confirmed that they had done so, Sesshoumaru warily slitted his eyes open, and finding them decent, strode closer. "What do you need assistance with?"

Sango pointed to Kagome, who was blushing and looked at the dirt. "Could you carry her? She can't use her legs."

Sesshoumaru nodded, and swept Kagome up in his arms, with her legs bent and hung over his arm and her head lying against his chest. She promptly relaxed, knowing it would be easier for him to carry her. Sango quickly got up, making sure that the shirt she had on covered all the necessary areas. "Do you have anywhere to go?"

Sango sheepishly shook her head. "Then I advise for you to come back with me before the storm gets any worse." Sango turned, and stared out at the stormy sky, nodding. She couldn't help but slide her gaze toward the crashing waves and have a small pang of sorrow run through her bones.

Sesshoumaru began walking, setting an incredibly difficult pace. He noticed that Sango was struggling, so he slowed down. Soon, they reached the wall. Positive that she could not jump it, Sesshoumaru turned to her. "Wait for me. I'll take your friend over first and then I'll come back for you." He leapt before Sango could protest.

Seconds later, Sango appeared behind Sesshoumaru, grinning. "No need."

Sesshoumaru nodded and they quickly went into the house, where Inuyasha started howling, "WHAT THE HELL?!"

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Okay… well this is a record for me. Three updates for three different story within a week. WOOO~ Okay… So I just have a lot more time on my hands now… but not in August… I have band camp then.

Haha… yeah. Does anyone figure me for a band geek…? I bet you guys can't guess what instrument I play!!! [unless I told you in another random author's note…=.=]

Oh and it's SEVEN in the morning right now. I went to bed at three. I woke up from a nightmare I've been having since I was three… it scares the living shiite out of me. I'm so paranoid now. I can't sleep unless all the lights in my room are open… is there something wrong with me?

OH! And but this time the dream was different… because Jaken was in it too. But it doesn't sound as funny as you think… it scared me really bad. Well, I won't bore you with anymore ramblings now~*

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