InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Sengoku Manor ❯ Levels ( Chapter 1 )
[ T - Teen: Not suitable for readers under 13 ]
By: ennovy_tenshi 
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Action / Adventure / Comedy / Drama / Romance | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 05.07.2004 | Updated On: 05.24.2004 | Pages: 3 | Words: 3.2K | Visits: 302 | Status: Completed
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Action / Adventure / Comedy / Drama / Romance | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 05.07.2004 | Updated On: 05.24.2004 | Pages: 3 | Words: 3.2K | Visits: 302 | Status: Completed
Sengoku Manor
PG-13 (for mildly violent scenes *yeah right*, Inuyasha's mouth and some child abuse *cries* I didn’t mean to abuse you-oops read for yourself!)
Action/Adventure, (some parts) angst, humor, drama, AU
pairings: Inu/Kag, Miro/San
written by: ennovy-chan~
In a world of prejudice, mikos and youkai must hide. Youkai are like mutants, born to human families. As are mikos. When found, youkai are sent to be encased in tombs in the Sengoku Manor, a horrid place, to die from suffocation and left to rot. Mikos on the otherhand are used as weapons, sent to the manor to find the Shikon no Tama and to kill any live youkai. The jewel could bring a request true. The normal humans strive to obtain this jewel in hopes to rid the world of youkai. Once every half century and something years, a miko is born. Every half decade a youkai is born. To keep themselves from going to the Sengoku Manor, mikos conceal their powers. Mikos are highly regarded, but treated brutally. But one day, an unfortunate miko named Kagome is discovered and sent to the manor for saving a young kitsune youkai named Shippou. What-or better yet-Who will they meet at the manor? (duh! Inu-*smack*owie!)
A/N: Hi, ennovy-chan here! This is my first Inuyasha fic so I hope you have patience for me if I screw up something like names. So please correct me if I get something wrong. Right now I’m trying to find an Inuyasha site with good detail on what’s happening. I happened to get this idea when I was thinking of ICO. The setting will be the same, but the storyline won’t. Thanky! Oh and I'm going to make up some of Kagome's miko powers. Like "let the force be with-" Ouch! Okay okay! But you'll see what I mean. And youkai are found at early ages and sent to the manor immediately.
Disclaimer: Sorry I don’t live in Japan so that explains why I don’t own Inuyasha. Rumiko Takahashi owns Inuyasha and I wonder...is she Kazuki Takahashi's (YGO's creator) wife? Oh and I don’t own ICO either! Don’t even know who it belongs to.
Sengoku Manor
Chapter 1- Levers
“Hurry up wench! Get outta that cell!” The guard growled at the shivering girl. Kagome looked up from her huddled form on the cold gray floor of her cell. Her face was smudged and blackish-blue from fresh bruises. She shivered and hugged young kitsune youkai, Shippou, she’d rescued earlier. The little cub snuggled deeper into her rags. She whispered, “I’m coming.”
“What was that?” the guard scoffed, “I can’t seem to hear you.”
Kagome scowled and croaked audibly, “I’m coming!” She stood up shakily, slowly easing herself off the wall. She followed the guard, limping, to her destination. Two soldiers, with black sacks covering their faces, upon tall black geldings waited for her and the young youkai. She stared blankly at the saddles.
“Well? Get on!” the first guard commanded gruffly. Kagome managed, painfully, straining her bruised leg to mount the horse. She felt a sharp pain in the roots of her hair. The guard tossed the yelping girl and now awake youkai onto the horse behind him. The guard dug his heels into the gelding’s side, the other two soldiers on cue did the same, and took off into the woods. Kagome remembered when all this had started...just last night's eve...
<~flashback~>
"Mommy, Daddy! Look! A y-youkai's been found!" A young child stuttered. Kagome looked up from her rice counting to see a growing crowd in the town plaza. What was all the ruckus? She glanced at her snoring boss. Even warning gong wouldn't awake him. So deciding to see what happened she pushed her way through the crowd. The tall bulky men were standing around the front wouldn't let her pass.
A small child was cheering loudly, "Beat'em!"
"What's happening?" She asked the young child. He looked at her incredulously.
"Dint'cha hear? They found a youkai! They said it's big with horns and big eyes!" the kid informed her, motioning with his hands.
Kagome looked up. The big men were still blocking her view. She thanked the child, but he didn't hear. He was too busy cheering on the beating of the youkai.
" 'S'cuse me," she said to the men, "but I can't see what's happening. Could you possibly make room?" she asked sweetly.
" 'Course Missy. You're about ta see the bes' part!" one man crowed excitedly. He budged over to make room for Kagome, " ’njoy!"
As soon as she set eyes on the youkai she was in shock. It was a young kitsune cub youkai, no older than the child she'd just spoken to. Two big guards were holding him up for the people to see.
"Lemme go, ya big bully!" the youkai cried. He chomped on the guard's thumb. The guard slapped him.
Kagome woke up from her shock. What were these people doing? It was a kid! So what if he was a youkai! An innocent child didn’t deserve this! What if it was their child who was being beat in front of all the villagers? Would they care? She winced as she heard a loud slap against the child's cheek. What cruel people!
She watched as villagers flung rotten onions and other produce at the youkai child. She had to stop this! But how? She couldn't do anything except with her powers! Her miko powers. And if she were to be discovered, she'd-!
The villagers started to toss pumpkins. They smacked loudly against the child. Now back to if she was discovered she'd be sent to the Sengoku Manor. There were rumors that the manor was tremendously large. Like a labyrinth, anyone could get lost in there and die from the loneliness and misery of no hope to ever find the exit. Youkai were sent there and for what? To be encased in tombs without air! What did the youkai ever do to them? The head villager, Naraku, would say, "It's simply because they exist." He like all his head villagers before him, sent mikos, like herself, one born to the village once every fifty years, to face the dangers of the manor. The man was cruel-insane! Was she the only one who noticed this, besides her and Sango (her friend who lived in a village a few miles into the forest)?
The guards holding the youkai tossed him roughly at the ground and kicked him. This had to stop-now! Before she knew it, Kagome shouted hoarsely, "Stop it! He's only a child!" That earned her the attention of all the villagers who had dangerous glares. Boos were heard from the crowd, one woman screeched, "Pah! It's a youkai!" The people reverted their attention back to beating the youkai. That hadn't worked. Maybe if she concentrated, she could make her powers unnoticeable. Yes, that would work! Although she hadn't had that much practice, she could surely stop this. She was confident
She focused on two rotten onions in a basket. 'Clear the storm of your mind,' Kagome thought remembering the words of the wise old woman Kaede whose sister was a miko fifty years before she was born. The clouds in her mind were gone and two large splats were heard. Then a gasp. It was silent.
"It was her! That wench over there! Arrest her!" she froze what had gone wrong? For starters a silvery fog was leading from her to the basket of onions and then to the guards. 'No!'
<~end flashback~>
The entire ride was silent. Even the woods were deadly silent. Shippou looked up at Kagome questionably. She looked down at him reassuringly. The mist lifted to let an eerie form of the gigantic manor appear. The small group was in front of a long wide draw-bridge to the entrance of the manor.
The guard shoved her off the gelding, "Move it." He pushed her towards the draw-bridge and said to his comrades, "C'mon, Naraku has ordered it that we see her off in the manor and to encase the youkai." The two other soldiers jumped off awkwardly. Something was strange with those two. Shippou looked up at Kagome, "What's gonna happen to me?" Kagome choked, the poor child was going to die before he ever lived his life. She hugged him. They came upon the towering doors of the manor. It had to be tall enough for a 35 foot giant to walk through it!
The guard gave Kagome the spear, "Hit this tile here." He pointed to a worn down emblem tile. Kagome prodded the tile and the humongus door creaked open. When they entered Kagome and Shippou gasped, "It-it's so big in here!" white polished slate staircase (and don't forget the iron spike railing) led up to the next level and to the next and so on. A worn out pale red carpet was spread on the stone floor.
"ARGH!! What the hell?!" Kagome and Shippou turned around in surprise to see the two other soldiers slam the guard violently at a spike. The spike stuck through him! He continued to scream until his head hung limply with the rest of his body. Blood seeped through a crack of his mouth. He was dead. Kagome gasped and covered the young youkai's eyes, he asked, "What's happening?"
Kagome turned to the two soldiers, "What-who are you?"
One soldier giggled, and she could never forget whose laugh that was, "Sango!" Sango yanked off the black sack off her head, "Took you long enough, Kagome! Who'd you think it was? A youkai?"
Kagome sighed, "What are you doing here? And who's he?" She pointed to the other soldier.
Before Sango could answer, he yanked his black sack off his head, it was a young man with a short ponytail, "I am but a traveling monk who worships Buddha. You may call me Miroku."
Kagome heard Sango coughing and wheezing something like, "Cough-monk-cough-of-cough-hentais-cough!"
"So why are you guys here?" Kagome asked uncovering Shippou's eyes.
Sango's eyes turned serious, "Well Houshi and I were coming back to visit you when we came across you and a couple soldiers."
Kagome asked, "And when was that?"
The monk answered this time, "When you stopped to take a break we replaced the soldiers."
Kagome made an unlady-like snort, "I could tell something was strange."
Sango asked, "They found out you were miko?"
Kagome nodded sullenly, "No duh. They were beating Shippou here and I had to stop them! You know what happens to youkai here!" Shippou looked up at her curiously.
Sango nodded, "Yes I know. We're sorry we couldn't free you before we arrived here."
Miroku said, "Yes and we mustn't remain here. I feel bad vibes..."
"Yeah this place freaks me out. Let's get out of here. I don't want Shippou to know what will happen if he stays here," Kagome said walking towards the door.
"What does happen here?" Shippou asked. The older people shook their heads, "You don't want to know."
"Hsshph!" Slam! The group looked around to see what the noise was, Shippou asked nervously, "What...was that?"
Miroku observed, "It sounds like...pillars slamming together. And...something screaming and-"
Sango grabbed his arm, "Shut-up Houshi! Look!
The carpet shoved over and a secret staircase to the dark dank basement was revealed.
Shippou shrieked, "Holy cheese on rye! Let's get outta here!" He hopped onto Miroku's shoulder.
Kagome peered into the hole, Sango pulled her back, "What're you doing?"
Kagome replied, "Looking down there. Is it a crime to be curious?" Sango nodded, "In this case, it is. Come on, let's leave."
"Okay..." she looked down at the hole and heard a shrill scream that sounded more like metal grinding, "Wait! Someone might need our help!"
Sango rolled her eyes, "Now Kagome! Be reasonable! Who would be down there?"
Kagome protested, "Someone who needs our help?"
"Kagome! For all we know some blood thirsty escaped youkai maybe down there!"
"What? Here I'll prove to you someone down there might need our help!" Kagome stepped down on the staircase, "Is someone down there?"
"Kagome, this doesn't feel right," Miroku called down the stairs with Sango.
"Please come back up here!" Sango pleaded.
Kagome started back up the stairs, careful not to trip, "Yeah, I'm coming! No one seems to be down here. Must've just been the passage opening up."
She felt a breeze rush past her, it suddenly felt ten degrees colder than it was a moment ago. But what was that cold breeze? Hair on the back of her neck rose and she felt a hot breath blowing against the back of her neck, "W-who's there?" she stammered. The hot breath stopped. She guessed it was just some weird feeling that came over her.
Shippou shouted from the top of the stairs, "Who ya talking to?"
Kagome blinked, "No one, I guess."
"You're wrong, bitch." a voice hissed.
A dim fire lit. Kagome was in a room with five doors in different directions. She looked behind her. A person-scratch that-youkai with long silver hair with two dog-like ears on top. Two purple lines on his cheeks framed bloody red-green eyes and two bloody fangs which overlapped his lips. He smirked widely and raised his talons, "This is where you die, Kikyou."
"G-guys, we have a problem," Kagome choked out scrambling up the stairs. She panted.
Sango folded her arms, "What kind of-Agh!" the dog-like youkai leapt up after Kagome, pulling her back down. The passage started to close again.
"Kagome!"
~~
"Ouch..." Kagome landed at the bottom of the stairs on her head. She massaged her face and the abnormally sized lump on her head.
"I didn't know you were so clumsy, Kikyou." She felt the hot breath on her neck and shuddered. She turned to look at who it was, but it was pitch-black! The passage door to the main floor had shut!
"I don't know what you're talking about," Kagome replied trying to feel the walls and to get away from the youkai.
"Stop playing dumb, Kikyou. You trapped me here to die. Big mistake to come back to mock me," the youkai hissed, "But now you will pay."
Kagome turned around to see its blood-red eyes burning through the dark. It was coming closer. Knuckles cracked and heavy rasping was heard. She felt an opening and mad-dashed blindly with her hands in front of her into the narrow corridor. Behind her the youkai bouncing off the walls after her.
He swooped in for an attack. What she didn't notice there was a rock in front of her when she tripped, the youkai missing her a good four inches. He swerved around, for he could see her easily with his youkai eyes. He raised his claws and swiped, but only grazed her hair because she rolled over. Was this girl having luck or what?
Kagome clambered back up and again dashed, barely missing a wall. She could see the outline of the passage splitting in two. Which one left or right? She chose the right. Maybe she could lose the youkai this way.
The youkai watched as she ran to right. She was heading to the tomb room. That was too bad. And he wanted to kill her. Too bad. The youkai in there would do that before he could so-wait! He wasn't going to let the other youkai take his revenge. He dashed after her.
Kagome was welcomed by a blinding light. Shielding her eyes, she scanned the room. It, like the entrance floor, was humongus, except five levels down. And along those walls were tombs about twenty or thirty per floor. Within those tombs were dead youkai who were sent there over the years. Creepy... Where was that youkai that was chasing her? Did he give up? She turned around. The youkai was no longer there. And how did he survive? He did say something about Kaede’s sister, Kikyou. But she died fifty years before she was born! And that youkai looked allot younger than fifty-roughly around her age, she supposed. Never mind that! He wasn’t chasing her anymore and this room was creeping her out. Now...to find the exit.
The silver-haired youkai watched as the girl walked over to where she had come from. Looks like he was going to get that revenge he wanted. He snickered in his mind. He glowered anxiously at her, unbeknownst to her, from the shadows in the narrow maze he’d just chased her in. He arched his talons once again, preparing for the kill.
A grinding screech echoed throughout the manor. Kagome searched its source behind her. She screamed.
end
A/N: I hope that it didn’t suck that bad. *sulks* And if someone wrote something like this, tell me and I’ll take this thing off. I’m like so bad at grammar! *sniff* Oh well, please review. You’ll make one more happy authoress in the world.
ennovy-chan~ signing out!
PG-13 (for mildly violent scenes *yeah right*, Inuyasha's mouth and some child abuse *cries* I didn’t mean to abuse you-oops read for yourself!)
Action/Adventure, (some parts) angst, humor, drama, AU
pairings: Inu/Kag, Miro/San
written by: ennovy-chan~
In a world of prejudice, mikos and youkai must hide. Youkai are like mutants, born to human families. As are mikos. When found, youkai are sent to be encased in tombs in the Sengoku Manor, a horrid place, to die from suffocation and left to rot. Mikos on the otherhand are used as weapons, sent to the manor to find the Shikon no Tama and to kill any live youkai. The jewel could bring a request true. The normal humans strive to obtain this jewel in hopes to rid the world of youkai. Once every half century and something years, a miko is born. Every half decade a youkai is born. To keep themselves from going to the Sengoku Manor, mikos conceal their powers. Mikos are highly regarded, but treated brutally. But one day, an unfortunate miko named Kagome is discovered and sent to the manor for saving a young kitsune youkai named Shippou. What-or better yet-Who will they meet at the manor? (duh! Inu-*smack*owie!)
A/N: Hi, ennovy-chan here! This is my first Inuyasha fic so I hope you have patience for me if I screw up something like names. So please correct me if I get something wrong. Right now I’m trying to find an Inuyasha site with good detail on what’s happening. I happened to get this idea when I was thinking of ICO. The setting will be the same, but the storyline won’t. Thanky! Oh and I'm going to make up some of Kagome's miko powers. Like "let the force be with-" Ouch! Okay okay! But you'll see what I mean. And youkai are found at early ages and sent to the manor immediately.
Disclaimer: Sorry I don’t live in Japan so that explains why I don’t own Inuyasha. Rumiko Takahashi owns Inuyasha and I wonder...is she Kazuki Takahashi's (YGO's creator) wife? Oh and I don’t own ICO either! Don’t even know who it belongs to.
Sengoku Manor
Chapter 1- Levers
“Hurry up wench! Get outta that cell!” The guard growled at the shivering girl. Kagome looked up from her huddled form on the cold gray floor of her cell. Her face was smudged and blackish-blue from fresh bruises. She shivered and hugged young kitsune youkai, Shippou, she’d rescued earlier. The little cub snuggled deeper into her rags. She whispered, “I’m coming.”
“What was that?” the guard scoffed, “I can’t seem to hear you.”
Kagome scowled and croaked audibly, “I’m coming!” She stood up shakily, slowly easing herself off the wall. She followed the guard, limping, to her destination. Two soldiers, with black sacks covering their faces, upon tall black geldings waited for her and the young youkai. She stared blankly at the saddles.
“Well? Get on!” the first guard commanded gruffly. Kagome managed, painfully, straining her bruised leg to mount the horse. She felt a sharp pain in the roots of her hair. The guard tossed the yelping girl and now awake youkai onto the horse behind him. The guard dug his heels into the gelding’s side, the other two soldiers on cue did the same, and took off into the woods. Kagome remembered when all this had started...just last night's eve...
<~flashback~>
"Mommy, Daddy! Look! A y-youkai's been found!" A young child stuttered. Kagome looked up from her rice counting to see a growing crowd in the town plaza. What was all the ruckus? She glanced at her snoring boss. Even warning gong wouldn't awake him. So deciding to see what happened she pushed her way through the crowd. The tall bulky men were standing around the front wouldn't let her pass.
A small child was cheering loudly, "Beat'em!"
"What's happening?" She asked the young child. He looked at her incredulously.
"Dint'cha hear? They found a youkai! They said it's big with horns and big eyes!" the kid informed her, motioning with his hands.
Kagome looked up. The big men were still blocking her view. She thanked the child, but he didn't hear. He was too busy cheering on the beating of the youkai.
" 'S'cuse me," she said to the men, "but I can't see what's happening. Could you possibly make room?" she asked sweetly.
" 'Course Missy. You're about ta see the bes' part!" one man crowed excitedly. He budged over to make room for Kagome, " ’njoy!"
As soon as she set eyes on the youkai she was in shock. It was a young kitsune cub youkai, no older than the child she'd just spoken to. Two big guards were holding him up for the people to see.
"Lemme go, ya big bully!" the youkai cried. He chomped on the guard's thumb. The guard slapped him.
Kagome woke up from her shock. What were these people doing? It was a kid! So what if he was a youkai! An innocent child didn’t deserve this! What if it was their child who was being beat in front of all the villagers? Would they care? She winced as she heard a loud slap against the child's cheek. What cruel people!
She watched as villagers flung rotten onions and other produce at the youkai child. She had to stop this! But how? She couldn't do anything except with her powers! Her miko powers. And if she were to be discovered, she'd-!
The villagers started to toss pumpkins. They smacked loudly against the child. Now back to if she was discovered she'd be sent to the Sengoku Manor. There were rumors that the manor was tremendously large. Like a labyrinth, anyone could get lost in there and die from the loneliness and misery of no hope to ever find the exit. Youkai were sent there and for what? To be encased in tombs without air! What did the youkai ever do to them? The head villager, Naraku, would say, "It's simply because they exist." He like all his head villagers before him, sent mikos, like herself, one born to the village once every fifty years, to face the dangers of the manor. The man was cruel-insane! Was she the only one who noticed this, besides her and Sango (her friend who lived in a village a few miles into the forest)?
The guards holding the youkai tossed him roughly at the ground and kicked him. This had to stop-now! Before she knew it, Kagome shouted hoarsely, "Stop it! He's only a child!" That earned her the attention of all the villagers who had dangerous glares. Boos were heard from the crowd, one woman screeched, "Pah! It's a youkai!" The people reverted their attention back to beating the youkai. That hadn't worked. Maybe if she concentrated, she could make her powers unnoticeable. Yes, that would work! Although she hadn't had that much practice, she could surely stop this. She was confident
She focused on two rotten onions in a basket. 'Clear the storm of your mind,' Kagome thought remembering the words of the wise old woman Kaede whose sister was a miko fifty years before she was born. The clouds in her mind were gone and two large splats were heard. Then a gasp. It was silent.
"It was her! That wench over there! Arrest her!" she froze what had gone wrong? For starters a silvery fog was leading from her to the basket of onions and then to the guards. 'No!'
<~end flashback~>
The entire ride was silent. Even the woods were deadly silent. Shippou looked up at Kagome questionably. She looked down at him reassuringly. The mist lifted to let an eerie form of the gigantic manor appear. The small group was in front of a long wide draw-bridge to the entrance of the manor.
The guard shoved her off the gelding, "Move it." He pushed her towards the draw-bridge and said to his comrades, "C'mon, Naraku has ordered it that we see her off in the manor and to encase the youkai." The two other soldiers jumped off awkwardly. Something was strange with those two. Shippou looked up at Kagome, "What's gonna happen to me?" Kagome choked, the poor child was going to die before he ever lived his life. She hugged him. They came upon the towering doors of the manor. It had to be tall enough for a 35 foot giant to walk through it!
The guard gave Kagome the spear, "Hit this tile here." He pointed to a worn down emblem tile. Kagome prodded the tile and the humongus door creaked open. When they entered Kagome and Shippou gasped, "It-it's so big in here!" white polished slate staircase (and don't forget the iron spike railing) led up to the next level and to the next and so on. A worn out pale red carpet was spread on the stone floor.
"ARGH!! What the hell?!" Kagome and Shippou turned around in surprise to see the two other soldiers slam the guard violently at a spike. The spike stuck through him! He continued to scream until his head hung limply with the rest of his body. Blood seeped through a crack of his mouth. He was dead. Kagome gasped and covered the young youkai's eyes, he asked, "What's happening?"
Kagome turned to the two soldiers, "What-who are you?"
One soldier giggled, and she could never forget whose laugh that was, "Sango!" Sango yanked off the black sack off her head, "Took you long enough, Kagome! Who'd you think it was? A youkai?"
Kagome sighed, "What are you doing here? And who's he?" She pointed to the other soldier.
Before Sango could answer, he yanked his black sack off his head, it was a young man with a short ponytail, "I am but a traveling monk who worships Buddha. You may call me Miroku."
Kagome heard Sango coughing and wheezing something like, "Cough-monk-cough-of-cough-hentais-cough!"
"So why are you guys here?" Kagome asked uncovering Shippou's eyes.
Sango's eyes turned serious, "Well Houshi and I were coming back to visit you when we came across you and a couple soldiers."
Kagome asked, "And when was that?"
The monk answered this time, "When you stopped to take a break we replaced the soldiers."
Kagome made an unlady-like snort, "I could tell something was strange."
Sango asked, "They found out you were miko?"
Kagome nodded sullenly, "No duh. They were beating Shippou here and I had to stop them! You know what happens to youkai here!" Shippou looked up at her curiously.
Sango nodded, "Yes I know. We're sorry we couldn't free you before we arrived here."
Miroku said, "Yes and we mustn't remain here. I feel bad vibes..."
"Yeah this place freaks me out. Let's get out of here. I don't want Shippou to know what will happen if he stays here," Kagome said walking towards the door.
"What does happen here?" Shippou asked. The older people shook their heads, "You don't want to know."
"Hsshph!" Slam! The group looked around to see what the noise was, Shippou asked nervously, "What...was that?"
Miroku observed, "It sounds like...pillars slamming together. And...something screaming and-"
Sango grabbed his arm, "Shut-up Houshi! Look!
The carpet shoved over and a secret staircase to the dark dank basement was revealed.
Shippou shrieked, "Holy cheese on rye! Let's get outta here!" He hopped onto Miroku's shoulder.
Kagome peered into the hole, Sango pulled her back, "What're you doing?"
Kagome replied, "Looking down there. Is it a crime to be curious?" Sango nodded, "In this case, it is. Come on, let's leave."
"Okay..." she looked down at the hole and heard a shrill scream that sounded more like metal grinding, "Wait! Someone might need our help!"
Sango rolled her eyes, "Now Kagome! Be reasonable! Who would be down there?"
Kagome protested, "Someone who needs our help?"
"Kagome! For all we know some blood thirsty escaped youkai maybe down there!"
"What? Here I'll prove to you someone down there might need our help!" Kagome stepped down on the staircase, "Is someone down there?"
"Kagome, this doesn't feel right," Miroku called down the stairs with Sango.
"Please come back up here!" Sango pleaded.
Kagome started back up the stairs, careful not to trip, "Yeah, I'm coming! No one seems to be down here. Must've just been the passage opening up."
She felt a breeze rush past her, it suddenly felt ten degrees colder than it was a moment ago. But what was that cold breeze? Hair on the back of her neck rose and she felt a hot breath blowing against the back of her neck, "W-who's there?" she stammered. The hot breath stopped. She guessed it was just some weird feeling that came over her.
Shippou shouted from the top of the stairs, "Who ya talking to?"
Kagome blinked, "No one, I guess."
"You're wrong, bitch." a voice hissed.
A dim fire lit. Kagome was in a room with five doors in different directions. She looked behind her. A person-scratch that-youkai with long silver hair with two dog-like ears on top. Two purple lines on his cheeks framed bloody red-green eyes and two bloody fangs which overlapped his lips. He smirked widely and raised his talons, "This is where you die, Kikyou."
"G-guys, we have a problem," Kagome choked out scrambling up the stairs. She panted.
Sango folded her arms, "What kind of-Agh!" the dog-like youkai leapt up after Kagome, pulling her back down. The passage started to close again.
"Kagome!"
~~
"Ouch..." Kagome landed at the bottom of the stairs on her head. She massaged her face and the abnormally sized lump on her head.
"I didn't know you were so clumsy, Kikyou." She felt the hot breath on her neck and shuddered. She turned to look at who it was, but it was pitch-black! The passage door to the main floor had shut!
"I don't know what you're talking about," Kagome replied trying to feel the walls and to get away from the youkai.
"Stop playing dumb, Kikyou. You trapped me here to die. Big mistake to come back to mock me," the youkai hissed, "But now you will pay."
Kagome turned around to see its blood-red eyes burning through the dark. It was coming closer. Knuckles cracked and heavy rasping was heard. She felt an opening and mad-dashed blindly with her hands in front of her into the narrow corridor. Behind her the youkai bouncing off the walls after her.
He swooped in for an attack. What she didn't notice there was a rock in front of her when she tripped, the youkai missing her a good four inches. He swerved around, for he could see her easily with his youkai eyes. He raised his claws and swiped, but only grazed her hair because she rolled over. Was this girl having luck or what?
Kagome clambered back up and again dashed, barely missing a wall. She could see the outline of the passage splitting in two. Which one left or right? She chose the right. Maybe she could lose the youkai this way.
The youkai watched as she ran to right. She was heading to the tomb room. That was too bad. And he wanted to kill her. Too bad. The youkai in there would do that before he could so-wait! He wasn't going to let the other youkai take his revenge. He dashed after her.
Kagome was welcomed by a blinding light. Shielding her eyes, she scanned the room. It, like the entrance floor, was humongus, except five levels down. And along those walls were tombs about twenty or thirty per floor. Within those tombs were dead youkai who were sent there over the years. Creepy... Where was that youkai that was chasing her? Did he give up? She turned around. The youkai was no longer there. And how did he survive? He did say something about Kaede’s sister, Kikyou. But she died fifty years before she was born! And that youkai looked allot younger than fifty-roughly around her age, she supposed. Never mind that! He wasn’t chasing her anymore and this room was creeping her out. Now...to find the exit.
The silver-haired youkai watched as the girl walked over to where she had come from. Looks like he was going to get that revenge he wanted. He snickered in his mind. He glowered anxiously at her, unbeknownst to her, from the shadows in the narrow maze he’d just chased her in. He arched his talons once again, preparing for the kill.
A grinding screech echoed throughout the manor. Kagome searched its source behind her. She screamed.
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A/N: I hope that it didn’t suck that bad. *sulks* And if someone wrote something like this, tell me and I’ll take this thing off. I’m like so bad at grammar! *sniff* Oh well, please review. You’ll make one more happy authoress in the world.
ennovy-chan~ signing out!