InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Snow White and the Seven 'Dwarfs'...Sort of ❯ Oh My Kami, It's Her! ( Chapter 16 )

 

***The `Dwarfs' (they should be dwarfs anyway.)

 

“Ok, so there's someone in the house, they are still in the house right?” the one with a large disk stepped to her back asked. The one with the lighting rod sniffed the air and nodded.

“Ok they're still in the house, let's find them and question them.”

“Can we torture them to?”

“What? No we are not hurting them in anyway!”

“What's the big deal? They're just humans, there's a million more from were that one came from.”

“And what I am, chopped liver? I'm human to you know!” the one with the two swords said.

“Yeah well it's not your fault you're a human.”

“And that makes me special in some way?”

“Yeah, you've been with us since you were a little kid, we like you, and now you want us to treat you like a human just because another one is in our house?”

“No, I just don't want you to hurt them! Why would you even want to in the first place?”

“There has to be some reason this human cleaned our house. We couldn't clean that mess up ourselves and we live here. So why would this human do it? It would have taken all day and because there's the smell of blood in the air, this human was hurt. He has to be a spy from that bitch Kikyo or from Naraku, maybe both of them. We can't risk anyone getting hurt because we were taken in by a lying human.”

The one that would use the earth against you smiled and flung herself around the other wolf's neck.

“Oh you must be so worried about me if you want to torture a defenseless human for me! I promise as soon as we are married-”

“Get off of me! I am not marrying you! And I'm worried for all of us not just you!”

“While you two finish hugging and kissing each other the rest of us are going to find where the human is.”

The lighting demon said wryly while gesturing to the other three to follow him.

“Wait don't leave me here with her!”

The wolf detangled himself from the others arms, and fled to be with the rest of the group.

“Thanks a lot for leaving me with her.” He mumbled.

“What, you don't like her that way? I never would have guessed, you always seem to be so happy when she jumps all over you.”

“SHUT UP!”

“Poor wolf, first he loses his baby shirt and now his woman.”

“She was never my women to begin with!”

“Guys shut up, I think he's upstairs.” The one with the lighting rod said and they stopped at the foot of the stairs.

“So…who goes up first?”

“I'm not going up.”

The wolf turned to his female,

“When did you get back? I thought I left you in the kitchen!”

“Hey I live here to you know, I'm not going to go off and cry by the river because you're in denial.

“I DON'T HAVE ANYTHING TO BE IN DENAIL ABOUT!”

“Again shut up, why aren't you going up?”

“Because this is a new fur shawl you know. What if the human's all bloody and dirty? I can not get blood out of white fur, it's impossible.”

“Fine, what about you?”

“Nope, I can't throw my weapon this close.”

“So then just use your sword!”

“Getting that clean.”

“Why the hell do you need to get that cleaned?”

“Remember that cave mine in we had last week? And then that huge slimy Youkai came up and wanted our cave that we had to fight over with. You know how slime and dirt coated it got? I couldn't stab it through a piece of paper because it had so much junk on it.”

“Fine what about your wrist knifes?”

“I loaned them to her.”

“Fine and what did you do with them?” he asked to the smaller women standing beside her.

“I had to get them sharpened.”

“Why? You guys almost never need to use it.”

“I was cleaning the bottom of my shoes one day and it got sort of dull.”

“YOU DID WHAT WITH MY WEAPONS?”

“Sorry I wasn't supposed to tell you that.”

“YOU ARE SO DEAD NOW!”

“Before you girls get into a big fight, can you use your swords?”

“No.”

“Why?”

“Because.”

“Because why?”

“Because I said so.”

“Why can't you use them?”

“One kinda melted.”

“What. Happened. To. Your. Sword?”

“Um, see when I went to take a bath the other night, I had to fight a demon off, and his spit was sort of acid, and it melted most of my sword.”

“What are we going to do with you? You know you're supposed to call for help when you need to it!”

“But I still killed the youkai, I didn't need help!”

“Fine, we'll have to see Totosai soon I guess. How about you wolf? Are you going up first, or do you have an excuse to?”

“Nope.”

“Good then go.”

“I said I didn't have an excuse, but that doesn't mean I want to either.”

“What, so you're not going up because your to lazy to?”

“Yeah, pretty much.”

“Oh my fucking Kami I can not believe this.”

“Why don't you go up? You have that rod thing to protect you.”

“Yeah and the thing will create a blast so big it will blow the house apart.”

“Ok, that's a pretty bad idea. So that leaves one person.” They all turned to the littlest one sitting on the floor playing with one of his toys. He looked up at them his eyes growing big,

“Oh, no, I am not going up there!”

“You have to, no one else wants to go.”

“But I'm just a little kid, what I can I do!” he cried as the wolf picked him up by the scuff of his neck and threw him up the stairs.”

“Don't worry, the human may have a soft spot for kids, he may not hurt you.”

“There's to many `may's' for me in that sentence.” He grumbled as he got up and started walking slowly to where he smelled the human.

He smelled him at the end of the hall in the Youkai slayers room, and he paused outside, listening to see what the human was doing. His eyes widened when he heard nothing but light breathing from inside the room and stillness. The human wasn't shuffling through papers, clothes, anything, he was building anything in there, he wasn't preparing for an attack.

Nothing.

He was just sitting very still, and breathing as if he was asleep. He jumped up and turned the knob and dropped back down when the door started to open, and quietly walked inside, looking all around. He almost gasped when he saw what was lying on the bed but managed to hold it in.

It was a…girl.

A hurt tired dirty girl, but it was still a girl. She had perfect white skin that shone out from under all the dirt and blood, long black hair that had tangled in front of her face and was all over the place and matted with blood and mud, but it was still loveliest hair he had ever seen. She was half lying on her back, her hips and legs twisted to the side and her head was barely lying on a pillow. He jumped up on the bed and carefully examined her closer. She had long black eyelashes that curled gently, plump, heart shaped lips that were as red as the blood from the cut at the corner of her eye and a few on her cheek. The blanket had tangled itself around her legs, but it was slipping and he could see her legs were horribly cut up and her clothes were almost gone. A few rips if what was let of her shirt displayed bruises and dirt. A cut on her side had reopened, and was slowly bleeding through her shirt and onto the bed. He noticed there were bruises around her ankles and her wrists. When he looked closer, it looked like she was holding something tightly to her but he was afraid to move her and find out what it was. He got up and raced back down stairs. He reached the bottom and jumped on the wolfs shoulders.

“Hey, a girl is up there sleeping! She's hurt really bad, it's amazing that she even made it up the stairs.”

“How badly hurt?” The other male asked

“Really bad, she's covered in blood and dirt.”

Both males cursed softly for there weakness of seeing a female hurt, and got the one with two swords to go for the medical kit while the rest of them went upstairs.

 

 

***Kagome***

 

I moaned softly as I started to slowly wake up. My body protested the action, wanting to stay asleep longer, but I knew if I wanted to go by sunset I had to do it now. I tried to open my eyelids, but they refused to open. I gave up and figured I could wait five more minutes.

 

 

***The `Dwarfs'***

 

The group rushed into the room and almost gasped at the poor girl lying there. The little `dwarf' had been right; the girl was covered in blood and dirt. The one who carried the large disk gasped when she got a good look at the girl lying there.

“Oh my Kami, that's Kagome!”

The rest looked at her, waiting for her to explain how she knew how she was.

“You know, the Princess Kagome, daughter of King Nobunaga and the great priestess Queen Midoriko. Kami it's been so long since I've even since her, what could have happened to her that she would have ended up like this?”

“So she's safe?”

The wolf snorted and wandered closer to Kagome

“Of course she's safe, Kagome wouldn't hurt a fly. Her father talked about her all the time.”

“You knew King Nobunaga?”

“Of course, I was allies with him and King Sesshourmaru of the West before Kikyo betrayed me and cast me out.”

“Oh yeah, I forget a lot about who you once were.”

“I forget also myself.” The wolf sighed, longing for the old days when he had been powerful and respected as King of the east.

Nowadays he was lucky if people even remembered his name or reign.

All thanks to that bitch Kikyo, Kami how he hated that woman.

He walked closer to Kagome, her fathers pride and joy. He remembered long evenings with the man and King Sesshourmaru, just relaxing after talking about some military tactic or treaty for something or the other. After his wives death he and Sesshourmaru spent more time with him, hoping it would keep his mind off of killing himself so he could be with her again. He joked a lot about wanting Kagome to fall in love with one of them. They were his friends, rulers like him, and people he could trust with his daughter. That is, if she ever wanted to marry. He could tell very early on that his daughter was headstrong and stubborn, and wanted to be a ruler like her father more than anything else in the world. He was very upset when he heard his old friend had died. More than upset, he had mourned him like he would a brother. He wanted to go right away to see his little daughter and take her back to the Eastern lands with him. But reaching the castle he found out his friend had married to Lady Kikyo. He had hated her on sight and wanted to take Kagome away from her, but than one thing led to another and here he was, four years later staring down at little Kagome, who had grown up. His train of thought was interpreted when he noticed she was holding something tightly. He blinked and tried to pull it out of her grasp.

And got shot across the room by a purple light coming out from her body.

He stared shocked beyond belief.

“Damn, Nobunaga never told me his daughter was a miko.”

The Youkai Slayer stared at her also

“Did you see all that power she let off? She's untrained I would bet my weapon on it. And the dam that had held her powers in broke just a little while ago, and that I would bet my life on.”

 

 

***Kagome***

 

I slowly started to wake up again, confused by all soft muted voices all around me. It felt as if my legs had been straightened, the blanket tucked more around me and not so dirty. I felt soft water being dabbed across my forehead, and I tried to open my eyes.

“Everyone, shut up she's waking.”

My eyes opened but I couldn't see anything because my vision was blurrily from sleep and water had gotten into my eyes. I blinked, trying to get some of the smog out of my eyes.

“What are you doing?” I asked feeling as if I hadn't talked for weeks and that my mouth had been full of sawdust.

“Don't worry my highness, you are safe.” A calm, strong yet quiet voice told me. It sounded so familiar but I couldn't remember who the person was that had a voice like that. Than I realized she had called me highness.

“I'm not royal, unless you can be a royal servant.”

The voice didn't respond to that, just kept cleaning dirt and blood off my face and shoulders. My vision cleared a little more.

“Why are you helping me?”

A voice came from the foot at me,

“Why did you clean our house?”

“Because I was going to take food and didn't want to steal so I just cleaned your house since I have no money.”

“Why our house?”

“Look,” I said to the blurry figure of a man with long black hair pulled into a braid over his shoulder. “I have no idea that this house was even here, I needed help, and I saw the smoke rising from your chimney. I was only going to take some food and clean my wounds, but since no one was here I didn't want to wait so I cleaned your house for it. I was going to leave, but I was so tired I just fell asleep here. I was leaving and I wasn't stealing anything from you, I swear to Kami.” I blinked again and my vision cleared a little more.

“This is going to sting a bit.” The familiar voice said again. She dabbed at the cuts on my face and I hissed at the sting the herb she was using left behind.

“You don't have to help me you know, just give me some food and I'll be on my merry way.” A small figure jumped on the bed, and because my vision wasn't clear yet, it looked like he had a head full of fire.

“Look at that, there really are evil demons who live in the forest” I said absent-mindedly. The small boy shrugged “Depends on the rumors you want to listen to. See most of us are demons but-“

“But we can explain it to her later when she's feeling better.” A man from the corner of the room interrupted him. I stared up at the person above me, taking care of me, trying to figure out where I had seen that high ponytail of beautiful shinny brown hair. Where I had seen what I assumed to be forest green eyes. I blinked again and my vision cleared, and I gasped at who was above me

“Sango!”

 

 

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***Inuyasha's Room***

 

Everyone who was gathered in Inuyasha's room was tense, Inuyasha pacing back and forth in front of his fireplace, Kagura trying to read a book but who's eyes kept glancing up at the door. Miroku was trying to polish his staff, but kept going over and over the same spot. Even Sesshourmaru who normally looked cool calm and uncaring could only stare into the fire, not looking at anyone else's face or even at the door. Inuyasha growled and almost yelled,

“Where is she?”

Kagura shrugged helplessly, Miroku looked away and Sesshourmaru kept staring into the fire. Somebody knocked at the door and Inuyasha led them in, hoping it was Kagome. It was Kikyo with an old woman. She smiled shyly under her eyelashes at Inuyasha who only rolled his eyes at her back and smiled brightly to everyone in the room

“Hello Kagura, I was hoping I would see you here.”

“Kagura stood and bowed slightly to Kikyo.

“Yes did you need something from me?”

“No, just introducing you to you're new servant, Urasuea.”

Kagura blinked, confused.

“But…what about Kagome?”

“She had to go away.”

Inuyasha growled behind her and barely stopped himself from ripping her arms off.

“What happened to her?” he demanded. Kikyo looked at him.

“Why do you care Inuyasha?” Inuyasha was about to respond, then changed his mind, crossed his arms over his chest and strolled over to sit in an empty armchair.

“I liked her, she gave me a lot of those caramel things.”

Kikyo sighed, and tried to look sad when she was really happy

“Well, I didn't want to tell you this, but Kagome is dead.”

Inuyasha's eyes widen,

“Dead?” he whispered softly, “Are you sure?” Kikyo nodded

“Yes, we didn't even find her body.”

Miroku took over, seeing as it looked like Inuyasha was about to cry.

“Thank you Lady Kikyo.” She bowed slightly to him and the rest of the people in the room.

“Urasuea will wake you up and bring you to breakfast tomorrow Kagura.” And she swept out of the room with the old women following behind.

Inuyasha still looked like he was about to cry, so Miroku hesitated on what to say to him.

“Just leave will you?” he asked quietly not looking at any of them. Miroku opened his mouth as if to say something, but Sesshourmaru just shook his head and he ushered Kagura and Miroku out of his room. Inuyasha stayed in that spot fighting tears until he was sure everyone had fallen asleep. He crept out of his room and ran to where Kagome's room was. He went inside, stole her blanket and ran back out. When he was back in his room, he sat on his bed, Kagome's blanket wrapped around him. He drew the curtains around his bed, wanting total darkness. He lied down, bringing the blanket up to his face so he could smell her sweet scent. And he silently let his tears flow, as he whispered over and over again,

“No, no, no, dead, dead, not my Kagome, please Kami, don't let my Kagome be dead.”

 

 

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