InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Snow White and the Seven 'Dwarfs'...Sort of ❯ Protecting Miroku (and Pissing Off Kikyo) ( Chapter 23 )
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By: Penthesileia 
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Hentai / Comedy / Adventure | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 09.20.2005 | Pages: 3 | Words: 7.6K | Visits: 790 | Status: Completed
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Hentai / Comedy / Adventure | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 09.20.2005 | Pages: 3 | Words: 7.6K | Visits: 790 | Status: Completed
Hola wonderful readers. (I’m learning Spanish right now. Trying to anyway.) I know I usually switch back and forth between my two stories and I just updated this one, but this story wouldn’t leave me and I got a bunch of ideas for it.
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neshee- Sorry, I know it took me forever to update, I just didn’t have a lot of ideas. And about the wet dream stuff it was their fantasy’s turning into their deepest fears. Inuyasha wants to have sex with Kagome, he’s scared of having sex with Kikyo. Kagome wants to marry Inuyasha and is just scared of Naraku. (Oh and don’t worry Kagome will have a real wet dream and Inuyasha will have a fluffy dream where he asks Kag to marry him, or bare his pups, or mate will him, he’ll do something fluffy.)
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~ Inuyasha’s Room
“Damn it I can’t find that monk anywhere.” Inuyasha said, pacing in front of the fireplace, almost at the point of pulling his hair out. “Where the hell is he?” Kagura examined her fan idly, “He’s a pervert, is it to much to guess that he actually got lucky last night and is in some maids room?” Inuyasha growled at her. “I didn’t smell him anywhere near the maids rooms. Besides he didn’t ask anyone to sleep with him yesterday, he spent the day with me. Last time I saw him he was going to go into his room to do some monk thing.” “Some monk thing? Is that what you call a locator spell Inuyasha?” Sesshomaru asked, gliding effortless into Inuyasha’s room. Inuyasha scowled back at him. “And what is a locator spell, oh great one?” Sesshomaru looked at him. “A locator spell, oh baka brother of mine is where a person of holy power tries to find someone with a personal item of their’s. Depending on how powerful they are, their power can stretch for miles, looking for the essence of the person they’re trying to find. Last night Miroku was trying to track Kagome down using those powers and a blanket for hers.” He sent Inuyasha a dirty look. “Although it was have been harder for Miroku to find her since you’ve been living in that blanket for days.”
“Feh. Shut up asshole.”
“So then where’s Miroku?” Kagura asked. Inuyasha shrugged. “Don’t know, it doesn’t smell like he left his room last night unless he masked his scent or something.” Sesshomaru started for the door. “Come, breakfast is about to served. We wouldn’t want Kikyo to think something is wrong.”
Breakfast
“I’m afraid I have to tell you some disappointing news Lord Sesshomaru, Inuyasha and Lady Kagura.” Everyone looked up at Kikyo from where they had been eating.
“Well, what is it, Lady Kikyo?”
Kikyo took a breath as if to brace herself. “Lord Miroku had to return to his home late last night. He had gotten a urgent message that he had to see to as soon as possible. He didn’t want to wake you up so he asked me to tell you that he was sorry and he would catch up with you wherever you are.”
Sesshomaru looked up as he sipped his tea, kicking Inuyasha under the table to keep him quiet. “Did he happen to tell you why the message was so important?”
Kikyo paused in bringing rice up to her mouth. “Well I think he said something about going home because one of his lovers had gotten hurt.” She said smoothly, bring the rest of the rice to her mouth.
“So something happened to Satorn?”
“Yes, I think he said something about her falling down a hill.”
“Oh. You do realize that Satorn is a twelve year old boy who’s greatly hurt from a fire?”
She chocked on a piece of rice she had eaten when he said that and laughed nervously. “I must have misunderstood him when he said that than. Let me think, I know he said something.”
Sesshomaru shrugged elegantly. “It’s a easy mistake. Perhaps you meant Koharu?”
Kikyo nodded, looking relived . “Yes I think that name sounds familiar.”
“Did he mention what happened to her?”
“Something about being raped unfortunately. He went to help catch the raspiest and calm her down.”
“What is this world coming to? Who would rape a innocent eleven year old girl?” Sesshomaru sighed.
Kikyo chocked on the bread she had been chewing. “Oh! Of course it hadn’t been her than. Who would rape a girl that young? It had to be someone else than.”
“Of course, then you had to mean Satsuki?”
“That’s her! I’m sure of it. Lord Miroku looked like he was about to weep, her whole family was killed last week. Poor girl.”
“Are you sure about that Lady Kikyo? Her family was killed five years ago after all. Not even a cousin is still living.”
Kikyo chocked on the tea she had been drinking and narrowly turned to the side so it wouldn’t hit anyone at the table while Inuyasha tried not to laugh. “Oh that’s horrible! That couldn’t possibly be it then. Now that I think of it I think he was talking about a lady of noble birth.”
“He said something about Princess Tsuyu if you’re talking about a woman from a good house.”
“Yes! Yes Princess Tsuyu was the woman he was talking about! There was some disagreement about lands or whatnot back where she lives and she needed his help.”
“Strange, has Miroku ever mentioned to you, Inuyasha that his pet fish has been controlling lands at all?”
Kikyo’s eyes went wide and she dropped her tea cup, spilling hot tea all over her lap. She screamed and sat up, trying to get the stain out of her kimono with a napkin, Inuyasha watching Kagura getting up to help her, tried his hardest not to laugh until his gut burst open. Kikyo slammed her hands on the table and leaned over it, trying to look intimidating but failing when the loose kimono spilled forward enough to let you see all the way down to her naval. “What are you getting at? That I’m a liar Lord Sesshomaru?”
Inuyasha didn’t blink as he saw his brother’s claws extend from where they lay under the table. “What I’m trying to find out Lady Kikyo is where my ally and friend Lord Miroku is.” He said softly in a tone that would make anyone feel like dirt.
Kikyo sat down with a sigh and pinched the skin between her eyes with a annoyed sigh. “Well I’m so sorry I tried to keep a promise to Lord Miroku and please you at the same time. He told me that the girl was of dreams was at his home and he rushed off to be with her. He wanted it to be a surprise for you.”
Inuyasha’s mouth fell open and he spoke before Sess could kick him. “Sango’s back?”
Kikyo raised a eyebrow and sat back in her seat. “Sango? Isn’t she a demon slayer?”
Inuyasha narrowed his eyes at her, just daring her to say anything bad. “Yeah, what of it?”
She shrugged and took a sip from the new tea cup a maid had rushed to give her. “Oh I have nothing against female demon slayers, but isn’t that a rather dangerous job? Who knows when she could get hurt or killed? I always through Miroku would be smart enough to chose someone more...delicate as his wife. Being a demon slayer sounds so manly after all. I guess I judged Miroku wrong and he liked controlling women in certain… aspects.”
Inuyasha growled and shot up in his seat, barely keeping himself from reaching across the table and snapping her neck in one clean swipe. “What the hell do you mean by that?”
“Well I’ve heard of men who enjoy- oh what’s a good word for it? Being under women instead of on top? I never pictured Miroku as one of those men through.”
Inuyasha cursed under this breath and felt his cheeks start to burn slightly. “You sure you don’t want to take that back bitch? Miroku and Sango are my best friends and I’d protect them with my life.”
“Yes Lady Kikyo, perhaps you would consider changing your mind on those opinions.” Sesshomaru said, standing up next to his brother. “Lady Sango and Lord Miroku are allies of mine and are prefect for each other. Once Lady Sango returns to us and Miroku asks her we hope there will be a wedding soon in the future. Watch what you say if you want the West to remain allies with you.”
Kikyo nodded and bowed her head. “Yes, please forgive me my lords, I am old fashioned in certain things, female demon slayers being one of them.”
Sesshomaru slightly inclined his head to her and turned away, pulling Inuyasha along with him. “Come little brother, let us leave.”
~ Kikyo’s Secret Bedroom
Kikyo stepped into her bedroom and immediately fell down laughing. Still chucking she let Kanna out and started laughing again. “Kanna, guess what?” When Kanna didn’t say anything she took that as a ‘go on’ and she started laughing harder. “Apparently Miroku had a thing for Sango, that demon slayer I killed. But Sango didn’t know Miroku liked her when she was alive. So I guess she knows now that I’ve sent them both to hell.”
Kikyo spilled out, laughing like a manic again. When Kanna’s face stayed the same emotionless mask it had been since Kikyo had taken her she slowed down and took a few breaths to calm herself down and throw herself on her bed.
“Show me the destruction of her village again, I want to laugh some more.” Kikyo ordered Kanna.
Kanna got down on her knees as the mirror began to ripple and bubble and the screams of those in pain and dying filled the air. Demons came from all directions to mercilessly kill the people of Sango’s village. With her gone and her father off killing another demon the village had no idea what to do against a attack like this. They were slaughtered. Kikyo was laughing so hard at the end of it she had to wipe tears from her eyes.
She heard footsteps in the hallway and started to throw her clothes off, knowing who it was. She smiled and ran her tongue over her lips when Naraku was thrown onto the bed by the wall and started to walk towards him, cupping her breasts.
“Hey baby, wanna have some fun while we watch the monk get eaten?” Kikyo launched herself at Naraku and he caught her in mid air with his tentacles.
While he started to hold her down with them and arrange her in... poses Kanna looked down and focused on keeping the image she wanted on the mirror. She heard Kikyo gasp and Naraku chuckle darkly but she didn’t look up.
Slowly a picture of Miroku appeared on the glass, his hands were tied behind his back and he was laying on his side, his face a huge mix of bruises. Demons started to creep in on him from all around, and some of the bolder bird demons swooped in to lick his cheek to see how he would taste. He tried to put a barrier up around himself but he was to weak from a early beating and Kikyo had drained him dry before sending him out. He moaned and curled into himself when a two legged demon walked up and kicked him in the stomach. The demon chuckled evilly, picked him up and threw him into the center of a huge group of demons.
Kikyo’s and Naraku’s moans and gasps got louder as Miroku’s screams of pain and fear grew until it almost covered the sound of demons feasting on his flesh. When Naraku started to suck her neck and collarbone, Kanna quietly got up and started to walk back into the wall.
“Kanna wait!” Kikyo moaned as Naraku attached himself to her nipple. She turned around and waited for Kikyo speak. Her breath got more labored as Naraku trailed down body and gasped out, “Can you see him yet?” She asked, not wanting to say more with Naraku in the room.
Kanna only shook her head and turned around, “I’m not done with you yet!” Kikyo yelled, pushing Naraku away. “You better find out what I want to know or you’re going to start serving Naraku’s every need.” She turned her back to Kanna, and started to deep throat Naraku.
Kanna turned back and slipped back into the wall. Her mirror was her only source of light in the small dark space and she willed it to show Miroku to her. She slowly sank to her knees as Miroku came into view and put a barrier around him, killing any demons who tried to get close to him. She muttered a few phases under her breath and watched as a silver glow grew over his body and slowly started to heal his cuts and bruises.
When he was as healed as she could help him she ignored Kikyo’s cries of pleasure and pain and only concentrated on keeping Miroku safe until help got there.
~ Kagome
I was back in the forest where Naraku had almost raped me, dangling by my wrists from a rope right over the spot where he tackled me. I tried and tired to get myself loose but I couldn’t get free. It was misty and foggy out and I could barely see when a white figure was starting to approach me.
“Sesshomaru!” I cried out in relief when I saw his fluffy white tail. “Thank Kami you’re here, please help me get down.”
He raised his eyebrow at me and started to walk right past me. “And why would I help a filthy human like yourself?”
I felt my mouth drop, that couldn’t be right. I know Sess doesn’t like humans that much but he doesn’t treat them like this. “Sesshomaru! What’s wrong with you? Did Kikyo do something to you?” I cried after him. But he was gone before the words even left my mouth.
Almost moments after he left someone else was walking towards me. The purple kimono and red eyes were almost impossible not to see even in this fog. “Kagura! I think something’s wrong with Sess, you have to help me get down so we can go after him.” I said, holding still so when she took out her fan and used her Dance of Blades on the rope it wouldn’t hit me.
But instead she laughed, drew out her fan and blew me around in circles. I yelled, “Kagura? What are you doing? We have to help Sesshomaru!” But when I finally stopped spinning she was gone. I was still dizzy so I just hung there until the world righted itself and I saw Sango standing in front of me.
“Sango, please get me down I think Kikyo or Naraku has done something to our friends, we have to go help them!” I cried out to her.
She sneered at me “What do you mean ‘our friends’? Look at you, you’re a weakling and my friends have more sense than to even breath the same air as you.” She got on Kirara and flew away, leaving me gazing confused at where she had been standing.
Damn it, what had Kikyo done? There was no way they would be like this unless they did something bad to them. I gasped when I heard wolves footsteps and howls coming closer to me and I watched as Kouga skidded to a stop in front if me, his wolfs all around him. “Kouga! You need to help me get down and help our friends, something’s wrong with them!” I cried, my eyes filling with tears.
Curious he walked around me, finally coming back in front of me scowling. “If this is King Nobunaga’s daughter something must be wrong with the bloodlines. Sorry babe but the world’s better off with your family dead.”
“Wait, no Kouga, don’t leave!” I yelled after if when he turned on his heels and when racing off, his wolves following at his heels expect for one who came and bit me in the heel. I bite my lip to keep from crying out when I saw the blood drip until the ground below me. Yelling wouldn’t help me after all.
“Rin!” I said when I saw her familiar face. “Please, help me get down, we have to help our friends, Kikyo’s done something to them!” Instead of swinging her swords up to cut the rope she looked at me with eyes full of tears and anger.
“Give me one good reason why I should help someone who barely helped me. My father was killed and I was left alone in the forest, why didn’t you find me?’ Rin cried, letting her tears spill as she turned and ran far away from me.
“Rin! Please it’s not like that, I was Kikyo’s servant back than, the only way I could have gotten out was if I had died, please listen to me!” I hung my head in shame, she was right I should have done something more to help her.
“Huh, I never knew humans bled like that.” I lifted my head and saw Ayame watching the blood drip down my foot.
“Ayame, please help me.” I begged, hoping Kikyo hadn’t gotten to her to.
“See how well your blood matches the earth? But the earth won’t suck it into itself. I always knew humans were dirt but I guess you’re less than dirt if the earth won’t take your blood.” She remarked cheerfully and turned away.
I didn’t even try calling after her. I saw a braid fly back and forth as Hiten walked towards me and I tried to smile at him. “Hey Hit, I need your help getting down.”
He turned his nose at me and went right by me. “And why would I lower myself to help some miko who didn’t even know she was one? Get some powers loser.”
I sighed and hung my head again. I was a loser, not knowing for 16 years I had powers and never even used them. I jerked my head up when I heard the familiar clink coming towards me and I watched as Miroku gave into view. “Miroku, you’re a priest it’s your duty to help people, please help me.” I begged.
He just looked at me, “Yes it is my duty to help helpless people. You’re a miko, you should be able to get yourself out.”
I cried out in frustration. “But I don’t know how Miroku, I don’t know anything about my powers!”
He just shrugged. “I’m sorry Kagome, but I have a call in another town to get rid of a demon, I don’t have time to stop and help you.” He continued to walk past me even when I started begging again.
“Damn it, there has to be someone who will help me!” I cried out to fill the empty space.
“Oh poor Kagome, none of her little friends will help her get down from a tree.” Kikyo mocked, stopping just a few inches from me. “Do you need my help little one?”
I spat at her. “I wouldn’t ask for your help if I was about to be dropped into a dragon’s belly.”
“Oh Kagome, always so full of pride.” She smirked at my crestfallen face when I saw Inuyasha appear out of nowhere to put his arms around her waist. “Can’t have to much pride if I steal your man now can you?” She purred, hooking her arms over Inuyasha’s.
I felt my eyes fill up with tears that slowly started to slip down my face. “But Inuyasha, why?”
He sneered at me, moving his hand up and down Kikyo’s. “What the hell do you mean by that? Do you think I ever really cared about a dumb slave like you when I could be with my love Queen Kikyo?” He smirked when he saw me open my mouth. “And don’t even think of asking for help, I don’t have time to spare cutting you down when I could be spending it with my beautiful Kikyo.” He said lovingly, looking deep into her eyes.
I cried harder when I saw him kiss Kikyo deeply, slowly lowering them both to the ground, right under my feet. Some of my blood dropped unto his mouth when he was licking Kikyo’s neck and he grimaced and spat it out. “Your blood tastes so horrible I’m can’t believe I didn’t puck bitch.” He snared cruelly.
He stood up and hit me so hard the rope broke and I went flying into a tree. “There, that’ll take care of the chance I taste her blood again.”
I gasped and sat up in my bed, my fist clutched to my heart. Still breathing hard I looked out the window to see it was still dark outside, barely 2:00 am. I wiped the sweat up my forehead and collapsed back against the pillow, but not before making sure my heel didn’t have any bite marks.
This was the second time I had a nightmare, what if I had another one and I cried out? I didn’t want to have to tell the dwarfs if they came to see what was wrong with me, it would just worry them. I didn’t think I could sleep again anyway, that nightmare was to terrifying.
Oh Kami, what if that was some sort of vision? That I would need help but no one would give it? Or maybe that’s what everyone thinks about me. Are maybe Inuyasha really does want to be with Kikyo. Ok, forget the nightmare, put it in the back of your mind until later, don’t even think about it for a week or so.
Maybe you’ll be able to think more clearly. I grimaced when I heard my stomach rouble and wondered if I should just try to go back to sleep to avoid hunger. I couldn’t eat anything during lunch or dinner and if course it’s now that I want to eat. I sighed and stared at the ceiling until damn, when I finally fell asleep.
I fought waking up, not wanting to face the people who told me I was a miko. Losing I sat up and leaned back against the wall, put my elbows on my knees and rested my face against my fists. Damn it all, why hadn’t anyone ever told me I was a miko? Did they think I wasn’t interested in being one? That I wasn’t strong enough to be one? Hiten had told me I could be stronger than my mother, so why wasn’t I trained? Why had everyone lied to me? Why did Kaede lie to me?
Kami damn them, Inuyasha, Kagura, Miroku and Sesshomaru must have known I was one! Even Naraku must have sensed it, that was why he wanted me. It wasn’t even because I looked nice or he wanted to get Kikyo annoyed.
Damn it, why does that make me angrier instead of relieved he only wants me because I’m powerful? Who the hell cares if he wouldn’t spit on me if I were fire otherwise? Do I want him to rape me if I was powerless?
Maybe no one ever mentioned it to me because you have to sense or do something to prove you’re a miko. They all must have through I was a moron, being more powerful than the great Midoriko and not even knowing it.
Kami how could I have been so stupid? Maybe I should have tried to fry Naraku or something to prove myself as a miko? Or maybe that’s not it at all. Maybe everyone just throught I wasn’t strong enough or brave enough or skilled enough to be a miko. Maybe everyone knew I was to much of a baka to control that kind of power and would have ended up killing someone.
I sighed, sinking deeper into self pity. I was probably to stupid to be a good miko. I would have brought shame to my mother’s name. Everyone would have forgotten the great warrior priestess queen Midoriko and would spend all their time mocking her stupid daughter Kagome when she rode into their village to kill a demon Maybe...
“KAGOME!”
My eyes widened and I tried to back away from the lunatics running towards me, finding no escape. Rin and Shippo jumped on top of me, grabbing my legs so I couldn’t run away. “Kagome! Cook breakfast again for us? Please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please PLEASE????????”
I gaped at them “Well... ah... that is...”
“Come on Kagome, please? We’ll be good. And that uh...that toast thing you cooked was really, really good.” Kouga said suddenly running into the room and kneeling by my side, giving me his best puppy dogs eyes.
“Oh well...um.. I didn’t know you liked it that much Kouga...” I trailed off, amazed they would beg for me to cook. Sango must really suck.
“Oh and that other thing, the thing you made out of eggs? That was sooooo good. Can you make it again, pretty, pretty please?” Ayame drooled, coming in behind Kouga.
Sango walked in and shook her head at her fellow ‘dwarfs’.
“Come on guys, can’t you see she doesn’t want to cook? I’ll make breakfast.”
“NO!”
Sango growled under her breath and would have hit the loudest two, (Kouga and Rin), if I hadn’t stood up and dragged on the kimono Sango loaned me. “It’s alright Sango, I don’t mind making breakfast.” I said and started to walk to the door when something scooped me up and shot down the stairs.
I yelped and clung to the black hair that swung in front of my face until he set me down in the kitchen.
Kouga winked at me, “You were taking to long.” He gently turned my body to face the stove and walked out whistling. I shook my head and started to get the stove going, cracking a couple eggs on top and throwing on some pieces of bread to toast.
While that was cooking I grabbed the plates out of the cabinet and started to go out to the dining room to set the table. Shaking my head at the mess the dwarfs had made out of the tablecloth I threw it on a chair nearby and went into the living room to see if there was anything in there I could use.
I wasn’t sure if I should laugh or gasp when I saw Hiten pinned to the floor by a stone mouse. I decided to gasp in shock and rushed towards him when I saw he was moving his mouth but no words were coming out. I picked the mouse up and tossed it aside.
“Oh my Kami, Hiten, are you alright?” I asked worried.
He stared at me, “Why are you being so nice to me? If I were you I would have left me under that mouse.”
I blinked. “Is there a reason I should have left you under that mouse?” I asked, confused.
“Um, hello, anyone in there?” He asked and tapped the side of my head. “I told you, you were a miko yesterday remember? And I guess I messed up because you ran out of here like you were about to break and now you have huge black circles under your eyes, your face is paler than snow and your hair’s kinda just hanging there. You feel ok?”
I scowled at him and tried to braid my hair. “I’m so sorry my looks cause you so much grief. We can’t all look like royalty you know.”
He scowled back at me, turned my around and took my hair out of my grasp. “Let me do that, you’ll tangle it.”
I frowned but let him re-braid my hair. “Now you’re not even letting my braid my own hair? Are you sure you’re alright?”
“I’m only doing this because if I let you tangle in it front of my sight Ayame and Rin will kill me. Kami you know how long I had to listen to them talk about your hair? ‘Oh Rin how do you think she gets it so shiny?’ ‘Oh Ayame how do you think she keeps it that lovely midnight shade of black?’” I felt him shudder “I swear, five minutes longer and I would have gone crazy. Besides, I braid hair better than you.”
“Oh.”
We sat in silence while he braided my hair (which felt kind of nice actually), the silence broken when he reached knots in my hair and cursed under his breath to get them out.
“It’s not you’re fault I’m a miko and you were the one told me.” I said suddenly. “I’m not mad at you, and I didn’t know someone-“
“Shippo.” He said gruffly.
“I didn’t know Shippo had thrown a...what’s it called?”
“A trickster’s statue. Trickster demons like Shippo can make statues that will bind other demons to certain things and something else. The statue he used on me was a mouse, so I had to stay in one place as ‘quiet as a mouse’.”
“Oh. You know that’s kind of cute- sorry” I said when I felt his grip tighten on my hair. “Anyway I am sorry, if I had known Shippo had done that I would have let you loose right away. Why didn’t any of the other dwarfs let you out?”
“They were pissed at me for making you upset.” He tied my hair with some ribbon he had dug out somewhere and turned me around. “At least your hair doesn’t look so limp and lifeless now. The skin will be fine after you eat.” He scowled at me again. “Idiot, just because you’re upset doesn’t mean you shouldn’t eat or sleep.”
“Hey how do you know if I’ve been eating or not?”
His scowl deepened. “Just because I couldn’t talk doesn’t mean I was deaf. I heard Kouga and Sango talk about how worried they were about you.” He started to pull me towards the kitchen. “Come on, your toast is burning and I want extra of that meat stuff you made yesterday.”
I gasped and pulled out of his grasp to rush towards the kitchen. “Ayame will kill me if I burn the toast!” I wailed while I heard him laughing behind me.
~ Inuyasha’s Room
“That freaking slut! ‘Being a demon slayer sounds so manly after all. I guess I judged Miroku wrong and he liked controlling women in certain… aspects’.” Inuyasha mocked Kikyo in a high pitched voice as he paced around the room.
Kagura watched him, wondering if he was going to do something stupid and Sesshomaru kept a eye on all the fragile things in the room, counting in his head how much it would cost to repay what Inuyasha might break in a rage. “Calm yourself Inuyasha before you destroy something that’s going to cost me my entire kingdom to fix.” Sess ordered, barely keeping himself from winching when Inuyasha threw him the bird and almost knocked over a priceless Greek vase.
“Screw you Sess, that whore stole my best friend and my bitch from me and you want me to become a block of ice like you?” Inuyasha snarled, so mad he didn’t even notice what he had just said.
Sesshomaru raised a brow and Kagura dropped her fan in surprise. “Um, Inuyasha? Do you have any idea what you just said?”
Inuyasha stopped dead in the middle of the carpet and felt his face flare up. “That’s- I mean- damn it I didn’t mean it that way!” “It’s fine Inuyasha, you don’t have to explain to us, I should have seen the signs earlier.” Sess paused to take a sip of the tea he had been nursing in his hands. “I’m just shocked you and Miroku didn’t make you’re relationship know sooner. However you are aware you can’t make him your mate unless you get a female to mate with to? You can’t bare pups with a male after all.”
“WHAT THE HELL DID YOU SAY?”
~Kagome.
“Rin, make sure you have the hilt to your melted sword if you still have it, that way old Totosai won’t have to work so hard making you a new one. Shippo, bring something to do because I won’t listen to you question why trees grow or how a rock got there the entire way, and Ayame don’t you dare jump on Kouga near a river again, you remember what happened last time.” Hiten shouted off orders as we all got ready to make the long trip to Totosai. Shippo ran around like a manic looking for his paper and crayons, Sango couldn’t find her wrist knifes, Kouga was shouting at Ayame if she licked his neck on more time because she liked the way it tasted he was going to roll around in dog shit and I was making this thing Mayu called ‘sandwiches’ and pouring soup and tea into bowls for our lunch. “Hurry up Kag!” Sango shouted at me from the door and I put the last pot of soup in the basket and rushed out to meet them. It had been decided at breakfast that Rin, Sango, Shippo and me would ride on Kirara while Kouga and Ayame ran under us and Hiten flew beside us with his strange shoes. (They were like rolling disks that hovered at the side of his foot. I’ve never seen anything like them.)
I hopped on Kirara and she flew up into the air, me in the middle of Rin and Sango, Shippo sitting on her head, and Hiten floating up next to us, while Ayame and Kouga started to run ahead on the ground.
“So who’s this Totosai guy anyway?” I asked, looking over at Hiten.
He sort of sat down in the air, his wheels continuing to roll and tossed his lightning rod over his shoulder. “Totosai is a master craftsman of weapons, he’s made some of the most powerful swords out there and makes and repairs many of your weapons for us. Hopefully he’ll be able to tell us if there’s a miko or priest near by who can teach you.” He added.
We flew in near quiet after that, Shippo breaking the peace to ask me if I like some drawing he drew.
Finally when it grew close to noon Kirara started to fly down and we met up with Ayame and Kouga under a tree for lunch.
“You guys behave?” Hiten asked them.
Kouga scowled and tried to get Ayame’s hands off his waist. “We were fine until you guys showed up. Where’s the food?”
I spread a blanket down on the ground and started to pass out food, sending warning looks to Kouga when he tried to shove an entire sandwich in his mouth. I heated the soup and tea over a fire and the dwarfs gratefully drank everything down.
Half a hour later we were back on the road and a hour after that we were at Totosai’s home.
...Seriously what kind of old guy lives in a skull? Anyway we got off Kirara a old short man hobbled out to greet us. He was wearing a green and black kimono, walked using a staff, and was balding with hair as white as Inuyasha’s.
“Hey Totosai.” Hiten said and raised his hand in greeting. “We need you to fix some weapons for us.”
The old man rolled his eyes. “Well of course you’re here for weapons, young people never come to just have a nice visit with their elders, they always want something.” He shook his head. “Kids these days. In my time if you didn’t respect your elders-“
“Sounds really fascinating gramps, but we’re here for some weapons and a teacher for Kag here, we’ll come back for story time later.” Kouga interpreted.
“Fine. See if I care. Now what do you want a teacher for? Shouldn’t you all be out of school?”
Hiten made a nosie at the back of his throat and pushed me forward. “Not for us, for Kagome. She needs someone to teach her how to be a miko.”
Totosai hummed and started to circle me. “Ah yes, she is a powerful one, why hasn’t she been trained beforehand?”
I shrugged. “I don’t know why.”
He reached out a hand to me but drew back as if he was burned. “Oh great Kami, you’re the great Midoriko’s daughter! Oh happy day, you’ve returned to us priestess!” He started bowing and I felt myself blush.
“Please, don’t bow I’m not my mother, just her daughter.”
To my relief he stopped.
“Yes, you are not your mother but you have her power and your own. Did you know I had the honor of making her mother’s weapons?” He sighed happily. “Oh those were the days.”
“So can you find me a teacher?” I asked.
He scratched his chin. “Nope, don’t think I can’t. Not for a while anyway.”
“What? Why the hell not?” Kouga shouted.
Totosai hit him over the head with his staff, “Don’t be rude to your elders boy! And I know of teachers who can teach her, but none are in the area. They’ll be back soon though. But! I’ll be happy to fix your weapons.” He said and held his hands out for Rin and Sango to put their swords there. “Come back in two days. I’ll have your swords and bow ready by than.”
“Wait a minute, he didn’t ask for a bow old man.” Kouga said and got hit in the head with Totosai’s staff again.
“Don’t be stupid, you think I would leave Midoriko’s daughter defenseless? Come back in two days, I’ll have her bow ready and I’ll start restoring her mother’s sword.”
I felt my breath catch in my throat. “My mother’s sword?”
“Of course! You think I would let it get buried with her? She was buried with one of her lesser swords, she kept the most powerful one for you. Shame her bow isn’t around anymore, that thing rotted years ago. Oh well.” He said with a sigh and started to walk back to his skull. “Don’t forget, two days!” ~Later
We were on our way home and I was still shocked. My mother had left her sword to me. The sword she used to slay countless demons and save so many lives with, was mine. Maybe this meant I wasn’t so hopeless after all. Maybe this was a sign I was going to be a good miko and a good queen. I had to be with my mother’s sword guiding me, right?
“Guys, can we start to go down, I feel something down there.” I said, rubbing my suddenly warm side.
Hiten’s head turned toward me. “What do you mean?”
“I don’t know, I feel some kind of...power? Glow? Light? Wait a minute, there’s a sense of...evil to. I don’t know what it is but we have to get down there right now!” I said, my side feeling like it was on fire, but there was no pain at all.
Hiten nodded and he started to fly down with Kirara flying right next to him. As soon as we hit the ground I was off, running deeper into the woods, running towards the strange power I felt. I ignored the dwarf’s voices telling me to wait but I kept going until I was in the shadows of a small clearing.
There were demons circling this one spot on the forest floor and I shielded my scent and presence without thinking about it, promising myself to question it later. All shapes and sizes of demons were there, jumping up and down, growling, yelling and snarling at this strange white glow that was in the center.
A bold demon went up to it, but as soon as he touched it he was destroyed and turned into dust.
A hand grasped my shoulder and I saw Sango at my side.
“Baka, why didn’t you wait? You didn’t know what was out there.” She hissed at me.
I turned my head slightly and saw the rest of the dwarfs fanned around me. “Look, I’m sorry but I had to come here I don’t know why but...oh my Kami!” I gasped when the circle broke and I could see what the demons wanted.
Miroku was lying there on his side, injured, and out cold.
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~ Inuyasha’s Room
“Damn it I can’t find that monk anywhere.” Inuyasha said, pacing in front of the fireplace, almost at the point of pulling his hair out. “Where the hell is he?” Kagura examined her fan idly, “He’s a pervert, is it to much to guess that he actually got lucky last night and is in some maids room?” Inuyasha growled at her. “I didn’t smell him anywhere near the maids rooms. Besides he didn’t ask anyone to sleep with him yesterday, he spent the day with me. Last time I saw him he was going to go into his room to do some monk thing.” “Some monk thing? Is that what you call a locator spell Inuyasha?” Sesshomaru asked, gliding effortless into Inuyasha’s room. Inuyasha scowled back at him. “And what is a locator spell, oh great one?” Sesshomaru looked at him. “A locator spell, oh baka brother of mine is where a person of holy power tries to find someone with a personal item of their’s. Depending on how powerful they are, their power can stretch for miles, looking for the essence of the person they’re trying to find. Last night Miroku was trying to track Kagome down using those powers and a blanket for hers.” He sent Inuyasha a dirty look. “Although it was have been harder for Miroku to find her since you’ve been living in that blanket for days.”
“Feh. Shut up asshole.”
“So then where’s Miroku?” Kagura asked. Inuyasha shrugged. “Don’t know, it doesn’t smell like he left his room last night unless he masked his scent or something.” Sesshomaru started for the door. “Come, breakfast is about to served. We wouldn’t want Kikyo to think something is wrong.”
Breakfast
“I’m afraid I have to tell you some disappointing news Lord Sesshomaru, Inuyasha and Lady Kagura.” Everyone looked up at Kikyo from where they had been eating.
“Well, what is it, Lady Kikyo?”
Kikyo took a breath as if to brace herself. “Lord Miroku had to return to his home late last night. He had gotten a urgent message that he had to see to as soon as possible. He didn’t want to wake you up so he asked me to tell you that he was sorry and he would catch up with you wherever you are.”
Sesshomaru looked up as he sipped his tea, kicking Inuyasha under the table to keep him quiet. “Did he happen to tell you why the message was so important?”
Kikyo paused in bringing rice up to her mouth. “Well I think he said something about going home because one of his lovers had gotten hurt.” She said smoothly, bring the rest of the rice to her mouth.
“So something happened to Satorn?”
“Yes, I think he said something about her falling down a hill.”
“Oh. You do realize that Satorn is a twelve year old boy who’s greatly hurt from a fire?”
She chocked on a piece of rice she had eaten when he said that and laughed nervously. “I must have misunderstood him when he said that than. Let me think, I know he said something.”
Sesshomaru shrugged elegantly. “It’s a easy mistake. Perhaps you meant Koharu?”
Kikyo nodded, looking relived . “Yes I think that name sounds familiar.”
“Did he mention what happened to her?”
“Something about being raped unfortunately. He went to help catch the raspiest and calm her down.”
“What is this world coming to? Who would rape a innocent eleven year old girl?” Sesshomaru sighed.
Kikyo chocked on the bread she had been chewing. “Oh! Of course it hadn’t been her than. Who would rape a girl that young? It had to be someone else than.”
“Of course, then you had to mean Satsuki?”
“That’s her! I’m sure of it. Lord Miroku looked like he was about to weep, her whole family was killed last week. Poor girl.”
“Are you sure about that Lady Kikyo? Her family was killed five years ago after all. Not even a cousin is still living.”
Kikyo chocked on the tea she had been drinking and narrowly turned to the side so it wouldn’t hit anyone at the table while Inuyasha tried not to laugh. “Oh that’s horrible! That couldn’t possibly be it then. Now that I think of it I think he was talking about a lady of noble birth.”
“He said something about Princess Tsuyu if you’re talking about a woman from a good house.”
“Yes! Yes Princess Tsuyu was the woman he was talking about! There was some disagreement about lands or whatnot back where she lives and she needed his help.”
“Strange, has Miroku ever mentioned to you, Inuyasha that his pet fish has been controlling lands at all?”
Kikyo’s eyes went wide and she dropped her tea cup, spilling hot tea all over her lap. She screamed and sat up, trying to get the stain out of her kimono with a napkin, Inuyasha watching Kagura getting up to help her, tried his hardest not to laugh until his gut burst open. Kikyo slammed her hands on the table and leaned over it, trying to look intimidating but failing when the loose kimono spilled forward enough to let you see all the way down to her naval. “What are you getting at? That I’m a liar Lord Sesshomaru?”
Inuyasha didn’t blink as he saw his brother’s claws extend from where they lay under the table. “What I’m trying to find out Lady Kikyo is where my ally and friend Lord Miroku is.” He said softly in a tone that would make anyone feel like dirt.
Kikyo sat down with a sigh and pinched the skin between her eyes with a annoyed sigh. “Well I’m so sorry I tried to keep a promise to Lord Miroku and please you at the same time. He told me that the girl was of dreams was at his home and he rushed off to be with her. He wanted it to be a surprise for you.”
Inuyasha’s mouth fell open and he spoke before Sess could kick him. “Sango’s back?”
Kikyo raised a eyebrow and sat back in her seat. “Sango? Isn’t she a demon slayer?”
Inuyasha narrowed his eyes at her, just daring her to say anything bad. “Yeah, what of it?”
She shrugged and took a sip from the new tea cup a maid had rushed to give her. “Oh I have nothing against female demon slayers, but isn’t that a rather dangerous job? Who knows when she could get hurt or killed? I always through Miroku would be smart enough to chose someone more...delicate as his wife. Being a demon slayer sounds so manly after all. I guess I judged Miroku wrong and he liked controlling women in certain… aspects.”
Inuyasha growled and shot up in his seat, barely keeping himself from reaching across the table and snapping her neck in one clean swipe. “What the hell do you mean by that?”
“Well I’ve heard of men who enjoy- oh what’s a good word for it? Being under women instead of on top? I never pictured Miroku as one of those men through.”
Inuyasha cursed under this breath and felt his cheeks start to burn slightly. “You sure you don’t want to take that back bitch? Miroku and Sango are my best friends and I’d protect them with my life.”
“Yes Lady Kikyo, perhaps you would consider changing your mind on those opinions.” Sesshomaru said, standing up next to his brother. “Lady Sango and Lord Miroku are allies of mine and are prefect for each other. Once Lady Sango returns to us and Miroku asks her we hope there will be a wedding soon in the future. Watch what you say if you want the West to remain allies with you.”
Kikyo nodded and bowed her head. “Yes, please forgive me my lords, I am old fashioned in certain things, female demon slayers being one of them.”
Sesshomaru slightly inclined his head to her and turned away, pulling Inuyasha along with him. “Come little brother, let us leave.”
~ Kikyo’s Secret Bedroom
Kikyo stepped into her bedroom and immediately fell down laughing. Still chucking she let Kanna out and started laughing again. “Kanna, guess what?” When Kanna didn’t say anything she took that as a ‘go on’ and she started laughing harder. “Apparently Miroku had a thing for Sango, that demon slayer I killed. But Sango didn’t know Miroku liked her when she was alive. So I guess she knows now that I’ve sent them both to hell.”
Kikyo spilled out, laughing like a manic again. When Kanna’s face stayed the same emotionless mask it had been since Kikyo had taken her she slowed down and took a few breaths to calm herself down and throw herself on her bed.
“Show me the destruction of her village again, I want to laugh some more.” Kikyo ordered Kanna.
Kanna got down on her knees as the mirror began to ripple and bubble and the screams of those in pain and dying filled the air. Demons came from all directions to mercilessly kill the people of Sango’s village. With her gone and her father off killing another demon the village had no idea what to do against a attack like this. They were slaughtered. Kikyo was laughing so hard at the end of it she had to wipe tears from her eyes.
She heard footsteps in the hallway and started to throw her clothes off, knowing who it was. She smiled and ran her tongue over her lips when Naraku was thrown onto the bed by the wall and started to walk towards him, cupping her breasts.
“Hey baby, wanna have some fun while we watch the monk get eaten?” Kikyo launched herself at Naraku and he caught her in mid air with his tentacles.
While he started to hold her down with them and arrange her in... poses Kanna looked down and focused on keeping the image she wanted on the mirror. She heard Kikyo gasp and Naraku chuckle darkly but she didn’t look up.
Slowly a picture of Miroku appeared on the glass, his hands were tied behind his back and he was laying on his side, his face a huge mix of bruises. Demons started to creep in on him from all around, and some of the bolder bird demons swooped in to lick his cheek to see how he would taste. He tried to put a barrier up around himself but he was to weak from a early beating and Kikyo had drained him dry before sending him out. He moaned and curled into himself when a two legged demon walked up and kicked him in the stomach. The demon chuckled evilly, picked him up and threw him into the center of a huge group of demons.
Kikyo’s and Naraku’s moans and gasps got louder as Miroku’s screams of pain and fear grew until it almost covered the sound of demons feasting on his flesh. When Naraku started to suck her neck and collarbone, Kanna quietly got up and started to walk back into the wall.
“Kanna wait!” Kikyo moaned as Naraku attached himself to her nipple. She turned around and waited for Kikyo speak. Her breath got more labored as Naraku trailed down body and gasped out, “Can you see him yet?” She asked, not wanting to say more with Naraku in the room.
Kanna only shook her head and turned around, “I’m not done with you yet!” Kikyo yelled, pushing Naraku away. “You better find out what I want to know or you’re going to start serving Naraku’s every need.” She turned her back to Kanna, and started to deep throat Naraku.
Kanna turned back and slipped back into the wall. Her mirror was her only source of light in the small dark space and she willed it to show Miroku to her. She slowly sank to her knees as Miroku came into view and put a barrier around him, killing any demons who tried to get close to him. She muttered a few phases under her breath and watched as a silver glow grew over his body and slowly started to heal his cuts and bruises.
When he was as healed as she could help him she ignored Kikyo’s cries of pleasure and pain and only concentrated on keeping Miroku safe until help got there.
~ Kagome
I was back in the forest where Naraku had almost raped me, dangling by my wrists from a rope right over the spot where he tackled me. I tried and tired to get myself loose but I couldn’t get free. It was misty and foggy out and I could barely see when a white figure was starting to approach me.
“Sesshomaru!” I cried out in relief when I saw his fluffy white tail. “Thank Kami you’re here, please help me get down.”
He raised his eyebrow at me and started to walk right past me. “And why would I help a filthy human like yourself?”
I felt my mouth drop, that couldn’t be right. I know Sess doesn’t like humans that much but he doesn’t treat them like this. “Sesshomaru! What’s wrong with you? Did Kikyo do something to you?” I cried after him. But he was gone before the words even left my mouth.
Almost moments after he left someone else was walking towards me. The purple kimono and red eyes were almost impossible not to see even in this fog. “Kagura! I think something’s wrong with Sess, you have to help me get down so we can go after him.” I said, holding still so when she took out her fan and used her Dance of Blades on the rope it wouldn’t hit me.
But instead she laughed, drew out her fan and blew me around in circles. I yelled, “Kagura? What are you doing? We have to help Sesshomaru!” But when I finally stopped spinning she was gone. I was still dizzy so I just hung there until the world righted itself and I saw Sango standing in front of me.
“Sango, please get me down I think Kikyo or Naraku has done something to our friends, we have to go help them!” I cried out to her.
She sneered at me “What do you mean ‘our friends’? Look at you, you’re a weakling and my friends have more sense than to even breath the same air as you.” She got on Kirara and flew away, leaving me gazing confused at where she had been standing.
Damn it, what had Kikyo done? There was no way they would be like this unless they did something bad to them. I gasped when I heard wolves footsteps and howls coming closer to me and I watched as Kouga skidded to a stop in front if me, his wolfs all around him. “Kouga! You need to help me get down and help our friends, something’s wrong with them!” I cried, my eyes filling with tears.
Curious he walked around me, finally coming back in front of me scowling. “If this is King Nobunaga’s daughter something must be wrong with the bloodlines. Sorry babe but the world’s better off with your family dead.”
“Wait, no Kouga, don’t leave!” I yelled after if when he turned on his heels and when racing off, his wolves following at his heels expect for one who came and bit me in the heel. I bite my lip to keep from crying out when I saw the blood drip until the ground below me. Yelling wouldn’t help me after all.
“Rin!” I said when I saw her familiar face. “Please, help me get down, we have to help our friends, Kikyo’s done something to them!” Instead of swinging her swords up to cut the rope she looked at me with eyes full of tears and anger.
“Give me one good reason why I should help someone who barely helped me. My father was killed and I was left alone in the forest, why didn’t you find me?’ Rin cried, letting her tears spill as she turned and ran far away from me.
“Rin! Please it’s not like that, I was Kikyo’s servant back than, the only way I could have gotten out was if I had died, please listen to me!” I hung my head in shame, she was right I should have done something more to help her.
“Huh, I never knew humans bled like that.” I lifted my head and saw Ayame watching the blood drip down my foot.
“Ayame, please help me.” I begged, hoping Kikyo hadn’t gotten to her to.
“See how well your blood matches the earth? But the earth won’t suck it into itself. I always knew humans were dirt but I guess you’re less than dirt if the earth won’t take your blood.” She remarked cheerfully and turned away.
I didn’t even try calling after her. I saw a braid fly back and forth as Hiten walked towards me and I tried to smile at him. “Hey Hit, I need your help getting down.”
He turned his nose at me and went right by me. “And why would I lower myself to help some miko who didn’t even know she was one? Get some powers loser.”
I sighed and hung my head again. I was a loser, not knowing for 16 years I had powers and never even used them. I jerked my head up when I heard the familiar clink coming towards me and I watched as Miroku gave into view. “Miroku, you’re a priest it’s your duty to help people, please help me.” I begged.
He just looked at me, “Yes it is my duty to help helpless people. You’re a miko, you should be able to get yourself out.”
I cried out in frustration. “But I don’t know how Miroku, I don’t know anything about my powers!”
He just shrugged. “I’m sorry Kagome, but I have a call in another town to get rid of a demon, I don’t have time to stop and help you.” He continued to walk past me even when I started begging again.
“Damn it, there has to be someone who will help me!” I cried out to fill the empty space.
“Oh poor Kagome, none of her little friends will help her get down from a tree.” Kikyo mocked, stopping just a few inches from me. “Do you need my help little one?”
I spat at her. “I wouldn’t ask for your help if I was about to be dropped into a dragon’s belly.”
“Oh Kagome, always so full of pride.” She smirked at my crestfallen face when I saw Inuyasha appear out of nowhere to put his arms around her waist. “Can’t have to much pride if I steal your man now can you?” She purred, hooking her arms over Inuyasha’s.
I felt my eyes fill up with tears that slowly started to slip down my face. “But Inuyasha, why?”
He sneered at me, moving his hand up and down Kikyo’s. “What the hell do you mean by that? Do you think I ever really cared about a dumb slave like you when I could be with my love Queen Kikyo?” He smirked when he saw me open my mouth. “And don’t even think of asking for help, I don’t have time to spare cutting you down when I could be spending it with my beautiful Kikyo.” He said lovingly, looking deep into her eyes.
I cried harder when I saw him kiss Kikyo deeply, slowly lowering them both to the ground, right under my feet. Some of my blood dropped unto his mouth when he was licking Kikyo’s neck and he grimaced and spat it out. “Your blood tastes so horrible I’m can’t believe I didn’t puck bitch.” He snared cruelly.
He stood up and hit me so hard the rope broke and I went flying into a tree. “There, that’ll take care of the chance I taste her blood again.”
I gasped and sat up in my bed, my fist clutched to my heart. Still breathing hard I looked out the window to see it was still dark outside, barely 2:00 am. I wiped the sweat up my forehead and collapsed back against the pillow, but not before making sure my heel didn’t have any bite marks.
This was the second time I had a nightmare, what if I had another one and I cried out? I didn’t want to have to tell the dwarfs if they came to see what was wrong with me, it would just worry them. I didn’t think I could sleep again anyway, that nightmare was to terrifying.
Oh Kami, what if that was some sort of vision? That I would need help but no one would give it? Or maybe that’s what everyone thinks about me. Are maybe Inuyasha really does want to be with Kikyo. Ok, forget the nightmare, put it in the back of your mind until later, don’t even think about it for a week or so.
Maybe you’ll be able to think more clearly. I grimaced when I heard my stomach rouble and wondered if I should just try to go back to sleep to avoid hunger. I couldn’t eat anything during lunch or dinner and if course it’s now that I want to eat. I sighed and stared at the ceiling until damn, when I finally fell asleep.
I fought waking up, not wanting to face the people who told me I was a miko. Losing I sat up and leaned back against the wall, put my elbows on my knees and rested my face against my fists. Damn it all, why hadn’t anyone ever told me I was a miko? Did they think I wasn’t interested in being one? That I wasn’t strong enough to be one? Hiten had told me I could be stronger than my mother, so why wasn’t I trained? Why had everyone lied to me? Why did Kaede lie to me?
Kami damn them, Inuyasha, Kagura, Miroku and Sesshomaru must have known I was one! Even Naraku must have sensed it, that was why he wanted me. It wasn’t even because I looked nice or he wanted to get Kikyo annoyed.
Damn it, why does that make me angrier instead of relieved he only wants me because I’m powerful? Who the hell cares if he wouldn’t spit on me if I were fire otherwise? Do I want him to rape me if I was powerless?
Maybe no one ever mentioned it to me because you have to sense or do something to prove you’re a miko. They all must have through I was a moron, being more powerful than the great Midoriko and not even knowing it.
Kami how could I have been so stupid? Maybe I should have tried to fry Naraku or something to prove myself as a miko? Or maybe that’s not it at all. Maybe everyone just throught I wasn’t strong enough or brave enough or skilled enough to be a miko. Maybe everyone knew I was to much of a baka to control that kind of power and would have ended up killing someone.
I sighed, sinking deeper into self pity. I was probably to stupid to be a good miko. I would have brought shame to my mother’s name. Everyone would have forgotten the great warrior priestess queen Midoriko and would spend all their time mocking her stupid daughter Kagome when she rode into their village to kill a demon Maybe...
“KAGOME!”
My eyes widened and I tried to back away from the lunatics running towards me, finding no escape. Rin and Shippo jumped on top of me, grabbing my legs so I couldn’t run away. “Kagome! Cook breakfast again for us? Please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please PLEASE????????”
I gaped at them “Well... ah... that is...”
“Come on Kagome, please? We’ll be good. And that uh...that toast thing you cooked was really, really good.” Kouga said suddenly running into the room and kneeling by my side, giving me his best puppy dogs eyes.
“Oh well...um.. I didn’t know you liked it that much Kouga...” I trailed off, amazed they would beg for me to cook. Sango must really suck.
“Oh and that other thing, the thing you made out of eggs? That was sooooo good. Can you make it again, pretty, pretty please?” Ayame drooled, coming in behind Kouga.
Sango walked in and shook her head at her fellow ‘dwarfs’.
“Come on guys, can’t you see she doesn’t want to cook? I’ll make breakfast.”
“NO!”
Sango growled under her breath and would have hit the loudest two, (Kouga and Rin), if I hadn’t stood up and dragged on the kimono Sango loaned me. “It’s alright Sango, I don’t mind making breakfast.” I said and started to walk to the door when something scooped me up and shot down the stairs.
I yelped and clung to the black hair that swung in front of my face until he set me down in the kitchen.
Kouga winked at me, “You were taking to long.” He gently turned my body to face the stove and walked out whistling. I shook my head and started to get the stove going, cracking a couple eggs on top and throwing on some pieces of bread to toast.
While that was cooking I grabbed the plates out of the cabinet and started to go out to the dining room to set the table. Shaking my head at the mess the dwarfs had made out of the tablecloth I threw it on a chair nearby and went into the living room to see if there was anything in there I could use.
I wasn’t sure if I should laugh or gasp when I saw Hiten pinned to the floor by a stone mouse. I decided to gasp in shock and rushed towards him when I saw he was moving his mouth but no words were coming out. I picked the mouse up and tossed it aside.
“Oh my Kami, Hiten, are you alright?” I asked worried.
He stared at me, “Why are you being so nice to me? If I were you I would have left me under that mouse.”
I blinked. “Is there a reason I should have left you under that mouse?” I asked, confused.
“Um, hello, anyone in there?” He asked and tapped the side of my head. “I told you, you were a miko yesterday remember? And I guess I messed up because you ran out of here like you were about to break and now you have huge black circles under your eyes, your face is paler than snow and your hair’s kinda just hanging there. You feel ok?”
I scowled at him and tried to braid my hair. “I’m so sorry my looks cause you so much grief. We can’t all look like royalty you know.”
He scowled back at me, turned my around and took my hair out of my grasp. “Let me do that, you’ll tangle it.”
I frowned but let him re-braid my hair. “Now you’re not even letting my braid my own hair? Are you sure you’re alright?”
“I’m only doing this because if I let you tangle in it front of my sight Ayame and Rin will kill me. Kami you know how long I had to listen to them talk about your hair? ‘Oh Rin how do you think she gets it so shiny?’ ‘Oh Ayame how do you think she keeps it that lovely midnight shade of black?’” I felt him shudder “I swear, five minutes longer and I would have gone crazy. Besides, I braid hair better than you.”
“Oh.”
We sat in silence while he braided my hair (which felt kind of nice actually), the silence broken when he reached knots in my hair and cursed under his breath to get them out.
“It’s not you’re fault I’m a miko and you were the one told me.” I said suddenly. “I’m not mad at you, and I didn’t know someone-“
“Shippo.” He said gruffly.
“I didn’t know Shippo had thrown a...what’s it called?”
“A trickster’s statue. Trickster demons like Shippo can make statues that will bind other demons to certain things and something else. The statue he used on me was a mouse, so I had to stay in one place as ‘quiet as a mouse’.”
“Oh. You know that’s kind of cute- sorry” I said when I felt his grip tighten on my hair. “Anyway I am sorry, if I had known Shippo had done that I would have let you loose right away. Why didn’t any of the other dwarfs let you out?”
“They were pissed at me for making you upset.” He tied my hair with some ribbon he had dug out somewhere and turned me around. “At least your hair doesn’t look so limp and lifeless now. The skin will be fine after you eat.” He scowled at me again. “Idiot, just because you’re upset doesn’t mean you shouldn’t eat or sleep.”
“Hey how do you know if I’ve been eating or not?”
His scowl deepened. “Just because I couldn’t talk doesn’t mean I was deaf. I heard Kouga and Sango talk about how worried they were about you.” He started to pull me towards the kitchen. “Come on, your toast is burning and I want extra of that meat stuff you made yesterday.”
I gasped and pulled out of his grasp to rush towards the kitchen. “Ayame will kill me if I burn the toast!” I wailed while I heard him laughing behind me.
~ Inuyasha’s Room
“That freaking slut! ‘Being a demon slayer sounds so manly after all. I guess I judged Miroku wrong and he liked controlling women in certain… aspects’.” Inuyasha mocked Kikyo in a high pitched voice as he paced around the room.
Kagura watched him, wondering if he was going to do something stupid and Sesshomaru kept a eye on all the fragile things in the room, counting in his head how much it would cost to repay what Inuyasha might break in a rage. “Calm yourself Inuyasha before you destroy something that’s going to cost me my entire kingdom to fix.” Sess ordered, barely keeping himself from winching when Inuyasha threw him the bird and almost knocked over a priceless Greek vase.
“Screw you Sess, that whore stole my best friend and my bitch from me and you want me to become a block of ice like you?” Inuyasha snarled, so mad he didn’t even notice what he had just said.
Sesshomaru raised a brow and Kagura dropped her fan in surprise. “Um, Inuyasha? Do you have any idea what you just said?”
Inuyasha stopped dead in the middle of the carpet and felt his face flare up. “That’s- I mean- damn it I didn’t mean it that way!” “It’s fine Inuyasha, you don’t have to explain to us, I should have seen the signs earlier.” Sess paused to take a sip of the tea he had been nursing in his hands. “I’m just shocked you and Miroku didn’t make you’re relationship know sooner. However you are aware you can’t make him your mate unless you get a female to mate with to? You can’t bare pups with a male after all.”
“WHAT THE HELL DID YOU SAY?”
~Kagome.
“Rin, make sure you have the hilt to your melted sword if you still have it, that way old Totosai won’t have to work so hard making you a new one. Shippo, bring something to do because I won’t listen to you question why trees grow or how a rock got there the entire way, and Ayame don’t you dare jump on Kouga near a river again, you remember what happened last time.” Hiten shouted off orders as we all got ready to make the long trip to Totosai. Shippo ran around like a manic looking for his paper and crayons, Sango couldn’t find her wrist knifes, Kouga was shouting at Ayame if she licked his neck on more time because she liked the way it tasted he was going to roll around in dog shit and I was making this thing Mayu called ‘sandwiches’ and pouring soup and tea into bowls for our lunch. “Hurry up Kag!” Sango shouted at me from the door and I put the last pot of soup in the basket and rushed out to meet them. It had been decided at breakfast that Rin, Sango, Shippo and me would ride on Kirara while Kouga and Ayame ran under us and Hiten flew beside us with his strange shoes. (They were like rolling disks that hovered at the side of his foot. I’ve never seen anything like them.)
I hopped on Kirara and she flew up into the air, me in the middle of Rin and Sango, Shippo sitting on her head, and Hiten floating up next to us, while Ayame and Kouga started to run ahead on the ground.
“So who’s this Totosai guy anyway?” I asked, looking over at Hiten.
He sort of sat down in the air, his wheels continuing to roll and tossed his lightning rod over his shoulder. “Totosai is a master craftsman of weapons, he’s made some of the most powerful swords out there and makes and repairs many of your weapons for us. Hopefully he’ll be able to tell us if there’s a miko or priest near by who can teach you.” He added.
We flew in near quiet after that, Shippo breaking the peace to ask me if I like some drawing he drew.
Finally when it grew close to noon Kirara started to fly down and we met up with Ayame and Kouga under a tree for lunch.
“You guys behave?” Hiten asked them.
Kouga scowled and tried to get Ayame’s hands off his waist. “We were fine until you guys showed up. Where’s the food?”
I spread a blanket down on the ground and started to pass out food, sending warning looks to Kouga when he tried to shove an entire sandwich in his mouth. I heated the soup and tea over a fire and the dwarfs gratefully drank everything down.
Half a hour later we were back on the road and a hour after that we were at Totosai’s home.
...Seriously what kind of old guy lives in a skull? Anyway we got off Kirara a old short man hobbled out to greet us. He was wearing a green and black kimono, walked using a staff, and was balding with hair as white as Inuyasha’s.
“Hey Totosai.” Hiten said and raised his hand in greeting. “We need you to fix some weapons for us.”
The old man rolled his eyes. “Well of course you’re here for weapons, young people never come to just have a nice visit with their elders, they always want something.” He shook his head. “Kids these days. In my time if you didn’t respect your elders-“
“Sounds really fascinating gramps, but we’re here for some weapons and a teacher for Kag here, we’ll come back for story time later.” Kouga interpreted.
“Fine. See if I care. Now what do you want a teacher for? Shouldn’t you all be out of school?”
Hiten made a nosie at the back of his throat and pushed me forward. “Not for us, for Kagome. She needs someone to teach her how to be a miko.”
Totosai hummed and started to circle me. “Ah yes, she is a powerful one, why hasn’t she been trained beforehand?”
I shrugged. “I don’t know why.”
He reached out a hand to me but drew back as if he was burned. “Oh great Kami, you’re the great Midoriko’s daughter! Oh happy day, you’ve returned to us priestess!” He started bowing and I felt myself blush.
“Please, don’t bow I’m not my mother, just her daughter.”
To my relief he stopped.
“Yes, you are not your mother but you have her power and your own. Did you know I had the honor of making her mother’s weapons?” He sighed happily. “Oh those were the days.”
“So can you find me a teacher?” I asked.
He scratched his chin. “Nope, don’t think I can’t. Not for a while anyway.”
“What? Why the hell not?” Kouga shouted.
Totosai hit him over the head with his staff, “Don’t be rude to your elders boy! And I know of teachers who can teach her, but none are in the area. They’ll be back soon though. But! I’ll be happy to fix your weapons.” He said and held his hands out for Rin and Sango to put their swords there. “Come back in two days. I’ll have your swords and bow ready by than.”
“Wait a minute, he didn’t ask for a bow old man.” Kouga said and got hit in the head with Totosai’s staff again.
“Don’t be stupid, you think I would leave Midoriko’s daughter defenseless? Come back in two days, I’ll have her bow ready and I’ll start restoring her mother’s sword.”
I felt my breath catch in my throat. “My mother’s sword?”
“Of course! You think I would let it get buried with her? She was buried with one of her lesser swords, she kept the most powerful one for you. Shame her bow isn’t around anymore, that thing rotted years ago. Oh well.” He said with a sigh and started to walk back to his skull. “Don’t forget, two days!” ~Later
We were on our way home and I was still shocked. My mother had left her sword to me. The sword she used to slay countless demons and save so many lives with, was mine. Maybe this meant I wasn’t so hopeless after all. Maybe this was a sign I was going to be a good miko and a good queen. I had to be with my mother’s sword guiding me, right?
“Guys, can we start to go down, I feel something down there.” I said, rubbing my suddenly warm side.
Hiten’s head turned toward me. “What do you mean?”
“I don’t know, I feel some kind of...power? Glow? Light? Wait a minute, there’s a sense of...evil to. I don’t know what it is but we have to get down there right now!” I said, my side feeling like it was on fire, but there was no pain at all.
Hiten nodded and he started to fly down with Kirara flying right next to him. As soon as we hit the ground I was off, running deeper into the woods, running towards the strange power I felt. I ignored the dwarf’s voices telling me to wait but I kept going until I was in the shadows of a small clearing.
There were demons circling this one spot on the forest floor and I shielded my scent and presence without thinking about it, promising myself to question it later. All shapes and sizes of demons were there, jumping up and down, growling, yelling and snarling at this strange white glow that was in the center.
A bold demon went up to it, but as soon as he touched it he was destroyed and turned into dust.
A hand grasped my shoulder and I saw Sango at my side.
“Baka, why didn’t you wait? You didn’t know what was out there.” She hissed at me.
I turned my head slightly and saw the rest of the dwarfs fanned around me. “Look, I’m sorry but I had to come here I don’t know why but...oh my Kami!” I gasped when the circle broke and I could see what the demons wanted.
Miroku was lying there on his side, injured, and out cold.
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AN: Mwhahahahahaha, sorry but I just had to stop there. (Yes I know I’m evil, feel free to tell me as many times as you want.) Well hoped you like it, go review now and maybe I’ll be nice and start writing the next chapter to my other story. Have a nice week.