Eyes to Life: Scroll 3

Sesshomaru watched Rin closely. Every night he had to sit by her side, with her whimpering and shivering. The nightmares had not gone away. She kept screaming and waking up sinking into him with fear. His presence was not soothing the girl one bit, for every time she woke up, she said the same thing. Red eyes.

 

Sesshomaru knew most youkai possessed such a trait, making it very difficult to find the culprit. Sesshomaru moved his clawed hand over the small girl's hair, only wishing he could find words of comfort, but it was just not his nature, to comfort others. Sesshomaru wanted no more then these nightmares to stop, but he most of all wanted to find who was responsible. It made Sesshomaru think about killing those who were indisputable and useless, whoever was doing this was at least worth his time to deal with.

 

"My Lord?" Jaken asked. "Is a youkai giving her nightmares?"

 

Sesshomaru glared at his servant. Jaken gulped and put his head down. "Forgive me! I won't speak out again My Lord!" Sesshomaru ignored his servant's remark.

 

"Rin?"

 

"Sesshomaru-sama?"

 

"Are the eyes familiar to this Sesshomaru?" Sesshomaru asked the young girl. She shook her head.

 

"So scary" She whimpered, "I don't want to die." The remark threw the Youkai Lord off guard. Sesshomaru sniffed, the fear leaking off of her startled him. What was this? This was a youkai with extreme measures of scaring his ward that she had begun to think she was going to die. Sesshomaru felt his youki push a little, this was infuriating. Who was responsible?

 

Sesshomaru looked into the mid-bright sky, it was morning. The sun was waking, as the rest of the world scurried on to find its place on the earth. Sesshomaru stood up with the young girl in his arm. The first red eyes that came to his mind, was his otouto's, but how could that be? InuYasha was nothing more than a hanyou, never able to give someone from so far away such nightmares.

 

"Jaken we are going." Sesshomaru said.

 

"Yes My Lord." With Jaken and Ah-Un at his heels, Sesshomaru made his way towards InuYasha.

 

---

 

InuYasha managed to find a good excuse to get away from the others. For some reason his friends did not sense the youki he was smelling. A few times he wanted to point it out, but if they didn't sense then they probably thought his nose was broken. But it was there, InuYasha could smell it, he was sure it had stayed on the outskirts of the camp, and the outskirt of the village inn they had stayed at as well. What was this youkai? It was following them, was it after Kagome's Shikon no Tama shards?

 

InuYasha hissed in annoyance, why couldn't he pin point the exact location of the youki? It almost seemed like it was practically hidden or covered. InuYasha gripped Tessaiga's hilt and glared around the dark forest, his eyes scanning for anything suspicious.

 

"InuYasha?"

 

InuYasha nearly jumped twenty feet in the air. He was not expecting Kagome at all; he had been so focused on trying to locate the youki that he didn't even smell Kagome coming up behind him.

 

"Damn it wench, you scared me!" InuYasha huffed.

 

"Sorry, I thought you would smell me." Kagome gave him a look. "What are you doing out here?"

 

"Ummmfinding you a stick." InuYasha lied.

 

"Do you really expect me to believe that?" Kagome questioned.

 

"Well then what do you want to believe?" InuYasha sneered.

 

"Can you come back; it makes me nervous with you out here." Kagome said.

 

"What!" InuYasha hissed. "Since when did you think I couldn't take care of myself!"

 

"I didn't say that!" Kagome snapped.

 

"You were implying it!"

 

"Just come back alright!" Kagome snapped.

 

"Fine." InuYasha hissed as he followed the miko. Despite his best efforts to defend her, she thinks he was running off. She's probably thinking I went to go see Kikyo or something, InuYasha thought.

 

InuYasha stopped, the youki was closer, and he bared his fangs and hissed, putting a cautious hand on the fang's hilt.

 

"Is something wrong?" Kagome asked.

 

"No, thought I sensed something." InuYasha grumbled.

 

"I don't sense anything." Kagome said. InuYasha flinched, how could she not sense that! She was a miko and could not sense that evil youki? InuYasha looked at her; he cocked his head to the side giving her a quizzical look. She looked back and face crunched up in confusion. "Why are you looking at me like that?"

 

"I'm not." InuYasha turned his face away, feeling the embarrassment creep up through his veins. He flicked his ears, feeling the youki in the air as he moved them. How could Kagome not sense that? InuYasha shook his head and followed Kagome back to the campsite. Maybe, InuYasha thought, I'm just imaging things.

 

---

 

Sango watched as InuYasha and Kagome entered the clearing, she could tell InuYasha was tense, but from what she didn't know.

 

"InuYasha want a marshmallow?" Shippo asked.

 

"I guess." The hanyou sat down and took the stick from the young fox youkai looking at the peculiar white object at the end. "Is this food?"

 

"It's really good." Sango said. "Very sweet."

 

Miroku was on the other side of her, petting Kirara's soft back. She purred in delight and flexed her back for him to scratch. Sango felt a smile spread over her face as she chomped on another roasted marshmallow. For food, this was the sweetest food she had ever tasted.

 

"I wished I could go to your era, Kagome." Sango said.

 

"You do?" The miko asked.

 

"It seems all the food seems better." Sango laughed.

 

"I agree, I love Kagome's ninja food!" Shippo piped up.

 

Kagome smiled and yawned, she laid down in her bed staring up at the glittering stars.

 

"Though, you can't see the sky like you can see it here." Kagome said.

 

Sango felt herself stare at the sky in wonder, what could be so different five hundred years from now? She knew she wouldn't live that long, so Sango wouldn't have to worry about it, but she had always been curious on how things have changed through time.

 

"Are there youkai exterminators?" Sango asked the miko. Kagome sat up and stared at her.

 

"No, there is law enforcement, but that's for regular folk. There really are no youkai in my era."

 

"Really?" Miroku questioned.

 

"We ran into a ghost, and one youkai, but that was cause by a shard embedding into a tree the mask was formed from." InuYasha said.

 

"Oh." Sango took a bite out of the soft, gooey white food, and pulled. Sango felt like she was eating very sticky, thick noodles. Miroku looked at her and smiled. But he put his hand over the smile, apparently he was laughing at her fight with the food.

 

"What's so funny houshi?" Sango sneered between her teeth as best she could.

 

"Nothing my dear Sango." But Miroku had to turn away from her; his face was turning red from holding down that laugh.

 

"Kirara bite him." Sango smirked. The youkai cat looked at her; she mewed in a sweet tone.

 

Miroku seemed too focused on getting his emotions under control to notice her joke. Kagome smiled and sighed.

 

"InuYasha you've been tense lately, is something wrong?" the miko asked him. InuYasha stopped eating the marshmallow in mid-chew, and looked down, his bangs covered his eyes.

 

"No." he said harshly. Miroku stopped laughing and looked at the hanyou.

 

"Do you sense Naraku or another youki?" Miroku asked.

 

"Fuck you people, there is nothing wrong!" InuYasha snapped.

 

"Would he not be overreacting?" Shippo whispered to Sango.

 

"I guess." Sango whispered back. Sango ate the rest of her food in silence. Kirara came to join her, as the young fox youkai went to go cuddle up with Kagome. Kirara purred and rubbed against her knee, Sango sighed and put her hand under the youkai cat's chin and began to scratch it. Kirara purred even louder, and it seemed to ease the tension that had suddenly been in the air. Suddenly Kirara stopped purring and mewed, not a warning mew, but a worried mew.

 

"What is it Kirara?" Sango asked, her hand inching towards Hiraikotsu. But Kirara purred her knee again and looked at InuYasha. He had closed his eyes apparently asleep, but he was covered by the shadows of the dancing fires. Sango gave Kirara a look.

 

"Something wrong with InuYasha?" Kirara mewed and nodded; she walked over to the sleeping hanyou and climbed in his lap. Sango was surprised he didn't wake; he didn't even appear to be breathing. She hopped on the hanyou's shoulder, and rubbed against his cheek. Sango was still confused until Kirara pulled away. The purple jagged marks were fading in.

 

---

 

Miroku listened in as Sango whispered in his ear. Kagome stood next to him looking at Sango in fear.

 

"You mean he was transforming in his sleep?" Miroku asked.

 

"Kirara was the one who noticed." Sango said. "They were faded, but they were there."

 

"And they haven't gone away either." Kagome mumbled. InuYasha yawned in front of them, completely unaware that all three of them were talking about him.

 

"What the hell is taking you three so damn long?" InuYasha grumbled.

 

"Nothing." Kagome sighed and walked back up to the hanyou's side. Miroku thought, he seemed normal, maybe he had a nightmare that just seemed to make him fear for a certain time. They'll go away.

 

The sun was high in the sky, a little wind rustled the peace, and a few clouds were spotted throughout the heavens. Miroku enjoyed days like these, youki seemed scarce, and nature could do its magic. Moving his staff to his other shoulder, Miroku sighed and sent a prayer to the Kami's for good measure. What lay ahead for the group was unknown and Miroku prayed that the Kami's were on their side.

 

"Houshi?"

 

"Sango?"

 

"You seemed to be lost in thought." The exterminator said.

 

"I was thinking about the time when you came out of the bathing" SMACK!

 

"HOUSHI! YOU HENTAI!" Sango snapped.

 

"SighI was not the hentai, you came out of that bathing room on your own accord." Miroku smiled at her.

 

"Idid?" Sango turned her head, her face beginning to turn red. Miroku couldn't help but picture a wet and partially clothed Sango yelling at him to stop being a hentai. She was the one, who apparently wanted to be seen, Miroku thought, even InuYasha saw her.

 

"When are you ever going to learn Miroku?" Shippo said as he shook his head.

 

"Maybe never." InuYasha grumbled. He looked over his shoulder to stare at Miroku. Miroku almost stopped in his tracks; InuYasha's stripes were almost solid on his face. Kagome was staring at them then turned in Miroku's direction, and shrugged her shoulders, her face printed with confusion. Sango looked at him and then gave Kirara a glance, the youkai cat rested on her shoulder.

 

"Well, it's a very nice day." Kagome interrupted. She glanced up and sighed. Suddenly Miroku felt a youki heading straight towards them a terrific speed. Kagome perked up and sighed. "Here comes Kouga."

 

---

 

Sesshomaru walked faster than normal, he had sensed some type of impeding youki, but it had disappeared. Growling in annoyance, Sesshomaru walked back towards his goal. The focus was mainly stopping Rin's nightmares, but Sesshomaru felt himself get distracted over even the smallest youki he sensed. Sesshomaru realized he was incredibly tensed, and this irritated him to no end. It was his utmost concern about Rin's care, but something was telling him, to be afraid. Sesshomaru growled in annoyance, nothing has ever scared him, and nothing ever will.

 

Sesshomaru sniffed the air; his otouto's scent was stale. He had only been here for one night and left the next morning. But something was wrong; his otouto's scent was human, knowing that it had been the night of the new moon. But it just stopped, right at the base of a tree, like he just disappeared from that spot altogether.

 

"Hanyou, what is this?" Sesshomaru stood back up, and went back to his servant and sleeping ward. He looked down the path, a large Lord's castle lay ahead, and Sesshomaru did not need to attract a thousand pairs of human eyes.

 

He moved on through the wood, following the scent of broken sticks, and the scent of InuYasha's companions.

 

---

 

"You were attacked by the wind witch?" Kouga snapped.

 

"Yea, but I shot my arrow, she left." Kagome sighed as she put her hand in her hair.

 

"And you, it had to happen on your human night!" Kouga spat towards InuYasha. InuYasha snarled and glared at the wolf.

 

"Shut the fuck up Kouga! That wind witch ran with that feather in-between her legs from me!"

 

"Yea right." Shippo muttered.

 

"Ummm, what are those things on?" Kouga started, when Kagome stomped on his foot. "Ow! What was that for Kagome!"

 

"Don't mention it." Kagome whispered. Kouga looked confused as he stared at the purple strips on InuYasha's cheeks.

 

"Okay, whatever. So no other sign of Naraku though?"

 

"None, other then Kagura." Sango said.

 

"Kouga have you seen any sign of Sesshomaru?" InuYasha suddenly asked.

 

"No, I haven't seen your Inu onii." Kouga growled. Kagome looked at the hanyou, why was he worried about Sesshomaru?

 

"Well, then we better be off, Kouga." Miroku said. He nodded to the wolf youkai and put his hand on InuYasha's shoulder. "Is something bugging you?"

 

"You're the third person who's asked me that!" InuYasha snapped.

 

"Well I better continue looking for Naraku." Kouga smiled and took her hands. "Until next time Kagome!" With that he was a tornado and gone.

 

---

 

Sango tapped her finger against the ground. They had found another inn for the night, and she was glad, no harder ground to sleep on. Well, Sango thought, does hard wood really count as a replacement?

 

"Sango?" Kagome asked. Sango had to squint her eyes to adjust to the darkness around them. Miroku and InuYasha had taken a separate room since they could afford it.

 

"Yea?"

 

"Why is InuYasha transforming? Did I do something to upset him?" the young miko asked.

 

"Kami no!" Sango said. "Why do you blame yourself for that?"

 

"I don't know, I keep bugging him, maybe he just got mad." Kagome looked down.

 

"I think he's just mad he's not seeing Kikyo." Shippo muttered.

 

"Shippo!" Sango snapped. "Don't say things like that!"

 

"Sorry." Shippo put his head down.

 

"Its fine, but I don't think that's the case anyway." Kagome sighed.

 

"Well what do you think it is?" Sango asked.

 

"I think it had something to do with that strange disappearing act he pulled when he was human." Kagome said.

 

"Hmmmmaybe." Sango put her hand to her chin. She petted a sleeping, purring Kirara next to her. "But why?"

 

"I guess we better ask him." Shippo suggested.

 

"Does he even know his stripes are there?' Sango asked Kagome.

 

"I don't think so." Kagome sighed. "Well good night."

 

"Night Kagome." Sango yawned and laid her head next to Kirara's small, warm body. She heard Shippo curl up with Kagome and fell into a restless sleep. Sango thought of Kohaku, where was he? Where had Naraku gone to? And what was happening to InuYasha? Sango sighed, there was too many questions that had no answer. It was going to a hard night to get some sleep.

 

---

 

Miroku watched the evening sky fall as he pulled some flowers from the side of the path. He hid them behind his back and walked calmly over to Sango.

 

"My dear Sango?"

 

"What?" her voice sounded unnerving.

 

"I have a surprise."

 

"Ohhhlet me guess your cursed hand is about to wander."

 

Miroku chuckled. "No, I found these, their called himawari's" Sango blushed.

 

"There beautiful." Sango took then and held them to her nose, sniffing with ease. Miroku came up behind her and put his nose to her neck.

 

"So are you." He whispered.

 

"Houshi!" Sango teased.

 

"You are." Miroku said.

 

"Can you two get a room?" InuYasha suddenly snapped.

 

"InuYasha! That was uncalled for!" Kagome huffed. Miroku sighed and pulled himself away from Sango. He sighed; thinking what would happen after Naraku was defeated. If then, Sango and he could have children on their own. NO matter the temptation with Sango, Miroku had to pry his hentai thoughts away from that, because what the consequences that would follow would be disastrous.

 

Miroku's children would pass on the kazaana, and this is what prevented him to be so close to Sango. It was not guaranteed she would become birthed with his first child the first time, but it was a risk. A risk Miroku was not going to take.

 

Clutching his staff, Miroku sighed and looked into the whisking winds. A world with no hate, anger, or greed was what the Kami's envisioned. And yet they made man, full of hate and greed, and youkai filling in the anger hoop. Miroku's teachings with Mushin had not gone to waste, he had learned a lot about the great Kami's that controlled every aspect of their small lives.

 

Miroku pulled out one of his sutras and studied the wonderful Japanese art and words that portrayed the spell against youkai. Miroku rubbed his hand over the dried ink, the words of Kami were written among this scroll, only they can erase the spell.

 

Miroku put the sutras back in his robe and walked back up to his woman's side. Sango was happily smiling at Kirara, who was purring under her chin with great ease. This made it hard for Miroku to watch, he wished he was the one rubbing her sweet neck, the feeling over her with him. It only made Miroku more determined to bring Naraku down, so he could bring theses hentai dreams into reality.

 

---

 

InuYasha sat be the fire, his golden eyes staring into the flames. He yawned and stretched pulling Tessaiga closer to him. It had been another long day of traveling, and running into Kouga only the day before did not help matters. Why did that mangy wolf have to talk to Kagome like that? In spite of his jealousy, InuYasha really wanted the wolf away for one reason. He hadn't felt comfortable having him proclaim her, his. It had been on his mind, but for only a day. Something was trying to get out. Was it his youkai blood? InuYasha wrapped his clawed hand around the hilt of his sword. It didn't prove to be very soothing, only more fear edged his body.

 

He stood up; all his friends had been talking and gone silent at his sudden movement.

 

"Something wrong InuYasha?" Miroku asked.

 

"No, I just need to go somewhere for a second."

 

"Wait!" Kagome stood up. "Exactly where are you going?"

 

"Somewhere that doesn't need an audience!" InuYasha snapped.

 

"Oh." Kagome suddenly turned red. "Go ahead, but not too far okay?" Why the hell did she sound so worried about him? InuYasha had noticed all of them giving him peculiar stares recently and it had started to bug him.

 

InuYasha placed Tessaiga back on his hip, and jumped into the woods, feeling the air rush by him. He felt like he could move faster than before, which was odd. The feeling of moving like this was heaven, more than anything he ever wanted was to hop through the trees. It sounded silly, but InuYasha loved the freedom of the jump, as a human he could only jump only a half the distance he could jump as a hanyou. InuYasha finally landed on a sturdy branch and sighed. He had been practically telling the truth to Kagome, he did need to do his business. But something else was bugging him, the youki around them had never faded for one. The other InuYasha was suddenly feeling something push inside him, like a beast trying to remove itself from his form. As long as he felt like it was under control, InuYasha had no problems, but now it felt uneven in what to decide. He just hoped no one was going to follow him, especially Kagome.