InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Prophecy: Messiah From The Future ❯ Plans and Thoughts ( Chapter 2 )

*~*Chapter Two*~*

Plans and Thoughts

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"Master Naraku, we have just received some interesting news." A young man with cold eyes, and a voice to match, told his master. "Really, and what news would that be? Could it be about the hanyou, and his little girlfriends? Or perhaps you have discovered some more shards of the Shikon no Tama?" asked a man with a cold deadly voice. Naraku glanced down at his servant, `this better be good,' he thought, annoyed. `Though,' he thought with an inward evil smirk, if this is a way to get the angel Kikyou than it will be worth it.

The doorway began to open, and a young woman with ebony black hair and cold black eyes walked in. She wore a tight black dress, that didn't suit the time. There was hair rapped around her fingers, and she seemed to be playing with it. She had some nerve coming in without even knocking, uninvited, but she seemed to have made a habit of doing rude things. Then she spoke, in a feminine but cruel voice, "What this baka means is two things have come to our attention that might interest you. The first is the hanyou, Inuyasha, and the reincarnation of the priestess Kikyou, have an interesting spiritual connection, which not even they were aware of. The second bit of information is that Kikyou left their little group yesterday, do to unknown causes, but she appears to be traveling west, this may have something to do with the hanyou's half brother, Sesshouraru." She told him with a seductive smirk, and an evil tone.

"WHAT! How did you find out about the missing priestess, and what direction she was traveling in? And how would it have anything to do with that pretty boy Sesshouraru?" Kouga asked furiously. He was fuming, how could that slut Yura know about Kikyou leaving, and what was that thing about the connection? Why didn't Yura tell him or Karuga?

"Kouga, silence!" Naraku ordered in a deathly cold voice. "Yura," he started in a demanding tone, "explain yourself." He said, finishing his order.

"Of course Master Naraku," she said, smirking at Kouga in a superior fashion. "I found out about the priestesses disappearance, because I was out looking for shards when I saw her sitting under a tree crying. She sat there until the sun went down, then she ran off in the northwest direction. While she was under the tree, she had mentioned Sesshoumaru's name more than once." She finished her story still smirking superiorly.

"Very good, Yura, and the spiritual connection, how did you find out about that?" He asked her with amusion apparent in his voice. `She's a clever girl,' he thought. It was good sense on her part to stay and watch the priestess, this could prove useful information. He was also quite curious to find out about this connection that went on between the annoying Inuyasha, and the lovely Kagome. It could prove to be either good or bad news. If they weren't aware of their connection, than this would mean that there was probably a lot of confusion amongst their little group. If he could get the girl alone than he might be able to manipulate her long enough to get the shards of the Shikon no Tama that she has. Not only that but he could tell that the hanyou has feelings for her, if he had her than that baka Inuyasha would fall right into his hands. Excellent, this is perfect, I'll have the shards, and the goddess Kikyou will be mine, somehow.

"Well, it was quite easy, a real demon," she started, exaggerating the word demon, knowing that she was annoying Kouga greatly, "would be able to see that destiny has big plans for the little bakas, so naturally they have a spiritual connection. However, by watching them, and battling with them, it's obvious that they have romantic feelings for each other, neither of them are going to admit, even to them selves yet, well maybe the girl would, but defiantly not that gaki half breed. So if we use the confusion created by new connection than we could manipulate one of them, if it's as you wish Master Naraku, than I think that the hanyou would be easier, because the girl has a strong spirit. What do you think Master Naraku?" Yura finished, with evident smugness, as she continued to play with the hair wrapped around her fingers.

"I think that you and I think very much alike, I praise you Yura, you have proven to be quite resourceful, cunning, and ingenious. However, I don't think that it would be a good idea to try and manipulate the hanyou, incase you've forgotten, he has been dealing with cruelty and trickiness his whole life, he won't fall for it easily. But the girl wouldn't be a good choice either, you are quite correct, now that I come to think of it, she does have a strong spirit." He told her smiling darkly. He folded his hands in his lap, and glanced at Kouga, who until now had been fuming in a corner, forgotten. "But Kikyou…" he started a plan forming in his head.

"Kouga, go get Karuga. I have an idea…" He told Kouga, and Kouga still fuming left to go get Karuga, slamming the door on his way out.

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"Well, Sango-san, your looking quite lovely today, is that a new a scarf?" a young man with strait black hair tide up into a pony tail, said to a young woman, with long black hair and midnight colored eyes. She glared at him. He had a lot of nerve, finding some way to hit on her every day, what a hentai. She just didn't get why he couldn't act descent for one minute, he was so impossible. If he would just stop being so forward, or cheesy all the time then maybe she would like him, wait, did she just think that she would ever like him? But he did have his good points, you could always depend on him when things got serious, but really, he was such a hentai.

"Drop it Miroku. And, no I won't." She told him in a sharp tone. She folded her arms across her chest and quickened her pace. She was walking bare foot, and couldn't help but think that the wet dewy grass between her toes felt refreshing. It wasn't sunny out, on the contrary, it was cloudy and windy, and it had just recently begun to rain lightly. She didn't mind though, she had always liked the rain. She did think that it was strange that it had come on so suddenly though, and she couldn't help but think that it wasn't a good omen.

"What do you mean Sango-san, I didn't ask you to do anything." Miroku told her with an innocent tone. He looked at her with mock innocents. She was no fun; she would never even play along. It was so unfair. What made Inuyasha so lucky, he had two girls that were crazy about him? While all of the girls he new just called him a Hentai. And Kikyou really took his little comments to far, once she almost shot him with an arrow. All he could do was thank Kami-sama that Kagome had a better sense of humor than her, because it was no mystery that she was just as good with a bow and arrow as Kikyou was.

"Hey, Miroku-sama, why do you keep, um, what's the word? Hitting on Sango-chan?" asked a little boy with a head full of wild red hair and big green eyes that shown with curiosity. He just didn't understand why Miroku couldn't stop saying weird things to pretty girls. Last time he said some thing weird to a pretty lady, she slapped him really hard, he even had a big read mark on his cheek for almost a week. Last time he met a pretty lady, he just said hi, and asked her what her name was, why didn't Miroku just do that? Oh… that's right, Sango-chan said that it was because he was a hentai, whatever that meant.

"What, you to Shippo, how could you side with her?" Miroku said, he put his hands under his chin, and made big fake tears well up, as he began to act very dramatic. "What do you mean, Miroku-sama, I'm not taking anyone's side, I was just asking you why you keep hitting on Sango-chan." Shippo told him in both board and curious tone. Miroku was so weird. No wonder Inuyasha and Sango were always yelling at him. Inuyasha was weird to; he just refused to admit that he was in love with Kagome. Wait… Kagome was in love with Inuyasha too, so if they mated… or as Kagome called it, getting marr-ied, than Inuyasha would be like his adoptive father or brother, because Kagome was like his adoptive mother or sister. Eww… he didn't want Inuyasha for an adoptive brother, or anything. He was loud, rude, annoying, mean, and he always called him names and picked him up by his tail.

"Shippo-kun," Sango started, shaking Shippo out of his thoughts, "Miroku is always hitting on me, because he wants me to through my boomerang at him." She finished smiling at Shippo. "Well than why don't you through your boomerang at him?" asked Shippo with genuine innocents. "Well, I will." She said as she began to unstring her boomerang from her back. `I'm so evil…' she thought with a wicked smile. If Miroku wanted to be a hentai, than he could get what was coming to him.

"NO…NO…NO!" Miroku shouted backing away slowly, as he waved his hands in front of him. What was she playing at, was she trying to kill him or some thing. This had to be some sort of illegal offence to monks. Was she going insane, she wasn't seriously going to through that thing at him, was she? It was big enough to slice his head off. `If I live through this than I'll never be forward with any woman ever again I promise!' he prayed silently, putting his hands in front of his face.

"Okay, 1, 2…3! Go!" shouted Sango as she through her boomerang at him.

"AHHHHHH!!!" Screamed Miroku as he dived face forward into the dirt to avoid her boomerang. The boomerang went right over him and as soon as it had passed he jumped up and pointed a finger at Sango saying, "Ha, you didn't get me, I dodged it." She didn't get me, I'm to fast, and clever. Really, a monk with my superiority and power would know to dodge a boomerang. At least she didn't hit him, like most girls, because she could hit hard, maybe even harder than him, and he knew it.

He looked at her, and she was smirking, why would she be smirking. She through her boomerang at him and he dodged it. There was no reason why she would be smirking. Whoosh…whoosh…whoosh. Wait what was that noise behind him, just the wind right?

`That idiot, he's probably thinking that he's so smart dodging it, it will just turn around and hit him.' She thought with a smirk on her face. He didn't really think that she would just through that thing at him, did he? She was a demon huntress, she would know better than to through an easily dogdable weapon at him. This guy couldn't really be that thick could he? She did feel kind of bad about throwing her boomerang at him though, but she didn't know why. She shouldn't feel that bad, he did deserve it, after all, he hit on every girl that he came across, and because she had the unfortune of traveling with him. He hit on her every day, and she knew that he would hit on Kagome and Kikyou, whenever she stuck around anyways, if he wasn't afraid of two things, one was Inuyasha, the other was there skill with arrows, though Kagome would never shoot an arrow at him, she was to kind to do that. She has a pure heart, `but that doesn't mean that I've got to be nice…' she thought wickedly as she continued to smirk at Miroku.

Shippo was tugging on her pants as he looked up at her with big innocent eyes. "Sango-chan, should we warn him since your boomerang is about to hit him?" he asked her with the curiosity and innocents that only a child could have. "No, Miroku wants to get hit with the boomerang, that's why he's such a hentai all the time." She told him as she smiled sweetly.

Miroku turned around just before the boomerang hit him. He jumped up just in time, than glanced at Sango who had caught the boomerang and fastened it on her back again; she was smirking at him in a superior way that made him feel like a big idiot.

"Now Miroku-sama, if your done saying things that nearly get you killed, than I think that we should get going, this sudden change in whether doesn't seem like a good omen. We should catch up to Kagome-chan and Inuyasha as soon as possible." Sango said, her expression changing form carefree to serious.

"Yeah, I think your right," he said flowing suit.

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"Lord Kouga, please explain to us why we've joined forces with Lord Naraku. It doesn't make since, I thought you hated him." Said a wolf youkai, who obviously was doing a bold thing by questioning his lord.

"I have my own plans, however, for now you don't need to know of them. And, I'd advise you not to speak ill of M…Master Naraku, when he could easily hear you." Kouga answered, bighting his tong, It was good advise, however, he needed to practice what he preached. He would play this game for now, however, he would have what he wanted when the time came. `Kagome, you will be mine, and you dog-turd will die by my hand's, along with my other rival for power…' Kouga thought with an evil smirk.

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"You… how did you know about the dream, why did you say that?" Kagome stuttered, finally recovering from the shock of what he hanyou counter part had just said. How did he know, she had never told anyone about that dream, it had always given her a haunting feeling, a feeling that told her never to tell. But ironically, here she was, as good as telling this person, whom she both hated and loved, it didn't make since. She was sad, but happy at the same time. For once she had something with him that Kikyou didn't, unless… unless this was something that had happened to Kikyou when she was still alive, and she was only remembering it because she was her reincarnation.

She hated being Kikyou's reincarnation; it was almost like she didn't have her own life, like she was a shadow of someone else. She knew that her friends like Sango, Shippo, and Miroku didn't see her like that, but the person who mattered most to her did. Inuyasha. She loved him, she knew she loved him and she admitted it to herself. But she wouldn't show him, it would only hurt her more, he would just tell her that she was nothing more than a jewel detector, and that he loved Kikyou. She couldn't stand the thought of that, it made her heart wrench, sometimes to the point of trying to tell her self that she didn't love him. But she knew it was a lie. She would love him know matter what, she would go to the ends of the earth for him, follow him to hell and back, she would even stand at Kikyou's side and help the living-dead priestess prepare for the wedding that she, herself, would never have with Inuyasha.

Maybe it wouldn't hurt as bad if they could just be friends, but Inuyasha had made it quite clear that she was a jewel detector, a tool that he needed, and nothing more. So here she was thinking about how ironic it was that every one said love was such a wonderful feeling, and here she was experiencing how painful it really was.

She looked up at the ski, it was raining but she didn't care, she let tears continue to fall down her cheeks. The rain began to drench her clothes, but that was okay, she liked the rain, she always found that it's sweet, but sad patterns managed to meld with her emotions, what ever they may be. She could always depend on the rain; it was the one thing that she could depend on more than anything. It reminded her of a song that she liked, `Rainy Day Man', was it's title, it was so fitting that she would be standing in the rain, when she felt that that song was talking about her. But she supposed that that's the way song's were, they told a story that fit everyone in one way or the other, at a least one time in their lives. Ever since she was a small child she had liked music, she thought that their was a special emotion in it, that only it's lyrics and melody could reveal.

So this would be her life, bottling her emotions up inside, and putting on a happy face, as to not bother her friends. It was true that she could just return to the future, seal the well, and get on with her life in her time, but was that what she wanted? No, she couldn't simply leave, she wouldn't just leave this time to be terrified by demons. She had to purify the Shikon no Tama, therefore, destroying it and purifying the earth. Then her mission would be complete, and she could go back to the future, and continue to put on a happy face, make her family and friends in that time think she was okay, never see Kikyou, Miroku, Shippo, Sango… or… or Inuyasha again, and in time they would get on with there lives, and forget about her.

She didn't want that though. She knew she was being selfish, but she didn't want them to forget about her, and she didn't want to live with out them, they were her family too. `I don't know my future, but I'll let destiny take its course. Fate is sometimes cruel, and sometimes kind. But I have a feeling that I have a destiny that I don't know about, so I'll wait for it to come, and when it does I'll know which path to take. I'll know whether or not I should stay in this time, or go back to my time. I'll know whether or not if I should or shouldn't seal the well. I'll know if I can purify the Shikon no Tama. But most importantly, I'll know if I should tell Inuyasha how I feel, and know his answer, I'll know if I should take the chance of having my heart broken by his rejection, or if by some miracle, he shares my feelings. Or I'll know if I shouldn't tell him, and live the rest of my life, wondering how life could have been different if I did tell him. So when the time comes I'll have the answers to every thing, this I do know. Until then, I'll just live my life the best I can.' She thought as her last tear ran down her cheek, melding with the rain. `Rainy Day Man…'

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