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Chapter 17: The Potion
PART I: The Consequence of Recovery
Chapter 17: The Potion
“You are such a bastard, you know that right?”
“Technically, brother, you are the bastard. However, I understand the sentiment, and will allow such an insult against my person pass due to the circumstances.”
“Shut up.”
“Hn.”
“Seriously, you’re not helping the situation any, you prick.”
It was possibly the funniest thing Kagome had witnessed in awhile, not since Kirara found that cat nip. That had been funny, seeing the cat demon rubbing herself on the poor unsuspecting plants. Kagome was sure that little feline had been embarrassed when she’d come down from her high.
But a human Inu-Yasha was in his usual ‘I’m irate with you and looking like a puppy while I am’ crouch in his favorite corner of Kaede’s hut and glaring at his older half-brother who was brewing something mighty stink in a small cauldron like a witch (looking amazingly like a witch too). Not only that, but they were verbally fighting like two four-year-old children who liked to repeat the same lines. Add the whole thing together and it made for good entertainment.
It would have been funnier if she didn’t have to go into the Spirit World to retrieve a severed arm. Gross. She didn’t even want to think about touching the most likely decayed thing. Why did Sesshou-Maru want it back anyway? Would it really reattach? Wouldn’t it get septic? Would she stop asking herself questions that she had no idea how to answer? Yes… she believed she would.
She cleared her throat and gestured to the cauldron, “So, uh, when is it going to be done?”
Sesshou-Maru spared her a glance, “Approximately five minutes.”
Nervous jitters settled into her stomach. “Oh.”
A hand settled on her shoulder, and she looked up to see Nezumi. “You’ll be fine, Kagome-san.”
Inu-Yasha snorted, “Yeah, what are you worried about? You’re not the one Sesshou-Maru is poisoning.”
The taiyoukai didn’t even bother looking up. “Indeed.”
Inu-Yasha growled, “I knew it you bastard!”
“Inu-Yasha, be silent. I would not be so womanly as to poison you.”
The hanyou crossed his arms crossly, “Could have fooled me. Hell, I doubt any woman has hair as long or as shiny as yours.”
Long slender fingers ran through the said locks, “Nor the same shade or feel, I would think.”
“Ha! You just admitted to being a woman!”
“I believe all the females I have bedded in the past would beg to differ.”
“No I just think they’d be shocked to hear that they slept with a woman.”
Kagome’s hands flew to her mouth in shock, wide eyes on the most likely dead Inu-Yasha. Oh, she wished Miroku was awake right now. He’d get a good kick out of this. Better yet, he would get to see Inu-Yasha get the crap beat out of him for taunting a very male taiyoukai who didn’t take to insults too well. She could always do a rerun later, but that was completely boring.
Sesshou-Maru looked up, again for only a second, “Careful brother. Were I you, I would not call this Sesshou-Maru a woman. For if I was, it would mean a woman has beaten the hell out of you continuously.”
“Keh, I beat you before!”
“Ah, yes. The first time you defeated this Sesshou-Maru was only through the aid of a human. The second was by a stroke of luck that I blinded you, enabling your sense of smell to strengthen and detect the Wind Scar.”
Inu-Yasha growled, muttering under his breath. Kagome could pick out a few choice words, and a few more that sounded like: “Didn’t need no human to kick your ass,” and “I ain’t that lucky.”
“Hush, Inu-Yasha. You sound like a child. It is very unbecoming of your station and age.”
Sesshou-Maru added another ingredient to the mix that looked like an eyeball. Kagome shuddered, internally glad that she didn’t have to drink the concoction. She had already seen him add in some things that would make the stoutest man vomit, and the odor coming from the cauldron was enough to keep her a good distance away from the brothers.
Shaking her head, Kagome turned to her sister, “Do you think they’ll ever grow up?”
Sango smiled, “Maybe someday.”
Kagome watched wistfully as the taijiya pressed a cool cloth to Miroku’s forehead. It wasn’t necessary (other than that Miroku was getting kinda ripe), but it made Sango feel better so Kagome wouldn’t let anyone tell her to stop her meager care. She thought it was sweet and a testament of Sango’s love; that she would remain by the monk even when he was at his lowest was something special. Something that Kagome only hoped she could live up to one day.
“I think they’ve come a long way though.” Sango said softly.
Both girls looked up to witness Sesshou-Maru calmly holding a bit of jerky just out of Inu-Yasha’s reach, and the hanyou cursing the taiyoukai up and down to give him the meat back.
“Give it back, damnit!”
“Hn.”
“Get your own damn food!”
“Hn.”
“I said give it back! It’s mine!”
“Hn.”
Kagome looked back to Sango, “You know; that’s strangely immature of him.”
The taijiya raised an eyebrow, “For Inu-Yasha or Sesshou-Maru? ‘Cause if you’re talking about Inu-Yasha then you are sadly mistaken.”
“No, Sesshou-Maru’s acting… off.”
Sango shrugged and both girls watched as the taiyoukai in question used his tail to push his younger half-brother away from him, sniffing at the jerky. With a grunt, he tossed the meat to Inu-Yasha and – whether by accident or purposefully – hit the hanyou square in the forehead.
Sango suddenly leaned forward and whispered into her ear, “Maybe he’s affected by the new moon too.”
Kagome frowned, “Hmm, maybe. But I don’t think that his attitude would be influenced.”
“So what do you think it is?”
“Well… maybe he feels bad that Inu-Yasha is human tonight.”
The huntress shrugged, “Maybe he’s just getting soft.”
“Woman.” Sesshou-Maru’s annoyed tone made them jump, “before you decide to accuse this Sesshou-Maru of becoming soft, I urge you to get out of my hearing range.”
Sango laughed nervously, “Heh, yes, Sesshou-Maru-sama. I’ll keep that in mind.”
The Western Lord nodded curtly, and stood from the cauldron. “It is time, then.”
The bottom dropped from Kagome’s stomach, “O-oh. Really?”
He spared her only a glance before filling one of her salvaged water bottles with the dark rather goopy concoction and held it out to Inu-Yasha. “It will take effect almost immediately.”
Inu-Yasha made a face, taking the bottle, “What does it taste like?”
“I’ve been told it tastes like rancid tiger meat.”
“Ugh.”
Kagome watched as her friend glared at the potion with obvious detest on his face, holding it away from himself like it was poison. She sighed and stood with the help of her cane, limping over to the currently human hanyou. She placed a gentle hand on his head reassuringly, “Inu, you don’t have to do this, you know.”
He grimaced, “Yeah, I do.”
With a long suffering sigh, Inu-Yasha plugged his nose and took a swig from the bottle. He gagged on the liquid, but forced it down, tossing the bottle back to Sesshou-Maru. The taiyoukai caught it deftly, throwing it into the fire for disposal.
“That tasted like shit.” Inu-Yasha groaned.
“Hn. You should begin to feel the effects soon enough.”
“Yeah, yeah. The world spinnin’ and all that. Just hold your pants on.” He passed a hand over his face. “Uh… what effects are we talking about?”
“I believe the side effects are slight numbness of the entire body, light-headedness, and a general feeling of not caring about anything.” Sesshou-Maru sniffed indignantly, “Though that last aspect shouldn’t change too much in you.”
“Feh.”
Kagome sighed nervously, wondering if she was allowed to change her mind now. Sure, Inu-Yasha would be pissed that he had to drink that potion, and Sesshou-Maru would get the Tetsuseiga… but then she would have to go to that scary place again. Sure she had been all gung-ho about going in the first time, but then she’d been pissed with the taiyoukai for several things. The main being messing with Inu-Yasha’s perception of his mother.
“Having second thoughts, Kagome-san?”
The soft voice startled her, but she laughed it off, “Nope! No, Shiori. I’m not.”
“Better not,” Inu-Yasha slurred.
Shiori giggled at the hanyou’s drunkenness, and reached into her kimono’s sleeve, “I have a gift for you, Kagome-san, just in case there is any danger on the other side.”
She pulled out a small length of leather with a gemstone hanging from it. Kagome’s eyes widened, “Oh it’s so beautiful!”
The little bat blushed and shyly held the bit of jewelry out. “I didn’t have enough length of leather for a necklace, so it’ll have to be a bracelet. The stone is a small energy barrier, when you don’t feel safe, it’ll surround you.”
Tearfully and completely gratefully, Kagome wrapped her arms around the small girl, “You are the best Shiori!”
“Inu-Yasha, would you mind it terribly if this Sesshou-Maru ran you through with the Tokijin?”
The inu hanyou sniffed slightly, “Nah, s’okay.”
“Hn.”
Kagome looked up in shock. “What?!”
Inu-Yasha laughed, “Heh, Kagome, ya look like a fish.”
Sesshou-Maru looked at her expectantly, “It is time, miko. He is compliant enough.”
She grunted, watching Shiori tie the bracelet around her wrist. “No kidding.”
At Inu-Yasha’s grunt of pain, Kagome turned to see Sesshou-Maru slowly and delicately pulling out the black pearl from the hanyou’s eye. She almost swooned. ‘Well, at least he wasn’t as violent with it this time.’
Nezumi took over after the pearl was completely out, checking over the half demons eye. The little imp, Jaken, strutted forward then, presenting the two headed staff. Sesshou-Maru ignored him to look at her, “Are you ready priestess?”
Taking a deep breath, Kagome willed the nervous feeling from her stomach. She looked at him square in the eye and nodded, “Yes. I’m ready.”
“Good.” He dropped the pearl to the ground, accepted the Staff of Two Head and pierced the tiny pearl.
Instantly, the climate around her changed and she watched as a very familiar portal opened up before her. She took a deep breath again, forcing the butterflies away.
“Priestess.”
She looked to Sesshou-Maru.
“You will be fine.”
Kagome nodded, and stepped through the portal.
~IA~
A.N. Not as long as usual, however, I tried to add the part where Kagome’s in the grave-sight. It just didn’t work like I wanted it to. So, that’s going to be an entire other chapter! Yay! Don’t kill me, really.
Please Regard Me Kindly,
I Agree
Chapter 17: The Potion
“You are such a bastard, you know that right?”
“Technically, brother, you are the bastard. However, I understand the sentiment, and will allow such an insult against my person pass due to the circumstances.”
“Shut up.”
“Hn.”
“Seriously, you’re not helping the situation any, you prick.”
It was possibly the funniest thing Kagome had witnessed in awhile, not since Kirara found that cat nip. That had been funny, seeing the cat demon rubbing herself on the poor unsuspecting plants. Kagome was sure that little feline had been embarrassed when she’d come down from her high.
But a human Inu-Yasha was in his usual ‘I’m irate with you and looking like a puppy while I am’ crouch in his favorite corner of Kaede’s hut and glaring at his older half-brother who was brewing something mighty stink in a small cauldron like a witch (looking amazingly like a witch too). Not only that, but they were verbally fighting like two four-year-old children who liked to repeat the same lines. Add the whole thing together and it made for good entertainment.
It would have been funnier if she didn’t have to go into the Spirit World to retrieve a severed arm. Gross. She didn’t even want to think about touching the most likely decayed thing. Why did Sesshou-Maru want it back anyway? Would it really reattach? Wouldn’t it get septic? Would she stop asking herself questions that she had no idea how to answer? Yes… she believed she would.
She cleared her throat and gestured to the cauldron, “So, uh, when is it going to be done?”
Sesshou-Maru spared her a glance, “Approximately five minutes.”
Nervous jitters settled into her stomach. “Oh.”
A hand settled on her shoulder, and she looked up to see Nezumi. “You’ll be fine, Kagome-san.”
Inu-Yasha snorted, “Yeah, what are you worried about? You’re not the one Sesshou-Maru is poisoning.”
The taiyoukai didn’t even bother looking up. “Indeed.”
Inu-Yasha growled, “I knew it you bastard!”
“Inu-Yasha, be silent. I would not be so womanly as to poison you.”
The hanyou crossed his arms crossly, “Could have fooled me. Hell, I doubt any woman has hair as long or as shiny as yours.”
Long slender fingers ran through the said locks, “Nor the same shade or feel, I would think.”
“Ha! You just admitted to being a woman!”
“I believe all the females I have bedded in the past would beg to differ.”
“No I just think they’d be shocked to hear that they slept with a woman.”
Kagome’s hands flew to her mouth in shock, wide eyes on the most likely dead Inu-Yasha. Oh, she wished Miroku was awake right now. He’d get a good kick out of this. Better yet, he would get to see Inu-Yasha get the crap beat out of him for taunting a very male taiyoukai who didn’t take to insults too well. She could always do a rerun later, but that was completely boring.
Sesshou-Maru looked up, again for only a second, “Careful brother. Were I you, I would not call this Sesshou-Maru a woman. For if I was, it would mean a woman has beaten the hell out of you continuously.”
“Keh, I beat you before!”
“Ah, yes. The first time you defeated this Sesshou-Maru was only through the aid of a human. The second was by a stroke of luck that I blinded you, enabling your sense of smell to strengthen and detect the Wind Scar.”
Inu-Yasha growled, muttering under his breath. Kagome could pick out a few choice words, and a few more that sounded like: “Didn’t need no human to kick your ass,” and “I ain’t that lucky.”
“Hush, Inu-Yasha. You sound like a child. It is very unbecoming of your station and age.”
Sesshou-Maru added another ingredient to the mix that looked like an eyeball. Kagome shuddered, internally glad that she didn’t have to drink the concoction. She had already seen him add in some things that would make the stoutest man vomit, and the odor coming from the cauldron was enough to keep her a good distance away from the brothers.
Shaking her head, Kagome turned to her sister, “Do you think they’ll ever grow up?”
Sango smiled, “Maybe someday.”
Kagome watched wistfully as the taijiya pressed a cool cloth to Miroku’s forehead. It wasn’t necessary (other than that Miroku was getting kinda ripe), but it made Sango feel better so Kagome wouldn’t let anyone tell her to stop her meager care. She thought it was sweet and a testament of Sango’s love; that she would remain by the monk even when he was at his lowest was something special. Something that Kagome only hoped she could live up to one day.
“I think they’ve come a long way though.” Sango said softly.
Both girls looked up to witness Sesshou-Maru calmly holding a bit of jerky just out of Inu-Yasha’s reach, and the hanyou cursing the taiyoukai up and down to give him the meat back.
“Give it back, damnit!”
“Hn.”
“Get your own damn food!”
“Hn.”
“I said give it back! It’s mine!”
“Hn.”
Kagome looked back to Sango, “You know; that’s strangely immature of him.”
The taijiya raised an eyebrow, “For Inu-Yasha or Sesshou-Maru? ‘Cause if you’re talking about Inu-Yasha then you are sadly mistaken.”
“No, Sesshou-Maru’s acting… off.”
Sango shrugged and both girls watched as the taiyoukai in question used his tail to push his younger half-brother away from him, sniffing at the jerky. With a grunt, he tossed the meat to Inu-Yasha and – whether by accident or purposefully – hit the hanyou square in the forehead.
Sango suddenly leaned forward and whispered into her ear, “Maybe he’s affected by the new moon too.”
Kagome frowned, “Hmm, maybe. But I don’t think that his attitude would be influenced.”
“So what do you think it is?”
“Well… maybe he feels bad that Inu-Yasha is human tonight.”
The huntress shrugged, “Maybe he’s just getting soft.”
“Woman.” Sesshou-Maru’s annoyed tone made them jump, “before you decide to accuse this Sesshou-Maru of becoming soft, I urge you to get out of my hearing range.”
Sango laughed nervously, “Heh, yes, Sesshou-Maru-sama. I’ll keep that in mind.”
The Western Lord nodded curtly, and stood from the cauldron. “It is time, then.”
The bottom dropped from Kagome’s stomach, “O-oh. Really?”
He spared her only a glance before filling one of her salvaged water bottles with the dark rather goopy concoction and held it out to Inu-Yasha. “It will take effect almost immediately.”
Inu-Yasha made a face, taking the bottle, “What does it taste like?”
“I’ve been told it tastes like rancid tiger meat.”
“Ugh.”
Kagome watched as her friend glared at the potion with obvious detest on his face, holding it away from himself like it was poison. She sighed and stood with the help of her cane, limping over to the currently human hanyou. She placed a gentle hand on his head reassuringly, “Inu, you don’t have to do this, you know.”
He grimaced, “Yeah, I do.”
With a long suffering sigh, Inu-Yasha plugged his nose and took a swig from the bottle. He gagged on the liquid, but forced it down, tossing the bottle back to Sesshou-Maru. The taiyoukai caught it deftly, throwing it into the fire for disposal.
“That tasted like shit.” Inu-Yasha groaned.
“Hn. You should begin to feel the effects soon enough.”
“Yeah, yeah. The world spinnin’ and all that. Just hold your pants on.” He passed a hand over his face. “Uh… what effects are we talking about?”
“I believe the side effects are slight numbness of the entire body, light-headedness, and a general feeling of not caring about anything.” Sesshou-Maru sniffed indignantly, “Though that last aspect shouldn’t change too much in you.”
“Feh.”
Kagome sighed nervously, wondering if she was allowed to change her mind now. Sure, Inu-Yasha would be pissed that he had to drink that potion, and Sesshou-Maru would get the Tetsuseiga… but then she would have to go to that scary place again. Sure she had been all gung-ho about going in the first time, but then she’d been pissed with the taiyoukai for several things. The main being messing with Inu-Yasha’s perception of his mother.
“Having second thoughts, Kagome-san?”
The soft voice startled her, but she laughed it off, “Nope! No, Shiori. I’m not.”
“Better not,” Inu-Yasha slurred.
Shiori giggled at the hanyou’s drunkenness, and reached into her kimono’s sleeve, “I have a gift for you, Kagome-san, just in case there is any danger on the other side.”
She pulled out a small length of leather with a gemstone hanging from it. Kagome’s eyes widened, “Oh it’s so beautiful!”
The little bat blushed and shyly held the bit of jewelry out. “I didn’t have enough length of leather for a necklace, so it’ll have to be a bracelet. The stone is a small energy barrier, when you don’t feel safe, it’ll surround you.”
Tearfully and completely gratefully, Kagome wrapped her arms around the small girl, “You are the best Shiori!”
“Inu-Yasha, would you mind it terribly if this Sesshou-Maru ran you through with the Tokijin?”
The inu hanyou sniffed slightly, “Nah, s’okay.”
“Hn.”
Kagome looked up in shock. “What?!”
Inu-Yasha laughed, “Heh, Kagome, ya look like a fish.”
Sesshou-Maru looked at her expectantly, “It is time, miko. He is compliant enough.”
She grunted, watching Shiori tie the bracelet around her wrist. “No kidding.”
At Inu-Yasha’s grunt of pain, Kagome turned to see Sesshou-Maru slowly and delicately pulling out the black pearl from the hanyou’s eye. She almost swooned. ‘Well, at least he wasn’t as violent with it this time.’
Nezumi took over after the pearl was completely out, checking over the half demons eye. The little imp, Jaken, strutted forward then, presenting the two headed staff. Sesshou-Maru ignored him to look at her, “Are you ready priestess?”
Taking a deep breath, Kagome willed the nervous feeling from her stomach. She looked at him square in the eye and nodded, “Yes. I’m ready.”
“Good.” He dropped the pearl to the ground, accepted the Staff of Two Head and pierced the tiny pearl.
Instantly, the climate around her changed and she watched as a very familiar portal opened up before her. She took a deep breath again, forcing the butterflies away.
“Priestess.”
She looked to Sesshou-Maru.
“You will be fine.”
Kagome nodded, and stepped through the portal.
~IA~
A.N. Not as long as usual, however, I tried to add the part where Kagome’s in the grave-sight. It just didn’t work like I wanted it to. So, that’s going to be an entire other chapter! Yay! Don’t kill me, really.
Please Regard Me Kindly,
I Agree