Roses and Thorns

From me to you…so, was the newly edited version of chapter one a little teeny bit better?  Let’s see how things go this round…



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Kagome woke up to a gentle touch of sunshine caressing her face, whispering for her to rise out of reverie. She lifted one eye open, to look for a certain hanyou, and when she didn’t see him, she opened the other. Miroku and Sango who were once again in deep conversation, didn’t notice. Shippou however, did, and leaped into the arms of the woman he considered as a mother to wish her good morning.



“Good morning Kagome-sama!  We let you sleep a little bit longer today.” said the cheerful little kitsune.



“Hmph, good morning my little Shippou.  Arigato, I think my muscles needed the extra rest.” She hugged him to her tightly then looked around, awaiting the expected barrage of cursing from Inuyasha, from her getting up so much later than usual. ‘Where is he?’



“Miroku, Sango, has Inuyasha come back yet?”



“No, Kagome. Not since he left last night, after, you know…the fight.” piped up Miroku.



“It’s not like him to be gone all night.  Even when he finds Kikyo.”



“Agreed, I wonder where he could’ve gotten himself to this time.” said the demon slayer.



“You don’t think he’s still mad…do you?” asked Kagome.



They all sat considering the possibilities, which were endless knowing Inuyasha. After a time, the kitsune was the first to speak up. “Why don’t we just wait here until lunch time for him? I’m sure when his stomach gets to rumbling, he will come running for Kagome’s ramen.”



“That, sounds like a marvelous idea. We’ve been traveling hard for these past two weeks. Why not take an extra day while Inuyasha gallivants around? So be it if he gets angry. He deserves it for leaving us here.” Kagome was satisfied with their collective decision.





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Meanwhile…

 

Inuyasha, stuffed to the brim, woke up drooling, on a cold hard floor. ‘Ah. What a great feast that was. Maybe I should’ve brought Kagome and the others here. Nah. After that kind of a fight why would any of them want anything to do with me?’ He looked around at his surroundings. ‘This looks familiar, but I can’t seem to remember from where.’ He wiped the drying crusty line of drool from his mouth, and continued to get up, not even noticing that he was being watched by two sets of eyes.



‘I think I’ll grab a few of those roses from the castle walls outside to give to Kagome when I get back, that should get me back in her good graces if she doesn’t sit me first’ And off he went through a large set of wooden double doors out of what seemed to resemble a dining room with a silly grin on his face.







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Beyond the castle doors was the owner, coming home from patrolling his lands. Beautiful as one could imagine any male youkai to be. With long silky smooth silver hair, eyes a shade of tawny gold, and lips full, tinged with a whispering touch of pink. His demon sensitive ears and nose picked up a certain hanyou coming towards him from inside his home, and he slowly, but increasingly became enraged at the thought of THAT hanyou being inside his home.

‘How did he get in? And why would he enter this Sesshoumaru’s premises?’ These questions as well as others kept rolling around in his mind. He then reached the near limits of his anger, and unfortunately for the hanyou, transformed into his full demon self.







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Inuyasha was already outside the castle doors picking out different blooms of roses to bring Kagome, when a very familiar familial stench hit his nostrils. ‘I don’t remember sensing him around earlier.’ As the stench became stronger, he whipped around only to see a very up front face of a dog demon lurching at him. Only seconds faster than his brother, Sesshoumaru caught his half brother in his vise like jaws, and took off for the dungeons. Inuyasha’s last thought before his brother tossed him into a dark, dank cell and slipping into unconsciousness was Kagome. ‘I’ve got to get out of here before she goes wandering into the woods looking for me and gets caught by that bastard as well. It wouldn’t do us any good both of us being in here.’







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Sesshoumaru didn’t hesitate to throw his brother into a cell. After all, he may hate him, but he was family, and he was obligated to keep his “family” alive and seemingly well as promised to his father. No matter how much he wanted to kill him. Besides, he liked that when word of his actions got out, the village people would call him a beast. ‘A beast, yes, I think I rather like that.’







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Things are rolling along…edits are here and there.  Going on vacation soon so I may not update for about a week or so.  Thanks to all those who have kept following my stories.  They’ll get fixed and better as we go along.  Review my pretties! 

~Much Love~

Faerie Demoness