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Illusions
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Chapter 13 : Illusions
It was an act of pure frustration. Sango and Kilala had followed many trails and tracked many a criminal in the past. Never had they come across such a case. It was not the lack of information that frustrated them, it was the abundance or more accurately the over abundance of it. There were those that swore the being in the forest was a demon, others that it was a Seraph, and more that it was a human. Kilala's personal favorite was that it was a Were monster that was bitten by a Seraph and thus gotten more intelligent.
Everyone had a pet theory and it seemed that in the past year it was the local pass time to speculate and create stories about the being in the Emerald Forest. When they got the 27th sworn account of how the being looked, that was totally unlike all the other accounts, Kilala was entertained by the sight of her sister studiously banging her head on the table.
After 9 days the two got together and gathered the common elements in the stories, lets see;
first the creature lived in the Emerald Forest, secondly it was male, thirdly... both heads hit the table. That was it. There was no thirdly. There was other consensus, some swearing it was a midget, others that it was 10 feet tall. Another favorite of both sisters was a tale by a few kids that the monster had not one but two heads, one head with white hair and the other with red hair, Oh yes, with a tail growing from its neck. Sigh!
Seriously, some of the accounts made the two cat demons question their second assumption. Some folk swore it was evil, some swore it was good. Some said it only saved them so that it could eat them later, others said that it saved them and was the soul of courtesy, going as far as escorting them home. Seriously a being with that many mood swings – had to be a changeling and a FEMALE one at that.
Still they had a few more days; so they would persevere. The best lead they had was that there were two fox demon brothers who visited the village monthly. Though they never claimed to have run-ins with the being, the fact that they lived in the forest meant they must know something. At least the two demons hoped so, giving this sketchy information to their Lord was not something they looked forward to. While waiting they talked to more and more folk, and drowned in the contradictory information they received.
Finally on the day before they were to return to the Lord's fort, the two red-headed fox brothers strolled causally into the village. The younger one was immediately the center of attention, the older fox demon strolled after his little brother carrying the bags of good for trade. The two cat demons watched as the younger fox did all the negotiating and talking, the older one all the lugging and carrying. Once the trading was complete, someone mentioned casually that some of the males were repairing a wall of a house that had been damaged by lighting. The two foxes placed their goods beside the well, the younger fox immediately was hauled off by other children to play.
The curious cats followed the older one who without a word went to the house the people were working on and helped out. The fox said less then ten words to the villages, but worked with amazing strength and competence. None of the villages tried to engage him in unnecessary conversation, only speaking about the work. When it was done, the fox nodded at the smiling villages, waved off their thanks and walked off.
The cats still trailed behind the fox, he turned a narrow corner, they followed. Only the fox had disappeared. The looked around in consternation, then sensing something behind them, frooze, both faces heating up in embarrassment.
“He's behind us, isn't he Kilala?” Sango said in a sheepish voice.
“I believe so, there goes our record.” her twin answered whirly, “Shall we run or turn?”
“Turn! On three!” Sango was still hoping she was wrong, “One! Two! Thrreeeee! Hello Fox-san!” Sango said with a bright fake smile.
The fox was leaning against the wall of the hut, his arms crossed, watching them. He raised a brow, but was silent.
“I am Sango, this my sister Kilala.” Sango said expectantly. When her greeting was met with silence she said “It is impolite not to introduce yourself!”
“I believe it is more impolite to stare and follow a person.” Came the cool answer. When the two said nothing, the fox shrugged, turned and walked off.
The two quickly followed. “Look we are sorry, please we were rude forgive us, but we are cats, that means we are naturally curious. We would like to have some information, just get some answers, please just hear us out.” Sango said as quickly as she could.
The fox suddenly stopped, forcing the two to brake abruptly. He turned to look at the two of them, then seeing to come to a decision he turned to Kilala. “What do you want?” He asked her softly.
“Information.” Kilala said shortly. Sango's jaw dropped, the fox had made it clear that she was had been too long winded without a word. “Well, be that way then.” She pouted. Kilala smiled in amusement, the fox's face was neutral. He waited for her to continue.
“We would like to know about the being in the Emerald Forest!” she continued.
The fox seemed to roll his eyes for a second as if to say not that nonsense, then replied “Never met em.” and turned and continued to walk off.
Sango having seen a strange nobility in the fox, quickly called out, “Please our Master requested the information, please give us some or we may be in trouble. We just want information.”
There was a ring of truth to Sango's words, the fox paused a strange look on his face. He could win prizes for keeping silent on some issues, but Inuyasha knew he was a bad liar. His large eyes giving away his emotions, when he spoke. Which was why he rarely spoke while in disguise.
He sighed softly. “Talk to Shippo.” He said and led the demon ladies to his brother, he gestured for the kit to handle them, sat by the well and listened; with silent amusement to Shippo's practiced convoluted tale. The boys had come up with it together and they were rather proud of it.
Shippo basically said that he thought there were so many stories because it may be possible that the being was not one but many beings. Maybe there was a cult in the forest or maybe it was an initiation right to save people or something. There were many buts, ifs and maybes in Shippo's story, but he succeeded in verbally confusing the two and finished by saying it was all here-say and he was pretty sure that there was no cult like that in the forest. So he really did not know.
Two rather confused cats were left sitting by the well as the brothers left. Shippo cheerfully waving at them, his brother smiling shyly just nodded. As the two left, the man who's house had been repaired ran up and pressed a small bundle of cloth into Shippo's hands, who thanked him warmly. His brother was uncomfortable and flustered, his look somehow saying he'd love to take the cloth from Shippo and return it to the villager. Both the villager and the younger brother studiously ignored the flustered older fox, who shook his head and stalked off.
The cats continued to watch the two, as demons of reasonable power their eyes were much sharper then the average demons in the village. Just as the two foxes entered the shade of the forest, the younger one jumped up and sat comfortably on the older one's shoulder. Then the two melted into the forest. Try as they might the cats could not track them from this distance.
“Did you understand that what the kit said?” Sango asked.
“No, not a word, that was the least helpful explanation of all.” Kilala replied calmly.
“Hmm.. but for a jumbled and almost incoherent explanation..it was rather..” Sango barely paused and Kilala finished her sentence “Practiced.”
The two looked at each other, and in perfect accord turned to the villager.
“Excuse me, what is the older fox's name?” Sango asked.
The villager scratched his head. “Hmm, that ones is a quiet one, very helpful for a young-un, but says little. Wonder what he saves them words for. Aaaaa anyways that be Shippo's big brother.” The man replied.
“Yes but what is his name?” Sango persisted.
“Wells.. my pretty cat, I don't rightly recall at this time. Aaaaa.. strange that, I knows him for two years, buts I canna recall. The young-uns mays remember. Good days then.” The villager said pleasantly and shuffled off.
They asked around but not a single soul knew the older foxes name.
The two made the trek back to the fort, both in deep thought.
“A fox demon could cause illusions to account for the many stories we hear.” Sango finally said to her twin.
“Yes, but a fox demon has not the strength to do, even half the deeds that is credited to the being of the Emerald Gold Forest.” her sister replied.
“Maybe the story the kit said is the truth, there are a group of them living in the forest, they do the good deeds and fox magic hides them.” Sango speculated.
“Logical, but somehow something tells me that it is one being...” Kilala paused considering “..and those two know more then they are saying. The older one especially.”
“Yes, that is the third thing that we agree on, that is what we will tell out Lord. I think out forth consensus we best keep to ourselves.” Sango said with a rather sly look at her sister.
“That who-ever the being is, he is rather impressive? Yes we shall not say it, but do you really think the Lord will not see that we were impressed?” Kilala asked with resignation, Lord Sesshoumaru was at times too brilliant for all of them.
***
The Lord did indeed see that they were impressed. And for two of his best people to return with no real information was even more intriguing. In his almost 200 years, he had never been this tantalized by a mystery. Hmn yes, it seemed that it was time for a boarder inspection. The mystery had better not disappoint, for the Lord to go to the forest was not a simple thing. As part of the treaty between their people, was when a Demon Lord or a High Seraph entered the forest, the other side had to be informed. As part of an irritating custom that had formed, a boarder inspection would also be carried out by the other side. Seriously if they sent that irritant, and the mystery turned out to be nothing special, the Lord would have the 'being' hung and quartered for the inconvenience.
--tbc--
Voting results so far... If you wanna change cote fast – I update – daily almost. Tmrw working late so MAY miss.. Thanks Princess Sin, LadyKaa28, pixy& Fluffy's green comb for voting.
Inu's mom
Alive 1
About to die 1
Dead 2
Inu's dad
Alive 3
Dead 0
Inu is a child of Rape
YES 1
No 3
Powerful Sesshy rival (Which I have hinted at- above)
Kouga 3
Miroku 0
Both 1
Chapter 13 : Illusions
It was an act of pure frustration. Sango and Kilala had followed many trails and tracked many a criminal in the past. Never had they come across such a case. It was not the lack of information that frustrated them, it was the abundance or more accurately the over abundance of it. There were those that swore the being in the forest was a demon, others that it was a Seraph, and more that it was a human. Kilala's personal favorite was that it was a Were monster that was bitten by a Seraph and thus gotten more intelligent.
Everyone had a pet theory and it seemed that in the past year it was the local pass time to speculate and create stories about the being in the Emerald Forest. When they got the 27th sworn account of how the being looked, that was totally unlike all the other accounts, Kilala was entertained by the sight of her sister studiously banging her head on the table.
After 9 days the two got together and gathered the common elements in the stories, lets see;
first the creature lived in the Emerald Forest, secondly it was male, thirdly... both heads hit the table. That was it. There was no thirdly. There was other consensus, some swearing it was a midget, others that it was 10 feet tall. Another favorite of both sisters was a tale by a few kids that the monster had not one but two heads, one head with white hair and the other with red hair, Oh yes, with a tail growing from its neck. Sigh!
Seriously, some of the accounts made the two cat demons question their second assumption. Some folk swore it was evil, some swore it was good. Some said it only saved them so that it could eat them later, others said that it saved them and was the soul of courtesy, going as far as escorting them home. Seriously a being with that many mood swings – had to be a changeling and a FEMALE one at that.
Still they had a few more days; so they would persevere. The best lead they had was that there were two fox demon brothers who visited the village monthly. Though they never claimed to have run-ins with the being, the fact that they lived in the forest meant they must know something. At least the two demons hoped so, giving this sketchy information to their Lord was not something they looked forward to. While waiting they talked to more and more folk, and drowned in the contradictory information they received.
Finally on the day before they were to return to the Lord's fort, the two red-headed fox brothers strolled causally into the village. The younger one was immediately the center of attention, the older fox demon strolled after his little brother carrying the bags of good for trade. The two cat demons watched as the younger fox did all the negotiating and talking, the older one all the lugging and carrying. Once the trading was complete, someone mentioned casually that some of the males were repairing a wall of a house that had been damaged by lighting. The two foxes placed their goods beside the well, the younger fox immediately was hauled off by other children to play.
The curious cats followed the older one who without a word went to the house the people were working on and helped out. The fox said less then ten words to the villages, but worked with amazing strength and competence. None of the villages tried to engage him in unnecessary conversation, only speaking about the work. When it was done, the fox nodded at the smiling villages, waved off their thanks and walked off.
The cats still trailed behind the fox, he turned a narrow corner, they followed. Only the fox had disappeared. The looked around in consternation, then sensing something behind them, frooze, both faces heating up in embarrassment.
“He's behind us, isn't he Kilala?” Sango said in a sheepish voice.
“I believe so, there goes our record.” her twin answered whirly, “Shall we run or turn?”
“Turn! On three!” Sango was still hoping she was wrong, “One! Two! Thrreeeee! Hello Fox-san!” Sango said with a bright fake smile.
The fox was leaning against the wall of the hut, his arms crossed, watching them. He raised a brow, but was silent.
“I am Sango, this my sister Kilala.” Sango said expectantly. When her greeting was met with silence she said “It is impolite not to introduce yourself!”
“I believe it is more impolite to stare and follow a person.” Came the cool answer. When the two said nothing, the fox shrugged, turned and walked off.
The two quickly followed. “Look we are sorry, please we were rude forgive us, but we are cats, that means we are naturally curious. We would like to have some information, just get some answers, please just hear us out.” Sango said as quickly as she could.
The fox suddenly stopped, forcing the two to brake abruptly. He turned to look at the two of them, then seeing to come to a decision he turned to Kilala. “What do you want?” He asked her softly.
“Information.” Kilala said shortly. Sango's jaw dropped, the fox had made it clear that she was had been too long winded without a word. “Well, be that way then.” She pouted. Kilala smiled in amusement, the fox's face was neutral. He waited for her to continue.
“We would like to know about the being in the Emerald Forest!” she continued.
The fox seemed to roll his eyes for a second as if to say not that nonsense, then replied “Never met em.” and turned and continued to walk off.
Sango having seen a strange nobility in the fox, quickly called out, “Please our Master requested the information, please give us some or we may be in trouble. We just want information.”
There was a ring of truth to Sango's words, the fox paused a strange look on his face. He could win prizes for keeping silent on some issues, but Inuyasha knew he was a bad liar. His large eyes giving away his emotions, when he spoke. Which was why he rarely spoke while in disguise.
He sighed softly. “Talk to Shippo.” He said and led the demon ladies to his brother, he gestured for the kit to handle them, sat by the well and listened; with silent amusement to Shippo's practiced convoluted tale. The boys had come up with it together and they were rather proud of it.
Shippo basically said that he thought there were so many stories because it may be possible that the being was not one but many beings. Maybe there was a cult in the forest or maybe it was an initiation right to save people or something. There were many buts, ifs and maybes in Shippo's story, but he succeeded in verbally confusing the two and finished by saying it was all here-say and he was pretty sure that there was no cult like that in the forest. So he really did not know.
Two rather confused cats were left sitting by the well as the brothers left. Shippo cheerfully waving at them, his brother smiling shyly just nodded. As the two left, the man who's house had been repaired ran up and pressed a small bundle of cloth into Shippo's hands, who thanked him warmly. His brother was uncomfortable and flustered, his look somehow saying he'd love to take the cloth from Shippo and return it to the villager. Both the villager and the younger brother studiously ignored the flustered older fox, who shook his head and stalked off.
The cats continued to watch the two, as demons of reasonable power their eyes were much sharper then the average demons in the village. Just as the two foxes entered the shade of the forest, the younger one jumped up and sat comfortably on the older one's shoulder. Then the two melted into the forest. Try as they might the cats could not track them from this distance.
“Did you understand that what the kit said?” Sango asked.
“No, not a word, that was the least helpful explanation of all.” Kilala replied calmly.
“Hmm.. but for a jumbled and almost incoherent explanation..it was rather..” Sango barely paused and Kilala finished her sentence “Practiced.”
The two looked at each other, and in perfect accord turned to the villager.
“Excuse me, what is the older fox's name?” Sango asked.
The villager scratched his head. “Hmm, that ones is a quiet one, very helpful for a young-un, but says little. Wonder what he saves them words for. Aaaaa anyways that be Shippo's big brother.” The man replied.
“Yes but what is his name?” Sango persisted.
“Wells.. my pretty cat, I don't rightly recall at this time. Aaaaa.. strange that, I knows him for two years, buts I canna recall. The young-uns mays remember. Good days then.” The villager said pleasantly and shuffled off.
They asked around but not a single soul knew the older foxes name.
The two made the trek back to the fort, both in deep thought.
“A fox demon could cause illusions to account for the many stories we hear.” Sango finally said to her twin.
“Yes, but a fox demon has not the strength to do, even half the deeds that is credited to the being of the Emerald Gold Forest.” her sister replied.
“Maybe the story the kit said is the truth, there are a group of them living in the forest, they do the good deeds and fox magic hides them.” Sango speculated.
“Logical, but somehow something tells me that it is one being...” Kilala paused considering “..and those two know more then they are saying. The older one especially.”
“Yes, that is the third thing that we agree on, that is what we will tell out Lord. I think out forth consensus we best keep to ourselves.” Sango said with a rather sly look at her sister.
“That who-ever the being is, he is rather impressive? Yes we shall not say it, but do you really think the Lord will not see that we were impressed?” Kilala asked with resignation, Lord Sesshoumaru was at times too brilliant for all of them.
***
The Lord did indeed see that they were impressed. And for two of his best people to return with no real information was even more intriguing. In his almost 200 years, he had never been this tantalized by a mystery. Hmn yes, it seemed that it was time for a boarder inspection. The mystery had better not disappoint, for the Lord to go to the forest was not a simple thing. As part of the treaty between their people, was when a Demon Lord or a High Seraph entered the forest, the other side had to be informed. As part of an irritating custom that had formed, a boarder inspection would also be carried out by the other side. Seriously if they sent that irritant, and the mystery turned out to be nothing special, the Lord would have the 'being' hung and quartered for the inconvenience.
--tbc--
Voting results so far... If you wanna change cote fast – I update – daily almost. Tmrw working late so MAY miss.. Thanks Princess Sin, LadyKaa28, pixy& Fluffy's green comb for voting.
Inu's mom
Alive 1
About to die 1
Dead 2
Inu's dad
Alive 3
Dead 0
Inu is a child of Rape
YES 1
No 3
Powerful Sesshy rival (Which I have hinted at- above)
Kouga 3
Miroku 0
Both 1