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Chapter Eleven
Unexpected
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Chapter Twelve
Stepping out from the bushes, was Sesshomaru, claws green with his poison as he glared at Inu Yasha with looks that would gladly kill if possible. "Hello dear brother," he said as everyone but Takara stood, standing infront of Takara. "I see you still have what's mine. I think it's time I took her back to where she belongs now."
Sango grabbed Takara & started running away with her, but Takara pulled away from her, knocking her to the ground where her head truck a tree root & knocked her out. Takara ran back to the group, accidently running into Kagome. Neither fell. "Why is he here? How did he find us?" she whispered to Kagome.
"He came here for you. He wants to take you with him, back to his castle," Kagome answered, not taking her eyes off of Sesshomaru. "I'm guessing he had Jaken stalk us."
Their conversation was cut short by Inu Yasha being thrown into Kagome, who had been infront of Miroku, which meant Inu Yasha, Miroku, & Kagome were on the ground in a small pile. Takara looked at Sesshomaru & quickly grabbed the bow & arrow Kagome had dropped in her fall. She put the arrow in it's place & aimed at Sesshomaru, pulling back on the string.
Sesshomaru was ready to use his Dokkasou on the fallen threesome when he noticed Takara aiming the arrow at him, the bow string groaning slightly. He stopped the attack & stared at her, his eyes showing what looked like a hint of hurt, but it was quickly gone as he moved to her. "Let's go."
"I'm not going anywhere with you!" Takara snapped, aiming the arrow at his chest or neck region, she couldn't tell through her fear-blurred vision.
"And why not?"
"I'm not going back to be a place where I'm going to be beaten... You killed my friends, my family, my home... I hate you Sesshomaru."
Her words rung in his ears. 'I hate you'...? What have I done for her to hate me? I have done nothing she's accused me of, he thought to himself as he moved closer to her. "Takara, you are coming with me."
"No I'm not!"
Sesshomaru's eyes grew slightly wider as he brought his hand to his chest where an arrow was now embedded almost to it's feathers. She... shot me... I was so concentrated on her face I wasn't watching when she let the arrow go... Why does she hate me so? Sesshomaru pulled the arrow from his chest & let it drop to the ground as his eyes rose to meet Takara's. She already had another arrow ready.
"I hate you Sesshomaru. Leave or the next one will be to your cold heart!"
Sesshomaru looked at his brother, Kagome, & Miroku, who were now standing, staring at him. He looked back to Takara who was ready to let go of the next arrow & sighed inwardly. "I leave this time only. The next time, you will come back with me," he said as he turned & left, everyone watching after him until he was gone.
Kagome looked teary-eyed when Takara looked at her & she got confused. Why is she upset? She must be scared... she thought to herself as she took the arrow from the bow & handed them back to Kagome. "You dropped these... I hope you don't mind that I used one."
"No, not at all," Kagome shook her head as she replied. "Thank you for getting him to leave. I don't know how you did it either. It's not like him to give up these easily." Then again, he must have been hurt when she said she hated him... The poor guy. Wait, why do I feel sorry for Sesshomaru? He's the bad guy here!
"Where is he? Where's Sesshomaru?? Sango asked, coming out of the bushes, rubbing her head where her head had landed on the tree root.
"Takara told him to leave & he did," Shippo, who had been hiding behind some of the bushes, said as he emerged from the green shrubbery.
"He just...left?"
"Yeah. Then said he'd be back for her some other time. Weird huh?"
"Very."
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That night Miroku pulled his normal stunt to get them a place to stay at for the night, maybe a little bit longer. After the feast given to them by the head of the small village they'd stumbled across, the now very fulfilled group made their way to their staying areas. Miroku & Takara shared a hut with Shippo, but he decided to sleep outside incase. If things got too bad, he'd come inside. Inu Yasha & Kagome were sharing a hut with Sango, who shared the bed with Kagome, meaning Inu Yasha ended up asleep on the floor.
Even though she had a roof over her head & people in the neighboring huts & someone with her at the moment, she still felt a little uneasy about being in someone's village that she had never met until tonight. She shivered from her lack of clothes in the cold air inside the hut that had been let in from the outside when Miroku came in last. She would have her clothes to sleep in, but Shippo had gotten sick on her after eating some cooking of Inu Yasha's so they had to give her clothes to a few of the villagers to go wash by the river since she didn't want to wash her clothes in the nude.
Miroku looked over at her when she shivered. "Takara, are you cold?" he asked, turning onto his side so he was facing her even though she was laying on her back.
Takara nodded & shivered again, the blanket doing very little for her since it was basically a sheet with how thin it was. "A little over too cold," she replied.
"Perhaps we should trying keeping each other warm?"
"How do we do that if the blanket is hardly working?"
Miroku answered by leaning over her & pressing his lips to hers in a light kiss, his eyes closing as her own did. He brushed a few stray hairs from her face, slightly paled by the cold. He broke the kiss & opened his eyes to look at her, seeing if she'd want him to continue.
She opened her eyes & looked at the monk who'd just kissed her the way that she could have sworn someone had once before, but right now, all her mind could think of, was the heat in his kiss that left her yearning for more.
"Do you want me to continue Takara?" he asked, his eyes clouded.
We are lovers... Takara thought as she nodded. "Please do, Miroku.." she begged quietly before his lips came crashing down on hers once more.