Glossary
Chapter IV: The look in your eyes
Her eyes held no emotion but pure
hatred. ‘The girl has courage… Yet, no such being as her can remain wild like this.
Stupid and disgusting humans.’ He thought. "I guess it would help, woman.
Now, tell me, what, are you?" He asked, as cold as ever.
Just then, the wind started blowing
and the sky became gray. The trees were rustling and the animals franticly
searching for a shelter. After a few moments, the water started to pour again
from the sky, heavy and fast. Both the taiyoukai’s and the miko’s clothes were
already soaked wet, but neither cared. They were intently staring at each other
with unspoken rage. Yet there was a big difference between the two. One was
cold and wore a bored expression, the other’s eyes were blazing with emotions
and it looked like she wanted to kill the youkai before her.
"What?" Was all Kagome
could say. She was human couldn’t he tell? That took her a bit off guard and
her anger eased a little. She began thinking straight again. Finally realizing
her position Kagome noted it was quite dangerous. All through this reasoning
her eyes had never left the Lord’s and hadn’t changed back to the normal color
in the slightest although she had regained some lucidity. The young miko could
feel something different inside her. It felt a lot like her miko powers but a
little different; she had never felt like that. It was comforting and it seemed
to lull her.
In that moment a thunder illuminated
the gray sky and the two were still standing a few meters from each other. Yet
they couldn’t stay like that forever. "I asked you a question girl. What
and who are you." The Taiyoukai was getting a bit on the edge now; she was
hiding something from him; and no one dared to keep something from him when he
wanted to know. Most importantly if they were trespassing lands.
He was getting her so angry, oh so
angry; and that wasn’t a good thing. "First. My name is Kagome, Higurashi
Kagome, make sure you use it. I’m not called wench, woman, miko and all those
nicknames you seem to like so much. Second. I don’t know what the heck you’re
talking about. I AM human, both my parents were and I guess I look pretty human
too don’t I?" She said with an edgy and sarcastic kind of voice. She was
actually getting really pissed now, first he comes, follows her like a serial
killer, then he insinuates, she, hurt Rin, and then, he asks a stupid question
such as this? Oh no, the guy was getting it all wrong. ‘Yet, I think you could
very well define him a serial killer…’she thought.
"Miko, I think you don’t
realize your current position. I won’t lower myself as to call you by name, nor
will this Sesshoumaru believe you. Right now, there is little human in you;
both in looks and ki." How he hated humans. All slow at comprehending.
Couldn’t she at least, feel, something different from humanity in her right
now? He didn’t give her credit as to be able of such, but it would’ve saved him
some time.
Kagome was really, really mad now;
and many people knew, an angry Kagome meant pain for whoever was in her way in
that same moment. Letting go of her good manners and gentleness she completely
freaked out. "Listen to me, you obnoxious serial killer. I don’t give a
fuck about what you say! I’ve had a really bad time lately! Not to mention
healing Rin got me sleepy for using my miko powers! I couldn’t give a damn if
you say I’m not human! You’re probably not sane anymore. Well, actually, great
deal, I always though you were insane on a certain level. So, would you,
please, just tell me what the heck you want and leave me alone!" She had
put all her anger, frustration and sadness into this. She had shouted as hard
as she could to get it into his head that she wasn’t in the mood for his
mind-twisting freakin’ games.
The girl had courage. This wasn’t
anything about Rin anymore. A growl came at his throat and he didn’t stop it.
His eyes turned deep crimson and his once emotionless mask broke for the first
time. "You, I don’t think you know whom you’re speaking to. Don’t think
you can talk that way to me. I could easily kill you here and now. Not counting
you are an intruder in my Lands, that adds another inch to your already painful
and imminent death."
He thought he could just go all
ballistic, threat her and expect her no to react. Oh how wrong he was, if there
was something about her people didn’t know, it was that while her patience was
short, her temper was even worse. "Yeah, dog boy, come here. Kill me, but
remember, you have to hit me before."
Kagome grabbed her bow and stood her
ground, she felt, more secure of her miko powers now, somehow, she knew that
storms were in a way helpful. Just then a thunder passed by, yet it didn’t
break down distant, it went directly for the young priestess. It surrounded her
figure for a moment and when it disappeared, Kagome had an arrow notched in her
bow, electricity flowing freely around and in it. She didn’t know how she had
managed, but it had felt so normal, as if she had done it many times before.
Leaving all reasoning behind she looked him in the eye and aimed directly for
the Lord’s heart.
Sesshoumaru had never seen such a
thing before. It was just beyond simple miko powers, the only being whom he had
seen displaying something similar, was Hiten, the elder of the thunder
brothers; but he was a youkai of that element, a human wasn’t. "Looks like
you really do desire to die girl."
Her eyes flashing even lighter she
let the arrow fly free. It sizzled and spark with yellowish light and
electricity, leaving something very akin to a tail behind, burning the ground
as it passed. Sesshoumaru dodged, but couldn’t stop the arrow from piercing his
left shoulder. The demon lord of the Western Lands was now furious. Not only
did the girl talk disrespectfully to him; she even had the courage to hit him.
This wasn’t a parental or political matter anymore; it was simply personal. No
one, especially a low human dared to challenge Sesshoumaru.
Though he would never admit it, the arrow
hurt, and quite a bit. Electricity and purifying powers combined weren’t very
pleasant for any living in a wound along with an arrow. It was burning his
flesh, attacking his youki, shortening his already worn out patience. Not
waiting a moment more, he spun forwards, claws in aiming for her neck.
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