Reverberations (Kakashi x OC, Gaara x OC) -- Book 3

Chapter 9: Feudal Fairytail

Notes:

EXPLICIT WARNING

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They both lifted her up off the floor on the other side and looked around the cave. Behind them the portal stood dark and empty. The same writing surrounded it as the one in the cave in the Sand Village. Books sat scattered on the ground near a shelf.

"Why?" asked Keiko painfully.

"You know we're not going to just abandon you," Gaara said as he wrapped his arm around her. Keiko's expression softened for a fleeting moment before contorting back into an emotionless glare.

"Where are we?" asked Kakashi.

"My home world. I seem to recall you wanted to come for a visit. It may not be a pleasant one," she said icily as she let go of Gaara. Keiko stalked toward to the entrance of the cave leaving them stopped in her wake.

They followed behind her and looked to the sky. Dragons...or something that looked like dragons swam through the sky like giant sea serpents. They roared in the distance. Gaara and Kakashi looked on with astonishment.

"I warned you, demons walk this world in droves," she said coldly.

"Inuyasha!" They heard a voice yell from somewhere in the woods beyond the clearing. "What are you doing?"

"I smell something over this way," he yelled back.

"Well don't just run off!" the other voice yelled.

Geez, they were never quiet. It was amazing that she never did find the wishing well with the way those two crashed through the woods. She smelled another scent as well. Keiko grinned wickedly. Looked like she was going to get her family reunion after all.

"I've been looking for you," said Sesshomaru as he descended.

Keiko had been expecting that. Sesshoumaru had been after her birthright ever since he began hunting down demon swords. "Why might that be?" She asked cooly.

"Aside from the fact that I intend to claim that sword of yours, my mother wants to see you," he said bereft of emotion. His lips turned up into a grin. He suddenly appeared at Keiko's side and wrapped a clawed finger around her neck, leaving a scratch. A drop of blood slowly trickled from beneath his hold and down her neck. Gaara and Kakashi were already preparing to defend, but Keiko waved them down with her hand.

"And then perhaps before I slit your throat, you will show me how you've been able to conceal yourself from me for so long," said Sesshomaru.

"Oh Sesshomaru, always so melodramatic. I've grown while I've been away. You couldn't hope to get any closer to me than I let you," she snarled into his face, their noses nearly touching.

Inuyasha sprang from the bushes, sitting with his knuckles to the ground. "I thought I smelled a rat," he said, snearing.

"Inuyasha!" shouted Kagome angrily, stumbling after him. Her expression softened when she saw the visitors. "Oh. Sesshomaru. Keiko."

"Hello Kagome," said Keiko as gently as she could through her anger. Sesshomaru shot her a look. It wasn't lost on Keiko.

"OH please, act all mighty all you want; you who raises a human of your own. Where's Rin?" Keiko shot back.

"She's with Jaken. Fishing." he said begrudgingly. Keiko snorted.

"Gaara, Kakashi, meet my family. The Inu-Hanyo Inuyasha that thinks he's a Yokai, and Sesshomaru the Yokai that thinks he hates humans but lets one follow him around."