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Taking tonight and tomorrow off for Christmas with my family. 23 has ran away with me and is gonna be intense and not at all what I had planned to release next. See you all later when it comes out and Happy Holidays!
~Stormie
PS: Shikon Princess Chapters 1-3 now polished and up on AO3 for your reading pleasure.
Well, well, well. 22 was a freaking doozy. I knew what was supposed to happen, but it kept happening that I would write a sentence or a paragraph and could not figure out what to put next. Hell, I put in a whole load of exposition in the front end just to get myself into the groove of writing it.
But, I did it, I wrote Inuyasha and Sesshomaru's big fight scene and a confrontation between Kagome and the big dog. And I'm pretty proud of it in the end.
Sneak Peak
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Tetsusaiga fell from her hand at his side as Kagome reached forward and clutched her hand in his suikan, right over his heart. She felt a slow, steady heartbeat against her knuckles and a sob filled sigh of relief drug itself from her raw throat. A sad smile worked its way onto her face as she reached up and touched his face, her thumb stroking across the faded purple marking, almost appearing as a bruise across his cheek bone. His eyelashes twitched a little and the wide, glaring red eyes slowly closed as his tense, injured body relaxed against her touch.
"Oh Inuyasha," She whispered, tears welling once again in her eyes, "At least you're alive."
"So, he has been brought down."
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So 23 is, hopefully, gonna be where my story officially earns it's mature rating. It is likely going to be long and wordy and a chapter I will nit-pick the hell out of before I publish. My goal is to have it pout before the end of the year but that being said, I may need to take some days to lean back and read other fanfics for inspo and or to decompress. This is gonna be fairly intense to write, especially because I feel like I know a lot more about those sort of things than the last time I wrote anything spicy. Please, let me take my time and I will have the sincere hope that by years end, we will all get a special little treat.
Until then, Don't let my absence Rain on your Parade!
~Stormcloud
PS: I may write the interlude and wend up moving the spice to 24 depending on how this next chapter flows.
Hey buds. Just got a new computer on black friday special so I'm gonna be getting used to it for the next while. I'm not so sure I like Windows 11. But anyway, update of the next chapter may be even more delayed until I get used to my new keyboard. hopefully it is faster though and will allow me more writing time since I no longer need to be tied to the wall with the cord held a certain way.
Anyway, see yall later.
Who knew a dog could be such a writing cockblock? I thought invading keyboard space was for cats, not fifty pound dogs who insist on cuddles and close your laptop!
I did it! I freaking did it. This chapter, I was so excited to write it, but it was so challenging to write. I really didn't want a copy paste of the original scene because it was so iconic. My God, Sesshomaru has one line in in and I stared at a blinking text bar for fifteen minutes because I couldn't figure out how he would talk in this situation. That's how hard this was.
It isn't perfect, but it's still amazing now that it's done. Totally worth the pains of rewriting several paragraphs over and over and making only 200 word progress some nights (My norm is 400-700 words on a good night and 1000 if I can get in the flow).
Here's the sneak peek for Chapter 21:
"Bring her to me!" There was an audible tussle occurring outside the cocoon as Sango and Kirara attempted to keep the men back and away from the young, unarmed mortal girl. But there were obviously too many for even the skilled warrior and nekomata to hold off.
"No! No! Let go of me!"
As she felt the bandit grab a fist-full of her hair and pull to gain control over the struggling girl as she swung her bow at him, a frightened, pained shriek left her lips.
Kagome's scream broke the last thread of control Inuyasha had on himself.
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Based on the Demon's True Nature arc, this and the next chapter are ones I was very eager to write when I found a way to fit them into my storyline as I formed this plot.
The next chapter will probably take just as long, so please be patient. I get writers block now not because I have no idea where I'm going with this (Like I did with most of my Hunger Games fics way back when) but because there are just some things that I just cannot word the way I want or get stuck on during the action scenes.
That's all I can really fit now with limited characters. Spice coming Next month or early next year ;P (Chapter 23 or 24)
Until then, Don't let my absence Rain on your Parade!
~Stormcloud
New Chapter tomorrow if it kills me. I'm literally so close but I'm a little sick and the cold medicine has got me crying for my bed right now so I'm saving it for tomorrow so the end doesn't seem rushed. I hope you all enjoy it because I really did enjoy writing it despite the pain in the butt trying to find the proper flow for it was. I literally just finished the episode that this and the next chapter, (Yeah, another two parter that could have been one 20000 word chapter, but I wanted to get the first part out and had a really cool part to end on. Besides, that long definitely loses interest and drowns out the little details because it is just way too long)
Until Tomorrow,
~Stormi
Well hello everyone,
20 is another one of the chapters that originally inspired this story and I'm happy to finally be diving in to the next few chapters after this set up. I am enjoying these long chapters so much because I don't feel like I skip around near as much with them and I can't wait to share more.
For now, how about we look into a peak for 20.
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Inuyasha felt his ears lower, a small, pup-like whimper trying to escape his throat. The war for acceptance, that was a fight he had battled nearly all his life. He knew she hadn't, not until she came here, where her welcome was warm, sure, but few went out of their way to talk to her. She came from a place where she had friends and loved ones in every corner of her life.
Here, this kind, loving princess who was putting so much of herself in keeping them safe from the yokai taint in the jewel would draw, she had maybe 6, 7 close friends if you counted Kirara.
And other than Sango, and maybe the cat, none of them were really that great of company for her.
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Truly a shorter sneak peak, but I really don't want to give too much away. Lets just say, we are going into a territory of one of my favorite storylines of the Inuyasha Manga and Anime with my own unique twist on it.
I do want to address though, we are approaching the first lemony chapter and that one will take a while to get right.
Afterall, Inuyasha smut? That's only been done what, thousands of times in the last 20 years? I want mine to make sense for both the established character development in my story and the canon as a whole.
All I will say about the next chapter to maybe hype it just a little even though I haven't typed a word yet is this:
Blood, Butterflies, and Brother Fight (And just a hint of the overly brave Kagome that came out in the original incarnation of these scenes)
Until then, Don't let my absence Rain on your Parade!
~Stormcloud
Hey Guys,
I got Chapter 19 out somewhat on schedule and took a few days off, which is why the official announcement post is only coming out now. It's kind of a random chapter, but it goes pretty well with setting up the mindspace that our two babes are in right now in preparation for Chapter 20. I am so ready for the plot of the next few chapters. It involves demons, and bandits, and allegory for some of my favorite anime episodes.
For right now, let's take a good look at Chapter 19 before I get too ahead of myself:
The summer had been relatively quiet, almost giving off the impact that the whole run around they had gone through was just a run of bad luck. But he didn't trust it to stay that way anymore than Kagome did.
It was one of the main reasons that he no longer left her out of his sight for very long if he could help it. Why he no longer cared if she leaned against him when they sat together, or when she inevitably rolled onto him at night.
Well, it wasn't the only reason, but it wasn't like the stubborn hanyo would ever admit it out loud.
They had grown quite a deal closer after everything had happened. They certainly didn't speak about certain things that had happened, but it was apparent enough that he was much more openly accepting of Kagome as more than an honor bound to him. She was cherished and important, and he was much more openly accepting of the affection her kind heart so openly gave.
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Chapter 20 has been a long time coming and will be the first in another set of continuous chapters. It is probably going to be mostly set up yet, with a bit of a cliff hanger, but I promise, as much as I can, that Chapter 21 will get us where we need to go next and hopefully, something worth the mature rating in the couple chapters after ;)
Until then, Don't let my absence Rain on your Parade!
~Stormcloud
Evening Raindroplets! Did you all miss me! Only took 20 days to get you guys an update, but it is a larger one, as I think is gonna start being the norm as I try to do a little more show don't tell with my writing.
In this chapter, we are looking at the proverbial 'morning after' and how scrambled our main characters are over it. I like how it turned out, and hopefully you all do too. It was kinda hard to write, seeing as I wasn't as excited about some of these points in my timeline, but I think it looks okay for now. It was mainly to obviously just try to get more of the story rolling and get them headed home after everything that happened to them over the last 8 chapters that involved a three day, two night, severely detoured mission.
Here's your little sneak peak:
Inuyasha's ears suddenly filled with horrible, heartbroken sobs as Kagome clung to him, weeping the terror she had hidden from him in her selflessness. She hadn't wanted him to shoulder such a burden. She hadn't wanted to seem weak, and he understood that to a fault. He had had the misfortune of witnessing such cruel acts while hiding in the woods when he was just a boy, untrained and made a bystander because he didn't want to draw unnecessary attention to himself without the means of defense, let alone the ability to protect an abused woman or child.
The screams and cries he could never drown out, huddled up in a tree with his ears covered, it had taken a very long time for them to fade away. But for a mortal woman, who was so often the recipient of such cruelty...he couldn't even imagine how it must have felt for her to have such a thing hanging over her head.
"Kagome," He sighed, his arms slowly coming to hold her to his chest
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Next Chapter is a bit of a time jump to the start of summer and will be a bit of a fill in the blanks situation, but hopefully still enjoyable as 20 will begin the more of the main plot (hopefully).
Until then, Don't let my absence Rain on your Parade!
~Stormcloud
Hey Droplets! Got a question for you:
Long Chapters with good detailed setting and scene, or broken down scenes in to several chapters to get updagtes out sooner.
I personally prefer the look and feel of the long chapters after having finished 17, and may go to this from now on to save the Story from being miles and miles of chapters.
Any thoughts Shikon Readers?