Inuyasha; Is this the script? *Picks up piece of paper on computer desk*
LC; Oh that? Yeah!
Inuyasha; ... I'm a girl?
LC; YEP!
Inuyasha; WIND SCAR!
LC; EEEEEPPPP!
Kagome; What's up?
*Inuyasha hands her script*
Kagome; ...I'm a boy?
LC; *Recovers from injuries miraculously.* YEP!
Kagome; SACRED ARROW!
LC; EEEEEEEEEEEEEEP! AGAIN!
Disclaimer; should I ever own Inuyasha I would force him to kill Kikyo and marry Kagome. Then have hundreds of Inu-puppies! Cause I want one!
Chapter 1, Shot through the heart.
In a seemingly peaceful shrine, choas' gates began to creek open. Through the roof of the building came a red and white blur.
Her name, was Inu, named for both her parents. And she was a half demon girl of about fifteen years of age. And she was stealing the shikon jewel.
"Heh, now I can become a full demon." She gloated, jumping to avoid several arrows from impaling her.
"Heh, you humans are nothing!" She cried, running for the forest. Just as she reached the God tree, she felt something impale her, to the tree. Standing not too far away, was the man she loved, the man who had betrayed her.
"K-Kai, why?" She asked, feeling the magic course through her veins. "I thought we-" Her eyes closed, never to open again.
Or so they thought.
Kiyo's POV
Hi, I'm Kiyo Higarashi, a normal high school student. Today is just another Monday, sadly. Walking to the steps to head to school, I noticed Souta walking around with our cat's food bowl.
"What are you doing Souta?" I asked, walking over to him. "You shouldn't hang around the shed."
"I know but, I think the cat's in there." He said, glancing at the firmly closed doors. "But I'm too afraid to go in there and get him."
I sighed, but knowing my brother, decided to go find our way ward cat. I would never tell anyone, but I hate cats. I'm more of a dog person. Chills suddenly raced up and down my spine, like some kind of feeling of foreboding. So weird.
Inside the shed, it was dark, but I could hear something from behind the old dried up well. Walking around it, he held up their cat. "Found it!" He called to the still slightly nervous Souta. Suddenly Souta went from nervous to absolutely terrified. Before I could ask what was wrong, something began encircling me, pulling me back into the well.
I twisted around to see what had grabbed me and immediatly wished I hadn't. From the waist up, it was a naked woman, downward, it was a giant centipede.
"Let go of me!" I cried in fear. Suddenly, something like a spark leapt from my hand and cut off one of her arms. "AAAHH! Insolent boy! Give me the jewel!"
But she dissappeared, leaving me alone at the bottom of the well. Looking up, instead of the dark ceiling, I saw the blue sky and a piece of cloud. "Where am I?" I asked to no one in particular.
Climbing out of the well, which was hard to do, I was face to face with a girl. She wore a red robe, (Think how Kagome wore it in episode 52 or something, yeah like that.)
Roots held her in place, though I guess the arrow through her heart helped to. I climbed up the roots when I noticed something strange about her. Well, stranger than being pinned to a tree like some art project anyway.
When I got closer, I saw that my eyes were not decieving me. This girl had dog ears. Unable to resist the urge, I began rubbing them. "Soft." I commented softly.
When I was done, I jumped back down and decided to figure out where I was. No such luck.
Especially not when a bunch of men came out of nowhere and dragged me away to be judged by someone called Kaede.
Kaede's POV
I held back a groan as I stood to go and inspect the demon the villagers had captured. It must have been pretty weak for them to capture it alive, without a single man being hurt.
When I walked to the center of the village, I began to wonder if it was really a demon. "Tell me ye name boy." I ordered, ready in case it tried anything.
"My name's Kiyo." He said politely. "Um, can you tell me where I am?"
"Ye be in my village Kiyo." I told him, sure this was no demon now. "I'm sorry if the villagers were a wee bit rough. We don't take kindly to demons and they believed ye to be one."
"Demons?" He repeated, as though he'd never heard of them before.
"Aye child." I assured him. Turning to one of the village men, I motioned for him to untie the boy. He did so, glad it was a regular boy and not a demon. Myself, I was inspecting the boy closer, for he looked a great deal like my own elder brother, fifty years ago.
I made a stew to share with the boy, having convinced him to stay the night. "So uh, which way is Tokyo?" He asked nervously.
"I know not of this Tokyo Kiyo, is that ye village?" I asked, spooning out some stew into a wooden bowl for him.
"Um well, kinda." He said anxiosly, ill at ease.
"Child, be something amiss?" I asked him between spoonfuls. He started, like he'd been deep in thought and I had interrupted.
"Nothing, just a weird feeling of foreboding." He guessed, glancing over his shoulder at the door. "I feel like something's coming." He said vaugely.
After focusing on my powers, I noticed an evil presence approaching as well, but it was far away, how could he sense it before I? "A demon." I enlightened him. "A demon is coming child."
We rushed outside, just as the centipede demon began destroying village huts. "The jewel! The jewel! I must have the Shikon jewel!" It cried, tossing a man into the air, where he then landed in a pile of hay.
I drew an arrow from my quiver and let fly, but the demon avoided each one with ease. "Run Kiyo! I'll hold her off!" I told the boy. The centipede looked down at Kiyo, and seemed to recognize him. "Boy give me the jewel!" She yelled.
I was shocked to say the least. Could this boy, the boy who resembled my long dead brother, have the jewel? Boy, do ye have the sacred jewel?" I asked anxiously, determinned not to let the jewel fall into this demon's hands.
"I don't know what she's talking about!" He cried desperatly. Somehow I knew he was not lying, yet I am not sure how I knew.
Kiyo's POV
This demon was going to kill them all! No, I couldn't let that happen! "Hey you old hag! Try your luck with me!" I taunted her, throwing some rocks for good measure. "Nasty boy, give me the jewel!" She cried in anger. I began to run for the forest with the strange light, knowing I had to get away from the giant centipede demon thing. Wow, there's a sentence I never thought I'd use. Running along the path, the demon kept up with me easily. "Somebody! Anybody! HELP!" I yelled.
Inu's POV
I felt groggy, like I'd been asleep for a long time. Only, that couldn't be right. What was this pain in my shoulder? I forced my eyes open and got a whiff of something I'd grown to hate. "I smell it, the blood of the man who killed me." I muttered darkly. "And it's coming closer." I chuckled.
I tried to reach for the arrow, but it glowed white and I couldn't touch it. Growling my frustration, I decided to focus on the fight that was getting closer. Something seemed off about this fight. Almost like Kai was being chased by something.
And like my thought had summoned him, Kai appeared from the tree line and landed at the roots of the tree. "What are you doing Kai? Playing with bugs now, are we?" I asked cyniacly. (Is that the word?) "Just finish her in one blow, like you did me." I told him, confused as to why he didn't have his bow with him.
Kai looked up at me, surprised I was awake I guess. He had cut his hair, I noticed. Too bad, he looked better with long hair.
"Kai, Kai, Kai, what's with everyone calling me that?" He demanded standing up to face me. "I'm not this Kai guy! My name's Kiyo! Ki-yo!"
I raised a brow at that alright. "And I'm telling you, there is no way you could smell like that and not be him!" I argued, just for the sake of it.
He stepped closer, and I got another good whiff. I sniffed a few more times just to be sure though. "Huh, your not him." I stated finally, slightly dissappointed.
"Yeah, that's what I was telling you!" He cried impatiently.
"Figures, Kai was way cuter." I muttered, thinking about my time with him, before he'd betrayed me. The human below me was practically fuming now. I could almost see the smoke rising out of his ears. "She's here." I said in a singsong voice Kai had told me sounded creepy.
He tensed as the centipede bitch came out of nowhere and bit his midsection, tossing him into the air. As the wench let go of him, I saw a small purple object fall out of the wound. My eyes widened in disbelief as I realised it was the shikon jewel.
He landed heavily by the roots, and the centipede picked up the jewel in her disgusting toungue. "You idiot! You let her get the jewel!" I berated the stupid human brat at my feet. Who for some strange reason, was blushing like a virgin.
Not that I'd lost that special little first timers right just yet. Kai and I had never gone that far. "What the Hell are you looking at?" I asked, my eyebrow twitching as I already had a good idea.
"Why aren't you wearing any underwear?" He asked awkwardly. He wasn't the only one confused. "What's underwear?" I asked.
I tore my thoughts away from this strange subject and took another look at a much uglier than a second ago centipede bitch. "Centipede bitch is done eating." I informed the still pink tinged human boy.
She roared and used her tail to pin the boy to my breasts, earning a few silent curses on both our parts. "Hey boy, can you, remove this arrow?" If I could get free, then I could kill the centipede and take the jewel for my own! This boy wouldn't be able to do a thing to stop me! He didn't even have a weapon!
"This one?" He asked, reaching for the arrow in my chest.
The old priestess cried out. "No child! If you free Inu, she will slay us all!"
"Look around you old hag!" I yelled impatiently. "With me you got a chance! Where as with her, she's going to eat you!" I looked down at the boy being crushed against my chest. "As for you, are you ready to die?"
His eyes widened as he realised his chances of surival. "Die?" He repeated. "No, I don't want to DIE!" With the last word, he yanked the arrow from my chest, allowing it to finally heal and stop hurting.
I smirked in victory.
The bitch realised this and began to squeeze us even tighter. I sliced away her tail easily and jumped into the air. "My turn, Centipede Bitch!" I yelled, pulling back my arm. "Iron weaver, Soul stealer!"
Golden blades rushed to the giant bug and sliced her into tiny pieces. "heh, too easy." I chuckled, landing next to some old well.
"The jewel Kiyo! Find the flesh that shines, there be the jewel!" The old hag instructed the human boy, looking around at the same time. I couldn't see any shining flesh, but I could see the limbs beginning to twitch. Centipede Bitch wasn't dead yet.
"Here!" Kio called pointing at a regular looking piece of flesh. For some reason he wouldn't get it himself though, the old hag had to do it for him. "So demons want this little jewel because it makes them stronger?" He asked after the hag presented it back to him. Stupid if you asked me, she was better suited for protecting it than this shrimp.
"That's right." I told him, crossing my arms over my chest. "Demons want it and humans can't use it, it's useless to you. I'll be happy to take it off your hands though." I said, holding out my hand expectantly. "Give it to me and I won't destroy this pathetic village and you with it."
The boy looked confused now, what had he expected? For me to pass up on enough power to become a fully fledged demon?
"Run Kiyo! We'll hold her off!" The old priestess cried, I noticed that the villagers were preparing to fire. "Fools." I smirked as the arrows came flying. With a lazy flick of my claws, I snapped the arrows in half, then jumped into the air and chopped two trees the villagers were standing under as well.
I landed on a newly made stump and looked down haughtily at the frozen human boy. "If you think those little toys will be enough to take me down, you got another thing coming!" The boy finally started to run, I rushed in, ready to slice the boy in half, until he tripped, causing me to miss.
"Come on, you scratched my back, want me to scratch yours?" I taunted cooly.
"You were really trying to kill me, weren't you?" He asked, wide eyed.
"Figure that out yourself genius?" I smirked, bringing back my claws again.
He started running again and I followed, completely ignoring the old hag who was now mumbling something or other by the God tree.
He tripped as he reached an old bridge, dropping the jewel and causing it to roll onto the bridge. As I was jumping over him to go and retrieve it, some little beads of light appeared out of nowhere around my neck.
I landed in front of the jewel, staring down at my new necklace. "What the Hell is this?" I asked, trying to pull it off my head. The beads began to glow, and no matter how hard I pulled, they wouldn't break off! This was some kind of magic that old hag must have used!
"No matter, once I get the jewel I'll be strong enough to rip it off." I decided, bending to pick up my prize.
Kiyo's POV
Oh no! She was gonna get the jewel! "Kiyo, say the word of subdjucation! Any word will do child!" Way too much pressure! I ended up saying the first thing to come in my head. "LIE GIRL!"
The necklace began to glow again and suddenly Inu stopped moving at all, it looked like had been caught in a game of freeze tag. Only her mouth could move. "What the Hell is Happening!" Damn she was loud.
I ran up and grabbed the jewel from under her nose, then walked away, back to lady Kaede and the villagers.
Little did I know Inu wouldn't be giving up anytime soon. Really all I cared about at that point was making it back home alive.
Back at the village, Kaede made a necklace for me. I was a little suspicious at first, considering what the first necklace had done to that dog eared girl, but I put the jewel in the little pouch and put it on anyway.
I tensed as I sensed something coming, something familiar. It felt kind of like Inu's presence had felt, but she was still on the bridge, right?
When I woke up the next day, Kaede was staring up at the ceiling. "Inu would you like to come in?" Kaede asked, angling her head at the ceiling.
Ok, so I wasn't the only one who thought she was up there. Question is, why is she up there? Inu jumped from the roof and landed in front of the door. "Good morning, Inu." Kaede said politely, though she had her bow close at hand. "Is there any reason you spent the night on my roof?"
"Sure there is." She said, not revealing much else. "I can be patient."
Kaede began making breakfast, pretty much ignoring me and Inu. Inu took a book from seemingly nowhere and began reading. It was black and about as big as my hand, making me wonder where the hell she hid it. It didn't have any writing on it though, so I had no idea what it was about. Other than that, she just stood leaning against the wood frame of the door.
"Um, what are you reading?" I asked finally, tired of the tangible silence. She looked up from the book, she seemed annoyed that I had interrupted her. Or maybe she was always like that, is was possible, she always seemed angry.
"It's nothing." She said finally, putting the book in a pouch I hadn't been able to see under her skirt. Kaede thankfully chose now to announce the food was ready.
Inu turned to go but Kaede asked her to stay. "Thanks but I don't need charity." She said briskly. "I can forage for my own food."
"I insist Inu, I've wished I could speak with you for nearly fifty years." Kaede said, emphasising the fifty years part.
Inu's ears twitched, but she didn't turn back around. "You have been pinned to the God tree for fifty years, Inu."
Inu's POV
Why does this old hag act like she knows me? If she calls me by my first name one more time, I'll hit something! I turned around slowly, urging her to go on.
"Good, now child, please sit and eat so we might speak." She said, gesturing to a place across the fire, out of arm's reach of the human boy, but too close for somfort.
I sat down reluctantly, not knowing if this was a trap or not. After a quick sniff to make sure there was nothing in the food that shouldn't be there, I began to eat. I finished the bowl in no time and sat it back down to wait for her to begin speaking.
When I looked up from the now empty bowl, I saw both humans were staring at me. "What? If I was really sealed for fifty years that's plenty of reason for me to hungry." I defended myself.
The human boy looked away first, choosing to eat his own food, which he had yet to touch at that point. "Inu, much has changed since Kai sealed ye to the tree." My ears pricked up at that name. But I was more pissed that she kept calling me so casually than I was interested in learning what had happened in fifty years.
To give a little emphasis, I punch a hole into the floor. "I'm getting tired of some old hag talking like she knows me!" I yelled.
"Then ye truly do not recognize me, Inu?" She asked, raising a single brow. "I am Kaede, Kai's younger sister." Whoa, she got old.
"If your this old, Kai must be pushing a hundred." I muttered, rubbing a temple to try and dispell a growing headache. "Glad I don't have to worry about getting old. Not for a while anyway."
"Kai did not worry either, he died, the same day he bound ye to the tree." Kaede revealed, sipping some of the broth.
Oh yeah, that caught my attention. "He's dead?" I repeated, closing my eyes and trying to imagine it. "Hey, I've been wondering?" Wow, deja vu, that sounds like what Kai once said before asking me to become a human. "Your strong already, why do you need the jewel?"
Oh, so that's what he was wondering. I opened my eyes again to find that the human boy had moved a little closer. I could just about reach out and grab the pouch the jewel was in. If I did it fast enough, then I could get away before he used the magic necklace.
Apparently I was silent long enough for the hag to decide to answer for me. "Inu is but a half demon." She enlightened the boy. "She would use yonder jewel to transform into a full demon."
The boy just looked more confused, it seemed pretty straight forward to me. "Why? She's already plenty strong."
I groaned in frustration, I didn't want to explain everything about a half demon's life, but I doubted Kaede knew. Then again, that would give him more about me than even Kai knew, or had known. "None of your business, alright?"
I stood again and turned back to the hag. "Is there a hot spring around? I think fifty years is long enough to go without a bath." "Ah yes, come with me child." She said standing up. "Child?" I repeated, irritated. "I'm older than you old woman! You were a little kid when we met!"
Kaede showed me to a hot spring near by and told me she would tell the villagers to avoid it for a little while. While I was suspicious as to her motives, I did need a bath after all.
I took off the robe of the fire rat, leaving me only in a white kimono that barely reached my thighs when I stood straight, let alone when I bent over.
I took that off as well and stepped into the warm water. I sighed in ecstacy and began thinking of my next move. On one hand, stealing the jewel would prove difficult with this damned necklace, on the other, the guardian was a weakling that I could beat easily with the element of surprise.
The only real problem was the feelings Kai had awoken within me in our time together.
Guilt, that had been the first one. After that, it had been happiness. Finally, he had made me feel loved, and to love. But like I'd always thought, emotions like those had only proven to dull my awareness, allowing him to catch me off guard.
And then, just when I had begun to feel trust, he had betrayed me! My hands curled to fists as I remembered the last day before he betrayed me.
The day he had stolen my first kiss, and asked me to become a human to live with him forever!
The past, Inu's POV
The Sun was just rising, and I watched it from the tree branch I had slept on. Despite Kai's often offering for a real bed, I always slept in this tree.
Kai came out of the hut he and his little sister Kaede lived in. His long hair was held in a top knot, as most men did. Except he wore the clothes of a priest, and always carried with him a bow and many arrows. He looked up into the tree.
"Inu, would you come down?" He called up to me.
I happily jumped down to his side. "Yes?" I asked, cocking my head to one side. I was in a particularly good mood that morning.
"Would you like to go for a boat ride with me?" He asked. I nodded and we started on our way. We did this sometimes, whenever he didn't have to go and slay a demon, we would go somewhere, just the two of us.
On the boat, he steered us to calm waters, than sat opposite me. "Inu, I want to give you something." He said, fumbling around in his sleeves. Finally, he pulled out a little sea shell lip paint case. "This belonged to my mother, but I obviously do not have much use for it. A beautiful girl like you should paint their lips, should they not?"
I remembered my heart fluttering like a bird in a cage.
He handed to me the lip paint, and I opened it to see the red color. "Are you sure?" I asked him. He nodded happily, a small smile gracing his lips. Suddenly, his smile vanished, to be replaced with a nervous expression. "Kai, is something wrong?"
"No, no!" He assured me, trying for a sad smile. "I just wanted to ask, if you had ever considered becoming human, instead of full demon."
I did not know what to say at first. I knew by then what all those strange things I felt near him was, it was love. But could I really become a human for him. "If so, I would ask, would you be my wife?" He asked.
I gasped and inspected his face for lies. Never had I thought any would ask me to marry them, least of all a priest. Still, I hesitated. "What would happen, if I were to try to be human?" I was scared of what could happen.
"If you were to be made human, then the jewel would be purified, and cease to exist." He explained. "If the jewel vanished, then I could be a normal man."
I looked down at the case in my hands, and finally decided. Putting the case aside for the moment, I took Kai's hands into my own. "Kai, I'll become a human!" I told him seriously. "I love you!"
His eyes widened, and he leaned forward, and forward, until our lips met in a soft and passionate embrace.
Present, Inu's POV
I opened my eyes and firmed my resolution. Never again would any man play me for a fool. I stood and gathered my now dry clothes.
When I began walking, I had at first meant to leave the village behind me, and to grow stronger far away from this reincarnation of the man I loved, and who had killed me.
But when I looked up again, I was on the same hill where Kai and I had spoken for the first time civily. A wave of sadness washed over me, but my face remained blank, impassive, uncaring.
"Oh, Inu your back." I turned my head a little to see Kaede climbing up the hill. It was hard to believe that energetic little girl grew into this old hag. She huffed like she'd run a mile before she could say anything else. "A band of bandits, they kidnapped Kiyo!"
Crap! If humans got the jewel before I did I was going to be pissed!
Without waiting, I searched for his scent and began running in that direction, pumping my legs for all they had. It reminded me of the times I had had to save Kai actually.
No! That boy, is not KAI!
I crashed through the wall of their hideout, just in time to snap their leader's sword in half. I landed in front of the boy. "Is the jewel safe?" I asked impatiently.
He seemed uncomfortable, and his face was tinged. "I kinda, threw it out the window?" He said, not looking me in the eye.
I growled and turned to the leader again, I needed to relieve some stress.
That was when the stench hit me like a sacred arrow, and sadly I know how that feels. "UGH!" I cried, covering my poor assualted nose. "What is that? It smells like rotting flesh!" It was making me gag!
His armor broke, and the plate fell, revealing a blood incrusted hole where his heart should have been. I removed my hand, having gotten used to the smell already.
"Well, well, well, how much you want to bet the demon dug out his beating heart and made itself a bloody nest?" I asked the boy.
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LC; DUDE! That was better than I thought it would be! SWEET!
Inuyasha; Well, it wasn't a hundred percent horrible. But a girl? Really? *Pulls out puppy eyes*
LC; *pulls out puppy eyes resistent glasses* Your eyes affect me not half demon!
*Inuyasha goes and pouts in corner*
LC; Now that that's out of the way! Time for a sneak peek on what you can expect next! Next time, on Inu, a Dog's life! The shards are spread all across the land, Kiyo finds he can not go back home until he finds them? And what will Inu think of all this? Tune in next time to find out!
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