Here it is, as promised, the first chapter of the second part.
This is a continuation of 'Odyssey of a Hanyou', and even when the characters said just Inuyasha and others, the story is involving Ichigo too.
This second part will be of some chapters with Nurarihyon no Mago, and for you to have an idea of what we will do in the next parts. It will be a very big and long story and then... I hope you will like it.
As always, I do not own any character. I don't own Inuyasha, Bleach or Nurarihyon no Mago and I make no money of this.
Inside of that place it was all dark and nothing could be seen on it, more than an oppressive, unfathomable, and imperishable darkness.
Until, out of nowhere, a bright line of light, yellow and irregular, appeared in the middle of that darkness opening its way on it. However, more unusual than that line of light were more the two individuals who were running on it at fast speed. The first one was a boy dressed all in black, with orange hair, and two swords on him. One, bigger, on his back and the other, smaller, on his waist.
The other man was following him with a sort of hangdog expression on his face. He was dressed all in red and his hair was very long and silver, and besides he had dog-ears on his head. On his waist he was carrying a simple sword.
Ichigo and Inuyasha were running over that line of light that the first had made appear under their feet just when they got into the depths of the Meidou. They had taken the fright of their lives when, filled with the love and the care of their people, Ichigo and Inuyasha had said goodbye to them and jumped into the Meidou from the ground without looking back. They got into it and almost fell, literally, into its deep darkness. Since the Meidou that was supposed to take them to 'where they had to go' had no floor to put their feet on, quickly Ichigo had to create that thin line with his own Reiatsu. Once recovered from the first shock they started to move while the line was growing forward letting them to walk and run on it, very much like that time when Ichigo used a similar one to go and came back from Hueco Mundo.
"Don't put that face, Inuyasha."
"Keh!"
"It's not your fault to not know how to use your Youki to create things like this."
"I wonder about that…" murmured Inuyasha.
"What?"
"Look, I don't give a fuck for…"
"Whatever."
Ichigo smiled happy, while he was moving in front of Inuyasha to keep creating that line. Ichigo decided to not ever let Inuyasha know about how other Shinigami could create ways with their Reiatsu and some were far better than his own was.
Still they had to jump every now and then since, despite having created a stable road of light to allow them to cross that darkness, it was full of holes and cut in places where even the best human athlete could not jump without falling into the black beneath them. Nevertheless, Inuyasha and Ichigo jumped through that holes almost with closed eyes.
They also were not saying a thing about the weightiness that was pressuring them and making their run more complicated. Ichigo and Inuyasha had felt that pressure since the very first second in that place but they decided to ignore it due to their pride.
They were running a while now into that dark emptiness, only illuminated by that road of Reiatsu when, suddenly, they were shot out to that black place to a warm night of full moon.
"Well, we made it" said Ichigo rising on his feet, since he and Inuyasha had fall to the ground when they came out of the Meidou.
Inuyasha rise too and turning to where they had appeared, he and Ichigo saw how the Meidou was closing and disappearing into nothing.
"So, that's how the Meidou works?" asked Inuyasha taking his sword with its sheath and looking at it.
"Looks like we made it well," said Ichigo.´
"Now we have to find those bastards," said Inuyasha looking around.
"Yeah."
They looked around.
"Hey, we are over asphalt."
"Asphalt?"
"That plain and long floor you had below your feet," answered Ichigo.
"Oh yeah. I'm not used to it."
"Then we are not in the Sengoku era," observed Ichigo, seeing nearby poles of light.
"It looks like that."
They were on a street of asphalt with a wall to their right and at the end of a curve was the entrance to an old house of Japan. Neither Ichigo nor Inuyasha could felt Aizen or Naraku nearby. Were they where they should be? Was it the right time and place? It was supposed that the new Tessaiga should take them to the right place.
Both started to walk. Inuyasha felt immediately the unmistakable smells of nearby Youkais. Did they exist on that era? Ichigo and Inuyasha looked around carefully, and Inuyasha noticed that Ichigo could feel the Youki of that Youkais too. The smells of some gave them away and that was how Inuyasha recognized a few. He knew they were close and together, without attack each other or nothing like that. To his nose came the smell of the sake, so those Youkai were celebrating something.
Inuyasha and Ichigo looked at the door of that house. They knew, due to the smell and Youki, that those Youkais were there, but Aizen and Naraku were not, since they could not felt them nor their ominous presences.
"I guess we got no choice."
They walked decidedly to that house with the smells and Youki growing on their senses. They were many. Some of them were very respectable, especially two. They reached the closed entrance made of two wooden doors and Ichigo raised a hand to knock but… Inuyasha destroyed the door with a punch.
"…"
"Ah?"
Inuyasha did not understand the look of angry in Ichigo, who was resembling Kagome so well when she tried to make Inuyasha know that he had screwed it all, without yell at him. Inuyasha could not help it and a shiver ran through his spine.
"Well, it's done now."
"To you everything is easy, doesn't it?"
Before Inuyasha could reply, two Youkai had appeared from inside the main building of the house, which they could see now through the destroyed door. At the end of the main courtyard was an old Japanese house very much like those houses on Yakuza movies. After those two Youkai appeared more and more.
"What do you think you are doing, intruders?"
Inuyasha and Ichigo looked at the one who yelled at them. He was a Youkai dressed with a light green kimono and with a scarf on his neck. The man was blonde and looking better at him they could say that his head was floating a little up from where it were supposed he should have his neck. Next to him was another Youkai, with long and black hair, dressed like a monk and even with a staff on his hands. The two Youkais were looking at Inuyasha and Ichigo with hatred.
"How do you dared to invade the house of the Nura Clan? Of which faction are you?"
"Clan of who?"
Neither Ichigo nor Inuyasha knew of what was talking about the man with floating head, and looked at each other puzzled, wondering if the other knew what was all that. One answered the other with the same look of ignorance.
"You don't even know… And how did you dared to attack us?"
"Well, the door was in the middle and…"
"I knew it would not be good, damn it!" protested Ichigo punching Inuyasha hard on his head.
"It's done now, so what!"
"It was unnecessary!"
"Yeah, but…"
All of the Youkai that had left the house to see were watching those two guys discussing without believe on it. What was surprising them was not their looks but the Youki of one and the Reiatsu of the other. They knew that those two boys were a Hanyou and a Shinigami.
"If you won't answer, face the consequences!" screamed the man with floating head while he and the other adopted a combat position.
Ichigo and Inuyasha did not paid them attention.
"Genjutsu: Ayatori Resenjin!" yelled the man without neck, doing something with his fingers.
Inuyasha and Ichigo tensed their bodies. They were not prepared, and slim and thin ropes were been positioned between their legs and stretched around them when the man without neck closed his hands in front of them.
"What's this?"
"Shit…"
"Now I will let you without legs for your insolence!" pronounced that man.
The ropes tightened even more on their legs and Ichigo and Inuyasha could feel how they legs were almost cut. The ropes were cutting their circulation and making cuts on their skin, but the ropes did not advanced more. Those ropes located on the tunic of the Rats of Fire of Inuyasha or the Shikakushou of Ichigo did not even touch the skin of any of them.
"Hey, don't do this. It's annoying."
"If you don't take this shit out I will take your head and will bury it were your body won't find it."
Ichigo and Inuyasha warned them with calm but decided.
"Kubinashi, keep them like that," talked at last the man next to him, while the other Youkais were yelling at him to cut those two intruders. Ichigo and Inuyasha watched that man with black hair, bored with the treatment they were having. The man bent over a little and extended an arm to them.
"Anki Kuroenbu!"
A swarm of knifes, daggers, and other cutting objects erupted from his sleeve and went flying towards Inuyasha and Ichigo, trapped between the ropes of Kubinashi. However, both boys swing their swords, cut the ropes like if they were noodles, and avoided that lethal path of the daggers jumping away. Those knifes nailed into the wall of the house.
"Okay, I shouldn't have destroy the goddamn door!" admitted Inuyasha, bored. He could kill them all with his 'Kaze no Kizu', but he knew that it would be very low. Besides, he did not understand why he and Ichigo got there from all places. To the house of a 'clan'. What on hell was a 'clan'? He sheathed his Tessaiga angry while Ichigo put his big sword on his back again.
Ichigo was getting more and more infuriated with that situation. It was all Inuyasha's fault.
"They are good, Kurotabou. Don't get caught off guard," said Kubinashi to the man with black hair, while the cut ropes were hanging on his fingers.
"Enough," said suddenly a voice, with authority.
Inuyasha and Ichigo looked surprised to the entrance of the main building. Inside were more Youkai, sitting around on the floor and around the main place where it should be sitting before the man who was looking at them now from the entrance.
He was a tall boy, with silver and long hair, which was somehow hanging horizontally from his head. The boy was dressed in a normal kimono and a red haori over it. He looked genuinely interested in the two visitors who did not attacked yet to the members of his clan.
"Rikuo-kun!"
A worried girl called the boy with silver hair from inside the house. Inuyasha and Ichigo looked inside once more, and saw that there were children of fourteen to fifteen, and were inside the house. Having fun with the Youkais! The girl who had screamed was a beautiful girl with brown hair to her shoulders. Behind her were two girls and two boys. All of them were looking worriedly to that boy called Rikuo, and to Ichigo and Inuyasha.
"Okay. We are sorry to have stormed like that into your house. My friend here it's a little out of his mind and…" Inuyasha had hit Ichigo on his head. "Damn it! That's just the truth you damn dog!"
"I'm not out of my mind, you talking mandarin!"
"You bastard!"
Those two boys started to discuss again, attracting the gazes of incredulity of everyone there, Youkai and humans equally. Rikuo look at them.
"Your Youki didn't look aggressive from the start," said Rikuo calmly, looking at them both. "Can you tell me what business do you have here?" asked him politely.
"Well…"
Neither Inuyasha nor Ichigo knew how to answer to that question, from that man which every Youkai there seemed to respect. Since noticing he was there, all of those Youkai have made a bow.
"Answer to the question of Rikuo-sama at once!" yelled the man without neck.
"If you don't change your tone I will take that talking head of yours and…" started Inuyasha, but Ichigo hit him again.
"Try to behave," whispered Ichigo, looking at Inuyasha. "If Aizen and Naraku are not here, wherever we are now, we have to try again…"
"Forgive my subordinate," asked Rikuo to them, as they knew now was his name. "As you see, here in the Nura Clan we all care for each other," said he proudly.
All of the Youkai and the children stick out their chests. Inuyasha and Ichigo looked around and saw them raising their hands or they jars with sake. A beautiful Youkai with brown and wavy hair was near Rikuo and the other two, and Inuyasha's soul fall to the ground when he noticed she had big breasts. In which age the Youkai girls evolved like that?
"We don't want to look stupid or ignorant, but," asked Ichigo. "Can you tell us which century is this?"
"It's the twenty-first century," answered Rikuo without asking to Ichigo or Inuyasha why they asked something that obvious.
"Then, there are Youkai still living in Japan on the twenty-first century. Are they still joining and living on this land?"
"My father and my gramps told me that we still are living in anonymity to not get involved with humans. Or so they told me. But as Youkais as we are the 'Fear' of the humans it's essential," answered Rikuo.
"You are a Youkai?" asked Inuyasha, perplex.
"I am three quarter human and a quart Youkai."
Inuyasha could not believe it. The times changed for sure if they let a son of a Hanyou to rule over a bunch of Youkais. That was what they called clan?
"And as you may noticed," continued Rikuo, like if he had noted the doubt on the face of Inuyasha. "All of the presents are part of my Hyakki Yakou."
Now Ichigo could understand that. The Kyakki Yakou was a legend in Japan about the hundred demons, which reunited on an overnight halt. Or something like that. However, this Hyakki Yakou was permanent and was not limited to Youkai only, but human children could take part on it too.
"Oh yeah. I have seen some of them once," remembered Inuyasha.
"You look very capable and skilful, if you can be at equals with Kubinashi and Kurotabou," said Rikuo.
"You can bet your ass we do," said Ichigo and Inuyasha at the same time.
"Rikuo-samaaaaaaa!" said suddenly a loud and beautiful voice. That voice came from outside, from where those two intruders have entered.
And from the ruined door came in a beautiful girl, dressed all in white and with big golden eyes. Inuyasha recognized her as a Yuki Onna. After her, a big and dark-skinned man got into the courtyard too, with grey hair; looked at Ichigo and Inuyasha cautiously, and anger, to see them in front of Rikuo.
"Rikuo-sama, step back!" yelled the girl, and taking air she breathed towards Inuyasha and Ichigo. "Fuuuuuuuuuuu!"
The froze air surrounded Inuyasha and Ichigo which felt the cold but did not move, and let the breath of that Yuki Onna to cover them, making them look like fruit inside a bucket of ice. The dark-skinned man charged towards them trying to break that ice sculpture that they were now. However, Ichigo raised his Reiatsu and the ice broke loudly.
The girl in white looked terrified how the ice was going towards her as knifes, but Rikuo appeared in front of her and blocked the ice waving a katana he was carrying with him. Inuyasha and Ichigo were surprised to see how fast Rikuo had reacted to protect his subordinate.
"Tsurara, are you okay?"
"Yes… Rikuo-sama…"
The adoration in the eyes of Tsurara when she was looking at Rikuo was obvious to everyone there, except for the two idiots who were watching that scene with bored eyes.
"Why did you attack them?"
"That was because I figured that they were who broke the door. Aotabou and I watched it broke since we returned and we got worried. Besides, their Youki were not any of those we known or felt before so we planned to do it like that."
"But if they were with me, and I did not attack them and no one in the Clan did, why did you?"
"I… I lost my mind when I saw them with you, Rikuo-sama…"
Rikuo squeezed her head with his right hand and the eyes of the girl filled with tears of happiness.
"To all of this we still do not know who you are nor what you want."
Another voice were heard. Ichigo and Inuyasha noticed it came from inside the house and a little man, old and bald, had appeared in the main entrance to the building. The back of his head was long, more long than they could ever recall to have seen on a human or Youkai. His face was serious but they could not help but see that the man looked like a pervert.
A human woman was standing next to him. She was beautiful and looked kind.
Once more, all of the presents bowed in front of one person; in this case was the old and little man who was looking at Inuyasha and Ichigo with interest and curiosity.
"There are visitors, Ojii-ue," said Rikuo.
"I see. And from where are you coming, visitors?" asked the old man with calm.
Ichigo sighed. It would be better if they ended that finally.
"I am Kurosaki Ichigo, Shinigami. And this one here is Inuyasha," introduced Ichigo looking at them all.
"Inuyasha?"
"Yeah," said Inuyasha defiantly.
"Dear lord. It's the first time I see the younger boy of Inu no Taisho," said the old man. "His existence happened long before mine, but I really know his legend."
"No wonder why" replied Inuyasha with his arms crossed, eyes closed and full of himself.
"But I must say that the time had treated you better than me, since I am younger than you," continued the old man.
"I am sorry, but who are you?" asked Ichigo.
"I am the First Master of the Nura Clan: Nurarihyon," answered the old man.
"You are… Nurarihyon?" Ichigo knew something of that Youkai for the myths and legends of him that even Ichigo knew. Besides, he remembered that Orihime had mentioned it once.
The others, Youkai and humans were watching that talk in awe. They did not expected to have the leaders of their Clan to talk like if nothing with that trespassers.
Yuki Onna was behind Rikuo hanging to his clothes, looking to that scene very interested. Those two visitors were powerful; she had no doubts on that matter. Moreover, neither they looked like if they were a threat to the Clan, since if they were they have attacked them a while ago. Still she did not trust them. Their human friends had approached to her and Rikuo and were watching Nurarihyon and those two boys.
"Yup. That's me," said the old man with pride.
"And how come to an old geezer to have his own Hyakki Yakou?" asked Inuyasha without thinking. Ichigo hit him on his head again.
"Forgive this asshole. He talks without thinking of consequences."
"So they have told me about him."
"Who have talked of him with you?" asked Ichigo, curious.
"The Youkai whom I lived and met in my many years," answered Nurarihyon. "The flow of time have made me the gift to have a big family and have met many friends."
"I can see that," said Inuyasha sobbing his head.
"But let us not keep talking here. It's cold and we have probed you have not bad intentions with my Clan," said Nurarihyon looking at the mess of ice which Tsurara, the Yuki Onna, had made. And to the knifes nailed on the wall.
"But how can you know that?"
"Your 'Osore' it's not threatening," responded the old man simply, turning around and nodding at them to follow him, while the rest of the Hyakki Yakou started to move and were abandoning their defensive positions towards Ichigo and Inuyasha.
"'Osore'?"
Inuyasha returned the same ignorant look to Ichigo after hearing that word.
Nurarihyon passed by Rikuo, who followed him immediately with Tsurara and that human woman behind them. Inuyasha and Ichigo followed them into that house, giving a fast look to those human children who were standing near.
Once they were inside the house, Nurarihyon made them sit near him and Rikuo. Tsurara sat on his side. Lots of Youkai went in too and neither Inuyasha nor Ichigo could figure how the hell that many Youkai could get into that room. However, they fitted somehow.
"Now Inuyasha and Ichigo, let us know what your purpose here is."
"We got no idea."
That empty answer by Inuyasha was worthy for Ichigo, since none of them knew what Tessaiga was intending, sending them there.
"And how did you got here?"
"By the door."
"We came here with a technique of Inuyasha," said Ichigo, ignoring the answer of Inuyasha. "It's supposed to take us to where we have to go, but…"
"That's very deep. And that looks like a very convenient skill if is able to take you to where you have to be," talked Nurarihyon looking at the bored Inuyasha. "Then, I must understand that you have a purpose here?"
"That. Or Inuyasha's sword is defective."
"You will check how defective Tessaiga is when I've used it to shave your head, you talking mandarin," said Inuyasha to Ichigo.
"Really? I have to see that."
"You will!"
"Did you said Tessaiga?" asked one of the boys, bowing a little to make himself noticed by the powerful beings talking there.
"That's what I said, brat."
"You have Tessaiga here?"
"Of course."
"Can you show it to me?"
"Here it is."
Inuyasha raised Tessaiga, locked into its sheath.
Now that Inuyasha was looking at it, he noticed that something had changed. It was obvious that Totosai would do something to the sheath to make it able to keep Tessaiga safe and controlled, but Inuyasha could felt something different in the sheath, more like a living presence.
The boy was looking at him with genuinely admiration but his expression changed when Inuyasha raised his sword the first second.
"That can't be Tessaiga," said the boy.
"It is."
"Tessaiga must be bigger, more like the huge sword that that orange haired boy is carrying on his back."
"Like this?" asked Ichigo, raising his bigger Zangetsu in the air.
"Bigger than that."
"Tessaiga it's bigger than that, you little moron," snapped Inuyasha.
"To me it looks like an old and normal sword."
"And from where the hell do you even know something of Tessaiga?" asked Inuyasha, with distrust.
"I am a Youkai fan," answered the boy with enthusiasm. "I loved since I was a kid and thanks to Rikuo-kun I can learn more of them in his house, since he, very kindly, let us in on his house," concluded he, pointing to his human friends and making Ichigo and Inuyasha to look at them well for the first time.
There was another boy, with his hair painted blond. And three girls: that one with brown hair which had been the first girl voice they heard there. A girl with long and blond hair and a smart look on her face. And the last girl had black hair on a ponytail.
"How did you ended with all this Youkai?" asked Ichigo.
"We are classmates of Rikuo-kun," answered shyly the girl with brown hair. She did not dared to look Ichigo on his eyes, but she had no problems looking at Inuyasha's ears.
"And aren't you old enough to be in school yet?" asked Ichigo to Rikuo who laughed soundly.
"This is my night Youkai form. In the day I have a normal boy appearance," answered Rikuo with fun. It was funny to see Ichigo scolding Inuyasha about his manners when sometimes Ichigo was just like him without noticing.
"Rikuo-sama, you don't have the duty to give explanations to this stranger!" exclaimed Tsurara, getting close to Rikuo who just smiled.
"You are very brave, children," admitted Inuyasha. "In my times the human children had fear of the Youkai, and if the children of today would knew of their existence they would fear of us today."
After hearing that enigmatic comment the girls smiled shyly, and Ichigo sighed. Here they go again.
"Allow me to be more bold, and let me introduce myself," asked the boy with dark hair and enthusiastic look, who looked at Nurarihyon and Rikuo, waiting for they approval. Both nodded to him. "They know me like Kiyotsugu and I am the president of the Club of Paranormal."
"Such a strange things that the boys do on their scholar clubs," commented Ichigo moving his head.
"Shima Jirou," said simply the boy with painted hair.
"I am Ienaga Kana," said the girl with brown hair, looking hesitant at the two visitors. She smiled to Inuyasha, but she could not stand looking at Ichigo more of a second.
'Talk of strange girls.'
"I am Torii Natsumi," continued the girl with the ponytail. Her gaze was like of a cat and she looked like a cat to Inuyasha's ears. He just sighed.
"And I am Maki Saori," introduced herself the last girl, with an astute look. "Is there any meaning on your names?" asked she, straight to the point.
Inuyasha did not have the smallest idea of what on earth his name would mean. He had always been Inuyasha and that was all, ever since his mother called him like that.
"Ichigo means 'The one who protect'" said Ichigo to Saori. "Or so was think by my parents since the beginning."
"Both names are cute," replied Saori. It looked like she was a little silly. Or maybe a teenager with no worries.
"And you said Tessaiga is that sword?" continued Kiyotsugu, looking at Inuyasha.
"That's what I said."
"Can you show us?"
"If I've do that the house of the big-headed old geezer will go to hell," answered Inuyasha.
"Just try to moderate your show, son," said Nurarihyon, without bothering on how Inuyasha had called him. Even when his subordinates were about to launch themselves at him.
"Fine. But just because the boy looks like he will not let me alone if I don't do it," said Inuyasha raising. Ichigo looked at him resigned, but he got comfortable on his sit, since the expressions of the boys would be priceless.
"First… fah!" recited Inuyasha, taking a hand to Tessaiga handgrip. "Then, fah!" said he, holding strong the sheath with his other hand. "And, fah!"
He unsheathed Tessaiga in the middle of a storm of air, wind and yellow light. The wave of air raised the hair of all, if they had any hair to begin with; their clothes and kimonos; and the skirts of the girls who screamed 'Kyaaaaa!' and tried to cover themselves.
"Boy…" started Nurarihyon, with his face darkened.
Ichigo had feared that the old man was angry of what had happened, but…
"Show me how to do that," asked the old man to Inuyasha, who was still standing with Tessaiga in all its glory on his shoulder. After hear the old man, all fell to the ground.
"You old fool, you'll never change," hissed Rikuo.
Ichigo was right. The expressions in the faces of the members of the club were priceless. Especially Kiyotsugu's and Saori's. Jirou and Natsumi were just looking exalted to Inuyasha, the girl called Kana was looking at him, and when Ichigo looked at her, she avoided his gaze.
"What else you want me to do?" asked Inuyasha, clearly enjoying with an audience like that. Even the nearby Youkai were cheering him.
"Bah! Rikuo-sama is even more fascinating than that," sentenced Tsurara, unconditional of Rikuo. He looked at her smiling and she melted literally.
"Can you do more lights with your sword?" asked Natsumi to Inuyasha with sparks on her eyes.
"Of course!" answered Inuyasha, smiling proudly.
He waved his sword back but a punch stopped him.
"If you do that, you'll blow up the house," said Ichigo.
"Ah. It's true."
The others smiled. They liked those two already.
Inuyasha locked Tessaiga on its sheath again and he sit in his place. Kiyotsugu and his club still had a face of happiness. Inuyasha was satisfied, until he felt little hands on his ears. He got angry thinking that one of the girls was getting very familiar with him, but all the girls were in front of him. Inuyasha take his hands to his back to catch a small body, and Inuyasha by little did not put a puzzled face when he discovered a Youkai with a kid body and a head of a natto.
"I couldn't help it…," said the little Natto Youkai.
Inuyasha just sighed. There was not a way for him to show his discomfort to such a small Youkai. He let her go and the first thing she did was return to his back to keep touching his ears. Inuyasha thought that it did not matter anymore until the three girls jumped to him.
"Damn it…"
Tsurara was staring at them like if she wanted to join them. Rikuo looked at her.
"If you want to do it, just do it."
Tsurara raised shyly, and Inuyasha looked at her angrily. But when he saw her bright eyes he could only bow his head with gloom and resignation. Ichigo could barely hide his laugh.
"Then, don't you know how did you get here?" asked Rikuo to Ichigo sitting next to him.
"We know how we got here, but we still don't know why," replied Ichigo, not stopping to see Inuyasha surrounded by the four girls with a defeated look on his face.
"Why did you came here in first place?"
"I told you…"
"I am asking you why, not for what."
"Are not the same thing?"
"No."
Nurarihyon noticed that Ichigo and Rikuo were getting along and he was glad with that, and the fact that those two little bastards had come to his house and made their boring nights merrier. Boring nights since Rikuo and his Hyakki Yakou had defeated the Nue and returned home.
"What were you doing before that stupid destroyed your door?" asked Ichigo, somewhat embarrassed.
"The last nights we were celebrating without rest. Don't ask me why. I just know my subordinates ask me for sake, sake, and more sake. I don't know anything else."
"But it looks like they are having fun. Recently I learned that the Youkai exist, and see them on this era it's so weird to me," said Ichigo, thoughtful.
"How you didn't know about the Youkais being a Shinigami?" inquired Nurarihyon, joining to their conversation while he offered a little glass with sake to Ichigo.
"You see, that's because…" Ichigo smiled, and told them about his situation as Shinigami as he accepted happy the sake they were offering to him. He could not say he did not like it.
"Hey. Can we switch places?" asked Inuyasha, but Ichigo did not hear him.
Ichigo drank with moderation. He did not drank like some expert or a fool, who drank the glasses like if they were water of well. Inuyasha had never liked that way of being stupid which humans had, but he had been told that shared a glass with someone who invites you were just good manners.
The night went on, and Ichigo keep talking with the leader of the Clan and his grandfather, which was Nurarihyon himself. Rikuo was called 'The Lord of the Pandemonium', or so they told Ichigo while Inuyasha was resigned to accept his fate with the girls that night. Yuki Onna was still reticent to accept them but she was letting herself go gradually. The boys were with Inuyasha bombing him with questions which Inuyasha answered between bored and enthusiast. He still did not understand how the hell he and Ichigo could ended up in a place like that, as the main attraction of that house in that warm night. The night was hot, but having that snow girl around was good for moments like that.
"Well, I guess we have abused enough of your hospitality," said Ichigo after a while and getting up. Inuyasha did not looked at him with hope anymore, since the kids had fallen asleep a while ago, laying one next to each other and over smalls Youkais. Only Yuki Onna was awake and near Rikuo, on his total disposition.
"It's too late now, my boy. Why don't stay here tonight to rest? Have you a place to arrive?"
"Well…" Ichigo looked at Inuyasha hesitant. They did not even knew in which place of Japan they were.
"Nurarihyon-san, can you tell us where are we? What place in Japan this is?"
"We are somewhere in Tokyo, my boy."
Ichigo could not believe it, but Inuyasha did not show any sign of surprise and it was obvious since he did not even know what Tokyo was, nor the close they were of they beloved ones. Then Ichigo remembered that maybe neither Orihime nor Kagome could have even returned to their era, he did not knew it yet.
"Okay. We stay," accepted Ichigo.
Nurarihyon and Rikuo smiled and started to command orders to their subordinates about setting up futons in some room, services and other things Ichigo could not hear anymore since he was having a battle of deathly glares with the bored Inuyasha.
Here it is. First chapter.
I hope you had liked it. The next chapter will be released on Friday.
Any question, rant, or flame, do not hesitate to write.
That's was all for now, folks.