1: The Half Breed Cat Girl!
A girl who was human with long brown hair tied in a ponytail was running away from destruction in a nearby village in the middle of the night. She was tired and she had run a long time away from the village, demons were still coming after her. A new moon was in sight, the moon was invisible and the human girl couldn't wait until morning. She panted and panted towards the water spring near the village which was burning in flames and it was already fled by its inhabitants.
"Come out, come out, little cat!" A demon that looked like a bull and a giant man's body was coming after her. Along with a lizard demon who had the body of a human by the head of a lizard and its skin was scaly, broaded, dark pine green. "Yes! Come out, little cat! Come and join us for dinner!" The girl managed to escape away from them by hiding by a tree. She panted and panted and then she spotted the water spring.
"I'm going to have her legs!" The bull demon chuckled with his giant wooden club and the snake chuckled, "I'm going to have her nose and brains! I want those protein juicy guts!" It slithered with his claws in the air. Meanwhile, Kagome and the gang were nearby.
InuYasha was in his human form for the night. "Aw come on InuYasha! We're not going to look for Naraku this time, besides, you're in no condition looking like that for tonight..." Kagome said with playing cards in her hand. "Got any nines?" she asked as she looked at her cards. Miroku, Sango, and Shippo were playing. Kirara was already sleeping and InuYasha was in no mood to play.
"Nope, go fish." Miroku smiled. Shippo chuckled with all the rest of the remaining nine cards. He had one pair of nines. Kagome picked a card out of the pile, she chuckled with glee. InuYasha groaned, "Could you guys just get a little louder? Sheesh..." he said tapping the ground with his foot. "Oh just kick back and relax InuYasha! Come join all of us! Got any fours?" Sango asked Kagome. Kagome gave up a four.
"Ugh..." she sighed as she handed the card to Sango.
"I like this game!" Sango cheered and then she made a pair.
InuYasha was pissed off, he got up and then he started to walk. "Where you going InuYasha?" Kagome called out to him. InuYasha had his eyes closed and then he responded, "I'm going off to the spring for some water!" "Should we tell him?" Miroku asked as he noticed the bottle of fresh water beside Kagome. "Nope, your turn Shippo..." Kagome looked at her cards.
Shippo sneered at Kagome and then he asked her, "Do you have any nines?" he asked, then Kagome frowned. "Oh man! This night isn't my night!" she said with sigh, giving up her heart nine. Shippo pulled his head back and then he pranced, "Yay! I like this game, after this, can I have a lollipop?"
InuYasha was almost to the spring. The girl was still behind the tree and the demons were still after her. "I think they're gone..." She said checking around and then a bull snorted, "Looking for someone?" The girl screamed, InuYasha heard it. "What was that?" he asked as he stopped with his sword.
He got behind a tree and then he looked back peeking at the chaos by the spring. "Ahh! Let me go, you demons!" The girl said trying to get out of the bull demon's grasp. "I get dibs first!" The snake commanded and then the bull was angry. "No way, I got her first!"
"But I want the brains and guts!" the snake hissed back and the bull roared.
InuYasha then popped out. "What are you guys doing in the middle of the night?" InuYasha said with Tetsusaiga out. But Tetsusaiga was not in its full form. "Hahahahha! This day just keeps getting better, what are you thinking little man?" The bull snorted, the ring in his nose jungled a bit. InuYasha got ready in fighting position, "Who do you think you're talking to huh? You don't know who you're dealing with!"
InuYasha charged and the girl looked at him, He's also like me... she thought. The bull laughed, "Hahahah! You don't know who you're dealing with either!" The bull had his horns and then he dropped the girl on the floor, he charged for InuYasha head on. InuYasha smiled and then he kicked the bull with his foot up the chin, "Stupid bull!" he shouted at him.
The snake was astonished, "That human beat him!" The bull was a bit dazed but he gained consciousness, "What the" InuYasha dugged his sword into the bull, Tetsusaiga was a success. The bull screamed and then he went mad, "Get this thing out of me!" he cried and then he charged into a tree. The snake then took his turn, "You won't make out of this forest alive, mortal!"
InuYasha was angry, "Don't you ever call me a mortal you!" The snake tried dragging his claws into InuYasha but then InuYasha punched him on the forehead. The snake groaned and then he said, "My vision... It's getting blurry..." he said and then he passed out with bits of blood coming out of him. For the bull, being stuck to a tree with a sword in his head was one thing. InuYasha smiled and then he went to get his sword back.
The girl sat on the floor, she was astonished. "He might be a half demon..." she got up and then InuYasha stopped, he knew she was there in front of him. "Huh?" he turned around and then she blushed, "Thank you, for saving me..." she said, her hair covered a bit of her face. She had green eyes and she was shy. InuYasha blushed, "It was no problem, you should just go home for now..." he told her. But then he smelled her a bit, "Cat..." he said.
The girl noticed his scent too, "You're a dog demon, aren't you?" she asked InuYasha. InuYasha gulped and then he said, "Well uh... You're a cat demon, aren't you?" he protested against her. She kept quiet and kept looking at him, she wouldn't take her eyes off of him. InuYasha noticed it was quiet and then he turned around, but the girl then found the courage to speak out.
"Wait! May I come with you?" she asked him. Her eyes were about to cry out and then InuYasha was surprised. "Please?" The girl asked as she had her hand on her bleeding ankle. InuYasha faced her and then he noticed the ankle, "Ah...um... well, uh..." The girl's eyes were growing teary. Then she fell to the gorund with a few cuts on her arms and legs.
Few minutes later, InuYasha arrived with the girl on his back. Kagome was surprised. "Ah?" InuYasha put the girl gently on the ground and said, "Look what I found..." he said. Kagome raced to the girl and then she asked, "Is she hurt?" InuYasha sighed with his arms crossed and then he answered, "Yeah, cuts all over her body and" Kagome then stopped him to the way that sentence sounded.
"Wait, all over her "body?" she asked him. "Did you check her body?" Kagome asked suspicious. InuYasha frowned, "No of course not! I'm not Miroku!" he exclaimed. Miroku frowned, Sango kept quiet but irritated. Shippo then sniffed the air, "She's a cat demon!" he said astonished, "I can smell the cat all over her!" Shippo kept away from the girl.
Miroku then took a look, "She's pretty for a cat demon." Sango got her fist out, "What was that Monk?" she said angry. Kagome then frowned, "But if she's a cat demon, then she's going through the same phase as InuYasha right now!" she said with a bit of surprise.
"Oh, you think?" InuYasha said, he took a close look at the girl, she was pretty in her human phase. He blushed a bit, and then he remained calm. Kagome noticed InuYasha getting infauated.
Kagome snarled a bit. Flames were embering around her body, she was getting the jealous bug.
The next morning, "I" woke up. I was tucked in by bed sheets and my injuries were healed as my ankle was fine. I got up and then I sniffed the area, I wasn't any where near the water spring that I was near by yesterday. My memory was foggy and I couldn't remember anything. My ears twitched and then I heard snoring on the ground. I spotted a girl on the floor sleeping with a fox kid on her with a food I never seen before half in his mouth, it was pink and bright with a stick coming out of it.
Then I looked at two people, a man and woman. They were on the floor too, with a cat demon with them, sleeping. The girl had brownish black hair and a kimono that was green and pink and white. She had a large boomerang bone with her, just in case, it looked like a demon exterminator's weapon. The man had a blue and black Monk robe with two rings in his right ear. He had black hair and a calm look to his face, he also had a staff beside him, a ringlet staff of some kind. He looked like a Monk, but he didn't have the face of one...
Next there was the boy, he had long, white, silver hair, with dog ears sticking up. He had white long hair strands coming out from where his human ears would be, but he was just a half breed which I could tell. He had a red kimono robe on, a puffy red shirt and red, puffy pants with a necklace around his neck, looked like a cantation necklace more like it. He seem to have a cute face and he seemed like a stubborn goat by the eyebrows. Then I got out of the bed sheets, my whiskers twitched too, and then I gasped a bit.
I remembered what happened yesterday. I was being chased by villagers first, because they thought I had destroyed their village, but really it was the bull and snake demon who terrorized the village and they caused the fire, then they chased me when they saw me cross in the village. Then they chased me all the way up to the water spring and there, I was trapped. But then he came, that boy who still sleeps, with the dog ears, he saved me, but I could tell he was a human yesterday since he's just a half-breed.
Yesterday he had black hair and no ears, and today, he had white hair and dog ears. I could still smell him, that same scent from yesterday, that is him. I was about to move along when he woke up, I gasped. "I'm sorry... I'm just leaving!" His daring eyes made me sweat and embarrassed. He smiled a bit and then he said, "You're awake. Are you healed already?" he asked me.
It was so kind of him to ask me if I was feeling okay, and then I responded him with a nod. InuYasha then noticed the girl with black hair and the fox boy awake. "Ugh...Nygh, awww!" she yawned, I caught her scent, it was peculiar and strange, not from here... Then she looked at me, she gasped. "She is a cat demon, but a half-demon!" she exclaimed at me.
I felt a bit hurt by her, but what did she know? "Hey, don't call me that! My name is Natsumi!" The dog demon looked at me and then he looked at my white hair too, it was tied in a ponytail and cat ears twitched. InuYasha liked another half-breed here with him, especially a cat demon girl. Kagome looked at InuYasha and then she frowned a bit.
Shippo yawned and then he gasped, "Ah! The cat demon girl!" he said frightened a bit. Holding on to Kagome, Kagome calmed him down. I got ready to run away from them instead. The man and woman on the other side were already awake. "Awww! What a good sleep... No lecturous deeds done over night..." Sango was talking about Miroku, who was looking very innocent.
Kirara was already awake and she gave a short mew. "Mew!" she said and then Sango didn't seem to scratch her this morning, Sango was looking at me. I looked a bit scared and ready to go away. Kirara noticed me and then she jumped out, since I was one of her kind. My tail hovered up and was curious as I looked at Kirara. InuYasha seemed a bit embarrassed and jealous, I had a tail and all he had was a pair of dog ears.
I looked at the cat and then Kirara mewed, needing to be scratched. Sango looked at Kirara and then I scratched Kirara, she liked it. "Ah, Kirara!" she said, "Oh well, at least that gives away the girl's personality." Sango said a bit foolish.
Miroku couldn't keep her eyes off, then he got up and then he grabbed my hands, with the cat in my lap. Kirara was looking up at him, he smiled and then he said, "Hello my dear, my name's Miroku and I have been searching for a girl like you! May you bear my child?" he asked me. I had one answer for him and I didn't like guys like him. I scratched him with my three main fingernails. The sound of an angry cat fight came into time.
Miroku dropped his head and then came the second phase. Sango was hot red and she had her fist, Miroku dropped to the ground after the pounding. "Aw Miroku!" Shippo said shaking his head with a frown. "Who are you people and why did that man just ask me to bear his child?" I asked the people with an embarrassed look on my face. The girl with black hair answered that question.
"Don't mind that man, he's just Miroku, he's always doing that... But anyway, InuYasha there saved you yesterday from a pair of demons that were chasing you. And he brought you here since you were injured all over..." she answered for me. I looked at InuYasha and he kept quiet with his face looking down at the ground. I kept quiet as I stared at him too.
"My name's Shippo!" Shippo introduced himself in front of me. I blinked at him and then I giggled, "You're a fox kid!" I said with a grin, my fangs were showing a bit. Shippo then stopped, he didn't like being called a kid. "I'm no kid!" he said with a steamed face, but then I smiled, "I'm sorry. Apology accepted?" I asked him, really sorry for calling him that but he was one. Shippo seemed to like me. "Yeah! I like you!" he said with a flush.
"Hi I'm Sango! And may I have back my Kirara!" I looked down at the cat demon in my lap, then I said, "Sure, it's yours, it's yours." I said as Sango grabbed Kirara, who couldn't stop looking and mewing at me. I then got introduced to Kagome, "Hello my name is Kagome Hiragashi! I like your outfit!" I didn't know what she was talking about surely it couldn't be about this old rusty thing... Kagome smiled and she didn't know what she just said.
"This old thing? Nah, it's old and I've been wearing it ever since I was young, your outfit is way better, it looks cleaner than mine..." I said as my kimono was stained and it had an ugly olive dark green color. My tail popped out of it and it was cut a bit from all sides. "But really, it's a cute little outfit, just like Sango's!" Kagome complimented me. I blinked at her with a sarcastic look on my face. "Hehehe!" I laughed.
"What are you doing around these parts, Natsumi?" Kagome asked me, and then InuYasha was resting on the ground with his side showing, he had his hand on his head. I kept quiet and then I said, "You're a priestess aren't you?" I then noticed then that the shining glow came from sacred jewels that I hadn't realized that Kagome had before. Then I reacted to that, as I was looking for the shards. "Please... May I look at the sacred jewels?" I asked her kindly.
Kagome cut back and then she sighed and said, "All right..." Kagome took a bottle of sacred shards and gave it to me. She then forgot and then she knew handing me the jewel shards would effect me, "Oh, wait! Huh?" she stopped. I had the jewels in my hand and then she said, "But..." "What is it? What's the matter?" I asked a bit concerned.
Kagome chuckled, "Nothing." The jewel shards didn't shock her... Normally they would shock a demon like her but they haven't! So she is a good person after all... Kagome thought with relief. I looked at the jewel shards and then I said, "May I please have them?" I asked her with a little regard back. I handed them to her and then Kagome gasped, "Why?"
I put my head down and then Kagome went to the first question. "You want to become full demon, right?" she asked me. InuYasha was listening and the others were attentive. "No... I want to become human..." I said depressed. Kagome looked at InuYasha, he was a little bit suprised, he wanted to become a full demon, but inside of his heart, Kagome knew he wanted to become a human.
I looked at her and then I said, "I've been searching of these jewel shards that people say can grant a wish once used... I want to use them to become human..." I confessed. InuYasha's heart was beating, we both had something in common. "I've been mistreated as a half-breed all my life, and once I heard a rumor about shards from a magic jewel to have said can give power or something else... I heard they can grant wishes once they were all collected and made into one. I heard that some maiden from somewhere else broke the jewel into many pieces."
Kagome had her mouth open, "Heheh... What else have you heard?" she asked me. Keeping that little terrible secret to herself. I continued on, "I heard that there was a group searching for these magic jewel slivers. You guys are the ones who are seeking the jewel." I looked up at all of them.
Everyone didn't say anything. Shippo scratched his head and then he giggled. Sango and Kagome kept quiet and InuYasha wasn't worried about anything. InuYasha stood up to me and then I said, "Yes?" "Listen, I know how it's like to be mistreated by certain humans but you can't have the jewel... I'm sorry ok?" he said to me. I looked at him and then I put my head to my knees, "I know... I knew you guys already had wishes to get..." I said sadly.
Kagome frowned and everyone else felt a little sympathetic for me. InuYasha kept his attitude high and then he sighed with annoyance, "You can't have the jewel, but you can travel with us if you'd like..." he allowed me to be in the group. I looked up at him and then I smiled, "Thank you. Very much, InuYasha." Kagome was relieved, "Thanks InuYasha." Shippo cheered, "Yay! We have a new member to the group!" He jumped up into the air. Sango beamed and Miroku was happy, totally happy to have a new girl in the group. Kirara was fine with that, I scratched good and she liked my scent. InuYasha was a bit happy, but he wasn't sure about me a lot.
Kagome was the only one not truly happy, if I was a boy, she'd be happy but she was relieved that I would be another member helping them out on the adventure they were on. We have another one, who wants a piece of the action and a bit of the Shikon jewel... she thought. It's like another story beginning... All over again. The sun was sunny and everything was peaceful, for now.