Keroki
Story 1
Prologue
It was 5:30 P.M. at Deidra's house and she had just arrived home. She immediately ran to her room and got her drawing supplies out. When she finished this she reached under her desk and pulled out a tiny book. Well, really it was a comic book of her favorite T.V. show (Inu-Yasha). She opened the book to page 1 and dug through her paper pile in order to find the pages she'd already worked on. She eventually pulled out three slightly crumpled papers from the pile and set them neatly in order. Deidra was making a comic book, or (as she called it) a new style/season of Inu-Yasha.
But instead of calling it Inu-Yasha she called it Keroki. Keroki was a new character she had made up for a few simple reasons. One of the reasons was that Keroki was a half dog demon like Inu-Yasha. She was someone to treat Inu-Yasha with respect and show Kagome her place. Deidra despised Kagome because of her high pitched, annoying voice, and her disrespect for Inu-Yasha. Because of the "Prayer-Beads" on his neck Kagome could by all means control Inu-Yasha by simply saying "SIT!" This causes the beads to pull fast and forcefully to the ground. Yes, Kagome would have to go. Even though it was a cartoon Deidra believed that if Kagome kept saying "sit" as much as she did…. She would some day kill Inu-Yasha. You may ask why he simply could not take the necklace off, one thing…, they were on magically. Not all of his strength could remove them from his neck.
Chapter 1
She Meet's Him
On May 23, 2003 Deidra was in her room sitting at her desk working on her new season of her favorite show (Inu-Yasha). Although she called it a new season of Inu-Yasha, she twisted things up and named it after her own made up character "Keroki". She was actually making it a comic book to be precise.
She enjoyed drawing anime (Japanese art) for that was what Inu-Yasha was. An example of anime would be the following television show called Pok'emon, Ham Taro, Yu-Yu Hakasho, and ECT. Deidra had been taping the show and had successfully taped four great episodes. Her favorite two were, (The Mystery of the New Moon and the Black Haired Inu-Yasha) and (The Mystical Hand of the Amorous Monk Miroku). Okay, so they were long names but that didn't matter to Deidra.
She continued working on her third page of Keroki, thinking the same wish she'd give anything to have come true and it was, (To be able to transport to Inu-Yasha's world and back any time she wanted, and to transform into a half dog demon like Inu-Yasha when ever entering his world, and the best part of the fantasy was that no matter how long she stayed in Inu-Yasha's world, not a second would pass in hers). The character she had made up (Keroki) was meant to be her in an anime form.
"What I wouldn't give for that wish to come true, to meet him in…Person!" Deidra thought to her self feeling depressed. "Although…how would I transport..?" She thought about it but she could think of nothing at that time. She continued sketching her-self in the comic at home living a normal life. She kept dragging it on than thought about something else she wished, to have her very own kimono. "How nice that would be…" she said not noticing she was speaking aloud. "To have a beautiful kimono…" she closed her eyes, picturing her-self wearing the kimono her character wore, it was a quiet blue the sash and sleeves were midnight blue and she had a delicate black stripe on each sleeve as well as her pant's legs. She didn't much like the idea of wearing a dress kimono. She dreamed on.
As she sat there imagining, her whole body gave a quick jerk, causing her to open her eyes. She did not see what she expected to see. Her desk and lamp as well as her pictures, were gone. "Wha..where am I"? Deidra was at the edge of a forest, before her lay and open field bright with the summer sun. She heard a roar and stretched her arm over her face so she could see the field clearly without the sun her eye's. Yet something blue was blocking her view of the field. She turned around to the shade of the forest to inspect it. To her stunned eye's she saw it was her sleeve. She looked down to acknowledge what she was wearing, to find it was her dream kimono.
Deidra was beginning to believe she understood what was going on. She held up her hands to her face, and as she half expected there was a claw where each fingernail should have been. As she stared at her hands she noticed out of the corner of her eye two curly groups of whitish/silver hair hanging from each side of her face along with the rest of her now long, white, and beautiful hair. She paused for a second, and then slowly she reached up and felt her new soft, and velvety dog ears. She knew that she was in her dream… her wish had sprung to life right before her.
Suddenly she heard the same roar as before and once again turned her attention to the field shielding her eye's. This time she saw a very large black animal flying through the air (apparently knocked into the air it seemed) toward her direction. No… it was headed right for her. As it fell upon her she leaped backwards (about ten yards backwards) landing gracefully at the base of a tree. She stood there a moment, "stunned" taking it in. She slowly lifted her head and looked at the fallen beast and she realized to her horror it was a demon, a Lion demon (she suspected). She could see it messy blood soaked mane and cringed. Suddenly it opened its red eye's and stared right at her. She stood very still, her heart skipped a beat, and remembering her leap she had just completed she looked up at a large tree branch above her. Once again she turned her gaze to the demon which was now staggering to its feet. It lunged and before she could jump to the tree branch an arm wrapped about her waist and she was pulled out of the monsters path.
She felt her-self laid down on grass it seemed and then heard movement and the sound of a sword striking something. She dared not open her eyes, afraid to see the lion demon again (didn't want to go there). Once again she heard a roar and then a boom (like something was falling over. Moments later she heard the sound of clothes waving in a gentle breeze…yes, this was much better.
She slowly opened her eye's, afraid that she might find her-self looking into those of the lion demons. But to her great astonishment she found her-self gazing into a pair of beautiful amber eye's. She saw a confused look in them but felt comfort. When she looked closely she froze… these comforting eye's belonged to…InuYasha! "Who are you?" He asked in his usual rough tone." I…I'm Dei…" She stopped. "If I'm going to be my character then I'm going to use her name too" She thought. "Well?" Said Inu-Yasha eye's burning. "I'm….I'm Keroki." Deidra answered. "Keroki…" he whispered not removing his eye's from her. "But, you're a dog demon" he said to her with a surprised tone. "And I see you are two" she answered back in a somewhat dreamy way.
"Inu-Yasha!" Came a voice. Inu-Yasha whirled around and with one quick glance over his shoulder he leaped away leaving Keroki speechless and wondering. It was apparently noon but where would she stay when night came? She thought about this for a while then her mind wondered on how she'd gotten there. The last thing she thought about was her kimono… did that have something to do with it? She paused to look at her kimono, how beautiful it was. "My lovely kimono"- she was cut off for her body jerked and no sooner had she blinked then she found her-self at her desk starring at her paper which was lit up by the over head lamp. Her kimono was gone her hair was blond again and her ears were once again human. "I'm…home." She whispered.
"What is going on here!" Deidra shouted. "She looked at her alarm clock, it read 5:30. "5:30! That's when I left, if I did leave!" she said aloud. "And every time I leave I'm talking about my kimono" Once more her body jerked and she found her-self where Inu-Yasha had left her thinking.
"So," she thought "by saying kimono, I can get from here to my world." Suddenly her mind went to the thought of finding Inu-Yasha. "how hard could it be to find Inu-Yasha?" she thought as she leaped away after the path she saw him take.
She eventually slowed down to a walk. She had not been walking long before she heard voices. "it couldn't have been" came Kagome's voice. Keroki scowled. "It was another dog demon" came Inu-Yasha's voice. Keroki grinned and sighed a sigh of comfort. "was she cute" came Miroku's voice. There was a loud clank of metal. Keroki assumed that Sango had hit Miroku on the head with a pan or something. She giggled. "well maybe we should look for her" came Kagome's voice. "I suppose we should" added Sango.
Keroki heard footsteps along with a little bit of grumbling. She didn't mean to cause trouble. She suddenly felt shy. "maybe I should let them find me in an easy place. I don't think they'd like to know that I was listening to them." Thought Keroki. And with that she took a giant leap into a nearby tree and tried to look relaxed.
She heard Inu-Yasha say "she's near. I smell her." Keroki began to feel nervous. She couldn't resist any longer. She leaped down from the tree and a few yards into the party. They all stared at her.
"she has dog ears!" exclaimed Shippo. "she is a dog demon" Miroku reminded him. " a half dog demon" corrected Sango. "where are you from?" asked Kagome cheerfully. "I'm from Albuquerque New Mexico in the United States of America." Said Keroki. Kagome froze. The United States were not known in ancient Japan world.
"Inu-Yasha? Miroku? Could you leave us alone I need to speak with her." Said Kagome to the others. "NO!" Shouted InuYasha . "I can't even leave you alone for a second with out you getting your self into trouble!" "InuYasha? Maybe we should let them speak and stand close by instead." Said Miroku to Inu-Yasha. Inu-Yasha snorted and opened his mouth to argue but decided against it. "Fine" he muttered trying to sound reasonable (not wanting to make a bad impression on Keroki).
When they had left leaving the girls as well as Shippo alone to talk, the four settled down next to a bush. "Who are you?" Said Kagome to Keroki. "My real name's Deidra but I prefer to be called Keroki. Answered Deidra seeing Kagome's friendliness. "Your not from this world are you?" Said Kagome. "No." answered Keroki with a shrug. "I get here by saying one word." Added Keroki. "What's the word?" asked Shippo in his adorable way. "If I said it then I'd vanish back to my own world. Keroki explained to them. "Are you human in your world?" Asked Sango. "Yes, but I become a half dog demon when ever I'm in this world except on my one night human session." Said Keroki to the others. "But I don't know when that is." She added. "Does your mama know you can come here?" asked Shippo thoughtfully. "No, but no matter how long I stay here not a second passes in my world." Keroki said to him. "How many times have you been here?" Asked Kagome. "This is my second time" Said Keroki. "Well how long are you going to stay?" Asked Sango. "I guess I'll stay here for a week or two." Said Keroki with a shrug. "Won't You miss your family and friends?" asked Shippo. "I suppose, but when the time to go home comes I vow to try and bring them with me next time." Said Keroki sounding very noble indeed. "Your going to need a place to stay said Kagome. "Let her stay with us! She's as nice as both of you!" Said Shippo to Kagome and Sango while bouncing up and down eagerly. "Well?" said Kagome turning to Keroki with a grin. "You want to join our quest?" said Kagome. "You know it!" Said Keroki. "What's Inu-Yasha going to say?" Asked Shippo looking up at them.
Chapter 2
The
Inu-Yasha Show
A few minutes later all six of them were sitting in the shade of a tree. 'She's going to join us?" said Inu-Yasha blushing temporarily. "That's great!" Said Miroku opening his weakness for women. Sango gave him a dirty look which shut him up. Well, she could be a big help to us." Said Kagome persuasively. "And she's nice too." Shippo added. "I suppose." Said Inu-Yasha gruffly. "Well, what do you say?" asked Sango. "Fine" said Inu-Yasha. "Definitely!" said Miroku. Sango bonked him in the back of the head. Keroki grinned. They all acted exactly like they did on television. Then she moved her gaze to Inu-Yasha who seemed to be in an argument with Shippo.
Soon night came. They all settled down for the night. Keroki chose to sleep at the bottom of a very large tree. Inu-Yasha slept on the branch above. As Keroki knew Inu-Yasha loved to sleep in trees. "I can't believe it's still day in my world." Keroki thought. She took a quick glance at Inu-Yasha on the branch above her and then went to sleep smiling.
Keroki did not know this but Inu-Yasha was not sleeping, he was infact wide awake thinking. "Keroki is a half breed too, and not only that, she's a half breed dog demon!" He thought to him-self. He stole a glance at Keroki, how special she seemed for sharing the same life as him. An outcast's life. But then he remembered what Shippo had told him, about Keroki being a half breed only when in his world. She was human in hers. "All these women from the future coming to my time." He thought snorting to him-self. "Even so, I have yet to see her true feelings for me, he whispered aloud. "will I be considered a friend to her, or will she grow to love me as Kagome has?" He thought about this and decided he would simply wait and see what the next week or so brought. He went to sleep after that.
Kagome was the first to wake. She rubbed her eye's and remembered what day it was. "Well, I go home today." She let out a sigh which woke Shippo who always slept next to her. "Hey, Kagome?" He said half yawning. "Yes Shippo?" "Don't you go home today?" he asked. "Yeah" Answered Kagome. "I really need to catch up on my school work." She said sighing once more. Just then Sango woke up along with Kilala (her demon cat). "Good morning." She said with yawn. "Morning Sango!" Said Shippo. Kagome looked around. She spotted Keroki and remembering yesterday smiled. "Keroki's a new friend" she thought.
Later Keroki (as well as Inu-Yasha and Miroku) woke and they all packed up and began traveling.
The Day was very eventful. There were so many part's relating to the show that Keroki could not help but laugh to her self every now and again. But then she had to wonder, "This show is on television," she thought. Then she froze. "Wait! Then who's to say we're not being taped at this very moment!!!" She said.
Shippo saw Keroki hold back and jogged over to her. "What's the matter Keroki?" He asked. "Shippo?" Said Keroki. "What is it?" "You remember when I told you I was from a different world like Kagome's don't you?" She asked. "Uhh…Yeah I guess so." "Well, there's a thing called television," Shippo cocked his head to one side. "What?" He asked. "Do you two want to left behind?!!" Came Inu-yasha's voice from up ahead. Shippo leaped and perched on Keroki's shoulder and they ran to catch up with the others.
Shippo and Keroki continued their conversation. "Ok Shippo. A television is a screen that you can watch moving pictures on." Shippo's eyes widened. "Wow" he muttered. "And, although this sounds strange you guy's happen to be on television." "We're on television!" Shippo yelled at Keroki. "What are you two talking about?" Said Kagome slowing a little to their speed. "Kagome, you know what television is right?" asked Keroki with a depending look. "Of course." Answered Kagome. "Well'', Continued Keroki. "You guy's are on television. You, Inu-Yasha, Miroku, Sango, Shippo, and Kilala." said Keroki to the others. "Wait. How can we be on T.V.?" asked Kagome looking around. "I don't know." Keroki admitted. "Is there anyway can prove this?" Said Sango slowing to there pace too. Keroki thought "Maybe I could bring one of you to my world and show you quickly". Said Keroki thoughtfully "How about you Kagome? I can sniff out the rest of you easily." Keroki was right about this. She had grown quite fond of her new nose and had gotten used to it too. "I suppose I could…your positive you know they're sent?" Said Kagome. "I know the sent don't worry." Keroki assured her. "I want to go too!" cried Shippo. Kagome looked at Keroki "Sure." Said Keroki with a grin.
After explaining their plan to Inu-Yasha (who grumbled and said he thought it was stupid) Keroki held Kagome's arm while Shippo perched on her shoulder. "Okay, here goes nothing" mumbled Keroki. With a quick glance at Shippo she shouted "KIMONO!" They waited for a moment then all their bodies gave a quick jerk and they found themselves in Deidra's room. Wow." Whispered Shippo. "Is this your room?" asked Kagome. "Yeah, sorry it's a little messy." Replied Deidra quickly. "Well we'd better go see those tapes quickly said Kagome. Deidra started toward the door when suddenly Shippo cried "Wow! Keroki did you draw these?!" He leaped onto her desk and stared up at her bulletin board. Kagome was shocked as well. "It looks exactly like us!" She exclaimed. "Keroki? How old are you?" asked Shippo not removing his eye's from the pictures. "Oh, well," said Keroki blushing. "I'm twelve years old." She answered grinning with pleasure. "Geez." Said Kagome they went to see the episode's on tape.
They ended up watching Mystical Hand of the amorous Monk Miroku. They got to the part where Everyone was by the hot spring. It showed the part where Miroku saw Kagome for the first time. It was Miroku's thought's they heard. "A girl!" He exclaimed in his usual thoughts. "She wears a shard of the Shikon Jewel and their-I mean it's huge!" He said in his head. "So!" said Kagome to the telivision screen. "He said that about me did he?!" "May be we should head back" said Shippo. He started toward the room but paused when he saw him-self on the telivision screen. "They showed me undressed?!" He screamed at Keroki. Her and Kagome began to giggle.
They returned to her room where they saw some picture's from the telivision show. "We should take some for Inu-Yasha, Miroku, and Sango to see." Said Kagome starting to take some off the bulletin board. "And a few of the one's you drew." Said Shippo while Kagome took a few of these too. "Keroki? The picture on the telivision show was professional right?" Kagome asked. "Yeah." Said Deidra casually. " Well, then you could be a professional in no time! Your not very far behind." Said Kagome happily. "Thanks, but as amazing as it sounds, I'm not even half way there. I've still got a lot of work ahead of me before I become a professional." Said Deidra with a laugh. They put the picture's in a folder. Kagome and Deidra locked arms while Shippo took his place on Keroki's shoulder once more. "Kimono!" Deidra shouted. Their bodies gave a miner thrust forward and they found them-selves on the path again. Keroki put her nose to the ground and sniffed a few time's. "They went that way." She said getting up.
Soon they caught up to the others and showed them the picture's from the show and the one's Keroki drew.
"Lady Keroki, these drawing are incredible!" exclaimed Miroku admiring one of his own. "They named this T.V. show after me?" Inu-Yasha said picking up one of the drawing's from the T.V. show. "Yes, which is what lead's me to believe there might be camera men anywhere right now!" Said Keroki looking around suspiciously. "No way! I would have found them by now!" Inu-Yasha yelled at them. "Well, even so. I'm going to look for them right now!" He said getting up. "Leave it be Inu-Yasha," siad Kagome "we just need to be a little more carful about what we do." Inu-yasha sat down and mumbled something nobody could under-stand.