Tale of the Demon Gods
Chapter 1 Greetings InuYasha
I sniffed the air, the scent of items from the twenty first century hit my nose first. However, buried under that, and the reek of a filthy half demon, was my prize. If my informant was telling the truth, these two-people possessed a pair of jewel shards. These shards, combined with the one that I already possessed, and the two that Koga was collecting right now, would allow me to access my future.
I heard them approach my position behind the boulder next to the path. They were arguing, I didn't care what about, the girl was a time anomaly and didn't belong here in the thirteenth century, and the mutt, InuYasha, he was an outcast among both humans and demons. He was pathetic enough to fall in love with a priestess who in turn put him to sleep fifty years ago.
I laughed to myself thinking about that story. This had all happened three weeks before I was born, the mutt would have no knowledge of me. I put my hands into the pockets of my jeans before walking out in front of them.
I could tell, the girl was my target, the scent of the jewel radiated off of her like heat from the sun. She was obviously a high school student from Japan in the twenty first century, I don't really get the idea of time traveling with a school uniform on but to each their own I suppose. She looked like she was about fifteen, this is using myself as a scale having the body of a sixteen-year-old, and she had long black hair and brown eyes. She had a yellow back pack that was easily identifiable as the source of the smell.
"Do I smell a jewel shard, or is my nose broken?" I asked smiling just enough to show off a fang.
The mutt was the first to respond, "Don't make me laugh, no demon can smell the jewel let alone a human.", he was very confident in this statement. Clearly, he has mistaken me for a mortal. If I wasn't in such a good mood I'd kill him for that.
InuYasha was exactly how I expected, he had long silver hair, dog ears, golden eyes, claws on his fingers, and small fangs in his mouth. He took after his father very much so. The robes of the fire rat that he was gifted by his mother at her deathbed were his only clothes.
"It's almost pitiful, how you think I'm mortal." I chuckled a little after that, to think InuYasha, pitiful, at this point the two words were synonymous. "I'll have you know that like you, I am a half demon. But unlike you, I'm the son of the time god Jikan no kami, while my mother is the lady of the northern lands Idaina-en no akuma. I don't expect you to know that seeing as you have only recently awoken from a fifty-year nap." I said smiling at the look of shock on the mutt's face.
"You're lying, a god would never defile themselves with a demon." InuYasha said trying to back away.
"So, you don't believe me, perhaps if I go more into your past you'll be convinced. I'm sure your companion here would love to go down memory lane." I said clearly striking a nerve with the mutt, he was growling at me now and clenching his fists. "Why don't we start with how you ended up on that tree? Now correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't it because of a priestess that you fell in love with. You know, before you killed her and stole the sacred jewel. She used her last breath to bind you to that tree." I said, naturally everything I said was correct, I could tell by the widening of his eyes.
"Ok so you know a little bit about my past, anyone could've told you that. Odds are you heard about it from the villagers." InuYasha said desperately trying to cling to the idea that I was a mortal.
"This is true, but tell me, did you catch my scent in the village at all?" I asked knowing that he didn't. This was my first time being anywhere remotely close to this village.
"Ok, but you still could've heard from my brother, or another demon in this area." InuYasha said clearly grasping at straws now, just one more push and he'll have to believe me.
"Do you think Sesshomaru would spread information so disgraceful to his lineage? And no demon would care enough to remember an event like that happening to a half demon. But if that's not enough for you to believe me then feel free to attack, I'll prove my claims through battle." I said, InuYasha is the type to resolve things through conflict, all I'll have to do is stop time.
"Good, I was beginning to think you'd never stop talking." InuYasha said cracking his knuckles before charging foreword.
As InuYasha approached I took my left hand out of my pocket. When he was close enough I put my pointer finger on his forehead causing a wave of purple to wash over him. Once the flow of time stopped over his whole body I stepped aside snapping my fingers causing the purple to fade from his body. He continued foreword and tripped over himself when he tried to claw at where I was just moments before.
InuYasha began to get up, he was muttering something under his breath that I didn't really care about. "So mutt, what do you think about my ability to stop time?" I asked as he finally got to his feet.
"There's no way, you didn't stop time, you're just really fast. Right Kagome, that's what happened right?" InuYasha asked desperately denying the truth of the situation.
"He's telling the truth InuYasha, he stopped you midair and just casually stepped to the side." The girl said, I was glad she told the truth this whole thing just became easier.
"Good, now that this has all been dealt with hand over the jewel shards." I said, this whole thing was taking too long, by now that mangy wolf Koga has retrieved my jewel shards and has arrived at the rendezvous point.
"Like hell we'd give them to you." InuYasha said trying to get me to back off. Though I appreciated the attempt I wasn't in the mood.
"That's funny mutt, hold still for a minute." I said tapping him again causing time to stop around him again. "Now Kagome, was it? I'd hope you're more reasonable than the mutt, be a dear and hand over the jewel shards." I said extending my hand for her to put the shards in it.
"No, InuYasha and I worked hard for these shards. Go find your own." Kagome said, the attitude on this girl needs some serious work. Everyone knows that when a god asks for something you damn well better produce it.
"Did you perhaps miss the part where we mentioned I'm a god?" I asked hoping that reason would take over soon.
"No, and that won't change my decision." She said clearly defiant.
I started to growl out of frustration, the dragon in me wanted to wipe her off the face of this timeline. "Fine, if you won't give them to me willingly then I'll just have to take this." I said running towards her and ripping her backpack off stopping time in the process.
The purple tint covered the whole world, the air became still. I took a deep breath before sitting down with the bag. I opened it, I flinched from the sudden wave of smells that shot out of the bag. Though the scent of the jewel shards didn't seem to increase at all, though I figured that was because there are only two.
After several minutes of shuffling through the bag I had found nothing in the main compartment except a chocolate doughnut which I ate without hesitation. Things weren't looking good for me so far as finding the jewel shards goes. In a last-ditch effort, I snapped my fingers causing time to resume around Kagome
"Hey what are you doing?" Kagome asked still reacting to me taking her bag. She then looked over to me, I probably still had crumbs on my otherwise perfect face.
"That skirt wouldn't happen to have pockets, would it?" I asked, it was unlikely but worth a chance.
"Maybe it does, what does it matter to you?" Kagome asked still trying to defy me. The stupid wrench clearly doesn't realize the full extent of the situation, even if she kills me time will not resume.
"Look, I'm done asking nicely. Give me the jewel shards or InuYasha will be burying your corpse after seven years' worth of decomposition." I said extending my nails into claws to show her I meant it.
"Fine, here take them." Kagome said reaching into a pocket of her skirt that was perfectly hidden within the ripples of it. She took out a small bottle that contained two pink fragments of the sacred jewel.
She threw them over to me, of course I caught them flawlessly in my right hand. I got up and began to walk away, putting the shards in my left pocket as I walked. I snapped my fingers again freezing Kagome and her positions.
I walked down the trail a bit before dashing off into the trees, it's better that I go off the trail than the mutt pick up my scent. I was headed for a rocky region, it was home of the eastern wolf demon tribe. When I was confident that the mutt wouldn't pick up on my scent I stopped in a village near my rendezvous point and resumed time.
The villagers began walking around oblivious to the fact that ten minutes past. I walked up to a butcher shop, the shop keeper recognized me and pulled out a large steak precooked to my liking as well as twenty gold coins.
"Thank you, the money is greatly appreciated. And the meal isn't bad either." I said using my claws and fangs to tear apart the steak.
"It is no problem; your business always causes many more people to buy their meat from me." The butcher said, this is only natural, if a god likes your products then so should the common man.
I finished my steak and said good bye before proceeding up into the hills where Koga was to meet me.
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