Disclaimer: I still do not own Inuyasha no matter how much I wish I do. I do however own all characters of my own making.
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It was an average day in the lives of the Inuyasha group. The sun was shining like it seems to always be, ready to darken at the least sign of danger, so you'd have to be as thick as Inuyasha to not know something was coming. But right now it was shining so everything was good. Inuyasha hadn't managed to tick off Kagome in like 30 seconds; Miroku is slap-free… Oh never mind. Shippo is too tired to be annoying and pretty much they are just wandering around. Looking for Jewel shards or Naraku which ever shows up first. Suddenly a villager runs up to them, gasping for air. Inuyasha walks right past him until Kagome grabs his ear and drags him back. Over Inuyasha's grumbling, they listened to the man's tale of a demon that refused to leave. "We'll help if you stop whining!" Inuyasha growled after listening to the man repeating himself about how frightening and loud the demon is, over and over and over and over again. "Inuyasha! Sit boy!" Kagome admonished. After Inuyasha got up groaned, yelled at Kagome, and then repeated it about 4 times, in which timeframe the demon could very well have destroyed 60 villages, they followed the man to his village. When they arrived they noticed that the village lacked a certain amount of…let's say… ravaged look. All the houses were still there, no dead littered the streets, no flame wall the size of a large whale, and not a single screaming person. "I'm sorry, sir, you said you were attacked by a demon?" Miroku smiled politely. "Are are you knocked upside the head, lost, and/or have the wrong village?" asked Inuyasha with sarcasm. "Inuyasha!" Kagome admonished (What? She does do it often!) The villager shook his head and motioned them along. "I in fact said that there was a demon that we can't get to leave. I never said it hurt us." "You did mention it was frightening and loud." Sango pointed out. The villager nodded. "You'll see, you'll see," was all he would say.
So the group came almost to the center of town, it seemed more desolate than the outskirts. The man began to tremble and stopped. "Go on to the town square, you'll see." He walked off muttering thing under his breath. "Hey, anyone ever wonder why people always come straight to us for help? I mean seem if they knew who we were, they'd keep their girls locked up, away from Miroku." Kagome mused. "Hey!" Miroku huffed. But Kagome continued without pause. "Do we have a "good" aura or something? I mean seeing how we have 2 and a ½ demons-" This time the 'Hey!' was from Inuyasha. "- you'd think we wouldn't be the first choice in a demon fight." Before anyone could comment on Kagome's insightful thoughts they reached the town square. "Uh, not seeing anything." commented Shippo, whom authoress had quite forgotten about. "No kidding, runt." grunted Inuyasha. "Inuyasha!" Kagome admonished. But Inuyasha was too busy looking down at his feet, for he had felt a small tug on his kimono. What he saw was a little clouded leopard demon cub. The group looked at the little cutie till it finally spoke. "Neko says Rawr!" and toddled away. It finally sat in the middle of the square. It turned and looked expectantly towards the group. They just stared as the little cub blinked once. It turned to Inuyasha and finally said. "Neko is hungery, Papa!" The whole group's heads turned to look at Inuyasha. "What?!" he asked defensively. "She has the food!" He cried pointing at Kagome. But she wasn't there. They all turned to see her cuddling the cub. "Oh my gosh, you are the cutest little guy ever! I mean look at you so fluffy and big eyed!" (Think of baby Tai Lung from Kung Fu Panda and you'll get it.) "Neko not guy!" the little fluff ball said, extracting itself from Kagome's killer grip. "Neko girl!" she stated proudly as if that fact alone was cause for celebration. "Feed Neko?" the little thing asked Kagome hopefully. "Sure, but only cause you're soooooo cute!" Kagome picked up the cub and headed out of town. The rest of the group was left behind wondering what just happened. Shippo and Sango went after Kagome to look at the cub some more because she was just soooo cute. Miroku turned to Inuyasha and after a moment's silence, quietly said. "I've got a bad feeling about this." Inuyasha just gulped.
When they found Kagome, she was feeding the cub ramen. "Hey! That's mine!" Inuyasha yelled. "Oh hush, I'll get more." Kagome admonished. Neko was looking at them all with interest. "Do you want to tell the boys all of our names?" Kagome asked, cooing slightly. "I know my own name, thanks!" Inuyasha snapped. "Inuyasha!" (Wait for it, wait for it) Kagome scolded. Neko held up a chubby paw and pointed at each person. "Papa, Moma, Sissy Lala , Bother Ship, Uncle Moku, Auntie Go." She beamed. Sango giggled at Neko's pronunciation of 'brother'. All the males grumbled at their pet names. "Isn't she the cutest?" Kagome gushed. Everyone else sweat dropped. Just about then Naraku popped up out of now where. "Mwwhahahahahaaa!" Everyone stared at him for a second. He shrugged. "I'm working on it. Anyway, I've come to kill you all since you imbeciles can't find me and I'm bored out of my skull and the authoress is running rapidly out of ideas." So Inuyasha got really tick and screamed insults at the Grand Ruler of All That Is Evil like every other time Naraku shows up. Finally he pulls out Tetsiaga. "Oo! Shiny! Neko loves Shiny. Oo! Fluffy!" Naraku watched with raised eyebrows as the cub batted at Tetsiaga. Then Neko happened to turn. "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
Naraku, Shippo, Kirara, and Inuyasha were rolling on the ground begging for the noise to stop. Well Kirara was really mewing in pain but you get the point. Sango and Kagome were covering their ears and staring at the toddler. "Spider! Neko hate Spider! Make go away Papa!" But Inuyasha was too dazed by her scream that was a combination of the yowling of a tortured cat and the high pitched wailing of a child. Neko turned her gaze to Naraku who was also stunned and wondering how so loud of a noise could come out of such a small thing. She started to glow red and grow. "Neko doesn't like Spider! Neko hate The Spiderman! Spiderman mean to Papa and Mama and Auntie Go and Uncle Moku and Sissy Lala and Bother Ship! NEKO SQUASH SPIDERMAN!!!" By then end of this tirade Neko had grown as large as Sesshomaru in his dog-demon form. She was on all fours. She had claws and fangs that reached the ground from her great height. Her eyes were pure blood red with no sign of pupils. She lifted a great paw. Naraku finally shook off his dizziness and looked up. "Oh crap!" was all he said right before being crushed repeatedly by Neko's great paw. Slam, Slam, Slam, Slam, Slam, Slam, Slam, Slam, Slam, Slam, Slam, Slam. Finally satisfied that she had killed 'Spiderman', Neko returned to her toddler form and toddled over to Inuyasha. "Papa! I kill spider! I kill spider! I kill spider!" The whole group stared, eyes twitching, at a huge paw shaped hole in the ground. "Help!" they heard Naraku say weakly and distantly. "Papa, Papa! I kill spider!" Nekosaid, worried that 'Papa' might not approve, she tugged at his shirt. Inuyasha blinked and looked down at the cub. "Uh , good Neko, good kill spider."
Suddenly Kagura showed up. "Where is Naraku?" she asked perplexed. Finally the implications hit the group. "Naraku was defeated by a..*snort*..Toddler!" Miroku tried, unsuccessfully, to not laugh. Soon the whole group was rolling on the ground, laughing really hard. Kagura looked to Neko, the only one not laughing and Neko looked back with a faint *don't-ask-me* expression. Then the cub's face lit up. "You has a Shiny! Can Neko play with Shiny?!" Kagura looked where the cubby paw was pointing. "My fan? No, you may not. Oh, hey while the entire group is rolling around, I could do my Dance of Blades and then Naraku can be proud of me and maybe he'll set me free!" "Don't count on it!" came Naraku's weak voice from in the deep paw-shaped hole. "But do it anyways." Kagura grumbled but started her attack. Unfortunately she forgot our very own Neko. When she started to wave her fan, the little tike jumped up and grabbed it. The group had at this point recovered and watched in amazement as Neko ran around on all fours with Kagura's fan in her mouth, just out of reach of the wind-demon. Every once in a while she turn suddenly and throw it into the air and then catch it again as it fell just out from under Kagura's grasp. Regrettably, Kagura's attack had been started, and couldn't be stopped except by Kagura's touch. So the fan was blasting wind-blades everywhere. Some times Kagura had to dodge her own attack. You can imagine the damage it was causing the innocent forest. Naraku had just been climbing out of his hole when a blade came by and sliced all his hair off. He yelped and tried to back away…..into thin air. Slam!
Finally recovering from laughter and slightly out of breath from running, Kagome yelled Neko's name. "Neko! Stop right now young lady! Now what do you say to the nice lady?" Kagome nearly choked on calling Kagura a 'nice lady'. Inuyasha and Miroku looked on in shock as Kagome used her best mom skills, Sango just nodded sagely and Shippo knew what was coming. Neko hung her head, effectively digging a hole with repeated close wind blade attacks. "Sowwy." She murmured, further muffled by the fan. "What's that? I couldn't hear you!" Kagome scolded. Neko hung her head further. "Sowwy!" "For..?" prompted Kagome. "For taking your fan, Missus Windy." Kagome tried not to giggle as Kagura gaped at her new name, pronounced even worse with a fan in Neko's mouth. Kagura delicately pulled her fan from Neko's mouth and shut it, finishing the attack. Everyone sighed with relief. "You worthless scrap of fur!" Kagura snarled, snapping her fan open…or at least tried to. Slobber was holding it shut. Finally getting it open she waved it for her worst attack, Dance of The Dragon. Nothing happened. She looked down at her fan that was lying in shreds. Tiny teeth and little claws had ripped through the delicate paper and silk. Jaws that were strong for her age had snapped the demon bones inside the fan that held it ridged. Kagura shifted her stare down to Neko, who grinned embarrassedly back, all her tiny, pointy, cone-like teeth showing. Kagurafinally gave up and started sobbing, holding her fan like a baby. Neko wandered over and started rubbing the crying demon. "'Sokay, Windy, get you nuther one." By this time the group was all packed and Kagome picked up Neko. "Okay, Neko say bye to your friend." Neko waved a little paw at Kagura as they walked away. Then Neko turned and glared at Naraku who was getting out of the hole again. She hissed and he gulped. Smiling reassuringly he let go of his grip and fell back to the bottom of the paw print. She snorted and turned and snuggled into Kagome's warm embrace. There was silence until Inuyasha finally said something. "We do realize that this toddler has just effectively rid us of Naraku and Kagura, all in the space of about ten minutes, right? I mean she'd we keep her?" The group looked at each other.
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Evil, evil me. I'm going to see by the reviews I get if they should keep her or find someone to hand her to. So my wonderful readers, you decide. I'll wait for about 5 reviews but if I get more I'll be happy, happy, happy! So vote my brethren! Seal the little cub's fate. And for those of you smart alecks; yes I know what her name means. It is supposed to be ironic, okay.