The Cat's Meow
Inuyasha woke up the next morning, and yawned. He looked down to see Kagome, but she wasn't there.
'I wonder where she went….' he wondered to himself. Inuyasha then jumped off the tree to go find Kagome. He started to walk towards the hut, and then he heard Shippo scream. He ran inside.
"Shippo, what happened?" Inuyasha asked intensively.
"There's a cat demon who's trying to steal all of our food!" he shrieked.
"What's your problem Shippo?" the cat demon asked.
"Ahhhh! It knows my name!" Shippo yelled, as he jumped backwards.
The cat demon stood utterly confused.
"Inuyasha, what happened to Kagome?" Shippo asked
"I'm right over here!" the cat demon yelled.
"Oh no!" Shippo gasped. "The cat demon have eaten Kagome!!!!!"
A sweat drop formed on the back of Inuyasha's head.
"Attack it Inuyasha!!!" Shippo screeched.
Inuyasha hit Shippo on the head.
"No stupid! Kagome is a cat demon." Inuyasha yelled at the fox demon.
"No she isn't" Shippo said determined to be right. "Prove it."
"Inuyasha" Kagome began.
"No, Kagome, Don't!!!!!!" Inuyasha pleaded.
"Sit boy!" she said with a smile.
Inuyasha's necklace glowed, as he was reunited with his best friend, the ground.
"Uhhhh" Inuyasha cried out in pain.
"Kagome, it really is you!" the kitsune cried, as he jumped into Kagome's arms. "But Kagome, why are you a cat demon?"
"I think it happened when the cat demon bit me." she replied
Just then, Miroku and Sango walked in. They had gone outside to fill the water bottles.
"It's a cat demon!" Sango yelled as she grabbed her hiraikotsu.
A sweat drop formed on Kagome's head; as yet again, someone didn't know it was her. Inuyasha also had a sweat drop.
"Forget it Sango" Miroku said, as he put his hand in front of her. "I will finish this quickly using my Wind Tunnel." Miroku began to undo the prayer beads around his hand.
Kagome jumped back out of fear.
Inuyasha quickly jumped in front of Kagome instinctively.
"Miroku stop, it's not what you think." Inuyasha began
"Oh, Inuyasha, you want to kill this demon? Go right ahead." Miroku said as he put the beads back around his hand.
Kagome relaxed, and took a quick breather.
"It's Kagome." Inuyasha said. "She's been turned into a cat demon from the cat bite from yesterday."
"Really?" Miroku got up into Kagome's face. "I must say that there is some similarity between the two….but I still don't think it's Kagome." Miroku said. Sango nodded her head in agreement.
"Here, I can prove it." Kagome said. Then she turned to face Inuyasha.
"Oh no! Don't you dare!" Inuyasha said.
"Sit!" she said calmly.
Inuyasha's necklace glowed, and him and the floor met once again.
"UHHHH!!!!!!!!" Inuyasha cried out in pain, and annoyance.
"Yup, that is definitely Kagome." Miroku said, as he nodded his head.
"How did it happen? From the demon's bite?" Sango questioned.
"Yes." she replied.
"That's strange." Miroku said.
They all turned to face him. Sango spoke up first.
"Why?"
"Well, a lot of villagers have been bitten by cat demons, and none of them turned into cat demons." he replied.
"Maybe it's because Kagome's a miko, and she possess the Shikon no tama." Inuyasha said, as brought himself off of the floor.
"Possibly…" Miroku answered.
"So Kagome, is it fun to be a cat demon?" Sango asked with a smile.
Kagome's ears twitched back and forth.
"Yah! It's awesome. There are so many things that I smell." Kagome said.
Just then, an idea popped into Inuyasha's head. He reached for her ears, and began to massage them. Kagome purred. When she realized what she was doing, she blushed, and then quickly snapped out of her daze.
"What are you doing?" she asked, as she pulled herself away.
"Sorry. But everyone is always asking to touch my ears. Now, I get to touch someone else's!" he said.
Kagome blushed.
"Oh! My turn next!" Sango yelled, as she touched Kagome's ears. Kagome purred once again, and Sango giggled.
"Ooooo!" Miroku yelled. It caught everyone's attention. "I want to pet her next." Miroku said, as he raised an eyebrow deviously.
Sango took her hiraikotsu and hit him on the head. A large red bump formed on the top of his head.
Just then, Kaede walked in.
"What is going on in here?" she asked confused.
They all sat down, and explained what had happened.
"I see child." Kaede said, once they finished explaining. "That's a bit of trouble ye got." she replied.
"Kaede, what can I do to turn back into myself again?" Kagome asked.
"I don't know." she responded.
"WHAT? So I'm gonna be stuck as a cat demon for the rest of my life?" Kagome yelled.
"Actually, no. Ye aren't a demon, ye are a hanyou." Kaede explained.
Inuyasha ears twitched a little.
"She's a hanyou?" Inuyasha asked.
"Aye" Kaede answered.
'Wow, she's just like me now.' Inuyasha thought to himself with a smile.
"Ooo. What am I gonna do?" Kagome said, as she ran out of the hut.
Inuyasha jumped out from where he was sitting.
"I'm gonna go get her." he said, as he ran out the door.
Kagome had run to where the sacred tree was, and sat on one of the branches.
'I can't go home like this. Besides, no one would accept me. Not my family, or my friends. I wouldn't even be able to explain to my friends what I am without them thinking I'm crazy.' she thought to herself, as her ears flattened on her head.
'That's the one good part about her having ears.' Inuyasha thought, as he walked over to the tree she was on. 'Her emotions are an open book, and she can't hide her true feelings.'
"Hey, what's the matter?" Inuyasha asked.
Kagome jumped a little, surprised.
"Oh, hey Inuyasha. Nothing is the matter." she answered back, wiping a tear away from under her eyes.
"Something's bothering you Kagome. Tell me what it is." Inuyasha insisted.
"Well, I can't go home. My friends wouldn't accept me, and neither would my family." she said, as she titled her head down so her bangs would cover up her face cover with tears.
Inuyasha jumped up to where she was sitting, and sat in front of her. He then tilted her head up to look at him. Then he wiped away the tears that had fallen down her face.
"You're family will accept you. They've accepted me, and I'm not even part of your family. And you friends, if they are really your true friends, then they will accept you no matter what." Inuyasha said with a smile.
"Yeah, I guess your right." Kagome said, smiling a little bit.
"And don't forget, you have friends here that accept you no matter what." Inuyasha said.
Kagome blushed. "Even you?" she asked.
Inuyasha blushed too. "Y-yeah" he answered back.
"Oh Inuyasha" Kagome hugged him.
Inuyasha was a bit started by her, but he snapped out of his daze and hugged her back.
They stayed like that for a little while, and then Inuyasha broke their silence.
"U-um….I have some good news." he started.
They pulled away from each other.
"What's that?" Kagome asked with still a slight blush on her cheeks.
"Tonight's the new moon. That's when I become human and loose my demon powers. You will turn human too." he answered
"Oh yeah? Great!" Kagome said. "Cuz I hate being a hanyou-" Kagome gasped and quickly cover her mouth with her hands from realizing what she had just said.
Inuyasha's ears flattened on his head.
"What's so bad about being a hanyou?" he asked.
"N-no, nothing at all Inuyasha!" she said, waving he hands back and forth while shaking her head back and forth also.
"Because I'm a hanyou. You don't like that?" Inuyasha asked worried.
"No, no, I do like that about you. I just don't like me being a hanyou. It's just so different, and new. And I smell a lot of things all of the time. It's just, you no, different." she answered, trying not to make him angry or sad.
"Oh….right…." he said, as he jumped off the tree. " I'm gonna go for a walk."
"Oh, okay….." Kagome said, unhappily.
Inuyasha began to run in no direction in particular.
'Great' Kagome thought to herself. 'Perfect! Now he probably thinks I don't like him, or there's something wrong with him.'
'She doesn't like that I'm a hanyou? I thought she liked me for who I am! But no, she hates being a hanyou, and she hates that I am one too. Damnit!' Inuyasha cursed at himself, as he continued running.
Inuyasha's returned to Kaede's hut, a couple of hours later. It had just become night, and there was no moon. Inuyasha's hair turned black and his eyes too. His fangs shrunk into normal human teeth, and his claws turned into fingernails. His ears weren't on the top of his head anymore, and they weren't dog ears. They were human ears on the sides of his head. He was just a mortal human now.
Inuyasha expected to see Kagome mortal now. The same as him. But he didn't see her at all. He ran inside the hut.
"Where's Kagome?" he asked.
Miroku, Sango, and Kaede were sitting drinking some tea that Kaede had made. They were talking about Kagome being a hanyou, and how to reverse it. Kilala was sitting next to Sango. Shippo was asleep in Kagome's sleeping bag, but there was no Kagome.
"She isn't here." Miroku said.
"Isn't she with ye?" Kaede asked.
"No, she isn't" Inuyasha answered back.
"That's strange" Sango began. "I haven't seen her for hours."
Inuyasha, fearing the worst began to run outside to look for her. Sango called after him.
"Wait Inuyasha. You are only mortal. Here, take Kilala with you." she handed Inuyasha the small cat. "We will stay here, incase Kagome returns."
Kilala jumped out of Inuyasha's hands when they went outside. She transformed into a larger cat demon. She took Inuyasha on her back, and flew into the sky to search for Kagome.
All of the sudden, something jumped into the sky, and attacked Kilala. Kilala and Inuyasha began to fall to the ground. Kilala transformed back into a small cat, and they both fell to the ground. Kilala fell, and rolled a little bit when she hit the ground hard. Inuyasha landed on his feet, but stumbled backwards a bit.
"What the hell was that?" Inuyasha yelled.
"Hello, Inuyasha." a familiar voice said.
Inuyasha turned around to find Kagome. She was standing under a tree, so she was covered by the shadows. Inuyasha couldn't quite see her, but he knew it was her from the sound of her voice, ever though it sounded a bit muffled.
"K-Kagome?" Inuyasha was startled. "Why did you attack me and Kilala?"
Kagome began to laugh, as she stepped out from underneath the trees to reveal herself.
Inuyasha took a quick breath of air, as he was cut across his chest, and thrown to the floor. He rolled across the ground, then stopped, and was lying on his stomach. He lifted his body up a bit, but not off the ground.
"Ka…go...me…" he managed to say, though he was in pain. Now he wasn't even sure if it was her. 'What's the matter with her?' he thought to himself. Then he saw the answer all to clear, as he got a good look at her. She wasn't human now. She was far from it. Kagome was a pure demon. Her eyes glowed red, and her claws were stained with his blood.
She then licked her claws, and tastes his blood.
"This should be fun." she said, as she laughed.
'What am I gonna do?' Inuyasha thought to himself.
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Ah ha! Sorry, but I had to put this cliffhanger. I hope that it's keeping you interested, and now you want more! Hehe. I updated this chapter pretty fast, but I'm sorry, for the next one isn't coming that soon. I mean, come on! Tomorrows Thanksgiving, and if I don't get a day off writing, who does?! Lol. REVIEW NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!