Into the Clans
Hello everybody! Wow, it's been a while since I last wrote. So yeah, heh-heh-heh… I'll bet NOBODY saw NARAKU coming (sarcasm). The rest of the story will be in the world of the Clans… maybe… I'm not sure…
Inuyasha Muse: What I would like to know is what in the seven hells happened back there?! Why and how am I a… AAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
Me: Calm down Inuyasha! Stop clawing at me! Ouch! Would you- OW! SOMEBODY HELP ME!
Rain Muse: Quickly! The disclaimer!
Ice Muse: Yes, the disclaimer! It's the only way you can save us!
Me: Anything! Just get him off me!
Kagome Muse: Inuyasha…!
Me: Eep! Disclaimer timez!
Kagome Muse: Si-
I do not own Inuyasha or Warriors! All- ouch –rights go to their proper owners!
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"Inuyasha? Inuyasha? Where are you, wake up!" Inuyasha grunted and slowly got to his feet, only to fall onto all fours again. He looked around and saw that he was in an unfamiliar clearing in the middle of a forest. A black she-cat with brown eyes and delicate white paws was looking around and seemed to be a little bit shaky on her paws. That scent… and that voice… but how can that be possible?!
"Kagome? Is that you?" Inuyasha meowed almost uncertainly. The black she-cat stared straight at Inuyasha. Her eyes widened.
"Inuyasha, is that you?!" Kagome gasped stumbling over to help up her half dog (or, cat now) demon friend. As she helped him up, Kagome looked her friend up and down. "Inuyasha, you're a cat!" Kagome exclaimed. What?! It was true. Inuyasha looked down at himself and saw the sleek, muscular body of a cat, with russet fur and a white underbelly. Inuyasha looked around and saw each and every one of his friends, now a cat. The only one who hadn't seemed to change very much was Kirarra. But, as Inuyasha looked again, he saw that there was, in fact, something different about Sango's demon cat companion. For starters, she was as big as a regular cat, although she was still a little bit smaller. Secondly, she only had one tail. The others all looked completely different. A brown tom with a single black foreleg stood up shakily. He looked around, spotted a small pool of water, and stooped down to drink, only to see his reflection.
"Oh no." The cat said in the voice of Miroku. He looked himself over, and then looked over to Kagome and Inuyasha. "Kagome? Inuyasha? Is that you?" Kagome nodded vigorously, and Inuyasha just grunted. Miroku looked to his paws. "This has got to be a dream. A very, very bad dream." Sango began to wake up, and she quickly grasped the situation. Shippo, on the other hand, freaked out WAY more than any of the others put together.
"How did this happen?!" Shippo yowled staring around in confusion. "I'm a cat! YOU'RE a cat! WE'RE ALL CATS!" It took a while, but Shippo finally calmed down. "Well, at least we're all together and- wait, where is Rain? Come to think of it, where is Ice?" Everyone looked around for what seemed like a long time, and then they all stood stock still when they heard a rustling in the bushes. A patrol of strange cats walked through the bushes, a fiery orange tom with a yellow star on his forehead and green eyes at their head. They quickly surrounded Inuyasha and his friends. The orange tom spoke, his voice majestic and regal.
"Who are you? And what, might I ask, are you doing in ThunderClan territory?" The orange tom spoke.
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Inuyasha stared at the circle of hostile cats, wishing that he would be back to normal already. It would be hard to fight a group of cats like this without his Tetsuiga. "And who, might I ask, are YOU?" Inuyasha countered. "And who do you think you are to threaten us like this?" The orange tom seemed to be taken aback for a bit, but he then regained his calm and cool atmosphere.
"How rude of me to not introduce myself." He growled flattening his ears. "I am Firestar, leader of ThunderClan. This is my mate, Sandstorm," He said flicking his tail towards each cat as he named them. "Our daughter, Squirrelflight; my deputy, Brambleclaw; my friend, Graystripe; one of my most senior warriors, Lionblaze; and his mate, Cinderheart." The tom named Firestar spoke nonchalantly. "Now," He said turning towards Inuyasha and his friends. "Are you going to tell us who YOU are?" Inuyasha hissed while the others arched their backs and prepared for battle.
"I see no reason to share that information with you." He spat. "Arrogant flea-pelt." Inuyasha flattened his ears against his head and unsheathed his claws. It was strange, he felt weird inside the body of a cat, and yet everything about it seemed as natural as breathing when he thought about it. The golden tom named Lionblaze stepped forward.
"Well, are you going to get out of our territory or are we going to have to make you?" He snarled his eyes darting over to Shippo immediately. Shippo whimpered and hid behind Kagome.
"Now, wait for a moment," Miroku said stepping forward and clearing his throat. "I'm sure that there is a peaceful way to solve this." Miroku then stepped up to the sandy colored she-cat named Squirrelflight and took her paws in his. "Would you mind bearing my children?" He asked. Kagome just lay down and hid her head in her paws. Kirarra just sighed and shook her head. The brown striped tom with the amber eyes- Brambleclaw, if Inuyasha remembered correctly –thrust himself between Miroku and the now baffled Squirrelflight.
"You keep your filthy paws off of her, you flea-ridden rogue, you piece of fox-dung!" He snarled. Miroku stepped back, and Sango quivered from ear to tail tip with rage.
"Monk…" She growled. "If that's a joke, it isn't funny!" She then cuffed him on the cheek with a sheathed paw. It left a red mark on his fur. Firestar's whiskers twitched with… was that amusement gleaming in the depth of his eyes?
"That's the last straw." He hissed, trying to choke down a purr. "ThunderClan, ATTACK!" And, in one swift movement, the patrol was upon them. Inuyasha fought back as best as he could, lashing out at any piece of brown fur he could see.
"Hey, watch it!" Sango snapped. Inuyasha took a step back; he had accidently swiped at his friend.
"S-sorry." He mewed. He turned around and sank his teeth into an orange pelt. He felt satisfaction rush through him as he heard a yowl belonging to the fiery tom. Later, however, he found himself pinned down by the ThunderClan leader. As Firestar raised his paw to bring down a finishing blow, he hissed.
"This will teach you to steal kits from ThunderClan." He hissed, his forest green eyes glittering menacingly. Inuyasha looked over and saw that Kagome was unconscious under the claws of the golden tom, Lionblaze. He felt his anger growing inside of him. Kagome!
"Get off of her, you flea-pelt!" He spat. He surged upwards and knocked the ThunderClan tom off of him, and raced over to Lionblaze. Inuyasha knocked the golden tom off of Kagome, and the two tumbled on the ground.
"Wait, stop!" A clear voice rang out. Inuyasha looked in the direction of the voice, and found a silver-blue she-cat with three darker raindrop-shaped flecks on her forehead. Next to her, stood a brown she-cat with white paws and an icy blue nose tip shaped like an icicle.
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"Firestar, you must stop this." Raineyes pleaded. "They are not the kit-thieves, I promise you that." Raineyes stared into the eyes of the ThunderClan leader, hoping and praying to StarClan that he would believe her. Please, believe me! Icenose stepped up beside her friend.
"It's true," She mewed. "Raineyes would probably be dead if they had not been there to save her." Firestar's gaze flickered uncertainly from Inuyasha to the two WindClan queens, to back again. "Besides," She added. "They have a kit with them themselves. And even if they were from BloodClan, they don't have the claws nor the collars to prove it." Raineyes saw belief beginning to flicker in Firestar's eyes, waging with disbelief.
"Please, let them go. They are our friends." Raineyes pleaded with the ThunderClan patrol. Firestar finally nodded, and flicked his tail to signal Lionblaze to let Inuyasha go. Lionblaze looked up in protest.
"B-but Firestar, they're trespassers!" He snarled looking back down to Inuyasha.
"Yeah, and you mouse-brains attacked us without giving us any reason to explain ourselves!" An unfamiliar voice spoke. Raineyes looked around to see Kirarra standing up, her tail lashing. "We were just passing through, but you just had to attack us!" Raineyes glanced at Icenose. They should have expected to be able to understand Kirarra now, but it was still strange to see her with one tail, and speaking. After a long argument, Lionblaze released Inuyasha, who immediately ran over to Kagome.
"Kagome? Kagome! Can you hear me? Wake up, please!" Kagome struggled to open her eyes, and her eyes eventually fluttered open, and she groaned. A grey tom with blank blue eyes walked into the clearing holding cobwebs and dripping moss, and he was followed by a brown she-cat carrying berries and leaves. They immediately went over to Kagome, and Inuyasha growled.
"Keep your fur on, pal." Jayfeather snapped. "We're here to help heal her, not to harm her." A silver speckled she-cat, Dovewing, burst through.
"I thought I heard someone scream!" She mewed and dashed over to help Leafpool and Jayfeather. Inuyasha growled and prepared to attack Dovewing. Jayfeather stared at him with his blank, blind eyes.
"Don't even think about it." He hissed. Inuyasha then turned and bared his fangs at Jayfeather instead. Leafpool stepped in front of her son.
"Don't you DARE attack him !" She hissed. "Does WindClan now take pleasure in attacking blind cats?" Inuyasha took a step back, saying nothing. Raineyes helped Kagome slowly get to her paws.
"Are you alright, Spirit?" She asked. Kagome looked at her in confusion and Raineyes whispered in her ear. "I'll be calling you Spirit for now. For now, that will be your name." Raineyes noticed Jayfeather's ear twitch. Had he heard what she had told Kagome? Icenose went over to help the others to their paws, whispering their temporary names in their ears. Realization dawned in Kagome's eyes.
"O-o-o-h. Yeah, I'm fine." She mewed even though her eyes betrayed her confusion. Don't worry. You'll understand when we get back to WindClan's camp.
"Well then." Raineyes smiled. "I suppose we'd better be going. Come on, guys." But Brambleclaw- the arrogant furball –noticed something his Clanmates had not.
"Wait," He said with the beginnings of a snarl. "Earlier, that one called her by a different name. Kabome or something like that." I gulped and chuckled nervously.
"W-well, they call each other that. I-it's sort of a tradition back where they come from. The male calls his mate Kagome which, where they come from, means my love. Isn't that right, Wolf? Wolf?" Inuyasha was standing there with his jaw hanging open. His eye was twitching involuntarily, and he seemed about to explode. Kagome was just as shocked, only she was blushing. Firestar nodded.
"I… see? Well then, you'd best be back to WindClan territory." Raineyes nodded and noticed a shadow in the darkness, its eyes on the throat of the ThunderClan leader.
"Firestar, look out!" Raineyes screamed as she intercepted the blow from the mysterious shadow cat. And that was the last she saw before she blacked out.
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The tom named Firestar had pinned the mysterious cat to the ground, and he was now thrashing violently. Firestar looked to Inuyasha. "Take your mate and friends back to WindClan, we'll deal with him." Firestar growled looking back to the tom now lying limp in his claws. Around his neck was a collar studded with dog teeth. Stabbed into the brown cat's paws, were vicious dog claws. His claws were stained red with blood, and the cat reeked of garbage and death. Kagome nodded, and leaned against Ice. Sango and Miroku both grabbed Rain's scruff, and they hauled her to the WindClan camp.
It wasn't long before Rain woke up, and she explained that her full name was Raineyes, and that Ice's full name in this world was Icenose. The group padded across an open moor, until they were confronted by yet another patrol. "Halt!" The leader of the patrol snarled. "Who goes there?" The tom was brown, with orange blotches and greenish-amber eyes.
"Leafstorm?" Raineyes mewed softly, pushing her way past the defensive circle. The tom's eyes immediately softened. His hackles lowered and his fur lay flat again. He seemed to have lost his voice.
"R-raineyes?" He croaked. "Is that… you?" The brown tom sheathed his claws and raced forward to press his muzzle into Raineyes'. "After we couldn't find you, I assumed the worst." He whispered into her ear, his tail intertwining with hers. Inuyasha secretly gagged. Why was this tom so mushy around Raineyes? Raineyes looked into the tom's green-amber eyes.
"How's Ebonykit?" She purred, worry sparking in her eyes. Leafstorm purred and pushed his muzzle into hers.
"Our daughter is just fine, the kit-thieves haven't gotten to her just yet." He purred. Daughter?! In our world, Raineyes is just a TEENAGER! How is it that, in this world, she has a mate and child? Icenose stepped forward.
"And Shadowkit? Is my daughter alright as well?" Leafstorm smiled.
"It's nice to see you as well, Icenose. And, to answer your question, yes, Shadowkit is also fine." Leafstorm beamed. Well, at least this explains why he's so worried about her. Raineyes sighed a sigh of relief.
"Oh, thank StarClan their safe!" She breathed. Inuyasha tilted his head. StarClan? Another bunch of idiotic furballs probably. "Oh, right! These are our friends." She murmured noticing that Leafstorm was looking at them with a puzzled expression on his face. "This is Wolf (Inuyasha), Spirit (Kagome), Fox (Shippo), Petal (Kirarra), Silver (Sango), and Raccoon (Miroku)" She mewed flicking her tail to each of them in turn. Leafstorm nodded.
"Well," He declared after the introductions. "Let's go home, shall we?" And so they all departed for WindClan's camp.