Chapter 3

Moments later GIR returned, accompanied by a young boy with a scythe-like hairstyle.

"Zim!" Dib said accusingly, pointing a shaking finger at his nemesis.

"Dib-monkey! Leave now, Earth-scum! I'm in the middle of IMPORTANT matters!" Zim rallied, an equally psycho look in his eyes.

"No, Zim. I'm going to find out what you're planning and mark my words, I WILL stop you from taking over the Earth!" countered Dib confidently.

Inuyasha allowed the two to bicker back and forth for a moment or two before completely lowing his temper and snapping.

"Damn it, ZIM! Stop whatever the hell it is you're doing NOW, and take me to Kagome's shrine in Japan! I didn't come here to listen to little kids argue about shit!" he bellowed, as he unscathed Tetsusiaga. In a moment of blind rage, Tetsusiaga transformed and Inuyasha swung it at the young boy that was in his way.

It didn't do anything terribly horrible like mangle the kid or anything along those likes. Nonetheless, the impact was greater than he would've thought, considering the miniscule amount of damage he actually did.

Dib's lower lip quivered. He looked up at his forehead, and then down to the floor behind him. "M-my hair! L-look what y-you d-did to my hair!" he cried in a desperate sounding voice.

Sure enough, the piece of his hair that looked similar to a scythe was lying neatly on the ground just behind Dib. Oddly, it was still perfectly held in the shape it had been while it was still attached to the boy's head.

"HA!" Zim laughed, as he clutched his stomach because of laughing pains and pointed at Dib, "Your head looks even BIGGER now!"

"You jerk! You'll pay for this!" Dib said. It was obvious that he was trying to hold back tears, for his eyes were starting to produce masses of the salty water. "You'll regret this, Zim!"

He then walked out, clutching his severed hair in his hands. Without a doubt, he was going home to find a way to reattach his hair to his head and regain his old look. He was very soon out of sight, and Zim turned to more pressing matters.

The funky green alien knew that Tallest Inu wasn't joking in the least after what he'd just done to Dib, so he went to get the cruiser ready for his mighty guest. As soon as Dib was safely out of his base, he told the Tallest that they were ready for lift off and could go at any moment.

"Hehehehe…It's a little cramped in here. I'm sorry, my Tallest, but I didn't have sufficient time to modify it for your presence," Zim said nervously, as they all clambered into the tiny alien spacecraft.

"Shut up and drive," Inuyasha ordered nastily. He'd seen too many distractions for one day, and was keen of finally getting back home to the Feudal Era.

"Yes, my Tallest, right away," Zim agreed, as he sat back and started up the voot cruiser. He didn't want to admit it, but this new Tallest instilled a fear in him that no other being had been able to.

((Change of time))

"Oooooh! Whazzat?" GIR marvelled, as he looked out the window of the voot cruiser.

"It's nothing, GIR. Now OBEY my and stop being…annoying," Zim said to his disobedient robot slave. He was tense; Tallest Inu hadn't said a word the entire time, besides barking out random orders.

GIR, of course, decided to ignore his master, and continued to press his face against the glass. He had been appointed the lookout, though he wasn't doing a very good job of it. That is, until he (amazingly) found what they were looking for.

"I see a perdy giral!" he randomly blurted out, not taking his face away from the window.

Inuyasha, who had been in non-stop alert mode since their journey had begun, glanced out the window where GIR was looking as well. The little robot had been blurting out things like that this whole way, and every time it had been a false alarm. But this time was different; this time he'd found what they were looking for.

"ZIM, land the ship!" Inuyasha ordered, not taking his eyes off the black-haired young lady below them.

"But, my Tallest! I cannot LAND here…the voot cruiser will be totalled!" Zim protested, "And if I get stranded here, someone could discover me…and that would jeopardize the mission!"

"ZIM…" Inuyasha started in a menacing voice, "Land this damn ship. NOW!"

Zim saw that there was no getting out of this, and followed Tallest Inu's command as best he could. The voot cruiser hovered shakily to the ground, the trip made even shakier by Zim evading the massive trees all around them. When it was only a few short meters from it's landing place on the cement ground, it stopped hovering and just dropped. It landed with a thunderous crash, which caught the teenage girl's attention.

Inuyasha scrambled out of the destroyed spacecraft and dashed to the girl. "Kagome! KAGOME!" he called, his voice strained by his pure joy and relief. He hadn't realized exactly how much he'd missed her until he'd seen her face again for the first time in months. He was almost on the verge of tears.

Kagome recognized the voice that was calling out to her; it was unmistakeably that of the overconfident half-demon, Inuyasha. However, when she looked at the one who was doing the speaking, she began to have doubts. He was unrecognizable, aside from his long silver hair and demon sword, his robe was tucked away somewhere secret.

"I-Inuyasha? Is that you?" she asked awkwardly. She honestly wasn't sure what to think.

"Kagome!" Inuyasha whispered, as he got near enough to her to embrace her in a hug.

That convinced the girl that this was indeed Inuyasha. Now she only had to find out what was going on, and possibly how to fix it. Though she really wanted to stay in the moment, she also really wanted to know what was going on.

While returning the half-demon's loving hug, she started to pelt out the questions.

"Inuyasha…what happened to you? Where'd you go? We've all been so worried about you. We thought the worst had happened…" she sobbed, "I'm sorry I ever doubted you!"

"It's OK, Kagome, it's OK. You don't have to cry," Inuyasha said in an attempt to comfort her, though his efforts failed. Like many things in this world, her tears seemed to be contagious, for now he was silently weeping as well.

"B-but…"

"C'mon, Kagome. Let's go home," Inuyasha said quietly, as he wiped away the girls tears from her face.

"Oh-OK," she sniffed in reply, trying to calm herself.

And with that, the two walked into the well that would take them back 500 years to the Feudal Era. Zim, however, wasn't OK with Tallest Inu walking off the job and away from his duties as a Tallest.

"My Tallest! Where are you going? You have to return to the Massive to bring DESTRUCTION on these PI-TI-FUL HU-MANS!" Zim protested, though it was to no prevail.

Inuyasha and Kagome ignored the little green man, and continued on their way to the well that transcended time. They entered the shrine and hopped into the well. Very soon, they disappeared into a different time period, leaving Zim stranded in Kagome's yard.

"WA-OO! I WANNA COME TOO!" GIR shrieked, as he plunged into the ancient well after the girl and half-demon.

A hollow metallic clanging sound could be heard when the robot hit the bottom of the dirt well. Zim ventured forth to the mythical well and gazed in, expecting not only to see his robot slave, but also the Tallest and the girl.

"Masta, they're not down heeeeerrrrreeee!" GIR called up to Zim, his voice echoing in the small space. A dumbfounded yet gleeful look was plastered on his face as he wondered where they were and listened to his echoing voice.

"Where did he GO?" Zim pondered aloud, as he scratched his head.

((Change of focus))

"K-Kagome…" Inuyasha muttered crazily, as he felt his body up and down. He suddenly felt…normal again.

"Yeah?" Kagome answered, as she got to her feet.

"I'm normal again! I'm not…freakish any more!" he said excitedly. It was true; he looked at his reflection in a nearby puddle to find that his outfit had disappeared and had been replaced with the Robe of the Fire Rat and that his skin was its normal colour again, and he felt around his belly to discover that all of his organs were back in their proper places.

"Oh my god! Inuyasha, that's amazing! How'd you do it?" Kagome marvelled, as she wiped a bit of dirt off her knees and took a look at Inuyasha. She was genuinely happy that he was back, and back to the way he was before.

"I…Kagome, I don't know. I don't know how I got all green and stuff in the first place," he admitted, as he gazed up at the sky.

"Hmm…that's weird. But you're OK and everything's back to normal, right?" Kagome asked; this whole ordeal baffled her as well. Though despite that fact, she was too elated to dwell on anything for more than a moment or two for the time being.

"Yeah, for the most part."

"Well then, let's go meet up with the rest of the group! They'll all be so happy to see you…we've been worried sick," Kagome suggested, as she grabbed hold of Inuyasha's wrist and started to pull him to the cam they'd made.

Inuyasha flinched at the touch of her hands on his wrist, remembering what the robotic hands had done to him. Although he insisted that he was perfectly alright, he knew that it would be some time before he really was. It would be a while before he recovered from everything that had happened in the last five months, not only physically, but mentally as well.

Despite all that had happened, though, it hadn't been all that bad for the most part. Sure, they'd pretty much mutilated his body, but he had been supreme ruler of an entire race of beings and the inhabitants of all the planets he'd captured. He'd grown to like his life as an Irken, and couldn't help but regret not being there any more. He'd had a taste of true power, and that feeling would stay with him forever.

He had to accept the fact that he had his old life back, though, and he had to do it soon. If he was in a battle with Naraku and just happened to be daydreaming of life on Irk, he'd be putting himself and everyone else in a fairly large pile of shit.

He shook off this odd feeling of longing and made himself return to reality. He had a long awaited reunion to attend to, and he intended to enjoy it to the fullest…and he hoped they had the ramen ready for him, for on Irk they had forbid such things.

((End of chapter 3))

Well, there you have it: chapter 3 of Tallest Inu. The final chapter...man, this was fun to write! Hope all of you had as many laughs and stuff while reading it as I did while writing it!

I should probably go now...for those of you who are into my other fanfictions, I'm trying to work on Ninja in a Demon's World as much as I can, but I'm being called into work more than usual...even on my days off...but oh well! It's getting me lots of money for when I go to Japan, so it's all good.

This is Randominuyasha, signing off!