Binas: I hope you loved last chapter. And yes, the baby is a sub plot. Don't worry, you all will be there to see Aki get her memories back, but they will come up in mostly senseless pieces. And the villain will show up later, when is something I don't know. He/she has already made a or two cameo, can you find it? It's hidden in the last chapter.
Also my favorite YouTubers get a reference. Can you find them?
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"Come on! WORK!", Aki screamed while punching towards the tree, sending a small gust of wind at the tree, knocking a few leaves off it, "I GIVE UP!"
Aki failed to realize what she had done to the tree and ran inside.
'How the heck could she not notice THAT?! What an idiot and a cry baby.', Inuyasha growled inside his head.
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One week later...
Inuyasha finally told Aki that her wind powers actually did work (well after Kagome made him after several sit commands) but when she was calling the quits. Aki then slowly from there got slightly better. All she could really do were some minor jets of air and some enhanced wind cutting, much to everyone's disgust, discovering another piece of her former personality. She managed to annoy Inuyasha to no end with her air enhanced farts.
Kagome and Inuyasha dragged Aki through the bustling city. Everyone was heading to work, school, the store, and to hang outs. Eventually they passed a ramen stand with a large box on it.
"Free ramen! Come on! Get your free ramen!", The stand manager said.
Inuyasha slipped away and went to the stand. He opened the box and a person dressed up as a female zombie jumped out of the box. Inuyasha briefly screamed like a little girl.
"WHAT THE HECK?! WHAT WAS THAT ALL ABOUT?!", Inuyasha snapped.
The 'zombie' and 'stand manager' laughed.
"Gotcha!", The stand manager said.
"And on camera.", The zombie said revealing one of her many hidden cameras.
Inuyasha steamed before catching up with Aki and Kagome.
"So why are you guys dragging me along?", Aki asked.
"We are going to see if anything jogs your memory and also I promised Inuyasha to get him a better hat. He started complaining about his ears.", Kagome said.
"Why don't we just start with what she does know and go from there? If not we can shove her into that place", Inuyasha said pointing to a building surrounded by neon lights surrounded by a bunch of people who have gotten high the night before.
"The first part sounds good but we can't shove her into A BAR! YOU ARE A SUCH A PIG!", Kagome shouted slowly growing angrier, "SHE'S AT LEAST TWELVE FOR PETE'S SAKE! NOT TWENTY-ONE!"
Aki stared at the people with no remorse.
"Aki, it's not nice to stare!", Kagome snapped.
'Great... The mood swings... I better have Kagome buy those so called helmets so I can protect my head from all those sit commands.', Inuyasha thought.
"Why? Is it hurting someone?", Aki asked.
"AKI SIT!", Kagome yelled.
Instead of Aki getting the sit it was Inuyasha.
"KAGOME! YOU NEED ANOTHER PUNISHING METHOD! ALL YOUR SITS ARE DIRECTED AT ME REMEMBER?!", Inuyasha yelled.
Kagome sweat dropped.
"Oh... I guess I gotten used to telling Inuyasha to sit.", Kagome said accidently making Inuyasha sit again.
Kagome and Inuyasha were chasing Aki all over the mall, trying to keep her from messing with everything. Aki even found a skunk bombs, which no one agreed to buy for her. Inuyasha even called Aki a skunk, causing Aki to laugh. Inuyasha brought out his colorful words making Aki laugh harder. This confused Inuyasha to no end.
'She seems to be behind in her mental age... Way behind.', Inuyasha thought.
They soon past a newspaper stand. It caught Aki's eyes and she grabbed one and started to read it.
"Put that back! We are suppose to be jogging your memory for answers not reading!", Inuyasha snapped.
Aki looked at one article. It's headline was 'Mysterious American Heroine Disappears'. Under the headline was a black and white photo of a girl's face. The girl had shaggy long bangs that framed both side of her face while she stuck out her tongue. Aki once more becomes mesmerized.
"Inuyasha I think she found something to connect to.", Kagome said and peeked over the newspaper and saw the article.
"So what you mean by that is she is some how connected to a snot nosed, brat from this Amer-eh-cah?", Inuyasha asked taking a peek from the other side.
"Not sure.", Kagome said and paid for the newspaper, hopefully she could look in deeper into the article to find something of use.
Aki blinked, snapping out of her trance.
"I guess I zoned out again...", Aki said sheepishly.
The rest of the trip through the mall was a disaster. Aki finally snapped after three hours in the mall. She started with refusing to stop moving around, then moved to taking off, and finally an all blow out by almost kicking a few things. Kagome and Inuyasha stopped her before any damage could be made. Kagome saw the anxiety in Aki's eyes and realized it was an anxiety attack. Inuyasha was frowning at the fact he was trying to restrain Aki as they left. Today was no body's day. No one could blame them due to Halloween being around the corner. That was the time when everyone flocked to the nearest store to buy their perfect costume or the supplies to make them.
After finally leaving, Aki started to calm down. Inuyasha was on the verge of pounding Aki into the dust for giving them a hard time. Aki was only lucky she didn't get pounded was because Kagome was around to sit him. She still, however, got scolded by Inuyasha. Too bad it led to an argument.
"YOU NEED TO LEARN TO SUCK UP YOUR FEAR AND GET OVER IT!", Inuyasha yelled.
"OH YEAH?! WHY DON'T YOU TRY MY SHOES ON FOR SIZE?! HAVING NO MEMORY OF THE PAST, PRACTICALLY SUCKING AT USING YOUR OWN POWERS, AND HAVING TO HAVE YOUR OWN BRAIN ARGUE WITH YOUR OWN BODY! I FELL LIKE I AM SPLIT INTO TWO!", Aki screamed.
The air temperature rose around Aki. Inuyasha could smell actual smoke coming off of Aki.
"ARE YOU TRYING TO BURN YOURSELF?! MAN YOU ARE SUCH A STUPID WENCH!", Inuyasha yelled.
"WHAT?!", Aki shrieked like a banshee and white super heated fire emerged from her nostrils, eyes, and hands briefly involuntarily.
Inuyasha jumped back from getting burned by the blazes. Kagome's jaw dropped.
'So her powers only emerge when she is feeling a certain emotion. Wind came when she was innocent and flames from when she is enraged. I hope she has nothing else for surprises.', Kagome thought.
'She better not accidently set off another power on me. I hate being the first one to feel the brunt of it.', Inuyasha thought.
Aki smelled the air around her.
"Why do I smell like smoke?", Aki asked.
"You almost burned Inuyasha with your anger... Literally.", Kagome said.
"Really?", Aki asked.
"Real enough to make me want to get away from you. Your nothing but a walking disaster waiting to happen!", Inuyasha said.
Aki was taken back by this. Tears came pouring out of her eyes.
"Grow a backbone would ya? You won't survive a second where I am from without one!", Inuyasha said rudely with no remorse.
"INUYASHA!", Kagome yelled.
"What? It's true! Look! Her emotions control her! She's weak! Heck! She should just give up all together of ever getting her memories back!", Inuyasha said.
More tears poured down Aki's face and she darted away, using her wind power to speed herself up.
'He's right, I am pathetic...', Aki thought, 'He forgot to say I am a burden. He should have, that would have made him completely right.'
"INUYASHA! LOOK AT WHAT YOU HAVE DONE!", Kagome yelled, "SIT BOY!"
Inuyasha slammed into the concrete, making a hole in his own shape. He climbed out, covered in scratches and scraps from the cement rubbing against his skin.
"I WAS JUST BEING HONEST!", Inuyasha shouted.
"BUT YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO PUT IN A WAY THAT WOULD UPSET HER! YOU KNOW WHAT THEY DO WITH RUN AWAY CHILDREN?!", Kagome yelled, "THEY ARREST THEM AND THEN BRING THEM BACK TO THEIR PARENTS! IF THEY HAVE NO PARENTS, THEY SIT IN FOSTER HOMES AND MAY END UP WITH A TERRIBLE ONE! THAT ISN'T GOOD FOR HER! SHE COULD LOSE THE CHANCE OF REGAINING HER MEMORIES IF THAT HAPPENS!"
"WILL YA GIVE ME A BREAK!? SHE WILL JUST COME CRAWLING BACK LIKE SHE ALWAYS DOES! SHE DID THAT WHEN SHE RAN OFF IN THE STORE!", Inuyasha yelled.
"THIS IS DIFFERENT! YOU ARE GOING TO GO LOOK FOR HER OR I WILL SAY IT UNTIL YOU REACH THE CENTER OF THE EARTH!", Kagome screamed.
They suddenly heard a scream of panic. Aki was running past them in fright.
"MONSTER!", Aki screamed, "RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!"
"See? What did I tell ya?", Inuyasha asked with a smug look.
Kagome's eyes widened.
"Uh Inuyasha, you might want to look behind you...", Kagome said pointing.
"What now... Oh.", Inuyasha said with his ears flattening.
There in front of them was a humanoid figure that was all black, engulfed in a purple flames, and had flaming red eyes with no pupils or sclera. It had angular ridges and three fingered claws. It was ten feet tall and the muzzle of an alligator. It let out an unearthly bellow that reminded Kagome of Science Fiction movie monsters. Inuyasha grabbed his Tessaiga and transformed it into it's true form.
"I have no idea what kind of demon you are but your going down!", Inuyasha shouted.
The monster bellowed again and started bending and curving it's body as it got on all fours and dashed/hopped towards Inuyasha. It swiped it's claw at Inuyasha. Inuyasha dodged the claw and swung his sword at the monster.
Seemingly, the monster was split in half with a mist emerging from it.
"So your not that strong? Ha!", Inuyasha taunted.
The monster put itself back together with the mist. Inuyasha growled.
"COME ON!", Inuyasha whined and swung his sword again.
Inuyasha tried every form his Tessaiga had and like it's true form, they all failed to harm the monster. The monster bellowed and made what seemed to be a hasting retreat.
"Yeah you better run!", Inuyasha shouted.
The monster did something unexpected, it went straight for Aki, who was hiding in a trash can. She screamed.
'So Aki must have been involved with this thing.', Inuyasha thought and charged at the monster, 'That gives me another reason for wanting to get rid of her.'
The monster grabbed Aki and begun to try eating her energy.
'Okay, scratch that. That thing obviously hates her or just finds her delicious for some reason... Ugh.', Inuyasha thought in disgust.
Kagome searched the area quickly for something to use as a bow and arrow. She spotted a hunter.
"Do you have a bow and quiver of arrows I can borrow?", Kagome asked.
"Sure ma'm. I always keep a spare on me.", The hunter said lending her his spare long bow set.
"Thank you sir.", Kagome said and rushed back to the monster.
Kagome placed an arrow on the string and pulled it back. She aimed right at the monster's chest and fired a Sacred Arrow. The arrow plunged into the monster, disintegrating it. Aki fell to the ground with a loud thud, passed out.
In Aki's mind...
A series of images of creatures that looked similar to the one that tried eating her flashed though her head.
"I hate those Shadow Monsters. They are creepy."
"Can't they go back to where they belong and stop torturing and eating people?!"
The voice echoed through out her mind. It sounded like her own. Aki was confused beyond belief. She didn't remember saying anything like that.
Outside of Aki's mind, Aki involuntarily started speaking.
"I... hate... those... Shadow... Monsters. They are creepy.", Aki muttered in her sleep between moans.
Inuyasha perked up.
"So that's what that thing was! No wonder why my Tessaiga couldn't destroy it! It was made of darkness!", Inuyasha said.
"That means, only a certain kind of energies can hurt them. I know my priestess powers can harm them, but I know there will be times where I would be unable to help like near labor.", Kagome said thinking about her baby.
'I forgot about that... So that means if they attack around that time, we are good as dead.', Inuyasha thought.
"Can't... they... go... back... to... where... they belong... and stop... torturing and eating... people...?", Aki muttered once more.
"So they have a place where they live.", Kagome said.
"There's more of those things?! Once I find where they live I will find a way to destroy them! They pose as a threat to us! Especially you since you have our baby!", Inuyasha said with a small amount of arrogance slipping out.
Kagome hugged Inuyasha, surprising him.
"I knew you would do that to protect me.", Kagome said.
"You did grow on me quite a bit. Can you let me go now? Your squishing me.", Inuyasha said.
Kagome's eye twitched.
"Oh so your saying I'm big, huh?", Kagome asked with her anger growing.
'Oh great... I set off another mood swing...', Inuyasha thought knowing what trouble he was in now.
"Uh Kagome that's not what I meant! I meant you were squeezing me and that your kindness rubbed a bit off on me!", Inuyasha said quickly.
"How dare you! SIT BOY! SIT BOY! SIT I SAY! SIT! SIT SIT! SIT!", Kagome yelled ignoring Inuyasha's explanation.
Inuyasha was now all battered up and in another hole in the cement.
"Thanks for nothing!", Kagome yelled and carried Aki back to the shire, leaving Inuyasha in the hole.
"Why does she take her mood swings out on me?", Inuyasha asked pitifully as he climbed out.