Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha.And Neither Do you! HA HA! *Cackles
Insanely*
I'm sorry that I took so long! -___- Curse that damned writer's block.and on top of that, I was sick. I hope this chapter is long enough to make up for the time I lost. Please R&R! here goes nothing.
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*Sulk*
**Glare**
WHACK
"Sit." Kagome said simply. She sighed. "Why don't you guys just get along already?" Hojo, as clueless and stupid as he always was, obliged immediately, sticking out his hand towards Inuyasha (A/N: Not knowing the danger of having it bitten off, literally.). Inuyasha crossed his arms and turned away, still fuming over the 'sit' he had gotten. Kagome threw up her hands in frustration, ignoring them both and walking ahead by herself.
They reached the village, eventually.
(Un) fortunately, Miroku was up to his no-good again and Sango is currently chasing him around the forest, screaming death threats on top of her lungs and giving him the fiery oh-you-better-run-because-if-I-catch-you-you-are- dead-meat look.
Shippou sat on a log nearby, munching on a sugarcane and staring at the entertainment in front of him with a bemused expression on his face. He turned to see the trio coming out of the forest.
"Ah.only ten minutes and you three are at it already?" He commented, seeing the distressed expression on their faces (A/N: excluding 'Hobo', duh). He turned back to check on Sango and Miroku.
"Hmm," Shippou murmured under his breath, " If we put Miroku in the middle between girls and money, which way will he go?"
Inuyasha of course, with his keen hearing, heard Shippou's little comment.
"He'll probably rip himself apart trying to go both directions at once." Said Inuyasha, and gave an annoyed snort when Shippou fell off his log laughing.
"Ha, ha. HA. HA. HAHAHAHAHA!!!" Shippou ran around, laughing insanely.
"Where does he get all that energy?" asked Kagome, sweat-dropping. She saw her backpack lying on the floor opened. "ARGH! He ate ALL my candy! No wonder he's so hyper!"
Sango, sweating from the chase she gave, came over to the foursome. She had a smug smile on her face and threw a very satisfied look over in Miroku's direction-who was lying face down on the ground. Bumps and bruises of all sized littered his head and he seemed to be unconscious.
"Ouch," said Kagome, wincing.
"Ouch nothing," said Sango-without a bit of sympathy, I might add.
"What did he do this time?" asked Kagome, even though she pretty much suspected already.
"He told me that I was special to him-"
"What's wrong with that?" interrupted Kagome.
"Let me finish, he then went up to a village girl and opened his big mouth," Sango said.
"To ask her to bear his child." Kagome finished for her.
"Well.not really.I suspected so I decided to give him a good bashing before he can even try."
"Sango, you've been spending too much time with Miroku," said Kagome, a fake look of horror pasted on her face, " You can even read his thoughts now!"
Sango gave a look of disgust.
"Me? Think like that lecher? Yeah, sure, the day all youkais are extinct and mortals fly."
"Really?" asked Kagome slyly, "that time may be closer than you think. Are you hinting that in my time, you would start thinking along the same lines of Miroku?"
Sango sputtered with indignity.
"Aw, shut up already, will you," said Inuyasha, standing off to one side and ignoring Hojo, who was constantly trying in vain to make a conversation with him. He was obviously amazed by the stupidity and stamina of this mere human.
They spend the rest of the day at Kaede's, and got ready to set off to look for jewel shards the next day. (A/N: Why they are at the village, don't ask.)
The next day, they said their farewells to the village and set off in search of more Jewel shards. They've got wind of an extremely sly demon stealing from a nearby village-and killing all that's in its way. The people of that village think that this is the work of a corrupted Jewel shard.
Inuyasha was in the lead, as usual, until he saw Hojo siding up along Kagome. He instantly hurried back and shoved Hojo away roughly. This repeated over.
And over.
And over.
And over.
Until Inuyasha eventually got tired of harassing an opponent who doesn't fight back.
"Is this ever going to end?" quipped up Shippou in the middle of a fight (yet again). The group was so involved in the bickering that they didn't notice the pair of eyes that had been spying on them ever since the time they entered the mountain region.
That night, they settled camp in a clearing in the woods. Hojo had to sleep on the cold, hard, ground for the first time in his pathetic life. Inuyasha, from his normal perch on a nearby tree, stared jealously at Shippou, who seemed to be disgustingly snug in Kagome's sleeping bag.
Feh. Why do I care! It's not like I want to be sleep anywhere near her, sharing her body heat, and-What?! Where the fuck did that come from.?
A pair of glowing red eyes narrowed slightly behind a bush as it's dried and cracked lips stretched into an evil smile.
Soon, it thought, Soon.
**Next morning**
We see the group walking along the side of a mountain, looking heavy-lidded and miserable.
//Flashback//
It was still dark, Kagome felt two hands shake her shoulders. She soon heard the groaning and complaints of the others awakened by a particular someone. She saw Hojo currently crouching over Miroku, who was desperately trying to get back to sleep.
"What?" asked Kagome groggily.
"I just don't want us to have a late start. We should be ready in two hours or so." Said Hojo, bright-eyed.
"You woke us up to tell us THAT?" Asked Shippou, disbelieving. He rolled over and went back to sleep. So did the rest of them.
Snore.
//End of flashback//
It was mid-morning by the time they neared the village. The grouchy hanyou wrinkled his nose and made a face in disgust at the scent of blood. He stopped.
"Huh?" Kagome had noticed that Inuyasha had lagged behind, with a thoughtful expression on his face. She hesitated.
"Why the." said Shippou when he noticed that there was only three other people walking with him. He walked over to the other two.
"Hey Shippou, Why d'ya stop?" asked Miroku, his hand sneaking up behind Sango's back, an innocent smile plastered on his perverted face. You could almost see the perverted thoughts in his perverted mind.
**SLAP**
Hojo soon realized that he was walking alone and talking to the thin air. Sango and Miroku had joined the others who were all crowding around Inuyasha.
"What's wrong, Inuyasha?" asked Kagome.
Inuyasha sniffed the air once more to confirm his suspicion. He turned to the others with a serious look on his face.
"Blood," he said solemnly, "fresh blood."
Inuyasha hurried ahead when the village came into view. The group gasped at the ghastly sight. Three villagers and the village head was bend over a corpse of a young woman, who's lower body was mangled with fresh blood and gut.
"A beautiful young maiden," said Miroku wistfully, " pitiful, eh?"
"Yeah," said Sango sarcastically, "'and you didn't even get a chance to ask her to bear your child."
Miroku had a hurt look (A/N: Riiiiiiiiggghht) on his face. "Do you really think that lowly of me?"
"Actually," pondered Sango, staring up at the sky, " I think of you much lower than that.
"I sense an evil aroma hovering over your village," said Miroku, approaching the village head, "me and my friends are exterminators and will be happy be cleanse the evil for you and your fellow villagers."
The village head was delighted to hear this. He instantly invited the group to spend the night at his place.
"We just happened to get to stay in the best house huh?" asked Shippou, playing along the lines of Miroku's plan, which everyone was used to now.
"Actually, the best house is three mile down the road," said the monk ('monk' is Miroku, you dumbass out there!), before following the village head to his house.
That night, Inuyasha smelled the tension in the air and frowned upon it. He asked the village head why everyone is so tense.
"The demon," replied the village head, " it usually attacks at night. So far, at least one villager had died each night. We all fear for our lives."
Inuyasha grinned and cracked his knuckles.
"'Bring it on."
They decided that Inuyasha, Miroku, and Sango would take turns standing guard during the night. Miroku took the first shift. It went by smoothly.
Inuyasha suddenly tensed, and his hand darted to the hilt of his Tetsusaiga. Something was approaching the village, at a speed that is not humanly possible. It smelled of rotten, seared flesh and-WHAT? Seawater?
"Is this village anywhere near an ocean?" Asked Inuyasha.
"No," replied the village head, aghast, "the nearest ocean is over sixty miles away!"
The others woke up at the give and take between the two men. Inuyasha's expression said everything they needed to know.
"Which way is it coming from?" asked a nervous Hojo.
"East," said Inuyasha, " Kagome, do you sense a Jewel shard?" Kagome tilted her head to the side and closed her eyes in concentration.
"Yes." She said, "Two, no, three. The youkai has three Shikon Jewel shards." She cast a worried look in Inuyasha, Sango, and Miroku's direction, "Do you think you can fend off them all?"
Before the others had a chance to reply, a tremor shook the village. The trees on the east side snapped and bend at the heavy footfalls of the youkai treading on top of them. It burst out of the trees and revealed itself.
It looked disgusting.
It stood over forty feet tall. Burned flesh hung off various parts of its body and clawed hands (?) dangled down from its side. The eyes, once a clear blue, were now dulled to a midnight black. A horn stuck out of the back of it's head and curved downward. It roared and started for the first villager it saw-a child.
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Another cliffhanger for me! Yay! **do a little happy dance** A-hem, well.anyways.I'll try to get another chapter posted in two or three days. Spring Vacation! I have no life so I'll just spend my time writing stories for absolutely no one's good.
I'm sorry that I took so long! -___- Curse that damned writer's block.and on top of that, I was sick. I hope this chapter is long enough to make up for the time I lost. Please R&R! here goes nothing.
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*Sulk*
**Glare**
WHACK
"Sit." Kagome said simply. She sighed. "Why don't you guys just get along already?" Hojo, as clueless and stupid as he always was, obliged immediately, sticking out his hand towards Inuyasha (A/N: Not knowing the danger of having it bitten off, literally.). Inuyasha crossed his arms and turned away, still fuming over the 'sit' he had gotten. Kagome threw up her hands in frustration, ignoring them both and walking ahead by herself.
They reached the village, eventually.
(Un) fortunately, Miroku was up to his no-good again and Sango is currently chasing him around the forest, screaming death threats on top of her lungs and giving him the fiery oh-you-better-run-because-if-I-catch-you-you-are- dead-meat look.
Shippou sat on a log nearby, munching on a sugarcane and staring at the entertainment in front of him with a bemused expression on his face. He turned to see the trio coming out of the forest.
"Ah.only ten minutes and you three are at it already?" He commented, seeing the distressed expression on their faces (A/N: excluding 'Hobo', duh). He turned back to check on Sango and Miroku.
"Hmm," Shippou murmured under his breath, " If we put Miroku in the middle between girls and money, which way will he go?"
Inuyasha of course, with his keen hearing, heard Shippou's little comment.
"He'll probably rip himself apart trying to go both directions at once." Said Inuyasha, and gave an annoyed snort when Shippou fell off his log laughing.
"Ha, ha. HA. HA. HAHAHAHAHA!!!" Shippou ran around, laughing insanely.
"Where does he get all that energy?" asked Kagome, sweat-dropping. She saw her backpack lying on the floor opened. "ARGH! He ate ALL my candy! No wonder he's so hyper!"
Sango, sweating from the chase she gave, came over to the foursome. She had a smug smile on her face and threw a very satisfied look over in Miroku's direction-who was lying face down on the ground. Bumps and bruises of all sized littered his head and he seemed to be unconscious.
"Ouch," said Kagome, wincing.
"Ouch nothing," said Sango-without a bit of sympathy, I might add.
"What did he do this time?" asked Kagome, even though she pretty much suspected already.
"He told me that I was special to him-"
"What's wrong with that?" interrupted Kagome.
"Let me finish, he then went up to a village girl and opened his big mouth," Sango said.
"To ask her to bear his child." Kagome finished for her.
"Well.not really.I suspected so I decided to give him a good bashing before he can even try."
"Sango, you've been spending too much time with Miroku," said Kagome, a fake look of horror pasted on her face, " You can even read his thoughts now!"
Sango gave a look of disgust.
"Me? Think like that lecher? Yeah, sure, the day all youkais are extinct and mortals fly."
"Really?" asked Kagome slyly, "that time may be closer than you think. Are you hinting that in my time, you would start thinking along the same lines of Miroku?"
Sango sputtered with indignity.
"Aw, shut up already, will you," said Inuyasha, standing off to one side and ignoring Hojo, who was constantly trying in vain to make a conversation with him. He was obviously amazed by the stupidity and stamina of this mere human.
They spend the rest of the day at Kaede's, and got ready to set off to look for jewel shards the next day. (A/N: Why they are at the village, don't ask.)
The next day, they said their farewells to the village and set off in search of more Jewel shards. They've got wind of an extremely sly demon stealing from a nearby village-and killing all that's in its way. The people of that village think that this is the work of a corrupted Jewel shard.
Inuyasha was in the lead, as usual, until he saw Hojo siding up along Kagome. He instantly hurried back and shoved Hojo away roughly. This repeated over.
And over.
And over.
And over.
Until Inuyasha eventually got tired of harassing an opponent who doesn't fight back.
"Is this ever going to end?" quipped up Shippou in the middle of a fight (yet again). The group was so involved in the bickering that they didn't notice the pair of eyes that had been spying on them ever since the time they entered the mountain region.
That night, they settled camp in a clearing in the woods. Hojo had to sleep on the cold, hard, ground for the first time in his pathetic life. Inuyasha, from his normal perch on a nearby tree, stared jealously at Shippou, who seemed to be disgustingly snug in Kagome's sleeping bag.
Feh. Why do I care! It's not like I want to be sleep anywhere near her, sharing her body heat, and-What?! Where the fuck did that come from.?
A pair of glowing red eyes narrowed slightly behind a bush as it's dried and cracked lips stretched into an evil smile.
Soon, it thought, Soon.
**Next morning**
We see the group walking along the side of a mountain, looking heavy-lidded and miserable.
//Flashback//
It was still dark, Kagome felt two hands shake her shoulders. She soon heard the groaning and complaints of the others awakened by a particular someone. She saw Hojo currently crouching over Miroku, who was desperately trying to get back to sleep.
"What?" asked Kagome groggily.
"I just don't want us to have a late start. We should be ready in two hours or so." Said Hojo, bright-eyed.
"You woke us up to tell us THAT?" Asked Shippou, disbelieving. He rolled over and went back to sleep. So did the rest of them.
Snore.
//End of flashback//
It was mid-morning by the time they neared the village. The grouchy hanyou wrinkled his nose and made a face in disgust at the scent of blood. He stopped.
"Huh?" Kagome had noticed that Inuyasha had lagged behind, with a thoughtful expression on his face. She hesitated.
"Why the." said Shippou when he noticed that there was only three other people walking with him. He walked over to the other two.
"Hey Shippou, Why d'ya stop?" asked Miroku, his hand sneaking up behind Sango's back, an innocent smile plastered on his perverted face. You could almost see the perverted thoughts in his perverted mind.
**SLAP**
Hojo soon realized that he was walking alone and talking to the thin air. Sango and Miroku had joined the others who were all crowding around Inuyasha.
"What's wrong, Inuyasha?" asked Kagome.
Inuyasha sniffed the air once more to confirm his suspicion. He turned to the others with a serious look on his face.
"Blood," he said solemnly, "fresh blood."
Inuyasha hurried ahead when the village came into view. The group gasped at the ghastly sight. Three villagers and the village head was bend over a corpse of a young woman, who's lower body was mangled with fresh blood and gut.
"A beautiful young maiden," said Miroku wistfully, " pitiful, eh?"
"Yeah," said Sango sarcastically, "'and you didn't even get a chance to ask her to bear your child."
Miroku had a hurt look (A/N: Riiiiiiiiggghht) on his face. "Do you really think that lowly of me?"
"Actually," pondered Sango, staring up at the sky, " I think of you much lower than that.
"I sense an evil aroma hovering over your village," said Miroku, approaching the village head, "me and my friends are exterminators and will be happy be cleanse the evil for you and your fellow villagers."
The village head was delighted to hear this. He instantly invited the group to spend the night at his place.
"We just happened to get to stay in the best house huh?" asked Shippou, playing along the lines of Miroku's plan, which everyone was used to now.
"Actually, the best house is three mile down the road," said the monk ('monk' is Miroku, you dumbass out there!), before following the village head to his house.
That night, Inuyasha smelled the tension in the air and frowned upon it. He asked the village head why everyone is so tense.
"The demon," replied the village head, " it usually attacks at night. So far, at least one villager had died each night. We all fear for our lives."
Inuyasha grinned and cracked his knuckles.
"'Bring it on."
They decided that Inuyasha, Miroku, and Sango would take turns standing guard during the night. Miroku took the first shift. It went by smoothly.
Inuyasha suddenly tensed, and his hand darted to the hilt of his Tetsusaiga. Something was approaching the village, at a speed that is not humanly possible. It smelled of rotten, seared flesh and-WHAT? Seawater?
"Is this village anywhere near an ocean?" Asked Inuyasha.
"No," replied the village head, aghast, "the nearest ocean is over sixty miles away!"
The others woke up at the give and take between the two men. Inuyasha's expression said everything they needed to know.
"Which way is it coming from?" asked a nervous Hojo.
"East," said Inuyasha, " Kagome, do you sense a Jewel shard?" Kagome tilted her head to the side and closed her eyes in concentration.
"Yes." She said, "Two, no, three. The youkai has three Shikon Jewel shards." She cast a worried look in Inuyasha, Sango, and Miroku's direction, "Do you think you can fend off them all?"
Before the others had a chance to reply, a tremor shook the village. The trees on the east side snapped and bend at the heavy footfalls of the youkai treading on top of them. It burst out of the trees and revealed itself.
It looked disgusting.
It stood over forty feet tall. Burned flesh hung off various parts of its body and clawed hands (?) dangled down from its side. The eyes, once a clear blue, were now dulled to a midnight black. A horn stuck out of the back of it's head and curved downward. It roared and started for the first villager it saw-a child.
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Another cliffhanger for me! Yay! **do a little happy dance** A-hem, well.anyways.I'll try to get another chapter posted in two or three days. Spring Vacation! I have no life so I'll just spend my time writing stories for absolutely no one's good.