Don't Judge What You Can't See: an InuKag Story
Chapter 3: Relocation Error
Shippo and Inuyasha continued to walk in the woods, Inuyasha carrying his new dinner: a nice bear. Shippo continued to chatter, about how his short free life was with family before Naraku had them killed off. "I swear, they didn't steal the royal rice paddy, but that just made Naraku kill them faster. I blame myself, as I should've kept quiet and allow the real witnesses to speak." He said, sniffing lightly. Inuyasha looked down at the kitsune on his shoulder, pitying the boy. "Nah, you were just trying to do what's right, it's this Naraku guy that's in the wrong." He replied, ruffling Shippo's hair. Shippo gave a cute smile and the two walked over a thick span of trees before coming to a medium-sized wooden house built literally into a series of 5 or 6 trees. Shippo gaped. "Whoa! A tree-house, I've never seen one before! Who lives here?" he gawked. Inuyasha smirked. "Me. It's small, but it's home." He replied. Shippo looked ecstatic. "Then I get to live here too?" he asked, hopping in excitement. Inuyasha nodded slightly. "But only for a day or so, then you need to head out." He added sternly. Shippo's face fell. "Oh. I guess that's enough time for the guards to get off of my back." He said, and Inuyasha nodded, not noticing the saddened tone in the boy's voice. "That's the idea." He said, hopping onto the platform in front of the screen door. Shippo bounced in, gawking at the house. It was small, but equipped with a kitchen and supplies, a few windows, and a makeshift sliding door that most likely led to the single bedroom. There was even a medium sized fire pit in the center of the house! There was a small table with a sake bowl and some plates on it, and two buckwheat dining pillows, equipped with back holders.
Inuyasha walked to the kitchen area and began to skin the bear as Shippo curled into a blue cushion. "Wow, I don't remember anything this soft!" he chirped, his voice muffled by the cushion but Inuyasha's apt hearing caught it anyway. He grunted. "Yea well, don't get too comfy over there runt. You'll be sleeping under the platform roof outside, I don't do well with strangers in my house." He said. Shippo pouted. "But we can stay up and play games or have a sumo match, and in the morning I can make some awesome Omuraiso or maybe even miso!" he whined. Inuyasha remained firm. "Either outside or away, runt." He replied. Shippo sighed. "Fine." He lamented. Inuyasha gave him a piece of raw bear and Shippo scrunched his face. "Don't you know anything about kitsune diet? We have to have cookable things cooked! You Inu can go either way, but we can't! I'll get sick!" he complained. Inuyasha shrugged. "Well, you Kitsune are also magical, use your Kitsune Bi or whatever and cook it yourself." He replied. Shippo stuck out his tongue and went outside, later tossing his bear into the air and cooking it fully with a blast of blue-ish fire. "Fox fire!" he'd called as he used the magic. Inuyasha could hear the boy eating and then started to cook his own portion of bear in the fire pit. Later on though, as Inuyasha began to strip for bed, he heard something scratching about and muttering back in the kitchen. Poking his head through the screen door he looked around, ears twitching. "I thought I told you to stay on the platform, Shippo." He called. Shippo sleepily replied from outside, and Inuyasha retied his hakamas and slid the rest of his bedroom door open.
"Eh?" Inuyasha whispered, walking around. More scattering came from behind and he whipped around to see three little shadows scurry away. Suddenly three squirrel demons popped on his table, happily munching on some acorns. However, they were each blind. One- a male one with blank gray eyes, russet fur and an empty sheath for a cane- stumbled into Inuyasha's sake bowl-which was holding water. "Brr! That's cold!" he cried. Another- a woman with the same eyes but much lighter fur-nearly blonde- laughed. "Watch it! Don't want to spoil our new water supply, who knows when we'll get more!" she jeered. The third-another male with red fur- unknowingly walked onto Inuyasha's arm. "Hey! I found some food!" he cried, biting onto the air, but then reeled back in pain. "Itai! (ow) It's stale…" he whined. "Eiji! Is that you all the way over there? You're voice sounds so far away…" the girl called. Eiji gasped as he hopped down. "How did you know Yoshi?" he asked. Inuyasha twitched, grabbing all three by the tail. "Shut the hell up! Why and how did you get in my house?" he demanded. Suddenly a scraping sound came from the table and something hard hit Inuyasha's back. Dropping the squirrels he turned to see a large clear case with a dead princess inside, seven small nekomata surrounding it. "NO! No no no…dead hime off of the table right now!" he demanded. One of the neko men shrugged. "Too late, the futon was already taken." He said. Twitching even more Inuyasha stormed back into his room, slamming open the sliding door to see a wolf man with bright blue eyes lounging on his futon, nearly asleep. He opened one eye and peered at him. "Nani? He drawled, yawning.
Inuyasha just stood there; clad in only his kosode and hakama, both eyes twitching and his fangs bore menacingly, growling wildly. Instantly he grabbed the wolf man by his tail (can you tell it's a habit for him? First Shippo…now Kouga…lol) and dragged him outside, Shippo still asleep, only on the roof, as he tried to get away from the hordes of minor demons, sprites, fairies, and every other non-human creature that suddenly had populated in and around Inuyasha's tree. Inuyasha froze, dropping the wolf. "..?" Inuyasha roared, his echo silencing everything. A rabbit youkai clad in monk's clothing and armed with a staff walked under the tree. "Are the original owner of this land?" he calmly asked. Inuyasha grunted his 'yes'. He sighed. "Well…" he began.
Well...cliffy with a major humor twist! lol review and tell me how I did!
~Kagome girl