Thoughtless Actions
The half-demon smirked to himself. The memory of when he'd first seen Sesshoumaru always amused him when he remembered it, mostly because it was probably the first time he'd managed to survive a moonless night thanks to his own merit. Before then, he'd cower in villages or kept to temples that had immense spiritual powers protecting them.
The half-demon fell back into the memory of when the demon he'd been staring at while slumbering had disappeared, and the giant creature that had been chasing him finally caught up.
The moment he heard that ominous laughter behind him his heart jolted into his throat, limbs trembling. Not a moment later and Inuyasha felt himself being picked up like a farmer would a mouse he found in his food storage. Inuyasha tried twisting, this way and that, but his struggles were in vain and merely twisted him to the point that he was now in full display in front of the giant's face.
Another deep, throaty chuckle swept past Inuyasha's face like heavy miasma, the repugnant smell making his stomach churn as he felt bile rising.
"Little ningen, so tasty and sweet," the lumbering giant rumbled. The creature tilted its head to the side then, as if studying what he initially thought of as a prized feast.
Instead, the thing grumbled irritably to itself, "Runt of the litter; no meat on you at all, only bones. Just bones. Hm, a snack at the least. Yes, I'll pick away your innards from between my teeth with those twigs you call limbs."
The giant moved his arm above his head to drop the small ningen into his mouth and devour him in one gulp.
Inuyasha made a sound he neither recognized as a scream nor a plead, yet it was enough to capture the ugly youkai's attention, halting his actions. The giant's grip loosened and Inuyasha shimmied out of the leathery hand before jumping into the air and bracing himself for impact against the ground below.
Inuyasha landed with a heavy OOMPH and the air was knocked out of his lungs. Recovering the next moment, he grabbed the first thing he found - a... thorny clump of flesh? - and hurled it the moment the monster spotted him, roaring in anger.
The angry roar, however, soon turned into a howling cry of pain the next moment as the monster stumbled backwards, clutching at his eye. The more the thing tried to dislodge whatever was in his eye, the worse the damage became. Finally, ripping the thorny clump of flesh off his eye and tossing it aside, the Cyclops kept crying out in pain as he stumbled this way and that, running into trees.
Inuyasha hid behind a tree, watching the creature as it turned the opposite direction. He almost took to yelling out loud and cheering, but the second his mouth opened as he turned around, his breath caught in his throat once more.
The youkai he'd been observing resting earlier was back.
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