500 years and a few hours earlier
Why is this place so familiar? Sword thought
Sword walked around and saw people trying desperately to avoid her, but she was used to that. Then, a mother and her little girl walked by and the little girl, noticing Sword asked her mother:
"Mommy, isn't that the half-demon grandma told us about. Y'know, the one that bewitched the lord's son 50 years ago?"
"Hush Darling" the mother said, looking cautiously at Sword, who innocently walked by them. Then Sword came to a sudden halt.
Oh, NO WAY! This couldn't be…
She ran off and found a cemetery. She looked around until she found the Tombstone that read Hiro Ren.
This is the place. It's so much quieter now.
"Halt Demon" A voice said behind her. It was obviously a monk of some form, "What is your business here?"
"Just… just visiting an old friend." Sword said quietly.
"Begone demon!" Said the Monk, throwing a sutra at her, she and felt a pain in her back, but she got up slowly and walked away, into the forest.
She got to the middle of a large clearing, a little ways out of the village before she was completely overcome by grief and broke down crying. She sat there for a few minutes before she heard a strong wind coming towards her. Then, it suddenly stopped, and footsteps were coming closer and closer. Someone was coming for her. She could tell. She had her hand on her sword, and waited until she thought that her opponent had entered the clearing. Once she heard them entering the clearing she spun around, hand at the ready to grab her sword, and looked to where her opponent should be. There was nobody there, but a voice was heard from above her.
"Changing your clothes won't fool me you mutt."
Her opponent was closer than she had thought. A lot closer.
Man, how did he get there so fast! Sword thought, closing her eyes, and instinctively crossing her arms to cover her face. The next sound she heard was a loud 'thud' followed by the kind of squeaking sound you hear when a canine jumps and screeches down a window pane.
Arms still crossed in front of her face, Sword opened one eye, to see a wolf demon on the ground shaking his head, and looking totally confused. Sword opened both eyes and looked around, arms still crossed. Around her was a small dome.
"Since when can you make barriers!" The wolf asked
"Umm, apparently since now. And how do you know me… I want an explanation on why you attacked me." Sword said, her arms still crossed, but no longer in front of her face. She still seemed confused about the barrier around her.
"Inuyasha, don't play stupi…. Wait! You're not Inuyasha."
"Umm, duh." Sword replied, now crossing and uncrossing her arms and playing with how to put up and take down her barrier.
"Who are you?!"
"I think the question is who are you… and why did you attack me." Sword said, now turning her full attention to the Wolf demon in front of her.
"I asked you first!"
"No I believe I asked first."
"Stop playing around."
"Stand up."
"Why?" he said getting up.
"Thank you." Sword said, slowly circling him, "Wolf demon, creepy soulless eyes, black hair in ponytail, wearing a skirt, think's he is someone important, totally clueless. You must be Koga, the wolf demon…"
"Yes… how did you know?"
"My brother talks about you often."
"Your… brother?"
"I'll give you 3 guesses."
"Wait… You are Inuyasha's sister?"
"No, I'm Inuyasha's brother." Sword said sarcastically.
"Where is Kagome?" Kouga said, ignoring the sarcasm.
"I dunno. I'm looking for her myself."
"Do you know where Inuyasha is?"
"Yeah!"
"Where?"
"With Kagome!"
"Which is where?"
"Oh I dunno. Hopefully in a tree making out somewhere."
"UGH! YOU'RE JUST AS ANNOYING AS YOUR BROTHER!"
"Really? He thinks I am much more annoying. By the way, there are people coming towards us… looking for you."
"Uh, oh."
"Who are those two?" Sword said, pointing to two wolf demons coming towards her.
"I'm Ginta!" Said Ginta
"And I'm Hakkaku." Said Hakkaku
"Hi…" Sword said, just to be totally ignored
"Koga! Some rabid villagers are coming for us!" Hakkaku panted
"And they think we plan to attack their village." Ginta finished, too panting.
"LOOK! THE HALF-DEMON IS WORKING WITH THE WOLVES!" a random villager yelled, pointing to Sword.
"THE WOLF DEMONS ARE PLANNING TO ATTACK AGAIN!" Another villager screamed.
"Again?" Koga said, looking confused
"Again…" Sword said thoughtfully. She then turned away from the villagers, grabbing her sword. She unsheathed it and put the sword right up to Koga's throat.
"Wha… What are you doing" Koga asked
"Who is your leader?" Sword Demanded
"What?" Koga gulped, looking totally confused
"Who is the leader of your pack?" Sword asked again
"I am!"
There was a short pause, the only sounds you could hear were the 'ooh's and 'ahh's of the villagers, until Sword lowered her sword.
"You?" she asked in disbelief
"Yes, me. Why?" Koga asked
Sword slapped Koga on the cheek.
"What was that fo…" Koga said, looking as confused as ever.
Sword stepped back and pointed at Koga.
"MURDERER!" Sword yelled, tears welling up in her eyes.
At this point, the villagers were all cheering for Swords accomplishment of ridding them of the terrible wolf demons. Sword then walked away.
"Hang on!" Koga said, running up to Sword, "What are you talking about!?"
He was rewarded with another slap as Sword left in silence.
She entered another clearing. She was curious about the barrier she created and decided to try it out. She waved her hands around and such and barriers were forming everywhere. She could point at an object and form a barrier, make small balls, even create a disk that someone could stand on to fly. She hadn't perfected the last one yet, as the disk would disappear, causing whatever was on it to fall like a rock. As she tried this out, she heard footsteps in the bushes behind her. She decided to practice her flying disk 'of doom' again, but with a new test subject. She got her hand at the ready, then quickly turned around to where her 'stalker' should be. She then placed a disk under him and raised him up.
"You again? If you're looking for a date here is some crucial advice; A wise man once said, stalkers don't get dates with their stalkees." Sword said, looking at Koga who was panicking because he was now very, very high in the air, on an invisible disk. Wow… there's a sight you don't see every day. Unfortunately, or fortunately… depends how you look at it, Sword still hadn't mastered the disk yet, so Koga came crashing down to the ground.
"Oww! Look Kid, I'm just looking for Kagome. Just tell me where she is and I will leave you alone." Koga said, getting up, in extreme pain.
"I would, but my name isn't Kid. It's Sword. Got it?"
"What kind of name is that?"
"A nickname. Hey at least I'm not a guy wearing a skirt." Sword said, pointing at Koga
Why do all the half-breeds hate me!? Koga thought
"Fine, if you aren't gonna help me then…" Koga started
Cue Sword's, 'talk to the hand' movement.
"WHY DO YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WITH ME! I mean, I just met you and you already hate me!" Koga yelled
"I HAVE A PROBLEM WITH YOU BECAUSE YOU ARE A STINKIN, DIRTY, LOW CLASS, CLUELESS, IDIOTIC, MURDERER!" Sword practically screamed before landing a hard punch on Koga's face.
"OWW! I think you broke my nose!" Koga yelled, holding his bleeding nose.
"If I see you again, I'll kill you." Sword said, just running and jumping across some trees. Finally she stopped and sat down in a tree.
Great, I have wolf nose blood on my hand… icky! Well, who should I go see about these barriers…Awwww Don't tell me I have to go find Myoga. Where would he be…WITH TOTOSAI! Hmm, how much time do I have before sundown…Sword thought looking up at the sky. The sun was getting closer to the west, but it still looked like she still had at least 5 hours of sun left. She decided to quickly go find Totosai.
About an hour later she reached the volcano where Totosai lived and entered his Fish demon head cave.
"Hello? Master Totosai?" Sword yelled, walking into the dark cave.
There was a sudden light and a banging. Sword knew that Totosai was working on a sword. She called again:
"MASTER TOTOSAI!"
"Master Inuyasha! Is that you? Your voice has gotten more… feminine since the last time we met!" Totosai yelled back, lighting a fire so that he could see.
"Maybe that is because I'm a girl!"
"Inuyasha, when did you become a girl?"
"Master Totosai, it's me! It's not Inuyasha!"
"Oh! It's young Kagami!"
"NO, My name is SWORD! Got it?" She said, coming closer to Totosai.
"Hello! What brings you here Kagami?"
"Sword!"
"You wouldn't be 'Sword' without my masterful teaching skills. I can call you whatever I want." Totosai said, a touch of arrogant authority in his voice
"Where is Myoga?" Sword said, annoyed.
"Huh, I thought he was with Inuyasha and his gang. Come to think of it, he has been gone for a while now."
"Aww, I need him… Say, Toto, do you happen to know anything about barriers?"
"Of course I do child! What do you need!"
Sword explained the barrier she could just spontaneously make.
"And when did you notice this?" Totosai asked
"I already told you, just about an hour ago. A wolf demon tried to attack me, thinking I was Inuyasha, and I instinctively tried to block the attack with my arms… and the barrier went up and protected me. I can make balls and flying disks. Why can I do this now!?" Sword asked
"Well, there are very few dog demons, and even less half-demons, who have the gift of creating barriers, excluding those bat demons. Anyways, these barriers are good defensively and offensively!"
"I kind of figured that, but how come this power just showed itself now?"
"When the wolf demon was attacking, did you feel the strong need to protect yourself?"
"No, when a wolf demon is attacking you, there is no need for protection. What do you think?!" Sword said sarcastically, before getting annoyed and then becoming thoughtful. "Well, come to think of it, that was probably the most need for protection I have needed in years, considering where I have been… Living in Kagome's time, there isn't much of a need for that sort of protection."
"You see, this need brought on this barrier. Let me see it."
Sword made a small ball, but was only able to keep it up long enough for Totosai to test it. He took out the sword that he just forged and attacked her barrier. After many attacks, there was a small crack in the sword, and the ball was still in tact, with out even a scratch. Then, Sword felt she couldn't hold it anymore, and the ball disappeared.
"Interesting," Totosai started, "It seems harder than any other barrier I have ever seen…"
"How do I control it?"
"…I doubt even the red Tessaiga could break through that."
"Answer me old man!" Sword said, starting to get annoyed once again by her teacher.
"Oh, you have to control it with practice. Only you can figure out how your powers work."
"I could never have figured that out on my own! Thanks anyways."
"The least I could to for my best student!"
"Yeah… suuuuure."
As Sword left Totosai she muttered: "No one else could put up with you."
Well I learned a lot today. How long until sundown? I need to know if I can find Inuyasha by tonight… Sword looked up, yet again. I still have a few hours to find them! And with that, Sword took off. After about 2 hours, she finally reached a village.
She realized that this wasn't just any village.
"I'm back at Kaede's village. They have to be close by. Oh please oh please let them at least be near where I left them…" Sword muttered to herself, totally passing by Kaede's village and heading to the bone eater's well.
By the time she reached the bone eaters well, it was starting to get dark.
WHAT! It's getting dark already? Oh man, I have got to find them.
Sword decided to listen around. She sat down and closed her eyes, hoping that in the next few minutes, she could hear something that would lead her to Inuyasha and the others.
Finally, she hears something that tipped her off that Kagome was near.
"SIT BOY!"
They must be close… poor sucker, what did he do now…
Then she heard a conversation between Inuyasha and Kagome, though she couldn't exactly make out what they were saying. Unfortunately the two stopped talking before Sword could find them, so she was on her own. She ended up banging into a lot of trees though.
Sheesh, where is the moon when you need it. I can't even work by moonlight!!
She finally saw the glow of a campfire and walked towards the light, almost tripping in a small crater. She looked around. Behind the campfire was a small shed, but there was nobody in sight.
"Who's there?" a voice said from behind the shed, with a clunking sound that indicated that something was being dropped. Suddenly there were more noises around her. In the glow of the fire, she saw Sango in the forest surrounding, Hiraikotsu at the ready, Miroku with his left hand holding the prayer beads on his right hand, and Kagome, holding her bow and arrow at the ready.
"Jeeze, paranoid much?" Sword yelled
"Oh, Sword. It's only you" Kagome said in relief
"Oh thanks Kagome, I feel so wanted… Where is Inuyasha?"
"Umm, he is out…" Miroku replied
Sword looked at the shed and pointed at it, "He's in there, isn't he?"
"Whatever gave you that idea?" Sango asked
"So you won't mind if I look inside it?" Sword said, inching towards the shed.
"Umm, don't go there!" Kagome said, "It's full of…Spiders!"
"Oh good, more things to squish!" Sword said, hand almost on the door
By now, everyone was looking a bit tense. Kagome said:
"Uhhh, no Sword…. Uhhh… SIT!"
There was a huge THUD inside of the shed.
"Thanks Kagome, you are soooooo helpful." Sword said, about to open the door.
"Sword," Kagome said pleadingly, "Look up."
Sword looked up at the sky, finally noticing and taking into account that there was no moon.
"Oooooh, Inuyasha," Sword said, now facing the doors of the shed and backing off the stairs, "Is it your time of the month?"
Sango and Kagome were shaking with silent laughter, but the door burst open and a human Inuyasha came out.
"Yeah, yeah. Very funny Sword."
"Wasn't it though? Why didn't anyone tell me that it was Binkey's time? I'm his sister. Jeeze! It's not like I'd go ahead and try to kill him or anything."
After awhile, everything calmed down and Inuyasha came to sit by the fire. Everyone was getting tired now.
"Hey guys," Sword said, looking at Sango, Miroku, Kagome and Shippo, "Why don't you guys go to bed? You need your rest. I'll stay up and guard Inuyasha."
"I don't need a guard! I can take care of myself." Inuyasha roared
"Fine, I'm here if something comes looking for trouble, and if Inuyasha decides to be 'Mr.Hero' I will stop him and take care of whatever it is myself."
"Ok…" Kagome said with a yawn
"Good." Sword said in reply
"Just a question."
"Ask away!"
"How did you know that Inuyasha turns human on the new moon?"
"Duhh! I'm a half-demon too! And I grew up with Inuyasha. I just kinda forgot the significance of the new moon."
"Oh…"
"Yeah, hers is on the…" Inuyasha started before Sword whacked him on the head.
"WHAT WAS THAT FOR!?" Inuyasha yelled.
"You know what!!" Sword yelled back
"Now you know how it feels!" Shippo joined in, deciding to hit Inuyasha on the head too. Unfortunately, Inuyasha swatted Shippo away, into a tree. Kagome was about to 'sit' Inuyasha, when Sword said:
"Kagome, you know he deserved that."
Later
Everyone except Inuyasha and Sword were asleep. Sword decided not to take her eyes off Inuyasha as he might do something stupid, but Inuyasha, being totally creeped out that his sister was staring at him said:
"Cut it out! You can go to sleep… I'll be fine!"
"Why don't you sleep? Oh right, you never sleep on the new moon! Why?! Apparently you sleep better as a human." Sword said
"And you know, how? You never ever slept on the…"
"LALALALALALALALALA!"
"SHHH! You'll wake the others up!"
"Since when are you Mr. Sensitive, I thought you were Mr. Hero."
There was a short silence after that. She gave Inuyasha a weird look and he replied with:
"What?"
"I'm bored."
"Just sleep… I'll be fine."
"Fine… I'll sleep for a little while. Happy?"
"Extremely."
Sword slept for about a millisecond, then continued staring at her brother. When he finally noticed, he said:
"I thought you were going to sleep!"
"I did."
After about another hour, Sword nodded off. When she woke up, she looked over at her brother, who was looking at Kagome with a look of care.
"What's the matter Inny?" Sword asked is a quiet voice, still half asleep
Inuyasha quickly looked over at his sister.
"So you're awake now?" Inuyasha asked
"Ish…" Sword said, rubbing sleep out of her eye, "and why are you looking at Kagome like that?"
"Wha… What are you talking about?"
"Don't tell me," Sword said, suddenly wide awake, "Did you two finally hook up?!"
"Uhhhhh…"
"I'll take that as a no… YOU TWO ARE SUCH IDIO…." Sword started before Inuyasha covered her mouth.
"SHHH! You'll wake the others."
"Ohhh, there is Mr. Sensitive again. Tell me, when will Mr. Ego return?" Sword said, trying to get on her brother's nerves. He totally ignored her and started looking at Kagome again. She went up behind him and crossed her arms on his head, then placed her head on her arms.
"Get off me Sword."
"Just tell her Binkey."
"I can see you are fully awake now."
"Why don't you just tell her?"
"It's just… uhh…"
"Oh no. Not Kikyo!"
"WHAT HAVE YOU GOT AGAINST KIKYO!?"
"SHHHH! You just told me to be quiet. Kikyo is dead you baka! Get it through your thick skull! She is bad news! Kagome is alive; she loves you and never ever had tried to kill you… intentionally."
Silence and then Sword walked over and sat beside her brother.
"We never really talk like we used to."
"Yeah… Ya think?"
"Well," Sword said, pulling her brother's arm over her shoulders, "I think we should talk like we used to."
"That makes no sens… why is there blood on your hands?"
"Oh… I got in a fight… and I wanted to try blades of blood… it didn't work by the way."
"You can't do that. We established that years ago."
"Yeah, but I tried it out with wolf demon blood."
"Woah… you killed a wolf demon" Inuyasha said, looking interested and shocked.
"No, but I think I broke his nose. Jeeze, even though he is the leader of the pack, he is a real baby. I just hit his nose I mean, it's not like I kicked him in the…"
"Wait, you broke Koga's nose?"
"Isn't that what I just said?" Sword asked, annoyed that her brother cut off her sentence.
Inuyasha then tightened his grip on his sister.
"Good job little sis. I've never been prouder."
"I'm not that little. And since when have you ever been proud of me?" Sword said with a yawn.
"Load of times, I just never bothered to tell you."
"Wow, I've never met Mr. Kind honesty, only Mr. Brutally honest."
"Please stop referring to my actions as people."
"Right… but where…isss….mr…eeeggooo" Sword said sleepily as she started to nod off, leaning on her brother.
"Night Kagami…" Inuyasha whispered.
Sword then slapped her brother in her sleep, mumbling something about stupid Mr. Ego.
Back with Martin
"So they thought that changing hotels would rid them of me… Well they were wrong… Hmmm… It appears that Agent Mystery has taking a liking to some girl… Perhaps she will help me in the destruction of these last few agents." A shadowy figure said looking in from the window of the Center's agents' new hotel room.
Disclaimer: Only Sword and the plot. End of story, well not this story but the story of us owning nothing but Sword and the plot which we use in this story.
A/N: We finally have Sword's character under control… ish
Spidey- Ok, who loves Sword's new power? I know I do… and the sarcasm, PERFECT… I just love it ok! Runs into corner and hides
WT-… That was weird. Please review!
