Whoa! It actually only took 3 days to finish this one! Maybe because I don't have that many other things I care to do .
Either way, Enjoy!
I Don't Own InuYasha. Those are Rumiko Takahashis.
Except Hebi Otoko, Aoi Kirei and Ha Jinsoku - those are mine ò.ó
While Kagome and Kouga were laughing at the trembling figure once known as Miroku, InuYasha were having a hard time. Once he had reached the village he had been attacked by disgusting reptiles – it wasn't only snakes, but also lizard demons, tortoise demons. It seemed as if every reptile known in the world had come together in a single bloody feast.
"Get off of me!" he cried and slashed at the huge lizard demon which were currently clawing and climbing at his back. He really didn't have time to play with these things! He had to find Kagome!
He got a good grip around its throat and threw it into a nearby tree, but immediately another took its fallen comrade's place. With a huff InuYasha got brought down to the ground, finding his mouth filled with dirt and grass.
"You… bastard!" he muttered, spitting earth and grass at his other foes in the process. A scale-covered tail was brought to his eye level and swaying back and forth, as if letting him admire its glinting skin, before it came down slashing across his face.
"You will not call my beautiful children sssuch vile wordsss!" a hollow voice rang before the tail sliced at him again, this time drawing blood.
InuYasha glared up at the giant lizard that stood before him. It was a huge female lizard demon, in the form of a skink. The slanted eyes made the lizard look sleepy, but if you looked long enough you could tell that it was far from being lazy. Suddenly it's tongue shoot out and licked the corners of its mouth. InuYasha stared for a moment before he burst out in a muffled laugh.
"What'sss ssso funny, whelp?" she hissed. She leaned down until she was only a few inches from his face.
"What's with your tongue? Looks to me like ya' have swallowed a lot of ink, or did something happen at your birth, witch?" he snarled, still smirking as he watched her flick out the tongue once again.
She slashed at him once more, this time she struck him as well as the lizard on his back off. The both of them flew a good five yards before they struck the ground. The lizard whelped as it thudded into the ground, and then turned non-blinking eyes to stare at his mother. She made a soft hiss down her throat and her child snaked out of the area.
"What? Child abuse, wench? Now, that's not something a mother should do," he grunted as he thrust himself first on his knees and then, drawing Tetsusaiga, on his own feet.
"Don't you dare," she said, advancing a few steps at each word," to tell me how to treat my children, half-breed."
He growled, a quiet purr at first, but then it only rose in volume until he was almost roaring. "Then I will show you how to treat their mother!"
Kagome shivered. It felt as if something terrible were taking its place somewhere, maybe some of the villagers hadn't reached safety yet. However, it could just be because her fever had returned after the escape and the fact that her weird wounds on her stomach had reopened.
She leaned back onto the stump of the once-so-grand-oak tree and dipped her head back until it rested on the rough surface. Kagome stared up at the everlasting blue sky and watched a few cotton clouds lazily float by. So peaceful everything were in this era! No honking cars, no shouts from children, just… chirping of birds and the wind gently stroking the leaves. She could get used to this; living here with Sango, Shippo, Miroku, Kirara and…
A throb in her heart made her train of thought stop dead. 'No,' she scolded herself, while muffling a sob, 'don't think of him. He doesn't think of you, so don't think of him.'
"Are ya okay Kagome?"
She turned and found a very eager wolf demon staring into her eyes, only a few inches away from her face. Kagome gasped and sat up, but found that to be a bad idea as nausea hit her with full force, making her see all the stars that weren't there on the day.
"Easy there, Kagome," he said, gently pushing her back down on the ground, "don't want those wounds to open up again now, do we?"
"…right, sorry," she mumbled, desperately trying to hide her blush. How long had he watched her?
Kouga placed a cool hand across her forehead and frowned. "Damn girl, you're burning up. Your whole face is flushed! It's as if," he gazed into her now wide open eyes and smirked, "you're finally starting to notice me, huh?"
What? Notice him? She could only stare at him in disbelief. 'Am I starting to look at him differently?' Kagome thought about how he had cheered her up only this morning, how he had made her laugh when she was sad. How she had been mesmerized by his beautiful skin, his gorgeous eyes and strong muscles. 'Oh my God,' she thought, and without noticing brought a hand to her racing heart while gazing back up at Kouga, 'I think I am.'
The half dog demon cried out in agony and pain as the skink pierced him with one of its giant claws. The demon lifted him, still on the claw, high up in the air and tasted the air around him.
"In pain, half-breed?" she chuckled. "I can sssmell it from you; the pain, the dissstresss and your lifeblood ssslowly pouring out of you."
She lifted him higher, causing him to cry once again, before she tossed him aside. He hit the ground head first and made a huge crater, very alike one of those caused by the "sit" compulsion. InuYasha groaned as he pulled himself up from it, just in time to see her taste his blood.
"Hmm," she mumbled, licking her claw before spitting. "jussst asss I thought; sssuch a disssgusssting tassste."
"You know what's disgusting? That you're actually licking your feet! Ever thought of that?" He could feel his vision getting blurred and his heart started to race. 'Shit, not now…'
"Now, what should I do with you then, puppy?" she purred as if she hadn't heard a word, getting down on all fours as she crawled toward him. He felt his sword pulsating through his arm and for a brief moment feared the worst.
"Aoi Kirei, we are not here for him."
The two of them turned toward the new interferer, InuYasha with some trouble as he tried to suppress his beast. There, by one of the burning huts, stood the same green demon that InuYasha had overheard earlier.
"Hmph. If it isssn't the little lapdog, Ha Jinsssoku. Why have you left masters kneesss bare?" Aoi sneered, turning her whole body so that she was blocking InuYashas view. "I'm jussst having a good time, together with my and massstersss children, ssso why can't we both find the girl and have sssome fun?"
InuYasha shuddered when a shiver coursed through his body, before he felt his knuckles crackle and his muscles expanding. 'Not now, not now…'
"Where are the girl, wench? It isss only her we are after."
"We, meaning me and my children, are sssearching. Well, we maybe aren't in that big of an hurry, but thessse pathetic humansss are ssso ssslow to hide, you sssee. We are jussst making every demon a favor by killing thessse peasssantsss off." She laughed, a cackling sound that stopped abruptly as a hand cut her head clean off her body.
"Now thisss isss interesssting," Ha Jinsoku said, staring with wide eyes at the now full-fledged demon InuYasha.
Hello guys! A freshly new 17 year old speaking! Well... I don't feel like it...
Either way, FINALLY some more fluff about Kouga and Kagome. I have LONGED for her to notice something, but don't worry - I'm gonna make her (and hopefully you along) confused and mix more feelings for other persons into this thingy, so non-Kouga fans Keep It Up!
And, yeah - welcome to InuYashas other self! Should be kinda interesting to write about him like that since his normal self is kind off... bratty?
ALSO, Welcome to two new characters, Aoi Kirei the female blue tongued skink and Ha Jinsoku, the green lizard-thing-demon that I didn't find any real inspiration for. How it will work out for him now when he's eye to eye with a blood thirsty InuYasha... well, keep following and you may find out ^^
Thank you for your kind reviews last time! It's those that keep me going!