Inuyasha: she is right if anyone is to blame for my not learning those things when I was younger it is my own self.
(had been tempted to call himself stupid but thought better of it.)
Kagome: That's alright, you were little, you didn't quite understand things back then.
Inuyasha: your right. but now I have learned that I belong to a large family and that as long as I have my family and all the things that really matter then everything else is just details.
Hermes: (having just remembered about thanking Inuyasha for Thalia goes over to Kagome and whispers to her) Your older sister told me to tell you to give an extra big hug to Inuyasha for helping her reacquire her shield.
Kagome: *giggles* Okay. Hey, Inuyasha, it seems like two Zeus daughters love you today. *squeezes him* Thalia was probably falling on the floor in gratitude about her shield. She loved that bracelet like a child.
Inuyasha: it was my pleasure to be of help to her. after all she's your sister and she was very kind to both of us while we were recovering form the Horai island incident (reminds Kagome how often Thalia had suffered her self to sit and watch over the both of them when most of the other campers were overly tired.)
Kagome: Yeah, Thalia's always been motherly like that. I think it's mostly because of Annabeth though.
(everyone goes to eat their lunch)
Hermes: (once more goes to find Artemis knowing that Kagura and Kanna have been driven back for now and know it is now as safe as it can get) Artemis are you around this forest to day?
Artemis: *appearing out of the trees* Hermes, what is it?
Hermes: it is safe to return though this day alone we had more attacks that any other day before. after we drove off Kagura and Kanna inuyasha was talking with percy and had a girl attack who was both dead and undead. and then Koga attacked twice to day. once just after Kagura and Kanna and then just after the dead undead girl
(hopes Artemis doesn't ask for details about the Dead undead girl)
Artemis: Dead/ Undead girl... Interesting. So, we're allowed to return?
Hermes: yes you are.
Artemis: Fantastic! It will be nice to be home again.
Hermes: (is guiding Artemis back so he can catch her up on some of the news) yeah the only danger you may have to face is the fact that Kagome is just alittle peeved about one of the insults Koga hurled at Inuyasha before he left for good or it is to be hoped that he left for good.
Artemis: Oh? And what was that?
Hermes: (is alittle afraid to tell Artemis since he has seen her angry before but feels the dangers of not doing so are equally great) well he said that Inuyasha was Half of one thing and all of nothing.
Artemis: Well, that was rude. I really don't like him. What did our family ever do to him?
Hermes: well since Inuyasha is part of our family and he is the one Kagome chose to love and spend her life with I guess you could say he believes our family stole what he believed was his property. (knows this will probably make Artemis explode since until she and Inuyasha are married Kagome is still some what a maiden)
(but felt he had to tell her the truth)
Artemis: She's never been anyone's property! Ever! And she might get married and grow up, her husband - hopefully Inuyasha - still won't own her! Oh, I hate sexist pigs like that.
Hermes: I know I was absolutely terrified of telling you since I know how certain things can make you really angry.
Artemis: And if that wolf-boy comes near us again so help me Hades...
Hermes: he might end up doing so I was close enough to hear as he left I heard him say don't think this is over mutt face this is far from over when you are least expecting it I will find you.
(knows he should probably get out of the way so as to not become hermes under glass)
Artemis: *takes a deep breath* Well, then. It will be quite fun to kill that mutt-boy.
Hermes: the mutt boy is inuyasha. you surely don't want him dead.
Artemis: No! I like Inuyasha! I meant Koga... He's more tainted and mixed than Inuyasha is. It's all on the inside that counts. And besides, Koga's half-wolf, half-pig.
Hermes: uh have you gone full out hunter now?
Artemis: No... You don't see me killing something do you?
Hermes: no not yet. but I am guessing you aren't far off of it.
Artemis: I'm cooling down. I'll handle it when and if he shows up at camp again.
Hermes: thank goodness. (breathes a sigh of relief. as the draw near to camp. leads them to the dinning pavilion)
Artemis, hunters, Asagi, and Rin: *all sit down at the Artemis table*
myoga: (goes and hops on Phoebe and begins to feed) ah delicious to see you again.
Phoebe: *smush* No drinking the campers, remember, Myoga?
Myoga: sorry I just couldn't help myself.
Phoebe: I'm hungry, go feed on a cow or something.
Inuyasha: (shouts over to phoebe) Don't give him any ideas earlier to day when Kikyo attacked us he was feeding on something that is being kept in the arena saying it was safer over there.
(meaning mrs O'Leary)
Kagome: Myoga was feeding on Mrs. O'Leary? Why?
Inuyasha: You know all to well that Myoga is always running from danger and if in the place he finds a good meal he will not turn it down to him a dog is a dog.
Chiron: the term is he tried to feed on her he didn't succeed
Kagome: Good... I don't think that she liked that very much... Mrs. O' Leary doesn't seem like a dog that particularly likes fleas.
Thalia: (is more interested in if Kikyo was the dead undead girl Hermes had been telling Artemis about) So is Kikyo the girl who attacked is she the same as the girl that was dead yet undead that Hermes had told Artemis about?
Inuyasha: yeah Thalia what of it?
Thalia: I was just wondering... When you were sleeping Kagome told me all about her time in the Feudal Era, and it seemed to fit her description.
Inuyasha: yeah she died after sealing me to a tree about fifty years ago feudal era time. then a witch called Urasue brought her back to life using her ashes, human bones, and graveyard soil. and then tried to take Kagome's soul and use it for Kikyo's soul. but the only real part of Kagome's soul that living doll recieved was the only part of Kikyo's soul that remained and that was her absolute and total hatred of me.
Thalia: That's unfortunate. Seeing how Kagome's soul is just so kind and innocent, that must have been one hell of a person.
Inuyasha: yeah and only today did we finally manage to end all that at all. (tells of the battle)
Thalia: After all this time, you still haven't been able to rid the world of the walking dead?
Inuyasha: at least she is gone now.
Thalia: Good thing. I have a feeling that I wouldn't have liked her at all.
Inuyasha: no, no you would not. (remembers that Kikyo before starting shooting at Inuyasha had first shot an arrow at Kagome to make her drop her bow and arrow but doesn't know if he should tell Thalia about that)
(but the grim look on inuyasha's face almost begs the question but he doesn't realise it)
Thalia: Inuyasha, what did she do? There's something else you haven't told me.
Inuyasha: (knows Thalia is Kagome's sister and deserves to know. so finally prepares himself to tell her everything) well before she tried to attack me she wanted to make sure Kagome couldn't shoot her own arrows to help me so she shot at Kagome's hands to make her drop her bow and arrow.
Thalia: Oh that- Well, it wasn't between the three of you! It was a grudge against you. Although, with your past with her, I guess I'd assume that Kagome hates Kikyo... You should hear the way she talks about her when you're not around... Her voice, it's like she could taint the water of the Bahamas... But enough about that. I don't think Kikyo should have brought her into that... *sighs* ignorant people.
Inuyasha: believe me Kagome has said alot of bad things about Kikyo even to my face. It doesn't bother me I learned along time ago that Kikyo didn't really love me. she mostly hated my guts when she was living anyway. Kagome never really had any real rival in her. I knew the only woman I truely loved was Kagome. with kikyo you might have called it puppy love.
Thalia: I'm really happy to hear that. Kagome deserves something like that, she's so self-sacrificing sometimes. You know, if you really had loved Kikyo, I'm sure she would have left you to be and wallowed in her house until she died, but if you ever came along, she'd look so happy so you wouldn't worry about her... It's just the way she is. Sometimes I worry about her, just a little.
Inuyasha: yeah to be actually honest back when Kikyo was alive I guess you could say I was lying to her and even you could say Using her. she had an item I wanted back then. the Shikon jewel. I had wanted it to become a full blooded demon. so that I would be accepted some where. but when I met Kagome it was then that I realised that even if not all humans accepted me and even if demons never did as long as she did I could live with that. and then when I came here with her. I finally understood that I was accepted somewhere and so it made what I had originally wanted seem kind of dumb meaning the idea not me (gives a quick freaked out glance at Percy)
Thalia: Hey, we're all stupid sometimes. Don't worry about Percy, he's a blockhead too. I think that's why he's taken such a liking to you. There's a reason Annabeth calls him Seaweed Brain.
Inuyasha: yeah well the reason I glanced like that at him was cause every time he thinks I am putting my self down he finds away to soak me with water.
Thalia: *laughs* Oh, yeah. Sons of Poseidon can do that. Once, he tried to drown me with the whole creek, we were so mad at each other.
Inuyasha: yeah well as much as I used to love lounging with Kagome in the hot spring areas when we came to them all of them were co ed back in the feudal era I never allowed my hair or my robe of the fire rat to get wet. those two things are near impossible to dry.
So when percy soaks me for putting myself down it really get me annoyed.
Thalia: Oh, I see. *reaches out to touch it* Your hair really is thick, and soft...
Inuyasha: yeah and due to that my hair is really hard to dry and the robe of the fire rat works better than any form of armor you can think of. and it also protect from being killed in fire. the there were many times I would take it off and let Kagome wear it or that I would use it to cover her and our friends if and when I could. the first time I let Kagome wear it was when we fought the demon Yura of the hair. she would kill people and then use her comb to control their corpses. or even it they were alive still she would use her comb to control them.
I had almost decided to for Kagome's own sake keep her out of the battle and try to defeat Yura alone but that didn't work so well because for one thing some of the strands of hair were so thin I couldn't see them for the life of me. Kaede told me that I would need Kagome's help in that battle other wise I was doomed.
Thalia: *laughs* I know what you mean. And then, she ended up saving your life didn't she?
Kagome: you could say that Thalia. considering Yura wanted to cut inuyasha's head and collect his head and his hair.
Inuyasha: yeah and Kagome was the one who realised that the red skull contained the source of Yura's power and took one of her sacred arrows and broke the skull open and broke the comb she found there. and we found out that it had grown in power and thought it was so special because that particular comb had at one time had been used to comb the hair of the dead.
Thalia: I don't think I've ever heard a story quite like that one. And Kagome, didn't you once mention that he said your name first right after that battle?
Kagome: yep it was the first time he called me by my name. I thought it was because he had hated me be fore but now I understand he didn't want to get hurt again.
Thalia: That's kinda cute... In it's own wierd way...
Inuyasha: yeah well I suppose love is rather wierd when it finally hit me it hit hard. I actually used to get jealous every time she had to come back here from my time. one time I was so jealous that I threatened to plug up the bone eaters well so she could never come back here again.
Thalia: That's an entertaining thought... She'd be livid. *laughs* That's actually really funny.
Kagome: yeah and then there was one time he came to this time and went to see me at school and I was playing volleyball with my friends and he saw the ball coming at me and all of a sudden I hear look out Kagome and then he streaked by (meaning he zipped past) and stole the ball and I don't know what he did with it after that.
Inuyasha: Duh I popped it and then stomped on it saying no one will ever hurt Kagome with this again.
Thalia: She was playing a game! She was supposed to hit it back over the net! *is bending over listening to these stories with laughter*
Inuyasha: well I know that now I didn't at the time. all I saw was some round object going toward Kagome's face and if I think something is going to harm my girlfriend I will dispose of the assumed threat first and ask questions later.
Thalia: *bangs her fist on the table* She's in school! What would want to hurt her there, other than herself for her low GPA?
Kagome: Thalia you must remember that Inuyasha is used to me being targeted for attacks from demons and even some evil humans and so his protect Kagome senses are up on the highest setting.
Thalia: I guess that's true... It's still a funny visual to watch him pop a volleyball... Are there any more interesting stories of 'Inuyasha in the Modern Era'?
Inuyasha: yeah one time I came to this era and Kagome had told me to wait for her to come home and not go out side but I ended up having to go because Kagome had left her lunch at the house and let's say I learned that this era is just as fraught with peril as my era only of different sorts. on my walk I ended up single handedly stopping a man who had just committed a robbery and having to go up and save a child and his cat from the upper story of a burning apartment building. of course while jumping out of the window to get the kid to safety the hat that Kagome's mother had me wear to keep people from staring at my dog ears flew off my head and the kid thought I was some kind of super hero. and after that I finally made it all the way to Kagome's school without any more big adventures.
Except for Kagome causing me to fall off the window sill out side of her classroom by telling me to sit.
though I never expected all those things that happened on my way to bring Kagome her lunch to make the six o clock news.
Thalia: Hey, here, in our world, everything makes six 'o' clock news. The old lady down the street breaks her ankle on a curb, and then some teenage nerd comes and helps her to the hospital - BAM - it's on the news. You did some pretty heroic stuff, so of course you're on the news. There were already reporters outside of the scene of the apartment fire, that's the kind of thing that makes an easy story.
Inuyasha: but I didn't do anything any normal decent person wouldn't have done.
Thalia: See, that's the thing. In society nowadays, there are five types of people: the ones who can help and are willing, the ones who are capable and unwilling, the ones who are willing and incapable, the ones that are capable but too shy to do anything even though they know it's right, and the people who just don't give a rat's fart, capable or not. And then you have the criminals. See? There's only about one - sixth of the population, if you use general math. But the thing is, there are very few of those willing and capable people.
Inuyasha: yeah I can see what you mean. the firemen that were on the scene were working to put out the fire and while they probably wanted to get the kid out they might not have been able to get to him as it was I was just barely able to get to him and his cat in time. but I guess you could say I stood a better chance of success because the fire wouldn't bother me due to the robe of the Fire rat. but one way or the other the kid and his pet got out of the fire so it really doesn't matter.
Kagome: and then there was the time Inuyasha and I had to battle the flesh eating Noh mask.
Thalia: Ooh! That sounds fun, something flesh-eating! What was that?
Kagome: it was a demon mask that my grandfather had used seals on to keep it from killing people, but due to the fact that Inuyasha and I had at that point began both dating and collecting sacred jewel shards and due to me having to come back and take tests I took the jewel shards with me and then the Noh mask began to break free of the seals my grandfather had placed on it. and it then began setting our store room on fire and then(tells the entire story to Thalia)
Inuyasha: yeah can we stop talking about that particular adventure it took me months to get over having nightmares about it. I had never been more afraid for Kagome than with that battle because at that time I half doubted I would be able to save her if it was as bad as her little brother Sota had been telling me Sota had been the one to meet me at the bone eaters well and fill me in on the details.
(shivers)
Thalia: Poor kid... Hadn't even been exposed to that kind of thing before anyway. He probably wasn't used to full- on demon attacks like that.
Inuyasha: yeah then there was a time when I came here with Kagome who was dealing with I guess you could call it a vengeful spirit. and I had come along to help Kagome.
Kagome: you mean when we were trying to help Mayu? the little girl who thought her mother had left her to die in the fire at her apartment on purpose.
Inuyasha: yep. (of course this story would also capture Artemis' attention)
Artemis: Little girl?
Kagome: yes.
Artemis: Well, what happened to her?
Myoga: well I will help them with this tale since to fully understand the tale you must understand one thing there is a demon that flits between this era and ours he is called the Soul piper. basically when a child dies and is unwilling accept their death for what ever reason. the Soul piper will come and play with the child and basically be their friend until they are ready to move on. but in Mayu's case it almost end badly.
Inuyasha: yeah as long as the soul piper's eyes remain closed all is well but once they open the soul piper drags the child to their place of death and casts them into hell.
Kagome: (tells the tale of Mayu all the way up to her journey to make one final attempt to save her from that grim fate.)
Artemis: Oh, wow... I didn't know that could happen. That's a really touching story. So you were able to save her?
Kagome: yes luckily enough (finishes the tale.)
Artemis: Kagome, you truly are something.
Inuyasha: yeah she truely is. though some times that something can be a real pain in my tail. (is joking)
Kagome: *scoffs jokingly, crosses her arms and turns away* Hmph. I'm offended.
Inuyasha: (laughs in his usual way) oh you know dang well that we were both extremely lucky that you were able to rescue that girl at all if luck had not been on your side Mayu could have ended up pulling you into hell with her. as I told you when we finished that adventure. besides you know I love you and I only say those things because I worry.
Kagome: *laughs* Relax, I was joking too! I know why we were both lucky! It's okay! *runs a hand up and down his arm*
Inuyasha: (can't resist and doesn't care that Thalia and Artemis are looking at them and kisses her right there)
Thalia: *rolls her eyes* Does he always do that?
Myoga: Yes.
though he has a reason she has saved his butt on acouple times in the feudal era.
Thalia: Ah. Lady Artemis, you look disgusted. *laughs* Is Kagome still truly something?
Inuyasha: I know what Myoga's talking about. he means back when I had an almost face to stomache encounter with a nothing mother.
Artemis: Nothing mother?
Inuyasha: they are made of the emptiness of mothers who had lost their children to war, famine or other such calamities.
Artemis: I see. And what did she try to do with you?
Inuyasha: this particular one had been disguised as my mom Izayoi. (tells the tale and tries to keep his own emotions in check)
Artemis: that's terrible. I don't envy that.
Inuyasha: yeah Kagome was a real life saver that time.
Kagome: I was so scared at first when I couldn't speak... I was worried.
Thalia: what do you mean at first you couldn't speak?
Kagome: I was tied up by something, I don't exactly remember what, but I couldn't move or shout out to warn him.
Thalia: what did you do?
Ai: (looks at Zeus) Daddy why were there so many people trying to harm Inuyasha and Kagome?
Zeus: They were searching for the shards from the Shikon Jewel, and they had to fight off all the demons that wanted it too.
Ai: you won't let anything worse happen to them will you?
Zeus: Of course not, Ai, I'll do my best to keep them out of trouble.
Inuyasha: keep us out of trouble? how are you going to do that when trouble is the name of the game?(is trying to be funny)
Zeus: I could lock you in a little shed... Without the Tetsusaiga and your hands tied up. (doesn't know about the time Kaede and Miroku locked him in the hut to keep him safe.)
Inuyasha: that has been tried once before. Kaede and Miroku tried that and it failed miserably
Kagome: They did? When was that?
Inuyasha: remember when I sent you home because it was extremely dangerous for you at that moment and I plugged up the well with a tree to keep you from getting back to me shortly after another battle with my brother (reminds her)
Kagome: Oh... It was because you were injured, huh?
Inuyasha: yeah they not only tried to lock me in but had used Sutras to try to seal me inside as well. but it failed totally.
Kagome: How? What happened?
Inuyasha: the demon Royakan who before he had been tricked by Naraku had been a really good fellow and a friend to both human and demon alike. (tells the adventure of how Royakan had been the one to free him from the shed. because he wanted to fight him)
Royakan actually once served my father.
Kagome: Oh... Okay. That makes sense. Still... You were hurt. I don't like that I wasn't there.
yeah I actually got that bit of news out of him when you had finally gotten back and removed the Sacred jewel fragment that Naraku had attached a seed to that was going to grow and split Royakan's head open.
Kagome: Oh. Well, at least he was himself enough to tell you that.
Inuyasha: he went back to normal after that encounter. (smiles)but it just goes to show you can't lock me in a shed and expect to be able to keep me there. (laughs)
Kagome: I wouldn't test my father on that Inuyasha. I have my suspision that he would be able to do it if he set his mind to it.
Zeus: Too right I will. It'll be child's play to keep him there.
Inuyasha: if Kaede and Miroku couldn't do it with locks and Sutras how do you figure you would be able to.
Miroku: Kaede and I didn't figure on Royakan coming along and breaking the shed to bits.
Royakan: (Does alot of travel though all types of forests and yes is still on their side but he comes out of the woods while they are now talking happily) Hello everyone!
Kagome: Oh, speak of the devil!
Royakan: (notices Artemis and Charges first over to her table and picks her up by her hunter's dress) I recognise you.
Artemis: What do you think you're doing? Put me down!
Royakan: I recognise you. you are the little girl who I saw skulking around in the wooded areas of lord Inutaisho's estate back when he was alive.
I would have attacked if he hadn't told me that I was to allow you to pass through the forest un hindered.
Artemis: Oh, okay. I think I remotely recognize you.
Royakan: you should I am Royakan guardian of the forest. the Lone wolf the solitary sentinel.
Royakan: (looks at Zeus) I recognise you to sir. you were one who used to come and sit in on Inutaisho's counsel meetings and would some times march into battle with us.
Zeus: Yes, I was Inutaisho's best friend, Zeus.
Royakan: I knew it. (smiles) so how have you been dealing with your life?
Zeus: Very well, thank you. I've been keeping my family healthy, alive and well.
Royakan: I can see but I remember just now you were threatening Inuyasha. I wonder if Inutaisho knows that you were just threatening his son. (thinks Zeus had meant ill when he said he could lock inuyasha into a shed)
Zeus: I meant him no harm. I just was trying to prove him wrong, that I could keep him in a shed for as long as I wanted.
Hera: Mr Royakan my husband cares very much for Inuyasha since he is a member of this family. So I don't think you should be insinuating that he would ever do anything to hurt him. Any thing my husband Zeus would do to inuyasha would be for his own safety and protection.
Zeus: Thank you for your support, darling.
Hera: don't mention it my dear.
Kagome: (looks at her step mom with shock in her eyes but turns away lest Hera should see her staring since she still knows that her step mom probably still hates her more than anything else.)
Hera: Kagome, is there something wrong?
Kagome: no there is nothing wrong ma'am.
Hera: You seem a bit uncomfortable.
Zeus: she has never seen you stand up and support something like that before dear.
Hera: I'm changing, slowly but surely! I'm sorry if I made you feel any uneasiness, I know you can't have liked me much. I forgive you, it's not your fault you were born.
Kagome: it was the other way around ma'am I thought you were the one who didn't like me much. (looks down at her own feet)
Zeus: maybe in time Kagome you and your step mother can build a sort of friendship even if you can't exactly build a mother daughter relationship perhaps you can move on to something where you feel comfortable with her and she doesn't totally despise you..
Kagome: I'd like that. It's nice to know that I'm not hated... It seems to be a stereotype among Zeus kids and Hera...
Inuyasha: yeah it would be nice to see the Stereotype broken.
Hera: I don't see why we can't try. after all we should all get to be friends if we are to stand against Naraku.
Royakan: (smiles) Inuyasha you have opened doors that were closed doors your father had long ago given up on opening. you have helped your Zeus' wife to see that perfection doesn't lie in the gene pool but lays in the family itself whether the family can work together as unit and whether love is present. that is what makes perfection.
Hera: Did everyone think of me like that?
Zeus: at one time Hera you presented yourself that way. and every time I had a child with other women you would dispise the child with out even giving them a chance. even though there were a couple times you did the same remember when you laid with that one man and gave birth to the first leader of the Amazons?
Hera: Erm- Yes. That was retaliation. And I know that's how I presented myself, at one point, that was my strongest belief. Now, I've given up, there's no way to make this family that kind of perfect, even if I still wanted to.
Zeus: but we can still make this family the right kind of perfect. the perfect Inutaisho, and Aphrodite told you about. we can make this family one that works as a unit and has love in the center of it. and that is the best kind of perfect you can get.
Hera: *sighs* I do suppose... Oh well.
Athena: that is one of the wisest things I have heard my father say. let us leave the past where it belongs. and then move foreword to where we can all smile and laugh together as a family unit.
Zeus: yes my daughter let us move on into the new days of our lives.
Kagome: Okay. A new start, then. *holds out her hand to Hera*
Hera: (smiles and takes Kagome's hand and pulls Kagome into a hug and then releases Kagome)
Kagome: *standing there shocked, she wasn't expecting the hug*
Hera: (smiles at her step daughter realising she might actually like this new "perfect" family better than what had been her idea of a perfect family)
Kagura: (comes as if trying to spoil the party) well isn't this sweet. I think I am going to be sick.
Inuyasha: *snarling* Kagura...
Kagura: sit up boy or better yet why not lie down and roll over and then play dead.
Inuyasha: You cannot command me, Kagura, I'm not a house pet.
Kagura: you are a dog. but perhaps you are more of a rabid wild dog that needs to be put down.
I will happily oblige there. (waves her fan) Dance of blades. (sends the attack at Inuyasha and Kagome)
Inuyasha: (picks Kagome up and Jumps out of the way) (looks at Zeus and Hera) hey while I draw Kagura's fire can the two of you get the others to safety?
Zeus: Of course, we'll do our best.
Hera: ( looks at the other gods and goddesses and the children of those gods and goddesses) alright Inuyasha is buying us some time each cabin is to follow their parent back to their cabin and stay there after all of you are safely stowed Zeus you go and get Kagome so she can be with Ai and I will do my best to help Inuyasha. does everyone understand?
Everyone: Yes!
Hera: good then let's get a move out.
Hermes: (begins leading his cabin back to cabin11)
All the gods: *Lead there children to their cabins*
Kagura: (sees Hera come over to help Inuyasha) ha one little human woman. if you think you are going to be of any help to Inuyasha you are sorely mistaken. (waves her fan towards Hera) Dance of Blades.
Hera: *pulls out a shield trying to block the attack*
Inuyasha: (had handed Kagome to Zeus to take back to the cabin and so despite the shield Hera is using which seems to be working but acouple are getting around it but Inuyash jumps in front of Hera to protect her especially as Kagura sends a second volley)
Hera: No need to protect me, I'm immortal.
Inuyasha: maybe so but I would do this for any of my family. I don't like seeing Naraku's goon patrol trying to hurt people I care about.
Hera: And I'm here to protect you, please. Just don't get yourself hurt, and we should be fine.
Kagura: you can't keep protecting that woman Inuyasha your badly injured as it is. since you shielded her from my second volley (laughs)
Inuyasha: You know something Kagura if you were funny you wouldn't have to laugh at your own jokes. (unsheathes the Tetsusaiga) Wind Scar.
Kagura: (dodges and uses the feather in her hair to escape again) I will see you another time Inuyasha)
Inuyasha: (sits where near where he had battled Kagura)
Hera: Are you alright?
Inuyasha: I have never been better. (being a stubborn half demon (had thrown Hera his robe of the Fire rat so she would be protected until he got to her just as Kagura was begining the second volley) )
(stands up and starts walking back to catch up with Kagome)
Hera: You look a bit injured, are you sure you're okay?
Inuyasha: I am fine but thanks for worrying. (had retrieved his robe from Hera before he walked away from the field of battle) (gives Hera a smile I am thankful that you are alright.
these wounds look worse than they are.
Hera: Are you sure? I guess you should go see Kagome.
Inuyasha: I will but I am very happy to know you are in one peice.
Hera: I am glad to know you are in one piece. You're far more important than I am.
Inuyasha: I can easily recover from many different injuries. if you are curious one night have Kagome tell you of the battle with Yura of the Hair. (smiles as he makes his turn to Zeus' cabin)
Hera: I will. *smiles back at him*
Inuyasha: (walks in) Hey Kagome, Hey Zeus.
Kagome: Are you alright?
Inuyasha: yes Kagome I am fine. (laughs at how easily she worries)
Kagome: *pouts* What are you laughing at?
Inuyasha: I am laughing at the way you constantly worry about me.
Kagome: You worry about me too, you said so.
Inuyasha: yes I do worry about you. all that happened was similar what happened with Yura of the hair when I loaned you my robe of the Fire rat so you would be better protected, I loaned your step mother my robe of the fire rat to protect her from Kagura's dance of blades. it covered her through the end of the first attack but then I saw the second volley coming and jumped in the way. nothing to worry about.
Kagome: So you are hurt!
Inuyasha: Kagome relax I am no worse than when Yura stabbed me in the chest. these are scratches compared to that.
Zeus: Some one stabbed you in the chest?
(looks inquisitively at Inuyasha and then at Kagome)
Kagome: Yeah, while we were fighting Yura of the Hair, she cut him across the chest with her blade.
Zeus: well inuyasha be that as it may I would feel better if tomorrow you would let Will and Apollo have a look at you or even Hermes and his boys.
Inuyasha: I'll be fine. I'll be fully healed by then.
Zeus: you will? how so?
Kagome: he is right by the time I returned with a first aid kit from home to help Inuyasha he had already recovered from his injuries.
Zeus: How long did that take?
Kagome: I left him in the Feudal era as soon as Yura was dead and then I came back the next morning. and his injuries were all gone.
Zeus: I see. Then he will be healed.
Inuyasha: yep I will be completely healed by the time that tomorrow's here.
Zeus: I know that you will think me an overly concerned parent but as I currently stand in place of your father Inutaisho I would feel better if you laid down and rest
Inuyasha: Fine. I'll lay down, for you..
Zeus: thank you Inuyasha.
Inuyasha: No problem.
Zeus: (decides that he will not call for will and Apollo tonight knowing that Hera had walked inuyasha back to the cabin and doesn't want to cause worry needlessly so decides to just see if the wounds heal on their own. As Kagome and Inuyasha had said they would.)
Kagome: Thank you, Inuyasha, that makes me feel better too.
Inuyasha: like I said no problem Kagome. (yawns) I think I am going to sleep for a bit see you in the morning
Kagome: Night, Inuyasha.
(next morning)
Inuyasha: (wakes up with the sun shining into the room and gets up before even Kagome and Ai and notices Zeus is still sitting up but he seems to be sleeping himself so tries to get out of the cabin so that he doesn't disturb Zeus)
Zeus: Where are you going, Inuyasha?
Inuyasha: no where special I didn't mean to wake you. I usually get up and do my yoga at about this time.
Zeus: Alright, go on. I'm just curious.
Inuyasha: (smiles and goes to do his yoga stretches) Kaede taught me them shortly after the seal that Kikyo had used to bind me to a tree had been broken.
Zeus: Ah, I'd assume you'd be a bit stiff if you were stuck on a tree for fifty years.
Inuyasha: you have no idea. as it was I barely was able to hold my own against Mistress Centipede who had been trying to get a hold of Kagome (remembers his first battle from back then)
(keeps doing his yoga positions as he had learned them from Kaede)
(and is about to start on his hardest position to hold as Artemis her self begins to come out of her cabin seeing Inuyasha doing something she can't remember seeing him do in the time she had been here. mostly because he usually got up way earlier than he did today.)
Artemis: Inuyasha, what are you doing?
Inuyasha: Yoga.
(stated as if that should have been obvious)
Artemis: I see. It doesn't seem like something you would do.
Inuyasha: when I was younger I never did yoga but after Kagome had broken the seal that bound me to a tree for fifty years Kaede taught me Yoga to help get my body back in fighting condition.
Artemis: Oh, I understand. You probably lost some muscle during that time.
Inuyasha: yeah as it was I only barely was able to hold my own in my very first battle that occured just seconds after being released.
Artemis: It seems like you've come a long way.
Inuyasha: yeah though I actually got sort of a late start this morning. I normally am out doing my yoga when it is still dark outside. around three or four in the morning.
(explains some of the odd noises she used to hear at those hours.)
Artemis: So that's what I've been hearing. I've been hearing things at night.
Inuyasha: yeah some of the positions are hard to get into and holding them can be excruciatingly painful. but they help me. keep limber.
Zeus: I am amazed that you have yet to pull a muscle. does Kagome know about it?
Inuyasha: Uh no like I said I usually do it long before anyone is a wake.
Kagome: *wakes up from the sound of everyone talking* Inuyasha, are you doing yoga? Am I still asleep? *is still groggy.
Inuyasha: no you are not still asleep and yes I am doing yoga (had just gotten himself into one of the positions he has a hard time getting out of. he has litterally tied himself in a knot)
I normally do my yoga at about three or four in the morning. while you and the others are still asleep. I just got a late start this morning.
(is now trying to get out of the position he is in and finds he can't do it this morning.)
Uh could one of you kindly lend me a hand? I seem to be stuck.
Kagome: Uh huh. Here. *untangles him gently*
Inuyasha: thank you Kagome. (gets back to his feet) I have never had that problem before.
Kagome: I wonder why. you're warmer and more able the later in the day.
Inuyasha If you are wondering why I always did yoga at three or four in the morning it is because it is dark and no one is likely to see me doing those kinds of stretches at that hour. alot of people told me that Yoga was an unmanly thing to do.
Zeus: and I am assuming they were among the humans and possibly demons that were calling you worthless and you valued what they were saying to you why?
Kagome: He used to value those opinions because they were all he heard. He believed them because he never heard different.
Zeus: yes well now Kagome he will learn differently I shall see to that.
Inuyasha: Kagome should I be worried? (is whispering to Kagome)
Kagome: No, I don't think so. Not horribly worried.
Zeus: Kagome you and Inuyasha stay put I will be back. (heads off to the big house)
Inuyasha: Uh Kagome do you know what your dad is thinking?
Kagome: If I did, I would tell you.
Zeus: Chiron I need to speak to you.
(had just arrived at the big house)
Chiron: Yes, Zeus?
Zeus: (tells Chiron that Inuyasha had told him that from the time he had first come with Kagome he was used to getting up at three or four in the morning to do yoga and mainly did it at those odd hours because the same people who trampled his self esteem said that it was un manly to do yoga. and that since he didn't have anyone to tell him different so he thinks it might be time for Inuyasha to have some one tell him different.)
I want to see if you can help him learn who is worth listening to in opposed to who should just be ignored.
Chiron: Of course I will help.
Zeus: (leads Chiron back to where he had told Kagome and Inuyasha to wait)
Inuyasha: (sees Zeus heading back to where they are) Uh Kagome here comes your dad.
Artemis: (smiles knowing what is likely to happen next)
Zeus: Kagome I told you I would see to it he learn differently I brought Chiron who has agreed to take a little time to work with Inuyasha and help him learn who's opinions are worth listening to and who wouldn't know good advice if it bit them.
Kagome: Lessons? That's all? *laughs*
Zeus: yes what did you think I was going to do? I don't believe the situation is as desparate as his self esteem thing was. Percy Chose a way that seemed to be a good idea to help Inuyasha out of a bad self talk. this is not to a point where such drastic measures are needed at least not yet.
Kagome: I see. You're just a person that sees the need for extremes.
Zeus: yes well I think we caught this problem in its infancy.
Kagome: Good, I'm glad.
Chiron: Uh Zeus I see Kagome but I do not seem to see Inuyasha. where is he? didn't you tell him to stay put?
Inuyasha: (his voice comes from inside the cabin since Ai had woke up he was playing with her alittle) yeah he told me to stay put but I didn't figure he meant out side. and so since Ai got up and wanted to play I decided to entertain her for a while.
Kagome: Aw, Inuyasha, that's so sweet!
Ai: (had been awakened by Zeus talking with kagome and inuyasha earlier and had begun to think Zeus didn't like Inuyasha anymore or was angry with him) is daddy done being angry at Inuyasha?
Kagome: He never was mad. What made you think that?
Ai: I heard him yelling at you and Inuyasha. (meaning back when Zeus was hearing that Inuyasha had been accepting the opinions of the same people that had at one time or another put him down) So I assumed daddy had either stopped liking Inuyasha or that he must be dreadfully angry at him.
Kagome: No, dad just doesn't like Inuyasha's under confidence because of his childhood.
Zeus: your sister is right Ai. I care very much for Inuyasha and it is be cause I care that I try to correct some of the problems I do see when they arise.
Inuyasha: (had followed Ai out of the cabin and was now standing near Kagome.)
Kagome: See, Inuyasha? Nothing to fear.
Inuyasha: (smiles) yeah I guess you are right.
Chiron: Zeus has asked me to help you learn who you can trust to give you good advice and words of encouragement and who you should just turn a deaf ear to.
Inuyasha: Thank you.
Chiron: you are very welcome. the first lesson begins now. and it is relatively simple. (pun intended very much)
Inuyasha: Okay...
Chiron: first off as for the people you can trust and listen to for good advice and words of love and encouragement you have met all of those people already. all of your family and friends here at camp can be trusted for those things as can people who you know outside like Kaede and Jinenji and the rest of those who you know from the Feudal era. I would even say at this point it would include your own brother Sesshomaru. do you understand those are people you can trust and look to for all you need.
I am sure even Artemis has an open heart for you in her own way.
Artemis: Yes, he's not a pig, he's okay.
Chiron: see what I mean. Inuyasha?
Inuyasha: yeah I think I understand so I can trust the words of my friends and my family.
Chiron: you are indeed a quick learner. (smiles at Zeus) I think Inuyasha will do just fine in time.
Zeus: Thank you, Chiron.
Chiron: you know well enough that I am always willing to help anyone who needs it.
Zeus: Yes, and I appreciate it. *smiles*
Chiron: (sees percy who had just gotten out of the water from a morning swim he had taken with his father. and decides to illustrate his point for Inuyasha. even though he knows inuyasha get the main concept wants to let him have a visual so trots over to percy) Hey how was your morning swim percy?
Percy: It was refreshing. I always wake up easier after a swim.
Chiron: what did a lot of the human class mates you used to hang out with think of that habit?
(meaning back at Yancy academy)
Percy: They always thought it was weird. Most people would die if they held their breath longer than two minutes. But I'd stay under for ten minutes at least.
Chiron: and yet you have found it accepted here. (lets percy know that Inuyasha practices yoga and used to do it at the darkest parts of the night because he had been told yoga was un manly.)
Percy: Here, we don't care. It's not unmanly. Guys go to yoga class all the time.
Inuyasha: (looks amazed) wow. who would have guessed (smiles the point has further hit home and he smiles)
Chiron: I thank you percy for helping me illustrate my point to inuyasha all the better.
Percy: Not a problem.
Koga: (makes a quick reappearance as he is heading back to his pack) Hey mutt face. like I said I am backing off for now but if ever you are in the fuedal era again and are not suspecting I will find and destroy you. (laughs at Inuyasha unaware he had even for a couple minutes perched on the Artemis cabin)
(get ready to head off)
After all I am not packed off very easily. (meant to be a parting shot)
Chiron: (looks at Koga then at Inuyasha) and here is lesson two. Koga is one of those creatures that you should turn a deaf ear to. since he is mostly just hot air.
Artemis: *comes of her cabin, and smacks Koga upside the head* Hey, get off my porch, pig!
Koga: Oh no you did not just smack me little girl. I usually eat girls like you who do that but I will let you go since you really don't look that Appetizing (ouch cheap verbal shot) (Leaves heading back to the fuedal era)
Artemis: UGH! I HATE him.
Inuyasha: (looks at Artemis) uh what are you upset about?
(doesn't understand why Artemis is angry at Koga)
Artemis: The way he treats you all! He is such a pig.
Inuyasha: Artemis believe me I have grown used to it. that is how most full blooded demons treat me at this point the only exceptions are Shippo, Myoga, and my brother Sesshomaru. and a few others. if you think he was the first hurt me and try to steal Kagome away from me he isn't. he is just the tip of the iceberg. many of the others who tried to take Kagome for them selves usually died. but in Koga's case. due to his speed and strength I can barely land a hit on him.
Chiron: Exactly Inuyasha those who treat you like that should be ignored by you. they are not worth your acknowledgement.
I am sure Kagome's father is in agreement.
Zeus: Of course I am. They aren't worth the time of day.
Inuyasha: I think I finally realize it. your right I should just let their words just go in one ear and out the other. not even give them a thought. thanks for the help.
Chiron: Not a problem. It's nice to be able to help!
Kagome: (looks at her father) uh dad? can I ask you something?
Zeus: What is it?
Kagome: well before Ai let inuyasha and me know she was awake he and I had been talking about the possibility of taking a couple of our kin to the Fuedal era with us so they can see some of the places Inuyasha and I have travelled. I wanted to know if we could have your permission to do something like that?
Zeus: I don't see why not.
Kagome: I am not sure who might be interested in coming but I know percy might end up being one. because he is always fascinated by Inuyasha's tales of the Fuedal era.
Zeus: I think Thalia would love to go!
Chiron: (had been listening and looks at Zeus) yes your daughter Thalia would probably love to go but she would need Artemis' permission to do so.
Zeus: I'm sure that could be arranged.
Thalia: (had gotten up and comes out seeing Kagome and the others) what are you all talking about?
Kagome: well Thalia, Inuyasha and I were thinking of taking a few of the campers to see what the fuedal era is like so they can see some of the places Inuyasha and I have adventured.
Thalia: Sounds fun. Would you mind if I came along?
Kagome: it's alright with me as long as Artemis doesn't mind letting you tag with me and Inuyasha and who ever else decides they want to tag with us.
Thalia: I'll go ask her.
Thalia: (races back to the Artemis cabin finding Artemis sitting down on the porch) Lady Artemis I would like your permission to tag with Kagome and Inuyasha they have been given permission to take a few campers back to the feudal era with them for alittle while so they can see some of the places they had travel together? Please may I go with them?
Artemis: Of course, it's a good experience. You should go.
Thalia: thank you my lady. (bows respectfully and then heads back over to where Kagome and Inuyasha are)
Kagome: What'd she say?
Thalia: (tells Kagome word for word what Artemis had said)
Kagome: Yay! *hugs Thalia* I'm so excited!
Inuyasha: yeah so we seem to have two people coming with us. Percy wanted to tag and I did promise him that if he could get permission from his parents that he could tag so we have two people coming with us we will wait until breakfast to see if anyone else wants to come.
Chiron: well it is actually almost time for breakfast. let's head to the dinning Pavilion.
(everyone had woken up and now is heading to get breakfast)
Chiron: (trots over to mr D.) Mr. D could you announce that Kagome and Inuyasha have been granted permission to take a few campers to visit the Feudal Era with them. and that if there are any who wish to accompany them to speak up.?
Mr. D: I suppose. *sighs*
(everyone had finished their rituals and were now sitting and eating as a group)
Mr. D: Okay, listen up, brats. I have an announcement. Kagome and Inuyasha have been granted permission to take a few of you to the Feudal Era. Any volunteers?
Clarisse: I am curious about the Feudal Era. I will accompany them (then looks at Ares) that is if it is alright with you daddy.
Ares: Of course.
Percy: I am going with them as long as my dad says it is alright. I am eager to see where he spent his childhood.
Poseidon: Yes! Isn't that what the trip was made for.
Percy: thank you dad.
Annabeth: If seaweed brain is going then I am going as well. as long as mom says it is alright.
Athena: Yes, dear.
Annabeth: thank you mom.
Mr. D: *rolling his eyes* Who else would like to go?
Chiron: (whispers to mr. D) they have enough companions for this trip. Artemis has already given Thalia permission to join them. but I suppose we might wish to ask one of the gods to go along with the children as a chaperone.
Mr. D: Yes. Any godly chaperone?
Aphrodite: yes I will chaperone the kids unless Artemis wants to volunteer. after all some one has to make sure that Koga is true to his word that he had given up on Kagome.
(Artemis remembers that earlier that morning Koga had said nothing about giving up on Kagome but that he would wait till Inuyasha had dropped his guard)
Artemis: If you don't mind, I'd actually take you up on your offer.
Mr.D: uh ok Artemis but why? what has made you so eager to accompany the group?
Artemis: My hatred for Koga.
Chiron: very well. (looks at mr. D) we are at least lucky she doesn't look like she is going to ask to have the rest of her hunters go with her.
Mr. D: Yes, the others would ruin everything.
Kagome: (looks at Sango) Sango can we borrow Kirara for a bit?
Sango: Of course, Kagome. I won't have much need of her here, will I?
Kagome: I don't know but we won't be gone long. (soon after breakfast everyone gets themselves ready to go)
Inuyasha: Almost ready, Kagome?
Kagome: yep I am all ready. how about you Inuyasha?
Inuyasha: yeah I am ready.
Kagome: Alright, should we go and round everyone up?
Inuyasha: yep. (goes out to get their Thalia and their Chaperone who were at the Artemis cabin had sent Kagome to get Percy, Annabeth and Clarisse) (knocks on the wooden wall of the cabin) Artemis: All ready!
Thalia: (is ready but is also very excited. due to the fact that before they arrive at the bone eaters well they will also get a chance to see where Kagome and Inuyasha fought some of their battles here in the modern day. and is nearly bouncing off the walls with child like excitement)
Inuyasha: (looks at Artemis as she and Thalia come outside) uh did you give her something to make her so hyper?
Kagome: It's her own adrenaline. She's excited to see where all the stories took place.
Inuyasha: I see.
Percy: (comes up behind them) we all are excited to see where all the adventures took place. (clarisse and Annabeth come up behind percy)
Kirara: (goes into her big size so they can mount her)
Inuyasha: alright Ladies first that mean Kagome, Annabeth, Thalia, Clarisse, and Artemis.
The Girls: Thanks, Inuyasha.
Inuyasha: no problem. (helps percy up and then climbs on himself as Kirara takes off heading home to Japan)
(as they arrive in Japan)
Inuyasha: (points out a building that had once been a scaffolding where he and Kagome had battled the Flesh eating Noh Mask.) that building before it had been completed that was where we fought the Noh mask.
Thalia: That big department store?
Kagome: yep.
and you see that apartment where you can still see some burn marks top level four balconies to the left. that is where Inuyasha and I had our rescue mission with Mayu. when I had to venture into the thresh hold of hell alone because since inuyasha was a demon he couldn't pass the barrier.
Thalia: Wow! It's still there... Amazing.
Annabeth: it must have been scary for Inuyasha to face a mask that was flesh eating. or even to know that he could have lost kagome in that adventure with the little ghost girl.
Inuyasha: Believe me, it was.
Kagome: even I was afraid more than once. but I persevered.
Kirara: (spots Kagome's home and begins the descent so that Kagome can prepare to get down and open the door for the room with the bone eaters well in it)
Kagome: (as soon as Kirara lands hops off and opens the door and then follows after Kirara and closes the door behind them and then remounts as they jump into the well)
(they are teleported through the well to the Feudal era and Kirara manages to fly them out of the well on the other side and lands on the grass infront of it.)
Inuyasha: welcome to the Feudal Era.
Thalia: The air is so clean...
Kaede: (had heard a noise near the dry well as they called it back then) is that Ye Inuyasha?
Inuyasha: No it is Onigumo... Of course it is me Kaede.
Kaede: I am glad to hear ye has returned. Who is it ye have brought, Inuyasha?
Inuyasha: Kaede, Allow me to introduce to you some of my friends I have made when I was away with Kagome in the modern Era. from left to right we have Percy, Annabeth, Clarisse, Thalia, and Artemis and of course you already know Kagome.
Kaede: (upon hearing Artemis's name begins to think about something) Not the most famous huntress/goddess. certainly ye did not bring that marvelous lady here.
Artemis: Nice to see you again, Lady Kaede.
Kaede: So it is ye lady Artemis. the years have been kind to you. you don't look any different then you did when I was but a lass.
Inuyasha: (looks at Artemis) You and Kaede know eachother?
Artemis: Yes, I roamed around and took quite a liking to young Kaede. She's not so young any more, though. The years are always kind to me, Kaede, that's what makes me, well, me. *slides off of Kirara and hugs Kaede*
Kaede: (hugs Artemis) and no I am not so young anymore being now well over fifty years old.
Artemis: I see. And your eye is still lost... You should have let me look at it.
Kaede: my dear friend another thing that has not changed since I was a lass is your kind and tender heart
Artemis: *smiles* I take pride in that.
Kaede: come on I will see to you it you at least have a place to rest for tonight and you can tell us how you managed to meet up with Inuyasha.
Artemis: That's an easy story. Come on, everyone, let's go.
Kaede: (leads them into her village)
(soon has them seated in her home and sets food before her guests. ) now on with your tale my lady.
Artemis: Well, this week has been Visiting Week at camp, and so I attended with my huntresses. I actually met Sesshomaru first, in the cave he was staying at. But when I got to camp, Kagome, Inuyasha, Miroku, Sango, Shippo, and Kirara were there.
Kaede: I see my question is why was inuyasha there.
Kagome: Well, my father is Zeus, and he came to see me, and Inuyasha and Sesshomaru were fighting, so we took us all to camp.
Kaede: and the camp you go to allowed him to stay?
Kagome: *smiles* Well, it seems there was a secret. Izayoi was a daughter of Athena herself.
Kaede: so you are not only half demon but half Demi god.
Inuyasha: Right.