Title Running Against the Wind
Author landofthekwt
Rating K
Prompt Wind Blown (ib4y2)
Word Count 497
Warning none
Summary The old man moves against InuHime no Kami
A/N Part of The Adventures of Ouiji and Princess Puppy
Time seemed to stand still for Inuyasha. He stood frozen with his sword buried in the ground. The furrows reaching out like a hand to destroy whatever had been there. All except the door. Behind the door cowered a woman dressed in garb he vaguely remembered as Heian. Seven centuries removed from his own childhood in Kamakura.
Kikyou and Kaede were prostrating themselves before her where they stood. The old man had called the woman behind the door "Yuuyake", but the way he said it was with such insolence that its utterance was almost an insult. She seemed afraid to come out, but also afraid of the old man. What could that mean? He smelled like an old man. His pipe smoke as foul as any Inuyasha ever smelled.
Inuyasha could smell fear coming from InuHime no Kami. She was not afraid of anyone. Laughing at human, youkai and guardian kami as if they were nothing. Acting like she was the ruler of all surveyed. But not the old man. She was genuinely scared to death of the old man You had to respect anyone who could make Princess Puppy submit
He turned to Kagome She seemed troubled. You would think that she would be jumping for joy about seeing the Dog Princess brought low after everything the kami had put her through. Instead, she was staring at the door where the kami was cowering behind as if trying to figure something out.
Suddenly, he felt a gust of wind swirling in the shrine. Turning back he saw that the air was still except around the old man. Something was strange about the old man. Anyone who could control the winds like Kagura had to be watched. As someone who could summon the winds himself he knew only a creature with power could do that
He did it with his sword. Kagura did it with her fan. The old man was summoning the winds without fan or sword. The strength was in his own body. Inuyasha tried to turn and raise his sword, but he found that he could not move against the force of the wind. The old man was ignoring. His eyes were only on InuHime no Kami.
"Time to come home, Princess Puppy. You have been a bad dog. I will have to hit you on the nose with my fan until you learn that a kami must never desert her shrine or be delinquent in her service to her superior at the shrine which he graciously allowed him to share."
The old man moved forward as if to scoop up the malefactor when Ouiji stepped in front of him. The look on his face was one of surprise as if he was not even aware that Ouiji was there. He smiled as if the little boy had just told him a joke
"Bad man not take ba-ba away"
The old man laughed " I would like to see you stop me, little man.