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[Scorpiogal sitting in a hammock between two closely planted trees. Wearing baggy clothes, star-shaped lensed prescription sun glasses, and sipping a HiC juicebox. Sumiko is off running through the sprinkler, laughing each time she makes a run through as if she just can't get enough. She is wearing a one piece bathing suit and waterwingies. Shio is sitting in one of the trees the hammock is tied to like it's a lawn chair. He is wearing long kaki shorts, an olive Hawaiian shirt with palm trees and coconuts on it, and a pair of shades protecting his beautiful eyes.]
Scorpiogal: takes a long sip of her juice box Summer – be – gude. B-)
Shio: You can say that again, Scorpi.
Scorpiogal: looks over the tops of her shades at him with a flat look You can't say that at all. You don't even work, MisterMan…
Shio: I work! said defensively I work a lot! I thought I was trying awefully hard to find a mate in the past few chapters!
Scorpiogal: Hmmm…remembers something speaking of which, did you know that the past twelve chapters have all happened in the course of one day?? ;;;;
Shio: raises a finger and adds And counting…
Scorpiogal: sweatdrops and takes another sip Also did you know, that I don't own Inu Yasha?
Shio: If anyone has been paying attention to the disclaimers at all they would know that…
Scorpiogal: So that's everyone – good – just supposed to make sure….takes another long sip …….
Chapter 27: Mamori
"So what's yur name, Daggerclaw?" Kagome asked just before tightening a bandage on the newbie character's upper arm.
"Ugh," Daggerclaw grunted at the pressure on her arm. "What do you mean, 'What's my name?'"
Daggerclaw had come to understand that she wouldn't be able to attack Shio let alone get away without five star medical attention. So she sat upright on the beach blanket with her arm raised for Kagome to bandage. Until further notice, she would stay calm and take it like a ma – I mean woman.
"Like – you're name!" Kagome replied with a shrug as if it were obvious. "I mean Daggerclaw can't be your real name, right? That's like naming your daughter 'floozy'!"
Daggerclaw gave Kagome a glare that showed that she didn't seem to like this analogy.
Kagome sweat dropped and waved her hand a little to show that she didn't mean anything bad. "At least you understand what I'm trying to say right?"
"Sure, I understand." Daggerclaw nodded her head. "But I only tell a select few my real name. What makes you think I can just trust complete strangers like you? Especially after I used you as bait and threatened your lives…"
"We're pretty trusting," Kagome assured her.
"And forgiving," Sango added. She sat behind Daggerclaw, brushing her long black hair for her. "In fact, we're too forgiving – just look at the guys we travel with!"
Daggerclaw nodded in agreement. Sango had made a very good point. "Very well then. I trust at least you two girls, I'm sure you understand what it's like to be a woman during these times."
Sango nodded in amen.
Kagome looked at her curiously. "Why do you ask, Daggerclaw? Have you had trouble in your past from being a girl?"
Sango gave her a raised eyebrow as if she had asked an idiotic question.
"I mean girls have always been treated differently, I was just asking if she had any really bad treatment."
Daggerclaw shrugged a little as if it were no big deal. Must not have been a likeable topic for her. "Nothing more then what women usually get. You know how both of your parents want you to act angelic and obedient and all of that happy housewife crap? From the very beginning I was different! I didn't want to be girly or angelic, I wanted to go out into the world – learn things, see things, do things! But mostly, I wanted freedom, and a woman can't get that! Not now at least – someday I'm sure that women will have they're freedom, but I wanted it now!" She sighed and the three girls were silent for a moment. Kagome looked at her with a respectful admiration.
"So then I started to pretend to be a male and I got much more respect! Though I haven't had a boyfriend in a very long time….Actually never…" Daggerclaw added with a light tint of pink on her cheeks and neck. "But – I now am much farther then I ever would have gone if I had stayed at home and learned to cook. Now I can make my own cash and pay people to cook for me so that it doesn't really matter."
Sango began to stitch a braid at the back of her hair.
"Please, don't bother," Daggerclaw said. "I'm just going to hide my hair or chop it off later."
"You know you still haven't told us your name," Kagome reminded her.
"Yeah, my name is Mamori." She said. "I don't even know who made up the name Daggerclaw, it just sort of appeared with the legend and rumors so I went with it. Until then, I just pretended that my name was Minoru…" she trailed off as she glanced forward and glared. Sango glanced over Mamori's shoulder and Kagome turned to look as well. Miroku sat a few feet away with his staff upright resting his chin on his hand. He watched Daggerclaw with an intrigued expression.
"Girls, if you will look straight ahead, you will see one of the many reasons why I pretend to be a man," Mamori told them.
"What are you looking at Houshi-sama?" Sango asked sharply.
He blinked at her before replying, "Well it wasn't anything perverted this time, I was just noticing how different she is from how she's described in the tales."
"Mmhmm, yeah, sure," Kagome said with narrowed eyes.
"Just keep walking, Houshi," Sango said.
Miroku stood up and went to go sit with Shio.
"Osuwari!"
WHAM!
"Damn it! Stop saying that!" Inu Yasha shouted.
"Osuwari!" Inu Onna shouted back.
WHAM!
Shippou sat a few feet away laughing his tail off.
"That's it!" Inu Yasha raised his head and gripped the dirt under him. "The moment this spell wears off, Kagome is in so much trouble!"
"Huh, wha?" Shippou stopped laughing. "Why her??"
"Isn't it obvious? She's been sitting me so much that she taught Inu Onna how to do it too!" He finally jumped up to his feet and began to stomp in the direction of his mate.
"Wait, Inu Yasha! You can't do that!" Shippou jumped up and clung to the dogboy's sleeve.
"Why not??" Inu Yasha snapped.
Shippou grew ten sweat drops. "Eh…er….becuase…um…" ;;;;;;;;
Well the kitsune should have known this would happen. Though he regretted that he could only give but one life for Kagome.
"Do you promise not to hit me?"
"What??"
"Do you promise not to hit me
or what??!"
"Okay, fine! I won't hit you! Why?"
"Because, um," Shippou gulped and blurted out anxiously, "IsortaaccidentallytaughtInuOnnahowtosityoou!" He clentched his eyes shut waiting for the pounding. When it didn't come he opened one eye.
BONK!
"HEY! You promised, bitch!" Shippou cried angrily. Inu Yasha grabbed him by the head. "Well guess what you'll be
doing for the next few days Shippou-kun!" Inu Yasha said dangerously nice.
"Ow…" Shippou winced at Inu Yasha's grip.
"That's right! You'll be un-teaching her that word!" Inu Yasha said in a voice as sweet as vinegar and acid. "Won't that be fun??"
"Y-yes?" Shippou asked.
"Well! I'm glad you agree!" Inu Yasha remarked. He bonked Shippou on the head again and walked away.
Shippou pouted into the dirt and began brainstorming plots of revenge.
Inu Onna scampered after her daddy, circling his legs as he walked, looking up at him admiringly. He sighed and sweat dropped then sat next to Kagome.
Because of the restlessness he caused, Shio was moved a bit farther away from Daggerclaw on a one person Looney Tunes Beach Towel.
(AN: Did you know that the Japanese voice actor for Inu Yasha also played the voice for Bugs Bunny in Japan?)
He was well enough now to sit up on his own. He sat with his knees arched, legs spread, and one hand propping him up from behind. He had pulled his shirt off of his shoulders revealing all of his bandages and partial view of his muscles under the bandages. He had unraveled the bandaging around his right hand moments ago and was now licking the the stripe that was between his knuckles and wrist on the center of the top of his hand. It didn't require much thought process so he was already spacing out while tasting the dried blood and thinking of nothing in particular.
Mamori glanced over at him without expression on her face; probably either thinking or also spacing out. Kagome finished up the bandaging and glanced over at Shio as she began to put the tools away. "So why are you after him again?"
"He's worth a lot of money," Mamori replied. "Plus I hate prostitutes and players of any form."
Sango began to watch him too. "You know he's not really a prostitute so much any more." She said. "He's actually trying to find a mate."
Daggerclaw snorted, "Once a floozy, always a floozy." She stated.
Suddenly Shio looked over at them alert when he realized they were watching him.
With slow reaction time, they became alert too and looked away in all different directions nervously. Shio paused in his licking, but continued to watch the girls interestedly. "What's up?" he asked.
"Nothing," Kagome answered quickly.
Too quickly.
"Just an A – B – C conversation." Sango added trying to make it sound less suspicious….but failed.
Shio blinked before nodding and smiling at them. He turned back to his wound watching them out of the corner of his eyes with a sly smile on his face.
Sango and Kagome realized it was the look he got when he was scheming something manipulative and they grew sweat drops. Daggerclaw just looked away darkly yet nervously. "He's dangerous." She whispered to the other girls. "Maybe not in a violent way – but he has legends, too."
Shio's smile widdened as he kept licking his hand. His eyebrows bent his smile into a sly, smug little smirk that was just too nasty. When the girls looked back at him out of the corners of their eyes his tongue appeared noticeably longer. Their eyes widened and they blushed trying to look away. But it was hard not to look away so they would just keep looking away for a moment before looking back at him. He continued to smirk as his tongue grew a few inches longer. It grew about six to eight inches as suddenly stopped licking his hand and licked around his mouth as if hungry. Sango dropped her brush and turned around hugging her legs. Kagome turned to hide in Inu Yasha's chest who was glaring at Shio with several sweat drops.
Since Daggerclaw was new she wasn't as immune as the other girls were so she couldn't take her eyes off. She just looked on his a bright blush and a horrified, shocked expression.
He suckled the tips of each of his fingers, licked the webbing between his fingers and just sucked on them too with a hungry wanting expression in his eyes.
Miroku suddenly appeared behind Shio not looking pleased, he knocked the fox dog on the head with his staff then went over to comfort Sango.
The girls felt sorry for sending him away before. They apologized formally to him.
"Sorry, Houshi-sama," Sango said.
"Sorry," Kagome added still clutching Inu Yasha who hugged her back.
"It's okay, it was only a kitusne illusion," Miroku patted Sango on the back hugging her.
Mamori nodded to him, "I apologize," She shot a dark glare in Shio's direction with leftover blush still on her cheeks.
He just smirked back and winked secretively.
Kagome finished putting away her first aid kit. She would probably have to get it out again soon, but she wasn't sure why. She was trying to get the thought of Shio's super tongue out of her mind with thoughts of homework. (AN: Several past chapters = one day = new homework…)
Kirara settled down on Sango's lap. Her ear gave a little twitch, she mouth opened for a little yawn, then her eyes closed for a little nap. Inu Onna crept over, and raised her chin about the kitties level and looked down at her with large interested eyes.
Sango looked down at her, knowing that Inu Onna would probably wake Kirara who probably needed rest after the poisoning; but Sango really didn't try to stop her because they didn't have cable back then. Inu Onna blinked, then reached out a small hand giving the cat demons fur a smooth stroke. Kirara's fur bristled.
Inu Onna stroked the fur two more times with both hands. When Kirara began to fur, Inu Onna smiled and continued stroking her happily. Sango smiled down at Inu Onna. It wasn't exciting, but it was definitely cute. Sango stroked Inu Onna's silver hair. "You like kitties huh? Well that's ironic for a half puppy demon."
Inu Onna rubbed her face in Kirara's fur and continued to pet her. Kirara smiled contently in her nappie.
Kagome smiled at Inu Onna then mused aloud, "She's a sweetie, isn't she?"
"Oh very sweet." Sango said with a sweat drop and a smile, remembering the exercise Inu Onna gave everyone yesterday.
"She's cute – whose is she?" Mamori asked. "The mother side I mean," she glanced at Inu Yasha. "It's obvious to tell who she takes after on the paternal side."
Inu Yasha gave a dry scowl and glanced away from the group.
"She's mine," Kagome waved slightly with a little blush. "We had her a short while back, Inu Yasha and I."
Mamori suddenly paused as if some important thought hit her. Then all at once her eyes grew in realization and she looked at Kagome meaningfully, "Did you say, Inu Yasha?!"
Kagome looked taken aback. "Ye-yeah, why?? Is he wanted somewhere too?"
The noob started freaking out. She gasped and brought her fists up under her chin like a fan girl. "Oh my god!" complete OOCness. Oo She looked in Inu Yasha's direction. "THE Inu Yasha?!?"
He leaned away from her nervously. "Eh…."
"No way!" Despite her wounds, Mamori was in his face in seconds. "Oh my god! I can't believe it's you! Small world! Will you autograph my fists?!?!"
Miroku, Sango, and Shippou watched her in wonder.
"Uh…." Inu Yasha was so confused he just complied and nodded his head.
In minutes he wrote his name on her right fist in henna ink.
She looked at the back of her hand starry eyed. "Wow! This is so cool! I'm actually meating THE Inu Yasha! Ha HA!"
This was so weird it was creepy! Oo
"What do you want his autograph for?" Sango asked her.
"He's THE Inu Yasha!" Mamori mused again like a fan girl. She sat still staring at her fists in wide eyed wonder. "When I was young, my gaffer, used to tell me stories about Inu Yasha and the shrine maiden Kikyo!"
The mention of Kikyo's name gave the air an awkward feel.
"Wow!" Mamori mused again, not noticing the awkwardness.
"Mamori, why don't you come rest on the beach blanket." Kagome said patting the spot she was just sitting at.
"Fine," Mamori said disappointedly. She gave Inu Yasha one last glance, in the way Souta would whenever Inu Yasha came to visit, or the way Shippou did when he was watching Inu Yasha in a winning battle.
"Maybe she's Souta's cross-gender-incarnation or something," Kagome mused aloud.
"No, no, Souta's incarnation is that whimpy kid from Scorpiogal's other fics, you know the one who plays Miroku's cousin?" Sango reminded her.
"Yeah! She's right!" Miroku leaned in and said.
"That reminds me, whatever happened to Musuko?" Kagome asked herself and whoever was listening, "Wasn't he supposed to be born before Inu Onna? He's born before her in all of the other fics she's written!"
"The writer must be kickin' herself for screwin' that one up," Shio commented.
Ahem…
"That was weird." Inu Yasha said, still a bit freaked out.
……..
"But Inu Yasha's with you now, so he broke up with Kikyo?" Mamori asked Kagome curiously.
Kagome looked uncomfortable. "Um…..I think so –"
"What do you mean you think so??" It was Mamori's turn to look confused. "He had a child with you, shouldn't that mean he's with you now??"
"Well," Kagome looked down at her hands deep in thought. "I'm not sure exactly – he never really said that he's not with her any more, and he still kinda sees her every once in a while, and he did promise he's go to hell with her and stuff…..We never really talked about it I guess….."
Mamori looked at her in complete shock. So Kagome had suffered under the controlling hand of Mankind. Mamori turned her head and gave Inu Yasha a disgusted look similar to the one she gave Shio durning the battle. She held her fist out in his direction, the one that had his name on it. "You'd better hope to god that this washes off!!" she shouted at him.
She turned around with a huff and folded her arms bitterly. "My gaffer never mentioned that this jerk was such a womanizer."
"I'm not a womanizer!" Inu Yasha barked.
"I think this evidence proves that you are, two face!" Daggerclaw barked back. Then she winced and held her ribcage.
"You're getting excited again," Sango commented.
"God, they're all the same," Daggerclaw said irritatedly. Kagome watched her pout. Something about the way she said it was sorrowful.
Daggerclaw gave a small hand gesture waving the subject off. "It's something you have to get used to though. Toys get older, men get colder, and they always want new and better toys in the end."
Kagome gave her a sad expression.
Inu Yasha's ears twitched. "Do you hear that?"
"eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee"
Everyone looked in different directions at the source of the noise.
"There! Up in the sky!" Shippou cried and pointed his finger straight up above his head.
Everyone looked up.
"It's a bird!" Miroku exclaimed.
"It's a youkai!" Sango exclaimed.
"It's an octopus!" Shippou screamed.
"No! It's…" Kagome trailed off.
Sumiko came falling out of the sky in adult form, her arms and legs spread out like an X. A huge compass in her right hand. "EeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!"
SPLAT!
She landed right on top of Shio.
