So, yes, it's been a while since I've written, and yes, you've probably gotten bored from waiting, well, I'm here to assure you that either this chapter or the next will have some things in it that you've all been waiting for. (That even goes for you, Joanna.) I'm really sorry that it has taken me so long to get this done, but my chapters will probably be loaded sporadically for quite a while. It's my senior year of college and I've got a ton of stuff to do. Due to some hounding from my friend Joanna, however, I will be working on this for a while. I may also be shortening it a little. Although when I started, this was supposed to be a really long thing, that has turned out to be a larger endevor than I first anticipated and I'm having a bit of trouble making with the goods, you know what I'm saying? Anyway... I may be shortening things so I can get to the end a little quicker. But don't worry. The end is still quite a ways away. Keep up your support! I'll get this thing done eventually!!! (Everyone in Japan say goodbye to Joanna! Joanna, have a nice flight back to Poland!!! E-mail me!!!)
Manekochan
Also, I'm having trouble with uploading, so my format will change cause this particular program will not let me use extra stuff like "underlining" and junk. All caps will be emphsis. * will be thoughts. ~will be itallics. Okay. That's it.
Chapter whatever this is... (I think it's 12)
Catchy title I thought up 6 months ago!
Hajime!
(I think the title was actually, "Inu-Yasha Gets Some 'Tail': the orphan demon appears" but I am too lazy to log onto the internet and look.)
Miroku peeked through some bushes and into the clearing ahead. He sighed. "Same thing."
"Hm?" Inu-Yasha shoved him to the side. "Lemmie see---" The scene was the same as always--a battlefield basically decimated by powerful attackes, the earth scorched and the surrounding trees blackened.
Inu Yasha sighed. There was no trace of the thunder brothers. "Shit..." she groaned.
"Indeed..." said Miroku as he went around the half-demon and pushed his way through the bushes. Inu-Yasha looked over at him and then followed.
During the past week the monk had gotten more serious. He hadn't groped her half as much as he had in the beginning, he didn't make innuendo, and he had been speaking to her less and less. In spite of all that, however, Inu-Yasha was beginning to feel that there was something wrong with the monk. He seemed a little off-kilter. It was as if he was trying to be normal to prove something to her.
She huffed. *Thick-headed moron... I told him I was a man,* her mind grumbled. *It doesn't make a difference HOW much he changes.* She did feel a little bad. The poor guy was really going to be in for a surprize when he found out the truth. If he found out the truth.
She sighed and scanned the battlefield. There was the stench of blood everywhere. Inu-Yasha covered her nose. "Ulch," she sneered.
Miroku walked around the grounds noticing deep gashes in the earth. He bent down to examine one.
Inu-Yasha looked toward the horizon. There was another forrest a couple miles away. She growled. "If this stupid blood smell would dissipate, I could try to scent them..." There was a slight breeze. She kicked a rock angrily.
Miroku came to her side. "The carcasses are all over this field," he said, looking a bit pale.
Inu-Yasha raised an eyebrow. "You okay, Miroku?"
The monk nodded but began to look a little angry. "They are all human."
Inu-Yasha nodded. "Yup. I could tell from this horrible stench." She began to walk. "We gotta' get away from this blood-- I can't smell a damn thing with it. The breeze right now out to let e know which direction they went."
"Mm....." Miroku said reluctantly. "Shouldn't we bury them?" He paused to say a prayer.
Inu-Yasha stepped and turned. "Look at thier clothing-- they were warriors-- they weren't normal people. Who's to say if it wasn't better that they died?"
Miroku frowned and looked at the demon out of the corner of his eye. "Better or not, all are the same in death. The bodies should be dealt with respectfully."
Inu-Yasha frowned in return. "Yeah? Whatever. You can start without me. I'll be back."
Inu-Yasha leapt into the air, and began a flight into the wind. She came down after passing the blood cloud. Inu-Yasha sniffed the air.
"Hm..... They did move upwind... It's like they're not even trying to be inconspicuous. " She scratched her head. The scent was discipating. "At least I have the direction..." she sighed and began to make her way back toward the bloodsoaked battle field.
Miroku had decided that they hadn't any impliments to bury the men and with the number of bodies, it would take them forever, so he had begun to simply say a prayer over hte bodies. (That and he didn't feel like burying all those bodies--- that's a lot of work!)
Inu-Yasha returned to Miroku's side. "Give up on becoming a grave digger?"
Miroku finished his prayers. "Perhaps our time would be better spent on tracking down the demons responsible. The longer we dally, the higher the body count will be..."
Inu-Yasha nodded. "'Cept these guys probably weren't innocent," she restated with conviction.
Miroku sighed. Inu-Yasha huffed.
--
And the sky grew dark.
"Hm? What's with this?" asked Inu-Yasha.
Miroku looked up at the clouds rolling overhead. "Perhaps a storm is upon us?"
"Feh--not likely," she said.
Quite suddenly a giant ball appeared before Miroku and a wailing began. "Gi-i-i-i-i-v-e-e-e-e me-e-e-e-e Shi-i-i-kon-n-n Shards-s-s-s-s..." came the voice. The two of them stared at the ball for a moment.
Miroku cleared his throat, extended his staff and smacked the ball to the ground. It bounced once and with a pop transformed into a little boy.
"Ow!" it whined, rubbing its head. "You didn't have to hit me so hard..."
Miroku bent over the boy. "It's only a child," he said.
"I'm a demon," it huffed, it's tail bristling.
"Oh?" said Miroku. He poked it with his staff.
"Quit it!!!" yelled the demon.
Miroku smiled and stood upright. "You said something about Shikon Shards?"
The boy set his face into a grimace and stuck out his tongue. "Mmuuuuu! It's none of your business, human."
Miroku laughed. "Ho-ho!" and he smacked the kid in the head again.
"Cut it out!" he whined.
Inu-Yasha spoke up. "Miroku." The priest stiffled a chuckle and drew back his staff. Inu Yasha looked at the tiny demon. It's brown hair was pulled into a pony tail and its pointy ears poked throught the side. It wore a dogi with a leaf print on it and a hakama. Except for its tail and the fact that its feet were tiny paws, it could have passed for human. The little demon sniffled.
"Did you see what happened here?" she asked, bending down.
The demon nodded. Inu-Yasha could see it'd been crying recently. "Mmmhm. It was the thunder brotheres. I've been following them..."
Miroku crossed his arms. "Now why would you do that?"
"Because I'm going to kill them, " he growled. "But... I lost track of them..."
"You want to kill them..." Inu-Yasha repeated flatly. She arched a brow.
The boy nodded determinedly. "Those bastards killed my pa. I've been following them for about 2 days now. They did this yesterday but... they flew away..."
"Ah..." Inu-Yasha raised to her full hieght. "I get it now. That's why you want our--"
"My--" added Miroku with a nod.
"His-- shikon shards," she said grudgingly. She looked annoyed. "You want to get stronger. I can relate to that. What's your name, kid?"
The boy sniffled, wiped his face with his sleeve, and stood up. "It's Shippou."
"Well, Shippou, you're a brave kid. But, I think you better call off your hunt for a while and let me and Miroku here handle those two assholes."
Shippou set his face into a stubborn grimace.
"You think I can't do it?" he asked.
"No offense, squirt, but, no, you better just--"
Shippou turned red and began to fume. "Are you saying I can't handle them?!? What makes you think you can? You're a girl!!!"
Inu-Yasha twitched. "I'm going to pretend you didn't say that, you little twerp. Now, what's going to happen--" she said, cracking her knuckles as her anger began to mount, "is you're going to--"
Miroku stepped between the two demons. "--Help us find them."
"Hah?" asked Shippou.
"What the fuck are you saying, Priest?!?"
Miroku smiled. "One moment, please," he said to Shippou. He turned and drug Inu-Yasha off to the side.
"What the hell is the matter with you, Miroku?" she hissed.
"Listen," said Miroku in a hushed voice. "That little demon is going to go after those 2 monsters no matter what. They killed his father. Unless he sticks with us, he's going to get hisself killed. Do you want that over your head?"
"Psshh! One less demon in the world," she grumbled. "Isn't that a good thing?" But, she began to walk toward the little fox-demon. Miroku watched the exchange.
"So-- you gonna' help us or what, Kid?" the larger demon barked at the smaller one.
Shippou crossed his arms. He was stubborn and prideful. But, he was also scared and alone. "Okay. BUT-- when we find them I don't want your help."
"No problem. All we want are the shikon shards," said Inu-Yasha.
The little demon seemed a little more satisfied at that and said, "We should move before it gets dark. There'll be lots of scavengers her later."
"Never thought of that," said Miroku, thoughtfully. "Good idea." He elbowed Inu-Yasha who gave him an icy look. He simply nodded toward the kitsune.
"Ah... yeah... Good... thinkin'... Let's get outta' here," grumbled Inu-Yasha. "Come on."
Shippou ran ahead of them a little. "They went this way," he said pointing to the direction Inu-Yasha had already discerned as being thier direction.
"Nice going, kid," she said, grudgingly humoring him. The kitsune bridged the distance between them and leapt onto Inu-Yasha's shoulder.
"What... what are you doing?" she asked, slightly annoyed and slightly nervous.
The kitsune looked at her in surprise. "You want me to walk?!? I always hitch a ride."
Like Myouga... Inu-Yasha thought in annoyance as she began walking.
"Look here, kid--" she started.
"My Pa used to let me be kind of his navigator," said the little demon, his eyes getting bleary. He laughed weakly. "We used to--"
"Okay, that enough. You can stay there as long as you shut up-- you got it?" said Inu-Yasha, a bit frazzled.
Shippou nodded and was silent for a minute. "Why do you want the Shikon Shards?" he asked after a while.
"Weren't you supposed to shut up?" she grumbled.
"You know what?" "What."
Miroku watched them get further away and smiled to himself. Inu-Yasha really was nice-- she just wouldn't admit it. He felt his face tint a little.
"Oi-- Miroku. Are you comin' or what?!?" she yelled to him.
Miroku chuckled slightly and joined them.
"'Bout time. What were you doing? Looking at my ass again?" huffed the demoness.
"Well, you know, Dear-- it's just so nice to look at," he said smiling. He craned back to see it.
"Ha ha," said Inu-Yasha flatly.
"Are you two married?" asked the little demon on Inu-Yasha's shoulder.
"Alas, no..." sighed Miroku, theatrically.
"Are you out of your tiny minds?!?" yelled Inu-Yasha. "I'm a fucking man, okay?"
"Uh-huh..." said the kitsune, avoiding eye contact. He wondered silently what kind of situation he'd gotten himself into.
"Which is really too bad because you have such a nice body," said Miroku, lamenting.
Shippou laughed a little.
"Don't you think we make a nice family, the three of us?" asked Miroku with a smile.
Shippou smiled as Inu-Yasha began a string of explitives. Miroku grinned like a maniac.
End of Chapter 12(I think)
Next chapter:
Chapter 13: Lightening Always Strikes Twice: Inu-Yasha vs. the Thunder Brothers
Notes:
A dogi is a kind of shirt like the kind you'd wear in karate or something. A hakama is like pants, sort of that tie at the top.
"Shippou" means tail, hense the title to this chapter.
Jya ne!
Manekochan
Also, I'm having trouble with uploading, so my format will change cause this particular program will not let me use extra stuff like "underlining" and junk. All caps will be emphsis. * will be thoughts. ~will be itallics. Okay. That's it.
Chapter whatever this is... (I think it's 12)
Catchy title I thought up 6 months ago!
Hajime!
(I think the title was actually, "Inu-Yasha Gets Some 'Tail': the orphan demon appears" but I am too lazy to log onto the internet and look.)
Miroku peeked through some bushes and into the clearing ahead. He sighed. "Same thing."
"Hm?" Inu-Yasha shoved him to the side. "Lemmie see---" The scene was the same as always--a battlefield basically decimated by powerful attackes, the earth scorched and the surrounding trees blackened.
Inu Yasha sighed. There was no trace of the thunder brothers. "Shit..." she groaned.
"Indeed..." said Miroku as he went around the half-demon and pushed his way through the bushes. Inu-Yasha looked over at him and then followed.
During the past week the monk had gotten more serious. He hadn't groped her half as much as he had in the beginning, he didn't make innuendo, and he had been speaking to her less and less. In spite of all that, however, Inu-Yasha was beginning to feel that there was something wrong with the monk. He seemed a little off-kilter. It was as if he was trying to be normal to prove something to her.
She huffed. *Thick-headed moron... I told him I was a man,* her mind grumbled. *It doesn't make a difference HOW much he changes.* She did feel a little bad. The poor guy was really going to be in for a surprize when he found out the truth. If he found out the truth.
She sighed and scanned the battlefield. There was the stench of blood everywhere. Inu-Yasha covered her nose. "Ulch," she sneered.
Miroku walked around the grounds noticing deep gashes in the earth. He bent down to examine one.
Inu-Yasha looked toward the horizon. There was another forrest a couple miles away. She growled. "If this stupid blood smell would dissipate, I could try to scent them..." There was a slight breeze. She kicked a rock angrily.
Miroku came to her side. "The carcasses are all over this field," he said, looking a bit pale.
Inu-Yasha raised an eyebrow. "You okay, Miroku?"
The monk nodded but began to look a little angry. "They are all human."
Inu-Yasha nodded. "Yup. I could tell from this horrible stench." She began to walk. "We gotta' get away from this blood-- I can't smell a damn thing with it. The breeze right now out to let e know which direction they went."
"Mm....." Miroku said reluctantly. "Shouldn't we bury them?" He paused to say a prayer.
Inu-Yasha stepped and turned. "Look at thier clothing-- they were warriors-- they weren't normal people. Who's to say if it wasn't better that they died?"
Miroku frowned and looked at the demon out of the corner of his eye. "Better or not, all are the same in death. The bodies should be dealt with respectfully."
Inu-Yasha frowned in return. "Yeah? Whatever. You can start without me. I'll be back."
Inu-Yasha leapt into the air, and began a flight into the wind. She came down after passing the blood cloud. Inu-Yasha sniffed the air.
"Hm..... They did move upwind... It's like they're not even trying to be inconspicuous. " She scratched her head. The scent was discipating. "At least I have the direction..." she sighed and began to make her way back toward the bloodsoaked battle field.
Miroku had decided that they hadn't any impliments to bury the men and with the number of bodies, it would take them forever, so he had begun to simply say a prayer over hte bodies. (That and he didn't feel like burying all those bodies--- that's a lot of work!)
Inu-Yasha returned to Miroku's side. "Give up on becoming a grave digger?"
Miroku finished his prayers. "Perhaps our time would be better spent on tracking down the demons responsible. The longer we dally, the higher the body count will be..."
Inu-Yasha nodded. "'Cept these guys probably weren't innocent," she restated with conviction.
Miroku sighed. Inu-Yasha huffed.
--
And the sky grew dark.
"Hm? What's with this?" asked Inu-Yasha.
Miroku looked up at the clouds rolling overhead. "Perhaps a storm is upon us?"
"Feh--not likely," she said.
Quite suddenly a giant ball appeared before Miroku and a wailing began. "Gi-i-i-i-i-v-e-e-e-e me-e-e-e-e Shi-i-i-kon-n-n Shards-s-s-s-s..." came the voice. The two of them stared at the ball for a moment.
Miroku cleared his throat, extended his staff and smacked the ball to the ground. It bounced once and with a pop transformed into a little boy.
"Ow!" it whined, rubbing its head. "You didn't have to hit me so hard..."
Miroku bent over the boy. "It's only a child," he said.
"I'm a demon," it huffed, it's tail bristling.
"Oh?" said Miroku. He poked it with his staff.
"Quit it!!!" yelled the demon.
Miroku smiled and stood upright. "You said something about Shikon Shards?"
The boy set his face into a grimace and stuck out his tongue. "Mmuuuuu! It's none of your business, human."
Miroku laughed. "Ho-ho!" and he smacked the kid in the head again.
"Cut it out!" he whined.
Inu-Yasha spoke up. "Miroku." The priest stiffled a chuckle and drew back his staff. Inu Yasha looked at the tiny demon. It's brown hair was pulled into a pony tail and its pointy ears poked throught the side. It wore a dogi with a leaf print on it and a hakama. Except for its tail and the fact that its feet were tiny paws, it could have passed for human. The little demon sniffled.
"Did you see what happened here?" she asked, bending down.
The demon nodded. Inu-Yasha could see it'd been crying recently. "Mmmhm. It was the thunder brotheres. I've been following them..."
Miroku crossed his arms. "Now why would you do that?"
"Because I'm going to kill them, " he growled. "But... I lost track of them..."
"You want to kill them..." Inu-Yasha repeated flatly. She arched a brow.
The boy nodded determinedly. "Those bastards killed my pa. I've been following them for about 2 days now. They did this yesterday but... they flew away..."
"Ah..." Inu-Yasha raised to her full hieght. "I get it now. That's why you want our--"
"My--" added Miroku with a nod.
"His-- shikon shards," she said grudgingly. She looked annoyed. "You want to get stronger. I can relate to that. What's your name, kid?"
The boy sniffled, wiped his face with his sleeve, and stood up. "It's Shippou."
"Well, Shippou, you're a brave kid. But, I think you better call off your hunt for a while and let me and Miroku here handle those two assholes."
Shippou set his face into a stubborn grimace.
"You think I can't do it?" he asked.
"No offense, squirt, but, no, you better just--"
Shippou turned red and began to fume. "Are you saying I can't handle them?!? What makes you think you can? You're a girl!!!"
Inu-Yasha twitched. "I'm going to pretend you didn't say that, you little twerp. Now, what's going to happen--" she said, cracking her knuckles as her anger began to mount, "is you're going to--"
Miroku stepped between the two demons. "--Help us find them."
"Hah?" asked Shippou.
"What the fuck are you saying, Priest?!?"
Miroku smiled. "One moment, please," he said to Shippou. He turned and drug Inu-Yasha off to the side.
"What the hell is the matter with you, Miroku?" she hissed.
"Listen," said Miroku in a hushed voice. "That little demon is going to go after those 2 monsters no matter what. They killed his father. Unless he sticks with us, he's going to get hisself killed. Do you want that over your head?"
"Psshh! One less demon in the world," she grumbled. "Isn't that a good thing?" But, she began to walk toward the little fox-demon. Miroku watched the exchange.
"So-- you gonna' help us or what, Kid?" the larger demon barked at the smaller one.
Shippou crossed his arms. He was stubborn and prideful. But, he was also scared and alone. "Okay. BUT-- when we find them I don't want your help."
"No problem. All we want are the shikon shards," said Inu-Yasha.
The little demon seemed a little more satisfied at that and said, "We should move before it gets dark. There'll be lots of scavengers her later."
"Never thought of that," said Miroku, thoughtfully. "Good idea." He elbowed Inu-Yasha who gave him an icy look. He simply nodded toward the kitsune.
"Ah... yeah... Good... thinkin'... Let's get outta' here," grumbled Inu-Yasha. "Come on."
Shippou ran ahead of them a little. "They went this way," he said pointing to the direction Inu-Yasha had already discerned as being thier direction.
"Nice going, kid," she said, grudgingly humoring him. The kitsune bridged the distance between them and leapt onto Inu-Yasha's shoulder.
"What... what are you doing?" she asked, slightly annoyed and slightly nervous.
The kitsune looked at her in surprise. "You want me to walk?!? I always hitch a ride."
Like Myouga... Inu-Yasha thought in annoyance as she began walking.
"Look here, kid--" she started.
"My Pa used to let me be kind of his navigator," said the little demon, his eyes getting bleary. He laughed weakly. "We used to--"
"Okay, that enough. You can stay there as long as you shut up-- you got it?" said Inu-Yasha, a bit frazzled.
Shippou nodded and was silent for a minute. "Why do you want the Shikon Shards?" he asked after a while.
"Weren't you supposed to shut up?" she grumbled.
"You know what?" "What."
Miroku watched them get further away and smiled to himself. Inu-Yasha really was nice-- she just wouldn't admit it. He felt his face tint a little.
"Oi-- Miroku. Are you comin' or what?!?" she yelled to him.
Miroku chuckled slightly and joined them.
"'Bout time. What were you doing? Looking at my ass again?" huffed the demoness.
"Well, you know, Dear-- it's just so nice to look at," he said smiling. He craned back to see it.
"Ha ha," said Inu-Yasha flatly.
"Are you two married?" asked the little demon on Inu-Yasha's shoulder.
"Alas, no..." sighed Miroku, theatrically.
"Are you out of your tiny minds?!?" yelled Inu-Yasha. "I'm a fucking man, okay?"
"Uh-huh..." said the kitsune, avoiding eye contact. He wondered silently what kind of situation he'd gotten himself into.
"Which is really too bad because you have such a nice body," said Miroku, lamenting.
Shippou laughed a little.
"Don't you think we make a nice family, the three of us?" asked Miroku with a smile.
Shippou smiled as Inu-Yasha began a string of explitives. Miroku grinned like a maniac.
End of Chapter 12(I think)
Next chapter:
Chapter 13: Lightening Always Strikes Twice: Inu-Yasha vs. the Thunder Brothers
Notes:
A dogi is a kind of shirt like the kind you'd wear in karate or something. A hakama is like pants, sort of that tie at the top.
"Shippou" means tail, hense the title to this chapter.
Jya ne!