*Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha, or its characters. I do own, however,
the original characters: Mayumi, Shouta, Momoko, Daisuke, Kenta, and
Nanami. Using my original characters in your own stories is not permitted,
unless with my consent. Thank you.
Chapter 6
Daisuke's Autopsy
"No, I don't think that dog demon killed Lady Kaede," the gossip lady told the crowd. "Inuyasha is a friend of the girl Kagome, who was kind towards Lady Kaede."
"I don't know. Can we trust them?" a man asked.
"No, we can't. There isn't enough proof that the dog demon named Inuyasha didn't kill Lady Kaede," Shouta's dad told them. "We can't assume."
"Well, I was a witness," the gossip lady said. "Isn't that proof? Kagome and Lady Kaede were talking. No dog demon was around. I was up taking the clothes down."
"Yes, but how do you know it didn't occur after?" a woman said from the back. "The stealthy mutt could've snuck in and killed Lady Kaede in her sleep!"
The crowd began yelling again.
"That girl Kagome is just as suspicious as the dog demon!" someone said.
"But I saw her talking to Lady Kaede," the gossip lady yelled back. "She was a friend of hers!"
"Well, where is the girl now, then?"
Shouta ran back to the crowd.
"Dad, are you going to bring in a healer?" he asked his father.
"Oh, yes. He will be here tomorrow hopefully," Shouta's dad answered him over the roaring of the crowd.
"What's his name?"
"His name is Daisuke."
Meanwhile, Inuyasha was still sniffing around for Kagome's scent. Shippo was running around the village in a panic, looking for her, while Myoga tried hopping over to hear what the crowd was yelling about. Unfortunately, he was squished by Shouta's sandal in the process.
"Inuyasha!" Shouta called.
"Hm?"
Inuyasha looked up, as he was diligently sniffing the soil.
"What, kid? Did they figure anything out yet?" he asked. "Like me being innocent?"
"Dad said that the healer is coming tomorrow," Shouta told him. "His name is Daisuke."
Suddenly, there was a slight grumbling noise from the bottom of Shouta's sandal. He held his leg up and took off his sandal; Inuyasha scraped Myoga off from the bottom of it.
"Myoga? What happened?" a curious Shippo ran back.
"Just was walking and got squished," Myoga put plainly. "I wanted to overhear the conversation over there."
"Who's this?" Shouta asked.
"Myoga, the flea," Inuyasha told him. "A cowardly bug."
"Why, Lord Inuyasha! That's what you call me? Haven't I been a loyal guide to you?" Myoga asked in shock.
"Oh yeah, very loyal. All those times you stayed and helped me fight, and get the jewel shards..."
"Well..."
The flea sat down and changed the subject quickly.
"This Daisuke, I've heard of him," the flea began. "He's a healer. A great healer. He's known for his cures for diseases and diagnosis."
"Yeah, he's coming tomorrow," Shouta said. "To see what really killed Lady Kaede."
That night, the sky was heavy with humidity. The moon and stars seemed to be usually bright, illuminating the darkness.
Shippo was asleep in the empty house that they had slept in the night before. Inuyasha was sleeping also, but was dozing outside of the house, acting like a guard. Myoga was still awake, however, gazing up at the unusual starlit sky.
Suddenly, there were footsteps.
"Huh?" the flea wondered, looking around. "Hm. Must be the night. It plays tricks on you."
There were more footsteps. Quicker.
"Maybe I should go to sleep. Maybe getting tired."
Then, a shadow loomed over Myoga. It engulfed his little shadow entirely.
"What?"
He looked up, and there stood the gossip woman, peering inside the house, and then, at Inuyasha. She abruptly took off, into the darkness.
"Who was that?" Myoga wondered.
Morning came, with delicious rays beaming down on the town, which provided comfortable warmth. It wasn't too hot; it had a refreshing morning breeze to it.
Myoga told Inuyasha about what happened during the night.
"Now, what was it, Myoga? I wasn't listening," Inuyasha said annoyed.
"Lord Inuyasha, a woman was here last night," Myoga told him. "She seemed to be sneaking around, and she looked inside this house. I didn't get a good look at her because it was so dark, and she immediately took off when she saw you."
"A woman? Sneaking around here?"
"Hey, what's going on?" Shippo asked, peering out of the house.
"I saw someone sneaking around last night," Myoga told Shippo. "She appeared to be looking for something. She looked inside this house, saw Lord Inuyasha, and ran."
"Hm," Shippo wondered. "That's weird."
In the late afternoon, the sun rested easily upon the sky. The clouds had vanished, and the blueness of the atmosphere was very serene. Gentle zephyrs breezed through the village, as the noisy crowd was once again, gathered together, talking. Controversy and argument soon drowned the serenity of the sky.
"This Inuyasha character looks suspicious to me," an old man said.
"We can't do anything until Daisuke gets here," a woman said. "We have to wait."
About an hour or so later, the healer appeared over the horizon. He was walking, his heavy sandals crackling the gravel as he approached the village. He was wearing a bag strapped around his neck, with a very somber look on his face. The crowd noticed him walking towards them, and they all looked relieved.
"Lord Daisuke, thank you for coming to help us," the old man said.
"It is nothing," Daisuke said, with the same serious face. "Now let me see her."
The old man led Daisuke to Lady Kaede's. Inuyasha, Shippo, Myoga, and Shouta all showed up to see what was going on. Shouta ran up to his dad to ask.
"Dad, is the healer here? Daisuke?"
"Yes, Shouta. He's in there right now, examining Lady Kaede. Maybe he can figure out who or what killed her."
The crowd began talking loudly again, while waiting outside of Lady Kaede's. Unlike most of the other houses, Lady's Kaede's had a door. No noises could be heard from within, due to the vociferous talking of the villagers.
"I bet it's Inuyasha," a man whispered to others, due to the fact that Inuyasha was in front of him, sniffing the ground for Kagome again.
"Can't pick up her scent anywhere," Inuyasha said. "She must be really far now. But where could she have gone?"
Just then, Myoga hopped onto Inuyasha's shoulder.
"Ahem," he cleared his throat. "Lord Inuyasha, I think maybe you should sniff around the house that we've been sleeping at. Maybe that woman that was sneaking around has something to do with the things going on!"
"Okay, Myoga. If you're right, I might take back the things I said."
Inuyasha leapt quickly over to their crashing house. He sniffed the ground thoroughly, and luckily, picked up a scent.
"Hm. I don't remember this smell before."
"What is it, Inuyasha?" Shippo asked.
"Well, it's a smell, but it's weird. It seems like mixed smells."
"Hm," Myoga thought.
"It's..."
Just then, the crowd began talking louder. Arguments were breaking out again about Inuyasha and Kagome.
"I tell you, it's that Kagome girl!" a woman bickered.
"No, no! Inuyasha!" someone else screamed.
"They're all innocent!" Shouta yelled at the top of his lungs.
Everyone talked louder. It couldn't be stopped.
"I wish Momoko, the gossip lady, was here!" Shouta thought to himself. "She would help me argue that I'm right."
Suddenly, it clicked.
"Wait, where is Momoko?" Shouta asked aloud.
An elderly lady overheard Shouta and walked over to him.
"She's sick," she said. "Very ill. She's resting in bed. Perhaps the healer can help her afterward. Poor thing."
Inuyasha sniffed more. His nose then recognized something.
"It's blood," he said. "But not a lot of it. I can just barely pick it up. Something else too."
He lied on his palms and sniffed the cool earth.
"I don't know what it is," Inuyasha told them. "But it's very close."
He sniffed the ground more, and eventually, he was on its trail. Whatever it was.
"Hey, what is it, Inuyasha?" Shippo asked, while putting his nose into the ground. "I can't smell anything."
"Wait, it's getting stronger," Inuyasha said, as he began walking now. "Over here!"
He led them to a house with a door. Inuyasha sniffed the ground once more to make sure.
"It's really strong here."
He knocked on the door. No answer.
"Hello!" he yelled.
No one came.
"Alright, that's it! We gotta find Kagome!"
Inuyasha then jumped back harshly, his feet sounding as they hit the ground. He took out Tetsusaiga, and unleashed a fierce slash that shattered the door to splinters.
"Ah!" Shippo jumped, startled.
As the crash subsided, the three entered the apparently empty house.
"No one's here," Inuyasha said. "But I can still smell it. Someone was here. Definitely."
"But who?" Shippo asked.
Shouta heard the commotion that Inuyasha made, and was hurrying over.
"What's going on? What happened?"
"Long story, kid," Inuyasha said. "Just tell me. Do you know who lives here?"
"Yeah, this is Momoko's house."
"Who is that?"
"Oh, she's that gossip lady who was trying to clear your name yesterday..but where is she?"
Shouta proceeded to look inside the house.
"No one's here, kid," Inuyasha told him.
"But, she's suppose to be here!" Shouta explained. "Momoko's mom told me she was sick in bed! Really sick!"
Suddenly, there was a decrease in the crowd's commotion. Daisuke seemed to be done examining Lady Kaede. Inuyasha, Shippo, Shouta, and Myoga all walked over to see what was discovered.
Daisuke peered out of the house, and stepped outside, in front of the crowd.
"I am done with the autopsy," he began. "I discovered many peculiar things. First, well, maybe I should show you. It'll be easier."
He led the crowd into Lady Kaede's house. Once inside, everyone, especially Inuyasha with his sensitive nose, noticed the odd smell that hung heavy in the air. It was an unusual mixture of the scents of the embalming herbs and liquids used on Lady Kaede. They all gathered around the corpse of Lady Kaede, and waited for Daisuke to speak. But before he did, he knelt down beside Lady Kaede's body, and turned her over; to reveal the deep claw marks that the crowd had saw before.
"These may look like claw marks," Daisuke said. "But looks can be deceiving."
He then pulled out a pair of wooden sticks from his pocket, which looked similar to tweezers, and dug into one of the deep gashes on Lady Kaede's back. A small fragment of metal protruded from the mark. He pulled it out with the wooden tweezers, and scrutinized it closely.
"This is what I've discovered," he began. "This particle of metal here proves that it wasn't a claw that killed Lady Kaede. Otherwise, if a claw did kill her, there would be nail shards in the gashes, but there aren't."
Everyone was awed by Daisuke's discovery. It wasn't a demon that killed her.
"This metal particle here proves that she was murdered by someone with a weapon. Someone human."
Chapter 6
Daisuke's Autopsy
"No, I don't think that dog demon killed Lady Kaede," the gossip lady told the crowd. "Inuyasha is a friend of the girl Kagome, who was kind towards Lady Kaede."
"I don't know. Can we trust them?" a man asked.
"No, we can't. There isn't enough proof that the dog demon named Inuyasha didn't kill Lady Kaede," Shouta's dad told them. "We can't assume."
"Well, I was a witness," the gossip lady said. "Isn't that proof? Kagome and Lady Kaede were talking. No dog demon was around. I was up taking the clothes down."
"Yes, but how do you know it didn't occur after?" a woman said from the back. "The stealthy mutt could've snuck in and killed Lady Kaede in her sleep!"
The crowd began yelling again.
"That girl Kagome is just as suspicious as the dog demon!" someone said.
"But I saw her talking to Lady Kaede," the gossip lady yelled back. "She was a friend of hers!"
"Well, where is the girl now, then?"
Shouta ran back to the crowd.
"Dad, are you going to bring in a healer?" he asked his father.
"Oh, yes. He will be here tomorrow hopefully," Shouta's dad answered him over the roaring of the crowd.
"What's his name?"
"His name is Daisuke."
Meanwhile, Inuyasha was still sniffing around for Kagome's scent. Shippo was running around the village in a panic, looking for her, while Myoga tried hopping over to hear what the crowd was yelling about. Unfortunately, he was squished by Shouta's sandal in the process.
"Inuyasha!" Shouta called.
"Hm?"
Inuyasha looked up, as he was diligently sniffing the soil.
"What, kid? Did they figure anything out yet?" he asked. "Like me being innocent?"
"Dad said that the healer is coming tomorrow," Shouta told him. "His name is Daisuke."
Suddenly, there was a slight grumbling noise from the bottom of Shouta's sandal. He held his leg up and took off his sandal; Inuyasha scraped Myoga off from the bottom of it.
"Myoga? What happened?" a curious Shippo ran back.
"Just was walking and got squished," Myoga put plainly. "I wanted to overhear the conversation over there."
"Who's this?" Shouta asked.
"Myoga, the flea," Inuyasha told him. "A cowardly bug."
"Why, Lord Inuyasha! That's what you call me? Haven't I been a loyal guide to you?" Myoga asked in shock.
"Oh yeah, very loyal. All those times you stayed and helped me fight, and get the jewel shards..."
"Well..."
The flea sat down and changed the subject quickly.
"This Daisuke, I've heard of him," the flea began. "He's a healer. A great healer. He's known for his cures for diseases and diagnosis."
"Yeah, he's coming tomorrow," Shouta said. "To see what really killed Lady Kaede."
That night, the sky was heavy with humidity. The moon and stars seemed to be usually bright, illuminating the darkness.
Shippo was asleep in the empty house that they had slept in the night before. Inuyasha was sleeping also, but was dozing outside of the house, acting like a guard. Myoga was still awake, however, gazing up at the unusual starlit sky.
Suddenly, there were footsteps.
"Huh?" the flea wondered, looking around. "Hm. Must be the night. It plays tricks on you."
There were more footsteps. Quicker.
"Maybe I should go to sleep. Maybe getting tired."
Then, a shadow loomed over Myoga. It engulfed his little shadow entirely.
"What?"
He looked up, and there stood the gossip woman, peering inside the house, and then, at Inuyasha. She abruptly took off, into the darkness.
"Who was that?" Myoga wondered.
Morning came, with delicious rays beaming down on the town, which provided comfortable warmth. It wasn't too hot; it had a refreshing morning breeze to it.
Myoga told Inuyasha about what happened during the night.
"Now, what was it, Myoga? I wasn't listening," Inuyasha said annoyed.
"Lord Inuyasha, a woman was here last night," Myoga told him. "She seemed to be sneaking around, and she looked inside this house. I didn't get a good look at her because it was so dark, and she immediately took off when she saw you."
"A woman? Sneaking around here?"
"Hey, what's going on?" Shippo asked, peering out of the house.
"I saw someone sneaking around last night," Myoga told Shippo. "She appeared to be looking for something. She looked inside this house, saw Lord Inuyasha, and ran."
"Hm," Shippo wondered. "That's weird."
In the late afternoon, the sun rested easily upon the sky. The clouds had vanished, and the blueness of the atmosphere was very serene. Gentle zephyrs breezed through the village, as the noisy crowd was once again, gathered together, talking. Controversy and argument soon drowned the serenity of the sky.
"This Inuyasha character looks suspicious to me," an old man said.
"We can't do anything until Daisuke gets here," a woman said. "We have to wait."
About an hour or so later, the healer appeared over the horizon. He was walking, his heavy sandals crackling the gravel as he approached the village. He was wearing a bag strapped around his neck, with a very somber look on his face. The crowd noticed him walking towards them, and they all looked relieved.
"Lord Daisuke, thank you for coming to help us," the old man said.
"It is nothing," Daisuke said, with the same serious face. "Now let me see her."
The old man led Daisuke to Lady Kaede's. Inuyasha, Shippo, Myoga, and Shouta all showed up to see what was going on. Shouta ran up to his dad to ask.
"Dad, is the healer here? Daisuke?"
"Yes, Shouta. He's in there right now, examining Lady Kaede. Maybe he can figure out who or what killed her."
The crowd began talking loudly again, while waiting outside of Lady Kaede's. Unlike most of the other houses, Lady's Kaede's had a door. No noises could be heard from within, due to the vociferous talking of the villagers.
"I bet it's Inuyasha," a man whispered to others, due to the fact that Inuyasha was in front of him, sniffing the ground for Kagome again.
"Can't pick up her scent anywhere," Inuyasha said. "She must be really far now. But where could she have gone?"
Just then, Myoga hopped onto Inuyasha's shoulder.
"Ahem," he cleared his throat. "Lord Inuyasha, I think maybe you should sniff around the house that we've been sleeping at. Maybe that woman that was sneaking around has something to do with the things going on!"
"Okay, Myoga. If you're right, I might take back the things I said."
Inuyasha leapt quickly over to their crashing house. He sniffed the ground thoroughly, and luckily, picked up a scent.
"Hm. I don't remember this smell before."
"What is it, Inuyasha?" Shippo asked.
"Well, it's a smell, but it's weird. It seems like mixed smells."
"Hm," Myoga thought.
"It's..."
Just then, the crowd began talking louder. Arguments were breaking out again about Inuyasha and Kagome.
"I tell you, it's that Kagome girl!" a woman bickered.
"No, no! Inuyasha!" someone else screamed.
"They're all innocent!" Shouta yelled at the top of his lungs.
Everyone talked louder. It couldn't be stopped.
"I wish Momoko, the gossip lady, was here!" Shouta thought to himself. "She would help me argue that I'm right."
Suddenly, it clicked.
"Wait, where is Momoko?" Shouta asked aloud.
An elderly lady overheard Shouta and walked over to him.
"She's sick," she said. "Very ill. She's resting in bed. Perhaps the healer can help her afterward. Poor thing."
Inuyasha sniffed more. His nose then recognized something.
"It's blood," he said. "But not a lot of it. I can just barely pick it up. Something else too."
He lied on his palms and sniffed the cool earth.
"I don't know what it is," Inuyasha told them. "But it's very close."
He sniffed the ground more, and eventually, he was on its trail. Whatever it was.
"Hey, what is it, Inuyasha?" Shippo asked, while putting his nose into the ground. "I can't smell anything."
"Wait, it's getting stronger," Inuyasha said, as he began walking now. "Over here!"
He led them to a house with a door. Inuyasha sniffed the ground once more to make sure.
"It's really strong here."
He knocked on the door. No answer.
"Hello!" he yelled.
No one came.
"Alright, that's it! We gotta find Kagome!"
Inuyasha then jumped back harshly, his feet sounding as they hit the ground. He took out Tetsusaiga, and unleashed a fierce slash that shattered the door to splinters.
"Ah!" Shippo jumped, startled.
As the crash subsided, the three entered the apparently empty house.
"No one's here," Inuyasha said. "But I can still smell it. Someone was here. Definitely."
"But who?" Shippo asked.
Shouta heard the commotion that Inuyasha made, and was hurrying over.
"What's going on? What happened?"
"Long story, kid," Inuyasha said. "Just tell me. Do you know who lives here?"
"Yeah, this is Momoko's house."
"Who is that?"
"Oh, she's that gossip lady who was trying to clear your name yesterday..but where is she?"
Shouta proceeded to look inside the house.
"No one's here, kid," Inuyasha told him.
"But, she's suppose to be here!" Shouta explained. "Momoko's mom told me she was sick in bed! Really sick!"
Suddenly, there was a decrease in the crowd's commotion. Daisuke seemed to be done examining Lady Kaede. Inuyasha, Shippo, Shouta, and Myoga all walked over to see what was discovered.
Daisuke peered out of the house, and stepped outside, in front of the crowd.
"I am done with the autopsy," he began. "I discovered many peculiar things. First, well, maybe I should show you. It'll be easier."
He led the crowd into Lady Kaede's house. Once inside, everyone, especially Inuyasha with his sensitive nose, noticed the odd smell that hung heavy in the air. It was an unusual mixture of the scents of the embalming herbs and liquids used on Lady Kaede. They all gathered around the corpse of Lady Kaede, and waited for Daisuke to speak. But before he did, he knelt down beside Lady Kaede's body, and turned her over; to reveal the deep claw marks that the crowd had saw before.
"These may look like claw marks," Daisuke said. "But looks can be deceiving."
He then pulled out a pair of wooden sticks from his pocket, which looked similar to tweezers, and dug into one of the deep gashes on Lady Kaede's back. A small fragment of metal protruded from the mark. He pulled it out with the wooden tweezers, and scrutinized it closely.
"This is what I've discovered," he began. "This particle of metal here proves that it wasn't a claw that killed Lady Kaede. Otherwise, if a claw did kill her, there would be nail shards in the gashes, but there aren't."
Everyone was awed by Daisuke's discovery. It wasn't a demon that killed her.
"This metal particle here proves that she was murdered by someone with a weapon. Someone human."