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Chapter 8: Ao Cho's Prophecy
"How do I look?" April asked. The Future American girl spun around in her medieval Japanese clothes.
"Very Feudal!" Kagome laughed. She was dressed up too. Outside it was evening and the festival was just starting to come alive. Paper lanterns hung around overhead, kids ran around wearing monster masks, prayers were made to the ancestors asking them to bless next years crops.
Inu Onna sat inside Kaede's hut. 'How do I get mayself into these things?' she thought with a sweatdrop. The door opened and Kagome came in. "Musuko says he's ready whenever you are."
"Okay." Inu Onna stood up and walked toward the door.
"You don't have to do this if you don't want to." Kagome said.
Inu Onna sighed. "I don't want to do this, but I'm going to do it anyway. But my brother had better appreciate what I'm doing for him." She went outside and a group of people stood there with poloroid cameras. Inu Otoko was in front of them all with a video camera. They started snapping pictures and she was enraged!
"I'll kill you!" she shouted. Sango, Inu Yasha and Miroku had to drag her away kicking and screaming. "Can you believe that guy!? Where did he get all that future stuff anyway?!"
They pushed her up to Musuko, who looked like he was living a dream. He smiled at her and said, "Don't be so stiff, have fun with this!"
Well she hardly considered this "fun." Then her heart jumped into her throat as music started playing. She and Musuko started to dance as he sang the first part of the song. She heard the whistling, laughing, and shouting of people watching and she thought, 'Someone is going to pay for this humiliation.' Then she realized her part of the song was coming up.
"It's getting hot in here!" Musuko sang. "So take off all your clothes!"
Inu Onna sang, "I am-feeling so hot, I wanna take my clothes off!"
"They're actually pretty good!" Sango said.
Kagome watched them in adoration. "Yeah, and they make such a cute couple!" she looked at over at Inu Yasha. He was watching the two dance with a smirk. "Hey!" Kagome said. She pulled him out onto the dance floor and made him dance with her.
Miroku held out his hand, "Sango?"
"Way ahead of you, Houshi-sama!" she took his hand. He twirled her around once and they walked out to dance. April sat there smiling and watching until a hand appeared in her face. She looked up and saw Inu Otoko. She looked from him to his hand, then him again.
She hesitantly took the hand and he pulled her up from her sitting position in one quick motion. Her face was about three inches from his and he said, "I can't stand wall flowers."
By that time, everyone in the village was dancing, from the oldest women, to the youngest child. And everyone, (and you know Musuko did) enjoyed themselves.
The hour was late and everyone ached for sleep. Inu Onna finished the task she had to do. She held out her hand and Musuko handed her a six inch scroll. 'I lost my dignity for this?' she thought.
"Did you have fun?" Musuko asked.
"No, I hate that song!" she said. Though secretly, dancing was one of the many things she enjoyed (just not in that form.)
"So, um," Musuko rubbed his hands together. "Do you want to find a shed somewhere and roleplay?"
"NO!" she said. She turned her head in time to see Inu Otoko walking off. She ran after him and Musuko followed.
"Hey!" Inu Otoko turned to see her giving him a not pleased look.
"What do you want?" he asked.
"I saw you dancing with that April girl," she said. His eyes never left her gaze.
"So?" he shrugged.
Her eyes narrowed, "And you two were dancing awful close."
He stared back at her, annoyed with her nosiness., "I repeat, so?"
"Do you like her?" Inu Onna asked. She became furious when he didn't answer her right away. She lunged forward and gripped the collar of his shirt. "Answer me, Dogbreath! Do you love her?! Are you planning on courting her?!"
He laughed at her frustration, "Courting?! Is that what you call it? Well where I'm from, they call it 'doing the hibbity dibbity!'"
She smacked him and he laughed again. "You jerk!" she shouted. "You fancy Mom's friend! Don't you know how sick that is?!"
"The last time I checked, it was none of you're business anyway!" he growled. "Now if you have nothing more to say, you can leave me alone and I can have peace!"
"Wait a minute!" she said. She thrust the scroll at him.
He caught it and looked at it. "What's this?"
"Put it on." She said.
"Why?"
"It'll keep you human until you sword is ready, now put it on!"
"WHAT?! NO!"
"What do you mean, no?! Put it on!!"
"Would YOU give up your demon side?"
"No! But that's not the point, this will help you!"
"GET BENT!!" he said harshly.
That was a cold blow. She stared at him with shiny eyes. "You won't wear it, huh?" her bangs fell over her eyes. "And after what I went through- to get it just for you!" her voice was shaky.
He looked at her with curiosity.
Tears rolled down her cheeks. "I can't believe you!" she whimpered.
His heart sank and he ran up to her. "S-stop crying!" he sweatdropped.
She brought her hands up to her face. "You're such a jerk!"
'I-I didn't mean to!' he thought. 'But there's nothing worse then being a human!'
She smiled mischeiviously at him through her fingers. "SIT!"
WHAM!
She danced over to him and said, "That's what you get for being a jerk!" She made a face at him and pranced away.
"How did you do that?" Musuko asked.
"He's got the same blood as father! I can S-word them both at the same time!" she smiled.
He pulled himself up and whispered, "Oh no you don't!" he snuck up behind her, wrapped his arms around her waist, lifted her upside down, and put her kicking legs over his shoulder.
She screamed, "What the hell are you doing!?" she tried to keep her kimono from falling past her knees. "My dress! Put me down! I'm wearing a dress!" he started to walk away with her like that.
Inu Onna looked over at Musuko who was watching with interest. "Musuko! Don't just stand there, HELP!"
"Alright!" he said. "Hey, Inu Otoko! I'll get the rope!"
"MUSUKO!"
Later that night they all sat looking at the full moon.
"Hey, you hussy wolf! Where were you during the party?" Inu Onna asked.
"Well you know how hard it is to be perfect." Honey said. "Actually, you probably don't, I was being lavished with gifts by my many admirers. Of course, I turned them all down, Musuko is the only man for me!"
Inu Onna growled at her.
"Whatever happened to that women, Ao Cho?" Kagome suddenly asked.
Inu Otoko snapped to attention.
"Who?" Inu Yasha asked.
"She was this girl we met a little while ago." April said.
"I forgot all about her!" Shippou said.
"Why do you want to see her?" Miroku asked.
"She's a psychic dog demon, and she said she could help us find out how Inu Otoko get here." Kagome said.
A bead of sweat rolled down Inu Otoko's forehead.
"Really?" Sango asked.
"Yeah! I wish there was a way we could reach her!" Kagome said. Out of the orner of her eye, she saw Inu Yasha get up. He stood on a boulder over looking the valley uner the hill they were on and took a few deep breaths.
"What is he doing?" April asked.
Then Honey's eyes widened. "I know what he's doing!" she said. "He's making 'The Call!'"
"The Call?" Inu Otoko's ears became pointed.
Then Inu Yasha puffed out his chest, raised his head high and howled- really, really loud, "AAAAAAAHHHHHRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!"
Everyone covered their ears as the sound echoed over the valley.
No answer came.
Inu Onna jumped up next to him and howled, "AAARROOOWOOOOWOOOOOOOOOOOOW!!!!!!!!!!"
Inu Otoko stood next to her, "AAAAAAWWRRROOOOOOOOOOOOOAARW!"
Honey howled the loudest of them all, "AAAAHHHHHHHHHOOOOOORRRROOOOOOOOO!!!!!"
A few minutes passed by with only the sound of the crickets. Then they all heard a distant, "ooooooooo........"
They saw a blur of light and color flying through the trees below. Then all of a sudden, Ao Cho stopped gracefully in front of the group, twice as mysteriously beautiful in the moonlight then in the daylight. She looked at them slightly peeved. "I told you I would see you later. You shouldn't have Called now, I was doing something important."
"No problem," Ao Cho said. "Just ask your question and make it quick."
"Right," Kagome said. "We'd like to know how he got here." She extended a hand to Inu Otoko.His eyes grew wide and a few sweatdrops formed on his forehead.
Ao Cho looked over at him, "Yes, that is the question; how DID Inu Otoko get here?"
She and the dogboy exchanged glances. Then he heard her voice in his mind, 'Fry in hell, hanyo.' He gulped and glared at her.
Ao Cho walked around the group a couple of times looking at the like a judge, stopping every once in a while to stare at someone. Then finally she stopped in front of Inu Yasha. "Do you mind if I read your past?"
Before he could answer, she had already started the process. She looked him straight in the eyes and he felt paralyzed. After a moment, she blinked and tears rolled down her cheeks. He could move again after that.
"Are you okay?" Kagome asked.
"I'm fine." Ao Cho said not bothering to wipe the tears. "It's a side effect of seeing so many emotions at once.: she took a few steps back and folded her arms. "Inu Otoko is here because you wished for a son." She told Inu Yasha.
Everyone looked at him waiting to hear what he said.
"No I didn't!" he said.
"Yes, you did." Ao Cho said calmly.
"No, I DIDN'T!"
"You did." She said. "When you crushed the shikon jewel did you not look into it's remains and think,"
All of a sudden, everyone heard Inu Yasha's quote in their minds, 'I wonder what it would be like, what it would be like to have a SON.'
Inu Yasha's jaw dropped, "Oh, crap! I did!"
"We learn something new everyday!" Miroku said.
Inu Yasha slowly lowered himself toward the ground. "I think I need to sit down."
"Thank you, Ao Cho." Kagome said. "Sorry for interrupting what ever it was you were doing."
"Well, you should be." Ao Cho said. "But there is one more mind I'd like to read before I go." She stared right at Inu Otoko.
He stared at her nervously and was captured in her gaze as his father had been. After a few seconds, her eyes produced fresh tears. 'Interesting.' She thought. 'I knew he was part of the reason I'm here, but I had no idea.' Her face showed no real emotion. She pointed a clawed finger at him. "You have very destructive power, and you are a danger to yourself and those around you. If you do not learn to control it," she made a horizontal cutting motion in front of her neck with the claw. "Then history is doomed to repeat itself."
All of the color drained from Inu Otoko's face and she could sense his rising horror. It made her sick. "I must depart now." She said. "The energy in your party does not aid my concentration." Then she zoomed off at demon speed.
The hill was eerily quiet as they all looked at Inu Otoko. Then suddenly he unbuttoned his shirt. He took the scroll out of his pocket and pasted it right in the middle of his chest. His hair immediately lost its volume and became limp, his eyesight grew dim and his energy dropped dramatically. Inu Otoko was now a human.
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Ao Cho: Blue Butterfly
GAH! That was the longest chapter I've done in a while! 2,068 words!
Chapter 8: Ao Cho's Prophecy
"How do I look?" April asked. The Future American girl spun around in her medieval Japanese clothes.
"Very Feudal!" Kagome laughed. She was dressed up too. Outside it was evening and the festival was just starting to come alive. Paper lanterns hung around overhead, kids ran around wearing monster masks, prayers were made to the ancestors asking them to bless next years crops.
Inu Onna sat inside Kaede's hut. 'How do I get mayself into these things?' she thought with a sweatdrop. The door opened and Kagome came in. "Musuko says he's ready whenever you are."
"Okay." Inu Onna stood up and walked toward the door.
"You don't have to do this if you don't want to." Kagome said.
Inu Onna sighed. "I don't want to do this, but I'm going to do it anyway. But my brother had better appreciate what I'm doing for him." She went outside and a group of people stood there with poloroid cameras. Inu Otoko was in front of them all with a video camera. They started snapping pictures and she was enraged!
"I'll kill you!" she shouted. Sango, Inu Yasha and Miroku had to drag her away kicking and screaming. "Can you believe that guy!? Where did he get all that future stuff anyway?!"
They pushed her up to Musuko, who looked like he was living a dream. He smiled at her and said, "Don't be so stiff, have fun with this!"
Well she hardly considered this "fun." Then her heart jumped into her throat as music started playing. She and Musuko started to dance as he sang the first part of the song. She heard the whistling, laughing, and shouting of people watching and she thought, 'Someone is going to pay for this humiliation.' Then she realized her part of the song was coming up.
"It's getting hot in here!" Musuko sang. "So take off all your clothes!"
Inu Onna sang, "I am-feeling so hot, I wanna take my clothes off!"
"They're actually pretty good!" Sango said.
Kagome watched them in adoration. "Yeah, and they make such a cute couple!" she looked at over at Inu Yasha. He was watching the two dance with a smirk. "Hey!" Kagome said. She pulled him out onto the dance floor and made him dance with her.
Miroku held out his hand, "Sango?"
"Way ahead of you, Houshi-sama!" she took his hand. He twirled her around once and they walked out to dance. April sat there smiling and watching until a hand appeared in her face. She looked up and saw Inu Otoko. She looked from him to his hand, then him again.
She hesitantly took the hand and he pulled her up from her sitting position in one quick motion. Her face was about three inches from his and he said, "I can't stand wall flowers."
By that time, everyone in the village was dancing, from the oldest women, to the youngest child. And everyone, (and you know Musuko did) enjoyed themselves.
The hour was late and everyone ached for sleep. Inu Onna finished the task she had to do. She held out her hand and Musuko handed her a six inch scroll. 'I lost my dignity for this?' she thought.
"Did you have fun?" Musuko asked.
"No, I hate that song!" she said. Though secretly, dancing was one of the many things she enjoyed (just not in that form.)
"So, um," Musuko rubbed his hands together. "Do you want to find a shed somewhere and roleplay?"
"NO!" she said. She turned her head in time to see Inu Otoko walking off. She ran after him and Musuko followed.
"Hey!" Inu Otoko turned to see her giving him a not pleased look.
"What do you want?" he asked.
"I saw you dancing with that April girl," she said. His eyes never left her gaze.
"So?" he shrugged.
Her eyes narrowed, "And you two were dancing awful close."
He stared back at her, annoyed with her nosiness., "I repeat, so?"
"Do you like her?" Inu Onna asked. She became furious when he didn't answer her right away. She lunged forward and gripped the collar of his shirt. "Answer me, Dogbreath! Do you love her?! Are you planning on courting her?!"
He laughed at her frustration, "Courting?! Is that what you call it? Well where I'm from, they call it 'doing the hibbity dibbity!'"
She smacked him and he laughed again. "You jerk!" she shouted. "You fancy Mom's friend! Don't you know how sick that is?!"
"The last time I checked, it was none of you're business anyway!" he growled. "Now if you have nothing more to say, you can leave me alone and I can have peace!"
"Wait a minute!" she said. She thrust the scroll at him.
He caught it and looked at it. "What's this?"
"Put it on." She said.
"Why?"
"It'll keep you human until you sword is ready, now put it on!"
"WHAT?! NO!"
"What do you mean, no?! Put it on!!"
"Would YOU give up your demon side?"
"No! But that's not the point, this will help you!"
"GET BENT!!" he said harshly.
That was a cold blow. She stared at him with shiny eyes. "You won't wear it, huh?" her bangs fell over her eyes. "And after what I went through- to get it just for you!" her voice was shaky.
He looked at her with curiosity.
Tears rolled down her cheeks. "I can't believe you!" she whimpered.
His heart sank and he ran up to her. "S-stop crying!" he sweatdropped.
She brought her hands up to her face. "You're such a jerk!"
'I-I didn't mean to!' he thought. 'But there's nothing worse then being a human!'
She smiled mischeiviously at him through her fingers. "SIT!"
WHAM!
She danced over to him and said, "That's what you get for being a jerk!" She made a face at him and pranced away.
"How did you do that?" Musuko asked.
"He's got the same blood as father! I can S-word them both at the same time!" she smiled.
He pulled himself up and whispered, "Oh no you don't!" he snuck up behind her, wrapped his arms around her waist, lifted her upside down, and put her kicking legs over his shoulder.
She screamed, "What the hell are you doing!?" she tried to keep her kimono from falling past her knees. "My dress! Put me down! I'm wearing a dress!" he started to walk away with her like that.
Inu Onna looked over at Musuko who was watching with interest. "Musuko! Don't just stand there, HELP!"
"Alright!" he said. "Hey, Inu Otoko! I'll get the rope!"
"MUSUKO!"
Later that night they all sat looking at the full moon.
"Hey, you hussy wolf! Where were you during the party?" Inu Onna asked.
"Well you know how hard it is to be perfect." Honey said. "Actually, you probably don't, I was being lavished with gifts by my many admirers. Of course, I turned them all down, Musuko is the only man for me!"
Inu Onna growled at her.
"Whatever happened to that women, Ao Cho?" Kagome suddenly asked.
Inu Otoko snapped to attention.
"Who?" Inu Yasha asked.
"She was this girl we met a little while ago." April said.
"I forgot all about her!" Shippou said.
"Why do you want to see her?" Miroku asked.
"She's a psychic dog demon, and she said she could help us find out how Inu Otoko get here." Kagome said.
A bead of sweat rolled down Inu Otoko's forehead.
"Really?" Sango asked.
"Yeah! I wish there was a way we could reach her!" Kagome said. Out of the orner of her eye, she saw Inu Yasha get up. He stood on a boulder over looking the valley uner the hill they were on and took a few deep breaths.
"What is he doing?" April asked.
Then Honey's eyes widened. "I know what he's doing!" she said. "He's making 'The Call!'"
"The Call?" Inu Otoko's ears became pointed.
Then Inu Yasha puffed out his chest, raised his head high and howled- really, really loud, "AAAAAAAHHHHHRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!"
Everyone covered their ears as the sound echoed over the valley.
No answer came.
Inu Onna jumped up next to him and howled, "AAARROOOWOOOOWOOOOOOOOOOOOW!!!!!!!!!!"
Inu Otoko stood next to her, "AAAAAAWWRRROOOOOOOOOOOOOAARW!"
Honey howled the loudest of them all, "AAAAHHHHHHHHHOOOOOORRRROOOOOOOOO!!!!!"
A few minutes passed by with only the sound of the crickets. Then they all heard a distant, "ooooooooo........"
They saw a blur of light and color flying through the trees below. Then all of a sudden, Ao Cho stopped gracefully in front of the group, twice as mysteriously beautiful in the moonlight then in the daylight. She looked at them slightly peeved. "I told you I would see you later. You shouldn't have Called now, I was doing something important."
"No problem," Ao Cho said. "Just ask your question and make it quick."
"Right," Kagome said. "We'd like to know how he got here." She extended a hand to Inu Otoko.His eyes grew wide and a few sweatdrops formed on his forehead.
Ao Cho looked over at him, "Yes, that is the question; how DID Inu Otoko get here?"
She and the dogboy exchanged glances. Then he heard her voice in his mind, 'Fry in hell, hanyo.' He gulped and glared at her.
Ao Cho walked around the group a couple of times looking at the like a judge, stopping every once in a while to stare at someone. Then finally she stopped in front of Inu Yasha. "Do you mind if I read your past?"
Before he could answer, she had already started the process. She looked him straight in the eyes and he felt paralyzed. After a moment, she blinked and tears rolled down her cheeks. He could move again after that.
"Are you okay?" Kagome asked.
"I'm fine." Ao Cho said not bothering to wipe the tears. "It's a side effect of seeing so many emotions at once.: she took a few steps back and folded her arms. "Inu Otoko is here because you wished for a son." She told Inu Yasha.
Everyone looked at him waiting to hear what he said.
"No I didn't!" he said.
"Yes, you did." Ao Cho said calmly.
"No, I DIDN'T!"
"You did." She said. "When you crushed the shikon jewel did you not look into it's remains and think,"
All of a sudden, everyone heard Inu Yasha's quote in their minds, 'I wonder what it would be like, what it would be like to have a SON.'
Inu Yasha's jaw dropped, "Oh, crap! I did!"
"We learn something new everyday!" Miroku said.
Inu Yasha slowly lowered himself toward the ground. "I think I need to sit down."
"Thank you, Ao Cho." Kagome said. "Sorry for interrupting what ever it was you were doing."
"Well, you should be." Ao Cho said. "But there is one more mind I'd like to read before I go." She stared right at Inu Otoko.
He stared at her nervously and was captured in her gaze as his father had been. After a few seconds, her eyes produced fresh tears. 'Interesting.' She thought. 'I knew he was part of the reason I'm here, but I had no idea.' Her face showed no real emotion. She pointed a clawed finger at him. "You have very destructive power, and you are a danger to yourself and those around you. If you do not learn to control it," she made a horizontal cutting motion in front of her neck with the claw. "Then history is doomed to repeat itself."
All of the color drained from Inu Otoko's face and she could sense his rising horror. It made her sick. "I must depart now." She said. "The energy in your party does not aid my concentration." Then she zoomed off at demon speed.
The hill was eerily quiet as they all looked at Inu Otoko. Then suddenly he unbuttoned his shirt. He took the scroll out of his pocket and pasted it right in the middle of his chest. His hair immediately lost its volume and became limp, his eyesight grew dim and his energy dropped dramatically. Inu Otoko was now a human.
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Ao Cho: Blue Butterfly
GAH! That was the longest chapter I've done in a while! 2,068 words!