I don't own Inuyasha or anything having to do with this show. I make this
only for entertainment purposes, (and an excuse to avoid my homework:). So
don't sue and enjoy the fic!
The Feudal Fairy Tale Begins Again...
By: Msmelanie
Chapter Twenty Eight: Cause and Effect.
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"Kawa-er! Slyyy!" Kagome shouted desperately out to the forest. Inuyasha and Kawayou had been gone about fourteen hours already! Miroku, Shippou, Sango and her had decided they should find the hanyou. Okay, actually SHE decided they should, but they went along since it might provide amusing entertainment.
They had no success throughout the forest, and the sky had finally grown dark. So, they had made a small campsite for themselves while Sango decided she would try to find Kirara again.
Kagome frowned while she looked at the stars 'That demon thought I had a temper before just wait'll I-!' She was about to yell again when she saw...'No way.'
She could see Inuyasha running toward them with a small child in his arms. Kagome felt like smiling, but she didn't. She couldn't let the hanyou off the hook THAT easily. 'Kawayou's finally accepte-' She didn't finish her thought as she realized for the first time the child Inuyasha was carrying...
was not Kawayou.
"Inuyasha, where's Kawayou?" Kagome asked.
"Kagome." Inuyasha growled. He STILL couldn't get her to call him Sly comfortably yet.
Kagome crossed her arms. "Where is my son Inuyasha? And who are you carrying?"
Inuyasha looked at the female dog demon he was carrying. "..."
Kagome looked at Inuyasha sternly. He was holding another child, Sly was nowhere in sight, and the nervous hanyou was looking more interested at the tree beside him.
Not a good combination.
"Inuyasha, what's going on?!" Kagome shouted. She was getting frustrated by his behavior.
"Ow!" the female dog demon barked. "Lower your stupid human voice! ****!"
Kagome looked at Inuyasha accusingly. "Why are you carrying this little girl? She doesn't seem hurt."
Inuyasha heard the message loud and clear. Underneath the question he heard "Inuyasha. If you don't tell me what's going on here now, I'll sit you so hard your back will break!"
"I don't know." Inuyasha mumbled as he put the female dog demon down. "I thought maybe he came home by now."
"What?!" Kagome said with shock in her voice. "What happened Inuyasha?"
At the same time in a different location...
Sly kicked a pebble into the lake he was nearby. He was mad. And a little scared. Scared of what the wolf would do, and scared of what his mom would say...what she would choose for them...'Okay, I admit it. Even thought I'm still angry with Inuyasha, I'd rather HE be my dad than some lying smelly no good stinking wolf! He doesn't go with me or my mom at all! But....if I'm not there when she makes her decision...
He felt like crying. He felt like yelling! He felt nauseous and his head was dizzy. He didn't like either option his mom would get.
He trembled as he leaned himself against a tree. He looked at the stars longingly. Then, he hit the tree with the back of his fist and howled up to the content stars. "IT'S NOT ****ING FAIR!!"
He hated that wolf.
He sighed as he looked down at his feet. That wolf was going to do something he had no right to do. He was going to put the biggest decision of his and his mom's life right there in her lap. And he'd do it when Inuyasha comes looking for him.
'It isn't right!' he shouted in his mind. 'I DO wanna go home, but not like this! And not like that!'
He looked up at the stars again and tried to remember what had happened. What took place that created the bizarre path that paved the way for his brand new solid future. And how did he mess it up so bad... that it could?
Just an hour before...
///Inuyasha and Kawayou were both having fun running with each other after the village 'attack'.
Sly smiled. He was having so much fun with his dad, he forgot he was supposed to be making him miserable. 'Why am I supposed to hate him again?' Then, it suddenly hit him like a ton of bricks. 'Oh yeah, my well and my name! Was there anything else?'
Inuayasha looked at his pup who seemed deep in thought. "Don't think too much, you'll hurt your head."
"Will not! You're the one who'd hurt your head!' Sly barked/laughed. Then, he growled to himself when he realized what he had just did. 'Did I just bark playfully with him?! What the hell?!' Sly looked over at Inuyasha. 'I'm supposed to be feeling really bitter toward him, so why do I like running along close beside him?'
"****!"
Inuyasha looked back at his son. "What's your problem now?"
"I don't like you." Sly growled.
Inuyasha smiled smugly. "You trying to tell me that, or are you trying to convince yourself?"
*Bark!*
"No reason to bark at me, ****." Inuyasha replied back casually. He smirked at his pup with pride. His little bark may have sounded more like a chihuahua, but it held the tone of danger. 'Oh hell yeah! When my pup gets older, he's gonna have a lot of bite in his bark!'
'I don't like the way he's looking at me.' Kawayou frowned. Actually, he did, but the fact that he did made him hate it more. 'HE is trying to keep me and mom here, HE is the one that made me change my name! I don't like him!' "Don't look at me like that!"
Inuyasha suddenly stopped and hit the brakes hard, so to speak. Sly quickly saw what he had done and tried to do the same.
Instead, he flew down the forest like he was sliding into home. After he came to a complete stop, he looked back at Inuyasha who was walking toward him.
"Come on pup, admit it. You like me." Inuyasha said with a twinkle in his eye.
"Do not! *Bark!*"
"Do too."
"Do not! *Bark**Bark*!"
Inuyasha just turned his back on Sly and smiled smugly. "Yes, you do. And I like you too pup, so just admit it already."
Sly growled. No way was he admiting that! "No! 'Cause your bad!"
Inuyasha's ears perked up when he heard Sly's comment. Sly immediately started to get a tint of red to his cheeks. "'Cause your bad?' Pup, did I just hear you say 'Cause your bad?'" He turned to Sly with a strange look on his face. "****! When did you start using lame **** like that?! Have you been hanging out with Kagome too long?"
"No!" his son barked. "No! I..." he stopped. How could he say something so lame? "I said that you are an ******* who's keeping me and mom from going home, and you changed MY name without my approval AND that you should be locked up in a damn cell ya smelly *******!"
Inuyasha sighed in relief. "That's good to hear." 'The last thing I need is for my pup to learn Kagome's language. Geez...' "Look, I ain't keepin' ya here just because I want to. I can't help it if the well doesn't think..." Inuyasha stopped. If he said 'that you belong over there.' he wouldn't get the result he wanted. "I mean I can't help it if the well doesn't open anymore than you can."
Sly growled. His da-er-that hanyou wasn't supposed to use freakin' logic! "You changed my name!" 'Yeah, I'm still mad about that.' he tried to convince himself.
Inuyasha frowned. "Watch it, your whining." He looked at the expression on his son's face. 'Great. Dammit, he wants to be...what's the word Kagome used to use....'political'. "Fine. But it's not gonna be Kawayou."
"Yes it is!" Sly barked.
'Forget 'political', he just wants to fight again!' Inuyasha growled in disgust. Would he ever win over his pup? 'Dammit, if that pup doesn't start showing...' Inuyasha kicked himself for where his line of thinking was going. 'No way! I don't care, I'll never do that!' He started to growl at himself. He may have been a youkai, but there was no way in **** he'd ever do that to his pup. To small kids, fine. To small demons, fine. To whimpering and crying brats, fine. But NEVER to his own pup. That wasn't the way he was raised..."Fine. Then let's..." It was hard to finish. Why did he have to start talking like Kagome now too? "Let's talk this out. We'll find something we both agree on."
"..."
"How about Inuichi?"
*Bark!"
"Joke, joke!" Inuyasha laughed. "Well, there's always Inuyukio..."
Slys ears perked up. "I'll take that."
Inuyasha shook his head. "That was a joke. Geez, pup. If I named you that, I'd get twice the trouble from you trying to live up to your name."
"You knew that's what I was doing?" Sly responded.
Inuyasha pointed to his own head. "It wasn't too hard to figure out."
Sly smugly smiled. "Can't help it, it's my own philotropy."
"...Your what?" Inuyasha asked. "What the **** is a philotropy?"
"How I think of life idiot." Sly smiled. "One should live up to their own name."
Inuyasha looked at Sly. He didn't know what in the world philotropy was, but that did tend to be true. "Fine then."
"You live up to your name easily." Sly answered. "And mom, well, when she's MAD she can live up to her name sometimes."
Inuyasha crossed his arms. "Alright then, how about-"
For the first time, Inuyasha looked around. It was getting dark already? "Oh ****! Kagome's gonna KILL me! How long have we been out here?!"
Sly just shrugged his shoulders.
Then, Inuyasha looked carefully at Sly. "Oh ****. LOOK AT YOU!"
Sly examined himself. "...****. You ARE in deep ****!" he laughed.
Just then, both Sly and Inuyasha's ears perked up.
"Do you hear that?" Inuyasha asked as he picked up a strange sound.
"Sounds like someone whimpering." Sly replied.
Inuyasha looked at Sly momentarily. "You stay here just in case there's trouble."
"Okay."
"I really mean it this time pup." Inuyasha warned before he took off toward unknown danger. 'Then, I REALLY gotta clean him up!'
To the unknown danger...
Inuyasha stopped as he saw a female dog demon sitting on the ground pouting. She spotted him and immediately started to back away. "Leave me alone weak hanyou, or my daddy is gonna hurt you!"
Inuyasha crossed his arms in annoyance. He left Sly for this whiner? He was about to take back off to his son when he felt little hands grasping onto his kimono. "Wait! Don't leave! Don't leave me!"
"Then what am I supposed to do?!" Inuyasha barked back as he bopped the little girl on her head. "Where the hell are your parents?!"
Back to Sly...
Sly kicked a pebble on the ground and crossed his arms. "This is borin-!"
He didn't get to finish his statement though, as he felt someone snatch him from behind.
Back to Inuyasha...
Inuyasha looked up at the sky annoyingly. As if it were to blame for putting him in such a stupid situation. 'I never should have checked this **** out. Now, she's gonna want-'
"Hanyou! I demand you help me find my daddy!" the little girl barked.
"Yeah? And if I don't feel like it?" Inuyasha asked casually. He looked down at the girl and immediately regretted his words.
The female demon started to cry harder as Inuyasha proceeded to bonk her on the head. "Please?! *bonk* Pretty please?!!
"Let Go!" Inuyasha barked.
*Bonk**Bonk* Please, HELP *Bonk**Bonk* me, PLEASE?!!!! *Bonk* AND STOP BONKING ME ON THE HEAD! I WANNA GO HOME!!
Damn his human side. He just couldn't leave the whiny little brat out in the middle of nowhere. He thought it was also strange that her high pitch whining wasn't really that bad. Usually, female dog demons could emit whimpers so high, he'd have to bend his ears all the way back against his head. 'Eh, she's just a pup. Maybe it's only mature female's voices.'
He didn't dawn on that idea very long when he realized he needed to get back to Sly before he took this female anywhere. With that thought, he stopped bonking the annoying girl on the head, grabbed her and ran off to find HIS pup.
To Sly and this unknown stranger....
"*bark!* Jerk! Take me back!" Sly barked at Kouga.
Kouga just laughed. "Bark? Is that little bark supposed to scare me off?"
That made Sly madder. 'Who the **** does this wolf think he is?!' "*Bark* Bark *Bark!*"
Kouga just laughed again. "I don't believe this. Is that supposed to be barking or whimpering?"
Ooh...Kouga was not getting on Sly's good side.
Sly stopped barking and glared dangerously at the wolf. 'How could he say that? My barks normal! Sure, it's a little flat....'
He tried to bark again, but this time he could hear what he had never heard before. His bark wasn't just a little flat...
...it sounded like a little chihuahua.
Kouga smiled when he realized Sly had figured out how fiercesome his bark really was. "See? It's okay though. After all, what did you expect with dog turd as your father?"
Sly growled angrily. How dare HE say that! Sure, he might not 'like' Inuyasha but he wouldn't just let THIS wolf talk about HIS family in such a disgraceful way!
Kouga laughed again as he heard Sly growl. "Is that supposed to be a growl?"
Sly stopped growling and looked dangerously at the wolf.
"Sounds more like purring." Kouga commented. "Are you a dog demon or a kitty demon?"
"Stop that!" Sly shouted. He was becoming self conscious about his growling now. "That's not....nice!" 'I don't sound like a purring cat! I don't!' he kept telling himself.
Kouga sighed. "Go ahead and whimper like the scared little puppy you are. Even without dog turds influence, you still ended up being just a brat." He shrugged his shoulders. "Well, that will change when you become MY cub."
"I'll never be YOUR kid!" Sly shouted angrily.
Kouga grinned. "Yes, you will." He looked back at Sly with a hint of danger in his eyes. "And when you do, there will not be any tricks against me. Unlike the stupid mutt, I'm a full demon, and I don't have any weak 'human' feelings that will keep me from disciplining you appropriately."
Sly started to growl. 'Dammit, I ****ing hate this guy! He's making MY dad look like he could win father of the year!' But he suddenly heard what Kouga had heard previously in his growling. The wolf was right! He had sounded no more dangerous than a cat purring.
It wasn't right! Sly had always been the OWN master of his domain, but now...
Kouga was bringing attention, for the first time, to all his faults. How harmless...he really was.
And it made him feel weak, vulnerable, but above all...
EXTREMELY angry!
The only thing Sly could think of to save his pride was to charge straight at the wolf!
Kouga just smirked as Sly ran up to him. The amused wolf never even moved. He let Sly grab onto his arm and sink his claws and teeth into him.
Sly scratched and clawed for all he was worth! 'I'm not weak! I'm not weak! I'll make sure he knows who the wimp around here is!' Nothing could stop him. He would tear Kouga apart until the wolf cried out in agony. But, he did stop when he heard...
Sighing? The wolf was sighing?! He looked angrily back at the wolf. Kouga just shook his head in dissapointment. "Such a weak cub. Even a three year old demon should've at least broke the skin."
Sly thought about Kouga's statement and took his fangs out of the wolf. There was a slight red mark, but it had never broken the skin. He looked at all the scratches he was supposed to have caused. None existed. 'What the hell?! That should've torn him apart! Why am I becoming so weak?'
Kouga grabbed Sly with his other arm. Sly struggled to get away, but dangling in the air he couldn't even smack Kouga.
"Poor cub. I feel sorry for you, having to accept dog turd's genes. You should've rightfully been MY cub." Kouga persisted.
Sly couldn't do anything but wriggle more and more.
"But it doesn't matter now." Kouga smiled. "With my guidance you'll change from a cursing weak pup, to a smart and cunning cub. Of course, you won't be as great as your brothers and sisters, but you'll be satisfactory."
Sly growled instinctively. 'Brothers and sisters from HIM?! No way! If I get brothers and sisters, they sure as hell won't be from him NO MATTER WHAT!'
Kouga frowned. "Will you quit your purring already? You are getting on my nerves." He took Kawayou's kimono off of him. "And take this off. You smell like that Hanyou." He started to run off with Kawayou tucked under his left arm. "I have decent clothing for you but first, you need a bath. You already have some of his disgusting odor in your genes, you do not need to smell like him on the outside."
Some time later...
"There." Kouga replied as he lifted the little boy out of the spring. He pointed to some overalls hanging from a nearby tree. "Bring those here so I can put them on you."
Sly whimpered to himself as he slid his overalls on. 'Well, I guess that wolf knows who the wimp is...' Sly looked down at the water in the spring. It was reflecting back the image of a boy with long black hair, bluish-grey eyes, and a normal pair of human ears. '...it's me.'/////
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The Feudal Fairy Tale Begins Again...
By: Msmelanie
Chapter Twenty Eight: Cause and Effect.
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"Kawa-er! Slyyy!" Kagome shouted desperately out to the forest. Inuyasha and Kawayou had been gone about fourteen hours already! Miroku, Shippou, Sango and her had decided they should find the hanyou. Okay, actually SHE decided they should, but they went along since it might provide amusing entertainment.
They had no success throughout the forest, and the sky had finally grown dark. So, they had made a small campsite for themselves while Sango decided she would try to find Kirara again.
Kagome frowned while she looked at the stars 'That demon thought I had a temper before just wait'll I-!' She was about to yell again when she saw...'No way.'
She could see Inuyasha running toward them with a small child in his arms. Kagome felt like smiling, but she didn't. She couldn't let the hanyou off the hook THAT easily. 'Kawayou's finally accepte-' She didn't finish her thought as she realized for the first time the child Inuyasha was carrying...
was not Kawayou.
"Inuyasha, where's Kawayou?" Kagome asked.
"Kagome." Inuyasha growled. He STILL couldn't get her to call him Sly comfortably yet.
Kagome crossed her arms. "Where is my son Inuyasha? And who are you carrying?"
Inuyasha looked at the female dog demon he was carrying. "..."
Kagome looked at Inuyasha sternly. He was holding another child, Sly was nowhere in sight, and the nervous hanyou was looking more interested at the tree beside him.
Not a good combination.
"Inuyasha, what's going on?!" Kagome shouted. She was getting frustrated by his behavior.
"Ow!" the female dog demon barked. "Lower your stupid human voice! ****!"
Kagome looked at Inuyasha accusingly. "Why are you carrying this little girl? She doesn't seem hurt."
Inuyasha heard the message loud and clear. Underneath the question he heard "Inuyasha. If you don't tell me what's going on here now, I'll sit you so hard your back will break!"
"I don't know." Inuyasha mumbled as he put the female dog demon down. "I thought maybe he came home by now."
"What?!" Kagome said with shock in her voice. "What happened Inuyasha?"
At the same time in a different location...
Sly kicked a pebble into the lake he was nearby. He was mad. And a little scared. Scared of what the wolf would do, and scared of what his mom would say...what she would choose for them...'Okay, I admit it. Even thought I'm still angry with Inuyasha, I'd rather HE be my dad than some lying smelly no good stinking wolf! He doesn't go with me or my mom at all! But....if I'm not there when she makes her decision...
He felt like crying. He felt like yelling! He felt nauseous and his head was dizzy. He didn't like either option his mom would get.
He trembled as he leaned himself against a tree. He looked at the stars longingly. Then, he hit the tree with the back of his fist and howled up to the content stars. "IT'S NOT ****ING FAIR!!"
He hated that wolf.
He sighed as he looked down at his feet. That wolf was going to do something he had no right to do. He was going to put the biggest decision of his and his mom's life right there in her lap. And he'd do it when Inuyasha comes looking for him.
'It isn't right!' he shouted in his mind. 'I DO wanna go home, but not like this! And not like that!'
He looked up at the stars again and tried to remember what had happened. What took place that created the bizarre path that paved the way for his brand new solid future. And how did he mess it up so bad... that it could?
Just an hour before...
///Inuyasha and Kawayou were both having fun running with each other after the village 'attack'.
Sly smiled. He was having so much fun with his dad, he forgot he was supposed to be making him miserable. 'Why am I supposed to hate him again?' Then, it suddenly hit him like a ton of bricks. 'Oh yeah, my well and my name! Was there anything else?'
Inuayasha looked at his pup who seemed deep in thought. "Don't think too much, you'll hurt your head."
"Will not! You're the one who'd hurt your head!' Sly barked/laughed. Then, he growled to himself when he realized what he had just did. 'Did I just bark playfully with him?! What the hell?!' Sly looked over at Inuyasha. 'I'm supposed to be feeling really bitter toward him, so why do I like running along close beside him?'
"****!"
Inuyasha looked back at his son. "What's your problem now?"
"I don't like you." Sly growled.
Inuyasha smiled smugly. "You trying to tell me that, or are you trying to convince yourself?"
*Bark!*
"No reason to bark at me, ****." Inuyasha replied back casually. He smirked at his pup with pride. His little bark may have sounded more like a chihuahua, but it held the tone of danger. 'Oh hell yeah! When my pup gets older, he's gonna have a lot of bite in his bark!'
'I don't like the way he's looking at me.' Kawayou frowned. Actually, he did, but the fact that he did made him hate it more. 'HE is trying to keep me and mom here, HE is the one that made me change my name! I don't like him!' "Don't look at me like that!"
Inuyasha suddenly stopped and hit the brakes hard, so to speak. Sly quickly saw what he had done and tried to do the same.
Instead, he flew down the forest like he was sliding into home. After he came to a complete stop, he looked back at Inuyasha who was walking toward him.
"Come on pup, admit it. You like me." Inuyasha said with a twinkle in his eye.
"Do not! *Bark!*"
"Do too."
"Do not! *Bark**Bark*!"
Inuyasha just turned his back on Sly and smiled smugly. "Yes, you do. And I like you too pup, so just admit it already."
Sly growled. No way was he admiting that! "No! 'Cause your bad!"
Inuyasha's ears perked up when he heard Sly's comment. Sly immediately started to get a tint of red to his cheeks. "'Cause your bad?' Pup, did I just hear you say 'Cause your bad?'" He turned to Sly with a strange look on his face. "****! When did you start using lame **** like that?! Have you been hanging out with Kagome too long?"
"No!" his son barked. "No! I..." he stopped. How could he say something so lame? "I said that you are an ******* who's keeping me and mom from going home, and you changed MY name without my approval AND that you should be locked up in a damn cell ya smelly *******!"
Inuyasha sighed in relief. "That's good to hear." 'The last thing I need is for my pup to learn Kagome's language. Geez...' "Look, I ain't keepin' ya here just because I want to. I can't help it if the well doesn't think..." Inuyasha stopped. If he said 'that you belong over there.' he wouldn't get the result he wanted. "I mean I can't help it if the well doesn't open anymore than you can."
Sly growled. His da-er-that hanyou wasn't supposed to use freakin' logic! "You changed my name!" 'Yeah, I'm still mad about that.' he tried to convince himself.
Inuyasha frowned. "Watch it, your whining." He looked at the expression on his son's face. 'Great. Dammit, he wants to be...what's the word Kagome used to use....'political'. "Fine. But it's not gonna be Kawayou."
"Yes it is!" Sly barked.
'Forget 'political', he just wants to fight again!' Inuyasha growled in disgust. Would he ever win over his pup? 'Dammit, if that pup doesn't start showing...' Inuyasha kicked himself for where his line of thinking was going. 'No way! I don't care, I'll never do that!' He started to growl at himself. He may have been a youkai, but there was no way in **** he'd ever do that to his pup. To small kids, fine. To small demons, fine. To whimpering and crying brats, fine. But NEVER to his own pup. That wasn't the way he was raised..."Fine. Then let's..." It was hard to finish. Why did he have to start talking like Kagome now too? "Let's talk this out. We'll find something we both agree on."
"..."
"How about Inuichi?"
*Bark!"
"Joke, joke!" Inuyasha laughed. "Well, there's always Inuyukio..."
Slys ears perked up. "I'll take that."
Inuyasha shook his head. "That was a joke. Geez, pup. If I named you that, I'd get twice the trouble from you trying to live up to your name."
"You knew that's what I was doing?" Sly responded.
Inuyasha pointed to his own head. "It wasn't too hard to figure out."
Sly smugly smiled. "Can't help it, it's my own philotropy."
"...Your what?" Inuyasha asked. "What the **** is a philotropy?"
"How I think of life idiot." Sly smiled. "One should live up to their own name."
Inuyasha looked at Sly. He didn't know what in the world philotropy was, but that did tend to be true. "Fine then."
"You live up to your name easily." Sly answered. "And mom, well, when she's MAD she can live up to her name sometimes."
Inuyasha crossed his arms. "Alright then, how about-"
For the first time, Inuyasha looked around. It was getting dark already? "Oh ****! Kagome's gonna KILL me! How long have we been out here?!"
Sly just shrugged his shoulders.
Then, Inuyasha looked carefully at Sly. "Oh ****. LOOK AT YOU!"
Sly examined himself. "...****. You ARE in deep ****!" he laughed.
Just then, both Sly and Inuyasha's ears perked up.
"Do you hear that?" Inuyasha asked as he picked up a strange sound.
"Sounds like someone whimpering." Sly replied.
Inuyasha looked at Sly momentarily. "You stay here just in case there's trouble."
"Okay."
"I really mean it this time pup." Inuyasha warned before he took off toward unknown danger. 'Then, I REALLY gotta clean him up!'
To the unknown danger...
Inuyasha stopped as he saw a female dog demon sitting on the ground pouting. She spotted him and immediately started to back away. "Leave me alone weak hanyou, or my daddy is gonna hurt you!"
Inuyasha crossed his arms in annoyance. He left Sly for this whiner? He was about to take back off to his son when he felt little hands grasping onto his kimono. "Wait! Don't leave! Don't leave me!"
"Then what am I supposed to do?!" Inuyasha barked back as he bopped the little girl on her head. "Where the hell are your parents?!"
Back to Sly...
Sly kicked a pebble on the ground and crossed his arms. "This is borin-!"
He didn't get to finish his statement though, as he felt someone snatch him from behind.
Back to Inuyasha...
Inuyasha looked up at the sky annoyingly. As if it were to blame for putting him in such a stupid situation. 'I never should have checked this **** out. Now, she's gonna want-'
"Hanyou! I demand you help me find my daddy!" the little girl barked.
"Yeah? And if I don't feel like it?" Inuyasha asked casually. He looked down at the girl and immediately regretted his words.
The female demon started to cry harder as Inuyasha proceeded to bonk her on the head. "Please?! *bonk* Pretty please?!!
"Let Go!" Inuyasha barked.
*Bonk**Bonk* Please, HELP *Bonk**Bonk* me, PLEASE?!!!! *Bonk* AND STOP BONKING ME ON THE HEAD! I WANNA GO HOME!!
Damn his human side. He just couldn't leave the whiny little brat out in the middle of nowhere. He thought it was also strange that her high pitch whining wasn't really that bad. Usually, female dog demons could emit whimpers so high, he'd have to bend his ears all the way back against his head. 'Eh, she's just a pup. Maybe it's only mature female's voices.'
He didn't dawn on that idea very long when he realized he needed to get back to Sly before he took this female anywhere. With that thought, he stopped bonking the annoying girl on the head, grabbed her and ran off to find HIS pup.
To Sly and this unknown stranger....
"*bark!* Jerk! Take me back!" Sly barked at Kouga.
Kouga just laughed. "Bark? Is that little bark supposed to scare me off?"
That made Sly madder. 'Who the **** does this wolf think he is?!' "*Bark* Bark *Bark!*"
Kouga just laughed again. "I don't believe this. Is that supposed to be barking or whimpering?"
Ooh...Kouga was not getting on Sly's good side.
Sly stopped barking and glared dangerously at the wolf. 'How could he say that? My barks normal! Sure, it's a little flat....'
He tried to bark again, but this time he could hear what he had never heard before. His bark wasn't just a little flat...
...it sounded like a little chihuahua.
Kouga smiled when he realized Sly had figured out how fiercesome his bark really was. "See? It's okay though. After all, what did you expect with dog turd as your father?"
Sly growled angrily. How dare HE say that! Sure, he might not 'like' Inuyasha but he wouldn't just let THIS wolf talk about HIS family in such a disgraceful way!
Kouga laughed again as he heard Sly growl. "Is that supposed to be a growl?"
Sly stopped growling and looked dangerously at the wolf.
"Sounds more like purring." Kouga commented. "Are you a dog demon or a kitty demon?"
"Stop that!" Sly shouted. He was becoming self conscious about his growling now. "That's not....nice!" 'I don't sound like a purring cat! I don't!' he kept telling himself.
Kouga sighed. "Go ahead and whimper like the scared little puppy you are. Even without dog turds influence, you still ended up being just a brat." He shrugged his shoulders. "Well, that will change when you become MY cub."
"I'll never be YOUR kid!" Sly shouted angrily.
Kouga grinned. "Yes, you will." He looked back at Sly with a hint of danger in his eyes. "And when you do, there will not be any tricks against me. Unlike the stupid mutt, I'm a full demon, and I don't have any weak 'human' feelings that will keep me from disciplining you appropriately."
Sly started to growl. 'Dammit, I ****ing hate this guy! He's making MY dad look like he could win father of the year!' But he suddenly heard what Kouga had heard previously in his growling. The wolf was right! He had sounded no more dangerous than a cat purring.
It wasn't right! Sly had always been the OWN master of his domain, but now...
Kouga was bringing attention, for the first time, to all his faults. How harmless...he really was.
And it made him feel weak, vulnerable, but above all...
EXTREMELY angry!
The only thing Sly could think of to save his pride was to charge straight at the wolf!
Kouga just smirked as Sly ran up to him. The amused wolf never even moved. He let Sly grab onto his arm and sink his claws and teeth into him.
Sly scratched and clawed for all he was worth! 'I'm not weak! I'm not weak! I'll make sure he knows who the wimp around here is!' Nothing could stop him. He would tear Kouga apart until the wolf cried out in agony. But, he did stop when he heard...
Sighing? The wolf was sighing?! He looked angrily back at the wolf. Kouga just shook his head in dissapointment. "Such a weak cub. Even a three year old demon should've at least broke the skin."
Sly thought about Kouga's statement and took his fangs out of the wolf. There was a slight red mark, but it had never broken the skin. He looked at all the scratches he was supposed to have caused. None existed. 'What the hell?! That should've torn him apart! Why am I becoming so weak?'
Kouga grabbed Sly with his other arm. Sly struggled to get away, but dangling in the air he couldn't even smack Kouga.
"Poor cub. I feel sorry for you, having to accept dog turd's genes. You should've rightfully been MY cub." Kouga persisted.
Sly couldn't do anything but wriggle more and more.
"But it doesn't matter now." Kouga smiled. "With my guidance you'll change from a cursing weak pup, to a smart and cunning cub. Of course, you won't be as great as your brothers and sisters, but you'll be satisfactory."
Sly growled instinctively. 'Brothers and sisters from HIM?! No way! If I get brothers and sisters, they sure as hell won't be from him NO MATTER WHAT!'
Kouga frowned. "Will you quit your purring already? You are getting on my nerves." He took Kawayou's kimono off of him. "And take this off. You smell like that Hanyou." He started to run off with Kawayou tucked under his left arm. "I have decent clothing for you but first, you need a bath. You already have some of his disgusting odor in your genes, you do not need to smell like him on the outside."
Some time later...
"There." Kouga replied as he lifted the little boy out of the spring. He pointed to some overalls hanging from a nearby tree. "Bring those here so I can put them on you."
Sly whimpered to himself as he slid his overalls on. 'Well, I guess that wolf knows who the wimp is...' Sly looked down at the water in the spring. It was reflecting back the image of a boy with long black hair, bluish-grey eyes, and a normal pair of human ears. '...it's me.'/////
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