Ho mama yes, it's here! ^___^ This is a chapter I've been waiting for! It has not been easy holding this secret, let me tell you!
Chapter 25: Big Bro
Inu Yasha sat in front of the door to Shio's hut and sighed. A couple of days ago, Miroku agreed to let Kagome and Sango out of the hut as long as they wore special earplugs. Every five hours, Shio gave his mating call and took the time inbetween to rest his voice. Female demons poured out of the forest and tried to bust him out for mating, but each one of them had been stopped and it was wearing Inu Yasha out. And every once and a while, a male demon attacked, which freaked Inu Yasha out big time. They had just finished off a demon and sweat poured off of the hanyo. He sat panting in front of the hut, scowled and whispered, "Shio, when this is over, I'm kicking your ass!"
"Who's he talking to?" Shippou asked Bananas. The prostitute shrugged and they walked away from him. Miroku came over to Inu Yasha and held out a few dirty pieces of cloth for him. Inu Yasha eyed them before asking, "What are those?"
"Earplugs. Thought you might like them." Miroku said with a tired expression on his face.
Inu Yasha wondered for a second why he was giving them to him before realizing that they were for the mating calls. "ARE YOU SUGGESTING I'M GOING TO GET DRAWN IN BY THAT??"
"Oh come off it, Inu Yasha. Don't tell me it hasn't been effecting you at least a little bit." Miroku said as he put some earplugs into his own ears. "The more desperate Shio gets. The stronger the power of his mating call is."
Inu Yasha growled and reluctantly took the earplug rags, stuffing them into his dog ears.
Sumiko stood leaning against a fence talking with her prostitutes. Miroku watched her. Inu Yasha needed the ear plugs, the prostitutes needed the ear plugs (even the enchanter ones), the villagers needed them, why did Sumiko, a female herself and a demoness, not need the ear plugs? How was she not effected by them.
Sumiko sensed him staring at her and glanced in his direction. They looked in each other's eyes for a few moments. Then Miroku felt an electric shock inside his mind, jumped and walked away fast. Sumiko frowned. She could tell that he was suspicious of her. Not that she was worried, but someone clever like him could endanger her mission. She had been expecting them to get killed by some female demon by now and Shio to mate, but it had not happened. After little more then a week, they had managed to hold off humans and demons alike from entering that hut. And Sumiko was starting to get impatient for her revenge.
"Woody." Sumiko said.
"What?"
"Go inside the hut and cut Shio's bindings."
Woody stared at her for a few seconds as if confused about what she was asking. "Huh?"
"You heard me, how could you not with those big ears of yours. Go into the hut, cut his bindings."
The prostitutes voices fell silent and they were all watching her and Woody. She stared straight ahead, completely serious. "But –" Woody said. He looked over at the hut fearfully.
After a few seconds of silence, Sumiko looked at him and said sternly, "Go NOW, or your fired!"
Woody jumped and ran toward the hut, apparently more afraid of Sumiko then Shio. But as he came toward the hut, he started to change his mind on who was scarier. He glanced back at her then walked up to the door, he was about to push the screen aside when Inu Yasha said, "Oi." He was sitting right next to the door. "Where do you think you're going?"
"Um, inside?" Woody asked.
"He's dangerous." Inu Yasha warned.
Woody gulped and nodded.
"Be careful." Inu Yasha said.
Woody nodded again and went inside, quickly before he chickened out. It was darker in the hut then he remembered. He hadn't been in it since they tied Shio up. He went over to Shio who looked like he was asleep, but he might have been pretending. Under the platform Shio was on was a dagger. Reaching out a shaky hand, Woody picked it up by it's cold handle and started to saw away at the ropes holding him. He cut all the ropes and nothing happened. Shio didn't move. Woody sighed and turned to walk out.
BOOM!!!
The hut went up in flames. Inu Yasha jumped aside and looked up at the inferno. "SHIO!" he shouted. Woody went flying out of the roof screaming and into a tree. Shio jumped through the roof as well and the hut collapsed in a fiery heap. He landed far away from it and Inu Yasha and sniffed the air. Fire, wood, the prostitutes, Meat, Priestman, Inu Yasha, YES! Females! He grinned and zoomed off in the direction of the closest female.
"Damn!" Inu Yasha leapt after him leaveing Miroku and Shippou to put up with the fire.
"Shippou!"
"Yeah?"
"Get a bucket!"
"What for?"
"This hut is on rent!"
"Wow, you're screwed…"
The prostitutes all stood in a line watching them try to save the hut. Woody came out of the trees with his clothes all messed up and stood in the line with them. "Looks like trouble doesn't it?" he asked. They nodded and murmured agreements.
After a few seconds Peanut smiled and said, "Let's get some pancakes!"
The other guys agreed and grinned hungrily. As they began to walk away Woody said, "I know this great IHOP nearby!"
Inu Yasha landed in the area where the women were being kept and they were looking around worriedly. "Who got taken??" Inu Yasha shouted.
They all stopped running around and looked at him as if we were going to swoop off with one of them too.
"Who got taken??" he asked again.
One of them came over and held out a brown shoe from the future. Inu Yasha's blood ran cold. "Kagome?"
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Shio leap through the forest with Kagome hanging over his shoulder.
"Let me go! Put me down Shio!!!" she shouted at him.
He just hoped along grinning like he couldn't hear her. He finally dropped her in a plot of grass and before Kagome could say a word he started sucking on her neck and wrapped his arms around her.
She opened her mouth to say something but all that came out was a gasp.
Shio giggled a little and sniffed her hair moving his hand up her back.
"Sh-wha-what are you doing??" Kagome said starting to gain her senses back. She pushed him off a little and he looked at her confused.
"Shio, I don't want you." Kagome said.
He blinked and his long eyelashes batted. He grinned and hugged her closely. "Don't be afraid Kagome. It'll be fun. Inu Yasha may be more exciting, but I'm more creative. I'll teach you some fun things that you can teach him!"
He started kissing and sucking on her neck. Since Kagome wasn't a virgin anymore she would be easier to seduce. For some reason, most virgins were a little more complicated with enchantment. Then he heard Kagome beg him softly, "Shio, please stop."
Shio's eyes closed and he remembered Inu Yasha. He blinked and backed away from Kagome a bit. He looked Kagome up and down like she was a piece of meat then sighed sadly and said, "No. I can't. She's Inu Yasha's."
Kagome watched Shio stand up and leap off. She stood up, smoothing her skirt, glanced in the direction he left and ran off in a different direction.
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Naraku sat in the darkest room of his castle while Kanna sat in front of him with her mirror. The reflection changed to country sides all over Japan. He was obviously looking for Sashimi. His minions had had no luck of finding her at all during the past weeks. There came a stir among the castle guard, where there was a bunch of shouting and clattering of weapons. Kanna glanced expressionlessly in that direction of the noise.
Naraku kept staring at the mirror either not hearing it, or not caring. The blackness that was outside the window disappeared and was filled with a silvery light. The light filled the room he and Kanna were in until they could see nothing but white. When the light disappeared, a tall woman stood in front of Naraku's sitting figure. She was wearing long silver dress robes, that shined as if by magic and glittered with stars. She had long silvery white hair that went past her waist which moved around as if wind were blowing through it. She looked down at him with blue eyes and her arms folded. Her expression unreadable. As he looked up at her he noticed the newly placed silver star on her forehead. "Sashimi. You've come back, have you?"
"Not for long." She stated. "I've gained more power then you know, Naraku. And I have been granted a title among the gods. Sashimi of the Silver Star, Goddess of Light. I'm afraid I cannot be slain."
"Then you're here to kill me?" he asked.
"No. I see an even worse fate in your future that I see as more fitting for you." She said. "But I've come to ask a question." Her expression became quite serious. "Who is Sumiko?"
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Shio sat by himself in the night under the god tree. He rested with his back against it and his eyes closed. His wolfy ears twitched as he heard a rustling of leaves. He opened his eyes and saw Sumiko come out of the forest. She was smiling seductively. She purred lightly and pushed her kimono so that her white shoulder was revealed and walked toward him with her hand out for him.
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Naraku smiled evilly at Sashimi. "You want to know who she is?"
Sashimi said nothing, but waiter patiently for an answer.
He continued to smile. "Sixty one years ago, your mother died. But she did not go alone. There was a life implanted in her womb."
Sashimi's eyes narrowed at him warily.
Naraku smirked at her. "She's closer to you and Shio then you know, Sashimi."
Sashimi's star glowed a little and her eyes widened in shock. That dream she had about with her mother telling her she had a surprise for them! The mixed breed smell that clung to Sumiko! Her playful, mischievous nature! "No!" Sashimi gasped.
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Sumiko decended on Shio and he took her with open arms. He kissed up her neck and they both purred loudly. She wrapped her tail around him and he touched as much of her as he could at once. Then she smiled and put her lips on his. Shio moaned and took it, he was more used to sex then he was to kissing and loved it. Then as he was kissing her Sumiko parted his lips with her tongue and warm venom flowed into his mouth. Shio's eyes went wide as it's bitter acid taste went down his throat. Sumiko pulled away and smiled at his stunned expression. She grabbed his chin and made him look at her, though his vision was already starting to blur. "Sorry, big brother!" she smiled and said. "You just ain't my type!"
Shio made a choaking sound and she let him fall back on the grass. She reached into the shirt of his kimono and pulled out a twig with a blade of grass wrapped around it. She held it up and it transformed into Shio's double blade sword. She swung it above her head and plunged it into Shio's heart. Shio cried out in pain. The light inside of him went up through the blade of the sword and into Sumiko. Grinning happily, she pulled the sword out of him and it dripped blood over the fur of his kimono. She swung the sword over her shoulder and looked into his glassy eyes. "Ironic." She said to the dead demon. "That you be killed by a woman that you were going to mate with." She looked at the blood on the sword and said. "And not just any woman but your own sister."
She swung the sword over her shoulder again and began to walk off, but stopped after only a few steps. She looked back at him with a blank expression for a few moments before leaping off into the forest. It was time to get her next target, Inu Yasha.