Not much time passed. Kaoru made a general comment about lunch and Sanosuke jumped right in, saying he hadn't even had breakfast yet. That gained a quick bonk on the head from the groundskeeper, though she relented with the strange incidents going on. Kenshin left to see what was available and Megumi followed him, partially to help and also to make something for Inuyasha's internal injuries. Kaoru would've gone with, but Yahiko demanded details on the fight and kept bugging Sano, and Sano wanted to know - as he put it - just what the hell was going on?
Kaoru spent a brief time telling Sanosuke what she knew from Inuyasha, which wasn't much, as aforementioned sat antisocially in the doorway with arms in his sleeves yet again. The way he looked out at the sky reminded Kaoru of the way Kenshin would gaze off in thought, as she assumed that's what Inuyasha was doing if the even set of his face was any indication.
Kaoru didn't even get to finish her information to Sanosuke before Yahiko started demanding about the fight. Only when the youth received a similar bonk on the head did Kaoru gain the time to finish until Sano started in. She listened with half an ear, having been there after all, and absently watched Inuyasha. With the royal, expensive clothing and way he held such a tattered sword, he looked like royalty from historical paintings. The only thing showing he was paying any attention to those in the room was his right ear turned their way.
She didn't understand how someone could be so uncouth and loud-mouthed, so barbaric and hostile! Of course, some of the people in this time were rather cruel and hostile - amongst other things - so that was understandable. Muromachi? Kaoru's face lowered as fingers wrapped over her chin, wondering. The Sengoku...the warring states era...where the daimyo ruled with iron fists. Fighting that was prevalent for hundreds of years, even into the Tokugawa. Kenshin would understand about Inuyasha's fighting desires, as would Sano, but she was just a child in that time. Her head shook a tiny bit. She didn't understand the horrors of war, not now and never would. But then, if she understood war, she wouldn't be qualified to teach the Kamiya Kasshin Ryuu, would she?
"Omae ga chigau da yo!"
Kaoru's head snapped up as she jumped, eyes jerking to the doorway. Inuyasha was turned a few more inches toward the interior, a sour look on his face. Kaoru blinked in confusion, then looked to Sano and Yahiko, realizing she put their words out of her head. But whatever Sano said, he probably embellished, hence Inuyasha's behavior.
"Get your facts straight! I LET you land a hit on me that first time! You couldn't hit me if your life depended on it. Had you not hit me in the leg with that strange magic of yours, you would've lost!"
Yup...embellishing on BOTH sides... Sigh. Sano rose to the bait, not liking anyone challenging him. Males.
"Oi! You thought you were 'above' me, didn't you demon?" Sano boasted, gingerly crossing his arms. That wild hair moved as his head tossed up arrogantly. "'Let me hit you' my ass! You made a sloppy move! You're not as good as you think!"
Inuyasha suddenly smirked and his head pulled back to resemble Sano's. "Keh. What would YOU know...you're just a weakling from the future." A hand left his sleeves and flexed in the air for the trio to see. "You think my nails are like this for show? I could rip holes in your floorboards like tearing through your shoji!" He boasted, smirk rising. "My claws ripped through your skin easily enough."
Having admitted that fact, Sano leaned back a few inches and looked rather put out. But not a word came from him as he glared across the room.
Kaoru's eyes flattened a little, but turned her gaze to Inuyasha in warning. "Oi, don't you DARE tear up my home anymore than you already have! You already broke some of my property, I'll not forgive you if you do anything else!"
Gold drolly glared back, looking bored. "I KNOW! You won't let me forget it easily enough." He ground out, the hand returning to his sleeve.
Gold and blue stared in contest for what seemed the longest time before Kaoru suddenly stood with an unreadable expression. "I'll be back. Don't go breaking anything." She walked around Inuyasha and tapped his knee with a tabi foot. "Like each other." That said, she headed off to another building.
The growl he gave when she nudged him faded as the girl left eyesight. Tense silence descended upon the trio. Inuyasha's eyes closed and head bowed, leaning a little against the shoji frame as he fixed breathing to help with the healing. There wasn't much the doctor could do to help, as he sustained mostly internal injuries. She fixed up the guy and left to give him something to help his insides. Not that it'd help really; he didn't know how reliable this era's medicine could be. The stuff in his time worked well enough for them; though comparing both to Kagome's, they were all ineffective. He doubted he'd take whatever she made. He didn't need all that, just an hour or so and he'd be back on his feet and raring to go.
He mentally snorted, outwardly remaining still. The sun passed over them a little bit, as seen from the shadows of the house. He was already healing; he could tell by the way his breathing was, by the easier beating of his heart. He could take in full breaths now without wanting to wince and his foot regained full blood flow. He surmised in maybe another two finger's width of the sun, he could breathe normally and be almost fully back to health.
These were the times he liked being a demon best.
The smallest of smirks crossest his face before he forced it away and concentrated again. The burning of his chest was evidence enough that his body was repairing itself. Though, with all his concentration at his inner self, he couldn't ignore a pair of eyes that wouldn't leave him in peace. It was getting annoying, like someone poking him on the shoulder for attention. Finally eyes snapped open, momentarily glaring at the wood below, before whirling into the room and meeting the youngest of the pair. "What?" He bit out, mouth tightening into a line.
Yahiko blinked, head tilting. He'd just been observing the main attraction as Inuyasha sat rather quietly - almost uncharacteristically so - and pondered the final words he spat to Sano. They confused him. "What did you mean about your senses earlier...and now your hands?"
Inuyasha slowly lost his glare to a general stare, finding genuine, childlike curiosity meeting him. The boy reminded him a bit of Souta when he looked like that. With those rounded eyes wanting to soak up any kind of new, interesting knowledge. It was that general innocence he couldn't help but give in to.
"You wouldn't understand in this time, as there is none other than myself really, but back in MY time, there were all kinds of powerful creatures like me. Some full youkai, the other hanyou." The hand withdrew again and flexed, muscles displaying rather sharply underneath skin. "I wouldn't slice through that onna's floorboards - that's too easy. Trees offer a much more challenge, though I can still cut them down with my sankon tessou."
"Soul shattering...iron claw?" Yahiko muttered, a hand rising to scratch his head in confusion. Sano watched with a little more curiosity, though he hid it from all but his eyes.
Inuyasha nodded and stood. His legs held firm and he gave a small, genuine smile at his progress. A meager hop easily took him past the engawa and onto the dirt around before he turned to scout the area. An almost playful look came as he spotted what he wanted just a few feet away. He loved showing off his abilities.
"Oi, see that tree over there?" Both followed to the doorway and now stood on the engawa, nodding. Inuyasha smirked and flexed a claw. "You won't see it for long. Sankon tessou!"
"What's with the shout - what is that?!"
Beams of light, the same as what destroyed the drying cloth, shot from Inuyasha's hand for the tree and shredded it into large chunks. The top heavily fell to the ground, almost hitting the porch and ceiling in its descent.
"Kaoru-dono? Daijoubu??" Both Kenshin and Megumi almost skidded off the engawa in their hurry to find out what was going on. The pair stopped dead as they watched in large amaze at the treetop settling on its side. Then all was still.
"Cool!" Yahiko shouted, barely remembering his zouri before jumping to the ground. He stopped in front of the tree to examine it, checking the cuts made by the magic emitted. "Wow..."
Everyone else dumbly blinked until Kaoru remembered what she said earlier. "Didn't I just say not to break anything else?!" She screeched.
Inuyasha whirled as Kaoru stomped over. "Baka! Like chopping up a tree is anything - ITAI!" His words were cut short with that sharp yelp of pain. Both hands covered his ears, furiously rubbing in attempts to sooth massive stinging from when Kaoru harshly whacked him over the head with her shinai.
"Anything in these walls IS my property!" She hotly denied, readying bamboo again. Blue narrowed to slits in a glare. "And I told you - I TOLD you! - many times not to break anything else! And what do you do?! How big IS your attention span?"
Inuyasha growled, though his head and ears were still smarting. The insults pricked his embarrassment and pride, but he wouldn't let her chastise him like that! Both hands left his head as he glared back. "Listen onna, I can - ITAI!!" Both hands promptly returned to their previous stances as he grimaced again. His ears were the worst target to take! They were highly sensitive and thin, they didn't take much for abuse and that's why he loathed anyone doing anything to them! And being at her mercy with that strange weapon, the best defense he could muster was a good growl.
The shinai tapped in a hand as Kaoru stopped and waited for Inuyasha to say something else. After a minute, her face turned smug. "You break...you'll fix." She announced. The hand holding the wood sword pointed to the remnants of the tree of which Yahiko was currently clamoring over. "Starting with getting the newly chopped firewood near the furo for later use. After that, I think I'll have you fix the fence. The drying rack will be fine for now, but I will not allow holes for anything - or one - to come in through."
Inuyasha glared through the pain. The onna couldn't be serious! But the look on her face reminded him eerily of Kagome when she got rightly mad at him for doing something even HE knew was stupid. He almost waited for the osuwari to drop him, and then remembered the necklace wouldn't be used.
The necklace?!
Hands suddenly left as a claw gripped a few beads, ignoring the fact that he had everyone's eyes. He blinked at it, a joyful smile slowly blossoming. YES! With Kagome not around, he wouldn't be sat! Even better...maybe the magic would have worn off by being so far into the future and he could finally be freed of it! A rather evil laugh sounded only seconds before his hands gripped it in a position to easily slide it off his head. Only to be stopped when the beads lit up and it felt like something was irritably squeezing him around the neck.
"Damn it!" He tugged a few more times before stopping, knowing it was useless. Much like the first time he tried the same thing, the damn magic wouldn't let up until the person who uttered the word that bound him removed the necklace. Which meant he would be kept a literal pet dog to Kagome for a while longer. "Fuck!" He growled a sigh and crossed arms, dropping the necklace to rest against him. At least his neck felt better.
"What was that?"
He looked to the girl's wide eyes and found everyone else pretty much the same. Inuyasha scowled. He did NOT want to explain the humiliation of being bound to a human female - not after all the words he said to them earlier! Not only would they want him to do that to the beads again, but they'd keep teasing him about it until he went back. No, he was definitely keeping his mouth shut! "Mind your own business!" He strode to the tree and quickly sniffed for the boy's location. A hand stuck in the thick branches, grasped cloth, and tugged.
"What? Oi, you could've told me to get out and I would've!" Yahiko retorted, sullenly crossing his arms as Inuyasha easily held him in the air with one hand.
Inuyasha twirled the boy to stare at and sent a dry look. "You're too nosy. You've been in the tree this whole time, what makes me think you'd come out on my orders?" A smirk appeared. "Brat."
Yahiko squirmed angrily, trying to land a kick or a hit, but he was too short for it to do anything. "Don't call me a brat! That's almost as bad as being called Yahiko-chan!"
Inuyasha ignored the boy, only twirled a little and dropped him to the ground clear of branches and leaves. "Whatever. Just keep out of my way and direct me to where this has to go." Bending a little, claws easily punctured bark and pushed aside the treetop to get to the trunk. One hand held flat out as the other deposited a rather thick, relatively wide piece on his hand. With no effort at all, Inuyasha soon had six thick slices piled up almost double his height in one hand. "Now, show me where these go before I drop this. I'll come back for the other piece when I'm done."
Yahiko blinked in awe and confusion at how strong Inuyasha was. He didn't know if even Sano could lift so many without looking strained! "H - hai... This way..." On almost shaking legs, he led the hanyou around the house.
When the pair was out of sight, Kaoru hurried to the trio, face gaping. "Did you see that?!" She breathed, eyes darting between faces.
Megumi looked almost as shocked, but having seen other shocking things as a doctor helped mask some of that. "H - hai... What...IS he?"
"A demon...a rather strong one at that..." Sano muttered, slowly coming to his senses. Suddenly, his hands cracked almost eagerly. "What I wouldn't give to fight him with his full strength..." An evil smile appeared.
It lasted all of a minute before Megumi reached over and tightly pulled his ear. "You do and you don't get healed up again baka."
"Iteiteiteite!"
Kenshin was suddenly wary of his challenges. He wondered if he had fought the hanyou earlier or last night how long he would've lasted. Kenshin mentally shook himself and looked to everyone once Megumi let go of Sano. "Whatever he is, Inuyasha is strong, that he is. Sano, you'll do good to hold your anger around him and don't challenge him anymore." A slight narrowing of eyes enforced Kenshin's threat.
Sano sputtered indignantly, but sullenly complied, unconsciously knowing he was no match even with his Futae no Kiwami.
Kenshin looked to Kaoru, eyes softer and wrapped a hand around her shinai. "Kaoru-dono, I would put that away if you don't want to worry about Inuyasha's wrath coming down upon you. He's not the gentlest soul in the world, that he is not. I would fear anything happening if he took those claws to you, that I do."
A blush lit Kaoru's face and her gaze dropped to their feet, but she gave a tiny nod in agreement. "Hai." She breathed, a timid smile appearing.
"Did you see what happened with that strange necklace?" Megumi mused, a finger against her cheek. "Such peculiarity...I've never seen magic in my life until now."
"That whole demon is some kind of magic." Sano muttered, arms crossing. "I'm just not sure which type he is."
The object of their thoughts almost stalked into view, Yahiko not with him, and stopped by the treetop. He shot them a long, dark glare before a claw struck out and a loud CRACK sounded as it embedded in the wood again. He picked up the tree one-handed and slung it over a shoulder as if it weighed nothing at all and glared again.
Finally, Kaoru couldn't stand such a rude glance. "Whay??" She bit out.
Gold narrowed even further, his embedded claw tightening in irritation. "Stop talking about me like I can't hear you baka! These ears aren't just for show!" With that, instead of walking around the house, Inuyasha's legs tightened and vaulted him to the roof. The added weight gratefully held, and sharp hearing picked up gasps below before he cleared the other side with another jump.
"That was...unexpected..." Megumi mumbled, trying to pick her brain up from such a feat.
"You mean the fact that Inuyasha didn't break my house?" Kaoru ground out, teeth clenching. What an impulsive move! Her house wasn't stone! With the weight of that tree, along with Inuyasha, the combined could've toppled everything and put a nice hole somewhere in the center!
"This lowly one wonders what else that being from a different time can do..." Kenshin murmured. The trio looked to find his hands in his sleeves, head bowed, and hair covering his eyes.
"Kenshin?"
After a second, red hair moved as Kenshin flashed his friends a smile. He would dwell on those thoughts later. "Megumi-dono...I do believe we left lunch cooking upon our hasty exit, that we did." That rose-tinted mouth dropped in surprise as tabi feet brought the taller woman to a run the way they came without a word. "Depending on the condition...lunch might be late, that it will." Kenshin called, taking off after.
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"So...can you bend iron?"
"Yes."
"Tear through flesh?"
"No problem."
"See in the dark?"
"Kind of."
"Smell anything from houses away?"
"If I'm in the forest, I can smell for longer. Probably not in this time though...too many smells." A small, experimental sniff was heard.
"What about flying?"
There was a small pause. "Kinda. I can jump really high and sort of float for a bit. Like my weight isn't so much when I'm in the air."
Yahiko thoughtfully nodded and grabbed another piece of what would help patch the Sanosuke-size, Inuyasha-made hole. Lunch had come and gone, and the afternoon was drawing to a close. As much as Inuyasha seemed impatient, Kaoru managed to verbally browbeat him into fixing the holes in the retaining wall before he left as payment for everything they did for him. There was a lot of grumbling and growling, but in the end he gave in, not wanting to anger the Kagome look-alike. He got enough of that already.
It was one of the few times he heard that Yahiko volunteered to help do something without being asked or badgered as well, telling of the boy's eagerness to know more about him. Again, the boy reminded him a little of Souta. That was probably one of the reasons why he was giving in and answering questions about his abilities because being reminded of Souta and how the boy looked up and practically worshipped him was being transferred to the one sitting next to him.
"Put a little bit here and hold it while I smear some of this on next to it." Yahiko evenly instructed, hands dipping into some mortar mix.
"Aa." He mumbled, hand obediently holding something he had no clue of in place. As much as he didn't like being ordered around, he felt a little at ease right now...even with this boy. The others were on the other side of the house, soft voices pricking his ears. Apparently his earlier comments of his hearing perked their awareness and now he couldn't make out what was being said. Also, all the questions dissuaded his attention from picking out words.
The two worked quietly again, hands and tools the only noise. Finally, Yahiko spoke up. "So you can break tough stuff, see pretty well in the dark, smell really good, hear really well, sort of fly..." Brown shot a sideways glance, finding gold doing the same. A minute smile appeared on Yahiko's face. "Must be pretty cool having all that power. You even have a magic necklace for something, even though you won't say what it does."
A raven brow twitched as that topic was brought up again. Hands stressed a little harder against the wall in irritation. "And you won't know, so drop it." He gruffly muttered, looking away.
Yahiko's mouth puckered, but annoyance was forcefully shoved away as he went to survey the hole. Hands pulled away and looked, finding Inuyasha's doing the same. "We let this dry for a bit." He muttered, hands dotted in gray gook.
Inuyasha nodded and sat back, looking at the same gook on his hands. He sniffed it, having never seen it before, even licking a little bit before trying to spit the taste out of his mouth.
Yahiko grinned and plopped to the ground, staring at the sky in its first glimpse of a sunset. After a few seconds, he heard a shuffling and looked over to find Inuyasha in a somewhat same position. "So...what do you do back in your time?"
Gold flicked over, the rest of his face staying put. "Fight the bad youkai and get the shikon no kakera before the bastard Naraku can use it for his horrible means." His mouth pursed briefly. "And watch other that lecherous bouzu, Sango, Kirara, Shippou, and try to keep Kagome in my time so she can help find those damn shards."
Yahiko's brow furrowed at so much confusing information. "You travel with a houshi?" He caught a snort, but a nod in the corner of his vision. Brown turned to subtly watch his companion for more movement.
"That bouzu is about as virtuous to any onna as I tolerate Sesshoumaru." He retorted, mouth puckering. "Always trying to touch woman...he'll never learn..." That white head shook, having never understood any of Mirkou's ways. Indeed...Miroku was NEVER going to learn to keep his wandering hands and eyes to himself if he valued his life around Sango. Or at least his skull.
"So...who're the other people?"
Inuyasha hesitated, eyes on the sky. He didn't want to give away that much information about himself. He never did - it was a safety precaution. But still, did it matter if he talked about the others? He didn't mind really, since it wouldn't count soon. Soon he'd be in a time where none of these people would be born yet. "Sango is a taijya - a demon exterminator." He forgot that maybe none of these people would know the words he knew from his time. "She hunted youkai that plagued the human villages. Kirara is a neko youkai that belongs to Sango. The thing is about the size of your torso normally, but she can transform into something as almost as tall as this wall here. Shippou is an annoying kitsune youkai that Kagome insists on keeping with her." Inuyasha's face turned annoyed. "I'd like to throw him and his annoying wailing to the other ocean if I could, but Kagome would sit me until I made a crater in the ground."
Yahiko blinked. That was one of the few times Inuyasha mentioned the name Kagome. He even called Kaoru that - from what he caught last night. It confused him, but hopefully that little mystery would unravel itself. "So who's Kagome?"
That question seemed rather two-faced. 'Kagome...' Inuyasha's heart beat a little faster and his face softened as he pictured her sweet face, long hair, slender body in that silly outfit...her smile...those big brown eyes... He mentally slapped himself.
"Kagome is...a miko." He muttered, face heating a small degree. It was hard not to say 'Kagome is Kikyou's reincarnation'. If she heard that, Kagome would sit him until his back broke! "She can sense the shikon no kakera and see them. She purifies any of the bad evil they encompass, and fell through a well as magical as you all think I am hundreds of years to the future of this time."
"Wha-"
Inuyasha stood, cutting off the rest of the question. "They're calling for us." He muttered, looking to the ground. Though he couldn't hear the extent of their words, he recognized his name when it was said.
Yahiko blinked, but stood as well and looked to the wall. "It still has a bit to dry...but otherwise it's fine." An evil grin sprouted. "Let buzu think we finished it. I do enough for her as it is." Inuyasha smirked for a few seconds. He got a few steps before a tug on his sleeve stopped him. "Can you take me over the roof like you did the tree?"
He looked down, a little unhappy at thinking he could be a general transport system. First it was Kagome getting him to haul that Nobunuga guy, then he had to haul the others out if they were unable to dodge a battle attack, then Kagome, now this kid. What was he, a pack horse?
"I just want to see what it's like. Then I'll not ask you again."
Inuyasha heaved a sigh, ears drooping. He gave in. The look in the kid's eyes said he wouldn't let up unless he was given a ride. With another sigh, he kneeled with his back turned. "Put your arms around my neck..." He muttered, eyes flattening. This was embarrassing.
Yahiko grinned and did as told, a hand getting a good hold on his forearm to keep from losing a grip. Inuyasha's clawed hands gripped behind his knees and soon the hanyou stood. Arms tugged him up as much as possible to look over the red shoulder.
But Yahiko unconsciously pulled a little too much. His grip got a small choke sound from Inuyasha as the hanyou coughed. "Oi, not so tight! You want me to pass out in mid-jump?"
"I didn't do it on purpose!" Yahiko growled, glaring at thick hair.
"Do you want a ride or not?" The grip loosened the smallest amount in a threat, effectively shutting Yahiko up. "You won't need to see over me when we're airborne. Look at your sides." With that said, Inuyasha crouched to gather power in his legs before leaping off the balls of his feet for the roof.
The bottom almost dropped out of Yahiko's stomach and he instinctively pressed close to the safety that kept him from harm before knowing this was his only chance. Brown popped open as the ground shifted under their flight and his eyes widened. "Wow..." He breathed.
Inuyasha allowed a small, congenial smirk as clawed feet finally touched roof. He allowed the boy a second to check out where they were, as gold looked in calculation of where to land next, before he jumped with ease and flew over the porch roof. He turned in midair, landing with equal ease to the adults sitting on the engawa. They stared in shock, looking as his arms slowly loosened on Yahiko's knees to let him down.
Yahiko jogged around and gave a quick, enthusiastic bow. "Thanks!" He crowed, beaming. That said, he whirled and stopped before the group. "Tonda! Nee...didju see me Kenshin?"
Kenshin smiled and nodded. "I saw, that I did." Amiable violet looked past the youth and met gold. They locked and the rurouni gave the barest of nods, conveying his thanks for the hanyou's congeniality toward Yahiko before Inuyasha snorted quietly and looked away.
"What did you call us over for?" He questioned, standing where he was.
Kenshin looked to Sano for a moment before nodding, getting one in return. He repeated the process with Kaoru before looking back, finding gold in rapt attention. "Sano, Kaoru-dono, and this lowly one will help you find the youkai being you seek, that we will." Kenshin answered, eyes soft.
Inuyasha's eyes narrowed a little warily. "It took you the whole day to decide that? Night's almost here! I could've fought him by now and got back to where I belong!"
"Oi, don't be ungrateful!" Sano retorted, leaning forward. "You should thank us that we're helping you at all! We could let you find this thing on your own and deal with it on your own, but who knows what you'll do to Tokyo in that time!" Sano's further tirade was stopped by Kenshin's hand on an arm.
"Keh! What would you know..."
"Sano is right, that he is." Kenshin quietly answered, arm going back to his sleeve.
"NANI?!"
Kenshin solemnly nodded to reinforce his point. Violet narrowed a tiny bit. "You can be rather brash, with no thought to those around you. This is our time...our city. We protect it. We will help you, but also make sure that you don't destroy what shouldn't be destroyed."
Fangs bared as Inuyasha grit his teeth. "And while you play nice and find peaceful ways to attack that jikan youkai, he'll freeze your lungs or stop your heart with his powers and the shikon no kakera and kill you all! How stupid ARE you?!" There was a small, deathful silence at that. The painful reminder of what he went through hit him and he knew humans would be of no use. Even if they could help him navigate the streets, the fighter's fists wouldn't hit if the youkai stopped time before he got close and Inuyasha didn't know about the sword bearer's abilities yet. If only they had someone who could do surprise attacks! For a moment, he wished Kaomge or Miroku had been thrown here with him, but angrily discarded the thought. Those two put him here to begin with!
"We'll help, but there're too many people out." Kenshin continued, looking to the horizon. "Night is almost here anyway, that it is. We can wait a little longer before heading out. If you can find a way to track this youkai being, we will go with you and fight." Violet narrowed again. "But try to consider our time while you're here. Don't be so careless and destroy like what you did to Kaoru-dono's property."
He glared at the group. He was more powerful than all of them put together - depending on the redhead's abilities - why should he need their help? But, the guy made some sense. There would be too many people to distinguish the youkai in - too many smells to sort through. As it was, he was going to have to see if any of the youkai's scent lingered on his haori to help track him or he would try and find a tall tree branch to get good winds and find it that way.
As much as he loathed admitting it, AGAIN, he was at the mercy of this era. He needed their help navigating the streets so he wouldn't find himself suddenly in the next village! And if they protected this village, they would know whether or not one of the residents seemed suspicious. Really they could be of some use to him. "Keh!" He conceded, shoving hands going through his sleeves again. He managed the smallest of nods, glaring holes in the dirt below him.
I am a BEGINNER Japanese learner...so if these are not 100 correct...please let me know if you care to do so. I only have a web page to learn from, a dictionary, and a few months experience to work with.
Translations: Daimyo-Feudal lord Omae ga chigau da yo-You're wrong Tabi-Split-toed socks Itai-Ouch/That hurts/etc Furo-Literal bath room Aa-same thing as hai, but less formal
Neko youkai-Cat youkai Kitstune-Fox Miko-Priestess Tonda-I flew Rurouni-Wanderer
n.n There was IY's soft moments. I have him bond with the others for a reason, as will show up in the next chapters. There will be two more for sure; I might make them a little longer and leave it at that.
Couple of explanations. The way I worded everyone but IY's name at times - putting descriptions in instead of names - signifies thoughts belong to IY and we all know how long it took him to say Kagome's name. Also I don't own any RK eps yet, so I can't go back and find what the house looks like. I'm going off what I borrowed to watch once upon a time and remember. The lack of detail when IY and Yahiko patch the wall is evidence of that. The tree IY carries would be about a story tall and as wide as a computer monitor with speakers attached to the sides - for those who wondered...so about two to three foot.
I'm trying to keep this IC and as out of AU as possible. One looks at a crossover and thinks it's an AU, but the IY timeline is anywhere before the group fights the Shichintai. The RK timeline goes off the manga and is just after Kenshin defeats Enshi, but before Sano runs off and Megumi leaves. Thanks for reading! Ja matta! n.n