Spellcaster
Curse of 4 Paws
Know When To QuitIt was raining. It always seemed to be raining around her. She was beautiful, the raindrops poured down her brilliant black hair making it glimmer in the moonlight. She shook her head and water went flying everywhere. Inuyasha couldn't keep his eyes off her. She always seemed to mesmerize him.
He hid behind a bush near the river she was bathing in. Why was she bathing while it was raining? Inuyasha didn't know and didn't care. He had heard rumors through out the village about her. It was said that she was a Witch, a powerfully evil Witch. Inuyasha didn't even know her name. He was going to change all of that, tonight.
Kikyo loved the rain, that's why she would bathe in the fresh droplets. Of course she could make it rain, or be sunny if she wanted, but she loved the rain. The light of the moon reflected off the tiny droplets making her pale skin seem to glow. The silence of the night was so peaceful, and yet it was so lonesome. But that's the way it always was, she was always alone.
And that's the way she wanted it. Everyone in the village called her evil or demon witch. Kikyo was neither of these, she was a Spellcaster. She smiled in her thoughts and splashed in the stream. Ah, peaceful bliss.
A twig snapped and Kikyo's wonderful thoughts were interrupted. She glared in the direction of the sound, not making any move to cover herself.
"Reveal yourself." She demanded.
Inuyasha cursed silently to himself and stood up slowly. The look on her face was that of pure rage.
"Why do you spy on me? Can you not confront me directly?" She made her way to shore, still making no attempt to conceal her naked body. Inuyasha tried to keep eye contact.
"Are you the witch the town's people speak of?" Inuyasha didn't know what else to say.
"Perhaps," she finally reached shore and started to put her kimono on. "What is it to you?"
"I am Inuyasha, and I, I, well um." She had dressed and was walking towards him.
"You are not very considerate now are you?" she stopped directly in front of him.
Inuyasha was speechless, then his pride caught up with him, "How dare you mock me! You Wench!"
Kikyo gasped and backed away from him. "Why you insolent fool! You should know never to insult a Spellcaster!" She raised her hands mumbled something that Inuyasha didn't understand and the rain stopped.
Did she say Spellcaster? Oh shit. Inuyasha stepped back. Oh shit was right.
Kikyo raced forward and grabbed Inuyasha by the neck of his red kimono. Her eyes started to glow, and so did Inuyasha's. She was reading his mind.
Inuyasha screamed and pushed her away. Kikyo let him push her away and just glared at him.
"So you have been spying on me for some time now. Did you really think I would fall in love with a stalker?" she pointed a finger at him.
Now Inuyasha's heart was broken and his pride almost shattered. "You wench! How dare you point a finger at me! And some Spellcaster you are! You don't even have a kingdom!" Inuyasha clenched is fists.
"HOW DARE YOU!" Kikyo screamed.
Oops shouldn't have said that. Inuyasha gritted his teeth.
"I am Kikyo! One of the strongest Spellcasters! And for your inconsiderate remarks, I shall curse you." She bent down and picked up a single blade of grass.
"Like the dog you are." She ripped the grass in two.
Inuyasha gulped.
"You shall become…a dog!" she blew the grass out of her hands and it floated towards Inuyasha.
He couldn't move, it was like he was plastered to the ground.
"And I'm going to be a little cliché on this one." She smirked. "You will not return to you're normal self, until true love's first kiss."
The grass landed on Inuyasha's head. A bright light erupted from them and Inuyasha could feel his bones reforming. He screamed out in pain, but the only sound that escaped his mouth was a yelp.
Kikyo laughed and looked at the medium sized white dog that now stood where Inuyasha had been. His red kimono was strewn out about the ground.
"I always did love that frog prince story." She bent down and tapped Inuyasha on the head, he growled.
"Fine then if you're still going to be rude…You will live forever as a dog, but of course when you get that kiss." She laughed. "the entire spell will be broken."
Inuyasha leapt at her, but she easily dodged his attack. "A little clumsy on four legs now are we?" she asked.
"Shut it Bitch!" what he could talk? COOL! "I'm going to hunt you down and kill you if it's the last thing I do. Spellcasters live a long time too, you know."
"Hmm you can talk, how interesting." She put her hand on her chin like she was thinking. "I can fix that."
Inuyasha growled and tried to run away but tripped over his own paws.
Kikyo laughed and pointed her finger at him. "Only I and your true love will be able to hear you talk." Inuyasha felt his throat go dry and then return to normal. Well as normal as a dog's throat can be.
"Well at least you can still hear me insult you!" he growled.
"Grumpy, are we?" She sat on the ground. "This spell is going to be more difficult that it's worth." She glared at him. "Until you do one hundred good deeds, you will never turn back into a half demon."
"What the fuck is your problem?" Inuyasha slowly walked towards her trying not to trip.
"I'll be keeping an eye on you, and if you do something really bad, I can add more to that one hundred." She stood up and started to walk back into the forest. "If you had remained quit I would have reversed the curse, but nope you just had to talk."
Inuyasha lunged at her and this time he nailed her to the ground. She laid on her back and just glared into his yellow eyes. "Two hundred," and with that she vanished into thin air.
Inuyasha growled.
That was 500 years ago, when demons roamed the earth. Now in the year 2 thousand Inuyasha was still a dog, well at least he only had one hundred good deeds left. It seems Kikyo was not very picky about what he did to help, sometimes picking something up that someone had dropped and returning it to him or her would do. Other times she had 'personal' requests for him.
All in all Inuyasha hated being a dog, he hated good deeds, and most of all he hated Kikyo. He had yet to find his true love, in the entire 500 years. Sometimes when he was sleeping in a back ally or begging for food, he would think, 'What if? What if Kikyo had been his true love?' then he would quickly dismiss the idea and continue with his foraging.
Kikyo would watch Inuyasha live his dog life through her viewing pool. She really did feel sorry for him. Sometimes, okay hardly ever. But he's been a dog for so long she's forgotten what he really looks like. Oh well. She waved her hand and the image of Inuyasha in the pool disappeared. She sighed and walked out of the large cave looking room. Kikyo lived in a mountain. A very large and desolate mountain, it got rather lonely up there sometimes, that's when she would visit Inuyasha. But right now she needed a nap.
Inuyasha walked down the sidewalk hoping one of the people walking by would take pity on him and give him some food. He was extremely dirty and smelt of something dead; most of the people avoided him.
"Guess I go hungry today." He sighed. Of course the people walking by heard nothing. Right?
Kagome swore she just heard that dog talk. She turned her head around and tried to see if it really had been the dog. But her three friends pushed her along and Kagome had to look forward as to not hit anything.
Inuyasha made his way to the park to try and swipe a hot dog off one of the hot dog stands.
"Stop right there, you mutt!" a man carrying a very large net yelled.
"Not again!" Inuyasha moaned and started to run. "When will that stupid dog catcher ever learn he can't catch me?"
Inuyasha entered the park and ran straight for the hot dog stands. "Can I get this to go?" he said as he chomped down on a hot dog the hot dog guy was about to hand a customer. "Thanks." He said through the hot dog in his mouth.
"You again!" the very fat hot dog man yelled at Inuyasha. His young male customer just stood there dumfounded.
"Move it!" the dogcatcher yelled.
"You get him Miroku!" the fat man yelled.
"Miroku the dogcatcher! Ha!" Inuyasha said as he swallowed the hot dog whole. Inuyasha ran to the picnic area. "Now for some desert." He said as he made his way towards a couple sitting on a blanket eating.
"Grab that dog!" Miroku yelled to the man and the woman. The man made no attempt to move, but the woman lunged at Inuyasha and tackled him to the ground.
"Hey this is touch football no tackling." Inuyasha said as he struggled beneath the woman's grasp.
Miroku ran over and put a noose around Inuyasha neck. The woman moved out of the way and Miroku covered Inuyasha with the net. Inuyasha struggled to get away but only tangled himself in the net.
"Thanks ma'am." Miroku said.
"The name's Sango. What's yours?" She put her hands on her hips.
"Miroku." He eyed the man she was sitting with, and then he noticed it was a young boy. Ha! Jealous of a boy.
"This is my brother Kohaku." Sango motioned to the boy.
"Hey!" Inuyasha yelled, "Enough small talk! I'm in a net here!" he struggled frantically. He moved his body away from Miroku causing the dogcatcher to fall to the ground from the tug.
"Feisty." Sango laughed.
Miroku gave her a weak smile and crawled on the ground closer to her, still holding on with both hands, to the net and noose.
"Lady Sango? Will you please bear my child?" Miroku bowed his head.
Sango's eyebrow twitched. "Wha…"
"Please bear me a child?" Miroku pleaded.
"You pervert!" Sango yelled and slapped him across the face. "Come on Kohaku we're leaving."
"Uh, okay." Kohaku got up and followed his sister.
Inuyasha stopped struggling and watched them walk away. "Miroku, you have worse woman problems than me."
Miroku, not hearing Inuyasha, said, "She's cute isn't she? I think she likes me."
"Two words," Inuyasha said, "Clue, less."
"Well, it's off to the pound with you." Miroku dragged Inuyasha back to his truck, literally.
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Miroku threw Inuyasha into the cage and quickly locked the door. "It's 'bout time you caught that mutt." A man sitting at a desk near the cages said.
"Shut up Sesshomaru." Miroku mumbled and headed back out to his truck.
"Sesshomaru?" Inuyasha said. "My Brother?" Inuyasha looked at the man real good. He was wearing a tan uniform and his hair was short and black. The markings usually on his face were gone, but his eyes still held the same look they always had.
Inuyasha barked.
"Shut up mutt, before I break your nose." Sesshomaru said off hand.
Inuyasha growled. Yup it was his brother alright.
"Excuse me?" a very female sounding voice said.
Inuyasha turned around a saw a poodle in the cage next to him.
"What do you want?" he said rudely.
The poodle turned her head away from him. "Just wanted to know if you are that mutt who keeps knocking over hot dog stands and ruining picnics?"
"Yeah, so what of it?" Inuyasha laid down.
"Oh just wanted to let you know you have one hundred and one deeds now." She smiled at him.
"Kikyo?" Inuyasha sat.
"In the flesh and blood. Well so to speak." She turned around slowly in a circle letting Inuyasha examine her.
"But since you got caught and sent to the pound I'll return it to one hundred." She smiled at him.
Inuyasha said nothing. It wasn't everyday she would take pity on him, and he was going to use it to his advantage.
"Well got to go, see you later Inuyasha." And with that she vanished into thin air just like she always did.
"Um sir?" a female voice said from the front desk. Inuyasha turned and saw a teenage girl and a young boy standing in front of the desk.
"What is it?" Sesshomaru scoffed.
"My and my brother Sota would like to adopt a dog." She said. The young boy nodded.
"Adopt away." Sesshomaru motioned towards the many cages.
The girl bowed her head and Sota happily walked towards the cages.
"Now Sota remember we both have to agree on a dog." The girl said.
"Yeah, yeah, whatever Kagome." Sota waved his hand and ran to a small beagles cage. "This one, this one."
"No not that one." Inuyasha muttered. "Beagles love to bark, it will keep you up all night. His silence now is just a trick."
Kagome thought the man at the front desk had said it and shook her head to Sota. "No, how about something quitter?"
Sota shrugged and run to another cage.
Inuyasha stared at her for a moment and then shook his head. "Probably Kikyo playing a trick on me," he whispered so 'Kikyo' couldn't hear him.
Kagome had a good excuse for every dog Sota wanted.
"Do you not want a dog?" he asked her annoyed.
"No I do I really do!" she said.
"Then you pick it! I'm going to wait outside." Sota stomped his way outside.
Kagome eyed all the dogs. "I don't know." She said.
The phone rang and Sesshomaru picked it up, "Dog Pound." He answered.
There was a pause.
"Miroku?" Sesshomaru said.
Another pause while the person on the other line talked.
"You got bit where?" Sesshomaru stood up. "Why didn't you tranquilize the dog?"
Short pause.
"It wasn't a dog?" Sesshomaru asked.
Inuyasha laughed.
"What in the world were you thinking? Hitting on her like that?" Sesshomaru said. "You deserve all the pain your in."
Short pause.
"What about the truck?" Sesshomaru's face turned to anger.
Long pause.
"What do you mean it wasn't your fault the truck ended upside down in a tree? How else did it get up there?" Sesshomaru's eyebrow was twitching.
Inuyasha was rolling on the floor laughing. Kagome was also snickering to herself.
"No I will not come and pick you up!" Sesshomaru clenched the phone.
There was a short pause.
"Fine! I'm on my way!" Sesshomaru slammed the phone down and rubbed his for head. He looked at Kagome and pulled out a piece of paper and a pen. "When you decide on a dog sign here, and leave 2 dollars." He handed her the paper and pen, I've got an emergency to attend to."
Inuyasha barked.
Sesshomaru glared at him and left.
"Miroku better have life insurance." Inuyasha laughed.
Kagome froze. "Who said that?" she looked around the cages, she was the only one there, besides the dogs.
Inuyasha stopped laughing and looked at this girl. No, she wasn't Kikyo and she could hear him, which means, that she's his soul mate, his true love.
"I did." Inuyasha said. Kagome whirled around and stared at him. "I said it." Inuyasha repeated. Kagome's eyes glazed over and she fainted. "Oh great, just great."
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I do not own any Inuyasha characters and I got this idea off of a Nickelodeon show. Eddie Mcdow or something, well I think it got cancelled so yeah. Please review and read my other stories. Thanks!