Mommy, There's A Demon In My Closet!
By Inuhugger + Moon Smurf
*Keepers of Fluffy and Inu! *
Sponge: Welcome Welcome Welcome! The Fic you have all been waiting for is here! As advertised in Inuhugger's author notes! HAHA, I am such a dork. Well, let's see. This fic is an AU... alternate universe.... however it does involve people living in Sengoku Jidai, but it WILL NOT, I repeat, will not follow the original story line.
Another note, the story skips around a bit, with lots of flashbacks and different settings, but hopefully it won't be too confusing, Oooo and enjoy the lyrics at the beginning of each chapter! We picked them to go with what happens in that chapter.
Smurf: Since my first Fanfic on this site was a total bust I hope this fic is all GOOD! You people better enjoy it, it took us a while to write this up!
Well, I think we have blabbed enough. Enjoy!
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Chapter 1: A Million Miles from Home
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I will leave my body and seek and time will stand still when I've to leave
my body and find a way back to the world I love when I'm a million miles from home
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If you ever had the chance to be sucked into a time portal, most would agree that it might not be a pleasurable experience. It would most likely suck, especially because of the sensation that someone was dragging your body through gelatin fast enough to make your head spin.
Inuyasha was thinking somewhere along those lines as he raced through the purple swirling nothingness. But his troubles got worse. Imagine having to be sucked through time with your older half brother who hated your guts, blamed you for being caught in this predicament in the first place, wanted to kill you afterwards, and was conveniently a full youkai while you were only a hanyou.
Sesshoumaru, on the other hand, was rather enjoying himself. He got a sense of gratification that when this horribly dizzying experience was over, and they reached wherever the portal was taking them, he would be able to maim, maul, torture, and eventually kill his little half-breed brother for it. He started chuckling, a very cold chuckle, one that would make you shudder because of the sheer evil radiating off of it. Yes, he was excited; he needed a little violence in order to alleviate his frustrations from being whipped around in this degrading manner by something purple no less.
The pair had been "traveling," if that is even a word to describe it, for some time now and Inuyasha was starting to get sick to his stomach. Then, as if his silent prayers had been answered, there was a blinding light in front of them, and it grew steadily bigger and bigger. Sesshoumaru started up his evil chuckling again, unnerving the inu-hanyou even more than usual. Inuyasha tried to squirm away from the demon lord, but trying to move horizontally through gelatin was not easy and he only ended up being closer to his brother when he stopped struggling.
They were almost there, almost to the proverbial "light at the end of the tunnel" when they noticed that the light was getting smaller. "$&!@#!" Inuyasha exclaimed. Cursing was his specialty, especially when words to describe the situation at hand were scarce. If that ever happened, you could count on the white haired, golden-eyed hanyou to think up of a colorful one for it.
Indeed, the light was getting smaller, and it looked as though both of the Inu-youkai would not make it. Sesshoumaru ceased chuckling and curled his lip upwards in a silent snarl when he realized this. Looking over to his filthy half-breed brother, he realized that the hanyou was going to reach the light before him and he quickly computed this in his head before taking initiative. He lashed out and tried to knock Inuyasha off course with his eerie glowing green whip, but only succeeded in pushing his weak half brother closer to the light bubble with the wave of energy his attack created. When Inuyasha reached the light, his red clad form merged with it, and then disappeared altogether, leaving Sesshoumaru stuck floating in the purple void.
The demon lord of the Western lands did not wait long however. For almost as soon as the first light bubble flickered away, another one emerged a mere two feet to the right. Suddenly the pulling sensation picked up again and Sesshoumaru found himself sucked into the light and temporarily blinded.
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Azerris trudged up to her room with another storage box full of scrolls and parchment. Trying to finish your Masters degree with a Major in Feudal History, specializing on mythological creatures, mainly youkai, well it left you with a lot of reading material, and great upper body strength. She had just gotten home from her Mythological Creatures class with Professor Freeto, who had spent the entire class going on and on about two youkai brothers, one full demon, the other hanyou, who possessed the legendary swords, but nothing was ever written about them. She loved Professor Freeto dearly, he was one of her favorite teachers, but sometimes he could be plain boring. The 5'5" girl flicked back her hair with a movement of her head to keep the stray strands out of her face. Azzeris, or as her roomate Allonia spontaneously named her, Riz, was known for her ever present happiness and her unbounded optimism.
Dumping the box on her bed, she sighed and moved to her closet to check for some empty space to stash it, expecting only to find a few dust bunnies as a result. Instead, when she slid open the door, she immediately jumped away and screamed.
[What the fudge? That was not a dust bunny!]
Inside the closet, *something* growled.
Inuyasha's eyes were still recovering from the flash of light when he felt himself slowly being lowered to the floor of a dark room. It took a few moments for his youkai senses to return to normal, mostly still in shock from the time traveling experience. He noticed he was in a very cramped space, and it was completely dark. He hunched up into a corner and looked around. Strange clothes hung from the ceiling on a bar, and boxes upon boxes were stacked in the opposite corner.
[What the hell kind of weird ass place is this?]
He sniffed the air and sneezed, catching a big whiff of dust and mold. He rubbed his poor nose, now all stopped up with dust.
[Dammit! They need to clean in here! Wait! Where is here?]
He sighed, now thoroughly confused. His ears twitched. Someone was coming. He tensed when the footsteps came closer, and he saw the door sliding open. A young girl, not much more than 20 years old poked her head into the closet, brunette hair swishing past her shoulders. She got one look at Inuyasha's golden eyes gleaming out at her from the darkness of the corner, and snapped away from the door, giving off a terrified shriek. His ears reflexively drew back to flatten on his scalp, and he let out a defensive growl...
Azerris blinked several times, staring blankly at the door of the closet. Those creepy, yet alluring yellow eyes... As if on cue, there was a rustling in the closet, and she backed away slowly, until a boy emerged in the doorway.
Okay, weird was not a strong enough word to describe this boy that had walked out of her closet. He was just... strange. With his big golden eyes, silvery white hair that trailed past his waist complete with shorter, shoulder length pieces that framed his face, claws on each finger, and two big fluffy cat-ears... no wait...dog-ears nestled on top of his head, it was beyond words to describe. He looked about her age, maybe a year or two older, and was wearing a ridiculous red feudal style outfit, with a beat up old katana strapped at his waistband. His feet were bare and dirty. She shuddered at how much dirt was clinging to him. [ Filthy! ] For some reason she found herself thinking he was actually rather cute, but she dismissed the thought. First, she wanted to know what he was doing in there!
"Okay buddy... What's going on here?" She asked, the underlying confusion and fear in her tone ringing in the hanyou's ears. He stared at her; trying to think of a reasonable explanation, somehow "I don't fucking know..." didn't seem like the right thing to say.
She had her hands on her hips and was giving him a weak glare he could only chuckle at. Her brown hair trailed a little past her shoulders, where most of the strands lazily fell. Her green eyes were warm and bright, and he found he didn't want to look away from them. Her face was fair, a twinge of tan on her sunkissed cheeks. She looked very young by the way she held herself, but her eyes held volumes of knowledge in them. She was wearing some comfortable jeans and a fitted white T-shirt that read " 10th Annual Tokyo History Night" on it, with a small logo of a scroll and a sword crossing each other in a red circle. He didn't understand her weird clothing, but he did understand that if he didn't stop looking at her and answer, she was only going to get madder, and the last thing he needed was another girl to get mad at him today.
{{FLASHBACK}}
"Kagome are you ready to go?" yelled Inuyasha.
A girl about 5'3" with raven black hair and eyes green as an emerald came running through the opening of the forest. She was a beauty to behold, her waist length hair followed behind her like a veil of darkness, her skin was a light color almost like cream, and just as smooth.
Inuyasha looked at her longingly completely unaware of the malice that shown in her eyes, for she was up to somethin', up to no good. Kagome feigned innocence when she reached him, pretending to be glad to see him. Inuyasha leaned over to give Kagome a chaste kiss on her sweet rose-colored lips, Kagome giggled and faking a blush, she kissed Inuyasha back. Suddenly Inuyasha stiffened and put Kagome behind him.
"Kagome stay behind me. I smell death and that can only mean one thing.... Kikyo".
Kagome had to hold her breath from letting out a laugh, she knew why Kikyo was there, she was the one who had hired her. Even though she despised the witch, she needed her revenge, revenge against Inuyasha. Oh how she hated him now, him and his stupid desire to destroy his brother, and 'DAMN HIS BROTHER TOO' she thought as she pretended to be scared of Kikyo.
Inuyasha growled deep in his throat at the undead vixen that was about to burst through the forest into the clearing at any moment. Kikyo was always fascinated with him, the hanyou of sorts, who lived in her village while she was alive. He was sad to see her go when she did die that fateful day, but he never held any real feelings for her. She was cold, and Kagome was warm.
He had met Kagome in the next village over where she lived with her family. Kikyo had only recently died, and he was looking for new companionship. He soon fell in love with the girl, and learned of her woes about being a miko, Kikyo had the same ones, but surprisingly Kagome was always upbeat and happy, now matter how stressed she really was. It made her a good liar, as Inuyasha was about to find out.
When Kikyo was resurrected by that abomination of a witch Urasue, her deep infatuation for Inuyasha was still there, but she became bitter at the fact that he already had found someone else, and from then on had made his life a living hell. Almost in the literal sense, she had tried to drag him off to death with her countless times, but Kagome always brought him back.
Kagome and Inuyasha were the perfect pair. Kagome kept Inuyasha in check, and Inuyasha protected Kagome with his demon abilities. Most even said he would give his life for Kagome. But that did not stop what happened last fall...
Inuyasha's brother, Sesshomaru, was after Inuyasha's sword again, and Inuyasha needed to protect Tetsusaiga from falling into his wretched brother's hands. So he set out to head Sesshomaru off, and fight him where there would be no distractions or innocent bystanders, unwittingly leaving Kagome open for a full attack on the village. An powerful demon called Naraku attacked their village that same night, killing all but Kagome and a few village elders, and Kagome could do nothing to stop it, her miko arrows did not penetrate the evil demon's puppets or on Naraku himself. She was heartbroken when she had to watch her entire family die at her feet. Although she put on a happy face since the incident, she secretly harbored a deep hatred for her love now turned cold, Inuyasha, the one she blamed for the massacre of her family and village.
Kikyo stepped through the trees, almost gliding on her feet, stopping a short distance away from the couple. A thin wisp of a smile graced her lips, and her undead eyes shone with a icy malice.
"Inuyasha, how nice to see you once more." She cooed, her face unchanging. Inuyasha growled and his grip on the sword at his waist tightened. His free hand reached for Kagome's and when he caught it he squeezed tight, only to feel her hand go limp in his.
"Kag? Kagome?"
He turned around to her right as she fainted and her body collapsed. He caught her in his arms and stood, turning back to Kikyo.
"What's going on here?" He shouted. Kikyo's stone cold face did not show any sign of emotion. He looked down at Kagome and shook her gently...
"Kagome?" He pleaded...
A rush of energy surrounded him as Kagome suddenly jumped up, hatred burning in her emerald pools. Inuyasha stood shocked at the girl's sudden burst of raw emotion and miko power in her aura. A sadistic grin snaked its way across the maiden's once loving face, now tainted with hatred.
"Die Inuyasha!"
She shrieked, pushing the hanyou backwards with a blast of blinding miko energy right towards the swirling portal Kikyo had just conjured. Despite the searing pain he felt on his chest and shoulders, Inuyasha drew Tetsusaiga and dug it into the ground. He grasped on to his demon sword, fighting the vacuum of winds trying to suck him into the portal behind him. He looked up to see Kagome and Kikyo glaring at him, side by side.
"Why Kag? I love you... "
His heart wrenched and his entire being shook with betrayal. The young miko only laughed bitterly at the sadness and confusion in his eyes.
"Ha! Inuyasha, you are so naive! You allow yourself to believe that you are so powerful and great; that you can protect me but you can't! Where were you when I was attacked and my family was killed? WHERE WERE YOU?! You were off trying to kill your brother! You didn't come when I called... you...you never came..."
Kagome broke down into a fit of angry and sorrowful tears...
"You might as well have killed my family yourself! I HATE YOU INUYASHA! Now you can rot in whatever place this time vortex spits you out!"
She spat the words with such force and feeling that he winced when they rang in his ears. The suction from the vortex was getting stronger and stronger, feeding off both of the maiden's miko energy, one undead, and one very much alive.
Just as he was about to let go, Sesshoumaru burst through the trees.... Inuyasha watched as his brother dived for him with an outstretched hand. But before he could make contact with Sesshoumaru's gesture, the gaping hole behind him finally tore him away from his world.
[[End Flashback]]
The girl was still staring at him, tapping her foot gently on the carpeted floor.
"Well? Are you going to answer me or am I going to have to call the cops?"
Inuyasha blanched. Had he been spacing out during his little flashback? The strange girl's fear was growing, along with that twinge of anger on her scent. He cocked his head to one side in curiostity and mimicked her, "What are the 'caw-psh' ?"
Riz could only giggle at this strange boy's face. He had strangely canine features, his face was more defined and slightly elongated, rather than flat. Maybe that was what reminded her of a lost puppy when he cocked his head like that, golden eyes imploring an answer. Now she felt stupid. He had just turned her anger to mush with a simple question! And who was he to not know who the cops were! Was he some kind of idiot? Suggesting by his clothes, and his obviously inferior attempts to look like a demon, he probly was. But one question still burned in her mind; how the hell did he get in her closet?
Azzeris sighed, her brows furrowing. "Are you trying to tell me you don't know who the Police are?" She asked somewhat calmly.
" Po-leese? Nope, don't know what those are. Do they have anything to do with the Caw-psh?"
RIz smacked the heel of her palm into her forehead out of frustration, before she suddenly realized that she was home alone, arguing with the person who had broken into her apartment, who had no fear of law enforcement.
Inuyasha's ears drooped a little more when her fear spiked through the roof. He reached out to set a hand on her shoulder, but she gasped and backed away in hurried steps. She made a move to turn and run out of the room, but he quickly caught her by the shoulders and turned her to face him.
" Stop! I'm not going to hurt you...Truth is I don't know how I got here.' He stammered.
Azzeris was breathing heavily pieces of her bangs hiding her scared eyes. He didn't look like a lost puppy anymore, more like a huge dog that should be taken seriously. And take him seriously she did, for one, he had a death grip on her upper arms that included 2 inch claws; real or not, and secondly, she truly believed by the bewildered way he was looking around her room that he didn't know where he was.
After getting over her intial shock, she gave him a feeble smile and moved to sit down on her bed. She motioned for him to join her, and he cautiously crept over to sit cross-legged beside her.
"Let's start off with introductions... My name is Azzeris, Riz for short. How about you? Or should I just call you dog boy, you sure as hell look like one." Inuyasha's eyes narrowed into a glare. " It's Inuyasha." He mumbled. Azzeris's eyes widened. " So I was right about the dog part." She giggled. However, the tense silence still hung heavy in the air.
"Hm..What do you remember before you ended up here?" Riz asked, placing her hands in her lap. Inuyasha made a pained face and mumbled very softly, " Kagome..." as he stared out into space.
Azzeris grew confused. "Who's Kagome?" A very innocent question, but Inuyasha made a growling noise and whipped around to shoot her a menacing scowl.
"NONE OF YOU'RE BUSINESS WENCH!"
He then turned around with his back to her and sulked. Azzeris huffed and puffed for a few seconds before she decided just to leave it at that.
" Well, can you tell me where you are from? It would probly be best that we got you home and away from me if you are going to bite my head off everytime I ask a question." Azzeris emphasized her sentence with a poke to the back of Inuyasha's head. The boy made a half-growling, half- grumbling sound in his throat.
" I really never had a home, but I was staying in a small village until recently..." He remarked unenthusiastically and nodded towards the closet, indicating how long ago 'recently' was.
" You sound bored; don't you want to get back and see this "Kagome" girl again? I bet she misses you. I assume she was your girlfriend or something?"
Riz non-chalantly ran her fingers through her hair, it wasn't like she was interested in him or anything, he was just some really cute village idiot.
There was a soft thud and Azzeris turned to look at Inuyasha, but his spot next to her was empty. She peeked out over the edge of the bed, and found him huddled into a little red and white ball, his ears plastered to the back of his head. Azzeris resisted an 'aww' and tenatively called out to him.
" Are you ok Inuyasha?' The boy tensed at her voice, and his muffled bark came from the folds of his feudal haori, " Feh! I'm fine! Just leave me alone!"
He slowly uncurled himself and sat up to scowl at her. " Of course I want to go back. Kagome is just a little 'miffed' at me right now" He closed his eyes when he realized just how 'miffed' Kagome was.
[That was the understatement of the year] He silently berated himself.
Now Azzeris, being the optimist she is, suggested, " Oh, she can't be that mad at you, just go see her and sort it out. But you have to tell me where you live so we can get you back." Her extremely bright smile and cheery expression gave Inuyasha false hope, enough to make him seriously consider her proposition.
[ Maybe Kagome really didn't mean what she said... I miss her already, it wouldn't hurt to try if this girl can get me back. She seems oddly confident...]
Inuyasha thought for a moment. " Well, we did live kinda close to this fishing village." He let a fang slip between his lips as he licked them. " Really good fish. Mmm... Anyway, I think the village was called Edo."
Two things happened after Inuyasha finished his last sentence. One, Azzeris's eyes bugged out of her head, and then her eyebrows furrowed, and secondly, she took her fist and hit him on the top of his head with extreme force.. [ A/N; Did I not mention the upper body strength?]
"Are you kidding me or something? I didn't think you were THAT stupid! Edo existed over 500 years ago."
Her eyes crossed in a cute yet frustrated way as she bellowed at him, but Inuyasha only noticed for a split second before she hit him on the head again. He quickly raised up his hands and stood up to get her to stop knocking him on the head. When she did, he looked at her and scratched behind one of his ears,
" I guess I forgot to mention the time portal?"
Inuyasha's ears drooped. He expected a better reaction. Now she was just staring at him, mouth slightly ajar, her eyes blinking every few seconds. Suddenly she shook her head and closed her mouth.
" So you're saying you travelled through time to get here?" She asked, still blinking abnormally.
" Um.. .Yah?" He cracked his knuckles in a nervous manner..
Azzeris fanned her face with her hand. This was not happening to her, this was all a dream. RIgh now she needed Loni to pop her head in and tell her to wake up... or that she was hallucinating again. { A/N: AGAIN? haha] She thought she had heard Loni yelling something to her a little earlier, but she was a little preoccupied with someone else. Thinking that maybe her best friend and roomate Allonia would somehow miraculously make things better, Azzeris took a deep breath and screamed...
"LONI!!!" Then a clawed hand clamped over her mouth.
Inuyasha sniffed the air, still holding a very frightened and surprised Azzeris. " Shhh... That smell... he's here." Inuyasha snarled. " My brother... Sesshoumaru is here."
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Ash: Suspenseful... kinda..... [ 7 up commercial!!]
Mal: hehehehe
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Maye1D: Fluff and Feh together will one day save the world. They are the Ying and Yang of attitude.
Yes Maye... u are one hyper child....
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Ok well that's it for now!
:: Mal and Ash jump out of the shadows wearing matching "Inu Otaku Gals" superhero outfits...::
Mal: TO THE INU CAVE!!!
Ash: HERE COMES THE OTAKU MOBILE!!!
:: A white car pulls up.. A small fluffy tail thing hangs from the antenna... Mal, Inu, Ash, and Fwuffy hop in....::
::Mal pushes buttons, and the car speeds off into the horizon...;:
ALL: OFF TO WRITE MORE CHAPTERS!!! SEE YA!!!
By Inuhugger + Moon Smurf
*Keepers of Fluffy and Inu! *
Sponge: Welcome Welcome Welcome! The Fic you have all been waiting for is here! As advertised in Inuhugger's author notes! HAHA, I am such a dork. Well, let's see. This fic is an AU... alternate universe.... however it does involve people living in Sengoku Jidai, but it WILL NOT, I repeat, will not follow the original story line.
Another note, the story skips around a bit, with lots of flashbacks and different settings, but hopefully it won't be too confusing, Oooo and enjoy the lyrics at the beginning of each chapter! We picked them to go with what happens in that chapter.
Smurf: Since my first Fanfic on this site was a total bust I hope this fic is all GOOD! You people better enjoy it, it took us a while to write this up!
Well, I think we have blabbed enough. Enjoy!
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Chapter 1: A Million Miles from Home
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I will leave my body and seek and time will stand still when I've to leave
my body and find a way back to the world I love when I'm a million miles from home
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If you ever had the chance to be sucked into a time portal, most would agree that it might not be a pleasurable experience. It would most likely suck, especially because of the sensation that someone was dragging your body through gelatin fast enough to make your head spin.
Inuyasha was thinking somewhere along those lines as he raced through the purple swirling nothingness. But his troubles got worse. Imagine having to be sucked through time with your older half brother who hated your guts, blamed you for being caught in this predicament in the first place, wanted to kill you afterwards, and was conveniently a full youkai while you were only a hanyou.
Sesshoumaru, on the other hand, was rather enjoying himself. He got a sense of gratification that when this horribly dizzying experience was over, and they reached wherever the portal was taking them, he would be able to maim, maul, torture, and eventually kill his little half-breed brother for it. He started chuckling, a very cold chuckle, one that would make you shudder because of the sheer evil radiating off of it. Yes, he was excited; he needed a little violence in order to alleviate his frustrations from being whipped around in this degrading manner by something purple no less.
The pair had been "traveling," if that is even a word to describe it, for some time now and Inuyasha was starting to get sick to his stomach. Then, as if his silent prayers had been answered, there was a blinding light in front of them, and it grew steadily bigger and bigger. Sesshoumaru started up his evil chuckling again, unnerving the inu-hanyou even more than usual. Inuyasha tried to squirm away from the demon lord, but trying to move horizontally through gelatin was not easy and he only ended up being closer to his brother when he stopped struggling.
They were almost there, almost to the proverbial "light at the end of the tunnel" when they noticed that the light was getting smaller. "$&!@#!" Inuyasha exclaimed. Cursing was his specialty, especially when words to describe the situation at hand were scarce. If that ever happened, you could count on the white haired, golden-eyed hanyou to think up of a colorful one for it.
Indeed, the light was getting smaller, and it looked as though both of the Inu-youkai would not make it. Sesshoumaru ceased chuckling and curled his lip upwards in a silent snarl when he realized this. Looking over to his filthy half-breed brother, he realized that the hanyou was going to reach the light before him and he quickly computed this in his head before taking initiative. He lashed out and tried to knock Inuyasha off course with his eerie glowing green whip, but only succeeded in pushing his weak half brother closer to the light bubble with the wave of energy his attack created. When Inuyasha reached the light, his red clad form merged with it, and then disappeared altogether, leaving Sesshoumaru stuck floating in the purple void.
The demon lord of the Western lands did not wait long however. For almost as soon as the first light bubble flickered away, another one emerged a mere two feet to the right. Suddenly the pulling sensation picked up again and Sesshoumaru found himself sucked into the light and temporarily blinded.
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Azerris trudged up to her room with another storage box full of scrolls and parchment. Trying to finish your Masters degree with a Major in Feudal History, specializing on mythological creatures, mainly youkai, well it left you with a lot of reading material, and great upper body strength. She had just gotten home from her Mythological Creatures class with Professor Freeto, who had spent the entire class going on and on about two youkai brothers, one full demon, the other hanyou, who possessed the legendary swords, but nothing was ever written about them. She loved Professor Freeto dearly, he was one of her favorite teachers, but sometimes he could be plain boring. The 5'5" girl flicked back her hair with a movement of her head to keep the stray strands out of her face. Azzeris, or as her roomate Allonia spontaneously named her, Riz, was known for her ever present happiness and her unbounded optimism.
Dumping the box on her bed, she sighed and moved to her closet to check for some empty space to stash it, expecting only to find a few dust bunnies as a result. Instead, when she slid open the door, she immediately jumped away and screamed.
[What the fudge? That was not a dust bunny!]
Inside the closet, *something* growled.
Inuyasha's eyes were still recovering from the flash of light when he felt himself slowly being lowered to the floor of a dark room. It took a few moments for his youkai senses to return to normal, mostly still in shock from the time traveling experience. He noticed he was in a very cramped space, and it was completely dark. He hunched up into a corner and looked around. Strange clothes hung from the ceiling on a bar, and boxes upon boxes were stacked in the opposite corner.
[What the hell kind of weird ass place is this?]
He sniffed the air and sneezed, catching a big whiff of dust and mold. He rubbed his poor nose, now all stopped up with dust.
[Dammit! They need to clean in here! Wait! Where is here?]
He sighed, now thoroughly confused. His ears twitched. Someone was coming. He tensed when the footsteps came closer, and he saw the door sliding open. A young girl, not much more than 20 years old poked her head into the closet, brunette hair swishing past her shoulders. She got one look at Inuyasha's golden eyes gleaming out at her from the darkness of the corner, and snapped away from the door, giving off a terrified shriek. His ears reflexively drew back to flatten on his scalp, and he let out a defensive growl...
Azerris blinked several times, staring blankly at the door of the closet. Those creepy, yet alluring yellow eyes... As if on cue, there was a rustling in the closet, and she backed away slowly, until a boy emerged in the doorway.
Okay, weird was not a strong enough word to describe this boy that had walked out of her closet. He was just... strange. With his big golden eyes, silvery white hair that trailed past his waist complete with shorter, shoulder length pieces that framed his face, claws on each finger, and two big fluffy cat-ears... no wait...dog-ears nestled on top of his head, it was beyond words to describe. He looked about her age, maybe a year or two older, and was wearing a ridiculous red feudal style outfit, with a beat up old katana strapped at his waistband. His feet were bare and dirty. She shuddered at how much dirt was clinging to him. [ Filthy! ] For some reason she found herself thinking he was actually rather cute, but she dismissed the thought. First, she wanted to know what he was doing in there!
"Okay buddy... What's going on here?" She asked, the underlying confusion and fear in her tone ringing in the hanyou's ears. He stared at her; trying to think of a reasonable explanation, somehow "I don't fucking know..." didn't seem like the right thing to say.
She had her hands on her hips and was giving him a weak glare he could only chuckle at. Her brown hair trailed a little past her shoulders, where most of the strands lazily fell. Her green eyes were warm and bright, and he found he didn't want to look away from them. Her face was fair, a twinge of tan on her sunkissed cheeks. She looked very young by the way she held herself, but her eyes held volumes of knowledge in them. She was wearing some comfortable jeans and a fitted white T-shirt that read " 10th Annual Tokyo History Night" on it, with a small logo of a scroll and a sword crossing each other in a red circle. He didn't understand her weird clothing, but he did understand that if he didn't stop looking at her and answer, she was only going to get madder, and the last thing he needed was another girl to get mad at him today.
{{FLASHBACK}}
"Kagome are you ready to go?" yelled Inuyasha.
A girl about 5'3" with raven black hair and eyes green as an emerald came running through the opening of the forest. She was a beauty to behold, her waist length hair followed behind her like a veil of darkness, her skin was a light color almost like cream, and just as smooth.
Inuyasha looked at her longingly completely unaware of the malice that shown in her eyes, for she was up to somethin', up to no good. Kagome feigned innocence when she reached him, pretending to be glad to see him. Inuyasha leaned over to give Kagome a chaste kiss on her sweet rose-colored lips, Kagome giggled and faking a blush, she kissed Inuyasha back. Suddenly Inuyasha stiffened and put Kagome behind him.
"Kagome stay behind me. I smell death and that can only mean one thing.... Kikyo".
Kagome had to hold her breath from letting out a laugh, she knew why Kikyo was there, she was the one who had hired her. Even though she despised the witch, she needed her revenge, revenge against Inuyasha. Oh how she hated him now, him and his stupid desire to destroy his brother, and 'DAMN HIS BROTHER TOO' she thought as she pretended to be scared of Kikyo.
Inuyasha growled deep in his throat at the undead vixen that was about to burst through the forest into the clearing at any moment. Kikyo was always fascinated with him, the hanyou of sorts, who lived in her village while she was alive. He was sad to see her go when she did die that fateful day, but he never held any real feelings for her. She was cold, and Kagome was warm.
He had met Kagome in the next village over where she lived with her family. Kikyo had only recently died, and he was looking for new companionship. He soon fell in love with the girl, and learned of her woes about being a miko, Kikyo had the same ones, but surprisingly Kagome was always upbeat and happy, now matter how stressed she really was. It made her a good liar, as Inuyasha was about to find out.
When Kikyo was resurrected by that abomination of a witch Urasue, her deep infatuation for Inuyasha was still there, but she became bitter at the fact that he already had found someone else, and from then on had made his life a living hell. Almost in the literal sense, she had tried to drag him off to death with her countless times, but Kagome always brought him back.
Kagome and Inuyasha were the perfect pair. Kagome kept Inuyasha in check, and Inuyasha protected Kagome with his demon abilities. Most even said he would give his life for Kagome. But that did not stop what happened last fall...
Inuyasha's brother, Sesshomaru, was after Inuyasha's sword again, and Inuyasha needed to protect Tetsusaiga from falling into his wretched brother's hands. So he set out to head Sesshomaru off, and fight him where there would be no distractions or innocent bystanders, unwittingly leaving Kagome open for a full attack on the village. An powerful demon called Naraku attacked their village that same night, killing all but Kagome and a few village elders, and Kagome could do nothing to stop it, her miko arrows did not penetrate the evil demon's puppets or on Naraku himself. She was heartbroken when she had to watch her entire family die at her feet. Although she put on a happy face since the incident, she secretly harbored a deep hatred for her love now turned cold, Inuyasha, the one she blamed for the massacre of her family and village.
Kikyo stepped through the trees, almost gliding on her feet, stopping a short distance away from the couple. A thin wisp of a smile graced her lips, and her undead eyes shone with a icy malice.
"Inuyasha, how nice to see you once more." She cooed, her face unchanging. Inuyasha growled and his grip on the sword at his waist tightened. His free hand reached for Kagome's and when he caught it he squeezed tight, only to feel her hand go limp in his.
"Kag? Kagome?"
He turned around to her right as she fainted and her body collapsed. He caught her in his arms and stood, turning back to Kikyo.
"What's going on here?" He shouted. Kikyo's stone cold face did not show any sign of emotion. He looked down at Kagome and shook her gently...
"Kagome?" He pleaded...
A rush of energy surrounded him as Kagome suddenly jumped up, hatred burning in her emerald pools. Inuyasha stood shocked at the girl's sudden burst of raw emotion and miko power in her aura. A sadistic grin snaked its way across the maiden's once loving face, now tainted with hatred.
"Die Inuyasha!"
She shrieked, pushing the hanyou backwards with a blast of blinding miko energy right towards the swirling portal Kikyo had just conjured. Despite the searing pain he felt on his chest and shoulders, Inuyasha drew Tetsusaiga and dug it into the ground. He grasped on to his demon sword, fighting the vacuum of winds trying to suck him into the portal behind him. He looked up to see Kagome and Kikyo glaring at him, side by side.
"Why Kag? I love you... "
His heart wrenched and his entire being shook with betrayal. The young miko only laughed bitterly at the sadness and confusion in his eyes.
"Ha! Inuyasha, you are so naive! You allow yourself to believe that you are so powerful and great; that you can protect me but you can't! Where were you when I was attacked and my family was killed? WHERE WERE YOU?! You were off trying to kill your brother! You didn't come when I called... you...you never came..."
Kagome broke down into a fit of angry and sorrowful tears...
"You might as well have killed my family yourself! I HATE YOU INUYASHA! Now you can rot in whatever place this time vortex spits you out!"
She spat the words with such force and feeling that he winced when they rang in his ears. The suction from the vortex was getting stronger and stronger, feeding off both of the maiden's miko energy, one undead, and one very much alive.
Just as he was about to let go, Sesshoumaru burst through the trees.... Inuyasha watched as his brother dived for him with an outstretched hand. But before he could make contact with Sesshoumaru's gesture, the gaping hole behind him finally tore him away from his world.
[[End Flashback]]
The girl was still staring at him, tapping her foot gently on the carpeted floor.
"Well? Are you going to answer me or am I going to have to call the cops?"
Inuyasha blanched. Had he been spacing out during his little flashback? The strange girl's fear was growing, along with that twinge of anger on her scent. He cocked his head to one side in curiostity and mimicked her, "What are the 'caw-psh' ?"
Riz could only giggle at this strange boy's face. He had strangely canine features, his face was more defined and slightly elongated, rather than flat. Maybe that was what reminded her of a lost puppy when he cocked his head like that, golden eyes imploring an answer. Now she felt stupid. He had just turned her anger to mush with a simple question! And who was he to not know who the cops were! Was he some kind of idiot? Suggesting by his clothes, and his obviously inferior attempts to look like a demon, he probly was. But one question still burned in her mind; how the hell did he get in her closet?
Azzeris sighed, her brows furrowing. "Are you trying to tell me you don't know who the Police are?" She asked somewhat calmly.
" Po-leese? Nope, don't know what those are. Do they have anything to do with the Caw-psh?"
RIz smacked the heel of her palm into her forehead out of frustration, before she suddenly realized that she was home alone, arguing with the person who had broken into her apartment, who had no fear of law enforcement.
Inuyasha's ears drooped a little more when her fear spiked through the roof. He reached out to set a hand on her shoulder, but she gasped and backed away in hurried steps. She made a move to turn and run out of the room, but he quickly caught her by the shoulders and turned her to face him.
" Stop! I'm not going to hurt you...Truth is I don't know how I got here.' He stammered.
Azzeris was breathing heavily pieces of her bangs hiding her scared eyes. He didn't look like a lost puppy anymore, more like a huge dog that should be taken seriously. And take him seriously she did, for one, he had a death grip on her upper arms that included 2 inch claws; real or not, and secondly, she truly believed by the bewildered way he was looking around her room that he didn't know where he was.
After getting over her intial shock, she gave him a feeble smile and moved to sit down on her bed. She motioned for him to join her, and he cautiously crept over to sit cross-legged beside her.
"Let's start off with introductions... My name is Azzeris, Riz for short. How about you? Or should I just call you dog boy, you sure as hell look like one." Inuyasha's eyes narrowed into a glare. " It's Inuyasha." He mumbled. Azzeris's eyes widened. " So I was right about the dog part." She giggled. However, the tense silence still hung heavy in the air.
"Hm..What do you remember before you ended up here?" Riz asked, placing her hands in her lap. Inuyasha made a pained face and mumbled very softly, " Kagome..." as he stared out into space.
Azzeris grew confused. "Who's Kagome?" A very innocent question, but Inuyasha made a growling noise and whipped around to shoot her a menacing scowl.
"NONE OF YOU'RE BUSINESS WENCH!"
He then turned around with his back to her and sulked. Azzeris huffed and puffed for a few seconds before she decided just to leave it at that.
" Well, can you tell me where you are from? It would probly be best that we got you home and away from me if you are going to bite my head off everytime I ask a question." Azzeris emphasized her sentence with a poke to the back of Inuyasha's head. The boy made a half-growling, half- grumbling sound in his throat.
" I really never had a home, but I was staying in a small village until recently..." He remarked unenthusiastically and nodded towards the closet, indicating how long ago 'recently' was.
" You sound bored; don't you want to get back and see this "Kagome" girl again? I bet she misses you. I assume she was your girlfriend or something?"
Riz non-chalantly ran her fingers through her hair, it wasn't like she was interested in him or anything, he was just some really cute village idiot.
There was a soft thud and Azzeris turned to look at Inuyasha, but his spot next to her was empty. She peeked out over the edge of the bed, and found him huddled into a little red and white ball, his ears plastered to the back of his head. Azzeris resisted an 'aww' and tenatively called out to him.
" Are you ok Inuyasha?' The boy tensed at her voice, and his muffled bark came from the folds of his feudal haori, " Feh! I'm fine! Just leave me alone!"
He slowly uncurled himself and sat up to scowl at her. " Of course I want to go back. Kagome is just a little 'miffed' at me right now" He closed his eyes when he realized just how 'miffed' Kagome was.
[That was the understatement of the year] He silently berated himself.
Now Azzeris, being the optimist she is, suggested, " Oh, she can't be that mad at you, just go see her and sort it out. But you have to tell me where you live so we can get you back." Her extremely bright smile and cheery expression gave Inuyasha false hope, enough to make him seriously consider her proposition.
[ Maybe Kagome really didn't mean what she said... I miss her already, it wouldn't hurt to try if this girl can get me back. She seems oddly confident...]
Inuyasha thought for a moment. " Well, we did live kinda close to this fishing village." He let a fang slip between his lips as he licked them. " Really good fish. Mmm... Anyway, I think the village was called Edo."
Two things happened after Inuyasha finished his last sentence. One, Azzeris's eyes bugged out of her head, and then her eyebrows furrowed, and secondly, she took her fist and hit him on the top of his head with extreme force.. [ A/N; Did I not mention the upper body strength?]
"Are you kidding me or something? I didn't think you were THAT stupid! Edo existed over 500 years ago."
Her eyes crossed in a cute yet frustrated way as she bellowed at him, but Inuyasha only noticed for a split second before she hit him on the head again. He quickly raised up his hands and stood up to get her to stop knocking him on the head. When she did, he looked at her and scratched behind one of his ears,
" I guess I forgot to mention the time portal?"
Inuyasha's ears drooped. He expected a better reaction. Now she was just staring at him, mouth slightly ajar, her eyes blinking every few seconds. Suddenly she shook her head and closed her mouth.
" So you're saying you travelled through time to get here?" She asked, still blinking abnormally.
" Um.. .Yah?" He cracked his knuckles in a nervous manner..
Azzeris fanned her face with her hand. This was not happening to her, this was all a dream. RIgh now she needed Loni to pop her head in and tell her to wake up... or that she was hallucinating again. { A/N: AGAIN? haha] She thought she had heard Loni yelling something to her a little earlier, but she was a little preoccupied with someone else. Thinking that maybe her best friend and roomate Allonia would somehow miraculously make things better, Azzeris took a deep breath and screamed...
"LONI!!!" Then a clawed hand clamped over her mouth.
Inuyasha sniffed the air, still holding a very frightened and surprised Azzeris. " Shhh... That smell... he's here." Inuyasha snarled. " My brother... Sesshoumaru is here."
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Ash: Suspenseful... kinda..... [ 7 up commercial!!]
Mal: hehehehe
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Maye1D: Fluff and Feh together will one day save the world. They are the Ying and Yang of attitude.
Yes Maye... u are one hyper child....
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Ok well that's it for now!
:: Mal and Ash jump out of the shadows wearing matching "Inu Otaku Gals" superhero outfits...::
Mal: TO THE INU CAVE!!!
Ash: HERE COMES THE OTAKU MOBILE!!!
:: A white car pulls up.. A small fluffy tail thing hangs from the antenna... Mal, Inu, Ash, and Fwuffy hop in....::
::Mal pushes buttons, and the car speeds off into the horizon...;:
ALL: OFF TO WRITE MORE CHAPTERS!!! SEE YA!!!