I've bought #1-3, 5 and 14 of the InuYasha mangas!! And soon will purchase
more... I'm hooked! Rumiko Takahashi is an insperation to this struggling
art major... someday my own comic will be as famous....
Enough moping, on with the story!
Chapter 11: Shesshomaru's whaaaaaattttt?!
"Shesshomaru.. come back here you naughty boy!"
Crouching down in the bushes, a young white haired child giggled softly, clutching his prize firmly to his chest, though his apperance belied him not being human. A small crescent moon in the middle of his forehead, two stripes on each each, and delicatly pointed ears all showed he was youkai, a full blooded demon. A woman's kimono brushed the grass near his hiding spot, as the lilting voice mused softly to the air in a mock whisper. "Oh now where could he be, after stealing my favorite fan? Could the young lord be.... HERE?" Letting out a surprised yelp as a flame colored kimono enveloped him and lifted him into the air, Shesshomaru laughed. Yes, he actually laughed as the woman laughed with him. "Oh your father is going to be proud! I barely found you!" she laughed as her charge yawned, still clutching the fan in his small fists. "I'm going to be just like father Atsu..."
"I'm sure you will..."
"LORD SHESSHOMARU! LORD SHESSHOMARU!!"
The small toad-like demon soon found his head being dunked under the rivers surface by a graceful hand, while the youkai continued to watch the surrounding land, trying to grasp a sense of where his damnable sire had hidden it.
"Ma..Ma..MASTER! GWAULP!" the toad yelped as more water flowed into his mouth. "It would be best if you did not interrupt my thoughts, Jaken." Shesshomaru said silkly, his expression never changing as he lifted his grasp, allowing Jaken to scramble back into the boat, dripping and pulling a fish or two out of his sleeves. "The grave we seek, of Lord Inutashio, would not... InuYasha know of it, Lord Shesshomaru?" Jaken sputtered, wringing out his hanna.
"Inu..Yasha..." Shesshomaru seemed to react for a moment, then slammed the toad back into the water, holding him down once more with the Staff of Heads. His expression barely changed, though a faint narrowing of the eyes appeared as he spoke once more softly.
"Do not remind me of that vile half-breed.."
"Pl...please forgive me, sire!"
"It doesn't matter. In any case he is gone, laid low by a geis I hear.." he mused, studying the rivers currents as the toads head surfaced. "Y..yes that was true! But not any longer!"
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"So basically this hunk of junk I bought for a buck is something called the Shikon No Tama..?" Katie glanced at her lucky charm with a wary eye, holding it up to the light. Hadn't Kagome's grandfather always gone on about some Jewel or something? Holding the half up to the light, she studied it, actually curious about all the happenings of late. Nothing special about it to her, just some pinkish pearl that was split down the middle on an chain she found in her 'mothers' jewelry box, though it did give off a strange... pulse? A whispered voice?
"Aye, but now the Shikon Jewel has returned to this world the evil beings who desire its power will soon be flocking here. Though how ye came to possess but half the Jewel is a true mystery.." Kaede nodded as she checked on the girls bandages. She was healing quite well considering what the last few days had brought onto her.
"So you mean, like more demons or something?" she winced a bit, not really wanting the answer to her question. She did not want to deal with more jerk- offs like dog-boy over there pouting, or having claws rip through her! Why didn't she stay in nice safe L.A. where you only had the gangs to worry about?
"Not only, but also men who are sometimes worse." Kaede spoke softly, turning from Katie as she started to cook some food, but she kept talking. "In this era of war and chaos, the powers of the Jewel can make any ambition a reality..."
That sent a major chill up Katie's spine, but she cast a questioning eye on the strange boy. Pretty hair.... SNAP OUT OF IT! *slaps inner voices*
"So why would you want the Jewel, you seem powerful enough as it is!"
"He's only half-demon." Kaede stated from the fire, while InuYasha twitched, slamming his fist through the wooden floor of the house, glaring at the priestess.
"Old hag.. You've been acting awfully familar since we met! Do you think you know me?!" his voice took on a tense and rough growl.
"Then you really... do not know? You don't know Kaede the little sister of the woman who enchanted you..?"
"Kaede...?"
"It's been fifty years.. and some of us grow older."
Scratching his head for a moment, InuYasha shrugged. "So.. if your Kaede, then Kikyo must be even more withered then you! What a bore you mortals are!" he sneered, taking on a higher-then-thou expression, a smug glint in his eyes. Katie took a sip from her tea, then threw a boot at the back of his head, the heel making contact with a loud clonk. Whirling around, he growled loudly "What in the heck was that for you stupid bitch?!" He started to raise his claws but she just smiled slightly. "Sit."
WHAM BAM THANKYOU MAM'AM!
Kaede's floor had a new lovely hanyou shaped hole where he had been standing. Peering over the edge the old woman, sighed slightly. "My elder sister is dead. The same day she put the spell on you."
Clambering out of his hole in the floor, InuYasha smiled coldly, but shooting a glare at Katie who just smiled. Ohhh... she was going to regret that, as soon as he figured out how to get rid of that blasted necklace! "Oh, is that so? The little witch kicked it, eh?" Laying back down to his previous position, he smiled slightly, closing his eyes. "Glad to hear some good news..."
"Yet I would not start celebrating just yet InuYasha.." Kaede glanced over her shoulder while stoking the fire, Katie perking up too, since most of what this woman said usually did turn out how she said so far. "This girl, Ka-ti, survived two demon attacks with her life intact, and from her wounds, I've seen not one scar. One from the insect demon that attacked when she set ye free, and the other from your own claws. Even my sister, even the mightyest of miko's never managed such a feat. Yet she has no demon aura, in the time she has been here, no hint of demonic powers. But yet she has a discerning air about her, as you know InuYasha."
Turning a glance over his shoulder, InuYasha just snorted. Yeah, the girl was wierd, he would admit that, and evil... Yeah, she was pure evil! But he remembered waking up when she screamed, seeing her scrambling around then turning and facing down that low class bug, getting sliced pretty bad, then..... Then somehow she called up flames killing the demon. She didn't seem human then, something much older, stronger. It scared him slightly, yet at the same time he felt the tiniest memory. A flame embrodired kimono, a soft happy voice talking with his mother while he played, being given his first fire-rat robes from the lady. Why couldn't he remember her face? "Yeah.. probebly cause she stinks." he muttered, not letting his thoughts come to surface.
"Or could it be she is not human after all?" Kaede eyed Katie, who raised an eyebrow and glared slightly at the older woman, while InuYasha did the same, though for different reasons. "Look, Kaede. I'm human. End of story, nothing special. I just heal fast!" she smattered, not really angry or upset, but it made her nervous, made her remember the strange dream of that other her, the times she had been sent home from school because a fire started when she was in the girl's locker room while being beat up like usual, the times she would get so angry that she never would remember what she did, just a haze. "Feh. Demons heal fast girl. If your just a stinkin' human, maybe it's cause you have the Jewel?" Hearing the half-demons voice, she picked up the charm, then shook her head.
"No.... it's asleep. There's no way right now." she looked up at the two's shocked expressions a bit worried. Why did they look like that...?
"Are ye a miko? Nay, I would see the power. Then how does ye know the jewel is dormint?" Kaede peered closer as Katie backed up a bit from her gaze, then yelped when she found InuYasha right behind her, curious too about this new discovery. "Whad'da'ya mean the 'jewels asleep'?! It's right there!" he growled, then reliezed where his eyes were focused, the Jewel was laying right in the middle of the freak's chest, looking up he cringed at the expression on her face then lept out the door as the syllables started to come together. He made it just outside before...
"SIT!!!!!"
WHAM!
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"Hmmmm so she does have half of the Jewel." Anzai murmered from his treetop perch as the surounding greenry whispered softly, disembodied voices speakly in the softest tones flitting through the tree's, while on the ground a pile of boulders rumbled deeply in acknowladgement. Fuijimi glanced up from among the tree roots from her game with Cloyi, then started to scramble up the side, the tree itself moving it's branchs so her own small limbs could make it. Smiling, she pounced on the Element from behind, wrapping him in a hug. "Anzai sad because pretty lady has Jewel?" she asked innocently, looking up into bright green eyes with her own chocolate brown. "Nope. In a way I'm happy Fuijimi. If my hunches are right, Atsumiaka is that girl!" he grinned slightly, though the little girl was confused.
"Who Atsu...miaka? She nice lady too?"
"She was my 'sibling' like Eheiya. She was the strongest Element, and among the first of us to be born. Kurichio was first born, Darkness and Chaos, while Atsumiaka was Life and Balance. She was the leader of the Elements. You would have liked her Fuijimi, she liked to play games and have fun."
"Wha' happened to nice lady?"
"She... died. A creature named Naraku killed her."
"But Fuijimi died and you brought me back! Couldn't you bring nice lady back?"
"No little bird. She couldn't be brought back."
"So now new strange lady is nice lady Atsumiaka?"
"Perhaps. Many of us hope so, though I'm worried about her. But InuYasha is there, and Shesshomaru is coming, the memories might return with the sight of her two charges. But Shesshomaru may not be willing to remember, and the hanyou was only small child, younger then you when Atsu left them."
"Fuijimi though Shesshomaru was bad....?"
"Cold, merciless, calculating, yes. Evil, not yet..... he is just being a typical inu-youkai"
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Enough moping, on with the story!
Chapter 11: Shesshomaru's whaaaaaattttt?!
"Shesshomaru.. come back here you naughty boy!"
Crouching down in the bushes, a young white haired child giggled softly, clutching his prize firmly to his chest, though his apperance belied him not being human. A small crescent moon in the middle of his forehead, two stripes on each each, and delicatly pointed ears all showed he was youkai, a full blooded demon. A woman's kimono brushed the grass near his hiding spot, as the lilting voice mused softly to the air in a mock whisper. "Oh now where could he be, after stealing my favorite fan? Could the young lord be.... HERE?" Letting out a surprised yelp as a flame colored kimono enveloped him and lifted him into the air, Shesshomaru laughed. Yes, he actually laughed as the woman laughed with him. "Oh your father is going to be proud! I barely found you!" she laughed as her charge yawned, still clutching the fan in his small fists. "I'm going to be just like father Atsu..."
"I'm sure you will..."
"LORD SHESSHOMARU! LORD SHESSHOMARU!!"
The small toad-like demon soon found his head being dunked under the rivers surface by a graceful hand, while the youkai continued to watch the surrounding land, trying to grasp a sense of where his damnable sire had hidden it.
"Ma..Ma..MASTER! GWAULP!" the toad yelped as more water flowed into his mouth. "It would be best if you did not interrupt my thoughts, Jaken." Shesshomaru said silkly, his expression never changing as he lifted his grasp, allowing Jaken to scramble back into the boat, dripping and pulling a fish or two out of his sleeves. "The grave we seek, of Lord Inutashio, would not... InuYasha know of it, Lord Shesshomaru?" Jaken sputtered, wringing out his hanna.
"Inu..Yasha..." Shesshomaru seemed to react for a moment, then slammed the toad back into the water, holding him down once more with the Staff of Heads. His expression barely changed, though a faint narrowing of the eyes appeared as he spoke once more softly.
"Do not remind me of that vile half-breed.."
"Pl...please forgive me, sire!"
"It doesn't matter. In any case he is gone, laid low by a geis I hear.." he mused, studying the rivers currents as the toads head surfaced. "Y..yes that was true! But not any longer!"
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"So basically this hunk of junk I bought for a buck is something called the Shikon No Tama..?" Katie glanced at her lucky charm with a wary eye, holding it up to the light. Hadn't Kagome's grandfather always gone on about some Jewel or something? Holding the half up to the light, she studied it, actually curious about all the happenings of late. Nothing special about it to her, just some pinkish pearl that was split down the middle on an chain she found in her 'mothers' jewelry box, though it did give off a strange... pulse? A whispered voice?
"Aye, but now the Shikon Jewel has returned to this world the evil beings who desire its power will soon be flocking here. Though how ye came to possess but half the Jewel is a true mystery.." Kaede nodded as she checked on the girls bandages. She was healing quite well considering what the last few days had brought onto her.
"So you mean, like more demons or something?" she winced a bit, not really wanting the answer to her question. She did not want to deal with more jerk- offs like dog-boy over there pouting, or having claws rip through her! Why didn't she stay in nice safe L.A. where you only had the gangs to worry about?
"Not only, but also men who are sometimes worse." Kaede spoke softly, turning from Katie as she started to cook some food, but she kept talking. "In this era of war and chaos, the powers of the Jewel can make any ambition a reality..."
That sent a major chill up Katie's spine, but she cast a questioning eye on the strange boy. Pretty hair.... SNAP OUT OF IT! *slaps inner voices*
"So why would you want the Jewel, you seem powerful enough as it is!"
"He's only half-demon." Kaede stated from the fire, while InuYasha twitched, slamming his fist through the wooden floor of the house, glaring at the priestess.
"Old hag.. You've been acting awfully familar since we met! Do you think you know me?!" his voice took on a tense and rough growl.
"Then you really... do not know? You don't know Kaede the little sister of the woman who enchanted you..?"
"Kaede...?"
"It's been fifty years.. and some of us grow older."
Scratching his head for a moment, InuYasha shrugged. "So.. if your Kaede, then Kikyo must be even more withered then you! What a bore you mortals are!" he sneered, taking on a higher-then-thou expression, a smug glint in his eyes. Katie took a sip from her tea, then threw a boot at the back of his head, the heel making contact with a loud clonk. Whirling around, he growled loudly "What in the heck was that for you stupid bitch?!" He started to raise his claws but she just smiled slightly. "Sit."
WHAM BAM THANKYOU MAM'AM!
Kaede's floor had a new lovely hanyou shaped hole where he had been standing. Peering over the edge the old woman, sighed slightly. "My elder sister is dead. The same day she put the spell on you."
Clambering out of his hole in the floor, InuYasha smiled coldly, but shooting a glare at Katie who just smiled. Ohhh... she was going to regret that, as soon as he figured out how to get rid of that blasted necklace! "Oh, is that so? The little witch kicked it, eh?" Laying back down to his previous position, he smiled slightly, closing his eyes. "Glad to hear some good news..."
"Yet I would not start celebrating just yet InuYasha.." Kaede glanced over her shoulder while stoking the fire, Katie perking up too, since most of what this woman said usually did turn out how she said so far. "This girl, Ka-ti, survived two demon attacks with her life intact, and from her wounds, I've seen not one scar. One from the insect demon that attacked when she set ye free, and the other from your own claws. Even my sister, even the mightyest of miko's never managed such a feat. Yet she has no demon aura, in the time she has been here, no hint of demonic powers. But yet she has a discerning air about her, as you know InuYasha."
Turning a glance over his shoulder, InuYasha just snorted. Yeah, the girl was wierd, he would admit that, and evil... Yeah, she was pure evil! But he remembered waking up when she screamed, seeing her scrambling around then turning and facing down that low class bug, getting sliced pretty bad, then..... Then somehow she called up flames killing the demon. She didn't seem human then, something much older, stronger. It scared him slightly, yet at the same time he felt the tiniest memory. A flame embrodired kimono, a soft happy voice talking with his mother while he played, being given his first fire-rat robes from the lady. Why couldn't he remember her face? "Yeah.. probebly cause she stinks." he muttered, not letting his thoughts come to surface.
"Or could it be she is not human after all?" Kaede eyed Katie, who raised an eyebrow and glared slightly at the older woman, while InuYasha did the same, though for different reasons. "Look, Kaede. I'm human. End of story, nothing special. I just heal fast!" she smattered, not really angry or upset, but it made her nervous, made her remember the strange dream of that other her, the times she had been sent home from school because a fire started when she was in the girl's locker room while being beat up like usual, the times she would get so angry that she never would remember what she did, just a haze. "Feh. Demons heal fast girl. If your just a stinkin' human, maybe it's cause you have the Jewel?" Hearing the half-demons voice, she picked up the charm, then shook her head.
"No.... it's asleep. There's no way right now." she looked up at the two's shocked expressions a bit worried. Why did they look like that...?
"Are ye a miko? Nay, I would see the power. Then how does ye know the jewel is dormint?" Kaede peered closer as Katie backed up a bit from her gaze, then yelped when she found InuYasha right behind her, curious too about this new discovery. "Whad'da'ya mean the 'jewels asleep'?! It's right there!" he growled, then reliezed where his eyes were focused, the Jewel was laying right in the middle of the freak's chest, looking up he cringed at the expression on her face then lept out the door as the syllables started to come together. He made it just outside before...
"SIT!!!!!"
WHAM!
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"Hmmmm so she does have half of the Jewel." Anzai murmered from his treetop perch as the surounding greenry whispered softly, disembodied voices speakly in the softest tones flitting through the tree's, while on the ground a pile of boulders rumbled deeply in acknowladgement. Fuijimi glanced up from among the tree roots from her game with Cloyi, then started to scramble up the side, the tree itself moving it's branchs so her own small limbs could make it. Smiling, she pounced on the Element from behind, wrapping him in a hug. "Anzai sad because pretty lady has Jewel?" she asked innocently, looking up into bright green eyes with her own chocolate brown. "Nope. In a way I'm happy Fuijimi. If my hunches are right, Atsumiaka is that girl!" he grinned slightly, though the little girl was confused.
"Who Atsu...miaka? She nice lady too?"
"She was my 'sibling' like Eheiya. She was the strongest Element, and among the first of us to be born. Kurichio was first born, Darkness and Chaos, while Atsumiaka was Life and Balance. She was the leader of the Elements. You would have liked her Fuijimi, she liked to play games and have fun."
"Wha' happened to nice lady?"
"She... died. A creature named Naraku killed her."
"But Fuijimi died and you brought me back! Couldn't you bring nice lady back?"
"No little bird. She couldn't be brought back."
"So now new strange lady is nice lady Atsumiaka?"
"Perhaps. Many of us hope so, though I'm worried about her. But InuYasha is there, and Shesshomaru is coming, the memories might return with the sight of her two charges. But Shesshomaru may not be willing to remember, and the hanyou was only small child, younger then you when Atsu left them."
"Fuijimi though Shesshomaru was bad....?"
"Cold, merciless, calculating, yes. Evil, not yet..... he is just being a typical inu-youkai"
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