by Rhapsody Moonschild and Tat Claire Kokoro
|~*Inu-yasha belongs to someone who's not us. Love Hina is also not ours.*~|
CHAPTER SEVEN (by Rhapsody)
"Why do you care why I quit?" Inuyasha scowled at his brother. Sesshomaru
shrugged.
"Just curious…"
He started to fade back into the trees but Inuyasha's hand on his arm held him back.
The half-demon's golden eyes had a desperate look in them.
"I'll tell you! I have to tell someone before I go crazy…"
Inwardly Sesshomaru sighed, but he agreed and soon they were arranged comfortably.
Inuyasha was lying on his back on a couch-shaped stone and Sesshomaru had settled
himself on a hollowed-out tree that resembled a high-backed chair. He pushed a pair
of spectacles up on his nose and wrapped his good hand around a pen.
"Let us stadt at de beginning," he said with a horrible imitation German accent.
"Well, not too long after I was whelped, I ran into some trouble with my family life.
My mother was human, my father demon, and my brother quite evil--"
"Notd that far back, yis?"
Inuyasha sighed and recollected his thoughts. "There was a Godzilla demon attacking
the village…"
*
Keitaro's feet were starting to tire. Didn't these people do anything but walk?
Oh yeah, they fought demons…
He trooped on determinedly. No demons for him, thank you…
"No demons," he muttered to himself.
"Hmm? Well, that's too bad," a cool voice replied, and a figure wearing a baboon skin
dropped from the trees before them.
"You stole Sesshomaru's entrance," Kagome told him, not seeming very concerned.
She drew an arrow and fit it to her bow.
"Darn it," the baboon creature replied, seeming upset. "Did I really? I do like to be
original, you know…"
"Yeah, your constant little golem trick is real original," Sango said skeptically,
and pulled her boomerang from her back.
"You're so intelligent…" Miroku said to her appreciatively. "Would you--"
"Not now, Miroku!" she said, and whacked him over the head with her boomerang. He
collapsed to the ground with swirly eyes.
"What do you want, Naraku???" Shippo asked daringly from his hiding place behind
Kagome.
"The jewel shards, of course," the baboon guy replied.
"Well… you c-can't have them!" Keitaro stuttered bravely, and tried to draw his stick
with an impressive motion that made him fall on his face. Naraku laughed humorlessly.
"Ha. Ha. Ha. Well, I'll just be taking these and going…" he said casually and reached
for Kagome's neck. She backed away with a frightened look.
"Inuyasha!" she screamed desperately. Nothing happened for a long moment. Then
Naraku smiled.
"He won't protect you any longer…"
"But I will!" Miroku insisted, recovering from his knock on the head. There was a large
band-aid covering his bump. He fumbled with his prayer beads and revealed…
Keitaro blinked. Did that guy really have a hole in his hand?!?
But before he could find out a buzzing filled the air and large bugs came out of nowhere.
Naraku laughed demonically.
Everything broke into chaos.
*
"And they were just sitting there, doing nothing--"
Inuyasha stopped abruptly. His ears pricked.
"Yis, go ond…" Sesshomaru said, but Inuyasha got up with a quick movement.
"Kagome's in trouble!" he said and took off. Sesshomaru calmly removed his dork
glasses, tucked his notes away somewhere, and wandered off, whistling calmly.
"Master!"
There was no way…
*
Was that… a flash of red? And… silver hair? Nah. Couldn't be…
When all of the chaos died down, there was no sign of Naraku, but Kagome still had
her jewel shards, and Inuyasha was still gone. What had happened?
Miroku decided that Keitaro had more power than he seemed to and after a minute the
group crowded around him, congratulating him.
*
From his perch not very far away Inuyasha growled angrily.
"How dare he get my credit?!"
Angrily he sliced at the tree, careful not to hit his own branch. But as he raised the
blade over his head he chopped through the one above him. It fell on his head.
BOOM! CRASH!!!
/Note to self… Do not draw sword near any tree ever…/
