Chapter 15-The Peach Man (Part 2)
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"We've been walking for AAAAAAGGGGGGEEEEES. Can't we stop?" Miroku moaned as they climbed up the mountain.
"No." Sango said sternly. "We're not stopping until we reach the top!"
"Damn."
"Wait." Kagome said, stopping. "Did you hear that?"
"What?" Inuyasha asked, his hands resting on the back of his head.
"There it is again! It's a voice!" Kagome shouted and started running away.
"KAGOME! COME BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK!" Shippou yelled as Kagome's figure became smaller and smaller.
Kagome stopped when she came to a huge tree near a lake. Inuyasha came up behind her and shrugged.
"A tree, Kagome." He said sarcastically.
(Help us...)
"YAAAAA!" Inuyasha screamed, jumping back "What the hell was THAT?"
"I told you I could hear voices!" Kagome said a-matter-of-factly.
"And I assumed you were talking about the ones in your head."
"SIT!"
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When Sango, Miroku and Shippou had caught up with Kagome, they found Inuyasha writhing on the floor in pain.
"He fell over." Kagome said, smiling.
They walked up to the big tree and found that instead of fruits, the tree had...
"Heads?!" Sango said in surprise.
"We must listen to their tales." Miroku said wisely and he sat down in front of the tree.
"Tell us please, who are you? What happened?"
The head of an old man spoke. (We were devoured by the man of the mountain.)
"A cannibal?" Kagome thought aloud.
(We all tired of this life of poverty and destruction so we left our homes because we had heard that this mountain was a paradise, tended by an old master.)
Another head spoke up, a girl who looked no older than Kagome. (We were only food. For the hermit called 'The Peach Man'.)
"Pshhhhh, what a bunch of fools. Taken in by a story like that!" Inuyasha said, his arms folded.
"I...Inuyasha! Don't you think they've suffered enough?" Kagome turned to the head of the old man and bowed. "I'm sorry, he has the physique of Superman with the intelligence of a baby."
"Hey!"
(It's all right.) The man replied.
"So..." Sango murmured. "Is there any way we can help you?"
(For us, it is too late. But there must be others who haven't been devoured yet. Please save them if you can.)
Suddenly, a noise was heard above the group, as they looked up, some bones fells down and landed with a crash on the ground near the tree.
"AAAAAAAAAH! HUMAN BONES! FRESH HUMAN BONES!" Shippou screamed, he jumped back and began to run around in circles, screaming until Kagome picked him up and stroked him gently.
"Hey, looked at that branch!" Sango said, pointing to the space next to the old man head. A head was sprouting out from the wood.
(It's the head of the former owner of those bones.) Said the girl's head. (A head of enchanted fruit, the heart of the Peach Man's elixir or youth and longevity...)
Inuyasha snorted loudly and rudely. "Whatever name you call him," Inuyasha jumped up to the ledge above him. "He sounds like a demon to me!" And he jumped up to the next ledge.
"Hey! Inuyasha! Wait up!" Kagome yelled. "We should all go together!"
Inuyasha turned back, a scowl on his face. "By the time I lug each one of you up one by one, the sun will have set!" And with that, he jumped up the mountain.
"What's the sunset got to do with anything?" Shippou whispered in Kagome's ear.
"Tonight's the turning of the cycle." Sango said, picking up her Boomerang Bone. "The new moon."
'That means,' Kagome thought. 'This is the night Inuyasha's demon powers fade.'
She looked up the cliff. "When he becomes fully human."
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Even though Inuyasha had been human practically 24/7 when he had gone to Kagome's school, he decided that being human was a terrible disadvantage when fighting evil beings and he cursed himself for almost giving up his demonic ness which he had worked SO hard to get in the first place. Again.
When he reached the top, Inuyasha found what looked like an ancient Japanese house, with sliding screens instead of a door. He strutted up to the screen and dramatically opened it up. With the scariest face he could pull he came upon a closet. Blushing furiously and glad that the group wasn't with him. He walked to another screen door and put his ear against it. Hearing voices, he yet again pulled a scary face and forced to screen door open.
The Peach Man was sitting on the floor, a pile of bones in the corner and a peach in his hand. He looked up when Inuyasha made his flashy entrance.
"Well, aren't you a tough looking fellow?" He said, somewhat spookily.
Inuyasha held his claws in front of his face and tensed them.
"Are you The Peach Man? I've come to kill you."
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The whole mountain was silent expect for the wind, rustling through the trees and throughout The Peach Man's house.
Inuyasha gave The Peach Man a look of disgust. "Pretty well fed I see." He drew his Tetsusaiga and aimed it at The Peach Man. "It pays to pose as an ancient master and devour your students!" He rushed towards fat hermit and swung his blade. "PREPARE TO DIE PEACH MAN!"
As Inuyasha thrust the sword into The Peach Man's stomach, he suddenly felt the sword swing back.
'What....' He thought. 'His flesh...repelled the Tetsusaiga?!'
The Peach Man grabbed a wooden staff with leaves entwined around the top and held it up.
"I don't know who you are demon!" He said quite calmly but with some malice in his voice. "But you shall see that I do not POSE as an ancient master!" Waving his staff, flowers popped up around Inuyasha.
"Flowers!" Inuyasha scoffed. "Cheap diversions for a 'master' don't you think?"
The Peach Man's eye widened a little and he smiled. "Look very carefully at those flowers."
Looking again, Inuyasha saw that the flowers had suddenly grown very large and were now bigger than him.
"So what?!" Inuyasha yelled. A big fat hand reached out and grabbed him. The Peach Man was now a Peach giant! Inuyasha struggled in the huge podgy hand as it brought him closer to The Peach Man's mouth.
"FOOL!" He cackled. "You've shrunk!" Then he popped Inuyasha into his mouth and swallowed.
"Curse iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit!" Inuyasha yelled as he tumbled into The Peach Man's large belly.
Sitting back down, The Peach Man licked his fingers.
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"Huff, huff, huff, phew!" Shippou had turned into a round, floaty thing and was carrying Kagome, Miroku and Sango up the mountain.
"Hang in there Shippou!" Kagome said encouragingly. "We're almost there!"
"You're quite strong, for someone your size." Miroku said.
Kagome looked up at the house, slowly getting closer and closer.
"Sorry." Shippou said.
"Hmm?" Suddenly, Shippou started to fall.
"Get off! Get off!" Miroku yelled, grabbing hold of Sango and Kagome and leaping onto the edge of the cliff.
"Owww..." Kagome moaned, holding her head.
SLAP
"Miroku! I said not to touch me there!" Sango screamed.
"I was checking for wounds!" Miroku protested.
"Well you shouldn't!"
"Hey guys." Shippou asked nervously. "Where are we?"
Looking in front of her, Kagome saw that they had landed on a set of stairs. At the bottom of the stairs was a room. It had some pots in one corner and right in the middle was what looked like a miniature garden.
"I guess this is The Peach Man's lair." Miroku said, looking around.
"But, what's this miniature garden?" Sango asked, stepping up to it.
"Look! Look! There's people in there!" Shippou said excitedly, pointing at a tiny human man, plodding around aimlessly.
"There's a lot of them in the shade of the trees." Sango said suspiciously.
Miroku straightened up. "These must be the victims of The Peach Man!"
Kagome suddenly felt herself going into the garden.
"The garden! It's growing!" Shippou cried out.
"No! Don't look at it!" Miroku gasped.
"We're, we're..." Sango started. "Inside the garden." Kagome finished.
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"T.....that BASTARD! When I get outta here I'm gonna slaughter him!" Inuyasha growled, climbing up The Peach Man's huge stomach. Then he heard a sort of roar and, looking up, saw a great big rush of water coming straight at him. Slipping, Inuyasha fell straight back to the bottom.
"Damn it! Ugh, this stinks of medicine!" He said to himself. He looked to his left and saw a bone, covered with acid, beginning to melt down.
"Looks like I don't have a lot of time." Inuyasha said, frowning. He held up his claws and smiled evilly. "Maybe I'll rip him up from the inside!"
He leapt at the wall of the stomach; his hand sunk in and bounced back out again. Inuyasha fell into the acid.
"Arghh, his body is as rubbery on the inside as it is on the outside!"
Inuyasha suddenly felt strange. His eye widened as he looked down at his hands.
"M.....my claws!" He said. His claws were receding into normal human nails. His hair was slowly turning into black. Gasping, he took a step back.
'And when I've turned completely into a human, I'll dissolve!'
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HAHAHAHAHAHA end of chapter! Now you'll never know! AHAHAHAHAHAHA. Unless you read the comics. -Gets on knees- PLEASE DON'T READ THE COMICS! Ok, Ok, so Haku is pretty cool with long hair. I just have FRINGE issues! Have you noticed that in nearly EVERY manga, everyone has a fringe? Go on. Look! Aaaaaanyway. Does anyone have a picture of Irino Miyu? I swear this guy has no face! I can't find a picture of him anywhere! So if you're hiding a picture of him, let me have a look pleeeeeeeeaaaaaaaassssse! Once again that's Irino Miyu, voices include Haku-Spirited Away, Daisuke-DN Angel, Sora-Kingdom Hearts and he did a voice over in Ally Macbeal. Please. I'm desperate!
Ja ne!
Sakura Clover
P.S. who wants me to make a website with all my terrible drawings! Put that hand down mister!
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"We've been walking for AAAAAAGGGGGGEEEEES. Can't we stop?" Miroku moaned as they climbed up the mountain.
"No." Sango said sternly. "We're not stopping until we reach the top!"
"Damn."
"Wait." Kagome said, stopping. "Did you hear that?"
"What?" Inuyasha asked, his hands resting on the back of his head.
"There it is again! It's a voice!" Kagome shouted and started running away.
"KAGOME! COME BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK!" Shippou yelled as Kagome's figure became smaller and smaller.
Kagome stopped when she came to a huge tree near a lake. Inuyasha came up behind her and shrugged.
"A tree, Kagome." He said sarcastically.
(Help us...)
"YAAAAA!" Inuyasha screamed, jumping back "What the hell was THAT?"
"I told you I could hear voices!" Kagome said a-matter-of-factly.
"And I assumed you were talking about the ones in your head."
"SIT!"
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When Sango, Miroku and Shippou had caught up with Kagome, they found Inuyasha writhing on the floor in pain.
"He fell over." Kagome said, smiling.
They walked up to the big tree and found that instead of fruits, the tree had...
"Heads?!" Sango said in surprise.
"We must listen to their tales." Miroku said wisely and he sat down in front of the tree.
"Tell us please, who are you? What happened?"
The head of an old man spoke. (We were devoured by the man of the mountain.)
"A cannibal?" Kagome thought aloud.
(We all tired of this life of poverty and destruction so we left our homes because we had heard that this mountain was a paradise, tended by an old master.)
Another head spoke up, a girl who looked no older than Kagome. (We were only food. For the hermit called 'The Peach Man'.)
"Pshhhhh, what a bunch of fools. Taken in by a story like that!" Inuyasha said, his arms folded.
"I...Inuyasha! Don't you think they've suffered enough?" Kagome turned to the head of the old man and bowed. "I'm sorry, he has the physique of Superman with the intelligence of a baby."
"Hey!"
(It's all right.) The man replied.
"So..." Sango murmured. "Is there any way we can help you?"
(For us, it is too late. But there must be others who haven't been devoured yet. Please save them if you can.)
Suddenly, a noise was heard above the group, as they looked up, some bones fells down and landed with a crash on the ground near the tree.
"AAAAAAAAAH! HUMAN BONES! FRESH HUMAN BONES!" Shippou screamed, he jumped back and began to run around in circles, screaming until Kagome picked him up and stroked him gently.
"Hey, looked at that branch!" Sango said, pointing to the space next to the old man head. A head was sprouting out from the wood.
(It's the head of the former owner of those bones.) Said the girl's head. (A head of enchanted fruit, the heart of the Peach Man's elixir or youth and longevity...)
Inuyasha snorted loudly and rudely. "Whatever name you call him," Inuyasha jumped up to the ledge above him. "He sounds like a demon to me!" And he jumped up to the next ledge.
"Hey! Inuyasha! Wait up!" Kagome yelled. "We should all go together!"
Inuyasha turned back, a scowl on his face. "By the time I lug each one of you up one by one, the sun will have set!" And with that, he jumped up the mountain.
"What's the sunset got to do with anything?" Shippou whispered in Kagome's ear.
"Tonight's the turning of the cycle." Sango said, picking up her Boomerang Bone. "The new moon."
'That means,' Kagome thought. 'This is the night Inuyasha's demon powers fade.'
She looked up the cliff. "When he becomes fully human."
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Even though Inuyasha had been human practically 24/7 when he had gone to Kagome's school, he decided that being human was a terrible disadvantage when fighting evil beings and he cursed himself for almost giving up his demonic ness which he had worked SO hard to get in the first place. Again.
When he reached the top, Inuyasha found what looked like an ancient Japanese house, with sliding screens instead of a door. He strutted up to the screen and dramatically opened it up. With the scariest face he could pull he came upon a closet. Blushing furiously and glad that the group wasn't with him. He walked to another screen door and put his ear against it. Hearing voices, he yet again pulled a scary face and forced to screen door open.
The Peach Man was sitting on the floor, a pile of bones in the corner and a peach in his hand. He looked up when Inuyasha made his flashy entrance.
"Well, aren't you a tough looking fellow?" He said, somewhat spookily.
Inuyasha held his claws in front of his face and tensed them.
"Are you The Peach Man? I've come to kill you."
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The whole mountain was silent expect for the wind, rustling through the trees and throughout The Peach Man's house.
Inuyasha gave The Peach Man a look of disgust. "Pretty well fed I see." He drew his Tetsusaiga and aimed it at The Peach Man. "It pays to pose as an ancient master and devour your students!" He rushed towards fat hermit and swung his blade. "PREPARE TO DIE PEACH MAN!"
As Inuyasha thrust the sword into The Peach Man's stomach, he suddenly felt the sword swing back.
'What....' He thought. 'His flesh...repelled the Tetsusaiga?!'
The Peach Man grabbed a wooden staff with leaves entwined around the top and held it up.
"I don't know who you are demon!" He said quite calmly but with some malice in his voice. "But you shall see that I do not POSE as an ancient master!" Waving his staff, flowers popped up around Inuyasha.
"Flowers!" Inuyasha scoffed. "Cheap diversions for a 'master' don't you think?"
The Peach Man's eye widened a little and he smiled. "Look very carefully at those flowers."
Looking again, Inuyasha saw that the flowers had suddenly grown very large and were now bigger than him.
"So what?!" Inuyasha yelled. A big fat hand reached out and grabbed him. The Peach Man was now a Peach giant! Inuyasha struggled in the huge podgy hand as it brought him closer to The Peach Man's mouth.
"FOOL!" He cackled. "You've shrunk!" Then he popped Inuyasha into his mouth and swallowed.
"Curse iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit!" Inuyasha yelled as he tumbled into The Peach Man's large belly.
Sitting back down, The Peach Man licked his fingers.
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"Huff, huff, huff, phew!" Shippou had turned into a round, floaty thing and was carrying Kagome, Miroku and Sango up the mountain.
"Hang in there Shippou!" Kagome said encouragingly. "We're almost there!"
"You're quite strong, for someone your size." Miroku said.
Kagome looked up at the house, slowly getting closer and closer.
"Sorry." Shippou said.
"Hmm?" Suddenly, Shippou started to fall.
"Get off! Get off!" Miroku yelled, grabbing hold of Sango and Kagome and leaping onto the edge of the cliff.
"Owww..." Kagome moaned, holding her head.
SLAP
"Miroku! I said not to touch me there!" Sango screamed.
"I was checking for wounds!" Miroku protested.
"Well you shouldn't!"
"Hey guys." Shippou asked nervously. "Where are we?"
Looking in front of her, Kagome saw that they had landed on a set of stairs. At the bottom of the stairs was a room. It had some pots in one corner and right in the middle was what looked like a miniature garden.
"I guess this is The Peach Man's lair." Miroku said, looking around.
"But, what's this miniature garden?" Sango asked, stepping up to it.
"Look! Look! There's people in there!" Shippou said excitedly, pointing at a tiny human man, plodding around aimlessly.
"There's a lot of them in the shade of the trees." Sango said suspiciously.
Miroku straightened up. "These must be the victims of The Peach Man!"
Kagome suddenly felt herself going into the garden.
"The garden! It's growing!" Shippou cried out.
"No! Don't look at it!" Miroku gasped.
"We're, we're..." Sango started. "Inside the garden." Kagome finished.
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"T.....that BASTARD! When I get outta here I'm gonna slaughter him!" Inuyasha growled, climbing up The Peach Man's huge stomach. Then he heard a sort of roar and, looking up, saw a great big rush of water coming straight at him. Slipping, Inuyasha fell straight back to the bottom.
"Damn it! Ugh, this stinks of medicine!" He said to himself. He looked to his left and saw a bone, covered with acid, beginning to melt down.
"Looks like I don't have a lot of time." Inuyasha said, frowning. He held up his claws and smiled evilly. "Maybe I'll rip him up from the inside!"
He leapt at the wall of the stomach; his hand sunk in and bounced back out again. Inuyasha fell into the acid.
"Arghh, his body is as rubbery on the inside as it is on the outside!"
Inuyasha suddenly felt strange. His eye widened as he looked down at his hands.
"M.....my claws!" He said. His claws were receding into normal human nails. His hair was slowly turning into black. Gasping, he took a step back.
'And when I've turned completely into a human, I'll dissolve!'
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HAHAHAHAHAHA end of chapter! Now you'll never know! AHAHAHAHAHAHA. Unless you read the comics. -Gets on knees- PLEASE DON'T READ THE COMICS! Ok, Ok, so Haku is pretty cool with long hair. I just have FRINGE issues! Have you noticed that in nearly EVERY manga, everyone has a fringe? Go on. Look! Aaaaaanyway. Does anyone have a picture of Irino Miyu? I swear this guy has no face! I can't find a picture of him anywhere! So if you're hiding a picture of him, let me have a look pleeeeeeeeaaaaaaaassssse! Once again that's Irino Miyu, voices include Haku-Spirited Away, Daisuke-DN Angel, Sora-Kingdom Hearts and he did a voice over in Ally Macbeal. Please. I'm desperate!
Ja ne!
Sakura Clover
P.S. who wants me to make a website with all my terrible drawings! Put that hand down mister!
