Chapter 5: Relations
"Ugh, they make me sick!" Neriko was back in her father's castle, glaring at the white ball in front of her. It showed Inuyasha and Kagome holding each other and falling asleep. She looked over at Ruri, she raised her eyebrow. Ruri was staring off into space, breathing heavily.
"What are you planning?" Neriko flinched as her baby dragon dug it's claws into her shoulder. She reached over and gently rubbed it's horned head with the tip of her finger. It cooed and looked up at her with it's red brimmed, yellow eyes.
"Nothing, I'm just thinking about my mother." Ruri looked at her. "Can I ask you a question?"
"You just did." Neriko exclaimed, looking at her expressionlessly.
"No really, can I?"
"If you must..."
"What kind of demon are you?" Neriko blinked, slightly taken back by the question. She had expected a question like, 'what do you have planned for the boyfriend.'
"I'm a bunch of demons, all mixed together... why?"
"You smell like my mother. When I was little, I was told stories about how this demon, Naraku, created my mother. But he had her do all his dirty work, I'm not certain what that was exactly. Though I know that he had her heart and when she disobeyed him, he would squeeze it to remind her that she was bonded to him. Then one day, my uncle's girlfriend was captured by my mom and they made a plot to steal the heart away. They succeeded, but I never found out what happened to Naraku." Neriko was tense, every muscle in her body was twitching. She stared off into space with her red-brimmed, jet black eyes. Ruri looked at her, puzzled.
"Did I say something wrong?" Ruri questioned.
"No, you didn't. Naraku's my father." Neriko relaxed slightly. The dragon on her shoulder leapt off after being woken up from her twitching muscles. It scurried off into the darkness, looking for something to eat. Every few minutes, there would be a small fire ball, and an insect would cry out as it was barbequed. The baby dragon munched happily on it's dinner. The dragon smelt something familiar. It walked outside and it's little eyes widened. It ran to it's visitor and jumped all over them.
"Oh, I didn't know, sorry." Ruri dropped her eyes to the floor and started twiddling her thumbs nervously. Neriko just responded with a small grunt an continued to glare at the white glowing ball in front of her.
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Sesshoumaru looked at Rin out of the corner of his eye as she slept soundly. She stirred a little but remained sleeping. Sesshoumaru got up and walked into the next room where Kagura and Shoji were sitting.
"She ok?" Shoji watched his father. Sesshoumaru glanced up at him with sad eyes and nodded his head slowly.
"Hai, her strength is coming back to her, but it will be a few more days until she's well enough to walk around by herself."
Kagura got up and walked over to her husband. She wrapped her arms around his shoulders and looked deep into his eyes. Her eyes burned with love, sadness and some pity.
"Don't look at me like that. I don't need your pity Kagura." Sesshoumaru looked away from her and sighed.
"I'm sorry for what happened to Rin."
"I know.." He trailed off. He broke away from her hold and walked slowly over into a corner and sat with his back to his family. Kagura took the hint and took their son by the hand and led him outside.
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Inuyasha's eyes fluttered open. He looked around sleepily, he felt the warm lump against his chest move slightly. He looked down and smiled at Kagome. He pulled a few strands of hair that had fallen over her eyes away.
"Ahem!" Inuyasha looked up at the kitsune. He growled when he saw a woman beside him.
"Inuyasha, it's ok. You remember Souten right?" Souten bowed respectfully. Inuyasha gaped. 'This is Souten!? How can it be?' he thought as he looked her up and down.
"Uh.. Hi Souten, long time no see, eh?" She smiled and nodded. She blushed again as she leaned over and whispered something in Shippo's ear. Shippo shook his head and laughed.
"Of course not! Inuyasha doesn't mind us being here!" He glanced at the hanyou, who had let out a low growl. He stopped when he felt the warm lump on his chest start to stir more.
Kagome groaned as she pressed against Inuyasha's chest. She could feel him growling softly. 'What's wrong!? Why is he growling?' Her eyes snapped open and she groaned louder. She reached up with one had to cover her eyes from the sun. As soon as her eyes had adjusted she noticed a pretty young girl with jet black hair that was put up into pigtails. She realized this girl was a demon when she looked at her eyes. They were bright red, and were shining in the sunlight. She noticed Shippo standing beside the girl, she smiled at him and yawned. She began to stretch, her arms moving towards the sky. She suddenly felt Inuyasha's cheek against the back of her hand. He let out a small growl and moved his face away from her hand. He reached up with one hand and rubbed his previously smacked cheek.
"Gomen Inuyasha." Kagome said, bringing her arms back down and moved away from Inuyasha's chest. She sat across from him, looking at her surroundings. She smiled as a butterfly flew between her face and Inuyasha's. She looked at him and saw his expression was slightly dark.
"Nice one. Instead of sitting me, your going to smack me around huh?" Inuyasha growled playfully. Kagome smirked and mouthed the words "shut up". Inuyasha grinned back and kissed her cheek before standing up.
"Shall we go back to the village now? Rin is still hurt you know? When I left she was still asleep." Sango exclaimed as she, Miroku and their son Yama came over the hill. Yama's eyes grew wide as he noticed Souten.
"My, my, aren't we beautiful?" He smiled as he took her hand in his. Sango looked at Miroku, her expression turning dark, and a sweat drop forming on her forehead. Miroku just chuckled and looked away.
"I have a small favor to ask of you, fair lady." Souten raised an eyebrow.
"What would that be, houshi-sama?"
"Will you bear my child?" Souten nearly fell over. She looked darkly at the young human, who was grinning ear to ear. Yama let go of Souten's hand when Shippo stepped beside her, growling.
"Ah, I didn't know you were already spoken for. Gomen." He smiled weakly and ran to hide behind his father. Shippo and Souten were a matching shade of red as they glanced at each other out of the corner of their eyes. Inuyasha sighed as he took Kagome's hand.
"Right, let us be off?" He started walking away, the others slowly followed. Shippo and Souten behind Inuyasha and Kagome, and Miroku, Yama and Sango took the rear as they all headed off towards the village.
As they were walking, a dark cloud flowed over them. A bit of lightning, shaped like an arrow flew out from underneath the cloud and headed straight for Kagome's heart. Inuyasha's eyes grew wide. He jumped up and soared right into the arrows path, making it hit him instead of Kagome. He clutched his chest where the arrow hit as his body slammed roughly to the ground. Dust went flying from the dirt path they were on. Inuyasha had his eyes closed tight, a pained expression on his face. He opened his eyes slowly, he blinked. Inuyasha then removed his clawed hands from his chest and looked at where the arrow had stricken him. He patted the spot, then looked up at Kagome with a confused expression.
Souten growled softly, then leapt up into the air. She soared over the clouds to the small dark one. It gasped and tried to run away but she smashed her fist down on it's 'head'. It groaned and made another attempt to flee, but Souten was just a split second faster. She punched it two more times on it's 'head' and there was a giant 'POOF!' as a orange dragon popped out from where the cloud once was. A orangey-red dragon followed the bigger one. It's head had little horns on it, its eyes were yellow, brimmed with red. It cooed at it's big brother.
"Souten! I'm sorry, I was just picking up my baby sister from this woman's castle. I didn't mean to shoot the arrow!!" The older dragon looked at Souten with pleading eyes.
"Koryu! Where have you been? I told you to go pick up your little sister three days ago!"
"I know. But her master's castle was hard to find. It was dark and gloomy, I thought I went to the wrong one." That instant Koryu was pounced on by Inuyasha.
"Aiiiiiii! Souten!! Get it offa me!" The little dragon kicked and yelled. His little sister giggled, which earned her a glare. She quieted down and ran over to Kagome.
"Hi little one, what's your name?" The dragon blinked at her.
"She can't talk yet. Her name is-" Koryu pulled free from Inuyasha and was just about to say his sisters name when, his sister answered Kagome herself.
"Nabichi." She said, a big smile had crept upon her face. Koryu scooped her up in his arms and hugged her tightly.
"Oh Nabichi!! You said your first word!!" He looked up, a sweat drop formed on his head. He looked behind him and bonked Inuyasha on the nose. "Would ya' quit sniffin' me!?"
"You smell like Naraku!" Nabichi's eyes widened as she jumped out of her brother's arms and ran over to Inuyasha.
"Neriko?" Inuyasha looked down at her and shook his head.
"No, Naraku."
"Neriko!" Nabichi insisted. She turned to her brother and started making little growls and click with her forked tongue. Her brother nodded slowly.
"Hmm, Neriko's her master. Also, she said Neriko's been talking about Naraku with this young mixed demon." Nabichi made more growls and clicks with her tongue. "The demon is half dog demon, half wind demon." They were interrupted when a huge smacking sound flowed over the fields. They turned towards the sound. Sango's eyes widened. She looked over at her husband with a vein popping on her clenched fist. Miroku chuckled nervously and ran over to help their son from eating dirt.
///Tiny Flash back\\\ Koryu explained what his little sister was saying. Yama snuck up beside Souten, and smiled at her.
"Hi, what brings you to these parts?" He brightened his smile.
"No reason really. I smelt Shippo an thought I would stop by to say hello." Souten smiled, warily back. She continued to try and listen to what her dragon was saying. She suddenly felt something touch her butt. She looked down and Yama had snuck his hand over and was exploring the curves of her lower body. A vein popped on her forehead and her clenched fist. She punched him hard on the head. This had caught Shippo's attention, he watched silently. Shippo let out a low growl as Yama started to loose his balance, and grabbed onto Souten's chest for support.
*GRR*
Yama's eyes grew wide, he let go of Souten and took of running. Shippo was in close persuit, Souten not too far behind him. Yama began running in a circle, thinking that this would make it harder for them to catch him. Souten, being as smart as she was, stopped and turned around and pounced on Yama as he practically ran right into her. Shippo dove on him as soon as he was down and started plumetting him. Souten brought her hand back and smacked Yama hard, upside the head. Sending him face first into the ground.
///End of Flash Back\\\
"Guy's knock it off! Let's go back to the village before it gets dark! I'm hungry!" Inuyasha grumbled, his stomach grumbling back, just as loudly.
"Heh, always thinking of your stomach. What am I going to do with you dear?" Kagome smirked.
"Shut up wench!" Inuyasha poked her side lightly with his clawed finger and she giggled.
"I'm going to get fed first!" With that Kagome sped off towards the village, leaving Inuyasha to 'eat her dust'.
"Not if I have anything to say about that!" Inuyasha tore down the path, quickly catching up to Kagome. Their laughter could be heard for miles as they tried to out run each other.
*Sigh*
"Shall we follow?" Miroku looked down at his recently beaten son. "I told you be smooth. If you get knocked down, go down. Don't grab anything for support... You'll most-likely grab the wrong thing." He winced as Sango shoved him with her boomerang. She smiled darkly at him and started walking with Shippo and Souten towards the village. Koryu chuckled and scooped his sister into his arms as he followed his master. As he passed Miroku and Yama he whispered, "Serves you right!"
Miroku sighed again and took his son by the hand and slowly followed the group to the village.
"Ugh, they make me sick!" Neriko was back in her father's castle, glaring at the white ball in front of her. It showed Inuyasha and Kagome holding each other and falling asleep. She looked over at Ruri, she raised her eyebrow. Ruri was staring off into space, breathing heavily.
"What are you planning?" Neriko flinched as her baby dragon dug it's claws into her shoulder. She reached over and gently rubbed it's horned head with the tip of her finger. It cooed and looked up at her with it's red brimmed, yellow eyes.
"Nothing, I'm just thinking about my mother." Ruri looked at her. "Can I ask you a question?"
"You just did." Neriko exclaimed, looking at her expressionlessly.
"No really, can I?"
"If you must..."
"What kind of demon are you?" Neriko blinked, slightly taken back by the question. She had expected a question like, 'what do you have planned for the boyfriend.'
"I'm a bunch of demons, all mixed together... why?"
"You smell like my mother. When I was little, I was told stories about how this demon, Naraku, created my mother. But he had her do all his dirty work, I'm not certain what that was exactly. Though I know that he had her heart and when she disobeyed him, he would squeeze it to remind her that she was bonded to him. Then one day, my uncle's girlfriend was captured by my mom and they made a plot to steal the heart away. They succeeded, but I never found out what happened to Naraku." Neriko was tense, every muscle in her body was twitching. She stared off into space with her red-brimmed, jet black eyes. Ruri looked at her, puzzled.
"Did I say something wrong?" Ruri questioned.
"No, you didn't. Naraku's my father." Neriko relaxed slightly. The dragon on her shoulder leapt off after being woken up from her twitching muscles. It scurried off into the darkness, looking for something to eat. Every few minutes, there would be a small fire ball, and an insect would cry out as it was barbequed. The baby dragon munched happily on it's dinner. The dragon smelt something familiar. It walked outside and it's little eyes widened. It ran to it's visitor and jumped all over them.
"Oh, I didn't know, sorry." Ruri dropped her eyes to the floor and started twiddling her thumbs nervously. Neriko just responded with a small grunt an continued to glare at the white glowing ball in front of her.
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Sesshoumaru looked at Rin out of the corner of his eye as she slept soundly. She stirred a little but remained sleeping. Sesshoumaru got up and walked into the next room where Kagura and Shoji were sitting.
"She ok?" Shoji watched his father. Sesshoumaru glanced up at him with sad eyes and nodded his head slowly.
"Hai, her strength is coming back to her, but it will be a few more days until she's well enough to walk around by herself."
Kagura got up and walked over to her husband. She wrapped her arms around his shoulders and looked deep into his eyes. Her eyes burned with love, sadness and some pity.
"Don't look at me like that. I don't need your pity Kagura." Sesshoumaru looked away from her and sighed.
"I'm sorry for what happened to Rin."
"I know.." He trailed off. He broke away from her hold and walked slowly over into a corner and sat with his back to his family. Kagura took the hint and took their son by the hand and led him outside.
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Inuyasha's eyes fluttered open. He looked around sleepily, he felt the warm lump against his chest move slightly. He looked down and smiled at Kagome. He pulled a few strands of hair that had fallen over her eyes away.
"Ahem!" Inuyasha looked up at the kitsune. He growled when he saw a woman beside him.
"Inuyasha, it's ok. You remember Souten right?" Souten bowed respectfully. Inuyasha gaped. 'This is Souten!? How can it be?' he thought as he looked her up and down.
"Uh.. Hi Souten, long time no see, eh?" She smiled and nodded. She blushed again as she leaned over and whispered something in Shippo's ear. Shippo shook his head and laughed.
"Of course not! Inuyasha doesn't mind us being here!" He glanced at the hanyou, who had let out a low growl. He stopped when he felt the warm lump on his chest start to stir more.
Kagome groaned as she pressed against Inuyasha's chest. She could feel him growling softly. 'What's wrong!? Why is he growling?' Her eyes snapped open and she groaned louder. She reached up with one had to cover her eyes from the sun. As soon as her eyes had adjusted she noticed a pretty young girl with jet black hair that was put up into pigtails. She realized this girl was a demon when she looked at her eyes. They were bright red, and were shining in the sunlight. She noticed Shippo standing beside the girl, she smiled at him and yawned. She began to stretch, her arms moving towards the sky. She suddenly felt Inuyasha's cheek against the back of her hand. He let out a small growl and moved his face away from her hand. He reached up with one hand and rubbed his previously smacked cheek.
"Gomen Inuyasha." Kagome said, bringing her arms back down and moved away from Inuyasha's chest. She sat across from him, looking at her surroundings. She smiled as a butterfly flew between her face and Inuyasha's. She looked at him and saw his expression was slightly dark.
"Nice one. Instead of sitting me, your going to smack me around huh?" Inuyasha growled playfully. Kagome smirked and mouthed the words "shut up". Inuyasha grinned back and kissed her cheek before standing up.
"Shall we go back to the village now? Rin is still hurt you know? When I left she was still asleep." Sango exclaimed as she, Miroku and their son Yama came over the hill. Yama's eyes grew wide as he noticed Souten.
"My, my, aren't we beautiful?" He smiled as he took her hand in his. Sango looked at Miroku, her expression turning dark, and a sweat drop forming on her forehead. Miroku just chuckled and looked away.
"I have a small favor to ask of you, fair lady." Souten raised an eyebrow.
"What would that be, houshi-sama?"
"Will you bear my child?" Souten nearly fell over. She looked darkly at the young human, who was grinning ear to ear. Yama let go of Souten's hand when Shippo stepped beside her, growling.
"Ah, I didn't know you were already spoken for. Gomen." He smiled weakly and ran to hide behind his father. Shippo and Souten were a matching shade of red as they glanced at each other out of the corner of their eyes. Inuyasha sighed as he took Kagome's hand.
"Right, let us be off?" He started walking away, the others slowly followed. Shippo and Souten behind Inuyasha and Kagome, and Miroku, Yama and Sango took the rear as they all headed off towards the village.
As they were walking, a dark cloud flowed over them. A bit of lightning, shaped like an arrow flew out from underneath the cloud and headed straight for Kagome's heart. Inuyasha's eyes grew wide. He jumped up and soared right into the arrows path, making it hit him instead of Kagome. He clutched his chest where the arrow hit as his body slammed roughly to the ground. Dust went flying from the dirt path they were on. Inuyasha had his eyes closed tight, a pained expression on his face. He opened his eyes slowly, he blinked. Inuyasha then removed his clawed hands from his chest and looked at where the arrow had stricken him. He patted the spot, then looked up at Kagome with a confused expression.
Souten growled softly, then leapt up into the air. She soared over the clouds to the small dark one. It gasped and tried to run away but she smashed her fist down on it's 'head'. It groaned and made another attempt to flee, but Souten was just a split second faster. She punched it two more times on it's 'head' and there was a giant 'POOF!' as a orange dragon popped out from where the cloud once was. A orangey-red dragon followed the bigger one. It's head had little horns on it, its eyes were yellow, brimmed with red. It cooed at it's big brother.
"Souten! I'm sorry, I was just picking up my baby sister from this woman's castle. I didn't mean to shoot the arrow!!" The older dragon looked at Souten with pleading eyes.
"Koryu! Where have you been? I told you to go pick up your little sister three days ago!"
"I know. But her master's castle was hard to find. It was dark and gloomy, I thought I went to the wrong one." That instant Koryu was pounced on by Inuyasha.
"Aiiiiiii! Souten!! Get it offa me!" The little dragon kicked and yelled. His little sister giggled, which earned her a glare. She quieted down and ran over to Kagome.
"Hi little one, what's your name?" The dragon blinked at her.
"She can't talk yet. Her name is-" Koryu pulled free from Inuyasha and was just about to say his sisters name when, his sister answered Kagome herself.
"Nabichi." She said, a big smile had crept upon her face. Koryu scooped her up in his arms and hugged her tightly.
"Oh Nabichi!! You said your first word!!" He looked up, a sweat drop formed on his head. He looked behind him and bonked Inuyasha on the nose. "Would ya' quit sniffin' me!?"
"You smell like Naraku!" Nabichi's eyes widened as she jumped out of her brother's arms and ran over to Inuyasha.
"Neriko?" Inuyasha looked down at her and shook his head.
"No, Naraku."
"Neriko!" Nabichi insisted. She turned to her brother and started making little growls and click with her forked tongue. Her brother nodded slowly.
"Hmm, Neriko's her master. Also, she said Neriko's been talking about Naraku with this young mixed demon." Nabichi made more growls and clicks with her tongue. "The demon is half dog demon, half wind demon." They were interrupted when a huge smacking sound flowed over the fields. They turned towards the sound. Sango's eyes widened. She looked over at her husband with a vein popping on her clenched fist. Miroku chuckled nervously and ran over to help their son from eating dirt.
///Tiny Flash back\\\ Koryu explained what his little sister was saying. Yama snuck up beside Souten, and smiled at her.
"Hi, what brings you to these parts?" He brightened his smile.
"No reason really. I smelt Shippo an thought I would stop by to say hello." Souten smiled, warily back. She continued to try and listen to what her dragon was saying. She suddenly felt something touch her butt. She looked down and Yama had snuck his hand over and was exploring the curves of her lower body. A vein popped on her forehead and her clenched fist. She punched him hard on the head. This had caught Shippo's attention, he watched silently. Shippo let out a low growl as Yama started to loose his balance, and grabbed onto Souten's chest for support.
*GRR*
Yama's eyes grew wide, he let go of Souten and took of running. Shippo was in close persuit, Souten not too far behind him. Yama began running in a circle, thinking that this would make it harder for them to catch him. Souten, being as smart as she was, stopped and turned around and pounced on Yama as he practically ran right into her. Shippo dove on him as soon as he was down and started plumetting him. Souten brought her hand back and smacked Yama hard, upside the head. Sending him face first into the ground.
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"Guy's knock it off! Let's go back to the village before it gets dark! I'm hungry!" Inuyasha grumbled, his stomach grumbling back, just as loudly.
"Heh, always thinking of your stomach. What am I going to do with you dear?" Kagome smirked.
"Shut up wench!" Inuyasha poked her side lightly with his clawed finger and she giggled.
"I'm going to get fed first!" With that Kagome sped off towards the village, leaving Inuyasha to 'eat her dust'.
"Not if I have anything to say about that!" Inuyasha tore down the path, quickly catching up to Kagome. Their laughter could be heard for miles as they tried to out run each other.
*Sigh*
"Shall we follow?" Miroku looked down at his recently beaten son. "I told you be smooth. If you get knocked down, go down. Don't grab anything for support... You'll most-likely grab the wrong thing." He winced as Sango shoved him with her boomerang. She smiled darkly at him and started walking with Shippo and Souten towards the village. Koryu chuckled and scooped his sister into his arms as he followed his master. As he passed Miroku and Yama he whispered, "Serves you right!"
Miroku sighed again and took his son by the hand and slowly followed the group to the village.
