To Outwit a Fox By: Jineka
Disclaimers: I don't own Inuyasha, big surprise there.
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Chapter 2 The Message
Kikyou stirred. It was night outside and the room was a bit drafty and cold. It was also pitch black; Kikyou strained to see farther then two feet. She shivered and hugged the blanket closer. Youko watched her sitting from the other side of the den, his eyes able to see in the dark. He sat there and didn't move, just stared.
"Are you there…fox?" Kikyou called out uncertainly. She tried to adjust her eyes, but it was just too dark. "Hello?…" She sighed, and tried to fall back to sleep. Her breathing didn't slow; Youko knew that she was still awake.
"I am here, wench." Youko heard Kikyou breath draw in a bit quickly.
"…" Kikyou sat up once again wrapping the blanket around her. "Why are you helping me?" Her eyes darted around the cave. Both voices echoed off the walls and it was impossible to pinpoint the source of the voice. "Hello?…You are here…right?" Her voice was uncertain again. She didn't hear anyone's breath, but her own. Which meant no one was her, but herself unless the fox managed to match his breath with hers. She changed her breathing pattern and then heard the second breath. The fox changed his pattern, too, and his breath ceased to exist once again.
"Pretty clever for a human," Youko said calmly, "though hardly impressive coming from you. You'll need better tricks to outwit a fox. Go back to sleep, wench. The nights in this part of the forest is darker than any other. Even if your wounds allowed you to move the demons of the night forest would kill you, before you could even see them"
"…" Kikyou lied down again. She pulled the fur over herself and turned to the face. Eventually her breath did slow, and when it did Youko stood.
Youko had found some very rare herbs outside one particular village and he was very pleased with himself. He added water to it and it dissolved within seconds. He took the liquid and mixed it with the sleeping draught. It was a different kind of potion. Youko had seen the wounds on the priestess heal faster than all the other humans, but they did still bleed. If she was to lose more blood, she would also lose her life.
The potion Youko concocted was created to help the platelets in the blood clot the blood near the wound faster so that the bleeding would stop. He went over to the woman. Youko didn't want to awaken the woman so he checked to see if any wounds were so bad that he would need to awaken her. He unwrapped the bandages on the arms and legs, and changed them while he was at it. He continued to change the bandages, leaving the ones at her chest last.
It was his favorite part, he couldn't deny, but if the woman was to awaken…
Youko decided to do it fast even though he would've enjoyed it going slow. He quickly took the bandages off and then discovered that there were no more! He couldn't use a dirty one. It might be infectious. What was he supposed to do? He panicked and made a bit of noise, just enough to awaken the woman.
Kikyou looked up and saw that the fox's face was near hers. She had a strange desire to feel his ears. She reached out and touched them, satisfying herself. Kikyou felt cold. It wasn't that cold in the cave before and since when did bandages feel furry?
SLAP
"Ow…should've seen that coming," Youko muttered a red hand on his face. "What an arm."
Kikyou glared at him, "Give me my clothes, NOW!"
Youko handed the new outfit he had stolen toward her hastily. It wasn't a set of priestess robes, but a beautiful kimono stolen from a palace in the west, Sesshoumaru's residence. Youko and Sesshoumaru had been good friends before, and Sesshoumaru let him have whatever he needed as long as Youko wasn't caught that is.
"These aren't mine," Kikyou stated simply.
Youko scoffed, then sighed, handing her the priestess robes. They were torn and tattered, and wouldn't conceal important areas of female modesty. "Ok, never mind." Kikyou took the kimono and put it on. The curves in her body were more defined and Kikyou was extremely self-conscious to some degree.
Youko was about to go out again. "Where do you go to fox?" Kikyou asked.
"Anywhere I want to."
"Take me with you."
"You are joking, right, wench?"
"No." Short, sweet, and to the point.
"I won't." Youko made for the door. Kikyou wasn't going to stay in this cave longer though. She grabbed his arm, and tripped him. Youko braced for the fall onto the hard ground, but it never came. He had landed on Kikyou body, lips, and all. Kikyou's eyes widened in protest, and she tried to pull away, but the fox was enjoying way too much to let go.
The kiss was long and heard a lingering flavor in the fox's mouth after he broke away in favor of the much needed oxygen. He smiled in spite of himself. "Delicious."
Kikyou just sat in stunned silence. He was good. The fox was damn good. Kikyou hadn't felt so aroused since…well never.
^_^
Kikyou awoke once again to find the cave flooded with sunlight. The fox wasn't there, which Kikyou took as a good thing. She sat up and looked around. It wasn't much, just a small cave with an opening tunnel. She yawned and tried to stand up. The wounds on her body were healing fast, but they just wouldn't stop bleeding. If they didn't stop soon, Kikyou would die of blood loss.
Kikyou stood quite easily, but discovered that standing was even worse for her health as it made her bleed even faster. She sat. She curled a piece of hair between her fingers. This was boring, she wished that the fox was back, demon company was better than no company. Well that kinda depended on the demon. No company is defiantly better than a demon that wants your head in his arms and blood in his mouth.
Kikyou wondered when the fox would be back. She wished that he was back.
Speak of the devil, well actually think of the devil. Youko strode through the opening and smiled at Kikyou. "I see that you are up."
"Brilliant observation, fox."
"Got up on the wrong side of the bed today, huh, wench?"
"Kikyou. It's Kikyou."
"Youko, pleasure to meet you." Youko handed Kikyou the potion he had brewed the night before, "Drink. It will help your blood clot."
Kikyou took the bowl and tentatively took a small sip, and finding that it tasted pretty good, drank the rest. "It might have some side-effects," Youko added, "Talking in sleep and such." Kikyou nodded. Youko reached into his robe and took out a piece of paper. Kikyou eyed him questioningly. "Report of the Western Lands. I got it from a toad." Youko read the message quickly, narrowed his eyes, and read it again to make sure that that was what it really said.
"What is it?" Kikyou strained to see the paper.
Youko turned, concealing the paper. "Nothing, forget about it. I'm going out to see Sesshoumaru about this. You stay here and don't move." Youko stood and turned to the move so fast that the small paper fell out of his robe onto the ground, but he didn't even notice it.
Kikyou watched Youko go and after a minute or two, tried to get the paper. It was just beyond her reach; she debated whether or not to chance even more blood loss. She decided to retrieve the paper, after all Youko had given her some medicine. She stood and grabbed the paper without losing as much as a drop of blood. She sighed in relief and opened the paper.
To the Silver Kitsune: Status of the Western Lands as you requested.
The Lands:
The Northern and Southern lands are warring and the Eastern Palace has cut off all forms of communication to outside lands. The Lady of the Northern Lands is currently residing in the Eastern Palace. We can't be sure if the Eastern Lands are with the North or not. The Northern Lands are at the Eastern border of the Western Lands. The Southern Lands are making there way up to the Northern troops.
In our lands:
Human village of the north north west attacking demons non-stop. Civil war unavoidable at this point. Kill all and any humans toward the north north west, north west, and north. The priestesses of all villages are residing in a dwelling south of the village I have described. They and all other priestesses and monks must be taken care of shortly. We can't be fighting in the Western Lands, especially if the North and/or South declares war on us. They will eventually for sure so all rebellious humans, all priestesses, all monks, as well as rebelling demons must be slain immediately.
I know that you feel that some humans are even better and stronger than demons and that you will not kill them without a very good reason. The reason is:
Demon spies in your area have reported that a priestess called Kikyou has slain the silver kitsune clan, information taken from two humans speaking as such. In addition all silver kitsunes have been reported missing in the past few days.
Signed Taiyoukai of the Western Lands. Crest of the Blue Cresant Moon.
Kikyou gasped after reading it. It wasn't right, she didn't kill any foxes recently, for that matter she has never slain a fox. 'Youko! What's he going to do? He won't kill me, will he? I'd be too weak to fight back. Oh no. That can't be good. I have to leave, if he finds me I'll be dead.'
Kikyou stood up and tried moving toward the opening. She still couldn't walk too good. She limped and struggled to get out and when she finally did, Youko had already come back.
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Chapter 2 Pretty Boy
Ring…Ring…Ring
Kagome reached for the phone and clicked it on. "Hello?"
"Hey Kagome, it's Sango. Kouga just called. We're going to meet outside his house tomorrow in the morning, 'k?"
Kagome sighed. She was probably going to see Kouga in the morning for the rest of eternity, well at least this year.
"Oh ok. You know that Suuichi person."
"Yeah, what of it?"
"We meet him tomorrow, 'k?"
"He'll probably be too busy with his fan club, didn't you see it?"
"Hard to miss."
"It includes basically all the girls in the other school. The whole entire school, Kagome. Do you realize that this guy is probably the sexiest, most gorgeous guy on the Earth."
"Right, sure Sango, dream on."
"Miroku is really pissing me off these days, I thinking about seeing someone else."
"I bet Miroku is like seeing at least two other people, no offense."
"None taken and you're probably right about that."
"Well, doesn't matter with me. Miroku head is too big anyway. All the girls in our school, err… old school still want him. You should dump him."
"I should, but I'll decide tomorrow. All depends on his attitude and behavior. Great, now I sound like a mom."
"Whatever is good with me."
"Good. See you tomorrow Kagome."
"Bye."
Click
Kagome got ready for bed. The day had been boring and she did was figure out where all the classes were. Nothing else, no talking, no learning, no fun, what a boring day. Kagome got into bed and slept.
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"I'm late, I'm late," Kagome ran down the stairs of the shrine, "I'm late!" She ran all the way to Kouga's house. Sango and Kouga were already there. "Sorry, my alarm clock was set for 7 at night."
"No problem." Kouga said, "I'll make it on time no matter what." It was true. Kouga was born with a knack at running and doing things fast. He could get to school faster not riding the subway than riding it. "But since I'm such a gentleman and don't want to ditch you guys, we all need to run."
Kagome and Sango nodded and ran after Kouga started. They made it to the outskirts of the city as the girls were trained in areas of physical activities, but the girls were soon out of breath and had to stop. Kouga looked at them impatiently. "We're never going to make it if you two are so slow. I think I'll ditch you guys here."
Kagome didn't want Kouga to go without them, especially because she didn't want Kouga to be on time if she couldn't be. "A kiss for you if you stay with me."
Kouga smiled, "Now you're talking." Kouga went over to kiss Kagome and held her tightly so that she couldn't pull away.
Sango watched them smirking for a while and then, impatient, pulled Kouga away. "Break it up, break it up. Don't want to be later than we already are."
Kouga picked Kagome up onto his back. "Catch you later Sango," Kouga called as he ran with Kagome on his back, "See you at school."
Sango watched them and sighed. "Great." She took out a whistle. It was a small wooden whistle. Sango put it to her mouth and blew. She looked up toward the sky and saw it. A cat running through the air as big as giant SUVA. "Kirara!" Sango called toward the cat. As Kirara drew near, Sango ran for her and jumped upon it. "Take me to my new school, 'k?"
Kirara meowed in response taking off at a tremendous speed.
^_^
Lunchtime (Delicious)
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Kagome looked around the lunch area for Sango, Kouga, Inuyasha, Miroku, heck maybe even for Suuichi. Kagome had already caught a glimpse of the gorgeous red-headed Suuichi since she had every class with him. He was absolutely gorgeous and after seeing him, it wasn't so hard to believe such a fan club was possible. Kagome still wanted to see if Suuichi was nice or a bastard. Hard to tell, if you never talked to the guy.
Kagome held her lunch tray and moved through the crowded area, looking for people that she recognized. "Oi! Sango!" She spotted Sango walking with Miroku with a content smile. Kagome smirked as Sango drew near, "Guess Miroku's been behaving."
Sango looked at her friend and blushed. Kagome laughed, Miroku had the confused look on his face. Guys also look so cute when they're confused.
"Pretty boy at twelve o'clock," Sango whispered. Sure enough Suuichi was walking toward them, surrounded by a mob of girls. One of the girls shoved Sango out of her path, "Excuse me! You don't just go walking around pushing people. Try an 'Sorry' or 'Excuse me' would ya?" Sango was ignored and Sango hated to be ignored. "Hey, pretty boy." Suuichi looked at Sango, with a look of surprise and shock. Guys look cute with that face too, unless it looks angry, then it's scary. "Yeah, you. I think your bitches need to learn some manners." All the girls looked at Sango with extreme hatred and homicidal glares.
Kagome pushed through the girls to where Sango and Suuichi were standing, "Sango! We're in school remember?" Kagome admonished, before apologizing, "Suuichi, right? Sorry 'bout that. Me and Sango need to go now." And with that Kagome dragged a cursing and spitting Sango out of the crowd.
"What are you doing Kagome?! That girl hasn't paid yet."
"We need to work on your people skills. Your dealing with difficult people skills" Kagome said still pulling Sango away from the mob. "Rule one: They're bitches, nothing you can do about it. Rule two: Get them angry and they gang up on you." Kagome sat Sango down at an empty table, "Rule three: Don't yell at the guy. It's not his fault."
"Geez you sound like your mom."
They sat in some silence, before Kagome realized that she had lost her lunch tray, "Just great, now what am I supposed to eat?"
Sango didn't reply, she was staring at something. Kagome followed her gaze, it was Miroku. He was flirting with another girl. Kagome gasped, turning to look at Sango. Sango's face was very scary looking. Very scary looking. "Sango?…"
Sango got up and headed toward Miroku. Kagome sighed, "Uh oh."
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The city where Kagome and Sango lived was a strange one. For example, it wouldn't be so queer or scary to see a flesh-eating demon roaming the streets or gigantic crow demons flying in the air. Their city was great and powerful for the demons did protect their homes. So many demons in such a town was hard to control though, so the city was isolated from the rest of the world.
There were many gyms around the city and many government classes that involved physical activities such as running and martial arts. Kagome and all of her friends all shared the dream of being elite in the ACMD, association for the control and management of demon activity. Having such a dream was hard for any teenager; it meant spending free time running, weight-lifting, and fighting.
It also meant that Kagome had to take a needed course for joining the ACMD in middle and high school, and even college, if she was going to a college. Kagome and Sango were both fast learning girls and were also the only human girls. They took the class of 'advanced martial art training and advancement' which was just a fancy name for an extra hour and half of working out.
Kagome reached to open another bottle of water. Running was brutal and the treadmill was one of those 'modernized' ones, that just meant that the top part would move up and down. The one thing Kagome hated was running uphill and now it was part of the class course. Kagome sighed; she could lift fifty pounds, but she couldn't open a bottle of water.
What?! It isn't her fault. The things at the top of the bottle are really hard to break!
"Need help?"
Kagome looked up to see herself staring into the most beautiful green eyes she had ever seen. "Um… no, wait, yes." Kagome mentally slapped herself, what was the point of starting to stutter every there's a hot guy? It was Suuichi, him and her gorgeous green eyes.
Suuichi took the bottle and unscrewed the top easily. Don't you just hate it when people make it look so easy? Not to mention they make you look weak.
"Thanks," Kagome said looking at the ground. 'Don't look, don't look.'
"Your welcome." Kagome couldn't help it. She looked up and saw the eyes again and almost fainted. No wonder that that guy had his own fan club. He was so…well to put it bluntly, hot! "So you new here? Or did you come from that other school?"
"I came from the other school," Kagome started to regain her cool, being with this Suuichi person was calming, "I'm Kagome Higurashi," Kagome stuck out her hand, mentally slapping herself again for being so stupid.
Suuichi took her hand in his and shook. "Suuichi Minamino, nice to meet you."
"You too." Kagome was defiantly at a loss for something to say, no matter how calm and poised you are, talking to a hot, nice, guy built a lot of anxiety. "Plan to join the ACMD?"
Suuichi looked at Kagome surprised, "Yeah. Actually I am. And you?"
Kagome was glad for the conversation, "Its been my dream since I was a kid. I've been training almost ever since."
"Really, pretty amazing," Suuichi laughed, "And I was beginning to think all girls like perfume better than anything else."
Kagome laughed, "One of my friends almost passed out from the smell of one of them." She didn't think Suuichi would be offended if the someone happened to be his most persistent fan. Kagome decided that Suuichi wasn't mean or full of himself, he was just…well liked, for reasons quite obvious to any girl's eyes.
Suuichi laughed, "It's that bad, huh?"
"Excuse me." It was a man's voice, their supervisor's voice, "This is not the time to deal with your social life. If you want to get into ACMD or DCPD."
Kagome quickly stood, "Yes sir," and walked back to the treadmill to finish her ten miles before the bell sounded. Suuichi acknowledge him and left for his own machine.
The gym at the school was cool and all the machines were linked to a database that could show all you have done on the machines. All you have to do is type in your name starting the machine.
Kagome jogged for a few minutes, but the bell was due to ring any minute. She wanted to reach ten miles, it was her goal and if she did, she also got extra credit. She pushed some buttons and sped up to a run, before getting into a full blown sprint.
Kagome reached ten miles, as did about half of the class, and grabbed her towel. She also wanted to fit in a shower before her next class. The shower was refreshing and cool, and Kagome dried herself and dressed just in time for the bell sounding.
Kagome slung her book bag over her shoulder. History class was nuts, bringing three books back and forth from school to home was going to be torture, though Kagome could probably get Kouga to do it…
"Need help?" It was Suuichi again.
Kagome raised an eyebrow in question, that's when she realized that her book bag had split open. No wonder it was so light. Suuichi bent down to pick them up. Kagome quickly took them into her arms. "Oh, thanks a lot."
"No problem," Suuichi said. Girls appeared out of no where trying to grab Suuichi or something like that. He turned and waved at Kagome, but none of the girls even noticed.
Kagome smiled and waved back, dropping her books on her foot at the same time. She picked them up cursing a bit, before heading off to her history class. It was a very long walk since the gym and room very on opposite sides of the school.
Kagome stepped into the room to be greeted by Kouga. "Hey baby," Kouga wrapped his arms around Kagome. She glared at him playfully and pushed him away.
"What do you want, Kouga?" Kagome took a seat near the back window.
Kouga went to retrieve his book bag and plopped into a seat right next to Kagome and grinned, "What? Don't you trust me?"
Kagome looked at Kouga with a distinct, 'Your kidding, right?'
The door opened and they both could hear girls screaming and talking as Suuichi walked in pushing a couple girls back through the doors into the hallway.
"Wait! Let me give you my number!"
"Movies tomorrow after school?!"
"Come with me, I could give you more than just a movie."
"No! Me! I'm prettier than that slut!"
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Goddess Of Torture:
Too bad, Kikyou gets Youko. None of you guys even say "Youko gets Kikyou". I'm surprised that people don't walk down the streets with giant "I hate Kikyou" signs. Like strikers. ^_^
Emotionless_Angel:
I like to think of Suuichi as the human that would have been normal had it not been for Youko. So, this fic is actually a Kag/Suu more than a Kag/Kur. Live with it.
tsuyu aka kireishi:
NO! Don't kill me! 'Sides, Minu's pairings aren't even STRAIGHT, so I like to think of mine as O.K.
Nikore:
I try to tell you when I update and such, but my internet is set to disable cookies or something, so I can't log into Hotmail. Anyone know how that works? Or what cookies are?
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Second chappie done. R&R
Next chappie.
Evil cliffy for the first story. But you'll meet some interesting characters. YYH peoples.
Kohaku comes. I couldn't fit it into this one, but he is a major part of the plot, sort of.