The next day when the girls returned to work, Bill greeted the just as
energetically as before. "So, how'd the research go?" he asked.
The two girls beamed.
"We found the perfect bishie to hunt for us," Naoko said.
"And... who is it?" Bill asked egerly.
"Inu Yasha!" Sakura chimed.
"Y-you're not serious are you!?!" Bill cried and looked like he was
going to faint.
"Well... yes, we are," Naoko replied.
"He's the most difficult bishie to capture! He's WAY above your league
right now," Bill explained.
"We've chosen, so lead us to Inu Yasha!" Naoko yelled furiously.
"Ok, Naoko-sempai," Bill replied looking like a little kid.
Sakura smiled brightly. "This is going to be fun!!"
"Follow me," Bill said heavily. He took them to a door labeled
'Control Room.' "This is where you can track all known Bishies, or at
least the area they live in. Unfortunately, Inu Yasha cannot be
tracked, and he changes his territory frequently. Last time he was
sighted, it was around the United States/Canadian border around
Minnesota."
"How did he get there?" Sakura asked. "Isn't he supposed to live in
feudal Japan?"
"He followed Kagome, got lost, amazingly, and chased down a Fruito Lay
truck." Bill said.
Naoko giggled. She then opened the door and a overly cheerful voice
said "WELCOME, Bishie Captor! It is my pleasure to help YOU find your
Bishie!" Naoko jumped and looked around.
"Our search engine had AI," Bill said. "Janice can get quite annoying
at times.
"Why, hello Bill!" Janice-the-cheerful-computer cried. "It's nice to
sense your presence today!"
"Yes, yes," Bill said distractedly and stepped in.
Sakura and Naoko followed Bill and saw that the room was full of
monitors with little black dots moving all over the place.
"Wow..." Naoko said in awe as she looked around.
"This room has more electronic devices them my entire house!" Sakura
cried happily and ran to the nearest monitor.
She started pushing a bunch of buttons and the dot on the monitor
zoomed in so far that you could make out every facial feature of the
bishie it was tracking.
"Much better," Sakura said smiling.
Naoko and Bill just gapped at her.
"Are you sure you applied for the right job Miss Kinoloto?" Bill
asked.
"Yes, I'm still looking for a boyfriend," Sakura replied happily.
Naoko was still staring at her. She had know that Sakura was good with
electronics from what she had seen at her house, but she didn't know
she was THAT good.
"Now, it's time to find Inu Yasha!" Sakura said.
"Inu Yasha..." Janice said. "Last reported sighting was one week from
yesterday in the Minnesota area." One of the screen monitors displays
changed to a small video of Inu Yasha clawing up a tree and surrounded
by empty chip bags.
Naoko beamed. "Isn't he just soooo cute?"
Bill eyed her. "Are you SURE you know what you're getting into?" he
asked her.
"Of course! What's the worst a puppy demon can do to us?"
"Uh... Naoko... did you even WATCH Inu Yasha?" Sakura asked her.
Naoko nodded happily. "The whole series!"
Sakura sweatdropped.
"Well, how do we get there?" Naoko asked Bill.
"We have teleporters here and teleporting stations across the world,"
Bill answered. "Janice, can you set up a teleport to the nearest place
Inu Yasha was last seen?"
"Of course! It would be my pleasure!" Janice chirpped.
All three humans shuddered.
"Who programmed her?? She's a bit... over-active for a computer,"
Sakura asked, narrowing her eyes at Bill.
"Heh... she was programmed after my personality. Let's just say I've
changed a bit since then. Anyway, it looks as if your teleport is
ready. Off you go," Bill said pushing the two girls towards the
machines.
"Once inside the teleporting station you will hear a loud buzzing
sound. Do not mind the noise, you will soon be immune to it," Janice
said in a singsong voice.
And true to her word, there was a loud buzzing sound.
"It sounds like a hoard of bees!!" Naoko yelled over the noise to
Sakura, while plugging her ears.
"If you're talking to me I can't hear you!" Sakura called back,
plugging her ears as well.
Then it stopped. The noise disappeared. Naoko and Sakura put their
hands down and looked around. They seemed to be in some sort of dark
room.
"Where are we?" Sakura asked.
"No idea," Naoko replied.
There was a thin sliver of light coming from in front of them. Naoko
walked forward and found that it was a small door. When she opened it,
some letters fell in.
"What the?! We're in a mailbox?!?!" she screamed.
"How in the hell can we fit into a MAILBOX?!?" Sakura wailed.
"I guess we were shrunk, dummy," Naoko returned.
"How are we going to catch Inu Yasha if we're shrunk?" Sakura asked
her friend.
"I donno.... we'll figure something out." Naoko said. "Here... let me
stand on your shoulders," she said. "I'll try to get out and find
something to get you out with."
"Ok.........." Sakura said.
Naoko climbed on Sakura's shoulders and could just barely touch the
edge of the opening. "I... think... I can... reach it," she said in a
strained voice, reaching up as far as she could. She grasped the edge
and pulled herself up. "Got it!" she cried. "I'll come back as soon as
possible!" She disappeared through the opening. Naoko turned around
and hung from the outer side of the mailbox. 'What do I do now?" she
thought. As if an answer to her question, she started to grow. As soon
as she was big enough to not get hurt, she dropped to the ground and
stood on the sidewalk, waiting until she was full size. A few people
stopped to stare at her. "Neat," she said to herself and looked
around. It seemed as if she was in the downtown area of some sort of
small town.
"Who the hell are you?" an irate man asked her.
"My name is Naoko. I am a Bishie Hunter." she returned. "Right now, I
need to find a way to get my partner out of that mailbox," she said,
pointing to the object containing her friend. "Do you happen to have a
spare screwdriver on you by any chance? Or a chainsaw?"
"I heard that Naoko!!!" Sakura hollered. "No way are you going to use
a chainsaw!!"
The man jumped at the voice screaming from within the mailbox. He
reluctantly handed over his handy-dandy little screwdriver that he
carried everywhere.
After about 5 minutes Sakura was finally free and full grown again.
"Such a relief. It was starting to get stuffy in there," Sakura said
smiling at the man.
The man slowly backed up.
"SHE-DEVILS!!!!!" he screamed and ran.
"Eh? Where's a she-devil?" Sakura asked looking around.
"I don't know. Anyway, you got the tracker right?" Naoko asked.
Sakura pulled out the two trackers and right away they picked up a
lead.
"Looks like we're in luck. He's still here," Naoko said taking off in
the direction her tracker pointed.
Sakura smiled at the people they passed while trying to keep up with
Naoko who had a fairly large head start.
The tracker led them out of town and into a nearby grove of trees.
"We should be careful," Sakura said when she caught up to Naoko.
"Since it's our first time."
"Good idea," Naoko agreed. "Let's put on our gear." The girls donned
safari hats and kneepads. Naoko pulled out her tracking device
quietly and pushed some buttons.
"Bishie 12 yards away and apparently stationary!" the tracking device
cried. "Oops! Looks like it's starting to move!"
"Would you shut up?" Sakura hissed at it.
"I would be honored to follow your requests!" the machine said in an
overly cheerful voice.
"Stupid!" Naoko said.
"I hope nothing else talks," Sakura said.
"All of your electronic devices talk!" the tracking device informed
them. "Oh! By the way, the bishie is moving in this direction."
"Didn't I tell you not to speak?" Sakura asked.
"What are you doing in my grove?" an angry voice asked them.
The girls looked up from the machine and saw their first free-ranging
bishie.
"Hi, Inu Yasha!" Naoko said.
"OOO! Inu Yasha!" the machine said. It gave a little shake and fell
out of Naoko's hands. Sakura picked it up and looked at the screen.
It was blank. "I think it fainted..." she said.
"Great..." Naoko said. "We have a fan-computer on our hands."
"I repeat - " Inu Yasha started.
"Yeah, yeah, we heard you," Sakura said.
"Would you like to be our bishie tracker?" Naoko asked him.
"No." Inu Yasha said.
energetically as before. "So, how'd the research go?" he asked.
The two girls beamed.
"We found the perfect bishie to hunt for us," Naoko said.
"And... who is it?" Bill asked egerly.
"Inu Yasha!" Sakura chimed.
"Y-you're not serious are you!?!" Bill cried and looked like he was
going to faint.
"Well... yes, we are," Naoko replied.
"He's the most difficult bishie to capture! He's WAY above your league
right now," Bill explained.
"We've chosen, so lead us to Inu Yasha!" Naoko yelled furiously.
"Ok, Naoko-sempai," Bill replied looking like a little kid.
Sakura smiled brightly. "This is going to be fun!!"
"Follow me," Bill said heavily. He took them to a door labeled
'Control Room.' "This is where you can track all known Bishies, or at
least the area they live in. Unfortunately, Inu Yasha cannot be
tracked, and he changes his territory frequently. Last time he was
sighted, it was around the United States/Canadian border around
Minnesota."
"How did he get there?" Sakura asked. "Isn't he supposed to live in
feudal Japan?"
"He followed Kagome, got lost, amazingly, and chased down a Fruito Lay
truck." Bill said.
Naoko giggled. She then opened the door and a overly cheerful voice
said "WELCOME, Bishie Captor! It is my pleasure to help YOU find your
Bishie!" Naoko jumped and looked around.
"Our search engine had AI," Bill said. "Janice can get quite annoying
at times.
"Why, hello Bill!" Janice-the-cheerful-computer cried. "It's nice to
sense your presence today!"
"Yes, yes," Bill said distractedly and stepped in.
Sakura and Naoko followed Bill and saw that the room was full of
monitors with little black dots moving all over the place.
"Wow..." Naoko said in awe as she looked around.
"This room has more electronic devices them my entire house!" Sakura
cried happily and ran to the nearest monitor.
She started pushing a bunch of buttons and the dot on the monitor
zoomed in so far that you could make out every facial feature of the
bishie it was tracking.
"Much better," Sakura said smiling.
Naoko and Bill just gapped at her.
"Are you sure you applied for the right job Miss Kinoloto?" Bill
asked.
"Yes, I'm still looking for a boyfriend," Sakura replied happily.
Naoko was still staring at her. She had know that Sakura was good with
electronics from what she had seen at her house, but she didn't know
she was THAT good.
"Now, it's time to find Inu Yasha!" Sakura said.
"Inu Yasha..." Janice said. "Last reported sighting was one week from
yesterday in the Minnesota area." One of the screen monitors displays
changed to a small video of Inu Yasha clawing up a tree and surrounded
by empty chip bags.
Naoko beamed. "Isn't he just soooo cute?"
Bill eyed her. "Are you SURE you know what you're getting into?" he
asked her.
"Of course! What's the worst a puppy demon can do to us?"
"Uh... Naoko... did you even WATCH Inu Yasha?" Sakura asked her.
Naoko nodded happily. "The whole series!"
Sakura sweatdropped.
"Well, how do we get there?" Naoko asked Bill.
"We have teleporters here and teleporting stations across the world,"
Bill answered. "Janice, can you set up a teleport to the nearest place
Inu Yasha was last seen?"
"Of course! It would be my pleasure!" Janice chirpped.
All three humans shuddered.
"Who programmed her?? She's a bit... over-active for a computer,"
Sakura asked, narrowing her eyes at Bill.
"Heh... she was programmed after my personality. Let's just say I've
changed a bit since then. Anyway, it looks as if your teleport is
ready. Off you go," Bill said pushing the two girls towards the
machines.
"Once inside the teleporting station you will hear a loud buzzing
sound. Do not mind the noise, you will soon be immune to it," Janice
said in a singsong voice.
And true to her word, there was a loud buzzing sound.
"It sounds like a hoard of bees!!" Naoko yelled over the noise to
Sakura, while plugging her ears.
"If you're talking to me I can't hear you!" Sakura called back,
plugging her ears as well.
Then it stopped. The noise disappeared. Naoko and Sakura put their
hands down and looked around. They seemed to be in some sort of dark
room.
"Where are we?" Sakura asked.
"No idea," Naoko replied.
There was a thin sliver of light coming from in front of them. Naoko
walked forward and found that it was a small door. When she opened it,
some letters fell in.
"What the?! We're in a mailbox?!?!" she screamed.
"How in the hell can we fit into a MAILBOX?!?" Sakura wailed.
"I guess we were shrunk, dummy," Naoko returned.
"How are we going to catch Inu Yasha if we're shrunk?" Sakura asked
her friend.
"I donno.... we'll figure something out." Naoko said. "Here... let me
stand on your shoulders," she said. "I'll try to get out and find
something to get you out with."
"Ok.........." Sakura said.
Naoko climbed on Sakura's shoulders and could just barely touch the
edge of the opening. "I... think... I can... reach it," she said in a
strained voice, reaching up as far as she could. She grasped the edge
and pulled herself up. "Got it!" she cried. "I'll come back as soon as
possible!" She disappeared through the opening. Naoko turned around
and hung from the outer side of the mailbox. 'What do I do now?" she
thought. As if an answer to her question, she started to grow. As soon
as she was big enough to not get hurt, she dropped to the ground and
stood on the sidewalk, waiting until she was full size. A few people
stopped to stare at her. "Neat," she said to herself and looked
around. It seemed as if she was in the downtown area of some sort of
small town.
"Who the hell are you?" an irate man asked her.
"My name is Naoko. I am a Bishie Hunter." she returned. "Right now, I
need to find a way to get my partner out of that mailbox," she said,
pointing to the object containing her friend. "Do you happen to have a
spare screwdriver on you by any chance? Or a chainsaw?"
"I heard that Naoko!!!" Sakura hollered. "No way are you going to use
a chainsaw!!"
The man jumped at the voice screaming from within the mailbox. He
reluctantly handed over his handy-dandy little screwdriver that he
carried everywhere.
After about 5 minutes Sakura was finally free and full grown again.
"Such a relief. It was starting to get stuffy in there," Sakura said
smiling at the man.
The man slowly backed up.
"SHE-DEVILS!!!!!" he screamed and ran.
"Eh? Where's a she-devil?" Sakura asked looking around.
"I don't know. Anyway, you got the tracker right?" Naoko asked.
Sakura pulled out the two trackers and right away they picked up a
lead.
"Looks like we're in luck. He's still here," Naoko said taking off in
the direction her tracker pointed.
Sakura smiled at the people they passed while trying to keep up with
Naoko who had a fairly large head start.
The tracker led them out of town and into a nearby grove of trees.
"We should be careful," Sakura said when she caught up to Naoko.
"Since it's our first time."
"Good idea," Naoko agreed. "Let's put on our gear." The girls donned
safari hats and kneepads. Naoko pulled out her tracking device
quietly and pushed some buttons.
"Bishie 12 yards away and apparently stationary!" the tracking device
cried. "Oops! Looks like it's starting to move!"
"Would you shut up?" Sakura hissed at it.
"I would be honored to follow your requests!" the machine said in an
overly cheerful voice.
"Stupid!" Naoko said.
"I hope nothing else talks," Sakura said.
"All of your electronic devices talk!" the tracking device informed
them. "Oh! By the way, the bishie is moving in this direction."
"Didn't I tell you not to speak?" Sakura asked.
"What are you doing in my grove?" an angry voice asked them.
The girls looked up from the machine and saw their first free-ranging
bishie.
"Hi, Inu Yasha!" Naoko said.
"OOO! Inu Yasha!" the machine said. It gave a little shake and fell
out of Naoko's hands. Sakura picked it up and looked at the screen.
It was blank. "I think it fainted..." she said.
"Great..." Naoko said. "We have a fan-computer on our hands."
"I repeat - " Inu Yasha started.
"Yeah, yeah, we heard you," Sakura said.
"Would you like to be our bishie tracker?" Naoko asked him.
"No." Inu Yasha said.
