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Authors note: It's late! It's late! Forgive me? I have a question: What would the village girls call the gang? Would it be Kagome-sama and Sango-sama... or kun... or ... ahhh! I have no idea. Maybe it would be best to leave them out.
Chapter nine
Aki was, to all observers in a state of absolute shock. Her face was pale and her eyes were wide with horror. Her companions, seemed unperturbed by Aki's sudden inability to respond, and dragged her stiff body along, as if it was all pretty normal. "How could they come up with such... weird stories? These girls have too much time on their hands... she thought, as she recalled a rather humiliating story Hitomi had concocted for her.
The evening promised a light shower tonight. Some greyish clouds were beginning to form in the blue sky.
"Hmmm..." Hitomi's cheerful voice broke the lingering silence between them on their trek back, they were on the outskirts of the village now, and everyone could be seen preparing for the day's end, and the weather's promise. "It looks like we have visitors!" she concluded.
Aki snapped back into attention, as if struck by lightning, forgetting the earlier interpretation of her flight.
"I think..."
"But didn't they just leave?"
"Ooo! It is!"
"Kagome and Sango!"
If Aki was stiff before, it was nothing compared to her form now. Her eyes glazed over and her mouth fell open, catching flies.
"Satomi? Is something wrong?"
But they wouldn't know, Aki never answered.
Aki's POV
I just can't keep up, it's like I'm running a marathon against Uncle Sesshomaru... I just can't keep up with all of these dramatic stories and...
I can't see them now! I'm not ready! They just can't know who I am!
And what if I meet them and they don't like me? Me? Their very own daughter they don't know they will have!
This is horrible... I think I'm breaking out... great. Is that a head ache forming? Oh why can't they have invented aspirin yet!
End Aki's POV
And true enough, the pair were headed for Kaede's hut, dragging their feet, even from this distance it wasn't hard to read their exhaustion from their slumped posture. Aki sniffled, this was what she had been waiting for. Her chance. However, with the sight before her eyes, Aki couldn't bring herself to move towards them, she looked onward with a longing in her heart, that made her feel weighed. She couldn't think, it felt like she was dreaming. It had been so long that she had had her mother nearby, and she longed for her supportive embrace and optimistic gaiety. "Father must be nearby too..." she thought, making a lump form in her throat.
Forgetting her previous worry for Aki's state of mind, Hitomi pipped in, "Oh! Satomi! You haven't met them, have you? Well, you must! Oh, this means the monk must be nearby too. He is so kind!" Hitomi chattered, the beginnings of their tale promising to surface from her lips. Then, she began to vocalise the tale, but Aki didn't need to listen, she knew it, word per word. She knew it, as if she too had been there, fighting Naraku's powers vigorously, saving the world from great perils.
Inuyasha
Inuyasha scrounged the area in amazing patience, following the beck and call of his nose. He worked with meticulous care leaving no stone unchecked, even the dirt beneath his feet supported dents where he dragged his nose across its gritty surface. All of the while he mumbled, and to the select few who knew him well, they would have been able to make out "Ramen" pass his lips repeatedly.
Suddenly Inuyasha froze as the intensity of the aroma hit its peak... sitting back up to a crouch he scanned the area smugly.
"Heh, that Kagome!" he grinned, "Thought she could hide it? Feh, she really doesn't know who she's dealing with! I am part inu youkai after all." He concluded with a finality in his voice, as if daring the creatures in his midst to challenge his authority.
Looking onward he peered at a large boulder wedged in beside a tree.
"Feh." cracking his knuckles Inuyasha reached for it lazily with one clawed hand. He was so close he could practically taste it...
And he would have...
CRASH! BANG!
"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"
BOOM! PAFF!
...if it wasn't for the commotion building up in the village.
Inuyasha looked at the boulder longingly and then gave a reproachful glance to the village. But then again, he could never have enough of playing the hero in front of Kagome. So, in a fluid motion, he sped towards the insistent cry.
Earlier in the village
"Oh! Maybe we shouldn't disturb them? What a shame! You'll have to wait, come morning you should meet them Satomi!"
"....."
"Satomi?"
The girls were mere feet away from Kaede's hut, and Aki was feeling pressure build up between her temples. She was so close! And yet? What could she possibly do?
Hitomi watched her frigid friend, "She must be nervous about meeting such courageous women!" she thought in a knowing fashion. "For what else could it be, that keeps her so..."
"Ahem."
The girls gasped and turned to see a very flamboyant and courteous monk, supporting a sleeping Shippo and Kirara, flash them one of his flashy smiles and his eyes admired them affectionately, before placidly placing the dreaming pair onto the ground.
"You-" Aki swallowed, if not just a little at a loss for words.
"My ladies!" Slight bow, "If I may be so bold. Would you do me the honour as to..."
WAP!
Aki's hand shot forward and gave Miroku a handful to think about as he flew off of his feet, only to pummel onto the cold hard earth.
"DON'T ASK THAT!" she screeched, absolutely horrified that he should ever ask her such a thing.
"HENT-" Sango burst from the straw folds, with such vigour that nearly ripped them out of their place in the doorframe. Her weapon in hand, ready to crack some skull... however, she never got to finish her tradition and nearly face faulted spying a certain monk twitching on the earthy ground. She stood a little dumbfounded for a moment, then at Aki, who still had her tell tale hand in mid air. She stared onward, even a little reproachfully? It wasn't until another woman peered over her shoulder, with one hand rubbing the fog from her eyes, that she came to.
"Again?" Kagome muttered groggily, looking from hentai to demon hunter.
"Yes. And no." Sango replied, setting her boomerang back into a more comfortable position, "I wasn't the one who..." She nodded in Miroku's direction, and rolled her eyes as he groaned.
"Really?" Kagome asked, a little surprised, they hadn't met many women with the courage to actually punish a lustrous monk. "Who?"
"It was Satomi! Oh the poor thing!" Hitomi cried, finally finding her chance to speak, and did so, with all of the vigorous drama bestowed upon her. "He must have reminded her of-" she lowered her voice "that man" and perked right back up, "Oh! I shouldn't have been so eager to introduce her to the shard hunters! Satomi," She turned her dewy eyes towards a rather pale Aki, "you must have been so scared to strike such a handsome man with such so!" her eyes widened masterfully as she sucked in a sharp breath and let it out slowly. She opened her mouth, shaped her lips carefully, "....."
Not a word escaped her lips, as her gaze shifted far beyond Aki, she stiffened and-
CRASH! BANG!
Suddenly everyone shot into alert, even Miroku was now standing unfazed and calculating the threat in their midst... a demonic...
"Bunny?" Aki raised an eyebrow, and held back a laugh at the mutated six foot version.
"Just because it was fuzzy doesn't mean it's harmless." Kagome answered Aki's scepticism as she reached through the folds for her bow and arrows.
The demon stood at the edge of the village, it had probably come close, disguising itself in it's harmless form, then exposed it's true nature, with his venom coated buck teeth and spiky fur.
Hitomi, however, could no longer hold back. And in every aspect she had a need to be the center of attention-
"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"
As Hitomi's screech broke into action, Aki clasped her hands onto her abused ears and groaned. However, Hitomi's screech seemed to affect the demonic bunny as well, as it fell to a crouch and began to paw at it's floppy ears.
"If she keeps this up I'll never hear again!" she thought- it was just her luck that Hitomi blanched and fell into a dead faint cutting off her cry to a halt.
BOOM!
Just as Hitomi's deafening cry came to a crashing end, the demonic bunny vanished in a puff of...
"Pink smoke?" Aki stared, "I finally meet an evil demon and I get a giant bunny with pink smoke? What next? Urg." She muttered, deeply miffed that her first such threat would be so... questionable.
However, Kagome, Sango and Miroku were presently more concerned with other pressing matters.
"Where did it go?"
PAFF!
"ARG! Behind you Miroku!" Kagome cried as the spiky bunny appeared behind their lecherous comrade.
Without missing a beat Sango swung her boomerang aiming right between the eyes.
BOOM!
More pink smoke.
"No! Where did it go!" Ground a now concerned Miroku at their predicament, "We can barely keep up with this teleporting demon!"
PAFF!
Aki gasped as she felt something slice against her wrist, and barely got a chance to look down upon the tiny beads of blood that began to form against the gash. The demonic bunny had other plans as it chose that moment to attack with it's giant incisors.
"LOOK OUT!"
"Kaze no Kizu!!!"
"Inuyasha!" Kagome cried in relief as the hanyou clad in red managed to slash the demon on the nose.
"ROOOAAAR!"
"It's a roaring bunny..." Aki thought in disbelief as she hung her head.
"Feh," Inuyasha smirked, "What kind of a demon are you?!?!" he demanded as her cracked his knuckles in anticipation of what was to come.
"Why are you talking! Get it before it transports itself again!" A villager cried- from what they believed a safe distance to the calamity before them.
Unfortunately, that villager had attracted unwanted attention in his direction.
BOOM! PAFF!
"What the-"
TWANG.
Kagome's arrow flew true just in time to interrupt a promising meal, it's purifying aura engulfing the giant demon and make it vanish in a flash.
Aki stared in bewilderment. "That psycho bunny almost ate- that guy..." she gulped, then pouted in retaliation to her own naivete.
"Good job Kagome! But I must say that that was the strangest demon I have even seen..." Miroku looked onward beyond a traumatised villager, where the threat had disappeared.
"Feh, it wasn't a very powerful demon- even Myoga could have handled that one!"
Kagome twitched and looked at Inuyasha long and hard.
"Sit."
Turning on her heels she headed back for the hut. If she wasn't tired before she sure was now. Sango followed closely and gave Miroku a meaningful glare, warning him not to follow.
Aki stared in bewilderment as the scene played out. "The bunny is already long forgotten... like it really was nothing..."
Aki sighed, and walked over Hitomi's form, she had a lot on her mind... It was almost time to change fates ugly hand for the better.
Aki would sleep in her tree tonight, that is if slumber would grace her with its presence... she still had a plan to concoct- and it had to be good.
Authors note: I'm not very good at fighting scenes- but it had to happen... although... now that I read what I wrote... Where did I come up with such a weird demon? I was hyper... but really!
Thanks for all of the lovely reviews. Hope your wait was worth it and that you aren't too disappointed!
I'm really starting to enjoy writing Hitomi... hehehe... Once again, please accept my condolences for my failure to post earlier. I did have the time... I could have finished the story by now... but... alas! The dreaded writers block has reared it's ugly head!
Authors note: It's late! It's late! Forgive me? I have a question: What would the village girls call the gang? Would it be Kagome-sama and Sango-sama... or kun... or ... ahhh! I have no idea. Maybe it would be best to leave them out.
Chapter nine
Aki was, to all observers in a state of absolute shock. Her face was pale and her eyes were wide with horror. Her companions, seemed unperturbed by Aki's sudden inability to respond, and dragged her stiff body along, as if it was all pretty normal. "How could they come up with such... weird stories? These girls have too much time on their hands... she thought, as she recalled a rather humiliating story Hitomi had concocted for her.
The evening promised a light shower tonight. Some greyish clouds were beginning to form in the blue sky.
"Hmmm..." Hitomi's cheerful voice broke the lingering silence between them on their trek back, they were on the outskirts of the village now, and everyone could be seen preparing for the day's end, and the weather's promise. "It looks like we have visitors!" she concluded.
Aki snapped back into attention, as if struck by lightning, forgetting the earlier interpretation of her flight.
"I think..."
"But didn't they just leave?"
"Ooo! It is!"
"Kagome and Sango!"
If Aki was stiff before, it was nothing compared to her form now. Her eyes glazed over and her mouth fell open, catching flies.
"Satomi? Is something wrong?"
But they wouldn't know, Aki never answered.
Aki's POV
I just can't keep up, it's like I'm running a marathon against Uncle Sesshomaru... I just can't keep up with all of these dramatic stories and...
I can't see them now! I'm not ready! They just can't know who I am!
And what if I meet them and they don't like me? Me? Their very own daughter they don't know they will have!
This is horrible... I think I'm breaking out... great. Is that a head ache forming? Oh why can't they have invented aspirin yet!
End Aki's POV
And true enough, the pair were headed for Kaede's hut, dragging their feet, even from this distance it wasn't hard to read their exhaustion from their slumped posture. Aki sniffled, this was what she had been waiting for. Her chance. However, with the sight before her eyes, Aki couldn't bring herself to move towards them, she looked onward with a longing in her heart, that made her feel weighed. She couldn't think, it felt like she was dreaming. It had been so long that she had had her mother nearby, and she longed for her supportive embrace and optimistic gaiety. "Father must be nearby too..." she thought, making a lump form in her throat.
Forgetting her previous worry for Aki's state of mind, Hitomi pipped in, "Oh! Satomi! You haven't met them, have you? Well, you must! Oh, this means the monk must be nearby too. He is so kind!" Hitomi chattered, the beginnings of their tale promising to surface from her lips. Then, she began to vocalise the tale, but Aki didn't need to listen, she knew it, word per word. She knew it, as if she too had been there, fighting Naraku's powers vigorously, saving the world from great perils.
Inuyasha
Inuyasha scrounged the area in amazing patience, following the beck and call of his nose. He worked with meticulous care leaving no stone unchecked, even the dirt beneath his feet supported dents where he dragged his nose across its gritty surface. All of the while he mumbled, and to the select few who knew him well, they would have been able to make out "Ramen" pass his lips repeatedly.
Suddenly Inuyasha froze as the intensity of the aroma hit its peak... sitting back up to a crouch he scanned the area smugly.
"Heh, that Kagome!" he grinned, "Thought she could hide it? Feh, she really doesn't know who she's dealing with! I am part inu youkai after all." He concluded with a finality in his voice, as if daring the creatures in his midst to challenge his authority.
Looking onward he peered at a large boulder wedged in beside a tree.
"Feh." cracking his knuckles Inuyasha reached for it lazily with one clawed hand. He was so close he could practically taste it...
And he would have...
CRASH! BANG!
"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"
BOOM! PAFF!
...if it wasn't for the commotion building up in the village.
Inuyasha looked at the boulder longingly and then gave a reproachful glance to the village. But then again, he could never have enough of playing the hero in front of Kagome. So, in a fluid motion, he sped towards the insistent cry.
Earlier in the village
"Oh! Maybe we shouldn't disturb them? What a shame! You'll have to wait, come morning you should meet them Satomi!"
"....."
"Satomi?"
The girls were mere feet away from Kaede's hut, and Aki was feeling pressure build up between her temples. She was so close! And yet? What could she possibly do?
Hitomi watched her frigid friend, "She must be nervous about meeting such courageous women!" she thought in a knowing fashion. "For what else could it be, that keeps her so..."
"Ahem."
The girls gasped and turned to see a very flamboyant and courteous monk, supporting a sleeping Shippo and Kirara, flash them one of his flashy smiles and his eyes admired them affectionately, before placidly placing the dreaming pair onto the ground.
"You-" Aki swallowed, if not just a little at a loss for words.
"My ladies!" Slight bow, "If I may be so bold. Would you do me the honour as to..."
WAP!
Aki's hand shot forward and gave Miroku a handful to think about as he flew off of his feet, only to pummel onto the cold hard earth.
"DON'T ASK THAT!" she screeched, absolutely horrified that he should ever ask her such a thing.
"HENT-" Sango burst from the straw folds, with such vigour that nearly ripped them out of their place in the doorframe. Her weapon in hand, ready to crack some skull... however, she never got to finish her tradition and nearly face faulted spying a certain monk twitching on the earthy ground. She stood a little dumbfounded for a moment, then at Aki, who still had her tell tale hand in mid air. She stared onward, even a little reproachfully? It wasn't until another woman peered over her shoulder, with one hand rubbing the fog from her eyes, that she came to.
"Again?" Kagome muttered groggily, looking from hentai to demon hunter.
"Yes. And no." Sango replied, setting her boomerang back into a more comfortable position, "I wasn't the one who..." She nodded in Miroku's direction, and rolled her eyes as he groaned.
"Really?" Kagome asked, a little surprised, they hadn't met many women with the courage to actually punish a lustrous monk. "Who?"
"It was Satomi! Oh the poor thing!" Hitomi cried, finally finding her chance to speak, and did so, with all of the vigorous drama bestowed upon her. "He must have reminded her of-" she lowered her voice "that man" and perked right back up, "Oh! I shouldn't have been so eager to introduce her to the shard hunters! Satomi," She turned her dewy eyes towards a rather pale Aki, "you must have been so scared to strike such a handsome man with such so!" her eyes widened masterfully as she sucked in a sharp breath and let it out slowly. She opened her mouth, shaped her lips carefully, "....."
Not a word escaped her lips, as her gaze shifted far beyond Aki, she stiffened and-
CRASH! BANG!
Suddenly everyone shot into alert, even Miroku was now standing unfazed and calculating the threat in their midst... a demonic...
"Bunny?" Aki raised an eyebrow, and held back a laugh at the mutated six foot version.
"Just because it was fuzzy doesn't mean it's harmless." Kagome answered Aki's scepticism as she reached through the folds for her bow and arrows.
The demon stood at the edge of the village, it had probably come close, disguising itself in it's harmless form, then exposed it's true nature, with his venom coated buck teeth and spiky fur.
Hitomi, however, could no longer hold back. And in every aspect she had a need to be the center of attention-
"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"
As Hitomi's screech broke into action, Aki clasped her hands onto her abused ears and groaned. However, Hitomi's screech seemed to affect the demonic bunny as well, as it fell to a crouch and began to paw at it's floppy ears.
"If she keeps this up I'll never hear again!" she thought- it was just her luck that Hitomi blanched and fell into a dead faint cutting off her cry to a halt.
BOOM!
Just as Hitomi's deafening cry came to a crashing end, the demonic bunny vanished in a puff of...
"Pink smoke?" Aki stared, "I finally meet an evil demon and I get a giant bunny with pink smoke? What next? Urg." She muttered, deeply miffed that her first such threat would be so... questionable.
However, Kagome, Sango and Miroku were presently more concerned with other pressing matters.
"Where did it go?"
PAFF!
"ARG! Behind you Miroku!" Kagome cried as the spiky bunny appeared behind their lecherous comrade.
Without missing a beat Sango swung her boomerang aiming right between the eyes.
BOOM!
More pink smoke.
"No! Where did it go!" Ground a now concerned Miroku at their predicament, "We can barely keep up with this teleporting demon!"
PAFF!
Aki gasped as she felt something slice against her wrist, and barely got a chance to look down upon the tiny beads of blood that began to form against the gash. The demonic bunny had other plans as it chose that moment to attack with it's giant incisors.
"LOOK OUT!"
"Kaze no Kizu!!!"
"Inuyasha!" Kagome cried in relief as the hanyou clad in red managed to slash the demon on the nose.
"ROOOAAAR!"
"It's a roaring bunny..." Aki thought in disbelief as she hung her head.
"Feh," Inuyasha smirked, "What kind of a demon are you?!?!" he demanded as her cracked his knuckles in anticipation of what was to come.
"Why are you talking! Get it before it transports itself again!" A villager cried- from what they believed a safe distance to the calamity before them.
Unfortunately, that villager had attracted unwanted attention in his direction.
BOOM! PAFF!
"What the-"
TWANG.
Kagome's arrow flew true just in time to interrupt a promising meal, it's purifying aura engulfing the giant demon and make it vanish in a flash.
Aki stared in bewilderment. "That psycho bunny almost ate- that guy..." she gulped, then pouted in retaliation to her own naivete.
"Good job Kagome! But I must say that that was the strangest demon I have even seen..." Miroku looked onward beyond a traumatised villager, where the threat had disappeared.
"Feh, it wasn't a very powerful demon- even Myoga could have handled that one!"
Kagome twitched and looked at Inuyasha long and hard.
"Sit."
Turning on her heels she headed back for the hut. If she wasn't tired before she sure was now. Sango followed closely and gave Miroku a meaningful glare, warning him not to follow.
Aki stared in bewilderment as the scene played out. "The bunny is already long forgotten... like it really was nothing..."
Aki sighed, and walked over Hitomi's form, she had a lot on her mind... It was almost time to change fates ugly hand for the better.
Aki would sleep in her tree tonight, that is if slumber would grace her with its presence... she still had a plan to concoct- and it had to be good.
Authors note: I'm not very good at fighting scenes- but it had to happen... although... now that I read what I wrote... Where did I come up with such a weird demon? I was hyper... but really!
Thanks for all of the lovely reviews. Hope your wait was worth it and that you aren't too disappointed!
I'm really starting to enjoy writing Hitomi... hehehe... Once again, please accept my condolences for my failure to post earlier. I did have the time... I could have finished the story by now... but... alas! The dreaded writers block has reared it's ugly head!