Chapter Three
"Mystified"
It happened in slow motion, the bottle fell right out of Jakin's hands. Sesshomaru grabbed Rin and pulled her to a safe place, after all that potion could NOT be a good thing if it smelled THAT bad! He was going back to get Namida when a mist that was too thick to see through, filled the air. InuYasha had saved Kagome and was heading back for Yoru at the time. Miroku had saved Sango and was going to get Akaineko and Shinsetsu. Kirara had been directed to save the others.
As six girls tried to escape the smoke like mist filled their lungs and they couldn't breath. All eventually passed out.
As this went on, Kouga had been tracking Kagome and found the group, "What the hell is going on?" He asked.
Naraku leaped out of a nearby tree and startled the other conscious ones, "It seams that the bottle that had my demon transformation potion broke."
"What the hell can we do to save them?!" Sesshomaru actually showed a sign of anger and concern.
One of Shippo's distant family members named Yasai showed up and looked questioningly at the site, "What went wrong here?"
"YASAI!!!" Shippo leaped into Yasai's arms.
"Hey, Shippo." He smiled. He had red hair and a red fox tail that turned white at the tip.
Surprisingly enough the mist cleared within a minute. All of the six were unconscious. Miroku ran forward to check on Shinsetsu. InuYasha walked/ran to Yoru. Sesshomaru walked oddly fast to get to Namida. Kouga walked over to Sorayu and Yasai went to Suwaru. Naraku remained where he was but looked a bit concerned about Akaineko.
Sesshomaru was the first to notice the slightest change, "Her hair.is changing to silver."
Everyone examined the girl in front of them. Miroku found, by unknown ways, that Shinsetsu now had a birdlike tail.
"So the potion does work." Naraku said with a hint of shock in his voice.
All that were conscious glared at Naraku. The little squirrel came out of Namida's sleeve. The potion had affected it too. It now was much bigger, had two tails, and its teeth were now fangs. It turned to Naraku and its eyes turned red and it started to foam at the mouth.
Naraku shrieked, "Get it away!! I HATE SQUIRRELS!!!!!"
The unconscious girls woke up from his screaming. They were all shocked to see a cute boy looking down at them, all blushed a little, except Sorayu.
"That's odd." Naraku said getting up as fast as possible.
"What?" InuYasha looked at him.
"Well, Akaineko looks full demon, and some of the others don't. I heard that it's sapposed to take a while." Naraku said pointing it out to them.
It was true. Akaineko now had longer red hair, a cat tail that split creating two ends, she had yellow cat eyes, and seemed to be acting like a hyper cat. She leaped at a leaf and batted it playfully. Akaineko looked full demon and so did Suwaru. Suwaru had long brown hair, five brown fox tails, brown eyes that were focused on catching at least one of her five tails. Everyone else looked like a hanyu.
Sorayu had two little puffs of fur on her cheeks and a small squirrel tail. Her tail was bound to get bigger and she should have little squirrel ears coming in soon. She was focused on gathering nuts.
Shinsetsu had a bird tail that faded from black to purple, her eyes remained human, and her bird wings would grow off her arms but for bow they were small feathers. She should have talons on her hands and feet soon too. She tried to fly with her future wings.
Namida now had long, long silver hair, and blue demon eyes. She would have a fluffy dog tail soon and maybe a couple markings.
Yoru had long black hair that turned white at the tips, she had yellow wolf eyes. She would soon have a black wolf tail. Namida and Yoru eyed each other for a moment then tackled each other.
As this crazy seen played out Sesshomaru, InuYasha, Miroku, Naraku, Kouga, Yasai, Kagome, Sango, Shippo, and Rin (WAY too many people!) each had a very large sweat drop.
Namida and Yoru were the first to recover. They stopped fighting and looked around, very confused.
"What just happened?" Namida asked, eyeing Naraku.
"Malignant after effects exist." Naraku explained.
"There were a lot of long words in there, sir. We aren't but humble demons." Yoru said as she did a Jack Sparrow impression, Namida snickered. (I know that it wasn't Jack Sparrow that said that. It's just better to have someone do an impression of a drunken person than a zombie!)
Naraku sighed, *I'm surrounded by idiots.* He thought.
Sesshomaru explained before Naraku had a chance to, "It makes them act a little crazy for a while."
Naraku glared at Yoru, "Exactly!"
Their attention was drawn back to the other insane ones. Akaineko was saying, "Poke the birdie!" as she poked poor, flightless Shinsetsu with a stick, everyone sweat dropped.
"How long do these effects last?" Namida said nervous for Akaineko's sake. Namida didn't want her friend to end up in an asylum.
"It depends." Naraku said, he didn't want Akaineko to end up in one ether, in his mind she was to cute.
The little demon squirrel ran at Naraku, its fangs barred and fur on end.
"Keep it away!!" He screamed and ran behind Sesshomaru to use as a demon shield.
"Get off me!" Sesshomaru said, shoving Naraku away from him. "What's wrong with you?! It's just a squirrel!"
Namida walked over to the squirrel and picked it up by the tail and put it in Naraku's face. "How can you be afraid of such a cute little thing?" She said as the squirrel foamed at the mouth.
Yasai, InuYasha, Kouga, Kagome, Sango, Yoru, Shippo, Rin, and Miroku laughed horribly even Sesshomaru snickered.
"Keep it away!" Naraku screamed and ran up the nearest tree.
"Does he not know that squirrels live in trees?" Yoru said as she wiped a tear from her eye.
"Be free my friend!" Namida said as she put the rabid squirrel at the base of the tree.
The little squirrel scrambled up the tree. Naraku screamed like a little girl, leaped from the tree and landed smack on top of Sesshomaru. Sesshomaru was having a pleasant conversation with Namida, Yoru, Yasai, and InuYasha too.
"Ow." Came Sesshomaru's muffled reply. "What the hell do you weigh?"
Naraku got up and pulled Sesshomaru up with him to use him as a demon shield again. "I don't think that we should be talking about THAT! We should be talking about how we are going to prepare for when demon squirrels take over the world."
As Naraku went into excruciating detail about how we are all going to be ruled by demon squirrels and have to bow down to our demon squirrel overlords, Namida, Yoru, Sesshomaru, Yasai, and InuYasha turned their attention back to Akaineko. She was yet again batting the leaves of the tree and watching them fall with undivided attention.
Namida leaned her head into the midst of the group, "Watch this." She said and walked over to Akaineko.
When Akaineko spotted her she let out an amazed "Oooo." And reached up to poke Namida.
"No, bad." Namida said in a stern voice and grabbed Akaineko's hand. Namida's tone of voice changed to a tone that she would use with ether a young child or a retarded person, "Hey, Akaineko? What type of demon are you?"
"Kitty kitty!" Akaineko said with a very high tone of voice.
Sesshomaru smirked and everyone else burst out laughing as Namida walked back to the group. She looked very pleased with herself, ether pleased that she had made Sesshomaru smirk or the fact that she made them laugh at an embarrassed Akaineko.
Yoru wiped tears from her eyes again, "So how long does this last?" She asked Naraku who was still ranting about demon squirrels.
".and every time there is a demon squirrel monitor in the room we will have to say- What? Who dares to interrupt Naraku?!" He said looking at Yoru.
"Oh put a sock in it!" Namida said to Naraku, she was now standing next to Sesshomaru.
"All you were talking, no ranting, about was demon squirrel overlords." Sesshomaru said, sarcastically
"Were you even listening to me?!" Naraku snapped.
"Now why would I listen to something THAT stupid? And who would have thought a powerful demon, such as yourself, would be afraid of squirrels?" Sesshomaru would have said more but Namida tapped his shoulder and whispered, "Give it a rest, Fluffy."
Naraku glared at Sesshomaru, "It depends on the demon type, like k-9s tend to snap out of it quicker." He pointed to Namida and Yoru.
"We're a special breed." Sesshomaru said in an oddly high voice then lowered it again. "Damn! I can't believe I just said that! Can the potion affect natural born demons too?"
"It can." Naraku said
"How long?" Sesshomaru raised an eyebrow.
"Not very." Naraku said obviously mad about every one ignoring his 'Demon Squirrel Overlord' theory.
"Hey little brother, you've been oddly quiet. That's so unlike you." Sesshomaru was obviously making fun of InuYasha's big mouth.
"How do we know we can trust Naraku?" InuYasha said.
"Because." Yasai started.
"All you have to do is this." Namida finished. She grabbed the demon squirrel and quietly put it on Naraku's shoulder. (Needless to say it was foaming at the mouth and twitching.)
Naraku looked at his shoulder and ran in circles screaming. "Seven days until the squirrels invade! Death to us all!!"
Akaineko lunged forward and pulled his pants down as she landed. "Wow! Nice butt!" She said and smacked his butt.
Naraku quickly pulled his pants up and gave her a playful glare. "Good thing the potion will wear off soon."
"It has." Sesshomaru said. "She was herself when she did that. And I'm scarred for life."
Everyone, excluding Naraku, laughed horribly as Akaineko pet Naraku's hair.
Shinsetsu and Suwaru were the next to snap out of it. Kouga saw Suwaru, who was still in costume, and walked over to her.
"Why is she dressed like me?" Kouga said poking her.
"Stop it!" Suwaru said and poked him right in the eyes.
"Has anyone seen Sorayu?" Namida and Yoru said at the same time.
Sorayu came in to the clearing, as if on cue, with a large bag. Namida took one step forward and caused Sorayu's eyes to glow with insanity.
"My nuts! Go away you losers mine! Come on I'm eaten here! Go away! My nuts!" Sorayu said as she pet the bag of nuts that was taller than Naraku.
"Mystified"
It happened in slow motion, the bottle fell right out of Jakin's hands. Sesshomaru grabbed Rin and pulled her to a safe place, after all that potion could NOT be a good thing if it smelled THAT bad! He was going back to get Namida when a mist that was too thick to see through, filled the air. InuYasha had saved Kagome and was heading back for Yoru at the time. Miroku had saved Sango and was going to get Akaineko and Shinsetsu. Kirara had been directed to save the others.
As six girls tried to escape the smoke like mist filled their lungs and they couldn't breath. All eventually passed out.
As this went on, Kouga had been tracking Kagome and found the group, "What the hell is going on?" He asked.
Naraku leaped out of a nearby tree and startled the other conscious ones, "It seams that the bottle that had my demon transformation potion broke."
"What the hell can we do to save them?!" Sesshomaru actually showed a sign of anger and concern.
One of Shippo's distant family members named Yasai showed up and looked questioningly at the site, "What went wrong here?"
"YASAI!!!" Shippo leaped into Yasai's arms.
"Hey, Shippo." He smiled. He had red hair and a red fox tail that turned white at the tip.
Surprisingly enough the mist cleared within a minute. All of the six were unconscious. Miroku ran forward to check on Shinsetsu. InuYasha walked/ran to Yoru. Sesshomaru walked oddly fast to get to Namida. Kouga walked over to Sorayu and Yasai went to Suwaru. Naraku remained where he was but looked a bit concerned about Akaineko.
Sesshomaru was the first to notice the slightest change, "Her hair.is changing to silver."
Everyone examined the girl in front of them. Miroku found, by unknown ways, that Shinsetsu now had a birdlike tail.
"So the potion does work." Naraku said with a hint of shock in his voice.
All that were conscious glared at Naraku. The little squirrel came out of Namida's sleeve. The potion had affected it too. It now was much bigger, had two tails, and its teeth were now fangs. It turned to Naraku and its eyes turned red and it started to foam at the mouth.
Naraku shrieked, "Get it away!! I HATE SQUIRRELS!!!!!"
The unconscious girls woke up from his screaming. They were all shocked to see a cute boy looking down at them, all blushed a little, except Sorayu.
"That's odd." Naraku said getting up as fast as possible.
"What?" InuYasha looked at him.
"Well, Akaineko looks full demon, and some of the others don't. I heard that it's sapposed to take a while." Naraku said pointing it out to them.
It was true. Akaineko now had longer red hair, a cat tail that split creating two ends, she had yellow cat eyes, and seemed to be acting like a hyper cat. She leaped at a leaf and batted it playfully. Akaineko looked full demon and so did Suwaru. Suwaru had long brown hair, five brown fox tails, brown eyes that were focused on catching at least one of her five tails. Everyone else looked like a hanyu.
Sorayu had two little puffs of fur on her cheeks and a small squirrel tail. Her tail was bound to get bigger and she should have little squirrel ears coming in soon. She was focused on gathering nuts.
Shinsetsu had a bird tail that faded from black to purple, her eyes remained human, and her bird wings would grow off her arms but for bow they were small feathers. She should have talons on her hands and feet soon too. She tried to fly with her future wings.
Namida now had long, long silver hair, and blue demon eyes. She would have a fluffy dog tail soon and maybe a couple markings.
Yoru had long black hair that turned white at the tips, she had yellow wolf eyes. She would soon have a black wolf tail. Namida and Yoru eyed each other for a moment then tackled each other.
As this crazy seen played out Sesshomaru, InuYasha, Miroku, Naraku, Kouga, Yasai, Kagome, Sango, Shippo, and Rin (WAY too many people!) each had a very large sweat drop.
Namida and Yoru were the first to recover. They stopped fighting and looked around, very confused.
"What just happened?" Namida asked, eyeing Naraku.
"Malignant after effects exist." Naraku explained.
"There were a lot of long words in there, sir. We aren't but humble demons." Yoru said as she did a Jack Sparrow impression, Namida snickered. (I know that it wasn't Jack Sparrow that said that. It's just better to have someone do an impression of a drunken person than a zombie!)
Naraku sighed, *I'm surrounded by idiots.* He thought.
Sesshomaru explained before Naraku had a chance to, "It makes them act a little crazy for a while."
Naraku glared at Yoru, "Exactly!"
Their attention was drawn back to the other insane ones. Akaineko was saying, "Poke the birdie!" as she poked poor, flightless Shinsetsu with a stick, everyone sweat dropped.
"How long do these effects last?" Namida said nervous for Akaineko's sake. Namida didn't want her friend to end up in an asylum.
"It depends." Naraku said, he didn't want Akaineko to end up in one ether, in his mind she was to cute.
The little demon squirrel ran at Naraku, its fangs barred and fur on end.
"Keep it away!!" He screamed and ran behind Sesshomaru to use as a demon shield.
"Get off me!" Sesshomaru said, shoving Naraku away from him. "What's wrong with you?! It's just a squirrel!"
Namida walked over to the squirrel and picked it up by the tail and put it in Naraku's face. "How can you be afraid of such a cute little thing?" She said as the squirrel foamed at the mouth.
Yasai, InuYasha, Kouga, Kagome, Sango, Yoru, Shippo, Rin, and Miroku laughed horribly even Sesshomaru snickered.
"Keep it away!" Naraku screamed and ran up the nearest tree.
"Does he not know that squirrels live in trees?" Yoru said as she wiped a tear from her eye.
"Be free my friend!" Namida said as she put the rabid squirrel at the base of the tree.
The little squirrel scrambled up the tree. Naraku screamed like a little girl, leaped from the tree and landed smack on top of Sesshomaru. Sesshomaru was having a pleasant conversation with Namida, Yoru, Yasai, and InuYasha too.
"Ow." Came Sesshomaru's muffled reply. "What the hell do you weigh?"
Naraku got up and pulled Sesshomaru up with him to use him as a demon shield again. "I don't think that we should be talking about THAT! We should be talking about how we are going to prepare for when demon squirrels take over the world."
As Naraku went into excruciating detail about how we are all going to be ruled by demon squirrels and have to bow down to our demon squirrel overlords, Namida, Yoru, Sesshomaru, Yasai, and InuYasha turned their attention back to Akaineko. She was yet again batting the leaves of the tree and watching them fall with undivided attention.
Namida leaned her head into the midst of the group, "Watch this." She said and walked over to Akaineko.
When Akaineko spotted her she let out an amazed "Oooo." And reached up to poke Namida.
"No, bad." Namida said in a stern voice and grabbed Akaineko's hand. Namida's tone of voice changed to a tone that she would use with ether a young child or a retarded person, "Hey, Akaineko? What type of demon are you?"
"Kitty kitty!" Akaineko said with a very high tone of voice.
Sesshomaru smirked and everyone else burst out laughing as Namida walked back to the group. She looked very pleased with herself, ether pleased that she had made Sesshomaru smirk or the fact that she made them laugh at an embarrassed Akaineko.
Yoru wiped tears from her eyes again, "So how long does this last?" She asked Naraku who was still ranting about demon squirrels.
".and every time there is a demon squirrel monitor in the room we will have to say- What? Who dares to interrupt Naraku?!" He said looking at Yoru.
"Oh put a sock in it!" Namida said to Naraku, she was now standing next to Sesshomaru.
"All you were talking, no ranting, about was demon squirrel overlords." Sesshomaru said, sarcastically
"Were you even listening to me?!" Naraku snapped.
"Now why would I listen to something THAT stupid? And who would have thought a powerful demon, such as yourself, would be afraid of squirrels?" Sesshomaru would have said more but Namida tapped his shoulder and whispered, "Give it a rest, Fluffy."
Naraku glared at Sesshomaru, "It depends on the demon type, like k-9s tend to snap out of it quicker." He pointed to Namida and Yoru.
"We're a special breed." Sesshomaru said in an oddly high voice then lowered it again. "Damn! I can't believe I just said that! Can the potion affect natural born demons too?"
"It can." Naraku said
"How long?" Sesshomaru raised an eyebrow.
"Not very." Naraku said obviously mad about every one ignoring his 'Demon Squirrel Overlord' theory.
"Hey little brother, you've been oddly quiet. That's so unlike you." Sesshomaru was obviously making fun of InuYasha's big mouth.
"How do we know we can trust Naraku?" InuYasha said.
"Because." Yasai started.
"All you have to do is this." Namida finished. She grabbed the demon squirrel and quietly put it on Naraku's shoulder. (Needless to say it was foaming at the mouth and twitching.)
Naraku looked at his shoulder and ran in circles screaming. "Seven days until the squirrels invade! Death to us all!!"
Akaineko lunged forward and pulled his pants down as she landed. "Wow! Nice butt!" She said and smacked his butt.
Naraku quickly pulled his pants up and gave her a playful glare. "Good thing the potion will wear off soon."
"It has." Sesshomaru said. "She was herself when she did that. And I'm scarred for life."
Everyone, excluding Naraku, laughed horribly as Akaineko pet Naraku's hair.
Shinsetsu and Suwaru were the next to snap out of it. Kouga saw Suwaru, who was still in costume, and walked over to her.
"Why is she dressed like me?" Kouga said poking her.
"Stop it!" Suwaru said and poked him right in the eyes.
"Has anyone seen Sorayu?" Namida and Yoru said at the same time.
Sorayu came in to the clearing, as if on cue, with a large bag. Namida took one step forward and caused Sorayu's eyes to glow with insanity.
"My nuts! Go away you losers mine! Come on I'm eaten here! Go away! My nuts!" Sorayu said as she pet the bag of nuts that was taller than Naraku.