Someday, Somehow
Chapter 6: When in doubt
Someday, somehow
gonna make it allright but
not right now
"You really know how to push an issue don't you, Koug," Sugimi said.
Koug picked himself off the grown, "It is not my fault that she has better taste in males."
Nikki face dropped as she tried to figure out what to say. How in the world did he come up with that conclusion? "Wait, I never said that!"
Sugimi didn't turn around, but looked tensely at the young male; his blood rushing through him, pounding in his brains. He flexed his fingers, allowing his claws to spread and sharpen. He was going to have fun ripping this pup to shreds.
Nikki turned one of the youkai. "Do something; they're going to kill each other."
The youkai looked at her as if she was nuts. Going in between two male youkai when they are fighting over a female was suicidal.
"They're going to kill each other," Nikki said.
"I doubt it, you aren't the first female they have fought over and you probable wouldn't be the last," he said.
Nikki didn't know wither to be insulted or not. She had heard her sister talk about men fighting over them as if they were trying to justify the man's death. Ayama even went as far as to say that a women beauty is measured by how many men have spilled blood for her. To Nikki it was a wasteful death, dieing over something as trivial as a woman's affections.
"Someone's going to have to stop this," she signs.
Sugimi stopped himself right before he pushed his claws right through Nikki flesh. She stood between him and the now fallen Koug, looking at him, daring him to push on.
Where did she come from and why did she stepped in between them?
"Nikki, I know your love for me is strong, but you don't need to protect me," Koug said, looking at her. He was impressed; she put himself between him and the pup, something a stronger youkai wouldn't even dare.
Nikki just rolled her eyes; something told her that this youkai lived in denial a lot. But right now wasn't the time to push to get him out of it.
"I refuse to be fought over like some sort of prize," she said.
"You have no say in this," Sugimi growled. How dare the bitch do this? She was his property and could do with her as she pleased. What right did she have to say who she would choose as a mate!
Why was he thinking about mating with her? She was just a passing fancy, something to be used the discarded with as soon as he was done.
"This pup needs to learn his place."
"And let me guess you're the one who going to teach me," Koug said back.
Sugimi tried to go around her, but found that she could move very quickly. Her small stature making it easy for her to move quickly
"Move!" he growled.
"Over my dead body," said Nikki, folding her arms and staring right back into his eyes. This fight was childish to begin with, she didn't belong to either of them, so why were they fighting about it?
"It will be over you're dead body, if you stay there," said Sugimi. The bitch was impossible, didn't she realize the dangers in getting involve.
"I'm not moving," she said, crossing her arms over her chest. She could be just as stubborn as anyone, especially since she didn't want the guilt over her head. "So you might as well stop?"
He was about to knock her out of the way when, he got a sniff of something. He winkled his nose, turning it towards the smell and then looking around.
She could feel the pack tense up, forgetting the fight that had been going on a couple of minutes ago.
"You smell that," she heard someone whisper.
"She couldn't smell a thing, but something in the way they were tensing up wasn't right.
"Sugimi?" she said, the first time she called him by his name. He liked the sound of it on her lips, like the sweat sound of rain in the summer. Her voice almost had a musical quality to it.
"Sugimi," Koug said "Get her out of here."
Sugimi grabbed her and pushed her towards the forest, "Go."
She looked at him and then back up at the sky. It had become dark as some strange looking fly balls of feathers filled it.
"What are they," she said staring up into the sky.
"WELL, WELL LOOK WHAT WE HAVE HERE, BROTHER," of them said in a loud booming voice. It didn't have one body, but two of them sticking out of the large round ball of feathers with a mouth. It was like some sort of bird had mated with a human, and this was its offspring. "DINNER PLUS A TASTE HUMAN FOR AFTERWORDS."
"They're known as harpies, birds of paradise," said Sugimi putting himself between them and the human. "You better go and hid, they eat human."
"I kind of figured that one," said Nikki. If those were the birds of paradise then she hate to see the ones of hell.
A couple of days ago she whished she could have a more exciting life, and now she was wishing that she would take back her boring life again. This was too much excitement. She ran towards the trees, hoping they would give her some sort of protection. They didn't look like the kind of birds that flew through things very easy.
Most of the younger ones from the pack had also taken themselves to hiding in the thick forage.
"Are we going to die," one of them asked looking up at the big birds.
"No," Nikki whispered back.
She watched as the birds swooped in to take on the wolves youkai. This would have been exciting if it was for the fact that the outcome of the battle would decided if they lived or die.
"Momma," she heard a cry sounding from the battle field, and look to see a young little cub in the middle of it.
"That Koug's son," said one of the children. Kouga had a son and he was talking about taking a mate? This was a strange world these creatures lived in.
"Stay here," she told the children as she ran through the forest. Hopefully none of those birds would notice the young cub or the human trying to rescue it.
One of the warrior had fallen leaving his sword squalling on the ground. Nikki quickly picked it up and continued towards the pup.
Sugimi ripped a parted another one of those damn harpies, personally he wouldn't participate in a territorial fight like this one, except he would have had a hard time staying in the back ground. They love youkai flesh as much as humans.
He whipped around to see his human sprinting across the battle field heading towards a cub that had been left behind in the chaos explosions.
At the same moment a harpie had spotted the easy prey and had descend on it. Nikki whipped the sword at him sending the harpie crying back in the air. The sword had to be heavy for her, but she seemed to manage it pretty well. He watched as she brought the sword back up to a defensive position holding it just a little higher then here head. The harpie laughed and went for her again, only to find out the little human was pretty good with a sword.
Her father would have been proud.
Nikki stood her grounds. As long as she could remember she had always been fascinated by the discipline of the sword. She used to practice on in, out in the woods, using the sticks that she would find. She would inmated the moves that she had seen the warriors do over and over again. She wasn't the greatest, but she could at least defend herself.
She refuses to rely on someone to protect her. Look where it landed her mother.
And right now she was very glad that she was the type to go against everything and do her own thing. The bird weren't letting up, and now had gone to get reinforcements.
"Great," she whispered to herself. One she could handle three was another story.
"I thought I told you to take cover," Sugimi growled, jumping infront of her.
"Working on that," she said scooping up the little youkai. All three of the harpies dived at her at once. Sugimi spring forward to meet them as Nikki jumped away. He got two of them, leaving the third one open to dive at Nikki.
Nikki changes directions quickly, trying to give herself the best angle in which to attack the harpie and protect the cub. She could hear the whimpering of it, and the feel of the battle all around her.
She smiled, dropping the cub at the last moment and plumage the sword into the side of it. It screamed, causing a couple of the harpies to look towards her.
"Funny how a weak human can kill one of your kind," said Sugimi taking a looked at the big one. "So do you want to continue this or not."
The king looked down at the battle field, counting the numbers of bodies to the number of stand9ing then look back at the youkai.
It was the second time she noticed that his eyes were red and his face was elongated. He looked farce and strong, something you don't want to trivial with.
"WHO ARE YOU," it boomed in a voice that seemed to shake the ground.
"I am the great dog lord of the west," he said. Nikki eyes wided, she figured he was a lower dog youkai, but to find out he was the one that people talk about behind their fans, or told stories about during long winter nights.
"WHAT BUSINESS DO YOU HAVE WITH THIS," it said.
"My business is none of your concern, harpie. Killing one being such as yourself means nothing to me. So I ask you again do you want to continue."
It looked at Nikki and then down at the body of the harpie that lie there. Nikki swallowed and raised her sword up to protect herself, she didn't like how it or they were looking at her.
"HUMAN, YOU DARE TO DEFILE ONE THA T IS BETTER," it said.
Nikki didn't say a thing but continue to look at it.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you," said Sugimi.
"WHY, DO YOU CLAIM THIS LOWELY BITCH AS YOURS,"
"She is the daughter of Kirokia, and you can see has the same skills as her father, but go ahead if you want."
The thing stopped and looked at her before flying away. She looked back at Sugimi, trying to figure out how he knew her father or at least knew the truth. Her step father had forbidden the talk about the man who once was lord; her mother had been put to death because of her outburst about him. And another question is why did he mention that? She hardly remembered him and stories about him didn't exist.
"So you don't claim her," said Koug, brushing himself off.
"I didn't say that," he said pushing past him and looking at her before turning away. "We leave in the morning."
He watched her move around the den, helping the healers with the injury. The human had earned their respected, which was apparent on the way they acted around her. Bravery was hold about as high as loyalty among these people and she did save the life of their leader's grandson.
He wasn't too surprise, she seemed to show a huge amount of bravery for a human. Her father would have been proud.
She stopped to talk to Koug, and laughted at what he said. He wanted to know what was going on between them, but he was still fuming from earlier.
How dare she throw herself at Koug. DIdn't she understand that she belong to him?
Not that it had matter before with the bitches whom he slept with.
So why was this eating at him? Why was he acting like this should matter?
Bitches were only good for one thing. What was between their legs.
She stopped and the light caught her hair, bring out the shades of brown in her hair and lightening her eyes. She turned and smiled at him and his breath caught. She was a strange mixture of beauty and strength that was always full of surprise.
He shook his head and headed out of the cave, needing a little air.
The sence in front of him was litter with fallen bodeies, which wasn't much better then the one inside.
The bodies didn't bothered him, it was hard to get through eight hundred of years of life without seeing death more then on one occation.
He walked to the edge of the clearing and disappeared into the trees.
She stepped outside, clearing her mind and not trying to think about what has happen.
In the last two days she had been taken from her home, attacked three times by being that before she thought were only old wise tales, kissed twice (three if you considered Koug slobbering on her) and now belong to a pack of man eating wolf youkai.
She kept her focus ahead as she walked through the after math of the battle. She was dirty and grimy and want to get rid of the feeling.
One of the females had told her about a private springs off in the woods. She wouldn't be disturbed. It would giver her, the privacy that she was craving.
She reached the pond, stripped out of her tattered cloths and dove in, letting the cool water wash away everything.
The sound of splashing water had brought him to the pond. Someone had entered his isolation, and it was too heavy to be a fish.
He peered down through the trees to see the tail end of her dip under the water.
Part of him wanted to strangle her from wondering way for the den and the other part was eagerly compliant to see her.
He was going to end this spell she put him under, here and now!
Author Notes
To LLJade One of my favorite things about the show is the whole Kouga, verse Inuyasha. Like Kagome said it is so middle schoolish. I figured what the hell, but it isn't Kouga but his father who has the crush.
To JayRay88, sorry about the grammar errors, I put these things out so fast that sometimes I don't have a chance to get it a good correcting. But thanks for pointing it out to me. As for Sugimi, I tired to give him both a little bit of both of his sons. I personally think that Inuyasha takes after his father a lot and so does Sess.
To Dark-Trinity Sess's mother plays a very important role in this. I wanted to write a fanfiction that is not only a love story, but a historical account and a political battle. I have taken elements from the show and manga and tried to explain how they have came to be. As for Nikki father, Nikki had to get her smarts and feistiness from someone, and I doubt that her mother would have given it too her.
For all those whole like Nikki, I didn't want a cut dry princess. This is a girl who is smart, feisty, but also caring and a fighter. Just like Kagome. You usually connect to people that are like people who are part of your life. I truly believe that Kagome and Inuyasha at the end will end up together.