Me: I'm happy to say I finally own IY! YEAH!!!
Inu Yasha: No you don't
Me: *pouts* Inu Yasha is right I don't own IY but Kumiko and Nereida are mine because I made them up.
Inu Yasha: Stop rambling and get on with the chapter. Oh and arrow-card you are right Sesshoumaru is Nereida's dad but you'll have to wait and see who her mom is.
Me: Inu Yasha is right and arigatou for all the reviews.
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"Listen to me. Your mom sent me here to tell you that the old miko made a mistake and sent you too far back in time."
"NANI!?!" Kumiko slowly advanced on Nereida. "And what is that suppose to mean?" Nereida swallowed nervously, she had been warned that Kumiko might get a little mad.
A little mad was an understatement. Nereida thought. Kumiko looked thoroughly pissed. Her eyes were narrow and her ears were up. Her claws, which for some reason she was able to retract to make them look somewhat normal, were extended to their full 5 inch, deadly, length and Nereida didn't really want to be on the other end of those. Right now Kumiko didn't care if her cover was blown she just wanted to kill Nereida. "Let me explain. What happened was the old miko misjudged the time and sent you a few years to far back. It is going to take a couple of months before they can send you to the right time."
"So I'm stuck here?"
"For now."
"Well guess what that means you're stuck here too." Kumiko said. Nereida thought for a moment.
"Shit!" At that moment Kumiko's ears picked up on the approaching footsteps and scent of her friends.
"Double shit." She hissed and flattened her ears and knocked Nereida over and clamped her hand over Nereida's forehead. "We'll have to tell Kaede-baba and hope she can help us cover our asses." She hissed. "Oi wench what are you doing?" Inu Yasha yelled at Kumiko. Kumiko was about to say a certain word when Nereida mouthed the word no.
"Nothing." She yanked Nereida off the ground and pushed her into Kaede's hut so fast no one had a chance to say anything. "Oi Kaede-baba where are you?"
"I'm coming Inu….oh Kumiko sorry, it's just sounded like Inu Yasha was in here." Kaede said.
"I…we… have something to tell you but you need to keep it a secret." Kumiko said and pushed Nereida to the ground. "Oh and Nereida why are you wearing MY kimono?"
"Because you left it at my place." Nereida answered. Kumiko rolled her eyes.
"You can trust me Kumiko. I'll keep your secret."
"Ok first of all I didn't fall down the well. I was sent here from the future. My parents are…well… Kagome and Inu Yasha." She started and let her ears pop up. Kaede looked slightly surprised. "See in my time there is no Kikyo and because of her I'm in danger of never getting born. So my parents sent me here to make sure that I do get born, but they can't know who I am. And this," she said and kick Nereida slightly. "Is my cousin Nereida. I can't tell you her mom's name but her dad is Sesshoumaru. She was sent her to tell me that I was sent to far back in time and it will take a couple of months before my parents can fix everything. I have a favor to ask of you Kaede." Kumiko said.
"Ask child."
"It has to do with Nereida. First is the crescent moon." She said. Kaede look at the marking on Nereida's head.
"I think I can hide that for you." Kaede said, she handed Nereida a wide ribbon. "Tie this around your head like a hair band. And the second is?" Nereida tie the ribbon around her forehead and it hid the mark perfectly.
"Nereida has a tail, is there anyway to get rid of it?" Nereida grabbed the afore mentioned appendage protectively. Until that moment it had been hidden by the material of her obi. The rust colored tail looked almost wolfish.
"NO!!! ANYTHING BUT IT!" She wailed. Outside Inu Yasha clamped his hands over his ears.
"What the hell is going on it there?" He yelled. Miroku put his hand on his friend's shoulder.
"Leave them be, Inu Yasha." He said. Kagome and Sango decided to take a walk in the woods. Inside the hut Kaede was trying to think of a way to hid Nereida's tail.
"We could always cut it off." Kumiko suggested flatly as she leaned against the wall. Arms cross in front of her and eyes closed. She didn't care what Kaede did as long as it kept her idiotic cousin from blown their cover.
NO WAY IN HELL ARE YOU CUTTING IT OFF!" Nereida yelled. Kumiko's ears flattened against her head.
"Scream like that again and I'll remove your tongue." She hissed.
"Someone is in a bitchy mood."
"Shut up. Oi Kaede got any ideas?" Kumiko asked.
"I could temporarily shrink it." Kaede said. "It would only last a month."
"I guess I could live with that." Nereida answered and loosened her grip on her tail.
"One problem we're going to be here for a few months." Kumiko replied and opened one eye.
"That can be fixed too, all Nereida has to do is take the potion again when it wears off." Kaede answered as she got a few ingredients. She opened one bottle and Kumiko put her hands over her nose.
"That stinks. What is that?" She asked while trying to not pass out from the smell.
"This is just part of the potion. Oh Kumiko I was wondering what night do you lose your Youkai blood and become human." Kaede asked.
"I don't seem to have that problem. Mom says it may have something to do with my miko blood." She answered, still holding her hand over her nose and mouth. Finally Kaede was finished with the potion and put all the ingredients away. Kumiko sniffed the air slightly and found that that horrible smell was gone. She removed her hand from her face and looked at Nereida, who had dozed off. A very Inu Yasha like smirk crossed her lips as she silently crept across the small distance between her and her cousin. She leaned close to her ear. "NEREIDA YOUR DAD IS HERE!" Nereida jumped to her feet and looked around wildly.
"Where's dad?" She asked franticly. Kumiko burst out laughing.
"Your dad isn't here. I just said that to see what you would do." She laughed. Nereida was about to trip Kumiko when Kaede came back to the room.
"Ok Nereida all you need to do is drink this." Kaede said and held out a cup. Nereida took the cup and sniffed it.
"This stuff stinks." She complained and held the cup away from her face. Kumiko pushed it back.
"Drink it." She commanded. Nereida shook her head no.
"NO WAY!"
"Either you drink it yourself or I'll pour it down your throat for you."
"You wouldn't."
"Wanna try me." Kumiko threatened. Nereida put the cup on the ground.
"Well I'm not drinking it and that is that." She said. Kumiko pounced on her cousin and knocked her to the ground. Using her knee to pin Nereida to the ground she held Nereida's nose shut with one hand.
"Oi Kaede hand me the cup." She said. Kaede handed Kumiko the cup. When Nereida went the take a breath Kumiko poured the contents in Nereida's mouth and held it shut. Nereida had no chose but to sallow the potion. After Kumiko made sure that is was all gone she got off Nereida and dusted her uniform off. "That wasn't so hard." She said. Nereida gagged.
"That was awful." She complained.
"Well it worked so shut up." She said. Nereida looked behind her and were she would normally see her tail she saw nothing.
"My beautiful tail is gone." She cried. Kumiko was about to smack her when Inu Yasha and Miroku came inside the hut.
"Oi Kaede-baba what is going on in here? I almost went deaf from all the yelling. And who is she?" Inu Yasha wanted to know.
"First of all did you hear anything?" Kumiko asked. She looked pretty pissed off and that for some reason scared Inu Yasha, but he wasn't going to admit that so he just shook his head no. "Ok good. Her name is Nereida and she's my cousin. I'm not sure how she got here but my guess is she decided to follow me like she always does." Kumiko said. Nereida just nodded not wanting to get Kumiko anymore pissed off incase she started to resort to violence to blow off some steam like she always did.
"What Kumiko said is true. My name is Nereida and I am her cousin. I did follow her because she always leaves me out of everything." She said.
"I always leave you out because out always mess everything up." Kumiko said.
"Please no fighting ladies." Miroku said.
"Oh be quiet." Kumiko said as she sat down. She crossed her arms in front of her again and closed her eyes. A tense quiet filled the hut and no one was eager to break it. It stayed like that until Sango and Kagome came back from their walk.
"Why is everyone so quiet?" Kagome asked.
"Kumiko and Nereida were fighting." Kaede said.
"Who is Nereida?" Sango asked.
"She is." Kumiko said, not opening her eyes, and pointed to Nereida who was leaning against the opposite wall. "And before you ask she's my cousin and she followed me here."
"Like I wanted to be here. I'd rather be dead then to be stuck here with you." Nereida said. Kumiko opened her eyes and leaned forward.
"I can make your wish come true." She threatened.
Stop threatening your cousin. Her mom said.
"Stop threatening your cousin." Kagome said.
"Feh." She said and left the hut. "God damn, baka, moronic cousin." She grumbled as she headed towards the forest. She sat under a nice shady tree and closed her eyes when something jumped on her head. As a natural reaction Kumiko pinned the thing against the tree behind her.
"You don't have to be so mean to me." The thing said.
"Sorry Shippo. I didn't realize it was you." Kumiko said as she put Shippo on the ground beside her.
"Why are you out here by yourself?" Shippo asked.
"I needed to get away from my cousin, who decided to follow me, before I did something I would regret." Kumiko answered. "But why are you out here?"
"Well don't tell anyone but sometimes if I feel sad or when Inu Yasha bugs me too much I like to come out into the forest and pretend that I'm a great kitsune like my dad was and this entire place is MY territory. Stupid I know." Shippo said and blushed due to his embarrassment.
"Actually Shippo I don't think that is stupid at all. If you want while I'm here if you ever want me to come and play with you I will. I can be the big bad Youkai that is trying to take your territory as her own." She said in a mocked tough guy tone and lunged at Shippo, who giggled and ran up the tree. "Hey no fair."
"If you're a big bad Youkai come and get me." Shippo giggled. Kumiko laughed and grabbed the lowest branch and hoisted herself up. Thankfully she knew how to climb trees without using her hanyou strength. She was a few feet from Shippo when someone called her name.
"Kumiko, Shippo you guys out here?" The voice sounded a lot like Kagome. Shippo jumped on Kumiko's shoulder as she climbed down the tree.
"Hai Kagome. We're over here." Kumiko called out as she jumped from the lowest branch to the ground. Shippo was amazed at how lightly she landed but said nothing. Kagome ran over to where they were.
"You shouldn't be out here by yourself." Kagome said.
"Why not?" Kumiko asked as they walked back towards the hut.
"Because Sesshoumaru is around here somewhere and if you ran into him…let's just say that that isn't a good thing." Kagome answered.
"Oh ok then, but I wasn't alone. Shippo was with me." Kumiko said. The afore mentioned kitsune was perched on Kumiko's shoulder.
"That's right. I was with Kumiko. I like her a lot. She's nicer than Inu Yasha" Shippo said.
"I'm glad you like me because I like you too Shippo. And isn't Inu Yasha nice to a kawaii thing like you?" Kumiko said. Shippo smiled but shook his head no.
"No Inu Yasha hits me all the time." He said.
"That isn't very nice."
"But then Kagome 'sits' in for it." Shippo told her.
"Good he deserves it." Kumiko said. Kagome laughed at the instant friendship between Kumiko and Shippo.
It's nice to see that Shippo has someone other then me to talk to. And it seems that Shippo likes her a lot. Maybe he won't cling to me so much now and I can spend more time searching for the stupid shards that Inu Yasha wants. Even though I don't mind him clinging to me but it slows me down when Inu Yasha counts on me to find the shards. Kagome thought. That's all he seems to care about is the shards. Maybe he could care for me… In my dreams maybe. Kagome thought sadly. What am I thinking he only cares for that walking clay pot. I'm just her reincarnation who can just so happens to be able to sense the shards of the Shikon on Tama that Inu Yasha needs to become a full Youkai.
"What's wrong Kagome?" Shippo asked when he noticed how quiet Kagome was.
"Nothing Shippo. Nothing at all." Kagome smiled at the kitsune's worry. At that time they got back to the hut. Kumiko refused to look at Nereida. An vise versa.
"About time wench. Let's get going there are shards to be collected." Inu Yasha said and with that everyone bid Kaede farewell and left the village.
Inu Yasha: No you don't
Me: *pouts* Inu Yasha is right I don't own IY but Kumiko and Nereida are mine because I made them up.
Inu Yasha: Stop rambling and get on with the chapter. Oh and arrow-card you are right Sesshoumaru is Nereida's dad but you'll have to wait and see who her mom is.
Me: Inu Yasha is right and arigatou for all the reviews.
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"Listen to me. Your mom sent me here to tell you that the old miko made a mistake and sent you too far back in time."
"NANI!?!" Kumiko slowly advanced on Nereida. "And what is that suppose to mean?" Nereida swallowed nervously, she had been warned that Kumiko might get a little mad.
A little mad was an understatement. Nereida thought. Kumiko looked thoroughly pissed. Her eyes were narrow and her ears were up. Her claws, which for some reason she was able to retract to make them look somewhat normal, were extended to their full 5 inch, deadly, length and Nereida didn't really want to be on the other end of those. Right now Kumiko didn't care if her cover was blown she just wanted to kill Nereida. "Let me explain. What happened was the old miko misjudged the time and sent you a few years to far back. It is going to take a couple of months before they can send you to the right time."
"So I'm stuck here?"
"For now."
"Well guess what that means you're stuck here too." Kumiko said. Nereida thought for a moment.
"Shit!" At that moment Kumiko's ears picked up on the approaching footsteps and scent of her friends.
"Double shit." She hissed and flattened her ears and knocked Nereida over and clamped her hand over Nereida's forehead. "We'll have to tell Kaede-baba and hope she can help us cover our asses." She hissed. "Oi wench what are you doing?" Inu Yasha yelled at Kumiko. Kumiko was about to say a certain word when Nereida mouthed the word no.
"Nothing." She yanked Nereida off the ground and pushed her into Kaede's hut so fast no one had a chance to say anything. "Oi Kaede-baba where are you?"
"I'm coming Inu….oh Kumiko sorry, it's just sounded like Inu Yasha was in here." Kaede said.
"I…we… have something to tell you but you need to keep it a secret." Kumiko said and pushed Nereida to the ground. "Oh and Nereida why are you wearing MY kimono?"
"Because you left it at my place." Nereida answered. Kumiko rolled her eyes.
"You can trust me Kumiko. I'll keep your secret."
"Ok first of all I didn't fall down the well. I was sent here from the future. My parents are…well… Kagome and Inu Yasha." She started and let her ears pop up. Kaede looked slightly surprised. "See in my time there is no Kikyo and because of her I'm in danger of never getting born. So my parents sent me here to make sure that I do get born, but they can't know who I am. And this," she said and kick Nereida slightly. "Is my cousin Nereida. I can't tell you her mom's name but her dad is Sesshoumaru. She was sent her to tell me that I was sent to far back in time and it will take a couple of months before my parents can fix everything. I have a favor to ask of you Kaede." Kumiko said.
"Ask child."
"It has to do with Nereida. First is the crescent moon." She said. Kaede look at the marking on Nereida's head.
"I think I can hide that for you." Kaede said, she handed Nereida a wide ribbon. "Tie this around your head like a hair band. And the second is?" Nereida tie the ribbon around her forehead and it hid the mark perfectly.
"Nereida has a tail, is there anyway to get rid of it?" Nereida grabbed the afore mentioned appendage protectively. Until that moment it had been hidden by the material of her obi. The rust colored tail looked almost wolfish.
"NO!!! ANYTHING BUT IT!" She wailed. Outside Inu Yasha clamped his hands over his ears.
"What the hell is going on it there?" He yelled. Miroku put his hand on his friend's shoulder.
"Leave them be, Inu Yasha." He said. Kagome and Sango decided to take a walk in the woods. Inside the hut Kaede was trying to think of a way to hid Nereida's tail.
"We could always cut it off." Kumiko suggested flatly as she leaned against the wall. Arms cross in front of her and eyes closed. She didn't care what Kaede did as long as it kept her idiotic cousin from blown their cover.
NO WAY IN HELL ARE YOU CUTTING IT OFF!" Nereida yelled. Kumiko's ears flattened against her head.
"Scream like that again and I'll remove your tongue." She hissed.
"Someone is in a bitchy mood."
"Shut up. Oi Kaede got any ideas?" Kumiko asked.
"I could temporarily shrink it." Kaede said. "It would only last a month."
"I guess I could live with that." Nereida answered and loosened her grip on her tail.
"One problem we're going to be here for a few months." Kumiko replied and opened one eye.
"That can be fixed too, all Nereida has to do is take the potion again when it wears off." Kaede answered as she got a few ingredients. She opened one bottle and Kumiko put her hands over her nose.
"That stinks. What is that?" She asked while trying to not pass out from the smell.
"This is just part of the potion. Oh Kumiko I was wondering what night do you lose your Youkai blood and become human." Kaede asked.
"I don't seem to have that problem. Mom says it may have something to do with my miko blood." She answered, still holding her hand over her nose and mouth. Finally Kaede was finished with the potion and put all the ingredients away. Kumiko sniffed the air slightly and found that that horrible smell was gone. She removed her hand from her face and looked at Nereida, who had dozed off. A very Inu Yasha like smirk crossed her lips as she silently crept across the small distance between her and her cousin. She leaned close to her ear. "NEREIDA YOUR DAD IS HERE!" Nereida jumped to her feet and looked around wildly.
"Where's dad?" She asked franticly. Kumiko burst out laughing.
"Your dad isn't here. I just said that to see what you would do." She laughed. Nereida was about to trip Kumiko when Kaede came back to the room.
"Ok Nereida all you need to do is drink this." Kaede said and held out a cup. Nereida took the cup and sniffed it.
"This stuff stinks." She complained and held the cup away from her face. Kumiko pushed it back.
"Drink it." She commanded. Nereida shook her head no.
"NO WAY!"
"Either you drink it yourself or I'll pour it down your throat for you."
"You wouldn't."
"Wanna try me." Kumiko threatened. Nereida put the cup on the ground.
"Well I'm not drinking it and that is that." She said. Kumiko pounced on her cousin and knocked her to the ground. Using her knee to pin Nereida to the ground she held Nereida's nose shut with one hand.
"Oi Kaede hand me the cup." She said. Kaede handed Kumiko the cup. When Nereida went the take a breath Kumiko poured the contents in Nereida's mouth and held it shut. Nereida had no chose but to sallow the potion. After Kumiko made sure that is was all gone she got off Nereida and dusted her uniform off. "That wasn't so hard." She said. Nereida gagged.
"That was awful." She complained.
"Well it worked so shut up." She said. Nereida looked behind her and were she would normally see her tail she saw nothing.
"My beautiful tail is gone." She cried. Kumiko was about to smack her when Inu Yasha and Miroku came inside the hut.
"Oi Kaede-baba what is going on in here? I almost went deaf from all the yelling. And who is she?" Inu Yasha wanted to know.
"First of all did you hear anything?" Kumiko asked. She looked pretty pissed off and that for some reason scared Inu Yasha, but he wasn't going to admit that so he just shook his head no. "Ok good. Her name is Nereida and she's my cousin. I'm not sure how she got here but my guess is she decided to follow me like she always does." Kumiko said. Nereida just nodded not wanting to get Kumiko anymore pissed off incase she started to resort to violence to blow off some steam like she always did.
"What Kumiko said is true. My name is Nereida and I am her cousin. I did follow her because she always leaves me out of everything." She said.
"I always leave you out because out always mess everything up." Kumiko said.
"Please no fighting ladies." Miroku said.
"Oh be quiet." Kumiko said as she sat down. She crossed her arms in front of her again and closed her eyes. A tense quiet filled the hut and no one was eager to break it. It stayed like that until Sango and Kagome came back from their walk.
"Why is everyone so quiet?" Kagome asked.
"Kumiko and Nereida were fighting." Kaede said.
"Who is Nereida?" Sango asked.
"She is." Kumiko said, not opening her eyes, and pointed to Nereida who was leaning against the opposite wall. "And before you ask she's my cousin and she followed me here."
"Like I wanted to be here. I'd rather be dead then to be stuck here with you." Nereida said. Kumiko opened her eyes and leaned forward.
"I can make your wish come true." She threatened.
Stop threatening your cousin. Her mom said.
"Stop threatening your cousin." Kagome said.
"Feh." She said and left the hut. "God damn, baka, moronic cousin." She grumbled as she headed towards the forest. She sat under a nice shady tree and closed her eyes when something jumped on her head. As a natural reaction Kumiko pinned the thing against the tree behind her.
"You don't have to be so mean to me." The thing said.
"Sorry Shippo. I didn't realize it was you." Kumiko said as she put Shippo on the ground beside her.
"Why are you out here by yourself?" Shippo asked.
"I needed to get away from my cousin, who decided to follow me, before I did something I would regret." Kumiko answered. "But why are you out here?"
"Well don't tell anyone but sometimes if I feel sad or when Inu Yasha bugs me too much I like to come out into the forest and pretend that I'm a great kitsune like my dad was and this entire place is MY territory. Stupid I know." Shippo said and blushed due to his embarrassment.
"Actually Shippo I don't think that is stupid at all. If you want while I'm here if you ever want me to come and play with you I will. I can be the big bad Youkai that is trying to take your territory as her own." She said in a mocked tough guy tone and lunged at Shippo, who giggled and ran up the tree. "Hey no fair."
"If you're a big bad Youkai come and get me." Shippo giggled. Kumiko laughed and grabbed the lowest branch and hoisted herself up. Thankfully she knew how to climb trees without using her hanyou strength. She was a few feet from Shippo when someone called her name.
"Kumiko, Shippo you guys out here?" The voice sounded a lot like Kagome. Shippo jumped on Kumiko's shoulder as she climbed down the tree.
"Hai Kagome. We're over here." Kumiko called out as she jumped from the lowest branch to the ground. Shippo was amazed at how lightly she landed but said nothing. Kagome ran over to where they were.
"You shouldn't be out here by yourself." Kagome said.
"Why not?" Kumiko asked as they walked back towards the hut.
"Because Sesshoumaru is around here somewhere and if you ran into him…let's just say that that isn't a good thing." Kagome answered.
"Oh ok then, but I wasn't alone. Shippo was with me." Kumiko said. The afore mentioned kitsune was perched on Kumiko's shoulder.
"That's right. I was with Kumiko. I like her a lot. She's nicer than Inu Yasha" Shippo said.
"I'm glad you like me because I like you too Shippo. And isn't Inu Yasha nice to a kawaii thing like you?" Kumiko said. Shippo smiled but shook his head no.
"No Inu Yasha hits me all the time." He said.
"That isn't very nice."
"But then Kagome 'sits' in for it." Shippo told her.
"Good he deserves it." Kumiko said. Kagome laughed at the instant friendship between Kumiko and Shippo.
It's nice to see that Shippo has someone other then me to talk to. And it seems that Shippo likes her a lot. Maybe he won't cling to me so much now and I can spend more time searching for the stupid shards that Inu Yasha wants. Even though I don't mind him clinging to me but it slows me down when Inu Yasha counts on me to find the shards. Kagome thought. That's all he seems to care about is the shards. Maybe he could care for me… In my dreams maybe. Kagome thought sadly. What am I thinking he only cares for that walking clay pot. I'm just her reincarnation who can just so happens to be able to sense the shards of the Shikon on Tama that Inu Yasha needs to become a full Youkai.
"What's wrong Kagome?" Shippo asked when he noticed how quiet Kagome was.
"Nothing Shippo. Nothing at all." Kagome smiled at the kitsune's worry. At that time they got back to the hut. Kumiko refused to look at Nereida. An vise versa.
"About time wench. Let's get going there are shards to be collected." Inu Yasha said and with that everyone bid Kaede farewell and left the village.
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Me: Ok I think I'm getting better at this.
Inu Yasha: Whatever.
Me: Shut up. Anyways Read and review.