Hitukiri Batosai no Kikyo
3
Kaede was quite impressed with them. They had completed this task in almost no time at all. She thought of telling them what a wonderful team they made, but decided it might be safer not to. After all, they still had some "issues" to work out.
"Kaede, you should of seen the looks on their faces!" Inuyasha said. "Those idiots were scared out of their minds!"
"So the jackelopes are safe? And the other animals?" she asked.
"Thanks to me!" Inuyasha bragged.
"Excuse me, but wasn't it MY reputation that scared them into obeying us," Kikyo "kindly" reminded him. The fact that she was saying it in such a proper-sounding voice just made it that much more annoying. "Hey, what other animals were there?"
"Yes but if I hadn't of stepped in you wouldn't have thought to even tell them who we were," he "politely" said.
"Kappa. And I believe a very small village of tengu."
"Will you just shut up and stop bragging?! I swear you have the biggest ego!" Kikyo yelled. "Kappa and tengu?! But aren't those usually dangerous to people? Why'd you have us save them?"
"It's not bragging if it's true!!" replied Inuyasha. "Hey, if you would've told me that I would have been more than happy to do it."
"Kikyo, there are so few tengu they hardly make a difference, and kappa only hurt people in their waters. Besides I think those villagers knew about the kappa and most have taken precautions against them. There all safe. Those kappa are so harmless they could be kept as pets now," Kaede told them.
"Figures.. He wants to kill the cute creatures and save the dangerous ones."
"They're not dangerous!"
"Will you two stop arguing!"
"We're not arguing Kaede-sama," they said simultaneously before continuing. Kaede could see that they were both very strong, but if something difficult came along they would never be able to overcome it. They had to learn to cooperate. Therefore she had come up with a very different kind of task for them this time. She knew it would take some time, and didn't really expect them to complete it. She just wanted to see them work together on something. "Enough!" she said over the arguing. They stopped to listen. "I have decided your second task..."
"This is so stupid!" Inuyasha griped. Their second task was to put a stop to all of the criminal activities of the three cities of Edo(modern-day Tokyo), Yokohama, and Heian Kyo(modern-day Kyoto). Kaede thought they had left for Edo already, but they actually weren't but about half-a-mile from the shrine and had stopped in the forest to talk. Er, I guess complain would be a better word.
"You know Inuyasha, normally I would tell you to stop complaining, but for the first time I think I actually agree with you." Kikyo said.
"Wow, that really is bad."
"How are we supposed to stop all these people from doing as they please. We may have once been manslayers, but even if we were still batosai we couldn't kill all of them. There would be more bloodshed than that of a war," she moaned.
"And that wouldn't even be counting all the underground operations," Inuyasha added. "I can't believe the old lady even wants us to try to do this! And as if it weren't enough already, we have to keep all three cities crime-free for a whole week!"
"And it has to be the same week and we have to get proof that we've completed this stupid task," Kikyo complained. "We're going to be her age by the time this is over!"
"Hey! You might be, but I'm not old and decrepid like you, already." Inuyasha scoffed.
"What's that supposed to mean?!?! I'm younger than you, ya know!!!"
"Che, yeah right!! Old lady!" he barked back. 'Huh? Why doesn't she have a comeback?' he thought. 'She's too quiet..'
"Come on, let's not argue now," she said slightly upset. Inuyasha couldn't believe it, but he actually felt a little bit sorry for her. "We need to be thinking about how to complete Kaede-sama's task, not standing around wasting time like this."
"I guess your right.." 'Did I just say that!?' he thought.
"It's to bad we don't have someone important we can get to help us. Like some crime leader or something," she pouted.
Inuyasha's eyes grew wide. "What did you say?" he asked with a wide grin.
"Huh? You mean about a-"
"Come on! We're going to Heian Kyo!"
As they arrived at the capital city, Kikyo was taken in by the size of it. There were more people than she had ever seen in one place. She had been to Heian Kyo before, but it had been in the dead of night and around the time of O-ban. Of course, even here now it was late in the evening, and she couldn't imagine what this place would look like in the middle of day! She hadn't said much to Inuyasha recently. Though they had found plenty to "talk" about on the way here, they'd hardly spoken all day. She kept wondering why he had insisted on coming to Heian Kyo when Edo and Yokohama were much closer to Kaede's shrine.
"So why did we come here to start our mission, Inuyasha?" she asked.
Inuyasha hesitated. 'I know I can do this by myself, but she might get in the way. How am I supposed to do this... Girls are such a pain.'
"Inuyasha?" she asked again, a bit annoyed with him.
"Oh! Right! Look, I have to go see an old partner of mine. He's really not to friendly toward strangers, sooo... Do you think you could- uh... Hmm..." 'Got it!' he thought. "Here's an idea! If you think you could keep from being recognized by anyone, do you think you could try to get some help from the emperor?" he asked.
"HUH!?!?!"
"I mean.. Look, just act like a citizen. No one will ever no the difference." 'Maybe I'd better try something different,' he thought. "Besides, Kikyo, from what I've heard of your reputation most law abiding people don't know your name much less what you look like. We do need all the help we can get, right?"
To this she had to agree, though she figured Inuyasha had made up the thing about her reputation. It sounded too much like a complement to have been real. After all, Inuyasha still hated her, right?
The next road they came to they went their seperate ways. Kikyo wanted to see the city, but she knew she'd best not waste time. Therefore, she set off for the Emperor's palace.
Aimi:See.. Stupid task.. This actually started as an assignment in English class in seventh grade. We were supposed to write a story that was about a page or so. It had to be a five task version of The Labors of Hercules, and at first I couldn't think of what to write. Then I got this idea, Hey! What if KIKYO was a manslayer? (I really liked Ruroni Kenshin at the time.) And thus, my first fanfic was born! It turned into a twenty-two page front-and- back story which, needless to say, never got turned in. Heh-heh.. '. Oh well.. In any case you can see why the basic parts of the story are kinda dumb.. This story was started almost two years ago!!
3
Kaede was quite impressed with them. They had completed this task in almost no time at all. She thought of telling them what a wonderful team they made, but decided it might be safer not to. After all, they still had some "issues" to work out.
"Kaede, you should of seen the looks on their faces!" Inuyasha said. "Those idiots were scared out of their minds!"
"So the jackelopes are safe? And the other animals?" she asked.
"Thanks to me!" Inuyasha bragged.
"Excuse me, but wasn't it MY reputation that scared them into obeying us," Kikyo "kindly" reminded him. The fact that she was saying it in such a proper-sounding voice just made it that much more annoying. "Hey, what other animals were there?"
"Yes but if I hadn't of stepped in you wouldn't have thought to even tell them who we were," he "politely" said.
"Kappa. And I believe a very small village of tengu."
"Will you just shut up and stop bragging?! I swear you have the biggest ego!" Kikyo yelled. "Kappa and tengu?! But aren't those usually dangerous to people? Why'd you have us save them?"
"It's not bragging if it's true!!" replied Inuyasha. "Hey, if you would've told me that I would have been more than happy to do it."
"Kikyo, there are so few tengu they hardly make a difference, and kappa only hurt people in their waters. Besides I think those villagers knew about the kappa and most have taken precautions against them. There all safe. Those kappa are so harmless they could be kept as pets now," Kaede told them.
"Figures.. He wants to kill the cute creatures and save the dangerous ones."
"They're not dangerous!"
"Will you two stop arguing!"
"We're not arguing Kaede-sama," they said simultaneously before continuing. Kaede could see that they were both very strong, but if something difficult came along they would never be able to overcome it. They had to learn to cooperate. Therefore she had come up with a very different kind of task for them this time. She knew it would take some time, and didn't really expect them to complete it. She just wanted to see them work together on something. "Enough!" she said over the arguing. They stopped to listen. "I have decided your second task..."
"This is so stupid!" Inuyasha griped. Their second task was to put a stop to all of the criminal activities of the three cities of Edo(modern-day Tokyo), Yokohama, and Heian Kyo(modern-day Kyoto). Kaede thought they had left for Edo already, but they actually weren't but about half-a-mile from the shrine and had stopped in the forest to talk. Er, I guess complain would be a better word.
"You know Inuyasha, normally I would tell you to stop complaining, but for the first time I think I actually agree with you." Kikyo said.
"Wow, that really is bad."
"How are we supposed to stop all these people from doing as they please. We may have once been manslayers, but even if we were still batosai we couldn't kill all of them. There would be more bloodshed than that of a war," she moaned.
"And that wouldn't even be counting all the underground operations," Inuyasha added. "I can't believe the old lady even wants us to try to do this! And as if it weren't enough already, we have to keep all three cities crime-free for a whole week!"
"And it has to be the same week and we have to get proof that we've completed this stupid task," Kikyo complained. "We're going to be her age by the time this is over!"
"Hey! You might be, but I'm not old and decrepid like you, already." Inuyasha scoffed.
"What's that supposed to mean?!?! I'm younger than you, ya know!!!"
"Che, yeah right!! Old lady!" he barked back. 'Huh? Why doesn't she have a comeback?' he thought. 'She's too quiet..'
"Come on, let's not argue now," she said slightly upset. Inuyasha couldn't believe it, but he actually felt a little bit sorry for her. "We need to be thinking about how to complete Kaede-sama's task, not standing around wasting time like this."
"I guess your right.." 'Did I just say that!?' he thought.
"It's to bad we don't have someone important we can get to help us. Like some crime leader or something," she pouted.
Inuyasha's eyes grew wide. "What did you say?" he asked with a wide grin.
"Huh? You mean about a-"
"Come on! We're going to Heian Kyo!"
As they arrived at the capital city, Kikyo was taken in by the size of it. There were more people than she had ever seen in one place. She had been to Heian Kyo before, but it had been in the dead of night and around the time of O-ban. Of course, even here now it was late in the evening, and she couldn't imagine what this place would look like in the middle of day! She hadn't said much to Inuyasha recently. Though they had found plenty to "talk" about on the way here, they'd hardly spoken all day. She kept wondering why he had insisted on coming to Heian Kyo when Edo and Yokohama were much closer to Kaede's shrine.
"So why did we come here to start our mission, Inuyasha?" she asked.
Inuyasha hesitated. 'I know I can do this by myself, but she might get in the way. How am I supposed to do this... Girls are such a pain.'
"Inuyasha?" she asked again, a bit annoyed with him.
"Oh! Right! Look, I have to go see an old partner of mine. He's really not to friendly toward strangers, sooo... Do you think you could- uh... Hmm..." 'Got it!' he thought. "Here's an idea! If you think you could keep from being recognized by anyone, do you think you could try to get some help from the emperor?" he asked.
"HUH!?!?!"
"I mean.. Look, just act like a citizen. No one will ever no the difference." 'Maybe I'd better try something different,' he thought. "Besides, Kikyo, from what I've heard of your reputation most law abiding people don't know your name much less what you look like. We do need all the help we can get, right?"
To this she had to agree, though she figured Inuyasha had made up the thing about her reputation. It sounded too much like a complement to have been real. After all, Inuyasha still hated her, right?
The next road they came to they went their seperate ways. Kikyo wanted to see the city, but she knew she'd best not waste time. Therefore, she set off for the Emperor's palace.
Aimi:See.. Stupid task.. This actually started as an assignment in English class in seventh grade. We were supposed to write a story that was about a page or so. It had to be a five task version of The Labors of Hercules, and at first I couldn't think of what to write. Then I got this idea, Hey! What if KIKYO was a manslayer? (I really liked Ruroni Kenshin at the time.) And thus, my first fanfic was born! It turned into a twenty-two page front-and- back story which, needless to say, never got turned in. Heh-heh.. '. Oh well.. In any case you can see why the basic parts of the story are kinda dumb.. This story was started almost two years ago!!