Oh! I'm still alive! I haven't died yet, so don't worry...my ideas are
getting confused so the plot won't make any sense until...maybe ever? Oh!
And since I've never been to Tokyo, or Japan, I'm going to use the power of
imagination to fill in any gray areas I come across...heh-heh...
And the /talktalktalk/ means Ryou talking to Bakura and the
talktalktalkmeans Bakura talking to his other. See? That's an easy
way to understand, yes? So it's for Ryou and for Bakura. Got
it? Good.
Disclaimer: I have four cats. A white one with brown spots, a gray one with white splotches, a black and white one, and a brown tabby. Huh. That's not really much of a disclaimer, is it? Okay. I don't own Inuyasha or Yugioh characters. They belong to the Takahashis. (that's plural form of Takahashi). Are they related? Oh well. Some characters and such in this story do belong to my imagination and me though, so don't take them. Or else the sky will run crimson with the blood of good-for-nothing thieves and the tears of the world will fall on my happy soul.
Chapter 3: Tokyo Mayhem?
Tokyo, Japan. Sunday Afternoon.
"Stop! Come back here Inuyasha!" shouted Kagome as she raced after the hanyou. "Don't you dare make me say it!"
The crowded sidewalks of Tokyo parted as Kagome rushed through them, while Inuyasha on the other hand had started jumping across the rooftops of the cars lined up in the street, due to heavy traffic of some sort. He was dressed in modern day clothes instead of his red attire.
"Hey! Watch it you maniac!" yelled one of the people in one of the cars Inuyasha was jumping on.
"Damn it you!" cried another driver.
"Holy sht! Watch where you're goin'!" And on and on they went as a thoroughly pissed Kagome followed the trails of yells and screams that rent the air. Though the traffic jam seemed to get even worse.
Well, let's go back an hour or so earlier...
Tokyo, Japan. Sunday Morning and Noon.
A crowd of people rushed off the subway as the doors swished open. Footsteps clattered upon the ground as the busy people got off and went to where they were going or went off to get ready for a busy day ahead or one that had already started.
A shy white-haired youth stepped off the subway, lugging a large suitcase behind him. It dragged along on tiny clattering wheels as he pulled the handle behind him.
He really didn't seem to be paying attention to the path in front of him. He seemed to wander about aimlessly, his eyes averted to the ground and not noticing the surroundings much as he walked onward. No one knew about the conflict that was going on in his head...
/Yami,/ said Ryou. /Why did you bring me to Tokyo?/
Didn't we already have this discussion?replied Bakura coolly to his other. Bakura sat content in his soul room, listening to Ryou's complaints.
/No, Yami, we didn't./
Yes we did.
/No we didn't./
Yes, we did.
/No, we di-/ Ryou slammed straight into something large...or rather someone...
"Oh, excuse me sir," said Ryou, looking up at the huge man in front of him.
"'Sir'? Don't call me sir, please. And that's quite all right young man," said the uh...man. (Too much repetition....)
The man was broad shouldered and had a friendly face. He grinned at Ryou, his eyes filled with laughter. "You don't need to apologize, though maybe I should, since I wasn't paying any attention to where I was going." He tipped up his tan hat and walked away with a brown suitcase swinging in his hand.
"He was polite," said Ryou aloud.
Hm. I don't trust him,said Bakura to his other, squirming around a bit in his soul room.
/You don't trust anyone./ stated Ryou flatly.
That's because in this time period, no one can be trusted except for a choice few.
/So why did you bring me to Tokyo? We were fine in Domino City with Yugi and the others, right?/ asked Ryou to Bakura.
Well...Bakura said, trailing off slightly. Maybe there were too many bullies there for comfort, especially when your body comes with a built in sign saying, "Hit me! I'm pathetic! I'm weak!"
/Is that the only reason?/ Ryou asked dryly, in an irate tone.
There is also something else in Tokyo that I'm looking for...
/Like what?/
Nothin'
/Then what are we going to do? Where are we going to live? How did you pay for the journey anyways? Who did you steal from?! Answer my bloody questions, dammit!/ Ryou blushed at his temper and language. /I mean, what could have possessed you to bring me here? I know what possessed me, that would be you.../
Well, school just let out for a week or two right?He felt Ryou's mental nod. Then you can vacation here in Tokyo for a bit, take in the sights for a while. It won't be so bad, really.
/But-/
Don't worry! It'll be a good experience for you to travel somewhere else and be away from Domino City for a while. You should do some exploring an touring around, take in the sights a bit, eh? You should be used to moving around by now at least. Just send your father a letter explaining that you wanted to visit a friend in Tokyo for a while. Not very long, okay?
/Well,/ said Ryou, thinking through about this. /Maybe it won't be so bad to go somewhere away from--hey! Wait a minute! You are avoiding the questions and you're trying to get me to go along with this new whim of yours! Well who'd you still all this stuff from?! The money, the jewels, and the diamond-studded cat collar?!/ At this Ryou pulled out a handful of large bills, sparkling jewels, and a small collar with some fur attacked still, out of his pocket. /Didn't think I'd find this did you!?/
You needed the money. Really. And besides, I didn't take that money or the jewels. The owners just happened to misplace them and I found them.
/What about the cat collar? Did the cat misplace its neck and you happened to find this attached? Huh?/
You are getting out of line here Ryou! Why, if I weren't so damned tired from the events that happened yesterday, you'd find a few unexpected pains and troubles right now.
/What? Did the cat you took the collar from give you a nasty liddle scratch? Here, let me see and I'll pour some burning hot liquid over it! And what about this,/ Ryou pulled out a coiled cord of gold and showed it to Bakura. /What's this? Who'd you take this from? It looks expensive and dangerous. Were you planning on using this on someone? Answer me!/
Bakura peered at the orbs on the ends of the gold cord. Imprinted, or rather carved into the sides of the orbs were not the millennium eye symbols like the last time. Now they had a pattern of feathers, surround the two orbs, and the orbs were no longer gold, as they were earlier. They had a silver-ish lavender gleam in them and looked nothing like something normally found on earth. And alternating between the pattern of engraved feathers were tiny blades, embedded in the objects.
Hm, thought Bakura staring at the object in question. I got that from someone. Put it somewhere safe, I want to look at it later. Now if you don't mind, I need some sleep after all that work.Bakura closed off the discussion with a mental barrier between them as a blockade.
/Bakura?/ No reply, though an audible snore could be heard somewhere. /Fine then./
Ryou started looking around. Uh...where am I? he thought. He had somehow managed to get out of the subway station and into the city, but now, he was lost. He looked around to see a few cars in the roads and some shops that had just opened up.
Now Ryou stopped and grabbed for his suitcase. He groped around in one of the pockets until his fingertips felt something. He pulled out a few maps. Ha, thought Ryou to himself, I knew I saw him put some maps in this pocket...
He looked at it...and couldn't read it. Bakura had scribbled over everything with a giant marker that covered everything in site. It seemed he had planned several things on these maps, and managed to scribble over every word and street. Then in a finer scrawl he had managed to re-write certain things...in Egyptian!
"Oh shoot! Dancing pink elephants rolled in beeswax!" cried Ryou aloud as passerbys gave him strange looks. "Oh! somebody please help me find an apartment? Or help me get somewhere? Anybody?..." Ryou trailed off as nobody seemed to notice him.
Ryou walked up to an old couple and asked, "Could you please point me in the direction of a decent hotel? I'm visiting Tokyo on my vacation, and need a place to stay."
"Oh, what a polite young man. You could go follow that street over there," said the old woman, "and then turn left at the intersection. Go straight until you see a building with big letters on the front saying "Shining Jewel." That's a nice hotel to go to."
Thank you," said Ryou, as he bowed politely to them and left.
"Such a nice boy," said the old woman wistfully.
"Too bad we were told to tell them about any white-haired persons we see," said the old man regretfully. "But that's the price we have to pay for power."
And they walked on in silence, toward a nearby pay phone.
Ryou reached the intersection and turned left. His rolling suitcase was making an annoying rumbling sound as he dragged it along. Was it just him, or did it suddenly become heavier? He started pulling harder, thinking nothing of it, though beads of sweat started to form on his head. He looked behind him and saw...
"Gah!" he yelped, dropping the suitcase handle and leaping forward a few steps away from the sight.
There, sitting atop the suitcase was a girl, her back turned from Ryou and her hand held up. Resting on her hand was a bird similar somehow to Skull Red Bird. This bird had slender, graceful features and burning slits of eyes. It stared at Ryou fiercely and Ryou had been taken aback by the piercing gaze.
Unlike Skull Red Bird, this bird was a soft lavender color, rather than the reddish-violet of Skull Red. The sharp golden beak glistened and the crest on its head shown a reddish color, or maybe dried blood colored. Its flaring eyes stared at Ryou and he gasped.
"Um, hello," said Ryou meekly toward the stranger. The girl had a huge floppy hat on her head and her hair was down. She turned and smiled at Ryou.
"Hello yourself silly!" she said pleasantly.
"Why are you sitting on my suitcase?" he asked.
"Because I was tired of walking, duh!" She got off and the bird flew off and away into the sky. She looked at Ryou with glinting purple eyes. "You do know that you're kinda weak right? I mean, you couldn't even drag the suitcase along on it's wheels with a bit of added weight."
Ryou blushed. He was not that weak! "Have we met somewhere before?" he asked her. "You seem rather familiar."
"Well in a way, we've met. I've met many people in my lifetime, and you can be sure that they never leave unaffected. But before I discuss with you the pains I've been through, I think you'll want to deal with that." She pointed behind him and he saw an even more surprising sight.
Behind him, Ryou saw something terrifying and amazing. There was a rather large creature stomping its way toward the terrified white-haired boy. It stood a good few stories above him.
The monster had large thumping paws, a stout furry body, and a long lashing tail. It had the head of a strange beast with long yellowed claws and teeth with storming green eyes. It came marching up the road with thunderous steps.
People saw it and started running away in terror. The monster seemed not to notice the people scattering about in front of it and casting horrified yells as it walked forward, step-by-step. It was marching right for Ryou.
Cars slammed on their brakes as they came to the intersection and saw the beast in all its rage. They jumped out of their cars and ran, seeing no way to back out of the jam.
"Well? Aren't you going to do something about it?" said Sheira expectantly looking at Ryou.
Ryou laughed nervously. He tried calling to his yami, but to no avail. All that could be heard was a light breathing sound. "I don't think I can do anything, !"
He and Sheira took off in the opposite direction that the monster was at. It still marched steadily forward.
Sheira yelled as she ran, "how pathetic! Dammit!" She was dragging Ryou's suitcase along behind her on it's tiny little wheels, skittering and thumping against the ground. "I thought that you might at least something to defend yourself, but I guess it's only your other that has that kind of magic, eh?"
Ryou cried out, "Sorry if I can't help at the moment! Try asking later when my other's awake! And how'd you know about tha--" He tripped and fell, while Sheira turned back and ran toward the beast, dropping the suitcase behind her.
"Inuyasha!" shouted Kagome. Apparently she didn't notice the bunch of people running past her in hysterics and in the opposite direction she was currently headed in. She could barely see Inuyasha with his hair flopping up and down as he jumped. And she didn't notice the screams and shouts of anger and terror that now occupied the air.
"SIT!"
The eeire pink glow could be seen up ahead somewhere. Good, not too far away now...
"Sit!"
She saw a body fall ahead of her. Long snowy white hair cascaded over the person's face as she neared him.
"There you are, Inuyasha!" she looked up and suddenly noticed the monster looming ahead and could hear the screams. "Oh no!" And upon instinct to get away, she grabbed the white-haired person's wrist and started running away from the beast with the rest of the crowd.
Inuyasha had smelled the scent of a demon of some sort. He had started to rush toward it but all Kagome could do was yell and threaten him.
So he took it upon himself to find out what it was. And he saw a huge creature. It towered above him and the frantic screaming people. Oh no! People were in trouble.
"SIT!"
"Oomph!" Inuyasha crashed down into the ground in front of the creature.
"Sit!"
He was now driven even farther into the floor, forming a personal pit in the middle of the street.
"Damn you, Kagome," muttered Inuyasha under his breath.
Regaining his composure, he got up and attacked the beast with his claws. With a single sweeping motion, he slashed at the beast. The attack did no damage at all, and the monster seemed to absorb it. It opened its great fanged mouth and blew out a green blasting beam.
It hit Inuyasha head on. Though, unlike the cars and parts of the sidewalk, Inuyasha did not melt or disintegrate. He got hit and was slammed into the ground. "Damn you! And that did not hurt!"
He got up and got out his sword Tetsusaiga. "You wanna piece of this?" He leapt toward it and swung hard down at it once he had jumped up above it. The sword sliced the demon in two, but instead of falling down and disintegrating from Tetsusaiga's blast, each of the two sliced parts grew back into full separate monsters.
"Huh?" Inuyasha tried to tap into Tetsusaiga's full power and tried the attack again...
Now there were four monsters.
"Baka!" shouted someone from nearby. Inuyasha smelled a familiar scent.
"What?" Inuyasha looked around him and saw a girl standing in front of the monsters. She glanced toward Inuyasha and smile uncertainly. "Could you like, scoot back a bit?" she said as she turned her gaze back toward the creatures.
"Are you suicidal or what? Look, let me handle these things, a mortal like you won't be able to do much."
"Indeed sir. As if multiplying the creature really helps. I know a way to get rid of it, er, them. I'm fairly sure I have enough power to get rid of this. And don't you worry your fair-headed little brain, Inuyasha. Watch me!" Her eyes glowed in a violet radiance and the beasts glowed as well.
A fierce wind blew and a flurry of lavender swept over every thing. As the blasting breeze blew past Sheira and the monsters, they disappeared. The sky dropped a shower of soft lavender feathers over everything, swept up in the wind, they drifted to the ground.
"What the hell!?!"
Instantly the people seemed to calm as a soothing wave passed over them. They stared blankly at one another for a moment, as if wondering what had just happened. Those who had left their cars now returned in a daze, while those on the streets and sidewalks returned to their daily routines before the monster had come.
"What happened?" asked Kagome to who she thought was Inuyasha. "Huh?" she said as she turned to see she was holding a stranger's hand. "Waaaah!" she yelped and let go, startled by the stranger's sudden appearance. "You're not Inuyasha!"
"Yeah, um...I'm Ryou Bakura. What's an Inuyasha?" replied Ryou as politely as he could.
"Uh, I must have grabbed the wrong person. Gee, I didn't know there were other people who had white hair. Huh." She started petting Ryou, absentmindedly, like a zoo animal. "Wow. You've got such soft hair," she continued to pay Ryou as if mesmerized by the bright white brilliance that was his hair.
"Um, could you let go of my hair," Ryou whimpered nervously. Did people always have to adore his hair and think it was so amazing?
Soon he heard someone. "Hey Kagome, who've you got there?" came the sound of a friendly voice. "Oh, what beautiful snow-white hair."
And then another pair of hands came down upon Ryou's head. "Hi Kagome!" And another. "Watcha doin' Kagome?" And another...how many people did this girl, Kagome, know?
"Hey," came another voice. Ryou squirmed around a bit, then closed his eyes and prayed, not another one... "What's this? Kagome!"
And suddenly the girls were snapped out of their trance-like state. "Oh! Hiya, Inuyasha."
"Inuyasha? Oh what beautiful silver-white hair." And soon the girls were crowded around Inuyasha and crooning over his hair. "Wow. Do all people with white hair have such soft hair? And look at the ears, aren't they just adorable!"
"Yeah, it's so silky and shiny. What kind of conditioner do you use?"
And Ryou quietly snickered to himself as he watched, in his brief moment of freedom.
That's it for chapter...uh...three! Yeah! Chapie three! Now here's my thanking of my reviewers!
Thanks to: Dreamer Wolf, Dark-Sephy, fluffy-fan1313, Puppkid, and Xyza. Thank-you to my loyal fans...I do have loyal fans, right? I hope so, and thanks to Xyza for giving my spirit the boost it needed to write after the unmentionable cretin crushed me. The rain has been inspiring for the past couple of days, er, weeks or something like that. Why, just this afternoon I was hoola-hooping in the rain and calling to my cats...heh-heh...I think I'm catching a cold! Heh-heh... The plot is...uh...weird at the moment! But I'm sure there is one...somewhere...it's gonna be a very...er...interesting story...bye!
Disclaimer: I have four cats. A white one with brown spots, a gray one with white splotches, a black and white one, and a brown tabby. Huh. That's not really much of a disclaimer, is it? Okay. I don't own Inuyasha or Yugioh characters. They belong to the Takahashis. (that's plural form of Takahashi). Are they related? Oh well. Some characters and such in this story do belong to my imagination and me though, so don't take them. Or else the sky will run crimson with the blood of good-for-nothing thieves and the tears of the world will fall on my happy soul.
Chapter 3: Tokyo Mayhem?
Tokyo, Japan. Sunday Afternoon.
"Stop! Come back here Inuyasha!" shouted Kagome as she raced after the hanyou. "Don't you dare make me say it!"
The crowded sidewalks of Tokyo parted as Kagome rushed through them, while Inuyasha on the other hand had started jumping across the rooftops of the cars lined up in the street, due to heavy traffic of some sort. He was dressed in modern day clothes instead of his red attire.
"Hey! Watch it you maniac!" yelled one of the people in one of the cars Inuyasha was jumping on.
"Damn it you!" cried another driver.
"Holy sht! Watch where you're goin'!" And on and on they went as a thoroughly pissed Kagome followed the trails of yells and screams that rent the air. Though the traffic jam seemed to get even worse.
Well, let's go back an hour or so earlier...
Tokyo, Japan. Sunday Morning and Noon.
A crowd of people rushed off the subway as the doors swished open. Footsteps clattered upon the ground as the busy people got off and went to where they were going or went off to get ready for a busy day ahead or one that had already started.
A shy white-haired youth stepped off the subway, lugging a large suitcase behind him. It dragged along on tiny clattering wheels as he pulled the handle behind him.
He really didn't seem to be paying attention to the path in front of him. He seemed to wander about aimlessly, his eyes averted to the ground and not noticing the surroundings much as he walked onward. No one knew about the conflict that was going on in his head...
/Yami,/ said Ryou. /Why did you bring me to Tokyo?/
Didn't we already have this discussion?replied Bakura coolly to his other. Bakura sat content in his soul room, listening to Ryou's complaints.
/No, Yami, we didn't./
Yes we did.
/No we didn't./
Yes, we did.
/No, we di-/ Ryou slammed straight into something large...or rather someone...
"Oh, excuse me sir," said Ryou, looking up at the huge man in front of him.
"'Sir'? Don't call me sir, please. And that's quite all right young man," said the uh...man. (Too much repetition....)
The man was broad shouldered and had a friendly face. He grinned at Ryou, his eyes filled with laughter. "You don't need to apologize, though maybe I should, since I wasn't paying any attention to where I was going." He tipped up his tan hat and walked away with a brown suitcase swinging in his hand.
"He was polite," said Ryou aloud.
Hm. I don't trust him,said Bakura to his other, squirming around a bit in his soul room.
/You don't trust anyone./ stated Ryou flatly.
That's because in this time period, no one can be trusted except for a choice few.
/So why did you bring me to Tokyo? We were fine in Domino City with Yugi and the others, right?/ asked Ryou to Bakura.
Well...Bakura said, trailing off slightly. Maybe there were too many bullies there for comfort, especially when your body comes with a built in sign saying, "Hit me! I'm pathetic! I'm weak!"
/Is that the only reason?/ Ryou asked dryly, in an irate tone.
There is also something else in Tokyo that I'm looking for...
/Like what?/
Nothin'
/Then what are we going to do? Where are we going to live? How did you pay for the journey anyways? Who did you steal from?! Answer my bloody questions, dammit!/ Ryou blushed at his temper and language. /I mean, what could have possessed you to bring me here? I know what possessed me, that would be you.../
Well, school just let out for a week or two right?He felt Ryou's mental nod. Then you can vacation here in Tokyo for a bit, take in the sights for a while. It won't be so bad, really.
/But-/
Don't worry! It'll be a good experience for you to travel somewhere else and be away from Domino City for a while. You should do some exploring an touring around, take in the sights a bit, eh? You should be used to moving around by now at least. Just send your father a letter explaining that you wanted to visit a friend in Tokyo for a while. Not very long, okay?
/Well,/ said Ryou, thinking through about this. /Maybe it won't be so bad to go somewhere away from--hey! Wait a minute! You are avoiding the questions and you're trying to get me to go along with this new whim of yours! Well who'd you still all this stuff from?! The money, the jewels, and the diamond-studded cat collar?!/ At this Ryou pulled out a handful of large bills, sparkling jewels, and a small collar with some fur attacked still, out of his pocket. /Didn't think I'd find this did you!?/
You needed the money. Really. And besides, I didn't take that money or the jewels. The owners just happened to misplace them and I found them.
/What about the cat collar? Did the cat misplace its neck and you happened to find this attached? Huh?/
You are getting out of line here Ryou! Why, if I weren't so damned tired from the events that happened yesterday, you'd find a few unexpected pains and troubles right now.
/What? Did the cat you took the collar from give you a nasty liddle scratch? Here, let me see and I'll pour some burning hot liquid over it! And what about this,/ Ryou pulled out a coiled cord of gold and showed it to Bakura. /What's this? Who'd you take this from? It looks expensive and dangerous. Were you planning on using this on someone? Answer me!/
Bakura peered at the orbs on the ends of the gold cord. Imprinted, or rather carved into the sides of the orbs were not the millennium eye symbols like the last time. Now they had a pattern of feathers, surround the two orbs, and the orbs were no longer gold, as they were earlier. They had a silver-ish lavender gleam in them and looked nothing like something normally found on earth. And alternating between the pattern of engraved feathers were tiny blades, embedded in the objects.
Hm, thought Bakura staring at the object in question. I got that from someone. Put it somewhere safe, I want to look at it later. Now if you don't mind, I need some sleep after all that work.Bakura closed off the discussion with a mental barrier between them as a blockade.
/Bakura?/ No reply, though an audible snore could be heard somewhere. /Fine then./
Ryou started looking around. Uh...where am I? he thought. He had somehow managed to get out of the subway station and into the city, but now, he was lost. He looked around to see a few cars in the roads and some shops that had just opened up.
Now Ryou stopped and grabbed for his suitcase. He groped around in one of the pockets until his fingertips felt something. He pulled out a few maps. Ha, thought Ryou to himself, I knew I saw him put some maps in this pocket...
He looked at it...and couldn't read it. Bakura had scribbled over everything with a giant marker that covered everything in site. It seemed he had planned several things on these maps, and managed to scribble over every word and street. Then in a finer scrawl he had managed to re-write certain things...in Egyptian!
"Oh shoot! Dancing pink elephants rolled in beeswax!" cried Ryou aloud as passerbys gave him strange looks. "Oh! somebody please help me find an apartment? Or help me get somewhere? Anybody?..." Ryou trailed off as nobody seemed to notice him.
Ryou walked up to an old couple and asked, "Could you please point me in the direction of a decent hotel? I'm visiting Tokyo on my vacation, and need a place to stay."
"Oh, what a polite young man. You could go follow that street over there," said the old woman, "and then turn left at the intersection. Go straight until you see a building with big letters on the front saying "Shining Jewel." That's a nice hotel to go to."
Thank you," said Ryou, as he bowed politely to them and left.
"Such a nice boy," said the old woman wistfully.
"Too bad we were told to tell them about any white-haired persons we see," said the old man regretfully. "But that's the price we have to pay for power."
And they walked on in silence, toward a nearby pay phone.
Ryou reached the intersection and turned left. His rolling suitcase was making an annoying rumbling sound as he dragged it along. Was it just him, or did it suddenly become heavier? He started pulling harder, thinking nothing of it, though beads of sweat started to form on his head. He looked behind him and saw...
"Gah!" he yelped, dropping the suitcase handle and leaping forward a few steps away from the sight.
There, sitting atop the suitcase was a girl, her back turned from Ryou and her hand held up. Resting on her hand was a bird similar somehow to Skull Red Bird. This bird had slender, graceful features and burning slits of eyes. It stared at Ryou fiercely and Ryou had been taken aback by the piercing gaze.
Unlike Skull Red Bird, this bird was a soft lavender color, rather than the reddish-violet of Skull Red. The sharp golden beak glistened and the crest on its head shown a reddish color, or maybe dried blood colored. Its flaring eyes stared at Ryou and he gasped.
"Um, hello," said Ryou meekly toward the stranger. The girl had a huge floppy hat on her head and her hair was down. She turned and smiled at Ryou.
"Hello yourself silly!" she said pleasantly.
"Why are you sitting on my suitcase?" he asked.
"Because I was tired of walking, duh!" She got off and the bird flew off and away into the sky. She looked at Ryou with glinting purple eyes. "You do know that you're kinda weak right? I mean, you couldn't even drag the suitcase along on it's wheels with a bit of added weight."
Ryou blushed. He was not that weak! "Have we met somewhere before?" he asked her. "You seem rather familiar."
"Well in a way, we've met. I've met many people in my lifetime, and you can be sure that they never leave unaffected. But before I discuss with you the pains I've been through, I think you'll want to deal with that." She pointed behind him and he saw an even more surprising sight.
Behind him, Ryou saw something terrifying and amazing. There was a rather large creature stomping its way toward the terrified white-haired boy. It stood a good few stories above him.
The monster had large thumping paws, a stout furry body, and a long lashing tail. It had the head of a strange beast with long yellowed claws and teeth with storming green eyes. It came marching up the road with thunderous steps.
People saw it and started running away in terror. The monster seemed not to notice the people scattering about in front of it and casting horrified yells as it walked forward, step-by-step. It was marching right for Ryou.
Cars slammed on their brakes as they came to the intersection and saw the beast in all its rage. They jumped out of their cars and ran, seeing no way to back out of the jam.
"Well? Aren't you going to do something about it?" said Sheira expectantly looking at Ryou.
Ryou laughed nervously. He tried calling to his yami, but to no avail. All that could be heard was a light breathing sound. "I don't think I can do anything, !"
He and Sheira took off in the opposite direction that the monster was at. It still marched steadily forward.
Sheira yelled as she ran, "how pathetic! Dammit!" She was dragging Ryou's suitcase along behind her on it's tiny little wheels, skittering and thumping against the ground. "I thought that you might at least something to defend yourself, but I guess it's only your other that has that kind of magic, eh?"
Ryou cried out, "Sorry if I can't help at the moment! Try asking later when my other's awake! And how'd you know about tha--" He tripped and fell, while Sheira turned back and ran toward the beast, dropping the suitcase behind her.
"Inuyasha!" shouted Kagome. Apparently she didn't notice the bunch of people running past her in hysterics and in the opposite direction she was currently headed in. She could barely see Inuyasha with his hair flopping up and down as he jumped. And she didn't notice the screams and shouts of anger and terror that now occupied the air.
"SIT!"
The eeire pink glow could be seen up ahead somewhere. Good, not too far away now...
"Sit!"
She saw a body fall ahead of her. Long snowy white hair cascaded over the person's face as she neared him.
"There you are, Inuyasha!" she looked up and suddenly noticed the monster looming ahead and could hear the screams. "Oh no!" And upon instinct to get away, she grabbed the white-haired person's wrist and started running away from the beast with the rest of the crowd.
Inuyasha had smelled the scent of a demon of some sort. He had started to rush toward it but all Kagome could do was yell and threaten him.
So he took it upon himself to find out what it was. And he saw a huge creature. It towered above him and the frantic screaming people. Oh no! People were in trouble.
"SIT!"
"Oomph!" Inuyasha crashed down into the ground in front of the creature.
"Sit!"
He was now driven even farther into the floor, forming a personal pit in the middle of the street.
"Damn you, Kagome," muttered Inuyasha under his breath.
Regaining his composure, he got up and attacked the beast with his claws. With a single sweeping motion, he slashed at the beast. The attack did no damage at all, and the monster seemed to absorb it. It opened its great fanged mouth and blew out a green blasting beam.
It hit Inuyasha head on. Though, unlike the cars and parts of the sidewalk, Inuyasha did not melt or disintegrate. He got hit and was slammed into the ground. "Damn you! And that did not hurt!"
He got up and got out his sword Tetsusaiga. "You wanna piece of this?" He leapt toward it and swung hard down at it once he had jumped up above it. The sword sliced the demon in two, but instead of falling down and disintegrating from Tetsusaiga's blast, each of the two sliced parts grew back into full separate monsters.
"Huh?" Inuyasha tried to tap into Tetsusaiga's full power and tried the attack again...
Now there were four monsters.
"Baka!" shouted someone from nearby. Inuyasha smelled a familiar scent.
"What?" Inuyasha looked around him and saw a girl standing in front of the monsters. She glanced toward Inuyasha and smile uncertainly. "Could you like, scoot back a bit?" she said as she turned her gaze back toward the creatures.
"Are you suicidal or what? Look, let me handle these things, a mortal like you won't be able to do much."
"Indeed sir. As if multiplying the creature really helps. I know a way to get rid of it, er, them. I'm fairly sure I have enough power to get rid of this. And don't you worry your fair-headed little brain, Inuyasha. Watch me!" Her eyes glowed in a violet radiance and the beasts glowed as well.
A fierce wind blew and a flurry of lavender swept over every thing. As the blasting breeze blew past Sheira and the monsters, they disappeared. The sky dropped a shower of soft lavender feathers over everything, swept up in the wind, they drifted to the ground.
"What the hell!?!"
Instantly the people seemed to calm as a soothing wave passed over them. They stared blankly at one another for a moment, as if wondering what had just happened. Those who had left their cars now returned in a daze, while those on the streets and sidewalks returned to their daily routines before the monster had come.
"What happened?" asked Kagome to who she thought was Inuyasha. "Huh?" she said as she turned to see she was holding a stranger's hand. "Waaaah!" she yelped and let go, startled by the stranger's sudden appearance. "You're not Inuyasha!"
"Yeah, um...I'm Ryou Bakura. What's an Inuyasha?" replied Ryou as politely as he could.
"Uh, I must have grabbed the wrong person. Gee, I didn't know there were other people who had white hair. Huh." She started petting Ryou, absentmindedly, like a zoo animal. "Wow. You've got such soft hair," she continued to pay Ryou as if mesmerized by the bright white brilliance that was his hair.
"Um, could you let go of my hair," Ryou whimpered nervously. Did people always have to adore his hair and think it was so amazing?
Soon he heard someone. "Hey Kagome, who've you got there?" came the sound of a friendly voice. "Oh, what beautiful snow-white hair."
And then another pair of hands came down upon Ryou's head. "Hi Kagome!" And another. "Watcha doin' Kagome?" And another...how many people did this girl, Kagome, know?
"Hey," came another voice. Ryou squirmed around a bit, then closed his eyes and prayed, not another one... "What's this? Kagome!"
And suddenly the girls were snapped out of their trance-like state. "Oh! Hiya, Inuyasha."
"Inuyasha? Oh what beautiful silver-white hair." And soon the girls were crowded around Inuyasha and crooning over his hair. "Wow. Do all people with white hair have such soft hair? And look at the ears, aren't they just adorable!"
"Yeah, it's so silky and shiny. What kind of conditioner do you use?"
And Ryou quietly snickered to himself as he watched, in his brief moment of freedom.
That's it for chapter...uh...three! Yeah! Chapie three! Now here's my thanking of my reviewers!
Thanks to: Dreamer Wolf, Dark-Sephy, fluffy-fan1313, Puppkid, and Xyza. Thank-you to my loyal fans...I do have loyal fans, right? I hope so, and thanks to Xyza for giving my spirit the boost it needed to write after the unmentionable cretin crushed me. The rain has been inspiring for the past couple of days, er, weeks or something like that. Why, just this afternoon I was hoola-hooping in the rain and calling to my cats...heh-heh...I think I'm catching a cold! Heh-heh... The plot is...uh...weird at the moment! But I'm sure there is one...somewhere...it's gonna be a very...er...interesting story...bye!