Well, today was my first day of driver's ed. I'm as confused as a baby in a topless bar! = O.o ???
Baby in a topless bar: I'm so confused!!!
And I do not own Inu Yasha, but I do own Shio, Sumiko, Sashimi and a bunch of other OCs that simply scream out for their own show. ^_~ Cha-ching!
Another thing, I was asked a question about what this "Light" thing is. I know it's kinda vague. Light is pretty much everything that is good and is one of the most powerful things in the universe. It has as many uses as the shikon jewel but the most common use for it is in life and healing powers.
Confused? Good! ^_^
Chapter 7. Yukidaruma, Shio's Promise, and Kagome's Uterine Wall
Sumiko skipped down toward the town humming a little tune to herself. Shio had to have found a solid mate by now, it was a sure thing! With his tender heart and alluring beauty, any girl would be lucky to have him! ^__^ She sniffed around for the direction he was but a loud giggly cry to her right gave his location away. She tiptoed over to the bushes and peeked through the leaves.
Well she found Shio. He was sitting on a tree stump grinning like a kitty in a field of catnip. Did he find his future mate? If by future mate you mean several women holding their dresses up to their knees, giggling as one of them tied a blindfold over his eyes, then yes, he did. She quickly tied it on and sprinted away with the other girls. They began to back away as he stood up. He warmed up by taking a couple of steps and moving his head from side to side still grinning.
"I think we should have gotten something to cover his nose too!" One of them laughed.
"That's right!" Shio said. "Who needs eyesight when you have a doggy nose, demon hearing and a radar for fine women?" he tilted his head forward a bit and the girls all giggled excitedly.
"Don't worry!" one of them said waving to a couple of the others. "He can't catch us!" ^__^
"I can catch you and I will." Shio said, leaning on one leg with a hand on his hip and his head tilted back. "And when I do, I'll give you all a real reason to giggle sensually for."
The girls answered this statement with high pitched squeals of pleasure at the idea.
"Ready?" he asked. He dropped down on four feet and smiled like a hungry lion.
The girls got ready to bolt. At the same time, they shouted, "GO!"
Shio sprang and the girls scattered like gazelles. He went after the closest couple of girls which happened to be the slowest. They tried to throw him off with zigzags, but he was too cunning. Of course, he wasn't going his real speed. If he was, the game would have already ended and there would be no more virgins.
Sumiko made a horse sound with her mouth and went out into the little field.
"I'm gonna catch you!" he sang.
The girls he was chasing screamed and crossed paths with another group of girls and he caught their scent. "Whoop! There's Ami! Got take her down first!"
Ami screamed with laughter and tried to catch up to her twin sister.
"Oh yeah, baby! Ami and Hina! This will be a good first catch!" he laughed evilly.
Sumiko stood in the middle of the field with her hands behind her back. The laughing girls and Shio ran by her and she watched them calmly. A few seconds later they made a U turn and Sumiko turned around to face the direction they were coming from. She watched Ami and Hina run by. Sumiko looked disappointedly at her foolish older brother coming toward her. She sighed sadly and stuck out her foot.
As expected, Shio tripped, screamed like a little girl, and fell over on his arm. The girls gasped and stopped running. Sumiko shook her head as he tried to recover his fall gracefully. He jumped to his feet with his ponytail hanging in his face. He raised his arms and said, "I'm okay!" he blew the ponytail aside, and lifted up one corner of the blindfold to see Sumiko giving him an expression that made her look like a worried mother.
Shio bit his bottom lip, and looked off to the side. "You know what, I know – just what you are going to say!" he pointed at her with both index fingers and looked to the side fishing for a good explanation. "You see, this is part of how I was planning to find a mate, yeah, I get to know them by-"
"Kitty?" Sumiko interrupted. He stopped talking and looked down at her. She gave him a serious expression, which she did not usually make. "Kitty didn't look for a mate at all this afternoon, did he?"
"Well-" he started nervously.
Sumiko motioned for him to bend closer and down to her level. He did so and she grabbed his ear.
"Hey!"
She began to drag him away from the confused girls. "Kitty, Sumiko has to talk with you." She set Naraku down first. "Wait here CMM, Sumiko will be back momentarily."
Naraku watched the two of them disappear behind the bushes. He then sighed, sat down, and scratched his back.
"Kawaii!" one of the girls shrieked.
Naraku froze mid scratch and his eyes grew. OO ;;;
All of the girls were standing around him. "Look at that cute little monkey!!"
Sumiko let go of his ear and he rubbed it trying to massage her fingerprints out of it. He pouted a bit and said, "You know, I really don't understand why you and Sashimi want me to get a mate so bad. I mean, I'm happy the way I am! I have a wide selection of females. I don't feel tied down or caged in, why can't I just live the way I want to?"
Sumiko looked up at him dead serious. "Because if you keep living the way you do, you're going to end up crying."
Shio looked taken aback and confused. "What?" He knew that most of the time, she spoke in riddles, and though he was getting used to it, she still surprised him with statements he couldn't interpret.
Sumiko sat down and that meant that he had to sit down too. "Kitty," she said in a sympathetic, caring voice. She reached out and held one of his hands that was much bigger then hers. She held his hand and she patted it showing her concern. "There's a saying…What comes up, must come down. Wouldn't Kitty rather have someone to come down with?"
Shio raised an eyebrow. Sumiko sighed, and reminded herself that everybody needs a pretty boy. "Remember Fonzie?"
Shio sweatdropped. "You mean that retarded dick from happy days who snapped his fingers a lot?"
"Uh-huh." Sumiko nodded. "Does Kitty know what happened to him?"
"Well," Shio looked upward trying to remember but the only thing that came to his mind was "Sunday, Monday, Happy Days-!"
"Don't know." Shio shrugged. "I heard he moved to Australia to train gymnastics to wombats and koalas."
"His show was canceled. Cause all of the characters grew up!" Sumiko said. "Kitty, what if you were old like Fonzie? Would you want to be a really old guy still hitting on chickens?"
"Chicks!" he corrected her with several sweatdrops.
"Whatever, Kitty! Doesn't kitty want to grow old with someone? Doesn't Kitty want true love? Doesn't Kitty want to give Sumiko a niece to play with?!"
"A what?!" He was getting it just fine till the last sentence.
"Come on, Kitty!! Sumiko wants little dog eared nieces!!" Sumiko cried.
"Whatever! I'll concentrate more on finding a mate okay? Just don't push me around." Shio said folding his arms.
"Kitty promises?"
"Kitty promises."
"Okay!" Sumiko
smiled like her old Mihoshi self and looked back at
the field. "Before we go, we should save Chocolate Monkey Man from the weird
giggly girls."
"Fine." Shio nodded.
-
From tallest to shortest, Miroku, Inu Yasha, Sango, and Shippou stood in a line with their stomachs in, feet together and shoulders back. Kagome paced in front of them looking mighty unhappy. They watched her out of the corner of their eyes as she walked back in forth, not saying anything. Finally Miroku leaned toward Inu Yasha and asked, "What's going on?"
"Ten hut!" Kagome shouted.
Miroku straightened up and she turned to frown at all of them. "A very important book is missing from my bag and I want to know right now who took it!" she said.
"Which book?" Shippou asked.
"It doesn't matter which book, I just know that it's gone. It didn't fly out of my bag I want to know who has it!" She blushed a little bit as she said it. In fact, she didn't want them all to know that she had the Joy of Sex and all of those notes and pictures stuck between pages. "If whoever has it tells me right now, I will not cause them any permanent injuries. Spare yourself now and confess!"
No one said anything, no one moved.
"Fine then." Kagome said. She began to pace again looking at each person as if they were the guilty one. Then she stopped in front of Miroku and pointed at him. "Where were you between the hours of six and seven p.m.!"
"Wha?! Uh-I dunno, Lady Kago-"
"AHA!! You were out stealing my book so that you could look through it and copy things down and take pictures with your secret spy camera!!"
"My secret what??"
"Don't play dumb with me!!" Kagome jumped on his chest and while he was still standing, grabbed his collar and pointed at him. "You have my book don't you!!! Confess before I devour your perverted soul!!"
Everyone sweatdropped.
Miroku looked at where she was sitting then smiled and put his hands on her hips. "My, Lady Kagome, are we being frisky?"
WHACK!!
Double whammy. Kagome slapped him as Sango bonked him.
Shippou and Inu Yasha looked on with sweatdrops.
"I will find out who has my book!" Kagome said folding her arms. Her backround became filled with light and she stood with her fist clentched in a determined stance. "I will not rest until it is found!!" Then all of a sudden she doubled over and moaned in pain. "Ugh!! My stomach!"
"Kagome?!" Inu Yasha said. He and the others ran over to her.
Shippou held her shoulder. "Are you okay, Kagome?"
"Gah!" her face looked pale. "I think that adrenaline just made me queasy…guhhh!" ;;;;
"Why don't you sit down, try not to force yourself." Miroku said. He and Sango where about to help her to her feet but Inu Yasha got there first. He put an arm behind her back and held her forearm in his other hand and helped her over to the tree he usually sat in front of or in. "Careful." He said as she slowly lowered to a sitting position.
Miroku, Sango and Shippou watched interestedly.
Inu Yasha still held her as if she were very fragile and very precious. "You okay?"
She looked up at him and nodded. "Yeah. Thank you, Inu Yasha." She gave a slight smile and tilted her head to the side. "That was really nice of you."
He blinked and wondered how he had been so instinctive with that. At the time it felt like something he was supposed to do, but now that he thought about it, he realized that that would only make her cling tighter to the thought that he was the father – which he wasn't.
He quickly straightened up and went to go sit cross-legged in a different spot. He closed his eyes and took a deep breath. When he opened his eyes again he jumped in shock as Miroku, Sango and Shippou were all sitting around him grinning. "What??"
"That was pretty nice of you Inu Yasha," Sango said in amusement.
"Yeah, you looked like you knew what you were doing, too." Shippou grinned up at him.
"Wha? Baka!" he looked at his lap frowning with a sweatdrop. "You people think too much. If I didn't help her sit down she was going to complain and get all weird and touchy about me not doing anything for her. She's the one who thinks its my pup but it's not, I don't know where she got that crap-"
"Whatever, Inu Yasha." Shippou smiled and scampered over to Kagome to try and make her laugh and ask her a bunch of questions again.
Miroku and Sango went over to sit and watch. Inu Yasha waited till no one was paying attention and jumped off looking for a good place to read the book again. Most of the trees had lost their leaves so he couldn't hide in them anymore. He sat behind a tree far away and pulled Kagome's missing book out of his kimonos. He flipped it open to the page to the next group of notes she had written. It had become so that he looked forward to her dirty notes then the book itself. If she made an inside reference to the book then he would go to the page it talked about and read why she thought what she thought about it.
And then there were the pictures. Kagome was a better drawer then he was that's all he could say. They weren't perfect, a little more chibbi looking then real life things but they were still good. One of the pictures of the men in the book had dog ears drawn on them. It was the one doing a "doggy style". He laughed a little at that. A guy with a sixties haircut and she gave him Inu Yasha's dog ears. She had various sketches of what she thought his anatomy looked like and she either put him in a sexy suggestive pose or an artistic mysterious pose. Then she drew pictures of him and her in various positions wearing various styles of clothes or no clothes at all. He really liked these pictures. Once he saw something really hard to do and he actually tried to bend himself like that in real life. Surprisingly he could.
"I bet Inu Yasha would like that doggy style." She wrote in one note. "I can just imagine it too. I think that would be fun for me too." And under that was a little drawling of him and her doing the doggy style. He whimpered a little bit at this. The chibbi drawling of himself was lucky. He rubbed his thumb against the chibbi Kagome drawing's arched back and said outloud, "I wanna play too." Then he blushed when he realized what he said. Well after that, he knew he couldn't tell himself that he didn't like her like that. Kagome having his pups did sound good. But it couldn't happen. He still owed Kikyo his life, whether he was her soul mate or not, she died for him and was the cause of most of her problems. And the thought of being the father was too farfetched for him to believe. It couldn't be possible – it couldn't! He just hopped to god that it wasn't Kouga's…
At camp Sango was the one making lunch this time. "Maybe we should start thinking of names for the baby."
"What?" Kagome looked up at her. "But we don't even know what it's going to be yet."
"Well what you do is you pick a couple of boys names that you like and a couple of girls names so that when the time comes, you'll have an idea of what you want!" Sango smiled and stirred the rice. Rice was one of the few foods she did know how to cook.
"Also you should think about preparing for the birth." Miroku said sitting in front of Kagome. "Planning the baptism, building up muscle in your abdomen, you also have to eat for both you and the baby now. That means extra rice for Kagome, right Sango?"
"Correct, Houshi." Sango said, not bothering to glance at him.
"You also have to know the correct way to breath." Miroku stated holding up a finger.
"The right way to breath? Oh yeah! I know what you're talking about." She said. "I should probably go to my time to learn about that."
"We have our own methods here but your time might be more advanced in that field." He said folding his arms.
Shippou was busy pressing his ear against Kagome's stomach trying to feel a kick again. "I can hear the ocean!" He said in awe.
-
Finally, Kikyo made it out of the mountains. But she wasn't alone, walking fourteen feet behind her was that ice demon who healed her somehow. He had been very quiet the past few days of following her. The only thing he had really done was put a creepy feeling on the back of Kikyo's neck. She usually felt it when she got around demons with strong auras. "Still there?" she asked, not looking back at him.
"Still here." He replied.
"Do you want something from me?" she asked.
"I want something from you." He replied.
"What do you want?" she asked.
"I want to help you." He said.
Well this was strange. The only demon who ever wanted to help her was the poor and pathetic Inu Yasha. "I don't need help." She said.
"Yes you do." He said.
"Why do you think I need help?" she asked him. "If I wanted to, I could turn around and purify you right now."
There was a pause of silence before he replied, "And if I wanted too, I could drain the life out of you before you could draw an arrow."
Kikyo didn't find this threatening. She mearly chuckled and said. "Life. What makes you think I have life in me?"
"You have souls in you. That's a form of undead life." He said.
"Is there a point to you?" she asked.
"Everything has a point." He stated. Another vague comment.
"If everything does have a point, then what is yours?" she asked.
"I have many points, but you have only a few to worry about." He stated. "One of my points is, you won't live long unless you find your soul collectors again."
Kikyo stopped where she stood and turned to look at him warily. "Try not to be vague, and tell me what you mean."
He smiled a bit, knowing that he finally had her true attention. "It's simple really." He came walking toward her. "With your design, you need souls to survive. You can't live on light for long, the dead clings to death as the living clings to life. Your body will eat up the light soon and you'll be similar to a life-size poppet."
Kikyo swallowed. If there was one thing that she wanted, it was to live. And at the moment, this guy seemed like her only source of aid. "And how can you help me, demon?"
He came toward her and circled her a couple of times. "I can help you get your shikigami back, plus all the souls you will probably ever need."
This sounded good, but there wasn't a doubt in Kikyo's mind that there wasn't a price tag on this so called help. "And what do you want in return, demon?"
"Well for one, you can stop calling me demon." He said stopped circling and stood facing her. "My name is Yukidaruma, I am an ice dragon and I study light."
Kikyo narrowed her eyes at him.
"Besides," he said. "I will come to you when it is the right time. Then you will know what I want in return." His eyes flashed. "Will you let me help you?"
Kikyo glared at him, maybe if she stared long enough he would burst into flames or drop his mysterious veal and show his true nature. A shady character like this Yukidaruma guy was hard to figure out. If he was telling the truth, she would never have to worry about her shikigami or how far they would have to go to find souls for her. But she really didn't know what he wanted. For all she knew, he could have been asking her to sell her freedom to him. From deep inside of herself, she could feel the light he gave her was beginning to slowly dissolve already. "Fine then, you may help me. But keep your demonic games to yourself, I'm on a mission."
"Life is the greatest mission of all, but death is the greatest adventure." He gave a vague comment.
Kikyo gave him a raised eyebrow before turning around. "What are you? Some sort of Zen master?"
Yukidaruma smirked and hid his hands inside of his kimono sleeves as he followed her. "Something like that."
-
"Hey kitty, what time is it?" Sumiko asked walking with her hands behind her head. They walked down a path overlooking a small rice field.
He looked at his wrist which didn't have a watch on it and said, "Time to get a new watch….which was not invented till the 1800s by some creepy German guy."
"Oh." Sumiko said. After a few moments she glanced at him and asked, "How did Kitty know that?"
Shio sighed and said, "Being the strange OC that I am, the writer beams random futuristic information into my head frequently."
"Aka Shio!"
Shio and Sumiko froze mid step and looked over there shoulders. "Hum?"
A man with a raven topknot and expensive clothes reared his horse as he came up the path and stopped thirty feet from them. His small army fallowed close behind him. The man didn't look pleased. "Stop right there, devil!" he shouted.
"Problem?" Shio asked calmly.
"I've come to avenge my sister!" he drew his sword and charged Shio and Sumiko as his men drew their swords and ropes.
Well the Inu Yasha group was just strolling along when all of a sudden, Kagome stopped in her tracks and looked down at the ground. It took everyone a few seconds to realize she had stopped walking. "What is it, Kagome-chan?" Sango asked looking back at her.
"I sense a large piece of the shikon jewel, it feels like at least a fourth of the ball!" she said surprised.
"That's amazing!" Shippou said.
"How were you able to determine the size of it from here?" Inu Yasha asked.
"I'm not sure. Maybe it's because of the baby." She said.
Miroku smiled. "Mother powers, how sweet."
Kagome grinned then gasped as Inu Yasha lifted her onto his back.
"Let's go, Kago-!"
"YOU JERK!!"
WHACK!!
Inu Yasha dropped her onto her feet and clutched the lump on his head. "OW!! What was that for?!?"
"Baka! I can't ride on your back in this condition!" she shouted. "Do you want me to dislocate the fetus from my uterine wall?!!"
"Dislocate the what from the what??" he had become so confused by what she had said it freaked him out.
"Whatever! Just go on ahead, I'll catch up." She pointed in the direction of the shikon shards and he leapt off in that direction. Followed by Sango and Miroku.
"Soul Shattering Iron Claw!!" Shio sliced three swords in half with only his claws. The three men they once belonged too, looked at the bare handles then ran off in fear. Then their ringleader came at him again with his sword. Shio drew his double bladed sword in a flash of white light and blocked each blow.
Naraku bounced up onto one of the samurai's faces, hissing and screeching, trying to tear out his eyes. The man flailed and screamed bloody murder. Sumiko was surrounded by three men who were closing in on her. She counted each of them then reached into her kimono and drew the playing card, the three of diamonds. In a poof of foxfire, two other Sumiko's appeared facing each enclosing man. They all crossed their wrists and the palms of their hands went blood red. At the same time they all charged and shouted, "Crimson Light Claw!"
Shio watched the guy as he blocked facile swings then his face lit up when he realized how he knew him. "Oh yeah! You're that short guy who's sister I banged six years ago! You're acne has cleared up since then." He smirked at him as the man's face grew bright red with rage. "I'll kill you for touching her!!" Shio smacked his sword out of his hand. The man watched it fly through the air and stick blade down into the ground thirty feet away. Then he looked at Shio nervously. Shio sheathed his sword and crossed his wrists. "Time for the grand finale!" he said positioning his hands correctly for his own special attack. He knew the soul shattering iron claw, but that also belonged to Inu Yasha. It was time to show what Shio himself was known for. Streaks of light that wavered like glowing water flowed in ringlets in the spaces between his fingers.
"Shio!"
His eyes widened and his ears twitched, then Inu Yasha flew right into him knocking him several feet away. The man he was fighting sweatdropped.
Shio and Inu Yasha lay on the ground smiling with swirly eyes.
"H~e~y~I~n~u~Y~a~s~h~a~!~W~h~a~t~'s~u~p?" @_@ Shio asked in a dazed voice.