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Scorpiogal: Better Now.
Sango: Finally - - ;;;
Scorpiogal: School is almost over for me! -
Kagome: Yeah? Well I'm stuck doing schoolwork throughout the series!
Scorpiogal: Anyway, now I can hopefully focus on the chapters I've been waiting for. Cause, gosh darn it, I'm a sucker for surprises!
Disco Music starts playing
Scorpiogal: Remember all, I do not own Inu Yasha, but I do own Shio and stuff! -
The male characters come out dressed as The Village People in a straight line
Inu, Sess, Kouga, Shio, Miroku, Jakotsu: Young man!
Inu: There's no need to feel down – I said –
Inu, Sess, Kouga, Shio, Miroku, Jakotsu: Young man!
Inu: Pick yourself off the ground – I said –
Inu, Sess, Kouga, Shio, Miroku, Jakotsu: Young man!
Inu: 'Cause you're in a new town, There's no
Inu, Sess, Kouga, Shio, Miroku, Jakotsu: Need – to – be – un – hap –py – Young man!
Inu: There's a place you can go, I said –
Inu Sess, Kouga, Shio, Miroku, Jakotsu: Young man!
Inu: When you're short on your dough, you can
Inu, Sess, Kouga, Shio, Miroku, Jakotsu: stay there –
Inu: And I'm sure you will find – many –
Inu, Sess, Kouga, Shio, Miroku, Jakotsu: Ways – to – have – a – good – time
drum beats
Inu: It's fun to stay at the –
Inu, Sess, Kouga, Shio, Miroku, Jakotsu: Y – M – C – A!
Shio: It's fun to stay at the –
Inu, Sess, Kouga, Shio, Miroku, Jakotsu: Y – M – C – A!
Scoria: You know what? I can play this song on the flute! -
Chapter 25: Daggerclaw
Sango sighed heavily and cast a not surprised look in Kagome and Inu Yasha's direction. Kagome glanced sheepishly back at her and gave a nervous laugh. They both looked at Inu Yasha who still had swirly eyes and still smelled like fresh cut flowers sprinkled over a babbling brook with a hint of lemon.
"What are you going to do with us?" Kagome asked.
The samuri sighed loudly, tired of having to explain the plot. "I'm keeping you three as bait until Aka Shio comes. Then I render him helpless and let you all go free if he decides to come peacefully."
"What do you mean 'if''?" Sango asked.
"Well, I just mean that Aka Shio seems like the kind of guy who would abandon the people he loves in order to save his own skin." The samuri replied icily.
"Don't let him hear you say that,"
Miroku appeared on the scene glaring at the samuri. "If you had actually taken the time to know Shio, you'd realize that even he has an honor code – unlike some people."
The samuri was quiet for a moment before asking, "So I take it you know him, too?"
Miroku nodded once.
"Fine then," the samuri drew another rope and daggers weapon with a white cord tying the daggers together. "The more the merrier!"
Miroku poised himself in a battle stance with his staff ready. The only difference between this weapon and the one used to capture Kagome was the color of the cord between the blades. Pure white, with spell scrolls tying them to the daggers. He was unsure of what the spell was exactly. It was obvious in his eyes that the samurai wielded a stolen magical weapon – but what was it for?
Suddenly, at the moment that the samuri was about to throw the white rope and daggers, a hidden dagger was pulled out instead and thrown right in the direction of Miroku's face.
(AN: Duck, bishi, duck!)
Miroku threw his head back and the dagger missed him by mere inches. But once his head went back, the samuri launched the white rope and daggers.
They wrapped around Miroku's legs, knocking him off of his feet. He moved to get up when all of the muscles in his arms, legs, and stomach cramped up horribly. Miroku gasped and cried out in pain.
"Miroku!" Sango cried.
"Get up, Miroku! Get up!" Kagome shouted.
The samuri grinned and casually walked over to the fallen Monk. "You like that, huh?"
Miroku twisted his neck to look up at the samuri. Beads of sweat rolled off of his face. "What – what did – you – do to – me?" he asked painfully.
"It's not what I did to you, Houshi," the samuri kneeled in front of him, "it's what you did to yourself." The samurai tapped him on the forehead. "I'm not a demon, not am I in anyway holy," the samuri gestured to the spell scrolls that locked the rope and daggers tight. "Heck, I didn't even make this weapon! I "borrowed" it from a priestess whom had discovered the little known fact that all priests are corrupt. And this weapon was made to take down the pope, Houshi – boi!"
"Holy shit!" Sango sweatdropped. "This guy is a freakin' criminal mastermind! How the hell are we gonna get out of here alive?!"
Kagome sighed half heartedly, "We're boned."
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"I've got it!" Shippou exclaimed.
Hologram Sumiko and Inu Onna looked up at him alertly.
"What does the baby fox got?"
"Osuwari."
"Heh! Yeah!" Shippou tapped his index finger against his forehead. "All I have to do – is not say anything!" he laughed victoriously and folded his arms. "Yah! Inu Yasha won't know I taught Inu Onna that word unless I admit it or something! And that won't happen! No it won't!" He grinned and struck a pose. "Who the fox?"
"You the fox!" - Hologram Sumiko exclaimed.
"Who the fox?"
"You the fox!"
Shippou gave the V for victory. Sumiko lifted her chin up and sniffed the air. "Kitty's back!"
"Really?" Shippou got up and went outside.
The girl was right. Who else but Shio came strutting up a dirt path with a jug of sake over his shoulder. Shippou held his nose as the fox/dog got closer, cause man o' man did he reek of alcohol!
Shippou could also see that he was drunk as a dog. (AN: Get it? )
Shio sang under his breath as he approached, "I'm a gigolo, always on the go – every time I turn around I've got another show – "
"Shio!" Shippou shouted.
The pimpmaster yawned and dropped the jug of sake in the dirt as he went inside the hut, not really noticing Shippou's presence at all. Shippou followed him inside, "What happened?? How did your dates go??"
Shio flopped down on the floor next to Hologram Sumiko and Inu Onna. Both girls tried to stifle the smell of drugs. He sighed and leaned against the wall, closing his eyes in a sulky melancholy way.
It was plain for Shippou to see that they now had a brooding drunk on their hands. "Did they suck?" he asked.
Shio made a sound through his teeth and grumbled, "I wish." He rolled himself off of the wall and lay on his back massaging his eyelids. "Oh god – they put something funny in that sake - I know it."
"You didn't find a mate at all?" Shippou asked, amazed that several chapters of opportunity had gone by and Shio had found not a single possibility. Shio stopped rubbing his eyes and shrugged. "It's like impossible for me to get a break in life!" then his eyes grew wider as he noticed his hands. "Woah!.......My hands are big!" OO
(AN: You know what they say about big hands! )
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A circle of rocks were made in the zen garden outside of Shin'yo and Sashimasu's home. Inside of the circle was a pile of more rocks set up two feet high. They held Shin'yo's staff of crystals vertical to the sand. Shin'yo stood back to look at her set up. She closed her eyes, looking deep inside of herself. She saw light, bright radiating energy coming directly from her womb. The light rolled, the light kicked, the light slept; the light had ten fingers, ten toes, green eyes, a little nose, X and Y chromosomes, and a warm beating heart.
Shin'yo opened her eyes as two trails of tears ran down her cheeks. She closed her eyes again and turned toward the sky. The clouds rolled and rumbled around above the Zen garden. Then when an opening came, a beam of light shot out of the clouds and landed on the staff.
Sashimi, Sashimasu, and Yukidaruma looked upward at the swirling clouds.
"Ominous." Sashimasu commented.
"TORNADO!!" Sashimi screamed and went to duck and cover.
The beam of light from the sky began to thin and recede. The clouds stopped spinning and with a thunderclap, it began to rain. The rakings in the sand weren't getting destroyed by the raindrops. Shin'yo opened her eyes and saw the crystals of her staff gleaming with godly light. She took a step over the sand of the garden. Her shoe didn't touch the sand below, but the sand rippled like the surface of water. She walked over the top of the sand and took up the staff in her right hand.
Sashimasu, Sashimi, and Yukidaruma paused at the end of the garden. Shin'yo gave off a light aura. Lo and behold, they were in the presence of a goddess.
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So there they were, all lined up and tied up in a row of convieniently close planted trees. Miroku sulking on the far left side, Inu Yasha the high kite, Kagome hoping the wind wouldn't make her skirt fly up, and a disappointed Sango on the far right. She glanced over sadly at where Kirara lay unconscious.
Miroku looked disappointed too though. The samuri had removed the purity weapon after tying him up to his own tree, he was just sulky about the way he had been caught. "I so could have lasted longer in that battle, had the samuri not-"
"-Cheated. We know Miroku." Sango narrowed her eyes off to the side in annoyance. "You've repeated that sentence 3 times already, you're starting to sound like a little brother."
"Yeah, but I really was cheated!" T T he whined.
The samuri had left them alone a few moments ago with the remark, "I'll be right back! Don't you go away now!"
Sango snorted, "What a punk. If only I were free, I would-"
"I'm back lovelies!" came the samurai's voice from what looked like a completely different person. For one, the samurai no longer looked like a samurai. Still as short as Kagome, the samurai wore a specially designed Magenta armor that was tighter and smaller then the other armor to allow for flexibility and speed. There was no sheath for a sword, but the gloves were slitted over the knuckles for artificial claws.
"Allow me to introduce myself," the fake samurai smirked evilly. "I am Daggerclaw."
Miroku gasped. "No way! I've heard of you!"
"Really?" Daggerclaw asked in an amused tone. "Did they also tell you how I can be defeated?"
"Well – no – not really…." Miroku sweatdropped. "But at least I know who you really reallyare!"
The samuri's expression didn't change, but paused for a few moments. "Oh?"
"Yes, that's right!" Miroku glared back. "You might be able to fool everyone else but I can see it. In the way you fight, in the way you act – your very voice gives you away."
The samuri's smirk somehow changed into a dark glare.
Kagome and Sango blinked.
"What'chu talkin' bout, Houshi-sama?" Sango asked.
"Yeah! What she said!" Kagome added.
Now it was Miroku's turn to smirk. "Oh, is it a secret? I don't believe in keeping secrets from my friends."
Daggerclaw's eyes grew even darker to serve as a wordless warning.
Miroku looked at Sango and Kagome, "Can you not see it, ladies?" he motioned with his head toward Daggerclaw. "Our new friend here is only pretending to be a –"
SHWONG!
Miroku went out like a light as Daggerclaw's elbow connected with his skull. Now they had two swirly-eyed men in their group.
Sango sighed irritatedly, "Crap. I feel like an American."
Kagome looked at her with a similar expression on her face. "What? Confused and fed up?"
"Alrighty then!" Daggerclaw growled, pacing back and forth impatiently in front of the captives. "He's taking too long to come to the rescue, so we're going to have to entice him." Daggerclaw turned to the girls with a devious smile. "Any volunteers?"
Sango and Kagome looked at each other nervously.
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Shio watched the ceiling spin around – stop – blurr slightly – then spin around really fast. He moaned, covered his eyes and rolled over onto his stomach where he wouldn't have to look at the ceiling. Hologram Sumiko came over and rubbed his back.
Shippou came through the door with a wooden dipper balanced in hand. "Got the water for you, Shio!" he smiled cutely, holding it out to him.
Shio sat up and took it gratefully, "Thanks, Meat." Shio replied gruffly before taking a long sip.
Shippou looked over at Inu Onna. The puppy had crawled up to the window and just sat there staring out into the forest. By her reflecting, Shippou could see a serious scowl like the one Inu Yasha got during or at the start of a fight with a demon. Or maybe the look was how Kagome looked before she gave Inu Yasha the command to body slam the dirt?
Shippou waddled over to her. "What's wrong, Inu Onna?"
She scampered away from the window and over to Shio. She gave a couple of yips, nudging his shoulder with her head.
Shio just moaned. "Mmmmm….no Inu Onna, I don't want to play right now."
She gave a bark and a few desperate mews, nudging him harder to get up.
Shio only turned his head to face her. Still beautiful, but tired and dizzy from excessive drugs.
"Arf! Bark!" Inu Onna crawled over to the door and barked outside. If only she could talk. She looked back at Shio, wondering if he could at least see that she wanted him to follow.
Shio watched her for a few moments, then turned his head toward the wall.
"Grrrrrr!" Inu Onna growled deep in her throat. It was in no way threatening. She sprung forward and chomped her new baby canine teeth down on the fox/dog's silky auburn tail.
Shio: O O
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!"
Kagome, Sango, and Daggerclaw turned their heads in the direction that all of the birds in the forest were flying away from.
Kagome: OO
Sango: OO
Inu Yasha:
Miroku:
Daggerclaw: OO ;;;; "What the hell-?!"