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*Lily smiling* Even though they're still doing the old episodes, it's so cool to watch them all at once! Inuyasha is just the coolest!
*Inuyasha smirks* You're just now realizing this?
*Lily narrowing her eyes at Inuyasha* I'd watch it if I were you, dog- boy. You're starting to sound like my Saiyan father-in-law.
*Inuyasha growling* Don't insult me!
*Lily frowning* I'll have you know my Veggie-papa is a terrific fighter, even better than yourself!
*Inuyasha snorting* Keh! Yeah right! Maybe in his dreams.
*Lily turning SSJ4* WHAT IS IT WITH YOU AND INSULTING MY FAMILY?! DO YOU HAVE A DEATH WISH OR SOMETHING?!
*Inuyasha sweatdrops and face pales*
*Lily sighing deeply* See what you made me do? And I don't like loosing my temper!
*Lily* I'm going to do the disclaimer before Inuyasha says something stupid again and I lose my temper again. Last thing I need is another lawsuit.
*Inuyasha* HEY!
*Lily* Lily, that's me, doesn't own the characters of any anime show at all. Not one. Nope. Enjoy the chapter, folks.
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Keiki de Niyati : Children of Fate
Chapter 19- " The New Moon "
By Lily:
Inuyasha growled softly to himself as he stood on a small hill, watching the evening sun start it's final decent into the western horizon. The last golden rays reaching out across the land, raking slowly backwards until the sky began to dim and grow slowly darker.
"Not much longer now." Inuyasha grumbled, crossing his arms as he glared at the sun, as if angry with it for daring to set.
"Inuyasha, honestly. Would you relax? You're not even human for a full day, only a few hours. You'll survive." Kagome sighed impatiently, her ears starting to tingle.
"Keh! Shows what you know, wench. Even one hour is one too long for me to be so vunerable!" Inuyasha growled.
Kagome sighed deeply in frustration, but she knew it would be no use to try to talk to her mate now, not when he was like this. He absolutely hated his hanyou cycle, and despised every new moon, knowing it was his one and maybe only true weakness. At least one that he himself couldn't avoid.
"Mama! Mama! I feel funny!" Kaiya cried, running up and tugging on her mother's kimono as her twin brother raced up after her.
"Me too, Mama." Kaori said.
Inuyasha snorted.
"Relax you two. It's just the new moon, remember?" Kagome asked, as the twins looked up at their mother curiously.
"Already Mama?" Kaori asked as Kagome nodded.
"But then......does that mean Daddy is gonna change too?" Kaiya asked eagerly, looking up at the parent in question. Inuyasha growled in aggitation again, but more to himself than to his family.
Kagome smiled as she looked at her digruntled mate, before looking down at the little white haired girl.
"Your father doesn't like turning human, sweetheart. He's in a bad mood about it all." Kagome explained as Kaiya and Kaori looked up at their father confused.
"But why Daddy? Don't you like turning normal? Like everyone else?" Kaiya asked innocently as Inuyasha snorted.
"I am what I am, pup. And that's neither demon, *nor* human!" Inuyasha growled.
Kagome sighed as she shook her head, then walked over to her mate's side, and leaned her head on his shoulder.
"Would you just *try* and be nice for a change, Inuyasha? They're just curious." Kagome said.
"Keh!"
"Knock it off already will you? Look. The sun's almost completely gone too." Kagome said, pointing.
Sure enough, only the very crest of the sun was visable beyond the mountain range.
"Keh! The sooner the sun sets, the sooner it will rise again." Inuyasha said, inwardly sighing as he felt the changes start to take over.
Kagome looked down at the pups, smiling as she watched Kaori's hanyou ears start to shrink into his thick black hair, until human ones were visible on the sides of his head. He blinked several times as his golden eyes darkened into a deep violet color, with a tint of blue in them.
Kaiya's changes, on the other hand, were quiet different that her brother's, and were more like her father's. Her hair immediately began to darken, her ears shrinking beneath it as well, until her hair was the same shade of ebony as her brother's. Her eyes remained the same color, but she blinked a few times as her vision was reduced to that of an average human girl's.
Kagome had to keep herself from chuckling as she watched her mate's change. He was glaring at his hands as his sharp claws shrank and reduced until they were the length of normal finger nails. His hair too began to darken, at a bit faster rate that Kaiya's, and his hanyou ears also began to shrink into his head, until he too had human ears. His eyes darked until there was only a deep violet, without a trace of gold in them.
Even as he was still changing, Inuyasha looked up at his mate, curious at her own detransformation back into a human woman. His eyes, still darkening to violet, stared into her own, as he watched her ears disappear into her head as well, and she felt her own hearing shift from on top of her head to the sides. She ran a tongue across her fangs as she felt them shrink away into her mouth. She looked down at her hands, her own claws retracting until they were only quarter-inch from the end of the tip of her finger, the way she always used to keep her nails when she was human.
"Alright, it's finished. We should be heading back to camp anyhow." Inuyasha grumbled, starting to walk away, when the two black haired twins raced around him eagerly, jumping up and down.
"Daddy! Daddy! You have dark hair like Mama too!" Kaori cried as Kagome smiled at her son.
"Of course he does, Kaori. At least, he does when he's human. Honestly, what would you two expect? You both have black hair when you're human too, remember?" Kagome said.
"But.....but Mama has always had black hair, even when she's normal, right?" Kaiya asked.
"Normal, sweetie?" Kagome asked curiously.
"Like Daddy. With the fuzzy ears and the pointy teeth!" Kaori cried.
"Kaori, sweetheart, normal for your father has always been as a hanyou. He was born one. I, on the other hand, was born human, but was turned into a hanyou." Kagome explained.
"Huh?" Kaori asked confused as Inuyasha sighed in impatience and picked the little boy up by the back of his kimono pants, and set him aside, before continuing towards camp.
"We'll explain it when you're older." Inuyasha said without looking back.
Kagome smiled as she looked down at the children.
"Well? Let's go." Kagome said, ushering the twins to follow their father.
Inuyasha grumbled as he sat down at the base of the closest tree, only a few meters from the fire, and looked upwards into the sky, as if already wishing the night were over with.
Kagome sighed as she and the twins joined the others next to the warmth of the fire.
"Black hair?" Kikyo asked curiously as Inuyasha looked over at her a moment, before turning away again, growling to himself.
"Yeah. His mother had black hair, so I suppose that's where he got it from." Kagome explained as Inuyasha growled a bit louder.
"Naturally. You wouldn't expect my hanyou brother to keep his appearance when he transformed, now did you, Miko? After all, he's only *half* demon. And it is his *human* mother that he takes after when he transforms each new moon." Sesshoumaru said, looking over at Kikyo.
"Do me a favor and just shut up about it, huh Sesshoumaru?!" Inuyasha snapped.
"Inuyasha, knock it off." Kagome warned, narrowing her eyes at her mate. He looked at her briefly, before snorting and turning away again.
"It's ok Kagome. We're used to this, remember? Besides, he was worse while you were gone these last few years. He's actually much better than he was last time too." Sango said as Inuyasha closed his eyes, but didn't make a sound.
"I know you never sleep when you're human, but do you think you could relax a little? I mean, come on, Inuyasha, you're worse that a teenager girl. And I should know. I used to be one!" Kagome said.
"You want me to relax? I would be able to if *you'd* come to your senses and just go back to your time for the night, wench." Inuyasha said.
Kagome growled at him again.
"For the last time, I said no, Inuyasha. Just get over it already." Kagome said.
"You know, this is almost too amusing to watch." Miroku said.
"It's never too amusing, Miroku, you should know that by now." Sango said with a smile.
"Hey!" Kagome and Inuyasha said at the same time.
"Anyway, I was wondering about these Tirge youkai that Myoga is supposed to be getting for Kagome and the pups. Sesshoumaru, you said you remember the Tirge that protected Inuyasha's mother, right? Do you remember what particular kind of Neco it was?" Miroku asked.
"I do not. I barely recall the youkai at all. What I do recall, is that it was a large, feline of some sort, and very powerful. It was also very quiet and keep to the shadows of the castle. I myself do not recall every truely seeing the beast in the light, therefore I know not what it must have looked like." Sesshoumaru said.
"A tiger." Inuyasha suddenly said softly.
Everyone else turned to look at him curiously.
"I don't remember much, but it.....the cat......she looked like a large tiger I think. I can't remember her markings or if she had any kind of powers though. Whatever she was, I do remember Mother being fond of her. And Father approved of her as well. At least.....I think he did....." Inuyasha said, frowning in concentration.
Kagome turned away, looking down at the grass at her feet, thinking silently to herself.
'A tiger youkai? The Tirge youkai is a kind of tiger? I suppose it could be.....tigers are supposed to be a very powerful cat, but.....in service to a Inu lord and his human mate? And their hanyou pup? But then again, I suppose anything is possible. And from what I've already learned about Inuyasha's mother and father, he came from a very powerful and noble family. And tigers are sometimes associated with nobility......So maybe it's possible in the Feudal Era.' Kagome thought.
"Kouga? What about you? You ever hear of a tiger kind of youkai? At all?" Kagome asked the wolf.
"I don't really know. I heard rumors when I was still a young pup, but I thought they were only rumors." Kouga mumbled.
"What kind of rumors?" Sango asked curiously. Kouga looked up, thinking to himself, before opening his mouth.
"Well, like I said, they were only rumors. I don't know if they're any real truth to them. But what I have heard, is that they are very powerful youkai. They're very stealthful too, and are very hard to track. They were rumored to only surve the highest of the highest nobility of demons." Kouga said.
"And from what we know about Inutaisho, he was one of them. And if he was, then naturally he'd be able to get a Tirge to serve both Inuyasha and his human mother, right?" Miroku said.
"Our father, the great demon lord Inutaisho, was better than the best. He ruled over the entire western lands, did he not?" Sesshoumaru asked.
"Well, yeah, but still. Myoga said that the Tirge have spread out since then, right? So how do we know he'll be able to find a Tirge willing to protect the twins?" Kagome asked.
"And yourself." Inuyasha said.
"Anyway, how do we know they are any more left? I mean.....I know there are a lot of demons who look down on hanyous, but....." Kagome said, biting her lip.
Inuyasha snarled to himself as he closed his eyes.
"If the flea finds a few Tirge to protect Kagome and the pups, fine. If not, we'll manage without them! We don't *need* them, it'd just be helpful to have a few around. For Kagome's sake. And for the pups." Inuyasha said stubbornly.
"Anyway, we'll just have to wait until Myoga returns to see what will happen next, right?" Kagome asked.
"Whatever. How much longer until sunrise?" Inuyasha asked, his head behind his arms, his eyes still closed.
"Inuyasha, it's only been half an hour." Kagome said with a sigh.
"So? How much longer?" Inuyasha asked.
Kagome sighed deeply.
"Many more hours Inuyasha." Kagome said as Inuyasha grumbled loudly.
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*Lily smiling* Even though they're still doing the old episodes, it's so cool to watch them all at once! Inuyasha is just the coolest!
*Inuyasha smirks* You're just now realizing this?
*Lily narrowing her eyes at Inuyasha* I'd watch it if I were you, dog- boy. You're starting to sound like my Saiyan father-in-law.
*Inuyasha growling* Don't insult me!
*Lily frowning* I'll have you know my Veggie-papa is a terrific fighter, even better than yourself!
*Inuyasha snorting* Keh! Yeah right! Maybe in his dreams.
*Lily turning SSJ4* WHAT IS IT WITH YOU AND INSULTING MY FAMILY?! DO YOU HAVE A DEATH WISH OR SOMETHING?!
*Inuyasha sweatdrops and face pales*
*Lily sighing deeply* See what you made me do? And I don't like loosing my temper!
*Lily* I'm going to do the disclaimer before Inuyasha says something stupid again and I lose my temper again. Last thing I need is another lawsuit.
*Inuyasha* HEY!
*Lily* Lily, that's me, doesn't own the characters of any anime show at all. Not one. Nope. Enjoy the chapter, folks.
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Keiki de Niyati : Children of Fate
Chapter 19- " The New Moon "
By Lily:
Inuyasha growled softly to himself as he stood on a small hill, watching the evening sun start it's final decent into the western horizon. The last golden rays reaching out across the land, raking slowly backwards until the sky began to dim and grow slowly darker.
"Not much longer now." Inuyasha grumbled, crossing his arms as he glared at the sun, as if angry with it for daring to set.
"Inuyasha, honestly. Would you relax? You're not even human for a full day, only a few hours. You'll survive." Kagome sighed impatiently, her ears starting to tingle.
"Keh! Shows what you know, wench. Even one hour is one too long for me to be so vunerable!" Inuyasha growled.
Kagome sighed deeply in frustration, but she knew it would be no use to try to talk to her mate now, not when he was like this. He absolutely hated his hanyou cycle, and despised every new moon, knowing it was his one and maybe only true weakness. At least one that he himself couldn't avoid.
"Mama! Mama! I feel funny!" Kaiya cried, running up and tugging on her mother's kimono as her twin brother raced up after her.
"Me too, Mama." Kaori said.
Inuyasha snorted.
"Relax you two. It's just the new moon, remember?" Kagome asked, as the twins looked up at their mother curiously.
"Already Mama?" Kaori asked as Kagome nodded.
"But then......does that mean Daddy is gonna change too?" Kaiya asked eagerly, looking up at the parent in question. Inuyasha growled in aggitation again, but more to himself than to his family.
Kagome smiled as she looked at her digruntled mate, before looking down at the little white haired girl.
"Your father doesn't like turning human, sweetheart. He's in a bad mood about it all." Kagome explained as Kaiya and Kaori looked up at their father confused.
"But why Daddy? Don't you like turning normal? Like everyone else?" Kaiya asked innocently as Inuyasha snorted.
"I am what I am, pup. And that's neither demon, *nor* human!" Inuyasha growled.
Kagome sighed as she shook her head, then walked over to her mate's side, and leaned her head on his shoulder.
"Would you just *try* and be nice for a change, Inuyasha? They're just curious." Kagome said.
"Keh!"
"Knock it off already will you? Look. The sun's almost completely gone too." Kagome said, pointing.
Sure enough, only the very crest of the sun was visable beyond the mountain range.
"Keh! The sooner the sun sets, the sooner it will rise again." Inuyasha said, inwardly sighing as he felt the changes start to take over.
Kagome looked down at the pups, smiling as she watched Kaori's hanyou ears start to shrink into his thick black hair, until human ones were visible on the sides of his head. He blinked several times as his golden eyes darkened into a deep violet color, with a tint of blue in them.
Kaiya's changes, on the other hand, were quiet different that her brother's, and were more like her father's. Her hair immediately began to darken, her ears shrinking beneath it as well, until her hair was the same shade of ebony as her brother's. Her eyes remained the same color, but she blinked a few times as her vision was reduced to that of an average human girl's.
Kagome had to keep herself from chuckling as she watched her mate's change. He was glaring at his hands as his sharp claws shrank and reduced until they were the length of normal finger nails. His hair too began to darken, at a bit faster rate that Kaiya's, and his hanyou ears also began to shrink into his head, until he too had human ears. His eyes darked until there was only a deep violet, without a trace of gold in them.
Even as he was still changing, Inuyasha looked up at his mate, curious at her own detransformation back into a human woman. His eyes, still darkening to violet, stared into her own, as he watched her ears disappear into her head as well, and she felt her own hearing shift from on top of her head to the sides. She ran a tongue across her fangs as she felt them shrink away into her mouth. She looked down at her hands, her own claws retracting until they were only quarter-inch from the end of the tip of her finger, the way she always used to keep her nails when she was human.
"Alright, it's finished. We should be heading back to camp anyhow." Inuyasha grumbled, starting to walk away, when the two black haired twins raced around him eagerly, jumping up and down.
"Daddy! Daddy! You have dark hair like Mama too!" Kaori cried as Kagome smiled at her son.
"Of course he does, Kaori. At least, he does when he's human. Honestly, what would you two expect? You both have black hair when you're human too, remember?" Kagome said.
"But.....but Mama has always had black hair, even when she's normal, right?" Kaiya asked.
"Normal, sweetie?" Kagome asked curiously.
"Like Daddy. With the fuzzy ears and the pointy teeth!" Kaori cried.
"Kaori, sweetheart, normal for your father has always been as a hanyou. He was born one. I, on the other hand, was born human, but was turned into a hanyou." Kagome explained.
"Huh?" Kaori asked confused as Inuyasha sighed in impatience and picked the little boy up by the back of his kimono pants, and set him aside, before continuing towards camp.
"We'll explain it when you're older." Inuyasha said without looking back.
Kagome smiled as she looked down at the children.
"Well? Let's go." Kagome said, ushering the twins to follow their father.
Inuyasha grumbled as he sat down at the base of the closest tree, only a few meters from the fire, and looked upwards into the sky, as if already wishing the night were over with.
Kagome sighed as she and the twins joined the others next to the warmth of the fire.
"Black hair?" Kikyo asked curiously as Inuyasha looked over at her a moment, before turning away again, growling to himself.
"Yeah. His mother had black hair, so I suppose that's where he got it from." Kagome explained as Inuyasha growled a bit louder.
"Naturally. You wouldn't expect my hanyou brother to keep his appearance when he transformed, now did you, Miko? After all, he's only *half* demon. And it is his *human* mother that he takes after when he transforms each new moon." Sesshoumaru said, looking over at Kikyo.
"Do me a favor and just shut up about it, huh Sesshoumaru?!" Inuyasha snapped.
"Inuyasha, knock it off." Kagome warned, narrowing her eyes at her mate. He looked at her briefly, before snorting and turning away again.
"It's ok Kagome. We're used to this, remember? Besides, he was worse while you were gone these last few years. He's actually much better than he was last time too." Sango said as Inuyasha closed his eyes, but didn't make a sound.
"I know you never sleep when you're human, but do you think you could relax a little? I mean, come on, Inuyasha, you're worse that a teenager girl. And I should know. I used to be one!" Kagome said.
"You want me to relax? I would be able to if *you'd* come to your senses and just go back to your time for the night, wench." Inuyasha said.
Kagome growled at him again.
"For the last time, I said no, Inuyasha. Just get over it already." Kagome said.
"You know, this is almost too amusing to watch." Miroku said.
"It's never too amusing, Miroku, you should know that by now." Sango said with a smile.
"Hey!" Kagome and Inuyasha said at the same time.
"Anyway, I was wondering about these Tirge youkai that Myoga is supposed to be getting for Kagome and the pups. Sesshoumaru, you said you remember the Tirge that protected Inuyasha's mother, right? Do you remember what particular kind of Neco it was?" Miroku asked.
"I do not. I barely recall the youkai at all. What I do recall, is that it was a large, feline of some sort, and very powerful. It was also very quiet and keep to the shadows of the castle. I myself do not recall every truely seeing the beast in the light, therefore I know not what it must have looked like." Sesshoumaru said.
"A tiger." Inuyasha suddenly said softly.
Everyone else turned to look at him curiously.
"I don't remember much, but it.....the cat......she looked like a large tiger I think. I can't remember her markings or if she had any kind of powers though. Whatever she was, I do remember Mother being fond of her. And Father approved of her as well. At least.....I think he did....." Inuyasha said, frowning in concentration.
Kagome turned away, looking down at the grass at her feet, thinking silently to herself.
'A tiger youkai? The Tirge youkai is a kind of tiger? I suppose it could be.....tigers are supposed to be a very powerful cat, but.....in service to a Inu lord and his human mate? And their hanyou pup? But then again, I suppose anything is possible. And from what I've already learned about Inuyasha's mother and father, he came from a very powerful and noble family. And tigers are sometimes associated with nobility......So maybe it's possible in the Feudal Era.' Kagome thought.
"Kouga? What about you? You ever hear of a tiger kind of youkai? At all?" Kagome asked the wolf.
"I don't really know. I heard rumors when I was still a young pup, but I thought they were only rumors." Kouga mumbled.
"What kind of rumors?" Sango asked curiously. Kouga looked up, thinking to himself, before opening his mouth.
"Well, like I said, they were only rumors. I don't know if they're any real truth to them. But what I have heard, is that they are very powerful youkai. They're very stealthful too, and are very hard to track. They were rumored to only surve the highest of the highest nobility of demons." Kouga said.
"And from what we know about Inutaisho, he was one of them. And if he was, then naturally he'd be able to get a Tirge to serve both Inuyasha and his human mother, right?" Miroku said.
"Our father, the great demon lord Inutaisho, was better than the best. He ruled over the entire western lands, did he not?" Sesshoumaru asked.
"Well, yeah, but still. Myoga said that the Tirge have spread out since then, right? So how do we know he'll be able to find a Tirge willing to protect the twins?" Kagome asked.
"And yourself." Inuyasha said.
"Anyway, how do we know they are any more left? I mean.....I know there are a lot of demons who look down on hanyous, but....." Kagome said, biting her lip.
Inuyasha snarled to himself as he closed his eyes.
"If the flea finds a few Tirge to protect Kagome and the pups, fine. If not, we'll manage without them! We don't *need* them, it'd just be helpful to have a few around. For Kagome's sake. And for the pups." Inuyasha said stubbornly.
"Anyway, we'll just have to wait until Myoga returns to see what will happen next, right?" Kagome asked.
"Whatever. How much longer until sunrise?" Inuyasha asked, his head behind his arms, his eyes still closed.
"Inuyasha, it's only been half an hour." Kagome said with a sigh.
"So? How much longer?" Inuyasha asked.
Kagome sighed deeply.
"Many more hours Inuyasha." Kagome said as Inuyasha grumbled loudly.
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