Disclaimer: If Inuyasha were mine, I wouldn't need to write this story
Chapter Fifteen: A Dream or a Nightmare?
"Inuyasha, you've found me!" A giggle escaped from Kagome. She wasn't ashamed of her nakedness, but welcomed the dog boy into the deliciously warm liquid with her. She undressed him herself, slipping the garments off his seductive body. Her lips introduced themselves to his throat, making a path down the taunt skin.
"Kagome what are you doing?" She didn't answer, but made her way further down over his solid stomach. He began to groan from deep in his throat. She lifted her head to meet his eyes.
"Inuyasha? Inuyasha, wake up...we need to go." The hanyou lifted his eyelids to find his dream girl poking him. "Good, finally you're awake. Hurry and eat your ramen and we'll be on our way." A couple hours later the foursome set out to try and find the mice demons. They trudged down the path for a good hour or so before Shippo noticed that the trees around them had been ground down.
"You guys, look at the trees!" the tiny kitsune cried out. The other three searched around them and noticed something was amiss. The monk scrunched down to examine what was left of a small tree.
"It looks as though someone, or something, gnawed it off. Perhaps we're close to the mice demons lair," Miroku pondered more to himself than to anyone else. Squeak!
"Shippo, be quite! We need to stay silent!" Inuyasha interjected at the small fox.
"Ummm...guys...that wasn't me," a scared fox barely made out. The group turned from the stump they were examining to find a hoard of white, brown, and black mice. They were about the size of children and looked exactly what a mouse should, save for their size and that they always walked up right.
"Oh hell," Kagome breathed out. Quickly Inuyasha gathered the other three into his arms and flew to the nearest tree. Up in the foliage is where he left them and jumped down to fight the hundred or so mice demons that had appeared from no where.
"You dirty rats will wish you'd never been born!" the infuriated fanged boy screamed as he drew out the Tetsusaiga. A wave of rodents came down upon him, their teeth bared ready to chew him up. Startled Inuyasha landed on the soft ground and the Tetsusaiga knocked from his grasp when one of the demons clamped down on his hand with the fangs puncturing through both sides. Two dirt brown mice held his arms down digging their claws into the pliable skin while the others began to take chunks of meat away from his body.
"OH SHIT!!! FUCKING RATS GET OFF OF ME!" the victim howled at the fleet of teeth and claws. Kagome started to cry for the boy.
"Inuyasha, oh gods, someone help him!" she yelled out to on one in particular. Miroku jumped down, but on the way a branch caught him between his legs. He landed so hard that he blacked out.
"A lot of help you are Miroku!" the disappearing hanyou yelped.
"Kagome, I've got an idea," Shippo piped up to his adopted mother. POOF! Shippo became a mouse just like the ones that were eating Inuyasha alive. Only this little mouse had green eyes and red fur, but it didn't matter, the demons wouldn't notice that much. He pulled out a small capsule and Kagome shrank down to fit into it. Carefully Shippo placed his beloved mother into the vessel and floated down to the rest of the mice. Walking up to the rest of the group when he finally reached the dirt Shippo held the glass tube close to his heart before he executed plan.
"Hey guys! I caught the priestess!" a little mousey squeak came out to the demons. The mice stopped gnawing on Inuyasha and turned their attention to the fake mouse. Good! It's working!
"We shall sacrifice them to our demon lord!" the mice screeched out in unison. Uh oh, that doesn't sound good... Shippo thought as he glanced over some shoulders of the demons to check on the doggy boy. He bled profusely from the orifices that had been bitten into his flesh. From the amount of blood that was lost Inuyasha had become unconscious to the world around him. The rodents gathered him and Kagome and brought them down to their lair.
"Ummm...could you tell me how we sacrifice invaders to the demon lord? I'm kind of new and haven't ever seen it been done before," Shippo asked a fellow mouse beside him.
"It is true that it has been awhile that we've had enough strength to fight a hanyou, much less a priestess, so I can understand you're confusion. The way we sacrifice offerings to our demon lord is that we prepare them for three days bathing them in milk and making their skin soft with herbs and concoctions. On the last day our lord eats them and burns their bones," the mouse explained to Shippo. Oh, what have I done? The now stunned mousey Shippo decelerated and began to pull back to where he knew Miroku was still knocked out. Hopefully Miroku can help. Kagome and Inuyasha are in real trouble! The little fox turned back to his true self and scampered up the tree to try and wake the monk.
"Miroku! Please wake up! They're going to eat Kagome and Inuyasha!" Shippo screamed at the top of his lungs. A river of tears poured down his face as he shook the monk harder and harder. A groan came from the body below the kitsune.
"Shippo...where's...everyone..." the sentence vanished in the air.
"Just sleep right now, we have three days, we'll think about what to do tomorrow morning," Shippo assured the exhausted man pulling him from the tree, making a bed for the both of them, and falling asleep in a fitful dream.