Hello readers! Fourth chapter in one day! Hope the story is good how it is so that I don't have to go back and change anything. Anyways, now that you already know that Isa in the IsaNao pairing abbreviation means Isaac, I might as well tell you that Nao stands for Naomi (sorry, couldn't think of a better name). You'll meet her early on in this chapter. Now, let's get it started (HA! Let's get it started, IN HERE!)! Enjoy!
Isaac sat between Sango and Kagome, talking with them as they waited for Inuyasha and Miroku to wake up. They didn't bother trying to wake them up, as Inuyasha would still want to kill Isaac and Miroku was... well... Miroku. They just enjoyed their time without them while it lasted.
When they finally did wake up, they both groaned in pain. Inuyasha grabbed the back of his head in pain, cursing incessantly. Miroku awoke and grabbed his jaw, the pain obvious by the way his face twisted.
"You two OK?" Isaac asked.
Inuyasha, recognizing the voice, leapt to his feet and raised his fist at Isaac. "I'M GONNA KILL YOU!!!"
"SIT!!!"
Inuyasha fall face first into the dirt.
Isaac looked down at Inuyasha. "I'm sorry Inuyasha! I was just having a little fun! Come on, haven't you ever pocked fun at anyone before? Like Shippo perhaps?"
Inuyasha grumbled angrily again.
"Come on, Shippo forgives you! Can't you forgive me?"
"NO!!!"
"INUYASHA!!! ISAAC APOLOGIZED TO YOU NICELY AND YOU BETTER RESPECT THAT OR I'LL SAY THE S-WORD AGAIN!!!" Kagome shouted.
Inuyasha growled, then sighed. "Fine. I forgive you," he said, not looking Isaac in the eye.
"Good boy, Inuyasha!" Kagome said, playfully rubbing his ears.
Inuyasha tried desperately to both pull away and act like he didn't like what she was doing, but failed at both. He couldn't move because of the stupid spell so he could do nothing to stop her from rubbing his ears, which he so secretly loved. He tried to keep a frown on his face, but soon found that to be impossible. His frown faded and the corners of his mouth even tilted into a smile. He became extremely relaxed and before he knew it, he had fallen asleep.
Kagome giggled and continued to rub his ears lightly. Sango and Isaac watched as Miroku sat up and popped his jaw a few times, then rubbed his head. "What happened?"
"I knocked you out because you were about to do something perverted to Sango," Isaac said.
"Oh yes... now I remember!" Miroku said happily. "And I never leave anything unfinished!" His hand had already wandered behind Sango and...
SLAP!!!
Miroku was out cold again.
Isaac, Sango, and Kagome sat back down together and awaited for the two to wake up again.
5 hours later
Isaac sat with Miroku and Inuyasha, talking about the shikon jewel and imagining all the things they could do with it. Miroku had just finished explaining another perverted fantasy of his when the girls walked out from Kaede's hut and began walking into the forest.
"We're going to the hot springs. We'll be back eventually," Kagome said just before she and Sango disappeared behind into the forest.
Isaac shrugged in response and Miroku waved. Inuyasha was already asleep from listening to Miroku's story.
Miroku waited until they could no longer hear the girl's footsteps when he turned to Isaac. "Hey Isaac, now that the girls are gone, I want to show you something. It's something that Inuyasha and I have been keeping a secret for a while. Since you're a man now I guess it wouldn't be bad to show you what it is," Miroku said.
Isaac cocked an eyebrow and watched as Miroku stood up and brushed himself off. Isaac shrugged and stood up with him. Miroku led him out into the forest, turning a little to the left of the direction that the girls went. The two of them walked for about five minutes when Miroku stopped and put his hand up to a large clump of leaves. He pulled them back and Isaac stepped out from behind the trees. He looked around at the large clearing filled with little pools of steaming water. Something clicked in his mind and he suddenly realized, "Hey! This is the hot springs!" Miroku grabbed Isaac from behind, cupping his hand over his mouth and dragging him behind a rock. He then released Isaac and sat with his back against the rock.
"What are we doing here?" Isaac asked.
Miroku shushed him and peeked around the side of the rock, smiling all the while. Isaac looked over the top of the rock to see what he was looking at. At the other end of the clearing, Isaac saw Kagome and Sango. His eyes widened and he immediately looked away. They didn't have any clothes on! He gulped loudly, heart racing. He'd just seen two naked women. He closed his eyes and tried to get the memory of how they looked out of his head but failed. He got up and promptly dashed away with inhuman speed, making quite a bit of noise as he did.
Kagome and Sango looked up and scanned the area. They didn't see anything but just before they turned around to get into the water, Kagome saw the top of Miroku's head. She gasped and snatched up a towel, wrapping it around herself, and began stomping off in his direction. Sango looked over at where she was headed and, wrapping herself in another towel, followed Kagome. They snuck up behind the rock and waited for Miroku to poke his head out from behind the rock again. When he did... SLAP!!! SLAP!!!
Isaac staggered through the forest, trying to think of something else but couldn't. The image just kept flashing back in his mind. He wished desperately for something to distract him from the picture in his mind, and he got what he wanted.
A scream split the air in the direction of the hot springs. Without thinking, Isaac turned around and dashed back to the hot springs with the same inhuman speed he had used to get out of there. He flashed past trees and bushes until he reached the large clearing where he bolted past Kagome, Sango, and an unconscious Miroku. He leapt from over the small pools of water as he came across them until he came to a more secluded area of the clearing, one that came to a dead end between large rock formations that made a U-turn around the pool at the end of the canyon like section of the clearing. When he stopped, he saw a young woman he guessed to be around his age sitting in the corner of two rock formations as a large tiger demon closed on around her.
The young woman called to him for help.
Isaac dove in without hesitation, drawing a pair of daggers hidden in the inside pockets of his black vest, and attacked the tiger demon. The demon turned just in time to leap away as Isaac's attack came down. His blades hit the rocks and he pushed off with his arms, landing just above the woman, and pushed off the rock face, flipping and landing in front of her.
The tiger demon lunged forward, claws extended to slice Isaac to bits. Isaac grabbed the woman's shoulder and pulled her to the ground just as the demon was about to his them. The demon's claws struck the stone and at the same moment, Isaac's dagger found flesh. He had stabbed the beast right in the heart. It fell limp and Isaac let it slip of his dagger, falling on its side next to him.
Isaac cleaned his blade on the beast's fur and sheathed his daggers, then turned to the woman he had just saved. "Are you alright?" he asked her. She was lying on the floor, eyes hardly open. Isaac looked her up and down and blushed at seeing her without any clothes on. She was the third woman he'd seen naked in just one day!
The woman moaned and tears spilt down her face. He looked down at her side and saw a large gash made by the tiger demon's claws. Her entire right side from just below her chest and down to her knee was coated in blood. He looked around and spotted a towel lying beside the hot spring. He snatched it from the floor and wrapped it around her, then lifted her into his arms and dashed off back toward Kaede's hut. Though he had only been here for a few hours, he already knew quite a bit about the feudal era and the things and people in it.
Kagome watched as a black and white blur leapt at her and stopped beside her. It was Isaac, a young woman wearing nothing but a towel in his arms.
"Which direction is Kaede's hut?" he asked Kagome quickly.
Kagome didn't answer right away. "Isaac! What are you doing with her? And why is she wearing nothing but a towel?" Sango walked up and stood beside Kagome, giving Isaac a stern look.
Isaac opened the side of the woman's towel, revealing the large gash. Kagome and Sango gasped. "She was attacked by a tiger demon while she was in the hot springs and as you can see, she's lost a lot of blood! Now tell me, which direction to Kaede's hut?" Kagome pointed in the right direction and Isaac immediately dashed off in that direction.
The woman was unconscious due to some much lost blood, and so Isaac moved all the faster. Every once in a while, he stopped to check her pulse, then would continue on faster than before. He flew through the trees, leaping into the sky to quicken his pace. He continued on like this until he finally made it out of the forest and to Kaede's hut. He landed in front of the hut, a disheveled Inuyasha staring at him with a very confused look, then ran through the door.
Kaede too stared at him for a moment before realizing the woman in his arms. Isaac laid her down beside the fireplace in the center of Kaede's hut and Kaede kneeled beside her.
Kaede grabbed the edge of towel and looked up, about to tell Isaac to leave when she found him gone, the curtain in the doorway of her hut just falling back into place. She smiled, then looked back down at the young lady, her grim expression returning. She removed the towel and began her work.
