A/N: I am happy to see that some reviews from my other stories have come to read this one!
SilentSlayer: Thankies for saying that!
Tomo*223: Glad you liked it!
Geminigragon: Gomen! I'll try not to do it again, lol.
Moi: To tell you the truth, I forgot all about that part. Thanks for bringing it up! I know have an idea for it.
Silent bloodytears: Glad you think its good so far!
Sugar-Crazy-Fox: Me glad you like! Lol.
hoshi-ni-onegai: I'm glad to hear your enjoying my story so well! And I hope to see you in future reviews.
Lavender Valentine: I don't mind! I love the quotes from the movie, lol. Thats one of my favs you did in your last review!
Gohanzgirl: Sorry to hear about your mummified fingers! Thankies for reviewing!
Crystal: Thankies! And you'll find out your answer in this chappie.
Drat: Lol. Gomen, I don't mean to make my readers suffer. I can take a hint. And yes, I am still with you, lol.
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Chapter 3
"Feh, I don't see why I have to ride in this stupid carriage. If I ran I would be there in two minutes." Inuyasha muttered from atop the carriage.
He hated riding inside the carriage more than he did riding it. Inside of the carriage made him feel closed in, he liked to feel the wind blowing against his face.
"Because brother, if you ran there people would more than likely recognize your speed as that of Zorro's." Sesshomaru answered from inside of the carriage. "If it were not for Shippo's fox magic masking your true scent the youkai would have already found out that you were Zorro."
Inuyasha rolled his amber eyes skyward and replied with his favorite word. "Feh." He said and propped his feet up on the carriage drivers seat in front of him.
The short toad-like man driving the carriage turned around and frowned at him. "Do not put your filthy feet on the seat, you half breed!" The green toad-like man called.
Inuyasha leaned forward and whacked him upside his bald green head. "Shut up Jaken and just drive this stupid heap." He growled.
The toad man, Jaken, turned back around and gave the reins a flick, making the two headed dragon beast go faster. "Faster you beasts!" He hollered.
A small head popped out of the side window of the carriage. "Jaken, don't be mean to Ah and Uh!" A child's voice called.
Inuyasha smiled down at his adopted niece. Sesshomaru had rescued her when a town next to theirs were massacred by a flock of bird youkai called the Birds of Paradise. She had been the only one out of her family to survive and no one in the village were willing to take her in. So, surprisingly, Sesshomaru had offered to take the young child into his home.
"Rin, get back in there before you get your head knocked off!" Jaken replied.
Rin stuck her tongue out at Jaken before she went back into the carriage.
Inuyasha smirked and looked out over the surrounding area. "Its about time." He muttered when the town finally came into view.
He jumped off of the top of the carriage the instant it had stopped.
Inuyasha began walking towards the tavern, intending to get a drink and to talk to Miroku, the only other person besides Sesshomaru that knew that he was Zorro.
Inuyasha walked into the tavern to much noise. It was crowded with the army that patrolled the small town. Half of them were either drunk or watching the dancers of the room.
Inuyasha walked over to the bar where Sango was standing.
Sango looked up. "Hey Inuyasha." She said as she handed another soldier a cup of beer.
"That'll be two pasos." Sango said and held out her hand to accept the money.
The drunken soldier leaned over the bar before Sango. "How 'bout I pay in another way?" He asked, his words slightly slurred. He propped his elbow up on the bar and rested his un-shaved chin on it.
Sango's eye twitched slightly and then she also smiled sweetly and also leaned over the bar. She brought her hand up and gently rubbed the side of the soldiers face.
'That guy has no idea what he's gotten himself into.' Inuyasha thought as he took a seat, intending to watch the scene that was about to un-fold before his eyes.
"You know, that sounds like a pretty good idea." She said in a seductive sounding voice, leaning over even further so that her mouth was right next to the mans ear. "There's just one little thing." She continued, her breath tickling the mans ear.
The drunken soldier had a look of triumph on his face. "And what might that one little thing be, senorita?" the soldier asked, bringing his other hand up and placing it in the middle of Sango's back.
Sango smiled sweetly once more. "The one little thing is THAT I ONLY TAKE PAYMENTS IN MONEY!" She suddenly yelled in his ear and then brought the hand that had been caressing his face and knocked his elbow off of the bar.
The soldier fell over, his chin banging against the bar in the process and then he fell to the floor.
Inuyasha had to bite his tongue to keep from bursting out in laughter.
"Now, that'll be two pasos." Sango said again, once more completely calm.
The soldier stood up slowly, reached into the pocket of his uniform and dropped the money on the counter, then walked away, rubbing at his ears and chin as he did so.
Some of the other soldiers were laughing, or shaking their heads. "You don't want to mess with Senorita Sango mi amigo." One of them shouted after him.
Inuyasha shook his head. He almost felt sorry for the guy. Almost, but not quite.
He did not want to be on the receiving end when Sango yelled. He had once before and his ears had rung for two days. What could he say? The girl had a good set of lungs.
Sango picked up the money and bent over behind the counter to place it in a small box. When she straightened, she smiled at Inuyasha.
"Now, what can I get you Inuyasha? The usual?" She asked. With out waiting for an answer, she picked up a cup and filled it to the brim with beer.
She slid the cup in front of Inuyasha and then sat down herself. "Phew, its been a mad house around here lately. This is the actual first time I've gotten to sit down all day." She said and wiped at her brow.
Inuyasha picked up his cup and took a swig at it before he replied. "What happened to that one girl you hired last week? Koharu was it?" He asked as he sat his cup down.
Sango nodded her head. "She quit." She replied simply, picking up a cup of water and took a sip of the cool water inside of it.
Inuyasha quirked an eyebrow. "Why did she quit?" He asked curiously.
Sango scowled as she answered him. "Miroku asked her if she would bear his child and she totally freaked and quit on the spot." She said.
Inuyasha shook his head and took another swig of his drink. "How many girls has he made quit?" He asked.
"This is the fifteenth girl this month that has quit because of him." Sango replied, scowling even more.
"If he makes the new girl quit I swear I'll make it so he won't be having kids!" She muttered under her breath.
Inuyasha's white dog ears picked up on the muttered words. "New girl?" He asked and looked around the bar. He didn't see any new faces among the other waitresses and dancers. "What new girl?" He asked and turned his attention back to Sango.
Sango took another sip of her water. "I just hired her this morning in exchange for her own room. She just arrived with her family and she didn't want to have to share a room with her younger brother. So, I offered her a job in exchange for her own room." She said and stood back up when two other men came walking towards the counter.
Inuyasha picked up his drink and finished it all in one big gulp. The one good thing about being half youkai was that he could drink as much as he wanted to and not worry about being drunk. He sat his empty cup back on the counter and stood up.
"Sango, where's Miroku?" He asked as he sat some money down as well.
Sango was busy fixing six cups for the people that had just walked up and she hadn't heard him.
"Sango." Inuyasha called a little louder. Still he got no reaction from the brown haired woman.
He knew of only one other way to get her attention when nothing else would. 'My ears will probably be ringing for the rest of the evening.' He thought.
He took a deep breath. "Oi! Wench! I'm talking to you!" He shouted and flattened his ears against his head, trying to save them from the onslaught that he was sure he was going to get from Sango.
Sango whirled around, her eyes spitting fire. She marched up to Inuyasha. "Don't you call me a wench you good for nothing dog!" She yelled right next to his head.
Inuyasha winched and quickly covered his sensitive ears. "Shesh, not so loud! I just wanted to know where Miroku is!" He yelled back, slowly removing his hands from his ringing ears.
Sango crossed her arms over her chest. "He's out in the plaza somewhere." She muttered. She turned her back on Inuyasha and returned to the customers that were awaiting their drinks.
Inuyasha walked out of the crowded tavern and back into the bright early afternoon sun.
He brought his hand up and shaded his eyes from the sun and looked around the plaza, trying to spot Miroku among the horde of people that were in the plaza as well.
Inuyasha walked down the steps of the tavern and onto the dirt covered road. He began walked down the road, in the direction of a small stand that sold swords and other weapons. Miroku liked to stop by there and look at the strange weapons that the shop owner ordered from all over the country and Inuyasha was hoping that he'd find his friend there.
Inuyasha's ear s flicked behind when he heard the sound of horses hooves hitting the ground, but he didn't really pay any attention to it.
There was always someone coming or leaving by horse back, so it didn't bother him. It didn't bother him that is, until he saw a frightened looking horse running towards him at full speed from the corner of his eye.
He quickly jumped to the side and then reached out and grabbed the horses dangling lead rope.
The horse was jerked to a sudden stop and nearly fell over.
Inuyasha growled in frustration. 'What kind of half wit would let their horse run wild and nearly kill people?' He wondered while still growling.
"Who's the idiot that owns this horse?!" Inuyasha yelled and whirled around.
Down the dirt covered road he saw another horse that looked like the one that had nearly ran him over.
The other horse was rearing up and a girl with long, black shiny hair was trying to pull it back down.
The horse did go back down but quickly reared up again, bumping the girl with its shoulder and knocking her underneath its flailing legs.
The girl was so frightened that she couldn't even move out from underneath the horse as it started to come back down to earth.
'She'll be crushed!' Inuyasha thought. He didn't hesitate to drop the lead tope of the other horse and go racing towards the dark haired girl.
With his youkai speed he was racing towards the horse, he bent down and picked the girl up in his arms and jumped out of the way just as the huge horse came crashing down onto the ground where the girl had just been.
The horse didn't rear up anymore. It lowered its head to the ground, as if ashamed that it had almost crushed its mistress.
Inuyasha looked down at the girl in his arms, just now taking in her features.
She had a pale face, with dark soulful brown eyes that were wide with fear. And he could feel her perfect figure as he held her in his arms. Her fists were clenched tightly in his red shirt and she was breathing harshly as her chest heaved. Her simple red dress was dirtied with dirt from where she had fell to the ground. All in all she was quite beautiful.
Inuyasha carefully sat her down on her feet, but she refused to release her grip on his shirt, her eyes still wide with fear.
"You okay?" Inuyasha asked. He got no response from the frightened girl. 'Great, we got another one like Sango.' He thought.
"Hey wench, I asked if you were okay!" He said in a loud voice and gently put a hand on the dark haired girls shoulder.
The girl had snapped her head towards him when she had heard him cal her a wench, all fear now gone from her eyes.
Her eyes sparked with a fire that Inuyasha was surprised to see in such a petite looking young woman.
"I am no wench!" She said in a voice that was strong and confident.
Inuyasha shook his head. 'Well, at least she didn't yell in my ears like Sango did.' He thought. "Hey, you should be thanking me! I just saved you from getting trampled by that stupid horse of your!" He said, a low growl evident in his voice as he talked.
The girl took her hands away from Inuyasha and crossed them over her chest and turned her back to him. There was silence between the two. Then Inuyasha's dog ears picked up a soft spoken voice.
"Thank you." The girl said and turned back to face her saver, honesty shining in her soulful, brown eyes.
Inuyasha crossed his arms over his chest, much like Kagome had a few minutes before. "Feh, whatever wench." He replied with an arrogant smirk on his face.
Inuyasha saw that fire from when he had first called her wench come back into the girls eyes. "For the last time, don't call me wench! My name is Kagome! Ka. Go. Me! You, you, arrogant jerk!" She said, her voice laced with frustration.
Inuyasha uncrossed his arms. 'How can this woman's mood change from thankful to anger?' He wondered. He felt himself growl out of instinct when he felt a challenge.
"Well Ka. Go. Me. I have a name to and it isn't 'jerk'! Its Inuyasha!" He replied and smirked when he noticed that when he said her name like that it only fueled her anger.
Kagome gave a growl of frustrations. "I only met you and I can tell right now that you are IMPOSSIBLE!" Kagome yelled as loudly as she could.
Inuyasha winched and quickly pinned his ears to his head. 'Damn! This girl has better lungs than Sango!' He thought.
Kagome spun on her heels and grabbed her horses lead ropes and continued on her way to the near by stable.
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Gomen if this chappie wasn't that exiting! Did ya like???? Out of all three of my stories, Amnesia, Kagome's Sight, and Zorro, The White Devil, this one, I must say that I am proudest of this one! Please R/R!!!
Ja ne, Pam
SilentSlayer: Thankies for saying that!
Tomo*223: Glad you liked it!
Geminigragon: Gomen! I'll try not to do it again, lol.
Moi: To tell you the truth, I forgot all about that part. Thanks for bringing it up! I know have an idea for it.
Silent bloodytears: Glad you think its good so far!
Sugar-Crazy-Fox: Me glad you like! Lol.
hoshi-ni-onegai: I'm glad to hear your enjoying my story so well! And I hope to see you in future reviews.
Lavender Valentine: I don't mind! I love the quotes from the movie, lol. Thats one of my favs you did in your last review!
Gohanzgirl: Sorry to hear about your mummified fingers! Thankies for reviewing!
Crystal: Thankies! And you'll find out your answer in this chappie.
Drat: Lol. Gomen, I don't mean to make my readers suffer. I can take a hint. And yes, I am still with you, lol.
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Chapter 3
"Feh, I don't see why I have to ride in this stupid carriage. If I ran I would be there in two minutes." Inuyasha muttered from atop the carriage.
He hated riding inside the carriage more than he did riding it. Inside of the carriage made him feel closed in, he liked to feel the wind blowing against his face.
"Because brother, if you ran there people would more than likely recognize your speed as that of Zorro's." Sesshomaru answered from inside of the carriage. "If it were not for Shippo's fox magic masking your true scent the youkai would have already found out that you were Zorro."
Inuyasha rolled his amber eyes skyward and replied with his favorite word. "Feh." He said and propped his feet up on the carriage drivers seat in front of him.
The short toad-like man driving the carriage turned around and frowned at him. "Do not put your filthy feet on the seat, you half breed!" The green toad-like man called.
Inuyasha leaned forward and whacked him upside his bald green head. "Shut up Jaken and just drive this stupid heap." He growled.
The toad man, Jaken, turned back around and gave the reins a flick, making the two headed dragon beast go faster. "Faster you beasts!" He hollered.
A small head popped out of the side window of the carriage. "Jaken, don't be mean to Ah and Uh!" A child's voice called.
Inuyasha smiled down at his adopted niece. Sesshomaru had rescued her when a town next to theirs were massacred by a flock of bird youkai called the Birds of Paradise. She had been the only one out of her family to survive and no one in the village were willing to take her in. So, surprisingly, Sesshomaru had offered to take the young child into his home.
"Rin, get back in there before you get your head knocked off!" Jaken replied.
Rin stuck her tongue out at Jaken before she went back into the carriage.
Inuyasha smirked and looked out over the surrounding area. "Its about time." He muttered when the town finally came into view.
He jumped off of the top of the carriage the instant it had stopped.
Inuyasha began walking towards the tavern, intending to get a drink and to talk to Miroku, the only other person besides Sesshomaru that knew that he was Zorro.
Inuyasha walked into the tavern to much noise. It was crowded with the army that patrolled the small town. Half of them were either drunk or watching the dancers of the room.
Inuyasha walked over to the bar where Sango was standing.
Sango looked up. "Hey Inuyasha." She said as she handed another soldier a cup of beer.
"That'll be two pasos." Sango said and held out her hand to accept the money.
The drunken soldier leaned over the bar before Sango. "How 'bout I pay in another way?" He asked, his words slightly slurred. He propped his elbow up on the bar and rested his un-shaved chin on it.
Sango's eye twitched slightly and then she also smiled sweetly and also leaned over the bar. She brought her hand up and gently rubbed the side of the soldiers face.
'That guy has no idea what he's gotten himself into.' Inuyasha thought as he took a seat, intending to watch the scene that was about to un-fold before his eyes.
"You know, that sounds like a pretty good idea." She said in a seductive sounding voice, leaning over even further so that her mouth was right next to the mans ear. "There's just one little thing." She continued, her breath tickling the mans ear.
The drunken soldier had a look of triumph on his face. "And what might that one little thing be, senorita?" the soldier asked, bringing his other hand up and placing it in the middle of Sango's back.
Sango smiled sweetly once more. "The one little thing is THAT I ONLY TAKE PAYMENTS IN MONEY!" She suddenly yelled in his ear and then brought the hand that had been caressing his face and knocked his elbow off of the bar.
The soldier fell over, his chin banging against the bar in the process and then he fell to the floor.
Inuyasha had to bite his tongue to keep from bursting out in laughter.
"Now, that'll be two pasos." Sango said again, once more completely calm.
The soldier stood up slowly, reached into the pocket of his uniform and dropped the money on the counter, then walked away, rubbing at his ears and chin as he did so.
Some of the other soldiers were laughing, or shaking their heads. "You don't want to mess with Senorita Sango mi amigo." One of them shouted after him.
Inuyasha shook his head. He almost felt sorry for the guy. Almost, but not quite.
He did not want to be on the receiving end when Sango yelled. He had once before and his ears had rung for two days. What could he say? The girl had a good set of lungs.
Sango picked up the money and bent over behind the counter to place it in a small box. When she straightened, she smiled at Inuyasha.
"Now, what can I get you Inuyasha? The usual?" She asked. With out waiting for an answer, she picked up a cup and filled it to the brim with beer.
She slid the cup in front of Inuyasha and then sat down herself. "Phew, its been a mad house around here lately. This is the actual first time I've gotten to sit down all day." She said and wiped at her brow.
Inuyasha picked up his cup and took a swig at it before he replied. "What happened to that one girl you hired last week? Koharu was it?" He asked as he sat his cup down.
Sango nodded her head. "She quit." She replied simply, picking up a cup of water and took a sip of the cool water inside of it.
Inuyasha quirked an eyebrow. "Why did she quit?" He asked curiously.
Sango scowled as she answered him. "Miroku asked her if she would bear his child and she totally freaked and quit on the spot." She said.
Inuyasha shook his head and took another swig of his drink. "How many girls has he made quit?" He asked.
"This is the fifteenth girl this month that has quit because of him." Sango replied, scowling even more.
"If he makes the new girl quit I swear I'll make it so he won't be having kids!" She muttered under her breath.
Inuyasha's white dog ears picked up on the muttered words. "New girl?" He asked and looked around the bar. He didn't see any new faces among the other waitresses and dancers. "What new girl?" He asked and turned his attention back to Sango.
Sango took another sip of her water. "I just hired her this morning in exchange for her own room. She just arrived with her family and she didn't want to have to share a room with her younger brother. So, I offered her a job in exchange for her own room." She said and stood back up when two other men came walking towards the counter.
Inuyasha picked up his drink and finished it all in one big gulp. The one good thing about being half youkai was that he could drink as much as he wanted to and not worry about being drunk. He sat his empty cup back on the counter and stood up.
"Sango, where's Miroku?" He asked as he sat some money down as well.
Sango was busy fixing six cups for the people that had just walked up and she hadn't heard him.
"Sango." Inuyasha called a little louder. Still he got no reaction from the brown haired woman.
He knew of only one other way to get her attention when nothing else would. 'My ears will probably be ringing for the rest of the evening.' He thought.
He took a deep breath. "Oi! Wench! I'm talking to you!" He shouted and flattened his ears against his head, trying to save them from the onslaught that he was sure he was going to get from Sango.
Sango whirled around, her eyes spitting fire. She marched up to Inuyasha. "Don't you call me a wench you good for nothing dog!" She yelled right next to his head.
Inuyasha winched and quickly covered his sensitive ears. "Shesh, not so loud! I just wanted to know where Miroku is!" He yelled back, slowly removing his hands from his ringing ears.
Sango crossed her arms over her chest. "He's out in the plaza somewhere." She muttered. She turned her back on Inuyasha and returned to the customers that were awaiting their drinks.
Inuyasha walked out of the crowded tavern and back into the bright early afternoon sun.
He brought his hand up and shaded his eyes from the sun and looked around the plaza, trying to spot Miroku among the horde of people that were in the plaza as well.
Inuyasha walked down the steps of the tavern and onto the dirt covered road. He began walked down the road, in the direction of a small stand that sold swords and other weapons. Miroku liked to stop by there and look at the strange weapons that the shop owner ordered from all over the country and Inuyasha was hoping that he'd find his friend there.
Inuyasha's ear s flicked behind when he heard the sound of horses hooves hitting the ground, but he didn't really pay any attention to it.
There was always someone coming or leaving by horse back, so it didn't bother him. It didn't bother him that is, until he saw a frightened looking horse running towards him at full speed from the corner of his eye.
He quickly jumped to the side and then reached out and grabbed the horses dangling lead rope.
The horse was jerked to a sudden stop and nearly fell over.
Inuyasha growled in frustration. 'What kind of half wit would let their horse run wild and nearly kill people?' He wondered while still growling.
"Who's the idiot that owns this horse?!" Inuyasha yelled and whirled around.
Down the dirt covered road he saw another horse that looked like the one that had nearly ran him over.
The other horse was rearing up and a girl with long, black shiny hair was trying to pull it back down.
The horse did go back down but quickly reared up again, bumping the girl with its shoulder and knocking her underneath its flailing legs.
The girl was so frightened that she couldn't even move out from underneath the horse as it started to come back down to earth.
'She'll be crushed!' Inuyasha thought. He didn't hesitate to drop the lead tope of the other horse and go racing towards the dark haired girl.
With his youkai speed he was racing towards the horse, he bent down and picked the girl up in his arms and jumped out of the way just as the huge horse came crashing down onto the ground where the girl had just been.
The horse didn't rear up anymore. It lowered its head to the ground, as if ashamed that it had almost crushed its mistress.
Inuyasha looked down at the girl in his arms, just now taking in her features.
She had a pale face, with dark soulful brown eyes that were wide with fear. And he could feel her perfect figure as he held her in his arms. Her fists were clenched tightly in his red shirt and she was breathing harshly as her chest heaved. Her simple red dress was dirtied with dirt from where she had fell to the ground. All in all she was quite beautiful.
Inuyasha carefully sat her down on her feet, but she refused to release her grip on his shirt, her eyes still wide with fear.
"You okay?" Inuyasha asked. He got no response from the frightened girl. 'Great, we got another one like Sango.' He thought.
"Hey wench, I asked if you were okay!" He said in a loud voice and gently put a hand on the dark haired girls shoulder.
The girl had snapped her head towards him when she had heard him cal her a wench, all fear now gone from her eyes.
Her eyes sparked with a fire that Inuyasha was surprised to see in such a petite looking young woman.
"I am no wench!" She said in a voice that was strong and confident.
Inuyasha shook his head. 'Well, at least she didn't yell in my ears like Sango did.' He thought. "Hey, you should be thanking me! I just saved you from getting trampled by that stupid horse of your!" He said, a low growl evident in his voice as he talked.
The girl took her hands away from Inuyasha and crossed them over her chest and turned her back to him. There was silence between the two. Then Inuyasha's dog ears picked up a soft spoken voice.
"Thank you." The girl said and turned back to face her saver, honesty shining in her soulful, brown eyes.
Inuyasha crossed his arms over his chest, much like Kagome had a few minutes before. "Feh, whatever wench." He replied with an arrogant smirk on his face.
Inuyasha saw that fire from when he had first called her wench come back into the girls eyes. "For the last time, don't call me wench! My name is Kagome! Ka. Go. Me! You, you, arrogant jerk!" She said, her voice laced with frustration.
Inuyasha uncrossed his arms. 'How can this woman's mood change from thankful to anger?' He wondered. He felt himself growl out of instinct when he felt a challenge.
"Well Ka. Go. Me. I have a name to and it isn't 'jerk'! Its Inuyasha!" He replied and smirked when he noticed that when he said her name like that it only fueled her anger.
Kagome gave a growl of frustrations. "I only met you and I can tell right now that you are IMPOSSIBLE!" Kagome yelled as loudly as she could.
Inuyasha winched and quickly pinned his ears to his head. 'Damn! This girl has better lungs than Sango!' He thought.
Kagome spun on her heels and grabbed her horses lead ropes and continued on her way to the near by stable.
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Gomen if this chappie wasn't that exiting! Did ya like???? Out of all three of my stories, Amnesia, Kagome's Sight, and Zorro, The White Devil, this one, I must say that I am proudest of this one! Please R/R!!!
Ja ne, Pam