Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha or any of its characters.
Author's Note: Well here is the second chapter it was getting long so I stopped. I hope you like it. Happy Reading!
- Na
Purrfect
Chapter 2: Back to Her Time
When Kagome landed gracefully, it was on Inuyasha's shoulders both hand and feet were on each shoulder. The immense and sudden amount of weight made Inuyasha loose his balance as Kagome brought him backwards. Inuyasha fell down while Kagome did a back flip and landed gracefully on her feet.
"Why did you do that?!" yelled Kagome as she frantically tried to dry herself by licking the back of her hand and cleaning herself. Sango stopped Kagome's efforts and handed her a towel.
"Well you wouldn't come down from your tree and we need to go visit Totosai, to get you a weapon," replied Inuyasha.
Kagome walked over to Inuyasha who had picked himself and was brushing off the dirt from his haori. Kagome placed a gentle clawed finger on the scratches she had given him, "Oh did I hurt the puppy? Oh that reminds me I saw hungry wolves in the forest."
"Wolves? How many?" asked Miroku.
"More then one," replied Kagome.
"How many more?" asked Miroku.
Kagome grew aggravated, "I told you more then one!"
Inuyasha snickered, "Give it up Miroku. She can't count, cat's think in series of one thing or more then one thing, fish or fishes that is it."
"Fish?" asked Kagome looking around with a big smile. Inuyasha smirked again and reached up to stroke behind her ear. She leaned into his hand purring loudly.
From out of nowhere a wolf pounced on Kagome trying to bite her neck. The wolf and Kagome rolled until they hit a tree the wolf was on top still not able to get a good bite on her neck. Inuyasha turned in shock as Kagome struggled against the wolf, before he could help her out wolves, and one or two wolf demons surrounded them.
"Here are the wolves," said Sango, bringing Hiraikotsu at the ready.
"Much more then one," replied Miroku holding his Shakujou ready to fight.
Kagome kicked her attacker off of her and bound up the tree teasing a few wolves that had turned and tried to climb the tree to catch the cat hanyou. Before anyone could attack Kagome yelled, "There is shards coming toward us!"
Kagome sprang from her perch and landed next to Inuyasha. Inuyasha looked into Kagome's green eyes and said, "Shards? As in more than one?" Kagome nodded, Inuyasha growled, "Kouga!"
As if on cue the wolves parted for the whirlwind, which was their leader, entered the circle. The winds cleared to show Kouga standing there, looking around, most likely for Kagome.
Inuyasha whispered, "Kagome show me the shards I need a number just go and point to each one, this wolf won't hurt you, I believe."
Kagome nodded, and walked up to Kouga bending down she pointed to his left leg, "There is a shard there," and then pointed to his right leg, "There is a shard there."
Kouga looked down at her in anger he slapped her across the face, "Stupid Tabby get away from me! Now where is MY Kagome?"
Kagome hissed as she pounced back a step once more taking her fighting stance left hand on the ground, right poised to fight, and teeth showing in a nasty hiss. Inuyasha smirked, "Is that all the shards Kagome?" Kagome nodded, "Good he didn't find more. Kagome do you remember Kouga?"
"That is not Kouga he loved me, he wouldn't hit me!" hissed Kagome.
Kouga starred at Kagome in disbelief, "Kagome?"
"What!?" replied Kagome not backing down from her stance.
"Oh I'm so sorry Kagome, I mean I didn't recognize you, you're feline. Let me make it up to you, come back to my den with me Kagome as my mate," said Kouga as he stepped a careful step toward Kagome. Kagome hissed.
"Hey Wimpy Wolf! Do you know nothing of felines?" laughed Inuyasha.
"How do you know so much, Inuyasha?" asked Shippo.
Inuyasha smiled at his memory, "My mother told me before she died, about cats just in case I needed to know since there is that whole Cats vs. Dogs thing. She said don't try to scare them with numbers they think in single and plural. She also said if you personally know the cat don't hurt them, because that will ruin all trust between the two. Even if the cat is usually nice, if the article that hurt them advances a second time they will attack. She had taught me a lot."
Kouga stopped his advance, but Kagome did not move from her spot, as she eyed his neck, "Come on Kagome your not a neko just a neko hanyou, this is me Kouga. Come with me as my mate Kagome we'll find the shards together."
"I would never mate with a mangy wolf, I'd choose a dog over you any day!" hissed Kagome.
(A/N: I realize Inuyasha is part Inu youkai but it is just a general slam a Cat will befriend a dog but to mate is basically unthinkable. In cat's eyes big slam.)
Inuyasha carefully walked to Kagome's side with the sheathed Tetsuseiga. He placed a hand on Kagome's head and scratched by her ears, "Come Kagome you can kill him later. As much as I love another Hanyou about, and a cat about we need to get the human blood of yours to take over. We must go to Totosai, and then I would be damned to bring you home without being able to count."
Kagome purred and rubbed her head against Inuyasha's leg. She let down her guard and smiled, "I'm sorry puppy. I'll go now, but can I get what is mine first?" said Kagome as she reluctantly pulled herself from Inuyasha relaxing grasp.
Inuyasha nodded, as Kagome took a step towards Kouga staying low to the ground. With one quick swipe from her right-clawed hand, Kagome removed the Shikon no Tama shards from Kouga's legs. Kouga stumbled backwards as Kagome pocketed the shards in the small Jar along with the others. She stuck her tongue out at Kouga and bound off into the woods.
"Where is she going?" asked Sango watching Kagome's retreating body.
"Totosai," replied Inuyasha then he turned towards Kouga, "You heard her, so now get you wimpy wolf! You have no business here!"
Kouga huffed, but Inuyasha grasped the Tetsuseiga withdrawing it, "Osuwari!" yelled Kagome from a tree, "Now leave wolf or I'll help him kill you! Sorry Inuyasha, don't soak me please; we must be going. Sango, Miroku, Shippo, stay with Kaede we'll be back soon."
Inuyasha picked himself up to see that Kouga left. He smiled as he ran into the woods after Kagome.
Miroku starred at his friends retreating forms before he turned towards Sango, "Do you think she'll be alright? She is acting rather cat like."
"Kaede said that this would happen for a few day, it's just her body adjusting to the new blood," replied Sango.
"But what about Inuyasha? He didn't rip Kouga's throat out. He didn't osuwari Kagome, after she had osuwari him. He seems to be over the whole neko thing, and is treating her almost as a pet!" remarked Miroku.
The youkai taiji-ya shook her head, "I don't know... Hentai!" Sango yelled as she dropped Hiraikotsu on Miroku's head.
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Inuyasha and Kagome bound through the forest with their youkai speed and reached the mountain on which Totosai dwelled well before dark.
"Totosai, you old man are you home!?" yelled Inuyasha.
Totosai slowly walked to the mouth of his cave and looked at Inuyasha, "The same goes for you brat, as your brother, I will not make you a sword!" he said as he raised his black smith hammer.
"Feh! I don't want another sword for me! You old man! Kagome is a hanyou now and needs something to tame the neko youkai blood. So will you help us?" growled Inuyasha.
Totosai lowered his hammer and looked behind Inuyasha at a sleeping hanyou curled into a ball, "Her?"
Inuyasha turned around, "Kagome! Wake up, or I'll say it..." Kagome's tail twitched and she quickly scrabbled up and stood beside Inuyasha.
Totosai looked at Inuyasha before he turned back towards Kagome he looked her over and nodded, "I see her dilemma, she was the miko right?" Kagome nodded, "Well than I believe Shinsei would be perfect. But I worn you, you must learn to whiled them or I will take them from you." Totosai walked back into the cave only to return with four regular sais the middle blade reaching a length of 30 centimeters, and a special magickal leather belt to hold them.
(A/N: ok so Shinsei is Japanese for pure and is the name of Kagome's sais. If you don't know what a sai is Raphael from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles uses sais. Anyways I was going to give her a wakizashi but sais are my favorite weapon and had to give them to her. Usually a person will carry three or more sais so they can throw one and have a back up till they can retrieve the thrown sai.)
Kogome took the belt and strapped it around her waist. She took out two sais, and magickally the six blades tripled in size (middle blade a meter long). Kagome smiled, "Nice," with a flick of her wrist the outer blades shortened to normal length, while the middle blade widened. The look was much like twin Katana set.
"Ahh... well done girl you have discovered the secret second transformation. Now please remember they will purify evil souls and strike them dead," said Totosai, "Now get on your way."
Kagome de-transformed the sais and placed the back into her belt. Kagome bowed her tail flicking, "Arigatou." Kagome turned tail and bound down the mountain into the setting sun. Inuyasha mumbled and followed her down the mountain.
Inuyasha found Kagome sitting by a pond at the bottom of the mountain waiting for him, "Since it is already dark why don't we camp here for the night?" asked Kagome.
"Sure, what are we going to eat for dinner?" replied Inuyasha standing in front of Kagome.
Kagome perked right up, "Fish?"
"How did I know that was coming? Ok, so I'll get fire wood and you catch some fish," replied Inuyasha walking in the forest in search of dry wood.
Inuyasha returned a few minutes later with a bundle of wood to make a fire, "So did you catch any fish?"
"No," replied Kagome as her tail drooped, she was sitting on all fours at the edge of the water pawing the water skeptically, "the water is wet, can you catch the fish?"
Inuyasha laughed, "Of course it is wet, and no I can't I need to start a fire. Don't fret you'll just get your paws wet and they'll dry by the fire while we cook and eat fish." Inuyasha turned to start the fire and was slightly surprised to hear water splashing behind him.
Kagome walked out to her knees and then stood very still. She dipped the tip of her tail in the water and slowly dragged it along the top of the water to attract the fish to her. Not long after a fish came after her tail, Kagome watched it for a second before her clawed hand shot into the water and grabbed the rather large fish. Kagome held the fish over her head, "Puppy, do you want more fish?"
Inuyasha turned, from his blazing fire, to see her catch it was easily a five-pound fish, "I believe that is enough, and could you not call me puppy."
"Alright," replied Kagome as she rushed out of the lake. Inuyasha took the fish from her and skewered it. He stuck the opposite end of the skewer in the ground so that the fish was in the fire. Inuyasha turned around and sat down next to Kagome who was happy that her legs were dry, her tail was almost dry, but her sneakers and socks were far from it.
Kagome glared daggers at the shoes as she stripped them off along with the socks and placed them near the fire. She turned to Inuyasha and smiled, Inuyasha smiled back and said, "So how was your first day as a hanyou?"
"Well I got woken up by mass amounts of water falling from the sky, got slapped rather hard may I add by a guy who says he loves me because he didn't recognize me, I got the Shinsei that could be sais or a strange Katana, and I caught a fish, a big fish," said Kagome liking her canines, "So Inuyasha do you mind that I'm hanyou?"
"Kagome, you'll have the same great although sometimes annoying personality if you were human, hanyou, or demon. Though I do enjoy not being the only hanyou, and am happy you mustn't know that feeling," said Inuyasha.
"Thank you Inuyasha. I'm sorry about this morning, I wasn't expecting to wake up to smelling inu youkai," said Kagome.
Inuyasha smiled and waved off the apology as he took the fish off the fire and cutting off chunks of meat for them to eat, "Don't worry about it, I did the same. I had figured I would smell inu youkai and not neko youkai."
They ate their meal quickly and silently. Every last fish bone was picked clean, and Kagome was licking her fingers, "That was delicious."
"Yeah it was," Inuyasha said as he watched Kagome clean her fingers with her tongue, "you know you act awful cat like for a hanyou?"
Kagome stopped licking her fingers as her face turned pink, "Yeah, I can't help it."
"That's alright, do you remember how to count yet?" asked Inuyasha.
Kagome blushed in embarrassment, "Umm... not really."
"Ok," said Inuyasha as he lined up ten fish bones, "ok count these."
Inuyasha pointed to the first one Kagome said, "Ichi," Inuyasha nodded and pointed to the second bone, "umm... ichi ichi?"
Inuyasha smirked, "No, ni."
Inuyasha pointed to the first one and Kagome said, "Ichi," Inuyasha moved down the line, "ni, umm... san?, shi?, umm..."
"Go."
"Go, roku, shichi, hachi, ku, ju," finished Kagome with the ten bones, Kagome smiled, "juichi, juni, jusan, jushi, jugo, juroku..."
"So you remember?" asked Inuyasha.
Kagome just nodded, "How did I forget that?"
"I don't know. So are you ready to go to sleep?" asked Inuyasha as he moved to sit against the tree crossed legged.
Kagome nodded, as she yawned getting on all fours and stretching just like her cat Boyu always did. Kagome walked over to Inuyasha and climbed onto his lap curling into a ball and falling asleep.
"Umm... Kagome?" asked Inuyasha wondering why she was asleep in his lap. But he was too late she was asleep; her ears hadn't even flick in acknowledgement. Inuyasha stroked her hair and she purred softly, Inuyasha smiled as he too went to sleep.
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The next morning without breakfast Inuyasha and Kagome woke at sunrise and left for Kaede's village, Kagome left her shoes behind. When they arrived they found Kirara and Shippo sleeping, Miroku unconscious, and Sango stirring broth for breakfast.
"The houshi being a hentai again?" asked Inuyasha.
Sango nodded, "So what did Totosai say?"
"He gave me four sais by the name of Shinsei," replied Kagome sitting down by Sango.
"Four? I see you can count now," chuckled Sango.
"Yeah, and?" said Kagome getting angry.
Sango looked at her friend, "Nothing, so would you two like breakfast?"
"No, we need to tell Kagome's family that she is a hanyou," replied Inuyasha turning to walk to the bone eaters well. Kagome smiled picking up her yellow bag, and nodded goodbye as she left Sango and followed Inuyasha into Inuyasha forest.
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After they left the well, Inuyasha followed Kagome into her room through the window. Kagome went automatically to her closet and started riffling through it.
"Kagome what are you doing?" asked Inuyasha as she threw him a pair of modern day clothes, that they had bought for him for when he visits.
"I need to go shopping to accommodate my new tail and claws. I noticed that the car is gone no one is home, so we'll walk to the mall," said Kagome as she took her own pile of clothes out of her room and into the bathroom. Leaving Inuyasha to change.
About fifteen minutes later, Kagome knocked on her bedroom door, "Inuyasha? Are you dressed?"
"Yeah," replied Inuyasha as Kagome walked into the room wearing baggy dark blue jeans, a black fitted v-neck tank top, elbow length dark purple (color of her ears) gloves, and a dark blue jean bucket hat. Inuyasha was just in a red t-shirt, the same kind of pants, and a black backwards baseball cap.
Inuyasha looked curiously at Kagome, "Why are you wearing a pair of my pants? And gloves?"
Kagome fidgeted, "Well I needed something loose and long for my tail since when it is strait down its only twenty centimeters from the floor. I don't know if I should be worried or relieved that your pants fit me. The gloves are for my claws, yeah I know I must look rather punk right now, but I actually like this outfit. But this seriously aggravates my tail and ears it's driving me insane!"
Inuyasha laughed, "Now you know how I feel." Kagome laughed as she picked up her wallet checking to make sure Souta didn't 'borrow' any money. When she was satisfied, she walked out of her room and headed down stairs.
Author's Note: Please tell me what you think. Thanks.
- Na
