Inutori: Inutori here, bringing you a new chapter with pride plastered all over it. The original chapter was 3, maybe 4 pages long, but rewritten it is now 7!!!
Sango: That's not really that big a deal, you know.
Inutori: ::pouts:: But it is to me…
Kagome: And that's all that matters, don't worry about other people.
Inutori: ::glomps Kagome:: ARIGATO!
Inutora: My guy, back off.
Everyone: ??
Inutori: Have patience, those who have read this story know already…but those who haven't, so sorry for giving stuff away…I don't own Inuyasha, so now off you go…It's time to read this horrendous revision of Another DogDemon: Chapter 2…
Chapter 2
Truth in the Lie"Nani?!" Inuyasha's eyes widened and he looked at her closely. 'Is this her plot to stay in her world, or is she telling the truth?' He couldn't tell by looking at her eyes. They weren't the eyes of a liar, but neither were they the eyes of truth.
She seemed to have a bit more confidence in herself as her back straightened and she lifted her chin to look directly into the hanyou's eyes "I said: I sense the presence of a Shikon shard."
Getting a bit excited, like usual, Inuyasha's grip on her wrist tightened and he heard her take a sharp breath and he could smell salty tears beginning to form in her eyes.
"Th-that way." She pointed with her free hand in the direction of her school. He followed her finger and wanted to bolt like a young puppy being told to fetch.
But before Inuyasha could run off in the direction Kagome had pointed, she stopped him. "Inuyasha, I don't think that you should go out there in broad daylight." He looked back at her like an impatient child; an expression of anger crossing his face at being denied what he wanted.
"Demons may be a common sight in your time, but here you never see them. Let me scope it out today and tell you tonight what I found." Kagome smiled at him, a hidden motive obviously being hidden with that sugary voice of hers.
A scowl crossed the young demon's features in his silent tantrum from being told off. "But if there is a shard, then it could be dangerous." In his own way, Inuyasha was just trying to be protective even if Kagome was blinding herself to it. Whatever she was scheming, she obviously didn't care if she was left vulnerable in the process. She was just being her typically naïve self; how annoying.
"Then what you can do is just watch me from a tree nearby where no one will see you. You can watch, but that's it. Got that?" Kagome glared sternly up at him, her blue irises sparkling with an inner strength abnormal for a simple human. He couldn't help but get lost in her depth-defying eyes and lose track of everything else.
After a good half of a minute he slowly nodded his head, his eyes never leaving Kagome's blue-gray ones. Once he regained his composure his glare pierced her body, making her smile hesitantly at him and tilt her head to one side in a blatant attempt to look innocent.
"Alright then, let's go!" She tugged on his hand and ran away from the shrine operated by her family.
Inuyasha's eyes bulged as he felt the small girl's hand pull on his own, calloused hand. They ran all the way down the steps, and as soon as they reached the bottom, Kagome stopped without warning.
She turned to Inuyasha with a stern face. "Now, Inuyasha, I want you to follow me in the trees. Unless I call for you, don't you dare come near me." She glared daggers at Inuyasha, most likely making sure he knew the penalty of if he didn't follow her orders.
He nodded timidly, yet huffily and hopped up into a nearby sakura tree.
Kagome took off at a dead run along the sidewalk, an expression of worry etched across her face. Inuyasha didn't understand why, if she was in such a hurry, she didn't ask him to take her on his back. Not much he could do about it, and it wasn't like he cared that much about it.
Scene Change:
At school, Kagome's friends greeted her with bright, welcoming smiles. They must have been worried about her because of her long absence.
"Kagome, you feeling better already? Your grandpa told me you had to have a liver transplant." Her friend with the headband placed her hand on Kagome's forehead to check her temperature and make sure Kagome didn't have a fever. Her face scrunched with worry for her friend that had been deficient in her school attendance recently.
She turned slightly blue and a large sweat drop adorned the side of her head. "I-I feel fine now, thanks." Kagome silently vowed to murder her senile grandfather for his most recent ailment that kept her from attending school.
"Higurashi-san, I bought this for you." Hojou handed her a box of cough drops and something else that she hadn't a single clue as to what it was. He had appeared out of nowhere, surprising Kagome quite a bit. She wondered if he was some sort of martial artist with how well he performed stealth-maneuvers.
"Th-thanks Hojou-kun." Trying to look grateful, Kagome accepted the gifts and fidgeted with them in her hands nervously.
"Hey Kagome, I don't know if you heard, but we have a new student at school. A third-year girl." Eri smiled at Kagome, beginning with the initial prep talk to start gossiping, when the five-minute warning bell signaled for them to get to class.
On the way into the building, Kagome leaned over to Eri to hear more of what she had been saying. "Who is it?"
Eri's eyes sparkled dangerously as she fully tuned into gossip mode. "I haven't met her yet, but everyone says she's really strange and she carries herself weird."
Kagome got an apprehensive look on her face. "What do you mean by weird?"
The other girl scoffed, cocking one eyebrow at Kagome. "You know, weird. I guess she randomly starts yelling at people for saying things about her when she's present, but no one said anything. I heard she yelled at a teacher for talking about having sex with one of the students during class."
"Yikes. Sounds like she needs to be submitted to the psych ward." Kagome frowned, confused about this new person. The thought passed through her head that perhaps this new girl has strange powers and abilities similar to her own. It excited her to think that perhaps there was another girl around that had miko powers that she could relate to.
"Totally agreed. But there's not much anyone is doing about it right now. Kind of stinks if you ask me." Eri sighed as they entered the classroom and found their seats.
Kagome looked out the window in wonder, trying to comprehend the correlation between her era and that of Inuyasha. At first she had thought that they were completely different, but since she had started time traveling, she was beginning to notice things she hadn't before.
Like the angry spirit of that child that had died in the fire, or the creepy mask that had tried to eat her; she had never even realized things like that existed until she had encountered the centipede demon and then Inuyasha. How her life had changed since then, Kagome mused.
Scene Change:
After school, as Kagome and her friends were leaving the grounds, Kagome stopped dead in her tracks in fearful shock. There it was: the presence of a Shikon fragment. She hurriedly looked around the courtyard trying to isolate exactly where the presence was coming from. It wouldn't be very good to be caught off guard by some unknown entity.
Still frantically whipping her head in one direction or another, she didn't notice Inuyasha hopping to the ground just ahead of her. Her gaze fell on him as people around started making a raucous about the guy wearing a sword, funny clothes, and sniffing the ground like a dog. Kagome's eyes widened in horror as she watched him crawl around in the dirt with his nose embedded in the grass terrain.
A fearful lump formed in her throat and she attempted to swallow it. "Inuyasha, what do you think you're doing?" She whispered her words quietly as he crawled by her feet; she could barely find the strength to tear her eyes from him as he made a complete fool of himself. To her it almost felt like she was the focus of the jeers and taunts she began to hear around her and she flushed slightly, looking at the ground and trying to find an escape route.
"I smell a youkai. It's somewhere nearby. Kagome, where's the shard?"
She pointed timidly across the street having finally located the elusive shard that she had detected the presence of only a minute or two ago. Unfortunately, right in the line of her finger's path was a girl carelessly strolling beneath the sakura trees with headphones over her ears listening to a CD.
"Alright then." Inuyasha swooped Kagome into one of his arms and ran toward the unsuspecting girl.
"INUYASHA! NOT IN PUBLIC LIKE THIS!" Kagome looked at everyone watching fearfully, hoping that they wouldn't recognize her.
With dreaded horror she looked at the black-haired girl idly twirling a pencil in one hand, her mind probably floating off in its own little dimension. Just moments before Inuyasha reached the innocent bystander, the girl's pencil slipped out of her hands and onto the ground.
As Inuyasha swept his clawed hand at her, she ducked down to retrieve the writing utensil. That girl was lucky to have avoided that blow: it could have killed her.
Kagome's innards flopped around mercilessly as Inuyasha quickly landed and jerked around to sweep at the girl again.
All that they saw were sakura petals floating harmlessly to the ground being carried by the gentle breeze. The girl they had both seen and almost ripped into shreds was gone; and so was the presence of the shard.
With a few choice words and a stomp in the ground, Inuyasha took off back towards the well. Kagome was more than just a little shaken up after that. How could a person be there one minute and totally disappear the next; so quickly that not even Inuyasha could trace them?
Scene Change:
Sango shifted restlessly by the fire, her gaze brushing over Miroku and Shippou carelessly. Kirara was curled up comfortably in her lap as she had been for the last hour. No one was talking, and the silence bothered her to no end.
Before sunset Inuyasha had popped into camp to say that he was going to be staying in Kagome's time until something called a Sunday. Who knew what that was? Now she was stuck with the monk and the kitsune until whatever time it was that the stupid lovebirds deemed it necessary to make an appearance.
Why did she stick around anyway? With that thought she found her eyes wandering to Miroku, and then to his hand wrapped with the rosary. That's right: Naraku. He had done something to all of them and now they had banded together to kill him.
Except Kagome. Naraku really hadn't done anything to Kagome besides make Inuyasha miserable. It was probably that fact that drove the young girl from the future to hate Naraku so much.
Oh well, not that it really mattered if there was an actual reason to fight Naraku. The fact that he was just pure evil was a good enough reason in and of itself.
Sango sighed again, bored out of her mind at just watching the fire slowly eat away at the deadwood that they had gathered earlier. She closed her eyes in content, listening to the crackling of the embers before her and letting them lull her to sleep.
A twig snapped in the forest, causing both Miroku and Sango to jerk up into a sitting position. They were both wide awake and stemming their breathing, trying to hear whatever it was that had made the noise.
Shippou was fast asleep and unaware of what was going on, but that didn't really matter. It was the two adults' duty to protect the kit from any harm and this unseen creature would be threatening to them until they have determined otherwise.
The tajiya carefully pulled her feet underneath her without making a sound and looked out into the dark woods. How she wished she had night vision like Inuyasha; it would make this so much easier.
Once fully standing, Sango silently crept over to her Haraikotsu and picked it up. The dry grass under her heavy weapon rustled as she removed the bone from its resting position against a tree and Sango froze. Whatever was in the woods had probably heard that, and she was listening for any more movement from this potential enemy.
She mentally sighed, wishing she had been born into a time where she wouldn't have to deal with things like this. A bush jiggled softly, and not with the wind. With one swift movement she threw her demon bone at the brush and caught it as it swung back to her.
In the distance she heard a quiet whistling of air, but didn't give it much heed as she walked cautiously up to the bush with her boomerang cocked. Letting one's guard down for even a split second could be fatal.
Her sweep through the shrubs with Haraikotsu and a loud wail brought a smirk to her face as she realized she had caught their culprit. She picked up a small demon child by its tail and carried it over to the fire where she could see it better.
"Put me down, ugly!" A high squeal came out of the little thing's mouth and Sango glared at the beast for insulting her. As they came closer to the fire, Sango identified the demon as a little she-devil. But she couldn't quite place what specimen she was.
"I'm not ugly, pipsqueak!" Sango's angry voice aroused Shippou, who lazily rubbed his eyes and looked up at the upset demon exterminator.
"Yes you are, ugly!" Pitch black eyes narrowed at the woman still holding the child's tail. Sango wasn't quite sure about the true color of those eyes, though; it was dark out and the lighting was terrible, after all.
"Are we having rabbit for breakfast or somethin'?" Shippou continued to rub at his tired eyes while trying to see what was going on.
Sango looked down at the fox-demon strangely. "What are you talking about?" The demon child in her hand began to frantically scratch at her arm in an attempt to escape. She may have been a tajiya, but the still hurt!
Quickly and with little thought, Sango slammed the demon child into the ground in a rage and screamed with pain.
But before the little devil could scamper away, Shippou pounced on her and pinned her to the ground. Now that she looked, the two kids were about the same size.
"Get away from me!" The little girl's voice came out in panicked sobs and she squirmed, trying now to escape from her new captor.
"Shippou, why'd you do that?" Miroku looked in curiosity at the little boy, who straddled the belly of a little girl with soft white hair.
The kitsune youkai stared blankly at Miroku, and Sango could see confusion in the young boy's eyes. "Instinct?"
Miroku and Sango both had little question marks appear around their heads as they continued to stare at the little fox-boy straddle another little demon girl.
Perverted as he was, Miroku smiled slyly at Shippou. "I didn't start reacting to those instincts until I was a teen, but I guess for demons those urges must start sooner." The stupid grin on his face was smacked off by Sango's boomerang that she had still been holding in one hand.
Shippou just blinked back at Miroku, probably confused as to what Miroku had been suggesting. "She's food." The auburn-haired boy pointed at the girl he was sitting on, who had settled down a little to watch everyone talk. As soon as those words came out of his mouth, though, she began even more frantically trying to escape from under him.
Unfortunately for her, Shippou was just a little bigger, and therefore a little heavier, than she was.
It suddenly dawned on Sango what was happening. Shippou had woken up and asked about eating rabbit, he was a fox, and as soon as the little one was loose he attacked out of instinct. They're natural-born enemies! This young she-demon was a bunny! Guess that explained the soft, white, fluffy tail coming out her backside, didn't it?
IDo
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Inutori: I just HAD to add a cute little bunny to the story. Yes, foxes are cute, but little baby bunnies are just as adorable! ::huggles new character::
Inuyasha: I thought this story was supposed to be about me? After all, I was the one in the prologue, not some stupid rabbit.
Inutori: Oh hush, your time will come…I just have to build to it. ::sticks nose in air::
Inuyasha: Build to it my foot; you just want to waste everyone's precious time with you.
Inutori: …::smiles::…that too…but I just wanted to relax this story since it was so rushed the first time I wrote it. It went by too fast and didn't really make sense, so now I am trying my best to make it better! Hope everyone likes it so far! Please review and tell me! Ja ne, minna-san!