DON'T EAT ME! I've been busy with school and stuff. It has literally owned my life for like, ever and such. Anyway, this is another filler session like Almost Flying. I know. I'm sorry for making this drag on and stuff but I HAVE to write this or I'll like, die. This session takes place well before Kagome appears on the scene, it's the introduction of Kamikaze and other stuff. This will be detailed, and it'll probably feel like it's dragging on a little... so yeah, just sit tight or skip it, or whatever I don't care.
As for my horses, we now own three (we bought Lacy ;; We share the same relationship as InuYasha and Kijin just not as violent XD!), and are looking for a fourth one XD! I'm almost too big for Breeze, so we might be getting me another horse. Which is great, because the stable owner just got three new ones to sell and I've already claimed the Quarter Horse as mine. XD! So....
Dedicated in loving memory of Zippy.
July 1998 - October 2004
Loyal, smart, agile, corky, lucky, playful, and quick; he will always be remembered,
but it was his sweet love, loyalty, and affection that will always be remembered above all.
I love you, Zippy.
There will never be another damned dog like you in the world for me.
I own InuYasha? REALLY!? "No." Ahh, damn that wasn't very funny.
Chosen Moments Stable
Session 7 : Stupid Dogs
The sounds of the nightcrawlers begin to decease in steady waves as the sun, rising at the same pace it does every day, coos them in a silent lullaby. The golden dawn lights cast an orange glow over the land, silhouettes of the bright world contrasting softly with the orange sky. A few deer, grazing over the night hours, dart back into the forest for better cover from the shady world. The tawny creatures, claimed to be gentle and fragile by humans, leap and bound until out of site. The sun had barely even started to make it over the hill before every sign of night activity had been erased from existence...
Some sharp pounding sound circles in the air, and the hard-packed prairie ground begins to shake and shatter from the unbelievable force. Loose rocks shake and rock back and forth, unable to cling to the sod. The earth's brutal beating suddenly stops, and all falls silent in the world of unknown. More elegant silhouettes had appeared to replace the absence of deer, taking over their grazing grounds. A high shrilling neigh broke the silence of the prairie, making a flock of pheasants take flight to the golden sky. Pawing the ground, the mustang stallion rears slightly in the air, his silhouette slowly disappearing as the sunrises further into the sky.
Inherited from his sire came his distinctive blue roan coloring, his torso a black merle with white giving it the blue-gray effect while his mane/tail and legs all had black hair. All but one limb had stockings. Whereas otherwise he was the spitting image of his dam when it came to the body and soul. He possessed the unremarkable resemblance to an ancient Spanish Andalusian in the torso, his legs were much like a Quarter Horses', but the rest of his frame strutted of obvious Arabian linage; all coming from his dam. The flowing wavy mane and tail were credited to his Andalusian blood. His strides are effortless, smooth and almost slow-motion like. The ground covering movements exude a haughty proudness, and above it all-powerful demeanor with his carriage. Extremely light on his dark hoofed feet, he is very capable of quick speeds. Nothing but sheer power and endurance. His hind quarters enable him to move fast and low, starting and stopping suddenly and making normally impossible tight turns. When he moves, it's like he puts nothing into it; tireless...
Watching him drift across the land...
is an exhilarating spectacular...
Arching his powerful neck, his evenly white-blazed head does a nose shake to his herd. Gathering his feet underneath him, his powerful limbs sweep in and out from under him as he glides down the hill in a smooth trot. Feeling assertive, the wild mustang nips at a few of his mares, clustering them together more while reminding them that he was the leader. He held his tail up like a waving banner, making the ground-skimming midnight hair grope at the long grass even more. His china (icy blue) eyes scans the horizon of the small grassland, looking for threats and other stallions that may withhold the power to steal his band of mares and foals away from him. Spotting nothing out of the ordinary, he lowers his concave head swiftly, nipping on the wild alfalfa and oats with surprising gentleness.
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His lean form stalked its way through the grass, trying his ultimate best to remain undetected by the wild horses. Hige wasn't too far away from the herd, and when he inched forward his paws would press down on the ground like the world was owned over by slow motion. His icy blue eyes could barely see beyond the stalks of the wild grasses, but he got a good glance of the herd every once in a while and his brain easily calculated his position. His black semi-flopped ears flick at a whistle, and he comes to a dead stop.
Hige's piercing ice blue eyes stare forward, watching the herd with an almost head aching concentration. A few of the mares noticed InuYasha's whistling that would instruct him to move, but surprisingly none of them took it that seriously and went back to their breakfast. Even Kamikaze seem to not flinch at the sound, taking it for a bird if possible. Another whistle and Hige once again began creeping forward with a noted perfection.
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Up on the hill some ways from the herd, kneeling in the tall grass was InuYasha and Miroku. InuYasha was positioning Hige to cut Kamikaze out of the herd, which was a difficult task for him. He was paranoid his dog would get caught and trampled if spotted too soon: he wanted the element of surprise on his side, not vice versa. Miroku was on edge also, ready to run like hell if Kamikaze spotted them in their own hiding place.
At the bottom of the hill that InuYasha and Miroku sat on, behind them, were their mounts. Because of the bit in his mouth, and the early training he received, Tessai held no interest in nibbling on the knee-deep wild sweets. He stood silently, unmoving, watching InuYasha and waiting for the signal that would send him galloping up the hill for InuYasha to climb on. He was groomed to sparkle in the morning sun, his midnight pelt held its breath taking honey highlights without a flaw on each profound muscle. His mane and tail were well trimmed to keep them out of his way and eyes. For a grade stallion, he was just as priceless as Sea Biscuit, and ready for action...
The gray Poland Arab however, was more focused about the wild sweets then Tessai will ever be. Innocently Tama's slender concave head would try to bob down and take a nip, only to discover that her split reins had been tightly wrapped around her saddle's horn, enabling her to do as she desired. Annoyed with that, she curved her elegant arched neck around and tried to fix the problem, but that was impossible, and only made her comically chases after the reins in circles. They were abnormal quick and tight circles for an arab to make, which is why she was chosen for that morning's task of hunting wild horses!
Soon her rump collided into Tessai's own, and a minor squabble of bitting broke out between the equines, plucking away fur to reveal dark hides on each other.
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Hige had moved in so close to the wild horses that he could've have just popped up and bitten one on the muzzle already. However, his own training had been good, and he was resisting the urge to do such a savage thing. Patiently he stood frozen to the ground in a his creeping position. His slender belly was so close to the ground that the wavy soft snow white under hairs where skimming along it. Once Kamikaze's head was back down into the mouth watering feral treats, InuYasha whistled as loud and as high-pitched as he could.
Hige tore out of his hiding place at breakneck speed, driving himself straight toward the spooked Kamikaze. The small band splits into two, a few wide-eyed mares remaining with the now rampaging stallion. The tall over hanging feral sweets were doing no favors toward Hige, giving him a challenge in holding the stallion and his remaining broods in place. Agile and quick, his adrenaline was working wonders for him as he nipped at Kamikaze's back pasterns and fetlocks.
Kamikaze at first had been wide eyed in shock and fear, jumping away from what seemed a blue roaned beast upon instinct. However, with his herd scattering away he became more understanding of the situation and was quick to act. He arched his neck tautly, flattened his ears, and with a sharp turn he whipped around to try and trample the dog with his diamond hard hooves.
Hige escaped by a fluke, and as the same as Kamikaze he reeled himself around the feral stud, dodging his attempts to kick the shit out him as he annoyed the stallion further and began to harass the horse even more. Not once did he break the tender skin on the stallion as he circled the fighting stallion like a hawk to keep him in place.
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InuYasha had the biggest grin plastered on his face, beaming proudly at his dog's work.
"And you call him stupid," Miroku comments dryly, watching Hige try to keep up with Kamikaze and avoid getting harmed.
"Well, it's kind of obvious, he's dancing with death it's self as we speak." InuYasha retorted smoothly.
Miroku shook his head, "Shall we get on with the impossible?"
InuYasha nodded his head, and from his kneeling position he turned around to see his own two horses taking chunks out of each other's hides. Rolling his amber eyes, InuYasha stuck his fingers in his mouth, under his tongue, and blew out a whistle that would be heard for at least a mile away.
Tessai quickly quit in his antics and shot up the hill in a flat out gallop. His dark hooves struck the terrain in such a force that InuYasha could feel the power in them. Quickly standing to his feet, he would attempt something that he never liked to do, but it was required at the moment. Bending his knees as Tessai blurred by his firm hand latched onto to the saddle horn and he swung himself up before a nasty whiplash could occur. Literally ripping the reins from the horn he quickly got himself situated before they plummeted down the hill where Tessai was forced to slow down to keep InuYasha in his seat.
Tama had put a half-assed effort coming up on the hill, and Miroku had hopped on her from a trot. Which he preferred from the feisty mare anyway. His lasso already at his side, Miroku was well more ready then InuYasha.
At InuYasha's quieter whistle, Hige was called off and broke away from the stallion in an instant and was high tailing it toward InuYasha.
Kamikaze would have normally followed intent on killing the Border Collie, but with the approaching InuYasha and Miroku he had a better idea. With his ground covering tail lashing about behind him the stud shot off with a loud neigh whisking into the cool morning air, calling to his herd in an attempt to re-band them before he went off on a wild goose chase.
By the time InuYasha reached the bottom of the hill Miroku had caught up and both were hot on the trail of Kamikaze. With leg cues from InuYasha he sent Tessai to the left, leaving Miroku to go to the right. They would try to box in the stallion, something they had yet to try. One person would be working the rope while the other would be trying to keep the stallion from doing his infamous bolts.
Kamikaze wanted to secure the safety of his small band before getting rough and ready with the professional rodeo riders, and so a minor chase the bait game took place. Neither rider nor horse was trying their best yet, as if this was just the beginning of the fun!
Soon Kamikaze began to exhibit his deadly spunk. He slowed a notched, and Miroku took the bait and dove in only for the rampaging stallion to maneuver in a split second to try and knock his head off with his black diamond sharp hooves. Tama lost ground because of Miroku's sudden yank on the reins that almost made her come to a dead stop.
"Miroku! You better stick to roping!" Yelled InuYasha, teasing his friend while flying past him. InuYasha had long since lost his hat, giving his ears freedom to move about.
Miroku didn't respond back, and only nudged Tama to catch up with Tessai and Kamikaze.
Kamikaze had gotten haughty and picked up speed again, ripping up the soft terrain as he ran through the field. He could have dodged into the trees and ended the chase, but he was confident that he could get away just as easy.
Tessai seemed to be oddly relaxed, whereas InuYasha was tense in the muscle. InuYasha began to change his posting position and was going for one more similar to a jockey rider. He clucked his tongue, encouraging his steed to speed up and got the desired results. However it wasn't fast enough, Kamikaze kept increasing his distance because he just so happened not to have any weight on his back. InuYasha snorted, and smirked smugly.
"Let'er budge," he slurred out, and suddenly Tessai seemed to find a whole new source of energy. Quickly and easily he caught up to Kamikaze, and cut the stallion off. Enraged, the sweating blue roan mustang slides in a stop to avoid smashing himself into Tessai and injuring himself, and then he darted to the right.
InuYasha was purely out to get Kamikaze this morning, and easily nudged Tessai to match up with the feral stallion, making the king of the small band become pissed and more prone to bucking out at InuYasha. Which was fine, because it made the wild bronco stay in place and easier to manage when it did that.
Miroku arrived at few minutes later, and without InuYasha even ordering him to toss the lasso he did.
Kamikaze evaded it, and darted off, only to be blocked by Tessai and InuYasha once again.
Miroku drove Tama in closer again, and tossed the worn out lasso once again.
Kamikaze dropped his head, and the rope flew right over his head, nearly looping around InuYasha!
"The horse, Miroku! Not me!"
"Sorry! He evades it so well it's hard to get a good shot!"
The third toss is a charm.
Swiftly it lands around Kamikaze's powerful nape and tightens in middle of it as Miroku wraps it around the saddle horn. He motions for Tama to brace herself and literally plant her hooves into the ground as Kamikaze begins to thrash like a two year old throwing a fit. Tama nearly falls on her rump twice when Kamikaze seems to relax out of the blue and then suddenly jump back to life. Rearing, pulling, running, yanking, he could not get the rope off of him.
That is, till it snaps.
From overuse, and the strain Kamikaze had been putting on it, it snaps in two, almost sending rider and both horses to their rear ends. InuYasha groans while pulling Tessai to a stop, then rams the palm of his hand into his forehead... repeatedly.
Kamikaze is gone like the wind, neither Miroku or InuYasha having enough energy left to do much. Tama was tired, and Tessai probably wanted his morning nap already. Half of the lasso rope was still around Kamikaze's neck, but it would loosen and fall off soon. Then be left in the wild to rot into the ground...
"How old was that lasso?" InuYasha asked as he turned Tessai toward Miroku.
"I'm not sure. I guess it was just, old." Miroku spoke from the ground as he inspected the ends of the snapped rope. He found nothing wrong with it, besides the fact that is was sort of falling a part in some areas. He shrugged.
"I could use a nap," InuYasha said as he relaxed in his saddle, then yawned to show off his ivory fangs.
"I think we all could."
InuYasha nodded his head in agreement, then yelled for his dog to come.
The goofy dog almost seemed to appear out of nowhere again, his tongue playfully lapping out of the side of his mouth. He didn't seem injured, which was good, and InuYasha decided that he would use Hige's training again the next time they did this. Sighing, the inuhanyou gives Tessai a leg cue to turn around and head back to the stables. It'd be some long ways back, about an hour or so ride of nothing but thinking and probably talking.
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A younger Kaede was out in the back pasture, lugging heave solid licks out there for the horses (solid licks are a blocks of vitamins and minerals that the horses lick/chew on to get when their main diet doesn't supply enough of it). The back pasture was the largest fenced area on the whole stable grounds because the horses there stayed on it all year around and only came up into the actual stables to either by ridden or have medical care. By the time Kaede had gotten that last solid lick out there, she was ready to sit down and not move for a while.
Of course, being in the back pasture wasn't all that bad, and she could see InuYasha and Miroku making their returns from their morning romp. Finding new will power, Kaede hopped up from her seat on one of the mineral blocks and dashed off toward the white safety fence that she would have to crawl through.
She waved them down, her soft brown eyes sparkling at the idea of catching a ride.
"What, Kaede?" InuYasha asked as Hige attacked Kaede, annoyed.
"Can I have a ride...? I just got done moving those solid licks, and they aren't exactly light ya'know? I'm to tired to walk all the way back up there," She pointed to the trail that went around several hills and up to the stable yard.
"Sure," Miroku said, and patted Tama lightly on the rump behind him.
Kaede gave him a 'you're insane!?' look, Sango has spoke to her about the Houshi's ways, and she herself was very weary of him.
"But I wanna ride on Tessai," Kaede stammered in a white lie.
"Oh my god, fine." InuYasha complained. Removing a foot from the stirrup, he leans down to give her his hand while she stuck her foot in his stirrup. With a double bounce from Kaede and hard jerk from InuYasha, Kaede was air born and found herself almost falling off the other side of Tessai. She however caught herself and got herself situated before giving InuYasha the thumps up to move along.
"So, what were you guys doing?"
"Making a futile attempt to catch that stallion," answered Miroku o' so wisely.
"Why don't you bring up the whole band at once?"
"We need more then two riders for that, and I'd be damned if Sesshoumaru decides to help us."
"That and he wants Kamikaze for himself. If they caught Kamikaze together, they'd probably bite and kick at each other like mares over him." Miroku said in a joking manner, sending giggle fits into Kaede while being on the receiving end of a raspberry from InuYasha. That is till the back of InuYasha's head bumped into a branch and was nearly knocked off his ride. An obscene curse filtered from his mouth and at his horse, making Tessai's ears flatten back at him. His hat had indeed fallen off, and now Kaede was tweaking the inuhanyou's adorable ears.
"Now, now, InuYasha, you shouldn't use such language around young ladies, nor around your horse." Miroku mock-scolded at InuYasha.
"I don't know Miroku-sama, I think correcting InuYasha is beyond our will power."
"Indeed, we'll make Kikyou or Sesshoumaru fix that in a jiff."
"Oh, I'm sure they'll get a kick out of it, Miroku." InuYasha retorted in sarcasm.
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The horses all taken care of, InuYasha had after a small trip to the vending machine, crashed down on the old leather couch in the tack room. Staring into to space, he drowned himself in the soft drink bottle, downing the 20 oz. Coke within minutes. This was his relaxing time, because in an hour or so he had to give little kids their private lessons and god knows how much of a pain they were. Tapping the empty bottle on his knee, the hollow nosie it made echoed slightly throughout the room, catching the attention of Hige of course.
The pesky Border Collie literally starts attacking the bottle, and InuYasha only playfully whacks the dog around the muzzle to tease him more. By the time Miroku walked into the tack room, InuYasha was stuffing the bottom of the plastic bottle down the dog's throat! Amusingly enough, Hige was having a blast trying to eat it still.
"He's so stupid."
"Well? How would you like it if I stuffed a bottle down your throat?"
"I'd kick your ass."
"Mhm. Point proven."
InuYasha snorted, and to prove that Hige ENJOYED the bottle he of course threw it.
Hige went after it, pouncing and bounding all the way to retrieve it.
InuYasha smirked smugly up at Miroku.
Miroku decided to feed his ego for once, "Oh, I'm terrible sorry for the misjudgement on animal abuse milord. Do you forgive?"
"Nope," InuYasha chucked the dog-slime-covered bottle at Miroku's head, "Now get me another one."
"...That was a rhetorical question."
"Now ask me if I care WHILE you get my new coke."
Ah yes, just another day in the world of InuYasha's, where the sanity never shows.
my god. Hate it. but I updated. And that's all that matters honestly. But yes, please keep in mind that this happens BEFORE Kagome comes into play and stuff. Anyway, I'll try and update again, soon. I have the other chapter written up, but its no where near finished and I might rewrite because I wrote it while I was hyper and it all reflected on Kagome XD