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Chapter Eleven: Meeting the Wolf, Kouga
Everyone had recovered and packed their things, heading out Kaede's door.
"So...which way Kagome?" Inuyasha asked.
"I don't know..." Kagome replied.
"Can't you feel any shards?"
"Besides the ones I have with me...um...no."
"Damn it."
Mei Lhi was walking away from the group, sniffing the air curiously.
"Mei Lhi! What're you doing?" Inuyasha called.
"Onii-san! Can you smell that?" Mei Lhi said.
Inuyasha started to smell the air, following the scent.
"It leads back into the woods we've always been going through..." Inuyasha concluded.
"But...Onii-san, it smells...like...I don't know...but it's definitely youkai." Mei Lhi said.
"Hey, this way. Let's go." Inuyasha said to the group.
They followed the two half-demons, having to slow down every once in a while to rest for a few seconds.
"You all walk too slow! Hurry up! By the time we get there, it'll be next week!" Mei Lhi shouted.
Inuyasha walked over to the group.
"Kagome, get on my back. We'll get there faster." He said, crouching down so Kagome could get on.
"Right." Kagome said, getting on the hanyou's back.
"Since there's two of us, I'll be willing to carry anyone besides Miroku. I don't trust him." Mei Lhi offerred.
"Well, I have Kirara, so Houshi-sama can stay here where I can keep an eye on him. So Shippo can go with you, or stay with me, or go with Kagome." Sango said.
"I'll go with Mei-chan!" Shippo said instantly.
"Well there's a first...you always like to stay with Kagome..." Inuyasha mumbled in an annoyed tone.
"Mei Lhi, Shippo called you 'Mei-chan'! You said that no one could call you 'Mei-chan'!" Kagome said suddenly.
"Ah, but you have it wrong. I said that you couldn't call me 'Mei-chan'. And Shippo-chan is just a kid, so I don't really mind...besides...he's such a cute little fox!" Mei Lhi replied.
Shippo blushed a little, then hopped onto Mei Lhi's shoulder.
"Hang on tight, Shippo." Mei Lhi said to the kitsune.
Shippo nodded. Sango and Miroku were on Kirara's back and Kagome was on Inuyasha's back.
"Ok, everyone ready? Then let's go!" Mei Lhi exclaimed.
She took off at great speed, but Inuyasha was ahead of her.
"You're not going to beat me, Onii-san! Watch this!" She shouted.
She ran faster and took off on an air current, then gracefully descended, touching down on the ground, at least two miles ahead of her brother.
"Keh! That's nothing! Try this!" Inuyasha yelled.
He ran even faster, catching up with his sister, then leaping from tree to tree, then soaring into the air, putting at least five miles between them.
"Oh yeah?! Well watch this! Hold on real tight, Shippo-chan! And I mean, hold on!" Mei Lhi called.
* * *
Sango and Miroku watched in interest as they tried to keep up with the two hanyous.
"I've never seen Inuyasha have so much fun before. He seems..." Sango thought aloud.
"Happy." Miroku finished.
"Yes...indeed..." Sango agreed.
* * *
Mei Lhi leapt through the air, catching up to her brother, then made sure he was watching, and shot high into the sky, doing backflips and cartwheels in the air, then just as it seemed like she was about to fall, a wind current would lift her right up again. Finally, she went back onto the ground, and did one-handed backflips, then finished with a final jump into the sky.
* * *
Inuyasha watched, admiring his sister's talent, but was suddenly alarmed when he saw his sister get pushed aside with a great force just as she was about to reach the ground.
* * *
Mei Lhi hit the ground with a thud, Shippo hiding himself in her silver hair.
"Mutt! What've you done to Kagome?!" An angry male voice asked.
Mei Lhi sniffed the air, realizing it was the scent she caught earlier. It was a wolf youkai. And it had the same feeling as the two shards she had earlier.
"What the fuck is your problem?!!!" Mei Lhi screamed at him, throwing a hard punch into his jaw.
The wolf, startled by her sudden movement, had no time to react and was hit to the ground.
"Oh...I see...you're not Inuyasha...I thought something was weird...when I smelled the scent of a woman...but still, you're a mutt just like him." He said coldly.
'I hate this youkai. He's just like the villagers...when I was young...how dare he! How can he not know how much pain there is being born a half- demon?! This bastard! I'll kill him!' Mei Lhi's thoughts yelled furiously.
She heard a low angry growl from the trees.
* * *
"Kouga." Inuyasha growled.
"Oh...there you are, mutt face...I assume that she" He pointed at Mei Lhi. "is your new mate. How dare you betray Kagome in such a low way! Now, I've come to take my woman! Since you've already got one, you won't be needing Kagome...she's mine!"
"Excuse me?! You think-you think I'm Inuyasha's mate?!!" Mei Lhi shouted angrily.
"Well, it's like a mutt to be with other mutts like himself." Kouga said.
"You bastard! You lowly sick bastard! Kagome isn't a thing! She's a person! You can't claim her! And you can't force her to go or do what you want!!!!" Mei Lhi said, her voice steadily growing more venomous and full of hatred.
She rolled up on of the sleeves on her haori, then used her claw to cut her skin, then soaked her claws in her own blood.
"Hijin Ketsusuo!!!" She yelled.
Kouga dodged all of them, except for one which embedded itself in his cheek. He growled angrily, then charged at her, Mei Lhi charged, both facing a head on collison.
"Sankon Tetsusuo!!!" She cried, her claws just about to strike the wolf.
"Kouga-kun! Don't!!!" Kagome screamed.
Just as Mei Lhi was about to bring her claws upon Kouga, someone with a firm grasp on her wrist stopped her.
"Onii-san! Doshite?! (Why?!)" She screamed angrily.
Her claws struck the air, splitting a few trees around them.
"Because...Kouga is mine to kill. It's been an ongoing rivalry between us." Inuyasha said so quietly that only Mei Lhi could hear him.
"Kagome! Why'd you stop me? I could've gotten rid of both her and Inuyasha!" Kouga wondered.
"I stopped you because what Mei Lhi said is true. You can't own me. Besides, I don't want Inuyasha or Mei Lhi killed. I care about both of them very much. Even though I recently met Mei Lhi..." Kagome replied.
"Mei Lhi? So that's the name of that two-timing mutt's mate?" Kouga asked.
"You've got that wrong...Mei Lhi isn't Inuyasha's mate. But it's true that she's a half-inuyoukai. Mei Lhi is Inuyasha's little sister." Kagome answered.
"Little sister?!!!" Kouga exclaimed. "So now there's three dogs!"
"Three?" Mei Lhi wondered.
"Sesshoumaru..." Inuyasha growled, his hand still gripping Mei Lhi's wrist.
His grip grew tighter.
"Hey, um...Onii-san, you can let go my arm now...because you're kind of squeezing it, and it's starting to hurt." Mei Lhi said.
"Oh...sorry..." Inuyasha said, releasing his grasp.
"Thank you." Mei Lhi said, just realizing that her arm was still bleeding.
"Baka, Mei Lhi! You need to quit doing that!" Inuyasha snapped suddenly, seeing the blood on Mei Lhi's arm.
He took Kagome's backpack and rifled through it, finding bandages.
"Now how do these work, again, Kagome?" He asked.
Kagome walked over, took the bandages from his clawed fingers, got a cloth, and wiped the blood away, then getting rubbing alcohol and a cotton ball.
"I have to clean it. So this might hurt a little..." Kagome said.
Mei Lhi nodded, and Kagome applied the cotton ball with the rubbing alcohol onto the wound. The moment it made contact, Mei Lhi sprang up yanking her arm away from Kagome's hands.
"What the hell is that?!!! It burns!!!" Mei Lhi asked, yelling.
"It's used in my time to clean cuts." Kagome said.
"Your time? What do you mean?" Mei Lhi asked curiously.
"I'll tell you later." Kagome said.
"Stop your whining Mei Lhi. Kagome's had to use that stuff called...what is it?...Alk-o-hal on me loads of times...and I never complained." Inuyasha said.
Kagome giggled.
"What's so funny?" Inuyasha asked.
"Just the way-oh never mind..." Kagome said.
'He's just so cute when he tries to say words from my time!' Kagome thought.
"Well, then I'll just deal with it...so finish whatever you were doing, Kagome." Mei Lhi said, sighing.
She sat down next to Kagome, nodding, telling Kagome that she was ready. Kagome cleaned the wound, then wrapped bandages around it.
"Alright, it's fine now." Kagome said, smiling.
"You really didn't need to do that." Mei Lhi said. "Since my body heals itself...just like every other youkai..."
"I'll see you later, Kagome..." Kouga said, feeling out of place.
Kagome nodded, then the wolf turned into a tornado, and disappeared.
Chapter Eleven: Meeting the Wolf, Kouga
Everyone had recovered and packed their things, heading out Kaede's door.
"So...which way Kagome?" Inuyasha asked.
"I don't know..." Kagome replied.
"Can't you feel any shards?"
"Besides the ones I have with me...um...no."
"Damn it."
Mei Lhi was walking away from the group, sniffing the air curiously.
"Mei Lhi! What're you doing?" Inuyasha called.
"Onii-san! Can you smell that?" Mei Lhi said.
Inuyasha started to smell the air, following the scent.
"It leads back into the woods we've always been going through..." Inuyasha concluded.
"But...Onii-san, it smells...like...I don't know...but it's definitely youkai." Mei Lhi said.
"Hey, this way. Let's go." Inuyasha said to the group.
They followed the two half-demons, having to slow down every once in a while to rest for a few seconds.
"You all walk too slow! Hurry up! By the time we get there, it'll be next week!" Mei Lhi shouted.
Inuyasha walked over to the group.
"Kagome, get on my back. We'll get there faster." He said, crouching down so Kagome could get on.
"Right." Kagome said, getting on the hanyou's back.
"Since there's two of us, I'll be willing to carry anyone besides Miroku. I don't trust him." Mei Lhi offerred.
"Well, I have Kirara, so Houshi-sama can stay here where I can keep an eye on him. So Shippo can go with you, or stay with me, or go with Kagome." Sango said.
"I'll go with Mei-chan!" Shippo said instantly.
"Well there's a first...you always like to stay with Kagome..." Inuyasha mumbled in an annoyed tone.
"Mei Lhi, Shippo called you 'Mei-chan'! You said that no one could call you 'Mei-chan'!" Kagome said suddenly.
"Ah, but you have it wrong. I said that you couldn't call me 'Mei-chan'. And Shippo-chan is just a kid, so I don't really mind...besides...he's such a cute little fox!" Mei Lhi replied.
Shippo blushed a little, then hopped onto Mei Lhi's shoulder.
"Hang on tight, Shippo." Mei Lhi said to the kitsune.
Shippo nodded. Sango and Miroku were on Kirara's back and Kagome was on Inuyasha's back.
"Ok, everyone ready? Then let's go!" Mei Lhi exclaimed.
She took off at great speed, but Inuyasha was ahead of her.
"You're not going to beat me, Onii-san! Watch this!" She shouted.
She ran faster and took off on an air current, then gracefully descended, touching down on the ground, at least two miles ahead of her brother.
"Keh! That's nothing! Try this!" Inuyasha yelled.
He ran even faster, catching up with his sister, then leaping from tree to tree, then soaring into the air, putting at least five miles between them.
"Oh yeah?! Well watch this! Hold on real tight, Shippo-chan! And I mean, hold on!" Mei Lhi called.
* * *
Sango and Miroku watched in interest as they tried to keep up with the two hanyous.
"I've never seen Inuyasha have so much fun before. He seems..." Sango thought aloud.
"Happy." Miroku finished.
"Yes...indeed..." Sango agreed.
* * *
Mei Lhi leapt through the air, catching up to her brother, then made sure he was watching, and shot high into the sky, doing backflips and cartwheels in the air, then just as it seemed like she was about to fall, a wind current would lift her right up again. Finally, she went back onto the ground, and did one-handed backflips, then finished with a final jump into the sky.
* * *
Inuyasha watched, admiring his sister's talent, but was suddenly alarmed when he saw his sister get pushed aside with a great force just as she was about to reach the ground.
* * *
Mei Lhi hit the ground with a thud, Shippo hiding himself in her silver hair.
"Mutt! What've you done to Kagome?!" An angry male voice asked.
Mei Lhi sniffed the air, realizing it was the scent she caught earlier. It was a wolf youkai. And it had the same feeling as the two shards she had earlier.
"What the fuck is your problem?!!!" Mei Lhi screamed at him, throwing a hard punch into his jaw.
The wolf, startled by her sudden movement, had no time to react and was hit to the ground.
"Oh...I see...you're not Inuyasha...I thought something was weird...when I smelled the scent of a woman...but still, you're a mutt just like him." He said coldly.
'I hate this youkai. He's just like the villagers...when I was young...how dare he! How can he not know how much pain there is being born a half- demon?! This bastard! I'll kill him!' Mei Lhi's thoughts yelled furiously.
She heard a low angry growl from the trees.
* * *
"Kouga." Inuyasha growled.
"Oh...there you are, mutt face...I assume that she" He pointed at Mei Lhi. "is your new mate. How dare you betray Kagome in such a low way! Now, I've come to take my woman! Since you've already got one, you won't be needing Kagome...she's mine!"
"Excuse me?! You think-you think I'm Inuyasha's mate?!!" Mei Lhi shouted angrily.
"Well, it's like a mutt to be with other mutts like himself." Kouga said.
"You bastard! You lowly sick bastard! Kagome isn't a thing! She's a person! You can't claim her! And you can't force her to go or do what you want!!!!" Mei Lhi said, her voice steadily growing more venomous and full of hatred.
She rolled up on of the sleeves on her haori, then used her claw to cut her skin, then soaked her claws in her own blood.
"Hijin Ketsusuo!!!" She yelled.
Kouga dodged all of them, except for one which embedded itself in his cheek. He growled angrily, then charged at her, Mei Lhi charged, both facing a head on collison.
"Sankon Tetsusuo!!!" She cried, her claws just about to strike the wolf.
"Kouga-kun! Don't!!!" Kagome screamed.
Just as Mei Lhi was about to bring her claws upon Kouga, someone with a firm grasp on her wrist stopped her.
"Onii-san! Doshite?! (Why?!)" She screamed angrily.
Her claws struck the air, splitting a few trees around them.
"Because...Kouga is mine to kill. It's been an ongoing rivalry between us." Inuyasha said so quietly that only Mei Lhi could hear him.
"Kagome! Why'd you stop me? I could've gotten rid of both her and Inuyasha!" Kouga wondered.
"I stopped you because what Mei Lhi said is true. You can't own me. Besides, I don't want Inuyasha or Mei Lhi killed. I care about both of them very much. Even though I recently met Mei Lhi..." Kagome replied.
"Mei Lhi? So that's the name of that two-timing mutt's mate?" Kouga asked.
"You've got that wrong...Mei Lhi isn't Inuyasha's mate. But it's true that she's a half-inuyoukai. Mei Lhi is Inuyasha's little sister." Kagome answered.
"Little sister?!!!" Kouga exclaimed. "So now there's three dogs!"
"Three?" Mei Lhi wondered.
"Sesshoumaru..." Inuyasha growled, his hand still gripping Mei Lhi's wrist.
His grip grew tighter.
"Hey, um...Onii-san, you can let go my arm now...because you're kind of squeezing it, and it's starting to hurt." Mei Lhi said.
"Oh...sorry..." Inuyasha said, releasing his grasp.
"Thank you." Mei Lhi said, just realizing that her arm was still bleeding.
"Baka, Mei Lhi! You need to quit doing that!" Inuyasha snapped suddenly, seeing the blood on Mei Lhi's arm.
He took Kagome's backpack and rifled through it, finding bandages.
"Now how do these work, again, Kagome?" He asked.
Kagome walked over, took the bandages from his clawed fingers, got a cloth, and wiped the blood away, then getting rubbing alcohol and a cotton ball.
"I have to clean it. So this might hurt a little..." Kagome said.
Mei Lhi nodded, and Kagome applied the cotton ball with the rubbing alcohol onto the wound. The moment it made contact, Mei Lhi sprang up yanking her arm away from Kagome's hands.
"What the hell is that?!!! It burns!!!" Mei Lhi asked, yelling.
"It's used in my time to clean cuts." Kagome said.
"Your time? What do you mean?" Mei Lhi asked curiously.
"I'll tell you later." Kagome said.
"Stop your whining Mei Lhi. Kagome's had to use that stuff called...what is it?...Alk-o-hal on me loads of times...and I never complained." Inuyasha said.
Kagome giggled.
"What's so funny?" Inuyasha asked.
"Just the way-oh never mind..." Kagome said.
'He's just so cute when he tries to say words from my time!' Kagome thought.
"Well, then I'll just deal with it...so finish whatever you were doing, Kagome." Mei Lhi said, sighing.
She sat down next to Kagome, nodding, telling Kagome that she was ready. Kagome cleaned the wound, then wrapped bandages around it.
"Alright, it's fine now." Kagome said, smiling.
"You really didn't need to do that." Mei Lhi said. "Since my body heals itself...just like every other youkai..."
"I'll see you later, Kagome..." Kouga said, feeling out of place.
Kagome nodded, then the wolf turned into a tornado, and disappeared.