MG: Okay everybody, here's the latest installment of My Christmas Pup. Hope you enjoy.
Disclaimer: I don't own it, so don't sue me.
Chapter 8- The 9th Gift—Gleaming Necklaces.
Inu-yasha awoke very early the next morning so he could sneak out of the hut. Today was a real day to dread for him. Toda was dooms day for him. Today…was Kikiyo's birthday!
He had hoped to get her something beautiful for her birthday, but beautiful costs money—which he sadly didn't have.
He slowly crept out of the hut and made his way to the forest. He jumped into the highest tree he could find to assure that he was out of sight.
"Running from women now little brother? How utterly disgraceful," Sesshomaru said as he scared Inu-yasha out of his mind.
"Will you stop doing that!" Inu-yasha screamed as he fought to stay up on the branch.
"Is she that scary to you that you have to sneak around and run away just because you didn't get her a birthday present?"
Inu-yasha thought about that for a moment. "I was gonna say just yeah, but when I think about it, it's more like a HELL YEAH!! She pinned me to a tree 50 years ago! You'd be scared of her too."
Sesshomaru snorted. "Not likely."
"That's what everybody who doesn't know her that well say. "Inu-yasha looked at his brother and said, "Now what do you want? I'm sure you're not here for the idle conversation."
"I came to bring you this," Sesshomaru said as he tossed a package towards Inu-Yasha. He opened it and saw it was a beautiful and thin lime green and yellow floral patterned kimono and a matching bracelet with Kikiyo's name engraved in it.
"Wow bro. This must've cost you a fortune," Inu-yasha said as he looked over everything.
"Not when you have connections dear brother, not when you have connections." Sesshomaru decided then to take his leave. "I shall be back later with Kagome's 4th present." And he casually left.
"Well at least I got Kikiyo's present. Now time to go back and pray she believes I got them for her.
Inu-yasha went strolling back to the hut and ran into Yuri. She looked furious at him.
"Inu-yasha, Ms. Kikiyo and Lady Kagome have been looking for you all day! Where have you been?!" She screamed.
"Two things Yuri. One, stop screaming!!" he yelled at her. Her high pitch voice wasn't very comforting to his ears. "And two, I've only been gone for about an hour. So where's the all day you're talking about drama queen?" He walked pass her and into the hut. "I'm back." Unfortunately, the only thing that greeted him were two angry faces.
"Where the hell have you been?" Kikiyo and Kagome asked.
"Uh…bathroom?" Inu-yasha asked/said cautiously. Either one of them alone could scare him regularly. Together, they scared him shitless.
"Well where was this bathroom, in London?" Kagome asked.
Kikiyo was next with her inquiries. "Well, wherever the bathroom was, I hope my present was near it."
"Of course it was Kiki." Inu-yasha pulled out the kimono and bracelet. They were awe-struck by the beauty of the two gifts.
Sugi, however, was not convinced of one thing. "Mr. Inu-yasha, may I have a word with you?"
"Not if you don't stop calling me Mr. I'm not that old ya know." But he went with him anyway.
"Where did you get those presents from? Were they from Lord Sesshomaru?" Sugi asked once out of the ear range of the others.
"What does it matter?" Inu-yasha asked. "He's my brother and he helped me out. To tell you the truth, I never expected him to help me."
"Yes, neither did I. Very well Inu-yasha, you may return to your lady," Sugi said as he left.
Inu-yasha returned to the hut and took a seat beside Kikiyo. Everyone seemed to be chatting away until…
"Ahh, oh no!!!" Kagome suddenly screamed as she jumped up.
"What's wrong?" Sango asked.
"I completely forgot about my big test 5th period! If I leave now, I can make it." She began to pack her bag to leave. When she got everything, she left for the well. "I'll be back in a few guys."
Everyone sent their goodbyes and she was off.
Kagome rode the bike to the well. When she entered the forest of Inu-yasha, however the pulsating feeling of a jewel shard nearby stopped her in her tracks. "I sense a jewel shard, and It's really close."
"I bet it's so close you can smell it," came an evil voice from the tree tops.
"Who was that?"
Kagome heard a sinister laugh before, out of the trees, sprung a man in a white baboon pelt.
"Naraku!" Kagome screamed as she prepared to run. Unfortunately, just as she turned around, Kana of the demon void held up her mirror and started sucking her soul in.
"How does it feel to be helpless?" Naraku asked as Kana sucked more of Kagome's soul in.
"This won't work Naraku. Remember last time she tried to suck my soul in? She couldn't take it all."
"You're completely right. In fact, Kana's mirror is beginning to get full already."
'Something's wrong. Why is he so calm? He's planning something,' Kagome thought.
"But then again, this is why I brought Sano along," Naraku said as he stopped to the side to reveal a little boy. The small boy looked like a replica of Kana just with shorter white hair. He too, held a mirror.
"Sano?!" Kagome asked surprised to see another incarnation. Yes. Sano and Kana are twins. I neglected to bring Sano along the first time because of his habit of disobeying orders." Naraku affectionately stroked the boy's head. "I think I have fixed that problem. Now Sano, finish what your sister has started."
Sano stepped forward and help up his mirror. "I'm sorry," he whispered as he began to suck in the rest of Kagome's soul.
Kagome began to feel light-headed as hr soul began to vanish. "Someone…help…me," she whispered as she began to see black. Just as she thought she was out she saw the back of someone with a full head of whitish-silver hair. "Inu…yasha," she whispered as she fell unconscience.
"Ah Lord Sesshomaru. How I have awaited the day to see you again. Now, we can plan how to destroy Inu—"
Naraku never got to finish his sentence. Sesshomaru struck his deadly blow to the demon puppet and disembodied it's head from the rest of it's body.
Kana stepped back one step, but Sano fell flat on his ass and began to shake in fear of Sesshomaru.
"Kana, Sano, return to me. Bring me the young miko's soul," Naraku said through his broken puppet.
"Oh no you don't you baboon looking fuck-face!!" Sesshomaru screamed as he launced himself at Kana and Sano.
Kana, thinking quickly, put a hand on her brother's shoulder and teleported them out of the area.
Sesshomaru crashed very unceremoniously and ungracefully, into a tree.
"Oww!" he screamed as he rubbed his nose. He came to his senses when he noticed Kagome, lying unconscirence on the ground. "Kagome? Kagome?!" he asked/screamed as he tried to shake her awake. When it didn't work, he picked her up and carried her back to Kaede's hut.
Inside the hut, Inu-Yasha picked up on Sesshomaru's scent and quickly went outise to see what had occurred. When he discovered Kagome, unconscience in Sess' arms, alarms flared off in his head.
"What did you do to her?!" he asked.
"Nothing you ass-clown," Sesshomaru said as he threw her limp form to Inu-yasha. "You're lucky Naraku got to her first." And he turned to leave.
At this point, everyone else came out of the hut and saw Kagome on the ground.
"Lady Kagome?!" Everybody called out. Kikiyo was first to reach her. She checked Kagome's pulse.
"She's still alive, but it looked as if her soul has been sucked out of her."
"Damn. It had to be Naraku's incarnation Kana of the void, "Inu-yasha said snarling. Kagome may not be the woman he chose to love, but she was still a friend. He had to do something about it.
Miroku, sensing Inu-yasha's thoughts, hit him upside the head with his staff. "Don't be so rash and naïve Inu-yasha. I bet you want to go looking for Naraku yourself."
"Well…yeah. But that's just cause you guys will just get in my wa—"
Sango hit him next with her boomerang bone. "Stop complaining will ya. We all care for Kagome, and we all want to help her.
"But I feel it's—"
Next it was Shippo with his illusional spinning top. "Quit whinning Inu-yasha. She's like my mommy. Of course I'll want to help too."
Kikiyo hit him with her bow next before he could say anything. "Stop being so chivalrous and let us help you sweetie.
Inu-yasha was smart enough to know what came next as he looked at Kagome's servant's. "Don't even think about it. I got hit enough for one day."
"Okay then, let's go get 'em!" Shippo said as he jumped on Inu-yasha's shoulder.
"Wait. Let's leave Lady Kagome here. We don't' need any more harm to befall her," Yuki suggested.
"Excellent idea Yuki," Sugi said as he was continuing making plans. "Yuki and Sagi, stay here to guard them. I want all of the women except for Yuri and Shintu to stay here." He looked at Shippo. "And you stay here too.
"Aww, but I wanted to come!!!" Shippo whinned.
"Too bad. Now let's move people."
They were all about to leave when Yuki stopped them. "Wait! There's a note here from out Lord."
Everyone stopped and turn back to read the note.
"Kagome will get her Necklaces when she wakes up. In the meantime, help is on the way to get Naraku. Take care of my Kagome."
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"You heard the man people, let's get going," Sugi said as everyone, clad in battle gear, got ready for a fight for the young miko's life.
MG: Hope you guys enjoy the story and I'll be back next month with the next chapter. Merry Christmas everybody!
P.S. if everything goes according to schedule, then I should be finished this story by next Christmas (assuming that I can post on an average of 1 chapter/month.
PPS. Here's a little bonus poem for you guys.(To the tune of Jingle Bells)
Dashing through the forest
On a demon's back all day
All the fields we go
Searching all the way (for jewel shards)
Myoga cowers in fear
Shippo helps in the fight
What fun it is to watch and see
Sango slap Miroku all night
Inu time
Inu time
Inu's on his way
Oh what fun it is to watch
Inu-yasha today
Inu time
Inu time
Inu's on his way
Oh what fun it is to watch
Inu-yasha today!
HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!