DarkEyedDemon: Yes, I'm updating even though I only have one review. I couldn't help it! I like writing this stuff. Anyway, I'm gonna try to make the focus of these stories shift around evenly, but don't be surprised if it tips a little towards my character. I am sort of a bias party.
"N-naraku?!" Kayasha stuttered, while Slagar remained ominously silent. Their parents had told each of them of their exploits as teenagers, and of their hated enemy Naraku.
"But mom, I thought you and dad killed him," said Slagar.
"I thought so too, but Miroku seems to have reason to believe he's back." Kagome got down on her knees and wrapped her arms around her two children. "It's okay, if Naraku truly is back, your father and I won't let him anywhere near you both." Slagar and Kayasha hugged their mother back, and traded quick glances behind her back. They both knew what they were going to do; they were going to find out if Naraku was here.
Later that night, after Kagome had tucked Slagar and Kayasha in for the night, the two kids got out of their beds and made their way to their bedroom windows. They both climbed outside and met at the front of the hut.
"Slagar, is that you?" she whispered.
"Who else would it be?" he replied.
Kayasha flicked her little brother in the forehead. "Shut up! Let's just go, I can follow daddy's scent to wherever it is he went."
"Okay, I'll be right behind you." And so the two set off into the dark forest. They hadn't walked for long before Kayasha stopped rigid and she stared ahead of them. "What is it?"
"Get down!" she hissed, and shoved him into the underbrush, climbing in after him. Slagar looked up to see the reason for her actions and saw a blur of red go by; Inuyasha. Kayasha was the first to come up from the ground, brushing dirt off her kimono. "That was close."
Back at the hut, Kagome decided to check in on Kayasha. When she opened the door and poked her head inside, all she saw was an empty bed. She hurried to Slagar's room and found the same thing. "Oh no, they didn't…"
"Kagome, I'm back!" called the hanyou as he stepped through the hut's door. Kagome immediately rushed to him.
"Inuyasha, Slagar and Kayasha are gone! They must have gone into the forest!"
"What?! Damn them…stay here, I'll bring 'em back." With that he bounded out of the door and into the forest.
Slagar and Kayasha had continued their journey when the young shadow demon began to feel uneasy. "Kayasha, I think we should head back."
"What? No way! Don't tell me you're wimping out on me!" she taunted.
"No, I just don't think we should be out in the forest at night. Demons do roam around here, you know."
"Well you're a demon, and I'm one fourth demon, so we should be left alone."
"But we're also kids, and that makes us seem like easy targets!"
"He's right, you do look like easy targets," spoke a raspy voice from somewhere amongst the trees. Slagar's hands immediately became surrounded in two black orbs of magic and Kayasha bared her fangs, flipping her ears back dangerously. A long tentacle reached out from the surrounding woods and lashed towards Slagar. He put his hands up to defend but was wrapped up in the large appendage and dragged off. Kayasha turned in time to see him disappear from sight when another such tentacle dragged her away from behind.
"Stupid kids, how many times have I told them not to go wandering through the forest alone at night?" Inuyasha asked himself as he charged through the woods in search of his children. As he ran, he sniffed the air and caught the scent of a demon. Quickly changing course, he ran to a large clearing where a massive, octopus-like creature had a hold of his two children and was dangling them over its cavernous mouth. Inuyasha drew Tetsaiga (A/N: Yes yes, probably not how you spell it, but I'm spelling it like it sounds from here on out.) and pointed it towards the demon.
"I'd suggest you let them go, demon."
It turned so that its head, which was basically its entire body, was facing the hanyou. "And what if I don't?"
Inuyasha smirked and nodded up towards Kayasha and Slagar. The two of them nodded back and sank their fangs into the demon's tentacles. Howling, the monster let go of them and they landed safely in their father's arms.
He set them down next to him. "Windscar!" He sent the attack hurtling towards the demons face and obliterated it. After sheathing his sword, Inuyasha turned to his two children, his arms crossed and his eyes set in a glare. "Alright, I'm listening."
"We wanted to see what uncle Miroku had found out about Naraku," Slagar said.
"We didn't mean any harm from it," Kayasha added.
Inuyasha sighed. "I've told you again and again, don't go into the forest at night! That demon was definitely not the worst thing you could have seen here! But, seeing as how your mother has enough to worry about now, I won't tell her about your run-in, if you promise to never disobey either one of us again, understood?"
"Yes," they both said in unison. He uncrossed his arms and scooped them up, setting them on his back as he took off back towards the hut. As they traveled, Slagar spoke into Kayasha's mind with telepathy.
"Do you think Naraku really could be here?"
"I'm not sure," she thought, knowing he would be able to read her mind. "But if he is, I'm sure we can take him." They both smiled at each other as their hut came into view.
DED: And there it is! Yes, yes, I'm sure there's a lot of confusion over my character here, him being a shadow demon with a half dog demon and a human for parents. Well in case you couldn't tell, he's adopted. I'll put something about that in one of these chapters when it will fit in well. So yes, we can easily see the two best characters are Slagar and Kayasha!...ahem….please review. And away I go! (dashes out the door)