The Puppet Master
Seine: My internet is freakin' screwed up. I swear I'm gonna rip the router out of the wall....
Kagome: Well, just don't hurt yourself, eat your vitamins, then put the router back in.
Seine: What the hell does vitamins have to do with it?
Kagome: Everything and nothing. Seine doesn't own Inuyasha, but sure as heck would like to. If she did, I think our world would be quite screwed up.
Seine: PINK FLYING TURTLES WITH DOVE WINGS!!! BWAHHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!! ....sorry....
Ladybugs
Inuyasha huffed, sitting on the forest floor, basically watching the sun set. He sniffed the air, and stood up abruptly, looking slightly miffed.
" Tell me this, Fahna. How come I can't smell youkai on you or Sango? I normally can pick up scents easily, but I don't understand why your scents are such a mystery. You both smell like humans. What's the deal?" Inuyasha asked, crossing his arms in front of him. Fahna smiled.
" I knew an inuyoukai like yourself would have difficulty believing. Well, it's slightly difficult to explain. It's called scent masking, a trait in my bloodline passed from my mother. For some reason, our bloodline starts from neko-youkai blood, but ended up a slash of neko-youkai and fear-youkai. We can bend things around us, the energy off of it, without knowing it. So it's like a mask. It's for the better." Fahna explained, rubbing behind Kirara's ears.
Sango sat against a tree, staring at a ladybug as it crawled on a twig. She came to a conclusion. That ladybug, when she reaches the end, if it wasn't for her sticky grippers, she'd fall off the twig. If I didn't have my friends, I would have completely fallen of of my twig of sanity. Neko... and fear-bender? Father never even told me about that kind of youkai...
Maybe he just didn't want to. Didn't want me to know I was what I fought, what we feared, what we hoped to defend humans from. Why am I pitying myself, when he carried the burden of knowing what I was, and still loving me? I can't let him down now. And I never will, either. Kirara... She's protected me all these years, knowing what I was, watching me slay demons without a second thought. How could I have not know what I was? How could I reject something that I don't know about? Hanyou... Just like Inuyasha.
Sango shifted over a bit, letting Miroku slump down beside her, as Fahna, Inuyasha, and Kagome spoke quietly about something.
" Strange creatures, aren't they? I've always wondered about ladybugs. As a child I mean, but now, I don't remember what conclusion I came to about them." Miroku said, trying to break the awkward silence. Sango smiled lightly.
" They are quite strange. Their suited for red flowers and watermelon, but they seem to appear mostly in the grass. You'd think that they would stay among the flowers, where they fit in, but nope, they go where it's unknown to them, away from family and friends, just to explore and learn more. And then of course they get squashed by a giant foot, though it's better then getting sprayed with herbs to kill bugs in the garden. Less suffering, I suppose." Miroku blinked a couple of times.
" Sango... I know this is all very hard for you right now, but I want you to know I'm here for you, and if you ever need to talk, I'll tie my hands behind my back for you." Sango giggled slightly.
" A little bit odd of an idea, but I get the general idea, thanks. This is just... all so sudden. First, I thought my mother had died in childbirth, then everyone died, and then she seems to have appeared out of nowhere. My only question is will this give me the strength to defeat Naraku along side you all?" Miroku shrugged.
" You already have the strength and the will to kill Naraku. This may give you, for lack of better words as Kagome would say, a kick in the ass to the right direction!" Sango blushed, and lightly laughed again.
" Or in your case, a grope." Miroku faltered for a moment.
" Perhaps." Suddenly, Sango froze. The ladybug flew off, and Sango leapt up, bearing her katana, waiting patiently. Miroku stood up, his back to Sango's, waiting as well. Inuyasha sniffed, and growled, flexing his claws.
" So, we have some fresh meat!" It wasn't the humans. It was a pack of pig-youkai, brandishing large axes, bows, and daggers. Sango smiled deviously, and tucked her katana away, tossing Hiraikotsu aside.
" Fahna, how exactly do I do this?" She asked, still staring a pig in the eyes. Fahna snarled in her throat.
" Think of them as your prey, you as the huntress. They've killed your cub. Kill them back." Sango closed her eyes, thinking inside herself as a pig wound up with the heavy axe to strike her. Naraku, Naraku, Naraku, Naraku, Naraku, Naraku, NARAKU!!
" You Bastard!" Sango ripped her hand up, and let her eyes open. They were glazed in icy blue. Claws spurted from her fingernails, and the 4 horns pushed out. She could feel fangs emerging, and she growled low in her throat. It felt good to snarl, to growl at something she hated. She tore open the pigs chest with a single sweep of her claws, delivering the killing blow to it's throat. The pig, with a slight gag, fell to the ground, lifeless.
Sango, felt and uncontrollable grin creep across her face. Her claws were covered in black blood, straight from the organs. She could smell everything, she could see all around her, she could literally taste the blood in the air, the fear in their eyes was like a match to the wick of a candle. Kagome's eyes widened.
" Sango? Are you alright?" Sango looked back at Kagome. She smiled, not a grin, but a sweet smile.
" Completely fine. Never felt better." Sango, with a speed that not many could match, was suddenly upon the pigs, tearing them to bits. The main one, obviously bigger, attacked with his dagger. Sango dodged easily, and grabbed the pig's head, and looked him straight in the eye.
" See your fears flash before you." Suddenly, the pig began screaming, not able to break Sango's iron hold. After a minute, she let him go, and he went screaming around the clearing, finally smashing his head open on a rock. Sango blinked, looking at her bloody hands, then at the bloody mess of flesh around the area. Miroku quickly cleaned up, and placed his hand on Sango's shoulder. She blinked.
" How... How the hell did I do that? I just... and he went screaming? I'm confused, can someone explain this to me?" Sango asked, wiping the blood of her hands on the grass. Fahna smiled.
" I didn't expect such a fast learner. You used your first skill, Fear Flash. Pretty much shows everything they fear by tapping into their mind. You could have actually used it on all the youkai, since they were low-intelligence. A single wave would have done. You'll learn your skills as you go along. You're quite vicious, I think Naraku's going to crap his pants. What do you think, Inuyasha?" Fahna said, still petting Kirara.
" Well, I think she did that quite messily. Go for the kill-shot, if possible. Although, I remember when I was like that. Messy stuff." Sango blushed and looked down.
" I kind of just thought about Naraku, so I kinda... freaked out. But, when I used that attack, I felt something, like I wasn't using my own body. It felt like something else... something warm inside was using my body for that attack." Fahna smiled.
" You're carrying souls with you, that's why. Fear-benders carry the memory of dead ones close, and since you were right there, the memory and soul is preserved within you. So technically, once you get your energy levels and skill level up, you could talk to them. It'll drain the hell out f you, but it'll work. Don't try to much with your powers yet though." Sango nodded.
" Okay, that I understand. We need to find somewhere to rest for the night. Fahna, do you know of anywhere that we could go?" Fahna nodded.
" Yes, there's a small cabin about 5 minutes walk from here, it's been abandoned for years. We should head there now though." Inuyasha, already annoyed at the smell of gross fruit in the air, trudged off, sniffing out the old cabin. It was in pretty good shape, from something that had been abandoned for years. It was quaint, with a little round window above what looked to be the kitchen. Kagome opened the door, and stepped inside the dusty little hut. Miroku and Inuyasha quickly gathered firewood, and made a small fire in the fireplace.
Sango looked outside, and watched the sun set. There was no moon. Inuyasha quickly changed back into a human, and Sango decided she should too, letting her anger go long enough to become human once again. Inuyasha, being in a foul mood now, was mercilessly poking the fire with a stick he found. Kagome sighed.
" Miroku, can I do your hair?" Miroku raised and eyebrow, but decided to let the bored Kagome do what she wanted. So, after about 15 minutes, she had done Miroku's hair in a bun, pigtails, and finally decided to leave it in braids, tying them back into his little dragon-tail. Miroku sighed.
" Why don't you ever do Inuyasha's hair, or Shippo's hair? I mean, they have more hair then I do." Inuyasha growled, and Shippo was too busy sleeping to notice. Kagome smirked.
" 'Cause Inuyasha would kill me, and Shippo's hair is too boring to work with. It's either your hair or... Hey! Sango, can I do your hair?" Sango blinked.
" Um, sure, I guess...." Whoosh! In an instant, Kagome was brushing, combing, braiding, twirling and curling Sango's hair before she knew what hit her. Geez, I'm surprised that Kagome can't use this speed in battle, it'd be quite helpful... Sango thought, sighing a bit. Miroku was looking at her, staring at the so called 'Masterpiece' that Kagome was creating. Sango looked up.
" Kagome, may I ask what exactly your doing to my hair?" Kagome smiled, poking where she had done things.
" Well, okay. I braided your bangs and these 2 long pieces here in front, and I made everything else straight before I curled the 2 little bundles of hair in front of your ears, then I pulled the rest in a high ponytail and tried to curl it, but it's pretty heavy so the curls dropped out but that's okay." Kagome splurged out, smiling at her 'creation' Sango blinked.
" Okay... Judging by how houshi-sama is staring at me, it looks good. Thanks, Kags. What the...." Sango suddenly stood up, and watched as a woman burst in, holding a dagger in her hand.
She had long black hair tied into what looked like Kikyo's hair. She had sharp green eyes, and her face read rage. Her skin was extremely pale, and she wore a blackHaori. She stared intently at Sango, who looked almost petrified.
" Agony."
Seine: BWAHHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!! CLIFFY!!! again....
Sango: Where the hell is this story going, anyhow?
Seine: Quiet you. Somewhere, that not even the computer knows!!
Sango: Well, no duh you haven't typed it yet.
Seine: falters Quiet you.
Sango: Read and Review, please.