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Chapter 12- Decieving Eyes (part 1)
MANDARIN 'THOUGHTS' SOUNDS
"WHAT THE FUCK JUST HAPPENED?" Inuyasha yelled knocking everyone out of their stupor.
"I have no idea." Miroku said still dumbstruck.
"What the hell did you?" Inuyasha asked sharply as he stomped over to Shampoo.
"Umm...nothing." Shampoo said looking at Inuyasha innocently.
"Bull! Now tell me what you did." Inuyasha said glaring at her.
Shampoo looked at him confused. "Why are you getting so angry at me? All I did was defend myself."
"I'm not angry...I just want to know how you defeated Kikyou so easily." Inuyasha said through gritted teeth.
"Oh, well I found this jewel and I broke it. It must of been her life source or something." Shampoo said handing Inuyasha the shards left of the gem.
Shampoo saw Inuyasha's face sadden for a second but just as quickly change to a stern one. "So thats it just some stupid magic trick. Feh, whoever set this up is a wuss and can't fight for themselves." Inuyasha said looking at the remains of the gem.
"How did you know that would defeat her?" Miroku asked looking at Shampoo.
"I don't know. When I was scaling that tree I found the gem. It was emitting the same strange aura my ring had when that old lady gave it to me. And when Kikyou got even more angry when she saw I had it, I thought if I broke it something had to happen. So you could sort of say it was my amazon intution." Shampoo said smiling.
"Who do think could of set this up?" Shippo asked hopping onto Shampoo's shoulder.
"Hmm...I don't know. Can you sniff out and trail who's up to this Inuyasha?" Asked Miroku.
Inuyasha sniffed the remains of the gem and started growling. "Whats wrong Inuyasha?" Shippo asked concerned.
"This has Kikyou scent all over it." Inuyasha said throwing the remains away.
"So what do we do now?" Shampoo asked.
"Come on." Inuyasha commanded as he walked away.
"HEY! Where are we going to?" Shampoo asked following beside Inuyasha with Miroku on her other side and Shippo on her shoulder.
"We're gonna go find that old lady and find out what she has to do with this." Inuyasha said looking serious.
Ranma was in no mood for chit chat when he came back to the Inn. Once he had gotten back to the Inn everyone was in the front waiting for him. Akane and Ukyou waiting to beat him to a pulp for leaving them to go see 'The Bimbo'. Ryouga was waiting to beat him for making Akane upset. Mousse was ready to beat him for going to molest Shampoo. Genma and Soun were waiting to nag him about leaving poor Akane for that Amazon. And Happousai was waiting for Ranma to turn into Ranko so he/she could try on some underwear.
But right when Ranma entered he gave a glare that could kill. Everyone immediately backed off, leaving Ranma to go to his room alone. Once Ranma reached his room he slammed the door and plopped down on his bed burning a hole through the ceiling with his glare.
'She ditched me for a half-demon. A HALF-DEMON! After all that damn 'airen' crap and all those damn potions, she chooses him. No matter how much I wanna go back and tear that stupid Mutts head off I can't. And no matter how bad I wanna leave I can't. Something isn't right. No matter how I look at it Shampoo wouldn't leave me. HA! Thats a joke. She just can't leave like that, she would be disobeying her amazon laws. So that couldn't have been her. So there's still a chance.'
"THERE'S STILL A CHANCE!" Ranma yelled as he got up and started laughing like a crazed maniac.
Ukyou and Akane stood listening behind the door way as the heard Ranma laughing like a crazed maniac. "Maybe we should come back later and see whats wrong with him." Akane said backing away from the door way.
"Yea, that would be a good and safe idea." Ukyou agreed as she also backed away.
"Inuyasha where are we at? Its starting to get too dark to see anymore." Shampoo asked walking behind Inuyasha.
"WE'RE GOING TO GO LOOK FOR THAT OLD LADY! I'VE SAID THAT THE LAST THREE TIMES YOU ASKED!" Inuyasha yelled.
"YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW WHERE WE'RE AT! SO HOW THE HELL CAN YOU FIND HER!" Shampoo yelled back.
"HEY! I KNOW WHAT I'M DOING! I'M A HELL OF A LOT SMARTER THAN YOU, YOU PURPLE HAIRED BIT-.."
"Why don't we just keep on following Inuyasha and see if he can at least find a nearby town." Miroku said cutting off Inuyasha before he caused Shampoo to attack him again.
"I guess." Shampoo mumbled.
"Hey, whats that supposed to mean? If I can at least find a nearby town? I am gonna find the town, if you all would stop talking and get walking." Inuyasha said walking off again.
"We wouldn't have to even stop to talk if we had somebody who actually knew where we were going to." Shampoo said catching up to him.
"I've already said I know where were going to. NOW SHUTUP!" Inuyasha yelled at Shampoo.
"HEY, DON'T TELL ME TO SHUTUP!" Shampoo yelled back.
Shippo looked behind him from off Shampoo's shoulder to see Miroku still standing there looking off into the darkness in the woods. Shippo thought about trying to tell Shampoo and Inuyasha about how they were leaving Miroku behind, but it would just be a waste of time with the way they were arguing. So Shippo took things into his own hands and jumped off of Shampoo's shoulder and ran off to where they left Miroku.
"Hey Miroku, come on they're leaving us. What are you staring at anyways?" Shippo asked trying to see what Miroku saw.
"Huh? Oh, nothing Shippo. You go run back with the others, I have to go check something out." Miroku said with a distant look on his face as he walked into the thicket of woods.
Shippo looked panicked as he looked back to where Shampoo and Inuyasha were walking and arguing, oblivious to all that was going on, and to were the thicket Miroku just entered. "Choose, choose. You gotta choose Shippo. Follow Miroku and make sure he doesn't get hurt, or catch up to Inuyasha and Shampoo and hope they listen to me." Shippo started hitting his head over and over again trying to think.
'I'm already sort of far apart from Inuyasha and Shampoo. But if I catch up with Miroku I wouldn't be by myself and we could both go and find Shampoo and Inuyasha.' "I GOT IT!" Shippo yelled as he ran off to catch up with Miroku.
"Miroku, wait up! Where did you head off to! Please don't leave me here alo-" Shippo stopped and quieted himself down as he saw Miroku embracing someone.
'Huh? Who is that? Is th-that Sango?" Shippo thought to himself looking confused.
"Sango, I've missed you so much." Miroku said tightening his embrace on her.
"I've missed you too Miroku. Its been too long." sango said embracing back.
"That it has. But how? How did you get here." Miroku said pulling away to look her in the eyes.
"I don't know. All I know is that Kaedae came to me told me how the number of demons were disappearing, and how the number of demon attacks were growing rare. So I told her I would investigate it. So I went out to go look for you and Inuyasha when I was attacked by a demon. I easily defeated it but I suddenly became very tired and blacked out. And when I woke up I was here. I've been wondering in these woods for hours and been attacked a few times. What is this place anyways?" Sango asked looking around but never leaving his embrace.
"Well, were in a different era."
"Oh, so were in Kagomes era. So is she with Inuyasha?" Sango asked looking up at him.
"No, were not in her era. We might but...its just very confusing. Lets just say in this era Kagome was never here."
"Oh...poor Inuyasha. He really misses her doesn't he." Sango asked laying her head on his shoulders.
"I don't think he's had enough time to think about her with all the arguments he's been getting into." Miroku said his hand slowly gliding down to her rump. "Right now all we have to do is worry about us." Miroku said his hand now groping her.
"Your right, Miroku." Sango said embracing him tighter.
Miroku went wide-eyed and poor Shippo almost died from shock. 'Something isn't right.' Miroku thought.
As soon as Shippo recovered he wasn't sure if he wanted to look back so he put his hands over his eyes and peeked through them. He saw something shinning behind Miroku's back, being held in Sango's hand. Shippo uncovered his eyes so he could see clearly. Now he saw clearly Sango was holding a dagger behind Miroku's back raising it so she could stab Miroku in the back. Shippo quickly jumped into action.
"MIROKU! BEHIND YOU!" Shippo yelled coming out of his handing place.
But Miroku already knew what was up and before the dagger came down on his back he twisted her arm that didn't have the dagger in it, but as the other arm with the dagger in it came down embedded itself in her gut.
Miroku looked down at her sadly as she collasped to the ground. Shippo appeared next to him giving him that pity stare. "Miroku, are you ok?" Shippo asked tugging on his robe.
Miroku sighed, "Yes, I am. I know that this Sango was a fake. Thank you for watching my back Shippo." Miroku said patting the top of Shippo's head.
But the moment soon ended as the fake Sango got up as if nothing happened and pulled the dagger right out of her gut. She smirked with a dark look in her eyes as she saw them look at her shocked.
"Sh-she's a zombie." Shippo said hiding behind Miroku's leg.
"No. She's the same thing Kikyou was. We have to look for a gem and destroy it." Miroku said getting ready to attack.
Sango laughed, "Your never gonna find it." Sango then attacked with the dagger she had in her hand.
Miroku dodged it and pushed Shippo out the way, "Shippo, go find the gem and try to break it. HURRY!" Miroku yelled.
"HA! That little pest won't be able to find it. And if he does he won't even be able to even put a scratch on it." Sango said as she got out her Boomarang and threw it at Miroku. (sorry forgot the name of her weapon)
Shippo glared at her and immediately started to concentrate on his task, finding the gem.
"YOUR SUCH A JERK INUYASHA!" Shampoo yelled.
"WELL YOUR A BITCH!" Inuyasha yelled.
"Grrrr...I'LL SHOW YOU!" Shampoo as she got out her Bonbori's, but froze as she felt a rain drop, drop on her hand. Then she felt another then another and then a whole down pour.
Inuyasha looked at her soaked face as her half-demon form took place. Inuyasha couldn't help but start cracking up.
"WHAT ARE YOU LAUGHING AT?" Shampoo fumed, grasping her bonbori's even tighter.
"HAHAHA, y-you, snickers, you really look like a stupid drowned cat now." Inuyasha finally got out and started rolling around laughing.
"Why you..." Shampoo growled raising her bonboris in the air, getting ready to beat Inuyasha senseless when she stopped.
Inuyasha stopped laughing and looked up towards Shampoo to see that she had froze with her bonbori's still in the air. "Huh? Whats up with you?" Inuyasha asked looking confused.
"Where's Miroku and Shippo?" Shampoo asked lowering her bonboris. She knew it was strange that the Monk hadn't tried to grope her and that Shippo hadn't tried to break up their feud.
Inuyasha got up and looked around noticing that they were the only two around. He sniffed the air looking for their scents, but didn't get a trace of them. "They haven't been with us for a while now. I could try to see if they're scents are nearby somewhere, but the rain could've washed there scents away."
"So what do we do now?" Shampoo asked as it started to rain harder.
"Well we can try to go find a shelter before this storm gets worse. I've known Miroku and Shippo for a while and they can handle themselves. We'll just look for them when this storm lets up."
"Where exactly are we going to find shelter, when we don't even know where we're at?" Shampoo asked annoyed.
"HUH! Umm...well...we keep on walking until we find a cave or some kind of shelter." Inuyasha said unsure.
"So we keep on walking, probably farther away from where ever Miroku and Shippo is, and take the chance of never finding any shelter and getting sick from your ignorance. That is the best plan ever." Shampoo said with sarcasm dripping from her voice.
"Hey, I don't see you thinking of anything. Why don't you think of something for once, or is your brain too small to handle that?" Inuyasha said looking pissed.
Shampoo growled at Inuyasha and ignored the comment he made, "Well I think we go back and look for Miroku and Shippo. If were going to get sick we might as well do it looking for them." Shampoo said looking pleased with her answer.
"Yea, well you can go look for them. I'm sticking to my plan and going to look for shelter." Inuyasha said walking away from Shampoo.
"Huh? YOU JUST CAN'T LEAVE ME TO LOOK FOR THEM ALONE!" Shampoo yelled in disbelief at Inuyasha.
"I can and I am. I'll come find ya'll later." Inuyasha said walking off.
Shampoo stared at him in disbelief as he walked off. 'I can't believe he's actually leaving me alone to look for them.' "Hmmph, I'm better off without that jerk." Shampoo said walking back the way she and Inuyasha came.
About 10 minutes of walking later, the rain had lightened up to just a drizzle. Shampoo sighed wishing that she had some hot water at the moment, or at least some dry clothes. Shampoo stopped as she saw a figure appear in front of her. Shampoo had to rub her eyes to see if she was seeing the image right. Shampoo blinked a few times now knowing that person in front of her was real. "RANMA!" Shampoo yelled in disbelief.
"Hey Shampoo." The figure in front of her said smoothly.
Inuyasha stopped as the rain settled down to a drizzle. Inuyasha's conscious and guilt was getting to him. 'Damn that woman. Why does she have me so worried over her? She can take of herself.' Inuyasha thought to himself trying to shake of the guilt building down inside of him.
As Inuyasha tried to walk off again pictures of Shampoo crying, getting mauled by demons, and becoming Kouga's mate popped into his head making him stop and run back to where Shampoo was heading. "Not on my watch. I'm not letting her get away from me that easily. Not again, not like before." Inuyasha said running as fast as he could.
A/N: Sorry for the slow updates. I should be updating faster for now on, since basketball season is over. But softball season is starting and I MIGHT do that. But on better news I'm done with one of my fanfics. YAY! And got my first flame. But oh well. I'm also starting another Ranma and Shampoo fic. Almost done with the prolouge, hehe. Hope you all read it and I hope you enjoyed this chapter.
Will Miroku and Shippo survive? Why is Ranma in the middle of the woods with Shampoo? And what did Inuyasha mean when he said "Not again, not like before"? All this and more wil be answered in the next chapter of 'Cats and Dogs don't get along'. (plays over dramatic music) Yes its corny but I had to do it. CYA U