Pure Breed: Chapter 3
It was the next day. Miroku and Sango had decided not to tell Inuyasha or Kagome that they were together. They wanted to see how long it would take for either of them to notice.
"Its right at the border of the forest." said Kagome, indicating the location of the near by shikon shard. As the companions exited the forest, they saw a huge lake. "It's in there." Kagome confirmed.
"I'll get it. You four wait here." Inuyasha ordered, taking the Tetsiuga off his belt.
"Yes, O fearless leader." replied Miroku sarcastically. Inuyasha just feh'ed, and leapt into the lake. Several seconds later, Inuyahsa was hurled onto shore, followed by a giant leech-demon, rearing itself up, still in the water. On Inuyahsa's back was a large red mark, showing that the leech had sucked some of Inuyasha's blood. Miroku and Sango decided to take matters into their hands, since this leech obviously had the shard they were after. Miroku threw one of his scrolls at the leech-demon, and blue bolts began to spark up and down its body.
"Hiraikotsu!" Sango yelled, hurling her oversized boomerang. It split the leech clean in two, and Kagome retrieved the jewel shard from the leech-demons remains. "That was very easy." Sango commented. "I wonder how something so weak was able to overcome Inuyasha."
"Got me from behind." Inuyasha answered now recovered and wringing water out of his robes. He was obviously not pleased about being overcome by a demon that Sango and Miroku had eliminated with such ease. A short time after the group had left the lake, Shippo piped up.
"Hey, Inuyasha, you smell different."
"Shut up."
"I mean it Inuyasha. If I didn't know otherwise, I'd say you were human." Inuyasha resisted the urge to hit Shippo over the head, knowing he could reveal Inuyasha's secret to Kagome and the others anytime he liked.
"You know I ain't human, kid. Only on the night of the new moon and it's not even nighttime yet."
"You know Inuyasha," Miroku said, "I can't sense your demonic aura anymore either."
"I'm telling you I'm not human." was Inuyasha's curt response. "If I was human, I'd have black hair, no claws, you know, all the stuff that changes when I'm human." As if on cue, Inuyasha's dog ears suddenly vanished off his head, his hair became dark, and his claws shortened into normal looking fingernails. "I'm-I'm human. How is this possible? I only turn human on the night of the new moon!" Inuyasha wailed, obviously despaired at this sudden and unexpected transformation.
"Inuyasha," Miroku cut in, "how this happened should be obvious. When you were fighting the leech-demon it managed to suck some of your blood, did it not? The only logical explanation is that the leech sucked out all of your demon blood."
"Does that mean he's stuck like this?" Kagome asked
"Probably." was the monks answer.
"But how can we recover the rest of the jewel without Inuyasha?" Sango interrupted. "We can't hope to defeat Naraku without the strongest of us."
"Well there is a solution, but Inuyasha definitely isn't going to like it." Miroku responded, seeming to be quite the intelligent fellow today.
"You won't know until you tell me." Inuyasha objected. "What's your idea?"
"We employ the help of a different demon. I can think of one off the top of my head that would be glad to join us."
"Your right that I don't like your plan Miroku," Inuyasha admitted "but in my powerless human form, I guess we don't have any other option. Who'd you have in mind?" Sango, Kagome, Shippo and Miroku rolled there eyes, surprised Inuyasha couldn't figure it out. Even Kilala seemed to scoff at the obviousness of this question.
"Koga." the whole group, save Inuyasha, simply stated.
"You've all gone crazy." Inuyasha said. "If you think there's anyway that stupid wolf could ever replace me, think again. Besides, how would we find him? He's probably still hunting Naraku right now. He could be anywhere."
"I could find him." Kagome answered. "He still has two shards in his legs remember? I don't like this idea anymore than you do Inuyasha, but Miroku is right. He's the only person who could help us."
"No." was the irritated ex-hanyou's response.
"There's two ways we can do this, Inuyasha," Kagome tried to convince him. "The easy way or the hard way." Knowing exactly what she was threatening to do, Inuyasha agreed upon the condition that when his powers returned, they could continue searching without Koga.
I know this chapter is mediocre at best, but the story will get better. I'm new at this, cut me a little slack.
