Chapter 4 Meeting mother's old friends, and enemies
Kika woke up and sat up. She was in a simple room; a dirt floor, wooden walls, a glassless window, a curtain door, the straw- stuff cot and pillow that she slept on, a fire in the middle of the room, and a couple of selves with some items she couldn't see from where she was sitting. She got up. Her chest hurt, but then she remembered what happened the night before. A tear rolled down her cheek as she looked at the items on the self: a sketch of her mother and her as a baby, a picture of her mother, Inu- Yasha, a monk, and a fox demon, group photos of all the people, and a single picture of a lady who was dress up in a female samurai warrior outfit who Kika could only guess was Sango, a deceased friend of her mother.
"So your awake, eh?"
Kika twisted around so fast that she fell down, looking up at Inu- Yasha. "I guess so."
"How's your wound?" he asked, helping her up. She looked inside her white bloodied shirt not noticing a buddist monk, looking down his shirt as well. "Miroku!" Kika looked up. Inu- Yasha was hitting the monk on his head, while a fox demon with a lollipop in his mouth was trying to pry Inu- Yasha off of him. She stares in disbelief. Were these three really her mother's old friends? The monk wore a deep Medittaranian blue robe and his face contained thin lips, dark blue eyes, small nose, pale peach flesh, both ears pierced twice at the cartilige and twice in the lobe, and jet black hair shoulder length hair and wispy bangs that was pulled back into a small ponytail that curled onto the base of his neck and looked like he was 20. She turned to the lolipop eating demon. He was wearing a royal purple kimono with a forest green vest. His royal green eyes complimented his thin lips, pointy nose, and blazing red hair that was pulled back into a messy bun that was tied up with a royal purple ribbon. He was seemingly about 20. He was the one who caught her attention by saying Miroku. What's a Miroku? she wondered.
"Inu- Yasha," the fox demon said as he finally ripped Inu- Yasha off of the monk.
"Just because he looked down her shirt, doesn't mean you have to kill him."
"True," Inu-Yasha huffed. "But he should remember what a hard night she had"
he turned to her. "So is it healed?" A questionable look appear on her face. "The wound,
Kika."
"Oh, right. Yeah." She looked at the other two. "Aren't you going to introduce me?"
"We already know you. But for your sake, guys, this is Kika. Kika this," he pushed the fox demon gently towards her, "is Shippo."
"Nice to meet you, Shippo." She smiled as she shook his hand.
"It's a pleasure to be seeing you again, Kika." Shippo said bowing as he kissed her cheek.
"Okay, Shippo," Inu- Yasha said, pulling him back. "No need for acting like Miroku here." He backhanded the monk on the side of the head.
"Owww! Nice to meet you again. Sorry to about your mother." Mirac said, kissing her on the cheek as well.
"It's alright. Plus, I don't think Inu- Yasha likes you looking down my shirt."
"I don't think so either," Miroku joked.
"Alright, alright, no more kissing her," Inu- Yasha said. Kika walked towards Inu-
Yasha and put her hands around his neck.
"You're just jealous,"she teased. She went on the tip of her toes so they were eye to eye, then she kissed his forehead. "Are you happy now?" He slightly nodded. She put her head on his chest. "Thanks for saving me, yesterday."
"C'mon guys!" Shippo said. "Embrace later, Mabel's making soy sauce rice balls!"
"Mabel? What's a Mabel?" Kika questioned. Inu- Yasha laughed.
"Mabel is the caretaker of this home," he waited until Miroku left the room. "She's also Miroku and Sango's child. Miroku doesn't know, but if he did, he would cry everytime he saw her. You know, he cried when Sango was killed by my brother," They walked into the main room.
"Tell me more about your brother."
"Later, now it's time to eat." Kika sat next to Shippo, across from Inu- Yasha, and diagonal from Miroku. Something flickered about her side; a blazing red tail. She playfully toyed with it.
"Be gentle!" Shippo laughed. "It's very ticklish!" Kika began to tickle it some more as Shippo laughs harder.
"Stop it. There will be no foolishness at my table," said a lady about 40 years old.
"Yes, Mabel," the guys chimed in. The food was placed on the table and everyone began eating.
"Ithought Mabel would be. . . you know," Kika began.
"Younger?" Miroku asked. Kika nodded. The guys exchanged looks, then laughed.
"You see Kika, we're immortal. She's not. Kagome wasn't. Sango wasn't. The same with
Mabel."
"But how are you immortal? Me and Inu- Yasha are both half- breeds and Shippo is a full- blooded demon. But you're human, how?" Miroku grabbed his left arm, which was the only arm covered.
"I've been cursed by a demon. He prefers to toy with his victims instead of killing
them head on. So what he did was he created a hell- hole in my hand and made me
immortal until it sucks me in. If it doesn't become any smaller, I'll be dead in two years"
Kika's face saddened, then it brighten.
"I'll shrink it for you."
"Yeah, thats an excellent idea!" Shippo exclaimed. "Yeah, so that you can live longer, Miroku." Miroku agreed.
After Kika healed it, she walked outside to look at the sunset. It was beautiful for her. She never saw a sunset with the colors being light light blue to pink to royal purple to dark blue to midnight blue. She sighed as she walked inside, leaving the beautiful night.
"You shouldn't be going in there little one." Mabel said, behind her before she walkedinto the main room.
"Why?"
"Because they're talking about you," she snapped.
"I don't care." Kika took a step closer to the room before she was grabbed by the arm. For an old lady, Kika thought, she has a pretty strong "Let me go." she ordered, fire blazing in her eyes. Mabel let go. "Thanks."
She walked inside. Miroku had been praying, while Inu- Yasha was trying to teach Shippo how to sword fight.
"Hey," Inu- Yasha said, without glancing up.
"Hey. Were any of you talking about me? You know, like negativly or postitivly."
"We weren't talking about you at all. Why?" Shippo asked.
Kika's face went cold. "Oh no reason. Mabel's just a liar though."
"What? What do you mean?" Miroku questioned.
"Why don't you go talk to her? She likes you better. I'm going to take a walk"
Kika said as she walk out of the room, tired, angry, and unaware of the sharp sense of
being followed.
"Kika, wait up!" Kika turned around. Inu- Yasha, Miroku, and Shippo were running after her.
"Yeah, what's up?" she waited till they caught up.
"You okay?" Miroku asked.
"Yeah, I'm fine. Why?"
"Well, you went outside after you left us baffled." Shippo responded.
"And Mabel told us nothing, so would you tell us something?" Inu- Yasha added.
Kika told them what happened.
"Whoa," Miroku added after a pause of silence. "She never hated a girl before."
"Maybe it's because I'm a half demon," Kika sighed. They were walking under twenty-one foot cliff. At the bottom of the cliff, there were multiple eleven foot spikes which they were walking by.
"Maybe," Everyone looked around. Apparently, Inu- Yasha, Miroku, and Shippo knew the voice. Kika tried to remember where she had heard that voice before, but she couldn't remember.
"Inu- Yasha," she whispered. "What's going on?"
"Shesshomaru!" Inu- Yasha hollared. "Where the hell are you?"
"Up here." They looked up at the top of the cliff.
"What do you want!" Shippo question the creature angrily.
"Miroku, who's Shesshomaru?" Kika asked, confused.
"Shesshomaru is one of out enemies. He's one of the full- blooded demon's that killed your mother. Shesshomaru is also Inu- Yasha's brother, which makes the problem worse,' Miroku responded, holding his staff tighter.
"Why?"
"Because he'll try to kill Inu- Yasha as soon as he has you?"
"Me?"
"Yeah. Shesshomaru and his comrades are obsessed with you." Miroku saw her face clouded up with confusion. "We don't know why. Maybe because your father is one of their men. Maybe because you beauty. Maybe because they know you posess the jewel of souls. We just don't know." Shesshomaru laughed as he heard what Miroku said.
"So are you also going to tell her that I'm half oni, and half dog demon, Miroku?"
"Is that true?" She was beginning to remember his voice.
"Hell, yeah," Inu- Yasha said. "So it could also mean that he wants to drink your blood as well."
"Mine?" Kika covered her throat. "But I thought oni's only ate meat and drink blood on special occasions,"
"Yeah, but that's for a full blooded oni. Remember, he's half oni. He prefers blood
becauseof it's taste, becuase to him, blood is like wine- there's a lot of different flavors.
He'll only eat the mean if the victim's blood sucks."
"And you know this because. . . . "
"My brother taunts me about it. Once, he forced me to drink some, but it was disgusting.
I'm never drinking some blood again."
"Well, I'm glad about that."
"What do you want?" Shippo repeated. There was a slight pause as the echo filled the cliff's edge.
"Oh, you know. We just want Kika with us. And you three dead."
"Crap," Inu- Yasha breathed. "He said 'we' right?" Everyone nodded. "Crap.
Okay guys, on the count of three run. One. Two. Three. Go!" They began to run. Kika
heard laughing malicously.
"Inu- Yasha," Kika huffed. "Why are we running?"
"You see, when Shesshomaru says 'we', it means he has some 'friends' of his with him. Usually he'll have all three of his friends. The first one is-"
"Guys, watch out!" Shippo yelled. Everyone ducked as a huge flash of white hot energy soared above them. Kika looked around, on her right side she wake of energy. On the left, there were distroyed in the wake of the energy. On the left, there was a potly figure.
"Ummm, people. Who's that?"
"That's Manten," Shippo said staring coldly at it. "I'll fight 'im. You two protect Kika and keep going."
"Right, be careful," Inu- Yasha said, grabbing Kika's arm.
"I will." Shippo ran to Manten while grabbing a sai from the bottom of his pantleg.
Kika noticed before continuing to run that Shippo actually had hind legs of a giant fox
instead of human legs. They continued running for a time before Inu continued to talk.
""Anyways, the next one is his brother. Shippo's parents were killed by those two idiots.
his brother is named-"
"Jump!" Miroku hollered. As they jump from a huge, bladed boomerang, Kika caught a glimps of a slim, tall demon running towards them. "I'll get Hiten, now get out of here!" Miroku got into a fighting stance with his staff held high above his head.
"That's Hiten, come on, we gotta go," Inu- Yasha continued. "Okay, I'm going to
continue talking before the next one pops like some freak doll. Shesshomaru's last and
probably clostest friend. He's a shapeshifter, meaning he can change into another shape in
thirty seconds tops. Both he and Shesshomaru killed your mother. His name is- Naraku!
Kika stop!" As Kika stopped, she tripped falling backwards. She saw Naraku attack. Inu-
Yasha with his sword landing on Inu- Yasha's blade- above his head. "Kika, run to the
house and tell Mabel." Kika nodded and left. Naraku laughed evilly as they continued to
fight. "What's so funny, asshole?
"Kika is running into our trap. Have you noticed that Shesshomaru isn't here and isn't chasing here?"
"You mean he's in the house?" Naraku nodded. Fearswept Inu- Yasha's face.
"Kika!" He screamed. "Don't go in!"
"Too late. She's been inside for a minute now. Now whose the asshole?"
"Fuck up bitch."
"My, my, my. Am I suppose to be afraid?" They continued to fight- Naraku hoping the plan would work, and Inu- Yasha hoping Kika would get out of there before it's too late.
Kika walked into the house. All of the candles had been blown out and it was eerily quiet.
"Mabel? Are you in here?" Her eyes adjusted and she saw a trail that lead to a dimly lit
room."Mabel?"she whispered."Are you okay?" She followed the trail,then grasped. There
was Mabel's body.
It was clawed at and horribly abused. Her face was scared in shock and clawed at so badly that she almost couldn't tell that that it was Mabel. All of her blood had been sucked dry from the corpse "Only one oni would do that, if it was an oni," she muttered.
"What else would you expect? A vampire?" She whipped around. Shesshomaru
had been watching her as he lighted another candle. His lips shimmered with Mabel's
blood. Shesshomaru pulled up his left sleeve and she saw something that made her
remember him- a scar that was slowly fading that made a complete circle, above his elbow.
"Thanks for healing me Kika," he toyed, grinning slyly.
"You're Naran's friend!"
"Was, Kika. Now he's no more." she gasped.
"He's dead?"
"No, but you're going to have to ask Naraku what happened."
"Why?" He shot her a glare that sent shivers down her spine. She was asking too many questions. It was beginning to irrate him.
"Because he'll tell you. Now come with me, and you won't get hurt.' He grabbed at her arm and missed. "Come on." he said angrily.
"No!" She began to run. Shesshomaru caught up and grabbed her left arm so that her left hand was touching her left shoulder blade. She yelped in pain. Shesshomaru smiled as he breathed in her scent.
"I can smell your hot, sweet blood racing. I can't wait 'til I can drink your beautiful blood."
"Back off," she breathed. Shesshomaru laughed, and pulled her closer to his chest and to her elbow.
"No one tells me to fuck off. And so I'll drink a sample of your blood now." His
right hand slithered across her chest and cocked her head to the side. He sliced a wound
by her neck with his pointer finger claw. Her blood trickled slowly down her collarbone.
Kika yelped slightly as she felt his hot, moist breath enter the wound painfully. She began
to struggle, only for him to move a little bit and towards the only mirror in the room,
before his iron grasp made her weak and defensless.
"Please, let me go."
"What will I get in return?" Shesshomaru asked, watching her blood continuing it's flow onto her breast in fascination.
"I'll. . . . I'll go with you peacefully." Shesshomaru studied her through the mirror.
Then, he laughed.
"You wouldn't. I know you. You just want me off of you so you can run. now if you'll excuse me," he looked at the blood. "I have some business to attend to." He began to drink her blood.
Kika felt dizzy and slowly couldn't remember where she was, because the loss of blood through Shesshomaru's painfully lapping tongue.
After ten minutes, Shesshomaru heard Naraku's secret knocking from the door.
He walked to the stairs and place Kika on them. He wiped his mouth and muttered,
"Sweet blood." as he walked to the door.
Kika stirred and fluttered her eyes. She saw Shesshomaru go to the door, so she tried to find a place to hide as her body was quickly making more blood for her. She saw a passage way under the stairs and went in sluggishly she left the door open a crack ao she could see what was happening outside.
"Soon, Shesshomaru, Naraku, Hiten, and Manten walked into the room. Everyone except Shesshomaru, was beginning to tie up something she couldn't see. Naraku moved away in satisfaction, and Kika saw what was in the bonds- Inu- Yasha, Shippo, and Miroku.
"You'll never have her!" Inu- Yasha spat. Shippo and Miroku were unconscious and brusied up, but Inu- Yasha only owned a single slice among his cheek.
"It's too late, we have her," Shesshomaru mocked, kicking his little younger brother in the stomach.
"Shesshomaru, I thought you said she was at the bottom of the stairs," Naraku pondered aloud.
"That's where I put her."
"She didn't run away did she?" Hiten asked glumly.
"No, she's too weak."
"You did it again, didn't you Shesshomaru?" Inu snapped. "You drank her blood"
Everyone stared at Shesshomaru.
"You didn't drink her dry did you?" Naraku questioned.
"No, I sucked Mabel dry. I drank Kika half way, just enough so that she couldn't run or use her powers against us." Naraku patted him on the back and smiled.
"Great move."
"Thanks." Shesshomaru looked at looked at Hiten and Manten as coldly as they were staring at him. "What are you looking at, punks?"
"You promised." Manten said quietly as if afraid to speak.
"Manten said to me a minute ago that you promised him that he'd get the first bite of Kika," Hiten said, defending his younger brother. Kika studied the two brothers.
Manten was a portly beast with red slit eyes, a humongous nose, razor sharp teeth,
and thinning jet black hair. He was heavily armored, adding more to his fat human figure.
He carried only a sword with him, but Kika knew he posessed power that was equal to her
father's great strength.
Hiten looked almost like a healthy young human except for his blood-red iris eyes and pointy ears. He was lightly armor, showing off his beautiful muscles. His jet black hair was tightly braided the ended beyond his butt. His eyes were clouded with hatred for Kika's friends. He carried a bladed boomerang and a sword. He had even greated power than his brother. She turned back to look at Shesshomaru - his eyes were blazing with fury. She noticed that Manten looked like he was going to wet himself before trying to run away from Shesshomaru whose power was rapidly growing by the minute. "That was the last time," Shesshomaru said, with anger rising in his voice. "When you ate the bitch whole!"
"But I left you a glass." Manten said weakly.
"A glass! It can never satisfy my hunger! I swear, if your brother wasn't my ally and didn't love you so much, I'd kill you."
"But-" In a roar of rage, Shesshomaru slammed Manten against the wall of the passage way scaring Kika.
"Don't you ever 'but' me, you understand?" His arm was beginning to break Manten's trachea. He was talking through his teeth, bearing his fangs. "Do you understand!"
"Shesshomaru, calm down! You're gonna kill him!" Hiten hollared. Suddenly,
Shesshomaru let go, letting Manten fall hard on his butt and began sniffing the air.
"I smell her," he said calmly, as if the fight never happened. "Her scent is all over the stairs, maybe she's up there." Everyone nodded and went up. Inu-Yasha began moving around.
Thinking Naraku, Shesshomaru, Hiten, and Manten were gone, Kika walked out of the passage way. She ran to Inu-Yasha. "You okay?" she whispered.
"Yeah, but how-"
"I'll explain later, I'm going to untie you." And she did. After she began to help Inu-Yasha up, she heard footsteps.
"Kika, hide!" She looked at three doors. She couldn't remember where they belonged to, so she went into the one in the middle. She bumped into something rather a someone. It was Manten. He looked at her and grinned. Kika knew that she only needed five minutes until she was strong enough and fully recovered. Maybe, she thought, if I can run long enough, I'll be able to fight back. Kika tries to run, but Manten caught her hand.
"Guys!" his voice was raspy due to Shesshomaru's attack. "I have her!"
"Oh, no you don't." She tapped his throat. In an instant, he doubled over in pain.
Kika knew that she would never want to piss Shesshomaru off because she was by far
weaker than Manten. She ran towards the stairs and noticed Shesshomaru, Hiten and
Naraku were coming down the stairs.
Kika braced her arms in front of her face and jumped. She jumped high over
Shesshomaru and Naraku, but her feet slammed against Hiten's face. She rolled on the top
of the stairs and landed on her feet. Kika turned around and saw them looking at
her-laughing. "Let's see if she can try that again, aftter we capture her." Hiten grumbled,
barely audible. They began to chase after her. She ran from room to room looking for a
window.
"Oh please, let there be a window in this room!" She said under her breath. She
was going to glance into the room before she realized that if there wasn't a window in the
last room then she would be captured. She ran in there and whimpered - there was a
window, but it was half her size. Kika ran up to it and got ready to pull herself up, until
she heard Manten's heavy footsteps thudding towards her. She let go and ducked as he
dived for her and created a hole through the wall as he fell through it. She saw Naraku,
Shesshomaru, and Hiten getting ready to grab her.
"Kika! Jump!" She looked out the hole. Inu-Yasha, Miroku, and Shippo were outside with a small trampoline in their hands. She glanced back inside, they were two feet away from her. She jumped.
When she landed, she continued to jump off it. Inu-Yasha jumped and caught her in mid-air.
"Thanks, but how'd you get the trampoline in this time?"
"Long story, we gotta run." He continued to carry her while running with Shippo and Miroku. But they only ran a short while before their enemies caught up.
Kika stood in between Inu-Yasha, Shippo, and Miroku stood behind her, so that everyone's backs were towards each other - forming a square.
Nakraku stood in front of Kika. Shesshomaru was facing his younger brother. The two demon brothers stood side by side, watching Miroku and Shippo. "We have you surrounded." Shesshomaru mocked.
"So you have no where to hide," Naraku chimed in. Shesshomaru, Hiten, and Manten attack Kika's friends so quickly that when she blinked she saw her comrades down with Kika and Naraku standing face to face. "So you might as well give up, Kika."
"Never," She said, her voice was quaky due to her great amount of fear and anger rising inside her body. She felt her power bubbiling inside her, but it was more powerful than ever before. "Leave my friends alone." He shook his head, now smirking "Why not?"
"Because, we say so." He looked like he was going to say something that would've been more painful to her, but he was silenced as Manten spoke.
"Can we kill them now?" Both Shesshomaru and Naraku nodded their heads.
"No, you will not!" Kika yelled, furious. The ground began to crumble under her feet. Shesshomaru and Naraku laughed as Hiten and Manten were shocked at what power she was releasing.
"I wondered if you had any power greater then your father," Naraku told her. "At first I knew your true power, but you could never ublock it. Until your bitches were in trouble."
"They're not bitches. You guys are."
"Is that a threat," Manten said, not scared anymore, "bitch?" Kika grinned slyly. In one brief second, she punched him twice, then kicked him in the groin so hard that he landed three miles away. Shesshomaru and Naraku looked at each other, then doubled in laughter.
"Your power is greater than ever, little Kika," Shesshomaru began, with tears in his eyes. "But we know you pocess even greater power."
"Do we have to kill them in order for you to show us your great extent of power"
Naraku joked.
"Get out of here," she calmly said, getting in a fighting stance, "before I kick you in your nuts." They laughed.
"If you could."
"Don't mock me."
"We have even greater power than you." Shesshomaru said pointing to himself and Naraku grinning. "You're too weak, you're letting go only five percent of your own energy and that's by far too weak. But we will go anyway, only because Hiten's gonna piss in his pants over there and we gotta check on the shithead Manten over there and make sure that he has his balls on him."
"But be warned, lil' Kika," Naraku said seriously. "We'll come and get you when you least expect it, as if you went on a walk by yourself and become missing the next minute. Heed my advice and we may never meet again - which I doubt" He muttered somethin g and clouds began to form under him, Shesshomaru, and Hiten. They flew away.
Kika fell on the ground, weak from giving off so much energy. Her friends
crowded around asking multiple questions. Inu-Yasha helped her sit up. "Are you okay"
he asked. She nodded. "Good." "That was a strong kick." annouced Shippo, amazed.
"Thanks." The men looked at each other, then began to crack up, laughing harder than ever. "What's so funny?"
"You know when Shesshomaru said that Hiten was going to wet himself?" The guys laughed harder after Miroku said this.
"Yeah, what about it?"
"Well," Inu-Yasha said, sounding serious for the moment but failed. "He shitted in his favorite pair pants." Kika laughed with them, tired but happy. She didn't notice Shesshomaru and Naraku's eyes watching her, with a plan in store for her capture.
TBC
CYH: Ok! Well, that ones done, on to the next chapters! .;holds a spear as if to charge, but doesn't;. Please, do not flame me, but it would be nice to get some reviews
