Tesse: hello again, I hope you can forgive me for giving you guys a short preview last time.
Hero: whatever
Tesse: why are you so down
Hero: who said I was down?!
Tesse: mumbles to self gee who shoved a firecracker up your ass?
Hero: foaming at the mouth what was that?!
Tesse: I said, I don't own Inuyasha laughs nervously
Hero: gives Tesse the evil eye
Inuyasha: Heritage
Chapter Seven: Eyes in the Bush
They had been walking through the dense forest with no sign of any end.
"I'm so bored!" Kayori shouted startling the birds in the trees. She had never been one for patience she had her father to thank for that.
"Was that really necessary, Kayori?" Shippo asked while spinning a top off of one of his fingers.
"Of course it is! You at least have some thing to entertain you! All I've got is the ground to stare at!" Kayori snapped.
"I say we rest here for the night," Ryku suggested.
"I agree! That well at least give Kayori something to do other than argue," Shippo said calmly as he rose from the ground still twirling his top on the tip of his finger.
Kayori childishly stuck her tongue out at Shippo. "Please make yourself useful and get some firewood," Shippo said ignoring Kayori completely.
Kayori turned and left to collect firewood sulking.
"She can act a bit spoiled sometimes, but other than that Kagome and Inuyasha raised her right," Shippo said as soon as Kayori was out of earshot.
Ryku nodded wisely, "I was spoiled as well, seeing as how I was an only child too," he said and slumped down next to a nearby tree.
"Shippo slowly shook his head, "Kayori wasn't an only child, she was the youngest of a set of twins," Shippo explained as he prepared to light a small fire.
"Wait a minute, she has a twin?!" Ryku looked flabbergasted. Shippo slowly nodded not looking up from his now roaring fire.
"It's a long story... It all started, as you know, almost fifteen years ago, well your mother and father had just left with you, and Kagome was an expectant mother. And one day in late summer a strange demon appeared to Inuyasha and he said, 'Inuyasha, I well take your first born son and raise him to do my bidding!' Inuyasha, protective of his mate and future pups, wouldn't let that happen. He drew his mighty tetsuiga and supposedly slain the demon. But on the night of the new moon, Koji, Kayori's older brother went missing, and of course Inuyasha was vulnerable, and he was pissed that someone would hit him while he's down. He spent a lot of time searching for Koji, but he could never find him. After two years of searching Inuyasha returned home to raise Kayori. But I wouldn't ask Kayori about it, cause you know she can't remember any of it." Shippo finally finished his story. Leaving Ryku speechless.
"What were you two talking about?" Kayori set down a bundle of wood and sat next to the firewood.
"Just you know, telling the old demon-slaying story," Shippo said laughing nervously.
"What kind?" She pried.
"The one when Shippo defeated the evil thunder brothers and young Souten along with her evil pet dragon," Ryku said laughing nervously.
Kayori raised her eyebrows but let it go.
"Well I'm tired, I think I'll turn in early," Shippo yawned.
"Me too," Ryku said even though he was wide-awake.
Kayori followed too, letting the fire die down on it's own.
She settled down and wrapped her blanket around her. She had begun to miss her old home, the village, all her other friends, and her parents. She squeezed her eyes shut to keep the tears from falling. She was feeling like a little girl, scared and alone. But she wasn't alone, she had Ryku and Shippo on her side. They were her best friends. With those last comforting thought she drifted into a restless sleep.
Kayori unconsciously shivered under her thin blanket. Ryku noticing this immediately gave her his blanket and quietly sat next to her feeling the warmth radiate off her body. It didn't take long for him to drift off into a peaceful slumber.
But not far away two spying eyes watch from the cover of the of nearby bush, waiting for the right moment to strike.
Kayori bolted awake as soon as a new scent reached her nose. She peered around wildly only to notice that Ryku was sleeping way to close for comfort.
"RYKU!" she roared, and the young man's eye fluttered open.
"What did you do this time?" Shippo mumbled as he crawled out from under his blankets.
"What the heck were you doing sleeping so close to me?" Kayori demanded.
Ryku sighed and ran his fingers through his raven colored hair. "You looked cold so I gave you my blanket," he said smoothly. Kayori looked rather taken aback by Ryku's confession. He smiled at seeing her cheeks turn a cherry pink.
It would have lasted longer if they hadn't heard the twig snap from the bushes.
Kayori hand instinctively grabbed the tetsuiga, as Shippo prepared his foxfire, and Ryku readied himself with a dagger in his sleeve. All of them waited for the creature within the bush to show himself.
After several minutes of waiting Kayori carefully approached the bush, but as soon as she was close enough to strike a cruel feminine voice echoed around the tiny clearing.
"Dammit Tamiko you always have to ruin things don't you!" Kayori leapt back from the shrub ready to fight.
But she was completely unprepared for what crawled out from under the bush.
Tesse: I have also decided to answer some of your reviews but only one at a time.
Hero: sulks yeah whatever
Tesse: he still is having some problems, now the first review I'll answer to comes from me/nambe:
(see other reviews for what im going to say) ... is hereo an evil cute muse or an evil ugly muse? ... what! all muses ... most muses are evil (one girls muse was not evil) tell me ... didga know you review your own story! go try and answer!
Tesse: ohhh, that's why Hero's pissed off! You're the one who shoved a firecracker up his ass! O well he'll get over it. And Hero isn't an evil-ugly muse, and he's not an evil-cute muse either. He's much more of a helpful yet sometimes annoying muse, but hey I love him anyways cuz he's been my muse for the past three years. And I know what you're thinking, you're thinking that I need to be admitted to a mental hospital, but if you want to learn more about Hero than check out my original fictions at Fiction Press in about three days when I have my 2nd fiction uploaded as Within the Pages. You should check it out.