Trouble: I'm back again! Sorry I made you all wait! So I'll just make this quick! I do not own inuyasha! Also I wasn't sure what to call this chapter so I'll just leave it unnamed.
Heritage
Chapter 16
Somaru scowled as her cousin Kayori tried to reason with the currently brain dead Totosai.
"There is no way in hell that you're Totosai!" Kayori was screaming with frustration. "You're some creepy old man who has the memory of a goldfish!"
"I told you Kayori, I told you that Totosai was a creep!" Shippo said calmly from the rock where he was sitting. "Totosai was not what anyone was expecting, not now, not ever!"
Ryku just stood there next to Koji, both of them feeling ill at ease and uninvolved. Neither of them really felt like partaking in the current situation.
Kayori, Shippo, Somaru, and a confused Totosai were all yelling at one another for reasons unknown. No one had started to get violent… yet. Ryku refused to keep track of who was winning, Koji tried and failed miserably. The two of them found a place on a rock and started talking.
By the time they got onto the subject of women (Ryku's favorite subject) Jaken cruelfully interrupted them.
"Ouch!" Ryku yelped in sudden pain as Jaken prepared to strike him again with his oversized staff.
"You sneaky little bastard!" Ryku yelled as the staff hit him a second time.
"Take that! You dirty monk!" Jaken yelled gleefully. "Finally I get my revenge! All those years and you were Inuyasha's little sidekick with that silly wind void in your hand. And you went around groping the demon slayer Sango!" Jaken was beating Ryku senseless.
"Why the hell would I grope my own mother?!" Ryku yelled in rage as Jaken slammed down hard. Koji finally put a stop to this by snatching the staff from the tiny imp's hands. But by then everyone was quiet staring at the two boys in shock.
"You what?" Somaru hissed, slightly annoyed.
"Did you just say you 'grope your own mother'?" Kayori asked wide-eyed.
"Poor Sango!" Shippo said.
"The demon slayer?" Totosai piped up. Everyone turned to him in shock.
"That bastard actually remembered something!" Shippo yelled gleefully.
"He did!" Kayori said completely forgetting about Ryku for the time being.
"Who?" Totosai asked curiously. Shippo and Kayori fell over anime style.
"And I thought we were actually getting some where!" Somaru said with her eyes closed and her arms crossed.
"I getting tired of this!" Kayori snapped. "Damn it old man! How do you work the Tetsuiaga?"
"The Tetsuiaga was made of your grandfather's left fang, while the Tensuiaga was made of his right. The Tetsuiaga has the power to take a hundred lives and the Tensuiaga has the power to give a hundred lives," Totosai said calmly, Kayori, Shippo and Somaru waited breathlessly for the rest. "One of the ways that Sesshomaru worked the Tensuiaga was freeing soul of the Cat Clan from their evil leader, thus leaving their leader open to an attack from the Tetsuiaga's wind scar. That was one of the few times that Sesshomaru and Inuyasha worked together other than the battle with Naraku." By this time everyone listened intently hoping that Totosai wouldn't blow it. "Inuyasha used the Tetsuiaga to protect Kagome and many others, and Sesshomaru used it to bring young Rin back to life after she was killed by a pack of wolves. Sesshomaru was jealous of the Tetsuiaga's power and attempted to steal it from his young half brother. Thus causing somewhat of a family feud. But in the end they banded together to slay Naraku, though it is true that he has some how come back to this world to seek the Shikon no Tama."
Shippo nearly fainted with shock, Somaru didn't have a smart come back so she simply stood there with her mouth open (the look didn't suit her) and Kayori's eyes were opened wide and the Tetsuiaga trembling in her grasp. Totosai looked from one face to another.
'What could be going through that old mans head. I bet he's gonna tell us how to work the Tetsuiaga!' Kayori thought excitedly.
'I think I underestimated this man, he must be very wise!' Shippo thought.
'Good, the old man is smarter than he looks, I wonder what is going through that complex brain of his?' Somaru thought.
'What an odd group of teenagers, hmm, I feel itchy… I think I need a bath,' Totosai thought to himself scratching his rear.
"Good! Where is the Tensuiaga?" Somaru asked calmly.
'I really need a bath! I feel so itchy!' Totosai thought. Everyone stared at him breathlessly.
"Oh but I need wood for a fire and so much water!" Totosai thought aloud. Within minutes Kayori, Shippo, and Somaru hurried away to gather wood and water and returned quickly. Kayori carrying several bundles of wood on her back and Somaru gracefully carrying water on her shoulders and Shippo doing the same only much less graceful. Totosai didn't notice as Kayori let down her bundle of twigs down.
"Where do you need these?"
"We need to fill the tub and start a fire to heat the water!" Totosai yelled not noticing what they had done.
Before anyone could stop them there was a roaring fire and the bath began to bubble. Pretty soon a satisfied Totosai sat soaking in the warm water. Kayori, Somaru, and Shippo sat a ways from the bath fueling the fire that heated the bath.
"Well any volunteers to go scrub his back?" Shippo asked. They were silent for several long seconds.
"1-2-3!"
"NOT IT!" they yelled in unison. Somaru's eyebrow twitched in annoyance, Shippo sighed, and Kayori tried to think. All of them turned their heads slyly to the others who didn't seem to notice.
"Ryku's only half conscious, that won't due!" Shippo said.
"Taimiko's too young to see an ugly old man completely naked! That would scar anyone for life!" Kayori added.
"And Koji is still recovering from the last tramatizing event!" Shippo said. They both lowered their heads facing the enivitable. Somaru wasn't going to do it! She was going to force one of them to do it!
"JAKEN!" everyone jumped (talk about fishwife!). Somaru stood tall and proud as her little green servant scrambled up to her. "Go scrub Totosai-sama's back!" she said pointing to the man in the tub.
"But So—"
"NOW!" she demanded!
Jaken walked solemly past the others grumbling about "unfairness".
"And Jaken!" Somaru said and Jaken turned around hopefully only to receive a dirty washrag in his face. "Don't forget this!" she said with a voice like poisoned honey.
Somaru sat down acting like it was no big deal what she had done.
"Man! I need a get me one of those!" Shippo said. "And I never liked that imp anyway."
"You knew him before?" Kayori asked.
"And why does he hate me?" Ryku demanded.
"Because he probably mistaken you for Miroku! And let's just say Miroku and him didn't get along very well. It turns out Jaken played a dirty little trick on Miroku, he infested the air with poisonous insects and they accidentally got sucked into his wind void. Miroku, with all the strengh he could muster—beat Jaken to a messy greenpulp," Shippo said wisely. Somaru snorted in contempt.
Kayori's eyes began to twitch with annoyance for Somaru. "Just who do you think you are?!" She rose to her feet and Somaru followed.
"And you?" she said calmly. "Just who do you think you are?" her voice icy cold.
"Feh! You have no clue who I am!" Kayori snapped raising her fists.
"They aren't going to get anywhere with this conversation," Shippo said sitting down next to Ryku and Koji.
"Boys! Boys! Just sit down and enjoy the fight!" Ryku said with a smile.
Koji's eyebrow twitched. "You wouldn't be saying that if it was two boys fighting now would you!"
Ryku laughed nervously and turned back to the fight. They were shocked to see Somaru and Kayori just standing there staring at each other. With an all too sudden burst of light they were all over each other. When the smoke cleared they saw the two teenage girls clawing, tugging, scratching, and snarling at each other. Inuyasha and Sesshomaru would have possibly frowned on the two who were fighting like four year-olds.
Kayori had snatched a bit of Somaru's silver hair while Somaru bit down hard into her arm.
"Ahhhhh!" Kayori cried out and tugged harder on Somaru's hair causing her lose her hold on Kayori's arm. Then Kayori received a scratch across the cheek and she let go. Somaru pulled away and tried to kick Kayori but missed and she jumped backwards to avoid Kayori's misplaced punch.
"Should we stop them?" Shippo asked.
"No! if we stop them then we'll end up being the ones who get hurt," Ryku said wisely. "Beside's this is one of those fight's where they need to work thing out on their own."
The truth was neither of them were fighting like the powerful warriors that they were. Somaru was scratching and biting and Kayori was clawing and squealing-- they looked like a bunch of wound-up four years old who'd finally lost it with each other.
They watched, afraid to interfere, until Koji noticed that they were getting uncomfortably close to the ledge that hung over a shallow ravine. With a swipe for Somaru's claws Kayori fell backward, but not before getting a firm grasp on Somaru's sleeve.
They both fell backwards, tumbling over the edge, and splashing into the water below.
Trouble: wow 16 chapters! i feel proud of myself! anyway just to let everyone know--- this story is probably going to have a sepueal even if this one is going to be around perhaps thirty chapters long! i don't really care about review at this point.i plan on finishing this in a few months---at the most! any way you can expect maybe two or maybe even three chapters before the new year! (i have a lot of free time!)