It's my turn at the keys this time .. I only hope to impress that I do nods sagely but remember, that I do not own the Inuyasha characters and neither does my partner in crime Catse2000. Catse and Koji do belong to us though, so don't try any funny business you hear! glares good!
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"Now where the hell am I" Catse fumed. First there was some weird voice that didn't make any sense telling her that she could go back home if she believed. Then, when she tries to go through the door, it's just a hologram.
'When I find that looser I am going to bash his brains in.'
Catse groaned and stood. There was grass underneath her feet, reaching up to the tops of her feet, and it was aggravating her.
"Stupid grass. Stay out of my stupid way!" She hollered at it, kicking it. It didn't seem to notice that she had even hit it, as the wind had picked up and began to wipe away what she had already snapped in half with her feet.
She crossed her arms, stood up straight, and took a look around… And nearly fell again.
She was standing on the upper most part of a hill, not steep enough to be like a mountain, but more like a condescending slump of dirt with grass growing out of it. Further up there was a small village, with smoke rising out of the top and to her right and left…forest. And behind her…more forest.
"Goody. I'm on my own episode of survivor and I only just woke up." She stopped and glanced around, feeling even more aggravated for every tree, plant, and animals she spied with her eyes. Finally, she couldn't contain her anger. "What the hell is going on here!"
But of course no one would answer. There was no one around to answer her. So she figured, a trip to the little village down the hill might give her some answers, or at least some one to punch so she could relieve some of her growing aggravation.
Catse was in such a bad mood in fact that she completely missed the strange looks she received from a group of travelers as she passed on her way down.
That is... until one called out to her.
"OI! Wench! What the hell's your problem!"
"Huh?" Was Catse's ever intelligent reply. She stopped, not wanting to take another step in case something would happen to her that she would rather not. She didn't know this world, and considering she had just gone through a swirling black vortex in the eye of a bolt of lightning, anything could happen. For Godsakes! She was in front of a freaking village!
"You deaf or just stupid! I said what's your problem! You just interfered in my battle!" He yelled.
'What the...? Battle…?' Catse thought solemnly. But there had been no one on this hill a minute ago…
Sure enough, she turned to see a very bored and annoyed guy standing off to her right. His platinum hair was to his shins, and he had a very fluffy looking boa-type accessory draped casually over his shoulder. What struck her odd though was the weird tatoos he had all over his face and...
'Is that guy wearing pink eye-shadow?'
Of course, he didn't look the character to be screaming such nonsense things at her, so there had to be more people, and anyways, there couldn't be a battle unless there were two or more people fighting. So, she waited for the next shout.
"Well wench! You gonna move or am I just gonna have to knock you outta the way!"
Catse's eye gained a peculiar twitch when he referred to her as wench for the second time.
"Call me that again, and I'll show you what your brains look like." She snapped back.
It was now that she actually turned to see who dared to push her buttons. She couldn't contain her surprise. The guy was wearing a blood red houri with matching hakamas which looked suspiciously like the old MC Hammer pants. Her eyes drifted to his white dog ears as they twitched, and the overly large sword held at the ready.
"You're the weirdo in the picture!" Catse yelled.
The boy with the sword gave her a peculiar snort, almost like an aggravated dog, and went to snap back when he was interrupted.
"As much as I find this all amusing, I don't have time for such trivial matters."
It was the drag queen weirdo with the boa that spoke this time, giving in his words the very attitude that Catse had thought he must have had. His quiet countenance and the plain glare on his face gave enough evidence to that.
"I have come for our noble father's fang, hand it over or die Inuyasha." And now he was ignoring her!
Just as Catse was ready to stalk over there and give the freak a good knocking around for being so cocky, he attacked, not waiting for an answer at all! The character knocked her out of his path and sent her sliding along the ground as he made his way to his opponent.
When she came back to reality she sat up with a groan.
'Did someone get the license plate of that truck?'
The sound of battle reached her ears.
She smirked… and trekked her way back to the feud.
'Like hell someone's gonna throw a party and not invite me.'
But by the time she got back, the battle was over; much to her disappointment. The guy with the ears was sitting Indian style with his arms tucked into their sleeves while the girl in the sailor fuku yelled at him to take off his shirt so she could dress his wounds. The two other members looked on in amusement as if this happened often.
Their attention turned to her however when they seemed to notice her presence...
or rather the boy with dog ears noticed her first and called attention to her.
"Oi wench, you still here? I didn't think anyone would still be walking after taking a blow from Sesshoumaru." He snapped, sounding a mix of surprise and almost arrogance, as if he was telling her in tone that he was one of the few that ever survived Sesshomaru's attacks.
"The name's Catse, so use it!" She snapped, not liking dog boy's tone one bit. "And it'll take a bit more than some drag-queen with a fluffy boa to keep me down." She then stuck her chin in the air haughtily, as if giving proof of her determination.
"You do know he'd kill you just for thinking that?" fuku girl commented between giggles.
"Lucky for me then he can't read minds, because I was calling him much worse in my head."
"You don't look like you are from here, perhaps you are from Kagome-sama's time?" Asked the guy who looked suspiciously like a monk, only he actually had hair.
"I don't know about being from a different time, but no, I'm not from here." Catse acknowledged. She pointed to the ground as if giving it a bad name, and then crossed her arms, just daring the dog-dude to get up and start something.
"You look like an American...Catse?" Fuku girl asked, using the new girls name so as to help her remember it. She had a feeling she'd be using it often.
"Yeah, I'm from America," she said, never wavering in her 'bad girl' attitude, "By the way...where the hell am I?"
"Feh, stupid human, you mean you don't even know where you are?" Dog boy asked incredulously, after he had regained his composure from laughing his head off about Catse's comment about Sesshoumaru.
'Wow, I guess he's the bright one of the bunch. I'm still surprised he understood what I meant by 'drag-queen with a fluffy boa'.'
"Wow dog-boy! You some kinda genius or what?" She said sarcastically. "Because you look like a dumb-ass to me!"
Sensing the brewing trouble between two dominant tempers, the monk stepped in between the angry glares. He did his best to look as innocent and holy as possible, as he ignored the dog-demons temper, and put his full attention on the woman called Catse. If he looked innocent enough, he thought, then maybe she wouldn't see right through him like the other two girls with him always did.
"I think some introductions should be made." Said the monk, then promptly, as always, kneeled before Catse and gently took her hands.
"Beautiful maiden from the heavens, would you do me the honor of..."
SLAP
The monk now found himself sporting a large bruise thanks to a fuming woman carrying an oversized boomerang.
"That is…" The monk covered up, rubbing the slap mark on his cheek as he stood up. It looked like he would have a hard time with the ladies as usual, again. "Would you do the honor of letting us introduce ourselves to you?"
"Damn monk…" The woman with the boomerang mumbled, her eyes twitching.
"My names Kagome." Fuku girl introduced very cheerfully, hand out so as to shake it with Catse. Catse ignored it, and instead kept her arms folded before her.
"Feh, Inuyasha"
"Shippo" A small fox demon piped up from behind a fuming Inuyasha. He had been hiding and listening to the conversation from behind the dog-demon, and now felt it safe enough to come out considering Sesshomaru had left.
"I'm Sango, and the lecherous monk is Miroku." Sango kept her arms crossed, pointing to the monk behind her as he continued to rub away at the mark on his cheek.
"Very honored to meet you." He mumbled, smiling innocently enough.
Catse took in the information...
'Dog boy, Sailor Girl, Perverted Monk, a midget boy with a Halloween tail, and a girl that likes classic toys enlarged as weapons. Okay, I can do this.'
"Catse, the biggest punk in all of SAHS"
Judging from the blank looks being given her by the group, she gathered they hadn't heard of it.
"San Antonio High School?" She elaborated...nothing.
"Texas?" She tried again. Someone would have to get this one…hopefully.
"OH! You're a Texan! I've heard about you! You all go around wearing cowboy hats, ride horses, and you're all rich from oil!" Kagome elaborated, giving ideas with her hands as she pretended to grab reins, tilt her invisible cowboy hat, and then just wave to the air for the oil...
Catse's eye twitched.
"I take it you're from Japan? Well from what I've heard, you guys are all martial artists and master geniuses that spend six days in school doing nothing but work and more work." Catse mutter back, sticking her chin up again.
"HEY! That's not true!" Kagome fumed. She had her hands clenched in the way that proved that she was truly angry and ready to hit something.
"Well then, don't automatically assume that all Texans are horse riding, hat wearing, oil moguls." Catse pointed out, her smug expression in place and strong.
"I guess not." Sango whispered to Miroku, though she kept an eye on his twitching hand.
"It don't matter where you're from or what you do," Inuyasha stated, "Go back to where you came from. You don't belong here."
"Listen, if I don't know where the hell I am, then how the hell am I supposed to know how to get back!" Catse fumed.
"Well, how did you get here?" Sango offered.
'Right, let's see, I fell through what I guess was a black hole after I was struck by lightning...yeah that'll go over well.'
"Well!" Inuyasha, never one for subtlety, yelled.
"Look all I know is that I am here for some reason without a way back. All I remember is some voice saying to believe something and to choose my state of mind. Then it gives me this sword and I come here." Catse reiterated while brandishing her new sword.
'Wait a minute, where did the sword come from?' She thought to herself as she looked it over. Before, it hadn't been in her hands at all, and then suddenly she was holding it.
"Can I see that?" Kagome offered.
"Feh, you know nothing of swords girl, so what're you playing at. Let someone who knows swords look at it!"
"You're right Inuyasha. Would you happen to know where I can find Totosai? He should know what to look at." Kagome asked sweetly while Inuyasha began to fume again.
"That's not what I meant! I'm talking about me! Me! Me! Me!"
"Inuyasha...osuwari"
THUD
"Someone's becoming a little self-centered." Shippo whispered to Kirara, the fire cat, whom merely mewed her agreement.
There were some muffled curses that sounded suspiciously like something that would make a sailor take some notes, but the girls paid no heed.
"This is an odd sword" Kagome mumbled after some time. "Why does it have the kanji for anime on it?"
"I dunno, it just said to choose my state of mind. The other things had the same thing."
"Other things?" Miroku questioned after he had seated himself next to the conversing girls. Both eyed him warily, but returned to their conversation.
"Yeah, there was a shield, a wand, and then this. They also had these markings."
"Defense, offense, and neutral. Makes sense...why'd you pick the sword?" Kagome asked.
Catse sighed.
'These people apparently can't see what's right in front of their faces.'
"It's what I am...I'm an in your face kinda girl. You'll never catch me with some shield or wimpy wand."
"What's a wand?" Shippo asked, jumping up onto Kagome's shoulder.
"A wand is a weapon used by witches and wizards. They are used to channel spells and magic." Kagome clarified.
"Yeah, well anyway, I can't get home until I find out whatever it is that I am supposed to believe in."
"Wait, if you're from another land, then how is it you speak our language?" Sango asked, stepping over to Kagome and Catse. "I don't believe you can possibly speak Japanese just by watching our mouths move."
"It must be the sword...I can sense power in it, but what it is exactly I can't tell." Miroku offered. Three girls standing together was to tempting to let be, so he just had to partake in the action.
"Whatever. It all sounds like English to me."
"No, you're speaking Japanese." Sango established, very determined in her ideals.
"Whatever." Catse waved it off. "By the way, Kagome, if you know all about my world or whatever, then why are you here?"
"I am from five hundred years in the future, and we are collecting jewel shards. We have to find all of the shards of the shikon no tama before an evil hanyou by the name of Naraku does."
'Why does this sound so fairy tale cliché?' Catse thought to herself before Inuyasha interrupted.
"She didn't need to know that!" He warned, not liking the fact that they were telling the details of their mission to someone they had only just met.
"I trust her Inuyasha, besides, I can sense powers in her. I think we can use her help." Kagome clarified. She wasn't one to be too distrusting, and it wasn't like Catse looked like a demon. Catse couldn't be a demon, because if she were trying to trick them, then how would she know to dress so modern with a sword that had a modern term as it's insignia.
"Powers? I did throw a kid through a wall today in school, but I haven't been able to do it since." Catse replied, placing her hands on her hips. She still did want to find out what the hell had happened then, and maybe this new world would help her figure it all out.
"We don't need another stupid ningen slowin' us down. The wench stays here!" Inuyasha crossed his arms and stuck his nose up arrogantly, similar to what Catse had done earlier.
"Inuyasha she's coming with us whether you like it or not." Kagome warned...a familiar gleam in her eye.
"No and that's final."
"OSUWARI!"
"I really got to figure out how you do that." Catse replied, a similar gleam in her eyes.
Inuyasha cussed into the dirt, as the group collected all of their belongings, and left. It only took a moment for him to leap up and chase after them, ready for some sort of revenge if he could get it.
END CHAPTER
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