Yoshimi: Got bored so did the fourth chapter.........
Maki: Bored? You? Did you have a book to read?
Yoshimi: No.........
Maki: *gasp* Yoshimi has no book? *falls over*
Yoshimi: Here is the fourth presentation of........
Their Past, Our Present
Chapter 4
"Nokamis, the shadow cat"
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Recap:
They would soon find out who rode the horse, for at that moment it, and its rider entered the clearing where the seven demons and four humans were gathered.
"What are all these people doing here?" Kaede's voice asked.
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Kaede climbed off her horse. She glanced around the clearing as she spoke, "I see ye was successful in recruiting Kouga. Kagome, but is not that one of Naraku's minions?" she turned to Kagura.
"I belong to no one old woman, Naraku created me, but I am my own demon, against the bastard I stand."
"Ah, the slave revolts, It is an old story, I wonder if Naraku knows?" Kaede continued to look around at the strange gathering, "Inuyasha, is this not ye half-brother?" her gaze turned to Sesshomaru, "I thought ye was not on speaking terms."
"I, am the great demon lord of the west, Sesshomaru, old miko. Surly you have heard of me."
"I am afraid I only know ye as Inuyasha's half-brother," Kaede said.
"Kaede, what are you doing here?" Sango asked.
"Ah, child, I came to warn ye. There have been reports of another Naraku minion close by," Kaede said.
"What did it look like?" Kagura said, wondering if Kanna had changed her mind about where her loyalties lie.
"It was reported to be a demon of shadow," Kagura looked confused by this, for Kanna was not of shadow, nor was any of Naraku's other 'children', but Kaede noticed not "some say he was a friend of the village for a long time, but suddenly turned against them."
"Well, if he stands between us and victory, he has to die," Inuyasha said in his cocky manner.
"Inuyasha, I will warn ye now. He is reported to be controlled by a jewel shard," Kaede said, walking back over to her horse.
"Controlled? Then what are we going to do?" Miroku asked.
"We can try to remove the jewel shard without killing him," Kouga suggested, "It can be done, I would know," Kouga glanced down at his right arm remorsefully.
"Feh, why would we waist the time?" Inuyasha asked.
"Because," Kagome said, "Allies are of great importance to us at the moment."
"Kaede? Can you tell us where the village is?" Miroku asked.
"Go west for two day, then turn south. If ye travel at a fast pace, ye should reach where the demon was last spotted," Kaede said as she remounted her horse and cantered off, leaving the eleven companions in dawns first light.
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"So much for a good nights sleep," Kagome muttered from Inuyasha's back later that day.
They had been travelling for a day now; Kagome on Inuyasha's back, Miroku, Shippo and Sango had been riding Kirara until Miroku groped Sango. So now, much to both men's dislike, Miroku was stuck riding on Kouga's back. Rin had been squealing in delight as she clung to Sesshomaru's puff, but he had silenced her earlier with a look. Jaken was stuck holding on to the end Sesshomaru's puff for dear life.
"Shut it Kagome," Inuyasha retorted as he moved to jumping treetops.
"Iie*-" Kagome screamed, but was cut short by a tree branch in the face.
Inuyasha laughed mercilessly until he too tasted pine needles. This got everyone laughing, everyone but Sesshomaru, that is, who looked slightly exasperated.
That night they had an exceptional feast of Ramen and deer. The deer had been spotted by Sesshomaru, who later came back carrying the corpse. Rin, who had been with him, looked surprisingly unfazed by the fact that she was sitting next to a dead animal. On the contrary, she was babbling away happily about roasted deer for dinner.
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Two days west, two days south, the gumi traveled at a remarkable pace. They came to a village, of which the occupants proved useless to give information about the demon, seeing as they were all dead.
"Looks like we found our demon," Sango commented, noting the great amount of thick, dark, fog in the air as well as a chill, "Such a strange fog though." "This is not fog," Kouga said, dropping Miroku, "This is shadow, we have indeed found our demon."
"He's here," Inuyasha said, drawing Tetsuseiga, "He's here somewhere, waiting for us."
"I smell him too," Shippo said, "He smells familiar in a way, but yet not like Naraku at all."
"He's not just a shadow demon," Sesshomaru spoke, "The is a chill about this place, he is of shadow, and ice."
"Quite right, demon lord," A deep, chilling voice came from not just their right, but all around.
"Where are you!" Inuyasha yelled.
Kirara, surprisingly, did not transform. In fact, the only thing she did was looked confused.
"I am here half-demon," the voice said as he walked out from the thick shadows in front of the group.
The demon had midnight hair, it looked almost blue. He wore a black haori and kimono pant with a blue under kimono, just peaking through, and highlighting his ice-blue eyes. One might have thought him a half-demon, for he had deep blue ears on the top of his head, cat ears.
He spoke again, "I am Nokamis, the shadow cat, and you are at your death."
"Kagome! Where is the shard?" Inuyasha asked, taking a fighting stance.
"Um.........There are three of them, in his arms and one in his back. I think the one in his back in controlling him," Kagome said.
"Miko, you can see shards?" Sesshomaru asked, but his face stayed impassive.
"Enough talking!" Nokamis drew his sword, which transformed in a very Tetsuseiga-like way to become a great blade, measuring to be about five feet long and a foot wide. It was shrouded in shadow, "Meet Stormstrike and die under its blade!"
It was then it began. Inuyasha and Nokamis charged each other, their swords meeting, parting and clashing together again.
Miroku reached down to pull off his beads, but Shippo pointed to the sky behind Nokamis, "Look! Naraku's bees!"
Sango released her boomerang from its bindings and said, "Come on Kirara! We'll knock him out from behind"
Kirara looked almost hesitant for a moment but then transformed and allowed Sango to mount her. She took off into the sky, circling in the air until she came down quietly behind Nokamis and Inuyasha as they fiercely battled.
With a great swing, Sango brought Hirokatsu around and it made contact with Nokamis's skull with a sickening crack. Nokamis turned around, his eyes slightly unfocused. He gave a yelp of surprise when he saw Kirara and then slumped to the ground unconscious. Inuyasha shot Sango a look that said, I- had-it-all-under-control.
Kagome walked over to Nokamis and said, "Someone help me lie him on his front so I can quickly remove the shard before he wakes up"
Miroku come over and helper her turn him over and remove his haori and under kimono top. She felt over Nokamis's back until she felt a bulge near his right shoulder blade.
"Does someone have a dagger?" Kagome asked.
Sesshomaru, who had been quietly observing the battle, nodded and turned to Rin, "Give the miko your knife Rin."
Rin reached down to her left ankle and untied a piece of leather the released a small dagger. She handed it to Kagome with a smile, "This is Rin's knife. Rin was given it by a man in a village. Rin likes it very much."
Kagome smiled back and took the dagger carefully. She then slowly cut around the base of the bulge to reveal a single shikon shard. She removed it and pulled out her necklace containing half the shikon jewel. This brought a short gasp from Kouga and a look of amusement from Sesshomaru.
Kagome quickly fused the shard with the half and continued to work on the other two shards. When she was done she asked, "Inuyasha? Will you bring me my bag? I think it has some bandages in it."
Inuyasha brought her bag to her with a jealous 'feh' and sat down by a tree to glare at everyone.
Kagome quickly bandaged the wounds from the dagger then turned to Inuyasha, "Did you acquire any wounds?"
Inuyasha just feh'd and turned his head.
"Inuyasha! If you're going to be jealous, you can't have any ramen!" Kagome was getting angry, she stood up and walked over to Inuyasha.
Inuyasha looked slightly fearful at the threat of no ramen, but just feh'd again.
"Inuyasha! Osuwari*!" Kagome yelled as she stomped off.
Sesshomaru, who had never seen the effects of the submission spell, tried to hide a snort of laughter, but fail in doing so. This brought a look of amazement to everyone's face, they had never heard Sesshomaru laugh.
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Nokamis stirred sometime that evening. Sango noticed it first as he groaned.
"He's awakening!' She alerted the others who all came over to stand around him.
Now, if you were to awake with five demons, three humans and two children standing around you, you might panic. This is just what Nokamis did as he sat up thrashing under the blanket he had been covered in.
"Who are you people!" he yelled as he back into a tree.
Kagome kneeled down next to him and asked, "Do you remember who you are?"
"Yeah, I'm Nokamis, demon from the south. I am an ice-shadow cat demon," Nokamis answered.
"Okay, what do you remember last Nokamis?" Kagome asked softly.
"I remember a baboon man. He was offering me a piece of the Shikon no Tama. He put one in each arm and then-" Nokamis glanced down at his arms to see that they were bandaged by very fine linen and that his jewel shards were gone, "Where did they go?" he asked panicking again.
"I have your shards Nokamis," Kagome said, "there was also a shard in your back. It was being used to control you. The baboon man's name was Naraku, he is our enemy. Naraku has effected the lives of everyone here and we are out to kill him. He harms innocents, just to get what he wants. What is wants is the entire Shikon no Tama. It is what we can not allow him to have. We ask for your help to defeat him. Just look around you and see what you did under his control."
Nokamis stood up. He walked through the circle of people to see the village, "Where am I?" he asked, though he knew the answer.
"This is the village you had befriended Nokamis," Miroku said, "this is the work of Naraku."
Nokamis looked around then collapsed onto the ground near tears. Kirara, surprisingly, went over and sat on his lap, she looked as if she were comforting him.
When he saw her, Nokamis looked very surprised, and started to talk to Kirara, "Are you? No this can't be. Are you like me?" Kirara hung her head at his question, "No, I thought not, yet........."
"Nokamis? What are you saying to Kirara?" Sango asked.
"It is not something I can tell you, but something I have to show you." Nokamis answered.
Kirara changed then to her tiger form and looked expectantly at Nokamis.
It got suddenly cold. Shadow started to gather around Nokamis very quickly until you could no longer see him. A wind blew with a chill and sent the shadow away. Standing in Nokamis's place was.........(A/N: Should we stop here? Nah).........Kirara, and yet, not Kirara.
The creature was a cat-demon like Kirara, it had two long tails and over- long canine teeth, but, it was black as a moonless night. It's ears, paws, tail-tips and a small diamond on its forehead were covered in blue ice. The cat-demon had piercing ice-blue eyes.
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Maki: I got my Shippo plushie!
Yoshimi: Your hopeless. Anyway, what did you think? Weird twist huh?
Maki: How come there are still no reviews? *sarcastically* You people must LOVE us.
Yoshimi: Oh, there will be reviews, eventually......... I'm going to take Shippo's advice.........I want a Miroku plushie!
Miroku: *gulp* Um......... Can I have a plushie? I wouldn't mind a Sango plushie to squeeze. *smack*
Sango: Hentai!!!
Other Voice: Well that's it for now folks. See what's in store for our gumi ne---
Yoshimi: *pushed Other Voice out of the way* Came back again to see what's in store for our favorite gumi!
Maki: New words.........Yeah!
Words:
Iie: no
osuwari: Sit Boy
Yoshimi: Ja Ne
Maki: Feh!
Maki: Bored? You? Did you have a book to read?
Yoshimi: No.........
Maki: *gasp* Yoshimi has no book? *falls over*
Yoshimi: Here is the fourth presentation of........
Their Past, Our Present
Chapter 4
"Nokamis, the shadow cat"
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Recap:
They would soon find out who rode the horse, for at that moment it, and its rider entered the clearing where the seven demons and four humans were gathered.
"What are all these people doing here?" Kaede's voice asked.
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Kaede climbed off her horse. She glanced around the clearing as she spoke, "I see ye was successful in recruiting Kouga. Kagome, but is not that one of Naraku's minions?" she turned to Kagura.
"I belong to no one old woman, Naraku created me, but I am my own demon, against the bastard I stand."
"Ah, the slave revolts, It is an old story, I wonder if Naraku knows?" Kaede continued to look around at the strange gathering, "Inuyasha, is this not ye half-brother?" her gaze turned to Sesshomaru, "I thought ye was not on speaking terms."
"I, am the great demon lord of the west, Sesshomaru, old miko. Surly you have heard of me."
"I am afraid I only know ye as Inuyasha's half-brother," Kaede said.
"Kaede, what are you doing here?" Sango asked.
"Ah, child, I came to warn ye. There have been reports of another Naraku minion close by," Kaede said.
"What did it look like?" Kagura said, wondering if Kanna had changed her mind about where her loyalties lie.
"It was reported to be a demon of shadow," Kagura looked confused by this, for Kanna was not of shadow, nor was any of Naraku's other 'children', but Kaede noticed not "some say he was a friend of the village for a long time, but suddenly turned against them."
"Well, if he stands between us and victory, he has to die," Inuyasha said in his cocky manner.
"Inuyasha, I will warn ye now. He is reported to be controlled by a jewel shard," Kaede said, walking back over to her horse.
"Controlled? Then what are we going to do?" Miroku asked.
"We can try to remove the jewel shard without killing him," Kouga suggested, "It can be done, I would know," Kouga glanced down at his right arm remorsefully.
"Feh, why would we waist the time?" Inuyasha asked.
"Because," Kagome said, "Allies are of great importance to us at the moment."
"Kaede? Can you tell us where the village is?" Miroku asked.
"Go west for two day, then turn south. If ye travel at a fast pace, ye should reach where the demon was last spotted," Kaede said as she remounted her horse and cantered off, leaving the eleven companions in dawns first light.
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"So much for a good nights sleep," Kagome muttered from Inuyasha's back later that day.
They had been travelling for a day now; Kagome on Inuyasha's back, Miroku, Shippo and Sango had been riding Kirara until Miroku groped Sango. So now, much to both men's dislike, Miroku was stuck riding on Kouga's back. Rin had been squealing in delight as she clung to Sesshomaru's puff, but he had silenced her earlier with a look. Jaken was stuck holding on to the end Sesshomaru's puff for dear life.
"Shut it Kagome," Inuyasha retorted as he moved to jumping treetops.
"Iie*-" Kagome screamed, but was cut short by a tree branch in the face.
Inuyasha laughed mercilessly until he too tasted pine needles. This got everyone laughing, everyone but Sesshomaru, that is, who looked slightly exasperated.
That night they had an exceptional feast of Ramen and deer. The deer had been spotted by Sesshomaru, who later came back carrying the corpse. Rin, who had been with him, looked surprisingly unfazed by the fact that she was sitting next to a dead animal. On the contrary, she was babbling away happily about roasted deer for dinner.
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Two days west, two days south, the gumi traveled at a remarkable pace. They came to a village, of which the occupants proved useless to give information about the demon, seeing as they were all dead.
"Looks like we found our demon," Sango commented, noting the great amount of thick, dark, fog in the air as well as a chill, "Such a strange fog though." "This is not fog," Kouga said, dropping Miroku, "This is shadow, we have indeed found our demon."
"He's here," Inuyasha said, drawing Tetsuseiga, "He's here somewhere, waiting for us."
"I smell him too," Shippo said, "He smells familiar in a way, but yet not like Naraku at all."
"He's not just a shadow demon," Sesshomaru spoke, "The is a chill about this place, he is of shadow, and ice."
"Quite right, demon lord," A deep, chilling voice came from not just their right, but all around.
"Where are you!" Inuyasha yelled.
Kirara, surprisingly, did not transform. In fact, the only thing she did was looked confused.
"I am here half-demon," the voice said as he walked out from the thick shadows in front of the group.
The demon had midnight hair, it looked almost blue. He wore a black haori and kimono pant with a blue under kimono, just peaking through, and highlighting his ice-blue eyes. One might have thought him a half-demon, for he had deep blue ears on the top of his head, cat ears.
He spoke again, "I am Nokamis, the shadow cat, and you are at your death."
"Kagome! Where is the shard?" Inuyasha asked, taking a fighting stance.
"Um.........There are three of them, in his arms and one in his back. I think the one in his back in controlling him," Kagome said.
"Miko, you can see shards?" Sesshomaru asked, but his face stayed impassive.
"Enough talking!" Nokamis drew his sword, which transformed in a very Tetsuseiga-like way to become a great blade, measuring to be about five feet long and a foot wide. It was shrouded in shadow, "Meet Stormstrike and die under its blade!"
It was then it began. Inuyasha and Nokamis charged each other, their swords meeting, parting and clashing together again.
Miroku reached down to pull off his beads, but Shippo pointed to the sky behind Nokamis, "Look! Naraku's bees!"
Sango released her boomerang from its bindings and said, "Come on Kirara! We'll knock him out from behind"
Kirara looked almost hesitant for a moment but then transformed and allowed Sango to mount her. She took off into the sky, circling in the air until she came down quietly behind Nokamis and Inuyasha as they fiercely battled.
With a great swing, Sango brought Hirokatsu around and it made contact with Nokamis's skull with a sickening crack. Nokamis turned around, his eyes slightly unfocused. He gave a yelp of surprise when he saw Kirara and then slumped to the ground unconscious. Inuyasha shot Sango a look that said, I- had-it-all-under-control.
Kagome walked over to Nokamis and said, "Someone help me lie him on his front so I can quickly remove the shard before he wakes up"
Miroku come over and helper her turn him over and remove his haori and under kimono top. She felt over Nokamis's back until she felt a bulge near his right shoulder blade.
"Does someone have a dagger?" Kagome asked.
Sesshomaru, who had been quietly observing the battle, nodded and turned to Rin, "Give the miko your knife Rin."
Rin reached down to her left ankle and untied a piece of leather the released a small dagger. She handed it to Kagome with a smile, "This is Rin's knife. Rin was given it by a man in a village. Rin likes it very much."
Kagome smiled back and took the dagger carefully. She then slowly cut around the base of the bulge to reveal a single shikon shard. She removed it and pulled out her necklace containing half the shikon jewel. This brought a short gasp from Kouga and a look of amusement from Sesshomaru.
Kagome quickly fused the shard with the half and continued to work on the other two shards. When she was done she asked, "Inuyasha? Will you bring me my bag? I think it has some bandages in it."
Inuyasha brought her bag to her with a jealous 'feh' and sat down by a tree to glare at everyone.
Kagome quickly bandaged the wounds from the dagger then turned to Inuyasha, "Did you acquire any wounds?"
Inuyasha just feh'd and turned his head.
"Inuyasha! If you're going to be jealous, you can't have any ramen!" Kagome was getting angry, she stood up and walked over to Inuyasha.
Inuyasha looked slightly fearful at the threat of no ramen, but just feh'd again.
"Inuyasha! Osuwari*!" Kagome yelled as she stomped off.
Sesshomaru, who had never seen the effects of the submission spell, tried to hide a snort of laughter, but fail in doing so. This brought a look of amazement to everyone's face, they had never heard Sesshomaru laugh.
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Nokamis stirred sometime that evening. Sango noticed it first as he groaned.
"He's awakening!' She alerted the others who all came over to stand around him.
Now, if you were to awake with five demons, three humans and two children standing around you, you might panic. This is just what Nokamis did as he sat up thrashing under the blanket he had been covered in.
"Who are you people!" he yelled as he back into a tree.
Kagome kneeled down next to him and asked, "Do you remember who you are?"
"Yeah, I'm Nokamis, demon from the south. I am an ice-shadow cat demon," Nokamis answered.
"Okay, what do you remember last Nokamis?" Kagome asked softly.
"I remember a baboon man. He was offering me a piece of the Shikon no Tama. He put one in each arm and then-" Nokamis glanced down at his arms to see that they were bandaged by very fine linen and that his jewel shards were gone, "Where did they go?" he asked panicking again.
"I have your shards Nokamis," Kagome said, "there was also a shard in your back. It was being used to control you. The baboon man's name was Naraku, he is our enemy. Naraku has effected the lives of everyone here and we are out to kill him. He harms innocents, just to get what he wants. What is wants is the entire Shikon no Tama. It is what we can not allow him to have. We ask for your help to defeat him. Just look around you and see what you did under his control."
Nokamis stood up. He walked through the circle of people to see the village, "Where am I?" he asked, though he knew the answer.
"This is the village you had befriended Nokamis," Miroku said, "this is the work of Naraku."
Nokamis looked around then collapsed onto the ground near tears. Kirara, surprisingly, went over and sat on his lap, she looked as if she were comforting him.
When he saw her, Nokamis looked very surprised, and started to talk to Kirara, "Are you? No this can't be. Are you like me?" Kirara hung her head at his question, "No, I thought not, yet........."
"Nokamis? What are you saying to Kirara?" Sango asked.
"It is not something I can tell you, but something I have to show you." Nokamis answered.
Kirara changed then to her tiger form and looked expectantly at Nokamis.
It got suddenly cold. Shadow started to gather around Nokamis very quickly until you could no longer see him. A wind blew with a chill and sent the shadow away. Standing in Nokamis's place was.........(A/N: Should we stop here? Nah).........Kirara, and yet, not Kirara.
The creature was a cat-demon like Kirara, it had two long tails and over- long canine teeth, but, it was black as a moonless night. It's ears, paws, tail-tips and a small diamond on its forehead were covered in blue ice. The cat-demon had piercing ice-blue eyes.
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Maki: I got my Shippo plushie!
Yoshimi: Your hopeless. Anyway, what did you think? Weird twist huh?
Maki: How come there are still no reviews? *sarcastically* You people must LOVE us.
Yoshimi: Oh, there will be reviews, eventually......... I'm going to take Shippo's advice.........I want a Miroku plushie!
Miroku: *gulp* Um......... Can I have a plushie? I wouldn't mind a Sango plushie to squeeze. *smack*
Sango: Hentai!!!
Other Voice: Well that's it for now folks. See what's in store for our gumi ne---
Yoshimi: *pushed Other Voice out of the way* Came back again to see what's in store for our favorite gumi!
Maki: New words.........Yeah!
Words:
Iie: no
osuwari: Sit Boy
Yoshimi: Ja Ne
Maki: Feh!