I am sooooo sorry that this took soooo long! I am so bad at updating! But I had a serious case of writers block, first of all. Second I was pretty sick for a while. I got some really bad virus that lasted about four days and then I had one day of relief and then I got the worst migraine that I have ever gotten which lasted about two more days. And then I couldn't figure out how to end this. So once again, I'm sorry!
Disclaimer: "Suddenly,
I own Inu!
Staring right at you!
Striding with a saunter!"
Police officer: What's Inu?
Me: Um…it's my dear hanyou…?
Police: What's a hanyou?
Me: Um…it's a type of dog?
Police: Oh, okay. Congratulations on getting a puppy!
Me: Err…thanks. Watches as he leaves then shrugs.
Me: Phew, that was close. It seems like every day more and more people don't know what the heck I'm talking about. Oh well, I better not sing that song again. I'm not supposed to get sent to The Jail For Scary & Annoying Teenagers anymore because They said they wouldn't bail me out again. Shrugs once more then skips off whistling We're Off To See The Wizard.
Note Of Observation: Have you noticed that Inuyasha almost always does the opening attack in his fights? Well, it's true, so there fore if anyone thought of such things, he would be legally accountable for every single fight he ever started. Let's just hope he never picks a fight with a real human lord, eh?
Also, I'd like to apologize. I am really, really bad at fight scenes. Sorry!
Sesshomarufangurl: Sorry that it took so long! Pwale winces in guilt. Ah, and that's yet another question…very good one at that. Well, it goes like this. I've been dropping many hints every now and again that Jenny has lived in the feudal era. And she has…but the thing about the moving house….well, Jenny's got this really big house-castle like thingy, you seen Howl's Moving Castle? Well, if you have it's sorta like that, escept it doesn't have any demon like fire moving it around. Instead it just shows up where ever Jenny wants it to show up…Jenny or whoever happens to be home…it's kind of complicated and I'll explain about it soon! Please remember to review!
Wolf Hunt II
Inuyasha flew through the night like a bird threw the wind. His silver hairs streamed back behind him, reflecting the moonlight and shining like a beacon on the dark cold night. It was the quarter moon but there was a dark layer of heavy rain clouds covering the sky like a blanket, and a slight breeze that made the silence of the earth ever more pronounced and dully promised the chilling rains to come. But Inuyasha noticed none of this.
Inuyasha's entire mind was focused on one, and only one, thing. Was it Ramen? Of course not. Was it Naraku? Of course not. Was it Kikyo? Of course not. Was it Kagome? Well, that's only half of it. Was it Tetsusaiga? Of course not. Was it maiming Koga? OF COURSE!
And not only was his entire mind focused on his errand that night, but his entire being as well. Inuyasha never noticed when his eyesight and hearing suddenly became surprisingly acute, even for him. Inuyasha never noticed when his claws suddenly become that much longer, nor when he felt the steady prickling of elongated canines on his bottom lip. He didn't notice that he had turned into a full youkai, even though Tetsusaiga rested quite calmly on his hip, because he was still aware of himself, to some extent. Mostly it was because he was majorly pissed at Koga.
Last time Inuyasha had wanted to find Koga he had been nowhere. Inuyasha hadn't known where to look, he hadn't been able to track the wolf, and he hadn't known anything about the wolf either. But it was different this time, because this time Inuyasha knew where to look.
He didn't know how he knew. He didn't even know where he was going if truth were told, he knew that he had to get back before sunrise lest Kagome think that he had betrayed her trust. But he also knew, that in a large grove not one half mile in front of him, there was a tall strong oak tree. And he knew that sleeping in that tall strong oak tree was someone dressed all in furs and that someone was all alone. And he knew that that someone was the very ookami-youkai that he was looking for. Koga. Don't ask me how he knew it, he just did. Such is the power of true love, or so they say. It might have also been the breeze carrying his scent, but…it was probably the true love thing.
Anyway, moving on now…
When Inuyasha leapt gracefully down from the current of wind that he had been surfing into the clearing where Koga had been resting he received a shock. Koga was no longer in the tree, instead he was now muttering about something under his voice and eyeing to clay dolls. One had silver hair and the other had black hair. Inuyasha wasn't the smartest of people, in fact in many he ways he's more of your typical thug, but it doesn't take a prodigy to figure out what's going on when you see a voodoo doll with your same unusual hair color. It doesn't even take a straight "A" student. Any chump would know what was going on without someone having to explain it to them.
"Don't even think about it, you bastard." Inuyasha hissed at Koga from the other side of the clearing. Koga looked up at him, clearly startled, but he got over it in a hurry. He had too, after all. And it's amazing what people can do when they have to, isn't it. You can even pretend to not be surprised when your arch nemesis pops up out of nowhere just when you're trying to curse him and get the woman of your fancy. Amazing, isn't it?
"What are you doing here, puppy?" Koga snapped haughtily.
"I'm here to hurt you. Badly." Was all Inuyasha said before he launched.
"Ha! Like you can!" Shouted Koga; unfortunately for the wolf he had the luck of…of…of Rocky Raccoon. Which is to say, pretty much none at all. For at that very moment Inuyasha's fist slammed into his right cheek, sending Koga crashing into a nearby tree quite painfully. Inuyasha smirked as he watched Koga slide down the trunk, gasping for breath because the landing had knocked the wind out of him, as it would have anyone. During the first attack though, Inuyasha had never taken the hand that he had not used to punch Koga with off the hilt of Tetsusaiga. His eyes weren't red, but they did glow a slightly crimson color, despite the fact that they were still golden for the most part.
"You were saying?" Inuyasha jibed the wolf and the battle was on.
Oh, there were kicks, there were punches and all manner of nasty violent and painful things that we all wish we could inflict upon our very worstest enemy in the whole wide world that night. The wolf youkai and the inu hanyou fought long and they fought hard, but for some strange reason Inuyasha didn't seem to get injured that badly. Every time Koga managed to land a blow there something stopping him, almost like a force-shield. Inuyasha, of course, had no such problem. And so the fight came to a close only an hour or so after it had begun.
"Blades of Blood!" Inuyasha cried, angling his blood-covered hand so that the red power-blades slit threw Koga's left arm and severed one of his muscles, not a pretty sight, let me tell you. Another cut the pinky finger on his right hand off. Yet another one cut off Koga's ponytail, and another sliced threw his shoulder, but it didn't sever it, just cut threw deeply. The same with his left leg, caused by yet another red spinning blade. There was no way that even Sesshomaru would have been able to fight like that, without the use of his muscles in his arms and one of his legs, and so Koga was rendered practically immobile. Koga didn't die; he just stared at himself in amazement, something almost like wonder. Then he turned to Inuyasha.
"You…maimed…me…" Koga rasped, though his mind and voice was clouded with pain. Inuyasha merely smirked.
"No, actually, I didn't. There's still a chance that you might survive, if someone can get to you fast enough that is." He said. "It's only a flesh-wound!" tee hee, I thought of that as I wrote this. Don't you all love Monty Python and the Holy Grail? Killer bunny power!
And with that final, extremely touching and entirely comforting…let's humor him here…final statement, Inuyasha leapt up into the air, once again soaring threw the night sky like a night-bird with the hunger of migration at it's tail feathers. He found himself wondering why he hadn't followed through with his plan, to make Koga pay, but he remembered that as he had angled that last blow he had seen in his minds eye Kagome's face as she made him promise not to kill Koga. Sure, he wasn't going to kill Koga, he had just been planning to injure him so much that the wolf would kill himself by overextending his energy, but he hadn't been able to do it. For some reason, he hadn't been able to follow through with his plan, and that confused him. And it was with these troubled thoughts that he returned to the hut with hope that he would be able to get some, in his mind anyway, much-deserved rest…but trouble was waiting for him there too…
As Inuyasha fell from the sky and gently landed with grace that could only be ironically described as feline, he saw, waiting for him on the porch a blood chilling sight. A sight that would have made headhunter or vampire slayer scream. A sight that would have made any sensible being alive die, and if that being was already dead then…well, they wouldn't be seeing it would they? A sight that would have made any member of the living dead return to death just to escape it. A sight that made the well-renowned phrase "Don't Panic" pointless, meaningless and utterly unachievable to all but a very rare few. A sight that would have made…brace your selves, even our beloved Sesshomaru faint from the fear. Inuyasha just stared, wide eyed, petrified. He was too scared to even move.
Kagome just stood there, looking at him. She didn't say anything at all as she stared at the hanyou before her with an expression that told Inuyasha just how upset with him she was. He had betrayed her trust, lied to her, and killed her friend. Not just anyone, but her friend! Kagome was no fool, she trusted Inuyasha with her life, but now...now she didn't know if she could trust him with others.
"Ka-Kagome…" Inuyasha stuttered. He was unnerved by the seemingly never-ending silence. He suddenly felt like sinking into the ground, he suddenly felt like dying himself, he wanted to shake her, scream at her, hell, he'd even jump around in a flaming monkey suit singing those stupid annoying "New Years" songs she had sung almost constantly last winter if it would only make her stop looking at him like that, with that sad, betrayed gaze. It made him feel like he was the scum of the earth, and Inuyasha was afraid of her, he was very afraid of her. Why hadn't she sat him yet? He needed her to sit him! It would make him sure that what he had done was forgivable and that they could carry on like they always had! But then he remembered just what he had done exactly, and his resolve became firm. He had been more lenient then even he himself was willing to admit, he hadn't been able to really make sure that Koga would die, no doubt his pack wasn't to far away from where Inuyasha had left the wolf, and his wounds weren't such that he had zero chance of surviving. Sure, his chances weren't good, but they weren't too bad either. If humans can survive having their right hands chopped off, then so could Koga…. Inuyasha didn't think about the arm, or the hurt shoulder and the cut leg, never mind all the bruises and other injuries from the fight…but Inuyasha wanted to keep his mind focused on the current issue, how to deal with Kagome.
"Kagome…" He said again, but he never got to finish, because Kagome just shook her head and walked back into the hut. And all Inuyasha felt was pain.
On her way in Kagome brushed past Miroku and Sango, who were coming out. They looked at her worriedly for a moment before turning and glowering at Inuyasha. Well, Sango did anyway. Miroku was kind of busy figuring out how to explain to Inuyasha that he hadn't told them a thing, and that he hadn't woken the girls up either, but the line of hastened excuses that ran threw his head then were put to a stop when Sango sat down upon the ground right before the hut and he followed suit, both of them just watched as Inuyasha sunk to the ground staring at his hands.
"So…" Sango began coldly after a moment of silence. She was well aware that Kagome was listening through the bamboo mat on the door frame, if you're a girl and you've got a friend who you're closer too then anyone else, then you know what I mean, it's that kind of knowing of another that only true-blue friends can have. That sort of thing. "So…" Sango said again. "Did you kill him?" She asked.
"No." Inuyasha mumbled.
"Did you…how did you put it again? Oh, yes…did you cause his death? Which, may I remind you, is the definition of killing."
Inuyasha looked up at Miroku, he could tell, just by listening to the monk's voice that there was something else that he wanted to say, but Miroku didn't continue.
"I don't think I did. Unless the stupid wolf really is stupid enough to go running through the country side." Inuyasha said. "I gave him some serious wounds, but he's a demon. He can handle it." Inuyasha said and added what he hoped was a nonchalant shrug.
"Oh?" Sango said. They all sat there, trying to think of something else to say.
"Did you break your promise monk?" Inuyasha finally asked after a couple moments. But, for some weird reason, he honestly didn't really care. He just wanted Kagome to forgive him; he didn't ever want to see her look at him like that again.
"No!" Miroku said, waving his hands frantically in denial. "Kagome woke up first and she noticed that you were gone and she figured it out almost immediately, and then she woke up Sango, and then they realized I was awake! But I swear I didn't tell them! Kagome didn't even really know until you returned and started acting all guilty!" Miroku said. He didn't sound like his usual self due to his exhaustion and how he felt rather sucked of emotion. A feeling that Sango shared.
"He's telling the truth Inuyasha." Sango said as she stood. She stretched out, raising her hands to the night sky and yawned. "I say we should all go back to bed now." She added as she turned to go back inside. "It's time to get some sleep. We'll talk more in the morning." She said and went back in. Miroku followed her, but Inuyasha took one look at the bamboo mat, and jumped onto the patched straw roof of the small hut. Not even he was stupid enough to go and sleep in the same room as Kagome when she was so angry with him. He would be much safer up here…Inuyasha yawned and fell asleep.
The end. Of that chapter anyway, not the whole story. I'd say that I've got about four to six more chapters left to write, maybe more. But the point is that this story is almost over, hmm…it'll be the very first story that I have ever finished.
School just started, but I think that I'm better at updating during the school year anyway. I don't know why, maybe it's some sort of rebellion thing. Yeah, I update my fan-fiction rather then get my homework done. Oh yes, I can see it now.
"Teacher, I'm sorry. I couldn't do my home work because I was to busy torturing fictional characters!"
Oh yeah, that'll fly over real well. It'll go right up there with "My dog ate my homework." For successful excuses. Lovely.
A Penny For Your Thoughts: What's going to happen to Koga? When is Kagome going to forgive Inuyasha? Is it just me or are Sango and Miroku working together a little bit better now? Why is this rated T? Shouldn't it be rated K+ or do I actually have some trick up my sleeve? And, the ultimate question, which you have yet to answer, who is Jenny? I've given you quite a few hints about that subject. If you want to guess, may I suggest that you go back and read…what chapter was it again? I think its chapter 12. It's the one where Sango explains about the Guardians, and that's the part you want to read. I'll give you another hint, which relates to that explanation, how much are humans going to know about the politics of immortals? Not much, I'll tell you that.
So, I'll take my leave-taking, and I wish you toodle-loo. Remember to review, and don't let school get you down.
Love, Pwalefriend.
