Chapter 7: The Heroes Meet
The boy awoke, an looked around the darkened room. He sat in silence, his ears sifting through the midnight's requiem for sounds of movement. After a few moments, he slowly rose, and silently crossed the room. As much as he hated sneaking around, the boy knew that was his only option for now. He silently crossed to the empty room, and took clothing from it to clothe his nude body from the world, and threw the other ones over his shoulder.
Hey! He realized, This body seems to know how to move without being awkward. I bet this human has learned how to fight as well. That would certainly explain the sword downstairs.
This will certainly make my job a helluva lot easier.
He slowly paced towards the window, searching for the so-called security measures, and spotting the lone obstacle easily. The lone object was at the bottom of the window, so he simply opened the top, and jumped through, again surprised at the body's agility and grace.
He landed silently on a ledge just outside the window, two floors above the ground. I know I could jump from this height, but I should probably be careful with this human body. He reasoned. He spotted a rain gutter jutting out from the wall on the left side of the ledge that led to the bottom. He slowly grappled onto it, and slid down slowly, hand over hand.
Reaching the floor below him, he peered through the glass window. He saw the sword with the Shikon no Tama shard in it's case, the silvery moonlight reflecting off of it's ivory hilt and gold plated hand guard. He felt a strange pull coming from the restless blade, as if it knew the urgency of the situation, and wanted to help him.
"Hold on," he whispered to the beckoning sword, "We'll save your master, where ever he ended up." Slowly, he slid the window up, evading another such simple sensor, and leaped to the floor, landing lightly in the three point position common to samurai training. He slowly crept towards the case, and lifted the top gently off. He reached inside, and took hold of the hilt. The sword felt warm in his hand, as if it knew that it could help him in some way that was not yet determined. He pulled it out, and replaced the lid. Noticing he had nowhere to hook the sword onto, the boy decided to go into the door marked:
DOJO:
Dangerous Training May Occur Inside
He entered the room, and flipped the protrusion on the wall Kagome called a "light
switch", revealing a huge room, with padded floors, and a full set of Samurai armor on the back wall, complete with weapons.
I found it. The boy realized. Suddenly the shard in the sword mad it quake, and the suit of armor came flying across the room, and started to attach itself to the startled youth. The helmet stayed on the rack, though, an ominous face of a demon that had won many a fight. Everything else, including the silky under-robe began wrapping around him, attaching at just the right tightness so that it would work properly. The weapons list included two trident-like Tsais, which settled on his left hip, a foldable Bo staff, which settled into a baglike sheath on his right thigh, and ten razor sharp Kazuka throwing blades, that lined up on both sides of his chest. Finally, the blade tied itself to his right hip, completing the suit of armor.
The suit was surprisingly light, and did not clink when he moved. He pulled the sword experimentally, and found it in hands that remembered using it before. The blade was very responsive to him, and the jewel shard gave it the same feeling of power that his Tetsusaiga gave off, but in a different way. He sheathed the magnificent blade, and stalked out of the house, into the moonlit night.
The youth sprinted with extraordinary speed and stealth for a human, especially one carrying so much weight. This boy must truly be a Samurai. He thought dazedly. He shook his head in amazement, and pushed even faster towards his goal, as the sword's throbbing steadily grew stronger.
After only a few minutes, the boy had traveled the mile it took to get to what he knew as Kagome's house. He ran full speed to the shrine that held the Bone Eater's Well, determined now more than ever to reach his goal. When he got there, the door was locked, but the sword, Maruhiken, made short work of that problem. He stepped down next to the well. I hope this works, he thought as he braced himself. Then, he leapt down into the dark abyss.
As he saw the ground rushing up at him, he started to flinch, but then the sword gave off an immense shockwave that ripped open the gates of time and space, and the bottom of the well dissolved beneath him. Relieved, the boy was not prepared for what came next. A wave of pain suddenly overtook him, and the darkness took him in.
Back in Sengoku Jidai...
Trudging down the road towards Kaede's village definitely got tiring, but at least it gave
me time to think. Once and a while, I would glance over at Kagome, only to see her determined and helpful expression. Why is she so determined to help me? I asked myself, deeply amazed at the good graces of this fifteen year old girl. Most girls her age only care about makeup and sex where I come from. I mean, she doesn't even know what I really look like. She barely knows my real name!!! After a few seconds, I glanced over at her again, and this time our eyes met. She blushed shyly, and looked away after only a second. I opened my mouth to ask her a typical Inuyasha thing to say when Shippou interrupted.
"We're here!!!!" He shouted in my oversized ear, making me jump about a foot. "We reached the village!!!!" Kagome smiled patiently at his outburst, and simply nodded her head in anticipation. She wanted to go back to her dimension to see if she could find Inuyasha and my body. The simple thought of it was enough to make me want to shout with joy.
The small village that was Kaede's home was quaint, with tons of farmers that thankfully were not afraid of the dog-eared demon walking in their midst. Many of them shouted hellos to Kagome or I, and were extremely generous with giving Shippou some fresh rice-paper candies.
I wish I could fit in like this at home. My brother is always out fighting in some war, and my family really has fallen apart since my dad died. All he left me was that legacy of being a Samurai. I was suddenly snapped out of memory when Kaede appeared right in front of us. The wise old woman was staring directly into my eyes at the time, as if trying to peer into my very soul. She sighed, then glanced over at Kagome.
"Are you sure you want to go home?" she asked dutifully.
"Yes," the young teenager answered, "I haven't been there in a while." She and Kaede started up the hill, when the wave of pain suddenly hit me like a sledgehammer, and everything went black.
He blinked his eyes slowly, hearing his name being called by a faint voice. He awoke to see Shippou sitting on his chest.
"AHH!!! SHIPPOU! GET OFF!!!!!!!!" He yelled, rolling onto his feet. He looked down, and realized that he.........was IN HIS OWN BODY AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!! "IT WORKED!!!!!!" He crowed, but then his eyes turned to worry. "But, what about the boy....?" He rushed to the well, and beheld a terrible sight at the bottom. "KAGOME, KAEDE, QUICK!! COME HELP!!!" He yelped, and jumped down the hole.
I awoke in a hut, with the smell of smoke surrounding me. Slowly, I looked around the room, not fully comprehending. A silhouette of darkness slowly came towards me.
"So," it said, "You are the human who was in my body." Suddenly he stepped into the light, and I saw the character that had spurred me on to go all the way and become a samurai right in front of me.
"Inuyasha??"
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