The Animator: Second Stop

Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha. Yet. )(sinister laughter)(

Chapter 2: The Army Returns

Yumi and I awoke much earlier than the others, so we could sneak off to let Yumi create his profile on the Animator. I held out my arm to him and said "You need to tap the bracelet to bring the Animator to its original form, then select 'Profile Creation/Edit' to start" I talked him through and about 15 minutes later, he was done. I barely noticed time stopping around us as Yumi changed. His outfit turned from a rather dull brown to a bright blue. The sword that was already at his waist changed too, becoming a giant fan-like blade and an identical one appeared on his other side. His ears also became elongated, and a Shikon Shard glowed in the center of his forehead.

"How do I look?" he asked, twisting around to look at himself. "Not bad" I said, smiling "For a first try. You're a Wind demon like Kagura, right?"

"Yeah. But, won't everyone notice that I look different?"

"No, they'll remember seeing you like you are now, and not as you were. It's complicated"

We talked for a while afterwards, and somehow the conversation turned to Yamiko and his army.

"Who was that guy?" Yumi pondered, making small dust tornados with his sword.

"I honestly have no clue" I replyed, playing with a loose soul in my hand "But he'll be back, I'm sure of that"

"Where did he come from?" Yumi asked, ceasing the making of tornados to look at me "I've never seen him in any anime or manga I've ever seen"

"Then he must be… No, never mind. It's probably nothing."

"What?"

"He might be from C.O.P.E."

"What anime's that?"

"It's not one. It's a kind of collection of all the original art and characters. That's actually what the name means, Creations of People Everywhere. But even then, why did he look like me? And how did he get from C.O.P.E. to Love Hina?"

The sun had risen by then, so we decided it would be best to get back before anyone else woke up. We had pretty good timing, because Kagome woke up a few minutes after we got back. After everyone awoke, we had breakfast (all of it from Kagome's bag), during which Inuyasha turned to me and asked "Why are you here anyway? You only come here when you need something, so what is it?"

"Nothing this time" I replied "I'm just here to show Yumi around. Unless you'd like to give me a portion of the Tetsusaiga's soul?"

"I told you, no!" he shouted back angrily

I shrugged "Fine then, I don't need anything"

It was about this time that screams of "Demon!" were heard outside, and a distant roar echoed in the distance. Without saying anything, we all got up and ran towards the shouts, even Yumi, who had no idea what was happening.

Our chase led us to the outer edge of the forest, where several people dressed in robes of white were holding down a large, white, serpentine beast with several extremely thick ropes. It was thrashing about, occasionally sending a few of the people flying. All of us hid behind the trees as two of the men passed.

"They're taking too long. Inuyasha at least should be here by now, even if those other 2 kids aren't here"

"We tracked the movement to this world, they're here. But they are taking forever. We won't be able to hold it much longer"

"General Yamiko said we had to release the giant Soul Collector near Koji, so we'll have to wait until then"

We watched them walk off, and I fell down from the shock of what I had just heard. "What's up Koji?" Yumi asked.

"Giant soul collector?" I shuddered "How could he have known?"

"What's the matter with you?" Inuyasha asked "It's just a big pushover, all it can do is collect souls"

"It'll collect them from right out of my body!" I said angrily "I can't fight it!"

It's not looking good for Koji, is it? And how did Yamiko know? All will be revealed... eventually.

Also some of my frineds keep telling me that they can't visualize Koji and Yumi, so I'm adding descriptions of them. This time, it's Koji, next chapter, I'll do Yumi.

Name: Koji Harumegdon

Hair: Brown, Short

Height: About 5 feet

Clothes: Normally wears shorts and a tee shirt, but in Iunyasha world, wears a black outfit similar to Inuyasha's

Eyes: Black in most worlds, milky grey in Inuyasha world.

If there's any details I missed, tell me.