Truth may be stranger than fiction, but Fan Fiction is the weirdest!
Sorry. I found that somewhere, and put my own spin on it. Basically, I
get lazy and I found a Fan Fiction that I couldn't stop reading, Shared
Blood, and it inspired me enough to write, not type. So, sorry it took a
while if any one's reading. And if you are wondering, I try staying as
true to the series as possible. There may be a smidge of OC, but I hope
it's not too bad, and the pairings are like in the show, Inu Yasha (the way
I am typing it) and Kagome, Sango and Miroku (what little there is...) and
Neyoko's on her own so far. Well, probably for the whole thing. This is
set a while after they beat Naraku, so they have most of the Shikon no
Tama. If anything major happened in the series, I have to watch the stuff
in America, so I haven't seen past it, so I'm sorry if I don't know.
Chapter 2: Through the Well
Neyoko's feet touched the ground of the well. Nothing felt different to the red head, but something most definitely was.
"Oh, wow! You made it through!" Kagome exclaimed.
"Yeah, I guess I managed," Neyoko looked around. The soil was still wet. Maybe it was just an odd ordinary well.
"Kagome! You're back!" A little yokai with bushy brown hair and a bushy tail jumped into the well and clung to Kagome's waist. Neyoko also noticed little pointed ears.
"I missed you too, Shippo-chan," Kagome laughed.
Shippo dropped to the ground. "Inu Yasha keeps complaining that you took too long. He's waiting."
Shippo jumped out of the well, leaving Kagome and Neyoko to climb out.
A strong, clawed hand helped Kagome out of the well from above, which left Neyoko to pull herself out.
"Kagome you took forever," a masculine voice complained.
Neyoko peeked over the side of the well. She didn't really see a man, more of a teenage boy with flowing silver hair, glowing gold eyes, and....inu ears? Curiosity spurred her on and she heaved herself over the edge of the well and walked over to where Kagome was talking to the yokai. She was telling him it was only a week.
Inu Yasha almost fell over backwards, revealing Neyoko who had grabbed his ears. "They're real," she said matter of factly.
"Yes, they're real! Now get off of me!" Inu Yasha snapped.
Neyoko let go. "You're Inu Yasha. I think I like the stories better. You have major attitude."
"Wha...Wait a second. Kagome! Who said you could bring anyone along? Other people shouldn't even be able to come through the well in the first place." Inu Yasha switched his focus to Kagome in attempts to ignore the new kid. She smelled as if she had yokai blood in her, just a hint of feline yokai blood.
"I thought you liked attention. After all, she did come here mainly to see you. And I have a feeling she should be able to help us," Kagome shouted.
Neyoko smiled slightly as the argument commenced. She walked to a different angle of the well and looked down into it, debating if it was worth staying here or not.
"Um, excuse me. I have a question for you," a man said from behind her.
Neyoko turned, trying to keep the hair out of her face with her hand. A man with puppy brown eyes grabbed that hand and knelt in front of her.
With the utmost sincerity, the man asked, "Will you bear my child?"
Neyoko took a step back, taken by surprise at what the man asked. She yanked her hand away, and almost fell in the well. How ever, Neyoko recovered quickly and smacked him across the face.
Neyoko heard slight laughter and she looked up, seeing Shippo perched on another female's shoulder. The young woman had coal black hair, and was wearing a pink kimono and a green skirt. She also had a large boomerang strapped to her back, which the kitsune leaned against.
Shippo was laughing, saying, "Looks like you got what you deserved again, Miroku," while the girl looked at him with disgusted brown/gold eyes.
The man smiled as he rubbed his face with a tightly wrapped hand. "I'll take that as a no," he said.
"You'd better," Neyoko muttered. Judging by the way he was dressed, this 'Miroku' was a hoshi. Not a well behaved one obviously, but a hoshi all the same.
Off to the side the fight between Inu Yasha and Kagome reached boiling. Neyoko turned to watch, still keeping half an eye on Miroku.
"She can do whatever she wants, just like me. If Neyoko wants to come, she can," Kagome snapped. That seemed to end the argument, since Inu Yasha stalked off towards the forest.
Miroku had gotten up. Kagome walked over. "Neyoko, I see you have met the rest of our group. Did Miroku do anything to you?" Kagome asked sweetly.
"Why would I do anything to this young girl?" Miroku asked innocently.
"Because she is a young girl. Don't you think I know you enough by now? Besides, it's written all over your face."
"He didn't do anything too bad. Nothing that will last, at least," Neyoko cut in.
"See?" Miroku asked, still trying to prove his 'innocence'.
Kagome wasn't impressed, but announced, "Mina! This is Neyoko. She is a yokai exterminator from my time. Neyoko, you've met Miroku, a hoshi," Kagome resisted saying supposedly. "Sango, another yokai exterminator, Shippo, a kitsune yokai, and Inu Yasha is off over there sulking." Kagome gestured to each person as she introduced them, ending by jerking her head in the hanyou's direction.
"I am not sulking!" Inu Yasha yelled back.
Kagome's face wrinkled in amusement. "Don't mind him. Let's get going, the well always gives me the creeps."
Kagome hurried to catch up with Inu Yasha. Neyoko followed her tracks at a much slower speed. However, Sango still had a bone to pick with Miroku.
"You are shameless," she commented.
"How can you say that?" Miroku asked. This wasn't the first he'd heard of this.
"Because you are shameless," Sango sounded disgusted.
Shippo sensed a fight between the two and ran over to the new comer. He hopped on Neyoko's shoulder from habit. "I like your hair," he stated. "It reminds me of Inu Yasha's in mid-transformation."
"Shippo! What the hell did I tell you about telling people about that?" Inu Yasha shouted back to the two.
Shippo's eyes widened in fear and he clamped a little clawed hand to his mouth. Neyoko laughed, finding it amusing.
Inu Yasha stopped, then Kagome fell back to stay with him. Neyoko caught up shortly, followed by the now silent Sango and Miroku.
Inu Yasha's stare changed from aggravation to slight curiosity as he looked at Neyoko. "What in the seven hells are you?"
"What's that supposed to mean?" Neyoko asked back. Her head tilted to the side a little as she awaited an answer.
"Are you stupid of something? You ain't a ningen with that smell of yours, and you ain't a yokai either, which even a baka can tell by looking at you."
Neyoko fumed, glaring angrily at Inu Yasha. However, she fidgeted slightly, not sure how much she should tell them. "I smell like a yokai because I kill them. It's kinda like that saying, you are what you eat, (ewwwww...what a sick cliché) but different. Still, I have enough power to knock you flat whichever way you'd like to look at it." It was a lie, but she was safe for now.
"Oh, I'm so scared," Inu Yasha said sarcastically, rolling his golden eyes. "Please, what can a baka ningen do to me?"
Neyoko was about to tell him what she could do, and then follow with a demonstration, but Kagome intervened. "Inu Yasha, knock it off." Inu Yasha glared, while Kagome took up a kinder mode with Neyoko. "How'd you learn to kill yokai?"
"My sensei. Even though she's old, she still can make any yokai quiver before they die. She taught me some techniques because I had natural talent," Neyoko said proudly.
"Yeah, sure. That might explain why you smell like a yokai," Inu Yasha muttered. He started to walk off again.
"What is your problem, mutt? I don't go after hanyou if they don't get out of control. So you shouldn't have a problem with me," Neyoko glared, daring Inu Yasha to attack.
"Why shouldn't I have a problem with a liar? You look like you'd make a perfect thief," Inu Yasha whirled around to face his opponent.
"Oh, come on. Why would a thief pick on you? You don't have anything worth stealing, except maybe that katana of yours. Course, I wouldn't want to steal a hanyou's katana in the first place," Neyoko smirked.
"How much did you tell her Kagome?" Inu Yasha said in a whiny voice.
"All she told me was that you existed. I figure things out on my own. There are smells that hint at a connection, anyway," Neyoko answered.
Something pricked Neyoko's neck and she slapped at it absentmindedly. When she moved her hand, to see what it was, a bug floated to the ground. The rest of the group dubbed it "Myoga the flea" in a surprised tone.
"She's right, you know. If she guessed it, she deserves to know the truth. The katana is called the Tetsuaiga. It was made of Inu Yasha's father's fang. Not only does it protect him, but it helps seal his yokai blood. If he breaks contact when his life is in danger, then he will transform into a full blood-thirsty yokai," the flea explained.
"Myoga, you better start looking for that place to hide, because I will kill you," Inu Yasha promised.
The flea uttered an 'eep' before hopping off somewhere.
"What in the seven hells is wrong with these people? Can't they keep things that concern me to themselves? This liar doesn't need to know anything!"
"Stop calling me a liar. My name's Neyoko. Get it through your thick head and use it! Or do I have to fix it in your head?"
Inu Yasha glared at Neyoko and she returned the glare.
Sango leaned over towards Kagome and whispered behind her hand, "They bicker like an inu and a neko. Very peculiar."
Kagome giggled shortly. Both Neyoko and Inu Yasha turned, saying, "What's so funny?" at once. They glared at each other, and then turned their backs. Yes, they did fight like a neko and an inu and shared their hatred.
"Oh, nothing," Kagome said lightly. It was pretty easy to tell that she was lying and that neither of the two would like the answer.
Neyoko snorted. She knew it was a lie, but she didn't say anything.
Inu Yasha, however, turned back to the girl. "This is all your fault! It's bad enough that I have to deal with you, but now they're talkin' behind my back. It's all your fault!"
Neyoko glared at the hanyou with angered eyes. Her hands slipped into a position where, if she had still been a yokai, would have led to someone being scratched. Neyoko realized that, and stretched her fingers out before clenching them into a fist. What was going on? She had never acted like that. It was almost...demonic.
"Humph, you're a real gentleman. Blame it on me just because I'm new here. Not like I'd care any way," Neyoko snapped before stalking off in the direction they had been going. She went on for a couple of yards before she realized something.
She stopped and turned around, smiling sheepishly. "So, uh, where are we going?"
This shocked every one, who anime falled (as in fell over. They only do that in anime.). Inu Yasha brushed past her, whispering, "Trust a neko to do things like this."
Kagome followed. "Sorry, he's not usually like this. I don't get it, really," she said before catching up to walk beside Inu Yasha. Neyoko followed after a few moments. Sango and Miroku followed, Shippo on the hoshi's shoulder. Both of the women and the kitsune thought it was a bad idea to have Miroku at that position.
Ok, end chapter definitions:
Chan is a prefix for Japanese names that refers to a younger person. Other ones are –kun (I thought it usually referred to a guy, but) it's a high respect, but not the highest though. -San is lower than kun, but higher than chan. The highest is –sama or –duno. Sama is for males and is equivalent to Lord or Sir, and Dono is like wise for females.
Hoshi is a new one for me, but I take it as monk. It always refers to Miroku in this fic.
Mina- a major common one. Translates to everyone.
Kitsune- fox. It'll come up a lot.
Hanyou- half demon. Usually, Inu Yasha is referred to as a half-breed, so I'll do it too.
Ningen- Human. Extra note for later, the 'Human Realm' is the Ningenkai.
Baka- most common for me. Means stupid, idiot, dummy, ect. Also eqivlent to aho.
Sensei- teacher, master, it's easy.
Katana- sword.
K, I'm done. R&R.
Chapter 2: Through the Well
Neyoko's feet touched the ground of the well. Nothing felt different to the red head, but something most definitely was.
"Oh, wow! You made it through!" Kagome exclaimed.
"Yeah, I guess I managed," Neyoko looked around. The soil was still wet. Maybe it was just an odd ordinary well.
"Kagome! You're back!" A little yokai with bushy brown hair and a bushy tail jumped into the well and clung to Kagome's waist. Neyoko also noticed little pointed ears.
"I missed you too, Shippo-chan," Kagome laughed.
Shippo dropped to the ground. "Inu Yasha keeps complaining that you took too long. He's waiting."
Shippo jumped out of the well, leaving Kagome and Neyoko to climb out.
A strong, clawed hand helped Kagome out of the well from above, which left Neyoko to pull herself out.
"Kagome you took forever," a masculine voice complained.
Neyoko peeked over the side of the well. She didn't really see a man, more of a teenage boy with flowing silver hair, glowing gold eyes, and....inu ears? Curiosity spurred her on and she heaved herself over the edge of the well and walked over to where Kagome was talking to the yokai. She was telling him it was only a week.
Inu Yasha almost fell over backwards, revealing Neyoko who had grabbed his ears. "They're real," she said matter of factly.
"Yes, they're real! Now get off of me!" Inu Yasha snapped.
Neyoko let go. "You're Inu Yasha. I think I like the stories better. You have major attitude."
"Wha...Wait a second. Kagome! Who said you could bring anyone along? Other people shouldn't even be able to come through the well in the first place." Inu Yasha switched his focus to Kagome in attempts to ignore the new kid. She smelled as if she had yokai blood in her, just a hint of feline yokai blood.
"I thought you liked attention. After all, she did come here mainly to see you. And I have a feeling she should be able to help us," Kagome shouted.
Neyoko smiled slightly as the argument commenced. She walked to a different angle of the well and looked down into it, debating if it was worth staying here or not.
"Um, excuse me. I have a question for you," a man said from behind her.
Neyoko turned, trying to keep the hair out of her face with her hand. A man with puppy brown eyes grabbed that hand and knelt in front of her.
With the utmost sincerity, the man asked, "Will you bear my child?"
Neyoko took a step back, taken by surprise at what the man asked. She yanked her hand away, and almost fell in the well. How ever, Neyoko recovered quickly and smacked him across the face.
Neyoko heard slight laughter and she looked up, seeing Shippo perched on another female's shoulder. The young woman had coal black hair, and was wearing a pink kimono and a green skirt. She also had a large boomerang strapped to her back, which the kitsune leaned against.
Shippo was laughing, saying, "Looks like you got what you deserved again, Miroku," while the girl looked at him with disgusted brown/gold eyes.
The man smiled as he rubbed his face with a tightly wrapped hand. "I'll take that as a no," he said.
"You'd better," Neyoko muttered. Judging by the way he was dressed, this 'Miroku' was a hoshi. Not a well behaved one obviously, but a hoshi all the same.
Off to the side the fight between Inu Yasha and Kagome reached boiling. Neyoko turned to watch, still keeping half an eye on Miroku.
"She can do whatever she wants, just like me. If Neyoko wants to come, she can," Kagome snapped. That seemed to end the argument, since Inu Yasha stalked off towards the forest.
Miroku had gotten up. Kagome walked over. "Neyoko, I see you have met the rest of our group. Did Miroku do anything to you?" Kagome asked sweetly.
"Why would I do anything to this young girl?" Miroku asked innocently.
"Because she is a young girl. Don't you think I know you enough by now? Besides, it's written all over your face."
"He didn't do anything too bad. Nothing that will last, at least," Neyoko cut in.
"See?" Miroku asked, still trying to prove his 'innocence'.
Kagome wasn't impressed, but announced, "Mina! This is Neyoko. She is a yokai exterminator from my time. Neyoko, you've met Miroku, a hoshi," Kagome resisted saying supposedly. "Sango, another yokai exterminator, Shippo, a kitsune yokai, and Inu Yasha is off over there sulking." Kagome gestured to each person as she introduced them, ending by jerking her head in the hanyou's direction.
"I am not sulking!" Inu Yasha yelled back.
Kagome's face wrinkled in amusement. "Don't mind him. Let's get going, the well always gives me the creeps."
Kagome hurried to catch up with Inu Yasha. Neyoko followed her tracks at a much slower speed. However, Sango still had a bone to pick with Miroku.
"You are shameless," she commented.
"How can you say that?" Miroku asked. This wasn't the first he'd heard of this.
"Because you are shameless," Sango sounded disgusted.
Shippo sensed a fight between the two and ran over to the new comer. He hopped on Neyoko's shoulder from habit. "I like your hair," he stated. "It reminds me of Inu Yasha's in mid-transformation."
"Shippo! What the hell did I tell you about telling people about that?" Inu Yasha shouted back to the two.
Shippo's eyes widened in fear and he clamped a little clawed hand to his mouth. Neyoko laughed, finding it amusing.
Inu Yasha stopped, then Kagome fell back to stay with him. Neyoko caught up shortly, followed by the now silent Sango and Miroku.
Inu Yasha's stare changed from aggravation to slight curiosity as he looked at Neyoko. "What in the seven hells are you?"
"What's that supposed to mean?" Neyoko asked back. Her head tilted to the side a little as she awaited an answer.
"Are you stupid of something? You ain't a ningen with that smell of yours, and you ain't a yokai either, which even a baka can tell by looking at you."
Neyoko fumed, glaring angrily at Inu Yasha. However, she fidgeted slightly, not sure how much she should tell them. "I smell like a yokai because I kill them. It's kinda like that saying, you are what you eat, (ewwwww...what a sick cliché) but different. Still, I have enough power to knock you flat whichever way you'd like to look at it." It was a lie, but she was safe for now.
"Oh, I'm so scared," Inu Yasha said sarcastically, rolling his golden eyes. "Please, what can a baka ningen do to me?"
Neyoko was about to tell him what she could do, and then follow with a demonstration, but Kagome intervened. "Inu Yasha, knock it off." Inu Yasha glared, while Kagome took up a kinder mode with Neyoko. "How'd you learn to kill yokai?"
"My sensei. Even though she's old, she still can make any yokai quiver before they die. She taught me some techniques because I had natural talent," Neyoko said proudly.
"Yeah, sure. That might explain why you smell like a yokai," Inu Yasha muttered. He started to walk off again.
"What is your problem, mutt? I don't go after hanyou if they don't get out of control. So you shouldn't have a problem with me," Neyoko glared, daring Inu Yasha to attack.
"Why shouldn't I have a problem with a liar? You look like you'd make a perfect thief," Inu Yasha whirled around to face his opponent.
"Oh, come on. Why would a thief pick on you? You don't have anything worth stealing, except maybe that katana of yours. Course, I wouldn't want to steal a hanyou's katana in the first place," Neyoko smirked.
"How much did you tell her Kagome?" Inu Yasha said in a whiny voice.
"All she told me was that you existed. I figure things out on my own. There are smells that hint at a connection, anyway," Neyoko answered.
Something pricked Neyoko's neck and she slapped at it absentmindedly. When she moved her hand, to see what it was, a bug floated to the ground. The rest of the group dubbed it "Myoga the flea" in a surprised tone.
"She's right, you know. If she guessed it, she deserves to know the truth. The katana is called the Tetsuaiga. It was made of Inu Yasha's father's fang. Not only does it protect him, but it helps seal his yokai blood. If he breaks contact when his life is in danger, then he will transform into a full blood-thirsty yokai," the flea explained.
"Myoga, you better start looking for that place to hide, because I will kill you," Inu Yasha promised.
The flea uttered an 'eep' before hopping off somewhere.
"What in the seven hells is wrong with these people? Can't they keep things that concern me to themselves? This liar doesn't need to know anything!"
"Stop calling me a liar. My name's Neyoko. Get it through your thick head and use it! Or do I have to fix it in your head?"
Inu Yasha glared at Neyoko and she returned the glare.
Sango leaned over towards Kagome and whispered behind her hand, "They bicker like an inu and a neko. Very peculiar."
Kagome giggled shortly. Both Neyoko and Inu Yasha turned, saying, "What's so funny?" at once. They glared at each other, and then turned their backs. Yes, they did fight like a neko and an inu and shared their hatred.
"Oh, nothing," Kagome said lightly. It was pretty easy to tell that she was lying and that neither of the two would like the answer.
Neyoko snorted. She knew it was a lie, but she didn't say anything.
Inu Yasha, however, turned back to the girl. "This is all your fault! It's bad enough that I have to deal with you, but now they're talkin' behind my back. It's all your fault!"
Neyoko glared at the hanyou with angered eyes. Her hands slipped into a position where, if she had still been a yokai, would have led to someone being scratched. Neyoko realized that, and stretched her fingers out before clenching them into a fist. What was going on? She had never acted like that. It was almost...demonic.
"Humph, you're a real gentleman. Blame it on me just because I'm new here. Not like I'd care any way," Neyoko snapped before stalking off in the direction they had been going. She went on for a couple of yards before she realized something.
She stopped and turned around, smiling sheepishly. "So, uh, where are we going?"
This shocked every one, who anime falled (as in fell over. They only do that in anime.). Inu Yasha brushed past her, whispering, "Trust a neko to do things like this."
Kagome followed. "Sorry, he's not usually like this. I don't get it, really," she said before catching up to walk beside Inu Yasha. Neyoko followed after a few moments. Sango and Miroku followed, Shippo on the hoshi's shoulder. Both of the women and the kitsune thought it was a bad idea to have Miroku at that position.
Ok, end chapter definitions:
Chan is a prefix for Japanese names that refers to a younger person. Other ones are –kun (I thought it usually referred to a guy, but) it's a high respect, but not the highest though. -San is lower than kun, but higher than chan. The highest is –sama or –duno. Sama is for males and is equivalent to Lord or Sir, and Dono is like wise for females.
Hoshi is a new one for me, but I take it as monk. It always refers to Miroku in this fic.
Mina- a major common one. Translates to everyone.
Kitsune- fox. It'll come up a lot.
Hanyou- half demon. Usually, Inu Yasha is referred to as a half-breed, so I'll do it too.
Ningen- Human. Extra note for later, the 'Human Realm' is the Ningenkai.
Baka- most common for me. Means stupid, idiot, dummy, ect. Also eqivlent to aho.
Sensei- teacher, master, it's easy.
Katana- sword.
K, I'm done. R&R.