Shippo was a little youkai. He pushed a small piece of boulder off his head and found himself looking up into the wide-angle of a rump, again. He figured that Miroku would like the view he saw down here. Nodding his head impatiently, the little fox demon tugged on Sango's robe and then took a flying leap onto her shoulder. Deftly, he snagged onto the silk without leaving pinpricks in it and hid himself behind her loosely bound hair. Meanwhile, Miroku stood up beside the demonslayer lightly dusting off his robes with his hand.
"My, this has gotten interesting," said Miroku with the characteric monotone he used when he was truly worried about something. Sango nodded in assent.
"I wonder why the Tetsusiaga backfired like that," murmured Sango anxiously, "and I wonder why…"
But whatever Sango was going to say was lost at that moment because at that moment the miko chose to scream.
"EEEEEEEEIIIIIIIIII!" came the high-pitched schoolgirl's yell. Her shout stopped as abruptly as it came, but a deep red blush overtook her face.
"Who the hell are you?" said Kagome squealing at the dog demon who was now sitting up and holding her possessively. "And why the hell are you naked?" She looked confusedly between the demon currently holding her and the human who was wearing Inuyasha's firerat robes not too far away. Angrily, she tried to push herself away but the demon would have none of it.
"Now now there koishii," the inu-youkai said practically purring. "We were just just speaking to one another, weren't we? That's no way to treat a mate."
"Let her go you jerk," said a voice angrily. "She's not your mate so hands off her." The youkai stood up and shoved Kagome behind him so quickly that Kagome's brains rattled. The inu-youkai folded his hands quietly as if nothing was disturbing him. However, human Inuyasha came stomping up to him, glaring angrily with his fists clenched tightly. The inu-youkai looked at him with one eyebrow up and a smug expression that made him look almost as condescending as Sesshomaru.
"Fighting with yourself again, Inuyasha?" said the inu-youkai tauntingly.
"You bastard. We both know what a jerk you are so let her go." The demon raised his eyebrow.
"Me, a bastard? It is you who won't even tell the girl how we feel, merely because you regret being a hanyou. Don't forget, that it is your cowardice that kept the two of you from ever being together."
"Shut up!" said human Inuyasha wrathfully. "And put some clothes on damn it!" he added blushing furiously. The demon looked down on himself slowly then looked up with a level smile.
"There's nothing here I should be embarrassed about. What about you? Did you get your earlier wish?"
Human Inuyasha's face blanched even faster than it had blushed and he whirled around stomping off into the bushes. After a half minute he came stomping back looking relieved but still like he had recently suffered a heart attack.
"Humph," he said folding his arms and glowering. "Just because you're a demon doesn't make you any better than me. And besides, you know what a selfish, arrogant, obnoxious jerk you can be."
The inu-youkai before him continued smiling. "I think that perhaps you are mistaking me with yourself."
"NO DAMMIT!" said Inuyasha suddenly punching his fist into the ground. Usually it would have made a large dent but today it did not wield to his passion. Inuyasha the human stood up shakily.
"No," he said breathing through his mouth steadily. "I know you dammit. You're dangerous. You may gripe about me being all tender and emotional, but I'm nothing compared to you dammit. That's why I keep you locked up. You're nothing but my blood lust. You lust for her, you lust for Kagome, and you lust for death as well. Keh. You're nothing more than a murderer."
"And that is where you are enormously wrong, Inuyasha," said the inu-youkai before him, eyes glittering dangerously. "You have never been so wrong, human, and I had hoped you would have realized that by now. You have no idea how deep a youkai's sense of love can be, or how much it hurts one pride to not fully be one."
"Yes I do dammit," said human Inuyasha practically snarling himself. "Every impulse of your blood you've been sending though me! Well listen, sometimes I let you have your way, no OUR way during battle but it's not easy being the soul that controls the body. I do practically everything! You've always been incapable of making thoughts on your own." Inuyasha stopped and his mouth practically fell open. "Until now," he said quietly.
"Yes," said the inu-youkai nodding. "Thought the same thing did you?" he said scornfully. Inuyasha laughed.
"Keh," he said gruffly. "I've always been the one coming up with intelligent things before. All you ever wanted to do was jump around and gut things. That kinds proves that you're an imitation doesn't it?" He cracked his knuckles ominously.
"And yet you're just as stupid," said the inuyoukai nearly sighing. "So impulsive and clouded by human emotions that you'll never get anywhere. You have to be more decisive than that to be a youkai."
"Keh, you're the one who won't get anywhere," said Inuyasha roughly then suddenly lowering his voice so that words gently rolled off his tongue. "Compassion, mercy, love, the need to protect those you care for at any cost. Sesshomaru doesn't understand these things but don't give me any shit that you don't. You got it from father, didn't you? We both inherented these so-called WEAKNESSES, and you won't convince jack-shit that you don't have them. We both have heard what he was like after all. You're not any less impulsive than he was, are you, falling in love with a mortal girl and nearly getting yourself killed for her all the time." Inuyasha the human narrowed his eyes and leaned forward a bit to see his reaction.
The inu-youkai fell silent. After a few moments of pause, he raised his voice again. "Well if I'm anything of an imposter it's not surprising. That spell the kitsune put us under was enormously complex and served to strengthen me. It is inexpliquable but its influence has made it possible for me to exist as a separate entity."
"What, like I was merely possessed all my life?" said Inuyasha dubiously.
"No," said the inu-youkai regally. His hair was about Sesshomaru's length now which left him with an even more of a gloriously silvery effect than usual. "The hanyou that was us was very much a joining of a human and a youkai. But that joining was imperfect in that there remained strive between the two bloods. So much so that some characteristics blended while others remained incompatible."
"Meaning the ears?" said Inuyasha pointedly.
"Exactly," said the youkai. "And also the fact that you can't turn into a giant dog or fly."
"But you can?" said Inuyasha dubiously.
"Probably," said the inu-youkai flashing a toothy grin. Human Inuyasha looked to be an enormously humble person compared to the swaggering demon now with them.
The conversation began to quiet down so Kagome took advantage of the opportunity to interrupt. "Um," she said timidly. "Do you mind putting some clothes on?"
"YES PLEASE DO!" squealed Sango with her hands over her eyes. Apparently she had been holding them like that for a long time.
"Indeed," said Miroku his eyes flashing jealously as he kept an arm up in front of Sango.
Inuyasha the human sighed and ran his fingers through his hair. He began walking. "Come on you idiot. But some clothes on damn you and then we'll talk about getting this fixed."
"Whoever said that there was a problem?" said the inu-youkai tauntingly. "Am I not everything you always dreamed of being? Besides, I have my claim on Kagome."
"Dogs, you sound like Kouga," said the human Inuyasha grinding his teeth angrily. "She isn't a piece of property."
"Merely another instance of something you aren't capable of understanding because you're human." Inuyasha turned around angrily.
"Oh I can understand it all right. You don't know how hard it has it been keeping myself away from her but maybe there's something that YOU don't understand. She's like royalty for a human, you don't just take Kagome lightly like that. And if you touch her I swear I'll gut you myself whether that means me poofing and dying or whatever."
The two Inuyasha's glared at each other. Kagome stared at them and fidgeted nervously.
"Um, well I could make ramen noodles for you two. Sesshomaru, maybe you had better come along with us as well."
Sesshomaru regarded her from where he had stood in the shadows of their argument this whole time. Elegantly, he replied. "Very well."
NOTE: I'll get back to the humor eventually, right now I gotta get through explainations. What do you think? OOC?