(A/N): I know it's been an "extremely" long time since I've updated and I know the last chapter was "extremely" short but I'll try and make it up to you guys. I have a bunch of other ideas roaming around in my head and I wanted to attempt writing them before I forgot them. I know I'm making excuses. Hope you enjoy the chapter!
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters. Please don't sue. I only have "no money" and it would be a waste of time.
"Thoughts"(Author's notes)
Little Inu
Chapter 3
By the time the group had reached the village, Inuyasha had been sat fifteen times and L Inu had what looked like duck tape over his mouth.
It was near dusk when they entered the village so the group, with a lot of complaining from Inuyasha, decided to wait until morning to continue.
Getting a room for the night was no trouble, seeing how the village was very friendly. A sure sign of not having many demon attacks. A kind woman allowed them to use a room for the night.
Making a fire in the pit, Kagome set out on making dinner. With L Inu impatiently hopping on foot to the other for the food to be finished Inuyasha just sat staring at the fire.
"Kagome?" asked Inuyasha. "Hm? Oh! The food's ready L Inu." L Inu cheered. "What is it Inuyasha?" "Kagome, can you sense the demon nearby?"
"Yes I can. It's about another two miles or so away from the village. We'll be able to reach it within two hours at least." "Hey Kagome?" asked L Inu. "Yes?" How come you have different clothes on? I've been everywhere but I haven't seen anyone dress like you do."
Kagome gave a nervous laugh. "Well…you see here…um…I'm not exactly from here." "Oh! Are you from another part of Japan? Is there an area where people walk around and dress as weirdly as you?" What was strange about L Inu was, he actually didn't know.
There was complete honesty and sincerity within his eyes and he thought there was such a place where people dressed like Kagome. Well, technically there was. Just 500 years in the future. Kagome almost burst in a fit of giggles. She looked over at Inuyasha and he nodded.
"You see L Inu, I come from a different era." "You mean like a completely different dimension?" L Inu asked tilting his head. "Not exactly. My world is in the future of what is right now feudal Japan. So in other words I'm living in the past and present. It's kind of cool if you think about it." "Does that mean you can predict my future?! Can you?!" Kagome laughed. "No I can't predict your future but I do know that Japan will be a lot different from what it's like now. She glanced at Inuyasha. "Maybe I can predict L Inu's future. They look so much alike and they even act the same. But, what if it's not Inuyasha's younger self? And if he is, how is it possible?"
"Will I be able to visit the future?" "You might but I'm not sure" L Inu started bouncing around. "Yay! I get to go see where Kagome lives and where she got her strange clothes from!" Kagome laughed again. The boy was just too cute! "Alright then mister, bedtime." "What?! Kagome you can't! I don't want-" L Inu gave a dramatic yawn. "-to."
"See, you are tired. In bed now." Rubbing his eyes L Inu toddled to Kagome's sleeping bag. Kagome soon joined him. (Any perverted thoughts out there and I'll smack you.)
The next morning the group set out. Being just tall enough, L Inu was happily holding Kagome's hand while sticking his tongue out at Inuyasha.
Seeing this, Inuyasha got an unusual twitch with his eye. "Why that little-" "Hey Inuyasha?" Kagome asked. "What?" "Why are you glaring at L Inu like that?" "What?! The little twerp is-" He looked at L Inu. L Inu just stared cutely back with an eyebrow raised in question. Inuyasha sighed.
"Never mind." Inuyasha crossed his arms and turned away. L Inu smirked back at him when Kagome wasn't looking.
This put Inuyasha in a very foul mood.
They reached the cave where the supposed demon was within an hour. Grabbing her bow and arrows she followed Inuyasha inside the cave.
Making sure to have kept L Inu somewhere safe they traveled to the dark depths of the cave.
Seeing the demon, it looked to be a mixture of a bear and a deer demon. Quietly sneaking up on it, they saw it had young. It must have been the mother. This was going to be difficult. All demons were protective of there young and to intrude when the mother was present was practically suicide.
Pointing to the spot where Kagome sensed the jewel shard, Inuyasha eased himself over to the back paw. Quickly pulling it out they left the cave.
"Well that was easy." Commented Kagome. "Yeah, to easy. There should have been some sort of struggle or something."
Suddenly L Inu came running from the bushes. He was panting and there was blood all over him.
"L Inu! What happened?!" "A b-bear demon!" L Inu panted. It wasn't a bear demon; it was the mate to the demon inside the cave. Inuyasha sniffed L Inu.
He smelled just like one of their young! "Where did the blood come from?" asked Inuyasha. "A swarm of bees came and dumped it on me!" L Inu was in panic. "We have to hurry! The demon could be here any sec-" to late. The demon was here and it looked angry.
Suddenly Naraku's insects were upon them. Dropping vas amounts of blood on them they flew away. "Shit. Now we smell like we slaughtered one of there young. This isn't good…" Inuyasha thought.
Smelling more blood the demon's eyes flashed. It charged forward. Throwing L Inu and Kagome out of the way, Inuyasha jumped to the side.
"Inuyasha!" Kagome yelled. "It has three shards in its forehead!"
"Damnit! Naraku must have been planning this all along!" Inuyasha thought bitterly. He had to jump again. The demon would not relent on its attacks. Suddenly there was a noise from the cave.
"Shit!" The female demon, having been disturbed from slumber, lumbered out in the open.
Instantly smelling the blood, she charged at Kagome. Inuyasha cursed vehemently. Using his full speed, he intersected the demon and sent both of them after him.
Stringing an arrow, Kagome aimed. Firing she hit the male demon, it exploded in a bright flash of light. Angering the female demon even more she charged blindly. Finally having a chance to draw Tetsusaiga, Inuyasha made quick use of it. Slashing here and there he defeated the demon without any difficulties.
Picking up the three shards, Kagome smiled at Inuyasha but then scrunched her nose at the sight of her uniform. It was ruined! Her mother could do wonders but this might be a little over extensive. Mentally sighing she checked L Inu for injuries and then they were on their way back to the village.
"Nothing like a bath!" Kagome thought happily. They were back at the village and Kagome was happily soaking in the nearby hot spring. Accompanied by L Inu she was happily taking in the warmth. L Inu was resting nearby with every part of his body squeaky clean and his hair shampooed. Kagome had overly enjoyed washing his silver locks. They were just like Inuyasha's and since Inuyasha didn't let "anyone" touch his precious hair Kagome was all too happy to seize the rare opportunity of washing L Inu's.
Feeling sleepy, Kagome quietly got out and rapped a towel around herself. Motioning for L Inu to do the same she quickly dried him off and got dressed.
Upon arriving back to the camp they found Inuyasha glaring at them from the corner of his eye. More precisely, glaring at L Inu. L Inu gave him a cheesy smile and happily walked toward him. Plopping down next to Inuyasha, L Inu smugly showed off his clean shiny hair to Inuyasha.
"Damn little vermin! First he has to go with Kagome and take a bath and then he has to show off his hair! What I wouldn't give to wring his scrawny neck! No, I am not jealous! The little twerp just pisses me off! Great! Now I'm arguing with myself!" Inuyasha was having difficulties keeping his temper under control.
When Kagome found them she noticed that her hanyou companion was in an even fouler mood than he was before. Mentally sighing she sat in between them and took each of there hands in hers. They made a cute picture. Kagome in the middle with L Inu on the left and Inuyasha on the right, all of them staring at the pale blue moon with the fire burning bright.
The next day the group decided to just relax. Sitting on the porch of the kind lady's house, L Inu saw children playing with a ball. "Kagome? Can I go play with those children?" "Huh? Oh, sure L Inu. Just be careful okay?" "Alright!" With a bright smile he took off.
"You shouldn't have let him played Kagome." Frowned Inuyasha. "Why not?" "He's a hanyou. Not half human…not whole demon…just, half and half. People treat us as if…as if we were dirt!" Inuyasha's eyes narrowed in anger. Kagome saw seeing L Inu brought back unpleasant memories for Inuyasha. "Inuyasha…he, seems to be alright out there." Inuyasha looked up.
It was true. The children were laughing and passing the ball to L Inu and L Inu was laughing along with them. "Ah, that's one thing I pride about my village." Kagome and Inuyasha twisted around to see, the village elder. He smiled at them.
"There may be vile demons running around and creating all sorts of chaos and mischief but I try to influence my people on not to judge people by there blood." He chuckled. "We've had quite a few hanyou's pass by here and they've enjoyed their stay just as normal people would."
"So you influence the contact with hanyou's?" asked Kagome. "Of course! It's good to have exposure to all types of people." "Why?" asked Inuyasha. "Why do support this ideal?" The village elder chuckled. "That's a very good question. I was once injured on a mountaintop with no food or water. I was a young, inexperienced, and I didn't know a great deal about demons or how there rituals went. It was very peculiar that I was helped by a female hanyou. She was more beautiful than any fair maiden I had ever seen and she had the most beautiful green eyes. They were like sparkling emeralds. She helped me down the mountain and from her I suppose I could never really hate the hanyou race." He smiled at them. "I hope you enjoy the rest of your stay here." After that he walked back into the hut.
"Do you think they'll visit again?" asked an old female hanyou. The village elder smiled at her. "I'm sure they will dear, I'm sure they will." Her green eyes twinkled with joy.
The next morning the group said there thanks to the villagers and set out as the sun was rising.
They wanted to reach Kaede's village within two days so Kagome could go home and restock. It was also the agreed meeting time between them and Miroku and Sango. Wondering if they're shard rumor was true the group hurried along. After about an hour or two the group took a brief rest before continuing on.
L Inu stretched. They had been walking for about an hour now and he was bored. The scenery was nice and everything and he enjoyed chatting with Kagome but it was so boring! "How can they stand walking around all the time? It's so boring! There's absolutely nothing to do!" "Kagome?" "Yes L Inu?" "I'm bored. Is there anything to do?" "I'm sorry L Inu I don't have anything for you to do." L Inu sighed. "If you're so bored count how many strands of hair you have." Commented Inuyasha. L Inu was about to comment back but stopped and thought about it. "There's nothing else to do so why not? 1, 2, 3, 4…" L Inu continued counting.
Once they reached Kaede's hut L Inu realized he had 3,700,845 hairs. He probably had more since he lost count more than once. It was hard counting that high!
They entered the village and got a warm greeting from Kaede. She was shocked at the appearance of L Inu but Kagome motioned that they would talk about that later.
Realizing Miroku, Sango, and Shippo had already returned Inuyasha and Kagome eagerly entered the hut. Seeing Shippo busy with coloring, Kagome greeted Sango warmly and would have greeted Miroku if he weren't knocked out. A red handprint gave certain clues to what might have happened. Seeing Shippo L Inu raced over to see what he was doing.
"Hello Sango!" "Hello Kagome, Inuyasha." Inuyasha grunted in reply. "Did your trip fare well?" asked Sango. Kagome nodded. " It went very well, we collected three jewel shards." "Wow. Miroku and I only ended up with a false lead. I'm happy that yours was successful though." They continued conversing while L Inu and Shippo played together.
"What are you doing?" asked L Inu. "I'm coloring." Replied Shippo. "Can I?" "Sure!" " Wow." Commented L Inu. "You have a lot of coloring sticks." "Oh, there not mine. There Kagome's, she just lets me use them." "Where does she get them? They must cost a lot of money! Look how many colors there are!" "Actually, Kagome says they make thousands of them everyday so they don't cost that much." L Inu was bewildered. Thousands? Who could make that many in one day? Shrugging, he continued to color.
"Oh this is dreadful!" commented a woman. "I've lost one! Where could he be?! He doesn't normally wander off!" The woman wailed. "If I don't find him something dreadful could happen! Oh what to do!" Suddenly, she got an idea.
"That's it! I can track down his future self and I'll be sure to find him! Hopefully…." The woman sighed. There was a bright light. "Hm? Oh! Kagome dear!" There standing before her was a miniature Kagome. Kagome's lower lip wobbled. "I c-can't f-find Yasha!" She started wailing. "What if he ran away?! What if he hates me?!" The woman was in frenzy.
"No Kagome. Hush. Inuyasha doesn't hate you. He just wandered off." She rubbed Kagome's back. Kagome hiccupped. "R-really?" The woman nodded. "He wandered off and I can't find him. Actually, would you like to help me find him?" Kagome smiled. "Sure! Let's find Yasha! I bet he is playing hide and go seek again." Kagome pouted. "He hid in that stupid cupboard for three days! I was so worried!" The woman smiled. "He apologized though, didn't he?" "Yeah, but it still didn't make up for making me worry!"
The woman laughed. "Really?" "Yes! It's not funny Nana! He made me worry on purpose! The meanie-head!" "Meanie-head?" "That's what I call him when he makes me worry. Nana smiled. "Well let's go look for him then." Kagome nodded.
(A/N): I hope that was long enough for you guys. I'm sorry for not updating sooner. I had writers block on other ideas and this one got put on the back shelf. Terribly sorry. I hope you enjoy this chapter! Please review!