Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha or any of the characters. But I DO own my OC's. And a wedge of moldy cheese. And I'm not giving you ANY of them… Ok, you can have the moldy cheese.
Chapter 7
Shippo sat down at the river edge. The girl he'd rescued sat next to him, watching him. It made him feel rather uncomfortable. The problem was that they were both getting hungry and the fish were out in the middle of the river. Shippo considered using Tetsusaiga… but decided against it. He could easily blast the fish into pieces too small to eat. The alleged "priestess" cleared her throat. "You're a kitsune right?" Shippo nodded, still watching the fish. "Yeah I am. Why?" She began running her fingers through her hair. "Well you CAN do magic tricks can't you?" Shippo nodded again but said nothing. "So why don't you just conjure up some food?" Shippo turned his head and looked at her in the eyes. "Fox magic isn't conjuration! We can only do illusions and transformations!" She narrowed her eyes. "Don't take that tone with me kitsune! So what sorts of illusions? Can you make a good lure?" Shippo nodded. "I can try." He stood up. "Fox Magic!" An enormous worm appeared in midair. "Hey! I thought you said you couldn't conjure!" Shippo began making his worm begin flailing in the shallows in front of them. "I can't. That worm is a complete illusion. In fact it's only a stick I tossed in the water with a thread attached. That's how I can make it squirm." The girl sighed. "Yokai are so useless." Shippo thought of retorting but decided against it. She's as bad as Soten. Worse actually! If she had actually demonstrated the ability to defend herself I wouldn't even be here! But it just isn't me to leave a lady in danger. Shippo sighed.
One hour later.
Shippo groaned both from hunger and frustration. Hunger because no fish had been caught and frustration because the fish weren't even coming close to his bait. The fact that the girl had been complaining for the last twenty minutes hadn't helped. Shippo accepted defeat. He closed his eyes and the worm vanished in a puff of smoke. The girl ran over and whacked Shippo over the head. "That's it then! We'll just starve?" Shippo glared at her. "I can't exactly help that the fish wouldn't bite! Those little guys are smart! They won't bite!" Shippo could tell the girl was angry. Then it stopped and an evil smile crept over her face. "You said you can transform?" Shippo nodded. "Yeah what about it?" The smile grew bigger. "Is it an illusion as well?" Shippo shrugged. "Depends on how powerful the yokai is." She nodded. "How about you?" Shippo nodded again. "Yeah I'm pretty strong. I can probably make a full transformation. But I'm not going to do fish." The girl frowned. Damn he caught on. Maybe I can still prompt him too… "Why not?" She pressed the question at Shippo. "Because unfortunately I am unable to transform back for a little bit if there is a change in the climate too suddenly. Like going from land to water in an instant or something like that. Even if I wade out it would need to be over my head. And I can't do transformation well while I'm underwater." The girl sighed. Then she clutched her stomach. "Ah! I'm so hungry! I'm gonna starve and never see my home again! And it's all your fault!" Shippo doubled over laughing. "I am way smarter than you give me credit for!" She nodded. "I guess so. But laughing isn't going to fill your stomach. Only food and drink can do that." Shippo stopped laughing. "Ok then I'll do it. But I have to have some kind of way of knowing you won't try and oh don't know, eat me too, kill me etc, etc." She nodded. "Fair enough." She reached into her pack and pulled out two large bowls. She filled one of them with water. "I promise not to take advantage of your weak state if you'll get us some food ok?" Shippo nodded. "Like I said though, I need proof you won't kill me." She untied her hair ribbon. "This is the ribbon I received on the first day of my spiritual training. I'll give it to you as proof. But you have to give it back." Shippo nodded as he took the ribbon. "Ok, that'll do I guess." He tucked it into his pocket. He took out a leaf and placed it on his head. "Fox Magic! Transform!"
A puff of smoke went up and a small fish was wriggling on the ground. The girl picked the fish up. It was so small it fit in her palm. She was highly tempted to crush it right then. She had hated yokai since she was a six. Now she was fifteen. But she had agreed not to kill the kitsune. That didn't mean she could scare him to near death. "Ok then kitsune! Show me what you can do!" She hurled with all her strength and sent Shippo sailing into the center of the river.
Immediately Shippo got down to work and fifteen minutes later there were seven fish in the priestess's bowl. That's when things went wrong. Shippo was gathering more fish to drag over to the shore when the priestess noticed something. A large wave in the river at a bend roughly forty meters away. The problem was that this wave did not subside as waves normally do. It moved at a very deliberate pace towards the shoal of fish. It was only about twenty meters off the fish school when they began to break away and move off. Shippo was in hysterics. He tried to move for the shore but he wasn't fast enough. He was just at the edge of the shallows when the sakana yokai burst from the water and closed its jaws over Shippo.
Though he was in the yokai's mouth Shippo began to swim hard against the tongue of the beast. Just then, it opened its' mouth again to attack a larger fish. Shippo burst from its' mouth and began swimming away from it. He began swimming to the opposite shore to avoid another confrontation. He reached the other shore and waited until the sakana yokai to leave the area. He was just about to head back to the shore where he could see the priestess standing. He could tell by the way her eyes moved that she had seen him escape. Her eyes finally found him and she beckoned for him to return. Just as he was about to move back, her eyes widened in shock. Shippo felt a vibration and saw a foot land in the water beside him before a hand lashed through the water and grabbed him. It pulled him out of the water extremely quickly. He groaned inwardly. I told her doing this was a bad idea.
End of a new chapter. A bit longer than usual but I hope it wasn't too bad. Anyways please review.
Sakana yokai- Fish demon (and if I'm wrong I encourage you to tell me that I'm wrong so I can correct that)
P.S. I'm pretty sure fox magic can allow you turn into animals. So technically one can assume Shippo is a fish with really big eyes and probably orange scales. Anyways, R&R.