Last time: Charlie found out the hard way that some people don't accept certain people, but he also found out that other people will accept you no matter who you are. Now they are on board Hachi, trying to find a dragon to use for Charlie's new kimono.
Chapter 4: Fukayoi
"InuYasha, Charlie, you two smell anything?" Kay asked, looking at the treetops to see if she could find anything.
InuYasha 'keh'ed and Charlie sat up, sniffing the air carefully, looking around and wagging his tail when he finally found something.
Charlie pointed. "That way."
"I could have told you that," InuYasha said, sticking his nose up in the air.
Hachi turned to follow the direction Charlie pointed. "But you didn't because of your stubbornness," Kay said, raising an eyebrow.
Completely ignoring the conversation that just took place, Charlie said, "We'll be there in a little bit. We should get ready."
"How are you going to fight?" Kay asked Charlie.
"I guess I could transform into my dog form," Charlie said, shrugging.
"That works..."
Hachi flew through the sky, the winds blowing back everyone's hair, and soon he landed.
"This is as far as I go," Hachi said, crossing his arms as he transformed back.
"You better wait here for us, or else I'll hurt you more than anyone else would," Michelle said, glaring at the raccoon-dog.
The group walked through the forest until they heard a deep roar. Then they ran. No, not in the other direction. They ran towards it. I don't see their logic either, but they're dumb.
Running into a thinner part of the forest, but not a clearing, they saw the dragon there, the hair on his head flowing with the wind. His blood red eyes didn't match the gray scales or the dark blue fur/hair stuff, so they looked out of place. Well, actually, blood red eyes looks good for anyone evil, so they were fine.
Upon seeing the group the dragon roared and flew towards them, making them scatter in different directions. Kagome, InuYasha and Shippo together, well, InuYasha instantly went to fight the dragon right after, Kohaku, Kirara, Miroku and Sango running together, and Michelle, Kay and Charlie in a different direction. Charlie transformed into his giant dog form, attacking the demon with his brute strength. Though, Charlie was still smaller than the dragon.
Kay and Michelle unsheathed their swords together and then ran at the dragon, Michelle holding her purple flame sword, Papuruhiken, and Kay holding her blue flame sword, Aoirohiken.
Their swords hardly dented the dragon's hard scales. Kay and Michelle gasped as they retreated back and watched the fight with Kagome and Shippo.
"Is this how you always feel, Kagome?" Michelle asked.
"What do you mean?" Kagome asked Michelle.
"I feel really useless. I mean, I can't even fight the creature!" Michelle exclaimed as she watched InuYasha send a wind scar at it.
"Michelle, shut up," Kay said, glaring at her best friend.
"What?"
"You're being rude," Kay complained.
"So?" Michelle groaned in pain after Kay kicked her for that comment.
The demon spotted the girls and fox demon who were practicing the art of omission and Kay clenched her teeth in worry. Being able to read his actions, and his mind, Kay knew that he was planning to attack them next!
"Kagome! Michelle! Run!" Kay said, pushing the girls away from her, and also pushing Shippo along with them. It really worked out if Shippo went on Kagome's shoulder, but he seemed to be more useless than helpful.
The dragon started for an attack and lunged at where Kagome, Shippo, and Michelle were, but Kay was still there. Kay dodged the attack by jumping, sending her sprawling on the ground, and the dragon hit a tree nearby, making it crack and threaten to fall on her. Kay rolled out of the way just in time to dodge the tree, but the dragon roared again and swiped at Kay, catching her in his claws. Kay struggled and then dug her poisonous nails into his scales, causing them to disintegrate and making the dragon roar in pain. He used his other arm to swipe at Kay, sending her sprawling to the ground, blood soaking into her clothing.
Kagome pulled back her arrow and shot at the dragon, hitting it in the arm, and while he went over to attack Kagome, Charlie jumped at him and attacked him from the side. Kagome pulled back another arrow, the string sounding almost like it would break. Once she got a good shot, she let go of the arrow and it hit the dragon, right in the heart. It roared in pain, though because of the protective scales it did not die. He opened his mouth to send a demonic attack at Kagome, but InuYasha went in front of her, readying his sword. Once the dragon sent his attack out InuYasha brought down his sword, yelling, "BACKLASH WAVE!"
The dragon was killed and fell from the sky in huge hunks.
Charlie transformed back into his 'human' form and ran over to his best friend, yelling, "Kay!" much like Kagome would say InuYasha's name. He kneeled beside her and sniffed the air, confirming that she was just knocked out. He picked her up, bridal style, and walked over to the rest of the group, who were gathering up the hunks of the dragon with hair on them.
- - -
Kagome lifted Kay's shirt half way up, looking at the bandages that she had put on her. Kay's wound had been doing good. The first time she put the bandages on Miroku was disappointed to find out that Kay wore a bra.
Kay opened her eyes and groaned, putting a hand to her head and rubbing her temples. "Where am I?" Kay asked, realizing that was a very common question for people to ask when they woke up from unconsciousness.
"You're in Kaede's hut," Kagome said, pulling Kay's shirt back down and standing up. "You were knocked out by that dragon."
"Oh, yeah... I remember now... Where is everyone?" Kay asked looking around and grabbing her side in pain when she turned too much.
"Shippo, Sango, Miroku and Kohaku went to help Kaede with herbs, and InuYasha and Michelle went outside to spar nearby. Charlie went to bring the dragon fur to the seamstress," Kagome explained, going to get a pot from the corner of the room. "And now, I'm going to go get some water from the stream so I can make some food. You're welcome to join me," Kagome suggested.
"No, I think I'll just walk around the village and see if I can help out there... But first I'll change out of these bloody clothes," Kay said, slowly getting up from the uncomfortable futon.
After Kagome left Kay changed into one of the fine silk kimonos that Sesshomaru gave to her (a blue one), and she went outside, her hair swinging happily behind her, and not forgetting to bring her sword along with her.
She traveled through the village, heading towards the seamstress's to check up on things. People smiled and waved at her, and she waved back. Maybe it was because of her clothing that people waved? Yeah right. But, maybe.
She walked into the seamstress's and saw a most interesting sight. Many children tackling Charlie and grabbing at his ears. Kay smiled and ignored the cries for help and walked over to the seamstress, who was taking care of the demon's head, though, rather disgustedly.
"How long do you suppose Charlie's kimono will take?" Kay asked.
"Who's?" said the seamstress.
"The demon," Kay said, jabbing her thumb back towards the dog pile of small children and a dog demon.
"It'll take about three days, so you come back then, OK?"
"Yes ma'am," Kay said. She turned around and stuck her thumb and her index finger in her mouth and blew, producing a high pitched whistle that would hurt the ears of a man almost deaf.
The kids stopped attacking Charlie and Kay said, "Come on, Charlie, we should go."
The kids and the dog demon all cried 'aww', but Kay took Charlie's hand and pulled him up off the floor. The children said their goodbyes and the two walked outside, wincing at the sudden sunlight.
"What are we going to do for three days?" Kay asked, looking over to Charlie.
"I dunno," Charlie said truthfully.
"Hey! I know! Let's go swimming in the river!" Kay said excitedly. She jumped up and down and was positively beaming. Kay's second home seemed to be in the water, or maybe third home.
"Sure! We can go swimming... But what am I gonna wear?" Charlie asked.
"You can wear those shorts that I gave to you." Kay smiled and walked on, thinking to herself and talking to herself a bit.
"Wait a minute. What about your wound?" Charlie asked.
"Huh?" Kay said turning around. "My wound? Oh, damn... I forgot about that. I guess I can't go, can I?" Kay said to herself, sighing. She stood there for a second and closed her eyes, thinking hard.
Charlie stood there, watching her, and nearly jumped out of his skin when Kay gasped loudly and jumped up. "You need a weapon! We can go se Totosai and get you a weapon!"
"That would be cool," Charlie said, smiling gratefully.
"Come on! Let's hope someone's at the hut when we get back," Kay said, running towards the hut quickly.
"Hey! Wait up!" Charlie said, running after her. He easily caught up to Kay, seeing as she was just human, and he stayed near her as she ran towards the hut. Once there she went inside and looked around, and Charlie did the same. InuYasha, Michelle, and Kagome were inside the hut.
"Does anyone want to come with Charlie and I to get him a sword?" Kay asked, watching everyone carefully. InuYasha shrugged and said, "Why not? I can get my sword sharpened while we're there."
"I want to come too," Michelle said, standing up.
InuYasha looked at Michelle and raised an eyebrow. "You ain't riding on my back," he said after a moment. Michelle stuck her tongue out and blew a raspberry at InuYasha.
"You coming Kagome?" Charlie asked.
"I think I'll stay here. I'll go home and study some because I have a test," Kagome said, putting a book in her bag.
"All right then, let's head off!" Kay said, smiling. "Come on! Yasha! Sandwich!"
"Sandwich?" InuYasha asked as Kay and Charlie went outside.
"Somehow Kay's grandpa got sandwich from the name Mitchell, and somehow connected my name to that," Michelle said distastefully. "It's all very confusing. Don't ask about it anymore."
"OK, Sandwich"
Waiting for the other two, Charlie asked, "What about the others, like Miroku, or Sango? Or maybe Shippo or Kohaku would like to come."
Kay stopped and looked at Charlie strangely. "There's one thing in common that all those people have. With the acceptation of Sango, none of them have swords. And Sango can take care of her sword herself. Now let's go!"
"How are we gonna get there though?" Michelle asked, walking out of the hut.
- - -
True to his word, InuYasha carried Kay through the forest heading to Totosai's cave thing, Charlie carrying Michelle close behind. Kay turned to look at Michelle, who was rubbing Charlie's ears. "MICHELLE! Quit rubbing his ears! You're putting him to sleep and making him fall behind!" Kay yelled at Michelle, who instantly stopped petting the fuzzy triangles of wonder.
After a while they made camp, seeing as it was getting dark and hard to see, though the demons could still keep going without hitting any trees, because they could see. But they made camp anyway.
In the morning they set off again, this time only stopping for bathroom breaks and the necessity for food. If Kay didn't complain to InuYasha he would have just kept going, even if there was a wet spot in the back of his kimono. Though, he might have yelled at Kay...
Late that day they made it to Totosai's home and walked inside, the sounds of, "Hey, old man! I came here for you to sharpen my sword! Oh, and we need you to make another sword for us," echoing through the cave thing. Totosai popped up from behind a rock and smiled.
"Ah! InuYasha! You want your sword sharpened? Oh, and those other two girls who's name escape me..." Totosai said, smiling.
"It's Kay and Michelle, stupid," Michelle said, growling.
"Who's that?" Totosai asked, pointing to the rather tall demon.
"That's Charlie, Totosai," Kay said.
"I thought Charlie was a dog."
"Well, he's not anymore. OK?"
"Fine. Do you two want your swords sharpened also?" the old codger asked.
"Yes," Kay and Michelle answered simultaneously. Totosai took all of their swords and sharpened them, taking a while for each of them. Kay and Michelle talked for a while, about nothing really. Only they can include the words 'yam', 'purple fairy', 'contorted', 'goulash', and 'duck' in the same conversation. Not many people can also use the sentence, "My purple orange is much better than your orange purple, because silver, orange, and purple don't rhyme with anything," in a conversation either. But Kay and Michelle have that rare gift, the ability to talk about random things and saying everything and saying nothing at the same time.
Once Totosai was done making the swords sharp, Charlie walked up to the sword smith and said, "If you don't mind, would you make a sword for me?"
"Hm... I usually don't make swords for random people I just met, but I guess I can make an exception, since you're InuYasha's friend," the old man said, and then the made Charlie sit down. "Open your mouth," Totosai ordered.
"Don't do it! He's going to pull out one of your teeth!" InuYasha warned.
When Charlie didn't open his mouth after InuYasha's warning, Totosai pried it open quickly. He then pulled two teeth out as quick as a cheetah can run, both of them the large pointy ones that I forgot the name of.
Charlie put his hands over his mouth and whined, big anime tear drops coming to his eyes. "Your sword will be done in about three days," Totosai said.
"Another three days? We have to wait ANOTHER THREE DAMN DAYS?" Michelle yelled, her hair sticking on end and fire coming up behind her.
"Michelle, your eyes are on fire," Kay said, pointing at Michelle.
"I know."
"Well, by the time we get back to Kaede's village it will be about a day and a half, if we leave right away, and then Charlie can come get his sword," Kay said, figuring it all out on her hand and in her head.
"Fine," Charlie said, turning around and walking outside, waiting for everyone to come.
The ride back wasn't too interesting, and Charlie went to get his kimono, and when he came back, he was so cute in his little blue kimono! It was blue and a lot like InuYasha's, except... blue... Yeah. It also had no sleeves and his tail stuck out of the back of his pants, like some odd growth... Why didn't it have sleeves? Who knew, but it was just that way. And had no sleeves. But the seamstress said it would still work just as well without sleeves, and he didn't need sleeves. It protected your whole body... Or something weird like that.
Charlie left himself after getting his kimono and came back a couple days after getting his sword.
"Let's see the sword, Charlie!" Kay said, running up to him and looking at the sword in his belt. Of course she couldn't see it because it was in it's sheathe, but it was still cool.
"It's nothing special... IT'S AWESOME!" Charlie yelled, pulling out his sword and holding it up. It truly was special. It looked like the sword was yin and yang. One side was black and the other side white. "The old geezer said that this sword was the balance between all good and bad. He said it was called Fukayoi. It's so cool," Charlie said, swinging the sword around and then putting it back in it's sheathe.
"That is cool!" Kay said, watching Charlie's sword carefully. "Well, now we can leave."
"Why?" Charlie asked.
"We got a rumor about a jewel shard! We're almost ready to leave," Kay said, walking inside the hut.
Everyone seemed to have gotten ready, and they were all set to go. Kay picked up her bag of stuff and put her sword in her belt.
"Let's go!" Shippo said, bouncing up on Kagome's shoulder. They all went outside and Charlie and Kirara transformed into their giant dog and cat forms. Kay, Michelle, InuYasha, Kagome and Shippo went on Charlie, though it was a rather tight fit, and Kohaku, Sango and Miroku went on Kirara, and they set off.
- - -
It turned out that the jewel shard that they were searching for was a fake, and they didn't get any farther on their mission, though they did get some money for slaying a demon. They had traveled quite a ways, and decided to make camp in the middle of the forest.
"I'm hungry!" Shippo said, sitting next to the fire.
"I'm hungry also," Kohaku said.
"Well, Michelle and I will go find something to eat, then," Kay said, standing up.
"Why me? Why don't you take Charlie?" Michelle asked.
"Because you're sitting on your ass all day and Charlie has been traveling all day. Just come on, Michelle, my bell," Kay said, walking into the forest.
"Don't call me that!" Michelle said, following Kay. "I'd much rather you call me sandwich or Mitchell."
"You know, I heard that song, 'Michelle, my bell'. It was really dumb," Kay said, searching the forest for food.
"With a name like that it should be," Michelle said, searching around.
"Hey, remember that time we found that video game called 'The Legend of Kay'? It looked really dumb, especially since it was about that weird cat person thing..." Kay said, looking around a tree.
"Yeah! I remember that! That was funny," Michelle said.
While they were walking they didn't realize they had stumbled onto a great big mushroom patch. Kay gasped and smiled, kneeling down.
"Hey! These are morels! I didn't know they grew in Japan..." Kay said, looking at the strange, wrinkly mushrooms. ((AN: I don't actually know if they do grow in Japan, I just didn't want to put puffballs in there.))
"So small! So wrinkly!" Michelle said, kneeling down.
Kay bursted out laughing because of their little inside joke. Actually they went bowling for their drama party, and because Michelle was a horrid bowler, Kay helped her get a better score. Amazingly the second game Kay won, and Michelle got third, but that's not the point.
Michelle was having trouble with getting pins, so Kay went next to her and put her hand on her shoulder to make fun of a fellow cast member and to make Michelle laugh at the same time. Kay said, "Michelle... Just imagine Jacob's balls going down the lane..."
Michelle had put her hand up to shield her eyes and had said, "So small! So wrinkly!" And, if memory serves, Michelle got a strike on that turn.
But I got a little off track. Kay settled down and she taught Michelle how to get the morel out of the ground, by cutting it at the base of the shroom. Soon they had tons of morels and were holding out the bottoms of their shirts with an overflowing amounts of morels stuck in there.
They walked into camp and everyone looked at the mushrooms like they were crazy.
"What are those?" InuYasha asked disgustedly.
"These are morels. They are a very tasty mushroom and very good. They are considered somewhat of a delicacy in my home," Kay said, taking out a giant skillet from Kagome's bag, which was big enough to hold at least 75 mushrooms. Somehow she also had butter in there, but her bag was magical (or so it seemed) and could hold Kirara in her transformed state, and still have room for her homework.
Kay buttered the skillet and cut up the morels while the skillet went over the fire. She then put the shrooms on the pan and let them cook while she dug through Kagome's bag for something else to cook with.
"How do you know how to cook this?" Michelle asked Kay suspiciously.
"We went and got some morels once, and then we cooked them. They were very tasty, though, we didn't eat them all," Kay said as she pulled out a small bottle of mixed spices and sighed.
"What are you looking for?" Kagome asked.
"Well I was lo-- DAMMIT!" Kay said as she realized the cap for the spices fell off and was pouring all over the mushrooms. She turned the spice over and put the cap back on it and looked at the mushrooms.
"I wonder if they're OK?" Shippo asked, looking at the mushrooms carefully. Kay looked in Kagome's bag and found what she was looking for. A hot pad. She used that to take the skillet off of the fire and then moved it onto a nearby rock and looked at the food; the others looked over her shoulder to check on the food also.
InuYasha sniffed it and picked one up. He popped it in his mouth and grinned. "THIS IS SO DAMN GOOD THAT IT'S ALMOST AS GOOD AS RAMEN!" he exclaimed. That was good enough for the rest of them, and they dug in.
Half an hour later Michelle and Kay were dancing around the fire, singing the Magical Trevor song, Kirara and Shippo were making out, InuYasha was flirting with a rock, Miroku and Sango were performing ballet, and Kagome, Kohaku and Charlie all were doing the chicken dance.
And there were still at least 40 mushrooms left.
Next time: Now that the whole crew have apparently gotten high and drunk off of the mushrooms, chaos ensues. What happens when Kikyo, Sesshomaru, Jaken and Rin stumble on their little party? And when will InuYasha and the rock start going steady?
Michelle: Everyone loves Magical Trevor!
Kay: Cause the tricks that he does are ever-so-clever!
Kagome: I don't wanna be a chicken!
Kohaku: I don't wanna be a duck!
Charlie: So I'll shake my butt!
InuYasha: So, rock, what are you doing tomorrow?
Miroku: OK, Sango, jump into my arms!
Sango: Even when I'm high I know not to fall for that.
Miroku: Just do it!
Shippo: Kirara, you are such a wonderful creature!
Kirara: Mew! i WTF/i
Kay: Beans lots of beans, lots of beans, lotsa beans! Yeah, beans lots of beans lots of beans, lots of beans!
Sesshomaru: Obviously none of these bakas are fit to inform you about the next chapter, so I'll do it for them. I don't really care if you read the next chapter, The Effects of Morels.
InuYasha: Oh, rock! I can't believe you're dating the tree!
Sesshomaru: -.-;