Last time: The group went to a dance in Kagome's time, and they danced and such... Charlie and Kay danced, and Charlie seemed to blush a lot... That was a bunch of foreshadowing in the last chapter.
Chapter 7: The Knower of Fates
Charlie and Kirara landed near a village and they transformed back to normal when everyone got off. They entered the village and asked around for hints about the demon when Kagome sensed a jewel shard. They ran towards the shard and into the forest before slowing down when they were close.
"Kohaku, stay close," Sango said as she readied her Hiriakotsu.
"Yes, Sango," Kohaku answered, gripping his weapon tighter.
Charlie and InuYasha sniffed the air, and InuYasha growled, turning to a tree. "Get down here and fight, demon!" InuYasha yelled, pulling out his sword.
A demon wearing a plain white kimono jumped down from a nearby tree. Her hair was short, reaching just below her ears, and it was a dark blue. Her eyes were also a dark blue, and she was petite and dainty. She looked like a normal human, besides the pointed ears and blue colored eyes and hair.
"You won't defeat me," the demon said, standing up straight.
"Oh, and why is that?" InuYasha yelled at the demon.
"Because I'm just going to give you the shard," she said, folding her arms.
"HUH?" the group exclaimed, standing there with huge sweatdrops on their heads.
"Who the hell are you?" Kay asked, pointing an accusing finger at the demon.
"Excuse me. I am Anki. I know the fates of all the people in the world, but I only pay attention to the fates of people I meet," the demon said, her blue hair bouncing as she started to walk towards the group. They watched her carefully as she looked at Charlie and smiled, bringing her face up close to his. "I see you've adapted well to your human body."
"What? What does that mean?" Charlie pretty much yelled as much as asked. He glared and thought for a minute. "Did... Are you responsible for giving me this body?"
Anki walked away from him, holding her finger up. "I didn't just give you a new body! I gave you so many things! I have given you feelings, emotions... Love... A whole new way of life!" Anki exclaimed, her voice rising and lowering dramatically with the different sentences. "I have given you a chance to live out your fate, and to live out your destiny."
"But you ruined what I knew! I can't even go to the bathroom wherever I want!" Charlie yelled at Anki. She just took the comment blindly, not really affecting her.
"Charlie, you were a dog," Kay said, glaring at Anki.
"Ah! You! The keeper of the keys! Oh yes, and all the rest of you. Your fates are so much intertwined with Charlie's that it's amazing. Especially yours!" Anki said, pointing directly at Kay.
Kay's eyes widened and her head launched backwards, looking at the finger in her face. She blinked a couple times and went back to standing normally and pointed to her chest. "Me?"
"Yes! You!" Anki said, lifting her finger up into the air and hitting Kay's nose, making her yelp in pain and grab her nose. Michelle laughed a little bit and Anki noticed her now. "Ah! You are the freakishly moronic creature who loves to make insulting jokes!" Kay started cracking up and holding onto the nearest tree so she could stand.
"Hey, you little bitch!" Michelle yelled, clenching her fist.
Ignoring the temperamental delinquent, she turned their backs to them. "You are all such a huge part of this world, and your fates seem to intertwine with almost everyone in this land. I hope we all meet again," Anki said before taking a jewel shard from a hidden place and throwing it on the ground. The demon jumped up into the air and disappeared in a cloud of smoke. While the rest gaped, looking up to where she disappeared, Kagome went to the jewel shard and picked it up, putting it in the jewel.
"We're one step closer to getting the jewel completed," Kagome said, standing up and looking into the sky where Anki disappeared.
"That was really weird," Kay said, blinking a couple times before looking around.
"Let's start heading back to Kaede's village," InuYasha said.
Kay blinked a couple times and said to InuYasha, "Well, shouldn't we--"
"Let's go!" he yelled, walking off towards the village. Kay sighed and got on Charlie as he transformed.
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Because InuYasha wouldn't listen to Kay's suggestion, instead of staying the night in the nice village, they had to spend the night in the forest. How fun. Well, at least the girls had found a convenient place to bathe, like there always was. Those hot springs seemed to pop up all over the place!
Kay, Kagome, Sango, and surprisingly, Michelle, went off to bathe in the hot springs. Miroku waited until InuYasha was out of the way (InuYasha went and looked for food instead of staying to keep Miroku out of trouble) and dragged Charlie with him to spy on the girls.
"I don't want to go! Why are you dragging me with you?" Charlie yelled, trying to pry his way out of Miroku's grasp.
"Just because..." Miroku said, a lecherous glint in his eye. He quieted Charlie with an evil look over his shoulder and pushed Charlie down, and went down to crawl himself. He dragged Charlie over to the bushes and sat so they could see the girls, but the girls couldn't see them.
"You notice how Kay and Michelle put their hair down to take a bath?" Miroku asked, his voice only loud enough for Charlie to hear.
"Yeah..." Charlie whispered, looking at Miroku like he was stupid. What the hell is his point?
"I wonder why Kagome puts hers up," Miroku stated, looking through the bushes carefully. "And Sango's hair is so pretty..."
"What the hell are you blabbering on about?" Charlie hissed.
"Sorry..." Miroku said, blushing a bit. As Charlie continued to glare at Miroku, and also trying to make sure he didn't invade the girls' privacy, Miroku smiled evilly.
"What are you smiling at?" Charlie whispered angrily.
Miroku simply replied by turning Charlie's head, and he saw something that instantly made him blush. The girls were getting out of the hot spring, giving Miroku and Charlie a nice view of them. Charlie hit Miroku hard on top of the head and slowly crawled away, not managing to look at anything else than the view before him until he went behind a tree to block the view.
Once he was back to camp he looked around and sniffed the air, trying to find InuYasha. He jumped up in a tree and looked around to see that Shippo and Kohaku were half asleep and weren't paying attention to their surroundings, and only about a minute after Charlie had arrived back at camp, InuYasha came to the camp from the opposite side of the forest from the hot springs. InuYasha carried some food and looked around, spotting Charlie in the tree.
"Where's the monk?" InuYasha asked.
"I dunno," Charlie lied, looking around. "He said he was going to go find you."
Figuring out instantly where the monk was he growled. "MIROKU!" InuYasha yelled, glaring into the distance. He was answered by the sounds of the girls beating up on a now conscious Miroku. The two dog demons blinked a couple times and sweatdropped, listening to the sounds of pain and things like that.
"I suppose the girls got that whole situation under control," InuYasha said, blinking a couple of times before going to the fire and getting the food ready.
"Um... Shouldn't we do something?" Charlie asked.
"Why? The girls won't kill him," InuYasha said, leaving the food alone now that it was cooking.
"It just seems... weird," Charlie said, scratching the back of his head.
"Well, so are you, but you don't see us complaining," Michelle said as she walked through the forest into the camp. Sango followed, dragging Miroku behind her, and Kay and Kagome followed Sango. Kay finished drying her hair off and went over to her backpack to put the towel away.
Kay walked over to Charlie's tree and looked up to where he was sitting. "Charlie, do you want to talk about Anki and her spell?" asked Kay. Charlie shook his head. "Well, you're going to anyway."
Kay climbed up into the tree and managed to get onto the same branch as Charlie. She balanced herself and sighed, blinking a couple times before clearing her throat. "What's your take on all of this?" Kay asked the demon.
"Well, I think that Anki person had no right to do that..." growled Charlie.
"No, she didn't, but she transformed you into a demon anyway, and you can't change that," Kay said.
"I still don't like it! I never got a choice in the matter!" Charlie yelled, gouging his nails into the tree branch.
"Charlie, you sometimes don't get to choose things like that," Kay explained, her face calm and slightly sad.
"Why can't I choose my own life?" Charlie asked.
"As a dog you can't, but in this form, you can. Now you have freedom to do what you want, and you can run your own life," Kay said, scooting forward to jump off the branch. She jumped to another lower branch and landed nicely on it, and turned back to look at Charlie. "You know, I like you better like this, but if you don't, nothing is stopping you from finding a way to get back to normal."
Charlie watched as Kay jumped out of the tree and went to the fire, waiting for the food to get finished. He sat thinking about what she said, trying to figure out if there was any hidden meaning behind those words.
Though, one thing was certain for him. He didn't like the feelings that came with being in this body.
Next time: When they get back to Kaede's village the village is attacked by a whole horde of demons, but they're stopped, but by who? And who is this strange demon?
Kay: She is a very beautiful demon, but I don't like her.
Michelle: Are you lesbian?
Kay: No... Where the hell did you get that idea?
Michelle: You said the demon was beautiful!
Kay: I'M WRITING THE DAMN STORY, MORON!
Michelle: Whatever...
Kay: I guess I should tell everyone what the title means now...
Michelle: What does it mean?
Kay: Mokumoku Koikgokoru means "Silent Love" in Japanese.
Michelle: ... WHAT THE HELL IS THAT SORT OF NAME!
Kay: You don't get it, do you?
Michelle: Huh?
Kay: Never mind. Just read the next chapter, The Angel of Demons.