Once again I find myself apologizing for putting this chapter out late once again. School is still being a major pain in my ass. I had to write an EE (Electrical Engineering) lab report the other day and none of my calculations were working out. I tried writing this last night but only got so far before I hit a small writer's block. Luckily I overcame it today and have finished the chapter. Now I'd like to make one statement before I go any further. This is a statement, not a promise. I still plan to update on Feb. 8th, since it's my birthday. If things are going well for me, I'll update with 2 chapters but no guarantees.
Inuyasha and Sara - You don't have to worry about me playing Silent Hill 3 at night cause I don't play it at all. I never did like horror type games, I'm more of an RPG person.
Drumwar - Your mention of Tai is in a special note right before the story. As for your other cracks, I know its not only my birthday but I doubt you are hours older than me. I was born 24 minutes after midnight so ha. AND QUIT CALL ME SPIDER BOY, its Spider.
Fukashi Oni - I took no offense what so ever to your commenting on my grammar. I just laughed at it, that's all. Don't feel.
Lady Suhada - I'm glad that you joined just because of me. I hope you continue to enjoy the story.
Silent Dark - Don't feel bad that I didn't respond as to your guess of who Tai is. I'm just not saying anything yet. It makes your savor the surprise. You have 5 more chapters til you find out.
Ryguy5387 - Misdirection is everything it means. If you've seen the movie Swordfish, you'll have a better understanding. As for a sequel, I'll talk about that at the end of the chapter, if I remember to.
IMPORTANT TAI AZUMA INFO - Okay so far just about everyone has made a guess as to who Tai Azuma really is. I've had guess of Sesshomaru, Naraku, Naraku's reincarnation, Kagura, and even descendant of Miroku and Sango. I'm not trying to be mean by not answering anyone's guesses. I just want to keep up the suspense. I will say this. There is one person out there that knows the whole truth about Tai Azuma. That person is Drumwar. He only knows though because he's my best friend in real life and he's finally reading the story. If he opens his big mouth, he'll be in a lot of trouble. Also as for Tai's red eyes, when I say that I'm talking about the Iris (the colored part of the eye). I'm not talking about his entire eyes being red. That would be just too weird. 5 chapter's left until his full identity is revealed but you will find new stuff out in every chapter, except the next one, about him. Enjoy.
Disclaimer: I only own Tai Azuma, no one else, not even Inuyasha.
Chapter 30: Flaring Tempers
Inuyasha took his time walking home from school. He was alone because Kagome wasn't feeling well this morning so she took the day off. Inuyasha found it harder than usual to get through the day without her. He totally hated some of his teachers. At the top of the list was Mr. Azuma. It had been over 2 weeks since Azuma had mentioned to Inuyasha that he knew of Inuyasha's secret. He had confronted the teacher about it the next day but he just denied it and acted like he had said nothing. This just caused Inuyasha to hate him even more, if that was possible. Tai didn't seem to try anything more suspicious since then but Inuyasha made sure to keep his eyes open.
As Inuyasha was walking he noticed that he was being followed. "These yakuza guys don't give up, do they?" Inuyasha thought. They hadn't attacked for a while and Inuyasha was just starting to worry that they were giving up. If they gave up then, he wouldn't have anymore fun in the future. In the future he couldn't really let loose his frustrations like he did in the feudal era. Even if there were no demons to fight he could still plow through a few trees. Now with all the buildings he wasn't able to do that. Inuyasha finally cut through an alley. Once he had gotten halfway he stopped to face his pursuers. "You guys just don't know when to quit, do you?"
"Oh don't worry. After today we'll quit," one of seven said, "cause you'll be dead."
"Yeah, yeah, big words. At least you'll be more fun then that last batch," Inuyasha said referring to the 15 men from before. "At least I hope 7 demons can put up better fight than 15 humans."
A few of the men were surprised that Inuyasha had noticed. "I see we should not take you lightly. You are a riddle. You have seem to appear out of no where. No one seems to know anything about you. Care to tell us who you exactly are?" the demon said trying to goad Inuyasha into giving out information. If they knew more about him they could fight him better.
"You expect me to help you?" Inuyasha asked with a bit of a laugh. "You'll have to do a bit of searching cause I'm not giving you any answers." With that Inuyasha quickly began the fight by charging at them. With the element of surprise, he quickly cut the demon that had been talking to him in two. The others scattered and tried to surround Inuyasha. Two demons quickly charged him but Inuyasha just jumped out of the way clawing one of them in the stomach. The demon wasn't finished yet but he was badly wounded. Inuyasha was about to go back and finish him off when 3 more charged at him. Inuyasha could practically tell that they were all weaker demons and posed no threat but he wished he had Tetsusaiga. The battle would have been over a lot quicker, not to mention Inuyasha had to get his hands dirty. Last thing he wanted to do was go home and explain to Kagome's mom why he has blood on his clothes.
Inuyasha dodged one of the 3 but the second demon hit Inuyasha in the back and then the third smashed into Inuyasha sending him into the alley wall. The three seemed to be pleased with themselves until they heard a voice. "If that's the best you can do, you can leave now and I won't kill you," Inuyasha said as he pulled himself out of his crater in the wall with a smirk on his face. They seemed stunned that he wasn't even hurt by their attack. He used this to his advantage as he quickly cut through the demon that sent him into the wall. He didn't stop as he took out the one that he injured before. "Three down and only four to go," Inuyasha said evilly.
3 of them seemed enraged at his cocky attitude and charged at him. Their only problem was that they charged recklessly and Inuyasha quickly dispatched them. Inuyasha then rose to look at the last remaining demon. He hadn't gotten involved in the fight yet. Inuyasha took a sniff of the air to see what he was up against. He then realized that this demon wasn't going to be as easy as the others. This was a water and thunder demon. It seemed that the old ways of each demon only mating with its kind had faded into the background in the present day. Inuyasha played it cool though, "Are you ready to get your hands dirty or are you just going to stand there all day?" Inuyasha asked.
"Well since I was told to kill you I guess I will have to do some work," the demon said, "but who said I'd have to use my hands." Inuyasha didn't waste time and jumped at the demon. The yakuza only raised his hand at Inuyasha as some water shot up from the ground and threw Inuyasha in the opposite direction. "I can control water that is around me. There are plenty of underground water pipes in this city which make for a handy weapon."
"Whatever," Inuyasha said as he charged once again. The demon sent water at Inuyasha put he just plowed through it no matter how much came at him. The demon smiled knowing that Inuyasha had played right into his trap. He raised his other hand and a surge of electricity flowed out and at Inuyasha.
Inuyasha was preoccupied with the water coming at him to notice the electricity. When he got hit it sent him flying back into a near by garbage container. "Damn this guy is harder than I thought." Inuyasha thought as he looked at the garbage around him. "Good thing I end up by the garbage container rather than in it." Something then caught Inuyasha's eye. Even with his back turned he could tell that his opponent was close.
"I must say I'm rather disappointed. I was expecting much more from you," the demon said. "Well no matter, you going to die. I'd dowse you with more water but I'd rather have you smelling like the garbage you are, besides you're still wet enough for my electricity to kill you." With that the demon raised his hand and shot more electricity at Inuyasha. At the last second, Inuyasha turned around with the remains of a shredded tire in his hands. He used it as a shield. Acting quickly he jumped at the youkai and wrapped the tire around his body capturing the arms. Inuyasha then proceeded to slam the demon into the alley wall. Then with a quick twist of the head, the demon ended up like his other comrades.
Inuyasha groaned and looked around. No more demons. Good Inuyasha wanted to go and relax. That electric shock had taken a bit more out of him than he would ever admit. He made his way out of the alley and towards the Sunset Shrine.
Once again Inuyasha had failed to notice the one spectator that had seen fight. "You seem to be a little out of practice, Inuyasha." Azuma thought as he watched Inuyasha walk away. "Next time your opponents will be a harder. What will you do then? The day will come when your strength will fail and you will fall. What will you do when that day comes? That is the day I look forward to." With that Tai headed off.
Inuyasha wasn't sure how much more he could take. The school just seemed to be against him today. Azuma kept calling on him and Inuyasha had been watching Azuma to closely to pay attention to the actual lesson. Then he got back a recent test in English. He failed it. He now knew why Kagome hated them so much. The day just kept getting worse. Inuyasha had just left the cafeteria before lunch had ended. He had been happy to hear that the café was going to be serving ramen today for lunch. Unfortunately his English teacher had held him after class to yell at him for the bad test grade. When he finally got to the cafeteria, they were out of ramen. Inuyasha tried to eat some of the other food they were offering but he as he ate it he could smell the ramen around him. It was driving him crazy that everyone else had some but he had none. He finally just stormed out of there. The day was getting worse as it went on. As he walked through the hall he passed out one of Kagome's friends. He couldn't remember his name, Hobo, Homo, it didn't matter. Inuyasha finally got to his locker. He violently shoved his books in and then took out the ones he need for the next class. Oh, how he wished this day was over. Just as he shut his locker he remember Kagome should be at lunch as well. Maybe he could convince her to share some of her ramen. With that he set off back to the cafeteria.
Kagome had seen Inuyasha storm out of the room. She knew his day wasn't going well but she wasn't sure what had him made this time. It could be that there was no ramen left. It always was a popular food item when they had it and it usually sold out quickly. Kagome was afraid of what would happen if Inuyasha didn't calm down so not even a minute after he left, Kagome followed. Not long after leaving the cafeteria she met up with Hojo. Kagome groaned to herself.
"Hello Kagome," Hojo greeted her with his usual smile. "How is your day so far?"
"Good," Kagome replied. "I know this guy is going to ask me out. Is he just too stupid to take a hint?" Kagome thought. She had never actually come out and told Hojo that she was with Inuyasha because she feared he'd be deeply hurt by it. Hojo had asked her out many times within the month of school and luckily for Kagome she was able to keep Inuyasha from meeting up with Hojo. Someone might think that she was cheating on Inuyasha going behind his back and meeting with Hojo but she did it more for Hojo's own safety because she knew Inuyasha might try to harm Hojo.
"I was wondering if you wanted to catch a movie this weekend, Kagome?" Hojo asked her.
Before Kagome could answer, someone else gave an answer for her, "No she doesn't." Kagome turned to see Inuyasha walking down the hall towards them. "Kagome's with me so you can buzz off."
"Who are you might I ask?" Hojo asked politely.
"I'm Inuyasha, Kagome's boyfriend," he told the boy. Kagome could hear the possessiveness in his voice.
Hojo looked to Kagome. "Is this true, Kagome?" he asked.
"Yes, it is," Kagome said a little sad that he had found out like this. "I didn't tell you before cause I didn't want to hurt your feelings. I'm sorry."
"It's okay, Kagome," Hojo said his voice not changing from his merry tone. "I don't mind. You didn't tell me so as to protect me so I don't mind. As long as you are happy." With that Hojo walked away.
When he was out of sight, Kagome turned to Inuyasha, "That was awfully rude of you!"
"Well sorry, that guy should leave you the hell alone. Besides from what I could tell you've been meeting with him before," Inuyasha said with a bit of anger.
"It's not like I'm cheating. He's asked me out a few times and I've tried to subtlety tell him I was taken but he just didn't take the hints," Kagome said. "I didn't want to hurt his feelings but it seems like you did a good job of that."
"Who cares about his feelings, besides he didn't seem to broken up just a little while ago," Inuyasha told her.
"He's probably just hiding his feelings. He's probably really broken up right now." With that Kagome stormed off back towards the café so she could finish her food and get to her next class.
"Now me and Kagome were fighting," Inuyasha thought. "I'd ask how this day could get any worse but I'd just be jinxing myself." Inuyasha had no idea that he already had just by thinking it.
Inuyasha slowly walked out of math class. He'd been held after yet again but this time it wasn't all bad. The teacher had wanted him to tutor another kid in class. This would just mean more work. Inuyasha just told the teacher he'd have to think about it since he had a lot of work from other classes. As Inuyasha stepped out of the classroom, Inuyasha knew something was wrong. When he looked over and saw Kagome pinned up against a locker by Reiji, he almost lost it.
"Come on, you know you'd rather go out with me rather than that stupid Inuyasha kid," Reiji told Kagome.
"Get away from me," Kagome said trying to push him off but it wasn't doing any good. She wished someone was around to help her but this end of the building was only used for certain classes and everyone seemed to have headed to their next class by now. Kagome was well aware of what was going on. Reiji was mad at Inuyasha. Because of Reiji's constant trying to make fun of Inuyasha in class, his girlfriend had broken up with him saying he was immature and childish. Now Reiji was coming after Kagome for revenge against Inuyasha.
"You say that but you want me near you, am I right?" Reiji stated more than asked. He then shocked Kagome by what he did next. He slowly leaned in to kiss her. She didn't want to have to kiss this guy.
Kagome closed her eyes so she wouldn't have to face watching this horrible scene. Just before his lips touched hers, she felt a rush of air. As she felt that, she felt Reiji's weigh on her disappear and felt herself being pushed. When Kagome opened her eyes she saw Reiji lying on the floor five feet away, and Inuyasha pushing her a little more behind him so as to protect her. "You son of bitch. How dare you try to force yourself on Kagome!" Inuyasha yelled at him.
The boy made his way to his feet and was about to yell something back to him but stopped in shock and horror. He could see two small ears on the top of Inuyasha's head. "You…Your n…not human," Reiji said.
Inuyasha realized that he had allowed his anger to get the best of him but at this point he didn't care. He just wanted to kill Reiji. "So what? What are you going to do about it?" Inuyasha said.
"I'm going to tell everyone," Reiji said getting back a bit of confidence. "You'll get kicked out of school. I always knew you were different with your weird silver hair and gold eyes…." Reiji fell to the floor as the final words escaped his mouth.
Kagome and Inuyasha looked in shock at the site before them. Reiji had fallen to the ground after being knocked unconscious and standing behind him was none of the than Tai Azuma. Inuyasha growled at seeing the man. "What do you want?"
"You have to learn to keep your temper under control, Inuyasha. Otherwise more will find out about your little secret," Azuma said.
"You knew about Inuyasha," Kagome said. Inuyasha had never told her about what the teacher had said to him a few weeks ago. "How?"
"I have my ways," Tai said.
"Well it doesn't hurt when you're not human to begin with," Inuyasha said.
"Do you know what he is?" Kagome asked.
"Yeah, he's a demon," Inuyasha said. "You did a pretty good job of hiding your scent before. Why let it slip now?"
"There is a time for everything Inuyasha. You will learn that soon enough," Azuma responded. He then leaned over Reiji's fallen body. Tai raised his index finger. They watched as the nail seemed to grow longer and also glowed a little. They then watched as Tai shoved it into the base of Reiji's neck.
"What are you doing?" Kagome all but screamed at the teacher.
Tai removed his claw like nail and it then shrunk back to normal. "Just a small technique I know. It disrupts the brain's signals to the body and causes a small overload to the brain. If I hold it on long enough he'd die – just a small jab like that cause's short term memory loss. In other words, he won't remember see Inuyasha as a hanyou." Tai then turned to Inuyasha with a smirk on his face. "We don't want anyone to learn you little secret now do we?" Inuyasha was about to press for more information but the late bell for class rang. "You'd better be heading off to class, your late." With that Tai picked up Reiji and carried him off. "I've got to get this sick boy to the nurse's office." Inuyasha just growled as Azuma walked off. This day just had to get worse, didn't it?
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Okay, I hope you guys like that new info. I tossed Hojo in there so I could finally get him out of the way. I really don't like him that much but I couldn't seem him totally provoking Inuyasha enough so that's why Reiji was tossed into the story. Just to piss IY off enough for the spell to wear off. Now two things to talk about. First off, I don't totally like the next chapter. Not because its fluffy but because I feel like I'm selling out a bit. I'm going to be mentioning an actual movie and I just feel weird about it. Either way I'm going to write it. Secondly a few people have mentioned me writing a sequel. I'm not sure at this point. I may do one, its possible. I always welcome helping ideas so if you have ideas for a sequel let me know. I'm going to work on the one I have in mind. Now for referrals:
Before I Die by Goijh storyid=1557758
AMV: The Pain of Ryoko's Heart by Eric Jones of Fly High Studios www toonamiarsenal com /download/fan.php This is a great emotional video. I definitely recommend it. I was going to tell you that it isn't on the web anymore cause its creator shut down its site but luckily another place is hosting it. I got off my lazy ass and did a simple search to find it. Definitely worth the download.
Well that's about it. Join me next time for:
Chapter 31: A Heart Filled Evening and a Movie