Well everyone, sorry about the wait yet again. My brother, who is also in college but 2 years ahead of me, has been bugging me about coming out to see him and so finally this past weekend I did. This is how it is. I currently live at home because I go to a Penn State branch campus that is near to my home. My older brother though is out at the main campus in State College. This past weekend I went out to see him. If you want a quick laugh, you can laugh at my stupidity. I'm one of those people, even though I'm now 20, has to push buttons. So when I saw a button in my bro's apartment, which I actually thought was for the fan, I pressed it. Little did I realize that it was the button for the alarm. So the alarm went off and we couldn't shut it off either. To shut it off, you have to call up to the main office and have someone come down and shut it off, so it was going for about 10 minutes. Even if your in the apartment it is loud but if you're standing outside, you'd probably go deaf even quicker. I feel really bad about this, especially since there's a chance it could cost my brother over $100 (I'd reimburse him of course). At this point though I don't think I have to worry.
Also I tried writing this chapter on Sunday night but I had a hard time with the beginning of it so I didn't get it finished then. And so here I am at 3:30 AM Monday Night/Tuesday morning typing this. Like usual huh?
FukashiOni - yeah I couldn't remember Takeda's name either but I looked it up in the episode. As for my grammar/spelling mistakes, please don't point them out. I really don't care if I make a mistake, its not like I'm submitting this for an actual book. As for the numbers such as 2/two. I know. My English teacher always pointed this out but I figured it was easier on the reader's eyes to see the number.
Sleep walking Chicken & HAP - I think you misunderstood me, when I said FFXI I was referring to Final Fantasy 11, the MMORPG game.though FFX was pretty cool.
Inuyasha and Sara - I don't mind if you didn't like the last chapter. There's always some chapters people don't like but as long as you still like the story as a whole then I'm doing my job well. As for V-day, it was just another ordinary day, I don't have a gf or anything so nothing special.
FluffyPrincess - I haven't forgotten about the furball, Shippo. I don't like him in the series very much but don't worry he'll be back in the story. As for Kouga, read the note at the end of responses.
BlaiseWorth - Actually I hate to prove you wrong but I was right. This chapter and the next two are chapters 34, 35, 36 respectively. FF.net counts the prologue as Ch. 1, which it isn't. So that off sets it. You can see I've made changes to fix the confusion.
Tsukinoko1 - Thanks for the info. In the end I just decided to make it an Autumn Festival.
DarkInuyasha - I wasn't sure about posting your response to INUFAN123 but I decided to anyway. So its next.
INUFAN123(this isn't my response but one written by DarkInuyasha to INUFAN123) - Listen You jackass if u think this story sucks then don't read it because for those of us who do we don't want some piece of shit like you dirtying a good story so don't read this I don't know just who the hell you think u are but I never want too see your f***in ass write another bad comment on this story again. So stay the hell away and never read this story again and I believe everyone one agrees stay away you fucking asshole and if you dirty another good story I will say alot meaner things than that.
Takerus Lost Angel - Well I think I did good on my skiing test. I'll know today, I hope. I hope you did good on your snowboarding. I remember you like Kouga so be sure to check the info at the end of the responses.
Amanda - I probably won't have a wedding scene at all. I may write some fluff but I'm not that good. I'm still wondering if I'm going to approach the whole mating issue or not.
Well everyone two quick notes, I'm sure you noticed that change in chapter titles according to ff.net. That is to help out with the confusion of chapter numbers. Secondly, if everyone remembers, I said before that Kouga wasn't going to make another appearance in this story. That was due to the fact that his lawyers claim he was scheduled for only so many appearances and I had used them up already. Well after constant fight with the damn lawyers, they gave in and said Kouga could make another appearance. It is not known yet how big of an appearance. He may be here for about 2 chapters but that is later. So all you Kouga fans can be happy.
Disclaimer: I'm so poor right now, I barely have money for food, how could I afford IY?
Chapter 34: Trust
Inuyasha slowly made his way downstairs. It was Saturday and Kagome was sleeping in. Inuyasha had tried that but he found himself unable to, years of being up at the crack of dawn made it hard for him to break the habit. As he walked into the kitchen to get something to eat he was surprised to see Souta at the table. The kid was usually sleeping in on the weekends and usually trying to on school days as well. "What you doing up so early, kid?" Inuyasha asked.
"I guess you don't know. There's an autumn festival in the park this weekend," Souta told him. "Dad and mom are taking me today. I guess they decided to leave you and Kagome to go by yourselves."
"It sounds like fun," Inuyasha told him.
"Yeah it is. There are games, some small rides, and plenty of food."
"I get the picture," Inuyasha said. He knew if he let the kid, he would just continue going on and on. "Later when Kagome gets up I'll ask her if she wants to go to this festival," he thought as he at the food he had gotten for himself.
"I'm bored," Kagome groaned. Her parents were gone who knows where. She was alone with Inuyasha which was nice but there was nothing to do. It was 4 in the afternoon, there was nothing on TV and they didn't have any good movies at home so she was going crazy.
Inuyasha then walked into the house. He had just been outside sitting in the God Tree for a while. He had heard Kagome's complaining and remembered about the festival. "Hey Kagome, your brother told me that there is an Autumn Festival going on in the park today and I was wondering if you wanted to go," Inuyasha asked her. Even though they had admitted their feelings for one another he still felt nervous when asking her to do something with her.
"That's right. I forgot all about the festival. Of course we'll go," Kagome said as she got up off the couch. "I just have to get ready."
Inuyasha nodded and sat down for a while. He knew he was in for a bit of a wait so he sat down and watched TV. After Kagome finished getting a shower, she made Inuyasha get one. He quickly got one and got ready. It had taken almost an hour for the both of them to get ready. As there were leaving Inuyasha grabbed Tetsusaiga just in case but he couldn't help but feel that he had forgotten something.
"Inuyasha, lets go," Kagome yelled to him from outside.
"I'm coming," Inuyasha said as he closed the door and ran to catch up to her. He just brushed his feeling off as being a little paranoid.
Inuyasha and Kagome enjoyed their time at the festival. They had run into Kagome's family while there but they continued on their own. It was near quarter to 7 when Inuyasha and Kagome decided to get on the Ferris Wheel. As it took them to the top, they admired the view that it gave them of the surrounding city especially as the sun was setting. "Its totally different when you take a look at it," Inuyasha said. Kagome looked at him a little confused so he continued, "think about all the times you rode on my back and saw the area around the village. To know how much its going to change in 500 years is just amazing."
"Are you mad that all the trees are gone?" Kagome asked him.
"A little but there are still many places outside of Tokyo here that still have forest," Inuyasha said. "What about you? Which do you like better?"
"Well I really like the area of the feudal era and the peacefulness, at least when we're not getting attacked," Kagome said with a small laugh. "I also do like the modern time because of my friends and of course all our modern day conveniences."
"Yeah you can't go without your shampoo," Inuyasha said as he still remembered her complaining about no shampoo when she first arrived in his time.
"So what era do you like more?" Kagome asked even though she slightly dreaded the question.
It just so happened that as Inuyasha gave his answer the Ferris Wheel came to a stop with Inuyasha and Kagome at the top. "When it comes down to material things, I like the feudal era for all the trees and the space to run. I like your time here, for all your modern stuff, such as ramen," Inuyasha said with a smile and Kagome gave a small laugh. "But my overall decision wasn't made based on those material things. Believe it or not my answer isn't a set one. It changes based on where you are." Inuyasha looked straight into her eyes, "The era doesn't matter to me, being with you does. I don't care where I am as long as I'm with you. I love you." With that he leaned forward and kissed Kagome. She was almost in tears at his words but she returned his kiss whole-heartedly. They finally broke apart when they felt the ride moving again to let more people off. When Kagome looked at Inuyasha again, she was shocked. Inuyasha had realized it as well. Now he remembered what he had forgotten. Tonight was the night of the new moon, and there with Kagome sat a human Inuyasha.
"Listen Inuyasha, just to be safe I think we should head home," Kagome said.
"I agree. Once we get off, we can head back," Inuyasha said.
Inuyasha and Kagome slowly made their way through park. Since the festival had been in the West end of the park, they had to make their way across the entire park. The park was rather big so by the time they reached the East part of the park, they could barely hear the sounds of the fair. As they walked through the trees hand in hand, they caught sight of two woman standing by a large tree ahead of them.
"Well well, don't you look mighty fine," one of the women said seductively while winking at Inuyasha.
"What do you say you leave the girl behind and come with us," the other said. "Well show you a good time."
Kagome glared at them while they flirted with him. "I'm sorry but he's with me and he isn't going with two bimbo's like you."
"Because he can have a much better time with us than some small twig girl like you," the first said. "I think its rude to call us bimbo's especially since neither of us are blond." It was true one was a brunette while the other had black hair.
"Not to mention we have a couple of other friends that he could have a fun time with as well," the black haired woman said.
"Well he's not going with either of you or your friends," Kagome all but shouted. Inuyasha just watched the scene unfold before him. He would have turned them down himself but he was having fun watching Kagome act possessive towards him.
"We didn't even bother to ask your name," the brunette said.
"I'm Kagome."
"Not you, him," the black haired girl said.
"He's Inuyasha and he's staying with me!" Kagome said before Inuyasha could open his mouth to respond.
"Why don't you let him choose for himself? He hasn't said a word yet," a third voice came from behind them. Inuyasha and Kagome turned around to see yet another woman and two men with her. "Come on, we're all gonna have some fun, you should leave her behind and come join us. What do you say?" she asked him.
Kagome was about to answer but Inuyasha stuck his hand out in front of her causing her to stop. "Kagome is right. I'm not going to go with you. Now if you will please excuse us we must be going." With that Inuyasha started walking away pulling Kagome with him.
"You looked better with silver hair anyway," the third woman said.
"You must have me mistaken," Inuyasha said as he continued walking.
"I don't think so, we only know one person with silver hair and that's a certain half-breed named Inuyasha," she replied. Inuyasha froze at this. If they knew he was a hanyou this could only mean one thing.
"You finally understand," one of the original two said. "We're going to have a fun time. I don't know about you though. We were actually being generous. You could have let the girl go and she would have been just fine but you had to do it the hard way.
"Seeing as how your hair has changed to black and I can't smell any demon blood, I'd say you are at the unfortunate time where you become human for a small time. One of us would be enough to kill you now," one of the men spoke up.
"This is going to be easier than we thought," the other guy said. As a reflex Inuyasha pulled Tetsusaiga from the sheath but it was only a dull blade. "Ha you're not going to be able to do a thing with that." Inuyasha realized his mistake and sheathed it. He wasn't sure how easily it could break in that form but he wasn't about to take that chance.
"This isn't good," Inuyasha thought. "There are only five of them, that's less than before. They seemed to be a bit surprised that I'm human so that can only mean on thing. These guys are stronger demons that ones I've fought before otherwise there would be more of them. Great, I might have had a hard time as a hanyou, what the hell am I going to do as a weak human."
While in his internal struggle, one of the women rushed up and grabbed him by the throat and slammed him into a tree behind him. Kagome hit the demon with her fists but she didn't even budge. Using her free arm she swatted Kagome knocking her about five feet away. Inuyasha growled and hit the demon with the sheath of Tetsusaiga. Her hold on Inuyasha's throat loosened slightly but not enough for Inuyasha to escape. "If you're going hit me with that I'll just have to take it off of you," she said as she reached for Tetsusaiga. She made the mistake though of grabbing it by the hilt and as soon as her hand was on it she felt pain shoot through her arm. It was enough for her to let go of Inuyasha's throat. She removed her hand from the sword's handle and held her hand with the other. She then glared at Inuyasha, "that was a big mistake." She quickly grabbed Inuyasha's throat again and slammed him into the tree again but this time much harder. "For that I'm going to kill you slowly but very painfully."
"I wouldn't advise that," another voice said. This one was closer to all them then expected. Tai Azuma jumped down from a tree next to the one that Inuyasha was being held against.
"Oh another hero, here to save the half-breed turned human," she said as she tried to swat Tai away as she had Kagome.
Tai though quickly intercepted the hand and held it. "Now I'm not one to strike a lady but for that rule to apply, the woman must act like a lady," Tai said as he swung his hand swatting her away instead except that she went flying for a good 40 feet before landing on the ground. Without her holding him, Inuyasha fell to the ground below him gasping for breath.
"Inuyasha, are you okay?" Kagome asked rushing up to him.
"I think I'll be okay," Inuyasha said. "My back hurts though."
"Well that's what you get. You have to be move careful when you turn human," Tai told him.
The demoness quickly got up. "Do you know who you're messing with?!" she yelled at Tai.
"Yeah, I know but I really don't care," Tai said. He then turned to Inuyasha. "Give me your sword."
Inuyasha was shocked at his teacher's request. "No way in hell!" he yelled at him.
"You've got to make a choice. You can take your chance with them," Tai said as he pointed at the yakuza members, "or you could take the risk to trust me. It's up to you."
Inuyasha was about to respond with, 'there's no way I'd give it to a demon like you,' but that's when it hit him. "Fine," Inuyasha fake grumbled but was smirking inside. "Let's see how you like to get shocked," Inuyasha thought to himself. He held out the sword holding the sheath but facing the hilt towards Tai.
Tai didn't waiver and reached out and grabbed the hilt. Without any trouble at all, he pulled the sword from the sheath. Inuyasha and Kagome were shocked at this. The yakuza though laughed at this because the sword was still a dull blade. "Oh look this guy now thinks he can beat us with that rotten sword," the demoness laughed. "Let's see how good you are…" she said as she charged at him.
Tai only smiled as she came at him. He started to swing Tetsusaiga. The demoness just smiled but was surprised as she watched the sword transform as it was swung at her. She was too close to dodge the blade and could only accept her fate as she felt the now strong powerful blade cut her in half.
The other yakuza demons were stunned as they watched their comrade get killed. "I don't believe it," one of them said. "You will pay for killing her."
"We will kill each and every one of you!" one of the guys said.
Tai watched as all of them charged at him. "Don't even give me any final words," Tai said with a smile, "Well these are the final words, they'll hear." Tai then shouted out, "KAZE NO KIZU!!" The yakuza could only watch as the wave of energy from the Windscar came at them. They soon found themselves overwhelmed by the sheer power of the attack.
Kagome and Inuyasha were surprised as well. Not only had Mr. Azuma wielded Tetsusaiga but he had successfully preformed the Windscar attack. "Who exactly are you, Mr. Azuma?" Inuyasha asked.
"Please call me Tai, we're not in school. That was fun to do," he responded.
"You're not answering my question, Tai," Inuyasha growled.
"And I won't," Tai said with a smile.
"How were you able to wield Tetsusaiga if you are a demon?" Inuyasha changed his question.
"You have human blood in you, don't you?" Kagome asked.
Tai clapped his hands at her. "She's smart, ya know," Tai told Inuyasha. "I'm actually a quarter human to be exact."
"So you're the child of a demon and a hanyou?" Kagome asked again.
"Another point for Kagome. You know you seem to hate school, yet biology suits you well," Tai mocked.
Inuyasha didn't know what else to ask that Tai would answer. It was then that something dawned on him. "You knew about this didn't you?"
"What makes you say that?" Tai asked with no surprise.
"I remember seeing you date book last week. For today it had said 7pm – Tokyo Park," Inuyasha said. "You knew we were going to get attacked."
"I could have been going to the festival, that's all," Tai responded.
"Yeah but the festival was in the West end of the park, your planner said Tokyo Park – East. So you knew all about this didn't you?" Inuyasha asked getting angrier.
Tai didn't respond right away this time instead he gave a small laugh. "You're finally starting to put it together," Tai said. "Yes, I knew about this well in advance."
"So are you with the yakuza or not?" Inuyasha asked.
"If I was with the yakuza, I would have let them kill you tonight but I didn't. Not to mention unlike those losers, I knew you'd be human tonight. You become human on the night of the new moon."
"So if you're not with the yakuza, what are you psychic?" Kagome asked. She didn't get a response though. "If you know all this before hand, when will the next attack come?"
"That's easy. Next Monday," he told her.
"How do we know we can trust you?"
"Like I told you before, I can not tell you to trust me, you must decide for yourselves. I can only tell you that the next attack will come next Monday night at 9 o'clock back here in the park," he told them. "Don't even think about trying to avoid this fight, you won't be able to, no matter how hard you try. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to be going."
"You're not going anywhere yet, I still have some questions for you," Inuyasha said as he stepped forward but was met by Tetsusaiga's blade.
"Did you forget, I still have this," Tai said with a grin. "The sword's pretty strong but I've seen better."
"Tetsusaiga is the strongest sword there is!" Inuyasha said.
"Maybe when it was first made. This sword was made around the time you were born if not earlier. And your about 200, so add 500 onto that and this sword was made at least 700 years ago. Don't you think there would be a better sword made in that time," Tai stated. "I'll have to see about bringing it, its not actually mine so I'd have to borrow it." He may have said borrow but Inuyasha could tell he meant it more like steal it for a while. "Now I'm going. Bye," Tai then threw Tetsusaiga at Kagome. Inuyasha turned fearing the worst. He was grateful at the sight he saw. Tetsusaiga's blade was buried in the tree next to Kagome a good foot or so away from her body. Inuyasha quickly turned around to find Tai but he was gone.
Inuyasha turned around and pulled Tetsusaiga out of the tree. He just looked at the blade for a bit before returning it to its sheath. "Let's go home," Inuyasha said. With that the couple walked out of the parked headed for the safety of home.
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And so ends another chapter. I hope the long wait was worth it. Once again its really late and I'm tired so no referrals. I will say though that I mixed up the names of the upcoming chapters so here are the names and join me next time for:
Chapter 35: Timing Is Everything (in case you forgot, this is
the chapter you will hate me for. EVIL CLIFFHANGER!!!)
Chapter 36: Identity Exposed
Chapter 37: Secrets Revealed
Please review, I wanna break 1000.