Another week is over, and I'm home again, the past week in the army had nothing serious to write home about, so enjoy the new chapter.

Chapter ten: The Joke about Frost Hemorrhoids


"As I was saying, there are pure souls who turned into humans, and while souls are immortal, humans are not, so after death, the soul travels into an unborn human in a circle of death and rebirth, death and rebirth, death and…"

"So we have gone into this entire conversation just so that you could tell me that I'm Kikyo's reincarnate?"

"No"

"No?"

"It's not soul reincarnation, it's simply movement of power, the source of human holy powers comes from that energy, it's simply easier to call it pure souls because we use the term of demon souls"

"so you're saying I'm not Kikyo's reincarnation? Don't I have the same brand of power as she has?"

"well, you have the same power, but it just means that you draw power from similar souls, you two might have gotten the soul of Midoriko, or maybe the soul of Merlin or the one of Aaron, it's not rare the energy splits up between several people."

"Great, so now I'm the soul of some English wizard? Does that mean I'm destined to end up drinking tea all day and look at young girls playing tennis?"

"Don't say destined"

"Why not?"

"No reason, I just hate that word"

"You hate the word destiny?"

"Actually, it's more the meaning that I hate, so it doesn't matter if you say destiny or fate, or whatever word you can think about"

"how about saying that It's within my nature to become a senile old pervert?"

"and why's that?"

"Didn't you just say I had the soul of Merlin"

"No, I said you might have gotten his energy, the same way that you get new atoms every time you eat, drink or breathe, conservation of matter in the universe"

"So you talked about soul transfer and reincarnation for what? Sadistic fun?"

"Using the metaphor of soul transfer is the easiest way to explain it, though the term soul is too much connected with 'feelings' and 'inner self' for my taste, but believe me, reading the original text is much harder"

"what original text?"

"A bunch of youkais decided that living in Europe was boring three thousand years ago, so they climbed the Himalaya, and started making up stories, and when other youkais came after them, they enchanted them into writing down the stories and thus they created the first written demon theology, which is the story you've just heard"

"So, all that you've said earlier was made up youkai nonsense?"

"Most of it, though the basic is true, and it's the only explanation that doesn't require dissecting demons"

"so they sat atop the highest mountain in the world, and all they could think about was some half assed mythology?"

"They made another discovery, while they were at it"

"What did they find out?"

"That when you sit hundreds of years atop frozen mountains, you don't get only hemorrhoids, you get frosty hemorrhoids"

"Inuyasha.'

"uhhm?"

"SIT"

"ouch… fuckin' ouch, what was that for, Kag?"

"I'm the one asking the questions here, What was that bad joke supposed to mean?"

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When amigo finished treating to his wounds, he saw the Japanese dog demon falling down to the ground because of what he suspected to be evil witchcraft, though demon tamers weren't common nowadays, and he suspected the demon was too strong to be controlled and still be left so free from chains and magical seals other than the rosary.

He reached the same conclusion from the different side as well, while his first impression was that the girl held incredible power, it was also very clear she was un-trained as one could be, or perhaps simply only focused on specific forms of spirituality?

No, he dismissed that thought, no matter what abilities she had, any form of them required at least basic control of her aura, and she had none of that. When he tried attacking the two, her aura spiked towards him, but there was nothing in that energy spike, most shamans would try to repel him with a constant wave of energy, to block him with a massive wall or to attack him with a sharp energy sting. The feeling that he perceived from the attack was of slightly pushing away while turning her head away from him, she didn't know what do with her sharp instincts. A complete beginner syndrome.

He took a look at Kagome's energy, it was now encompassing Inuyasha, "So is this the way she tames him?" he thought to himself, no, he ruled against that option, if that was the case than he would have run away on one of the many opportunities he had, which meant that the two stayed together because of some joint interests. The direction of energy was probably a manifestation of her current interest, it was a natural process, but most people didn't have enough power to make it so visible, and those who had the required amount of power knew how to keep it around them.

"Do you want any more answers, Kag?" Inuyasha asked, cleaning his face from the dessert dust.

"Not now, I'm not in the mood for another pointless lecture that will end without anything" Kagome answered quickly.

Then it hit her, the bastard has managed to make her not want to hear anymore, he avoided answering anything real and actually nullified her will to further try to learn more. Still, he probably expected her to fall asleep on their way to wherever he was taking her, most likely by saying she has been through a lot over the past few days, and that someone who is only human should take use of the time and rest.

"but I won't let myself fall asleep, It doesn't matter how much experience he has, there's no way I can't figure out at least a bit of what he's planning" She decided to herself, her personal record was an ambush of being awake for about 56 hours without a wink of sleep, it was a stakeout for a crazy youkai, he saw himself as the Messiah of the Youkai race, he was trying to escape Japan, and she commanded one of the navel units. The orders she got was to make sure no ship leaves the Tokyo bay without being inspected.

Thinking back to it, what did the leader of Cell 06 say back then? that their main pain priority was to make sure he won't leave Japan, the woman said that in Japan he won't have the courage to do anything, but if he managed to get away, he could gather an army to support his cause.

But what army could he gather off shores so easily? And why did they say he wanted to be Messiah rather than just another potential youkai world dictator?

Well, there's no one better to ask rather than the source, is there?

"Inuyasha.." she turned to the dog youkai, trying to remember the youkai's alias, "who was Kersanouha Inora?" A question a bit out of the blue, but it was fine, it would confuse him as well, a bluff.

"He was a black arms dealer that tried to start out some revolts against the government in south amrica so he could sell arms to both sides" Inuyasha answered quickly, too quickly for Kagome's taste, why did he remember the case so easily? And how did he two crimes connect to each other? Many youkais dealt with crime in order to afford their high style life. She met a few of them back in Japan while she was working as an Agent, her officials didn't have any problem with that, as

long as the youkais remembered who to pay each month.

"why did they call him Messiah, then? why not say that he tried to escape their iron grasp, or accuse him of making too much trouble at the world" She thought to herself, what was the meaning of Messiah? A savior, a prophet from the higher deities, usually coming after a long time of suffering, after times of depression, and maybe oppression? What was his call?

A sword to the sinners and a rose for the right, bring death upon those who were evil and give freedom to those who stayed true to the legends who told of his fore coming.

No, not only freedom, the religious revenge was never complete without the resurrection of the dead, all the dead would walk the land, heaven upon earth.

Did Inora fit into that? There were no legends telling of his coming, but it wasn't necessary for a specific name to be told, in fact, some cultured poeticized that their savior would come not as the knight in the shinning armor, but as a fragile being, that when receiving the hospitality of the poor people, will himself become the gate of the godly powers. It's main point was that the oppressed must stay just, and keep true to their own beliefs, and only then would the holy power save them.

Back to Inora, He tried to create revolutions in South America, give death to the rich and the control to the poor, it fits the mantra, but why would a Japanese youkai go all the way to South America, where there were no youkais? And why did he sell weapons to both parties?

No, he talked about Youkais, humans weren't part of his world, whatever he did wasn't for the human race, it was meant for something else.

"Inuyasha"

"Uhhm?" Inuyasha answered, Kagome seemed to be thinking of something, and why suddenly bring up the subject of Kersanouha? It was a pain in the neck to stop all of his gun shipping to Brazil, the maniac worm tried to ship himself down there, it was expensive to buy the permission from the Egyptian government to melt all the rifles and the bullets on their territory. But that was the only way to make sure no youkai eggs would reach there. It took some serious begging to Shippo's stepfather to use his connection with the government.

"The wound on your back, when did you get it?" Kagome asked, reminding herself that she should sometimes ask him about different topics, in order to avoid creating a tense interrogation feeling. But more than that, she remembered the wound that Naraku gave him, it was completely different than the one she saw back in the van.

"A battle with a demon" Inuyasha answered shortly, he certainly didn't want to dwell on the subject.

"Aren't you being secretive, I didn't assume you've gotten such a wound from a papercut" She told him, way to go, Inuyasha, you've been making towers in the air for about forty minutes now and you couldn't open you mouth now?

"Kagome, listen carefully, let's leave this subject, you're focusing unwanted attention on us… that eagle fellow hates me already, I don't want to ruin everything before we even start"

"What do you mean drawing attention? That Amigo guy can't speak Japanese" Kagome started saying, but her senses told her that the demon was indeed paying attention to her, lightly touching her power aura with his youki. Eeew, is he probing me? She thought, he was skilled, his youki was hardly felt, but it caused her to look at her own power. Most of it was focused on Inuyasha's back, where the scar was.

"That's better, don't worry about it, most spirit users have these problems with control." Inuyasha said calmly, control or not, once they cross the border, power control would be the least of their problems, and if he could kill what was waiting for them down there, then there won't be much enemies left in the world to fight him.

Except Kikyo, of course, but she was a different problem, which had to wait at least a few weeks before he could move on to handling her.

"Why am I getting the feeling that you're treating me like a child, Inuyasha?" She asked him, this time without any connection to information tactics, if she would have seen someone else asking the same question then she would have said it was coming from a fear, inferiority, and mostly a feeling of not wanting to be left behind.

"I'm not treating you like a child, I'm simply commenting on a subject that I know better than you, I'm sure that there are many topics that you could enrich me upon, like uhhm, and stuff…" Inuyasha cursed himself, that wasn't the right thing to say, he really shouldn't have.

"Are you trying to embrace me? Inuyasha, there are many things that I know better than you, I've got a 2nd degree in maths, just so you'd know" Kagome answered, after coming back from the feudal ages, math has become an easy subject.

"Kag, I taught 2nd degree math in three different universities" Inuyasha commented to himself that this was about to be a long conversation, it wasn't his fault that he had 500 years to catch up on various form of knowledge.

"you did? You never seemed like the type for that" She answered, but nor did he seem the type to run an international spy network, "What about sociology? I had a PhD in criminology"

"why don't I look the type to know math? Don't I look intelligent enough?"

Inuyasha complained to her, didn't he look the same as always?

"not your look, your personality" Kagome said, though, she knew that she must admit, the hanyou seemed to be more settled down now, a bit more mature than she

remembered him to be.

End of Chapter ten.

Yeah, another chapter that got us nowhere. But it was fun to write. I really liked the messiah part.

Oh, and guess what, no shout outs (!) as there were no reviews, I wrote more chapters than reviews, it's a first.

By the way, next chapter is angst flashback. Be prepared.