Disclaimer: I do not own or claim to own Inuyasha or it's characters. Tsuruko (pronounced Sue-RUE-co), Seiki (pronounced SEE-Kee), and Tigonshi(tee-GON-she) are characters I created. I dont know if they are from the show or from anything else. I thought them up, so if they are from the show or anything else, they're still mine... :)
Chapter 16: The Evil Fire Cat
On the other side of the well. Shippo woke up with Seiki still snuggled up against him. He didn't get up, so he wouldn't disturb her. She woke up about a minute after Shippo and rolled over. She said sweetly, "Morning Shippo."
"Morning Seiki," he responded just as sweetly.
"Lets go outside and see if anyone else is awake," she started to say when they heard the sentry.
"IT'S HERE THE DEMON IS BACK! AHHHhhh!" cried out the sentry as he was attacked. They ran outside and saw the demon attacking the sentry and anyone that tried to get at it.
"DAMN! I was hoping to get some breakfast first...oh well," Shippo said before lunging at the demon, and giving it a huge punch, knocking it off balance and down to the ground, "Stupid thing I wanted breakfast first." Shippo lunged at him and used his Fox Fire to distract him, as he got behind it. He smashed its head into the ground, he almost hated doing this, it looked just like Kilala, only with a different colored Diamond on its head, which was a deep Blue. Shippo swung around again and gave it a powerful uppercut knocking it onto its back. The leader was watching, amazed, and Seiki was watching, wondering how he didn't even get touched by it yet. Shippo teleported to it again pounding it in its stomache (A/N: his teleporting is when he moves too fast for anyone to see.). The demon was so beat up it couldn't even stand, and Shippo wasn't even sweating a little bit. When it finally did stand and lunged at him, he leaped up and came smashing down on its head with his elbow. Now it couldn't even move its mouth, Shippo went close to it and gave it a hard punch into the face knocking it backwards. He went over and used "Incineration", one of his newest destructive techniques, by doing the same moves as Fox Fire, but yelling "INCINERATON!" instead. The demon exploded in fire and was completely incinerated, as the technique implies. Shippo went over to make sure it was actualy destroyed and hadn't vanished instead, and it had in fact been destroyed, all that was left was some ashes, and...A JEWEL SHARD! He went over and picked up the Jewl Shard, and teleported back to Seiki's side saying, "Well, I'm done with it. Now what?" Everyone in the clan just stared blankly while he talked, even Seiki, who believed in him, couldn't believe that it couldn't even touch him. Sango and Miroku were standing in the doorway to their room, they had seen the whole fight.
"Done now Shippo?" Miroku said to him.
"Yeah. It was eaiser than I thought it would be. From their description you woulda thought it was strong," Shippo responded.
"...H-H-How did you do that..." Seiki's father said stuttering to him, as Seiki walked over to Shippo, and leaned her head on his shoulder, putting her arms around him.
"I thought you said it was strong?" Shippo said to Seiki.
"I thought it was...I never fought it, he wouldn't allow it, I only was told it was strong. They kept me inside whenever it was here," Seiki said to him.
"Oh, ok. Well I don't know what they mean by it being strong, but it sure wasn't. And I think I have just answered your question," he said to Seiki, the last part to her father.
"Are you hungry Shippo?" Seiki asked him.
"Yeah, I was hoping to eat before fighting, but oh well, now I'm just hungrier," he laughed a little at all the blank faces, "whats the matter with all them? They're still staring at me with their mouths hanging open."
One of the members of the clan walked over to him and bowed down saying, "We thank you so much for your help, I am sorry for our leaders talk towards you when you arrived to fight it."
"Please go get him some food," Seiki said to the man.
"Yes, Ma'am," he responded and ran off to go get some food and soon returned with it,"Here you go." He had given them some stew. Shippo thanked him and Seiki led him back into her room. They sat down on the bed and ate their stew. When they had finished, they headed back outside, Seiki leaning her head on Shippo's shoulder, her arm around his back and his arm around her waist. Her father saw them, and walked over.
"Thank you...Shippo, for saving us all," he said his name not wanting to.
"You're welcome, it was a pleasure to help out my sweet Seiki," he said giving her a hug.
"You are a worthy warrior, and you have my blessings," he said, still not wanting to.
"Why don't we go for a little walk Shippo?" Seiki asked him, wanting to get away from her father.
"Sure, I'd love to," Shippo answered, also wanting to get away from her father. They took a walk through the woods, Seiki leaning her head on his shoulder, his arm around her waist, and her arms around him too. When they got back, the whole clan was up and finished eating, as were Sango and Miroku, who greeted them when they came back. When they were all packed up and ready to go, which didn't take too long because they had just gotten there, all four of them left and headed back to their house by the well.