Chapter 8: Inuyasha's Choice
It was the middle of the night, and we were still walking! "Must we walk in the dark?" I moaned, my muscles were soar. Sesshoumaru didn't answer; he kept on walking towards Lady Kaede's village. "Do you really think Inuyasha will be there?" I asked. He nodded, and pointed at a tiny figure hopping towards them. "M'lord Sesshoumaru!" It squealed. "Oh great," I remarked, "Jaken…Just the person I needed to see…" "huff M'lord, huff I've brought you Inuyasha huff like you asked." Jaken said, trying to catch his breath. "Thank you, Jaken." Sesshoumaru replied. "Where are you little brother?" Sesshoumaru called. "Yeah, yeah, I'm right here. What do you want?" Inuyasha's voice asked, in an annoyed tone. He approached us, his hair now black as night, and his eyes a different shade of grey. "He's—human?" I gasped. "Yeah, what of it!" Inuyasha snarled. "Inuyasha," I said, trying to sound polite, "I've come to ask for your help." "What for?" He snapped. "Er, uh, um…" I started to break a sweat, "I need you're helping finding my—brother." I let out a large breath of air that I was holding in, for some reason, I just go berserk around him. "Feh, why would I help a demon like you?" Inuyasha laughed. "Because, I'll rip your little friend to pieces!" I retorted, pointing a long, claw-tipped finger at Kagome. "What?" She murmured. "What's in it for me?" Inuyasha asked sharply. "Uh, I'll give you any shards of the Shikon Jewel that I find, okay?" I lied. He nodded, then stared at me, and gave me a funny look, "What are you waiting for!' He snapped, "If you want to find your godforsaken brother, we have to start now!" "Uh, don't you want to wait until morning, y'know when your half-demon again?" I asked quietly, trying not to anger him.
"She's right Inuyasha, you should wait, what if Naraku—!" A flea on Inuyasha's shoulder shouted, but was quickly silenced by Inuyasha's hand. The flea fell to the ground, "Such is the life of a flea…Ugh…" "What are you?" I asked it. "I'm Myoga, the flea demon." Myoga introduced himself quite nicely, well, for a flea. "Flea demon huh? Well, it fits today's category of 'Meeting Weird Demons'." I remarked. "What do you mean, 'weird demons'?" Sango asked. "Huh?" I whirled around to come face to face with the pervert, Miroku. "Oh great, just what we needed, a perverted monk, and a—demon hunter…" I thought, sweat rippling down my face. "Well, uh, we ran into this—Bone Demon, before, and it was kind of sickening, but they die easily." I snorted, still trying to get the stained blood of my claws. "That explains your dirtied hands." Miroku said. "One more question, if I may ask." He took a step towards me, and placed my claw in his. "Will you, bear my children?" Rage built up inside me, "YOU ALREADY ASKED ME YOU PERVERTED IDIOT!" I swiped him across the face, leaving streaks of blood near his eyes. "If you ever ask me something like that again, I'll kill you!" I quickly removed my hand from his, and joined Sesshoumaru and Inuyasha, who seemed to be having a death stare contest. "Uh, don't mind me interrupting or anything, but what the hell are you two doing?" I laughed. Sesshoumaru averted his gaze, sending a blast of dark energy at Inuyasha, causing him to fly backwards. "Ouch, hey!" He snarled, "Why'd you do that for!" Sesshoumaru merely chuckled a bit before walking to his new sleeping quarters. I noticed Kagome, Sango, and a girl I couldn't recognize heading for the hot springs; I ran back and grabbed a 'towel' from Kagome's bag, and followed them.
At the Hot springs
"Kagome? Sango?" I asked, as I approached the hot, bubbling water. "R-Rafe, you startled me." Kagome answered, and I just then noticed that the three girls were naked. "Er, do you mind if I join you two—er I mean three?" I asked. Both Sango and Kagome nodded, but the third girl didn't. I stripped of my kimono and hung them on a nearby tree branch, and slipped, slowly, into the hot water. I settle myself to the rising temperature as I inhaled each steam filled breath. I noticed the third girl looked different from any human girl I ever seen; she had a brown foxy like tail…Shippo. "Shippo, you perverted little demon!" I said, slamming my fist into the woman's head. "Ow! Hey, I'm just a kid y'know!" Shippo sobbed. "Oh, cry me a river." I said, sitting back into the water. Shippo shifted back into his naked demon fox form. I quickly grabbed an inner tube Kagome had set on one of the rocks and put it around his quickly shape-shifting body. "Few, that was a close one." I remarked, whipping some of the sweat off of my face with the towel, "Sango?" "Yeah?" She answered. "Do you, uh, y'know still 'hunt' demons?" I gulped hard. "Yeah, but I wouldn't hunt you, you're sort of like a friend." Sango answered, gently pushing Shippo's inner tube across the water. "Oh, well, that's good…Kagome, is it true that you hold the Shikon Jewel?" I asked. "Yes, but I have to be very careful these days because, y'know, Inuyasha wants it and all, y'know to become full demon." Kagome answered. "Oh…Well, I best be off, I'm really tired, see you in the morning, Shippo, Sango, Kagome." I remarked with a yawn. They all nodded, and I quickly dried off and dressed. I ran back to my sleeping quarters. When I arrived, Jaken and Sesshoumaru were already asleep. I snuck passed them, and slipped into sleeping clothes, and fell into a dream…A memory dream…
The memory
"Where's that bastard!" I snarled picking up the caretaker of my brother's house. I was about 16 years old. "Sorry, but my master doesn't want visitors today." The old man quivered in my grasp. "Tell him, if he doesn't get his scrawny ass out here, I'll kill him myself!" I snarled dropping the man. He scrambled towards the doorway of the huge castle, it have hieroglyphics of demons being killed by knights. "What a joke!" I remarked, tracing a clawed finger over one of the dragon demons being hacked to death by a knight. "Rafe?" A voice said soothingly. I spun around to see him, my brother. "Brother." I snapped. "Why so tense sister? You usually are happy, joyful, and gleeful." He answered, also running his hand along the pictures. "You're not human anymore, are you?" I asked sharply, "That Priestess, Kikyo, she did this to you? Didn't she!" He shook his head, "Nay sister, I chose this demonic path, and I wanted to join the ones who walk the earth, as demons." I took a step back, a little bit startled by what I have heard. "W-What the hell is your problem? I even want to change back to human, and you don't!" I snarled. He started to laugh, stepping towards me, closer and closer, "Sister, you were given a great gift, and I shall make it certain that you enjoy your gift!" His voice went down an octave. He turned into a blackish blur, and something sharp hit my side, and blood started to stream out. "Onig—you'll pay…" I fainted, sliding backwards into the demon's hands. He snickered, and laughed at my pain, he clearly knew that I was weaker than him. Then, the dream turned…white, and the vision was no more.