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7 – There's someone who likes sticking his nose into other people's business
---Laboratory in the pagoda---
"Inuyasha, you're the first" She showed a chair "Sit down and open your mouth"
Inuyasha did what she said, he was quite scared.
"Well Shirubya.. about this evening.. I didn't want to call you wench.. It was.. just.."
"Enough. Be a real man and show me if your mouth opens just to say foolish words"
She moved near him then took the tiny hammer and started pounding softly his right fang.
"It is a young tooth, it won't be too painful" She said
She quickly took the pincers and ripped the fang. Inuyasha shouted.
Shirubya gave him a piece of wood
"Bite it, It will stop the blood and the fang will grow stronger" Her evil smile didn't vanish from her face "You can go, your sword will be healed soon"
"Not three days? Totosai repaired the Tetsuaiga in three days"
"If I couldn't repair a sword in less days than him, I wouldn't be his master, you know?"
Inuyasha didn't know what to answer, he just went away biting the stick of wood.
Shirubya headed to the table a put the fang into a glass full of a strange orange-coloured-liquid, then took a clean cloth to clean the hammer and the pincers. She beckoned to Sesshoumaru to sit and wait.
"So, I need an answer now, would you like me to do another sword to you?" She asked
Sesshoumaru looked at her "I would be a fool if I didn't"
She smiled again "Good, So I should borrow your two fangs, both of them, then I think you'll have to lend me some of your poison"
"I presume you already have an idea"
"Of course.. but. I forgot to tell you some things"
He glanced interrogatively at her
"You know.. I'm sure that as soon as you get your sword, you'll try to steal the Tetsuaiga or kill Inuyasha.. is that so?"
His eyes showed his answer.
"I knew that.."
"My intention now is to destroy Naraku. Inuyasha won't die unless he gets on the way"
She stopped cleaning the pincers
"What about next? Are you going to kill him for the Tetsuaiga?"
"He's not worth of it"
"A man more important than you said he is"
"Who is this man?"
"Your father"
He didn't answer
"After all I can't stop you to hate it" She sighed
"I will make this sword. So give me your fangs and poison"
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---First room---
Inuyasha had returned to his room. His mouth in a pain
"You're back finally! We heard you shouting you know? Sango Kirara and Shippou are exploring the pagoda" Kagome said
"We were thinking Inuyasha… How hold is Shirubya? Do you know?" Miroku asked
Inuyasha shook his head
"That tree was 4000 years old.. and it was planted by her father.. so his parents should be older than 4000.." Miroku continued
"Why don't we ask her?"
"Don't be foolish Inuyasha, you can't ask a woman how old is she! It's not smart" Kagome said
A flea jumped on her shoulder "Shirubya-sama is 4115 years old. She was born 10 years after your father, Inuyasha"
Inuyasha spat out the piece of wood "Is she so old?" He was astonished
"Not so old.. she's very young to be a master"
"That's not the point.. I thought she was as old as Sesshoumaru.."
"Shirubya gets old in a strange way, who knows.. She has very few normal things actually"
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A little note about Shirubya's age.. I heard that in the first movie that Inu no Taisho was about 3000 years old.. and he looked a 40 year old man.
So 75 years for a demon are 1 year for a human. Inuyasha looks a 15 year old boy, and he should be about 1125.
Well… when his father was 3000 Inuyasha was 0 (he was just born..) so his age plus his father's should be his father's age now.. 4125! Shirubya was born 10 years after him. So she's 4115!
Well it is jus a mathematic age, because Shirubya looks like a 19 year old girl.. and then Sesshoumaru should look like older (In the first movie he was about 16, and in the anime when Inuyasha is 15 he looks like a 19 year old boy.. but he should be 31.. What a mess!)
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---Laboratory---
Shirubya was pounding Sesshoumaru's first fang with the hammer. She was so close to him that he could clearly smell her scent: it was sweet but at the same time strong. She smelled so good.
He strove to stop thinking. He really tried hard.
"I think this tooth it will hurt more than your brother's.. You're older than him, and your fangs are perfectly grown" She said
"Huh?" What? What did he just say? 'huh?' it isn't even a word!
"I said it will hurt a bit much" She repeated
"This Sesshoumaru is not like that hanyou, just take them"
"As you wish" She ripped the fang immediately
Sesshoumaru felt a pain going through all his moth, then arriving to his head. His nails scratched the arms of the chair. He kept back the tears. But he didn't shout.
She put the tooth in another glass with the same orange liquid in it. God that fang was twice bigger than Inuyasha's.
"Are you okay?" She asked
He was too busy in keeping back his tears to answer
She gave him a tiny bottle with a pink-coloured liquid in it
"Drink it and keep it in your mouth"
Shirubya sat on the desk and waited some minute to let the liquid doing his job. Probably Sesshoumaru was the only person who could keep his regal dignity while having his mouth full of a so bitter liquid.
She looked at him for a while then took from the table a sort of soft sponge and gave it to him
"Fill it with your poison. Oh yes.. you can spit that here –she gives him a glass-"
He spat the liquid then took the sponge. He just squeezed it and poison came out from his nails. When the sponge was full he gave it to Shirubya who put it in a little silver plate. She took again the hammer and the pincers
"Here comes the next fang, maybe this will hurt a little bit more. Are you ready?"
A shiver passed through Sesshoumaru's back. He nodded, then opened his mouth again.
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---Exploring the pagoda---
Sango, Shippou and Kirara had jus found a huge library
Sango took one random book and opened it. It was full of strange sentences and spells
"Impressive, I thought this kind of book was just in fairy tales"
She was putting back the book when something made her jump for fright. Hadn't she just heard someone screaming?
She decided to look for her bedroom, she had seen enough that day.
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---Laboratory---
This time it had hurt too much, Sesshoumaru shouted when Shirubya had ripped the second fang. She put the tooth with the other one and gave him the same strange coloured liquid. He immediately took it.
"Good, it's all over now, bite this piece of wood and you'll have two new fangs by tomorrow"
He spit the liquid and took the wood from her hands.
"When will the sword be done?"
She looked at his fangs "A week I think. You're lucky this is a full-moon night. I can start making the new sword immediately"
"Good" He headed to the door
She stopped him "One more thing. I should ask you some question to.. make the sword suit you better"
He turned his head "Just make it like the Tetsuaiga"
"The Tetsuaiga? It is a sword which protects people, did you know?"
She paused
"Do you have something to protect?"
Sesshoumaru's heart beat faster 'Something to protect?'
"Why do you seek power?"
Sesshoumaru waited a second before giving an answer
"I must travel the path of conquest. Power is necessary in order to walk that path."
"Conquest, huh?" His father looked at his son "Sesshoumaru, is there something you want to protect?"
He moved near Shirubya, he looked like in a trance.
She tried to avoid him but he was faster and grabbed her hips
Is there something you want to protect?
"Sesshoumaru! What on the earth are you up to?" Shirubya's voice woke him up from the trance.
He found himself grapping her hips, his lips near hers.. too near. And her scent was too sweet to be tolerated. His head ached.
He moved far from her. Damn it was so embarrassing.
He left without saying a word.
Shirubya leaned against the dragon, which continued spitting flame over the two swords. She had to work now. She couldn't waste time.
"Sesshoumaru" She whispered
She took the three fangs and started cleaning them.
'Tomorrow I'll go to Bokuseno. He surely knows the answer to this'
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---In a castle full of dead bodies---
A man was looking at a mirror holden by a little girl. The mirror was showing Shirubya working in her laboratory.
"So the great lord taiyoukai Sesshoumaru had found his 'soul mate'" The mysterious man said
He looked at his hand. There were 12 shards of the shiko no tama jewel
"I think it is enough Kanna. Now I want you to make a job for me"
"Yes master Naraku"
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Bokuseno should be the name of the 3000 year old magnolia.. the one who told Sesshoumaru why Inuyasha got the Tetsuaiga.. I don't know how it spells..
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