HEY GUYS! Yeah, I know long time no see. I really only have three excuse for not updating this thing. One: Working on eight other stories. Two: No motivation. Yes, I had a total writers block with this thing. Three: Volleyball started a month before school and I've been busy with that, and now school is added to the mix... Those aren't real good excuses, but that's all I got right now...
Anyways, this chapter is dedicated to White Alchemeist Taya. Hope ya enjoy it WAT! (WAT! Like the lightbulb! ha! okay sorry... but really LMFAO!)
Past Love and Memories
Last Time
When she all of a sudden sensed a youkai near by. She smelled the air, realizing that it was an inu-youkai. The demon's youkai gave off a strong aura, so she jumped out of the water grabbing her kattana out of the shelf of the rock. The moment her feet touched the ground the youkai appeared. She gasped as her father walked out of the bushes. "Da-dad?" she whispered.
Now
Akumi gasped as her the figure of her regal father stepped out of the bushes. His black hair with blue streaks seemed to frame his body as it settled at his lower back. His blue eyes seemed to glow as he glanced at the full moon, and the single blue strip on each cheek defined his face even more. His black tail with whisps of blue sat on his shoulder, twitching slightly. His attire screamed, 'Bow to your all mighty Lord!'. He had on black hikamas (I'm really not sure if this is what you call past Japanese pants, but for now that's what I'm, calling them) wth a black shirt. A red haori covered most of the shirt, and the haori had black flames with a blue star etched into the sleeves. His sash was also red with black flames.
But something was wrong. Well, besides the fact that her dad was dead. Her father's scent did not reach her nose. Instead what reached her nose was the pleasant smell of youkai magic. Also, instead of his left arm settling on the blue and silver hilt of her father's kattana, but the blue and gold hilt of her brother's.
"Listen you. My father is dead and I know that for a fact. If you do not hand over my brother's kattana, you will be joing him." She growled low in her throat in order to show that she meant business.
To her surprise, and slight annoyance, the youkai began to laugh. As the youkai laughed his little ass off, the appearence of her deceased father began to melt away into that of a inu/wolf youkai.
The youkai had black hair with red whisps adorning different strands. His hair ended mid-back in order to give his black wolf tail, with a red tip, room to swish about freely. He had blue eyes, like her dad, and with the same blue star atop his fore-head. He had two red strips on each cheek bone, making him look everybit the taiyoukai he was. He wore the same attire as her father, but instead of black hikama's and flames, his were blue.
"Just trying to see of you're still as quick as you used to be, sis. Guess you haven't lost your touch." he chuckled lightly, smirking as he placed his left hand on the hilt of his sword.
"Roxas?" Akumi whispered. Roxas nodded and grinned. Akumi squealed in utter delight and ran towards her brother. She dropped her sword in a neat tuff of grass, and leaped into her brothers arms. Roxas smoothed down her wet hair as she made different whimpers and growling noises against his chest. Wait... wet hair? That's when he suddenly realized that his clothing was soaked. He looked over Akumi's shoulder to come face-to-face with her backside.
"GAH!" He yelled, pushing her away and running behind a tree. Akumi could distinctly hear the words, "Naked... wet... sister... images... IMAGES!"
Akumi gasped and looked down at herself. "AGH! I'm naked!" She ran towards her clothes, putting them on as fast as she could.
"That's what I said!" Her brother growled. He walked out from behind the tree as he heard the distinct sound of ninja stars clicking together in a leather pouch. "I can't believe it's you sis." He folded her into a bear hug, lifting her off the ground. Unfortunately, her arms were trapped in the hug, so she couldn't hug him back. Also, he was cutting off her air supply.
"Must... breathe... need... air!" She gasped.
"Oh, sorry Kumi." Roxas grinned as he set her down and looked over her, checking for any wounds that anyone had dared to enflict upon his baby sister while she was away. He made a turning motion with one finger. Akumi sighed and turned around slowly so he could check over every inch.
"Still the over protective mix-breed, I see." Akumi commented.
"And you're still a loud mouthed bitch. But I'm not complaining." He retorted casually, while grinning. But his face soon lost it's cheerfulness and melted into that of one going over stocks. Complete seriousness. (is that a word? If not, I take claim on it! LOL jk.)
"Where have you been, Kumi?" He asked, stepping so he was only a foot away from her. "It's been one hundred years, and you definatlely aren't a hundred years old." He looked up and down once again.
"I... Err... I was in the future." Akumi stared at him, trying to define his reaction.
"Oh." Then his eyes widened. "THE FUTURE! How the hell did you get there! Why did- When? GRR! What the fuck?" He started rubbing his temple in order to quell the oncoming head ache that was gettitng harder and harder to surpress.
"I'll tell you everything back at my camp. They're bound to get worried about me." She smiled softly and began to walk towards her camp, Roxas following behind her.
"So... you're already traveling with a group?" Roxas asked, eyebrows raised in question.
"Yep. Kagome can pass through the future and the present frequently. If it wasn't for her, I never would have made it back." Her voice held a tinge of sorrow tht she was trying to hide. But, Roxas being her big brother, and intuned to everything that happens with his little sister, picked it up instantly.
"It's okay sis. You're back, and you're not leaving again. That's a promise." He smirked, knowing what she was going to say next.
"Excuse me? If I want to go, I can. You ain't my boss!" She narrowed her eyes at his chuckle. "What's so funny?"
"You." He grinned at her. She was one of the few people who would be allowed to see ALL of his emotions. He wasn't cold, but he did keep them in check. "You haven't changed a bit."
"Whatev." Akumi waved her hand casually.
"Whatev? What's this 'whatev'?" His face was contorted in confuison, eyes a little wider than usual.
"It's short for whatever. It's a future thing." Akumi smiled at him as they got closer to the camp. They were arguing about something pretty stupid as they walked through the bushes.
"I can to use a kattana, Inuyasha!" Kagome yelled angrily.
"No you can't. I haven't seen you use one. And you probably couldn't even lift the damned thing!" Inuyasha growled/yelled back.
"Actually, she can." Akumi said, glaring at the hanyou who was just to annoying. The guy thought Kagome weak, and she was f-a-a-ar beyond that.
"Ptf. How'd you know? You've been in the future for three years!" Inuyasha growled.
"Are you doubting my sister's honor, half-breed?" Roxas growled, stepping up to shield his sister from the brash boy.
"Here we go." Akumi muttered as Inuyasha stood to glare at the mix-breed.
"What if I am? What are you gonna do about it?"
"Oh. You'll see." Roxas whispered as he reached for his kattana. Akumi suddenly dropped to her feet and kicked his legs out from under him. "What the?"
"Inuyasha! SIT!" Que Inuyasha on the ground, kissing the dirt.
"Now. Both of you shut up and play nice like the little puppies you are!" Akumi growled, holding her brother's tail and tugging on it slightly.
"Woman that is my tail. That's my ta- You're gonna tare it off!" Roxas snarled before tugging said appendage out of his sister's capable claws.
"What'd you do that for, Kagome!" Inuyasha yelled has he jumped out of the Inuysha sized crator.
"For being a child."
"Why you-" Inuyasha started.
"Now, now Inuyasha. We don't want to be rude to Akumi's family." Miroku stated calmy. He was highly curious to his sudden appearence. Then again, Akumi is his baby sister.
"Thanks, Miroku." Akumi smiled before sitting down, pulling her brother beside her. They all looked to the standing Inuyasha expectedly.
"Feh." Was Inuyasha's answer to all the stares. He sat down indian style, arms over his chest. "What are you waiting for?" He growled.
Akumi sighed heavily. "Roxas meet Kagome, Sango, Inuyasha, Miroku, Kirara, and..." She pointed to all of them as she spoke. "Where's Shippou?" Everyne looked around, wondering where the youngest memebr of there group went off to.
"I don't know." Kagome whispered. She jumped up and looked in her sleeping bag. "Not in here. Where is he? Shippo-o-o-ou!" she called into the night.
The demons and half demons of the group stood, sniffing the air. "Is he a kitsune?" Roxas asked as he turned around slightly, getting the scent of the forest.
"Yeah." Akumi whispered as she caught the sent of wolf with pine forests mixed. "Wolves are near by, and Shippou's with them!" She ran towards the East, looking for her little companion.
She ducked and dodged tree roots and logs, aware of the others following her. She jumped over bushel of bushes, knowing that the pack of wolves and wolf youkai on the other side of the thick clump.
"They're over there Kouga." She heard Shippou say off-handedly. "But I don't think it's a good idea. Inuyasha is in a sour mood 'cuz we're out of ramen."
"What's ramen?" came a deep voice, laced with curiosity.
"Shippou! You don't just go around talking to wolves you don't know!" Akumi yelled, jumping between the to and picking up the kit. She turned around to the ookami-youkai behind her. "Who the hell are you?"
The wolf had deep black hair in a high pony, with a head band on. His eyes were a fierce blue, and his fangs jutted over his lips. He had tan skin with a brown swishing tail. "Who are you to be picking up Kagome's friend?" He narrowed his eyes at her.
"You know Kagome?" Aklumi titlted her head in question just as they others jumped out of the bushes.
"Kouga!" Roxas asked as he landed beside his sister. "What are you doing here?"
"Roxas? What the hell is going on?" Kagome on Inuyasha's back came through the bushes, Kiarara with Sango and Miroku utop of her landed in the clearing. Then two more ookami-youkai came darting through the bushes behind Kouga.
"Kouga! You stopped!" The one with the spiked mohawk ground out through gasping breaths.
"And he found sister." Came the voice of the one with white and black hair.
"Can you guys tell me what's going on? Why is Roxas, the Eastern Lord, hanging with mutt-face!" Kouga pointed to Inuyasha, the accused person.
"Hey! You mangy-wolf! What are you doing with Shippou!" Inuyasha growled.
"He was getting a drink when I sniffed him out." He shrugged carelessly.
"What were you doing by yourself, Shippou?" Kagome asked the kit who was sitting in Akumi's arms.
"Inuyasha was angry and I didn't want him hitting me so I decided to take a walk. None of you noticed that Akumi had been gone for a while, so I decided to go and find her when I found the stream." His green eyes followed Inuyasha, watching to see if he hit him on the head.
"Oh." Came the reply of the humans.
"So, what are you doing here, Kouga?" Roxas asked the ookami-youkai.
"Came here to check on my woman. What else?"
"You have a woman?" Roxas's eye were wide and mouth agape.
"You have a mate, and she doesn't travel with you. Some mate you are." Akumi muttered under her breath. Kouga heard it and glared at her.
"Listen, Bitch, I don't know who you are-" Bad move with the bitch.
"What did you just call my little sister!" Roxas roared, eyes tinged in red.
"Oops." Akumi whispered.
"Bitch. That's what she is." Kouga has offically been labled as the Northern Idiot.
"No one calls my sister a bitch, except for me! Not even the Northern Prince." Roxas snarled before grabbing the wolf by the throat.
"O-o-kay." Kouga gasped out between labored breaths. Roxas growled one more time before dropping the ookami to the ground. Kouga rubbed his throat as he stood on his legs.
Roxas glared at him and then nodded towards Akumi. "Apologize, wolf." He growled coldly.
Kouga rolled his eyes. "I apologize, Akumi, sister of Lord Roxas." He formaly apologized, letting Roxas know that he meant it. Even if it was only because of the fear of his life.
Akumi nodded and then turned ot her brother, glaring. "Stop being a jerk. I don't like being called a bitch, but you don't go around practically killing people over it."
Roxas glared right back, a glare that could rival Sesshoumaru. "What I do to others is none of your concern."
Akumi flinched, but then anger blazed in her eyes. "You sound like the Prick, Rox. Don't do it again." She turned on her heal and walked form them. Roxas sighed heavely before turning back to the wolf.
"So, whose the lucky woman? Or should I say, unlucky woman?" Roxas joked wiht his friend. They actually got a long pretty well, considering that the wolf was loud mouthed and blunt while Roxas was just the same, they were always butting heads, but they were friends through thick and thin.
Kagome semi-glared at him, but then smirked and wlkaed towards Kagome, pushing Inuyasha out of the way as he grabbed AKgome's hand. "Kagome, here, is my mate-to-be." He msilred as a blush spread across her cheeks.
Inuyasha growled and jumped up in Kouga's face, eyes set in daggers and fist rasied. "She is not your mate-to-be, Kouga." Inuyasha snarled. Apparatnly, Inuyasha's inner inu was getting kinda testy with an extra male added besides Kouga and his pack.
Kouga rolled his eyes. "I don't see your claim on her." Inuyasha blushed slightly but continued his glare as Kagome's gaze flashed between the two. Finally, Akumi came back , Shippou still in her arms.
"Are you coming or what? I want to get some sleep tonight, I plan ons tarting my cycle tomorrow." Akumi commented as she pushed kouga away from her steessed friend. "You're clogging up the air, Wolfy." she had to turn her giggle into a cough as Kouga supressed a growl.
"Cycle?" Kagome asked, turning to her firend. "You mean you can contol... you know?"
Akumi blinked not once, not twice, not four times, but three times. (srry had to do that... heh heh) Finally it dawned on her and she turned bright red. "NO! I can't control that. I met my sleep cycle. I sleep once every two weeks uless i get really exuasted. Inuyasha won't have to stay up now."
"Feh." came the angred reply of a disgruntled half-youkai. "I don't need sleep like the weak humans."
Akumi scrunched her nose up in distaste of his anger towards humans. "I do recall, Inuyasha, that you travel with three weak humans, and are in fact half human. You have no right to critisize their race, when their blood runs through your veins."
Inuyasha glared at her, fists clenched at his sides as his power seemed to spark. he finalyl answered as he lowered his head and covered his eye swith his bangs. "Keh." one simple word seems to fit exactly what he meant as he stomped back to camp. 'Don't you think I know that? That's why, sometimes... I hate them..."
Kagome watch as her crush stomped back to the camp. She was angry at Akumi for putting it so bluntly, but inuyasha did need to learn that not all humans had it out for him. Even Akumi, in her own way, showed that she cared for him.
A/N Not to bad of a chapter, this was mainly used to bring Kouag into the story. I honestly don't have tht major of a role for Kouga, but he'll have some aprt in it don't worry.
Kouga: yeah right, you'll forget all about me.
SM: No I won't. It was jsut hard to bring you in.. hey atleast I forgot about Mmiokru in my other story, he's in it now though...
Kouga: SEE!
Kieth: Oh shut it you whiny wolf...
Sessh: this Sesshoumaru agrees, shut that thing you call a mouth so that I can contonue my excersises. 101...102..103 pushesups
SM: (drool) now that is a sight that I am personally glad to see.
Kouga: HEY! I could do that many too
SM: Not as good as him! (drool more)
Sessh: Thankyou, I think.
Keith: Gross...
SM: ahem, anyways... I um... What was I supposed to be doing again... Sesshoumaru side-tracted me...
Sessh: (smirk)
Keith: reccomendations...(sigh)
SM: Oh... well it's my turn so here I go... I reccomend the story Inyasha by KagirinaiSakusha730 at http/
Hope ya like! It's a continuashion of the series after the last episode in her own version. It's great so far... but im not sure how fare she is in it... heh heh