A/N: I was requested to write the other side of the Sad Story chapter. Here, hope you like it!
Sad Story. How It Went
Kagome was running, trying to keep up with the battle and get a shot at the youkai without getting in the way of others.
They had came to a village terrorized by a youkai and had been asked to deal with it. The youkai had attacked mere hours after that and they had decided to move the fight from the village to avoid destruction.
The youkai was a huge frog with green skin with brown dots. It was hard to hit it, because it was pretty fast and jumping in a big leaps. With every attack it was spitting a big blob of some nasty brown liquid that was now splattered across the hillside where they were fighting. It was quite a feat to dodge the flying blobs and not trip on the already fallen ones. And all that while paying attention to a boomerang, gusts of strong winds sucking you towards Miroku and Inuyasha's... Well, Inuyasha in general.
Still, Kagome prided herself to be the one who was the least covered in goo. As she ran after the frog, an arrow at ready, she thought that it was very fortunate that the villagers had been asked to prepare a bath for them all for after the battle.
Finally they got a clear shot at the frog. At the same time it got struck by the Hiraikotsu, Kagome's arrow and a Kaze no Kizu. To say it was an overkill would be an overstatement.
"Fuck!" Inuyasha screamed when the frog rained on them. Kagome gasped when she felt the rain of mildly warm goo covering her hair and running down her back. She wiped her face and saw that the whole area was generously covered in a coating of entrails and unnamed liquids.
"Well, good that it's over," Sango said, shaking her head. She looked to her boomerang, sticking out of a pile of internal organs. It was dripping.
Miroku made sure his beads were secure around his right hand as he started to walk towards them from the top of the hill. Then he slipped on some goo. He grabbed Sango's elbow while stumbling down the slick path, in an attempt to steady himself. Sadly, with a gasp of surprise at being touched, she let go of the slippery boomerang she had been trying to pull out from the ground. Kagome slung her bow over her shoulder and tried to wipe some of the frog from herself while approaching Inuyasha. She relaxed, glad that the battle was finally over. They all really needed a bath. Inuyasha sheathed Tessaiga after wiping it on a patch of miraculously clean grass.
"Okay, let's go get to the village," the hanyou said, grimacing at the stuff covering his feet. "We all need a ba-"
And that was when he noticed what was coming his way. With a bark of surprise Inuyasha tried to jump to the side, but it was already too late - the approaching ball containing a startled exterminator, stunned miko and shocked monk collected him on its way downhill.
And downhill they all went, passing by a staring cat youkai and speechless kitsune, who had ducked under a thick bush to hide from the frog rain. The patch of bushes that grew at the foot of the hill did nothing to stop or even slow the speed of the ball. Shippou and Kirara looked at each other when they heard a splash from the other side of the bushes. They looked at each other and jumped over the bushes.
There was a field of pools and ponds behind the greenery and their friends had fell into one of those ponds.
"At least they'll rinse some of that stuff," Shippou said when he saw his friends rising to the surface.
Inuyasha had been the first one to hit the water, which was pretty fortunate, because he was the toughest one. He also was the first one to swim to the shore, dragging Kagome up and behind himself. Sango followed him and Miroku was the last one, weighted down by his robes, but managing to overcome that issue without having to discard his clothes.
"Feh!" Inuyasha crouched down and shook vigorously as soon as he made sure Kagome was on the dry ground and the rest was getting out of the water too.
"Oh, goodness," Kagome gasped and shook her head, trying to brush her hair away from her face.
"Are you okay, guys?" Shippou and Kirara landed near them when Inuyasha straightened his back. The pair of youkai skidded to a stop and gaped at their bigger friends yet again, but for a different reason. Inuyasha pretty fast joined their little club of startled youki users when he took another glance at his other soaked friends.
Miroku was sitting on the ground, wringing the heavy folds of his robe. His black ears of a raccoon dog were twitching in annoyance. Sango was threading her fingers through her hair, trying to brush off of it some of the thick goo. Her feline tail was swishing behind her back and beating lightly against the grass. Kagome... Inuyasha took a deep breath. Kagome was kneeling in her totally ruined school uniform and was looking back at him, holding her canine ears with both hands. The ears were black with rusty tips and were giving her a mischievous look.
"What the hell?" he wanted to scream, but it came out more like a breathless whisper. And then he inhaled. "Damn," the dog hanyou squatted in front of Kagome, unable to turn his eyes or nose away from her.
"Inuyasha...?" Kagome whispered and blushed, lowering her hands to her chest, blushing at the attention she was getting from the silver-haired boy.
"What's wrong with us?" Miroku asked, looking at both the girls. Shippou and Kirara remained where they stood, unsure about the sudden change of their friends. Sango moved closer to Kagome, her movements graceful as ever. She reached up and tweaked an ear. She giggled when Kagome squeaked and jumped to hide behind Inuyasha, a black tail with red tip bristling behind her back. Shippou gasped when he saw it. Meanwhile Sango noticed her tail and grabbed it.
"I have a tail!" she exclaimed and pointed to Kagome. "And you do too, beside having ears!"
"You're kitsune, Kagome!" the little boy giggled happy that his adoptive mother had a tail, even if he didn't know why. Inuyasha outstretched a hand to help Kagome steady herself in her crouch beside him.
"Ah, poor, valiant youths," sighed a male voice from the side. Everyone looked that way and saw a tiny, thin man in plain clothing. "You are very, very unfortunate, indeed."
"What are you talking about?" Inuyasha barked, his confusion turning into annoyance.
"Please, tell us, do you know what happened to us?" Miroku asked and rose to his feet.
"This a sad, sad happening to you," the man nodded sagely. "You see, this area is the valley of cursed ponds. When I saw you battling the vile youkai terrorizing the nearby village I hurried to warn you, but alas, I came too late."
"Warn us about what?" Sango tilted her head and gave up on tying her hair back, letting it fall loose on her back instead
"I take this that the hanyou fell into the pond first," the stranger pointed at Inuyasha, who scowled at him. "You see, the water in those pools is cursed. If something falls into the water then whatever falls afterwards will change to be like the first one. Since the hanyou fell into the pond now whoever will fall into it will change in one as well. It's a very sad, sad event indeed."
"Can we undo this spell? Or maybe the curse disappears in time?" Miroku asked after a moment of absorbing that information. The man shook his head.
"It's very unfortunate, but no, there is no cure. You will remain hanyou forever. There are pools like those on the continent, where the curse can be lifted temporarily if special requirements are met, but those are permanent." The stranger explained. "My wife's family guards that place."
Inuyasha's ears drooped and he looked guiltily at his friends, who now had to share his fate of an outcast.
"I'm sorry," he apologized without any prompting. After all if he hadn't been the one first in the water they wouldn't be hanyou now...
Kagome wrapped her arms around him and nuzzled his jaw while Miroku was helping Sango to her feet and trying to investigate her tail, which was resulted in Sango hissing at him and jumping a few feet away from him, landing surely on her feet.
"Don't be sorry, Inuyasha," Kagome smiled. "We'll work things out."
Inuyasha looked at her with some hope, daring to believe her this time and hoping that they could make this to their benefit, somehow. His friends weren't shouting at him so far, so maybe they could accept their fate. He glanced to the man standing nearby and looking at them sadly. Shippou jumped to Inuyasha's shoulder, distracting him for a while.
"That's great! Now you can do kitsune tricks with me! And Sango can probably do even more invincible fighting! And Miroku can play tricks with me too!"
Kagome grinned at the dog hanyou. It would be a lie to say that she wasn't shocked and unsure about things. But it was going to be fine.
Besides, judging by the struck look that had been on Inuyasha's face a few minutes earlier, he wasn't disgusted by her new looks. She wondered if he'd like to play a little chasing the fox in some near future.
A/N: I'm not sure it's good enough, but hopefully it was a fun read. I won't be continuing this one because I'm going to play inugang being all hanyou or full youkai in some of the stories planned for this year.