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~Yasha's Sis
Circumstance
Book 2: Land of Grass
Chapter 11:
Trident
Crude map in mind, InuYasha followed the instructions of his once babysitter to the T. He passed two rivers and the town of Nanami before he broke out of the slightly mountainous, coniferous forests of Waterfall Country. He was surprised by the lack of interest he garnered as he passed through the town. People took one look at the sword strapped to his back and give him a wide birth.
InuYasha wasn't sure whether to be grateful for the independence or annoyed.
When the Inn Keeper he queried for directions to the Trident told him to come back with a parent or a sensei because he didn't deal with riffraff... he chose annoyed.
That was probably the most polite shove off that InuYasha had ever gotten but it was still irritating. It took three more tries and liberal use of his rapidly dwindling patience before a farmer at one of the rice stalls pointed him in the right direction.
(InuYasha had an impeccable sense of direction, but he wasn't stubborn enough anymore, or stupid enough to solely depend on that in a foreign land.)
Cursing his child body and its feeble abilities, InuYasha struck camp two days from the town of Trident.
Trident was a large shipping city perched over the three way fork of a massive river conglomeration in the North western most part of Fire Country. Large stone pillars, almost two hundred feet high held up the center structure of the city that housed almost a 100,000 people. InuYasha had never seen anything like it, never smelled so many people at once (shitty human nose or no) outside of visiting Kagome's era. Seeing this place and the technological wonder that allowed the aqueducts to carry both produce and people left InuYasha in a bit of awe.
In another time, he might have liked to explore it.
Instead, he caught a nap, snagged some food and bought passage on a barge heading to southern Grass. It would take a healthy chunk of his traveling money, but Mifu-
(Old lying sack of shit)
-that bastard would not send anyone from his house without at means to afford room and board for a reasonable amount of time. His honor demanded so. Allowing Kagome to practice her maths by teaching him, while at the time galling, turned out to be rather useful in managing his money.
(He won't be grateful to her for that. He won't.)
InuYasha figured the expense would be worth cutting three days off his travel.
When the bandit's attacked, he felt otherwise.
Next chapter: The more things change...
Thoughts? Comments? Concerns?
~Yasha's Sis