Ch13
Ch13
Disclaimer: I own nothing other than the plot and the characters that don't seem familiar.
AN: I made a mistake in the last chapter. The time of InuYasha's turning into a human is not a full moon but a new moon. Sorry for the confusion.
InuYasha and his friends were walking by a village when a group of children playing near by spotted him. "It's InuYasha-san!" they shouted. The small group stopped and stared in shock, as some of the children ran to get some adults while the rest of the them wandered even closer to study him. "Yup, it's him all right," they declared.
"InuYasha, do you know these kids?" Sango asked, "Maybe this is the village where Usagi-san is from."
"It's not," InuYasha said out loud while replying internally, "That village was destroyed when aneue died."
Just then several adult males surrounding a priest came forward. "A male hanyou, part inu and part ningen, with silver hair and gold eyes," the priest said, like he was reading off a list. "You are InuYasha, correct?
"Who wants to know?" the silver-haired hanyou replied.
"A village that was rescued by a tenshi," the priest answered, "Her name was Usagi-san."
"Usagi was here?" InuYasha shouted, suddenly with interest, "How is she? Is she well? Did she get hurt? Is Suicine still with her?"
"She is doing well, along with the ookami and the child," the priest replied.
"Child?" the young group said in unison.
One of the adults nodded his head. "Usagi-sama had a small youkai child with her. From what we heard, she took in the orphan."
"Aneue adopted a kid," InuYasha said silently, somewhat shocked at the discovery.
A little girl pulled on InuYasha's sleeve and proceeded towards the village. "Tenshi-sama left us a present to give to you," she said with a smile on her face.
A boy slightly older than her pulled on his other hand and dragged him in the same direction. "She says that you're very strong? Are you really?" he asked.
"Nobodies stronger than onee-sama," another boy shouted running ahead of them, "She's like a miko and a warrior combined."
"More like a tenshi and a megumi," a girl argued.
"So Usagi took in a youkai as a daughter?" InuYasha said, letting the children herd him like a lost sheep.
"Yup, her name's Kohana," the children said, "She helped our crops grow faster and better."
InuYasha was seated in the middle of the village right in front of a small modest temple. "This is what Usagi-san asked us to give to you?" the priest said, handing a rolled up scroll and a small brown leather bag. "I don't know how, but she seemed to know that you were heading in this direction and asked us to hand these over."
InuYasha opened up the bag and pulled out s piece of rolled up paper stating all was well and about Suicine and Kohana. She also wrote how she met Kouga and his pack, much to his dismay, and how nice they were to her. He reached into the bag pulled out some onigiri wrapped in bamboo leaves. A small smile blossomed on his face as he remembered the last line of the letter she had written of how she remembers that he hates spicy food and would prefer to eat things that were salty or sweet, preferably salty, hence the reason why he loves the cup ramen Kagome brings back after every trip back home. He then looked at the larger scroll and hesitated to open it when he had a feeling that it was something that he's not going to like.
Getting tired of waiting, Shippo grabbed the scroll and ran to the other side of the road. "What are you waiting for, InuYasha? It's just a scroll." He opened it and peeked at its contents. His green eyes widened as a blush grew on his face and his mouth dropped open.
"What is it, Shippo-chan?" Kagome asked, taking the scroll from the shocked fox. She looked at it and squealed, "Kaiwaii!"
Sango and Miroku glanced over her shoulders and also stared in awe. Shippo jumped onto Miroku's head and asked the hanyou, "Who is that little girl?"
"What girl?" InuYasha shouted. He grabbed the scroll and stared at the drawing of a little girl with long black hair wearing a pink yutaka. "Why the hell did she draw this out for?" He saw something scribbled on the bottom and read it out loud, "Kouga wanted to see what you looked like during that festival so I drew him a picture." He stared at it, lost for a second before screaming, 'What the FUCK! If he wanted her for a mate, would she agree to it? What did she have to draw me that in that freaking outfit for?"
"Wait, this girl is you?" Kagome asked. She stared down at Shippo who had fallen off of the monk's head, laughing himself to death.
Miroku stared at his embarrassed friend. "So you really are a girl in disguise," he teased.
"Girl in disguise, my ass ("Sure if you're really a girl," Miroku said, getting a smack on the head, courtesy of Sango.)," InuYasha shouted, "I'm 100 percent male who was disguised as a girl for her amusement!"
"When did this happen?' Sango asked.
"All I wanted to do was to go to a festival and the only time I can go without being chased out was on a night of a new moon. And on that day, it was a festival for females, but Usagi tricked me and got me there disguised as a little girl."
While the others were laughing, Miroku couldn't help but notice that the portrait was of a very young InuYasha, so this must've happened in his childhood, but he had mentioned Usagi being in the memory. Miroku couldn't help but wonder if this strange savior is a ningen as she claimed to be or a youkai as he suspected.
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Kouga heard giggling and turned to see Usagi trying to hide her laughter. He had offered to escort her to a nearby village, even though she told him that he didn't have to. He argued saying that if anything happened to her, Kagome would be upset, when in reality, he just wanted to spend more time with her. He looked smugly at Suicine when she finally agreed. "Usagi, is there something wrong?" he asked.
"Something tells me that Yasha-kun saw the drawing I gave to him," Usagi said in a playful tone. Kohana, who was riding on Suicine, giggled along side her surrogate mother.
Kouga thought back to the drawing of a young InuYasha and burst out laughing, just as he did when he first saw it. "I can't believe that mutt actually looks good as a girl," he said.
"I can't believe that you did all that to him and still survived," Ginta muttered.
Kouga just continued to laugh when he stopped all of a sudden. His eyes narrowed as he glanced around carefully. Usagi looked at him curiously, she knew the reason why he stopped, but she wanted to see whether or not he knows the reason as well. There was a familiar stench that clung in the air, heading off in a direction. A smirk grew on Kouga's face. "Naraku," he said. He quickly hurried off into the direction with his pack staring at him in disbelief. "You guys take Usagi to a nearby village and catch up with me later," he said, disappearing into the distance.
"You want us to do what?!" Hakkaku shouted, "There's no way we could catch up to you like this!"
Usagi shook her head. "You guys go ahead. I'll be just fine with Suicine," she said. The wolves all looked at her and were pondering on whether or not they should do with their leader said or disobey. Usagi placed her hands on her hips as she pointed in the same direction Kouga ran off to. "Go, I'll be just fine," she said. She glared at them like a scolding mother, causing them to jump tail and follow the vanishing youkai.
Usagi sighed as she glanced at her two companions. "Honestly, why does everyone take one look at me and immediately assume that I need protection?" she asked, causing Kohana to laugh and Suicine to shake his head.
AN: Some people had stated in the last chapter that they would never see InuYasha as a girl, but in some fanfics I've read, they do change him into one. I just reminds me of the Naruto stories where Naruto is female rather than a male.