Alluring Nymph
By: Kibou32
Disclaimer: I don't own either Inuyasha, Lawful Drug or xxxHolic.
Summary: All principal characters are minding their own business, going about their own ways when they are brought together by a powerful woods' nymph whose suddenly missing a couple of her kin. She turns them into wood nymphs – females at that and suddenly their companions know not what to do to get them back to normal.
Warnings: A lot of yaoi pairings... other than the usual ones. And some out of character behavior.
Pairings: Watanuki + Doumeki, Kazahaya + Rikuo, Saiga + Kakei, Kakei + Inuyasha, Saiga + Kakei + Inuyasha, Saiga + Kakei + Inuyasha + Sesshoumaru, Inuyasha + Sesshoumaru.
Genre: Humor, Romance, some Drama and Angst.
Rated: No younger than seventeen.
Part II
"There is a difference between a nymph and a nymphet. Usually nymphs are created by the capturing of another woman – a woman who is beautiful beyond the usual concept of beauty and who before becoming a nymph herself was also not a virgin. The first and more 'mature' nymph gets the woman spellbound and sings the Nymph Spell to lure her in, this is the same with males they want to play with. As nymphs don't talk to anyone – let alone each other – if they don't need to, for a nymph to do the Nymph' Spell is something big."
Watanuki scoffed at the writings on the book Doumeki had rather reluctantly given him the other day he had come over to his shrine. He had randomly picked out the book from the shelf in Doumeki's room when he came down with a cold. Doumeki hardly ever got sick, but when he did it was very important he made sure he took care of himself. Doumeki's mother often called him up whenever this happened so he'd know and not be surprised when he didn't see him at school.
He put the book aside and decided to finish his chores in Yuuko's shop before said person decided to spring something else on him. Something like food or sake. When he had finished with all his chores, he began to do his homework. He was a bit surprised that Yuuko hadn't poked her head through the doorway to demand some food or that he do something else with his time like polish all the china on her treasure room and whatnot. But no.. it didn't happen. He finished with all of his homework and even managed to read some of his past notes for an upcoming test due the next week or so and still didn't get why Yuuko hadn't begun troubling him. He finally decided to begin again to read the book that Doumeki had recalcitrant-ly lent him.
"But when a nymph turns a beautiful being - regardless of the breed, race or sex - who has not had any sort of sexual experience; it in turns out to be a nymphet. Experience has shown those who know magic and don't abuse it, that even a nymph has no knowledge of what beautiful creatures not to turn into one of its own. Sometimes, a nymph who might be hundreds of years alive – not of age because nymphs of any kind do not grow old and are not affected by age or time but are not immortal – might not know everything of the world they live in. All they know is what is beautiful and music. They love music and are very playful. But if angered are also very vengeful."
Watanuki stopped and wondered who on Earth had written this in the first place. He shrugged and went on reading curious now about what the book could tell him of nymphets. He skipped some chapters and kept on reading. For some reason he couldn't tell – deep in his heart he knew the information would come in handy later on.
"A nymphet is what you could call a nymph child who is very alluring to all males from all races alike. This means that if a nymphet attracts the attention of a male of a race where there are no females and the males reproduce like hermaphrodites, the male would still find the nymphet attractive. Nymphets are very innocent-like and they like anything that generates music. They rarely – if ever – engage in sexual intercourse, but it is not uncommon for them to play with males. Nymphets carry the right reproductive systems fully functioning but they never get pregnant.
A nymph could make the wrong choice to make a companion out of a male and change its sex to make it female disregarding its kind. There have been stories of some wood nymphs turning male demons - around the Feudal Era – into nymphs; in which case makes them females for the rest of their lives if they are ever metamorphosed back into demons by their kin."
Watanuki blanched at the idea of emasculation and wondered why on earth would a nymph find the idea appetizing.
"Some nymphs think of only playing with the wind and will not think of making other beings change into nymph-form unless they feel threatened by other beings. If you confront a nymph into a fight, be certain that this will be your end as a normal being in your own kind.
Nymphs recently 'turned into' will be easy to change back to what they were before. But if a being was changed into a nymph for more than a year, then that being will remain a nymph for the rest of their lives in a matter of speaking. Nymphets on the other hand can be turned back to normal even if the change occurred more than a year ago. Nymphets are forever virginal even if they ever engage in sexual acts while being nymphets. They will never grow old from a day after being 'turned'. And they will certainly not grow into being a nymph with time.
The only way to change back a nymphet is for their kin to take them into their family regardless of their state or form before the change. If the nymphet had been orphaned before the metamorphosis occurred, then the declaration of love from someone close to the being before the change will make the changing back effective. This will work only if the nymphet felt an inkling of the same emotion before becoming a nymphet."
Watanuki sighed. He looked at the clock and quickly scrambled up grabbing his stuff as he went by and just about the time he was leaving the shop's grounds, Yuuko appeared.
"Be careful Watanuki. I feel something strange in the night going about." - then she turned back around and closed the door on his face.
He grumbled and like whenever he were angry at something Yuuko said or did to annoy him, he forgot about her warning to be careful and walked onwards disregarding his ongoing and non stopping fear of the creatures of the night.
When morning came Watanuki Kimihiro found himself right at the steps of the Doumeki shrine awaiting the young priest who always saved him from ghosts and other beings that from time to time tried to eat him alive. He admitted wanly to himself and the oaf of Doumeki Shizuka that he needed him and that he really valued his existence as his friend. Said oaf had only scoffed him and made him so mad that he had been in one of his rages that he hadn't even noticed the beautiful Himawari giggling beside him. He snorted and hoped Doumeki was okay enough to walk with him to school. Otherwise, it would be another 'run away' from monsters and what not. Sure enough, Doumeki was waiting for him at the front steps of the shrine. He stepped up to him and silently they walked without saying anything about what had happened the two days that Doumeki had been ill with the flu.
Just before they reached the school grounds, even Watanuki could tell that someone was watching him very intently but not with malicious intent.
"Saa... Doumeki?" - he said softly without turning around looking for the gaze that followed his every move.
"Hn."
"Do you feel that?" - he asked tentatively.
"What is it?" - he asked in return alert as he wasn't before.
"I feel someone staring at me-- or something at least, but it does not seem as if it wants to eat me or kill me." - with that he was startled when it became apparent that the being was a beautiful someone with golden yellow eyes and pretty lips from a side streetlight post curiously looking back at him. He blinked and she blinked back. He was instantly spellbound by her beauty.
"What do you see Watanuki?" - Doumeki asked urgently feeling something prickling the hairs on the back of his neck.
Watanuki knelt to the ground softly to unload his briefcase and his bento box. When he stood up – slowly as well – he began to inch closer to the girl looking back at him. While he made his way towards the girl that had him fluttering in his heartstrings, he was unknowingly ignoring Doumeki who was beginning to feel a bit frantic at the fact that not even stepping in front of his idiotic friend and bumping into each other made the frazzled boy react and come back to the living.
"OI!" "OI! WATANUKI! BREAKAWAY FROM THE SPELL!!" - He continuously yelled but without any answers.
It was when he saw Watanuki – the most important person in his life – reach for the streetlight post that had stood diagonally to the left from them, then he noticed the innocent gaze that looked on curiously at Watanuki and viceversa. That gaze did not recognized him – not even when he stood in-between them – and was as spellbound as his idiotic friend was into her. It was as if they had fallen in love. Which was ridiculous because Watanuki already held a crush on Kunogi Himawari. It was then when he also noticed the being who was reaching out to him. Not to Watanuki as it was and he hurried towards the pretty girl and grabbed her at the same time as he did his friend, Watanuki himself reached her side. He enveloped them both in a hug so powerful with his protective ki that the being that was reaching out to touch him shrieked in anger and sent the 'Nymph Spell' towards Watanuki in retaliation to his obvious cold shoulder and then disappeared as if it had never been there at all.
Interlude A
Rikuo had dreamed of the moment were he could have a family. He wanted to have children and on so forth. But the day he returned to a bloody apartment and Tsukiko was gone without a trace, he hardened his heart and shut his illusions from that. It didn't matter what he did or when, all it matter was getting answers to Tsukiko's disappearance.
It was when he met up with Kazahaya Kudo that things changed. When he noticed that the most important person to him no longer was the girl in his nightmares... Kazahaya had overtaken her position in his heart and had left him feeling bereft. Days after what he called it the 'chocolate' incident he decided that this boy was worth saving for. He could be Kazahaya's prince in shining armor to the rescue. If only to keep the boy with him and keep him from leaving him wanting someone else for companionship.
He would never let him go. If it were in his power, he would stop at nothing to keep the special boy close to his heart and alive.