Tora-chan: Soo tired, need sleep.
Inuyasha: What's her problem?
Kagome: Be nice Inuyasha! She worked graveyard last time and didn't get much sleep.
Inuyasha: Graveyard? What's that?
Kagome: It's when you work over night instead of during the day.
Inuyasha: So I'm up overnight all the time. Why is she being such a wimp?
Kagome: Inuyasha! SIT! (Inuyasha falls face first to the ground)
Hiroshi: Thank you Kagome. Since Tora-chan is mentally asleep at the moment I'll do the disclaimer again: Tora-chan does not own Inuyasha, she does own the characters Vitanie, Hiroshi, Yuki, Mari, Makoto, and Sen, plus a few others later own. I also know that she wanted to thank RoCkRcHiK, inuyashaswife12, gfam89, and her newest reviewer Whitetigermisty. She really does appreciate all the review that she gets. Now lets see if I can wake Tora-chan up enough to write the next chapter.
Last time: Vitanie got in a fight with a local thug and revealed the time she would turn human to Inuyasha and the rest of his group. The only one that doesn't know is Shippo, because he was asleep during the conversation.
The night wind blew through the window cooling the air in the Inn noticeably. Since it was such a large room and because they came in just as the sun went down there was only one large room for them to stay in. A folding screen was put up to give some privacy between girls and guys but it really was just an illusionary concept. After Vitanie had stopped chasing Hiroshi around the room they all decided that it was time to get some sleep.
Soft murmurs and snores could be heard as Vitanie sat up with a stretch. She could still sense the others around her and knew that there was one other person awake.
"Good morning Inuyasha," she smiled.
"Feh."
"That's such a lovely comment mind if I use it once in a while," she teased as she stood and walked to the window. It was still dark outside but she could feel the dawn approaching. She untied the end of her hair and combed it out as she watched the sky began to lighten.
From where she stood Inuyasha saw her clearly, a bit confused. Why is she standing in plain sight? She should be staying away from windows and anyone that might not know her secret.
"You idiot, get away from the window. Someone might see you," he snapped just as her silver-ish white hair darkened to match the black strips that had run through it before. Her tails and ears also disappeared as he eyes changed from their golden hue to a surprisingly bright blue.
"Inuyasha, you know as well as I did that there was no one near enough to see me transform," she said in a whisper. "Besides my biggest enemy already knows when my time of transformation is, so if he wanted to attack he would. I'm not ashamed of what I am, and I will not hide in fear," she stated boldly still looking out the window. She heard another 'feh' from his direction.
She heard others start to move about as they began to wake up but ignored them. Yuki had barely woken and was trying to get his eyes to focus when he sensed Vitanie standing at the window. He forced himself awake as he stood and went over a grabbed her arm pulling her away from the window.
"Yuki, what are you doing! Let me go!" she snapped trying to pull her arm out of his grasp. He just moved over to the wall furthest from the window and unceremoniously pushed her to the group.
"You fool, don't stand in plain sight what if someone recognizes you from yesterday. Don't you remember what happened the first time you transformed around me?" he snarled at her.
"How could I forget!" she snapped back as she stood to face the angry wolf demon. "I couldn't more my right arm for almost two months. And that happened after I turned back into a half demon. Now move aside and shut up!" she exclaimed pushing him to the side a walking back to the window.
Yuki stumbled back and tripped over Hiroshi causing him to fall into the wall with a loud smack. Inuyasha had a smirk on his face enjoying the little entertainment that they were providing. He was also enjoying watching another half demon fight the protectiveness of her friends.
Kagome stood up and walked toward Vitanie and was talking quietly to her trying to calm her temper down, while Sango and Miroku left to bring in breakfast. Kohaku was occupied with Mari as she showed off some wood dolls that one of Yuki's pack had carved for her. Just as things started to calm down Shippo woke up. He looked around and saw Kagome by the window but was a little confused until Vitanie turned and he saw her face.
"Vitanie, you're human!" he blurted. Everyone turned in surprise and confused shock, at least until Vitanie started laughing.
"That's right you were asleep when I explained that I would be human today. I guess that is a little bit of a shock for you isn't it?" she asked with a smile.
Inuyasha smirked with a barely whispered 'idiot' from where he leaned against the wall. Yuki heard him a smirked a little but didn't say anything while Shippo launched himself across the room at the half dog demon.
"What was that Inuyasha? I'll get you for that!" he exclaimed.
Inuyasha smirked with a self confident, "Yeah right, twerp." And used his fist to knock Shippo down. The little fox didn't give up and charged again, but was sent rolling across the room into the wall.
Kagome still standing by Vitanie was turned toward the half demon glaring at the floor between them. Her fist where clenched at her sides and she was visible shacking. "Inuyasha," she stated anger seeping through her tone.
Inuyasha glanced up at the girl and his ears fell to the side and a look of fear slowly crept into his eyes. When she was like that there was only one thing he could really expect. "Sit boy," she said remarkable calm for how much anger her body language portrayed. There was a soft glow from the rosary beads around Inuyasha's neck before he ended up face first into the floor. With a small smile of satisfaction at the punishment she turned back to Vitanie to continue their conversation while Yuki was laughing in the background.
"We're leaving!" Vitanie yelled at the two men in front of her. Her back was ridged and she was barely keeping herself from clobbering the two.
"No we're going to wait until tomorrow and that's final Vee!" Yuki yelled back the anger evident in his eyes.
"Stop yelling you two," Hiroshi insisted trying to calm the two down. "Vee, he is right though we should stay until tomorrow. It would be safer." Hiroshi was wringing his hands since he had decided that holding an instrument during the argument would have probably lead to the instrument being destroyed out of anger from either the riled wolf demon or the now human half tiger demon.
"And I'm telling you that we have wasted enough time and that we're leaving! There is no reason to waste a perfectly good day of traveling," she snapped at the two. They had started the argument after Sango had returned with a tray of food clearly upset followed by Miroku with another tray and a red hand shaped mark across his check.
"Don't be an idiot, you need to stay hidden, it's the safest choice," Yuki proclaimed smugly. Hiroshi quietly whispered an agreement. See no other way to get then to agree with her she took the same action she always did since they were standing side by side in front of her. She took a step forward reached up and pushed their heads together causing both to yell out as the ended up on the floor from the blow.
"I'm leaving, when you two are ready to join me catch up," she stated curtly as she grabbed her bag and staff and walked out the door.
"You two should really stop trying to force her, you know she'll do what ever she wants even if you disagree. Besides it would save you the headache," Mari said in an uncharacteristic bout of conversation. Then she ran out the door after her self-adopted older sister.
"Mari wait," Kagome called out after the young cat demon. "Come on Inuyasha we should probably go to. Shippo," she started to call just as she saw the fox demon race out the door after his new friend. With that she grabbed her bag and bow and arrows and raced after them, Inuyasha silently following behind.
Sango, Miroku, and Kohaku looked down at the two men still sitting on the floor. Yuki was just seething in anger while Hiroshi was still rubbing the side of his head.
"Do you guys go through this every time she turns human," Kohaku asked holding a hand out to help Hiroshi up.
"Yeah, basically," Hiroshi sighed.
"That stubborn, self centered, arrogant cat. I'll teach her to respect me," Yuki was mumbling under his breath.
"Well we should probably catch up," Sango said grabbing her Hiraikotsu ignoring the wolf's remarks.
"You're right, Sango. We should follow them quickly," Miroku stated reaching a hand in what seemed to be a gesture to let her through the door first. As she walked by she grabbed his hand and pinched the skin causing the monk to wince.
"Don't even think about it you dirty monk," she stated flatly.
"Never even crossed my mind, my lovely Sango," he replied smoothly tears starting to form from the pain of the twisted skin. Kohaku shook his head at the constant acts of womanizing he had seen since the fight with Naraku ended. And stated talking with Hiroshi as he got his lyre out to start plucking at the strings again. The four left leaving the muttering wolf on the floor until he too got up and stormed after them.
Yuki and the others were almost to the north edge of town when he caught the strong scent of Vitanie on the early morning spring breeze. There waiting at the edge of town with Inuyasha, Kagome, Mari, and Shippo was Vitanie. She looked up at the angry look on Yuki's face as he came forward and laughed.
"Come on you should be use to this by now, Yuki. It's the same thing that happens every month," she laughed. And just like every month Yuki relented. She had left the Inn with out putting her hair into it's customary braid so know it hung down her back in a ripple stopping at her knees. Her hair was as dark as the midnight sky and at the moment it glistened from where the sunlight hit it making it look like there were stars shining in it as well. "It took you longer to follow then normal, Yuki. If anyone should have a head ache it should be Hiroshi not you," she smiled.
With a halfhearted grunt Yuki started forward down the road that would lead to Fujigawa and the Sunrise Temple. With a chuckle Vitanie followed with everyone else quickly falling into step behind them as they once again started out on their journey.
Tora-chan: Well I'm kinda awake right now so I would like to apologize if this seems kinda of slow. I didn't get a whole lot of sleep after that graveyard shift and I have to leave for another one in less then an hour, which is one reason why I stopped the chapter here.
Hiroshi: Tora-chan you should have taken a nap and gotten some sleep.
Tora-chan: Yeah you're probably right (yawn) but I have faithful readers waiting for the journey to continue.
Yuki: Tora-chan you made me look like a softy.
Tora-chan: Well you are a softy my cuddle wolf demon (she bear hugs Yuki). Now to all my readers please review and tell me what you think. Also I want to know should I pair up Vitanie and Yuki of Vitanie and Hiroshi? I've kinda noticed that it's been leaning toward Yuki, but I want to know what you think. And to RoCkRcHiK, inuyashaswife12, gfam89, and Whitetigermisty thank you so much for the reviews. Well I'm going to catch about 15 minutes of sleep now before going to work. Nighty night. (or that would of been the case if my computer let me upfdate last night. grumbles Baka computer).
Hiroshi: Thank you for reading and have a nice night. (bows)