Fasination rises! lol, I hope you enjoy this one, I really got into it. Lots of other people say they liked it. Hope YOU do too!!
Chapter: 9 – Cat Troubles
"She has done well; for a half demon," Naraku said. He was starring into a mirror that Kanna always carries with her. Kanna was the first incarnation of Naraku; she was detached from his body and is his servant. Her mirror is able to steal human souls, reflect attacks and see anyone anywhere in the Feudal Era. Kanna never shows any sign of emotion and never puts down her mirror; she is also very quiet. Naraku was using it to spy on Kensie and her old friends. "The girl seems quite talented," Kagra said. Kagra was Naraku's second detachment; she has no heart because Naraku holds it in his possession. Any time that she messes up or does something wrong purposely, she is punished painfully. Naraku already knows that Kagra hates him and plans to kill him when ever she gets the chance, but Naraku will never give her that chance. Kagra carries around a fan for a weapon and controls the wind around her, its very strong.
"What should we do?" Kagra asked. "Lets keep watching, maybe she'll surprise us," Naraku answered. "But if she doesn't…Kohaku, you'll know what to do." "Yes master Naraku," Kohaku said.
"Inuyasha how much further?" Shipo asked. "Oh, quit your whining, don't you want to save Kida?" Inuyasha said looked back at his friends. "Yes, but you don't even know where you're going," Shipo said on Miroku's shoulder. "Sure I do," Inuyasha said. They then came to a dead end. "You do, do you?" Shipo mocked. "Shut up!" Ed walked in front and created a doorway through the wall. They all walked through.
They came upon a strange town. It was the smallest town they'd ever seen. They looked down on it and saw little people walking around. They were crawling on their hands and feet. Were they even people? They all wondered. They looked half people, half cat. They continued walking down. "Hey," Inuyasha said stopping them. "Remember the last time we came across cat demons, they kidnapped Kagome, Sango and Miroku, and planned to sacrifice you guys to bring back their master, be on your guard," Inuyasha warned. Just the sound of himself saying Kagome's name made him shutter, he couldn't take anymore of this. He felt so horrible about her death; he still couldn't believe that he was gone. There was no time to burry her because Kensie was still around; and still fighting. He couldn't even tell her how sorry he was that he let her down. He felt like crying, but held them back. Men don't show their tears.
They walked closer to the tiny village and most of the cat demons were actually cats, only some were half human. "Well this is a little strange," Akina said. Kina elbowed her in the arm. "What?!" "You have to admit, these guys are a little cute," Sango said looking at them running across the floor at their feet. One white one jumped over to them and sat in front of them. "Aww," some of them said.
Sango bent down to pet it as it began purring. "It's so adorable," she said. "Why thank you," the little kitten said. Sango jumped up startled. "It can talk?" Everyone questioned. "Yes," the kitten said. "How is that possible?" Shipo asked. "I don't even know," Miroku said. The kitten was suddenly surrounded by black flames and grew in size. It became into a cat demon who was half human…a girl.
"Hi, I'm Katana," she said. "Hello…" Sango said introducing everyone. "So how can you form from a white cat to a black one?" Shipo wondered. "And why?" Akina asked. "My people transform from cat to human every now and again, it's to keep our enemies from finding out who we really are, and from hurting us. Normally people don't come down to these parts of the woods so we're always safe, and we know that it's hard to kill a defenseless cat who has done nothing wrong. Even demons who plan to eat other demons don't bother with us because since we're so small, there is barley any meat on us so they move on," Katana explained. "Great strategy," Miroku said. Sango could tell that he liked her beauty so she hit him in the head with her Heiakos. He rubbed his bump for a while ask Katana continued. "Some of my people even can make themselves look entirely different from their cat form to their human form, as have I."
"Do you have any fair maidens in your village?" Miroku asked. "Uh, sure," Katana said in a wondering voice. "Follow me, I'll show you around," she said turning and leading them into the small town. "Oh, most certainly," Miroku said going first. Sango rolled her eyes.
As they walked down through the town they noticed some cat demons starring at them. Miroku was starring blindly back at the girls he kept passing. Sango smacking him in the back of his head to knock some sense into him. "Ow, what you'd do that for?" Miroku asked, glancing back. "Idiot," Shipo said on Sango's shoulder. Sango didn't answer; she didn't even look at him. Miroku turned back around concerned.
She entered the biggest hut in the town; it was more like a castle hut. It was well made and had many rooms in it, lots of different colors of the cats living in it. "I thought cat demons were evil," Shipo said on Sango's shoulder. "Not all of us, some are abandoned cats who were chased from their homes by the evil cats, but others still desire power," Katana explained as they walked down the halls. "Half of this Era is evil cat demons and half is good. The ones in the Western Lands are evil, and the Eastern Lands were good, it's a good thing you guys came to the right one," Katana said with a smile. "That's right, when we fought those cats the last time they were some where up in the Western Valley, they said they came down from the great battle with Inuyasha and Sesshomaru's father," Miroku explained. "Yes, the evil cat demons' master got in a fight with the great dog demon and lost, they fled from the lands and went deeper into the Western Lands, hopefully far enough away to never bother anyone again," Katana said. 'Wow, she's really smart,' Shipo thought.
Katana stopped when she was much further into the hallway. She opened two rooms and showed them inside. "This should be big enough for the boys to fit, right?" "Yeah, thanks" Shipo said bouncing in. "And there's a door along the wall connected to the other room where the girls will be staying," Katana explained. "Sweet," Miroku said. "But don't worry, you will be able to lock it on your side," Katana whispered to the girls. "Good thing," Sango said walking into her room. "When you guys are all settled you can meet me outside your rooms and we'll have dinner then I'll show you to some of my friends," Katana said leaving them and disappearing into the halls. "I thought she was nice," Shipo said. "But we're not here to stay for the night and make new friends Shipo, we're here to find the secret to releasing Kida's powers, and this is not the correct town," Inuyasha said in frustration. "Maybe, but maybe not," Ed said. "What?" "That's no necessarily true, cat demons have more power in this Era…so I've been told, and I've found out that their amazing ability to transform proves that their powers are unique, and their skills explain the correct format that helps us find out the information that we need with Kida's powers…this could work," Ed explained. "Yes, I get it too," Al said. Miroku nodded and Inuyasha was silent. Shipo was on the ground holding his head, "ugh! My head hurts!" He said.
"I thought that Katana was a very sweet girl," Sango said letting Kirara stretch her legs from being held all that time. "Yes, she's seems quite young," Kina said sitting on a bed. "Yeah, pretty smart too, you know, for a cat demon," Akina added. "Do you think she knows anything about Kensie or Kida's powers?" Sango wondered. "Doubt it; this little town could have been around for a while but their still to small to notice anything, or to far away. And Kensie wouldn't think about coming down here," Kina explained. They all sighed in exhaustion.
"Katana," came a voice behind Katana who was in her room on her bed, starring out the window. Katana turned to the doorway to the voice.
"I saw you bring some outsiders into the town," the voice said. Katana jumped from her bed and to the floor bowing. "I know brother but they seemed lost, and they were only passing through; I thought that I could offer them some food and hospitality," Katana said looking up. "NO! How many times do I have to tell you this Katana! No outsiders are allowed in this town, its too helpless and weak, we cannot afford to loose anyone again," her brother shouted. "But…" "NO BUTS! NOW GET THEM OUT OF HERE!" He yelled kicking Katana in the eye and leaving. Katana lay there shocked and hurt, but as if it had happened often.
Later on that night Katana met everyone in the hallway of their rooms. "Sorry I'm late guys," she said. "Why is your eye all red?" Sango wondered. "Oh, it's nothing," she said. "Follow me, dinner is waiting," she said walking forward. 'I don't care what brother says, these people have been nice to me so far, if anything gets out of hand then I'll throw them out, but they needed help so I'm helping them; he may be the boss of this town, but he is not the boss of me,' Katana thought.
They walked into the next hallway then entered a room with a large table with tons of food on the table. "Whoa!" Everyone said amazingly. They all ran to their seats and dug in. Katana smiled as she watched her new friends enjoying her cooking.
When the tour of the building finally came more cat demons began wondering who Katana were showing around. They've never seen outsiders in a very long time. "Why is everyone starring at us?" Shipo asked. "I guess its because you look different to them and they don't see outsiders come around her much; and if we do we hide because we can never tell if they're evil or not," Katana answered. "How could you tell if we were evil or not?" Sango said. "I didn't at first, but when I saw you standing and starring at the town for a while I figured that if you were evil, then you would have attacked our town by now, besides you were caring along cute little demons and one of you are demon slayer are you not?" Sango nodded. "Demon slayers only attack demons who are disrupting a village or are evil, just looking at us, we are always peaceful, so you couldn't be evil," Katana said smiling.
They came to the final hallway and Katana got a little nervous. Miroku noticed her shaking a bit. "Is everything alright Katana?" He asked. "Oh, yes everything is fine, no worries," Katana said turning to him with a smile; but when she turn back she looked sad and worried again. Her brother's office was up ahead and she didn't want him seeing her showing the travelers around the main hut. They continued walking when Katana suddenly stopped after the last door before the one right in front of her. "Aren't we going into that one as well?" Shipo asked. "No, no one is allowed in that room," Katana answered turning around and walking forward. Inuyasha narrowed his eyes at the door. He heard voices. His ears wiggled as he paid attention to the conversation. "This way please," Katana said. The rest of the group followed, except for Inuyasha who inched his way to the door. Katana looked behind her and gasped. "No, please don't go in there!" She warned running to him. Inuyasha placed an ear on the door and listened. "We have nothing else to loose, if we combined these jewel fragments then we can become more powerful then all of the evil cats, we can finally take them down," one voice said. "Yes but they come every month looking for stocks of our food, only because they are more powerful then us, they even take a young cat women along with them," said a deeper voice. "Which is exactly why we can use them; we can also use them on that powerful demon coming soon," said the first voice. "How much do you have?" "More then them, I know that."
But before Inuyasha could hear anymore his other ear was yanked from the door. "I told you not to go in there!" Katana shouted. "I didn't!" Inuyasha heard footsteps coming from the room. They had heard them. Inuyasha yanked back his sleeve that Katana was holding onto. "I heard them in there; they said that they had some jewel shards! And they're going to be mine!" Inuyasha said taking out his giant sword. Katana gasped in fright as she backed up. 'So they are evil!' She thought. The door then opened. Inuyasha turned his attention to the leader and another unfamiliar cat. "Who are you and why have you come?" Said the leader. "Look enough chit chat, I'm not hear for introductions! Now hand over the jewel shards!" Inuyasha said holding up his sword. "No!" Katana said running in front of Inuyasha and the leader. "Please don't Inuyasha! He is my brother!" Katana shouted. Inuyasha's eyes widened as he lowered his sword. "What?!" All of the others were shocked yet confused. Inuyasha growled as he sheathed his sword. "KATANA!" Shouted her brother. Katana turned to her brother. "Please forgive me brother Koton, I had no idea!" She said bowing. "Huh?!" Inuyasha said confusingly. "What did I JUST tell you?! No travelers!! Now that you know that they are not welcome here and are dangerous! Dispose of them quickly!" He said. "Dispose of!? Look pal! We're not going anywhere without the jewel shards!" Inuyasha said pointing at Koton.
"The jewel shards are staying with me…why do you wish to take them from us? We have not done anything to harm you. My ingrate sister even fed you and gave you a place to stay, if it wasn't for her then you would have died by now," Koton said. "Yeah right! By who?!" Inuyasha questioned. "By Kensie." Everyone gasped. "You know about Kensie?" Inuyasha asked. "Of course we do, she's been terrorizing this area for the past week, and will soon be unstoppable in the next new moon, and we have plans for these shards and will not give them up without a fight!" Koton said. "Is Kensie coming?" Sango wondered. "Eventually she will get to this town too and kill us all, and we must be ready to fight our best. Even though we are cats we are still demons, and fearsome fighters at that, we will not give up so easily. 'That's so strange; I feel a presence from this demon, an evil presence, and a bossy one at that. Could he be the one who had injured Katana's eye?' Kina thought.
Inuyasha stood in silence. "Tell ya what," he said. "If you help us find out more about Kensie and her ability, then we'll help you get her off your hands," Inuyasha said. Koton smiled in agreement.