Inuyasha; she's worse than a sugar crazed Shippo.
Kagome; Let's see what happens when you give her sugar free gum. *holds out stick of gum*
LC; YAY! CANDY! *Eats the gum*
LC;... AAAAAAHHHH It burns! IT BURNS US! *Begins to writhe in pain*
Inuyasha; so that's what happens.
Kagome; We should have tried this last chapter, maybe then we would be our regular genders.
Inuyasha; What now? We're stuck here until she gives us permission to leave, and she can't do that right now.
Kagome; I don't know.
Disclaimer; If I owned Inuyasha, Kikyo would never have come back to life and kagome would admit she loves Inuyasha in the thirteenth episode!
Chapter 2, Angel of Darkness?
Kiyo's POV
Inu leapt forward, and plunged her entire hand into the hole! I think I'm going to be sick! But there was no way I was losing my breakfast in front of her!
The crow flew away and Inu turned back to me. "Where is the jewel?" Her voice was dripping in venom. Mentally, I was writing out my will. To my dear, loving brother Souta, I bequethe my video games and computer. To my kind and caring mother, I leave my clothes and papers. And so on.
Physically, I told her that I'd thrown it out the window in an attempt to distract it.
She was growling at me now. Not just that sound some girls make when they are angry, but a real dog-like growl. Talk about animalistic!
She grabbed my hand and pulled me out of the hideout, just in time to see the bird pick up the jewel.
"Hey you stupid bird!" Inu cursed. "Give that back!"
Before I could say anything, she'd slung me piggy-back style onto her back and handed me a bow and quiver. Next thing I know, she's running faster than a car after the bird demon thing.
"Kai was a master archer!" She yelled back at me. "If your really his reincarnation you should be able to hit that thing with one shot! So get firing before I dump your ass right here! Your frickin heavy!"
Keeping my comments about her dirty mouth to myself, I knocked an arrow and took aim.
"Fair warning," I yelled back to her. "I've never so much as held a bow before! I highly doubt I can hit it but I'll try!" I let the arrow fly, asking Kai for strength.
It flew,...and fell. Inu lost her balance and fell face first on the ground. She stood up quickly enough and began yelling at me. "I don't care what that old hag says! You are not KAI!"
She turned away and began running even faster than before, leaving me to follow as fast as I could.
I got there in time to see Inu doing another iron weaver on the crow, while it held a little boy. I saw the boy fall in the water and quickly took off my shoes and coat.
I dived into the water and swam over to the little boy. "It's okay," I told him. "I got you."
Once I got him to shore, I saw Inu was still searching the water for the crow. Did she think it was still alive? It couldn't be, right?
Suddenly, pieces of the demon began flying out of the water and putting themselves back in place! "Damn it!" Inu cursed. "You stupid boy find the damned jewel!"
How did she expect me to get the jewel? The little boy cried out and I saw the crow's foot was still attached to his kimono.
A seed of an idea sprouted in my mind, and I asked to borrow a bow from a nearby villager.
I tied the foot onto it, and let fly.
Inu's POV
"My ass he's gonna hit it." I muttered darkly. When he let if fly, I saw the crow's foot tied to it. "oh I get it, the foot is drawn to the jewel. It's almost a guarunteed hit!" When the arrow hit the bird, thousands of lights appeared out of nowhere, shooting across the sky! I covered my eyes with one hand, blinded by their radiance.
"I got a bad feeling about this." I mumbled.
An hour later, we still had not found the damned jewel! "Are you sure it fell over here?" I asked for about the tenth time.
"Pretty sure." The boy said, pushing aside some bushes. "I'm still worried about that light though."
I would never admit it, but so was I. Something was off about it, something about it just put my teeth on edge.
"Uh oh." I turned around to see the boy holding a broken shard of something or other. "Tell me that's not what I think it is." I warned him, barely keeping a feral growl out of my voice.
"Um, it's not what you think it is?" He said helplessly. I was one second away from trying to slice him in half, again.
Only the reminder of that damned necklace stopped me from acting on this urge.
When we showed old Kaede the shard, she turned pale. Or as pale as she could get with all those wrinkles and eye patch. "The sacred jewel has been broken!" She cried. "Yeah, we figured that out ourselves." I responded angrily. "What we don't know is how!"
"My guess, is the sacred arrow with the demon's foot was too unbalanced a combination, shattering the jewel." The hag explained, examining the little piece. "None the less, now the jewel has broken. And now it is up to ye two to gather the shards, before they fall into the wrong hands."
I smirked and leaned back against the wall. "Yeah I get it. After all, I'm one of the wrong hands your talking about!"
"Aye, I know this all too well." She sighed. "But you were once kind to me, and saved my life and my brother's often enough. I know not what drove the two of ye apart, but I know you loved him."
I scowled and turned away. "Heh, love? Who are you talking to?" I asked. "If I ever loved anyone, it was myself! Humans, especially males, are just trouble! I wouldn't be here if not for the jewel!"
She sighed again and gave the shard back to the boy. "It's up to ye now, to retrieve the shards of the shikon no tama, the jewel of four souls."
I almost groaned aloud with dread. There was likely over a thousand shards, who knew how long it would take to find them all! On top of that, all that time I would be stuck with that human welp!
I stormed out of the hut and went to a lake to swim a little and relieve some stress. Before I ended up trying to destroy that village again. Although, that wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing, would it?
I submerged myself into the water as I left my clothes to dry on a pole. When I came back up, I felt somewhat better, and had caught three fish to add onto that.
I tossed the fish to the shore so I could enjoy the water a bit longer. Just as I was about to dip myself back in, I saw the human boy standing on the shore, next to the fish.
For a split second, I just blinked. When I realised what he had a pretty good view of, I snapped. I growled and brought in a deep breath before diving under the water.
When I found a big enough rock, I threw it at him. "PERVERT!" I screamed.
Kiyo's POV
I screamed as the boulder began it's course for my head. I'm not sure how but I dodged it and managed to live a moment longer. "I'm not a pervert!" I protested.
She was on the shore now, using the robe as a sort of shield. Her face was red, wether with anger or embarrassment I didn't want to find out. "YOU WERE STARING AT ME! That's a pervert for you!"
I knew I was blushing and turned away to allow her to dress. When she was done, she called over to me. "If you didn't come here to spy, tell me what you want."
I turned around hesitantly, but she was already dressed in a short white kimono and was pulling the red one around her body.
The white one hardly reached her thighs, and her cleavage showed plainly, but I tried not to stare.
"I came to apologize for breaking the jewel." I said heavily. "I know why your mad, but couldn't we at least call a truce?"
"Shouldn't you be running home?" She asked curiously. "To this Tokyo the old hag said your from?"
I'd tried that. I'd tried going back through the well, but nothing worked. "I can't." I said finally. "I came here through the well, but now it won't work. I can't get back through to my family."
Inu raised a brow but didn't say anything. I did my best not to cry, especially around her, but my throat was sore.
"Whatever, probably just means you can't go until you put the jewel back together again." She said finally, walking away now she was dressed again.
I hadn't thought of that. Maybe I could only travel through the well with the jewel, a shard wasn't enough magic!
I turned to thank her for telling me that, but she was already gone. "How does she do that?" I asked aloud. I shook my head and began walking back to the village, figuring she would go there.
When I got there, Kaede was looking for her. "Kiyo, have ye seen Inu?" She asked me.
"Yeah, just a minute ago." I told her. "By the lake, she had just finished swimming when I found her." The old woman didn't have to know I'd seen her without her clothes. Being called a pervert once is enough for me.
Inu's POV
Damn that human welp! How dare he come to me and whine to me right after peeking at me! I punched a nearby rock and crushed it into gravel.
When I was done, I untied my pouch from my thigh holster and checked up on the contents. I hadn't had a chance to do so, what with all that's happened.
Inside are my most valued possessions. One, a comb that used to belong to my own mother. It was black, with a white flower ornament at the top. The second object was a book that was full of beautiful songs she would sing to me at night. The third object was a small knife, which I kept wrapped in leather so it wouldn't poke me when I ran. I had taken this off the body of the first demon I had ever managed to slay alone.
Next came the fourth object, one that I was unsure about. It was the sea shell shaped lip paint case. I opened it and looked at the red paint.
"Kai, why would you betray me? After giving me something so precious?" I asked to no one.
I sighed and closed the case again. I would keep it, if only to repay any debt I had to the dead priest. "Hope your happy Kai, cause when I get to the underworld, I'll torture you for all eternity."
I began to wander the forest. Where once I had known it well enough to traverse it blind, now it was strange territory and I had to familiarize myself with it.
As far as I could tell, demons did not come near the forest very often. At least no strong ones. Just to be safe though, I made sure to rub against lots of trees to leave my scent.
It had been fifty years since I had marked my territory, and I had a lot of ground to cover. If I hurried, I'd be done before the Sun set.
When I went back to the lake for the fish to make myself some dinner, I found they were gone. It wasn't so big a deal so I caught a few more, then built a fire to cook them in.
Before the fish were even done, I had dinner guests. The hag had come running when she saw the smoke, human boy in tow.
"Where have you been?" The boy demanded, he was panting pretty heavily, did he run here?
"It's been fifty years since I travelled through the forest." I informed him. "Every demon born of a strong blood line lords over a certain amount of territory. In the demon realm, everything you see for a hundred miles belongs to me."
The fish were done at this point so I began to eat. Kaede and the boy climbed down to the shore and sat by the fire, merely watching me eat my fish.
Eventually, I had admit when enough staring was enough staring. I swallowed the last bite and turned to my guests. "Do you really need my permission?" I asked them. They both started, as though they hadn't been thinking about the food. "What? If you want a fish go ahead and take one. I can always catch more." Why on Earth were they acting like this? It was starting to creep me out. A lot.
They both took a fish but barely nibbled at it! "Ok, if you didn't come for food why did you stay?" I asked them. "I understand a human running to where the smoke is, but staring is another thing. It's pretty bad when you give a half demon the creeps you know."
Kaede was the first to speak. "I apologize, Inu." She said, inclining her head respectively. "It was just a shock hearing you speak of this land as though you owned it." Oh, that's what had gotten them.
"I only own the land in the rights of demons." I explained, taking out my knife and a piece of wood I'd picked up on the way back. "Among the demons, this is my territory, and they have to either ask my permission to travel through it, or leave me a tribute. Guess you could call it my inhereitance from dear old dad. But since I'm a half demon, many demons don't respect the laws of the land, and traverse through here, regardless of how I feel. It's been especially bad the past fifty years, I caught at least a hundred assorted scents in the area alone. I was merely out announcing to them all that I was back."
They just started staring at me again, the fish forgotten.
When the Sun set, we went back to the village. When they reached their hut I turned to go. However the human boy stopped me by grabbing my arm. "Wait, where are you going to sleep?"
Again, he sounded so much like Kai did when I first starting staying in the village. I pulled my arm away and turned to him. "I sleep outside, you sleep inside." I told him. "I don't like being in little huts, I prefer room to move around in case I'm attacked."
"Wow, your paranoid." He commented, pretty bluntly actually.
"Ya gotta be to survive." I told him coldly, making sure he knew I'd caught the insult.
I jumped into the same old tree I always did and looked up at the moon. It was almost full, so I had a few more weeks to the new moon, good.
That reminds me, Kai never did see me in human form. Even though I said I loved him, did I really? Or was it just fascination that drove me toward him. Maybe it was more instinct not to show him? Either way, had he known, he most likely would have attacked me on the night of the new moon.
I growled, but lied down on the branch anyway. I wouldn't sleep tonight, I knew that, but it was nice, to just relax my body, if not my senses.
The entire night I looked up at the almost full moon, and thought. My thoughts wandered to various things I hadn't thought of for some time.
Such as my mother, or my half brother, Sesshomaru. Thinking of which, I wonder where he is. With any luck, long gone. Knowing my luck though, he was probably still searching for our father's tomb. And I doubted he would hate me any less now I was free from the tree again. If anything, he'll probably hate me even more since I'm in a human village even after that.
Why am I here anyway? It wouldn't be too hard to find the shards myself. Just look for demon's stronger than they should be, can't be too hard.
What was holding me here? The boy? The necklace? Or my pride? Either way, somehow I knew it was going to be a lot of trouble. Yet, I could not help but to wonder what the Sun rise would bring.
With any luck, I'll be able to collect all the jewel shards, and then, I'll become a fully fledged demon!
When the Sun finally rose, I had also come to a desicion. I had been granted a second chance at this life, and there was no frickin way I was going to waste it.
No, this time, I would learn from my mistakes. I would not trust another man, be he human or demon. I would never trust anyone ever again! Love hurt you, trust hurt you, fear hurt you, happiness could be taken away, and guilt was just a plain bad feeling! They were nothing but trouble, and they were all conected!
First, you would feel guilty for hurting someone's feelings, which led to you trying to make it up to them, which led to happiness, which turned to trust, which turned to love! And once those were in your possession, you always feared for the one who made you feel them! You feared they were hurt, or sick!
Well, no longer! This time, it's me, myself, and I!
About an hour after Sun rise, the human boy and the old hag came out of their hut. While I'd decided on not falling for anything the boy tried, I still didn't know what to do if I did leave. Should I just travel my land? Or go to other demon's lands?
I was still pondering this, while pretending to read my mother's song book, when I heard somethinf flying towards me.
I reached out and plucked it from the air, from behind me. When I saw it wasn't a rock, but a piece of fruit, I got confused.
Looking down, I saw the human boy again, only he was holding lots of food. "Hey Inu, come down and eat this with me!" He called up to me.
"Where'd you get all that stuff?" I asked him, considering wether or not I should just eat the fruit in the tree or go down like he asked me to. "The villager's keep giving it to me!" He said.
Kiyo's POV.
There's something about her that confuses me. It makes me want to understand where she's coming from. I mean, your never born mean, right?
And I know from what Kaede and Inu had said, that she had a good reason to be bitter. But from what Kaede could tell me, she had been like that when she'd first met Inu too.
So, why was she like this now? Some past scar that refused to heal? Or was it just a rough life?
"Well, are you coming down?" I called up to her again.
She looked like she was thinking about it.
"No thanks." She said finally. "I don't like taking food from humans, I can get my own if I have to." Well, so much for the easy way, guess it's back to the hard way. "Lie girl!"
She cried out as the necklace pulled her down to Earth again. She raised her head to glare at me, instantly making me regret my desicion. "And you did that, why?"
"I want to talk with you." I told her hesitantly, waiting for her to blow up at me. "You couldn't do that while I was sitting on that branch? I could hear you fine you know!"
Eventually I calmed her down and we sat under the tree and ate some of the food. "Well?" She asked. "Get talking."
"I wanted to ask why you and Kai fought all those years ago." I said quickly, afraid I'd chicken out and say something else. Inu sighed and put down her half eaten fruit, she'd lost her appetite.
"Kai betrayed me." She said sadly. "When we first met, I hadn't known about the sacred jewel. When I found out, I tried to take it from him, but failed, countless times. Each time, he'd only pin me to a tree by my kimono."
Her eyes had this far away look, as though she were reliving it all. "Soon it became clear neither one wanted to kill the other. Somehow, we became close." Her face suddenly turned to a scowl. "But then, as soon as I let my guard down, he betrayed me!"
So that was it, this Kai guy, had tricked Inu into falling in love with him, and then tried to kill her. I was disgusted that any man could do such a thing to a woman.
Even if that woman was a half demon. Wait a sec, she loved him, but he did not return the feelings, and so broke her heart, oh I get it now!
"I'm sorry." I told her. No idea why I was apologizing when it should be Kai, but it was all I could think of to say. "Ah shut it!" She growled, oops, guess that was a wrong move. "I don't need your pity, boy! I admit I was a fool for trusting a human, especially a priest who was raised to slay demons!"
She got up and stormed away, leaving me very thanksful that she hadn't taken her anger out on me, well, except for my ear drums.
"Ow." She cried. I got up and ran over to her.
Inu's POV
I was going to go to the forest to relieve some more stress, when I felt something bite my breast. "Ow." I cried. I lowered the sleeve of my kimono enough to reveal my breast, and a small flea drinking my blood on it.
I growled and smacked the flea, flattening him easily and knocking him to the ground. "It's bad enough you take your pay in my blood, but you have to get it from my breast?" I asked him. "Your just a dirty old man, you know that Myoga?"
I fixed my kimono and the boy kneeled down next to the flea. "A flea?" Before I could move, the boy had brought out a strange urn and a weird spray was flying at Myoga.
"What's that stuff?" I asked.
We went back to grandma Kaede's hut to hear what Myoga had to say. "Alright Myoga, you got your pay, now spill it already! Why did you come back to me? And how'd you know I was even awake?"
"Lady Inu, when you awoke from your spell that the dreadful priest placed upon you, why, every demon in your land flet it!" He was laying the flattery pretty thick, so bad news must be on the way. "I came, because your brother, lord Sesshomaru, still searches for your father's tomb."
So that was it? "That's old news Myoga, I knew that sixty years ago. What makes it different this time?" I asked.
"Well, it seems he's getting closer." He said seriously. "He'll be coming here soon no doubt. And if he discovers you are the guardian of his tomb, a fight will surely ensue."
I sighed and folded my hands together under my chin. "On one hand, it could give me the chance I need to get the Tetsaiga, on the other, Sesshomaru might kill me. And I don't even know where that damned tomb is. Talk about irony."
The boy and hag looked like they wanted to ask a question, but frankly I was worried about what that question might be.
"Um, Inu, how old are you?" The boy asked. Well, it wasn't what I was expecting, but it wasn't the worse case scenario either.
"In demon years, I'm about fifteen, maybe sixteen. In human years, I'm somewhere around 160." I told him truthfully. "I don't live as long as a demon, which is forever, but not as long as a human either. I'll grow old, but not for a few centuries yet."
Turned out, Kaede asked the next question. "Who is ye father, Inu?" She asked me. "You know him as a phantom beast, to the demons, he is Inu no Taisho. The strongest dog demon to ever live, and one of the greatest demons to ever walk the Earth."
Kaede turned back to the fire and began poking it with some tongs. "And ye mother?"
"Lady Inu's mother was a beautiful princess, a beauty with no parallel! Something which Inu inherited!" Myoga said enthusiasticaly. Before he could say more, I stomped on him and walked to the door.
"Hey that wasn't very nice!" The boy scolded me.
"Just drop it!" I told him. "He died a long time ago!"
I stormed outside and went to a tree not far from the village, but far enough to leave me in peace until Sesshomaru came.
Kiyo's POV
After Inu left, Kaede explained to me why Inu might not want to talk about her mother. Somehow, I just couldn't wrap my mind around it. How could anyone, hate their mom? I remembered my own mother, she was always so kind and thoughtful. Even if I had a reason, I don't think I could ever hate her. Especially not for something she had no control over.
When I finally found Inu, it was late, and the full moon had risen. She was standing on a branch of some dead tree, looking up at the moon, and she seemed to be deep in thought.
The wind began to pick up, startling me out of my thoughts. Inu's expression suddenly became one of expectation. With her frame shilouted (That it?) against the moon, and her silver hair dancing in the breeze, she did look beautiful.
Without warning, she jumped from her perch, landing by my side and pushing me down. "Get down!" She cried urgently. "Boy, keep quiet, something's coming." She ordered me, her eyes shifting from place to place in search of whatever it was she felt.
/I is Line, I say story done\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
LC; YAY! Enter lord Sesshomaru! Question is, do I make him a boy or a girl?
Inuyasha; Girl, girl, girl, girl! *Prays to every god he knows*
Sesshomaru; Make me a girl, and it will be the last thing you ever do.
LC; Hmm, a nice girl, with a cute fairy servant!
Jaken; WHAT! Lord Sesshomaru, allow me to destroy this vermen!
Kagome; If Sesshomaru was a girl, what would you do about his fluff?
LC; Huh, maybe, turn it into a sexy jacket? Sessomaru; NO! Leave Fluffy alone!
LC; ...okay? Anyways, sneak peek time! Next time on Inu, a Dog's Life, will Sesshomaru get the sword? Will Inu protect the reinarnation of her love? Will Jaken grow a back bone? Will Myoga get another chance at Inu's breasts? Who knows?
That's an easy one, ME! Review, for chappie brand new!