Inuyasha; Make him a girl!
Sesshomaru; Make Inuyasha lose his/her toungue!
Kagome; Kill the toad!
Jaken; Kill the half-breed!
LC; Wow, so many paths this story could take.
Inuyasha; I'll give you Shippo if you make him a girl.
Shippo; HEY! What am I? Rice?
LC; Hmm, Fox cub vs. life. Which am I more fond of.
Kikyo; You don't age when your dead.
LC; Fox Cub it is! *Takes Shippo and hugs him to self*
Shippo; On second thought, maybe this won't be so bad!
Disclaimer; If me owned Inuyasha, I would finally figure out just what Sesshomaru's fluff is! It's so frustrating! It's not a tail, and I don't think it's a part of his clothes! What is it?
Chapter 3, Dangerous
Inu's POV
I could smell something coming, but it didn't smell like Sesshomaru. It was familiar, but I couldn't place it. Looking up at the moon, something was gliding across it.
"A carriage?" The boy asked, staring at it as well. The flap of the carriage wavered, and I was confronted with the face of my mother. "A woman." He said.
I stood up and saw her face clearly. "M-mother?" I stuttered.
"That's your mom?" He asked, wide eyed, staring at the beautiful maiden chained in the carriage.
"It is you, my darling daughter Inu." The maiden said happily. Out of nowhere, a giant hand grabbed the carriage, effectively crushing it. The woman cried out in pain as the hand tightened it's grip on her.
"Mother!" I cried. No, this couldn't be true. She was supposed to be dead!
On the giant ogre's shoulder rode a demon she'd grown to hate as the years passed on. "It is you, Sesshomaru!" She yelled. Her older brother smirked evily. (Sorry but my story wouldn't work with a girl Sesshy)
"Hello, little sister." He said calmly, his creepy smile on his lips. "It's pleasant to see you as well, little half breed."
"What's wrong Sesshy?" I called up to him, using the nickname I knew annoyed him to no end. "Who's the toad?"
Said Toad spoke up. "How dare you address lord Sesshomaru in so disrespectful a tone!" He squaked. "Yeah, yeah." I said dismissively, not even listening to it. "So what's up Sesshy? Found dear old dad's tomb yet?"
"I have come here to ask you about that." He said, losing his smile, thankfully, it was just creepy seeing him smile.
"Where is our father's tomb?"
I was in a bad spot, but no need to let him think he had me trapped. To be truthful, I knew next to nothing about where the Hell that old fart's tomb was, only a riddle.
Seen, yet never seen.
Protected, yet never known to it's protector.
Yeah, just add a, 'what am I?' to the end of it and your good to go!
"And I would tell you, why?" I asked him craftily. "It's funny watching you run all over trying to find it!" He began to growl now, never a good sign.
"Jaken." Oh, so was that the Toad? The Toad smirked and pulled on a chain, causing the woman who looked like my mother to cry out in pain. "Tell me where the tomb is or your human mother will suffer." He warned me with his usual emotionless voice.
"Nice try! But you and me both know she died a long time ago!" I yelled at him. "As if I would fall for something like that!"
"Fool!" Toad yelled. (He shall remain Toad) "It is but a simple task to bring the dead back to the world of the living, if you are lord Sesshomaru! He was even kind enough as to give her flesh! And yet her own daughter would deny it! What a sad fate, to be mother to one such as you!"
So, maybe it was true. Maybe he really had brought my mother back to life! "It is true Inu, I've returned, from the land of the dead." She said to me.
The ogre demon began to crush her in his hands then, causing her to cry out in pain. "Mother!" I gasped.
Without thinking about it, I sliced the hand from the demon. I saw the boy run to my mother's side immediatly. "Boy, take her and get away!" I ordered him, turning back to the demon.
"Right!" He acknowledged, picking her up and slinging one of her arms around his shoulder. "Sesshomaru your gonna pay!" I swore.
"Iron weaver soul stealer!" The gold blades flew through the air and hit the ogre several times, causing it to roar in pain. Before I could follow up, it went after the boy and my mother.
"Mother!" I cried, running to stop the demon.
Just before I reached her, there was a blinding light, and that was all I knew for a little while.
When I came to, I was in a beautiful garden. The human boy lie by my side, and my mother was standing a little ways off, looking into the water.
"Mother." I murmured. She looked up from the pond and smiled at me, just as she used to do. I stood, and after a last glimpse of the boy, walked over to her.
"Inu, you've become a beautiful young woman." She told me, still giving me her wonderful smile. "Well yeah I guess." I said embarrassadly. "I guess I was still just a kid when you died." Looking around, I asked her where we were.
"We are in the realm between the land of the living and the dead. I must cross over soon." She informed me.
"Do you, I mean," I hesitated before asking. "Do you have to?"
She drew me into an embrace I had often longed for as a child struggling to see the next Sun rise and Sun set. When she pulled away, a beautiful flower appeared in her hand.
She tossed the flower into the water, where an image appeared. "Peer into the water." She told me.
The image was one of me as a child, wearing a red kimono and with my hair in a pony tail. I was chasing a ball over a bridge. When I caught it, the people who'd been playing with it walked away.
Down the aisle of flowers was my mother, and I ran to her. I had to ask her a question. "Mama, what's a, helf breed?"
That was the first time I saw my mother's tears.
Suddenly I was aware of my mother's arms wrapping themselves around me, holding me close to her heart. "As a child, I often held you close to my heart, like this."
My eyelids were getting heavy, I leaned into my mother's chest and closed my eyes. "My dear child, allow me to embrace you for just a while longer, as I have longed to do for so long." She whispered to my ear.
"Alright, mother." I murmured, feeling tired anyway.
Kiyo's POV
When I opened my eyes again, I saw Inu sitting with her mother down by the water. But when my eyes wandered to the water itself, I saw that her mother had no reflection. There was no face!
I opened my mouth to warn her, but no sound came out! My voice was gone! I watched helplessly as Inu's eyes began to droop.
I can't move! I'm paralyzed!
Suddenly, I felt something bite my cheek. Instinctively I brought a hand up and smacked it, turns out I was less paralyzed than I thought.
"Such is the life of a flea." The bug sighed painfully. Oops, looks like it was Myoga.
"Kiyo, lady Inu has been trapped within the unmother's spell!" He cried, recovering from the slap with admirable speed. "Quickly, before she is absorbed!"
I ran over to where the woman with no face was beginning to absorb Inu. "Let her go!" I yelled, grabbing a handful of Inu's hair. "No!" She gasped, somehow running away without moving.
"Kiyo, erase the image in the water!" Myoga screamed in my ear. Looking at the water, I saw an image of Inu as a little girl being held by her real mother. "Erase it, right!" I said, running into the water, causing it to ripple and the image to dissappear.
I caught Inu as she fell from the demon mom's (OMG My mom is in this fic!) grasp. "Damnit!" She cursed, she really did have a dirty mouth. Sesshomaru and the little Toad man appeared out of nowhere as the garden turned into an ugly grave yard.
"You!" Inu growled, I was uncomfortably aware of her body pressed to mine. "You pretended she was my mother! How could you do that!" She climbed up and I stood by her side, until her brother ran forward so quickly he left after images.
He appeared again, grabbing Inu's neck and pushing me aside.
"It does not matter now." He told her. "For I have finally found the where abouts of father's tomb. He was a clever demon, hiding it under our very own noses, or to be more specific, right above our very own noses. Right above, one might say."
He used his free arm and brought it closer to her face. "What are you saying? Your making no sense!" Inu gasped out.
"Very well, though you were the guardian, you never knew, so I will tell you." His claws began to shoot yellow lightning into her right eye, as she began to scream.
As she screamed in pain I was horribly aware of how weak I really was. I was the reincarnation of someone who could take on a hundred demons, and win, and I couldn't help one girl?
Where the Hell was the justice in that? I mean seriously, shouldn't I have some weird power or something?
Inu's POV
Sesshomaru held a black pearl, that as far as I could tell, had come from my eye! My fucking eye! He tossed me aside and the boy caught me before I crashed to the ground.
"You fucking bastard!" I cursed. To be honest, I'm not sure if I was cursing Sesshomaru or the boy behind me. Probably both now I think about it.
He smirked and used a two headed staff to open some kind of mystic portal to some dark demension. I just love mystic portals. They always drop me in the worst situations.
"You stay here!" I ordered to the boy. "It's too dangerous for you-"
He already had one foot in the portal. "Do you need an invitation or something?" He asked me before jumping in.
I took a moment to lament about my poor luck in getting an absolute idiot for a tag along before I too jumped inside.
"You realize Sesshomaru's there!" I yelled at him when I caught up. God humans could be dense. Did he think I was going to talk it over with my brother or something?
"Yeah that's why we gotta go stop him!" Okay, so he was a little crazy as well as stupid. Seriously, when your that dumb you'd think some animal instincts would kick in to keep you alive. "No one does that! It's unforgiveable!"
No one does that? Then what had Sesshomaru done not ten minutes ago?
Without warning, the portal vanished and we were falling from about a thousand feet up. "Crap!" I cursed. A giant skeleton bird demon appeared beneath us and caught us. Thank you dad.
"Look yonder! It be lord Inu Taisho!" Myoga was here? That must mean we have a good chance of winning.
Looking to where he was screaming, I was a little surprised to see a giant forty foot skeleton of a dog demon. Well, at least now I have a vaugue idea of what he looks like.
"That's your dad?" The boy asked, kinda redundantly. Hadn't Myoga just said that?
"What did you expect?" I asked him. "This is his tomb you know."
"He is that size because he himself was of immeasurable stature." Myoga said sagely. He could be pretty enlightened when he wasn't trying to save his own skin.
The boy just stared at the dead body some more. Somehow, I just knew he was thinking something along the lines of, 'Glad we're not facing him.'.
Not that I didn't agree whole heartedly, but still, at least I could keep my thoughts hidden. He needed some work on his poker face.
Not long after, we arrived in my dad's stomach where Sesshy was trying to pull out some rusty old sword. Seriously, this was the legendary Tetsaiga?
He let go when the blade shocked him, which made me want to laugh. I mean, he just lost to a rusty piece of shit! And he called himself my better! This was rich! Just rich!
Kiyo's POV
I kind of wish I had a bow and arrow. At least then I could help out. Jumping into the dark and swirling vortex without a plan hadn't been the smartest thing to do.
Next to me, Inu snickered. Guess she thought the whole, sword version of the shock colar bit was funny. "Mistress Inu, you must draw the Tetsaiga!" Myoga was pretty loud for a bug. I mean, he had nothing on cicadas, but still, loud!
Inu jumped down and started attacking Sesshomaru, completely ignoring the sword and Myoga. Not that I would blame her. I wouldn't be all too eager to get electrocuted either.
I sighed and jumped down to stop the little toad from blasting some fire from his magic staff thingy.
I pulled it out of his hand and was amazed how bratty he was. Seriously, he gave my little brother a run for his money!
"I don't think so ya little toad!" I yelled at him, before pummeling him with the staff. It was surprisingly heavy.
Looking over to the squabbling siblings, I was just in time to see Inu get tossed like a rag doll through the air before skidding on a bunch of skulls.
Wait a second...skulls? I looked down and saw I was standing on a floor of them! As gross and creepy this was, I had to keep my cool.
Nonetheless, I still shuddered before wondering where they had all came from.
Inu was panting heavily now, she was tired. "Inu!" I called. "If you can't hit him in the body, hit him in the ego! Take the sword and hurt his pride!"
Her ears pricked up and I saw Sesshomaru raise a questioning brow at me. I think that's the most emotion I've seen on him yet. Again. Creeeeeepppyyy!
Inu smirked and walked up to the pedastool before looking the sword over.
"This is the legendary Tetsaiga?" She asked no one in particular. "The sword that can slay a hundred demons in one sweep? Ha! It doesn't look like it can cut paper! Wet!"
Despite her words, she still gripped the handle, albeitly reluctantly. But instead of being shocked and burned like her brother, she easily gripped it.
"The sword was always meant for you lady Inu!" Myoga cried from her shoulder. How'd he get over there? "Draw the Tetsaiga and unleash a world of pain on old Sesshomaru!"
She tried, I can say that much.
After a couple seconds of tugging, she let go and got this really annoyed expression on her face before taking Myoga inbetween her index finger and thumb.
"I couldn't pull out the sword." She said evilly. She was giving off this basic pissed off aura. Unconciously, I took a step back. Women, expecially half dog demon women, are scary when angry.
"Why is that Myoga?" She asked.
Myoga was really sweating now. "Uh...um...I have no idea." He finally answered.
Without further ado, she squished him flat. Yep, really glad I'm not Myoga right now.
Sesshomaru was his usual stoic and unfriendly self on the outside, however inside was another matter. I could almost taste his anger! Somehow I just knew this guy would have anger management problems.
And I didn't want to be anywhere near when that happened. Cause when that top blew, it was taking everyone else with it.
Inu's POV
Out of the corner of my eye, I could see the boy edging along the side lines, trying to get next to the pedestool and use it for cover probably.
Well, with the whole, take-the-sword-and-smack-big-brother-around plan out, it was time for plan B. Plan B of course, being use my fists instead of my words.
I always did like plan B better anyway.
I charged and tried again and again to claw him to shreds. "Iron Weaver Soul Stealer!" I yelled, throwing the glowing blades only to have them miss again and again.
He was just too fast! It felt like I was moving through sap or something!
Sesshomaru knocked me flying and appeared in front of me before I could catch my breath. He lifted me by my neck again and his free hand started to glow a sickly green.
He was going to use his poison claws.
"INU!" I glanced back to the boy and saw him starting towards me...with the sword in his hands. He stopped when he realized it had come out and looked a little embarrassed, as though not sure if he'd done the right thing or not.
"Um, it just, came out." He said lamely. I resisted the urge to smack my forehead and realized that Sesshomaru had moved.
He now stood in front of the boy.
Just great. There goes my jewel detector.
"How is it that you were able to pull out the sword when I could not?" He asked stoicly. The boy stared at him kind of freaked out before doing something outrageously stupid, even for him.
He pointed the sword, the sword that would not cut wet paper, at Sesshomaru. I nearly face faulted at the sheer stupidity of it!
Sesshomaru came close to glaring, though he never really glares because anger is beneath him or whatever, and his claws began to glow.
The boy tried to use the sword as a shield, dumb, but the poisonous vapors got him and melted the wall behind him. He vanished under a pile of purple ooze.
The human boy who looked so much like Kikyo, was dead. My hands curled to fists and I saw red. I wanted to make Sesshomaru pay, and goddammit pay he would!
I lunged forward and this time was fast enough to claw at his armor before he could move. "That was for Kiyo!" I shouted at him, before jumping upward and slashing his armor to bits.
"And that was for my mother!" I yelled in blind fury.
Myoga's POV
Lady Inu was a true sight to behold. While her anger more often than not made her sloppy, when she was truly pissed, she became a force of nature in her own right!
Her movements were graceful and fluid, not a wasted move in the lot. I was so proud to be her vassal. Oh if only Inu Taisho could see the remarkable woman she had become, he too would be so proud!
If that human Kikyo had not broken her heart and betrayed her, I believe that lady Inu would have become a human and lived happily.
But, Kikyo had betrayed her. And anger would only get her so far.