I really didn't expect this to be so popular.
"Hmm." Inuyasha's eye twitched in irritation. The Kikyo-look-alike-who-was-apparently-her-reincarnation had been staring at thin air for a while now! Even the monkey (creepy thing) gave a confused little chirp from his perch atop her head. And to make matters worse: She was still aware of her surroundings! (He'd tried to swipe the jewel when he noticed she'd zoned out. She'd slapped his hand away. It still stung)
"Uh, hey! I thought you wanted to go somewhere?" He asked in irritation. The two were at the bone eater's well, Fon having said something about a closer look, and the most they had done was ruff up a couple of bandits that wanted to kidnap her! Well, Inuyasha had. She'd just watched with a strange look, not that he'd expected anything else.
"So I did. Let's head that way." She stated calmly, as if she hadn't been staring at thin air for the past few minutes.
"Finally!" The dog complained as he made to head in the direction she'd been staring (she hadn't pointed or anything). A few seconds later and he could no longer ignore a new complaint.
"...Why are you sitting on my head?" He growled out after a bit. There was a second of silence that Inuyasha was quickly growing accustomed to.
"Habit I suppose. It's better for my energy reserves." The demon got the feeling she wasn't saying everything.
"What about my energy reserves?" He questioned, in what was definitely not a whine.
"We both know I don't weigh that much."
"Che." He couldn't think of an arguement for that.
The demon walked in silence for a bit with the human baby comfortably resting on his head and a small monkey on her's. He didn't see anything out of the ordinary and idly wondered if she had noticed something or if she just wanted to come this way.
"Wha?" He cried out slightly when he felt her shift to ride on his back, loosely hanging off his shoulder. Fon gave him a curious look and for once decided to elaberate.
"Don't you see the hair?" She asked with a pointed glance around.
"What hair?" He asked as he kept walking. Fon took another glance around before gesturing up.
"Up there. Watch that leaf." Curiously, Inuyasha did so. Quickly finding the falling leaf, Inuyasha gave it a curioius look. As he watched, the leaf split clean in two as if it had fallen on something sharp.
"What the...?" He trailed off as he tried to put things together.
"The hair is thin, and everywhere. I may be strong, but the fact remains I'm human." Fon explained in her breathy way. Inuyasha felt his ears flatten in irritation.
"So you're using me as a shield. How noble of you." He taunted slightly. Fon gave a shameless nod.
"It's getting thicker this way. You'll feel it soon." She warned, causing Inuyasha to go on alert.
True to her word, Inuyasha soon began feeling the hair snap as he walked through it, Fon ducking behind his shoulder when it came too close for her comfort. Occaisionally, she would ghost her hand over certain areas experimentally before pulling back with a thoughtful expression. Lichi rested on her shoulder, completely hidden by Inuyasha.
"Wait." Fon suddenly ordered as she tugged Inuyasha's sleeve. He complied with an irritated 'what is it now?'
"Over there." She said, not minding his irritation in the least. Inuyasha followed her sight, absently realizing how sharp it must be, to find the tell tale glow of a camp fire. He made his way over.
"Looks like we just missed it." He muttered as he took in the scene, realizing too late how young Fon was when he felt the weight of her dissappear from his shoulder. "Hey, you better not run! Huh?" Vaguely, he thought he shouldn't be surprised that she was closely inspecting one of the headless corpses.
"Clean cuts. Whoever assassinated them must be the same one behind this hair." She stated as she turned away, not giving the nearby bow a second glance. Inuyasha didn't know rather to be relieved or not by that. A second later she half turned back to regard Inuyasha with a curious gaze. He had no idea what she was thinking.
"How will you handle this I wonder?" Now he knew.
"What do you mean 'me'? Isn't it your job to protect the jewel?" He scowled. Honestly, what was with this kid?
"I noticed your style earlier. It's wild, uncoordinated, unbalanced. You over threw your punches and didn't use your body. All in all, it's even worse than Skull's style." For once, that secretive smile of her's dissappeared as she counted off the flaws in his style. Inuyasha grew more and more irritated with each remark, by this point he was fully convinced Fon was no child. (And the unintentional insult went completely over his head.)
"You think you can do better?" He growled out. He soon regretted it as Fon's expression transformed into one that promised pain to those that would dare insult her most prided skill. Inuyasha realized that he was getting a glimpse of the raging Storm that Fon truly was. (Not that he knew dying will, he just saw the boundless rage that was being repressed.*)
Inuyasha found himself paralyzed in the displeased gaze of the normally calm girl, his instinct telling him to get out of there, and to not draw more ire. He could have sworn he saw pure red flames flicker on her hands before she clasped them behind her back as well. In his mind, he saw a terrifying woman.
As quick as it appeared, it was gone once more, leaving Inuyasha to wonder if it had been a trick of the flickering light.
"Perhaps." She breathed out nonchalantly, her secretive smile once more in place. Inuyasha decided he'd imagined it. (If he had to push back a new fear, he didn't acknowledge it.) "The hairs get thicker again this way. It's likely a trap for me." Fon said after a moment that Inuyasha was sure she purposely left to let him worry. She was a hidden sadist!
"If you're so sure of that then why go?" He asked as she jumped back on his back.
"Because if I ignore it, it will come to me. I'd rather not burden whatever village we happen to be in when it catches up. Or worse: have it catch up while we are preoccupied. Fighting on our time is better." Inuyasha silently conceded the point as he went foward once again.
Elsewhere
Shippo was happily getting some food with his father when he smelt something strange. Glancing around, he saw something very unusual.
Babies.
Seven human babies.
Younger than him.
"No." The hooded baby said about something, most of the others giving flat looks that agreed with them. The white-clad baby pouted slightly.
"Please Viper? It looks like it's going to rain." She pointed out.
"We can make camp." The blue haired baby rebutted.
"But what if it's a bad storm?"
"We've likely been in worse, Kora." The blonde, obviously siding with the blunnette. The one in white puffed her cheeks in irritation.
"But...what about food? An inn can provide that."
"So can we." The one with the chameleon on his hat.
"I agree with Luce, we should stay at an inn." The purple one. No one paid him any attention.
"Money is important. We keep it for emergencies." The hooded one spoke up again. The one in white puffed her cheeks again before sighing and pulling out the dreaded weapon all are weak to.
"No." The green haired one said. A few moments passed. The blunette looked away. More moments, the blonde fidgeted. Luce's eyes got wider.
"Have you forgotten that we're babies? They'd try and keep us there, kora." The blonde protested weakly, his resolve clearly wavering. Luce didn't budge.
"I suppose it'd be a good experiment." The green haired one finally relented. Hope filled Luce's eyes.
"Fine, one night." The blunette muttered, causing the blonde to sigh.
"If Lal agrees I guess I should too, kora." Luce smiled and gave a slight cheer before leveling the hooded one and the hatted one with a wide-eyed, hopeful look.
"Mu, the cheapest room. Only one." The hooded one relented after a full minute. All of the babies leveled the hatted one with various expressions. He met all the gazes evenly.
"Those who want shelter must earn it." The hatted one said stubbornly. Minutes passed. Luce's eyes began to tear up. The hat tilted to cover the eyes. Luce gave a small whimper.
"...The sky always get their way. Fine." He muttered grudgingly.
"Yay!" Luce cheered as they began walking to the nearby human village.
*Just imagine, an angry arcobaleno in the dying light of a flickering fire. Inuyasha doesn't know the full scope of what he saw yet, but he does have instincts that screamed that he was in highly dangerous waters.
Also, someone asked about repressing the curse...don't worry. I have a plan for that, you'll just have to be patient. ;)
One more thing: Should I do the rest of the arcobaleno's journey in their pov. or keep with bystanders? (I'm also concidering another omake thing with a different version of this last scene that won't be canon to the story, so don't be surprised if I put that up)