Disclaimer: Nope,don't own any InuYasha characters nor anything else from the show, but I do own any Oc's you find throughout the story and the plot of course. So now that I've said all the boring stuff let's get onto the story! Here it is chapter three!
A/N: Hey all you reviewers out there! Yay! Chapter three, I hope your as happy as I am. I actually thought that I was going to give up writing fanfiction at first and work more on my original, but fanfiction is just way too fun! So I don't think that is going to be happening anytime soon! So read on, and find out what happens next!
In Body and Soul
Chapter three: Enter the Wolf Den
Saizu scooted backwards until she stumbled against the wall of the cave. Mate? Kagome never mentioned being married nor having a husband. So why is this guy claiming to be her mate? All of this did make any sense. She balled up her hands into tight fits clenching her teeth as she did so.
"Who the hell are you!" she screamed stomping forward. "Why did you bring me here! She added the tension rising in her voice.
He rolled his eyes then gave her a bitter look; scratching the top of his head he walked away saying nothing. She step forth almost chasing after him, he growled causing her to recede her steps. She sat back down saying nothing more on the subject. "Just shut up and stay there." he said dryly.
The wolves began watching her closely once more forcing her to push herself further against the rocky wall. She whimpered then shut her eyes tightly praying that this all was just a dream. "Please be a dream..." she muttered softly. Her fear unintentionally then triggered her to cradle herself, rocking back and forth for comfort.
"Who are you?" asked a rather strange looking guy. His hair was shorter than the guy with the ponytail. His hair went more of around his head than anything else,and was painted the colors of gray and black. But the clothing was similar, but with this one more the fur was around the shoulders and in more of a vest type style with the black armor plate only a strip across the chest . Like it was more for style than protection.
"What are you doing Hakkaku!" another shouted trying to pull the other along. He stopped and gazed down at Saizu as the boy name Hakkaku watched her cautiously, she kept her head low making sure not to look up or make any sudden movements. After a few minutes of being poked and sniffed Saizu finally snap.
"Did Koga bring you here?" One asked.
"Where do you come from?" the other asked.
After a few minutes of being poked and sniffed Saizu finally snap,"Will you two idiots stop!" she exclaimed pushing the two away from her. "That hurts like hell!" she added rubbing her right and left arms. "And take a picture! It lasts longer!"
The two instantly jumped away from her gawking slightly by what she just did,"She just said something, I thought she was already dead." the one named Hakkaku said hiding behind some guy. Saizu cocked an eyebrow then sat back down, she really didn't have time for this; she had to find some way to get home.
"What's with her Ginta?" Hakkaku whispered as quietly as he could.
She sighed then rolled her eyes, dumb and dumber where really starting to tick her off. And them talk about her as if she wasn't there was making matters worse; averting her eyes to the ground she noticed that the little wolf cub from before was curled up into a tiny ball on her lap.
She sighed then reluctantly began petting to tiny wolf, it cooed in delight and licked her hand happily. Someone please save me from this nightmare! Saizu's thoughts screamed. The two guys known as Hakkaku and Ginta watched her carefully, she stared at them blankly then rolled her eyes,"What are you two looking at!" she screamed almost losing the little wolf completely, who was asleep. With the key word being was.
The little wolf cub instantly started cry, causing Saizu to become even angry. "Look what you idiots did now!" Hakkaku and Ginta eyes widen as they dashed away from Saizu shouting the name Koga as they ran. Laying back on the ground Saizu sighed once more releasing the new tension from her shoulders.
The little wolf once more found a comfortable spot on her lap, and with a small yawn fell back into a deep sleep. Though minutes later in unconsciousness it started whimpering begging for Saizu to pet it.
"How am I suppose to get home?" she mumbled.
"Kagome-chan!" a female voice cheered happily as Kagome and InuYasha appeared over the horizon, a women with long brown hair stood beaming brightly at the two as they came even closer to Keade's village. "Kagome!" a tiny voice pipped, a small child leaped from the women's arms and charged towards Kagome.
"Sango! Shippo!" Kagome called cheerfully.
"I'm so happy to see you Kagome, it's seemed like forever since I've seen you!" the child cried forcing tears from his eyes.
Kagome smiled nervously then stroked the child's head lightly, "Shippo it hasn't been that long. I just saw you last week." she said a concerned mood washing over her. InuYasha merely grunted then continued on into the village, he glanced down at tetsusaiga cocking an eyebrow as he did so.
Saizu said that tetsusaiga told her my name, how is that possible? Tetsusaiga has never spoken to any of us before, so why now when she touched it did it say something? InuYasha furrowed his eyebrows and ponder more on these thoughts.
"Kagome and InuYasha welcome back." said a man in casual monk clothing.
"Hey Miroku!" Kagome called waving to him as she ran to catch up with InuYasha, with Shippo clinging to her shoulder for dear life. InuYasha cleared those thoughts from his head then snorted,"We should be saying the same thing to you. You guys were gone for four straight days!"
"Don't get mad at us, we couldn't find any clues as to where Naraku is!" Shippo said defensively.
InuYasha just ignored him and continued on into Keade's hut resuming his normal position against the wooden wall. Keade questioned his actions after placing a log of wood into the fire,"InuYasha?" she asked. He said nor did nothing, she nodded then reached for her tea pot which had been placed in the corner of the room.
Sango, Shippo, Miroku, and Kagome followed after InuYasha waiting to hear further instructions on what should be done next. Kagome sat next to InuYasha with Shippo sitting in her lap, to the left of them was Sango and Kirara, and next to them was Miroku, with Keade to the right.
"I fear that something is coming, and that may be why Saizu entered this world." Keade said pouring hot water into a clay tea cup. "For this I do not know why but Saizu may have a connection to InuYasha and the tetsusaiga, and that reason alone seems to be why she knew ye's name."
Shippo, Sango, and Miroku exchange glances of confusion,"Who's Saizu?"
"She's a girl from my time, she was found near the Sacred Tree with a wound to her head. Unconscious when she was found she told us that she could feel tetsusaiga draw near and when she touched it, tetsusaiga told her InuYasha's name." Kagome explained taking a deep breath then continuing." Once she found out that InuYasha was a demon and that the rosary around his neck contain his spirit, I guess in shock she ran."
"But the real problem is she can't get home." InuYasha grunted.
Everyone stayed silent, nothing more could be said on the matter. Obviously they would have to put their shard hunting on hold to help Saizu find her way home, or at least keep her out of danger until the figured something out.
"So where is she?" Shippo asked glancing around the room and not seeing any new faces.
"Shippo I think that is our first problem." Miroku said.
Kagome hung her head low, her bangs covering her chocolate brown eyes. Poor Sai, I hope your okay. This is all my fault I should have explained everything from the beginning.
"Hey! Let me go!" Saizu screamed pulling against the rope that were begin tied to her ankles and wrist.
"Hm, not a chance. What after you almost attacked Hakkaku and Ginta, you think I'm going to let you run around like an idiot?" the boy from before huffed crossing his arms over another. Saizu rolled her eyes, Ha I'm the idiot, please your the one keeping me here for no damn reason!. She laid back down into the hay and said nothing more, though the sight of him watching her closely from the corner of his eyes sent her skin crawling.
"So what's your name kid?" he asked, she snorted and didn't answer. She guess that he would cave in soon, her freedom didn't seem that far from reach, with him fidgeting underneath the uncomfortable silence, he would let her go and she could find her way home. That was definitely going to work.
"Saizu..." she mumbled not moving from her place.
He smirked then bent down to her level to inspect her further. She narrowed her eyes then moved away as far as she could from him. He cocked an eyebrow then sniffed the air,"Your scent reeks of that mutt InuYasha."
"First of all I take that as an insult saying that me scent comes anywhere close to that nobody's." she said in an irritated tone," And second these ropes are cutting off circulation to my hands and feet." she said growling the last part. He tilted his head to the side then took hold of her chin, turning each and every direction he could until she snatched her face away.
"What the hell is your problem." she shouted flames starting to spark from her eyes.
"Hm, your not half bad looking." he said stepping a few feet away from her,"Though you can't compare to Kagome."
She narrowed her eyes then cursed his name under her breath, "Then what was the point of giving me the complement?" she asked cocking an eyebrow at him. "Who said it was a complement?" he asked amusement playing at his tongue.
She groaned then spat at his feet tugging harder against the ropes, he muttered something then began to untie both her hands and ankles, a huge smile quickly spread over her face and she instantly jump up from the pile of hay that she had been lying in. By her surprise she was soon forced back down into the pile, with all eyes turned on her once more.
"What the hell was that for?" she asked the anger rising once more in her voice. Now she usually wasn't one to cuss but being in the era was giving her a bad and weird vibe that was ticking her off while all so giving her goose bumps . The boy's hand shot to cover her mouth trying to bring her on the verge of quieting down.
"I'm going to explain this to you, so shut up for a second." he said his facial expression changing to a serious one. "I saved you from the wolf tribe of the south, you were going to be their meal last night. So I've kept you here in my cave to keep you safe." he explained.
Saizu nodded as he removed his hand from her mouth, "Thank you." she said feeling stupid for overreacting.
"Ha, I didn't do it for you." he said walking away from her and towards the entrance of the cave. Two brown wolves followed behind him as he made his way past the many skinny, and hungry wolves.
Saizu sighed then looked around, paying a closer attention to the large cave she noticed the many animal bones lying around, some still carried flesh on them. Her crawling skin was beginning to get the better of her, she rubbed her arms hoping to make the feeling go away, but found out that she was failing miserably. Hakkaku and Ginta weren't too far from her, she assumed that the guy from before told them to watch her, but then again they could just be watching her for their own safety.
She shrugged then peered down at her uniform, it was battered, torn, stained with dirt, and smelled horrible. A look of disgusts crossed her face as she made a gagging sound, she hadn't taken a shower in three whole days and she was covered in filth. Only then did she notice that her stomach was growling.
Ah this is the worst, not only have I not bathed in forever I haven't eaten anything either and I starved. Why must bad things always happen to me? It's not like I did anything to deserve this... the rumbling of her stomach grew catching the nearby monitoring ears of wolves. Some lifted their heads to find the owner of such a weird noise, sniffing the air as if helping their hearing.
Shaking violently,she used the wall to help prop herself up, her ankles were killing her and it hurt to move them. She let out a small cry but didn't stop moving. Taking baby steps she slowly made her way over to where the pony-tail boy was; that is until she stumbled and fell back on to her behind.
"Ow, that really kills." she said rubbing her sore ankles.
"Ha ha, you must be related to that mutt some how. Because it seems when your brain comes back your knees get weak." the boy laughed as he stood from the rock he was perched on.
Hakkaku and Ginta ran to her side trying to aid her the best they could, looking at her ankles they noticed that both were bruised, sore, and a little swollen. "Koga, her ankles are wounded." Ginta said.
"Her ankles could even be broken." Hakkaku added inspecting her ankles fully.
He furrowed his eyebrows then growled, pushing both Hakkaku and Ginta from his view he stormed over to Saizu grabbing her by the shoulders and turning her in his direction. "Stupid girl! Look what you've gone and done, now Kagome and that mutt are sure to blame me for this!" he yelled.
Her hands instantly shot up to her ears covering,"Hey don't yell at me, they must have gave out when I fell." she shouted back. "Besides if you wouldn't have tied me up like a sack of potatoes, then none of this would have happened." she added sticking her tongue out at him. He scratched his head then flopped down criss-crossed next to her eyes wide with confusion and meekness.
"You know you've got a really smart mouth for a mere human, too bad that's the only thing that holds a threat." he scoffed thrusting his nose into the air. Saizu stood dumbfounded, she was really dumbfound. There was nothing that could take the shock away from this his smart remarks.
"Whatever,you hairy weird-o." she snapped.
He sighed then held his temples adding a few growls every time he glanced up at her. "Damn your an even bigger headache than that insolent pup InuYasha." She shrugged then tried to stand again, but even the slight suggestion that she was anything worse than InuYasha irritated her massively, but she let it go. Getting home was way more important than fighting with some hairy jerk.
"Will you stay still!" he shouted forcing her to sit back down again, "My last dinner paid more attention than you!" he continued starting to spout saliva as he spoke.
"Um... Koga maybe you should try to find Kagome." Hakkaku proposed.
"Or maybe try to find that village that her and InuYasha are always at. Then we won't have to continue listening to you two arguing." he added mumbling the last part.
Koga stared blankly at the two as if he was lost and didn't understand what the two just said. He balled his right hand into a tight fist then sent a hard blow to both of their heads. Growling and snarling as he watched them cry out in pain, "Why didn't you mention that earlier!"
Saizu watched out of pure boredom the three make total fools of themselves. The fact that her ankle hurt didn't faze her much, but the sudden wincing was. She shook her head and threw her arms in the air, I'm so fed up with this! I need to figure something out, some sort of plan. But I have no other options there's no way I can do this by myself, I don't know how things work here. "Okay, listen up you three idiots." she sighed then pointed at Koga,"You Koga person, can you please take me to Kagome and InuYasha. And you two, shut up."
Hakkaku and Ginta instantly shut they're mouths while Koga just let out a gruff growl. "Fine, if it gets you out my den, then let's go." he said throwing her over his shoulder and began trotting to the front of the cave,"Hakkaku, Ginta! You stay here watch the others, I'll be back as soon as possible."
The two nodded in agreement as Koga vanished.
"Hey Koga,could you quite speeding!" Saizu screamed as the whirling wind whip across her face thrashing her hair around rapidly.
" Be quiet you, no more questions. Just shut up until we get to the village, I'm tired of your whining" he snorted, "Besides we're already half way there, I can already smell that mutts disgusting scent. He's not that far ahead of us."
Myoga shivered as continued hopping down the road to what he thought was Keade's village. The old flea quiver as he thought back to the days of the Great dog demon, now there was a demon who kept everything under control while also striking fear into your heart once you heard his name. "My lord you must be displeased about these happenings, I dread to say this but InuYasha and Sesshomaru may not be able to defeat this upcoming evil." he sighed as he stopped and caught his breath.
He sniffed the air then stiffened, the smell of that blood, it was the same smell as from fifty years ago when tetsusaiga was first created. But that can't be, he shook his head at his mistake, there was no way that it was the same scent. He glanced around and stuck his nose higher in the air, but there was a possibility. Wasn't there?
"I swear when I find that girl, I'm going to give her a piece of my mind. Damn Forehead, running off and making me chase after her, and that damned Kagome, I can't believe that she expects me to baby-sit some little whelp." InuYasha mumbled kicking the dirt road as he descended further down the road. "Lord InuYasha!" he squeaked hopping at once towards his master's son.
"Hm, Old man Myoga what are you doing out here?" InuYasha inquired furrowing his eyebrows as he did so.
"Never mind that, has anything abnormal happened to tetsusaiga?" he said quickly.
"What do you mean abnormal?"
"I mean has tetsusaiga's behavior been altered, has the fang seemed unmanageable?" he replied quickly once more. InuYasha bit his lip as he tried to think back to any possible signs from tetsusaiga, had the sword been acting weird and he not know it. Or perhaps Myoga was talking about Saizu.
I was right, Lord InuYasha's and tetsusaiga's scents have shifted. I almost didn't recognise the sword as InuYasha approached, that must mean the swords are calling to each other. No doubt that Sesshomaru will soon be here as well. The flea stiffened, the thought of Lord InuYasha's brother sent chills down his spine. He was ten times worse than InuYasha, plus has emotions of stone. "Lord InuYasha, draw your sword. Unsheathe tetsusaiga."
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