Yasha was at school the next day in his normal life. If you consider getting laughed at by everyone and constantly being picked on as normal. He sat in his English class drawing in his notebook. His mind was anywhere but on his class. Right now he was drawing the odd man that turned out to be his uncle. Uncle Sesshomaru, it was an odd thing to think about but that man looked so wise. He acted as if he had been around for hundreds of years and knew everything.
Yasha wanted to ask him so many questions the next time he got to see him. He started to write a list of everything he wanted to ask. 'What was my father like? Did you guys get along?' The list was at least twenty questions long.
"Inuyasha…Inuyasha Higarashi." The teacher called out.
Yasha looked up to see the teacher staring at him as everyone giggled. "Yes sir?"
"Since you are so busy drawing in your notebook why don't you tell us what you think about this story?"
Yasha looked in the book, "I…I didn't read that story yet. I was busy last night." He whispered.
"Well if you had spent more time listening to the class discussion and less time doodling, maybe you could have told us something about it. You better start paying attention or you will be in hot water very soon." The kids were snickering at Yasha even more.
"Sorry sir." He whispered closing his notebook.
"I want to talk to you after class, Mr. Higarashi."
"Yes sir." He said to the man as his ears instinctively went back making the kid's snickers get louder.
"And you all won't be laughing at other students." The teacher yelled as the class went silent. "For snickering as you did, you will be assigned the forty page story AND the thirty page story for tonight. I expect both to be read and I want a four page essay which one you believe is the best and why. It will be due tomorrow." All of the children groaned and glared at Yasha as they mumbled under their breaths how it was his fault. The bell then rang as the teacher quickly said, "I expect you all to have this finished, have a great rest of the day."
Everyone ran out as Yasha walked up to the teacher sitting at his desk. "I am really sorry about that. I promise it won't happen again."
The teacher watched him for a few seconds, "Don't try and follow behind your mother's footsteps." The man said. "I can tell you are smarter than that. You can do great things in your life if you don't do what your mom did."
This man had his mother in his class when she was fifteen. As soon as the teacher saw his last name, he pulled Yasha aside and told him how his mother's grades where never that good and that his mother would always get sick throughout the whole year. He then went on to tell Yasha that he knew that Yasha was different, mainly due to all of the grades he skipped to get this far.
"I am sorry. I just got into thinking of something else." Yasha said.
The man smiled, "I have also been worrying about you." He said playing with a pen in his hands while looking at Yasha.
"Why so?" he asked politely.
"You haven't been hanging out with the two you normally hang out with. You have been hanging out with the…" he was trying to think of the right words, "'bad crowd' if you will."
Yasha nodded, "I see nothing wrong with them."
"Azami is in another class of mine. I can tell she misses when you would meet her at the door." He said as he tipped his chair back slightly.
"I am saying this as politely as I can but I can't see why this is any of your concern." He asked as politely as he could-trying not to get in trouble.
The man smiled, "It isn't. I just don't want you to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. You never missed an assignment until today and you have never been so…out of it until today."
Yasha nodded, "I just have a lot on my mind."
"Well just don't make a habit of all this. I would hate to see my best student fall down the drain."
"I promise my grades will not drop."
The teacher smiled again at him, "Well I hope you are true to your promise, guess I should let you go so that you can go home. Have a great day." He said.
"Same for you." Yasha walked out of the room and down to his locker.
It was time to go home. Yasha was already counting down the days until he could go to that other time. He couldn't wait to live like his father and see what adventures he got into. Today his mother was going to bring him by the village that Sango and Miroku lived in to get them both fitted into the same clothing that was worn by that time. Kagome said that the clothes they were wearing now wouldn't fit in that era and would only draw more attention than needed to them.
Azami came up next to Yasha as he grabbed a book out of his locker, "Yash, what's up with you?"
"Nothing why?" he asked not looking at her as he zipped his book bag.
"You are acting so out of it and what was it about when your mother came looking for you yesterday?"
"Nothing." He said as he walked to the front door of the school.
"Come on you can tell me." Azami pleaded as she followed Yasha out trying to go around the kids that were talking in the halls.
"I can't." he said as he heard his mother honk her horn and he waved to let her know he heard her.
"Please, we haven't talked in a while and it scares me to think that you are hanging out with someone who isn't treating you with respect."
Yasha sighed as he looked around, "Can you keep a secret?" he whispered.
"Of course we are friends, right? We can tell each other anything." Azami said glad that he was finally going to tell her something after not talking to her for a while.
Yasha then whispered, "I am going away from here for a whole month."
"What? What about school?" She yelled.
Yasha shushed her as she calmed down, "I never liked it at school, I will get to travel with a few relatives from my dad's side."
"But your dad didn't have any relatives." She whispered, knowing his families story or at least what she was told.
"It turns out he had a brother and I got to meet him. My father lived in the past."
"Well yeah, he can't live in the future." She snickered at the thought.
"No, but I mean feudal era past."
Azami laughed, "Yash, the feudal era was like five or six hundred years ago."
"You know the well that is at my house?"
"Yeah."
"Well it is connected to the feudal era."
"Nice try."
"No really, how about this tomorrow, when my mom works late you can come with me to my house and see for yourself."
"Fine." She said before Kagome honked her horn again.
"Just come to my house with me tomorrow." Yasha said before running toward his mother.
Yasha jumped into the SUV quite happy as Kagome asked, "What did you guys talk about?"
"Nothing really" Yasha said smiling as he threw his book bag into the back seat.
"Anything fun happen at school today?"
"I got in trouble." Yasha snickered.
Kagome got serious, "What for?"
"Relax, it was because I started to day dream. Not like English class matters anyways. Mr. G was completely cool with it. He just said don't do it again."
"He is the one I had right?" she asked.
"Yeah."
"He never did like me, claimed I didn't do enough work for his class." Kagome snickered at that. "Just don't do that again. Let's go, we have a long day before us." She said as she drove off…
The following day came quickly as Yasha and Azami just got over to the shrine. "Come on, put your stuff inside and then we can go." Yasha whispered so that he didn't wake his grandmother who was always asleep around the time he got home.
Shiho came up to him and sniffed the bags that they just placed by the stairs. "Should you leave a note for your mom?" Azami asked.
"Nah, we will be back before she gets home." Yasha whispered as they started to creep near the door.
Shiho tugged on Yasha as he started to open the front door.
"Its okay Shiho, we will be back from the feudal era before mom gets home. Now be quiet." Yasha said to the dog as he opened the door.
Shiho booked it outside and stood in front of the kids, trying to stop them. She kept maneuvering around them as Yasha tried to grab her.
Yasha finally grabbed Shiho by the collar and dragged her to the tree where he put her chain on. "Now be a good girl." He said patting the dog on the head.
Shiho let out a bark as she pulled to get to the kids before they went into the well house. They left the door open as they went to go down the stairs. She waited for them to return assuming they couldn't get through without the jewel; when that didn't happen she started to whimper as she tried to break the chain. She kept trying to struggle to take her collar off but it was metal and near impossible to snap, all she did was choke herself more. Of all the times that she had to wear her choke chain…she stopped struggling as she kept barking hoping that Kagome's grandmother could hear her. She paced back and forth barking.
Yasha jumped to the other side with Azami. "Where are we?" Azami asked.
"My mom said it is the feudal era." Yasha said as they climbed out.
"It's so beautiful." Azami said as she turned around to see the place better.
"Come on, we can go for a walk now before my mom gets home." Yasha said as they walked into the forest.
"Wow, look how green these trees are." Azami said as she touched ever tree as they walked down. "I can't believe that your dad would live here and your mom didn't want to live here."
"Yeah, we are going to come here for a month and learn how to live here. My uncle will teach me how to fight here too."
Azami plucked a wild flower that was near a tree as she sniffed it. "I can't believe you guys will be here. I wish I could come with you." She whispered.
Yasha was about to speak before they heard something in the woods. "Let's go." He whispered as he grabbed her hand and started to walk back to the well.
"What's the rush? Your mom won't be home for a while." Azami whined as Yasha picked up his pace.
"We really need to get out of here now." He whispered as he walked along.
They only went a few steps when a demon walked out in front of them, "What luck, a human and a half demon at the same time." The demon growled out as the two kids were in the forest.
Yasha backed up while making Azami stand behind him. "Half demon?" Azami whispered.
"I will devour you both." The demon said coming toward them.
"Azami run." Yasha yelled grabbing her hand and pulling her.
"Yash, I can't run as fast as you." She yelled as she started to stumble from how fast he was running.
"We can't stop" he said as he kept running.
The demon must have been faster as he stood in front of the two making them stop in their tracks. Yasha pushed Azami behind him as they backed up. He didn't know how to defend himself- not yet.
"I should have listened to my mom." He whispered as the demon walked at them.
"Yash what should we do?" Azami asked scared.
Yasha's heart started to race as he tried to think of something. "Go behind the tree and don't move from there no matter what." He told her.
"What about you?"
"I will figure something out."
"Alright, you better be safe though." She whispered as she ran off to watch the fight from afar.
"What do you think you can do you measly half demon?"
Yasha had no clue but he remembered his mother's stories, she always said something about his father could use his claws alone to kill a demon. Yasha decided it was now or never. He braced himself and then slashed out but nothing came out. "What do I have to do?" he yelled.
"Nice try kid." The demon said whacking Yasha off his feet and into a tree.
Yasha quickly got up to his feet trying to think of something else he could do. He then felt an odd sensation going through his claws. He felt as if a hidden power was being concentrated to his fingers. He felt something like this going through his body when he made the 'barrier.' He watched his fingers start to twitch then he realized why his fingers were so much longer than the other people he went to school with. He didn't have fingers, he had claws!
Yasha smirked as he felt the power go through his claws, now he remembered what the name of the attack was that his father yelled whenever he attacked. He heard the story so many times he could repeat it by heart. He took a deep breath as he started to repeat the story. "Then the man took in a deep breath as he braced his legs down and held his hands out. He looked up at the demon wanting to protect the woman he would one day love as well as the friends that he knew would have his back if something happened."
"What are you mumbling about?" The demon yelled.
Yasha made the stance he imagine, "He let out a smirk as he rolled his arms back before yelling…"
"What are you smiling about?" the demon asked.
"Prepare to die! Iron Reaver Soul Stealer!" Yasha yelled as he slashed out his claws. Several slashes of light came out at the demon. "I got him!" Yasha yelled excited as he jumped up and down. "I did it."
The light slashes made slight cuts on the demon, "What was that?" the demon then asked.
Yasha put his ears back at the demons voice.
"You call that an attack? It did nothing more than a few scratches." The demon laughed as it smacked Yasha off his feet and into another tree.
Yasha lay there coughing and trying to catch his breath this time. He looked up to see the demon coming after Azami. "No Azami." Yasha yelled running to her. Yasha was able to push the demon aside as he got up quickly grabbing Azami's hand, "We have to get to the well." He said pulling her again. There was one problem though; he didn't know which way to the well after being pushed around and having to try and fight the demon.
"I am going to eat you both." The demon yelled following them.
Yasha stopped and looked around, he saw a hole inside of the tree. "Azami hide here." He said having her go into the hole.
"But what about you Yash?"
"I will think of something." He said as he turned to see the demon in front of him.
"You can't do anything." The demon yelled.
"We will see about this." Yasha felt the power return to him as he slashed out his claws again and a few slashes appeared.
"That was nothing, just like last time." The demon laughed as it smacked Yasha into the forest making his slide across the ground, this time knocking all wind out of Yasha. He lay there trying to catch his breath.
"Now I will enjoy my treat." It said as it walked to the tree where Azami hid. It easily put its hand in the hole grabbing her out.
"No let me go." She yelled kicking and punching it.
Yasha finally got his breath back. He started to run to Azami, he couldn't forgive himself if Azami died by this thing.
As he ran to her he realized he didn't have enough time. There was no way he could make it. "Yasha." Azami yelled as the demon held on tight not letting go.
Before they could blink the demon was shot by a glowing arrow as it disintegrated and disappeared.
Azami fell to the ground and sat there in disbelief trying to catch her breath as Yasha put his ears back at the figures voice. "How dare you come out here alone." The figure yelled.
"Sorry mom." Yasha whispered not even looking at her.
"And then you brought Azami." Kagome yelled, "How dare you even think of bringing her. How did she even get through the well?" Kagome wouldn't stop yelling.
"She jumped in with me." Yasha whispered. "It was my fault." He said ashamedly.
"You are right it is your fault, what would you have done if she was killed? You put her into severe danger by bringing her here." Kagome yelled walking up to her son and making him look her in the face.
Yasha had a tear come down his face as the realization sunk in, "I am sorry mom. I just wanted to show her this place."
Azami coward away from Kagome, "It is also my fault, I didn't believe him." she whispered.
Kagome sighed she knew Azami didn't like yelling so she calmed down, "I can't believe this, you are just lucky I got out of work early." Kagome looked down at the two kids, "Well I guess you two are alright." Kagome whispered. "Let's just stay here tonight." she said trying to cheer them up after realizing what she said.
"Really?" Yasha asked excitedly.
"Are you sure there will be no more of those things?" Azami asked.
"Yeah, I know a village around here." Kagome said politely. "We can stay there for the night- I will bring you two to school tomorrow morning."
"I don't think my dad will like it." Azami said nervously.
"He will get over it." Kagome said chuckling as she started to walk toward the village. She noticed the two kids still as they watched her. "You guys coming or are you going to get another demon after you?" she yelled.
The two ran straight for Kagome, Azami looked at the bow in Kagome's hands, "That was on Yasha's wall!" Azami quickly said.
"Yes, it is my bow that I used to use here. I am surprise at how well it still works." Kagome said laughing at the girl.
"Cool."
They made it into the village without another demon coming after them- a relief for everyone.
There you are another chapter bites the dust! I don't think there is anything major that I have to clear up in this chapter- I will try to explain how they got through the well without the jewel later in the story!
Thanks for your reviews and please keep them coming!
