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stay with me people. This chap's kind of boring, but it's leading up to something important. And InuYasha starts swearing kind of bad around here. But I can't change the rating obviously so deal with it.
InuYasha- Chapter 383- Mujina
"Another one is coming!" a villager shouter frantically.
A second villager chimed in, "It's an enormous one this time!"
A huge, skeleton-constructed demon stomped through the bushes. It had a giant vest covering its bare rib cage, a white yukata under it. A rosary made of human skulls hung around its neck, staring at everyone with empty eye sockets. It carried a gargantuan scythe in its bony hand, threatening to drop it on the village below.
InuYasha stared at it with a scowl.
The villagers stood behind him, next to Miroku. "Pl-please…help us!"
"Bah. It's just a puny youkai." He raised Tetsusaiga above his head, thrusting it down to the ground. Torrents of white and yellow demonic energy sprayed from the blade as he shouted his attack. The demon was destroyed in an instant, disappearing into thin air.
Later, the group was consulting with the village headmen. Miroku sat crossed legged across the fire from them, taking charge for the group as always. The other three merely sat in the doorway, awaiting further instruction, but listening to the conversation. Some things never changed.
"The youkai come from the forest, one after another?" Miroku asked, a serious expression on his face.
One of the headmen replied, "Yes. For three days now. Last time, it looked like the youkai were really small. And they were running, as if being driven away by something."
"By something?"
"We really don't understand it," he continued. "But then, there were stronger and stronger youkai that started coming out. And now…the villagers can no longer handle them."
After talking with some more villagers about the incidents, the group headed to the forest to find the source of the problem. InuYasha sat against the foot of a tree, his arms behind his head. Kagome was squatting a few feet in front of him, tending to the fire. Shippou sat next to InuYasha, ready to bug him.
"Ah jeez…" InuYasha complained. "We don't have time to be doing favors for people, you know."
Kagome poked the fire, "We do things like this all the time."
"What are you relaxing for?" Shippou asked InuYasha, "Miroku and Sango are going searching."
InuYasha smiled. "Won't it come and attack us if we wait around like this? Cause I'm telling you, it's after youkai." He stared directly at Shippou.
Y-youkai?! Does he mean me?!" Shippou thought frantically. He crossed his arms, trying to think of a proper retort. "Th…that's right. Speaking of youkai, I'm the only one here."
InuYasha crossed his arms as he sat up. "Hm? Shippou, I think you'll be fine." He patted the fox demon's head, rustling his hair. "Maybe."
"So then what about you?" Shippou poked his nose. "It's no use for you to just wait around. A hanyou like you is no rival for it or anything." He turned away from InuYasha, and began to pull his fox magic toys out from his kimono. "I can't just sit around like this. I have to be the reliable one."
InuYasha took this opportunity to scare the young kitsune. He bent down and shouted in his ear, causing Shippou to practically jump out of his skin.
He responded in transforming one of his toys, the giant snake. Its mouth opened to try and consume InuYasha's head, only angering him more.
"Don't scare me, you idiotic fool!"
InuYasha thrust his foot up, kicking Shippou into the air. He went flying. "Oh will you just shut the hell up?!"
Kagome stared at him in disbelief. "Ah! Hold it InuYasha! If Shippou is alone in this kind of place-!"
InuYasha cut her off, reaching for his sword. "It's safe over there."
"Huh?"
He turned to a bush, anger on his face. "Get out here! I know you've been there for a while!"
Nothing happened.
"So you don't feel like answering, eh? Fine then I'll force you out! Kaze no Kizu!"
Trees fell over and rocks parted under the power of the wind scar, leaving only destruction in its path.
"Damn it."
"InuYasha…" Kagome tried to console him. She couldn't believe he had just started deforestation.
InuYasha grunted. "It fucking got away. But I learned its scent."
Meanwhile, in the forest, Shippou trudged through the thick leaves floor. He hopped over a log, a scowl on his face. "That InuYasha…one day I'll make him cry." He stopped as he heard something moving in the bushes. He gulped. "W-Who's there?! I you won't answer…Take this! Kitsune-You-Jutsu!"
He threw a leaf and sutra, transforming it into a poltergeist-looking spirit, resembling that of a snake. Something jumped out and subdued it, making it back into its original toy form. Shippou looked down at his hand, surprised to see the thing in his hand.
"Wha…my spell! In that case….Try this! Smashing Top!" Shippou threw the top, forcing it to grow in size. It was instantly cut in half. He cried out as it returned to it's original form, falling to the ground in two pieces. A shadow came over him, and he looked up.
A young girl, about fourteen at the most, stood over him. She was wearing a light colored kimono, a yukata. It was cut at the lower thighs, and had no sleeves. She wore arm guards and leg guards, but her feet were bare. She wore her black hair in a high ponytail, and had thick bangs. Most importantly, she held a thin sword in her hands. Demonic aura swirled around it, its jyaki deep.
Wh…what's this girl…..
She spoke, her eyes wide. She had a demon's eyes, light with dark pupils. Her lips were painted a deep red, "Earlier, you were with the hanyou with the transforming sword."
Meanwhile, Kagome and InuYasha had decided to try and find Shippou.
"Shippou-chan?" Kagome called, looking around on the ground.
InuYasha huffed, "Jeez. Where the fuck is he goofing around?"
"Oh!" Kagome exclaimed as she ran to something.
"Hm? Shippou's top?"
Deeper in the forest, Shippou was being held captive by the girl. Her hide out was under a tree, buried by its thick roots. Shippou sat atop a mountain of skulls, bound up by some kind of straight jacket looking device.
"Hey!" he yelled, "There's no point in taking me to a place like this! InuYasha has a sense of smell! He'll find out about this and come soon enough!"
She smiled at him and chuckled. "You're a hostage. You'll be my shield against the one with the magic sword. The one called InuYasha."
"Why are you doing this?!"
She held up her sword, staring at it with hungry eyes. "So I can absorb its youkai powers. This magical blade is called Datsuki." She pulled the sword from the sheath, holding the blade in front of her horizontally. "It seizes the youkai powers of the enemy it battles, and becomes a stronger sword."
Shippou realized something. "Could it be that you were the one driving all the forest youkai away?!"
"Yes. I, Mujina-sama. I've been absorbing more and more of the powers of those weaklings. But…that hanyou's sword is too strong. I f he were to suddenly cut at me, I'd be killed before drawing out his powers. But since you're with me, he wouldn't just wildly swing his sword, would he?"
Outside, Kagome asked InuYasha, "Under that tree?"
"Yeah I'm sure of it," he replied. "It fucking smells all over like Shippou and that youkai."
He unsheathed his sword as he talked. Inside the tree, Shippou heard the familiar call of "Kaze no Kizu!" In a mere second, the ceiling and walls of the structure began to cave in, rocks and roots falling everywhere. Mujina quickly snatched Shippou up and out of harm's way, cursing all the way.
"InuYasha SIT!"
Boom.
"What the fuck was that for?!"
"Shippou-chan is with that youkai, right?! What if you hurt him!?"
Mujina ran through the caves under the tree, holding Shippou by the back of the collar. "Shit. It'll be dangerous if the cave collapses. Though somehow it seems like…that hanyou doesn't care about your life."
Shippou started to panic. InuYasha! I'm never forgiving you for this!
I just have one question. Where were Sango and Miroku?? O.o or do we want to know?? lol. REVIEW
