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I Do Not Own Inuyasha
"Talking"
8. War
"Okay, for the last time. I was born 56 years ago. But at the age of 6, my older sister died and I fell down a magical well that brought me 500 years into the future. There, I was unconscious for 41 years. When I woke up, I lived with a family until I turned 15 which was just a few days ago- five days actually. On my birthday a youkai dragged me back down the well and when I emerged I was back in this time.. Do you get it now?"
I sat on a dark brown fur bed, several wolf youkai's surrounding me. They all looked pretty much the same. All tall, all had brown tails, all either had silver or black hair, and all had pointed ears.. also they were all men. I hadn't seen one girl or child since I was taken here.. where ever 'here' was.
"Huh? What did you say? I wasn't listening." A man by the name of Ginta asked. Ginta was one of Koga's followers. His hair was gray with a dark blue piece in the centre, something that was uncommon in this tribe. He wore fur for most of his armour.
"She's a time travelling chick! What don't you get!?" Hakkaku, the other of Koga's followers, said hitting Ginta on the back of the head. He had a white Mohawk, chain armour, and a fur hide.
They set off into a argument, which quickly became violent. I glared at them, wanting to yell and kick them out of this cave. But I had already seen how dangerous this could get, and I didn't want to take any chances.
I got to my feet and walked away from the wild animals. The place I was in was a reclusive cave behind a cascade of water. The cavern was roomy and spacious, a little dark but the light that shone through the aquatic door made it warm and it painted unique pictures on the carved walls.. if it wasn't for the constant smell of wet dog, it would be perfect.
The wolves youkai's had given me 'better' clothing, so I would fit in better in their tribe.. not that I had ever agreed to join it anyway. My clothing now consisted of wolf fur the colour of mahogany draped over my shoulders, and armour that was red and black. My hair was brushed and tied into pig-tails, and clean white bandages covered the injury inflicted by that.. that jerk!
I was surprised as to how well I was being treated here. I'd never thought that I'd be treated like a princess by my captors. Being locked up and having little food is what most people would suspect when their teennapped.
"Would you two idiots stop fighting!" Koga barked, pulling the two growling boys off each other. "Do you even know what you're arguing about!?"
Hakkaku and Ginta blinked at each other, then looked toward the dominate male. "No.." They said in unison. Koga sighed, and ran his fingers through his hair.
"Why do I get all the idiots..?" He muttered, walking away from the two, now laughing, wolf men.
I turned away from them, and crouched down beside the water fall. It was like looking at a vertical river, except you could see a blurry vision of the other side through the water. I heard the sound of footsteps behind me, and sighed.
"What are the rumours about?" I asked, as Koga sat down beside me. "You know, the ones that you supposedly heard about me?"
"Nothing really. Just about the younger sister of the woman who had watched over the shikon no tama 50 years ago." He answered. "Why?"
"Oh no reason.. only where I come from rumours are a lot more nasty than they are here." I grumbled throwing a stick through the water fall. I hear a shout of pain come from the other side, and apologized quickly before he threw it back.
I looked from the corner of my eye to see Koga staring at me. I felt my face heat up and looked away. "What's your problem?"
He grabbed my chin and forced me to look at him. "I've noticed you have a very beautiful face.."
"That's what they tell me." I replied, emotionless.
"So I've decided to make you my wife!"
"What!!?"
"Oi, Koga!?" A man shouted running up to us. "You aren't gonna eat her once your done with her? Besides you do realize that's a human girl you got there."
Yes please eat me! I don't wanna be married! Getting eating.. was something I'd look forward to after this!
"Moron!" Koga snapped. "This is Kaori, the girl all them rumours where about. She can see the jewel shards."
"Yes and I happen to know that you have three shikon shards..." I muttered, crawling away.
"Oh so then you're gonna collect all the Shikon fragments!" Ginta shouted, popping in front of Koga.
"You bet! When that happens our group will be invincible." Koga stated, getting the cave into a uproar of excitement.
Don't I get any say in this!? Don't I have a choice!? Why would I marry a stranger that just comes up to me and asks me to be his br- "If someone came up to you right now and asked you to marry them, would you?"
I stopped. He must have known. Meoga must have come to warn him about Koga's intentions. That was why he had freaked out. But.. why did he keep it from me? If he had told me then I wouldn't have joked about it, if I had known I wouldn't have walked into the forest alone.. If I had known then I wouldn't have trusted Koga, and I wouldn't be here right now. But.. Inuyasha knew.. and he still left me.. He still tried to kill me.. He still stole my shikon fragments.
"So you see..." Koga's voice brought me out of my thoughts. He wrapped his arm around my waist and pulled me back to him. "You guys understand right?"
It was reflexes. Someone gets to close, you hit them. I didn't know what happened until I stood with my back against the wall, scowling at Koga across the room, who had a red hand mark on his face.
"Don't touch me.." I hissed, through clenched teeth. Koga stared back at me confused, slightly rubbing the place where my hand had made impact.
"She hit Koga..." Ginta whispered.
"That chick is gonna die." Hakkaku whispered back. Everyone was staring at me.
"Um..." I stared at my hands, the anger had vanished when I needed it, and now I was just scared for my life. "Yeah.. but um.. you see.. I sorta already have this.. thing going on with someone else.. so.." I lied. I wasn't a very good liar under pressure.
"Ugh, don't tell me it's that Inu-trasha or whatever, that pathetic hanyou that you're travelling with." He spat his name, like it was something disgusting.
"N-no!" I stuttered, my face growing hot. "I.. I d-didn't say that! I-I just s-s-said s-ome o-one! I.. I didn't s-say anything about I-Inu.. Inuyasha!"
"Hmmmmmmm" Koga cast a suspicious gaze on me, making my face burn even more.
"W-what!?" I snapped, trying to get past my stutter.
He stared at me for a second longer, until a smirk formed on his face. "Heh, this'll be fun. So if this Inuyasha guy.. departs from this world, then there won't be a problem."
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I stood on the cliff, where the cascade started, the wind blowing my light brown tresses across my face. Was this my fate? To live here in the beautiful place and become the bride of a wolf youkai? Was that what I really wanted?
No.. It wasn't what I came back for. This wasn't why I gave up my life with the Higurashi's. I only did that for.. I shook my head to rid the thoughts of him. He didn't like me. He didn't care. All he wanted was the Shikon No Tama. But.. even so, I had to get back. At least for a moment, only one moment, just long enough to see if.. if what he said and how he felt was true.
But.. maybe his mind was made up. He had been watching me strangely over the last few days.. Maybe I did change. Maybe I changed so much he doesn't see the resemblance anymore, and now he hated me.
I crouched down beside a small pool of water beside the rushing river. I ran my finger through the water, making small ripples. Why had Inuyasha tried to kill me? What was the real reason why Koga wanted me mere? Why was I standing on top of a mountain with no way of getting down? These questions had been bothering me lately especially the last one.
Koga was planning on kill Inuyasha, if he ever did come to rescue me, which he wouldn't. Then after that I'd be forced to marry him. Why was everyone determined to end my free life as a 15 year old? Koga looked to be about 15, so why was he waiting to be in a relationship. Most guys his age would be fleeing from something long term.
"Aah! Aah! Aah!" I looked to the ground beside me to see a small white and red mushroom, sprout up from the rock, screaming it's head off. Since when did mushrooms scream?
I looked at it more closely. The tiny face resembled Shippo. I searched the ground, around me. There were many Shippo mushrooms around, I could even see a trail leading down the cliff and off into the forest.
Where these Shippo mushrooms here to help me escape.. or where they here to lead someone to my rescue?
A ear splitting screech filled the air above me. I snapped my head up. Above, hundreds of half-goblin, half turkey birds jumped off a cliff, shooting into the air.
My breath caught in my throat, as I watched the birds flew at me at an alarming speed, their talons bared. I had two choices. Either I stayed up here and fought until I died, or I could jump off the mountain, have Koga catch me, he rescues me then we get married.. I think I'll go with option number one.
"Kaori!" I whipped around. I was sure that was Inuyasha's voice! Had he come? Did he realize he was an idiot and came to apologize, for trying to kill me?
But it wasn't Inuyasha. Wasn't even close. Koga ran up the cliff, wrapped his arm around my waist, and dragged me along with him.
"What the HELL are you doing!?" I yelled, fear and anger taking over.
"I forgot to mention, but we're at war with the birds of paradise." He explained, jumping onto a boulder. "They're after my jewel shards, but I'm positive one of them, their leader most likely, has a shikon fragment itself."
"So, I'm here to help you defeat the turkeys from hell, then you're going force me to marry you?" I asked, but he wasn't paying attention. He stared up into the dark grey sky at the huge flying turkeys, while I watched the battle below.
On the ground, the whole tribe fought against the birds closest to the earth. They worked as a team, easily bringing down the birds.
A weird feeling told me something was behind me. I squirmed around. In the rock.. no behind the rock, on the other side, was a tainted jewel shard. I glanced toward Koga, who sure enough, had two shikon fragments in his leg, another in his arm.
The rock started cracking, and the jewel shard behind it was getting closer.
"Koga.. LOOK OUT!"
I had shouted just in time. For just as the rock blew away, Koga jumped back into the air. The thing that emerged from it was huge. It was a giant compared to the elephant sized turkeys around it. This one was ten times bigger. This one had the jewel shard.
"Kukuku..." It laughed, staring down at us. "I've been waiting for you, brat from youkai-wolf tribe.."
"You've been waiting?!" Koga asked, landing on another bolder.
"Kukukuku, you've inserted Shikon fragments into your body.." It sneered, looking at him up and down. "We brothers have been searching for them. It was much easier making you come to us though."
"Kaori, where is the shard located?" Koga whispered, pulling me closer to him. This time, I was thankful for the gesture. I eyed the monster. It's turkey mouth glowed a shade of dark purple.
"In it's huge gapping turkey mouth." I said, trying to shrug off the tiny amounts of fear in the pit of my stomach.
"Wha.." He gasped, eyeing the monster for the first time.
The turkey laughed again. "Exactly.. if you want our fragment.." Then bird opened it's mouth, shooting toward us. "THEN COME INTO OUR MOUTH! WE'LL GLADLY GET YOU IN ONE BITE!"
Koga grabbed me and sprinted down the mountain, leaving the turkey behind, in a state of confusion. He set me down in the middle of the group, beside Hakkaku and Ginta.
"You lot protect Kaori!" He demanded, shooting back up toward the bird.
"I DON'T NEED PROTECTING, DAMN IT!" I screeched, pulling out my katanas. "I'm perfectly capable of taking care of myself!"
"So, Nee-san, where do you thinks a safe place to go?" Ginta asked.
"'Nee-san?'" Who was I, his sister now?
"Well, of course. You did agree to be the boss's woman after all..." Hakkaku said tugging me toward the cave. I pulled my arm out from their grasp.
"Who said I agreed to that damn agreement! Also I said I can take care of mysel-!" In all my struggling, and shouts, I hadn't been paying attention to where I put my feet. I tripped backwards, over a small rock.
"Oh yeah..." Ginta said sarcastically, rolling his eyes. "You really can take care of yourself."
I growled and got to my feet. "You.. you..!Shut up!" I looked behind him, one of the bigger birds of paradise came shooting down, it's claws flexed and ready to tear. It was aiming toward Ginta..
"LOOK OUT!" I screamed, shoving him out of the way..
It wasn't in slow motion, like how you see it in movies. No.. It seemed to go quicker, but my awareness of everything around me became more defined and clearer. I couldn't hear anything, but only saw the shocked looks of my bodyguards. The red hot intensity rippling up my back was pain. Something hot and thick stared to soak my clothes. I stumbled forwards, trying to hold back my screams of agony with heavy breathing. I looked past the fighting.. red.. and silver on the horizon. I felt something warm trickle down my cheek.
Sound came back.
My head was filled with cries of pain, grunts, growls. The sound of clashing metal and ripping flesh. A velvet voice calling my name..
Suddenly I was on my knees, being held up by something warm. Warmth, and iron hold an intoxicating scent.. At first I thought it was Koga, but something didn't fit. Koga scent was earthy, fresh and canine. This one.. was something different, and much.. much better.
Sleep. My body begged for sleep. I wanted to sleep.. Yes, sleep would be nice.. but.. who was the person that belonged to this scent? I needed to know.. but.. maybe after a nap.
Red and silver on the horizon. Those were nice colours to see before you die. They were my favourite colours, and they meant something to me.. but I couldn't remember. I couldn't remember why the wolf leader wanted me. I couldn't remember, why I was feeling pain. I couldn't remember.. what I had been upset about only moments before.
The velvet voice called me again.
"Kaori! Kaori! Don't you fucking die on me, you stupid monkey girl! Wake up!"
I wanted to tell the voice to let me sleep, but my voice wouldn't come. It was stuck inside me somewhere, in a place I couldn't reach..
Monkey girl.. sounded.. familiar.
"I'm that monkey-girl's lapdog!? Screw you!"...
"Watch were you're aiming Monkey-girl! You almost killed me!"
I knew who it was! It's...
I opened my eyes, cringing at the light above. My breath caught in my throat, as I stared up at amber eyes.
"INUYASHA!"
End Of Chapter 8
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