InuYasha Fan Fiction / Fan Fiction ❯ Adventures in Sunnydale ❯ First Impressions ( Chapter 2 )

A/N: I forgot to tell you in the first chapter but I think I am fudging time a little. This takes place farely early in both series. Pre Kouga and Angelus, I think.

So Angle might show up later, it's in the plan. I'm not sure about Spike though, we'll see (I need to find out who's showing early Buffy now). I have a plot and a loose outline.

This is NOT going to be an Inu/Buffy fic, I like the pairings as they are.

I'm about too loose internet for a while, while I move and start a job in a new city, but I'll be back sometime in January with another chapter. See you then.

Disclaimer: I don't own InuYasha or any characters there in.

Chapter 2: First Impressions

InuYasha scowled down at the humans that were happily chatting away, in an unknown language, as they walked through the park. There were far too many of them, humans in large numbers still made him nervous. And that made him aggressive. And that scared the humans, and large numbers of scared humans could turn aggressive. And no matter how powerful he got, he never seemed able to shake the memories of a childhood alone, around humans.

He stretched out on his branch. Better to leave these memories alone. He would wait for night to fall when the crowds were less and his feet were healed before seeking answers.

In the early evening InuYasha dropped gracefully to the ground and headed for the lights of the city.

Walking down the `stone' streets among the humans gave him an odd feeling. It was like they didn't notice him at all. No smell of fear, no looks of disgust, no quickly diverted eyes. Nothing at all. What was wrong with these people? Even Kagome's eyes would drift to and linger on his ears and claws, true it was with a fascinated and almost…warm look, but she did notice them at least.

After a while of walking like this he began to get annoyed. So he decided to just break down and grab some one. He remembered what Kagome told him during the ink oni incident, "If you insist on harassing innocent peasants yourself, you might try to be a little polite, people tend to be more forthcoming with information when not too scared to speak." All right then, he would see if it worked any better for him this time around.

A group of teens were hanging around a dark, noisy building, they looked about as promising as anyone else, so he grabbed the closest one and said, "*Excuse me, where the hell am I?*"

The girl noticed him for the first time, and said something that sounded rude.

InuYasha yelled "*And what is that racket?*" The music from the Bronze was just a little too loud for his poor ears and this was not improving his mood. His grip on the clueless Sunnydalian tightened slightly as his mood worsened.

The girl in his grasp had had enough. Now she was being yelled at in a foreign language and the guys um…claws were biting into her arm. When she realized that he had claws she decided to freak out. So she began to scream, a lot.

InuYasha let go of the hysterical girl and backed up a few paces. "*What the Hell? Stop screaming and talk to me bitch.*" By this time more people started to gather to see what was happening. InuYasha took one look at the gathering crowd before letting out a quick growl and taking off for the safety of the park.

"What's with that guy?"

"What a freak."

"Hey Willow, what'd I miss?" Zander glanced at the dissipating crowd.

"Oh, just some guy with dog ears yelling at random teens. Do you think that this has something to do what Giles was talking about?"

"Well he said look for anything new and that definitely sounds new."

"Yeah." `Oh well, one less night to relax at the bronze.' Willow thought.

*

"Maybe you should just tell me what happened from the beginning." Giles sighed looking across the library table at the overly nervous girl, "When did you first notice him?"

"Well I was standing outside of the Bronze waiting for Zander, when I saw this guy. At first I thought `Weird outfit'. It was all red and sorta… strange, but you know how some kids act to get attention. Oh yeah, I also noticed his really long white hair and gold eyes too, but he was just walking around in the crowd so I thought `couldn't be a demon.' Right? I mean he looked kinda annoyed, well really annoyed, but not homicidal or anything…Anyway that is when he grabbed this girl and yelled something in another language, but nothing happened till he yelled again and she started to scream. That's when I noticed the ears, like dog-ears on top of his head, he let go of her, said something, looked around and took off. Oh," she jumped in her seat, "and he was bare foot and had claws and fangs and a sword.. um a …. katana, I think." Willow sat back and waited.

"So," Giles was used to Willows rambling style and had been taking notes, "this…boy, had white hair, golden eyes, fangs, claws, went barefoot, and carried a katana." He paused, "You did say barefoot right?" Willow nodded. "This might just be the warrior pulled in by the spell."

"So…." Buffy interjected, "we have a teenaged demon warrior running around lose?"

"It seems so," Giles turned to her, "actually it sounds like we have a confused adolescent male great demon warrior running around lose."

"Ooo…. Bad combo right" Zander looked around for conformation.

"Indeed." Giles granted, "Buffy keep an eye out for this guy on patrol tonight-"

"Really? I thought I'd just ignore his existence until he was ready to wreck the town." Buffy interrupted.

"Willow Zander and I will `hit the books'." He continued, ignoring her.

Buffy grabbed her bag as she returned to patrol, leaving the others to the dusty books that never seemed to give quite enough information.

Willow and Zander turned to Giles. "I think, given the katana, we might begin our search in the Far East."

*

Buffy walked through the park. This was were the demon had appeared so maybe he would return. The park was nicely empty and the long shadows of an almost full moon gave the forest that wonderful creepy look you want when you're out searching for vampires and demons.

Buffy turned her mind from that cheerful thought, "At least there is some light tonight." She mumbled, she hated to patrol on moonless nights when she could barely see.

She felt an unfamiliar shiver down her spine, and looked around for the cause at ground level.

InuYasha watched her turn around in circles from his tree branch. "*Feh, stupid humans, they never look up*" he smirked.

Buffy suddenly got the unmistakable sign of impending vampires. InuYasha smelled dead humans and sat up in interest. What could it mean to have dead humans walking about?

Five vampires jumped out of the brush and attacked Buffy, two were dusted before they could react. The other three put up more of a fight. They were older, and knew who they were dealing with. InuYasha watched the fight and saw one hanging back in the shadows, waiting for a chance to jump her.

Buffy was down to one scraper and the one in the shadows was about to make his move when InuYasha jumped down beside him and sliced off his head with his claws. It surprised him a bit that his opponent was so slow to react to him and also when he turned to dust. That was something he could get used to, demon goo was so smelly and hard to get out of clothes and hair, he could handle a little dust.

He sneezed, maybe not. He thought bitterly as he sneezed again.

Buffy had just finished off the last vampire when she heard a strange sneeze. She turned in the direction of the noise and zeroed in when she heard it again.

"Come out, I know your in there!" she called into the shadows of the large tree.

InuYasha turned to the girl, `*What the hell did she say?*' He decided to step, out she obviously knew he was there, and he was no coward. Even if it was undignified to be located by a sneeze. He stepped into the moonlight, preceded by the predatory glowing of his eyes as they reflected the moonlight.

"Wow." Buffy said once he made it out into the light. The moon reflected off of his silver/white hair and golden/amber eyes. His beautiful masculine features gracefully covered by pale skin. He crossed his arms and smirked down at her.

She was still in fighting stance, so he didn't take the time the time to observe her beauty. Still he noticed her blonde hair, there was a lot of girls with yellow hair here, but most of them smelled …bad. This one had only her own smell.

"*Hey, youkai exterminator, why don't you tell me where I am, huh? Or do you want to fight me with your little stick? I won't turn to dust IF you manage to hit me!*" he laughed and put his hands on his hips.

"Confident much?" Buffy returned, she didn't understand his words but his stance, and years of fighting vampires and demons let her get the gist of his little speech. "Are you going to fight or just stand there all night?" that smile of his was really creeping her out. She crouched down to get into a better position for pouncing.

"*If you can't talk, or back down then I can at least get some exercise.*" He was interested to see this strange blonde youkai exterminator fight again, she seemed faster and stronger than a normal human, but those…undead things were very easy to kill.

`*Anyway, Kagome and the rest aren't here to see me fighting this human bitch.*' he thought as he unfolded his arms and assumed a fighting stance, `*Just a little fun before morning*'

The way that he brandished his claws made Buffy very nervous, it looked like he actually used them! Most demons just had them for show or at least rarely fought with them. And the wicked grin showing off his fangs made him look a little too happy to get down to the main event.

InuYasha charged, Buffy dodged to the side at the last minute and threw his arm back hitting her across the shoulders knocking her forward. He spun to face her scowling. "*Come on, bitch you did better than that against those fucking human dust bags!*"

Buffy was up and facing him in no time, "OK, your fast, I can compensate for that." She ran to him at top speed and tried to punch his face with her left hand and stab him with the stake with her right. InuYasha dodged both attacks with a grin, this was a little better.

InuYasha reached out and punched her in her exposed side and she toppled again. "*If your going to fall down every fucking time I touch you I might as well go to sleep.*"

But Buffy recovered again, far faster than InuYasha had expected. Usually humans stayed down for a few minutes even with his lightest punches. Thus Buffy got in a few good hits, as well a couple of kicks. InuYasha didn't look too bad but some of those hits hurt! And from a human too!

InuYasha jumped over her head to some distance from her, they had been fighting for a while now and she didn't seem to be wearing down much. He didn't want to be fighting when the rest of the humans woke up. He had to knock her out and get to a hiding place soon.

Buffy was having similar thought, she had school in a few hours, she charged him with all her remaining speed, he jumped up, she saw that he was coming down for a hard blow to her head, dove and rolled, throwing the sharpened wooden stick in his direction.

It sank deep into his thigh. He landed and pulled it out he looked at Buffy, absolutely pissed. He pulled the stake out and started toward her when a shrill laugh stopped him. The humans had begun to rise. InuYasha threw down the offending wood and took off deeper into the park.

*

A/N: I know, Buffy kinda got whooped. But this is early on for her, and InuYasha is a great demon warrior in the making. Give her time, InuYasha is unlike any demon she's fought so far.