InuYasha Fan Fiction / Fan Fiction ❯ Adventures in Sunnydale ❯ Stink Bombs and Cousins ( Chapter 4 )

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Chapter 4: Stink Bombs and Cousins

The next day Buffy skipped school to hover around the strip mall. The last few incidents occurred here. Each increasing in annoyance and danger level. The last one had all the TVs in a three-block radius blaring nonstop Barney for three hours. Several shopkeepers nearly went insane.

The silver haired stranger had not been reported, but that didn't mean that he wasn't around. So armed with her gas mask and several, small supper stink bombs. Buffy went about the job of looking inconspicuous.

`No, I'm not supposed to be in school right now.' She thought dryly, `What, this?' she fingered the mask behind her back, `never know when there might be an air raid, right? Please, please PLEASE no one notice me!'

Just then she noticed InuYasha skulking around looking like something had him by the nose. Buffy got up to investigate.

He entered the computer store. Buffy followed a few paces behind. InuYasha had one ear turned toward her, but she wasn't used to demons with that kind of appendage so she didn't realize that he was keeping track of her.

Suddenly InuYasha stopped and started to look all around the store. `*Damn it! Where is that little fucker?*' no matter how he tried to find it, it always seemed to hide in its own smell. Then he seemed to catch a thread, its smell was somewhat different as it aged. He had it now!

That is if the every single speaker and electronic devise hadn't simultaneously gone off, creating and earsplitting noise that drove InuYasha to his knees. Momentarily. In a matter of seconds he was out in the middle of the parking lot, panting.

Buffy made her escape as well yelling at InuYasha not to run away. Not that he could hear her, hell, she couldn't hear her. That's when she noticed the storefront next door explode. She tentatively approached the gaping hole that once announced some sort of insurance sales. People were rushing to get out while all of the furniture, cubical walls and pictures crashed to the floor and made their way to the rear corner.

Buffy was forced to leave to store front by the throng trying to escape and decided to try and capture InuYasha, after all that is what she had come to do and she really couldn't deal with whatever was going on inside the store. I mean, there was nothing there!

InuYasha was staring at the store, trying to decide whither he should try and get the thing or wait for the crowd to die down and his ears to stop ringing. Then he saw Buffy looking right at him. Ok, it was time to leave, not time for a fight. Huh, what would the others think if they heard him say that? He turned to run when a small POP startled him. Dark clouds of disgusting smoke suddenly surrounded him. POP POP POP the horrible smell over powered him as he tried to crawl away. POP POP. InuYasha couldn't stand it any longer, the pavement reaching up to smack his head was the icing on the cake. He thought he might try to defend himself but the horizon kept spinning and jumping and the forces pulled his arms down to the ground, he closed his eyes for a moment against the horrid sight and knew nothing more.

Buffy sat in the library after lunch doing homework from her morning classes. Good ol' Willow had retrieved it for her. "Those bombs really did the trick, I thought he was going to throw up or something. What was in them any way?"

"Uh, just some stuff that dogs can't stand," Willow replied from her position on the floor in front of the cage, they were in the storage/weapon room off to the side of the main library. "Some sent of rancid burning flesh, after that, you really don't want to know."

"O-k, how did your morning go? Any luck on the learning Japanese?"

"Yeah," Willow was still staring at the unconscious InuYasha, "I got a few phrases, nothing too in depth but maybe enough to keep him from attacking us." She turned to Buffy, "If he isn't flat out evil I mean. You don't think he's evil, do you?"

Buffy looked at InuYasha, he was still green and scowling but his face lacked the lines of evil. Whatever those were. "I don't know. I don't think he had anything to do with what's been going on in the strip mall, not the way he reacted to the noise. And that time we fought, I got the impression he was holding back. He didn't use his claws. And his face and voice lacked actual…evilness. I mean he was scraping for a fight and arrogant as hell, but who am I to jump on that? … Better not to take any chances though, he is a demon. He might still see us as inferior life forms and kill us for capturing him or something."

"He's kinda … beautiful, isn't he?" Willow turned back to InuYasha. "I mean once you get used to looking at demons and take away the green and the scowl."

Buffy smiled remembering the image of him coming out of the shadows. "Yeah, I guess. Is that why you're over there?"

"No!" Willow jumped, "I thought that it would be best if someone would watch over him, so that when he woke up we could deal with him right away so he wouldn't attack us! Really." The last thing she wanted her friends to think was that she had a crush on a demon, which she didn't, she just thought he was beautiful.

"Actually that's a good idea, and since you're the only one that might be able to communicate at all with him why don't you stay there all the time until he wakes up." Buffy said cheerfully.

"A-All the time?" Willow echoed.

"Well it makes since." Buffy smiled sweetly.

Buffy did not make Willow stay all night with the caged InuYasha, and he slept all night. The next morning however Willow was back at her post. Dutifully watching the slumbering InuYasha as he regained his normal shade of pale.

The whole gang was there when he did wake up. Shortly before first period.

He slowly turned his ears catching the conversation in bits and pieces.

"I blah blah that blah blah blah him."

"Blah blah blah blah don't blah."

"What blah I blah blah wrong"

"Go blah blah he blah blah blah here blah lunch"

"I blah his blah opened."

He could see out of the crack of his eye the group that included the annoying blonde turn to stare at him. A red headed girl was only a few feet from the door of the cage that held him. She walked over and knelt down, she had a timid and worried face. "*good morning*" she started slowly.

InuYasha opened his eyes more and scowled, "*How in the fucking hell is it a good morning? I'm nauseous and in a cage!*"

Willow turned Buffy.

Buffy shook her head "I think that he's still sick."

"Oh," back to InuYasha, "*we are good people, don't worry"

InuYasha frowned, "*then let me out of this fucking cage.*" to emphasis his point he rattled the bars. Willow jumped, InuYasha smirked, "*Nervous bitch aren't you? Are you getting any of this?*"

Willow sighed, "*we can't let you out. I can't understand you, these lines were written for me, they are all I know.*"

"*Great. How long am I supposed to humor you for? I can break this stupid cage any time I feel like it.*" InuYasha leaned his head back and closed his eyes.

"*Water.*" Willow was holing a bottle of water through the bars reaching in to him.

InuYasha blinked, "*you realize I could take your arm off right now?*" he looked to Buffy, "*Hey, youkai exterminator, teach this little bitch some common sense or keep her away form the youkai!*"

To illustrate his point he leaned forward quickly and grabbed Willows wrist. Everyone jumped. InuYasha smirked, took the water bottle and sat back. He opened the bottle, took a swig and closed his eyes to listen to the room around him.

"Willow, maybe you shouldn't stand so close to the violent unpredictable demon." Xander said.

"Are you ok, Willow?" Buffy asked.

"Yeah, he just surprised me." Willow looked up at the clock, "We have two minutes before class!" the three teens darted from the room leaving InuYasha allow with Giles.

"*I don't guess you know any Japanese" InuYasha was still smirking with his eyes closed. He clutched the bottle of water and waited for his head and stomach to settle enough for him to think about his next action.

Giles just shook his head and returned to the main library.

At lunch the group was once again at the small table in the storage room thinking about what to do about InuYasha.

"Sara brought her cousin to school today," Willow piped up, "maybe she could help us translate."

"Yeah that's an idea!" Xander was getting frustrated. "Course how do we explain the ears and cage and the phrase I'm a demon and want to eat your brains?"

"Uh.. right" Willow pouted and glanced at InuYasha he was staring at her with those amber eyes, all … angry. Well he was in a cage. She sighed, stood up grabbing a breakfast bar and walking over to him. "Are you hungry?" she asked waving the food at him, from outside the cage this time.

InuYasha sniffed, crinkled his nose, said "keh" and turned his head away.

"Fine, be that way." Willow returned to her seat.

"I think we should give it a try." Buffy took the bar from Willow. "Like get him talking write it down and see what it means."

"And how would we explain the content?" Giles asked.

Buffy shrugged, "Weird sense of humor?"

"And this is the library!" Sara's voice rang out from the main room. "You can stay here until classes are out, it's really quiet, no one will bother you."

InuYasha head jerked toward the door. His eyes staring with more propose than Buffy had seen yet. His ears at full attention. `*It can't be.*'

"*Thank you* cousin, I'm sure I will be fine." A small, sad, girls' voice filtered into the stock room.

InuYasha lips parted and he breathed, "…Kagome…"

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A/N: Bwah-ha ha ha! I answered none of your questions! And for that reason the next chapter will be up Friday, or Saturday but defiantly soon!

The short chapters are sort of a way for me to by time to figure out what to do about one of the pranks. See, it gets a little racy (practically a lime), and InuYasha will probably be OOC, and I'm a little worried about it. The scene is way down the line, maybe three chapters away. But I want to know what you think.

Thanks for the Xander thing and others (I just recently started using youkai instead of youkia). I did know that Angel was in the show from the beginning, but latter on he looses his soul, um again I guess, and calls himself Angelus. So this story happens before that happens.

As for why Kagome would leave Japan while InuYasha is missing… you'll have to wait at least until Friday.