InuYasha Fan Fiction / Fan Fiction ❯ Adventures in Sunnydale ❯ Perfume Strikes ( Chapter 7 )

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Chapter 7: Perfume Strikes

Kagome's cousins had bought the story, all of it. Failed to ever notice the ears, claws, fangs and sword, as any one from Sunnydale should, and set him up in the guest room. Kagome was now sharing Sara's room. And, thanks to the hint of Kagome's scent still left in the guest room, InuYasha finally got a little sleep.

That night before bed Kagome called her mom and told her the good news and pretended to talk to InuYasha mother for a while. No one thought it odd that InuYasha didn't talk to her.

The next morning three teenagers stood around the strip mall looking bored. They probebly would have been picked up for skipping school, but one of them was an albino with dog ears, claws and fangs. So no one noticed at all.

Kagome cominted on this and on her family's lack of reaction.

"Welcome to Sunnydale." Buffy smiled, "There's a huge consintration of demons here because of the Hellmouth. So how do the people react to all this terror and murder and disapperiances? By ignoring them. That's why InuYasha had so much trouble when he first got here. No one wanted to see him so they didn't. Must have been frusterating for him."

"Yes." InuYasha said. Kagome had helped him with his english, with a good helping of tv of course. Now he could understand a lot more and follow more of the conversation.

After an hour or so they started trading storys.

"He tried to kill you?" Buffy balked, "And you still decided to travel with him?"

"Yes…" Kagome paused, "He just wanted the jewel. And he has never tried to kill me since."

"Oh, well, that's ok then." Buffy shook her head and leaned against a pillar with InuYasha.

"Keh." InuYasha said by way of explanation. Suddenly InuYasha stiffened. "It's here."

"Where?" the girls asked.

InuYasha frowned, he waved his arm generally up wind.

"Great." Buffy sighed. They started to follow InuYasha as he slowly moved along the sidewalk following the scent.

"Look!" Kagome pointed the air on a telephone pole where she could see a shimmering half image. "There it is!"

InuYasha and Buffy looked, and saw nothing. InuYasha however jumped to the top of the pole and swung with his claws. He grazed something.

"It jumped away! To the electrical lines. DON'T FOLLOW it's like lightening!" Kagome was quick to realize that the others couldn't see it. This sort of thing happened to her all the time now.

"Keh," was InuYasha's intelligent reply and he jumped anyway the thing wasn't bleeding but it was giving off a stronger scent, he didn't need Kagome to point the way right now. He landed on the support and tried again, missing completely this time. However the creature didn't. An electrical line broke and floated at InuYasha. He ducked and stood his distance. The wound smell was already fading and the creature seemed to be retreating.

"It's over there! On the gargoyle!" Kagome shouted. InuYasha nodded and began to turn, when the sparking line lunged at Kagome.

Buffy, who had been feeling kind of useless during this whole thing thought that now she could help. But was left the stand once again on the sidelines watching in awe as InuYasha ran back to them, faster than she had ever seen him move, and swept Kagome to safety.

"*Are you Ok?*" InuYasha asked.

"*Yes, but… it's gone now.*" Kagome said sadly. It always seemed like that was the way it happened. She got into trouble and the bad guy got away because everyone had to rescue her.

"*Keh who cares? It's just a stupid nuisance.*" InuYasha released Kagome rather roughly and stepped back. "Now what?" he turned to Buffy.

"Well," Buffy looked at the damage. Not to bad. "We leave before people come to investigate this. There has only ever been one attack a day, well at a time anyway."

So Buffy went back to school and InuYasha and Kagome went back to the library.

*

The next day was fairly similar; however the attack was more directed. Early on Kagome was taken out by a ceramic gerbil, InuYasha had difficulty with all the scented candles, not quite nauseating, but almost, and he had to take deep breaths in order to find the demon without Kagome. So he got in a good hit before it disappeared and Buffy got to feel useful protecting a slowly reviving Kagome from clay and wax statues of small fury creatures.

Of course latter they found out that shortly after the attack on the nasty little useless smelly stuff store. A restaurants' kitchen exploded. InuYasha sniffed it out, it was the creature.

*

"I think what we have is an emotion eater." Giles barley looked up from his book, "from the way this started out I would say a fairly young one. But growing fast. Soon it will be able to possess people. They only ever grow this big or powerful around things like the hellmouth. Usually they are just content to sit on someone's shoulder and cultivate thoughts that will provide the proper emotion. At this rate the thing will be a real demon soon."

"Kagome, it sounds like this thing is targeting you and InuYasha as you two are the only ones capable of seeing it. I think everyone involved in this should stick together. I think InuYasha and Kagome should stay with Buffy until this thing is over. So the creature doesn't try to use your family against you Kagome, and so that Buffy will be protected since she can't see or sense it."

"Wait, what am I supposed to tell my Mom?" Buffy asked incredulously, "I want to have an indefinite sleepover with a guy with dog ears? My mom isn't a native of Sunnydale! The daze hasn't completely gotten to her yet. Besides he's a boy."

"Tell her that Willows pin pale and her…fiancée are on a trip to America and they can't stay with Willow, that sounds good don't you think?"

"Fiancée!!" the girls nearly shouted. InuYasha just looked confused.

"I'm not even in High school yet!" Kagome argued.

"Your not?" Buffy turned temporarily to face Kagome.

"We have a different system." Kagome said with a dismissive wave of her hand.

"Boyfriend then, look this is the best way to keep you all safe."

*

It was agreed, after much argument and title changing, that InuYasha and Kagome would stay with Buffy. Kagome explained to her family that InuYasha had made a friend here that needed some help for a while so he would be staying with them, now that they had a home, and Kagome would be going as a translator, fiancée tripped him up so why not? Some how they bought it. And so did Buffy's mom. And if Buffy hadn't paused quite so long before settling on the title Kagome's …..friend, he wouldn't have been banished to the couch downstairs and far away from the bedrooms. For as long as the women decided to sleep.

InuYasha Kehed and curled up against the living room wall in his usual position, hugging his sword.

The girls headed upstairs and discussed trading the sword for a teddy bear and were just about to take a picture of him and do it in photo shop when InuYasha barked. Actually barked.

"I think he heard us." Kagome whispered.

"I guess this means it would be a sacrificial camera?" Buffy returned it to her desk drawer. Kagome nodded and prepared for bed.

*

The next day was when the real problems started. At least for our group. It was a Saturday so the whole group was out on the town looking for trouble. Midmorning InuYasha caught the scent of the creature.

We have to be careful" Buffy explained, "It seems to do one kinda small thing to distract or hurt InuYasha and Kagome cause they are the only ones who can stop it at all, and then it goes and dose something big and terrible while they deal with the first thing."

"So what do we do?" Xander asked

"If things start happening, run away and pretend you don't know us." She replied, "Then if you see a way to help without calling to much attention do it. Protect Kagome or flee with her if she is wounded. Got it."

Xander and Willow nodded. "It's nice to have such important roles huh, Xander?" Willow said sarcastically.

"Yep, just hope I can handle run like a girl and hide." He returned.

"I'm sure you'll have no problem with that." InuYasha smirked back at them.

"Ouch, you know if he wasn't part demon, and quite so tall, I'd kick his but for that." Xander said unconvincingly.

InuYasha snorted.

Then he sneezed.

"It went in there." He pointed to a small perfume store, while he held a sleeve to his nose.

"Its not that bad you baby." Kagome marched ahead of him. And looked in the window.

InuYasha sniffed again and frowned. "It left, and then came back."

He sneezed again, "It doesn't smell bad, but like alcohol, and flowers, and rotten fruit."

"Then stay out here," Kagome said, "Find out were it went and I'll have a look around, it doesn't look like its still here anyway."

InuYasha nodded and left with Xander to track it, it was still too early for it to attack anyway.

Buffy, Willow and Kagome walked inside the shop and started to snoop around.

Buffy started a conversation with the owner of the shop, to see if anything strange happened this morning.

"Nothing that I can remember." The Women said, she had short brown hair, small brown eyes and a straight blue dress. "Well the vat of my latest experiment seems to have relocated itself to that corner some how. I was just about to get the dolly to help move it back when you walked in."

"What is this experiment?" Buffy asked.

"Pheromones." She replied shortly, "I've concentrated the mixture in that vat greatly and am slipping it into my perfumes in different dilutions to see what works. You see this batch is special it soaks into the skin and mimics your own natural pheromones. Or at least that is the way it is passed off to men."

"Why would you do that?" Willow asked. Having wandered over.

"It is supposed to tickle the mans latent instances."

Willow was getting an uneasy feeling, "And what if the guys instincts aren't that latent?" willow asked.

The lady smiled, "Human noses require quiet a punch to get a reaction out of them she replied.

Just then a loud crack was heard in the far corner. The vat had tipped over and cracked open. A thick liquid and almost thicker vapor poured out and flooded the shop. Kagome stepped back as was enveloped by the fog. "It was behind the vat." She coughed.

"What?" the owner ran to right the vat and righted it to stop it from leaking.

"A Cat," Buffy yelled, "It pushed over the vat and ran away!"

By the time they left the shop they were all covered in the mist.

"Um, Kagome?" Willow started, "I think we should get you home and get you a shower right now."

"Why? The demon is still out there." Kagome asked.

"Um, that stuff was supposed to bring out latent instincts," Willow explained, hesitantly. "and Inu youkai instincts are very not latent."

"Oh," Kagome replied thoughtfully. "If you think that would be a problem, then we should all go shower."

"And if Xander had a cell phone I'd be right there with you guys." Buffy put in, "but as he doesn't I have to tell them what happened. Don't worry, I can handle myself."

So Willow and Kagome went to Buff's to shower and Buffy went to find InuYasha and Xander. She should have let them wonder.

*

InuYasha and Xander were standing on the corner about a block away, staring intently at the sky. InuYasha could feel something building, the clear blueness of it had to be a cover.

"Hey guys," Buffy said from a few feet away, no reason to get too close.

"Hey Buff, whatcha doin' way over there." Xander inquired.

"Where is Kagome?" InuYasha lowered his gaze to Buffy.

"Ah well, that's what I wanted to talk to you about," she started.

"What happened?" He barked.

"Nothing! She's fine! Just fine. But there was this accident. We all got sprayed with this experimental sex potion thought we should keep our distance from males, that's all. So… keep up the good work! Later!" Buffy started to back up. InuYasha was looking less angry/annoyed but Buffy had an idea that that was not necessarily a good thing.

"Why do you smell like… sex?" InuYasha asked, his eyes were getting glassy. "No… like a …promise?" he looked intently at Buffy.

"I don't smell anything." Xander sniffed the air.

"Sop that!" Buffy told Xander. "InuYasha, it's just that weird perfume we got sprayed with, calm down, uh go jump in the lake or something." Buffy continued to back away, the curious drugged look was slowly being replaced with a drugged predatory look. Buffy was getting a little freaked.

"WE?" InuYasha smiled, "Kagome smells like this?"

`Damn.' "Uh, no, no she already left the shop." Buffy lied.

Then InuYasha was beside her. He had defiantly been holding back when they fought. "*Where is Kagome?*"

`Oh good now he's forgotten to speak English' Buffy thought quickly, "I don't know what you just said." She said getting a little unnerved by the proximity and look on the face of the hanyou.

InuYasha growled in frustration and took off toward the perfume shop.

So Xander walked up to Buffy, "You think he'll find Kagome?"

Buffy glared at him, "Get a cellphone!" then she took off more directly for her home.