InuYasha Fan Fiction / Fan Fiction ❯ Razing Hell ❯ Unfamiliar Venues ( Chapter 3 )
[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]
By: tachi_fossae 
In which InuYasha attends a party and recovers from its aftermath.
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction / Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Suspense / Hentai / Action | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 03.24.2005 | Pages: 4 | Words: 6.8K | Visits: 173 | Status: Work In Progress
In which InuYasha attends a party and recovers from its aftermath.
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction / Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Suspense / Hentai / Action | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 03.24.2005 | Pages: 4 | Words: 6.8K | Visits: 173 | Status: Work In Progress
Disclaimer: I do not own InuYasha and the gang.
~Chapter Three: Unfamiliar Venues~
‘This guy is insane,’ InuYasha thought as he readied himself for the party. Changing his shirt to a semi-loose red long sleeved one, he grabbed his black leather jacket before heading out. ‘Who would have a party so early anyway? I’m not the one to not know where and when a party is, or even not know that the party exists at all, but here I am, going to some sketchy place to go to a party I didn’t know existed.’
Using his youkai speed and strength, he started to jump from rooftop to rooftop. He smirked, ‘At this rate, I’ll get there early. I wonder what he’ll think of that.’ Soon after, he arrived at the 7-Eleven; the sun had just set and streetlights were just starting to turn on. Looking around, he saw no one around other than the man at the front counter of the store.
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Stripping off his hooddie and shirt, Ryu stood outside and prepared himself for his transformation. He always enjoyed doing this; it just gave him a rush that thus far in his life he could not find elsewhere. Pushing out all other thoughts in his mind, Ryu reached into the very core of his being for his first memory of flight, his few memories of his mother, and all the other happy memories that he had. Pushing them forth he felt his humanity start to slip away. It was a glorious feeling, turning into an Archangel. He felt himself begin to stretch out, become taller, and felt the pressure on his back start to build. Soon he was a good four inches taller, and the beginning of his wings started to emerge. He liked to take his time with this, when in actuality it could be done in about six seconds. At last, he stretched his wings as far as they could go, his entire body now a bluish tinge. When he relaxed his wings, the bottom most part of them were a few inches off the ground and the top about a foot over his head. Though he did have an impressive wingspan, that was not the only thing he used to keep himself aloft. He also used what he called his ‘inner strength’ to levitate himself. Though he could not use just one of them to fly, by using both of them flying was not a difficult thing to do. Easily jumping on top of his building complex, he took off into the night.
‘Well, it’s 7:52, and it will take me about a minute to get there, so I’ll be a little early,’ Ryu thought as he clutched on to the duffel bag that held his clothes and other assorted things for the party.
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InuYasha looked at his watch. ‘7:53; in six minutes he’ll be late.’ He took a second to smell the air. Many of the smells he didn’t recognize, but he didn’t smell any youkai. By chance he looked into the sky and saw something move out of the corner of his eye. The moon was out and it was just now in its waning stages, so he was gifted with some extra light.
‘I must be seeing things. Wait! There is it again.’ His thoughts began to race. ‘Now I can smell something odd. It’s not quite youkai, but not human either.’ Then he saw it. The figure seemed to be cloaked in shadow as it glided toward him. It landed a few feet behind the illuminated area, and slowly walked toward him. The lower part of his body started to emerge. Baggy jeans that seemed a little too short covered well-muscled legs. His torso was covered with symbols that InuYasha couldn’t read but knew meant something. This creature had huge pair of wings sprouting out of his back, and had large, deadly looking claws. He was wearing a scowl that seemed to fit him, and his piercing olive eyes were radiating anger.
“So are you just going to stare at me or what?” The creature’s voice was more annoyed than angry.
InuYasha shook his head to clear it and glared irritably at the winged youkai in front of him. “Do you enjoy being a punk or something? I’m guessing you’re Ryu.”
“And you must be InuYasha. And I’m a little disappointed by your reaction.”
“And I’m really disappointed that you told me to go to the middle of nowhere to go to a party that I didn’t even know about. I just hope this party isn’t full of freaks like you.”
Ryu smirked as he started to change himself back into his human form. ‘This kid is going to freak when I do this.’ Changing himself back into a human was a simple thing; all he had to do is let go. It was a lot easier for him to be in his human form than in his full Archangel one. He was just as fast, just as strong, and could still use his inner strength. As he did, he started to return to his normal size and his skin returned to its normal color. His wings seemed to sink into his back and the symbols on his torso began to fade. The entire process took about four seconds.
Ryu wasn’t quite correct with what he thought before. InuYasha was a little startled, but more pissed than freaked out. “I was right, you are a freak. So what kind of party is this anyway?”
“It’s a rave, and a good one at that. I hope you’ve been to one.”
InuYasha put on an arrogant smirk. “I’ve been to far more than one you imp. And the parties I go to are probably much more wild than those you do.”
“Have you ever gone to a party run by The Public Trick?”
“Um, no, or at least I don’t think so.”
“You would know if you did. Their parties can overwhelm veterans of even the harshest raves.”
“And who is this ‘Public Trick’ anyway? They like a gang or something?”
“Not exactly. The best comparison would be more like an organized crime family with the touch of a liberation group. They’re this group of kids that basically run all the drug operations in most of the suburban areas. They like to stay away from cities and they have representatives in all the schools and in all the right places. They have a strict code of rules and conduct, one of that includes not being able to legally drink. They always run these kinds of parties: secret and wild. And the people that run it are the best and brightest in staying out of the spotlight. Sleeping geniuses, quiet poets, and shy athletes. They make themselves seem so normal that you wouldn’t remember them even if you had a conversation with them.” He paused for a second and looked InuYasha in the eye. “These people are very dangerous and we do not want to piss them off. The ones that are true members are all humans and they hate youkai. They can tolerate half-breeds like us, but they tend to be very unforgiving.”
“Feh. I can handle myself just fine, imp. No need to lose sleep over me. They sound like just a bunch of wimpy thugs with inflated egos.”
“All right, but don’t say I didn’t warn you. Don’t stir up too much trouble while we’re here.”
“So where is this party anyway? There’s nothing here.”
Ryu pointed over to the old grain mill. “It’s in the basement over there. The place is huge and they soundproofed it. They did such a good job on it that you can’t hear anything from the outside. Come on.”
The two boys walked over towards the entrance occasionally looking to see if there was anyone else. InuYasha was a few steps behind Ryu, not really knowing where to go. Once they reached the door of the mill, Ryu pounded on the door once. The door swung open to reveal and empty floor with a large amount of dust on everything. A large boy dressed in baggy black clothes glared back at them.
“What do you want?” The boy seemed quite annoyed. “You better have a good reason to be here.”
Ryu lashed out and grabbed the front of the boy’s shirt pulling him close. “We’re here for the party, punk. So be a good boy and show us where it is before my friend here pulls out you intestines and shoves them down your throat.” Ryu spoke barely about a whisper but still achieved the desired reaction.
“Um…it’s ah…” The boy stuttered from fear as he glanced over at InuYasha. He smirked at him and incidentally bared his fangs. “It’s over there! Right over there!” He pointed towards an open space. “The floor lifts up into the basement. That’s where it is.”
“Thank you,” Ryu spoke slowly as he placed a ten dollar bill in the boys hand. “Now go open it.” He pushed the boy away in mock disgust.
The boy stumbled over and opened the trapdoor. Ryu and InuYasha walked over and started to descend. As soon as their heads cleared ground level the door slammed shut.
“Did you really need to do that?” InuYasha snapped at Ryu.
“No, but it would have taken at lot longer to get him to show us where it was.” Ryu pushed open a heavy door that separated themselves from the party. As soon as he did, a blast of pounding music assaulted their ears. Ryu smirked as he sauntered forwards while InuYasha flattened his ears against his head. The door swung closed as they surveyed their surroundings. Upon seeing the bar, both of the boys quickly headed over.
“So, what’ll it be boys?” The bartender was a girl that couldn’t be older than thirteen and was wearing barely enough clothes to cover an eight-year-old. “Do ya want a drink or something stronger?”
“Drinks will be fine for now, princess,” Ryu put on a charming grin and answered for both of them. “And make it quick.”
The girl rolled her eyes as she poured them both a shot of vodka. No soon than the last drop had finished hitting the glass, Ryu’s hand was on it. He downed it quickly and slammed the glass back on the bar. “Keep it coming girl. It takes a lot to get me wasted.”
InuYasha smirked at his newly acquired acquaintance as he looked about. Even though the place was packed and the vast majority of people were dancing on the vast floor, it was easy to tell where the different groups were.
‘Well, there are the Goths over there. They’re never really any fun,’ InuYasha thought to himself. ‘And the jocks seemed to be kinda thin in this party. And the stoner table is right where they should be.’ Something then caught his eye. ‘Those humans seem different. Something’s wrong with them.’ The humans he was referring to were sitting in the far back corner around a single square table. Some cubical dividers had been placed around them, but it was easy to see and get in.
Ryu glanced at InuYasha and followed his gaze. “Yo, Yasha, you know those people I was telling you not to mess with? That’s them.” Ryu placed his hand on InuYasha shoulder to stop him as he started to walk towards them. “Don’t fuck with them. You do not want to make them angry.”
“Feh, they’re just humans! What are they going to do.”
Ryu started to say something but he just walk away. He picked up InuYasha’s still full glass, quickly drank it, and put a five on the table. “See ya princess,” he said as he followed the stubborn hanyou. Pushing his way through the crowd he saw that he wouldn’t be able to stop InuYasha from having enough time to do some damage.
True to his thought, InuYasha arrived first. “So, you punks must be the ones running this. You wimps don’t seem dangerous at all.”
The one closest to him answered first. “What do you want? We do have pressing issues to attend to.” The boy’s eyes were a deep blue filled with an old worn look that did not fit his body by at least forty years, and his voice seemed tired if anything.
The one beside him was a plain looking girl with flat brown hair. “It’s just a filthy half-breed. You should be happy we allow your kind in here at all!” Her voice was filled with hatred.
“Now, now. Don’t let your anger get the better of you. This young man simply wanted to meet us and have a good time.” This boy sat at the head of the table and had a presence that nobody could ignore. He turned to face InuYasha. “You must excuse my partner, she has no love for youkai of any kind, be they full or half, peaceful or violent. Oh, and by the way, my name is Tetsu Tsukamoto.” His voice was calm and calculated, with each word precisely articulated.
At that moment Ryu arrived. “Um, hey! Ah, my friend and I have had a great time but we must be going. Come on buddy.” He pulled InuYasha away and safely out of hearing range of the table. “Are you insane?” he whispered harshly. “Do you have any idea what those people are capable of? They are able to have an organization without youkai to enforce it because they are some of the few people in this time that have purifying magic! We are dead if they get angry! We have to get out of here.”
InuYasha pulled his arm out of Ryu’s grasp. “What are you, a coward? I’m not scared. And I’m not leaving yet. I came here to have a good time and get drunk, and I’m not leaving until I do.”
“Fine! Whatever! Get killed if you want, but I’m leaving. I’ll be seeing your dead body on the eleven-o’clock news tomorrow.” Ryu promptly turned and left.
InuYasha growled as he left, but then went over to the bar. The serving girl was currently flirting with some guy at least six years older than her. “Oi, bitch! Get me a drink!”
The man talking to her turned to face him. “Look asshole, she’s busy. Go find someone else to annoy.”
InuYasha had had it. He grabbed the boy by his collar and threw him several feet into the crowd. All of a sudden, four large well muscled teens grabbed him and began to haul him towards the door. He struggled and broke free but then felt a piercing pain in his shoulder. He flinched away to see the hand of one of the boys glowing a reddish color.
“If you knew what’s good for you, you’d start walking towards the door and not look back.” The boy’s hand began to glow brighter. “Now get moving.” He shoved him forward towards the door. They made their way up the stairs and passed the doorman, who looked frightened. Once outside, two of the boys escorting InuYasha outside grabbed hold of him so that he could not move his arms. “Listen you filthy youkai, Tetsu might be forgiving and doesn’t like useless violence, but our mistress has other plans. I hope you don’t have any regrets, because now it is simply too late. See you in the afterlife fuck-face.” The boy’s hand started to glow a sickly blue color and he moved it to half an inch away from his face. “Now suffer, you piece of shit!”
At that moment, the two boys holding him let go and all the purifying energy building in his hand discharged in a blinding flash and sent him flying several feet back. The pain that InuYasha experienced was like nothing he had felt before. It felt like every nerve in his body was on fire and it went deeper than just his flesh, it felt like his very soul was being torn apart. He tried to yell out, but no sound came. His vision started to become hazy as he saw the four boys start to walk towards him. He heard them laugh when he saw a light begin to form on two of their hands, one blue and one red. ‘Wait, why did they stop? Why are walking backward away from me? Why are they holding their hands in the air?’ The answers did not come to him, for soon after he blacked out.
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“Because he’s a fucking idiot that’s why! I told him not to fuck with them, and what did he do? HE FUCKED WITH THEM, THAT’S WHAT! It’s not my fault he almost died. I saved him and you yell at me. I could have just left him there to die but I had to be nice and what do I get? I get bitched at!” Ryu was angry to say the least, and was well on his sixth cigarette. He, along with Raziel, Akinos, Ayane and Kagome were at their sanctuary and had all they needed to patch InuYasha up.
“You shouldn’t have brought him there in the first place, Ryu,” Raziel tried to admonish his friend without angering him, failing miserably.
“I could have warned you Ryu. Miroku said that he was very confrontational and doesn’t like backing down on anything.” Akinos pointed out to the irate half-breed. Akinos was about six-four with short blond hair and well tanned skin, as well as being well muscled, and in actuality had the strength of a bodybuilder and then some.
“Shut up! It’s not my fault!”
“Ryu, would you be quiet. I’m trying to work here.” Ayane was busy tending to the unconscious hanyou. He had large burns all over his body, mostly on his torso, but strangely not on his face. “These don’t look like normal burns Ryu. How did he get them?"
Ryu looked sadly over to his closest friend. “Purification burns. Be thankful that you can’t get them. They hurt like there’s no tomorrow and heal worse than they hurt. He’s going to be in pain for a very long time.”
“Poor little doggy! I hope the painkiller will help.” She paused for a moment to gaze at his revealed torso. “I thought a hanyou healed faster than normal humans.”
Raziel was the one to answer. “They do, but the purification magic nullifies the healing powers they have and does large amounts of damage to them as well. From your description of the power of these individuals Ryu, he’s lucky to be alive.”
Ayane stroked the incapacitated youkai’s head. “Well, his heart beat is strong and so is his breathing, and from what I can tell there are no broken bones; he should be fine once he rests for a while. We should probably contact a friend of his or something like that so they can come pick him up.”
“Miroku is out of town for tonight and won’t be home ’till tomorrow morning,” Akinos pointed out. “And I don’t know if he has any other friends.”
“We should check his wallet or cell phone to see if he has any phone numbers.”
“Why would we check his wallet Ryu?”
Ryu snorted before he answered. “For money of course! I carried his near dead body for several miles and I expect to be compensated for it.”
Raziel smacked the back of Ryu’s head. “Show some compassion. He could have been killed.”
Ayane fished InuYasha’s cell phone out of his pocket. “Let’s see… he has a lot of phone numbers for pizza places, but it doesn’t seem to have any names…wait, there’s one here, but it’s for ‘fluffy’.” She looked to Akinos. “Have you ever heard Miroku mention a ‘fluffy’?”
Akinos shook his head and sighed. “Oh well. I’ll call anyway.” He dialed the number and waited for someone to pick up. On the second ring someone did.
“You better have a good reason to be calling me you filthy excuse for a hanyou. This Sesshomaru does not have the time nor the patience for you.”
“Um, this isn’t InuYasha, but we do have his unconscious body and were wondering if you were his friend or something.”
“Foremost, he is my half brother and not a friend of mine. I do not care what the idiot has done to himself, nor do I want his carcass.” With that he hung up.
“Well, that was unproductive,” Akinos said flatly.
By now Ryu had started pacing around the room impatiently. “Find out anything useful?” he spat as he stopped in front of Akinos.
“I found out that ‘Fluffy’ is in fact his half brother and that they do not have any brotherly love for each other.” He glanced at InuYasha and then at his watch. “I guess he could stay here until he wakes up. It’s only about nine-o’clock. We should probably put him in one of the other rooms. Either that or call Sango and see if she’ll take him.”
“Why bother someone else when he can stay here?” Kagome had remained absolutely silent as soon as Ryu had brought InuYasha back to their sanctuary. She gazed at the half naked badly burnt hanyou. “It’s not like she’ll do anything we can’t, and there are more of us here to take turns watching him just in case he needs our help. We should just put him in one of the spare rooms.”
Akinos nodded his head and carefully picked up the incapacitated hanyou to bring him to one of the rooms. Their sanctuary was made up of six rooms. The largest room was in the middle, and served as the main center of entertainment. In it was a large home theater and a good stereo system, along with a ping-pong table and pool table. The two rooms to the left served as makeshift bedrooms, while the ones on the right were a small kitchen and a bathroom. The fifth one was directly behind the main room, and served as the largest bedroom. Akinos carefully placed Inuyasha on one of the spare beds.
“Alright, since there are five of us still awake and about ten hours before school once again resumes, each of use should take a two hour shift. We should all still be able to get close to eight hours of sleep, give or take due to things like actually getting to school and doing essential things like eating and having time to bathe. So,” he said while bringing his hands together with a clap, “who wants to go first?”
Kagome jumped up. “I’ll go first. But the rest of you should draw straws to see who goes next.”
“Nose game!” Ryu shouted as he slapped his hand to his nose. Akinos instinctually did the same followed almost instantaneously by Raziel. Ayane looked startled by Ryu’s interjection and was only able to stutter “wha…what?”
“Well, that settles that. Ayane will go next followed by Akinos, Raziel, and lastly me!” Ryu smiled broadly. “Well, I’m hungry. Anyone else want something to eat?”
“Sure, I could go for something.” Akinos was not one to pass up food. Raziel nodded his head in agreement.
Ayane still looked puzzled. “Wait, what did you guys just do?”
“What, haven’t you ever played the nose game before?” Ayane shot Akinos a look. “We do it every day at the lunch table to see who has to clean up everyone else’s junk. I thought you would have noticed by now.”
Ayane pouted. “You guys should have warned me! I wasn’t ready.”
“That’s the point, girl,” Ryu drawled. “If everyone was ready then no one would be the sucker. And if no one were the sucker, I would have to do work. You know I hate applying myself when I don’t have to.”
Ayane was still pouting when she looked around. “Where’d Kagome go? She was right here a minute ago.”
“I believe she went to check on InuYasha, though I hardly see the point. He can’t go from being mostly fine to dead in a couple of seconds.” Raziel paused for a second to look at Ryu. “Did you notice that she was acting strange as soon as you brought him back?”
“You know she’s squeamish and doesn’t like to see others in pain. Akinos and I always come back bruised and bloody and she always freaks out. We haven’t ever been hurt as bad as he is so she’s just concerned, that’s all.”
Although Raziel’s eyes showed doubt, he nodded his head in concession.
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Kagome sat at the edge of the bed looking at the resting hanyou. When she had seen Ryu bring him into their sanctuary, she had almost cried. She hated to see people get hurt or be hurt, and it was bad enough for Ryu and Akinos to go off brawling with random thugs they meet on the street, coming back more dead than alive, but bring back a total stranger in that condition was something else. She stood up and started pacing. ‘Why did that idiot drag him to a party like that! He knew that it was likely that they would get attacked. Those people are extremely dangerous and aren’t very sympathetic of hanyous. Both of them could have been seriously hurt, or worse, killed.’ She bit back tears as she looked at InuYasha’s burned and bruised torso. ‘He looks so terrible. I hope he doesn’t take too long to heal.’ She knelt down next to the bed. “I’d hate to see such a good body go to waste.”
“You’d what now?” Ryu was standing in the doorway to the room. Kagome gasped in surprise. She hadn’t realized that she had said that aloud, was surprised that she had even thought what she had, and hadn’t heard Ryu approach.
Her cheeks burned a bright red as she buried her face in the bed. “Nothing! I didn’t say anything!” Her voice was muffled by the bed.
Ryu shook his head as he chuckled. “You know he should be fine for now. If he’s only half as strong as me he shouldn’t need to be watched over. He just needs rest and he won’t just stop breathing randomly or anything. Take a rest, you looked bushed.”
“No, it’s alright. I’m fine.”
Ryu shrugged before he started to leave. “Fine, suit yourself.”
Once again alone in the room, Kagome turned her attention back to InuYasha. ‘He’s not that good looking. I mean the ears are pretty cute, and his face has good features, and he has a six-pack, but… who am I kidding! He’s smoking hot! I bet he has the personality of a garbage dump.’
She got up and closed the door to block the sounds still coming from the next room. Turning on a light on the side of the room farthest from the bed, she pulled out a magazine to read. It wasn’t long before she began to doze off in the chair.
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Kagome and Ayane were now sleeping. Five minutes after Ryu had gone in to check on Kagome the first time, Akinos had gone in to see if she was hungry. Upon seeing her asleep, he gently carried her into the other bedroom where Ayane was resting before her shift. Placing her next to Ayane, he turned off the lights and closed the door as he left.
“The girls seem really worn-out. We should just let them rest.”
Ryu glanced at his large friend. “Fine with me. Raz and I don’t really need to sleep much anyway. Unlike you weak humans, we don’t need to rest our bodies or minds as often. We’ll take the other shifts. Get some sleep, we have a biology test tomorrow.”
Although it was only nine at night, Akinos was not one to pass up on sleep. With a ‘goodnight’ to the two other boys, he went to the remaining bedroom. The two remaining boys sat in silence for some time. Raziel was the first to break the silence.
“You shouldn’t have brought him here. He could endanger everything we have worked on and could expose the entire venture to those who we don’t want knowing.”
“I couldn’t bring him to a hospital! They ask too many question and that would risk too much.” He pulled out another cigarette and lit up. “I know it was a bad idea to bring him here but I had no choice. My place isn’t safe, and I have a feeling my dad is going to be home for a while.” He inhaled deeply. “We should probably make some calls to the others’ parents. That way they’ll ask fewer questions.”
Raziel nodded. Ryu hesitated before something else. “Do you think we should tell the others? About the project I mean.”
“No, it’s better to let them be ignorant and happy than be enlightened and scared.”
Both felt a little guilty as they started to make the calls.
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His head was swimming in a sea of pain and he couldn’t see straight. All he could remember was a glowing hand in front of his face and a great deal of pain, then nothing. He was drawing a blank as to where he was and who had brought him there. He tried to move and his body protested by sending waves of pain back to his brain. His entire body was throbbing in an intense pain for what seemed like an hour before it became a numbing sensation. His memory was coming back. His memory was coming back. ‘Oh yeah, I was with Ryu, that pussy, who left me because he was scared. Then some punks dragged me outside and did something.’ He blinked a few times to clear his vision. ‘And I thought I saw Kikyo for a second. She said something about my body.’ He stumbled out of the bed that he found he was lying on. It was at that point he realized that he didn’t have a shirt on, and more over wanted it back on his person. He looked around for it and quickly saw it lying on a chair near the bed. He flinched in pain as he tried to put on the shirt and stopped, deciding that it was a bad idea. He sat back down to try and recall else happened. ‘Lets see. They started backing away once I was on the ground and they looked scared. Someone must have come that they were afraid of.’ He shook his head is if to clear it. ‘This is getting me nowhere. I need to get out of here, where ‘here’ may happen to be. I need to get back home so I can rest.’ He got up and headed for the door. Each step was a struggle, like he was walking with concrete blocks on his legs. He felt tired and weak. ‘I feel like I’m human or something. This ain’t good.’
He reached to the door and started to grab the handle. At that moment Ryu flung the door open. Startled, Inuyasha jumped back, lost his balance and fell on his ass. He leered up at the other hanyou, while the other grinned back down at him.
“Glad to see that you’re up finally. Thought you were gonna sleep the whole night through.”
“Feh, I’m not some pansy weakling. And next time, knock before you charge into a room.”
Ryu laughed and offered a hand up. He slapped it away and got up, with a little trouble, on his own. “I don’t need your help. Just stay the hell away from me! Every time I’m near you I get hurt.” At this point Ryu started howling with laughter and was doubled over. Inuyasha just looked at him oddly. “Are you high or something? You seem messed up.”
Raziel came to the door and slapped the back of Ryu’s head. “Would you shut up. You’re going to wake up the girls and they will be pissed. I do not feel like enduring their wrath just because you have the giggles.” He looked at InuYasha. “I was wondering when you were going to wake. We need to get you out of here.”
“And where exactly is ‘here’ anyway? I don’t remember coming here at all.”
“After Ryu left the party, he hung out around the mill for a little while flying about venting some of his energy. He saw that you got dragged out and almost completely purified. He flew down and thankfully he is very imposing to humans when he is in his true form. He then picked you up and brought you to our sanctuary. We called your half brother, who yelled at us, then put you on that bed to rest. Now get out. You can’t be seen around here.”
InuYasha looked at him in shock. If he said he couldn’t leave because he was still too hurt to move, that would be admitting he was weak. He nodded slowly and started to walk out of the room. Ryu glanced at his friend. His eyes were cold and held no compassion, not uncommon, but he wasn’t usually like this to new people. Ryu shook his head and followed after him.
“Here, let me drive you home, wherever the hell that is.”
InuYasha was holding his side in pain and wasn’t walking straight. His face was neutral, but it was clearly forced.
“Whatever.”
They went out to the curb to Ryu’s car. InuYasha looked at the car in disgust.
“You call that piece of shit, rust bucket, old pile of scrap iron a car? I’ve seen tin cans that would run better than that.”
Ryu opened the door to his ‘car’ and got in. He brushed the passenger seat that was covered with potato chips, papers, and several CDs. “Hey, listen you ingrate, it gets me around without people staring at me.”
“Oh, I think they would stare at this anyway at this old thing. Does it even run?”
He sighed. “YES!! It runs. Now get in.”
InuYasha climbed in with some pain. He looked about, expecting it to collapse. Ryu shook his head and turned on the car. Putting on the CD player, which currently had Lamb of God in it.
“So Yash, where am I going?”
“12 Obery street. You know where that is?”
“Shit, you live there. That place is one rich street. You a rich kid or something?”
“Yeah, sorta I guess. Most of the kids on my side of town are, so I never really notice that much. But my family is poor compared to one of my little bro’s friends.”
“Is this ‘Fluffy’ we talked to this little brother?”
“No, Fluffy is my older half brother Sesshomaru. He’s a cold-hearted bastard at best. My little brother is actually adopted. His name is Shippo.”
“And who is his rich friend?”
“Some girl named Rin.”
“Rin? You mean the Rin Nomura, that freshman?”
“Yeah, how do you know Rin.”
“She goes to my school. Are they like, dating or something?”
“No, just friends.” He laughed. “He has more friends than me and fluffy put together. And you can still count all of our friends on two hands.”
“Not a very sociable group are you.”
“No, we are. We just don’t make many friends. We have high bars set for our friends.”
“Yeah, that’s why you hang with the monk. Fucking pervert.”
“Hey, your friend hangs with him too. Don’t judge me before you consider the source of your information. I mean, Akinos is a good kid, I’m not saying he’s not. Or at least says Miroku.”
“I’m just messing with ya. Miroku fine, he just has a problem keeping his hands to himself. You got a girlfriend.”
“No, I need a break. My last one was a complete bitch. Something was wrong with her. I hope she finds help soon, god knows she needs it. And the one before that had some weird hair fetish and that kinda creeped me out.”
“Was her name by chance Yura.”
“Yeah. You dated her as well?”
“Yeah, she was wicked weird.”
There was a brief silence. “Listen man, I’m sorry about what happened, but I told you not to mess with them. They are too dangerous to go acting like you’re the biggest shit in the bowl. They hate arrogance, and they’re hypocrites as well.”
“Hey, I lived, it’s fine. I just don’t get why your friend there was all…ya know, like kicking me out.”
“I have no idea why he was like that.” He paused to consider something. “It could be that you’re now a marked enemy of The Public Trick, and he doesn’t like them at all. But listen, although he may not be with us, Akinos and I will back you all the way man without hesitation. Believe me dude. You’re going to need us.”
He looked at his new friend. “Thanks man, but I still blame you for all of this.”
Ryu laughed and pulled up to his house. “Damn, this is huge. Must have cost a lot.”
“Yeah, and my dad isn’t around a lot. Needs to pay for it ya know.”
“Yeah, my father is like that too. Never there when you might need him. I’ll be seeing you dude.”
“Later man!” He called out as he headed for his house. As soon as he got in his house, and into his room, he collapsed on his bed.
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Author’s Notes:
Hope you liked this chapter. Bigger than the first two, but then again, those were kinda short.Converting /tmp/phpPsgoGi to /dev/stdout
~Chapter Three: Unfamiliar Venues~
‘This guy is insane,’ InuYasha thought as he readied himself for the party. Changing his shirt to a semi-loose red long sleeved one, he grabbed his black leather jacket before heading out. ‘Who would have a party so early anyway? I’m not the one to not know where and when a party is, or even not know that the party exists at all, but here I am, going to some sketchy place to go to a party I didn’t know existed.’
Using his youkai speed and strength, he started to jump from rooftop to rooftop. He smirked, ‘At this rate, I’ll get there early. I wonder what he’ll think of that.’ Soon after, he arrived at the 7-Eleven; the sun had just set and streetlights were just starting to turn on. Looking around, he saw no one around other than the man at the front counter of the store.
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Stripping off his hooddie and shirt, Ryu stood outside and prepared himself for his transformation. He always enjoyed doing this; it just gave him a rush that thus far in his life he could not find elsewhere. Pushing out all other thoughts in his mind, Ryu reached into the very core of his being for his first memory of flight, his few memories of his mother, and all the other happy memories that he had. Pushing them forth he felt his humanity start to slip away. It was a glorious feeling, turning into an Archangel. He felt himself begin to stretch out, become taller, and felt the pressure on his back start to build. Soon he was a good four inches taller, and the beginning of his wings started to emerge. He liked to take his time with this, when in actuality it could be done in about six seconds. At last, he stretched his wings as far as they could go, his entire body now a bluish tinge. When he relaxed his wings, the bottom most part of them were a few inches off the ground and the top about a foot over his head. Though he did have an impressive wingspan, that was not the only thing he used to keep himself aloft. He also used what he called his ‘inner strength’ to levitate himself. Though he could not use just one of them to fly, by using both of them flying was not a difficult thing to do. Easily jumping on top of his building complex, he took off into the night.
‘Well, it’s 7:52, and it will take me about a minute to get there, so I’ll be a little early,’ Ryu thought as he clutched on to the duffel bag that held his clothes and other assorted things for the party.
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InuYasha looked at his watch. ‘7:53; in six minutes he’ll be late.’ He took a second to smell the air. Many of the smells he didn’t recognize, but he didn’t smell any youkai. By chance he looked into the sky and saw something move out of the corner of his eye. The moon was out and it was just now in its waning stages, so he was gifted with some extra light.
‘I must be seeing things. Wait! There is it again.’ His thoughts began to race. ‘Now I can smell something odd. It’s not quite youkai, but not human either.’ Then he saw it. The figure seemed to be cloaked in shadow as it glided toward him. It landed a few feet behind the illuminated area, and slowly walked toward him. The lower part of his body started to emerge. Baggy jeans that seemed a little too short covered well-muscled legs. His torso was covered with symbols that InuYasha couldn’t read but knew meant something. This creature had huge pair of wings sprouting out of his back, and had large, deadly looking claws. He was wearing a scowl that seemed to fit him, and his piercing olive eyes were radiating anger.
“So are you just going to stare at me or what?” The creature’s voice was more annoyed than angry.
InuYasha shook his head to clear it and glared irritably at the winged youkai in front of him. “Do you enjoy being a punk or something? I’m guessing you’re Ryu.”
“And you must be InuYasha. And I’m a little disappointed by your reaction.”
“And I’m really disappointed that you told me to go to the middle of nowhere to go to a party that I didn’t even know about. I just hope this party isn’t full of freaks like you.”
Ryu smirked as he started to change himself back into his human form. ‘This kid is going to freak when I do this.’ Changing himself back into a human was a simple thing; all he had to do is let go. It was a lot easier for him to be in his human form than in his full Archangel one. He was just as fast, just as strong, and could still use his inner strength. As he did, he started to return to his normal size and his skin returned to its normal color. His wings seemed to sink into his back and the symbols on his torso began to fade. The entire process took about four seconds.
Ryu wasn’t quite correct with what he thought before. InuYasha was a little startled, but more pissed than freaked out. “I was right, you are a freak. So what kind of party is this anyway?”
“It’s a rave, and a good one at that. I hope you’ve been to one.”
InuYasha put on an arrogant smirk. “I’ve been to far more than one you imp. And the parties I go to are probably much more wild than those you do.”
“Have you ever gone to a party run by The Public Trick?”
“Um, no, or at least I don’t think so.”
“You would know if you did. Their parties can overwhelm veterans of even the harshest raves.”
“And who is this ‘Public Trick’ anyway? They like a gang or something?”
“Not exactly. The best comparison would be more like an organized crime family with the touch of a liberation group. They’re this group of kids that basically run all the drug operations in most of the suburban areas. They like to stay away from cities and they have representatives in all the schools and in all the right places. They have a strict code of rules and conduct, one of that includes not being able to legally drink. They always run these kinds of parties: secret and wild. And the people that run it are the best and brightest in staying out of the spotlight. Sleeping geniuses, quiet poets, and shy athletes. They make themselves seem so normal that you wouldn’t remember them even if you had a conversation with them.” He paused for a second and looked InuYasha in the eye. “These people are very dangerous and we do not want to piss them off. The ones that are true members are all humans and they hate youkai. They can tolerate half-breeds like us, but they tend to be very unforgiving.”
“Feh. I can handle myself just fine, imp. No need to lose sleep over me. They sound like just a bunch of wimpy thugs with inflated egos.”
“All right, but don’t say I didn’t warn you. Don’t stir up too much trouble while we’re here.”
“So where is this party anyway? There’s nothing here.”
Ryu pointed over to the old grain mill. “It’s in the basement over there. The place is huge and they soundproofed it. They did such a good job on it that you can’t hear anything from the outside. Come on.”
The two boys walked over towards the entrance occasionally looking to see if there was anyone else. InuYasha was a few steps behind Ryu, not really knowing where to go. Once they reached the door of the mill, Ryu pounded on the door once. The door swung open to reveal and empty floor with a large amount of dust on everything. A large boy dressed in baggy black clothes glared back at them.
“What do you want?” The boy seemed quite annoyed. “You better have a good reason to be here.”
Ryu lashed out and grabbed the front of the boy’s shirt pulling him close. “We’re here for the party, punk. So be a good boy and show us where it is before my friend here pulls out you intestines and shoves them down your throat.” Ryu spoke barely about a whisper but still achieved the desired reaction.
“Um…it’s ah…” The boy stuttered from fear as he glanced over at InuYasha. He smirked at him and incidentally bared his fangs. “It’s over there! Right over there!” He pointed towards an open space. “The floor lifts up into the basement. That’s where it is.”
“Thank you,” Ryu spoke slowly as he placed a ten dollar bill in the boys hand. “Now go open it.” He pushed the boy away in mock disgust.
The boy stumbled over and opened the trapdoor. Ryu and InuYasha walked over and started to descend. As soon as their heads cleared ground level the door slammed shut.
“Did you really need to do that?” InuYasha snapped at Ryu.
“No, but it would have taken at lot longer to get him to show us where it was.” Ryu pushed open a heavy door that separated themselves from the party. As soon as he did, a blast of pounding music assaulted their ears. Ryu smirked as he sauntered forwards while InuYasha flattened his ears against his head. The door swung closed as they surveyed their surroundings. Upon seeing the bar, both of the boys quickly headed over.
“So, what’ll it be boys?” The bartender was a girl that couldn’t be older than thirteen and was wearing barely enough clothes to cover an eight-year-old. “Do ya want a drink or something stronger?”
“Drinks will be fine for now, princess,” Ryu put on a charming grin and answered for both of them. “And make it quick.”
The girl rolled her eyes as she poured them both a shot of vodka. No soon than the last drop had finished hitting the glass, Ryu’s hand was on it. He downed it quickly and slammed the glass back on the bar. “Keep it coming girl. It takes a lot to get me wasted.”
InuYasha smirked at his newly acquired acquaintance as he looked about. Even though the place was packed and the vast majority of people were dancing on the vast floor, it was easy to tell where the different groups were.
‘Well, there are the Goths over there. They’re never really any fun,’ InuYasha thought to himself. ‘And the jocks seemed to be kinda thin in this party. And the stoner table is right where they should be.’ Something then caught his eye. ‘Those humans seem different. Something’s wrong with them.’ The humans he was referring to were sitting in the far back corner around a single square table. Some cubical dividers had been placed around them, but it was easy to see and get in.
Ryu glanced at InuYasha and followed his gaze. “Yo, Yasha, you know those people I was telling you not to mess with? That’s them.” Ryu placed his hand on InuYasha shoulder to stop him as he started to walk towards them. “Don’t fuck with them. You do not want to make them angry.”
“Feh, they’re just humans! What are they going to do.”
Ryu started to say something but he just walk away. He picked up InuYasha’s still full glass, quickly drank it, and put a five on the table. “See ya princess,” he said as he followed the stubborn hanyou. Pushing his way through the crowd he saw that he wouldn’t be able to stop InuYasha from having enough time to do some damage.
True to his thought, InuYasha arrived first. “So, you punks must be the ones running this. You wimps don’t seem dangerous at all.”
The one closest to him answered first. “What do you want? We do have pressing issues to attend to.” The boy’s eyes were a deep blue filled with an old worn look that did not fit his body by at least forty years, and his voice seemed tired if anything.
The one beside him was a plain looking girl with flat brown hair. “It’s just a filthy half-breed. You should be happy we allow your kind in here at all!” Her voice was filled with hatred.
“Now, now. Don’t let your anger get the better of you. This young man simply wanted to meet us and have a good time.” This boy sat at the head of the table and had a presence that nobody could ignore. He turned to face InuYasha. “You must excuse my partner, she has no love for youkai of any kind, be they full or half, peaceful or violent. Oh, and by the way, my name is Tetsu Tsukamoto.” His voice was calm and calculated, with each word precisely articulated.
At that moment Ryu arrived. “Um, hey! Ah, my friend and I have had a great time but we must be going. Come on buddy.” He pulled InuYasha away and safely out of hearing range of the table. “Are you insane?” he whispered harshly. “Do you have any idea what those people are capable of? They are able to have an organization without youkai to enforce it because they are some of the few people in this time that have purifying magic! We are dead if they get angry! We have to get out of here.”
InuYasha pulled his arm out of Ryu’s grasp. “What are you, a coward? I’m not scared. And I’m not leaving yet. I came here to have a good time and get drunk, and I’m not leaving until I do.”
“Fine! Whatever! Get killed if you want, but I’m leaving. I’ll be seeing your dead body on the eleven-o’clock news tomorrow.” Ryu promptly turned and left.
InuYasha growled as he left, but then went over to the bar. The serving girl was currently flirting with some guy at least six years older than her. “Oi, bitch! Get me a drink!”
The man talking to her turned to face him. “Look asshole, she’s busy. Go find someone else to annoy.”
InuYasha had had it. He grabbed the boy by his collar and threw him several feet into the crowd. All of a sudden, four large well muscled teens grabbed him and began to haul him towards the door. He struggled and broke free but then felt a piercing pain in his shoulder. He flinched away to see the hand of one of the boys glowing a reddish color.
“If you knew what’s good for you, you’d start walking towards the door and not look back.” The boy’s hand began to glow brighter. “Now get moving.” He shoved him forward towards the door. They made their way up the stairs and passed the doorman, who looked frightened. Once outside, two of the boys escorting InuYasha outside grabbed hold of him so that he could not move his arms. “Listen you filthy youkai, Tetsu might be forgiving and doesn’t like useless violence, but our mistress has other plans. I hope you don’t have any regrets, because now it is simply too late. See you in the afterlife fuck-face.” The boy’s hand started to glow a sickly blue color and he moved it to half an inch away from his face. “Now suffer, you piece of shit!”
At that moment, the two boys holding him let go and all the purifying energy building in his hand discharged in a blinding flash and sent him flying several feet back. The pain that InuYasha experienced was like nothing he had felt before. It felt like every nerve in his body was on fire and it went deeper than just his flesh, it felt like his very soul was being torn apart. He tried to yell out, but no sound came. His vision started to become hazy as he saw the four boys start to walk towards him. He heard them laugh when he saw a light begin to form on two of their hands, one blue and one red. ‘Wait, why did they stop? Why are walking backward away from me? Why are they holding their hands in the air?’ The answers did not come to him, for soon after he blacked out.
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“Because he’s a fucking idiot that’s why! I told him not to fuck with them, and what did he do? HE FUCKED WITH THEM, THAT’S WHAT! It’s not my fault he almost died. I saved him and you yell at me. I could have just left him there to die but I had to be nice and what do I get? I get bitched at!” Ryu was angry to say the least, and was well on his sixth cigarette. He, along with Raziel, Akinos, Ayane and Kagome were at their sanctuary and had all they needed to patch InuYasha up.
“You shouldn’t have brought him there in the first place, Ryu,” Raziel tried to admonish his friend without angering him, failing miserably.
“I could have warned you Ryu. Miroku said that he was very confrontational and doesn’t like backing down on anything.” Akinos pointed out to the irate half-breed. Akinos was about six-four with short blond hair and well tanned skin, as well as being well muscled, and in actuality had the strength of a bodybuilder and then some.
“Shut up! It’s not my fault!”
“Ryu, would you be quiet. I’m trying to work here.” Ayane was busy tending to the unconscious hanyou. He had large burns all over his body, mostly on his torso, but strangely not on his face. “These don’t look like normal burns Ryu. How did he get them?"
Ryu looked sadly over to his closest friend. “Purification burns. Be thankful that you can’t get them. They hurt like there’s no tomorrow and heal worse than they hurt. He’s going to be in pain for a very long time.”
“Poor little doggy! I hope the painkiller will help.” She paused for a moment to gaze at his revealed torso. “I thought a hanyou healed faster than normal humans.”
Raziel was the one to answer. “They do, but the purification magic nullifies the healing powers they have and does large amounts of damage to them as well. From your description of the power of these individuals Ryu, he’s lucky to be alive.”
Ayane stroked the incapacitated youkai’s head. “Well, his heart beat is strong and so is his breathing, and from what I can tell there are no broken bones; he should be fine once he rests for a while. We should probably contact a friend of his or something like that so they can come pick him up.”
“Miroku is out of town for tonight and won’t be home ’till tomorrow morning,” Akinos pointed out. “And I don’t know if he has any other friends.”
“We should check his wallet or cell phone to see if he has any phone numbers.”
“Why would we check his wallet Ryu?”
Ryu snorted before he answered. “For money of course! I carried his near dead body for several miles and I expect to be compensated for it.”
Raziel smacked the back of Ryu’s head. “Show some compassion. He could have been killed.”
Ayane fished InuYasha’s cell phone out of his pocket. “Let’s see… he has a lot of phone numbers for pizza places, but it doesn’t seem to have any names…wait, there’s one here, but it’s for ‘fluffy’.” She looked to Akinos. “Have you ever heard Miroku mention a ‘fluffy’?”
Akinos shook his head and sighed. “Oh well. I’ll call anyway.” He dialed the number and waited for someone to pick up. On the second ring someone did.
“You better have a good reason to be calling me you filthy excuse for a hanyou. This Sesshomaru does not have the time nor the patience for you.”
“Um, this isn’t InuYasha, but we do have his unconscious body and were wondering if you were his friend or something.”
“Foremost, he is my half brother and not a friend of mine. I do not care what the idiot has done to himself, nor do I want his carcass.” With that he hung up.
“Well, that was unproductive,” Akinos said flatly.
By now Ryu had started pacing around the room impatiently. “Find out anything useful?” he spat as he stopped in front of Akinos.
“I found out that ‘Fluffy’ is in fact his half brother and that they do not have any brotherly love for each other.” He glanced at InuYasha and then at his watch. “I guess he could stay here until he wakes up. It’s only about nine-o’clock. We should probably put him in one of the other rooms. Either that or call Sango and see if she’ll take him.”
“Why bother someone else when he can stay here?” Kagome had remained absolutely silent as soon as Ryu had brought InuYasha back to their sanctuary. She gazed at the half naked badly burnt hanyou. “It’s not like she’ll do anything we can’t, and there are more of us here to take turns watching him just in case he needs our help. We should just put him in one of the spare rooms.”
Akinos nodded his head and carefully picked up the incapacitated hanyou to bring him to one of the rooms. Their sanctuary was made up of six rooms. The largest room was in the middle, and served as the main center of entertainment. In it was a large home theater and a good stereo system, along with a ping-pong table and pool table. The two rooms to the left served as makeshift bedrooms, while the ones on the right were a small kitchen and a bathroom. The fifth one was directly behind the main room, and served as the largest bedroom. Akinos carefully placed Inuyasha on one of the spare beds.
“Alright, since there are five of us still awake and about ten hours before school once again resumes, each of use should take a two hour shift. We should all still be able to get close to eight hours of sleep, give or take due to things like actually getting to school and doing essential things like eating and having time to bathe. So,” he said while bringing his hands together with a clap, “who wants to go first?”
Kagome jumped up. “I’ll go first. But the rest of you should draw straws to see who goes next.”
“Nose game!” Ryu shouted as he slapped his hand to his nose. Akinos instinctually did the same followed almost instantaneously by Raziel. Ayane looked startled by Ryu’s interjection and was only able to stutter “wha…what?”
“Well, that settles that. Ayane will go next followed by Akinos, Raziel, and lastly me!” Ryu smiled broadly. “Well, I’m hungry. Anyone else want something to eat?”
“Sure, I could go for something.” Akinos was not one to pass up food. Raziel nodded his head in agreement.
Ayane still looked puzzled. “Wait, what did you guys just do?”
“What, haven’t you ever played the nose game before?” Ayane shot Akinos a look. “We do it every day at the lunch table to see who has to clean up everyone else’s junk. I thought you would have noticed by now.”
Ayane pouted. “You guys should have warned me! I wasn’t ready.”
“That’s the point, girl,” Ryu drawled. “If everyone was ready then no one would be the sucker. And if no one were the sucker, I would have to do work. You know I hate applying myself when I don’t have to.”
Ayane was still pouting when she looked around. “Where’d Kagome go? She was right here a minute ago.”
“I believe she went to check on InuYasha, though I hardly see the point. He can’t go from being mostly fine to dead in a couple of seconds.” Raziel paused for a second to look at Ryu. “Did you notice that she was acting strange as soon as you brought him back?”
“You know she’s squeamish and doesn’t like to see others in pain. Akinos and I always come back bruised and bloody and she always freaks out. We haven’t ever been hurt as bad as he is so she’s just concerned, that’s all.”
Although Raziel’s eyes showed doubt, he nodded his head in concession.
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Kagome sat at the edge of the bed looking at the resting hanyou. When she had seen Ryu bring him into their sanctuary, she had almost cried. She hated to see people get hurt or be hurt, and it was bad enough for Ryu and Akinos to go off brawling with random thugs they meet on the street, coming back more dead than alive, but bring back a total stranger in that condition was something else. She stood up and started pacing. ‘Why did that idiot drag him to a party like that! He knew that it was likely that they would get attacked. Those people are extremely dangerous and aren’t very sympathetic of hanyous. Both of them could have been seriously hurt, or worse, killed.’ She bit back tears as she looked at InuYasha’s burned and bruised torso. ‘He looks so terrible. I hope he doesn’t take too long to heal.’ She knelt down next to the bed. “I’d hate to see such a good body go to waste.”
“You’d what now?” Ryu was standing in the doorway to the room. Kagome gasped in surprise. She hadn’t realized that she had said that aloud, was surprised that she had even thought what she had, and hadn’t heard Ryu approach.
Her cheeks burned a bright red as she buried her face in the bed. “Nothing! I didn’t say anything!” Her voice was muffled by the bed.
Ryu shook his head as he chuckled. “You know he should be fine for now. If he’s only half as strong as me he shouldn’t need to be watched over. He just needs rest and he won’t just stop breathing randomly or anything. Take a rest, you looked bushed.”
“No, it’s alright. I’m fine.”
Ryu shrugged before he started to leave. “Fine, suit yourself.”
Once again alone in the room, Kagome turned her attention back to InuYasha. ‘He’s not that good looking. I mean the ears are pretty cute, and his face has good features, and he has a six-pack, but… who am I kidding! He’s smoking hot! I bet he has the personality of a garbage dump.’
She got up and closed the door to block the sounds still coming from the next room. Turning on a light on the side of the room farthest from the bed, she pulled out a magazine to read. It wasn’t long before she began to doze off in the chair.
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Kagome and Ayane were now sleeping. Five minutes after Ryu had gone in to check on Kagome the first time, Akinos had gone in to see if she was hungry. Upon seeing her asleep, he gently carried her into the other bedroom where Ayane was resting before her shift. Placing her next to Ayane, he turned off the lights and closed the door as he left.
“The girls seem really worn-out. We should just let them rest.”
Ryu glanced at his large friend. “Fine with me. Raz and I don’t really need to sleep much anyway. Unlike you weak humans, we don’t need to rest our bodies or minds as often. We’ll take the other shifts. Get some sleep, we have a biology test tomorrow.”
Although it was only nine at night, Akinos was not one to pass up on sleep. With a ‘goodnight’ to the two other boys, he went to the remaining bedroom. The two remaining boys sat in silence for some time. Raziel was the first to break the silence.
“You shouldn’t have brought him here. He could endanger everything we have worked on and could expose the entire venture to those who we don’t want knowing.”
“I couldn’t bring him to a hospital! They ask too many question and that would risk too much.” He pulled out another cigarette and lit up. “I know it was a bad idea to bring him here but I had no choice. My place isn’t safe, and I have a feeling my dad is going to be home for a while.” He inhaled deeply. “We should probably make some calls to the others’ parents. That way they’ll ask fewer questions.”
Raziel nodded. Ryu hesitated before something else. “Do you think we should tell the others? About the project I mean.”
“No, it’s better to let them be ignorant and happy than be enlightened and scared.”
Both felt a little guilty as they started to make the calls.
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His head was swimming in a sea of pain and he couldn’t see straight. All he could remember was a glowing hand in front of his face and a great deal of pain, then nothing. He was drawing a blank as to where he was and who had brought him there. He tried to move and his body protested by sending waves of pain back to his brain. His entire body was throbbing in an intense pain for what seemed like an hour before it became a numbing sensation. His memory was coming back. His memory was coming back. ‘Oh yeah, I was with Ryu, that pussy, who left me because he was scared. Then some punks dragged me outside and did something.’ He blinked a few times to clear his vision. ‘And I thought I saw Kikyo for a second. She said something about my body.’ He stumbled out of the bed that he found he was lying on. It was at that point he realized that he didn’t have a shirt on, and more over wanted it back on his person. He looked around for it and quickly saw it lying on a chair near the bed. He flinched in pain as he tried to put on the shirt and stopped, deciding that it was a bad idea. He sat back down to try and recall else happened. ‘Lets see. They started backing away once I was on the ground and they looked scared. Someone must have come that they were afraid of.’ He shook his head is if to clear it. ‘This is getting me nowhere. I need to get out of here, where ‘here’ may happen to be. I need to get back home so I can rest.’ He got up and headed for the door. Each step was a struggle, like he was walking with concrete blocks on his legs. He felt tired and weak. ‘I feel like I’m human or something. This ain’t good.’
He reached to the door and started to grab the handle. At that moment Ryu flung the door open. Startled, Inuyasha jumped back, lost his balance and fell on his ass. He leered up at the other hanyou, while the other grinned back down at him.
“Glad to see that you’re up finally. Thought you were gonna sleep the whole night through.”
“Feh, I’m not some pansy weakling. And next time, knock before you charge into a room.”
Ryu laughed and offered a hand up. He slapped it away and got up, with a little trouble, on his own. “I don’t need your help. Just stay the hell away from me! Every time I’m near you I get hurt.” At this point Ryu started howling with laughter and was doubled over. Inuyasha just looked at him oddly. “Are you high or something? You seem messed up.”
Raziel came to the door and slapped the back of Ryu’s head. “Would you shut up. You’re going to wake up the girls and they will be pissed. I do not feel like enduring their wrath just because you have the giggles.” He looked at InuYasha. “I was wondering when you were going to wake. We need to get you out of here.”
“And where exactly is ‘here’ anyway? I don’t remember coming here at all.”
“After Ryu left the party, he hung out around the mill for a little while flying about venting some of his energy. He saw that you got dragged out and almost completely purified. He flew down and thankfully he is very imposing to humans when he is in his true form. He then picked you up and brought you to our sanctuary. We called your half brother, who yelled at us, then put you on that bed to rest. Now get out. You can’t be seen around here.”
InuYasha looked at him in shock. If he said he couldn’t leave because he was still too hurt to move, that would be admitting he was weak. He nodded slowly and started to walk out of the room. Ryu glanced at his friend. His eyes were cold and held no compassion, not uncommon, but he wasn’t usually like this to new people. Ryu shook his head and followed after him.
“Here, let me drive you home, wherever the hell that is.”
InuYasha was holding his side in pain and wasn’t walking straight. His face was neutral, but it was clearly forced.
“Whatever.”
They went out to the curb to Ryu’s car. InuYasha looked at the car in disgust.
“You call that piece of shit, rust bucket, old pile of scrap iron a car? I’ve seen tin cans that would run better than that.”
Ryu opened the door to his ‘car’ and got in. He brushed the passenger seat that was covered with potato chips, papers, and several CDs. “Hey, listen you ingrate, it gets me around without people staring at me.”
“Oh, I think they would stare at this anyway at this old thing. Does it even run?”
He sighed. “YES!! It runs. Now get in.”
InuYasha climbed in with some pain. He looked about, expecting it to collapse. Ryu shook his head and turned on the car. Putting on the CD player, which currently had Lamb of God in it.
“So Yash, where am I going?”
“12 Obery street. You know where that is?”
“Shit, you live there. That place is one rich street. You a rich kid or something?”
“Yeah, sorta I guess. Most of the kids on my side of town are, so I never really notice that much. But my family is poor compared to one of my little bro’s friends.”
“Is this ‘Fluffy’ we talked to this little brother?”
“No, Fluffy is my older half brother Sesshomaru. He’s a cold-hearted bastard at best. My little brother is actually adopted. His name is Shippo.”
“And who is his rich friend?”
“Some girl named Rin.”
“Rin? You mean the Rin Nomura, that freshman?”
“Yeah, how do you know Rin.”
“She goes to my school. Are they like, dating or something?”
“No, just friends.” He laughed. “He has more friends than me and fluffy put together. And you can still count all of our friends on two hands.”
“Not a very sociable group are you.”
“No, we are. We just don’t make many friends. We have high bars set for our friends.”
“Yeah, that’s why you hang with the monk. Fucking pervert.”
“Hey, your friend hangs with him too. Don’t judge me before you consider the source of your information. I mean, Akinos is a good kid, I’m not saying he’s not. Or at least says Miroku.”
“I’m just messing with ya. Miroku fine, he just has a problem keeping his hands to himself. You got a girlfriend.”
“No, I need a break. My last one was a complete bitch. Something was wrong with her. I hope she finds help soon, god knows she needs it. And the one before that had some weird hair fetish and that kinda creeped me out.”
“Was her name by chance Yura.”
“Yeah. You dated her as well?”
“Yeah, she was wicked weird.”
There was a brief silence. “Listen man, I’m sorry about what happened, but I told you not to mess with them. They are too dangerous to go acting like you’re the biggest shit in the bowl. They hate arrogance, and they’re hypocrites as well.”
“Hey, I lived, it’s fine. I just don’t get why your friend there was all…ya know, like kicking me out.”
“I have no idea why he was like that.” He paused to consider something. “It could be that you’re now a marked enemy of The Public Trick, and he doesn’t like them at all. But listen, although he may not be with us, Akinos and I will back you all the way man without hesitation. Believe me dude. You’re going to need us.”
He looked at his new friend. “Thanks man, but I still blame you for all of this.”
Ryu laughed and pulled up to his house. “Damn, this is huge. Must have cost a lot.”
“Yeah, and my dad isn’t around a lot. Needs to pay for it ya know.”
“Yeah, my father is like that too. Never there when you might need him. I’ll be seeing you dude.”
“Later man!” He called out as he headed for his house. As soon as he got in his house, and into his room, he collapsed on his bed.
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Author’s Notes:
Hope you liked this chapter. Bigger than the first two, but then again, those were kinda short.Converting /tmp/phpPsgoGi to /dev/stdout