InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ A Castle Through your Eyes ❯ New characters added to the mix ( Chapter 4 )

Hey, sorry for the late update! I know that it is like almost the end of summer break and I haven't done any writing what so ever, so I apologize. *Writer bows. * I had just so much to do, last week I had band camp Warning :*DON'T MAKE FUN WITHOUT GETTING HURT*

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Thank you all who reviewed! Here is your chapter! Chapter 4!

Chapter 4 New Characters Added to the Mix

Kagome was wet. She was cold and hungry then even more so before. The added bonus of being pissed at that nightwalker, she couldn't be any better. 'How could he just leave me here like that?! I mean, why couldn't he stayed with me? He knows the damned forest!' she thought angrily. It was a good hour after the nightwalker left her, and she was completely lost, again. She was angry and was going to start cursing so bad that would make any man proud. 'Sure, she was going to guide me back!' Speaking of which, Kago neighed quietly, alerting Kagome the she-devil still followed. Kagome looked behind her at the damned wolf that made her fears jump crazily.

"Go! Go! Tell your master that I am going home!" Then when Kagura didn't move Kagome made her horse stop when she swung down from the saddle, without a thought on how she was going to get back on. She fell into the muddy path. Kagome groaned before getting to her feet. Her hair was soaked through with all of the rain, covering her face and cleaning the small splashes of mud that had tracked on her. The wolf came closer and Kagome was scared for her life. She spotted a rock on the ground and picked it up. The wolf eyed her carefully, but Kagome didn't care. "Go away! Go back to your demon master!" she screamed, throwing the object. The wolf duct out of the danger and started to walk away from the mad female. Kagome grabbed another rock and threw it. Kagura dodged again but started away in a small jog. She then stopped and looked back. Kagome moved her hair from her face, noticed the wolf staring and screamed back, "Tell your master I am just going to spend the night here. I will find my way in the morning." With that, the wolf was gone and Kagome moaned and tried to find shelter from the cold rain.

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Inuyasha found his way back to the home he knew for over a hundred years, the Castle of Four Souls. He sighed and shook himself from the ice rain that had hit him. His ears were soaked, flattened against his head to hide from the wind and rain. He continued the known journey to his treacherous home without another thought, well almost.

'I hope that she is okay.' he prayed as he reached the crumbling castle. He imagined her in a warm bed, in a nightgown sleeping with a blush to her pale lily face. Her breath even, just waiting to be changed, and -----

"Stop!" he shouted to himself before his imagination went to far for him to handle. He opened his eyes he hadn't realized were closed and found himself looking at the old man he had known for a while.

" 'Ello master Inuyasha. What are you screaming stop for? You should be inside, for the chill might give you an early death," the old flea demon said turning to wait for his master to take the lead. Inuyasha stepped forward and came into the cool but dry castle. "Why were ye' yelling master?" Myouga asked him moving around to warm the broth he had just left. Inuyasha started to strip down, out of the wet clothes that stuck to him like a second skin. (No drooling peoples@_@ ) Myouga stirred his cooking and asked his question once more.

"I had a thought in my mind that did not wish to leave me be." was all Inuyasha said. He grabbed a dry pair of black pants and put them on. Leaving his muddy boots on the floor he walked over to a chair and sat himself down. He picked up the boar-bristled brush the old demon knew he would need, and began his task of untangling his angel hair.

"Why were you gone for as long as you were, Master Inuyasha?" "Why was I out there? I was out there, trying to get another woman killed because of her lost trail! That was what I was doing! Endangering a young vixen.

" Needed to follow the tracks I found near the west border. Hunters are coming back into my forests. The legends that held them at bay are disappearing. Unless there is another way, the wolves will be staying within the castle walls from now on. The cubs will not like it, but that is all I can do for them." he said tiredly. Myouga shook his head silently and gave his master a pat on the shoulder. Inuyasha gave him a small smile of thanks and let his head rest on his palms.

"Speaking of which, Kagura has returned. When she came back without ye' I thought you might have been in grave danger." As if hearing her name, Kagura jumped from her hiding place onto her master's awaiting legs. Inuyasha chuckled and nuzzled her with his face. She whined at him, complaining she was wet and that he had left her to guard the damned women with the mean rocks. "What woman, Master?" Myouga asked. 'You and your big mouth Kagura! That is all I need, to be reminded of the bastard's curse. This is a day I wish to forget.' Myouga's eyes were wide at his master. Hands trembled a bit, but his face only showed forbidding fear.

"I ran into a young woman. Lost herself on a trail, looking for a healer. That's all. Nothing to worry about. I set her on the track for the village. She is not a danger or in any that I can control." Inuyasha said in a dull, emotionless voice.

"But, Master. She could be dead! The rain is bitter cold, and if she made it at least to the creek! It could be hours before she reaches the village. Even then she could die!" Myouga said with energy. How could his master just leave a woman out there in the cold like that?

"What is done is done. It is her own fault to be out there in the forest. It is not my concern whether or not she falls to her death. Now off this subject. Where are those troubling cubs?" He voice as cold as ice. Myouga was not going to give this up though but he had to first calm his master.

"Sir, the cubs. Well, they were pinning for you to return and almost had their way with the furniture. I put them in the third room, so they may have their way with it. You know how they hate to be kept up," he said in haste. Inuyasha grinned a bit. Myouga hated the wolves around the house all day, messing with the castle walls and such. "Umm… Master Inuyasha about Kyren, your old friend had his way with that new bridle you been making for Pagan. I tried to stop him, but he just growls himself at me." Inuyasha just chuckled and mentioned he would just start on a new one the next day. He started up the stairs looking for his friends, leaving a very worried and tired flea to think on saving the mysterious young women's life.

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Inuyasha slid down the banister like he did as a child. There wasn't much he could do around this place, but running with the cubs on his heels was one of his pass time things to do. He didn't do it often, but only as a gift to them for being stuck in the castle long. There were three of them, then including Kagura there were four cubs. Inuyasha didn't have a name for all of them, but seeing as Kagura was the runt of the litter she instantly became his favorite. Her father, Kyren was around here somewhere and then Kagura's mother; Anoka was sleeping in his bedchambers.

Inuyasha remembered taking his best friend Kyren every where. The old wolf and himself had been cubs together, a gift from an allied wolf tribe as a peace gift from one pack to the next. Inuyasha at first growled at his gift, then played and then full out had another shadow at the age of three. They were always together till of course that day 45 years ago. Sure normal wolves didn't age much, but his friend did because of the royalty he had in his blood, but yet that had not saved him when he and Inuyasha became separated on a haunt.

To this day, Inuyasha never found out what had happened to his best friend and comrade. Kyren came home changed, bloodied after a week of lost tracking on the lords part. He was not trusting enough any more to take with him on hunts. Plus, his old age was begging to have an effect, in all the long years he and his masterful friend had been together. Yet only once did he ever turn teeth in a battle against him, and that was after.

Inuyasha shook his head away from that cold memory and placed a renewed smile on his face, letting the pups outside in the rain to let some of their energy drain. He turned around looking for his other companion in the castle. Myouga was nowhere to be found. ' Must be outside.' he thought. Leading with his nose, he went out into the pouring world. Even though his nose was just about useless in the rain he found the demon he looked for. The old flea was deep in clothing, looking like he was going on a small journey. Inuyasha tilted his head and then ran to the short demon.

"Where do you think you are going?" he asked. He crossed his arms waiting for his explanation. Myouga looked at him and dropped the small carrier he was planning on taking with him. Faithful Myouga, never could battle, but could find out any information he could about an enemy. "Bout the only helpful thing about him, besides cleaning."

"With your permission, I wish to go and find that young women. Whether she be dead or alive, no one should be out their alone. Master Inuyasha." He put down his head, waiting for the response.

"Keh. Go. I won't stop you. Just know that if you bring her back here, she's as good as dead anyways." With that he turned, whistled for his friends and left into the castle. Myouga let loose the breath he was holding and picked up the small carrier. He started into the forest. Inuyasha watched him leave. Hell, he wasn't going to let him die.

"Kagura, go with him. Make sure he doesn't get killed." The cub ran out and followed the man. "You better return with or without the girl," he whispered.

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Three demons stood in a shelter. The leader was deep in thought as the other two, talked about women. The wind picked up and suddenly there were four demons. The wind whirly one shook himself and bowed to the leader.

" I have done what you asked of me. The human was shot, so I have kept up my end of the bargain. Now, where is my mate? You promised me she would be taken care of and not harmed," he said. The leader chuckled.

"Your mate will be returned to you, when Jaken returns." With that, the three original demons left on a cloud, leaving the heart broken one behind. He howled in anger and smashed a tree. 'You will pay. You just wait. You will pay.'

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(Interesting, but if you think that this is the ending to this chapter, you are wrong! Keep reading!)

Inuyasha sniffed the air. It was damp, but it had stopped raining so he was able to pick up the fresh sent of Myouga. He had heard the howl thought he had recognized in but then thought differently. That person had been dead for years, his past was playing with him yet again. He jumped to his feet and ran through the doorway. There Myouga was, just as the sun rose. He was not alone either. The smell of soft peaches and illness was on his hanyou nose. Inuyasha's ears dropped, and his face turned into a sneer. He walked up to Myouga as he left the still body into his four moving hands.

"I see that you have returned, Myouga," he said stiffly. Myouga just nodded his head and stood there. "Well, what are you going to do with her?" he asked after the minute of silence.

"Master, I asked to keep her in the church area. She will be in my keep. I will not allow her to get in my way of my duties around the castle. I ask you please, Master Inuyasha, let me tend to her." he waited patiently for his master's answer. Inuyasha looked at the frail body, Myouga had in his hands. No wonder he hadn't allowed himself to look at her for so closely last night. Her beauty was flawless, if you could overlook her blue lips and the leaves in her hair. He knew why now, as the sun hit her, the reason he tried to avoid her face. Now that he looked at the fragile human, she struck his heart thoroughly, and he was unable to resists the pleadings from Myouga.

"You may take her to the pray room. It is the warmest place but don't let her interfere with your work around the keep. She is just about dead any way."

"Thank you master. If she is to die, at least she will not die alone," he said, moving his feet, griping the girl tighter to himself as he headed to the castle behind his master.

"Keh, to die in the presences of strangers, is to die alone." was his reply.

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The girl was trembling in her sleep. Even as Myouga pilled blankets on top of her, nothing would allow her to stop shivering. He left her clothing on, being too shy to even remove them. It had always been his master's job when the sick came there. He knew what herbs would take down the fever, what remedy to place in the water, as he would bathe the heat out, fighting it with everything he had. Myouga would just tend to give him the supplies he needed and would be gone.

The master was not going to help though. He had kept to his rooms instead playing his mourning tunes upon his flute. Myouga didn't try to get him involved though. His past was his wall, and Myouga understood that and tried his best to stay away from him as he could. Of course, if the girl had been ugly the master would have helped her in a moments second. But as the fates were to turn it, he could not have helped her without destroying her, which that he thought of in his own mind. It had been a full two days, and the girl had not woken at the least. He thought about making her a burial place, but he decided against it thinking that the odds would lean more in that favor. So he bathed her forehead, kept a large fire going and his chores were left alone.

"Girl, you must stay alive. Please just try." he whispered once in a while. The girl would mummer just a bit, and then went back to her nightmares. Myouga just sighed and went to go get more firewood.

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Inuyasha stopped playing one of his lost tones and made his way to a forbidden place to anyone but him. An area filled with passions that he was not permitted to have any more, that were lost to him fifty years before. A place of remembrance outside of these crumbling walls and colorless paintings. He walked out into the moon's light and into a place of his own worship. Into the old summer house across the court yard and into the tangled leaves of a weeded garden.

The young yet old lord entered into the cold dark place he hadn't entered for the past four months. He let three candles next to a portrait and looked into the face of his lost wife and child.

"What should I do, Kikyo? What would you have wished me to do?"

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Inu yasha walked down into the place of worship. He found the young woman in a hey stack that was covered with blankets and then the woman on top smothered with even more blankets. She was next to a fire a roaring fire and yet she was still shivering. 'Typical Myouga, never could allow himself to undress women.' he thought. He went into the church and allowed himself closer to the girl. She whimpered with a struggled look on her face and then stopped. Her demons left her be for a moment. Inuyasha felt pity for her. Whoever was in need of him was in danger and left this girl in charge to find him. For a moment Inuyasha was angry. 'Who would let this treasure go alone? Are they in that big of need?' he placed a clawed hand on her forehand and then took it swiftly back. She was burning a high fever. If he didn't help, she could die.

"Well, Miss. Kagome Higurashi , I think you have hired yourself a healer." With that he left to get the tub and water to warm.

Well, that is the chapter. Sorry it took so long, so I hope it helps. Well, please read and review! I can't wait to hear from you! Ja mata for now! ^_^