InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ A Mercenary's Everlasting Love ❯ seven ( Chapter 7 )
[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]
By: kittyb78 
Ban reminds Koneko who is in charge.
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Adventure | Type: Fanfiction Sequel | Uploaded On: 12.22.2009 | Pages: 2 | Words: 2.2K | Visits: 203 | Status: Work In Progress
Ban reminds Koneko who is in charge.
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Adventure | Type: Fanfiction Sequel | Uploaded On: 12.22.2009 | Pages: 2 | Words: 2.2K | Visits: 203 | Status: Work In Progress
Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha! I do own Koneko AKA Kitty, and the plot, and story line..... There. I said it. (sighs)
Merry Christmas everyone! XD
Chapter 7:
Six weeks later:
Bankotsu and the rest, had just finished the last log cabin, and everyone was moving their belongings into their respective homes.
Renkotsu had already put a suitable roof over the forge building and was now focusing on restoring and strengthening the outer walls of the village, with the many left over logs. Suikotsu, Bankotsu, and Miroku were helping him, to ensure the work got finished faster.
Kohaku and Sango had left the village with a little bit of money to buy the dry, and staple goods that everyone would need for the coming winter. They rode on Kirara’s back with their weapons handy in case of danger.
Kitty and Jakotsu had gone off to forage for berries, nuts, fresh fruits, and herbs, carrying several buckets and two long poles, plus their weapons. Luckily everyone was learning to co-exist together in a semi peaceful state- even Renkotsu.
Renkotsu began welding the plates behind the wooden poles and thought seriously, 'I’ve died once already, and I’d rather not do it again anytime soon.'
Wiping the sweat from his face with his kerchief, he continued thinking, 'And we’re actually alive now again as flesh and blood. Even Big brother seems to be changing. He is still a bit bossy, but he’s more willing to listen to the opinions of all of us now.'
He took a deep breath and began welding the metal sheets together again. 'Perhaps we could all live in peace here. Hell, even Jakotsu, who hates women, is changing. He’s happy playing with those silly demon skins and making them into clothes.'
As the last of the wall was fortified, he said, “Okay that’s it here. We’ve finished the outer walls.” and shut down the flame.
Bankotsu had already stripped his haori off and thrown it on the ground over three hours ago. He nodded and said impressed, “Good job Ren.” before walking over to snatch up his haori and wipe the sweat from his body.
Renkotsu smiled at the praise and walked back into the forge, to work with metal thinking, 'Losing Ginkotsu like that… it really opened my eyes.' Sighing heavily he sat on a crate and bowed his head thinking, 'It might just be possible to co-exist as a real village. I’ve always loved working with metal.'
Smiling fondly at the forge he thought, 'Father never did understand it. He wanted me to become a priest instead.' Snorting in disgust he muttered under his breath, “That’s the whole reason I even ran away and eventually joined the soldiers.”
Standing up he stared around him and thought, 'My heart has always lain in working with metal. Here I have a purpose, and better yet, it’s doing what I love the most.'
Smirking he decided, 'This is what I want, the life of a blacksmith; crafting metal all day long. I like it here and I’m going to stay. We’re all better off here, where no strangers will judge us.'
Whistling, he fired up the forge and began melting the rest of the metal, to craft more useful components for his village, filled with a sense of pride and self worth as he hammered the metal into shape.
--
With Kitty and Jakotsu:
They carefully worked together filling each of the buckets with various fruits, nuts, and vegetables- like potatoes, carrots, celery, lettuce, and tomatoes.
As a bucket filled, it was set next to the other full ones and the wooden poles were pushed through the holes at the top.
Currently, kitty was working on the various cooking and healing herbs. Suikotsu had stayed back at the village to help Renkotsu and the rest with the outer walls.
Jakotsu stood by the full buckets asking, “I bet you and Big brother are excited to have your own space again, huh?
Kitty smirked and said amused, “Yes Jakotsu we are. In fact, Bankotsu was so excited, that he said he’s going to use Banryu to block the door shut at night, and close the shutters.” laughing.
Jakotsu shrugged and said, “Well, he always did prefer his privacy.” tapping his chin with his index finger thoughtfully.
She chuckled and said, “That doesn’t surprise me one bit.” and continued to carefully collect only the herbs they were looking for.
Seeing that the herb buckets we full, she announced, “Okay Jakotsu, that about does it. Now we just have to carry these all back.”
Jakotsu sighed, “Big Brother and Suikotsu should have come for that job.” outing.
She said amused, “Well, they were helping ensure our homes will be protected, now stop whining and let’s go. If we take too much longer, Bankotsu will come ring both our necks.”
Jakotsu huffed and squatted down to lift one of the wooden bars, while she lifted the other. With the poles leaning heavily over their shoulders, each began the trek back to the village, going slowly so as not to spill the buckets.
Kitty grunted and said, “Just think Jakotsu, after this we still have to get the water brought up to the cabins, and finish getting the blankets and furs inside, and drag the futons off the lines and into the cabins.
Jakotsu huffed and groaned, “Big brother and Suikotsu can get the damned water. When that slayer gets back, she can help us fix up the cabins."
She laughed and they made it to the village calling out to their companions.
--
Suikotsu opened the gate and ran out to help them with the buckets, taking the healing herbs and some of the fruits.
Bankotsu scowled scolding, “It’s about damned time you two returned. I was about a minute away from coming out to drag you back here myself.” as he took the bar of buckets from kitty and said, “Come on.”
She chuckled and said, “Relax Ban.” swinging Hiraiku off of her back, as she followed him and Jakotsu through the gate.
Jakotsu whined, “Hey! Isn’t anyone going to help me?” Miroku rolled his eyes and ran out to relieve Jakotsu, not wanting to listen to him whine all night.
Jakotsu said happily, “Thanks Hoshi-kun.” walking beside him, and rubbing his stiff shoulder with one hand.
Miroku scowled muttering, “Don’t call me that.” as he carried the buckets inside and placed them on the ground, next to the storage unit.
Jakotsu whined, “Aw, but it’s a cue little nickname for my cute little monk.” batting his eyelashes at him.
Miroku shuddered and said, “Don’t do that.” before running to hide behind Bankotsu saying, “Help me.”
Rolling his eyes, Bankotsu sighed and said, “Jakotsu, I told you the monk is off limits, now go behave.” Jakotsu pouted over by his hut.
Bankotsu stared at the monk and said slightly annoyed, “And you need to stop hiding behind me all the time.” before they bent down to sort through the buckets.
Kitty walked over and said, “Come on Jakotsu, we have work to do still.” and led him over to the futons hanging on the line. Jakotsu pouted and picked up a stick, beating the futons, so that the dust was removed from them.
She picked up another stick and did the same, beating all of the dust from each futon, before taking them down one by one and placing them inside the cabins.
Bankotsu walked over passing her the bucket of laundry and tossed his haori on top of the pile saying, “Wash that too, k? Thanks babe.” kissing her cheek.
Kitty swatted his backside with the stick earning a startled yelp and asked, “What is wrong with you doing the laundry for a change? I’m up to my eyeballs in other jobs right now.” giving him a stern look.
Bankotsu’s eyes narrowed at his hands rubbed his assaulted rear and he said, “But laundry is a woman’s job.”
She growled warning, “Don’t even go there Mr. Macho.” smacking the stick into the open palm, with a loud noise.
Bankotsu rubbed the stinging sensation from his cheeks and muttered, “Well it is.”
She sighed rubbing her temples and said, “Not today it isn’t.” adding seriously, “I still have the cabins to finish preparing, the food to sort and store, and someone needs to go hunting, so that we will have meat. Fish just isn’t going to be good enough for everyone tonight.”
Bankotsu said, “Suikotsu and I will do the hunting; you and Jakotsu can do the cabins and the laundry. She huffed and wacked his backside with the stick, making him yelp again. “What the hell was that for?!” he asked glaring at her.
She growled, “I am not washing laundry today. You either do it yourself, or wait a few days until I can get to it.” placing her free hand on her hip, glaring back at him.
Bankotsu snorted, and she went to whap him with the stick again. His hand caught the stick and he ripped it from her hand smirking as he tied her hand behind her back and said, “Now you listen to me Koneko, I will do a lot of things for you. But, I am not going to do women’s work, nor am I going to have no clean clothes tomorrow.”
Tossing the stick to the ground, he pushed her waist towards his and said in a husky tone, “You may be a fighter too love, but you are still my woman, and it’s your job to keep the laundry done.” nipping her shoulder in a slight reprimand.
Smirking wider at her gasp he said, “I expect those clothes clean when I return from hunting.” before kissing her possessively. Her growing anger quickly melted away as she moaned and began kissing him back.
He kissed her another minute, before pulling back and saying, “That’s better.” before releasing her hands and placing the bucket of clothes in her hands. He chuckled with an impish look on his face, and swatted her firm backside, urging her towards the river.
She sighed heavily and said, “Come on Jakotsu,” and stomped towards the river in a huff, muttering about caveman ideals.
Bankotsu chuckled and watched a minute in satisfaction as she obeyed his orders. Jakotsu was smart enough not to tease her about it, because he could tell she was already fuming.
Bankotsu bellowed, “Suikotsu!” and waited impatiently as the dual personality man came running over, asking, “Yeah?”
Bankotsu said, “You and I are going hunting.” Facing the amused monk, Bankotsu ordered, “Keep an eye on the village while we’re gone.”
Miroku nodded his confirmation. Bankotsu smirked, grabbing Banryu, and he and Suikotsu left to do their hunting.
--
Kitty knelt by the river and began scrubbing the clothes clean muttering to herself the entire time. Jakotsu quietly helped her clean the clothes, and then hang them up to dry.
Afterwards she kicked the bucket over towards the tree and stormed back to finish her other chores. Jakotsu chuckled to himself, making sure not to let her catch him, as he followed behind her, helping her finish the multiple tasks.
Sango and Kohaku returned an hour later, and began dragging the bags of grained rice, flour, and wheat off of Kirara, who then transformed to her smaller state and lay down exhausted.
Kohaku rewarded Kirara with a fish and then helped Sango store their purchases inside the storage unit. They carried the fresh furs over and placed them in the cabins, before Sango did her and Miroku’s laundry.
Kohaku convinced her to do his, by offering to help hang them up. Miroku smirked thinking, 'It’s all coming together rather nicely.' as he watched everyone go about their chores.
Kitty spotted Miroku sitting around doing nothing, and drafted him into helping prepare the cabins on the inside. Sighing heavily Miroku had no choice in the matter, as she had grabbed his ear and started dragging him along.
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A/N: Okay there is chapter seven, everyone- enjoy! XD
Merry Christmas everyone! XD
Chapter 7:
Six weeks later:
Bankotsu and the rest, had just finished the last log cabin, and everyone was moving their belongings into their respective homes.
Renkotsu had already put a suitable roof over the forge building and was now focusing on restoring and strengthening the outer walls of the village, with the many left over logs. Suikotsu, Bankotsu, and Miroku were helping him, to ensure the work got finished faster.
Kohaku and Sango had left the village with a little bit of money to buy the dry, and staple goods that everyone would need for the coming winter. They rode on Kirara’s back with their weapons handy in case of danger.
Kitty and Jakotsu had gone off to forage for berries, nuts, fresh fruits, and herbs, carrying several buckets and two long poles, plus their weapons. Luckily everyone was learning to co-exist together in a semi peaceful state- even Renkotsu.
Renkotsu began welding the plates behind the wooden poles and thought seriously, 'I’ve died once already, and I’d rather not do it again anytime soon.'
Wiping the sweat from his face with his kerchief, he continued thinking, 'And we’re actually alive now again as flesh and blood. Even Big brother seems to be changing. He is still a bit bossy, but he’s more willing to listen to the opinions of all of us now.'
He took a deep breath and began welding the metal sheets together again. 'Perhaps we could all live in peace here. Hell, even Jakotsu, who hates women, is changing. He’s happy playing with those silly demon skins and making them into clothes.'
As the last of the wall was fortified, he said, “Okay that’s it here. We’ve finished the outer walls.” and shut down the flame.
Bankotsu had already stripped his haori off and thrown it on the ground over three hours ago. He nodded and said impressed, “Good job Ren.” before walking over to snatch up his haori and wipe the sweat from his body.
Renkotsu smiled at the praise and walked back into the forge, to work with metal thinking, 'Losing Ginkotsu like that… it really opened my eyes.' Sighing heavily he sat on a crate and bowed his head thinking, 'It might just be possible to co-exist as a real village. I’ve always loved working with metal.'
Smiling fondly at the forge he thought, 'Father never did understand it. He wanted me to become a priest instead.' Snorting in disgust he muttered under his breath, “That’s the whole reason I even ran away and eventually joined the soldiers.”
Standing up he stared around him and thought, 'My heart has always lain in working with metal. Here I have a purpose, and better yet, it’s doing what I love the most.'
Smirking he decided, 'This is what I want, the life of a blacksmith; crafting metal all day long. I like it here and I’m going to stay. We’re all better off here, where no strangers will judge us.'
Whistling, he fired up the forge and began melting the rest of the metal, to craft more useful components for his village, filled with a sense of pride and self worth as he hammered the metal into shape.
--
With Kitty and Jakotsu:
They carefully worked together filling each of the buckets with various fruits, nuts, and vegetables- like potatoes, carrots, celery, lettuce, and tomatoes.
As a bucket filled, it was set next to the other full ones and the wooden poles were pushed through the holes at the top.
Currently, kitty was working on the various cooking and healing herbs. Suikotsu had stayed back at the village to help Renkotsu and the rest with the outer walls.
Jakotsu stood by the full buckets asking, “I bet you and Big brother are excited to have your own space again, huh?
Kitty smirked and said amused, “Yes Jakotsu we are. In fact, Bankotsu was so excited, that he said he’s going to use Banryu to block the door shut at night, and close the shutters.” laughing.
Jakotsu shrugged and said, “Well, he always did prefer his privacy.” tapping his chin with his index finger thoughtfully.
She chuckled and said, “That doesn’t surprise me one bit.” and continued to carefully collect only the herbs they were looking for.
Seeing that the herb buckets we full, she announced, “Okay Jakotsu, that about does it. Now we just have to carry these all back.”
Jakotsu sighed, “Big Brother and Suikotsu should have come for that job.” outing.
She said amused, “Well, they were helping ensure our homes will be protected, now stop whining and let’s go. If we take too much longer, Bankotsu will come ring both our necks.”
Jakotsu huffed and squatted down to lift one of the wooden bars, while she lifted the other. With the poles leaning heavily over their shoulders, each began the trek back to the village, going slowly so as not to spill the buckets.
Kitty grunted and said, “Just think Jakotsu, after this we still have to get the water brought up to the cabins, and finish getting the blankets and furs inside, and drag the futons off the lines and into the cabins.
Jakotsu huffed and groaned, “Big brother and Suikotsu can get the damned water. When that slayer gets back, she can help us fix up the cabins."
She laughed and they made it to the village calling out to their companions.
--
Suikotsu opened the gate and ran out to help them with the buckets, taking the healing herbs and some of the fruits.
Bankotsu scowled scolding, “It’s about damned time you two returned. I was about a minute away from coming out to drag you back here myself.” as he took the bar of buckets from kitty and said, “Come on.”
She chuckled and said, “Relax Ban.” swinging Hiraiku off of her back, as she followed him and Jakotsu through the gate.
Jakotsu whined, “Hey! Isn’t anyone going to help me?” Miroku rolled his eyes and ran out to relieve Jakotsu, not wanting to listen to him whine all night.
Jakotsu said happily, “Thanks Hoshi-kun.” walking beside him, and rubbing his stiff shoulder with one hand.
Miroku scowled muttering, “Don’t call me that.” as he carried the buckets inside and placed them on the ground, next to the storage unit.
Jakotsu whined, “Aw, but it’s a cue little nickname for my cute little monk.” batting his eyelashes at him.
Miroku shuddered and said, “Don’t do that.” before running to hide behind Bankotsu saying, “Help me.”
Rolling his eyes, Bankotsu sighed and said, “Jakotsu, I told you the monk is off limits, now go behave.” Jakotsu pouted over by his hut.
Bankotsu stared at the monk and said slightly annoyed, “And you need to stop hiding behind me all the time.” before they bent down to sort through the buckets.
Kitty walked over and said, “Come on Jakotsu, we have work to do still.” and led him over to the futons hanging on the line. Jakotsu pouted and picked up a stick, beating the futons, so that the dust was removed from them.
She picked up another stick and did the same, beating all of the dust from each futon, before taking them down one by one and placing them inside the cabins.
Bankotsu walked over passing her the bucket of laundry and tossed his haori on top of the pile saying, “Wash that too, k? Thanks babe.” kissing her cheek.
Kitty swatted his backside with the stick earning a startled yelp and asked, “What is wrong with you doing the laundry for a change? I’m up to my eyeballs in other jobs right now.” giving him a stern look.
Bankotsu’s eyes narrowed at his hands rubbed his assaulted rear and he said, “But laundry is a woman’s job.”
She growled warning, “Don’t even go there Mr. Macho.” smacking the stick into the open palm, with a loud noise.
Bankotsu rubbed the stinging sensation from his cheeks and muttered, “Well it is.”
She sighed rubbing her temples and said, “Not today it isn’t.” adding seriously, “I still have the cabins to finish preparing, the food to sort and store, and someone needs to go hunting, so that we will have meat. Fish just isn’t going to be good enough for everyone tonight.”
Bankotsu said, “Suikotsu and I will do the hunting; you and Jakotsu can do the cabins and the laundry. She huffed and wacked his backside with the stick, making him yelp again. “What the hell was that for?!” he asked glaring at her.
She growled, “I am not washing laundry today. You either do it yourself, or wait a few days until I can get to it.” placing her free hand on her hip, glaring back at him.
Bankotsu snorted, and she went to whap him with the stick again. His hand caught the stick and he ripped it from her hand smirking as he tied her hand behind her back and said, “Now you listen to me Koneko, I will do a lot of things for you. But, I am not going to do women’s work, nor am I going to have no clean clothes tomorrow.”
Tossing the stick to the ground, he pushed her waist towards his and said in a husky tone, “You may be a fighter too love, but you are still my woman, and it’s your job to keep the laundry done.” nipping her shoulder in a slight reprimand.
Smirking wider at her gasp he said, “I expect those clothes clean when I return from hunting.” before kissing her possessively. Her growing anger quickly melted away as she moaned and began kissing him back.
He kissed her another minute, before pulling back and saying, “That’s better.” before releasing her hands and placing the bucket of clothes in her hands. He chuckled with an impish look on his face, and swatted her firm backside, urging her towards the river.
She sighed heavily and said, “Come on Jakotsu,” and stomped towards the river in a huff, muttering about caveman ideals.
Bankotsu chuckled and watched a minute in satisfaction as she obeyed his orders. Jakotsu was smart enough not to tease her about it, because he could tell she was already fuming.
Bankotsu bellowed, “Suikotsu!” and waited impatiently as the dual personality man came running over, asking, “Yeah?”
Bankotsu said, “You and I are going hunting.” Facing the amused monk, Bankotsu ordered, “Keep an eye on the village while we’re gone.”
Miroku nodded his confirmation. Bankotsu smirked, grabbing Banryu, and he and Suikotsu left to do their hunting.
--
Kitty knelt by the river and began scrubbing the clothes clean muttering to herself the entire time. Jakotsu quietly helped her clean the clothes, and then hang them up to dry.
Afterwards she kicked the bucket over towards the tree and stormed back to finish her other chores. Jakotsu chuckled to himself, making sure not to let her catch him, as he followed behind her, helping her finish the multiple tasks.
Sango and Kohaku returned an hour later, and began dragging the bags of grained rice, flour, and wheat off of Kirara, who then transformed to her smaller state and lay down exhausted.
Kohaku rewarded Kirara with a fish and then helped Sango store their purchases inside the storage unit. They carried the fresh furs over and placed them in the cabins, before Sango did her and Miroku’s laundry.
Kohaku convinced her to do his, by offering to help hang them up. Miroku smirked thinking, 'It’s all coming together rather nicely.' as he watched everyone go about their chores.
Kitty spotted Miroku sitting around doing nothing, and drafted him into helping prepare the cabins on the inside. Sighing heavily Miroku had no choice in the matter, as she had grabbed his ear and started dragging him along.
--
A/N: Okay there is chapter seven, everyone- enjoy! XD