InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Bits and Pieces ❯ It's Not What You Think! ( Chapter 7 )

AN: Sorry to everyone who's been waiting patiently for my to write something! I pulled my shoulder just a little bit- it's not serious or anything- and it's hard to type. So why am I writing this?

 

It's short. A lot shorter than the other stuff, and I really wanted to get this out. One of those ideas that floats around in your head for a long time…

 

Disclaimer: Anyone like logic proofs? I'm a bit rusty, but it's been a while. A long while. I had to look up all the names of the theorems… (groan). I just hope that Fanfiction's QuickEdit doesn't mutilate it… And if it did, sorry if it's gibberish!

 

Me= p

Rumiko Takahashi= q

Other people= r

Owner of Inuyasha= t

Creator of Inuyasha= s

=>: Arrow (meaning "if" of course.)

 

Given: p; if p, then not q and r; if q, then s; if r, then t.

 

Prove: p=> ~s; p=> ~t

 

Proof:

p; if p, then not q or r; if q, then s; if r, then t. (Given)

if p, then not q and not r (Distribution)

if p, then not q, if p, then not r(Simplification)

if p, then not s; if p, then not r. (Disjunctive Syllogism)

 

Literal Translation into English:

 

If me, then not creator of Inuyasha. If me, then not owner of Inuyasha.

 

Or:

 

I'm not the creator or owner of Inuyasha.

 

Or:

 

If you're me, then you're not the creator of Inuyasha or the owner.

 

Whew.

 

(That must be the most elaborate disclaimer I've ever done…)

 

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Bits and Pieces

 

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It's Not What You Think!

 

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Kagura was outnumbered and outflanked.

 

She knew it, too. If she wanted to survive the only logical thing to do was retreat. She gritted her teeth and swung her fan violently towards Sango. Kirara took the demon exterminator to safety.

 

It might hurt her pride, but pride didn't matter if she was dead. The wind witch took one last glance behind her, scarlet eyes blazing with pent-up fury at the five of them before fleeing into the depths of Naraku's castle.

 

She hurried quickly through the corridors, ignoring the dried-up corpses and skeletons of those killed off by miasma that littered the shadowy interior of the fortress. There was a howl from outside, and Kagura quickened her pace. Cloth rustled softly as she turned a sharp corner, and she was outside of Naraku's chambers.

 

The wind witch banged her fan against the shoji screen impatiently. "Naraku! Inuyasha and his friends have gotten through your spell!"

 

"I'll be there in just a moment." Naraku sounded flustered from behind the screen, something that -as far as Kagura knew- had never happened before.

 

"Naraku," Kagura continued incredulously, "did you here me? I said that we're under attack, and they're cutting through our defenses like butter. Your last 'minion' was just killed. I head him scream." Scarlet eyes glanced back. "It won't be long before they get here!"

 

"I know!" the other demon snapped back. Something else that was new. "Just give me five minutes!"

 

"You don't have five minutes!" And with that, Kagura slammed open the shoji screen, furious. "They're he-"

 

Silence. Kagura was speechless.

 

The distant sound of battle reached their ears; shouts and clangs, primal roars from one of Naraku's shadier creations. A glad shout told them that Inuyasha was victorious. A dull roar issued from the beast. It was dying.

 

But Kagura didn't care, or even hear. The wind witch's mind was a roaring, blank expanse of shock. At first, she couldn't quite even understand what she was seeing. There was Naraku. Something was different about him. Or rather, his face. One side of his face. But what was it? Scarlet eyes dazedly traveled down to the object in his hand. It was circular, and there was some odd-looking stuff in it.

 

Slowly, the images filtered through her mind and comprehension dawned. Somewhere behind her, Inuyasha and his friends broke something. It sounded big… She stared blankly at the… thing in Naraku's hand.

 

"Oh."

 

She honestly couldn't think of anything else to say.

 

"Look," Naraku squirmed uncomfortably. His white-knuckled fist clenched around the small case in his hand. "I have an image to maintain, okay? It's not like I'm… like that."

 

"Oh."

 

"No, really! I don't do it because I like to! I have to look good! Evil, I mean! It's just part of the job."

 

"Oh."

 

"Stop saying that, Kagura!" he snapped. "I'm serious! Do you think I'd really do this because I like to?" He brandished the clamshell in her face, his own taking on a reddish hue.

 

"Uh…" Kagura was still unable to come up with an actual word, let alone a complete sentence. She peered closely at him. "Do you?"

 

"No!" Naraku's face was definitely red now. "I told you! It's part of the job! Why do you think Sesshomaru's eyes are like that, with the red eyelids?"

 

The wind witch found herself staring at Naraku's other eye. The one without the makeup. "Y-you should put it on the other eye now. If you're going to. They'll be here soon."

 

In testimony to her statement, something else crashed. "Where are you, Naraku? I'm gonna kill you this time!" Inuyasha roared, somewhere in the depths of the castle.

 

Naraku wasn't listening, or perhaps he was too into his rant to hear her. "… something I do because I can. I have to! There's pressure on me to look good! You know what, I don't care what you think. You can believe whatever you want, but I don't put on makeup because it's fun!"

 

"Huh?"

 

Inuyasha stood in the doorway, a stupefied expression on his face. He glanced at the demon's face and noticed the same thing that Kagura did. "Wha…?"

 

The hanyou's jaw went slack for a moment as he processed the information.

 

Naraku leaned over and put his head in his hands. Today was just not a good day. In fact, it was a horrible day. Worse than the new moon, when he was reduced to a pile of demon parts and a head.

 

Inuyasha broke the silence with a wicked snicker. "Naraku… wears makeup! Wow…" He shook his head ruefully, the corners of his mouth turned up in a smug smile. The gleeful hanyou turned around. "Hey, Kagome!" he shouted down the corridor. The sound echoed off of the walls and through the vacant rooms. "Guess what?"

 

Kagura leaned against the wall, one hand over her mouth to stifle her giggles. Naraku may be a shallow, insecure demon, but he still had her life in his hands. It was funny; she never even suspected this side of Naraku, one that checked his reflection with a critical eye and dusted his eyelids with dark hues. She'd always assumed that it was natural, not some powder out of a seashell.

 

The look on his face…

 

Kagura couldn't hold it in any longer.

 

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In another part of the castle where Inuyasha had ditched them to go running forward blindly as usual, Sango, Miroku, Kagome and Shippo shared an alarmed glance. Howls of pain -or was it laughter?- echoed through the halls.

 

"Kagomeee….!"

 

The black-haired girl flinched. It was Inuyasha. "Come on!" She raced forward, imagining the worst and hoping for the best. But what she found was in another category all together.

 

"You mean…" Brown eyes widened as she stared at Naraku, who still had his head in his hands. "You… you…?" But it clicked. "I always wondered, you know," she admitted. "Your eyes always had that odd look to them."

 

"Shut up," Naraku replied sourly.

 

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AN: Has anyone else noticed that sometimes Naraku's eyelids are reddish? Or sometimes bluish. Not as much in the anime, I think. (Actually, I have no idea. I haven't seen much of the anime. A little more than nil.) But somewhere I saw this picture of Naraku as full demon with his eyelids painted an odd color, on the cover of a tankoubon, I think. I know it's a rather shaky concept to base a ficlet, because most of the time his eyelids aren't colored. They sort of are in this picture:

 

http : / / www . wot-club . org . uk / Inuyasha / images / vols / v23f . jpg

 

I can't find the one where they really were, though.

 

And in this one, it was his lips!

 

http : / / www . wot-club . org . uk / Inuyasha / images / vols / v36f . jpg

 

…Yeah.

 

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I hope that I haven't somehow offended anyone by this -though I can't really see how I would; the makeup that I'm pretending Naraku wears is like the stuff they make actors wear; they have it for a certain effect on screen, whether it's really noticeable or not. That's what I meant.