InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Demons in Disguise ❯ Smothered Puppy ( Chapter 33 )

A/N: Check it out! I'm relatively on time with this update! Yay for me!! Short but sweet ^.^

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"Oooo," Inuyasha moaned. A stench rushed into his nostrils, knocking him out of his slumber completely. He sat up and coughed out the rancid smell of wet dogs and swamp water. His canine ear twitched. He heard something coo and click, like a porpoise. Still overwhelmed by the smell, he was suddenly knocked over onto his stomach. He growled and swung his arm wildly behind him until it connected with something scaly and hard. He heard its high, crow-like squeal and it moved away.

"Feh! This smell is making me dizzy! Where the Hell am I?"

Inuyasha sat up and felt for a wall. He found one and leaned against it. Taking a couple of deep breaths he focused his eyes. He blinked a couple times, trying to make out the small creatures in front of him. As his vision cleared, he saw their features. Short arms, brown-black scales, orange manes, small clawed-hands, and big three-toed feet with menacing talons. One of these creatures approached him. It examined Inuyasha with its bronze eyes. It flicked one of its long ears while a horrible excuse for a smile stretched across his muzzle and revealed its revolting lead colored teeth. Inuyasha gagged, its disgusting breath swirled into his sensitive nostrils. He growled and punched the creature away from him. It let out an ear-piercing screech and it jumped onto its feet, its tail swinging wildly.

The creature's brethren joined in so that Inuyasha's mind was overcome with a never-ending high-pitched ringing. He folded his ears down onto his head and he struggled to stand. His teeth clenched and his legs shaking, he reached to his waist for his Tetsaiga. To his displeasure he grasped at only air. Eyes wide he looked down to his sash. Tetsaiga was gone.

"Damn!" he swore. Still reeling from the painful ringing of the Djinn, he looked around the room he was positioned in. He grunted in confusion. The walls were painted with murals of happy creatures, and rainbows. The floor was littered with rubber balls, wooden chew toys, and even dung. Apparently no one had been around lately to clean up after these strange animals.

With intent to shut the annoying creatures up, Inuyasha took a step forward. He felt someone crack beneath his foot. He looked down, moving his foot aside. With a gasp, Inuyasha moved back. He had just stepped on a human skull! Distracted by the remains, he hadn't noticed one of the Djinn walking toward him from the side. Before he had time to react, it leaped onto his waist and chirped with delight. The high-pitched screeching ceased, the Djinn followed the actions of their kin, and lunged onto Inuyasha.

"Get the Hell offa me!" He cried. Desperately he tried pounding the creatures off, but they seemed unfazed by his beatings. Their weight brought him to his knees. He twisted and rolled, kicking as a child does when throwing a tantrum.

"Let go, you pieces of shit! Get off!"

But the Djinn did not heed him. They jumped all over him and soon his cries for help became lost in a rampage of frolicking, chirping Djinn. The light from the room began to fade as more and more creatures clamored on top of him. It wasn't long until he could see no light at all. In this darkness he felt the Djinn rubbing and grazing him. He was a mouse trapped in a tin of snakes. All around him the constant sound, smell, feel, and even taste of the Djinn. And here he wondered: Will the next man to enter this room accidentally crush my bare skull before these creatures smother him as well?

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A/N: Mwa ha! I'm such a cliff-hangar fiend! Start your clocks people, see how long it'll take me to update this time! Could be tomorrow, or this week, or in a month! Mwa ha ha! That's for neither of us to know and for all of us to find out. But, a tip, reviews really help me get my creative juices flowing if ya know what I mean ^.~