InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Dragon Demon ❯ Life with the Hanyou ( Chapter 3 )

Catse: This is one of my shortest chapters! I hope you like it! You may even hate Kojika here for a bit…but know that she is not a bad person!

Kagome: But I like Kojika!

Sango: Where'd Kojika go?

Catse: Well…she has to be in the story right?

Sango: Oh yeah…

Miroku: Don't worry. I'm here with you…

Sango: Go away houshi! *throws boomerang at lecherous monk*

Miroku: It's hard to be a monk these days.

Catse: I hope you enjoy Chap. 3!

Chapter 3

The next morning come, he woke up around dawn. I know this…for I was up an entire hour earlier…and I had already caught some cranes good for the cooking. He was awoken by the drifting smell.

"Eat up. We have some traveling to do." I told him…and we did not speak until the meal was done and we were well on our way. The sky was a gorgeous blue, the emerald blades hung with diamond dew, and the whisper of the wind slithered through the trees like a snake in the grass. What a fine day to travel this was…so clean and pure and beautiful. The lakes appeared to be like glass as we passed by, and the falling leaves shaped around the flocks of birds that were now migrating towards the South. Fall had come, almost over night, and brought with it the crisp clean wind. When we did make it to the village, we just had to stop on the hill top to collect the last of the clean air before heading down. All through the village, Inuyasha continued to get down on all fours and snarl at the people around him.

"Stand up." I had to tell him to keep him from scaring a couple of curious children.

"You're frightening the people." I whispered in his ear when he looked at me confusedly. As so, we gathered supplies and tools and things for the journey ahead, and were able to get through quite fine.

I could see in Inuyasha's mind that he hadn't expected everything to be so simple, and I couldn't help but grin at the thought that perhaps I could help him to be a powerful being…one that wasn't human…but wasn't demon either. A person that could see both worlds for what they were and wasn't blinded by belief in something in their religion.

For a few days it went just like this…until we came upon a demon in human form. I knew not its name…but it was blood lusty…and it's eyes were set on Inuyasha. I did not attack, simply let it do as it pleased for a minute or two. And in that time, he watched Inuyasha closely.

Time was to see how Inuyasha could defend himself.

This demon jumped to attack, knocking the wind out of Inuyasha's lunges and sending him flying into the oak tree behind him. The demon smiled to display sharp canine teeth and a jaw fit for breaking bones, and with that it leaped towards Inuyasha again and this time it began to tear at Inuyasha's flesh. But still I waited for the little guy to defend himself. At the last moment of desperation, I saw that he could not hurt the enemy, and a moment of fear over swept my mind.

What if he was killed right here?

There was enough blood flying. I could not let this happen! I had to save him!

With that I leapt forward with lightning like speed and snatched the attacking demon by the back of the throat, simply throwing him to the side and jamming my staff deep into his heart. He was now dead…for the demon could not live without the heart, and I turned to Inuyasha. He held severed wounds on his cheeks and chest, and I could already see the hoari mending itself. His eyes were even worsely bruised, and I could tell a few ribs and his left arm were broken. It had been stupid of me to let the demon attack another so young as this. I had thought foolishly, and he had to pay for it.

I bent down and picked Inuyasha up, cradling him in my arms as if he were a baby, and left, taking my staff from the demon's body and setting it back in it's wooden sheath as I walked away. Inuyasha was now unconscious, and I had to wonder if the loss of his blood would kill him. But he was a strong child…with a strong will to life. With every choke came a heavy inhale and I saw that no matter the injuries…Inuyasha would not let himself be killed. It was rare to find such as this, such a being so powerful and wise…yet so young.

And especially at such a predicament of the heritage that ran his blood. The fact that he was a hanyou; it was good that he had the desire to live. This boy would survive no matter what…I could see that now. But what he would become, was still clouded for the future. Would he kill innocence for pleasure, or help them?

Would he do his best to make the right decision, or give up on that all together? Would he hate humans until the rest of his days?

We had now come to a small pond in the middle of the thick forest I had entered, and I laid his body gently upon the soft grass that surrounded the water.

Strange…no sand. Tearing off a piece of my belt and dipping it in the cool clear water, I wiped the sweat and blood from Inuyasha's body, and smiled as I noticed his wounds mending themselves together as I washed. His hoari was already completely mended, and now his flesh was following suit. So perfectly together this hoari and this boy; these two would go very far.

He awoke when I spread the water upon his forehead, and in a move so fast and clever I didn't think it fit for a child, he had my hand pinned to the tree and my neck enveloped in his grasp. In the moment of need, in terror, he had forgotten what he was and attacked, and his speed was faster than a normal demon's. He would most certainly go far in his time. I could see the tiniest bits of the stripes on his face quickly come and go and the moon on his forehead glimmer blue but then vanish.

He had nearly become a full blooded demon in his attempt to save himself.

How very interesting.

I had never seen a hanyou do such. But then there was the fact that he was so purely bred, that half of him. Most hanyou's I met were a mix of different species of the same, yet he was completely one side of the white youkai and the other of the human race.

So interesting.

In that moment, I saw his pale eyes regain color and then surprise. Instantly he let my neck and hand go and jumped back, staring at his own hands with disbelief.

"What…what did I do?" He stuttered. "I'm sorry." He replied. And he turned and fled.

Little hanyou, he had no understanding of what it was happening to him, and now I had to find him again. I was the guilty one for everything that happened to him, not he. Inuyasha had every right to attack me, and I had every right to yield to his deadly claws. I had nearly left him to die at another demon's hands.

I watched him disappear through the trees before standing and slowly striding towards the area he ran to. I would give him a little time to sort himself out, and then go find him, if he didn't already come and find me first.

So right there, on the hill side, I lit a fire and sat under the shade of a large tree, awaiting his return.

Catse: There you go! That was chap. 3.

Inuyasha: I hate being a child. Make me an adult already!

Kojika: Patience is a virtue Inuyasha.

Inuyasha: Oh yeah! Well patience nearly got me killed when you sat there and watched a demon attack me.

Kojika: Don't blame me…she wrote it. *points to Catse*

Catse: But you performed it!

Kagome: Come on guys…be nice…be nice…

Inuyasha: Oh shut up!

Kagome: *very mad* SIT!!!!!

Inuyasha: Ow…What I do?

Kojika: You still have much to learn little hanyou.

Inuyasha: I'm not little!