InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Fire and Ice ❯ Taming Her [Part 2] ( Chapter 4 )

AN: Okay… I officially hate my father. He fuckin' cut off my internet line! Literally! With scissors!

But I'm better than him and took my own phone line to give y'all this chapter… I only hope he doesn't find out… eheh…

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Don't you ever feel like you are lost?

You don't know what to do… what to say… what to think…

But some people are more fortune than others are… since they believe… in themselves…

For others… loving themselves is not as easy…

… for why do you think so many take their own lives?

Fire and Ice

Taming Her [Part 2]

By: bs~

"Inuyasha!" The scream pierced the thickness of the dark at night and the hanyou turned his head in a snap and narrowed his eyes.

What was the matter? As another scream echoed, Inuyasha stopped thinking and ran forward, hoping he wasn't going to be too late to help Sango.

As he darted forward, dodging trees and low branches, Inuyasha ran through the possibilites that could possibly harm Sango in an area like this. There were some human bandits, but there were fleas compared to what Sango could do.

The flaming birds here weren't very big either, and Sango was in water…

…the worst that he could detect a scent of was a water imp, and although they were tricky, they weren't that hard to take care of.

Sango should be able to take care of it herself, but why…?

Could it have been a wild animal? A bear perhaps? … no… Sango was too good of a fighter to be frightened like that of such a stupid thing… had that bitch gone and… no. Couldn't be.

Then a thought entered Inuyasha that amused him greatly. Maybe it wasn't Sango shrieking… but Miroku?

Gods knew he had many tendacies of a woman… like crying…

The screams continued and grew louder as Inuyasha, who ran faster upon hearing every fear-filled wail.

As he leapt over a tree and landed in front of Sango, Tetsusaiga brandished, he couldn't help but pause and lose his confidence and composure, completely ignorant of the fact that Sango was close to bare naked, with her clothes clutched in front of her to conceal some of her dignigty… that Miroku was lying close to them, various rocks piled on him…and Inuyasha took no notice of these trivial things… because… in front of him stood a full-grown water dragon, rearing its head at the trembling girl in front of it… waiting for an opportune moment to strike…

^.~

"But sire…" the general began, slightly shaking. Nobody but Sesshoumaru had noticed the man's loss of his confidence, his proud swagger as he paced. He was truly having a nerve-wracking effect on this human. How amusing… but he musn't do it too long, since this general was actually well trained in such things.

"I told you. I want a battalion of soldiers, demons, and spirits to attack this," and pointed to the specified area on the map, "area and I want you to leave tonight." Sesshoumaru's tone of voice left no room for agrument.

The general nodded, but frowned. Sesshoumaru made a smirk and quickly left the room. He gracefully walked into his own room, and told the servant girl to summon Jaken.

A few minutes later, the bumbling toad youkai was standing before him. "Jaken. I want you to get twenty of our best men and have them go undercover."

Jaken nodded, scribbling down ferociously onto a piece of paper. "For what may I ask sire?"

Sesshoumaru's eyes flickered down at Jaken, and then back up to the window he was looking through. "For the girl. And I never did learn her name… keep note of that Jaken."

The toad nodded, and scribbled away, as Sesshoumaru went on about what each man needed and how he was to be placed…

^.~

"Where to?" Kouga asked, watching the woman warily. She sniffed in contempt at him, more out of boredom than anything else.

"Don't ask me. I thought Naraku gave YOU the orders."

"ME?" Kouga scoffed. "Get it through your head. ME?"

Kagura looked him up from head to toe, and smirked. Fanning out her fan and placing it to hide half of her face in a mysterious manner, she smirked. "You're right. Much too stupid to remember."

Kouga snarled. "Well…" he started after silence overtook their `converation', "what the HELL are we doing? Wander until he calls for us?"

Kagura smirked.

"Exactly."

^.~

Kagome sighed and glanced back, noting that Sango was still panicking over her `body'. Of course, humans couldn't tell astral projections from the real thing when they saw one.

Then again… her's were rather convincing… with them being solid and all… Snapping her train of thought towards the campsite, Kagome's lips twitched a bit when she saw the first tent that signalled she had arrived at the campsite.

Snapping her head towards the farest of the tents, Kagome's body tensed up. What was that noise?

"NNNNNNN…" a loud snore came from it. Kagome almost laughed and she relaxed almost instantaneously. Tiptoeing towards her tent, she snapped her head around, to come face to face with the person she greatly despised… the last person she thought she would ever see again…

She grimaced before speaking.

"Why, hello Shippou."

^.~

Inuyasha narrowed his eyes and leapt away. He was really close in timing and he could hear Sango's heart pounding.

Looking at where he stood a split second ago, the dragon raised its head in a dazed manner and its eyes focused on Inuyasha.

"Hanyou…" it hissed. "I want your power…."

This made Inuyasha pause in midswing. Was he really that powerful?

"Well, you ain't getting a piece of this hot ass!" Inuyasha retorted, causing Sango to momentarily lose her close to hysterics face.

"Men and your egos! The only thing bigger than your ego is the size of your bloated head!" Sango screeched, unknowling attracting the dragon's attention.

Inuyasha snorted. "Sure, that's what you say EVERY time I say something like that. Have some creativity girl!"

"Well, AT LEAST I KNOW WHEN THERE'S DANGER!"

Inuyasha smirked, and pointed behind her. Sango's back immediately stiffened and she turned her head around slowly, to meet with the dragon's right eye.

Uttering a scream that was practically inhumane, Sango squated down and covered her head with her arms, which were hanging in awkward angles over her head.

Inuyasha raised Tetsusaiga once again. "KAZE NO KIZUUUUUU!"

As the water dragon's body parts, blood, and gore flew all around, Inuyasha lept off the rock he was on, hastily took off his outer layer of fire rat, and tossed it at Sango.

He muttered something about her and her loss of modesty as soon as any big bug or lizard came along…

Or he could have been muttering something about a recipe for chili… Sango's hearing wasn't that keen.

While she quickly turned his `jacket' of sorts into a rather crude robe, Inuyasha stalked over to the other naked maiden.

So she was out cold huh? Inuyasha decided to poke her a bit. Well, he would have to hurry, if he didn't want Miroku to wake up to the bitch in an undressed state like this…

And so he grabbed Tetsusaiga's sheath from his belt and poked her once in the shoulder, nice and hard.

What shocked him wasn't the fact that she didn't wake up.

What shocked him was the fact that her body faded away as soon as the sheath had come into contact with her… skin… and the sheath had instead of meeting warm flesh, hit the cold damp dirt.

"What's wrong Inuyasha?" Sango asked as she made her way over to where he stood, unmoving. She was careful to not touch any of what had been part of the dragon's and finally stood next to the shocked hanyou.

She tapped him on the shoulder.

No response. "Inuyasha?" she asked again, this time more carefully.

What was the - and Sango was suddenly knocked back.

Inuyasha suddenly jerked away and began running for the campsite. A few seconds later, and Sango's mouth was gaping open.

Then she realized that Inuyasha had shouted somethings to her before comepletely going out of hearing range. Wasn't it something about astral projections and dragging the monk back to the campsite?

Shaking her head, Sango made her way around the enormous puddle of blood and knelt right next to Miroku's face.

She didn't comepletely understand that part of astral projections he had yelled, but dragging the monk she did.

Grinning, she grabbed the little ponytail and started dragging, making sure she didn't touch any of the blood, but Miroku was going to have laundry day as soon as he woke and smelt the roses.

Or in this case, his robes.

^.~

Inuyasha darted to his right and left, dodging trees as fast as he could while running towards his destination. The campsite.

It was so simple, how the HELL did he miss it? The girl should have powers right? Or skills even! Why shouldn't astral projection be one?

She was going to tell them JUST exactly what she could do as soon as he tied her up again. And this time Sango wouldn't get the extra set of keys.

Miroku would. He had a habit of collecting shiny objects… or maybe that was just his excuse when Inuyasha had seen him walk out of the his private vault so many times?

He'd have to get a count on his valuables in there as soon as he got back home…

But for the time being, he should just watch out for the bitch…

And speaking of the devil whore… lo and behold who stood before him atop a white wolf?

^.~

Kikyou poked her head through the doorway and glanced down the corrider. Seeing no one, she stuck her head back in

Quietly, she stuck her head back into her private chambers and bolted the door. She then strode over to the window and stepped out into the balcony. Looking down, she turned her head away and hoped that she didn't get too dizzy.

Last time she had actually fallen off of the railing and Inuyasha was so worried. It hurt her to see him like that.

But it felt kind of nice. Him fussing over her… he always did… but that time… it was just different.

Kikyou smiled and slowly reached out for the walls and the fencing that was leaned against the wall.

She slowly climbed downwards and when she touched the grounds, she made sure no one was sight before sneaking over to the stables to retrieve a horse. As she rode out of the palace, the only thought racing through her head was…

`It's all for Inuyasha… it's all for him…'

^.~

Inuyasha paced.

Miroku sat there in a kimono.

Kagome sat there glaring at the pacing hanyou.

Sango sighed.

The men snored.

Inuyasha paced.

Miroku stood up and went to the small stream that was near, getting tired of watching the `ever so interesting' Inuyasha pacing. He made a little twirl and looked back into the water at his reflection, frowning. Sango noticed this and walked over. Part of her was glad to have something else to do besides watch Inuyasha pace and part of her was rather curious at what Miroku was doing.

Inuyasha stopped in his pacing for a moment as Sango approached Miroku. "Miroku?" she asked hesitantly. The monk/cook looked up from his reflection and instantly lost his frown.

"Yes my pet?"

Sango frowned. "Don't call me that. And why in the world are you standing here staring at your reflection?"

Miroku lost his happy smile and the frown once again replaced it. "Because… because…" he started. "Oh, it's too horrible! I dare not say it!"

He had now captured the attention of Kagome as well. Sango scuffled closer, but not too close. He could still use his hands after all. "What is?"

"Oh… it's horrible Sango!" Miroku wailed. "My… my butt looks HUGE in this kimono! AND it does NOTHING for my figure!"

Sango twitched.

Inuyasha roared with laughter.

Kagome arched an eyebrow and would have said something were for it not the fact that she was gagged.

Miroku sighed. "See… it's so horrible you can not bear to hear anymore!"

Sango twitched more and collapsed to the ground. Miroku ran to her and pulled her up gently. "What's wrong?" he asked urgently, forgetting about his problem instantly.

Sango was shaking literally. And it looked like she was having a hard time breathing. Inuyasha slowly scuffled up to them, still laughing loudly. "She's - she's laughing too hard man!" and burst out into more laughter.

Miroku scowled. What was so funny about that comment anyway? It DID make his ass look less hot than usual! And his figure was rather… feminine in this kimono… no wonder women took such care in selecting clothes…

"Miroku…" Sango said sympathically, lowering her head while she was shaking it so that the vain monk couldn't see her smirk. "I think it does WONDERS for your figure… but for you tight little ass… it's another story."

And she walked back to sit next to Kagome, laughing her head off.

Kagome was just staring straight ahead, glaring from time to time at Inuyasha, who was now rolling on the floor laughing, pounding his fists against the ground.

Unfortunately… this woke the men in the far-left tent. This wasn't good for Inuyasha.

Not so good for Miroku either.

As the flap of the tent raised and a head poked out, eyes blinking rapidly with an overall look of weariness on it, Miroku shrieked and ran for the hills.

Literally.

Inuyasha was torn between staying with the prisoner [Kagome] or go chase and tease Miroku somemore.

Hopefully the monk hadn't run too far off, because Inuyasha could do both then!

It was good to be king.

Or something close to it anyway.

^.~

As Jakotsu clambered up slowly on the rocky hill, he whined to his traveling companions. "Why did he have to send us? I don't see the use of sending moi on an undercover business."

"It is our duty." A solemn man answered. He was dressed to fit the occupation of a monk, which he was, in a way.

"Duty smuty!" Jakotsu grumbled, waving his hand as an extra gesture. "I swear Renkotsu, you should really lighten up about this!"

A rather deformed man muttered something. Rolling his eyes, Jakotsu scowled. "Not you too Ginkotsu! Is NO ONE on my side on this?"

"No." was the flat reply Renkotsu gave.

Jakotsu pouted and stopped walking. Realizing his little protest wasn't working, as Renkotsu continued walking, much to Jakotsu's dislike.

"Hey!"

"I wanna rest!"

"I'm tired!"

Jakotsu stamped his foot down for emphasis as Renkotsu gave a bored look back at him.

"And… why should I give a shit what happens to you? All I have to do is tell Lord Sesshoumaru that you have died under completing your mission. Which you have."

Jakotsu, upon hearing the word `Sesshoumaru', immediately had an shojo-anime background, complete with sparkles and flowers.

"Someday…" he said dreamily, looking up, "Lord Sesshy will see me for the beauty I am and whisk me away in his arms!"

Renkotsu responded by tossing a pebbly carefully aimed at the dreaming man's head

"Ow! That hurt!"

"It was the point."

Renkotsu turned and began walking again. The rest of the men followed him uneasily. Sure Jakotsu was a bit spoiled in this sense... but he was better to be around than Renkotsu…

Then again… if they didn't follow Renkotsu's orders… there would be lives to pay…

Jakotsu frowned and started walking at a fast pace. He soon caught up with the other men. And walked along side Renkotsu, giving him a flirty look, batting his eyelashes.

"I'm tired."

"I wanna eat."

"Can we stop?"

"I think I see a river up ahead!"

And as the men traveled on past the hill and onto a barren plain, Jakotsu's squablings continued to ring in the men's ears…

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AN: Um… sorry it took so long?

Anyway, I'm sorry if I got it wrong with the Seven-Man Squad.

Cartoon Network hasn't aired those episodes yet…

…but I'm pretty sure y'all know who they ARE right…?

::crickets chirp::

Aw… damn it!

Well… if you don't, then they will be explained in the later chapters. I want to post this NOW… since it's been too long.

Y'all can always go to http(:) //(web).(utk).(edu)/(~bborchar)

Just delete all the parathesises.

Ta ta~ bs~ (thy name is bullshit)