InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ For One Reason or Another ❯ Plots and Bruises ( Chapter 10 )

I ducked the arrow and circled the momma’s boy, hissing. He glares and turns into a giant rabid hamster. I stop hissing and laugh. I point and manage to say through heavy laughter “Hamster! A freakin hamster, what is this a joke?” he growls and spits at me. “Look a hamster wheel!” I point behind him. He turns and runs toward the far off wheel. A lady, really old lady asks me “Have you seen my son? He should’ve been home by now.” I looked at her and said “um…on with the show, story whatever this thing is considered.” she looks at me like I belong in a mental ward.

A/N: I’d like to dedicate this chapter to moonlightandmoondroproses19. She e-mailed me ^.^ Yay!

Chapter Ten: Plots and Bruises

“How did you get surrounded by Tiger Yokai?” Sango asked Kagome as she wrapped a cut on Miroku’s arm. She let his arm drop to his side.

“I don’t know. All I remember was falling off that cliff over there and InuYasha grabbing me before I fell. When he pulled me up he was full demon. He began to lick the cuts on my arms and I guess I fell asleep. Still why didn’t he come when I called?” Kagome said as she tightened the bandage on her own arms. Shippo came up to her and pulled at her skirt, looking into her eyes and seeing the sorrow that was in them.

“Kagome, mamma maybe InuYasha ran off chasing another pack of Yokai. I’m sure he had good reason.” Shippo said as he caught the smile on her face as he called her mamma.

“Mamma? I guess I am. I took care of you over two years. Yes you are my son.” she picked Shippo up and held him close, sure he was the only one that truly loved her. He hugged back and smiled into her shirt.

Kagome looked up at Yasha’s whine and sensed he was hungry. She set Shippo down and went to her pack and pulled out a can of the dog food she had gotten along with Yasha. She pulled the top off and set it in a bowl. Yasha began shaking his whole body in eagerness for the meal. She laughed and set the bowl down. Yasha attacked the food and reminded her of how InuYasha ate. Pilling food into his mouth and swallowing it down without chewing. (There you go Quantum Theory Yasha is happily fed.) Kagome sighed and put the empty can in her pack. She missed InuYasha’s presence and smell. So full of a sense of loss she didn’t notice Sango chasing Miroku with a pointed stick repeatedly sticking him in the side as she got close enough to break the thick stick over his head. She didn’t even flinch when Miroku collapsed next to her.

***InuYasha***

He flinched when Kagome screamed his name and he almost ran back to her but restrained himself. ‘I can’t return until I secure my lands. She’s going to hate me when I return.’ he had flinched again when he heard the battle roar of a tiger. ‘Kuso! I left her in harms way. I hope the pup will protect her for now.’ he ran on and stopped only for food and water. After a few hours he stopped fully at the edge of the Western Lands. He climbed into a familiar tree and watched the surrounding forest as he thought about taking his lands back. ‘Maybe I should just ask Sesshomaru for them. The worst that could happen he could attack me and refuse me. Or I could just take it by force. What would Kagome do? She would ask him.’ he stiffened as he heard somebody muttering. He glanced around the forest and seeing only the large trees and few boulders paused to sniff the air. He smelled cat and his Inu Yokai instinct wanted him to attack the tiger. He resisted.

“That human child, the toad had called her Rin somehow avoided being taken and that half breed Inu Yokai somehow beat my 4 best fighters. How in the hell did she summon 2 humans and a fire neko by howling a name?” the voice asked himself and then mimicked a high-pitched voice “ InuYasha!” upon hearing his name InuYasha looked at the Tiger Yokai below him. ‘So he’s the one that attacked Kagome?’ InuYasha asked himself. The tiger lifted his head and roared long and loud. He closed his mouth and after a few quiet moments tigers of all colors slipped from the shadows and groveled in front of the leader that had called them. InuYasha’s nose was twitching badly from the smell of so many cats in one place.

“My clan in two days we will attack that filthy Inu Yokai’s stronghold and grab the tasty morsel he has hidden for us. After we will use the human girl for bartering for the Inu hanyou female that killed my brothers. We shall let her live long enough for her to watch her pack be killed and that pup that was hiding to be torn apart by you my family!” he shouted and was answered by the roars and hisses of his pride. “First I want 4 of you to come by me. Sugi, Kuki, Enko and Tsubaki you will steal the kit and bring it back here.” a purple striped tiger with white fur came out along with a red and silver striped one. Two more pushed their way through the crowd, showing twin tigers both black with blue stripes. “ I need 50 of the 63 still here to follow me into battle with the weak Sesshomaru.” 50 tigers of various colors came forward and sat on their haunches tails twitching. “The rest will come from the rear and take the other demons there. Three of you, two females of my bloodline and a male shall stay in the pride’s boundaries in case we lose all our warriors.” the tigers roared and split. “My sisters Ichigo and Bara will stay and my trusted second in command Kashi will stay.” with that a red and yellow tiger, tan and cream and a large black and orange tiger left the pack quietly returning to their lands. “My pack we shall win this and get us fresh meat and revenge.” the pack split and left the leader rubbed his throat and said to himself “I shall kill that white pup myself.” and turned into a huge black tiger with acid green stripes and ran off with his pack.

‘I have to warn my brother to save Kagome and his human girl Rin. Maybe I can get my lands back.’ InuYasha told himself as he wiped at his watering eyes “Damn those cats!” he hissed under his breath. He adjusted himself and glanced around and fell asleep in the tree.

***Kagome***

“Sango please don’t do this, please?” Miroku pleaded, unaware he was backing towards a ledge over a river. They had decided to make camp a mile or so from where they were attacked and Miroku had made a comment about Sango’s feelings for him. Sango had launched herself from her sitting position and attacked him. A few minutes later Sango had given him several bruises and cuts. Kagome and Yasha sat on their haunches heads cocked as Sango backed him towards the river. Shippo was curled in Kagome’s lap fast asleep with no awareness of the fight.

“Oh why wouldn’t I want to? I mean why shouldn’t I make you take a bath after saying those nasty words of untruth.” she was rewarded with a yelp and a splash as Miroku fell into the icy cold water. Sango walked to the edge and looked at the waterlogged monk. “Oh I guess you did take a bath.”

“Kagome, can you smell InuYasha still?” Sango asked as she sat next to Kagome and petted Kirara who had jumped into her lap.

“Somewhat, it’s hard because the forest smells so much like him. Or he smells so much like the forest. But I can smell the cinnamon on his scent. So I go by that. The problem is I smell a pack of Tiger Yokai has passed this way also. What lands are we closest to?” Kagome said, pulling the scrap of InuYasha’s clothing out and rubbing it.

“The Western Lands are closest. Oh maybe he went to see his brother?” Miroku asked as he rung out his robes. He sat across from the girls and shook his head. “What I can’t understand is why the tigers are coming here.” Shippo awoke and stretched in Kagome’s lap.

Kagome looked at him and shrugged, “Who knows maybe they wander the land”

“No the pride’s too large. At least 50 or more, no less then 40. They’re planning an attack. Probably raiding villages in Sesshomaru’s lands.” Sango said shaking her head.

“So that Tiger that fought us, he was part of this raid? Or was he after something? InuYasha where can he be?” Kagome said as she set Shippo on the ground and got up to make dinner. Seeing InuYasha’s favorite ramen made her burst into tears and she struggled to control her feelings.

“Kagome? I’m sure we’ll find him. It’s not like he could be taken by force. Especially with Tetsusaiga.” Sango sat next to her and rubbed her back and helped cook the ramen.

The group was unaware of the female Tiger Yokai watching their every move with curiosity. Taiga would like this information.

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“Ahhh” *wipes forehead* “done with that.”