InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Freedom ❯ Modern: The First Youkai ( Chapter 6 )

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Kathryne-San: Ohayou gozaimasu! Finally, on to chapter six…and I have a few more people to introduce! Also with me are Selene-San, Saru-San (FanFiction pen name Sleepy Grin) and MiLord (FF pen name Moinkey). The both of them write Fruits Basket fanfics, but they like InuYasha too.

Selene-San: Is it true Sesshoumaru's coming?!

Kathryne-San: Not telling.

Saru-San: Here's what I think of Sesshoumaru! (shows mouthful of chewed-up Pocky sticks)

Selene-San, MiLord, and Kathryne-San: EEEEWWW!

Saru-San: Sesshoumaru has the personality of a piece of freaking cardboard!

Kathryne-San: There are two other Sesshoumaru people here, I'd keep your voice down if I were you.

MiLord: Inuyasha! (hugs)

Inuyasha: (0_0 evil death glare)

Ruby-san: I agree with Saru-San.

Kathryne-San: Hehe, Inuyasha looks like Saru-San when you hug her, MiLord.

Selene-San: Yeah, like, `I'm going to kill you in about five seconds.'

Kathryne-San: It's still really amusing.

Ruby-san: MiLord? Let go of Inuyasha, he's turning blue. Besides, Kathryne-San bothers him enough already.

Kathryne-San: Hey, I've been leaving him alone, give me credit!

Shippou: What about me? (great big chibi eyes)

Kathryne-San: (heart melts) Of course, I loooove you, Shippou-chan!

Inuyasha: (grumble)

Kathryne-San: Anyway, I don't own InuYasha, Rumiko Takahashi does.

Shippou: Let the fanfic begin!

Kathryne-San: Good boy.

Chapter Six: Modern: The First Youkai

The week passed without much event, though Inuyasha spent a bit more time with Kagome. Inuyasha managed to grasp calculus, something Kagome simply could not do.The others found Inuyasha's tutoring amusing, but Inuyasha silenced them with a nasty look.

On the end of Friday, Inuyasha's cell vibrated.

“What?”

“Are you itching to fight?” It was Kanaye.

“Why?”

“Because I sense a youkai.”

Inuyasha's heart leaped. “Where?”

“Where else? The Bone-Eater's Well.”

“You serious?! Kagome's shrine?!” Inuyasha had been through the well countless times.

“Yes, and I think this one may have ties to whatever Naraku had planned. It's a small one, a rat youkai.”

“I'll crush it!”

“Then do so, but after you get information. If I may warn you, Kagome…she does not know that youkai exist. Basically, in her mind is a great blank period. It started the day she came to feudal times, and it ended when she awoke from a coma. Because of this, don't draw too much attention to yourself. Try entering through the back way.”

Inuyasha remembered the building that the well was in. “Will do.”

He hung up.

“Who was that?” Miroku said.

“Kanaye. He said there's a youkai with information about whoever's connected with Naraku and Kagome's curse.”

“And so you're off to get the information,” Sango said.

“First I want Tetsusaiga,” he said, “so I'm running back home to get it. Kaiya'a with Shippou, right?”

“Yeah.”

Inuyasha nodded. “I'm off.”

He bolted off to get Tetsusaiga. He hadn't encountered a youkai in so long! Of course he was itching for a fight!

Now, for the youkai!

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He entered the back way to the Higurashi Shrine, into the Bone-Eater's Well. His ear twitched as he heard a voice inside.

“Why did he send me?! Why oh why oh why…he knows I'm no good at these things…”

Inuyasha grinned. He burst through, yelling, “Sankou-Tetsusou!”

The rat youkai squeaked in fear, then leaped into the well. Inuyasha followed.

The blue light of the well was so familiar to him, since he had leaped in about a hundred times with Kagome, or looking for her in her time…

When he landed in the well, he looked up, and the rat youkai was scrambling up the side of the well and out into the field near Kaede's Village. Inuyasha leaped up in one fluid movement and ran after the youkai.

Of course, the youkai was no match for Inuyasha, and he caught it in the neck and slammed it against a tree. It squeaked madly.

“Don't kill me! Have mercy!”

“Who sent you to Kagome's shrine?!” Inuyasha roared.

“Can't tell you! He'll kill me!”

“Sankou-Tet—”

“Nononono! Wait! I'll tell you! Don't hurt me, please!”

Inuyasha growled. “What?”

“Kobayashi Haruki. He sent me.”

“Kobayashi Haruki?” Inuyasha repeated. It was foreign to him.

“Y-yes,” the youkai stammered. “He wanted me to kill the miko, but I don't want to, don't kill me—“

“What is he? Youkai? Hanyou?”

“He's a youkai,” the rat youkai squeaked.

“What's he got to do with Naraku?”

“Naraku? I haven't heard of him—EEK!” Inuyasha put his hand to Tetsusaiga, and the youkai scrambled to explain himself. “Really! I don't know who Naraku is! Kobayashi-sama never mentioned a Naraku! PLEASE DON'T KILL ME!”

Inuyasha lessened his grip on the youkai. He stared at the youkai, and decided that this one wasn't worth killing.

“Go,” he said, letting go of the youkai. Damn, Kagome's time has made me soft!

The youkai immediately took the command and ran off.

Kobayashi Haruki? Inuyasha thought. He'd never heard that name before…I should go back and tell the others…

Inuyasha ran back to the well and leaped in. When he returned to Kagome's time, he also heard her voice above him. His heart leaped into his throat.

“Souta, you didn't hear anything! Nothing's here!”

“I swear, sis! I heard it! It sounded like squeaking!”

Inuyasha crouched on the ground, trying to make himself as invisible as possible. Unfortunately, it didn't work. Kagome's face appeared above him.

“Inuyasha…? What are you doing here?!”

“Um…I, ah…found an interesting scent.”

“What are you sitting in there for?!”

Inuysaha cringed as he prepared to be sat, but it didn't come. She forgot about my kotodama rosary too? Wow…she really has no clue…

“Whatever. Just get out of there.”

Kagome then walked off. Souta, however, stayed behind.

“Inuyasha…is that really you? You look…different.”

“So do you,” he replied, leaping out. Souta certainly wasn't as young as he was when Kagome first fell down the well.

“Sis doesn't remember you, does she?”

“No,” Inuyasha said, sighing. “But you do.”

“Of course, but Sis…what really happened?”

Inuyasha gulped. How would he say it? It had been his fault she was like this, he tried to defend her, but…

“It happened in your time, right?”

Inuyasha merely nodded. Kagome, however, had reappeared.

“It's almost night. If you want, you can stay for dinner.”

Inuyasha smiled. “I'd love to.”

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Though Kagome didn't remember Inuyasha, her family did. When Kagome reintroduced him, her mother merely smiled and greeted Inuyasha, but deep down he knew that she knew him already…After Inuyasha ate (he had always enjoyed Mrs. Higurashi's cooking), Kagome's mother spoke to him privately.

“She doesn't remember you, does she?”

“No.” Inuyasha sighed. “Gomen-nasai…I should have protected her…”

“I don't blame you for anything, Inuyasha. Did you complete the jewel?”

He nodded. “I would never have been able to do anything without Kagome's help. I…I love her. I want to make it up to her—anyway I can.”

“I understand. I'm sure she'll remember you again, Inuyasha.”

Inuyasha smiled, feeling a little better.

“Oh?” Kagome said. She had entered the hallway. “Inuyasha-kun, are you leaving?”

“Yeah, Miroku and the others will wonder where I am…I'd better get back home.”

“Say hello to them for me, will you?”

“I will. Sayonara, Kagome-san.”

“Sayonara, Inuyasha-kun.”

Inuyasha turned and grinned. “Inuyasha-chan.”

Kagome turned a bright shade of red. “Sayonara, Inuyasha-chan.”

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“Kobayashi Haruki. That's what the youkai said.”

“Hm,” Miroku said. “I've never heard that name before.”

“And he worked with Naraku?” Sango said. “How?”

“The youkai said that Kobayashi never mentioned Naraku,” Inuyasha said. “Maybe he threw out some name to avoid me…but I let him go, so I'll be able to find him again…”

At that point, Inuyasha's cell phone rang. He answered it. “Hello?”

“Did you find who it was?” Kanaye.

“Yeah. A youkai called Kobayashi Haruki.”

The other end went quiet, so quiet that Inuyasha prompted, “Kanaye, what is it?”

“This is not good, Inuyasha-san. It is as I feared…I need to see you in person. Come through the well, I'll see to it that you arrive. Sayonara.”

The line went dead.

“Kanaye? Kanaye! Damn it!”

“What?” Shippou asked; he had been busy playing with Kirara.

“He hung up,” Inuyasha said. “Said to come to the well.”

“But it's dark outside,” Shippou said.

“Keh! So? A little dark doesn't scare me!” Inuyasha grabbed Tetsusaiga. “I'll be back probably tomorrow. See you.”

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Tetsusaiga in hand, Inuyasha bolted back to the shrine. He was aware that Kagome and her family was asleep, so he tried to be as quiet as possible. When he got there he growled. Something reeked of blood. Then: a shriek.

Kagome!

He slammed open the door where the well was.

The rat youkai cornered Kagome, who was crouching and crying. A magatama was glowing blood-red on the youkai's forehead; its eyes were the same color.

“Ssssshikon…give me…miko…Sssssshikon no tamaaaaa…”

“OUT!”

With one lightning-fast movement, Inuyasha leaped in and rent the youkai from head to foot. He pushed the body back into the well, and tried (unsuccessfully) to wipe off the blood.

“Inuyasha!”

She gasped when he turned to her. “What was that...thing?”

“A youkai.”

“Youkai? I…thought…that was a myth!”

Inuyasha sheathed Tetsusaiga. “Better start believing.”

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Kathryne-San: And that's chapter six! The next chapter shall be interesting, but short: It shall be about the villain! Mwahahah! I must say, character development for my villain was fun…oh yeah, the few translations:

Magatama: A rosary bead (remember the bead that Menoumaru put on Kagome and Kirara's foreheads in the first InuYasha movie? That's a magatama. This may provide foreshadowing…hehehe…)

Haruki: Japanese boy name meaning “Shining Brightly”

Kobayashi: Common Japanese surname

Gomen-nasai: I'm very, very sorry

Shippou: (holding Kathryne-San's cell phone) What does this do?

Kathryne-San: It helps me call my friends.

Shippou: Oh.

Saru-San: May I suggest something?

Kathryne-San: What?

Saru-San: I know that you're going to pin Rikku-San and Starrilight-Hotaru and Selene-San when Sesshoumaru comes, but…could you do me a favor and pin MiLord? NOW?

Kathryne-San: Why?

Saru-San: BECAUSE SHE'S CHOKING ME!

MiLord: (tight grip around Saru-San's waist) I looooooooove you, Saru-San!

Ruby-san, Rikku-San, Inuyasha, and blueangel326: (STARE)

Kathryne-San: Shippou! Assistance on Aisle 1!

Shippou: (leaps onto Kathryne-San's shoulder) What's up?

Kathryne-San: Pin MiLord before she chokes Saru-San!

Shippou: Here, MiLord. For you.

MiLord: What is it? (takes)

MiLord: (Is Jizou statue-d)

Everyone Else: (laugh)

MiLord:Shippou, you baka!

Kathryne-San: Hahaha! This is perfect for our Sesshoumaru fangirls! Anyway, until next time! Sayonara!