InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Irony ❯ Meeting ( Chapter 9 )

[ T - Teen: Not suitable for readers under 13 ]

By: Veema

Chapter 9

I don't own Inuyasha

The next day in the afternoon, Suno decided to tear himself away from work, which he never really did, and came home for lunch. He needed to get away for a while, and foolishly thought that his wife would be home, and didn't really think about the fact that she was a teacher and he wouldn't see her until around 4:00pm, if he was home. He usually didn't get home from work until later than that.

Suno went into the kitchen for food and was surprised to see his little brother eating a giant bowl of cereal in a pair of sweat pants and a T-shirt. "Why didn't you go to school?"

Ikuto growled. "I didn't feel like it."

"You've been kicked out enough. You should go whether you feel like it or not."

"I didn't feel like it!" He couldn't help snapping at his brother. He was still upset at Kagome for what happened the night before.

Suno was hungry, but decided not to eat. "Come, let's fence before I go back to work."

"For what?" Ikuto sounded so irritated, that Suno actually thought Ikuto was going to eventually throw a punch at him. "Just leave me alone. Why aren't you at work? You're always too busy to care about anyone or anything other than yourself."

Suno narrowed his eyes at Ikuto. "Come on, Ikuto. Let's go."

Ikuto didn't argue with his brother. He thought it might be good taking all of his anger out on his brother during a fencing match. "Let's go!" He said.

In five minutes, they were dressed and fighting each other. Suno knew his brother well enough to know that whatever problems Ikuto had could be worked through aggression. Ikuto however, did not know his brother well enough to realize that Suno was trying to help him.

'Stupid jerk! Why couldn't he just leave me alone and let me do whatever?' "Ahhh!" Ikuto thrust his sword at his brother and Suno moved his head in time to dodge the attack which would have broken through his mask. Ikuto didn't get out the way fast enough to dodge Suno's punch, though. "What was that for?" He took of his mask and stood to his feet. "That's not good sportsmanship!"

"You're not thinking straight. Are you trying to kill me?"

Ikuto got back into fighting stance. "I knew you'd move!"

"You probably did, but what if I wasn't focused?"

"You always are! Let's continue!"

Suno put on his 'I'm ready to kill you' expression and continued fighting his brother, but Ikuto didn't last a minute. Suno managed to knock Ikuto's sword out of out of his hand less the thirty seconds, and Suno had won. "Is this about the girl?"

"What?" He knew what Suno was talking about, but tried to play dumb anyway.

"You snuck out to see her last night. I'm not stupid." Suno took his mask off. "You're being more reckless than usual. Stop screwing around. Whatever happened between the two of you, it's not worth one of us being hurt."

'That's not how I feel' thought Ikuto.

"If you're going to be this reckless, then you don't deserve anyone or anything, Ikuto." He walked over to the sword rack and returned his sword to its proper spot. "You know, relationships are just like the business world, Ikuto." He approached his brother, giving him advice as if he was his father instead of his brother. "Sometimes you've got to be cut throat. It's a competitive business, but in the end, you get what you deserve. It's survival of the fittest. Haven't you heard of Social Darwinism?"

Ikuto was intrigued. His brother had never really talked to him in this sort of matter. Perhaps it was because he was an actual father now. "So, are you saying...I deserve to be alone?"

"No, not at all. If you're willing to fight hard enough, you'll get what you want." Suno wasn't surprised to see his brother's clueless expression. "What, did you think I was incapable of giving you love advice?"

"Well...it's just that you can be a real...demon sometimes."

"Well, it runs in the family, because I could say the same about you. You're not exactly innocent."

"I don't compare to you, Suno."

There was an awkward silence between the two of them, but it wasn't a bad silence. They weren't thinking about strangling each other, or wishing the other didn't exist, but Suno was thinking about the well being of his brother, and Ikuto was too freaked out about it to speak. 'Maybe him getting married and becoming a father was the best thing that ever could have happened to him.'

Suno broke the silence by clearing his throat and said "Well, I'm famished. I'm going to eat something." Suno placed an expression on his face that almost looked like a smile towards his brother, and left out of the room and made his way toward the kitchen.

'Strange.' Ikuto thought. 'Could he actually be any different now then how he was when it was just him and me? Could they have changed his life that much?' It was a hard thing for Ikuto to swallow. His brother was actually beginning to be...nice! 'Who would have thought that women could have that much power?'

He sighed, remembering when he first saw Kagome and thought about their time together, and grunted in emotional pain when he remembered what she had done the other night. 'Kagome! I can't let this happen! My brother was right, and I'm not going to just let you walk out of my life before I let you in.'

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"She takes too long" said Inuyasha, waiting for Kagome to come home from school. After their kiss last night, Kagome didn't want to really go back into Inuyasha's time. She was so happy, she felt ready for anything, so she decided to go to school for a test. Inuyasha didn't want to upset her after their make up, so he agreed to letting her stay until the next day, but as soon as she came home, they were going back and gone for a long time!

"I'm home!" yelled Kagome as she came inside the living room where Inuyasha had her cat hanging upside down.

"What took you so long?"

Kagome sighed. "Well, the test was really hard and I think I bombed it, even though I spent so much time studying." Even though her grades were beginning to look horrible, she managed to smile. "But that's alright. I'm ready to go back with you, Inuyasha!"

"Good, and we're going to be gone for a long time now. You keep coming back home and we've wasted a lot of time." He cracked his knuckles. "I want to find Naraku and finish him off once and for all!"

"I'm with you Inuyasha. We can do it, and I'll stay by your side until he's gone."

Kagome said her goodbyes to her mother and grandfather, but Souta wasn't home yet, but she decided to go with Inuyasha. The two of them were standing right outside the small shrine where the well was located inside.

'Kagome?' Ikuto had been searching around the property for her and finally saw her, but grunted once he saw who she was with. 'Nunuyasha!'He looked closer and realized that the two of them were smiling at each other as they went inside. 'What are they doing alone in there? They're not...' His eyes bucked 'Not again! I'm not losing her before the battle starts!' Ikuto ran as fast as he could in hopes of stopping the kiss that he thought was about to occur.

"You've got the shards, don't you Kagome?" asked Inuyasha.

"Of course I do. I wouldn't leave them behind in this time."

"Good. Let's go." Inuyasha jumped inside the well and traveled back into his own time. He then quickly made his way up to the grass and waited for Kagome to come through so he could help her up.

'They must be sneaking make out sessions or something like that!' Ikuto was about to go insane. "Kagome!" He yelled as he entered the small shrine, but at that second, Kagome jumped down into the well. Without thinking, Ikuto jumped down after her. Once he landed, he began to think he was such an idiot. 'Why am I chasing her? Is she even worth all of this? Is this...where's Nunuyasha?' He noticed that his rival wasn't in sight, but that wasn't all he noticed. There was a blue light that surrounded him and Kagome and the air the was around his body was turned into a liquid-like substance that felt more mystical than wet. `What's wrong? What's going on?'

Kagome realized that she didn't make the jump alone. 'What the heck?' She turned around slowly, being slightly scared since she was first pulled into the feudal ear by a demon that was after the jewel. 'Don't be evil, don't be evil! Don't be...' "Ikuto!"

He began to blush, feeling like and idiot. Inuyasha wasn't even around. "I uh...can explain. You see, I just wanted...well I wanted to see you because..."

"But how is this possible?"

He stopped talking and cocked an eyebrow at her, thinking that he wasn't really the crazy one. "Kagome, what do you mean?" Ikuto noticed the sunshine beaming down on him and grew curious. "That's not right." He looked up to see the sky and felt the suns power even more. "This is strange. Wasn't it dark in here two seconds ago?"

'He must be Inuyasha's reincarnation. There's no mistaking it now!' "Ikuto, this is going to sound strange, but we're in a different place now." She scratched her head, trying to figure out how she should explain everything to him. "Well..." She looked up, waiting for Inuyasha to show his face. 'I didn't need these two meeting. Inuyasha and I just had a great time and we communicated to each other and...I believed for a second that he and I didn't have to think about him and Kikyo. Now everything between us is going to go up in smoke!'

"You've got to go!" she whispered. "I'll talk to you later!"

"What for? I wanted to talk to you, Kagome. I..." he couldn't bear to look at her. "I need to tell you something important. I wanted to tell you how I-"

"That's nice, but you need to go!"

"But Kago-"

"Kagome?" asked Inuyasha from above.

Ikuto grunted. "That's him, isn't it? That's Nunuyasha!"

She covered his mouth and whispered "His name is Inuyasha and get it right. I don't want him to meet you, so stay here and I'll come back." Kagome struggled to climb up the well, since she was so nervous. She was used to getting to the top, but it was different now. She was shaking and felt weak. 'Oh no! Oh no! What am I going to do? Inuyasha's not going to trust me anymore. The kiss was just so wonderful and....what should I do?'

When she reached the top, Inuyasha was growling and like mad dog. 'She...he...he's here?' He became confused once he thought about it. 'That's insane. How could he do that?' He growled at Kagome again, and could see the sweat rolling down her forehead, but he also noticed that something was on the tip of her tongue. It was a word, and he didn't want her to utter it. With the thought of himself lying face first in the dirt, he calmed down. 'He's not special. He must have traveled with Kagome by using the jewel shards she had with her.' He couldn't help but grunt. 'Was he spying on us?'

Kagome didn't really see any betrayal in his eyes like she thought she would see, but she still feared what she saw. It wasn't complete anger, which surprisingly frightened her more than his normal jealous rampage. Ikuto was in his territory now, and he planned on making his competition unable to compete. With a fierce gaze in his eyes, and rasp in his voice, he asked "Where is he?"

"Um, well he's..."

Inuyasha didn't wait for an answer. He knew where he was; this Ikusho or whatever Inuyasha thought was his name. He pushed Kagome away from the well and decided that he would handle him, and nothing, not even the spell that Kagome had over him would keep him from victory. He hovered over the well, and waited for his prey.

"How'd you know?"

Inuyasha looked at her as if she was an idiot and pointed to his ears. "I can hear pretty darn well, Kagome!"

"Inuyasha, don't!" yelled Kagome.

It was too late to stop Inuyasha from meeting Ikuto. She could already hear Ikuto climbing up the well. 'Ah! No, no, no, no!'

When Ikuto's head was shown, Inuyasha looked at him as if he was the demon, but Ikuto's feelings were only mutual to an extent, because when Ikuto got a good look at Inuyasha, his jealousy, anger, broken heart, and even his goal of winning Kagome from Inuyasha was terminated once he saw Inuyasha's claws, fangs, and ears. "What the Hell?"

His sudden shock, made him lose his grip on the well, and he began to fall, but Inuyasha quickly grabbed his arm and Ikuto began to panic. "W-w-what are you?"

"I could ask the same about you. I thought you were human." Inuyasha pulled him out of the well and threw him on the grass.

Ikuto noticed that he was more curious than hostile, so he calmed down. 'What on Earth? He's not...human.' "K-Kagome...what's going on? Isn't this Inukasha?"

"It's Inuyasha!" Inuyasha barked at him angrily. "What are you doing here anyway?"

Kagome walked to Ikuto and helped him up. She didn't know what to say. There was no way to explain what was going on, besides the truth. "Uh..." She smiled sweetly. "You see, Inuyasha isn't really human...well he's human, but he's not completely human. He's half human, and half demon." When Ikuto didn't answer, she bit her lip. 'Oh great. He doesn't believe me; at least that's what it looks like.' "I thought you knew this, Ikuto. You said you were okay with this!" She crossed her arms, and tried to make him look like the bad guy to take pressure off of him.

"I didn't say it like that. I said I wasn't okay with the concept of it, but wouldn't hate him, and I didn't even know he was a demon! I thought he was gay!"

Kagome gasped. "Why would you think that?"

“He seemed different enough from me with the hair and all!”

Inuyasha became offended and his temper began to rise, especially since Inuyasha didn't understand the new meaning of the word.

Ikuto grunted "I wasn't okay with that either, but I didn't see the point in hating the guy."

Inuyasha made a fist. "What's wrong with being gay? I can be a very gay guy sometimes!"

"No, Inuyasha!" Kagome yelled. "You're not gay, at least not what it means in my time!"

A sweat drop appeared on his head. "Uh...what does it mean?"

She played with her fingers, already knowing that he wasn't going to like the answer. "Um...it's when a guy...is with a guy and a girl is with a girl."

Inuyasha didn't catch on at first, but then his mouth dropped. 'He thought I was...' He grunted in rage and walked over to Ikuto. "You little..."

"Sit!" Kagome yelled.

Ikuto was already slightly freaking out, but his mind was blown away once he saw that Inuyasha was bound to the dirt by one little word that Kagome uttered. 'Strange.' "Kagome, I want to know where I am, and what's going on!" Ikuto snapped out of his little panic and realized that he didn't know where he was, and just like any man, he didn't like admitting he was lost.

"Well, this is going to sound a little crazy and you're probably not going to believe me, but we've traveled 500 years back in time through this well."

Ikuto was emotionless for a moment, but then smiled, as if he was about to laugh. "I must be dreaming." He looked around and saw the giant trees that surrounded them, as well as the beaming sun. There wasn't other signs of life around that weren't some kind of animal, which was strange, so he came to the conclusion that "I must be having a dream."

It wasn't a bad guess. Traveling 500 years back in time was just impossible! Or was it? There was no question about it, if it was a dream. His mind must have recreated Inuyasha into some demon that Kagome couldn't possibly be in love with. Or could she? 'It doesn't matter. This is my dream, and Nuyashia's going down.'

"This isn't a dream, Ikuto. I'm sorry but it's not."

Inuyasha rose to his feet. "I'm going to get you for that!"

Ikuto scratched his head. "No I'm not, Nunu...whatever! I'm dreaming" he said with a smile "meaning that you can't hurt me."

Inuyasha cracked his knuckles. "Oh," a bloodthirsty grin came on his face as he began to approach Ikuto.

"No Inuyasha!" Kagome got in between the two of them and held her arms out in an attempt to stop Inuyasha. "Do it and you're going to be in so much pain, Inuyasha. I am serious!" She was actually smiling at the thought. If Inuyasha was crazy enough to hurt Ikuto, he was going down, and she was completely serious about that.

Inuyasha at first didn't take her serious because she was smiling, but he saw the twinkle in her eyes, and for a moment, he thought she was going to go into battle with Naraku with absolute power and the confidence to beat him. 'If she's like that...' He shuttered at the thought. "He has to go back."

"Just...give me a sec. I want Sango and the other's to meet him. I know this world is too dangerous, but..."

"Why is it too dangerous?" Inuyasha asked, as if he really didn't know. "Isn't he a demon?"

"No!" Kagome shrieked. "Why would you say something like that?"

"Yeah," asked Ikuto. "Why would you think that?"

"Well, your skin color isn't exactly that of a human. I just assumed that-"

"You what?" Ikuto was like the growling dog now, and it didn't matter if he thought it was a dream. His anger certainly wasn't a figment of his imagination. "You little....you little..." He pushed Kagome to the side and was about to swing at Inuyasha. He created a fist and continued to growl as the blood started to rush to his head. "How could you?" It sounded more like a statement, rather than a question when he threw his punch at Inuyasha, but when Inuyasha moved out the way, Inuyasha was ready to fight, but was still curious to why his skin wasn't like human skin.

"Stop it you two!" Kagome ran in front of Ikuto and pushed him back from Inuyasha. "He doesn't understand!"

"He's nothing but one of those prejudice freaks that make my life Hell!"

"No he's not, Ikuto. He's just confused. We're 500 years in the past, still in Japan. He's never seen an African before. You'll have to excuse his ignorance."

Ikuto calmed down a little. "Well, if that's the case, then I better be dreaming, or his ignorance won't be forgiven!"

"What I said isn't worse about what you said about me!" Inuyasha was still ready to fight.

Kagome agreed with Inuyasha, but didn't say anything. 'Inuyasha's in between two different women. What Ikuto said was the craziest statement that I've ever heard in my whole entire life.'

'So this isn't a dream?' Ikuto's eyes widened, but regained their size once he saw Inuyasha. 'And he's competition.' He gave Inuyasha a really good look and began to stroke his chin. 'Is he?' He became calm and began circling around Inuyasha, picking out ever single detail that he possibly could. Once he had made a full circle, he crossed his arms and smirked.

Inuyasha and Kagome were waiting for Ikuto to say something. They were both interested to see how his full reaction of traveling back in time would be. He already went through anger and denial. What was next?

"This Nunuyasha, just looks like a skinny little nobody to me."

"What?" Inuyasha pulled out his Tetsusaiga and was ready to kill him. "You're going down!"

At this point of time, the Tetsusaiga had not transformed and just appeared to be a rusty sword that couldn't really inflict any damage on Ikuto, since he did fence everyday with his brother. "Am I supposed to be scared?" His arrogant smirk was tossed away when he saw Inuyasha's sword transform into a giant fang that was far more superior to any sword Ikuto possessed.

"B-b-but how?"

"Ask someone in Hell!" Inuyasha said while holding his sword tightly, ready to strike at Ikuto.

Kagome sighed. "Sit." Inuyasha fell back down in his usual position and his sword returned to its normal state. While Ikuto hovered over him with a curios expression, Kagome crossed her arm and said "Listen you two; I don't want you two to fight each other. Inuyasha,"

He raised his head up from the ground and moved out of his position and sat Indian style.

"I can stop you with one little word, so you shouldn't even try anything." She looked into Ikuto's eyes and smiled. "Listen Ikuto, there's a lot about me that you don't know about and I need you to cooperate with me. Can you please do that for me?"

Ikuto stopped paying attention to Inuyasha and smiled at Kagome. "Sure Kagome.” His smile went away. “Just keep this Nunuyasha out of my face!"

Inuyasha sprung to his feet with a grunt, but since Kagome gave him a stern look, he just decided to yell at his new rival. "The name is Inuyasha, Iksho!"

Ikuto's eyes narrowed, but he stayed as calm as he possibly could in order to please Kagome. "The name is Ikuto, Inuyasha."

They were both calm, but they were both angry inside, and Kagome could tell. She wasn't a person with feelings anymore. She was just a prize that they both wanted to desperately win. Inuyasha was currently in the lead, but Ikuto was catching up. Inuyasha had experienced a few fumbles, and Ikuto had never had any, but didn't have a lot of points or experience. Ikuto had a lot to do if he wanted to win Kagome. Inuyasha had the ball, but Ikuto was ready to tackle.

To Be Continued.....

A/N: They met! Hope you guys like this chapter! Review!