InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Mika- the Inu Ookami Hanyou ❯ The Search for Answers ( Chapter 5 )

The Search for Answers

 

Volcanic plain…

 

As Mika bathed, Inuyasha muttered to himself under his breath about being the nice guy who gets the stuffing beat out of him, by a girl no less, and not even Kagome's `sit' command. He quickly moved toward Totosai's humble abode in search of Myoga as he thought of what Kagome's mother had said. When Midori had told him of the circumstances of Mika's arrival to the shrine, he figured that the duo of Myoga and Totosai had something to do with this incident, especially considering the same fate having fallen upon Sounga, his late father's sword of hell. Within a couple of hours, he arrived on the volcanic plain and barged into the hut. “Where's Myoga, Totosai?” Inuyasha demanded as he began to pat down the old sword smith.

 

Totosai looked at Inuyasha, “Nice to see you too, you ungrateful mutt. I haven't seen him for a while. It's not like I'm his keeper after all.”

 

Inuyasha stood back from the elderly sword smith as he realized that Totosai was speaking the truth. “What do you know of a human baby smelling of wolf being left in the Bone-Eaters Well, Totosai?” Inuyasha asked.

 

Totosai put down the sword he was working on and scratched his head. “I don't recall having heard about that. Is the child ok?” he said as he thought, “I hope that he's not asking about Sesshomaru's child.”

 

“Seeing as the child is now quite a bit older and wanting to know about her parents, I thought you would know about it, seeing as that's how you, Myoga and Saya took care of So'unga in a similar fashion,” Inuyasha replied.

 

Totosai scratched his head again and said, “I recall a young male wolf demon had dropped off a child a while back that needed protection, but I don't remember what happened to the child. It was a really long time ago.”

 

Unnoticed by both Totosai and Inuyasha, Myoga hopped into the cave. “That was close,” he thought, as he tried to catch his breath. He had just barely escaped the unwanted affection of his paramour, Shoga. Myoga noticed Inuyasha's scent as he peered into the cave. “Ah, Master Inuyasha is here. I wonder what he's up to.” Myoga moved closer to the dog demon as he listened to the conversation between him and Totosai.

 

At this bit of information, Inuyasha's ears pricked up and he pressed Totosai for more information about the wolf demon. “He's about your age and I remember that he had blue eyes. The only other thing I can remember is creating a pendant for the child at the request of the young demon, a wolf howling with a crescent moon to be precise. My best piece of work on such short notice if I do say so,” he gloated, as he wiped a tear from his eyes at the memory of the pendant. “He never saw it finished, though. He'd left in a great hurry. I never did catch his name.” Inuyasha felt the blood boil in his veins. He flexed his claws as only one name came to mind with the same wolf scent as Mika, Koga.

“What the hell was he thinking, leaving an infant to the likes of Myoga and Totosai?! What kind of father is he to have abandoned his own flesh and blood like that? I've got a lot of choice words to say to him when I see him next time!!” Inuyasha thought as he frankly thanked Totosai for the information and left the cave, too deep in his own furiousness of what he thought Koga had done, to notice the flea.

 

After Inuyasha left the cave in a hurry, Myoga leapt onto Totosai. “I see that the young master was asking about the infant Koga left us a while back. What did he want to know?” Myoga asked. Totosai filled in the flea as best he could remember, seeing as the old sword smith's memory was not that great, even though the event between him and Inuyasha had just happened.

 

As Totosai concluded with what Myoga had overheard, Myoga said, “I'm afraid we may not be able to keep this from Lord Sesshomaru for much longer. If the child has been found and some how has returned to this time, as did Sounga, then she's in very grave danger. And now it's all our faults. We should have placed her with a family on the continent, instead of that damn well. That way, Lord Sesshomaru would not have known about the child and we would be less likely to be the next victims on his list. I would say this situation is worse than when you left him Tenseiga, Totosai.”

 

“I believe you're right, Myoga. Now with the proverbial cat is out of the bag, what can we do to prevent him from killing her?” Totosai asked.

 

Myoga looked around the cave at the numerous swords, armor and shields. “I believe that we need to supply the child with a way to defend and protect herself, something that will withstand an assault from his poison claws and whip and repel the attack of the Dragon Strike.”

 

As Totosai scratched his head, thinking about what Myoga said, he also looked around the room and came to the conclusion that to make the required equipment that he needed to collect some supplies. He moved to his three-eyed bull and leapt on to his back. As he moved over the country side, he tried desperately to figure out how to get the most important raw materials, necessary for the blade to protect the young demon, a fang from either Sesshomaru or Koga. He continued his search, as Inuyasha searched the surrounding area for Koga.

 

The forest outside the Mountain Wolf Demon Strong Hold…

 

“Hey Koga wait up! Man, why can't he ever wait for us?” whined Ginta to his equally panting and exhausted companion.

 

“Really, he could at least show some consideration and give us a break!” added Hakkaku. As if their prayers were answered Koga stopped short. As Ginta and Hakkaku pulled abreast of Koga, one asked, “Hey Koga, why did you stop?”

 

“I smell that dumb mutt, and he seems to be coming right towards us. Wonder what mutt-face wants.” No sooner had the words died on his lips Inuyasha jumped from the trees and landed right in front of the trio.

 

“Hey, you scrawny wolf, I got a bone to pick with you!” he yelled, blocking the roadway effectively with his body.

 

Flexing his claws Koga, replied, “You want to fight huh, mutt-face? Well I'll be happy to oblige!”

 

“Ha, not this time you scrawny wolf, I got a question. A girl showed up near Kaede's village last night. It was Kagome's cousin from the other world.”

 

“And that means what to me?” Koga retorted as he secretly thought of his own harem composed of Kagome and her as yet unseen cousin scantily clad and dancing. A depraved smile crossed his face, enraging Inuyasha even more.

 

“If you'd shut up and wipe that smile off your face, then I could tell you! The girl's blood reeked of demon, both wolf and dog. And when I asked Totosai about it he said a wolf gave him a baby. And that he and Myoga put the baby into the Bone-Eater's Well! Luckily for the child, she was found by Kagome's family and they adopted her. Who knows what could have happened to her!”

 

“What? Those two morons put my niece into that old well! Oh, I never should have taken her to them, but Akane asked me to right before she died!” Koga thought with a shocked and horrified look that quickly replaced the smirk on his face.

 

“From the look on your face, then it was you who gave the child to them. So it's true, you're the father?” Inuyasha demanded arrogantly.

 

Koga barked, “What the hell do you mean? Her father…?! Of course I'm not her father! What kind of idiot do you take me for?”

 

Inuyasha, taken aback by Koga's statement, as a look of confusion quickly spread across his face, replied, “Then if you're not the father, who is? And what person in their right mind would give you a baby?”

 

Having backed a substantial distance from Koga and Inuyasha, Ginta and Hakkaku looked at each other as the verbal war continued. Ginta asked, “Do you think they are talking of Akane's child?”

 

“I don't know, but we should stand clear of them till they get this worked out. It could easily come to blows with those two idiots fighting,” Hakkaku replied.

 

Koga looked away from Inuyasha, thought over his answer. “The mother of the child asked me to take her to them for protection. Where is she? I want to see her,” was all that Koga could say his demeanor changed for anger to a somber contemplation within seconds.

 

“Well, that doesn't answer my question you scrawny wolf. If you answer it, I'll consider taking you to her,” Inuyasha retorted, feeling as if by knowing where Mika was he held the upper hand to the wolf.

 

Koga snapped back, “Yeah right, like I need you mutt. Not only do I have Kagome's scent to go off of, but now you've given me the exact scents to find the girl!” He turned to Ginta and Hakkaku, “I'll be going on ahead, try and keep up.”

 

“Wait! Where do you think you're going you scrawny wolf? I'm not done with you yet!” Inuyasha yelled as he tried to grab Koga's shoulder to prevent him from escaping his inquiry. In irritation for being held up in his journey to Mika, Koga jumped up, knocked Inuyasha to the ground, and with a puff of dust, he was gone.

 

Ginta and Hakkaku, looking after their fast moving leader, started to take off in his general direction, when Inuyasha barks, “Where do you two think you're going?”

 

They both stopped dead in their tracks as a cringe crossed their faces. “We were just following Koga. So if you don't mind we will be going,” Ginta replied, trying to sound as flippant as Koga toward Inuyasha.

 

“Is that so? Well, I have some questions before you can go,” he said, with a smile full of malice.

 

“We're not telling you anything, you stupid Mutt!!” Hakkaku yelled. As the words died on his lips, Inuyasha delivered a stout blow to both their heads.

 

“Now that I have your attention, are you going to talk, or do we do this the hard way?” Inuyasha asked as he cracked his knuckles in anticipation of the answer.

 

“What do you want to know?” the two replied in fear of the hard way, each holding the other for dear life and strength. Each were acutely aware of the reaction Koga would have at them answering Inuyasha's questions about his family, but they feared Inuyasha more since Koga was now gone.

 

Forest of Inuyasha…

 

As Koga raced toward Kaede's village, the wind in his face carrying both Kagome's and Mika's scent toward him, he thought, “I have to get to her before Sesshomaru. She's in grave danger.” As the thoughts of what Sesshomaru would do to Mika, Koga kicked his running into a higher gear, creating a whirlwind that ate up the ground as fast as he could to get to his niece.

 

 

On a hill covered in wild flowers…

 

“Lord Sesshomaru, were are you!” Jaken was already starting to panic even though Sesshomaru had only been gone for a few hours. “Oh why does he always do this? He always goes off and leaves me behind!”

 

“Don't worry Master Jaken, Lord Sesshomaru will be back, he's just trying to find something that can lead him to Naraku! Now what do you think of this Master Jaken?” Rin smiled as she held up a crown of daisies.

 

Jaken sighed and looked back not answering her question. “This girl is so happy! It gets annoying after a while.”

 

Campsite of the dead bandits…

 

Sesshomaru walked toward the clearing where he had heard the sound of the strange animal. It had been last evening and the odds were the creature was gone, but Sesshomaru had an uneasy feeling that whatever it was he needed to find it. “This is strange for I keep crossing the smell of a half dog demon, but it's similar to Inuyasha and yet it's different. What's more the smell appeared in the same area where I heard the unearthly howl. Could it be that there is another dog demon somewhere? Or is this a setup by Naraku? Could this be the link that I've been searching for Naraku?”

 

Sesshomaru's face grew sterner as he continued through the clearing, stepping over the dead bodies of the bandits. He stopped long enough to investigate the two men with holes in their guts. “Who or what could have done this? I smell only the dog demon and yet I can clearly see that a sword was used to kill the other three men. This makes no sense.” Sesshomaru continued to follow the scent of the dried blood as it lead toward the village, deep in thought and his own self importance.