InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Secrets ❯ A New Found Friend ( Chapter 4 )

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I do not own any of the characters from the InuYasha television series. I claim only characters that I have made using my own intellect.

 

 

Chapter 4

 

I wake with my head throbbing and my body feeling somewhat better. I don't know how long I've been out, but I sit up, intent on finding out. I look around to see where I am.

It looks as if I'm in Kaede's hut. Inuyasha is nowhere to be seen, Sango curled up in the corner with Kirara, Miroku sitting against the wall asleep, and Shippou curled up next to my legs.

I reach up then to see if my collar is still in place. My hand feels around my neck to find it gone. I look around to see it nowhere in sight and just let out a sigh, guessing that if it was that dangerous to wear it then I shouldn't.

I get up to see myself garbed in a new miko outfit and I happily walk out into the night, taking in a deep breath of fresh air. I light up a cigarette and look around, intent on bitching Inuyasha out for being such a narrow-minded asshole. How my mother loved him I'll never know, but then if she hadn't I wouldn't be here.

I look into the sky to see a new moon. A frown coming to my face at a story that pops up in my mind.

Damn I've been asleep for quite some time if it's already the new moon, I think, sniffing the scents on the air and looking for my father.

I find his scent, but the strange thing about it is that it's human. The story again pops into my head and I quickly follow where Inuyasha's scent leads me, finding myself at a little hut a ways away from the village.

I walk into the hut to see a human Inuyasha sleeping sitting up against the wall as Miroku had in Kaede's. I look down at him and realize why mother would have liked him. He's what girls at school would have called a heart breaker. I let out a soft sigh and sit down in front of him, studying his face.

I'd never really taken the time to look at him, only knowing that I looked nothing like him because of my resemblance to my dearly departed mother. The only thing I seemed to have gained from my father way the set of dog ears and the tail. Not to mention that I seemed to have his temper.

“What are you doing here, Mistress Higame,” a small voice asks me, me looking around the hut to see where the voice had come from, though my eyes alight upon nothing. “Down here, my mistress.”

At these words, I look in the floor in front of my kneeling form to see a small flea demon standing there, looking up at me. My eyes grow wide and I try to remember who this strange little creature is.

“I am your family's servant of many years, Mistress Higame. My name is Myouga and I'm at your service,” the small flea man replies, jumping up onto my shoulder. “Now might I know why you are here instead of resting after your strenuous battle with Kagura?”

“Oh . . . um . . . I needed to talk to my father, but unfortunately he seems to be sleeping,” I reply quietly, looking down at Myouga, my memory digging deep for info about him.

I think for a few seconds and then it comes to me. He was indeed Myouga the flea and he was also very full of information, though he tended to be quite a coward and would run away from the fights.

“Ah, I see. Master Inuyasha sleeps quite peacefully when he is in his human for. What did you need to talk to him about,” Myouga says, looking up at me with a smile.

“Um . . . well, after my fight with Kagura, I was on my way back to Kaede's when I happened upon Inuyasha and he got angry at me and left me there, not even caring about my injuries,” I reply, my anger not flaring up, but instead I feel hurt.

“That sounds like, Master Inuyasha. He has a one track mind when it comes to Naraku and I'm not sure he knows what to do with you. He realizes you are his daughter, Mistress Higame, but the full effect hasn't set in yet. You must give him time before he'll come around, my dear,” Myouga says, sounding very wise.

I just smile sweetly at him and nod my head, leaving soon after so that Myouga and Inuyasha my sleep, my own body fully reenergized and raring to go.

I walk out in the night, loving the feel of the cool night breeze upon my skin as I make my way to the stream where I sit and watch the cool water reflect the black sky back up at itself. It looks beautiful and yet dark and deadly at the same time.

I sit there until the sun starts to peek up over the horizon. I sit and watch the sunrise, beauty just emanating through the sky with the air being so clean.

Then I head back towards Kaede's hut, knowing that if I don't get back soon, the others will worry. I reach the hut and sit down, noticing that everyone is still asleep. Shippou is the first to wake up, crawling into my lap and stretching, hugging me with the glad news of me being awake.

“You sleep just as long as Inuyasha does when he's hurt,” Shippou says, my eyebrow quirking and a smirk coming to my lips.

“I do, do I? And how long exactly did I sleep for,” I ask, Shippou looking up at me with the innocence of a small child.

“Yeah, you slept for a couple weeks. I think I lost track of the days after the first week, though. I'm just glad you're okay,” Shippou says, smiling up at me and giving me another hug.

Then there's a call from outside and Shippou is off. It had sounded like another village child so I just smile motherly after Shippou as he leaves, my eyes wandering to my other companions. Sango and Miroku are awake now, Miroku grinning at Sango with a huge red hand print on the side of his face and Sango glaring at him angrily. I just smirk and shake my head with a smile, walking out of the hut then.

I look around to suddenly see Inuyasha standing in front of me, coming to a halt for I block the way into Kaede's hut.

“Move,” Inuyasha says, my anger spiking at the way he treats me.

I glare at him and smack him so hard across the face that he goes flying into the nearest tree.

“What the fuck did I ever do to you to deserve this kind of behavior?! Huh?! Is it because mom left you without telling you about me?! Well?! What's your fucking excuse,” I growl, my eyes glowing red in my anger and my hands clenching into fists.

“I didn't ask for you to come back or to be born. You don't have to like my attitude. All you are to me is a jewel detector like Kagome,” Inuyasha growls, glaring at me angrily.

That really makes something snap inside of me and I jump on Inuyasha, starting to tear him to pieces, my mind blank with only one thing on my mind . . . to kill Inuyasha for belittling my wonderful mother.

Then I'm pulled off of Inuyasha by a forceful hand, me looking up to see the beautiful man that had saved Ookami and me from Naraku that day. He looks down at the slightly bloodied up Inuyasha with a smirk.

“I heard about my new niece and thought I'd see for myself, but I never thought that she would have as much a hatred for you as I do, Brother. You really should keep your offspring on a tight leash to teach them some manners,” the man speaks, the realization that he's my Uncle Sesshomaru dawning on me.

“Fuck you, Sesshomaru. Put Higame down and leave us be,” Inuyasha growls, standing up and glaring at Sesshomaru.

“Why would I let you be? Your daughter seems to be very good friends with someone I used to know. I think I'd like to enjoy dear Higame's company, Brother. At least for now, since I don't think I could stand the stench of a half-breed for very long,” Sesshomaru replies to Inuyasha with his cold, unfeeling gaze.

“I think you should let me decide what to do, dear Uncle. And I decide that you put me the fuck down,” I growl, breaking up this wonderful family moment by clawing angrily at my Uncle's wrist.

I feel warm blood drip over my claws as I'm thrown from my Uncle, landing not even inches from a tree.

Well, that would have hurt, I think to myself, glaring at my Uncle as he looks me over with a frown.

“I see you have not taught her to respect her family or elders. You are quite lacking in the fathering department, dear Brother. You really should work on that,” Sesshomaru says icily and then he's gone in a flash of light, leaving me alone with my father again.

As soon as I'm sure Sesshomaru isn't coming back, I turn from my father and start walking away, intent on going to find Kouga to make sure he's alright.

Unfortunately, I've seemed to have gained a wonderful hero complex where I can't help, but want to help those around me when they are in trouble, hurt, or in any kind of pain.

Along my walk, I'm joined by Shippou, the small fox cub pleading to accompany me on my journey. I finally let up, asking Ookami if she would like to join me as well. She agrees, but refuses to go anywhere near Kouga or his stinky wolf den. I just smile and nod, feeling sympathy towards her situation.

Then we're off, traveling at break neck speed to Kouga's, thanking god that I have demon blood or this would have taken forever to get to.

We soon come upon a bunch of mountains. I sniff the air and realize that Kouga's scent is all over the place. I wonder how I will find his den if I can't distinguish his scent from the mountain that he seems to have marked for territory purposes.

I frown, turning to Ookami, who is glaring up at the mountain as if it were evil itself to her.

“Um . . . do you know where Kouga's den is because I can't seem to distinguish his scent from the territorial scents that he's left here,” I ask with a blush, looking at my feet and feeling stupid.

“All you have to do is follow that path and you'll come across it in no time,” Ookami replies, going to sit in a tree to await my return from Kouga's den.

I reply with thanks, Shippou climbing onto my shoulders as I take off running on the path, trying to make good time again. We had all made it to the bottom of the mountain around noon so we would get back to Kaede's village late into the night.

Shippou and I follow the path for what seems like endless hours, finally coming to a small peak in the trail, leading to a small mountain valley with tons of wolves and wolf demons scattered across it.

I can tell that the demons and wolves smell me for a ruckus starts, demons yelling and wolves growling and howling at me. I sigh I quietly walk into the valley, dodging any weapon that comes my way until I hear Kouga's voice yell stop.

I look towards him and bow, looking him up and down to see that a few of his injuries had reopened and had yet to heal.

“What do you want her, wench,” Kouga asks, frowning at me as if confused to why I had ventured out here.

“You left abruptly from Kaede's. I just wanted to make sure you were okay and I brought you this. It's a healing balm for any reopened wounds or even wounds you may have in the future,” I reply, shrugging my shoulders nonchalantly before tossing him a canister of my healing balm.

Kouga studies me with a frown as if trying to make sense of something very confusing. I just stand there, looking around at the other wolf demons and wolves until I feel a cold, wet nose I my ankle. I look down to see a little runt of a wolf pup looking up at me with curious eyes.

I openly kneel down and put my hand out to it, its nose going crazy as I try hard not to laugh at how it tickles. I smile as the little pup jumps into my lap and starts licking my face happily.

I cuddle the pup in my arms as I stand up and look to Kouga, his face filled with shock as he looks at me.

“What? Never seen a dog demon get along with a wolf before,” I ask, raising an eyebrow at him with a smirk.

“No, it's just that, that particular wolf pup has refused to let anyone else touch it after its mother died. It won't even pick a wolf demon to connect with,” Kouga says incredulously. “And he seems to have picked you.”

“Picked me to what,” I ask, not really knowing much about wolf demon tribes or their ways.

“These wolves are special wolves with the talent of connecting to a wolf demon of their choice where they can talk to that wolf demon. In all my time I've never seen a wolf choose anything else, but a wolf demon. All wolves are also connected to me since I'm the tribal leader, but this one has refused to do so,” Kouga replies, looking now at the pup in my arms that's wiggling around, trying to lick my face some more.

“How do you know it picked me? I haven't heard its thoughts at all,” I ask, smiling down at the puppy and scratching its tummy.

“The mark on your wrist proves it. The mark is like a mating mark except it's a different design. A mating mark swirls, while a connection mark is more jagged,” Kouga explains, me a little happy seeing as how Kouga and I seem to be having somewhat of a normal conversation that doesn't include any derisive terms.

“Then what am I supposed to do,” I ask, not knowing how to take care of a wolf at all.

“You'll have to take him with you. Since he's already connected to you, he can connect with no one other than your chosen mate,” Kouga replies as if this happened every day of the week.

“Um . . . I don't know how to take care of a wolf pup,” I say, looking down at the happy little pup falling asleep in the crook of my arm.

“Then I'll have to go with you and teach you,” Kouga says with a frown, as if the idea is the most horrible thought in the entire universe.

“Don't sound so helpful, Kouga,” I mumble so only Kouga can hear; a dead stare on my face.

Kouga just rolls his eyes at me and grabs me by the arm, leading me away from the group of wolf demons that seem to have begun to stare at me in a slightly creepy fashion.

We make it out of the valley after not too long and we begin our journey down the path, Kouga taking his sweet time.

“Um . . . could we hurry this up a little because I need to get back to Kaede's village,” I ask, frowning at his slow pace.

“As you wish,” Kouga say with an evil smirk taking off in a cloud of dust.

“Oh, I see how it is, you cheating son of a bitch. Using the fucking jewel shards,” I mumble angrily, running as fast as I can down the path, only to run smack dab into the back of Kouga at the bottom.

“What are you doing here,” Kouga growls at the same time as Ookami does, me getting a mental sweat drop as I realize that I'd just gotten together two people that probably hate each other more and Kouga and Inuyasha do.

“Um . . . Kouga, Ookami traveled with me, and, Ookami, Kouga is going to help me learn how to raise this little wolf pup,” I say, stepping in between the two before actual blows are thrown.

Kouga and Ookami glare at each other for some time before Ookami disappears suddenly, leaving me with Kouga.

“Um . . . we might want to camp here tonight just to give Ookami some time before we get to Kaede's,” I say, trying to sound friendly.

Kouga mumbles something I can't quite hear and makes a fire, sitting up in the tree. I sigh and sit on the ground beneath the tree, Shippou and the pup curled up asleep in my lap.

Soon I feel my eyelids become heavy, my mind starting to wander away from my worries and into sleep and then everything goes dark as I fall into a deep sleep.