InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Strange Faces Meet in Strange Places ❯ How Can This Happen? ( Chapter 2 )

Disclaimer: Sad days, I don't own Inuyasha.

Chapter Two: How Can This Happen?

The scenery flew by in a swirl of green, brown, and blue. Kagome barely caught the sound of birds chirping they're sweet song. The farther they scampered into the forest the quieter everything became around them. Inuyasha started to slow down because his nose found the stench so strong that he felt nauseated. Trying to keep his lunch down his legs decelerated. The lump of girl on his back slumped forward and dug her head into the nook of Inuyasha's neck. Though he was more concerned about what his nose was finding so offending the young half-demon found that he liked the feeling of the small girl there.

A yelp engraved itself through the silence and the dog ears perked up and the amber eyes swiftly zoomed in to the area were the piercing sound came from. Very abruptly, out of nowhere, it looked like what was a fox appeared, or what was left of a fox. Its eyes had been torn from the home they knew so that empty orifices looked at nothing, though it seemed to know where the hero's were. The once black nose had a chunk out of it, but it seemed to work just fine. The fox's nose, or what was left of it, wiggled with such intensity that they knew that it knew just were they stood. An ear was missing, possibly chewed of by another animal, and the one that was left was turned backward, as if listening for something that wasn't there. It's used to be gorgeous fur had gaps and what was rest of the red-brown coat was matted together with mud. In its unforgiving jaws was an unconscious fox youth.

Kagome stared up at the creature, not sure what to make of it. Right away she noticed the poor young fox in the demon's mouth and…a jewel shard in its back!

"Inuyasha," she whispered into his ear, "I can see a jewel shard embedded into the demon's back." He let go of her so she could slip to the ground as quietly as possible. Then the mighty half-demon took out his sword. His best weapon made from a fang of his father's, the Tetsusaiga. The fox heard the blade sliding out and turned its massive head toward the fighter. Inuyasha glanced back at Kagome, pointed to him self and the sword, then the demon, then at her, and at last to the youth still clutched in its mouth. Kagome nodded and knew that he was going to strike the demon and wanted her to dash as silently as possible to save the child.

The smaller half-demon leapt gracefully into the sky and smacked the larger demon hard enough so that it dropped the miniature fox to the brown earth. Kagome swiftly raced over and picked up the small creature and flew back to Inuyasha.

"Kagome, I need you to find a good hiding spot where you won't make any noise." Inuyasha looked at her to make sure she understood what he was saying; the only way that this demon would know where they were was by sound. Kagome nodded her head abruptly, and off she went with the unfortunate child in her arms trying to make no sound at all.

Inuyasha turned back to the demon, "As for you, you load of crap, you're going down!" With that he prepared his first attack on this creature of darkness.