InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The lost puppy ❯ It begins ( Chapter 1 )

[ P - Pre-Teen ]

Kagome stared at the small booklet, lying on the cool grass beneath her as she tried to figure out the last math question. She had asked Inuyasha to allow her to stay in the village for a while to catch up for her Math test that was coming up in a week or so, and he had said yes. He had decided that the rumor that they were currently chasing was unimportant enough for her to stay here and they wouldn't miss her. Kikyo had joined up with them a while back and they had decided that when need be, Kagome could stay behind and study or train. This plan had worked wonders for her and she was coming along nicely with her powers and with her studies. She was also quite happy that she could get a regular break from Inuyasha's slave-driving ways.

Kagome smiled to herself and looked lazily up to the clouds drifting in the sky. Her smile widened when she thought about all the ways that she had progressed while Inuyasha wasn't there, and if she wanted to be truthful, she was almost twice as strong as Kikyo now that she got some scarce training while she was doing what she did best, and lord Knew that she had worked her fingers to the bone with her extensive notes on every class that she got the chance to attend. She sighed in pure bliss when she thought about how she had brought up her grades to the point that she could quit now, two weeks from the end of school, and still come out with a passing grade. Kagome rolled over to look fully at the sky, arms behind her head. As cloud after cloud passes by her irises she became tired, closing her eyes to bask and relax in the warm summer sun.

Kagome heard a small yip in the distance. She tensed, then relaxed as she didn't see anything come out of anywhere and nothing moved in any way. Yip, yip, yip! Kagome cursed under her breath as she heard the unending yips come from what sounded like a puppy. Kagome jumped up and looked around, she still didn't see a puppy or anything else for that matter. Yip, yip, yip! The sounds echoed threw the hill she was laying on. Every echo that passed, another wave of guilt crashed down upon her and she couldn't stand it for much longer. Her movements were rough and desperate to find the source of the noise. She started to run down the hill she was standing on and she ran into the wooded area, and the yips got louder. She clicked her tongue, trying to attract the creatures attention. The yips were even closer to her as her frantic search was nearing to a close.

“Little puppy or whatever, come here, yip a little louder, please!” She said in a frantic voice.

Come on, come on! She thought angrily to herself, as she closed in to the small yipping puppy. Her footsteps neared its location and she saw the source, a small silver puppy, with his only paw stuck in a trap. Her heart clenched painfully when it whined, a pained, strangled sound. Her resolve doubled as she closed in to the small pup. It looked at her when she came close enough and growled and snarled, but cocked his head as Kagome did nothing but smile warmly at him. She inched closer to the pained puppy.

“It's okay, boy, I'm just going to get your paw out for you...” She said as she was close enough to touch it.

The pup looked at her angrily, but begrudgingly stuck out his paw. Kagome only hesitated for a moment, then started to pry off the metal contraption that was on his leg (think of a bear trap, only smaller). She released the metal, and sighed audibly. “Little pup, I'm sorry I'm not strong enough to get this thing off of your foot. Hm..” Kagome stopped to think of another way to save the poor puppy. “ Aha!” She exclaimed happily when she was struck with an idea.

“I need you to hold still, okay?” She asked as she put her arms out to her sides, and started to channel her power to her finger tips and to help the puppy.

Her powers caressed his body, an interesting feeling to have, and he looked up at her when he felt the power pass his small form and go on to start at the metal. Her power transformed from a loving caress to a crackling, burning power when it touched the metal, and the trap collapsed after just a moment of her power. His body fell, but never touched the ground as Kagome jumped to catch him, and she rolled as she fell.

“Hey there, are you all right?” Kagome asked softly. She ran back to Kaede's hut, laying the pup down, quickly walking to the book bag that had served her so faithfully while she was traveling. She opened the top flap to get gauze for his foot, and she rushed to get a splint also for him, seeing as he couldn't walk, and she had a feeling that something was wrong. She walked back to him, smiling brightly to him and checking for any other injuries, and a pleased coo came from her when she saw that there weren't any others. She looked down to the stump that was left of his front left paw. Her heart clenched for a second time that day as she reached out to rub it, subconsciously letting her healing powers touch his aura, and her eyes and his widened when the stump was replaced with a limb, a full limb with a paw at the end.

He looked at her gratefully and limped toward her and rubbed his head over the skin of her body that he could reach. Kagome looked down with her shocked face at his small form, what had happened to having him snarling at the mouth? Oh well. She looked down at the gauze covered paw and found herself upset slightly. Her knowledge on dogs wasn't as good as her knowledge on humans. She looked at the way that he carried himself, proudly but, she couldn't help but be worried about the way that he winced slightly every time he put weight on his right-fore paw. Kaede walked inside her hut, after a long days work. She saw Kagome bent over something and walked over to see what had her apprentice so perturbed.
“Kagome, what ales ye?” Kaede asked in her normal tone. Kagome looked over her shoulder at Kaede and smiled and replied to her.

“I found this puppy, Kaede-baba and I think I should take him to a vet, so that they can look at the wound that this little guy has.” Kagome rubbed her chin, while contemplating on weather she should or not. Kaede walked up to the pup, and lifted him, she nodded her head and looked sternly at Kagome, before telling her what she thought she needed to know.

“Kagome ye should take the pup to ye home, perhaps the doctors there can heal it, this one won't last through the night. He has lost much blood and he appears weak, for he should have been more energetic for such a small pup.” Kaede nodded her head, as if signifying that she was right to herself. Kagome turned wide gray irises toward Kaede, then to the whining puppy. Kagome decided that it would be better to take him to the vet and have him checked out. She thought for a few moments about a good vet that would be near the shrine when she got home, and she had to find a collar and a leash so that she could take him to the vet, and then there was the fees to have him treated. She sighed as she realized that what little money that she had saved up just went out the door for the little guy.

“Hey little guy, what do you want to be called? I think that Gin would be good, don't you, 'cause of your silver fur?” The pup bobbed his head, nodding the affirmative, and Kagome couldn't help but to giggle at the pure cuteness of it all. She picked up the pup, and prepared herself, and she looked at the puppy. A sudden thought hit her, but she brushed it off as she went out the door and toward the well. I mean how mad could Inuyasha get?

Pulling herself from the bottom of the well, she sighed as the little puppy climbed from his comfortable position on her shoulder, to the top of her head. Taking a moment to decide if this was really was worth it, she thought back to the small, helpless yips that the dog had produced, of the look on his face when he gazed at her, now that she had saved him from an awful death. She shuddered as she placed herself in his place, the cold metal biting into her soft flesh, the blood rolling from the wound as she saw herself call desperately for someone... anyone to help her before she died. Looking down at the little dog, that she had lovingly named Gin, silver, which made sense because he was the silver of the sky on the full moon. She had given him a name that had relevance to him, unlike the stupid names that some placed on their pets, such as Kitty, Sammy and Bud. She smiled as the puppy in question looked over the rim of the well down at her, cocking his head to the side, so horribly cute that she couldn't help but giggle at him. Yes She thought to herself, It truly was worth the small effort to save this little guy, I have a loyal companion for the rest of my days, and that makes it worth it.

Pulling her stiff body up the last few inches of the wells' depth she smiled as she pulled open the Shoji screen that was at the top of the well houses stairs. Laughing at her puppy companion as he tapped his right hind foot as he mad a impatient sound. He was as human as possible, he acted like Inuyasha when he was waiting for her to 'Move her slow ass faster'.

“All right, fine fine, I'm coming.” She said in her favorite tone.

Walking with the small pup held to her bust as she crossed the expanse of the yard that separated her from her home, Sunset shrine. Opening the glass sliding door as she walked inside she paused and took a deep breath.

“Mama! Souta! Gramps! I'm home!” Her call rang throughout the house, and she felt her agitation start when there was no answering call.

Seeing that no one else was home, she sighed and walked over to the refrigerator, where the tell- tale note was held up with a crescent moon magnet. Grabbing the small note from the door, she read the note as she sighed inwardly again, as she cursed the stupid court of her country as her mother had written that she had to discuss the case against her not being at school as much as she ought to. Sighing as she walked up the stairs to her bedroom, and she looked disdainfully at her bubblegum pink room. She hadn't found the heart to change the color of her room, as it held so many memories that she feared she would forget if she changed her room. A childish thought, but she was entitled to her own fears and insecurities. Hearing the thump- thump that signified her little friend hoping up the stairs to her bedroom and she giggled as he rolled into her room. Pulling out a small box from her top dresser she sighed as she felt her money go bye- bye! And she couldn't help but take a moment to say good bye to her money, but at least she had a better companion that she was saving in return.


She lifted the lid and touched the money, she felt the currency, and another sigh left her. Pulling out her few hundred from her box, she slowly made her way out of her room and down the steps. Suddenly her doorbell rang, and she gave a pause as Gin started to bark, and snarl. Feeling him rush past her, her steps quickened. She herd the chimes that hung on the back door wall, which only rung when someone pushed or pulled on the door. Finally getting to the bottom of the steps, and to the front door she had to pause her mad dash to unlock the front door. Pushing down the strange feeling in which she needed to hurry down, and swallowing the feeling that things were getting bat to worse outside.

Swinging the door with such a force that she was surprised that neither the door nor her arm broke. Looking out the door, she had to swallow the scream that wanted so bad -so horribly, terribly, awful bad- to wretch itself from her throat. The sight that greeted her made her want to scream and cry and try to placate the giant... giant dog. Looking at the pitiful boy, which we will call...Hojo. The poor boy, whom was shaking on the ground, and looked like he needed a spare change of boxers. Looking at the giant dog more closely, she felt a gasp leave her. The dog was Gin! Her little puppy had a small crescent moon upon his chest. This one had a slightly larger crescent in the same place. Whistling highly, she got his attention and beckoned him closer to her. Looking back to Hojo, she waved at him.
“Maybe you better leave?” She shouted from her position next to the now smaller demon puppy.


She relaxed as he nodded his head, scrambled his feet and ran down the shrine steps. Looking back to the now smaller dog, she sighed and called to him.

“We better get back to your side of the well. Inuyasha is going to get one heck of a kick from this. Come on lil' puppy.”

The last part she called over her shoulder. She was not looking forward to talking Inuyasha into letting her keep the puppy, seeing as it was a demon. But she shouldn't have too hard a time, especially since he let Sango keep Kirara, and she was a cat. She didn't know if it was for better or worse, but it was either going to help or hurt her case, that was for sure. Looking skyward as she walked to the well house, Gin limp/ walking by her side, she thought on how she got herself into messes like these. Slowly counting back on the list of things she should never have done, she opened the well house door and jumped in.

Pulling her tired body from the darkness and the abyss that was the well that separated her time and the feudal era. This puppy that she decided to save was becoming a rather bad thing for her sanity. First she saved it from a trap, then she saved it from killing Hojo, well kinda. Why did she ever save it? This kind of thing makes ones sanity fly out of the window. Sighing as the puppy leaped out of the well she couldn't help a few wayward thoughts that prodded her mind to the point of insanity. Was the thing just toying with her? Or was this some sick twisted mirage or something? Sighing as she pulled the rest of her body from the confines of the well, she allowed her shoulders to slump and her pace to slow, and her feet to drag as the thought of a yelling inu upset her and made her wonder on things in which were better left unthought. Pulling on her best smile, she thought that she might as well face the rage as maturely as she could. Walking into the village, she smiled at passers by, nodding to the people whom she knew.

Crossing the last of the expanse of the village, after passing the various merchants and people trying to sell her their wares. Of course, she paused to pull off her shoes and lift the curtain.
“Hey Kaede!” Kagome exclaimed happily.

She couldn't help the small sense of shock that washed over her as she came face to face with a very distraught hanyo. She just did the first thing that came to her mind, which, in this case was to grin sheepishly.

“Why Inuyasha, what in this great green, brown, and blue planet could possibly have you so peeved?” Kagome asked, one eyebrow cocked and a single hand propped on her hip.

She supposed that she might make a ridiculous scene, but to hell with it. The damn dogs in her life have already made her insane enough, what was a few more moments of this craziness, what more harm could it do? She smiled again at her wayward thoughts, yes, perhaps spending so long a time talking to herself has driven herself off of the proverbial deep end. Well perhaps this thought should just stop to begin with? Oh, wait, Inuyasha was talking again, but what did he say? Well, she supposed, just nodding her head and going 'hn' every now and again. Lord be with her and God speed. She was currently thinking about all the bad luck she had ever had.

'Okay lady luck, if there was ever a time to come through for me, now is most certainly the time to do so' Crossing her fingers she cut off Inuyasha, she spoke.

“Inuyasha... you see, as you and the rest of our strange group of friends are gone, I become lonely and depressed. Oh, a small friend that was eternally loyal, such as, oh I don't know, a dog. And imagine my good luck to have rescued a small demon puppy! Could you be persuaded to let me keep him? Please?” The last question was asked with a cute pout that usually got her what she wanted. A small quiver of her lip and a bite to her cheek and she looked on the verge of tears. Clasping her hands as if about to pray, she looked at her hanyo with wide doe eyes.

“No” Inuyasha said simply, turning as he crossed his arms, signaling that the subject was closed. He failed to notice that she was flabbergasted, her mouth agape for several reasons. The first of which was that he told her 'no'. How dare he?! But the other reason was because he said it with no 'bitch' or 'wench' or even 'woman'. She had to admit that he had grown some in the past few months, and rarely fought with her anymore. But he didn't grow up that much, and he often still got mad at her for certain things, many akin to this.

'B-but Inuyasha, please? C'mon here! Sango gets to keep Kirara, and she is a cat! A cat! Can't I keep this little dog, I'll care for him, and ask for breaks less often! Please? How often do I ask you for stuff? I am little burden to bear, and this dog will make it easier on everyone. He can carry me and keep me out of harms way when you are unable to do so. He would do more help than harm.” Kagome was desperately trying to avoid the option in which was coming more and more toward her favorite word. She shook her head as Inuyasha said 'no' to her again. Feeling the flame in her eyes that always arose whenever something like this happened.

“Inuyasha?” Her now sickly sweet voice called. Her nice and innocent facade was proving wonders, as the desired effect was caused. As always, his ears plastered to his head and his shoulders came inward as best as they could. “Are you sure I can't keep the pup?” Her voice rang in his ears as he answered without thought.

“No Kagome” He said as he was mentally slapping himself over the head.

Kagome felt the cruel smile surface on her lips as she parted them to ask once more. “Are you sure? I would advise you to change your mind...” Her still innocent voice rang.

Inuyasha thought about his options and for once gave in without a fight. Perhaps the dog can prove useful. “Fine” His irritated voice said as he walked to the nearest tree and jumped into it. Maybe, just maybe, her happy smile that graced her face for a brief moment was well worth it.

'Well' she thought happily ' That was one hard moment gone to the wind, now how many more await me?' She sighed happily as she picked up the puppy and placed him on his favorite perch.

“Next time tell me before I find out the hard way. I mean since you are a demon you will be healed by the marrow and you made me worry about you. Next time just open your mouth. And maybe next time you can save my time?”

She sighed as her only response was a yip and a sound that sounded suspiciously like “Hurry up lady. You were the one talking about burning daylight.” and she couldn't help the small laugh that left her.

xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxox


Rin moved through the dense underbrush and pulled on the reigns that kept Ah-Un near her. She couldn't believe that She had misplaced her lord. How was that even possible, she wondered aloud. Jaken was currently behind her, muttering curses and other words she knew her lord wouldn't appreciate in the least. But she would make due with the little Kappa for the time being. She would find her lord, and she would find a way to evilly torture the little imp before the day was over. She crawled through a bunch of brier thorns and winced in pain when one nicked the corners of her eyes. She looked to Ah-Un and smiled when she saw the strange dragon oni eat up the briar's in which she had just crawled through. She looked haven ward and closed her eyes for a moment. Rin grabbed the reigns closer to her small body and pulled herself atop the dragon youkai.

“Come Ah-Un, Maybe you and Rin will have an easier time finding Lord Sesshomaru in the skies.” Rin said in a small, deflated voice.

She knew that Jaken knew something, something that he wasn't telling her, and it made her so very angry. Jaken left with her lord, and came back with no one. She also knew that her lord would be very angry at her for leaving the designated camping ground. She, however couldn't help but worry for her lord, and as baka as she knew that sounded, she had become attached to her lord, as he was like a father figure for her. She loved him like no one else in her life. He was the first one to ever be kind to her, and he brought her back to life!She couldn't help but be loyal to her lord. He watched out for her and saved her every time she got into trouble. But that was kinda off the topic of finding her lord, wasn't it?

Jaken knew what had happened to his lord, his wonderful Sesshomaru, but he wouldn't tell a soul. It would mean sure death for him. All he knew now days was that the witch tricked him, and he needed help. For if he didn't find some sort of protection in the near, near future, you might as well call him a fly that is to be swatted away from the plate in which you were eating. A fly that you then continued to drown with a small amount of water, then fried in a smaller amount of oil and fed to your cat. Only th cat spit up the fly, and then it was eaten by another cat. So, do you see how deep he, the ever faithful servant, was in his own poor luck. He could only hope that his death was swift. Swift and painless.

Rin followed Jaken's line of vision, and found a couple of girls bathing in a near by spring. Rin then brought her flattened hand across his cheek. She then proceeded to 'humph!' and continue looking for her lord. The cheek then swelled to a comical point, and Jaken huffed. It was always to him that these things happened to. He always had to have the unfortunate luck, didn't he?

Rin smiled as she saw a head of silver from her vantage point, and then gave Ah-Un a soft pat on the neck, signaling for him to plummet to the earth. Rin squealed and Jaken gaged, and Ah-Un missed its lord even more than usual. When they neared the ground, Ah-Un came to a painful and bone wrenchingly fast stop. The toad swore that his neck was broken, and Rin just laughed at the thought that her lord was so very close to being with her once again. But to the trios dismay, the head of silver hair wasn't their lord. No instead, in the place of their wonderful lord, was a brash half demon that looked strikingly similar to the demon lord.Kagome looked at the small girl on the strange dragon oni. Kagome then rushed to the small girl, running after her little doggy.

“Gin!” Kagome screeched at the dog.

But it paid her no mind, it still continued to nuzzle the girl, and growl at the kappa youkai. The next thing that Kagome knew, the imp was prostrated at her feet.

“Please, beautiful, kindhearted onna! Allow us to join your wondrous group. Sesshomaru-sama is no where to be found. I would enjoy it very much if you would be kind enough to allow us to join you. Please!” He asked in his high nasally voice, begging.

Kagome looked over to Inuyasha, the plea in her eyes. He huffed, and turned his back on Kagome. He sighed as he turned to the pressing stares of the rest of his tachi. He almost felt bad. Almost.

“No.”

“Please?” Kagome and Jaken pleaded.

“No”

“Really?” Kagome asked.

“Yep”

“Are you sure?” She pressed.

“Yep” He said, crossing his arms.

“Fine, you force my hand. I'll do it. Ar you really going to try me?” Kagome said.

“I dare you to.” Inuyasha countered.

Her lips curved into a smile.

“Sit! Sit, sit, sit, sit, sit, sit! Sit boy!” Kagome shouted. Now, she peered down the Inuyasha shaped hole and asked one more time.

“Can they stay with us?” Kagome asked.

A single, clawed hand protruded from the crater. And on that solitary hand, stuck up a solitary finger. The thumbs up sign. All right!

Kagome looked down to them, and confirmed the little girls hopes.

“You're in!” She squealed happily.

Rin grinned, Jaken sighed, and Ah-Un looked as if it grinned with Rin.
Everything was fine... Well for now, at least.

xoxoxox Later xoxoxoxox


'Okay', Kagome thought to herself. She was going to go home for a few days to stock up on her food supply and get a spare set of clothes and a knitted sweater for Rin, and Jaken so that they wouldn't freeze in the fast approaching winter. Kagome looked down at her small companion and couldn't help but grin at him. He was turning out to be a bigger help than she realized he could be. With his protection, she could leave while Inuyasha was still in the village, something that she previously wasn't able to do, and that fall morning, she felt a feeling of elation wash over her. She looked back at the beautiful scenery that surrounded her, and she thought about the beauty that always was in the feudal era. Even in the wars and bloodbaths there was still beauty, although it was of a different kind. It was the beauty of being able to die for what you believe in, the beauty of victory and anguish... Almost like a sad love song.

But she continued to walk through the forest toward her pathway home, and she soon found herself at the clearing in which contained the well and she couldn't help but smile happily, even if her thoughts were less than such. She slowly cut her vision away from the well to look at the Goshinboku and her eyes focused in on the scar that marred it.

“The spot in which Inuyasha was stuck for fifty years” She whispered quietly, but continued on walking after she said this.

She lifted up the quickly growing Gin and hefted him up into her her arms to place him upon her breast. She held him close to her and jumped down the well, she jumped down the well and let the feeling of resoluteness fill her as she sank to the future. She would think of the bad in her friends lives not as if it were meant to haunt her for her whole life, so she vowed in the well.

Pulling her body up and out of the well, she felt herself feel a feeling of doing this same thing before and felt a smile grace her lips. She placed the small puppy down and motioned for him to follow her. She walked to the back door of the shrine and she looked inside to see her mother cooking on the stove and her brother watching her as he learned how to cook slowly but surely. Kagome leaned in the doorway and smiled at the sight of her little brother and her mother cooking and she couldn't help but remember when she was in her brother's place. She stood there for a moment longer before disturbing the small peace that surrounded her home like a security blanket, like a warm loving embrace. She sighed and walked forward and she looked over Souta's shoulder and she slowly inched closer to him, before swooping down on his small form and smothering him in a love saturated hug and a short noogie to the head. Her mother looked up long enough to see Kagome, and her meal long forgotten, she rounded on her daughter and gave her a love filled hug that only a mother is ever able to give.

“Hey sis!” Shouted her mother.

“Kagome! You're home!” Her mother cried.

And on it continued until they started hearing small growls and Souta got a sharp bite to his ankle.
“Ouch!” He exclaimed as the pain from the small but very sharp fangs dug into his skin.

Kagome swooped down to pick up the small puppy and she wagged her finger in front of his face, in which drooped like a small child's face when it hears the same lecture one too many times. She couldn't help but smile, but she still wanted to punish him for biting her brother.

“Bad dogie... Have fun walking for the rest of today.” Kagome said, and immediately you could see the small dogs eyes grow large and his tail drop from its proud vantage point in the air.

She smiled down at him... He is going to have to get his shots soon, she couldn't help but think. But she could handle that task after she was finished shopping for food.

“Souta?”

“Yea sis?”

“Would you mind watching Gin while I am gone shopping?”Kagome asked her younger brother.

He nodded his head crazily and then continued to haul up the small puppy and run to the long halls of the Sunset Shrine. Kagome smiled kindly at his efforts to not disappoint her and she couldn't help but think of her when she was younger. She would find wounded squirrels and nurse them back to health. Kagome looked to her mother and smiled so huge a smile and she couldn't help but laugh a short bought of laughter. After her laughs died down to giggles and then ceased all together. Finally, she wiped her eyes and looked again to her mother and grinned.

“Wanna do our past time?”Kagome asked, leaning against the counter.

“And that would be?”

“The one and only best past time for us... Shopping!!”

The girls giggled as Kagome's mother pulled the food off the eye of the stove and they left for the shrine steps.

Kagome and her mother walked down the aisles of the market, looking through the winter ware and the camping section, and most importantly, the aisle that had all the ramen. She passed down the pet aisle and she saw the one thing she might need. She grabbed the item and ran to catch her mother before she went to check out of the store.