InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Pavee's ❯ 'The Towers' ( Chapter 2 )

After I researched on Irish and Celtic Myth I finally came up with a plot (and I wrote it down this time) so I hope you guys like as it comes out.

Disclaimer: I don’t own InuYasha. Also just a note some of the story is inspired by the film Into the West.

Chapter 4

Kagome smiled at her family. Her grandfather always remembered the legend of Oisín and Níamh since she was a toddler. Her father told her the story over and over again and it became one of her favourites.

She was lost in her memories when she heard Shippo speak:

“Mama never worries when she drinks”.

Kagome frowned at this. Was her mother becoming a alcoholic? Oh how she hoped it wasn’t coming to that.

“Wow. Your grandfather certainly knows how to retell a legend with emotion”

She jumped a little before turning her head to find the silver-haired Hanyou standing next to her. Was he talking to her?

Duh... my brother is over yonder he wouldn’t hear what the man said

She smiled at the hanyou.

“You seem familiar to the story also, huh?”

The hanyou smirked at her before he said

“Well I do own an old bookstore with tones of legends in” he replied as a matter of fact way.

“Sorry I don’t think I’ve seen you before. I’m Kagome and you are...?” she held her hand which he took and shook it lightly.

“InuYasha” he answered,

She smiled before she knew what she was asking:

“Why are you showing yourself in the open like this? Don’t you worry what people think about it?” She immediately slapped a hand to her mouth upon asking something maybe too personal for him.

Kagome you baka! Idiot! Stupid! He’ll properly think you’re one of those people who think hanyou’s should hide themselves or be killed at birth!

But his answer was not what she was expecting.

“Well it’s because there is Hanyou’s and Youkai families here too. So there was no point in me hiding it”.

Of course, Kagome having little power herself sensed the concealments on the youkai and the hanyou’s, hiding their true selves. But hanyou’s would hide themselves from youkai to avoid discrimination.

“I have faced name calling and beatings for what I am but here I don’t face it much..”

I think I said too much there...

Kagome became panicky, thinking he was remembering something her would prefer to forgot then recall.

“I-I-I I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have asked that”

InuYasha waved a hand to let her know it was ok. Kagome stared at his golden glowing eyes from the flames of the fire, before turning away with a small blush on her face.

She could literally hear and feel her heart pound in her chest. Why was she getting flustered over him?

He was about to say something else before...

“Demon! Step away!” Kenji bellowed as he approached the pair.

“Grandpa, we were only talking... Where’re the boys?” she asked looking around realising that they were gone.

“They went home... and who are you, hanyou?” he didn’t say that with no hate or anything, but content.

“InuYasha”

“Why are you-“

“Grandpa, is that Tir-na-nóg following the boys up the flats?”

“What!? He was right there!”

Suddenly they heard InuYasha gasp as he placed a hand over his pocket.

The scale is burning... it did earlier when the horse jumped the fire. Is it the horse that the scale is telling me is....

“InuYasha? You ok?”

He was dragged out of his thoughts when Kagome gently place a hand on his arm. He found it strange that it calmed him immediately. He quickly made up something.

“Err... they’re not taking the horse literally to their apartment are they?”

The three looked to find that the boys have led the horse inside.

“Oh no”

Kagome bid InuYasha goodbye and told her Grandfather to wait for her as she ran towards the flats.

******

Souta and Shippo led the horse to their apartment, which was on the 8th floor! When they saw the horse canter up to them, they thought of the only place to keep him... in the spare room up in their flat.

Both of the boys were hoping they would be able to get Tir-na-nóg up there without causing uproar or any noise. Their hopes were in vain.

The clatter of Tir-na-nóg’s hooves on the hard floor didn’t help at all. Once or twice the horse also knocked over a few furniture and lights down the hallways until they reached the lift.

Souta never liked the flat in the first place and find it quite amusing that the horse was now destroying it. Unintentionally of course but he wasn’t complaining.

Tir-na-nóg wasn’t too fond of the flat either. It was all a miserable grey on the concrete and the white walls practically had graffiti on all the floors, expect the doors.

When Souta and Shippo finally got the horse in the lift, both gave a huge sigh of relief that they didn’t pass the limit of weight from the elevator.

As they neared the 8th floor, they heard banging coming from the door from there, and a woman’s voice that Shippo thought it was a banshee in disguise. Souta gave a sigh of annoyance, recognising the woman as the doors opened.

One of their neighbours, Mrs Poffy, had a round, unattractive face that reminded the boys of an orange with horrible rotten skin on the surface. She was quite a small lady, quite fat too. She was wearing a blue coat that was obviously too big for her and her black trousers could fall down from her hips any minute. Souta shuddered at the thought. She always carried the big, fat and fluffy Western terrier, Puffy Cheeks, under her log like arms, because the poor thing was so fat he could hardly walk anymore.

Souta couldn’t see what her late husband saw in her.

Her face immediately fell as she saw a huge white monster barge out of the lift, almost running her over.

“Out of the way, Mrs Poffy! He doesn’t like being crowded!” Shippo bellowed at her.

Mrs Poffy gasped when she realised they brought not a monster, but a horse for that matter, inside a 10-15 story block of flats.

“Holly mother of divine God. You ca-“ she was quite off by Mr. Puffy Cheeks barking excitedly at the new visitor.

Souta ran past the horse to open the door to their apartment while Shippo remained on the horse’s back, until he realised the horse’s tail began to rise when they went inside their home.

“Souta he’s doing it again!”

“Quick! Get a bucket and shovel!”

Mrs Poffy, still bewildered on what she saw, silenced Mr. Puffy Cheeks by clamping his mouth with her hand before entering the lift. No way was this going unspoken!

******

Kagome ran towards the flat, hoping to catch her brother and Shippo before they got inside the apartment to give their mother a heart attack. She stopped when she realised...

I don’t know what story they live on! Dammit!

She forgot to ask where they lived because at the time, Kagome was really disappointed when her mother took Souta and Shippo to live in the “towers”. Her mother always loved the morning breeze when stepping out the family wagon, feeling it on her face and hair, hearing it among the twigs of the trees... and also her father standing next her mother, kissing her good morning...

Oh how Kagome missed him.

Ever since he died, her mother got depressed and it got worse until she abandoned her old way of living to live in the cities with ‘the settle people’.

Kagome shook the sad memories away and continued towards the flat. How on Earth she was going to find their apartment was beyond her. She began to think to go and knock on every door in the building that might take her years before she heard someone coming up behind her.

She twirled around to find it was the silver-haired hanyou, InuYasha from before.

He took a sniff in the air before saying

“There’re on the 8th floor, I think the second door on the left” he smiled at her.

Kagome smiled back. “Thanks InuYasha, but how did you...”

She watched as he patted his nose with his finger.

“Keen sense of smell” he replied to her half spoken question.

Duh, of course. Half dog demon. The sort of animals that have very good sense of smells.

She smiled at him before going inside. She was about to press the 8 button next to the lift before the doors opened and an old hag like voice emerged and she glared at Kagome.

“Have you seen what those two tinker boys brought into their home?!”

Kagome fought her anger but shook her head.

“They brought in a white horse up the lift! They certainly won’t keep the thing up there for long! You’ll see! If they want to live with animals, they might as well stay in a pigsty!”

The woman stormed off, silencing her barking dog by clamping his mouth with her hand, her head held high as if she was noble.

Stuck up old cow

Kagome entered the lift and waited for the lift to take her to her destination. On the way she was thinking of a certain boy with long silver hair...

******

InuYasha watched Kagome enter the building before returning to his thoughts.

Why was his heart beating so towards this young girl? He never felt like that for awhile. Not since his first girlfriend who died 3 years ago. Had he rally moved on since then?

He was brought back to reality, when his hand that was in his pocket felt a certain oval scale in his palm.

That’s right. He can’t be standing thinking about girls or his past. His must report of when the scale reacted towards the horse. He had to report to the high council.

With that, he turned towards the city of Dublin, confused as to why he feels a pang of guilt in his chest for what was yet to come.

******

“Hello, anyone?”

After daydreaming in the lift and brought out of her thoughts when the doors to the ugly grey and graffiti walled hallway opened, she made her way to her family’s apartment and, seeing that wasn’t locked at the moment, all she had to do was push the door.

“Kagome!”

A huge furball popped out of nowhere and leaped in Kagome’s arms. The force knocked her over, but its good thing she closed the door on the way in, so her back that collided with the door prevented her from falling to the floor.

“Shippo! You got to learn to stop doing that! And where is the horse?”

Shippo stiffened in her arms and was about to answer when an impatient ‘neigh’ and clatter of hooves came from the bathroom.

Kagome placed Shippo on the ground and walked towards the bathroom door... only to meet the backside of a large white horse that literally blocked the way, and also filled up most of the bathroom with his huge body.

Souta was standing on a stool in front of Tir-na-nóg’s head that Shippo would use to reach for the sink to wash his hands or brush his teeth. He was using shampoo to wash the horse and the shower hung over their heads, spraying warm water over the horse’s face.

Kagome finally caught the breath she was holding.

“You can’t keep him here boys. The authorities will take him away. Besides mother wouldn’t wan-“

“Mum said it was ok!” Shippo squealed.

Kagome’s eyes almost leapt from her sockets. Her mother allows a horse in a tall story flat? And in her own bathroom no less? Maybe she drank too much.

Of course, Michie also fell out of bed when she felt something loom over her when she was sleeping in her room. There were a few vodka bottles at her bedside. She was about to reach out for her half drunk bottle when she turned her head to find a big grey nose sniffing her face.

Groaning of what her boys brought home, she sank under the blankets, trying to pretend that the horse wasn’t there. A few minutes later, Shippo and Souta came running in, asking if they could keep Tir-na-nóg. Since she was half asleep, she just said in a groggy voice ‘yeah whatever. Get out and let me sleep’

Kagome tried to get them to take the horse back outside but the boys kept telling her the horse kept following them like a sheep. Kagome then went and woke her mother to try and persuade her, though she was utterly taken almost to shock to see how many vodka bottles there was on the bedside chest of draws.

An hour later, after a heated argument with her mother, Kagome gave up. She wasn’t getting anyway. Her family were known for their stubbornness.

She approached the horse and stroked him tenderly, to which the horse leaned into. That was when a shiny object caught Kagome’s attention.

Dug inside the horse’s mane was the small, purple orb. Last time when her grandfather tried to take it, Tir-na-nóg jerked his huge head away, which nearly made poor Shippo fall his back.

Since Shippo was safely back on the ground, she wondered if she could take it. She reached out towards the orb and clutched it in her palm. Tir-na-nóg’s eyes followed her hand, but when she pulled the orb and the string holding it to his mane broke free not once did he jerk his head away.

Umm that was odd. I guess he likes me more then grandpa

“Hey sis. What is that?” Souta asked who noticed the ball in her hand. Kagome shrugged. Whatever it was it was pretty. No, beautiful.

Realising how late it was, Kagome bid her family goodbye, though her mother hardly said anything, and returned to her grandfathers wagon. Both Shippo and Souta waved from their window to her.

******

“Kagome, I need to go in Dublin to see an old friend tomorrow. You can do what you like then, but me back at the wagon by sunset”

Usually when Kenji wanted to go into the town, it was always to see an old friend or get some supplies. Unlike most of the travellers who had no money and would steal, her grandpa had a job on making historical items and sell to one of his friend’s shops on market days. Usually it was pottery or some scripts to be published on old legends, but Kenji didn’t keep all the money and now sends half of his earning to Michie. He would only use it for resupplying the wagon.

However it was times like these that Kagome would sometimes look forward too. She loved looking at shops especially antiques shops.

Now that she was allowed to look in shops again for a day, she remembered InuYasha saying he owned an old bookstore filled with old stories. Kagome just loved reading. And also finding the bookstore was another excuse to see the handsome boy one more time before she leaves on the road again.




To be continued


Ok not very exciting this chapter. Next chapter I’ll try to add some fluff between Inu/Kag.

Happy New Year! (I know it’s a bit late)

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