InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Pavee's ❯ Tir-na-nóg ( Chapter 3 )

InuYasha doesn’t belong to me. Nor does into the west

Chapter 4

“Are you certain?”

“I’m very sure, Chikako. The scale burned when the horse leapt over the fire and again when running after these two boys. I don’t know why it burned for that”.

InuYasha arrived back to report to the High Council of his discovery.

“I think the horse is now living in the apartment on the 8th floor. Complaints have already spread and the human authorities will cast it out”.

“That’s where you are wrong, InuYasha”.

InuYasha looked at the council in confusion.

“Our youkai community will be the ones to cast out the horse. Besides, even though it is said that the ‘pure one’ can take any form, did you notice any round objects or anything tied to the horse?”

InuYasha shook his head. No he didn’t see anything round nor the orb that the ‘pure one’ was supposed to take the form in.

“Well then, we can’t let a horse stay in a youkai building. Besides, I think I know someone who needed a horse for the jumping competition coming up”.

As InuYasha left the council hall, he felt that guilty feeling again stuck in his stomach.

*******

A loud knock from the front door made Michie sit upright from her bed after being torn away from her dream world. Who was it now that rudely woke her up after another wistful dream of her late husband?

Groaning she got up and staggered to the front door, proof that she was still tipsy. Opening she was to find the landlord that had light green eyes. Those orbs always left Michie’s blood run cold. Next to him were his two colleagues’ and also the fat Mrs Poffy with her dog, as usual, hung under her tree trunk arm.

So she made a complaint to the landlord. What now?

“Mrs Higurashi. We have heard complaints that you are harbouring a pony. Is that true?”

“It’s a horse, Mr Clarkson” Said person stared at his colleague in bewilderment before a loud banshee behind them reminded them to do their job.

“It’s in there I see it!”

Michie tried to slam the door in their faces, but they all pushed past her to find the horse enjoying his morning shower with the boys.

“I suggest you remove this thing at once!” Mr Clarkson angrily pointed out.

Michie replied lazily “or what?”

Mr Clarkson was trying to control his anger as much as he could, but anymore of this he would explode.

“Action will be taken”

“We’ve already had enough problems without you travellers coming here. It would be better if Mr Clarkson just threw you out and take your kids to a proper home! We-“

His colleague didn’t finish as Michie grabbed him and dragged throughout the living room and out towards the balcony. Chaos erupted as the drunk woman leaned the terrified over the balcony, threatening to drop him over a few hundred feet. Mr Clarkson looked like he was having a heart attack while Mrs Poffy screamed as hell while covering her eyes and grabbing her dogs muzzle to keep him from barking.

Both the boys looked out from the bathroom door, shocked but said nothing of what their mother was doing. No way were they going to get rid of Tir-na-nóg or sent to another home!

“You listen here! I’ve dealt with all sorts of foul mouths before but anyone who tries to take my kids and their happiness away will suffer for it understand?!”

“YES!” the colleague shouted, nodding furiously to be released from her grasp. Michie wasn’t going to let him go yet.

“Say sorry!”

“IM SORRY” he yelled.’

“SAY YOU’RE SORRY!”

“I’M SORRY!”

“GET OUT!”

Michie released him and he ran towards the door, with the other colleague following not too far. Mr Clarkson remained on the wall until Michie approached him. Mrs Poffy followed.

“You’ll be hearing from the Garda police!”

“GET OUT!” and with that she slammed the door, the boys staring in with their jaws touching the ground as cracks appeared around the door frame and the door knob.

Michie just smiled at them before returning to her room.

Shippo was about to say something but stopped when he saw Souta shake his head lightly before going back to the bathroom to wash the horse.

******

It was a bittersweet morning for Kagome. Her grandpa woke her early saying there were scrambled eggs in the frying pan over the fire. She helped herself, washed and brushed her teeth before cleaning up.

She still felt a little tired going to the market, so she began to sing again while admiring the purple orb hanging from her finger. Why was it tied to the horse’s mane anyway?

******

InuYasha opened up the store the moment he got home. Perhaps a normal day would ease his thoughts a little after his visit with the council and why he can’t rid the guilt in his nervous system.

Mr Baltard came earlier that morning trying to put up an eviction notice on his door. InuYasha knew it was fake ‘cause 1: It didn’t look professionally created and 2: Only the Youkai council can do things like that to him since he isn’t part of the human society.

His thoughts went back to the raven haired girl Kagome. Lately she wouldn’t leave the half-demon’s mind. Was it because she didn’t look at him with disgust?

He jumped out of his skin when sirens as loud as Big Ben can ring and flashing red and blue lights passed his windows. It was the Garda police, only InuYasha recognised the Youkai symbol on the side. They were making their move now...

******
A few minutes earlier...

Down at the Garda Youkai police station, an officer got a call from a very loud and old woman, almost making his ear drums explode from her very bad opera throat.

“Ok, we’ll sort this out” and he gladly hung up on her. Man was he going to get a headache in the morning.

But now all he had to do was tell the rest of the team about the location of the white horse.

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A light knock came from the door of the Higurashi’s apartment. Michie grudgingly opened the door only she was suddenly pushed away from the door as the police came in and approached the living room. The man who pushed her aside gave a her letter saying

“We are wanting for an errant for keeping a horse in a flat”

“Ok boys move aside”

One of the officers approached the horse while the vet who came with them prepared a tranquilizer.

“Mama! Mama! They’re taking our horse!” Shippo ran past the officers towards Michie who lied back on her bed, trying to ignore all the commotion.

Tir-na-nóg, beginning to realize these people were planning to drag him away by force, began to panic. His eyes rolled back as well as his ears. He began to whine and neigh continuously. While the officers tried to grab onto the bridle (He still had the bridle on after the boys walked him) the horse jerked his head and accidently bumping into the vet, knocking him over.

Tir-na-nóg began to look for other ways to escape the spidery hands reaching out for his face. He climbed on furniture only that they broke apart. He turned around over and over to try and make it difficult for him to be captured.

Next door, the Moorphy family were watching a Sunday night programme. They grew increasingly irritated of the whining and destruction next door, completely taken over their TV speakers. Even turning the volume to max didn’t work either.

Mr Moorphy even went to banging on the walls while shouting “KEEP IT DOWN!” Of course that didn’t do much.

Michie finally got up, just in time to see Tir-na-nóg reaching his limit... and kicking at the officers: barely had they managed to dodge his hard hooves. Then Tir-na-nóg suddenly kicked higher, his hooves literally went through the walls, just above the Moorphy’s family heads: their sofa was next to the wall that led to their traveller neighbours.

Again the white horse bucked and kicked, his hooves making big holes to the room next door. The horse moved to his next victim, the tables.

He kicked them and they flew, narrowly missing Shippo.

“Stop it!” begged Souta.

Meanwhile, another police team arrived outside the apartment door, only to realise that they didn’t know which door led to the noise. So they bashed down the one closest to them...only that the horse wasn’t there.

“Wrong house! They’re next door!” yelled Mr Moorphy. Immediately the team bashed down the other door which led to the commotion.

The head of the team was almost whacked face to face with Tir-na-nóg. Everything was getting out of hand and it got worse when a private got out a tranquilizer gun. The moment Tir-na-nóg saw that, he went berserk. Marie and her family watched through the holes in their wall, both in shock and amusement.

“No! Don’t shoot!”

“Don’t!” both the boys bellowed.

“Lower your gun!” Michie yelled and grabbed the end of the gun and pulled it down to the floor.

Tir-na-nóg calmed down a bit but he was still whining.

Shippo held up his hand. “Stop Tir-na-nóg. Stop” and the horse did. He lowered his head to allow Shippo to take the reins. Everyone looked in awe. The horse actually stopped to the boys command.

“Get back” The head of the team ordered. They moved out the way to let Shippo and Souta pass through with Michie standing behind surveying the room.

“You’ll be paying for the damage, Mrs Higurashi” came the leader, named Bradon. He had a boxer terrier like face, his blue eyes looked like they were tucked at the big of his head from the sockets.

The boys lead to horse outside, where an audience kept behind a metal barrier fence, awaited to see if the rumours were true.

Just as the horse was about to enter the horse box that was waiting around the corner, Shippo and Souta pushed Tir-na-nóg lightly but firm to turn him around. The horse began to make a runner.

“Run Tir-na-nóg!”

“Jump Tir-na-nóg!”

“Get away!”

The boys continued to yell as everyone watched in amazement of the horse jumping over a police car that came around the block. Brandon raised an eyebrow of this.

Tir-na-nóg reared in front of the car: with the boys praying to God that his don’t thrust through the glass and give the officer a migraine.

The private with the tranquilliser gun aimed at the horse again only to be stopped by Michie.

Seeing that Tir-na-nóg won’t be able to get away:

“Tir-na-nóg! Tir-na-nóg!”

Immediately the horse trotted back to Shippo. A police officer managed to put the reins back on the horse’s head, who was trying to shake his hands off.

Eventually it all came to an end when Tir-na-nóg was finally in the horse box. The horse turned his head around towards the boys one last time before the doors closed on him.

“Goodbye...Tir-na-nóg. Goodbye” Shippo whispered loud enough for Souta and their mother to hear.

They could hear the whines and distress from Tir-na-nóg as the vehicle drove away.

Shippo lunged himself at Michie and started hitting her, trying to little avail to slap her face.
“You let them take him! You let them take our horse!” and he ran indoors in tears.

********

At a horse training stable the next morning, the headman wanted to see how good a jumper his new stallion was.

He ordered his staff on the jumping field to make the jump 5 bars high. The rider rode hi pure white horse and everyone watched in amazement as the horse leapt over it like a dream.

“Higher”

“Pay up, I’m not supposed to be here”

The headman stared at Bradon before giving him the money and watching him go. Then he returned to watching his horse leap over to high jumps. This may be the new champion.

*******

“What!”

“I’m sorry miss, but the horse has been sold”

Michie looked in shock and anger, and sad. She went to the police station the next morning. She got the money that was enough to buy the horse. She was not expecting the horse to be sold so quickly.

She leaned her head on the desk, her hands gripping her scalp.

“You can’t do! That horse belonged to my kids!”

Michie’s loud voice attracted the attention of a higher ranking officer. Bradon got his beater stick and banged it inches away from Michie’s face.

“Get out! Now”

“It’s alright I’m going” Michie took back her money and left. Bradon turned back to the receptionist.

“Don’t mention this to anyone”

******

Shippo and Souta made some posters that were actually torn up cardboard. They painted an animal that looked like a white horse and wrote

Missing write horse. Reward

Then they went around Dublin together and placed them all over the place: from gates to fences, to the ceilings of bus stops. Anywhere were people could read them. That night before returning to the towers the boys stayed and leaned over the bridge to look across the river.

“Come on Shippo. We’ve been looking for hours. He might be in a better pace now”

But Shippo just sighed. “He’s not happy”

“How do you know?”

“I just do”

Souta looked at Shippo with a soft expression. He patted Shippo on the back before saying

“Come on Shippo. Let’s get some treats”

Before Shippo followed him, he whispered to no one in particular

“Tir-na-nóg’s out there”

******

Oblivious to the events that happened to her family, Kagome walked through the streets of Dublin, hoping to see the old bookstore the hanyou owned. She couldn’t understand why the hanyou left her heart pounding or her face flushing a bright red. It was all a new feeling to her and Kagome was scared and happy at the same time. She didn’t notice how many times she was sighing while staring into space until her grandpa brought it up.

She was sent back to Earth when she heard the sirens of the Garda sped past her. The only thing she thought was odd was the symbol that didn’t look like the original logo.

I guess they changed it

Kagome shrugged it off when she saw the bookstore come in sight. She had to hold her tongue of laughter when a rather pug faced fat business guy was bellowing at the door before storming off past her. As soon as he was out of sight, she let out her lung bursting snicker.

Ring As Kagome opened the door the most beautiful bell she ever heard from the door rang. She wanted a bell like that in her wagon.

“Welcome. Can I help...”

InuYasha stopped when he recognised the girl from the other day. He smiled at her. She smiled back, with a blush on her face as she tried to avoid eye contact.

“Hi...Kagome right?”

“Yes...InuYasha?” He nodded and they both grinned.

“I just saw a funny sight of this business guy yelling at your door. If you don’t mind me asking what was that about?”

InuYasha sighed but smiled all the same.

“That was Mr Bas- urr Baltard. He’s been after this store for years after my parents died. My elder brother couldn’t have it because he has his own business. I didn’t care so I thought ‘why not’”

He paused before saying, softly “umm why don’t you look around and I‘ll make some tea if you like”

Kagome smiled and nodded as InuYasha went behind the staff only door while she went to look at the history section. One old book caught her eye so she took it from the shelve to read the front cover.

It was called The Jewel of Dagada. Dagada in Irish Mythology was the father of the Gods. Kagome always had an interest in legends, in all nations, mostly Irish, Japanese or Chinese. She scrolled through the contents page to find tales of Tir-na-nóg, the land of eternal youth.

“Do you have sugar in your tea?” InuYasha called from the kitchen, but Kagome didn’t hear him. He came around the corner and poked his head through the door.

“Kagome?” he asked softly. Said person jumped a little and stammered.

“Ehh....what?”

“I asked if you take sugar in your tea”

“Oh...no thank you”

He retreated back to the kitchen while Kagome put the book on the chair she was sitting on and waited for him at the desk.

InuYasha came back and handed her the tea. They chatted for what seemed like hours. Kagome talked to him about her father and how her mother succumbed to grief to move to the towers. InuYasha talked about his parents but not much about his brother.

For some reason he felt calm and peaceful around the girl in front of him. She was getting the same reaction. Both would blush when they make eye contact and would apologise nervously as they pretended they touched their hands by accident.

But the conversation went smoothly at the end of the day.

“So Kagome. What book were you reading?”

“Oh it was the one called Jewel of Dagada. I didn’t read much though”.

Truth be told Kagome wanted to get the book but it cost £19.00. She didn’t have much, enough to buy it but she really had to save for materials and supplies.

“Do you like those legends?”

“I do enjoy reading them”

InuYasha, feeling in a good mood, and seeing that Kagome barely could keep her money...

“I tell you what. Since you made my day I’ll give it you for free”

Kagome’s mouth fell to the ground.

“But InuYasha, I can’t tak-” He held up a hand to silence her.

“I insist. I’ve got a spare anyway. Go on” Kagome was God smacked. Before she realised what she was doing, she lunged at him, wrapping her arms around his neck.

“Thank you” She blushed when she saw what she was doing and quickly stepped back.

“Sorry. I didn’t mean..”

InuYasha just smiled. “Nah it’s ok”.

Kagome took the book and placed it in her bag after he scanned it.

A question InuYasha wanted to ask earlier came up. “So how are your brothers?”

“When I last them they were the happiest I’ve seen since grandpa brought them a horse home”

Suddenly, the guilt feeling flooded back to InuYasha. He hoped he didn’t cause the boys too much sadness.


To be continued.


Note: In Ireland Money is in Euros, not pounds but since my keyboard doesn’t have Euros sign on it, money is staying to pounds at the moment.

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