InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Tales of Inuyasha ❯ The Demon Within Arises ( Chapter 4 )

Tori the Hanyou: Chapter 4! Whoopee!

Kagome: Yay! *stops. Where's Inuyasha?

Miroku: Could that be him in the kitchen, where I see the rattling cabinet door?

Sango: Come out, Inuyasha! She's not really gonna throw the Ramen away! Will you get your gullible butt out here?

Inuyasha: *falls out of cabinet, piles of instant Ramen cups come tumbling down over head

TTH: Sorry, Inuyasha! If I'd known how gullible you were, I wouldn't have really threatened to throw the Ramen out!

Inu: *looks out at audience* See? You made me look like an idiot again!

Kag: Oh, calm down, Inuyasha! You're way over your head!

Mir: Let him be, Kagome. He needs to sort out his own personal life, don't you, Inuyasha?

Inu: ?

Kag: What do you mean?

TTH: You don't wanna know . . .

Kag: ?

TTH: Let's just forget about that and commence Chapter 4!

DISCLAIMER: NO!

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The Tales of Inuyasha

Chapter 4: The Demon Within Arises

"INUYASHA!!! COME ON! WE'RE LEAVING TO GO TO BREAKFAST WITHOUT YOU!!!!" was how Inuyasha began his second day of college at 6 am. He awoke with a start, like he'd done for the past two days, and hurriedly got ready, throwing his shoe at Miroku to wake him up. When Miroku responded by merely turning over in his sleep and grunting something inaudible, Inuyasha sighed with exasperation, put on his stray shoe, and took both of his pillows, doing a double slam on Miroku's head. He shot awake, rubbing his eyes.

"Whassa matter, Inuyasha?"

"You dipstick! We're going to breakfast today, get your lazy ass up!" He paused, realizing he sounded just like Sesshomaru. Miroku was fully awake in a split second.

"Oh, yes, the lovely Sango and Kagome invited us on a breakfast date! I smell opportunity, don't you, Inuyasha?" he asked brightly. Inuyasha cracked his knuckles.

"You lay one hand on Kagome's . . ."

"Oh, goodness, no! I meant opportunity for me with Sango, and you with Kagome!" he said quickly before Inuyasha could knock the stuffing out of him for the second time in five minutes. Inuyasha shook his head.

"You really love to live up to your name don't you?" he asked in a low tone.

"Miroku Hentai, at your service! Duh!" responded Miroku. He jumped up, getting himself ready in a heartbeat. Inuyasha glanced up and saw the sun coming up through the open curtains. 'Open curtains? Oh, shit! Were those open all night?' he thought, horrified. Miroku tugged on his sleeve.

"You all right, Inuyasha?" asked Miroku. Inuyasha glanced at him, annoyed.

"Course I'm all right, ya dumb pervert!" They walked out the door to greet two slightly ticked off girls, and headed down the hallway with them to the elevators.

When they'd reached the Waffle House, everyone was sitting in the usual formation: Inuyasha with Kagome, and Miroku with Sango. Miroku and Inuyasha ordered waffles, and Sango and Kagome split a pancake platter. While they were eating, Miroku took the opportunity to put his hands to work, and wound up with his first red hand mark of the day.

"One down, four to go," muttered Sango angrily, her hand twitching. Kagome looked on, watching them for a minute, and thought she saw a small smile on Sango's face. It vanished quickly. She glanced over at Inuyasha, who was munching on his waffles, and she noticed his hands. They were dark- colored up at the fingertips and nails. He looked very tired, with dark circles under his eyes.

"Inuyasha? You look exhausted," said Kagome. Inuyasha looked towards her, and she saw he had slight redness along the edges of his golden eyes.

"It's nothing. I guess it was Miroku's snoring that kept me up all night," he said. He turned back to his waffles. 'I wish I could tell myself that. I don't remember last night at all,' he thought. The waffles were beginning to wake him up a little more, and his nose suddenly caught a sickly smell he hadn't noticed before. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Kagome looking at his hands, and he looked, too. His eyes widened as he recognized the smell: blood. He hurriedly got up from the table and ran to the bathroom to scrub it off.

Kagome watched him curiously.

"Is he all right?" she asked.

"I dunno," said Miroku.

They drove to school quickly, and had a half an hour of free time. They walked into Mr. Hiroshima's class for Japanese, and sat down in the desks they'd had yesterday. Kagome turned around, looking, for she seemed to be hearing the same story over and over again.

"Yeah, did you hear? Last night, a bunch of people said they saw a DEMON climbing on the buildings! They said it attacked someone!"

"They said that demon had long hair, and foot-long claws that could rip through steel! He devoured a man walking home!"

"I'm not going outside after nine o'clock, now!"

"Not with that thing wandering around!"

"It was all over the news!"

"What's with all these stories? I didn't see anything on the news this morning," said Sango.

"Did you even watch the news, Sango?" asked Inuyasha.

"Um, no, not really . . ."

"Then can it!"

"Inuyasha! Boy, someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed today!" said Kagome.

"Enough with the stupid phrases already!" groaned Inuyasha. He slammed his head down on the desk, and didn't speak again. Kagome watched him, worried. She thought about the stories. 'Long hair and claws?'

RIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNG!

"Alright, class! Take your seats! Today's our first real lesson, and I DON'T want ANY of the behavior displayed yesterday, got it?" asked Mr. Hiroshima. The class, surprised by his outburst, shut up.

Thirty minutes into the lesson, the door opened. Kikyo came in, stopping at the door to wave and say,

"Good morning, everyone!"

*Cricket, cricket*

Everyone stared at her, blinking, or glaring. She noticed, thankfully for her, and went to take her seat, blushing. The teacher approached her.

"Ms. Kikyo Ryan! Do you realize how late you are?" he asked. Kikyo looked at her watch, and then up at the clock.

"Hmm, it appears I'm a little later than normal. I had to get a pedicure, my toes looked AWFUL!" she said.

"Ms. Ryan! We do not tolerate tardiness very well in this college! You may have gotten away with it in public high school, but not here! Do you understand me?? I want you to go to the office, and sign in and get a tardy slip, and COME BACK!" spat the teacher. Kikyo, terrified, hurried out the door, tripping again on her eight-inch platforms and falling flat on her face on the way out, much to the amusement of her classmates. (Ah, I just love torturing her!)

Later on, in Literature class, Kagome was frantically searching her backpack for her copy of The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King. Sango noticed it in the front pocket, and pulled it out just before their teacher, Ms. Rozier, came in the room. She passed it to Kagome under the desk. Kagome gave her a look saying thank you, before Ms. Rozier walked over to Inuyasha's desk, where he was starting to snore lightly.

"Sleeping on the job, Inuyasha?" asked Ms. Rozier. Inuyasha was startled awake by her comment, and muttered an apology.

"S-sorry, teach," he mumbled.

"My name is not 'teach', Inuyasha, you refer to me as Ms. Rozier, I explained that to you yesterday, or were you sleeping then, too?" Some of the kids managed to suppress laughs.

Ms. Rozier made them turn their desks in a circle, and they discussed what they did and didn't know about the book, its characters and stuff like that. Kagome seemed particularly interested in Aragorn, the rightful king of the city of Gondor. Sango, of course, wanted to know more about the Elven archer, Legolas.

So did a lot of the other girls, it seemed, for they had seen the movie, the character Legolas had been played by a very cute actor, Orlando Bloom. And, naturally, the boys were all at the opposite side of the circle, either asleep, or daydreaming, or messing around.

Math was the only class that Inuyasha felt he could really catch up on the rest he supposedly missed the night before. He sat in the back, behind Koga, whose height and ponytail helped hide him from Mrs. Boatright's view. Kagome, like usual, took the best notes she could, while Sango was digging her nails into Miroku's hands to keep them off of her, since slapping him would draw attention. Inuyasha was mostly grateful for the fact that Kikyo only had Literature and Japanese with him, the rest of the classes were pure freedom.

By lunchtime, Inuyasha had had two periods worth of sleep, and that was enough for him. After they had all finished lunch, they were outside enjoying their lunch break. Most of the students were lounging around the picnic tables, but the four of them were heading out to walk around the football field, where a small fraction of freshmen and sophomores were playing football.

"Why don't you go join them, Inuyasha?" asked Kagome.

"Not in the mood," he responded.

Just before they'd gotten out of the picnic table area, Koga showed up. (Oh, no) He walked up to Kagome.

"Hey, where're you going?" he asked. He put his arm around Kagome's shoulders. "Aren't you gonna hang with me? I was going to go play football, and I wanted you to watch. I'm one of the best," he said. Inuyasha started to get angry, not just annoyed, but really angry.

"No thanks, Koga, I really . . ." started Kagome.

"How about he and I play against each other?" Koga pointed to Inuyasha. "I could beat a mutt like him any day of the week." Kagome looked at Inuyasha, and noticed his bangs covered his eyes. Kagome tried to get out of Koga's grip, but he held her tighter.

"Koga, please, I really don't want . . ."

"It's all right, Kagome, you don't have to listen to that mutt anymore. I'll keep you away from him."

Miroku looked over at Inuyasha, and suddenly felt pulses of energy emitting from him. Inuyasha's hair began to flow around him, and Sango definitely heard low, vicious snarling. Inuyasha's head raised, and everyone gasped. His eyes were no longer golden, but blood red. Purple stripes had appeared on his face, and the fangs in his mouth seemed to have gotten longer, and sharper.

Kagome's eyes widened.

"Let her go," came an extremely venomous voice. It sounded like Inuyasha, but Kagome knew it wasn't. It couldn't be him.

"Why? What's a puppy like you gonna do about it?" asked Koga, apparently not noticing how much trouble he was getting himself into. Kagome quickly pushed away from Koga and ran to Sango to avoid whatever was going on.

Inuyasha's snarling became more vicious, and he attacked.

Koga jumped back, but he couldn't avoid the fury of the demon. Inuyasha tore at him, and people turned their heads to see what was going on. Koga kicked Inuyasha off, and Kagome heard people scream,

"That's him! That's the demon!"

"Run! He'll murder us!" People were running back and forth, while Koga was trying to run for his life, but kept getting cornered and attacked. Kagome watched with horror. Inuyasha needed to be stopped. She suddenly began to run towards him, when someone grabbed her, holding her back.

"Stay here," said a deep voice. Kagome looked up, and saw Sesshomaru's roommate, Naraku, had a hold of her arm. She turned to see Inuyasha about to strike Koga down, when Sesshomaru suddenly stepped between them.

"Inuyasha! Stop this! You need to control it!" he said sharply. Inuyasha leaped at the one who had gotten between him and his prey. Amid the confusion, Kagome couldn't see what was going on. Sesshomaru stepped out of the way.

"Kagome!" Kagome turned to see Rin running towards her. "Is Sesshomaru all right?" she asked. Koga ran past them, deep cuts on his arms.

"I don't know, I can't see them," responded Kagome as she tried to look through the pandemonium of students running here and there, with the occasional flash of white as Inuyasha attempted to strike Sesshomaru. When most of the students were gone, they could see a little better.

Sesshomaru watched as his brother came at him again. He had no choice; he'd have to knock him out. He looked around to make sure it was safe for everyone else. He saw Rin, Kagome and Naraku were in striking range, and he motioned to Naraku to move back. Naraku nodded, and took Rin and Kagome back to stand with Miroku and Sango.

Sesshomaru used his claws, and poison began to flow from them. He spun around in place, creating a whirlwind of poison that he launched at Inuyasha. He knew this ought to bring him down.

But, Inuyasha leaped right through the poison, slicing an opening through it. Sesshomaru stepped back. 'How did he do that? That always works,' he thought. Inuyasha used his claws, and sliced into Sesshomaru's shoulder.

"Sessy!" cried Rin as Sesshomaru fell back, holding his shoulder. 'What? Inuyasha's never gotten a hit on me like that before! What's the deal?' thought Sesshomaru. He quickly leaped out of the way as Inuyasha came at him again, encouraged by the sight of blood. Sesshomaru finally had to grab Inuyasha's face with the hand on his good arm, and emit poison from his nails.

Inuyasha breathed in the poison, and his body weakened, until he collapsed on the ground.

Sesshomaru stood over him, clutching his bleeding shoulder. Rin ran to him.

"Sessy, are you all right?? I thought you'd be killed!" she sobbed. Sesshomaru put his good arm around her.

"I think even you know, Rin, that no half-demon can beat me," said Sesshomaru. Kagome had run to Inuyasha's side the minute he fell.

"Inuyasha? Please be okay," she said. Sesshomaru walked up to them.

"He'll be knocked out for a while, Kagome, we'd better get him to his room," he said. He was about to pick Inuyasha up, but he winced, and grabbed his shoulder.

"You'd better let me handle this, 'Sessy'," snickered Naraku. Sesshomaru glared, but let him take Inuyasha. Kagome, Miroku and Sango followed Naraku back to their dorm, where he put Inuyasha on the couch and left quickly.

Kagome sat near Inuyasha's side the entire day and all evening. Miroku nudged Sango, and they went into the girls' room to do the homework that had been assigned to them for the first four periods, since school had been unofficially let out early.

Halfway through the evening, Inuyasha opened his eyes. He rubbed his head, moaning, and tried to sit up, but something was on top of him. He looked down, and Kagome was softly sleeping on his chest. Blushing, he really didn't want to wake her up.

"Kagome?" he said, nudging her. She didn't wake up. Blushing even darker, he didn't want to push her off, so he lay back down, pulling Kagome up so her head was under his chin, wrapping his arms around her, and he went back to sleep.

Sango was now extremely miffed, having had to pound Miroku on the head with her trusty mallet for the twentieth time in a row. He just wouldn't quit groping her. She finally jumped up, and stomped out of the room. She froze at what she saw. Hurrying back into the room, she grabbed Miroku and pulled him into the doorway, putting a hand over his mouth so he wouldn't say anything. Miroku's eyes widened. He pulled Sango back into the room, and they shut the door to give the couple some quiet to sleep.

"Oh, my God, they're so cute! Did you see how Inuyasha was holding Kagome? It's like he wasn't ever gonna let go!" Sango whispered excitedly.

"Yes, I saw, Sango my darling. Looks like our evil plot is going into motion on its own. There's only one thing we'll have to do," said Miroku. Sango rolled her eyes.

"Oh, no, I don't like where this is going," she said. "Any one of your ideas always involves something perverted. I suggest we stick with my plan, alright?"

"Well, then, what would you do?" asked Miroku.

"Listen up . . ." (I know, it's torture that I don't let you guys hear the plans, but they'll come into motion soon enough, muahahahahaha!)

~Two hours later~

Kagome stirred, and yawned. She remembered where she was, opened her eyes, and blushed after realizing her position. Inuyasha was holding her where she was. She glanced up at his face, and her heart nearly melted. He looked cute enough when he was awake, but when he was asleep, he was to die for! Kagome tried to slide out of his arms, but he tightened them around her, and she vaguely heard him mutter,

"Don't leave me, Kagome."

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Tori the Hanyou: Oh, soooooo cute! Yeah, I know, he was asleep, probably dreaming, but he WAS dreaming about her!

Miroku: Sango, could you tell me the plan again? You know, the one we're gonna use on them? *points to Inuyasha and Kagome

Sango: No, Miroku, the audience'll hear us! Plus, they'll find out soon enough, so shut up about it already!

Mir: Awww, I wanna tell them, though!!

San: Shut up!

Mir: No!

San: Yes!

Mir: No!

San: Yes!

Mir: I'll grope you!

San: *eeps* RUN AWAAAAY! *runs into other room, Miroku hot on her heels*

TTH: Those two were made for each other . . . *Mir comes running back, hotly pursued by Sango, who's carrying a jumbo-sized mallet*

TTH: REVIEW!!!

~*Tori the Hanyou*~