InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Young Ones ❯ An Interesting Day! ( Chapter 12 )
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By: Inumimi 
A little action on the road!
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 08.13.2009 | Pages: 2 | Words: 2.3K | Visits: 376 | Status: Completed
A little action on the road!
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 08.13.2009 | Pages: 2 | Words: 2.3K | Visits: 376 | Status: Completed
Disclaimer: InuYasha belongs to Rumiko Takahasi and her publishers. No profit is made from this story. No copyright infringement is intended.
Chapter 12 – An Interesting Day!
‘Well’ Kagome sighed to herself as their group entered a small trading town two days later, ‘InuYasha certainty can’t say we had a boring day today’.
After their one night camping out, the scholar Toshio became intolerable. He was not a vagabond, he was not used to sleeping ‘in the dirt’, he could not work under these conditions, you name it and he complained about it. Even the King had to admit that the scholars were really not adding much useful information. They were only getting a few hours of work done each day after arriving in whatever town they would be spending the night in. It was at this point the King decided to send the book cart and the scholars all back to the capital city.
Mikio had petitioned to remain with the group and since he was strong and uncomplaining the King relented and indicated that the huge scholar could continue with them. It was then that the great old Tetsuya spoke up “I too shall continue with you great King. These old bones require no plush bed or fancy meals.”
Everyone was stunned, it was true that Tetsuya never complained and kept working under any and all conditions. InuYasha, however, snorted at Tetsuya’s quiet declaration. At everyone’s inquiring looks InuYasha stated “If you haven’t noticed the old man is a lot tougher than he looks. He never seems to get tired, his mind is sharper than Toshio, Hisoka and Mikio’s put together and hell, he doesn’t even smell old.”
Kagome was the first to respond “What do you mean he doesn’t smell old?”
“Just what it means” was InuYasha instant retort “He smells like a human adult male in the prime of life. Come on even you humans know that the old smell – well old, Tetsuya does not smell old and my nose is never wrong about these things. Ask the kid he’ll say the same as me.”
As the group’s eyes moved to rest on Yasha, the little hanyou nodded his head in agreement “InuYasha is right, master Tetsuya does not smell old, he smells of…” Yasha paused obviously searching for the right word, then concluded “he smells of power.”
Picking up where the little hanyou had left off InuYasha picked up “He’s right, I have smelled and felt all sorts of...power. Kagome has immense spiritual power, my brother – shear brute Youkai power, Naraku overwhelming evil power, but the old man just has POWER. Like POWER written in the biggest boldest kanji you can think of.”
At InuYasha’s declaration Tetsuya started to chuckle. “There really is more to you than you let on young hanyou and you are younger than me even with your 200 plus years. Though I am not so much older than you, I am but a mortal human and even with all of my acquired power and knowledge I cannot hold back the march of years and I am growing old. Unlike you, my long life is not natural and my body is slowly growing old and I will die, there is nothing I can do to stop this and this is the way it should be, it is the proper way of the world. I fear, however, that the old O-Harai-Ya who sent you on this quest wishes to upset the natural order of things, with the power of the relic I believe that she will not only be able to make herself immortal, but she will have access to unlimited power, she may be able to take over your world if she so desires to. This is why I feel that I must continue with you as long as I can and if I must quit this quest you must still let me place safeguards on the relic before you return to your own world with it.”
So it was decided Toshio and quiet Hisoka would return with the book cart to the capital city where they could continue working on the prophecy. InuYasha and Kagome knew that they would have to return to the capital city anyway since the O-Harai-Ya’s return information package clearly stated that the two could only attempt a return to their own world from the exact spot of their arrival.
So it was that the two scholars, the laden book cart and several of the Kings guards headed back towards the capital. The rest of the party continued on towards a small trading town where they had decided to spend the next night.
The following day started out pleasantly enough. Without Toshio’s complaining the entire party was able to arise early and partake of a hearty breakfast. The weather was pleasant and the simple dirt road was surprisingly free of pot holes. As the morning progressed everyone was in a good mood as they were making good time.
As usual InuYasha was walking to the left of Kagome’s horse and Yasha to the right of his princess’s. The two girls had taken to riding next to each other each day; InuYasha explained it was much easier for Yasha and himself to guard the two when they were together. If there was danger InuYasha could leave Kagome’s side knowing that Yasha would still be there to protect her.
They were traveling through a partially wooded stretch of road, since the road ahead was obscured by trees, the King sent out an advanced guard to scout for a place to stop for lunch. Suddenly InuYasha tensed, unsheathing and transforming Tessaiga in a single fluid motion. Sprinting ahead he yelled back to the remainder of the Kings guard that there was trouble ahead.
Within moments the trouble was upon them. A huge scorpion youkai came into sight; one of the King’s advance guards still impaled on its stinger. Surrounding the elephant sized monster were at least a dozen identical cow sized versions.
InuYasha immediately got to work hacking and slashing several of the smaller monsters out of the way so he could fix his attack on the huge arachnid, leaving the smaller versions for the rest of the guards to deal with.
Kagome quickly grabbed her bow, thankful that InuYasha insisted she wear a shooting glove at all times. Willing her spiritual powers into an arrow Kagome notched the arrow and aimed it at the same large bug InuYasha was slashing at. She reasoned if they could take out the largest of the creatures InuYasha would be able to help the guards clean up the smaller ones quickly. As soon as InuYasha leapt out of her line of fire, dodging the poisonous stinger that was jabbing at him, Kagome released her arrow. As the arrow flew towards the scorpion, InuYasha felt Kagome’s strong spiritual power approaching. Realizing that Kagome had let fire an arrow he aimed a huge blow timed to hit the monster seconds after the arrow. The combination proved to be fatal to the creature which exploded into a sticky disgusting mess. Within seconds InuYasha was able to turn his attention to the smaller scorpions.
Not wishing to be left out little Yasha threw himself at one of the smaller scorpions that was headed towards Kagome and his princess.
As the well protected King watched Yasha quickly dispatching his target he had to admit to himself that while Yasha threw himself into battle with the same gusto as InuYasha, he used his sword with much greater technical skill. It was obvious to the King’s trained eye that InuYasha was completely self taught, his technique relying heavily on the immense size of his sword and his sheer brute strength, while Yasha’s skill with the sword showed that he had truly benefited from the instruction his daughter had insisted on.
Within a matter of minuets InuYasha had dispatched all of the remaining small arachnids, chopping their ugly heads off with mighty blows from Tessaiga.
As InuYasha sauntered back towards Kagome and the princess, he stopped briefly in front of the King and apologized “Sorry that took so long, I didn’t want any more of your men to get hurt so I had to hold back and not use any of my big attacks. If there had been more room I could have taken them all out at the same time.”
The group quickly skirted the messy carcasses of the dead youkai and continued down the road looking for the second advance guard who they found injured but alive. The fortunate guard had been battered and knocked into a ditch, but not poisoned. Placing the injured guard in the carriage with Kaede and Tetsuya the party continued down the road.
After a brief stop for lunch the group resumed their travel hoping to make up time and reach the next small trading village before nightfall, where they hoped to arrange for the cremation of the slain guard.
Once again the party made good time, the new advanced guard returning periodically to let them know that all was safe.
InuYasha did not like this wooded stretch of road at all, the road curved and twisted never giving the group more than a glimpse of the road ahead, he could tell that Yasha was also on edge, the young hanyou’s ears swiveled nonstop and his hand never left his sword.
The attack seemed to come out of nowhere. Once again the advanced scouts were of no use. Fortunately this time the attackers were only human, unfortunately there were at least thirty of them.
InuYasha sighed, he really did not like killing humans, but these were obviously highway robbers and a danger to his mate and his mate’s double, not to mention the King they traveled with.
InuYasha knew he could not use the wind scar on humans, so rather than try and hack at them with his rusted katana he opted for his favorite standby, claws. Launching himself into the heaviest concentration of men InuYasha began to claw and punch the humans, instantly snapping necks and causing wounds with his hands as deep and severe as any sword could.
Yasha mindful that he had to protect his princess and Kagome took a defensive stance. Several of the foot-pads who thought the girls a tempting target found themselves quite dead as Yasah expertly welded his sword with such speed that many of his moves were just a blur.
Kagome instantaneously realized that she would not be able to use any of her spiritual powers against humans; before she could even formulate a plan of actions the little princess grabbed her own bow and arrows, stood in her saddle and began shooting at the attackers with deadly accuracy.
As Kagome glanced at her mate she realized he had just thrown his blades of blood. Infuriated that one of the would be robbers had wounded her mate Kagome took aim and began shooting into the throng of men.
The battle hardened King surrounded by his guards had no intention of letting others battle for him. Riding from behind his guards the King swooped down trampling and hacking at the men who had dared attack their King and his daughter.
As soon as the attackers realized that, despite their numbers, they were severely outclassed they began to beat a hasty retreat. Unfortunately, InuYasha, Yasha and the King were not the forgiving sort. As the men ran they were efficiently cut down. Finally there were only three robbers left, one dressed and armed much better than all the rest. The King indicated that these three should not be killed; he wanted to make sure this was a case of simple robbery and not a planned coup.
With a growling InuYasha on one side, Yasha on the other and several armed guards behind them the robbers quaked with fear as they were approached by the King.
“Do you know who I am” the King demanded without preamble. At the terrified humans look of confusion the King gave a small smirk. “Well when we get back to the capital for your public execution you will find out”. Then turning towards his guards the King added “Tie them up, we will leave them in custody at the next village, we can then pick them up when we return to the capital.”
Looking back at the two hanyou who had dispatched the majority of the foot-pads the King noticed that InuYasha’s arm was covered in blood, immediately the King inquired “InuYasha do you require medical attention?”
InuYasha laughed at the Kings concern replying “No, I’m fine; this scratch will be healed before we even get back on the road.”
Realizing that InuYasha probably healed at an even faster rate than Yasha the King only nodded his understanding and returned to his horse.
As the group resumed their travel down the road, finding the two missing advance guards trussed up but alive, Kagome turned towards InuYasha commenting “Well InuYasha, I hope you won’t be complaining tonight that we had another boring day!”
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Ryo5492 – I am working on some more action (not my strong point), I will try and infuse more when I can!!
Chapter 12 – An Interesting Day!
‘Well’ Kagome sighed to herself as their group entered a small trading town two days later, ‘InuYasha certainty can’t say we had a boring day today’.
After their one night camping out, the scholar Toshio became intolerable. He was not a vagabond, he was not used to sleeping ‘in the dirt’, he could not work under these conditions, you name it and he complained about it. Even the King had to admit that the scholars were really not adding much useful information. They were only getting a few hours of work done each day after arriving in whatever town they would be spending the night in. It was at this point the King decided to send the book cart and the scholars all back to the capital city.
Mikio had petitioned to remain with the group and since he was strong and uncomplaining the King relented and indicated that the huge scholar could continue with them. It was then that the great old Tetsuya spoke up “I too shall continue with you great King. These old bones require no plush bed or fancy meals.”
Everyone was stunned, it was true that Tetsuya never complained and kept working under any and all conditions. InuYasha, however, snorted at Tetsuya’s quiet declaration. At everyone’s inquiring looks InuYasha stated “If you haven’t noticed the old man is a lot tougher than he looks. He never seems to get tired, his mind is sharper than Toshio, Hisoka and Mikio’s put together and hell, he doesn’t even smell old.”
Kagome was the first to respond “What do you mean he doesn’t smell old?”
“Just what it means” was InuYasha instant retort “He smells like a human adult male in the prime of life. Come on even you humans know that the old smell – well old, Tetsuya does not smell old and my nose is never wrong about these things. Ask the kid he’ll say the same as me.”
As the group’s eyes moved to rest on Yasha, the little hanyou nodded his head in agreement “InuYasha is right, master Tetsuya does not smell old, he smells of…” Yasha paused obviously searching for the right word, then concluded “he smells of power.”
Picking up where the little hanyou had left off InuYasha picked up “He’s right, I have smelled and felt all sorts of...power. Kagome has immense spiritual power, my brother – shear brute Youkai power, Naraku overwhelming evil power, but the old man just has POWER. Like POWER written in the biggest boldest kanji you can think of.”
At InuYasha’s declaration Tetsuya started to chuckle. “There really is more to you than you let on young hanyou and you are younger than me even with your 200 plus years. Though I am not so much older than you, I am but a mortal human and even with all of my acquired power and knowledge I cannot hold back the march of years and I am growing old. Unlike you, my long life is not natural and my body is slowly growing old and I will die, there is nothing I can do to stop this and this is the way it should be, it is the proper way of the world. I fear, however, that the old O-Harai-Ya who sent you on this quest wishes to upset the natural order of things, with the power of the relic I believe that she will not only be able to make herself immortal, but she will have access to unlimited power, she may be able to take over your world if she so desires to. This is why I feel that I must continue with you as long as I can and if I must quit this quest you must still let me place safeguards on the relic before you return to your own world with it.”
So it was decided Toshio and quiet Hisoka would return with the book cart to the capital city where they could continue working on the prophecy. InuYasha and Kagome knew that they would have to return to the capital city anyway since the O-Harai-Ya’s return information package clearly stated that the two could only attempt a return to their own world from the exact spot of their arrival.
So it was that the two scholars, the laden book cart and several of the Kings guards headed back towards the capital. The rest of the party continued on towards a small trading town where they had decided to spend the next night.
The following day started out pleasantly enough. Without Toshio’s complaining the entire party was able to arise early and partake of a hearty breakfast. The weather was pleasant and the simple dirt road was surprisingly free of pot holes. As the morning progressed everyone was in a good mood as they were making good time.
As usual InuYasha was walking to the left of Kagome’s horse and Yasha to the right of his princess’s. The two girls had taken to riding next to each other each day; InuYasha explained it was much easier for Yasha and himself to guard the two when they were together. If there was danger InuYasha could leave Kagome’s side knowing that Yasha would still be there to protect her.
They were traveling through a partially wooded stretch of road, since the road ahead was obscured by trees, the King sent out an advanced guard to scout for a place to stop for lunch. Suddenly InuYasha tensed, unsheathing and transforming Tessaiga in a single fluid motion. Sprinting ahead he yelled back to the remainder of the Kings guard that there was trouble ahead.
Within moments the trouble was upon them. A huge scorpion youkai came into sight; one of the King’s advance guards still impaled on its stinger. Surrounding the elephant sized monster were at least a dozen identical cow sized versions.
InuYasha immediately got to work hacking and slashing several of the smaller monsters out of the way so he could fix his attack on the huge arachnid, leaving the smaller versions for the rest of the guards to deal with.
Kagome quickly grabbed her bow, thankful that InuYasha insisted she wear a shooting glove at all times. Willing her spiritual powers into an arrow Kagome notched the arrow and aimed it at the same large bug InuYasha was slashing at. She reasoned if they could take out the largest of the creatures InuYasha would be able to help the guards clean up the smaller ones quickly. As soon as InuYasha leapt out of her line of fire, dodging the poisonous stinger that was jabbing at him, Kagome released her arrow. As the arrow flew towards the scorpion, InuYasha felt Kagome’s strong spiritual power approaching. Realizing that Kagome had let fire an arrow he aimed a huge blow timed to hit the monster seconds after the arrow. The combination proved to be fatal to the creature which exploded into a sticky disgusting mess. Within seconds InuYasha was able to turn his attention to the smaller scorpions.
Not wishing to be left out little Yasha threw himself at one of the smaller scorpions that was headed towards Kagome and his princess.
As the well protected King watched Yasha quickly dispatching his target he had to admit to himself that while Yasha threw himself into battle with the same gusto as InuYasha, he used his sword with much greater technical skill. It was obvious to the King’s trained eye that InuYasha was completely self taught, his technique relying heavily on the immense size of his sword and his sheer brute strength, while Yasha’s skill with the sword showed that he had truly benefited from the instruction his daughter had insisted on.
Within a matter of minuets InuYasha had dispatched all of the remaining small arachnids, chopping their ugly heads off with mighty blows from Tessaiga.
As InuYasha sauntered back towards Kagome and the princess, he stopped briefly in front of the King and apologized “Sorry that took so long, I didn’t want any more of your men to get hurt so I had to hold back and not use any of my big attacks. If there had been more room I could have taken them all out at the same time.”
The group quickly skirted the messy carcasses of the dead youkai and continued down the road looking for the second advance guard who they found injured but alive. The fortunate guard had been battered and knocked into a ditch, but not poisoned. Placing the injured guard in the carriage with Kaede and Tetsuya the party continued down the road.
After a brief stop for lunch the group resumed their travel hoping to make up time and reach the next small trading village before nightfall, where they hoped to arrange for the cremation of the slain guard.
Once again the party made good time, the new advanced guard returning periodically to let them know that all was safe.
InuYasha did not like this wooded stretch of road at all, the road curved and twisted never giving the group more than a glimpse of the road ahead, he could tell that Yasha was also on edge, the young hanyou’s ears swiveled nonstop and his hand never left his sword.
The attack seemed to come out of nowhere. Once again the advanced scouts were of no use. Fortunately this time the attackers were only human, unfortunately there were at least thirty of them.
InuYasha sighed, he really did not like killing humans, but these were obviously highway robbers and a danger to his mate and his mate’s double, not to mention the King they traveled with.
InuYasha knew he could not use the wind scar on humans, so rather than try and hack at them with his rusted katana he opted for his favorite standby, claws. Launching himself into the heaviest concentration of men InuYasha began to claw and punch the humans, instantly snapping necks and causing wounds with his hands as deep and severe as any sword could.
Yasha mindful that he had to protect his princess and Kagome took a defensive stance. Several of the foot-pads who thought the girls a tempting target found themselves quite dead as Yasah expertly welded his sword with such speed that many of his moves were just a blur.
Kagome instantaneously realized that she would not be able to use any of her spiritual powers against humans; before she could even formulate a plan of actions the little princess grabbed her own bow and arrows, stood in her saddle and began shooting at the attackers with deadly accuracy.
As Kagome glanced at her mate she realized he had just thrown his blades of blood. Infuriated that one of the would be robbers had wounded her mate Kagome took aim and began shooting into the throng of men.
The battle hardened King surrounded by his guards had no intention of letting others battle for him. Riding from behind his guards the King swooped down trampling and hacking at the men who had dared attack their King and his daughter.
As soon as the attackers realized that, despite their numbers, they were severely outclassed they began to beat a hasty retreat. Unfortunately, InuYasha, Yasha and the King were not the forgiving sort. As the men ran they were efficiently cut down. Finally there were only three robbers left, one dressed and armed much better than all the rest. The King indicated that these three should not be killed; he wanted to make sure this was a case of simple robbery and not a planned coup.
With a growling InuYasha on one side, Yasha on the other and several armed guards behind them the robbers quaked with fear as they were approached by the King.
“Do you know who I am” the King demanded without preamble. At the terrified humans look of confusion the King gave a small smirk. “Well when we get back to the capital for your public execution you will find out”. Then turning towards his guards the King added “Tie them up, we will leave them in custody at the next village, we can then pick them up when we return to the capital.”
Looking back at the two hanyou who had dispatched the majority of the foot-pads the King noticed that InuYasha’s arm was covered in blood, immediately the King inquired “InuYasha do you require medical attention?”
InuYasha laughed at the Kings concern replying “No, I’m fine; this scratch will be healed before we even get back on the road.”
Realizing that InuYasha probably healed at an even faster rate than Yasha the King only nodded his understanding and returned to his horse.
As the group resumed their travel down the road, finding the two missing advance guards trussed up but alive, Kagome turned towards InuYasha commenting “Well InuYasha, I hope you won’t be complaining tonight that we had another boring day!”
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Ryo5492 – I am working on some more action (not my strong point), I will try and infuse more when I can!!