InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Village of demons ❯ Chapter Four: New Arrivals ( Chapter 4 )

Disclaimer: The Inuyasha story does not belong to me but to Rumiko Takahashi and I thank her for bringing it to us.

Chapter Four: New Arrivals

Multitudes of colored leaves danced around the yard as the first chilled breeze of Autumn blew through the space between the shrine and the well house. All the expected colors were in the mix. Including what Kagome dubbed, “ Inuyasha red.”

She laughed as he picked some leaves out of his long, flowing hair as they walked to the well.

Inuyasha picked Kagome up bridal style as he prepared to jump into the well. She smiled up at him and he smiled back before giving her a light kiss. Without breaking the kiss he jumped in and they were enveloped by the familiar blue light.

Kagome made sure she had a tight hold on Inuyasha as he jumped straight up, clearing the side of the well completely. It wasn’t really necessary for her to hold on so tight. He had a hold of her and would never let her fall.

They walked together, hand in hand, into Kaede’s hut. Sango and Miroku were talking quietly in the corner. Shippou and Kirara watched as Kaede added herbs to a pot with a bubbling liquid that was turning a very strange shade of green.

Everyone noticed Inuyasha and Kagome’s unfamiliar closeness as soon as the two had walked in. They all just stared in awe until Miroku broke the uncomfortable silence.

“ Good to see you guys back. Any good news from your time Kagome?” He said with an innocent smile.

She knew he was trying to wiggle some sort of explanation out of what at first glance seamed like an ordinary question. She was not ashamed though, she was proud of the feelings she and Inuyasha shared.

I should consider his feelings though. I know he doesn’t like being open about stuff like this.

Before she answered Miroku she turned to Inuyasha.

“ Should I tell them?”

Inuyasha moved to right behind her and put his arms around her waist to show that it was ok.

“ Go ahead, might as well get it over with. They’re going to find out sooner or later.”

They now had the undivided attention of everyone in the hut.

“ Well…Inuyasha and I are engaged.” Kagome said, pulling the mating stone out from under her shirt. It sparkled even with no direct sunlight.

They all sat there speechless with their jaws hanging open. It was quite an unexpected shock. Admitting their feelings for each other was one thing, but to go from unsure to engaged. It was hard to believe.

After a few tense moments the shock was replaced with congratulations and questions of when, and where the wedding would be. After all was said and done it was decided that they would have the wedding after Miroku and Sango’s. It was only fair considering they have been engaged longer. Inuyasha and Kagome both agreed that the best place for there wedding would be under the Goshinboku with Kaede presiding over it. Sango and Miroku had been wondering about there wedding too and decided that they would marry under Goshinboku as well.

After several hours of talking and planning, mostly between the girls, they settled down for lunch. Inuyasha was half way through his second batch of ramen when he slapped at something on his neck. He looked into his hand with mild irritation on his face, which was the signature sign that Myouga had decided to make an appearance.

“ Hello master Inuyasha, I hope everything is going well.” He bowed before turning to look at Kagome.

His eyes widened, he couldn’t believe what he saw, but there it was.

The mating stone that lady Izayoi left to master Inuyasha…

“ Oh my, you have finally chosen a mate! I’m so glad that you found Kagome,…um I mean Lady Kagome.” He bowed to Kagome as well.

Now that she was Inuyasha’s intended he had to show her the proper respect.

“ With your fathers strong, and tasty, blood and Kagome’s priestess powers flowing through their veins you will have very strong children indeed!”

Inuyasha and Kagome both blushed at the mention of children. They planned on having them yes, but they both thought it was way to early to think about now.

Inuyasha squished the flea again, after managing to change his expression from embarrassed back to his signature irritation.

“ What do you want Myouga? I know you haven’t come just to visit.”

Myouga hopped up onto Inuyasha’s rosary to get at least some distance between him and his masters crushing fingers.

“ I am here because I have news concerning the remaining jewel shards. There are whispers that the last two jewel shards yet to be collected have made their way into the hands of the raven demon twin brothers Souse and Iji. They say the brothers are supposed to be guardians of the land, but with the evil influence of the shards they have started terrorizing many villages in the east.”

Miroku leaned over towards Myouga and lifted him onto his shoulder so he could talk to him more easily.

“ Do you know where the brothers are now?”

Myouga rubbed his head in concentration before answering.

“ Last I heard they have been attacking a village about three days travel from here, to the east.”

Miroku nodded before turning to Inuyasha.

“ Well I guess we’re heading east.”

Inuyasha grunted in reply before turning to Kagome.

“ Do you need to go back to get anything before we leave in the morning?” The gentleness in his voice surprised everyone.

Even Kagome was a little surprised. She smiled at him and shook her head.

“ No, we have more than enough supplies for now.”

Myouga cleared his throat to show that he had more to say.

“ I also have a message from Lord Sesshomaru.”

This got everyone’s attention back on Myouga. Inuyasha reached and picked up the little flea demon and brought him up to his face.

“ You can tell that oversized ball of fluff that he isn’t getting tetsusaiga unless its from my cold dead hands.”

Myouga cringed at his masters angry tone and hurried to explain himself before he was squished again.

“ The message isn’t about tetsusaiga, Lord Sesshomaru requests an audience with you. He says that you should bring your companions with you. Please master Inuyasha, whatever he needs to see you about it is important. He would not even tell me why he needed to see you, all he said was that you and he share a common enemy and that if you wished to keep this village from harm you would speak with him.”

Inuyasha squished Myouga again and dropped him to the floor.

“ Keh, If he wants to see me so badly why couldn’t he have come here himself. His castle is a day’s travel to the west and that will add another day to our trip.”

Kagome frowned at Inuyasha’s tone before she grabbed an ear and tugged to get his attention.

“ I think you should go see what he wants Inuyasha. You know he is not very fond of you so if he needs to speak to you it is probably important.”

Inuyasha sat back against the wall with a look that showed the whole thing still didn’t sit right with him, but he didn’t argue like they had expected.

“ Thank you for your support lady Kagome. You are very wise.” Myouga bowed to her again.

…and as patient as a saint to put up with master Inuyasha. He thought to himself as he bowed to the group once again and excused himself from the hut to be on his way.

He hurried to make his way out of the village.

I have a bad feeling around this place, something bad is coming. I’m going to go with my first instinct and get while the getting’s good.

A few minutes after Myouga left the hut Sato, the village headman, burst through the reed mat. Coughing and breathing hard as he bowed to Kaede.

“Lady Kaede, please you must come quickly and bring Lady Kagome! There is a traveling party that just stopped outside the village and they have many wounded.”

Kagome grabbed her first aid kit and fell in step behind Kaede as she hurried to follow Sato outside. The others were right behind them as they made their way to the traveling party. A traveling group being attacked was not out of the ordinary, considering the all the warfare going on in the feudal era. What was surprising was that the party was made up of mostly half-demons, a few humans, and two demons. They appeared to be a bat demon and a wolf demon.

After all the injured were taken care of the two demons approached Inuyasha, Kagome, and Kaede. Inuyasha figured if they were going to attack they would have done it by now, but he still rested his hand on tetsusaiga’s hilt just in case.

“ Thank you for helping our wounded. I am Ryouta and this is Kazu.” Ryouta said, gesturing towards the bat demon to his left.

“ I’m Kagome, and I’m glad I could help. Tell me, what brings you this way and who attacked you?”

Ryouta turned and looked over all the people that had come with them with a solemn expression before he started speaking.

“ We have all traveled many miles in search of a place to call home. As you probably know demons and half-demons do not have a place among most humans. It started off as just me and my mate Shizume and our son Ichiro. As we traveled from place to place, never welcome by humans or demons we began to gather followers as others like us longed for a place to belong…a family. We were camped on the outskirts of a village to the north when we finally got a shimmer of hope. We heard tale of a village in the land of Musashi, where the village was protected by a powerful half-demon and was accepting of demons and half-demons. We decided to search for this village but the last village we stopped at was out for demon blood and sought to destroy us all.” Ryouta stopped talking as he looked over to a human women and a small boy with wolf ears and a tail that were probably his mate and son.

Kazu stepped up to finish what Ryouta was saying. His voice was gruffer and slightly darker as if he had seen more than his fair share of what had just happened.

“ We have lost several today, there were three more demons with us but they were the first to fall protecting the group. We are the leaders now. For the most part the group is made up of women and their half-demon children. A few of them are adult half-demons that managed to stay alive long enough to join our pack. We wish to join your village, and if allowed we would owe you are lives.” Kagome gave Kaede a pleading look before the elderly woman patted Kazu on the shoulder.

“ Ye are welcome to stay in this village and make it your home. Go talk to the village headman about a suitable location for you to build more homes and tell him you have my blessing.”

Kazu bowed low and thanked Kaede before he made his way over to the headman. Ryouta stepped forward again to speak to Kaede once more.

“ We have heard many tales of the powerful half-demon Inuyasha, and I would like to meet this village’s protector.”

Kaede pointed to Inuyasha.

“ Ye have not far to look, he stands right behind me.”

Inuyasha meanwhile was standing there with the look of a man who had just had his ego inflated. Kagome grabbed a handful of dog ear and pulled it down to her level and whispered teasingly into it.

“ Don’t go getting a big head, oh mighty half-demon.”

Ryouta chuckled at the display. Before stepping forwards to Inuyasha.

“ Ah so this is the great Inuyasha, and you must be the priestess Kagome.” He said as he turned his attention to the women beside Inuyasha, who had moments earlier been pulling on his ear. Ryouta looked like he was about to say more before a soft holler of, “ father!” brought his attention to his son Ichiro.

“ I wish I could talk with you more but I must tend to my family.” He said, as he slipped off in the direction of the women and child.

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“ Hmm…the great Inuyasha, I like the sound of that.” Inuyasha said, as he jumped into a nearby tree with Kagome to watch the sunset.

“ I thought I told you not to get a big head.” She giggled lightly as she rubbed his ears. They looked over the field where the travelers had been. After a long day of talking and helping whoever needed it the villagers had all taken in someone from the group so all of them had a place to stay until they built their own hut. All in all there were about fifty of them including Ryouta, and Kazu. Kagome fell asleep in Inuyasha’s arms as he stared up at the stars and wondered what the next day would bring.

A/N: I know, a very short chapter. I think I got most of the errors taken care of. I hope everyone is enjoying the story. Please let me know of any ideas for future chapters. Please leave me a comment, thanks for reading.