InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Wanted ❯ The Southern Lands ( Chapter 6 )

Chapter6: The Southern Lands

 

Dez: Ok I'm trying to be a good updater, but it might not happen since I'm lazy

Nich: *grins* Well I can fix that

Kag: Hey Dez why are all your characters…um…perverted?

Dez: How should I know, anyways this chapter shall feature the infamous Nicholai

Nich: Which is me! *throws candy to the all the hot women and men cheering*

Inu: *sweat drop* loser…so Dez is he going to try to steal me away from Ryou?

Dez: idk maybe, but he sure will be stealing something *snickers* now on to the story, I don't own anyone except Ryou and Nicholai, only Rumiko Takahashi owns Inuyasha.

 

 

A couple of days after leaving the palace the group stopped to make camp for the night near a hot spring. Kagome and Sango left for the spring taking Rin with them and talking lowly together about what the Southern lord is going to be like. Inuyasha is sitting under a tree near the fire talking to Miroku and sometimes throwing rocks at Ryou who is talking to Sesshomaru.

 

Later when the girls come back and everyone has had dinner, they all lay down to go to sleep ready for their first encounter with the Southern lord but not realizing that they are being watched by an unknown being.

 

The next day they set off continuing to the south. “Oi Sesshomaru how long until we get to the southern lord's lands?” Sesshomaru glares at his brother silently `stop asking me that fucking question before I rip your throat out' Inuyasha gulps and turns to Ryou asking him the same question. “We'll be there in a couple of hours, now stop asking before your darling brother murders you” He chuckles lowly seeing Sesshomaru's irritated glance at him then stops suddenly and looks towards the forest sniffing the air.

“Hey Sesshomaru, Inuyasha you guys smell that?” Both of the Inu brothers sniff the air then turn quickly towards the forest while the others stand behind them readying themselves for an attack.

 

Suddenly a light blue flash passes by Ryou going straight towards Kagome knocking her down then back into the forest on the other side. Sesshomaru quickly goes over to her making sure she is okay then turns towards where the flash went. “Everyone stay here, Inuyasha, Ryou, and Kouga follow me” He then runs into the forest closely being followed by all three youkai each sniffing for the whereabouts of whatever it was but hearing a yell from Kagome makes them stop. “Inuyasha he took the jewel shards!!”

“Fuck we have to hurry up and find him” Inuyasha says quickly then starts running off at stop speed ignoring Ryou's cries for him to stop and wait.

 

Far from where there a young looking youkai with soft light blue hair is standing near a river smirking as he looks down at the jewel shards he had just stolen. `That was too easy, maybe I should go back a see how distraught that odd group is.' He thinks wickedly, then jumps over the river to the other side sensing 4 of the youkai that had been in that group and stands there waiting for them.

 

As the group arrives to where they sense the demon they stop quickly before they fall into the river then look at the demon on the other side of the river, Inuyasha steps forwards glaring at him. The demon laughs loudly at them and says lowly, “Awe is the ickle hanyou mad about me stealing his shikon jewels?” “Shut up and gives back the shards” Inuyasha growls pulling out tetsusaiga and looks back quickly to see Sesshomaru pull out tokijin and Ryou just looks at Inuyasha calmly and silently saying `What? Thought I was going to have a weapon with me?' They then turn back to the demon ahead who also pulled out his weapons which were two sai's {A/:N don't really know if sai is supposed to have an s after it to be plural} with the hilt also a light blue but a little darker then his hair. He then quickly jumped over the river aiming for Inuyasha but before hitting him changes direction and goes after Kouga who moves out the way but not before getting a long cut across his chest. But then Miroku runs into the clearing and the demon turns towards him slightly surprised. `Who is this? Is he with this group?' Suddenly the demons world goes black as Ryou hits him over the head. “That's for almost attacking my puppy” “I'm not your puppy” Inuyasha grounds out between clinched teeth, then walks over to the demon and reaching over to search through his things then pulls back grinning as he holds up the small bag with the shikon jewels in it.

 

The group then goes back to where Kagome and Sango are with the demon being pulled behind them. Sango quickly gets up and runs over to Kouga and drags him over to the tree she was sitting under to fuss over his wounds. Sesshomaru then pulls the demon over to another tree and ties him up with some rope from Kagome's bag, Kagome then leaves to go fill a pot with water from the river that they had seen and came back to fix everyone ramen even making extra for the demon when he awakens.

 

Sitting under a tree near the demon that attacked them that day sat Miroku; he would occasionally look at the demon but then go back to eating his ramen not really listening to anyone around him. A few minutes passed and when he looked over at the demon again he quickly looked away since he was awake and looking at him. Miroku looked around the camp finally realizing that everyone was asleep except for him and now the demon, he then silently got up and walked over to the dying fire and placed his bowl near the other empty ones. A soft whisper behind makes him jump a little and turn around to the person who whispered it. “What did you say?” The demon smirked then shifts his to the spot next to him. “Come talk to me” For some reason the softly spoken words made him walk over and hesitantly sit next to him, he quickly looked down at the ground noticing the demon staring at him.

 

Some moments passed and Miroku looked at him out of the corner of his eye to see the blue haired man staring up at the stars then jumps hearing him speak. “Tonight is beautiful don't you think?” Miroku looks up at the sky and says in a soft tone. “Yes it is…um so what is your name?” He looks at the youkai cautiously and starts to get lost in his really light lavender eyes but comes back to reality as the demon talks. “How about you tell me yours since a cute young man like you shouldn't be talking to an awfully vicious youkai like me” He grins widely seeing Miroku blush brightly from the compliment. “Um…w-well my name is Miroku” “Such a nice name, mines is Nicholai” Miroku blushes a deeper red as he stares at the youkai admiring his low sweet voice. “Miroku if its not too much to ask, do you have a mate?” He smiles lightly at the young blushing man sitting next to him and silently approves of Miroku's dark purple eyes and adorable features compared to his own sharp features and lavender eyes and light blue hair. While Nicholai is observing him silently Miroku is blushing even more and looking at him noticing in the dying light of the fire that Nicholai is wearing little armor with a navy blue top similar to Inuyasha's but the matching hikama(sp?) is slightly tighter and as he looks up again at his face he notices his short blue hair is lightly covering a silver earring, he then shakes himself out his musings and blushes again realizing that Nicholai was grinning at him. “Um…no I don't, with my Kazana there isn't much point in getting a mate” He sighs wearily and stands up. “I should be getting some sleep, you too since everyone will probably be questioning you tomorrow…good night Nicholai” He then walks over to the tree he was first sitting under and lays down falling asleep immediately.

Nicholai watched him as he went to sleep and softly whispering under his breath. “Good night my purple eyed houshi.” Then he himself went to sleep.

 

The next morning Miroku woke up to yelling and he jumped quickly looking over to Nicholai seeing Inuyasha yelling and threatening him, he smoothed his hair out and rushed over getting between them facing Inuyasha. “Please calm down, what happened?”

“What happened? That bastard is sitting there mocking and not answering any of my questions!!” Miroku sighed and tries to ignore the feeling of being watched from behind. “Well Inuyasha maybe someone else should try asking him questions.” The group agreed including Inuyasha albeit grudgingly and mutters for Ryou to leave him alone feeling him lightly rub his back but Ryou just ignores him. Kouga then steps forward looking at everyone in turn. “So who's going to question him if it isn't going to be Inuyasha?” Kagome suggests a vote and they then spend fifteen minutes voting. “And the results are Miroku gets to do it” Everyone turns to him and he blushes then turns quickly to Nicholai hearing him chuckle darkly and feels himself shiver slightly.

 

So after an hour of questioning they find out his name, although Miroku already knew it, and they also find out that he is an ice youkai, and he's also the best damn thief in the south, his own words of course. Nicholai then makes a deal with them to travel and help them to defeat Naraku in exchange to let him loose and not kill him…even if they would have a hard time killing an ice youkai. With one more person added to the group they then continued towards the southern palace in hopes of getting the lord to help them with the defeat of Naraku.

 

Finally after another day of traveling they make it to the palace with the three lords in front, then Kagome, Sango, and Kouga are behind them with the two young ones running around and playing with Kilala. Behind them is Miroku talking to Nicholai about his childhood and the curse that was placed upon his family by Naraku. “That's awful, when we find this Naraku fellow I'll make sure to kill him for you” Saying that he noticed it made Miroku blush. `He's so cute when he blushes; I'm surprised he doesn't have a mate'. The group then makes it up to the front gates and the guards allow them to pass seeing as the lord from the east and west was traveling with them.

 

They go into the palace and stop in a hallway with huge double doors in front of them, then Sesshomaru turns around and glares at everyone there, except the young ones. “Jaken you will stay out here and watch over Rin and the kitsune, the rest of you will not talk once we're in there, Ryou-sama and I will do all the talking.” He then growls low at Inuyasha and cracks his knuckles. “Especially you little brother.” Inuyasha then gulps and follows his brother in as the guards open the doors to allow them passage into the throne room where to their surprise is not the lord of the southern lands, but lady of the southern lands.

 

Ryou and Sesshomaru both step forward looking seriously at the lady of the south as she smiles warmly at them. “Ah the two Inu lords have come to grace me with their presence, why is that?” “We have come to ask you where you stand in the war against Naraku.” Ryou speaks clearly but with a venomous edge to it, the lady of the south purrs lightly and steps down from her throne walking over to them. “Where I stand? That should be obvious don't you think love?” She lovingly rubs Ryou's cheek then turns around and walks back to her throne and sitting down. “If you have come to ask me to join you then the answer is no.” Both Taiyoukai's growl low in their throats at her and Sesshomaru steps forward some. “You dare to defy us Nekio?” “No I'm just saying I'm not joining you, but you can join me” Nekio grins at them as she leans back watching their faces, she then notices Inuyasha standing a little behind Ryou, she then points to him. “Who are you?” Inuyasha looks at her startled then opens his mouth to speak but is cut off abruptly by Ryou. “That is Inuyasha, my mate” Nekio then smiles at him and snaps her fingers. “All servants prepare the best rooms for these people and start a banquet.” Her servants cheer then rush off to their jobs as the group is taken to separate bathing quarters to get ready.

 

 

Dez: Yes! I did it, ok this chapter may be shorter then the 5th one but it sounds good I hope.

Mir: Yeah it does, so what's up with me and Nicholai?

Dez: Oh you'll find out a bit later, now for Nicholai's hair, if anyone has seen Trigun think of Legato's hair, its cut like that.

Nich: I thought my hair was going to be long *pouts*

Dez: It was but I changed my mind, anyways thanks everyone for reading and hope that you liked it and review please.