InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Heir to the Western Lands ❯ Friends ( Chapter 2 )
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By: Kawaii Youkai 
Thirteen years later. Other have had children too.
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Adventure / Action | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 04.26.2004 | Pages: 3 | Words: 2.1K | Visits: 537 | Status: Completed
Thirteen years later. Other have had children too.
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Adventure / Action | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 04.26.2004 | Pages: 3 | Words: 2.1K | Visits: 537 | Status: Completed
AN: Well, after my nee-chan practically begging me to write some more to this fan fiction, I may as well. I have a little over five chapters of it written out so far, so I might not get too far for a while now, but since it’s spring break at the moment, I might get away with writing two or three more chapters of it. Well, read on! ^^
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KOUGA: I thought you said you weren’t gonna update this one anymore
*sigh* Don’t you read the author’s notes?
KOUGA: Keh, no!
*rolls eyes* Well you should, then you’d know that I am writing more of it!
KOUGA: But why do that when I can just ask you?
*yells in frustration* GAAAAH!!! Ookami youkai!!!!! *stalks off*
KOUGA: Is it something I said?
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Heir To The Western Lands
Chapter Two: Friends
*~*~*Thirteen Years Later*~*~*
Inu Tashio flopped down on the dirt ground and sighed. Leaning against the side of Kaede’s hut, he closed his eyes and rubbed his throbbing temples.
She had been chasing him for over an hour now, and he was beginning to tire.
Normally, when he had his demonic strength, he could easily out run her. But tonight was his human night, and, even though he was still incredibly fast, she gained on him quickly. As Inu Tashio relaxed and breathed in a breath of relief, he was suddenly tackled from the side.
And with one yelp of surprise, he fell over.
Hard.
Looking up, he saw his long time companion and friend, Kiro*, and Elemental Neko. His pale yellow-ish fur gleamed in the moonlight and the slashes of black that tipped his paws, ears and double tails seemed almost invisible in the night air. His eyes were like slates of blue with solid black irises and pupils. A single blue jewel, same color as his eyes, was laid in the middle of his forehead, right above between his eyes.
Kiro’s elemental type was ice.
He also had a sister, whom was a lightning cat. Their mother had been Kirara, whom had taken a mate a few years back, and had sired one litter. Her mate had died almost ten years ago, shortly after their litter had been born.
Her two kittens, Kiro and Tema, were both full grown now, and had each chosen a companion. Kiro had chosen Inu Tashio, and together they were a formidable team, definitely not one to mess with. Tema was a lightning neko, and also the older sister of Kiro. She had chosen her companion shortly after she turned three years of the human age. She had chosen Kimi, Sango and Miroku’s daughter.
The same Kimi that Inu Tashio was currently running from.
Kiro cave a sharp meow, and drew Inu Tashio’s attention to the small Ice Cat. Inu Tashio blinked, “Say what, Kiro? I’m sorry, wasn’t listening.”
Kiro gave him a humorous look and repeated himself in the tongue of animal youkai.
“N-NANI!!!!!” Inu Tashio exclaimed, jumping up, a faint blush on his cheeks and widened eyes.
When he stood up, something suddenly latched itself onto his waist and he toppled over, yet again, onto the ground.
“GOTCHA!” the thing around Inu Tashio’s waist said.
“ACK!” Inu Tashio said as he looked down at the thing attached to his waist.
Raven black hair was pulled up into a low ponytail, which the tips of her hair hung just below her shoulder blades. It looked up at him and grinned, dark blue eyes, identical to her father’s, laughed at him from behind her straight bangs.
Sighing, Inu Tashio detached Kimi from glomping his waist. The girl giggled and plopped down onto the ground next to him. Even though she was only one year younger than him, she acted even younger.
She still lived at home, as was custom, but Inu Tashio lived where ever he wanted to now (even though his mother wasn’t to fond of that). He still lived near the village, though he could come and go as he pleased.
Inu Tashio looked eastward as the sun rose, sending beautiful streaks of pink-ish orange light across the morning sky. He felt his youkai blood rising, and his hair lightened considerably to a bright silver. He closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, they were a light gold-ish amber color. His human fingernails grew pointed and sharp, turning into his normal claws, and his human ears disappeared from the sides of his face and triangular doggy ears appeared behind his bangs.
Two blue stripes appeared on either side of his cheeks, and a red-ish purple crescent moon appeared in the middle of his forehead. Shaking off the after effects of his transformation, he started up a conversation with Kimi.
“What’s up?” Inu Tashio asked, looking straight at Kimi. She cocked her head to the side, “The sky, silly. You use strange phrases whenever you come home from Aunt Kagome’s time.” Inu Tashio sighed, Kimi had never really grasped the concept of modern things. She knew about modern food, but that was about it. Inu Tashio stood up and dusted off his plain white haori and dark forest green hakamas, made of fire-rat fur that his father had cut from his own set of clothes to make his. They had been dyed, obviously, as the natural color of fire-rat fur is red.
Holding out a clawed hand, Inu Tashio motioned for Kimi to take it to help her up. She smiled and accepted it, and Inu Tashio pulled her to her feet. Once she was steadily standing up, she brushed the dust off of her yukata.
Her yukata was made of a simple fabric, the base was a white color with dark blue flowers (the same color as her eyes) overlaying the bottom. It had regular long sleeves went to her wrists, and the length of the yukata went down to her ankles. It was cinched right below her belly button, where a person’s chi is at its center point.
A stick snapped a ways off on the outskirts of Inu Yasha’s forest and Inu Tashio’s ears flicked backwards towards it. His head soon followed, and a grin lit up his face.
It was Kouga and his son, Canis.
Inu Tashio and Canis had been fast friends ever since they had met, over ten years ago. Inu Yasha didn’t seem to like Kouga very much, and he was normally a bit more agitated when the Wolf King was around. Inu Tashio had a suspicion it had to do with his mother.
Canis had a younger sister, Lupa, but she was still young yet, so she was probably still at home with their mother, Tsume.
Canis wore clothes almost identical to his father’s: fur on his shoulders, legs, wrist, kilt, and headband. The fur was brown, same as Kouga’s, and, also like his father, he sprouted a furry brown wolf tail that hung down to his knees, flicking in the morning air.
His kilt came down to low thigh, and through the belt part of the kilt protruded a polished new katana. The hilt of the katana had a silver top with black fabric wrapped around the handle.
The fur on his legs went from his ankles to just below his knees. On his feet he wore simple strips of white fabric that he used as a type of incredibly flexible shoes. The only thing that adorned his arms were two wrist plain bands.
His curly dark brown hair, almost identical to his mother’s, was pulled into a low ponytail and hung just barely below his shoulder blades, falling into one dark brown ringlet.
Canis wore blue armor over his torso, light blue from the bottom of his chest to just barely below his collar bone, and a deeper blue that went from below this chest to his low torso that hid beneath his fur kilt.
Dark blue eyes, identical to his father’s and his armor, were alight with happiness. Canis grinned and took off at a fast jog to Inu Tashio, and they clapped hands with each other.
“Yo,” Inu Tashio said.
“Hey,” Canis replied.
Both stood there for a moment looking at each other before they burst out laughing at the same time. Kimi cocked her head to the side looked at them for a moment, then she rolled her eyes. Walking away, she muttered something about “Shounen no baka”*.
Kouga finally caught up with his son and Inu Tashio, as he had walked over, and turned to Inu Tashio, “Hey cub, where’s your father?”
Now it was Inu Tashio’s turn to roll his eyes. He was used to being called a child. Either “Pup” by his dad, “Kid” by his Uncle Souta, or “Cub” by Kouga.
“Chichi-ue’s* at our house. He was arguing with Haha-ue* when I left, so he’s probably added a few craters to the nearby landscape.” Kouga laughed at Inu Tashio’s description of Inu Yasha getting “sat”.
“Alright then, I guess I’d better go and save poor mutt-face,” Kouga replied jokingly. It didn’t matter how well Inu Yasha and Kouga still got along, they still called each other mutt-face, wolf-turd, and the like.
Inu Tashio laughed and shook his head to get that visual image out of his mind while Kouga jogged towards the village on his way to Inu Yasha’s house.
Canis clapped a hand to Inu Tashio’s back.
“So how ya’ doing, Tash no nii-chan?” he asked, calling Inu Tashio the nickname he had given him years ago.
Inu Tashio replied, “Pretty okay. Kimi’s starting to stalk me again. I swear, she’s relentless!”
Canis snickered, “She’s just waiting for you to come of age. You know she hopes you’ll have a friendly, not-so-friendly-because-it’s-about-his-daughter chat with Miroku.”
Inu Tashio turned seven shades of red and chuckled nervously.
He wasn’t too sure about THAT now.
“Come on!” Canis waved from a ways off, he had already started towards the village and towards Inu Tashio’s house. “Let’s save Chichi-ue from getting beaten to a pulp by Yasha-kun.
Inu Tashio laughed and jogged lightly after him, red-purple stripes on his cheeks going up with his grin.
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CANIS: So now what? You’ve introduced me, what’s the point of continuing the story?
*smacks Canis upside the head* Because people care about more than just you!
CANIS: They do?
*sighs* Yes, ookami no baka!
CANIS: Hey! They’re the bakas if they care about things other than me!
*shakes head* Maybe I SHOULD just let you be single through out the whole story.......
CANIS: *eyes widen* You wouldn’t do that to a poor ookami like myself, would you?
*glares evilly* Try me
CANIS: *gulp*
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* Kiro is pronounced kind of like “Kilo”, because in Japanese, the “r” sounds similar to “l”, although it is translated as either, the proper way to spell it is “r”. Kiro also looks very similar to Kirara, except for the eye and jewel color.
*Shounen no Baka = Stupid Boys
*Chichi-ue = VERY old way to say Father
*Haha-ue = VERY old way to say Mother
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AN: Can’t............... stay............... awake................... Must................ get................ sleep................ zzzzzzz................. (( The clock says: 10:23 PM........ This is so sad -_-.......))
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KOUGA: I thought you said you weren’t gonna update this one anymore
*sigh* Don’t you read the author’s notes?
KOUGA: Keh, no!
*rolls eyes* Well you should, then you’d know that I am writing more of it!
KOUGA: But why do that when I can just ask you?
*yells in frustration* GAAAAH!!! Ookami youkai!!!!! *stalks off*
KOUGA: Is it something I said?
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Heir To The Western Lands
Chapter Two: Friends
*~*~*Thirteen Years Later*~*~*
Inu Tashio flopped down on the dirt ground and sighed. Leaning against the side of Kaede’s hut, he closed his eyes and rubbed his throbbing temples.
She had been chasing him for over an hour now, and he was beginning to tire.
Normally, when he had his demonic strength, he could easily out run her. But tonight was his human night, and, even though he was still incredibly fast, she gained on him quickly. As Inu Tashio relaxed and breathed in a breath of relief, he was suddenly tackled from the side.
And with one yelp of surprise, he fell over.
Hard.
Looking up, he saw his long time companion and friend, Kiro*, and Elemental Neko. His pale yellow-ish fur gleamed in the moonlight and the slashes of black that tipped his paws, ears and double tails seemed almost invisible in the night air. His eyes were like slates of blue with solid black irises and pupils. A single blue jewel, same color as his eyes, was laid in the middle of his forehead, right above between his eyes.
Kiro’s elemental type was ice.
He also had a sister, whom was a lightning cat. Their mother had been Kirara, whom had taken a mate a few years back, and had sired one litter. Her mate had died almost ten years ago, shortly after their litter had been born.
Her two kittens, Kiro and Tema, were both full grown now, and had each chosen a companion. Kiro had chosen Inu Tashio, and together they were a formidable team, definitely not one to mess with. Tema was a lightning neko, and also the older sister of Kiro. She had chosen her companion shortly after she turned three years of the human age. She had chosen Kimi, Sango and Miroku’s daughter.
The same Kimi that Inu Tashio was currently running from.
Kiro cave a sharp meow, and drew Inu Tashio’s attention to the small Ice Cat. Inu Tashio blinked, “Say what, Kiro? I’m sorry, wasn’t listening.”
Kiro gave him a humorous look and repeated himself in the tongue of animal youkai.
“N-NANI!!!!!” Inu Tashio exclaimed, jumping up, a faint blush on his cheeks and widened eyes.
When he stood up, something suddenly latched itself onto his waist and he toppled over, yet again, onto the ground.
“GOTCHA!” the thing around Inu Tashio’s waist said.
“ACK!” Inu Tashio said as he looked down at the thing attached to his waist.
Raven black hair was pulled up into a low ponytail, which the tips of her hair hung just below her shoulder blades. It looked up at him and grinned, dark blue eyes, identical to her father’s, laughed at him from behind her straight bangs.
Sighing, Inu Tashio detached Kimi from glomping his waist. The girl giggled and plopped down onto the ground next to him. Even though she was only one year younger than him, she acted even younger.
She still lived at home, as was custom, but Inu Tashio lived where ever he wanted to now (even though his mother wasn’t to fond of that). He still lived near the village, though he could come and go as he pleased.
Inu Tashio looked eastward as the sun rose, sending beautiful streaks of pink-ish orange light across the morning sky. He felt his youkai blood rising, and his hair lightened considerably to a bright silver. He closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, they were a light gold-ish amber color. His human fingernails grew pointed and sharp, turning into his normal claws, and his human ears disappeared from the sides of his face and triangular doggy ears appeared behind his bangs.
Two blue stripes appeared on either side of his cheeks, and a red-ish purple crescent moon appeared in the middle of his forehead. Shaking off the after effects of his transformation, he started up a conversation with Kimi.
“What’s up?” Inu Tashio asked, looking straight at Kimi. She cocked her head to the side, “The sky, silly. You use strange phrases whenever you come home from Aunt Kagome’s time.” Inu Tashio sighed, Kimi had never really grasped the concept of modern things. She knew about modern food, but that was about it. Inu Tashio stood up and dusted off his plain white haori and dark forest green hakamas, made of fire-rat fur that his father had cut from his own set of clothes to make his. They had been dyed, obviously, as the natural color of fire-rat fur is red.
Holding out a clawed hand, Inu Tashio motioned for Kimi to take it to help her up. She smiled and accepted it, and Inu Tashio pulled her to her feet. Once she was steadily standing up, she brushed the dust off of her yukata.
Her yukata was made of a simple fabric, the base was a white color with dark blue flowers (the same color as her eyes) overlaying the bottom. It had regular long sleeves went to her wrists, and the length of the yukata went down to her ankles. It was cinched right below her belly button, where a person’s chi is at its center point.
A stick snapped a ways off on the outskirts of Inu Yasha’s forest and Inu Tashio’s ears flicked backwards towards it. His head soon followed, and a grin lit up his face.
It was Kouga and his son, Canis.
Inu Tashio and Canis had been fast friends ever since they had met, over ten years ago. Inu Yasha didn’t seem to like Kouga very much, and he was normally a bit more agitated when the Wolf King was around. Inu Tashio had a suspicion it had to do with his mother.
Canis had a younger sister, Lupa, but she was still young yet, so she was probably still at home with their mother, Tsume.
Canis wore clothes almost identical to his father’s: fur on his shoulders, legs, wrist, kilt, and headband. The fur was brown, same as Kouga’s, and, also like his father, he sprouted a furry brown wolf tail that hung down to his knees, flicking in the morning air.
His kilt came down to low thigh, and through the belt part of the kilt protruded a polished new katana. The hilt of the katana had a silver top with black fabric wrapped around the handle.
The fur on his legs went from his ankles to just below his knees. On his feet he wore simple strips of white fabric that he used as a type of incredibly flexible shoes. The only thing that adorned his arms were two wrist plain bands.
His curly dark brown hair, almost identical to his mother’s, was pulled into a low ponytail and hung just barely below his shoulder blades, falling into one dark brown ringlet.
Canis wore blue armor over his torso, light blue from the bottom of his chest to just barely below his collar bone, and a deeper blue that went from below this chest to his low torso that hid beneath his fur kilt.
Dark blue eyes, identical to his father’s and his armor, were alight with happiness. Canis grinned and took off at a fast jog to Inu Tashio, and they clapped hands with each other.
“Yo,” Inu Tashio said.
“Hey,” Canis replied.
Both stood there for a moment looking at each other before they burst out laughing at the same time. Kimi cocked her head to the side looked at them for a moment, then she rolled her eyes. Walking away, she muttered something about “Shounen no baka”*.
Kouga finally caught up with his son and Inu Tashio, as he had walked over, and turned to Inu Tashio, “Hey cub, where’s your father?”
Now it was Inu Tashio’s turn to roll his eyes. He was used to being called a child. Either “Pup” by his dad, “Kid” by his Uncle Souta, or “Cub” by Kouga.
“Chichi-ue’s* at our house. He was arguing with Haha-ue* when I left, so he’s probably added a few craters to the nearby landscape.” Kouga laughed at Inu Tashio’s description of Inu Yasha getting “sat”.
“Alright then, I guess I’d better go and save poor mutt-face,” Kouga replied jokingly. It didn’t matter how well Inu Yasha and Kouga still got along, they still called each other mutt-face, wolf-turd, and the like.
Inu Tashio laughed and shook his head to get that visual image out of his mind while Kouga jogged towards the village on his way to Inu Yasha’s house.
Canis clapped a hand to Inu Tashio’s back.
“So how ya’ doing, Tash no nii-chan?” he asked, calling Inu Tashio the nickname he had given him years ago.
Inu Tashio replied, “Pretty okay. Kimi’s starting to stalk me again. I swear, she’s relentless!”
Canis snickered, “She’s just waiting for you to come of age. You know she hopes you’ll have a friendly, not-so-friendly-because-it’s-about-his-daughter chat with Miroku.”
Inu Tashio turned seven shades of red and chuckled nervously.
He wasn’t too sure about THAT now.
“Come on!” Canis waved from a ways off, he had already started towards the village and towards Inu Tashio’s house. “Let’s save Chichi-ue from getting beaten to a pulp by Yasha-kun.
Inu Tashio laughed and jogged lightly after him, red-purple stripes on his cheeks going up with his grin.
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CANIS: So now what? You’ve introduced me, what’s the point of continuing the story?
*smacks Canis upside the head* Because people care about more than just you!
CANIS: They do?
*sighs* Yes, ookami no baka!
CANIS: Hey! They’re the bakas if they care about things other than me!
*shakes head* Maybe I SHOULD just let you be single through out the whole story.......
CANIS: *eyes widen* You wouldn’t do that to a poor ookami like myself, would you?
*glares evilly* Try me
CANIS: *gulp*
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* Kiro is pronounced kind of like “Kilo”, because in Japanese, the “r” sounds similar to “l”, although it is translated as either, the proper way to spell it is “r”. Kiro also looks very similar to Kirara, except for the eye and jewel color.
*Shounen no Baka = Stupid Boys
*Chichi-ue = VERY old way to say Father
*Haha-ue = VERY old way to say Mother
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AN: Can’t............... stay............... awake................... Must................ get................ sleep................ zzzzzzz................. (( The clock says: 10:23 PM........ This is so sad -_-.......))