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Serpents and Dog Demons	By : ajj77sunhawk Category: InuYasha > Yaoi - Male/Male Views: 10798 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 1
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Chapter 2
He fell into a space that seemed endless, but he did not fall alone. The coils of the serpent curled around him, the syllabic whisper in his ear. It told of the nature of the world he was heading to, a world of demons and humans. He was no longer human, and in this world his powers would manifest as demonic ability. Ban smiled at the irony that the prophecy of his mother was finally coming true, but that was an old story. The pain of her abandonment, long since been dealt with.
Finally he emerged into light and instead of falling, he found the serpent coils lowering him gently to the ground. Ban's eyebrow rose, the figure of Auscelpius towering above him looked younger and different, "My presence is stronger here, Bearer. My power flows easier though your veins. Go my son, and find your happiness." The huge figure disappeared and Ban found himself alone in the middle of a deep forest.
Ban looked around, the air was fresh, fresher then any he had ever breathed. He jumped up to the trees going to the top most branches and saw nothing but a huge expanse of forest. The mountain ranges were similar, yet different.. "Huh Toto I guess I'm not in Kansas anymore." Ban couldn't resist saying, a slow smile spread across his face. He shrugged off the depression that had been a part of his life for the past fifteen years and watched as the sun rose across a new and inviting sky.
The next few days were interesting.
Ban found his way to a river and followed it, he had no idea where he was going and truth be told he didn't really care. He had fought his first demon, as strange twisted insect like creature, he had been a little disappointed he had destroyed the creature without even flexing his muscles. He tested himself to see his abilities, he was actually much more powerful here then he was outside the Infinity Fortress in Shinjuku. The serpentine part of him was no longer confined in his arms, he could feel his own coils now, moving freely across his body. The Jagan worked, even on demons. Ban had kept the insect alive long enough to determine that. The magic from his world did not work well here, but he felt that he had a different kind of magic, he felt it in his blood. But he didn't know what it was and the idea of discovering them excited him. The fact he was not human was more apparent here, fangs and claws emerged with no effort at all, and in himself he felt an awakening - not of a more evil self, rather a more primal, simple and wild side. Ban's farther had kept his dragon chained to him, Ban was now setting his own free. Where it would lead Ban didn't know, and it felt good.
If Ban had followed the river down stream he knew that sooner or later he would have come to some kind of human settlement, that would have been the most logical thing to do, so Ban of course had done the opposite.
He had followed the river upstream, going to wilder areas, and more mountainous terrain. There were more random demons in the area, and they seemed like mindless and simple beasts. Ban was glad for that. He soon found one thing he hated about this place, no Marlboros. Ban had smoked his last cigarette three days ago, and swore he could hear Aesculapius laughed as he cursed the God out for tricking him into quitting. Ban was glad that he decided to go for a black four-tailed shirt rather then his old white one. The demons tended to be rather 'gooey" when he destroyed them. Ban found that rather rude on the demon's part and after cleaning his glasses of the umpteenth time, gave up and put them away, The Jagan didn't seem to leak at all in this world anyway.
It was almost fifteen days since Ban had entered this land, when finally Ban heard the sounds of battle. Eyes bright with interest Ban approached quietly. When he realized that the fight seemed even enough, instead of jumping in he sat back and observed, needing to learn.
He watched as a woman on a firecat, shot a huge boomerang at the demon that was easily fifty feet tall. The two dodged the spikes the demon spat out. The monk riding shot gun, used what seemed to be a vacuum in his hand to suck in stray spikes. A different girl in a wholly inappropriate modern school uniform, riding on what looked like a deformed balloon, shot arrows at the creature. Slowly and steadily the humans were chipping it away. Ban watched with interest, if nothing else happened the small band would win -in say- twp or three days. They were damaging it, but the demon was healing just as fast.
However Ban had a feeling there was more to the group.. he heard the distinct sound of curses filling the air, and a being of red and silver jumped into the ravine.
For a second Ban was sure it was female, long silver hair that rivaled and maybe surpassed Kazuki's streamed behind a head topped with the pair of cutest snow white doggy ears Ban had ever seen in his life. (Well they were the first he had seen on a humanoid as well.) Then the being attacked and Ban realized (a little amused, he had been wondering about matching doggy breasts) it was a male. The white hair being had a sword almost bigger then him, he attacked with a powerful swipe that took a leg off the demon. Ban noted as well the being was already battle scarred, he seemed to have entered the fray straight from a different battle, his clothes were battered and he was breathing hard.
A huge amount of demon blood soaked into the ground, and Ban's eyes narrowed, still it was not his battle.. yet. The ground erupted, as the trap was sprung.
Chunks of rock knocked the girl and deformed balloon, from the air. Ban almost chuckled in surprise as the balloon 'poofed' into what looked like a midget human – no- demon-fox. "Kagome!" Ban heard the cry of the white haired as he leapt up and caught the girl and the little midget exposing his back.
The action resulted in the puppy eared male taking a hit from a spear in his arm. It didn't even slow the boy down. Boy? Ban checked himself he focused on the fighter and confirmed what his subconscious was telling him. Silver hair was a demon boy, young. Given his ears he was a puppy, a deadly impressive puppy, grant you, but a puppy none the less.
More creatures had poured out from the ground, there were spurting a poison or acid in the air, forcing the fire cat to go into defensive flying. A demon came in from behind and tore into the monk. He fought it off but lost his balance, the girl caught him before he hit the ground but the momentum forced all three into a crash and roll. The demon seemed to laugh at them, and vomited more acid at them. Carrying both the midget and girl; the silver hair got in front of the three, his red clothes seemed to absorb the acid. Ban watched as the fighter shrugged off his red Armour and covered the group, protecting them. Growling and cursing he attacked.
The trap was a good one, the small group was pinned down; by acid raining from minor demons, that landed on the rock face, and by other demons that attacked them. The white haired kid fought the demon which Ban was a little surprised to see had gotten a lot stronger. The shrill voice of the girl shouted something about a shard. And Ban sensed a shift in energy, he 'saw' a point in the throat of the demon where a strange energy pulsed. Ahh that was the shard.
Acid liberally sprayed on the boy, the white inner shirt had dissolved and his skin was actually smoking. Any time the boy seemed to get an advantage the demon's minions would attack the group and split the boy's attention. Each time that happened, in protecting the group the boy got a little more hurt. He kept getting slammed into the ground and he kept getting up, paying no attention to the damage he took. The huge demon finally laughing said something about a 'present form Naruku" or something and as the boy leaped at it the demon released an attack. A force cannon bullet of concentrated energy flew straight at the boy.
Inuyasha saw the bullet speed at him, he raised Tessaiga to block the attack. But he was in the air, the force blasted him backward, towards the jagged rock-face coated with the burning acid. Inuyasha tensed himself to face the pain, contorting muscles as he flew to protect organs, as he knew the rock would tear into his already burning skin.
His back hit something solid, something that moved with him, absorbing the force. An arm went around his chest holding him as they hit the rock-face. And then landed on the ground upright.
Inuyasha's head jerked around and met strange gleaming sapphire eyes.
A slow smile spread across Ban's face as he saw the huge golden eyes of the boy, that seemed to have forgotten they were in a battle, and were blinking at him in surprise. Ban felt a small sweet ache as the wide eyed look reminded him of a pair of chocolate eyes that had once gazed at him with similar innocence. He released the boy and nodded at the demons.
'Go finish off the big one, I'll keep the side nuisances off your back." Ban said easily gesturing at the demons. He sped off to deal with the smaller demons, and kept an amused eye on the boy who shook off his surprise, turned and attacked. No longer distracted by attempting to protect, defend and attack at the same time, Inuyasha unleashed the a series of continuous attacks and the wind-scar, destroying the demon with his usual efficiency.
Inuyasha turned and was unsurprised to see all the minor demons dead and his little group standing and checking for damage. Kagome was staring at the new comer, "Who are.." She began, but Sango cut her off.. "Later, the acid is still in the air we need to get out of here first." She helped Miroku onto the Firecat, Ban's eyes narrowed again as he saw the white haired boy put on his robe and without a word picked up the kit as the girl jumped on his back. The back that had been bathed unprotected in acid. It shocked Ban on some level that no one had asked the boy how he was, and had fallen for his swagger.
The group took off. the fire cat offered him a ride, Ban shook his head and leapt up staying beside the boy. Ban was impressed by his sheer grit, the boy never once gave away his pain as he took his friends to safety. Ban decided they needed to wash up more then talk, when the boy caught his eye he tilted his head to say 'follow me" and moved through the wilderness to the small pond in the river. The boy followed with out a word, at the speed they traveled the girl on his back had not finished her string of admonishments for following a stranger when they reached the pond. She abruptly shut up, much to Ban's relief.
Ban stood leaning against a tree and watched, as the group quickly got in the water and wash off the acid. He rebuilt the small fire and placed a few fish on it, waiting for the group to join him.
They finally got rid of the acid, and looked at the silent man, Inuyasha nose twitching went up for the food. He was famished. A greedy look on his face he reached a hand out for the fish, when a "sit boy" rang out. The boy got up and yelled at the girl. Ban's fists clenched he did not like what he had just seen. The woman was yelling at the boy for being rude and stealing the food, Ban had enough.
"It was meant for you." Ban said softly his voice bringing the screaming match to a halt.
"For me?" Kagome said with a slight blush.
Ban gave her a flat look, "No for the one that did the most work in destroying the demon and getting you to safety." Ban picked up three of the six fish and tossed it at the boy, "Here you earned it." Ban said sincerely. Inuyasha his eyes wide, immediately sat puppy like and tore into the food. Ban gestured at the rest, "This we share."
The rest hesitated and then saw the fire cat in tiny form nuzzle the man's shoe and played with the tabs. They relaxed and sat.
"Err.. thank you very much for your kindness and your actions earlier, but pray tell who are you?" Miroku asked as he sat and ate. The others ate and looked curiously, Golden eyes still stuffing his face watched the dark man closely.
"Im Ban Mido, and Im a stranger to your lands. To your world in fact." Ban said seeing no reason to hedge or lie.
"Hah I knew it." Kagome said with a huge smile, "You are from my time arent you."
"No that doesn't smell right." Inuyasha said sniffing and looking at the man.
"Of course he is from my land dummy. Inuyasha how can you be so thick – see his clothes are just like mine and.." Kagome began berating Inuyasha for questioning her observations.
"Inuyasha" Ban said testing out the word, "is correct, that is some sense of smell you have." Ban said approvingly, the hanyou blinked in surprise at the unexpected vindication. "I am not from this dimension, the time period may be similar, but I am not from your world girl." Ban said the slight sheer in his voice indicating a relief that he wasn't. Kagome's jaw dropped and Sango quickly cut in with introductions to avoid a fight.
When the introductions were finished; Miroku said " Now that the pleasantries are over, please tell us what are your intentions? Are you after the Shikkon jewel shards?
Ban shrugged. "Since I have no idea what that is the answer is no. Basically I am now going to live in this world, and you are the first group of people I have met since coming here two weeks ago."
Sango, Gasped in sympathy. "You cant go back to your own world?"
"No but please I came knowing this. For reasons of my own I am starting a new in a world I know little about. And its been rather fun." Ban grinned impishly.
Breathes caught in response to the grin, the serious and very intimidating person was suddenly transformed into a stunningly attractive male.
"If you do not mind, may I travel with you for a bit? After two weeks of silence I could do with some company." Ban said easily.
The group burst into a flurry of protests and debates. They slowly spiraled into silence when they saw that the new guy and the hanyou were just staring at each other. And Inuyasha, usually the first to protest was silent.
Kagome stamped her foot in irritation "Inuyasha have you gone dumb say something, we cant let him travel with us, he could be a clever trap by Naraku. He is obviously not human."
Inuyasha shook his head, it tilted to one side as he carefully looked Ban over. The Hanyou's lips twisted into a rare smile. "No he's not quite human, he's a half demon. Keh.. I don't care, he can travel with us, you do anything stupid Ban Mido and I'll kick your butt."
Ban smiled and just nodded in acknowledgement . He and Inuyasha ignored the protests around. Inuyasha refused to explain why he had no arguments to the man joining them, he didn't want to explain it, had no idea how.
How could he explain to his friends that you trusted some one because the first time he looked into their eyes, he saw something he had never, never seen in the eyes of another being of power on their first meeting. Something that he had yearned to see, something he wanted desperately but never received. The first time he had gazed into those intense blue eyes. Inuyasha had seen a deep respect for him. An acknowledgement of him as a warrior and a being of equal power. That respect and acknowledgement, had thrown the hanyou more then anything else could have.
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