Friendly Intentions | By : Ookami13 Category: InuYasha > General Views: 2780 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0 |
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~Preview
from last chapter:~
Leota nodded as though the event happened all the time, “Ah,
had another run-in with Anju, eh? I
always told you to stay away from that hag, but did you listen? Nope.”
The newly dubbed Kibun sighed. It would take a while for him to get used to the fact that Leota
saw him only as her brother, who happened to be a girl. How he wished he could just burst forth and
tell her what had really happened, but Tora would skin him alive and worse,
Leota may die of a seizure right there from what Tora had said.
But all of that was child’s play compared to a much more
threatening task that loomed over the wolf’s head.
How the hell was he supposed to go to the bathroom?
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Chapter Twenty-One:
Dirty Work
“I said no.”
“Aw c’mon, Inu-san!
It’ll be fun!” Tora smirked.
“No way! There is no
way in the seven hells I’m gonna go there!”
“Please? Ki-kun’s
going!”
“Because he wants to go!” Inu-Yasha argued.
Gripping the stubborn hanyou’s arm, Leota gave him her ‘puppy
dog eyes’, “Come on, Inu-kun. You don’t
have to do anything with us; just come along.
We’d really enjoy your company.”
“Just give in, Inu-Yasha.
It’s less painful that way. You
can’t defeat her; this is her territory. Trust me.”
Sighing, Inu-Yasha nodded, giving him the appearance of a
puppet. Leota smiled.
“Thank you, Inu-kun, you won’t regret coming, I know
you won’t!”
Tora nodded, pointing to Leota, Kagome, and ‘Ki-kun’,
“Indeed. There’s never a dull moment
when those three get together.”
“I know,” Inu-Yasha said, his voice sounding utterly
defeated, “that’s what I’m afraid of.”
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Twenty minutes later...
“Oh wow, Ota-chan!
It’s beautiful here!” Kagome
exclaimed, taking in the scenery that was laid out before her.
They had just emerged from a small forest that they now saw
surrounded a large lake with a boulder in the middle. A boulder Kibun (a.k.a Kouga) could have sworn he’d seen
somewhere before. On their right was a
small waterfall that fed the lake, a petrified piece of something sticking out
at an odd angle.
“Arigatou, K-chan, I’m glad you think so. It took me awhile to reacquire this land,
but after much debating, this land has finally been restored to the Usu
Family.”
“Does this lake have a name?”
“Oh but of course it does, K-chan. It has a name that you should be very much familiar with. Ki-kun and I used to come here all the time
when we were little, back before the Ura family stole it from us,” Leota said
as she climbed on top of a small boulder, taking off her street clothes to
reveal her two-piece bathing suit, “welcome to Dragon’s Lake.”
With that, Leota dove into the now-clear water, leaving
behind four very bewildered companions.
“Hold on now,” Tora thought, “isn’t Dragon’s Lake
supposed to be filled with the blood of two dragons that Ookami-sama was said
to capture? If that is true, then why
is there actual water here?”
“When last I was here, it was blood that washed upon the
sand; however now it is water. How can
this be? The scent of blood is still
strong, but not quite as much as when we came here and.....” Kouga had to stop. Questioning the lake was making him relive what had happened not
too long ago. The time he and
Usu-Venita had become mates for all eternity.
“Hey, uh, Ota-chan?”
“Hm?” Leota asked,
shaking herself off as she climbed out of the lake.
“Before, during the Blood Moon, Tora-san told us that this lake
used to be, uh...”
“Filled with the blood of dragons?”
“Uh...” Startled by her friend’s bluntness, Kagome nodded,
“Hai.”
“It was; however, a priestess happened to wander by and
purified it. Now no demon can bathe in
it. I can only bathe here because at
the moment, I am human. Inu-kun,
Ki-kun, and Tora-kun should be safe, though.”
“But you just said...”
“I know, but my family was lucky enough to have a nice
priestess walk by. The only bad thing
that happens to someone of demon lineage is that they start to have urges. What the urge is for depends on the person,
but usually it’s nothing too bad.”
“Then why don’t you bathe as a demon?” Tora asked, his eyes narrowed suspiciously.
“Because I already know the urge I would have.”
“Which is?”
Inu-Yasha prompted.
Leota raised an eyebrow, “Listen, I don’t mean to make you
guys paranoid or anything, because I’m gonna be as blunt as I can be. At the moment, I am in extreme need of
sexual release. I do not need
that feeling to be amplified, all right?
So let’s not have me bathe as a demon, okay?”
Now Kouga felt extremely useless. Here he was, stuck in a woman’s body, and his mate was in need of
him! He shot Tora a glare, but the
tiger only responded with a shrug.
“How long can I keep this up? How long will it take for her to realize it’s me? Why couldn’t Xavier just have cursed her
with something else?!” Kouga
thought, those same questions having haunted him before.
He felt a hand on his arm, “Ki-kun?”
“Hm?”
“Is something the matter?
You look a little out of it.”
“No, no, I’m fine, Venia-chan. Really.”
“You’re sure?”
“Hai, it’s nothing.
There’s just something I have to do.”
He said, turning out of Venita’s grasp.
“Right now?”
“Yes, right now. I have
to do this. You can have fun without
me, all right? I promise to come back
as soon as I can.”
“Promise?”
“I promise.”
“All right, but I’m gonna hold you to that promise.” Venita said firmly.
Tora watched the exchange between Venita and her ‘brother’,
wondering just what it was Kouga had to do.
He felt sorry for the wolf hanyou, knowing just what it was like to have
a bitch in heat right next to you but unable to do anything about it.
Turning his head, Tora saw that Venita was making her way
towards him. He smiled at her, “Do you
need something?”
“As a matter of fact, I do, Tora-san.”
“And what is it that you need?”
“Come here and I’ll tell you.” Venita said, standing on tiptoes as she whispered into the
tiger’s ear.
He chuckled, “You’re really desperate, aren’t you?”
“Wouldn’t you be?
Come on, Tora-san, we haven’t made an attempt for quite some time, you
know. It’s about time we tried moving
our plans further. This is the way it
needs to happen.”
“Are you sure it’s going to work? You’ve had this ‘Operation Hot Spring’ stuck in your head for
quite a while. You sure it hasn’t
fermented up there?”
“Are you gonna help me or not?” Venita growled at him, watching as Kagome swam laps in the lake
while Inu-Yasha kept a protective eye on her… from the safety of a tree, of
course.
“Just how can you make something like that work? You may be a genius when it comes to these
things, Sama-sama, but I think even you would have problems with that
plan.”
“You got a better one?”
“Well, no, not exactly…”
“Then that proves it.
If we don’t act now, then it lessens the chances that they’ll get
together, which defeats our purpose all together!” Venita said in an excited
whisper, continuing right as Tora opened his mouth to protest, “Don’t
argue with a horny wolf demon, Tora, it won’t get you anywhere. I can promise you that.”
Knowing she was right, Tora nodded, “All right, all right,
you’ve got me beat. But just how
do you plan on starting this little chain of events?”
She shrugged, “You ever hear of fish?”
“In this lake?
Sama-sama, nothing lives in this lake!”
“This is true,” Venita said, a mischievous glint in her eyes,
“but they don’t know that.”
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In the Feudal Era…
Running as fast as he could from the Bone Eater’s Well to
Kaede’s village, Kouga kept trying to think of ways he could explain
himself. Finally deciding to be as
blunt as he could, Kouga slowed to a stop in front of the hut. He knocked.
“Who is it?” A
younger woman’s voice asked, probably the woman named Sango.
“I need to speak with the Moon Goddess.”
“What for?”
“One of her children needs advice.”
Pulling the grass mat aside, Kouga saw that it had indeed
been Sango that had answered, “She’s out right now, but she’ll be coming back
any minute, if you wish to wait for her.”
“I would like that, yes.”
“Would you like some tea while you wait?”
“No thank you.”
“Would you like to come inside?”
“Please.”
Sango stepped aside and let Kouga through, looking him over
before he sat down. It was then he
realized he was still wearing the clothes Venita had picked out for him.
“You seem nervous,” Miroku said from his corner of the hut,
“any specific reason?”
Kouga looked up, “You don’t know who I am, do you? I don’t see how you could remember me,
seeing as how I look so much different than last we met.”
“I think we would remember seeing someone like you.” Sango said, putting a pot over the fire.
“You mean to say that you would remember seeing a wolf
hanyou, right?” Kouga asked, watching as both exterminator and monk seemed to
look for the right words, “Don’t worry, I won’t be this way for long, not if my
hunch is correct, which it should be.”
Just then, Shippo walked into the hut, taking a sniff and
looking towards the wolf’s corner, “Kouga!
You’re back! Where’s Venita and
Kagome, huh? Did they come back with
you, too? Why do you smell funny?”
Miroku and Sango blinked, “Kouga?!”
“Sorry, Kid, I left by myself. I need Lunia-san’s help with… this,” he gestured to himself, “I
think Lunia was behind this somehow.”
“Did someone call?”
Aforementioned moon goddess asked, stepping into the hut and stopping as
she looked at Kouga, “Oh dear…”
“You were behind this, weren’t you?” The wolf hanyou accused.
“Uh, heheh, let me explain…”
“Weren’t you?”
“All right! It was
me! What do you want?”
“Change me back.”
“I can’t.”
“Why not?”
“Not time yet.”
“What do you mean by that?”
Lunia sighed, taking her seat around the fire, “I mean that
everything concerning Kagome and Inu-Yasha must be taken care of before
you and Chan-chan can be together again.”
“What?! That
could take forever!”
“This is true, but we must stick to the plan.”
“Does Venita know?
Does she know who I really am?
When she looks at me, does she see me, or her brother that’s been turned
into a girl?”
“I can’t tell you that, Kouga, I really can’t. Just know that you’ll be together again in
the end.”
“Listen Lunia, my bitch needs me right now, and I can’t do anything
about it! How am I supposed to ignore
something like that?!”
“Calm down, Kouga-san.
We all have hardships in our lives, you know. Don’t you think Inu-Yasha and Kagome deserve to be together after
all that’s happened? Don’t you think
it’s about time they found happiness like you and Chan-chan have found?”
“But you didn’t have to take our happiness away!”
Kouga exclaimed, jumping to his feet, “All I want to do is be able to hug my
mate with her knowing that it’s me!
Every time she calls me by her brother’s name, it kills me, and I’m sure
it kills her to some extent inside.
Please, Lunia-san, I want to be me again. I don’t want her to have to fear me just so
you can fulfill your plots. How many
people do you intend to hurt before all of this is through?”
“You don’t seem to be
understanding anything I’m trying to tell you, so let me explain it another way,”
Lunia said, eyes narrowing before she sighed and her face showed exasperation
rather than anger, “Lira’s on vacation!”
Kouga blinked, “Who?”
“Lira! The Love
Goddess from the Inside! She’s on
vacation and left me in charge of all her ‘dirty work’!” Lunia
exclaimed, trying to calm down to answer the suspicious looks from her human
friends, “Every god and goddess has a pile of work that they label ‘easy work’
and ‘dirty work’. Everyone loves the ‘easy work’, so Lira decided that
since she had all that ‘dirty work’ to do, she’d just ask me to finish all of
her ‘business’… which means I have to fulfill her quota!”
The monk, exterminator, fox kit, and wolf hanyou all nodded,
as though they’d each reached their own epiphany.
“So what’s this gotta do with me and Venia-chan?” Kouga asked.
Lunia sighed, “Nothing!
Just nothing! I needed a way to
split you two apart long enough so that we could work on getting Inu-san and
Kagome-san together!”
“You couldn’t think of anything else?” Sango asked, an eyebrow raised.
“It was the first thing that came to mind! Chan-chan’s the evil genius around here, not
me! And besides, I didn’t have time to
think things through the way she does!
She probably devotes her entire day to thinking up of stuff, and what do I do? I screw stuff up! That’s
what a goddess does! We screw stuff up
for all you mortals down here!” Lunia
exclaimed, putting her head in her hands as she moved her white hair behind her
ears.
“But you can change Kouga back, right?” Shippo asked, tugging on Lunia’s sleeve.
“And change Venia-chan’s mind about me?”
“Yes to both questions,” Lunia sighed, sitting back up and
snapping her fingers, “there. Now help
me come up with plots to get Inu-san and Kagome-san together.”
All present looked at Lunia as though she’d just asked them
what the meaning of life was.
“I’ve got it,” Miroku said, clinking his staff against the
floor as he pulled out a small vile from his robes, “and it doesn’t even need
to sit over night.”
Lunia stared at the little vile, “Please tell me that’s…”
“I was saving it for….someone else, but I believe Lady Kagome
and Inu-Yasha need it more than I do.”
Miroku nodded, risking a glance over in Sango’s direction before handing
the small bottle to Lunia.
Holding the bottle as though it were as precious as a newborn
child, Lunia’s face broke into a cynical grin, “Now all we need is a miko, a
dog hanyou, and a few more cups of tea…”
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((March 2, 2005)) A/N: Woohoo! I’m finally
done with this chapter! I even made sure to make it nice and long for all of
you, aren’t I nice? I’m sorry it’s taken me so long, but I’ve been working on some
of my original stories and also my new Samurai Deeper Kyo fic, so if you’re a
fan, check it out!
Also, I wish to thank all of those
that have been reviewing, it really makes my day especially now because I have
strep-throat for the first time of my life… blech…
Anyway, please put up with me as I
believe it will take a little while before chap. 22 starts coming to me… thank
you for your patience! I love you all!!! :-)
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