In that same forest, tangled in vines and pinned to the trunk of the Go-shinboku, a doggie ear twitched on the head of the trapped boy, Inuyasha. Within the seemingly dead body, the demon heart began beating anew. The youth's eyes opened, anger plain in his pupils. "The smell..." he growled, "…the smell of her who killed me... draws near..."
"giVE me tHE SHikOn no TAmA!" demanded Mistress Centipede as it chased after Kagome. It was quite pleased with itself. It could sense the Jewel of Four Souls inside this girl's body, and although quite quick and nimble and obviously a possessor of high endurance, the little human was unable to make good on an escape. Surely, she would soon have the Jewel in her grasp.
But I don't have anything like that! Kagome thought to herself as she ran. She deliberately kept her speed down, as to not lose this creature before she found a good spot to deal with it. From her observations, Kagome thought she knew how fast this creature could accelerate, so centipede-lady's bids to catch her by sudden acceleration would only result in her dancing out of reach by the slimmest of margins.
Kagome was wrong. She knew this as soon as Mistress Centipede lurched forward at a great rate of speed, overtaking her. Kagome hit the dirt, letting the creature pass over her.
"Why toy with little insects like Mistress Centipede?"
Kagome lifted her eyes at the sound of the voice of a young man. She found its source to be the boy who was trapped in vines. He was smirking at her, with unfounded contempt.
"Who are you?" Kagome asked. She didn't know that Inuyasha's forest was named for Inuyasha, the dog-boy nailed to a certain large tree. And, gee, how many dog-boys are nailed to large trees in this forest?
"Destroy her in a single blast, Kikyou," advised the boy snarkily. "Like you did with me."
Kagome frowned. Who did he think she was? "Woah, woah, woah! 'Kikyou'? My name is—"
"Here she comes," interrupted the boy, looking up.
Kagome, like a sucker, looked up too. Just in time to be grabbed in the embrace of a rather gross creature with a mutant woman for an upper body and overgrown centipede for a lower body. "WAH!!!" screeched Kagome in surprise.
A pair of spears embedded in the creature's flesh. "'Tis time! DRAW!" came a shout of men, and the villagers pulled mightily on the spears with ropes, dragging Mistress Centipede off Kagome.
"The villagers!" gasped Kagome. "You buttheads! I came this way to get that thing away from you!"
"Really, Kikyou. I'm disappointed."
There was that dog-boy again. Kagome jumped in front of the trussed-up teen to address him directly in the face. "Hey, you. Let's get one thing straight. I don't know anything about a 'Kikyou', other than she's not me! Git it?"
"Feh!" the white-haired boy wuffed. "Do you expect me to believe that I wouldn't know the stinkwater stench of the girl who... hm?" The boy took a more careful look at Kagome. "You're... not her!" he said at last.
"You got it now?" Kagome asked. "My name's Kagome. Ka. Go. Me."
The boy sighed, averting his eyes. "I am a fool. Kikyou looked more intelligent. And pretty."
Kagome twitched. This was as bad as Souta calling her 'robot-girl'... no, worse! He didn't even know her, and he was throwing casual insults at her. "You little twit—!" she growled.
Suddenly, a set of hands surrounded her torso, grabbing her seifuku blouse. Kagome instinctively grasped hold of the boy's two long ear-tails.
"Hey, ya mind! I'm talkin' here!" Kagome yelled as she was pulled away from the dog-boy, "Let me go!"
"OWW! You let me go, dangit!" yelped the dog-boy fusion, as his hair did not want to part with his scalp and it was painful so long as it didn't.
"Lady Kaede! Inuyasha!" yelled one of the villagers.
He's awake! Kaede thought with alarm, That spell was never meant to break, but it has! How!?
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