Ch22 Calm before the Storm
(Inuko POV)
This isn't good.
The kit spilled everything after a bit of eating some more of Y/N's food.
His old man was killed after getting him to run away and he later found the corpse skinned by one of the two raijū who lived nearby.
The memory brought the kit to tears and he was currently munching on one of those cake sadly next to Y/N. And I could hardly blame him.
Killing someone was one thing, but desecrating their corpse was just wrong. Something Yura seems to disagree with concerning hair.
Then again considering the hairy bitch is a sentient comb once used for brush the hair of the dead, I uppose it makes sense.
I would love to find out which one of the Raijū did that and test Tessaiga on them.
But the kicker was why the Raijū killed him.
They were after the Shikon Jewel shard that Shippō's father possessed. And according to him they already had multiple shards on them.
We need to get Y/N back to his era as soon as possible.
As much as I wish to fight these guys, he is still a little weak from absorbing the power of the last shard. If we fight the Raijū at his current state I can't guarantee that he will survive or he would make it threw the backlash of absorbing multiple jewel shards.
"Kagome, Y/N we are taking you two back to the well and then me and Yura are going to face these Raijū." I said sternly, getting Yura to surprisingly nod in acceptance. Looks like she was thinking the exact same thing I did.
Well perhaps minus collecting the Jewel shards perhaps.
"I am all for it, already had enough near death experiences with the flat chested bitch." Kagome said while saying the last part spitefully.
Once again another valid point.
"Alright then let's get going then." Y/N said while picking up his bag and stood up.
Only to be surrounded by a ring of foxfire...which Y/N promptly stepped through it.
I expected nothing else from the little brat, who promptly clinged onto his leg.
"Shippō can you please let go of me?" Y/N asked, getting the kit in question to shake his head at him.
"No not until you give me all your Shikon Jewel shards, minus the one on your chest." Shippō said while looking up at Y/N, his eyes pleading at him. "If not then please stay. The creepy lady called you master, then you must be strong!"
At that remark Yura turned red with rage, and me and the girl burst out in laughter at the insult.
"What did you call me brat!" Yura roared out.
"You heard what I said creepy lady, you reek of blood and hair!" Shippō shot out, only enraging her more.
Oh this was just too good.
"Yura calm down I will handle him." Y/N said with a sigh before fixing Shippō a stern glare that caused the kitsune the girl to mumble something along the lines of 'here he goes again.'
"Shippō it is rude to call Yura a creepy lady, so apologize to her." Y/N said sternly, getting the kitsune to nod.
"Of course." Shippō said before letting go of Y/N's leg and faced him and Yura. "Sorry for calling you a creepy lady and for insulting one of your mistresses."
...I am going to kill that brat for insinuating that.
"...EHHH!" Kagome shouted as she and Y/N turned red and faced any other direction but themselves. Their faces turned red and...was that mist starting to leak off of him.
It defiantly was mist.
Yura's cheeks turned a light pink, the brat looked a little confused, and Myōga let out a chuckle from my shoulder.
Before I flicked him off and took a breath to calm myself.
No need to kill the kit or to slug him, he didn't know. And besides doing so would probably cause the girl to utter that accursed word. Thank Amaterasu that Y/N has been keeping her calm about it.
"Y/N I believe that you might want to clarify things for the brat." I growled out, causing Shippō to look even more confused.
"What do you mean, I thought your were all his mistresses?" He said, getting me to draw my claws out and the kit to hide behind Y/N's legs.
"They are not, Kagome and Inuko are my friends and Yura is my vassal. Nothing less nothing more." Y/N sighed out, getting Shippō to nod in acceptance and both he and Kagome to refuse to look for each other still red face.
Someone seriously needs to confess to each other first, I can smell their desire for each other despite how faint it is.
Thankfully the only thing I can smell off of Yura is blood and hair, otherwise I would practically be suffocating in the same scent.
"I see, but if you have a yokai as a vassal then you must be strong?" Shippō questioned as he emerged from behind Y/N. Causing Yura to growl and myself to chuckle at her misfortune.
"While he is strong, he is not invincible." Kagome said, snapping out of her stupor. "No one is."
"No truer words said Kagome." Y/N said with a smile.
"Besides I'm not really that strong in the first place.
It is all in my mother's power after all.
"He added as he created a top made out of ice much to the amazement of the kitsune.
"It comes with limits even with the jewel shard in my chest enhancing.
Along with that my body is still that of a regular human meaning I can't handle too much.
So while I might be strong in a certain view point, I have to say that Inuko is much stronger then me.
" He said, while handing Shippō the top and shocking me.
I felt a sense of pride inflate at that.
But that was not what surprised me, it was the fact that he admitted that he admitted his own weakness. A fact that would get someone killed for admitting such a thing more often then not in this era.
Something that I wouldn't admit myself or as easily as Y/N did.
That in itself took a different kind a strength.
"Don't sell yourself short Y/N, not everyone can be a monster like her while fighting." Kagome sighed out. "Still you more then make up for it on other ways."
"Like your cunning, you were able to figure out a plan several times on how get the upper hand on Sesshōmaru master." Yura praised out, shocking the kit as he was messing with the ice top.
"Then again we barely survived the entire ordeal, but I have to say you were pretty good back there for getting us out alive." I said with a smirk.
"Thanks guys." Y/N said bashfully.
"So you are telling me that all of you faced Sesshōmaru and lived!" The kitsune exclaimed in shock. "Then you are capable of defeating the Raijū Kyōdai! So why are we leaving?"
"It is because of this." Y/N said while gesturing to his shard. "Everytime so far we gain a new shard I absorb some of its power into this one and the process is quite draining and it might kill me if I don't recover after enough time. And we only just got another shard the other day."
"So you are still recovering, but what about the others?" The kit questioned.
"Myself and Yura can handle the raijū, Kagome not so much. So we are going to get them away from here and you are going with them as well." I said sternly, getting Shippō to turn red and start to shake. "I take it that you want avenge your father right?" I asked him.
"Yes!" He shouted back.
"Well don't." I said flatly, shocking the brat.
He needed to hear this.
"You said it yourself that your old man had you run away before his death. So he wanted you to live and throwing yourself at them would only get you killed. Now do you wish to dishonor his memory by getting your self killed you brat?" I questioned coldly, getting tears to swell up in his eyes
"No, but what am I going to do knowing that those monsters that killed my father are still alive and probably wearing his fur as a pelt or something!" He shouted out with tears streaming down his face.
"Then we kill them and take his fur back for you after dropping you off with Kagome and Y/N." I said simply, getting the kit to quite down for a minute.
Until he clung onto my leg and started to cry.
"Thank You! Thank You! Thank you!" Shippō bawled into my kimono.
"Think nothing off it, now get off." I grumbled out, trying to shake the kit off of my leg. "Y/N, Kagome a little help here. This little brat won't let go."
The two of them tried to pry him off and struggled for a few moments before they managed to get him off before he went limp in Kagome's arms. Looks like he passed out from exhaustion, I guess the little brat has been holding that in him for a while now.
The girl checked him over real quick and turned to me with a frown.
"You could been less blunt with him." She said sternly.
"That might be true and I will admit that I might have stepped out of bonds a little bit, but the brat needed to hear it.
I might not know the exact circumstances of your's and Y/N's era, but I do know that you too are newcomers compared to this era.
Although I have been strung up in a damned tree for 50 years, things have not changed all that much.
People die in the thousands by the day horrifically due to war, humans, famine, yokai, storms, or by the will of Izanami's curse.
You have to be truly blessed to go your entire life without seeing a shred of violence, living a happy life, and die of old age in your sleep.
Unfortunately this brat will go without such a thing and I would prefer not to have a kit such as himself go suicidal against a pair of Raijū of all things on my conscious. " I sighed out.
I might be willing to cross quite a few lines in order to get what I want, but allowing a brat like Shippō to face suicidal odds if I could prevent it if I could wasn't one of them.
It didn't help that the brat reminded me a little of when mom died of old age when I was at his physical age. I was so filled with grief and anger I made the mistake of lashing out at an nearby oni clan.
It did not end well and I nearly died, well after slaughtering the entire clan that is. They deserved it though.
"She does have a point Kagome, I can agree with her on the reasoning though with out being so blunt." Y/N sighed out.
"Honestly I could care less about that, I am more pissed off that you basically lyed to him about me fighting a pair of raijū alongside you.
Something I would never do unless master ordered me to.
" Yura growled at me before sighing. "Something I am willing to overlook this once if only, because of how fond Master seems to be of the kitsune, but make no mistake.
Try something like this again and I will make you pay. "
"I would love to see you try, you hairy bitch." I said with a smirk, getting her to grow even further.
"Now is not the time!" Myōga called out as he jumped onto my shoulder. "Lady Inuko look and the clouds and you will see why!"
He seemed nervous...which was a usual expression for the old flea. But to actively warn me like this might mean there was a grain of truth to his words.
Looking up all of us to see a large amount of grey clouds over head, with the occasional flash of thunder and the distinct rumbling of thunder.
A common sign of an oncoming storm or in this case a raijū on the prowl.
"I believe it is time to move out now." I said as I started to walk away, with the rest following close behind me.
I rested my hand on Tessaiga, ready Incase one of these raijū show up.
Knowing our luck it might just happen, but I prefer not too.
Because if we face them I can guarantee someone was possibly going to die with two different scenarios. Either they win and most of us die due to how dangerous these yokai seem to be. Or we win, the raijū die, and Y/N dies due to absorbing the combined power of five shards.
Either way there is a good chance he will die, and I can not allow that to happen.
(Chapter 22 end)
Hey guys Mukuro7 here and I hoped that you enjoyed this chapter.
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