Opposites Attract

Chapter 13: Misdirected Fury and Dead on Wrath

A/N: I’m Baaaaaaaack! And this time with an earlier update! Yay! Enjoy this installment!!!

The scenery of Inuyasha’s forest was beautiful late in the evening. The sun shined brilliantly on the large green leaf trees that occupied the woods. A variety of animals went along with their routine chores of gathering food, tending to their young and preparing to hide from the nightly predators; youkai and animals alike. However their daily activities was cut short when they heard a loud yowl follow by rather disturbing jungle cat like roar coming from the nearby village of Edo.

Land animals stopped in their tracks abandoning all of their tasks as they either ran, flew or clawed to a safety out of shear terror. They knew their was an angry creature nearby and they did not want to take the chance of evoking its wrath.

A furious kaki neko shot up from her prone position on one of Kaede’s mats and voiced her opinion of a certain daiyoukai in a language only youkai could understand. The humans in the village only understood that the roar coming from the kaki neko youkai meant that she was pissed off and could attack at any moment. Although all of the village occupants knew Kirara to be a sweet and loyal creature, they like the animals went into their homes and shut their doors until they deemed it safe to return to their duties.

“Where did that sneaky underhanded bastard get to!” She hissed as her right hand shot out and grabbed the red fire rat robe collar on a certain hanyou that was sitting to her right; a little bit too close for his own safety. The tips of her black and white claws became hot, luckily for Inuyasha his clothing was durable enough to handle the flames that shot out of her talons. Her eyes flashed a bright fiery orange color, indicating that her youkai and her raging endocrine gland hormones were in control.

Inuyasha managed to repress the shiver that attempted to run down his spine at the fierce look on the neko face. He would never admit this to anyone but Sesshoumaru freaks him out at the beginning of his metamorphosis. Hell, Inuyasha frightens himself even more then Sesshoumaru when he transforms. The younger Inu had at that moment discovered that a pregnant pissed of female youkai is by far the most terrifying thing he ever seen. So he did what he usual does when he is afraid, he tries to mask his fear by shouting:

“How the hell should I know! Don’t take it out on me because the bastard pulled a fast one on ya!” Inuyasha yelled back indignant and creep out at the fury the neko seemed to be directing towards him.

Kirara narrowed her blazing eyes at the irate hanyou as she retorted:

“I’m taking it out on you because you’re related to him, that’s all the reason I need!” She said through gritted teeth.

Obviously she wasn’t thinking straight. It sounded similar to something Inuyasha’s older and in his opinion deranged sibling would have said a few years earlier. The nerve of the daiyoukai, blaming him for having a human mother! Now the nutty neko was blaming him for having an asshole for a brother. The insanity of it all!!!

‘Maybe they do make a decent couple after all, but instead of being to ‘peas in a pod’ they are two nuts in a fruitcake!’ He thought as he remembered some of the foods and ‘old’ sayings he heard in Kagome’s time. Although they were new to him.

As he contemplated his brother and his sister in law sanity, he gave Kirara an arched eyebrow a similar gesture his brother would use which meant ‘surly you jest, your going to die…painfully or you are mad’ In Kirara’s case Inuyasha definitely wanted to covey the latter message to the kaki neko through the gesture. Then the scowl returned to his face as he blurted out:

“What the fuck! What kind of sense does that make! How the hell can you blame me for being kin to the asshole!” Inuyasha shouted as he tried to pry the kaki neko hand loose without hurting her with his claws. This was an extremely difficult task since said neko was surprisingly strong.

Kirara knew it did not make any sense, but as far as he was concerned he looked and even had some ways like his elder brother! She was angry with all of them for siding with Sesshoumaru however; most of her pack was either missing, human or too small for her to beat the hell out of! She did not want to kill any of them…well except maybe Sesshoumaru. Since the main cause of her anger was not present, Inuyasha sided with the daiyoukai and he could take a beating, the younger Inu would have to do.

Tightening her grip on his fire rat robe, pulling him closer and baring her sharp fangs she said:

“I don’t care whether my actions make sense to you or not! You and I both know that Inu youkai have a much better sense of small then Kaki Neko youkai. You can track the fucker without a problem. I know that you know which way he went so tell me already!” She said in a low dangerous tone that rivaled Sesshoumaru’s deadly flat tone. Good thing the children were out helping Kaede gather some herbs. Herbs the elder miko intended to use to examine Kirara and her unborn pup…um, kitten…both. The miko basket of herbs will include catnip…

Inuyasha did not hate his brother but they weren’t the best of friends either. He may not agree with a lot of the actions his brother takes but he did agree with this one. Taking Kirara into a battle was careless. As far as Inuyasha was concern she was apart of his pack and being bossy, although not as controlling as his brother, Inuyasha refused to let any of his pack members put themselves or their unborn baby in danger.

Being his usual dogged self, he said bluntly:

“No fucking way, I ain’t telling you shit, now let go ya crazy neko!”

Kirara narrowed her flashing orange orbs as she balled her left hand into a fist, intending on punching the Inu hanyou in his nose. Inuyasha barely managed to catch her jab punch with his left hand; finding it harder to hold her off then he had first assumed. He was hardly able to keep his balance and almost tipped over from his cross-legged seated position. Than the kaki neko grounded out through clenched teeth:

“Since you refused to use your nose to help me, I’ll just break it.”

Inuyasha struggled as he thought:

‘If being pregnant makes females this crazy, I never want to pup Kagome!’ After all, he did still have those blasted beans hanging around his neck. With Kagome possessing a quick temper like him, he could just imagine the damage she could do to his body just by uttering that certain dreaded one syllable word whenever she felt bitchy. The poor younger Inu actually shuddered this time at the mere thought.

The neko and the Inu begun to hiss and growl at each other, communicating their displeasure in the language of feral youkai.

Their animal like argument was interrupted when Kagome said:

“Inuyasha, don’t yell at her, your just making things worst!” She reprimanded. The miko never had the pleasure or burden, depends on how you look at it, of being pregnant. However, she knows what it is like to be hormonal. Especially during her menstrual cycle. Yelling could only make things worst for her mate. Inuyasha would not hit his pregnant female friend/pack member. Be that as it may, Kagome would not be surprised if Kirara used force to get her point across. In fact she was doing just that if the twisted collar in her grip, flying fist of fury and sparks of fire from her claws were anything to go by.

“Hey wench who’s side are you on anyway, the walking volcano over hear is the one who attacked me!” Inuyasha said in an irate tone as he kept his golden eyes on said ‘walking volcano’ He continued to struggle to pull her hot claws away from his person and avoid the heat of her talons. Kirara only hissed louder in response as she felt more and more of her youkai take over. She increased her efforts to beat the shit out of Inuyasha.

Kagome glares at Inuyasha with her light blue eyes and said in a tight tone:

“I’m on both your sides you baka! Now cut it out with the insults and yelling already before I say the ‘it’ word randomly for a week!” She promised in an attempt to maintain peace.

Inuyasha scowled, but luckily for everyone, especially him, decided to keep his comments to himself…for now.

Then Kagome addressed Kirara as she walked towards her…warily.

“Kirara I know you may not have liked Sesshoumaru’s methods, but he just wanted to look after his family well being. I mean he is an alpha Inu and that’s what alpha’s do right, they protect.” She said attempting to reason with a creature that seemed to be unreasonable at the moment. But she figured it couldn’t hurt to at least try.

“I am an alpha female Kagome. It is my also my responsibility to protect my new family… and seek vengeance for the lost of my old pack.” Kirara said in a near yowl her voice was laced with anger and sorrow as he kept a firm grip on Inuyasha’s collar.
Kagome being the empathic person she was felt Kirara’s pain through her very bones. She was fighting to hold back tears and regain her composure when some one else said what she was thinking.

Approaching her friend/family slowly, Sango voiced Kagome’s thoughts by saying:

“Your right Kirara, you do have a responsibility to protect your family. Which is why you should stay out of harms way. Protect your family that is alive and well now, protect the baby within you. Then when you are healed and if that horrible bird is still alive, you can seek retribution. We all will stand by you all the way. So please, try to calm down and rest… for you and your baby sake.” Sango said as both of the girls came up behind Kirara.

Hoping this would not seem demeaning to her family member and friend Sango kneeled down behind the neko and started to rub her head an a soothing matter with her left hand, just like she would if she was in her small neko form.

Kirara hissing stopped abruptly and she begin to purr like a little kitten who just received a large ball of yarn to play with. She closed her eyes and relaxed as she let go of Inuyasha’s collar causing him to almost lose his balance again and fall on his back.

Sniffing a bit Kagome also kneeled next to Sango on her right hand side and begin to scratch behind Kirara right pointed ear. This gesture made her purr more as she relaxed enough to lay back down on the futon.

Inuyasha took this as his signal to leave the hut and get some much needed fresh air for the emotional females.

Just when he was about to exit the hut he heard the kaki neko say:

“I’m sorry Inuyasha.” In a purring drowsy tone.

“Yeah whatever.” He scoffed as he left the hut mumbling something about crazy females and their mood swings.

Meanwhile with Sesshoumaru…

‘Something is amiss…’ The daiyoukai thought as he tracked the scent of his raven prey and her drones. The scents was indeed that of the ravens, but there was a nagging voice in the back of his head telling him that something wasn’t right. Then it clicked. Being an Inu daiyoukai he knew that when anyone with a scent traveled anywhere they left a certain amount of their pheromone scents wherever they went. Depending on how long they stayed in the area and what they were doing at the time. However…

“The amount of the scents are exactly the same…damn the village!” Sesshoumaru said out loud with a feeling of dread and rage in his tone and his belly.
The raven bitch was also a cunning bitch; she managed to trick him by making a false trail and leading him away from the village. Last time Naraku’s illusionist incarnation managed to do the same. Even though he figured out the deception a lot faster then he did last time, he berated himself two times for making a similar mistake! Being the intelligent daiyoukai he was, this was unacceptable.

Sesshoumaru’s eyes flashed red as he headed for the village at top speed. No one attacked his pack and pride and lived long to tell the tale. Surprising himself, his pack came first with his pride being a distant second in his heart. Which he did not know he possessed until a few years ago.

“Those rats with wings will pay…dearly…” He said in a low dangerous tone as his wrath came off him in waves. His hands twitched, glowed green and cracked in anticipation of shredding the raven to unrecognizable mince meat…

TBC

A/N: Wow this chapter took a bit longer then I planned but I managed to finish. Reviews are really adored and appreciated!!!