Heart blood and soul

Well, this is a pleasant twist, my friend is out for the blood of our school, not literally, and oh wait that’s the wrong thing. Whoops. Hehe, as you may tell I am tired, I mean hyper. Yes very hyper. Extremely hyper. Never been, *falls asleep* Give me a break! It’s like 12:30 at night and even though it was Saturday and summer I woke up at 8:00. I hate my brother and his sleeping habits, even worse his waking up habits. Slam door, scream at everyone. Swear worse than Inuyasha and then... watch W.B. cartoons.

Thank you atlas-86, ladykaa28, Goijh, Eartha, Rain23, Death21, Step of faith, zsazsa and anonymous bob for reviewing.

Rain: I am? Why thank you. As for Naraku, soon he will feel the wrath of your metal bat. Very soon, so keep it handy you never know when I might send him out to your computer. Oops it’s my turn to cook him over the open fire, hope you don’t mind beating an extra crispy Naraku.

Anonymous Bob: HAHAHAHA! YES! I AM THE BEST! I’m gonna go gloat now! You like Inuyasha now, and I succeeded in doing it. I’m very proud of myself!

Chapter 5 -Kaida’s too much like Inuyasha-
Inuyasha glared at Ookami as he tried to stare back, not succeeding very well. Finally he bowed his head in an act of submission. This was all Inuyasha seemed to need before he voiced why he had pulled him out after dinner so quickly, “I’m going to try and put this in the quickest possible way, before my daughter decides to kill me for threatening you. How long do you think you could have hidden it from a house full of youkai, inu-youkai at that?”

“I really don’t know what you’re talking about,” he answered in a cocky tone that reminded him of Kouga in younger years.

He growled tempted to throttle the young boy but knew he’d have two angry hanyou’s a extremely pissed off Kouga and the worst, Tama. He suppressed the shutter than ran through his spine at the thought of facing the angry wolf as he kept his eye on Ookami, “that you’re sleeping in a different room, your room to be precise, with Kaida.”

Ookami nodded, “oh that, we really didn’t think that we could hide it. We weren’t trying either. It was mainly her to come to me though, seeing as it was my room.” <why the hell am I making him sound like Miroku? hm whatever>

Inuyasha almost saw red as he clasped the hilt of tetsusaiga, glad for once he wore it for dinner, “you’re testing my patience wolf. You’re just like your father was when he was younger.”

Now it was Ookami’s time to growl. Before he might have taken it as a compliment but as of late, his father’s reputation was coming up more and more often. Kagome and Tama seemed to find it a very fun topic to discuss. If there was anything he prided himself in now was the fact that he was not like Kouga was with Kagome. If and when he decided to take a mate she would with out a doubt be in love with him, just like he was with her.

“You think just because I’m Kouga’s son and before all this stuff came out in the open I said some stupid things. Listen Kaida forgives me and I think that’s all that matters. She’s a big girl. She has survived her whole life without her father and brother holding her hand, and personally I’m sick and tired of you treating me like I’m just using her as a play thing! I’m not like my father was with your mate! I happen to care about her just as much as you or Ryu do and the only one who seems to actually get that is Shippo!

“On top of that I feel a burden that none of you share. See you three, diI liI lived and I knew that she was Ryu’s sister. From what I’ve heardfutufuture self protected her and cared for her like a sister, like Ryu would have if he was there. Then she gets fucking mated! Take how you feel and triple it and you probably get how he, I, felt! He is me! I am him! I understand fully what the hell he felt! That’s why I let her fall asleep with me! That’s why I push feelings I might be feeling aside. Because of what my future self started, I need to finish,” he passed by Inuyasha and sat down in his room when he got there.

Inuyasha only thought a single thing, ‘he’s had way too much time on his hands.’
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Ryu looked outside of his room and around the corner, sniffing the air of Ryu’s room. Tonight wasn’t the first night she moved into a difnt rnt room, but this time it was with permission. And this time he knew about it. He growled, and looked over to Shippo who was laying down trying to sleep, “Ookami, can you lay down?”

“No,” he answered attuning his ears to the conversation in Ookami’s room, “they’re still up.”

“Well what did you expect?” Shippo asked turning his head towards Ookami before chucking the pillow at his head, “and stop listening to their private conversation.”

Ryu growled and turned back to his furs, laying down, “I still wanna know why she likes him more than me.”

“It’s not that she likes him more,” Shippo said sighing, “it’s just she sees him differently. She loves him differently.”

Ryu knew that, he truly did. It was brotherly possessiveness, like when the father has to give off his daughter at the end of the aisle, he wasn&#t ret ready to pass on the duty of protecting his older sister, what little she needed, to someone else. He wasn’t the only one feeling that though, nor the only one trying to catch bits and pieces of the two friends’ conversation.

“Inuyasha! It’s not nice to do that. Don’t you trust them in the slightest? They’ve been doing this for 15 years in the future and almost everyday since Kouga-kun and Tama-chan left,” Kagome said rolling to look at her mate who’s ear had twitched at the talking and occasional laugh from Ookami’s room.

“Of course I trust Kaida, it’s that wolf I don’t,” he said sitting up trying to hear more of the whispers.

She growled and pulled him down and clamped both hands over his ears, earning a whimper of pain, “let them speak to one another in peace!”

“It’s not fair,” he pouted, playfully pulling one of her hands up to let his ear free.

“What’s not fair?” she asked.

“That you can listen and I can’t.”

“I swear you never grow up,” she said flattening her ears to her head, “better?”

He didn’t answer before pulling her down onto his chest and letting out his senses to makre nre nothing was coming before resting back on his mate. He turned one ear to the talking friends, making sure nothing bad happened to them.

Kaida nestled closer into Ookami, purring softly, “they finally went to sleep.”

Ookami nodded, shocked Inuyasha had fallen asleep that quickly, even after that afternoon. He looked down at his charge and smirked, “you know, since we have permission.”

She growled at his and dug her claws lightly into his thigh, “hentai, you sound like that Miroku guy mom always talked about.”

He surpressed a gag, “I knew him you know. He wasn’t a hentai, as you call it, at the time.”

She smiled at his aggravated tone and purred, calming him, “your scent is nice.”

He couldn’t help that his pride swelled, “why thank you.”

“You smell just like you use to.”

At that his heart sank slowly. He didn’t want to be known as his future self. He wasn’t like that, he was him. Why couldn’t she accept that? Why couldn’t he accept that? That’s what was bothering him, he was accepting that he was his future self. That was the argument he made with Inuyasha earlier. He wasn’t her Ookami-niichan though, he was Ookami.

“Why’d you tense up?” she asked looking up at him.

“Why’s my scent soothing?” he asked stroking her hair absently.

She sighed, “you smell like you.”

“Like my future self you mean?” he asked his heart sinking, “why besides that?”

She shrugged, “he, you smell like the forest. I lived by one and always played by it. I guess after everything that happened thinking about my childhood would soothe me. The forest scent does that.”

“So that’s all I am to you? I’m just, the Ookami you knew?” he asked.

“Who else would you be?” she asked confused.

He didn’t want to yell, he didn’t want to yell but he so badly wanted to yell, “you don’t get it do you? People change. Time and events change them. Before you came through that well, Ryu and me were the best of friends, now we can’t spend a second without going at each other’s throats.”

“Are you saying that me fault?” she asked blinking her tears away.

“You have to understand, Ryu thinks that I want you. He thinks that I’ll hurt you, and I know I never would! You think I won’t hurt you because your Ookami never would,” he said in a hard whisper.

“But you are Ookami,” he dug his claws into her skin.

“No I am named Ookami but I am NOT the person you think I am. I have never seen the blood of Naraku, your mate. I have not lost my best friend to the jaws of death, nor my family. Did the Ookami you know have the most annoying sense of arrogance? Probably not. Why because he lost everyone. Had you come to me the second before I heard the words out of your mouth that everyone I knew was going to die by Naraku’s hands and asked me what that outcome would have been, I would have said we would have killed him. Easily. Is that what your Ookami would have said?”

She was silent for a minute and he thought she might have dozed off but he heard her silent thought before she pulled away, “no, because my Ookami wasn’t playing little league. He knew to get the trophy he wanted, he had to be captain, not just pretend,” he wouldn’t get it. To him it was a set of meaningless words. He didn’t know what little league was, which made it easier for her to say. She moved over to the other side of the room, and for the first time in a very long time, fell asleep without the lullaby of Ookami’s heart.
*~*~*~*~*~* <Kagome’s time> ~You all had to guess this part would come~
Naraku smirked, “it’s time.”
*~*~*~*~*~* (And this is where the moral dilemma comes up, leave it here and keep you reading but wanting me dead, or give you more and not only please you but keep you reading hmm. The thoughts of a writer. Oh what the hell?) <Inuyasha’s time>

Kaida rolled over, dreaming pleasantly for once, “Kaida, mate, my love. I need you,” a voice whispered, drawing her closer, “my mate, assist me. Lend me your body. Let me take control of it,” it requested as it wrapped protectively around her mind.

She groaned but accepted the guidance to the darkness that incased her mind.

She opened her eyes, but she was different. Her scent was heavier and the magic around her disappeared, letting her mate’s mark make it’s self known. Her controlled body raised up and slowly walked out of the room and into Ryu’s. She scanned the room and smiled at seeing dokkasou <the fang of Sesshomaru. Atlas-86 gave me the idea of naming it after his poison claw attack, and that’s the name of it. By the way thanks atlas-86 for giving me the idea.>

She slowly crossed the room, making sure not to wake the sleeping youkai. Grabbing it she used the speed that the mark gave her to reach the village in less than a minute. She slowly climbed the stairs to the shrine, she wasn’t in a hurry. She walked through the barrier that was set up, her body was immune to it, she was suppose to protect the jewel after all.

The walking body without it’s mind <why all the fancy names? Cause in sense it’s not Kaida!> opened the shrine doors and took the jewel from it’s place, turning it black with her touch.

She turned to leave, dokkasou at her side when she saw a human boy standing in her way, “youkai! Who are you?”

She walked past him without a care before he grabbed her shoulder, “Ka-kai-da! Why do you want the jewel?” Matsu asked the blue haired demoness.

She looked back at him with eyes that held no interest, “leave me be monk,” shocking him that her voice was deeper.

He raised his staff, “I’m afraid I can’t let you go.”

“Your powers will not hold me monk. I’ve tainted your ancestors, do not tempt me to curse you as well,” Naraku’s voice said sending a small set of power back, knocking Matsu on hack.ack.

“Who the hell are you?” he asked seeing that all his staff was now bent slightly. He couldn’t stop the demoness.

She merely kept walking, down the steps to the well, where she would drop the jewel. She sat herself on the lip of the well, dokkasou clanging on the brick. She raised the jewel to drop it when she was pulled back.

“Kaida!” Ryu shouted as she fell to the ground. He had heard Naraku’s words in her mind and had seen her take his sword. The only reason he didn’t stop her was because he was curious as to what Naraku wanted, but now that he knew, he didn’t like it.

If he had known Ookami was that precious to what kept Naraku from her mind he wouldn’t have protested her sleeping with him so often. He needed his parents here though. The scent of Naraku was not welcoming as he tried to keep his hold on Kaida. She threw him off her with strength only his father would have.

Before cou could go to the well again Inuyasha stood in her way, tetsusaiga drawn, “let’s see how good you are with that sword, Naraku,” he snarled.

Kagome stood behind her with the arrow drawn, “wench, it took you sometime to work up the guts to send half your power into Sango, do you really think that you could send enough power to destroy your own daughter?” Naraku’s voice asked.

Kagome’s hand faltered at the truth of his words before seeing the jewel in Kaida’s hand. Ookami stood off to the side and tried to send his scent to her, but it wasn’t workinarakaraku’s scent was too strong. Shippo stood next to him, watching in silence, waiting for a hint that he was needed.

Kaida’s hand went to the hilt of dokkasou and she unsheathed it, seeming to cut the air as it did so. She slid down into a crouch, pulling her sleeping gi up her thighs as her legs stretched. She twirled the jewel in her hand before launching over his head and dropping it into the well.

End Chapter

So which is better this or the other one? I could have kept going but this place was to tempting. You gotta review if you want the next chapter. Though again, you have to wait. I swear it’s not too long, just till next tuesday or so. I swear it will be worth the wait, unless I get writer’s block. Then it’ll be longer. I hope you aren’t too lost and are still enjoying this. Review!