HEARTLESS

Disclaimer: I don’t own InuYasha or any character created by Rumiko Takahashi nor am I making any money off this.


CHAPTER 7

Previously on Heartless

“Oh, thank god a cop” said the woman.

“What seems to be the problem miss?” said the cop leering at her.

‘Oh, gross!’ she thought ‘A dirty old man!’

“Well officer I got a flat tire and I got no idea how to change it” she lied while holding up the car jack and crowbar handle; she was a pretty good mechanic but she had a sale to go to and she didn’t want to wrinkle her clothes “And I’m in a hurry to an urgent appointment.” She whined.

“Well missy we can’t have a pretty little thing like you getting dirty and worried about something as easy has changing a tire can we now?” he said pulling his pants up.

The woman smiled and batted her eyelashes ‘Great he’s not just a dirty old man but a male chauvinist too.’ she thought.

“Hey Onigumo” he motion with his hand for his partner to assist him.

Muso got out of the car walking towards his partner “what’s the problem?”

“Hey change baby doll’s here’s tire while I go call it in.” said his partner walking back to the car.

“Hold on just a minute—” started Muso.

“Hurry up rookie we don’t have all day” shouted his partner not turning around.

“Off all the bull--” he said turning towards the “ass” that started all this. He stopped what he was going to say and blinked. “You!”

“Excuse me?” said the woman breaking out of the trance his muscular body had put her in when he got out of the car. “Do I know you?” His red eyes looked familiar.

Muso narrowed his eyes at her.

Yura looked at his name tag “Onigumo… are you Kagura’s brother?” she remember Kagura mentioning that one of her brothers was a cop, but she never said he was “hot” even with the military buzz cut.

Her words seemed to enrage Muso more “look girl don’t you have roadside assistance you can call or something?”

Yura wrinkled her nose at him ‘hot but very rude’ she walked towards him and shove the jack and crowbar on his chest “well, officer now that you’re here, there’s no need too.”

She let go forcing Muso to grab at the items before they fell on his feet.

“Hey Onigumo hurry up with the tire change” shouted his partner.

Muso knew he had no choice but to change her tire. “Might as well get this over with.” He said to no one in particular.

Muso went to the trunk and got the spare tire then he walked to the side with the flat tire and began working.

Yura stood to the side getting a fabulous look at his ass for a while ‘Kagura you owe me big time, you never said that your brother was this good looking’ she thought.

“So you’re the middle brother?” she finally asked

Muso ignored her. “Kagura mention that you’re at the police academy, you’re like 19 years old” for some reason his ignoring her was not bothering her at all. “That’s kind of young to be putting your life on the line for people you don’t know” Muso pause what he was doing and looked at her.

“Not everyone is born with a silver spoon in their mouth” he said returning to his task.

“And not everyone is born with a bee up their ass either.” she countered

“Look girl---” he was interrupted

“First off I’m only 2 years younger than you and second my name is not girl is Yura so use it and third why are you so hostile to me, I’m your sisters best friend” she cross her arms giving him a dirty look.

“Not a friendship I approve off.” He said nastily.

Yura gasp at his rudeness. “What have I ever done to you?”

Muso looked her upped and down then smirked.

“You will apologize to me this instance! Or I’ll…”

“You’ll what?” he asked her standing up, clapping his hands together to remove the dirt off them. He walked towards her, Yura didn’t scare easy and she refused to be intimidated by him. Muso notices this and continued to get closer to her. Yura felt like he was invading her space so she started to back up. Then it happened she tripped and fell hard on her ass. “Oww” she cried.

Muso put his hands on his waist and looked down his nose at her. This stance only made him look sexier. Yura felt desire for the first time in her life. Licking her lips “Aren’t you going to help me up?” she whined.

Muso wrinkled his nose at her and said “no.”

Yura wanted to cry, she looked away from him noticing his partner walking towards them.

“Hey rookie what are you doing to baby doll?”

Muso just continued to stare at her, then dismissing her he walked towards the patrol car.

Yura got herself up and limped towards the trunk “hey girly are you okay?” asked the partner with concern.

“Yes thank you for your help, I’ll make sure to tell my father how helpful you were Officer…Aveeko. He’s good friends with the commissioner” Yura said rubbing her butt.

“Oh…uhm sure miss is my pleasure to help a young lady in distress” he said changing his approach.

He picked up the flat tire and tools and place them in her trunk for her “make sure you get that tire replaced miss.”

“Yes, I will” she told him.

Closing her trunk and limping to the driver’s side. She sat down looking at herself in the mirror she noticed her eyes watering “I refuse to cry over his atrocious behavior” she said out loud. “You will pay for treating me like dirt” she picked up her cell and pressed one.

“Hello daddy.” She pouted

“Hey buttercup…what’s wrong?”

o-o-o-o-o

Meanwhile Muso was furious at himself for acting the way he did. He hurt her he could see it in her eyes. He was a pussy cat when it came to women, the perfect gentleman but Yura rubbed him the wrong way.

“What was that all about Onigumo?” asked his partner sitting down.

Muso ignored him and started the patrol car, looking out of the rearview mirror to see if it was clear to pull out.

“You didn’t even help her up when she fell,” his partner looked at him “why are you angry?”

“For one, there’s people whose job is to provide road side assistance, I’m a cop not a gas station attendant, if you wanted to help her you should have changed the tire yourself and not have me do it.” He said angrily.

“Your not one of those women haters are you?” asked his partner suspiciously.

“I don’t hate women; I got a girlfriend you know.” replied Muso.

o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o

“Mrs. Tashiotaka I’m so glad to meet you finally, Rin has told me so much about you” said Rin’s teacher Mrs. Nivoko. “Plus I’m a fan of your work.”

“My work?” asked Izayoi nervously. “What ever do you mean?”

Mrs. Nivoko looked around and whispered “you know the books you write; please I know you don’t what anyone to know that your Genesis but my husband is the editor for your publishers and I’m a fan” taking her by the hand “I’ll like to thank you for saving my marriage… your books have spiced up a our sex life. We even role play some of the scenes” said the teacher blushing “don’t worry your secret is safe with me, I don’t want to lose my job as a teacher and you are a lawyer… I don’t want to get sued, but thank you!” She said walking away to meet other parents.

Izayoi sat down in the nearest chair her heart beating rapidly but she smiled “I go a fan!” she whispered “and I saved somebody’s marriage, but my marriage would be ruined if Toga ever found out.” She said ‘it would be the scandal of the year.’

o-o-o-o-o-o-o

Totosai was one of Japans best sword maker. There was a waiting list just to talk to him about making a sword for a client and they didn’t come cheap. The old man also ran a Kendo Dojo in the city. This was where the who’s who of Kendo came to spar each other or just size up the competition. It didn’t matter if you were rich or poor has long as you could swing a sword you were welcome.

“Wow look at that one Ura” said Naraku excitedly to his sister

Kagura looked at the sword her brother was looking at “it’s beautiful” she said

“Man I wish I could afford to buy one of these…that’s like a years worth of college loans.” continued Naraku.

“So what brings you here Naraku?” said Totosai walking up to them.

“Shihan” Naraku said bowing to show respect. Then he turned to introduce his sister

“Shihan this is my sister Kagura…Kagura this is Shihan Totosai.”

Kagura bowed “pleasure to meet you.” Totosai nodded.

“Looking at the gear you got with you means you came to spar?” he asked

“Yes me and my sister could use the exercise Shihan” smiled Naraku.

“Well boy, what are you waiting for go change and let’s see what you got, show your sister to the ladies locker-room.”

“Oh...yes Shihan” stammered Naraku.

o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o

Naraku waited for his sister outside the ladies locker room. “Good you’re ready”

“Raku do you mind braiding my hair?” she asked

“Sure, sit” said her brother pointing at a near bench.

Kagura close her eyes while her brother braided her hair, he use to do this for her when she was little when their mom got sick.

Closing her eyes Kagura said “mmm… someday you’re going to make some lucky girl a good husband big brother.”

“Now behave or I’ll tell Muso what you told me” Naraku told his sister.

“Have I told you that you’re an ass?” asked Kagura.

Naraku pulled his sisters hair “oww, you fucker”

“Now be a good girl Kagura or I’ll have to punish you for your insolence” he said moving away from her “armor stills fits good I see. I hope you’re not rusty.”

“Whatever” she said angrily “I’m going to kick your ass”

Naraku laughed ‘I’m depending on your anger to make me some money today little sis’ he thought to himself. Naraku knew that his sister was good at kendo after all he was her sensei; he planned on hustling some money away from the patrons of this dojo, using her size as a smoke screen, but Kagura was fast and deadly with a sword too bad Muso didn’t have that talent.

o-o-o-o-o-o

Gatenmaru had been watching the two fighters for a while now. Shihan Totosai was fighting the much smaller fighter like he was a demon; even though there was a size difference the small one made up for it with speed.

Kagura felt every blow the old man sent her way her arms started to ache plus this armor was starting to get heavy. ‘But ill be damn if I get beat by this crusty old fool’ she thought to herself.

Naraku stood beside Gatenmaru “He's fast... He's so fast!” said Gatenmaru.

Naraku smiled “He's facing down the Shihan!... and doing a pretty good job at it.”

"Daaaahh!!" Said Kagura swings at Totosai wildly.

“What's the matter, Oni-kun?! Quit fooling around!!” Admonish Totosai.

“Totosai is seriously giving him training, even though he doesn’t spar anymore.” said Gatenmaru.

o-o-o-o-o-o-o

Sesshomaru waited in the parking lot for Okami Noboshi to park. He still felt restless and he hope that there was someone at Totosai worth fighting today, maybe Gatenmaru would be here, Sessh smirked.

“Hey Sesshomaru” said Okami.

Sesshomaru nodded.

“So I heard Akane is back in town…doggy got to behave?” he joked.

Sessh continued to walk into the dojo ignoring Okami’s joke.

Sesshomaru’s silence did not bother Okami “so who are you gonna beat up on today? Maybe you can get Totosai to come out of retirement and spar you, uh?”
They walked in and saw Gatenmaru with a guy that look familiar and a few others standing around watching a kendo match.

“Hey that’s Shihan Totosai sparing with someone!” said Okami with surprise.

Sesshomaru looked at the two fighters noticing that indeed it was Shihan Totosai sparing with some lucky pupil, for a minute Sesshomaru thought it was Inuyasha but notice that the fighter was smaller and somewhat feminine in his moves, Sesshomaru frowned.

o-o-o-o-o-o

Kagura raised her kendo sword up.

“You're good. But you're still too small to intimidate your opponent just by your stance” Totosai told her.

Kagura breathed intensely as she build-up her power.

Kagura stance reminded Totosai of a statue of the many-armed god Ashura.

Sesshomaru looked at the small fighters stance and whispered “Ashura?!”

“DAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!” Kagura attacked with a combination of strikes making Totosai move back away from them, that’s when she saw her chance to score a hit.

Totosai barely blocked the blow “Uhh!”

The Shihan lowered his kendo sword and removed his helmet “That was close. You nearly scored a 'kote' (glove) hit against me.”

o-o-o-o-o-o

“Did you see that he almost beat the Shihan … that’s pretty good for his size don’t you think” said a students near Sesshomaru.

Gatenmaru turned and notice Sesshomaru “well Tashiotaka it looks like someone beat you to the punch.”

Sesshomaru looked at him and said “whatever do you mean?”

Gatenmaru smirked “Oni-kun over there has done something you could never do”

“And that would be?” answered Sessh getting irritated with all this unnecessary chatter.

“Well he managed to get Shihan in the sparing ring, something you have yet to accomplish so far.” Gatenmaru finished.

“Maybe Totosai is afraid that I would beat him in front of you all, after all nobody here can beating me. Not even you Gatenmaru.” said Sessh dismissing him.

“Would you like to wager on me beating you?” asked Naraku.

Sesshomaru looked at the guy he thought looked familiar “do I know you from some where?”

“We have met briefly” said Naraku “or since you want to fight the Shihan the next best thing would be to fight someone who almost beat him, I’m sure Oni-kun would love the challenge of fighting the regional kendo champion” he said pointing towards “Oni-kun” with his thumb. They all turn their attention to the two fighters in the ring.

o-o-o-o-o-o

Kagura was breathing heavily “That's incredible spirit you've got, Oni-kun.” Said Totosai running his hands threw his goatee.

Kagura looked at the side line that’s when she noticed a group of boys watching her. She was about to removed her helmet when she saw Naraku talking to Sesshomaru who was staring at her. Looking rather alarmed she decided to keep her helmet and head towards the locker room but Totosai stopped her.

“Well, no one's going to go up against Oni-kun then, are they?” Totosai said out loud.

o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o

“Well do we have a bet?” asked Naraku.

“How much?” said Sesshomaru.

“Five hundred dollars” said Naraku.

“Let’s make it a thousand” said Sessh never taking his eyes off Oni-kun.

“I…I don’t have that much” Naraku said.

“I’ll spot you” said Gatenmaru “it might be worth seeing you get you ass beat.”

“Deal” they all said.

o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o

“I want to try! Shihan!!” said Sesshomaru walking up to them.

“Good… good what are you waiting for boy go change” said Totosai.

“I’ll be back, don’t run away” said Sessh insultingly.

Kagura was speechless ‘what the hell was going on?’ she thought sitting on the mat.

Naraku walk up removed her helmet and placed a towel on her head to hide her face and whispered “well Oni-kun, here’s your chance to conquer the love of you life. He has no idea that he’s fighting a girl.”

“Naraku what did you do?” she asked him softly.

“I did nothing sis, you made him mad”

“What!... how?” she ask

“Well you got to spar with Shihan Totosai and apparently rich boy has been trying to spar with the Shihan with no luck. So I think he’s jealous of you for bring Shihan out of retirement” he said.

“Listen he’s good so you need to concentrate and pay attention to his moves don’t put all your power into the first blows feel him out first, I think he’s going to toy with you. Use that to your advantage. He’s fast, but so are you. Relax sis” Naraku finished putting her helmet back on and tying it.

Sesshomaru walked out wearing his full armor, he motion for Okami to put his helmet on.

Kagura thought that she was back in the feudal era he looked like a samurai warrior preparing to go to battle. She felt butterflies in her stomach and a tickling heat in her lower region ‘oh my… I’m turned on by this’ she thought.

“Okay, Sesshomaru, take it easy on him so he doesn't get hurt, okay?” Totosai played along with Narakus game by referring to Kagura as a he.

“What!” Kagura said

Kagura and Sessh both squatted and face off with swords crossed.

“Begin” said Totosai refereeing the match.

Kagura attacked first Sesshomaru ducked the blow and kick her feet out from under her.

Kagura hit the floor with her face. “Guh!”

She starts to get up but Sesshomaru stopped her by holding the wooden sword to her head.

“Offense is not always the best defense.” He told her.

“Don't attack so recklessly!” said her bother.

“IYAAAAAAAAHH!” Kagura swung hitting Sesshomaru on his chest. Dou!

“DAAAAAAHH!” Sesshomaru attacked hitting her on the glove. Kote!

“Watch your opponent's movements!!” Naraku told her.

Sesshomaru went on the offensive and attacked with powerful swings pushing Kagura back but she manage to block his lethal blows.

‘His quick reflexes, the strength of his arm in stopping my sword...’ thought Sesshomaru.

“Uwaa!” Kagura used her speed to go on the offensive she manage some how to dislodge Sesshomaru’s sword from his hand.

“Oh shit! He got him” said Gatenmaru exited. By know every ones attention was on the two fighters, must of the audience was rooting for the unknown Oni-kun.

But Totosai stopped the match to let Sesshomaru retrieve his sword.

“Please don't think badly of me.” Kagura mocked him.

Sesshomaru was angry ‘how dear you mock this Sesshomaru.’ He retrieved his sword and said “I'm going to beat you to a pulp.”

Kagura was breathing heavily ‘I need to finish this one way or another I can’t beat him I know that.’ She thought.

Her protection goggles were fogging up, she was having a hard time seeing clearly.

“Daaaaahh!” Sesshomaru attacked

“Ow! Hey-! Wait!” Kagura was being whacked by Sesshomaru she was doing all she could to block his attack. “Ahh! Shit! I'm telling you--” (whack) “I can’t see--” (whack) she blocked Sesshomaru’s swing “WAIT!!”

“Kagura stop playing around with him and attack!” said Naraku.

“Kagura?” said Sessh in surprise.

Kagura raised her sword, about to hit the surprised Sesshomaru but he was faster, Kagura just barely duck back out of the way as Sessh swung. “Ah!”

Kagura saw her opening and smashing Sesshomaru over the head. HAAAAAAAAHH!!

“Uhh!” groan Sesshomaru.

Sesshomaru hit the ground. “Waah!”

And all hell erupted in the dojo.

“Yes, take that you self serving ass” someone said.

“Sesshomaru! Are you okay?” asked Totosai with concern.

“Oww... My head's spinning...” said Sesshomaru holding is helmet head.

“Sesshomaru...” said Kagura removing her helmet.

“No away is a girl he got beat by a girl” said someone.

“Kagura I didn’t know you did kendo!” said Gatenmaru taking her hand “and you beat one of the best at it.”

“Wait till I tell everyone at school.”

“That’s enough this match is over, move along now” said Totosai

“Okami help him to the locker room”

“Young lady you need to learn how to hold back your sword.” Kagura just blinked at him.

“You have beaten one of the most feared in the world of high school kendo...”

“Don’t worry sis I’ll go check on him go hit the showers” said her brother moving to help Okami take Sesshomaru to the locker room.

In the locker room.

“Well I guess you can’t beat every one here can you?”

Sesshomaru still daze “that bitch hit me pretty hard”

Naraku narrowed his eyes at Sesshomaru “I’ll take my money now.”

Sesshomaru nodded at Okami, who reached in a bag and pull-out ten one hundred dollar bills and handed them to Naraku.

“It’s been a pleasure” said Naraku leaving.

“I’ll go get you some headache medicine” said Okami.

o-o-o-o-o

A worried Kagura came out of the locker room “he’s ok sis, you didn’t do any damage but he’s going to have a headache.” said Naraku. “Let’s go.”

“But lets make sur--” started Kagura.

Naraku grabbed her “He’s fine, ok, plus you’re the last person he wants to see right now.”

o-o-o-o-o-o


Shihan- is a title often used for a teacher or master of kendo.


Hey folks what’s up? Well thank you all who gave me pointers.
I tried to combine all the suggestion you guys gave me and
Thanks for the cookie too (o.-).