Misplaced By Time

~ Chapter Three ~

Someone To Look After Till Our Time Came

By Inuyashas Youkai

Perched within the boughs of a overhanging tree , Inuyasha sat strategically scanning over the almost barren grounds with the exception of a makeshift tent in the middle of the grounds waiting to be purified into a new home for a holy place. The flames flickering from the wood set aflame , and warming the pair sitting around it being of the younger old coot , and the little rendition of the woman who would later bring about to life the girl he would come to love . A shrieking chuckle came to painfully crash within his silky fluff of his ears , causing them to quickly fall back upon his head in refrain himself from the piercing sound, in it's entirety. Looking towards the god awful racket , the little girl was running around the campfire chasing little light bugs flying around to escape her curiously greedy fingers.

The old man was merely sitting silently with his eyes closed with his legs crossed , and his arms folded in a summoning fashion , while muttering complete nonsense about some sort of guiding light to reign over them all..

' Does this crazy man think that the lightening bugs are going to graciously purify the grounds on their own accord !? Damn I hope the case of his batty, out of his mind nature wasn't contagious within the bloodline or else the hanyou would be in trouble when bringing his next of kin with fiery wench ' Inuyasha thought while within his mind seeing many dementedly crazed little mini copies of himself , and the stubborn mikos telling stupid stories , as well as talking crazy talk with their uselessly forgotten tactics running around..

Unbeknownst to the girl or the old man himself , as the little woman ran cheerfully about around the blazing warmth surrounded by pebbles , and rocks to keep it contained , a stubborn root coming up lazily from the ground , previously missed in the rounds , came to snag on the bottom hem of the outfit upon the child. In result , not much later pulling her haphazardly downward to its source , and immediately urging Inuyasha to act , throwing himself out the branch keeping him , as he thrust himself forth towards the sight of the girl falling towards the flaming pyre. Then without any further words in hearing said girl scream , the hanyou quickly rushed forth to grasp her close within his arms before gliding away , landing softly upon the ground , and out of harms way.

Catching his breath , Inuyasha then stepped away , releasing her before removing himself from the site where the human wench almost set herself into forgotten ash , as the unforgiving flame would have devoured her form up with vigor , and spatting coarsely while he went about his escape from the lack of preservation.

" Stupid wenches, crazy old man , and dumb ass flame , thinking you can prevent what has been already mine from the start! I'll show you , just wait in the end I will still have Kagome right where she belongs !" The hanyou growled.

The rest of the evening passed without a hitch , dinner was served , a little pup was then sent to bed , and the man went back to his silent words of a lunatic , preying for this unknown all mighty light to shine down with vengeance to stow away the unseen evil collecting its forces deceivingly. After a few moments passing , abruptly his eyes had popped open suddenly , as the man burst with words of horseshit rather than wisdom.

" Great Buddha , its time ! Up, Get up dog , here's your chance to invite some good into your conniving spirit ! Here have a swig of this , its only holy water .. " The man then tossed him a jug as soon as he came from his spot against the tree's trunk to investigate what it was that had him so , excitedly enlightened?

Smelling the substance within the jug , and finding it wasn't poison the hanyou took a swallow, then realized it was far from what it was that the certain 'holy man claimed' , and spit it out into the flame , creating a inferno outburst to expand in its attempt to reach the sky's in fury.

" Ah , my apologies wrong bottle , here , and take this , put it on your face!See the power rise in agreement of what this land desires?!" The man then exchanged the bottles , and told what his wisdom foolishly predicted with the result of the known sake hitting the pit of flames discovered by the hanyou scrutinizing over the man's action with a obvious twitch of his eyes in annoyance.

Taking a much bigger whiff in trying to be assured of the looney characters current sanity in confusing water for sake , then when confirmed that this one was definitely water , took a apprehensive swig in wanting the effects from the prior already starting to feel to rinse away , but as he staggered upon his feet afterwards reached into another container. This one was told to rub upon his face , and sniffing it once to tell if this stuff was to be placed on flesh even , otherwise being something toxic, like some sort of funky brown acid, but discovering nothing harmful although it stunk , shrugged his shoulders drunkenly , then did as the crazy man told. It was in the moments following that his nose caught onto a rather rancid smell , and when trying to reach the place where the scent took him , the hanyou in his enibrated haze found that wherever he went , it always back to being only him around.

Further searching , and sniffing himself frantically it had been discovered that something upon him was creating such a funky stench , it almost smelled like...

" Hey old man , what is it that you had me use for this whatever dancing ceremony you have here anyway.. It reeks like.." Inuyasha questioned , just as he had reached to gather some upon his finger to get a closer sniffing of it, but the senses limited with the alcohol deterred him from making a accurate conclusion as to what the substance was..

" What !? Let me see !? It shouldn't smell like anything ya foul mutt!?" The adult human griped outwardly, as he closed the gap to confirm that the hanyou didn't know what he talked about, and gaining a vile whiff in return for his troubles..

In his attempt to remain from snickering at his new found revelation upon his mistake , the male started to speak , as the hanyou sought more to find the truth , and sticking his finger in his mouth to find what was current deceiving him..

" Sorry my boy , that I afraid it's .."

" Its shit , ya crazy bastard!" The hanyou growled stumbling away.

TBC...