week 3, thursday

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[ SO YESTERDAY

SURE WAS A THING.

so after that whole fiasco finally died down, katara just went straight to bed and slept. she doesn't really poke her head from under her covers until the afternoon, and when she does it's for one specific purpose. she didn't really get to talk to inuyasha before he and zuko started crabwalking for her attention. so. ]

... hey. Inuyasha?

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[ this will become the most useless hut in the world then. ]

Just in case. You don't know what might happen in the future.

[boxedcrook]

[Isn't it... already... the most useless........]

I know I'm gonna get off this stinking island if it's the last thing I do. Kagome and the others won't be able to find the rest of the Jewel shards without me. None of them will be able to stop Naraku, that damn, slimy coward.

That's what this whole game reminds me of: something he'd do because he's too scared to fight face to face.

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Who's Naraku? I know you've mentioned these Shards before and how important it is for you all to find them, but...

[ nothing else? she never asked since she didn't think their social link was high enough yet to get an actual answer from him. ]

[boxedcrook]

[Spoiler: it wasn't sadly.

Even now, there seems to be some reservation. But he's realized after all his DEMONS!! that no one here knows who he is or where he's from.] A demon. [A bunch of demons???? but w/e]

The Jewel of the Four Souls gives power to whoever has it. Good or bad. [He looks down and away.] That's what he's after. But he won't fight me face to face! He keeps sending out lesser demons in disguises!

If Kagome hadn't shattered the Jewel into a thousand pieces, none of this would have happened.

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[ oh. that makes a lot of the things he's said so far make more sense in context. inuyasha you sure have a habit of dropping plot points of your canon and then never explaining them ever. ]

I see. So... you and Kagome are collecting the pieces before he can. To stop him from....?

[boxedcrook]

I just told you: becoming a powerful demon! [The ears on his head go flat.] Even shards of the Jewel give power. Anyone who finds the shards can become stronger if they use them.

So Naraku isn't our only problem; we have to get the shards back to begin with.

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So he doesn't have any plans? Or is just him having the shards in general bad enough?

[ she was thinking something along the lines of world conquest. ]

[boxedcrook]

Tch. When do demons ever have "plans"?

Him having any of the shards is bad enough. He wants to be the most powerful demon in the world. There's no telling what he'd do after getting it, but I'm not about to let some sleazy piece of trash demon get that far.

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Hm. Do you know how many shards you're looking for?

[ actually... how are they even finding them... ]

[boxedcrook]

Yeah right. There's no telling how many pieces Kagome split the Jewel into. They scattered all over.

[A frustrated sigh. He puts the spoon down and crosses his arms under his sleeves.] Supposedly, Kagome is the reincarnation of Kikyo, the woman who was guarding the Jewel. [His voice sounds way softer than he'd like it.] So she can see the shards if they're nearby.

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[ she... takes note of that. it's interesting. and weird, really, considering how inuyasha reacted when katara asked him how would kagome react in this situation. and now this. ]

But besides that, Kagome is a regular human, right?

[boxedcrook]

Yeah. She's a human. [He seems suddenly suspicious for some reason???] Why's it matter?

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Because you're always going on about how much better demons are.

[boxedcrook]

Yeah, well--! Some demons are! Like me! Obviously this is why I need to get back. The others can't collect the Jewel shards without me. Demons with any of the shards will just turn them into slush.

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So, you want to go back to protect your friends.

[ katara was really annoyed with inuyasha when they first met and now she just thinks he's adorable... ]

[boxedcrook]

What?! No! [He seems flustered? Shut up.] They're--not my friends! Just dumb humans who can't find the Jewel shards without my help!

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They're nothing wrong with having friends, you know. Even if they do need your help.

[ and katara is sure inuyasha needs their help too because there is... no way he doesn't do stupid stuff back home... ]

[boxedcrook]

Tch. Yeah right. Friends are who will turn on you the quickest outta anyone. [He looks away.] Trust me, I know.

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... friends can, yeah. But not all friends will. Some will also be the quickest to help you when you need it.

[boxedcrook]

[He can't even speak against that. Well, he can since Katara doesn't know Kagome, or Sango, or Shippo, or Miroku, but in his heart, he can't speak against it.

How many times have those idiots helped this idiot out of a mess? Too many.] Oh yeah?

I suppose you got friends like that, huh?

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I do. [ ... ] You know, Zuko and I used to be enemies. All of the negatives things you've said about him, like how he might be one of the killers... if I was brought here just a few months earlier, I would have thought the same.

[ if she still hated zuko, after the first murder she probably would have pointed at him and gone, "he did it," tbh. ]

But then... things changed, and now I know he wouldn't betray me like that. [ again. ]

[boxedcrook]

[Inuyasha listens, but he's frowning. Not judging it seems, only pensively hearing out the explanation. SouNDS FAKE BUT OKAY.] Yeah, keep telling yourself that. [He looks away.] He'll turn out to be one of the killers.

[When he looks back, he's frowning.] Kikyo was the guardian of the Jewel. A priestess. One day, she came and tried to attack me. It... Something was wrong. I didn't think she would ever do something like that. Not after... But she did.

So I went to get the Jewel, but she had already told the villagers I was trying to steal it for myself. I was trying to make sure it wasn't stolen! Then Kikyo pinned me to a tree with a binding arrow, and I was stuck for fifty years!

When she shot me, she was injured. I don't know how. She said I did it. But I hadn't when she attacked me.

Goes to show you how much loyalty you have with people you think you know. Don't trust anybody.

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[ oh... something like that was mentioned in his profile, wasn't it? that he was being sacrificed for trying to steal the jewel.

actually having the context for a profile is really something. ]

I'm sorry that happened to you. But... she had to have gotten injured somehow. If it wasn't from you, then how?

[boxedcrook]

[Jokes on you, Katara. He initially tried to steal it.]

I don't know, but I'm gonna get back and find out. It wasn't me who wounded her. I knew I smelled something fishy. But it's not like I can ask her. She died fifty years ago and had the Jewel with her when she was cremated.

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[ inuyasha u fuck ]

So when... Kagome was born, she got the Jewel?

[ ???????? ]