Ch 1 The Final Shard
Disclaimer: Kvun doesn't friggen' own friggen' Inuyasha because some other friggen' guy already did before Kvun could friggen get to it and got all the friggen' glory and friggen' fame of friggen "creating" one of the best animes of all time.
Kvun: Hey people, loyal fans and evil flamers. This is my very first Inuyasha fic. It's actually a suggested fic from a good friend of mine... SHAWNTELLE! So to Shawntelle, if you're out there reading this (which you'd better be doing!)... HI! waves . Also, I want to mention another special person who helped me a lot for at least figuring out what the names were... She's... KENDRA!! Hi out there! Oh! And a warning apology for all my typos and misspellings especially for the Japanese names that I'm bound to spell wrong. Also, I don't watch Inuyasha much so if something doesn't really make sense... SORRY! Enjoy!
"Demon! You're mine!" shouted Inuyasha as he clawed through a thick clump of branches creating a path for his friends; Kagome, Sango, Kirara, Chippo, Miroku, and Mr. Flea (a/n I'm so sorry guys but I don't know his name!).
"Inuyasha, this is pointless, you can't claw fast enough!" complained Chippo.
"Shut up fur ball! I want that jewel shard!" he snapped back as he cut through a particularly thick branch, "If you've got a better idea! The demon's getting away!"
"Well if you hadn't fallen asleep we wouldn't be here chasing it anyways!" replied Miroku rather annoyed of his rudeness. Inuyasha twitched his little dog ears.
"YOU TRY STARING AT A FIRE AND A BUNCH OF ROCKS AND STAY AWAKE WHILE ALSO TRYING TO ENDURE YOU SNORE!" roared Inuyasha as he struggled with another very large tree trunk. Miroku blushed. "I had a lot to eat" he murmured.
"Inuyasha," said Kagome lightly, "we're this is the forest demon. If we're in the forest we need a strategy. She's got the advantage here"
"We don't need a strategy" replied Inuyasha stubbornly.
"She makes a good point master Inuyasha" muttered Mr. Flea ( ducks as angry Inuyasha fans aim knives at me head )
"How bout I use my fox fire!" suggested Chippo. I can burn the trees out of our path right at the forest demon. I do after all have the advantage.
"No Chippo!" warned Kagome, "you might have the advantage against the wood demon but if you haven't noticed, if you burn something, the entire forest will burn down!"
"So?" said Chippo.
"Gosh, must I spell it out for you?" sighed Kagome, giving a huge sweat drop, "If you burn down the forest, we'll burn down with it!"
"Oh, woops" replied Chippo sheepishly.
"Uh!" said Sango releasing a loud impatient sigh, "Never let a guy do a girl's job" She said taking out her overly large boomerang. With a mighty grin, she held it above her head and through it with all her might ripping through 20 yards of wood and trees, that would've taken Inuyasha at least 5 minutes to claw through, revealing a clear path directly do the wood demon.
Sango stood there with a smirk on her face looking at her nicely trimmed path as he bommerang came zooming back to her master. Inuyasha huffed and mutter something about cheap props.
At the end of the path was a clearing where stood the wood demon. Unlike most of the demons they had encountered, this one's human form was very pretty. With long pale green hair and sparkling eyes, she wore a forest green kimono with pink and yellow flowers on it, it's no wonder Miroku had fallen for her. Even in her demon form she was still very pretty with animal tiger stripes on her face, cute little elf ears with an assortment of earings, and a set of clear green wings in her back. Miroku made his flirting attempts painfully obvious. The wood demon had used this to her advantage to get the jewel shards to begin with.
"She's mine!" shouted Miroku clearly very angry that he had fallen for the bad guy (again). He fan towards her shouting at the top of his lungs with his golden dangly spear aimed right her. Unfortunately, Miroku was always a sucker to a cute face and the moment that the wood demon put on her puppy pout Miroku fell to the ground as if gravity just increased by 10.
He struggled leaning against his spear and with a pained expression.
"Your powers are too good for me" trying to give her a dirty look but blanking out again seeing her face now with her cute little ears wiggling slightly. Inuyasha, Kagome, Chippo and Sango all sweat dropped in the back.
"I hope you guys will be more of a challenge then this loser" said the wood demon speaking as if she were merely bored of playing a game.
"Oh, we'll be a challenge alright" replied Kagome with a grin.
"Yeah, you're going down!" squeaked Chippo.
The five of them (Mr. Flea stayed behind) charge weapons raised. Little Kirara chirped and transformed into the big flaming beast with 3 tails and let out a roar allowing Sango to jump on her back. They flew into the air.
Kagome stood in place with her bow ready to fire but Inuyasha jumped in front of her and held out his hand to block her.
"We don't need you ruining this for us" he said quietly as he jumped off to fight the wood demon.
Kagome gave a pout and glared at him but did as she was told. She didn't like being told what to do but she knew from experience that when there's a jewel shard at stake, Inuyasha was not someone you wanted to get pissed off.
Inuyasha, Kirara and Sango charged at the wood demon cornering her from all angles. But all she did was laugh.
"What's so funny?" asked Sango with her boomerang raised.
"Yeah, I wouldn't laugh right before I was about to die" chuckled Inuyasha laughing at his own threat.
"You would if you were just about to win a battle" she retorted, "Look around you! You're in the forest. This is my home. You have no change of winning against me. Nature is on my side" she said laughing.
This was too much for Inuyasha. No one laughs at him! He grabbed his tetsaiga and slashed right at towards the wood demon. But before the sword could reach her, a gigantic tree rose to protect her and the sword was stabbed through it, stuck. The wood demon laughed again as another set of branches shaped as a big claw rammed Kirara and Sango pinning them into a tree. The struggled but the tree wouldn't release its grip.
"Look at you! Being beaten up by trees" she laughed hotly.
Kagome had seen enough. She took out her bow and arrow again and took aim... and fired!
She had been so quiet the entire time that the demon hadn't even noticed her there. The arrow hit her square in her left eye and the trees didn't have time to react under her control.
Sango felt the branches loosen slightly and broke free. All eyes were on the wood demon but she had disappeared.
"Wahoo" cried Kagome happily turning towards Inuyasha, "And might I remind you that it was ME who saved us... didn't mess up did I?" she grinned.
But Inuyasha was still tense and was looking around as if he were surrounded by a hundred demons.
"Don't move Kagome" he said suddenly, "She's still here, I can sense it" His eyes flared. Apparently Sango and Kirara had sensed it to because at that moment all three of them ran towards Kagome.
"SHE'S COMING FOR YOU!" cried Inuyasha alarmed as he jumped.
Suddenly a set of sharp thorny vines flew out of no where heading straight towards them. Sango and Kirara were able to fly out of the way but Inuyasha was jumping in the air and was unable to react as the vines flew towards him. Fortunately for him...
"SIT" cried Kagome suddenly noticing the dangerous thorns.
Inuyasha was sent hurtling to the ground due to the command. He suffered a few scratches but had he been stabbed by the vines, damage would've been worse.
Kagome sighed with temporary relief and closed her eyes to make a mental note to rub her saving Inuyasha's life in his face when this was all over. But almost immediately regretted doing so when she heard her name being cried out from Sango.
She opened her eyes to fine the most hideous creature she had ever seen. It had a green lizards face with a long snaky tongue. Long clammy hands and snake-like vines spiraling around its body like servants. Its left eye was severely endured and was bleeding like a mini water fall. Her eyes traveled down its body to find that it was wearing a green kimono with pink and yellow flowers. Its cute little elf ears were replaced with long green scaly ears.
"You!" she cried. It was the wood demon in another form. The demon gave a long hiss in reply as on of the thick vines spiraling around it grabbed her wrists. Kagome let out a scream and her eyes widened. The vines began creeping up her body now and slowly circling around her throat. The vines tightened around her throat and she let out a slight cough. Suddenly the vines began to glow. Kagome could feel her energy being drained.
Kagome closed her eyes tightly. Where was everybody? Why wasn't anyone saving her? She felt weaker and her hand fell limp. What was going to happen to her? The grip on the vine became firmer. What was wrong with the others? Where they trapped too? She relaxed her muscles and thought about death. The had come very close to it and even kicked it in the shins a few times having spent so much time with Inuyasha and looking for the jewel shards. Her mind fell onto Inuyasha. His face appeared clearly into her mind and she smiled slightly. She liked him and she knew that he kinda liked her back but his pride wouldn't let him admit having a soft spot. She giggled remembering the times where he fought himself against being nice or mean to her.
Was it just her or were the vines starting to loose their grip? Maybe she had died now. It was all over. Besides a light choke, it wasn't that painful. And plus she died thinking of Inuyasha, wow, that must mean something...
Maybe she should open her eyes. She might as well try it. If she were lucky, there might be Inuyasha standing above her... she pictured his face smiling at her... telling her what a wonderful job she did.
She opened her eyes slowly and blinked. She still felt weak. Right in front of her was the wood demon eyes wide open so clear that she would actually see the scar in its left eye that she had made. She let out a high ear piercing scream and jumped away at least 3 feet high.
The body of the wood demon lay limp on the ground. It had Miroku's spear through the back of it. She looked up and saw everyone but Inuyasha standing there smiling at her.
"You were really brave back there Kagome" praised Sango.
"Yeah, you really saved out lives" agreed Chippo. Inuyasha just stood there and gave her a long hard look, expressionless.
"Thanks guys" said Kagome going slightly pink, "So what happened, I think I blanked out for a while?"
"Well, it's actually an interesting story" said Mr. Flea.
"Miroku here snuck up on her and using all his might killed it in one shot" chirped Chippo.
"Miroku? You did that? I thought that she was the love of your life" said Kagome disbelievingly.
Miroku glowed and tried to act modest. "Oh it was nothing, really. You can't let your feelings get in the way when your in a battle."
"Yeah, that and she turned ugly and called you a loser" muttered Sango.
"What?" asked Miroku suddenly.
"Nothing" answered Sango giggling.
"You're right. It was nothing" snapped Inuyasha rather codly, "so can we get back on with out lives"
"Wow, someone's in a pissy mood" squeaked Chippo cockily.
"Am not!" answered Inuyasha hotly.
"No, Inuyasha's right" said Kagome
"No Kagome, don't feel bad for Inuyasha, he's just being selfish" said Miroku right away giving Inuyasha a dirty look.
"No guys is because – LOOK!" said Kagome pointing at the wood demon.
"Yes, we are quite aware that it is defeated and though we are all happy –"began Mr. Flea
But Chippo cut in. "No look at the shards!" he said in a high excited voice.
"Oo... They're glowing" said Miroku in awe.
"Thank you captain obvious" muttered Inuyasha as he bent down to take a closer look. He reached in the kimono of the wood demon and took out a bag. He stuck his hand inside and pulled out a tiny round crystal ball. He gazed at it.
"Is that the shikon jewel?"
Sango sighed at Kagome. "Should I say duh or you?"
A huge menacing grin swallowed Inuyasha's face as he held the shikon jewel in his hands. The jewel glowed slowly in his hand brighter and brighter. Its reflection shone clear in Inuyasha's eyes and a flare arose in his eyes. The rest of the people just stared in amazement as the jewel began to emit a slight humming sound.
Inuyasha held it in his fist in closed his eyes.
"What are you –" began Miroku
"Shut up" he snapped.
In his head he repeated the same words over and over. I want to be pure. He thought. He said it softly. Then louder and louder.
I want to be pure. I want to be pure. I want to be pure. I want to be pure.
The last time, he yelled it out at the top of his lungs:
"I WANT TO BE PURE!!!"
A blinding light emit from the jewel as it rose from his hands and into his heart.
When the light faded away, Kagome was no where to be found.
Kvun: So! How do you like it? Is it good? If my first Inuyasha fic so I'm not too sure yet. Reviews are really appreciated and I'm even desperate enough to accept "constructive criticism". Anyways, I'll try to update this story more. This one chapter took me ages to finish. I really hope you like it. R&R. Ciao.
