Heart Broken Arrows
Burookunhaato Arrows: Ch. 1
Disclaimer: Not ever, as much as I would love for it to be, will it be mine. This fan fic is rated M for language, adult themes, and for Fluffy, because he tells me so.
The wind whipped threw Kagome's hair, throwing the long, black, silky strands into her face and eyes. She tried to let go of Inuyasha's neck with one arm and reach behind to gather the misbehaving strands, but that only seemed to make her precarious hold on Inuyasha danger of failing.
"Inu-yasha?" Kagome asked tentatively.
"What?" With a powerful leap, the hanyou jumped several stories into the air, leaving the dew moist ground behind in a dizzy blur that caused one long strand of Kagome's hair to find its way into her mouth and partially down her throat. Sputtering and clawing at her face, forgetting that oh-so-tenuous hold, Kagome let out a shriek as she felt herself tilting backwards.
"Watch it baka! You'll throw off my descent." The words were thrown over his red-clothed shoulder without as much as a backwards glance. Inuyasha twisted forward so that Kagome found herself slamming into said red-clothed shoulder instead of the tree branches below them.
"I-nu-yash-a," Kagome managed through gritted teeth. "You're going too fast."
"Well if I don't go fast we aren't going to catch that rat youkai with the jewel shards."
"Well if YOU hadn't of sped off, Miroku and Sango would have made it back to the campsite with dinner and would have been able to help." Kagome stopped mid-smirk as the ground rose up to meet her. Through the green black of the dark trees, she could see a flash of silver blue that meant a stream or creek of some kind. The wind seemed to take on a mind off it's own as it tugged at her hair. She was ready to scream.
Or yell sit…whichever came first.
"Just stop your whining. We'll be on top off him a-n-y minute now. Just get ready to tell me where those jewel shards are." Inuyasha tightened his hold on her as he shot up into the air once again. "And stop squirming."
"Well, I wouldn't be squirming if you had given me the five seconds I needed to pull my hair back! I won't even be able to see-"
"Feh. You should just cut it off anyway." The impact with the ground, jarring her teeth together, seemed to underscore his remark.
"Inuyasha…" Kagome began, her voice low and soft…Inuyasha came to an abrupt halt. The ears on the back of his head rotated towards her.
"SIT!" This time the ground underscored her remark. Kagome smiled quickly, removing herself from the hanyou's back. Her weight had no doubt added to the spell's effect, but she reminded herself silently, it was nothing more than Inuyasha deserved.
For weeks and weeks, he had been pressing them onwards in search of the final few jewel shards not in Naraku's possession. There had been no time to return home to the well. No time for studying, for school…Kagome sighed as she gathered up her windblown hair…School was definitely a lost cause. There was no way she would be able to graduate high school. It had come as a surprise realization to her, even though she had known this must be the inevitable result of traipsing around for weeks on end, with no running water, no electricity, no television, NO shopping, NO movies, and, her sore butt twinged,NO MATTRESS!
"SIT BOY!" Inuyasha gave a half-strangled cry as he found himself eating dirt for the second time in a minute. His voice was muffled, but Kagome knew that he was emptying his mind and spewing out all the available curse words that he knew.
The dirt would listen to him. She wouldn't. Taking stock of their surroundings, Kagome noticed that the small clearing they had landed in was closed in on all sides by dense tree branches that prevented them from seeing very far into the forest in anyone direction. It was the perfect place for the rat to ambush them...Kagome snorted in derision.
"What?"
"Nothing," replied Kagome.
"You snorted; what's wrong?"
"I did not."
"Ya did to."
Kagome shook her head in exasperation. This conversation was eerily familiar to something her brother and her had shared many years earlier...or was it later. Damn time travel!
Just then, a piercing call remindedboth what the original purpose of their hasty departure had been. There was a rat youkai who had in his possession two large shards of the Shikon Jewel. Evidently, the fragments had increased not only the youkai's power but its intelligence as well. It had been crossing streams, doubling back over its scent, and had even rolled itself in neko-youkai dung (Kilala had thought that especially funny) in order to lose its pursuers. Kagome was more than ready to see Inuyasha vaporize it into tiny rodent pieces. The call was repeated once again; the fury in its tone evident. Kagome felt the hairs on her arms rise and a shiver went down the length of her body.
"Inuyasha," she whispered, "it's coming."
"I know." Inuyasha wrinkled his nose in disgust and unsheathed the Tetsusaiga. "It still smells like neko shit." The hiss of expanding metal assaulted her ears.
"Get ready Kagome."
Kagome nodded silently, knowing that Inuyasha was prepared for the youkai's appearance. Though the two still fought frequently, he at least trusted her enough by now to stay out his way and help only when it wouldn't put her own life in danger. She ran to the farthest corner of the small clearing that the two found themselves in, then drew and notched an arrow. She pointed it in the direction where she knew the youkai would emerge, and let her miko powers fill her awareness.The comforting, familiar warmth calmed her, running through her veins and filling her lungs. It was a heat that made her feel larger than she really was. The pink glow that accompanied the power ran along her arm and infused itself with her arrow. The wind gusted violently, wrapping strands of her hair around the worn length of her bow. She was definitely more than ready...let the smelly rodent come.
It was going to be in for some serious butt-kicking.
Till next time,
Aidyn
Seriously, this picks up next chapter! Keep on reading...Kikyou and Naraku are coming...SO is the whole gang...so read on...you know you wanna...read on...Don't hate! Just participate! Only Naraku is evil...
Preview of Chapter 2
"Dammit Kagome! Where is it!" Inuyasha snarled, shaking himself again, as if that could somehow dispel the stench that clung to the air like Naraku's miasma. Kagome relaxed her stance slightly and sent out fingers of her power. They wiggled and wove their way through the dense forest floor, searching for the siren call of the corrupted Jewel shards. A crashing sound came from the south end of the clearing. Kagome spun around, seeking the rat's fragments. Yet, the call she found was not that of a corrupted Jewel Shard. It was a pure tone, sweet and good…the cry of the shard became many…too many for the rat to have...it wasn't what Inuyasha thought!
A/N: Hello all! This is my first fan fic, please review, even if it is to tell me that whatever chapters I post should be tarred and feathered immediately. Any suggestions and/or correctionsfor improper usage of Japanese vocabulary would be greatly appreciated. I shall include a more detailed summary later…
-Aidyn