UNEXPECTED CIRCUMSTANCES
Chapter One: Outnumbered
This is my first attempt at an Inuyasha Adventure Fic, so be kind. I do have a Comedy Inuyasha fic though... if you don't like this then perhaps you would prefer that.
REFERENCE TO THE BEST AUTHOR EVER! NOVA ALEAXANDRIA! She gave me a lot of things I could use in my story like Jap. Names for things and some of the main demons I use! She owns Teraea and Toushi: Lady and Lord of the Northern Lands; Wolf-Demons; and Kitami and Akio: Lord and Lady of the Eastern Lands; Kitsunes. For more about her, go check out her stories "Midsummer's Eve" and "Midwinter's Eve" they're really good!
NOTE: In this story, the way I differ from the demons and the animals is this: for example if referring to a fox - the demon itself would be written as fox-demon, while the animal is simply fox. So, Kirara I would refer to as a Cat or sometimes a Fire-Cat. But someone like Kouga I would refer to as Wolf-Demon. Simple enough, right?
It was nearing sundown when the cold chill of icy-October wind nipped at the groups cheeks, no snow had yet to fall, but the wind told such weather was on its way. Most of the trees stood bare, all of their colorful leaves fallen by the coldness of the month, and the grass was turning the dying color of brown.
Kagome shivered as she walked along, her arms hugging her body for warmth. The temperature had not yet called for jackets, so a long sleeve shirt or even a sweater was the order of call at this time. At least, for most that was true.
Inuyasha strolled ahead of the group, not even his bare feet feeling the least bit cold, but, then again, demons were less affected to weather change then humans were. Miroku and Sango, with the Fire-Cat sitting on her shoulder, walked side by side behind the hanyou and Kagome walked along behind them with Shippo perched on her shoulder the way he always did.
"Kagome," Inuyasha called back "if you're cold, we can find clothes for you. After all, you are wearing the least amount of clothes compared to the rest of us"
The young miko smiled and brushed a strand of long, ink-black hair out of her face "no, no. I'm fine"
The hanyou grunted "keh"
They didn't walk for too much longer down their leaf-covered path through the bare forest when Inuyasha stopped dead in his tracks, sniffing the air repeatedly as if not believing his senses the first time.
"What is it?" Sango asked as she came up beside him, her hand already holding her Hiraikotsu and her eyes turning as stern as could be
Not answering right away, Inuyasha jumped up into a nearby tree and had a small look around before turning back to the group "Wait here." Then, before anyone else could convince him otherwise, the half-demon was off towards the South-East Region.
Deciding to take his words seriously, Kagome, Sango, Miroku, Kirara and Shippo made themselves comfortable on old, fallen logs along the side of their trail. In no time at all, Sango and Miroku had a roaring fire going that was big enough to warm all of them. Its dancing flames were more then welcome to warm their forms and bring comfort to them in any ways it could.
The small group became so entranced with talking to one another mainly concerning the excitement and fear of finally closing in on Naraku's Real Castle, that they had failed to notice that their main fighter, Inuyasha, had not returned from his departure.
The dark of night had already closed in around them, making it a very good chance that they wouldn't have ever even noticed the passer if the monk had not sensed something coming their way.
"Which way is it coming from?" Sango asked, once again bringing her boomerang out in front of her
Miroku frowned deeply and pointed towards a thicket of bush on the opposite side of the clearing "over there..." his voice trailed off as the realization of their missing group member sunk in, the very thought of it making him tighten his grip on his golden staff "we will have to fair on our own though... Inuyasha has not returned"
Kagome gasped, her kind eyes showing concern "what? Inuyasha! I forgot he'd left! That was before sundown!"
"Do you think something has happened to him?" Shippo asked with a slight shiver at the thought
"We can't think of that now" Miroku said solemnly "we have to think about ourselves at the moment and fend off whatever is heading out way"
That was when, with strained ears, they began to hear the snapping of twigs and the rhythmic sound of feet pounding on the soft ground. Eventually, they could hear the sound of pounding steps without having to strain at all. Everyone was tense in the clearing, each figure grasping whatever weapon they had... preparing for a battle... expecting a battle. They were so close to the South-Eastern region, the region where Naraku's castle lay, which was also known as the Dark Lands, that they thought for sure he would send warriors to do away with them before they even had the chance of reaching his boarders.
When the fatigued figure ran into the clearing, he was nearly attacked by the group, but was lucky enough that they hesitated on the sight of him. The runner screeched to a halt, his breathing taken in heavy gasps for air. His brown clothes were ripped and torn and were covered with his own blood from different cuts and gashes all across his body. His tail sagged and his normally fierce eyes were full of fear, pain and panic.
"Kouga!" Kagome ran up to him and gasped when she took in his bloody condition "Oh my god! You're so injured! What did this to you?"
His breathing didn't even out and his eyes didn't become normal "they killed them!" was all he said "killed them right before my eyes!"
"Who? Who?" Kagome asked, wanting to reassure him but not wanting to touch him in case she caused more pain
"My pack!" he gasped as pain throbbed from one of his many painful injuries across his chest "My wolves as well as my comrades! They're all dead... every one of them..."
"I don't understand! Who killed them?" that was when she noticed something... no shards... nothing... deep gashes were now present where his jewel shards once were... "y-your... your shards!"
"KAGOME!"
All heads turned as a figure dressed entirely in red jumped out of a nearby tree, his breathing was as labored as Kouga's and his eyes showed the same fear. His body was littered with cuts and gashes as well, only he was in slightly better condition then the Wolf-Demon from what they could see.
"Kagome!" Inuyasha said again as he ran up to them, obviously trying to hold back sheering pain "we have to get out of here! NOW!"
"What?" she asked in confusement "what do you mean? Why?"
"Just do as I say!" the hanyou turned to the cat-demon "Kirara!"
The cat meowed before transforming in a burst of fire that was as brilliant as the still-roaring campfire that seemed less important to everyone now. As soon as she was in her beast state, Kirara shoved Miroku and Sango over her back before they could get on themselves. Inuyasha got Kagome onto his back and grabbed hold of Shippo's tail in his left hand as he ran by the stunned Fox-Demon.
"Wait, Inuyasha!" Kagome yelled "What about Kouga?"
The Wolf Tribe Leader was still standing there in a daze, looking back from where he had come... he appeared to be either in his own world thinking of what he had seen or was considering going back. Neither idea being the brightest at this time.
Doing a quick veer back, Inuyasha grabbed hold of the Wolf-Demon's arm with his right hand.
((Note: here, IY calls KGA "wolf" even though he is a "wolf-demon" this is because it's IY name for KGA. Not because KGA is an animal or something))
"Come on, you mangy wolf!" the hanyou yelled as he hauled Kouga behind him and took off running again towards the Western Region "speed up or you'll wind up like the rest of your pack! If you wanna die and be demon food then just say the word and I'll let ya go, cause that's fine by me! But, I wonder, what good are you to your pack DEAD, wolf?"
Kouga's entire body pulsated with those words and his head snapped up, as if he had finally awaken from a deep sleep. With a dumbfounded stare to Inuyasha, the Wolf-Demon smirked and started to run on his own. Allowing the hanyou to let go of him to worry about maintaining his own running pace. Inuyasha, not being able to run as fast as he normally could, stayed a bit in front of Kouga but still near enough to him to aid in case of a sudden attack.
The hanyou looked to his other side to see Kirara running next to him. Miroku and Sango had straightened themselves out on her back and were now allowing the Cat to run instead of heeding her back.
His eyes widened ((What is she doing? I want her to FLY! She's not safe down here! None of us are!))
"KIRARA!" he yelled breathlessly "get out of here!" he told her as he tossed Shippo to Sango who caught him with a bit of difficulty
The Fire-Cat looked at him as she ran along.
"GET! FLY! GET SANGO, MIROKU AND SHIPPO TO SAFE GROUNDS!" he yelled, when he was once again just stared at by the Cat, the half-demon growled "I SAID GET OUT OF HERE!"
With that, Inuyasha lunged at Kirara with his sharp claws, forcing the Fire-Cat into the air to avoid his attack. Inuyasha immediately returned his stare to the path ahead of him and came back to his place beside the running Wolf-Demon, not wanting to look up to see the hurt expression on Kirara's caring face as she flew away.
((Please...)) Inuyasha thought to himself ((...forgive me, Kirara))
"Inuyasha!" Kagome yelled from his back "What's the matter? This isn't like you! What happened when you were gone?"
"If... we... survive... this... I'll... tell you" he said between gasps, finding it harder now to get the air he needed
"Inuyasha!" he heard Kouga call beside him "Want me... to take her?"
"No" he said "I'm... fine. Just... worry about... yourself... Wolf"
Most of the time staying beside one another, the Wolf-Demon and Dog-Demon did the best they could possibly do navigating the terrain in such conditions as this night. But the path ahead seemed to be working against them, making them have to slow their pace to pass over ditches, gaps in the earth, raging rivers, streams and fallen logs. Not to even begin to mention the many low branches that they attempted to duck under, most of the time their clothes snagging on the twisting branches of the trees and ripping the fabric again and again before releasing their grip.
"I don't... remember... any of this" Inuyasha breathed heavily as he looked around his surroundings while he ran along. He glanced to the Wolf-Demon "which way... is West?"
"You're... asking... me?" Kouga asked before he shrugged "don't know... for... sure..." he pointed a little off to the right "over there... I think"
Before the Wolf-Demon could ask why, the hanyou did a sharp turn in the direction he had pointed. The action took Kouga slightly off guard, making him fall back slightly behind the Western Prince, but he caught up quickly enough.
((Have to get there...)) Inuyasha thought ((they wouldn't dare enter the West... they wouldn't dare go there and risk meeting Sesshomaru and his armies...))
The two jumped over a thicket of bush to find themselves entering a very small clearing in the dense, dead forest. Inuyasha stopped dead in his tracks as the wind blew his way, allowing him to catch the scents of those he wanted to flee from. It wasn't usually his way to run from a battle... but there was a difference between a true battle and plain suicide.
Kouga grounded to a halt a few steps ahead of the Dog-Demon "What... is it? What... do you smell?" he asked between gasps, knowing that, despite what he felt himself, it was fact that dog-demon's had a better sense of smell then the wolf tribes. Even half-ones.
Inuyasha slowly made his way to the middle of the clearing, his feet dragging on the ground due to his exhaustion "...they... are... here..." he allowed Kagome to slide off of his back to land on the ground behind him as he tried to catch his breath "...they... followed... us... all this... way... it's... no use..."
Kagome stayed close by Inuyasha's side, knowing all too well that anything the two demons she stood with feared must be impossible to defeat. Especially taking into fact what shape they both were in.
She lightly grabbed hold of Inuyasha's arm "where are we?" she asked quietly, not recognizing their surroundings anymore
"...Don't... know..." Inuyasha gasped, his chest heaving in and out with each breath "...doesn't... matter... now..." then he collapsed down to one knee
"Inuyasha!" Kagome began, but stopped. Finally realizing all of her front to be covered with the sickening color of blood... everywhere that she had come in contact with... Inuyasha.
The young miko's gaze looked down at the Dog-Demon who she had known as one of her closest friends for over the past 3 years now. When she saw her fears... she wished she had not looked at all.
Across Inuyasha's back was a deep wound about two feet in length that ran from his left shoulder to his right hip. The work of a sword without a doubt. Blood ran down his entire back to either run down his body or to slowly drip to the ground where the hanyou stayed on his one knee. His body trembled with each drawn breath, each breath that expanded his gash.
"Inu...Yasha?" hot tears ran down her cheeks as she stared at his wound, before forcing herself to turn away when it became too much for her.
Her own body trembled with fear for her friend, she had seen him come out of battles in fairly rough shape... but this time was different. He was acting different... this time... it was bad. Her eyes clamped shut, she tried to keep the tears back... she tried to be strong... strong for Inuyasha and Kouga... but they continued to fall anyways. Landing on the ground with a pitter-patter that she was sure at least Inuyasha was aware of.
Inuyasha, finally starting to get his breathing back under control, looked over his shoulder at the young miko... and a sad look came to his eye.
((Dammit!)) he cursed to himself as he stared at her turned back ((why couldn't I've saved her? Why? Why couldn't I have died knowing that at least she was safe and alive? Why do I always fail when I'm most needed?)) Inuyasha winced as pain surged through his back, he reached back with his hand to touch his wound... but a hand prevented it.
The half-demon looked up from the ground to see the Wolf Tribe Leader standing next to him, keeping him from touching his injured back.
"So... you're all talk, once again, Mr. I'm Fine" he snorted "come on... let's get out of here... you hauled me half way here now I suppose it's time I repaid ya"
The Wolf-Demon was about to haul the Dog-Demon to his feet, when Inuyasha whipped his bloody arm out of Kouga's grip.
"If you... have any... strength left, Kouga" Inuyasha breathed as he stared down at the ground under him which was now covered with a pool of crimson blood "... save Kagome... leave me here..."
Hearing this, Kagome looked over her shoulder to her fallen friend with a concerned look in her brown eye "Inuyasha..."
"Go... now!" Inuyasha demanded "before it's... too late"
"Stop it!" Kagome yelled at him, tears still streaming down her cheeks "you don't always have to be the hero! We're all getting out of here, alright? No one is getting left behind!"
"Kagome..."
"NO!" she whipped her head to the Wolf-Demon "come on, Kouga. Help me get him up"
When they both went to grab him together, Inuyasha slapped their hands away and pushed himself back up onto unstable legs on his own. His vison was blurred, his blood loss was starting to effect him and his right leg hurt like Hell... but he couldn't let that show. For Kagome's sake.
He shook his head to try to clear his thoughts "alright then..." he frowned deeply as a headache pounded at his skull "...let's go... Kagome? Get on my back again... if we're gonna do this we have to be fast"
"Forget it! You're too injured!"
Kouga frowned "I'll take her, Inuyasha"
The half-demon was going to protest, but knowing that his condition wasn't getting any better, he nodded. Figuring Kagome safer with somebody who could at least see five meters ahead of him.
They were about to set off again, when the shadows around them began to shift and stir. Kouga frowned, he had heard of minds playing tricks... but this was no illusion... the shadows were actually moving around.
"Something's not right here" Kouga growled as he lower Kagome to the ground again
Inuyasha sighed, his bangs hiding his golden eyes "you should have left... when you had the chance"
Kagome glared at her friend "what kinda attitude is that?"
"You should listen to him, Kagome" a dark voice laughed mockingly from the depths of the shadows around them
With those words, a dark figure dressed in blue and yellow appeared out from the dark, dead trees. Spikes stuck up around his form, making him appear larger then he truly was. His three tails twitched excitedly behind him as his cruel, red eyes locked onto the group of three through locks of shadow-black hair.
Kagome gasped as she quickly strung her bow, a frown crossed over her fine face ((they were running from Naraku? That doesn't make any sense))
The Dark Lord walked into the clearing a bit more before stopping, still quite a bit in front of the three before him. That was when some demons began to appear behind him from out of the shadows. Then more appeared on the other side of the clearing, then ever more to the group's right, then more still to their left. The demons forms repeatedly emerged out from the darkness until thousands of lower, fair and higher demons had the group completely surrounded. Only Inuyasha and Kouga knew that these demons were only a small portion of Naraku's army that had completely overpowered them earlier that night.
Kagome looked around at the different species: Boar-Demon, Boar, Human, Eagle-Demon, Lizard-Demon, Snake-Demon, Snake, Centipede-Demon, Spider-Demon, Scorpion-Demon, Crows and Crow-Demons. So many different races... all under one high ruler: Naraku.
"You're fallen comrade is right, Kagome" Naraku smirked "this is your end"
"He's not dead!" she yelled back, tear streaks still present on her face
"As good as" he replied mockingly "he knows it is the end and has excepted his fate. Look at him, miko, he's given up"
The hanyou smirked and raise his head to see the Dark Lord, not even allowing the young miko a chance to answer for him "...and I thought you knew me, Naraku-Scum. Giving up is just something I don't understand. I may be injured... and I may have a bad-ass chance of coming out of this one alive..." he drew tetsusaiga "but I've won with worse odds then this!"
Kagome and Kouga smiled, both thinking the same thing ((there's the hot-head I know!))
The Lord's eyes narrowed into slits, but he didn't say anything. Silently knowing it to be true.
"It's a shame really, I was hoping I had seen enough of your ugly face for one day" he smirked, his mask back on again... pushing all of his pain and fear behind it and only leaving out what emotions were needed on the outside
"Ah yes..." the Lord smirked "well, I'm sure that is the main reason why you turned and ran away from battle with your tail between your legs, now isn't it? My new body? Or perhaps it is the young miko? Yes, she is a fine piece of meat if I could say myself"
"Bastard!" Inuyasha yelled, making sure he was standing in between the Dark Lord and Kagome "you can just go to Hell!"
"Oh... but you misunderstand something, half-demon... I am Hell"
Behind the smirking Dark Lord, an Eagle-Demon, which Inuyasha recognized as the Lord of the Southern Lands, walked up behind Naraku. His hair, which was tied back in a ponytail and hung down to his knees, was silver and his eyes were fierce and golden. His skin was as pale as a sheet and his arms and legs ended in taloned hands and feet which were both covered in blood. Two purple lines were apparent on either side of his face and a blue star-shape was marked in the middle of his forehead. But, the most obvious trait of an Eagle-Demon was, in fact, their wings. Two large, silver wings sprouted out from his back in a magnificent show of long, clean feathers. When they were folded behind a Eagle-Demon's back, they went up taller then the demon's head, but didn't touch the ground by a foot. These wings only really showed off their true beauty and threat when they were spread out in flight... normally with a wind span of 16 feet tip to tip, depending on the demon's height.
The Lord of the South wore robes that were a stunning silver with golden trim and his armor covered his chest only, for fear that any other armor would interfere with flying. Over all, his appearance was as overwhelming as the Western Lord's, although, you could easily tell, this demon was a lot older.
"Lord Naraku," the Southern Lord hissed in a fierce and cold way "why did you drag myself here to do this pity killing? A half-breed and a wolf-cub? Is this your opinion of me? I will not waist my time with such filth" he said as he began to walk away, his feathers blowing in the icy, night wind gently
"I know the wolf is of no concern to you, sense your family has no business in the Northern Lands. But the half-breed is Inuyasha, Prince of the Western Lands, younger brother to Sesshomaru and son to Intashio and Izayoi" the Dark Lord said without even looking at the Eagle-Demon "I believe you have a past history in this family, do you not, Lord Torio?"
Spoken Lord slowly turned back around and locked eyes with the hanyou. With a deepened frown, the Lord walked past Naraku to come closer to the half-demon.
"You are the youngest son to Intashio?"
"Ya, he's my old man" Inuyasha smirked "I know you too, you're the bastard that betrayed him"
The Lord's eyes suddenly narrowed and hardened "you most certainly did not get your manners from your father"
"Says the one who stabbed him in the back"
"You are testing my nerves, half-demon. Someone in your condition shouldn't speak that way to a Lord"
"Shut up" Inuyasha growled "you don't deserve to be spoken to any other way, you 'filth'" he smirked, tossing the Lord's own word back at him
The Eagle-Taiyoukai frowned "it has been a long time sense my sword has sliced Dog flesh... but you are a mer half-dog... not worthy of even the time spent to cut off your head"
"That's funny, sense you could have already done that in the time we have stood here talking"
"You are a disgrace to your family"
"So I've been told" he smirked "but you... you are a disgrace to all demons and half-demons alike!"
The Lord sneered before turning on his heel and stomping back past Naraku, the Lord glared at the Dark One as he went by "next time you call me in for such matter, Lord Naraku, I expect to be presented with a full-blooded decanted of Intashio... not some mer half-breed"
"I'M A HALF-BREED THAT WILL KICK YOUR ASS!"
"We'll see about that" the Lord glared over his shoulder to Inuyasha "that is, if you survive the night"
Naraku smirked as the Eagle-Demon faded into the shadows of the trees behind him, then moved to the subject at hand... two almost-dead loud-mouths and a young miko.
"Alright, my demons, show me your worth" the Dark Lord's smirk grew "kill"
All at once, from all directions, the demons roared and charged at the three. Right off the bat, Inuyasha used his windscar to try to cut down on the numbers, Kouga had no weapon so was using good old-fashion fist and feet action and Kagome was sending off arrows at any who were coming her way. But there were simply too many... too many demons to fend off in one attack.
((Warning: some of the scenes here do get kinda... bloody... but I don't go into detail TOO much, OK? You have been warned))
"OW!" Kagome muttered as she was thrown to the ground by a large, boar demon, she clamped her eyes shut as the demon drew back his spiked club...
"Hiraikotsu!"
In a blur of blood, a boomerang came out of nowhere and cut clean through the large demon before circling around, killing a couple more, and returning back to the hand of its thrower.
Inuyasha had just killed a snake-demon when he saw Kirara and the others coming in for a landing, causing him to be distracted for a moment. Which was enough for a Tiger-Demon to use to their advantage to slash him across his chest with a sword.
Needless to say that demon didn't last too much longer, but what he hadn't noticed was that a large scorpion-demon had come up behind him and already its tail was ached for an attacked. When Inuyasha finally turned to see it, the attack was already under it's way... then, as if by some miracle, an arrow of light came piercing through the crowd of demons and humans... to strike the demon right in its chest. Making it dissolve immediately.
Inuyasha looked upwards from which the arrow had come and there we saw, not too far away, was Kikyou standing up on a hill. Their eyes matched for a second before Inuyasha turned to attack a lizard-demon and Kikyou strung another arrow to fire it across the clearing to another demon which was giving Miroku a hard time.
Inuyasha frowned as he killed two more demons that had attacked him ((everyone is here... fighting... fighting a flow of never-ending demons... the lesser ones come out first... then the fair... followed by the high-ranking ones. I have to protect them... they don't know what they're getting themselves into!))
Leaping out of the mess of demons he was with, Inuyasha landed about two feet away from Sango and about a couple meters away from Kagome, Miroku and Kirara. He could see Kouga quite a bit away from him, but the hanyou knew the Wolf-Demon could fend for himself.
"What did you think you're doing?" Inuyasha growled as he helped Sango slay a fair-ranking scorpion-demon "I told you guys to get away!"
"Don't be a jerk, Inuyasha" Sango said as she glared as him over her shoulder as she took down a bear-demon "we were worried about you guys"
"Oh? And where did you deposit the fox?"
"Nowhere... he's with Kagome"
"What?" Inuyasha gave a quick glance to the miko who indeed had the fox-demon sitting on her shoulder, sending out his illusions and fox-fires "you fools should have stayed away - Iron Reaper Soul Stealer! - don't you realize we are all going to die here? Get Kagome and leave while you still can!"
"Shut up! We aren't going anywhere!" Sango yelled, her arms crossed over her chest "we are in this fight too, you know!"
"Sango! Duck!" as the Demon Slayer let herself fall to the ground, Inuyasha leapt forward with his sword ahead of him to slay as crocodile-demon that almost had attacked the girl.
Sango growled as herself before getting up and slaying a young snake-demon "thank you, Inuyasha"
"Just keep your mind on battling and I may be able to think of a way out of this mess"
The battle didn't even last five minutes before each of the warriors had some sort of major injury to them, even Kikyou, who had been attacked up on her hill by a flank of higher-demons. The group knew their strength was fading fast, but the demons they were battling appeared to be coming out of the darkness of night itself.
Suddenly, a blood-curling scream rang from a little ways away from the half-demon, Inuyasha. When he turned to see who had made the call, his eyes were suddenly overwhelmed by sadness, then quickly to furry when he saw a boar-demon removing its sword from out of the Demon Slayer's back who now lay motionless on the ground in a pool of her own blood. The life already taken away from here.
Inuyasha had no time to react before Kirara and Miroku both took down the boar-demon in a fit of their own anger and dismay. Miroku collapsed to his knees beside the woman and turned her over so her soft face looked towards the heavens, where he was sure she was now. He held her in his arms, his heart breaking for the love which he had only recently portrayed his true feelings to, and her's to him. Kirara was trying to keep them both protected, but not even her could stop a furry of arrows that rained down on the battlefield from a cliff-top not too far away.
Miroku didn't get a chance to react before three of those arrows speared him in the back. The monk gasped at the pain, but that pain soon turned to numbness... and that numbness spread to the world around him.
Inuyasha, taking down any demons in his path, tried to get to the monk in time... but a scorpion-demon saw Miroku before he could get there and put its sharp tail through the monk's chest. Inuyasha's war cry rang out as he flat out decapitated the scorpion-demon before moving on to any other demons nearby.
The world around him was a mess of confusion and blood-shed, but the hanyou kept fighting... despite the sorrow and throbbing pain he felt. Another rain of arrows shot down from the sky, many of which took out their own sides demons... but others...
"AHH!"
Inuyasha turned just in time to see Kagome collapse down to her knees, an arrow stuck into her back and a demon above her, ready to take her out for good. This time the hanyou got there in time to save her, but he couldn't stop the young miko from passing out from the sheering pain that she was not used to handling. The hanyou looked down to the miko, not really noticing that the fox-demon was no where to be seen. To him, he knew that the young fox was probably dead.
"...Kagome..."
The hanyou's eye widened in sorrow but he was quickly brought back to reality when Kirara took down a demon behind the hanyou. When Inuyasha glanced to the Cat, his eyes widened again to see the Fire-Cat fighting and moving around with at least 10 arrows stabbed into it and many cuts and gashes littered over its large body.
Standing on the outside of the clearing, Kirara, stopping her battling for a moment, just had enough time to put a blood-stained headband in the hanyou's bloody hands, before the cat departed. Inuyasha looked down at the cloth, it was a headband that without a doubt belonged to Kouga. He was dead, just like the others were.
Inuyasha lunged himself into battle again, knowing this to be the end for him. He didn't care anymore, he didn't care that his back and chest felt like it was on fire, he didn't care that the world around him was simply a blur of sound and movement, he didn't care that his body was littered with major wounds, he didn't care that his blood-loss was making him light-headed. He just didn't care anymore.
Inuyasha turned when he heard a familiar cry of pain, just in time to see Kirara fall to the ground in a bloody mess of cream-colored fur, arrows and swords. She had lasted a long time. She had taken many wounds. And now she was dead, like the rest of them.
Now out-numbered about 2000-1, Inuyasha truly didn't stand a chance. His fatigue weighed down on him, slowing his movements. But it was not a sword that did him in, it was about 12 arrows, all unleashed at the same time, that stabbed into his back. He collapsed down to his knees... just as about four more struck him again. His world turned into a fuzz of different shades of red... then all he saw was black as his body fell forward to the ground right beside Kagome's. His heartbeat slowed... until he had his last and his world was completely silent.
Not a moment after the hanyou fell, the young miko's eyelids slowly slid open. The pain in her back was excruciating where the arrow had punctured her fair skin, but it seemed to be more numb now then it was before.
She could hear Naraku's voice in the background giving orders to his demons, apparently they had captured Kikyou alive and she was still putting up a fight... then, suddenly, all went quiet.
"You there!" she heard Naraku yell all of a sudden "get the young miko! We'll take her too!"
Kagome panicked, but it wasn't for herself... it was for the jewel shards... if they took her, he would have all the shards... all of them... and that was something she couldn't allow.
Quickly getting the bottle with the shards in it out of her skirt's pocket, she popped it open and took out the jewel shards. Frowning, she left two inside the jar and, spotting the hanyou laying dead beside her, quickly deposited the five other jewel shards in his blood stained shirt before slipping the bottle back into her pocket.
And not a moment too soon, for just as her hand slipped out of her pocket, two sets of hands grabbed her by the shoulders and pulled her up. The harsh movement caused by the demons gave her so much pain... that she couldn't help but fall back into an unconscious state once again.
Alrighty then... um... ya... didn't get where I wanted in this chapter... not at all, actually... but I had to explain the battle scene and that took up A LOT of pages.
If you want me to continue this story of so many unanswered questions, please review. Cause I'm trying my best here... I'm just not getting where I wanna go.
R&R