BEAUTY & THE BEAST
Prologue
A lone figure shivered in a corner. The figure was Higurashi Kagome. She was huddled in the corner of her stone cell covered with a small fur pelt high in the reijuu-youkai mountain lair. Wide brown eyes stared into the far wall of the cell. ' Ok Higurashi, calm down, deep breaths… just because Hiten put a hole through his mates head doesn't mean he'll do it to you right?' her false cheeriness faded away as fast as Inuyasha could draw the tetsiaga. ' Oh face it girl' she told her self' you're hair tonic!' The thought of becoming miracle growth for hair for the youngest of the thunder brothers manten made her stomach squeeze uncomfortably. But the lingering thought of Inuyasha coming to her rescue was probably the only thing that kept from suffering through a nervous breakdown.
Hiten walked proudly down the wooden halls of his lair highly anticipating his upcoming battle with the human wench's beloved Inuyasha. Needless to say that the great hiten was not about to lose to the lover of a human. 'Heh' he thought, 'with the shikon jewel shards that pathetic Inuyasha will be slain in a matter of minutes!
His clothed feet made a soft patter sound against the smoothed wood of the hall. His clawed hand threw the shoji door open revealing the startled Higurashi Kagome. " Come wench, it's time to meet your beloved Inuyasha, and if you are lying I'll make sure you regret it with a slow and painful death!" venom dripped from every syllable as he smirked at her still slightly quivering form.
" The sheath is breaking!" cried myoga the flea as the battle between Inuyasha and the thunder brothers wore on. In a desperate attempt to help her comrade, Kagome and Shippou sprinted towards the fallen tetsiaga. ' Foolish mortals.' The youngest Reijuu-youkai thought as he saw their painfully obvious attempt to retrieve the sword for the hanyou. Manten opened his wide mouth a large burst of Lightening came forth striking the ground near Kagome and Shippou.
Inuyasha caught the tetsiaga with ease as Kagome threw it to him, he raised the mighty sword forged from his father's fang high above his head, as hiten flew nearer and nearer with a smug look upon his face. With one clench of his fists, one deep breath filling his lungs, one roar of adrenaline, anger, excitement, stress, and tension, and one giant swing of the mighty Tetsaiga, Inuyasha brought it down and across the reijuu-youkai, killing, as Kagome destroyed manten!
Or so they thought.