The night of the full moon, normally it would be a bright and peaceful summer evening. But this night, a strong youki blankets the sky, filling the land with darkness; you can taste the murderous intent in the air. The villagers were lucky enough to know about this earlier on and were able to move all the villagers to a safe place. Only six warriors remained to defend their homes: a clever fox-demon, a two-tailed demon cat, a mighty demon slayer, a (mostly) honorable monk, a strong priestess, and a most powerful hanyou. (For those of you who haven't figured it out yet, they're Shippo, Kirara, Sango, Miroku, Kagome, and Inuyasha ::duh::) It was Kagome who first sensed the danger but now everyone, even those without battle training knew what was coming.
"About two hundred youkai are coming", stated Kagome as she pointed to the north where they approached.
"Yea, this is going to be quite a workout," replied Inuyasha with a grin on his face. "I've been getting bored lately, a good go-around should feel good."
"Just try to control yourself Inuyasha," sighed Miroku.
"Yes, the last time you had a 'workout' half the village was destroyed," Sango added glaring.
"Hey it's better than getting killed isn't it?!"
"THERE WAS ONLY TEN OF 'EM YOU IDIOT! AND I NEARLY GOT BURIED IN ALL THE DEBRIS!" Shippo angrily shouted at the hanyou.
"Then stay out of my way you little runt!"
"What'd you say!"
"You heard me, chibi!"
"THAT'S IT!"
"WHAT YOU WANNA BE MY WARMUP?"
"OSUWARI!" and down goes Inuyasha.
"Will you two knock it off!"
"How come I'm the only one who gets punished?"
"Everyone get ready, they're coming", pointed out Miroku. All of them instantly stopped what they were doing and ready their weapons. The sky began to swirl and out of the eye came the youkai, most looked like snakes, but all were still terrifying. Miroku and Sango went on top of Kirara to fight the ones higher in the sky, while the rest of them stayed on the ground.
"Keh, it's about time," shouted Inuyasha, "get a taste of my Tessaiga." And he unleashed a powerful Kaze no Kizu at a group of them. Kagome shot arrow after arrow at youkai while Shippo did his part in confusing a lot of them with his tricks so that it's easier for Sango to hit them with her Hiraikotsu and Miroku with his sutras.
It continued this way for quite a while, well past the two hundred initially thought to be there.
"There's just no end to them," said Kagome exhausted.
Something's definitely wrong thought Inuyasha there's so many of them but it's not like they're even trying to hurt us. It's almost like they're looking for something.
Just as he was about to use the Kongosouha something zipped past him and landed on one of the youkai.
"YEAH! HOW DO YA LIKE THAT'CHA OVERSIZED LIZARD?!"
(Anime moment: everyone freezes with major sweat drops). What was on top was a small girl of ten, with a pink fighting outfit like what Inuyasha wears, golden eyes, her blue hair pulled into bonbons on her head right behind her adorable dog ears.
"Sayaka! Get down, what are you doing here?" shouted a concerned Kagome.
"I got tired of waiting so I came to help you mamma!"
"Why don't you ever listen? You're just in the way here!" yelled Inuyasha.
"You never listen to anyone either Papa!" whined Sayaka. The youkai she was on became impatient and began to fly into the sky with her still on it.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!" she screamed.
"Damn it!" Inuyasha leaped into the air to try to get to her but as fast as he went the youkai was faster. "How come they won't attack her?" he wondered.
"HIRAIKOTSU!" Sango hurled her weapon at it and Sayaka fell until caught by Miroku. After the shock, she quickly recovered and was back to her energetic self.
"Thanks Sango-san, Miroku-san!" she cheerfully quirked while enjoying the ride on Kirara.
"Sayaka-san, you really should've stayed in the shelter with the rest of the people," exasperated Miroku.
"He's right you're not old enough to fight yet," added Sango.
"But I'm strong, I can help! And besides, I was BOOOOOOOOOORED!" Despite her protests though she was forced to stay with those two until the last of them were taken care of, which took well into the night. By the time they were done, the ground was littered with remains and stained with blood.
Inuyasha and Kagome stood together as Kirara landed to let everyone off. Sayaka bounded off to be met by the glaring eyes of her parents.
"Oh come on! I'm okay aren't I?!"
"Yes but you could've been killed! Honestly, I think I'll have to put up barriers just to keep you in soon!" scowled a disgruntled Kagome as she brushed her daughter off of all dirt.
"In any case, let's tell everyone it's safe to come out," interrupted Miroku sensing an argument. Everyone headed off toward the cave where everyone was, but Inuyasha stopped and turned to the sky as if he saw something. He continued to glare at the silent sky for a moment, as if waiting for the invisible enemy to appear.
"Inuyasha?" He was snapped out of his trance by Kagome who stayed behind with Sayaka in hand to wait, "Is something wrong?"
"N-no, it's nothing," he responded, and turned to leave. However, little did they know that the unseen enemy was keeping close watch on them during the whole battle.
"Hmmm…this is getting to be most tedious," stated the mysterious man, "no matter how many of these low level youkai I send, none of them can find the prize I seek. Where could those fools be hiding it?
"Well," he continued with a sudden grin on his face, "I guess I'll have to send my stronger ones to do the job, it's a shame to waste them but I will find the answer to eternal life…I will find the Shikon no Tama.
A/N: Okay this story takes place ten years after Naraku was defeated, so let me fill you in on the basic situation: Kohaku is dead, the Shikon no Tama disappeared after being used to purify Naraku, Miroku and Sango were wed and currently have 5 children who will be introduced in later chapters, Inuyasha and Kagome have the one child Sayaka but are not married, Kagome lives full time in the Sengoku Jidai but goes back to visit her family every once in a while, her grandpa passed away but her mom is alive and Sota is attending college to become a doctor. If there's anything I left out be sure to tell me and I'll tell you next time, in addition, after the next chapter I'll put in a current description of the characters.
