Wind and Crescent Moon
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No feelings of joy or elation reached her. How could they? When the one thing she wanted most was about to be taken from her. Or to be precise given to her, but most definitely not in the way she had wanted it. Here current predicament a living testimony to the undeniable truth that life sucked. So here stood Kagura, now on the receiving end of the wind-scar, or at least what was about to become a wind-scar. She had suffered through the attack many times before, albeit she'd done it vicariously, a mere spectator, as she'd seen this attack take down countless demons. Lowly demons though they were, it never lessened the impressiveness of the attack.
Kagura thought back briefly to when she had found herself in this exact same predicament, frozen in fear as the wind-scar came streaking towards her, however she'd been spared from that fate; by Naraku no less. A lovely way to end the night considering she had been bent on his destruction, and to put the icing on the cake he'd known of her treachery, a fact she became painfully aware of when she'd returned to the castle. Freedom, Kagura had wanted her freedom, and that night she had sought it out, only to be forced back to Naraku and continually serve him. Although Naraku had presented her with another choice, it was one she'd rather not think about. However, the once ever-present threat of being reformed back into Naraku's body no longer existed; he was dead, courtesy of one Inuyasha.
Her brows furrowed in frustration a deep scowl crossing Kagura's face, as she thought about exactly what an ungrateful little mongrel Inuyasha was; she had kept his secret. One any intelligent half-demon would've kept closely guarded: their period of weakness. And even though it was only because she had something to gain, she had kept it nonetheless.
Everything seemed to slow down for her, Inuyasha's hands lifting the Tetsusaiga in the air preparing to unleash the wind-scar, the thundering sound of her beating heart; pounding in her ears. In the back of Kagura's mind she knew she could dodge it; just barely, but she could dodge it. But the real problem would come after, the moment she jumped, Kagome could easily have her pinned with one of her sacred arrows. As long as it could be helped, she very much doubted they'd just let her leave the castle, alive. So to sum it up she was almost as good as dead.
This is definitely not the way I planned for this thing to go, but with my freedom so close in hand I'll be damned if Inuyasha of all people takes it away from me. Everyone has a weakness and if I just play dog-boys I'll escape unscathed.
"Dance of the Dragon," Kagura's most powerful attack, without any warning in the slightest headed full force toward Kagome.
Inuyasha can either slay me or save Kagome and he would never let her get hurt.
As she anticipated Inuyasha stopped his assault on her and rushed to Kagome's aid. Luckily for her, the force of her attack had knocked the bow and arrow from Kagome's grip; otherwise her sacred arrows could've not only nullified her blast but destroyed her as well.
With all of Inuyasha's speed, strength and agility it took perhaps all of three seconds to get Kagome out of harms way. But that was all the window of time Kagura needed, for as they looked up all that could be seen was Kagura's retreating form as she rode off into the sunset.
Authors Note: Well there you have it, the first installment of Wind and Crescent Moon. Please review and I hope you guys stick with me as I hopefully reach my goal of FINISHING a series I've started. Oh yeah there's also gonna be another Wind and Crescent Moon fic going on at the same time "Wind and Crescent Moon: A Youkai's Compassion" it'll start out pretty much the same way, but its gonna veer off and become its own story. And when I say veer off I do mean veer off. You'll see what I mean when you read it. Of course I have to put it up first, but you are going to read it, aren't you?