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with a disclaimer?!
Author's Note: Oi minna! This is a joint fic between Keichan and Tanuki- chan so enjoy!
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Darkness encased the land. Nothing to be seen. Just terror to be heard. The screams of pain and horror echo through the shadows. Sudden flashes shock the earth, giving the terrifying reminder of what is there, and what is to come.
One by one, the sounds stop. The sounds of running, the thunderous pounding of many feet, striving to race away to where they still may hide amongst the living. The thick panting from heavy exertion as they slow to gauge where they have managed to go and if they have escaped. The anguished, tormented howls of pain as they realized that they plan to let no one escape. Then there is no more. Bonds of love and family have no meaning in this place. There is only survival and who will make through alive. They have come and there is only one is meant to survive.
Only one to remain.
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Kagome's head snapped up immediately as she felt a chilling shiver make its way down her spine. One that foretold that nothing good would come from this moment. She shook her head, to clear the sudden shock that it had caused and refocused her attention to the little kit asleep in her lap. As she stroked Shippo's head gently, her mind was reaching out to give her a clue, any indication at all, as to what had caused the break from the normal calm that surrounded the clearing in which she sat.
She sighed, tugging at the worn miko robes that she currently wore. Her uniform had, once again, gotten dirty and was hanging to dry. She had forgotten her spare outfit at home, leaving only one choice for her garb. A bitter smile tugged across her lips. Inuyasha had been avoiding her since she had put it on. He had taken one look at what she had been wearing then left, now probably off in a tree somewhere, lost in his own thoughts about a certain undead miko.
A soft squirm told her that the little kitsune would be awakening soon, and they would be heading back to the village. Her clothes would be dry by now and she would change back into the white blouse and short green, pleated skirt that made up her uniform. Inuyasha would come back later and then they would be off again, searching for more of Shikon no Tama shards. She sighed. That was how her life was and it didn't seem as if it would change anytime soon.
Shippo peeked up at Kagome, rolling over almost as soon as he woke up. He had been surprised to see her off in thought, seeming to be in a world of her own. He climbed up to her shoulder, patting her cheek lightly when she did not respond. Kagome turned to him, the touch returning her from her thoughts at once. She smiled at the kit reassuringly, patting his head and standing.
As Kagome walked back to the village, she glanced back to the clearing briefly, her gaze sweeping over it for a few short seconds before she shook her head, passing the shiver from before as just a slight chill.
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Inuyasha sat in the tallest branches of the Goshinboku. It was the highest and most concealed place he could find and right now, he wished to be alone. He had seen Kagome dressed in Kikyo's robes, that part was true, but he hadn't left for that reason. A sound had grabbed his attention. It was so brief that he hadn't heard it until the second time it rang. He had glanced at the others, wondering if they too heard the eerie tone that started then disappeared the instant it reached his ears. They didn't seem to have noticed anything but it had caught his attention instantly.
He was curious immediately and set out to find its origin. It lured him through the forest with his namesake and stopped the second the giant roots of the Goshinboku came into view. He sat there now, pondering the curious sound that wouldn't be erased from his memory, no matter what he tried. Inuyasha leapt down from the branches, dashing from the thick fog that appeared suddenly. There was the heavy scent of something not quite right in the fog and his nose twitched trying to identify it. There was something off about the fog. It seemed to be almost reaching for him but that couldn't be right. Could it? He backed away as thin tendrils came off of it, trying to wrap around his ankles. Turning, he leapt away from it, confused and more than a little disturbed at the path it was taking. Fog wasn't supposed to travel as fast as this one was. He jumped again, this time, high into a tree and in the opposite direction that the village laid. The fog passed under him, no attempt was made to grab at him again. The fog kept moving.
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Kagome had drifted off into a light slumber when Inuyasha burst through the door. He was breathing heavily as his eyes scanned the room. He strode over to were Miroku sat, shaking him awake before dragging him to the door.
"Oi Miroku. Does that seem natural to you?" Inuyasha asked the now wide- awake monk.
Miroku frowned, his eyes probing the thick layer of fog. He stepped out the door, going closer in an attempt to read it better. This wasn't natural fog for sure. The cheerful greeting that nature had wasn't in this. It was thick with some sort of magic, something evil lay within.
"No Inuyasha, it does not. I cannot tell what it is," Miroku admitted, eyes narrowed in puzzlement.
"What doesn't?" both jumped at the soft voice when Kagome peered at them curiously from the doorway, her bows and arrows in hand.
"Ah Kagome-sama," Miroku greeted her, he seemed to pause for a moment as an idea hit him, "Would you shoot one of your miko arrows through this fog please?"
Kagome looked at him in surprise but didn't question his request. She had sensed that there was something wrong with this.this thing but she didn't quite understand what. She knocked an arrow to the bowstring carefully, taking precise aim, making sure to point as far away from her two friends as possible. She pulled the string back to her ear, concentrating on what felt wrong within her target, and released. Miroku sighed in relief as the lighted arrow cut through the fog, leaving a clear path but then sucked in his breath quickly as the fog pushed itself together once again, swallowing up the charged arrow before it had finished going all the way through. Inuyasha drew the Tetsusaiga warily.
Kagome could see the light of her power through the cloudy white. It gleamed brightly before it was snuffed out, and rather fast too. Before she could blink, the arrow was shot back towards her, with the same force and strength that she had shot it with, but without the miko power in it. It was too late to move now, Kagome closed her eyes, bracing herself for the impact.
It never came. Kagome opened her eyes and jumped back in surprise as she saw herself staring at the tip of the arrow. Her eyes traced down the shaft of the arrow and down the clawed hand wrapped around it, to see Inuyasha pulling it away from her. He showed the arrow to Miroku who frowned, raising a hand over it, closing his eyes to concentrate before shaking his head and opening his eyes again.
"It is not the arrow," Miroku said, taking to arrow from Inuyasha's outstretched hand and returning it to Kagome.
Kagome opened her mouth to inquire about the strange forces that she could feel within the moving cloud but before she could, Inuyasha had picked her up and leapt, landing on the rooftop. As soon as she had been set on her feet, she saw that the fog was moving at an incredible rate, closing in on the village. Miroku and Kaede were working fast to create a barrier of some sort to keep whatever threat they felt in this, out.
Kagome frowned, 'I should be helping with that,' she thought, already beginning to climb down the roof.
"Oi bitch! Where do you think you are going?" Inuyasha reached down to bring her back up to the top.
Kagome squirmed in his grasp, "I should help them."
Inuyasha looked down at her arrogantly, "You have no clue what they are doing or how to do it."
Kagome closed her eyes, certainly expecting some remark about Kikyo to come next. But when it didn't she opened her eyes to peer curiously at Inuyasha. His attention seemed to be elsewhere and she took that time to try again to crawl down the roof. She heard Inuyasha sigh briefly before reaching down to try to grab her again.
He almost got her but at that moment, her foot slipped from the wood panels. She screamed as she fell, preparing for the crash that would accompany a great amount of pain to her. But when she looked again, Inuyasha was setting her down on her feet, shaking his head at her.
Kagome looked at him suspiciously, why wouldn't he let her help? She began walking towards where Miroku and Kaede concentrated on the barrier. It seemed to be working but the fog wasn't being repelled, just sliding over it, forming a cloudy dome, revealing where the shield was.
Sweat dripped down his face as Miroku forced the barrier to remain standing. There was something about this fog touching the barrier that drained his houriki and energy more and more with each passing second he waited. He looked up when Kagome sat down next to him, crossing her legs and folding her hands in her lap.
"So I just concentrate on holding the barrier right?" she asked him. Miroku nodded, almost all his attention focused on his power.
Kagome lifted her hands, folding them into a prayer-like position on her chest and closing her eyes. She wondered briefly why Inuyasha had not stopped her when he had seemed so determined to before. She quickly pushed that thought from her mind, focusing on much more pressing matters.
Miroku's eyes snapped open as a great amount of pressure was lifted from him. He turned to see Kaede had noticed the same. He followed her gaze to the young miko. Kagome was still in the same position, seeming to be focussing heavily and deep in her power. Her aura curled around her, twisting its power into the barrier, and flaring when the fog touched it. It reacted violently, throwing it away with a flash.
Then, just as suddenly as it appeared, the fog vanished, leaving no signs of what had just taken place. Kaede nudged Miroku. "Keep the barrier up - whatever's out there isn't gone yet."
It seemed like Kaede was wrong though. Even now, Kagome could feel the evil aura being dissipated and replaced with normal ones. Inuyasha lowered the Tetsusaiga warily. "What the hell was that?!"
No one could answer.
*********
"It worked, my lord . . . the hanyou won't know what hit him."
"Careful, Itsui." The cold voice chided his servant gently. "Arrogance merely leads to foolish mistakes. Inuyasha is not as stupid as he seems." The voice paused, then continued. "Okay, maybe he is, but he is not weak, and certainly not an opponent to be underestimated."
"Yes, my lord . . . ."
**********
The group lay outside, basking up the sun, which on that day was particularly nice. Food and napkins were strewn everywhere, and everyone (with the exception of a certain bad-tempered ramen loving dog demon) had complimented on Kagome's cooking. They talked about random things, avoiding topics such as Shikon no Tama, youkai, fog, and plain evil.
It was Sango who brought the topic up first.
"So what happened while I was gone?"
Sango had been on an exterminating assignment when the fog appeared and had completely missed what happened. Kagome and Miroku traded glances, debating silently how they should put it.
Inuyasha, not being familiar with the concept called subtlety, was about to butt in, when Shippo beat him to it.
"It was really nice outside, and then -poof! - this weird thing came and swallowed everything up and Miroku and Kaede were making a shield and then - poof! - it disappeared! It was scary! Waaaah!" Sango patted Shippo's head while looking oddly at Miroku.
"Feh. It was a fog and I still think it was Sesshoumaru taking a bath." Inuyasha earned some very weird looks out of that. "What? He used to steam up the entire castle when he was in the bathroom!"
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Keichan: What was that about Tan-chan?
Tanuki-chan: I was bored..
Keichan: *sweatdrops*
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"Inuyasha, are you feeling alright?" queried Kagome.
"Of course I feel alright! Why wouldn't I be? What? Stop looking at me like that! What? WHAT?!" Distinctly ticked off now, he leaped into a tree where he sat grumbling to himself about stupid humans.
Sango shook her head, amused. "So, about this thing -"
"Kagome." They turned to see Kaede, looking very nervous. "I think you need to see this."
~*~*~*~*~*~*~
An anxious villager ran out to meet the group.
"Kaede-sama? Can't you do anything?"
Kaede nodded towards Kagome. "I brought some people who might be able to help. Why don't you talk to them? I'll check on the other patients." She hobbled away.
"The disease just started this morning but half the village is out by now, I'm one of the few left . . . this way." He led them towards a hut and opened the door. "'Kaasan, I've brought help!"
"Oh . . . my . . ." Kagome gripped Inuyasha's arm.
"What happened?" demanded Miroku. Sango was unable to speak.
The woman's skin was a mottled purple. Her head was bloated along with many appendages that had no right to be bloated. The entire right half of her body was swollen. Her eyes were blank and she was foaming. But that wasn't the worst of it.
Random accessories were tacked on her body. Antennae grew out of her head, a tentacle sprouted from her stomach. And in the middle of her forehead lay a half-open glowing eye.
"It's like she's mutating into some sort of demon!"
"She's one of the worse ones. The others are somewhat better off," remarked the villager in the eerie silence. "There are more in the next room."
Miroku shook himself out of his shocked stupor and shakily followed the villager past a screen door. "Kagome, take a look at this." Every victim had different appendages attached - wings, legs, claws, but they all had one thing in common.
"The eyes . . . ." Sango breathed. "My god, they all have a third eye."
"Jagan." Myouga popped out of nowhere and sweatdropped at all the stares. "What?! You didn't notice me?! I was here all along!"
"Whatever," snorted Inuyasha. "So, what's a Jagan?"
"A Jagan is basically an Evil Eye. These aren't the real things, they're copies that bind themselves to a main one, which is probably being controlled by a high-class youkai." Myouga mused. "It's funny, though. There's only one thing that I can think of that would be powerful enough to create so many of them at once."
"Which is?" prodded Sango.
Myouga shook his head. "If it's what I think it is, then it's time to visit Toutousai."
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Jap. Translations:
Kaasan - Actually, it's Okaasan, kaasan's just abbreviated. It means mom.
Houriki - Power of Buddha , , , according to Kei.
Miko - Preistess.
Shikon no Tama - If you don't know what this means, you shouldn't be reading this. Authors Note: . . .
Minna - Everyone
***
Authors Note:
Tanuki-chan: Hi minna! I think you're able to tell that I'm the more humorous one. :P
Keichan: No way! This is my fanfic anyhow.
Tanuki-chan: It's a JOINT fic, remember? You were the one who wanted it to be all dark and serious!
Keichan: I happen to like fics with at least SOME point in them. But back to the topic. We hoped you've liked it so far and we'll have the next chappie up in no time! But while you're waiting, check out some of our other fics, that is, if you haven't already. Mine being 'The Prophecy.'
Tanuki-chan: I don't have another fic. T_T Oh, by the way, I didn't make up the Jagan OR its effects. This is already in another anime - do YOU know which one?
Keichan: No one cares Tan-chan.
Tanuki-chan: NANI?! WHAT'S UP WITH THE FRIGGIN' TAN-CHAN?! HUH?!
Keichan: It's faster to type.
Tanuki-chan: *splutters for a few seconds* You LITTLE *mutters curses under breath* (I'm emphasizing the word LITTLE for a reason - Kei's short! MUAHAHAHAHA!)
Keichan: Not that short Tan-chan. *cracks knuckles*
Tanuki-chan: *running for life*
Keichan: doesn't seem like Tan-chan will be talking for a while so see ya next time! Ja
Author's Note: Oi minna! This is a joint fic between Keichan and Tanuki- chan so enjoy!
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Darkness encased the land. Nothing to be seen. Just terror to be heard. The screams of pain and horror echo through the shadows. Sudden flashes shock the earth, giving the terrifying reminder of what is there, and what is to come.
One by one, the sounds stop. The sounds of running, the thunderous pounding of many feet, striving to race away to where they still may hide amongst the living. The thick panting from heavy exertion as they slow to gauge where they have managed to go and if they have escaped. The anguished, tormented howls of pain as they realized that they plan to let no one escape. Then there is no more. Bonds of love and family have no meaning in this place. There is only survival and who will make through alive. They have come and there is only one is meant to survive.
Only one to remain.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Kagome's head snapped up immediately as she felt a chilling shiver make its way down her spine. One that foretold that nothing good would come from this moment. She shook her head, to clear the sudden shock that it had caused and refocused her attention to the little kit asleep in her lap. As she stroked Shippo's head gently, her mind was reaching out to give her a clue, any indication at all, as to what had caused the break from the normal calm that surrounded the clearing in which she sat.
She sighed, tugging at the worn miko robes that she currently wore. Her uniform had, once again, gotten dirty and was hanging to dry. She had forgotten her spare outfit at home, leaving only one choice for her garb. A bitter smile tugged across her lips. Inuyasha had been avoiding her since she had put it on. He had taken one look at what she had been wearing then left, now probably off in a tree somewhere, lost in his own thoughts about a certain undead miko.
A soft squirm told her that the little kitsune would be awakening soon, and they would be heading back to the village. Her clothes would be dry by now and she would change back into the white blouse and short green, pleated skirt that made up her uniform. Inuyasha would come back later and then they would be off again, searching for more of Shikon no Tama shards. She sighed. That was how her life was and it didn't seem as if it would change anytime soon.
Shippo peeked up at Kagome, rolling over almost as soon as he woke up. He had been surprised to see her off in thought, seeming to be in a world of her own. He climbed up to her shoulder, patting her cheek lightly when she did not respond. Kagome turned to him, the touch returning her from her thoughts at once. She smiled at the kit reassuringly, patting his head and standing.
As Kagome walked back to the village, she glanced back to the clearing briefly, her gaze sweeping over it for a few short seconds before she shook her head, passing the shiver from before as just a slight chill.
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Inuyasha sat in the tallest branches of the Goshinboku. It was the highest and most concealed place he could find and right now, he wished to be alone. He had seen Kagome dressed in Kikyo's robes, that part was true, but he hadn't left for that reason. A sound had grabbed his attention. It was so brief that he hadn't heard it until the second time it rang. He had glanced at the others, wondering if they too heard the eerie tone that started then disappeared the instant it reached his ears. They didn't seem to have noticed anything but it had caught his attention instantly.
He was curious immediately and set out to find its origin. It lured him through the forest with his namesake and stopped the second the giant roots of the Goshinboku came into view. He sat there now, pondering the curious sound that wouldn't be erased from his memory, no matter what he tried. Inuyasha leapt down from the branches, dashing from the thick fog that appeared suddenly. There was the heavy scent of something not quite right in the fog and his nose twitched trying to identify it. There was something off about the fog. It seemed to be almost reaching for him but that couldn't be right. Could it? He backed away as thin tendrils came off of it, trying to wrap around his ankles. Turning, he leapt away from it, confused and more than a little disturbed at the path it was taking. Fog wasn't supposed to travel as fast as this one was. He jumped again, this time, high into a tree and in the opposite direction that the village laid. The fog passed under him, no attempt was made to grab at him again. The fog kept moving.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Kagome had drifted off into a light slumber when Inuyasha burst through the door. He was breathing heavily as his eyes scanned the room. He strode over to were Miroku sat, shaking him awake before dragging him to the door.
"Oi Miroku. Does that seem natural to you?" Inuyasha asked the now wide- awake monk.
Miroku frowned, his eyes probing the thick layer of fog. He stepped out the door, going closer in an attempt to read it better. This wasn't natural fog for sure. The cheerful greeting that nature had wasn't in this. It was thick with some sort of magic, something evil lay within.
"No Inuyasha, it does not. I cannot tell what it is," Miroku admitted, eyes narrowed in puzzlement.
"What doesn't?" both jumped at the soft voice when Kagome peered at them curiously from the doorway, her bows and arrows in hand.
"Ah Kagome-sama," Miroku greeted her, he seemed to pause for a moment as an idea hit him, "Would you shoot one of your miko arrows through this fog please?"
Kagome looked at him in surprise but didn't question his request. She had sensed that there was something wrong with this.this thing but she didn't quite understand what. She knocked an arrow to the bowstring carefully, taking precise aim, making sure to point as far away from her two friends as possible. She pulled the string back to her ear, concentrating on what felt wrong within her target, and released. Miroku sighed in relief as the lighted arrow cut through the fog, leaving a clear path but then sucked in his breath quickly as the fog pushed itself together once again, swallowing up the charged arrow before it had finished going all the way through. Inuyasha drew the Tetsusaiga warily.
Kagome could see the light of her power through the cloudy white. It gleamed brightly before it was snuffed out, and rather fast too. Before she could blink, the arrow was shot back towards her, with the same force and strength that she had shot it with, but without the miko power in it. It was too late to move now, Kagome closed her eyes, bracing herself for the impact.
It never came. Kagome opened her eyes and jumped back in surprise as she saw herself staring at the tip of the arrow. Her eyes traced down the shaft of the arrow and down the clawed hand wrapped around it, to see Inuyasha pulling it away from her. He showed the arrow to Miroku who frowned, raising a hand over it, closing his eyes to concentrate before shaking his head and opening his eyes again.
"It is not the arrow," Miroku said, taking to arrow from Inuyasha's outstretched hand and returning it to Kagome.
Kagome opened her mouth to inquire about the strange forces that she could feel within the moving cloud but before she could, Inuyasha had picked her up and leapt, landing on the rooftop. As soon as she had been set on her feet, she saw that the fog was moving at an incredible rate, closing in on the village. Miroku and Kaede were working fast to create a barrier of some sort to keep whatever threat they felt in this, out.
Kagome frowned, 'I should be helping with that,' she thought, already beginning to climb down the roof.
"Oi bitch! Where do you think you are going?" Inuyasha reached down to bring her back up to the top.
Kagome squirmed in his grasp, "I should help them."
Inuyasha looked down at her arrogantly, "You have no clue what they are doing or how to do it."
Kagome closed her eyes, certainly expecting some remark about Kikyo to come next. But when it didn't she opened her eyes to peer curiously at Inuyasha. His attention seemed to be elsewhere and she took that time to try again to crawl down the roof. She heard Inuyasha sigh briefly before reaching down to try to grab her again.
He almost got her but at that moment, her foot slipped from the wood panels. She screamed as she fell, preparing for the crash that would accompany a great amount of pain to her. But when she looked again, Inuyasha was setting her down on her feet, shaking his head at her.
Kagome looked at him suspiciously, why wouldn't he let her help? She began walking towards where Miroku and Kaede concentrated on the barrier. It seemed to be working but the fog wasn't being repelled, just sliding over it, forming a cloudy dome, revealing where the shield was.
Sweat dripped down his face as Miroku forced the barrier to remain standing. There was something about this fog touching the barrier that drained his houriki and energy more and more with each passing second he waited. He looked up when Kagome sat down next to him, crossing her legs and folding her hands in her lap.
"So I just concentrate on holding the barrier right?" she asked him. Miroku nodded, almost all his attention focused on his power.
Kagome lifted her hands, folding them into a prayer-like position on her chest and closing her eyes. She wondered briefly why Inuyasha had not stopped her when he had seemed so determined to before. She quickly pushed that thought from her mind, focusing on much more pressing matters.
Miroku's eyes snapped open as a great amount of pressure was lifted from him. He turned to see Kaede had noticed the same. He followed her gaze to the young miko. Kagome was still in the same position, seeming to be focussing heavily and deep in her power. Her aura curled around her, twisting its power into the barrier, and flaring when the fog touched it. It reacted violently, throwing it away with a flash.
Then, just as suddenly as it appeared, the fog vanished, leaving no signs of what had just taken place. Kaede nudged Miroku. "Keep the barrier up - whatever's out there isn't gone yet."
It seemed like Kaede was wrong though. Even now, Kagome could feel the evil aura being dissipated and replaced with normal ones. Inuyasha lowered the Tetsusaiga warily. "What the hell was that?!"
No one could answer.
*********
"It worked, my lord . . . the hanyou won't know what hit him."
"Careful, Itsui." The cold voice chided his servant gently. "Arrogance merely leads to foolish mistakes. Inuyasha is not as stupid as he seems." The voice paused, then continued. "Okay, maybe he is, but he is not weak, and certainly not an opponent to be underestimated."
"Yes, my lord . . . ."
**********
The group lay outside, basking up the sun, which on that day was particularly nice. Food and napkins were strewn everywhere, and everyone (with the exception of a certain bad-tempered ramen loving dog demon) had complimented on Kagome's cooking. They talked about random things, avoiding topics such as Shikon no Tama, youkai, fog, and plain evil.
It was Sango who brought the topic up first.
"So what happened while I was gone?"
Sango had been on an exterminating assignment when the fog appeared and had completely missed what happened. Kagome and Miroku traded glances, debating silently how they should put it.
Inuyasha, not being familiar with the concept called subtlety, was about to butt in, when Shippo beat him to it.
"It was really nice outside, and then -poof! - this weird thing came and swallowed everything up and Miroku and Kaede were making a shield and then - poof! - it disappeared! It was scary! Waaaah!" Sango patted Shippo's head while looking oddly at Miroku.
"Feh. It was a fog and I still think it was Sesshoumaru taking a bath." Inuyasha earned some very weird looks out of that. "What? He used to steam up the entire castle when he was in the bathroom!"
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Keichan: What was that about Tan-chan?
Tanuki-chan: I was bored..
Keichan: *sweatdrops*
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
"Inuyasha, are you feeling alright?" queried Kagome.
"Of course I feel alright! Why wouldn't I be? What? Stop looking at me like that! What? WHAT?!" Distinctly ticked off now, he leaped into a tree where he sat grumbling to himself about stupid humans.
Sango shook her head, amused. "So, about this thing -"
"Kagome." They turned to see Kaede, looking very nervous. "I think you need to see this."
~*~*~*~*~*~*~
An anxious villager ran out to meet the group.
"Kaede-sama? Can't you do anything?"
Kaede nodded towards Kagome. "I brought some people who might be able to help. Why don't you talk to them? I'll check on the other patients." She hobbled away.
"The disease just started this morning but half the village is out by now, I'm one of the few left . . . this way." He led them towards a hut and opened the door. "'Kaasan, I've brought help!"
"Oh . . . my . . ." Kagome gripped Inuyasha's arm.
"What happened?" demanded Miroku. Sango was unable to speak.
The woman's skin was a mottled purple. Her head was bloated along with many appendages that had no right to be bloated. The entire right half of her body was swollen. Her eyes were blank and she was foaming. But that wasn't the worst of it.
Random accessories were tacked on her body. Antennae grew out of her head, a tentacle sprouted from her stomach. And in the middle of her forehead lay a half-open glowing eye.
"It's like she's mutating into some sort of demon!"
"She's one of the worse ones. The others are somewhat better off," remarked the villager in the eerie silence. "There are more in the next room."
Miroku shook himself out of his shocked stupor and shakily followed the villager past a screen door. "Kagome, take a look at this." Every victim had different appendages attached - wings, legs, claws, but they all had one thing in common.
"The eyes . . . ." Sango breathed. "My god, they all have a third eye."
"Jagan." Myouga popped out of nowhere and sweatdropped at all the stares. "What?! You didn't notice me?! I was here all along!"
"Whatever," snorted Inuyasha. "So, what's a Jagan?"
"A Jagan is basically an Evil Eye. These aren't the real things, they're copies that bind themselves to a main one, which is probably being controlled by a high-class youkai." Myouga mused. "It's funny, though. There's only one thing that I can think of that would be powerful enough to create so many of them at once."
"Which is?" prodded Sango.
Myouga shook his head. "If it's what I think it is, then it's time to visit Toutousai."
~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Jap. Translations:
Kaasan - Actually, it's Okaasan, kaasan's just abbreviated. It means mom.
Houriki - Power of Buddha , , , according to Kei.
Miko - Preistess.
Shikon no Tama - If you don't know what this means, you shouldn't be reading this. Authors Note: . . .
Minna - Everyone
***
Authors Note:
Tanuki-chan: Hi minna! I think you're able to tell that I'm the more humorous one. :P
Keichan: No way! This is my fanfic anyhow.
Tanuki-chan: It's a JOINT fic, remember? You were the one who wanted it to be all dark and serious!
Keichan: I happen to like fics with at least SOME point in them. But back to the topic. We hoped you've liked it so far and we'll have the next chappie up in no time! But while you're waiting, check out some of our other fics, that is, if you haven't already. Mine being 'The Prophecy.'
Tanuki-chan: I don't have another fic. T_T Oh, by the way, I didn't make up the Jagan OR its effects. This is already in another anime - do YOU know which one?
Keichan: No one cares Tan-chan.
Tanuki-chan: NANI?! WHAT'S UP WITH THE FRIGGIN' TAN-CHAN?! HUH?!
Keichan: It's faster to type.
Tanuki-chan: *splutters for a few seconds* You LITTLE *mutters curses under breath* (I'm emphasizing the word LITTLE for a reason - Kei's short! MUAHAHAHAHA!)
Keichan: Not that short Tan-chan. *cracks knuckles*
Tanuki-chan: *running for life*
Keichan: doesn't seem like Tan-chan will be talking for a while so see ya next time! Ja