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Kagome woke up on a cold floor a small cover draped over her to keep her warm. She blinked, her eyes focusing enough to see a figure sitting by the door in the shadows of the room. Red glowing eyes met hers, but the figure didn't move.
"You're awake, good." The figure growled sinister and delightedly "Your husband/mate will be on his way, but little does he know, I gave him the wrong place to meet. The funny thing is he won't know it until it's too late."
Kagome sat up quickly "His keen sense of smell will lead him to me quickly."
"Ah about that, I um took a piece of your clothing and dropped it in a different direction from here and was careful to take the necessary precautions to avoid him catching our sent including a travel down river. I planned it so well because if he does pick it up it will be the evening of the full moon and he as well as you will be at your weakest." The figure smirked, their fangs bared gleaming in the light of the fire gave off.
Kagome snarled at the figure "Who are you? What did Inuyasha have to do with you for you to be exacting such a well thought out revenge?"
"You wouldn't know, would you? It was before the two of you met." The figure moved closer "My name is Kora; I lived peacefully until I ran into your husband/mate. I am a daughter of Fire Dragon Demons; I took over the position as the head of the village after my parents passed away in a war against other demons. Unfortunately for our mortal villagers we lived off of the flesh and blood of their bodies. Then your husband/mate came through in search of something." The female demon stepped into the light her clawed finger longer and sharper than Inuyasha's ever were.
"Is it really that simple, he helped the villagers? That's why you're so angry?" Kagome glared at Kora.
"No, he destroyed my home, took my legs, left me for dead, took my food source, and my honor was taken from me!" Kora's fists clenched tight.
Kagome groaned as a sharp pain shot through her abdomen briefly before diminishing. She didn't like what this could be a prelude to. She couldn't go into labor almost exactly a month early and not in this situation. She could see Kora grimace as she sniffed the air something seemed to have caught her attention.
"If you lost your food source how did you live and find the witch?" Kagome wondered trying to regain Kora's attention to buy her friends time to get to her before something happened.
Kora sneered "Surprisingly she found me, made me a deal, promised to save me, give me back my legs, and let me have my revenge. It came at a price though; the witch basically enslaved me; that is until I killed her. With her dying breath, unfortunately for me, she cursed me, but that part you'll figure out in good time."
Kagome's eyes went out of focus as another flash of things yet to come played out in front of her. The images were blurrier less focused, she could smell a lot of blood, hear someone going crazy while someone held off the threat, she couldn't real get a clear view of everything, but the pain was immense, and then it was all gone. Kora's eyes were probing and angry, but she seemed preoccupied, something disturbing her. Kagome could hear it faintly now, but it was too far away to be able to tell who or what it was. Kora glared at her and then stepped back.
"Make sure she doesn't leave, use brute force if necessary, but be careful not to spill blood. That will lead the half breed here too early." She hissed and was gone, but Kagome could sense the person Lora had talked to watching her and hiding in the shadows.
Inuyasha sniffed the air, but Kagome's scent had disappeared right before the river, a piece of one of her kimonos hanging on a branch. He had run up and down the bank hoping for any scent with Miroku and Sango on Kirara following him. Then he caught something in the air a scent that wasn't human. His hand flew to the hilt of his Tetsusaiga as he turned in the direction the creature was coming from.
"You won't find her. I won't lead you back to her either, in fact. I'm going to slow you down. I can't risk you getting there too early." Red eyes glowed at him from the shadows.
Inuyasha growled "I'll kill you, where is she?"
The stranger stepped out of the shadows "I won't tell you anything, but this. Her blood enrages me and it's pulsing under her skin makes me crazy. Now time to slow you down."
"Um miss, I wouldn't take Inuyasha lightly when his wife is in danger let alone his family." Miroku warned readying himself to fight "Also we get pretty heated to when it comes to a close friend being kidnapped."
Sango said nothing, but pulled her Hiraikotsu off her back. The woman was silent as she took in each opponent deciding how to handle them.
Then she sneered "The name's Kora, remember it well."
She dodged passed Inuyasha as he swung out Tetsusaiga and lunged at Sango. She barely dodged Hiraikotsu before throwing Sango from Kirara. Unfortunately she couldn't dodge Miroku's staff and it hit her square in the gut. She fell back, but quickly recovered as she spit a fireball at Kirara and Miroku. Inuyasha jumped in the way using his Backlash Wave, but Kora was prepared for this attack using it as a diversion to sneak passed to Miroku claws digging into his back and throwing him into a tree.
"You know our moves. How long have you been studying us?" Inuyasha snarled leaping at her.
She knocked him over in a flash claws digging into his abdomen "Not so fast, it's nice to know you'd rush to your death like that, but you don't get it!"
Her eyes burned like coals on a fire "Your death has to be painful. I can't kill you here either."
The smell of blood began to make her crazed, hungry, she dug deeper into Inuyasha's abdomen and he dropped. She ran for the river, planning to jump in and swim underwater downstream to keep him distant from finding her hideout. She didn't realize Inuyasha getting up until his Blades of Blood had hit her, her curse taking her over, an overload that she barely felt it, but turned to sneer at him as he held his stomach, before she disappeared into the water.