The Feudal Clans
Hello again everybody! Wow, I never thought that this story would even get a single view but, here it is! It took a while, but it's finally done!
Rain Muse: Congratulations!
Me: Thanks! By the way, you going to tell your saviors the big secret yet?
Rain Muse: No, not yet. If I told them now, they'd just think I was crazy.
Me: True, true.
Inuyasha Muse: If you told me what?! What secret?!
Me: Oh dear! Disclaimer time!
Inuyasha Muse: Hey! I'm not-
I do not own either Inuyasha or Warriors! All rights go to their proper owners! (Phew)
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Rain woke up to a bump in the night. She sat upright and looked around; it was still dark out. Everyone else was still sleeping, at least, Rain thought Inuyasha was sleeping, she really couldn't tell, seeing as he was propped up against the wall. I said I would stay but… Rain considered her options. She could go home without any help and no indication as to where she had been, or she could stay and bring Inuyasha and the others back with her when the time was right. I need to get back home! Leafstorm is probably worrying his tail off about me, and I need to make sure Ebonykit is still safe! Then again, I still need to find Ice… We were separated when we came here after all. Rain had made up her mind. She quickly scribbled a goodbye and thank you note, and gathered her things, attempting to sneak out.
"Where do you think you're going?" Rain jumped at Inuyasha's voice; she had thought that he had been asleep. Busted!
"I-I well…" Rain stammered hot embarrassment flooding over her. "I just thought that- I mean… Well…" Rain blushed fumbling with her pendant. Should she tell Inuyasha her secret? He did catch her trying to sneak out, but he didn't know why she had wanted to leave. She decided to tell him at least half of the truth.
"I… I need to find my friend." She finally said. "We were separated about four days before you guys found me in the forest, and I've been trying to find her ever since." She stared at Inuyasha, her eyes pleading. "I have to find her!" She suddenly burst out, beginning to cry. "I can't go home without her, and she's my best friend!" Inuyasha flicked an ear, and Rain instantly knew that he was struggling to decide whether or not to believe her. Please, please believe me! She silently prayed. Inuyasha sighed.
"Fine. We'll all look for your friend in the morning." He grunted opening one eye to look at her. Rain's jaw dropped in disbelief. She could not believe her ears.
"R-really?" She croaked when she finally found her voice.
"Yeah, really." He sniffed. "I think I might have a good idea who's behind all this, though I can't be sure." Rain nodded.
"Thank you." She breathed. "You have absolutely no idea how much this means to me." Rain clambered back into her bed and shredded her note. He has the heart of a true warrior. Rain realized with a jolt. If that's true, then they really will be able to help the situation in the Clans. I made the right choice in trusting them.
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"Can you recognize anything about this pendant that might lead us to your friend?" Kagome asked Rain. Rain had both hands to her mouth, and tears were beginning to flow down her face. That's Ice's pendant! She thought desperately. But why would she leave it behind? Unless… oh no, Ice!
"That's her pendant that we gave each other when we were both little." She explained, trying to keep from sobbing. "She never goes anywhere without it, nor do I go anywhere without mine. Something…" Rain gasped for air, desperately trying to keep the tears from spilling down her face. "Something must have happened to her for her to just leave it behind like this." Miroku nodded grimly, while Sango gave the pendant to Kirara for her to sniff; Kirara was now in battle mode. Suddenly, a brown haired girl burst out of the bushes, wearing a dirty tee-shirt and a pair of jeans. Her icy blue eyes were crazy with fury. Can it be?
"Put that back!" The girl screeched sprinting over to knock the pendant from Kirara, then grabbing it and preparing to cast a spell.
"Wait, Ice!" Rain yelled to her friend and Ice looked at her half-way through conjuring an ice spear. It quickly melted and dissolved into thin air. Ice looked confused at first, then realization came to her eyes.
"Rain!" She exclaimed happily running over to hug her friend. "I can't believe you're alright! When I got to that castle, you were nowhere to be found! That man told me that you had arrived earlier and…" Ice stood back to look at her friend. "I had assumed the worst." She finished. Castle? But, our destination was that field in the forest, wasn't it? I did feel a strong force pulling Ice away from me when we went through. Kagome smiled.
"So, that's your friend?" She asked nicely extending her hand. "It's nice to meet you, Ice was it?" She smiled. "My name is Kagome, that's Inuyasha, Sango, Miroku, Shippo, and Kirara." Ice's friendly gaze became one of suspicion and hatred. She leaped back, taking Rain with her.
"Watch out, Rain." Ice warned glaring at Kagome and the others. "That Naraku dude told me all about these guys; they're pure evil." She spat the word, "evil" as if she had tasted something foul in her food. Shocked, Rain glanced from her saviors to her best friend.
"What?! No they're not, they saved my life!" She exclaimed. "Dark- IT would have killed me if they hadn't shown up!" Ice looked at Rain with a look of confusion and pure disbelief.
"But- how… he told me that…" Realization dawned upon Ice's face. "He tricked me! How could I have been so dumb?" She turned to face Inuyasha and the others. "You've got to get out of here," She warned. "Naraku will-!" Ice's sentence was cut off as a humongous gust of wind blew through the area. A man with black hair, red eyes, and a lot of bug-like spine thingies (for lack of what to call them) stepped out of the shadows, surrounded by wasps and demons.
"Very clever, Ice." He spoke, his voice oily like that of a killer whom Rain was painfully reminded of. He turned his head to look at Inuyasha, an evil grin on his face. "Hello, Inuyasha. We meet again."
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"Naraku." Inuyasha spat grabbing his Tetsuiga and preparing to pull it out of the sheath if he needed to. "I should have known. What do you want here this time? And what do you want with these girls?" He stepped up in front of Kagome while Ice and Rain ran back to face Naraku, each of them grabbing their own pendant and squeezing the other's hand. What is so damn important about those pendants? They're just pieces of glass, right? Inuyasha then remembered how Ice had conjured up an ice spear to attack Sango and Kirara after retrieving her pendant, which was shaped like an icicle. Could those pendants be… no. No way in all of the seven hells could those worthless pieces of junk be magic.
"It's quite simple really." Naraku drawled in that sickeningly oily voice of his. "They turn themselves over to me, and I retrieve the Shikon Shard that is keeping their Clans' worst enemy alive." Rain and Ice looked at each other and stared at Naraku in such intense hatred, Inuyasha was sure that he could feel heat radiating from the two teenagers.
"YOU are the one responsible for BloodClan's return?" Rain questioned, quivering with rage. "YOU are the one causing our kits to go missing without a trace?" Ice, who was standing next to Rain, looked just as angry.
"I should never have trusted you." She snarled. "But that doesn't matter now. We will NEVER turn ourselves over to the likes of YOU!" The two girls grabbed their pendants as a glowing aura radiated around them and their eyes glowed white. "WE'LL NEVER FORGIVE YOU!" They screeched and began chanting, Rainclouds gathered overhead while icy winds brought ice shards into the air around the forest clearing. Rain (the weather, not the character) began pelting down towards Naraku, and the ice shards hurled themselves towards him as well.
"COMBO MOVE: ICE STORM!" Ice and Rain screeched in unison. As the ice shards and icy rain pelted down on Naraku, and his demons, Inuyasha felt himself rooted to the spot. So those pendants are magic after all! He thought in utter shock. It certainly is surprising to see Naraku get beaten by a bunch of teenage girls though. He smiled to himself. And entertaining. All of a sudden, the two girls began chanting again, but this time it was a different spell. A blinding flash emanated from the two pendants, and slowly grew to fill the whole clearing.
"Wh-what the-!" Inuyasha managed to shout before he was left unconscious in the world of the Clans, his friends alongside him. Little did Rain or Ice know, they had brought three uninvited stowaways with them to their world…