Chapter 2
Before Kyo could say anything more there came a loud crash from behind them, coming from the direction of the village. They all turn around and saw the Fire Demon from Hell coming through the trees.
"RUN KIDS!!" screams a masculine voice.
A tall figure in a red kimono, with white hair and dog ears jumps between the kids and the Fire Demon from Hell.
"DAD!" screamed Izayoi and Koru, happy to see their father yet terrified for his safety.
Following Inuyasha was a raven - haired beauty in the red and white kimono of a priestess.
"Kagome, get the kids out of here quickly! It seems like the Demons From Hell are after the children! Get them out of here!" Screamed Inuyasha, fear for his children and wife clear in his voice.
I don't know what these demons want with these kids but there're going to have to go through me to get to them!
"Inuyasha, don't get yourself killed while I take these kids to somewhere safe. I'll be back soon, Izayoi and Koru need their father." Kagome yelled as she picked up her son and grabbed the others.
"Come on children lets go so that Inuyasha can concentrate on the battle and not on us."
"Dad, I love you and I need you to stay alive so that you can teach me how to use the Tetsusaiga and teach me how to fight like a man." Koru cried to his father, not wanting to leave him, and yet wanting to run away as quickly as he could.
"I know son and I promise you that I won't die I've fought a lot meaner critters than this one and won. You'll learn how to master the Tetsusaiga and fight like a man and I will be the one to teach you, you have my word. Now go damn it so I can fight without worrying about you guys!"
"Dad you have to stay alive for me to you know! You have to give me away at my wedding whenever that is and you have to be there to try and scare away any boyfriends that I may get, do you understand me? I might get mom to say the magic word otherwise! And dad, I love you more than you know!" screamed Izayoi at her father.
"Do you people not rely on me or something? This guy isn't going to kill me damn it now go somewhere safe or when this is over you are all going to pay!" Screamed Inuyasha, both in fear for his family, and in frustration at the fact that they thought that he might not win the fight.
I might not win, this guy is strong and nothing seems to work on him, but I have to be there for my kids like my dad wasn't for me, I will not allow for this demon to kill me!
"NOW RUN!" Inuyasha yelled, the Fire Demon was powering up for a massive attack and he wanted his kids far away and somewhere safe and he wanted it right then!
Kagome then grabbed Kohaku and started to run farther into the woods. She headed straight to the old well where she used to go to her own time in the future.
"Children this is where I leave you, had it not been for the fact that no one can go back to the age from which I came I would send you there but that way is closed to us now." Kagome said sadly, allowing herself to think of her family beyond the well.
"Anyways, there is a place where you should be safe. Go to the forbidden woods in the North and seek out the Lynx tribe. The leader of the Lynx tribe was and still is a good friend of Inuyasha's, just tell them that you are Inuyasha's children and friends and they will give you refuge." Kagome instructed, tears beginning to form in her eyes as she told her children good-bye. "When the battle is done we will come for you and bring you home. I love you all and you must all work together to get to where you need to be. Good luck."
" Koru you listen to your sister and do what she says, and Izayoi don't be to harsh on him." As Kagome finished, she gave each of the children a hug and a kiss. She then turned and ran back the way that they had come, back to her husband and whatever fate that awaited her. She knew that the children could handle themselves, and she knew that her place was with Inuyasha even if it meant dying to.
"We are really on our own this time, no one is going to come and save us if we get into trouble." Whispered Koru, he was shaking in fear of being alone without his mom and dad.
"Well guys since it really is just us we need to do what Aunt Kagome said we need to get somewhere safe where we can wait for them to come for us. Lets head North and go to the Lynx tribe like she told us to." Said Kyo, who knew that they needed to get as far away as possible. If they didn't then some other demon would come.
Why are the Demons From Hell after us? What is it about us that attracts them so? wondered Kyo.
"Kyo's right lets get going. We aren't going to get to just wish this never, happened, it did and now we have to move on and wait for our parents to come and get us. If they don't then we will look for them!" cried Izayoi.
And so with Izayoi and Kyo leading the way and Kohaku and Koru following close behind they set out toward the North and the Lynx tribe's home in the forbidden woods.
Three Days Later
"Izayoi, hey Izayoi!" yelled Koru, trying to get his sister's attention.
"What Koru? What's so important that you have to yell and possibly blow our cover here?" demanded Izayoi irritably. They had been walking for three days and had no luck in catching food. And had been getting very little sleep due to fear of being caught in the unawares.
"I think that we are being followed, I don't know if it is friend or foe but I'm pretty sure that we are being followed." He whispered. He had forgotten that he wasn't supposed to yell.
"Kyo can you check it out, you have the nose and the hearing that us quarter demons and humans don't have. If there is trouble lurking come back here and we will either move more quickly and or fight. We have to know what we are dealing with." Ordered Izayoi.
As Kyo left to go and see what it was that was following them, Koru looked at his sister with amazement in his eyes.
She's turning out more and more like mom. She's bossy and temperamental but she knows what to do in a pinch and is strong as all get out! And in the last three days she has pretty much become the leader of this sorry group of kids and has pulled us together in a way that I didn't think that was possible. I'm proud of you sis even though I would die before I said that because you would just get a big head! Koru thought proudly.
"Izayoi, do you know if we are any closer to the Lynx Tribe's home? Do you even know where we are?" asked Kohaku.
"Yeah, I know where we are I just don't know how much farther it is to the Forbidden Woods. I know that if we get through the Forbidden Woods then the Lynx Tribe is just on the other side. Plus we might get a bonus, I know that sometimes the Lynx Tribe hunts in the Forbidden Woods so we might get lucky and get a free ride into the Tribe, that's what I'm hoping for anyway!" said Izayoi.
I wonder what is taking Kyo so long, usually he'd be back by now and the funny thing is that Koru is usually right. We either run or fight though most of the time we have been able to just run and avoid confrontation.
"Well, well what do we have here?" said a high, nasally voice that grated on Izayoi's nerves.
Izayoi turned and gasped at the sight that she saw, Kyo was being held hostage by a rather large bandit with thick muscular arms, and a neck thicker than a red oak. With, what Izayoi deemed Gorilla Man, was a thin bandit with greasy hair and a scar running from his left eye to just below his chin.
Hello ugly one and two she thought sarcastically.
"What do you want with us? We are just children that are passing through, what business do you have with us?" she demanded, pushing Koru and Kohaku behind her.
I'll protect them with my life if need be she thought fiercely.
"Sister, I'm scared," whispered Koru, and she could feel his fear as if it were her own.
"It will be ok Koru, no one will harm you and if they try to they will be very sorry." She said, growling low in her throat.
"My dear, you can not stop us should we want to attack all of you. You are not nearly big enough to fight us! We also have a friend of yours and I'm sure that you don't want my friend here, Centaro, to break his pretty little neck do you?" sneered the greasy haired man.
"I believe that my friend their can take care of himself and allowed you to capture him. I know that should I be provoked that I can call upon a power that none of you have any knowledge of and destroy you with one attack." Growled Izayoi.
"Men, come out and grab the two boys behind this young lady and take them hostage, I think that they would make very good slaves don't you?" laughed the greasy haired man.
Ugly number one is going to just push me and push me until I have to show him just what I can do isn't he she thought to herself. She slowly bared her teeth and growled at the ugly man.
"Izayoi, help me! They have me!" screamed Koru. The fear in his voice snapped her into action.
"You have pushed me and pushed me. Now you have threatened my brother, for that you will pay. You have also threatened the man that I love and for what ever reason you have, it will not be enough to save your life!" cried Izayoi angrily.
She turned and roundhouse kicked her brother's assailant in the temple, effectively knocking the bandit out and freeing her brother.
"Koru, run in to the woods. I will call you when it is safe to come out. The only ones who will not be effected by this attack is me and Kyo because we both have strong demon blood in our veins, you take after mother on that one. Kohaku when I free you go with Koru." Yelled Izayoi.
With that she took a flying leap and drop kicked Kohaku's captor and then proceeded to break the bastard's neck. When Kohaku was freed he ran and joined up with Koru in the woods far away from the range of the blast.
"I call upon the creatures of the forest, I am the Goddess of the Creatures and you shall not harm my family or my children which are the creatures of this forest. Good-bye trespassers, A Goddesses Wrath!!!" Screamed Izayoi.
A bright pure light burst forth from her and enveloped those who had threatened the ones that she loved. They then dissolved into nothingness. As the light began to fade and go back into Izayoi's body she slowly began to collapse, and there to catch her was Kyo.
"You stupid idiot you know how much that attack takes out of you and yet you still, still use that attack. Why?"
"Because they threatened the people that I love most, you and my brother and Kohaku to." Izayoi whispered weakly, she knew what she'd done and she knew that she had this great power, but where did she get it and how, what exactly was she?