Chapter 4: Yura of the Hair pt 2


"Why reason would Yura have to hunt us?" Inuyasha asked the reincarnated priestess.
"Well if Yura already has my shard, why would she send her hair to my time?" Kagome asked her Hanyou friend as they climbed out of the well.
"What?" Inuyasha said startled as she looked at Kagome, "Do you mean to tell me that witch has our shard of the jewel!" she yelled as Kagome looked towards the sky.
"It's here!" Kagome yelled as she climbed on Inuyasha's back, "Above us!" she yelled as they dodged a large cluster of hair.
"Kagome, can you trace the hair to the source, we need to stop that witch!" Inuyasha yelled as she ran through the forest.
'Woven through the web... I see a few shiny strands,' Kagome thought as she looked around, 'If those are the hairs pulling the rest... then Yura must be lurking where those strands come together!' Kagome continued her train of thought as she looked around to see where the hairs where coming from, "This way!" she yelled as she pointed to where the hairs where coming from. "Huh," Kagome said as she looked beside them, "A campfire?" she asked as the two of them headed towards it. Oh!" She yelled in fear and disgust at what she saw. "Are they...were they human!" she gasped out.


"Rogue samurai," Inuyasha said, "They must have blundered into the hair," she said with a tinge of sadness.
'This must've happened while I was back home...' Kagome thought as she crouched down next to one of the samurai.
"Damn, their heads are missing, just their heads!" Inuyasha said loudly as she looked at the bodies. "Hey Kagome, why are you crouching down over there!" Inuyasha yelled walking over to her friend, "Don't tell me you're scared"
"I thought these might come in handy," Kagome said picking up a bow and quiver of arrows.


'If we don't defeat Yura soon... more people will die!' Kagome thought as they raced towards Yura.
"I hope your archery is better than last time!" Inuyasha yelled as she ran up a cliff.
"Practice makes perfect!" Kagome yelled back.
"You've been practicing?" Inuyasha asked looking at the girl from the future.
"I'm starting now!" Kagome yelled back.
'This girl has more fire than I gave her credit for,' Inuyasha thought as she kept running.
"Be careful, we're close!" Kagome yelled as they approached where Yura was, "Waaah!" Kagome yelled seeing the hair, "Inuyasha, On the left, no the right!" Kagome yelled frantically.
"Make up your mind..." Inuyasha yelled back, but Kagome interrupted. "In front of you!" She yelled as the hair grabbed Inuyasha and lifted her into the air throwing the Kagome to the ground. "Inuyasha!" Kagome yelled seeing the hair wrap around her friend. "Oh!" she yelled as she saw a giant ball of hair in the middle of the air, 'Is that Yura's stronghold!' she thought as she stared at it.
"Aaah, what a lovely fly I've caught," Yura said descending onto the ball of hair, "You're Inuyasha right?" she asked the girl she had tied up.
"Yeah, and you're Yura of the hair," Inuyasha said, "What do you know of me?" she asked as Yura looked a bit startled.
"You have quite a reputation among we oni you know," she said as she stared at the girl.
'Oni... as in ogre!' Kagome thought as she watched all of what was unfolding in front of her.
"We heard that a half breed named Inuyasha became allied with a reincarnated priestess in order to collect the shards of the Shikon jewel, however, we did not know that you were a girl"
"What?" Inuyasha asked startled.
"Because of the stories of your power I thought that this Inuyasha would be a guy, I originally thought to kill both of you immediately and then go search for the jewel." Said Yura as she looked at the jewel, "But then I thought about letting you live until I learned what you wanted to use the jewel for"
"Like I would tell you!" Inuyasha yelled as she ripped the hair and lunged for Yura who dodged and wrapped the hanyou up with even more hair. "Do you think you can kill me with hair"
"Maybe, but then I would be wrong," she said as she took out a sword and slashed the struggling female with it.
"Heh. Nice blade," Inuyasha coughed out.
"Oh goody, I didn't know what I was going to do if that didn't work, now are you going to speak to me or not?" Yura said with a frown.
"Never!" Inuyasha yelled back.
"You know this is my favorite sword... the crimson mist." she said putting the sword in front of her face, "An Oni's joy, it severs flesh and bone without harming hair." she said as she jumped towards the girl that was suspended by her hair. "In other words I can slice you until you tell me what you wanted the jewel for while I keep you tied up!" she yelled as two arrows lit her hair on fire. 'They burn my hair!' she thought as she looked at the direction the arrows came from.
"This time!" Kagome yelled as she fired another arrow.
'The girl from the future,' Yura thought as she watched the girl.
"Hit it!" She yelled as the arrow almost hit Inuyasha who dodged at the last second and the arrow flew on to hit the ball of hair.
"Watch it Kagome!" Inuyasha yelled at her as the ball opened up and skulls came pouring out.
"No all my dears!" Yura yelled in a panic as three newly severed heads slumped to the bottom.
"Those are the heads of the rogue samurai..." Inuyasha said as she looked at the severed heads with a twinge of disgust.
"You know them? Good. You'll be joining just them just as soon as I figure out what you're up to," Yura said looking at Inuyasha, "You have such beautiful hair and so much of it, I just can't wait to play with it!" she said with glee as she looked at Inuyasha. She then turned towards Kagome and said. , "Ah... but first...You girl! You'll die first"
'Flames!' Inuyasha thought as the flew towards Kagome "How do you like my Oni's comb, it'll burn you to your bone marrow!" Yura yelled as she caught Kagome in a blaze of fire.
"Ah!" Kagome yelled as the fire engulfed her.
"Much better! A fitting punishment for destroying my nest!" Yura said as she watched the flames. "Not even her bones will remain"
"You!" Inuyasha yelled gripping her wound.
"Miss her... poor baby, maybe I'll send you to her if you tell me why you would work with humans, not once but twice, to get it!" Yura said looking at the girl.
"Uh..." Inuyasha said as she removed her blood covered claw from her chest, "Then try my Claws of Blood (A/N: Also known as Blades of Blood depends on whether you're reading the Manga or watching the Anime)" She said as she caused small blades formed from blood to fly off her hands at the woman controlling the hair.
'Claws!' Yura thought as the blade slashed her hand off.
'It's loosening!' Inuyasha thought as the hair holding her loosened a bit.
"My hand..." Yura said looking at the stump that was now there.
"It seems like its harder for you to control all that hair with a hand missing!" Inuyasha yelled as she struggled to get free.
"Really... Is that any way to treat another lady?" She asked moving her comb to in front of her face and put it in her mouth. She then wove the threads threw her fingers causing the skulls to move towards the female that she had hanging in the air.
"Don't waste my time!" Inuyasha yelled as she broke one of the skulls as she felt a slash on the opposite side of her first wound.
"So close! Another inch and I'd have had your head." Yura said as she pulled her sword back, "It's a good thing I'm not trying!" She laughed as she threw the hand with a sword in it back at Inuyasha.
"Claws of Blood!" Inuyasha yelled trying to stop the blade as she sent her attack forward, "Eh?" she said confused when she noticed the sword had disappeared, only to have it come from behind and skewer her chest.
"Where were you watching?" Yura asked as she pulled the sword out of the other girl, "So half demon's are only half strength"
"Cur...curse you..." Inuyasha sputtered out.
"Now I get it," Yura said looking at the jewel, "You wanted to use this to become a full demon didn't you"
'The jewel...' Inuyasha thought as she looked at the shard.
"Now that I understand, I think I'll just kill you now," Yura said as she had her hair lift the Hanyou's hair away from her neck. "Now don't move, or I'll get blood in your lovely hair"
"Shut it!" Inuyasha yelled as she grabbed the shard from Yura and leaving a small wound, "Consider this a lesson, Don't attack me"
"Now I see, you didn't want the jewel, you were after the girls with the jewel!" Yura said looking at her chest.
"Are you insane!" Inuyasha yelled at the one controlling the hair, "I'm a girl"
"Then why didn't you try to kill me with that blow?" Yura asked the hanyou, "Face it you just wanted to grab my chest"
"You are insane!" Inuyasha yelled back, "I was after the jewel! I just wanted to let you live a little longer for complimenting my hair." She said clenching the jewel in her hand.
"Stubborn aren't you," Yura said as she took the jewel back from Inuyasha, "La?" She said puzzled as she turned around to see Kagome climbing on her hair. 'That girl...I thought I'd burned her to a crisp!' she thought as Kagome kept climbing up the hair. "You girl!" Yura yelled as she pulled the hairs to try and make Kagome fall.
"And where were you watching!" Inuyasha yelled as she sliced Yura in the back.
"Shut up Animal!" Yura yelled as she pinned Inuyasha down with her hairs.
"You were calm earlier... but now you seem a touch nervous. Is there something that you don't want us to find?" Inuyasha asked the girl attacking her.
"Ugh." Kagome grunted out as she climbed on the hair Yura controlled, "Inuyasha! There's something about that skull... something in it"
"Skull!" Inuyasha said puzzled.
"Feh!" Yura said as she launched herself into the air.
"Not so fast!" Inuyasha yelled as the Oni headed towards Kagome.
"The Cage!" Yura yelled as she caused her hair to surround Inuyasha and Kagome in a cage of hair.
"Blast It." Inuyasha said as the hair surrounded her.
"Oh..." Kagome said as she grabbed a skull to keep from falling, "Waah... I'm touching it"
"If it scares you... Let go," Yura said as she threw her sword at the girl from the future, "Yes"
'My arm!' Kagome thought as she fell.
"La?" Yura said puzzled as she saw Kagome falling with both her arms intact. She caught the falling Kagome and landed next to her and asked, "Why aren't you maimed"
"Huh?" Kagome asked as she looked over and saw that her arm was still there.
'I'm not hurt, and the fire didn't hurt me... of course the cloak!' Kagome thought as she looked down.
"Your body looks no more than human...So let's try this!" the mistress of the hair yelled as she wrapped some strands around Kagome's neck... and her hand was cut off by a blade made of blood.
"Remember my claws of blood?" Inuyasha said as she jumped towards Kagome.
"Inu... yasha..." Kagome struggled out as the hair loosened around her neck.
"Don't pass out Kagome!" Inuyasha yelled as she grabbed the other girl, "I guess with both arms missing she had to let her hair down!" Inuyasha said as the two of them plummeted towards the ground.
"Inuyasha...Watch..." Kagome yelled as Yura's sword pierced Inuyasha again.
"Fool... wasting our time!" Yura said as she looked at the injured Inuyasha.
"What are you?" Inuyasha asked looking at the oni.
"I'm immortal!" Yura yelled as she hurled her sword at Inuyasha again only to stop short as a cracking noise was heard.
"This is it... this skull," Kagome said as she prodded the skull with an arrow, "The hairs coming from it are attached to Yura's hand"
"Girl...You're dead!" Yura said launching her sword as Kagome broke the skull with an arrow and hit the comb.
"A comb!" Inuyasha yelled as she saw Kagome break the comb in half.
""Finally it's over!" Inuyasha said walking over to Kagome.
"Inuyasha...your injured..." Kagome said standing next to her friend, "All because you gave me your cloak"
"Never mind that... where's the jewel?" Inuyasha asked.
"Right here..." she said picking the jewel up, 'How long will it take to gather it all,' she though as she looked at it.
"C'mon Kagome, let's head back," Inuyasha said as the two girls headed away from the skulls.
"Okay," Kagome said as she placed her hand on Kagome's back causing her to fall to the ground.
"Owww!" Inuyasha cried out in pain.
"Oh sorry," Kagome said apologetically.
"At last I have found you Lady Inuyasha," a small figure said on top of a skull.

End Chapter 4

Please don't flame me for this! This is all my ex-girlfriend's idea! She's to blame! Oh crap! She's standing behind me! Gotta Go! Chapter five coming soon... Put that mallet down Kaolu!