Chp. 6 Kira
"That's the last one!" Inuyasha shouted victoriously as he killed the last of the demons. Looking around at his companions he couldn't help but realize how sorry they looked now. Sango leaned pathetically against Kirara, her ankle swollen and with a highly noticeable throbbing, Miroku was sitting on the ground with a nauseous look on his slightly green face as his head wound made him dizzy, and Shippo pranced around proudly now that he actually fought in a battle. And to make matters worse, Kagome was missing and a fog had begun to swarm in.
"Inuyasha!" Shippo yelled loudly as he bounced onto his shoulder. "Come on, Inuyasha, and go get Kagome! I want to tell her how good a job I did helping Miroku."
"Feh, you don't tell me what to do. I'll get her when I feel like it." Inuyasha lied as he bopped the little fox on the head. The truth of the matter was that he wasn't sure where his Kagome had gone and the smell of miasma was so strong that he wasn't sure if he could follow her scent, let alone find it.
"No I think he's right. It's about time to get Kagome." Sango managed to say as she took deep, quavering breaths.
"Fine." He growled out, seemingly annoyed, although he caught the knowing look Miroku sent him.
'Where are you, you stupid girl?' he thought worriedly as he bounded off in the direction he last saw her. "I'll tear up this whole damn mountain to find you." He said aloud as he searched and listened for any sign of her.
His searched for her turned into a frantic running to and fro up and down the mountain, and his heart dropped when he found her discarded bag half hidden in leaves. "Kagome?" he yelled as he grabbed her bag and sniffed it, trying to find her scent, but the miasma was just too thick and had stolen it.
"Inuyasha." A soft voice said from further up the mountain.
It was pure music to his ears, looking up his heart swelled to see her smiling at him and unhurt. "Where the hell were you?"
"Good to see you too." She muttered as annoyance overtook her happy face. "Did you ever try looking at the peak of the mountain for me?"
His face faulted, the thought had never crossed his mind to look up there. "Yeah, well…I didn't think your weak body could make it all the way up there. So I didn't bother." Huffing to himself, he began to make his way towards her, when a scent hit his nose that made him stop in his track.
"Naraku!" he growled pulling out tetsusaiga.
"Naraku? Where?" she asked as her fear hit him just as clearly as Naraku's scent.
"I don't know, but I want you to go to the others."
"But," she began worriedly only to scream loudly as she felt strong arms encircle her body and lift her into the air. "Inuyasha!" she yelled, reaching for his slowly retreating figure.
"Kagome!" he yelled making a leap for her only to miss by mere inches as she rose out of his reach.
"What's the matter Inuyasha? Can't keep track of your women?" Naraku taunted, his voice reaching his ears despite Kagome's screams of terror.
"Naraku you bastard! Get your filthy hands off her!" Inuyasha yelled with rage as he began to follow them from the ground, jumping up at them every so often in vain.
"Inuyasha! Help me!" Kagome yelled as she tried to fight herself free, but Naraku had her in a vice grip of steel.
Kagome's pleas seemed to fuel him for he ran with a new vigor. Running faster and jumping higher, but they were still always only mere inches from his grasp. Up ahead he saw his chance; a fallen tree lying upon a cluster of boulders. The perfect leverage and the only chance he had at rescuing his Kagome. He put on an extra burst of speed and made sure not to trip or run into anything that could slow him down. He was on the tip of the tree. Bracing his legs he jumped with all his might and saw with satisfaction that this time he would make it. This time he would have her. This time she couldn't get out of his hands. Then Kagura was there, smirking scornfully at his attempts at a rescue.
"Dance of Wind Blades." She said sardonically as she sent her attack his way.
The attack hit him dead on just as he was about to grab for Kagome, their fingertips met for a mere mocking second before the attack slapped him down into the ground like a hand swatting away an annoying fly.
"INUYASHA!"
The yell was getting fainter in his ears as he struggled to get up, but by that time, they were gone and out of sight. "Kagome! KAGOME!" he yelled as he stood to run in the direction he last saw them, but his injuries prevented him from doing more than jog fastly.
"Inuyasha. Please, please do not tell me that just happened." Sango said in a quiet, weak voice when he stumbled back to the rest.
"It didn't just happen." He growled not looking in her direction as she fell into a heap.
"Where's Shippo?" he snarled at Miroku noticing the pup wasn't around.
Miroku said nothing but pointed down the mountain where a path of fire and broken and torn shrubs lay. "We saw everything." The monk finally said. "He couldn't take it and he lost control. Kirara went after him."
Just then, said demon emerged from the underbrush with a snarling red fox with beige feet and ears in her mouth. With a sad mew she dropped her load onto the ground where it abruptly changed into the shape of Shippo, only slight altered. This Shippo's eyes were red and demonic, his claws and fangs were sharp and protruding, and he was out of his right mind.
Pitying the poor pup, Inuyasha walked forward and delivered a hard blow to the head, rendering Shippo unconscious. Not looking at his comrades, Inuyasha held his head down and growled. "I'm going to find her. I won't allow that bastard to hurt her. And when I find her, I'm going to kill Naraku. You four go back to Kaede's, I bring her back."
"If you think I'm going to let you try to rescue Kagome by yourself, you must be crazy. I'm going too." Sango said as she forced herself up onto uneasy legs.
"And if you think I'm going to let you two go off and get yourself killed, then you are sadly mistaken. Someone has to take care of you." Miroku said as he shakily walked towards his companions.
"Feh, suit yourself." Inuyasha said as he turned his back on them and whispering under his breath a small thanks.
"Was all that really necessary?" Kagura asked as they finally arrived at the castle.
"It was completely necessary." Kagome answered in a monotone voice, her face holding a twisted smile as she dislodged herself from the puppet's arms.
"I don't mean to be so inquisitive, but why? She already had a head start, the miasma got rid of her scent, the fog covered her, and she could have gone any which way on the huge mountain. So why this extra input? They would have never found her."
Kagome merely looked at her darkly as her disguise fell away and left Naraku in its place. "She could not have just vanished. This way, I've given them something to chase. Now leave me, the sight of you sickens me. Send in Kanna." Turning his back to her Naraku smiled with anticipation. They were now separated and she was by herself. Now her transformation could finally complete.
"You summoned me." Kanna stated rather than asked as her ghostly, white figure emerged from the darkness.
"Show me the girl." He said facing her. "Now my love, it's time to return to me." Naraku said soothingly as he ran his claw along the jaw line of a sleeping Kagome. His love.
Kagome had run far and hard. She ran until her legs went numb and the effort to breathe became hard to do. Even with all this she couldn't stop. She needed to get far away. Needed to get away from her friends, away from Naraku, and away from it all. Running for miles she finally crossed to the other side of the mountain range and looked for a suitable place to rest. Somewhere so she could be alone. Like a small cave she found at the base of the mountain hidden by trees and smelling musty with mold. The perfect place to cry her heart out.
She awoke early that morning as stiff as a board and filthy from lying on the ground all night. There were a few tears still on her face from crying in her sleep. She hastily wiped them away, she was done with crying and doubted she'd be doing it for some time. As she walked from the cave she shielded her eyes from the sudden light, waiting till they adjusted before surveying her surroundings. But as she did so she noticed that she didn't have the sash around her eyes. Looking around she found it on the ground where she had slept. Picking it up she started to put it back on when a thought occurred to her. Out alone in the wilderness with no weapons she was vulnerable to attack. Without the sash she could enchant any demons long enough to escape. Smiling she turned to place the sash in her bag, but discovered it was nowhere to be found.
"Oh that's just great. I must've dropped it back there." She grumbled as she realized that she had no food, medical supplies, extra clothes, or bathing products. "I'm going to stink." She cried aloud to herself in despair.
"Fine. If I'm going to be by myself for…a while. I need to be prepared." She said as she regained her composure. "That means shelter, food, water, weapons, and medicine." Shaking her head in agreement with herself, she smiled grimly.
"First things first…," she thought. "…a bath."
The nearest hot spring was about 3 ½ miles from her camp and not very big, although it was big enough for a petite girl like her to relax and wash comfortably. She had crossed small creeks not big enough for nothing no bigger than a raccoon to clean itself with. As she finished her bath, she washed the robes Kaede had given her and crouched next to the spring in nothing but her underwear as she washed the robes. She was subconscious about being out in nothing but her underwear but she was more subconscious about being dirty.
A buzzing sound reached her ears. Not moving she turned her head towards the sound and saw to her disdain one of Naraku's insects. Growling low she grabbed a stone nearby and threw it with all her might towards the evil bug. It hit dead on and it fell dead on impact.
Standing up defiantly she grabbed her wet clothes and placed them back onto her person. She couldn't stay here; Naraku was too close for comfort. She had no possessions so she left right then. She would find the essentials she needed as she moved. She didn't know where she was going, but she knew it was far enough so that Naraku would have a difficult time finding her.
As she walked she used the sash for her eyes to hold any herbs she could recognize. She was constantly checking for tree limbs and vines so she could have an efficient weapon. And her ears were on alert for any predators or the tell-tale buzzing of Naraku's spies.
She seemed to walk for hours and hours through a never ending forest. She was hot, tired, hungry, and her bare feet were aching. Her hunger was the worst of them all. She tried abating it by eating the many berries, nuts, and mushrooms that she could identify. But the hunger never left or even eased up. She had even fallen upon a series of blackberry bushes, but she was halfway through the whole batch when she became sick of them. Her hunger was still there and worse than ever.
"Why am I so hungry?" she wondered aloud as she held her aching stomach. As she collapsed to the ground as a particular painful hunger pain hit her, the sound of trickling water reached her ears.
"Fish." She breathed out as she growled along with her stomach. Climbing to her feet, she hastily grabbed her sash and her makeshift bow and ran off into the general direction she heard the water coming from. Soon her trickling water turned into a steady rush as she reached the bank of the river. Dropping her things a few feet from the water, she rolled her pants legs up along with her sleeve before stepping off into cold water. She could see the fish swimming about her clear as day. But when she would reach down to grab one, they suddenly weren't there. This happened seven times, and on the eighth she kicked at the fish out of frustration. She didn't expect anything to happen except for a big splash and for the fish to scatter. But the next thing she knew and saw was a large fish come flying out of the water and land on dry land by her things.
She looked at the gaping fish with astonishment. "Well, okay." She said with a smile as she trudged from the water and came to sit next to her dieing dinner.
"Now what?" she asked herself realizing she had no fire, no knife, or seasoning which she usually had when cooking from the land. "You're pathetic. You can't do anything right. Why didn't you think this through." She could hear Inuyasha as plain as if he was standing next to her, criticizing everything she did. She was going to miss him like crazy.
Lighting a fire she cooked her small meal and ate in silence, missing the chatter and noise of her companions already as she felt tears begin to spring up in her eyes. But before they could fall she hardened up and glared into the fire at the sudden intruder.
"You know the fish would have tasted just as fine if you would have eaten it raw?" Naraku said casually as he lounged on the opposite side of the fire.
"What do you want?" Kagome asked coldly, idly noticing she was more annoyed than frightened. Naraku noticed this too and smiled.
"Only for the pleasure of your company."
"Oh isn't that sweet? I think I'm going to be sick."
At this Naraku laughed at her. "I've brought you a present."
"I don't want it." She said as she turned away from him.
"But you don't know what it is yet."
"Don't care. I don't want anything that you have to offer."
"Now with this you have no say." Naraku growled as his casual attitude turned cold. "You see I need you to complete your transformation and I am not a patient demon."
"Why can't you get this through your thick head? I don't want to be a demon! I'm human, I've always been human, and I will always be…"
"Now that's were you're wrong." Naraku said offhandedly as if talking to a small child.
Angry that he wasn't taking her seriously, she kicked the fire embers into his face. Hearing his howl of pain she took off into the surroundings woods.
She was surprised that Naraku hadn't attacked her, but she didn't dwell on it long enough to stop running. Only when she noticed that she had not only left behind her sash and herbs, but that she had left her makeshift bow along with it.
"OH! This cannot be happening!" she yelled into the night angrily as she kicked a nearby tree. Splintering it on impact and inflicting no pain on her whatsoever. "This is ridiculous! I can't keep doing this!" she said despondently as she crouched into a feeble position on the ground.
She wasn't sure how much time had passed by before she came out of her stupor. She was sure she had fallen asleep for she was a bit more energized and the sky was darker with more stars. Her ears twitched as a scream resounded through the forest. The noise which had aroused her in the first place. She jumped to her feet without hesitation as she recognized the scream to belong to a child. The scream sounded out again, this time closer, and she was off and heading in the general direction it sounded like it came from. It didn't occur to her that she had no weapons, she didn't necessarily know how to fight, or that she hadn't a clue as to what type of problem she was running to. She only knew that a child needed protection.
Running at a speed she had only recently reached with Kouga, Kagome ran with a fueled anger until she arrived on the scene. She stopped on a newly form path with uprooted trees and overturned boulders everywhere. She couldn't hear anything except the labored breathing of the child as she ran from underneath the canopy of a batch of undisturbed trees. The little girl didn't seem to notice her standing in her way as she ran closer. Kagome just watched as the little girl ran and fell, but once the demon burst from the trees she took action.
Suddenly angry she ran at the demon as a vicious growl escaped her lips. Leaping over the child she launched herself into the air at the unfathomable demon. It was one of those demons that had no specific genre except the regular demon powers like healing, strength, and speed. Not exactly knowing what she was doing she punched the demon with all her might on the top of its head. Time seemed to stand still as her fist met the demons gray, knobby skin. During the time freeze she noticed that the child lay just behind her curled in a feeble position and that the demon was exceptionally large and ugly.
'What am I doing here? I shouldn't be fighting demons. That's Inuyasha's department. But this…this is fun.' she thought to herself before time sped back up, and her fist glowed green with power as the demon disintegrated on impact.
She landed gracefully on her feet with a feeling of satisfaction flowing through her very being. "If everything keeps going like this I won't need to worry about surviving." Kagome said aloud to herself as she flexed her claws. She brought back from her musings by a soft crying coming from the little girl. Kagome's eyes softened as she looked at the pitiable creature crying on the ground. She had forgotten all about the child.
Going to where the girl lay, Kagome gently laid a comforting hand on the girl's back.
"Ahh!" the little girl screamed as she sprung to her feet. "Leave Rin alone!"
Grabbing Rin's arm, Kagome calmly waited until the child realized that she wasn't going to hurt her. She had been kidnapped plenty of times and knew exactly what to do so the girl wouldn't panic. Well, panic anymore than what she was doing now.
"Relax." Kagome told her softly although firmly.
Rin stopped struggling instantly and only watched Kagome tensely through tear stricken eyes filled with fear. The sight hurt Kagome's heart. She wasn't used to been looked at with such fear.
"Listen. I'm not going to hurt you. I want to help you."
"You don't want to eat Rin?" Rin asked timidly as she sniffed and wiped her nose.
"No. Little girls are too sweet to eat? They'll rot my teeth." Kagome told her, trying to lighten the mood with a joke, but by the way Rin stiffened up again she knew her humor fell flat. "Where's your village Rin? I'll take you back to your parents."
"Rin doesn't live in a village. Rin lives in the castle."
"Castle? Are you a princess Rin?" Kagome asked with a large smile as every little girl's dream popped into her head.
"No. Master Jaken tells Rin she is no princess, but Lord Sesshomaru say's Rin must act like one when we have guests." At saying her adopted father's name, Rin suddenly lit up like a Christmas tree.
"Eh?" Kagome blurted out in dumbfounded confusion. "You…you live with Sesshomaru!"
"Oh yes. Lord Sesshomaru saved Rin, now Rin lives with Lord Sesshomaru." By now Rin was practically bouncing on her heels as she talked of her hero.
"Do you…do you like living with him?" she just had to know. She couldn't picture a happy, human, bubbly child living with the stoic, ice-prince.
"Oh yes very much. Lord Sesshomaru takes very good care of Rin and sends Master Jaken to play with her very often. Master Jaken is very loud."
"Where is Sessh-Lord Sesshomaru now? Is he close by?" she didn't feel much like running into him at the moment, not after the circumstances of their last departing.
FLASHBACK
The poison ate away at her bandages as quick as...something quick.
Sesshomaru watched as the cloth fell away from her glowing eyes. She raised her head up, and glared devilishly into his eyes. He saw that her eyes were...and then he knew no more.
Kagome watched as Sesshomaru's body flashed violet, and then go rigid. His eyes stared blankly at her, unmoving, only hearing, and seeing. He just stood unmoving, hands down by his side.
Kagome smirked. Running as fast as she could, she jumped up and landed a kick straight into his chest. Sending his stiff body to the ground.
Kagome's eyes stopped glowing as she strode over to him.
She stood, smiling over him. She had placed one of her legs on either side of him. Squatting down she looked him in the eye.
"I believe you owe me something," she said as she untied his yellow and purple sash. Waving it in his face, she stood up. Putting the necessary spell on the sash, she started to walk away, but a clawed hand shot and grabbed her ankle. Looking back, she smiled.
"This isn't over bitch." Sesshomaru grunted out, trying to fight off the enchantment.
Wrenching her foot out of his grasp, Kagome bent down to whisper in his ear. "The name is Kagome. K-A-G-O-M-E. Kagome. Hear it, learn it, eat it. Oh and before I forget. You're going to be very sleepy. You already are. In fact, you're going to go to sleep right...now." And with that said, Sesshomaru's unmoving eyes, fluttered shut.
ENDFLASHBACK
She shuttered to think what he would do if they were to ever meet up again.
"Rin does not know where Lord Sesshomaru is? Rin was out picking flowers with Master Jaken when…"
"STAND BACK RIN! I'LL PROTECT YOU!" a nasal voice yelled from above. Looking up, Kagome could see a green and brown blob coming towards her at a would-be fast speed. Standing up calmly she effortlessly swatted the thing down.
"Rin told you Master Jaken was loud." Rin said with a small smile.
"Oh honorable demoness! Please take pity on this lowly Jaken, for he did not know the extent of your power." Getting to his knees, Jaken buried his head in the dirt and groveled at Kagome's feet.
"He was only doing what his Lord and Master Sesshomaru commanded of him! To protect this pathetic human girl! Please do not hurt me!"
"Hush!" Kagome yelled over the noise. "You're hurting my ears."
Jaken stopped yelling and only quivered and shook in fear.
"Great protector." Kagome said sarcastically, looking at Rin through half-lidded eyes. Rin merely laughed.
"Master Jaken. Rin was attacked by a demon and…OH. Rin is sorry, where are Rin's manner." Taking a clumsy curtsy, Rin smiled cutely at her. "My name is Rin." Rin announced with practiced droning.
Returning her curtsy Kagome smiled back. "My name is Kagome."
"Kagome?" Jaken finally said, all fear gone from his voice. "So you are the wench that my lord…" but he stopped mid-sentence as he caught sight of Kagome's eyes. Her unshielded eyes. He became entranced instantly as a purple glow flashed through his body.
"Master Jaken?" Rin asked curiously as she poked his prone figure.
"He'll be fine." Kagome said off-handedly. "Now Rin. Jaken is going to take you back to the castle and I won't you to stay there until Sesshomaru returns okay."
"Okay." Rin said cheerfully.
"Is that understood Jaken? You are to take Rin straight home and make sure she's safe. Is that understood?"
"Yes Madam Kagome." Jaken said in a broken, robotic voice. "Is that all Madam?"
"N…" Kagome began then thought. She had no food, no weapons, and no supplies. "Matter-o-fact there are a few things."
She didn't think it was going to be that easy, but now that she thought back on it, she couldn't see any way it could have gone wrong. She had Jaken completely bewitched, Rin was only to happy to help, and Sesshomaru was no where around. At first she had felt guilty about what she was doing, but she reasoned with herself saying that they owed her for saving Rin.
At first she had requested the essentials: a bow and arrows, a sack, food, and herbs; but she couldn't help but be a little greedy: extra clothing, sandals, socks, soap, flint, pots and pans. To say the least, she was now well prepared.
After retrieving her new things, and commanding Jaken to play whatever Rin wanted, she headed away from the western lands and in the general direction away from where she knew her friends to be. So it was all southern bound for her. Well, at least she thought that was the direction she was heading in. She also didn't know where she was going but she new that you couldn't get lost if you never had a destination. Laughing to herself she settled down for a break. She was in no hurry, she was on no decipherable path, and she was hungry.
Digging for the food Jaken had given her she came up with a wine flask and a large, flat piece of beef jerky. Well that's what she assumed it was. Sniffing it she shrugged and she deemed it safe as she caught the aroma of beef. Nibbling on the edge she taste-tested it. 'Not bad.' She thought as she took a bigger bite and ate in silence.
"Well isn't this nice." A voice suddenly said in her ear.
Screaming loudly she turned toward the voice and screamed even louder as she saw it was Naraku. Now that she knew who it was she screamed not out of fear but the satisfaction of seeing him flinch in pain. The noise would've hurt her ears too but since she was the one making the noise it wasn't so bad.
"Cease that racket!" Naraku growled putting a hand over her mouth. But instead of doing as he said she clamped her fangs down on his hand. Growling in pain he wrenched his hand from her mouth and slapped her across the face so hard she hit the ground. The slap stung and she was sure would be sore later, but she made no sign that she felt it and sat back up with as much dignity as she could muster. Naraku was favoring his bleeding hand as she righted herself. Grabbing her wine flask she took a swig and as Naraku turned towards her angrily she spit the contents in his face. But instead and growl or hit her again; he laughed.
She tensed at the sound. Oh how she hated that laugh.
"What's this!" he barked. "Not afraid of me anymore?"
"What's there to be afraid of?" she hissed softly. "I haven't been afraid of you since you cursed me."
"Is that so?" he asked as a grin spread out across his face.
"Yeah. Now if you excuse I have somewhere to be. Away from you." Not sparing him a glance she began to repack her bag.
"Why the hurry?" Naraku whispered as he wrapped his arms her shoulders.
"What do you want?" she asked, repulsed by his touch.
"I thought that was obvious by now." He said sultrily as he breathed in her scent. "What I want is you."
She stilled at his words. They seemed…familiar…as if someone had told them to her before. Was it Inuyasha? She wasn't sure, but for some reason those five little words filled her with anger. With her hand still in the sack she curled her fingers around the handle of a knife. She had asked for this knife so she could gut and skin things without the use of her claws, and it had to be extra sharp to be used as so.
"I have something for you." He said absently as he nuzzled her neck.
"Funny. I have something for you too." Gripping the knife tightly she wrenched her arm from the sack and swung at his face. He managed to move at the last moment and she only managed a cut across his eye.
"So there still is some spark left in the old bitch isn't there?" Naraku laughed as he touched his bleeding wound. "Always the eyes eh sweetheart?" he added calmly.
"WHAT?" She yelled, suddenly angry. Gripping her knife tighter she tore after him as he disappeared into the forest. "What are you talking about? Why are you doing this to me? What can you gain? Is it the Shikon? Is that what you want? Then just take it! Leave me alone!" she yelled this as she chased him, dodged tentacles that would spring out of the ground, absent-mindedly strike down lesser demons he would send at her, and slice through his cursed wasps. All the while getting stronger, faster, and angrier. This, Naraku, knew and he only laughed at her as her anger sped up the poison in her system.
She didn't know how long she ran, she couldn't remember how many lesser demons she had fought, nor did she realize how uncharacteristic Naraku was being by running from her. She didn't really think of anything now but the gradually darkening features of the land around her. 'What's going on?' she thought before the darkness consumed her, never hearing Naraku's yell of frustration.
Kagome found herself running through the forest.
She began to run faster, determined to get to her destination as waves of concerns and fury overwhelmed her.
She knew what to expect this time as she burst into the hauntingly familiar clearing. Looking straight ahead she saw the tree, and at its root sat the figure. This time there was no darkness shrouding their features and she knew who they were.
"Neom." She whispered as she took a step forward. As her foot hit the ground his head snapped up and her eyes locked onto his beautiful, pale green eyes. It was him, the real Neom. She knew it was him by his eyes, his familiar green eyes that held so much pain.
"Neom! Wha-what happened? Who did this to you?" a panic stricken Kagome asked hysterically with tears streaming down her face as she gushed over his wounds and supported him up.
"He...sneak attack…I…trapped in…memory." He choked out.
"Who…Naraku?" she asked desperately as she removed her hand from his back only to find it covered in blood.
"Yes." He said with new found strength as he gripped her arm tightly. "I…don't have much…time. You…you have to find…me…I'm…tr-trapped…within…so weak. You…trapped…find me." With the last of his strength his squeezed her arm reassuringly and went limp.
"Neom." She called quietly as she shook him. He didn't respond. "Neom!" she called louder as she shook him harder. No respond. "No! Don't leave me again! I love you! You can't leave me! Neom! Neom!"
She came back to her senses with an earsplitting scream. She felt a pair of arms tighten around her as she thrashed about. She had a good idea of who it was so she continued to scream and thrash about wildly.
"Calm yourself girl or else you shall fall to your death." She heard him say in a patronizing voice as if she was a 5 year who was throwing a tantrum.
She ignored him and continued to fight. She smiled when her foot kicked him in his head resulting in a loud cracking noise. But her happiness was short lived as she felt his hand connect with her cheek and the metallic taste of blood filled her mouth. She stopped her restraints then and there and just laid limply in his grasp.
"Glad you finally see things my way." Naraku sneered as he popped his head back into place. "That was a foolish thing you did girl. What do you have to say for yourself?" he asked her in that same patronizing voice.
"Thank you." She whispered.
"What?" he asked with surprise as he turned back to her.
"Thank you." She said again in a louder stronger voice as she held her head up to look at him. "You've seen to have broken something." She said with a brazen smile.
"What are you talking about?"
"You tell me." She said before closing her eyes to relish in the power she felt radiating through her body. Through her closed eyelids she could see the bright lights of her miko powers as they poured from her. She could hear Naraku's screams as he lost his grip on her. She could feel the air passing over her body as she fell from unknown heights. She was tired, oh so tired. She could barely lift her eyelids. Her miko powers finally died out, leaving her aching with a slight burning sensation all over her body. But she didn't even flinch or gasp. Even when she hit the cold river below.
Although she made no sign of it, the water was biting cold and she could already feel her body going numb from it and her lungs seemed frozen from the cold. All around her all she could hear was the roaring, rushing river as it swept her to who knows where. Because of the cold she barely felt the prodding of the many rocks and pebbles as she bumped onto the along river bottom. Her screaming lungs were finally given salvation as her head broke the surface. Just as quick as she tasted the sweet air she was pulled back down.
The current that had gotten her was a strong one that would have her spinning in all types of directions at an unmentionable speed. Rolling on the bottom so fast and randomly, it took her a moment to realize what had happened. She had hit her head against a large rock. On impact she had opened her eyes. At first she saw nothing but the rushing water around her, but a second later she saw it. Her blood. Swirling about her head and mixing with the water about, turning it a shade of pink. Seconds after acknowledging it, unconsciousness came and swept her away along with the river.
Kagome woke up with a start. Springing up into a sitting position she put a hand to her head only to find it damaged and practically healed. Realizing she wasn't dead or seriously hurt she visibly relaxed and flopped back onto the bed she had woken in. just as she felt herself falling back to sleep she suddenly realized that she was in a bed and knowing she was last in a river that wasn't growing any beds she sprung up in wonderment. 'How the hell did I get here?' her face seemed to scream as she looked around frantically.
The room she was in was filled with cots all covered in lightly colored furs. The whole room was covered in wood even the floor, but the strange thing was she couldn't see any creases of nails anywhere. It looked as if the room was one bubble of wood. Along the walls she could see grooves in the wall filled with bandages, herbs, and other medical treatments.
Throwing the covers off her she swung her legs over the side of the cot and stood up. Her feet were bare and the sunk down low into the soft fur on the floor. (And that would rhyme in you were from the south.)
Passing though the furs draping over the door she found herself in a wooden hall lit with flameless torches along the wall. She would investigate that late but for now she had to figure out just where she was.
The hall also had fur linings. She passed many rooms as she traveled down the hall but she made no move to check them out, she had plenty of time for that later. The hall finally ended and she found herself in an enormous hall. This too was made from the strange wooden material. If she had to figure out the size of the cavern she would say she could fit her whole shrine inside. Windows filled every ounce of wall and she could see nothing but open sky and treetops from where she stood. The ceiling, form what she could tell seemed to be a closed in canopy of branches and leaves.
"Oh my God. I'm in a giant tree." Kagome breathed as realization suddenly hit her.
"Yes. And this giant tree happens to be my home." A deep voice said from below startling her.
Looking down Kagome saw that she stood at the top of a curving stairwell that ended in a sort of dining room setting. In the dining sat a large wooden table surrounded by sturdy looking chairs made of twigs. At the head of this table sat a woman wearing a straw hat that covered her face and a long braid lying across her shoulder.
"Who are you?" Kagome asked as she came to stand next to the mysterious woman, only to have the senses knocked out of her as a staff cam crashing down on her head. "What was that for?" she screamed from where she had fallen to the floor, clutching her head in pain.
"I save your life and you ask me who I am? How ungrateful." The woman said as she stood up and looked Kagome in the face as she held out a hand to help her up. "But I guess I'll forgive you this one time. My name is Kira, and you my young ward…are cursed."
Jaguargirl: Happpy Birthday to me! Okay, now expect either Shining Star or The Protector to be updated next. Now give me a good birthday and give me lots of reviews or really long ones. I crave them.