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Chapter 7
Kagome and Inuyasha continued to walk, following the hair. They soon came to a clearing. Kagome frowned and stopped.
"What's wrong?" Inuyasha asked.
"The hair has disappeared." Kagome explained. She turned and looked back from where they'd come. The hair had vanished.
"It's a trap!" Kagome cried.
Just as the words exited her mouth hair sprang forward. It was heading for Inuyasha.
"Inuyasha, on your right!" Kagome called out the warning.
Inuyasha dodged to the left and kept moving. He glanced over and noticed that Kagome was dodging the hair that was invisible to him, as well as trying to watch him so that she could warn him from where the hair was coming from. This wasn't going to work. Kagome would get distracted and would fall victim to the hair. Inuyasha jumped down next to Kagome.
"Get on my back!" He called to her.
"What?" she cried.
"Do it! It'll work better if I dodge and you watch the hair." Inuyasha explained.
Kagome nodded determinedly and climbed onto his back. As soon as she was secure Inuyasha took off. He ran while Kagome called out directions. Soon though, the hair started gaining strength. Kagome's warnings were coming rapidly and Inuyasha could barely keep up. Suddenly Inuyasha felt a tug on his wrist and he was pulled out from under Kagome. He could feel the hair tying his wrists and ankles.
"So you've come to give the Jewel to me in my home." Yura's sing-songing voice called out.
Kagome drew an arrow and aimed it. Behind where Inuyasha was suspended, was a giant ball of hair. It looked a little like yarn. Where was Yura?
"Now, now that arrow's not for me is it?" Yura asked. She'd appeared behind Inuyasha and had gathered a handful of his hair to examine.
Inuyasha could feel the demon behind him. He jerked his head forward removing his hair from her fingertips.
"Keep your disgusting hands off!" he called while trying to yank his wrists and ankles out of the hair's bounds.
Yura came around and examined the arm that she'd cut in the village.
"Now that's odd." She mused, "I could have sworn I cut this arm awhile ago."
Suddenly a pink, streak of light flashed between them.
"Get him down from there!" Kagome called as she aimed another arrow.
But Yura wasn't paying attention. She'd watched Kagome's first arrow go by and strike the ball of hair. The giant hairball exploded in a pink light. Skulls and more hair fell to the ground. Inuyasha tugged his limbs free of the slackened hair and leapt away.
"No!" Yura screamed, "That took forever to organize. Now it's all tangled and messy. I have to go through it all again! You!"
She turned to Kagome who still had her arrow aimed. Yura drew her sword and flew at Kagome.
"You shouldn't ignore me!" Inuyasha cried while slashing Yura across the back.
Yura stumbled forward a bit but stopped. Suddenly the hair sprang forward and covered Yura. When it receded, Yura was back to normal. There wasn't even a mark on her back to show where Inuyasha had cut her.
"What?" Kagome cried, "That's not possible."
"You can't kill me!" Yura gloated, "You won't be able to destroy this body. My hair will remake it every time!"
"Well, I'll have to keep trying then!" Inuyasha replied while attacking Yura again.
Meanwhile, Kagome watched the fight. What did Yura mean by that? She thought to herself. It's almost like her body isn't her real body. Kagome glanced around. Yura was distracted by Inuyasha and wasn't paying attention to her. She walked toward where the remnants of the giant hairball lay.
"I don't think so, little girl!" Yura appeared and using some hair that she was controlling tied Kagome up.
Kagome struggled against the hair. Yura got nervous when I approached the hairball's remains. She's afraid I'll find something. The key to defeating her is in there somewhere.
"I told you not to ignore me!"
Inuyasha appeared and taking Yura's sword, slashed Yura across her back. The hair appeared and engulfed her once more. Kagome tugged herself free of the hair and ran over to where the hairball fell. She bent down and started examining the hair and skulls that had come out. The hair soon pulled back and Yura was back to having no wounds at all.
"That's not nice. Taking my sword like that." Yura remarked, "You've made me very angry. I'll have to take my sword back now."
With those words she tugged on the hair flowing between her fingers and the sword was yanked out of Inuyasha's grip. It flew back and Yura caught it.
"Now, I guess I must kill you first," Yura stated, "You keep getting in my way. I do need to take the Jewel, now don't I?"
Yura launched herself forward. She struck Inuyasha with her sword. Inuyasha raised his arms and was able to block her strikes. It wasn't hurting him and Inuyasha found himself thanking his luck for having the robe of the fire-rat.
"You'll get the Jewel over my dead body!" Inuyasha cried.
"That's the idea, now isn't it?" Yura responded with a smirk.
Suddenly, she struck Inuyasha with her sword then drew the hair back with her other hand. Inuyasha couldn't see it but he felt it. The hair went behind him and knocked his feet right out from under him. Yura placed her sword at his neck.
"Your clothes may protect your body, but what about your neck?" Yura asked smiling, "Or your face?" the sword was raised so that the point was an inch or so away from Inuyasha's nose.
Yura smiled and as she prepared to give the finishing blow the hairs in her hand gave off a warning pull. Yura spun around and saw Kagome drawing an arrow and approaching a red skull.
"Kagome!" Inuyasha cried out the warning.
Kagome turned her head and saw Yura sailing toward her.
"Get away from there! I'll kill you!" Yura cried while throwing her sword forward with the help of the hair.
Kagome darted forward and with the point of the arrow plunged it into the red skull destroying it in giant flash of pink light. Yura's sword froze a foot away from Kagome's head and clattered to the ground. Yura gave a cry and faded away into nothingness.
"How did you do that?" Inuyasha asked approaching Kagome.
Kagome bent down and scooped up something from the remains of the red skull. She held it up. It was a comb.
"I thought so." Kagome remarked. She turned to Inuyasha, "Yura said that we couldn't destroy this body. I began to wonder what she meant by that. I realized that her body wasn't the true body. So, I began looking for what the true body was. When I approached the hairball remains Yura freaked out. I guessed then that there was something in there that she was afraid of being damaged. I checked and sure enough the red skull had all the hairs connected to it."
"Geez! You could have told me!" Inuyasha said grumpily.
"If I had Yura would have known too." Kagome sighed, "But I should thank you. If you hadn't distracted Yura I would have never been able to kill her. Thank-you, Inuyasha."
With that, Kagome turned and began to walk back towards the village. It had now gotten dark and the half-moon was hanging brightly in the sky.
"I wasn't doing it to help you." Inuyasha stated as he caught up and walked beside Kagome. "I was doing it to make sure that no other demons would get the Jewel. Simple as that!"
Kagome glanced over at him. She stared at him for a couple of seconds then let out a giggle, which she hid behind her hand. Inuyasha's sharp ears still heard it though.
"What's so funny?" He demanded in a challenging manner.
Kagome stopped laughing and, smiling said, "Oh nothing. We should find Lady Kaede and take her back to the village."
Inuyasha opened his mouth to demand that she tell him what was so funny and why he should help her take the old bat back to the village when he saw her smiling. He found himself enjoying her smile and he closed his mouth. What was the big deal? It wouldn't take too much out of his night to help Kagome get the old lady back home.
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