"Argg!" Kuwabara cried as he slashed at the spider with his sword. The spider had almost completely rolled Kagome and Kurama into a cocoon. The spider dropped the cocoon holding the pair and focused its attention on the orange haired man from the future.
"That's right, you big eight-eyed freak!" Kuwabara crowed as the creature stepped away from his friends.
On the web, Kurama began to wiggle and struggle to break out. Kagome hissed in pain and Kurama paused.
"Sorry." He wiggled one more time and stopped.
"It's fine." She wiggled a bit herself, "can you break it?"
"No, and the struggles only make it-" Kurama cut off abruptly as another spider leg descended and snatched them up.
"No!" Kagome yelped and tossed her head in futile struggle. She attempted to shout something else, but the spider closed the cocoon over their heads, trapping whatever she had cried inside.
Miroku watched his friends' heads disappear and growled as he ducked another spider. He swept his shakujo out and struck the spider's leg in one of the joints. The leg came clean off and flew towards the web. He rolled forward, underneath the spider, as it reared up in fury and agony. As the spider came down, he thrust his shakujo, bottom up, into the belly of the spider.
Miroku shouted wordlessly and scrambled back out from under the spider as it let out a ear splitting squeal. Venom, blood, and other things poured out from the wound the monk had inflicted. Miroku smirked as the spider collapsed and he whirled to the next monstrous arachnid.
"The underside!" Sango shouted, having just witnessed Miroku's victory, "Go for the belly!"
"Hn." Hiei flashed under the spider he was battling. He appeared out the other side and the spider's innards drained out the long slice he'd carved. Hiei narrowed his eyes and with a quick flick, rid his sword of the filth from the spider. The fire apparition turned to aid his kitsune friend and the miko but was forced to duck another spider.
"Kagome!" Yusuke growled. "Kurama! You'd better be taking care of her in there!" The dwellers of the past watched in shock, in between dodges and strikes, as Yusuke's hair sprouted and youkai markings began to appear on his face.
The former spirit detective pivoted and punched another spider in the jaw. This time the spider not only felt it, it bucked in pain and focused on Yusuke. The Mazoku smirked and let loose a shotgun right at the spider's gut. The spider exploded.
Sango pulled Hirakotsu in between her and the flying innards of the spider.
"Watch it!" Inuyasha snarled as several drops landed on his hand and he turned to glare at Yusuke.
The rest of the party had been lucky enough to be behind Yusuke, the only direction innards didn't fly towards.
"Dodge better." Yusuke shrugged and turned back to help his sister and friend.
Sango peeked around Hirakotsu and stepped back to fling it at another spider. It took out the back four legs. She drew her blade, sliced up into its belly and rolled back out of the way. She heard the whuffing and threw up her arm in time to catch it on the backswing after it chopped off the last four legs. She nodded in satisfaction after seeing the legless spider twitch in the last throws of death.
Kuwabara shouted as he charged at his spider and killed it with a quick, clean stroke to the abdomen. He grinned, exulted, and prepared to charge the next spider.
Inuyasha dodged a spider and leapt over another that were in his path as he scrambled to reach Kagome. The spider with one shard shot a web out and caught the back of his foot. Inuyasha slammed into the ground and growled.
The white haired youth picked himself up and pivoted to take out the spider. He cut the web strand with Tetsusaiga and slashed at the spider's eyes. The spider shrieked in agony but charged him anyway.
"Just die, stupid!" Inuyasha snarled and ripped the spider's belly open with his claws.
He bared his teeth at the spider and glanced around at the mayhem. He watched Sango knock a spider off the web that had been approaching the stuck pair. Miroku stabbed the same spider in the abdomen and twisted, killing it. Hiei chuckled darkly as he finished off another and Yusuke shoved his hair out of his face as another twitched in death at his feet.
Kirara grabbed the leg of the largest spider, the one with two shards, and Sango heaved Hirakotsu at it. The spider dodged, pulling Kirara with it. Miroku tossed a sutra at the creature, but the spider shot it with a web before it could land. It shot another web at Miroku, who ducked. The web slammed into Kuwabara's chest and pinned him to a tree.
"What the hell?!" Kuwabara cried out in outrage. He planted his feet against the tree and strained. "Get me off here!"
Yusuke punched a small spider, about the size of a Great Dane, through the web and watched it explode. Inuyasha turned and sliced at another spider and only got its leg. Yusuke kicked another spider, about the same size and knocked it across the clearing.
"Hiei!" He shouted. The little fire apparition sliced it open in response.
Kagome flinched as the web shook again and there was a muffled shout.
"It's okay, Kagome." Kurama soothed, "I've got you, you're safe with me. I will get us out of here."
"Kurama, what if they eats us!?" Kagome whimpered. Spiders, she hated spiders.
"I won't let it." Kurama wiggled, trying, once again, to find a weak spot in the cocoon surrounding them. He was stuck completely to the sticky prison though and made no progress.
"We've got to get out, Kurama!" Kagome wailed when Kurama grunted and ceased his struggle.
Kurama tightened his already tight grip on her. He was completely cut off from his plants in this cocoon, and he couldn't let any grow in here, they would hurt Kagome.
"Kagome." Kurama said, "Kagome, I need you to try and access your powers. Your miko powers."
"I might hurt you! You're a youkai!" Kagome pulled back a little to look up into his face, there really wasn't much room in the cocoon. If she weren't so scared about being trapped and eaten by spiders, she would be pretty embarrassed about the position she were in… and probably really, really enjoy it.
"I know." Kurama smiled down into her eyes, "but, I'll be okay. I promise."
"No, I won't!"
"Kagome, please."
"Kurama, I don't want to hurt you. You're important to me," she whispered.
Kurama smiled and pulled her tight against him again. He pressed his lips to the top of her head in a soft kiss. He breathed in her scent and loosened his grip on her again so she could look up at him.
"You're very important to me, too, Kagome." He replied, "I can't see you hurt. Please, release your grip on your powers and purify this web."
She blinked up at him. He lowered his head to close the four inches the cocoon allowed them and met her lips with his. Kagome returned the soft kiss eagerly and he deepened it. He tilted his head slightly and when she let out a small moan, his tongue asked for entrance. She granted it and kissed back for all she was worth.
Hiei growled and flicked the spider guts off his sword. He joined the rest of the group in focusing on the final spider. . It was the biggest and seemed to be the smartest. Probably the hungriest, too.
His Jagan had lost contact with Kurama when the cocoon had closed, he hoped there was some sort of magic in the webbing blocking their link and that it hadn't killed his unlikely friends. It didn't matter though, if they were dead, he would be avenging them momentarily. If they were not dead, well - they'd be rescued in a moment.
Hiei smirked; it wasn't every day he got to rescue the conniving kitsune.
Suddenly, there was a slight tickle in the back of his mind. Kurama was back.
Then a small beam of pink light shot out from the cocoon. More and more beams shot out until the cocoon dissolved and all that was left were Kagome and Kurama, unharmed and… kissing?
Well, about damn time, fox. He thought and rolled his eyes when neither of the lip locked pair realized their release.
Hiei turned his attention back towards the spider and noticed the rest of the group had turned to witness the miko and kitsune burst free from the cocoon. He saw the detective smirk, then glare, and then smirk again before turning back to the large spider.
Yusuke set up for a spirit gun as Sango threw Hirakosu at the front four legs and the spider reared to dodge.
"Spirit gun!" Yusuke snarled.
The beam when straight through the stomach and burst out the armored back. Apparently, the armor wasn't as tough from the inside. The spider twitched a few times and finally joined its brethren in death.
The group turned as one to the kissing pair and watched them part. Kagome flushed and grinned sheepishly, but held tightly to Kurama's hand. Kurama just cocked an eyebrow.
"Get the shards, Kagome." Inuyasha growled, resting Tetsusaiga on his shoulder. Kagome glared at the hanyou, but marched over to the spider anyway.
The miko closed her eyes in disgust and reached towards the spider. Hiei knocked her hand away and scooped the shards she's almost grabbed with a cloth. The cloth sizzled.
"Guys! Get me off this damn tree!" Kuwabara cried.
The group laughed in relief and set out to do just that.
Author's Note: Thanks everybody, for the reviews! I hope you enjoyed this chapter - I have been super excited waiting for it to come up since I first came up with the story.
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