The Family Tree Ch.11-Ambush
Authors Note:Now that sc...schoo...scho..SCHOOL has started again, updates are now going to be random and possibly long. I used to update practically daily but I think its gonna be maybe every two weeks, max...hopefully.
IMPORTANT Authors Note P.S: If I don't get five-nine reviews this chapter unlike the last where I got 2-3, Ill end the story and find something new to write, maybe the story got boring I dunno.
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Kanna:Give me...your soul
Shippo:No!
Bankotsu: She's been repeating that for hours Banryuu can I just-
LegendaryBanryuu:No you can't kill her, and if you try I'll use my magical pen to tel her to steal your soul
Bankotsu:So is the romance gonna start NOW?
LegendaryBanryuu:I'm taking it slow
Bankotsu:I want to know when I can have her over to my house and-
-Sango enters room-
Bankotsu:..-and schedule a shopping trip for some steak?
Sango:YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT ME AGAIN?!!!
Bankotsu:GEEZ! How do you keep finding out!
Sango:CAUSE YOU MAKE CRAPPY MEAT REFERENCES YOU DIRTY PIECE OF-
-Relax-O-Vision-
Due to the graphic and verbal material of the next scene, Relax-O-Vision will censor this material with a picture of a
Sango:AND THEN ILL RIP OUT YOUR DAMNED BULGING-!
WOAH OK THEN! THE RELAX O VISION TIMED OUT FOR A SECOND! START THE CHAPTER, JUST START IT NOW DAMMIT! START IT! START IT!
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Bankotsu tried to start a fire but the rocks wouldn't light. He scratched his head in confusion and decided his last moments before his face was rearranged by one pissed off demon slayer would be better spent trying to muster an excuse. Try as he might, the best excuse he could come up with was "I only worked on the forge when Renkotsu lit up the pit", though if that were true, he wouldn't have told Sango he could light the pit.
Bankotsu scratched his forehead nervously as a tense sweat covered his face. The Hiraikotsu was carelessly on the floor, and had as much chance of being repaired as Japan had of suddenly blowing up. Bankotsu dreadfully awaited the return of Sango. And waited. He suddenly realized that Sango had not come back after about twenty minutes, the stream was about a three minute walk.
With a strange feeling in the pit of his stomach, he slowly walked outside, and with his katana ready to be unsheated if need arise. There was something otherwordly now. He noted the silence, how the birds were not singing their songs. A shout and sounds of struggle came as Sango suddenly crashed into the clearing.
Bankotsu was about to greet her before he saw a gash below her ear and her hand looked like it had been pierced. The blood widly sprayed everywhere as a panting Sango reached Bankotsu.
"Ambushed...Kagura and her demons..",she gasped as though she had ran for miles,"I lost them in the forest...there's too many to fight.."
Bankotsu looked over Sango in concern,"Are you too badly hurt?
Sango shook her head and breathed out that "These are just scratches", before she took off in the direction of the village. Bankotsu followed, helping Sango wherever she struggled. Now sounds of roars and screeches from flying serpentile demons(they always travel in a pack, really easy to kill you know..)
The buzzing of Saimyasho grew louder and then less, meaning the poisonous insects had found them and Kagura would as well.
Bankotsu went over the situation in his head. Kagura, with her powers to manipulate wind and create whirlwinds and slicing blades vs Bankotsu with a measly katana and an unarmed Sango who was bleeding freely. Not to mention that there would no doubt be hundreds, maybe even thousands of demons coming for Bankotsu's jewel shard.
Bankotsu nearly fell over in a sudden comprehension. Sango was in danger because of him. He knew he should not feel this way, it was not his true nature, but the shard also made him feel guilty about not accepting his new look at life. The jewel was why h e had become his original vision of weak.
"Look out!", cried Sango as three serpentile demons came from behind Bankotsu.
Bankotsu whirled around and with a swift motion, decaptated two and sidelong slashed one. The lifeless carcasses fell as Bankotsu and Sango continued their desperate run.
They quickly reached the taijiya's village and went inside of a home, virtually untouched by whatever disaster had befallen the village.
"Sango, are you sure your ok?", said Bankotsu worriedly.
"I'm fine, its not as deep as it looks."
The screeches of the demons became ever louder, signalling their arrival into the village. Kagura was no doubt patrolling the village from the sky while the demons destroyed the houses...the ones that could still be destroyed anyway.
Sango panted and put her hand over her other injured one,"Kami, please let their be weapons in this house."
For a moment, Bankotsu thought it ridiculous for weapons strong enough to fight demons to be in a regular home when he remembered that this was a demon slayer's home. Sango and Bankotsu hurriedly combed the house, but the makeshift armory or so it looked, had nothing on the rack but a dagger and a few shurikens. Sango took the dagger and pulled out her own and hoped that she could handle two knives like she handled one katana. It wouldn't be exactly the same but...
Bankotsu took the shurikens after Sango insisted she could not hold a ranged weapon for fear it would backfire on herself. He pocketed the five shurikens into his shoulder armor.
It was amazing that a demon hadn't picked this house to attack yet, even though it was one of the closest to the forest.
"Where's Kirara?,"whispered Bankotsu.
"Sent her back, I said i'd be here a little while didn't I?", she replied.
"Of all the times...", muttered Bankotsu.
As soon as he had finished the sentence, a giant circling blade ripped into the home and nearly cut Bankotsu in half, with him barely jumping out of the way.
The blade vanished when it hit the ground and the two warriors looked up to see their assailant.
It was none other than a smug looking Kagura, with a horde of Saimyasho and a plethora of youkai flying behind her.
"Well, I didn't think it would be this short of a wait for getting you away from Inuyasha,"said the wind sorceress.
Bankotsu thought fast, Sango was injured and their weapons wouldn't pierce the hide of a three inch thick-skinned demon, if they ran the Saimyasho would find them quickly, especially with Sango struggling along. If they stood and fought they could take a few demons, but Kagura was admittedly powerful, Bankotsu wasn't sure of he could take her on one on one with such a weak sword.
Kagura wasn't going to give Bankotsu enough chance to think of how many ways he could die and raised her fan and brought it down with a powerful force.
A strong gust blew Sango and Bankotsu back into the wooden walls of the home, causing two cracks to form where their bodies had hit. They were both held up by the wind and their feet could not touch the ground. Bankotsu felt like he was suffocating from the heavy pressure, and Kagura kept up the attack.
Bankotsu's head felt like it was about to explode when the wall gave way and both Sango and Bankotsu were pushed onto the hard ground outside.
The pressure was relieved but Bankotsu still felt dazed, no doubt Sango was feeling the same, especially now that the wound below her ear had opened up even more. Surprisingly, she got up before Bankotsu, though shakedly just in time to dodge another wind blade by Kagura's fan.
"This is almost too easy,"said Kagura,"why don't you give me the shard now? It'll spare me the trouble."
"Like hell I will", retorted Bankotsu.
Kagura sighed,"Well, I hope you don't mind dying again!"
DANCE OF THE DRAGON!
A whirlwind of light blue energy immediantly formed and spiraled towards the pair of warriors. Sango jumped out of the way and made a break for one of the ruined homes, the entire demon horde following her. Bankotsu forced himself to jump the other direction of the blast, away from Sango.
"SANGO!", yelled Bankotsu.
"How the mighty have fallen..",said Kagura,"You of all people have become weak and sentimental. It doesn't suit you at all."
Bankotsu snarled,"Shut up you BITCH!"
And with that he made a mad lunge for the wind sorceress. Kagura jumped up and summoned two more blades to kill Bankotsu. The mercenary held up his katana, blocking one of them that immediantly vanished after impact. The other looked to be controlled by Kagura, judging by the movements of her fan and the exact movement of the blade.
Bankotsu jumped as the blade nearly made a clean cut at his waist. The blade doubled back like a boomerang and headed straight for the defenseless Bankotsu suspended in midair...
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Sango had had no choice but ot run, her daggers could not cut into the demons, it was intended mostly to defend against humans as a last resort. She ran once again into the woods, the demons and the saimyasho seconds behind her.
She ignored the pain and felt the adrenaline pump through her body to keep her from outright fainting. She finally made it to the clearing, where her father's private blacksmithery was incredibly untouched. The demons slowly wormed their way through the thick trees that barred their entry.
Sango rushed in, the Saimyasho following every step of the way, though harmless to anyone but Miroku. She eyed the two broken pieces of the Hiraikotsu and wondered why Bankotsu hadn't even lit the forge. Before she had had more than a second to think about it, she heard loud thuds signaling the serpentile demons had broken through the trees.
Sango hurriedly eyed the weapons, a few swords, an axe, and giant hammers only one who could lift a Hiraikotsu could use. She picked up the axe, huge and obviously built for a very powerful demon slayer and with one large swipe, destroyed the Saimyasho. The shiny insects released their poison which Sango hurriedly countered by putting on her demon slayer's mask. The demons outside found their quarry at last and flew straight towards her. Sango held up the one-sided axe defensively as five demons tried to take a bite out of her, instead getting a mouthful of steel via daggers and axe.
She dropped the axe and pulled out her two daggers and skillfully stabbed the oncoming youkai in the eyes. The hut's inside was being sprayed over with blood and injured youkai. Sango hurriedly stashed her daggers in her demon slaying uniform and picked up one of the massive hammers. She jumped over a charging youkai and ran outside the hut, and into the face of a demon who's mouth was open and gathering energy.
Out of experience about what would happen next, she jumped out of the way, hammer and all as a massive charge of energy set the hut ablaze and the youkai inside. The energy firing demon turned to face Sango and was met with a giant steel hammer into the face. Its head cracked open and sprayed Sango with blood. She sensed a presence behind her and once again dropped her weapon and rolled out of the way just as a demon with shark-like jaws made a swipe for her. The demon circled back and faced her while the sky filled with hundreds of serpent youkai. Sango dropped to her knees hopelessly, her adrenaline seemed to be running out and she had killed little over a dozen demons, and still faced about a thousand above her.
That's when she saw a glint of glass from the ruined hut and her eyes focused on what lay next to it.
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I know I promised to finish this 2 part chapter last time but now I've made it three part.
I NEED YOUR REVIEWS TO KEEP ME GOING! IF YOU DONT REVIEW THEN I FEEL EITHER DISCOURAGED TO GO ON OR THAT MY STORY SHOULD END BECAUSE ITS GOTTEN BORING!
P.S...again:I like to think I went up a level in quality here..