Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha and Naruto, if I did; things would've been much different. Cough BORING and STUPID cough.
Authers note:
I'm so sorry it took me so long to update! I can't believe I let my story get to the second page. Feel free to cyber slap me.
I'm moving so, I haven't been in the mood to right. Oh and just plain laziness, lol, hopefully I'll update soon.
Oi, the first time I wrote this it was 12 pages, it disappeared so I re-wrote it, and now it's… 8! Oh god I'm pathetic! What the hell did I leave out?!
Chapter 11: True strength, Kagome's kekkei genkai unveiled!
"Who are you!?" A sound ninja snarled.
The shadowed ninja took a step forward into the light. Her eyebrows were furrowed, lips pursed into a thin line and eyes squinted in a glare at the sound ninja who dared hurt her allies.
"I'm Kagome Higurashi. Remember my name because that is the name of the person who will kill you." Kagome answered with a smirk. "I usually don't like hurting people but anyone who hurts my friends, will be hurt by me, 1000 fold!" She answered giggling deep in her mind, her 'big talk' sounded so foreign to her. Maybe she'd do it again.
The sound ninjas stared at her dumbly. Then one finally let out a small laugh that the others were holding in. "Big talk for a puny cocky brat! Can you even spell your last name?"
Kagome snorted, she hated it when people called her stuff like that, and called her puny. She was a normal height! They were the ones that were tall! She made up her mind that she would pay them back for it by hurting them bad. She really wasn't planning on killing them, she just thought that it was the right moment for a "big talk" She inhaled a sharp intake of breath and lunged forward.
She started to attack using taijutsu, she was doing pretty well, if this was a one-on-one fight, her opponent would be on his back, but there was a lot so unfortunately this would take a long time, it was already past half an hour of fighting.
Punching, jabbing, kicking, kneeing, elbowing, throwing, no matter what she threw at them they always popped back up like daisies and attacked her again. She hated killing, hated to see people get killed. She's never killed a human before, but at this rate would she have to start now? She didn't want to, she wouldn't. What would her feudal era friends think? Even though she was fighting she couldn't help but wonder if her friends missed her, or even remembered her.
She sent out a strong jab to the lower stomach only for it to be caught by another ninja. He threw her and she rolled across the ground.
She quickly jumped up back to her feet and tried to kick another sound ninja, but her ankle was grabbed and squeezed, then thrown aside.
She tried to stand up again but her ankle was too hurt to move. 'Shit, what do I do?'
"Hey, one against… all of you isn't fair!" One of Gai's teammates screamed.
"Kagome, get up, I know you can beat them!" Kurenai cheered for her friend. Although she knew she would probably lose. She thought that if she cheered enough Kagome might have the motivation to win.
"It's impossible, if all of us couldn't beat them, she alone can't beat them. Our only hope is that she can hold them off until the jonin come. Hopefully the hokage sent more than four." Kakashi said plainly.
"Don't talk like that Kakashi! Hopefully the bloom of youth will explode within her!" Gai said flashing them his shiny bleached teeth. Luckily for them, he was tied up at the moment so they wouldn't be able to see the dreaded pose.
'Kakashi doesn't have faith in me?' Kagome let out a low growl, and unconsciously she clenched her fists, she winced when she felt a sharp pain on her hand. She looked down to see her palms bleeding and her nails dug deep into her now bloody palm.
"Okay, since you guys keep getting up I'm going to have to stop going easy on you. I wasn't really planning to kill you, but I might have to, to protect my friends." Kagome said boldly, her voice showed a lot of confidence and strength.
"HA go easy on us? If you were going easy on us that would mean YOU were winning! Look at you; you're the one beaten up!" The apparent leader shouted. "You know what? Since you think you're so much better than us, try stopping us from killing your friends slowly." He signaled a few of his men and they approached the tied up konoha ninja.
"If you even lay a finger on one of them I swear I will kill you!" Kagome snarled.
The men simply smirked and smacked each of the ninja across the cheek. Except Kurenai, the man who was supposed to slap her just stared at her face. "You know I think I'll keep this one, her face is pretty cute, and look she's even wearing make-up. Are you looking to get laid girl? It looks like you're just begging me, maybe later."
Kagome growled furiously. Her pupils dilated to the point that they almost disappeared and she charged after every single one, and as promised she killed them all. She didn't even notice how or even when she did it. When her pupils finally returned it was like she could see again. She looked down and saw the dead bodies.
She clutched her hair tightly. 'No, what did I do?! What'll my friends think of me now? I'm… I'm just as bad as a demon.' She winced in pain as she felt the pain on her foot return.
'Note to self: Don't piss off Kagome.' Both of Gai's teammates thought at the same time. At that moment they felt thankful that she didn't kill them. After all, they were Kakashi and Itachi fan girls.
"Way to go Kagome!" Kurenai exclaimed though if you looked at her smile, the right side of her mouth was curved upwards in a twitch, showing that it was a fake smile. Then again, who could show a real, happy smile to death? 'I can't believe she killed someone though.'
"Enough of this combat fighting, it's time for some ninja attacks!" Kagome said jumping in the air. She tried to ignore the pain on her foot and made a few hand signs and whirls of fire circled around her. She gripped her wrist to store some chakra in her palms, after she absorbed enough chakra, the flames absorbed into her hand.
"What was the use of that jutsu?" Asuma asked to himself. "It would have had an affect if she were right next to her opponent so the flames would have hit them."
"Just watch, you'll see the strength of my clan!" Kagome yelled hoarsely. She opened her fists and flames shot out of them burning her enemies in a large range, one of the sound ninja that was in back of her tried to stop her attack by attacking from behind.
"Watch out Kagome!" Kurenai cried struggling against the ropes. They put some kind of chakra spell on the ropes and couldn't get free. The one who put the spell was probably a strong one if they couldn't break free.
Kagome back flipped and kicked the ninja downwards; she took two steps back standing on his neck, never stopping her flame attack on the others. She let half of them burn, then a thought struck her. 'I can test my kekkei genkai now! It's the perfect time.'
She undid her jutsu, and started a new one. The air around her spiraled around her body, and she floated six feet in the air, and her hair was floating everywhere. Her fingers became claws and her hand became some kind of sharp scale armor. When the wind settled down, she gracefully landed on her feet.
'Now, focus on transforming my claws into a fang.' Kagome thought while dodging kunai and shuriken. Once her claws successfully turned into a fang, she put her right hand's fingers together and the fang molded together, then she watched as they grew. When they were finally the right size, the fang separated from her claws and she held it in her hand before it fell. It was a sword. It didn't have great powers like Inuyasha's sword or Sesshomaru's, but it was almost impossible to break.
Gripping the hilt of her sword tightly in her right hand she repeated again this time with her left hand. She was still dodging dangerous weapons thrown at her, except this time she was hit twice, nothing too serious, but she would have to heal it as soon as possible.
Once the other sword was made, she tightly held a sword in each hand. She channeled some chakra to go into her weapon, and feet and she ran forward once again. Twirling and leaping around cutting the ninja around her. She spun around and around until no other ninja besides her and the ones tied to something were fallen.
She dropped the swords and they crumbed into ashes.
"The way you fought Kagome, it was graceful and youthful!" Gai praised.
"She… did it… I can't believe it!" Kurenai stuttered. This was amazing! Not only did she defeat the enemies alone when we couldn't, she got to show it off to her crush.
Kagome turned around and grinned. She took a step towards them to untie them but her body wore out and she became unconscious.
…
"She could have fainted after she untied me." Kakashi complained. It was obvious that he was so jealous of Kagome that he became mad at her. Who wouldn't be? He's a jonin, she's a genin. Yet she alone beat all those ninja when he couldn't in a group. Even though it was because he didn't have that much chakra to fight with, he didn't see it that way.
"Kakashi, she fought this hard to save us, you should be thanking her, not getting mad!" Kurenai snapped, good thing for Kakashi, ropes were tying her back from clobbering his head.
Kakashi didn't reply he just stared at his feet.
"Oh come on Kurenai, he just wants to be the man of the family, eh, Kakashi?" Asuma teased.
Under his mask, Kakashi was smiling and blushing. "I don't know what you're talking about."
"Kagome wake up! There is like, a worm next to me!" One of the girls shrieked.
Kagome rubbed her head, from the fall to the dirt. Her vision was blurry and her hearing was ringing. She tried to shake it off, luckily, it worked.
"Thanks, Kagome."
Kagome grinned widely and started to rub the back of her head feverishly. "No problem, you guys did most of the work. I'm just glad I was able to help. I'm sure I couldn't have done it without you guys, you weakened them for me."
Kakashi stared at her with amusement. Most girls would try to make a big deal and show off, and even try to make him pay off a depth, mainly to go out with him for a day or a weak, or let her spread rumors that they were together for one day, which he didn't, but Kagome gave everyone credit, and asked for nothing in return.
A gust of green blew in and Gai was in front of Kagome, with flowers in hand. "Dear flower of youth, you fought beautifully, almost as beautiful as yourself, please accept this flower that does not compare with your beauty and strength."
Kagome smiled cheekily and scratched her forehead with one finger. "Um… thanks for the… compliments… um, I'm going to… find Ari-sensei, BYE GUYS!" She waved goodbye, still blushing, and took off running away from the weird guy.
Gai blinked in confusion before dropping his head. "You forgot… your flowers."
Kurenai laughed quietly. "He's so hopeless. Everyone knows she likes Kakashi."
Kakashi wasn't paying attention so unfortunately for him; he couldn't hear what she just said.
Gai growled and walked over to Kakashi, pointing an accusing finger at him. "You, you are my new rival."
Kakashi finally snapped out of his thoughts. "Huh, did you say something?"
Gai turned red in anger. "You, you think you're so cool with your 'hip' talk! One day I'll show you!"
Kakashi blinked, not getting what was happening and not really caring either.
Gai made his fists ball together in determination before pointing a finger at him again. "I challenge you! Whoever can run to Kagome and back first, wins, and whoever wins is the one who Kagome likes!"
With that said he took off running as fast as he could.
Kakashi stayed in place. "How does that determine anything? So Gai likes Kagome?"
Kurenai giggled at Gai, he was such a fool. "Yup, I guess so."
'Oh great, we have a Kagome fan boy on our team.' Both girls on Gai's team thought.
Soon after that, Gai came back and patted Kakashi's shoulder roughly. "I guess I win this one Kakashi."
Kakashi sweat dropped then cleared his throat. "Um, okay then, let's go."
When they finally arrived at the village, Kagome and Ari were still helping the people recover from there losses.
"What happened here?" Kurenai asked. Ari was fixing houses and Kagome was healing wounded people. Children and adults alike sobbed over dead friends and family. Houses were burned down and had spears though the roof and windows. Kunai and shuriken were scattered everywhere.
"Those ninjas I fought stole many things from this village. They refused to give them up, and they were attacked." Kagome explained healing a guy's broken leg. The whole time she was there she was tending to this guy's wounds, with her miko powers, this would have been easy, but se used too much energy in her last fight. She'd be able to heal four more seriously injured people, but that would be her limit.
"What did they want?" Asuma asked seriously. 'What could be so important, that's worth killing a bunch of villagers?'
"It's a scroll. It's kind of like the clone jutsu, It can take one thousand sand ninja and clone them in five years, but unlike the clone jutsu, these won't pop, it's like fighting real ninjas." Kagome stated sighing. She raised her hand to wipe the sweat from her forehead. "The bad thing is, while I was fighting off those sound ninja, there was a whole other army of them attacking this area, Ari-sensei had to protect the villagers, and they stole the scroll."
"You're kidding me right?" Kurenai asked.
"I wish, just a look at this place and it gives you the truth." Kagome answered. "They… They are going to try to attack Konoha. I don't know when or why."
Asuma clenched his teeth. "This can't be happening."
Gai broke the silence with his positive nature once again. "How may I help this village?"
Kagome smiled. "Ask around and they will tell you what they need help with."
After three days of helping the village, the group decided to return to their village and rest up.
They were about ten minutes away from Konoha gates when Ari pulled them back and shushed them.
She seemed to search around looking for something. When whatever she was looking for was spotted her eyes widened and her teeth clenched.
Kagome really wanted to know what was going on but her instincts told her to shut up.
After a while, Ari turned to face them, her face was pale. "Rock ninjas are attacking the village!"
Kakashi glared at the tree. 'That's the same kind of ninjas that killed Obito.'
"We have to help our village; here you take this part, you, here, you, there, you, there, you, there and me, here. You inform the hokage." Ari ordered.
Kagome jumped to the place she was supposed to guard when she saw a familiar back, and a familiar little boy. It was Naruto and that lady he was with.
"Hey! Over here, it's Kagome!" Kagome whispered in a yelling tone.
She stopped waving however, when she saw three rock ninjas following them.
"Kagome, take Naruto and run." The lady commanded. She took off the brown, ripped cape, and pulled out two kunai.
Kagome stared at the girl while carrying Naruto, who was crying to hard to see that this lady was FAR from his mom.
She had green curly hair that reached her mid-back, one blue eye, the other gold; her face shape was also very different from Naruto's.
The lady tossed the kunai professionally to where it stabbed six rock shinobi instead of two.
She grabbed Kagome's hand and fled.
"Who are you really?" Kagome asked holding Naruto closer.
The older girl frowned then smiled. "So, you figured me out huh?"
Kagome used a sleeping jutsu on Naruto so he wouldn't have to hear anything that would be heart breaking.
