Chapter 13
Shippo gasps at the scene. "Oh no. Kagome!" He cries as he wants to go to her, but his tail was grabbed by Sango. "Let me go, Sango!" He demands her. Sango looks around. "Shippo, you must get Inuyasha here." She tells him quickly before the wolves surround them. Kimiko is so scare that she started to cry. Sango "Kirara, could you get Kimiko to safety. I'll stay here." She asks her demon cat. Shippo grabs a leaf, "Transform!" He popped into a bird as Kirara flies off with the baby. As he flew away, the wolves closed in on the girls. "Where's Kagome?" Sango demands one of them. "Oh she's right here." Koga grins as he has her out cold over his shoulder. "Release my daughter, now!" The queen demands him. "Yeah, uh, not happening. I have to thank Ayame for doing her job." He turns to see Ayame with a grin on her face. "Ayame, you traitor!" Sango shouts in rage. "Traitor? Maybe. But more like undercover." Ayame corrects Sango's comment. "So what? You deceived us. How could you?!" Sango shouts in real anger. That is until Koga's two henchmen jump from the roof and tie them down. "Nice work. Now lock them up in the dungeon." He gives his orders. "What about Kagome?" Ayame asks him. Koga looks at her. "Your task is to let her know what we're doing. And you're going to guard her, no excuses." He carries her to a secret room, that Kagome nor Ayame know where it is.
As the boat continues to sail back to the kingdom, something hit Inuyasha, like he senses something. "Inuyasha, what is it?" Miroku asks him quickly noticing the behavior. Inuyasha looks up ahead. "I don't know. I just somehow have this feeling that something happened." He tries to put it together but nothing seems to come up. "Inuyasha!" Inuyasha looks up in the sky to see a bird and Kirara flying towards them. "Shippo? What are you doing here?" He asks as Shippo and Kirara lands onto the boat. Kimiko whines. "Oh no." Miroku runs over to comfort his daughter. "Shippo, why did you bring my daughter with you?" Miroku asks as calmly as possible. Shippo pops back to normal. "Koga has taken over the castle. He's got Kagome." He answers quickly. Just hearing that made Inuyasha widen his eyes, "You fled." He accuses the kid. "No, Sango insists that I take Kimiko away from the scene. I had no choice but to get to you guys." Shippo response as he transforms into a balloon. "We have to get you guys back to the kingdom." He tells. Inuyasha, and Sota get onto him, while Miroku, and Kohaku get onto Kirara's back. As they flew as fast as they can, the only thing that keeps on coming into Inuyasha's mind was Kagome's safety. "Kagome, I'm coming. Just hang on." He growls as he feels the Tetsusaiga rattle like crazy.
Kagome comes to find herself wrapped around with chains to her wrists attached to the wall behind her. She tries her best to break free. "Don't bother, Kagome." Ayame speaks to her from outside of her cage. "Ayame. How could you do this to me?" She growls at her. From the looks of it, Ayame isn't too thrilled about this. "I had to do my duty." She simply answers the question. "What duty? All you did was betray us. After what happened when the kingdom got attacked, you waited to make sure your move. That's when I smelled it. A wolf. I knew since the beginning, about that scent, I know there was another one." Kagome speaks to recall for the times about the scent of a wolf. "Call it all you want, I cannot have you break Koga's heart after what you did." Ayame narrows her eyes. That's what made confused Kagome. "What are you talking about breaking Koga's heart? I never loved him at all." That's when Ayame opens the cage door walk up to Kagome and slap her hard on the face. "You have every right to break his heart. As well as mine." She screams. Even though Kagome wanted to stop the pain on her face, her hands wear chained so she can't so a thing. "As well as yours? What do you mean by that?" Kagome curiously asks. Ayame lowers her head as her red bangs cover her eyes. "Ever since you were locked in that tower, Koga was tasks to save you. I was around your age when he left home to do it. But little did he know that I had a crush on him that it broke my heart to see him with you. When he returned home miserably after finding out that Inuyasha saved you instead of him, I was happy. But Koga wouldn't give up. He wanted Inuyasha out of the picture to have you. But I was against it. Even Kikyo forbidden me from him. But now she's gone, I had to do whatever it took to convince that Koga is meant for me and not you." Ayame explains her story.
Kagome now understands where this is going. Ayame is trying to make Koga see her as an equal as him. But his own cockiness interferes with that fact that he just treats her like a child. "I see. Now it begins to make sense for once. To tell you the truth, I never really cared who saved me from the tower. I didn't really wanted a destiny to control my life. I'm just glad it was Inuyasha who did and not Koga." Kagome smiles sadly. "Koga should've chosen you of all beings. If it's someone who is to blame who gets to choice is Kikyo. True that in fairy tales, the fairy godmother is meant to guide the maiden the right path to find her prince charming. But this is no fairy tale…" Ayame glances her. "…But it's a terrible story that somehow got twisted for someone else's pleasure." She finished it. Kagome sighs, "So uh, do you know what Koga's objective was when he put me here?" She tries to get her to talk. Ayame stood up and locks the door. "I'm sorry Kagome, I'm under strict orders not to mention a single word about his objective." She answers darkly as she disappears somewhere in the dungeon.
Shippo and Kirara are flying as fast as they can back to the kingdom. "So, Inuyasha did you get Kagome's brother?" Shippo tries to break the silence. Inuyasha turns around to see Sota look up curiously. "Yeah, he's right here." Inuyasha answers pointing with his thumb. "Oh, so you're Kagome's brother. I'm Shippo." Shippo introduces himself politely. Sota smiles back. "Sota Higurashi." Sota gives his own. "How much longer are we to land?" Inuyasha asks Shippo to remain on the main topic. Shippo takes a minute to figure out how long it took him and Kirara to get them. "About an hour ago. So it shouldn't take us that long." Shippo answers as they keep on going. Inuyasha is way too impatient to wait any longer. "Inuyasha I bet your worried about my sister." Sota looks from the side. Inuyasha sighs deeply to calm down as in not freak out the boy. "Yeah. I'm worried about her. There's no telling what Koga could to her at this point." He turns to see Miroku with his baby in his arms with the same expression. 'I bet Miroku is feeling the same way about Sango. She's still too weak after giving birth to their daughter a week ago.' That was more than enough to make Inuyasha to lose his sight on the horizon.
"Inuyasha look!" Sota taps his shoulder to get Inuyasha to see where he's pointing. Up ahead is a black cloud. "What is that, Inuyasha?" Kohaku asks him. Inuyasha sniffs a bit. "That's not a black cloud. That's smoke. Hurry!" He shouts to the group as they stepped up their powers to get there quicker. As they get closer to the smoke, the view of the kingdom is getter closer to them. "I shouldn't be that long to get there." That's is until something comes flying at them. "Move!" Inuyasha shouts as he pulls out Tetsusaiga, "WIND SCAR!" He shouts as its attack destroys whatever it was. "You guys get to safety while I try to stop them." As such more of those things are coming towards them. "If I were to know any better, Koga might've infiltrate the castle's guards and catapults." Shippo explains how they'd be attacked all of sudden. Inuyasha keeps countering the attacks with his sword. "Anywhere we can land?" Inuyasha asks Shippo.
Knowing this is getting nowhere, the attacks are limitless depending on what is being used. "Down there!" Sota points at a cliff that is a blind spot that not even the castle can see them. "Okay." Shippo floats down to the cliff. Surprising enough, Kirara, Miroku, the baby, and Kohaku were already there as well. "Damn, I would never expect Koga to be this arrogant." Inuyasha growls softly. He turns around seeing everyone are so unsure on what to do next. "Kohaku." Kohaku looks up to Miroku. "Inuyasha, Sota and I are going to get to the castle undetected." He seriously speaks up. "I want you, and Shippo to take my daughter away from here. This is not a place for an infant to know such a thing." Miroku explains to them. Kirara quickly lets Kohaku, and Shippo with Kimiko in Kohaku's arms and flies away.