Chapter 21: Naraku's True Identity Unveiled
...Modern Tokyo, Kagome's Point of View...
Ring...ring...ring...The house phone was still ringing, and seeing as how no one else would bother to answer, Grandpa picked it up and answered.
"Higurashi residence," he said.
"Hellp Mr. Higurashi, it's Yuka," she said. Grandpa smiled.
"Ah, so good of you to call at a time like this," he said.
"A time like this? What do you mean?"
"It's her back..." Grandpa continued telling Kagome's friend about her false illness when he noticed his grandaughter looming over him, arms crossed.
"Thanks Gramps you're a huge help. Gimme that!" She yanked the phone from her grandpa's hand. Later on another one of Kagome's friends called and he told her Kagome had Diabetes this week.
"Oh no she's not in the hospital again, is she?" he freind asked concerned. Kagome yanked the phone from her grandfather's hand again. The third of her friends called and asked for her. And repeating the process, Kagome yanked the phone from Grandpa's hand.
"Would you give it a rest Grandpa? Can't you come up with a young person's disease? Like Mono or chickenpox." Grandpa and Kagome continued on to have a small argument over the subject. After Kagome went and got her bag to meet Hojo for their date.
...Feudal Era, Hiroko's Point of View...
Madoka and I were doing a duet of "Every Heart" so that we could have a little fun since we were all feeling a little bored. After we finished everyone applauded and told us we were great. InuYasha hugged me. I hugged him back.
"Aaaawww," Aneko said.
"Not ruining it," I said. She sat down, irritated.
"Roarrrr!" There was a demon outside! We all ran out the door, weapons ready. What we saw was Ryocon.
"But he's usually so peaceful. What could get him to...Jewel shard!" I saw a jewel shard inside him.
"I'll get it then!" InuYasha jumped up with Tetsusaiga and swung downwards. Only to be blocked by Ryocon's hands. As he and InuYasha kept battling, Miroku, Kaede and me put up a barrier so he couldn't get out of where they were fighting. Aneko was batting off Ryocon's wolfes. I wished I could do something besides putting up a barrier. Without breaking my concentration, I called for Madoka.
"Yeah Hiroko?" I sent another surge of energy to keep the barrier holding.
"Help InuYasha. He has the will to fight but Ryocon is too powerful with those jewel fragments." She nodded and ran inside the hut.
Please say she's geting a weapon and not chickening out! I thought. She came back out with some of Kaede's bow and arrows.
"Alright, aim for his neck! Shoot twice!" Madoka did as I instructed. She's a really good shot. And with the final blow from InuYasha Ryocon went down. I took out his jewel shards and combined them with the already half-piece we have around my neck.
"Amazing how powerful your purification powers are," Miroku said from behind. Aneko hit him with her bat and knocked him out.
"We all know what you were thinking," she said to the passed out monk. We were laughing and having a good moment. Then I sensed someone.
So dark..lots of jewel shards...It's Naraku! I turned to the spot where I knew he was and told the others.
...Middle of Forest...
We've just cornered Naraku. We're all standing here in a silence. InuYasha holding Tetsusaiga, Aneko and Madoka holding their weapons (Though Madoka's hands were shaking a little), and me holding two aura spheres in my hands.
"Take off the hood of the cloak!" I ordered him. "Let us see your face Naraku!"
"Alright, alright. No need for impatience, my girl," he said. I am not nor will I ever be his girl. Though I do have to admit, while I do love InuYasha no doubt, Naraku is pretty gorgeous. I was torn a little between my desire to kill him and my new desire to keep staring.
Why do the InuYasha guys have to be so hot? (especially InuYasha) I shook my head coming out of my dream world to see that Naraku was gone.
"W-where'd he...?" I am super confused now.
"He left after Inu-dear tried to take a swing at him," Aneko said.
"Don't call me that," InuYasha mumbled.
"I can call you what I want. To!" That started out in an all out war of words between those two.
"Get used to it," I said to Madoka.
"No problem for me. Shouldn't we be getting back to the village?" Madoka aksed me.
"Yeah," I answered.
"But what about-"
"Nope. We'll let them finish." So me and Madoka left for Kaede's place.
...That Night...
So I filled Madoka in on our group's situation.
"Hey no problem, I wanna catch that creep!" She stopped for a moment. "But how will we know it's Naraku? You said he could transform himself."
"The spider mark on his back. That'll serve as a sort of signature for him."
Author's Note: Review please! I am so glad I finally got this up! I was up all day day yesterday playing Nancy Drew Games (Nancy Drew rocks!) But anyway, special thanks to sangothegreatdemonslayer for the battle scene between Ryocon and InuYasha and Madoka. Hope to hear from you guys soon! And I'm thinking about putting up a holiday one-shot with the Our InuYasha group. GIVE IDEAS ON WHAT HOLIDAY IT COULD BE. Christmas, Easter, Halloween, any of 'em!