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Warnings: Language
Crash
Kagome launched through the air, not noticing Ichigo and Uryuu following.
What had taken her more than an hour on bike now took her less than a minute. Her Hirenyaku rapidly brought her closer to her home, and as she reached the Tokyo city limits, she saw angry, billowing clouds of smoke rising into the air.
She pushed herself harder, heart pounding in her chest as she forced as much speed from her legs as possible.
And then, she reached her home, and her heart skipped a beat.
The well house was utterly destroyed, charred wood and antiques lying across the entire shrine grounds. The well inside was cracked and broken, but still giving off a hint of the power still in it.
Her house was much worse off. Flames licked along the top floor, showing in various holes and massive gouges in the wall and roof.
As horrible as the sight was, something else was there, far more disturbing and terrifying than her fear for her family. There was a heavy, cloying energy lying like a deadly blanket around her home.
Suddenly realizing she was staring at her burning house and feeling the men's presences, she took off.
"Give me some help here," she called over her shoulder.
The two took off after her, just as shocked as she was. They ran through the burning house, quickly locating the people within.
In a matter of seconds, they were out again. On the shrine grounds lay three people.
Kagome stared in shock at her grandfather, his skin tone the pallor of death and his body not moving. Her mother was cut and bleeding, unconscious. And Souta was in shock, his wide eyes staring up at the sky unblinkingly.
Kagome knelt down, gently gripping his face until his eyes took on a small semblance of awareness. And then, he sat up, pressing into Kagome and holding on for dear life.
"Souta, what happened?" Kagome asked, panic impossible to keep out of her voice.
"Ka… Kagome! They came out of the well!"
"Who came out?" Kagome asked, body tensing.
"I thought only you could get through," he babbled, body shaking.
"Souta, who came through?" she repeated, the energy in the air making her blood run cold.
He pulled back a little, eyes flooding and a bloody trail coming from his chin catching her attention.
"Inuyasha. And a lady that looks like you. And a monster," he said, shuddering.
Slowly, his eyes rolled into the back of his skull, and he went limp in her arms.
Kagome sat speechless for several seconds, staring at her burning house.
Slowly, she laid her brother on the ground, making sure not to jostle him.
"Uryuu, make sure they're okay when I get back," she said, her voice arctic and her body aching from how tense her muscles were.
"Back? From where?" he asked, voice worried.
Without a word, she took off. In a quick, graceful move, she took the well, hand planted on the lip as she flipped inside. Brilliant blue light covered her as she passed through, the familiar warmth not giving her anywhere near the comfort it used to.
The sensation quickly vanished, and with one leap, she cleared the other end of the well, which was no little more than a hole in the ground.
Her heart stopped when she came up, her eyes wide and filling with tears.
Inuyasha's Forest was decimated. What had been a long stretch of lush, green trees and beautiful nature no longer existed.
In its place was a mass grave of trees. Hundreds of tree stumps, burning fallen trees, and blackened soil stretched as far as she could see.
A sense of energy behind her made Kagome spin, ready to fight. Her aggressive posture immediately vanished when she saw who the energies belonged to.
Sesshomaru and Kouga stood tall, both of them eying her with a different kind of expression.
The regal inu taiyoukai eyed her with wariness, hand hanging just over the hilt of the Bakusaiga. Kouga was staring at her as though she were a ghost, his eyes wide.
Both of them were bleeding, though as expected, Sesshomaru showed no pain from his wounds.
Kouga's left leg was heavily bleeding, a big chunk showing near his ankle. And the Shikon shard's energy was missing, a faint flicker of it remaining in his other leg.
"What the hell happened?" she asked, eyes narrowed.
"Tch. That bastard," Kouga growled.
"I see you're not dead, miko," Sesshomaru added, eying her.
"Yeah, well I'm not so sure. Want to tell me what the hell happened here?"
"Naraku vanished into that well that was sitting there," Kouga growled.
Her suspicion confirmed, Kagome felt her anger rapidly rising to a boiling point…
A/N:
Inu- dog
Taiyoukai- basically a step above strong demons
Bakusaiga- This is Sesshomaru's sword after he masters the Tensaiga's power in the manga
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