Author's Note: This is important for you to read. I am updating with only five reviews received even though I requested ten because I need to tell my audience this now. After this story is all said and done, posted, and everything, I WILL NOT BE DOING ANY MORE FAN FICTION. I take my writing very seriously and it occurred to me that I needed to get out of using another person's ideas to make short stories and begin my own books. My friend told me I had too many stories with the same pairings and such which I was already well aware of but would not do anything to stop my bad habits. When she told me I needed something more original, I realized it was time to get back into the habit of writing full, detailed, novel-worthy chapters and to stop holding myself back with fan fiction. I am very well aware of my declining skills in writing the more and more I write this short stories. Though they are at least 100 pages on paper and written, I plan on much longer. I thought on what my friend said and decided on actually writing the book I had ideas for since 7th grade which was 3 years ago. In short, I will be discontinuing any fan fiction writing after "Aftermath" and will be working on my first book in the trilogy. I plan to try and get it published by the time I graduate from high school in June 2009. If you like the way I write and wish to see something completely original, just look up the name "Megan Higgins" in the book store. I am already looking at publishers. Thank you for being such a good audience and I am sorry for saying that I may have been writing more stories on here with my friend. Go ahead and read and enjoy.
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Chapter 36. Kidnapped
"MISAN!" Inuyasha practically screamed.
"What's happened to her, Inuyasha?" Kagome asked, concerned for her friend's niece.
"She's been deprived of her demon powers by a powerful spell from Rin. That was that red light we saw as she was punched backwards," Miroku answered grimly.
"It was the only way to get her," Sango commented sadly. "Take her soul and spiritual powers with a jewel and then put a spell on her so she loses her demonic powers leaving her helpless."
"Misan has always had some source of power," Muro added, depressed. "It was as if she were made of two whole souls, not two halves. One was her priestess side, the other was the dog demon in her. If she was incapable of using her priestess powers, she would resort to her demon side. The same goes with if she has no demonic energy then she relies on her spiritual energy."
"Yes, but they attacked both, leaving her absolutely helpless," Yuuko concluded.
At the same time, Inuyasha and Koga were fuming while Tracy was silently sitting stark still in the place Misan had left her. Tears were pooling in her eyelids, some successfully escaping and falling down her cheeks. The two jumped down onto the ground and tried to get to Misan but were blocked by a barrier—Rin's barrier. Now, the only people within the barrier were Misan, Rin, and Naraku.
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Misan struggled to stand up, she was still having major blood loss and she had to hold her hand over her still open wounds. Naraku was approaching her as she got her balance. The damn half-breed was right in front of her leaving barely any gap between him and her.
"My dear, dear, Misan," he said softly with a victorious smile and his right hand cupping her left cheek, brushing some stray strands of hair out of the way. "You are beautiful even as a human. But don't worry, it is only temporary. You will be a demon once more."
Inuyasha and Koga were pounding at the barrier, Inuyasha trying his Red Tetsusaiga even. It wouldn't work, the spiritual shield only transformed the sword back to its useless form. They beat even harder still when Naraku did something extremely bold.
He wrapped his left arm around her waist and pulled her close. Then he leaned his head forward and kissed her, something he had wanted to do for years.
To Misan, she remembered her first and only kiss and how sweet and blissful it was. She compared it to this one and realized how disgusting and repulsive it was.
Naraku finally broke the kiss and bent her head to the side, moving away the collar of her kimono and avoiding the bone spikes of her armor. her eyes widened when she got the idea of what he was doing. He was going to try to mark her as his forever.
Keyword: try.
The dog and wolf demons were beyond infuriated at this gesture, slashing and hitting the barrier with as much strength as they could muster. The people in the stands who knew what he was doing were on their feet prepared to jump off and start bouncing up and down in anxiety and anger as they watched their helpless princess be taken by their greatest enemy.
'Oh, no you don't! Not while I'm still alive,' Misan swore to herself.
"No—you—DON'T!" Misan yelled as she pulled herself free from him, clenched her right hand in a fist, pulling her arm back with all her might, and punching him in the jaw with all the strength left in her.
Naraku was knocked back a little, an annoyed expression on his features until it quickly switched to amusement.
"Hahahaha! Even on the brink of death you can fight well!" naraku mused loud enough for everyone to hear.
Misan stumbled back a couple of feet, her friends watching helplessly as her eyesight became blurry, her legs felt weak and wobbly, and her world started to fade into blackness. Her last thought was how pathetic she was for being tricked into this spell's trap.
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Inuyasha watched hopelessly while Misan's eyes closed and her legs gave way, causing her to collapse. Halfway on her trip to the old, hard earth, one of Naraku's tentacles smoothly caught her and pulled her right up to him. He embraced the unconscious human and picked her up bridal style.
"No! DON'T YOU DARE!" Inuyasha cried. To him, it was almost like losing a daughter, but not as bad as when Sesshomaru hears about his. Losing both your true love and only daughter is a pretty hard blow. "GET BACK HERE! RIN!!!" he needed to get Rin to take down her barrier so he began pleading with her. "Take down this shield, Rin! Take it down! You can't let him do this!"
He looked at his sister-in-law as the humans call it. Glistening tears were seeping from her closed eyes, her back turned from the scene.
'So she still has her conscience. Rin . . . Misan. . . . ' Inuyasha desperately thought. His brother's mate was being forced to do this to her own daughter and she was feeling terrible about it, that much was obvious.
Naraku had his precious jewel in his arms and was ready to go. Sending a voiceless order to Rin, the three of them and the Band of Seven were surrounded with another barrier which made them invisible. They were gone.
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People from the stands ran down onto the field to the two shocked demons. Tracy went slowly, still trying to take it all in and clenching tightly to the two items just given to her. She didn't even know what they were for Tracy had not dared to uncover them.
"This is terrible! Just terrible!" Myoga the flea cried.
"OH NO! INUYASHA, YOU FOOL!" squawked Jaken the toad-like imp. "Lord Sesshomaru is going to kill us all when he finds out!!!" he panicked with his wide-yellow eyes bulging further than ever.
"When I hear what, Jaken?"
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Author's Note: There you go, the 36th chapter. I don't expect any more reviews. I am just going to be posting to get over with this story. I am no longer that interested in it as I said in the author's note at the top. From now on, I update whenever I have the time. I may even update again tonight. Sayonara.