Summary: After the mysterious disappearance of the love of his life, Inuyasha has taken a new image. But when a new girl enters his life, will he be able to let his guard and let her in?
Out with the old, In with the new
By: Kikyo's Lova
(Dedicated to Araine)- Seriously, check out her stuff...
AN: I gotta apologize for my language for the last chapter, it has since been and it will be re-updated, along with some newer stuff, so if you want to read that too, go right ahead. I wasn't able to get the person on Animespiral to stop stealing my work, but again, why should I penalize you guys for the ignorance of one person?? I'm not going to do that, and I apologize for that. Also, I'm going to start using the characters attacks by their original names, slowly at first, but gradually in the beginning. Example- Wind Scar- Kaze no Kizu.
P.S.- I guess the last chapter wasn't as good as it should have been...which is why the review count was low. Doesn't matter; I'm coming back strong with this chapter.
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Out with the old, In with the new:
Chapter 36: The Blood Jewel
"Oh! No, no, no! Inuyasha, wake up!"
Kikyou remained with Inuyasha for that night, a forbidden action at the college that they were attending, as girls couldn't be in boys dorms after 8:00 pm. Kikyou, still only in her robe, quickly got out of the bed.
"Damn...Miroku didn't wake us up? Probably too busy tending to Sango."
"It doesn't matter! How am I gonna sneak to my room? Sango and Kagome must have noticed that I was gone, and they probably knew where I was at...damn..damn!"
"You worry too much," whispered Inuyasha dreamily, still sleepy. He brought Kikyou back into the bed with him. "Just relax with me...class isn't for another hour and a half."
"No! Come on, Inuyasha, no more games...please, later on, okay?"
"You gotta sneak back to your room, right? I have some of your clothes in my suitcase..."
"What?! Why?!"
"You know, during that prolonged absence from you, you did leave some clothes at my house in case of an emergency," he said defensively so that he wouldn't seem like some type of freak.
"So you got some spare clothes for Kagome too, right?"
"Uhhh...no."
"Well okay then...give me them, then I can go back to my room and change."
"Yeah, okay."
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Inuyasha freshened himself in the bathroom, got dressed, and awaited for Kikyou to come back. They were going to go to class together, as they had the first class of the day together. To keep himself occupied, he started to play a game of Snake on his cell phone. After about 15 minutes, Kikyou came back, with tears in her eyes. Inuyasha snatched her up, and she brought out her cell phone.
"Kikyou...no Kikyou..."
"Inuyasha...listen to this message."
Kikyou dialed her voicemail up once again, then played the message on speaker phone:
"I have your sister and her boyfriend, you miko bitch. If you want them back, then go back out to my former hideout. They're waiting for you..."
Inuyasha ended the call, then let Kikyou fall into his arms
"Come on, lets go..."
"Inuyasha, even if we're speeding, that's a 7 hour drive. How the hell are we gonna get there?"
"He's got Kaede and Souta...why does this have to happen when we're going to college? If you get on my back, we can be there in about an hour."
"Should we let Kagome know?" asked Kikyou intentionally. As Souta was Kagome's brother, she would want to come and rescue her brother.
"No...I think that we can get Souta back without Kagome knowing anything. She's already emotionally unstable, thanks to me. I don't want her to be in anymore pain and anger than she already is."
"Are you sure?"
"We're gonna get them back. I have you by my side, right?" asked Inuyasha carefully, wanting to hear Kikyou utter the word "yes". He needed this for his own emotional boost.
Kikyou stared into his eyes and read his emotions deeply. She saw something that see had never...EVER seen in Inuyasha.
"Yes. You already know that, no matter what the hell you do. But I already proved that countless times, right?"
Inuyasha smiled and nodded, but his eyes told a different story. For the first time ever, Kikyou read fear in his eyes. The calm exterior of Inuyasha was melted away to show the fear inside of the hanyou. Kikyou held on to his body tightly.
"I'm yours, don't worry, okay baby?"
"And I'm yours," said Inuyasha slowly, worried about the upcoming task.
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"My sister is going to blast your head off with one of her purification arrows."
"I highly doubt that. Your sister thought that she could kill me with one of them. But I'm still here, right?"
"It was a purvil arrow."
"What the hell are you talking about, Koda?"
"My name is Souta, Naraku, and purvil is a combination of the words "evil" and "pure". Hence the term, purvil. Now where is my "girlfriend"?"
"Kikyou's kid sister? Having her soul manipulated by Kanna. Kanna has had control of her for the longest now, ever since your sister was under my control."
"Kagome will kill you," snarled Souta.
"Kagura! Let's go! I can sense Inuyasha coming."
Kagura walk into the room mysteriously, as Souta couldn't see where she had come from. A smaller white demon followed the one called "Kagura", and following her was a soul swindled Kaede. Souta stared at his "girlfriend".
"Kaede? Kaede!"
"Kanna, send us to the college."
Kanna nodded and flashed her mirror at both Naraku and Kagura, then held it towards an empty section of the cave hideout. A swirling gust of wind appeared from her mirror, spinning fiercely with intensity, as a blackened void appeared in that section of the cave.
"Come on, Kagura."
"You will be at the back of the college...that was the only empty, discreet place where I could put you," Kanna whispered, her expressionless eyes not showing anything to Souta. Kagura and Naraku leaped through the void, and it closed before his eyes. Kanna then looked at Kaede, who bowed down before her.
"I shall grant you your soul back," she hissed eerily, holding her mirror in front of Kaede. Kaede's soul erupted through her mirror, and collided back with its host. Kaede slowly recovered, and when she did, she ran to Souta.
"Are you okay?" she asked hastily, hugging him.
"I'll live...all he did was chain me up...he didn't hurt me."
Kanna sat in front of the entrance and looked at her mirror. She saw Inuyasha leaping on top of tree after tree, Kikyou on her back. She noted that the Tetsusaiga was on his side, and Kikyou prized weapon, her bow, was strapped to her back.
"I may be able to at least stall them..."
She picked up the second row of chains and looked at Kaede.
"I need to chain you up now."
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"Naraku, how is this going to work? What is my part in this?"
"Since we look like one of these...humans, you will play the role of my girlfriend..."
"And that's necessary to insert the jewel into Kagome?"
Naraku brought out a glass vial and showed the jewel shard the Kagura, who couldn't take her eyes off of it.
"That is the most tainted jewel shard I've ever saw...you're really putting your efforts in full power to capture Kagome again, aren't you? The jewel shard is black and red!"
"The black is the jewel itself. The reddish exterior is my blood."
"I still don't get it; won't Kagome's body just reject it like the last time? She almost killed you, if you don't remember."
"Kagura, watch your tone. Anyway, when her blood merges with my blood, her pure aura will diminish, allowing for the tainted jewel to fully take control of her body. Last time, the jewel just masked her pure aura. In theory, this should overtake her pure aura completely."
"I...understand now."
"Now all we have to do is ambush Kagome. The jewel will do the rest."
"Naraku..."
"Question me when I'm finished. Question me when I have the world at my feet. Question me when I have Kagome."
"This is childish though; why do you have a grudge against Inuyasha? What point is this nonsense?"
Naraku smacked Kagura thoroughly and quickly as she covered her face from the impact. When she removed her hand, Naraku saw a bright red mark on her face. Kagura looked at Naraku in hatred. He smiled at her suffering.
"Don't you ever disrespect me again, Kagura. Ever."
Kagura didn't answer, but continued to grip her face. She then smiled.
"You gave me the appearance of a human woman...pain shows on their faces...do you want the appearance of an abusive boyfriend?"
Naraku's lingering smiled quickly change into a frown. "You better make a reasonable excuse for that mark, Kagura."
"You better not touch me again."
Naraku gritted his teeth to the thought that one of his servants was giving him orders. But if he wanted to get Kagome back, he had to bend to Kagura's will, at least temporarily.
"Dammit...fine..."
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"Hold on, Kikyou..."
Inuyasha leaped across several trees, then landed with authority back onto the earth. Kikyou cringed to Inuyasha tightly, because she didn't want to fall off AND because she knew that he had a lot brooding on his mind at the moment. She didn't want to be a target of his rage. She had her own anger to focus. Her miko powers were amplified when she targeted her anger on one subject.
"We're gonna get them," she whispered softly, knowing that Inuyasha's ear would perk up to the sound of her voice. "We'll get Kaede and Souta."
Inuyasha nodded and kept his speed to the former hideout of Naraku. As he leaped into the air, he pulled Tetsusaiga out of its sheath. Kikyou cocked an arrow back, bending the bow's string to its limit.
"Wind..."
Inuyasha stopped, on the intention that he would cause danger to the kids, since he didn't know where they were at. With Kikyou still holding onto his shirt tightly, he scurried along the narrow passageway, then to the central opening of the cave. Only Kanna was standing there with her mirror. Souta and Kaede were chained up like prisoners. Kaede's eyes lit up when she saw her sister.
"Inuyasha," said Souta groggily, vision starting to get blurry. Naraku had cuffed Souta extremely tight, cutting off blood flow to certain areas. Now the pain was starting to settle in. He picked his head up once more to look at the hanyou he called his brother.
"Where's Kagome?"
Inuyasha didn't answer Souta as he lost consciousness after he hushed the name Kagome. A single tear formed in Inuyasha's eye, building up with liquid. Before it rolled down his cheek, the tear swelled up to its maximum. Without saying a word, he used Iron Reaver to cut the chains that were holding the kids and focused his attention on Kanna.
"If you wanted me, all you had to do was..."
Inuyasha slammed his Tetsusaiga into the ground and balled his fists up.
"WHERE ARE YOU, NARAKU?!"
"Naraku's not coming," said Kanna in her whispery voice. She tilted her head sideways and looked at Inuyasha through her mirror. "He's gone."
"Dammit! Inuyasha, this was just a decoy!" gritted Kikyou.
"I don't care!"
Inuyasha picked up his sword and let it transform into the fang of his father's tooth..
"Wind Scar!"
The massive strike from the Wind Scar caught Kanna a bit off guard, as she never saw this version of the Wind Scar. Instead of its normal 5 streaks of lightning, it just formed one huge massive piece of lightning. Nevertheless, it was still vulnerable to Kanna's mirror.
"Go!"
Kikyou's arrow spun into the Wind Scar and merged with it to form the duo's double team attack, the Kaze no Kizu/Hama no Ya. Kanna held her mirror and awaited the impact from wave.
"Oh right, dammit. It's just gonna be repelled back at us."
"No, it should break through; my purification arrow combined with your Wind Scar. Sango told me that Kagome said that when she shot her soul-infused arrow at Kanna's mirror, her soul was too large for Kanna's mirror, and thus she was forced to release the souls. If that happens, the Wind Scar should just destroy her. Theoretically.
Kikyou theory turned out false as the Kaze no Kizu/Hamo no Ya were sucked into the vortex of Kanna's mirror. Kanna stared at her mirror, then looked at her opponents.
"The Wind Scar must have been too powerful...Kikyou's arrow was destroyed, allowing the mirror to absorb the Kaze no Kizu in full force."
"I thought that you can only repel attacks..."
Kanna didn't answer Inuyasha, but began to float into the air, then glided to the exit.
"Oh, no you don't you little bitch!" yelled Inuyasha, releasing another Wind Scar. This one barely missed Kanna, and she was able to escape the cave. Inuyasha turned back to the central part of it to take Kaede and Souta home. Souta was only sleeping, and taking him back to his house would be the trick for him. Kaede wasn't hurt at all, and she could easily be taken home.
"Just a fuckin' decoy...damn..."
Kikyou hugged her sister tightly, but then let her go to scurry over to Souta.
"Inuyasha, do you hear that?!" she asked, her calm face now turning frantic. She looked towards the colossal roof of the cave.
"...fuck! Get down!"
Inuyasha's stolen Kaze no Kizu ripped through the roof of cave. Kikyou covered Kaede, who in turn covered the unconscious Souta.
"Grrrrrrr...Backlash Wave!"
Inuyasha cut through his original death move for an even more powerful move. It was able to counter the Wind Scar and send it directly back at Kanna, who had disappeared, making the Backlash Wave only an attack to block. He turned back to Kikyou and the kids.
"Now, we've gotta get you two home...and when Souta gets up, tell him NOT to tell Kagome about this, okay?"
Kaede nodded and looked back at her "boyfriend".
"Souta..."
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"Where the hell are Inuyasha and Kikyou? They haven't been to none of their classes!"
"I don't blame them; I hate this damn college, and this is the first day!"
Kagome looked at Miroku and Sango talk about the strange disappearances of Kikyou and Kagome. She realized that she wasn't that worried, and that she didn't really care. It was strange, but she had to be honest with herself. She was curious about them, but not worried.
"Can you help me?" asked a hanyou-looking person. Kagome eyes perked up to look at him.
"Me?"
The boy nodded, and his ears twitched slightly.
"Me, being a dog hanyou, should be able to find my classes but strangely, I can't. It would be great if you could help me out. My girlfriend can't help me for anything. She's practically useless."
Kagome laughed at the boy's joke, then looked at his schedule.
"I can only help you out with your next class. I'm new too, so we're both in the same boat."
"I can see one part of your answer, but not the other."
"Oh, I don't technically have a boyfriend. I have a fiancé. And he loves to fuck with me. Sorry for the language."
"No offense taken..."
"Kagome. And what's your name?"
"Ishikawa. It was nice to meet you, Kagome."
"It was nice meeting you too, Ishikawa. And the class is..."
Kagome pointed in the direction of the class.
"...over there."
"I guess I'll be seeing you then. And another thing-if you're ever canceling those marriage plans, I'm available."
Kagome blushed slightly. "But you already have a girlfriend. And why would you want me? We've only been talking for three minutes."
"I know, but like I said before, my girl's useless. Plus, you're beautiful, sweet, and helpful. I learned that in three minutes."
"That was cute...I guess I will be seeing you then...Ishikawa..."
The dog hanyou nodded, winked, and left to meet up with the girl Kagome assumed to be his girlfriend. She was pretty, but if she didn't match Kikyou's beauty, then Kagome knew that she was more appealing to Ishikawa than her.
"Hmmm...Ishikawa..."
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"Sesshy! I want my ice cream! I'm getting tired of waiting!"
"Why the hell did I bring a pregnant woman to college? Was I bewitched or something?!"
"Well, you just gotta wait Rin...I can't make this line go any faster..."
Rin muttered something quietly under her breath, extremely quietly so that Sesshoumaru couldn't pick up what she said. He bought the ice cream and handed it to Rin, but by then, Rin scoffed it off.
"I don't want that anymore," she said angrily, tossing it the side. Sesshoumaru watched as the ice cream that he paid for, the ice cream that he waited 10 minutes in line for, the ice cream that Rin wanted, land on the floor with a sickening splat. He stared at the cup for a minute, then looked back at Rin.
Sesshoumaru stood up, and walked away. Rin, realizing what she did, got up as quickly as she could and caught up with her husband. She grabbed him by his shirt.
"Sesshy, what's wrong?"
"I'm starting to think on whether impregnating you was the right thing to do."
Rin gasped and looked at Sesshoumaru, a puppy eyed look on her face. She buried her face onto his shirt.
"I'm sorry on the way I've been treating you, Sesshy. I'm sorry..."
Sesshoumaru pulled his girl by her waist so that their eyes and mouths met.
"Are you gonna-?" began Rin, only to be met with a passionate kiss by Sesshoumaru. For the whole cafeteria in the college, this action was met by an "Awwww" from the students in the cafe.
"Even they like our love, Sesshy."
"Don't they have anything else to do?" he growled, looking at everyone look at HIM and his wife.
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-2 be continued-
(Well, I think that I got a lot of stuff out in this chapter, as I actually had time to write it, and I was calm...so yeah. I just wanted to ask you guys 1 question- do you think Ishikawa is Naraku is disguise? Or just a random dog hanyou? I hope you enjoyed this longest edition to the story by far. I also want to once again apologize for the last chapter. It just doesn't seem like my style, if you know my work in my previous chapters)
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