"The Earth King has invited you to Lake Laogai..."
They had appeared out into the bright sunshine of mid afternoon, to discover they were at the bridge.
Strangely, there had been no resistance against their escape.
'There they are!'
Miroku pointed, to the other side of the bridge, and started running.
They were at one end of the bridge, next to a large building at one end that had been their place of captivity, and there, on the other side, was Akuma.
Then, appearing behind him, was Kouga.
InuYasha started running towards them. 'AKUMA!' He shouted, running towards him.
The others followed suit, running across the bridge that had caused so much pain.
Others appeared behind Akuma.
'Isn't that sweet,' Akuma said, his voice somehow carrying across the distance. 'A final reunion.'
'Final, my ass!' InuYasha shouted, and almost flew across the short distance, drawing his sword.
The others followed, Kagome taking aim and firing an arrow, with deadly accuracy.
Akuma took one look at them all, and as soon as they had passed the half way point, he raised one hand dramatically, something held within.
'You shall not pass.'
A single switch, and there was a colossal boom! that blasted the group outwards.
Smoke flew everywhere, and the explosion seemed to bast them upwards, throwing the group in different directions.
Miroku was launched sideways, hurled into the railing of the bridge, winding him, where he could only watch the disaster.
Sango was thrown in the opposite direction, landing awkwardly, but doing a perfect army roll and leaping to her feet.
InuYasha was thrown the highest, being directly above it, somersaulting in the air twice and landing perfectly on his feet, without missing a step, and he continued.
Charging at Akuma, hearing absolutely nothing, the blast had deafened him temporarily, but this didn't slow him down.
He reached him, and started swinging, where Akuma dodged with inhuman speed.
'Hold still, you bastard!'
Akuma, with clenched fists, swung around and struck like a snake, breaking InuYasha's cheekbone.
Akuma did not even try to dodge the Hiraikotsu, rather, he caught it with one hand in its middle, and hurled it straight back at its thrower.
Another man from behind Akuma chased the Hiraikotsu down, cracking his knuckles menacingly. 'I've been waiting for this for a long time, missy!' He called, then lunging at Sango.
She caught her weapon, parried the man, then struck back.
She glanced over at Miroku, who was still half-hanging off the bridge, but he seemed fine, he was filching away from the railing.
Turning her attention back, she dodged another swing.
'Come on, you asshole, hit me!'
'I would,' The guy grunted, swinging and missing again, 'if you stood still!'
Dodging, she swung and broke his nose. 'I thought you said you were waiting for this?' She asked sweetly as he clutched one hand over his nose.
'Hey, shut up!' He said, feigning a swing, but actually swinging the other way, clipping the side of her head and making it spin. 'Gotcha.'
She landed awkwardly and fell, blinked, then rolled out of the way of a kick.
Glancing over, she saw that InuYasha was getting the crap kicked out of him, and had already lost his sword.
She turned her attention back to her own fight, dodged again, and swung around, where he somehow managed to pull himself out of the way.
He seized the Hiraikotsu and pulled it from her grasp, and flung it out of reach, putting himself between it and her.
'Hey!' She exclaimed, 'So you wanna even it out?'
In the other fight, it was true, InuYasha was loosing.
But not for long.
He'd figured it out, the jewel was in his right hand.
If he could just get it off of him, then it would be over.
Akuma swung, and sent InuYasha flying backwards, to the edge of the bridge.
'Akuma, you stupid jackass!' InuYasha laughed, leaping to his feet, and grabbing his sword that was about three paces away.
Akuma flew at him, already swinging around from the right, and it was then that InuYasha took his one, and only opportunity.
Muscle and bone separated like butter under the sharpened edge, and Akuma froze, his entire right hand bouncing away, cuff and all, still gripping hard onto its prize.
Akuma started laughing a laugh that sent a chill up his spine. 'You think that would stop me?' He laughed, despite the blood dripping from his arm.
It was then that InuYasha seized the hand, and threw it over the edge of the railing that was just behind him.
Akuma appeared behind him, and grabbed him by the neck with his only left hand, lifting him off his feet.
No matter how much damage InuYasha did to him, he would not let go, and he could already feel his strength ebbing, his face turning blue, his throat throning to collapse.
Akuma laughed again, his cold eyes boring into InuYasha's.
'You should have realised by now.'
'What?' InuYasha gasped.
'You should have kno-'
Suddenly, he dropped him, and gazed down at his hand and wrist with a horrified expression.
'No!'
He was fading, his entire figure was evaporating into air.
'This cannot be!'
He rushed at InuYasha, making a final kick where he was getting to his feet, but he was gone before he made the swing.
'No!'
InuYasha watched him vanish, and he stood up, rubbing his throat absentmindedly.
He looked around, and saw Sango, standing victoriously over a figure that looked covered in bruises, and then he saw Kouga, about thirty feet away.
He strode over to him, where he was looking dazed and confused.
With one punch, Kouga was out cold on the ground.
'If you ever so much as look at Kagome again, I really will kill you.'
Realisation struck him, and he span, completely forgetting the limp body.
'Kagome?'
Suddenly, his strength, or what was left of it, was draining like someone had pulled the plug.
He breathed in, trying to find her, but all the scents were gone.
He looked down at his hands, only to realise, the powers were gone.
'InuYasha!' Miroku called from his point, where he was standing at the edge of what was left of the bridge, a huge gaping hole was in the centre.
InuYasha staggered over to him, and stared at him. 'What?'
'In, the blast.' Miroku looked over the edge, 'Kagome,' He seemed unable to finish it, and looked short of breath himself.
InuYasha span, and gazed over the railing, leaning heavily on it.
'She fell.'
Elsewhere, around the world, several people people collapsed from similar symptoms.
One, the eldest, an elderly man who was sitting in his retirement home quietly suffered a heart attack and nearly died, if it was not for the quick noticing of the person he was playing chess with, who pushed the nearby red emergency button and a nurse burst into the room. The elderly man was alive, and the ghost of a smile graced his lips.
Another, a middle aged woman, was in a car accident, the seat belts saving both her and her six year old daughter's life.
She was found by the paramedics, holding her daughter to her chest and laughing joyously despite it appeared she had been driving tired, like a huge burden had been lifted off of her shoulders, many assumed she had a large insurance on the car that currently had it's bonnet wrapped around a telephone poll.
It was later found that she had had an odd occurrence where she had fainted at the wheel, but was perfectly fine.
Another man was found dead at the scene, where he had fallen to his death from a fourth story building.
The man was allegedly breaking into an apartment there, and to avoid detection had been hanging from the railing of the balcony, and had inexplicably let go, effectively sealing his fate and opened his head to the hungry concrete below.
Kikyou collapsed whilst working, rather, while she was talking to her aunt, Kaede, who managed to catch her in time, 'Kikyou!' Kikyou was out cold, her strength sapped completely, her breathing shallow and slight.
Someone immediately rang for help, and was later found to have no symptoms or ailments, apart from being very weak and unconscious in a hospital bed for the next three days, completely out to it.
Rin had walked into Sesshomaru's office to find him slumped over his desk, she had screamed which brought her coworker, Jaken, running and pulling out his phone, effectively crashing into the door as he had not opened it fast enough and slumped, stunned on the other side.
Rin raced over to her boss, throwing her arms over him protectively, immediately assuming he was dead, burst into tears and ruined the back of Sesshomaru's white suit, until someone touched her shoulder.
Sesshomaru had reached back and attempted to pry her off, and she froze, still leaning heavily on him.
'Rin, get off.'
She leapt back instantly, regaining her compsure, 'Yes, Mr Sesshomaru,' and he pulled himself upright slowly, then slipped out of his jacket, handing it to the girl.
'Right. I'll have this cleaned this afternoon.' She paused. 'Sorry, Mr Sesshomaru.'
She turned and hurried to leave, but was stopped when she had her hand on the door.
'Rin, cancel any appointments I have this afternoon and evening.'
'Yes, Mr Sesshomaru.' She knew better then to question, and would probably reschedule the more important ones until later on in the week, she opened the door and promptly tripped over the body still on the other side. 'Mr Jaken, what on earth are you doing down there?'
Hours later, Rin stuck her head inside the office again as she was about to leave for the night, not expecting anyone to be there, however she was wrong.
There, again slumped over his desk, his head in his hands, was Sesshomaru, sound asleep.
Rin tiptoed over and covered his shoulders with one of the spare jackets that hung outside, then smiled softly and left silently.
Sango had slumped from her point on the bridge, over her wounded and unconscious beaten opponent which had surprisingly proved to be a convenient pillow, and had woken to the shaking of her shoulder by a rescue officer about an hour later.
Miroku had been out to it longer, he woke up to see a very curvaceous nurse bending over his hospital bed in the middle of the night, or so it appeared, where he smiled and prepared to pull on the charm, only to discover Sango standing on his other side over him, who looked half murderous and half relieved.
InuYasha had collapsed, despite his futile attempts to tell someone that Kagome had fallen, and he awoke with a start just as dawn was rising the next day, in a nearby hospital.
He lay there, exhausted, feeling like he had lost the ability to move.
Hahahahahaha, so it finally happened...
And also?
TWO CHAPTERS TO GO...
mwahahahahaha *cackles evilly*
Reviews.
Sonyadore, I love you, it's great to see you again, but I shall respond to yours via review reply, or this section would be longer then the chapter itself. Angelstar, happy vacation then! I hope this is a great start to it. About naming a story after a song, well, this story origanally started when I'd written the first chapter, and that was supposed to be it, and thus I'd named it "I'm With You". It sat like that for about two weeks, and then I got the idea to keep going, and one year later, this is what happened. I still think the song "I'm With You" goes with the story, but that's just how it ended up. Yeah, let me know when you put it up, I'll have a read :) . Little25victor, hahaha, I laughed at that :). and yup, they grabbed them on the way past, but the door they were leaving only left their room of entrapment, not to the outside, remember. Beth, thanks! LoveThisStoryGirl, you're welcome :) And it's alright if Kagura sees them, remember, she's betraying Naraku to Sesshy? Akurai Nightshade, was this soon enough? *looks innocent*
Will update soon(ish)! ;P
InuKag
