Chapter 3: Deranged Plants

Author: Stormy

Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha so don't sue me!

Authors note: This chapter was written by my best friend Wicked lady.

Another Note: ' ' means thoughts to themselves none of it is said out loud.

Japanese terms:

Ano - Love

Baka – fool

Ursai – Shut up

She struggled with him, his weight too overpowering for her, but she knew that she had to get him to Kaede's as soon as she could.

"Ano," she said to herself, "which way should I go? I think that if I go through the woods we can get there faster."

"Uggghhhh ursai, you are giving me a headache," said Inuyasha as he phased in for one moment and then phased out again.

Well the decision was made; she was going through the woods.

"The sooner I get him to Kaede's the sooner I can stop listening to his moaning and groaning," she said, ' plus I want him to be OK, please let him be OK.'

She went as fast as she could and didn't think twice to look back, yet in the back of her mind something was telling her that she was in danger. She ignored it and moved on yet she did seem to notice that the plants were moving strangely all around her. She couldn't help but have this odd feeling as though she was being watched. She paused for a second and looked around, there was nothing there no eyes piercing through the leaves no bird watching from above no monster from under the earth everything was silent... and it was the silence that scared her the most.

'Maybe it's because I'm nervous,' she thought hopefully as she continued.

MEANWHILE...

"Power, I sense the power, I can feel it so close!"

A sweet and childlike voice said in an almost eerie tone of voice. "Can't you feel it, my beautiful little flowers? Just you wait and I'll make you complete!"

The closer Kagome was the older the girl appeared.

"You see? What did I tell you?" she said almost sensually. The sweet voice was gone and soon you could see an aura of green light swirling around the girl. In one evil laugh she transformed into a beautiful young woman, around the age of sixteen or seventeen. Her dress was made totally and completely of flowers, vines and leaves. It suited her green eyes well, along with her long black hair, as dark as the night itself. From afar she seemed harmless. You would usually see her among the plants, humming and talking enjoying nature at its best. But when you looked closer you would notice that she was not an average young woman. In fact you could almost see the flowers growing in her footsteps. You would see her heal the dead plants in to full growth. One would think she must be a good demon of some kind. If you believed that you are wrong. This child was one of the forests; she enjoyed the company of nature more than the company of mankind. In order to keep her precious plants alive and well and in good abundance she easily sacrifices the power of a human life.

"Once we gather the shards we will live for all eternity," she said treacherously, "We will shower the entire world with your beauty and eliminate mankind."

The deranged girl had a unique power over the plants far more than growing and healing them. She could control them with only a thought at hand. Whatever she willed occurred the moment she imagines it.

BACK WITH KAGOME...

Stronger and stronger the urge to turn back was becoming unbearable. "It's too late now I'm sure that I'm almost there."

But as she looked around she noticed that she was right where she started from in the first place. Terrified she turned to leave the forest and in an instant a wall of trees grew as tall as the other trees in the forest. It became clear to her now that she was trapped. What was she to do? But then from nowhere a little girl the age of about six or seven appeared from the shrubs. Slowly she approached Kagome teary eyed. It was obvious that she had been crying so instantly not worrying about her present condition she asked the girl... "What's wrong? Are you all right?"

"I'm lost," wailed the little girl, " I wanna go home to my mommy, MOOMMY!!!!!!"

The girl was sobbing in her misery and Kagome needed to calm her down. As Kagome put all her attention to the screaming girl Inuyasha phased in again, this time more grumpy than before.

"WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON?" he yelled, " My head my poor head, I'm telling you Kagome if I die it will be because of my splitting headache."

"Oohhhh," said the little one, " look ... pretty... flowers ... at ... the ... little ... doggy ... HALF-DEMON!"

In almost too short a time before Kagome or Inuyasha could fully understand what the girl had said she had turned in a flash of green into the teenager feared by all hunters. Immediately vines from every corner of a person's eyeshot out from the tree branches tying the couple against opposite trees. The young woman stood in the clearing between them. "Well now," she said, " which one of you hold the infamous shards?"

Slowly she drifted towards the now baffled and helpless Inuyasha. 'I can't walk in my condition, how can I possibly fight?' Before he could even talk the girl began to come closer. She touched his chest and pressed close to him.

' What does she think she's doing?' he though. But soon she began to hug him and put her cheek against his chest. Kagome became furious at this and soon her eyes began to glow eerily. The girl then kissed Inuyasha, and then Kagome noticed that Inuyasha's very life was being sucked out of his face.

'She's killing him. No, NO let go of him.'

At that very moment Kagome had ripped out of the vines that confined her, and lunged towards the girl.

"Oh no, poor dear, did you honestly think it was going to be that easy? You should have stayed back there WHERE YOU WERE SAFE!!!!"

Then falling gently from the sky many pink flowers surrounded Kagome. Soon she became sleepy and had fallen into a dangerous deep sleep.

" Hmmm, this half demon barely has any life in him, what a waste of time. Oh well I'll kill him off anyway, then I'll see to that wretched girl."

'NO NO, PLEASE NO, INUYASHA WAKE UP, PLEASE GET UP. IT'S UP TO ME TO SAVE HIM.... BUT I CAN'T OH PLEASE SOMEONE HELP, HELP............ I... I... I can't loose him now,

I love him.'

Her eyes once again began to glow and Kikyo had taken over Kagome's body.

"It is not yet time for you to die Inuyasha," she said.

With a swift strike of an arrow the young demon fell. With the scream of a banshee the lives of all the people left in peace. With the love of Kagome, Inuyasha lived another day. With the death of the young demon, the beautiful flowers diminished to dust. And soon the young heroes found themselves at Kaede's house. "I thought I lost you," the both said in together. They embraced each other and after a moment they realized what had happened.

"You worry to much," said Inuyasha, " BAKA! Why can't you do things by yourself, your so useless.

'I love you to Inuyasha, I love you too'

They began to walk together down the path to Kaede's house, for her to mend his wounds.

TBC