Chapter 8: Backfire
[A/n: Hehehe I just have to say this! Kikyo-sama, I LOVE THE PICTURE YOU DREW!!!! Especially the EYES & EARS! Furthermore the purple dress! *claps for you * I love it! I love it! I love it! I hope you don't mind but, everyone else needs to see it! Go to: , its at the bottom of the page. EVERYNE CLAP FOR KIKYO-SAMA!!! =^-^=]
"Sango . . . " Kirara said in a whisper as the exterminator looked at Kirara with mixed expressions that where impossible to read. "So this is how you became human! Striking a deal with him!" Sango snapped with sudden coldness that Kirara never knew. "Sango . . . I."
"Kirara, why? Why did you do it?" Sango demanded as Kirara lowered her head, "You wouldn't understand, Sango." She whispered as Naraku chuckled, "I would hate to ruin this lovely moment but . . . I am becoming bored and so I will leave, after I leave you a gift." He stated as he snapped his fingers and the spider upon Kirara's head became visible, her eyes became sightless orbs and her face empty of expression. "Much better, now I shall leave you all, Kirara, kill her and then the others including the hanyou." With that and an evil laugh, Naraku disappeared leaving the two girls alone.
Sango held her boomerang and looked at Kirara, Kirara only smiled as her element surrounded her as it sprang to life, her razor sharp claws extended outwards and she held one hand up to her face. The without warning Kirara charged at the exterminator. Sango seeing this held her weapon before her using it as a shield as Kirara's struck the boomerang that was made from a youkai's bone. "Kirara! Stop, come on snap out of it! I don't want to fight you." She yelled with a growl, she did not want to lose her friend. She had already lost her family, her village and her friends.
But Kirara only laughed and struck at Hiraikotsu with her claws and forcing Sango back. "Kirara!" Sango yelled and seeing no choice in the matter and not wanting to die she tightened her grip upon Hiraikotsu and swung her weapon hard into Kirara making the neko fly onto the ground and roll away. But just like the neko youkai she was she instantly was back on her feet. Her two tails bushed out like a cat would when they hissed, and she indeed hissed and jumped up and attacked Sango again.
Sango this time was ready and although she did not have her mask with her and seeing little choice she reached into her kimono and pulled out a egg shaped blue ball and threw it to the ground as she jumped away. Kirara ran right into the doku-fun and instantly started to cough and covered her sensitive nose with her sleeve and backed a way from the gas, coughing.
"Hiraikotsu!" Sango yelled out as the boomerang flew towards Kirara and flew into her gut and sending her into a tree, painfully. Sango held her breath as she ran through the gas and caught her weapon in her right hand as she ran and came out of the gas. Sango then slammed the weapon into Kirara, trapping her between the tree and the weapon. "Kirara wake up! Fight it, please!" Sango cried to her friend who was still under the youkai's control and frantically tried to free herself.
Kirara's two tails swung around and caught Sango' s ankle and with one quick motions knocked Sango onto her butt, freeing herself, Kirara pounced upon the human and raised her claws to strike at her friend, but instead of swing the death blow she found herself on the ground and a nasty wound on the head that was bleeding. She then acknowledge how she received the blow. Miroku the monk was no standing over Sango with his staff out before him, confusion written all over his face.
"Sango, get out of here." He said in a composed and yet worried tone that surprised Sango . "How? No, no I wont go!" she said as she pulled herself up off the ground and stood behind Miroku. "Kagome-sama sensed a jewel shard so I came to look for it, but instead I found you two fighting, what is wrong with Kirara?"
"Naraku had control of her, don't hurt her." Sango said as she eyed the sword that was strangely upon the monks back. "Miroku." She questioned as she noticed the sword was her own. "I thought you may need it, seeing as you ran off." He spoke and with a quick motion drew the sword and held it in his right hand as his staff was in his left. "We need to knock her out." He said as Kirara studied the monk and then grinned.
"Right." Sango commented and grabbed her weapon from the ground and held the boomerang high. Kirara took this moment to attack the monk, in each swing she took at him he countered with the staff and each attack the sword would be used. But finally something clicked with Kirara's mind and it wasn't a good thing either. She waited for the best opportunity and when it came about as Sango let Hiraikotsu fly Kirara impelled herself onto the katana within Miroku's left hand that he had switch the blade to earlier and grabbed hold of the blade. She reached out and clawed Miroku's face as she let her element take over and sent the blade on fire and Miroku as let go of the katana and cried out in pain as his hand and sleeve was now on fire.
Just then Hiraikotsu came around and cracked into Kirara's head causing her to become anesthetized and fell onto the ground. Miroku put the flames out by thrusting his arm into the stream beside him and then he stared at the body of Kirara. Sango then ran to her friend and pulled the blade out of her and felt for life and found it. "Kirara! Don't die! Please!" Sango cried as Miroku looked to his hand in shock as he realized what had happened. "Kirara. . . "
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"How is she?" Sango ask as Kagome came out of the hut. "She alright, if you don't count the in her stomach and her wounded head." She sat down beside Sango who was sitting upon the steps of the hut outside. "Miroku just has a pretty bad burn from his hand up to his shoulder. It will cause him a lot of pain but other then that he will be alright."
Silence
"What happened out there?" Kagome asked
"Naraku attack Kirara and then used her against us, it happened all so fast and there all hurt. Kagome what are we going to do now? Inu-Yasha, Miroku and Kirara are all wounded! Its just me, you and Shippo." Sango said in a whisper as she turned to look at her friend with sad eyes. Kagome could tell by the look in her friend's eyes that she was hiding something from her, there was more to the attack. But she was not going to question her friend, she would tell her sometime.
Kagome sighed, "Don't worry Sango, they be good to go soon, I think." And Sango nodded, Sango had left many parts out of the tale she told Kagome infact, she was afraid for her and Kirara. If what she heard Naraku and Kirara talking about . . . Kagome would die by the full moon.
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Kirara awoke with a massive headache and pain through her body. ["What happened?"] she thought as she tried to move but could not. ["Where am I?"] she questioned as her eyes adjusted to the light, it was morning, she now could her the birds sing and the leafs ruffling in the wind. People, she heard people outside attending there daily chores. She was in the hut that they all rented.
She sighed and rolled her head to the right to find Inu-Yasha resting underneath the window, but he wasn't laying down, he was sitting up with one leg drawn up to his chest and the other laid out before him, Tetsusaiga cradled in his strong arms. Had the poison finished its cycle?
No . . .
It was still there, she could hear him breath heavily and yet he was up and about. She stared at him with confusion, was he watching over her? No, I was just her imagination . . . or was it. She never noticed when he had opened his golden eyes to stare back at her as if he was looking her over, analyzing her. Until finally he spoke, but strangely there was no irritation or anger in his voice, he spoke in almost a whisper!
"What are you staring at, neko?" he said which made Kirara snap back into reality. She closed her eyes and tried to sit up, "You shouldn't be moving about Inu-Yasha." She stated but was gently pushed down by the scabbard of Tetsusaiga. "You should take your own advice, Kirara, I'm fine its you who shouldn't move around." He stated as he with drew the scabbard and leaned on it once again as Kirara lay back down.
For a long moment the two stared at each other, Inu-Yasha caught the faint scent of Naraku around the neko but asked no questions. He was smarter then what most people thought and from what he let on. He was slowly forming the puzzle within his mind; at least one piece fit in now, Kirara had become human by striking a deal with Naraku. But what kind of a deal and what was the price? He studied Kirara's eyes that held the truth, all he could come up with that it was worth it, whatever the price she must pay.
To her it was worth it . . .
Inu-Yasha grunted and then stood up though he would not admit that his wounds still pained him and that the poison was still in his system. His white man flowed over his shoulders like a river as he reached down and picked up Tetsusaiga, then turned to leave. But he was stopped by a soft voice and the touch of a soft tail. "Inu-Yasha . . . will you . . .please stay with me . . . until I fall . . .asleep?" Kiara asked as she hid her fear of him saying no. He stood there with his back turned to her and he stayed there for many moments and then turned around and laid his sword against the wall and he sat back down where he once did.
" . . . Umm . . ." she said as he then moved closer to her and laid her head on his lap hiding a blush and cocked an smart-ass smile at her. "A pillow for a pillow." He stated which made Kirara chuckle at the statement. He was actually allowing her to sleep on his lap. She smiled weakly, "D- Domo . . . aritgato gozaimas . . . Inu-chan." Kirara replied as she closed her eyes and her tails gently moved side to side, brushing across the floor.
Soon Kirara was sound asleep and Inu-Yasha looked at her with a confused expression. What was he feeling for her? He strongly felt affection for this neko, his friend. But why? ["You like her don't you?"] a voice said in his mind
["Shut up in there, no one asked you."] he snapped and to his own surprise found his clawed hand playing with the ends of Kirara's cream colored hair. It was so soft, like silk. He gently touched her faced and ran a hand down to her chin, stroking her cheek. ["She so soft, like a baby, her hands so frail and her voice so dulcet."] he thought as he heard his inner voice laughing at him.
["I though you loved Kagome."] his voice snickered and Inu-Yasha blinked several times and let his hand fall to his side. ["I . . . I do . . . at least I think . . . I do."]
["Perhaps lust?"] his voice asked off handly which caused Inu-Yasha to shake his head ["I don't know, she was the first person to accept me for who I am, someone to talk to, she freed me and my soul, she mended my broken heart . . . I loved her . . . and now . . .I don't know anymore."]
["You don't know much do you?"] his voice asked in an amused tone and he snarled at his inner voice and he went away. Thus leaving Inu-Yasha to think as he looked down at the peaceful Kirara that slept upon his lap. He was so absorbed in his thoughts he never noticed a little pale girl outside the window who held a mirror for another to see.
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"Ku ku ku ku. How very amusing, it seems the hanyou is falling for the neko and all this time I thought the human miko was the one he was in love with. Kukuku."
"Milord, Naraku?" a composed voice said and he looked up to find a young but ever so dead miko in front of him, she wore the attire of a priestess. "Ah, Kikyo, I need you to do me a little favor and you also Kagura."
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Domo aritgato gozaimas Inu-chan - Thank you very much, Inu-yasha
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[A/N: Well I was going to have Sango get kidnapped and used as a hostage but the more I thought about it the more I realized it would be a little to difficult and a it would go off track a bit. But ANWAYS! I hope you enjoyed this chapter, though it was a little screwy. I had some trouble writing it. But anyways I best go now so . . .
JA NE!]
[A/n: Hehehe I just have to say this! Kikyo-sama, I LOVE THE PICTURE YOU DREW!!!! Especially the EYES & EARS! Furthermore the purple dress! *claps for you * I love it! I love it! I love it! I hope you don't mind but, everyone else needs to see it! Go to: , its at the bottom of the page. EVERYNE CLAP FOR KIKYO-SAMA!!! =^-^=]
"Sango . . . " Kirara said in a whisper as the exterminator looked at Kirara with mixed expressions that where impossible to read. "So this is how you became human! Striking a deal with him!" Sango snapped with sudden coldness that Kirara never knew. "Sango . . . I."
"Kirara, why? Why did you do it?" Sango demanded as Kirara lowered her head, "You wouldn't understand, Sango." She whispered as Naraku chuckled, "I would hate to ruin this lovely moment but . . . I am becoming bored and so I will leave, after I leave you a gift." He stated as he snapped his fingers and the spider upon Kirara's head became visible, her eyes became sightless orbs and her face empty of expression. "Much better, now I shall leave you all, Kirara, kill her and then the others including the hanyou." With that and an evil laugh, Naraku disappeared leaving the two girls alone.
Sango held her boomerang and looked at Kirara, Kirara only smiled as her element surrounded her as it sprang to life, her razor sharp claws extended outwards and she held one hand up to her face. The without warning Kirara charged at the exterminator. Sango seeing this held her weapon before her using it as a shield as Kirara's struck the boomerang that was made from a youkai's bone. "Kirara! Stop, come on snap out of it! I don't want to fight you." She yelled with a growl, she did not want to lose her friend. She had already lost her family, her village and her friends.
But Kirara only laughed and struck at Hiraikotsu with her claws and forcing Sango back. "Kirara!" Sango yelled and seeing no choice in the matter and not wanting to die she tightened her grip upon Hiraikotsu and swung her weapon hard into Kirara making the neko fly onto the ground and roll away. But just like the neko youkai she was she instantly was back on her feet. Her two tails bushed out like a cat would when they hissed, and she indeed hissed and jumped up and attacked Sango again.
Sango this time was ready and although she did not have her mask with her and seeing little choice she reached into her kimono and pulled out a egg shaped blue ball and threw it to the ground as she jumped away. Kirara ran right into the doku-fun and instantly started to cough and covered her sensitive nose with her sleeve and backed a way from the gas, coughing.
"Hiraikotsu!" Sango yelled out as the boomerang flew towards Kirara and flew into her gut and sending her into a tree, painfully. Sango held her breath as she ran through the gas and caught her weapon in her right hand as she ran and came out of the gas. Sango then slammed the weapon into Kirara, trapping her between the tree and the weapon. "Kirara wake up! Fight it, please!" Sango cried to her friend who was still under the youkai's control and frantically tried to free herself.
Kirara's two tails swung around and caught Sango' s ankle and with one quick motions knocked Sango onto her butt, freeing herself, Kirara pounced upon the human and raised her claws to strike at her friend, but instead of swing the death blow she found herself on the ground and a nasty wound on the head that was bleeding. She then acknowledge how she received the blow. Miroku the monk was no standing over Sango with his staff out before him, confusion written all over his face.
"Sango, get out of here." He said in a composed and yet worried tone that surprised Sango . "How? No, no I wont go!" she said as she pulled herself up off the ground and stood behind Miroku. "Kagome-sama sensed a jewel shard so I came to look for it, but instead I found you two fighting, what is wrong with Kirara?"
"Naraku had control of her, don't hurt her." Sango said as she eyed the sword that was strangely upon the monks back. "Miroku." She questioned as she noticed the sword was her own. "I thought you may need it, seeing as you ran off." He spoke and with a quick motion drew the sword and held it in his right hand as his staff was in his left. "We need to knock her out." He said as Kirara studied the monk and then grinned.
"Right." Sango commented and grabbed her weapon from the ground and held the boomerang high. Kirara took this moment to attack the monk, in each swing she took at him he countered with the staff and each attack the sword would be used. But finally something clicked with Kirara's mind and it wasn't a good thing either. She waited for the best opportunity and when it came about as Sango let Hiraikotsu fly Kirara impelled herself onto the katana within Miroku's left hand that he had switch the blade to earlier and grabbed hold of the blade. She reached out and clawed Miroku's face as she let her element take over and sent the blade on fire and Miroku as let go of the katana and cried out in pain as his hand and sleeve was now on fire.
Just then Hiraikotsu came around and cracked into Kirara's head causing her to become anesthetized and fell onto the ground. Miroku put the flames out by thrusting his arm into the stream beside him and then he stared at the body of Kirara. Sango then ran to her friend and pulled the blade out of her and felt for life and found it. "Kirara! Don't die! Please!" Sango cried as Miroku looked to his hand in shock as he realized what had happened. "Kirara. . . "
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"How is she?" Sango ask as Kagome came out of the hut. "She alright, if you don't count the in her stomach and her wounded head." She sat down beside Sango who was sitting upon the steps of the hut outside. "Miroku just has a pretty bad burn from his hand up to his shoulder. It will cause him a lot of pain but other then that he will be alright."
Silence
"What happened out there?" Kagome asked
"Naraku attack Kirara and then used her against us, it happened all so fast and there all hurt. Kagome what are we going to do now? Inu-Yasha, Miroku and Kirara are all wounded! Its just me, you and Shippo." Sango said in a whisper as she turned to look at her friend with sad eyes. Kagome could tell by the look in her friend's eyes that she was hiding something from her, there was more to the attack. But she was not going to question her friend, she would tell her sometime.
Kagome sighed, "Don't worry Sango, they be good to go soon, I think." And Sango nodded, Sango had left many parts out of the tale she told Kagome infact, she was afraid for her and Kirara. If what she heard Naraku and Kirara talking about . . . Kagome would die by the full moon.
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Kirara awoke with a massive headache and pain through her body. ["What happened?"] she thought as she tried to move but could not. ["Where am I?"] she questioned as her eyes adjusted to the light, it was morning, she now could her the birds sing and the leafs ruffling in the wind. People, she heard people outside attending there daily chores. She was in the hut that they all rented.
She sighed and rolled her head to the right to find Inu-Yasha resting underneath the window, but he wasn't laying down, he was sitting up with one leg drawn up to his chest and the other laid out before him, Tetsusaiga cradled in his strong arms. Had the poison finished its cycle?
No . . .
It was still there, she could hear him breath heavily and yet he was up and about. She stared at him with confusion, was he watching over her? No, I was just her imagination . . . or was it. She never noticed when he had opened his golden eyes to stare back at her as if he was looking her over, analyzing her. Until finally he spoke, but strangely there was no irritation or anger in his voice, he spoke in almost a whisper!
"What are you staring at, neko?" he said which made Kirara snap back into reality. She closed her eyes and tried to sit up, "You shouldn't be moving about Inu-Yasha." She stated but was gently pushed down by the scabbard of Tetsusaiga. "You should take your own advice, Kirara, I'm fine its you who shouldn't move around." He stated as he with drew the scabbard and leaned on it once again as Kirara lay back down.
For a long moment the two stared at each other, Inu-Yasha caught the faint scent of Naraku around the neko but asked no questions. He was smarter then what most people thought and from what he let on. He was slowly forming the puzzle within his mind; at least one piece fit in now, Kirara had become human by striking a deal with Naraku. But what kind of a deal and what was the price? He studied Kirara's eyes that held the truth, all he could come up with that it was worth it, whatever the price she must pay.
To her it was worth it . . .
Inu-Yasha grunted and then stood up though he would not admit that his wounds still pained him and that the poison was still in his system. His white man flowed over his shoulders like a river as he reached down and picked up Tetsusaiga, then turned to leave. But he was stopped by a soft voice and the touch of a soft tail. "Inu-Yasha . . . will you . . .please stay with me . . . until I fall . . .asleep?" Kiara asked as she hid her fear of him saying no. He stood there with his back turned to her and he stayed there for many moments and then turned around and laid his sword against the wall and he sat back down where he once did.
" . . . Umm . . ." she said as he then moved closer to her and laid her head on his lap hiding a blush and cocked an smart-ass smile at her. "A pillow for a pillow." He stated which made Kirara chuckle at the statement. He was actually allowing her to sleep on his lap. She smiled weakly, "D- Domo . . . aritgato gozaimas . . . Inu-chan." Kirara replied as she closed her eyes and her tails gently moved side to side, brushing across the floor.
Soon Kirara was sound asleep and Inu-Yasha looked at her with a confused expression. What was he feeling for her? He strongly felt affection for this neko, his friend. But why? ["You like her don't you?"] a voice said in his mind
["Shut up in there, no one asked you."] he snapped and to his own surprise found his clawed hand playing with the ends of Kirara's cream colored hair. It was so soft, like silk. He gently touched her faced and ran a hand down to her chin, stroking her cheek. ["She so soft, like a baby, her hands so frail and her voice so dulcet."] he thought as he heard his inner voice laughing at him.
["I though you loved Kagome."] his voice snickered and Inu-Yasha blinked several times and let his hand fall to his side. ["I . . . I do . . . at least I think . . . I do."]
["Perhaps lust?"] his voice asked off handly which caused Inu-Yasha to shake his head ["I don't know, she was the first person to accept me for who I am, someone to talk to, she freed me and my soul, she mended my broken heart . . . I loved her . . . and now . . .I don't know anymore."]
["You don't know much do you?"] his voice asked in an amused tone and he snarled at his inner voice and he went away. Thus leaving Inu-Yasha to think as he looked down at the peaceful Kirara that slept upon his lap. He was so absorbed in his thoughts he never noticed a little pale girl outside the window who held a mirror for another to see.
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"Ku ku ku ku. How very amusing, it seems the hanyou is falling for the neko and all this time I thought the human miko was the one he was in love with. Kukuku."
"Milord, Naraku?" a composed voice said and he looked up to find a young but ever so dead miko in front of him, she wore the attire of a priestess. "Ah, Kikyo, I need you to do me a little favor and you also Kagura."
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Domo aritgato gozaimas Inu-chan - Thank you very much, Inu-yasha
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[A/N: Well I was going to have Sango get kidnapped and used as a hostage but the more I thought about it the more I realized it would be a little to difficult and a it would go off track a bit. But ANWAYS! I hope you enjoyed this chapter, though it was a little screwy. I had some trouble writing it. But anyways I best go now so . . .
JA NE!]