Under the Pale
Autumn Moon
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Naraku smirked as he watched Kagome
crash herself into the barrier, "I hope she doesn't kill
herself."
Kagome was finally slammed into a wall and
knocked unconscious, Naraku cackled evilly as he hopped down the
steps and walked towards Kagome, picking her up by her hair, "Hard
to believe she's the Miko who was cursed. She's barely worth my time,
no real Miko powers."
He muttered to himself as he tossed
Kagome onto a patch of dead tree leaves, shaped like a makeshift
bed.
Sighing he sat on the wall she'd crashed into and gazed
up at his castle, "One day I will be able to enter it, and it
will all be thanks to you, Koibito," he spoke to the oblivious
girl who was breathing softly, her hair fanned out behind her and her
bruised and battered body looking rather paled, "If you die,
I'll be very angry, Koishii, so don't even think of dying."
All
he received in return for his exclamation was shallow
breathing.
Inuyasha crawled on the ground, his legs
scurrying out behind him as he dodged trees and other things that
might offend his nose, trying to track down Kagome's scent, but sadly
the many cedars that surrounded the area drowned the smell of roses
out.
Miroku and Sango followed behind him in mild interest,
only tagging along to make sure that Inuyasha didn't do anything
stupid.
"Anything yet, Inuyasha?" Sango asked as
Inuyasha ran into a tree, making birds scatter in all
directions.
"Its weird, her smell is strong, but then it
suddenly disappears," Inu- yasha grunted while rubbing his nose,
staring at the tree as if it were the thing keeping him from
Kagome.
Sango and Miroku exchanged glances, "Maybe that
baboon guy did something to throw you off?"
"That
bastard, Naraku, he'll have to pay, its one thing to turn me into
this," he motioned to his ears, but appeared to be talking to
the himself more than the two humans, "but how dare he take
Kagome away from me!"
"I hate to point this out,
Inuyasha, but you did walk away from her, allowing this Naraku guy to
take her away," Miroku said, earning a punch in the stomach by
Inuyasha.
"Shut up, you know nothing, you've always had
Sango, you've always been one species in your lifetime, you have no
idea what this feels like," Inuyasha growled as he returned to
sniffing the ground, searching for Kagome.
Miroku sighed,
knowing that what Inuyasha said was true, but not wanting to admit
it, he slipped his hand into Sango's as they followed after the dog
hanyou.
Naraku walked briskly with Kagome dragging behind him,
her soft figure cut and bruised from Naraku's assaults and from being
hauled like a little doll. Naraku's footsteps resounded along the
deserted castle, though it could barely be called that, it was more
like a large house.
Naraku came to a small shack on the
outskirts of the "castle" and threw the door open. Rats and
birds all hid when the sunshine hit their nests and dwellings. Naraku
smirked, hopefully Kagome hated rodents. Throwing the girl inside the
shack and locked the door, it would take awhile for Kagome to find
the strength to open the door.
Before leaving he leaned over
and pricked Kagome's neck with a claw, smirking again he placed
something behind Kagome's ear and walked out.
He heard
footsteps off in the distance, behind the barrier and smirked, "So,
the little hanyou has finally found me?"
Inuyasha
pounded through the forest, his nose finally attaching to Naraku's
scent, Kagome's being too weak, his heart pounded. He panted softly
when he found a gap in the trees.
Miroku and Sango were close
behind, watching the hanyou run faster than anything they'd ever seen
before.
Inuyasha didn't give them a second glance as he
started to run again towards the gap in the trees: that was where
Naraku's scent was reeking.
Something caught Miroku's eye,
"Inuyasha wait..."
But he never got to finish
because at that moment, Inuyasha ran through something translucent, a
bluish wall. Miroku blinked, "He can go through
barriers?"
Sango shrugged and ran forward, but was hurled
back, "Damn, that hurt."
Miroku grabbed her and
helped support her, "What does this mean Sango?"
"We're
trapped outside, duh," Sango said dryly.
Miroku bent down
on his knees and raised his hand in a one-handed prayer, "I
shall try and break the barrier."
Sango nodded and looked
past the barrier, where Inuyasha's figure was slowly retreating,
"Take care of him, Inuyasha."
Inuyasha
smelt his friend's scent growing weaker and weaker but he couldn't
wait for them, he has to save Kagome, racing as fast as he could, he
came upon some steps to a large house like thing. He stared blankly
at it and then something caught his eye.
"Kagome!"
Inuyasha cheered happily as he ran to the girl. She stood softly off
to the side, in shadows, her arms crossed over her chest as she stood
in an annoyed position, "Kagome, I'm so glad you're
alright!"
Kagome smiled, "I am too."
Inuyasha
grasped Kagome and hugged her tightly, as if she'd disappear if he
let go. Inuyasha, however, didn't notice when Kagome smirked evilly,
her eyes glinting with evil intentions.
