Well, not that I'm feeling perfect at the moment…I have enough bad things right now to compensate for the good and vise versa, but you don't have to trouble yourself with that, you're here to figure out what's going to happed to everyone so
Chapter 29: Full Moon Elixir
Several arrows flew threw the air. They hit everything but Sumiko.
"Are the arrows really all you have?" Sumiko asked dodging another arrow.
Kikyo watched her. "What manner of demon are you?"
"Hey! I asked you a question first!" Sumiko shouted. She drew a deck of cards out of her kimono.
Kikyo just watched her expressionlessly.
Sumiko drew a card and held it up…the six of diamonds. It glowed bright in her hand till the red symbols couldn't be seen. Then she took the card, flipped it and tossed it at the ground under her feet. Like a sonic boom, it exploded into light through out the forest.
Kikyo squinted through the light and gasped. Six Sumiko's jumped into the air and flew at her, each one giggling evilly. Kikyo crossed her arms putting up a force field. The six Sumiko's all hit the forcefeild, trying to force their way through.
"You don't make any sense to me, miko." One of the Sumikos said.
"You're supposedly holy yet you do so many bad things." Another said. All of the Sumikos screamed at once and broke through.
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Inu Yasha's ears twitched when he heard the others arrive. He couldn't hear the cries from Shippou, or the diagnosis and despair from Sango, or the prayer being made by Miroku for Kagome's soul. Inu Yasha had become numb of all of his emotions…all gone but the ability to think. "Why?" he asked out loud in a dreamy voice.
The others didn't seem to hear him but he didn't care.
"Why does everyone I love die?"
"HI!" ^___^
"BWA?!" Inu Yasha came out of his shock and jumped backwards as the snow white face of Shitai appeared upside down inches away from his.
Shitai dropped out of a tree, landing on her feet like a cat and grinning like one too. ^___^
Everyone looked at her and sweatdropped.
Inu Yasha recovered. "Who the hell are you?!?!"
"Ooooh! What a short term memory we have!" Shitai said twirling around once. Don't you remember me? I'm the witch that put that spell on you and your brother and friend! Recognize me?" ^_^
"Well Shio's dead now and your little servant Sumiko is out killing Kikyo!" Inu Yasha said.
"Partially right." Shitai said.
"What?"
"You are only partially right. You don't even know where Shio is so for all you know, he could be dead or alive."
"But the lying spell-!"
"You don't know why that was removed either. Also, Sumiko is not my servant, I just brought her back from the dead." She huffed and made a face at Inu Yasha. "So there Mr. Smartyface!!" she then looked dramatically sad. "Naraku fired me without even paying me for my services. He kept my partner though because she has control of Sumiko."
"Wait." Sango said. "Someone is controlling Sumiko?"
"Yeah. That fox girl is the biggest baby without that controlling power. Well anyway…I came to join YOUR TEAM!!" ^___^ Shitai beamed happily and stars glittered around her.
Everyone: ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
Shitai put her hands over her eyes and screamed, "STOP LOOKING AT ME LIKE THAT!! YOU'RE MAKING ME PARANOID!!"
"Weirdo." Inu Yasha muttered. "Wasn't this supposed to be a romantic/angst scene?"
"Fine! Then I won't do what I came here to do if you're going to be so nasty like that!" Shitai crossed her arms and turned away from them.
A few moments of silence passed where Shitai didn't move from that spot sulking fakely as the others didn't move.
"Inu Yasha." Miroku suddenly said. "Appologize."
"Huh?" Inu looked up at him as the monk made his way over to Shitai.
"There is something to the young woman…more then meets the eye you know…" Miroku held Shitai's hands. "Please ignore my friend Miss Shitai and if you would do me a personal favor, please bear my child."
Shitai looked at him blankly. Sango was about to hit Miroku over the head with her boomerang when Shitai replied, "I'm a lesbian."
Inu Yasha and Sango facefaulted.
"What's a lesbian?" Shippou asked scratching his head cluelessly.
Miroku sighed disappointedly and let go of her hands. "It seems that all women are lesbians lately."
BAM!
Sango hit him over the head with her boomerang and shook her fist angrily. "I'M NOT A LESBIAN!!"
All of a sudden, Miroku clasped her hands. "Sango, would you-?"
BAM!!
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"WHAAA??!?!?!"
Waterfalls of tears flowed from Kikase's eyes. "I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU GOT RID OF SHITAI!! WHO'S GONNA PLAY WITH ME NOW?!?!"
"Straighten up, fool." Naraku sneered at her. She sat on the floor at his feet crying. "Get to work. You know what to do now. Start summoning a demon to get Sumiko."
Kikase sniffled and brought her flute to her lips sadly.
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Shio walked up a very steep hill to the tip top where an old mansion covered in vines and forest growth lay. It was an old house, and no one had lived there for years. Shio pushed apart the growth covering the doorway and stepped inside the dark castle. He walked down the musty hallway to a room that smelled like cinnamon and dust. On the floor was a bed for a smaller person and a placemat with a mortar and pestal. Next to it was a candle which he lit with foxfire. He looked around the old but familiar room. There were some claw marks on the floor and by the bed. He crawled on his hands and knees over to the bed and reached under the pillow. A wooden box came sliding out with the Japanese symbols on it "From Mother to Son".
Sliding open the top, the inside of the box was filled with many flasks of potions and dried pressed leaves most of which hadn't survived the weight of time. But luckily, the ones he needed were as potent as they where when they were freshly brewed. He pulled the flasks out holding each between the sides of his fingers and carried them over to the mat.
A long time ago, his mother taught him how to make a special potion that could do amazing things to his body, but she said to never use it because he was young and the potion was unstable. But he was a lot older and willing to chance it.
Each ingredient was added the way mother told him to. After smashing, mixing and grinding them over and over, he poured all of the ingredients into one flask and took it outside where the full moon glowed in the center of the night sky. Shio held the potion up to the moon and watched as the red pulpy liquid became clear and sparkled a bit in Luna's light.
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"I don't like how this writer keeps switching back and forth like that, I'm confused!" Inu Yasha said.
"Good. You're supposed to be!" Shitai smiled. She rubbed her hands together before going over and kneeling next to Kagome. "Alrighty then…" Shitai reached into the neck of her kimono and pulled out a tin whistle about the length of her fifth finger. She blew into the mouth and a long high pitched tone echoed out. The end of the flute fogged up and small icicles started to grow around Shitai's face.
A moment later, the color flushed back into Kagome's cheeks and she gasped for air like she had been under water somewhere.
"KAGOME!!" Shippou shouted.
Shitai broke a long icicle off of her nose and her eyes teared. "Owie!!"
Suddenly, Kagome was swooped into a group hug like she had never felt and gasped for air again. "Can't….breath!"
They all let go of her and she went back to her normal healthy glow. "I saw a light at the end of the tunnel! My life flashed before my eyes!......It was strange…." ;;;;;
Then she was hugged by Shippou and Inu Yasha at the same time except she felt Inu Yasha shivering a bit. "Inu Yasha?"
"I'm sorry Kagome!" he whimpered.
"Uh…..It's okay, Inu Yasha…I think…what happened?" she pulled away and asked.
"We'll tell you later, Kagome-sama." Miroku said. "There's something happening right now across the forest."
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Kikyo was flung onto her stomach and felt a heavy force land on her middle back making her cry out a little. Sumiko pinned Kikyo's hands against the ground where she could do the least damage. Kikyo's bow lay several feet away. Sumiko shouted. "One! Two! Three! You're out! WAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA!!!!"
Kikyo growled a little. She didn't have the strength to get her off, physically or spiritually. Somehow, her arrows bounced off of Sumiko like they were pieces of styrophome. And she had pretty much exhausted most of her miko power getting rid of the other five Sumikos.
"Get ready!" Sumiko said. She tightened her grip on Kikyo's wrists. Kikyo felt a helium like feeling inside of herself. Sumiko looked down at her after trying and commented, "Geez! You're like hollow chocolate! There's not even an ounce of light inside for me to take!" she then asked herself out loud. "Aren't Miko's supposed to be filled with endless light? Oh well then, I'll just steal her souls…there's a lot of those!"
Kikyo groaned from the grip Sumiko had on her wrists. "I know what you are now! You're a leech!"
"Tss….if I were a leech, I know that I could find better targets then you, lady." Sumiko said reaching inside of her again. "Wow…you need all of these souls to function? My design is much more manageable. I have everything you don't!" she sucked two souls out of Kikyo at once making the priestess feel slightly light headed.
"Don't be a baby!" Sumiko said. "I've got hundreds more to take!" Just when she was about to extract another soul, someone dropped on the ground a few feet away. Sumiko smiled at him. "Well look who it is! How was the afterlife, Shio?"
He glared at her. "They didn't know whether to put me in heaven or hell. Until I was brought back, they argued over whether the good side or bad side showed the most."
Sumiko laughed under her breath. "Sounds sublime!"
Kikyo looked up at Shio with droplets of sweat on her forehead. She recognized him right away as the demon she went after a while ago, and thought that Kagome purified him. "You!" Kikyo shouted.
Shio looked down at Kikyo, blinked, raised one of his sexy eyebrows and asked, "Who are you?"
"Baka," Kikyo said. "Am I that easy to forget?"
"I've never seen you before." Shio said before turning his attention back to Sumiko. "Well little sis, it looks like you've made a big mistake."
"You two are siblings?" Kikyo groaned loudly.
"And what is that, dear older brother?" Sumiko asked, ignoring Kikyo.
"Your little plan was working just fine until you went and stole my light." Shio said.
Sumiko squinted at him and didn't sense a trace of light. "Wow." She commented. "I drained you good, didn't I?"
"You stabbed me if I remember." He said. "By taking my light, you've also taken away petty feelings from me." He raised his right hand and balled it into a fist cracking the knuckles. "For example, if I were to kill my own sister, I wouldn't feel bad about it."
Sumiko didn't shrink off, only smiled interestedly. "Oh my, Kikyo, look at this. Mr. Playa is threatening me."
Shio reached into his kimono and pulled out the elixir of the full moon he had made and downed the whole thing, tilting his head back to make sure he got each drop.
"Oh, and he wants things to be interesting." Sumiko said. She got up and walked aside from Kikyo, who was too dizzy to get up anyway.
"Elixir of the full moon? I didn't know you still knew that potion." Sumiko grinned excitedly. "I love watching what happens though."
Kikyo kept her head up watching then saw what she meant. Within moments after he drank the potion he began to grow a little bit taller till he was as tall as Sesshomaru.
Sumiko laughed and came at him aiming to claw him in the face. Right as she was about to do so, Shio's hand shot up and blocked with a pair of his own sharp claws. They grew longer and sharper. Sumiko did a flip over his head and came at him again. Shio pulled himself into a fighting stance and his muscles pumped. He blocked each of her blows. Sumiko made one more swing and made contact with something. Shio skidded back on all fours. The white ribbon holding his hair up fell in two pieces and his silky auburn hair fell down his back, then turned white as the moon. His ears grew elf-like on the sides of his head. He blinked and his emerald eyes turned ice blue. Sumiko crossed her hands in front of herself and the palms went blood red. She charged him to make her special attack. "Crimson light claw!"
Shio went to jump to the side but felt himself being weighed down by something. His eyes widened and he looked behind himself. His silky brown tail had grown two times longer and was big and fluffy. "Gods, this thing is heavy." He said, quickly tossing it over his shoulder and barely dodging Sumiko's attack. Two stripes appeared on each side of his cheek and he came at Sumiko with super speed. She didn't expect it and he hit her with one of his special attacks, "Soul Shattering Iron Claw!"
Sumiko's green kimono ripped down the middle and she was thrown into the trees. Shio landed a few feet away scowling at where she was. She jumped out of the tree and tossed the green kimono aside. Underneath was the white under kimono that Kagome gave her when they first met. "Well, this hardly seems fair anymore does it?" Sumiko asked, still smiling at him. You bring out your dog demon side, and yet I'm still mostly kitsune, maybe I should-"she pulled a flask out of her kimono "-even the odds a bit."
"Go ahead." Shio growled.
Sumiko swallowed the potion and tossed the flask aside as she started to transform.
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"Look! They're straight ahead, I can see the light through the trees!" Sango called from her perch on Kirara. She, Miroku and Shippou sat on the demon cat while Kagome was with Inu Yasha.
"Wait." Miroku said squinting at one of the moving figures ahead. "Is that—Sesshomaru?"
"That one looks like-" Inu Yasha tried to determine the other figure "-Sashimi!"
They entered right as Shio struck Sumiko hard across the face. She reeled then looked back at him and growled. She looked almost exactly like Sashimi, but her ears were more like Sesshomaru's and her tail was long and thin.
"Shio!" Sango called from Kirara.
"Don't fight her!" Shippou shouted.
Shio went on fighting Sumiko like he didn't hear them. He clocked Sumiko across the face and she flew into a tree. He ran over and clawed at her neck, holding her on the ground choking her.
"Shio, stop it!" They started to run toward his, but he looked up at them and hissed threateningly. That stopped them in their tracks.
"Back off!" Shio said in a deeper more demonic voice. "I'm going to kill her now! And if you try to defend her I'll kill you too! She stole my light, and hurt us all! She's nothing but trouble and if anyone is going to kill my sister, I will!"
"Your-?" Kagome gasped.
"Sister?" Inu Yasha asked.
"Aka Sumiko! Be a good girl and die!" he shouted at her, his eyes turned blood red.
Sumiko choked loudly then put her claws on Shio's hands. His eyes widened in confusion just as she burnt his hands with light. Screaming, he let her go but just as he did, she jumped up and kicked him, barely missing his neck.
It was unbelieveable. Brother and sister fighting in such a way. "It's not right." Kagome suddenly said out loud. Then without warning, her vision became blurry. Fear seized her until she realized that somewhere, a music box was playing. It was a sweet and innocent tune….it reminded her of what Sumiko was like before she became a slave of Naraku's magic. Then she heard a little boy laugh, "Watch, Sashimi!"
A top landed on the ground and grew to the size of a small cat, whizzing with light and making whistling noises. After half a minute, it started to slow down, shrinking to it's original size.
"Wow, Shio! That's so cool!" A little girl with long furry elf-like ears smiled brightly, watching the top interestedly till it stopped.
The little boy sitting on the ground smiled up at her. He was very short, a little bit taller then Shippou with long brownish red hair. Shio.
His brilliant green eyes glistened and he picked up the top and began to wind it again.
"You're quite the spellbinder, you know that? I don't think any child your age is smart enough to invent his own toys!" the girl said. She was sitting on a fallen tree watching him.
"You really think so?" he asked looking away, the visible skin of his fox ears turned pinker.
"I know so! If you practiced hard enough, you will be a better mage then me someday."
He stopped winding his top and looked up at her as if she was saying something impossible.
She smiled at his cute expression and gave his ear a playful tug.
"Hey! Watch it!" his cheeks flushed this time and he pried her fingers off of his ear.
She just laughed playfully and stood up in front of him. "And maybe someday, I'll teach you how to use your light."
"My light? I don't have any light." He shrugged.
"Shio, everything has light, it's just hidden deeper in others or they don't know how to use it." She sat down next, pulled him into her lap and rested her cheek on the top of his head. He just stared upward confused. "No matter who you are or what you do, you will always have light inside of you. The light is the good in people's hearts, you can never lose it, but it can always grow." She held out her hand for him to see and a small orb of light the size of a bumblebee formed in it. "Just as I'll always have you, and you'll always have me. You're never alone when you have your light."
Shio stared at the orb in child-like wonder. Slowly, he lifted his hand and stretched it out to touch the orb. Right as his fingers grazed the surface, everything went black. Kagome's vision came back into view, and she saw Shio and Sumiko fighting again. "I got it!" she shouted.
"Is it contagious?" Shippou asked.
Without another word, Kagome bolted toward the battle.
"Kagome!" Inu Yasha shouted after her.
I have to stop the fight! Kagome thought. I know I received that vision for a reason, it's up to me!
Sumiko staggered and fell to her knees, covered in deep gashes. Blood stained her white kimono and even highlighted the tips of her hair. Panting and sweating, she squinted up as Shio staggered over in a similar condition, yet he was still able to stand and raise his claws to her. He was about to hit her when a flash of white came in front of his vision, he looked up and saw Kagome standing in front of Sumiko, looking back into his eyes in a mixture of determination, fear, and hope.
"Move it, Kagome." Shio said. "I already told you guys I won't spare you."
"No." Kagome replied in a shaky voice. "Don't do this Shio, you don't want to do it."
"How the hell do you know what I want and don't want!" he shouted, making her flinch a little bit. He glared at her through his demonic red eyes. "Whether I want to or not, I must kill her."
"That's not true. Just calm down." Her voice became a bit steadier. "We can be reasonable, Shio. You don't have to kill her and I know you don't want to." She smiled a little bit. "She's your little sister, and she loves you very much."
Shio just stared at Kagome, he looked a little bit afraid.
"If you give her a chance, you will see how much you love her too!" Tears trickled down Kagome's cheeks but she looked so happy. "No matter what, you can never lose all your light. It's one thing you will always have. With that and your sister, you will never be alone!"
Shio dropped his claws and just stared at her wide eyed, though he wasn't seeing her. Kagome looked over her shoulder, smiling down at Sumiko, who looked confused herself.
"And Sumiko, you've had the light all along! You've only added Shio's love to yours!" Kagome said.
Sumiko looked up at her dumbfounded. "But…I'm stronger!" she suddenly said. "I'm the better demon now! And he's nothing but scum-!"
"Oh get real Sumiko, we all know how much you love Shio! Why don't you just come out and say it!"
Sumiko looked taken aback.
"Come on, say it!" Kagome cheered her as if cheering a small child to walk for the first time. "I love you, Kitty! Say it! I love you, Kitty!"
Sumiko looked down at the ground, memories stiring inside of her. She said aloud in a soft voice. "Kitty…"
*****/////// Shio went over and put an arm around Sumiko's shoulder. "Hi!" ^_^ he said.///////////*****
*****////// Sumiko reached up and started petting both of Shio's ears, catching him off guard. "Pretty kitty!" She said. ^_^//////*****
*****////////// She hugged Shio. "Sumiko love you, Kitty!"//////////*****
A salty teardrop fell onto Sumiko's knee. She clutched her arm and the gashes on her body filled with light and healed. She tossed her head up, her hair twirling with tears along with them, she looked up at Shio with large eyes that were no longer seductive and catlike, but misty, pretty, and innocent. "KITTY!" she cried.
He looked up at her, his eyes back to normal but full of love and lined with tears. He was gritting his teeth to keep them from falling "Sumiko!"
Kagome reached her hand out to Sumiko who grasped it readily. Kagome meant to only pull the girl to her feet, but Sumiko used her hand to spring herself into the air, twirl and fly down toward Shio. He held his arms wide and caught her. They both spun around by the force of the landing and Sumiko sobbed into his chest, gripping the back of his kimono tightly in her fists. He hugged her with as much force and put his face in her hair. Hiding the tears and trying to choke them back. Tears make faces all red and puffy.
"Kitty!" Sumiko cried again. She looked up at him. "Sumiko was so scared! She did bad things and couldn't stop it! It was a nightmare!"
He hugged tighter and kissed her forehead a couple of times. "It's okay Sumiko. You're fine now, I'm sorry too!" He had to put his face back in her hair before he actually sobbed. Grown men weren't supposed to cry.
Miroku and Sango hugged and sobbed, Shitai hugged the both of them and sobbed, Shippou screamed happily teary eyed, Kagome cried, standing next to Shio and Sumiko, Inu Yasha looked misty eyed but was better at hiding and holding it then Shio was.
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Trust me, ya'll, It's far from over! ^_~