Disclaimer: It is exactly that. I dis-claim Inuyasha or anything related to
him.
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Kikyo brought her sword up and swung it in a curved arc down, towards Kagome's neck.
And so begins part two of the First Event.
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Kagome seemed paralyzed as she watched the sharp blade sweep down, ready to render the flesh on her neck. She still glared up at Kikyo defiantly even as her thoughts were racing to a certain hanyou that she had failed, 'Gomen ne Inuyasha . . . gomen, I wasn't strong enough for you.'
"Hiraikotsu!"
A giant boomerang knocked the blade from Kikyo's hand. Kikyo turned to glare at the intruder but Sango wasn't noticing.
Sango had found herself in the flux zone but it was for her, like she was too far away to do anything but watch as her best friend was sliced to ribbons. She ran, pointless it had seemed as she watched in horror, Kagome impaled by the dark blade that the undead miko held. She had seen Kagome crumple to the ground and try to rise even after that.
"Stay down Kagome-chan," she had wanted to scream but her voice seemed to be frozen in her throat when Kikyo brought her bloodied blade up once more. Sango flung the giant weapon that she had been unaware that she had brought with her. It had been purely instinctual but this was not the time to think about it. She ran forward, catching the boomerang on its return trip.
Kikyo had moved to retrieve her sword but when she turned, the exterminator was kneeling next to her opponent, "This is not over yet, Child of Light. I will defeat you and then, Inuyasha will be mine."
Kikyo vanished, leaving behind only the echo of her promise.
Sango turned her attention back to the wounded girl, "Hold still Kagome- chan, we have to go back to the physical world now."
"San . . . Sango . . . -chan?"
"I'm here Kagome-chan, the others are waiting for you."
"A . . . Arigato . . . Sango-chan . . . "Kagome gave a small smile before she passed out.
Sango clasped her friend's bloody hand and focused on returning them to the world of the living.
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Inuyasha and Miroku were waiting for the return of the two girls and not very patiently at that. Inuyasha had shouted when blood had burst from a large wound in Kagome's stomach. Miroku had momentarily forgotten about the barrier and had dashed forwards, only to be thrown back by a violent blast of energy but he was on his feet when he heard Sango cry, "Kagome-chan!"
He saw Kagome's face twisted in pain, there was blood pooling all around her. She had tried to sit up but winced and fell back down when the hole in her stomach had pulled. Kagome had laid there gasping as the color had started to drain from her already pale skin but she whispered out, "Gomen ne Inuyasha . . . " Before her body spasmed and she collapsed against Inuyasha.
Sango called Miroku and Kirara over to her. She offered to carry Kagome with her but Inuyasha had just moved her closer and leapt towards Kaede's house.
Miroku walked to Sango, confused at the sudden disappearance of the barrier but squelched it when Sango hoisted him up behind her on Kirara. Kirara took off at once after Inuyasha.
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Inuyasha landed in front of Kaede's house. He walked straight in, careful not to disturb the injured girl that he was cradling. The bandages that Sango had made were soaked through with heavy amounts of blood and it did not appear that the blood would stop soon.
"Kaede-baba!" Inuyasha was calling to the woman that he knew was in the house.
"Inuyasha what is it? I am right here," Kaede moved quickly towards him when she saw the girl he was carrying, "What happened to her?"
"I . . . I don't know," Inuyasha felt the swamping feeling of guilt coursing though him, 'Kuso. I should've been able to protect her.'
Inuyasha carefully placed the girl on the floor to have Kaede examine her, not turning when he felt the other's enter. Shippo, Rin and Jaken were still at the location where they had first battled the youkai, no doubt wondering where they had gone but they could always go fetch them later.
Sango and Miroku were silent as they crouched near Kagome's pale form. Even Miroku managed to keep his hands from wandering.
Miroku spoke softly, as if he was afraid of the answer, "Sango, what happened to Kagome-sama to make her like this."
Sango's face filled with disgust and rage as she recalled what she had witnessed but to her friends she said only, "It was Kikyo."
Inuyasha turned to face her, wordlessly demanding an explanation. Sango snorted, clearly expressing that she thought that he knew quite well what had happened, but spoke, her eyes still blazing, "Kagome-chan was attacked by Kikyo in the flux. Kikyo had a sword and did all this, (She gestured to the bleeding slashes that Kaede was tending to) She was trying to kill Kagome-chan but I arrived in time and stopped her with Hiraikotsu. She said something about you Inuyasha and then she disappeared. Kagome-chan fainted and I brought her back. That's all I know."
Inuyasha said nothing although he had a nagging thought in the back of his mind that she had been fighting for him. Only then did he notice what she was grasping. "O-Oi Sango, where did Kagome get that?"
Sango followed the hanyou's gesture and noticed the blade that she held, "I do not know Inuyasha."
Inuyasha lifted Kagome's hand to examine the blade. He noted in amazement the make and intricacy of the sword that looked as if it was made for decoration only but he knew, by testing the blade, that it was a deadly weapon in battle.
"That looks almost like the sword that Kikyo was using but it isn't it," Sango was trying to recall what Kikyo's blade had looked like.
Miroku took the hand from Inuyasha. Kagome refused to release the hilt. Miroku examined the sword very closely. There was no doubt that the sword belonged in the sheath that Kagome had been holding earlier. But now on further inspection, Miroku took in the shades of the metal on both the blade and hilt. He noted the crystal and the phoenix but he noticed the one thing that identified it.
There was a marking on the light side of the blade, it wasn't engraved but if you knew where to look, it was unmistakable. It glowed as brightly as the mark that had blazed earlier on Kagome's forehead, close to the hilt, the word, Light.
Sango and Inuyasha turned to Miroku when he let out a startled gasp. They were about to question him about what had surprised him when the hand around the hilt clenched and Kagome sucked in a long breath. She opened her eyes and winced when she felt the pain coursing through her. She took note of the bloody bandaged surrounding her left arm and upper torso. She tried to move, to feel the damage done to her arm but gasped and dropped her arm when the pain increased.
"Don't move Kagome-chan, you were hurt badly," Sango got up and left the room, only to return a few seconds later with a bowl, full of water, for Kagome to drink. She lifted up Kagome's head and tilted the bowl to her. Kagome drank the entire bowl and noted Inuyasha sitting against the wall next to her, Miroku sitting next to Sango, actually behaving himself. Kaede was no where in sight but Kagome assumed that she had been there as well, to bandage her wounds.
"Yes Kagome-sama, you need to concentrate on healing. Do not move your wounds. They will only bleed more. Would you be able to tell us what happened?" Miroku added, almost as an afterthought.
"I don't really know. I was chasing after Kagura and . . . ," Kagome tried to recall what had happened, ". . .Kikyo . . . yes, it was Kikyo who shot the arrow at me . . . I remember seeing her and then I was back in what the presence calls the flux . . . the next thing that I remember is . . .is it was talking to me . . . it said . . . it said that I was the Child of Light and that I was going to be in the . . . the first event and that it wouldn't be able to help me . . . it gave me a sword. Kikyo came and she told me that there could only be one of us and that she would kill me and then . . ." Kagome's voice broke but she swallowed and continued, ". . . she would have Inuyasha. Kikyo had a sword it was like the one that I had but it was different. It seemed . . . seemed . . .evil almost. She attacked me and she won . . .she was going to kill me but . . . then Sango-chan came . . .Where is Shippo-chan?" Kagome was breathing hard again. She noticed a light weight on her side and she tilted her hand to see what it was and she noticed the blade, clean despite its fight before, shining as brightly as it had in the flux, "This is it."
"Shippo-chan is safe now Kagome-chan, just worry about stopping the bleeding. If it doesn't stop, you could die," Sango's forehead was creased and she was visibly worried about her young friend that was panting from talking so much.
Despite the protests from Sango, Kagome sat up. She didn't appear to be in any pain but the wounds still covered her body. Kagome stood. She wavered a bit, causing both Miroku and Sango to leap up and catch her if she fell, but she didn't. She steadied herself and walked into the next room, the cloth that served as a door blocking their view.
Kagome emerged a short while after, her robes clean and repaired. Her hakama was black and her hair was pulled back and in an upswept style. In her hand, she held the bloody bandages, which she dropped next to her backpack.
As the others in the room stared, she went to Inuyasha and stuck out her hand, "I believe you have something that I need, Inuyasha"
Kagome sighed when Inuyasha gave her a confused look. She gestured to the sword she still held and said, "I do need my sheath Inuyasha."
Inuyasha glared at her but reached into his haori and removed the thin case and dropped it into her outstretched hand. Everyone watched her as she unwrapped the band around it and strung it around her chest loosely. She replaced the sword in it and strapped it in. Kagome blushed as she realized everyone was staring at her.
"Kagome-chan?"
"Yes, Sango-chan?"
"What happened to your wounds?" The white robe that she was wearing was still white, despite the numerous gashes that had been over her upper body.
"You mean these?" Kagome opened her shirt and whacked Miroku when he looked a little to close for her liking. Every one of the cuts had been healed. The only hint that there had been any damage done at all were the thin white scars that remained. Even the one on her face was healed.
They all stared at openly at her, questions written very clearly in their expressions
She turned to the others, "Where is Shippo-chan and Rin-chan?"
"They are back where you left the barrier for then Kagome-chan," Sango was a bit startled at the blank look that Kagome had not dropped.
"I will return soon," was all Kagome said before she left, in a blur of black and white. Miroku and Sango were still staring at the open door, "That was very strange houshi-sama."
"Indeed it was Sango. Indeed it was."
"HENTAI!!!!" Sango screamed when she felt a familiar hand rubbing her backside. She turned to the monk now sporting a red hand-mark on his face. She gave him a glare cold enough to freeze water before she walked to the opposite side of the room and sat there, muttering something about perverted lechs. She sat polishing her weapon, he sat in meditation, both waiting for Kagome to return.
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Kagome didn't know how she knew where she was going. Everything around her was just a large blur of color. Questions raced through her head, each with no answer. How had she healed? Why was her clothing repaired? Where did she get the sword? Why wasn't she dead? Why hadn't she been embarrassed at opening her haori in front of Miroku?
There were no answers. She pondered over what had happened before.
There had been this warmth that was there. A huge presence of power. She had been furious at the wind youkai for trying to fool Inuyasha in that way. She hadn't even questioned her actions, she had felt the power that swamped her, letting it fill her and fortify her with the strength and it had. The power that was flowing through her had been incredible. She knew that losing her sense of reason to the fury was not a good thing to do but something had been urging her along as she hesitated. That and the anger had pushed her over the edge, until before she knew it, she had struck Kagura. But then the strength had pulled away and shoved her into the flux zone, where she had gotten the weapon and faced Kikyo in battle.
It had felt good to fight the miko. A small part of her had argued that it fighting was not the way to resolve things and that she was not doing the right thing, but it was overpowered by the feelings and memories of the past. This was the one that had not only tried to kill HER numerous times, but she had also attacked Inuyasha many times, along with the rest of her friends. That was the part of her that had rejoiced when her blade drew blood. It was the other part that cared when Kikyo had struck her.
She hadn't even known what was going but she knew that she was the Child of Light. True, she didn't know all of what that meant but she knew that if she didn't accept it, she would lose to Kikyo and that wasn't something that she was going to accept.
Before she knew it, she was skidding to a halt in front of a sleeping Shippo and Rin. Jaken was glaring at her with his staff raised. He hadn't recognized her and apparently, he took his responsibility to watch Rin very seriously.
"Stop!" Jaken was yelling at her as soon as she got into shouting range, "I said stop!" He was getting frustrated when she kept coming.
"Jaken-sama," Kagome acknowledged him as she slowed to a stop in front of the surprised toad youkai. Shippo had been woken by all the yelling and launched himself at her when he recognized the girl.
"Kagome!!!" Shippo's wailing had Kagome turning to his direction just in time to see the fuzzy ball collide with her chest, "Shippo-chan, are you all right?" The concern was evident in Kagome's voice as she instinctively brought her arms up to hold the baby youkai to her chest where he was snuggling.
"Hai! Nothing happened and Jaken was watching us."
"That's good. Will you wake up Rin-chan? We need to get back to the others."
"Hai!"
Shippo gently shook the sleeping child awake, Kagome was watching him and she hadn't noticed that anything was wrong until Jaken shouted a warning, "Miko-sama!"
As Kagome turned, something flew at her impaling her shoulder, and sending her flying backwards and pinning her to a tree.
"Kagome!" "Kagome-sama!" Two high voices shouted. Wide awake now, they watched, huge eyed as a huge swarm of youkai emerged, seemingly from nowhere.
"Shippo-chan! Watch out!" Kagome ripped the tentacle from her shoulder and turned to see Jaken burning as many youkai as he could. Unfortunately, the Staff of Heads didn't work as well as it would appear to. Jaken had been protected by Sesshomaru for as long as he had served him and the Staff of Heads had been designed for humans so it was only able to take care of one youkai at a time. Jaken was having a hard time. Kagome raced forwards. Unbeknownst to her, her hand was already reaching for her sword. She stripped it from the sheath and slashed through the youkai that were descending on Rin and Shippo, despite Shippo's Kitsune Bi.
Kagome launched forwards when Jaken was overwhelmed, the shining blade taking the lives of many youkai. The mark on her forehead was blazing in time with her blade but it was Kagome in control.
Kagome who was protecting Jaken and it was Kagome who turned just in time to see, too late, the youkai that was descending on Rin's unprotected head. Kagome tried to shout a warning but before she had time to, the youkai's attack had already in motion. She watched in horror as Rin screamed and tried to shield herself from the deadly claws that were ready to rip through her.
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Jap Translations:
Kitsune Bi - Fox Fire
Haori - The shirt that she was wearing
Arigato - Thank you
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Author's Note: Almost done!!
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Kikyo brought her sword up and swung it in a curved arc down, towards Kagome's neck.
And so begins part two of the First Event.
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Kagome seemed paralyzed as she watched the sharp blade sweep down, ready to render the flesh on her neck. She still glared up at Kikyo defiantly even as her thoughts were racing to a certain hanyou that she had failed, 'Gomen ne Inuyasha . . . gomen, I wasn't strong enough for you.'
"Hiraikotsu!"
A giant boomerang knocked the blade from Kikyo's hand. Kikyo turned to glare at the intruder but Sango wasn't noticing.
Sango had found herself in the flux zone but it was for her, like she was too far away to do anything but watch as her best friend was sliced to ribbons. She ran, pointless it had seemed as she watched in horror, Kagome impaled by the dark blade that the undead miko held. She had seen Kagome crumple to the ground and try to rise even after that.
"Stay down Kagome-chan," she had wanted to scream but her voice seemed to be frozen in her throat when Kikyo brought her bloodied blade up once more. Sango flung the giant weapon that she had been unaware that she had brought with her. It had been purely instinctual but this was not the time to think about it. She ran forward, catching the boomerang on its return trip.
Kikyo had moved to retrieve her sword but when she turned, the exterminator was kneeling next to her opponent, "This is not over yet, Child of Light. I will defeat you and then, Inuyasha will be mine."
Kikyo vanished, leaving behind only the echo of her promise.
Sango turned her attention back to the wounded girl, "Hold still Kagome- chan, we have to go back to the physical world now."
"San . . . Sango . . . -chan?"
"I'm here Kagome-chan, the others are waiting for you."
"A . . . Arigato . . . Sango-chan . . . "Kagome gave a small smile before she passed out.
Sango clasped her friend's bloody hand and focused on returning them to the world of the living.
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Inuyasha and Miroku were waiting for the return of the two girls and not very patiently at that. Inuyasha had shouted when blood had burst from a large wound in Kagome's stomach. Miroku had momentarily forgotten about the barrier and had dashed forwards, only to be thrown back by a violent blast of energy but he was on his feet when he heard Sango cry, "Kagome-chan!"
He saw Kagome's face twisted in pain, there was blood pooling all around her. She had tried to sit up but winced and fell back down when the hole in her stomach had pulled. Kagome had laid there gasping as the color had started to drain from her already pale skin but she whispered out, "Gomen ne Inuyasha . . . " Before her body spasmed and she collapsed against Inuyasha.
Sango called Miroku and Kirara over to her. She offered to carry Kagome with her but Inuyasha had just moved her closer and leapt towards Kaede's house.
Miroku walked to Sango, confused at the sudden disappearance of the barrier but squelched it when Sango hoisted him up behind her on Kirara. Kirara took off at once after Inuyasha.
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Inuyasha landed in front of Kaede's house. He walked straight in, careful not to disturb the injured girl that he was cradling. The bandages that Sango had made were soaked through with heavy amounts of blood and it did not appear that the blood would stop soon.
"Kaede-baba!" Inuyasha was calling to the woman that he knew was in the house.
"Inuyasha what is it? I am right here," Kaede moved quickly towards him when she saw the girl he was carrying, "What happened to her?"
"I . . . I don't know," Inuyasha felt the swamping feeling of guilt coursing though him, 'Kuso. I should've been able to protect her.'
Inuyasha carefully placed the girl on the floor to have Kaede examine her, not turning when he felt the other's enter. Shippo, Rin and Jaken were still at the location where they had first battled the youkai, no doubt wondering where they had gone but they could always go fetch them later.
Sango and Miroku were silent as they crouched near Kagome's pale form. Even Miroku managed to keep his hands from wandering.
Miroku spoke softly, as if he was afraid of the answer, "Sango, what happened to Kagome-sama to make her like this."
Sango's face filled with disgust and rage as she recalled what she had witnessed but to her friends she said only, "It was Kikyo."
Inuyasha turned to face her, wordlessly demanding an explanation. Sango snorted, clearly expressing that she thought that he knew quite well what had happened, but spoke, her eyes still blazing, "Kagome-chan was attacked by Kikyo in the flux. Kikyo had a sword and did all this, (She gestured to the bleeding slashes that Kaede was tending to) She was trying to kill Kagome-chan but I arrived in time and stopped her with Hiraikotsu. She said something about you Inuyasha and then she disappeared. Kagome-chan fainted and I brought her back. That's all I know."
Inuyasha said nothing although he had a nagging thought in the back of his mind that she had been fighting for him. Only then did he notice what she was grasping. "O-Oi Sango, where did Kagome get that?"
Sango followed the hanyou's gesture and noticed the blade that she held, "I do not know Inuyasha."
Inuyasha lifted Kagome's hand to examine the blade. He noted in amazement the make and intricacy of the sword that looked as if it was made for decoration only but he knew, by testing the blade, that it was a deadly weapon in battle.
"That looks almost like the sword that Kikyo was using but it isn't it," Sango was trying to recall what Kikyo's blade had looked like.
Miroku took the hand from Inuyasha. Kagome refused to release the hilt. Miroku examined the sword very closely. There was no doubt that the sword belonged in the sheath that Kagome had been holding earlier. But now on further inspection, Miroku took in the shades of the metal on both the blade and hilt. He noted the crystal and the phoenix but he noticed the one thing that identified it.
There was a marking on the light side of the blade, it wasn't engraved but if you knew where to look, it was unmistakable. It glowed as brightly as the mark that had blazed earlier on Kagome's forehead, close to the hilt, the word, Light.
Sango and Inuyasha turned to Miroku when he let out a startled gasp. They were about to question him about what had surprised him when the hand around the hilt clenched and Kagome sucked in a long breath. She opened her eyes and winced when she felt the pain coursing through her. She took note of the bloody bandaged surrounding her left arm and upper torso. She tried to move, to feel the damage done to her arm but gasped and dropped her arm when the pain increased.
"Don't move Kagome-chan, you were hurt badly," Sango got up and left the room, only to return a few seconds later with a bowl, full of water, for Kagome to drink. She lifted up Kagome's head and tilted the bowl to her. Kagome drank the entire bowl and noted Inuyasha sitting against the wall next to her, Miroku sitting next to Sango, actually behaving himself. Kaede was no where in sight but Kagome assumed that she had been there as well, to bandage her wounds.
"Yes Kagome-sama, you need to concentrate on healing. Do not move your wounds. They will only bleed more. Would you be able to tell us what happened?" Miroku added, almost as an afterthought.
"I don't really know. I was chasing after Kagura and . . . ," Kagome tried to recall what had happened, ". . .Kikyo . . . yes, it was Kikyo who shot the arrow at me . . . I remember seeing her and then I was back in what the presence calls the flux . . . the next thing that I remember is . . .is it was talking to me . . . it said . . . it said that I was the Child of Light and that I was going to be in the . . . the first event and that it wouldn't be able to help me . . . it gave me a sword. Kikyo came and she told me that there could only be one of us and that she would kill me and then . . ." Kagome's voice broke but she swallowed and continued, ". . . she would have Inuyasha. Kikyo had a sword it was like the one that I had but it was different. It seemed . . . seemed . . .evil almost. She attacked me and she won . . .she was going to kill me but . . . then Sango-chan came . . .Where is Shippo-chan?" Kagome was breathing hard again. She noticed a light weight on her side and she tilted her hand to see what it was and she noticed the blade, clean despite its fight before, shining as brightly as it had in the flux, "This is it."
"Shippo-chan is safe now Kagome-chan, just worry about stopping the bleeding. If it doesn't stop, you could die," Sango's forehead was creased and she was visibly worried about her young friend that was panting from talking so much.
Despite the protests from Sango, Kagome sat up. She didn't appear to be in any pain but the wounds still covered her body. Kagome stood. She wavered a bit, causing both Miroku and Sango to leap up and catch her if she fell, but she didn't. She steadied herself and walked into the next room, the cloth that served as a door blocking their view.
Kagome emerged a short while after, her robes clean and repaired. Her hakama was black and her hair was pulled back and in an upswept style. In her hand, she held the bloody bandages, which she dropped next to her backpack.
As the others in the room stared, she went to Inuyasha and stuck out her hand, "I believe you have something that I need, Inuyasha"
Kagome sighed when Inuyasha gave her a confused look. She gestured to the sword she still held and said, "I do need my sheath Inuyasha."
Inuyasha glared at her but reached into his haori and removed the thin case and dropped it into her outstretched hand. Everyone watched her as she unwrapped the band around it and strung it around her chest loosely. She replaced the sword in it and strapped it in. Kagome blushed as she realized everyone was staring at her.
"Kagome-chan?"
"Yes, Sango-chan?"
"What happened to your wounds?" The white robe that she was wearing was still white, despite the numerous gashes that had been over her upper body.
"You mean these?" Kagome opened her shirt and whacked Miroku when he looked a little to close for her liking. Every one of the cuts had been healed. The only hint that there had been any damage done at all were the thin white scars that remained. Even the one on her face was healed.
They all stared at openly at her, questions written very clearly in their expressions
She turned to the others, "Where is Shippo-chan and Rin-chan?"
"They are back where you left the barrier for then Kagome-chan," Sango was a bit startled at the blank look that Kagome had not dropped.
"I will return soon," was all Kagome said before she left, in a blur of black and white. Miroku and Sango were still staring at the open door, "That was very strange houshi-sama."
"Indeed it was Sango. Indeed it was."
"HENTAI!!!!" Sango screamed when she felt a familiar hand rubbing her backside. She turned to the monk now sporting a red hand-mark on his face. She gave him a glare cold enough to freeze water before she walked to the opposite side of the room and sat there, muttering something about perverted lechs. She sat polishing her weapon, he sat in meditation, both waiting for Kagome to return.
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Kagome didn't know how she knew where she was going. Everything around her was just a large blur of color. Questions raced through her head, each with no answer. How had she healed? Why was her clothing repaired? Where did she get the sword? Why wasn't she dead? Why hadn't she been embarrassed at opening her haori in front of Miroku?
There were no answers. She pondered over what had happened before.
There had been this warmth that was there. A huge presence of power. She had been furious at the wind youkai for trying to fool Inuyasha in that way. She hadn't even questioned her actions, she had felt the power that swamped her, letting it fill her and fortify her with the strength and it had. The power that was flowing through her had been incredible. She knew that losing her sense of reason to the fury was not a good thing to do but something had been urging her along as she hesitated. That and the anger had pushed her over the edge, until before she knew it, she had struck Kagura. But then the strength had pulled away and shoved her into the flux zone, where she had gotten the weapon and faced Kikyo in battle.
It had felt good to fight the miko. A small part of her had argued that it fighting was not the way to resolve things and that she was not doing the right thing, but it was overpowered by the feelings and memories of the past. This was the one that had not only tried to kill HER numerous times, but she had also attacked Inuyasha many times, along with the rest of her friends. That was the part of her that had rejoiced when her blade drew blood. It was the other part that cared when Kikyo had struck her.
She hadn't even known what was going but she knew that she was the Child of Light. True, she didn't know all of what that meant but she knew that if she didn't accept it, she would lose to Kikyo and that wasn't something that she was going to accept.
Before she knew it, she was skidding to a halt in front of a sleeping Shippo and Rin. Jaken was glaring at her with his staff raised. He hadn't recognized her and apparently, he took his responsibility to watch Rin very seriously.
"Stop!" Jaken was yelling at her as soon as she got into shouting range, "I said stop!" He was getting frustrated when she kept coming.
"Jaken-sama," Kagome acknowledged him as she slowed to a stop in front of the surprised toad youkai. Shippo had been woken by all the yelling and launched himself at her when he recognized the girl.
"Kagome!!!" Shippo's wailing had Kagome turning to his direction just in time to see the fuzzy ball collide with her chest, "Shippo-chan, are you all right?" The concern was evident in Kagome's voice as she instinctively brought her arms up to hold the baby youkai to her chest where he was snuggling.
"Hai! Nothing happened and Jaken was watching us."
"That's good. Will you wake up Rin-chan? We need to get back to the others."
"Hai!"
Shippo gently shook the sleeping child awake, Kagome was watching him and she hadn't noticed that anything was wrong until Jaken shouted a warning, "Miko-sama!"
As Kagome turned, something flew at her impaling her shoulder, and sending her flying backwards and pinning her to a tree.
"Kagome!" "Kagome-sama!" Two high voices shouted. Wide awake now, they watched, huge eyed as a huge swarm of youkai emerged, seemingly from nowhere.
"Shippo-chan! Watch out!" Kagome ripped the tentacle from her shoulder and turned to see Jaken burning as many youkai as he could. Unfortunately, the Staff of Heads didn't work as well as it would appear to. Jaken had been protected by Sesshomaru for as long as he had served him and the Staff of Heads had been designed for humans so it was only able to take care of one youkai at a time. Jaken was having a hard time. Kagome raced forwards. Unbeknownst to her, her hand was already reaching for her sword. She stripped it from the sheath and slashed through the youkai that were descending on Rin and Shippo, despite Shippo's Kitsune Bi.
Kagome launched forwards when Jaken was overwhelmed, the shining blade taking the lives of many youkai. The mark on her forehead was blazing in time with her blade but it was Kagome in control.
Kagome who was protecting Jaken and it was Kagome who turned just in time to see, too late, the youkai that was descending on Rin's unprotected head. Kagome tried to shout a warning but before she had time to, the youkai's attack had already in motion. She watched in horror as Rin screamed and tried to shield herself from the deadly claws that were ready to rip through her.
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Jap Translations:
Kitsune Bi - Fox Fire
Haori - The shirt that she was wearing
Arigato - Thank you
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Author's Note: Almost done!!
