This is really short, but this is all I got done this week. Gomen. ^^
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"So what was going on over at your place, Kikyo?"
"Nothing really, Miki. I'm serious." Miki peered closer and stared at Kikyo until she was very uncomfortable.
"Sure, whatever, Kikyo." Kikyo grumbled and turned away from her co-worker. "What the…?! Kikyo, there's a man outside running without a coat or shoes!"
Kikyo turned towards the window. "Doshite...? Inuyasha!" She dashed out the door, grabbing her coat.
"Chotto! Kikyo, your shift!"
"Gomen, Miki!" Kikyo dashed after the quickly receding figure ahead of her. "Inuyasha-kun! Inuyasha-kun! What is wrong?"
Somehow, through the great distance, he heard her. "It's Kohaku! There are more oni aloft!"
Kikyo's breath caught in her throat. Kohaku…
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Kohaku grinned, though his throat was still paining him. "Hai, I got my homework done. I wasn't even here yesterday."
"But you're a geek! You LIKE school!"
"So? Is that a problem?" A large shadow crossed them.
"That's a big bird…" Kohaku and his friends looked up. A winged oni had soared overhead and was turning back. "WHAT THE HELL IS THAT??" Kohaku hardly heard his friends shouting. The blood pounded in his ears as he turned and ran. Behind him, he heard the bakemono gaining on him. Kohaku suddenly slipped and fell in the snow full into the fence, and he shook the white mass of cold and wet from his eyes as he looked up at the oncoming creature. He willed his legs to move, but discovered they were broken. He hadn't even noticed the pain as blood spilled onto snow. He turned back towards the oncoming oni.
A snarl came from behind him, and suddenly Inuyasha leapt before and above him. "I had asked you… a question!" With that, Inuyasha brought an arm behind him and, gaining momentum, swung downwards and destroyed the larger bakemono. He landed, and turned, arm covered in blood. The lizard like creature screeched and looked up to the sky. "We're going to need reinforcements!"
"So you're an organization." Inuyasha snarled. He strode purposely up to the bakemono and snatched it up by the neck. "What is it you want with Kohaku?" The creature twisted its face in a queer, grimacing smile and snapped his fingers. Inuyasha found himself clutching air as it melted away. Inuyasha looked up as the sky suddenly blackened with a thousand demonic presences. Kohaku was speechless with fright as he was surrounded.
Inuyasha beat at the bakemono around him, and unable to move towards Kohaku, he yelled. "KOHAKU!!"
Out of nowhere, Kikyo ran up, panting hard. She had managed to snatch up a shovel. As the oni began to pluck at Kohaku, she dashed in. "Leave my brother alone!" She hefted the shovel and … WHACK!
With an angry shout, Inuyasha slew the bakemono around him and dashed to their sides. He pulled Kohaku to his feet, "Come on, run!"
Kohaku collapsed with a shout of pain. "My leg!"
"I don't have time for this." Inuyasha hefted him up and grabbed Kikyo. Kikyo clung to him as she felt her breath being whipped from her. The bakemono fell behind, and Inuyasha attempted to hide behind a dumpster. He barely managed to leap out of the way of a snake-like bakemono that crushed the dumpster to pieces. Inuyasha, panting a little, headed towards the forest, the cold beginning to bite his bare feet.
Inuyasha slowed and set Kohaku and Kikyo down when they were deep among the trees. He stood still, warily staring around him as Kikyo tended Kohaku's wound. He sensed that there was someone behind him, and he turned slowly. It was almost as if he couldn't stop himself as he walked past Kohaku and Kikyo.
"Inuyasha, where are you going?" Kikyo looked up.
Inuyasha seemed to sniff the air. "I think there's someone there. I can't tell who, or where, exactly, but someone's there."
Kikyo shivered in the cold. "Hurry back. I fear that we may be attacked soon."
"Hai. Well, ja." Inuyasha flashed a reassuring smile, then winked and left. His face grew hard as he walked further away. The back of his neck prickled as he felt the air stifled and heavy with malice. The cold was biting into his skin now.
Suddenly he paused, and before he could turn someone had grabbed him from behind. "Yameru!" he yelled before a hand came down over his mouth and stifled his cries. He felt someone roughly pull out the thin chain from under his shirt, pulling hard and breKohakung it from around his neck. The ancient talisman that it had suspended was flung onto the snow, and Inuyasha felt another hand, cool and distant, reach up and touch his forehead. Before his mind fled, he saw the man it was attached to. Nibori…