Time for a change part 52
Hello everyone, sorry it took a bit longer than usual to update. I was sucked into the game of Star Wars: Knights
of the Old Republic. That and I wanted to make you squirm ;). Anyways I got an overwhelming response for last chapter (mostly deaththreats). The most popular answer was, understandably, Kikyou. Everyone who guessed that was wrong :P.
I have to admit that this was one of my top three favorite ideas in this fic. (One being the fire scene and one you
haven't seen yet) The fact that noone got it makes me like it even more. Anywho enough babbling and on with the fic.
Oh btw people I don't expect you to review every chapter. I only expect people that add me on favorites to give me
atleast one.
-Sunbeam1-Naraku killed them for a reason, you'll just have to wait and see.
-leenie: a.k.a.Hikari- Sorry I use word pad which doesn't have spell check. I try and read over my story but i'm
not perfect. Heres your first quiz question. What chapter does Shippo turn into Kagome? ;)
-Sesshoumaru6- Two Inuyashas? There's only been one up to this point as far as I know....
-Aisuru1- I used to update everyday. I did for the first 30 chapters or so. Now I update every week or so.
-Zonza- You can draw me whatever Inuyasha related pictures you want and send them to me, i'm not picky. And my
msn is SvF_BD02_Wedge@hotmail.com I'm always happy to talk.
-Shikataganai4- I think that was ink actually. Also Inuyasha has killed tons of monsters and hasn't fainted so
I think he'll be fine. And it was just blue paint, though I really didn't specify.
-KaGoMe39- Sorry, this fic is already on borrowed time. The ending is set and final. ;)
-Anima Mouse- If you get Totosi (by beating all of the minigame records) and beat it with him you will get transformed
Inu.
-moon-neko-princess- You have given me the longest most comprehensive reviews I have ever gotten. To answer them all
would take up more space than the fic. Therefor just ask me on msn.
-crazy little demon girl who has more than 100 ways to take over the world in her evily ywisted mind- Um why did you
list all of the sits? Did you misunderstand something I said? I am confuzled....
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KAGOME. Followed by another Kagome, and another, and another. Twenty in all. All with the same eyes, the same
hair blowing in the wind, and the same clothing as the real Kagome. They all lined up behind Naraku in a semicircle,
each standing in various positions with a smirk on their face. Naraku stood calmly in his baboon skin. "Quite a
surprise isn't it Inuyasha?" he said raising his head enough for Inuyasha to see his smirk. Inuyasha said nothing
staring in shock at the Kagomes. Kouga was in a similar state. "What.. What the hell?" Kouga said. Naraku chuckled.
"Apparantly more surprised than when I found out that you had chosen the girl as your mate." He moved towards the
nearest Kagome and reached up and touched her face letting the back of his hand trail down it. 'Kagome' didn't make
a move. Instinctively, Inuyasha growled and took a few steps forward his grip on the Tetsusaiga tightening once again.
The smell of blood continued to mask all other scents in the area.
"I must admit your kitsune friend gave me the idea. That such a obvious plan elluded me is a bit of an
embarrasment." Naraku removed his hand from 'Kagome' and turned his head towards the hanyou. "Something that is to
be fixed here." Naraku brushed past the Kagomes and put a foot in the carriage entrance. "Farewell for now Inuyasha."
And with that he disapeared within the carriage. Driven by some invisible force the skeleton horses started off.
Kouga snapped out of his stupor about then. "Snap out of it dog turd! He's getting away!" Kouga shouted at the hanyou
a few feet ahead of him. Inuyasha stood there unresponsive. Whatever thoughts he was thinking were lost to him.
Kouga growled in annoyance and shot off after the carriage. Or atleast he tried. Two steps into his run he collided
with an invisible wall. With incredible force he was rebounded backwards into a tree, which promply buckled under
the force and collapsed around him. Slowly, purple light appeared starting from where Kouga had crashed spreading
out until a bubble had appeared surrounding Inuyasha and the Kagomes.
It was Inuyasha's worst nightmare. This is what had driven him to go to Kagome's time in the first place.
Visions of Kagome, her eyes wide with fear returned to him. That it had been Shippo then made no difference. Just
as though a part of his mind screamed that these weren't Kagome it made no difference. With the scent of blood
dampening his sense of smell the youkai part of his mind could only rely on sight, and to a very little extent,
sound. Even though there were twenty of his mate in front of him it made no difference, they were to be protected
from harm. That his more conscious mind was riddled with fears and doubts didn't help. 'What if she's one of them
and I hurt her.' was one of the many thoughts passing through his mind. Without even noticing his left hand let go
of the Tetsusaiga and fell to his side while the other lowered the sword until it hit the ground.
Acting as one the army of Kagomes surrounded him in a loose circle. Inuyasha looked at the nearest one
his mouth opening to speak. "K-kagome." was all he got out. None responded. They just continued to smirk
confidently and began to close the circle in on him at a lackadaisical pace. They stopped just out of the range
of the Tetsusaiga's blade. Then with the speed of a youkai one of them closed the distance between her and
Inuyasha and punched him across the face. Inuyasha stumbled backwards with the Tetsusaiga still loosly gripped in
on hand, his eyes wide in surprise as his other hand reached up and touched the spot where he had been hit. The
same Kagome approached him. Several other Kagomes did as well. This time when 'Kagome' lashed out with her fist
at him he caught her arm gently just below the wrist. She gave a false yelp of pain and Inuyasha let go as if she
were on fire. Free of his grip she pivoted to her right and connected her foot into his side with a kick.
Inuyasha's unresisting form half flew towards another Kagome who promptly slashed him with her far too
sharp nails. A light gash appeared on his arm and a few droplets of blood hit the ground before the wound sealed
itself. Unoticed by Inuyasha the grass that it had landed glowed briefly before absorbing the blood. As if the
spilling of his blood was some sort of signal the rest of the Kagomes moved in to attack. In a moment of sanity
Inuyasha raised a claw menacingly. They all stopped in their tracks giving a gasp of fear and their eyes widening.
It was more than Inuyasha could take, all of those faces, all of them Kagome. All afraid, afraid of him. Inuyasha
helplessly gazed at them his mind conflicting with his fears and insticts. After a moment he clenched his fist and
let it drop. Confidence reapeared in his attackers and they continued to approach, one of them slugging him.
Inuyasha was tossed around between them like a rag doll offering no resistance as they continued their assault.
There was nothing he could do but endure the beating. He couldn't hurt them, they were Kagome. It was
bad enough when Kagome cried because of him, but to be afraid of him caused him more pain than any physical
stimuli ever could. So he let the punching, kicking and clawing continue. When he heard a distant cry of
"Inuyasha!" he at first thought he was imagining things. Opening his eyes he turned towards the sound to see
another Kagome along with Sango and the others on the outside of the barrier. "Inuyasha fight back!" She shouted
at him looking visibly distressed. Another fist struck him across the face and he stumbled towards the side of
the barrier where the real Kagome was. "Please Inuyasha! You have to!" Kagome cried, tears just barely being
contained. The poor hanyou felt his heart clench tighter. What if it was a trick, what if he chose wrong and
killed Kagome? He couldn't risk it.
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Miroku worriedly tapped the pink energy field surrounding Inuyasha and the fake Kagomes with his staff.
As soon as it connected with the field it exploded off of it and was sent flying out of Miroku's grip and behind
him to land near a destroyed tree. He moved to retrieve it when he saw a stirring in the rubble. "Kirara, I think
I found Kouga." He said to the cat youkai indicating the falled tree. With a growl of confirmation the neko moved
to the tree and used her head to roll the tree away revealing a very banged up Kouga. Wincing a little, Kouga
stood up refusing Miroku's offered hand of help. "Where is Naraku?" Miroku asked as Kouga brushed himself off.
"He ran away." Kouga grumbled as he turned towards where Kagome was still trying to get Inuyasha to fight off
her lookalikes. "Why isn't the idiot fighting?" Miroku sighed but didn't respond as he watched Kagome rush to
where she had dropped her bow and arrows in her rush to get to Inuyasha. Turning, she aimed an arrow towards
Inuyasha and his attackers. "Lady Kagome that isn't wise, what if the arrow repells off and hits you?" Miroku
called knowing it was pointless. As expected Kagome ignored him as she carefully took aim. "Please work."
she whispered as she let the arrow fly.
Surrounded with Miko energy, the arrow slammed into the wall of evil energy. Sparks of electricity
crackled between the two for a moment before the arrow was repulsed just grazing Kagome's arm as it passed by.
Kagome barely noticed as she determindly notched another arrow. Sango, who was beside, did however and went to
fetch the first aid kit Kagome had in her bag. Drops of Kagome's blood fell to the ground and disapeared just
like Inuyasha's had. Kagome failed to notice as she put all of her concentration into aiming. A tear ran down
her face as she watched Inuyasha continue to be attacked. "Please..."
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This time the energy field was unable to withstand the power of the arrows magic and allowed it to
pass through, though the field itself did not collapse. The arrow flew true and struck its target, the Kagome
directly in front of Inuyasha. Inuyasha watched with a mixture of horror and fascination as the false Kagome
screamed in agony and seemingly melted into another being, that was most definately not Kagome. It was
definately a youkai of some kind. It was only four feet tall and convered in scaly green skin and possesing
to black as night eyes. As quickly as it had appeared it vanished into the glow of purifying energy leaving
nothing left. Inuyasha's mind slowly processed this. 'It was a youkai...YOUKAI!' Inuyasha glanced down at the
sword he still loosely held in his right hand. The Tetsusaiga wouldn't hurt humans and Kagome was a human.
But the doubts and fears still lingered. 'What if just this once it does?' The youkai part of himself had
relented some atleast, unsure what to make of the youkai that had appeared where his mate had been.
The blows had atleast stopped for the moment as the false Kagomes tried to figure out what had happened
to their comrade. Inuyasha stared at the Tetsusaiga weighing his options. Inuyasha glanced at Kagome and the
others now all watching him, except for Sango who was bandaging Kagome's arm. His and Kagome's eyes met for a
moment and he knew what he had to do. He gave her a small smirk before turning back towards the false Kagomes.
The Tetsusaiga felt a thousand times heavier as he lifted it, but he did. He could feel his resolve weaken as
they turned to him. As he held the Tetsusaiga above his head he could feel the doubts and fears coming back.
The Tetsusaiga wavered a little in the air. With what sounded like something like a growl and a cry of anguish
Inuyasha brought the Tetsusaga down on the nearest Kagomes. As soon as it cut through them the transformed back
to their normal selves and fell to the ground lifeless. The rest of the shapeshifters stared at shock at the
lifeless youkai. Taking the oportunity and feeling slightly more confident Inuyasha turned and easily cut
through the rest of them. When the last of them had been killed the barrier that surrounded them disapeared.
Dropping the Tetsusaiga onto the ground Inuyasha collapsed onto one knee feeling as if the life had
been sucked out of him and breathing heavily. He hadn't been seriously injured. They had been fairly weak
youkai, but Inuaysha had a feeling that Naraku hadn't thought they would be able to kill him. Physically at
least. "Naraku you..." He didn't have to energy to finish the sentence and he just let it die off. Kagome,
who had started to run towards him as soon as the barrier had fallen, reached him about then. She didn't
know what to say so she simpy wrapped her arm around his neck and hugged him. Inuyasha slowly raised a hand
and clasped onto one of her hands saying nothing. In the distance Miroku turned to the others. "Perhaps we
should leave them alone. I do not think there is anthing to be done." The others nodded and the group led by
Kouga, who had more or less recovered exited the clearing. In the distance a pair of hateful eyes watched the
two from the cover of the forest.
Hmmph well thats done. Can't say I like it much, reminds me too much of my first chapters. I'm afraid most of
the remaining chapters are going to be like this so if you are solely reading for the humor you might be bored
for a while. Anyways review and tell me what you thought of who was in the carriage. One person partially
guessed it, but she dismissed it deciding to go with Kikyou.
Hello everyone, sorry it took a bit longer than usual to update. I was sucked into the game of Star Wars: Knights
of the Old Republic. That and I wanted to make you squirm ;). Anyways I got an overwhelming response for last chapter (mostly deaththreats). The most popular answer was, understandably, Kikyou. Everyone who guessed that was wrong :P.
I have to admit that this was one of my top three favorite ideas in this fic. (One being the fire scene and one you
haven't seen yet) The fact that noone got it makes me like it even more. Anywho enough babbling and on with the fic.
Oh btw people I don't expect you to review every chapter. I only expect people that add me on favorites to give me
atleast one.
-Sunbeam1-Naraku killed them for a reason, you'll just have to wait and see.
-leenie: a.k.a.Hikari- Sorry I use word pad which doesn't have spell check. I try and read over my story but i'm
not perfect. Heres your first quiz question. What chapter does Shippo turn into Kagome? ;)
-Sesshoumaru6- Two Inuyashas? There's only been one up to this point as far as I know....
-Aisuru1- I used to update everyday. I did for the first 30 chapters or so. Now I update every week or so.
-Zonza- You can draw me whatever Inuyasha related pictures you want and send them to me, i'm not picky. And my
msn is SvF_BD02_Wedge@hotmail.com I'm always happy to talk.
-Shikataganai4- I think that was ink actually. Also Inuyasha has killed tons of monsters and hasn't fainted so
I think he'll be fine. And it was just blue paint, though I really didn't specify.
-KaGoMe39- Sorry, this fic is already on borrowed time. The ending is set and final. ;)
-Anima Mouse- If you get Totosi (by beating all of the minigame records) and beat it with him you will get transformed
Inu.
-moon-neko-princess- You have given me the longest most comprehensive reviews I have ever gotten. To answer them all
would take up more space than the fic. Therefor just ask me on msn.
-crazy little demon girl who has more than 100 ways to take over the world in her evily ywisted mind- Um why did you
list all of the sits? Did you misunderstand something I said? I am confuzled....
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KAGOME. Followed by another Kagome, and another, and another. Twenty in all. All with the same eyes, the same
hair blowing in the wind, and the same clothing as the real Kagome. They all lined up behind Naraku in a semicircle,
each standing in various positions with a smirk on their face. Naraku stood calmly in his baboon skin. "Quite a
surprise isn't it Inuyasha?" he said raising his head enough for Inuyasha to see his smirk. Inuyasha said nothing
staring in shock at the Kagomes. Kouga was in a similar state. "What.. What the hell?" Kouga said. Naraku chuckled.
"Apparantly more surprised than when I found out that you had chosen the girl as your mate." He moved towards the
nearest Kagome and reached up and touched her face letting the back of his hand trail down it. 'Kagome' didn't make
a move. Instinctively, Inuyasha growled and took a few steps forward his grip on the Tetsusaiga tightening once again.
The smell of blood continued to mask all other scents in the area.
"I must admit your kitsune friend gave me the idea. That such a obvious plan elluded me is a bit of an
embarrasment." Naraku removed his hand from 'Kagome' and turned his head towards the hanyou. "Something that is to
be fixed here." Naraku brushed past the Kagomes and put a foot in the carriage entrance. "Farewell for now Inuyasha."
And with that he disapeared within the carriage. Driven by some invisible force the skeleton horses started off.
Kouga snapped out of his stupor about then. "Snap out of it dog turd! He's getting away!" Kouga shouted at the hanyou
a few feet ahead of him. Inuyasha stood there unresponsive. Whatever thoughts he was thinking were lost to him.
Kouga growled in annoyance and shot off after the carriage. Or atleast he tried. Two steps into his run he collided
with an invisible wall. With incredible force he was rebounded backwards into a tree, which promply buckled under
the force and collapsed around him. Slowly, purple light appeared starting from where Kouga had crashed spreading
out until a bubble had appeared surrounding Inuyasha and the Kagomes.
It was Inuyasha's worst nightmare. This is what had driven him to go to Kagome's time in the first place.
Visions of Kagome, her eyes wide with fear returned to him. That it had been Shippo then made no difference. Just
as though a part of his mind screamed that these weren't Kagome it made no difference. With the scent of blood
dampening his sense of smell the youkai part of his mind could only rely on sight, and to a very little extent,
sound. Even though there were twenty of his mate in front of him it made no difference, they were to be protected
from harm. That his more conscious mind was riddled with fears and doubts didn't help. 'What if she's one of them
and I hurt her.' was one of the many thoughts passing through his mind. Without even noticing his left hand let go
of the Tetsusaiga and fell to his side while the other lowered the sword until it hit the ground.
Acting as one the army of Kagomes surrounded him in a loose circle. Inuyasha looked at the nearest one
his mouth opening to speak. "K-kagome." was all he got out. None responded. They just continued to smirk
confidently and began to close the circle in on him at a lackadaisical pace. They stopped just out of the range
of the Tetsusaiga's blade. Then with the speed of a youkai one of them closed the distance between her and
Inuyasha and punched him across the face. Inuyasha stumbled backwards with the Tetsusaiga still loosly gripped in
on hand, his eyes wide in surprise as his other hand reached up and touched the spot where he had been hit. The
same Kagome approached him. Several other Kagomes did as well. This time when 'Kagome' lashed out with her fist
at him he caught her arm gently just below the wrist. She gave a false yelp of pain and Inuyasha let go as if she
were on fire. Free of his grip she pivoted to her right and connected her foot into his side with a kick.
Inuyasha's unresisting form half flew towards another Kagome who promptly slashed him with her far too
sharp nails. A light gash appeared on his arm and a few droplets of blood hit the ground before the wound sealed
itself. Unoticed by Inuyasha the grass that it had landed glowed briefly before absorbing the blood. As if the
spilling of his blood was some sort of signal the rest of the Kagomes moved in to attack. In a moment of sanity
Inuyasha raised a claw menacingly. They all stopped in their tracks giving a gasp of fear and their eyes widening.
It was more than Inuyasha could take, all of those faces, all of them Kagome. All afraid, afraid of him. Inuyasha
helplessly gazed at them his mind conflicting with his fears and insticts. After a moment he clenched his fist and
let it drop. Confidence reapeared in his attackers and they continued to approach, one of them slugging him.
Inuyasha was tossed around between them like a rag doll offering no resistance as they continued their assault.
There was nothing he could do but endure the beating. He couldn't hurt them, they were Kagome. It was
bad enough when Kagome cried because of him, but to be afraid of him caused him more pain than any physical
stimuli ever could. So he let the punching, kicking and clawing continue. When he heard a distant cry of
"Inuyasha!" he at first thought he was imagining things. Opening his eyes he turned towards the sound to see
another Kagome along with Sango and the others on the outside of the barrier. "Inuyasha fight back!" She shouted
at him looking visibly distressed. Another fist struck him across the face and he stumbled towards the side of
the barrier where the real Kagome was. "Please Inuyasha! You have to!" Kagome cried, tears just barely being
contained. The poor hanyou felt his heart clench tighter. What if it was a trick, what if he chose wrong and
killed Kagome? He couldn't risk it.
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Miroku worriedly tapped the pink energy field surrounding Inuyasha and the fake Kagomes with his staff.
As soon as it connected with the field it exploded off of it and was sent flying out of Miroku's grip and behind
him to land near a destroyed tree. He moved to retrieve it when he saw a stirring in the rubble. "Kirara, I think
I found Kouga." He said to the cat youkai indicating the falled tree. With a growl of confirmation the neko moved
to the tree and used her head to roll the tree away revealing a very banged up Kouga. Wincing a little, Kouga
stood up refusing Miroku's offered hand of help. "Where is Naraku?" Miroku asked as Kouga brushed himself off.
"He ran away." Kouga grumbled as he turned towards where Kagome was still trying to get Inuyasha to fight off
her lookalikes. "Why isn't the idiot fighting?" Miroku sighed but didn't respond as he watched Kagome rush to
where she had dropped her bow and arrows in her rush to get to Inuyasha. Turning, she aimed an arrow towards
Inuyasha and his attackers. "Lady Kagome that isn't wise, what if the arrow repells off and hits you?" Miroku
called knowing it was pointless. As expected Kagome ignored him as she carefully took aim. "Please work."
she whispered as she let the arrow fly.
Surrounded with Miko energy, the arrow slammed into the wall of evil energy. Sparks of electricity
crackled between the two for a moment before the arrow was repulsed just grazing Kagome's arm as it passed by.
Kagome barely noticed as she determindly notched another arrow. Sango, who was beside, did however and went to
fetch the first aid kit Kagome had in her bag. Drops of Kagome's blood fell to the ground and disapeared just
like Inuyasha's had. Kagome failed to notice as she put all of her concentration into aiming. A tear ran down
her face as she watched Inuyasha continue to be attacked. "Please..."
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This time the energy field was unable to withstand the power of the arrows magic and allowed it to
pass through, though the field itself did not collapse. The arrow flew true and struck its target, the Kagome
directly in front of Inuyasha. Inuyasha watched with a mixture of horror and fascination as the false Kagome
screamed in agony and seemingly melted into another being, that was most definately not Kagome. It was
definately a youkai of some kind. It was only four feet tall and convered in scaly green skin and possesing
to black as night eyes. As quickly as it had appeared it vanished into the glow of purifying energy leaving
nothing left. Inuyasha's mind slowly processed this. 'It was a youkai...YOUKAI!' Inuyasha glanced down at the
sword he still loosely held in his right hand. The Tetsusaiga wouldn't hurt humans and Kagome was a human.
But the doubts and fears still lingered. 'What if just this once it does?' The youkai part of himself had
relented some atleast, unsure what to make of the youkai that had appeared where his mate had been.
The blows had atleast stopped for the moment as the false Kagomes tried to figure out what had happened
to their comrade. Inuyasha stared at the Tetsusaiga weighing his options. Inuyasha glanced at Kagome and the
others now all watching him, except for Sango who was bandaging Kagome's arm. His and Kagome's eyes met for a
moment and he knew what he had to do. He gave her a small smirk before turning back towards the false Kagomes.
The Tetsusaiga felt a thousand times heavier as he lifted it, but he did. He could feel his resolve weaken as
they turned to him. As he held the Tetsusaiga above his head he could feel the doubts and fears coming back.
The Tetsusaiga wavered a little in the air. With what sounded like something like a growl and a cry of anguish
Inuyasha brought the Tetsusaga down on the nearest Kagomes. As soon as it cut through them the transformed back
to their normal selves and fell to the ground lifeless. The rest of the shapeshifters stared at shock at the
lifeless youkai. Taking the oportunity and feeling slightly more confident Inuyasha turned and easily cut
through the rest of them. When the last of them had been killed the barrier that surrounded them disapeared.
Dropping the Tetsusaiga onto the ground Inuyasha collapsed onto one knee feeling as if the life had
been sucked out of him and breathing heavily. He hadn't been seriously injured. They had been fairly weak
youkai, but Inuaysha had a feeling that Naraku hadn't thought they would be able to kill him. Physically at
least. "Naraku you..." He didn't have to energy to finish the sentence and he just let it die off. Kagome,
who had started to run towards him as soon as the barrier had fallen, reached him about then. She didn't
know what to say so she simpy wrapped her arm around his neck and hugged him. Inuyasha slowly raised a hand
and clasped onto one of her hands saying nothing. In the distance Miroku turned to the others. "Perhaps we
should leave them alone. I do not think there is anthing to be done." The others nodded and the group led by
Kouga, who had more or less recovered exited the clearing. In the distance a pair of hateful eyes watched the
two from the cover of the forest.
Hmmph well thats done. Can't say I like it much, reminds me too much of my first chapters. I'm afraid most of
the remaining chapters are going to be like this so if you are solely reading for the humor you might be bored
for a while. Anyways review and tell me what you thought of who was in the carriage. One person partially
guessed it, but she dismissed it deciding to go with Kikyou.