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Inuyasha jumped up high to try to decapitate Kouga head from his shoulders, with the Tetsusiga. "AAAARRRRGGGGGG, you'll pay for what you did to KAGOME!!!!" Inuyasha shouted.
"Come on Shippo, we need to hurry", He cried running, limping, as fast as he could. *I just hope Sango isn't hurt* he thought.
"OUCH! oooo my ribs hurt ssssoooo bad, what did Kouga do to me", was the last consious thought Kagome had before plunging into darkness.
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Inuyasha leapt high up into the air, bringing the Tetsisuga back into a quick, slicing position behind his head, to put an end to Kouga once and for all "AARRGG", growling a loud war cry, Inuyasha brought the Tetsisuga down on Kouga's arm. There was a dull thud from the metal connecting with flesh and bone. A piercing scream sounded, making the birds fly from their trees, erupted from the glade.
The arm was completely severed from his body at the shoulder joint. The blood was flowing from the massive wound so strongly, that there seemed to be a river of blood in the clearing.
Inuyasha jumped a few feet back away, from Kouga, to regain his breath and balance, after issuing such a vicious attack on the "super charged" wolf demon.
Kouga howled and swore to all seven hells before returning his gaze onto Inuyasha, in his eyes there was so much hate and despair coming through that death glare, if looks could kill Inuyasha would be six feet under. There also was a spark of excitement in his eyes in anticipation of getting is revenge on Inuyasha.
"AAAOOO", Kouga howled in pain. "Inuyasssha you're going pay for that, baka", he screamed in a death rage, so that it sounded like his was hissing, he jumped high into the air to completely extend his claws from his massive paws to try and get a death strike in at Inuyasha.
The strike was so fast that Inuyasha saw only a blur of movement before he was left in great pain. It hit him across the chest, causing chunks of flesh and blood to soak fast into his haori. "EERR" he doubled over for a moment in pain, realizing that Kouga's claws had injected a poison into him, that was rapidly spreading throughout his body. It was absorbing all of his strength by the second. * I feel...so weak...what is happening...to me* Inuyasha thought desperately. "Hum....Humm..Ha, you don't understand the true nature of my poison I should have known, baka, you're just a stupid half-breed, you wouldn't know. Ha, but you'll find out soon enough if I don't decide to kill your pathetic weak demon ass here and now." Kouga stated triumphantly.
*What has he done to me* Inuyasha began to worry, *No, no ignore the pain. He tried to kill Kagome, my Kagome, I'll have his blood before I die*
Inuyasha slowly got back up to his feet. His head was spinning to him the clearing seem to be spinning in circles. He tried to lift the Tetsisuga, and he was met with a dead, cold, painful weight. Inuyasha took his fighting stance, the best he could in his weakened condition, ready to strike Kouga again.
"I don't care what you do to me, your still going to die, and now I'm going to make it nice and slow so you can feel every bone cracking, and see your flesh ripping, spilling out your lifeblood, and the last thing you will hear will be my laughter as I put my Tetsisuga through your heart" Inuyasha screamed. "So Kouga, just try and kill me!!!"
You're more of a fool then I though, Inuyasssssha, but if you WANT to die in great pain so be it". "GGGGGGRRRRRR", with that Kouga growled in challenge and leapt high into the air to come pouncing on Inuyasha.
Inuyasha braced himself for the attack, when a deep dark purple light shot out of the forest encircling him and freezing him, for the moment, in time and space.
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Shippo was guiding Miroku through the forest in search of Inuyasha, Kagome, and Sango. They were about 20 feet away from the clearing when the little kitsune shouted, "I smell blood, it's Sango's and I think....there's a lot of it". He looked up with a sad, scared look in his eyes, that seemed to ask, 'Do you think she's dead?'
"Shippo, don't worry I'm sure she's going to be alright, but standing here is going to help us find her or Kagome is it??" Mirkou replied with a great deal of worry, sadness, and panic in his voice.
With Shippo's awesome senses he could hear the worry, sadness, and panic that escaped the stoic monk.
A few more feet ahead of them the bloody mass of Sango's body was visible. Covered in leaves, and twig, and what seemed to be the remains of a towel clutched to her chest. Mirkou ran over to her as quickly as he could, causing his head to throb in the process to reach her. "Sango", he had tears forming in his eyes, "Sango can you hear me??", there was no reply or action. He then calmed down enough to check for a heartbeat, and for signs of breathing. He found her breath coming in weezing gasps, and her heartbeat was steady, but slow. He then looked around the area they were in and saw that there was a sort of path that ran through it. It looked as though someone had dragged Sango out of harms way, but who? Miroku began to ponder until he heard a voice, "Mir..oku", came the very weak reply. Looking down he saw Sango open her eyes, she was in so much pain.
"Sssshhhhh, Sango everything going to be all right", Miroku said as he carefully placed her in his arms, bridal style, and started to walk slowly back to camp with her. Shippo ran ahead to get the water and bandages together. Miroku look back down at Sango, who appeared to be starting a normal breathing rate again. "Hang on to life, my love, I'll help you to pull out of this, your going to be fine, just say with me we're almost there" he stated as the camp came into sight.
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*Uh, how long was I out for* Kagome wondered. *And what am I doing here* Just then she heard a loud scream as she tried to stand up. Her memories flooded back to her. "Oh my god, that's right Inuyasha's fighting Kouga, and he has eight shards!", * I hope he's all right*.
She then got to her feet, swaying slightly. there was a dull pain in her ribs, she figured * I bruised a couple of ribs that's all, I have to go and help Inuyasha.* She looked around seeing that she was close to the clearing, only 40 or 45 feet away, she could see Inuyasha fighting Kouga. she turned around, towards the camp, and began to jog back and get her kimono, and her bow and arrows to help Inuyasha take Kouga out.
She didn't get every far when she saw Sango, lying in a crumpled heap. "Oh my god, Sango, Sango can you hear me?", she asked foolishly knowing that she was unconscious. She bent down and carefully picked Sango's arms up and tried to pull her as gently as she could, so she wouldn't hurt her to badly, a safe distance away from the clearing. She pulled her back 20 or 25 feet from the clearing, so she would get hurt worse in this battle. But she was still weak, from being squeezed so tightly by Kouga.
She set her down in an area with soft grass and prayed Miroku would find her soon, since he was supposed to behind Inuyasha at their camp, and help to clean and bind her wounds. Kagome would have but at that moment she heard Inuyasha scream in pain, she tried to run back to camp, but running hurt her terribly. She walked/jogged quickly into camp grabbed her kimono, and her bow and arrows and tried to run back to the clearing to help Inuyasha.
She dodged trees left and right, ignoring the growing pain in her side and tried to race on. She was only a few feet from the clearing when she heard a woman talking, as though she was going kill someone. *And that voice, it sounds so familier* "Kouga, I gave you those jewel shards to kill my reincarnation, not he man I love, who will come to hell with me" Shouted someone. (A/n: Oh you can just guess!!)
*Yep, I know who that is* she sweat-dropped (anime style). Kagome carefully peeked through the brush to see Inuyasha frozen in a fighting stance, surrounded by a deep dark purple light. *Oh, no she is not taking Inuyasha away from me* Kagome thought angrily.
"I'm sorry Mistress Kikyo, but he challenged me and I wasn't going to back down to a stupid half demon." Kouga snarled in reply.
While they were fighting and arguing both and forth, Kagome slipped an arrow out of her quiver, and attached it to her bow and took aim at Kikyo's shoulder, hoping that hitting her would end her concentration, thus ending her spell over Inuyasha. She pulled the knocked arrow back to her check and once again took careful aim before letting her miko powers fly through the arrow, she released, as she jumped out of the brush, pulling another arrow from her quiver and knocking it aiming at a jewel shard in Kouga's stomach.
The arrow she had shot at Kikyo hit squarely in the shoulder, with that her concentration was lost and the spell binding Inuyasha was destroyed. Inuyasha blinked a few times before realizing that Kikyo and Kouga were here, and he was weakening rapidly. * Now there is two of them. I can't fight two of them alone like this, and Kikyo's wants to take me to hell with her!!* he thought angrily.
Then out of the corner of his eye he saw an arrow fire and land in Kouga's stomach with a sickening thud as a jewel shard fell out of the hole created by the arrow when Kouga pulled it from his stomach. "What..who.." Inuyasha started before turning around to see Kagome let another arrow fly into Kouga's body, this time into his right leg, hitting another jewel shard.
"Kagome!!!" He yelled, "get out of here you're hurt!!"
"NO" came her reply, "I've already hit two of the jewel shards out there's six left, two in his forehead, two in his left leg, one in his remaining arm, and the last one is in his chest." she stated. "I'll try and knock the one's in his legs and arm out if you can kill him so we can take the other three out" she replied so calmly, Inuyasha could only stare at her strength. With that said she fired two shots into his leg taking the shards out with them.
"Inuyasha, did you hear a word I said??", she said when she looked at him, he was staring at her with a smile on his face. "Inuyasha are you ok?" She then noticed his wound, "Oh my kami, Inuyasha, did Kouga's claws do that to you?"
"Feh"
"Inuyasha I can sense that posion on his claws it is not normal, it has miko dark energy surrounding it" as she came to the realization, "Inuyasha, you can die from that!!"
"Don't worry about me right now, come on you're right lets finish him off" He said as he brought the Tetsisuga up into a fighting stance, and jumped into the air, using the wind scar, with one stoke, he decapitated Kouga's head from his body. Landing he jumped up looking around for Kikyo. "That BITCH she escaped!!" He yelled.
At this Kagome's head came whipping around, *He doesn't love her?!!! I may have a chance now!!* "Inuyasha are you ok?" Kagome asked him with tears starting in her eyes.
*Is she crying for me?? No, why would she cry for me...could she....NO, no one could ever love me* "Feh, do you forget that I'm half demon, my demon blood will heal me!! He yelled while Kagome went again collecting the eight jewel shards when she finished she looked over at Inuyasha.
"Thank you Inuyasha, you saved my life again"
"Feh, your just a weak human.........." was all he got out before he blacked out, the poison more potent then he thought.
This was not a poison that could be conquered with just demon blood, with the dark miko powering the poison it was far more lethal to another miko, or human blood, even half human........................................
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Inuyasha jumped up high to try to decapitate Kouga head from his shoulders, with the Tetsusiga. "AAAARRRRGGGGGG, you'll pay for what you did to KAGOME!!!!" Inuyasha shouted.
"Come on Shippo, we need to hurry", He cried running, limping, as fast as he could. *I just hope Sango isn't hurt* he thought.
"OUCH! oooo my ribs hurt ssssoooo bad, what did Kouga do to me", was the last consious thought Kagome had before plunging into darkness.
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Inuyasha leapt high up into the air, bringing the Tetsisuga back into a quick, slicing position behind his head, to put an end to Kouga once and for all "AARRGG", growling a loud war cry, Inuyasha brought the Tetsisuga down on Kouga's arm. There was a dull thud from the metal connecting with flesh and bone. A piercing scream sounded, making the birds fly from their trees, erupted from the glade.
The arm was completely severed from his body at the shoulder joint. The blood was flowing from the massive wound so strongly, that there seemed to be a river of blood in the clearing.
Inuyasha jumped a few feet back away, from Kouga, to regain his breath and balance, after issuing such a vicious attack on the "super charged" wolf demon.
Kouga howled and swore to all seven hells before returning his gaze onto Inuyasha, in his eyes there was so much hate and despair coming through that death glare, if looks could kill Inuyasha would be six feet under. There also was a spark of excitement in his eyes in anticipation of getting is revenge on Inuyasha.
"AAAOOO", Kouga howled in pain. "Inuyasssha you're going pay for that, baka", he screamed in a death rage, so that it sounded like his was hissing, he jumped high into the air to completely extend his claws from his massive paws to try and get a death strike in at Inuyasha.
The strike was so fast that Inuyasha saw only a blur of movement before he was left in great pain. It hit him across the chest, causing chunks of flesh and blood to soak fast into his haori. "EERR" he doubled over for a moment in pain, realizing that Kouga's claws had injected a poison into him, that was rapidly spreading throughout his body. It was absorbing all of his strength by the second. * I feel...so weak...what is happening...to me* Inuyasha thought desperately. "Hum....Humm..Ha, you don't understand the true nature of my poison I should have known, baka, you're just a stupid half-breed, you wouldn't know. Ha, but you'll find out soon enough if I don't decide to kill your pathetic weak demon ass here and now." Kouga stated triumphantly.
*What has he done to me* Inuyasha began to worry, *No, no ignore the pain. He tried to kill Kagome, my Kagome, I'll have his blood before I die*
Inuyasha slowly got back up to his feet. His head was spinning to him the clearing seem to be spinning in circles. He tried to lift the Tetsisuga, and he was met with a dead, cold, painful weight. Inuyasha took his fighting stance, the best he could in his weakened condition, ready to strike Kouga again.
"I don't care what you do to me, your still going to die, and now I'm going to make it nice and slow so you can feel every bone cracking, and see your flesh ripping, spilling out your lifeblood, and the last thing you will hear will be my laughter as I put my Tetsisuga through your heart" Inuyasha screamed. "So Kouga, just try and kill me!!!"
You're more of a fool then I though, Inuyasssssha, but if you WANT to die in great pain so be it". "GGGGGGRRRRRR", with that Kouga growled in challenge and leapt high into the air to come pouncing on Inuyasha.
Inuyasha braced himself for the attack, when a deep dark purple light shot out of the forest encircling him and freezing him, for the moment, in time and space.
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Shippo was guiding Miroku through the forest in search of Inuyasha, Kagome, and Sango. They were about 20 feet away from the clearing when the little kitsune shouted, "I smell blood, it's Sango's and I think....there's a lot of it". He looked up with a sad, scared look in his eyes, that seemed to ask, 'Do you think she's dead?'
"Shippo, don't worry I'm sure she's going to be alright, but standing here is going to help us find her or Kagome is it??" Mirkou replied with a great deal of worry, sadness, and panic in his voice.
With Shippo's awesome senses he could hear the worry, sadness, and panic that escaped the stoic monk.
A few more feet ahead of them the bloody mass of Sango's body was visible. Covered in leaves, and twig, and what seemed to be the remains of a towel clutched to her chest. Mirkou ran over to her as quickly as he could, causing his head to throb in the process to reach her. "Sango", he had tears forming in his eyes, "Sango can you hear me??", there was no reply or action. He then calmed down enough to check for a heartbeat, and for signs of breathing. He found her breath coming in weezing gasps, and her heartbeat was steady, but slow. He then looked around the area they were in and saw that there was a sort of path that ran through it. It looked as though someone had dragged Sango out of harms way, but who? Miroku began to ponder until he heard a voice, "Mir..oku", came the very weak reply. Looking down he saw Sango open her eyes, she was in so much pain.
"Sssshhhhh, Sango everything going to be all right", Miroku said as he carefully placed her in his arms, bridal style, and started to walk slowly back to camp with her. Shippo ran ahead to get the water and bandages together. Miroku look back down at Sango, who appeared to be starting a normal breathing rate again. "Hang on to life, my love, I'll help you to pull out of this, your going to be fine, just say with me we're almost there" he stated as the camp came into sight.
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*Uh, how long was I out for* Kagome wondered. *And what am I doing here* Just then she heard a loud scream as she tried to stand up. Her memories flooded back to her. "Oh my god, that's right Inuyasha's fighting Kouga, and he has eight shards!", * I hope he's all right*.
She then got to her feet, swaying slightly. there was a dull pain in her ribs, she figured * I bruised a couple of ribs that's all, I have to go and help Inuyasha.* She looked around seeing that she was close to the clearing, only 40 or 45 feet away, she could see Inuyasha fighting Kouga. she turned around, towards the camp, and began to jog back and get her kimono, and her bow and arrows to help Inuyasha take Kouga out.
She didn't get every far when she saw Sango, lying in a crumpled heap. "Oh my god, Sango, Sango can you hear me?", she asked foolishly knowing that she was unconscious. She bent down and carefully picked Sango's arms up and tried to pull her as gently as she could, so she wouldn't hurt her to badly, a safe distance away from the clearing. She pulled her back 20 or 25 feet from the clearing, so she would get hurt worse in this battle. But she was still weak, from being squeezed so tightly by Kouga.
She set her down in an area with soft grass and prayed Miroku would find her soon, since he was supposed to behind Inuyasha at their camp, and help to clean and bind her wounds. Kagome would have but at that moment she heard Inuyasha scream in pain, she tried to run back to camp, but running hurt her terribly. She walked/jogged quickly into camp grabbed her kimono, and her bow and arrows and tried to run back to the clearing to help Inuyasha.
She dodged trees left and right, ignoring the growing pain in her side and tried to race on. She was only a few feet from the clearing when she heard a woman talking, as though she was going kill someone. *And that voice, it sounds so familier* "Kouga, I gave you those jewel shards to kill my reincarnation, not he man I love, who will come to hell with me" Shouted someone. (A/n: Oh you can just guess!!)
*Yep, I know who that is* she sweat-dropped (anime style). Kagome carefully peeked through the brush to see Inuyasha frozen in a fighting stance, surrounded by a deep dark purple light. *Oh, no she is not taking Inuyasha away from me* Kagome thought angrily.
"I'm sorry Mistress Kikyo, but he challenged me and I wasn't going to back down to a stupid half demon." Kouga snarled in reply.
While they were fighting and arguing both and forth, Kagome slipped an arrow out of her quiver, and attached it to her bow and took aim at Kikyo's shoulder, hoping that hitting her would end her concentration, thus ending her spell over Inuyasha. She pulled the knocked arrow back to her check and once again took careful aim before letting her miko powers fly through the arrow, she released, as she jumped out of the brush, pulling another arrow from her quiver and knocking it aiming at a jewel shard in Kouga's stomach.
The arrow she had shot at Kikyo hit squarely in the shoulder, with that her concentration was lost and the spell binding Inuyasha was destroyed. Inuyasha blinked a few times before realizing that Kikyo and Kouga were here, and he was weakening rapidly. * Now there is two of them. I can't fight two of them alone like this, and Kikyo's wants to take me to hell with her!!* he thought angrily.
Then out of the corner of his eye he saw an arrow fire and land in Kouga's stomach with a sickening thud as a jewel shard fell out of the hole created by the arrow when Kouga pulled it from his stomach. "What..who.." Inuyasha started before turning around to see Kagome let another arrow fly into Kouga's body, this time into his right leg, hitting another jewel shard.
"Kagome!!!" He yelled, "get out of here you're hurt!!"
"NO" came her reply, "I've already hit two of the jewel shards out there's six left, two in his forehead, two in his left leg, one in his remaining arm, and the last one is in his chest." she stated. "I'll try and knock the one's in his legs and arm out if you can kill him so we can take the other three out" she replied so calmly, Inuyasha could only stare at her strength. With that said she fired two shots into his leg taking the shards out with them.
"Inuyasha, did you hear a word I said??", she said when she looked at him, he was staring at her with a smile on his face. "Inuyasha are you ok?" She then noticed his wound, "Oh my kami, Inuyasha, did Kouga's claws do that to you?"
"Feh"
"Inuyasha I can sense that posion on his claws it is not normal, it has miko dark energy surrounding it" as she came to the realization, "Inuyasha, you can die from that!!"
"Don't worry about me right now, come on you're right lets finish him off" He said as he brought the Tetsisuga up into a fighting stance, and jumped into the air, using the wind scar, with one stoke, he decapitated Kouga's head from his body. Landing he jumped up looking around for Kikyo. "That BITCH she escaped!!" He yelled.
At this Kagome's head came whipping around, *He doesn't love her?!!! I may have a chance now!!* "Inuyasha are you ok?" Kagome asked him with tears starting in her eyes.
*Is she crying for me?? No, why would she cry for me...could she....NO, no one could ever love me* "Feh, do you forget that I'm half demon, my demon blood will heal me!! He yelled while Kagome went again collecting the eight jewel shards when she finished she looked over at Inuyasha.
"Thank you Inuyasha, you saved my life again"
"Feh, your just a weak human.........." was all he got out before he blacked out, the poison more potent then he thought.
This was not a poison that could be conquered with just demon blood, with the dark miko powering the poison it was far more lethal to another miko, or human blood, even half human........................................
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