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~*~
Sango and Suki shot glares at Miroku's back as they followed him and Nobunaga through the castle halls. Both were soaking wet. Sango's hair was very messy and starting to curl a little bit and Suki...her hair was practically a friz ball.
"I still can't believe you pushed us in that disgusting water! And with that fish!" Sango exclaimed.
"Get over it." Miroku chuckled, adjusting the shoulder strap of Sango's bag slightly without moving the strap to Hiraikotsu. She had made him carry the two as 'punishment', saying he was lucky they had fell off onto land before she hit water or he would be dead.
"You can be so mean!" Suki whined, hitting Miroku in the side with her bow. "Now do you know why I always hide out whenever I get wet?! My hair is like a monster!"
Nobunaga looked back at Suki and stuck his tongue out for a moment. "Your problem."
"Ugh! Guys can be so mean! Miroku, do you know how long it will take me to fix my hair now?!" Suki shrieked.
"Calm down, Suki, you're being too loud." Sango said. "Forget about your hair, it isn't that bad."
"Isn't that bad? Isn't that bad? SANGO, I'M AFRAID TO PUT MY HANDS NEAR IT LEST IT BITES MY FINGERS OFF!" Suki exclaimed. (-_-; I know how you feel, Suki-chan...lucky for me, I got stuff to make my hair un-poofy and un- frizzy! ^^ I'm not a friz-bot and you are, ha ha! ::Suki smacks Kat with frying pan:: x_o Ow.)
Sango shook her head. "You're going to get a good ten-four after this, Miroku."
"Ten-four?" Nobunaga asked.
"...forget it." Sango sighed.
"Miroku's going to get beat up by Sango!" Suki exclaimed happily, jumping into the air and landing on her feet again.
"Don't act so happy or you'll be the one taking care of him!" Sango scolded.
Suki moved a little bit away from Sango.
"As if you could 'beat me up'." Miroku stated.
"Are you calling me weak?!" Sango exclaimed.
"No...well, yes...wait, no..." Miroku said nervously.
"Sit!" Sango screamed.
SPLAT.
The group kept going. Sango grabbed her backpack and Hiraikotsu. She put Hiraikotsu on first then slung her bag over her shoulder and stepped on Miroku to get past him. "Baka..."
"Ha! You finally got what you deserved." Suki said, happy that she was far enough away from him that he couldn't grab her ankle and pull her down or something. For a safety precaution, she took an arrow and got it ready in her bow.
Sango glanced at Suki warningly, talking with her eyes.
Suki immediately put the arrow back.
"Shut up..." Miroku muttered.
"How did you do that?" Nobunaga asked Sango.
"I'll explain later." Sango said, grinning.
The spell wore off and Miroku stood up. He ran quickly to the group, giving a playful side glare at Sango, before taking his place to next to Nobunaga.
"I just realized something!" Suki exclaimed. "Where's Kirara?!"
Sango stopped in her tracks. "Oh no! I completely forget about her!"
Nobunaga and Miroku stopped and turned around.
"Who's Kirara?" Nobunaga asked.
"Her, uh, fire-cat." Miroku said.
Then they all heard a slightly muffled meow.
"Kirara? Kirara, where are you?" Sango asked, looking around frantically.
"Meow..." Came a muffled response from Kirara.
"I think it's coming from your bag." Nobunaga said.
Sango took her bag off her back and set it down on the ground. She opened it up and the kitten Kirara jumped out into Sango's arms, meowing frantically.
"She must have been curious about what was in the bag then got locked in." Miroku said.
"Oh, I'm sorry, Kirara!" Sango apologized as she gave the kitten an affectionate hug.
Kirara meowed in acceptance before wriggling out of Sango's arm and walking gracefully over to Suki. "Meow!" She jumped up onto Suki's head.
"You are such a good kitty!" Suki laughed happily.
Kirara looked around before sitting down. "Meow."
Sango closed her bag. "Moving on then?"
So the group started again, Kirara sitting proudly atop Suki's friz ball - err...hair.
Miroku suddenly noticed that Nobunaga had become much quieter and had a slightly more serious look on his face. "Uh, baka-boy." He said, knocking on Nobunaga's head. "You okay?"
"Miroku...be nice or be smacked." Sango warned.
"I'm fine, just a bit worried. We haven't seen a single person since we got here." Nobunaga pointed out.
"I didn't even notice." Miroku said. "Wonder where they all are?"
And then Nobunaga saw her.
Miroku, Sango, and Suki watched Nobunaga dash to two woman. He kneeled down next to the older one.
"Princess!" Nobunaga exclaimed when he saw her face. "What have they done to you?"
Sango, with a huge sweatdrop on the back of her head, walked over to the younger of the two. "Nobunaga," She said as she kneeled down next to the woman. "Wouldn't this be your princess?"
Nobunaga looked at the younger and laughed nervously. "Hai." He moved away from the older and to the younger. "Princess Tsuyu? Princess Tsuyu, wake up!"
The princess opened her eyes slowly and sat up. She looked at Nobunaga. "Nobunaga..."
"You remember me!" Nobunaga said, delighted.
"How can I forget?" The princess laughed. "You were always walking off cliffs and falling into the horse's...droppings. Always made me laugh!"
Sango covered her mouth to keep from laughing and Nobunaga looked embarrassed.
Miroku had a sweatdrop on the back of his head and Suki was biting her bottom lip. Kirara meowed loudly.
"Who are your friends?" The princess asked, looking from Sango to Miroku and Suki.
"The lady is Sango, the man Miroku, and the child Suki." Nobunaga answered.
"I am not a child!" Suki shrieked.
The princess laughed. "Your hair..."
"OH!!! MIROKU-PAPA!" Suki exclaimed angrily.
Miroku snickered.
"You are her father?" The princess asked. She looked at Sango. "And you her Mother?"
"No!" Miroku and Sango yelled in unison.
"I'm just traveling with them. I have no parents." Suki explained, glaring angrily at Miroku.
"Princess, what happened here?" Nobunaga asked.
"Well..." The princess said hesitantly. She sighed and started her story. "Soon after the marriage, after I'd left our domain, my lord husband began acting strangely. One day he collapsed near the garden pond. He was very sick and he had changed. He didn't change in just personality, but in appearance. It was as if he had become a fully different creature! Oh, Nobunaga, what I am to do?!"
"There is no question. You must come home with me!" Nobunaga demanded. "The rumors of your husband has reached our home! I have been ordered by OUR lord that if the rumors are true, I must bring you home!"
"Then the only reason you came for me--?" The princess started.
"No! Even if the ordered me to stay home, I would have come for you." Nobunaga stated.
"Nobunaga..." The princess said sweetly.
"Princess..." Nobunaga said in a trance-like voice.
"Um...on your head..." The princess pointed out.
Hiyoshimaru was on Nobunaga's head, spinning a bowl on a stick.
"Don't pay attention to him." Nobunaga growled, clenching his fist.
"You know, Nobunaga, you should just take the princess and go now." Miroku said seriously. "You two could get hurt if the lord's body was really taken over by a youkai."
Nobunaga looked at Miroku, confused.
"But your mission is finished." The princess stated.
"Nobunaga's mission is finished. Mine is just beginning." Miroku said as he looked down a corridor.
Everyone followed his gaze.
Suki let out a small "Eep!" and hid behind Miroku.
Sango stood up in a defensive way.
It was the princess's husband. His face was wrapped in bandages. "Heh. Trespassers. You shall regret coming here."
"What is that?" Nobunaga asked as he and the princess stood.
"My husband..." The princess whispered.
And then a long frog-like tongue shot out from the husband's mouth at Miroku.
Miroku dropped his staff and turned. He grabbed Suki and jumped out of the way.
The husband's tongue hit a wall, cracking it to pieces.
Miroku put Suki down and quickly went and grabbed his staff. He ran at the husband. "Why don't you show everyone what you really look like?!" He yelled as he pulled his staff through the bandages, ripping them and watching them fall to the ground.
Sango gasped. The princess covered her mouth. Nobunaga stared with wide eyes. Suki almost cried.
The husband's face was...frog-like.
"He's a..." Sango started.
Miroku stepped in front of her. "Yeah."
"My lord?" The princess whispered before falling back in a dead faint.
Nobunaga caught her. "Princess! Be brave, princess!"
"Oh!" Sango exclaimed, looking over Miroku's shoulder. "He has a Shikon fragment!"
"Yes. He may not seem like much, but he is a 300-year old youkai. He knows some things about fighting." Miroku informed, getting ready. "So we'll just let him take his secrets to his grave!" He darted at the youkai again.
The youkai's cheeks puffed out then he blew smoke at Miroku.
Miroku fell back, gasping for air.
Sango looked at the fumes then shouted, "Don't breathe in the smoke! It's noxious vapors!" How she knew that, she didn't even know. She just covered her mouth and nose with her hand.
Nobunaga covered his mouth and nose with his kimono sleeve, trying to make sure the princess didn't breathe anything in either.
Suki dropped her bow and covered her mouth and nose the same way as Sango and Kirara buried her face in Suki's hair.
The youkai directed its attention to Nobunaga and Princess Tsuyu. "My princess."
Nobunaga pulled out his sword, still trying to keep the princess up with his other arm. "Stay away from us!"
"Human baka." The youkai stated before letting it's tongue fly out and go straight through Nobunaga's chest then pulled it out.
Nobunaga let the princess fall as he fell back himself, blood coming from his chest.
"Nobunaga!" Sango exclaimed, looking at him worriedly.
The youkai picked up the princess and went running off.
"Princess Tsuyu!" Nobunaga yelled, trying to get up.
Sango ran over to Nobunaga and put her hands on his shoulders to make him stay down. "No! You stay. You are hurt. Miroku and I will get the princess."
"But I must save the princess...even if it costs me my life." Nobunaga said painstakingly slow.
"Nobunaga," Sango said forcefully. "Stay. I know you love her, but-"
"How did you know?" Nobunaga asked surprised.
Sango took her hands away and stepped back. "It was obvious!"
Miroku got up, taking a deep breath. He walked over to Sango and Nobunaga. "We will kill that toad, Nobunaga. Your princess will be fine."
"I suppose you're okay." Sango said, looking at him.
Miroku nodded.
"I am going." Nobunaga stated, getting up with his hand over the hand. "No matter what."
"Fine." Miroku sighed, then looked at Suki.
Suki had taken Kirara off her head and was hugging her to her chest. The girl was shaking, clearly from fear.
"Suki, you stay here and wait for us to come back." Miroku ordered.
"N-no," Suki stuttered. "I-if Nobunaga-chan c-c-can go, so c-can I."
Sango looked at Suki. "You will stay here with Kirara and Hiyoshimaru until we get back." She said firmly.
Suki thought about arguing, but then nodded. "Fine. If you need my help, just call."
Sango walked over to Suki and hugged her slightly, trying not to squish Kirara. She then took her bag off her back and placed it next to Suki. "Watch this."
Suki nodded and placed Kirara on her head. "Of course, Sango-mama."
Sango turned to go back to the guys but Suki grabbed her hand. She looked over her shoulder. "Suki?"
"Be careful." Suki chided, smiling slightly. She let go of Sango's hand.
Sango smiled. "Who do you think your talking to?" She then walked over to the guys. "So what's the plan?"
Hiyoshimaru ran over to Suki and sat down on her foot.
Suki looked down at Hiyoshimaru, grumbling angrily.
~*~
Sango threw Hiraikotsu through the wall that separated them from the youkai and princess. Hiraikotsu then flew back to her.
The youkai looked at them.
Miroku quickly went through the hole that Hiraikotsu had formed, Sango next, then Nobunaga.
"Are you sure you're up to this, Nobunaga?" Sango asked, not taking her eyes away from the youkai.
"Yes." Nobunaga stated.
Miroku looked around the room. He then fainted.
"Huh?"
Sango looked around and scoffed. "Hentai."
"What's wrong with him?" Nobunaga asked.
"He's a major pervert and if you would look around there is naked woman in bubbles." Sango pointed out. "Oh, and the youkai has your princess in a bubble. MIROKU, WAKE UP!"
Nobunaga looked at the youkai and saw the princess nearby in a bubble. "Princess Tsuyu!"
Sango decided to give up on Miroku. "The bubbles, they look like frog eggs." She bent over to look at one more closely. She then felt a hand on her bottom. She growled. "Miroku..."
It seems Miroku had either faked fainting or he has a radar for when girl's bend over.
Sango turned around and in one swift movement kicked Miroku away from her. "You hentai-baka! Sit!"
SPLAT!
Sango clenched her fists angrily, her eyes flashing with fire.
"Sango," Nobunaga said. "This is no time to be fighting with Miroku."
"Fine. Miroku, get your lazy butt up and go break the bubble with Tsuyu- sama. I'll distract the youkai." Sango stated. "Nobunaga, go with Miroku."
The boys nodded and got ready to run.
Sango pulled her boomerang back then threw it with all her might. "Hiraikotsu!"
The youkai jumped out of the way and sent it's tongue flying out again.
Miroku and Nobunaga dashed over to the bubble holding the princess.
Sango moved out of the direct path of the youkai's tongue, though getting scratched on her side. A small scrap of the material from her shirt fell to the ground and a little bit of blood started to form on her skin.
Hiraikotsu had started to return to Sango but went right through the youkai's arm, cutting it off.
"You-!" The youkai yelled.
Sango caught Hiraikotsu, smirking. "Yes!"
Meanwhile, Miroku had taken his staff and cracked the bubble right open. Nobunaga had sat on the ground and pulled the unconscious princess into his lap. "Princess Tsuyu..."
"I shall devour you!" The youkai exclaimed as it ran at Sango the fastest it could, which wasn't too fast.
"In your dreams." Sango said, getting ready for a battle.
'Sango, hold him off for a second and I'll get him.' Miroku thought, hoping Sango would do as he planned.
At a close range, the youkai sent its tongue out again.
Sango held up Hiraikotsu, blocking the tongue from getting to her again. She strained from the surprising force the tongue put on her weapon.
Miroku smirked. 'Hold it up, Sango.' He thought as he dashed toward the youkai, swinging his staff at it in attempt to rip it in half.
The youkai sucked its tongue back in, turning around and sent it at Miroku again.
Miroku, missing with his staff, gasped as the tongue went straight through the skin and bone of his arm.
"Miroku!" Sango exclaimed but before she could do anything else, Miroku interrupted.
"Fire. Fire is a toad's weakness, it will be a toad youkai's weakness. Get fire, Sango. Do not kill it with Hiraikotsu. I can still sense human inside of it, the lord is still in there."
Sango was surprised by his words. "Will you be okay?"
"Fine." Miroku answered.
Sango turned and ran out of the room, strapping Hiraikotsu to her back as she did so. "Nobunaga! Get out of there with the princess!" She called back.
Nobunaga, instead of listening to Sango's advice, laid the princess down on the floor and stood. He drew his sword. "Miroku," He said, glaring at the youkai. "We have to fight this guy, so let's go. But, uh, don't kill him."
"Not planning on it." Miroku stated.
~*~
"Hiyoshimaru, come back!" Suki yelled as she ran after the monkey.
Suki had her bow ready, an arrow there just in case she had to use it. She had Sango's bag on her back, and Kirara was running after her.
Hiyoshimaru had just gotten up and started running. He had grabbed a small dish of fire on his way.
"Hiyoshimaru!" Suki cried exasperatedly.
Kirara meowed.
"Suki!"
Suki stopped her running and looked down a corridor. That sounded like Sango. "Sango-mama!" She exclaimed when she saw her.
"No time to talk," Sango said as she stopped near the girl.
Hiyoshimaru suddenly came running back and held out the small fire to Sango.
"Hiyoshimaru, you've read my mind." Sango told the monkey. "But I need more fire then that. Kirara, we need you to transform. You have to breathe fire on the youkai. Suki, as much as I can see, the youkai spirit will be pushed out of the lord's body and I want you to shoot an arrow at it."
Suki was surprised by the suddenness of all this, but nodded. "All right."
"Let's go quickly." Sango stated. "Miroku was injured when I left him."
Sango started running back the way she came, this time with Suki and Kirara following. Hiyoshimaru blinked then ran after them.
Kirara transformed while they were running, letting out a mighty roar.
Soon they were back where the battle had really started.
Sango gasped when she saw that Miroku and Nobunaga were trying to hold off the youkai. Nobunaga was seriously injured, and Miroku's arm had to be hurting him. How could he stand to fight with his staff like that? She moved to the side with Suki, letting Kirara stand directly in front of where the men were fighting. "MIROKU, NOBUNAGA, MOVE!"
Miroku and Nobunaga looked at her and jumped out of the way.
"Kirara, now!" Sango ordered.
Kirara blew out a rush of flames all over the surprised youkai. When she was done, a man lay on the ground and the youkai was floating above him. Sango could see the glow of a Shikon shard.
"Shoot your arrow!" Sango exclaimed.
Suki, her arrow already drawn, shot it. "Please hit!"
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Sango and Suki shot glares at Miroku's back as they followed him and Nobunaga through the castle halls. Both were soaking wet. Sango's hair was very messy and starting to curl a little bit and Suki...her hair was practically a friz ball.
"I still can't believe you pushed us in that disgusting water! And with that fish!" Sango exclaimed.
"Get over it." Miroku chuckled, adjusting the shoulder strap of Sango's bag slightly without moving the strap to Hiraikotsu. She had made him carry the two as 'punishment', saying he was lucky they had fell off onto land before she hit water or he would be dead.
"You can be so mean!" Suki whined, hitting Miroku in the side with her bow. "Now do you know why I always hide out whenever I get wet?! My hair is like a monster!"
Nobunaga looked back at Suki and stuck his tongue out for a moment. "Your problem."
"Ugh! Guys can be so mean! Miroku, do you know how long it will take me to fix my hair now?!" Suki shrieked.
"Calm down, Suki, you're being too loud." Sango said. "Forget about your hair, it isn't that bad."
"Isn't that bad? Isn't that bad? SANGO, I'M AFRAID TO PUT MY HANDS NEAR IT LEST IT BITES MY FINGERS OFF!" Suki exclaimed. (-_-; I know how you feel, Suki-chan...lucky for me, I got stuff to make my hair un-poofy and un- frizzy! ^^ I'm not a friz-bot and you are, ha ha! ::Suki smacks Kat with frying pan:: x_o Ow.)
Sango shook her head. "You're going to get a good ten-four after this, Miroku."
"Ten-four?" Nobunaga asked.
"...forget it." Sango sighed.
"Miroku's going to get beat up by Sango!" Suki exclaimed happily, jumping into the air and landing on her feet again.
"Don't act so happy or you'll be the one taking care of him!" Sango scolded.
Suki moved a little bit away from Sango.
"As if you could 'beat me up'." Miroku stated.
"Are you calling me weak?!" Sango exclaimed.
"No...well, yes...wait, no..." Miroku said nervously.
"Sit!" Sango screamed.
SPLAT.
The group kept going. Sango grabbed her backpack and Hiraikotsu. She put Hiraikotsu on first then slung her bag over her shoulder and stepped on Miroku to get past him. "Baka..."
"Ha! You finally got what you deserved." Suki said, happy that she was far enough away from him that he couldn't grab her ankle and pull her down or something. For a safety precaution, she took an arrow and got it ready in her bow.
Sango glanced at Suki warningly, talking with her eyes.
Suki immediately put the arrow back.
"Shut up..." Miroku muttered.
"How did you do that?" Nobunaga asked Sango.
"I'll explain later." Sango said, grinning.
The spell wore off and Miroku stood up. He ran quickly to the group, giving a playful side glare at Sango, before taking his place to next to Nobunaga.
"I just realized something!" Suki exclaimed. "Where's Kirara?!"
Sango stopped in her tracks. "Oh no! I completely forget about her!"
Nobunaga and Miroku stopped and turned around.
"Who's Kirara?" Nobunaga asked.
"Her, uh, fire-cat." Miroku said.
Then they all heard a slightly muffled meow.
"Kirara? Kirara, where are you?" Sango asked, looking around frantically.
"Meow..." Came a muffled response from Kirara.
"I think it's coming from your bag." Nobunaga said.
Sango took her bag off her back and set it down on the ground. She opened it up and the kitten Kirara jumped out into Sango's arms, meowing frantically.
"She must have been curious about what was in the bag then got locked in." Miroku said.
"Oh, I'm sorry, Kirara!" Sango apologized as she gave the kitten an affectionate hug.
Kirara meowed in acceptance before wriggling out of Sango's arm and walking gracefully over to Suki. "Meow!" She jumped up onto Suki's head.
"You are such a good kitty!" Suki laughed happily.
Kirara looked around before sitting down. "Meow."
Sango closed her bag. "Moving on then?"
So the group started again, Kirara sitting proudly atop Suki's friz ball - err...hair.
Miroku suddenly noticed that Nobunaga had become much quieter and had a slightly more serious look on his face. "Uh, baka-boy." He said, knocking on Nobunaga's head. "You okay?"
"Miroku...be nice or be smacked." Sango warned.
"I'm fine, just a bit worried. We haven't seen a single person since we got here." Nobunaga pointed out.
"I didn't even notice." Miroku said. "Wonder where they all are?"
And then Nobunaga saw her.
Miroku, Sango, and Suki watched Nobunaga dash to two woman. He kneeled down next to the older one.
"Princess!" Nobunaga exclaimed when he saw her face. "What have they done to you?"
Sango, with a huge sweatdrop on the back of her head, walked over to the younger of the two. "Nobunaga," She said as she kneeled down next to the woman. "Wouldn't this be your princess?"
Nobunaga looked at the younger and laughed nervously. "Hai." He moved away from the older and to the younger. "Princess Tsuyu? Princess Tsuyu, wake up!"
The princess opened her eyes slowly and sat up. She looked at Nobunaga. "Nobunaga..."
"You remember me!" Nobunaga said, delighted.
"How can I forget?" The princess laughed. "You were always walking off cliffs and falling into the horse's...droppings. Always made me laugh!"
Sango covered her mouth to keep from laughing and Nobunaga looked embarrassed.
Miroku had a sweatdrop on the back of his head and Suki was biting her bottom lip. Kirara meowed loudly.
"Who are your friends?" The princess asked, looking from Sango to Miroku and Suki.
"The lady is Sango, the man Miroku, and the child Suki." Nobunaga answered.
"I am not a child!" Suki shrieked.
The princess laughed. "Your hair..."
"OH!!! MIROKU-PAPA!" Suki exclaimed angrily.
Miroku snickered.
"You are her father?" The princess asked. She looked at Sango. "And you her Mother?"
"No!" Miroku and Sango yelled in unison.
"I'm just traveling with them. I have no parents." Suki explained, glaring angrily at Miroku.
"Princess, what happened here?" Nobunaga asked.
"Well..." The princess said hesitantly. She sighed and started her story. "Soon after the marriage, after I'd left our domain, my lord husband began acting strangely. One day he collapsed near the garden pond. He was very sick and he had changed. He didn't change in just personality, but in appearance. It was as if he had become a fully different creature! Oh, Nobunaga, what I am to do?!"
"There is no question. You must come home with me!" Nobunaga demanded. "The rumors of your husband has reached our home! I have been ordered by OUR lord that if the rumors are true, I must bring you home!"
"Then the only reason you came for me--?" The princess started.
"No! Even if the ordered me to stay home, I would have come for you." Nobunaga stated.
"Nobunaga..." The princess said sweetly.
"Princess..." Nobunaga said in a trance-like voice.
"Um...on your head..." The princess pointed out.
Hiyoshimaru was on Nobunaga's head, spinning a bowl on a stick.
"Don't pay attention to him." Nobunaga growled, clenching his fist.
"You know, Nobunaga, you should just take the princess and go now." Miroku said seriously. "You two could get hurt if the lord's body was really taken over by a youkai."
Nobunaga looked at Miroku, confused.
"But your mission is finished." The princess stated.
"Nobunaga's mission is finished. Mine is just beginning." Miroku said as he looked down a corridor.
Everyone followed his gaze.
Suki let out a small "Eep!" and hid behind Miroku.
Sango stood up in a defensive way.
It was the princess's husband. His face was wrapped in bandages. "Heh. Trespassers. You shall regret coming here."
"What is that?" Nobunaga asked as he and the princess stood.
"My husband..." The princess whispered.
And then a long frog-like tongue shot out from the husband's mouth at Miroku.
Miroku dropped his staff and turned. He grabbed Suki and jumped out of the way.
The husband's tongue hit a wall, cracking it to pieces.
Miroku put Suki down and quickly went and grabbed his staff. He ran at the husband. "Why don't you show everyone what you really look like?!" He yelled as he pulled his staff through the bandages, ripping them and watching them fall to the ground.
Sango gasped. The princess covered her mouth. Nobunaga stared with wide eyes. Suki almost cried.
The husband's face was...frog-like.
"He's a..." Sango started.
Miroku stepped in front of her. "Yeah."
"My lord?" The princess whispered before falling back in a dead faint.
Nobunaga caught her. "Princess! Be brave, princess!"
"Oh!" Sango exclaimed, looking over Miroku's shoulder. "He has a Shikon fragment!"
"Yes. He may not seem like much, but he is a 300-year old youkai. He knows some things about fighting." Miroku informed, getting ready. "So we'll just let him take his secrets to his grave!" He darted at the youkai again.
The youkai's cheeks puffed out then he blew smoke at Miroku.
Miroku fell back, gasping for air.
Sango looked at the fumes then shouted, "Don't breathe in the smoke! It's noxious vapors!" How she knew that, she didn't even know. She just covered her mouth and nose with her hand.
Nobunaga covered his mouth and nose with his kimono sleeve, trying to make sure the princess didn't breathe anything in either.
Suki dropped her bow and covered her mouth and nose the same way as Sango and Kirara buried her face in Suki's hair.
The youkai directed its attention to Nobunaga and Princess Tsuyu. "My princess."
Nobunaga pulled out his sword, still trying to keep the princess up with his other arm. "Stay away from us!"
"Human baka." The youkai stated before letting it's tongue fly out and go straight through Nobunaga's chest then pulled it out.
Nobunaga let the princess fall as he fell back himself, blood coming from his chest.
"Nobunaga!" Sango exclaimed, looking at him worriedly.
The youkai picked up the princess and went running off.
"Princess Tsuyu!" Nobunaga yelled, trying to get up.
Sango ran over to Nobunaga and put her hands on his shoulders to make him stay down. "No! You stay. You are hurt. Miroku and I will get the princess."
"But I must save the princess...even if it costs me my life." Nobunaga said painstakingly slow.
"Nobunaga," Sango said forcefully. "Stay. I know you love her, but-"
"How did you know?" Nobunaga asked surprised.
Sango took her hands away and stepped back. "It was obvious!"
Miroku got up, taking a deep breath. He walked over to Sango and Nobunaga. "We will kill that toad, Nobunaga. Your princess will be fine."
"I suppose you're okay." Sango said, looking at him.
Miroku nodded.
"I am going." Nobunaga stated, getting up with his hand over the hand. "No matter what."
"Fine." Miroku sighed, then looked at Suki.
Suki had taken Kirara off her head and was hugging her to her chest. The girl was shaking, clearly from fear.
"Suki, you stay here and wait for us to come back." Miroku ordered.
"N-no," Suki stuttered. "I-if Nobunaga-chan c-c-can go, so c-can I."
Sango looked at Suki. "You will stay here with Kirara and Hiyoshimaru until we get back." She said firmly.
Suki thought about arguing, but then nodded. "Fine. If you need my help, just call."
Sango walked over to Suki and hugged her slightly, trying not to squish Kirara. She then took her bag off her back and placed it next to Suki. "Watch this."
Suki nodded and placed Kirara on her head. "Of course, Sango-mama."
Sango turned to go back to the guys but Suki grabbed her hand. She looked over her shoulder. "Suki?"
"Be careful." Suki chided, smiling slightly. She let go of Sango's hand.
Sango smiled. "Who do you think your talking to?" She then walked over to the guys. "So what's the plan?"
Hiyoshimaru ran over to Suki and sat down on her foot.
Suki looked down at Hiyoshimaru, grumbling angrily.
~*~
Sango threw Hiraikotsu through the wall that separated them from the youkai and princess. Hiraikotsu then flew back to her.
The youkai looked at them.
Miroku quickly went through the hole that Hiraikotsu had formed, Sango next, then Nobunaga.
"Are you sure you're up to this, Nobunaga?" Sango asked, not taking her eyes away from the youkai.
"Yes." Nobunaga stated.
Miroku looked around the room. He then fainted.
"Huh?"
Sango looked around and scoffed. "Hentai."
"What's wrong with him?" Nobunaga asked.
"He's a major pervert and if you would look around there is naked woman in bubbles." Sango pointed out. "Oh, and the youkai has your princess in a bubble. MIROKU, WAKE UP!"
Nobunaga looked at the youkai and saw the princess nearby in a bubble. "Princess Tsuyu!"
Sango decided to give up on Miroku. "The bubbles, they look like frog eggs." She bent over to look at one more closely. She then felt a hand on her bottom. She growled. "Miroku..."
It seems Miroku had either faked fainting or he has a radar for when girl's bend over.
Sango turned around and in one swift movement kicked Miroku away from her. "You hentai-baka! Sit!"
SPLAT!
Sango clenched her fists angrily, her eyes flashing with fire.
"Sango," Nobunaga said. "This is no time to be fighting with Miroku."
"Fine. Miroku, get your lazy butt up and go break the bubble with Tsuyu- sama. I'll distract the youkai." Sango stated. "Nobunaga, go with Miroku."
The boys nodded and got ready to run.
Sango pulled her boomerang back then threw it with all her might. "Hiraikotsu!"
The youkai jumped out of the way and sent it's tongue flying out again.
Miroku and Nobunaga dashed over to the bubble holding the princess.
Sango moved out of the direct path of the youkai's tongue, though getting scratched on her side. A small scrap of the material from her shirt fell to the ground and a little bit of blood started to form on her skin.
Hiraikotsu had started to return to Sango but went right through the youkai's arm, cutting it off.
"You-!" The youkai yelled.
Sango caught Hiraikotsu, smirking. "Yes!"
Meanwhile, Miroku had taken his staff and cracked the bubble right open. Nobunaga had sat on the ground and pulled the unconscious princess into his lap. "Princess Tsuyu..."
"I shall devour you!" The youkai exclaimed as it ran at Sango the fastest it could, which wasn't too fast.
"In your dreams." Sango said, getting ready for a battle.
'Sango, hold him off for a second and I'll get him.' Miroku thought, hoping Sango would do as he planned.
At a close range, the youkai sent its tongue out again.
Sango held up Hiraikotsu, blocking the tongue from getting to her again. She strained from the surprising force the tongue put on her weapon.
Miroku smirked. 'Hold it up, Sango.' He thought as he dashed toward the youkai, swinging his staff at it in attempt to rip it in half.
The youkai sucked its tongue back in, turning around and sent it at Miroku again.
Miroku, missing with his staff, gasped as the tongue went straight through the skin and bone of his arm.
"Miroku!" Sango exclaimed but before she could do anything else, Miroku interrupted.
"Fire. Fire is a toad's weakness, it will be a toad youkai's weakness. Get fire, Sango. Do not kill it with Hiraikotsu. I can still sense human inside of it, the lord is still in there."
Sango was surprised by his words. "Will you be okay?"
"Fine." Miroku answered.
Sango turned and ran out of the room, strapping Hiraikotsu to her back as she did so. "Nobunaga! Get out of there with the princess!" She called back.
Nobunaga, instead of listening to Sango's advice, laid the princess down on the floor and stood. He drew his sword. "Miroku," He said, glaring at the youkai. "We have to fight this guy, so let's go. But, uh, don't kill him."
"Not planning on it." Miroku stated.
~*~
"Hiyoshimaru, come back!" Suki yelled as she ran after the monkey.
Suki had her bow ready, an arrow there just in case she had to use it. She had Sango's bag on her back, and Kirara was running after her.
Hiyoshimaru had just gotten up and started running. He had grabbed a small dish of fire on his way.
"Hiyoshimaru!" Suki cried exasperatedly.
Kirara meowed.
"Suki!"
Suki stopped her running and looked down a corridor. That sounded like Sango. "Sango-mama!" She exclaimed when she saw her.
"No time to talk," Sango said as she stopped near the girl.
Hiyoshimaru suddenly came running back and held out the small fire to Sango.
"Hiyoshimaru, you've read my mind." Sango told the monkey. "But I need more fire then that. Kirara, we need you to transform. You have to breathe fire on the youkai. Suki, as much as I can see, the youkai spirit will be pushed out of the lord's body and I want you to shoot an arrow at it."
Suki was surprised by the suddenness of all this, but nodded. "All right."
"Let's go quickly." Sango stated. "Miroku was injured when I left him."
Sango started running back the way she came, this time with Suki and Kirara following. Hiyoshimaru blinked then ran after them.
Kirara transformed while they were running, letting out a mighty roar.
Soon they were back where the battle had really started.
Sango gasped when she saw that Miroku and Nobunaga were trying to hold off the youkai. Nobunaga was seriously injured, and Miroku's arm had to be hurting him. How could he stand to fight with his staff like that? She moved to the side with Suki, letting Kirara stand directly in front of where the men were fighting. "MIROKU, NOBUNAGA, MOVE!"
Miroku and Nobunaga looked at her and jumped out of the way.
"Kirara, now!" Sango ordered.
Kirara blew out a rush of flames all over the surprised youkai. When she was done, a man lay on the ground and the youkai was floating above him. Sango could see the glow of a Shikon shard.
"Shoot your arrow!" Sango exclaimed.
Suki, her arrow already drawn, shot it. "Please hit!"
~*~
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