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Chapter 31: Betraying Naraku
"Alright…prayer beads…next is…fangs." Kagura looked around. "What's that name?" she asked.
"Sesshomaru." Kanna said as she stared blankly ahead of them as they flew on Kagura's feather.
"Sesshomaru and…Inuyasha."
"Inuyasha?! We just passed him!" Kagura yelled. "Hmm…we'll get Sesshomaru's fang first. Where is he?" she asked.
"The Den of the Cursed Youkai Foot." Kanna said as they flew in that direction.
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"Tastunai…she betrayed us." Kagome muttered as she wrung out her red hakama and shook it out. She had fallen into a clear marsh and was soaking wet.
"I told you we shouldn't've trusted her." Inuyasha said absently as he leaned against the trunk of the tree Kagome was sitting in.
She glared at him and threw a large nut at his head.
"Ow."
She went back to her job determination etched all over her face.
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"Miroku still hasn't woken up?" Shippo asked as he sat next to Miroku with a slightly worried looking Sango next to him.
"No…it was poison he said. Those prayer beads were the things that sealed the Kazaana and now that their stolen…he doesn't have much control over them."
"I need….an antidote from…my old master." Miroku whispered between pants.
"No kidding, right? You're telling the truth, right Miroku?" Shippo asked an xiously."
"Yes. He lives in…Rumata hill." He said.
"Rumata…hill?" Sango raised a skeptical eyebrow. "Right…I've never heard of it."
"Next to Mt. Hukro." He said.
"Never heard of that either." she said.
"Sumara village?"
"Nope."
"Rugsha palace?"
"Iie."
"Uh…Kagome-sama's village?" he asked.
"Yes. That's where we just came from." Sango said as she crossed her arms.
"Three miles…uh…west of it….through the forest and one the other side is…Rumata hill." He said weakly.
"Fine. I'll try and find it….who is this master of yours?" she asked as she stood.
He grabbed onto the bottom of her yukata.
Shippo looked knowingly at the two and skipped out of the hut.
"His name is Mochi." He said.
"Rice…What a stupid name." she said quietly as she puffed up her cheeks. "I'll go and get this…antidote. What's it called?"
"Antidote." He said.
"Simple." She said as she raised her eyebrows.
She walked toward the door.
"Sango." He called to her.
"Yeah?" she turned.
"Good luck." Then he drifted off again.
Sango's eyes softened. "Thank you, Houshi-sama."
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"Here?" Kagura asked skeptically. "Isn't he supposed to be…the youkai lord of the western lands or something like that?"
"He is going to pass through here." Kanna said as she and Kagura walked through the muddy field. "There." she pointed to a white figure followed by a much shorter figure holding a staff much taller then it.
"Sesshomaru-sama, what are we doing here anyway?" the smaller figure asked.
Sesshomaru ignored him.
"Sesshomaru." Kagura stood before him.
"Move." Was all he said as he stopped.
"Quite the gentlemen aren't you." Kagura said as she lifted her fan.
He lifted his clawed hands and swung. A long green whip like think scratched her across the face.
She closed her eyes for a second. Then, turning to him, she smiled and spoke. "You have something I want." She lifted her fan. "Fushin no Mai!"
The wind blades struck him but the smaller figure stabbed the staff into the ground and a burst of fire shot out of the top.
It burnt all the wind rings. "Try killing Sesshomaru-sama. Better wait a few hundred years." Just then a lone wind ring sliced his arm off.
"Jaken. Stand back." Sesshomaru said in his chilling voice over Jaken's screaming. "What do you want of mine?"
"One of your fangs. Smallest if you wish." Kagura said.
Sesshomaru closed his eyes and lifted his claws. In a blink he was in front of her with his now glowing claws inches from her throat.
"K-Kanna." Kagura whispered.
Kanna stepped between them and a white substance started coming off the lord.
He stopped back and shot a green fume out of his claws. It hit the mirror and absorbed. The mirror shook for a second before the green poison shot back out.
Sesshomaru seemed unfazed by this move and turned around. He flipped something over his shoulder which landed in Kagura's hands. "Come, Jaken." He called to the toad.
"My arm!!" Jaken cried.
Sesshomaru unsheathed the katana at his side and swiped at the youkai toad.
"Ahh!! Sesshomaru-sama killed me! I'm dead! It's getting dark and…" Jaken opened his eyes and blinked. "My arm…." He moved his arm. It was intact now. "Sesshomaru-sama." His eyes swam with tears as he jumped up after the tai-youkai.
"Jaken. The staff."
"Right, Sesshomaru-sama!" he chased after the staff and ran after Sesshomaru.
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Kagura scowled after him but looked at the sharp fang in her palm, literary. She pulled it out and looked at it. "Next is Inuyasha." She turned and her and Kanna jumped onto her feather and flew off.
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"Those traders…" Naraku scowled as he sat in the room of the castle.
"They've betrayed you?" Tastunai asked as she leaned against the wall with her arms crossed.
"They have." He said angrily. "Just as you did. Get out of her now!"
"Fine. I'm going to Tsukai then."
"And why would you do that?"
"I need to ask her something." Was all she said before she walked out of the room.
Naraku looked after her long brown hair. He sighed. "Tastunai…sorry."
He turned back to the window. "We need another betrayal in that group." He looked down at his hands. "Tsukai."
Just as he called Tsukai walked in. "Yes, Naraku-sama."
"Let' have a little fun with Houshi-sama.": he said with a smirk. "Go to your sister…then come back and we will discuss."
"Hai, Naraku-sama." She said as she bowed and walked back out of the room.
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Sango flew on Kirara looking around. "There's Kagome-chan's village. Okay…the forest. Over it, Kirara." She pointed the neko-youkai ahead.
They flew over the forest.
"Its west, remember?"
Sango screamed and swung Hiraikutsu.
Shippo cried and scrambled down Kirara's tail.
"Shippo." She said as she lowered Hiraikutsu back onto her back and looked at the frightened Kitsune-youkai.
"What were you saying about west?" Sango asked.
"You're going south." Shippo pointed toward the forest a few miles away.
"Ahh!! I have a horrible sense of direction!" Sango cried uncharacteristically.
"Wasn't Kirara flying? It's her fault." Shippo said.
Kirara growled and turned toward the west. She was blushing which is really odd for a cat.
Just something flew at them wrapping around Sango's wrist and pulling her off Kirara's back.
"Sango!" Shippo cried as he pulled out a leaf and changed to a pink balloon think. He caught her and Sango clawed on his back as the chain around her wrist tried to pull her down. It seemed to deflate Shippo as they both plummeted to the ground in the middle of the forest.
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"AHHH! HELP ME SOMEONE!"
"Inuyasha…" Kagome dropped her hakama and fell out of the tree to land on her butt. "Owchie…." she shook her head to clear the ringing and launched herself at Inuyasha almost knocking him into the tree he was walking over to.
"Ow! What do you want now?!" he yelled.
"Did you hear that? Someone needs help." she said.
He looked at her, then downward.
He blushed as did Kagome and they both looked away.
"C'mon. I don't have an extra…other then a yukata…but that's not the point! Let's check it out!" she cried as she pulled at his red haori. She only had her white haori on and it came about a foot above her knees.
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The black-haired girl ran through the forest her arm bleeding slightly and her legs cut up all over.
"Don't run girl!" a voice called after her.
"Leave me be, Ruumomaru!" she cried.
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"Look there!" Kagome pointed as she rested on Inuyasha's back.
He jumped down a few feet away from the running girl and the youkai behind her.
Ruumomaru threw him katana at her and it severed her arm completely
She cried out and fell to the ground rolling and crashing up against a tree where she scrunched up in pain and looked at her arm a few feet away. "Bastard." Was her last word before she fainted.
Kagome jumped off Inuyasha's back and went over to her. She checked her pulse and tears shimmered in her eyes. "Dead."
"Ah…the great hanyou, Inuyasha. Your making quite a name for yourself, hangin' 'round with human's. A miko none the less." Ruumomaru said.
"Are you…Ruumomaru?" Kagome asked.
"I am, Miko-sama." He said as she bowed, his ponytail falling over his head. "And I've come to fulfill my duties as a detachment of Naraku."
"A…detachment…" Kagome started.
"Of Naraku?" Inuyasha finished angrily.
"Yes…that one that killed your beloved mother. Inuyasha. The son of the great Inu-taishou. Although they weren't very lucky in having a tai-youkai, a hanyou is good enough."
"Bastard! He killed my mother?!" Inuyasha yelled as he flexed his claws angrily and stepped forward.
Kagome looked up at his pain stricken and angry face.
"He did. More or less it was much easier then attacking with his bare hands. He went out in the form of her husband and…snap-crack-pop she's dead. But enough about him…" Ruumomaru was in his face in a flash. "Let's talk about us…"
"Get away!" Inuyasha swiped at him with his claws.
The handsome Ruumomaru jumped and landed next Kagome who was digging a hole to bury the girl.
"Hey…I think…if I win…I'll take your woman." he said as he tilted her face up.
Kagome spit at his face. "Playboy. Don't touch me!" she yelled as she squirmed.
"She's very very…beautiful. Now I know why Naraku is in love with her."
"Get away from her!" Inuyasha unsheathed Tetsusaiga and swung.
"I need clothes." Kagome whispered as she looked around. She spotted a pack on the woman's back. Praying as she pulled the pack off and pulled out a pink and green yukata. "Perfect." She inched away and changed.
She came out clad in the yukata and her bow over her shoulder with her quiver of arrows in her hand. "Do it, Inuyasha." she whispered before dragging the girl and her arm away from the battle.
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"Where is that Inuyasha?" Kagura looked around at the ground below. "Where should we look?"
"Over there." Kanna pointed to the forest next to Kagome's village.
"I don't sense him." Kagura said as she looked hard.
"Kohaku." Kanna said. His face reflected in the mirror. His blank eyes, his black ponytail, his grey haori and his pale skin. He had a blank frown on his face and a chin on form of his face.
"Why do we need to go there?"
"Naraku-sama need's him." Kanna said.
"We aren't listening to him anymore, remember?! We're looking for Myukai." Kagura snapped at her.
"He will help. He will kill the youkai taijiya and the neko-youkai." Kanna said.
"Fine. If Kohaku will help then we'll got here." Kagura sighed as she sat back down on the feather. "Why hasn't Naraku tried to bring us back yet?"
Kanna kept quiet.
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Well….This is wonderful! I got it to the point I always wanted!
I'm also open for suggestions but…I already have the ending planned out and I know now that there is totally going ot be a sequel. This is amazing is it not? The story is progressing just as well because if it wasn't I think I would have a break down. Anyway…I think there will be a series of sequels and extra's…yeah!!
Next chapter:
Special: Myukai's resurrection
Summery: The Inuyasha crew all have their own youkai to confront, Sango and Shippo Kohaku, Inuyasha Ruumomaru, Kagome crazed corpses, Naraku his love for Tastunai, Tastunai's controlment flicking on and off, Sesshomaru with a little girl, and Miroku with his poison. Plus Kagura and Kanna finally get one of Inuyasha's fallen fangs. What is this Myukai and what is her nature? On a special side story! Myukai The Goddess of Destruction!