Sora: oi mina, sorry that I haven't posted in a while I've been busy with college. Well here's the next chapter. Enjoy!!
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Inu-yasha swipes at the giant's chest plate splitting it and revealing the crow demon.
"EWWWW!!"
"Been eating chest all night, eh… to make yourself a cozy little nest?"
The giant's men are surprised to find that their master is dead and the two crows have recovered from being batted away. Rei is disgusted and drops the jewel.
"To weak to fight your own battles... or even manipulate the living."
The giant lunges at Inu-yasha, when he does Inu-yasha punches him in the crows hole, forcing the crow demon out. It swoops down and picks up the jewel.
"The jewel!! Oh, No you don't!"
The crows seeing a bow and a quiver of arrows, drags them over to Rei. She picks them up as Inu-yasha drags her with him in pursuit of the crow demon. The two crows follow.
"If you're going to carry those, why not at least use them?"
"Easy for you to say! I'm pretty good, but shooting an arrow from the position I'm in isn't easy!" This is understandable seeing as how she is currently being carried on his back as he literally leapt after the crow demon.
"Listen, witch. That crow demon feeds only on human flesh. What happens if he gets stronger?"
And with that the crow demon swallows the jewel.
"Keep steady!"
"I will. you just shoot." 'Hmph. once she's shot that crow—I'll have no more need of HER... and the ground is a long way down!' "One SHOT girl! Kikyo was a MASTER of the bow!"
"Hmph, jerk." Determination can easily be seen in Rei's eyes as she lines up the shot. She releases it and it looks perfect, too bad it falls short.
"Great, what was that about being good."
"Hey, don't blame me for a weak bow."
"Feh."
During their exchange, the crow demon got larger, much larger. And is preparing to attack the village, its first victim a young boy.
"Curse it---- the change has started!"
With the weight of the child slowing it down, Inu-yasha easily catches up and prepares to swipe the demon.
"No, idiot! Save the boy first!" When Inu-yasha doesn't listen, Rei takes the initiative and leaps at the boy to save him, right as Inu-yasha attacks.
"You fool! What do you think you're—" Inu-yasha is interupted as the demon prepares to attack Rei and the boy. "Kuso!" Inu-yasha shreds the demon as Rei hits the ground cushioning the boy's fall. She removes the demon's talon from the boy's arm, comforting him as he cries. To bad the demon reforms itself.
"GIRL!! Do you see the JEWEL?! Feh."
The crow demon is now completely reformed and being attacked by the two crows, slowing its escape. But not slow enough it still eludes Inu-yasha. getting an idea as to how to make the arrow reach its target. Rei ties the crow's talon to an arrow and shoots.
"You don't have a chance, girl. Not as feeble with a bow as YOU are..."
"It will hit!" That's when he notices the talon tied to the arrow. the arrow strikes right under the wing, where Rei had earlier seen the glow of the jewel. the demon is killed and a blinding light is seen as lots of little lights shoot off in every direction.
Watching Kaede thinks, 'This does not bode well..."
Rei is riding on Inu-yasha's back while they look for where the jewel fell.
'Something about that flash... chills me to the bone...'
"Are you sure the jewel's this way?!"
"Hmmm...Yes." She glares at him.
From above they see the head of the crow demon descending on them. The two crows are chasing it. Inu-yasha doesn't hesitate; he leaps at the head and squishes it. Rei sees a glowing fragment pop out of the remains.
'What...?'
"Is that the jewel?"
"Um... I guess it COULD be... a little PEICE... of the jewel..."
"NO..."
They are sitting in Kaede's hut 'discussing' the jewel.
"How can this BE?!"
"Quit howling, Inu-yasha." Kaede scolds.
"The JEWEL! What happened to the blasted JEWEL?!"
"When Rei shot that arrow... it shattered not only the demon, but the Shikon no Tama within it. It might have split into ten peices, or into a hundred... But now they are scattered everywhere. If a single shard should fall into the hands of an evil spirit... the result might be as ill as if that spirit had devoured the entire jewel!"
'And its all... my fault...?'
"You two must gather the shards of the jewel and restore it to its original form. TOGETHER."
"So we..."
"HA. Are you sure Kaede? I'm one of those 'evil spirits' after the jewel, remember?"
"For now... there's no other choice."
'But I just want... to get home.'
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The two crows are trying to get in. Rei opens the window and lets them in, one rests on her shoulder the other at her feet.
"I am curious Rei, why do these crows act so familiar toward you?"
Rei looks into the eyes of the crows and it clicks. "Because they DO know me! Phobos! Deimos! How...?"
"Feh, you are strange. Talking with crows. What if they're demons?"
"Trust me, they're not. They're my friends." Rei gets an idea and it shows on her face. "They are also the proof that I can't be Kikyo's reincarnation."
"But how else can it all be explained?"
"Coincidence."
"There are to many coincidences, how can those birds show proof?"
Rei looks beaten 'How can I explain...?'
Later Rei is washing in the river, she looks very cold. 'What I wouldn't give to be able to do a fire soul to warm this up.'
Kaede is sitting by a fire on the shore, Phobos and Deimos are with her.
"Come out Rei. Don't force yourself."
"I'm covered in filth and I want to be clean."
Inu-yasha is sitting in a tree thinking about what Kaede said earlier. Surprisingly Rei is thinking about the same thing.
'What is going on? If I could contact the others it wouldn't take that long at all to find all the shards.' When she gets out of the river she sees inu-yasha peeping at her and yells "Osuwari!" as she ducks down to cover herself. He slams down behind Kaede.
"So... see anything good?"
"Fehoww..."
"You perv. I thought you at least had some decency."
Inu-yasha looks irked, "I wasn't looking at you. I was only-----"
"—Looking for a chance to steal the jewel shard, is that it?"
"Creep did I look like I had the jewel? I was bathing!"
'Why does that girl keep getting to me? Sure she looks exactly like Kikyo, but there's... Fool of course she's just like Kikyo.'
A villager comes and talks to Kaede. "I must return to the village. Try not to fight."
Inu-yasha glares at her.
After a while
"Hey."
"Hey, what?"
"Take off those clothes."
GONNNG
"What was THAT for...?"
"You are such a pervert."
"Hey, I didn't say get naked!! Just change into something else!"
"Why? Because I look like Kikyo?!"
"That has nothing to do with it."
'Is he a demon or a junior high school kid?! He's acting like Usagi.' "You know, if you can't be more mature... we'll never be able to work together."
"That'd be fine by me. I'll find those shards even if I have to do it alone."
"Really? Then you don't need me around."
"And where do you think your going?"
"I'm going home. Ja ne!"
"'Home'...? WAIT!!"
"Oh, no. Its no good trying to stop me."
"But you have a shard of the shikon jewel! Leave it here!"
"You mean this?" She pulls out a small bag and waves it around a bit. Inu-yasha shakes his head, "Osuwari!"
"Why... you..."
"Later!"
Back in the village Kaede is shown to the house of a girl who became suddenly ill. While examining her, the girl gets up like a marionette. Kaede warns the mother to stay back as the girl rises from her bed. Kaede sees strands of hair attached to the girl and a large knife. the knife is pulled into the girl's hand by the hair and she swipes down on Kaede.
'The well! If there's anyway to get home, this is it." Rei looks nervous as she prepares to jump down the well. Looking over the edge she sees bones and remembers Kaede telling her about the well known as the bone-eater's-well and how it's used as a dumping ground for demon carcasses. 'I really don't want to go down there, but I have to.'
While Rei considers her options she sees two birds flying about. Quite suddenly they are cut up by an unseen force. Startled Rei jumps back and gets cut on her cheek and arm by something she can't see. Then she sees hundreds of hairs around her, forming a network of deadly tripwires.
"Hair?!"
"La... so you can see it, can you... My 'hairnet'?"
Looking up Rei sees a girl in a very short kimono that leaves little to the imagination, at her side is a ninjanata and running from her fingers are hairs.
'That must be how she manipulates the hairs.' "Who are you?!"
"My name is Yura of the hair, but that is of little concern to you, seeing as how your life is about to end." Moving her hands Yura causes the 'hairnet's' hairs to whip out at Rei and one snags the bag containing the jewel shard. Catching the bag Yura takes out the shard.
"Oh, MY! Just look what you've done to the Shikon jewel!"
"Hey give that back!"
Leaping at her with her sword drawn, Yura attacks Rei. Dodging, Rei looses her balance and falls into the well. Yura throws her sword down after her and is surprised when Rei is not there.
Meanwhile Inu-yasha is heading back to the village, thinking about what Rei said. Upon reaching the village Inu-yasha is attacked by the village girls and they're FLOATING!!! Needless to say, Inu-yasha does not hesitated to retaliate.
"Do not injure them!"
"Kaede, you witch. what are you up to, all drenched in blood?"
"As tactful as ever, I see..."
The girls, getting back into the air, continue thier attack on Inu-yasha.
"Why are your women after ME?"
"They are all under the power of someone... or something... else. Where is Rei? Call Rei and bring her here!"
Cocky as ever, "No need. I can take care of this myself, hag!"
"NO! No, you must not...!" 'This time, with this opponent... we need Rie!'
As Rei falls down the well, she feels like she's floating.
Back at the village, Kaede is trying to talk some sense into Inu-yasha. It isn't working.
"The HAIR, Inu-yasha! Cut the hair attached to the girls!"
"What hair?! I don't see any hair!"
The girls evade him, and begin to circle him, wrapping him in the hairs that were supporting them, while one takes a swing at him.
"Oh-HO! Is this puppeteer a fool, even if I can't see the hair... I can drag out whoever's at the other end!" And so Inu-yasha tries out his theory and falls on his butt when the hair goes slack.
With Yura.
"Sorry to disappoint. The hair GROWS. Now then... it is time to offer me your neck!" She holds her hands out with the hair between them forming a star shape and then pulles her hands apart making the hair knot.
Back at Inu-yasha's end.
He has been pinned to a tree with the hairs, some going around his neck. After struggling some Inu-yasha breaks free, the unfortunate tree has been made into firewood.
"La? This slack... the flesh has NOT been severed...?" Yura is puzzled.
Holding his neck and gagging slightly, "I looked death in the eye for a moment there..."
"A mere HUMAN would be headless now."
Looking up, "Tsk, a new crew." Apparently the village men are now Yura's puppets.
"We won't make any progress at this rate, obaba. Move your brittle bones!"
Inu-yasha leaps awaywith Kaede on his back and it looks like he'll jump right into the hair. Kaede tries to warn him but it is not needed as he just goes right through the gaps.
In the forest, Inu-yasha is leaning over the injured Kaede. He wants her to tell him where the hair leads, but she cannot. She tells him to get Rei, for she too can see the hair.
Laying among the bones of Mistress Centipede, Rei rouses from unconciousness. "Hmm...? Where am I...? Oh yeah... that girl chased me..." Rei looks up when she hears voices above.
"Wasn't the well the first place we looked?"
"Yes, but my computer is picking up an energy signal, that matches Rei's, from it."
A light shines down into the well and Rei sees Ami and Makoto looking down into the well.
"Ami-chan! Makoto-chan!"
"RRREI!"
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Sora: ok, that's it for this chapter I hope having made it extra long this time makes up for not updating it for three months. Please forgive me I'm busy and lazy.
id: how is that even possible
melani: this is Sora we're talking about, anythings possible, especially in her mind.
ego: please reveiw she'll defenatly get out more chapters before the new year, for both stories. the reviews determine the lengths.