Sora: hey I don't own 'em, heck the only thing I own is the idea to put the two together.
id: at least in this manner.
Sora: oh shut up, time to begin.
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After they got her out of the well, Rei looked around and saw the shrine and the buildings. 'I'm... back...?! I made it home.' Rei sees Hino-san and the rest of her friends come around one of the buildings. They are surprised when they see Rei.
"Rei-chan, you're back!"
"Where have you been? What happened?"
'Its not a dream... I'm really home!' "Ji-chan! Guys! I was so scared!" Rei hugs everyone at once.
"Calm down Rei. We'll get some ice cream and you can tell us what happened."
Meanwhile back in sengoku jidai. Inu-yasha is digging a hole. Standing up, "Alright. This should do it. Its the least I can do for you, obaba. I'll bury you here."
"...Do I look DEAD to you...?"
"I'm sayin', HIDE here! I'll come back for you later... If I don't forget."
"See that you do not, boy!"
Inu-yasha runs off looking for Rei.
Rei is sitting in her room with her friends, she just finished telling them about what happened.
"I wonder why you couldn't transform? If it was that you just went back in time, why couldn't you transform?"
They look at Luna, "Don't look at me, I don't have a clue."
"I wonder why Setsuna couldn't find you, she's been studying the time gates since you went missing."
"Was she looking in the sengoku jidai?"
"I doubt it."
"Listen, I'm back. I just want to forget this ever happened."
Earlier Inu-yasha was sniffing around the well.
"No mistake. Its her scent..." Walking up to the well he looks over the edge, "So she escaped down here!" and he jumps down the well.
Back to Rei and her friends.
"...I just want to forget it ever happened." And just as she finished saying that the door behind her opens, revealing a very angry Inu-yasha. Everyone stares at him.
"Inu...-yasha?"
"You... Who told you that you could come trotting home, eh...?!"
Rei's e
Back to Rei and her friends.
"...I just want to forget it ever happened." And just as she finished saying that the door behind her opens, revealing a very angry Inu-yasha. Everyone stares at him.
"Inu...-yasha?"
"You... Who told you that you could come trotting hom, eh...?!"
Rei's eye is twitching, but before she could do anything...
"Look at his ears..."
"There so kawaii!"
"He looks just like my old boyfriend"
Everyone pauses to look at Makoto.
"Alright he looks way better than my old boyfriend."
"Everyone stop!" Rei turns to Inu-yasha, "What are you doing here? You said you didn't need me to find the shards, so why are you here?" Inu-yasha doesn't even listen top her.
"Come on, lets go!"
"Stop right there!"
"Why should I?!"
"Ami..."
"Becuase she doesn't belong there."
Rei notices some hair on Inu-yasha's arm.
"Inu-yasha... that strand of hair on your sleeve..."
"What hair?"
"You... can't see it?!" She picks it up and it wraps around her hand and squeezes, cutting her. 'Its moving!'
"Rei, what's wrong?!"
"You're bleeding..."
'I'm the only one here who can see it... Is this some of Yura's hair...?!' Running to the well house, Rei has a worried look on her face. 'It can't be.' Her friends have followed as well as Inu-yasha. They are all in the well house. 'Hair... Its coming after us...'
"Kaede-baba was right. You can see the hair."
"Baka. This stuff followed you here."
"Rei, what's going on?"
"Usagi, get out of here! It isn't safe! All of you OUT!!" Rei is panicing as more hair comes out of the well. She isn't even thinking about transforming. 'I have to stop it. I'm the only one who can see it.' The hair lashes out. "Inu-yasha! In front of you!"
Inu-yasha swings and shreds the hair coming at him, but it still wraps around his his limbs. Rei can hear her friends pounding on the door, trying to get in, but the can't.
Inu-yasha shreds the hair holding him, and struggles to hold off even more hair.
'It just keeps coming.'
"Rei, there should be one strand controlling the rest. Find it and the hair will stop."
"Thanks, Ami." 'Now which one is it.' Looking at the well, Rei sees one strand coming out that is taught. 'That must be it' "Inuyasha, cut this strand, its the main strand."
"What strand? I don't see anything."
'He can't see it.' Rei grabs the strand and holds it between her hands. Inuyasha sees some of her blood on the strand and slices it. With the main strand gone, the rest of the hair disappears.
"Let us in Rei." Usagi shouts in the background.
'Yura already has the shard, so why did she come here. Who's her target...? Me, Inuyasha or something else.' "Lets go, Inuyasha. We have to stop her."
"What got into you? A moment ago you didn't want to come."
"I changed my mind." 'I need to make sure she isn't after Usagi.' Rei is startled when Inuyasha puts his haori on her. "What's this for?"
"Its made from the fur of a fire rat. Its stronger than any suit of armor."
"Thanks."
"You'll need it... with skin as weak and frail as yours."
"Baka. I knew it was to good to be true." With that they jump into the well.
Sailor Pluto is staring puzzled into the time gates. "What's going on?" She scratches her head. "I can't get a lock on Rei... or the shrine for that matter." Waves the time staff around. "Ugh!! Its like time is overlapping there." Sailor Pluto continues her search.
Yura is sitting on a cache of skulls and holding one in her hands, she begins to comb its hair, the hair flows off to do her bidding.
At the well Inuyasha is arguing with Rei. "What makes you think Yura is after one of your weakling friends? All she wants is the jewel."
"There are alot of reasons, and I don't care what they are. She already has MY shard of the jewel so why else would she have come."
"What...?! You mean you gave her the shard?!"
"Look out! Its above us!" They jump out of the way of the hair as it hits where they had just been.
"Trace that hair to its source! I'll KILL that witch!!"
"There, that way." Rei says pointing into the forest.
After a while they see a campfire.
"A campfire... here?"
Getting to the fire, they see several decapitated bodies strewn about.
"Ronin... They must havbe been attacked by Yura." Looking over the corpses Inuyasha wonders why there heads were taken, and sees Rei crouched down. "What are you doing? Don't tell me you're afraid."
Picking up a bow and quiver of arrows, "No, I thought these may be useful."
Leaping off with Rei on his back, Inuyasha asks, "Will your archery be any better than before?"
"Hey! I've told you, I'm a decent archer."
"That's what you said last time."
"Grrrr..."
'This girl... may be a pain... but she's got more fire in her than I gave her credit for.'
"Be careful! We're getting closer!" Out of nowhere hair comes out and attacks them, and Rei tells Inuyasha which way to dodge. One bunch, however, is missed by Rei and grabs Inuyasha's arm. Rei falls off of Inuyasha's back as he is pulled away.
"Inuyasha..." Looking up, Rei sees Inuyasha, held by hair from his arms and legs. Behind him is a giant ball of hair, suspended in the air by more hair. Yura comes down from above.
"Aah... What a lovely fly I've caught. You're Inuyasha, aren't you?"
"And you're Yura of the hair... What do you know of me?"
"You have quite a reputation among we Oni, you know."
'So she's an Oni...'
"We heard that a hanyou named Inuyasha became the pet of a reincarnated miko in order to collect the Shikon jewel shards."
"What?! I?! A pet to that fool of a girl?! Who told you that?!"
"Hmph, it doesn't really matter, you're both in my way. So I'll kill you both and then gather the shards at my leisure." Yura holds up the shard she took from Rei.
"You... Kill me... Don't make me laugh." Inuyasha frees his arms and legs and attacks. Yura dodges and gathers more hair to bind inuyasha. Once he is bond, Yura attacks him with her sword, making a deep gash on his chest.
'Inuyasha...' Rei is genuinly worried about him and readies her bow.
"Nice blade..."
"Oh, goody. I didnb't know what I was going top do if THIS couldn't hurt you. This is my favorite sword... 'Crimson Mist'. An Oni's joy... It severs flesh and bone without harming hair. In other words, I can slice you to ribbons while you're still held fast!"
Yura notices a couple of arrows coming at herand has the hair catch them. She is surprised when they burn the hair they come in contact with. Looking for the source, she sees Rei readying another arrow. She fires it and it sails under Inuyasha, striking the hairball and spilling the cache of skulls inside, among them are three heads.
"The heads of those ronin..."
"You know them? Good. You'll be joining them in a moment. You have such beautiful hair... and so much of it... I can't wait to play with it!" Inuyasha glares at her as she plays with his hair. "But first..." She holds up a comb, "You, girl!! You'll die FIRST!" She swings the comb around in an arch, unleashing flames at Rei.
"EEYAH!!"
'Flames!'
"How do you like my Oni's comb, hm? It'll burn you to your bone marrow!"
Rei hunkers down under Inuyasha's haori as the flames roar around her.
"Ah, much better. A fitting punishment for spoiling my nest."
'Help... me...'
'OH...' Inuyasha has concern all over his face.
"Not even her bones will remain."
"You..."
"Miss her? Poor baby... Well, you'll be joining her soon enough!" Yura leaps at him ready to strike. Inuyasha digs his claws into his wound and slashes.
"Claws of BLOOD!!"
'Claws...?!' Yura is surprised by the attack and it manages to slice off the hand holding her sword. Half the hair holding Inuyasha loosens, and Yura stares at her stump. Inuyasha and Yura face off.
"Hard to manipulate hair without your hands, isn't it?"
Yura puts her comb in her mouth to hold it and runs the hairs attached to her remaining hand through it, causing an avalanche of skulls to attack Inuyasha. Inuyasha is smashing the skulls, when from behind him, Yura's hand, the one he cut off, holding her sword attacks him.
"So close! Another inch and I'd have had your head! Lets try that again!" The hand attacks again.
"Claws of blood!" He misses because the hand hides in the avalanche of hair and skulls.
The hand catches him by surprise from behind and drives the sword through his shoulder, picking him up.
"Where were you watching?!"
Inuyasha, now wrapped in hair, struggles to get up after being slammed into a boulder. Yura taunts him about his weakness as a hanyou and losing the jewel. As her severed hand holds Inuyasha's hair up, Yura prepares to slice off his head. In a last ditch effort to defeat her, Inuyasha slams his hand through her chest and pulls it back through, grabbing the shard at the same time.
"Now witch, do you see..." He is cut off as his hand is pinned to the ground with Yura's sword. With a hole in her chest she is still standing and scolds him for his actions. Inuyasha is surprised by her resilance and she takes back the shard.
Staring at her in disbelief, 'Where?! Where is Yura's weakness...?'
The hairs on Yura's fingers are pulled on lightly, causing Yura to turn toward her nest, where the disturbance is coming from. There she sees Rei climbing up the hair leading to the nest. 'That girl... I thought I burned her to a crisp!' Yura attacks Rei by shaking the hairs she's climbing. Using her distraction to his advantage, Inuyasha uses the sword pinning his hand to slash Yura's back.
Perterbed by his attack, she pins him to the boulder and prepares to kill him.
"You were calm enough when I ran you through... but now... Is there something here you don't want found?"
Rei meanwile continued to climb, and hearing what Inuyasha said, she points to a skull and shouts, "Inuyasha, its that one, that skull has something in it!"
"Skull?!"
"Feh." Yura changes her target from Inuyasha to Rei. Inuyasha forces his way after her. Yura pulls up on the hair Rei is climbing, entangling her in it, Inuyasha jumps in after her.
Rei manages to grab the skull she was pointing at and tries to pull it closer to herself. Yura has other ideas though, as she manipulates her sword to slice Rei. It strikes, knocking Rei off of the hair she was on. Catching her sword, Yura is surprised when she sees Rei unharmed having snagged her by her arms with hair.
"What ARE you? Why aren't you maimed?"
Rei is just as surprised, but then she remembers what Inuyasha said about the jacket he loaned her and she now wore.
"Your body looks human... So lets try this!" Yura wraps a single hair around Rei's neck and tightens it.
"Remember my CLAWS of blood?!" Inuyasha's attack takes off Yura's arm, the one with a hand, and everyone falls to the ground.
While falling "Ha! Finally, with both arms gone... She's had to let down her hair!"
"Inuyasha, watch—" Rei's warning is cut off as Inuyasha is run through with Yura's sword.
Standing atop a mound of skulls, with her sword hovering near her as she speaks, "Fool. Wasting our time..."
"What... ARE you..." 'How can I stop her?'
"I'm IMMORTAL!!" Yura's sword comes in for another attack, but it halts. Yura and Inuyasha turn toward Rei, who is trying to drive an arrow through one of the skulls.
"This is it. This is the skull... The hairs coming from it... are attached to Yura's hand!"
"Girl... You're dead!" The sword heads straight for Rei, just as its about to strike her, the skull splits revealing a comb. As the comb cracks and breaks, Yura fades away, leaving only her clothes and sword.
"So, she hid her soul in a comb. No wonder nothing I did hurt her body..."
"Inuyasha... you're hurt... Is it because you let me use your jacket."
"Never mind about me... Where's the jewel shard."
Rei walks over to Yura's clothes and picks up the shard. "Here it is..." Rei looks thoughtful.
"Let's go, Rei. Hey is something wrong?"
"You said my name..."
"So...?" He starts to walk off.
"Are you trying to be nicer?"
"Yeah, right. I've always been nice to fools and weaklings."
"Hey, I just saved your life." She swats his bloody shoulder and he falls down in pain. She looks at him, "You were saying..."
"Oh, shut up..."
Unnoticed by the two, a small (flea-sized) creature hops onto one of the skulls. It is wearing a kimono in the style men wore. "At last I have found you... Inuyasha-sama."
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Sora: wow I didn't think I'd ever finish that fight, some of these just go on forever.
id: congratulations, you're really cranking these things out
melani: just wait it'l be months till the next one
Sora: will not be, I have tomorrow afternoon completely free, I'll be typing then.
ego: yes and it helps that you already have some of the story written in a notebook.
Sora: sweatdrops ego that's a trade secret, you can't tell them that
id: if you want this story to get past Sesshoumaru-sama's appearance I suggest you reveiw, that's about what she has written.