Hey, sorry for the stunt I pulled of last chapter. So, that is so called dreaded cliffhanger? I have to admit that I do kind of like doing that to y'all. As a matter of fact, such climaxes with often occur in this story. Yeah. Your boy LewdaKris just found out a way to torture you. You know it's on now.
Disclaimer: Well can I at least borrow Inuyasha's Iron Fang Blade?
Inuyasha
I'm Afraid I'm Not In Hokkaido Anymore
Chapter V: The Fearsome Power of Megoka
"Sangou? Can you sense that bale? It's so strong that it making me ill." Miroku queried in alarm.
"Yes definitely, Miroku. But that cannot be? Could all this force could possibly be emitting from that wizard? I do not recall him being this strong." Sangou answered.
"I have a terrible felling about this, Sangou san. We must be on guard for the unexpected."
The taijiya and the monk was closing in on the forest where Naraku had ran off to. They absolutely didn't expect the wizard to be this powerful? After all, was he not the tyrant that caused the downfall of Queen Kagome. Oblivious to them it was far worse. The entire kingdom of Geisha was slowly falling into a new age of darkness.
"So, Kagome? Care to try your luck again against me? Now that you are united with your 'flunkies' I can say that your chances of scratching me had risen by a fraction of a percent." Megoka mocked arrogantly.
"My god! It can't be! This woman is the source of all that power I've been sensing?" Kikyou asked in pure shock. "Kagome, Inuyasha how do you expect us to defeat her? Her very presence is making me very sick."
"Kikyou please don't say such things." Kagome chided. "Have faith in yourself and we can take Megoka down. I know it's hard but you must pull through."
"Keh. We'll take her down alright." Inuyasha scoffed. " This bitch will wish that she'd never fucked with us and this entire kingdom. You hear that, you crazy wench?"
Megoka cocked her head to her left. "Oh? We've got a noise talker here. Since you're so big and bad, little devil, care to try your hand at me and see for yourself." She starts to levitate in the air.
"Now you're talking! Let's do this Megoka! Just don't start whining about a broken nail cause I'm going to break more than just that on that pretty body of yours." Inuyasha challenge. Kikyou regarded the conceited knight worriedly.
"Inuyasha, don't! Making her angry is the last thing we want to do." Kikyou warned fearfully.
"It is wise to take Kokyiu's advice, devil boy. But if you insist then by all means attack me. I can use a good laugh." Megoka scorned.
"Alright, don't say I didn't warn you." Without hesitation the hanyou sprinted towards Megoka and executes the infamous "Soul Dispersing Iron Strike" at her. The power attack landed on it's intended target but unfortunately, the devil girl was totally unscathed. Megoka disparaged at his futile attempt to inflict her.
"Is that all you got puppy boy?"
"Inuyasha I told you! We don't stand a chance against her!" Kikyou wailed.
"Keh. So she can withstand that attack so what? I'm just getting warmed up."
"Inuyasha! Kikyou! Stand back!" Kagome commanded aiming an arrow at Megoka. "I have a plan." She released the arrow and the spear made a point blank landing at the vile girl.
"Inuyasha! Kikyou! Run for it!"
Kagome and Kikyou made a mad dash away from Megoka as soon as humanly possible. Inuyasha stared at the retreating girls in dumbfounded shock. After a moment's thought, he reluctantly followed behind them. "Kagome! Why are we running away from her? You made a clear shot at her, damn it!" Inuyasha spat.
"Inuyasha, Kikyou's right. We really don't stand a chance against Megoka. For now, we must retreat and come up with a effective plan of stopping her." Kagome clarified.
"Kagome san's right." Kikyou huffed. "Running away is the best thing to do right now."
"Kikyou, are you all right?" Kagome asked in concern.
"I'm fine. It's just a minor fever. Nothing more." Kikyou replied.
Inuyasha caught up with the ailing girl and grabs her. "Hang on Kikyou. You're in no shape to be running right now. Kagome, you're going to have to hop on too."
"Huh? Inuyasha, that's kind of embarassing but it looks like I don't have a choice." Kagome conceded. She mounted on the hanyou's left shoulder. He ran with the queen and the young miko in tow, heading back to the village in record timing. However he slowed down considerably as he spotted Sangou and Miroku heading towards them.
"Aye! Sangou! Miroku!" Kagome called out.
"Kagome sama! Is it really you!?" Exclaimed a surprised Miroku at the shocking revalation.
"Kagome, you're alive and well!" Exclaimed Sangou.
"Well if you wanna live to see another day you better turn back and haul ass!" Inuyasha warned.
"What is the meaning of this?" The taijiya demanded. Kikyou pointed to the devil woman emerging from the forest they had just left nearly a mile away.
"Her!"
"She looks just like Kagome!"
"Yeah, well, but it isn't! If you value your life I advise you to run like hell!" Inuyasha yelled. Sangou and Miroku didn't had to be told that twice. The woman seemed very pissed and she made a trail of dark flames as she sped on her warpath.
"You imbeciles! I will not let you get away from scarring my face!" Megoka raged. Apparently she was indignant about the arrow Kagome fired at her because it made a pretty pink mark across her nose.
"Well just for scarring me I will make a scar in that damn village you cowards are heading to ." Focusing some energy in here fingertips, Megoka ignited a small flame on her fingertips. With wicked grace she blew out the fire and suddenly a section of the village before the gang went into flames.
"Oh no! Those people! I swear it she will never get away with this!" Kagome declared. The flames went out as quickly just as fast as it started.
"I'll leave you people alone for now. I'd just came here to show you a sample of my power." An notion occurred in her head. "Better yet, I may give you a nasty surprise later on. You like surprises do you?"
"No!" The gang shouted.
"Well you're definitely are going to get one! Heed my warning fools, because it is soon to come." Megoka's words made Kikyou felt very frightened and uneasy. Even her presence left the young girl with a fever. She felt worse by the second and she had a desire to confess something to the group when they return to their cabin.
***
" I believe that my days are coming to an end if I stay here any longer." Kikyou confessed in a discouraged tone. "I'm sorry. I just. . . I just can't do this. How can I stand up to Megoka? Someone please tell me. I'm at such a loss."
Inuyasha frowned at the despondent girl. "Quit your whining, Kikyou! I can't believe that you're such a cowardly wench!"
"Inuyasha!" Kagome chided.
"No Kagome! If she wants to go home then fine, she can haul her ass back home. We can handle Megoka ourselves regardless of those fucking myths about her." Inuyasha complained.
"Inuyasha, if Kikyou leaves then we'll be at complete mercy under Megoka's hand. How can you be so callous!? I understand what Kikyou's going through. I felt the same when my mother began training me as a demon exterminator." Sangou exclaimed.
"Inuyasha, Sangou's right. With Kikyou being the youngest out of all of us that explains her lack of experience. Perhaps we can train her in furthering developing her powers." Miroku explicated.
"My powers?"
"Yes Kikyou sama. You were the first among all of us to sense that woman's presence. Even before Kagome sama did. That my friend is a true confirmation that you are more powerful than she is."
"Keh. You think so? She'll coward in a canopy of trees even at the sight of burglars. You think someone like her can save an entire world? I don't think so."
Kagome grew livid at the hanyou's ridicule. He's an warrior of honor but he can be very disrespectful. "Inuyasha. . ."
"What?"
"Osuwari. . ."
*WHAM!*
Kikyou stared at the dog demon who was now kissing the floor in shock. "What was that?"
"Nothing. Just a little spell to restrain him if he gets out of hand." Kagome grinned. Inuyasha pried himself off the ground in mild surprise.
"Kagome. You haven't done that in ages. Why now?"
"Sorry but you were asking for it."
Sangou stroked on Kirara's fur. "Kirara, do you mind being on vigil tonight?" The cat nodded it's head at her friend and ran outside the hut. "If anything were to happen Kirara will alarm us." Sangou proceeded upstairs to her bedroom.
"Sangou, may I have the honor of keeping a vigil over you tonight while you sleep?" Miroku requested. A brick fell from upstairs onto his foot. Miroku groaned in pain while clutching his offended foot.
"No thanks." Sangou replied in ire.
Kagome took a glance over to Kikyou. Poor child she was looking very sad and nostalgic. "Kikyou forget what Inuyasha said about you. I know he can be quite the whack bag but you'll have to excuse him." She earned a hot glower from the knight leaning by the clock.
"It's just that I really want to go home." Kikyou responded. " Yet I have an uncontrollable urge to stay here. Maybe I just need some sleep. I still feel very ill from Megoka's aura."
"Okay. Maybe it's just for the best that you rest. Goodnight, I'm going to hit the hay as well." Kagome said before proceeding upstairs.
"Keh. You and your eight hours. Humans. . ." Scoffed Inuyasha. Kikyou glanced at him sadly before she disappeared from his sight.
'What's with her? Something's strangle about the smell of her blood.'
* * *
Kikyou writhed in her sleep due to an disturbing dream and an unpleasant voice haunting her head. She was struggling so hard that tears streamed down her face. Her only hopes of suppressing her incubus was her thoughts of her loving mother. Unfortunately that was failing miserably.
'Mama. Please don't let them take me away. Protect me, mama! Please!.'
There's nothing that your mother can do, child.
'Mama! It's that voice again! Please help me! I am sick and weary!'
Legendary warrior, Kokyiu. . .Ha! Who would of ever imagine that you'll be so timid and weak?
'Mama!!!'
I told you she cannot help you. Even Inuyasha, the knight whom you're in love with cannot help you. Insolent infant! A miko in love with a half devil!? You amuse me, child.
'You! Get out of my mind!'
That's it isn't it? You're in love with him? That hanyou!? That explains why you wanted to stay in this doomed kingdom despite your desires to return home and never see the land of Geisha again!
'Maybe I am in love with him but that doesn't give you the right to read my earnest thoughts about him!'
Ah! Aren't we brave all of a sudden? Your emotions are so ridiculous that I'm nearly reduced to tears.
'How dare you mock me!?'
Listen child. You can return to your world by heading towards the lake north of where you currently rest. Yes. Return to your world. That cold place that you call reality. That place is as doomed as this kingdom. You know it's true, look. . .poverty, sickness, war. . .
'Stop it! Stop it! Get out of my head! Damn you!'
The only way to forget the voices you hear is to leave immediately.
'No! I'm not leaving until I tell Inuyasha san how I feel about him!'
Pathetic creature. Arise! Begone! Back to your world and never return. You will not intervene with my plans to totally conquer Geisha. I command you to rise!!
'No!'
"Yes mistress Megoka." In a zombie like fashion Kikyou's body unconsciously rose from her bed and bounded itself out of the hut heading for the lake not to far away.
'What's have you done to me!? I'm moving on my own! Megoka, why are you doing this!?"
"To save you from the pain and heartbreak that you'll bound to suffer if you were to remain here, young lass. With you gone, you no longer have to worry about anything that transpired here."
'I don't understand. You're actually helping me? How could you possible be doing that!? You make me sick on the stomach!"
"Young Kikyou. . .you will soon recall this a figment of your imagination. This is all a dream. . .just like life."
'Stop this at once! I will not leave until I rid this world of you!'
"How can you rid the world of me? You have no powers to do so, you insolent little bitch! You're making my patience wear out!"
Kikyou's subconscious body finally arrived at the lake. She walk upon it half submerge in the body of water.
"Farewell. Legendary miko Kokyiu. Forget this world forever and suffer no more."
Kikyou approached the violent whirlpool in the middle of the lake. She was instantly sucked in.
'Iya. . .Iya. . .Iya. . .IYAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!'
Kikyou pried herself off the ground back in her world. She surveyed her surroundings and confirmed it was the well house. Reminiscing on Megoka's haunting words she was finally convinced that her visit to that world was indeed a dream after all. Tears welled up in her soft eyes as she exited the shack.
She shall never see him again. Thus to forget him forever.
'Sayonara. . .Inuyasha. I'll always love you.' She pressed her fingers to her lips and release a imaginary kiss back at the hut. She grimaced as she still felt sick from Megoka's presence. As a matter of fact, she felt worse than what she was earlier. Her body is weary, her head was pounding from a powerful migraine, her vision's blurry, and her throat had the taste of bile and blood.
'I'm home at last.' Kikyou mused euphorically and yet maudlin at the same time. She arrived at her front door and knocked on it.
"I'll be there in a minute." Ms. Horikawa shouted from within. Kikyou smiled lethargically and leaned her somnolent body against the door.
Ms. Horikawa opened the door and her eyes widened in shock and relief as she caught her ailing daughter in her arms. "Kikyou! My baby! You're finally home!"
"Yes mama. . .I'm was so scared."
"Kikyou it's the middle of the night and you have been gone for a whole day. It's okay baby. I'll let the police department know you're home safe and sound." Ms. Horikawa reassured.
"Thank you. . .Mama. I missed you." She fell asleep in her mother's arms.
"Kikyou! Oh my god you're burning with an outrageous fever. I'm taking you to the hospital."
* * *
"Ms. Horikawa, your daughter is gravely ill. She is bedridden by several symptoms. It's a miracle that she is still alive." The doctor informed to an anxious mother and younger daughter.
Ms. Horikawa sighed in relief. "That's good to hear doctor. How long will she be here?"
"Your daughter will be here for a very long time." The doctor elucidated. "If your daughter is not properly taken care of she could die in a matter of hours."
"There's no way! My sister is in perfect shape! How can this be!?" Exclaimed Kaede.
"Kaede, settle down. Doctor if it is required for my daughter to stay here for a while, then by all means take good care of my poor baby. I can't bare to see her like this." Horikawa cried.
"Don't worry Ms. Horikawa. Your daughters is in good hands. I'm glad that you bought your daughter her for her aid." Ms. Horikawa bowed at the doctor and reluctantly left with Kaede dragging behind.
Hours passed every since Kikyou was brought to the medical center. Groggily, she wakes up and found herself in a dark and eerie room in a hospital. She vaguely recalls her mother mentioning something about taking her to a hospital and she never expected to arrive her so soon. Or so she thought. She rose from her bed and yelped as she felt the pang of nearly every muscle in her body. Steeling her resolve, she weakly made her way to the room's restroom and peered into the mirror. She now had on a white robe, mutual of the hospital and she looked very pale, due to her ailments. Her once beautiful eyes had darkened bags underneath them and her eyes were nearly glazed over. She couldn't hardly believe it. She never looked so horrible in her life. Just when she thought things were bad enough a familiar, haunting voice filled her head.
"Definitely a new look for you."
"Oh no! Not again! Why do you persist in torturing me!? Is my absence enough!? It's all over! Go away!"
"On the contrary child, I need you to return to this world."
"What!? No way! I'm not returning!"
"Child, I insist. Now come along."
"Megoka! I am not your toy! You've already forced me to leave Geisha and now you want me to return!? Damn you! Stop playing with my life you devil!!"
"Kokyiu you wish to forget Inuyasha forever?"
"What? What are you on about?"
"In order to tell him your farewell you must kill him. Now arise, doll!"
'No! You're doing it again! Make it stop!"
"Heh! You are coming back to kill Inuyasha! My dear it's the only way. Then I will finally leave you alone!"
Kikyou subconscious body proceeded to the reception floor and checked herself out. She flew across the vast city and returned to the well house.
'Megoka! I beg of you! Please don't do this! I will not have his blood on my hands!"
"Down you go!"
'Noooooo!!!'
* * *
"Inuyasha. . .Inuyasha. . .please wake up."
The hanyou lethargically woken up from his slumber. He quickly regained his composure when he recognized the woman before him. Kikyou. There's was something strange about her.
"K-Kikyou? Why are you up? You should be resting. I can smell the fever in your blood."
'Inuyasha, flee!'
"Inuyasha, come along with me. There's something that I must inform you." Reluctantly, the knight followed the now estranged girl towards the lake where he first met her.
'Inuyasha go back! I'm going to hurt you!"
"Kikyou what is the meaning of this? What do you want?" He asked uneasily. He noticed Kikyou walking into the body of water. "Kikyou get out of there! You're gonna catch pneumonia in the water along with what you already got."
'Inuyasha! It isn't me! It isn't me!'
Kikyou signaled Inuyasha to come forward and he strangely obeyed. Suddenly Kikyou held him in a tight embrace.
"Huh? Kikyou?" Inuyasha blushed uncertainly.
"Inuyasha. . . I love you." She kissed him passionately.
'Megoka! Stop this!'
"No, child! This is getting fun!"
" Kikyou, I. . .AHHHH!!!"
Kikyou suddenly struck him with a piercing, invisible force. The hanyou doubled back in pain staring at Kikyou disbelievingly.
"Kikyou. . .why?"
'Inuyasha!!!!'
A/N: Another climax! Hey! This is fun! Read and review! Because dog boy is in for a nasty surprise.
