TWINS AND JEWELS
By CrystalBlueSeraph
Disclaimer: I don't own characters and settings from sailormoon and inuyasha.
Chapter 7
Inuyasha could smell them now, the little girls and the youkai that captured them. He got a whiff of salt, fear, and a little bit of blood in the air, informing him that the two must had been trapped and scared. The scent also gave him more hope that they were still alive because of the knowledge that they were not bleeding profusely.
He was so close. He was about to do his last jump to land in the clearing where the girls were located when a large mass of body collided with him, sending him further away from his goal.
'What the heck!' He mentally cursed. He was not expecting this! The girls needed him NOW, for their life hangs on a thread. He didn't need any more hindrances to delay him from his objective.
He looked up from where he was sprawled just in time to block what must had been a blow fashioned to slay him right away. He retaliated with a swift kick, sending the offending youkai a few feet away from him. He stood up and faced the youkai regarding it with barely contained fury.
He was angry at the youkai, and he was also angry that he was not able to detect the youkai beforehand. 'How the heck did that youkai get passed through my senses?' He asked himself mentally. 'It was because you are preoccupied.' He reasoned to himself.
He assessed his opponent. "So, you and your buddy planned it all out, huh?" He cracked his knuckles, readying his claws, and crouched a bit. He eyed the youkai steadily; noting its every motion, studying its every movement.
It, the youkai, was a spider-head demon. And because the scent it was giving off was the same as the other youkai who had the girls, well let us just put two and two together.
"Do you even know who I am?" Inuyasha asked the youkai brazenly. "Well, let me remind you.........." He approached the spider-head demon rapidly and jumped. In the air, he raised his right arm and extended his claws, ".........with my IRON RIVER SOUL STEALER!"
The spider-head demon didn't even had a chance, and by the time its eyes glazed over with recognition, death's scythe was already upon him.
Inuyasha landed on the ground gracefully, his back on the slaughtered youkai, its mangled bloody pieces of body parts landing on the green grass.
Back to the girls.................
The spider-head demon had just finished enveloping the girls in his cocoon of silk when he heard a commotion just beyond the cluster of trees that were covering the clearing he was currently occupying. He decided to check it out. He gazed at his catch and shrugged. 'It's not like they're going anywhere.' He thought with a smirk. He left his clearing and arrived at the place where he heard some struggle just in time to witness his brother's death.
Anger coursed through his body and attacked the hanyou that just killed his brother.
Inuyasha smirked. He knew that the other spider-head demon was near. "Come to you death, bastard." He whispered, clutching the hilt of his sword.
At the same time, in a clearing, in another forest, near another village, an evil being executed its plan.
He had been watching the miko who's name was Kikyo since her arrival at the clearing where the bone eater's well dwells. He concentrated his newly acquired power, transforming himself into what looked like the hanyou who had been associating with the said miko.
He saw them just yesterday. They had been on a boat together. He saw them get off the boat and into the dock. He saw Kikyo trip on a plank, just to be saved by that bastard hanyou. He saw them in an embrace.
He looked at his handy work. He held his hands just in front of him. 'Long white claws...hmm.' He tugged a bit of his hair, holding it before him. 'Straight silver hair....' He looked at his clothing. 'Red hakama....' He reached the top of his head. 'Dog ears...' He smirked. '...this will do.'
He held his chin thinking. 'Hmmm, if only I could see my reflection.' He shrugged. He just had to trust that his newly acquired power did its job precisely as expected.
He gazed at his query one more time before stepping out of the shadows, at the same time, dissolving the barrier he erected around him that kept him undetected.
'Show time.' He thought, smirking.
'The air is running out! It is getting harder to breath!' Usagi thought with panic.
Unknown to her, Kagome had just lost consciousness a minute ago; she probably forced herself not to breathe to give more available air to her sister.
Gome-chan! Wake up! Answer me! Usagi pleaded her sister as she shed more tears. Her state of panic increased because of the lack of response she was getting.
She held her sister tighter, burying her face more at the crook of her sister's neck. She forced herself to calm a bit and concentrated really hard. Concentrate on what, she didn't really know. All she knew was that she must do something...something.
It is not our time yet, Kagome-chan. I won't let us die like this. Usagi relayed to her sister resolutely. She closed her eyes and let go. She let go of her fears and her worries. She relaxed her body and mind, releasing herself from the hold of panic that had seized her, and embraced the warmth that she felt was coming from her heart...from within.
Silver light erupted from her chest, enveloping herself and her sister in a warm and protecting glow, healing all the wounds they acquired when they were running from the spider-head demon.
Rays of light beamed through the cracks that it created on the silky cocoon the spider-head demon made. It suddenly grew in intensity, further disintegrating the silky threads off of the girls it held. The cocoon was no more. And in its place were the twins who were still in each other's embrace, surrounded by silver light.
They floated in mid-air encased in a bubble-like light shield. Around them, sparkles of light dispersed like glitters blown in the wind. Wherever it landed, it healed and gave off a sense of warmth and positive energy, of happiness and contentment.
Kagome stirred. 'I feel so warm, so comfortable. I feel so refreshed like when I wake up from a peaceful and restful sleep. I feel so rejuvenated, so full of energy. I . . . . . . . . . . . . .' She opened her eyes, which she promptly closed again because of the brightness it encountered.
"Ugggg." She moaned, seeing spots through her closed eye lids. She had just remembered their situation.
'What happened?' She thought. She remembered telling her sister to breathe in a lot of air before being totally encased in the cocoon. She remembered holding her breath so that her sister could have more air, hoping that Usagi would live even if she would not. And then, she remembered blacking out and . . . . . . . . . . . . nothing else.
She decided to keep her eyes close, relying on her other senses.
Usa-chan. She called. She just realized that they were still hugging each other. She listened and felt for her sister's heartbeat and breathing, and sighted in relief. Her sister was still breathing steadily and her heart was beating regularly.
'She's still alive.' She thought in relief.
'What's this?' She asked herself suddenly, her brows slightly furrowing. The warmth she felt before, which she was still feeling now, was originating from her . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .sister's chest?
"I guess its time to investigate that light." She uttered to herself and gradually opened her eyes, adjusting slowly. Squinting a bit, she looked around her and stared at her sister in shock, she loosened their embrace a bit a while ago so that she could move around.
They were surrounded by silver light and it was coming from Usagi! She saw waves upon waves of silver aura coming from her sister. And . . . . . . . . . .'were floating in mid-air...Were flying!' Kagome thought in wonder.
She looked around their surrounding once more, noting the sparkly light glittering now and then like powdery glitters sprinkled on air. She looked around once more and found herself staring at a pair of golden eyes, which was slightly glazed in wonder and shock just like her own.
'It was the beautiful youkai boy they had seen in the clearing a while ago.' Kagome thought in wonder after realizing the owner of the captivating golden eyes.
She stared at him, finding it difficult to avert her eyes. And then, she caught something moving behind him, she rounded her eyes a bit due to shock and urgency.
Inuyasha had just given a killing blow to the second spider-head demon when he felt a sudden surge of power coming from where the girls were located. He watched his opponent fall to the forest floor with a thud and sprinted off to the girls as soon as his feet touched the ground.
'What the . . . . . . . . . . . . .' He thought in wonder as he gazed at the floating pair. It was bright. Silver light surrounded them; a light that he was afraid to get too close to because it might be deleterious to him.
He watched them until one of them, the one with black hair with bluish highlights, looked directly at him. 'What beautiful crystal blue eyes.' He though as he stared back at her with quiet inquiry on what was happening. She was gazing at him and then her eyes suddenly rounded in a panicked look.
Elsewhere.........................
'How would I word it out to Inuyasha?' Kikyo asked herself. She was afraid that he would not concede to her proposal. She planned on asking Inuyasha to be human with the use of the Shikon no tama. She knew that Inuyasha wanted to be a full-fledge youkai, but she didn't want that. She wanted to be with Inuyasha, with a human Inuyasha. She tightened her hold on the shikon no tama.
She lifted her head in the direction of the slightly youkai aura she felt. 'Inuyasha.' She thought, seeing him walking just at the edge of the clearing. He was staring strait at her when he suddenly increased his speed, and attacked her with his claws.
It happened so fast, giving her little chance to evade the attack. He was able to wound her right shoulder, which held the Shikon no tama. The jewel flew from her hands, landing a few feet from where she lay prone.
Naraku (using Inuyasha's form) smirked, standing just by her side. He gazed at the prone miko then at the jewel. He approached the jewel, crouched down, and extended his arm.
He was just about to touch the jewel when it suddenly pulsed with power. Purple light erupted from it, soaring to the skies. When the light died down, there laid the jewel, dull and lifeless. The power that just a moment ago was coursing through it...gone.
'Huh.' Inuyasha thought in confusion as he deciphered a look of panic and urgency the girl was giving him. He continued on staring at those beautiful purple eyes. . . . . . . . .'Wait...purple?' he looked more closely. . . . . . . .'Yep, it's purple alright.' He mentally nodded; confused with the sudden change. He was sure the eyes were crystal blue before.
He saw the girl, lift her right arm from its resting-place, which was at the nape of her sister's neck and shoulder, raising it in his direction palm up. Purple aura surrounded the girl, accumulating and concentrating on her raised arm. The purple aura suddenly burst forth from the palm of her hand heading straight in his direction.
He stood frozen in his place, unable to move. He watched, eyes wide in shock as the purple blast approach him rapidly, and then . . . . . . . . . . . . missed him precariously.
An anguish sound of pain filled the clearing, slightly ruining the state of serenity the clearing had undergone because of the silver aura emanating from the blonde child.
Inuyasha silently watched as the second spider-head demon he had been fighting with, which he though he already killed, disintegrated into dust. It was just about to decapitate him from behind.
'How the . . . . . . . . . . . . .' Realization dawned on him. "That could have hit me you little twirp!" He voiced to the little girl, only to find her and the other girl with her, falling right back down to earth, finally obeying the gravitational pull.
He quickly caught them before they really hurt themselves. He settled them down and looked at them closely.
By now, both girls were unconscious. The powerful aura, the silver and the purple aura, which surrounded them, were gone.
'That power, the power that the girl with the black hair released, was kind of familiar.' Inuyasha thought with a frown. 'Where have I felt that before?' He asked himself.
Picking up the girls, 'Might as well bring them near the village. Some other youkai must have felt that power surge and started looking for its origin.' Inuyasha decided.
He sprinted to the direction of the village stopping just at the edge of a clearing where a shrine could be seen. He laid down his burden at a base of a tree and proceeded to jump at its lowest branch. He settled himself in a comfortable position, waiting for the girls to wake up or for someone to come along.
A couple of minutes later, the girl with long golden hair stirred. She slowly sat up and moved her head from left to right, assessing her surrounding. Seeing no one, she nudged her sister.
"Gome-chan, Gome-chan, wake up." Usagi called to her sister. She was wondering why they were so close to home. 'How did we get here?'
"Ugggg, Usa-chan, I don't want to." Kagome wined. She felt so tired like she had been running for miles. But she suddenly sat up as soon as she remembered what had happened. She looked at her sister and tackled her into a hug. "Usa-chan! Were alive!"
"Well duh. Of course we are. If were not, we would not be here, wouldn't we?" Usagi replied with a giggle. "But, how did we get here?" She asked as an after-thought.
They pondered for a bit and then they sensed it. They looked up at the same time and gasped. Above them was the youkai boy they saw earlier in the clearing. He was regarding them with amusement in his eyes.
Inuyasha jumped down from where he had been perched and peered at the girls, looking them straight in the eye. He was dumfounded when he saw the similarity of their eyes. 'They're related?'
He straightened up and crossed him arms. "That would be because of me. Now give me you names." He commanded with a huff. He wanted to intimidate them.
Kagome looked at her sister, question in her eyes.
Usagi nodded.
"I'm Kagome, and this is my sister Usagi. Who are you?" She gazed at him pointedly, not intimidated at all. She had asked her sister whether the boy was dangerous or not and her sister confirmed the latter. She also felt no imminent danger coming off of him.
Inuyasha frowned. 'Why is it not working? They don't fear me at all?' "Inuyasha. What are you doing in the forest anyway? Did you not know how dangerous it is?"
The little girls winced and looked down, regret written on their faces.
"Sorry. We were just picking some herbs that our mom needs. It was a test you know, and since we want to pass the test, we went far into the forest to find it." Usagi replied.
'Herbs...herbs...herbs...herbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .' Inuyasha heard the word echoing through his mind. "Herbs...Kikyo!" He whispered and dashed off into the forest, startling the twins with his sudden departure.
"Huh?" They said in unison.
