Chapter 13
Disclaimer: Nope, don't own Inuyasha or any body else in the show! Love to though!
*Another chapter and I'm still going strong.*
Kikyo.
Gone.
And Naraku.
He did it.he'll pay.
He'll pay for having him alone again.
Alone once more.
He landed in a tree.a tall sturdy one with rotting bark.and sat.red hoari rubbing against the rough wood.
Kikyo.
Where was the miko that was now the living dead.?
Was she watching him this very moment.?
Inuyasha sighed.
Fifty some years since he had last seen Kojika.his mentor.his master.the one woman who seemed to him like his mother when he had none.Kojika.
And yet.she was back.and he felt completely confused.
Kojika was back.she could continue teaching him what she couldn't before the battle of the demons.when she supposedly died.
But this Kojika.she didn't seem normal.
She was almost different somehow.as if she had changed.perhaps these years had given her a new sense of wisdom.something new she now understood from her years of life.
But what?
"Inuyasha!" He heard the familiar voice shout.making his ears perk up to listen more clearly.
"What do you want Kagome!?" He yelled back.glancing down to see her walking up to the tree.her bow over her shoulder and her quiver on her back.
"I came to check on you." She replied.setting her weapons down to climb up the tree.
"I don't need to be checked on.you should know that." He replied, crossing his arms as he watched her struggled up the tree, her strange box like shoes not allowing much grip.
He finally gave up and reached down to her.pulling her up once she got hold and setting her down on the branch before him, making sure she didn't fall.
"I know you don't need to be checked on in your idea Inuyasha." Kagome told him, brushing pieces of bark off of her skirt. "But I meant your feelings."
"What? You gonna council me now or somethin'?" Inuyasha said.giving her a simple glare. Kagome brushed the disturbing look away with a smile. Inuyasha was playing tough again.
"No. Kojika can do that. I only wanted to ask.how close were you to her?" It had started bugging her during the conversation with Kojika, how she was talking about when she met Inuyasha and such, but Kojika hadn't been very specific. She could tell that the dragon demon was leaving things out. Inuyasha sighed.
He could now get things off of his chest.and reveal to Kagome the whole entire reason he acted the way he did most of the time.
"When I met Kojika, I thought she was a passing villager.simply watching what was happening to me when the villagers decided to kill me." He said. Kagome nodded, having heard the part about how Kojika first saw him. "Well.she scared the villagers off of me, and I realized then by her smell that she wasn't a normal person, but I couldn't really define then what she was.I hadn't met many demons then. But then she asked me where my mother was.and when I told her, she got me and my dead mother out of the village, and then she buried my mother under her favorite type of tree. I wondered how she knew what she did, but after a while, I came to figure that she could read minds, and she even confirmed it. I didn't talk much the first few weeks, but every time I ran away mad, she let me sort things out on my own, and then would always just pop out right where I came out of the forest, with a fire and some fish cooking over it. She taught me almost everything I know these days, and then.when I hated humans, she encouraged me to like them.to stop hating them because they were all different. Kojika was always like that.There was even one time that Sesshomaru tried to kill me when I was away.around the time that I had first met him and got to understand that he was my brother. He had threatened to kill me.but I guess he didn't know Kojika was around me."
"That's what Kojika left out." Kagome whispered. "She never said that Sesshomaru attacked you while you were with her.
"Well yeah, but it wasn't a real big thing for the story to her I guess. Actually.the had told her that I wanted to become a full demon, and when she tried to ask me why, I ran away angry. Around that time I knew how to block her from my mind, so she couldn't get anything out of me. But around the time that Sesshomaru attacked, she was there.and she saved me."
"What happened when Sesshomaru attacked?" Kagome asked.
"Well.I had been sitting up in the tree.doing nothing really but thinking to myself.getting ready to find Kojika again, when my brother appeared and said he would kill me. I fought him.but because I was so young, and unarmed.he had me pinned to the tree.and let his frog servant Jaken burn me with his staff." Kagome nodded.shocked a little at the saddening truth. Sesshomaru had never tried to even so much as care for Inuyasha's welfare or his health. He just wanted him dead.perhaps because he knew that Inuyasha was supposed to get the tetsusaiga from his father.
"So what happened." She inquired.now completely interested in Inuyasha's tale.
"He nearly killed me.that's what happened. I thought for sure I was going to die.and then Kojika appeared.and scared him away."
"Kojika scared Sesshomaru away!" Kagome shouted.and in her surprise she lost grip on the branch and slipped.nearly falling if it weren't for Inuyasha grabbing hold of her hand.
"I've got you.just hold still." He shouted.pulling her up slowly with his one hand.and then fully pulling her back up onto the branch with the other.
"Thanks." Kagome whispered.huffing from her fright.
"You should watch where you're falling!" Inuyasha shouted. Kagome smiled.
"What!" He shouted. She never frowned.
"I still can't help but think of Sesshomaru being scared." She said, chuckling.
Inuyasha stared at her for a moment.before also breaking into his own chuckle. Before long.they were laughing uncontrollably, but this time.Inuyasha was watching Kagome to assure she didn't fall.
But their laughter was cut short.
A rustle to the right brought them both out of it.
Inuyasha could smell it.
Kagome could sense it.
Demon.
It climbed out of the heavy down cast of trees.
Fangs clicking hungrily.many eyes watching them from different angles.eight legs smashing the other trees and fallen logs in it's path.
A giant spider youkai.
"Great." Inuyasha whispered, flexing his claws. "He smells the jewel."
Kagome glanced down at her bow and arrows.wishing she hadn't left them down there.
"Kagome." Inuyasha requested.
"Yes." Kagome replied back.
"I'm going to put you on the ground.but I need you to get far away from this area.alright!" Inuyasha didn't even turn to her when he inquired this. His glare was set on the giant spider.
"Are you kidding.and leave you here alone.no way!" She replied.jumping down to the ground on her own. Inuyasha turned to see her fall.
"Kagome!" He shouted.the spider was attacking.
I shot out a huge amount of webbing.aimed at Kagome.
But Inuyasha wasn't about to let it have it's way.
That wasn't going to happen.
He jumped in the way of the web.flinging out the tetsusaiga to try and cut it.but the white strings hit him and slapped him against the wall.trapping him.
"No!" He shouted.struggling. This couldn't happen! Kagome was defenseless!
But he thought to low of a miko that was reincarnated from a priestess that lived to kill demons.
He underestimated Kagome.
By now, she already had her bow up with an arrow slung in it, her quiver on her back.
"Die!" She shouted.flinging her arrow right into the skull of the spider.
It shook it's head.hitting trees in it's attempt to knock the arrow from between it's many eyes.but failing miserably.
"Kagome! Get out of here!" Inuyasha shouted.
"Inuyasha! I already told you! I'm not leaving you alone with this thing!" she shouted back.
"Stupid girl!" He struggled some more.
But the spider wasn't about to let him out of the web.or let him protect Kagome.
Unfortenately.web wasn't what he planned to trap Kagome with.
The spider stepped forward.not even noticing the arrow imbedded in it's head anymore.and raised one talent of it's eight high in the air.
By now.Kagome had begun to restring her bow with another arrow.but she wasn't able to aim in time.the claw came down.ready to hit.but never struck.
In a matter of one moment.Kagome was there.and she wasn't.
Vanished.just like that!
Inuyasha was surprised.how had the miko disappeared just like that.how could she.
Or was it.wait.
The spider was beginning to spit blood.it was choking on something.
There was a sword stuck between it's head and abdomen.slicing all the way through to the bottom.holding the spider in place.and there was blood gushing from under the abdomen.another sword imbedded there.blood just pouring out like a water fall.
But who.who had.Of course!
He could sense Kagome right above him.could even hear her soft gasps of breath as she tried to calm down.
Inuyasha strained to look up.to see her.and finally.he was able to catch a glimpse of her.
She was sitting in the high up branches of the tree.her hand at her neck.holding the shikon shards on their chain close to her heart.and her gasps were beginning to decrease.
But she wasn't staring at him.nope.she was looking at what was before him.surprise written in her eyes.and so.in confusion and curiosity.Inuyasha turned to look at the person before him.
Kojika.
She was smiling.her black hair beginning to fall into her eyes.freed from their hold from her fast running.
"I can't leave you alone can I?" She asked.stretching her long sharp talons and cutting the fine sticky silk threads into shreds.
"Thanks." Inuyasha mumbled.just as the webbing finally let him go and he was able to jump up into the tree and bring Kagome to the ground.
By this time.Sango, Miroku, and Shippo had finally caught up, slowing down at the scene.relieved that everyone was alright.
"What happened?" Sango asked.letting her boomerang from her shoulder.
"We were attacked by a giant spider youkai." Kagome answered.brushing sweat off her forehead with the back of her hand.
"Well.glad to see you safe." Miroku responded.relaxing his staff from it's ready fighting position. "We didn't know that anything was happening until Kojika said something was wrong and jumped off faster than we had ever seen anyone go. She even led us here, leaving Kazu to show the path."
As if on cue, the little red dragon sprang up from behind them and jumped on Kojika's shoulder.chirping and licking her face affectionately.
In turn, Kojika patted it on the head and gave it a treat.
"There you go. Good work Kazu." She said.receiving another chirp.
"You knew the spider attacked us.didn't you?" Inuyasha inquired, balling up his fists.
"Yes.I did Inuyasha.but I at first thought that it was nothing to fear. Until I sensed what was within this spider.then I became slightly worried." Kojika replied, resting her hand at her side once more.
"What do you mean?" Miroku asked.as Shippo jumped up into Kagome's arms.hugging her.
"Kagome.can't you see them?" Kojika thwarted Miroku's question. Kagome glanced at Kojika once, before turning back towards the spider.She instantly noticed what Kojika was talking about.
"It has three shards of the jewel." She replied.
"What?!" They were stunned.how was it possible, that the Dragon Demon before them was able to find shards of the jewel before their very own Shard Detector could? How was that possible?
Of course, Kagome was the reincarnation of the priestess Kikyo, so it was understood where her powers originated from.but what of Kojika.how had she such powers.
"How.how did you know?" Sango asked, brows knitted in confusion.
"I wish not to explain." Kojika answered simply, as she let Kazu free to wander near the spider, digging into it's flesh to pull out the three shards and drop them, all clean, into her hand.
"Here Kagome. These are in your care."
"Wouldn't you have use for them?" Shippo asked, curiously.
"No.Shippo. I have no need.nor have I ever for such a vile object as to be made from the hearts and minds that over power the priestess whom's heart it was made from."
Kazu jumped on Kojika's shoulder once more.and chirped.wrapping around her neck and nuzzling off to sleep.
Everyone was silent.for only a moment.
"Well.we better get going." Kagome implied, turning around and heading back towards the camp.
"Why are you so eager?" Inuyasha asked suspiciously. He had an idea of what Kagome was getting at.
"I need to get home soon.I told mom and grandpa I'd be home by this Sunday, and besides.I have to study for my next Exam which is in three days. Come on! Let's go!"
She said marching away.
"Best follow." Sango replied, joining Kagome in her walk towards the temporary camp, followed soon by Miroku, Kojika, and Inuyasha.
Things.were beginning to get odd.
*There's another chapter! Still going strong.I plan on making this story as good as I can possibly think up.so work with me! Give ideas on what you think may happen.and as you read.you might find your ideas added.*
Disclaimer: Nope, don't own Inuyasha or any body else in the show! Love to though!
*Another chapter and I'm still going strong.*
Kikyo.
Gone.
And Naraku.
He did it.he'll pay.
He'll pay for having him alone again.
Alone once more.
He landed in a tree.a tall sturdy one with rotting bark.and sat.red hoari rubbing against the rough wood.
Kikyo.
Where was the miko that was now the living dead.?
Was she watching him this very moment.?
Inuyasha sighed.
Fifty some years since he had last seen Kojika.his mentor.his master.the one woman who seemed to him like his mother when he had none.Kojika.
And yet.she was back.and he felt completely confused.
Kojika was back.she could continue teaching him what she couldn't before the battle of the demons.when she supposedly died.
But this Kojika.she didn't seem normal.
She was almost different somehow.as if she had changed.perhaps these years had given her a new sense of wisdom.something new she now understood from her years of life.
But what?
"Inuyasha!" He heard the familiar voice shout.making his ears perk up to listen more clearly.
"What do you want Kagome!?" He yelled back.glancing down to see her walking up to the tree.her bow over her shoulder and her quiver on her back.
"I came to check on you." She replied.setting her weapons down to climb up the tree.
"I don't need to be checked on.you should know that." He replied, crossing his arms as he watched her struggled up the tree, her strange box like shoes not allowing much grip.
He finally gave up and reached down to her.pulling her up once she got hold and setting her down on the branch before him, making sure she didn't fall.
"I know you don't need to be checked on in your idea Inuyasha." Kagome told him, brushing pieces of bark off of her skirt. "But I meant your feelings."
"What? You gonna council me now or somethin'?" Inuyasha said.giving her a simple glare. Kagome brushed the disturbing look away with a smile. Inuyasha was playing tough again.
"No. Kojika can do that. I only wanted to ask.how close were you to her?" It had started bugging her during the conversation with Kojika, how she was talking about when she met Inuyasha and such, but Kojika hadn't been very specific. She could tell that the dragon demon was leaving things out. Inuyasha sighed.
He could now get things off of his chest.and reveal to Kagome the whole entire reason he acted the way he did most of the time.
"When I met Kojika, I thought she was a passing villager.simply watching what was happening to me when the villagers decided to kill me." He said. Kagome nodded, having heard the part about how Kojika first saw him. "Well.she scared the villagers off of me, and I realized then by her smell that she wasn't a normal person, but I couldn't really define then what she was.I hadn't met many demons then. But then she asked me where my mother was.and when I told her, she got me and my dead mother out of the village, and then she buried my mother under her favorite type of tree. I wondered how she knew what she did, but after a while, I came to figure that she could read minds, and she even confirmed it. I didn't talk much the first few weeks, but every time I ran away mad, she let me sort things out on my own, and then would always just pop out right where I came out of the forest, with a fire and some fish cooking over it. She taught me almost everything I know these days, and then.when I hated humans, she encouraged me to like them.to stop hating them because they were all different. Kojika was always like that.There was even one time that Sesshomaru tried to kill me when I was away.around the time that I had first met him and got to understand that he was my brother. He had threatened to kill me.but I guess he didn't know Kojika was around me."
"That's what Kojika left out." Kagome whispered. "She never said that Sesshomaru attacked you while you were with her.
"Well yeah, but it wasn't a real big thing for the story to her I guess. Actually.the had told her that I wanted to become a full demon, and when she tried to ask me why, I ran away angry. Around that time I knew how to block her from my mind, so she couldn't get anything out of me. But around the time that Sesshomaru attacked, she was there.and she saved me."
"What happened when Sesshomaru attacked?" Kagome asked.
"Well.I had been sitting up in the tree.doing nothing really but thinking to myself.getting ready to find Kojika again, when my brother appeared and said he would kill me. I fought him.but because I was so young, and unarmed.he had me pinned to the tree.and let his frog servant Jaken burn me with his staff." Kagome nodded.shocked a little at the saddening truth. Sesshomaru had never tried to even so much as care for Inuyasha's welfare or his health. He just wanted him dead.perhaps because he knew that Inuyasha was supposed to get the tetsusaiga from his father.
"So what happened." She inquired.now completely interested in Inuyasha's tale.
"He nearly killed me.that's what happened. I thought for sure I was going to die.and then Kojika appeared.and scared him away."
"Kojika scared Sesshomaru away!" Kagome shouted.and in her surprise she lost grip on the branch and slipped.nearly falling if it weren't for Inuyasha grabbing hold of her hand.
"I've got you.just hold still." He shouted.pulling her up slowly with his one hand.and then fully pulling her back up onto the branch with the other.
"Thanks." Kagome whispered.huffing from her fright.
"You should watch where you're falling!" Inuyasha shouted. Kagome smiled.
"What!" He shouted. She never frowned.
"I still can't help but think of Sesshomaru being scared." She said, chuckling.
Inuyasha stared at her for a moment.before also breaking into his own chuckle. Before long.they were laughing uncontrollably, but this time.Inuyasha was watching Kagome to assure she didn't fall.
But their laughter was cut short.
A rustle to the right brought them both out of it.
Inuyasha could smell it.
Kagome could sense it.
Demon.
It climbed out of the heavy down cast of trees.
Fangs clicking hungrily.many eyes watching them from different angles.eight legs smashing the other trees and fallen logs in it's path.
A giant spider youkai.
"Great." Inuyasha whispered, flexing his claws. "He smells the jewel."
Kagome glanced down at her bow and arrows.wishing she hadn't left them down there.
"Kagome." Inuyasha requested.
"Yes." Kagome replied back.
"I'm going to put you on the ground.but I need you to get far away from this area.alright!" Inuyasha didn't even turn to her when he inquired this. His glare was set on the giant spider.
"Are you kidding.and leave you here alone.no way!" She replied.jumping down to the ground on her own. Inuyasha turned to see her fall.
"Kagome!" He shouted.the spider was attacking.
I shot out a huge amount of webbing.aimed at Kagome.
But Inuyasha wasn't about to let it have it's way.
That wasn't going to happen.
He jumped in the way of the web.flinging out the tetsusaiga to try and cut it.but the white strings hit him and slapped him against the wall.trapping him.
"No!" He shouted.struggling. This couldn't happen! Kagome was defenseless!
But he thought to low of a miko that was reincarnated from a priestess that lived to kill demons.
He underestimated Kagome.
By now, she already had her bow up with an arrow slung in it, her quiver on her back.
"Die!" She shouted.flinging her arrow right into the skull of the spider.
It shook it's head.hitting trees in it's attempt to knock the arrow from between it's many eyes.but failing miserably.
"Kagome! Get out of here!" Inuyasha shouted.
"Inuyasha! I already told you! I'm not leaving you alone with this thing!" she shouted back.
"Stupid girl!" He struggled some more.
But the spider wasn't about to let him out of the web.or let him protect Kagome.
Unfortenately.web wasn't what he planned to trap Kagome with.
The spider stepped forward.not even noticing the arrow imbedded in it's head anymore.and raised one talent of it's eight high in the air.
By now.Kagome had begun to restring her bow with another arrow.but she wasn't able to aim in time.the claw came down.ready to hit.but never struck.
In a matter of one moment.Kagome was there.and she wasn't.
Vanished.just like that!
Inuyasha was surprised.how had the miko disappeared just like that.how could she.
Or was it.wait.
The spider was beginning to spit blood.it was choking on something.
There was a sword stuck between it's head and abdomen.slicing all the way through to the bottom.holding the spider in place.and there was blood gushing from under the abdomen.another sword imbedded there.blood just pouring out like a water fall.
But who.who had.Of course!
He could sense Kagome right above him.could even hear her soft gasps of breath as she tried to calm down.
Inuyasha strained to look up.to see her.and finally.he was able to catch a glimpse of her.
She was sitting in the high up branches of the tree.her hand at her neck.holding the shikon shards on their chain close to her heart.and her gasps were beginning to decrease.
But she wasn't staring at him.nope.she was looking at what was before him.surprise written in her eyes.and so.in confusion and curiosity.Inuyasha turned to look at the person before him.
Kojika.
She was smiling.her black hair beginning to fall into her eyes.freed from their hold from her fast running.
"I can't leave you alone can I?" She asked.stretching her long sharp talons and cutting the fine sticky silk threads into shreds.
"Thanks." Inuyasha mumbled.just as the webbing finally let him go and he was able to jump up into the tree and bring Kagome to the ground.
By this time.Sango, Miroku, and Shippo had finally caught up, slowing down at the scene.relieved that everyone was alright.
"What happened?" Sango asked.letting her boomerang from her shoulder.
"We were attacked by a giant spider youkai." Kagome answered.brushing sweat off her forehead with the back of her hand.
"Well.glad to see you safe." Miroku responded.relaxing his staff from it's ready fighting position. "We didn't know that anything was happening until Kojika said something was wrong and jumped off faster than we had ever seen anyone go. She even led us here, leaving Kazu to show the path."
As if on cue, the little red dragon sprang up from behind them and jumped on Kojika's shoulder.chirping and licking her face affectionately.
In turn, Kojika patted it on the head and gave it a treat.
"There you go. Good work Kazu." She said.receiving another chirp.
"You knew the spider attacked us.didn't you?" Inuyasha inquired, balling up his fists.
"Yes.I did Inuyasha.but I at first thought that it was nothing to fear. Until I sensed what was within this spider.then I became slightly worried." Kojika replied, resting her hand at her side once more.
"What do you mean?" Miroku asked.as Shippo jumped up into Kagome's arms.hugging her.
"Kagome.can't you see them?" Kojika thwarted Miroku's question. Kagome glanced at Kojika once, before turning back towards the spider.She instantly noticed what Kojika was talking about.
"It has three shards of the jewel." She replied.
"What?!" They were stunned.how was it possible, that the Dragon Demon before them was able to find shards of the jewel before their very own Shard Detector could? How was that possible?
Of course, Kagome was the reincarnation of the priestess Kikyo, so it was understood where her powers originated from.but what of Kojika.how had she such powers.
"How.how did you know?" Sango asked, brows knitted in confusion.
"I wish not to explain." Kojika answered simply, as she let Kazu free to wander near the spider, digging into it's flesh to pull out the three shards and drop them, all clean, into her hand.
"Here Kagome. These are in your care."
"Wouldn't you have use for them?" Shippo asked, curiously.
"No.Shippo. I have no need.nor have I ever for such a vile object as to be made from the hearts and minds that over power the priestess whom's heart it was made from."
Kazu jumped on Kojika's shoulder once more.and chirped.wrapping around her neck and nuzzling off to sleep.
Everyone was silent.for only a moment.
"Well.we better get going." Kagome implied, turning around and heading back towards the camp.
"Why are you so eager?" Inuyasha asked suspiciously. He had an idea of what Kagome was getting at.
"I need to get home soon.I told mom and grandpa I'd be home by this Sunday, and besides.I have to study for my next Exam which is in three days. Come on! Let's go!"
She said marching away.
"Best follow." Sango replied, joining Kagome in her walk towards the temporary camp, followed soon by Miroku, Kojika, and Inuyasha.
Things.were beginning to get odd.
*There's another chapter! Still going strong.I plan on making this story as good as I can possibly think up.so work with me! Give ideas on what you think may happen.and as you read.you might find your ideas added.*
