Hiya people!! welcome to my next chapter of "the mysterious stranger" -rolls eyes at the corny title- i think i should have given it more thought when i was thinking of a title but oh well , its already chosen. Anyways ....I OWN INUYASHA!!!!-cowers hoping lawyers and Ms.Takahashi aren't around- okay..okay...i DON'T OWN INUYASHA!!! i just wanted to see how it felt saying it was mine but -shrugs- it felt pretty good until i realized i could get sued and stuff -anime sweat drop-waaaaa i wanted to be rich!!! -fake tears- anyways i guess on with the story.. I'm pretty sure you didn't come to hear me babble , maybe your not reading this useless paragraph and already scrolled down to the story, who knows? oh well^__^
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The small party consisting of Inuyasha ,Kagome, Sango ,kilala(or kirara ),Miroku , Shippo ,and Ahsayuni walked forward toward no where in particular , hoping that in this direction there would be a shard of the shikon jewel somewhere close by. Miroku , trying to be suave kept trying to put his arm around Sango's neck , and she in reply would throw it off and slap his cheek. Now having done this many times in a never ending pattern , Miroku's cheek was a crimson color but despite the pain he grinned knowing she would give in sooner or later.
"oh boy, doesn't he ever know when to stop?" Kagome asked towards no one in in specific , looking back towards Miroku and Sango.
Inuyasha merely rolled his eyes and walked on. "He's a sorry excuse for a priest , that's all.."
"hey!!!! what's that supposed to mean Inuyasha?!" Miroku said , hearing Inuyasha's comment , and trying to act offended even though despite it he knew what it meant.
Inuyasha ignored him and kept walking , Kagome by his side and by her's was shippo giggling even though he had no clue what was going on.
Suddenly everyone stopped in their tracks as Kagome stood in place reaching for her bow and arrows.
"What's wrong Kagome? Do you sense a shard?" Inuyasha asked , knowing that could be the only reason for her behavior and unsheathed his tetsuisaga. His clawed hand gripping the handle as it transformed into a bigger more powerful version of its self. As reflexes for the others they prepared themselves ready to attack anything coming their way~ Miroku's right hand placed on his left, ready to remove the prayer beads holding his powerful wind tunnel ,and Sango's boomerang , Hiraikotsu, lifeted above her head steadily. Kilala also transformed into her tiger-like form , and Shippo jumped onto Kilala having no weapons to release.
Kagome whisked a arrow out of it's case, and has already begun lining it against the bow, ready to shoot any foe.
"YES!!! i sense..." she squinted her eyes trying to sense them, " shards over there!!!" she pointed toward a small forest , birds scattering out of it and flying past them.
The ground began to shake, as something was stepping toward them, slowly but surely.
"I'm all over this!!" Inuyasha yelled running at the forest with his sword held infront of him, jumping up into the air , slashing at the trees to see the monster behind them. The others trailing closely behind Inuyasha but on the ground. As Inuyasha landed , he motioned Kagome to get on his back. She did , and he jumped back into the air landing on a nearby tree , both of them staring at a huge figure smashing trees down into the ground and hollering in anger. Kagome released the arrow from the bow , making a swishing sound as it flew past trees and landed in the creatures eye, lights emitting from the arrow from the impact. The creature kneeled down , screaming in pain.
"KAGOME!!WHERE ARE THE SHARDS LOCATED??" Inuyasha yelled trying to be heard among the creatures voice which was still screaming.
Kagome blinked in awe. "It has only one.. which is conceiled in the eye i just now pierced , but where is the other..?"
Kagome said as she scanned the area. Suddenly she stopped glancing at the others ,looking at them one by one. Sango's Hiraikotsu flying through the air towards the creature's knee as she yelled it's name and watched it hit against it , and the boomerang came back towards her and she caught it effortlessly. Then Kagome drew her attention to Miroku who in turn was chanting spells and throwing purified scrolls toward the monster. She spotted Kilala and Shippo in the air, Kilala's fangs bared as she growled and Shippo holding onto her mane of thick hair. Finally she sensed the shard!!!!!!! But gasped at who she had sensed it on , she shook her head and looked again to make sure her mind wasn't playing games on her.
"Ahsay.....Ahsayuni...??"
"WHAT?! what about her???" Inuyasha said cluelessly, not waiting for an answer he jumped down from the tree yelling "IRON REAVER SOUL STEALER!!!!!" The blade pointed at the neck of the monster.....
"She has a shard.. but how come i didn't sense it earlier??" Kagome's eyes rested upon Ahsayuni ,shocked. Ahsayuni was running at the creature with her sword , Agestet , raised above her head as she jumped up ~a golden aura filling the air from the sword ,mixing with the purple glow from the shard which ofcourse only Kagome could see.
With a huge gasp of air , a yell of agony the creature's head fell off it's body hitting the ground , dead. Inuyasha grinned as he cut a slit in it's eye removing the shard and jumped back into the tree to retrieve Kagome, holding it up to her to add to the collection.
She grasped it, adding it to a glass bottle they had the others placed but still didn't take her eyes off Ahsayuni. Inuyasha looked toward Ahsayuni also , confused at why Kagome was looking at her this way.
"so..what were you trying to say about Ahsayuni?" Inuyasha asked trying to get her attention.
"She has a shard..but somehow i didn't sense it before.." she said , glancing back at him.
Inuyasha motioned for kagome to get back on his back once again, and they jumped down to the ground once again, hitting the ground swiftly like a cat.
"Ahsayuni i sense that you have a shard, am i right?" Kagome confronted her as she lifted off of inuyasha's back.
"um.."Ahsayuni started , looking into her shining brown eyes then to the dull dark patch of dirt on the ground.She looked back up once again. "yes..." she said as she lifted a chain from beneath her tunic, a shard glimmering .
"why didn't you tell us you had this? You knew we were searching for these.."
"i don't know..i just didn't want to give it up, it was given to me by someone special" Ahsayuni replied slowly.
"Oh..." Kagome said, feeling a bit bad by asking this.
Ahsayuni replaced the necklace, hiding it back underneath her tunic.
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"so, why are you all looking for these shards?" Ahsayuni asked as they all sat around a fire , tiredly after the day's events.
They all looked from one another, waiting for someone to answer her. When no one started they all started talking , each saying their own reason for help finding the shards, she didn't understand a word of it , listening to everyone at once. Ahsayuni giggled and waited for them to realize she could not understand everyone at once.
Kagome noticed and began in her own words.
"well, when i first came here, to the feudal era " she motioned toward the land "i ..uh.." she blushed knowing it was mostly her fault "kinda split the shikon jewel into many pieces, and seeing how a small sliver of the jewel can give a being immense powers , we have to collect them to stop them from getting into the wrong hands. At first it was just Inuyasha and i searching for the shards, but along the way we met Shippo, Miroku, and Sango..." she smiled as she pointed to each of them in turn. "we all joined forces because we had one thing in common with each other.. we all have been deceived by this man named Naraku. So together we plan to get revenge against him , once and for all..." Kagome stopped thinking that she didn't want to go into too much detail and smiled.
(ooh..so that's why Naraku wanted this..? because they all have a grudge against him??) Ahsayuni thought to herself and smiled back toward Kagome. "so..what do you plan to do?"
Miroku spoke up this time. " We found out Naraku's whereabouts from a source ( a picture of Myoga filled his head and he laughed softly thinking of the flea and how he always seemed to be gone whenever trouble stirred up),anyways we plan to go there and attack him while he isn't suspecting us. Now we haven't thought of every detail yet ,but we have plenty of time to do so. Meanwhile i think we should get some rest" Miroku said as he looked up to the sky which had stars freckled all over the vast dark atmosphere.
They all agreed, laid down beside the warm embers from the fire.
"HENTAI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Sango shrieked and ran over to where Shippo was laying.
Miroku looked up and smiled innocently. "what is wrong my dear Sango?"
Sango glared at him and laid down beside Shippo .
Inuyasha mumbled "and the pervert strikes again...." and rolled his eyes, as he turned on his other side to sleep.
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everyone is a sleep ^-^..or are they...*cheesy dramatic music plays* hehehe, go with you perception , you know what will happen . um please read and review , lalala until next time.....heh this was a long chapter (at least out of my previous chapters)