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I'm so motivated! Three reviews and it hasn't even been up for 24 hours. The best thing is that they are all from people who haven't reviewed before, so I know that at least 6 people are reading! Yay! I promise how the wolf demon died will be explained in this chapter. On with the story!
Disclaimer: I own Inuyasha, Kikyo, Kouga, Kagura, Onigumo, Naraku, Kanna, and Sesshoumaru. I don't own anyone else 'cause I only have one poster.
Before you were Born
Chapter 4
Smashed reflections
MIROKU
"I can sense a jewel shard"
"Inuyasha's ears perked up at that last comment from kagome. "Why didn't you say so before?"
"I just noticed. You want to leave right away?"
"Yes."
"Alright let's go," I said. "Where are Sango and Lyyra?"
"Up there." Kouga pointed to a hill "with Sango's boomerang"
We started walking towards them when suddenly a tree fell down and just missed hitting Inuyasha.
"Oops" came Lyyra's voice.
"You're doing well," said Sango, "I wasn't able to throw it so far on my first day training."
"But it was supposed to go the other way"
"We'll work on that later"
"Yes," I interrupted. "Much later. Kagome just sensed a Shikon shard."
The two of them grinned at each other. They liked fighting, obviously, "Okay, lets go."
We started making our way down the hill. Kagome was just finishing putting everything in her pack.
"How are we traveling this time?" kagome asked.
"Same as usual, except Kouga and Lyyra are scouting ahead," I decided, "They're going to find whatever demon has a shard, and tell us about it. They won't kill it because any demon that has a Shikon is probably too strong to be killed by two wolf demons. But if it attacks them they'll be fine."
"'Kay!" Lyyra and Kouga disappeared quickly after kagome had told them which way to go, but we could see their form until they entered a forest.
"We should start moving. I want to get this done quickly," said Inuyasha.
"Maybe we should wait for them?" I asked.
"This is not how we normally do it." Inuyasha was scowling.
"It's an experiment." I replied. "If they aren't coming back soon we'll go after them"
"What's soon?" asked Kagome.
"Why do you care?" growled Inuyasha, "What I want to know is why Miroku gets to decide everything"
"You always decide everything" I announced, "It's my turn now"
"What the hell! I do not decide everything! We decide it as a group!"
"Oh well, it's too late to change our plans, they've already left."
"Well next time-"
Kagome interrupted. "Oh look they're coming back!"
Lyyra landed, stepped on a rock and tripped. Kouga leaned down to help her out. "It's a little girl," he said. "She has this freaky mirror. And she felt like... like Kagura."
"You felt her up?" (Guess whom that came from?)
"Pervert. I mean the power that was coming from felt like the power that came from Kagura when she almost killed me. Except it was magnified, so I assumed she had the Shikon shard."
"It's true." Lyyra brushed some dirt out of her hair. "There was nothing else in the area that had so much power."
"See?" I turned to Inuyasha; "If we hadn't sent them ahead we would have walked right into Naraku's trap."
"Yeah, but we're still walking into it, right?"
"Yes, but we will know what we're walking into. We can formulate a plan."
"Alright, so formulate a plan, monk."
I remained unperturbed. "We can formulate a plan as a group."
"Well I suggest that we go and attack the brat. If she's dead she can't do us any harm, can she?"
"Inuyasha! Kanna is a kid! We can't kill her!"
"What else would we do with her?"
"I have a suggestion." All eyes turned to Lyyra. "Without the mirror she is powerless."
"Are you suggesting that we steal it from her?"
"That's impossible. If we go near her she'll just zap us with it." Replied kagome.
"I'm not suggesting we steal it. But if it's broken, she can't use it can she?"
"Same problem"
"Not exactly. Kouga told me the story of how you saved him from the reincarnation of Naraku, Kagura."
"Kagome touched her arrow. "You mean I should shoot at it."
"Yes."
"Good idea, can we go now?"
"Inuyasha," I said, "Is something the matter? Because you seem kind of upset."
"Yes, something's the matter, monk. You! You have-"
"That's all very nice, but we'll deal with it when we come back. We have a job to do."
He growled and started to lunge at me, but Kagome yelled sit and all was well.
As soon as he got up he turned to kagome, "Why did you do that?"
"I don't trust you when you're in this mood. You'll probably kill him."
I wouldn't kill hi-"
"Can we GO?" Sango was getting impatient.
"We could go alone. Together." I suggested. "The others could catch up to us later. Much later."
The slap I got for suggesting that pretty much told me what she thought of my idea.
"Alright why don't we?" Inuyasha said. "Go, that is."
Then he started off. That sort of shocked the rest of us and we followed. Inuyasha waited for kagome to get up on his back then once Kirara had grown and Sango, Shippou (who had been unusually quiet) and I got on we left.
When we got to the forest I realized that it was a little more dangerous then it appeared. The mirror was going haywire. "It wasn't like this before!" yelled Lyyra.
"What do we do?"
"I don't know!"
Kagome grabbed her bow and arrow the leaned over Inuyasha's shoulder. As usual her aim was dead on, but the arrow just bounced off the mirror.
Kagome looked shocked. "This wasn't in the plan! What are we supposed to do now?"
Lyyra jumped out of her tornado and walked calmly over. "Let me try."
Kagome tossed down her the weapons and Lyyra caught them. She pulled out an arrow and muttered something over it. Then she kneeled down and shot at the mist. Just seconds after that the mist hid her totally. I think she must have been able to see the mirror because her shot was so sure. There was a tinkle of breaking glass.
Immediately Inuyasha rushed over to the spot where Kanna had been, but predictably she had disappeared. Kagome picked up the mirror frame and extracted a shard of the Shikon No Tama. "Mission accomplished. Let's go."
We all started heading back. As soon as we got there Shippou realized something was wrong. "Hey, where is Lyyra?
"You mean she isn't here? What happened to her?"
In the flurry that followed we all decided to go back and look for her. She was lying in the trees, unconscious. Kouga picked her up. "We have to get her to Kaede. There aren't any good healers among the tribe since she left."
"If you're sure I'll take kagome to grab her stuff," said Inuyasha. "We'll catch up."
It seemed we were at Kaede's village in seconds. She lay Lyyra down on a mat and started picking up herbs to make a tea while Sango told her what had happened.
Suddenly kagome burst in. The poor girl seemed close to tears. "We, we were getting my stuff then this wolf demon hurt himself and I convinced Inuyasha to take him here, but he... he d-died."
Kaede swallowed. "Tell Inuyasha to put him in another hut then come back in here. I'll need you."
"What's wrong with Lyyra?" I asked.
"Some of the mirror imbedded itself in her cheek. It's poisoning her. We can't take it out or she'll bleed and the poison will get worse once exposed to air."
"Then what are we supposed to do!" Kouga was half yelling.
"We will replace the bit of the mirror with a Shikon shard. They have remarkable healing properties."
Kagome immediately stepped forward and held out her shard to Kaede. "Wait child. Once I have pulled out the glass, quickly place the Shikon in her cheek. Alright?"
"Okay."
They did it quickly and almost immediately colour started to return. Kaede poured some tea into Lyyra's mouth. As she was doing it she said, "Go now and have something to eat. The child will recover."
We started eating and I found that the food was more delicious then usual probably due to the fact that we were no longer worried.
I slept fitfully. I dreamt of marrying a beautiful, raven-haired demon hunter. We would have a wedding from kagome's time. Sango was wearing one of those small dresses from the magazine kagome showed me (she called it bride, I couldn't read any of the words.). She was staring at me with love in her eyes. We were about to kiss and I had just put my arm around her back to kiss her when Naraku, who was pretending to be a priest, and pulled off the covering of my air rip. It started to suck Sango up and soon she had disappeared. I jumped in after her, determined not to let the love of my life disappear before my eyes. I saw her and grabbed her hand then we seemed about to land somewhere. Sango landed on the edge of a cliff but I wasn't so lucky. I was falling and I heard her scream. The last thing I saw was her face before I woke up.
I think she must have really been screaming because she looked scared. "No Miroku, don't leave me!" She was muttering." I need your help."
I considered waking her and asking what she needed my help with, but I decided against it because I wasn't in a hurry to find out what kind of temper she had when just woken up. Instead I went back to sleep.
A yelling of "SIT!" woke me up. Evidently Inuyasha had let his arm hit kagome in his sleep consequently waking her up.
We ate breakfast and talked about Lyyra's condition. Shippou wondered when she would be all right.
"Probably in a while," said kagome, "I mean, its not like Kaede will rush in this door and tell us she's fine in the next five seconds"
Suddenly Kaede rushed in the door. "It's no use. She's dead."
I hope that this is better then the last one. Moonweaver
I'm so motivated! Three reviews and it hasn't even been up for 24 hours. The best thing is that they are all from people who haven't reviewed before, so I know that at least 6 people are reading! Yay! I promise how the wolf demon died will be explained in this chapter. On with the story!
Disclaimer: I own Inuyasha, Kikyo, Kouga, Kagura, Onigumo, Naraku, Kanna, and Sesshoumaru. I don't own anyone else 'cause I only have one poster.
Before you were Born
Chapter 4
Smashed reflections
MIROKU
"I can sense a jewel shard"
"Inuyasha's ears perked up at that last comment from kagome. "Why didn't you say so before?"
"I just noticed. You want to leave right away?"
"Yes."
"Alright let's go," I said. "Where are Sango and Lyyra?"
"Up there." Kouga pointed to a hill "with Sango's boomerang"
We started walking towards them when suddenly a tree fell down and just missed hitting Inuyasha.
"Oops" came Lyyra's voice.
"You're doing well," said Sango, "I wasn't able to throw it so far on my first day training."
"But it was supposed to go the other way"
"We'll work on that later"
"Yes," I interrupted. "Much later. Kagome just sensed a Shikon shard."
The two of them grinned at each other. They liked fighting, obviously, "Okay, lets go."
We started making our way down the hill. Kagome was just finishing putting everything in her pack.
"How are we traveling this time?" kagome asked.
"Same as usual, except Kouga and Lyyra are scouting ahead," I decided, "They're going to find whatever demon has a shard, and tell us about it. They won't kill it because any demon that has a Shikon is probably too strong to be killed by two wolf demons. But if it attacks them they'll be fine."
"'Kay!" Lyyra and Kouga disappeared quickly after kagome had told them which way to go, but we could see their form until they entered a forest.
"We should start moving. I want to get this done quickly," said Inuyasha.
"Maybe we should wait for them?" I asked.
"This is not how we normally do it." Inuyasha was scowling.
"It's an experiment." I replied. "If they aren't coming back soon we'll go after them"
"What's soon?" asked Kagome.
"Why do you care?" growled Inuyasha, "What I want to know is why Miroku gets to decide everything"
"You always decide everything" I announced, "It's my turn now"
"What the hell! I do not decide everything! We decide it as a group!"
"Oh well, it's too late to change our plans, they've already left."
"Well next time-"
Kagome interrupted. "Oh look they're coming back!"
Lyyra landed, stepped on a rock and tripped. Kouga leaned down to help her out. "It's a little girl," he said. "She has this freaky mirror. And she felt like... like Kagura."
"You felt her up?" (Guess whom that came from?)
"Pervert. I mean the power that was coming from felt like the power that came from Kagura when she almost killed me. Except it was magnified, so I assumed she had the Shikon shard."
"It's true." Lyyra brushed some dirt out of her hair. "There was nothing else in the area that had so much power."
"See?" I turned to Inuyasha; "If we hadn't sent them ahead we would have walked right into Naraku's trap."
"Yeah, but we're still walking into it, right?"
"Yes, but we will know what we're walking into. We can formulate a plan."
"Alright, so formulate a plan, monk."
I remained unperturbed. "We can formulate a plan as a group."
"Well I suggest that we go and attack the brat. If she's dead she can't do us any harm, can she?"
"Inuyasha! Kanna is a kid! We can't kill her!"
"What else would we do with her?"
"I have a suggestion." All eyes turned to Lyyra. "Without the mirror she is powerless."
"Are you suggesting that we steal it from her?"
"That's impossible. If we go near her she'll just zap us with it." Replied kagome.
"I'm not suggesting we steal it. But if it's broken, she can't use it can she?"
"Same problem"
"Not exactly. Kouga told me the story of how you saved him from the reincarnation of Naraku, Kagura."
"Kagome touched her arrow. "You mean I should shoot at it."
"Yes."
"Good idea, can we go now?"
"Inuyasha," I said, "Is something the matter? Because you seem kind of upset."
"Yes, something's the matter, monk. You! You have-"
"That's all very nice, but we'll deal with it when we come back. We have a job to do."
He growled and started to lunge at me, but Kagome yelled sit and all was well.
As soon as he got up he turned to kagome, "Why did you do that?"
"I don't trust you when you're in this mood. You'll probably kill him."
I wouldn't kill hi-"
"Can we GO?" Sango was getting impatient.
"We could go alone. Together." I suggested. "The others could catch up to us later. Much later."
The slap I got for suggesting that pretty much told me what she thought of my idea.
"Alright why don't we?" Inuyasha said. "Go, that is."
Then he started off. That sort of shocked the rest of us and we followed. Inuyasha waited for kagome to get up on his back then once Kirara had grown and Sango, Shippou (who had been unusually quiet) and I got on we left.
When we got to the forest I realized that it was a little more dangerous then it appeared. The mirror was going haywire. "It wasn't like this before!" yelled Lyyra.
"What do we do?"
"I don't know!"
Kagome grabbed her bow and arrow the leaned over Inuyasha's shoulder. As usual her aim was dead on, but the arrow just bounced off the mirror.
Kagome looked shocked. "This wasn't in the plan! What are we supposed to do now?"
Lyyra jumped out of her tornado and walked calmly over. "Let me try."
Kagome tossed down her the weapons and Lyyra caught them. She pulled out an arrow and muttered something over it. Then she kneeled down and shot at the mist. Just seconds after that the mist hid her totally. I think she must have been able to see the mirror because her shot was so sure. There was a tinkle of breaking glass.
Immediately Inuyasha rushed over to the spot where Kanna had been, but predictably she had disappeared. Kagome picked up the mirror frame and extracted a shard of the Shikon No Tama. "Mission accomplished. Let's go."
We all started heading back. As soon as we got there Shippou realized something was wrong. "Hey, where is Lyyra?
"You mean she isn't here? What happened to her?"
In the flurry that followed we all decided to go back and look for her. She was lying in the trees, unconscious. Kouga picked her up. "We have to get her to Kaede. There aren't any good healers among the tribe since she left."
"If you're sure I'll take kagome to grab her stuff," said Inuyasha. "We'll catch up."
It seemed we were at Kaede's village in seconds. She lay Lyyra down on a mat and started picking up herbs to make a tea while Sango told her what had happened.
Suddenly kagome burst in. The poor girl seemed close to tears. "We, we were getting my stuff then this wolf demon hurt himself and I convinced Inuyasha to take him here, but he... he d-died."
Kaede swallowed. "Tell Inuyasha to put him in another hut then come back in here. I'll need you."
"What's wrong with Lyyra?" I asked.
"Some of the mirror imbedded itself in her cheek. It's poisoning her. We can't take it out or she'll bleed and the poison will get worse once exposed to air."
"Then what are we supposed to do!" Kouga was half yelling.
"We will replace the bit of the mirror with a Shikon shard. They have remarkable healing properties."
Kagome immediately stepped forward and held out her shard to Kaede. "Wait child. Once I have pulled out the glass, quickly place the Shikon in her cheek. Alright?"
"Okay."
They did it quickly and almost immediately colour started to return. Kaede poured some tea into Lyyra's mouth. As she was doing it she said, "Go now and have something to eat. The child will recover."
We started eating and I found that the food was more delicious then usual probably due to the fact that we were no longer worried.
I slept fitfully. I dreamt of marrying a beautiful, raven-haired demon hunter. We would have a wedding from kagome's time. Sango was wearing one of those small dresses from the magazine kagome showed me (she called it bride, I couldn't read any of the words.). She was staring at me with love in her eyes. We were about to kiss and I had just put my arm around her back to kiss her when Naraku, who was pretending to be a priest, and pulled off the covering of my air rip. It started to suck Sango up and soon she had disappeared. I jumped in after her, determined not to let the love of my life disappear before my eyes. I saw her and grabbed her hand then we seemed about to land somewhere. Sango landed on the edge of a cliff but I wasn't so lucky. I was falling and I heard her scream. The last thing I saw was her face before I woke up.
I think she must have really been screaming because she looked scared. "No Miroku, don't leave me!" She was muttering." I need your help."
I considered waking her and asking what she needed my help with, but I decided against it because I wasn't in a hurry to find out what kind of temper she had when just woken up. Instead I went back to sleep.
A yelling of "SIT!" woke me up. Evidently Inuyasha had let his arm hit kagome in his sleep consequently waking her up.
We ate breakfast and talked about Lyyra's condition. Shippou wondered when she would be all right.
"Probably in a while," said kagome, "I mean, its not like Kaede will rush in this door and tell us she's fine in the next five seconds"
Suddenly Kaede rushed in the door. "It's no use. She's dead."
I hope that this is better then the last one. Moonweaver