Virtual Reality
Chapter Nine
"What the fuck is up with this?" Inuyasha quietly cursed as he stared into the room through the slightly ajar door. 'I don't like the looks of this. The fight is going to be hell, and that's if everything goes my way. Oh well. I've always enjoyed a challenge, and this will most definitely be a challenge.'
"What is it?" Kagome whispered, trying to see what he was looking at. His body was blocking the way, keeping her from seeing into the room. 'Is something wrong?' she wondered, frowning. 'Could Naraku have an army in there? Are the Elves inside the room?' She nervously chewed on her lower lip. 'What is going on? What surprised him?' Her mind kept bringing up more ideas, none of which offered her any peace or comfort.
"Kagome, I want you to stay out here where it's safe... ah, safer," the hanyou ordered. 'I don't want to see her die, even if this is only a game. She's far too precious to me.' "I'm going to fight that... thing. Don't come in until I tell you its okay."
She nodded her head in understanding, chocolate brown eye filled with anxiety. "Alright," she replied. "But be careful." 'Please, Kami, don't let anything bad happen to him. I don't care if this is a game or not--I love him and I don't want him to die... ever.'
"I will," Inuyasha promised, tone soft and sincere. Then, he drew his sword, watching it transform. "Now, stay out of sight." He kicked the door completely open and went charging into the room.
Kagome gasped, one hand flying up to cover her gaping mouth as her eyes widened drastically in shock. 'Oh my... I've never seen anything like that. It looks so unnatural, and there's so much evil.'
Inuyasha's opponent was Naraku, but the monkey-man didn't look the same as before. Ugly dark green tentacles that greatly resembled vines snaked out from under the white-fur outfit, covering a large portion of the room. They moved like snakes, twisting and moving chaotically. Black miasma swirled through the room, darkening the air.
The miko nearly choked on the evil substance that she breathed in, and she was outside the room. She couldn't even imagine what the inside of the room felt like, and she didn't want to find out. To clear out her air passages, she backed away, her eyes still on the battle.
Inuyasha growled as he tried to attack Naraku, but tentacles kept getting in his way, moving faster than he could. He cut deep into one green vine, watching yellow-green pus-like blood come oozing out. Of course, a half second later, the wound was gone, completely healed. Then, he chopped a tentacle in half, but it re-grew as well. No wound he inflicted did any good. No matter how many times he attacked, Naraku would simply heal himself. All his efforts were worthless, but the worst part was that the monkey-man was faster than him.
'Does the fucking bastard not know how to fight?' he wondered as he slashed off yet another tentacle. He watched the pieces hit the ground, still wriggling like disgusting worms. He wanted to use the Kaze no Kizu, but he didn't ever have enough time. With so many tentacles to dodge, he could never even position himself for a shot. 'Damn you to hell, Naraku.'
"Kukukukukuku," Naraku laughed, obviously enjoying himself. "Is the little puppy having problems?" He chuckled as the dog demon dodged more tentacles, swinging his sword at anything and everything that came too close. "It seems that you have gotten yourself in over your head."
"Don't you ever just shut up and fight?" Inuyasha demanded, tone laced with annoyance. "And don't you know how to hold still?!" He sliced two more tentacles into pieces, making a face at the putrid smell. The funny-colored blood smelled awful.
"Am I making things too difficult for you?" the hacker taunted, sounding smug. "Perhaps I gave myself too much power."
"Or perhaps you gave yourself too much ego!" the silver-haired hanyou retorted, growling. 'I really, really want to shut his mouth,' he thought angrily.
Naraku simply laughed. "You are such an idiot," he said, tone amused. "And it's because of you the little miko is going to die. Although, perhaps I should keep her around as a pet. I could do it--trap her inside the game for as long as I want." He briefly paused as Inuyasha grew more furious. "Yes, I think I will. It will be my reward to myself for defeating you."
"Shut up!" Inuyasha ordered, his eyes becoming a reddish-gold color. "You're not going to touch Kagome, and you're not going to defeat me, so you can just shove it!"
The monkey-man shrugged, not even slightly bothered by how many wounds the inu hanyou was inflicting on him. Pain meant nothing to him, as did how dangerous the dog demon looked. Neither mattered at all, mainly because neither was a threat. He could heal, so pain was momentary, and Inuyasha was simply an opponent that would soon be dead, nothing more.
The dog demon jumped over a tentacle, ramming his sword down into it, growling ferociously. He absolutely hated Naraku with a passion. No one threatened Kagome around him... no one.
"Perhaps I should tell you why I'm destroying this game world piece by piece and making it my own," Naraku stated, voice neutral.
"Let me guess, you're doing it because you're some kind of deranged psycho?" Inuyasha replied, snarling when one of Naraku's vine's slammed into his back.
"Not quite, but close." The hacker crossed his arms. "About five years ago, I first joined this game. I expected so much out of it, but soon some other players grew angry with me. Maybe it was because I stole all their money and weapons, or maybe it was because I stalked this lovely shopkeeper named Kikyou for a while." He shrugged, watching the inu hanyou dodge more tentacles. The entire floor of the room was covered in a thin film of yellow-green blood. "It was Kikyou's husband who first attacked me, threatening me to stay away and clean up my act. Others followed in his example."
"Obviously because you're a sick bastard!" the dog demon snapped impatiently.
Naraku tsked at him, the sound comical. "It's not polite to interrupted." He sent ten of the tentacles at Inuyasha at once, laughing as the silver-haired demon dodged, rolled, and jumped to get out of their way. A few hit home, sending red blood to mix with the yellow-green liquid on the floor.
Inuyasha held a hand over a shallow stomach wound as he kept his eyes on his enemy, trying to predict what the next attack would be. 'He's so fast, dammit.'
"Now, where was I?" the hacker wondered, still attacking the dog demon with his vine-like tentacles. "Ah yes. So many people attacked me, threatening me. I didn't expect such a huge reaction to my actions, so I wasn't prepared. After getting tortured quite a few times, I retaliated."
"Let me guess, you began hacking so you could kill them all off, right?" the inu hanyou inquired gruffly, rolling under a tentacle, gritting his teeth to fight back the pain his movements caused.
"Shut up and let me tell my story, unless you want me to kill you now?" Naraku snapped, sounding annoyed. When Inuyasha said nothing, merely sliced through a few attacking tentacles, he grinned. "Now that I think of it, Kagome looks so much like Kikyou. Getting your little miko will be just like getting Kikyou, don't you think?" He laughed insanely.
'This guy is a complete psycho,' Inuyasha thought in disgust. "You will not get Kagome, so don't you even think about it!" he shouted passionately, growling a moment later.
"That is where you are wrong, little puppy dog. Kagome will be mine, whether you like it or not," the hacker replied firmly, sounding completely sure of himself. No one was going to beat him, mainly because no one could.
Kagome shivered slightly, not liking the topic of their conversation one bit. 'Inuyasha, please beat him. I don't want Naraku to even slightly think that he has any claim on me.' Nervously licking her lips, she allowed her gaze to wander around the room. 'Now where is that thing I sense? I know it's good, but where is it?'
"Pay attention, Inuyasha. My story becomes more interesting here," Naraku stated. "Now, after being attacked so many times, I retaliated by stealing more of their things. I even figured out a way to steal their heath. Needless to say, I was the best thief ever to wander around this game." He chuckled obviously proud of his dark accomplishment. "Unfortunately, my skills were not appreciated, and when someone trapped me inside a house and set it aflame, the Elves did not allow me to come back. They banished me from the game for all eternity, saying that I could never take my revenge."
"Sounds like you got just what you deserved, bastard!" Inuyasha snapped, spearing one of the tentacles on his sword. 'If he was banished, then he must have hacked his way back into the game. How though? This game is supposed to be impossible to break into.'
The hacker scowled. "That's enough crap from the peanut gallery." He attacked the inu hanyou swiftly, using one of his tentacles to slam the dog demon into a wall. When the silver-haired youkai sank to the ground, he left an imprint of his body on the wall.
"Ow," he groaned softly, golden eyes slightly unfocused. 'I'm feeling more pain than I should. What has Naraku done to this territory?' he silently wondered. His whole body ached, and the sensation didn't dull at all, no matter how much time passed. It seemed that the hacker had twisted and broken most of the rules and limitations that the Elves had created for the game.
"Inuyasha," Kagome whispered, worry coursing through her. 'Oh my dear gods and goddess. Inuyasha can't win this fight alone. He needs help,' she thought. 'Now, what can I do? I lost my arrows sometime while we were traveling, and my powers don't really work on demons. I have to do something though.'
Expression one of determination, she barged into the room, mentally wincing at the disgusting yellow- green blood all over the floor. 'I hope I never have to see anything like this ever again, but I'll bear it now for Inuyasha's sake. He needs help now.' "Kagome, get out of here now!" Inuyasha ordered, but he was completely ignored. 'She going to get herself killed, and there won't be a thing I can do about it. Damn it all.'
"Take this, Naraku!" she shouted, pulling a purely magical arrow back on her bow and letting go. She watched the purple-pink shaft embed itself in one of the green tentacles, allowing more green-yellow blood to spew forth.
"Yuck!!" she exclaimed as she wrinkled her nose in disgust. 'That's the worst thing I've ever seen. I think it even beats the disgusting medicine the robots feed to me whenever I'm sick. At least the medicine doesn't resemble puke,' she thought. "That's just plain gross!"
"Well, it seems the little miko has decided to come out and play as well," Naraku said with a soft chuckle. "To what do I owe this pleasure, little human?"
Kagome snorted. "Go to hell." She snapped her fingers, and suddenly the magical arrow exploded, splattering bits and pieces of the tentacle all over the room and its occupants. 'I'm beginning to wonder if I really should have done that,' she thought as she tried to wipe some of the blood off her face. 'But what I really want to know is why my magic worked on him so well. Every other demon has pretty much been immune to it.'
"Good job, Kagome," Inuyasha said, sounding pleased. 'Now for the Kaze no Kizu.' He prepared to use the attack, but he was quickly knocked to the ground by a tentacle.
Naraku hissed both in pain and annoyance. "You don't have normal miko magic," he growled. "You're different from all the others I fought against and killed. It seems your magic has close ties to the world itself." He shrugged. "I guess I'll just have to quickly fix this little oversight I made."
"No..." the miko whispered, brown eyes wide. "He can't. There's no way." She shook her head. 'It isn't fair! He shouldn't be able to do whatever he wants, whenever he wants.'
"Bastard!" Inuyasha shouted, tone laced with fury. "Why don't you fight me like a man?!"
The hacker snorted as he began to glow with a black light. Even his tentacles took on a dark light, which bothered the other two in the room. Black lightning came out of no where, striking the ground, making Kagome jump in surprise. A whirlwind suddenly formed around the hacker, throwing both the inu youkai and the miko against the wall and keeping them there.
Inuyasha growled as Kagome groaned. "I will not allow you to keep this up!" he yelled, launching himself at his enemy with all his might. "Kaze no Kizu!" Orange power erupted out of his sword, heading straight for Naraku. It wrapped around the whirlwind, still glowing a bright orange but not hitting the hacker. Slowly, the power became black and then disappeared.
The inu hanyou cursed darkly. 'Dammit! That was no supposed to happen.' He looked over at Kagome as he came back in contact with the hard wall. "Try one of your arrows. See if that will work."
The miko nodded. "I'll try." She positioned her bow, but she couldn't draw it. The wall kept her from doing so. 'Crap!' she thought dejectedly. 'That wasn't good. That wasn't good at all. I have to do something though.' She took a deep breath. "I'm going to try something else," she informed Inuyasha, earning a nod of understanding from him.
Kagome dropped her bow and clasped her hands together as if she was praying. 'Please, let this work,' she pleaded with the Japanese gods and goddesses. She quickly assumed that at least one had been listening because she felt her power flow all around her, gathering around her hands.
She focused all her attention on the tornado-encased hacker, praying that her place would work. 'This has to work.' She said one last prayer as she fired all of her power at the whirlwind in the opposite direction that it was turning. 'If this doesn't work, I don't know what I'll do.'
Purple-pink sparks flashed as her power flooded the room, blinding both her and Inuyasha. She could sense her magic filter through the tornado, stopping it cold before moving on to Naraku.
When Kagome regained her vision, the first thing she noticed was the fact that the hacker was still alive and fully functioning. He was still in one piece, and all his wounds were healed. Even though the whirlwind was gone, Naraku remained. The face of his outfit was gone, revealing red eyes and a slightly feminine face. The rest of his outfit was still intact, so no one knew what the rest of him looked like. Of course, no one wanted to find out how the tentacles attached to the rest of his body.
The hacker laughed while the miko cursed, effectively using all the dirty words that she had learned from the dog demon. "How stupid do you think I am, little miko?" he inquired, tone one of amusement. "Do you honestly think you could destroy me? I am invincible in my territory. No one, be it demon, human, miko, or priest, can kill me. You were simply wasting your and my time."
"We'll just see about that!" While Naraku had been dealing with Kagome, Inuyasha had snuck around to stand behind the hacker. "Bakuryuuha!" Immense power erupted out of his sword, enveloping his enemy. 'HA! I got you now, Naraku! Take that!' He grinned, believing to have finally bested his opponent.
When the power cleared, Naraku was still there, a smile on his face. "Was that it?" He laughed, the sickening sound echoing through the room. "That was pathetic, even for a hanyou. Perhaps I should show you just how weak you are?" Still sadistically smiling, he attacked Inuyasha, the tentacles moving far faster than the inu youkai ever could, becoming a green blur.
With a loud smack, Inuyasha was flying through the air, crashing through one of the walls and landing on the floor with a thud. He groaned, slowly standing back up. 'My body can't take much more of this.'
"Inuyasha!" the miko shouted, running towards her friend, her brown eyes filled with anxiety. 'Please don't be dead. Gods and goddesses, please, please don't let him be dead.'
A tentacle suddenly wrapped around Kagome and wrenched her off the ground, squeezing her just enough so she couldn't escape. Of course in reaction to this, the miko screamed Inuyasha's name for all she was worth, hating the feel of vine-thing touching her. For some reason, she felt like something dark and dangerous was invading her body, poisoning her.
"Inuyasha! Help!" she yelled, pounding on the tentacle with all her strength. It didn't work, but she felt better after she did it. 'At least I'm trying to fight him,' she thought optimistically. 'If I'm going down, I'm going to go down fighting.' "Let go of me, you bastard!" she ordered Naraku.
The hacker simply laughed. "You are mine now, little miko. No one is left to save you," he replied.
"Let her go, Naraku!" a familiar voice shouted.
"What? Impossible!" Naraku turned to look in the direction he had thrown the dog demon in, his red eyes wide. "There's no way."
"Wanna bet, bastard?" Inuyasha retorted, flying towards his opponent, sword drawn and ready. Before the hacker could do anything, he buried his sword into the tentacle that was holding Kagome, trying to slice through it. He failed. Somehow, the vine-things had become much tougher.
"You idiot," Naraku declared, using one of his other tentacles to throw the dog demon across the room once again, the sword burying itself in the wall and de-transforming. "Nothing you or the miko could possibly do can hurt me. I am immune to both of your powers." He turned to Kagome. "You are mine, mine forever."
"NO!" Kagome screamed, struggling for all she was worth. "I'll never be yours! Ever!"
"You'll change your mind soon enough, especially if you want to leave this game," the hacker replied, tone sickly sweet.
The miko froze. 'There's no way he could do something like that. He can't trap me here. It's impossible,' she thought, eyes fearful. 'But what if he can?'
"I thought I told you to let her go?" Inuyasha inquired as he stood up, his eyes blood red. 'I didn't want to use this form again so soon after the last time, but I don't have a choice. My sword is useless, and Kagome needs my help. I don't care what it takes; I will save her, even if I die doing so.' He growled, baring his fangs. "I suggest you release her now before I decide to cut you into pieces and then deep-fry your ass."
Naraku laughed. "What kind of a fool are you? I already told you that nothing you do will work. You're helpless, and the miko is now mine."
The silver-haired hanyou cracked his knuckles. "We'll see about that. Sankon Tetsusou!" He struck out at the hacker, expecting some results. What he got wasn't exactly what he expected.
Naraku became red wherever Inuyasha's power struck, but it didn't seem to hurt him. In fact, he seemed just find. "Is that it?" he inquired, chuckling. "Well then, let me try!" He struck down on Inuyasha, smashing him into the floor. He continued to press the dog demon into the ground, enjoying the cracking noises that his enemy's back made. "Now that is a pleasant sound."
"Inuyasha!" Kagome cried out brokenly, wincing every time she heard the sound of his bones breaking. 'Dear gods and goddesses, please save him. Make Naraku stop! Please!' she silently pleaded over and over. She couldn't bare to see the man she loved in so much pain.
A few seconds later, she few tired of praying. No one was responding, so she had to take things into her own hands. 'I will not let this continue any longer,' she thought as Inuyasha whimpered in pain. 'I won't.'
Knowing that she was pretty much out of power, she gathered up what she had left and tapped into her life force. If she used her life force, the life span of her character would be shortened, but she didn't care. Inuyasha was far to important to her.
"I hope you rot in Soku-no-Kumi for the rest of eternity!" Then, Kagome forced as much power as she could into the tentacle around her, sending it into his bloodstream.
Naraku shouted in pain, not leaving Inuyasha alone as he glared at Kagome. "I guess I need to break you in a little," he hissed, throwing her across the room into the shadows.
"Kagome," Inuyasha whispered before he once again screamed out in pure pain. Naraku was killing him, and making him feel like it was real. The game had become reality, and he couldn't even escape it.
The miko slammed into something tall and hard, her body quickly crumpling to the floor in a painful heap. "Inuyasha..." she mumbled, struggling to sit up. She succeeded and then tried to stand. The instant she put any weight on her right leg, she cried out and fell back to the floor. Her leg was broken, and there was nothing she could do about that. She barely had any life force left; she didn't even have enough for another attack.
It seemed hopeless. There was nothing left for her to do but die with Inuyasha or become Naraku's little pet. Neither sounded appealing to her, but if she had to choose one, then she would die with the man she loved.
Naraku laughed. "Ahhh... it's been so long since I've had such an interesting battle," he stated. "I've already killed all the people who attacked me, even Kikyou's husband. Unfortunately, the Elves allowed him to come back to life as a normal human. Of course, none of them had a death like the one you're going to have. I'm going to make you beg for mercy and cry like a baby before I finally decide to kill you."
"I won't give into you," Inuyasha growled in response, crying out in pain a moment later when a tentacle came smashing down on him, nearly crushing his chest. If he hadn't been in his full youkai form, he would be dead.
The hacker shrugged. "Maybe not now, but I can assure you that after a few hours of this, you'll do anything I ask, including give Kagome to me."
Maniacal laughter followed that, making both Kagome and Inuyasha wince. Their enemy really was psychotic.
The miko bit her bottom lip and tried to stand up once again, but she couldn't. With her injury, she couldn't even crawl. 'I'm helpless,' she thought darkly, shaking her head. 'That bastard is going to kill Inuyasha and there's nothing I can do about it.'
Suddenly, she realized just what she had hit when Naraku had tossed her across the room. "Okuni- Nushi," she whispered to herself, eyes wide with surprise. Without her magic, she couldn't sense anything, but she knew where the Shikon no Tama was.
Hoping that the Shikon no Tama was something that could help her save Inuyasha, she began to search the surface of the statue's base, looking for the jewel or any way to open it up. 'C'mon... c'mon. Just once, let me have a little good luck,' she silently begged whoever would listen.
Kagome nearly leapt for joy when she found a small, thin crack in the base. Her fingers followed the crack, easily noticing that it formed a perfect square. 'Yes!'
Inuyasha, of course, was praying that Kagome had somehow escaped. He couldn't see or hear her anymore, and he was in so much pain that all of his other senses were useless. The thought that she was safe was the only thing keeping him going. "You're going to die, Naraku. Maybe not today, but you will someday, and it will be by my hands," he stated, digging his claws into the tentacle that kept on striking him.
"I don't think so, you pathetic fool. You will die today, and I will make sure you will never be able to come back," Naraku retorted. "Because how can you come back if your mind is trapped inside this game?"
"Shit no," the dog demon whispered in disbelief, just barely shaking his head. 'There's no way. It's impossible. He can't do something like that. A hacker can't have that much power.'
Kagome winced as she listened to Naraku and Inuyasha's discussion. 'I won't let him do that to you, Inuyasha,' she swore. 'I'll find some way to stop him.'
Taking a deep breath, she dug her nails into the crack and pulled with all her might. Slowly, the base began to open up, revealing that someone had placed a drawer inside the statue. 'Yes!' Praying that the Shikon no Tama would be useful, she pulled even harder.
Bit by bit, she watched the contents of the drawer come out of its hiding place. It was a jewel, a beautiful, pink, glowing jewel nestled in a box lined with white silk.
Kagome blinked a few times. 'This is the Shikon no Tama? This is what I've been looking for?' she wondered, feeling a little disappointed. The jewel, while it looked absolutely lovely, appeared to be completely useless. 'Just my luck.'
Shaking her head, she reached out for the jewel. Pink sparks jumped between her fingertips and the Shikon no Tama, surprising her. 'Maybe there is something special about this thing,' she mused hopefully, praying that something good would come of her completing her quest.
Naraku looked down at Inuyasha, his pitiless eyes blazing like fire. "And now, you die, Inuyasha."
'Please let this stop Naraku from killing Inuyasha,' Kagome pleaded, her fingers finally coming in contact with the Shikon no Tama.
Instantly, a pink light burst forth, filling up the entire room. The miko gasped in surprise, finding herself floating in a pink abyss. The light was teeming with magic, flowing around her as it healed her. She could feel her broken bone becoming whole, and all her bruises and wounds disappeared.
Smiling, she looked around for Inuyasha, but all she could see was the pink light, the warm wonderful light. 'It must be healing him too, although I bet it destroyed Naraku,' she thought happily. 'I'm sure that I'll get to see Inuyasha as soon as the light disappears.'
So, Kagome patiently waited, allowing herself to float in peace for as long as she could. Slowly, the light faded away, and she floated back down to the ground, coming to stand directly in front of the statue.
"Thank you," she whispered to the jewel as she reached down and picked it up. A few pink sparks flew into the air, but she didn't worry about it. Most likely, they were simply a side effect from touching the Shikon no Tama.
The jewel in her hand, Kagome turned around to look for Inuyasha. She couldn't see anything--not Naraku, not Inuyasha, not a single speck of blood. The room was in pristine order, and the hole in the wall that a flying dog demon had created was gone.
"Inuyasha?" she called out, tone tinted with worry. "Where are you? Are you hiding from me behind a pillar or something?" She walked around the room a little, but she still didn't see even a hint of Inuyasha. "Where is he?"
The miko frowned, and her expression only became darker when a purple fairy suddenly flew into the room. "I've completed your dumb quest," she stated. "Now I hope you have some good news."
"You are to follow me with the Shikon no Tama to the Elven Council," the fairy replied.
"Not without Inuyasha, I'm not," Kagome retorted, tone firm. 'I began this quest with Inuyasha, I'm going to end it with him, too.'
"Inuyasha can not come with," the winged-being informed her.
The miko clenched her fists, brown eyes flashing dangerously. "And why not? After all you put me through, I think you can allow him to come with me."
The fairy shook its head. "Inuyasha can not come with, because Inuyasha is dead."
Kagome stared at the tiny messenger in shock. "No. It's not possible. He can't be dead. NO!" She struck out at the fairy, but it easily dodged, coming to rest on a familiar object--Inuyasha's sword. 'If Inuyasha was alive, one of the first things he would have done was get his sword.'
"Oh no," she whispered as she finally realized the truth. 'He's dead. I didn't get to the Shikon no Tama soon enough. Naraku killed him.' She took a deep breath. 'I don't even know how to find him to get his email address. I don't know if I'll ever see him again. I love him, and I may never get to see him again.'
Tears suddenly formed in her eyes. 'I didn't even get to say good-bye to him or tell him how I really feel. No... It's not fair. I loved him.'
Kagome punched the ground as her frustration grew and her tears flowed freely down her cheeks. "INUYASHA!"
CotA: I have the distinct feeling that there are going to be some ticked reader out there now. ::shrugs:: Oh well. The next chapter will most likely be the last one. I'm thinking that I'm gonna skip out on the epilogue. I don't think I'll need it.
Zebez: After this big disappointment, I think you might need it, if only to calm down your readers.
Sess-chan: I think you should leave it here. My stupid younger brother should stay dead.
CotA: How can you say such things, Sess-chan? He's your brother!
Kali: 'And I think you all are idiots.'
Zebez: You don't really mean that, now do you, Kali?
Kali: 'Ah... yeah. Duh.'
Sess-chan: I think that I might need to trim your wings.
CotA: Don't even think about it. ::hears a beeping noise:: That's my cake! ::runs off::
Sess-chan: Now that the authoress is gone, how about we see if plucking her wings is like plucking a chicken?
Zebez: ::shrugs:: Why not? ::approaches Kali::
Kali: 'Stay away.' ::throws a fireball at the two men::
CotA: ::enters the room with a giant chocolate cake to find a smoking Zebez and Sess- chan:: I told you not even to think about it, but did you listen to me? Nooooo, you didn't. ::sighs:: Kali, I guess you and I are going to be the only ones eating the cake. ::hands Kali a plate and fork:: Enjoy!
Zebez: Now that's not fair.
CotA: Oh... hush. Or I'll stick you in the Barbie room as punishment.
Zebez and Sess-chan: ::shudder:: Scary.
CotA: Now that the boys are behaving, we can move onto the reviews.
Sakura-onto-Hitomi: Yes, sugar tends to help me write. I'm not sure why. It just does. Thanks for the cookies. ::munches:: Very good. ::smiles::
Kittymui: Picky? Wow. I feel special now. And I appreciate the compliment. Really I do.
SilentSlayer: laughs I'm guessing you speak another language rather fluently, huh?
Knight Star: No, it's not an anime crossover. The three ladies are not from Oh My Goddess.
Xio the Dog Demoness: Yes, Naraku finally showed up. Took him long enough, huh?
Raining Fire: You'll just have to wait and see. Maybe they'll meet. Maybe they won't. I'm not telling.
From: Dragon Man 180: The girls are not from Oh My Goddess. And I liked the idea of Inuyasha being able to use the demon form as well. It's a computer game, and I didn't think he could lose his mind in the game. At least, I hope not.
Princess Anubus: Yes, a cliffy. I tend to do that every so often.
kumiko-chan: Sorry, but I couldn't write more without combining chapter 8 and 9 together. And I understand how easy it is to forget to check up on the stories you're reading. I do it all the time.
Crispy Muffin: Yes, Naraku is one bad hacker. I've read some of your story, and if you want, I can go through and correct the errors in the chapters I've read so far.
Yanou: They're not exactly EVIL, and I guarentee that you'll see them again.
jdls: Canada? Cool. I just live in the US. And of course I haven't given up on it. I get too many reviews for me to do that.
inuyasha kagome2: I think you know what they saw by now.
x-Bandet-x: Thank you, and I will keep updating.
RL Cassie: yes, darling, human frogger. And as cute as the original idea was, I don't think it would have worked all that well. Besides, Naraku is sadistic, and the original idea just wasn't sadistic enough. And I don't think Kuwabara is THAT stupid.
Lady Icykimi: Yes, I updated. Awww... you're selling the cute puppies. That's so sad, but at least you're other doggie is going to have some. ::grins:: That's so cool. And yes, I'm almost done with this story. Chapter ten will be the final chappie. I might do an epilogue, but I'm not sure. It all depends on how things go.
Drake220: Thanks. I'm glad you like all the cute fluffyness.
Evilfire4321: I will update. Really I will.
PWA: I've only read part of one book of Fruits Basket, although I found it to be really cute.