The Hole in Time
Chapter 2: The Search and Battle
By: Laura , Kaylyn, and Heather Disclaimer for all chapters: I do not own the characters but I do own the
plot along w/the other writer of this story.
We all met back at Hideki's after hours and hours of searching.
"I didn't find anything," Hideki stated, but everyone else agreed.
"Why not?" I yelled in outrage, even though I hadn't found anything either. I was having a mood swing, but it didn't matter to me.
"Inuyasha, relax," Miroku told me. "With all this technology today, I'm sure there is some way to track her, or them, or something." Miroku ended this seeming a little confused, but with this in my mind, it calmed me down a little. "Come on. Let's have some dinner and we can continue to search tomorrow." We ate a meal of ramen, which I was very happy about, and some sake. After that, we settled down and came up with plans of where to search. Suddenly, the little laptop robot named Plum, which Hideki got from his friend, started to ring signaling that there was a message. "Plum, go ahead." Hideki set her on the table where all of us could see. It was from Zima and Dita. They only replied one thing, which was, "We see you aren't quite ready, but we shall battle anyway." We were all a little confused and a tiny bit afraid, but I was ready. Then, we all went to bed and rested for the battle and whatever was going come after that.
The next day we all got up at the crack of dawn and had a quick breakfast. I was the first one done and was getting annoyed by the others because they were really slow eaters and were getting on my nerves.
"Will you guys hurry it up already?" I shouted out of aggravation.
"Give us time to eat, man!" Hideki said to me, speaking for everyone.
Finally, after what seemed like an eternity, they were finished eating and we were back out looking for Kagome. We first headed to a park to see if I could pick up her scent since that was where we received Zima and Dita transmission. We went to the spot near a fountain, which was as close as Plum could pinpoint as the location of the message. I sniffed around and picked up the faint scent of Kagome.
"Hey guys! I think I found something!" I shouted to the rest of the search crew and we headed off.
We followed her scent to an old house. We cautiously walked up to the building and went inside. I could tell Kagome had been there, but her scent was hours old so we knew that Zima and Dita were moving, leading us on a wild goose chase. We followed Kagome's scent to several different places and each time her scent got stronger and stronger, which meant that she had been there not long ago. Finally, I tracked her scent to an abandoned warehouse. We had to be careful because we didn't know what to expect.
"Alright guys, here's the plan," Sango started. "Let's split up to cover more ground in less time. Inuyasha, you head off by yourself, since you'll most likely be able to handle yourself better than one of us would. Miroku, take Plum so that you can contact someone if you find anything. Chi and Hideki, you can come with me."
Hibiya had decided to stay back at the house incase Zima and Dita sent something else. We all split up. I wish I was able to use my powerful nose, but Kagome's scent was all over, so I couldn't pinpoint it. At least I had my speed.
After a long time of searching, we all met back where we started, but no one had found anything. We only had one floor left to go and we were sure we would find Kagome. We made it to the basement of the building and came upon a long hallway. There was only one door and it was at the end of the hall. We walked up to the door and cautiously opened it. There in the middle of the room tied up was the figure of Kagome. I instinctively started to run to her side but Miroku held me back. I growled at him but he just shrugged it off and continued to hold me back.
"Miroku," I growled at him. "Let me go! I have to help Kagome!"
"Easy, Inuyasha. Don't you think this is a little too easy?" Miroku replied
"I don't care, Miroku. Let me go," I growled.
Miroku reluctantly let me go and I ran towards Kagome. Before I could get to her Zima and Dita appeared in front of me. I got into a fighting stance, ready for anything.
"Move it, you creeps," I growled at them.
"Not a chance. You'll have to fight us. Us two against you."
"Inuyasha!" Miroku shouted from the side. "I wouldn't go up against those odds if I were you!"
"Well, you're not me!" I shouted as I leapt toward Zima.
I started to battle with Zima and I did not concern myself with Dita because I saw out of the corner of my eye that Miroku had leapt in and was fighting her. I fought hard and was getting angrier by the second. Zima kept dodging my blows and came back with his own. He finally got one blow in, but that was enough. He took control of the battle and before I knew it, I was thrown to the ground and Zima was standing above me.
"You could never beat me, you chobit."
"What?" I asked, trying to get up. I saw that Miroku had also been beaten by Dita.
I saw them step back. Zima waved his hand in the air and Kagome's bonds fell to the floor.
"Inuyasha!" she cried, but Zima was too quick and swiped her up. Dita walked up beside him with Chi. She had her on what looked like a leash.
They then disappeared but not before dropping another note. Hideki picked it up as Sango checked our wounds. He read the note aloud to us.
"Hibiya -
Did you think you could actually beat us? You were pathetic. Now we have the girl and one of your precious Chobits. We will give you a series of clues that will lead you to us. This time, we'll get that second Chobit.
-Zima & Dita"
Suddenly, Plum started to dance saying that she had a message. The message was from Zima and Dita and the message was this: "This is your first clue. Can you figure it out? What runs fast without legs, is almost always on time, and can carry many things?"
That was our first clue and our first step to finding Chi and Kagome and getting things back to normal. Now all we had to do was figure out the clue. So we headed back to Hideki's place to figure it out.
We finally got back and Hibiya greeted us.
"You're back! What happened? Wh-where's Chi? Oh, come sit down and tell me."
"We found Kagome, but Inuyasha and Miroku had to fight Zima and Dita in order to get to her," Hideki began. "Zima and Dita were too powerful and they grabbed Chi while Miroku and Inuyasha were down. They left behind this note." He handed her the note and she read it to herself.
"Once again they mention this, this second Chobit. The only one I can remember is Chi's sister, but they know she broke down."
"Here's the clue they left us." He handed Plum to her and she recited the riddle.
"Wait a minute." Sango said after not having said much in the past few days. "These Chobits, do they have to look like Chi?"
"Well, not exactly like her. They have perfected the persocom in many ways since Chi. Of course, I don't know how another Chobit could be produced unless my husband came back to life. He was the only one who knew how to make Chobits."
"Yes, but what if...it wasn't a Chobit at all?" They all looked at me and gasped.
"It's Inuyasha!"