Yes, it's been a while. And it's not the longest thing I've ever written.
But between it not loading on Fan-Fiction, me deleting it and having to re-
type it, and it being ten already, my "I care" ratio isn't too high. So
forgive me.
I love you Akira!
For some odd reason, I can't get this to format nicely with me.
So.uh.sorry?
~*~
Akira nodded. "That sounds good. But. . .uh. . .shouldn't we deal with. .
.Biiru's body, Ang?"
Ang shrugged. "I'm taking the energy left in it." She walked over and
touched the thing on the forehead. A small sound filled the air, causing
Inuyasha's ears to stand up. She smirked. "A healing spell. . .I like
that. . ."
Akira pouted. "I coulda gotten a life spell out of him. . ."
"You wouldn't use it." She continued absorbing energy from him, until she
had refilled all of the energy she had lost from casting her spells. Then
she set out some more crystals and watched then fill.
Inuyasha pointed at her. "What the hell is she doing now?"
"If you take a dead Priest. . .or Priestess, you know what I mean," she
said, seeing him begin to point at Ang again. "And if you get there early
enough, you can take most of their energy and add it to your own.
Sometimes you can even learn the spells they used. An empty miko sometimes
does nothing but kill other Priests, just to get their powers. Ang. .
.she's always liked power, it's all she's ever really had going for her.
She's taking what she wants from Biiru. . .as much as she can."
". . .How could she just. . .kill him?" Something about her face bothered
Inuyasha. When she had cast that spell, when she had watched it move
toward Biiru. . .she had just been happy. Happy to watch him die.
". . ." Akira looked at Ang. "She. . .she was the Priestess of Death,
Inuyasha. She was for almost her entire life. All that time, all she
learned was how to kill various people in various ways at various levels
and pain, and all sorts of things. . .but all of them relating to death.
This was. . .well, you Angela, this was a fairly tame death. I thought
she'd do something worse to him since she hates him so much now. Like. .
.make him suffer. But she just let him die."
"Why'd she take your blood for the spell?"
She smiled. "So many questions, Inuyasha. . .as for that, I don't know
exactly why. I can only assume she needed it for her spell." She
shrugged. "She is a blood mage. Her own blood can run thin sometimes."
They sat in silence for another few moments, watching Angela suck in
Biiru's energy, like some kind of evil vampire. Inuyasha wondered what she
really had used the blood for. She had used her own energy and blood as
far as he was aware for everything he had seen up to that point.
"Oi," he said suddenly. "You've still got my cloak."
"Not like I'm getting blood on it, Inuyasha. I'll give it back to you when
I'm done with it and not before then." She finished sucking her energy
from the corpse and stood up, without giving the thing a second look. She
smirked at the two of them, who were watching her with a bit of fear.
"Quit acting like it was a big loss."
Akira bit her lip. It was just better not to argue with the girl when she
had so much energy. If her own magic had been full, perhaps it would have
been safer to try, but as it was, she was only at about half-power. It
would have been foolish. Inuyasha said nothing because he didn't think
anything needed saying. She had killed him for energy in the most cold-
blooded way she could think of. "What now then, Ang?"
"Inuyasha. . .I don't know how to say this nicely, so I won't. You may as
well go home right now. Akira, you've got some energy crystals or
something, right?"
She nodded. "What, you're gonna just do this on your own?"
"You're coming with me, Akira."
"What about me? Why do you think I can't help?" She snorted and crossed
his arms. "I'm stronger than both of you put together."
"Physically. Not magically. You may be strong, but our magic can take out
far more people and far faster. You'll just be in the way. If we didn't
see just one miko arrow, you'd be dead." She pulled off his cloak, a
slightly amused smile coming to her face. "If you want it back so much,
then take it. Akira and I will be fine-" a sinister light came into her
eyes. "Besides, aren't we just unwelcome and unwanted guests?"
Finding himself unable to contradict himself, he grabbed the cloak and
roughly pulled it back on. Damn it. How'd she remember that? "Fine. But
then don't come crying to me when you end up dead."
"That'd be impossible by definition, Inu-kun." He paused at her usage of
the word 'kun,' and the sickeningly sweet tone of voice.
". . .Why?"
"Well, by your own definition, we'd be dead. . ."
He glowered at her and then jumped off through the trees towards the
remains of the village. ". . .Ang, what's our plan?"
"We find that damn miko and find out what exactly she's doing and what the
hell Naraku is doing and why the hell they're speaking Spanish."
". . .You really wouldn't care if they were speaking any language other
than Spanish, would you?"
She shook her head. "If the man had been content to stick with French or
something, I would have cared less. But I like Spanish."
". . .You're weird."
"Shut up."
". . .Why'd you send Inuyasha back to the village, Ang? I know you think
he'd be hard to protect him from the miko, but. . .honestly, it wouldn't be
that bad, and I'm sure that he could help whatever your plan is. . ."
"He told me that he's basically dead if that miko hits him. He's dead. So
I put him out of danger all together."
Akira blinked in surprise and prodded her arm. "You mean. . .you were
protecting him, Ang?"
She scowled. "Don't get any ideas, Miko-san. He's of no use to me dead-
and he's not much alive, either! I just wanted him out of the way!"
Akira's smirk didn't help her prove her point too well. "Oh, urusei. .
.let's get out of here before you get some idiotic scheme in your head and
turn the village down-again."
~*~
Inuyasha stirred up an extra-large cloud of dust in front of the hut as he
landed. He didn't alert anyone he was there, nor did he bother to wipe his
feet off before stomping into the hut. Kagome looked up in surprise at his
surly attitude. "Welcome home to you, too."
He smirked. "Tadaima, Kagome-chan!" Everyone's dumbfounded stare turned
his smirk into more of an amused frown. "Prefer that?"
". . .What the heck happened to you?"
"Where're Ang and Akira?"
"Where's the cat-demon-lady-person-thingy?"
Miroku blinked. ". . .Meg? She. . .left. . .a while ago. . ."
"Oh." He shrugged. "No more cat smell then."
"What cat smell? What about Akira?"
"So much for Ang? Don't feel like asking about her, I guess. Akira's with
Ang. Kaede-baba, what's dinner?"
"My name is not Kaede-baba, I'd trouble you to remember. And Kagome is
making something for us tonight. Be grateful."
"Keh."
"Inuyasha." Miroku stood up. "Where is Akira?"
"With Ang. . .you don't listen well, do you? They're off chasing after
that damn miko. When's this thing gonna be ready?"
"Not too long, Inuyasha. Why aren't you with them?
A bitter smirk came back to his face. "Oh, Ang didn't invite me to that
party. She didn't think I could cope, so she told me to come back here and
let her and Akira handle it. Anyone wonder about Biiru lately?"
"He's with Akira. I'm sure he's fine. . ."
He rolled his eyes. "Baka. Ang found them fighting. Biiru. . .Biiru-san,
our dear, dear friend, is now deceased.
~*~
". . .So, Ang, what's the plan?"
"You're my back-up, Akira."
"What do you mean? Back-up implies duel."
"That'd be a second."
"Oh. Well, what does it mean?"
"I will be going first. You are to throw whatever spell your little heart
desires at the enemy while I track down that goddamn Miko. Do you
understand it, Akira? Get it?"
"Got it, good."
". . .Never say that again."
"Not a problem."
They walked on for a little bit, with Akira looking around. ". . .Do you
have any idea where she might be?"
"Iie."
"Power signatures?"
"Iie."
". . .Name?"
"Iie."
. . .Anything?"
"Iie."
"What, were you planning on her just popping out of a nearby shrubbery and
yelling, 'Here I am, here I am!'?"
"No, I was planning on following the mass amounts of screaming and crying
in Spanish."
". . .Oh."
The silence returned at the screams got louder and closer. Akira's fire
wasn't burning the woods like normal fire. It didn't burn normal things.
It was simply burning people. They couldn't seem to put it out, and were
simply burning up. No matter what they did, it wouldn't go out. Akira
shifted uncomfortably.
"Ang, it's a magical fire, can't we put it out for them? Otherwise they'll
never put it out. . .they can't do it on their own, it'll never work. . ."
Ang gave her a cold stare. "No. Do not put it out. It's aiding us, and
there's not a point in getting rid of any help we can have."
". . .Yeah. . .I guess. . ."
They walked on, between soldiers who were literally on fire. Akira only
fired on one soldier who had hidden when Ang spotted him. No one else
dared challenge the two, and Akira didn't think they needed anymore pain.
They found the miko out of pure luck. She was casting some sort of spell,
and Ang felt the power in the spell and focused on it. She instantly knew
exactly where the miko was hiding. She smirked. "She's casting a water
spell. Best of luck to her." She looked back at Akira. "You can go now.
I'll get her on my own."
She blinked out of the area. Akira blinked in shock. She hadn't felt the
power pulse of Ang's spell at all nor had she sensed the other miko's power
pulse. Ang seemed to be eerily in sync with her. She had no idea where
Ang had gone, or anything that'd let her follow the girl. She gulped and
teleported herself to the little hut.
Man, Inuyasha is gonna kill me for not bringing that insane girl with me. .
. "Aw, fuck."
But between it not loading on Fan-Fiction, me deleting it and having to re-
type it, and it being ten already, my "I care" ratio isn't too high. So
forgive me.
I love you Akira!
For some odd reason, I can't get this to format nicely with me.
So.uh.sorry?
~*~
Akira nodded. "That sounds good. But. . .uh. . .shouldn't we deal with. .
.Biiru's body, Ang?"
Ang shrugged. "I'm taking the energy left in it." She walked over and
touched the thing on the forehead. A small sound filled the air, causing
Inuyasha's ears to stand up. She smirked. "A healing spell. . .I like
that. . ."
Akira pouted. "I coulda gotten a life spell out of him. . ."
"You wouldn't use it." She continued absorbing energy from him, until she
had refilled all of the energy she had lost from casting her spells. Then
she set out some more crystals and watched then fill.
Inuyasha pointed at her. "What the hell is she doing now?"
"If you take a dead Priest. . .or Priestess, you know what I mean," she
said, seeing him begin to point at Ang again. "And if you get there early
enough, you can take most of their energy and add it to your own.
Sometimes you can even learn the spells they used. An empty miko sometimes
does nothing but kill other Priests, just to get their powers. Ang. .
.she's always liked power, it's all she's ever really had going for her.
She's taking what she wants from Biiru. . .as much as she can."
". . .How could she just. . .kill him?" Something about her face bothered
Inuyasha. When she had cast that spell, when she had watched it move
toward Biiru. . .she had just been happy. Happy to watch him die.
". . ." Akira looked at Ang. "She. . .she was the Priestess of Death,
Inuyasha. She was for almost her entire life. All that time, all she
learned was how to kill various people in various ways at various levels
and pain, and all sorts of things. . .but all of them relating to death.
This was. . .well, you Angela, this was a fairly tame death. I thought
she'd do something worse to him since she hates him so much now. Like. .
.make him suffer. But she just let him die."
"Why'd she take your blood for the spell?"
She smiled. "So many questions, Inuyasha. . .as for that, I don't know
exactly why. I can only assume she needed it for her spell." She
shrugged. "She is a blood mage. Her own blood can run thin sometimes."
They sat in silence for another few moments, watching Angela suck in
Biiru's energy, like some kind of evil vampire. Inuyasha wondered what she
really had used the blood for. She had used her own energy and blood as
far as he was aware for everything he had seen up to that point.
"Oi," he said suddenly. "You've still got my cloak."
"Not like I'm getting blood on it, Inuyasha. I'll give it back to you when
I'm done with it and not before then." She finished sucking her energy
from the corpse and stood up, without giving the thing a second look. She
smirked at the two of them, who were watching her with a bit of fear.
"Quit acting like it was a big loss."
Akira bit her lip. It was just better not to argue with the girl when she
had so much energy. If her own magic had been full, perhaps it would have
been safer to try, but as it was, she was only at about half-power. It
would have been foolish. Inuyasha said nothing because he didn't think
anything needed saying. She had killed him for energy in the most cold-
blooded way she could think of. "What now then, Ang?"
"Inuyasha. . .I don't know how to say this nicely, so I won't. You may as
well go home right now. Akira, you've got some energy crystals or
something, right?"
She nodded. "What, you're gonna just do this on your own?"
"You're coming with me, Akira."
"What about me? Why do you think I can't help?" She snorted and crossed
his arms. "I'm stronger than both of you put together."
"Physically. Not magically. You may be strong, but our magic can take out
far more people and far faster. You'll just be in the way. If we didn't
see just one miko arrow, you'd be dead." She pulled off his cloak, a
slightly amused smile coming to her face. "If you want it back so much,
then take it. Akira and I will be fine-" a sinister light came into her
eyes. "Besides, aren't we just unwelcome and unwanted guests?"
Finding himself unable to contradict himself, he grabbed the cloak and
roughly pulled it back on. Damn it. How'd she remember that? "Fine. But
then don't come crying to me when you end up dead."
"That'd be impossible by definition, Inu-kun." He paused at her usage of
the word 'kun,' and the sickeningly sweet tone of voice.
". . .Why?"
"Well, by your own definition, we'd be dead. . ."
He glowered at her and then jumped off through the trees towards the
remains of the village. ". . .Ang, what's our plan?"
"We find that damn miko and find out what exactly she's doing and what the
hell Naraku is doing and why the hell they're speaking Spanish."
". . .You really wouldn't care if they were speaking any language other
than Spanish, would you?"
She shook her head. "If the man had been content to stick with French or
something, I would have cared less. But I like Spanish."
". . .You're weird."
"Shut up."
". . .Why'd you send Inuyasha back to the village, Ang? I know you think
he'd be hard to protect him from the miko, but. . .honestly, it wouldn't be
that bad, and I'm sure that he could help whatever your plan is. . ."
"He told me that he's basically dead if that miko hits him. He's dead. So
I put him out of danger all together."
Akira blinked in surprise and prodded her arm. "You mean. . .you were
protecting him, Ang?"
She scowled. "Don't get any ideas, Miko-san. He's of no use to me dead-
and he's not much alive, either! I just wanted him out of the way!"
Akira's smirk didn't help her prove her point too well. "Oh, urusei. .
.let's get out of here before you get some idiotic scheme in your head and
turn the village down-again."
~*~
Inuyasha stirred up an extra-large cloud of dust in front of the hut as he
landed. He didn't alert anyone he was there, nor did he bother to wipe his
feet off before stomping into the hut. Kagome looked up in surprise at his
surly attitude. "Welcome home to you, too."
He smirked. "Tadaima, Kagome-chan!" Everyone's dumbfounded stare turned
his smirk into more of an amused frown. "Prefer that?"
". . .What the heck happened to you?"
"Where're Ang and Akira?"
"Where's the cat-demon-lady-person-thingy?"
Miroku blinked. ". . .Meg? She. . .left. . .a while ago. . ."
"Oh." He shrugged. "No more cat smell then."
"What cat smell? What about Akira?"
"So much for Ang? Don't feel like asking about her, I guess. Akira's with
Ang. Kaede-baba, what's dinner?"
"My name is not Kaede-baba, I'd trouble you to remember. And Kagome is
making something for us tonight. Be grateful."
"Keh."
"Inuyasha." Miroku stood up. "Where is Akira?"
"With Ang. . .you don't listen well, do you? They're off chasing after
that damn miko. When's this thing gonna be ready?"
"Not too long, Inuyasha. Why aren't you with them?
A bitter smirk came back to his face. "Oh, Ang didn't invite me to that
party. She didn't think I could cope, so she told me to come back here and
let her and Akira handle it. Anyone wonder about Biiru lately?"
"He's with Akira. I'm sure he's fine. . ."
He rolled his eyes. "Baka. Ang found them fighting. Biiru. . .Biiru-san,
our dear, dear friend, is now deceased.
~*~
". . .So, Ang, what's the plan?"
"You're my back-up, Akira."
"What do you mean? Back-up implies duel."
"That'd be a second."
"Oh. Well, what does it mean?"
"I will be going first. You are to throw whatever spell your little heart
desires at the enemy while I track down that goddamn Miko. Do you
understand it, Akira? Get it?"
"Got it, good."
". . .Never say that again."
"Not a problem."
They walked on for a little bit, with Akira looking around. ". . .Do you
have any idea where she might be?"
"Iie."
"Power signatures?"
"Iie."
". . .Name?"
"Iie."
. . .Anything?"
"Iie."
"What, were you planning on her just popping out of a nearby shrubbery and
yelling, 'Here I am, here I am!'?"
"No, I was planning on following the mass amounts of screaming and crying
in Spanish."
". . .Oh."
The silence returned at the screams got louder and closer. Akira's fire
wasn't burning the woods like normal fire. It didn't burn normal things.
It was simply burning people. They couldn't seem to put it out, and were
simply burning up. No matter what they did, it wouldn't go out. Akira
shifted uncomfortably.
"Ang, it's a magical fire, can't we put it out for them? Otherwise they'll
never put it out. . .they can't do it on their own, it'll never work. . ."
Ang gave her a cold stare. "No. Do not put it out. It's aiding us, and
there's not a point in getting rid of any help we can have."
". . .Yeah. . .I guess. . ."
They walked on, between soldiers who were literally on fire. Akira only
fired on one soldier who had hidden when Ang spotted him. No one else
dared challenge the two, and Akira didn't think they needed anymore pain.
They found the miko out of pure luck. She was casting some sort of spell,
and Ang felt the power in the spell and focused on it. She instantly knew
exactly where the miko was hiding. She smirked. "She's casting a water
spell. Best of luck to her." She looked back at Akira. "You can go now.
I'll get her on my own."
She blinked out of the area. Akira blinked in shock. She hadn't felt the
power pulse of Ang's spell at all nor had she sensed the other miko's power
pulse. Ang seemed to be eerily in sync with her. She had no idea where
Ang had gone, or anything that'd let her follow the girl. She gulped and
teleported herself to the little hut.
Man, Inuyasha is gonna kill me for not bringing that insane girl with me. .
. "Aw, fuck."