Attack Chapter Six: Survival
"Aaaah, B-E-A-utiful." said Kagome happily as she ambled along the path to a herb garden she knew about. The bright sun shone down on her, the trees were green, air was fresh and crisp, flowers were putting off a wonderful smell, a simply perfect day. 'Thanks to Kami that Kaede gave me the day off, I couldnt take another second of Lets-cut-kagome-with-knives!' She had her bow and arrow kit as usual and a normal woven basket under her arm for herbs.
She had to wear her combat uniform whenever she went outside the training grounds because "ye can never be too careful" She smiled as her mind jokingly mimicked Kaede's accent in her head. But she didnt have a problem with her darkish green skin tight suit with padding on her belly, thighs, and arms. (A.N. think Sango) Her hair was the only thing that bothered her, she didnt much care for, all right hated, to have her hair pulled so tight her forehead hurt and tide into intricate designs on the back of her head. "eeurrgh," groaned Kagome outload. 'Only a little further and ill be out of sight and, OMIGOSH I feel my hair becoming lose, its getting caught in a limb OH NOOOOOO!'thought Kagome with a sly grin as she turned a corner into a little flowering meadow pulled two seemingly invisible pins out of her hair sending it cascading around her shoulders. "Whoops,"smirked Kagome feeling as if she had just pulled off the biggest crime in history.
'AAh finally here,' she thought happily as she massaged her scalp absently and ran her fingers through her hair. "What?" she asked outloud, there was a sudden burst of power, dark energy coming from right in front of her; but it was only for a second. She froze, sensing wildly for the power source; to find none. 'Sometin died......I hope.'her mind chimed After getting settled she started grasping around flowers putting ones she needed into the basket, things she wanted into pockets. 'Burn healing has thorns and five dark green leaves, Fever cure has blue flowers red thorns.' (A.N. AHAHAHA I crack myself up, ahem sorry.)
After an hour of picking and teenage frolicking in the meadow, basket and arrows set to the side; Kagome sat down in a thick patch of grass and looked lazily up into the cloud studded sky through the green branches. Soon she began to do her favorite lazy day activity.... 'Ummm....bunny....snake demon.....dog....and, a ummm a Kitty. Ya Kitty.' Finding shapes in clouds! She sighed lazily as her eyelids slowly dropped, 'Fluffy, soft Kitty.' Naraku appeared out of the miasma ahead of the "almighty" Sesshoumaru's squad. The impudent demon was unfit to be so cocky. Naraku stiffened from surprise as he heard a stranger's breathe quiken, and a surprised voice, female voice, ask "what" to his arrival. Naraku's mind came to an abrupt stop, 'she sensed me, I used my stealth travel yet she still sensed me.' His mind focused on hers telling her everything was fine but couldnt get a mental connection. Her mind flat out refused to even acknowledge his hacking one. But her pricking and proding mind couldnt sense him when he let his demon instinct lay under the surface and didnt move a muscle...his favorite and most famous trick.
He smirked as the miko relaxed and continued to pick her herbs. 'Obviously a miko, a beautiful one at that. She would be a perfect trophy, or gift. Untouched and pure. Perfect for corruption.' He waited calmly as she finished and laid down in a patch of grass. Naraku ached to pin her to the ground, to mark her for his harem as he was sure the other lords would want to, but the impudent demon was not one to be tampered with especially with the female loving Kouga, and foolish Inuyasha at his side.
The miko's sleep was evident, her breathing calm, same with her heartbeat. He then summoned his rivals elite troops. 10 in all, 4 bat demons, 4 cats, and 2 rare shadow demons, three of the cats were female as well as one of the shadows. All of them were dressed in skin tight demon leather equipped with little bulges here and there that were various weapons and potions. Smooth and tough, fireproof, extreme weather resistant and it helped the wearer breath under any circumstance seperating air from water and other unwanted liqueds and smokes; these were professoinals. Professionals aching for a good hunt. Tails were twitching, wings opened.
Kagome felt something around her moving. 'Just the wind, no spirit energy.' But she couldnt stop the goosebumps that pricked her skin.
Naraku gave the signal and the shadow demons expanded, covering everything in darkness. A bubble of shadow to stop any reinforcement from the nearby dojo, left the sky an unendless blackness with stars of green and red eyes. The cat demons instantly crawled very cautiously against the ground, claws drawn. The bats took flight hovering 10 feet over Kagome's body. The cats advanced into a circle around the girl, one pulling shackles out of a pocket, while another silently pulled the basket and bow away from her body. Just a few more seconds....
Kagome sat up in pitch black, there was no longer a dim glow to the sky, no stars no moon. She stood up in surprise; 'what is happening?'she asked herself as her hands glowed pink illuminating the nearby area. 'Where are my bow and arrows?' Then she saw the green and red eyes peering at her, at least 5 demons in the immediate surroundings. She focused thinking over what would be the best thing to do when a demon pounced at her.
"Get back!"she yelled as her hands made contact with the demoness' face,halting her tackle, but not before a stray paw clawed at her thigh cutting through the material and leaving thin cuts. "Do not scar her."came a silky masculine voice from the darkness. The cuts made Kagome's rage surge making her push harder against the cats face earning a screech as a sizzling sound was heard before the attacker puffed into dust. Two others started to move, "Come on what you got?" Kagome yelled in fury.
She gathered little balls of energy into her hands, her eyes glowed and her hair was blowing tamely from the force. The two balls of energy were released at the intruders only to have them dodge to the side and advance more quickly. Kagome started to gather energy before two clawed hands grabbed her fore arms from behind and pull them behind her back. She swung her leg in a spinning heal kick catching the bat in the ribs, causing the it to loosen his grip slightly, enough slack to get a backhand of energy sending him sprawling through the splintering tree. Then the two cats pounced at her exposed back, her upperarms and shoulders had razor claws sunk into them. Kagome screamed loudly as trickles of blood came down her arms. Building up her power, she swung her arms at an odd angles and clenched her two attacker's grabbing arms supporting her weight, as she double back kicked at their chests, releasing them at the opportune moment. Sending them flying backward and her rolling forward, to stand up. She was breathing heavily by now, adreniline and power use was causing her head to spin.
She turned in barely enough time to strike another cat in the face with a ball of energy. She paused to brush the hair out of her face when suddenly something pricked her senses. One of the biggest bats and a smaller one swooped down upon her, grasping at the same time, her arms and legs; firmly restraining her. She blindly clawed out at her attackers trying to hit them with purity, but she couldnt make contact with their skin. Finally out of desperation she started to shoot off little bolts trying to hit one of the demons. But almost immediatly someone put some bindings on her, now for some reason she couldnt even shoot out blindly. Kagome let a very growl like yell of frustration as she hung her head in defeat, as glowing eyes closed in around her.
Naraku grinned as his demon ears pricked up to the sound of shackles being placed around Kagome's wrists and ankles. She started to squirm and grunt but couldnt scream because of the bit forced into her mouth. When the time came to pick up the "package" the male cats were getting unprofessionally aggresive picking her up, fighting over her even. She wasnt just beautifull she was exceptionly powerfull. A cat fight had erupted, before a greedy bat demon took her in his arms flew high in the black bubble. "Enough",Said Naraku angrily, slightly jealous of Kagome's admirers as an extra appendage went from under his baboon skin to grasp her in a oddly gentle hold out of the bat's yeilding grasp. He looked into her flaming eyes, her anger displayed without hender.
"Your angry? Good."he said calmly while stroking her cheek. "Shadows off duty." he ordered as the shadows unblocked the light blue sky. He then handed her to one of the newly recalled shadow demons and said impassivly. "Seems the attack on miko was a success. With minor casualties." as he looked around at the few wounded demons and the scattered dust."Do not remove her bindings, understood?" sry beddy bye time do more 2morrow