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And Those Amber Eyes of Sunlight...-Chapter Fourteen: Youkai
Stopping the car at a gas station, Inuyasha climbed down from the Jeep and turned, pounding his fist into the cement pillar beside him. "Dammit," he screamed, gritting his teeth. They had been following Kagome's scent for all of yesterday and today and though it grew steadily stronger, he knew that she still wasn't anywhere nearby. "Dammit," he whispered again and started pumping gas into the car.
A few minutes after the machine had begun to buzz, Rin came around with a cup of coffee and handed it to him quietly, leaning against the forest green Jeep beside him. "Are we anywhere near her, at all," She asked, fearing the worst, and she got it as Inuyasha shook his head and lifted one hand to rub his temples. God, he was so tired. He'd been driving the whole time, only ever stopping when someone absolutely couldn't hold themselves any longer or when they had to get gas. And when they did stop to get gas, everyone took advantage of that time, dashing to the bathroom or into the store to stock up on food items or whatever.
"We'll find her, Inuyasha, I've known her for a long while now, she's strong," Rin piped up beside him, and he turned and looked at her, a faint smile crossing his lips, "I know." He turned to pull the nozzle out of the tank and put it back, paying the charge with his card. 'Thank god for inheritance and retirement,' He thought to himself, wondering just how bad his credit card bill would be when he got through this. One thing for sure though, he certainly wasn't going to go too far out in public wearing this. Even though he thought a lot of the youkai race would understand, though pity him, thinking something along the lines on how the poor bastard couldn't make himself get into the modern day trend. The humans wouldn't even do that, they'd just stare at him weirdly as the passed by.
Shaking his head, he opened the car door and sat down in the driver's seat, hanging one leg outside as he put one in and took a drink of his coffee. Sighing, he leaned back in the car seat. Even though he was in a hurry to get Kagome back, it always felt so good to just relax during their gas breaks.
But his bliss didn't last, for moments later, they all came back and climbed into the car. But as Sesshoumaru was about to close the door, he jumped out again, pointing to the sky, "Inuyasha! Look!" With a baffled look, Inuyasha also climbed out of the car.
The sight before him took his breath away and he stared in shock and somewhat awe at the hoards of youkai that flew overhead, never had he seen so much in a very long time. Pulling his eyes from the ghastly sight, he looked around, noticing how other people, and youkai, had stopped to stare and point at the sky.
"Inuyasha, where do you think they're all going," Miroku asked, standing on the ground with one hand grasping the car door. Grimacing, he answered back, "To Naraku." "Well let's hurry and follow them then," Sango exclaimed, ducking back into the vehicle. The others followed her example, even Inuyasha he took one last look at the airborne youkai before doing the same.
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"Kagome, be ready to fight...." Waking from her slumber, Kagome's head snapped up and back, slamming against the stone slab behind her. Groaning she lowered it again, hating the fact that she could not reach her hand back to rub the sore spot. Over the last day and a half, the chains around her wrists and ankles had become sore though and she knew, without a doubt, that if she ever got out of those cuffs, the red welts would remain there for a long time. 'If I ever get out,' She thought, puzzled, then shaking her head, she sighed, 'Of course I'll get out...Inuyasha will come for me anytime now...'
But within the dark speck of her heart, that had begun to grow in the time she'd been trapped in that lonely, dark, cavern shaped room, she begun to wonder, a sadness coming over her like no other. 'Will he really come to save me?' She remembered how they'd fought the night she'd been taken and visions of them arguing everyday she'd known him came flooding into memory and her heart sank even more into sorrow.
'Inuyasha...I'm Sorry.' She hung her head and began to weep softly, the tiny noises she was making echoing back to her repeatedly 'til the point where she could stand it no more and opened her mouth to scream, "Shut up!" But the darkness only continued to mock her voice and she sobbed.
Later, as she was just about to drift into another dreamless sleep, Naraku came striding into the hall, coming to a stop when he reached the point of the aisle just in front of her. Raising a brow, she asked in a low voice, "Where have you been for so long?" Grinning, Naraku answered back, knowing perfectly well she could have no idea of how long it had been exactly. "Oh, you mean for the last day or so? Why do you ask, did you miss me, priestess?"
Kagome only turned her head away, trying to ignore him completely, but soon she could feel him standing, or floating rather, in front of her and she turned her head back to come face to face with the evil hanyou. Startled, she squeaked and pulled herself as far back as she could from him.
He spoke again, his voice a low snarl as he said in a menacing tone, "Priestess, you'll learn not to treat me as if you were of any higher stance." Mimicking Inuyasha, Kagome said, "Keh," before continuing, "You mean of any lower stance, right?" His hand rose and came in contact with her cheek as he dragged it along, time slowing down at that instant. Then, it was over and she stared sideways in shock before her eyes watered and she looked back to find him walking up the aisle to the alter. When he got there, he sat himself down and yelled," Kugara! Make ready the youkai!" Confused, she could only watch as a voice called back to him somewhere above, "Ready at your command, sir."
Grinning, Naraku looked back towards Kagome as he wrapped his hand around a pull cord. "Get ready." As he pulled, a familiar voice of a woman came flooding back into her mind, "Kagome, be ready to fight!" Knowing that what would happen next couldn't be good, she steeled herself, putting on a grim expression to face whatever came for her.
But no matter the voice, her stubbornness, or whatever, nothing could not have made her ready for the hoards of youkai that came flying from the darkness above. Their hungry, screaming voices filled her ears and soon her own scream of horror joined them as they came closer, closer, and then...
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They had lost track of the demons a couple of hours ago, they had just been too fast to keep up with and though he knew that he could've if he were running, he also knew that he wasn't in as good as shape as he used to be back in the days and knew that that probably would've been worse. But worry still clouded his mind and he stepped down harder on the gas. 'We need to hurry...Hold on Kagome...' For some odd reason, he couldn't let go of possibility that the youkai were heading towards Naraku because of her.
Though, that thought was interrupted when a stabbing pain ripped through his chest and Inuyasha's vision wavered on the road and he lost control of the steering wheel, swerving as he saw red. "Kagome," he breathed out, stepping on the breaks long enough to stop the car.
The people around him were still screaming but stopped as they watched Inuyasha slump forward, grasping the wheel so tightly, his knuckles were beginning to turn white as his breath came out in labored gasps.
"Inuyasha," Rin and Sesshoumaru exclaimed, each leaping out of the car to run around to the hanyou's door, pulling it open. Thankfully, the road didn't have much traffic or else they'd be in trouble, sitting there in the middle of the road. "Inuyasha," Rin said again as Sesshoumaru pulled his stiff body from the driver's seat. "Inuyasha! Wake up, come on, snap out of it, what's wrong," Sesshoumaru said in a low voice, shaking his half brother a little bit as lowered himself and the half demon to the ground. He'd never been this scared for him before but nor had he even liked his hanyou brother this much before either.
Sango and Miroku came around as well and crouched down beside the already lowered couple, Sesshoumaru holding his brother as if he were a child while Rin took his hand.
Then, Inuyasha screamed and began thrashing wildly in their grip, a series of loud growls and snarls emitting from his mouth as his eyes flashed back and forth between the demon red and his hanyou amber as he seemed to fight against an unseen enemy that would not go away. Gasping, he screamed again, squeezing Rin's hand so hard she thought it would break as he spoke one word before going quiet, "Kagome..."
Looking up at her husband, Rin searched fearfully in his eyes for the answers she seeked, what was going on? Why had he spazzed out so suddenly? Knowing his wife's thoughts, Sesshoumaru only shook his head, "I don't know, Rin, but I think we need to find Kagome, now."
Sango choked back a sob as she had watched the thrashing Inuyasha and now let it go as she lowered her head and asked desperately, "What's happening?" Miroku set a hand on her shoulder, making her stiffen and look up at him, puzzled. "We're going to keep looking for Kagome, that's what's happening." Smiling, she nodded as Rin and herself climbed into the back seat, the two men raising the unconscious Inuyasha to lie across them before Sesshoumaru sat down in the driver's seat and turned, sniffing the seat.
He stopped though, raising an eyebrow in challenge as he glanced around to see if anyone was watching. No one was, so he continued, first catching the stronger scent of Inuyasha and then catching the softer, fainter scent of Kagome.
Nodding in approval, he turned and started the car, continuing down the road.
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Eek! Weird huh, got that voodoo connection there already. Well, yea, again this was a short and unexciting chapter and I apologize greatly for that, I really do, I just have to get through all this traveling crud for now to get to the good stuff again, I know I know, more excuses, but its just the way it is. Anyway, so review anyway and tell me what you thought of it. Thank you, cha =) Oh! And one more thing, thank you WiNtEr-sToRm- oF-iCe for such an ecstatic review, it just brightened me right up and got me over my writers block when I was having a real tuffy with it.