Author's Note-We are back everybody! Sorry about not being able to update
soon. After killing Bob, they typo demon, we ran into Kouga and he messed
with my dimensional computer and downloaded a virus. Fortunately, the we
managed to get rid of the virus before it could wipe out Tangerine, but not
before it wiped out Microsoft (Tangerine got moved to wordpad). So we had
to re-download it, which meant that we had to go back to the present and
ask my dad to bring it back. But he couldn't re-download it, so he had to
ask a friend at work to help. *sigh*
Kouga: Oh sure, blame the wolf, we're easy targets.
Me: What?!
Kouga: -.- Nothing.
Anyways, we've now have four Shikon shards (got into a battle with a really mean demon for the fourth one. . .ouch. . .) but we STILL don't own Inuyasha and pretty much every other series/book/movie mentioned in here. yet. And NOW we have to kill the Cartoon Network peoples for taking Inuyasha off the air. *sigh* Oh well. At least maybe they'll have a Shikon shard. But we'll do that AFTER we finish finding all the shards in the Feudal Era (we're back now). Oh well. Now on with the fic!
'I'm not going to let those four die. I failed once. I'm not going to fail again.' Inuyasha thought as he ran through the forest. Kikyo's face flashed into his mind. 'Twice.' He amended. He remembered what had happened a few months ago. It seemed like a nightmare, what had happened to Kagome. . .
*two months ago*
"So, you really think you can defeat me again." Sesshoumaru said.
"Yeah, I do. You'll never have the Tetsusaiga or kill me. When will that get through that thick skull of yours?" Inuyasha said confidently.
"Inuyasha, be careful!" Kagome yelled.
Sesshoumaru looked over at her. "I believe that we should first get rid of those innocent bystanders first, don't you?" he said.
Inuyasha looked surprised. "Not Kagome!" he cried. He turned to Kagome. "Kagome, get out of here!" he yelled. He watched Sesshoumaru run towards her. "Oh no you don't!" Inuyasha yelled. He dropped the Tetsaiga, ran after Sesshoumaru, and grabbed his sleeve.
Sesshoumaru stopped. "Let go!" he ordered.
"No way! You're just going to kill Kagome!" Inuyasha yelled. He looked to the right of him where Miroku was. "Miroku!" he yelled. "Get Kagome and Shippou out of here!"
Miroku hesitated.
"What the hell are you waiting for?! Get going!" Inuyasha yelled.
Miroku nodded and ran over to Kagome. "Come Lady Kagome. We must evacuate the area." He said.
"No! I'm not leaving Inuyasha here to fend on his own against Sesshoumaru!" Kagome argued stubbornly.
"Please Lady Kagome. There's nothing you can do here. Not against Sesshoumaru." Miroku said.
"No way."
"Kagome!" Inuyasha said, grabbing Sesshoumaru's arm since the sleeve's fabric began to tear. "Get out of here now! Please! I'm more likely to get hurt if you stay!" he yelled.
Kagome stared a moment. Shippou tugged on her pants leg. "Please Kagome. Let's go." He said.
Kagome stared at Inuyasha. "Inu. . .ya. . .sha. . ." she said. She nodded. "Come on Shippou, Miroku. We're out of here." She said, running away from the battlefield.
Sesshoumaru growled. "I said let go." He ordered, still trying to pull away.
"I'm not letting you kill Kagome!" Inuyasha said.
Sesshoumaru's claws dug into Inuyasha's arm, poisoning it. Inuyasha grimaced and clutched his arm, his hand slipping away. "You have a lot to learn, hanyou." He said coldly. His claws plunged into Inuyasha's stomach. Inuyasha cried out and went limp.
Sesshoumaru tossed Inuyasha to the ground. Inuyasha stared up at him. "Not. . .Kagome. . .please. . ." he whispered. Sesshoumaru began walking over to Tetsusaiga.
Kagome stopped and turned. "Inuyasha!" she cried, hearing Inuyasha's cry.
"Please Lady Kagome, we must keep going." Miroku said.
"No! Inuyasha!" Kagome yelled, running over to Inuyasha.
"Kagome. . .get outta here. . ." Inuyasha whispered.
"No Inuyasha! I'm not leaving you!" Kagome said stubbornly. She got the bow and arrow she had been holding and aimed it at Sesshoumaru.
"A stupid sword. . .it isn't worth all this. . ." Inuyasha said under his breath.
Kagome shot the arrow, taking Sesshoumaru by surprise as the arrow buried itself in his arm. He turned to Kagome. "You should have left when you had the chance. . .human." He said, walking over to her. Kagome gasped and took a few steps back when he stabbed her in the heart with his claws. Kagome collapsed and fell, her head resting on Inuyasha's back and her body lying in a puddle of blood.
***
'But why didn't Sesshoumaru take the Tetsusaiga? Why? After all that trouble?' Inuyasha wondered for what must have been the thousandth time. He slowed and rested a hand on the Tetsusaiga. 'Why would Sesshoumaru kill Kagome, almost kill me, and nearly lose his other arm for something that he didn't want?' he wondered. He grit his teeth. 'No, he still wants the Tetsusaiga. Didn't take is more like it. Why didn't he take it?'
"We're nearly there," Akio said, "It's close."
Inuyasha looked down at the boy. Somehow he kind of reminded him of Sota, Kagome's little brother.
*one month ago*
"Kagome. . .she can't be dead. . .you killed her!" Kagome's mother cried.
"For the last time, I didn't kill her! Sesshoumaru did." Inuyasha yelled back. He didn't tell them that Sesshoumaru was his brother. He didn't want anything to do with that youkai. After he had gotten better, he and Kaede had both decided that it may be for the best that Inuyasha himself tell Kagome's family what had happened to her. Unfortunately, they weren't taking it too well.
Sota tugged on his sleeve. "I believe you Mr. Inuyasha." He said. Inuyasha looked down at him.
". . .Thanks." He said. He turned to go, but before he left, he said to Kagome's grandfather, "By the way, gramps. Put a demon ward or something on the well and hope that it works." He paused. "I intend on never coming back." With that, he left.
***
"Inuyasha." Miroku said. Inuyasha looked up at him.
"Hm?"
"We're here."
Inuyasha looked around at the scene. There was a smoking wreckage of buildings and such. Corpses littered the ground.
"We're too late, it seems."
"Feh. We came here to kill the demon, not to play doctor. That's what we're going to do." Inuyasha said. He, Miroku, and Akio walked into the wreckage.
"If you see any demons, say something." Inuyasha said distractedly.
"Of course." Miroku said.
"I will." Akio said.
***
"So that's what happened. . ." Raylin said when Shippou had finished telling about what happened to Kagome and who she was.
"Sad. . .Oh well! I wanna help fight the demon!" Kisike said, jumping up and down, unable to keep still.
"But Kisike, we don't even have any weapons. . ." Bridget started.
"So?! We got fists! Besides, Miroku doesn't have a weapon. He has a rosary. And a stick. That's it." Kisike said.
"Actually, Miroku has an Air Void in his hand." Shippou said, but everyone was ignoring him because of course, he's Shippou.
"Well, we gonna fight him? Let's GO!" Raylin said.
"Yeah! Let's get ourselves killed! I've never been dead before!" Kisike said.
"Maybe that's because it's permanent," Raylin said, "But yeah, let's go."
Amanda sighed, once again wondering if she was the only sane one there.
"Don't worry Amanda. If you're wondering if anyone else here is sane, so am I." Bridget sighed.
Amanda nodded.
"But I'm supposed to make sure that you four don't leave the village." Shippou protested.
"The village. The village. He never said this village. There's a 'the' in it. I'm sure there's a village with a 'the' in it...somewhere around here. We need to find it so we can't leave it." Kisike said.
"Yeah but-" Shippou blinked. "Wait. What?"
"It means let's go. C'mon. I know Inuyasha's scent. We'll follow that."
***
"That was the town elder!" Akio cried, running over to what the body of an old man. Inuyasha and Miroku glanced at each other and followed. Akio shook the elder. "Elder! Elder, wake up!"
"A. . .Akio. . .you. . .traitor. . .how dare. . .you do. . .this. . .to. . .us. . ." the elder accused. He then died.
"What's this?" Inuyasha asked, picking something up nearby. It was a purple shard. "A Shikon shard! And it has your scent on it." He said pointedly at the boy.
"W-what. . .?" the boy stammered, backing away. He just so happened to back into Miroku.
"Who are you exactly?" Miroku asked.
Akio took a few steps forward until he was in between Inuyasha and Miroku and began to grin and chuckle evilly and insanely.
"Who are you?! Tell us now!" Inuyasha yelled.
"If you wish. . ." Akio said. There was a blinding flash of light.
"Dammit, I can't see!" Inuyasha yelled.
When the light faded, they saw a boy with red hair and golden eyes. He had a katana at his side. "I am the demon you seek. The demon of the sun and fire. . .Akio." Akio said.
"You destroyed your own village??" Miroku asked, appalled. The sun demon chuckled, once again.
"Fool. This was not my village." Akio said. Miroku blinked at him.
"Then why did you destroy it??" Inuyasha demanded, unsheathing Tetsaiga.
"I wanted the Shikon shards that the elder kept in an old shrine that was at the end of the road." He held up an arm where Inuyasha and Miroku could see a gold cuffs around his forearm. There were two Shikon shards near his wrist. "And as you can see, I. . .I. . . . . . . .I.." He trailed off and his left eye started twitching. He was glaring past Inuyasha. "WHAT IS THAT?!"
"WHO'RE YOU CALLIN' A 'WHAT'?!" A voice yelled. Inuyasha sweatdropped and hesitantly glanced over his shoulder to see Kisike, Bridget, Raylin, Amanda, and Shippou tied and gagged with duct tape hovering behind him. Raylin raised an eyebrow and tapped her chin with her index finger.
"Technically, he called you a 'that'." She said. Kisike stuck her tongue out at her.
"HEY!"
"Blahblah. I'd like to see you go through one day without saying a word with more than three syllables." Kisike said, turning back and glaring at the sun demon person. Inuyasha glared at Shippou.
" I TOLD YOU TO KEEP THEM IN THE VILLAGE!" He yelled. Shippou could only mumble something, since he was gagged. Miroku blinked at the silvery scroll thing over Shippou's mouth and walked past Akio and Inuyasha to poke at it with the end of his staff.
"Some sort of spell scroll?" He asked. Kisike blinked at him.
"It's tape. . ."She said.
"Duck tape." Amanda said.
"DUCT. With a 'T'." Raylin sighed, obviously bored with the un.smart brains around her. Miroku nodded slightly, then slowly peeled a corner of the tape off Shippou's mouth.
"Get it off me!" Shippou mumbled, but none could understand him since 96 percent of his mouth was still stuck to the tape. Miroku stared at the tape, then suddenly ripped the tape off. Shippou screamed and fainted from the serious injury that the tape caused. But he didn't really faint. He just fell over with swirly eyes, which is pretty close to fainting. Miroku blinked at the orange fuzzy hair that was now off of Shippou and on the duct tape.
"Hair removal?" He asked. Kisike sweatdropped.
"It's. . .TAPE." She yelled. Akio sweatdropped.
"..Um. . .hello?" He asked. Inuyasha sweatdropped.
"We're fighting a demon here!" He hollered. Everyone else who wasn't sweatdropping sweatdropped.
"He's the boy from before, right?" Amanda asked. Inuyasha nodded.
"He turned out to be the demon that destroyed the village. All for jewel shards." He said.
"Well that's a surprise." Raylin muttered.
"Can we fiiiiight nooooowwww??" Kisike whined. Inuyasha glared at them.
"You can't fight! You don't have any experience!" He hollered.
"Yes I doooooo! I watch DBZ!" Kisike hollered back.
"You need to cut down on your daily dosage of television, Kisike." Raylin said.
". . .What?" Kisike asked.
"Anyways, you can't fight! None of you can!" Inuyasha hollered, turning back to Akio.
"Sure we can!" Raylin yelled. Kisike - -'d.
"You forgot your pea shooter." She said. Raylin glared at her, then turned and sulked silently. Inuyasha sighed.
"Can we just fight the demon now?" He mumbled. Kisike and Bridget were already beside him in fighter's stance.
"Remember, he's probably got the mind of a child, if that was his human form. Which means he probably thinks a lot like Inuyasha." Bridget said. Inuyasha's upper lip twitched.
"What's tha. . ." He trailed off as Kisike 'heh'-d.
"Shouldn't be too hard to beat then." She grinned. Inuyasha sweatdropped.
"WHAT'S THAT SUPPOSED TO MEAN?!" He hollered. Akio sweatdropped.
"Fools." He muttered, shocked that the others had been so absorbed in their petty hollering session they didn't notice the wide ring of the sun's fire he'd set around them. Bridget blinked.
"Oh, no!" she cried.
"Now your friends can stay out of this for the moment. It's just you and me, hanyou." Akio said, smirking.
"Well this is unfortunate. . ." Miroku said. He stuck a finger in the fire and was burned. "Ow!"
"What, did you think it was fake fire?" Raylin asked.
". . ."
"Hey! That is not fair! Now they can't even escape!" Inuyasha yelled.
Kisike's eye twitched. "Who. . .exactly. . .said anything about escaping?!" she demanded. She turned to Amanda. "WAS IT YOOOOU?!"
Amanda sweatdropped. "Um. . .no. . ."
"Unguarded!" Akio yelled as unsheathed his katana made of fire and charged at Inuyasha. Inuyasha whirled around and put the Tetsusaiga up as defense.
"You know, it doesn't exactly help you when you go yelling out that you're going to attack!" Inuyasha said, smirking.
Akio smirked as well. "You might as well wipe that confident look off your face." He said. He swiped with his sword and the sword went right through the Tetsiagga and crashed upon Inuyasha's head.
"You see hanyou, my sword is made of fire and turns to steel when I wish it." Akio said. Inuyasha winced at the burns the sword gave him.
"Oh yeah?" Inuyasha said. He swiped at Akio with Tetsaiga. "Well my sword is made from my father's fang." He said.
Akio easily jumped over the sword, flipped, and landed on Inuyasha's head, then jumped off and landed a few feet behind him. "Grrr. . . You watched Kisike do that, didn't you?!" Inuyasha demanded.
"I'm a fast learner." Akio said, looking over his shoulder to grin at his captives.
"Well we'll see how fast it takes you to learn how to die." Inuyasha said, swiping at Akio again. Akio jumped back.
"Hey! You almost got me that time!" Akio mocked. He raised two fingers, a small flame appearing at the end. "Eternal flame!" he yelled, throwing the flame at Inuyasha.
The flame landed in front of Inuyasha. He raised an eyebrow. "This is it? All you've got is a flaming sword and the power to light candles?"
"It is not to light candles!" Akio said in an almost whining voice.
"Oh, my mistake. Candles and lanterns. And maybe campfires if you're lucky."
"Grrr. . .Eternal flame hellhole blaze!" Akio yelled. The fire suddenly grew and engulfed Inuyasha in it. Inuyasha screamed.
"Stop, drop, and roll!" Raylin yelled.
". . .What?" Inuyasha said, stopping his jumping up and down for a second to think over what he thought was Raylin's stupidity.
". . .Raylin, we learned that in kindergarden." Amanda said.
"So what?! Just because we learned it in kindergarden, doesn't mean it doesn't work!" Raylin yelled back.
"Um. . .Lady Raylin, what do you expect stopping, dropping, and rolling will do?" Miroku asked.
"Hey, I know what I'm doing, okay?!" Raylin yelled back.
Inuyasha's eye twitched.
"Well hey, you already have the first part down. You stopped. Now drop." Raylin said simply.
Shippou whispered something to Bridget. Inuyasha's ears twitched. "You better not. . ." he started.
"Osuwari!" Bridget yelled. Inuyasha slammed into the ground, a flaming heap.
"STUPID NECKLACE!" he yelled.
"Second step complete. Now just roll." Raylin instructed.
Inuyasha grimaced, still being on fire. Akio laughed. "Your pathetic attempts to put the fire out is a useless waste of air. This fire won't stop until its burnt you to a crisp!" he said. Inuyasha grimaced again. The boy looked down at Inuyasha and noticed something he hadn't earlier. "Your clothes. They aren't burning. Only your skin and hair. . ."
"Hey, maybe after this battle, Inuyasha will have a new hairstyle! Bald! And a tan!" Kisike yelled.
"THAT IS NOT FUNNY!" Inuyasha shouted.
"Sure it is! See, we're laughing! Hahahaaa!" Kisike hollered.
"Lady Kisike, this is not a predicament to be laughing about. . ."
"Sure it is! You don't see the humor in somebody burning in a flaming mass to their deaths?!"
"Uh. . ."
"Exactly! Now be quiet!"
Miroku blinked and went over to the other side of the group.
The boy stared down at Inuyasha, then grinned and snapped his fingers. "I know now! Firerat skin!" he said.
Inuyasha cracked an eye open. "You. . .just noticed. . .?" he said.
"You can still talk. . .you're a tougher hanyou than I thought you were." Akio said. He squatted down next to him. "But you'll fall eventually, just like many others before you. Not even many full demons can survive this attack. The only two ones I know of by far is Naraku and Sesshoumaru." Akio said.
"W-what?!" Inuyasha gasped, the smoke beginning to choke him.
"Yes. Naraku defeated me soon afterwards and Sesshoumaru just left. . ." Akio sighed. He grinned again. "But let's not dwell on unwanted memories. I know you won't live to ponder them." he said. Inuyasha glared up at him through his charred bangs. Akio waved a hand in front of Inuyasha's face, hands going through the fire, mocking him.
"FOX FIRE!" Shippou yelled, the blue blaze of flames shooting out and surrounding Inuyasha, the other burning evil flames sizzled slightly and whipped at the top of the blue fire. Everybody except Inuyasha turned to look at Shippou, who had obviously been able to break free of the duct tape somehow. Inuyasha let out a long sigh and jumped to his feet.
"Good to know that fox fire is good for something." Miroku said, smiling. Shippou turned to glare at him, small hands balled into fists.
"What's that supposed to mean?!" He demanded. Miroku grinned and waved him off.
"Nothing! Nothing!" He assured him. Shippou huffed and crossed his arms over his chest. Inuyasha grinned at Akio, picked up Tetsusaiga, then paused.
"How do we defeat him though?" Bridget wondered.
"Maybe if we give him candy he'll leave us alone." Kisike suggested.
"Candy?!" Akio hollered. Then he sweatdropped. "Wait. . .I want candy. . .but. . .Naraku said to get the shaaaaaards. . ." He brought his hands up to fist in his hair. "What do I doooooo?? AH! Forget that LADY MAN! I WANT THE CANDAY!" He said, running up to Kisike. Kisike raised an eyebrow.
". . ."
". . .Do you even have any candy, Kisike?" Bridget asked. Kisike blinked at her, then started frantically rummaging around in her pockets. Akio sweatdropped.
". . .I want candyyyy!" He whined. Inuyasha sweatdropped.
"This kid is worse than Shippou.." He muttered, then froze when Shippou yelled that he wanted candy as well. Inuyasha's eyebrow twitched. "..Never mind.." He growled.
"You shouldn't talk to your self! People will wonder!" Amanda chirped, grinning at him. Inuyasha flinched.
". . .Grrrrr. . ."
". . .Mind putting out your fires first?" Kisike asked Akio, who nodded. The sun fires disappeared. She brought out two pieces of bubble gum from her pocket. "..Here. . ." She said, handing him one. Akio took it and stuffed one in his mouth, then after a few seconds, swallowed. Kisike sweatdropped. "YAH DON'T SWALLOW IT!" Akio blinked at her.
"Why not?" He asked, looking all innocent.
". . .It's bad for your digestive system.." Kisike said. "..You chew it. . .it lasts for about an hour if you chew it." She said, unwrapping the second piece for him. Akio took it and put it in his mouth, and chewed.
". . . .Minty!" He grinned. Raylin sweatdropped.
"You mean I didn't /have/ to put up with the Doggie-boy's. . .dog breath this whole time??" She demanded. Kisike shrugged. Raylin's lip twitched. "Could you please catch her on fire for me?!" She yelled. Akio blinked.
"Got any candy?" He grinned. Raylin sweatdropped.
"Little brat." She growled. Akio merely laughed and skipped off. Kisike sweatdropped.
". . .Well that was nice.." She said, looking around. Everyone glared at her.
"..That was not nice." Inuyasha mumbled, walking back over to them. He stopped. "Wait. . .that kid still has the Shikon shards!" he yelled.
Bridget grabbed his arm before he could chase after the kid. "Hold on Inuyasha. Let him go. We were lucky to escape with our lives." She said.
Inuyasha glared at her, then sighed. "Fine." He said.
Sesshoumaru stood at the edge of the forest. "They hardly fought," he said, "But they're resourceful. And forgiving. It will be their downfall." He said. He walked off.
"The kid mentioned Naraku. . .he must be getting close. . ." Inuyasha muttered.
Kisike's ears twitched. "What? Who is Naraku?" she asked.
"He's the one who got Inuyasha and Kikyo to hate each other." Shippou said.
"We'd better get you four back to your own place and time. Things are getting rough out here and you can't be caught out in the middle of it." Inuyasha said.
"We would if we could, I'm sure." Bridget said quietly, her eyes darkening to black and blue.
"Well. . .we just have to kill the demon that lured you here. That's all." Inuyasha said. He sighed. "Unfortunately, we don't know which one it was. . .this time is filled with demons. It would take too long to find him or her."
"Oh. . ." Bridget said, looking up at the sky. It began to snow.
"I think it would be wise to return to the village." Miroku said.
Inuyasha nodded as he watched Kisike fall back with swirly eyes. "Sooooo hungry. . ." she whined. Everybody sweatdropped.
Author's Note- *answering machine comes on* Hey, readers! Once again, we're okay and we apologize for the delay. We can't kinda answer the phone at the moment, because Kouga keeps trying to gnaw on the phone, so we have to hide it. He seems to insist on following us. . .he wants our Shikon shards but we ain't giving them up. . .So- *arguing in the background* *Kisike's voice comes on* Revieeew! Review, review, review, revieeew! Hey, no! It's my turn to do the answering machine! *sounds of another struggle* *Jessica's voice comes back on* Um. . .yeah. . .anyways, we're getting your messages, and we just want to thank you reviewers for all the reviews so far. *to Kisike* Hey, where's Raylin and Amanda? *Kisike's voice* Oh.just hanging over an active volcano and molten lava. . .I think a demon put them up there. . . *Jessica's voice* WHAT?! Sorry, I've got to go! No Amanda and Raylin, no Tangerine! Please review after the sound of the beep! *beep sounds*
Kouga: Oh sure, blame the wolf, we're easy targets.
Me: What?!
Kouga: -.- Nothing.
Anyways, we've now have four Shikon shards (got into a battle with a really mean demon for the fourth one. . .ouch. . .) but we STILL don't own Inuyasha and pretty much every other series/book/movie mentioned in here. yet. And NOW we have to kill the Cartoon Network peoples for taking Inuyasha off the air. *sigh* Oh well. At least maybe they'll have a Shikon shard. But we'll do that AFTER we finish finding all the shards in the Feudal Era (we're back now). Oh well. Now on with the fic!
'I'm not going to let those four die. I failed once. I'm not going to fail again.' Inuyasha thought as he ran through the forest. Kikyo's face flashed into his mind. 'Twice.' He amended. He remembered what had happened a few months ago. It seemed like a nightmare, what had happened to Kagome. . .
*two months ago*
"So, you really think you can defeat me again." Sesshoumaru said.
"Yeah, I do. You'll never have the Tetsusaiga or kill me. When will that get through that thick skull of yours?" Inuyasha said confidently.
"Inuyasha, be careful!" Kagome yelled.
Sesshoumaru looked over at her. "I believe that we should first get rid of those innocent bystanders first, don't you?" he said.
Inuyasha looked surprised. "Not Kagome!" he cried. He turned to Kagome. "Kagome, get out of here!" he yelled. He watched Sesshoumaru run towards her. "Oh no you don't!" Inuyasha yelled. He dropped the Tetsaiga, ran after Sesshoumaru, and grabbed his sleeve.
Sesshoumaru stopped. "Let go!" he ordered.
"No way! You're just going to kill Kagome!" Inuyasha yelled. He looked to the right of him where Miroku was. "Miroku!" he yelled. "Get Kagome and Shippou out of here!"
Miroku hesitated.
"What the hell are you waiting for?! Get going!" Inuyasha yelled.
Miroku nodded and ran over to Kagome. "Come Lady Kagome. We must evacuate the area." He said.
"No! I'm not leaving Inuyasha here to fend on his own against Sesshoumaru!" Kagome argued stubbornly.
"Please Lady Kagome. There's nothing you can do here. Not against Sesshoumaru." Miroku said.
"No way."
"Kagome!" Inuyasha said, grabbing Sesshoumaru's arm since the sleeve's fabric began to tear. "Get out of here now! Please! I'm more likely to get hurt if you stay!" he yelled.
Kagome stared a moment. Shippou tugged on her pants leg. "Please Kagome. Let's go." He said.
Kagome stared at Inuyasha. "Inu. . .ya. . .sha. . ." she said. She nodded. "Come on Shippou, Miroku. We're out of here." She said, running away from the battlefield.
Sesshoumaru growled. "I said let go." He ordered, still trying to pull away.
"I'm not letting you kill Kagome!" Inuyasha said.
Sesshoumaru's claws dug into Inuyasha's arm, poisoning it. Inuyasha grimaced and clutched his arm, his hand slipping away. "You have a lot to learn, hanyou." He said coldly. His claws plunged into Inuyasha's stomach. Inuyasha cried out and went limp.
Sesshoumaru tossed Inuyasha to the ground. Inuyasha stared up at him. "Not. . .Kagome. . .please. . ." he whispered. Sesshoumaru began walking over to Tetsusaiga.
Kagome stopped and turned. "Inuyasha!" she cried, hearing Inuyasha's cry.
"Please Lady Kagome, we must keep going." Miroku said.
"No! Inuyasha!" Kagome yelled, running over to Inuyasha.
"Kagome. . .get outta here. . ." Inuyasha whispered.
"No Inuyasha! I'm not leaving you!" Kagome said stubbornly. She got the bow and arrow she had been holding and aimed it at Sesshoumaru.
"A stupid sword. . .it isn't worth all this. . ." Inuyasha said under his breath.
Kagome shot the arrow, taking Sesshoumaru by surprise as the arrow buried itself in his arm. He turned to Kagome. "You should have left when you had the chance. . .human." He said, walking over to her. Kagome gasped and took a few steps back when he stabbed her in the heart with his claws. Kagome collapsed and fell, her head resting on Inuyasha's back and her body lying in a puddle of blood.
***
'But why didn't Sesshoumaru take the Tetsusaiga? Why? After all that trouble?' Inuyasha wondered for what must have been the thousandth time. He slowed and rested a hand on the Tetsusaiga. 'Why would Sesshoumaru kill Kagome, almost kill me, and nearly lose his other arm for something that he didn't want?' he wondered. He grit his teeth. 'No, he still wants the Tetsusaiga. Didn't take is more like it. Why didn't he take it?'
"We're nearly there," Akio said, "It's close."
Inuyasha looked down at the boy. Somehow he kind of reminded him of Sota, Kagome's little brother.
*one month ago*
"Kagome. . .she can't be dead. . .you killed her!" Kagome's mother cried.
"For the last time, I didn't kill her! Sesshoumaru did." Inuyasha yelled back. He didn't tell them that Sesshoumaru was his brother. He didn't want anything to do with that youkai. After he had gotten better, he and Kaede had both decided that it may be for the best that Inuyasha himself tell Kagome's family what had happened to her. Unfortunately, they weren't taking it too well.
Sota tugged on his sleeve. "I believe you Mr. Inuyasha." He said. Inuyasha looked down at him.
". . .Thanks." He said. He turned to go, but before he left, he said to Kagome's grandfather, "By the way, gramps. Put a demon ward or something on the well and hope that it works." He paused. "I intend on never coming back." With that, he left.
***
"Inuyasha." Miroku said. Inuyasha looked up at him.
"Hm?"
"We're here."
Inuyasha looked around at the scene. There was a smoking wreckage of buildings and such. Corpses littered the ground.
"We're too late, it seems."
"Feh. We came here to kill the demon, not to play doctor. That's what we're going to do." Inuyasha said. He, Miroku, and Akio walked into the wreckage.
"If you see any demons, say something." Inuyasha said distractedly.
"Of course." Miroku said.
"I will." Akio said.
***
"So that's what happened. . ." Raylin said when Shippou had finished telling about what happened to Kagome and who she was.
"Sad. . .Oh well! I wanna help fight the demon!" Kisike said, jumping up and down, unable to keep still.
"But Kisike, we don't even have any weapons. . ." Bridget started.
"So?! We got fists! Besides, Miroku doesn't have a weapon. He has a rosary. And a stick. That's it." Kisike said.
"Actually, Miroku has an Air Void in his hand." Shippou said, but everyone was ignoring him because of course, he's Shippou.
"Well, we gonna fight him? Let's GO!" Raylin said.
"Yeah! Let's get ourselves killed! I've never been dead before!" Kisike said.
"Maybe that's because it's permanent," Raylin said, "But yeah, let's go."
Amanda sighed, once again wondering if she was the only sane one there.
"Don't worry Amanda. If you're wondering if anyone else here is sane, so am I." Bridget sighed.
Amanda nodded.
"But I'm supposed to make sure that you four don't leave the village." Shippou protested.
"The village. The village. He never said this village. There's a 'the' in it. I'm sure there's a village with a 'the' in it...somewhere around here. We need to find it so we can't leave it." Kisike said.
"Yeah but-" Shippou blinked. "Wait. What?"
"It means let's go. C'mon. I know Inuyasha's scent. We'll follow that."
***
"That was the town elder!" Akio cried, running over to what the body of an old man. Inuyasha and Miroku glanced at each other and followed. Akio shook the elder. "Elder! Elder, wake up!"
"A. . .Akio. . .you. . .traitor. . .how dare. . .you do. . .this. . .to. . .us. . ." the elder accused. He then died.
"What's this?" Inuyasha asked, picking something up nearby. It was a purple shard. "A Shikon shard! And it has your scent on it." He said pointedly at the boy.
"W-what. . .?" the boy stammered, backing away. He just so happened to back into Miroku.
"Who are you exactly?" Miroku asked.
Akio took a few steps forward until he was in between Inuyasha and Miroku and began to grin and chuckle evilly and insanely.
"Who are you?! Tell us now!" Inuyasha yelled.
"If you wish. . ." Akio said. There was a blinding flash of light.
"Dammit, I can't see!" Inuyasha yelled.
When the light faded, they saw a boy with red hair and golden eyes. He had a katana at his side. "I am the demon you seek. The demon of the sun and fire. . .Akio." Akio said.
"You destroyed your own village??" Miroku asked, appalled. The sun demon chuckled, once again.
"Fool. This was not my village." Akio said. Miroku blinked at him.
"Then why did you destroy it??" Inuyasha demanded, unsheathing Tetsaiga.
"I wanted the Shikon shards that the elder kept in an old shrine that was at the end of the road." He held up an arm where Inuyasha and Miroku could see a gold cuffs around his forearm. There were two Shikon shards near his wrist. "And as you can see, I. . .I. . . . . . . .I.." He trailed off and his left eye started twitching. He was glaring past Inuyasha. "WHAT IS THAT?!"
"WHO'RE YOU CALLIN' A 'WHAT'?!" A voice yelled. Inuyasha sweatdropped and hesitantly glanced over his shoulder to see Kisike, Bridget, Raylin, Amanda, and Shippou tied and gagged with duct tape hovering behind him. Raylin raised an eyebrow and tapped her chin with her index finger.
"Technically, he called you a 'that'." She said. Kisike stuck her tongue out at her.
"HEY!"
"Blahblah. I'd like to see you go through one day without saying a word with more than three syllables." Kisike said, turning back and glaring at the sun demon person. Inuyasha glared at Shippou.
" I TOLD YOU TO KEEP THEM IN THE VILLAGE!" He yelled. Shippou could only mumble something, since he was gagged. Miroku blinked at the silvery scroll thing over Shippou's mouth and walked past Akio and Inuyasha to poke at it with the end of his staff.
"Some sort of spell scroll?" He asked. Kisike blinked at him.
"It's tape. . ."She said.
"Duck tape." Amanda said.
"DUCT. With a 'T'." Raylin sighed, obviously bored with the un.smart brains around her. Miroku nodded slightly, then slowly peeled a corner of the tape off Shippou's mouth.
"Get it off me!" Shippou mumbled, but none could understand him since 96 percent of his mouth was still stuck to the tape. Miroku stared at the tape, then suddenly ripped the tape off. Shippou screamed and fainted from the serious injury that the tape caused. But he didn't really faint. He just fell over with swirly eyes, which is pretty close to fainting. Miroku blinked at the orange fuzzy hair that was now off of Shippou and on the duct tape.
"Hair removal?" He asked. Kisike sweatdropped.
"It's. . .TAPE." She yelled. Akio sweatdropped.
"..Um. . .hello?" He asked. Inuyasha sweatdropped.
"We're fighting a demon here!" He hollered. Everyone else who wasn't sweatdropping sweatdropped.
"He's the boy from before, right?" Amanda asked. Inuyasha nodded.
"He turned out to be the demon that destroyed the village. All for jewel shards." He said.
"Well that's a surprise." Raylin muttered.
"Can we fiiiiight nooooowwww??" Kisike whined. Inuyasha glared at them.
"You can't fight! You don't have any experience!" He hollered.
"Yes I doooooo! I watch DBZ!" Kisike hollered back.
"You need to cut down on your daily dosage of television, Kisike." Raylin said.
". . .What?" Kisike asked.
"Anyways, you can't fight! None of you can!" Inuyasha hollered, turning back to Akio.
"Sure we can!" Raylin yelled. Kisike - -'d.
"You forgot your pea shooter." She said. Raylin glared at her, then turned and sulked silently. Inuyasha sighed.
"Can we just fight the demon now?" He mumbled. Kisike and Bridget were already beside him in fighter's stance.
"Remember, he's probably got the mind of a child, if that was his human form. Which means he probably thinks a lot like Inuyasha." Bridget said. Inuyasha's upper lip twitched.
"What's tha. . ." He trailed off as Kisike 'heh'-d.
"Shouldn't be too hard to beat then." She grinned. Inuyasha sweatdropped.
"WHAT'S THAT SUPPOSED TO MEAN?!" He hollered. Akio sweatdropped.
"Fools." He muttered, shocked that the others had been so absorbed in their petty hollering session they didn't notice the wide ring of the sun's fire he'd set around them. Bridget blinked.
"Oh, no!" she cried.
"Now your friends can stay out of this for the moment. It's just you and me, hanyou." Akio said, smirking.
"Well this is unfortunate. . ." Miroku said. He stuck a finger in the fire and was burned. "Ow!"
"What, did you think it was fake fire?" Raylin asked.
". . ."
"Hey! That is not fair! Now they can't even escape!" Inuyasha yelled.
Kisike's eye twitched. "Who. . .exactly. . .said anything about escaping?!" she demanded. She turned to Amanda. "WAS IT YOOOOU?!"
Amanda sweatdropped. "Um. . .no. . ."
"Unguarded!" Akio yelled as unsheathed his katana made of fire and charged at Inuyasha. Inuyasha whirled around and put the Tetsusaiga up as defense.
"You know, it doesn't exactly help you when you go yelling out that you're going to attack!" Inuyasha said, smirking.
Akio smirked as well. "You might as well wipe that confident look off your face." He said. He swiped with his sword and the sword went right through the Tetsiagga and crashed upon Inuyasha's head.
"You see hanyou, my sword is made of fire and turns to steel when I wish it." Akio said. Inuyasha winced at the burns the sword gave him.
"Oh yeah?" Inuyasha said. He swiped at Akio with Tetsaiga. "Well my sword is made from my father's fang." He said.
Akio easily jumped over the sword, flipped, and landed on Inuyasha's head, then jumped off and landed a few feet behind him. "Grrr. . . You watched Kisike do that, didn't you?!" Inuyasha demanded.
"I'm a fast learner." Akio said, looking over his shoulder to grin at his captives.
"Well we'll see how fast it takes you to learn how to die." Inuyasha said, swiping at Akio again. Akio jumped back.
"Hey! You almost got me that time!" Akio mocked. He raised two fingers, a small flame appearing at the end. "Eternal flame!" he yelled, throwing the flame at Inuyasha.
The flame landed in front of Inuyasha. He raised an eyebrow. "This is it? All you've got is a flaming sword and the power to light candles?"
"It is not to light candles!" Akio said in an almost whining voice.
"Oh, my mistake. Candles and lanterns. And maybe campfires if you're lucky."
"Grrr. . .Eternal flame hellhole blaze!" Akio yelled. The fire suddenly grew and engulfed Inuyasha in it. Inuyasha screamed.
"Stop, drop, and roll!" Raylin yelled.
". . .What?" Inuyasha said, stopping his jumping up and down for a second to think over what he thought was Raylin's stupidity.
". . .Raylin, we learned that in kindergarden." Amanda said.
"So what?! Just because we learned it in kindergarden, doesn't mean it doesn't work!" Raylin yelled back.
"Um. . .Lady Raylin, what do you expect stopping, dropping, and rolling will do?" Miroku asked.
"Hey, I know what I'm doing, okay?!" Raylin yelled back.
Inuyasha's eye twitched.
"Well hey, you already have the first part down. You stopped. Now drop." Raylin said simply.
Shippou whispered something to Bridget. Inuyasha's ears twitched. "You better not. . ." he started.
"Osuwari!" Bridget yelled. Inuyasha slammed into the ground, a flaming heap.
"STUPID NECKLACE!" he yelled.
"Second step complete. Now just roll." Raylin instructed.
Inuyasha grimaced, still being on fire. Akio laughed. "Your pathetic attempts to put the fire out is a useless waste of air. This fire won't stop until its burnt you to a crisp!" he said. Inuyasha grimaced again. The boy looked down at Inuyasha and noticed something he hadn't earlier. "Your clothes. They aren't burning. Only your skin and hair. . ."
"Hey, maybe after this battle, Inuyasha will have a new hairstyle! Bald! And a tan!" Kisike yelled.
"THAT IS NOT FUNNY!" Inuyasha shouted.
"Sure it is! See, we're laughing! Hahahaaa!" Kisike hollered.
"Lady Kisike, this is not a predicament to be laughing about. . ."
"Sure it is! You don't see the humor in somebody burning in a flaming mass to their deaths?!"
"Uh. . ."
"Exactly! Now be quiet!"
Miroku blinked and went over to the other side of the group.
The boy stared down at Inuyasha, then grinned and snapped his fingers. "I know now! Firerat skin!" he said.
Inuyasha cracked an eye open. "You. . .just noticed. . .?" he said.
"You can still talk. . .you're a tougher hanyou than I thought you were." Akio said. He squatted down next to him. "But you'll fall eventually, just like many others before you. Not even many full demons can survive this attack. The only two ones I know of by far is Naraku and Sesshoumaru." Akio said.
"W-what?!" Inuyasha gasped, the smoke beginning to choke him.
"Yes. Naraku defeated me soon afterwards and Sesshoumaru just left. . ." Akio sighed. He grinned again. "But let's not dwell on unwanted memories. I know you won't live to ponder them." he said. Inuyasha glared up at him through his charred bangs. Akio waved a hand in front of Inuyasha's face, hands going through the fire, mocking him.
"FOX FIRE!" Shippou yelled, the blue blaze of flames shooting out and surrounding Inuyasha, the other burning evil flames sizzled slightly and whipped at the top of the blue fire. Everybody except Inuyasha turned to look at Shippou, who had obviously been able to break free of the duct tape somehow. Inuyasha let out a long sigh and jumped to his feet.
"Good to know that fox fire is good for something." Miroku said, smiling. Shippou turned to glare at him, small hands balled into fists.
"What's that supposed to mean?!" He demanded. Miroku grinned and waved him off.
"Nothing! Nothing!" He assured him. Shippou huffed and crossed his arms over his chest. Inuyasha grinned at Akio, picked up Tetsusaiga, then paused.
"How do we defeat him though?" Bridget wondered.
"Maybe if we give him candy he'll leave us alone." Kisike suggested.
"Candy?!" Akio hollered. Then he sweatdropped. "Wait. . .I want candy. . .but. . .Naraku said to get the shaaaaaards. . ." He brought his hands up to fist in his hair. "What do I doooooo?? AH! Forget that LADY MAN! I WANT THE CANDAY!" He said, running up to Kisike. Kisike raised an eyebrow.
". . ."
". . .Do you even have any candy, Kisike?" Bridget asked. Kisike blinked at her, then started frantically rummaging around in her pockets. Akio sweatdropped.
". . .I want candyyyy!" He whined. Inuyasha sweatdropped.
"This kid is worse than Shippou.." He muttered, then froze when Shippou yelled that he wanted candy as well. Inuyasha's eyebrow twitched. "..Never mind.." He growled.
"You shouldn't talk to your self! People will wonder!" Amanda chirped, grinning at him. Inuyasha flinched.
". . .Grrrrr. . ."
". . .Mind putting out your fires first?" Kisike asked Akio, who nodded. The sun fires disappeared. She brought out two pieces of bubble gum from her pocket. "..Here. . ." She said, handing him one. Akio took it and stuffed one in his mouth, then after a few seconds, swallowed. Kisike sweatdropped. "YAH DON'T SWALLOW IT!" Akio blinked at her.
"Why not?" He asked, looking all innocent.
". . .It's bad for your digestive system.." Kisike said. "..You chew it. . .it lasts for about an hour if you chew it." She said, unwrapping the second piece for him. Akio took it and put it in his mouth, and chewed.
". . . .Minty!" He grinned. Raylin sweatdropped.
"You mean I didn't /have/ to put up with the Doggie-boy's. . .dog breath this whole time??" She demanded. Kisike shrugged. Raylin's lip twitched. "Could you please catch her on fire for me?!" She yelled. Akio blinked.
"Got any candy?" He grinned. Raylin sweatdropped.
"Little brat." She growled. Akio merely laughed and skipped off. Kisike sweatdropped.
". . .Well that was nice.." She said, looking around. Everyone glared at her.
"..That was not nice." Inuyasha mumbled, walking back over to them. He stopped. "Wait. . .that kid still has the Shikon shards!" he yelled.
Bridget grabbed his arm before he could chase after the kid. "Hold on Inuyasha. Let him go. We were lucky to escape with our lives." She said.
Inuyasha glared at her, then sighed. "Fine." He said.
Sesshoumaru stood at the edge of the forest. "They hardly fought," he said, "But they're resourceful. And forgiving. It will be their downfall." He said. He walked off.
"The kid mentioned Naraku. . .he must be getting close. . ." Inuyasha muttered.
Kisike's ears twitched. "What? Who is Naraku?" she asked.
"He's the one who got Inuyasha and Kikyo to hate each other." Shippou said.
"We'd better get you four back to your own place and time. Things are getting rough out here and you can't be caught out in the middle of it." Inuyasha said.
"We would if we could, I'm sure." Bridget said quietly, her eyes darkening to black and blue.
"Well. . .we just have to kill the demon that lured you here. That's all." Inuyasha said. He sighed. "Unfortunately, we don't know which one it was. . .this time is filled with demons. It would take too long to find him or her."
"Oh. . ." Bridget said, looking up at the sky. It began to snow.
"I think it would be wise to return to the village." Miroku said.
Inuyasha nodded as he watched Kisike fall back with swirly eyes. "Sooooo hungry. . ." she whined. Everybody sweatdropped.
Author's Note- *answering machine comes on* Hey, readers! Once again, we're okay and we apologize for the delay. We can't kinda answer the phone at the moment, because Kouga keeps trying to gnaw on the phone, so we have to hide it. He seems to insist on following us. . .he wants our Shikon shards but we ain't giving them up. . .So- *arguing in the background* *Kisike's voice comes on* Revieeew! Review, review, review, revieeew! Hey, no! It's my turn to do the answering machine! *sounds of another struggle* *Jessica's voice comes back on* Um. . .yeah. . .anyways, we're getting your messages, and we just want to thank you reviewers for all the reviews so far. *to Kisike* Hey, where's Raylin and Amanda? *Kisike's voice* Oh.just hanging over an active volcano and molten lava. . .I think a demon put them up there. . . *Jessica's voice* WHAT?! Sorry, I've got to go! No Amanda and Raylin, no Tangerine! Please review after the sound of the beep! *beep sounds*