Author's Note-We do not own Inuyasha, Excel Saga, or anything like that,
but we will when we get all the Shikon shards. That's all I've really got
to say at the moment. . .but here's the new chapter.
Inuyasha, Raylin, and Bridget arrived at where the shack. . .used to be. All that was there was a pile of splintered wood and stuff. "No.but they said. . .Dammit!" Inuyasha yelled. "Amanda!" he yelled. "Miroku? Kouten? Shippou?"
"We're right here!" Miroku yelled, somewhat far off.
"Tell Amanda to hang on; we've got the medicine!" Inuyasha yelled back.
The three ran deeper into the woods. Inuyasha stopped at a thicket where he thought he heard Miroku. "Where. . .?" he muttered.
"Over here!" Shippou called, a little off to their left. They turned to come to a small camp. There was no fire or anything; everybody was sitting or lying on the snow. Miroku was pacing.
"How is she?!" Inuyasha demanded. Miroku lowered his head.
"She's about dead. She'll perhaps last about three more hours. . .four, if she's lucky." He said. Inuyasha shoved the medicine to him.
"Here. You make the medicine. I know nothing about that stuff. Shippou, Kouten, you help him." He walked over and sat next to Amanda. "What happened to the shack?" he asked, not taking his eyes off the girl.
"The spiderheads attacked it." Miroku said. "We ran out of there as fast as we could, but taking Lady Amanda here has apparently sapped some of her strength."
Shippou blinked and counted the group that had returned. After doing so about five times, he asked, "Inuyasha, where's Kisike?"
Inuyasha didn't reply and closed his eyes. Shippou blinked and looked over at Bridget and Raylin, who didn't reply either.
"She's not dead, is she. . .?" Kouten asked, eyes wide.
"Thanks to Inuyasha, she probably is." Bridget said angrily. Inuyasha glared at her.
"Hey, it was her or Amanda!" he protested.
"And what if it were you in Kisike's place with Amanda making the decision?!" Bridget shot back. "Would she have done the same thing?!"
Inuyasha blinked. Bridget continued, her silent demeanor vanishing. "I don't live in this dimension but even I know that one of the points of evilness is that promises are never kept! What the hell were you thinking, Inuyasha?!"
"They let us take the medicine!" Inuyasha argued.
"Oh, sure! Let's talk about that. I would like to know how much good the medicine would have done Amanda if she were already dead! They were able to run away and you have to admit that that was probably just luck! It's probably luck that they're not attacking us now; they probably haven't found us yet! Like I said: You can't trust evil! You should have known that by now! You should have known that back when we were fighting Shisou for god's sake!" Bridget snapped, her eyes flashing red.
"You trusted the enemy back there too, and Shisou would probably have the Shikon shards and we'd both be dead if our friends didn't come to help us! If you had just paused and thought for one moment, you'd probably have come up with a way to save them both!"
Inuyasha jumped up and grabbed Bridget by the collar. "Listen, you. . ." he started. Bridget cut him off.
"Four of us came to this dimension together. Four of us should have left this dimension together." She hissed. She pulled away and marched over to the other side of the camp. The others blinked at the girl. This was a side of Bridget that they'd never seen.
Nobody went over to her as it began to snow. 'Amanda had better not die. . .' Bridget thought, her eyes turning blue and purple. 'I have only three friends in my world. . .and now they've dwindled down to two.'
"Gabriel's not going to be happy about this." Kouten said.
Raylin closed her eyes. "This isn't good. . .hopefully we won't lose any more people. I really hope that we don't lose Amanda. I still haven't had the chance to apologize about earlier." She muttered.
***
* one hour later, at the clearing *
Kisike sweatdropped as she sat up, a little shakily, her ears slanting backwards as her hair fell over her face. She sighed heavily and jerked her head back, causing her hair to flop backwards and stick to the webbing that covered her from her feet to her shoulders. She grunted and shook her head, and then stopped when she felt a few hairs snap, and she sat perfectly still, staring straight ahead with wide eyes.
She flinched when she realized the spiderhead were arguing about who was going to kill her. . .and eat her. She blinked, and then slowly began to move her fingers around, her nails slowly shredding the webbing. After ten minutes of continuous shredding and continuous arguing by the spiderheads, Kisike stood, swiping the rest of the web stuff from her legs and hair. "Bastards. . ." She grumbled, brushing herself off. The spiderheads turned then, glaring at her.
"She got out!" One of the smaller ones hissed.
"DAMN STRAIGHT I DID!" Kisike yelled, grinning widely as she ran out of the clearing and into the woods. She heard something snap faintly behind her, but she didn't stop to look back. A few minutes later, she realized that she wasn't being followed, and stopped to look back, her eyes searching the trees as her ears flicking back and forth, silently sweeping through the air to pick up any sounds a human's ear would have easily missed.
She shook her head slightly and turned, running straight into something furry. "WhaaaaAAAAaaa!" She yelled, falling backwards. She grimaced and propped herself up on her hands, blinking up at what she'd run into. It was tall. Very tall, and very furry, though the weirdest part was there was a dark grayish blue skull over a hood-like part, near where someone's head would be.
"H. . .Hi?" She asked hesitantly, standing slowly and reaching up to poke the skull's forehead. It didn't move. She huffed and stood back, her hands on her hips as she slowly walked around the furry thing. "Well. . .this is not Feng Shui. . ." She muttered, putting her hands on the back and pushing on it, attempting to knock it over. It moved suddenly, turning sharply so the skull faced Kisike, even as she yelped and fell forward, catching herself on a pair of arms.
She blinked once and looked up, letting go of the arms and falling back to the ground, holding herself up with one hand.
"Kisike.." A voice said softly. Kisike blinked.
"How do you know my name?" She asked. The voice ignored her.
"Kisike. . .where are you going? Back to your. . .'friends'. . .?" It asked. Kisike blinked, then nodded.
"I was planning on it, actually. . ." She said, then stared into the eyeholes of the skull for a moment, before looking down at the ground. " I guess. . ." She muttered, her eyelids drooping slightly as she sighed.
"They abandoned you. . .all of them. . ." He, Kisike having distinguished the voice as male finally, murmured, the tall figure kneeling over Kisike and spreading his arms out, the fur over thing opening to reveal a light purple colored kimono. Kisike blinked and scooted backwards slightly.
"No. . .they're my friends..they've. . .always been my friends.." She said, her hands curling into fists.
"Then why did they abandon you like that back there. . .that wasn't very friendly. . .was it. . .?" He asked, and then shook his head slightly, answering his own question.
". . .N. . .No. . .I guess. . .not. . .but..I have to go back. . .to. . .let them know I'm okay.." She whispered, mostly to herself as she reached up with one hand to wipe at the eyes with her sleeve.
"Come with me. . ." The voice said slowly, it's tone lowering a little.
". . .Who are you. . .?"
"That's not important right now. . ." He said, reaching out with a pale, clawed hand to trace thin fingertips over her bangs. Kisike's eyes narrowed and she caught his hand with hers.
"Naraku. That's it. . .Naraku, isn't it?" She asked. The figure hesitated and the nodded a second later.
"Yes. . .Now. . .don't you want revenge on your. . .'friends'?" He asked, the hood of his over fur falling back so his eyes stared directly into Kisike's, glowing slightly. Kisike's eyes widened and she nodded, letting his hand go.
"Yes. . .tell me how. . .?" She asked, moving up to her knees and fisting her hands in the fabric of Naraku's kimono, looking a little more desperate than she may have been feeling. Naraku smirked.
"Of course. . ." He muttered softly, bringing the pelt back in to conceal both Kisike and himself within the folds of fur. A few seconds later, the pelt fell to the ground, and Naraku and Kisike were gone.
***
Shido appeared in the cavern. "Naraku has agreed to the plan and it has already been set into motion, Master." He said, bowing.
"Excellent. . ." said the hooded figure as he stared into the pool that showed the group.
"Should I execute the next step, sir?" Shido asked.
"Not yet. There may even be no need. . ." said the figure as his eyes flicked over to the faerie-jin that sat a ways from the others. "We shall see how it plays out first. . .when we do, that is when we will make our decision. Give it a few hours, but not if they sleep right after the neko- jin is healed. If they do, then wait until tomorrow night."
Shido bowed. "Yes, master."
***
Kisike blinked as she walked around in the main room of Naraku's fortress. It was very dark..
"It's very dark.." She said, looking up at the ceiling. Naraku sweatdropped and moved quickly to sit on his throne, which was made entirely of human and demon skulls. Kisike blinked, then rushed over to stand in front of him, only about 20 feet away. She tapped her heels together and raised her right arm in the air. "HAIL! LORD ILPALLAZOOOO!" She yelled, grinning widely. Naraku sweatdropped and leaned forward slightly.
"Who is this..Ilpallazo?" He growled, glaring out from underneath the hood of his monkey suit. Kisike blinked, then tapped her finger against her chin.
"I dunno..Oh, that's right." She said, raising her arm in the air again. "HAIL! LORD NARAKU!!" She yelled again, sweatdropping. Naraku's eyebrow twitched as he leaned back again.
"That's better.." He grumbled, then looked around. " Well..what now. . ."
"You're the boss, boss." Kisike said, dropping her arm and shrugging. "And oh, what a boss! What an amazing person you are Lord Naraku!" She said, waving her arms around and doing a weird dance thing. Naraku sighed heavily and stood.
"Kisike, this world is corrupt-" He stopped when Kisike started yelling, not actually forming a word or a sentence, but she started yelling, almost cheering.
"This world is corrupt. . ." He started again, then trailed off when the girl started running around in circles. He sighed heavily and blinked as a rope came down from the ceiling. Kisike stopped and looked back at him, blinking.
"What's the deal with that rope?" She asked, just as it went back up into the ceiling.
"Nevermind that.." He mumbled, pulling out a hand full of Shikon Shards. " Do you have any idea what these are?" He asked.
"Shikon shards! . . .Aren't they..?" Kisike asked, standing still now.
"Exactly..The dog demon you used to run with is trying to collect these as well..he must be found, and stopped." Naraku said, taking three shards into his free hand. He then flicked each of them at Kisike, one to her forehead, another to just below her elbow in her left arm, then other went into the calf of her left leg. Kisike stumbled backwards a little and blinked. A small movie screen popped up on the far wall, a picture of Inuyasha and Bridget popped up as well. "This is your first assignment..find these two..kill Inuyasha, but bring back the girl." He said simply. Kisike blinked and put her hands on her hips.
"You aren't thinking of letting her join Across, are you, Lord Naraku?" She asked. Naraku blinked, then sweatdropped.
"What's Across?" He asked. Then sighed heavily as Kisike said nothing, only stared at him. " Nevermind. . .no. . .now that I know your opinion on the matter.." He said, rather confused still. Kisike shrugged and grabbed a random sword off the wall.
"EXCEL WITH SERVE YOU WELL, LORD ILPALLAZO!" She yelled, marching out of the room before Naraku even had time to ask. Naraku blinked when he heard her start singing.
"OBLITTERATE! EXTERMINATE! LORD ILPA-. . .NARAKU TOLD ME SO-o-O!!" She sang..rather loudly as she walked down the big hill the fortress was set upon. Naraku sighed heavily and sat down, grumbling curses to himself about a certain half breed dog demon.
***
"AND A DOUBLE ORDER OF HOMICIDE! TO GO!! " Kisike finished, wiping off the blade of her sword.
***
"Why did I start talking about how the world is corrupt.." Naraku wondered out loud, suddenly.
***
She huffed and began walking back towards where she remembered the others were, the shack thing. She hefted the sword up and propped the blade up on her shoulder, then blunt side resting on her newly inserted shoulder pad.
***
Bridget looked up as someone tapped her on the shoulder. She looked up to see Inuyasha. She glared at him. "What do you want?" she demanded.
"We need to talk." Inuyasha said. "Follow me." With that, he began walking off.
Bridget stood up and paused, looking back at the group. Raylin was helping Miroku and the brats make the medicine for Amanda. Nobody seemed to notice. She then looked back at Inuyasha and nodded, following him. After about five minutes of walking, they stopped. "So what do you want to speak to me about?" she asked.
"Bridget, get out of here." Inuyasha said.
Bridget blinked. "Say what. . .?" she asked.
"Leave the group. You're causing too much tension and commotion in the group, and to tell you the truth, everyone is just about sick of it."
"But how could that be possible?! I barely even talk!" Bridget demanded. "Is this because of earlier?!"
"Partially, yes. Look, you're just too much trouble. You're too weak to be in this group."
"Too weak?! What the hell?!" Bridget snapped.
"Yeah. I'm not putting up you anymore. You're just a disadvantage in case we get attacked. Now, get out of here. If you come back to the group, I'll kill you." Inuyasha said.
Bridget reached for her sword. She paused as her hand dropped back to her side. "Forget it." She said softly. "You're probably right. Besides, I can't kill you. Amanda likes you too much." With that, she walked off into the woods.
Inuyasha smirked and looked back over at the camp to see the kitsune brat watching. Shippou's eyes were wide. "W-wait a second. . ." he said.
Inuyasha marched over to him and covered his mouth. "You speak of this to anybody and I'll make sure you'll never speak again, got that?" he said.
Shippou nodded, frightened, and scampered back to the camp. Inuyasha walked behind a tree. His hair suddenly shortened and his eyes turned brown. He became slightly taller and older, looking around his mid- twenties. He changed completely, yet still looked human, but it wasn't Inuyasha.
It was Shido.
***
After about three hours of wandering. . .
"Where. . .WHERE'D THEY GO NOW?!" Kisike yelled up into the treetops. She swung the sword around aimlessly, cutting a few branches off the trees. One happened to land on her head. "Oooow!" She whined, rubbing the bump on her head. "I mean I'm not bitter. . .but GAWDDAMNED TREES!!!" She hollered, waving her sword around even more. She stopped and blinked, hearing several yells sounding about half a mile away.
***
Inuyasha hmphed and knelt beside Amanda, gathering her up in his arms. He went over to a near by tree and sat against it, he gently laid his chin on the top of her head and listened to her strained breathing.
He could hear Miroku instructing Shippou and Kouten on how to mix the right ingredients together. He sighed and closed his eyes. Something was wrong. . .he strained his ears to their limits. His heart skipped a beat and his eyes went wide. Amanda wasn't breathing anymore. "Guys! We have a problem. . ." he shouted. Everyone turned their attention to him. "Amanda just stopped breathing." He said trembling. Raylin ran over to them.
"You have to be joking. . ." she said leaning over Amanda, placing her ear over Amanda's mouth. No air rushed past Amanda's lips. "Oh shit." Raylin mumbled. "Someone will have to do R+R." Inuyasha laid Amanda flat on the ground. Miroku looked up from his work.
"What's that?" He asked. Raylin sighed.
"It stands for respiratory resuscitation. In other words. . .if we don't get Amanda breathing again, we will lose her!" Raylin said starting to pull out her hair. Miroku left some final instructions to Kouten and Shippou and went over to Raylin.
"I will be glad to assist you in reviving Lady Amanda" He said with his little hand prayer thingy. Inuyasha cracked his knuckles.
"I know where this thing is going." Inuyasha sneered. Raylin hit him over the head.
"We need to get Amanda help or she won't last through the next three minutes." Raylin shouted. Inuyasha straightened up and looked at Raylin.
"What do we need to do?" he said sternly. Raylin held her head.
"I'm trying to think. . .Oh yes, now I remember. Okay what you need to do is tilt back Amanda's head to open up her airway. Then you pinch her nose and deliver two slow breaths." She instructed. Inuyasha blushed.
"There is no way that I'm going to kiss her." He said. Raylin hit him over the head again.
"This is not kissing her!" She yelled. 'Or at least how Amanda planned it.' She thought. Then she said, "Besides. . .if you don't then she is going to DIE!" Inuyasha hmphed. He did what Raylin instructed but with a deep blush, after several times of repeating the steps, Amanda started breathing again but very shallow.
"Is that damn medicine done yet?!" Inuyasha demanded at the little brats. He still had a little blush left in his cheeks. Shippou handed him a small bowl with a bluish liquid, glaring at Inuyasha. "Thanks a lot brat." He said as he took the medicine away from him and obviously not noticing the glare. Shippou went back to where Kouten was sitting.
"Don't worry Shippou. . .he's only upset about kissing Amanda and she's not awake to know about it." Kouten said patting him on the shoulder. "Shippou-Chan." She shouted and latched herself to Shippou's middle. Shippou just sighed.
'Please, please, please Amanda. Get better.' Inuyasha thought as he poured the liquid into Amanda's mouth. "Swallow this, Amanda." He whispered. He could barely see her gulp down the medicine. Almost instantly he could see her color improve and her eyes flutter open as she smiled faintly.
"Hi." She whispered. Inuyasha frowned and stood up.
"Don't you dare pull a crazy stunt like that again, baka. You could have died." He snapped. He walked over to the other side of camp.
'How do you think I feel every time you nearly die in my arms?' Amanda thought. Raylin helped her sit up. There was a sound of breaking trees toward their left. "What was that?" Amanda asked to herself and glanced in that direction. She could barely see birds taking to the sky.
Inuyasha suddenly ran over to Amanda and grabbed her, then quickly planted his feet in the ground and jumped several feet away. A giant spiderhead's foot landed right where she had been laying. "Damn. . ." she heard him whisper. When he landed Miroku threw him the Tetsusaiga that he recovered from the remains of the shack. Inuyasha grabbed the sword and held it at the on coming spiderheads foot that was aimed at him. When the foot was two feet away a bright light came from the sword and forced the thing back. "At least the Tetsusaiga is good for something." He said as he gripped the sword tightly in his hand.
"Inuyasha." Amanda whispered. Inuyasha dodged yet another foot and glanced down at her to see Amanda's face, only to see it twisted in pain as blood dripped down her arm. "We must have reopened the gashes when we dodged that spiderhead." She whispered. Inuyasha bared his teeth at the Master Spiderhead.
"I will make sure you truly die, you bakayaru." He sneered at it. He then handed Amanda over to Miroku. "You try anything monk and you will die a very painful death." Inuyasha said as he turned toward the Master Spiderhead. It was smiling evilly.
"I guess that my poison did not finish her off, then that will make killing her even more enjoyable.because I will do it in front of your very eyes." He laughed. His head shot forward and webs spewed out. Inuyasha dodged the sticky strands and the web struck the ground.
"Missed." Inuyasha taunted. The Master Spiderhead fired another shot of web. The web struck Inuyasha's hand. The spiderhead smiled as it rammed Inuyasha into a tree. Inuyasha hit the ground hard and he spied two Shikon shards in the spiderhead's forehead.
"Damn it!" Amanda said as she strained to get away from Miroku. "Inuyasha needs my help." She demanded. She tried to slap Miroku but he blocked her hand with his staff. Amanda growled in her throat and kicked Miroku in the balls. His eyes went wide and he slumped to the ground in a lump as Amanda stumbled over to Inuyasha. She helped him stand up. Inuyasha just looked at her sternly.
"You should just stay out of this and go lay back down." He mumbled. Amanda frowned.
"Well. . .too late." Amanda said smiling. A web wrapped itself around her wrist and pulled her toward the Master Spiderhead. Inuyasha grabbed her hand in attempt to pull her back.
"Amanda!" Inuyasha shouted as her fingers slipped through his grasp. Amanda yelped as she fell forward, being dragged by her wrist, which was starting to ache just slightly. Inuyasha growled and leapt forward, landing on his face as Amanda was dragged just out of his reach again. Amanda grimaced as she was pulled up face to face with the Master Spiderhead.
No one noticed a pair of amber eyes, glowing out from under blonde bangs, darkened by the shadows of a large pine tree.
"Inuyasha!" Amanda cried, squirming in the tight grasp of the spiderhead.
"Amanda!" Inuyasha yelled, lunging towards the Master spiderhead. A lesser spiderhead knocked him away, laughing loudly as Inuyasha flew into a tree. Miroku grimaced as he stood up, with Raylin's help.
"Are you okay, Miroku?" Raylin asked, looking at him worriedly. Miroku nodded, closing his eyes.
"Yes. . .I'm fine, Lady Raylin." He said, grinning as he patted her on the butt. Raylin's eyes went wide and she sighed heavily, and then smiled sheepishly at him. The Master Spiderhead moved forward, his mouth opening to reveal large fangs and dripping with poisonous saliva. Amanda screamed and thrashed even more violently, turning her head to the side and closing her eyes tightly. She could feel the spiderhead's rancid breath wash over her neck. Inuyasha yelled curses and frantically tried to get away from the spiderhead holding him to the tree. Miroku and Raylin's mouths hung open slightly as they stared.
Amanda let loose another scream, going rigid, just as everything went black.
Author's Note- *answering machine comes on*
Bridget: *is watching Kouga defeat Inuyasha again on the Playstation* Um. . .guys? How are we going to get him to stop playing that game? He's been playing it for eight straight hours. . .and the only opponents he's fought against is Naraku, Kagura, and Inuyasha.
Raylin: We could duct tape him to the bottom of the diving board in the back yard.
Bridget: No. . .if he gets loose. . .I don't even want to think about what'd he'd do as revenge. . .
Amanda: You're forgetting: It's DUCT tape. He's not going to get loose.
*Someone clears their throat behind them*
Amanda, Bridget, and Raylin: *turns around to see Kouga*
Amanda: Eheh. . .Hi, Kouga. . .
Kouga: You girls wouldn't happen to be planning my demise, would you?
Bridget: Well, considering that you're standing right here, don't be silly. . .
Kouga: Okay.
Raylin: Okay, well, we've got to go. If you've got any ideas of how to get Kouga off the Playstation that doesn't involve him killing us all, please let us know. Please review at the sound of the beep.
*beep sounds*
Inuyasha, Raylin, and Bridget arrived at where the shack. . .used to be. All that was there was a pile of splintered wood and stuff. "No.but they said. . .Dammit!" Inuyasha yelled. "Amanda!" he yelled. "Miroku? Kouten? Shippou?"
"We're right here!" Miroku yelled, somewhat far off.
"Tell Amanda to hang on; we've got the medicine!" Inuyasha yelled back.
The three ran deeper into the woods. Inuyasha stopped at a thicket where he thought he heard Miroku. "Where. . .?" he muttered.
"Over here!" Shippou called, a little off to their left. They turned to come to a small camp. There was no fire or anything; everybody was sitting or lying on the snow. Miroku was pacing.
"How is she?!" Inuyasha demanded. Miroku lowered his head.
"She's about dead. She'll perhaps last about three more hours. . .four, if she's lucky." He said. Inuyasha shoved the medicine to him.
"Here. You make the medicine. I know nothing about that stuff. Shippou, Kouten, you help him." He walked over and sat next to Amanda. "What happened to the shack?" he asked, not taking his eyes off the girl.
"The spiderheads attacked it." Miroku said. "We ran out of there as fast as we could, but taking Lady Amanda here has apparently sapped some of her strength."
Shippou blinked and counted the group that had returned. After doing so about five times, he asked, "Inuyasha, where's Kisike?"
Inuyasha didn't reply and closed his eyes. Shippou blinked and looked over at Bridget and Raylin, who didn't reply either.
"She's not dead, is she. . .?" Kouten asked, eyes wide.
"Thanks to Inuyasha, she probably is." Bridget said angrily. Inuyasha glared at her.
"Hey, it was her or Amanda!" he protested.
"And what if it were you in Kisike's place with Amanda making the decision?!" Bridget shot back. "Would she have done the same thing?!"
Inuyasha blinked. Bridget continued, her silent demeanor vanishing. "I don't live in this dimension but even I know that one of the points of evilness is that promises are never kept! What the hell were you thinking, Inuyasha?!"
"They let us take the medicine!" Inuyasha argued.
"Oh, sure! Let's talk about that. I would like to know how much good the medicine would have done Amanda if she were already dead! They were able to run away and you have to admit that that was probably just luck! It's probably luck that they're not attacking us now; they probably haven't found us yet! Like I said: You can't trust evil! You should have known that by now! You should have known that back when we were fighting Shisou for god's sake!" Bridget snapped, her eyes flashing red.
"You trusted the enemy back there too, and Shisou would probably have the Shikon shards and we'd both be dead if our friends didn't come to help us! If you had just paused and thought for one moment, you'd probably have come up with a way to save them both!"
Inuyasha jumped up and grabbed Bridget by the collar. "Listen, you. . ." he started. Bridget cut him off.
"Four of us came to this dimension together. Four of us should have left this dimension together." She hissed. She pulled away and marched over to the other side of the camp. The others blinked at the girl. This was a side of Bridget that they'd never seen.
Nobody went over to her as it began to snow. 'Amanda had better not die. . .' Bridget thought, her eyes turning blue and purple. 'I have only three friends in my world. . .and now they've dwindled down to two.'
"Gabriel's not going to be happy about this." Kouten said.
Raylin closed her eyes. "This isn't good. . .hopefully we won't lose any more people. I really hope that we don't lose Amanda. I still haven't had the chance to apologize about earlier." She muttered.
***
* one hour later, at the clearing *
Kisike sweatdropped as she sat up, a little shakily, her ears slanting backwards as her hair fell over her face. She sighed heavily and jerked her head back, causing her hair to flop backwards and stick to the webbing that covered her from her feet to her shoulders. She grunted and shook her head, and then stopped when she felt a few hairs snap, and she sat perfectly still, staring straight ahead with wide eyes.
She flinched when she realized the spiderhead were arguing about who was going to kill her. . .and eat her. She blinked, and then slowly began to move her fingers around, her nails slowly shredding the webbing. After ten minutes of continuous shredding and continuous arguing by the spiderheads, Kisike stood, swiping the rest of the web stuff from her legs and hair. "Bastards. . ." She grumbled, brushing herself off. The spiderheads turned then, glaring at her.
"She got out!" One of the smaller ones hissed.
"DAMN STRAIGHT I DID!" Kisike yelled, grinning widely as she ran out of the clearing and into the woods. She heard something snap faintly behind her, but she didn't stop to look back. A few minutes later, she realized that she wasn't being followed, and stopped to look back, her eyes searching the trees as her ears flicking back and forth, silently sweeping through the air to pick up any sounds a human's ear would have easily missed.
She shook her head slightly and turned, running straight into something furry. "WhaaaaAAAAaaa!" She yelled, falling backwards. She grimaced and propped herself up on her hands, blinking up at what she'd run into. It was tall. Very tall, and very furry, though the weirdest part was there was a dark grayish blue skull over a hood-like part, near where someone's head would be.
"H. . .Hi?" She asked hesitantly, standing slowly and reaching up to poke the skull's forehead. It didn't move. She huffed and stood back, her hands on her hips as she slowly walked around the furry thing. "Well. . .this is not Feng Shui. . ." She muttered, putting her hands on the back and pushing on it, attempting to knock it over. It moved suddenly, turning sharply so the skull faced Kisike, even as she yelped and fell forward, catching herself on a pair of arms.
She blinked once and looked up, letting go of the arms and falling back to the ground, holding herself up with one hand.
"Kisike.." A voice said softly. Kisike blinked.
"How do you know my name?" She asked. The voice ignored her.
"Kisike. . .where are you going? Back to your. . .'friends'. . .?" It asked. Kisike blinked, then nodded.
"I was planning on it, actually. . ." She said, then stared into the eyeholes of the skull for a moment, before looking down at the ground. " I guess. . ." She muttered, her eyelids drooping slightly as she sighed.
"They abandoned you. . .all of them. . ." He, Kisike having distinguished the voice as male finally, murmured, the tall figure kneeling over Kisike and spreading his arms out, the fur over thing opening to reveal a light purple colored kimono. Kisike blinked and scooted backwards slightly.
"No. . .they're my friends..they've. . .always been my friends.." She said, her hands curling into fists.
"Then why did they abandon you like that back there. . .that wasn't very friendly. . .was it. . .?" He asked, and then shook his head slightly, answering his own question.
". . .N. . .No. . .I guess. . .not. . .but..I have to go back. . .to. . .let them know I'm okay.." She whispered, mostly to herself as she reached up with one hand to wipe at the eyes with her sleeve.
"Come with me. . ." The voice said slowly, it's tone lowering a little.
". . .Who are you. . .?"
"That's not important right now. . ." He said, reaching out with a pale, clawed hand to trace thin fingertips over her bangs. Kisike's eyes narrowed and she caught his hand with hers.
"Naraku. That's it. . .Naraku, isn't it?" She asked. The figure hesitated and the nodded a second later.
"Yes. . .Now. . .don't you want revenge on your. . .'friends'?" He asked, the hood of his over fur falling back so his eyes stared directly into Kisike's, glowing slightly. Kisike's eyes widened and she nodded, letting his hand go.
"Yes. . .tell me how. . .?" She asked, moving up to her knees and fisting her hands in the fabric of Naraku's kimono, looking a little more desperate than she may have been feeling. Naraku smirked.
"Of course. . ." He muttered softly, bringing the pelt back in to conceal both Kisike and himself within the folds of fur. A few seconds later, the pelt fell to the ground, and Naraku and Kisike were gone.
***
Shido appeared in the cavern. "Naraku has agreed to the plan and it has already been set into motion, Master." He said, bowing.
"Excellent. . ." said the hooded figure as he stared into the pool that showed the group.
"Should I execute the next step, sir?" Shido asked.
"Not yet. There may even be no need. . ." said the figure as his eyes flicked over to the faerie-jin that sat a ways from the others. "We shall see how it plays out first. . .when we do, that is when we will make our decision. Give it a few hours, but not if they sleep right after the neko- jin is healed. If they do, then wait until tomorrow night."
Shido bowed. "Yes, master."
***
Kisike blinked as she walked around in the main room of Naraku's fortress. It was very dark..
"It's very dark.." She said, looking up at the ceiling. Naraku sweatdropped and moved quickly to sit on his throne, which was made entirely of human and demon skulls. Kisike blinked, then rushed over to stand in front of him, only about 20 feet away. She tapped her heels together and raised her right arm in the air. "HAIL! LORD ILPALLAZOOOO!" She yelled, grinning widely. Naraku sweatdropped and leaned forward slightly.
"Who is this..Ilpallazo?" He growled, glaring out from underneath the hood of his monkey suit. Kisike blinked, then tapped her finger against her chin.
"I dunno..Oh, that's right." She said, raising her arm in the air again. "HAIL! LORD NARAKU!!" She yelled again, sweatdropping. Naraku's eyebrow twitched as he leaned back again.
"That's better.." He grumbled, then looked around. " Well..what now. . ."
"You're the boss, boss." Kisike said, dropping her arm and shrugging. "And oh, what a boss! What an amazing person you are Lord Naraku!" She said, waving her arms around and doing a weird dance thing. Naraku sighed heavily and stood.
"Kisike, this world is corrupt-" He stopped when Kisike started yelling, not actually forming a word or a sentence, but she started yelling, almost cheering.
"This world is corrupt. . ." He started again, then trailed off when the girl started running around in circles. He sighed heavily and blinked as a rope came down from the ceiling. Kisike stopped and looked back at him, blinking.
"What's the deal with that rope?" She asked, just as it went back up into the ceiling.
"Nevermind that.." He mumbled, pulling out a hand full of Shikon Shards. " Do you have any idea what these are?" He asked.
"Shikon shards! . . .Aren't they..?" Kisike asked, standing still now.
"Exactly..The dog demon you used to run with is trying to collect these as well..he must be found, and stopped." Naraku said, taking three shards into his free hand. He then flicked each of them at Kisike, one to her forehead, another to just below her elbow in her left arm, then other went into the calf of her left leg. Kisike stumbled backwards a little and blinked. A small movie screen popped up on the far wall, a picture of Inuyasha and Bridget popped up as well. "This is your first assignment..find these two..kill Inuyasha, but bring back the girl." He said simply. Kisike blinked and put her hands on her hips.
"You aren't thinking of letting her join Across, are you, Lord Naraku?" She asked. Naraku blinked, then sweatdropped.
"What's Across?" He asked. Then sighed heavily as Kisike said nothing, only stared at him. " Nevermind. . .no. . .now that I know your opinion on the matter.." He said, rather confused still. Kisike shrugged and grabbed a random sword off the wall.
"EXCEL WITH SERVE YOU WELL, LORD ILPALLAZO!" She yelled, marching out of the room before Naraku even had time to ask. Naraku blinked when he heard her start singing.
"OBLITTERATE! EXTERMINATE! LORD ILPA-. . .NARAKU TOLD ME SO-o-O!!" She sang..rather loudly as she walked down the big hill the fortress was set upon. Naraku sighed heavily and sat down, grumbling curses to himself about a certain half breed dog demon.
***
"AND A DOUBLE ORDER OF HOMICIDE! TO GO!! " Kisike finished, wiping off the blade of her sword.
***
"Why did I start talking about how the world is corrupt.." Naraku wondered out loud, suddenly.
***
She huffed and began walking back towards where she remembered the others were, the shack thing. She hefted the sword up and propped the blade up on her shoulder, then blunt side resting on her newly inserted shoulder pad.
***
Bridget looked up as someone tapped her on the shoulder. She looked up to see Inuyasha. She glared at him. "What do you want?" she demanded.
"We need to talk." Inuyasha said. "Follow me." With that, he began walking off.
Bridget stood up and paused, looking back at the group. Raylin was helping Miroku and the brats make the medicine for Amanda. Nobody seemed to notice. She then looked back at Inuyasha and nodded, following him. After about five minutes of walking, they stopped. "So what do you want to speak to me about?" she asked.
"Bridget, get out of here." Inuyasha said.
Bridget blinked. "Say what. . .?" she asked.
"Leave the group. You're causing too much tension and commotion in the group, and to tell you the truth, everyone is just about sick of it."
"But how could that be possible?! I barely even talk!" Bridget demanded. "Is this because of earlier?!"
"Partially, yes. Look, you're just too much trouble. You're too weak to be in this group."
"Too weak?! What the hell?!" Bridget snapped.
"Yeah. I'm not putting up you anymore. You're just a disadvantage in case we get attacked. Now, get out of here. If you come back to the group, I'll kill you." Inuyasha said.
Bridget reached for her sword. She paused as her hand dropped back to her side. "Forget it." She said softly. "You're probably right. Besides, I can't kill you. Amanda likes you too much." With that, she walked off into the woods.
Inuyasha smirked and looked back over at the camp to see the kitsune brat watching. Shippou's eyes were wide. "W-wait a second. . ." he said.
Inuyasha marched over to him and covered his mouth. "You speak of this to anybody and I'll make sure you'll never speak again, got that?" he said.
Shippou nodded, frightened, and scampered back to the camp. Inuyasha walked behind a tree. His hair suddenly shortened and his eyes turned brown. He became slightly taller and older, looking around his mid- twenties. He changed completely, yet still looked human, but it wasn't Inuyasha.
It was Shido.
***
After about three hours of wandering. . .
"Where. . .WHERE'D THEY GO NOW?!" Kisike yelled up into the treetops. She swung the sword around aimlessly, cutting a few branches off the trees. One happened to land on her head. "Oooow!" She whined, rubbing the bump on her head. "I mean I'm not bitter. . .but GAWDDAMNED TREES!!!" She hollered, waving her sword around even more. She stopped and blinked, hearing several yells sounding about half a mile away.
***
Inuyasha hmphed and knelt beside Amanda, gathering her up in his arms. He went over to a near by tree and sat against it, he gently laid his chin on the top of her head and listened to her strained breathing.
He could hear Miroku instructing Shippou and Kouten on how to mix the right ingredients together. He sighed and closed his eyes. Something was wrong. . .he strained his ears to their limits. His heart skipped a beat and his eyes went wide. Amanda wasn't breathing anymore. "Guys! We have a problem. . ." he shouted. Everyone turned their attention to him. "Amanda just stopped breathing." He said trembling. Raylin ran over to them.
"You have to be joking. . ." she said leaning over Amanda, placing her ear over Amanda's mouth. No air rushed past Amanda's lips. "Oh shit." Raylin mumbled. "Someone will have to do R+R." Inuyasha laid Amanda flat on the ground. Miroku looked up from his work.
"What's that?" He asked. Raylin sighed.
"It stands for respiratory resuscitation. In other words. . .if we don't get Amanda breathing again, we will lose her!" Raylin said starting to pull out her hair. Miroku left some final instructions to Kouten and Shippou and went over to Raylin.
"I will be glad to assist you in reviving Lady Amanda" He said with his little hand prayer thingy. Inuyasha cracked his knuckles.
"I know where this thing is going." Inuyasha sneered. Raylin hit him over the head.
"We need to get Amanda help or she won't last through the next three minutes." Raylin shouted. Inuyasha straightened up and looked at Raylin.
"What do we need to do?" he said sternly. Raylin held her head.
"I'm trying to think. . .Oh yes, now I remember. Okay what you need to do is tilt back Amanda's head to open up her airway. Then you pinch her nose and deliver two slow breaths." She instructed. Inuyasha blushed.
"There is no way that I'm going to kiss her." He said. Raylin hit him over the head again.
"This is not kissing her!" She yelled. 'Or at least how Amanda planned it.' She thought. Then she said, "Besides. . .if you don't then she is going to DIE!" Inuyasha hmphed. He did what Raylin instructed but with a deep blush, after several times of repeating the steps, Amanda started breathing again but very shallow.
"Is that damn medicine done yet?!" Inuyasha demanded at the little brats. He still had a little blush left in his cheeks. Shippou handed him a small bowl with a bluish liquid, glaring at Inuyasha. "Thanks a lot brat." He said as he took the medicine away from him and obviously not noticing the glare. Shippou went back to where Kouten was sitting.
"Don't worry Shippou. . .he's only upset about kissing Amanda and she's not awake to know about it." Kouten said patting him on the shoulder. "Shippou-Chan." She shouted and latched herself to Shippou's middle. Shippou just sighed.
'Please, please, please Amanda. Get better.' Inuyasha thought as he poured the liquid into Amanda's mouth. "Swallow this, Amanda." He whispered. He could barely see her gulp down the medicine. Almost instantly he could see her color improve and her eyes flutter open as she smiled faintly.
"Hi." She whispered. Inuyasha frowned and stood up.
"Don't you dare pull a crazy stunt like that again, baka. You could have died." He snapped. He walked over to the other side of camp.
'How do you think I feel every time you nearly die in my arms?' Amanda thought. Raylin helped her sit up. There was a sound of breaking trees toward their left. "What was that?" Amanda asked to herself and glanced in that direction. She could barely see birds taking to the sky.
Inuyasha suddenly ran over to Amanda and grabbed her, then quickly planted his feet in the ground and jumped several feet away. A giant spiderhead's foot landed right where she had been laying. "Damn. . ." she heard him whisper. When he landed Miroku threw him the Tetsusaiga that he recovered from the remains of the shack. Inuyasha grabbed the sword and held it at the on coming spiderheads foot that was aimed at him. When the foot was two feet away a bright light came from the sword and forced the thing back. "At least the Tetsusaiga is good for something." He said as he gripped the sword tightly in his hand.
"Inuyasha." Amanda whispered. Inuyasha dodged yet another foot and glanced down at her to see Amanda's face, only to see it twisted in pain as blood dripped down her arm. "We must have reopened the gashes when we dodged that spiderhead." She whispered. Inuyasha bared his teeth at the Master Spiderhead.
"I will make sure you truly die, you bakayaru." He sneered at it. He then handed Amanda over to Miroku. "You try anything monk and you will die a very painful death." Inuyasha said as he turned toward the Master Spiderhead. It was smiling evilly.
"I guess that my poison did not finish her off, then that will make killing her even more enjoyable.because I will do it in front of your very eyes." He laughed. His head shot forward and webs spewed out. Inuyasha dodged the sticky strands and the web struck the ground.
"Missed." Inuyasha taunted. The Master Spiderhead fired another shot of web. The web struck Inuyasha's hand. The spiderhead smiled as it rammed Inuyasha into a tree. Inuyasha hit the ground hard and he spied two Shikon shards in the spiderhead's forehead.
"Damn it!" Amanda said as she strained to get away from Miroku. "Inuyasha needs my help." She demanded. She tried to slap Miroku but he blocked her hand with his staff. Amanda growled in her throat and kicked Miroku in the balls. His eyes went wide and he slumped to the ground in a lump as Amanda stumbled over to Inuyasha. She helped him stand up. Inuyasha just looked at her sternly.
"You should just stay out of this and go lay back down." He mumbled. Amanda frowned.
"Well. . .too late." Amanda said smiling. A web wrapped itself around her wrist and pulled her toward the Master Spiderhead. Inuyasha grabbed her hand in attempt to pull her back.
"Amanda!" Inuyasha shouted as her fingers slipped through his grasp. Amanda yelped as she fell forward, being dragged by her wrist, which was starting to ache just slightly. Inuyasha growled and leapt forward, landing on his face as Amanda was dragged just out of his reach again. Amanda grimaced as she was pulled up face to face with the Master Spiderhead.
No one noticed a pair of amber eyes, glowing out from under blonde bangs, darkened by the shadows of a large pine tree.
"Inuyasha!" Amanda cried, squirming in the tight grasp of the spiderhead.
"Amanda!" Inuyasha yelled, lunging towards the Master spiderhead. A lesser spiderhead knocked him away, laughing loudly as Inuyasha flew into a tree. Miroku grimaced as he stood up, with Raylin's help.
"Are you okay, Miroku?" Raylin asked, looking at him worriedly. Miroku nodded, closing his eyes.
"Yes. . .I'm fine, Lady Raylin." He said, grinning as he patted her on the butt. Raylin's eyes went wide and she sighed heavily, and then smiled sheepishly at him. The Master Spiderhead moved forward, his mouth opening to reveal large fangs and dripping with poisonous saliva. Amanda screamed and thrashed even more violently, turning her head to the side and closing her eyes tightly. She could feel the spiderhead's rancid breath wash over her neck. Inuyasha yelled curses and frantically tried to get away from the spiderhead holding him to the tree. Miroku and Raylin's mouths hung open slightly as they stared.
Amanda let loose another scream, going rigid, just as everything went black.
Author's Note- *answering machine comes on*
Bridget: *is watching Kouga defeat Inuyasha again on the Playstation* Um. . .guys? How are we going to get him to stop playing that game? He's been playing it for eight straight hours. . .and the only opponents he's fought against is Naraku, Kagura, and Inuyasha.
Raylin: We could duct tape him to the bottom of the diving board in the back yard.
Bridget: No. . .if he gets loose. . .I don't even want to think about what'd he'd do as revenge. . .
Amanda: You're forgetting: It's DUCT tape. He's not going to get loose.
*Someone clears their throat behind them*
Amanda, Bridget, and Raylin: *turns around to see Kouga*
Amanda: Eheh. . .Hi, Kouga. . .
Kouga: You girls wouldn't happen to be planning my demise, would you?
Bridget: Well, considering that you're standing right here, don't be silly. . .
Kouga: Okay.
Raylin: Okay, well, we've got to go. If you've got any ideas of how to get Kouga off the Playstation that doesn't involve him killing us all, please let us know. Please review at the sound of the beep.
*beep sounds*