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Chapter 5

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"Who's there?" growled Inuyasha, getting impatient. "Show yourself!"

The shadowed figure still didn't appear. Inuyasha was getting mad. "Come out you damn intruder! I ain't got all day. If you won't come out, I'll make you come out!" With saying that, Inuyasha swiftly unsheathed his Tetsuaiga and began an attack. "Kaze no Kizu!" yelled Inuyasha, and before you know it the attack almost ripped the dojou in half. Luckily, Sesshoumaru jumped out of Inuyasha's attack just in time.

"Imbecile! Watch where aim your attack!"

Inuyasha sweatdropped, mumbling a sorry.

The shadowed figure found the scene in front of her rather comical and let out a soft giggle.

Sesshoumaru's ears perked up towards the laugh, "Come out, you scum! This Sesshoumaru doesn't have all day with you! Unless you are afraid of this Sesshoumaru's wrath."

Kagome's blood started to boil at the thought of being called weak and cowardly, so she descended onto the floor with her fast agility, glaring at Sesshoumaru with those cold hazel eyes. Without thinking, Kagome charged at him with great speed, but that wasn't fast enough for Sesshoumaru, who easily dodged the attack.

"Reveal yourself! Weak human," growled Sesshoumaru. "What are you doing here?!"

Kagome, not responding, just glared at him.

Suddenly three daggers sprung from her hands, flying towards Inuyasha.

"What the hell!" Inuyasha jumped out of the way.

"You both die today!" screamed Kagome, as she charged at Inuyasha with her sword upright. "What?!" exclaimed both Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru. A measly human wants to kill them, how pathetic they thought.

"Gah!" snapped Inuyasha, his sword clashing against the intruder's. "A little help here," Inuyasha said through clenched teeth towards Sesshoumaru. 'Ok, this killer is feisty! Man, he must really want to kill me."

"Oh, you need more than just a little help," taunted Kagome, with her sword pushing hard towards Inuyasha's Tetsuaiga.

"Because tonight nothing will save you two from me!"

"CLASH! CLASH!" Metal swords clashed with each other. It was two against one. Kagome, alone. She spilled all her anger towards the two brothers, determined to win this fight and annihilate them once and for all.

All three of them fought and fought, it was never going to end until Kagome leapt into the air and twisted her body in a quick motion to unleash her best sword attack. "SWOOSH!" The sword came down at Sesshoumaru who deflected it with his poison claw whip. 'Damn him and his claws!' thought Kagome.

Kagome, who was having a little trouble handling both youkais threw several poison darts at them to distract them so she could wage her attacks.

There were so many poison darts that one of them directly hit Sesshoumaru at the arm. The sad thing is for a strong inu-youkai like him has a powerful stamina, therefore the dart had no effect on him.

Inuyasha, who saw that the fight was going nowhere with Sesshoumaru around so he thought he can just take down the measly intruder by himself.

"Sesshoumaru!" yelled Inuyasha, "go check to see if Rin and the other two are alright1"

Sesshoumaru, who decided he should check on his mate and the others to make sure nothing terrible happened to them, fled the scene.

"Sesshoumaru! Don't you dare leave, you dog!" yelled Kagome, who was about to chase after Sesshoumaru, was blocked by Inuyasha.

"Damn you, Inuyasha! Don't worry, I'll kill you first before I get rid of Sesshoumaru!" bellowed Kagome.

Inuyasha was stunned by the fact that this intruder knew them. 'Could it be?'

'It can't be Kasuki, can it?' pondered Inuyasha as he dodged Kagome's every attack.

"So Inuyasha, I see you have improved 'cuz the last time it was I who dodged every one of your attacks!" smirked Kagome.

"Who the hell are you?!" roared Inuyasha.

"Isn't that sad, little hanyou doesn't even recognize the newbie!" laughed Kagome.

"I don't want to fight you, Kasuki!"

"Too bad because I want to fight! I won't yield until you are dead, you hear me?!"

Kagome then threw a dagger at Inuyasha, hitting him in the chest.

"Damn!" said Inuyasha, his hand pulling out of the dagger. Now Inuyasha's haori was even redder. Since his haori was red, the blood didn't show as much on his incarnadine haori.

"You aim hard, Kasuki!"

"Shutup, you half-breed! You are getting on my nerves! I'll obliterate you tonight!"

"What the hell is your problem, Kasuki! What did I do to deserve this?"

"What did you do? What did you do? You dare to ask me what the hell you did? Well, you did nothing!" Kagome was infuriated.

"It was your fucking father's fault! If it wasn't for him, my father would be still alive! Your so-called father was a damn traitor! He went to work for Naraku, like a stupid dog!"

Inuyasha was now angered by Kagome's statement. He took what Kasuki said as an affront. Now you can see flames rising from Inuyasha. No one insults his father like that and gets away with it!

"Don't meddle my father in this mess of yours!" bellowed Inuyasha who put more pressure on his Tetsuaiga.

"Aw...little inu can't take the pressure! That's what you get! For your stupid father killed my father! And he calls himself a friend! It's all a lie! I can't believe my father actually trusted Inutaisho as a friend. All you inu-youkai are bastards, therefore I'm going to kill you and your filthy brother, Sesshoumaru!"

Kagome plunged her sword into Inuyasha's chest when she noticed his attention awry.

"Fuck!" yelled Inuyasha as Kagome pulled her sword out.

"This is the end of you, Inuyasha! Say your prayers," snorted Kagome who was ready to plunge it right in again and this time into his heart.

Before Kagome can have the chance, poison claw whip lashed from behind her. It was Sesshoumaru. He arrived just in time to save his brother's ass.

The poison claws went straight through Kagome, luckily not hitting her heart but her ribs instead.

The sword dropped from Kagome's hand, and her knees gave out, "Damn you, Sesshoumaru! I can't be defeated...damn you..." Kagome fell onto Inuyasha unconscious.

"Phew! Thanks Sess, you saved my ass back there!" Inuyasha breathed with relief.

"Enough drivel! Inuyasha, did you find out what this intruder wanted?" asked Sesshoumaru.

"Yes. You were correct about the new member. This intruder was Kasuki," Inuyasha replied quietly.

"Heh, half-breed, you owe me!"

"Alright, did you find out if Rin and the others are alright?"

"They're fine. Just knocked out. In a few hours they'll be awake. Let's bring this Kasuki into the healing room so we can get some answers," said Sesshoumaru in a monotone voice.

Inuyasha bent down and picked Kasuki up from the waist when he felt something soft. 'Huh? What's that that's so soft?' pondered Inuyasha in curiosity.

His hand landed on Kagome's chest. He was stunned. Inuyasha just stood in place, appalled. 'Kasuki's a WOMAN!'

"What's wrong, did someone steal your soul or something?" asked Sesshoumaru, annoyed at his brother's long silence.

"No, Sesshoumaru! We've got a problem."

"What is it now!?" asked Sesshoumaru, really bothered.

"Kasuki's a female."

"What?!"

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"You mean to tell me that after all this time, you couldn't smell the scent of a female in your dojou?" berated Sesshoumaru, putting his claws on his head as if having a migraine.

"How the hell should I know! When he, I mean she first arrived, there was no scent of a female from her. She hid it well enough!"

"Hanyous are stupid. That's why you're so stupid."

"Hey!"

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Kagome woke up, her eyes scanned the room. It was some room that wasn't hers. She noticed that she hasn't died from the blow. Kagome quickly sat up, the blanket that was covering her slipped off and she noticed that she was all bandaged up from the waist up to her neck. She was wearing nothing but a white haori.

'NO! I'm already revealed!' screamed Kagome mentally. 'They know that I'm a girl now. My cover's be unveiled!'

Tears began to form around her eyes. 'I will not cry. I will not cry,' Kagome ranted to herself. 'I can't believe I failed. I failed you father. I'm a failure. I wasn't able to kill Inutaishou's kins.' Kagome quickly got out of bed and escaped through the window, with her wounded body.

Kagome, still having some strength in her, used her agility to get as far away from the dojou as possible. She ran away into a deep forest where another shadowed lurked inconspicuously in the trees waiting for Kagome.

Kagome kept running and running until she reached a high cliff. She just stood and looked out into the dark night, gazing at the moon and the stars.

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"Inuyasha! I sense something. It smells like someone," said Sesshoumaru to Inuyasha for they were sitting in Inuyasha's room.

Inuyasha who also smelt it, rushed to the healing room. He swung the door open to only find Kasuki out of bed.

"Kasuki escaped!" growled Inuyasha. "Sesshoumaru, look after the others. I'm going to go after Kasuki!" Inuyasha quickly leapt out of the dojou.

'She couldn't have gone far with those wounds,' thought Inuyasha. 'Whoa! When have I gotten so caring?'

Inuyasha caught up Kasuki's scent and ran towards the forest.

'I'm coming. You better be alright when I get there!'

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Kagome, who stared out into the dark night, stood on a high cliff. Rivulets of tears slid down her cheeks. She watched the many stars that are present.

"I have failed you, Father. I failed to avenge your death," said Kagome in a raspy voice.

The figure in the shadow listened intently at the girl's rant.

"I disguised myself as boy and enrolled myself into the Inuyoukai Kendo Club to kill Inutaisho. When I got there, I found out that Inutaishou was already dead. You didn't know how furious I was, Father. Since my plan didn't work, I decided to obliterate Inutaishou's kins. Boy, was I totally wrong! I didn't stand a chance against them. Now, look at me, I' m injured because of Sesshoumaru's claw attack. Hah! Father, I'm useless. I couldn't even handle two measly youkais I can never be compared to you. Now, my time has come. I've made a vow to you and mother that if I couldn't fulfill my mission I would commit suicide. So here I am, too shamed to even look at myself. Here I come."

Kagome closed her eyes shut and was about to jump when she heard footsteps. "Stop! Kasuki, don't!" It was Inuyasha. Quickly, Kagome pushed herself down the cliff, avoiding seeing Inuyasha. She suddenly felt herself falling but then stop. She no longer felt the hard lusting wind against her body. She was floating in mid-air. Kagome opened her eyes and she saw herself meet with gold. 'What the hell?'

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Inuyasha: What the hell were you thinking?! You almost killed yourself!

Kagome: Uh, sorry?

Inuyasha: Oh, never mind. Just don't ever do that again!

Me: Man, you were lucky, Kagome. If you weren't saved, you would have died.

Kagome: Hey! It was you who wrote about me like that. You wrote that I was going to commit suicide!

Me: Ahhh...

Inuyasha: WHAT!? XxAnimeGrlxX, what the hell were you thinking? Did you hit your head or something?

Me: Don't kill me, Inuyasha! You need me and you know it! I'm the author here. If you kill me, you won't be able to see yourself in this story ever again. Who knows? Maybe Naraku will take Kagome as a wife. So if you kill me right now, Naraku will take Kagome!

Inuyasha: Hmm...you're right. I can't risk it.

Me: (PHEW!) - Saved.

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A/N: Alright that was Chpter 5. It sure took me a long time to write that. I had writer's block. Ugh...I have a headache now. But I'll live. So what do you guys think so far? Good? Guess who saved Kagome? Anyone know yet? 'Til next chapter. Find out soon... Please review! Me love reviews! Thanks!