Kitsunehime: This chapter is a little different from the others, it focuses on Inuyasha and Kagome instead of multiple views/characters. And about the descriptions in the last chapter, I forgot to mention that both Koryu and Inutaishou have tails. Koryu's is on the opposite shoulder from Sesshoumaru's. ^ ^
Koryu and Inutaishou: *at same time* How could you forget my tail?!!!!!!!
Kitsunehime: Ok, ok, gomen! Don't kill me!
Saetan: *running from Titian who's decided to put makeup on him* HEEELLPPP!!! *ducks behind Inutaishou*
Inutaishou: Oi! Don't drag me into your problems! *sees Sakuya come towards him with mascara* Oh shit! RUN!
Sakuya: Hey, come back! I'll make you nice and pretty!
Titian: *grins wickedly* Be careful of the trip wire!
*Smack!*
Rin: Wow............
Jaenelle: Poor papa.........
Kitsunehime: *turns away from the chaos* Er........ok..........so, today, the disclaimer will be done by none other then....*reaches into hat to pull out a name* The kawaii kitsune, Shippou!
Everyone: *pauses in whatever they're doing and claps*
Kagome: You can do it Shippou!
Surreal: He's so cute!
Shippou: Uh....*fidgets*Kitsunehime doesn't own any of us. The copy-whites belong to Takahashi Rumiko and Anne Bishop.
Inuyasha: It's copyRIGHTS, not copy-whites, runt.
Kagome: Be nice! Sit!
Inuyasha: *Bam* Stupid wench!
Kagome: Why you.........Sit sit sit sit sit sit sit sit sit sit sit sit sit sit sit sit sit sit sit sit sit sit sit sit sit sit sit sit sit sit sit sit sit sit sit sit sit sit sit sit sit sit sit sit sit sit sit sit sit sit sit sit sit sit sit sit sit........ *runs out of air*
Inuyasha: *is unconscious* @_@
Marian: Wow........I wish I could do that to Lucivar at least once in a while.......
Lucivar: Hey!
Kitsunehime: .......I have a feeling I'm being forgotten here........... -__- +;;
To Rule The Darkness
ch.12 Bandits
"Inuyasha, how much farther do you think the Hall is?" Kagome and Inuyasha had been traveling for a couple weeks now.
Inuyasha looked around. "Not far, I think.......maybe a couple more days. Be careful. This part of the forest is dangerous...........I can sense it."
Just as he said that, a yell of "Attack!" was heard. About ten men with crude, ill-fitting armor and armed with various rusty weapons burst out of the trees in front of them. They were scruffy in appearance and generally didn't look respectable in any way.
Inuyasha pushed Kagome behind him and drew the Tetsusaiga, transforming it. "Stay behind me, Kagome! These bastards shouldn't take too long!" Kagome nodded, and he shifted into a battle stance to meet the first one, who didn't last long. Inuyasha ducked the swing of his enemy's blade and whipped the Tetsusaiga around, cutting the man's head off and blocking the next bandit's attack.
Kagome sent out a quick probe as she drew an arrow back on the string of her bow, not wanting to leave Inuyasha to do all the fighting. "Inuyasha! The one with the darkest Jewel is over there to your left! He only wears Summer-sky!"
Inuyasha heard and nodded, leaving the man to Kagome's arrow. It stuck out of his eye, spurting blood. Kagome's next arrow hit him in the chest and finished him off.
"Nice shot, Kagome!"
"Arigatou, Inuyasha!"
Inuyasha knocked the feet out from under his nearest attacker and threw the bandit into his own comrade. Kagome slew him with an arrow. Finally, there were none left.........or so they thought.
Kagome turned around to find a rusty sword blade heading right at her. She tried to dodge it, but her muscles just wouldn't respond fast enough. "I-Inuyasha! Help!"
"Kagome!" Inuyasha tried to either cut the bandit down or push Kagome out of the way, but wasn't fast enough. It resulted in both of them getting slashed, Kagome deeply in the arm, Inuyasha across the chest. The man had little time to rejoice. Inuyasha didn't even bother to use the Tetsusaiga, he caught Kagome with one arm and used the claws on his other hand to rip out his throat, spraying blood everywhere.
Inuyasha quickly sheathed his sword and looked at Kagome. She was getting a little pale from blood loss. "Kagome! Don't you dare die on me, dammit!"
"I-I'm.......ok.......What about you?"
"Feh, this? It's just a shallow cut. Shit, I've got to get you to a Healer, and fast!" Inuyasha picked her up and cradled her against his chest, which was already starting to heal, thanks to his youkai blood. He took off running in leaps and bounds towards the Hall. "Hang in there, Kagome!" 'There is no fucking way in all the seven hells I'll let her die!'
'He.....cares for me after all.........' Kagome thought as she slipped into unconsciousness.
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Inutaishou was taking a walk when someone pounded frantically on the gates. It was a silver-haired man, who looked awfully familiar, carrying an unconscious Priestess in his arms. Both were covered in blood, either their own or that of others.
"Is there a Healer here?!" Inuyasha demanded, not looking closely at the man inside the gate. "Kagome needs help, NOW!"
Inutaishou hurriedly opened the gate and let them in. "Sakuya should be able to fix her up. Follow me!" He led them to a room with a large canopied bed. "Put her in here! I'll go get the Healer."
Inuyasha put Kagome in the bed, careful not to jolt her. "Hang in there, Kagome. A Healer's coming!"
Inutaishou came back in with one of the demon-dead. "Out, both of you!" Sakuya shoved both men out the door and began to inspect the wound.
Outside, Inuyasha paced back and forth, not noticing he needed a change of clothes since his were all bloody. "Dammit! How long is this going to take?!" He growled when the other man tried to put a hand on his shoulder.
"Sakuya's a good Healer, even if she is demon-dead. She'll heal your lady, don't worry." Inutaishou watched Inuyasha pace up and down the hall. There was something familiar about him though........... "Would your name happen to be..........Inuyasha?"
Inuyasha froze and stared. "What.....How do you know my name?" He finally noticed the resemblance they had to each other. 'Could he be.......my.....father?' "Who are you?"
"I am Inutaishou, High Lord of Hell and the Demon Lord of the Western Lands. You are Inuyasha, aren't you? It's been a long time...........my son."
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Kagome woke up in an unfamiliar place. 'What........where am I? What.......happened?' She opened her eyes and saw that she was in a large canopied bed with its curtains drawn back. 'The bandits.........my arm.........Inuyasha! Is he alright?" She looked around frantically. Inuyasha was sitting in a chair next to the bed, asleep. 'He was worried about me? Aw, he looks so cute asleep! Much nicer and more relaxed............' Resisting the urge to pet his ears, Kagome got up, making sure her robe wouldn't just fall off, and tiptoed to the door, trying not to wake Inuyasha up. She almost made it to the door when he did.
"Just where do you think you're going?" Inuyasha's golden yes stared into her own. "Even if Sakuya's healed you, you're still weak from losing all that blood. Get back in your bed."
Kagome slowly continued moving towards the door. "But I'm hungry........." Suddenly, she felt a little dizzy and swayed. 'Oops........I guess he was right.'
Inuyasha jumped out of his seat and caught her before she fell. "Dammit Kagome, I told you to rest!" He carried her back to the bed and put her in it. "I'm going to get some food. Don't yo dare move."
He walked down the halls looking for the kitchen. 'Ok, dammit, where's the fucking kitchen?' He spotted a little kitsune running towards him with a cracker sticking out of his mouth. "Oi, brat! Where's the kitchen?"
The young kitsune just gestured for him to follow, not talking because his mouth was full. When they got there, he swallowed. "What's your name? I'm Shippou!"
Inuyasha started to put food on a tray. "Inuyasha." He walked out the door with his tray. Shippou followed him. "Oi, what do you want?"
"Can I come with you? Inutaishou said I could visit the new girl when she woke up, and since you're out here, she must be up! Onegai?"
"Feh. Just don't bother her too much."
Right before they got to the door, Shippou suddenly remembered something. "Can I go get Rin?"
Inuyasha just waved Shippou off, not really listening. He opened the door to find Kagome at the window. "I thought I told you not to move!"
Kagome turned around to look at him. "I'm fine! What about you? You got wounded too, ne?" She saw the tray Inuyasha put down on the bed and sat down to eat what was on it.
"Feh, like I said, it's just a shallow cut. All healed now." Inuyasha crossed his arms, sat down on the other side of the bed, and watched her eat.
Shippou stuck his head in the door, then turned back outside to pull in someone else. Then he bounded up to the bed. "Hi, my name's Shippou! What's yours? Are you all better now? Inutaishou said you came in all bloody."
Kagome smiled and petted his head. "I'm Kagome, and yes, I'm fine. Who's your friend?"
"Oh, she's Rin! She's the Witch, you know."
Inuyasha's eyes widened. "Rin! Long time no see! Remember me?"
Rin jumped up and hugged him. "Inuyasha! How did you escape the slave catchers? Tell me!"
Kagome watched them talk with a pang of jealousy. 'Wait, me, jealous? Over Inuyasha? I must be sick or something.........' "Er, Inuyasha? How do you know her?"
"She visited me when I was still a slave." He turned back to Rin. "So, did you meet my brother already?"
She blushed. "Hai. I miss him though........."
Inuyasha smirked at her. "O-oh, so it's like that, is it? Sesshoumaru and Rin, sitting a tree, k-I-s-s-I-–g!"
Rin blushed even more furiously. "Stop it! What about you, huh? You going to kiss Kagome?"
"WHAT?!" Inuyasha and Kagome both yelled, startling Shippou so he fell off the bed.
Rin grinned. "You see, Kagome, he wouldn't leave the room while you were unconscious. Sakuya had to trick him into drinking a sleeping potion so he'd get some rest himself. I'd say it's true love, wouldn't you?"
Kagome turned bright red and didn't say anything. Inuyasha also turned red, but turned around to hide it. "Feh. Don't know what you're talking about." Shippou just sat there, completely clueless.
They all heard voices outside the door. Inutaishou and Sakuya came in. Kagome blinked. "Aren't you Sesshoumaru?" Then Koryu came in. "Or are you Sesshoumaru?" This was getting a little confusing.........
"No, Sesshoumaru's not here. I'm Inutaishou, his father, High Lord of Hell and Demon Lord of the Western Lands. This is Sakuya, demon-dead Healer Queen. And he's Koryu, Gray-Jeweled Warlord Prince, Sesshoumaru's cousin."
"Oh............." Kagome looked from Inuyasha to Inutaishou. "Is it just me, or do you two look related too?"
Inuyasha grinned. "You bet we do. He's my father."
Kagome, who was still a little dizzy from blood loss, began to get even dizzier from the information overload. Sakuya saw this and shoved everyone except for Inuyasha and Kagome out the door. "Out! She needs her rest, and you idiots aren't helping! Especially you, corpse-man!"
"If I'm corpse-man, then you're corpse-woman!"
Rin turned around before Sakuya could shove her completely out the door. "Welcome to the Hall, Kagome, Inuyasha."
The door shut, leaving Inuyasha and Kagome alone in the room. They looked at each other.
"Well........that was.......interesting."
Inuyasha snorted. "They're insane. At least you didn't have to put up with them while you were asleep. But the fights between Sakuya and oyaji are pretty funny to watch as long as you don't get in the middle of one."
"O.........k.........."
Me, being a bit stupid at times, posted chapter 11 without noticing that my question hasn't been answered. I DO need an answer, you know. Should I add more members to the Dark Court?
Kimmy-chan: Yeah, I'd say Kagome's pretty important.
LightWalker: Thanks for the suggestion, I can try!
Black Demon543: Thanks for being my 70th reviewer!