((Here's chapter two..R&R!!))
At the exact same time as Sesshomaru was meeting Neo, Inu-yasha was having his own kind of "encounter"...
With a leap that spanned about forty feet, Inu-Yasha propelled himself at this strange amused youkai. He growled venomously, as usual his temper was none to good and the haughtiness the youkai held about her further infuriated him. With another swing of Tetsusaiga he slammed viciously into a tree behind his enemy, amid a fit of giggles from her.
As he turned around his eyes narrowed, her brown hair blew in the breeze, shimmering as its curls bounced back into place, framing her face once more. Her pointed dog ears, much like his own, forwards and locked on him, alert and ready for his next valiant swing.
The Reason for their fight? Simple. Jewel Shards...
She gasped and launched to the side as a purity arrow flew past her ear, barely missing. She whirled around, half expecting the strange half-naked girl to be cowering behind some miko, only to find it was the skimpily clad girl herself! Man this guy confused her... he traveled with two youkai, three humans (one of which was the miko) and a bug thing which she had heard called "Myoga" not that she cared...
With another swing Inu-Yasha managed to throw the youkai back, slamming her into a large boulder, causing her to crumple to the ground. Growling, she stood up, now sporting a huge gash across her stomach and more than a few bruises. She lifted a clawed hand an summoned to her what looked to Inu-Yasha and his friends like a long black and purple staff... she lifted the staff above her head and spun it expertly, ready to completely destroy his with one blast if possible...
"My lord Inu-Yasha!" Myoga's irritating squeaky voice cried from Inu-Yasha's shoulder,
"That is no ordinary staff!!" he whimpered, "Be very careful!"
"Wow, I'm impressed" Inu-Yasha said smirking as he readied his sword, "You didn't run away this time...- What!?" as he spoke the words, Myoga had leapt off and gone bounding off to find some nice secure area to hide... "How characteristic..." Inu-Yasha grumbled as he charged her again.
The youkai sighed irritably and launched forwards as well, the first true attack she had done, using a combo move using her staff for momentum and her claws as her weapons, she slammed the staff into the ground, swinging around it and swiping him with her claws, then swinging around again and kicking Inu-Yasha in the stomach on the rebound. There was a spurt of blood as both hits connected and Inu-Yasha flew back, slamming through a tree and sliding to the ground under a tree behind the first one, still clutching Tetsusaiga in a death grip.
The characteristic and now very common scream of "Inu-Yasha!" from the skimpily clad girl rang through the now very still and quiet area. Kagome leapt forwards, running over to the unconscious hanyou's side, she touched his cheek and looked up fearfully as the youkai glared down at the both of them. Kagome closed her eyes and held Inu-Yasha close to herself as the youkai lifted her claws to strike at Kagome.
Abruptly the youkai swung her claws down and looked at Kagome,
"Hmph... killing you would be useless to me" she said calmly, turning around, "But I WILL take these..." as she went striding off, Kagome's eyes opened and she noticed one- that she and Inu-Yasha were alive and two- her shards were gone.
Kai smirked as she examined the shards she now had thanks to Inu-yasha and his friends. She was surprised she hadn't needed to even use the Staff of Dimensions at all... this was supposed to have been a breathtaking experience where she feared for her life, not a little spat where she pulled all the basic moves HUMANS knew! She sighed and tossed her new jewel shards in the air, catching them deftly and putting them calmly in a pouch at her waist.
"Now...let's check on Neo..." she muttered to herself, sitting down under a tree and closing her eyes. A dark form slipped around her, seeming to wreath her in dark purple flames, which seemed to take the form of a dark dragon with violent amber eyes...
Inu-Yasha awoke to find himself lying on a mat in the forest, his wounds were dressed and there was a fire burning. He could smell his friends, and his hand was resting on Tetsusaiga so he wasn't that worried. As he sat up pain seared through his chest and stomach as he was painfully reminded of the double hit the youkai had gotten in. He growled unhappily, then sighed irritably and forced himself to stand. As he stood up the annoyed voice of Kagome met his ears,
"Inu-Yasha! You shouldn't be moving yet!" she looked worried just like always, and as she ran over she stopped just as she was about to shove him back towards the mat, clearly afraid to hit his wound. He snorted, but was inwardly happy she was worried for him... but as usual, he didn't show it at all,
"Keh, like that wimpy girl could hurt me!" he said viciously. Kagome scowled,
"You were knocked unconscious! Don't give me that!" she yelled angrily, earning herself a matching glare.
"Lucky shot!" he snapped angrily, "I could've beaten her if I had been given a little more time!" he yelled angrily.
"Sounds like he's alright to me" Miroku said walking out and smiling good naturedly as usual.
"exactly." Confirmed Inu-Yasha.
"If he's fighting a losing battle to Kagome then I'm sure he's alright!" said Miroku lifting a finger for emphasis, earning himself a punch from Inu-Yasha and a sweatdrop from Kagome.
In the argument that ensued the word "Sit" was used approximately ten times, and the word "Bitch" was used approximately three. Kagome and Inu-Yasha finally ended their battle with a final cry of "Fine I'm going home!" and "Go! See if I care!" and Kagome left. Leaving a flustered Inu-Yasha alone with his friends.
The next morning Inu-Yasha was beginning to regret letting Kagome go... he had nothing to do since no one could sense shards, they were all in the dark. The Inu-Yasha gumi ((that's the right term right..?)) were wandering around just searching for news of demons in hopes of randomly finding a shard or two.
After three dead ends one finally came up of a description matching that of the youkai that had defeated Inu-Yasha. Of course Inu-Yasha immediately raced off to challenge the girl to a re-match. Which was his first mistake...
The moment he made eye contact the girl grinned and a sinking suspicion dawned on the group that she had known they were coming from the beginning. Inu-Yasha drew Tetsusaiga and readied himself, the youkai also readied her staff, though she seemed less inclined to use it now that she knew she could defeat him without the use of magic at all.
Inu-Yasha growled venomously and launched at her again. Just as they were about to clash a scream rang out, jarring both out of their battle trance. A young girl came racing out of the woods, followed closely behind by two youkai who REEKED of Naraku. One was a huge pussy creature, with bubbles in it's skin as if there were gasses underneath, just waiting to escape, its face- or its face region, was elongated and had a drippy nose and many rows of sharp teeth, that gnashed at them as it approached. The second was a huge silvery bird-like thing. With long humanoid arms that hung down past its hind legs as it flew along, seeming to have lots of trouble staying in the air.
That attracted her attention...
Immediately, the girl moved away from Inu-Yasha, engaging the first, and ugliest, youkai with a snarl. She was followed close behind by Inu-Yasha, who engaged the second youkai just as quickly. As the battles commenced Inu-Yasha felt less hard pressed than when he had fought the girl, it didn't take long for him to find the wind scar and cut the youkai right down the center, sending silvery feathers flying in all directions.
The girl seemed equally at ease, swinging around gracefully to clout the youkai in the back of its head with her staff before swinging around again to prod it as hard as she could in the stomach, then striking at it with her staff again, seemingly to pop it- its body exploded sending foul smelling liquid all over.
Amid it all the girl and Inu-Yasha had ended up staring at one another again, but this time, Inu-Yasha just sheathed his sword and crossed his arms, appraising her, and she in turn shifted to defensive position and knocked her hips, watching him.
"You are an enemy of Naraku?" she said calmly.
"Yeah...you looked like you didn't like him yourself..." he answered, lifting an eyebrow,
"Just who are you anyways?" he finished, sticking his hands in his sleeves when he decided she wouldn't attack.
"They call me Kai" she said amusedly, "Who are you..?"
"I'm Inu-Yasha" he said simply and haughtily, causing her to force back a snicker at his arrogance.
"Okay Inu-Yasha I have nothing more to say to you... Ja-ne!" she said, turning around and walking towards the woods.
"Hey wait!" cried Sango abruptly, "Why don't you come with us? I mean, we're all fighting Naraku here...you'd be a valuable asset" she said comfortably, appraising Kai as if checking out a piece of meat at the market. Kai turned and looked at Sango carefully, looked at the sky as if checking out the time of day, then shrugging said,
"Heh, Why not... I'm bored enough..." she nodded, "Alright...I'll travel with you, but only till we kill naraku. Then you're on your own...and don't expect me to give up my jewel shards..."
"Those were OURS to begin with!" snarled Inu-Yasha, "And we won't give up any we get in the future either!" he snapped, earning him a haughty sniff.
"Mine now..." she retorted, "And that's fine. I'll take 'em from you anyways..." she said wiggling a finger at him provocatively.
Inu-yasha promptly launched at her, swinging his claws at her angrily, even as she tried to pull the hand with the shards away he had grabbed them and was promptly racing off cackling insanely for some reason.
As the argument broke out a new chapter was opened in the battle against Naraku as Kai joined the fray...
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((R&R!!!! I LIKE this chapter so much more XD finally! A good one!!
Me- Woo hoo!
Inu- O.o SHE BEAT ME!?
Me- uhhh...No! Of course not!
Inu- Yes she did! You're playing favorites!!!
Me- Uh...No I'm not..?
Inu- glare
Neo- Haha... Kai KILLED you!
Kai- nod nod So I did...
Neo- so, do I get to see you next chapter?
Kai- Nawww, you and Sess get better acquainted and I meet that "Kagome" girl...
Neo- Yay maybe I'll finally get to beat that jerk in a word game or something... Anything to show that I'm smarter than him in every way!
Kai- doubt it... and what a sad sad goal...
Neo- thanks for the vote of confidence....
Kai- No prob
Inu- She was being sarcastic o.O;;
Neo- DUH!
Kai- o.O really...?
Me- Uh..yeah...more later! REVIEW!!!!))