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Chapter Seventeen: Three More
The mouse lord jumped to avoid the attack. The rodent grew even larger and began to spew bright florescent green acid out of his oral cavity. Inuyasha flipped backward, feet over head, landed on his toes and recoiled away from the ingesting liquid that rushed toward him. A dark sapphire froth oozed from the vermin's fangs.
"Imbecile! You shall die!" A shing rang through the air as the huge demon mouse unsheathed his claws. The lord flew into the atmosphere and descended with the hanyou as his target. He didn't anticipate that the dog boy would move so quickly. Before the demon lord began to come close to the earth again Inuyasha leapt aiming for the rodent. His dog claws sliced through the fuzzy flesh from the nook of his legs to the top of his bulbous head. The remains fell to the ground in identical pieces. Three shiny jewel shards made there way out of the vermin's body.
"You killed the master! Damn you half breed!" screamed the throng of demons around the silver haired dog. Raspy breathing was Inuyasha's only reply. The guards dashed at the offender. They barely had a chance once he got a hold of them. The screams of the slaughtered echoed through the forest startling Kagome into consciousness.
"Inuyasha, what's going on?" the priestess breathily vocalized in wonderment.
"WIND TUNNEL!" Abruptly, many of the demon vermin were sucked back to an unknown source. Shippo appeared beside Kagome, released her, and gave her a blanket until she could get more clothes from her pack.
"Shippo, get Inuyasha his Tetsusaiga," the naked beauty demanded. The kitsune turned his fluffy head toward the silver haired one. Fear shook his small body so badly that the fox teeth chattered ferociously.
"No way Kagome, look at him, he's not himself," the red fox child informed Kagome. She also examined Inuyasha and found that the youngster was correct. His dog nose seized the odor of panic and fright that his two companions were radiating of and lunged at the couple.
"No Inuyasha, stop!!!" The usually calm Miroku shouted at the attacker. The hanyou didn't hear him, or at least recognize him, all the attention of his thoughts were on the fox demon and the priestess. Oh, what am I going to do? I know!
"SIT!!!" cried out Kagome. A thwack sounded out as dog fangs gnawed on dirt and then blackness poured over his sight.
"Kagome! Get Shippo and move out of there, the mice demons are coming back!" Miroku yelled over to the blanketed girl. Kagome collected the little fox up, dashed over to the jewel shards, and put them into the jar that Shippo had been keeping for her.
"Don't let her get away!" the mouse throng squeaked out. Shippo disappeared and with his fox magic became a giant cat demon. A snarl came from the huge feline and pounced on some of the rodents.
"Cat!!! Run!!!" the others screeched out scurrying in all directions to flee from the frightful nightmare before them. In seconds there were no mice to be seen except for the ones Shippo had pounced on that were unconscious. After all the dust settled Shippo returned to his old self. Kagome made sure she had the new jewel shards and found Tetsusaiga. Miroku made Inuyasha as comfortable as possible on his back and all three left the horrible nightmare that they had just experienced behind them.
A stinging pain jolted Inuyasha from his pleasant dream. He noticed a beautiful woman doting upon him having a very disquieted face. Her eyes were red and puffy and double bags had formed underneath her lovely russet disks. The raven locks were drawn back into a ponytail to keep it out of her face. Since losing her school uniform she put on a sunny long sleeved shirt and a deep forest skirt. He stared at the brown stains of dried blood all over her outfit.
The dog nose sniffed and the hanyou brain told him that it was his. What happened? How long have I been out? Miroku conveniently entered into the room just then.
"Kagome, it's been two days. Please sleep and I'll watch over him," Miroku whispered to her, highly concerned for her health.
"Thanks Miroku, but I can't sleep until I know he'll be okay," she replied finishing wrapping up the rest of his bandages. In her tired haze she thought that she was hallucinating when Inuyasha told her the words she needed to hear right then. "Kagome, sleep, I'll be okay," he gently said. The girl fell into a deep sleep beside him.