Fantasy-Seal: I'm back sorry about the really long wait on my chapters, I have gotten major writers block, and the only way to undo it was to eat chocolate chip cookies. You think its weird right? Well it was the only thing that had helped me in my writer's block.
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Chapter 11: Questions Arise
A demon of miraculous proportion stood before them, it had long spikes coming out of its back, a clawed hand which was now bloody, piercing red eyes, and coming out of its mouth were demons, hundreds of them. The demon had a brunt mark on it's for head shaped like a half moon.
'I must find Inu Yasha, what if he's hurt, what if he's in trouble, what if. . . .' thoughts ran through Kagome's mind as she ran into the mayhem, heedless of Sango's and Kiona's pleas.
Sango ran after Kagome, not caring that she would get hurt; she'd rather see herself hurt than Kagome. "Kagome!! Get back here!!! Kagome!!!" Sango shouted to her, she ran desperately after her, he legs aching to stop but she pushed them on.
Kiona, Kina and Sora saw how the two other girls just ran into the destruction and admired their loyalty to one another and how deeply they care. All three knew what each other were thinking and ran into the mayhem as well.
Kagome finally found Inu Yasha; he was still fighting on but was injured badly. He stood beside a fully transformed Kiara, she too had injures. Miroku was sucking up all the demons that came out of its mouth, Naraku's poisonous bees weren't there so this demon wasn't a part of Naraku's horde.
As she was getting nearer to Inu Yasha, she sensed something; she looked over at the demon and saw shards of the jewel. "Inu Yasha," she yelled, catching a glance from him, signaling he was listening. "The demon has 4 shards of the jewel, one on the forehead, one on its chest, and one on each arm." Inu Yasha nodded and aimed for the parts, but each and he was about to strike down the demon it always managed to dodge it.
"Damn demon," cursed Inu Yasha, each time the demon dodged his Tetsusaiga you might have heard a few strings of curses coming from his mouth. 'Why the hell is he so fast? If he isn't Naraku's dispatch them what exactly is he battling us for? Well he might just be some demon who just happened to want the shards, so I guess that's his reason.'
Sango came soon after Kagome did; she quickly took up a position beside Kiara, Hiraikotsu in her hand ready.
Kiona, Kina, and Sora came as well, Kiona had her katana out the flames surrounding it, and Kina on the other hand had a doubled-ended lance which came out of no where. Sora had her katana out as well, it too had flames surrounding it but it wasn't like Kiona's which were red flames, Sora's had blue flames.
The three saw that Inu Yasha was having trouble with the demon, because of its speed so they decided to join in the fun.
Kiona disappeared from Kina's side, only to appear in front of the demons face, "You like to dance demon?" asked Kiona menacingly, a black veil covering her face, her eyes blended in with the fabric so that it seemed like she had no eyes. (AN: Which would have freaked me out.) Kiona's katana still had flames licking its blade, in one swift move she managed to hit the demon on the face and across its chest.
Kina came in twirling her lance; she too had a veil over her face. "Your dance is undignified demon, but one can expect it from one such as yourself," she said icy cold, which of course surprised the Inu gang. They thought that a girl like Kina could never be like that, I mean she was a nice and cute girl, but now it was replaced by an icy cold demeanor of a deadly and skilled warrior.
Kina's appeared above the demon's head and twirled her lance so that it was nothing but a blur, as she was falling her whole lance was aflame, she was still twirling the lance skillfully as she made sure that each rotation hit the demons face.
Now it was Sora's turn, a mask covering her face her katana still surrounded with blue flames, she quickly ran towards the demon as Kiona and Kina distracted it from her. She quickly slashed at the demons legs cutting it down so that it couldn't move at all. Then aimed for its arms, in seconds one of its arms fell lifelessly to the ground, or as it seemed.
The other arm quickly reached out and slashed Kina; she didn't see it because the arm that was on the ground began to twitch then all of a sudden before she could've sliced the twitching arm, she felt claws slash her back and her legs, "Aaaaahhh!"
Kiona turned swiftly around the too-familiar scream catching her attention, she gasped "Kina!" she ran swifter than before, she caught Kina before she had hit the ground. Kina gasped as she felt something rub against her wounds, which turned out to be her big sisters kimono.
Kina grasped Kiona's hand, "Kiona . . . . . don't worry about me. . . . Finish the demon off . . . Before the town gets destroyed. . ." Kiona squeezed Kina's hand and laid her gently on the ground before turning back to the demon.
A something hot prickled the back of Kiona's eyes, 'on one, and I mean ON ONE HURTS MY LITTLE SISTER!!' Kiona's hands formed a fist, her kind and gentle aura changed to anger and fury. Her black eyes turned blood red, her hair waving wildly from the energy of her aura. "No one hurts my little sister and gets away with it!!!" Kiona attacked the demon with her all; the demon was taken back at her anger of her attack.
She slashed with her claws or her sword. Her sword gleamed brightly as it turned into fire in the shape of a sword. Only one thought ran through Kiona's mind as she slashed and hacked at the demon: 'Kill the demon who hurt Kina.'
'Kagome said something about shards of the jewel, on each arm, and one on the chest and on the head. . . .Hmmmm . . . . . I can deal with the arms swiftly but the head and the chest will be easy when the arms are gone.' With that Kiona swiftly took out the only arm attached and slashed both of the arms that were on the ground to bits; blood sprayed every where from Kiona slashing and all. Soon after Inu Yasha came with Kagome on his back and they took he jewel shards and quickly left once again.
Sora saw that she would be just getting in the way if she tried to help Kiona so instead she carefully tended to Kina, who by now has a pained expression on her face as dirt found their way into her wounds. Sango and the man named Miroku soon came over. Sango was carrying a blanket which she put on the ground and put Kina on it so that she wouldn't be uncomfortable.
Miroku brought the First Aid kit from Kagome's bag and gave it to Sango; he knew this wasn't a good time to be perverted so he just stood over them, acting guard in case the demon came over.
'The demon just keeps on regenerating when ever I struck down on it, I guess that its time to pull out a few more tricks to ensure my victory.' Every body watched as Kiona stood squarely in front of the demon, red tendrils wove their way into her body making her glow a deep red.
She jumped up, her sword arching down towards the demons head, all of a sudden flames appeared on the ground and formed a circle around the demon as Kiona struck down, and the flames on the ground closed in on the demon and enveloped it in its fiery flames. Kiona finished her stroke, behind her the demon fell apart to pieces, the flames surrounding the demon diminished, and leaving nothing charred or burnt.
Kagome quickly took the rest of the shards from the demon's remains and added it in the jar. Kiona tried to get up but fell down, the power of the attack made her weak. Kagome helped Kiona get up and headed for the place where Kina was.
Kiona changed back to her normal self, her eyes are back to being black and her aura turned back into the normal kind and loving self. "She is ok?" asked Kiona, crystal tears once more falling from her face. Her bloodied hand holding Kina's small and clean hand.
Kina's eyes fluttered open as she heard Kiona and felt tears falling on to her hand, she smiled, she was touched by how much her sister cared for her, "I'm fine, my guard just fell down only for an instant, don't worry I'll be fine. I just need to train more. And I need to rest for a bit as well." Kina's smile lit up everything, including Kiona's face, a smile appeared weakly on her face.
Kiara came over still transformed, she meowed to show her presence.
Sango whispered softly, "Do you want to carry your sister or do you want Kiara too?"
Kiona didn't any answer instead she got up holding her Kina in her arms, bridal style. They made their way around the town; Kiona cringed seeing all the damage that the demon did. 'Great more work for father, he's going to be more stressed then he is now.' She sighed.
Sora put a comforting arm around Kiona whispering, "She's going to be alright she's a strong girl, after all she does take after you." Kiona smiled, and nodded a thank you. "Its true you know I do take after you, Kiona," said Kina. "After all you're my big sister, I look up to you." Kina snuggled in Kiona's arms despite her wounds. Kina giggled when Kiona took her opportunity to tickle her on the sides.
"Stop it Kiona!" pleaded Kina, in between her giggles. "Fine since you won't stop; I guess I have to fight fire with fire. Or in this case I'll fight tickle with tickle." So with that said Kina and Kiona had a tickle fight.
The two sisters were so focused on one another and oblivious to everything else that they didn't notice that they had an audience.
Every body smiled at the two sisters, their love for one another was touching. They didn't say anything; all of them didn't want to spoil the cute scene before their eyes. In their minds were either 'awwww' or 'that's so cute'. Heck even Shippo was quiet, although he had a look of longing on his cute face.
Kiona being the sister she is let Kina win this tickle fight. Kina was now dancing around chanting, "I won, I beat Kiona, I won, I won. . . . ." And so on.
Every body laughed and made their way once again, this time led by smug-faced Sora.
Kiona looked up her gaze questioning Sora, "Why do you have a smug look on your face Sora?"
"That fact that before you didn't ever show affection for Kina, but now you do. I believe that you have kept your promise?" stated Sora, in a matter-of-fact way. Kiona gave her a look that said 'Well, duh. Can't you tell?' Sora giggled and continued to walk ahead.
Kina slowly caught up to Sora, who had a frown on her face. The areas around them were in ruins. Demons mainly parents were looking for their beloved family members who scattered in different directions during the attack. Little children looking around wondering what was happening to the area around them.
"Don't worry my dad will fix this," said Kina reassuringly. She flashed a quick smile at Sora to back up what she had just said. Then a thought struck her, 'Where IS daddy?' Kina began looking around franticly as she looked for her father.
Kiona smelled Kina's worry and put a reassuring hand on her shoulder, calming her down. "We'll find dad don't worry. I'm sure he's fine, I mean he is dad." Kina nodded but she still looked around for any sign of Jiokhan.
Jiokhan helped a little child find their parents, as he and the child were walking he saw his two daughters. He didn't need to signify he was there because they already know.
Kina still looked around, but she stopped as she felt a familiar presence to her right, she knew that it was her father, so she relaxed and tried to pin point the exact location but failed. 'At least I know that he's ok.'
Kiona saw a glimpse of her father before he had gone, she instead of following him she went the other way, the way to her house. 'We might as well rest up, before we start helping out in the village.'
They made their way to the house and went up to their rooms for a quick nap.
A Few Hours Later
Kagome woke up from the bright sun filtering through the windows. Kagome looked over to the futon that Sango was sleeping in. Sango's back was facing Kagome so she couldn't really tell if she was sleeping or not. Kagome yawned then got up and stretched.
'I wonder what I should do today. Probably help out in the village. The rest would help as well, willingly or not.' She stretched some more then finally made her way out the door and into the hall way. She then walked out of the house only to find Kiona and Kina helping the villagers.
Both sisters had their hands full with planks of wood and tools. They both smiled and nodded at Kagome who did the same and helped them with their work.
After a while Miroku, Inu Yasha, and Sango came out and helped as well. Shippo and Kiara on the hand were already outside even before Kagome came out. Kiara was in her transformed form and was helping carry the heavy things and Shippo carried a few smaller planks of wood.
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The day soon came to a close; a good amount of the damage during the attack was fixed.
"Give it a few more days and the village will be fixed," said Kiona, wiping her brow.
Kina just nodded she was lying on a flat rock her hands behind her head as she looked up to the sky.
The Inu gang with Kiona and Kina went back inside Jiokhan's house. They headed for the dining room and found Jiokhan, sitting down drinking a cup of tea. Kiona and Kina came up and hugged their father, then sitting down beside him.
The Inu gang gratefully sat down and ate the mean set up before them.
A sudden thought went through Kagome's mind, she voiced it out loud hoping that some one had an answer, "How did the demon get those shards and how did it know that we were here?"
Jiokhan, Kiona, and Kina looked at each other no words came from their mouths. Jiokhan spoke for them, "The demon you fought is from an enemy of ours. His name is Kurushimi. He has long rivaled out tribe. I believe he has joined forces with Naraku,"
Kiona looked at Jiokhan, her mouth a gape, "Why didn't you tell me this" she asked.
Jiokhan sighed, "I knew that you'd be asking. I didn't tell you because you have enough to worry about. So I only told you about Naraku and not about that fact that he has joined forces with our enemy. I know that you have sworn to kill Kurushimi, so I am giving you the chance by going with them (He means the Inu gang)."
The members of the Inu gang watched as Kiona looked at her father and nodded, and then looked down her eyes glassy, meaning that she was in deep thought.
"What about me dad?" asked a soft voice from the opposite side of Jiokhan. Kiona's head snapped up as she recognized that voice. It was Kina.
"No Kina, it's too dangerous," said Kiona her voice leveled.
Kina pouted, "Then why do you get to go?"
"For dad said I can."
Kina turned to her dad and pleaded, "Can I go too?"
Jiokhan hesitated and glance at Kiona, her face unreadable, "You may if you wish, but I shall assign a few to look after you if need it be."
Kina beamed at her dad, but before she could have said her thanks Kiona interrupted her, "Promise me that you'll be ok, and won't let your guard down."
Kina smiled and said "Promise."
Kiona nodded and turned back to face her father, urging him to continue.
"Well I would've liked to come with you and defeat Kurushimi, but I have things to do here," sighed Jiokhan. "As you know my two daughters shall now accompany you, I do not know where Kurushimi is hiding or nether is Naraku, but I shall tell you if there is any news."
The Inu gang nodded, Inu spoke up, "Do you know which way we should head in?"
"Unfortunately I don't," said Jiokhan, depression in his voice. "Although I shall sent a few trackers to find out what they can."
The Inu gang once again nodded, and Jiokhan dismissed them and soon they left towards their rooms. Deep in thought, slowly digesting the new information, sleep over took each one of them. Each mind troubled as sleep over powered their senses, and each awoke in the middle of the night in drenched in cold sweat, from the dreams that haunt them.
Fantasy-Seal: Well that's it for this chapter! Hope you guys like it! R&R!