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' Thoughts '
"Speech "
Telepathy
----Chapter Nine----
As Inuyasha crouched down into battle position, his hand on Tetsusaiga's hilt, a strong demonic aura could be felt coming closer.
Kurama had just enough time to remind Yusuke and Hiei to use their most basic attacks before the demon appeared.
The smell of snake filled Inuyasha's nose. 'It's here, but where?' He thought as he looked along the clearings edge. The bushes to his right rustled slightly drawing his attention. At the same moment he turned his head the demon lunged from the left.
"Inuyasha look out!" Kagome yelled.
Inuyasha, hearing Kagome's yell and the approach of the demon, did a back flip just in time to keep from being squashed.
"You'll have to do better than that to kill me you filthy snake!" Inuyasha said cockily.
"You dare mock me!?" The snake hissed. It was a very large, about 40 feet long with molted green and brown scales with glowing red eyes. "you are nothing but a pathetic pup. And a hanyou no lesss." The snake laughed, causing Inuyasha to growl dangerously and draw out a fully transformed tetsuaiga.
Kurama watched the scene unfold before him, trying to spot a weakness in the enemy. Not seeing any he then looked around to see where the others were. He noticed that everyone had fanned out behind Inuyasha, everyone that is except Botan, who had taken Shippo and hidden behind a fallen log. Sango had taken to the air on Kirara and was off to the far left along with Yusuke. Miroku and Kuwabara had gone off to the right while he and Kagome, who was standing to his immediate left, had taken up the middle. Kurama then took a closer look at the tree line as he looked for Hiei. He then spotted him high up in a tree directly behind the demon. 'So Hiei wants to ambush him.' Kurama thought with a smirk.
"Kagome, where are the jewel shards?" Inuyasha yelled.
"There's two in it's forehead and one..." Kagome started to reply but was interrupted by the demons next attack. "Watch out Inuyasha!" She yelled as the demon swung it's tail out towards Inuyasha. He jumped back again, barely managing to get out of the way. "It's tail Inuyasha! There is a jewel shard in it's tail!" Kagome yelled frantically.
"Now you tell me!" Inuyasha replied.
"Foolish hanyou, do you think that you can beat me!? I Sssassseru will not be defeated by such a weakling as you!" The demon laughed arrogantly.
"Keh, so you find me amusing huh?" Inuyasha said with a smirk as a blue aura started to swirl around tetsuaiga. "Then you'll love this! Wind Scare!" Inuyasha cried as he swung the sword toward Saseru.
"Hiei?" Kurama yelled out as he watched Saseru dodge the attack with amazing speed. The blood in his veins turned to ice as he watched the streaks of yellow light reach and engulf the tree where he had seen Hiei hiding.
On the other side of the clearing Yusuke took a quick glance around to see the location of the other fighters as he prepared his Spirit Gun. As he was looking around he noticed that Hiei was nowhere in sight 'Hey, where's shorty?' He thought but quickly turned his attention to Inuyasha as he released the wind scare. 'Well, I'll defiantly be staying on his good side.' He thought. As Inuyasha's attack gained momentum everything happened at once. He heard Kurama yell Hiei's name from off to his right and Saseru moved out of the way of the attack. Yusuke realized then that Hiei had hidden in the tree line hoping to possible ambush their opponent 'Shit!' He thought. "Hiei, get out of there!" He yelled to his friend as the Wind Scare approached the tree line. He was relieved to see Hiei jump out of the way just at the tree he had been in was consumed in yellow light.
Hiei landed in a crouched position near by. As he stood up he turned angry eyes at Inuyasha, "You fool!" He cried, angry at the lost opportunity.
Kurama breathed a sigh of relief at the sight of his friend and comrade but that was short lived as Saseru prepared for another attack. This one was aimed at Hiei who was momentarily distracted. "Hiei, look out!" Kurama cried as Saseru swung his tail at Hiei with impossible speed.
Hiei, cursing himself for getting distracted, tried to dodge but was a second too slow. Saseru's tail hit his leg sending a shooting pain through out his body. He landed roughly on the ground, unable to stand because of the pain.
Saseru charged for another attack but was stopped as Sango released her weapon, "Hiraikotsu!" She yelled. Saseru had to recoil onto himself to keep from being hit by the large boomerang, which gave his opponents and opportunity to get to their fallen comrade.
Inuyasha was the first to reach Hiei and took a defensive stance before him. "Bring it on you filthy snake! You want him? You gotta get threw me first!" He yelled cockily.
Yusuke who had been running to help Hiei stopped and fired up his spirit gun when he saw that Saseru was going to attack again and took aim.
Enraged, Saseru lunged towards Inuyasha. He had his mouth open which showed his long fangs.
Yusuke chose that moment to released his attack "Spirit Gun!" He yelled.
Inuyasha smirked as Saseru was caught in a blinding blue light. 'Not bad for a human.' He thought as the light faded to reveal nothing but dust and three glistening shards on the ground. He sheathed his sword as everyone rushed over.
"Hiei, are you alright?" Yusuke asked.
"You didn't get hurt too bad did ya?" Kuwabara asked.
Hiei let out a frustrated growl before anyone else could speak. "I'm fine!" He said angrily looking at Yusuke and Kuwabara. He then turned his attention to Inuyasha who was standing a couple of feet away looking down at him. "I didn't need or ask for your help!" He said.
"Right. And you wanted to find out first hand how a snakes digestive system works too huh?" Inuyasha said sarcastically as he turned to go and gather up the jewel shards.
Kagome, who had gotten her bag of medical supplies, had just reached the group along with Botan and Shippo as Inuyasha started to walk away.
Suddenly, a strong wind appeared and everyone braced themselves against it. After a moment, the winds died down, and standing where Saseru had been, stood a dark haired woman. Her hair was pulled up and she wore a white and magenta kimono, which matched her magenta eyes. She also had a white and magenta fan, which she was lazily tapping against her chin as she smirked at the group before her.
"Kagura!" Inuyasha growled, causing the spirit detective team to tense up. Yusuke and Kurama glanced at each other for a moment and with a silent nod of understanding got into a defensive position in front of the group.
"Inuyasha, it looks like you have found some more playmates." Kagura said as her eyes quickly scanned over the group behind him.
"Shut up Kagura! What do you want?" Inuyasha growled in return.
"Is that anyway to treat a guest?" Kagura scolded.
"Your no guest, no what do you want!?" Inuyasha impatiently demanded.
Kagura laughed at that. "Foolish hanyou, I should be asking you that! Though I already know the answer."
"What do you mean?" Inuyasha growled.
"You came here looking for these didn't you?" Kagura asked, smirking as she held out her hand and opened it to reveal three jewel shards.
"Those are ours!!" Inuyasha yelled as he took out tetsuaiga again.
"We traveled a long way for those, I would appreciate if you gave them to us." Kurama said, getting angry himself.
"Yeah, we didn't come all this way to leave empty handed." Yusuke said as he narrowed his eyes at Kagura.
"Enough of this!" Inuyasha said as he started to charge toward Kagura.
"You really think I'm going to let you take the shards from me?" Kagura said as she raised her fan into the air. "Dance of Blades!" She said as she swung her fan in an arc towards the ground sending circular white blades of light toward Inuyasha and the group behind him.
Kagome, using as much strength as she could muster put up a barrier in front of the group surrounding Hiei while Yusuke, Kurama and Inuyasha had to dodge the attack. Yusuke, who had underestimated the attack, ended up getting a deep gash on his right arm.
When the attack was over, everyone looked to the spot where Kagura was standing to find her gone. Upon looking up, they could see her flying away on a gigantic feather.
"Damn it! Get back here you coward!" Inuyasha yelled at her retreating form.
Miroku walked over to Inuyasha and laid a calming hand on his arm. "Inuyasha, we need to get Hiei's leg taken care of. We will have to worry about Kagura later." He said.
Inuyasha growled but put away his sword anyway. "Fine." He said and turned back to the others.
Kurama and Yusuke stopped a few feet away from the rest of the group for a moment. "I hate to say this but I can see why Koenma sent us here." Yusuke said as he held his right arm.
"I know, and I'm afraid that this mission is going to be a lot harder that we expected." Kurama said thoughtfully. "Come on Yusuke, lets get your arm wrapped." He said as he joined the group again.