The Demon Known as Kagome
Chapter 14
--- ------ ----- ----- Last Time ----- -------- --------- Inu Yasha sheathed his sword and took Kagome from the demon with a protective and disgusted look. Shippo put away the flames around his hands and Sango moved closer to Kilala with Miroku behind her. ------- ------------ ------------- ----------
Kagome listened to the voices that were faded from her sense of hearing. She heard Sango, Miroku and Kilala's voices, but one she did not recognize and one she didn't hear. She listened for Inu Yasha voice, but there was no trace of it. She felt warm as if being held and she blinked open her eyes.
Inu Yasha looked down at her and smiled slightly. Sango and Miroku looked at Kagome and Inu Yasha. Kagome slowly looked up to him a bit woozy. His smile widened as she looked at him.
'He looks truly happy,' Miroku and Sango thought.
"How do you feel?" Inu Yasha asked.
"Not too bad," she responded.
"Kagome.," Kilala said. She looked at Kagome with a serious yet sorry face. Kagome turned her head to Kilala and rested against Inu Yasha for support.
"Yes Kilala?" Kagome asked, blinking a few times as she did so.
"I'm sorry for what I did.. and thank you," Kilala said slowly.
"It's fine," Kagome said with a smile, "and your welcome."
Kilala smiled and turned to the other cat demon. He looked at her and was about to speak, but Kilala stopped him. "His name is Hanto," she said, gesturing to the demon male, "I found him here. injured. I could smell his sent all the way from camp. I came to find him and when I did I returned. Then I asked Kagome to come and heal him, since there would have been a risk in moving him of causing more damage or pain. I am sorry if I caused you to worry Inu Yasha." She looked to him.
"It's fine. All you needed to do was tell us and ask," he said truthfully, unblinkingly. Kilala was holding Hanto's hand and Sango and Miroku both noticed and were whispering to each other.
"Mind sharing with the rest of us?" Inu Yasha asked, with a bit of a paranoid look on his face.
"Huh? Oh. no," Miroku said waving his hand in front of his face. He sat back up instead of leaning close to Sango to whisper. Inu Yasha raised a brow. Kagome giggled to herself.
"Shall we return then?" Sango asked.
"Yes. that would be a wise decision," Miroku commented.
"Shall you be joining us Hanto?" Kagome asked.
Hanto looked at her and everyone else looked at him. He turned to Kilala, but she was looking at Inu Yasha as if asking his permission. He, too, turned to him.
"All right," Inu Yasha said, since everyone had been staring at him now. Kagome stood up and moved towards Sango. Sango smiled to her friend and from behind her came the strong arms of Miroku and Sango was in his carrying embrace. Kilala and Hanto transformed back into their cat forms and were ready to go.
Kagome asked Kilala if she could ride on her back just when Inu Yasha was about to pick her up and carry her. He looked sort of hurt, but let it go. Kagome jumped onto Kilala's back and Inu Yasha ran into the lead, who was followed by Kilala and Kagome, then Hanto and last was Sango and Miroku. Neither of them were in a rush to get back.
They reached the others in no time and introduced Hanto to the others and told them what had happened. Rin and Heisei seemed interested and the others just kind of listened.
"And this. is Sesshomaru," Kagome said. He was the last to be introduced to Hanto. Sesshomaru simply had no emotion, other than a blink.
"Kagome. I believe it is time that I should return to the village," Kiade said out of nowhere. Kagome turned her head.
"If that is what you feel you should do," she said calmly. Kiade nodded, said goodbye and disappeared through the trees towards the village. Kagome smiled after her. Kagome noticed that Kiade forgot her long bow, which was unusually powerful, and her quiver of blue feathered arrows. She found a note with them. She read:
Kagome,
Please make good use of these on your quest. They will be of much more use to you than they ever would me. Please get along with Inu Yasha. You both have a hard factor to overcome in the near future. I can sense it. I hope to see you all at the village soon.
Kiade
Kagome showed the note to Inu Yasha with a frown. Inu Yasha read over the note, too. He was surprised by Kiade's request and comment about the future. He looked to Kagome.
"Kagome. don't worry. I love you and won't let anything happen to you," he said as he moved to face her. He moved a strand of hair from her face and her expression softened a bit, "I promise." Sango and Miroku looked to each other and Sango blushed.
Kagome smiled and gave him a quick kiss. She looked around for the girls, but could not find Heisei. In fact Shippo was missing, too.
"Inu Yasha." she said.
"Yes," he responded.
"Where are Shippo and Heisei?" she asked as she turned to face him again.
"I don't know," he said and he started to look around.
"The foxes left a little while ago," Sesshomaru said with his still stoic expression, but he seemed to be watching Rin.
"Where did they go?" Sango asked.
"I believe I know," Miroku said as he sniffed the air. Sango and Inu Yasha sniffed it, too. Inu Yasha wrinkled his nose at the smell, Sango looked at Miroku who smirked and Kagome used her ears to listen.
A half an hour later Shippo and Heisei came back holding hands, but no one said anything. Shippo looked at Miroku who was smirking the entire time.
"What's up with you monk?" Shippo asked. Miroku started to laugh because he couldn't hold it in any longer. Kagome, Sango and Lanuta all giggled and Ganu smiled. The others just looked from him to Heisei.
"So. kit where have you been all this time?" Inu Yasha asked with a slowly creeping smirk appearing on his face.
"That is none of your business Inu Yasha," Shippo retorted.
"Do not worry Shippo. we all know where you have been and what you have been up to," Miroku said taking a moment from his laughing. Shippo and Heisei blushed a bright red and moved away from everybody else.
"Sango do you want to go to the hot springs with me?" Kagome asked.
"Sure Kagome. Kilala? Do you want to come?" Sango turned to her.
"Yes. a bath would be nice," she commented.
"What about you? Lanuta? Heisei?" she said to Rin. Rin looked to them and they all nodded.
"You mean your all going?" Inu Yasha and Miroku asked at the same time.
"It's much better to have company," Kagome said with a smile.
"That's a little bit more than company. don't you think?" Miroku asked.
"Nonsense," Sango said, "you all stay here."
"Yeah. if we hear any of you coming after us, you'll be in deep shit," Kagome said with a strong tone, "one more thing. here Inu Yasha." She gave him the jewel shards for safe keeping.
"We can go now Kagome," Sango said.
"Right. let me grab my things," she said with a smile to the others. She grabbed her bag and turned to leave with the others. They had to walk about a mile to get to the closet one, but none of them minded. When the girls got there they all got ready to get in the hot spring, but in the process they were attacked.
From every side demons and Naraku's poisonous insects came running or flying at them. Kilala immediately transformed into her cat form and Sango was throwing her boomerang, but it was not helping much. Lanuta, Heisei and Rin were fighting them off as much as they could and Kagome was creating a barrier to protect them. It took about five minutes to create a strong and big enough one, plus being interrupted by the demons didn't help. By then all the others were knocked out and Kagome was exhausted, with her barrier flickering. Naraku stood outside the barrier, waiting. Kilala managed to wake. She stumbled in her cat form towards the direction of the guys with an insect of Naraku's in her mouth. Kagome at last feinted and the barrier faded. Naraku stepped towards her and the demons around him picked up the others. He himself picked up Kagome. Naraku let Kilala go to get the others to come after him and his new prisoners. He vanished along with Kagome, his demons and all the other girls except Kilala. "Where are they?" Inu Yasha asked impatiently. "Leave them be Inu Yasha," Miroku said wisely as he poked the fire a few times. Kilala managed to walk about five minutes from the hot spring. They had been fighting a while and it was dark now. She released the loudest growl she could, hoping the others would hear it and feinted onto her wounded left shoulder in her demon form. "Inu Yasha! Did you hear that?" Shippo asked as he stood. "I did. It sounded like Kilala," Inu Yasha said as he stood bolt upright. Sesshomaru was already up followed by Miroku, Ganu and Hanto. They put out the fire in a hurry. The moon was almost full and shining like it was the sun, so they could see clearly. They ran in the direction that the girls had left. Running for about 10 minutes they finally found Kilala. Hanto was by her side in a flash and was stroking her side. Inu Yasha bent down noticing something in her mouth and pulled it out from her jaws. Kilala whimpered and transformed back into her human form. Miroku smelled blood and told Hanto to carefully roll her onto her back. Hanto did and when they saw her side there was a clean gash. The wound did not look too serious, but plenty enough to cause pain. Miroku got a bandage from somewhere and Hanto carefully fixed her wound. Inu Yasha had been examining the object. When he figured out what it was he gave a pure look of hatred, pain, anger, loss and disappointment. He was disappointed with himself that he let Kagome be taken by Naraku. His eyes turned crimson and he growled menacingly. Miroku almost ran for he truly scared him when he saw the look Inu Yasha gave. Inu Yasha's eyes slowly flickered back to normal, but not without a great effort from Shippo, Miroku and Inu Yasha. "Naraku.," Inu Yasha said very slowly through gritted teeth. "Does that mean that that is.," Shippo commented. "Yes. it does Shippo," Miroku said, "That is Naraku's insect and Naraku has Kagome, Sango, Rin, Lanuta and Heisei." Sesshomaru growled, but not quite as bad as Inu Yasha. Shippo's hands were already glowing from the flames and Hanto was growling at this Naraku person, too, for what he had done to Kilala. Kilala took a few gasps of breath and tried her best to speak. "That. way," she said pointing in the direction she had come from. Everyone looked at her in surprise. Hanto picked her up and moved in the direction that she had indicated. When they reached the little clearing demon pieces and other things, that belonged to the girls, were strung around the battle scene. The smell of Naraku and the others was still strong. Shippo pulled something from Kagome's pack and placed it onto Kilala's wound. He said a few words and the bleeding stopped. The wound had totally disappeared. Inu Yasha sniffed around and decided that they had not left very long ago 10 minutes tops. Hanto placed Kilala on the ground. Inu Yasha told everyone that it would be best to follow right after them because they could lose the trail easily. To Inu Yasha's surprise Sesshomaru pointed out a trail of pink energy. "That's Kagome's energy!" Shippo said. "We can follow this instead Inu Yasha," Miroku pointed out. "Let's go then. I don't want them to be with Naraku, too, long," Inu Yasha said, still filled with anger. Kagome at the time being was still unconscious, but knew what she was doing. She had to lead the others to find them. no matter the cost. 'Inu Yasha.please hurry,' she thought. 'Kagome.hold on. I'm on the way. I'll find you as fast as I can. and when I do Naraku will be dead!' Inu Yasha said to himself as they ran after Naraku.
Chapter 14
--- ------ ----- ----- Last Time ----- -------- --------- Inu Yasha sheathed his sword and took Kagome from the demon with a protective and disgusted look. Shippo put away the flames around his hands and Sango moved closer to Kilala with Miroku behind her. ------- ------------ ------------- ----------
Kagome listened to the voices that were faded from her sense of hearing. She heard Sango, Miroku and Kilala's voices, but one she did not recognize and one she didn't hear. She listened for Inu Yasha voice, but there was no trace of it. She felt warm as if being held and she blinked open her eyes.
Inu Yasha looked down at her and smiled slightly. Sango and Miroku looked at Kagome and Inu Yasha. Kagome slowly looked up to him a bit woozy. His smile widened as she looked at him.
'He looks truly happy,' Miroku and Sango thought.
"How do you feel?" Inu Yasha asked.
"Not too bad," she responded.
"Kagome.," Kilala said. She looked at Kagome with a serious yet sorry face. Kagome turned her head to Kilala and rested against Inu Yasha for support.
"Yes Kilala?" Kagome asked, blinking a few times as she did so.
"I'm sorry for what I did.. and thank you," Kilala said slowly.
"It's fine," Kagome said with a smile, "and your welcome."
Kilala smiled and turned to the other cat demon. He looked at her and was about to speak, but Kilala stopped him. "His name is Hanto," she said, gesturing to the demon male, "I found him here. injured. I could smell his sent all the way from camp. I came to find him and when I did I returned. Then I asked Kagome to come and heal him, since there would have been a risk in moving him of causing more damage or pain. I am sorry if I caused you to worry Inu Yasha." She looked to him.
"It's fine. All you needed to do was tell us and ask," he said truthfully, unblinkingly. Kilala was holding Hanto's hand and Sango and Miroku both noticed and were whispering to each other.
"Mind sharing with the rest of us?" Inu Yasha asked, with a bit of a paranoid look on his face.
"Huh? Oh. no," Miroku said waving his hand in front of his face. He sat back up instead of leaning close to Sango to whisper. Inu Yasha raised a brow. Kagome giggled to herself.
"Shall we return then?" Sango asked.
"Yes. that would be a wise decision," Miroku commented.
"Shall you be joining us Hanto?" Kagome asked.
Hanto looked at her and everyone else looked at him. He turned to Kilala, but she was looking at Inu Yasha as if asking his permission. He, too, turned to him.
"All right," Inu Yasha said, since everyone had been staring at him now. Kagome stood up and moved towards Sango. Sango smiled to her friend and from behind her came the strong arms of Miroku and Sango was in his carrying embrace. Kilala and Hanto transformed back into their cat forms and were ready to go.
Kagome asked Kilala if she could ride on her back just when Inu Yasha was about to pick her up and carry her. He looked sort of hurt, but let it go. Kagome jumped onto Kilala's back and Inu Yasha ran into the lead, who was followed by Kilala and Kagome, then Hanto and last was Sango and Miroku. Neither of them were in a rush to get back.
They reached the others in no time and introduced Hanto to the others and told them what had happened. Rin and Heisei seemed interested and the others just kind of listened.
"And this. is Sesshomaru," Kagome said. He was the last to be introduced to Hanto. Sesshomaru simply had no emotion, other than a blink.
"Kagome. I believe it is time that I should return to the village," Kiade said out of nowhere. Kagome turned her head.
"If that is what you feel you should do," she said calmly. Kiade nodded, said goodbye and disappeared through the trees towards the village. Kagome smiled after her. Kagome noticed that Kiade forgot her long bow, which was unusually powerful, and her quiver of blue feathered arrows. She found a note with them. She read:
Kagome,
Please make good use of these on your quest. They will be of much more use to you than they ever would me. Please get along with Inu Yasha. You both have a hard factor to overcome in the near future. I can sense it. I hope to see you all at the village soon.
Kiade
Kagome showed the note to Inu Yasha with a frown. Inu Yasha read over the note, too. He was surprised by Kiade's request and comment about the future. He looked to Kagome.
"Kagome. don't worry. I love you and won't let anything happen to you," he said as he moved to face her. He moved a strand of hair from her face and her expression softened a bit, "I promise." Sango and Miroku looked to each other and Sango blushed.
Kagome smiled and gave him a quick kiss. She looked around for the girls, but could not find Heisei. In fact Shippo was missing, too.
"Inu Yasha." she said.
"Yes," he responded.
"Where are Shippo and Heisei?" she asked as she turned to face him again.
"I don't know," he said and he started to look around.
"The foxes left a little while ago," Sesshomaru said with his still stoic expression, but he seemed to be watching Rin.
"Where did they go?" Sango asked.
"I believe I know," Miroku said as he sniffed the air. Sango and Inu Yasha sniffed it, too. Inu Yasha wrinkled his nose at the smell, Sango looked at Miroku who smirked and Kagome used her ears to listen.
A half an hour later Shippo and Heisei came back holding hands, but no one said anything. Shippo looked at Miroku who was smirking the entire time.
"What's up with you monk?" Shippo asked. Miroku started to laugh because he couldn't hold it in any longer. Kagome, Sango and Lanuta all giggled and Ganu smiled. The others just looked from him to Heisei.
"So. kit where have you been all this time?" Inu Yasha asked with a slowly creeping smirk appearing on his face.
"That is none of your business Inu Yasha," Shippo retorted.
"Do not worry Shippo. we all know where you have been and what you have been up to," Miroku said taking a moment from his laughing. Shippo and Heisei blushed a bright red and moved away from everybody else.
"Sango do you want to go to the hot springs with me?" Kagome asked.
"Sure Kagome. Kilala? Do you want to come?" Sango turned to her.
"Yes. a bath would be nice," she commented.
"What about you? Lanuta? Heisei?" she said to Rin. Rin looked to them and they all nodded.
"You mean your all going?" Inu Yasha and Miroku asked at the same time.
"It's much better to have company," Kagome said with a smile.
"That's a little bit more than company. don't you think?" Miroku asked.
"Nonsense," Sango said, "you all stay here."
"Yeah. if we hear any of you coming after us, you'll be in deep shit," Kagome said with a strong tone, "one more thing. here Inu Yasha." She gave him the jewel shards for safe keeping.
"We can go now Kagome," Sango said.
"Right. let me grab my things," she said with a smile to the others. She grabbed her bag and turned to leave with the others. They had to walk about a mile to get to the closet one, but none of them minded. When the girls got there they all got ready to get in the hot spring, but in the process they were attacked.
From every side demons and Naraku's poisonous insects came running or flying at them. Kilala immediately transformed into her cat form and Sango was throwing her boomerang, but it was not helping much. Lanuta, Heisei and Rin were fighting them off as much as they could and Kagome was creating a barrier to protect them. It took about five minutes to create a strong and big enough one, plus being interrupted by the demons didn't help. By then all the others were knocked out and Kagome was exhausted, with her barrier flickering. Naraku stood outside the barrier, waiting. Kilala managed to wake. She stumbled in her cat form towards the direction of the guys with an insect of Naraku's in her mouth. Kagome at last feinted and the barrier faded. Naraku stepped towards her and the demons around him picked up the others. He himself picked up Kagome. Naraku let Kilala go to get the others to come after him and his new prisoners. He vanished along with Kagome, his demons and all the other girls except Kilala. "Where are they?" Inu Yasha asked impatiently. "Leave them be Inu Yasha," Miroku said wisely as he poked the fire a few times. Kilala managed to walk about five minutes from the hot spring. They had been fighting a while and it was dark now. She released the loudest growl she could, hoping the others would hear it and feinted onto her wounded left shoulder in her demon form. "Inu Yasha! Did you hear that?" Shippo asked as he stood. "I did. It sounded like Kilala," Inu Yasha said as he stood bolt upright. Sesshomaru was already up followed by Miroku, Ganu and Hanto. They put out the fire in a hurry. The moon was almost full and shining like it was the sun, so they could see clearly. They ran in the direction that the girls had left. Running for about 10 minutes they finally found Kilala. Hanto was by her side in a flash and was stroking her side. Inu Yasha bent down noticing something in her mouth and pulled it out from her jaws. Kilala whimpered and transformed back into her human form. Miroku smelled blood and told Hanto to carefully roll her onto her back. Hanto did and when they saw her side there was a clean gash. The wound did not look too serious, but plenty enough to cause pain. Miroku got a bandage from somewhere and Hanto carefully fixed her wound. Inu Yasha had been examining the object. When he figured out what it was he gave a pure look of hatred, pain, anger, loss and disappointment. He was disappointed with himself that he let Kagome be taken by Naraku. His eyes turned crimson and he growled menacingly. Miroku almost ran for he truly scared him when he saw the look Inu Yasha gave. Inu Yasha's eyes slowly flickered back to normal, but not without a great effort from Shippo, Miroku and Inu Yasha. "Naraku.," Inu Yasha said very slowly through gritted teeth. "Does that mean that that is.," Shippo commented. "Yes. it does Shippo," Miroku said, "That is Naraku's insect and Naraku has Kagome, Sango, Rin, Lanuta and Heisei." Sesshomaru growled, but not quite as bad as Inu Yasha. Shippo's hands were already glowing from the flames and Hanto was growling at this Naraku person, too, for what he had done to Kilala. Kilala took a few gasps of breath and tried her best to speak. "That. way," she said pointing in the direction she had come from. Everyone looked at her in surprise. Hanto picked her up and moved in the direction that she had indicated. When they reached the little clearing demon pieces and other things, that belonged to the girls, were strung around the battle scene. The smell of Naraku and the others was still strong. Shippo pulled something from Kagome's pack and placed it onto Kilala's wound. He said a few words and the bleeding stopped. The wound had totally disappeared. Inu Yasha sniffed around and decided that they had not left very long ago 10 minutes tops. Hanto placed Kilala on the ground. Inu Yasha told everyone that it would be best to follow right after them because they could lose the trail easily. To Inu Yasha's surprise Sesshomaru pointed out a trail of pink energy. "That's Kagome's energy!" Shippo said. "We can follow this instead Inu Yasha," Miroku pointed out. "Let's go then. I don't want them to be with Naraku, too, long," Inu Yasha said, still filled with anger. Kagome at the time being was still unconscious, but knew what she was doing. She had to lead the others to find them. no matter the cost. 'Inu Yasha.please hurry,' she thought. 'Kagome.hold on. I'm on the way. I'll find you as fast as I can. and when I do Naraku will be dead!' Inu Yasha said to himself as they ran after Naraku.