(10-9-04)
Silver Moon Assassin Crystal- You better not be liking Hiei, there, missy! He's off-limits. He's a God, after all. We must bow and kiss the hem of his cloak.
xkuroxshinobix- Don't worry about long times between updates now, this is the next-to-last chapter...
UnicornGirl-DragonLady- Well... Thanks for the idea! I'd hug you but I have this fear of human contact... And besides, there's the problem of not knowing where you are... Anyway... Read on... It's not exactly what you said, but...
Okami Youkai- Yup. Doom and stuff like that.
Koneko Chibi- When I have my TV turned down really low so that I can't hear anybody else's voices, Kagome's is still quite audible... Loud girl... But she's okay, I guess, as far as female characters... She needs a longer skirt though.
sanzoeclipsekuramaarehot- Wow, you have a long, confusing name... I think... No I don't! I don't think! Ahh! Don't arrest me! (I'm not allowed to think. They fear me, that's why. What? No! Ahhh! Run away!)
Flame 34- Warrior of total randomness, eh? That's a new one. Anywho... I assume you like Koga... Just a little bit... Note sarcasm.
C.C.C.- Update spoon? Is that a typo? Cuz it's a freakin' cool typo, dude...
Sugarmaster15- Pookie was a small black beetle Shadow found on the ground and started worshipping, I think. Who knows. You'd expect me too, since I wrote it, but I don't. I don't understand the ways of my mind... if I have a mind to understand... O.o
LivingImpared- I wrote more, I posted more, you better read it or I'll beat you to a pulp with your own shoe.
Carri- At some point during the summer, I was staying up late and I could have swore your legion of undead minions was outside in my yard. I wasn't about to look for fear that they really were, but I think somebody else's minions were out there too, ready to kill me. Maybe Flame 34's chipmunks...
Water-Rose- Por Favor? I'm learning Japanese, not... Er... Whatever language that is. French or Spanish or something... But anyway, I'm taking Japanese and I'm happy! You have no idea how happy it makes me when I hear words I understand, or see hiragana writing and know what it means... It makes me HAPPYYYYY! Er. Happier than I already was previous to it. I'm always happy. It bothers people.
Hedi Dracona- Me glad you likes.
Shessha's Crazy- Sounds fun!
Kitsune Klepto- He's just below the three anime Gods... (Hiei, Sesshoumaru, and Tsume being the three anime Gods.) In fact, Youko is sooo close to being the fourth anime God... I can't do that though because there's just something different about him that I can't put in the same class as the others. Maybe because of Shuichi. I dunno.
Robin Autumn- It's not all that late. I got more afterwards, so you can feel special at reviewing before them...
Twilight Oracle- :sighs: You'd think it'd be obvious I intentionally have them all OOC. How funny would it be if Hiei had slaughtered Shadow the second she'd met him? 'Cause that's what he'd have done if he was in character. Or at least he'd have beat her senseless... And you had damn well better NOT say anything about Shadow and Eclipse being OOC because they are original characters. What you see is what you get. They're in character. That's their personalities. The only way they could be OOC would be if they were acting SMART or NORMAL! Okay? Thank you.
HanyouToni- Boy, you're worse off than me. I scared away the men in white coats with my instantiy. The psychiatrists rejected me.
Draikitha- ...Potato?
Kuramakicksass- I'm a straight A student too, so far... And I haven't studied for anything in my life... Well, I think I studied for spelling tests in second grade, but I pretty much quit studying ANYTHING after that. I don't know HOW to study cuz I've never done it before! Pretty sad, ne? I probably should start studying cuz my last science test I got an 87... 94 overall grade. I have a 100 in Advanced Algebra though and that's amazing cuz I hated algebra 1 and barely passed with an A... But 7th grade was my off-year... NOT writing my stories would get me bad grades. I'd go insane. Well, moreso than I already am.
Mari Youma- Yes, bad stuff will happen... To them, not me.
CHAPTER NINE
Hell is Pink and Fluffy
The large group had long ago woke up and had been walking for at least another hour, no Shadow to be seen. Hiei seemed least concerned and at the same time totally distracted. He made some unintelligible response if somebody spoke to him and went back to zoning out. Yusuke finally declared that his detached attitude about Shadow was just a cover and that he was really searching for her every second with his Jagan.
Night was falling, they set up camp, and still no sign of the psycho half-breed girl. Eclipse muttered something about finding her shortly before falling asleep with her head on Sesshoumaru's leg.
About half an hour later, they were awakened by an odd noise, or rather, an odd variety of noises in the forest around them. There were whispers, thuds, snorts, rustles, sharp bark-like laughter, and more. One stood out, a barely distinguishable noise that had the exact same frequency as Shadow's voice. When that sound hit Hiei's ears, he stood and silently vanished into the forest.
"Wait, Hiei!" Youko said.
The sounds all got louder and more distinguished, some sounding more like voices. Then they abruptly stopped, just as Youko and Yusuke were about to enter the forest. Hiei stepped out on the other side of the path and scared the crap out of Kagome, who screeched like she was being attacked. Instantly, Inuyasha and Koga were on top of Hiei, fists back and ready to punch him.
"Don't kill me just because she's jumpy!" Hiei snapped, pushing them both off. "Jeez..."
"Sorry about that," Inuyasha said. "What was that noise?"
"Um... A bird," Hiei answered calmly, looking around at the ground distractedly like he'd dropped something.
"A bird?! What kind of bird makes that noise?" Koga asked, irritated.
"One... with feathers..." Hiei said, walking slowly around looking at the ground.
"Hiei, answer the question right," Youko said.
"Seriously! It was a little red bird with a tape player!" the fire demon said, finally looking at them. He got dirty looks.
"HIEI!"
Shadow came flying out of the forest and slammed into Hiei's back, hugging him and sending him face first into the dirt. "OH, HOW I MISSED YOU SO!"
"... You... Er... Um, Shadow?"
"Oh yeah, I forgot," Shadow said, getting up. She looked around the clearing. "You guys didn't see me, kay?" Then she did ballet jumps into the forest. Hiei got up and found himself surrounded by unhappy people glaring down at him.
"Um... Hi?"
"That was all Shadow, wasn't it?" Yusuke said.
"You were distracted all day talking to her through telepathy," Youko decided. "Where was she?"
"About twenty feet behind us and to our right at all times," Hiei answered, shrugging. "She was experimenting with energy masks, and it was successful. However, masking your energy does not make you invisible to eyes and a certain random demon noticed her, kidnapped her, raped her, I went and rescued her, and just now she managed to take about forty ballet classes and became a master over five minutes, because she's over there doing Swan Lake..."
Everybody looked at her, dancing to music in her head on the path about thirty feet away. She was oblivious until Miroku coughed. Then she froze, just as she landed from a jump. Slowly, she looked at them over her shoulder. Her eyes bugged to the size of dinner plates, she yelped like a frightened animal, and went running back into the forest on her hands.
"Are you sure she wasn't off smoking illegal substances?" Youko asked, looking down at Hiei skeptically.
"Pretty sure..."
"... I assume you were joking about her being raped, right?"
"Oh, no, I was serious," Hiei said, sounding dead serious. Everyone stared. "Yes, I'm kidding, you idiots!" Collective sigh of relief.
"Let's just get some sleep, then," Miroku said. "We need it."
Inuyasha and Koga slept as far away from each other as their arms and handcuffs allowed. Sesshoumaru had long ago given up on getting away from the girls (or at the moment, girl) who chained themselves (herself) to him, and was sleeping unhappily with Eclipse using his fluffy shoulder thingy as a pillow and a blanket. Everyone else just scattered around and slept... someplace.
They slept through the entire night after that, and Shadow danced the entire night. ALL night. Yes. She would dance out of the forest at the back of the group, do some ballet jumps, spins, flips, and end up in the forest on the other side of the wide path. Then she'd go dancing across the path ahead of the sleeping group. Then she'd come dancing out on her tiptoes and go all around every person there, do some complex ballet move when she'd looked at everyone, then dance back into the forest on her hands. It continued like this all night, and at dawn, when Sesshoumaru was the first one awake and Koga and Hiei were awake shortly after, when it was still pretty dim and Shadow looked just like a black silhouette, she continued dancing, unaware of her spectators.
When finally the sun was up past the horizon and everyone was awake, Shadow danced into the middle of the clearing and collapsed, lying spread-eagled and panting like she'd just run one hundred miles.
"What's wrong with her?" Koga asked.
"Who knows," Inuyasha muttered.
"She's been dancing for the past seven hours," Youko said, yawning. "Silently. And we all know it's a lot harder to dance silently than it is to dance loudly."
"I didn't know that," Hiei muttered tiredly, rubbing at his arm where he'd slept on it funny.
"Me neither," Yusuke said, poking Shadow from a long distance away with a stick. She just lay there without moving, her tongue hanging out of her mouth but her body absolutely motionless otherwise. "Hiei, she's not breathing."
"Hhhnnn???" Hiei said tiredly, lying down again.
"I'll handle it!" Miroku said, walking forward.
"You would," said everyone in unison.
"There's no need," Youko said. "I can take care of it."
"So could I," Yusuke said.
"I said it first!" Miroku complained, glaring at Youko and Yusuke. All three were gathered around Shadow's corpse.
"So? I'm a better friend!" Youko said.
"Not from the way she reacted yesterday when you picked her up off Hiei! She ran off screaming!"
"So? She's just weird like that sometimes! She loves me, we all know it."
"She loves Hiei," Yusuke said. "But I guess she's kinda okay with you, too."
"If she's only 'kinda okay' with me, how's she with you?" Youko snapped.
"Just because she's not all touchy-feely with me doesn't mean I can't do CPR! What if you passed out in the middle of nowhere and stopped breathing and some hobo with some sexually transmitted disease was the only one around to save your life? Would you rather die?"
"YES!" Youko snapped. "I'd only pass out and stop breathing if there was some beautiful girl around willing to resuscitate me! What reason would I have to stop breathing otherwise?"
"Maybe if you were INJURED! And DYING!"
"I'm too good to be hurt that bad," Youko said.
"You're full of it."
"You're the one with brown eyes..."
"What?"
"Shit. It's brown. You're full of it. Get it, baka?"
"Augh! You're retarded!"
"Ooooohhhhhh! Now I get it! Ha ha... That's pretty good... Except... It's mean... Man, you're evil, Youko!"
"You're retarded, Yusuke!"
"You're ALL retarded!" Hiei snapped, sitting on the ground beside Shadow. "It's a good thing I was around or she would have suffocated to death because you're all too busy ARGUING to help her!"
Youko, Yusuke, and Miroku just stared. "No fair..."
Shadow's eyes blinked open. "Who just saved my life?"
Miroku slowly pointed to Hiei.
"THANK YOU! I HAD A NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE AND HELL IS PINK AND FLUFFY! YOU RESCUED ME!" She lunged up and hugged him tightly.
"Hell is pink and fluffy?" Yusuke said cluelessly.
"Well I just assumed it was Hell. Isn't Heaven supposed to be like, wonderful? I hate pink, so if Heaven was pink, I'd rather go to Hell. At least I'd get to burn stuff..."
"I thought you didn't believe in Heaven and Hell..."
"I don't, but wouldn't it be horrible if they were real and I went to Hell and it WAS pink and fluffy? I wonder if maybe Koenma planted the image in my head. I can't think what would be worse: Living for the rest of eternity in Reikai as like, a ferry girl, or going to Hell where it's pink and fluffy. Hmm. What do you think?"
"I think now Hiei's the one that needs CPR," Youko said. Shadow looked at Hiei, suddenly realizing she'd hugged him the entire time so tightly he'd passed out.
"AHHH! I KILLED HIM! I wonder if he'll see a pink and fluffy Hell..."
"If you don't do something pretty soon, he's going to be seeing this scene from the sky, and you'll soon join him when he kills you," Yusuke said.
"SEE PEE ARE!" Shadow screamed, dropping Hiei onto his back on the ground and starting to breathe into his mouth.
"She doesn't even know what she's doing," Youko muttered.
"I'm not doing it for her," Miroku said, holding his hands in the air. "That's reserved for the pretty girls."
"Hiei could be a pretty girl, couldn't he? If you did something with his hair, muscles, and death glare... Put on some make-up and throw him in a pink frilly dress? Wouldn't he look the part of an innocent little girl?" Yusuke said. Everybody stared at him.
"That's like saying we should put Kagome in Hiei's outfit and make her jump around with a sword," Inuyasha said.
"Only about forty thousand times worse," Youko added as Hiei coughed.
"I guess there'll be no need, then," Yusuke said. "He lives."
"No need for what?" Hiei asked.
"No need to put make up on you and force you to wear a pink frilly dress so Miroku will give you CPR."
Hiei stared in horror before going totally limp again, unconscious.
"YOU KILLED HIM BEFORE HE COULD TELL ME IF HELL IS PINK AND FLUFFY FOR HIM, TOO!"
"Who's to say Hiei'd go to Hell?" Miroku asked.
"If I'm goin' to Hell, Hiei's coming with me," Shadow snapped. "He's the ex-assassin bandit person..."
"True."
"Aren't you tired after dancing silently for seven hours?" Youko asked abruptly.
"OH MY GOD, YOU'RE RIGHT!" Shadow instantly collapsed next to Hiei and started sleeping with a slight snore.
"How interesting..."
"Yes, to say the least."
"What're we gonna do with them?"
"Feed them to that oversized frog demon over there."
"FROG WHERE?" Eclipse screamed, jumping up and looking around wildly. "I SEE NO FROG! DAMN YOU, ALFONZO!"
"Alfonzo...?"
"YES, ALFONZO! IT'S YOUR NAME BECAUSE YOU MADE ME THINK THERE WAS A FROG WHEN THERE WASN'T!"
Youko blinked. "I don't like that name, though."
"Shut up, Alfonzo!"
"It's English."
"So? It's Alfonzo!"
"But... I already have a name."
"SO DOES MY BOLOGNA! MY BOLOGNA HAS A FIRST NAME, IT'S O-S-C-A-R! AND MY BOLOGNA HAS A SECOND NAME, IT'S--"
"I'll kick your ass into next Tuesday if you finish that," Youko snarled.
"Meyer?"
"I HATE YOU!"
"But Oscar Meyer has a way with b-o-l-o-g-n-a!" Eclipse whined, running from the club-toting fox.
"I DON'T GIVE A SHIT!"
"I wish I were an Oscar Meyer wiener! That is what I really wanna be! Cuz if I was an Oscar Meyer wiener, everyone would be in love with me!!!" Eclipse yelled threateningly, suddenly sitting on the opposite side of the group and about twenty meters down the path. Youko looked around and spotted her.
"YOU!" He tore after her. She yelped, jumping in the air, and ran.
"...Oscar Meyer?" Inuyasha questioned. Then he blinked and looked to his right. "Shit!"
He was once against chained to his dear-and-loving brother. Sesshoumaru looked down at him and groaned.
"Why me?"
"Why me?!" Koga asked pathetically, still chained to Inuyasha's left wrist. "What if we have to FIGHT something?!"
"We won't have to fight..." Sesshoumaru said. "As long as one of those two girls is conscious, we won't have to fight. Shadow got shot and was oblivious to the pain for the next two days unless somebody pointed it out..."
Koga stared. "... How did she do that?"
"She's so stupid, the nerve endings in her brain don't connect properly with the rest of her body and she feels no pain unless somebody tells her brain that there's something wrong with her body and she's supposed to feel pain from it."
Koga stared. "... Really?"
"Yes, really," the brothers said in unison. Then they glared at each other.
"Shut up," they said in unison. "I said it first! STOP IT!"
They glared at each other until sparks flew out their eyes. Koga stared with a sweat drop. Miroku was torn between watching Youko chase after Eclipse and watching Sesshoumaru and Inuyasha argue like little children, almost like normal brothers would. Sango and Kagome just stared at Inuyasha and his brother, their eyes twitching. Yusuke and Kuwabara were watching Eclipse get pummeled, Hiei and Shadow were asleep, and, of course, Youko was pummeling Eclipse. Shippou and Kirara were still sitting on the black horse Koi's back.
"Erm... So are we gonna like... travel... at all today...?" Kuwabara asked finally. Youko walked back to the main part of the group dragging Eclipse by her leg.
"Let's go."
"What about those two?" Yusuke asked, pointing at Hiei and Shadow.
"Wake them up if you can, if not, toss 'em over the back of that highly useful war horse Shadow decided to bring along," Youko replied, all problems solved. He dropped Eclipse on the ground next to Shadow. "Find something to do with her and her Oscar Meyer wieners..."
"Right..." Yusuke knelt beside Hiei and jabbed him in the chest a few times. "Hey, wake up! The world's coming to an end and only you can save us!"
"Do you really think he wants to save you?" Youko asked.
"Yes! We're friends!"
"Psh. Whatever."
"Fine! Hiei! Wake up! Quick! Some demon just came and beat us all into the ground and kidnapped Shadow and Yukina!"
Hiei's eyes opened slowly. "Yukina's not even here, you baka."
"Why would he care anyway?" Kuwabara asked. Yusuke ignored him.
"If Shadow and Yukina were both kidnapped by different demons and held in different places, who would you have a higher priority on rescuing?"
"What!?"
"Well, Shadow's your girlfriend and Yukina's your--"
Hiei's hand was on Yusuke's throat. "Finish that sentence and I'll tear open your neck."
"Okay, okay, jeez!" Yusuke said. He waited until Hiei had relaxed a bit before he asked again. "So who would you rescue first?"
"Yusuke! Leave me alone!"
Kuwabara was now giving them both funny looks. "What's Yukina to Hiei?"
"Shut up, Kuwabara," Yusuke said distractedly, looking at Hiei for an answer.
"Who do you think?" Hiei snapped finally.
"I don't know. You tell me."
"Yusuke, this is a stupid question and I refuse to answer in the presence of that," Hiei said, jabbing his finger against Kuwabara's forehead.
"Kuwabara, get lost."
"No!"
"Fine!" Yusuke dragged Hiei to the edge of the forest. "Answer!"
"I don't see why you couldn't guess on your own..."
"You'd probably rescue Shadow first."
"No I wouldn't, idiot! Shadow can fend for herself better than Yukina. I'd send Kurama after her if that situation ever occurred. Now, if you down mind..." The little fire demon pushed past Yusuke and went to Shadow. He kicked her in the ribs. "Wake up, stupid!"
"What have you and Yukina got to do with each other?" Kuwabara asked.
Hiei glared at Yusuke. "Look what you did, baka!" The boy smiled innocently and shrugged.
"Oops!"
"Yeah, oops, you friggin' idiot!"
Meanwhile, the feudal-era-natives and Kagome were discussing who Yukina could possibly be to infuriate him so much.
"Maybe she's his ex-girlfriend," Miroku said. "But he still has feelings for her." (AHH!)
"He said he'd rescue her before he'd rescue Shadow, though," Inuyasha said quietly. "Wouldn't he rescue his current girlfriend before he bothered with his ex?"
"Not if you're any example," Kagome muttered.
"What?"
"You still obsess over Kikyo all the time!"
"This isn't about me and Kikyo! This is about Hiei and Yukina!"
"Who's Kikyo?" Youko said distractedly.
"What do you know about Yukina?!" Hiei snapped at them.
"Not much. Is she your ex-girlfriend?"
Hiei's eyes widened. Yusuke and Youko instantly saw the need to pounce on him and pin him to the ground, and that's exactly what they did.
"I take that as a 'no'..." Miroku muttered as Hiei struggled insanely.
"I have no idea what's going on! Why is Hiei so protective and sensitive about my darling Yukina?!" Kuwabara wailed stupidly.
"Look what you did!" Hiei yelled at Yusuke. "Look what you did! Now I have to wipe his memory! AGAIN!"
"What?!" Kuwabara said. "My memory? Again? You've wiped my memory before? How dare you? Let him up, guys, I'm gonna beat him!"
"Kuwabara, I don't really think--"
"No, go on, I won't hurt him," Hiei said honestly. Then he added as an afterthought, "Much."
Youko sighed. "Let him up..." He got up, Yusuke got up, Hiei got up, and Kuwabara stomped forward.
"Draw your sword and fight me like a man!"
"Over what?"
"You wiped my memory and I want it back!"
"No you don't, actually..." Hiei said. "It was for the best. If you still had the memories I'd erased, I'd be forced to kill you. I'm sorry."
Kuwabara glared. "Gimme my memory back! Stop messing with my mind!"
"What mind?" Youko, Hiei, and Yusuke said in unison. Kuwabara glared indignantly.
"That's not nice!"
"Who cares," Hiei said dryly. He proceeded to erase every memory Kuwabara had of the past five or so minutes.
"Huh?" Kuwabara said cluelessly.
"Now then," Hiei said, walking back to Shadow and poking her in the ribs with his shoe. "Wake up, Shadow, we need to get going."
Shadow's eyes fluttered open and she looked at him tiredly. "But Hell is pink and fluffy..."
"I know, I saw it too when you strangled me to death. Now get up, we have to leave," Hiei said.
"You saw it too?" Shadow said excitedly. "Way cool! I'm not alone! Let's go!" She jumped up and nearly stepped on Eclipse. "Wait, what happened to her?"
"Youko beat the shit out of her," Yusuke said.
"Youko!" Shadow said angrily. "That was uncalled for!"
The next think the fox knew, he was chained to Koga.
"Oh, no, Shadow, this will not work," he said. "Get this thing off me this instant."
"No! You pummeled Eclipse!" Shadow said, tossing Eclipse over the back of the horse. It snorted unhappily at her. "Deal with it."
"Was that directed at me... or the horse?" Youko asked curiously to no one in particular.
"This is just ridiculous," Inuyasha said. So now, it was Sesshoumaru on the far right, Inuyasha to his left, Koga on his left, and Youko was last.
"But it's what you all deserve!" Shadow said.
"I don't deserve this!" they all said simultaneously, then glared at each other for saying it at the same time, and broke into an argument.
"That's just weird," Hiei said.
"Do you know what else is weird?" came a stranger's voice. They all looked to the origin point, a few feet into the forest. "Inuyasha... You have some new friends."
A man dressed in a white baboon fur stepped out of the forest.
"IT'S A MONKEY!" Shadow screamed, hiding behind Sesshoumaru. "HIDE ME!"
"Naraku!" Inuyasha and Koga said in unison. (There's been lots of unison in this chapter...)
"Who?" Yusuke said cluelessly.
"'Who?'" Naraku repeated. "You mean you haven't told them about me?"
"Why didn't we sense him?!" everybody was scolding themselves. They finally decided on the answer and pointed at Shadow, simultaneously saying in a monotone: "Distraction."
"Well then, I must say, I find this situation most amusing..." Naraku said. "The elder brother, the half-breed, and the wolf."
The three glared.
"Who are your new friends? More jewel-shard seeking fools? I'll have to dispose of them as well..."
"Dispose of? As in kill?" Shadow said, jumping up and standing a few feet in font of Naraku. "I do not permit it!"
Naraku laughed loudly. "You are weak, girl!"
Shadow glared, and in a poof of smoke, she was suddenly wearing a heavy black leather trench coat, dark sunglasses, and knee-high steel-toed boots. Naraku just stared.
"What is this odd attire?"
"MY OUTFIT... of Doom..." Shadow said eerily. "You will suffer, monkey man..."
There was a pause. Naraku's quiet chuckle built to an all-out hysterical laugh, but Shadow just kept glaring behind her dark reflective glasses.
"Go on... Laugh at your doom..."
"Shadow..." Hiei said, taking a step.
"STAY BACK! I will handle this monkey man!"
"I don't think this guy is the same as that Umidori guy you fought..."
"So? I can beat him!" Shadow said, pulling out a sword. "I'm all-mighty like that."
Naraku just kept laughing, harder at each comment she made.
"Shadow, get away," Sesshoumaru said. "Naraku is not one for you to deal with."
"Fluffy, I respect your judgement and all, but I'm fighting this guy, arright?"
"No! Not 'arright,' Shadow!" Inuyasha said. "He'll kill you!"
"Listen to the hanyou, girl," Naraku said. Shadow glared. She took a swing at him with her sword and missed horribly. Startled for a second by the miss, it was only Hiei's interference that saved her from being impaled through the back.
"Shadow, look what you started!" Hiei snapped, having cut off the tentacle thing Naraku had nearly killed her with. It started to move and he stamped on it with his heel.
"Heehee... Oops," Shadow said, grinning apologetically.
"OOPS?! YOU SAY OOPS? LIKE 'OOPS' SOLVES EVERYTHING?!"
"Well what do you expect?!"
"I expect you both to die!" Naraku shot his weird tentacles out at them. They lunged in opposite directions, the tentacles followed.
"SHA-DOW!" Hiei yelled angrily. A tentacle caught the girl's arm.
"LEGGO MY EGG... uh, ARM!" Shadow screamed, slashing wildly at the tentacle that was squeezing her arm painfully. Yusuke leapt to her side and grabbed it, crushing it in his fist.
"If you don't die from this guy, Hiei's going to kill you," he said under his breath, pulling her away from the tentacles.
Hiei swung his sword down at Naraku's head. It split him down the middle, and Hiei glared furiously at the... em... Authoress mind blank, but for lack of better term, the voodoo doll that had allowed Naraku to appear.
"It was fake!"
(I forget how they worked exactly....... Deal with it.)
"You mean there wasn't really a monkey guy?" Shadow asked cluelessly, rubbing her arm, her trench coat and sunglasses gone.
"No. He's used them before," Sango said. "Naraku is a very powerful being. It's also a very, very long story and it's pointless to tell you because if your luck is good, you'll be going home soon and you'll never need to be here again..."
"Good point! Let's go!" Yusuke said. They managed to start down the trail. Hiei fell back to Shadow's side and first hit her in the head and reprimanded her for her stupidity, then asked her how her arm felt.
"My arm? It kinda hurts, I guess, but nothing that can't be magically fixed by sleep," Shadow said.
"Nice to hear, I suppose," Hiei replied.
"So happy you were concerned, at least..."
"Hey, Shadow!" Youko said, dragging along his chained companions to catch up to her.
"Yeah?"
"GET THIS CHAIN THE HELL OFF ME RIGHT NOW BEFORE I BEAT THE LIVING SHIT OUT OF YOU!"
Shadow twitched. "Hiei... My health just got worse."
"It'll get a hell of a lot MORE worse if you don't get this chain off me!" Youko snapped.
"But you pummeled Eclipse. You deserve--"
"I'LL PUMMEL YOU!!!"
"WITH HELP!" Koga added.
"I feel cornered," Shadow said.
"You SHOULD!"
"Don't involve me with--AUGH!" Sesshoumaru was cut off as Shadow started running and the fox and wolf went after her. The brothers were dragged behind whether they liked it or not.
"This is gonna be a long next few days," Yusuke sighed.
"And just imagine if we still can't get home once we reach the well," Hiei said.
"Oh, please don't make me think of that..."
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One more short chapter and it's done. I already have the last chapter finished, I just want more reviews so I'm not posting it instantly. :grin: