Another Chapter, and if you think it takes time to update, my problem is... Parents... I can't write Lime/Lemon content with them at home (Anybody else got that problem?) And now it is summer... Computer is something they don't appreciate so... But I try... And another thing... I was blushing quite a bit as I re-read the last chapter... Ehem... well... here's chapter 6! ;
(P.S. I listened to 'Tal Vez' By Ricky Martin Through this whole chapter (Except at a special part, There i was Soul Power (from Inuyasha OST something XP) and I am sure you can find which part that was :P D.S.)
Translations:
Japanese - English -Eventually meaning in this story
Inazuma - Lightning -A Youkai who has waited for the return of Kagome and the Shikon no Tama, her goal is still unknown
Kaida - Little Dragon -A young Youkai-Exterminator, trained for four years by Kohaku and is well skilled in Shikigami-magic, also leader of the Exterminator village after Kohaku's death
Shikigami-magic - ??? -Magic powers in a different way than Miko-power, psychical, can be granting powers to people, the first shown example of this is Kaida using it to power up... yeah what?
Rin - Park - The young girl Sesshomaru revived using Tenseiga, Now 16 years old
Manriki Gusari - ??? - (real) A length of Chain weighted at both ends, used by the Exterminators.
Naginata - ??? - A bladed staff, with a short, single edged, lightly curved blade (used for example by Hakudoushi)
Gomen - Sorry (I'm sorry)
Gomenasai - Sorry very much/Forgive me
Gomenasai Onegai - Please forgive me
Hinezumi no Koromo - Fire rat robe - The robe Inuyasha's wearing
DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN INUYASHA OR ANY CHARACTER!
'Thinking'
"Talking"
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"Singing etc."
.:Chapter 6 - Lightning Strikes Hard:.
The Exterminator's village was totally silent, since it was long since nightfall. In the dark Shadows of the houses, a figure quickly made it's way towards the stables. A moon reflection hit over the figure revealing a young woman, around the age of 15. She wore a Pinkish Kimono with small Dark-purple Crescent moons, tied with a purple ribbon on the backside. A Manriki Gusari Chain was attached to her side and a Naginata Was held in a scabbard (A/N: Yes, is something wrong with a scabbard for a bladed staff?) on her back. She had also a scarf tied together to a pack on her back and had a Cape in a purple-black material, hiding her face. In her hands she held another package, something wrapped in a piece of cloth. As she slowly came closer to the stable, a movement made her stop in her tracks.
"Who's there!? Name and errand, please" a stable-guard, a man with grey eyes and brow hair, glared a little at her.
"I have an errand to quickly deliver this" She opened the cloth and showed the thing wrapped there to the guard, who nodded, but seemed disturbed about not getting a name.
"Kaida-sama was supposed to deliver that to Sango-sama's village, but since that News about Youkai's came up, she was in such a hurry, she forgot it" The girl continued.
"And why would it be in such a hurry now?" The man asked.
"Don't you think that this will be needed if Youkai's did attack Sango-sama's village?" The girl asked frustrated.
"Since we got that sword here, I don't know why the big work was needed, it doesn't look very useful"
"You don't understand?" The sarcasm in the girl's voice was unmistakable. "This sword is much more powerful than even some people know..."
"Yeah-Yeah, sure" The man tried. "Go ahead, which horse?"
"Taiya" The girl stated, and the man gasped.
"But... that's the demon horse... none but..." The girl lowered the hood of the cape, and the man nodded understanding.
"Of course I should have known..." He gestured her inside and showed her the way to the horse. In the very end of the stable she stood, Taiya, Daughter of the mighty Demon-Horse Entei, long ago destroyed by Inuyasha. Her flaming mane and tail flared furiously until the girl started humming a melody. Taiya calmed. The girl saddled the horse and took her outside. As she sat up, the man held the package. She took it from him and nearly lost the sword inside.
"Oh my god, I cannot drop it!" She quickly grabbed it. The man laughed a little.
"Don't drop your important sword!" He smirked. She snorted at him. She turned the horse and rode away.
"Be careful" He shouted after her. She turned, showing dark brown eyes and pitch-black hair in the moonlight.
"I will! And I will deliver This sword... The Tetsusaiga back to Inuyasha-sama!"
"Tetsusaiga?" The man frowned as she rode away. "Was that the sword? No wonder that she... Rin... got so mad... how dumb can I be!?"
Rin had heard him, and smirked a little.
"Dumb, yes" She snickered before realizing: "I need to be quick!" She drove the Demon horse into the forest, as Taiya was still not able to fly as her father. She felt the aura of a Demon she knew and smiled again.
'I don't have time to wait... but you will most likely be fast enough to meet me there... Sesshomaru-sama...'
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Kagome lay silent as Inuyasha slowly stroke her wet hair out of her face.
"Gomen..." He whispered quietly. "Gomenasai..." As she looked up and met his eyes, He could see they were still dimmed over, and he felt even worse. He had brought her inside the room Sango had showed her, laid her down on the bed and carefully laid a blanket on her shivering body. She hadn't said a word, and her silence scared him, much. He lowered his hand and rested it on her cheek.
"Gomenasai Onegai..." She saw his worry, and his regret, and even though she was scared like... at least scared as hell, she knew he hadn't wanted to hurt her at all. She lifted her own hand from under the blanket and laid it slowly, carefully, over his. And, even though her voice shook, he heard her message.
"Of course..." She smiled weakly. "I could never not" He smiled back, and felt like something lifted from his shoulders.
"Arigatou..." He whispered even so silently. He bent down and kissed her slowly, with all the love and care he felt for her. Her response was weak, but he couldn't blame her, but guided the progress. As he just as slowly pulled back, he saw small crystal tears form in the corner of her eyes.
"What...?" He started, but she silenced him with a little 'sch'.
"It's nothing... I just felt like losing everything and then realizing..." Her voice broke. "T-that... The only family I have left..." Her tears ran freely. "A...A-are you guys..."
"Sch..." He hushed. He lifted her up a bit and held her against his chest. "Don't hold your sorrow it will be worse" He continued, copying her words from more than five years ago. Kagome's defence crumbled, and she cried, cried all her sorrows, all her pain, and all he could do to comfort her was stroking her Raven hair and hold her tightly against him.
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As Sango and Miroku came inside, the silently moved the children into their rooms and their bed's, before going back towards the main room. They passed Kagome's room and Miroku cast a look inside, seeing the Hanyo holding the crying girl against him, and... Miroku blinked. Because only once he had seen Inuyasha cry... and heard it once... but this time, the Hanyo silently joined Kagome's sorrows as his amber eyes filled with tears, and even so, those eyes were warmer and more loving... than Miroku ever seen them.
"Miroku... what..." He raised a hand to his wife to silent her and nodded towards the room. His wife cast a glance, and smiled, sadly, because she knew that the scene wasn't all to happy, but she knew, that from now on, Kagome at least had someone to hold onto when needed... But, she wondered, Hadn't Kagome always had that?
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Kagome continued crying, but suddenly stopped in her sobbing as she felt water like substance fall onto her face, and looked up to find Inuyasha cry with her.
"I-Inuyasha... you... Y-you are crying...!" She said, her lips quivering from her own crying. He shook his head slowly.
"Silly girl..." He muttered, quite jokingly but with that little raspyness showing he nearly couldn't hold his voice steady. "I'm not crying..." He smiled once again at her, as his tears continued to fall. She felt her own dry up, as she realized the reason for it.
"You are crying..." she sobbed a second. "F-for me...?"
"I already told you..." He tried, but his voice cracked. "Y-yes..." He then changed. "I'm crying for you..."
"Why?" She sat up, covering her still naked body with the blanket.
"Because you..." He took a deep breath and tried to dry the tears with his Haori, but failed. "In one... In one damn day--- you lost everything... Your family and all... Even your whole damn WORLD...!" He looked down.
"And... as I saw it... You lost your trust for me..."
"I didn't!" She said frustrated.
"I scared you, you can't deny that, can you?" He tried another time to dry his tears, and this time he succeeded.
"Yes, you scared me, but..." She raised her hand and lifted his face, looking in his eyes, showing him the trust she did feel. "I never stopped trusting you..." He gulped, those eyes of hers were flooding over with it, trust... and love. And she herself saw his, the care, the love, and even he trusted her. She lowered her hand again, rested it on his shoulder, and smiled again, trying to cheer him up. He smiled back, hesitantly at first, but it broke through.
"You're right..." He chuckled and looked to the right wall. "Of course you wouldn't..." She pulled her hand back slowly and lay down again, yawning a little. Her eyes dimmed over of tiredness. Then, something hit her. Something she didn't think of.
"Inuyasha" She said, not letting the panic show. "Can you give me my bag?" He nodded and got it. She searched through it but didn't find what she was looking for.
"Then..." she gasped. "Inuyasha, my clothes, quickly!" he looked confused, but didn't hesitate for it. She made a movement for him to turn around, and got dressed quickly. He raised his voice.
"Why are you suddenly in a hurry?" He asked.
"That..." She said and paused to pull on her shirt properly. "Is because the Shikon no Tama isn't in my pack... so most likely..." She continued as his eyes grew wide. "It is still in the well..." He didn't hesitate now either. He drew her onto his back and just merely went outside before getting away.
'Hopefully no Youkai is there yet... since the Tetsusaiga is in the Exterminator's village...' He thought and jumped towards the well.
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Sango had just finished making Tea when the sound of quickly clappering hoofs against the stairs and then a thud when somebody jumped of. She was on her way to open the door when it flung open, revealing a panting Kaida and a tiny Kirara. The later jumped up in Sangos embrace as she caught the cat-Youkai.
"S-Sango-sama..." Kaida panted. Miroku entered the room.
"Seems like Kagome and Inuyasha le- Oh, Kaida! Already here?"
"Wait a second Kaida... Miroku, did you say they've left?" Sango spun around.
"Hai, but I shouldn't worry..." Kaida interrupted.
"You should be" She exclaimed. This drew the attention of the pair.
"Youkai masses are on his way here, and as this Kitsune said..." She showed Shippou standing behind her with a frightened look. "One has already started it's way through this village"
"What do you mean, Shippou?" Sango asked. The Kitsune took a deep breath.
"That woman... S-she... and..." He stammered.
"We better sit down" Miroku ensured. "Shippou, take a deep breath and try again" They sat down around the fire, and Sango passed the tea.
"Ehem..." Shippou pulled himself together. "I followed after as Kouga and that woman Inazuma went for a walk, I don't like her... so why not? And the in that clearing..." He thought after. "I don't know what they said but then she kissed him and..."
"Oh, really?" Miroku looked surprised and got an elbow in his side from his wife.
"Shut it, Miroku" She said and gestured to Shippou to continue. Kaida had already heard the story, and she just drank her tea, waiting for her time to speak.
"As I said, she kissed him, and then some kind of energy... flowed from her into him, It was really weird... and it scared me" Kaida spoke thereafter.
"To me, It sounds as the same force I felt when I passed the forest... and it was also that force that the Youkai were following" She looked at the shocked faces of the two. "Another thing is that she has masked her Youkai powers... If I'm right that will say... and that makes it only visible when she uses it"
"And what has Kouga to do with this?" Sango asked her.
"That's the strange part... what could she use of him, which had a tingle of evil... hatred or anything..." She silenced as a realization hit Miroku's face. "You know?"
"Sango" Miroku breathed. "We must follow Kagome-sama and Inuyasha... now!" She knew it now.
"Hai..." Kaida raised her voice.
"Can you tell me what's going on?"
"Kouga has still desires for Kagome inside his heart, and the jealousy and hatred for Inuyasha, who was the one she chose... and how Inazuma would use that..."
"Is probably to get the Shikon no Tama Kagome is carrying" Sango finished.
"So she is gonna make Kouga help her with that!?" Shippou yelled. "We must hurry!" The other three stared at him, and Sango smiled. For Shippou, Kagome was his surrogate mother, since he had no parents... and now...
"Inazuma would probably use Kouga to kill Inuyasha, but since Kouga never has been able to keep up against Tetsusaiga..." A gasp from Kaida. "What?"
"Last time I was here, Inuyasha needed to strengthen the scabbard of the sword... And so he left it at the Exterminators village... I should take it back today... but in the hurry..."
"You FORGOT Tetsusaiga?" Shippou yelled. "It's not possible... then..."
"We surely must hurry" Miroku rose up as he said it, and Sango did the same, grabbing her Hiraikotsu And heading out, Kirara in her leap, turning into her greater form. Shippou ran after and Kaida, feeling a bit guilty, jumped onto Kuroi again and rode towards the aura of the Hanyo... and the aura of a miko...
'Probably Kagome-sama... And... oh shit!' She felt the aura of force she felt before, heading towards the well the other two where at.
"No time to lose!" She yelled and the group speeded up.
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Kagome jumped of Inuyasha as soon as they reached the Bone-eaters well shrine. She ran inside to the well and looked down, a wave of relief flowing over her as she saw the pinkish glow.
"It is here!" She exclaimed to the Hanyo outside. He came inside as well as she jumped down, but she was startled to feel her foot hit something at the bottom as she walked over to the jewel. With the same startled look she lit a little flame of pinkish energy in her palm. At the bottom there was two boxes, the jewel attached to them... and a letter. She opened it as Inuyasha landed behind her, staring at the boxes as well. She started reading aloud and he twitched his ears to listen as he inspected the boxes.
"Dear Kagome
First, I hope I didn't scare you too much by taking the necklace from you as I pushed you into the well.
I'm sitting here inside the shrine with your Grampa, and we are just waiting. The reason I took the necklace are the boxes attached to them... well, I know how much your little Half-demon loves Ramen... so..."
Inuyasha's ears perked up. "Ramen?" He echoed.
"That's what one box is containing. The other one is a box we have been laying on our shrine for a long time, and we thought that it is finally time for you to see that your destiny belongs where you are now... And that we knew it... Hojo came past today after you left, and he asked for you... and do you know what I said? I told him you and my soon to be son-in-law went away... Yes, you heard right, I accept your choice and wish you all luck. But just remember, I want MANY grandchildren..."
At that point both of them blushed ten shades red.
"... Which I know you will have... Time to tell a bit about the box... not the one with the ramen, the other..." Kagome asked Inuyasha to open it, and revealed a few things. She gasped and fell onto her knees. Inside was her family tree, far reaching back towards... 1505... She fingered on the two names at the top page...
"Kagome..." She read. And the other. "Inuyasha..." as she followed down, she couldn't read the next names, or how many there was.
"... The first thing about that family tree" She read. "Is that in your time, you won't be able to read the names until my name, and my child... Not you, Souta. Because this tree writes in the names by itself, the same time the children get their names, but yours didn't appear... When you had your first story for us about Inuyasha and all... I got scared, because of the legend of our family, Gramps told you once, didn't he? That our family was bound back until the Warring states, where it just appeared out of no where? And about the girl from the future, who started the family? That is you, Kagome. Keep your last name and make it come true, the last part of the legend. 'The family shall be reborn'... Next thing I am sure you recognize..." Kagome heard Inuyashas startled sound as he fingered on the necklace, now old and withered... but still...
"It's..." She whispered and lifted it up. Five dark beads, a fang, another five... and... "Inuyasha, forgive me, but... Osuwari" The Hanyo fell to the ground, and so did she as the other necklace followed to the ground, dragging her hand down as well.
"It's your damn spell necklace" He muttered. "Another one..."
"No" She said. "The same..." And she read.
"It's the prayer beads passed down from the first line, and it was said to be helpful with stubborn children or... in your case, Mate... How strange it feels to say that, but still right... Well... and as you can see, The Hinezumi no Koromo Is there as well..."
It was also old and started to lose it's colour a bit, but it was the same as well. And the next thing. Kagome got watery eyes as she picked one of her school dresses out, as old as the other things, but the size... was still her own... now... not the one from a fifteen year old.
"The last thing was the called 'Miko Outfit' from the first Kagome. And why it is your size now I don't know, maybe because you must continue being the one you were from the beginning, I don't know...
Another thing about the legend... 'The family shall be reborn, and will so do until the first line guards the whole family line, before the first comes anew...' I don't know what it means, but it's around you and Inuyasha... the last part... you must figure it out, because it surely has a deep meaning in the legend, and in your life...
We leave these things now, and I want to say goodbye, wish you good luck, and promise you that I will not grief, as not you should. I will meet up with Souta, right? So don't cry for me, or anyone else, because you, with the knowledge, will hopefully make it never come true again... I believe in you, Kagome...
Love
Mama"
The paper was stained with small water droplets, tears... as her own now. Inuyasha laid an arm around her after closing the box they had looked through.
"She told you not to cry anymore..." He whispered and embraced her. She let the letter go and held onto him as well.
"How could she be so cheerful about it? How!?" She stuttered.
"Because all she cared about..." He secured her. "Was that you would be safe..." She nodded and laid the letter she picked up by the other things, and then lifted the first box up, after hanging the Shikon no Tama around her neck. Inuyasha lifted the other box and jumped up, left it outside and then went back and took her up along with the other box. As they came outside, small raindrops were falling down from the sky, and a quiet rumble was heard along the now darkened sky.
"Thunder on it's way" Inuyasha said after sniffing in the air. "And... what the hell?" He turned around towards the forest on their right side. Kagome copied him and dropped the box on the ground, causing it to open. But, among the other things... The bottom cracked, revealing one last thing. She bend down and took it up before laying the other back and closing the box. A bow... And not an old withered one... It was made of bone, glimmering white and with silver appeals. the string was made of a steel-like material... Spider-silk, she realized, really strong Spider-silk. And the arrows... The same, silver heads, and made of bone, and the feathers were made of the feathers from a demon bird... The quiver was of bone, and it was beautiful all of it... Inuyasha stared at it for a second before smiling and saying something sounding like: "Made by Exterminators no doubt" before turning back to the forest with a little growl.
"Wimpy Wolf, stop hiding and come out! What do you want!?" Kagome looked confuse. Kouga? What could he want?
The Wolf-Youkai entered the clearing, smirking.
"Dog-turd, Why so frustrated? I've only come to... Kill you" His eyes burned icy blue, and Kagome was scared, not of him, but by the change in his aura.
'Damn...' Inuyasha thought. 'He's gotten insane... and Tetsusaiga isn't here...' Kagome saw that too.
"Kouga" She said. "I won't let anyone of you kill the other..."
"You have no comment here, woman" he replied. He cracked his knuckles and ran forward, even without the shards he had an impressive speed. Inuyasha jumped to the side and Kagome backed as the Wolf didn't seem to mind hurting anything or anyone. She raised her bow and lay on an arrow. She concentrated on trying to hit in front of the wolf, but he was smart. He always kept Inuyasha in her shooting range, and even the Hanyo realized it.
"You cowardly little..." He lunged forward but jumped to the side as Kouga lunged as well, and Kagome let the arrow go, making it hit in front of Kouga, forcing him into a halt.
"Enough" She said, anger flaring in her eyes. "Kouga, I will not accept you to..."
"Kagome-sama!" Mirokus yell was heard, drawing everyone's attention. He, Sango, Shippou and Kaida entered the clearing as well. Inuyasha didn't have any time to say anything, as Kouga lunged at him.
"Miroku, what's going on!?" Kagome demanded. He bit together a bit and Kaida laid a comment about the bow.
"Nice one that is... We just got in the same type of bone and feathers... how..."
"It's from my time, passed down from this time... so your bones are becoming a bow, you will see..." Kagome went back to Miroku.
"It's like this..." He started but Shippou yelped.
"This is Inuyasha's necklace, right?" He had found the box.
"Not now Shippou..." Kagome turned back as the ground behind her shook. Kouga buried his fist in the ground as Inuyasha jumped away.
"Wimpy Wolf, why now of all times?" He asked with a growl.
"I came to my senses..." Kouga answered. Kagome ran forward, this was not a good time for chatting. Kouga cast a glare towards her and moved fast enough to grab her by the waist and hold her in a steady grip, the bow fell to the ground as he did so.
"Kagome!" Inuyasha yelled and lunged forward again. Kouga smirked, and Kagome shivered slightly as the evil aura inside him rose, and he punched Inuyasha in his chest as he lunged forward. But... The sparks shouldn't become of a punch... right? Kagome wringled in Kougas grasp and screamed the Hanyos name as Inuyasha sunk to the ground, clutching his heart and trying to take a breath. Miroku ran to his side. Sango and Kaida were holding Shippou away, they couldn't do anything yet...
"Inuyasha, what's wrong?" Miroku asked. The Hanyo took a gasping breath.
"...y-you..." He breathed. "D-damn W...wolf..." A chuckle was heard from the wolf, and somebody behind him. Kagome wriggled more to come away, when two fingers tapped her on the back of her neck, small sparkles flying, making her body go limp. She stared at the girl, her blue hair falling around her body, her green eyes had an evil stare, and her mouth had a smirk attached to them.
"Y-you..." Inuyasha breathed, gaining panic as he saw Kagome not being able to move.
"Little dog, lost your breath?" She asked, Inuyasha growled, but regretted that as he needed to gasp for breath.
"What did you do to him!?" Kagome demanded. Inazuma shook her head.
"Little girl, You are from the future, right? There is this called electricity... thunder, you know?" She smirked. "It's a paralysing power also, like I did to you... Kouga did to him, a jolt of electricity against his heart and lungs just" Kouga smirked as well and laid the girl down.
"And Kouga then?" Miroku asked.
"Oh? Just using his own feelings to make him obey me, easy as what" Inuyasha seemed to gain a bit breath and rose to his knees, still one hand grasping his heart.
"But..." He breathed, gaining a bit of his voice back at least. "What has Kagome... T-to do with it?"
"Heh" Kouga answered for Inazuma. "Isn't it obvious? I'm gonna mate her, since you didn't finish it" Inuyasha growled. Kagome gasped a little, wide-eyed.
"What do you mean with that?" Miroku asked, before looking at The Hanyo he was holding up. "Inuyasha, is it true?"
"You just couldn't, right?" Kouga snorted. "Let me explain this. As a Youkai mate, the other half, Human or Youkai, first accepts their mark, that's step one, and the only one you did"
Kagome turned her head, which was al she could, and looked at Inuyasha, the silent question: 'Why?'
"Heh, because of that when the mating is complete, the two parts can't separate. You where afraid of consequences, right Dog-turd?" Inuyasha growled again, rising up to his feet. "Consequences are following, One, The other half lives as long as the first, dies one, the other fades away from life as well, and that's what you where most afraid of, since in Kagomes time, you where dead, right? Then she would have died as well... And second, you cannot choose another. And you wanted to give Kagome that chance, if she didn't come back, right?"
"Ke!" Inuyasha said. "Yes, I didn't finish it for Kagomes sake" Miroku stared at him, he confessed, without anything complaining?
"But, She still accepted my mark, which still is step one"
"But not binding" Kouga smirked, Inazuma yawned a little. "If I wanted, I could have marked her as well"
"Do you think she would, or will, accept it?" Inuyasha looked at Kagome, and she saw his worry.
'He didn't tell me... why? What are the other steps, and...' She saw his eyes, the love... 'He wanted me to choose by myself, without knowing the details...' She opened her mouth, but Inazumas spell was spreading, as she couldn't speak.
"If you're dead" Kouga answered. "The mark will disapoear, and then she can" He lifted The limp girl up, and she shut her eyes hard. The wolf smirked, saw the anger in the Hanyos eyes, before kissing Kagome. She opened her eyes wide and gasped scaredly, thus giving him entrance to her mouth. Something inside the Hanyo snapped, as in the others. They stared, he growled deep down his throat.
"You... dare..." He growled. Kagome couldn't move, but she did so wish she could. Her eyes were glazed over by fear, and her breath was running out. In Kougas kiss there was no love, just the feeling of being used. The wolf then let her go, and she gasped for breath, glaring at him angrily, still full of fear. Kouga just smirked towards he, then Inuyasha.
"Wolf..." Inuyashas voice became darkened with anger. "Even if the mating isn't fully proceeded... You... will not..." Another growl rose from his throat again, silencing him. Kagomes eyes widened even more as she felt a power rise inside the Hanyo, she rose her own aura, trying to get out of the spell, but a barrier against Miko-powers kept her back, but her voice was back.
"Inuyasha...?" She tried. As answer just a growl, and more rising of power. "Don't..."
"You're gonna do what, Dog-turd?" Kouga smirked. Kagome continued, and Miroku backed of, he knew this, and he wasn't all to glad.
'After the battle with Ryuukotsusei... that blood should have been sealed... but...'
"Inuyasha..." Kagome tried again. "Don't... Inuyasha..." A pulsebeat. "INUYASHA!!!" Another one. And another, and now, Inazuma seemed to notice the strange power.
'What is this?' She thought. Inuyasha looked up, meeting the eyes of the Wolf-youkai. His now red eyes met the icy blue, and normally in this form, Inuyasha would have smiled, but he didn't. He looked dead serious, and for once, Kagome could see, he still was at his right senses, not losing his mind as otherwise.
'He's angry, He's Youkai... But he's still Inuyasha' She thought.
Kouga seemed startled, but not scared. "Are you angry? But you cannot attack me, your girl is still here you know..."
"Miroku" Inuyasha demanded, his voice darker, but not evil. The monk looked surprised.
"Hai?"
"Make sure somebody gets the Tetsusaiga, even like this, I probably will need it..."
"Hai" Miroku turned to Kaida, who was holding her hands together and chanting small chants.
"Can you fix it?"
"Already on it's way" The Exterminator ensured him, and he nodded. She continued her chanting and then cursed.
'Man, that paralysing spell is hard to break...'
Inuyasha flexed his claws. "I will not hurt Kagome, and if you're using her for that, you're more cowardly than I thought... so let's start like this..." He turned to Inazuma. "You! You have a few seconds to let Kagome go... otherwise..." He growled, and Inazuma realized a thing she remembered.
'Inuyasha's Youkai form is most to fear. In his right senses, he even was able to kill the mighty Naraku' She looked disappointed but rose her barrier around the girl, but so sudden that Kagome gasped as her amount of power she had laid behind her work with the barrier where used up in an instant. But, when she could move again, the first thing she did, was to slap Kouga across the face.
"You're maybe not yourself right now...!" She yelled and watched as he stumbled backwards from the hit. "But NO-ONE Does like that to me! Maybe exceptions..." She glanced over to Inuyasha, who, still raged with anger, had a smirk on his face. Kagome stalked away from Kouga. "Inuyasha, you can start now"
"Heh" The turned-Youkai Hanyo chuckled. "That's my bitch" Kagome arched an eyebrow but smiled and Picked her bow up. Inuyasha flexed his claws again.
"Maybe I don't want to Kill you, Wimpy wolf, but no one touches MY Kagome!" Sango tilted her head at Kagome.
"What if he kills him?"
"Who? Inuyasha kills Kouga? Nah, I'm gonna fix this first..." She raised the bow and Pointed an arrow at Inazuma at the same time the both Youkai's attacked each other. She fired it of, and Inazuma barely dodged.
"A-a, little Miko, I have those powers too" She made an own bow from dark Miko energy and sent an arrow flying, which Kagome didn't even bother to dodge. The arrow hit her easy set up Shield and disappeared. Kaida looked at Sango, and smiled. Sango did the same and Kaida started chanting again, Purplish energy flowing her, but none other noticed that.
"Weak, Inazuma" Kagome said and sent her arrow flying. The Youkai got a frustrated look.
"I'm not finished..."
"HIRAIKOTSU!" The Boomerang soared through the air and nearly hit the Youkai, who after dodging that got hit in her arm by an arrow. She bit her lip not to give any sign of pain. Kagome glanced to the side, saw Sango catch her boomerang, which was still holding a purple energy from Kaida, and also found That Kouga was losing before she turned back to the Youkai.
"Let him go and I spare you, for this time" Inazuma looked at her injured arm and gave out a sound of disappointment.
"Ke" She said and reached her arm out. Energy flowed out of Kouga, into her again, and the wolf stumbled to the ground. Inuyasha stopped in his tracks and looked at the two deep wounds he had made in the wolf-Youkais right leg. His eyes turned back to amber, and his marks on his cheeks disappeared as well.
"One thing Inazuma, How come we couldn't feel your aura, and still not, your smell of Youkai?" He asked her and Ignored the unconscious wolf.
"Oh, With the help of this" She took out a necklace with a black diamon on. "This shields me off and makes me appear human" One second later, the diamond was Shattered, broken into one million pieces by Kagomes arrow. "Na-"
"Now it's gone... hey..." Kagome frowned. "Your evil aura..."
"And your smell" Inuyasha put in. "You're the same as Naraku, how?"
"His last detachment" Inazuma ensured. "Before the last battle, he inserted all of his power into me as well... including a certain Mikos power, he had successful been able to collect..."
"Kikyo" Miroku said.
"Hai, Kikyo... so I am in particular a Detachment of Kikyo and Naraku, but with none of that Miko's desires" she added by the look of Inuyashas eyes. "No, not at all"
"So Naraku isn't completely gone?" Kagome said with an arched eyebrow.
"No"
"Then, why did you wait more than five years?" Sango spoke.
"Because what I want is what you carry, Kagome" She pointed at The Shikon no Tama. "Just as Naraku"
"Now we know, You can die" Inuyasha said. Inazuma arched an eyebrow. "And, I don't think Naraku inserted ALL his powers into you, you are too weak"
"Not true..."
"Oh Yes" Kagome said, attaching an arrow at her bowstring. "So much weaker..." She let the arrow fly, and it flew, through the air, and hitting a tree... Inazuma was gone. She slumped to her knees and Inuyasha hurried over to her.
"Are you okay?" He asked. She nodded weakly.
"Just tired..." She suddenly looked down, feeling terrible embarrassed. "I tried to get away... I did..." Inuyasha smiled.
"I know..." He lifted her up. She was tired, by the look in her eyes. "It's been a though day for you, you better rest" She nodded and closed her eyes, leaning against his chest and soon her breaths had become those rhythmical of a sleeping person. He carefully held her as he walked back to the others. He looked at the two boxes.
"We need to get those back to your house" He said silently. The others nodded. Miroku spoke
"Don't worry, we fix that, and Kouga too..." He looked to the unconscious wolf. Inuyasha nodded.
"Arigatou" He said before leaving the clearing. Miroku, Sango and Kaida looked after him.
"Well..." Kaida said. "That seemed okay at least" Shippou lifted the box with the Family tree, and nearly fell over.
"Help me!" He yelped and Miroku took the box from him. He gave it to Sango on Kirara before going towards the wolf to lift him onto the Cat-Youkai as well. The other box he took himself and then they went back to the village.
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Inuyasha laid Kagome down on the bed again, and laid the blanket over her. He took the bow and arrows and leaned t against the wall. The sleeping girl moaned in her sleep and turned to her side. He smiled and kissed her forehead.
"Goodnight love" He whispered before sitting down against the wall, watching her from the corner of his eye, until the voices outside told him the others had come back, he rose up, went to the door and looked back inside. He smiled once again at her sleeping form before closing the door.
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Kouga groaned with pain as he came to. His eyes opened and saw the face of that irritating Kitsune staring at him.
"Get of me" He growled and Shippou jumped of with a scream. "WAAAH! He's still weird!"
"You are the weird one here" The wolf continued. "Augh, my head" He groaned.
"I can understand that your head hurts" Mirokus voice interrupted him. The Youkai sat up and then first saw the deep wounds on his leg.
"What the..." He stared at Miroku, at Sango and the exterminator... Kaida.
"You don't remember?" Sango asked him.
"Nothing since..." He shut. That was privacy.
"Since what?" Kaida asked.
"Since my walk with Inazuma..." He muttered. "And what is going on? Were is she!?"
"Gone" He turned to the Hanyo just entering the room. "Just like she should"
"NANI!?" He yelled. "Why?" Miroku sighed and sat down.
"We need to explain this to him..." He said. Inuyasha glared at him. "All of it" Miroku continued. Inuyasha growled and glared at Kouga, who stared dumbfounded. The Hanyo snorted and looked away as Miroku told the confused Youkai about the whole plot. By a certain part of the story, Inuyasha growled by recalling that Wimp wolf just... Kiss Kagome like that! And Kouga wasn't better himself. Blushing madly, he stared at the monk.
"You're kidding, right?" He said. Inuyasha growled again.
"Of course he isn't, those wounds of you came from your actions! You have her scent over you right now... even inside your damn mouth" The Hanyo snorted. "Another time, sense or no sense, I kill you" Kouga then did something he might regret.
"Kagome hm...? Well, she surely tastes damn good" Inuyasha flew onto his feet and Sango and Kaida had to hold him back to stop him from ripping the Wolf-Youkai into shreds.
"Grr... You Damn Wolf!" He growled. "You have no right to..." Miroku raised a hand to silence him, and the Hanyo sat down again, muttering.
Miroku told everything to the finsih, and Kouga sighed.
"So she just used me, that is?" He asked, with the same hurt in his voice as his eyes.
"Hai..." Miroku said.
"I need to go..." Kouga rose up and walked out, as best he could with a hurt leg.
"Poor guy" Kaida commented. "A broken heart is not easy to heal..."
"Speaking from experience?" Inuyasha asked. Kaida looked down. Inuyasha shrugged his shoulders and turned around to walk back to Kagomes room when a knock on the door interupted him. Sango opened the door. The rain outside had increased, and a soaked wet figure was standing on the doorstep, and her horse was a faint shadow in the rain. Kaida looked at the figure.
"Is it... you?" She asked and The figure lowered her hood. And if he thought the scent was missleading, the sight of her made Inuyasha know he was right.
"Rin?" He asked. The others looked at him, Kaida asked:
"Do you know her?"
"If I do..." Inuyasha said. Rin smiled at him.
"Glad to see you at good health even if the Youkais are on their way" She said.
"Are they still on their way?" Miroku asked.
"Maybe, Maybe not, they seemed to turn around..." Rin took of her cape and gung it on a hook on the wall.
"Rin" Inuyasha asked. "Is your master coming?"
"Master?" She played dumbfounded. "Oh, you mean Sesshomaru-sama?" She stuck her tongue out and Inuyasha sighed.
"Yes, I mean my Half-brother" He said.
"He is on his way" Rin said and held a package to him. "But I thought you would ask for this first?" He took the package with a smile.
"Well, but my brother often is where you are" He said, before opening the package and putting the Tetsusaiga by his waist. "Nice fixing the scabbard" He said.
"Well, Yes" Kaida said.
"So Rin, you did get into the Exterminator work?"
"Hai, as you recommended" She answered with a bow. Then she turned around and opened the door. Another figure came inside.
"I hate rain" The Lord of the Western Lands exclaimed as he came inside. He looked at the audience.
"Inuyasha" He said as his gaze met his brothers. "Your woman is back, I can smell it, right?" He asked matter-of-factly.
"Hai, she is... and I see you took my recommendation for Rin... Nice Naginata, Rin" Inuyasha continued.
"How did you know?" Rin asked and unsheathed it.
"The length of it, and the scabbard..." Inuyasha shrugged his shoulder. "Was there something you wanted here Sesshomaru?"
"Besides getting Rin back, well... Shelter for the night should be a favor" He looked over at Miroku and Sango. "If the owners of this house accept it?" The Youkai had become much more mature against Humans since the first time they met him, and they nodded.
"Of course, who would want to stay in the rain all night?" Miroku said with a smile, Sesshomaru didn't return it but nodded in agreement.
"I must lend a stable for Taiya" Rin said and turned towards them as well. "Do you have room?"
"The Demon horse? Enteis daughter?" Sango sighed. "Well, I guess we have a space for her, but i am NOT going o hold her or anything, I don't trust that horse"
"And it doesn't trust anyone except Rin... It's mad..." Inuyasha muttered. Kaida smirked and echoed his words from a minute before.
"Oh, speaking from experience?" Half the room burst into laughter, A Hanyo growled and A Youkai and a human girl stared.
"Rin, the far end of the western stable" Miroku said between laughter and the girl nodded before leaving out into the rain again, Sheathing her Naginata onto her back.
"Well, I'm going to sleep" The irritated hanyo said and turned around.
"Do so" Sango said, finally coming out of the laughter. "I suggest we all do"
"I wait until Rin comes back" Sesshomaru muttered and sat down by the fire.
"Okay, just don't forget to turn off the fire" Sango said.
"Ehm... 'Turn off'?" Sesshomaru raised an eyebrow.
"Just a sentence from Kagomes time" She replied. "You know what I mean" The lord just nodded and everyone returned to their rooms.
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Inuyasha closed the door behind him and turned to the wall as he heard Kagomes voice.
"Inuyasha?" He turned to her. She was half-sitting in the bed and yawned before he answered.
"Hai?" He asked.
"I thought of a thing..." She started and then thought a bit. "When you turned Youkai before... What was the whole 'My bitch' part?"
"Oh that..." Inuyasha scratched his head and sat down by the wall. "Just Youkai-habit"
"Oh, really?" She asked and giggled before yawning again.
"You better sleep" He suggested. And she nodded a little in the dark.
"Mhm" And she lay down again. He soon only heard the rain tapping on the roof and the rhythmical breathing of Kagome.
'Man, it's almost morning... Long day and long night hm?' He thought before closing his own eyes, soon falling into a deep sleep he had not experienced since... five years...
.:End Chapter 6:.
Well... Maybe not my best chapter ever, more my longest... but I still like it! I got Sesshy and Rin there... and next Chappie Jaken will interrupt the peaceful life... Not peaceful I would say.
The thing that at least surprised me the most (hehe ;) was my own idea of that the Mating was not complete... I certainly made my mind mess up, but I don't care, it's just more interesting that way.
And then there was the problem with the Ramen (Inuyasha would have got a heart attack if there was no Ramen Noodles left :P)
And Kagomes Destiny... I feel like I have made a nice little plot here... What about the legend? 'The family shall be reborn, and will so do until the first line guards the whole family line, before the first comes anew...' Does anybody have the slightest idea of what I thought of with that? Hopefully not...
Another part I like in this chapter is the tear-filled one... I loved the episode 'The first Time I saw Inuyasha's tears' It's just so cute And then I also love the little kind part of Yashie .:Dreaming:. Ah well... what more?
Inazumas true nature was discovered, and we know what she's seeking... The Shikon No Tama surely is a pain in the ass sometimes...
And for you who didn't figure it out, Soul power music was started as Inuyasha started to transform XP
Long since last update, but That's the way it is, first you don't know how to start, and when you start, you just can't stop!
Hope I get some Reviews on this Chappie, I'm perhaps not gonna update until... I get the next chappie finished! :P
Until next time then...
CYA!
/Ashley