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Chapter 3- Odd happenings
Kagomes POV
I looked up from my rice. A shard was near, but the demon that had it wasn't that powerful, but it wasn't too weak either.
"You guys, there's another shard near, where's InuYasha?"
It turns out that InuYasha had gone for a nap on my bedroll. I shook him to try to wake him up, but he wouldn't wake. So, I did the only other thing I could do. (A/N: This is Kagome, you know that right? Just making sure.)
"Osuwari!"
The prayer beads around InuYasha neck started to glow, and then THUMP! InuYasha was face first in Kagomes pillow. Awake too.
"What'd you do that for!" he yelled.
"I had to wake you up, there's a shard near. And have you seen Buri lately?"
"I couldn't care less about that kid. But a shard near, that's important. Let's go!"
He grabbed the Tetsuiga(?) and raced out of the hut.
"Wait up InuYasha!" Kagome called.
"If you can't keep up, then you wont get to fight!" he continued on, until,
"Osuwari!" THUMP. He waited after that one.
Buri's POV
I looked up at the demon who was about to attack me. It was a giant wolf; about 5 feet tall. It didn't look powerful, but I didn't really know.
'If I stall him, maybe help will come fast enough so I won't die. Otherwise, I'm toast!' I thought.
"So, uh, you had better watch out, cause I can hurt you!" I yelled, hoping that I didn't sound as brave as I felt.
"O ya, I'd like to see you try to hurt me. You look like you only got your sword yesterday. How about I stand here, and you try to hit me." The demon taunted, a look of trickery in his eyes.
'Well,' I thought, 'it wouldn't hurt to try.'
So I took my sword out, and tried to hold it correctly. Amazingly, I did hold it correctly. The demon, being able to sense power in a person, once they're ready to battle, realized that I was powerful, powerful enough to kill him so, being a demon, decided to attack me too, to see if I knew what I was doing. I didn't know this, poor me.
I took a step forward, then ran up and slashed. I left a big gash in his left side, then he attacked. I wasn't ready, but I was able to dodge it slightly, so I only got a slight cut on my shoulder.
"OW! I thought you said that you wouldn't attack me!" I whined.
"I'm a demon, what do you expect. I can also sense that you have power, lots, but, lucky for me, you don't know how to handle it. I will get hurt, but so will you. I might be lucky enough to kill you!" He sneered.
'Oh no, I might not even live to be 13!' I thought.
"Well, I'm ready to fight. Bring it on!"
We both charged, and it was block after block, until I got another strike in, and hit him again, in the same spot.
'Wow, I actually know what I'm doing, sort of. I have a chance at winning this battle!'
But as I was thinking that, I left myself open, and he got my arm.
I gasped in pain, but bit my lip and ignored it. I charged again, and only vaguely noticed that the group had arrived.
The POV of the group.
"Wow, she's pretty good, and she told me that she hadn't handled a sword before." Kagome commented.
"Feh" InuYasha said, "I'm getting in there!"
"InuYasha no! I want to see how she does!" Kagome said.
He continued on, And Kagome said,
"InuYasha, don't make me say the 's' word!"
That brought him back, instantly.
"Hmmm, she's actually really good, do you think that she will actually win?"
So they all sat there, watching me fight, amased at my unknown skill.
Buri's POV
'One more slash should take him out.'
The battle had been going on for 15 minutes, and I was getting tired. The demon noticed that too. He advanced to attack, but I jumped about 3 feet, and slashed at his head. The shard that I didn't know was there was embedded in his neck, right where I was about to hit. He dodged it, and I just missed his attack. 'One more try,' I thought.
I jumped again, and he wasn't expecting me to do the same move twice, so I got a clean swipe, and he was dead before I landed. I looked at what remained, and saw a shard of something. I picked it up.
'This is one of those jewel shards that they are looking for. I'll have to ask them about that.' Then the reality of what I just did hit me, and I ran into the bush and puked. When I was finished, I headed back to the hut. When I got there, no one else was there, but Kaede, and she was in her herb garden.
'Wait, how did I know she was in her herb garden? I guess I sniffed her out. Wow, something weird is happening to me.' I thought uncomfortably. I knew it was lunchtime by the point of the sun, so I decided to make myself and InuYasha some ramen. 'Er, I don't know where everything is, I can't make lunch' I thought miserably. I was really hungry. So I decided to wait for them. I sat on Kagome's bedroll, and was hit with a wave of pain. I gasped, and tried to make myself comfortable. I slid into a slight sleep, and woke when they came in. They thought I was still sleeping.
"Shhhh, she's sleeping!" Kagome whispered.
"Do you think she's ok? I mean, she puked for like 3 minutes after the battle." That was Miroku.
'I still have to finish that joke I started by telling him that no, I wont bear his child. I'll wait until he mentions it.'
"Of course she's not alright, it was her first battle. I was like that too. (A/N I think) Do you think that she's hungry?" Kagome asked.
"Well I sure am!" InuYasha was whisper-yelling. I was kind of funny hearing InuYasha try to yell and keep his voice down at the same time. Although he wouldn't admit it, he was impressed. His first battle didn't turn out like that.
"I should treat her wounds, they look deep. Should I wait?" Asked Sango.
"I think you should wait until she wakes up." Kagome sounded a bit worried. They were pretty deep.
'I think I should wake up now, my wounds really hurt.'
I sat up, and asked, "Can you bandage them now?"
They all jumped, they had started other things, Kagome with lunch, Sango with getting the supplies ready, and InuYasha pestering Shippo.
Sango came over, and said, "You're awake."
"Well DUH!" InuYasha said.
"Ya, can you bandage me up?"
"Sure, just let's get you to a private room." Sango said. (A/N I don't really know what Kaede's hut looks like, so if it doesn't have a bedroom, it duz now)
We walked over to the bedroom, and Sango sat me on a chair. She dabbed some stuff that looked and felt like rubbing alcohol. Between the pain I asked Sango,
"Where'd you get the rubbing alcohol? And why are you collecting the shard thingies?"
"Well, Kagome can freely come and go to her era as she pleases. She fell through an ancient well one day and came here. She's the reincarnation of a deceased priestess, making her a priestess too. The priestesses name was Kikyo, and InuYasha was in love with Kikyo. One day InuYasha was tricked into stealing the jewel that she was guarding; the very powerful Shikon no Tama, or Jewel of four souls. It is also called the Shikon Jewel. Kikyo took the jewel with her to her grave, after pinning InuYasha to a tree for 50 years. Kagome came here, set InuYasha free, and after being hurt by the demon that brought her here, and the jewel came out of a cut on her body. She accidentally shattered it into little shards, and now we are looking for them. If a demon gets a hold of the shards, they will become immensely powerful, and we are trying to get the shards before the evil demon Naraku does. He tricked InuYasha and Kikyo against each other, and that's how it all started."
By that time, my wounds had been treated and bandaged, and I had felt a little less then I normally would have, had she not been talking.
"Thanks Sango. Can you tell me what all of you are doing trying to kill Naraku?"
"Well, I want to kill Naraku because he destroyed my village, killed my father, and turned my brother against me."
"I'm so sorry Sango!"
"That's ok, when I avenge my village by killing Naraku, I will be doing the whole world a favor. Well, Miroku wants to kill Naraku because he has a big hole in his hand, the wind tunnel. It will eventually suck him in, and kill him. It's a curse put on the men of his family by Naraku, and to break the curse he has to kill Naraku. Shippo wants to kill Naraku because Naraku killed his parents. (A/N: I think) And InuYasha wants to kill Naraku to avenge Kikyo. But I know that he likes Kagome, too. And that's the group. You know, we watched you fight that demon; you are a really good fighter. Are you sure that you haven't handled a sword before?"
"I haven't, it just came naturally to me, like I had done it before." I said.
"Oh," was all she said.
We walked into the kitchen, and lunch was almost ready. We were having rice, another of my favorites. When we were finished, I was thirsty. I asked Kagome where the nearest water supply was. She looked at me funny, but she did answer.
"The river, (A/N no idea where exactly it is, so I'm making this up!) just past the forest you were fighting in."
"Thanks!" I said.
I ran off, and all the others except InuYasha looked at each other with questioning looks.
When I got to the river, I took a sip, and splashed water on my face. I looked in the water, and wondered whose reflection it was that was looking at me. It had little reddish-silver dog ears and fangs. I looked behind me, then looked back. I scratched my head.
"Ow! My nails must have grown quite a bit. Then I realized that the reflection had scratched her head too. I put my hands to where my ears were supposed to be, but there was nothing there. I looked at the reflection; and realized that it was me! I had turned into an inu hanyou!