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Love Isn't Just a Memory

Chapter Twenty-Seven: Battle

By: Nimerin

Sango sorely wished that she had brought her hirakotsu with her, she didn't even have her katana with her. She glanced at the now pale Kagome who was still standing behind her and knew that she didn't have any weapons on her either. Hopefully, Inuyasha and Miroku would hear the noises from the impending battle and come to their aid; she just hoped that they would still be alive by the time they made it. "What are you doing here?" Sango demanded.

Shinku tilted her head a little to the left and put a finger to her crimson lips, "Well, I thought I had just said that I was going to make Kagome fear me. Oh, yeah, and I am also here to kill her since she has been a bad little girl and decided to try and remember things. Really Kagome, you are such a bother."

"I'm a bother?" Kagome questioned incredulously before turning red with anger, "You are the one that attacked me and made me lose my memory. I would say that you were the bother."

"Ah well," Shinku shrugged, "I bother you and you bother me, it doesn't matter because in a little while you are going to be dead."

"I'm not going to let you kill her." Sango moved to block Shinku's view of Kagome even more. "Inuyasha!" She screamed and prayed that he would come in time.

"You shouldn't have done that, now I'm mad." Shinku's face transformed into a malicious smirk and she advanced on the two weaponless women. She dove for them with claws extended as Sango grabbed Kagome's arm and threw both of them to the side. They both whirled around to face Shinku and stumbled backwards when they noticed that her claws were once  again too close for comfort. The  youkai laughed and flipped over their heads so that their backs were turned to her. They were too slow and would not be able to avoid her this time. Just as she was about to land the blow, a great force slammed into her side and knocked her to the ground. When she stood she noticed the arrival of a hanyou and a houshi. "It was stupid of you to get involved in this fight."

Inuyasha snorted and withdrew Tetsaiga, "It was stupid of you to attack them, now I'm going to have to kill you."

"I will not let you stand in the way of me completing my orders." She narrowed her eyes and hissed at him as she slid into a defensive posture.

Miroku stepped forward a bit so that he would be noticed by the youkai, "Who gave you your orders?"

Shinku turned her attention to the houshi, "It isn't any of your business." She then leapt from her position and charged towards Kagome with her claws raised again. Inuyasha noticed her destination and rushed in front of Kagome, his sword coming up in a wide arc. Shinku changed direction at the last moment to avoid being struck down and snarled at Inuyasha, "Stop interfering!"

"Leave Kagome alone and tell me who you work for!"

Shinku screamed and swiped at him, a careless move as a result of her anger. Inuyasha realized that there was an opportunity to end this battle and dug his claws into her shoulder. He pulled them back from her now bleeding shoulder as she stumbled back, a hand clutching her newly acquired wound. She looked at the blood on her hands in disbelief before looking up at him and charging again. Inuyasha moved Kagome back a bit and then punched Shinku, sending her once more to the ground. Shinku was about to leap up and attack once more, but found that she had the cold steel of Tetsaiga against her throat. She glared at Inuyasha, "What are you waiting for? Finish the job already."

"I want you to tell me who you work for, I won't kill you if you do."

"And then what would I do? She would kill me instead."

"She?"

Shinku's face drained of color and she swallowed thickly.

"Who is she?" he growled as he pressed the sword closer to her throat, "Tell me."

"I..." Shinku sighed and ducked her head, "I don't know her name."

"Not good enough." Inuyasha once again pressed the blade against her throat, this time a tiny rivulet of blood rolled down her neck.

"Inuyasha, don't." Kagome moved forward and put a soothing hand on his shoulder in attempt to restrain him from getting anymore violent, "She doesn't know, you don't have to kill her for that."

Inuyasha removed some of the pressure of his blade and glanced at Kagome out of the corner of his eye, "She has been trying to kill you."

"I know, but you can't kill her just because she doesn't know something."

"I wouldn't be killing her just for that, I would be killing her for trying to hurt you."

"I know, I just," Kagome bit her lip, "I wish this could be handled a different way."

Shinku had been silently watching the conversation, her face set in a somewhat awed expression. Miroku noticed her surprise at Kagome's compassion and hoped that maybe now she would be more willing to tell them what they wished to know. He walked around Inuyasha and stood next to Shinku, "Do you really not know her name, or are you just not going to tell us?"

Shinku looked at him, and the rest of the group had turned to look at her, "I really don't know." She answered.

"Well, could you at least tell us what you do know about her?"

Shinku swallowed and nodded, "She is a miko, a pretty powerful one from what I can sense. She claims she comes from the past or something like that, I don't see how it is possible."

Inuyasha grunted, "Did she say why she is attacking Kagome?"

Shinku shook her head, "Iie, she never told me that."

Miroku turned a grave face to his friends, "All the evidence seems to point to Kikyo."

Inuyasha frowned, "Yeah, I just don't see who else it could be."

"Kikyo?" Kagome questioned meekly.

"Hai, you wished to speak with me?" A cool voice questioned from behind the group.

AN: So there's another chapter for you. Sadly there are only a few chapters left. I'm thinking about three, but I'm not sure. Well, THANK YOU FOR READING, AND REVIEW PLEASE!