Chapter 7: Kikyo Strikes Out

Disclaimer: I don't own InuYasha, and I don't think I ever will sob

A/N: If you have no idea about what's going on in the story, then maybe you should refer to chapter four. Anyways, enjoy the fanfic!

With Sango, Miroku and Shippo

"Sango, if you really say that Kagome's gone out for a bath, why are you still holding her thing-gummy-jig?" Shippo asked, bouncing up and down.

Miroku frowned and reached out for his staff but of course, it wasn't there. Frowning harder, he looked at Sango and Shippo and said, "Sango, I think I have a bone to pick with Kagome and InuYasha, and if Kagome doesn't have her towel, I'm allowed to go. Right, Sango?"

Sango gulped hard and clutched Kagome's towel as if it were the last thing she could hold on the earth. "Um...no, I think Kagome hasn't realized that she doesn't have her towel yet. Otherwise she would be coming back to get it, right?"

"No, I don't believe it. There's something odd in your voice that tells me you're not telling the truth," Miroku groped Sango and hurried away to find the other two before the demon exterminator could slap him back.

With InuYasha and Kagome

Kagome had finally made up her mind, and she had stopped crying, an additional bonus to InuYasha's feelings. She was going to go back to her own time and buy another deo can. Even if it were expensive, it wouldn't matter because she wouldn't have to be embarrassed in front of the rest of her friends. Hopefully InuYasha wasn't around to see her cry; it would probably make him very happy.

For InuYasha, it was awfully silent. He could only hear Kagome breathe. Maybe she had fallen asleep crying. He finally decided to descend from the tree and console his friend and see what the silence was about. It was too late when he realized his big mistake.

Kagome was about to leave when she heard a silent 'thud'. Looking around, she saw InuYasha, and he also looked shocked. The teenage girl was so surprised that by instinct she began saying the magical words 4 times. That would teach the hanyou that spying on ladies was a big crime.

"Hey, you wench!" InuYasha shouted angrily. "What did you do THAT for?" Kagome fell silent as she slowly realized what she'd done on instinct.

"Oh my gosh, I'm sorry, InuYasha!" Kagome sat down on the grass beside the sprawled-out InuYasha. "Just be a little more cautious when you scare me, ok?"

"Cautious? Feh, you're making me laugh," was the dog demon's reply.

The teenage girl giggled and decided that if she didn't want InuYasha to smell her strong b.o, then she'd have to get going right away. Getting up, she quickly rushed off. InuYasha was too busy getting up and dusting himself off to follow her. Kagome, in the meanwhile, managed to get a clean escape without the hanyou smelling her scent.

With the Other Three

Sango was really sweating now. What would happen if Miroku found out about Kagome's strange scent? That just wouldn't do. Praying that Miroku hadn't found her friend yet, Sango raced off towards the spring, therefore leaving a puzzled Shippo behind.

"Stupid grown-ups," the young Kitsune muttered. "Why do they have to be so difficult?" and with those words he continued chomping on a chocolate bar Kagome had given him.

With InuYasha

The dog demon had forgotten all about Kagome's reminder of Naraku. Sniffing the air to find Kagome's scent, he gagged and decided that he'd have to find Kagome by feeling her emotions.

With Kagome

The teenage girl had bumped into the furious monk. With a sigh of discontentment, Kagome sat down and said, "What do you want now, Miroku?"

"Lady Kagome, it seems that I need to know where my staff is...do you know where it is?" Miroku laughed evilly, and Kagome paled. Today was just not her day.

With a Certain Demon

The demon stared at the aerosol can curiously. Spraying it all over its body, a nice smell wafted up to his nose and he sighed with gaiety. Looking around in sudden happiness, it saw a weird long golden thing floating about in the water. The demon picked up the staff and examined it before jumping up and down in joy. It skipped along the path with the aerosol can in one scrawny hand and the staff in the other...

Back to Our Heroic and Messed Up Group

Miroku had beat Kagome and InuYasha up thoroughly after he'd found out where they'd placed his beloved staff. Nobody, however, had actually found out why there was no panic in Kagome even though she'd forgotten her towel.

The group were about to set off on their designated quest (Shikon shards) when they came across a little demon. It was skipping along the path they took, and it was singing songs its mother had taught in its childhood. In one hand he held Miroku's staff, and the little demon somehow handed the staff over to its rightful owner absent-mindedly. The aerosol can, however, it kept clutching.

Kagome choked out a cry of great relief. Her deodorant had been found at last, and she tried to grab it from the little creature. The demon, however, widened its eyes, took the can out of Kagome's reach and looked at the human being pitifully. InuYasha narrowed his eyes and returned the demon's puppy eyes with a death glare. At this the little demon cried in shock, dropped the deo and ran out of sight. It seemed that the horrible smell that the human being emitted was too much for it.

Kagome sobbed with happiness and relief as her precious deo can was in her possession once more. Losing control of herself, he threw herself into InuYasha's arms and began crying. How pleased she was to save the yen that was required to buy a single can of deo!

InuYasha frowned. Why was Kagome over-reacting to something weird? Wait a minute! That same sweet, sickly smell was wafting from that object up to his nose. On instinct he began to growl profusely and push Kagome behind the stinking object.

"Don't harm it, you silly boy," Kagome laughed, and ruffled her friend's hair.

"Feh, I should be cautious around things I don't know about, wench," he snapped in return, and smoothed his hair out.

The teenage girl laughed in response and picked up her precious object. "Let's just go," she said cheerfully, and the group set off on their journey once again.

Somewhere in a Cave

"So revise my plan once more," a cold and distant voice ordered once again.

The demon sighed with impatience. This mistress had promised him the flesh of two mortal girls, two cats (Shippo was counted as a cat) and a man mortal, not a painful and boring memorizing plan session. When could his fun begin?

"Now!" the voice echoed once more, and it pierced through his thoughts like an arrow pierces a piece of paper.

The demon sighed once again. This was going to be a long day...

Back to InuYasha and co.

The group of six had stopped beside a river to have lunch. Kagome had finally put on her deo, and InuYasha was keeping as far away from her as possible. Sango was washing her face with her hands, and Miroku's fingers were creeping towards Sango's behind yet again. Kirara was mewing her warning, but Sango did not notice. Shippo was swimming around in the river, enjoying himself.

InuYasha sighed impatiently. Sango had insisted they take their daily bath there. Since the group relied on Kagome mostly to make decisions, the dog demon had blown his top off when Kagome agreed with Sango's decision. She had even had the nerve to call him stinky!

The hanyou's nose twitched with irritation. A Kikyo-scented demon was nearby, and it was singing, "I am the best demon, best demon, best demon. I am the best demon, and I practice every day!"

It was hard for the dog demon to keep a straight face. Why in all the hells was that demon singing? Had a sniff of Kagome's horrible new scent made it gay? Or had...wait, Kikyo had said she'd come back to claim him somehow...did SHE teach the demon how to sing?

InuYasha was falling asleep due to the sweet, melodious singing of the demon. Before he could doze off, he remembered that Kagome might be in danger and shook himself awake angrily. He had nearly let his guard down, and because of what? Because a stupid demon was singing a corny song? No way would something like that happen again!

Jumping off his current tree, the hanyou held his breath and raced after the demon's loud footsteps, trying not to inhale Kagome's stinky scent of Naraku and weed as he got closer. The only thing he could rely on, actually, was his eyesight because he could have fallen asleep from the demon's singing, but the arrogant dog demon didn't realize that until he dropped onto the ground and dozed off, a peaceful look of what seemed like death on his face.

With Kagome

"Gees, what's taking InuYasha so long?" Kagome wondered aloud to herself as she waded into the river by herself. Sango had personally made sure that Miroku wouldn't peep, and she could trust her friend well enough. "He'd said he'd go and take a short walk. I'd better check on him now."

And finishing a hasty bath, Kagome left the water with a scentless smell. She did not see a shadow skulking near her bathing place.

"Hu hu hu," the evil voice said. "InuYasha is already down. It's only you, Kagome, only you are left standing." And with that, the shadow dragged four more bodies along with it.

InuYasha's P.O.V

I was in a deep sleep. The demon's song rang in my ever so sensitive ears. I wanted to cover my ears from that horrible noise, but my arms wouldn't cooperate. The demon's song was soothing, anyways, and I was alone in the world, with nobody caring for me.

No, why do I always have to think like that? Kagome sure gave pretty strong hints of caring towards me, and she had even confessed her love for me! Argh...why did life have to be so messed up for me?

I finally lost consciousness as Kagome's soothing voice said, "InuYasha, calm down. You don't have to worry, for I am here."

That's right, he thought. His Kagome was safe, and she was there to take good care of him...

With Kagome

The worried teenage girl hurried past every tree, looking for InuYasha. The first signs of trouble had started; the forest was absolutely quiet.

Kagome was about to take another step when she squished onto something weird. Looking down, she saw that she was stepping on InuYasha right in the buckets!

"Ohmigosh! I'm so sorry, InuYasha!" Kagome then bent down to look at him. A look of pain flitted across his face, but he soon changed the expression to a calm peaceful one. She suddenly giggled. "Why are you here, InuYasha? Have you fallen off a tree dozing?"

This time a look of anger crossed the hanyou's face before disappearing. Kagome was really worried now (A/N: Her words were somehow changed into the words InuYasha had heard earlier on).

An abrupt rustling in the bushes caught Kagome's attention. Loading her bow on instinct, she carefully aimed at where the sound had come from. And who came out of their hiding place but...Sango.

"Sango! Oh gosh, you worried me so much!" Kagome squealed with relief. "Can you help me, because InuYasha is...?"

There was a murderous look in Sango's stare, and that made Kagome hush up immediately.

That was when Kagome noticed. This demon was not the Sango she knew. This Sango had InuYasha's eyes, Shippo's tail, Miroku's staff and Kirara's fangs.

"Wh-who are you? And where are my true friends?" Kagome stammered, trying to hide her surprise.

"Oh shut up, wench," Sango snapped, and InuYasha's voice and vocabulary shone through. "The whole point of me meeting you is to kill you for Mistress Kikyo and Lord Naraku."

Kikyo and Naraku have teamed up? The teenage girl thought. This wasn't good...

"Oh well, I may as well finish you off while your fighting spirit is still dim," Miroku's voice shone through this time. "Sango, use your boomerang bone."

"Alright. HIRAIKOTSU!" a big boomerang flew out of nowhere and nearly struck Kagome.

"Who did this to you?" the poor girl shouted through the mayhem.

A big pause followed this question as it hung in mid-air. Sango's anger expression faded and a sad and sorry one overtook it. InuYasha, seeing his perfect chance, rushed up to Kagome and kissed her. All the forest creatures stopped momentarily to see the 'lesbians' have their fun time.

Kagome quickly pulled away, blushing. "So, um...who'd really doing this to you?" she looked Sango all over, and saw a glint of something like an evil Shikon shard embedded in Shippo's tail.

Sango suddenly lost control of her body. Roaring a war cry, she charged Kagome with InuYasha's 'Kaze no Kizu'. This missed Kagome once again, and the miko was glad that she was still alive.

Now how was she going to get to that Shikon shard? Hmm...oh, now wait a minute! There was a way to get to the evil shard!

"Oh, InuYasha, Miroku, Kirara, Shippo, Sango, whoever did this awful thing to you?" Kagome cried, adding lots of desperation and sadness in her voice, hoping that her plan would succeed.

Sango's body stopped attacking just as it was about to perform Shippo's fox fire. Once again there was an empty feeling in everyone, like as if someone had pulled out their souls.

Kagome didn't dare waste any time. Darting quickly around her friends' temporary body, she searched for the shard in Shippo's tail, found it, and pulled it out. There was a big blast as everyone's but Sango's souls poured out of that one body and flew to their rightful bodies, one behind Kagome, the others in the bushes.

Slowly Kagome's friends came to. The first thing they thought of was the horrible thing they'd done to the friend who had tried so hard to save them. Everyone but InuYasha went to thank their hero, but InuYasha wasn't hanging back just so that everyone could see that he was made of tough stuff. It was to think about Kikyo and Naraku.

Why has Kikyo decided to help Naraku in his evil plans? InuYasha thought with hatred. All I'd ever wanted was to hangout with the one who's made of real flesh, not clay and bone.

Now that he and Kagome knew that Kikyo was on Naraku's side, what would the disastrous couple come up with?

A/N: Chapter 7 is finally out! Whoopee! does a little dance Oh well, no biggie to anyone else, right? Please review!