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To Gekidoku no Hitokiri: Since my Internet won't let me review your stories (or anybody else's for that matter), I just wanted to say that your new story and the new chapter for 'What's Love Got To Do With It?' ROCKS! AWESOME!
The Switch
Chapter Twelve: Yume of the Hair
Kagome brushed herself off, as did everybody else. Kurama looked around and noticed they were at the edge of the woods. "Shall we go in?" Everybody started forward without a word. Yusuke and Kagome were walking hand in hand. Kuwabara was muttering something about his 'code' and everybody walked on in silence.
"I hope you know that this won't be easy." Hiei said, his voice devoid of emotion. Kagome stared at him for a second before shaking her head.
"You just reminded me of Sesshoumaru-sama for a second..." Kagome aimed the comment at Hiei, who glared at her.
"You mean the youkai lord of the western lands five-hundred years ago?" Kurama asked, and Kagome nodded.
"Son if InuTaisho and half-brother to Inuyasha. That's him." Kagome nodded and both Kurama and Hiei looked uncomfortable.
"Have you met him before?" Hiei asked.
"Met him, fought with him, once fought against him, once watched over somebody for him..." Kagome said like it was no big deal. "Why?"
"No reason." Kurama cut in before Hiei could answer. Kagome looked at them weirdly before shrugging it off.
"Kagome...what exactly happened in the feudal era last time?" Yusuke asked. Kagome sighed sadly and told them about the battle with Naraku, changing the parts with Yukina so that it seemed like Kanna did it...though she had a hard time lying about it. They all seemed to buy it.
"The day we left both Yukina and I got gifts from everybody and we gave them gifts then we jumped into the well, got a bag, put Yukina's stuff in it, and headed for Genkai's." Kagome put a quick summary for the last day because she really didn't want to relive every detail of that particular day. Yusuke squeezed Kagome hand and Kagome leaned her head on his shoulder for a second, before a sudden thought shook her out of it.
"Yura..." Kagome murmured and she stopped. Everybody turned to Kagome, whose eyes seemed to go blank for a second. "Yura of the Hair...this couldn't be the same thing..." Kagome said, disbelief in her voice. Everyone looked at her strangely.
"Fool, who is this 'Yura of the Hair'?" Hiei asked, glaring.
"She was the first oni I ever met and killed." Kagome said. "I have this weird feeling that this oni we're just about to face is something like her..." Kagome shook her head. Yura wasn't strong, but she wasn't weak either.
"Hn." Hiei continued on, as did everyone else.
A half hour later
"STOP!" Kagome screeched and everybody froze. "You might not want to go any further without guidance."
"What do you mean, onna?" Hiei growled.
"Hiei is right, I don't sense any danger..." Kurama said and Yusuke agreed with Kurama.
"Let me show you." Kagome winced, knowing what she'd have to do so that they could see the strands of hair that could most likely cut them up. Walking up to the nearest strand of hair that happened to be centimeters away from Hiei's neck, she gripping it firmly and moved one hand up, drawing blood from her palm. "That hair could cut you all up into pieces if you're not careful."
"How come you can see them and we can't?" Yusuke demanded and Kagome rolled her eyes.
"I'm a miko, remember?" Kagome explained. "It was the same with Yura. Inuyasha couldn't see the hairs so I had to guide him to Yura. I guess I should do the same with you." Kagome said and let go of Yusuke's hand and then looked at him apologetically before guiding them through the hairs. It didn't take them long to find the oni creating them. She had long black hair held up in a ponytail and dark blue eyes and she was wearing the same outfit as Yura of the Hair wore five hundred years ago.
"I see that this was enough to bring the miko here." The oni turned to Kagome, smirking.
"Umm...do I know you?" Kagome asked. She knew that Yura was dead and she never fought any similar oni, so this was rather...odd.
"No, but you killed my mother." The oni glared and Kagome sweat-dropped. Great, this was a revenge deal. She hated it when someone wanted revenge on her. "I am Yume of the Hair!" The oni drew herself up using the hair entwined in her fingers. Kagome sweat-dropped and looked at Yusuke.
"Umm...can you guys keep her busy?" Kagome asked and the others nodded. "Just keep in mind that whatever you do to her body will most likely not affect her..." They nodded and started for Yume. Yusuke turned around to face Kagome.
"Be careful." Kagome nodded to show him she would be and immediately started looking for the main hairs.
Hiei didn't believe Kagome. There was no way that nothing would affect Yume's body. Raising his sword he brought it down and stabbed it right through Yume's heart and pulled it out.
"Is that all you got?" She smirked and slashed his arm open. Kurama brought out his rose-whip and slashed at her back. "You're pathetic." Yume slashed Kurama's stomach and started to clash swords with Hiei.
"SPIRIT GUN!" Yusuke shouted and blasted a hole through Yume's gut while Kuwabara extended his sword so that it cut off her leg, the limb fell to the floor. Yume turned around bored with the whole process.
"I would have thought allies of the miko who killed my mother would at least use common sense." She talked with a purr-like tone that would have reminded Kagome highly of Kagura if she had heard it.
'I would have thought that she would try and hide the skull better than her mother...' Kagome picked up the skull that all the hairs were controlled from. 'Now all I have to do is break the object holding Yume's soul and she'll be dead.' Kagome drove an arrow through it with ease, breaking the comb. She looked up expectantly at Yume.
"You aren't very bright." Yume smirked, using her hairs to guide herself down to the miko. "Do you honestly think I would hide my soul in a comb in a skull just like my mother did?" Kagome's jaw would have dropped if she didn't have as much self-control as she did. Her eyes though, were wide and she looked disbelievingly between the comb and Yume.
"What? But this...has to be..." Kagome said disbelievingly, finally settling her gaze on the shattered comb. The main hair had lead to this comb...
"Now, you must die!" Yume raised her sword. Kagome concentrated her energy onto her hands and clenched them into fists, hitting Yume and sending the oni flying through a few trees.
"That was close..." Kagome watched as the rest of the boys continued to fight with Yume. She turned her attention back to the comb and realized there were no hairs attached to it, but rather the ground underneath what it had been lying on. "Ok...I should have seen that..." Kagome sweat-dropped and put her hands up against the ground and sending her miko energy blasting through the ground, creating a rather large crater...and in the center of that crater was another comb.
"KAGOME LOOK OUT!" Yusuke's voice shouted and Kagome looked up and dodged the sword being thrown at her. Kagome looked at Yume and noticed one of her arms had been cut off from her shoulder...no doubt thanks to Hiei. She was glaring at Kagome and Kagome knew that this was the comb. Sprinting towards it, Kagome picked it up and drove an arrow through it. A blood- curling scream could be heard and Yume vanished. Kagome sighed and wiped her forehead.
"You guys all right?" Kagome asked and everyone nodded. Yusuke looked at the crater Kagome had created and whistled.
"Sheesh, all of that just to unearth a comb?" Yusuke said and Kagome nodded.
"The comb held her soul, and so in order to hurt and destroy Yume the comb must be destroyed. It's exactly the same as her mother." Kagome informed them while climbing out of the crater. They nodded in understanding. "Didn't Koenma say something about a portal being made...?" Kagome asked and everyone nodded.
"It's been destroyed..." Kurama said, pointing to a heap of what must have been parts to the portal. "Kuwabara missed Yura and well...got this instead."
"It seems even being a klutz can be of use." Hiei said in his usual tone. Kuwabara whirled to face Hiei.
"That sure is a nasty way to give a compliment!" Kuwabara shouted at Hiei, who just gave an Hn' and glared at Kagome.
"How come you didn't tell us what you were up to?"
"I didn't really have time to explain and it would have been easier to go unnoticed by Yume of the Hair. It worked with Yura...though then I had no idea what I was doing and I just sort of guessed..." Kagome shrugged. Everyone's eyes went wide.
"You mean you knew all of this from a guess?" Yusuke asked and Kagome nodded.
"Last time I used just a guess. I was still new to the whole idea of youkai and time-traveling and I still couldn't fire a bow and arrow. This time I just assumed that Yume would be like her mother.
"You risked our lives on an assumption?" Hiei glared at Kagome, who started to laugh nervously.
"I guess you could call it that..." Kagome slowly inched towards Yusuke when she saw the heated glare from Hiei. 'He reminds me so much of Sesshoumaru. At least he doesn't refer to himself in third person...' Kagome sweat- dropped at the thought. She was now standing beside Yusuke, who was glaring at Hiei who was glaring at Kagome. "So, missions done and we can go home, right?"
"Yeah." Yusuke said, smiling at Kagome and a portal appeared in front of the Reikai Tentei, which they all walked through.
With Kagome
Kagome had kissed Yusuke good-bye (he had dropped her off at her house) and headed inside. Her mother was making dinner and Kagome walked in. "Hey mom!" Kagome chirped. Kagome's mom smiled and continued working on dinner.
"You two should get married and give me lots of grandchildren!" Kagome's mom's back was facing Kagome, so she missed Kagome's face turning the exact same shade of Kurama's hair and the amazed expression on Kagome's face.
"H-h-how did you know?" Kagome stuttered and Kagome's mom laughed.
"I'm your mother. I don't need anyone to tell me." Kagome's eye began to twitch and she sat down. "Besides, I saw you and Yusuke a few weeks ago." Kagome's eye twitched even faster and she slumped down in her chair. Just promise me you'll have lots of kids."
"MOM!"
End of Chappie
TYN: People have been bugging me for a while to put in Kagome's mom's reaction, NOW STOP BUGGING ME!!!!!
Yusuke: I can't believe...
TYN: Erm...Yusuke...do you realize your eye is twitching as fast as Hiei can run at top speed?
Yusuke: Yes.
TYN: OK! Now say your line!
Yusuke: ...
TYN: Or, since your eye is still twitching and you seem to have lost your vocal cords...I'll say it! Read and Review! Yusuke...you really should see somebody about your eye...
To Gekidoku no Hitokiri: Since my Internet won't let me review your stories (or anybody else's for that matter), I just wanted to say that your new story and the new chapter for 'What's Love Got To Do With It?' ROCKS! AWESOME!
The Switch
Chapter Twelve: Yume of the Hair
Kagome brushed herself off, as did everybody else. Kurama looked around and noticed they were at the edge of the woods. "Shall we go in?" Everybody started forward without a word. Yusuke and Kagome were walking hand in hand. Kuwabara was muttering something about his 'code' and everybody walked on in silence.
"I hope you know that this won't be easy." Hiei said, his voice devoid of emotion. Kagome stared at him for a second before shaking her head.
"You just reminded me of Sesshoumaru-sama for a second..." Kagome aimed the comment at Hiei, who glared at her.
"You mean the youkai lord of the western lands five-hundred years ago?" Kurama asked, and Kagome nodded.
"Son if InuTaisho and half-brother to Inuyasha. That's him." Kagome nodded and both Kurama and Hiei looked uncomfortable.
"Have you met him before?" Hiei asked.
"Met him, fought with him, once fought against him, once watched over somebody for him..." Kagome said like it was no big deal. "Why?"
"No reason." Kurama cut in before Hiei could answer. Kagome looked at them weirdly before shrugging it off.
"Kagome...what exactly happened in the feudal era last time?" Yusuke asked. Kagome sighed sadly and told them about the battle with Naraku, changing the parts with Yukina so that it seemed like Kanna did it...though she had a hard time lying about it. They all seemed to buy it.
"The day we left both Yukina and I got gifts from everybody and we gave them gifts then we jumped into the well, got a bag, put Yukina's stuff in it, and headed for Genkai's." Kagome put a quick summary for the last day because she really didn't want to relive every detail of that particular day. Yusuke squeezed Kagome hand and Kagome leaned her head on his shoulder for a second, before a sudden thought shook her out of it.
"Yura..." Kagome murmured and she stopped. Everybody turned to Kagome, whose eyes seemed to go blank for a second. "Yura of the Hair...this couldn't be the same thing..." Kagome said, disbelief in her voice. Everyone looked at her strangely.
"Fool, who is this 'Yura of the Hair'?" Hiei asked, glaring.
"She was the first oni I ever met and killed." Kagome said. "I have this weird feeling that this oni we're just about to face is something like her..." Kagome shook her head. Yura wasn't strong, but she wasn't weak either.
"Hn." Hiei continued on, as did everyone else.
A half hour later
"STOP!" Kagome screeched and everybody froze. "You might not want to go any further without guidance."
"What do you mean, onna?" Hiei growled.
"Hiei is right, I don't sense any danger..." Kurama said and Yusuke agreed with Kurama.
"Let me show you." Kagome winced, knowing what she'd have to do so that they could see the strands of hair that could most likely cut them up. Walking up to the nearest strand of hair that happened to be centimeters away from Hiei's neck, she gripping it firmly and moved one hand up, drawing blood from her palm. "That hair could cut you all up into pieces if you're not careful."
"How come you can see them and we can't?" Yusuke demanded and Kagome rolled her eyes.
"I'm a miko, remember?" Kagome explained. "It was the same with Yura. Inuyasha couldn't see the hairs so I had to guide him to Yura. I guess I should do the same with you." Kagome said and let go of Yusuke's hand and then looked at him apologetically before guiding them through the hairs. It didn't take them long to find the oni creating them. She had long black hair held up in a ponytail and dark blue eyes and she was wearing the same outfit as Yura of the Hair wore five hundred years ago.
"I see that this was enough to bring the miko here." The oni turned to Kagome, smirking.
"Umm...do I know you?" Kagome asked. She knew that Yura was dead and she never fought any similar oni, so this was rather...odd.
"No, but you killed my mother." The oni glared and Kagome sweat-dropped. Great, this was a revenge deal. She hated it when someone wanted revenge on her. "I am Yume of the Hair!" The oni drew herself up using the hair entwined in her fingers. Kagome sweat-dropped and looked at Yusuke.
"Umm...can you guys keep her busy?" Kagome asked and the others nodded. "Just keep in mind that whatever you do to her body will most likely not affect her..." They nodded and started for Yume. Yusuke turned around to face Kagome.
"Be careful." Kagome nodded to show him she would be and immediately started looking for the main hairs.
Hiei didn't believe Kagome. There was no way that nothing would affect Yume's body. Raising his sword he brought it down and stabbed it right through Yume's heart and pulled it out.
"Is that all you got?" She smirked and slashed his arm open. Kurama brought out his rose-whip and slashed at her back. "You're pathetic." Yume slashed Kurama's stomach and started to clash swords with Hiei.
"SPIRIT GUN!" Yusuke shouted and blasted a hole through Yume's gut while Kuwabara extended his sword so that it cut off her leg, the limb fell to the floor. Yume turned around bored with the whole process.
"I would have thought allies of the miko who killed my mother would at least use common sense." She talked with a purr-like tone that would have reminded Kagome highly of Kagura if she had heard it.
'I would have thought that she would try and hide the skull better than her mother...' Kagome picked up the skull that all the hairs were controlled from. 'Now all I have to do is break the object holding Yume's soul and she'll be dead.' Kagome drove an arrow through it with ease, breaking the comb. She looked up expectantly at Yume.
"You aren't very bright." Yume smirked, using her hairs to guide herself down to the miko. "Do you honestly think I would hide my soul in a comb in a skull just like my mother did?" Kagome's jaw would have dropped if she didn't have as much self-control as she did. Her eyes though, were wide and she looked disbelievingly between the comb and Yume.
"What? But this...has to be..." Kagome said disbelievingly, finally settling her gaze on the shattered comb. The main hair had lead to this comb...
"Now, you must die!" Yume raised her sword. Kagome concentrated her energy onto her hands and clenched them into fists, hitting Yume and sending the oni flying through a few trees.
"That was close..." Kagome watched as the rest of the boys continued to fight with Yume. She turned her attention back to the comb and realized there were no hairs attached to it, but rather the ground underneath what it had been lying on. "Ok...I should have seen that..." Kagome sweat-dropped and put her hands up against the ground and sending her miko energy blasting through the ground, creating a rather large crater...and in the center of that crater was another comb.
"KAGOME LOOK OUT!" Yusuke's voice shouted and Kagome looked up and dodged the sword being thrown at her. Kagome looked at Yume and noticed one of her arms had been cut off from her shoulder...no doubt thanks to Hiei. She was glaring at Kagome and Kagome knew that this was the comb. Sprinting towards it, Kagome picked it up and drove an arrow through it. A blood- curling scream could be heard and Yume vanished. Kagome sighed and wiped her forehead.
"You guys all right?" Kagome asked and everyone nodded. Yusuke looked at the crater Kagome had created and whistled.
"Sheesh, all of that just to unearth a comb?" Yusuke said and Kagome nodded.
"The comb held her soul, and so in order to hurt and destroy Yume the comb must be destroyed. It's exactly the same as her mother." Kagome informed them while climbing out of the crater. They nodded in understanding. "Didn't Koenma say something about a portal being made...?" Kagome asked and everyone nodded.
"It's been destroyed..." Kurama said, pointing to a heap of what must have been parts to the portal. "Kuwabara missed Yura and well...got this instead."
"It seems even being a klutz can be of use." Hiei said in his usual tone. Kuwabara whirled to face Hiei.
"That sure is a nasty way to give a compliment!" Kuwabara shouted at Hiei, who just gave an Hn' and glared at Kagome.
"How come you didn't tell us what you were up to?"
"I didn't really have time to explain and it would have been easier to go unnoticed by Yume of the Hair. It worked with Yura...though then I had no idea what I was doing and I just sort of guessed..." Kagome shrugged. Everyone's eyes went wide.
"You mean you knew all of this from a guess?" Yusuke asked and Kagome nodded.
"Last time I used just a guess. I was still new to the whole idea of youkai and time-traveling and I still couldn't fire a bow and arrow. This time I just assumed that Yume would be like her mother.
"You risked our lives on an assumption?" Hiei glared at Kagome, who started to laugh nervously.
"I guess you could call it that..." Kagome slowly inched towards Yusuke when she saw the heated glare from Hiei. 'He reminds me so much of Sesshoumaru. At least he doesn't refer to himself in third person...' Kagome sweat- dropped at the thought. She was now standing beside Yusuke, who was glaring at Hiei who was glaring at Kagome. "So, missions done and we can go home, right?"
"Yeah." Yusuke said, smiling at Kagome and a portal appeared in front of the Reikai Tentei, which they all walked through.
With Kagome
Kagome had kissed Yusuke good-bye (he had dropped her off at her house) and headed inside. Her mother was making dinner and Kagome walked in. "Hey mom!" Kagome chirped. Kagome's mom smiled and continued working on dinner.
"You two should get married and give me lots of grandchildren!" Kagome's mom's back was facing Kagome, so she missed Kagome's face turning the exact same shade of Kurama's hair and the amazed expression on Kagome's face.
"H-h-how did you know?" Kagome stuttered and Kagome's mom laughed.
"I'm your mother. I don't need anyone to tell me." Kagome's eye began to twitch and she sat down. "Besides, I saw you and Yusuke a few weeks ago." Kagome's eye twitched even faster and she slumped down in her chair. Just promise me you'll have lots of kids."
"MOM!"
End of Chappie
TYN: People have been bugging me for a while to put in Kagome's mom's reaction, NOW STOP BUGGING ME!!!!!
Yusuke: I can't believe...
TYN: Erm...Yusuke...do you realize your eye is twitching as fast as Hiei can run at top speed?
Yusuke: Yes.
TYN: OK! Now say your line!
Yusuke: ...
TYN: Or, since your eye is still twitching and you seem to have lost your vocal cords...I'll say it! Read and Review! Yusuke...you really should see somebody about your eye...