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The SwitchChapter Twenty-Six: Battling the Wolves
The wolf youkai brought down his claws and managed to scathe Keiko's arm. Kurama grabbed a hold of Keiko and dodged another onslaught of claws. Yusuke and Kagome stood by; weapons charged and ready to fire at the first opportunity.
"SPIRIT GUN!" Yusuke shouted and hit the wolf in the shoulder, creating a gaping hole. The wolf youkai turned on Yusuke and the two started trading blow for blow. Kagome's eyes widened as she lowered her weapon. She couldn't shoot it. She might hit Yusuke...
Keiko was being held protectively by Kurama, and by the way his eyes were flashing gold she could tell how pissed he was. "Kurama..." Keiko smiled and gently hugged him. "It's all right. Let Yusuke fight this battle." Kurama's eyes turned back to their emerald-green color and he held Keiko closer to him, but still protectively.
"What's Kagome going to do?" Kurama wondered out loud, noticing how Kagome had a distressed look in her eyes as she watched the wolf youkai and Yusuke fight it out. "Let's hope it's not anything drastic." Keiko turned to watch the battle, wondering what her friend would do.
Kagome's distressed look became calmer, and her eyes were following the wolf's movements. She stood like that for a while before raising her bow and drawing an arrow that had a faint purple glow to it. "Now." Kagome muttered as she released the arrow, hitting the wolf square in the chest, purifying the wolf instantly. Yusuke dropped to his knees and his breathing was somewhat rugged. Kagome ran up to Yusuke and kneeled next to him. "Yusuke! Are you all right?" Yusuke's breathing steadied and he looked at her, a cocky smirk gracing his face.
"Of course I am. Didn't you see how I took care of that wolf youkai?" Yusuke joked and Kagome playfully punched him in the arm.
"Oh yes, it was so heroic." Kagome's voice was full of sarcasm. Kurama and Keiko rolled their eyes at this. Was Kagome letting him take all of the glory? "Of course, if it hadn't been for my arrow, than you would probably still be duking it out with that wolf youkai." Yusuke playfully grumbled and lightly shoved her shoulders.
"All right, I think that now we know that we are all ok...we should probably start heading off again." Kurama suggested and the group head off. "I do have to admit, I expected more from the wolves." Keiko, Kagome, and Yusuke nodded in agreement.
"I don't think they sent their best wolf on us." Keiko muttered slightly. "I mean, didn't everyone say that they hated wolf youkai the most?" Kagome's eyes widened.
"I sure hope Kouga and the others will be all right."
With Kouga"I don't like the smell of this place." Kouga growled as he walked briskly through the woods. "I can't tell where anything is." Ginta and Hakkaku looked at each other nervously.
"You don't suppose we'll get lost, do you?" Ginta asked and Kouga's fist clenched.
"We better not." Kouga glared at the trees ahead of him. "I don't think splitting our pack was such a good idea."
"Well, at least we'll attract less attention from the wolf youkai tribe that lives here." Hakkaku reassured him. "Besides, who would attack two girls?" Kouga glared at Ginta and Hakkaku.
"Naraku would. And so would these damn wolves." Kouga growled, and pushed a tree branch out of his way, letting it fall back and nearly hit Ginta and Hakkaku.
"He is in a bad mood." Ginta muttered, eyeing the tree branch wearily.
"I wish Ayame was here to calm him down." Hakkaku whispered, and Ginta agreed whole-heartedly.
"Well, I see we have found you." A voice cackled from their right. All three of them whirled around to see five-wolf youkai standing there. "Well, this should be easy." She crouched down and drew a sword. "Very easy." She charged at Kouga, viciously attacking him with her sword.
"KOUGA!" Ginta and Hakkaku shouted, as the female wolf youkai was able to draw blood from his abdomen.
"You shouldn't worry about him." The other four-wolf youkai surrounded the two, and they glared at the wolf youkai and crouched down into an attack position. "You two will be easier prey." With that, the four-wolf youkai charged them, and Ginta and Hakkaku jumped, causing the four-wolf youkai's heads to clash together.
"They aren't that smart, are they Hakkaku?" Ginta asked, jumping onto a nearby tree branch. Hakkaku looked at the four-wolf youkai and shook his head.
"Even I have more brains than them." Hakkaku grinned. "I wonder if we were worrying for nothing." Ginta shrugged and both of them jumped down, cracking their knuckles in anticipation. "Well, lets see if brains are better than brawn."
"Good idea." They charged at the group of four and landed many blows with their claws, fists, knees, etc. The four didn't even have time to react to any of those blows and were down in nothing flat.
"Well, that was...interesting." Ginta commented, looking at the now dead four wolf youkai. "What do you say we help Kouga now?"
"I don't need any help." Kouga said from behind them. "She was much easier than I had anticipated." Kouga smirked at the two in front of him. "Let's head out now."
With Ayame
Ayame twitched her tail in anticipation. She had a feeling the wolf youkai were watching her, or at least, somebody was watching her, and the two with her. Tessa was a more than a little unnerved, as she also felt like they were being watched. Hiei seemed deep in concentration, and his Jagan was starting to glow from the other side of his headband. Tessa noticed this and tried her best not to stare, though it wasn't working very well. Hiei glanced at her and glared slightly.
"What are you looking at, Onna?" Hiei asked, and Tessa pointed to his forehead.
"Why is your forehead glowing?" Tessa asked and Hiei frowned.
"You mean you don't know?"
"No clue." Hiei grumbled and untied his headband, revealing the purple eye to Tessa.
"Whoa...that's cool." Hiei was taken aback. She wasn't cowering in fear? "So, what does it do?" Hiei grumbled and then remained silent.
"Why don't you tell us, Hiei?" Ayame asked, she was ahead of both of them and she had been listening to the conversation. Of course, she knew what a Jagan was and what it did, but she wanted to start up a conversation. She didn't like the quiet.
"Hn." Hiei shot and glared at the two-wolf youkai. "If you really need to know, a Jagan enables me to do many things with my mind, like read yours for example." Hiei lifted up his headband and prepared to tie it around. "It can also sense Youkai within the area, so I advise you stop right now unless you want to get run through." Ayame stopped and all of a sudden, an ax flew in front of her, getting stuck in a nearby tree.
Tessa's eyes were wide. "Oh holy Shitake Mushrooms." Tessa murmured and all three of them looked in the direction the ax had come in, to see three-wolf youkai. "OH HOLY SHIT!" Tessa didn't even try not to cus, and right now Ayame didn't feel like reprimanding her. Hiei drew out his sword and charged towards the wolf youkai, not giving them a chance to speak, and sliced off they're heads. "Oh crap. Oh crap. Oh crap." Tessa started repeating.
"They weren't tough at all." Hiei smirked. "What were you so worried about?" He noticed that Ayame and Tessa's eyes were wide and their mouth's were gaping.
"That was..."
"No way..."
"Awesome!" Tessa broke out of her daze and hugged Hiei briefly before going back to Ayame, who was still shocked out of her mind. "Ayame...are you all right?" Tessa waved her hand in front of Ayame's face.
"Oh my..." Ayame snapped out of her trance. "Did Hiei just...?" Tessa nodded. "Wow."
Later
The groups finally met up with each other. "Did anyone else consider that easy?" Kouga asked the group, and everyone nodded. "The idiots must have gone and spread the rumors themselves, that way it would be easier for them to keep their territory."
"Not only that, but maybe even Naraku believed them." Inuyasha smirked. "The idiot." Kikyou frowned.
"No, I think he knew how weak they were." Kikyou commented, and everyone turned to her. "He wanted to get us nervous, so we'd be killed off easier."
"Well, it seems logical enough." Miroku pointed out. "I'm going with Kikyou's theory, just to be on the safe side."
"Well, that obstacle was passed. Only one more to go."
End of ChappieTYN: Umm...please don't hurt me?
Yusuke: ...THAT SUCKED!
TYN: I know...
Yusuke: WHY DIDN'T YOU MAKE THE WOLF YOUKAI STRONG?
TYN: I did...in rumors...not in character. There is a difference.
Yusuke: What about what Kurama said about hardly being able to fight off one of them?
TYN: Easy, he's grown stronger by then PLUS the wolf they were fighting was outnumbered. Four to One.
Yusuke: Oh.
TYN: Well, say your line!
Yusuke: Read and Review!
TYN: ALSO...if I get around to it...what do you peoples think of sequels??????
Yusuke: Hate 'em.
TYN: Shut up, Yusuke! I asked the READERS! NOT MY RIGHT-HAND MAN!
Yusuke: SINCE WHEN AM I YOUR RIGHT-HAND MAN?
TYN: SINCE YOU STARTED SAYING YOUR LINE!
Yusuke: Oh.