Act IIX: The Demon Emerges
(Scene:Yu and thug's warehouse)
"Waste him."
There were four identically loud clicks as the thieves pointed their guns at Inu-Yasha who stood firmly on the van's rooftop. Kagome clung to the roof in an attempt to not be seen, but soon realized it was futile.
'I've got to get their attention away from Kagome.' He thought looking around for something to use. With nothing in sight, he did the one thing he could think of. With one quick motion, he lept straight into the air and landed roughly on one of the rafters to give away his located.
"How the hell did he do that?" The female thief yelled as the four looked shocked into the roof. "What is he?"
The thugs watched on in shock and awe as Inu-Yasha lept from beam to beam, then bolted downwards onto the wheasy masked man, knocking him to the ground. He sprang off the fallen body and flipped back smacking both the nervous man and the first one that emerged from the van, knocking them out.
But in all the chaos, the girl thug who had stood by and watched the half- demon demolish her allies, lined up a perfect shot, and fired. The loud 'BANG' rang through the warehouse as Inu-Yasha turned just quick enough to see a woodless arrow catch him in the chest and knock him to the ground.
"GAAAH!" He yelled in pain running a finger over the deep hole which passed through him. The pain was overwhelming, nearly sending him into shock, his blood pouring onto the thick asphalt. 'I have to get up.' He thought weakly 'I have to protect Kagome...'
"Inu-Yasha!" Kagome yelled as she stared ato the motionless demon. "Please, you have to get up...". She could feel the tears welling up in her eyes, he couldn't be...
A rough hand grabbed Kagome and pulled her off the rooftop to the cold stone floor. "Hey Yu, looky here." Said the female bandit as she lifted Kagome up by her smooth black hair. "Some girl, mind if I keep her." A sinister tone in her voice.
Yu looked callously at Kagome, her nose upturned in a stuck up fashion. "Go ahead Willow, and try to enjoy yourself." She slowly turned to Inu-Yasha's lifeless body as her bodyguard stood sternly at attention. "Leonard, dispose of that creature before the police get here."
The bodyguard, Leonard, slowly made his way over to Inu-Yasha and lifted him up effortlessly with one hand. He gave him a swift kick in the chest to make sure he was out cold, then tossed him into a pile of rusted over barrels.
"I'm going to enjoy this." Willow saidbringing Kagome's eyes to her level "I don't suppose you've ever been with a woman before, have you?". Kagome shrank down as far as she could as her captor continued to hold her apon herself. "Of course not, I doubt you've even been with a man, have you. Don't worry, when I'm done with you, I swear you'll never go back to the boys."
Willow removed her gloves and mask revealing a ravishing strawberry blonde girl who looked almost as young as Kagome. One of her soft hands glided over Kagome's face and ever so slowly down her neck to her school uniform. Kagome stood froze with fear as Willow's face came closer and closer to her's until...
"Get off of her you Bitch!" Inu-Yasha yelled slamming into Willow, knocking her aside. Blood still ran down his chest as he stared over the stunned Kagome before him. "Are you alright?" He asked as she backed against the van silently.
"What?" Yu said in a confused tone staring at the bloody figure. "How did you do that?! Willow shot you dead!"
"Not dead enough I guess."
A second loud 'BANG' rang through the building from Willow's direction, but Inu-Yasha wasn't stupid enough to fall for the same move twice. He lept straight up and snatched the bullet from mid-air, then landed grace fully and looked at it closely between two fingers.
Willow stared on in shock. "Are you the Matrix?!"
"No, that's Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss." Inu-Yasha said smugly as he dropped the bullet. "I'm just Inu-Yasha."
"Inu-Yasha..." Yu whispered in amazement. "Then the legend must be true..." There was a moment of silence as Yu stared at him in a mixture of intregue and envy. Moments passed until Yu spoke finally. "Leonard, releave the demon of his weapon without killing him. Willow, take the girl home with the restrained demon, do not kill either of them."
"Demon? What is she talking about?" Willow questioned walikg over to Kagome and pressing the gun against her head. "Looks like playtime will have to wait until later. Shame really..." She shoved Kagome into the passenger side of the van and slammed the door shut, quickly jamming it and running to the other side.
Inu-Yasha looked over at Yu curiously as Leonard made a quick move at him he easily dodged. "How do you know about the 'Tetsaiga'?" He asked crouched on top of a wooden box.
"I know a lot more than you think Inu-Yasha. I've studied from a long far I suppose you could say, a bit of a hobby." Yu explained walking over to the van blocking the back from Kagome's escape. "I also collect ancient weapons, that's why I want your 'Tetsaiga'."
She took her own gun from inside her coat and pulled Kagome from the van's back. A hard 'Smack' echoed from the walls as Yu knocked Kagome to the ground and pressed the gun against her forehead. "Where is the portal!?" She demanded "How did he get to our time!?"
Kagome just sat froze as Yu towered over her ominously.
"Leave her alone!" Inu-Yasha yelled as Leonard slammed the boxed into nothing more than splinters. The half-demon lept off and landed upon the servent as he franticly tried to grab him, but Inu-Yasha was too fast. With one swirl move, he drew his claws across the servent's neck and he dropped to the ground like a stone. Blood pooled around the head as Inu-Yasha scratched him bloody claws across his face, a tribute to his victory.
Yu turned around and glared at Inu-Yasha coldly. Her look could have pierced through him it it was any sharper. "How dare you hurt Leonard you brute. He'll just have to kill you then when he gets back up."
Her icy voice filled the room as Willow stared on at the aftermath of the demon's assault. "Yu, I think he's dead." She whispered staring at the lifeless body.
"I doubt it." Yu said pulling out a second gun, this new one long and skinny with a clear chamber revealing a dart filled with a black liquid. She pointed the gun at Leonadr and fired a single shot into the motionless back. "It takes a little more than death to stop my servents."
Leonard's body slowly twitched and gained slow movement until he got back to his feet and looked over at Inu-Yasha once more, the large gash in his neck now gone. Yu nodded for him to continue, and he shot at Inu-Yasha pinning he against one of the nearby walls.
"You see, it's not what your bodyguards can do for you, it's what you can do for your bodyguards."
"Yu?" Willow whispeded timidly as she approched her cautiously. "I can see you don't need my help here. Can I just take my money and go home. It's been a long day, I'd like to go home, find a way to calm down, take a bath, masterbate, find some crack, and try to forget this whole thing, o.k.?"
"Silly Willow, I'd love for you to go home." Yu said in a giggily tone. "But I'm afraid you've seen too much, plus you're now expendible." She quickly turned the gun to the blonde and fired a shot into her face, blowing her back and away. "Sorry, but it's all for the best, my best."
"What kind of a sicko are you?!" Inu-Yasha yelled as Willow's body fell limp. "Not even a demon would do something like that to a partner!"
"Oh really?" Yu said pointing the blood soaked gun back at Kagome "Well, I hate to tell you Inu-Yasha, but I am a demon, full and true."
Everyone, even Leonard, stared in shock to this. A demon? In the future? How? Even Kagome had a hard time understanding this, a demon in her day and age, why couldn't she sense it?
"Yes." Yu continued coldly "I am a demon. Bred purely for one reason, to take Inu-Yasha's 'Tetsaiga', and use if to conquer all of Japan." No one did anything as Yu walked slowly over to Inu-Yasha and fired a shot into his stomach. A cry of pain rang through the warehouse again as Yu cocked the gun once more.
"Stop it!" Kagome yelled as she watched on in horror. "Please, just, stop." Warm tears built up in her eyes as Yu fired another loud shot through Inu- Yasha's right knee causing him to scream out in pain once more. "Please stop..."
Yu cocked the gun again and aimed it at Inu-Yasha's left elbow. "You could end this so quickly Kagome." Yu said looking at her sinisterly. "Just tell me how both you and Inu-Yasha got to this era, it's awful far from the feudal era, wouldn't you say?" Kagome sat and wept silently as Yu watched on impatiently. "Fine."
Another loud bang erupted followed by another tormented scream. Each agonizing moment seemed to add to Yu's power as she cocked the gun and pointed it at Inu-Yasha's left knee. "Don't tell this bitch anything Kagome..." Inu-Yasha gasped out between breaths. "Don't tell her—"
Another shot interrupted his sentence, followed by another quick one, shattering his right elbow. Inu-Yasha passed out from the pain, blood pooling deep around where he was held. Neither Leonard nor Yu showed any sympathy towards him as Kagome was forced to watch on.
The gun was cocked again and Yu grabbed Inu-Yasha by the head and held him up, the barrel pressed firmly against the side of his blood soaked face. "So what's it going to be Kagome?!" Yu yelled. "Inu-Yasha can still be saved, what will you do!? Save Inu-Yasha?! Or save the secret?!"
Yu stood and watched as the torn up Kagome stared on at the bloodied demon before her. "Will you let him live or die Kagome?!" Silence continued. "Then so be it!"
"Wait." Kagome's voice echoed as Yu ceased instantly. "If I tell you, will you please let him live?" Yu nodded silently "Then I'll tell you. We travvel between times through the ancient well in the back of the shrine I live at." Tears soaked her face as she spoke softly.
Yu stared at the broken girl, then the dismantled demon. "Pathetic." She whispered yanking up Inu-Yasha's shirt. She spotted the 'Tetsaiga' and instantly stripped him of it. "Discard him Leonard, we're leaving."
Leonard obidiently dropped him to the ground and Kagome instantly latched onto him, her tears mixing with his thick, demon's blood. She heard the squeal of tires as Yu's vehicle as it skidded off and left them, the scent of gunpowder thick in the air.
"I'm so sorry..." She sobbed out squeezing him tightly. His unconcious body stuck to hers as if still awake, but no motion was of him. "Please don't die on me... You can't die like this! No!"
"Not yet... Please... Not yet..."
It's me, it's me, it's Artie to the 'D'
Sucks to be Inu-Yasha huh? Well, trust me, it's about to get a lot worse for both him and Kagome, real quick. As always, mail me if you want at DarkArtimishotmail.com with questions and comments, and enjoy. So come see what happens next. Oh, sorry, nearly forgot, here's next time's preview:
Blood. It's all Inu-Yasha wants from Yu after what she did from him. Now tracking a demon who's scent you've got should be easy, right? Wrong. It's like Yu just vanished off the face of the earth without a word of trace. Now where could she have gone? Hmm... maybe... could it be? So much for a relaxing time for everyone. Come see what happens next in Act IX: Return To The Ancient Tree
Trust me, in the immortal words of Jim Ross, "Buisness is about to pick up.". So please, join us next time for another chapter in "Inu-Yasha's Totally Excellent Adventure" and enjoy
May the ink flow in your favor...
-DarkArtimis
(Scene:Yu and thug's warehouse)
"Waste him."
There were four identically loud clicks as the thieves pointed their guns at Inu-Yasha who stood firmly on the van's rooftop. Kagome clung to the roof in an attempt to not be seen, but soon realized it was futile.
'I've got to get their attention away from Kagome.' He thought looking around for something to use. With nothing in sight, he did the one thing he could think of. With one quick motion, he lept straight into the air and landed roughly on one of the rafters to give away his located.
"How the hell did he do that?" The female thief yelled as the four looked shocked into the roof. "What is he?"
The thugs watched on in shock and awe as Inu-Yasha lept from beam to beam, then bolted downwards onto the wheasy masked man, knocking him to the ground. He sprang off the fallen body and flipped back smacking both the nervous man and the first one that emerged from the van, knocking them out.
But in all the chaos, the girl thug who had stood by and watched the half- demon demolish her allies, lined up a perfect shot, and fired. The loud 'BANG' rang through the warehouse as Inu-Yasha turned just quick enough to see a woodless arrow catch him in the chest and knock him to the ground.
"GAAAH!" He yelled in pain running a finger over the deep hole which passed through him. The pain was overwhelming, nearly sending him into shock, his blood pouring onto the thick asphalt. 'I have to get up.' He thought weakly 'I have to protect Kagome...'
"Inu-Yasha!" Kagome yelled as she stared ato the motionless demon. "Please, you have to get up...". She could feel the tears welling up in her eyes, he couldn't be...
A rough hand grabbed Kagome and pulled her off the rooftop to the cold stone floor. "Hey Yu, looky here." Said the female bandit as she lifted Kagome up by her smooth black hair. "Some girl, mind if I keep her." A sinister tone in her voice.
Yu looked callously at Kagome, her nose upturned in a stuck up fashion. "Go ahead Willow, and try to enjoy yourself." She slowly turned to Inu-Yasha's lifeless body as her bodyguard stood sternly at attention. "Leonard, dispose of that creature before the police get here."
The bodyguard, Leonard, slowly made his way over to Inu-Yasha and lifted him up effortlessly with one hand. He gave him a swift kick in the chest to make sure he was out cold, then tossed him into a pile of rusted over barrels.
"I'm going to enjoy this." Willow saidbringing Kagome's eyes to her level "I don't suppose you've ever been with a woman before, have you?". Kagome shrank down as far as she could as her captor continued to hold her apon herself. "Of course not, I doubt you've even been with a man, have you. Don't worry, when I'm done with you, I swear you'll never go back to the boys."
Willow removed her gloves and mask revealing a ravishing strawberry blonde girl who looked almost as young as Kagome. One of her soft hands glided over Kagome's face and ever so slowly down her neck to her school uniform. Kagome stood froze with fear as Willow's face came closer and closer to her's until...
"Get off of her you Bitch!" Inu-Yasha yelled slamming into Willow, knocking her aside. Blood still ran down his chest as he stared over the stunned Kagome before him. "Are you alright?" He asked as she backed against the van silently.
"What?" Yu said in a confused tone staring at the bloody figure. "How did you do that?! Willow shot you dead!"
"Not dead enough I guess."
A second loud 'BANG' rang through the building from Willow's direction, but Inu-Yasha wasn't stupid enough to fall for the same move twice. He lept straight up and snatched the bullet from mid-air, then landed grace fully and looked at it closely between two fingers.
Willow stared on in shock. "Are you the Matrix?!"
"No, that's Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss." Inu-Yasha said smugly as he dropped the bullet. "I'm just Inu-Yasha."
"Inu-Yasha..." Yu whispered in amazement. "Then the legend must be true..." There was a moment of silence as Yu stared at him in a mixture of intregue and envy. Moments passed until Yu spoke finally. "Leonard, releave the demon of his weapon without killing him. Willow, take the girl home with the restrained demon, do not kill either of them."
"Demon? What is she talking about?" Willow questioned walikg over to Kagome and pressing the gun against her head. "Looks like playtime will have to wait until later. Shame really..." She shoved Kagome into the passenger side of the van and slammed the door shut, quickly jamming it and running to the other side.
Inu-Yasha looked over at Yu curiously as Leonard made a quick move at him he easily dodged. "How do you know about the 'Tetsaiga'?" He asked crouched on top of a wooden box.
"I know a lot more than you think Inu-Yasha. I've studied from a long far I suppose you could say, a bit of a hobby." Yu explained walking over to the van blocking the back from Kagome's escape. "I also collect ancient weapons, that's why I want your 'Tetsaiga'."
She took her own gun from inside her coat and pulled Kagome from the van's back. A hard 'Smack' echoed from the walls as Yu knocked Kagome to the ground and pressed the gun against her forehead. "Where is the portal!?" She demanded "How did he get to our time!?"
Kagome just sat froze as Yu towered over her ominously.
"Leave her alone!" Inu-Yasha yelled as Leonard slammed the boxed into nothing more than splinters. The half-demon lept off and landed upon the servent as he franticly tried to grab him, but Inu-Yasha was too fast. With one swirl move, he drew his claws across the servent's neck and he dropped to the ground like a stone. Blood pooled around the head as Inu-Yasha scratched him bloody claws across his face, a tribute to his victory.
Yu turned around and glared at Inu-Yasha coldly. Her look could have pierced through him it it was any sharper. "How dare you hurt Leonard you brute. He'll just have to kill you then when he gets back up."
Her icy voice filled the room as Willow stared on at the aftermath of the demon's assault. "Yu, I think he's dead." She whispered staring at the lifeless body.
"I doubt it." Yu said pulling out a second gun, this new one long and skinny with a clear chamber revealing a dart filled with a black liquid. She pointed the gun at Leonadr and fired a single shot into the motionless back. "It takes a little more than death to stop my servents."
Leonard's body slowly twitched and gained slow movement until he got back to his feet and looked over at Inu-Yasha once more, the large gash in his neck now gone. Yu nodded for him to continue, and he shot at Inu-Yasha pinning he against one of the nearby walls.
"You see, it's not what your bodyguards can do for you, it's what you can do for your bodyguards."
"Yu?" Willow whispeded timidly as she approched her cautiously. "I can see you don't need my help here. Can I just take my money and go home. It's been a long day, I'd like to go home, find a way to calm down, take a bath, masterbate, find some crack, and try to forget this whole thing, o.k.?"
"Silly Willow, I'd love for you to go home." Yu said in a giggily tone. "But I'm afraid you've seen too much, plus you're now expendible." She quickly turned the gun to the blonde and fired a shot into her face, blowing her back and away. "Sorry, but it's all for the best, my best."
"What kind of a sicko are you?!" Inu-Yasha yelled as Willow's body fell limp. "Not even a demon would do something like that to a partner!"
"Oh really?" Yu said pointing the blood soaked gun back at Kagome "Well, I hate to tell you Inu-Yasha, but I am a demon, full and true."
Everyone, even Leonard, stared in shock to this. A demon? In the future? How? Even Kagome had a hard time understanding this, a demon in her day and age, why couldn't she sense it?
"Yes." Yu continued coldly "I am a demon. Bred purely for one reason, to take Inu-Yasha's 'Tetsaiga', and use if to conquer all of Japan." No one did anything as Yu walked slowly over to Inu-Yasha and fired a shot into his stomach. A cry of pain rang through the warehouse again as Yu cocked the gun once more.
"Stop it!" Kagome yelled as she watched on in horror. "Please, just, stop." Warm tears built up in her eyes as Yu fired another loud shot through Inu- Yasha's right knee causing him to scream out in pain once more. "Please stop..."
Yu cocked the gun again and aimed it at Inu-Yasha's left elbow. "You could end this so quickly Kagome." Yu said looking at her sinisterly. "Just tell me how both you and Inu-Yasha got to this era, it's awful far from the feudal era, wouldn't you say?" Kagome sat and wept silently as Yu watched on impatiently. "Fine."
Another loud bang erupted followed by another tormented scream. Each agonizing moment seemed to add to Yu's power as she cocked the gun and pointed it at Inu-Yasha's left knee. "Don't tell this bitch anything Kagome..." Inu-Yasha gasped out between breaths. "Don't tell her—"
Another shot interrupted his sentence, followed by another quick one, shattering his right elbow. Inu-Yasha passed out from the pain, blood pooling deep around where he was held. Neither Leonard nor Yu showed any sympathy towards him as Kagome was forced to watch on.
The gun was cocked again and Yu grabbed Inu-Yasha by the head and held him up, the barrel pressed firmly against the side of his blood soaked face. "So what's it going to be Kagome?!" Yu yelled. "Inu-Yasha can still be saved, what will you do!? Save Inu-Yasha?! Or save the secret?!"
Yu stood and watched as the torn up Kagome stared on at the bloodied demon before her. "Will you let him live or die Kagome?!" Silence continued. "Then so be it!"
"Wait." Kagome's voice echoed as Yu ceased instantly. "If I tell you, will you please let him live?" Yu nodded silently "Then I'll tell you. We travvel between times through the ancient well in the back of the shrine I live at." Tears soaked her face as she spoke softly.
Yu stared at the broken girl, then the dismantled demon. "Pathetic." She whispered yanking up Inu-Yasha's shirt. She spotted the 'Tetsaiga' and instantly stripped him of it. "Discard him Leonard, we're leaving."
Leonard obidiently dropped him to the ground and Kagome instantly latched onto him, her tears mixing with his thick, demon's blood. She heard the squeal of tires as Yu's vehicle as it skidded off and left them, the scent of gunpowder thick in the air.
"I'm so sorry..." She sobbed out squeezing him tightly. His unconcious body stuck to hers as if still awake, but no motion was of him. "Please don't die on me... You can't die like this! No!"
"Not yet... Please... Not yet..."
It's me, it's me, it's Artie to the 'D'
Sucks to be Inu-Yasha huh? Well, trust me, it's about to get a lot worse for both him and Kagome, real quick. As always, mail me if you want at DarkArtimishotmail.com with questions and comments, and enjoy. So come see what happens next. Oh, sorry, nearly forgot, here's next time's preview:
Blood. It's all Inu-Yasha wants from Yu after what she did from him. Now tracking a demon who's scent you've got should be easy, right? Wrong. It's like Yu just vanished off the face of the earth without a word of trace. Now where could she have gone? Hmm... maybe... could it be? So much for a relaxing time for everyone. Come see what happens next in Act IX: Return To The Ancient Tree
Trust me, in the immortal words of Jim Ross, "Buisness is about to pick up.". So please, join us next time for another chapter in "Inu-Yasha's Totally Excellent Adventure" and enjoy
May the ink flow in your favor...
-DarkArtimis